es the hope of the future. It
would indeed be a miserable world in which men went on hating for ever.
Only the spirit of Him who for the love of men stooped to a cross can
dig the grave of hate and war at last. When the world shall awake from
its nightmare and shall listen to Him, then the world will have peace.

VIII

When I shall have forgotten all else, I shall remember a morning spent
in Trinity Church, New York. The oldest grave in the graveyard
surrounding it is that of a little child, Richard Churcher, 'who died
the 5 of April 1681 of age 5 years and 5 months.' The child's name has
outlived the city; for the old city is gone. A few years ago the spire
of Trinity Church was a landmark. Now they are completely hidden by
the buildings of enormous height that surround them. By contrast the
church and spire look like toys. One building soars to 724 feet--49
storeys, with elevators rising 41 storeys in one minute, and express
elevators 30 storeys in 30 seconds! Even St. Paul's Cathedral
surrounded by buildings such as the Woolworth, rising to 800 feet,
would be dwarfed into significance, and Trinity Church is small
compared to St. Paul's. It is when one ponders such a scene that one
realises what it is that is wrong with the world. The towers and
pinnacles of Mammon soar everywhere high above the puny sanctuaries of
faith. The evangel of the Carpenter of Nazareth is jostled aside and
crowded out. What the world has to do is to make room once more for
love and self-sacrifice--for idealism. That is the only road to
salvation. Nobody knows that better than the American. He likes to
listen to oratory about world-peace; but when the oratory is done he
smiles. 'We might as well,' says he, 'try to lift ourselves by our
bootlaces.' And that is the moral of it all.

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The United States refused the mandate for Armenia, and the mandate for
Constantinople, and dishonoured the signature of its chief magistrate
guaranteeing the security of France. To-day the blood of the slain
cries to Heaven, and Britain is left alone holding the gates of Europe
against a race whose only rule is government by massacre. And from
America the Press reports a cablegram to the Prime Minister:--'Win
civilisation's everlasting appreciation by keeping the brutes out of
Europe. Americans expect every Englishman to do his duty.' What a
strange species of humour! In very truth the regeneration of