It Is Strikingly True.—An article in the Saturday Evening Post points out the fact, recently emphasized by Professor Hadley, of Yale, that there is a decided "decline of conviction" among public men. Oratory which moves men has declined. Men "desiring only to subserve in the most direct way the special and local interests confided to them," and to do it as expeditiously as possible, "resort to compromise and adjustment." Of course this will destroy decided conviction, and true eloquence can not live where conviction is wanting. This is especially true in the religious world. What contributed greatly to make Moody the man he was, was his intense conviction and earnestness. There ought to be thousands as earnest as he. Truly it is a sad commentary on religion when but a very few men stand out so prominently as men of earnestness and conviction.