had two thousand years to do it in, but as missionaries are still
being sent out, it follows that the world is yet to be saved. The
argument presented elsewhere in these pages may here be recapitulated.

There was war before Christianity; has Jesus abolished war?

There was poverty and misery in the world before Christianity; has
Jesus removed these evils?

There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus
destroyed ignorance?

There were disease, crime, persecution, oppression, slavery,
massacres, and bloodshed in the world before Christianity; alas, are
they not still with us?

_When Jesus shall succeed in pacifying his own disciples; in healing
the sectarian world of its endless and bitter quarrels, then it will
be time to ask what else Jesus has done for humanity._

If the world is improving at all, and we believe it is, the progress
is due to the fact that man pays now more attention to _this_ life
than formerly. He is thinking less of the other world and more of
this. He no longer sings with the believer:

The world is all a fleeting show
For man's delusion given.
Its smiles of joy, its tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,
There's nothing true but heaven.