The times were ripe for the lesson. The wonders of art can bring before an audience a scene of horror as it was enacted thousands of miles away. Hence the horrors of the present war. It must not be thought for a moment that they have reached their climax. They will be permitted to continue until they have increased to such intensity that men will mention war with bated breath, and nations that pretend to civilization will arm only to protect themselves from uncivilized countries; until the uncivilized become civilized and armaments cease. But the first great preventive of war will be “Dread,” succeeded in the ultimate by the acceptance of the rule of ethics. Man may create a Court of International Justice. God alone can create the force back of it for the enforcement of its decrees. Out of that which appears evil, good does come. The sufferings of the battlefield will be sanctified by the generations of warless existence. There were the burnt offerings and sacrifices of the Old Testament. They were symbolical. The battlefields of Europe are the burnt offerings for perpetual peace. The power of enforcement will first be practical, “Dread,” but as this is a base reason, it will gradually be changed by the light of a better understanding into the rule of ethics. A WORLD COURT DEMANDED BY A NEW WORLD LIFE BY JOSIAH STRONG There is, I think, a widespread impression that great world events of profound importance are now preparing. The break-down of time-honored theories of international relations based on armed force would seem to mark the end of the present war as a favorable time for the reconstruction of the political relations of the nations on a higher plane. Since the beginning of the simplest form of life on this planet, there has been down through all the ages, a stream of tendency toward increasing diversity, and toward a more complex and more highly organized form of life. This biological law is also the great law of social progress, that is, first, differentiation, and then, coördination and integration. Or, in other words, there is, first, the development of diversity, and then, the organization of these diverse elements into a social unity.