CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICE/TOIL")
Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. A. E. Clarke makes the mistake that every literalist makes. The error of his application of the teaching of the Lord is in the laying stress upon the wrong word, which in some eases is a fine art and so easily diverts thought from the intended channel. Mr. Clarke emphasizes the " not " in his quoting of "My Kingdom is not of this world," whereas assuredly it was the special cosmic order of things that then prevailed and so made up the " world" which that thought was meant to dwell upon. Kingdoms rose and waned by the sword, which was invariably put into action by the motive-power of lust and pride. The principles of the Kingdom have never been so spread, but they have spread in spite of the prevalence of those evils. Mr. Clarke and all who apply the words of the Lord tponastically as he are as anti-British at heart as our worst enemies, and are wholly blind as to the nation's destiny and the symbolism of the Union Jack. He may be assured that all that is best in the nation would rather perish off the face of the earth than enter into the unholy alliance which every prophetic student has foreseen, the energizing spirit of which is at work like a canker, and has for its chief characteristic the deepest hatred of the British ideal.
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