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WATCHERALD OF CHRISTS PRESENCE.

Watchman, Wh ct of fhe flight? lhc Morning Cometh.-1saizh xxi. II.

VOL. VII PITTSBURGH, PA., JANUARY, 1886

VIEW FROM THE TOWERThe outlook at the opening of the New Year has some very

encouraging features. The outward evidences are that themarshalling of the hosts for the battle of the great day ofGod Almighty, is in progress while the skirmishing is com-mencing. While the Protestant ( 4) sects are coming dailyinto closer sympathy with the Mother Church,, as they

rightly call the Church of Rome, the governments are doinglikewise. The latest proof of this is found in dispatches datedJanuary 1, 1886, in which it is announced that the Prussiangovernment, which for several years past has been at enmitywith the Church of Rome, proscribing many of her priests andbishops, declaring that the influence of Papacy is contrary tothe peace and prosperity of the Empire, is now come into per-fect harmony; and the Pope has decorated Prince Bismarckwith the Order of Christ, the badge of which is richly set indiamonds. This present was accompanied by an autographletter from the Pope, and in return Emperor William of Prus-sia has decorated the Popes chief secretary, Cardinal Jacobini,with the Order of the Black Eagle, the most honorable deco-ration of the Prussians.

What of this you ask? A fulfilling of prophecy we reply.In the battle already beginnin,,m we are clearly told that there

will be a general division of the world into two co ntendingparties. The kings, chief men, and mighty or influential men,the wealthy and the worldly great, are all on one side thebattle, and with them the symbolic beast (Papacy) and Prot-estantism. All these unite their efforts, realizin

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must stand or fall together. (Rev. 19:18-20.) n the otherside is the now present Lord, who, having taken his greatpower, begins the work of blessing t he world by smiting downthe oppressors-oppressive errors, and those influenced by thespirit of those errors, who attempt to monopolize the favorsof God both temporal and spritual, and to oppress the peoplein their own advancement.

But who are with the Lord i n this great work of smitingdown error and oppression? The kings of earth? No. Finan-ciers and capitalists? No; their i nterests are on the otherside the question also. And where will the professed minis-

ters of Christ stand who were sent to declare the good tidingsof the deliverance which the King of kings is now bringingabout? Where will the dignitaries and the influence of theNominal Church be found? With the Lord ? Ah, no; theyhave become so identified with the world that their interestswill be bound up together, and their influence will be givenon the side of error and oppression, on the side of kings andcapitalists from whom they receive their support and uponwhom they have become dependent.

Who then are with the King of kings in this conflict?Those close to him, his regular army are few-a little flock.Among these his followers, all faithful and true, are not manygreat, or rich, or mighty, according to the course of thisworld; but they are all rich in faith-chosen and faithful.(Rev. 17 :14.) But the new and rightful King has an im-

mense army of irregulars in every kind of uniform (exceptthe white of the regulars) Communists, Infidels, Socialists,Anarchists, Nihilists ; all these fight in the battle of thegreat day, though ignorant of him whose kingdom they helpto establish. These- are the vultures of Rev. 19:17, 18, 21,who battle for plunder and get their fill in the overturning

of earths kingdoms ; because the li,,jc is come for Messiahto take the dominion of earth and to overthrow the oppressorsand corrupters of the earth, (Rev. 19: 15 and 11: 17, 18.)preparatory to the establishment of everlasting peace upon theonly firm foundation of righteousness and truth.

Meantime, while those who are in opposition to the king-dom of God and its scepter of righteousness, impartiality andjustice, are being gathered to the great slaughter referred toabove, (See Luke 19:27.) the Lords professed Churc h is hav-ing its trial completed. Its testing %o as by fire is beingaccomplished, and the stewards are being heard as to thefaithfulness or slothfulness of their stewardship. (Luke19:15.) We see and feel this daily also, another evidence thatthe time for the glorifying of the Church the body of Christ.is ni h at hand, after which they will shortly be manifested

5or t e joy and blessing of the groaning creation. Ram.8 : 19-23.

From the TOWEB is seems evident that the deeply inter-ested are dail becoming more so. as inspired by the truth theyare making e ort at the cost of inconvenience and sacrifices ofvarious kinds to spread the glad tidings; while others wholove the present world and its honors and comforts are be-

coming more and more cold and indifrerent. This, too, iswhat we should expect. We are in the testing time, and mujttake our stand on one side or the other.

Many who inquired for the suggestions offered in ourissue of September last, and engaged more actively in thework, are finding it a favorable opportunity for reachinghearing ears ; and more than that we notice that their ownhea.rts are being enkindled with the flame of the heavenly lorein the message which they bear to those who sit in gross dark-ness all around them.

All this is encouraging, and in the name of the Mnstcr.we bid his faithful ones be of good cheer, and of thankfulheart; while we trust that we all shall be more fait!lful anIlmore used in the blessed service during the year begun, andthat it shall be yet more rich in grace. knowledge, love, andgood works, of faithful stewardship, let us render thanks forthe favors and blessings past; for hy the grace of God we arewhat and where we are.

To all the readers of the TOKER the Editor sends grert-ing and best wishes for the year 1886. May it be to all ofyou A Happy New Year. Happy may ye be because of Godsfavors, realizing them in all the affairs of life. especially inthe increasing knowledge of His plan and word of truth: inthe privilege of suffering reproach and dishonor for the truthssake, rejoicing and being exceeding glad that He counts youworthy to thus share the sufferings of Christ. (Acts 5:41.1May you have abundant and well improved opportunity forsuffering reproach for the name of Christ and in sufferingfor well doing. ( 1 Pet. 4: 14-16) And being thus provedworthy of the everlasting glorv reserved in heaven for suchas thus follow in the Masters footsteps, may you have atthe same time the joy of the Lord. rejoicing with an unwarer-ing hope in the glory that shall be revealed in us. Ram.8:18.

l [This view of the physical aspects of the conflict is not out cfharmony with the explanatinn offered in Volnmt VT1 of ScriyturcStudies, which treats the subject from the symbolical standpoint.]

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TRACT FUND REPORTI have the honor to report the matter of Zions Watch

Tower Tract Society finally and otherwise, for the year end-ing December 21, 1885, as follows:

Indebt edness January 1, 1885. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2446.01Expended during the year 1885 in publications,

etc., etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . 2531.76--

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$4977.77Voluntary cont,ributions for the year: to English Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2535. 16

,to Swedish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.19, t,o German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.00

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$2615. 35Receipts from sale of Florida Lands donated

to Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846.25

Total Receipts 1885.. . . . . . . . .$4461.66Deduct Receipts from Expenditures.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4461.60

--Balance of debt. still owing.. . . . . . . . .$ 516. 17

This debt we may say is fully offset by Florida landsas yet, unsold, the value of which will probably be enhanced

by the completion of a rail road to the locality, shortly.Thus seen we have cancelled our debt to the extent of

$1929.84, besides expending $2531.76 in the work. The resultsof these-donations Eannotbe correctly estimated yet; we maybe enabled to judge of it more fully and more correctly whenthe Master makes up the accounts of the Stewards, and makesknown the results obtained in his name bv the use in hisservice. But we can give some basis for ca&ulating when wesay, that from this f und we published during the year 1885,reading matter explanatory of our blessed hopes aggregating3,086,OOO pages of the usual tract or book size. Of these 160,-

000 were German, the remainder in the English language-mostly Food and special numbers of the TOWER adapted tonew readers.

At present there are about three hundred colporteurs atwork in the vineyard earnestly laboring for the good of theirfellow beings and for the well done of the Master, dissemin-ating these publications. The only wonder is that more do notappreciate their privilege of being co-workers together withGod in this way. W7e each should ask himself-What am Idoing to herald the blessed gospel which did so much for myown heart? How am I manifesting to God my appreciationof his grace bestowed upon me ?Christ.

Very truly your servant inmRIA F. RUSSELL,

Secy and Treas. Z. W. T. Tract Society.

WE REAP WHAT WE SOWFor pleasure or pain! for weal or for woe, Though life may appear a desolate track,Tis the law of our being-we reap as we sow; Yet the bread we cast on the water comes back.We may try to evade them; may do what we will,But our acts, like our shadows, will follow us still.

This law was enacted by heaven above-That like begets like and love begets love.

The world is a wonderful chemist, be sure, We are proud of our mansions of mortar and stone;And detects in a moment the base or the pure:We may boast of our claims to genius or birth,

In our gardens are flowers fr om every zone;But the beautiful graces which blossom within,

But the world takes a man for just what he is worth. Grow shriveled and die in the Upas of sin.

Are you wearied and worn in this hard earthly strife?Do you yearn for affection to sweeten your life?

We make ourselves heroes and martyrs for gold,Till health becomes broken a nd youth becomes old,

Remember this great truth has often been proved-- Ah! did we the same for a beautiful love,We must make ourselves lovable would we be loved. Our lives might be music for angels above.

We reap what we sow-oh, wonderful truthl-A truth hard to learn in the days of our youth;But it shines out at last, as the hand on the wall,For the world has its debit and credit for all.

