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Issue ofJune 1, 1.933Pag e

NEWS AND VIEWS 1SCIENCE AND THE BIBL E

The Mystery Land of the Pharaohs 4Evolutionists at the Crossroads, Part 4

6OUR BIBLICAL DIALO G

God's Kingdom Nears 9

THE CHRISTIAN LIF ECharacter Harmonies—Love IIChristian Tolerance 1 3The Walk to Emmaus 1 6The Value of Prayer, Part 6 1 8

THE EVERLASTING GOSPE LThe Ransom 2 0What is Truth? 2 2

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON SJesus on the Cross 2 5Jesus Rises from the Dead 2 5Jesus Our Lord and Saviour 2 6Joshua 2 7

CHILDREN'S HOURIsaac's Marriage . Jacob and Esau 2 8

TALKING THINGS OVER 30Convention Announcements 3 2Bible Students' Lectures 3 3

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THE DAWN, entered as second class malt matter at Brooklyn Post Office, Oct. 17, 1982, Act of March 3, 5897 .. Published the Is/ and 15th of each month byAssociated Bible Students Radio Committee, 251 Washington Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Make all checks payable to THE DAWN PUBLISHERS.

The issue on the Ise of each month is a magazine of 82 Pages, or more. On the rsth a 4-page tract is issued,

Vol. 1, No. 17

JUNE 1, 1933

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News tail). ViewsThe Outlook in June

Z HE sunny month of . June invites us to enjoythe beauties of the world of nature around

us, but the prospects of immediate sunshine of in-dustrial and economic prosperity for Europe andindeed for the whole world are none too bright .Secretary Hull has said that with the world "drift-ing toward economic bankruptcy," he hopes tha tpublic opinion will force "blind and dumb states -wen" to adopt measures of recovery. The greatConference for the considering of ways and mean sopens in London on June 12 . At present there seemsno indication that the world powers are ready t ounite their policies in a real program conduciv eto economic recuperation. Mr. Hull hopes thatpublic sentiment will solve the difficulty, even whil ehe admits that the situation looks ominous an ddark .

President Roosevelt, in a plea for world peac ebroadcast to the nations of the world, said : "Theprosperity and the very lives of the men, womenand children whe inhabit the whole world arebound up in the decision which their government swill make in the near future . The improvement o fsocial conditions, the preservation of individua lhuman rights, and the furtherance of social justic eare dependent upon these decisions ." Alluding t othe London conference, he says : "The conferencemust establish order in place of the present chao sby a stabilization of currencies, by freeing the flowof world trade, and by international action to raiseprice levels . It must, in short, supplement individualdomestic programs for economic recovery, by wiseand considered international action ."

Furthermore the President said : "If all nation swill agree to wholly eliminate from . possession anduse the weapons that make possible a successfulattack, defenses will automatically become impreg -

nable and the frontiers and independence of .everynation will become secure .

"All nations of the world should enter into asolemn and definite pact of non-aggression ; theyshould solemnly reaffirm the obligations they hav eassumed to limit and reduce their armaments . .and individually agree that they will send noarmed force of whatever nature across their frontiers . "

The day after President Roosevelt's message cam ethat of Chancellor Hitler to the German Reich -stag in Berlin. In regard to disarmament he in-dorsed the plan of the American President . Someoutstanding clauses. in his speech were :

"Germany insists only on security, the same se-curity that other heavily armed nations now have .

"The only purpose of the National-Socialistgovernment is to crush the communist danger .

"Europe going under in communistic chaos woul dconjure up a crisis in the world's development o funmeasurable proportions and indeterminate dura-tion.

"Germany now has the right to demand thatother nations also fulfil the obligations of th eVersailles Treaty . The equality promised last No-vember was not realized .

" Germany would dissolve her entire military es-ta'+lishment and destroy what little armaments ar eleft if neighboring countries did likewise. Contrari -wise, Germany must at least insist upon equality . "

How good it is to thus hear the great men of th eworld expressing their desire for uni`,ersal peac eand prosperity; but what little hope they reallygive . Already our worthy President acknowledge sthat the situation is beyond anything that this orany other individual country can do ; althoughnearly everyone thought when he was elected thatnow at least America would see an end of depres-sion and insecurity. Not until the nations, in the

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rusalem, a city revered by all, in the heart o fPalestine, a land which has been from remote age still recent years, the scene of almost incessan twars, is erected an international monument of peac eand brotherhood. "

Truly Palestine is forging ahead . Not only ha sit been a land of the past ; but it is to be a lan dof the future, a land to which God will regathe rthe Jews, according to his promises made throughthe prophets of yore .

New Religion for Germany

11T IS said that the "German Christian move -

ment" wants to entirely do away with the OldTestament, and set up in its place the sagas andfairy tales of Germany, as well as. prominent andfamous persons in the national life. Alfred Rosen-burg has said that the 2,000,000 martyrs of theworld war form a living mythology and a ne wreligion for the new Germany . His words are : " Ourfate is to fight for new times and for new futures ,new mythology cannot be downed. Personificationsof the mythology are the world war heroes ; and thenew German movement shows that uncounted mil -lions are beginning to understand our two millio nmartyrs as a new living mythology and as a ne wreligion . "

What shall we say of people who want to wor-ship their dead fighting men? How well Jesus kne wthe conditions of the present time when he said ," When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find th efaith on the earth?" (Luke 18 :8.) And whata crying need there is for that knowledge of thetrue God, and of his goodness, mercy and love,which, ultimately, shall cover the earth " as thewaters cover the sea . "—Isaiah 11 :9 ; Hab. 2 :14.

"Rains Horn" BrownAMS HORN" BROWN,of Rams Horn fame ,

died recently in Florida. Some of his pith yand wholesome sayings have clung to the publi cmind. Here are a few samples : "The devil canmake almost anything he wants out of a loafer . ""There is no right way to do a wrong thing . ""It only costs a few dollars to send a man to heav -en on a tombstone ." " The faultfinder does a .good deal of work for the 'devil for nothing . ""When a man is praying for a corn crop, God love sto see him say Amen to it with a hoe . "

There is a lot of good, solid, homely truth inthese sayings . The Bible indeed, sets forth the trut hof all such expressions, for it says, "Who shall as-cend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall standin His holy place? He that hath clean hands, an da pure heart ; who hath not lifted up his soul untovanity, nor sworn deceitfully . He shall receive theblessings of the Lord, and righteousness from theGod of his salvation ."—Rom. 24 :3-5 .Where Was the Soul?

11 N A Boston side-street a baby was found dead .There was a cord around its neck, and it was

rigid and had turned black . Nevertheless, twent ydoctors worked on this baby for three hours, an dbrought it to life by forcing air into its lungs .

severity of their plight, are humbled to the pointwhere they will be willing to sincerely look to th eLord, and learn of His ways, will there be rea lpeace. That will be the time, the prophet declares ,when they shall learn war no more—Micah 4 :1-4.

100 Years From Now% TART CASE, writing on the subject of "100

Years from Now" in Hearst's Internationa land Cosmopolitan, says : "The most important thin gabout the year 2033 is that it will have no .economi cproblem of the first dimension . Into the wastebasket of history will have gone poverty, mal-nutrition, slums, the struggle between worker an downer, overproduction, unemployment, the battlefor markets, high-pressure selling, speculation i nnecessities, stock-market dope sheets, and above allthe torturing fear of economic insecurity. `Whendo we eat?' —the question that has dogged man -kind for one hundred thousand years, and held th erace so often at brute level—will have been an-swered, hopefully, forever. "

We believe that Mr . Case is right in his con-jecture about the future, although he is 94,00 0years in error concerning the length of time man-kind has been battling with depression . The signsof transition are so plainly in evidence that th egreat struggle of the present day will probably b egone long before a hundred years have passed overthe world. All the evils of which the writer hasspoken are caused by a wrong modus operandi,and this in turn is caused by the big ego in man,and its insatiable desire to pander to self-interes tregardless of what others suffer in the process . Ifthe panacea , of the Golden Rule were applied for afew years, it would work wonders . Thank God, itwill be applied for a thousand years, and underits beneficent operation will take place the grea tchange that God has planned out and all the bless-ings that God intends shall come to humanity .

Progress in Electrical Transmission%CIENTISTS now claim that millions of volt s

of electricity can be transmitted from the At-lantic to the Pacific without loss of energy and a tlow cost . The California Institute of Technology andthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology are in-terested in the experiment . If there is as much ad-vancement in the application of -electricity in thenext few years as there has been in the past half -century, what wonders will the eyes of man yet be -hold! It is indeed what we might expect in thispresent time, which the Bible calls " the day of th eLord's preparation ."

Word From JerusalemHE new Y.M.C.A. in Jerusalem has, at last,

been formally opened. The, work of construc -tion of this edifice has been going on for five years .The dedicatory address was delivered by Lor dAllenby, and was heard by radio in New York . Thespeaker said, in part : "This noble architecturalgroup stands unrivaled in the world for beauty an ddignity—a worthy home for the Young Men's Chris -tian Association of the Holy Land . . . Here in Je-

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3And now what the doctors, and other people a swell, would like to know is, where was the soul o fthe baby during the three hours of apparent death ?Was it still in the body? Was it hovering aroun dsomewhere in the neighborhood, waiting to com eback in case the doctors should prove successfu lwith their air-pumping operations? or was it half -way on its journey to heaven, and disappointed athaving to come back once more to scenes of earth ?

Those who know their Bibles, of course, caneasily answer such questions ; because they kno wexactly what the soul is. The Bible defines the sou las the being itself. It says that in the creation manBECAME a soul: Therefore when a human bein gdies, the soul dies. Jehovah, speaking through theprophet Ezekiel (18 :4, 20) says : "The soul thatsinneth, it shall die ." Since all souls are born insin, therefore all souls die. Even the soul of Jesusdied (Isaiah 53 :12) and this was a Divine require-ment since He died to save man from death and notfor a state of conscious existence in some othe rsphere of life .—Heb. 2 :9 .

Scientist Dies Without Finding Ape-Man

UHE famed scientist, Llya Ivanovitch, recentl ydied in Moscow. After long experimentatio n

in an endeavor to establish the missing link . in theevolution of the human family, he had to admi tcomplete failure . The Professor was well verse din biology . He had traveled extensively Africa ,and had especially made a study of the apes . Hepublished two treatises on Fecundation, upon whic hhe was recognized as an authority . But all his ef-forts to breed apes with human beings were utterl yfutile . Some day the world will know that in th ebeginning God made the animals of earth eac hafter its own kind, just as the Bible says, and thatdifferent species will not blend . It will also com eto know that man is not a creature of evolution,but was, originally, a direct creation of God, madein the Divine "image and likeness ." — Genesi s1 :26 ; 2 :7.

Bernard Shaw Decides On HeavenERNARD SHAW, the British dramatist, hav -

ing visited twenty-nine countries of the world ,arrived home in England. From his .experiences, h ecame to the conclusion that the best place in whic hto live would probably be heaven . There is no doubtthat Mr. Shaw is right, for under present conditionsthe countries of this world are far below the stand -ard of perfection. However, when the conditionsof the ;divine Kingdom are established, the earthwill be a beautiful place, and millions of person swill live here in peace, contentment and prosperity .

When Forty-five Cents Meant Deat hMAN in Kansas City, Mo., unable to pay adebt of 45 cents, went into the bathroom an d

shot himself. To the authorities he addressed a notecontaining these words :

"There are some who fought the battles of lifewith Spartan bravery and in whose breasts it stilllives. These will never be reached by charity ; forcharity is not what they want . We have paid as

we have traveled life's pathways and have know nnothing of the intricacies of contracting debts .Hence we are unprepared for such contingencies ,especially at a time when we see no prospects forrepayment . Therefore, there remains nothing wecan do expect to lighten the raft so that those w elove may survive . "

A note such as the foregoing speaks for itself.It reflects the mental attitude of others as well ,who find life too great a burden, as the world nowstands. 0, that people could grasp the hope hel dout by the Bible for a glorious future, when al lshall have enough and to spare and " sorrow andcrying shall flee away ."—Isa. 35 ; Rev. 21 :1-5 .

Golden Pavilion at Chicago Fair

AT THE Chicago Fair one will have access to th eGolden Pavilion of Jehol, with . its treasures

from the Lama temples. This wonderful structurewas brought from China in 28,000 parts . The ori-ginal temple was built at Jehol, where the Manchuemperors had their summer home, until this prov-ince recently fell to the Japs .

When the Prophet Isaiah saw the vision of th eLord, he said, " His train filled the temple . Aboveit stood the seraphims. . . And one cried untoanother, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lor dof hosts : the whole earth is full of his glory . "In due time the earth itself will be a kind of great ,glorious temple, reflecting the love, the wisdom andthe power of the Lord .—Isa . 6 :1-3 .Trade in Narcotics

g HE illicit traffic in drugs may be checked t osome considerable extent ; and it is to be hoped

that it will be checked . The narcotics limitatio nconvention seems to have accomplished something ,and by virtue of the power given to it, the Leagueof Nations will be able to dictate to the world theamount of narcotics to be manufactured and th eamount to be distributed .

It is believed that there are at least 30,000,000opium users in China. In that vast country th eopium production is increasing . Ralph Townsen dwriting in the New York Herald Tribune, says :"The United States and Europe, and much of th erest of the Western World, will benefit from th enarcotic limitations convention, but for China I donot see a ray of hope . I think of those millions o fashy-yellow coolies who have become addicts t othe drug . . . I watch one . . . He is prematurely old ,and groans mightily, and stops at every little risin gground for breath . . . He is one of thirty million—or it may be fifty—ashy yellow and vacant eyedheathen who never heard of the League of Nations ."

Nevertheless, thank God, there is hope for China .It is the same hope that exists for the rest of th eworld. The Divine law of righteousness in the ag eof Christ will sweep away narcotics and ever yother hurtful thing, and when the fruit of the tree sof life is again made available to the earth, theworld will have no use for those drugs that ro bpeople of manhood and womanhood and slowlykill .

The Mystery Landof the Pharaohs

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Sphinx monument of Amenemhet III, • sixth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dy-nasty, whose reign of 48 years (1849-1801 B. C.) covered the time whenJoseph and his brethren were in Egypt ; hence evidently the monarch whomade Joseph his prime minister, about 1820 B . C. He was an able ruler,but Joseph may have been responsible for much of his success . He had manyof these sphinx-like statues made, which represent him as a couching, watch-ful lion.

Joseph's father, Jacob, who died in Egypt in 1811 B . C., doubtless was ac-customed to seeing good government thus symbolized by a couched lion ;hence on his deathbed he employed that familiar symbol in his prophecy ofthe future Israelitish kingdom, whose reigning house he said would sprin gfrom his son Judah. He declared that Judah "is a lion's whelp . . . couche das a lion, and as an old (strong) lion." (Genesis 49:9 .) The Jews there-after refdrred to the coming Messiah as "THE LION of the tribe o fJudah. "

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IN LAST month's issue welisted the early pharaohs of

Egypt, from the time of th efounding of the First Dynastyby Menes (about 3400 B . C.), ondown to the fall of Merikara wh owas the last pharaoh of the Tent hDynasty (about 2160 B. C.) Thesefirst ten dynasties are often his-torically referred to as the Ol dKingdom, but more accuratelythe Old Kingdom terminated a tthe lend of the Sixth Dynasty ,about 2475 B . C . ; and then fol-lowed three centuries of turmoil ,which may be called the Revolu-tionary Period, during which n oless than five successive dynastie smet their doom, while a total of36 pharaohs uneasily ascended thethrone for brief, troublous reigns .

Merikara, the last pharaoh o fthis Revolutionary period, ha sleft us some meagre recordswhich throw much light on thi sotherwise obscure age of Egypt-ian history -2475-2160 B. C. Thescenes within the tombs of thi speriod, also tell a story of war ,revolt and bloodshed ; in markedcontrast to the peaceful scenesfound in the pearlier tombs andmonument of the Old Kingdomproper. Prof. Alexander Moret,famed Egyptologist of the Col-lege de France, in his recent his-tory of Old Egypt, comments a sfollows on the aforesaid Revolu-tionary Period :

The Revolutionary Period"In the tombs of this period

(2475-2160) there is an abun -dance of warlike scenes ; and wefind soldiers training, batallion son the march, archers, spearmenand Lybian and Nubian mer-cenaries . . . Among all the riva lprinces, warriors with conflicting

ambitions, and unstable parties ,the government of Egypt was anuncomfortable task .

"The `Teachings of Merikara, 'which have been preserved on apapyrus, bring an echo of thos edays, when the king, surroundedby intrigue, gave his sons th ecounsel of craft and patienc ewhich his difficult position in-spired . He mentions revolts o fmonarchs (i . ;e ., princes, or gov-ernors of the various nomes o rdistricts), also attacks by Asia-tics, and the defeat of the royaltroops by the Thebans, near Aby-dos. About 2160 B. C. the Hera-cleopolites and the princes o fSiut were finally beaten by th eAntefs of Thebes" — who estab-lished the Eleventh Dynasty, andbegan a new era in Egyptian his-tory known to historians as th eMiddle Kingdom.

An Egyptian priest named.Ankhu, who lived at Heliopolis

about 2400 B . C., during thatdark Revolutionary Period, i squoted by Prof- Gardiner in hi s"Admonitions of an EgyptianSage," which is a careful trans-lation from the Hieroglyphs, asfollows :

"I shall tell of the things a sI have seen them . . . I meditat eon what is happening, on theevents which arise all over th eland. Changes are going on ; eve-ry year weighs -heavier than th elast . The land is in confusion.Right is driven out . Evil is in thecouncil-chamber, mourning is inevery place . Cities and provincesweep. All men are criminals ."

Another papyrus, translated bythe same scholar, quotes an Egyp -tian priest named Neferrehu, wholived during that same unhappyperiod (about 2300 B . C. ), andwas an eye-witness to the con-ditions which he describes :

"The country is utterly lost ;

no one any longer cares for it,no one speaks of it, no one weep sover it . . . Enemies have arisenin the East, Asiatics have ,entere dEgypt. . . That which has neve rhappened is happening now. Mentake up arms for battle, becaus ethe land lives on disorder. Theymake spears of copper, to be gtheir bread with blood. Theylaugh with an unwholesomelaugh. There is no weeping atfunerals . Every man slays th enext . I show you sons becomingenemies, brothers becoming ad-versaries, and a man kills hi sown father . . . Hate reigns amongthe people of the towns . The landis diminished, and its chiefs (re-volutionary rivals) become mor enumerous ."

The Middle Kingdom Perio dEgypt was relieved when W a

henekh, of the House of Antef,a man of rare courage, arose in2160 B. C., put an end to theturmoil, and established a stron gcentral government, with Thebesas his capital. He was the foun-der of the Eleventh Dynasty ,which begins the period knownas the Middle Kingdom thatlasted for nearly four centuries,until the rise of the thirteent hDynasty .

