arrogance. The men in the army, loyal to every duty and brave and unselfish in the fulfilment of every task, soon came to despise the man in whose nature there appeared the least trace of cowardice, selfishness or disloyalty. They were unsparing in their condemnation of these qualities and did not hesitate to characterize them as straight, out and out sin.

It is to the conduct of Germany that we must turn for the disclosure of sin in all its devilishness. Their brutal arrogance and over-weening pride, their cruel lack of every humane, generous and pure impulse, their prostitution of science and culture for lustful ends, their audacious denial of the existence of moral law and their impious deification of their Emperor in the name of a self-created religion of valor-these things taken together create a conception of sin that makes one tremble at its contemplation. It reveals the length to which men in their own lustful conceit will go in defiance of the living God. The real cause of Germany's sin has been trenchantly stated as follows: "Because Germany's moral and religious education was neglected, her science became prostituted to the service of death. 'Physics, with chemistry helping, gave us the submarine assassin; chemistry, the murderous gases; and biology furnished the germs to poison man and beast. . . . Yet these things, devilish as the uses to which they were put, were not in themselves necessarily evil.' Had the hearts of the educational leaders of this scientific nation been

right with God, 'the anthrax germ (might have been used) as an antitoxin; the murderous gases, to destroy vermin, and the submarines, even to transport missionaries." Thus the events of the war broaden and vitalize tremendously the Biblical conception of sin, and bring one face to face with the vivid reality of the third chapter of Genesis, the first chapter of Romans, and the first and second chapters of 1 Corinthians. Germany is a black and unanswerable indictment against the values of education as a civilizing power, unless it produces a culture that is rooted in the religion and the ethics of Christ.

4. The new world must be built on the foundation of social justice and righteousness. The Hebrew nation began with an industrial and religious deliverance and was founded upon the Ten Commandments. The first four of these commandments sum up our duty toward God and demand individual righteousness. The last six commandments sum up our duty toward our neighbor and demand individual and social justice and righteousness. The prophet Amos thundered the judgments of God against the disregard of these principles, preached their immutability and universal application to all nations. Out of the bitter experience of a great national catastrophe Jeremiah declared that it was impossible for a nation to please God until the Ten Commandments, in the form of a new covenant, had been transferred from tables of stone to the tablets of the heart.

Through the medium of the New York Bible Society, Colonel Roosevelt sent a message to the American Boys which has a prophetic and timely ring. It reads as follows:

"The teachings of the New Testament are foreshadowed in Micah's verse: 'What more doth the Lord require of thee than to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" "

"Do justly and therefore fight valiantly against the armies of Germany and Turkey, for these nations in this crisis stand for the reign of Moloch and Beelzebub on this earth.

"Love mercy, treat prisoners well, succor the wounded, treat every woman as if she was your sister, care for the little children and be tender with the old and helpless.

"Walk humbly. You will do so if you study the life and teachings of the Saviour.

"May the God of justice and mercy have you in His keeping."

Our social and national life must be built upon the Ten Commandments. The Bible is clear upon this point and the plain teachings of history confirm the assumption. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself." Thus, in one luminous sentence, Jesus summarized the whole of the commandments in terms of the dynamic force of love and then revealed the true meaning and purpose of love on Calvary. After looking into the face of his

Saviour, the Apostle Paul taught that love is the fulfilment of all law and the realization of all liberty. This is why we can look about us and within us and above us and say with Browning, "All's love, yet all's law." The theory of life which alone can guarantee a new world order and an enduring peace is to be found in liberty, righteousness, justice, and love, as revealed in the Scriptures and made dynamic in the person of Jesus Christ.

What does the average man mean when he says he is determined that society shall be rebuilt upon the principles of justice? This is a pertinent question. Here are some utterances which I have heard and which are fairly typical:

"If Uncle Sam has the right to jerk a man out of his job and put him in the army and make him fight for freedom, then the government has got to see that we fellows get good jobs when we go back home and that we share in the profits we help create and for which we fought."

"If the government has the right in war time to take over railroads and telegraph lines and restrain meat packers and coal barons and steel manufacturers and condemn profiteering, then, in times of peace, it is the duty of the government to see that these things are controlled and directed for the public welfare and not for small groups of wealthy men."

"If the business and the laboring men of the country are willing to lay aside class distinctions and animosities and ruinous, cut-throat competi

tion and work together, shoulder to shoulder, and heart to heart as brothers in a great cause, why, in peace times, should we not do the same thing?"

"If we are willing to sacrifice life and money to fight for the rights of little children and women on the battlefields of Europe why should we not fight for them wherever the cruel hand of selfish industrial conditions seeks to crush them?"

"This war will cost about one hundred and twenty billions of dollars, and every cent of it will have to be paid by the people who create the world's wealth. It is blood money, a crushing burden saddled upon unborn generations of children. If we have fought for a victory on the battlefield let us see to it that such a peace is made as shall never again permit man to be dragged into the toilsome treadmill of war."

I recall vividly a question put by a lieutenant at one of our discussions at the Third Aviation Center. Near the close of the hour he arose and said:

"We all believe that these things should be brought to pass, but how shall we do it?" Several suggestions were offered, all turning about the idea of coöperation and sacrifice.

"If men will only practice coöperation and sacrifice," said one fellow, "our dreams will come true."

"I think I know how to do it," volunteered a tall, slender, keen-eyed sergeant, who arose in the back part of the room. His voice was confident and all eyes turned upon him,