At the beginning of this twentieth Christian century, when we are, sad to say, not yet unused to wars and rumors of wars, and even pacific America is going deep into her pocket to pay for a big stick (do not even the gentiles the same ?), the thrill of an old war-song may perhaps still stir us, so unchanging is human nature, Before Christ or Anno Domini, in the Old World or the New. In Jerusalem, two and a half millenniums ago, the song voiced the exultation of loyal hearts in Judah at the news from the banks of the Euphrates that Carchemish had avenged Megiddo, and that the power of the Pharaoh who slew the beloved king Josiah had been broken. With a few changes of proper names and a modernizing of terms? it might in this our day fairly serve to express the satisfaction of patnots in Pokin or Seoul at the tidings that have been coming from the shores of the Yalu, the Liao, and the Hun, or from the Sea of Japan. Again an old empi're, aggressive, perfidious, threatening the independence of weaker neighbors, receirres a blow that drives it back to its own bounds. 9^ain a new power comes into view, youthful, vigorous, that the world hardly knows how to reckon with, itself not without possibility of danger to neighbors and others. Again the jov that welcomes victory may be brief for the weaker land that lies between the two contestants, and the chief result for it be a change of masters. In any event, be its application old or new, Moscow or Memphis, Tokio or Babylon, Kirin or Carchemish, it is a stirring ode this which records Brhat came as Yahweh's word to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah (604 B. C.). Old, oppressive Assyria had long been senile and ready for its doom. A reunited and revived Egypt was preparing to lay claim