486 THE KING’S BUSINESS mans or their emperor or government are entirely in the wrong present conflict, nevertheless the Germans are our fellowmen and we should love them. Not only that, many of them are fellow Christians. As noble Christians as there are on earth today are found among German people, and even though they are arrayed on one side in the conflict and we on the other, we shotfld love them as brethren; and we should love the Germans who are not Christians. We should love all mankind. However intense we may be in our devotion to our own country, let us be very much on our guard against giving place to the devil by permitting any measure of hatred toward Germans or toward their rulers to enter into our hearts. Even though we must fight, let us fight as Chris tians and let us pray not only in order that our own country may be spared the horrors of war that have wrought such desolation in Germany, France,. Eng land, Belgium and other lands, but also in the interests of our enemies, that the war may soon be brought to an end. At the same time let us never forget that even if this war does end in a few weeks, or few months or a few years, it will not be the last war. There will never be peace until the Lord Jesus comes and takes the reins of government. So in all our prayer for peace to emerge from the present conflict, let us not forget to pray for that event which will bring lasting peace to all the earth, viz., the coming of our Lord Jesus. We have recently received a letter from a friend who Demoralization has been connected with evangelistic work .for ten or of Evangelization. eleven years, that greatly impresses us. We cannot but feel with him that there is much that is wrong in a good deal of the popular evangelism of the day. There are men whom God is greatly using and in the results of whose work every one who loves God and His Son Jesus Christ must rejoice, nevertheless, we cannot but see that there are not a few in the work today who are really adventurers, and that the time has come to call a halt in many of the things that are done. The letter referred to reads in part as follows: • _ _ * . “Four years ago last January, I was invited to join an evangelist as one of his assistants. In less than two weeks’ time, the evangelist said to me, How do you like the game ?’ My blood boiled within me, to think of a crucified Christ, a resurrected Christ, a living Christ, being made a ‘gamfe of. For seven years before that, I thought it a very serious matter, and that there was no play and no ‘game’ in giving my life for service to Him Who died for me. “In the city of Philadelphia I heard another evangelist refer to this sacred work of evangelism as a ‘game’—and how do you like it? Enough said! “Since that time, I have been studying the outcome of the ‘game’ called Present-Day Evangelism. In the meantime, I have seen the Church of God plunging into an abyss frotn which it-will take a New Isaiah to deliver. By word and pen, I have forewarned the results—from cause to effect. The whole system was originated by man, and not in accord with the spirit of God. The system has been perpetuated by an enthusiastic hysteria of the rich laymen of the church, not with evil intent, but with disastrous culmination to the organized Church of God. Gymnastics, Vaudeville, circus_ performances on the taber nacle platform in playing the ‘game’ again, yo win souls for Jesus Christ can no more mix than oil and water. In our large-cities, there never has been a meeting called for prayer over the ‘call’ of the present-day evangelists, but the laymen have; in their enthusiasm, guaranteed the expenses and forced an
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