Article April 5, 1900 Issue

The Law of Divine Love

BY GILBERT D. ROBERTSON

Not long ago a Congress of the principal nations of the world was held, which was widely heralded as a Peace Congress, and the result of which was to be a lessening of the burdens borne by the people of those nations in keeping up immense standing armies with which to defend themselves from the aggressions of their "neighbors," or which would, if circumstances seemed to demand such action, enable them in their turn to become the aggressors.

About the time this Congress was in session two of the so-called Christian nations were at war, and the results of its deliberations had hardly become matters of history, when lo! two more countries are engaged in a war, which relatively speaking has been the most costly in human lives of any war of modern times. This is certainly a most striking commentary on the inconsistency of human laws and rules of action, and offers an opportunity to consider whence arise these inconsistencies, for it will be admitted on all sides that even human laws are intended to be founded on the divine.

Among men if one is insulted by another, or thinks he is, the first impulse is almost invariably to meet the insult with a blow. Taking a broader view of the case, if a nation feels itself insulted or aggrieved by another, the cry is for retaliation.

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