The Eleventh 'Dynasty lastedfor 160 years, and consisted ofseven pharaohs, all of whomreigned from Thebes . It was dur-ing this dynasty that Abrahamand Sarah visited Egypt, as re-corded in Genesis 12 :10-20. Thepharaohs of this dynasty were a sfollows :

1 Wahenkh-Tepnefer 50 years ?2160-2110 Brick Pyramid at Thebes .

2 Nakhtneb-Tepnefer 25 years?.2110-2085 Brick pyramid at Thebes .

3 Senekhibtowe-Mentuhotep 15 yrs ?2085-2070 Brick pyramid at Thebes .

4 Nibhapetra-Mentuhotep 14 years ?2070-2056 Brick pyramid at Thebes .

5 Nibtowera-Mentuhotep 2 years2056-2054 .

6 Nibhepetra-Mentuhotep 46 years2054-2008 Abraham in Egypt, (Gene-sis 12) .

7 Senekhera-Mentuhotep 8 ;year s2008-2000.

The Twelfth Dynasty is onethat is of special interest to Biblestudents, for it covers that fami-liar period when Joseph and hisbrethren were in Egypt. Signifi-cantly enough, it also is the e a r -

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liest dynasty the dates of whichare readily verified. Records ofthis period mention eclipses, etc . ,which make it possible to estab-lish all its dates beyond reason -able doubt . 'This dynasty lastedfor 212 years—2000-1788 B. C. I tconsisted of eight noted pharaohs ,whose capital was at Lisht ; andthe last of these pharaohs wasa woman—Egypt 's first reigningqueen :

1 Amenemhet I 30 years 2000-1970Brick pyramid at Lisht .

2 Sesostris I (Senusret) 35 year s1970-1935 Brick pyramid at Lisht .

3 Amenemhet II 32 years 1935-190 3Briek pyramid at Dahshur,

4 Sesostris II 16 years 1903-188 7Brick pyramid at Illahun.

5 Sesostris III 38 years 1887-1849Brick pyramid at Dahshur .

6 Amenemhet III 48 years 1849-180 1Joseph enters Egypt 1833 ; Jacob en-ters Egypt 1811.

7 Amenemhet IV 9 years 1801-179 2Jacob buried with honors 1794 .

8 Sebeknefrau-ra (queen) 4 years1792-1788 Daughter of Amenemhet III .

With the overthrow of QueenSebeknefrau-ra the Middle King-dom period came to an end, andanother revolutionary period setin. This queen was the daughterof the illustrious Amenemhet III ,and the sister of Amenemhet IV.The Egyptian records, as well asthe Bible, indicate that thesethree Amenemhets were very be-nevolent rulers .The Pharaoh of Joseph's Day

It evidently was Amenemhe tIII who honored Joseph with th eposition of vizier or prime minis -ter ; for Bible chronology show sthat Joseph was carried intoEgypt about 1833 B. C., and waselevated by pharaoh about 1820B. C. ; and these dates fallsquarely within Amenemhet' sreign. This same pharaoh wasstill _ reigning when Joseph 'sbrethren, and Jacob his father,settled in Egypt . When his sonAmenemhet LV,, came to thethrone in 1801 B. C., he evident-ly retained Joseph as vizier, asdid his sister after him, QueenSebeknefrau-ra . But when shewas overthrown by the revolu-tionists in 1788, `there arose & pa new . king over Egypt whichknew not Joseph" (Ex . 1 :8), andthe Israelites were enslaved.

It is interesting to find thatthe Egyptian records portray

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Amenemhet III as a kindly andpeaceful ruler — just the kindof character the Bible indicatesthat the pharaoh of Joseph's daymust have been . Prof. Breasted ,the well-known Egyptologist o fthe University of Chicago, com-ments on this particular pharaoh, ,in his " History of Ancient.Egypt," as follows :

"For nearly half a century th ebeneficent rule of Amenemhet IIImaintained peace and prosperit ythroughout his flourishing king-dom. Business was on a soundbasis, values were determined i nterms of weight in copper, andit was customary to indicate thevalue of an article when men-tioned in a document by append-ing to it the words ` of X deben'—a deben being 1414 grains (of cop -per) . "

The foregoing would seem toindicate that Joseph may haveintroduced business sagacity int oEgypt's commercial life, such a sthe ' mercantile-minded Hebrewsare wont to do wherever theygo. 'Dr . Breasted, of course, doesnot connect Joseph with Am-en-emhet's reign ; but since the Bib-lical evidence seems clear that .he was in Egypt at that ver ytime, Bible students cannot hel pbut see a connection, and credi tJoseph with much of the king-dom's prosperity of that day . Inany event the Egyptian record sindicate that the country wa sprosperous and peaceful through-out this good pharaoh's regime .Dr. Breasted continues :

"The evidences of this pros-perity under Amenemhet III stil lsurvive in the traces of the ex-tensive monuments and buildin genterprises. . . The statues of A-meoemheet III, which overlooke dLake Moeris, were probably 40or 50 feet high." Only fragmentsof these great monuments remaintoday. Vandalism has about de-stroyed all these priceless treas-ures of the Middle Kingdom .

Amenemhet III, as shown bythe tabulation above, had an ex-ceedingly long reign of 48 years .When he died in 1801 B . C hisson, Amenemhet IV, succeede dto the throne . It apparently wasduring his short reign of nineyears that the patriarch Jacob ,the father of Joseph, died. Some

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chronologers place Jacob's deat hin 1794 B . C., while others insis ton 1813 B. C. Joseph was stillthe premier of Egypt at thattime, and Jacob was buried withgreat honor, at pharaoh 's order .—Genesis 50 : 6,7 .

The "Couched Lion" of Jacob'sDeathbed Prophec y

The statues of Amenemhet IIIwhich have survived, represen thim as an alert, watchful lion,couched and ready to spring. Thehuman face on these sphinx-lik emonuments is doubt!es . a trueportrait likeness of the greatAmenemhet ; hence, notwithstand-ing the lapse of thirty-sevencenturies, we may- now look uponthe very countenance of the goodpharaoh who dealt most bounti-fully with Joseph and the wholehouse of Israel back in those OldTestament days .

These couching-lion statues ofAmenemhet III, one of which isreproduced above, were familiarlandmarks in Egypt in the daysof Joseph and his brethren . Jacoband his household had doubtlesslooked upon them so frequentl ythat they had become imbeddedin their minds as a fitting symbolof government, indeed of goodgovernment ; for Amenemhet'sreign was crowned with peac eand prosperity—and Joseph evi-dently was responsible for muc hof its success, ,even as the Bibleindicates .

Now this familiar symbol-ization of government by a couch-ing lion probably explains whyJacob, on his deathbed, employedthat symbol when prophesying

T H E D A W Nof the, coming universal King-dom, whose great Ruler he sai dwould be born of the tribe o fJudah. He declared that Juda h"is a lion's whelp . . . couched asa lion, and as an old (strong )lion." (Genesis 49 :9 .) Because o fthis prophecy, the Jews there-after referred to the comingMessiah as "The LION of th etribe of Judah . "

Amenemhet IV, who honoredJacob at his death, himself- die din 1792 B. C., which was but tw oyears after the death of the pa-triarch. This brought his sister,Sebeknefrau-ra, to the throne ofEgypt . But by now the forces o fdisruption were at work throug hout the kingdom, and after fouruneasy years as queen she wasdethroned by the revolutionists .The leader of the revolt wasnamed Sekhemra-Khutowe, whoconstituted the . Thirteenth Dy-nasty . Hence he evidently wa sthe pharaoh "which knew no tJoseph." His ascendancy to thethrone marked the send of th eTwelfth Dynasty and also of th eMiddle Kingdom Period .

The Thirteenth to the Six-teenth Dynasties embraced aperiod of 130 troublous years(1788-1658 B . C.), known to usas the Period of Confusion . Fewrecords have survived this peri-od ; but it is known that Sekhem-ra-Khutowe, the revolutionistleader, held the throne only fiveyears, at which time he was sup -planted by a new house, whic hconstituted the Fourteenth Dy-nasty. This also was shortlived,and was soon succeeded by th eFifteenth and then the Sixteenth

Dynasties . Altogether there wereno less than 60 pharaohs whoarose and tell during this centu-ry and a quarter ; but the con-fusion was so great, and the re -cords so meagre, that even theirnames are now lost .

It was during this Period ofConfusion that the Israelites wereheld in Egyptian bondage, eac hsucceeding pharaoh apparentlycontinuing and even increasin gtheir hardships. Moses was borneither in 1677 or 1696 B. C . ,which would be shortly beforethis tumultous period ended.Hence he may have been reare dby the daughter of the very lastpharaoh of the Sixteenth Dynas-ty, whose name is not now known .

Nor is it certain where Egypt' scapital was located when Mose swas born. Doubtless the capitalhad shifted again and again, asthe successive rival rulers aros eand fell during that long Perio dof Confusion . This troublous peri-od did not end with the SixteenthDynasty, but continued on downto the end of the SeventeenthDynasty, which was the dynastyof the Hyksos, the so-called"shepherd kings . "

(To be continued)Next month one of the most inter-

esting chapters in Egyptian histor ywill be discussed ; namely, the perio dof the Hyksos invasion. Who werethese Hyksos invaders, and whenc ecame they, Their origin will be trace dand the names of their rulers re-vealed in the next installment ; whichalso will disclose, for the first time,the most probable pharaoh of theExodus . Watch for the next issue, an dall succeeding iustalhnehits, whichwill continue the listing of the pha-raohs, dynasty by dynasty, on dow nto Egypt's final fall.

Evolutionists at the CrossroadsAST month it was pointe d

lid out in these columns thatthere are many "missing links"in the evolutionists' fossil re -cord, besides the enormous gapthat exists between the anthro-poid ape and modern man ;. andthat it is impossible for the Dar-winists to prove by this recor dthat nature is traveling gradu-ally from lower to higher speciesby an evolutionary law which

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moves forward by infinitesima lsteps of perpetual progress .

As the matter now stands, therecord suggests that either eachspecies was specially created, orelse that nature has evolved themby "fits and jumps" rather tha nby slow, small steps . Bible `stu-dents cannot see how a belie fin special divine creation requiresany more faith than the evolu-tionist must have in `blind na -

ture" which, presto ! causes in-vertebrates to change suddenlyinto vertebrates, water animalsinto air-breathing amphibians ,fanged reptiles into toothlessbirds, and snake scales into multi -colored feathers—at one jump !

Even if the scientists shouldyet find fossils which seem to fi tinto some of these unbridged gapsit would be necessary to provethat these animals made their ap-

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to the most complex, we are aptto become unduly impressed bythis fact and conclude that if wefound the complete series weshould find all the intermediat esteps, and that they have arisenin the order of their complexity.This conclusion is not necessarilycorrect . "

Other Expert TestimonyProf. J . P. Lotsy, celebrated

Dutch scientist, also seems to se ethe utter hopelessness of tryin gto prove Darwinism by thes eartificially arranged fossil dis-plays, and by guesswork "recon-structions" made from fragmen-tary remains . And he shoul dknow what he is talking about ,for he is a leading phylogenistwho has made reconstructions an dfossil exhibits for many years . Inhis "Evolution by Hybridiza-tion," p. 140, he says :

"Phylogeny, e . g ., constructionof what has happened in the past ,is no science, but a product o ffantastic speculations . Those wh oknow that I have spent a consid-erable part of my life in effortsto trace the phylogeny of the veg-etable kingdom will know tha tthis is not written down lightly ;nobody cares to destroy his ownefforts . "

Such statements as these b ypresent-day scientists, who stil lcall themselves evolutionists " byfaith," plainly indicate that themodern scientific trend is t oagree with the late Dr. Ether-idge, who for many years wa sthe great fossil expert of th eBritish Museum, and who i squoted by Prof . Townsend in hi s"Collapse of Evolution" as say-ing :

"Nine-tenths of the talk of evo-lutionists is sheer nonsense, no tfounded on observation and whol-ly unsupported by facts . Thismuseum, is full of proofs of theutter falsity of their views . Inall this great museum there i snot a particle of evidence of thetransmutation of species . "

Prof. J. B. Warren, of theUniversity of California, is an-other scientist who seems to agre efully with the foregoing. He isquoted by Dr . Williams in his"Evolution Disproved" as re -marking .recently that during the

pearance on earth at preciselythe time in geologic history whic heach particular gap demands ;otherwise the evidence would b evalueless as proof for evolution .As a matter of fact, all the fossilexhibits in our museums todayare artificially arranged whollywithout respect to any chronolo-gical sequence, hence they ar eplainly deceptive .

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Museum Exhibits DeceptiveThese museum-exhibits alway s

begin with the smallest and sim-plest fossil, and gradually go o nup to the more complex organ-isms ; without any regard to thetime when each of these animalsfirst appeared on earth . Perhap sthe largest and the smallestskeleton in the group may b ethose of animals which actuallylived contemporaneously ; yet theartificial arrangement of them bythe museum managers leadsvisitors to suppose that the firstanimal in the group must hav elived many millions of year sprior to the last and largest on ein the group, since that muc htime apparently would be neede dfor the one to "evolve" into theother by slow, successive steps .

In this insidious way the fossil -fixers induce immature school -children and others, who thought-lessly view their exhibits, to im-agine that each of those animalsmade its initial appearance onearth in exactly the order inwhich the museums display them ,and to suppose that thus theyhave "evolved from one specie sinto another by small graduatedsteps. Then, when all theseschoolchildren have grown up inthat belief and have become th eadult generation of the morrow,naturally the world continues t oaccept the evolution theory—fordid not we see the "proof " of i twhen we visited a museum in ourchildhood ?

But what may seem to be evo-lutionary "proof" to schoolchil-dren, is far from proof to thestudious scientists themselves .Prof. Thomas Hunt Morgan, ofColumbia University, in his " Cri-tique of Evolution," page 9, says :

"Because we can often arrangethe `series' of structures in a lin eextending from the very simple

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course of human history "thereshould certainly be known atleast a few instances of the evo-lution of one species from an-other," but that " no such in -stance is known ."

Similarity No Proof of KinshipOf course it is obvious tha t

there are certain anatomical re-semblances between various spe-cies of animals ; and indeed be-tween man and the chimpanzee ,gorilla or ape. It is inevitablethat there should be structura lsimilarities, for the simple reaso nthat the same mechanical an dbiological principles are common-ly involved. The same thing istrue in mechanics generally ; andin architecture, or any of thearts . Buildings frequently employthe same architectural principles ,because they are intended to per-form similar functions ; but thi sdoes not imply that the one hasevolved" from the other .

Common anatomic resemblance sno more prove that man was e-volved from the ape than thatarchitectural resemblances prov ea kinship between St . Peter's inRome and a Masonic Cathedral .There are close anatomic resem-blances between a dog and a lion ,yet evolutionists do not evenplace them in the same group ;for the one is a canine and theother a feline . Neither should manbe grouped with the anthropoi dape, simply because of certai nanatomic similarities . But whystress the resemblances and over-look the enormous divergences ?There are quite as many differ-ences as there are similarities be-tween them .

True, some races and individ-uals have retrograded about asfar as it is possible for them togo and still be human . Certaintypes of men have sunk down solow that they have become savag ecannibals, and thus approximatethe beastly plane . But still thereis a great gap between them andeven an " educated" ape. Manis a reasoning creature, not gov-erned by mere instinct . He hasa moral sense ; probably muchcorrupted and seared, but stillcapable of being developed . Thisis not true of beasts .

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Man's Moral Sense is DistinctiveThere is no mental nor mora l

resemblance between man an dbeast. A dog sometimes seems t ohave certain moral qualities ; butit is only apparent . No dog actu-ally possesses a moral sense ; nordoes any other animal, exceptman. Many animals respond t okindness, and can be taught t oobey. Some readily learn to b efaithful servants of the hand tha tfeeds them. Some dogs indeedcan be trained not to molest lit-tle children .

But tests show that it is not be -cause of any ethical reasoning o rmoral appreciation of right an dwrong that leads animals thus t orefrain from doing harm. Eitherit is not their natural dispositio nto be ferocious, or else they havelearned by means of repeate dpunishments and rewards exactl ywhat course is best for them tofollow. But man, even the lowes tsavage tribesman, has a moralsense that can be influenced bybelief — even though it be a su-perstitious belief . He has a con -science capable somehow of bein gtouched.

"Reconstructions" of Primitiv eManEvolutionists, in a studied ef-

fort to establish kinship betwee nman and beast, have drawndeeply at the well of vain imagin-ation, and have made "recon-structions " of what they supposeearliest man must have looke dlike . These artificial reconstruc-tions or "restorations" are to b efound in our great museums, an dthey invariably represent earlyman as bearing a very close re -semblance to the ape . But theplastic artists who made thes eso-called "reconstructions" knewno more about what early manlooked like than does anyoneelse ; they simply drew upon thei rvivid imagination .

For example : America's lead-ing museum proudly displays anoriginal "reconstruction" of th eso-called "Trinal Ape Man." Itis a horrible looking creature ,with apelike countenance, simianears, scowling - face and longshaggy hair . As you stand beforeit you imagine it is indeed a

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`half-man, half-gorilla,' a danger-ous low-brow creature that i sready to attack you and tear yo uto shreds .From What Was it Made?

What evidence did the plasti cartist, J . H. McGregor, have i nhis possession by which he wasable to " reconstruct" this so-called Trinal Apeman? Simplythis : The upper part of an ape' sskull, two teeth, and part of ahuman thigh bone, found at Tri-nal, Java, in 1891. And thesebones were not together whe nthey were found, either. Theteeth were discovered in the san dfully a yard away from the skull ,and the shattered thigh bon efragment was nearly fifty fee taway .

Yet from these bits of scat-tered bone, which nobody ca nprove ever belonged to one andthe same creature, Prof . McGre-gor made his "reconstruction, "with its ape-like jaws, gapin gmouth, simian ears, shaggy hair ,and all ! And a picture of thisMcGregor "restoration of ear-liest man" has been reproducedin many textbooks for eehool-children to gaze upon as "proof "of human evolution. This plaster -cast bust is admittedly an ablespecimen of plastic art, but it isno more proof of human evo-lution than is any imaginativ e'sketch of a "caveman" drawnfor a magazine cover .

It is regretable that schooltextbooks and teachers general-ly fail to make these essenrialfacts clear to the student . Toooften the schoolbooks tacitlyimply, if they do not state in un-mistakable terms, that man isdescended from this supposed"Trinal Ape man" which. Prof .McGregor has imaginatively "re -constructed," and without giv-ing the schoolea ;ld the slightestintimation that scientists them-selves are not agreed as to th epractical value or significance ofthese fragmentary Java bones .Schoolchildren should not begiven books to study wh'ch donot honestly

', orth facts .Sir James Jeans, one of Eng-

land's foremost scientists, in hi slectures at Cambridge University

a year or two ago, very proper-ly and pointedly warned th estudents to beware of textbooksthat make too positive assertions ,not only as to the evolution o fman but also as to the source oflife itself. It is his opinion thatthe sooner we cease trying to de -ceive ourselves and our childreninto believing that a long-taugh ttheory is necessarily true, andresolve to face facts just as the yare, regardless of what pet idea sthey may contradict, the soone rwe may expect to make progressin the direction of ultimate truth .

" Scientific Magicians "As for the value - of many of

the theoretical generalizations ofscientists in regard to "earlyman," and especially as to thefalse implications of the afore -mentioned " reconstructions" or"restorations," we here quote th efollowing from 'bhe recent colab-orated work of Professors Shep-ard and Morris, of New Yor k'University, in their "World' sEssential Knowledge," Vol. 1,published in 1930 .

"A single bone in the hand sof some of these scientific magi-cians is soon transformed into acomplete human being, physical-ly perfect but ethically horrible . . .In recent years we have had mor ethan our normal supply of sweep-ing generalizations, which to ooften are the last resort of baf-fled or tired minds . . . It isunfortunate that the people ofthe ` pre-civilization era' all bearin the popular mind the stigm aof inferiority, of brutishness andof savagery. Some of this is n odoubt due to the riotous imagin-ings of scientists and pseudo -scientists ."

