living Christ, it cannot doubt that the time will come, however distant and however long delayed, when her camp-fires shall be kindled and her banners shake on every hill-top from the rising to the setting of the sun.

"Chaos is come again, and the world is growing worse," say the prophets of evil, but not so do we interpret the annals of the past, not so do we cast the horoscope of the future. Christ is pledged to make Christianity the universal faith. Faith in Christ is faith in a redeemed humanity. So, in spite of the existing widespread corruption, we believe that the divine life among men that has never died out in the longest and darkest night, is growing to its new opportunities and responsibilities. We are no prophets, but we can all of us discern a future now dawning on our horizon over which the Hebrew prophets would have clapped their hands. "The morning truly cometh," as God's spirit has said.

We, as Christians, are not getting all of the comfort or of the superb calm out of our religion that we might. The supernatural and divine are in our creeds, but we are prone to leave the divine elements out of our daily life. God is the Governor of the universe-all things fall out according to his ordering. He is our helper, he never takes his hand off. Anxiety is then a form of atheism. Confidence in God cannot exist in a human heart with misgivings as to the issue of things lurking in another corner of the same heart. If we believe in God as our Father, as supreme in his intelligence and irresistible in his power, let us fling ourselves into our purposes with zeal and gladness, and not go around moping about the present, or with knitted brow and wry faces turned toward the future. If we are truly God's children we are in line with his purposes and plans, and his will is ours. God has no intention of being disappointed in his plans. He believes infinitely in the just.

and true, and for him to believe in the just and true means that the establishment and maintenance of justice and truth are a part of his purpose. So that if our purposes are at one with those of God there can come no failure to us, except God should fail. This is a thought worth keeping close to your heart as you feel your way forward into the times that are to come. "The morning cometh." Instinct leans that way; confidence in God means that; and history points to an appointed triumphant consummation.

My friends, all our endeavors in behalf of truth and justice are elements in the progress of Christ's kingdom. Ours it is in our little corner of the great pattern of history to do our part perfectly. God will harmonize all, will make all faithful effort to converge to the end to bring in the reign of righteousness among men. May God forgive us all the errors of the past and build us into the scheme wherewith he is realizing his intentions for the future, and hasten the time when sin shall be a thing forgotten, discord and variance a memory only, and the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Text: "Be diligent, show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." 2 Tim., 2:15.

This is an age of unparalleled activity. Life in it is like a boundless, restless ocean whose surging billows dash themselves madly against every limiting rock until it is broken down, and the sea flows over it as part of its vast expanse. All conquests are thus won in this age, for aggressiveness is its only highway to victory. Science and arts, literature and commerce, politics and potentates have felt its thrill and acknowledged its regal authority. Its achievements are world wide. It has made continents as widely separate as the poles near neighbors. It has turned the miraculous into modern, daily duty. In many of the walks in life the formerly impossible has become the common place.

* A native of Scotland, Mr. Todd was educated at Glasgow University. Missionary to Manitoba, under Colonial Committee of Presbyterian church of Scotland, 1881-1889. Pastor Union church, Phillips, Wis., 1889-1891. Associate Synodical Missionary, 1891-1893. Pastor of Presbyterian church, Escanaba, Mich., 1893. A contributor to religious journals, he is also the author of When, How, and by Whom was the Bible written," "The Relation between Education and Morality," and "Todd's Handbook for Presbyterians."

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