d" is making all its plans to attain
the place of power by social, moral and political means.

What would be said of a queen who entered into partnership with men
whose hands were still red with the blood of her murdered husband
and rejected king? What could be said but that she had wholly
forgotten or proved totally false to the principles for which her
husband had died?

What shall be said of a Church which seeks to enter into partnership
with a world that slew her Lord; which under all the smile and
smoothness of moral, social and philosophical phrases and all the
hypocritical laudations of His human character rejects His deity and
hears in His cry of agony on the cross the proof that He was only a
man who failed as other men have failed at the last.

Such a Church as that has lost the vision of its true attitude
during the absence of its rejected Lord and is well-nigh to
forfeiting its commission.

Over the professing Church is sounding to-day with ominous
significance the Apostolic words of warning:

"What, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God; and that whosoever will be the friend of the world, is the
enemy of God?"

The Corinthian Church attempted to take the place of rulership in
the world.

With keen and biting words the Apostle rebukes them.

Thus he writes to them:

"Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without
us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we might also reign with
you."

Then he adds by way of contrast:

"I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were
appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and
to angels and to men."

It is this same apostle who under the inspiration of the Spirit in
his second epistle writes to Timothy:

"If we suffer, we shall also reign with him."

It is not while her Lord is the crucified and rejected that the
Church is to reign and rule over the world. Not while He is seated
on His Father's throne in heaven and His own throne on earth is cast
down and trampled in the dust. Nay! if the Church is faithful she
will walk in separation from the world. If the Church is faithful
she will testify against the world, not testify merely against
certain abuses, but against the world as a system, that it is built
upon the principle of the enthronement of self and not God, the
exaltation of the flesh and not spirit.

If the Church shall be faithful and like Noah in the building