Editor of Help and Food,-

Dear Sir:Let me thank you for your timely leaflet, " The Sinking of the Titanic." Allow me to say Amen to its closing paragraph. Referring to your remark that the great ship " was the newest product of that glorious progress of man which was to end in his saying, ' I am God,'" I was, not so long ago, listening to an address by one of the learned professors of Columbia College before the parents, guardians and friends of graduates-relatives who had gathered at its closing exercises. Although not openly announced, his theme was, "The Deification of Man." Among other remarks, he affirmed that man was not now the poor, helpless, insignificant thing he once was. " You bring your sons, your daughters, to us comparatively powerless to battle with the powers around them-we turn them out something; fit them to master the problems by which they are confronted as they go forth to meet the world's necessities." Then, with emphasis, and almost satirical eloquence, he exclaimed, " Why, mark, as an illustration, we conquer now the ocean- not by prayer, but by steam and by steel!"* *Would God the folly of the learned professor were confined to Columbia College, and that his boastful pride might be brought to an end by the sad lesson of the Titanic! But, alas, it has become the characteristic of all the colleges, and they, as a whole, have become the hotbeds of infidelity. The tide has evidently set in for the final apostasy of Christendom. Except God, in infinite grace, should yet check it for a time by a mighty wave of blessing, all is now in full swing to bring about the awful end, "and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" (2 Thess. 2:3, 4).

A little while longer, and the dread hour will arrive when boastful men will "hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains ; and say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:for the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand ? " (Rev. 6 :15-17.)-[Ed.*

Thus does so that man, in his insolent, boasting pride, throw down the gauntlet to God. Truly " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh :the Lord shall have them in derision." Has the day passed for this poor world to heed the admonition, " Be still, and know that I am God ? " How blessed for the believer to know that " the night is far spent, the day is at hand!"