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"What really divides this body from that?” and they are not content with
the old answers. Thousands are in earnest about that, tremendously in
earnest about that, but they are not in earnest about the small things
that divide, but they are about the great things that unite. I do not
think there is any question that this war has brought reunion infinitely
nearer.

But there is something more, and that is this: It must be evident to
everybody who is capable of thinking that what has happened during
the war, some of the consequences of the war, are calculated to give to
what I will call the insurgent forces in human nature an altogether un-
suspected sense of power. In Russia you have seen the established
order, which seemed unassailable, come crashing to the ground in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye. And isn’t it natural that people
should argue that if this could be done in the political sphere, why
shouldn’t it be done in the moral sphere? If it is so easy to depose
the Czar, is it impossible to dethrone the ten commandments? Now, I
am one of those who believe that those insurgent forces in human
nature are far more powerful and far more dangerous than we re-
spectable people are accustomed to admit, and people in EpgIand are
beginning to realize that. Now do not misunderstand me. I do not
think, and I do not think many people in England think, that bolshevism
in a political sense is going to be a serious thing, either in England or the
United States. It may be a very serious danger in some other countries,
but I think it will not be a very serious danger in our own country, in
a political sense. But bolshevism in the moral sphere is another thing
altogether. Any one who is familiar with recent literature in our
country—I do not know how far it is true of yours—and the tendency
of literature to exalt insurrection as a thing good in itself, the failure to
recognize what all the great thinkers of the past generation recognized,
that lawlessness and vice can lead only in the long run to death and not
life, a curse and not a blessing, the attempt to exalt lawlessness and
vice as desirable ends in themselves—any one who is familiar with
that must see that we are faced with a very serious question. There
are many of us who think that now that this war is over we are going
into another struggle, a struggle in a way as serious, a struggle to
maintain the old tradition of morality against the efforts of those who
are bent upon destroying it. Now, if that forecast is correct, if that
struggle is coming, and we are going to be called upon to fight the enemies
of Christian ethics, it does not need much intelligence to anticipate the
result of the struggle, if the forces of Christianity are going to be di-
vided as they have been in the past, if we are going to be divided from
one another by suspicion and mistrust. If victory is going to be on the

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