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SCIENTISTS NOT INFALLIBLEThe Higher Criticism which has undertaken to recon-

struct all ancient records, which re-wrote the History of Romefor the first five centuries, pronounced Troy a myth, and hassought to invalidate or correct the Bible history, frequentlymakes such blunders and mistakes that all but the criticst.hemselves will soon doubt its infallibility. The Troy of Prism,

that they decided had never existed, has been unearthed bySchliemann, with its Scaean gates and Pergamos. At My-kenae he has found probably the very bones of Agamemnon,and the golden masks in which he and his friends were buried.The libraries of old Assyrian and Babylonian kings have alsobeen brought to light by recent discoveries, and found to berich in confirmations of the Bible story. They contain ac-counts of the confusion of tongues at Babel and of the flood,as well as many other illustrations of the sacred history. Totwo of these we invite the attention of our readers.

The prophet Isaiah (chapter 20: 1) names an Assyrian kingcalled Sargon. He was, as far as we know, mentioned by noother historian. Berosus and Herodotus were silent concern-ing him. Not another voice out of all the history of the pastwas raised to tell that he had ever lived. The critics did nothesitate to declare that this sil ence proved that he never hadan existence. Thev held that it convicted Isaiah of a mistakeand a want of i&pired guidance. For twenty-five centuriesthe only intimation the world had that Sargon had ever livedwas found in this passage of the Hebrew prophet.

But the Bible was right and the critics were wrong. TheAssyrian discoveries have given us his full history. We areeven permitted to study the royal archives of his reign. Hewas a founder of a dynasty, the father of Sennacherib, and oneof the greatest monarchs that ever occupied the Assyrianthrone.

Another example. The Bible makes the Hittitea a great

people in the earliest ages. They are contemporaries of Abra-ham. Moses and Joshua. A recent writer savs: We seethe& serried lines of chariots opposing Joshua on his entranceinto the Promised Land, and in the decisive battle by LakeMerom. We see their soldiers of fortune leading the hosts ofDavid and Solomon, and their women in the harems of the samepowerful monarchs ; and finally we see the Syrian army flying inpanic from the siege of Samaria for fear of the kings of theHittites. The Scryptural writers make them a great and pow-erful neonle. But no trace of the Hittites has been found inclassiial history. In fact, of all known records, the Bible ex-cepted, not one had one word in regard to this people. Sothe destructive critics on the Continent and their imitators inEngland, with various degrees of emphasis, asserted that theseScriptural recognitions of the Hittites had no foundation infact, that no such people had existed duri ng Old Testamenttimes; that this part of the Jewish history was indisputablynot true, and that this want of accuracy destroyed the theoryof inspiration as well as credibility of the record.

For a lonn time no answer could be given that would sil-ence objections. Not a line had been pre;erved elsewhere con-cerning this people in all the history of the ancient world.It was held to be imnossible that a race of such nrominencecould have lived, flourished and passed away without leavingtraces elsewhere. The critical method had proved the Bibleto he wrong.) So the critics said.

But the march of modern discovery has proved that it wasthe critics who were wrong. In 1872 there were found atHamath, not far from Damascus, i nscriptions that were ofHittite origin. Soon after additional testimony came fromEgypt, As the monuments there are more carefully examined,and as the work of deciphering inscriptions proceeded, beholdthe Hittites appear as one of the enemies most feared by the

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Egyptians, as a great people, occupying a vast territory, andas one of the chief of then existing peoples. Nor was this

Thus are the critics put to shame. So will it always be.

all; the -4ssyrian tablets and cylinders added their testimony,We may sometimes have to wait for further light in order tosilence them, but in due time it will come. We have not fol-

and carried the history of the Hittites back to nineteen hun-dred years before Christ, declaring that at that remote period

lowed cunningly-devised fables, but the word of eternal truth.

they were a mighty people. Their remains have been foundThe storms of error may beat upon it an d seem for a time to

from the borders of Egypt to the Euphrates and northward toprevail, but it will stand, for it is founded upon a rock.-Evangelist.

Asia Minor, proving that they occ upied a large part of West-ern Asia and were a mighty race.

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OUR MONTHLY SPREADCioe us this day our dailyJANUARY, 1886.

In righteousness begin the year.Be strong; believe; cast out thy fear.Trust thou i n God, He will thee save.Fight the good fight of faith, be brave.With energy pursue lifes race.Soon thou mayst see the Saviours face.The Morning dawns ! Thy blessed Lord is here.As Steward, now, unto the King give an account.Error and sin, twin monsters, cast ye down.To overcomers theres a crown.By grace we conquer in the strife.The gift of God-eternal life.

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Turn not the wandrer from thy door-Blessed are they who feed the poor.This be thy prayer, Thy kingdom come.0 Father, lead thy peopl e home!

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Forgive as we forgive, 0 Lord.My trust will I nut in thv word.No longer in sin; by-ways-roam.The Spirit and the Bride say come.The harvest passes, summer ends.Some spurn the mercy heav en sends.Drink deep the heavenly waters bright.Flee from t he darkness, walk in light.Lo! Rock of Ages cleft for thee.Into the sacred shelter flee!Swift passeth moments, hours and days.Forget not to give God due

Praise.

Above all things, keep thyse f pure.Gods promises are ever sure.Theyre saved who to the end endure.

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OUR STEWARDSHIPSO account of us, as of the servants of Christ, and stewards of the manifold mysteries of God. Moreover it is required of stew-

ards that a man be found faithful.-1 Cor. 4: 1, 2.There is a sense in which all men are stewards. Every

good gift comes from the Creator, either directly or indi-rectly, and every man possessing means or talents shouldrecognize them as trust loans under his temporary control.But in a much more particular sense the consecrated, thesaints, are Gods stewards, and of such Paul is here writing.

Once we were under condemnation, even as the world stillis. We, through faith, are reckoned as having escaped thecondemnation ; we are cleansed; we are justified freely fromall things through faith in the blood of atonement. Thus(reckondly) maae free from sin and death-and (reckonedly)restored to the perfect manhood and its rights, enioged beforesin and condemnation, we had something Which we Gould offerto God-something (reckonedly) clean and pure and accept-able to God, viz., our justified selves. When we gave our ALLto God, it included mind, body, time, talent, money, influ-ence, reputation-all.

@auf informs us that all such sacrifices (previously justi-fied, i. e., reckoned clean and fit through faith in the ransom)are acceptable to God ( 1 Pet. 2 :5). But how does Godaccept of them? We answer, By making us the stewards ofall those talents. etc.. which we consecrated to him. So then.our stewardship is a Gery special one. If we consecrated all tdGod, we have nothing, and should not once think of the things

consecrated as ours; they ar e no more ours than the posses-sions, time, talents or money of another man are ours. Whenyou consecrated all-even unto death-you became reckoned&dead, as a human being and to earthly ambitions, and reckon-edly alive, as a new creature, of a new, a spiritual nature,so that really, considered from this standpoint, we shouldthink and act thus: I am now (reckonedly) a spiritual orheavenly being; my riches, my home, my honor, my everyinterest is now in heaven; but I am now here on earth, asa messenger or servant of God, entrusted with the responsi-bility of disposing of the earthly things once mine, (redeemedby Jesus, and then by me consecrated to God,) to the bestpossible advantage for the advancement of the Lords cause-His children and His truth.

0 that all the consecrated may more fully realize them-selves as the Lords Stewards, or Executors. aDDOinted to

administer upon their own Wills. How it would d&&oy the Z,my, mine spirit, to realize that the I that once was is nomore, but is dead! that I live, yet not I, my former self;that I is dead; but Christ liveth in me ; that I, as a memberof the Christ, a spiritual creature, now live. The feeling, then,should be, I want to spend, fully and promptly, yet wiselyas possible, the Masters goods, time, talent, money, influence,etc., put into my hands for disposal, anxious only that everyfarthing of it shall b e so spent as the Masters Word directs,and as His example illustrated.

Ah, if it were thus, what an earnest offering, and what a

zeal to dispose of the goods in their hands there would be onthe part of the stewards. They would b e earnestly seeking andwatching for good opportunities to dispose of the consecratedstuff .and

Soon influence would lose its present high premium,time, and talent, and money. in the Lords work would

be more abundant.I

Some get the mistaken idea that a steward is not expectedto spend that committed to his care unless circumstances de-mand it of him. This is a great mistake; it is part of a stew-ards business to look up opportunities for using the goodscommitted to his charge. This is the clear teaching of Matt.25 :27 : Thou oughtest therefore to have nut mv monev to

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goods stewards. And not only are we stewards of the con-secrated money, goods, time and talents in our hands be theylittle or much; but in the text at the head of this article Paulmentions specially, the fact that we are stewards of the mys-teries of Gods plan. In addition to our own consecrated pow-ers to use, God-gives us a glad glorious message to the \I;orldthe good tidings of great iov which shall be to all peopleultimately, but \hich>ow is iailed from the world aid is tothem mysteries or hidden secrets. To receive the good newsis to become a steward of 4, and brings the opportunity andthe incentive also for carrying out the original stewardship.

It furnishes a reason as well as an opportunity, for wise anddiligent use of every talent under the stewards chaI..ge.It is required of a steward that a man be found faithful to

his trust, and if unfaithful in administeri ng upon the poorlittle valuables ( 1) which we ourselves consecrated, should weexpect to have entrusted to us the greater authority and stew-ardship of the future? If we would rob God of the things weourselves gave him in consecration; if we are unfaithful asstewards and appropriate to ourselves the loss and dross,,the gilded trinkets of the present, can we expect him whoknoweth the heart to entrust to such care the true riches ofhis glory and kingdom.

