A Stormy Condition in the World
During the heat of England's coal miners' strike, the German war party urged very strongly that the opportune time was reached for the supremacy of the seas to be wrested from the Britons. The German bankers, however, were of the opinion that the time was not ripe for it, and hence the war was not declared. And almost immediately following this the Germans found occasion to turn warmly toward England because of their own internal difficulties with the Socialists and other disquieting parties. In both a social and a political way this old world is getting to assume a very stormy condition. Hudson Maxim, who has done so much to increase the efficiency of powder and other explosives, thinks that we are not far from the time when the power and rapidity of gun-fire will be such that armor-plate on vessels will be as obsolete as the coat of mail of the knight of the Middle Ages. The seventh World's Sunday-school Association convention will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, July 8-15, 1913. This city was the home of Zwingle, the great Swiss Reformer, and the birthplace of Pestalozzi, the noted educator.