Some of our influential editors, liberal tho they are, see the present-day drift in religious matters. For instance, commenting on a remark of the Congregationalist relative to different conceptions of Bible inspiration and authority, the editor of the Christian Advocate says:— If the extreme Higher Critics go much further,—if the Scriptures come to be regarded as really proving nothing against which a man can not set up his “Christian consciousness,” so called, there will be a divorcing of the Protestant churches from the Bible, and that within the next thirty years. Numerous sects will arise, many of them extremely fanatic, and one of them may sweep the country. Meanwhile Catholicism will begin to spread with marked rapidity. For people will have a strong religion; they will not have a jellyfish religion, a misty, or a musty religion. They will take up with absurd superstitions; they will submit to despotic ecclesiasticism; they will profess bald infidelity; turn away in total indifference; or if it is supported by energetic and fervent preaching of positive truth, they will accept and cling to a religion based on the Bible as a rule of faith and practise,—a rule meaning what, in substance, it appears to mean in dogma and precept. And the beginning of this we see now. Most people who want religion want a religion strong enough to save them, certain in its foundation; but the majority of these are so ignorant of the truth that they will accept strong Catholic assertion for truth; and Protestantism is oftentimes too weakly to warn, too unbelieving to instruct. Some will find the truth in the Bible.