One of the most tragic features of “the present distress” is that our brave soldiers, instead of being warned to flee from the wrath to come, are being told that if they lay, down their lives for their country they will go straight to heaven! Well has this shocking blasphemy been called “the substitution of khaki for the blood of Christ.” It has, indeed, been asserted that all that is meant by this strange doctrine is that to lay down one’s life for one’s country must be taken as a proof of faith in Christ. As a matter of fact, hundreds of German soldiers have gone from butchering Belgian children, and dishonoring Belgian women, to lay down their lives for their country. Thus rape and murder are atoned for by dying for one’s country! No, the love of country, cannot, blot out One sin; the blood of Christ cleanses from all.