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deprecated results. Great sens hav,
flowed in between the continents. Fol
thousands Of years the navigators were
unable to cross them. The ocean beds
are so broad and long that though the
Australian continent, with an area OF
2,9i4.62S square miles, was discovered
by the Dutch explorers in 1905. II was
practically lost for nearly two cen
turtles, as n pebble might be lost in The
bottom of n lake. 1t had to be redls.
covered by Captain Cook in I'LL. Thus
widely separated peoples grew up with
separate interests. They spoke differ.
ent languages. Their countenances
were blcached by the SHOWS Of the
frigid zone or darkly tanned by the
tropical heats. Because they had no
previous intercourse they associated
themselves in clans or banded them
selves together in nations. When they
confronted each other. they came not
as friends, but rs armed foes.
The "sen of untc."
Do you suppose that If Carthage had
been situated only n few miles from
Rome there would have ever been a
Hamilcar fighting at Mount Eryx or n
uamllcars greater son. Hannibal, be-
Ing defeated by Scipio the Great at
Iama, In 2022 The reason Carthage
hated Rome and Rome hated Carthage
was because they were separated by n
''sea of hate" called the Mctlitcrra-
mean. two thousand miles long and
seven hundred miles wide. The sea
OF separation became. like the Dead
sen. n sea of blood" 10 YOU SUD
pose England would over have treated
the American colonies MS she did dur
ing the eighteenth century had she not
been separated from them by an At
lantic ocean three Thousand miles wide?
Why, tho American colonlsts were of
the same blood as those who lived on
English shores. The children Of the
Virginia planters and of the Massa-
clusetts ariStocratS were all sent over
to the English schools 10 be educated.
But no. England would not treat her
American subjects as she did those
who were earning their bread on the
London Strand. The sea Of separa
ton became the sea of hate" and
the bloody Revolutionary war was
merely the echo Of the Atlantic's moan.
ing waves tapping plymouth rock ana
Dover cliffs.
40 You suppose Rome would have
ever placed her iron heel Of tyranny
upon the neck Of the PROSTATE Hebrew
had Jerusalem not been separated from
the capital of the Caesars 10y the same
waves which separated Rome from
Carthage: OF course certain nations
have been and are separated from 9th
or nations by the barriers Of mighty
mountain ranges. The Pyronccs scpa.
rate France from Spain and tho mighty
Alps form the northern boundary Of /
Italy and the western boundary of .
Austria and the southern boundary of
''ermany, and shut UP Switzerland
rs with Chinese wall Put. after all
ne greatest scparators of nations al
ways have been the mighty seas. Thus.
when st John looked Off upon the wa
iCrs OF the Mediterranean and said
- And there was no more sea" he
meant practically this: In heaven there
shall hc no hate. no bitterness, no fault
findings. no hloodshcd. no jew hating
Roman, no Roman hating Crock, no
Japan fighting Russia and no Spain
sucking the lifcblood Of n PROSTATE
'uba. Then love and kindness and
and mutual self sacrifice will
lind the human family together, be-
'ause the "sea of hate shall forever
disappear
But as the sea of separation" IS
the sea Of hnte." so il may
% also the impossible barrier which
eparates friend from friend Napo-
con, fretting life away I'm 81. Helena.
+ captain DreyfuS. suffering on Dov
Is island, or Victor Hugo, in exile on
he island OF Guernsey. were no more
cparat"l from their friends than was
It. John. on Patmos, separated from
is friends. Legend tells us that no
vas sent to work in the Patnos mines
$ tn" l,uSSiau cNileS are put to work
\ the siberian mines. But when the
ay' $ work was done st. John was al
owed to freely roam over the patmOs
ocks. No prison walls were moro So
ure than this prison Of the apostolic
Nllc. And now. mcthinks. can see
i'm, his white hair being tossed by
ne winds. He strains his eyes as he :
'oks over the Mediterranean waters to .
s!a Minor, where he knows his Chris
an COlab0rerS are working among the i;
hurches Of Asia. "Ah." says the old
auiarch, "ln heaven shall never be ,
'pardtod from those | love. shall
ho lave laborod by my side in the .
1Spel vineyard. shall never be COM
0ll"d TO have the silver cords Of af- .
'ction snapped at the grave. These q
ayes Of separation shall forever and c
yer be licked up, There shall be NO /
loro sea. I
j. not this reunion vision Of the isle II
I Patmos TO You trnnScendent
noughtf Is it not an uplifting hope
hat those who were once snatcheJ
way from us by death shall be given Il
ack in all the beauty ana love of the
'dcmption? not long ago the great l'
attleShlp OF the nited States navy u
AIMED after the state Of Missouri was u
1reatoned with humiliation. BY VI
'rtaln mishap the powder chargers Oh l
le decks We're ignited and exploded
\ an instant n spark might fy int ?
10 magazine room and then the whole D
do,