conflict, that in the largest sense its interests are one, and
that all nations are interdependent.

"America must remember that the military idea and the ideal of
democracy are absolutely opposed."

Dr. Josiah Strong, in a powerful presentation of the effects of
the war says: "Evidently the increasing interdependence of the
nations is creating new international rights and duties, but there
is no world legislature to recognize and legalize them, there is
no world judiciary to interpret and apply them, and there is no
world executive to enforce and vitalize them.

"The economic and industrial organization of the world has far
outgrown the political organization of the world." [Footnote: The
Gospel of the Kingdom, January, 1915.]

Some new world organization is needed and must come to supply this
deficiency.

Home Missions must use its influence to build up a Christian
sentiment for the adjustment of international disagreements other
than by bloodshed and slaughter.

"The following facts are significant. The European war is said to
cost over _one hundred million dollars_ a day in money, stoppage
of industry, and destruction of property.

"The United States has spent in preparedness for war during the
past ten years a sum six times the cost of the Panama Canal."