But, we have come to a crisis, and, it is predicted, we will soon come to nothing if we do not do something. We intend to _do something_ and are _doing something_, but not forming ecclesiastical confederations to bind burdens on the necks of the people, nor scheming to get _clerical power_. We have come to no crisis. The few scheming men that have so fully demonstrated their aim, have come to a _crisis_ and to a _complete defeat_. But that will not produce any perceptible jar in the movements of the hosts of Israel. That is a mere circumstance. The Lord’s hosts are in motion and the work is going on. Why stand with a human figment in view, when we have stupendous matters of fact before our eyes? Look into the columns of our publications and see the reports that come up every week from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, and from the North of the Dominion of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and tell us what of the crisis? The men in the field at work have come to no crisis and to no panic. The Lord of hosts is with them, and they are not to be turned aside from their work. Read the accounts of churches established every week, the houses for worship built, the preachers coming over from the ranks of Babylon, as well as private members, and the vast acquisition to their numbers from the world, and then tell us what of the crisis! Go into the field and _go to work_, every man, in faith and hope and love, and win souls to Christ, and the Lord of hosts will be with you, and good brethren will come up to the help of the Lord and support you. But if we continue the schemes that are now confessedly _failures_, or devise new ones, we will dry up the fountains of liberality till we can do nothing. The children of God will give money to convert and _save sinners_, but they will not give money to _build up a hierarchy_. A SUGGESTION. We are not inattentive to the suggestion that we are wearing ourselves out in holding protracted meetings, and that we should devote ourself wholly to the management of the _Review_. We have thought of this matter much, both before and since we saw the suggestion, and find it not so easy to determine what ought to be done. The tendency is to find pleasant positions, occupy them, and go on easily and smoothly; to settle down and preach for churches, get professorships in colleges or high-schools, edit papers and evangelize the world by _proxy_. In other words, the popular idea is not to _go_ but to _send_ some one to preach the gospel. If we were to sit down in our editorial chair, at home, and write the most stirring articles about the great work of evangelizing the world and urge men to go, we fear they would inquire, “Why do _you not go_?” We aim to be an example—to go ourself, as we urge others to do. We see no other way to give force to the appeal to others to _go_.