hy of democratic equality and
brotherhood. All is not accomplished, but I say it is an experiment, and
a good one; a prophecy, and a hopeful one.

_Fourth_: Great Britain is destined by Providence to be a great educator
of nations. That is her part in history. She has democracy and
tradition--two things that are considered everywhere as incongruous--and
therefore she is capable of understanding everybody and of teaching and
leading everybody. She is the nurse for the sick people of the East; she
is the schoolmaster for the rough people of the wild isolated islands;
she is the tamer of the cannibals and the guide of the civilised; she
inspires, vivifies, unites and guides; she equalises; she Christianises.

I read the other day a German menacing song:

We are going, we are going to see
Who will henceforth govern the world--
England or God?

I can say certainly--God. He will govern the world. But we can say
to-day, though in due humility: _Gesta Dei per Britannos_. Would you
know assuredly through which of the powerful nations God is working
to-day? Ask only which of these nations is most the champion of the
rights of the small and poor nations, and you will find out the truth.
For from the beginning of the world-history all the leading religions
and philosophies called the great and powerful to protect the poor and
powerless. The record of this recommendation belongs doubtless to the
Christian religion. The suggestion of all the religions was like this:
it is impossible to be proud and selfish under the eyes of God. The
suggestion of the Christian religion is: Under the eyes of God the more
you have the more you must give, and the more you give the more you
have; and if you even give your life for men, you will find a better
life in God.

WHAT IS SERBIA THEN?

If we Serbs look upon the English power on this planet, and then look
and see our own less than modest place on the globe, we must unwillingly
exclaim in the words of the Psalmist: O Lord, what is man, that thou art
mindful of him?--or with a little change: O England, what is Serbia,
that thou art mindful of her? And the poor sons of Serbia, that thou
visitest them?

A small strip of land with five million inhabitants and without
seaboard. A peasant people devoted to agriculture and to nature, to the
forest and cattle, to songs and tales. A past full of glory, of blood
and sins. A present full of tears, pains and hopes. A king carried o