"The Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities.... And we utterly destroyed them as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city" (Deut. iii, 3-6). Moses dies, and Joshua next leads Jehovah's troops. "And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho.... And they utterly destroyed all that was in that city, both man and woman, young and old" (Josh. vi, 2, 21). "And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand.... And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand.... And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever" (Josh. viii, 18, 25, 28). "And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hands of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein" (Josh. x, 31, 32). "And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it. And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day" (Josh. x, 34, 35). Thus city after city falls, and nation after nation is vanquished, until thirty-one kingdoms have been destroyed. And still there "remaineth much land to be possessed," and many millions more of unoffending people to be slain to please this God of War. Christ came, heralded as the "Prince of Peace." But he "came not to send peace but a sword"--a sword his own arm was too weak to wield, but which his followers have used with dire effect. Expunge from the history of Christendom the record of its thousand wars and little will remain. From the time that Constantine inscribed the emblem of the cross upon his banner to the present hour, the church of Christ has been upheld by the sword. Five million troops maintain its political supremacy in Europe to-day. To "express our national acknowledgment of Almighty God as the source of all authority in civil government; of the Lord Jesus Christ as the ruler of nations, and of his revealed will as of supreme authority;" in short, to make this a "Christian nation," as Bible moralists demand, means a standing army in this country of five hundred thousand men. The Bible has inspired more wars in Christendom than all else combined. It is a fountain of blood, and the crimson rivers that have flowed from it would float the navies of the world. CHAPTER XXVIII. HUMAN SACRIFICES--CANNIBALISM--WITCHCRAFT. Human Sacrifices.