Everv steward should sneedilv look UD his accounts andsee to it that however the past his been, ib the future he willbe faithful. All such will hear the Masters voice say, Welldone! good and faithful servant; enter into the joys of thyLord.,,

PAULS EARNEST DESIRE[Reprinted in issue of December, 1879, which please see.]

THE MORNING COMETH[Reprinted in issue of December, 1881, which please see.]

BLIND GUIDES-4t the RI. E. Church Conference Nov. Oth, Bishop Foster

addressing the twelve bishops and forty laymen of the Con-ference with the large audience present, among other things,said, as reported in the daily Press:-

There are some who too fondly anticipate a millennium.There is a lack of information on the progress of Christianity.The facts are misstated daily in pulp&s all over the country.Ministers hesitate to nresent the worst side for fear of caus-ing discouragement. !Chey create hopes that are never to berealized. We are not at the dawn of the millennium. Com-pared with the work to be done, the past is nothing. Our chil-&ens children for ten generations to come must iabor harderthan we are doing to accomplish the conversion of the world.llle worlds population is 1,500,000,000. Of these Christiansnumber less than a third. Half of that third belong to theRoman Catholic Church. The Protestants number 113,000,OOO.

They are divided into 500 sects. And this number of theirstrength includes also all the thieves, ex-convicts. the de-based, besotted, the speckled and streaked in Christendom.The popular idea is ttiat the Church of Rome is anti-Christ.I dont aeree with the nonular belief. I regard that wonder-ful insti&ion as a gre&, -Christian camp. %, may have to bereconstructed, but before us we have the great problem-the 1.100.000.000 of pagans to cocvert to Christianity. Thatis the soiid rock thai lioms up in our path. Look a% it; seewhat work has been done in 1800 vears. and how much is yetto be accomplished. In India, afte; mor,rk than a hundred yearsof mission work, we have 600,000 converts [ 91 and Z,OOO,OOOChristian r 91 among 260,000,OOO heathen. Can we removethat solid boilder th& is as aid as the hills? . . . It i s a bigloaf to be leavened and it has been a lone time working. Wehave now with us the sunlight of mod&n thought {hat ismelting superstition. I am tired of the cant from our pulpitsof sacred phrases that mean nothing.This contains some hard truth, symbolicall y called hail,,as it i s written, The hail shall swee$ away the-refuse of lies;(Isa. 28 : 17. ) Thus this great Doctor of Divinity is un-wittingly serving truth as are Communists, et al., in other di-rections. Few sensible. thinking Deonle can differ with t hebishop as to the facts to which hue efe;s, but we must take ex-ception to his inferences and unscriptural reasonings there-from.

Among the facts agreed to, one is, that few in Christianlands have any adequate conception of the smallness of evennominal Christianity as compared to the world as a whole,even when the reckohing is carried to the extreme of reckoningthe entire populati on of the United States as Christian,,, i.e., not barbarous, and including in this calculation all theinfidels and unbelievers and the children. If this be reduced toordinary limits it is an indisputable fact that not one third ofthese are even professors of- religion; and of the professors,who can estimate rizzhtlv the smallness of the little flockof ~vholly consecrated ones, but the Searcher of the thoughtsand intents of the heart?

But while the Bishop, sees this fact, it is in a very limitednlensure, for he proceeds to reckon the great mass bf peopleliving in civilization, including as he says, all the thieves, ex-convicts, the debased, and besotted, and he might have addedthe Infidels and Atheists in Christendom, and lumping them

and all their evils together, the Bishop asks how long it willtake to convert the balance of the world to this same state.We question if any but a very few would be bettered by sucha conversion. When they are all thus converted the Millen-nium will be here, the Bishops argument would imply. Alas!it will indeed be a sad Millennium of war, murder, suicide,want, oppression and misery, if we judge f rom the Millenniumnow beinn enioved bv the nations taking the hichest rankamong th; so->&led Converted nations or ?!hristiaG kingdoms(Christ-en-dom).

The Bishops bl indness to the Scriptural teaching concern-ing the Millennium and its object, and how it will Ge broughtabout, is another illustration of the truth of nronhecv bv itsfulfillment. (See Isa. 29:10-12.) He is blind-a& ca&oi seeafar off, and his argument is based wholly upon human reas-oning devoid of and opposed to Scripture. He reasons exactly

as t&e worldly man r&sons, and neglects to seek wisdom con-cerning the future at the fountain of wisdom. Gods Word.WC wonder whether he remembers that tge Scriptures state

that the worldly will be in darkness as to Gods purpose andmethods, and that the child of God has the more sure wordof prophecy, to which he does well to take heed as a lightshining in a dark date. r2 Pet. 1:lg.l Does he foreet thatGod is working th;! matter in such a way that it wyll be asurprise to the world, and come upon them as a snare-covert-ly, when not expected-and that t,hey only who have the super-natural light of Gods Word shall not be in darkness, that itshould come upon them thus? for these will be guided by itinto an understanding of things to come,, not discernablefrom the worldly standpoint. (John 16: 13.)

As the Bishop looks out he sees the comparative smallnesseven of nominal Christianity, and under the false idea that theworld must be converted to this Babylon condition, in which

over five hundred sects contradict each other, before Christcomes, he is led to relax the strictness with which Christiancharacter should be measured, so as to include under the nameof Christ all who make any- pretensions toward morality, inorder to swell the number of the five hundred sects. And be-cause the Church of Rome and the Greek Catholic Churchwould help on the count and number more than all the others,these must all be counted to the Christian Union in order toswell the pride of Christendom and carry out their theory-that the world is being rapidly converted to Christ.

But God will laugh at their calamity, and mock when theirfear cometh-when Ihis seemingly great structure of Babelfalls to pieces in the day of the Lord; for the Lord knoweththem that are his ; and his description of that little flock;of whom he says, They shall be mine in that day when I makeup my jewels (Mal. 3: 17)) leaves no question that it is avery different flock from the speckled and streaked of whichthe Bishop speaks. It is to the pure in heart who havemade a covenant by sacrifice, a little flock that it is theFathers good pleasure to give the Millennial kingdom. Whenthis elect comnanv is selected, and thus exalted to Dower withChrist their hkadl they shall break in pieces the shackles andfetters, religious and political, by which Satan, the god ofthis world, has so long oppressed the world and humanity.Thus he shall make wars to cease unto the ends of the earth(Psa. 46:9 and Rev. 11: 17, 18). Then He shall speak peace

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to the heathen (Zech. 9:lO). He will turn to the people apure language, that they may all call upon the name of theLord, to serve him with one consent (Zeph. 3 :9). Then theknowledae of the Lord shall fill the whole earth.

This-error that the- Church, in her present condition, isto conquer and convert the world before the Lord cornea, hasmisled many in every stage of the Church in this Christianage. It has been Satans snare by which he has diverted theattention and service of many a way from the work gi ven bythe Lord, viz.: to witness to the world, and to feed and buildup the Church, and prepare her as his joint-heir to accomplish

with him in the next age the subduing of all things unto hi m-self.

The Bishops hopes for the success of his plans for thefuture lie, not in Church creeds which cause a jargon, or inthe power of the truth as conveyed to us through Gods Word,originallv accented as the sword of the Snirit: these for eiaht-eenhunbred years have failed to accompl&h the Bishops p ransthough the Word of God has not failed to accomplish Godsplans (Isaiah 55 : 8-11) , but now his hope grasps a new l everof power, which above he termsthought.

the sunlight of modern

In his last sente nce the Bishop voices the sentiment ofthe world and the devil, as well as the saints, for all are tir-

ing of the cant from our pulpits, of sacred phrases that meannothing. See Isa. 29: 15, 14.

JOYFUL SERVICEIf you want to know the character of a house, asks the

servants--esneciall v the old servants. If vou want to knowL

what sort of a condition the public services are in, sometimesvou will hear various accounts for them. But it is differentwith the service of our Lord. Ask the old servants and youwill get the best account of it. There may be servants whohave tried it for a while and have become froward and willful.Those who have been at it longest have the best things to sayabout it. Ask such an one as Paul, the aged. Observe thecheerfulness of the latest epistles of Paul. You have a gooddeal about his trouble and suffering in the midtime, but whenhe came to be Paul the acred. when he is writing to Timothyand Titus, he is extremely cheerful and consolat%ry. He hasbeen long in the service. Ask the Apostle John, who beganin earliest life and lasted longest in earthly service. You willhear how he had not found -it an easy service-nobody doeswho eoes thorourrhlv through with the Lord. John had, afterthe Master l eft,vbe&i arrested an d threatened along with hisfriend at Jerusalem. Afterwards he had been exiled, as weknow, to Patmos, for the Word of God. He had lost his ownbrother, James, and his dearest friend, Simon Peter, by mar-tyrdom in the service of Jesus Christ. But what does he sayof it at the end? Look at his epistle: His commandments arenot grievous, He came more and more to see, as all agedChristians do see more than they saw it in youth, howthoroughly reasonable is this service; how good, how blessed.

