A day will come when bullets and bombs shall be replaced by ballots, by the universal suffrages of the people, by the sacred arbitrament of a great Sovereign Senate.... A day will come when we shall face those two immense groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe, in face of each other, extending hand to hand over the ocean, exchanging their products, their commerce, their industry, their art, their genius clearing the earth, colonizing deserts, and ameliorating creation under the eye of the Creator. To you, I appeal, French, English, Germans, Russians, Slavs, Europeans, Americans, what have we to do to hasten the coming of the great day? LOVE ONE ANOTHER.--_Victor Hugo._ I asked him (Premier Lloyd George) what message he would send to American Baptists. Quick as a flash, he turned and said: “Tell them that it is Baptist principles that we are fighting for in this great struggle. All that Baptists count dear is at stake in this issue.”--_Lloyd George to George Coleman, President, Northern Baptist Convention. From the latter’s speech at Atlantic City, N. J., May, 1918._ THE WORLD-WIDE INFLUENCE OF ROGER WILLIAMS’ IDEAL Roger Williams, as a man of vision, was experimenting with a new idealism. His ideas, now generally accepted, have made absolute religious liberty, with its complete separation of Church and State, an idea almost synonymous with the name of the United States of America. That lonely man, in the smallest of the colonies, set the pace for the other twelve original commonwealths and established a national pattern for the forty-eight States in the present Union. Our cup of blessing has overflowed, and today the whole world is awaking to the blessings in store for them if they partake of the same privileges. “Mankind has pursued liberty over mountain and across valley,” writes Pres. E. Y. Mullins, by land and by sea, through fire and through flood, since the first man caught a glimpse of liberty’s white robes leading on to victory. The love of victory is now a volcanic fire which breaks out into revolution and consumes and destroys the ancient fabrics of government, and now it is a tide of life which rolls across the face of nations, causing them to burst into the beauty and fragrance of a new springtime. The spirit of liberty in its quest for the goal of its desire has sounded all the notes in the gamut of human experience, from the minor notes of abject despair to the ringing pæan of victory over every foe.