TRUST is not always a Christian virtue. To trust one's self to a rotten plank, when a safe footing can properly be obtained elsewhere, may be a folly or a crime, according to the motive which directed the action. This thought is suggested by the recent words of a would-be theological prophet, who, forecasting the creed of the future, announces, as one of the elements of its fourfold belief, faith in the "drift of things." Faith in the drift of things! Alack! that is like enough to be the too common faith of the future; for it has been the commoner faith of the past. No transgressor of God's commandments, no drunkard, no impure person, no deceiver of other men, but has unlimited faith in the drift of things. Every day sees him sink deeper into the mire, every day, perhaps, making his desire for deliverance more feeble; yet every day sees him cherishing the same old faith that sometime things will take a turn, and he will come out all right. One might more safely trust one's self to the drift above Niagara than to this treacherous "drift of things." This faith in the drift of things is not the faith of the Christian. His is a personal trust in a personal Saviour,—through whose good providence he has faith, not in the drift of things, but in their settled march, according to God's ordering, from evil to good, and from corruption to incorruption.