Far back in human history the Christ-idea of peace and brotherhood found utterance when Abraham said to his nephew, Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee . . . for we be brethren." In this utterance dawned the light of peace which to-day gives promise of breaking into full glory.
Peace is not natural to the so-called minds many which bewilder mortals and produce a sense of fear, suspicion, and hostility. God must be understood before peace can be understood, for peace expresses the allness of God, good. There is no iota of evil in impartial, infinite divine Love. In God's creation there is no element of separation, division, or rupture: all is unity in good. It is this sincere acknowledgment, accompanied by proof, which provides the only basis for peace, individual and collective.
It is obvious that strife is not stilled on the mere basis of human relationships, and we may assume that Abraham was thinking of Lot as something more than a nephew when he said, "We be brethren." In order that we may always be healers of strife, and never in the slightest degree its promoters, we must cling to the fact of man's common origin in God, the one creator, and recognize that, spiritually, all men are brethren because inseparable in divine Principle, Love.
