Or to have ridden with the heimeted hosts of William the Conqueror into the Battle of Hastings when King Harold lost his life and his kingdom—and England was born? What would you not give to have followed the heroic Joan of Arc into the Battle of Orleans—to save France? Or with the Duke of Marlborough in the cavalry charges on the ground at Blenheim? Or with Washington and his victorious army at Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered—and the American Nation was born—what a glorious moment? Or with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo—to have been one of the soldiers who conquered the mighty Napoleon: to have stood at attention as he passed down the lines into exile and death at St. Helena? What thrilling moments are these—and yet they are nothing compared with the epoch-making events that are taking place today. And to think that you are a part of them! That you are an important factor in their outcome! That you can march to victory with the mightiest armies in all human history! Yesterday you were unknown and insignificant; there was no opportunity for you to assert yourself; you were destined to live and die an ordinary, inconsequential life. Today—the world is calling you. I can hear the beat of the drum. And the call of the bugle. Thirty million men are on the battlegrounds. Over their heads fly the blood-stained standards of the nations of the earth. What a glorious vision—the strong men of the earth in battle array to storm the citadels of autocracy: to free the human race.  From despotism; to carry the flag of liberty and democracy to all the battlefields. FRANCIS TRÈVEYLAN MILLER LITT, D., peoples of the globe. 