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The Psychology of Jingoism

the words of a military chaplain, who may be entitled to rank as a specialist.

Here is the utterance of the Rev. Armstrong Black in a sermon to the Toronto garrison, reported in the British Weekly (Dec. 7, 1899): –

Wrath was God's. The war was God's lightning flash and thunder clap among the affairs of men; the flash of God's eye was there, and the voice of God's words. It was God saying, and putting emphasis into the words, 'Sit thou at My right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.' It was the Divine warrant given of old to the unique King-priest who in every age 'in righteousness maketh war,' and it is meant to put iron into that blood, and grit into the grip, of the Church in all ages. And there is not another Psalm more closely fitted and attached to Jesus Christ in the New Testament than this one is.

Here also is the Rev. Armstrong Black's particular application to 'the business in hand': –

And if any nation lays itself right athwart the path of true human progress, and, using the very means with which British industry has supplied it, makes itself bristle with arms, not for defence, but defiance; and thus not only blocks but menaces the way of advancing and Christianizing civilization – be it in South Africa or elsewhere – Britain's sword should then flash with a Divine commission as swiftly as when heaven's own lightning leaps from the cloud. Seldom does God place a quite clear and definite issue before either a man or a nation.

This recognition of our mission is accompanied by a general laudation of the influence

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