"LEADERS OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT."
By Editor
It is a noteworthy fact that many of the men who are denominated "leaders" in matters of religion, are practically infidel. We have wondered whether they have so large a following because of their infidel sentiments, or whether they have adopted infidel sentiments in order to have so large a following; and we have concluded that the latter is the correct theory. There is a strong current setting downward. Evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse. Because iniquity is abounding, the love of many is waxing cold. The prevailing iniquity necessarily begets infidelity, and thousands who are not directly vicious are infected by the poison. The leaven of infidelity is everywhere. And since the people are turned away from the Bible, all anyone who wishes to be a leader has to do, is to put himself at the head of the procession. The people are going that way anyhow, and if he will only go a little faster than they, they will of course follow him. This agrees with what the apostle Paul wrote to Timothy: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim. 4:3, 4.