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 days kings and emperors will rule, not according to the principles of Babylon, but according to those of the City of God. We firmly believe that they will then hold their crowns in very deed from the successor of St. Peter, the vicar of Christ Jesus, and that what in the middle ages was done by a few pious kings, will then be done by all the kings of the earth. We believe that when the Jews shall have been restored to their own land, and converted to the faith of Him whom they crucified, they will turn to the vicar of Christ Jesus to receive them into that Church, and to reign over them. All kings and nations will then do homage to the Apostolic See, and the pope, father of the Gentile nations, as well as of the converted Jews, will rule over the earth, and gather the peoples of the earth into one happy sheepfold. Then will the nations beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; then will the weapons of war and the implements of defence be burnt with fire, for our Lord will then put an end to all war.—(Psalm xlv. 9–11.) "Be still, and see that I am God; I will be exalted amongst the nations, yea I will be exalted over all the earth."

But what is to usher in this glorious pacification, this wonderful prosperity of the human race, this perfection of civilization, this uni-