*John heard his Master saying, and put his Amen to it

at the end of his service, light.

My yoke is easy and my burden isIt may be a question having regard to the context,

whether, when our Lord says Take my yoke upon you, hejust meant the yoke assigned to us, or the yoke that he hadborne, and which he called us to share. Take the latter mean-ing. Just as when he says to his disciples, My peace I giveunto you. He intends not merely a peace that he can confer,but the very peace that possessed his own soul in the midst ofhis tribulation, and says, That peace I give unto you. In theworld ye shall have tribulation, but in Me you will havepeace. So in regard to those obligations of duty. He calls

those who come to him to follow him in the way, and to bearthe yoke with the courage an d the burden he endured whenhe was here as the Fathers elect Servant. So we are notmerely commanded, by the thought that God has a right togive his orders, and we cannot take a higher place than to behis servant, but we have, as has been again and again pointedout, to follow the Master, who himself has served, and knowsall the difficulties of the service.

It gives a master great power over his workmen when theyknow quite well that he is not a mere amateur in the thingitself; not merely master because he has money enough to em-ploy them, but is a master who has done the work himself, andknows it better than they do; has done it well, h as done itthoroughly, and joins t hem in the work, and says, Come an dwork with me; what you do not know how to do. I will showyou. It is such a Master whom we serve.-Donald Fraser.

LOOK WE FOR ANOTHER?Art thou he that should come, or look we for another ?-Luke 7 : 19.

Almost 1900 years ago the Jewish Church was left desolate.Matt. 23 :38. Before that time t hey were Gods people as dis-tinguished from all other peoples or nations; for unto themwere committed the oracles of God.

They were the believers of that age or day. They be-lieved in the true God, in the Scriptures, and, of course, in thecoming of the promised Messiah. bs a nation they were Godsnominal people, or household of faith, yet among them wereonly a few Israelites (indeed. (For they are not all Israelwhich are of Israel; neither because they are the seed of Abra-ham, are they all children, etc., Rom. 9 :6, 7.)

When Je sus came, only a few became his disciples. Onlya few discovered that the events of his birth. life. death. andresurrection were a fulfillment of their own Scriptures. Johnthe Baptist preached his coming, and afterwards- received andbaptized him, and no doubt saw the Spirit descending uponhim, and heard the voice from heaven saying: Thou art myheloved Son in whom I am well pleased, yet when in prison*John heard of the works of Christ, he sent by his disciples andsaid unto him, Art thou he that should come, or are we tolook for another? Jesus answering, said, Go and shew Johnagain those things which ye do h%ar and see; how that theblind see. the lame walk. the leners are cleansed. the deafhear, thedead are raised,to the poor the gospel ib preached,and blessed is he. whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Thus Jesus called attention to transpiring events, the ful-fillmcnt of their own Scriptures, as proof thai he wasthe Mes-siah. He might have replied: I am he. An imuoster mighthave made the same claim, and given the same answer; butmark, the answer


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just so their antitype, the nominal Christian Church is to-day faith,stumbling, and falling to discern him at his second advent;

the Church nominal, as a body, lukewarm, indiffer-ent and proud of their riches and increase in goods, but he

and for the same reason. But even this is in fulfillment of knows their works, and says, I will spue thee out of mythe prophecy; for it is written, He shall be for a stone of mouth.stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of

(Rev. 3:15-19.) As a nominal system it shall no

Israel. (Isa. 8: 14. ) Let us take heed, and neither be foundlonger be Gods mouthpiece to expound his word. He is choos-ing out from her his fit vessels. Because she is wretched and

asleep nor drunken with false doctrines and traditions,nor so overcharged with the cares of life, as not to discern

miserable and poor and blind and naked, he counsels her, Buyof me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and

the signs of his presence.If any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there;

white raiment that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame

believe it not: or behold he is in the desert; go ye not forth:of thy naked ness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with

or behold he is in the secret chamber, believe it not; for Christeye-salve that thou mayest see, and He that hath an ear, lethim hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.is a spiritual being and the eye of flesh can no more see Who hath ears to hear, should hear the counsel, and also

him than it can see Satan, the god or ruler of this present evil heed the command now due,lvorld, the end of which is so near, even at the doors.

Come out of her, my people, that

Brethren, Jesus has come, and found the household ofye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of herplagues. n:M. c. ~hC&fILLAiS.

THE BASIS OF HOPEYe shall not surely die. Gen. 3 :4.

Under the mask of friendship, and as a bearer of goodnews, Satan, filled with jenlousv at sight of the newly createdbeings. struck the blow for their destruction. He meant the

was held out through the law for man to seek for or to avoid,but life itself that renders any condition possible, is thepromise everywhere held out by the law, or spoken of by theprophets. [ Gen. 2 : 7. Deut. 30. Ma]. 2:5 and all between.]

So deeply fixed in the human mind has this monologue ofmurvder of the race [John 8 :44,] and he was sucessful. Whileall who accept the Scriptures admit the authorship of thecunning lie, comparatively few are ready to believe that it

is the only text in all the inspired writings that intimates thatman is immortal. or that when dead he is at all differentfrom the lower aiders of the animal creation. They every-where recognize just what scientific research reveals, i. e.that life is not a created element at all, but a principle orforce from some incorruptable and immortal fou&ain, trans-mitted into different organisms. That it is the same prin-ciple in all, the difference of its manifestations consisting inthe endless varietv of organism. and not in the nrincinle itself.[See Food for ?hinkiryg Christians,,, page 124--E&l. 3:18-20; 1 Tim. 6: 16.1

911 life is the same whether in fish, fowl, beast, man orangel, and can be withdrawn by Him in whom all live andhave their being. [Psalm 36 : 9.1

God subjected the creation to frailty in hope, [Rom. 8:20],and mankind in endeavoring to And a basis of hope for thefuture, believed it lay in an inherent immortality; that deathis not really death, but a condition of some kind t.hroughwhich he passes into another sphere of existence. Andupon this idea are built all the theories and philosophies ofa future state, that man has conceived.

Gods dealings with the Jew and with the world werenot of a kind to enlighten mankind upon the real hope if hechose Satans lie. He manifested no love toward his crea-ture. but was a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of thefathkrs upon the children unto the ttiird and iourth gencr-ntion of them that hate him. IExod. 2O:s.l And he wasso dreadful that man could not but excessi;ely fear him.Every transgression received a just re compense of reward.No love was shown, and nlercy was only granted that thewhole Jewish race be not destroyed. [ 2 Sam. 24 : 16.1

There was no manifestation of love from God through allthe long ages of mans experience with Justice. The, iirst

nublic choir that sann of Peace and Good Will to Man Doint-Ld to the infant inthe manger, the real basis of ho@ forthe world; not affirming that man does not die, but that anoff-sprin$ from the dying stem has been vitalized from thefount&n bf life and &llbecome the root and life giverto the dvinc race. 6ee articles Davids Son and Lord, Dec.1885 To&g, and Except a Corn of Wheat Die, Feb., i885.

Here then is the hope for the world of mankind; and onthat central fact the doctrine of Jesus, from the pure milkto the strong meat, must be built, as the only true hope forthe future destiny of man.

He who rids himself of these doctrines, who leaves thiscentral fact at any point, at once wanders off into darkness,and must build again to some extent on the lie that mur-dered the race. [Jno. 8:44.3

We regret to say that not a few are thus, wandering, andmultiplying theories are to-day advanced which practicallyignore the doctrine of Christ, and while they are less repug-nant than the heathenish idea of eternal torment, they areno less obnoxious to the fires that will burn up his enemiesround about.

The value of a gift lies in the appreciation of it, and life isa gift that will not he forced upon any. It is the synonqmof existence, the principle that man lost, and without whichthere can be no sensation of either pain or pleasure. It isthe one essence that man found it impossible to retain. Itis not heaven, or hell, or any other place, or condition, that

Satan become, that the true meaning of death is almost be-

yond the grasp of the intellect of many. And the theoriesand conjectures upon the condition in death, [which thev callafter death,] are* as numerous and different as the nationsof earth and their difference of knowledge unon other sub-jects. Having no data for conclusions, and with no evi-dences from the grave, it is not strange that no two classeshave arrived at the same understanding of the matter. Hencewe have theories innumerable from tge simple Happy hunt-ing grounds of the Red man, to the complete and listlessswallowing up of the being in bliss ineffable in the bosomof the Creator, of the Buddhist and, from the refining pro-cesses of symbolic fires of advanced theorists, to the moremonstrous but equally absurd doctrine of writhings in torture,or shrinking aghast in mental horrors of the heathen anddark ages &d,- [with shame we add,] of our own day; alltraducing the character of God -and dishonoring to (%rist.

The condition of death is the antithesis of life, it canonly be defined in negatives or in figurative expressions. Itis not a road to Paradise nor a Dassaee-wav through whicha being is evolved into something else.- If so, it z,ould bea blessine rl Cor. 15:261. and Satan would have been tellinathe tru& in intimating-that a spark remained that couldnot die.