(To be continued )

The next installment of this series ,which will appear in the July 1stissue, will contain a complete list o fevery bone or skeleton which the evo-lutionists have ever mentioned in an yof their writings as evidence of man' sreputed kinship with beasts . Theseexhibits will be analyzed, one by one ,to see what proof they may or maynot contain in behalf of the evolutio ntheory . This will be a good issue tosend to yourskeptical neighbors an dacquaintances . Write for extra copies.But better still, send them THEDAWN for the next three month sfor 25c, four subscriptigns for $1 .00.

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L--- 1H IrRsERNEST : Do you realize that it is difficult for

anyone to be an optimist these days? Fo rseveral years now, the world's most able statesme nhave been trying to stabilize affairs, but have failedto steer their ships of state back into the quietwaters of normalcy . President Roosevelt reminde dthe rulers of the world on May 16, that the dis-armament conference, after more than a year oflabor, has gotten nowhere, and that we are strug-gling against "economic chaos." Machinery en-ables us to produce more of everything than w eneed, but we have no satisfactory way of carin gfor those who have been thrown out of employmen tby reason of. machinery . I have an interesting clip -ping here from the "New York Times," in whichDoctor Spengler, noted scientist, is quoted as say-ing that "Man, by inventing machines, has es-tranged himself from nature, who is now havin gher terrible revenge by making him the slave ofhis own inventions ." Because of this, Doctor Speng-ler says : "Present civilization is doomed . Again,General Allenby, who led the British armies int oJerusalem during the World War said, recently,that the next war will mean the end of civilizationas we know it . We are told that then whole citieswill be wiped out in a few moments ; and in orde rto make sure that we understand what is meant,New York, and other cities, last year were treate dto spectacular demonstrations of a modern air raid .I'll tell you, Frank, I don't know what the worldis coming to! Do you ?

Frank : I was wondering what you were comingto when making such a long speech . But Ernest, Iagree with Spengler, Allenby, and the many other swho say that civilization is coming to an end .

Ernest : That's not a very cheerful outlook, is it ?Frank : It is when you understand it . Centuries

ago, when the Ancients were laying the founda-tions of our present civilization, the Lord's servants

foretold its final destruction, their prophecies bein grecorded here and there throughout the Bible .

Ernest : Now listen, I have great respect for th eBible, but remember that time and again honest ,but deluded, souls have used the Bible to predic tthe end of the world . While I realize that the out -look is extremely gloomy, I don't think it is timeto don our white robes and ascend to the house-top sto wait for the coming of the Lord and the burnin gup of the earth .

Frank : Ernest, there is nothing in the Bible toauthorize anyone 's doing such a foolish . thing . a sthat at any time . The Bible, however, goes beyondthe wisdom of our present-day leaders, and tellsus what is to follow . Thus it shows the silver liningof the dark clouds of trouble that at present han gover the earth. But Ernest, in case you may thin kthat I am trying to give the impression that theearth is soon to be destroyed, let me say, that ac -cording to the Bible, the earth never will be de-stroyed, but will abide forever as man's paradis ehome—the restored Eden, world-wide .

Ernest : Frank, if that be true, then I can tak emore interest in the Bible ; in fact, I shall be veryglad to find that it does supply a note of authoritythat will inspire confidence in this time of uncer-tainty. But, you know how it is . One can discusspresent conditions with almost anyone from stand -points of politics, finance, science or labor ; but themoment one mentions the Bible, they close up lik ean oyster and look at you out of the corner of thei reye as if you were a . . . What shall I say ?

Frank : Ernest, that's because so many unreason-able theories not taught by it have been creditedto the Bible. However, it is the only Book in theworld that goes to the foundation of our presen tdistress, points out its cause, and tells us how i twill end. As an example of how accurately the Bibl eforetold the- events that lead up to the presen t

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crisis, let me remind you of the words of Jesus .His disciples had asked Him what would be thesigns that would indicate the end of the age—tha tis, the end of our "civilization ." In answer Jesusmentioned many things that have, and are, takin gplace within the lifetime of this generation. Hesaid, for instance, that " Nation would rise agains tnation and kingdom against kingdom," and thatthere would be "famines and pestilences ; andearthquakes in divers places . "

Ernest : Well Frank, that doesn't prove . verymuch. There have always been wars, famines, an dpestilences .

Frank : I grant you that's true, and Jesus pre -faced this prophecy by calling attention to thecommon wars and rumors of wars of which yo uhave spoken. But, in describing the last war, hislanguage was entirely different. He said : "Nationshall rise against . nation, and kingdom against king -dom." This indicates, not- only a universal uprisingof the nations in a general conflict ; but also that itwould be much more than merely one army goin gout to fight another . In the world war, whole na-tions, and the entire resources of those nations ,were mobilized for the conflict . Even the womenand children had some part in it. This was truein every nation involved.

Ernest : But, Frank, the war ended several year sago. Don't you think it's about time to cease usin gthat as proof that we are nearing the end of th eworld ?

Frank : No, because, as I have suggested, - th eend of the world is something entirely differentfrom the conception that we have had of it , in thepast . In speaking of the world war, Jesus said tha tit would be the beginning of sorrows . The chainof circumstances leading up to the present crisi sbegan with the war in 1914 . The clouds of troubleportending what Allenby calls the end of civili-zation, and what the Bible calls the end of th eworld, are becoming increasingly threatening .When describing the finale of the cataclysm that i sbeing precipitated by human selfishness, the Lord' sprophet said that "Every man 's hand would b eagainst his neighbor."

Ernest : It very nearly amounts to that now, ifI know anything about it .

Frank : Ernest, I would like you to turn to the21st chapter of Luke and read another passag ewhich is very descriptive of present-day conditions :Luke 21, verses 25 and 26 . -

Ernest : Frank, I wouldn't be interested in it atall if I thought you were trying to prove that th eearth would soon be destroyed.

Frank : Neither would I ; but when you realiz ethat this present time of trouble is merely inci-dental to the establishment of God's Kingdom i nthe earth, then it is really worth while to locate our -selves on the stream of time in order that we migh thave confidence in the future . Have you the passag e.ready to read?.

Ernest : I have : . " And there shall be -upon th eearth distress of nations, with perplexity, the se aand the waves roaring ." Frank, I can understand

what is meant by the expression " Distress of na-tions with perplexity," and it is certainly true no was never before

Frank : Yes, Ernest, the nations are indeed dis-tressed and perplexed. One of the Old Testamentprophets, when describing this condition, says thatthey would stagger like drunken men,—and yo uknow how that is .

Ernest : Well, not by experience I don't.Frank : Of course, Ernest, I didn't mean it that

way ; but how aptly this describes the present atti-tude of men and governments—merely feeling a -round for something with which to steady . them-selves .

Ernest : Yes, I understand that all right, but wha tis meant here by the roaring of the sea and th ewaves. One can go to any seacoast and hear th esea and waves roar at almost any time .

Frank : Which shows that Jesus did not refe rto the literal sea . In the book of Revelation, weare told that the sea represents the masses of thepeople, hence the roaring of the sea vividly re -presents the condition of the masses at the presen ttime . They are restless, and are becoming more andmore insistent in their demands for work and thenecessities of life.

Ernest : Frank, listen to thin next verse : "Men'shearts failing them for fear, and for looking afterthose things coming upon the earth" . . .

Frank : Do you think that is fulfilled today ?Ernest : I should say it is . When Spengler and

Allenby and other noted men of wisdom and fore -sight are as fearful as to hint that civilization isdoomed if something isn't done, I should say thatJesus described present conditions very accurately .But, Frank, thus far we have merely discussed th egloomy side of the question. If the Bible so accu-rately describes present conditions, does it not giveus some indication as to what will follow? Are w eto suppose that the whole world is going to th edogs, so to speak, and that that will be the en dof it ?

Frank : No. The outcome is what I delight to talkabout. I mention these other dark facts, not fo rthe purpose of alarming you ; nor am I advocatingsome radical movement to better conditions . But,they are facts that must be faced, and those wh ounderstand the Bible are able to face them opti-mistically, because they see in them proof tha tthe long-promised Kingdom of God is soon to beestablished.

Ernest : Frank, doesn ' t the Bible say somethin gabout a time when "the desire of all nations" willcome ?

Frank : Yes. The desire of all nations is to hav epeace, prosperity, health and happiness . The pre-sent distress of nations is not because anyone real-ly wants it that way, but because selfishness is inthe- saddle and is riding rough-shod over the bette rjudgment of all . None will risk a change from sel-fishness to the Golden Rule ; but, God 's Kingdo mwill enforce a rule of love and thus bring in thedesire of all nations . The passage you mention i s

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Character Harmonies—LoveC HARACTER music, when produced by tha t

wonderful melodist, the New Creature i nChrist, has a quality of rare sweetness and of far -reaching compass . There is something about it tha tsuggests the singing of skylarks, who drop theirsongs from the azure heavens ; for its source is abovethe low-lying things of the earth . Like all music,it can only be really appreciated by the ear tha tis attuned to sweet sounds, even the sounds of love ,joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness,faith, meekness and self-control ; for these are th e.dulcet strains that are brought forth from th estrings of character's harp when played upon b yhim whose mind has been drawn into harmony wit hthe law of God by the Holy Spirit of divine truth .

The first strain to be considered is that of Love .The Apostle Paul places that first, and rightl yso ; for it is the highest and noblest strain in thiskind of music. Even earthly love is a very fin eand noble thing when found in its purity and un-contaminated by selfishness or pride. In an endeavorto express the character of God in a single word ,the Scripture says : " God is love ." And again weread, "We love Him because He first loved us . "

Because of the nature of love, we could not lov eGod if He were lacking in this quality . The native sof Africa worship gods whom they believe to b ecruel. While they fear these deities and do theirutmost to propitiate them, they do not love them .If the God of the whole universe had no love inHis makeup, yet possessed boundless power, it wouldbe indeed an appalling thing for all created beings .The very thought and suggestion of divine love isa force that draws our hearts in devotion to Hi mwhom we call our Heavenly Father . Man wasmade for love . It is something our natures demand ,and when the current of our affections is turne dinto the channel where we recognize the attribute sof God to be adorable, love then reaches its highes tdevelopment through a process that demands th efinest and grandest employment of its powers .

Love's VisionWe may safely say that all the unhappiness in th e

world today is due to the fact that there is so littl elove for God in the heart of man . Love for Godmeans love for all the exalted things that to ourminds speak of God, and whose author is God. Whenmen shall come to love God, the earth will aboun dwith joy and peace . But the Lord has done some -thing for the Christian in advance of the world . Hehas given him a vision of love . He has, as it were ,drawn aside the veil of the tabernacle 's Most Holyplace, and granted him the boon of beholding th egolden cherubim upon the mercy seat, which would

seem to represent the perfect power and the per-fect love of God .

Whether in action or in repose, love is alwaysbeautiful . In this respect it may remind us of abeautiful child, sweet and attractive when runnin garound the house or yard, and sweet and lovabl ewhen lying in its crib, asleep . As long as the proof sof love are before us, we are satisfied . If love doe snot fly to our assistance the moment we cry, w eare willing to wait, for we know that love is no tdeaf to our needs . If love causes us pain, we kno wthat it is love just the same. It is in fact our alge-braic "K," the "constant," the great changeles squantity . It is an ,ocean of infinite peace in whos eemollient, crystalline waters we can find assuage-ment for every woe. The love to which we her erefer is the pure truth love, the superlative qualit yof divine love, the love that comes down into ourhearts from God Himself .

Most Beautiful of all Picture sWhen we hang up the picture of Jesus in the ar t

gallery of our minds, we hang up love in a con-crete form. It is through Him that we most clearlybehold the divine love . Jesus alluded to this factwhen He said, " He that hath seen me hath seenthe Father ." It is indeed the only way that w ecan see the Father . And what better way couldthere be? In all things Jesus manifested the purestlove and thus disclosed that He had the spirit o fHis Father . Every lovely hue of love shone forthfrom Him. Or, to present the matter in terms of thefigure of speech we are using, every golden not eof love's music flowed forth from His words, Hi sdoings, and His entire life . He was the greates tliving expression of love the world has ever known.

If one looked at the matter from a certain view -point, he might deem it a great pity that the worl ddid not receive Jesus for what He was . We know,however, that hatred cannot judge love because i tis on a lower plane . The world's condemnation o fJesus but showed the depths to which the worl dhad fallen . Some day the world will receive Jesu sfor what He was and for what He is, and willrealize that its salvation lay in His love whic hmade the supreme sacrifice .

Jesus stands before us to-day, just as He hasstood before the church for nearly two thousan dyears, as the perfect pattern of love . Every tenderstrain of love is in the music which He produced .Humility is there ; for "He was led as a lamb t othe slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers i sdumb, so He openeth not His mouth ." Misunder-stood even by His best friends, "despised andrejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted

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with grief," Jesus bowed His head to the blowthat was to fall . In the unconquerable power of Hi sperfect love He went to Pilate 's judgment hall,.and through i he boisterous throng to Calvary, t oprove that love is invincible and all-potent an dwill ultimately win the victory for right, for life ,for truth and for God .

Looking at Jesus, we desire to be like Him . Andwe are invited to become like Him . He exhorts usto triumph in the might of His love . Enemies mustnot be permitted to interfere with its manifes-tations ; for He said, " Love your enemies, bles sthem that curse you, do good to them that hate

you, and pray for them which despitefully use you ,and persecute you ; that we may be the childrenof your Father which is in heaven ." (Matt . 6 :44,45.) This is a wonderful platform upon which t ostand. It places one high above the world ; for theworld is not capable of even comprehending suc ha position . The world has its policies and stand sbehind them ; but this is not a policy : it is LIFE.It is transcendentalism in the garments of practi-cality and altruism. It is the melodious music of anew creation . It robs the days of meanness andhardness and wrong . It sits upon the housetop an dsends forth its carols to the rising orb of light .It fills the night-time with songs of exquisite peace ;for it is the highest gift of God .

Love's EnduranceLove is not sickly sentiment that merely live s

to-day and fades to-morrow. It is not a butterflythat flutters in the sunlight and dies at night . One

.of the great things about love is its permanence .It remains when other things are gone . The Apostlesays : "whether there be prophecies, they shall fail ;whether there be tongues, they shall cease ; whetherthere be knowledge , it shall vanish away." (1 Cor .13 :8.) Let us quote from Prof . Drummond, wh osays : "The wisdom of the ancients, where is it? I tis wholly gone . A schoolboy to-day knows morethan Sir Isaac Newton knew. His knowledge ha svanished away. You put yesterday's newspaper inthe fire. Its knowledge has vanished away . You .buy the old editions of the great encyclopaedias fo ra few pence . Their knowledge Ras vanished away .Look how the coach has been superceded by th euse of steam. Look how electricity has supercede dthat, and'swept a hundred almost new invention sinto oblivion."

One of the greatest authorities, Sir WilliamThompson, said : " The steam-engine is -passin gaway. At every workshop you will see, in the bac kyard, a heap of old iron, a few wheels, a few levers ,a few cranks, broken and eaten with rust. Yearsago that was the pride of the city. Men flocked infrom the country to see the great invention ; nowit is superceded ; its day is done . . . Can you tellme anything that is going to last ?

"Many things St . Pauldid-not condescend to name .He did not mention money, fortune, fame ; but hepicked out the great things of his time, the thingsthe best men thought had something in them, an dbrushed them peremptorily aside . All he said about

The Divin* SpectrumSpeaking on the subject of love, a certain pro-

fessor said : "As you have seen a man of sciencetake a beam of light and pass it through a crystalprism, and as you have seen it come out at the othe rend of the prism broken up into its componen tcolors — red, blue, violet and orange, and all th ecolors of the rainbow—so St . Paul passes this thing,Love, through the magnificent prism of his in-spired intellect, and it comes out on the other sid ebroken up into its elements . And in these words w ehave what one might call the spectrum of love ,the analysis of love .

"The spectrum of love has nine elements :Patience—'Love suffereth long 'Kindness—'And is kind'Generosity—'Love envieth not'Humility— ` Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffe d

up 'Courtesy—'Doth not behave itself unseemly 'Good temper—'Is not easily provoked 'Gentleness—` Thinketh no evil'Sincerity—`R,ejoiceth not in iniquity, but re -

joiceth in the truth.' "Then, too, we know that love "believeth al l

things, hopeth all things, endureth all things . Lovenever faileth." - 1 Cor . 13 :7, 8 .

Another writer, speaking of love, has said : "Loveis good-tempered,— ` not easily provoked.' Amongthe evils abounding to-day is that of ill-temper ,fretfulness, bad humor, touchiness, quickness t otake offense. To whatever extent this disposition i sfostered or willingly harbored, and not foughtagainst, it is an evidence of a deficiency and a lackof development in the spirit of God, of deficiencyin likeness to Christ, our pattern .

"Very few evidences of a wrong spirit receiv eas much leniency and as many excuses for itscontinuance as -does this fault . However muchnatural weakness or nervousness may tend in thi sdirection, every true member of the body of Chris tmust vigorously oppose this disposition to be ir-ritable, fault-finding and morose . He must fightthis tendency of his fallen flesh, must wage a goo dwarfare against it in the strength of the Lord. Theimposition of a penalty upon oneself for every out -break of irritability or unlovely temper would soo nbring greater watchfulness over the tongue andover the unloving impulses of the old nature. Fewtraits of character more truly glorify the Lord thansweet temper .

"Love is guileless . It `thinketh no evil'—does not

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them was that they would not last. . . But lov eis certain to last. God, the eternal God, is love . Covet,therefore, that everlasting gift, that one thin gwhich is certain to stand when all coinages of al lthe nations of the world shall be useless and un-done. You will give yourself to many things, giv eyourself first to love . Hold things in their properproportion. Let at least the first great object ofyour lives be to achieve the character defended i nthese words, the character—and it is the characte rof Christ—which is built around love ."

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surmise evil . It seeks to interpret the manners,-words and actions of others charitably . Being pureand well-intentioned itself, it endeavors so far aspossible to view the words and the conduct o fothers from the same standpoint . It does net trea-sure up animosities and suspicions, nor manufac-ture a chain of circumstantial proofs of evil in-tentions out of trivial matters. `Faults are thickwhere love is thin,' is a wise and true saying . Lovemakes all possible allowance for errors of judgmen trather than impugn the motives of the heart . "

Love "Seeketh Not Its Own "True love is kind and altruistic . It does not live

for itself . It ever seeks to extend its benefactions t oothers. It does not, show a tendency to build cree dfences and to put up a sign saying, "Keep off th egrass ." It is very generous . When Jesus was o nearth, He was called " the friend of publicans an dsinners." He was not supercilious and sanctimoni-ous. He did not fear that contact with others would

soil his garments : He lived too near to God forthat . Jesus did not retire from the world and justgive Himself to the contemplation of holy things ,as so many others have done at various times . Hewent about doing good, seizing the opportunitie sthat presented themselves, whether the servic emeant turning water into wine at a marriage feastor feeding the multitude, or giving sight to theblind, or raising the dead, or talking the truth t othe woman at the well of Samaria. Thus, though Helived among sinful men, He applied to the thing sof every day the great principles for which Hestood. He was not contaminated by the spirit of th eworld. He was the most real, the most practica ltranscendentalist the world has known . It is a bigthing to clearly recognize the spirit in which Helived and wrought and witnessed. But it is a stillmore important thing to have that same spirit inourselves, so that we may be real living witnesse sfor God, for His Truth and for His kingdom .

