Men's Hearts Failing Them for Fear.
BISHOP FOSTER, in the Christian Advocate, says: “One cannot long sojourn in Europe without feeling how exceedingly sensitive all political relations are. The quiet is never assuring. There are so many colliding interests among the different powers, and so many internal questions, that any moment may culminate in a wide and ruinous conflagration. The very air pulsates with danger. No power can move or even silently grow without disturbing all the rest. India is feverish. Egypt is unrest, Turkey is a prey around which the vultures are gathered, Greece is dissatisfied, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, and England are distrustful of each other. The nihilists, communists, and other guilds of destructionists are planning and scheming general chaos; and the nations, from India to the Isle of Britain, are liable at any new complications to break forth into the flames of war. There is so much at stake, such vast interests of civilization and human advancement, political and religious, that it cannot help but cause great anxiety with all thoughtful observers, as well as make uneasy all heads that wear crowns. What will come next, is a question propounded every day all over these uneasy surfaces of the globe, and the only rest to be found is in faith in an overruling power, who will somehow, out of the many alarming possibilities, work to the general progress and welfare.”