It is fipurativelv called a land in ScriDtures. but it isthe enemys land,, a land of darkness ind obscurity,,without any order. The land of forLretfulness. Whereno man is,,; etc. It is also named S~eol,, and Hades,hell etc. It is the place to which all alike go from thesinner of three-score and ten, to the little one of two vearsold and under. All cease to de, and are not. [Matt. >:17,18: Jer. 31: 15. 16: Ezek. 3: 20: Psa. 88:12: Job 14:2.1

We used to wonder why Lazarus and others were iilentupon their experience in hades, but now we know that they

had nothing to tell, that the dead know not anvthing.The ho@ for theworld lies in a resurrection f&n th: dead,and not in anv rav of divinitv inherent in man. Thishope has alw


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Ques. Matt. 18:21. Why did Jesus tell the young manto keen the commandments in order to enter into lifeinstead bf making faith a ground of salvation? and how doesthis harmonize with Rom. 3 :20 ? In verse 20 he replies thathe has kept all these; but still he lacked, and Jesus says[v. 201: If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hastand give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven:and come follow me. What is implied in the word erfectmore than what is covered by the commandment, an B whatwas the treasure be should have in heaven aside frometernal life ?

A. In his answer to the young man, Jesus declaresjust what Moses had declared [Lev. 18:5], that underGods covenant with them, keeping the Law would insure eter-nal life to anv Jew: but from the days of Moses to Christnot one had merited life by keeping the law. Hence deathstill reiened even as it had reigned from Adam to Moses,though many prophets and faithfil men of the past had tried;in all sincerity, to keep the commandments. Hence everyJew should by this time have been convinced that none wereable to keep the law, because of their imperfect, degeneratecondition. Gods perfect law is the full measure of a perfectmans ability. Had Israel acknowledged this, the law wouldhave answered its purpose to them, for Go d knew beforehandthat they could not keep it, and never expected them to. Itwas simply given to them to prove their shortcomings and theirinability to measure up to its requirements, and hence shouldhave prepared them to accept deliverance through Christ.

This young man had not learned this lesson, and thereforeJesus bade hyrn go on trying to keep the law. But a littledoubtful lest he might not be any more successful in winninglife than had his forefathers, the patriarchs and prophets! al-though he thought be kept the law perfectly, he inqmred,What lack I yet? Jesus answer is designed to convincehim that he had not kept the law perfectly-that he did notlove God with all his heart. nor his neighbor as himself. Heproved to him that he loved himself andv his possessions morethan either. And the young man evidently understood it, forhe went away sorrowful, evidently convinced that he yet fellshort of the requirement of the law.fectlv in this aae reauires sacrifice.

To keep the law per-Who can love his nemh-

bor as himself-&d sek that neighbor suffer while he has enough:bnd to spare? 911 mankind are suffering under the weight of sin,

ignorance and misery, and whensoever we will we may dothem good. Natural benevolence sometimes pl ans and ar-ranges for the comfort and blessing of fellow-creatures, butthe Bodv of Christ. all in whom the Spirit of the Master rules,,nill beready and anxious to follow His example of doinggood to the extent of self-sacrifice in order to do good totheir fellows. In giving they. will, above all else, seek tobestow spiritual food and clothmg to the hungry and naked.

To keep the law in the next age, while it will still re-quire a measure of restraint and self-denial until perfectionis reached, yet will not require sacrifice of things lawful, evenunto death, because of the changed condition of mankind andhis surroundings.

Had t he young man sold all and followed Jesus, he wouldhave obtained more than the law nromised. The law proIll-ised life everlasting, human existence-restitution, a treasureon earth; but the treasure in heaven to which Jesus referredis a change of nature from human to spiritual, and not onlyso, but to the highest order of spiritual being, the divinenature, as explained by Peter. 12 Pet. 1:4.]

Tbe treasure in heaven is reserved for all t hose who, likeJesus, keep the law in this age, when its requirements amountto and imply a sacrifice even unto death. And only thosedo keep the law who, being justified by faith in the preciousblood of Christ, henceforth walk not after the flesh, but afterthe spirit. Such are reckoned of God as perfect, and as hav-ing kept the commandments: and are thus joint-sacrificesand joint-heirs with Jesus Christ their Lord.

This is in harmony with Rom. 3 :20. By the actual deedsor doine: of the law shall no flesh be iustified. but bv faith inChrist &e are reckoned as perfect and our sacrifice- thereforeaccentable. The riahteousness of the law is fulfilled in uswho walk not after the flesh, but after t he spirit. [Rom. 8:4.]

Ques. Bro. R. With the understanding that we have-thatdeath, not dying, is the penalty of sin, how shall we har-monize the statement that Christ gave his life as a ransomlsubstitutel for manv [Matt. 20:281, and the statement. Ihave power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.This commandment have I received of my Father. John10~18. Does not it in both cases refer to the same thing?

A. That the penalty of sin was death, is most clearlyand emphatically stated-Tbe wages of sin is death-Dy-ing, thou shalt die. The imperfect and dying condition

which we enter at our birth, is simply the process which cul-minates in the full penal&-death-cessation of life-extinc-tion of being-non-e&en&when will the nenaltv end?

If death is the penalty, thenThere is no inherent power in

us which can e;er deliver us from non-existence-de&h. Theonly way which the Scriptures disclose for mans restorationto existence is bv the navment of his ransom, an equivalentprice, a substitute. *And this ransom was found in theSon of God who became a man-was made flesh ltransform-ed from the spiritual to the human nature] in order that hemight give himself a ransom for all.

That which Jesus laid down for our redemption was hisbeing or existence in the condition he then possessed iti. e.life or existence as a human being. We must not considerlife (vitality) in the abstract without regard to nature thething referred to, which he had power and>ommandment bothto lav down and to take apain. But in the sense of beinp:or p&sonality, the human. Sesus gave HIMSELF his LIFE, hi;BEINQ, a ransom for all. And likewise he received life, be-ing, or personality, in his resurrection; but it was a new be-ing that arose of a new nature. Jesus arose a spiritual andno longer a human being; existence it was recovered, butnot under human conditions, not human existence, for he neverdid and never will take back our ransom price, thank God.

It remains the equivalent price of our condemned race; andbecause it was laid down forever, we may live forever. Itis life i n the abstract sense that the pronoun it refers toin the text mentioned.

If there had been a law given which could have givenlife, verily righteousness should have been by the law, andnot by a sacrifice. But commanding a man could nevermake an imperfect ma.n capable of meeting the requirementsof iustice; and even if able to do so fulls, there were penal-ties against each of us through and because of Adams sinswhich must be met. naid. settled bv some one. and for eachto meet them for himself; would bedeath-extinction. Hencethe need of first a ransom, and secondly a life-giver; bothof which needs are supplied to us by God in Christ Jesusour Lord. A thousand or a million years in death wouldnot pay mans penalty, as there is no limitation of time eithermentioned or implied, in the terms of the prescribed penaltynor in any scriptural reference to it; there is no escape exceptthrough the ransom provided.

The human existence of Jesus, our ransom, our substi-tute, was surrendered to everlasting death; but thank Godhe lives as a divine being to claim and restore to its perfec-tion that purchased by his human life-mankind.

PRINCE BISMARCK recently honored by the Pope with anautograph letter and a medal of the Order of Jesus set indiamonds, is the first Protestant ever so honored bv theChurch of Rome. Does this indicate that the infalliblechurch. whose doctrines she claims are unchanaeable. haschanged? or that Protestants have changed ? U That Pro-testants no longer protest has been shown in these columnsrecently by reference to the course and language of represen-tative Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians.

Is YOUR work a task? If so, why? Is it because-ofyour own self-will and against Gods ordering-you have chosensome labor of which he does not approve? Is your tradeor vour nrofession a dishonest one? Does what brines profitto you bring evil to others or dishonor on the cause bf hod?Then the quicker you abandon that work the better. Howeverprofitable it may seem to you, however much it coincides withyour own most intense desires, it can never be otherwise thana task. You will never find vour callina. until vou listen tothe voice of God; you will &ver find freedom save in obedi-ence to the law of God.

But if your work is a task si mply because your answerto Gods cause has been half hearted, or because you thinkyou could have chosen your work more wisely had the choicebeen left to vou, the remedv is easv. Give the whole heartto Gods service; cast out the rebellious thought-it is adelusion born only of your discontent and brooding. Themoment you accept Gods ordering, that moment your workceases to be task and becomes your calling. The secret ofwhat is best in the Christian life finds expression in theprecept of Paul. Work heartily! . . . . ye serve the LordChrist.--Bel.

We desire the address of some Swedish brother, whoseheart is filled with the love of the truth and with a desireto serve it, who has the following qualifications for specialservice, VIZ. : one who has no family; one who has a goodSwedish education and a fair understanding of the Englishlanguage. Such will please address the Editor at once.

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CHURCH AUTHORITYThe church of our Lord Jesus Christ is composed of con- The only division that is recognized by the divine Wor d

verted people only, and is of divine institution. is a local division. All the members of this holy churchChrist is the only He ad of the church; and the Word of who are found in a given locality, are the church of that place.

God the only rule of faith and practice. They ought, indeed, to recognize and receive one another, butEvery person who loves the Lord Jesus Christ, and who

obeys the gospel of God our Saviour, is a member of his Spirit-only as Christ has received them. In all things they oughtto regard it as his church, that he alone can constitute mem-

ual Church, and entitled to a recognition as such by fellow bership, and that all whom he has accepted are for that rea-members. son to be recognized as members of his church in that place.

