The second, which is even more interesting to us, is the rapid growth in influence, power, and numbers of the Socialist and Labour Party in that country." "Of both these factors," the Bishop reminded them, "we have had very frequent hints from our friends, the neutrals.

Let me tell you all what I think.

I think that those terms are as much as we have the right to expect, even if our armies had reached the Rhine.

It is possible that we might obtain some slight modifications, if we continued the war, but would those modifications be worth the loss of a few more hundred thousands of human lives, of a few more months of this hideous, pagan slaughter and defilement of God's beautiful world ?" There was a murmur of approval.

A lank, rawboned Yorkshireman--David Sands--a Wesleyan enthusiast, a local preacher, leaned across the table, his voice shaking with earnestness: "It's true!" he exclaimed.