Th the Book of Daniel a story is set forth of how God painfully {aught Nebuchadnezzar that The Most High vuleth in the kingdom of men, and give th power to whomso-'That was a clear setting forth of an eternal truth, of that lesson which is written over all the pages of history, namely, that behind the rise of nations and the crash of dynasties, there is the enduring, unchanging, relentless purpose of a God; that, sounding through all the chances and changes of the ayes, is the "tread of the feet of burnished brass"—marching. steadily on towards that which is the consummation of the travail of the ages, the far off divine event toward which all creation moves, the setting up of the throne of "The Christ. There Is also the corollary to that lesson, and it is written letters of flaming scarlet at the foot of every chapter of human history:—for every nation a work, to every age a. vexponsibility—responsibility to do its part in the establishing of that throne, As in that old story God painfully taught that Babylonian, so to-day by current events, such as those tremendous happenings of the last ten years, He is teaching ne that Teauon:—that neither man nor nae tion live th to self; for every nation responsibility to other nations. In this decade He has been clearing our mental and moral outlook, that we are seeing more surely that our wealth and strength and know= ledge we ours, to make ne more efficient servants of mankind, that we ave responsible for helping' those poorer and worker in ways material and spiritual, responsible to the point of leif-sacrifice. During these years, sacrifice there has been, sacrifice which has been in som sense walking worthy of the voce tion wherewith our nation is culled.
That call for sacrifice is not yet silenced, our vocation still holds.
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