WHEN men undertake great industrial enterprises, they sit down first to count the cost in dollars and cents, to determine whether or not the undertaking will pay. But when military strategists are planning some great enterprise, they count the cost not in dollars, but in men. They estimate that if they enter upon such and such a campaign, it will cost so many thousands of men. In one of the big drives in this European war, the strategists figured that if they could attain their end by the expenditure of three hundred thousand men, the undertaking would be well worth while. What a commentary is such a horrible fact, upon the so-called civilization of this age! And it is high time that the people of the world were learning that civilization is no protection against the savagery of the human race. Civilization and the veneer of refinement cannot save, but Jesus Christ can. The civilization of a given period is based upon the human sentiments of that time. Sentiment is ever shifting and changing. To-day the sentiments of men may be our protection, and to-morrow men may have other sentiments, that become our chief source of danger. But he who has his hope built upon the Rock of Ages finds a foundation that will endure every storm and relieve his mind from every perplexing anxiety.