“AND the nations were angry,” says the prophecy of Rev. 11:18, with reference to the time of the judgment of the dead, in which we are now living. Note how the following from the London Spectator answers to the fulfilment of this prophecy:— Peace may endure, but there are somber shadows in the picture which no unprejudiced observer can be content altogether to ignore. The rulers of the world, in spite of peace, are sullen or anxious or disappointed. The court at St. Petersburg did not expect the peace, but desired another battle, in which it hoped for victory, and is sullen at what it considers the unnecessary loss of its prestige in Asia. The czar’s message to General Linevitch reveals a sense of irritation and disappointment, and the irritation of an autocrat often produces disastrous consequences. He can not violate the treaty of Portsmouth, but it is as much open to Nicholas to make some of its consequences an excuse for a new and speedy war as it was for Napoleon to resume hostilities after the peace at Amiens. There will be a hundred occasions for declaring the action of the Japanese in Manchuria menacing to the future of Russia. Then, without attributing to the German emperor any design of plotting, it is evident to all men that he can not be pleased to find the old double pressure upon Germany once more riveting itself. Even France, though she welcomes a peace which relieves her from a serious economic danger, is restless and irritable, and is inclined to doubt whether in the recent transactions she played a very dignified part, and is half disposed to some rash adventure which may soothe her wounded self-esteem. Even the British government is probably not quite happy in its mind.