MR. DANIEL SMILEY in 1895 sent out invitations to a number of individuals to enjoy his hospitality at Lake Mohonk, and at the same time to have a conference in regard to world peace. Similar invitations were given in succeeding years, and the Lake Mohonk Conference has come to be well known in peace circles. Invitations in the main have been confined, throughout these years, to the most influential men and women of the world. At the conference this year, beginning on May 19, President Hibben of Princeton made a speech that has probably received as much comment as any address delivered in recent times at a peace convention. Some of the most striking utterances of President Hibben are the following: “It is the weakest kind of sentimentalism gone mad, to imagine that the cause of peace is in the remotest degree advanced by teaching the children of the public schools to sing the doggerel rime beginning with the line, ‘I did not raise my boy to be a soldier.’” “I do not advocate preparedness for war, but a preparedness against war.” “No one can be so blind regarding the398significance of present conditions as to take the position that a grave national emergency is not at least a possibility.” “In the high tension of international hate and international suspicion, the most insignificant accident may chance to precipitate for us a national catastrophe.” “Let us not forget that there are some things which cannot buy peace. If we sacrifice them in order to secure peace, the peace thus sought becomes for us the veriest torment of a living hell. We dare not trade honor for peace.” There are persons in many leading positions in the world to-day who seem to have the impression that all you need to do in order to have peace is to get together and pass a lot of resolutions censuring war and declaring for universal peace; and on the other hand, there are a large number of men and women who recognize that existing conditions in the world are such that war is ever a strong probability. Hence we have these two forces that are working strongly — the one declaring in favor of peace, and the other saying that there is no evidence that the world has reached the time when the implements of war can be safely thrown away by any nation. The God in heaven will use every genuine effort put forth in favor of peace; and all right-minded people will recognize that war is not only wrong, but barbarous. But while recognizing this fact, we must also recognize the further fact that the world is largely composed of people who do not measure up to the standard of the golden rule. And He who knows man better than man can possibly know himself, has foretold that both “wars and rumors of wars” shall continue till the end of time. Those, however, who are familiar with the prophecies which apply in this time, understand full well that mighty peace movements, as well as a strong war spirit, will characterize the last days. We make no mistake in being in favor of peace, or in working to promote peace. No Christian can be or do otherwise. Where men make their mistake is in thinking that this wicked world can ever be brought to a place where it will enjoy universal peace.