To the editor of help and food:-

My dear brother:-In reading the "History of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ," a most scholarly work by Dr. Dorner, I came across a passage from one of the earliest Christian writers, which so impressed me that I am enclosing it that the readers of Help and Food may share in the enjoyment of the clear grasp of truth, the adoring gratitude and worship of our blessed Lord which it breathes.

It is from the pen of a cultured, scholarly man, who is conjectured to be Quadratus, author of a defense of Christianity, which he laid before the Roman Emperor Hadrian, about the year 20 of the 2nd century.

Dr. Dorner says of the letter, "It breathes an air of eternity; it is marked by an inner harmony and clearness; and precisely because it was so direct an expression of the eternal element in Christianity, does it bear so few traces of any particular period; indeed it might have found a home in any age of the Church's history."

I also add a few brief quotations from others of the early "Apostolic fathers," who lived close to the beginning of the Church of God, upon the great foundations of our most holy faith. It is good to recognize "the like precious faith," once for all delivered to the saints, for which Jude exhorts us earnestly to contend. In these days when the wretched pride of man would turn away from "those things which are most surely believed among us," it is well to remember those "guides" who in the days of intense mental activity, as well as of persecution, when God's truth was being assailed on all sides, stood loyally for the Person, the Work and the Resurrection of our blessed Lord. Let us keep rank with these "fundamentalists" of old, in the face of all that would exalt reason against revelation, "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5). S. R.