Christian Toleranc e" Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of."—f uke 9:55.

' fl T WAS Robert Burns, the poet, who said thatX 11 "man's inhumanity to man makes countles sthousands mourn." The same painful inconsideratio nhas been practiced too often by Christians, in thei rdealing with one another . Indeed, Christian 's un-Christianity to Christians has led to many unspeak -able atrocities committed in the name of Christ, al ldown through the centuries of the Gospel Age .Intolerance seems to be the one word that best.describes the distorted mental attitude that ha s-caused apparently sincere Christians to misrepre-sent, persecute, and even burn at the stake, equal-ly sincere Christians whom they regarded as out -side the pale of their particular creedal group .

Selfishness (self interest), and superstition, ar ethe two outstanding causes of intolerance amongGod 's people . There is nothing in the teachings o fChrist to justify Christians in assuming an attitudeof intolerance toward . anyone, especially towar dthose who also claim to be Christians . There is thewidest possible distinction between the true spiri tof Christianity as taught and exemplified by Jesus ,and the spirit of superstitious bigotry that so ofte nmasquerades in the name of Christianity. Super-stition and bigotry are capable of exercising a tre-mendous influence in the lives of those who arereligiously inclined ; but it is always a baneful, self-ish influence .

Deeds of heroism, and a willingness to suffer un-told hardships, have char eterized the lives ofmany who have been actuated by religious fervor ;but even the martyr spirit has not always beenprompted by genuine fervor for true Christia nprinciples . When a heathen mother casts her cher-ished offspring into the Ganges river as a sacrific eto some of the hindu gods, her act is prompted byreligious zeal—but not the zeal of the true gospel .

Likewise, altogether too many harsh, unchristia ndeeds have been committed in the name of Christ ,but in utter violation of the Christ spirit .

Papacy violated the spirit of Christ every tim eits inquisitors tortured and slew a so-called heretic .Nor did the great protestant, John Calvin, exercis ethe spirit of Christianity when he caused MichaelServitus, a fellow Christian, to be slowly burnedat the stake and in such a way as to deliberatelycause most horrible pain for several hours . Yet allthis was done in the name of Christ, and to the fer-vent chant of "Let Jehovah be glorified !" We ar eglad that we are not now living in a day when suc hcrude outrages against true Christianity are per-mitted ; but we cannot be too careful in seeing t oit that the same spirit of intolerance which actu-ated those horrible deeds in days past does not findlodgment in our hearts and produce in us an at-titude of hatred or indifference toward Christian swith whom we may not fully agree in doctrineand practice .

True and False StandardsThe Scriptures leave no doubt that there is a

right and also a wrong way for the Christian t oexercise himself . The standard of righteousnessset forth in the Bible is a very high one indeed .Furthermore, there is no uncertainty concerningthe fact that those who violate God 's law are con-sidered by Him to be evil and subjects for pun-ishm,ent. But this does not give to any Christianan excuse to insist that all other Christians mus tmeasure up to his particular interpretation of God 'srequirements or be damned. It has been becaus eof this wrong theory and practice that the spiri tof religious intolerance has flourished so muchthroughout the ages . And it continues to operate

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T H E D A W Ntoday, even among the most zealous of God's con-secrated people, whenever selfishness supplantsthe spirit and teachings of Jesus .

Through the prophets of Israel God made ver ydefinite promises of a coming Messiah . Further-more, He gave His chosen people the law, and als opriests and prophets to interpret that law. WhenJesus came, His disciples, being Jews who wer eendeavoring to keep God's law as best they could ,and who also had recognized Jesus to be the prom-ised Messiah, were extremely indignant that other scould not, or did not, see matters as they did . ButJesus did not share their attitude .

We are informed that on one occasion these earl ydisciples made certain requests of the Samaritanson behalf of their Master,. and were refused . Todecline to grant a favor to their Messiah seemedto them to be a crime worthy of instant death .Why should they not be severely punished fo rthis? reasoned the disciples . They came to Jesu sand .explained that these Samaritans had sinne dagainst God, and that they (the disciples ) ha dcondemned them, and were ready to call down firefrom heaven to destroy them. But Jesus immed-iately rebuked the disciples for their intolerance .

In this incident we have an example of the fals ereasoning that has often formed the foundation ofmany acts of intolerance that have been committe din the name of Christ . Here was an attempt o nthe part of the disciples to judge and punish othersbecause they refused to measure up to their ownparticular interpretation of what would be pleas-ing to God. Was there any question about Jesus 'being the Messiah? No! Didn't Moses say that i twould come to pass that all who would not hea rthat prophet would be " destroyed from among thepeople"? Yes !

Why then did not the disciples have a right t oexpect that God would be pleased to have themcooperate with Him in the accomplishment of Hi spreviously declared purpose to destroy those wh orefuse Him? Indeed, this evidently seemed to b ea clear case, and exactly what God expected o fthem under the circumstances . But, even as incountless other similar instances, there was on eimportant point they failed to take into consider-ation ."Judgment is Mine, Saith the Lord "

The disciples failed to take into consideratio nthat God had not appointed them to be the judges—either of these Samaritans who had refused themaid, or of the question whether the time had com efor the destruction of those who refuse to obe ythe Messiah after full opportunity to obey hadbeen given them . To the disciples it seemed aclear case of what would be pleasing to God . Thereappeared to be no question concerning the meanin gof the prophecies. There certainly was no ques-tion in their minds as to whether Jesus was theMessiah or not . Hence they felt that surely theywere justified in taking action . But Jesus said, No !—"Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of ! "

Not only had the disciples failed to realize that

they were not to act as judges and executioners ,but they also had not as yet fully comprehende dthe fact that Messiah's purpose was one primar-ily of salvation rather than of condemnation an ddestruction—"Ye know not what manner of spiri tye are of." True, the Samaritans unquestionablywere sinners, but so were the whole world —all werelying in the wicked one, and were under condem-nation. It wasn't necessary for Jesus to come int othe world to condemn it ; but rather, that "theworld through Ilim might have life ." These dis-ciples seemed to think that Jesus' primary objectill coming into the world was to condemn and pun-ish all who did not accept Him . But worst of allthey also assumed, even as many others have done ,that those who refused to accept their interpre-tation of the gospel message were worthless an dfit only to be destroyed . Upon these two false con-ceptions of Christianity has rested much of th eintolerance that has cursed the Christian churchthroughout the age and unto this day.

Selfishness the MotiveWhether one's reasoning is false or true, whe-

ther the conclusions reached are right or wrong ,there is always a motive that prompts one's though tand action. Selfishness is the motive back of al lsophistry in religion. Intolerance itself is an ele-ment of selfishness. Seldom has intolerance beenpracticed for a purely unselfish purpose . The dis-ciples, in seeking the destruction of the Samaritan swere certainly moved by selfishness . Jesus hadcalled them to be His disciples, and to have a shar ewith Him in His Kingdom ; and already they ha dbegun to wrangle among themselves as to whoshould be greatest among thew in that Kingdom .If they were to be so highly exalted, they felt thatsurely it would be fitting to give a demonstrationof their coming power arid authority . Here was anopportunity to do it, they reasoned. Here were sin-ners that should be destroyed ! Why not begin theirrise to fame right now !

While circumstances have varied the setting, ye tthis same subtle reasoning, prompted by selfis hmotives, has frequently been the underlying caus eof great intolerance among Christians . Where thereis no desire for material advantage, .either ofwealth, or of power, or of fame, intolerance is no tlikely to take a very deep or lasting hold in th eaffections of the consecrated heart . If there i snothing to be gained by insisting that others agreewith us, the temptation is not nearly so great forindividuals or groups to use coercion in attempt -ing to force their opinions upon others .

False Issues in the ChurchReligious intolerance is usually an evidence tha t

someone .is selfishly seeking to force some false ,unscripturaI issue upon the church . For example ,some private interpretation may have been place dupon some obscure passage of Scripture . Not allcan agree that the interpretation is correct or reas-onable, and thus there is a difference of opinion .If the individuals or group, bringing forth the in-terpretation in question is entirely unselfish in the

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15matter, then no intolerant attitude will be assume dby them. But if there is a desire to shine befor eGod's people, or to be rooked up to as leaders, o rif the publication of certain interpretations woul dbenefit in a material way those who have advance dthem, then an attitude of intolerance will be as-sumed at once .

Those who refuse to accept such new interpre-tations will be branded by the promoters as evildoers, despisers of " advancing light, " and worthyonly of eternal destruction ; while Scripture afte rScripture showing that it is God's intention to de-stroy all evil doers ultimately, will be made to ap-ply at once to those who cannot conscientiousl yaccept the disputed interpretation. This is selfishintolerance, but those who practice it call it " loy-alty" to God and to His arrangements .

Another fruitful cause of . Christian intoleranc eis the attempt to set up individuals and group sother than the Lord and the apostles and prophets,as God's special channels or dispensers of truth .This practice may be prompted either by selfish-ness or by superstition . If it is done in order t ogain prestige or to promote some " cause," it isclearly prompted by selfishness . But many prac-tice this form of intolerance simply because o fhuman weakness . Where faith in an invisible Godis not sufficiently strong to lay hold directly upo nHis promises, there will be a desire to lean upo nsome tangible, material "arm of flesh ." Scripture swill be found to justify this desire ; and when theindividual leader or group narrowly insists tha twhat they have found in the Bible concerning them-selves must be accepted by all whom they will fel-lowship or recognize as being "in the truth," i toften leads to intolerance to a shameful ;degree.

There seems no doubt but that the entire his-tory of the church was outlined in advance, b yJesus and the prophets and apostles—especially bythe Revelator—and there is a measure of comfort inthe thought that many of the details of the church' sexperiences here in the end of the age are prophe-cied in the Bible . Surely the Lord would be please dto have us desire comfort from all prophecies alon gthis or any other line . If, however, after makin ga certain application of such prophecies, we self-ishly insist that all other Christians must accept itor else be counted out of the Lord's full favor, thenwe are practicing plain religious intolerance—n omatter by what other name it may be called . Noris it necessary to be wrong in our interpretationsof Scripture in order to be intolerant of others .Our view of a certain passage may be correct ; butthis does not give us license to judge and condemnthose who disagree with us !

Intolerant With Truth as Well as With ErrorThe disciples were right, in their conviction that

Jesus was the Messiah. They were right in believin gthat ultimately all those who did not accept th eMessiah would be destroyed. There was no doubtabout either of these points ; but when they, ex-pressed the, personal -desire to destroy those whodid not agree with them, they were told by Jesus

that they did not know what spirit they were of .When St . Paul told the brethren at Corinth tha tthey were "carnal" because some of them desire dto say "I am of Paul," he did not mean that by thishe was renouncing his own apostleship . What Pauldid mean was that as Christians we must recogniz eChrist and the Heavenly Father as the source of allour blessings, that all truth comes from them, andthat to insist upon anything else is to practic ecarnality .

No true Christian will desire to discount the im-portance of Paul's position as an apostle . Indeedwe are glad to recognize that each of the inspiredapostles was especially appointed by the Lord tohave a very special position in the church . And it i snot discounting the importance of those belove dapostolic servants of God's people to insist tha tJesus is the sole Head of His church . The ApostlePaul gave us many inspired messages . It is alsotrue that on at least one occasion he assured u sthat what he had to say on a certain matter wa snot directly from the Lord—that it was merely hi sown personal opinion . (1 Cor. 7 :6, 12, 25, 40.) Heplainly labeled it as such, and thus did not see kto give it the force of "authority . "

Were any of God's people to insist that otherChristians must abide by an admittedly uninspire dopinion of Paul, they would be practising intoler-ance. Much more it would be intolerance to tryto force upon all consecrated Christians, by threa tof the second death, opinions of much lesser light sthan Paul . Aside from the prophets and the apos-tles, the Lord has not given the church a single otherinspired or infallible servant . To insist, therefore ,that the published opinions of others, whether o findividuals or of groups, must be accepted by allas the- "last word" in Biblical knowledge or "pre -sent truth," is another form of religious intoleranc equite unworthy of any Christian who sincerelyseeks to honor God's Word and name .

Intolerance, in short, is to insist that others mustbelieve the same as we do, and follow the sam ecourse of action as we do, or be cast off from favor .Whether our belief, or our course -of action, isright or wrong, is beside the point—it is intoleranc ejust the same . It is indeed quite possible to hav ethe truth on certain Scriptures, but, not being in-fluenced by the spirit of the truth, to become in -tolerant and set ourselves up as judges of thos ewho do not agree with us . In such cases we shoul dremember Jesus' words, "Ye know not what man-ner of spirit ye are of. "

The practice of true Christian tolerane.e does no tat all involve the idea that the tolerant one mus tbe unconvinced in his own mind as to what is righ tor wrong, truth or ,error . Every individual Chris-tian should be well grounded, fully established inhis conviction of what is truth . Such a convictionof faith on the part of any Christian should be re-spected by other Christians and given due con-sideration. Even though we feel that our own vie wof a certain passage is more nearly correct tha nthat which is held by another, yet the spirit o fChristian love should dictate a 'course of gen-

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tleness and kindness—not a dogmatic attitude—while seeking to bring our supposedly better viewto the attention of the erring one for his consider-ation. When Christian tolerance is practiced ther ewill be a disposition to "reason together" in lov eand sympathy. The admonition to "contend earn-estly for• the faith" is not an excuse for dog-matism, arrogance and intolerance among Christia nbrethren—especially in matters that are not es-sential to an appreciation of God 's clearly expresse dplan of salvation .

True Basis of FellowshipIt is only upon the absolute essentials of God 's

Word that the Christian can afford to seem to b,edogmatic, and even then his dogmatism should no tlead to harsh condemnation of others . Indeed, whenone is conscientiously sure that he is right he ha slittle difficulty in being tolerant of the views o fothers . It is often true that intolerance even in it sworst forms, is prompted by a desire to convinc eone's self that he is right. It is also, frequentl ytrue, that those who indulge in wrong practices ar emost intolerant of the same error in others—itserves as a screen to hide their own faults . Butwhere, in simple faith, one's belief and practic eare based upon the eternal verities of God's Word ,and when the true spirit of love that is reflectedin divine truth has taken possession of the heart,true Christian tolerance will be the inevitable re-sult .

In stating the fundamental theory of atonement ,which is to form the true and only basis of Chris-tian fellowship, we . are pleased to quote, with un-qualified approval, from The Watch Tower of Au -gust 1st, 1913, the following :

"(1) All men—all of Adam's children—are sin-ners.

" (2) None can be reconciled to God without aRedeemer's sacrifice .

" (3) Jesus came into the world to be a sacrifice ." (4) On the basis of faith in the Redeemer' s

work, the believer may consecrate himself to th edivine service, in acceptance of the divine invi-tation, ` Present your bodies a living sacrifice . '

" (5) So doing, the believer may—up to the tim eof the completion of the elect number—exercise ful lassurance of faith that his sacrifice will b .e accepte dof the Father, and that he will receive a share o fthe anointing of the holy spirit—the begetting .

" (6) Such as meet these conditions are to be ac-cepted as brethren in the highest sense of the term .This much would seem to have been always neces-

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sary, and more than this we believe is not necessar ytoday. But if by reason of our favorable day w ehave more knowledge, we may also have corre-sponding trials, which our greater knowledge wil loffset .

"Our advice to the Lord's dear people every-where is that they put no yoke upon each other ,beyond the fundamentals specified above—tha totherwise they stand free, and leave each otherfree; and fellowship and agree as much as theycan with each other. "

Let Tolerance ReignSurely this is a very simple statement of fait h

and practice with which all Christians can agree ;and how timely is the advice not to put yoke supon each other beyond these simple fundamentals .Let each Christian carefully examine his own fait hand compare the many things upon which he isinsisting, with the simple fundamental truths ofthe Word. Let each continue to treasure whateve rof truth he may have learned beyond these fun-damentals—and indeed help others to appreciat ethem also- 4but, where there is a difference o fopinion, let Christian toleranee govern .

If our petty views lead us to be intolerant o fothers, it may be good evidence that our views ar ewrong ; but whether right or wrong, Christiantolerance must dictate our course of action towar dothers—else we can have no assurance of an abun-dant entrance into the Kingdom .

A frank, earnest discussion of any Biblical topi ccannot help but he profitable to those who parti-cipate in it . In all study of the Bible, we shoul dseek to understand one another's viewpoint, rathe rthan to put up a test of fellowship, which acts as abarrier to the free interchange of Christian thought .If we do seek, in the spirit of love, to understandothers, we will find that most of our misunder-standings and the cause for divisions will vanish ,very readily. In many cases, we probably will findthat our only difference of viewpoint has been i nthe use or misuse, of words .

Let us, dear brethren, seek to be truly Christlik ein our following with each other . Let us be will-ing to admit that there is a possibility of our bein gwrong sometimes ; and at the same time, let us atleast be respectful of the sincere views which othe rconsecrated brethren may deem so important .Whether we can agree with them or not, let us betolerant of their opinions and not condemn themto oblivion because they -cannot agree with ou rviews .

IT WAS late in the afternoon of a day in Nisan ,the Jewish month which corresponds with our

April, when two men turned from the gate o fJerusalem toward the open country that lay befor ethem. The sun was dipping toward the hills tha tlay to the westward . The mount of Zion lay behind .The fragrant air spoke of spring and returning life .

The travellers evidently had no mind for the

things around them . Their thoughts were absorbe dby some matter of grave and weighty import .They conversed earnestly as they walked along .It is generally thought that the name of one o fthem was Simon Peter, and that of the other ,Cleopas . They had been much agitated of late . In-deed, they had been terribly depressed . It seemedto them that the bottom, had gone completely out

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The men were talking about one Jesus, who mthey had known for some years. He had been aprophet, one having miraculous powers at his com-mand. He had done such deeds as they had neverbeheld before or even heard tell. Moreover, He ha dbeen gracious and mild, and had drawn men toHim by the power of love . He had gone about do-ing good ; He had healed hundreds of persons af-flicted with disease ; He had raised three personsfrom the dead ; He had spoken as never manspoke ; He had seemed like some visitant from theinfinite reaches of the universe, that had broughta glorious blaze of light athwart the heavens, andthen had vanished into the depths of oblivion .

Overtaken by a StrangerThe road which the men were following was on e

of the most dreary and desolate in all Palestine .At first they had to pass some distance over blea kand barren levels of sun-dried earth and slabs ofrock. Probably it was somewhere on the cheerles smountain ridge that they saw a stranger comin gup from behind to quietly join their company. Atthis point they may have been discussing the Messi-anic hopes which they and their nation had so longheld ; for they were Jews . They were so absorbedin their sad thoughts, and the stranger was sogentle in his approach, that they kept right on wit htheir conversation as though they were still alone .And the observing traveller, who had come to b ewith them, saw that their faces were sad, and tha ttheir words came from sorrow-stricken and bur-dened hearts .

The stranger gently drew from, the two the causeof their grief, and soon entered into their feeling swith so much understanding and sympathy, that, a sthey listened to his wonderful delineation ofprophecy, their hearts burned within them . Theymust have wondered who this stranger could be ,but they did not interrupt his gracious words t oask. As they walked along, they heard his step upo nthe stony road ; he climbed the steep places, h emoved with cautious tread while climbing the slip-pery path just as they did .

