In the September number of the Biblical World is an editorial entitled “The Passing of Apocalypticism.” By apocalypticism is meant the view that has been held by the church through the centuries that sometime our Lord Jesus Christ will come in the clouds of heaven and gather His people to Himself, with all the other events referred to in the Scriptures as occurring at that time. The article seems to be called out by a reader’s asking that the Biblical World should cite “one fact in the spiritual life that has been discovered since the [Scripture] canon has closed.” The editorial first quotes the words of Dr. Inge, professor of divinity, University of Cambridge. We quote as follows: “The earliest Christianity regarded the ascension as the penultimate scene of a drama which was very shortly to have its dénouement by the reappearance of the Messiah in the clouds of heaven. This is a fact, which, however unwelcome it may be to us, we ought, no doubt, to face.” Why this fact is unwelcome appears clearly in a later sentence. “Our Lord is recorded in the Gospels to have made predictions which certainly have not been, and can not now be, fulfilled.” These predictions, Dr. Inge maintains, tho ascribed to Jesus in the Gospels, and incorporated into early Christianity, were not really uttered by Jesus. “On the other hand,” he says, “the view hitherto commonly held by most Christians, that our Lord promised to return to earth at a far distant date unknown to Himself, does not seem to have any support in the New Testament.” The Biblical World assures us that Dr. Inge is not “attacking” the Bible, but speaking “as a defender of the faith.” Now the Gospels, all four of them, quote the words of our Lord Jesus Christ regarding His second coming. These words tell us that He will come again and receive His people unto Himself; that “as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be;” that He will “come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory,” and many other utterances of the same import. And yet this “defender of the faith” tells us that we may not believe in any of these utterances at all, other than this, that those who uttered them may have believed them, but that they have deceived us by saying that Christ declared what they say He said. In other words, their stories concerning Him in this respect are absolutely false, and the church has labored under an entirely wrong conception of His teaching during nineteen hundred years. In the light of this the Biblical World presents as the answer to the question in the beginning of this article the following: “We desire rather to call attention to the fact that a kingdom of God already among us, slowly but surely moving toward the realization