93 QUAKER ASPECTS OF TRUTH 



God*s Kingdom may come* Yet it does not come^ 

 and no wonder ! Look at what our nation is working 

 for and fighting for — territory; new markets; new 

 *' spheres of influence ** ; dividends ! We have got what 

 we wanted. Our prayers have been answered, though 

 our petitions have not, and Jesus says of us, as He said, 

 with such exquisite sarcasm, of the Pharisees of old, 

 *' Verily, I say unto you, they have received their 

 reward/^ 



When Jesus said to His disciples that if they had 

 faith as a grain of mustard-seed, they would say unto 

 this mountain, ** Be thou removed and be thou cast into 

 the sea,'* and it should be done. He was thinking about 

 His Kingdom, He was always thinking of His Kingdom 

 and He was always talking about it, and if only we 

 realised this fact, we should misunderstand Him far less 

 frequently than we do. He was thinking of an unlimited 

 monarchy in which Love should reign supreme. And 

 He was thinking of the mountains of difficulty that stood 

 in the way of the coming of that Kingdom. And He 

 says to us to-day, as He said to His disciples of old, 

 that if we had faith as a grain of mustard-seed we should 

 say to this mountain and to that, '' Be thou removed 

 and be thou cast into the sea, and it should be done,*' 

 Here is a mountain of vested interests ! Here again is 

 a mountain of Commercial Greed ! Here again is a 

 mountain of Militarism ! Here again is a mountain of 

 Gutter-press Journalism ! And there are many more 

 beside. What colossal mountains they are ! And yet, 

 they can be removed by faith, and faith is the only thing 

 that can remove them. 



Did it ever occur to you that the whole Church of 

 Christ on earth once consisted of a handful of working 

 men and a few poor peasant women ! One day they 

 were all contained in one small room ! Yet those were 

 the days when miracles were wrought* 



