I A GENERAL BACKGROUND Of the nature of the novel government set up by Christ there can be but one conclusion. Great conquerors had preceded him, and by feat of arms had wrought prodigies in the subjugation of nations to their individual sway, and by awe and terror, the nations thus subdued, were held in submission to the wills of the conquerors. Force was the dominant element in the world, and fear the condition produced by means of which conquerors domineered, and sovereigns reigned. No other method