Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

that finally, thou wilt create the kingdom of peace whichthou hast promised.anyone with eyes in his head can see that in Europenothing could be more sensible than efforts for peace. Whoeverwould speak word against peace today is making a mistake.True, there is still a certain political atmosphere winchhas been cooked up, as it were. For centuries now a kind oflust for war has been working itself into the flesh and bloodof Europeans and other peoples. This war-lust reigns withinsome sectors of the population; but stable people knownothing of it. Nevertheless, they let themselves too easily becomeenthused about it, because in the back of their mindsstill sleeps the idea, “There must be wars.”To this very day, in the political world there are certainquestions for which we can find no solution except thesword. But it is scandalous to think that there should beno other solution than knocking one another around to seewho is the more fortunate (one hardly can say “more powerful,”because there are thousands of instances in which themore powerful have gone under)...Whoever can think of it, should think once of how shriveledwe are in a political sense. This great, round earth withits peoples, what an unconfined playground it could be for agenuine humanity, and how small we have made it in dividingup ourselves as tigers and lambs, fox and geese—with,naturally, the fox gobbling down the geese. On this earth,4