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of the world, and things which are despised, hath God 

 chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to 

 naught things that are : that no flesh should glory in 

 His presence." We know these are true ; we believe 

 they are the very truth of God ; and yet how slow we 

 have been to act upon them. But secretly they have 

 been leavening the whole lump, and now all the powers 

 of wealth, of property, of pomp, and empire are be- 

 ginning to realise that the temporal must yield to the 

 eternal, that the vain passing show is naught, and can 

 only be considered worthy of attention when it acts in 

 conformity with the universal and the infinite, and the 

 sufferings of men can only disappear when all submit 

 wholly and unreservedly to the guidance of Him who 

 overcame the world by the supremest act of self- 

 sacrifice. 



To return to the consideration of " Syndicalism," 

 we hope we may be permitted to quote from a recent 

 article 1 by Odon Por and F. M. Atkinson, in order to 

 show that the workers are quite alive to the fact that 

 it is not possible to expect any substantial social 

 regeneration with the human material of the present 

 order unchanged, and " accordingly they endeavour 

 to combine the creation of the new society with the 

 creation of the new man." Does not this prove the 

 falsity of the statements contained in the pamphlets 

 issued by the anti-Socialists, who state that the denial 

 of God, of Christianity, of all religion, is the cardinal 

 doctrine of the Socialist propaganda ? There need be no 

 fear on this score, as the social regeneration which has 

 been accomplished, and is now ameliorating the lot of 

 humanity, is entirely the result of the diffusion of 

 Christian ethics in men's minds, and by this means 

 alone have such things become possible. " They firmly 

 believe that such a future depends entirely upon their 

 1 " English Review," 



