CHRISTIANITY today is written off as a spent force. Consequently the christian needs consolation. Those who love the cause of Christ need to be encouraged when they see how true religion is opposed by secularists and humanists in the media, arts, academia and government, and when they consider the activities of false religions, and of liberals and modernists in the professing church. The Lords people in our own Church need encouragement in their prayerful concern that the Church would prosper spiritually, and also that it would be guided by the Most High when it has to make important and far-reaching decisions at its annual meeting of Synod this month.