THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S 933 fined to any one nation, will bring us within sight of the destruction of the human race.” But he is not right when he says, “ There are only two work ing alternatives by which war may be stopped.” There is another alterna tive and this other alternative furnishes the only solution, that is, the coming and reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is quite possible that there may be a temporary league of nations. There is Bible warrant for expecting there will be such a league at the close of the present dispensation, when all the nations are headed up. under the Anti-Christ, but such a league will not prove permanent and will not accomplish what Lord Grey expects. The establishment of a league of nations that will bring in universal and perma nent peace and a universal reign of righteousness is impossible because men are what they are: they are sinners, and they are selfish. A reign of univer sal righteousness can never be established among men who are radically and essentially selfish. England and France and America are fighting together now as one nation under one military head with one great common purpose, the complete defeat of the Central Powers; but it is only their fear of a com mon foe that binds them together, they have separate interests and often times antagonistic interests, and it will not be long after the common foe is crushed before these nations will find themselves more or less at variance with one another, though it is to be hoped that they will learn wisdom enough from the awful calamities of the present war not to let their vari ances lead to war. But there is no permanent hope in man. The only hope 'is in God, and there will never be universal and permanent peace until God’s own King, the ¡Lord Jesus Christ, reigns. A p o s t a t e jew s A very considerable- number of the leading Jews in America, including not a few of their ablest rabbis, are apostate from the God of their Sacred Scriptures, from those Scriptures themselves, and from all that in the highest sense distinctively Jewish. Instead of welcoming, they spurn, though courteously, Mr. Balfour’s declaration that stirred the whole civilized world, that “ Palestine is to be a national homeland for the Jewish people.” As faithless Israelites even in Moses day, lured by the leeks and onions and garlic of Egypt, whished to turn their backs upon the fair land that a loving God had appointed for them, so they, captivated by the properity that they have enjoyed in America and England, have no longing for the land God has given them by an irrevocable covenant. The Central Conference of American Rabbis passed a resolution, which is printed in The Modern View, which reads: “ Tfie Central Conference of American Rabbis notes with grateful appreciation the declaration made on behalf of the British Govern ment by Mr. Balfour as an evidence of good will toward the Jews. We naturally favor the facilitation of immigration to Palestine of Jews who either because of economic necessity or political or religious persecution desire to settle there. We hold that Jews in Palestine, as everywhere else in the world, are entitled to equality in political, religious and civil rights, but we do not subscribe to the phrase in the declaration which says, .‘ Pales tine is to be a national homeland for the Jewish people.’ This statement assumes that the Jews, although identified with the life of many nations for many centuries, are, in fact, a people without a country. We hold that
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