face of Nature, her penal settlements? If the decree of disarmament were to be enforced to-morrow militarism would there have to stay if for nothing else than to guard those colonies. Possibly, too, the humanity of Italy has worked evil for America, for many are let go or escape, and working their way across the Atlantic prove to us the truth of the principle that a man's first deed of blood is rarely his last. Facts might here be gathered to offset the opposition figures, but we refrain, for it is curious but true that if you are a good arithmetician you can prove almost anything from statistics. Some one has said that of the three kind of lies, positive, comparative, and superlative, the superlative lies are statistics.
Brethren, you and I well know, and God knows, that innocent subjects are not wanting on whom we may exercise our benevolent desire to save human lives. What a blessing the tons of provisions that enter the barred gate in the great high wall would prove to the worthy poor! The money spent on many a modern Uriah Heep, would be better employed in training some orphan arab in the ways of good citizenship. Above all we might agitate, if agitate we must, the question of religious education and its necessity in the preservation of law and order. It is another and a better way to the threefold result at which we all are aiming, viz., Glory to God, good will on earth amongst men, and peace.
