Bishop Thoburn on the Coming of Great Empires
In the Rock River (Ill.) M. E. Conference, October 6, Bishop Thoburn, speaking on “Expansion,” said:— God’s manifest plan is to do away with all small nations, and build up great empires. The time is coming when there will be only a few great nations. I predict that within one hundred years the world will embrace only six or seven great empires. Among them will be the great United States of America, which I might say will extend from Cape Horn to the north pole. There will be the United States of Europe, the empire of Germany and Austria, the Russian Empire, the empire of Great Britain, the empire of Africa, the empire of eastern Asia, and the empire of western Asia. When this point in the world’s progress is reached, the petty strifes of nations will cease. It will be a time when nations will learn no more of war. Such a condition is only possible when the petty small nations are absorbed by the big empires. Is it true that it has been only the “petty small nations” that did the fighting throughout history? Has it not been the great and mighty nations— the world empires —that have invariably gone to ruin?