Nothing in his dress or manner or person ledthem to suspect that he could be anyone else thanone of the pilgrims returning from the feast t osome distant home. We can picture them as the ypass over the rocky plateau immediately west ofJerusalem, on what is now the Ranted road . Theyturn to take their last look of the city, and per-haps brush away a silent tear at fresh remembranc eof all they have seen and suffered there withinthe last few days . They cross the dry bed of atorrent, and then climb slowly up a winding pathcut in the limestone rock to the crest of anotherledge. This height is no sooner gained than theybegin another descent, again to climb a steep, wind-ing track over stones and ledges .

The Stranger Discloses His IdentityThe sun has gone down behind the gray hill-tops ,

and the shadows of evening have begun to deepe nin the narrow valleys and the laborers have lef tthe terraced orchards and vineyards on the hill -side before the two reach their destination an dthink to ask the stranger to abide with them fo rthe night.

And now the stranger is bidding them adieu.Evidently he is going to still further pursue hi sjourney. But they urge him to stay, and this h econsents to do . Thereupon the three enter into thedwelling house. The evening meal is prepared, andthey sit down to the repast . The discourse of theafternoon is continued. And now they begin to seesomething. This is no ordinary stranger. This manknows more than anyone whom they have evermet. And there seems something familiar abou thim. Those eyes, where have they seen them before ?Those hands? That face? That noble brow ?

A miracle is wrought before their eyes . Nowthey know Him. It is He. It is their Lord . It isJesus, who was crucified . It is the one whom theyplaced in the tomb . He had said something aboutthe third day, or three days ; but they had notrealized the meaning of His words . And now Hesat before them. No longer in the tomb, He wasalive . He was raised from the dead. Then whilethey are trying to collect their amazed senses; theyare gazing only upon the walls of the room . Thereis no one there but themselves . Jesus, the resur-rected One, has vanished out of their sight .

And now these two brethren understand why th estranger was able to present the divine Word withsuch clarity, force and beauty as to cause theirhearts to burn with fresh love and zeal and hope .Who indeed should be able to understand theprophecies as He understood them? He had goneback to the very beginning and had expoundedthe glorious plan of God concerning Himself ; howthat the prophets had written concerning His deathand His resurrection, and how that in all thing sthe Scriptures must be fulfilled .

But the fact that He is now alive outshines everyother fact to them . They knew He was wonderful ;but just how wonderful, they had not fully realized .But now a new light is borne in upon their con-ciousness . . A new, wondrous and mighty hop esends to them the strength of gladness hithert oundreamed . They will never forget the Emmau swalk. They will never forget that Jesus is aliveand lives forevermore .

A great joy has filled the hearts of these twodisciples, their weariness and discouragement aregone. They have no thought of hunger or of rest .They must hurry back to tell the tidings to theirbrethren in the city . In a moment they are outagain upon the stony path with their faces towardJerusalem. It is now night and the moon whichwas full four days ago, has not yet risen. But allis light in the glad hearts of the disciples who hav eseen their risen Lord. The sad looks and sorrow-ful words with which they went out in the brightafternoon are all exchanged for exultations of joy,

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But they carried in their hearts, tidings of th egreatest victory ever gained in this world—the vic-tory over death, the unbarring of the gates of thegrave for the whole human race. They were bearer sof the best tidings that human lips ever told . Theycould then testify to a fact upon which all thehopes of the human family for eternity must de-pend .

And so, if we would have His special favor an dinstruction, and have our hearts burn with th espirit of truth, we should expect similar experiencesalong similar lines to those observed in connectionwith the two who went to Emmaus .

Lessons for Us AllThose of us who have read this Bible stor y

of the Emmaus walk—have we followed along th esame way? Have we met the Master and heardHim :expound the Scriptures to us? Have we in-vited Him in to the home of our hearts, and ha sHe spread a feast for us, such as He said He woul ddo in the words, "Behold, I stand at the door andknock : if any man hear my voice, and open thedoor, I will come in to him and will sup with him ,and he with me"? —Rev . 3 :20 .

Back over the stretch of nearly two thousandyears, this sweet story of the Word of God come shome to our hearts and minds . We realize that Hewho is with us is no stranger, but is our risenLord. He secured the price for us because He lovedus ; and, thank God, He still loves us . His love isunfailing, even as is the Father's eternal love . TheEmmaus way causes our hearts to burn within us,,even as did the hearts of the two disciples of yore.And the joy that has come to us has come to stay.It is a joy that will grow richer and fuller untilit lands us in that endless ocean of joy up yonde rin the heavenly Kingdom, if we but remain trueto Him.

The Value of Praye rPart Si x

(Continued from May 1st Issue)

ONE of the outstanding values of prayer is thewholesome spiritual effect it has upon th e

mind and heart of the individual who sincerelypractices it . That God answers the sincere, intel-ligent prayers of His people there is no doubt ; butin addition to this, the reflex action of sincer eprayer in the life of the one who habitually praysis also of great importance in promoting spiritua lgrowth .

The Lord has given explicit instructions, yea ,commands, to the Christian, to the .effect that he isto love even his enemies, and to pray for those wh odespitefully use him and persecute him ; and allearnest Christians will endeavor to obey these com-mands, willingly and joyfully . Indeed, so importantis this phase of the Christian life that Jesus, i nHis model prayer, made the Christian 's own stand-ing before the Lord dependent upon its being car-ried out : "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgivethose who trespass against us . "

The imperfect human heart is "deceitful abov eall things, and desperately wicked," says th eprophet . Because of this fact it evidently is quit epossible for one to think that he is dealing wit hhis enemies in full harmony with the divine la wof the new creation as it is laid down by the Lor dand yet be deceiving himself ; but when His re-quirements are made a vital part of the prayer -life of the Christian, it minimizes to a great extent ,the possibility of self-deception . One may falselyreason with himself, and also deal with others wit ha certain measure of insincerity or hypocrisy ; but

if one has any faith in the Lord at all, he willendeavor to be very careful to see that what h etakes to the throne of grace represents the sincer edesire of his heart .

One would. need to be very brazen to ask God' sblessing upon his enemies, unless he truly desire dto see them blessed. And when his own standin gbefore the Lord is made dependent upon his wil-lingness to extend the same mercy toward other sthat he desires for himself, he should be carefu lindeed not to harbor ill-will toward anyone, eventoward those who are decidedly unfriendly towar dhim .

Character Reflected in PrayerNot only does prayer itself have a very whole -

some effect in the lives of God's people, but th etrue heart condition of such is accurately reflecte din their habits of prayer . If one's desires are selfish ,this selfishness will influence his habits of prayer .If, on the contrary, divine love—unselfishness-reigns supreme in the heart, the prayers that ema-nate from that heart will be unselfish. '

We have a very noble example of unselfish praye rby an unselfish man, in the account of Moses' peti-tion to God to save the nation of Israel and t oblot him out instead. Moses had always possesse da fervent love for his people, and entertained adeep desire to see them liberated from Egyptia nbondage. Although reared under the protection ofEgyptian royalty, and given all the advantages ofeducation and culture that was then available,

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1 9nevertheless, his unselfish devotion to his people ,and his faith in the God of Israel, prompted himto turn his back upon a life of ease, luxury andhonor, that he might be of service to his less fortu-nate brethren. And even if he could do nothingto help them, he chose "rather to suffer afflictionwith the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure sof sin for a season."—Hebr . 11 :24-28 .

When Moses was forty years of age he bestire dhimself to do something to relieve the burden tha thad been placed upon his brethren in Egypt . Butthat early effort was abortive ; it was prematurenot only in God's plan but also from the standpoin tof his own preparation for so great a task . Beforehe could be used as God desired to use him it wa sfirst necessary that he have long years of disciplin-ary training. He fled to Midian, and there, in thesolitude of his work as shepherd on the farm ofhis father in law, he learned the necessary lesson sof humility and trust before the Lord . There helearned also to be patient, and to endure severetrials and disappointment . Indeed, he learned al lthe lessons that are so important and necessary fo rone who would be greatly used of the Lord .

Moses Prepared by ExperienceFor an additional forty long years thus di d

Moses wait, until finally the Lord appeared to hi mand gave him His commission to go forward . It waswhile Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, hi sfather-in-law, that the Lord appeared unto him inthe burning bush, and told him of His intention t odeliver the Israelites from Egyptian bondage . UntoMoses God now said : " Come now therefore, and Iwill send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest brin gforth the children of Israel out of Egypt ." ButMoses was no longer the self-confident man tha the had been forty years before ; so he answere dthe Lord and said : "Who am I, that I should g ounto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth thechildren of Israel out of Egypt?"—Exod. 3 :1-11 .

It was God's reassuring promise, in verse 12, thatcaused the meek Moses to take a lively interest i nthe divine commission that had been given to him ,and to .enquire further for the details of the planwhich God had arranged for him in connectionwith the great task he was to undertake. Moseswas still unselfishly interested in his brethren, butnow he wished to be certain that he had the Lord'ssupport in any effort he might make to effect thei rdeliverance. And God was pleased with his humili-ty, and gave him the necessary instruction ; andthe work immediately got under way.

Trusting in the Lord for the wisdom and help ,Moses thus undertook the task which the Lor dhad placed upon him . In due course, the childrenof Israel were led out of Egypt ; and furthermore ,every provision was made by the Lord for thei rcontinued blessing . But they were a rebellious ,stiff-necked people . It seemed difficult for them toexercise faith in the true, invisible God ; hence ,even while Moses was up in the mount receivingthe divine Law, they quickly set to worE and

erected a golden calf as a visible idol before whic hthey could express their worship .

The Lord called Moses' attention to this, andsaid : "They have turned aside quickly out of theway which I commanded them : they have made thema molten calf, and have worshipped it, and havesacrificed there unto, and said, These be thy gods ,0 Israel, which have brought thee up out of th eland of Egypt ." (Exod . 32 :8.) Then the Lord tol dMoses that, because of Israel's sin, He intende dto destroy the entire nation ; and He now proposedto Moses that after doing this, He would make aa great nation out of him, to take the place of therejected nation of Israel .

What a temptation! Surely, here seemed to b ean opportunity for justifiable selfishness . How manyleaders of God's people there have been, who, unde rsimilar circumstances would gladly have accepte dthe Lord 's offer, and would have been genuinelypleased if the Lord intended to reject others an dhonor them instead. But Moses was a true man o fGod. He had reached a great crisis in his life .What should he do? Like all true men of God,Moses prayed ; and in his prayer, we have one ofthe grandest examples of unselfishness that is givenus in the Bible or anywhere else . Moses knew noth-ing about Jesus' model prayer ; yet, nevertheless ,his -whole heart's desire was in harmony with theunselfish sentiments expressed therein . And aboveall, even as Jesus taught His disciples, he praye dfor the vindication of God 's great name. Let usnote his prayer, in part, as recorded in Exodus32 :11, 12 .

" And Moses besought the Lord his God, an dsaid, Lord, why doth Thy wrath wax hot agains tThy people, which Thou hast brought forth outof the land of Egypt with great power, and witha mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptian sspeak, and say, For mischief did He bring them ou tto slay them in th,e mountains, and to consume the mfrom the face of .the earth? Turn from Thy fierc ewrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people ."

Jealous for God's Good Nam eIn the prayer we have reflected a true desire t o

honor Jehovah's name . But Moses didn't cease hi seffort and dismiss his responsibility by simply tak-ing the matter to . the Lord in prayer. He camedown from the mount, took certain necessary step sfor the purification of Israel, and then went bac kagain to the Lord in prayer. We quote : "AndMoses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, thi speople have sinned a great sin, and have madethem gods of gold . Yet now, if Thou wilt forgivetheir sin— ; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, ou tof Thy book which Thou hast written ."—Exod.32 :31, 32 .

Here indeed, was prayer backed up by action .Here was a leader of God's people who was soconcerned about the honor of God 's name, and sointerested in the people whom he was serving, thathe himself was willing to be blotted out of existenc erather than to have reproach come upon the God

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THE RANSOM"Even as the Son of Alan came . . . to give His life a ransom for many."—Matt . zo:a8

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CHOSE who would appreciate the beauties o f'CHOSErevelation as found in the Bible mus t

first recognize the fact that the entire plan of hu-man salvation from sin and death is based uponthe meritorious death of Jesus as the Redeemer .While nearly all wh oknow the story of th elife and death of Je-sus are willing to con-cede that much goo dwill result to those whoseek to copy His lif eand teachings in ' theirown everyday affairs ,pet, from the Divinestandpoint, much morethan this is implied bythe doctrines of Chris-tianity. Although man yare quick to argue tha ta God of love wouldnot demand a humansacrifice in order t oappease His w r a t. h ,such lack of correc treasoning is due to animproper understand-ing of the Divine pur-poses associated withthis sacrifice, and o fthe length and breadthand height and depthof the Divine love andwisdom that it repre-sents .

One of the funda-mental causes of fail-ure to recognize thereal beauties of t h eRansom has been thealmost universal mis-conception that is heldconcerning death it -self . While death is oneof the commones tthings among men, with evidences of it manifes ton every hand, yet few realize that the undertaker ' ssign, the funeral procession and the graveyard, ar ebut mute evidences of the need of a Redeemer .The false theory to the effect that death is but th egateway to some other sphere of life, voids thedoctrine of the -Ransom by denying the reality of

death. If that which is made so real to us by the -visit of the undertaker is but the natural termi-nation of a material existence here on earth, to b efollowed by life on some other plane, then the deat hof Jesus, also, could be nothing else than a lik e

termination of a natu-ral experience tha tproperly belonged t oHim as He progressedthrough His series oflife cycles.

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• heavenly plane or on eof torment in hell ; but,rather, as the means

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• of Jesus, stated em- -phatically that unlessChrist be raised fro m

• the dead, then thereis no hope of salvation,and that those who

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a hope of salvationthrough Christ, hav eperished. (1 Cor. 15 :12-26 .) In this passage ,the Apostle also em-phasizes the fact thatdeath is an enemy, and

that it was in order that mankind might be de -livered from the clutches of this monstrous enem ythat Christ died as the Redeemer . Death has reignedover humanity for more than six thousand years ,causing suffering and distress on every hand ; butwhen the merit of the death of Jesus shall hav ebeen made available for all, there will be no more

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"His workmanship ;" its construction has been in progres sthroughout the Gospel Age-ever since Christ became the world ' sRedeemer and Chief Corner Stone of His Temple, through which ,when finished, God's blessing shall come " to all people ", andthey find access to Him.—x Cor. 3 :16, 17 ; Eph. 2 :20 ; Gen .28 :14 ; Gal . 3 :29 .

That meantime the chiseling, shaping and polishing of consecrate dbelievers in Christ's Atonement for sin, progresses ; and whe nthe last of these "living stones" , "Elect and precious", shallhave been made ready, the great Master Workman will brin gall together in the First Resurrection ; and the Temple shall

•be filled with His Glory, and be the meeting place between Go dand men throughout the Millennium .—Rev. 15 :5-8 .

That the Basis of Hope, for the Church and the World, lies in• the fact that "Jesus Christ, by the Grace of God, tasted deat h• for every man," "a Ransom for all," and will be "the true Light

which hghteth every man that cometh into the world, " "in due time ."• Heb. 2 :9 ; John 1 :9 ; I Tim. 2 :5, 6 .• rhat the Hope of the Church is that she may be like her Lord ,• " see Him as He is," be "partaker of the Divine nature," an d• share His glory as His joint-heir .—I John 3 :2 ; John 17 :24 ;• Rom. 8 :17 ; z Pet . 1 :4 .• That the present mission of the Church is the perfecting of th e• saints for the future work of service : to develop in herself every• grace ; to be God' s witness to the world ; and to prepar e• to be kings and priests in the next Age .—Eph . 4 :12 ; Matt.

24 :14 ; Rev . 1 :6 ; zo :6 .• That the hope for the World lies in the blessings of knowledg e• and opportunity to be brought to dl by Christ' s Millennial King-• dom—the Restitution of all that was lost in Adam, to all the

willing and obedient, at the hands of their Redeemer and Hi s• glorified Church— when all the wilfully wicked will be destroyed.

—Acts 3 :19-23 ; Isa . 35 .We affirm the pre-existence of Jesus as the mighty Word (Logo s

—spokesman), "the beginning of the creation of God," "the firs t• born of every creature," the active agent of the Heavenl y• Father, Jehovah, in all the work of creation . Without Him• was not anything made that was made ."—Rev . 3 :14 ; Col. 1 :15 ;• John i :3.• We affirm that the Word (Logos) was made flesh—became th e• Babe of Bethlehem—thus becoming the Man Jesus, "holy ,• harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners ." As we affirm th e• humanity of Jesus, we equally affirm the Divinity of Christ• "God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name

which is"above every name."—Heb . 7 :26 ; Phil . e :g .We acknowledge that the personality of the Holy Spirit is the

Father and the Son ; that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both ,and is manifested in all who receive the begetting of the Hol ySpirit and thereby become sons of God .—John 1 :13 ; I Pet.1 :3 .

We affirm the resurrection of Christ—that He was put to deathin flesh but quickened in Spirit . We deny that He was raise din the flesh, and challenge any statement to that effect as beingunscriptural.—e Pet . 3 :18 ; 2 Cor. 3 :17 ; x Cor. 15 :8 ; Acts26 :13-15 .

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One of the best ways of obtaining a clearunderstanding of the fact and philosophy o fthe Ransom, as the subject is presented in th eBible, is to take into consideration the sig-nificance of the various titles applied to theRedeemer. Many titles are given to Him inthe Bible, but space will not permit us hereto consider more than four ; namely, "Th eLogos," " The Second, Adam," " The Ever-lasting Father" and " The Mediator ." In an-cient times, and particularly in the case o fmany of the characters appearing in theBible, special consideration was given, whenchoosing their names, to their significance asrespects the person to whom they were to begiven ; and so we find that each of the name sand titles given to the Redeemer signifies som eparticular truth in connection with the pur-poses of Jehovah, which purposes were, an dare, to be accomplished by Him. Although thetitle "Logos" is mentioned only in the Ne wTestament, yet we are given to understan dclearly that it applied to the beloved Son ofGod from the very beginning of His existence .Nor is this title found in the Common Version trans-lation of the Bible, it having been hidden by thetranslators by being made to read, " Word." Logosis a Greek word and is used always as a title, forwhich reason it should have been left untranslated .

As has been pointed out in previous articles, th etitle "Logos" was applied, in ancient times, to on ewho was appointed to be the King's mouthpiece ,especially on occasions when a proclamation of greatimportance was to be made to the people . At suchtimes, it was customary for the King to be con-cealed behind a lattice, in front of which wouldstand his mouthpiece, the "Logos." The Kingwould communicate his message to the "Logos, "who, in turn, would proclaim it to those assemble dbefore him, (See illustration herewith.) The titl e"Logos, " therefore, is seen very clearly to applyto one who speaks for and represents another . Inthe first chapter of John 's Gospel, this title (whic his there mistranslated "Word") is applied to th eSon of Jehovah. In this passage, we are told thatthe "Logos" was the One used by Jehovah in all

21the creative work : " Without Him ("The Logos" )was not anything made that was made ." (John 1 :3)Undoubtedly it was to the "Logos" that God said ,"Let -us make man in our image ." (Gen . 1 :26.) Howappropriate it was, therefore, that this same belovedSon, who had so faithfully carried out every detailof the creative work in complete harmony with th eFather's instructions, should have been the One t ocome to earth to continue to carry out the purposesof Jehovah in connection with the redemption o fHis human creatures who had fallen into sin anddeath .