There is but one church, of which Christ is the living Let all then who regard each other as members of thehead.

When men affirm that something more than membershipbody of Christ, come together in any given place as thechurch of that place. Let the great object be in all cases,

in the body of Christ is essential to membership in their relig- not the building up of an organization, but growth in graceious organizations, they make it other than the church of and knowledge; let such local churches be in true fellowshipChrist, and make themselves greater than the Lord, for they with all of Gods people: not because they hold to certainrefuse to receive him whom they admit the Divine Master has beliefs or are organized in a peculiar method, but becauseaccepted. they belong to our common Lord.--Selected.

VOL. YII PITTSBURGH PA., FEBRUARY, 1886 No. 6-__ ___.--

VIEW FROM THE TOWERAnd .Jesns went about all the cities nnd villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,

:~ud healing cvcry sirkness and cv-cry disease among the people. But wh en he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassionou them. l~rnusr they fai nted nut1 wcrc scnttcrcd abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples: The har-vest trulv is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborereinto his harvest.-Mntt. 9 :RFi-3S.

That was the harvest or closing peri od of the Jewishage, and we today find ourselv es and the work similarlycircumstanced in the harvest of the Christian age. Allwho realize the imnortance of the work, and are followingclose to the great Chief Reaper, are not only praying thatothers mav be sent. but are themselves laboring and gath-ering fruiC. All who have the compassionate. loving spiritof the 1\Iaster are today moved with compassion for the mul-titude of the blind followin g their blind leaders, as togetherwe see them goi ng toward the ditch of unbelief and infidelity,and passing by The opportunity to make their calling andelection sure to the great prize of our high calli ng.

The preaching a;d labors of Jesus and the apostles inthat typical harvest was not often in the synagogues, butgenerally by private talks to individuals, and from house to

house. Many of the deepest sermons of the great Teacherwere delivered to congregations of one or two or a dozen.Jesus sent the twelve, and afterwards the seventy also, twoand two before his face into every city. They were notorators. nor with the exception of Paul, were any of themgraduates of Theological schools, else probably they wouldhave been so full of the traditions of their day that theywould have had no ear to hear, or hearing, would havebeen too great to utter the simple message of good tidings,which the Master commissioned. They attempted not dramaticattitudes, they simulated not a superior dignity and austerity,they used not feigned words, and tones, but in simplicitylike their Master, their lips expressed the overflow of theirhearts, as here to an individual, and there to a group at thecorner i n the public parks, they sought to inform the peopleof the Lords presence and the kingdom which he was toestablish, but which few of the Jews were ready to receive(as God had foreseen and announced), and which being with-drawn from them (as a nation), the Gentiles were invitedto share; which ki ngdom is now-even at the door.

The work in this harvest is verv similar in resnect to itsbeing mainly individual effort, ana that of the himble andnot too wise and prudent according to this worlds wis-dom. The synagogues of today are even more closely guard-cd than those of the typical harvest, so that rarely indeedis there in any of these anv opsage of the kingdom to the Lor ii

ortunity to deliver the mes-s sheen, who may be bound

up/and starving-therein; hence the work no w as then, is moreof an individual and private character. Consequently its re-wards are not enticing to those who look for rewards pop-ular among men-popularity, money, etc. Those who lab&for the wages now offered for this service must have hieherthan selfish motives-love for the Lord, his truth and-hischildren. These take willingly (Heb. 10 :32, 33) the presentwages of reproach, etc., and wait for the equally sure andgreat reward of honor a nd glory in the future. By thisarrangement the Lord chooses his ministers (servants), thussecuring though in all a little flock, a ministry under whosefaithful efforts now and hereafter, his infinite plans willreach a glorious consummation.

In the issue of September last, we mentioned a plan wehad in ricw hy which the humblest could share in the priv-ileges and blessings of the harvest-work now, investing so

much time and talent as they could command. The responseswere more than we had exnected. About five hundred ea-nerlvgrasped for the opportuniiy, and in response we sent toeacha printed, private letter, explaining the method proposed, andover three hundred are now at work, laboring. enduring andsacrificing for the truths sake, and for th: sake or himwho said, Feed my sheep-gathering fruit unt o etrrnallife: and still applications continue to come in from others.Should no more-&gage in this service, we reckon that thesenow laboring will succeed during the present year in havingthe Food read by not less than twenty thousand thinkingpeople; possibly fifty thousand. The result of this work i nenliehtenine the minds and renewine consecrated hearts nonecan-estimaYte now; and the results we find are even moremarked upon the hearts of the laborers than those forwhom they labor, the promise that he that watereth othersshall himself be watered, being verified to each.

The results of the work of these as thus far pr osecuted,reveals the fact that t he harvest is truly great, and thatmany hungry, starving, fainting sheep are famishing for thebread of life. Many of the workers tell us that they areencouraged. and indeed surmised. to find some fruit of theirlabors where they had not *expected it. This searchi ng workreveals the fact that there are more truth-hungry than wehad supposed, who are trvina to feed upon the husks oftradition; and who though- almost disheariened and blindedbv error ar e still strivine and feeling after the true Godo! justice and love. To &arch these out and feed and en-lighten them is the present great harvest work. In viewof the great work to be done, and the nrivileee of doing it.the thoight is suggested, why may not- many-more be &usengaged 9 And we have therefore concluded to lay the planbefore all our readers in this i ssue of the TOWER. Why maynot five or ten thousand, instead of three hundre d, be thuslaboring for and blessing others? Bv thus nreachine fromhouse t house why notreach half i millio; or a &llion.and have that number read of these refreshing good tid-ings.

It is with these thoughts that we now lav before vou allthe plan already workini good results with iome. WG knowof no better method available to most of you for spreadingthe truth than to get people to read the pamphlet Foodfor Thinking Christians, and to know of the publication ofthe TOWEB. And while brineine them and their tonics to theattention of the people a mosr favorable opport&ity is of-fered you for reaching the truth-hungry who have an earto hear by bringing you in contact with such, manifestingthem, and thus affording you opportunities to tell the dearstory with your own lips, also.

To this end, as an aid to such laborers, we have pre-pared a large quantity of large printed envelopes, each containing a sample copy of the TOWIZR and a copy of Food.These can bc distributed from hou se to house and called forand collected a few days later, at which time you couldtake subscriptions, or sell the sample packets, or have con-versations, etc., as you may find possible and expedient.

We need scarcely say to you that ZIONS WATCH T OWERis not a money-making enterprise. (Your own experience

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probably proves this.) It has never yet repaid the cost of NOT nEr.P nEAnr.rro to satisfy interest or curiosity. Do notpaper and printing any year since it was started. Never- attempt to tell them all about the plan of God; the readingtheless, if you are dependent for your living on your daily will do that better. Tell them just e nough to make themlabor, you must needs have some income, or you could not desire to know more. Take advantage of their present re-give your time in the manner suggested. To such we would ligious views, as the Apostle did (2 C&. 12: 16.) If they aresay that the following provision is made for this contingency: Presbyterians, Baptists, or Methodists, call their attention to-You may retain ONE-HALF of all the receipts obtained as the fact that Food for Thinking Christians harmonizes thedescribed from NEW readers to go towards your support, your hitherto supposedly contradictory doctrines, Election and Freetraveling expenses, and the support of any one dependent Grace. and makes them both clear and beautiful, aidingon you, returning to the Tract Fund an y surplus you may greatly in the study of the Bible, and stimulating both hear%be able to spare. and mind to Bible study. To one who is skeptical, point

Those who find themsel ves possessed of the gift of teaching out the fact that this treats religious matters from a reason-(1 Cor. 12:8, 11. 18. 22, 29: and 14:1, 3. 9, 15, 22, 24)- able standpoint; and make clear to him that the creeds ofability to make clear to others the plan of our Father from the sects, and not the Bible, a re unreasonable and contra-his Word of truth, will thus be provided a grand oppor- dictorv. Manv infidels and skeptics have been led to thetunitv for holding nublic meetings in school houses, halls, Lord through-reading Food; and hundreds write that theychurhes, court houses, market places, parks and vacant sat UD all nieht to finish reading it the first time, onlv tolots. to which the nublic might be invited: or nrivate eath- read & over Gore carefully several times after. When, aftererings for the help of thosefound truth-hungri during t he leaving the packets several days, according to circumstancescanvass might be held where and when possible. and annointment. vou call to collect or take subscriptions,

As vou go. let it not be for strife or-vain plorv, but that do aliihe preach&g you can. The Lord has promised, ?

the spirit sf. truth filling you may overflow upon others. will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adver-

Sneak the truth in love. love for the truth. and love for those saries shall not be able to gainsay or resist. (Luke 21:

you would assist. Be not ashamed of the Sword of the Spirit, 15.) And you will find this true to the letter. You will

the Word of God; handle it with confidence, but not boast- find that none, even those professing to be teachers and min-

fullv; it is not thine. but Gods In sneaking of the clans isters of the gospel, will be able to withstand the Sword.-A Iof the great Jehovah, let it be with reverence, as well as of the Spirit- with which knowledge of the truth arms you.

love. Do not for a -moment forget the responsibili ty and The best noint to make nrominent in these brief conver-humble di anitv of your mission as an ambassador and herald sations is th> ronnsom, its iompleteness and efficacy (Rom.

of the LoFd 01 1ifeand glory. Go forth each day from your 5:17-19)? as far-reaching in its influence for good as the

closet. from private reflection upon the glorious message you curse of sin was far-reaching in evil effects-a ransom for

bear, forewarned and fore-armed also, to meet the recention ALL to be testified in due time to all; and made available

you may expect from many who know us not; that bei ng-thus to them. Study these your ser mons and points and texts;shod with the preparation needful, you may not so much feel be thoroughly familiar with FOOD" and its references. Re-

the sharpness and ruggedness of the way. Even so it was fer them to it, and its arguments, and its Scripture citations.

with o ur Master also. Consider this lest ye be weary and SRTDY with all your heart to show yourself approved untofaint in your minds. (Eph. 6: 15; Heb. 12: 13). Prepare God, and to be used more and more of him to his glory;

from the first to endure hard ness as a good soldier of Jesus and study hi s Word with all the helps he has provided you,

Christ.ministry.

