itute right
legislation and right social conditions and the world will soon
approach the condition of heaven on earth.

This is the infidellic drive of Protestantism today.

Protestantism has come down from the plane of the supernatural to
the plane of the natural.

Every day Protestantism is becoming more and more a society for
competitive morality.

In short, the Protestantism of the hour is a combination of
religiousness, civilization, Christianity, socialism, pagan
philosophy, unitarianism and the energy of the flesh.

Nor need we be startled at this as though some strange thing had
taken place. Long ago the Apostle warned us that it would be
necessary to preach the Word in season and out of season--just as a
watchman is under bonds to flash light in the darkness--because the
time would come when the Church should have a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof; when it would not endure sound doctrine,
but in obedience to the itching of the flesh should heap to itself
teachers who should endeavour to respond to these worldly demands;
teachers who in the end should turn the people away from the truth
and turn them to the fictions and fables of men; teachers of whom
the Apostle Peter warned who should bring in damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord who had bought them, teachers whom Jude foresaw
would creep in unawares.

Men who consult the chart of a seacoast which marks the place of
breakers and treacherous, hidden ledges, now and then thrust out
through the white foam like the gleaming sharp teeth of waiting
sharks, are not startled when they see the surf breaking at the
indicated spot and hear the roar of the waters where it was
announced they should lift up their thunder; they are not surprised,
instead their confidence in the accuracy of the chart is emphasized.

Likewise when those who have read the forecast in Holy Scripture,
while they may feel a certain grief at the facts as they are,
rejoice when they see these things that even the failure of man as
man and the betrayal of committed trust bear witness to the accuracy
of Holy Writ.

With all its failure the professing Church still claims to be the
kingdom of Christ on earth and asserts its determination to rule the
world. Rome holds to the idea with unfailing faith and with
consistent Jesuitical and political scheming is moving forward with
united front to temporal sovereignty. Protestantism with its new
watchword of a "reorganized worl