The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

eneath the heavy load of taxes. In the year a. d. 70
the Roman army did invest Jerusalem, and they did
stand “in the holy place.” The armies of the
Romans no longer exist. Long since their legions
and centuries have been laid to molder in the dust.
But the principleswhich were back of the Roman
armies still live, and will live until the end of the
world. The armies themselves, the men who
formed the legions, were no more abominable or
desolating in their behavior than the troops of any
army. War is inhuman, but war by the Romans was
no more inhuman than by scores of other nations.
The Roman rule was a denial of the doctrine that
all men are created equal, and that governments
derive their just powers from the consent of the
governed. And it is these principles of arbitrary
government which have always everywhere caused
abominable desolation, which still live, and which
will live till the history of this earth in its present
form is brought to a close.
The Lord had set Jerusalem in the earth to be a
light to all the nations round about. It was the will
of God that from the sacred citadel at Jerusalem
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