A STUDENT of the prophetic Word, and a close observer of the times, will not dissent from the opinion recently expressed by Rev. A. B. Simpson regarding the religious condition of the world. He feels that the line of demarcation is being drawn between the righteous and the wicked:— Religiously we are at once declining and advancing. The bad is growing worse, the good is getting better. There are not as many Protestant Christians in the United States in proportion to the population as a century ago. The causes are chiefly Higher Criticism and free thought in the pulpit, and worldliness among the people. Some of us still believe that the only remedy for this lost world is the gospel, and a people who believe it and live it with all their hearts. The Scriptures plainly declare that evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse; that, so far as the great professed church is concerned, the standard of truth will be lowered in the dust; that the principles for which true Protestantism has stood in the past, will be denied. The Scriptures also plainly indicate that while these conditions are found among the careless multitude and nominal professors, there will be a company of believers still clinging to the truth, and permitting the pure, undefiled gospel to sanctify their lives. In every church God has earnest, faithful souls, who deplore the conditions which surround them, and are looking and longing for greater light and power. These, in the closing days of earth's history, will stand in the breach, and uphold before their fellows the standard of truth and righteousness. In the two classes into which the world will be divided, may we stand among those who revere God and his Word, and follow on to know the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. In the day of final accounts we shall see that it has paid to serve God. We shall then “discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”