A PEOPLE without profound and decided convictions are open to every species of delusion. That is emphatically true of the people of the world to-day. Thousands have been reared in a Protestantism, who once held the Scriptures, from Genesis to the Revelation, to be the revealed will of God, the manifestation of God in written word. But into Protestantism was injected the baleful and insidious poison of the “higher criticism,” and confidence in the Bible has been dealt fearful blows. Many no longer read it or believe it. The result is an unsettled confusion, a prepared ground for seductive error. Among these delusions spreading so rapidly to-day because Protestantism has been false to itself, are Buddhism, Theosophy, and Mohammedanism (Islamism), which still chain multitudes of Orientals in the dark dungeons of heathen hopelessness. Of the last ism Current History for September tells us that special effort is now being put forth for the revival of Islamism, with the approval of the Sultan of Turkey. It says:— The strength of this movement can be shown by the increase in Mohammedan adherents in the last twenty years. In 1880, when the revival practically began, the Mussulmen of the world numbered about 175,000,000. In 1900 the number was estimated at about 260,000,000. Modern Mohammedanism has abandoned the sword as a means of making converts; the star and the crescent is carried to the uttermost corners of earth by missionaries, well trained, zealous teachers, often fanatics. Parts of Russia, all of Asia and Malaysia, and Northern Africa are the field of their active endeavor. A number of strong and semi-secret societies have been organized for the propaganda, with definite and settled policy, the key-note of which is close adaptation to the conditions of the people they are trying to reach. The Mystic Shriners, a high degree in Free Masonry, is Mohammedan. For its spread in civilized as well as in pagan lands God will hold responsible the people to whom He has given light. If Protestantism had gone forward upon the principles which gave her birth, the whole world would have been enlightened, and multitudes would have been saved from the darkness of this world long ere this. But when the church becomes a part of the world, when the salt has lost its savor, when conviction of truth gives way to confusion or agnosticism, what is there to hope? We may expect all these delusions, including Spiritism and Christian Science among them. The effectual remedy for all is the Scriptures of truth.