"We wait for Thee, O Son of God,
And long for Thine appearing;
'A little while,' Thou'lt come, O Lord,
Thy waiting people cheering.
Thus hast Thou said:we lift the head
In joyful expectation,
For Thou wilt bring salvation."

Our Lord has given to His people this hope as a banner amidst the fast growing apostasy; and with this promise He links a word of admonition:"Behold, I come quickly:hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown" (Rev. 3:11). For the enemy has become exceeding bold, and makes battle at the gates of the fortress.

Professed Christian clergymen, in all Protestant denominations hitherto considered orthodox, are attacking and seeking to destroy what they had solemnly pledged themselves to preach and defend. Skeptics have for long attacked Christianity from without, as open adversaries, but the Church having schooled and "ordained" unconverted men as "ministers of the gospel" finds that a religious garb and a vow to promulgate the teachings of the creeds has not changed the heart of the natural man in his enmity to the Christ of God. So, like the heathen who make gods of their own imaginings, skeptics, now within the churches, discarding the Word of God, preach a Christ and a religion according to their own mind-no virgin birth, no atonement for the sinner's sins, no true resurrection, no session at the right hand of God, no return in glory for His kingdom, and no eternal judgment by the Judge of all! Such is Modernism, battling to remain within and to be recognized in "Christian" churches!

Thank God, there is a protest rising against this abomination-an active protest which, let us hope shall spread from East to West, with courage to act according to God's command, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean, and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (2 Cor. 6:17,18).

The first week of last December was devoted to daily meetings in the large Calvary Baptist church, New York, for addresses on this momentous subject by those who hold to the Word of God, called "Fundamentalists." The following report is copied from the N.Y. Tribune of Dec. 4:

Once again last night nearly 1,000 Baptist Fundamentalists filled the pews of Calvary Church to rally their forces for the attack on Modernism and to show that their outburst Sunday afternoon was no mere breeze, but rather the first blast of a mighty storm. They came in sterner mood, these men' and women, preparing to do battle for the faith of their childhood. And it was well that they should be so disposed if they were to accept the message of the preacher, the Rev. Dr. T. T. Shields, president of the Baptist Bible Union of North America:

"This is war," he said solemnly."You had better stay home from the battle unless you are willing to be spat upon and be called 'unlearned' and 'unthinking'-unless you are willing to leave father and mother and wife and children. This is a war which may mean the breaking up of families, the severing of friendships of half a life time. Christ demanded that we put Him before all else, and we cannot walk with Christ when we have dealings with these antichrists who would lead the people from the simple paths of revealed religion.

"As surely as I know that the Bible was inspired of God, I know that Modernism is inspired by Satan. Antichrist is in the world, and we cannot fraternize with his cohorts. We cannot take their hand, we cannot eat their bread. The Russian empire fell when its soldiers began fraternizing with the Germans, and the Kingdom of God will be imperilled if we continue friendship with His enemies. This warfare may break our hearts, but we shall never win until we put God before all else that we hold dear."

A hushed "amen" sounded from almost every corner of the church-almost the only time during the solemn hour through which Dr. Shields spoke.

"We are not denying the Modernists freedom of conscience," the preacher went on, "we simply deny them the right to pollute the house that gives them shelter. We do not approve any form of coercion in religious matters. We believe that the Unitarians who have found shelter in Baptist institutions should have full liberty to leave them. But we also believe that Modernists who receive salaries from Baptist churches and societies while propagating their destructive views are not only unworthy of Christian fellowship, but are also unworthy to associate with ordinary honest men.

"If we surrender our belief in the divine authority of the Bible we surrender everything. No true Baptist has a right to think a thought contrary to what Christ taught. How can a man believe in Christ as the Son of God without believing He knew more than Harry Emerson Fosdick, or W. H. P. Faunce, or Shailer Mathews?"

Let all who love our Lord and His truth pray that such may be sustained in their purpose of fidelity to Christ and God's Word; for, besides the host of open Modernists, there is not lacking those of feeble knees, who, for peace's sake, seem inclined to bow the knee to Baal. This is shown by an effort made in the Episcopal church to hush a clamor that has arisen between outspoken Modernists and Fundamentalists on these same lines.

The Presbyterian body too is expecting a renewed and more serious conflict than that of last summer in their General Assembly when it convenes a few months hence as the following excerpt from the Tribune of Dec. 15 shows:

The division between the Modernists and the Fundamentalists, which is active in nearly all the Protestant churches, received fresh impetus from the report that a committee of 150 liberal Presbyterian clergymen is preparing to issue a statement of their Modernist position early next year.