8 hearts, and darkness and sorrow have entered in. It means that Gods moral universe has been shocked with the spectacle of new battles and carnage among a fallen race, for whose restoration God’s Son died. We may- answer that it certainly means this. The quality, the significance, the morale of the shout, is in the main problematical, and in default of certainty we are driven to vary somewhat the form of our question, and ask — II. What may it mean ? It may mean nothing more than the conqueror’s shout has always meant. Ever since men fought, they have exulted in victory. Processions and triumphs are the trappings of history. Every nation has sought, in forms of stone or brass, to perpetuate to future ages her jubilant utterances. Obelisks raise their heads above the desert, seeming to defy the very elements and ages to hush the exultant shouts of the forgotten nations which slumber beneath the drifting sands. The arch of Titus still stands to tell of Rome’s joy over fallen Jerusalem. And under various names and forms, nations of more modern times have done the same. It has been of little importance what has been the cause, or the principles involved, or whether any. True, here and there stands a monument planted by man in his higher moods, which mark the progress of the race ; but all around are hosts of others, as grand and grander, which tell of nothing higher than human folly and ferocity. A victory has always been a victory. National pride, patriotism, and prejudice have and always will find in them occasions of triumph. They will inspire the poet, the orator, and the populace, though they have been for the establishment of despotic power, and for principles subversive of the most sacred rights. The
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