REV. WM. H. BATES, D.D., Pueblo, Col., Dec. 16, 1900, says :" Now let me tell you something that did not get into the daily papers. I got it from the foremost figure in the scene. In '94 there was a congress of Baptist scholars at Detroit. ' Higher Criticism' was much in evidence. President Harper and other luminaries were there. Howard Osgood, one of the Old Testament Revisers, professor in the Baptist Theological Seminary of Rochester, was also present. When his opportunity came to speak, he read a number of propositions, and asked if those correctly represented the position of the ' higher critics.' President Harper, and others, assented. Then, holding up a book, he called the attention of his auditors to the fact that the propositions he had read were extracts from the writings of the infidel Tom Paine! Consternation and confusion reigned for a time supreme in that congress. The next day the Associated press had not heard of it!

" This is the man who, in his final miserable days, said, ' If the devil ever had any agency in any work, he has had it in my writing that book.' The book was his ' Age of Reason,' and the words were spoken to Mary Roscoe, a Christian woman who kindly ministered to him at his end. . . .

" Oh, the effect of the teaching of the ' higher criticism' on Christian belief and life! Missionaries who have gone to foreign lands "have left their fields; they no longer had a saving gospel from God to preach. Ministers have left their pulpits. Theological students have turned their backs on their vocation, to which they were consecrated by a godly father and mother. Pastors have had loved parishioners come to them and say, ' I have lost my faith in the Bible because of what I have heard and read. I don't know what to believe. I have lost my grip. It isn't honest for me to profess a faith I do not believe. I wish my name taken from the church roll.'" [From the Bible Student and Teacher, March, 1906.]

As a proof of what honesty and consistency there is in these destroyers of the faith, let our readers ponder the following:

In the British Weekly of Dec. 17, 1903, the Rev. R. J. Campbell, a chief leader in the " New Theology," wrote :" Humanity is the body of Christ; the human Christ and the Divine are the same. There is no point at which humanity leaves off and Divinity begins, or at which Divinity leaves off and humanity begins," Yet at the Free Church Congress at Newcastle, a little later on, the same person, to the question, " Why do the working classes stay away from church ? " answers as follows:"The working-man stays away from church for the same reason as the man of any other class, namely, because he was materialized, because he was sensual, covetous, often brutal, self-indulgent, insincere ; because the working classes were less in love with their work than they used to be ; because idle habits were on the increase, and they were unthrifty ; because he was often not only drunken but dissolute, and a gambler."

Reader, if " there is no point at which humanity leaves off and Divinity begins, or at which Divinity leaves off and humanity begins," is it much wonder that people cease to go to church to worship such a " divinity " as is represented in the above quotation ?

But, to complete the silly as well as blasphemous babbling, see the following, reported in the Literary Digest, issue of Jan. 2, 1904:"The Rev. Mr.- Campbell, of London, recently speaking at Northfield, was asked from the audience, 'how he got along with truth and evolution.' He replied,' Truth and evolution ? Evolution is truth.' " Thus, here is a humanity which has evolved from the brute to the divinity, and yet which ceases to go to church because their evil habits are " on the increase." How timely the admonition, " Shun profane and vain babblings :for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker. . . . Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity" (2 Tim. 2 :16, 17, 19).

The Scripture has not said in vain that " in the last days perilous times shall come ; " and, spite of the cry, " Peace, peace, all is well," its unerring, warning voice is, "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived" (2 Tim. 3 :13).