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postmillennialism that is pacifism. The whole theory of postmillennialism is pregnant with the idea that the world is morally growing better all the time the corollary of which is that military armaments are a menace and to be dis couraged at every point. “ Postmillennialism was a strong advocate of the Hague conferences to which premillennialists never pinned their faith, and now it is affirmed and with strong probability of truth, that Germany looked upon that movement as a moral surrender on the part of the nations most active in its promotion, and as ‘inviting a progressive ampli fication of Pan-Germanist demands.’ “ The premillennialist seeks no com promise, no peace that depends in any degree upon the good faith of Germany, Austria-Hugary, Bulgaria and Turkey. He seeks a peace with righteousness, and he knows that in this wicked world, and in this dispensation, it takes force to obtain that and to keep it after it is obtained. “ It can fairly be said that postmillen nialism, taken as a whole, has helped to bring about results diametrically opposed to those anticipated or desired by its propagandists, and now in order to win this war and to maintain any kind of peace afterwards until Jesus comes, its teaching must be combated by the vigorous exposition of the Word of God.” A-MEN AND A-MEN Secretary of the Navy, Daniels, advo cates one war-rule for all. He says: “When the congress of the United States tells 2,000,000 soldiers and 400,- 000 sailors that they are not to take liquor, it cannot be argued that you are encroaching on the rights of the indi vidual when you make these restrains universal. We ought not to use a bushel of wheat for anything which is not a prime necessity, much less to tolerate a business which is not essential and which lessens efficiency.
THE BIRTH' OF CHRIST When the Great Day came, the world was busy with its ordinary affairs; the machinery of government and business operated as usual. The taxing and the enrolling, the buying and the selling so occupied the attention of society that very few were conscious of the signif icance of the event. Could anything more humble and unobtrusive be imagined than this scene at Bethlehem! “ The manger for poverty of condition, the Babe for com mon helplessness, the shepherds for the drudgery of universal occupation; and suddenly, in the night which had dark ened the world for thousands of unre membered times, out of the old familiar sky, the glory of heavenly faces and the melody of angel voices.” The world was too preoccupied to understand and too crowded to afford a welcome. And so it often is. There is no more evident sign of the ruin wrought by sin in the soul of man, than the fact, that there is still so little room for the Divine Companion. ■—Rev. L. H. Bugbee. Horace Bushnell said, “ My exper ience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull; when I am really alive the text comes upon me with a tidal wave of living affinity. It opens up discov eries and reveals depths faster than I can make note of them.” WHO ARE THE PACIFISTS? We want to pass on the words of Dr. James M. Gray on “ Postmillennialism and Pacifism,” “ Certain opponents of the premillen- nial coming of Christ having no bib lical arguments to raise against it, are taking advantage of the excitable state of the public mind to raise a cry that its tendency is toward pacifism and a pro-German propagandism. But the exact opposite is the truth. “ When it comes to tendencies, it is
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