Such wars are represented in the overthrow of the civilization in the ancient nations inhabiting the valley of the Mesopotamia and the banks of the Nile. Alexander wept, it is said, because there were no other worlds to conquer. In that day to be a Roman was greater than a king. Rome, at the zenith of her career as conqueror of nations, began her downfall. Napoleon dreamed dreams, and today Germany is struggling for world supremacy. The lesson that God is the ruler of this world has never been learned. From ancient times, ambitions to overtop the heavens have been thwarted amidst confusion and decay. The Decadence of the Old and the Birth of the New. The fact that nations come and go is not so important as ihe changes in civilization. The process of disintegration goes on rapidly while from beneath a new order of things is springing up. The old regime was as blind to its fading glory as it was to the eternal truth of God somnipotence. We come thus to speak of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman civilizations, each supplanting the other in the order named. These changes have been a part of the progress of the world from the earliest times. At these periodical changes in civilization, some distant and contemptible power has come into the new life of the world as a dominating factor. Such world-dominion wars have not only become characterized by the unexpected which happened in them, but by the unexpected results that grew out of them. The great war now on has been noted for the sudden appearance of the unexpected, and according to past epochs of history, we may reasonably expect that its effects will be the unexpected changes and conditions of the new life which will follow. The ground beneath our feet is giving way, and we must support ourselves by a new and different hold upon the shifting conditions of another civilization. The Fading Glories. In all these past brea
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