It is as immoral to steal a country as a pocket-book. Righteousness and Justice are out of favour all round: they have no place in politics, they have no advocates—only adversaries.

Men fear to speak Truth; all belong to a church or to a political party or to a social set. They travel the road of common men, fenced in by the hedges of convention and guided by the star of expediency: not from amongst these come the saviours of mankind. There is no hope for the world in the things of the world; man’s only hope lies in the birth of true Ideals, of moral courage, and an awakened spiritual vision.

The need of the nations is for one who shall teach them spiritual Truths, who shall open their eyes to the follies of selfishness, and to those disasters which tread upon the heels of national greed and unrighteousness. But, should such a one arise, he would not be heard. Self-interest does not welcome Truth with open arms; it fills both hands and all its pockets, and prepares to stone the prophets. It is useless to cry for a Deliverer until the world has ceased to enjoy the spectacle of a crucifixion.

For Teachers, like other men, learn wisdom of experience; they cease to “kick against the pricks.” Such pearls as they possess are given to those who will wear them. Having learned wisdom, they sound the general alarm once. Thereafter they turn their attention to such as are in earnest about the business of escape. Always there is made a “way of escape,” always the warning is sounded forth, but it is for those who “have ears to hear.” The pleasure seekers, the “sports” and the profiteers; all the vast army of the ignorant, the careless and the indifferent—all these pass on and are punished.

Because of these things, the work which must be done