All the world is coming to Wembley. The oldest civilizations and the youngest are congregating there. From North, South, East and West, they come. They come to see the mighty achievements of the mightiest nation the world has ever known. They come over vast continents and over the rolling seas, to take their place in the greatest pageantry of pride and place, and power, that man has ever seen.
The nations mingle and commingle in the huge parade of kingly magnificence and democratic power. Man wreaths around his brow the crown of dominion over the earth’s land and seas, and the proud realms of air.
Hear the trumpets blare out the triumphs of the world! See the banners of all the nations wave in proud accord! Listen to the mighty roaring of the human sea, that breaks in waves of loud acclaim upon the shores of time.
They acclaim the present. They rejoice in a power that has been built upon the ruins of thrones and dominions that have passed away. The faded glories of centuries, are all eclipsed by the radiant glory of the mightiness of today.
Why is the past a heap of ruins? Why was there no stability amid the ancient races of the world? Why did the scepter fall from Assyria, Babylon, Persia, ancient Greece and Rome? Why above all does the heritage and hopes of Israel, the favored nation of God, lie for a while buried beneath the ruins of Zion?
There can be but one answer to these questions. Man through all the ages has sought for himself, the power and place upon the earth that belongs to God alone.
They build their power on these sandy foundations, and so they fell. Does Wembley show the nations building on a surer place for permanence than they?
The nations in the early ages of the world gathered in the land of Shinar. They said, “Let us build a city and a tower, and let us make us a name. They began to build, and God came down to see what they were building. God scattered them, for they gave no glory to the God of heaven. He scattered them on the face of the whole earth. The tower was never finished and the city was not built. Their aspirations and their confederacy for evil were alike broken by the power of God.