A clergyman in Alma, Mich., speaking of the Alma College football team, said that under its present coaching a prayer has been offered for protection from injury for themselves and their opponents before beginning the game. The Menominee (Mich.) Evening Leader also tells us the clergyman in question remarked: “When football and other sports have come to be religious games, Christianity is certainly making progress, and its welfare is assured in the hands of the coming generation.” But this is nothing new. All the games of ancient times were played in honor of their gods. Duels and battles in both pagan and papal times were largely religious affairs. Present-day football is on a fair par with pugilism, less injury coming to devotees of the latter than of the former. The Spanish side of the late war was a religious war. So was China’s war. So also was the war waged by the Boers. It depends entirely on the religion. The cruelest wars, tortures, revenges of the past were religious, even tho some were called Christian. All is not Christianity, however, that is called such. The fighting, struggling, striving, of Christianity is of a different character.