"Kingdom of God"

"For myself I say that if I did not feel . . . and hope that some day--perhaps millions of years hence--the Kingdom of God would overspread the whole world, then ... I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it."

He who spoke these words in London, last week, holds the office of Prime Minister and bears the chief responsibility of governing the British Empire. He, Stanley Baldwin, by inheritance a sturdy countryman and industrial squire, continued his remarks to the British and Foreign Bible Society, as follows: "The Holy Bible is not only great but high explosive literature. It works in strange ways and no living man can tell or know how that book in its journeyings throughout the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith. These things are hidden until some man or some people is touched beyond all this by divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly through the centuries have startled the world and stimulated mankind and which, as sure as we are meeting in this room, will recur again."