WHAT Christian man could hear the roar of the flames at Baltimore and not remember the words of an ancient Book, which so plainly declare that the whole earth is some day to pass through a baptism of fire? Even that greater destruction will have its compensation; for a new heaven and a new earth are to follow. Destruction is to be the forerunner of construction. The ephemeral is to give way to the eternal. The uncertain is to be done away with, that the certain and enduring may come in. Every man's work is some day to be tried so as by fire. There will be a great burning up of wood and hay and stubble, but the gold and the silver and the precious stones will remain. God's finger has written more than one lesson in lucid characters of flame, and now again we read that the world passeth away. Blessed indeed is that soul who, recognizing this truth, remembers that he who doeth the will of God shall abide safely through all conflagrations, because unto him comes the assurance that he abideth forever.—New York Observer.