360 "I saw anothers fate approaching fast, And left mine owne his safëtie to tender; Into the same mishap I now am cast, And shun'd destruction doth destruction render: Not unto him that never hath trespást, 365 But punishment is due to the offender:

In the same chapter God declares that as a punishment for the same transgressions, the Israelites shall "be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth," thus showing that the terms employed in the other verses, "destroy," "perish," "perish quickly," "consume," &c., instead of signifying utter, personal destruction doubtless meant their destruction as an independent nation.

let no mortal leave Thy onward path, although the earth should gape, And from the gulph of hell destruction cry, To take dissimulation's winding way[970].' JOHNSON. '

I every day 'gainst Carthage war proclaim, (For Rome's destruction hath been long her aim)

Destruction hovers o'er the trembling crew, That fills this little forum.

But in destruction power and terror shew, To you I flye for succour; you, whose dwellings For torments are belyde, must give me ease.

But there is this significant difference, that whereas in the elemental warfare portrayed in the older myth mutual violence and alternate destruction prevail, in all these later myths Quetzalcoatl makes no effort at defence, scarcely remonstrates, but accepts his defeat as a decree of Fate which it is vain to resist.

And so marked is this lesson of a superintending Providence over all human action, that a wise and good man can see wars and revolutions and revolting crimes with almost philosophical complacency, knowing that out of destruction proceeds creation; that the wrath of man is always overruled; that the love of God is the brightest and clearest and most consoling thing in the universe.

A MORAL DISASTER THE ANGEL OF MOROGORO THE WILL TO DESTROY DAR-ES-SALAAM (THE HAVEN OF PEACE) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS RHODESIANS CROSSING A GERMAN BRIDGE OVER THE PANGANI RIVER, NEAR MOMBO, WHICH THEY HAD SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION BRITISH SHELLS EXPLODING A GERMAN AMMUNITION DUMP.

And yet for us dost work alone, While thou for dam and bulwark carest; Since thus for Neptune thou preparest, The water-fiend, a mighty fête; Before thee naught but ruin lies; The elements are our allies; Onward destruction strides elate.

And while the raging waves did roar, And swift destruction bring, Jehovah sheltered them beneath

"Men's hearts are full of laughter wild, Their lives are full of sin; And I will send destruction swift, And show my power divine.

So on their dissolute spirits, soon or late, Destruction cometh "like an armed man," Or like a dream of murder in the night, Withering their mortal faculties, and breaking The bones of all their pride.