tening them. Yet I am again afraid to
dwell longer upon the topic of the enlightenment of the Serbian mothers
at the very moment when those mothers with their sons and daughters,
trodden down by the Prussian boot, look towards Heaven and silently
confess their sins, preparing themselves for a cruel death.

What do the Serbian men need? They need civilisation, or in other words:
the Bible, science, art. But they do not need the Bible of killing from
Germany, nor the science of killing and the art of killing from Germany.
They do not want the civilisation which means the large and skilful
manufacture of instruments of killing. They want the Bible which makes
good, and science which makes bright, and art which makes godlike.
Therefore the men of Serbia are now looking so eagerly towards England
and her civilisation. More English civilisation in our country, more
England in Serbia--that is our great spiritual need!

My illustrious chairman, the Most Reverend Archbishop of Canterbury,
wrote recently in one of his books: "We are everywhere trying in these
later years to understand and to alleviate human sorrow." [2] Yes, you
are. We Serbians feel your sorrows too. "To understand and to alleviate
human sorrow." That is the divine purpose of a humane civilisation. That
is the final aim of our terrestrial education--to understand each other,
and to support each other.

Do you think that it is difficult for a rich nation as well as for a
rich man to come into the kingdom of Heaven? I am a little embarrassed
seeing rich England now coming into this kingdom. Yet she is coming into
the kingdom of God, not because she is rich, but because she being
powerful humiliated herself, took the cross and went to suffer for the
poor and sorely stricken in this world. She humiliated herself going to
support Belgium; she humiliates herself hurrying to support Serbia; she
humiliates herself mourning so much for Armenia. But her humiliation is
the best proof of her true Christianity, as her fighting and suffering
of to-day is the very fighting and suffering for Christianity. Do not be
afraid of humiliation, citizens of the greatest Empire of the world;
behold, the humiliation is the very condition of real glory and real
greatness! For more than a thousand years, from this place has been
preached the Only Son of God, whose way to Glory, Greatness and Divinity
was through painful humiliation.

Do persist and do not weary in this way,--it will bri