According to the Christian at Work of Oct. 30, 1879, a popular Sunday-school magazine announces, among the attractions of its Christmas number, an “Acting Play for Sunday-schools, by Dr. Edward Eggleston.” This is the man who recently wrote a novel about the end of the world, designed as a burlesque on Adventism, a very fitting person now to set a snare for the children, and write a play so that every Sunday-school can have its own theater. We are glad the Christian at Work strikes against this iniquity. It says: “We are, it is to be feared, giving to the amusement and entertainment of the children the first place, and other and more important matters are shunted to make way for ‘treats,’ ‘picnics,’ ‘strawberry festivals,’ and now for ‘acting plays.’” Again it says: “The question raised is this: Ought the church of Christ to open a theater of its own? Unquestionably if it be right that the Sunday-school should have ‘acting plays’ for the scholars, it cannot be wrong for the church to have ‘acting plays’ for its members; and so each congregation should have its own theater and its own actors. Now, are we ready for that? It is well to look the question in the face, and see just where we are going.” And while they are looking to see where they are going in the light of the startling innovations lately introduced into their worship, it would be well for them to look to see where they are going in the light of prophecy as given in Revelation eighteen.