This personal tie makes for peace and democracy. Building on this Jewish tribal trait, Jesus calls all men brethren because sons of a common Father. His Kingdom of God, likewise, is not territorial. Its citizens are bound together by the tribal bond of a common brotherhood and fatherhood. Thus the lessons, so deeply impressed in the childhood of the race, have a large and growing significance for the present and future. _Questions for Further Consideration_. What reasons may be given to prove that love for humanity is a virtue more useful to modern civilization than patriotism? Does the movement for universal peace find any encouragement in the teachings ascribed to Moses? On what grounds can the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites be defended? How did it differ from the taking of Tripoli by Italy? Or of Porto Rico by the United States? In the light of the oldest records, was Moses' work in your judgment accomplished by natural or supernatural methods? What were the chief characteristics of Moses? What place does he hold in history? Is modern socialism in any way a revival of the principles underlying the old tribal organization? How far did Jesus in his idea of the Kingdom of God build on the old tribal idea? _Subjects/or Further Study_. (1) Characteristics of the Wilderness South of Palestine. Hastings, _Dict. Bib_. III, 505-6. Kent, _Bib. Geog. and Hist_., 42, 43. (2) The Religion of Moses. Hastings, _Dict. Bib_., Extra Vol. 631-634; Marti, _Old Testament Religion_, 36-71. (3) Compare the tribal organization and customs of the Israelites with those of the American Indian tribes of to-day. Publications of the _Indian Association_; publications of the _Mohonk Conferences_. STUDY XII A NATION'S STRUGGLE FOR A HOME AND FREEDOM. ISRAEL'S VICTORIES OVER THE CANAANITES.--Josh. 2-9; Judg. 1, 4, 5. _Parallel Readings_. _Hist. Bible_ II,1-4.1. _Prin. of Politics_ X. That the leaders took the lead in Israel, That the people volunteered readily, Bless Jehovah! Zebulun was a people who exposed themselves to deadly peril, And Naphtali on the heights of the open field. Kings came, they fought; They fought, the kings of Canaan, At Taanach by the Waters of Megiddo, They took no booty of silver. Prom heaven fought the stars, From their courses fought against Sisera, The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength! When did the horse-hoofs resound With the galloping, galloping of their steeds? --Judg. 5, 9, 18-22 (Hist. Bible). This was King Arthur's dreame. Him thought that there was comen into his lande many gryffons and serpents, and him thought that they brent and slew all the people in the land. And then him thought that he fought with them, and they did him passing great damage and wounded him full sore, but at the last he slewe them all.--Malory, _Hist. of King Arthur_; _Mort d' Arthur_.