were unable to piece them together again with any semblance of coherence. For the most part, no one even tried. The demise of the Stone-Lipscomb worldview was most apparent in the attitude of the editorial staff of the Gospel Advocate toward Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. For example, while Stone, Fanning, Lipscomb, and Harding had all held that human institutions were powerless to renovate the world and that God, at his initiative alone, would bring the millennial dawn, J. C. McQuiddy now suggested