FROM an article in the July number of the Advocate of Peace, entitled, “The Gospel of Despair,” we take the following paragraphs:— “‘If we are to judge of the early future by the recent past, we should expect the world to see the greatest wars that ever will have been known in the course of the next sixty years, for it is certain that never has war been greater and bloodier and more costly than it was during the last sixty years.’ “The writer’s premises are undeniable. The wars of the last sixty years have been the most stupendous and bloody and costly ever known, but in this dreadful fact do we find a conclusive proof that the nations for the next sixty years more than ever before will indulge in this ‘luxury’? Why shall we not draw just the opposite conclusion, and say war has become so fiendish, frightful, and costly, that we may expect the nations will abstain from it? We think Prof. J. R. Seeley of Cambridge, England, speaks very sensibly upon this point. He says:— “‘War calls the more urgently to be remedied because it seems to be growing worse. Wars seem growing more frightful and more gigantic; the more victories the nationality principle wins, the nearer we seem to approach a period of energetic popular states waging war upon each other with the unrelieved fierceness of national antipathy. Had ever popular orators a better subject for their speeches? What was Catholic emancipation, what were the corn laws, nay, what was the slave trade compared to this? Would it be hard to excite a European movement against a mischief from which no one is safe, which threatens every man’s life and every man’s children’s lives, and which brings in its train not only death, but a host of other evils, some of them, perhaps, worse than death?’”