It is, indeed. alarming to Romanists. The New Testament is also under the ban, and any book calculated to open blind eyes and to unstop deaf ears will be shut out of the schools where Romanists have control. What are we to do? Preach the truth! Tell Romanists to come out of Rome and be not partakers of her sins. Heaven is not under the control of Rome. Its doors are open to every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether in the church of Rome or out of it. If Judge Alker believed in Christ and stood for Christ, they may shut the door of the cathedral against him, but they cannot shut the door of heaven. Tell it to everybody in free America. This is our opportunity. The morning cometh, and also the night. There will be an end of opportunity. We have it now. A terrific conflict is upon us. Baal-worship, the worship of any form of idolatry, is devil-worship.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon. You can tell which side you are on. Are you afraid to attack Rome? to call it the "mystery of iniquity," the "Man of Sin"? Are you in alliance with its devotees? Then beware!

There is peril in the air.

God says: "Go through the midst of the city, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof." They that are redeemed are safe. All others are in danger. You may be in the church, but if you are in revolt you are in peril. Where are you, professor? Are you enjoying your first love, or are you building simply on a memory?

If so, get back. You cannot go in advance of your personal experience. You cannot carry people beyond yourself. The world wants not somebody who tells what the scriptures teach, but somebody who illustrates them. Divine men are the need of the hour. There are going to be some funerals. God's sifting-time has come. It begins at the sanctuary. The blood of souls is found on the skirts of the garments of those who have betrayed God. Roman Catholics must abandon all hope through a church which finds its chief characteristics in pagan forms and ceremonies; they must turn to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. Tell this to them. Go to them. Get it before them, and then pray for them.

Ritualism, which is becoming fashionable, is a desperate attempt on the part of the enemy to regain for Satan what was wrested from him in the Reformation. "It is," said Dr. Gordon, "a scheme

so fascinating, that already many of the very elect have been de ceived by it, and are being led back to Rome, as sheep to the slaughter." We take up the Trinity Catechism of Dr. Dix, and find it streaked through and through with the tinge of the scarlet woman-baptismal regeneration-eucharistic sacrifice-apostolic succession-prayers for the dead-intercession of departed soulswhile at the same time its eminent author becomes so enamored of the papacy that he draws away from all Protestant bodies and embraces her, declaring that the three chief branches of the holy catholic church are the church of Rome, the Greek church and the Anglican church, and that the body thus formed is the true church catholic, "because she endures throughout all ages, teaches all nations, and maintains all truth;" forgetful that the pedigree of the devil outdates that of Romanism, and that his forms of worship, practiced by Romanists, are as old as the race.

When we find Protestant ecclesiastics so smitten with what the reformers used to call "the trinklets of anti-Christ," as to allow themselves to be re-invested with the cast-off clothing of Babylon, and to be adorned with mitre and cloth-of-gold orphreys lavishly decorated with amethysts, pearls, topazes and chrysolites set in silver, so as to dazzle the beholder, as was the bishop of Lincoln recently, we are moved to repeat the warning of Bradford, the Smithfield martyr, who cried: "O Christian, beware of antiChrist, take heed that he doth not fool thee."

When Satan offered Christ all the kingdoms of the world, if he would fall down and worship him, he refused, accepting present rejection and crucifixion, and waiting the Father's time for the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdo ms of our Lord and of his Christ. The papal church accepted the kingdoms of this world, and became the harlot bride of anti-Christ, accepting an earthly throne and a present glory, boasting: "I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow."

Be not affrighted. In a little time He that shall come will come, and will not tarry; the Lord shall consume this power of anti-Christ with the breath of his mouth, and shall destroy it with the brightness of his coming. You journey toward the city which is lightened by the glory of God, and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, and there shall be no night there. They shall be open forever. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

LEO XIII IN AMERICAN POLITICS.

The pope has uncovered, in his encyclical, the life-long purpose of the church of Rome. For it, Americans should be grateful: Romanists, because they have a "Thus saith the pope" for political activity and for unanimity in action; and Protestants, because there is no disguise. To be forewarned should enable us to be forearmed:

There are, it is said, between six and seven millions of Roman Catholics in the United States. An effort has been made to divide that vote. It cannot be done, with the pope's consent. They are to vote every time for Rome. The only way for the lion and the lamb to lie down together is for the lion to eat the lamb. This the lion has tried to do. This task the lion believes it has almost accomplished. Romanism is for education in Massachusetts, and against it in Louisiana, and yet is consistent with the pope's encyclical. It is for temperance in Iowa and opposed to it in New York. There as here, and here as there, the majority of the rumsellers are Romanists, but the need is the same. Take the state and hold it for Rome, no matter under what flag, is the injunction of Leo XIII.

When men

Not to know this is, at the present time, our fault. have said, hitherto, that there were millions of voters in this country who waited to hear from Rome before they accepted their ballot, it was called a statement made to frighten the timid and to hold the people by the grip of sectarian prejudice. In the encyclical of the pope, delivered Nov. 1, 1885, and spread broadcast before the eyes of the American people Nov. 26-the day devoted to national thanksgiving-all this and more is said; aye, all this and more is commanded. Let us briefly re-state some of the positions taken, and answer, as best we may, regarding what is duty.

There is much in the paper to which all can give assent. All believe that God seeks the salvation of souls; that Christians should