F. W. Krummacher, a faithful German preacher of a century ago, foresaw already in his times the coming in of the destructive criticism which to-day is fast leading Christendom into the apostasy which is prophesied -to be the end of this dispensation. He therefore warns of the danger.

You who exercise influence over others, take heed that you prove not in this respect the agents of the great enemy of souls; for if through you any weak brother perish, his blood will be required at your hands. Remember that whosoever destroyeth a soul, him will God destroy.

Woe, then, unto those men of talent and acquirements, who, with revolting ingratitude, transmute the gifts and abilities which God has vouchsafed them into weapons of darkness, who under the influence of the great deceiver assault the most sacred things of God'.

Woe unto those much admired rulers of literature who, in wicked self-exaltation, use the power they possess over the minds of men, to rivet more firmly the bonds of infidelity and hostility to Christ (take notice of this fact) upon the neck of the present generation, and who exert their genius in preparing those intoxicating notions and anti-Christian systems which delude themselves and others, to their destruction.

Woe to those laurel-crowned heads that cover the kingdom of sin with fantastic enchantments, and overturning every sacred restraint, implant the horrible delusion in the mind that he sinneth not who only contrives to sin elegantly and poetically.

Woe to those whose voices give the tone to the world, who have sufficient talents for becoming the Ezras and Nehemiahs of their time, but who are a pestilence to the age they live in, by darting forth their wit in seductive and blasphemous falsehoods, and abuse the weak understandings of those who hang in admiration on their lips, in order imperceptibly, under the pretense of superior light, to scatter sparks of rebellion against Jehovah and His Anointed.

Woe unto these betrayers of mankind! Their part will soon be acted. Be not deceived; mistake not the present course of things for the final decision. That decision will be pronounced by Him whose eyes are as a flame of fire, and who weighs with other scales than those of the deluded world, which only pays homage to external glitter. Your glory has its season, like the flower of the grass. '' The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away."