The great leader never rises suddenly. Bonaparte was a military graduate, Grant was a product of West Point, Lincoln was thirty years preparing for the Presidency, Lenine spent twenty years in the study of economics. All countries have the same experience. Voltaire endowed the middle classes of France with a voice, united the disaffected of all classes, and peppered their indignation with pungent epigrams. He created an intellectual garden for lovers of liberty, and from the realm of the mind flung the thorns of ridicule in the face of titled imbeciles and crowned the heads of scholars with laurel. The people of France were washed by Louis XIV, wrung by Louis XV, and dried in the back yard of tyrannical economics by Louis XVI. But it was the orators and pamphleteers who ironed out the frills and furbelows of the old order. Statistical facts may convince but they do not compel. Who knows how the French Revolution would have ended had Mirabeau, orator of the great and solemn days, survived to put into action the idealism of Rousseau? Intellect alone never passes the halfway house. When intellect, reason and emotion are fused in one, the summit of achievement is attained. PHILLIPS BROOKS The time for discipline is approaching. Happy are those who, under Divine direction, consent to be led, for, in the words of Quintilian:--Nulla poena est nisi invito, or as Seneca expressed it, Fata volentum ducunt, involentem trahunt,--those who refuse will be dragged. You must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples, and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and nations, the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in the soil. Yet, all that is happening is in harmony with Divine law. You will find it in Isaiah and Jeremiah. The repetition is inevitable except for those who possess vision. The time for appeals is past. "The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth, the haughty people of the world do languish." "When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled, and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee." Are the people astonished? Let them marvel at their own willfulness. "The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem." Titus, with his army, destroyed the Holy City. The enemy entered the gates from without but your adversaries have long been entrenched within. Mammon is heavily laden and will fall from the top. Material power is volatile. In the day of trial, the retainer and the hireling will seek a refuge, every man for himself. They will melt like the wax image before the heat of the furnace. On that day humility will be as a precious gift and poverty as a peace offering.