Even in the midst of opposing clamor, the presage of peace may be heard. "To presage" is defined as "to indicate by some present fact what is to come to pass."
Were one to judge of world events according to surface happenings, the outlook would seem dark; but the demand for peace between the nations presses to the front, and nothing can turn it back. Behind this demand, to which gathering numbers are rallying, is the divine power by which human warfare will yield to the understanding of universal righteousness, peace, and prosperity. The presage of peace is the presage of the power of Spirit over the flesh and all that this term implies of fear, rivalry, and distress. On page 56 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "War is waged between the evidences of Spirit and the evidences of the five physical senses; and this contest must go on until peace be declared by the final triumph of Spirit in immutable harmony."
The warring and transient elements of material sense are relatively insignificant when compared with the regenerative achievements of great men and women, humanity's benefactors, whose names live on because of the unquenchable love of good entrenched in the human heart. In this love of good, clarified, developed, and established through the world-wide influence of pure Christianity, or Christian Science, we find assurance of the ultimate triumph of Spirit over matter, Love over hate, peace over war.
