Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The War in Europe, Its Religious and Political Significance: A Sermon, Delivered on Sunday Morning, July 24, 1870, at the Assemblies Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C
This rebuke was given to the rulers at Jerusalem, because they did not understand the nature of the events which were passing around them. Changes were going on which involved the whole world, and every interest of all nations for all time. The centre of that revolution was at Jerusalem, and yet the Scribes, Pharisees and Priests had not the faintest idea of their real meaning. The world was passing the most important point in its march of 4000 years, and yet no one was wise enough to discern the signs of the time.
Christians, more than all other men, are bound to look beneath the surface of things, and observe what may be called the deep-sea currents of society. The Christian student of history perceives that all the great movements of the world tend to the final establishment of the Kingdom of Christ, and that the greatest wars, though political interests may be the immediate occasion of them, are at bottom, con?icts between religions and races, and are closely connected with the progress of the cause of Christ, and the general elevation of man.
The ostensible causes of war are seldom the real ones. Often, the political reasons which are presented to the world are connected with the deeper religious motives and antagonisms of race, but the religious sentiment is in general the cause which lies deepest of all.
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