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should have our consideration. “ Bring them hither to me.” That is the principal thing. Put your resources, your talents, your strength, your means, your time—yourself— in the hands of Christ, and see what He will do through you. Our best efforts to help men will be utterly inadequate unless the blessing of Christ be upon them. In His hands, that which men would call mere loaves and fishes, becomes the very food of heaven to perishing souls. Are you willing to be used? Let that question sink in. THE CORRECT COLLAR FOR A CRITIC “ Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea . . . woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.” (Matt. 18:6-7.) It was Jesus Christ who said that. The words “ shall offend” mean “ shall cause to stumble.” Lange translates i t : “ Whosoever shall give him occasion for lapsing into unbelief. ’ ’ Our Lord regards it as a desperately malicious piece of business for a man to deliberately undermine the faith of a trusting soul. Such a piece of work will draw down fierce retribution upon the head of the one who does it. Better, far better, according to Christ, that he had been thrown into the sea with a millstone for a collar, so he could never rise again. Occa sions for our young people to fall into sin are numerous enough without some one to teach them a lot of guesswork as though it were science forever proven, and so to inject doubt that eventually cuts them off from the source of power that alone can give victory over sin. • Many people have thought of this warning of Jesus as applying to loud mouthed infidels. But are there not many skeptical teachers and liberal preachers who are (and perhaps unconsciously) engaged in the same kind pf business ? Here are perplexed Christian fathers and mothers whose children come home to them from school denying every fundamental teaching of the Word of God. Some of them, evidently not knowing that Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Outlook, is an evolutionist of the evolutionists, write to him asking, how the Bible can be reconciled to the theory of evolution taught in the schools. The question itself is foolish, for there are many theories of evolution, each claiming to be corroborated by scientific investigation, and the theory of tomorrow will not be within a gunshot of the theory of today. Must we reconcile the Bible to all this scientific guesswork? Dr. Abbott prints his reply in which he says that the Bible is not au thority on some subjects. He makes light of the Bible statements as to the creation and preparation of the earth. He says, “ Evolution is God’s way of doing things. . . . You can find better information as to the processes of creation in Lyell’s ‘ Geology’ or Darwin’s ‘ Descent of Man’ than in Genesis.” His final advice is that “ a mother can render an invaluable ser vice to her child if she can make herself acquainted with the spirit of modern education and pursue the studies of her children with them. ” What good mother can keep pace with this race of the evolutionists ? —K. L. B.
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