<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">"Buttadeus"</h1><h1 align="center" class="head"><em>(The Peace of God)</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Brothers, believe this truth; that whoso prays</p><p class="line">As prayed the Master; whoso fashions his heart</p><p class="line">By wonder and worship and immortal dreams</p><p class="line">To a gift meet for Godhead; whoso yearns</p><p class="line">To lose his self in Self's infinitude --</p><p class="line">The pure Shechinah in his soul shall dwell</p><p class="line">As in the Master's. And every man on earth</p><p class="line">May live as he, wrapt in the Spirit Divine,</p><p class="line">The Fatherhood whose sons are all that love;</p><p class="line">And, living so, shall year by happy year,</p><p class="line">And life by life, and light by mystic light,</p><p class="line">Up to the mount of self's last Calvary,</p><p class="line">Know that which passeth understanding -- Peace!</p><p class="line">Vast, palpitating, breathed and breathing -- Peace!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Hate wrong! Slay wrong! else mercy, justice, truth,</p><p class="line">Freedom and faith, shall die for humankind --</p><p class="line">Slay! that His Law may live! But, having slain,</p><p class="line">O seek the quiet places in your souls,</p><p class="line">The lonely shore of your Gennesaret,</p><p class="line">Your Mount of Olives, your Gethsemane,</p><p class="line">Where waits the Peace of God.</p></div><p class="byline">-- William Samuel Johnson.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> The Forum. </p></body></html> · Great War