ment and spirit and aspirations of every people and nation and kindred and tongue will find its answer in him, and he shall be able to articulate the peculiar and subtle quality of every individual subject. And because that universal appeal has never been and can never be found in any mortal man, it is impossible for any one man to ever mount the throne of a true world power. Cæsar is a Roman, always a Roman, with the pride of the Roman in his heart, and his withering scorn scorching the barbarian who crouches at his feet. With all his force of character, his versatility of mind, his gifts-statesman, poet, musician, soldier, preacher-it is impossible that the German Kaiser should ever become a true world ruler, for the fire is Prussian fire that lights his eye. The one man of mortal and sinful men who came nearest to it in Europe was Napoleon Bonaparte. In my humble judgment his was the most stupendous personality that ever flung its impact against the European life; his the most rapid and comprehensive mind; his the most dazzling and brilliant genius. And yet Napoleon is a Corsican. The most he can accomplish is to interpret the

spirit of a passing phase of the French people. But Napoleon could never have incarnated the genius of British liberty; he could never gather up into himself the elements of the true democracy. The wistful, hungry gaze of the Russian eyes could never find a response in his, for the full note of the universal was not within his soul. It is in Christ and Christ alone you find that full sounding note.

"One man of a particular age and race," says Bishop Gore, "cannot be the standard for all men, the judge of all men of all ages and races, the goal of all human moral development, unless he is more than one among many. And that is what we find Christ to be; He is more than "one among many." You cannot mention Him in the same breath and in the same class as Shakespeare and Socrates and Confucius and Emerson, brilliant as their genius may be. He is the one above all others. He is not "a son of men," nor "a son of man,' nor "the son of men"; He is "the Son of Man" -the Universal Homo, blending in Himself all races and ages and temperaments and types. He belongs to all the centuries, though He

was born in the first. He belongs to all races, though He was born a Jew. He belongs to all countries, though He was born in Bethlehem. He combines all the purest and gentlest of womanhood with the strongest and greatest of manhood. And any man, whether he be prince or peasant, who will front the eyes of Jesus will find them flash back the native spiritual fire of his own; and any man, whether he be Mongolian or Saxon or Teuton or Slav or Latin, who comes near to the heart of Christ, will find it throb in perfect sympathy with the deepest core of his own being. It is this that constitutes His first great claim for world power, and beside Him there is none else.

2. Jesus alone is qualified for world power, for He alone can make the supreme spiritual conquest of men. You will agree with this that no man is conquered till the deepest thing in him has been subdued. You may enslave his body, but his soul is free. You may imprison his mind, but his spirit will range. Forty years ago the Germans conquered Alsace and Lorraine, but these provinces have never been subdued. Their citizenship is German but their allegiance is French. Their taxes have flowed

into the German treasury, but the incense that rises from their heart altars is "Vive la France." He who conquers must conquer the soul. Go back to Napoleon and learn that though he conquered almost every nation in Europe, he subdued none. The fires were smouldered, but they leapt out afresh. At St. Helena the Emperor said-you may read it in Bertrand's Memoirs-"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Alexander, Cæsar, Charlemagne and myself have founded empires, but upon what did we rear the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded an empire upon love, and to this very day there are millions who would die for Him." Of all the brilliant words of Napoleon these are among the most brilliant and wisest of them all. For the conquest of Jesus is the conquest of the soul. It is the conquest of the deepest and last thing in man. His weapons are the weapons of His love. By these He will win where others fail, and every conquest is a conquest that endures. There is no other hope of a world kingdom, for no kingdom can hope for universal sway that does not base itself upon the conquest

of the deepest thing in man. It is that citadel that Jesus carries and that is the reason that no man can ever truly say that he belongs to the kingdom of Christ who has not yielded up to Him the inner citadel of his soul.

3. And just because His conquest is a conquest of the deepest thing in man, He meets the third qualification for world power in that He secures the highest good of man. For there are no interests so precious as the spiritual interests, and the highest good of these is the highest good of the whole man. Man has a body, but man is a soul. Whatever kingdom claims his allegiance must be a kingdom that secures the highest good of the highest part of man. And this has Jesus done. He has done it and none other has done it. It is His work and not the work of another. pated the souls of men. It may be within the power of others to lift the burdens from the body; Jesus alone can lift the burdens of the soul. It may lie within the power of others to enfranchise the mind; Jesus Christ alone can liberate the spirit. He has met our worst enemies; He has removed our burdens; He has cleansed our stain;

He has emanci