In the work of creation, the "Logos" inter-preted the mighty power of Jehovah ; whereas incoming to earth to be man's Redeemer, He becam ethe interpreter of Divine love for a sin-cursed race .(John 3 :16.) He came to earth in order to bring life .

"The Second Adam "The first human creature of Jehovah was named

Adam, which name was subsequently made to applyboth to Adam and his wife . (Gen. 5 :2.) To thisperfect pair, God gave the command to multiply andfill the earth. No thought of death, as affecting eithe r

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He was "made flesh," (i.e ., He was a perfect man) ,in order that He might give Himself a Ransom forthe perfect man Adam who had forfeited life be-cause of sin. By virtue of this, it could truly be saidthat " in Him was life ; and the life was the ligh tof men" (John 1 :4) meaning to say that Jesus, b ythe Father's gracious provision, will make the gif tof everlasting life available to all mankind, thu srevealing to the peoples the riches of Divine love .Fora race of beings who, hitherto, have known onl ysuffering and death, this gift will be, indeed, a won-derful revelation of light . How appropriate is th etitle " Logos" when, from this standpoint, it i sapplied to the Redeemer ! How clearly the completedwork of Redemption will sound forth the praises ofthe Eternal God!

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T H Ethemselves or their children, entered their minds ,except that God had told them that if they disobeye dHis law, they would die . Perfect health and everlast-ing life upon a perfect earth was the prospect tha tlay before them, this being also their expectationfor their children . It is pertinent here to observ ethat the act of begetting and bringing forth chil-dren was not the sin of our first parents that alien-ated them from God. They had been commanded soto do by their Creator, because it was His purpos ethat the earth should be filled with a perfect an dhappy human family fully devoted to Him, which ,by remaining obedient to Him, would have continue dto enjoy everlasting life .

When Jehovah God issues a command, He in -tends that it shall be obeyed ; this fact alone bein gsufficient assurance that the earth will yet be fille dwith a race of human beings who will be as per-fect as was Adam, and who will have no thoughtof sickness or death to mar their happiness . But howcan this be, seeing that our first parents disobeye dthe Divine law and, as a result, forfeited their rightto live? This question is answered by the Apostle ,when he states that " as in Adam all die, - even so inChrist shall all be made alive." (1 Cor . 15 :22 .) Inorder further to clarify the thought, the Apostle, i nthe same chapter, (verses 45 and 47) refers to Chris tas the second, or last Adam ; hence, this title em-phasizes the particular fact that the entire race ofAdam is to be regenerated by the Redeemer . Thesignificance of this title is very closely associatedwith the one given in the ninth chapter of Isaiah ,in which the Redeemer is referred to a s

"The Everlasting rather"The first Adam's children were not born unti l

after he had transgressed the Divine law ; hence, be-ing a sinner himself and on the road to death, h ewas incapable of transmitting anything other tha nimperfect life to his offspring, by reason of whichthe entire human race has been born in a dyin gcondition . Some live a little longer than others, but ,ultimately, all find the end of the way in death . Suchare the wages of sin ; but " the gift of God is eterna llife, through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Rom. 6 :23 . )This means that the sin-cursed race will, throughChrist, be restored to life—life that will be eterna l(everlasting) for all who will accept the gift . Thisfunction of giving life to the dying race will be th ework of the Second Adam. The first Adam was ableto transmit only a very small portion of life to his

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offspring, and even this was marred and imperfec tand, hence, soon ends in death : but the second Adamis able, when the due time comes, to offer the gif tof everlasting life to all ; and so, to all who accept ,He will become " The Everlasting Father . "

The word Father means one who gives life . AnEverlasting Father, therefore, would be One whogives everlasting life ; and this is the glorious giftthat the Second Adam will offer to the whole worl dof mankind. It will be this phase of the Redeemer' swork that will rid the entire earth of every hospital ,every drug-store, every funeral parlor and everygraveyard, and of all things else that are associate dwith sin and death. From this standpoint alone, itcan be seen that the Ransom Sacrifice of Jesus is amarvellous demonstration of Jehovah's love, whichwas gladly participated in by His beloved Son, who ,as the interpreter ( " Logos") of His love, delightedto be the active agent of His Father, both in th ework of creation and in the work of redemption .

"The Mediator"The mediatorial office of the Redeemer is brought

to our attention by the Apostle Paul in his letterto Timothy . (1 Tim. 2 :5 .) In this letter, the Apostlemakes it clear that Jesus' office of Mediator is basedupon the fact that He gave Himself a Ransom fo rall . The work of a Mediator is that of making peac ebetween two parties who are estranged from eac hother . In the case of the human race, all wer eestranged from God by wicked works, and con-demned to death because .'of imperfection . TheRansom Sacrifice of Jesus paid the penalty of death ,by virtue of which He, as Mediator, will effect acomplete reconciliation between God and men. Thi swill be a very important part of the work of sal-vation from death, because no creature on an yplane of existence can have everlasting life unles she is in harmony with God . This fact is stated clear-ly by the Psalmist, when he says : "In His favor islife ." (Psalm 30 :5.) When our first parents trans-gressed the Divine law and were driven from th eGarden of Eden, they lost also the favor of theirCreator ; but the Redeemer, as Mediator, will lea dhumanity back into harmony with God . As the" Second Adam" and "The Everlasting Father, "He will bestow upon all the gift of everlasting life ;—and then "there shall be no more death, neithersorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any mor epain : for the former things are (will then have)passed away ." —Rev. 21 :4.

What is Truth ?( Continued from last issue )

M PON a solid rock foundation, Christ Jesus ha sbuilt His church as a repository of Truth ,

and He assured the Apostle Peter that even th egates of oblivion could not prevail against it . Tothis church class, He has made clear His Father' spurposes—not only His purposes for them, butalso for the world of mankind . Jesus came to giveHis life, "the Just for the unjust ;" hence we areassured that although "in Adam all die, even so in

Christ shall all be made alive" again .—1 Cor .15 :22 .

Jesus' own resurrection was tangible proof of thedivine power to raise the dead ; and therefore w ecan be sure that it likewise can bring forth, in du etime, "all that are in the graves," even as Jesu spromised. We can also be sure that He has th epower and will accomplish the foreordained tas kof selecting and developing this Church Class to

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23be associated with Himself in the future Kingdomwork, and that He will positively bring to a fullend "this present evil world" and will become thegreat King and Priest of a regenerated, reinvigor-ated, restored and perfected race, which shall liv ehere on earth forever in a perfected physical envi-ronment .

Such a happy race of human beings, no longerharassed by Satan, whose destruction is assure d(Hebrews 2 :14 ) ; a race freed from the pangs o fsorrow and death, by having been granted a per-petuation of life and a perfect mental poise con-formable to all the divine attributes, decorum an dlaws of action, will, indeed, be a monumental dis-play not only of God 's great power, but also o fHis great wisdom and beneficence .Wisdom and Truth in Action

Earthly monarchs have governed by violence o rthreats of force ; and they think they are wise ;but God was wise enough to know how to tak ea rebellious race and make them over into happysubjects, willingly assenting to His righteous will ,because of the mighty attractive force of His grea tlove for them. That indeed is TRUTH in action .And the church, if it prove faithful to God nowby walking humbly before Him, will be countedworthy to share in the great work of reconcili-ation until it is completed . If we keep our heartsopen to Him, we shall find that "the love of Chi is tconstraineth us" more and more to do His blesse dwill .

We are told the Pharisees of Jesus' day mur-mured among themselves, `Observe how idle all ou refforts are ! The world has gone after Him!' Th epeople had seen that Jesus had performed th emighty miracle of raising Lazarus from the slee pof death, and they regarded Him with awe . ThePharisees, however, were jealous, because theyrealized that the crowd was now turning from themand would no longer believe their traditions an dguesses if this Teacher continued to intrust them .Hence they plotted His destruction .

But they were powerless to prevent His resur-rection and exaltation . But here again was a de-monstration of the Truth of another of the Master'sunparalleled insights into the hearts of men. Hehad said, "He who holds his life dear, is destroyin git ; but he who makes his life of no account in thi sworld shall keep it to the life of the ages ." (John12 :26 Wey. ) He gave His life freely for us, andwas rewarded with the divine nature . Thus withknowledge the " word. which had come in th eflesh, and lived for a time in our midst," prove dmost practically that "He is full of grace andtruth . "—John 1 :14, Weymouth .

Toward the end Jesus declared, "Now is my soulfull of trouble ; and what shall I say? Father ,save me from this hour . But for this purpose haveI come to this hour. Father, glorify Thy name ."(John 12 :27, Wey.) Wrapped up in this simpl estatement is the very essence of Truth—complet econformity to reality ; not a yielding to huma nwish, preference, safety, sustenance, or desire fo rexistence, but a willingness to drink the cup to

its very dregs in order that His Father's nam emay be glorified. The crowd thought they heardthunder but others said an angel spoke, when thes ewords, of triumphant truth fell upon the ears ofthe bystanders : "I have glorified it, and will glorifyit again." (John 12 :28 Wey .) Yes, God's name wasindeed glorified in Jesus' life and death, as wel las in His subsequent resurrection.They Preferred Darkness to Ligh t

"And this is the test by which men are judged :the light has come into the world, and men love dthe darkness more than they loved the light, be -cause their deeds were wicked . For every wron gdoer hates the light, and does not come to th elight, for fear his actions should be exposed andcondemned. But he who does what is honest andright comes to the light, in order that his action smay be plainly shown to have been done in God . "—John 3 :19-21, W,ey .

Jesus, the Light of the world, told the peopleshortly before His death : "Be faithful to the lightthat you have, for fear darkness should overtak eyou ; for a man who walks in -the dark does no tknow where he is going. In the degree that you-have light, believe in the light, so that you may be-come sons of light." (John 12 :35-36, Wey.) Butthe people did not heed His admonition. They loveddarkness rather than light . Darkness ! How canwe avoid it? By always admitting facts as the yare encountered, viewing the reality, and not fearin gthe consequences of our honest . convictions. "Butbecause of the Pharisees, they (the ` best people' )did not avow their belief, for fear they should b eshut out from the synagogue . For they loved theglory that comes from men rather than the glorythat comes from God ."—John 12 :43, Wey.

Intolerance ! Fear of men ! Shut out of the syna-gogue ! and the world has not changed much sincethat -time. Let us search our beings and with in-tegrity permit only an appreciation of realities t oinfluence our decisions . Then, and not until then ,shall we know the truth, and be able to bear ef-fective testimony to the truth, and thereby glorifyour Father which is in heaven, to whom all glor ybelongs. The great battle today is Truth vs . Error,and the truth of God's Word will be upheld byevery real possessor of that truth ; that is certain !If we really have the truth deep in our hearts, wewill surmount all obstructions and turn a deafear to all obstructionists, in our sincere urge toglorify our Heavenly Father.

Jesus cried aloud, "I have come like a light int othe world, in order that no one who believes i nMe may remain in the dark ." (John 12 :26, Wey . )The prophecies of the Bible are founded upon fac tand reality ; and when the facts are known and th erealities bared, the import of the prophetic utter-ances cause our hearts to burn within us, just a sthe disciples experienced when " Jesus opened upto them the Scriptures ." The following paragraphfrom the Divine Plan of the Ages is to the point :"Nor should we suppose that prophecy was givento merely satisfy curiosity concerning the future .Its object evidently is to make the consecrated

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T H E D A W Nchild of God acquainted with His Father's plans ,and to enable him to regard both the present an dthe future from God's standpoint . When thus in-terested in the Lord's work, he may serve withthe spirit and with understanding also ; not as aservant merely, but as a child and heir . "Jesus a Mighty Witness for Truth

"You sent to John, and he both was and stillis a witness to the truth . But the testimony on mybehalf which I accept is not from man ; though Isay all this in order that you may be saved . Hewas the lamp that burned and shone, and for a timeyou were willing to be gladdened by his light. Butthe testimony which I have is weightier than tha tof John : for the work the Father has assigned t ome, for me to bring to completion the very workwhich I am doing—affords testimony concernin gMe that the Father has sent Me . And the Fatherwho sent Me, He has given testimony concerningMe.

" You search the Scriptures, because that yo usuppose in them you will find the life of the ages ;and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony con-cerning Me ; and yet you are unwilling to com eto Me that you may have life . I do not accept glor yfrom man ; but I know you well, and I know thatin your hearts you do not really love God . I havecome as My Father 's representative, and you donot receive Me. If someone else comes represent -

ing only himself, him you will receive . How is itpossible for you to believe, while you receive gloryfrom one another and have no desire for the glor ythat comes from the only God?"—John 5 :33-44,Wey .

A witness to the truth indeed . "But the testimonywhich I have is weightier . . .and it is those Scripturesthat yield testimony concerning Me ." Jesus prove dthat He had been sent on a special mission fromJehovah, by the very work which He did . He didnot seek to be a leader in ' Judah, but spent Hi stime quietly laying the foundations of an inde-structible congregation which His Father hadplanned would be an instrument in the progressiv eadvancement of truth, the culmination of whic hwould see a restored race of human creatures en-joying all the provisions which Providence designe dfor their everlasting happiness .

In Him was truth, because in Him was reality .a

We must be like Him so far as is possible . Ourposition as followers of Christ places us all asactors upon the great stage of human endeavor ;and the general course of our actions is determine dby our willingness or unwillingness, to abide b ythe truth. The truth on any subject is an ex-pression of reality—and an expression of the basi crealities of life is possible only through possessio nof the truth of God's Word. The truth is light ;and where light is, darkness cannot be .

God 's Kingdom Nea r(Continued from page so )

found in Haggai 2 : 7 . The complete verse saysthat God will shake all nations, and that then th edesire of all nations shall come . We are now in theshaking time, and soon will follow the promise dblessings of the Kingdom. Another interesting pro-mise of the Kingdom is found in the 25th of Isaiah .By the way, I have it here in my Bible. Would youlike to read it ?

Ernest : Indeed I should : "And in this Kingdo mshall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people afeast of fat things, and He will swallow up deathin victory ; and the Lord God will wipe away tear sfrom all faces, and it shall be said in that day,Lo, this is our God, we have waited for Him, and H ewill save us ; we will be glad and rejoice in His sal-vation." Frank, I certainly am glad that the Lor dwill save us ; because, otherwise, as I said in thebeginning, I don't know what the world is cclm-ing to .

Frank : Yes, Ernest, the hope given to us in th eBible is a glorious one . Try to visualize the fondestdesires of all your dreams, and you will still fallfar short of the realities of the Kingdom that is t oreplace our present civilization. Nor will it dependupon man. It has been vouchsafed by the promisesof God, and guaranteed by His almighty power.Nearly two thousand years ago He sent His soninto the world, and at that time the angels an-nounced, "Peace on earth, and good will among

men." This was a prophecy which is now nearin gfulfillment . The mission of Jesus at His first ad -vent was to die as a ransom for the people, butHe returns in power and great glory to establishHis kingdom, which will assure the promised peac eand good will among men . And so, Ernest, whil eAllenby and others see that civilization is doomed ,it is in the Bible alone that we can find a satis-factory answer to what will follow its downfall ,and you must agree that the prospect is a gloriousone .

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Mark 15 :22-39 : And they bring Him unto the plac eGolgotha, which is, being interpreted the place of the skull .

And they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh :but He received it not .

And when they crucified Him, they parted His garments ,casting lots upon them, what every man should take .

And it was the third hour, and they crucified Him.And the superscription of His accusation was writte n

over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.And with Him they crucify two thieves ; the

His right hand, and the other on His left.And the Scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And H e

was numbered with the transgressors.And they that passed by railed on Him, wagging thei r

heads, and saying, Ah, Thou that destroyest the temple,and buildest it in three days,

Save Thyself, and come down from the cross .Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among them -

selves with the scribes, He saved others ; Himself Hecannot save.

Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from th ecross, that we may see and believe . And they that wer ecrucified with Him reviled Him.

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darknes sover the whole land until the ninth hour .

And. at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud- voice ,saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being in-terpreted, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me l

And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said,Behold He calleth Elias .

And one ran and filled a sponge of vinegar, and put i ton a reed and gave Him to drink, saying, Let alone ; let ussee whether Elias will come to take Him down .

And "aesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up th eghost.

And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from thetop to the bottom .

And when the centurion, which stood over against Him ,saw that He so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said ,Truly this man was the Son of God .

GOLDEN TEXT : God Commendeth his love toward us inthat when we were yet sinners, Christ died for us .—Rom . 5: 8 .

-iII N THE death of Jesus the types and shadows of some't two thousand years were fulfilled . One of these typeswas the passover lamb, and another was the Atonemen tDay offering . Comparing the type with the antitype, th eApostle Paul said : "If the blood of bulls and of goats, an dthe ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifiet hto the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall th eblood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offere dHimself without spot to God, purge your conscience fro mdead works to serve the living God?" (Heb, 9 :13, 14. )Hence the crucifixion of Jesus marked a change of dis-pensation, and His death and resurrection became the basi sof a new order of things . So the Apostle wrote : "Blottingout the handwriting of ordinances that was against us ,which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,nailing it to His cross ." —Col, 2 :14.

On the hill of Calvary, a remarkable strain of prophecywas fulfilled: Centuries before, Isaiah had written con-cerning Christ : "He was oppressed and He was afflicted ,yet He opened not his mouth : He is brought as a lamb tothe slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,so He openeth not his mouth . And He made his grave withthe wicked, and with the rich in his death ; because He

had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth ,Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him ; He hath put Hi mto grief : when Thou shalt make His soul an offering fo rsin, He shall see his seed, He shall prolong his days, an dthe pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand ." —Isaiah 53 :7, 9 10 .

We all know the wonderful story of how the Masterhad allowed himself to be taken, and even had permitte dJudas, the betrayer, to kiss him . He had rebuked Peterfor using his sword, He had been led to Herod and toPilate, had been arrayed in a purple robe as a mocker yof his claimed kingship . A crown of thorns was place don his brow, and he was ridiculed and beaten by the sol-diers . Pilate had sought to release Him, but feared a ninsurrection of the Jews . Then the rabble had cried,"Crucify Him, crucify Him, We have no king but Caesar . "

The last words of Jesus were prophesied in Psa . 22 :1 .The rending of the veil of the temple signified that wehave the privilege to "enter into the holiest by the bloodof Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath con-secrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh ."(Heb. 10 :19, 20 .) The "holiest" means heaven itself, an dthe rent veil represent the body of Jesus.

The death of Jesus as a ransom sacrifice for the huma nfamily, is one of the great fundamental doctrines of th eScriptures . Hence the Word of God says, "There is non eother name given under heaven among men whereby w emust be saved" but the name of Jesus . The cross of Calvaryis God's appointed means of salvation. It will mean theworld's deliverance from "the bondage of corruption int othe glorious liberty of the children of God" in the gran dMillennial age .

QUESTIONS :What was the necessity for the death of Jesus ?What is the philosophy of the Ransom sacrifiee tWhy was the veil of the temple rent, and what did thi s

imply ?What had Jesus meant by destroying the temple an d

building it in three days ?What place does the death of Jesus occupy in th e

doctrines of the Bible ?

Jesus Rises from the Dead71,e6eon for gune 18, 1933

Mark 16 :1-11 : And when the sabbath was past, Mar yMagdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome ,had brought sweet spices, that they might come an danoint Him ,

And very early in the morning the first day of the week ,they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun .

And they said among themselves, Who shall roll usaway the stone from the door of the sepulchre ?

And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolle daway; for it was great.

And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young ma nsitting on the right side, clothed in a loag white garment ;and they were affrighted.

And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted : ye seekJesus of Nazareth, which was crucified : He. is risen ; Heis not here : behold the place where they laid Him.

But go your way, tell His disciples and Peter that H egoeth before you into Galilee : there shall ye see Him, a sHe said unto you.

And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre ;for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any-thing to any man ; for they were afraid.

Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of th e

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week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whomHe had cast seven devils .

And she went and told them that had been with Him ,as they mourned and wept .

And they, when they had heard that He was alive, andhad been seen of her, believed not .

GOLDEN TEXT : He is risen.—Mark 16 :6.

tHE death of Jesus must have seemed, for a brie fspace of time, the greatest triumph that Satan ha d

ever achieved . The Master's execution as a malefacto rhad the appearance of tailure of the worst kind . All th eexpectations of His disciples that He would prove to b ethe deiiv erer of Israel were dashed to the ground . A pallof sorrow had settled over their spirits . Hope was torn t oshreds . It was the dark hour before the dawn . It wasdarkness unrelieved by any ray of light, though the lightwas soon to break, and their sorrow was soon to be turne dinto joy.

At the tomb, the angel said to the women : "He is nothere, but is risen, as He said ." Ah, yes, He had indee dsaid that He would rise from the dead, but how little the yhad realized the tremendous import of His words . Matthewsays that the women "departed quickly from the sepul-chre with fear and great joy ; and did run to bring Hisdisciples word." (Matt. 28 : 8 .) But the disciples believe dnot . Luke says that the words of the women seemed asidle tales . Then came Peter to the tomb to make sure ,and when he saw the linen clothes, he went away in muc hwonderment.

That same day, Jesus met two of His disciples and walk-ed with them some miles to the village of Emmaus. Heexplained to them many of the Old Testament prophecie sconcerning Himself, and pointed out that all these thing shad to be fulfilled, that Christ was to die and to rise fro mthe dead, according to the plan of the ages which God ha darranged. They had never heard the like . Their heart s"burned within them." While taking supper with themin Emmaus, Jesus suddenly vanished out of their sight .One moment He was there, and the next moment He wa sgone . Apparently He had faded away ; they could not se eHim at all .

Jesus could appear and disappear as He did, because H ewas no longer a human being. Up to the time of his death ,He had been human, but He had given up his perfec thumanity for Adam and Adam's race . In his resurrectio nJesus was a spiritual being . He could cone and go lik ethe wind. While the eleven were gathered together i nJerusalem, with the doors tightly barred, Jesus suddenlystood in their midst . They were terrified, at first, thinkin gthey saw an apparition ; but Jesus soon dispelled thei rfears by convincing them that He was the same perso nthey knew so well and with whom they had been associate dfor over three years. He had not a body like the one theyknew, for now He could assume any body . When Maryfirst saw Him, she mistook Him for the gardener—liedidn't look like the Jesus she had known .

After His resurrection, Jesus remained here on eart hfor forty days before He ascended to heaven . During tha ttime, He appeared to the disciples only about eleve ntimes, and the rest of the time He may have been nea rthem ; but they could not see Him because he was n olonger flesh and blood—He was a spirit being of the high-est order, having the divine nature.

The Apostle Paul says: "Now is Christ risen from th edead, and become a first fruit of them that slept ." ( 1Cor. 15 :20 .) Then Christ says : "I am He that liveth, andwas dead; and behold, I am alive forevermore, and hav ethe keys of hell—hades, the grave—and of death ."—Rev .1 :18 .

If Christ was the first-fruit of them that slept—all hu-manity—then previous to His time none could have ha dpart in the resurrection . While Jesus was the very firs tfruit, the church is called the first-fruits of God's creature s(James 1 :18 .) In due time, the general resurrection wil lbegin, when Jesus and the church will assist earth's millionsin their endeavor to attain everlasting life on the earth .

QUESTIONS:In the Divine plan, what is the special importance of th e

resurrection of Jesus ?Explain how it was that Jesus could appear and dis-

appear at will after His resurrection while He had no tbeen known to do so before .

What does the Apostle Paul say would be our conditionif there were no resurrection of the dead, and if Chris twere not raised?

-What is meant by the statement that Christ has th e

keys of hell (hades) and death ?What does the Apostle mean by knowing "the power o f

His resurrection"?—Phil. 3 :10 .

Jesus Our Cord and Saviour

1Leeeon for 3ttne 25, 19331 Peter 1 :39 . Blessed be the God and Father of ou r

Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant merc ybath begotten us again unto a lively hope by th eresurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead .

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and thatfadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you ,

Who are kept by the power of God through faith untosalvation ready to be revealed in the last time .

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, i fneed be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations :

That the trial of your faith, being much more preciou sthan of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire ,might be found unto praise and honor and glory at theappearing of Jesus Christ :

Whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though nowye see Him not, yet, believing, ye rejoice with joy un-speakable and full of glory :

Receiving the end or your faith, even the salvation o fyour souls .

-Heb. 1 :1=4 . Gad who at sundry times and in divers man-

ners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom

He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also H emade the worlds :

Who, being the brightness of His glory, and the expres simage of His person, and upholding all things by the wor dof His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sa tdown on the right hand of the Majesty on high ;

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hat hby inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they .GOLDEN TEXT: All power is given to me in heaven an d

in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, bap-tizing them in the name of the Father, and of theSon, and of the holy spirit: teaching them to observeall things, whatsoever I have commanded you : and lo,I am with you alway, even unto the end of the age .—Matt. 28 :18-20.

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son, says, "begotten us unto hope of life," This i sreally what the Christian has at the present time . Hencethe Apostle says, "We are saved by hope ."

The gift of immortality is to be the great reward offollowing the Master and is to be bestowed on the faith-ful members of the church in the first resurrection . It i snot possessed by any human being in the .present life .That is why Christians are said to "seek for glory andhonor and immortality, eternal life" (Rom . 2 :7), even "aninheritance incorruptible and undefiled reserved in heaven "for them. Since Jesus is said to have "brought life andimmortality to light through the gospel," there was nodirect hope of immortality held out to anyone before th efirst advent . But the death, resurrection and ascension ofJesus, and the coming of the holy spirit gave assuranc ethat "because He lives, we shall live also ."

In early times, God spoke to men by the prophets, tellingthem many things about the kingdom that He was toestablish in the future . But now, says the Apostle, H e"hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son." Howdoes Jesus speak to us? He speaks by His example of humil-ity in divesting Himself of the glory He had with the

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2 7Father and coming from heaven to this sin-cursed earthto be born in a manger . He speaks by the faithful servic eof His life, by His miracles, by being "despised and re-jected of men," by the mighty truths to which he gav eutterance, by his voluntary surrender of Himself to Hisenemies, by His death, by His resurrection, by His ascen-sion, by the fact that "God also hath highly exalted Him,giving Him a name that is above every name : that at thename of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,and things on earth, and things under the earth, and tha tevery tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, t othe glory of God the Father ."—Phil . 2 :9-11 .

The Apostle speaks of "the appearing" of Jesus Christ .In Heb. 9 :28 we read : "Unto them that look for Him shallHe appear the second time without sin unto salvation."Then Jesus said, "If I go away, I will come again an dreceive you unto myself, that where I am there ye ma ybe also." This has been the great hope of the Christianthroughout the Gospel Age . The work that Jesus did at Hi sfirst advent is the basis for the work which He will do a tHis second advent . He will take His own people into th eheavenly kingdom. The kingdoms of the world will b ebroken up and dissolved, and then Christ will prove Him-self the world's Saviour and Redeemer. He must reign ,till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemythat shall be destroyed is death (1 Cor . 15 :25, 26.) He wil lconstitute the Sun of righteousness to arise with healingin His wings, (Mal. 4 :20 and will start the mighty proces sof the word's resurrection . Not only will the Gentilesbehold His glory but the Jews also will look on Him"whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him ,as one mourneth for his only son." (lZech . 12 :10 .) Truthas a glorious river shall then flow forth from the thron eof God. (Rev. 22 :1, 2 .) Christ will be the great but right-eous autocrat of earth, and will be recognized as such.QUESTIONS:

Just what is meant by the expression, "begotten us agai nunto a lively hope" ?

What is the incorruptible inheritance? Are immortalit yand the divine nature the same thing ?

How is the Christian's faith tried? what is meant bythe "appearing" of Christ ?

How has God spoken unto us by His Son ?Explain how Christ is the brightness of God' s

the express image of His person.

JoshuaB,eseon tor 3uip 2, 1933

Joshua 1 :1-9 . Now after the death of Moses the servan tof the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spoke unt oJoshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

Moses my servant is dead ; now therefore arise, go overthis Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land whic hI do give to them, even to the children of Israel .

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,that have. I given unto you, as I said unto Moses .

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto th egreat river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites,and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun ,shall be your coast .

There shall not any man be able to stand before the eall the days of thy life : as I was with Moses, so I willbe with thee : I will not fail thee nor forsake thee .

Be strong and of good courage : for unto this people shaltthou divide for an inheritance the land, which I swar eunto their fathers to give them.

Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou may-est observe to do according to all the law, which Mose smy servant commanded thee : turn not from it to the righthand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whitherso-ever thou goest.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth ;but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thoumayest observe to do according to all that is written there -in; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and the nthou shalt have good success .

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a goo dcourage ; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed : for the

Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest .Joshua 23 :1, 2, 14. And it came to pass, a long time

after that the Lord had given rest to Israel from all thei renemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and strickenin age .

And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders ,and for their heads, and for their officers, and said unt othem, I am old and stricken in age :

And, behold, this day I am going the way of all th eearth : and ye know in all your hearts and in all you rsouls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good thing swhich the Lord your God spake concerning you ; all arecome to pass unto you, and not one thing hath faile dthereof ,GOLDEN TEXT : Be strong and of good courage . . for

Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest .—Joshua 1 :6-9 .

JOSHUA is one of the very strong characters of the Ol dTestament . He was of the tribe of Ephraim, and was

probably born in Goshen. He was one of the twelve sen tout by Moses to spy out the land of Canaan, and one ofthe two who brought in a good report of the country an durged the people to go up and possess it . (Num. 14 :6-9 . )Of all the great host that had left Egypt, Joshua an dCaleb were the only ones who entered Canaan .

Before Moses died, God commanded him to invest Joshuawith authority over the people . (Num. 27 :18 .) Then afterthe death of Moses the Lord spoke to Joshua, telling hi mto go over Jordan and take the land which had beenpromised to the children of Israel. The Lord promised tobe with him and to give him strength and victory, Biblestudents are familiar with the subsequent events whic hproved that the Divine promise was faithfully kept. TheLord (probably by means of a landslide at the city ofAdam) rolled back the waters of Jordan so that th epeople went over dry-shod . After they came to Jericho ,their faith was tested in that they were directed t omarch around the city once ..,each day for six days andseven times on the seventh day. Then the angel of Go dsmote those seemingly impregnable walls and they fel ldown, and the place was captured and possessed by theIsraelites .

By means of the battle of Beth-horon, another grea tvictory scored for the armies under Joshua's command ,the Israelites were able to enter into the south country.When Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal, he was maste rof half of Palestine. He conquered six tribes in six years .He then made a division of the conquered land. Then,after a time, he called the people together and delivere dto them two great addresses, urging them to be loyalto their faith and to the God who had done so much forthem. He said : "If ye forsake the Lord and serve strangegods, then He will turn and do you hurt, and consum eyou, after that He hath done you good . "

Joshua did not at any time swerve from his loyalty t othe Lord, and that was the secret of his phenomenal suc-cess. He took the Lord at His Word, and went forwar dconfident of victory. Such an example is highly stimulat-ing to God's people to-day. What God did for the naturalIsraelites, He will surely do for the spiritual Israelites .He says to them through our Lord and His Apostles, "Iwill never leave thee nor forsake thee, fight the goodfight of faith; lay hold on eternal life ." They fight, saysthe Apostle, "not against flesh and blood, but agains tprincipalities, against powers, against the rulers of th edarkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness i nhigh places ." Hence they need to have on the full armo rof God and to maintain their faith in the great Captainof their salvation at all times ,QUESTIONS :

What was the secret of Joshua's success ?How did Joshua demonstrate his faith in the Lord, fortyyears before the passage of Jordan ?What was the subject matter of Joshua's addresses to thepeople ?What is the secret of the Christian's strength ?How do we go up and possess the land of Canaan ?

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GIiiId p en's Tour' Jilbie0s

Uncle Eb's Bible StoryIsaac's Marriage .

NOW that Abraham was in the land of Canaan ,he expected that his son Isaac would marry,

but he did not want Isaac to marry one of th ewomen of Canaan," said Uncle Eb. "So he calledhis old servant Eliezer to him and instructed him togo into the land of Chaldea, not very far fro mwhere they had tried to build the tower of Babel ,and there find a wife for his son . This would be astrange thing for anyone to do to-day in our land ,for no man would thank anybody to choose his wifefor him ; but in Eastern lands, in the time of Abra-ham, the customs were very different from wha tthey are with us at the present time. So Abraha mfelt that he was doing perfectly right in obtaininga wife for Isaac in this way .

"Now just imagine a man going a long journeyof 500 miles, coming into a strange city, and ask-ing some woman to go with him to become the wifeof a man that she had never seen . And that wasthe very thing that Eliezer was sent to do . ButAbraham told him that God 's angel would go beforehim and help him in what seemed to be rather adifficult undertaking . However, old Eliezer did no tgo empty-handed but took with him money andjewels and ten camels ; for we must remember thatAbraham was considered a person of wealth in thos edays. So this aged servant went on his way untilhe came to a place in Chaldea known as the cityof Nahor . It was the evening hour when he arrive doutside this city, and he came to a fine well of wate rwhich proved very refreshing to himself and to hi scamels .

"Now what did Eliezer do next'? What would yo uor I have done? I wonder . Well, he did a very fin ething, just the very best thing he could have done ,and the proper thing for us to do when we are indifficulties. He asked God to help him. And he mad ea suggestion to the Lord which met with His ap-proval . You see, it was the time in the evenin gwhen the women of the city were coming outsid eto draw water to take home . So Eliezer suggeste dthat the maiden who would show kindness to himby drawing water for him and .his camels would b ethe proper one for him to choose to take back hom eto Canaan. This showed much wisdom on the partof Abraham's servant ; for Eliezer was an old man,and he reasoned that the woman who would be kin dto him and would assist him in the way he neede dhelp would make a good wife for the son of hismaster.

"We l l, Eliezer had not even finished speaking ofthis matter to the Lord when a very beautiful youngwoman came out to draw water . So Eliezer went

Jacob and Esau .toward her and asked her for some water to drink .She readily handed him her pitcher, and when h ehad enjoyed the sparkling and refreshing drink,she offered to draw water for his camels as well .Eliezer was greatly pleased with this service. Heasked the girl's name and found that it was Re-bekah and that she was connected with Abraham' sfamily ; so he felt sure now that she was the righ tone. Then he stayed that night at her home, afterher brother had come out and invited him to sharetheir hospitality .

" They must have spent a very pleasant eveningtogether, and presently Eliezer told the story ofhow the Lord had helped him find Rebekah . Thenhe told them about his master, Abraham, at ;d aboutthe many sheep, cattle and camels he owned, an dalso, about the servants of his household, and final-ly about Isaac. This story must have proved ver yinteresting indeed, for when he asked Rebekah ho wshe would like to be the bride of Isaac, she wasquite willing to go with him. So he gave her som eprecious jewels of silver and of gold and also gav esome gifts to her brother and her mother . Then ear-ly the next morning they started on the long jour-ney back to the land of Canaan .

" Well, one evening in Canaan, Isaac was walk-ing out in the field . He was a man who loved to bealone with nature at times, for in this way hefelt very close to God and could talk to God andgive thanks for the blessings which he had received .So, as he was walkhag out under the peaceful skie sof the evening hour, he suddenly saw some camelscoming in the distance . And whose camels do yo uthink they were ?"

"I suppose they were his father's," said Peter ."Yes, Peter, you are right. They were Abraham's

camels ; and on one of them was Eliezer and onanother one of them was Rebekah . And when Re-bekah saw this man in the fields she asked who h ewas, and was told that it was Isaac . She then puta veil over her face, that being the custom in thos edays .

"When Eliezer told Isaac all the things that hehad done, Isaac was very well pleased . So he tookRebekah into his mother's tent, and she becam ehis wife .

"And now we remember that Abraham was anold man at this time . We shall not have any mor eto say about him, except as we may briefly refe rto him in our stories . So we'll follow the fortunesof his children and his children's children. But be-fore we do this, suppose we ask a few question sbearing on this great and wonderful man, so as to

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29make sure that we have profited by our talks . Nowsuppose each one of you tells me just one thingabout Abraham . How about it, Paul? "

"Abraham went away from his home when Go dasked him to," said Paul .

"Abraham prayed for God to save all the goodpeople in Sodom," said John.

"And met three angels and talked with them,and one of them was the Lord," said Esther .

"He wasn 't selfish," said Peter, "but told Lot t otake any part of the land he wished. "

"He was willing to kill Isaac, if God wanted himto," said Eva .

"He sent his servant to get a wife for Isaac, "said Ruth .

"Now that 's what it means to be young and havegood memories," said Uncle Eb . " You see, you haveremembered all the principal incidents in his life .So now we'll say good-bye to him for a time . Andperhaps you have had enough Bible story for to-night . How many say, Yes? "

" Uncle," said Peter, " that story wasn't verylong, and I think I could stand another one, if youdon't mind ."

"Well, well!" exclaimed Uncle Eb. "Do youknow what that sounds like to me? It just soundslike, `Mother, that piece of pie wasn't very big ,and I think I could stand another piece .' Seems t ome that you boys and girls are getting a fine bigappetite for Bible stories. And so your old uncl ewas really trying to put you off with a short story ,was he? Well, you have checked up on him ; whichmeans, I suppose, that you'll simply have to hav eanother story, though it will not be a long one .It is going to be about the two sons of Isaac whenthey grew up . Before we begin our story, let meknow how many of you would like to hear it .Jacob and Esau

"Well now, all your hands are up, I see ; so heregoes . The two sons of Isaac were called Jacob andEsau. Jacob was a peaceful man, who lived thequiet, useful life of a farmer ; but Esau was a grea thunter . He went to the forest and to the wildernessand killed the wild animals . He brought home lotsof venison, which is the flesh of the deer, and i svery good to eat ; and many a fine supper he pro-vided for his family. Speaking of Esau, some onehas said : `He had an eye like an eagle ; his earnever slept ; his arrow never missed the mark.' Hewas, indeed, a mighty hunter.

"You will remember that God had told Abraham ,that his seed would bless all the families of theearth. This blessing would naturally come throughthe eldest son, and Esau was the eldest son of Isaac .But Esau didn't care a thing about God's blessing .It was something that he couldn't eat or wear o ruse as a hunter. He was just like a great manypeople to-day who like the good things of life butdon ' t care anything about God . However, Jacobwas quite different . He thought about God, andoften wished that His blessing would come to othersthrough him, because, you see, he had faith in Go dand in the glorious things He had promised—the

very things about which he knew that Esau did no tcare at all .

