“Wake up the Mighty Men.”
By Uriah Smith
The leading men of the nations are beginning to utter notes of alarm. Emperors and potentates meet for consultation. Armaments and fortifications are being hastily prepared all over Europe. These things indicate that men are expecting, and fearing, such a struggle as the world has never seen before. Cardinal Manning, the pope’s prince, and legate in England, says: “I consider my commission a commission of war, for a crisis is upon the church such as has not afflicted her for the past three hundred years, and a struggle is approaching which will deluge the world in blood.” Gladstone declares the world’s crisis is “nearer at hand than most people imagine.” President Grant says: “If we are to have another contest in the near future I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other;” and the Emperor of Russia says: “The Queen of England, the Emperor of Germany, and myself will maintain the peace of Europe.” Men may think to avert the struggle, but vain will be their efforts when the Lord says it shall come to pass. The battle of the great day must come; and all the indications are that it is near.
U. S.