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The Fundamentals. By the very constitution of a democratic social order the teachers must teach what the people like to hear, or else give place to those who will. God will surely judge the privileged nations for this. The change has been great and sudden. The judgment will be swift and severe. Until our day, whatever may have been the moral state of the masses of people of England and America, gov ernments were established on the foundations of Christian doc trine ; kings and other rulers were sworn to defend the faith; the Bible was taught in the schools; and no one was regarded as fit for a position of public responsibility who was not a professed follower of Jesus Christ. As for the teachers in our schools and colleges, not one could have been found who did not hold and teach as the unchanging truth of God the doc trines of Bible Christianity. A GREAT APOSTASY. Recognizing these facts, which all must admit to be facts, however much they may differ as to the significance of them, it follows that we are living under the dark shadow of the greatest national apostasy that has ever taken place. During all the history of mankind there has never been such a whole sale turning away from the Source of national blessings, in order to take up with the gods of the heathen. SOLEMN NONSENSE. We have already stated that the regnant philosophy, i. e., pantheism, is expounded in our universities in two forms, known respectively as “monism” and “pluralism.” Professor James, although a vigorous critic of monism, admits that the latter has almost complete possession of the field, and that his own-cult of “pluralism” has very few adherents. These two species of pantheism are, however, alike in the essential mat ter that “both identify human substance with divine substance.” From a Christian standpoint, therefore, it is not very important
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