THE KING’ S BUSINESS 279 o f national reputation; we do everything to attract the men, without avail. Father, how' do you do it? Why do they come to the mass?’ ” , It is very easy to see the cunning of the Roman Catholic writer in all this. O f course, the statement that he puts into the mouth of this alleged wealthy Christian is not true. The Y. M. C. A. is finding no difficulty in filling the buildings at the Protestant services where the gospel is preached. We know by personal observation that the buildings are filled to overflowing, and that there are hundreds of genuine converts. The Roman Catholic writer goes on to explain it all as he sees it, by shying: “ A little reflection will give the cause. Run back over the pathway of time till you come to the sixteenth century; there you will find the beginning of the cause of their complaint. The revolters of the sixteenth century overthrew authority—not an authority set up by man—but the authority established by Jesus Christ, the Living Voice, which speaks through his Church, and which is none other than the Holy Catholic Church in communion with the See of Rome. . . . The rejecting of this Divine Authority established by Jesus Christ and exercised by his Church has led to chaos.” O f course, what this writer says about the Roman Catholic crowds as com pared with Y. M. C. A. gatherings might be true at Camp Dix, of which he writes, for Cardinal Gibbons is quoted as saying that more than half the enlisted men there were Catholics. Whether this statement of Cardinal Gibbons is true or not we do not know. It certainly is not true of many camps of the country. We have recently received a letter from' England in which the writer expresses his appreciation of T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s in a very practical way. He says: “ I enclose request for renewal of your magazine T h e K in g ’ s B u s i n e s s . The December issue was sent to me, but I have not yet received the January number, and I simply cannot afford to miss one. It is a wonderful tonic in these days of latitudinarianism. One hears some strange teaching and interpretations (or rather perversions) of scriptures in these days, and the pity o f it is that 80 per cent of church members are unable to discern between truth and error. I have come to the conclusion that if the doctrines of the Evangeli cal Faith, or in other words the truths of the Bible are to be preserved and handed down to the next generation, it will have to depend (humanly speak ing) on the comparatively few Christians in all our congregationswho are will ing to take upon themselves the obloquy of ‘Contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints.’ “ The thing one has to guard against is lest one should become bitter in these degenerate and almost apostate days. Yet, thank God, there is grace suf ficient to keep sweet and radiant through it all. “ I Send you my check for five pounds sterling, which after taking out pay ment of my annual magazine subscription, please use in your work in any way you think fit.” n r he KING’S BUSINESS APPRECIATED. .
rpHE PROSTITUTION OF GERMAN SCHOLARSHIP.
We had occasion in a recent number to show the appalling depths of moral blindness to which German scholarship, even theological scholarship, had descended in the days preceding the war and since the war began. Another
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