the air, where His church will be caught up to meet Him. So far as I know, there is nothing to interfere with that coming, and I am looking for Him every day. But the coming now referred to with reference to the deliverance of Israel is that second aspect of His Second Coming when He comes with His church, and "His holy angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ."

The Antichrist will in that day, as already stated, make a desperate, though unsuccessful effort to destroy the Jewish nation, because that nation is the most powerful of the living witnesses to the existence of the one only and true God, and to the inspiration of the Bible as the Word of God. No wonder that the Antichrist should seek by one supreme effort to wipe it from the face of the earth. In that day, the language of Israel's ancient enemies will be repeated, when they said, "Come and let us cut them off from being a nation." But just at the moment of Israel's extremity, when the Antichrist seems to have complete success, the clouds part asunder over the Mount of Olives and Christ returns, the Jews are delivered, and the Antichrist is destroyed.

At the Wednesday evening session the chair was occupied by Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore, Md. Dr. Kelly holds a position almost unique in his profession. With academic, professional, and honorary degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Washington and Lee,

Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, his rank as a scholar is clearly recognized. His published works have caused him to be reckoned the most eminent of all authorities in his own field.

Dr. Kelly remarked upon the large attendance and great enthusiasm in connection with the present Conference. "I was talking to one of my good friends yesterday noon, in another large city," said he, "about this very matter we now have under consideration. He is one of the leading Bible teachers of the world, and one of the noblest and best men I have ever known; but he has fought shy of this matter. He said: 'I have not taken hold of it, because the churches are all against it. I have not seen it quite clearly, and I do not want to antagonize the churches I am trying to bring together.' Now, from the appearance of this splendid audience this evening, one might think the churches are, after all, getting together on this great subject."

The devotional services introducing the evening program were conducted by the Rev. Dean A. C. Peck of Denver, Colo. He said: "Upon returning to my hotel this evening, I met a man from New Jersey, whom I knew long ago. He had seen the crowds in front of this building, and commented upon the great interest manifested in these meetings. He asked me, 'Just what do you people stand for over there, and what are you doing?' I told him the distinctive doctrines of our faith." Dean Peck commented on Phil. 2:5-11.

WAR ON GERMAN THEOLOGY

REV. CORTLAND MYERS, D.D.

Pastor of Tremont Baptist Temple, Boston, Mass.

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The abomination of abominations in the modern religious world is that ripe, rank, rampant, rotten new theology made in Germany. Martin Luther in the great Reformation gave to the German people an open Bible, and with that open Bible in their hands they became a very prosperous and powerful people. In these last forty years of their history, they have reversed the conditions, having taken that open Bible and torn it in shreds and trampled it beneath their feet like mere scraps of paper, thus substituting for real Christianity and the principles of the gospel of the Son of God, the law of the survival of the fittest, with the result now manifest in our world-tidal wave of barbarism, savagery, and immorality. For they have secured by this process in recent years, a nation of agnostics and atheists, and it is not a long way from infidelity to immorality. For they have secured by this the other. We see the harvest fields being reaped from these seeds of German rationalism and

false philosophy. All this is unquestionably true, and it is a grave question to-night whether this war would be burdening our world with its curse if it had not been for the new theology started in Germany some years ago and permeating and poisoning our theological seminaries as well as our other institutions, and some of our pulpits, and even reaching the hearts of many Christian people.

You will make the discovery, if you will read history-the religious history of the world—that the Person of Christ has always been the center of the battlefield; and it has been no different in this instance. You have heard that before; the world has often heard it; but we have failed to learn the lesson. I know of a boy who went to school and who always had difficulty with his grammar. He could manage arithmetic, history, spelling, and most of the other subjects, but he had great difficulty with grammar. This one subject he was unable to master and apply He would always say this-"I have went." The teacher became wearied with her efforts to cure him of that apparently fatal disease, and said: "I am going to correct you of this. I shall keep you after school, and you will write this sentence, 'I have gone,' one hundred times." The boy sat down on that hard bench in front of the desk, heaved a heavy sigh and sobbed a moment, and then wrote one hundred sentences all in a row, "I have gone," and counted backwards every time he wrote, to be sure that he did not write one too

many. When he had finished the last line, he sighed once more, and then wrote this sentence at the bottom of the page, "I have written this one hundred times, and I have went home.'

We have been pointing in other directions sometimes without remembering the fact concerning theology and the discussion of the centuries and the real center of all the difficulties. It is pre-eminently the Person of Christ; and the one question to ask, in the face of this tidal wave of German theology, is, Who is this Christ? Who is He? That is the interrogation that ought to find its way into the heart of humanity at this hour, and so fasten itself there with its divine answer that we never can be shaken from it. Who is He? First of all, He is the supreme Authority in religion. We always demand an authority in religion. The world always has. It must always demand this. Philosophy doesn't demand it; science does not demand it. But when we come to religion, the human heart always demands some real authority. Some men have said that it was in the individual soul; that the personal consciousness of the man was sufficient for his authority in religion. I grant you that he has an aptness for worship and the recognition of God; that he has a conscience that dictates to him something about the path of right; but he cannot find in his own heart the authority that will satisfy himself and satisfy his fellowman. There must be something other than that which comes from a man's own consciousness and