RUMORS through the daily press are persistent that Germany is successfully building a mighty fleet of Zeppelins to sail across the channel and hover over London while it drops upon the city its mighty engines of death. The reports say that one factory alone, with a thousand workmen engaged, is turning out one of the big Zeppelin air-ships every three weeks. One of these latest Zeppelins is said to carry torpedoes and bombs capable of as much damage as the shells of the famous sixteen-inch siege-guns that had been kept secret and that were brought out for the first time in the recent destruction of the Belgian forts. These reports are probably greatly exaggerated; but nevertheless, who can imagine the horror of living in a city with the constant dread of being awakened by a fleet of such destructive monsters hovering overhead? All the nations are building similar war implements, and they are building them with the expectation of having to use them. When we consider what is meant by dropping such bombs out of the sky upon defenseless homes—killing innocent children and defenseless men and women—it shows that our boasted civilization is a miserable sham. When Christ was here in person, there was great religious ostentation and show. People claimed the highest form of devotion and morality. Priest and ruler engaged in their religious ceremonies in the most devout manner. From the standpoint of outward appearance, they were holy men, living above reproach. But these selfsame persons dragged the sinless Christ from Gethsemane by way of the judgment-hall to Calvary and the cross. They put Him to death in the most shameful, cruel manner; and while doing this, they vociferously professed their belief in the prophecies of their Bible, which taught that He was to come. If we may believe the prophecies of this same Bible, they show us that at the close of time, there will arise a class of men who will have the same sham pretensions of devotion and piety, but who in reality know nothing whatever of the Christ they claim to adore. Men have been boasting of our great Christian nations; but the Author of Christianity has ever told us that the straight and narrow way would find but few people in it, and He has said that in the last great day many will come to Him saying, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity." We should study the Bible to see how plainly it unmasks the sham of these times, and with what remarkable clearness it shows the vortex of destruction toward which this world is headed. Our hope as individuals is in the Christ who was crucified by the sham professors over nineteen hundred years ago, and who, if He appeared in His blessed simplicity and advocacy of truth and righteousness, would be crucified in the twentieth century by the very men who are now professing His name. Professing Christianity does not make us Christians. Men who are full of hate and of a determination to kill their fellows, and who would take a god of commercial supremacy, are not Christian, no matter how high their pretensions, nor how eloquent their prayers. Jesus of Nazareth, looking down to this time in which we live, raised the question, "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8.