THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 473

is great, even the greatest In the long story of troubled maa.
There is nothing like It In the crowded annals of the mighty
centuries. Lose it, and all is lost. Let it go, and the flood
gates will not be long before they open and the deluge of misery
and death will overwhelm us. Lose it, and the generation that
follows will scorn us for our blindness and cowardice, or want of
zeal and enthusiasm for the welfare of the world. The opportunity
creates a sacred and solemn obligation. Before us is the chance
to save the future ! Woe to us !—unutterable woe to us if we
let it slip by unused.