“Oh, papa, can you not see? Look what those men are doing who think that they can love their brothers and do them good without loving God first and best! Look what Eustace has done!--stirred up strife and discontent all round the country, landed poor Saul in a prison, provoked deeds of violence, lawlessness, and reckless wickedness--deeds that he himself would be the first to deplore and condemn, yet which are the direct outcome of his teaching. These men love their brothers, yet they stir up class hatred wherever they go--and why? It is because they forget that love of God _must_ come first if any good is to come; it is because, though they themselves love their fellows, they cannot teach love of mankind to these more ignorant men whom they would lead. When men do not understand the sweetness of obedience to the perfect law of God, how can they ever be taught the duty of obedience to the imperfect law of man?--and yet we know that obedience to law--even when that law is sadly imperfect--is God’s will and ordinance, and that it brings its blessing with it. Oh, if men would go about teaching the people to love God with all their heart and soul and strength, to love each other in the bond of unity and peace, and to _pray_ for their rulers and governors, that God would turn their hearts from all thought of oppression and tyranny, and make them to be just and merciful rulers of the people, then indeed might our land become a country blessed by God and relieved from the burden of her woes! If great and small would look to God for His guidance in all things, and cease warring with each other in anger and jealous hate, then would true reform begin. But when the cleverest, and often the most earnest men of the day leave God out of their thoughts and plans, and smile at the thought of working through the power of His name, then what can we expect but confusion and anarchy, and a slowly growing discontent amongst the people, which will lead at last to some terrible end? Eustace says that this movement is but the beginning of a huge wave that will sweep right over the country, and end by making the people--the masses--the rulers of the world. He looks upon that as an era of universal good to all--a Utopia, as he calls it--which is to supersede everything that has gone before--including Christianity itself--in its perfection of all human systems and the development of his gospel, ‘the greatest good to the greatest number.’ But though I think it will come--I think we can see that in the prophetic words of Scripture about the latter days--I fear it will come with more fearful misery and terror and tyranny than anything that has gone before. It is the men who practically refuse Christ--the Incarnate Son of God--though they may use the name of Christ still for an abstraction of their own, who will welcome the Antichrist coming in his own name. I think men _do_ welcome any leader now who comes in his own name, and almost makes himself a god.