Prince of Peace, then you must apply now the remedy that God has prescribed for this warring, battle-torn world: to love God with all the heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself. If you do that, then you too will enjoy life in the new world, where the righteous will flourish with an abundance of peace as long as the moon endures. At that time Christ shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. Those who will be living then will be the meek ones, those who now show themselves to be real peacemakers by announcing the good news of Jehovah’s kingdom.

20. What is the hope of the “sons of God”?

²⁰ What course will you follow? Will it be the way that seems right to men, trusting in the nations and armed might as the only answer, following the uncertain or misleading guide that false religion has held before the people? Or do you have confidence in the Word of Jehovah, that “of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end”? (Isa. 9:7, AS) If that is your hope, then you too will be counted among those of whom Jesus spoke when he said: “Happy are the peaceable, since they will be called the ‘sons of God’.”

Part 4—Rounding the World with the Vice President

Taiwan, Okinawa, Japan

AT 6:20 p.m., Friday. January 18, the Civil Air Transport plane from Manila, P.R., landed at the Taipei airport, Taiwan. Two graduates of Gilead, the Taiwan branch servant and his wife, who themselves had just recently arrived on the island by plane from Okinawa, were at the foot of the CAT plane’s steps to give Fred W. Franz a surprise greeting. A delegation of Philippine bankers was arriving with him and so the airport officials allowed a number of reporters to meet the plane at the landing strip. The branch servant and his wife took advantage of this to get out there with them to meet one entrusted with higher interests, the spiritual valuables of God’s kingdom. They were of instant aid in helping the vice-president of the Watch Tower Society in disposing of the security police requirements for his short stay in this island territory of Nationalist China under President Chiang Kai-shek. Nice sleeping quarters were engaged for the night at the Friends of China Club Hotel.

The following morning, Saturday, January 19, the three, the branch servant and wife and Brother Franz, emplaned for the seventy-five-mile flight from the capital city south to Hualien on the east coast. The weather was clear as the entrancing scenery came to view through the airplane windows. The terrain below was very rugged, and the ranges of mountains distantly inland were adorned with snow, with Mount Tsugitaka projecting 12,569 feet into the sky. Also to be seen were dashing rivers, decorated here and there by small villages that were surrounded by patches of farmland amid luxuriant tropical foliage. One could well understand why the Portuguese called the island Formosa, meaning “of agreeable form; beautiful.” Soon the cliffs of the east coast came into sight, and in not many more minutes we landed outside the city of Hualien. In this picturesque, typically Chinese city there was a