say, "God, be merciful to me a sinner!" And, behold! the tabernacle of God is with men; the kingdom of heaven is here! To us is given the privilege of hastening and shaping its unfolding until it shall constitute a communion as wide as human life, and as deep as human need, with a brotherhood that shall spring from fellowship with one Spirit, and faith in one Lord.1 1 See Note 10. "The Communion of Saints " "Ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel." HEBREWS 12:22-24. CHAPTER XIII THE AFFIRMATION OF THE HEAVENLY HOME Somewhere in Eastern Europe a young Slavic orator delivered recently an address on a theme so notable as to lead the wisest and most experienced American in the Orient, President Washburn, of Robert College, to make it the text of an important article. His theme was this: The failure of the Latin and Teutonic races to fulfil their trust in the civilization of the world. They have done great things in the way of literature, art and science, and very much for the individual man; but they have failed in that they have not upheld the great truths committed to them; they have exalted the material above the spiritual, and have made a god of Mammon. We are not concerned with his inference that the day of the Slavonic race has come, but we accept the testimony to the importance of the business we have in hand. We are dealing with just these great truths which have been committed to us by God, and which are essential to human progress. Lose them, and what avails all the pomp of natural resources; what bulwark is there in the bigness of your business, or the |