The Christian Advocate of the 8th instant says of a certain college in this country that it "contains about four hundred students." Of this number two hundred and eighty-five are professing Christians; many of these are consecrated, but "very many are careless regarding the duties and privileges of the Christian." One hundred and twenty-five have never made a public profession of Christ. And the Advocate fears that these careless ones will do much more harm than good. It quotes one student as saying: "Students for the258ministry in my college class destroyed my religious feeling. I know I was to blame, but I have never been able to get it back." Then, referring to the colleges of the Methodist Episcopal Church, it asks if they are awake to the importance of the subject, and says:— "When twenty students in one class can truthfully say that during the time (three years) that they have been in the institution not a word has been said to them on personal religion by president or professors, there is something wrong. When members of a faculty say that they recognize no responsibility for the moral or religious character of the students, or their habits, if they attend classes and recite passably—except in cases of gross immorality which may scandalize the college—the question arises, Why denominational colleges at all?" The tendency of much of the collegiate education is away from God and simple faith in his word. It is no wonder that those who teach science falsely so called, evolution instead of creation, are not spiritually minded or burdened for souls. But all these are signs of the last times, and precursors of the coming of our Lord.