consideration of the effect of its application to the life of the world. Suppose people were to give over the business of fighting with one another, not in actual war, for that is the least. deadly form of strife, but in social, political and business rivalries-what a blessed peace would descend on the hearts of weary and vexed men! Most of our annoyances come from the constant effort to assert what we think are our own rights, and from the intense jealousy we show lest others should get more than we deem their due. Even now the great and really successful and happy men are those who never fight back, who are careless of their own rights and privileges, and whose great ambition is not to compete with, but to help others. The servants of the race have almost invariably been men of this type. And they are the only men who have known that peace and joy-even amid great sorrow and pain it may be which we all covet. So it is that the apostle tells us to let our "moderation," or yieldingness, "be known to all men." If we could but rise to this height of spiritual excellence we should see an end of all those cares and annoyances and distractions by which we are now

"sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us." Of a truth all our obstacles are within. It is the old worldly temper which we have to combat and to conquer. We are far enough from the victory, as is proved by the applause which we bestow on those of violent speech and action, on those who, as we say, "stand up for their rights"-though they may be careless enough of the rights of others!

Really the world is to be saved, and humanity redeemed and glorified, not by the fighting spirit, but by the yielding spirit, the spirit which the apostle commends to us. We must believe this if we believe at all in Christianity. Men are saying-and we hear them every day -that Christianity has failed, when as a matter of fact it has never had a fair trial in its purity. People are running after new religions or new modifications and adaptations of the old one, their chief aim apparently being to "get something" for themselves. Yet all the while we hear the old call to service and selfdenial, the old call to forgive and to love rather than to fight and to crush our enemy. The question is simply one of heeding and obeying it. We need no new revelation, no new religion.

What we need is the new heart, so often spoken of in the Bible. To work for others, to serve them, to be willing to suffer in a noble cause, to refuse to add to the awful discord which now mars the life of the world-this is Christianity. It is once more a question of noble and true living-as we saw it was in literature and life. The whole Christian revelation is saturated with these ideas. If they are true, how foolish are those who think it brave and manly to be quarreling and fighting all the while, how insane those who see in every man an enemy rather than a brother! The world can never make any progress along this line. It can only revert to barbarism, to the days when every man was a soldier, and when private vengeance was the law of life. So Christianity and civilization are one, and civilization can be saved from marching to ruin by the old and well-worn path which has so often been trod, only by the application of the Christian morality to it. And it can only be so applied by men who are at least trying to rule their lives by the Christian spirit. What tired and tempted lives need is not the fighting spirit, but the peace which is promised in the gospel.

That is a peace that will keep a man serene and self-poised in the midst of alarms, that will make him master of himself and his own base and fierce passions. It can come only from a realization of the Christian ideal.

THE FUTURE LIFE

T is often the case that scientific men fail to meet fully their responsibilities to the people, fail indeed to realize how serious those responsibilities are, and this is never truer than when they try to deal with revelation, and to carry forward science into a domain in which it has no proper place. Almost invariably in such cases they seem to be making concessions which they themselves in their hearts feel are not legitimate. Such men forget that the uninformed and the ill-informed will take their words for vastly more than they are worth, simply because they are the words of a scientist. People do not stop to think whether the subject is one in which the man is an authority, whether, indeed, that subject has any relation of any kind to physical science. They are quick to assume that the voice which speaks is, not simply that of the scientist, but that of science itself. Many undoubtedly will have this