ng to do with it?"

Slowly, deliberately, almost solemnly Baring replied:

"Lucien Apleon is a Jew!"

Bastin started sharply. Some idea of what his friend meant flashed
upon him.

"Lucien Apleon!" he cried hoarsely. "But what----"

Baring broke in with: "I believe that Lucien Apleon will presently be
_revealed_ as the Anti-christ, and----"

The conversation had been going on in Ralph's Editorial office. It was
now interrupted by a startling call over the tape-wire, and Baring
suddenly realizing the hour, took a hurried temporary farewell of his
friend.

An hour later Ralph was seated at his table penning the "Prophet's
chair" column for the next morning's issue of his paper. It was only
natural, under the new order of life and thought that prevailed, that a
daily paper, conducted on the lines of the "Courier," should drop
heavily in circulation. The "Courier" had so dropped, though it still
paid to issue it.

"_My enemies_, the enemies of God and of righteousness," he murmured,
as he took up his "Fountain," (he preferred a pen to a type-writer)
"are, I am inclined to believe, the chief purchasers of the paper new,
and they only buy it to see what I say from the 'Prophet's Chair.'"

For a moment, as was now his invariable custom, before beginning his
daily message, he bowed his head and prayed for wisdom to write God's
mind.

When next he lifted his head, and put pen to paper, he wrote with great
rapidity, and without an instant's hesitation:

"Resuming the subject of which we wrote yesterday, we tried to show
from Revelation XII, that the teaching was this, that, full of rage
because of his casting out from the heavens, Satan, the great Dragon,
the old Serpent, determined to destroy all lovers of God, that were yet
found among mortals. But even Satan himself is a spirit, and 'cannot
operate in the affairs of the world except through the minds, passions
and activities of men.' He needs to embody himself in earthly agents,
and to put himself forth in earthly organisms, in order to accomplish
his murderous will.

"Through this wonderful Revelation of God to John, God makes known to
us what that organism is, and how the agency and the domination of the
enraged Dragon will be exerted in acting out his blasphemies, deceits,
and bloody spite. The subject is not a pleasant one, but it is an
important one. It also has features so startling and extraordinary
that many may think it but a wild and foolish