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| In photo: Korean War Civilians Murdered by the Reds from www.paulnoll.com |
Our earth we now lament to see
with floods of wickedness overflowed,
with violence, wrong, and cruelty,
one wide-extended field of blood,
where men like fiends each other tear
in all the hellish rage of war.
As listed on Abaddon’s side,
they mangle their own flesh, and slay;
Tophet is moved, and opens wide
its mouth for its enormous prey;
and myriads sink beneath the grave,
and plunge into the flaming wave.
O might the universal Friend
this havoc of his creatures see!
Bid our unnatural discord end,
declare us reconciled in Thee!
Write kindness on our inward parts
and chase the murderer from our hearts!
Who now against each other rise,
the nations of the earth constrain
to follow after peace, and prize
the blessings of thy righteous reign,
the joys of unity to prove,
the paradise of perfect love!
By Charles Wesley, 1758
The image above presents a gory picture of war among men. It shows how men have marred the dignity and glory of human life for power and politics. It has become so ironic that nations devise war to end war and conflagration to bring about peace.
Things must change but the change must begin in the inward parts of man. It is a miracle; a miracle that would change our earth into a transitory paradise where men respect the beauty of life and aspire to behold the eternal, which is in Christ.
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