" The Way of Peace they have not known (Rom. 3:17,18.)

The world- honored Doctor" Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, has written a new statement of the Unitarian belief, which is to be sent broadcast. Some of its cardinal tenets are:

" We believe in a loving God, who inspires and vivifies the universe, and to that God we attribute in an infinite degree all the finest, noblest, sweetest, loveliest qualities which human nature embodies and displays in infinite forms . . .

" We Unitarians believe in the essential dignity and goodness of human nature. We believe in good will, co-operation for common ends, and freedom from all restraints and subjections, except those involved in preserving the same freedom for thy neighbor.

" We recognize that there are great evils in the world, but refuse to accept them as inevitable, and we combat them with every form of intelligent human effort, and with every means which modern science puts into our hands . . .

"We recognize that human wills are often weak, and human bodies and minds often defective ; but we do not infer thence that the human race is depraved and is to be controlled and redeemed only by fear and terror.

" We believe that mankind would get along better than they do now if it were positively known that the heaven of revelation had been burnt, and hell quenched."

These statements of M^belief go out with approbation from Unitarians (who falsely retain the name of "Christian" while rejecting the Divinity of Christ and atonement by His blood), and are favorably received by many who have "turned away their ears from the truth, and have turned them unto fables" (2 Tim. 4:3, 4).^ For is it not fables to talk of "the goodness of human nature," and ascribe the wicked deeds of which the world is full to "weakness of human wills," or "defects" of human bodies and minds ! Thus is sin disguised and God's word slandered by so-called Christians who hold that " mankind would get on better than they do now if it were positively known that the heaven of revelation had been burnt, and hell quenched." Ah, that is the trouble-IF it were positively known. But " It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" said the Voice to mad Saul in his endeavors to stamp out the name of Jesus; and Divine mercy turned him to preach salvation through the Jesus he had sought to destroy.

"The goodness of human nature"-in the face of constant reports of ever-increasing crimes, schemes of wickedness, violence, adulteries, corruptions not only of individuals, but of high governments treating their own solemn pledges as scraps of paper ! A few years ago believers in human goodness saw such progress of the human race, and nations had become so civilized that wars had become almost impossible; all differences between nations would henceforth be settled by arbitration in the Peace Palace erected at The Hague for this purpose. But, lo! suddenly the world is plunged into the most frightful conflict this world has ever known, and the most civilized nations have invented and used most diabolical methods to destroy opponents and innocents alike!

Alas! man created in the image of God is fallen; millenniums of trial in various ways have only demonstrated the impossibility of self-recovery; yet the true Deliverer is rejected-that precious Saviour who came from heaven to deliver those who, in their need, lay hold of One mighty to save! "Thou shalt call His name JESUS (Jehovah-Saviour), for He shall save His people from their sins" (Matt. i:21).

Reject His Divinity, reject His atoning sacrifice, and what hope is left? Only the "fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries" (Heb. 10:27).