agan Rome did that. We
have never learned that law must rule between class and class, as well
as between man and man. We remained pagan in our jealousy and distrust
as between class and class, and failed to make law supreme. We failed
because we had no brotherliness, no love. If we had been Christians we
would have made the law of love supreme long ago.... What a hollow
mockery our actions are. Our statesmen become rhetorical over a
tribunal of the nations that will make wars cease for ever, while war
reigns in our own midst. Tribunals and treaties are nothing if truth
be not supreme in the heart. But there is never a word about that....
We think we can raise the world to a level higher than we have attained
ourselves, as if water could ever rise higher than its source.... The
law of force is honest paganism, but this covering up of the world's
foulness with scum--that is nauseating pharisaism. Where the spirit of
love and truth is not, there peace cannot be.'

V

Whether the bald man with the one piercing and the other straying eye
was right or wrong I am no great judge. But it is clear that there is
something very far wrong. It is not in our country, the fairest on
God's earth, that the evil lies, nor in the Empire, the greatest and
richest ever reared by man. The evil is not without but within us.
The only hope for us is in a regenerated spirit. And there is none who
can give us that new spirit but the Carpenter of Nazareth. He was
Himself a poor working man toiling for twenty years, wielding heavy,
clumsy tools as he shaped rude ploughs in a village of poor fame. He
can feel for poor toiling working men; it was He who first taught
brotherhood. To a generation that says, 'Let me get all I can, however
much others may suffer,' He says, 'Say not so, but rather say, Let me
serve all I can, however much I may suffer.' If He were here now He
would be talking to men in public-houses and at the street corners and
on the fringes of crowds, and He would say, 'My brothers, why excite
yourselves over the world? Life is not money. Life is love and beauty
and sonship with God. It is not what the hand grasps but what the eye
sees and the heart feels that makes life great. If you want the
fulness of life, lose it.' And to rich men He would say, 'Your riches
are only yours in trust that you may serve: consecrate them or they
will be taken from you.' He would have but one law for all--Love. If
they but lo