10/45 Time alone can show what is yet left for him to do. 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. 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. |