bration; from the rejection of the Jews to the decay of modern nations; yet as surely as history repeats itself, so surely do these and similar great events echo and reecho one another down the ages. To understand the present and the future's possibilities we must turn on them the search-light of the past. When the triumphant shouts have died away and the glittering pageants disappeared, it is well to recollect that the unseen hand of God runs through it all, reaching from end to end mightily and ordering all things sweetly. Our services at the shrine of patriotism should close with a recessional full of the thought of God. We should remember it was His hand gave nations victories in the past and afterwards crushed them for their infidelity. For infidel nations that trust in legion and armor-clad, with not a thought of God, are dust that build on dust. Amid our foolish boasts of power, therefore, we should pray the God of hosts to mercifully turn His face to us and ours to Him lest we forget, lest we forget.
"The king being angry, sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city." Brethren, the real King was God the Father, and the marriage He made for His Son was the union of the divine and human natures when the Word was made flesh. The invitation to the marriage, therefore, was the call to communion in the Christian Church either by faith in the future Messias, as in the Old Law, or by actual membership, as in the New. But God's messengers were coldly received. Though they came to their own — God's chosen people —
