h the doctrines of Scripture, because the helping of humanity is his
one passion and care: yet all his passion is lost and his care is to no
real end unless coupled with a very positive message of a particular way
of Salvation, the true understanding of which demands a series of most
careful distinctions.

Recently the word "pragmatism" has been brought into popular use to
denote the test by which the pragmatists measure all systems, theories
and doctrines. The pragmatic inquiry when applied to any system, theory,
or doctrine may be understood to mean, "does it meet its claims in
practice?" Although much is being made of this phase of pragmatism, the
test is as old as the race, and verified by Scripture, for Jesus said,
"By their fruits ye shall know them." However, the burden of testing
claims has never before been so great, for the world was never so filled
with new and strange theories as now. And these modern systems that deny
true salvation in Christ are growing mightily under this test. They
offer comparatively little and are usually able to meet their claims.
"Christian Science" does, to some extent, change the condition of mind
and body. "Spiritism" offers a demonstration from the invisible, and the
demonstrations appear. "New Thought" proposes a development of the whole
natural man, and thrives by the practical test of "pragmatism." The same
is true of all other similar systems and doctrines, and will be true of
those that may yet appear, since it is the very program of Satan as it
is revealed in his last blasphemous counterfeit of the Son of God; for
it is written in Rev. 13:3, 4 that they first wondered at the miracles
of the Man of Sin, and then worshipped. Woe to the untaught soul who
stands wondering to-day at the marvels of this evil age, if he be
without a sense of the importance and value of the priceless blood of
the Cross! The step is not far, for such an one, to the place where he
falls in worship: worship of a being who is supposed to have forgotten
abhorrence of sin and abandoned all eternal covenants of mercy by blood
alone; a being who is supposed to be glad that the world has outgrown
the old unbearable estimates of sin and redemption, and into whose
presence the worshipper is supposed to be free to come on the ground of
his fallen human nature, or the "universal fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man."

Who can be the god of these systems? the energizing power in these
people? and the an