Peace Of The Best Kind
In a small municipal park opposite the Manhattan headquarters of the United Nations is a staircase on the wall of which the following is inscribed: “…they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” The site has been called, “the Isaiah Wall” because the inscription is excerpted from the writings of the Biblical Prophet of that name (Isaiah 2 v. 4). Although the…