deceiving and being deceived; in the
face of the inspired assurance of the Apostle James that as this
dispensation should draw to its close Capital and Labour should
stand in bitter attitude to each other; that the accumulated wealth
of a special class called "rich men" should be "heaped together"
that they might be spoiled and that miseries should come upon them;
that on the one side should be the aggression of the profiteers and
on the other the violence of those who would refuse to be exploited;
in face of this assurance of industrial and class war; in face of
the fact that the softest toned apostle whose pen is always
transcribing the word "love," and who has reached the highest and
most sublime definition of God as love; in face of the fact that
this apostle affirms the hour will come when the whole world under
religious, political and devilish inspiration will rush to conflict,
that everywhere will be heard the tramp of armed men and the
gathering of the nations for a war such as the world has not yet
seen; in face of the picture which this apostle of love paints where
the armies of the world are seen gathered in battle array against
the Lord Christ and His right to reign; in the face of this divine
warning the statesmen of the world are assembled in counsel at
Paris, the world's capital of pleasure, in a palace once dedicated
to lust and wanton self-gratification, whose panelled ceiling and
mirrored walls are filled with and reflect the scenes and
glorification of war, that by the stroke of a pen, by a series of
resolutions, they may constitute a league of nations bulking so big
that every threatened wave of future war may be flung back as when
the dykes of Holland reject the sea.

The astonishing and suggestive thing is that in the making and
remaking of the map of Europe and Asia undertaken by the framers of
the league, they are, all unconsciously, restoring the outlines of
the old Roman Empire and preparing the way for the final and
desperate revival of Rome under the form of ten confederate nations,
with its last kaiser, that dark and woful figure, the man of sin,
the son of perdition, the Antichrist.

And there are Christian teachers who see in this league another
herald of the millennium before Christ comes which they so
sedulously preached previously to the war. They see in this league
an evidence that the Lord Jesus Christ as the Prince of Peace is in
reality reigning over the earth and bending the nat