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Alas ! that the Prince of Peace has so few followers 

 whose loyalty is of this robust type, Alas ! that there 

 are so few who realise the fact that : 



Because right is rights to follow right. 

 Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. 



I am often amazed at what appears to me the gross 

 and glaring inconsistency of professing Christians on 

 the subject of War, When one sees the late Pope of Rome 

 standing, as he himself described it, ** like Moses/' to 

 bless the Spanish troops as they proceeded to their work 

 of blood and desolation in the Island of Cuba, or when 

 one sees our own Bishops blessing our ironclads and 

 other engines of devastation and the destruction of life, 

 one may well exclaim : ** What strange representatives 

 of the Prince of Peace ! ** But it would be very unfair 

 to speak as though the dignataries of the Roman and 

 Anglican communities were the only ones that displayed 

 this inconsistency. Equally with them the members 

 of the Nonconformist Churches have flung to the winds 

 their loyalty to their Master ! 



What should we think of a soldier of King George 

 who was perfectly loyal in times of peace, but changed 

 his colours in time of war ? Yet that is a true picture 

 of the professing followers of Jesus Christ to-day. They 

 cry ** Peace, peace,*' when there is peace ; and nothing 

 is easier and nothing more futile ; but as soon as war 

 breaks out they at once become worshippers of Mars 

 or Moloch, 



Oh ! that the Churches may return to their allegiance 

 to their Lord ere it be too late ; ere the irrevocable 

 sentence be passed upon them, which was passed upon 

 the chosen people of old : ** When ye spread forth your 

 hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you ; yea, when ye 

 make many prayers, I will not hear ! Your hands are 

 full of blood," 



And now, in conclusion, let me say emphatically 



