Samuel Logan Brengle

“ If such people do get mixed up in a contention, they may fight manfully, but it is for the sake of righteous and ordered peace, and not from pride of self. They are peacemakers, not strife-makers. They follow peace with all men, and they do this because their lives, their desires, their affections, their ambitions and activities are all guided and ruled by one glad, glorious purpose -- the glory of God. That purpose consumes pride. Human pride and pomp, and the glory which man can give look utterly contemptible to the one whose eye is single to the glory of God. ”

“ We live in an age when the brotherhood of man is much spoken about, both in exhortation and in literature; but there can be no brotherhood where there is no fatherhood. Brothers must have a common father; and brothers who disown or neglect their father, have not the spirit which will make it possible long to live at peace with, or show goodwill towards each other. We shall have peace on earth and good will among men, and we shall have it universally, when everywhere men recognize God's Fatherhood and give God the glory which is His due. ”

“ We may talk about the brutalities of war, about the widows and orphans that mourn their beloved slain, -- about the young men that are shattered and torn by shot and shell, and about the utter waste of property; but it is only as holy men prevail over unholy men, by winning the world to love God, that the glad time foretold by the prophet will be brought about. ”

“ Oh, how peacefully men live together, and how they love one another when they get right with God! How a revival in which souls get truly converted settles old grudges, and local quarrels, and family disputes, and other wranglings and strivings of men! ”

“ Love to God will beget tender love to men; true love; love that is patient, longsuffering, forbearing, and unsuspicious; love that leads to just and righteous dealings, to truth and reliability in word and action -- and these are essential to true peace and goodwill amongst men.
The Bible declares that there is a good time coming when men will learn war no more, when they will be ashamed to attack one another in war, when war colleges will be done away with. ”

“ He who possesses it cannot sit still while the Devil has his own way and while God is robbed and wronged. It leads him to go out and plead with men, exhort men, command men, compel men to turn from their evil ways, to give up sin, to yield their hearts to God, and to love and serve Him.
This Spirit also leads us to meditate, to plan, to take counsel with our own hearts, and in every way possible to find out the best means by which we can win men over to God's side, save them from their sins for God's glory, and turn them into warriors for His Army. ”

“ Also, and greatest, most important work of all, though I cannot enter into the councils of kings, and presidents, and war lords, and in such high places work for peace among the nations, I can enter into my closet and pray for these great men with their heavy burdens of care and perplexity and responsibility, asking God to guide and help them to rule the world in peace. ”

“ This spirit makes sacrifice a joy and service a delight. Everything that man with this spirit has is at God's disposal; he gives his whole life for the glory of his Lord. He only wishes that he had a thousand lives and could live a thousand years to fight God's battles. Oh, blessed is the man that is so filled with this spirit of Heaven that he puts heavenly things first, and sings on earth while the angels sing in Heaven: 'Glory to God in the highest! ”

“ Unless influenced by this spirit, the nations will go on building dreadnoughts while their proud hearts are quaking with nameless dread: they will cast great guns and invent submarines and airships for the destruction of men. ”