THE WORK OF "CHRISTIAN" NATIONS.
This is what W. T. Stead has to say of the work of Christian nations, in the London Review of Reviews; and is it not a true picture?— It is Christian nations which have armed and drilled the Japanese and Chinese in Corea. It is Christendom that is perfecting its instruments of slaughter, building pneumatic guns which will hurl heavy charges of dynamite a couple of miles, and that is perfecting the Maxim flying machine, which is to extend the area of slaughter, already conterminous with earth and sea, to the air above. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury cannot be induced to raise his voice in favor of an arrest of any further increase of armaments, and the prospect of arranging a truce of God for the closing century seems to be remote. Mankind with brutal animalism, its blood-shot eye and hereditary savagery, seems destined to groan for some time longer under the burden of the prince of this world, whose yoke is not easy, nor is his burden light. A hundred and fifty millions per annum cash down for armaments is a pretty smart fine which we pay for organizing Europe on the principle of Cain in preference to that of the brotherhood of Christ.