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Lord of the World

CHAPTER I
10/45

Time alone can show what is yet left for him to do.
"But what has been done is as follows.

The Eastern peril has been for ever dissipated.

It is understood now, by fanatic barbarians as well as by civilised nations, that the reign of War is ended.

'Not peace but a sword,' said CHRIST; and bitterly true have those words proved to be.
'Not a sword but peace' is the retort, articulate at last, from those who have renounced CHRIST'S claims or have never accepted them.

The principle of love and union learned however falteringly in the West during the last century, has been taken up in the East as well.


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