This is your ministry. Make-full proof of your that you may be ready to give an answer to him that

Keen the obiect in view. and look unto Jesus for asketh YOU-A REASON FOB THE HOPEthat is in you, with

an example of- how toendure, as well as for grace to help meekness and fear. Meek and humble in your deportment,you. You may not see much of the fruit of your labors, yet remember that you are sent with this balm, not to curse,the Lord may show you some, for your encouragement by but to bless; not to smite a nd wound, and drive the sheep,

the way. The fruits will be better seen by and by.but to heal and help and draw them neare r to the true

Be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. (Matt.Shepherd, a nd his green pastures. Fear, lest vou should l et

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10: 16.) We suggest this method of leaving the packets :a precious moment or opportunity be wasted; wherein you

Do your scattering of the packets and your after can-might honor the Master or bless a brother. Fear. lest vou

vassing in a systematic manner so that you will know justyo&self should through pride or vain glory, or unfaithiul-

where you have been and where yo u have not be en, andness, fail to attain the glorious heavenly prize of which you

generally finish one street and town or city before beginningteach others.

in another.One Sister of this city reported as many as ten sub-

Remember the OBJECT before you; that it is not the sell-scribers obtai ned in one day and many very interesting con-

ing of the packets, nor the taking of subscriptions, but theversations with some evidently truth-hungry. There are more,

spread of the truth, by getting people to read. Endeavormany more of the Lords children-our brethren and sisters

as far as possible to forget the money feature of the work.-who are starving spiritually, and each faithful servant,each steward of the manifold grace of God should remember

It might be possible to take a subscription from a partywho would never get much good of it, nor read it, Jr it

his commission to preach (Isa. 61: 1 and Matt. 5: 16 and

might be possible toget a party to read by wise and fitly spokenMark 16:15). Let your light shine, and Go ye into all

words at the time of leaving the packet, who after readingthe world and preach the good tidings to every creature.

would not subscribe, nor yet purchase the packet, but thiSound forth the glad song of full redemption by a mightyGod and Saviour. Flash forth the truth into every nook

latter would probably in the end yield most fruit to the and corner where d ark creeds and black theories have soLords glorv ; for the thoughts implanted while reading:would probably never die if the heari-soil was

long lain. The harvest is ripe, let every servant thrust in

the future might bud, bl ossom and bear goo Ifood, and in

fruit. Wethe sickle. The Lord is with us; in his name alone and by

must not measure success entirely by the present results.his word alone we conquer.

We would not, however, h ave any one think that the takingDo not be discouraged; you will daily learn better how

of subscriptions even from those but slightly interested isto awaken and interest the sheep; at first you may frighten

valueless; far from it. Some have had the Towxn in theirthe sheep only and have little success, but Studs to show

hands repeatedly without havin, 17 their attention riveted andthyself approced unto God, pray for help and lei the Mas-ters voice sneak more and more in all vour words and looks

their interest fully awakened who, by and by, were wonder-fully aroused and blessed. Of such was our Brother Zech,

and deeds, and soon you will be used to bless and feed some.

mentioned in the Dec. 85 View. So then ta ke all the sub-Spare not the steps nor the time; sow beside all waters

scriptions you can, and sell all the packets you can, whileand in due time ye shall reap if ye faint not.

bearing in mind that your OBJECT is, above all, to attractSend for the Sample Packets as you need them, but dont

attention to the beauty an d harmony of THE TBUTH concern-let any be idle, re-distribute them over and over again, ex-

ing the teachings of the Bible.cept where you make sale, or take a subscription, or give

Be wise.-To secure attention to your mission andto one who is mzbch interested, but too poor to purchase.

So surely as you are of the body of Christ, so sure11packet of reading matter you must be neat and respectablein appearance; kind, interesting and dignified in your lan-

you will have a strong desire to Preach the gospel to themeek. You have often sighed DerhaDS that vou had but

guage and manner, leaving no doubt in the minds of thoseyou meet that your service is from your heart, and rend-

little money you could give-to spread the messige. and that

ered to the Lord, a nd that not their money, but their heartsyou had neither the ability nor opportunity to publicly pro-claim, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Sow

YOU seek esneciallv. Take advantage of all the circumstancesto so deeply i ntepest, by conversatTon, those upon whom yo u

God opens up this method wherebf the humblest may. if

call, and with whom you leave the Packets, that they CAN-they will, do effective preaching, much after t he mannerof the Master and the Apostles,

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Of course those whose hearts are not absorbed in thegood tidines and a desire to obev the iniunction. Feedkiy sheep, >an go, one to his farm, and another to his mer-chandise or household affairs and find no time to be thusco-workers with the Master; and of course those whose heartsare full, will find some way to render service. They will findopportunities in which self-denial (self-sacrifice) will enablethem to do what they can, and the warmer the interest themore time can and will they spend in this or some form ofservice appreciated by the Master.

One Sister can only find ti me as she goes and comesfrom the market and shows her will in the matter by usingthat. Another commenced bv giving one half-dav each week.

low saints for Bible study, no work could be better adapt edor more suitable to the day which memorializes the resur-rection of our Lord after having given himself a ransomfor all; witnessing as it did, to ed by* the foregoing texts; and gathgringthem together t hey would conclude that finally God, angels,men. devils. and the lower animals. would all be in Christnew creatures. And finally when asked how and in whatsense these would ever be in Christ, they would doubtless bepuzzled for an answer.

In examining these Scripture statements, let us avoidsuch a stupid a;d bewildering error, and noting the connect-ine text, let us riehtlv divide the word of truth f2 Tim.2:15), applying th; pEoper significance to the word in aswhen reading any other book. By recognizing the foregoingrule, we can readilv bring all these texts into harmonv witheach other, and wi& all other passages of Scripture.

We start with the unaualified statement that the Scrin-

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when it refers to a first or chief resurrection; for if allare to be in Christ as members of his body, why separate

Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all.. . .

the members of one body? Furthermore this text separatesAnd He gave indeed the Apostles and the Prophets

and the Evangelists and Shepherds and Teachers f or theand distinguishes between the dead in Christ, and other deadnot in Christ, and thereby contradicts the idea some have

complete qualiiication of the $aints for the work of serv-ice in order to the buildine UD of the bodv of the Anointed

drawn from the third text in the list. One. . . .The third text would have been more clear for the average

Being trutohfui, in love we* may grow up in

reader had the Greek word en been translated through &all things into him who is the head-the Anointed One-from whom t he whole bodv . . . bv means of everv as-

bv instead-of in for this is the evident sense: As bu orthough the act of Adam our first representative all -&ed,

sisting joint . . affecis the growth of the body fo; the

even so by or through the act of anoth& representative shalibuilding up of &self in love. (Eph. 4:4-16). Thus the

all be made alive. ihe one caused the death of all. the otherApostle clearlv shows that the work of the Church in the

causes the re-living or resurrection of all. This text has pgesent time is for the completion of the Church-the bodv

the same significance as another by the same writer (Rom.of Christ. as he had alreadv shown Irhan. 2 :6. 7 1 that aft&

5:18, 19): Bv one mans disobedience the manv fall1 wereour exaltation with Jesus to hear&iy hono& God would

constituted sinhers, so by the obedience of one shillthe manyexhibit in those ages t.hat should come after, the surpass-

[all] be constituted righteous.ing riches of his favor, in graciousness on us, in [en] ChristJesus. [Rotherhums translation.]

