Christian Nations and the Perils of Power
Can America and England, Christian though they be in name, be trusted with any further augmentation of power? Will it do to allow them to accumulate force? Will they misdirect that force, or use it for the highest ends? God, of course, can see the end from the beginning, and is in no uncertainty as to how things are to turn out; but looking at the matter under our human limitations, we might almost wonder what God hopes to do with the great centralizations of power, the growing imperialisms, that are rising to conspicuous view in the earth. Certainly, if America and Great Britain do not exercise their vast resources in a Christian manner, if their method proves Babylonian rather than Biblical, those resources will be taken away from them. The talent disused becomes in time the talent lost.—New York Observer.