Milton Needed in Our Age

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 3, 1909

Milton Needed in Our Age

In the recent tercentenary celebration of Milton’s birth, Mr. George Meredith, the aged poet, sent a poem to the London celebration. One of the stanzas voices the feeling of many in regard to the very times in which we live. It reads as follows:

“We need him now, this latest age in repetition cries: For Belial, the adroit, is in our midst; Mammon, more sworn to squeeze the slavish sweat From hopeless toil: And overshadowingly (aggrandized monster in his grinning mask Of hypocritical Peace) inveterate Moloch Remains the great example.”