[Is it not time to " return to God's original plan " unreservedly, and not merely (important as that is,) in the matter of evangelizing ? "Ye shall seek Me, and find Me," saith the Lord, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart" (Jer. 29:13). Alas! can this be so, when the writer openly advocates expediency in opposition to the truth of God? "Expediency undoubtedly restricts the exercise of certain rights"! How shall we know ? Where shall we find its shifting creed ? or where the interpreter who can speak so positively for it? Upon the same plea exactly the mass of departures from the Word of God may be excused. Dr. Pierson is too much the American here. The Church was never a "pure democracy;" it began as a theocracy, though it largely departed from it. And still "to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."-ed.]