Some people think it very smart to-day to say that nobody in the least cares whether Bishops are so commissioned or not. If they do not care, they ought to, at least if the security of Christendom is anything to them, for always the Bishops have tried to be exceedingly careful to select and consecrate only such successors as would preserve the essentials of the Faith. If you want to see the practical result of having no Bishops to preserve the simple Faith look at Protestantism all about us. It is rapidly degenerating into individualism, where any man teaches what he wills, where worship is giving way to secularism, where devotions have to be bolstered up with motion pictures and other popular baits. [This does not, of course, apply to all Protestants. It does, however, fairly describe the prevailing tendency, especially in America.] Or look at the Roman Church, which abandoned the Apostles' fellowship and made, or tried to make, all the Apostles subservient to the See of Peter, substituting for the Lord's constitution of the Church an autocratic Papacy. See the growth of superstition, so distressing to the better minds within the Roman Church itself. See the addition of doctrines unheard of by the Apostles, such as the Immaculateness of Mary, to the Faith. Rejection of the constitutional episcopate has brought upon the Christian Church schism, disunity, religious Bolshevism, the discrediting of the Faith. It were well that we remained in fellowship with the Apostles and their spiritual descendants. You may not, if you do, find yourself cheek by jowl with all the giddy modernists; but you will have some foundation on which to build your life, a foundation which will not have to be revised the next time a scientist discovers something, the next time a war breaks forth, the next time some sophomoric young philosopher prematurely finds a publisher, or some disillusioned novelist has a bad dream. Let your parish, aided by you, say, “We have nothing new. We have teaching and methods as old as Christ and yet as modem as that human life which changes in fundamentals not at all from age to age. We have kept it because we have remained in the Apostles' fellowship, subject to their godly restraint if we or our parsons should lose our heads.” Then will men say, “Thank God for some force in religion which is still able to function sanely and serenely in the midst of almost universal hysteria.”