. . . What you say about the power of God's Word is indeed true. There is nothing like it. I think so often of the little narrative related a while ago in one of your magazines, concerning Mons. Malan, the French evangelist, reading passages of Scripture to an infidel fellow-traveler in the stage coach, instead of arguing with him, as a Christian colonel, another fellow-passenger, thought he should have done.

" Colonel," said Malan, " what is that in your hand? "

"A sword."

" If you faced an enemy, would you stop to argue about the weapon ? "

" No; I would plunge it into him."

"Well, that is just what I have done ! "

Years afterward he met the infidel in question, and found him a converted man by Hie scriptures he had read to the skeptic instead of arguing with him.

It is so plain to me that the cause of all the present turmoil and sorrow" is the sad fact that the Bible is not believed. Why shouldn't people act like pagans, if God's word is not believed ? It is only the gospel of God's grace that has made any different from the old Norsemen, or the Romans, for that matter. But

" In the cross of Christ I'll glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of time."

What a downfall in everything since the war ! And people so easily and quickly get used to it. If it were presented in contrasts, such as :

Scene I.-Society, literature, music, ideals in 1900.

Scene II.-The same in 1922; it would certainly prove a great shock.

How deluded people are who think they are going to mend matters by getting up societies and having "drives." It is like a teacher standing before a crowd of rebellious pupils, and feebly pleading," Dear children, don't you want to sit down and be good, and hear this beautiful poem?"

May things not get much worse while we are left here? -the crime, the sorrows, the starvation in Europe, are all so sad, and one is powerless to help! Life is certainly like Banyan's great allegory. We are in the City of Destruction ; and Mr. Pliable, Mr. Worldly-wise, and poor Ignorance, are seen all around:and are not we liable to lose our "roll" oftener than Christian did? The blessed hope of the Lord's coming-what a comfort it is! I can see, as I never did before, why it was given to us:" Let not your heart be troubled." C. A.