offences and never to return evil for evil (Matt. v. 38-42) . The fourth temptation is that arising from difference in nationalities, from hostility between peoples and States; but we are to remember that all men are brothers, and children of the same Father, and thus take care that difference in nation ality leads not to the destruction of peace (Matt. v. 43-48).

If men abstain from practising any one of these commandments, peace will be violated. Let men practise all these commandments, which exclude evil from the lives of men, and peace will be estab lished upon earth. The practice of these five com mandments would realize the ideal of human life existing in every human heart. All men would be brothers, each would be at peace with others, enjoy ing all the blessings of earth to the limit of years accorded by the Creator. Men would beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into priming-hooks, and then would come the kingdom of God, that reign of peace foretold by all the prophets, which was foretold by John the Baptist as near at hand, and which Jesus proclaimed in the words of Isaiah:

" The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the ca%)tives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to }>reach the acceptable year of the Lord. ] . . . And he began

i Isaiah Ixi. 1,2.