Besides if we were to attempt to put upon this thirdtext the primary signification of in, would it not imply that

In the same letter (chap. 1:4-11) Paul tells u s of thepredestination of this bodv for this work accordine as he

the dead would get into Christ first and be made alive after-ward? And would not this imply an absurdity?

ihose us in him before fgundina a world. . . . tin l ove

In the fourth text in the above list the word en mightmarking us out beforehand untcb adoption of sons . . .according to the riches of his favor which he made to suner-

better have been translated ~tnder as in the other cases itI

has been rendered thus, and Droperlv. (See illustrationsabound toward us:we could bear it]

in all wisdom and nrurience li. e.. as

given.) Jehovah has not only *appoinied Christ to be themaking known untous the mvstery of

his will [or plan1 accordine to his eood nleasuke whichhead over the Church which is HIS BODY" and which is tobe associated with him in ail his work in the future dis-

he purposed in hi&, with a vyew to anadm&istration [do-

pensations, but He also appointed the Christ (including the

minion] of the fullness of the seasons-to reunite for him-

body) to be head or ruler over a,ZZ things, purposing thus self under one head ror rulershinl the all thinrra. in Ten-.- _. _to again bring under one rule all things and beings earthly

under] the Christ [head and body] the things on the heavens

and heavenly, puttine all things under Christ-under hisand the things on the earth, in [en-under] Him; in whom

feet or control, excepting onlv himself (I Cor. 15:27). Thusalso we were taken as an inheritance, being marked out [as

understood this texi is-in h;rmony with all others, as wella class or body] beforehand, according to a purpose of him.-Rotherh.ams translation.

as grandly sublime in itself. And in the same chapter verses 21 and 23 we are toldIn the fifth text the word en may be translated advan-

tageously, by either of the words by, in, or through. Thethat God exalted Jesus aGove all others, both for the presentand all future apes. and subiected all thines under his feet

thought is, that Jesus did not form the plan in the execu-tion of which he has had and will have so important a

and constituted Kim a-Head above all things for that Chu rch

piarc: for it was Jehovahs own plan. God was [operatingwhich is His Body-the full development [or completeness]

his own plan] in [or by or through] Christ; reconciling theof Him [the Christ] who the all things in all, is for himself

world unto himself.filling up.

Let it be noticed, moreover, that while by suits the t,hirdHow well these statements from one epistle agree with

of the above texts, and underthe words of the Master himself, who said, I pray not for

suits the fourth, and either

hv or through

the world hut for them which thou hast given me [thr dis-

suits the fifth, yet none of t,hese canhe applied to the first and second. These are sensihle and ciples]. Neither pray I for these alone, hut for them alsowhich shall believe on me through their word. [Tllp entirereasonable only when en is translated in, and understood inits primary sense.

previously marked out Church, body, bride, or hreth-ren of Christ.] That they all may be one tlint

We trust that the above is hereby made clear to ail; they may be made perfect in one and [as a rhsuit of tilryet lest any should thus far have failed to note how clearly perlecting of that one body] that the w&id may know [inand forcibly the Scriptures evervwhcre separate those in that due time1 that thou hast sent me and hast LOVED THEMChrist as ljody memb&s, or under the other fi gure members as thou iiast lovrd me. John 17 : 9. 19-23.of his espoused Bride, from the world which is to be blessed \17e might multiply references to the oneness of the Bodyafter the hody or bride is complete (Rev. 19:7), and hy that of Christ (into membershiD in which, consecrated believersbride or body in connection with, and under control of the now reckonkdly come,) whose worth&s to be of His Bodvhead, WC will cite some Scripture relative to this point be- and share his name and coming giorv is made to depcnhlow : - upon their faithfulness in suffering \;.itll him in this nge

THE ONE BODY OF OHRIST, THE MEMBERS OF IT BEINGin which sin and suffering are permitted for the derel-

SELECTED, DISCIPLINED AND PROVED NOWopment of this very Body of Christ. But this we leave

FOR FUTURE SERVICE AND GLORYwith the reader to do for himself, merely citing you now toa few illustrations as follows:

Because of the close relationship of this company, andbecause of their joint-heirship with Him, as the wife is

Phil. 3:14, 21. This refers to the ow bohy of many mem-bers. Our inglorious hodv as viewrd bv the world. Also

called by the name of her husband, so these are called by note Pauls anxiety to hc found in Him, and at whnt restthe name of Christ and are the bodv of Christ.

The entire nominal Church is~ iominaily the body ofhe sought membershin in that bodv. and the sunerior or

Christ, but only the faithful overcomers who take up theirchief r&urrecti on it \viii enjoy. Phil: 3:7-11 . Also Coi. ii16-18, 24-28; and 3:1-4, 15.

cross daily and follow him, are worthy of him, and are reallyAlso conipnre the account of

his body (Matt. 10:38), and the names of them he will notthe completion of the hody of Christ by the gathering of thedead in Christ together with the last members, alive when

blot from the roll (Rev. 3:5) ; but he will eventually own their head return;, as given in 1 Thes. 4:16-18 wit11 theand glorify them with himself as members of his body, account of same in 1 Cor. 15:51-5X Glance nlso nt 1 Cor.his bride and joint heir. 9:24-27 and at Rom. 12:4-6 nnd Acats 15:14.

The present Christian age has for its special object theselection of this ONE BODY, of which Jesus is the head and

Finally, notice also thnt in the ordinance of Baptism,

chief. And as soon as the last members of this select com-the consecrated are baptized into Christ, by thrir sncrificeor burial in death with him (Rom. 6 :3), nnd thnt in the

pany are prepared by discipline, etc., they will all be glori-fied by resurrection power, made like their head, and with

breaking of the one loaf in rommcmorating the Lords Sup-per, we signify our knowlotl~e of,

him they will enter upon the great and long prophesiedand mc~mbcrship in ilnd

work of blessing all the families of the earth. Gal. 3:29.fellowship with, the one body, now being broken. 1 Car.10:16, 17.

How any one can read the Scrintures with interest andcare, yet fail to

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see (notwithstanding occasional imperfectionsTHE HOPE FOR OTHERS NOT MEMBERS IN THE BODY OR

BRIDE CLASSof translations)distinct in the

that the Christian Church is separate andpromises made to it, and in the hopes set

Elsewhere we have shown from Scripture thnt in the con-

before it, and in every sense, from the world, is more thansummation of Gods plan there will be various orders or

we can understand.rlasses of beings, all fully and compietciv saved or rcicascd

Note the following references :-There is one body evenfrom sin and its effects, &cl nil p&f&ii happy, nli in per-

as ye are called, in one hope of your calling . . . onefect oneness of harmony with their Creator. and hcnre witheach other, and yet as rinsws and as individuals differin?

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one from another, yet each rejoicing in his own station andappreciating it most.

Some will be heavenly or spirit beings, while others willbe earthly or flesh beings; and as the Apostle informs us,there will be distinctions or different classes on both of theseplanes. ( 1 Cor. 15: 38-40.) Among the earthly there willbe differences, even as now there is one kind [or order] offlesh of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes, andchief over and Lord of all these (Psa. 8 :5-S; Gen. 1:28) isman. And when all things are brought into perfect har-mony with God (all that will not after full opportuni ty

come into harmony being cut off from existence), thenthese classes or orders will each be perfect, yet retain theCreators originally intended differences from t he otherclasses. Hence, in the fullness of times, there will be onthe earthly plane perfect fishes, perfect birds, perfect beasts,and over and above them all their king and ruler. nerfectman; himself and his .lominion restorea (by tne giekt- De-liverer whom God provided-Christ Jesus and his bride orbody) to the original likeness of his Creator, and to hisdominion over all.

And there will be likewise different orders or classes ofbeings on the heavenly or sDirit Diane of existence. all like-wise- perfect and happy and holy, and at one yet differingeven as one star differs from another star in position, mag-nitude and orbit (1 Cor. 15:41).

Most excellent and exalted above all others, the center

around which all others shall revolve, owning al legiance andrendering loving obedience and service, is the class of spiritbeings of the divine nature- for above all principality andpower, and every na me that is named, not only in this world,but also in that which is to come. Eph. 1:21.

As already shown, Jehovah alone -possessed this divinenature originally, but has, because of his fidelitv and obedi-ence even iinto &at?, :highly exalted Jesus our -Lord to thissublimely grand position, so much better than angels, giv-ing him the heirship and rulershin of the universe. Andno? only so, but Godhath promised and will not repent, thatthe body members, otherwise called the Bride of Christ.sharers of the sufferings of Christ shall share also in hisglory, honor and exaltation to the divine nature, as heirsof God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ their Lord. 12Peter 1:4, Ram. 8 : 17, and 1 Cor. 6:3.) These wait undiltheir foreordained number is complete and made perfect, toenter into the honors and joys of their Lord-to be glorified

together with him. Rom. 8: 17, and John 17 :21.How manv different orders or classes of heavenly or spirit

beings there are we know not, but one of the lower ordersis that of angels, only a little higher than perfect men(Psa. 8:5), though far below the divine order (Eph. I:21 ) ,yet all perfect, all happy, all at one or in harmony.

Another class we know of who will in their powers, etc.,be lower than the divine nature, yet spirit beings, probablymuch on the same plane as angels, viz., the large class who,during the present age, made consecration vows, but whothrough fear (Heb. 2 : 15) hesitated and kent back the sac-

riflce and failed to suffer with Christ, when- to have boldlyadvocated his teachings would ha ve cost them earthly com-forts, honors, ease, et:. These not being overcomers, can-not be of the Bride-cannot sit with- him on the throneof hiehlv exalted dominion. (Rev. 7:9. 15: 14:3, 5.) Yet,thanks dod, t here is a place provided 4or these before thethrone. They cannot have crowns, but they shall havepalms, and shall serve God in or through or by means ofthe temple, though they cannot be parts of that templewhich is the body of Christ. And this is a great company,while the t

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