ases--first as a _stone_, under which
symbol it broke down the kingdoms of heathen darkness; and then as
a _mountain_, when it _is to fill the whole earth_. And again, after
describing the 1,260-year reign of the papacy, Daniel said: "But the
judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume
and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom _under the whole heaven_, shall be given
to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and _all dominions shall serve and obey_ HIM"
(Dan. 7: 26, 27).

There is abundant evidence to be seen by the careful observer that
there are now at work in the Christian world forces that are preparing
for great changes. Christian charity is refusing to be confined by
sectarian barriers. The Christian consciousness is becoming aroused to
the evils of sectarianism and sectarian systems as it has never been
aroused in any past age. There is a longing among spiritual
people everywhere to escape from the blighting effect of a divided
Christianity. Evangelism is becoming more and more detached from
organized denominations, and the denominational lines are being
ignored in a way that would have astonished the people of a
century ago. Numerous attempts are being made to unite the various
denominations on the mission fields and in the homeland. While many
of these efforts are mere blind groping for a way out of the fogs of
sectarianism, they show unmistakably that back of and underlying all
these efforts is a mighty force slowly but surely gathering power
that (so far as God's true people are concerned) shall in time rise
to break once for all the rigorous reign of human ecclesiasticism and
reestablish in power and glory the simple, primitive theocracy, where
Christ shall be exalted as the true and only ruler of his people.

Ecclesiasticism, however, dies hard. In fact, it is scarcely correct
to say that it will die at all. The churches of men are largely made
up of worldly-minded professors who know not the birth and life of
the Spirit. To such the church will never appear as anything different
from an institution organized and governed after the pattern of the
kingdoms of this world. According to the prophecy, God's true saints
will die to ecclesiasticism by forsaking the sect system, but the
rule of human churchly power will go right on until the end of time.
Furthermore, we may expect the contra