would be no change. And the inevitable result that will surely follow continued obstinacy will be a great tribulation or deadly persecution. The Sardis group is told that Christ is the centre of all life and help, in the control of the Holy Spirit and of the angel messengers. There is nothing to commend here. There are some who insist on living true lives, but they are a scanty scattered few, not enough to count. There are some ragged remnants of good, but even these are sickly and nearly dead. The