We copy the following from "Our Hope" in warning as to the trend of these times:

A monotheist writer in the N. Y. Sun of May 19th asks the question, " Is the great war a world redemption ? " and answers it affirmatively in the following blasphemous poem :

"Not pagan, no! Yet hardly Christian-I,
Who understand not how a God may die.
But my mere human sight envision can
A great salvation when Man dies for Man-

"As now he dies-he dies for you, for me;
Redeemer he goes forth to set us free
From condemnation, in-unknown ways earned ;
By him the falling Mow aside is turned!

"Not that One Death in ages gone sufficed-
A thousand-thousand are become the Christ!
Lo, yonder, in the four years harrowed field,
The eager sacrifice in blood is sealed !

"The scarred land yields no tree-to make the cross ;
Yet is man ' lifted up'-to save our loss ;
For us he dies; and all that we have dreamed
Of right, of Best, through him shall be redeemed.

"You ask, Shall he upon the Third Day rise
And show himself again to longing eyes?
Oh, on the spirit's road to Emmaus,
Even now the vision must be glorious ! "

" This monotheistic teaching, the rejection of the Deity of our Lord, the rejection of His atoning death and of His Word, has had the widest acceptance throughout Germany years before the war. It is rationalism of the worst kind. If our nation falls in line with it, God will not spare as in His coming judgments."

It is with reluctance that we put before our readers' eyes such daring anti-Christian expressions. But, in variously modified forms, the doctrine of this blasphemer-who thinks himself "Not a pagan, yet hardly Christian"-is being preached to multitudes to suit the popular cravings of these times. Christian, beware! The father of lies is at work. Have no fellowship with his works, but rather reprove them.

"As it was in the days of Noe. . . and as it was in the days of Lot . . . even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed " (Luke 17:26-30).