The voice may be effective, and I believe that in these days we should cry aloud and spare not; the pen may be mighty, and I believe we should employ it to the utmost in this holy warfare; but the mightiest weapon of all is the weapon of prayer. God will glorify His own Name; He will plead His own cause; He will vindicate His own Word, as it is written, "That thou mightiest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest." The essential Deity of Christ, with all its implications, will be established, not by our open lips, but by His open grave; the significance o the open grave will be understood, not by mere intellectual debates between soldiers and disciples, but the infallible proof of His own presence in the midst of His people.

We must demonstrate the supernatural character of the Bible by an experience and exemplification of its supernaturalism. We must prove the passage of the red Sea by walking dry-shod through the flood of worldliness which bars our passage to the Promised Land, and from the further shore triumphantly exclaim, "now may Israel say: if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us; then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: then the proud waters had gone over our soul. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who mad heaven and earth."

The walls of the Jericho of Modernism can never be demolished by scholastic "Big Berthas." The arrogance of a "science falsely so-called" will not yield to the mightiest explosive which even true science can compound. Though the sword of Fundamentalism be made from the unadulterated truth of the Gospel, no human hand is strong enough to wield it to the undoing of the enemies of the Lord. We shall march triumphantly over the ruins of the citadel of modernism only as the trumpet of truth is blown in the power of the Holy Ghost.

There will be no victory over the imaginatively evolved gorilla the last issue of an unbelieving human imagination the Goliath of Evolution with its pride-inflated cranium, its enormous helmet and complete armour of brass this giant will never lick the dust before any warrior who fights in the armour of carnal wisdom with a like brazen helmet and coat of mail. But even Little Faith will return from the conflict more than conqueror, with the head of the giant in his hand, and five unused stones of unknown geological age in his scrip.

This assured Baal, which has dried up our rivers, and withered the Lord's harvest, and emptied the church's granaries of spiritual fruitage, will not be expelled from the hearts of the proud even by the thunderous tones of an Elijah, nor by the altar he builds, nor by the sacrifice he prepares for evermore this challenge will be answered from the skies, "The God that answered by fire, let him be God." Our God will still answer by fire, and only as the Fire falls from heaven will apostasy be checked, and the thirsty land thrilled with "a sound of abundance of rain."

Thus our knees may be mightier than our lips, and our prayers than our pens. You cannot make a hero of a cowardly Peter by pouring water on the fire in the high palace. You may make him uncomfortable but not heroic. But if we pray, who knows but the Lord will look upon Peter and in resurrection glory and reality "appear to Simon," and let the Fire of Pentecost fall from heaven, and convert him into one of Truth's mightiest warriors!

Therefore, in all earnestness, and with the profound conviction that it is the mightiest weapon in the church's armoury let us pray! Pray till our churches are on fire with the Holy Ghost; pray till miracles of grace are multiplied; pray till the church stands forth in the midst of a wilderness of rationalism, like Moses' bush burning with Fire but unconsumed "O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; the earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel, Thou, O God, didst sent a plentiful rain, whereby thou dist confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary."

The Old and the New Testament are one—they are the Word of the living God: and He is "the same yesterday and today and forever." And the fire of Moses' bush, the Fire of Carmel's challenge, the Fire of Pentecost's infallible proof of the resurrection, and the Saviourhood, and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ—"This is that"—is still at the command of faith. Let Christian scholarship do its part to repair the altar that is broken down; let faith with holy daring dig such a trench all kinship with human philosophies, and set it forth as an altar in the midst of a flood where natural fire cannot be kindled—let us accept the implications of our faith and when we have set the wood in order, and the sacrifice upon the wood, let us face the logical alternative of our professed faith in the supernaturalism of the Christian religion of victory by the power of God, or utter, overwhelming, absolute defeat. Then, destroying every means of retreat, and abandoning all compromise, let us unfalteringly stand with God against an unbelieving world, and issue again this challenge to the modern priests of Baal. "The God that answereth by fire, let him be God!"