THE preparation which is most needed today for the conquest of the world for Christ is in the hearts of men and not in the word of God. If Christian men, Christ's hosts in the world, will put their hearts into full sympathy and fellowship with the truths and methods of the gospel, God by his Holy Spirit will sharpen the sword. Take it, O men of God, and slay for Christ! We have no disparaging words to speak of the most critical and scholarly study of the Bible; but we venture to suggest that, just at the present time, the amount of talk about the Bible is vastly out of proportion to the use that is made of the word in winning men to Christ and the truth. Jesus prayed to his Father concerning his disciples, "Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth;" and Paul exhorted his son Timothy, "Preach the word," not preach about the word. . . . The time is peculiarly a time of battle with all manner of sin; the Christian's weapon is the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; and the distinctive, paramount duty of the Christian soldier is to use, and not to sharpen, that sword.—Sabbath Recorder.