True political liberty is the child of religious liberty. It must look to freedom of the soul as a child does to its mother for birth, protection, and provision. Political anarchy is the usual result of a people seeking full liberty by ignoring or neglecting the support which religion brings to man’s moral nature. It is a long road to political liberty, but it is a road which has run parallel with religious liberty. It is interesting to note the Americanization of the world. There were few democracies when our Republic was born. Our victory over tyranny was an inspiration to oppressed peoples. The French followed shortly afterward. Wherever Napoleon went, he held aloft the banner of equality and liberty. He granted the latter under a form of government by which he became emperor. After almost a century, France gained both. Napoleon’s exile to St. Helena did not usher in a restoration of the older European order. National sovereignty and constitutional government were the constituent parts of a liberty the people would not be denied in almost all the countries of Europe. In Italy, Charles Albert, King of Savoy, Sardinia, and Piedmont, gave his people a constitutional form of government. Though opposed by the papal States and Austria, this movement grew until, under King Emmanuel, Cavour, and Garibaldi, all Italy was united and free. Denmark followed in 1849, Greece in 1866, and Spain the following year. The Christians of the Balkan Peninsula revolted from the Turks in 1875, and were recognized a power by the greater powers and were given a constitutional government. In 1910 Portugal banished royalty and welcomed democracy. Russia, in 1917, threw off the shackles of autocracy for those of anarchy. When she awakes from her delirium she will doubtless see the true light and follow it. The Americanization of Asia is moving rapidly forward. In 1852 Commodore Perry--by a strange providence from Rhode Island--forced open the door into Japan. The shoguns, masters for centuries, lost their power. Then the Mikado for twenty years took their autocratic powers to himself but was compelled after that to give his people a liberal constitutional form of government. The Chinese nation, hoary with age, entered the list of democracies in 1911, becoming the United States of China. The Shah of Persia, after a broken promise which brought on a revolution, gave his people, in 1906, a constitutional form of government. The Young Turks in 1909, after compelling Abdul Hamid II to abdicate, placed Mohammed V on the throne as his successor. Prior to the Great War they had what is at least an approach to the newer constitutional ideals of the modern world.