THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S 495 of reality. “ Do you believe in the perseverance of the saints?” a certain teacher was asked. “ I believe in the saints persevering,” was the reply. Staying qualities are indispensable to success in every department of life. God is able not only to save but to keep also. He can make a rock like Peter out of the vacillating Simon. Steadfast continuance finds its coln- plement in earnest contention. Controversy is sometimes a duty. Much of the preaching of Christ and Paul was controversial. When an assault is made upon the church of God, we must repel the attack. The best way to strengthen the things that remain, is to attack the things that resist. These duties react upon each oher. By earnest contention for the faith, we are most likely to continue grounded and settled in it. 1 These exhortations suggest the unchanging character of the Christian faith. It is the Apostles’ doctrine that we continue in and the faith deliv ered “ once for all” for which we contend. There are no improvements or additions to, the old-fashioned Gospel. The canon of Scripture is closed. Every professed new revelation is Apocryphal and comes from beneath. There is a “ progressive theology” ' in the sense that our apprehension of Scripture deepens and increases, but in no other. “ Whosoever progresseth and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God.” 2 John 9 (R.V.). Jude defends his plea for contention on the ground of pressing necessity, vs. 4. Similar conditions warrant a similar plea today. Perilous times are upon us. 2 Tim. 3 :1. Insidious errors are poisoning the minds of men and damnable heresies are seducing their hearts from God. Many are departing from the faith. There never was greater need for the people of God to undertake a propaganda for the faith of our fathers, by tongue and pen, offensive and defensive, without compromise or cessation, contending, earnestly, prayerfully and victoriously for the truth in Jesus.—F , W. F. A PROBLEM for Some School Boy to Solve Two dispatches from Germany appearing in the daily papers about the same date and, in many of them, in adjoining columns, are of peculiar interest when taken together. The Kaiser’s former theological advisor informs the world that he often warned Wilhelm that his orthodox interpretations of Scripture were obsolete and dangerous and would get him in trouble, and he affirms that it was nothing short of the Kaiser’s orthodoxy that got the world in all this mess and sent the Kaiser to Amerongen. The Herr Professor has been very delinquent in giving this information as the dean of Chicago University long since informed the American people that the Kaiser’s orthodoxy was at the root of the world’s troubles and that orthodoxy as a result must go to the scrap heap. But the second dispatch is even more interesting. A German phil osopher writes that the intellectuals of Germany (from whom many of our College professors derive their knowledge) are sitting in their lairs utterly bewildered. Yesterday they were the world’s infallible theorists, but today as they behold the outcome of their theories in Germany, they are engaged in eating their words of yesterday. He says that Marx, Nietzche and all the other text books of higher thought lie buried somewhere in the debacle. The German highbrows admit themselves adrift and are call-
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