Now is the final hour for Christianity, the grim and final test. Christianity must decide whether it will keep on its ancient way: assisting the strong against the weak, expediently compromising with evil, upholding oppressors against the oppressed, keeping silent before anguish, deafening its ears to the cry of torment and injustice, seizing avidly on the spoils offered to it by cynical thieves, or whether it will lift its voice against the madness which has the world, and brighten its rusty sword and take up its stained shield in the last struggle of men against fury and violence. It must decide whether its gilded churches are more valuable than God, and whether mercy and compassion and love are dead words or living glories worth dying for.”