ut the one God of mankind.' But
though Mr. Wells writes sentences so vital as that, yet when one asks
him what God is--he is silent. Is He holy and righteous? Though Mr.
Wells' God is but an abstraction, yet the truth remains. The coming of
the Kingdom of God is the one hope of mankind--that Kingdom which Jesus
preached. And the entrance into that Kingdom is by way of repentance
and love and faith. When the soul of the world awakes to that, the day
of deliverance shall have dawned.

III

This, then, must be the goal of human effort, to bring the nations of
the world into such a unity of spirit that war will no longer be
thinkable. But we, as a nation, can only do this if we ourselves bring
our lives into conformity with the laws of righteousness. It is
manifest that no amount of oratory will enable us to raise the world to
any higher level than we have attained ourselves.

The first duty, then, is to see that we base our own lives on
righteousness. The problem is how to bring to bear on the human heart
those motives that will move it irresistibly towards righteousness.
That road is not easy to travel and the choice of it means effort and
travail. It means a battle against selfishness and self-seeking--a
battle long-drawn-out. Why should men choose that conflict rather than
ease and self-indulgence? There can be no reason save this: that God
wills and enjoins righteousness. But does He? We know very little
about God, and the strange thing is that the more knowledge that comes
to us regarding Him, the more mysterious He becomes. But there is one
thing that we do know with absolute certainty regarding God, and it is
this--that all down the thousands of years of recorded history the
power of the Unseen Ruler of the universe can be traced fighting
against iniquity, burying corrupt nations under the avalanche, digging
the grave for tyranny and corruption. The history of the world is the
history of God making an end of crime. The way to destruction has been
the way of iniquity. That God should have so ordered the universe that
the stars in their courses fight against the Siseras, that all its
forces are at last arrayed for the destruction of evil, is the proof
that God is righteous and holy and that the passion in His heart is
that His children should be righteous and holy. The world, as God
means it, is the school for the training of men and women in
goodness--and so in the image of God.... It is only