Mr. Bright proposed a common effort on the part of
all Christian ministers of religion in all Churches to impress on the people, and bring clearly to the minds of statesmen, the truth that modern European States are not in the position of the cities of ancient Greece or of the marauding hordes of ancient Rome, but that our statesmen are, or ought to be, the Christian rulers of a Christian people. We suspect that these clergymen and ministers will do a great deal more good if they try to impress on their people the peculiar character of this particular struggle, and the great danger of rivetting a frightful yoke upon an inno- cent people by any interference on behalf of the Turks. If they attempt to make out that all war, however righteous the cause, is wicked, they will only lose their pains, and persuade the people of England that their Christian teachers do not really understand either Christianity or human nature.
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