" One day Esau had been out hunting, and cam ein very hungry . Jacob had a fine dinner ready, andit smelled so good that Esau offered to give Jacobhis birthright in return for this dinner . Knowingthat his brother did not value the birthright, Jacobwas quite willing to make the bargain . Giving upthe birthright meant giving up one 's place as hea dof the family after the father's death ; but in thiscase it meant more than that ; for it meant that th echannel of blessing was handed over to Jacob . SoEsau sat down to the good dinner that Jacob ha dprepared, and seemed to be quite satisfied with hi sbargain . But afterwards he was sorry; just as othershave been sorry for things when too late .

"Years passed, and Isaac, the father of Jacob an dEsau was very old . He was almost blind and aboutto die . He asked for his eldest son so that re mightpronounce a blessing upon him, but Jacob came an dpretended to be his brother Esau . His father felthis hands and they felt like Esau's hands becausethey were covered over with the skin of a veryyoung kid of the goats to make them feel lik eEsau's hairy hands. But his voice did not sound lik eEsau's voice-it sounded to him like Jacob's voice .But still the old father was deceived and so he gav ethe blessing to Jacob instead of to Esau . WhenEsau heard of this, he became very angry . In facthe even resolved in his heart to kill his brother .Well, Jacob didn't want to be killed, any more tha nyou or I would have wanted it ; so his mother senthim away from home, instructing him to go to liv ewith his Uncle Laban . Jacob left all the propertyin the hands of his brother, and did not seem t ocare about that ; for he wanted God's blessing .

" You see, Jacob had a right to the blessing ; forthe blessing went with the birthright, but he tooka strange way of getting it . He might have don ebetter to have left the matter completely in th eLord's hands. But, then none of us is perfect ; sowe'll not find fault with Jacob, since God blesse dhim. Jacob turned out to be a very good man—a man with whom the Lord was well pleased . Jacobcould have renounced the blessing in favor of hisbrother ; but this he would not do, so he went outto journey in the wilderness .

"Well, one night he came to a certain place, andwas very tired . He looked around for a good plac eto rest his weary bones . So at length he found aspot and used a stone for a pillow . That wasn't avery soft pillow to lie upon, now, was it? Howeve rhe finally went to sleep, and while he slept he ha da dream. In this dream he saw a long ladder reach-ing from earth to heaven and angels going up an ddown on it . And the Lord stood above it and toldJacob that He would bless him and would makehis seed a great nation, even as He had promisedto his father, Isaac, and his grandfather, Abraham .

"Suppose we read from the Bible what the Lor dsaid to Jacob. Paul has a nice large Bible there .Just turn to Genesis, chapter 28, and read verse s13, 14 and 15, Paul. "

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(01TALKING THINGS OVER II IGOD'S ORGANIZATIO N

'j'I~'n E take this occasion to announce that anothe rWL~ Witness Bulletin is in course of preparation.The main article in this Bulletin will discuss the sub-ject "God's Organization ." This article will appea rin full in the July 1st .edition of THE DAWN, anda limited number of `advance copies' will be sen tout prior to its publication in THE DAWN . Webelieve that many of our readers will want to se ethis Bulletin have a wide circulation . Its appeal i salong the line of Christian liberty . We will ap-preciate receiving names and addresses of thos eto whom it can be mailed .

Reports of local conventions in New Bedford ,Mass ., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Brooklyn, N. Y., areavailable, and we are glad to publish them .Convention at New Bedford

® N SUNDAY, April 30, a local convention of Bibl estudents was held at New Bedford, Mass . About a

hundred friends cane together to tell of their experience sin the Christian way, and to hear more about the thing sof God. The Boston friends made quite a showing, forthey chartered a bus for the day, and no less than forty -nine of them contributed to the joy that was so much inevidence .

As a preliminary matter, a talk was given at one o fthe friends' homes on Saturday night . The subject was ,"work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ,for it is God that worketh in you both to will and t odo of His good pleasure ." The speaker said that the textwhich he had chosen raised no issue as to whether fait hor works was the more pleasing in the sight of God.

What the Apostle Paul was really saying to th ePhilippian Christians was : "If you have depended on m ein the past, do not depend on me any more. Not as inmy presence only, but much more in my absence, wor kout your own salvation with fear and trembling." Hewas exhorting them not to depend on human instru-mentalities, but to depend on God Who was doing thework in them, they being co-laborers with Him . The in -junction is pertinent to the present time . While the Lordmay use others to render us a certain amount of as-sistance in the narrow way, we should learn not to lean o nthem, but entirely on way the One who alone can feed u son the bread of life and can sustain us at every part o fthe journey, no matter how arduous it may be .

The Sunday morning session opened with a praise ,prayer and testimony meeting, in which a number of th ebrethren participated . According to their testimonies, som eof these friends have been going through deep water sof trial, but by means of such experiences, the Lord ha sbecome more real to them . Truth to them is becomingdaily a more sacred and precious heritage . They nowbreathe the sweet, invigorating air of full liberty i nChrist. They do not intend to again wear the yoke o fbondage. Nor will they call any man master, for the yrealize that one is their master, even Christ, and all Hisfollowers are brethren. And this grand, free spirit of th eLord drew them together in the bonds of love as nothin gelse would do.

The testimony meeting was followed by two discourses .One of these dwelt on the thought that love is irresistibl ein its drawing power. It is an element that cannot b eforced, but can only be evoked . We love God primaril ybecause He is love . That is what makes the overwhelm-

ing appeal to our hearts . Then He is very constant in Hi slove . He doesn't change . He doesn't stop loving us becaus ewe haven't quite come up to the mark . Every Christianshould cultivate in himself this quality of constancy. Th eApostle Paul had it in a large degree. He said, "This on ething I do . Forgetting the things that are behind, an dreaching forth unto those things that are before, I pres stoward the mark for the prize of the high calling of Godin Christ Jesus ." Nothing could swerve him from tha tone strong, fixed, mighty resolve . So should it be withthose who have covenanted to follow in the steps of Jesus .

The second morning discourse dealt with the secret o fthe Lord . The speaker pointed out how the Lord has take nus into His confidence. He has revealed the secret to thos ethat reverence Him, and to them He shows His covenant .(Psa . 50 :5.) He takes them into the secret place of Hi sdwelling, where they abide under the shadow of th eAlmighty (Psa . 91 .) Those outside the Tabernacle couldsee the rough badger skins that served as a covering, butthey could not discern the glory of the Holy where stoodthe golden candlestick and the table of the bread o fpresence, as well as the altar of incense . Our hearts cravedto know the truth, to behold its wondrous beauty, to ex-perience something of its wondrous power ; then Jesusstood before us and said, "I am the truth ." And we havefound that this is so. As we walk with Him, He reveal sto us more and more fully Himself, Who is the truth .

There was another talk to the friends at 2 :00 o'clock i nthe afternoon, and at 3 :30 o'clock a lecture to the public ."The Coming World Dictator ." This session closed the con-vention .

New York Conventio n

EHE regular Fifth-Sunday New York convention wasduly held on April 30 in the Church of the Pilgrim s

on Remsen Street, Brooklyn, N . Y. The convention wasaddressed by Brother J. C. Laird of Philadelphia. H espoke on the subject of "Walking Worthy of our HighCalling .." His discourse held up the value of concentratingour efforts in the way of righteousness so that we ma yattain the heavenly inheritance . He said that much time maybe wasted in reading matter and in doing other thingsthat are not profitable to the new creature . We are tobe up and doing, grasping every opportunity for witness-ing for the Master . If things are running very smoothlyfor us, we have no reason to complain ; but too much eas ewould make us soft. We should learn to "endure hardnes sas good soldiers of Jesus Christ ." (2 Tim. 2 :3 .) Godwants to see our faith structure completed . An unfinishe dbuilding does not satisfy the eye like a completed buildingdoes . An edifice in process of erection illustrates an un-finished character . The structure that we are uprearingmust be established on the proper foundation, which isChrist, and must be built up brick by brick, beam b ybeam, course on course, until we become steady, sym-metrical structures of the Lord, strong and firm in ever yway, crystallized in righteousness, and worthy of th evocation wherewith we have been called .

The testimony meeting had as a guiding Scripture th eDaily Manna "You are a chosen Race, a Royal Priest -hood, a holy Nation, a People for a purpose ; that you maydeclare the perfections of Him who called you from dark-ness into His wonderful Light ."—1 Pet. 2 :9. Diaglott.

One brother thanked God that he had so many oppor-tunities of telling the good tidings of the kingdom t oothers, as his business brought him constantly in contactwith the public . A sister said how much she appreciatedthe testimony meetings ; that they brought her very clos eto the Lord. Various brethren told how God was guidingand sustaining them, giving them grace to bear the trials

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31of life, and giving them assurance of His favor and bless-ing. They believed in the power of prayer, and requeste dthat the friends would remember them in this way .

At 4 :30 P . M. a symposium was begun, participated inby six brethren. The theme was taken from the Beatitudes ,set forth in Matt . 5. The first of these was "Blessed ar ethe poor in spirit," by Brother Anderson . He expressedthe thought that those who know their spiritual needs, andhence are humble, are in line for the Lord's blessing ."God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto th ehumble ." These lean hard on God because they are keen-ly aware of their own imperfections . They are in a positio nwhere God can deal with them. They are good conductor sof His Word. Jesus was humble to the extent that He be -came obedient even unto the death of the cross . HenceGod highly exalted Him . . And so it will be with us, ifwe continue to have this same disposition of humility to th eend of the way .

Brother F. Arnold spoke on "Blessed are they that dohunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall b efilled ." He said the spiritual hunger is like natural hunger .Our natural systems require natural food, upon which theydepend . We should eat the things that contain the prope rkind of nourishment so that our bodies may be preserve din strength. And, similarly, the new creature must be fe dwith the life-sustaining elements of God's Word or els eit becomes weak. Those who stand in the right relatio nto God continually hunger and thirst for righteousness .They are never satisfied with their present attainments .They yearn to become "filled with all the fullness ofGod."

Brother H . F. Kuehn spoke on "Blessed are the merciful,for they shall obtain mercy ." He said : "Mercy is one ofthe most beautiful qualities . It is one of the goiuen roundsof the ladder that leads to heaven. Jesus was very merci-ful. When Peter denied Him, He didn't make Peter apol-ogize, nor did He hold anything against him for it .Instead of that, He showed him very special favor . Jesusset forth the parable of the unjust steward as a power-ful illustration of the element of mercy, God is indee dgreat in mercy toward us . If it were not so, how could westand in the judgment? When we consider this matter ,we should practice mercy, toward one another; for thusshall we obtain mercy and favor with our heavenly Father ,who ever exercises this beautiful and wonderful quality ."

Brother R . E. Mitchell, speaking on "Blessed are th epure in heart," said : "This is a fundamental Christia nquality ; for the wisdom that cometh from above is firs tpure, as saith the Scripture . Truth is pure. It cleanse sfrom the defilements of the World . It is God's most power-ful cleansing agent . The pure in heart shall see God in th eresurrection, and in a sense they see Him now, for the ycan appreciate Him as no others can."

Brother W. T. Baker spoke on Peacemakers , He dwelt onthe reconciling of the world with God when the Princ eof Peace shall begin His reign . This is one of the gloriou sprospects held before the church, that the members thereo fshall participate with Christ in the work of reconciliation ,or making peace. Meanwhile, we ourselves have the peac eof the Lord.

Brother R. C. Rogers' subject was on the persecuted ones .He said that our great test is how we react under per-secution. We are not persecuted all the time, but mustget persecution some of the time. How do we take itwhen it comes? It should cause us to rejoice ; for, sai dthe Master, "Great is your reward in heaven; for so per-secuted they the prophets which were before you. "

A Message from Pittsburg h"Dear Brethren : I have been wanting to write you fo r

some time past, to express my appreciation of THE DAWN ,which is a regular visitor to our home .

"Its message of comfort and encouragement has meantso much to me in these trying and distressing times and Ifeel sure that this has been the experience of many othe rbrethren.

"Recently it was our privilege to make a short tri pSouth, spending most of our time in Florida .

"We enjoyed _a visit in St. Petersburg, having the ples-ure of addressing the friends in that city on two occassions ,all meetings having been held in the home of Sister Lee .

"We found the same sweet spirit among these brethre nas prevails among the Lord's true sheep elsewhere an dtheir zeal and determination to "finish their course wit hjoy" proved quite an inspiration to us .

"We called upon some of the brethren at more or les sisolated points but our time being so limited, we could no tmake all the visits contemplated .

"We arrived home in Pittsburgh in time to attend th eone-day convention held on April 30th . This indeed was aglorious season of refreshment as about one hundred an dfifty of the friends throughout the Tri-state District gath-ered to feast at the Lord's table . The discussions werepartisularly helpful and at the close of the day it was sai dby many that this one-day convention was the best theyhad ever attended . Every convention held in Pittsburghhas been a wonderful blessing to the friends and we ar eglad to observe that brethren in other parts of the countr yare arranging for these periodical gatherings, which prov esuch a blessing and means of encouragement to those wh oattend .

"My prayer is that the Lord may continue to bless yourefforts as you strive to honor His name and that the in-fluence of THE DAWN may continue to be a spiritual up -lift to all the brethren . "

Uncle Eb's Bible Story( Continued from page 29 )

And so Paul read from the Bible the encourag-ing message that the Lord had for Jacob :

"And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and saidI am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and th eGod of Isaac : the land whereon thou liest, to the ewill I give it and to thy seed ; and thy seed shallbe as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt sprea dabroad to the west, and to the east, and to th enorth, and to the south : and in thee and in thyseed shall all the families of the earth be blessed .And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee inall places whither thou goest, and will bring the eagain into this land ; for I will not leave thee, unti lI have done that which I have spoken to thee of."

" What a wonderful and beautiful promise tha tGod had made to Abraham . It showed that God waspleased with Jacob . And when Jacob awakene dfrom his sleep in the morning, he realized that th eLord had been there . So he took the stone that h ehad used for a pillow and set it up for a monument .Then he called the place Bethel, which means t hehouse of God, for htere he had been assured o fGod's blessing .

"Jacob now continued his journey onward towar dthe east, and finally came to the place where hi sUncle Laban lived ; and he stayed there and worke dfor his uncle. And there he married, and in thecourse of time had twelve sons . Then one day h eset out to return to his own people whom he had lef ttwenty years before, and as he journeyed homewar dhe learned from his own servants that Esau wa son his way to meet him. And he wished to mak efriends with his brother; so he sent before him afine present of cattle and sheep and servants. Butit seems that Esau was coming toward him wit hfour hundred men, and Jacob was very muchafraid ; for he thought that Esau would surely kill

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him. So heangel camehim .

"Then Jacob saw his brother coming, and he sen tout to him some more servants and cattle andsheep . And at last, the two brothers met and em -braced and made friends again after those manyyears of separation . And this is a very good -plac eto bring our story to a close . And so, my youngfriends, I'll say, good-night . "

prayed to God toand wrestled with

'I' H E' D A W Nhelp him. And an Chicago, Ill ., July 1-4. This convention will b eJacob and blessed held in the Tabernacle Baptist Church, 3300 West

Monroe St., Chicago, Ill . During the day the serv -ices will be in the Polish language, with one dis-course each day in English interpreted in Polish .

Ths Value of Praye r(Continued from page Ig)

whom He loved, or to have his brethren suffer. Tothe extent that we, today, can be thus unselfishlydevoted to the Lord and to His people, to that sam eextent will the Lord be able to use us to His glory.To the extent that all who name the name of Christnow, will see to it that their prayers and theiractions are as unselfish as were those of Moses, t othat extent will they have peace and harmony an dthe divine blessing in their association with th ebrethren .

When each saint of God is unselfishly intereste din the welfare of his brethren, and is desirous thatevery word and every act of his will redound tothe honor of God 's great name, there can be n oschisms in the church, and no seeking for ad -vantage among the brethren . And when, and to theextent that these holy desires are rendered trulygenuine by taking them to the Lord in prayer,God's people will prosper .

Moses' attitude as well as his prayers, were ex-pressive of that great divine principle of love—un-selfishness—which was reflected in his willingnes sto give, to sacrifice self and self-interests, in orderthat others might be blessed . It was this that mad eMoses the great leader that he was ; and these samecharacteristics are found in all their glorious per-fection in the " greater than Moses," the Prophetlike unto him, who is our Leader and Exempla rtoday, and who will be the great Prophet and Lead-er of all people by and by in the universal King -dom.

CONVENTION SBrookside, Westford, Mass ., June 18 . Weather

permitting, some of the sessions of this conventio nwill be . held out of doors . The public meeting willbe held in Abbot 's Hall, Brookside . Informatio nas to how to reach Brookside can be obtained b ywriting to A. G. Lundberg, Brookside, Westford,Mass .

Pen Argyle, Pa., June 25 . This convention wil lbe held in Weona Park, Pen Argyle . The openingsession will be at 10 :00 o'clock in the morning .There will be an advertised public meeting . Many ofthe friends in Pen Argyle and vicinity are lookin gforward to receiving rich blessings at this con-vention . If further information is desired it can beobtained by writing to H . L. Young, 12 Plainfiel dAve., Pen Argyle, Pa .

Each evening session of the convention tLe serv-ices will be in English . THE DAWN has bee nasked to provide speakers for these evening sessions ,and to arrange the programs. We appreciate thi sinvitation and will endeavor to cooperate as full yas possible, and with a desire to glorify the Lord .Definite arrangements as to speakers, etc ., are notyet complete, but will appear in the July 1st DAWN.

We remind the friends that this is "World's-Fair "year in Chicago, and the traveling rates from al lsections of the country are exceedingly low . Doubt -less many will desire to avail themselves of thi sopportunity to meet with others of like preciou sfaith .

Waukesha, Wis., July 2 and 3 . The friends in.Waukesha and vicinity are very enthusiastic abou tthis gathering . Arrangements are not yet complete ,but it is expected that Brother Nybeck of Min-neapolis will he the chairman." Brethren of TheHearld and of THE DAWN are invited to co -operate . For further information write to H. D .White, R. 1, Box 10, Waukesha, Wis .

In a letter from Brother White, he says : "Weexpect to make the coming and stay of all visitin gfriends as free from expense as possible . "

Boston, Mass., July 30. This convention will b eheld in the Huntington Chambers Hall, 30 Hunt-ington Ave., Boston, Mass .

Cincinnati, Ohio, July 30 . This 5th-Sunday con-vention is participated in by the Associated Bibl eStudents of Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus ,Ohio, and Richmond, Indiana . Arrangements forthe hall are not yet complete, but those interestedmay obtain details from the class secretary, Mrs .W. N. Poe, 2128 New London Road, Newport, Ky .A letter from the secretary, says : " The Cincinnat ifriends extend a most cordial invitation to all be-lievers in the Ransom. Sacrifice of our Lord."

Chester, Pa., July 2 . Arrangements are not ye tcomplete for this convention, but information ca nbe obtained by writing to J . P. Ludwig, 1017 Mc .Dowell Ave ., Chester, Pa.

Minneapolis, Minn. Sep. 3 and 4. The Minnea-polis Ecclesia has asked us to make this early an-nouncement of a convention they expect to hav eover the Labor Day Week-end . The convention willbe held at 2922 Cedar Ave. Details will be givenin a later issue of THE DAWN. The Minneapoli sClass secretary is Brother H. M. Nosby, 3452 Firs tAve. South, Minneapolis, Minn .

Brooklyn, N . : Y ., Sep. 2, 3 and 4. All sessions ofthis convention will be held in the Church of th ePilgrims, