Going along the Menin Road about six kilometers from Ypres, I came to a heap of ruins, with some temporary buildings erected among them, and on a board placed on the ruins a soldier had written in chalk, “This Place was Hooge.” Every house destroyed, not a single home left! What a picture of some lives, “fair and pleasant” for awhile in the eyes of men, but not ready to withstand the assaults of the enemy. The havoc of sin, and no Christ, leads to total destruction, and with everything gone, we have to write amid the ruins, “This man was—.”