divinely simple--perhaps that
is why the generations refuse to listen. The measure of the law is its
greatness--'As I have loved you.' To obey that law means--blood. It
was the greatness of the sacrifice that was made and the greatness of
the sacrifice demanded that stirred the hearts of men to life. 'He
loved me, and gave Himself for me,' the Christian said, and with
rapture in his heart he looked at others and said, 'He loved that man
also, and gave Himself for him. I cannot rob or murder or leave in
misery a man for whom Christ's hands were nailed to the cross.' That
was what revolutionised the world long ago. It is the only way in
which the world can be revolutionised to-day. If only the world can be
brought to listen to the law of love, the world will become new.

CHAPTER III

IN THE SACRED NAME OF LIBERTY!

'The ranks are gathering; on the one side of men rightly informed and
meaning to seek redress by lawful and honourable means only, and on the
other of men capable of compassion and open to reason but with personal
interests at stake so vast and with all the gear and mechanism of their
arts so involved in the web of past iniquity that the best of them are
helpless and the wisest blind.'--The Right Hon. C. F. G. MASTERMAN.

It is difficult for men and women to arrive at a true estimate of their
own state of mind. What others think of us is often a truer gauge than
what we think of ourselves, for we can only look at ourselves through
the distorting glass of self-love and self-interest. In these last
days we have had a wonderful revelation of what others think of us.
Our hoardings and our advertisement pages are crowded with appeals
which could only appeal to a generation that had ceased to think and
ceased to bear upon their hearts the woes of their fellows. In the
sacred name of liberty, in the cause of brotherhood and equality, we
were exhorted on every horizon to hold fast and change not. And we
were, above all, to beware of fanatics! We are indeed fallen very low
if this measure of our intelligence be correct.

I

In the sacred name of liberty we are exhorted to lay no sacrilegious
hand on the sacred ark of our licensing system. Whatever results may
ensue of perishing babes and ruined manhood we must vote No Change, for
liberty is great. Moloch of old was great; so great that he demanded
and got the sacrifice of a child now and then. But 'Liberty' is
greater still. If it be tr