The external aspects of these alliances, though yielding honors, and
coveted opportunities, are of the smaller importance compared with the
amazing factors of peace and amity between the nations that are
silently and certainly working themselves out toward the beautiful
exemplification of the universal Fatherhood of God, the
inextinguishable sentiment of the final unity of his earthly children.

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One of the strangest phases of human life here is the almost universal
resistance to improvement. But this conservative attitude is also a
balance, prevents running off on tangents.




OF GOD.

It has been popularly reported that science has driven God out of the
world. Science has refuted ignorant beliefs, driven superstition out
of the minds of people, and opened many minds to the great facts of
life as against the silly beliefs of primitive peoples. It is thought
by many that the history of all God's doings is writ in the Holy (?)
Book--the Bible. From the study of his character, one might fancy that
"Great Jove of Mount High Olympus" was come again with only his name
changed from Jove to Jehovah, for He brought with him all the "high
days," and ceremonies, and every vice and delinquency, and outrage that
had marked pagan rule. He gave special directions as to the
killings-off of the Hitites, and the Jebusites and all the other ites.