victory of the Boyne defeated James II and gave liberty to Great Britain; it established the Reformation and killed the Inquisition. It made William, prince of Orange, the representative man of the century, and covered with night Philip of Spain. It championed religious liberty and crushed priestly tyranny. It glorified Christ as the glory of Great Britain and overthrew the despotism of the pope. The principles that blessed England, Ireland and Scotland will enrich the great republic of the United States. Today it is America for Americans or America for Roman Catholics only; a free Bible or the council of Trent; peace on earth and good will to men or the extermination of the lovers of truth. The contest is to test the nerve of the American people, as they dig the grave of Romanism and give nurture and help to soul liberty.

THE OUTCOME OF OUR AMERICAN

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The United States is sure to have a large place in history. The achievements won by her people in the past furnish a prophecy for the future, resplendent with promise and a glow of hope. What shall the outcome be? Faith says: "Everything that poet has dreamed or prophecy has foretold." Fact sounds out warnings deep and dire, and shouts: "Run up the danger signal, for there is peril in the air.” Faith declares that a land stretching from ocean to ocean, from the frozen north to the tropic realms of the south, covered by a hardy and prosperous people, was not permitted by an all-seeing, all-powerful, and all-wise Creator to remain for thousands of years an undiscovered realm, without a reason for this waiting, worthy of our profound consideration.

The use to which America has been put, since it was uncovered to the eye of mankind, is proof of a plan. Faith rejects the theory that there is a place for an accident in the unfolding of events. Say what we will, mystery envelops our past, even if uncertainties cloud the future. Why did the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus wait the invention of printing and the unchaining of the word of God, so that this land should be peopled by the lovers of the Bible, who were compelled to contend for liberty because it was necessary to their existence? Has this land a place in prophecy? Did Isaiah write of us when he spoke (Isa. 60:9) of the isles waiting for the ships of Tarshish (or Spain), "to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee"? Did the man of God, looking down through the mists of 25 centuries, see beyond the Babylonian. the Medo-Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman empires, the pillars of republican hope rising into view, which were to furnish support to a world-wide arch, that was to cover humanity with the

ægis of protection? If such be the fact, surely we should understand it, because it declares that this nation is to have a place in God's plan, as the working force for the emancipation and education of the earth-born race.

The theory which has ruled in this country, from the birth of the republic down to this present time, is that this nation is to preserve a strict neutrality, that it is to live not wholly for self, but rather that, ignoring all entangling alliances, it is to become a blessing to all. It has been regarded as a refuge for the oppressed, as an asylum for the persecuted and distressed, but not a land where people should have a voice to be used in behalf of liberty either among the nations of the old world or for the beleaguered and ill-led republics of South America. We can understand that England may have a mission to India, to Turkey, to Africa, to the other inhabitants of this western continent; that she takes the aflairs of the ignorant and the debased into her hands, planning for them, guiding and controlling them in such a way that despite themselves they are compelled to take an interest in directing the affairs of peoples for whom they have no special regard, and for whom, if left to themselves, there would be no care. But few among us

have a thought that in God's plan there is a similar mission for us. Peru has been smitten with internal disorder, and has been ruthlessly torn and trampled on by a sister republic, and the policy adopted declares that wrong may go on unrebuked and violence remain unchallenged, because we are to live for ourselves, without reference to the needs and necessities of peoples about us. Is there to be an outcome to our American life, or are we simply to grow large in body and resemble the Caspian sea, that receives contributions from river and brook and cloud, and makes way with it all through the underground channels of its selfishness?

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A theocratic democracy is one in which the law of love to neighbor as to self rules, while it confers equal rights upon all citiThis is diametrically opposed to legitimacy, popery, or absolutism. It is not conformable to hereditary aristocracy, nor can it be. It is democratic purely, and places all citizens of the same country upon a level as to the right to rule, and confers exclusive favors upon none. God is the only one that has a divine right to exercise kingship, and he is by consequence opposed to all human monarchy and holds it as a creature of depravity. When Israel

turned from such a government and desired a king, God was displeased, and from that day until July 4, 1776, there had not been on this earth a government which is an embodiment of the thought orignially commended to Moses on the mount. The republic of the United States is God's gift to oppressed humanity.

Have we a work to do for the world? We recall the congress held a few years ago in Berlin, in which representatives of the most powerful nations met in council to consider what disposition should be made of nations that are exposed to lawlessness and crime. No one in this country felt slighted because we were not consulted or invited to participate in this great parliament of nations, and yet we had men who were a match for Bismarck, Beaconsfield, or Gort. schakoff. We have them now. Do we believe that the time is coming when this nation shall lead in a world-conflict, and when the power here grown shall crash through all opposing powers and aid in the deliverance of humanity from the chains of despotic tyranny? Is this theocratic democracy the stone which Daniel saw cut out without hands, and modeled without man's knowing why or wherefore, after the pattern given Moses on the mount? Is the government of the United States of America this seedling of the millennial republic which shall fill the whole world? Fulfilled prophecy, when it takes on the sober garb of history, is full of wonderful surprises.

The history of the formation of the republic reads like a romance. It is not the product of any human plan. It is a necessity. We are what we are because we could not be anything else and be anything at all. Could some of the most distinguished men of the revolutionary period have had their way, this land would have been a dependency of the British empire, as is Canada. Others sought to make it a kingdom instead of a republic, and to make Washington king rather than president. A state religion, with persecuting power, was the dream and expectation of vast numbers who toiled to make this land conform in its origin and growth with their conceptions. All failed, because there was a divine must-an almighty shall, molding and fashioning, until the republic, blessed by religious liberty, became a fact. This being true, we lift with reverence, not unmixed with awe, the cover off from the well of truth, and gaze down into its pearly depths, and behold mirrored there the stars of hope which our fathers saw.