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136of God, and to perpetrate all the evil andwickedness that the Devil could devise.All the glory of these great Powers consisted in their worshipping the Devil; and it was this “glory” that the “Prince of the Darkness” promised to grant to Jesus Christ (pbuh) from the top of a high mountain if he were only to follow him and worship him.2. Christ and his disciples preached the Kingdom of GodThey were, it is true, the harbingers of the Kingdom of Godupon earth. The soul and the kernel of the Gospel of Jesus (pbuh) is contained in that famous clause in his prayer: “Thy Kingdom come.” For twenty centuries, the Christians of all denominations and shades of belief have been praying and repeating this invocation. “Thy Kingdom come,” and God alone knows how long they will continue to pray for and vainlyanticipate its coming. This Christian anticipation of the comingof the Kingdom of God is of the same nature asthe anticipation ofJudaism for the coming of Messiah. Both these anticipationexhibit an inconsiderate and thoughtless imagination, and the wonder is that they persistently cling to this futile hope. If you ask a Christian priest or parson what he thinks ofthe Kingdomof God, he will tell you all sorts of illusory and meaningless things. This Kingdom is, he will affirm, the Church to which he belongs when it will overcome and absorb all the other hereticalChurches. Another parson or priest will harangue on the“millennium.”A Salvationist or a Quaker may tell you that according to hisbelief the Kingdom of God will consist of the new- born andsinless Christians, washed and cleansed with the blood of the Lamb; and so forth.The Kingdom of God does not mean a triumphant Catholic Church, or a regenerated and sinless Puritan State. It is not avisionary “Royalty of the Millennium.” It is not a Kingdomcomposed of celestial beings, including