sequences that follow from the flagrant violation of God's laws. Up to now we have excused Roman Catholics, saying: "They are educated differently." "Their eyes will be opened." "The common school and the newspaper will do much for them." Let us change all this They are in peril, because they reject the truth. A man may say that he does not believe in the law of gravitation, and leap from a roof; no matter, gravitation works, belief or no belief, and brings him to the ground. Willful sin and a willful sacrifice of duty work disaster. In the case of a nation it is not different.

What ruined Judah? In its first stage, idolatry. In its second, Pharisaism. What sapped the strength of Greece? Sensuality. What broke the iron arm of Rome? Slavery. What ruined Spain? Avarice. What threatens England and America? Dereliction to duty in contending for the truth. France might have been the light-house of Europe, might have had a Sabbath and a Christian civilization; but lost all by refusing to contend against Romanism and neglecting to seek the salvation of the lost. She cried peace when she ought to have fought the good fight of faith.

The effort to cause truth to lower its flag to error by purchase began with the race and will continue to the end of time, though all history shows it is foolish, as it is unnecessary, to placate error or compromise with its friends. God is the author of prosperity. If it be true that Daniel and Paul are parts of the world's capital because they were steadfast and always abounding in the work of the Lord, it is equally sure that others who shall be faithful to their. trust shall enter into fellowship with Jesus Christ, and become heirs of God to an inheritance which is incorruptible and undefiled. way to prosperity and to success opens to us as it opened to our fathers-obeying God's word, telling the truth in regard to Romanism and all other errors and showing that the more excellent way is the path outlined by the Scriptures.

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The hopeful side is found in the fact that there are more than "seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." Let us thank God for it, and believe that in the future, as it has been in the past, "Men will appear like stars on the horizon at the command of God." Moral cowardice is always a mistake. Courageous endeavor deserves and obtains great rewards. Daniel would have lost the respect of the world had he pulled down the shutters or

closed the windows when forbidden to worship God. Our Christ would not have been the Saviour of the world if a railing and accusing mob had turned him aside when he hung upon the cross. It did not. Hear him: "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." In Switzerland and in Germany, when the Reformation made progress, converts confessed Christ before the high altar and in the presence of idol-worshiping throngs.

A woman having read "Why Priests Should Wed" entered a confessional and told the priest that she had found Christ, as Bilney confessed him to Latimer. The priest, in anger, denied her absolution. The woman replied: "I do not need it. The book has introduced me to Christ. I get it of him." Let others follow her example, and the path of life will open to millions now sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death.

IS ROMANISM CHRISTIANITY? LET CAN

ADA, CUBA AND BRAZIL ANSWER.

"Ye shall know them by their fruits." Matt. 7: 16. Rome is in high feather. She has had a compliment. She has been declared to be the eldest church in Christendom, and entitled to be treated by the evangelical world as a branch of the church of Christ.

All this shows what is the trend of error. The prince of the power of the air is manipulating public opinion so as to make opposition to Romanism an evidence of the lack of charity, and causing the individual that charges home the truth upon the "mystery of iniquity," the "beast of prophecy," the "Harlot of the Tiber," to be rated as a bigot and slanderer. In the estimation of these socalled liberal but in fact traitorous souls, the red robe of the cardinal becomes an object of regard, and in their opinion it is no impropriety for the representative of the workingmen of the United States to declare his readiness, at all times, to manipulate his organization in accordance with the wishes of the prince of the church of Rome. Not so think thousands and millions of the good and true. Not so teaches the word of God.

The Roman Catholic church wants the earth and claims it. She declares herself to be not only the eldest church in Christendom but the only church in Christendom. Indeed, the Roman Catholic church claims that she is Christendom, and that all outside are hellbent and hell-bound. Let us tell the truth, believing that if the American people come to know the truth the truth will give them freedom.

The Roman Catholic church is not the eldest church in Christendom. The eldest church in Christendom was organized at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. John the Baptist was the pioneer of the Christian church and Christ Jesus the corner-stone. Jerusalem, not Rome, was the place of its organization and habita

tion. This Scripture declares; this every student of history knows; and yet thousands have fallen into the way of perverting the truth and giving countenance to the error that Christ entrusted the organization of the church to Peter and not to the apostles. The statement that the Roman Catholic is the eldest church in Christendom deserves to be taken out of the thoughts of men. The Roman Catholic church is the eldest of its kind. It is a bad kind. It has been a very bad kind all the way. It does not improve with age. It has filled the world with darkness, with wailing and with sorrow. It was the first to set aside the word of God and invent ordinances and sacraments to suit the whims, caprices and needs of those who found it in their heart to serve men rather than the truth, and to run the church in accordance with the behests of expediency, while they rejected the positive commands of God's word and tampered with the ordinances.

From the mount of Olives Jesus Christ had ascenaed. “And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel and said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem,” went up into an upper room where abode Peter, James, John and others and "continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together." And Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke to the gathered thousands. At last, "They were pricked in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then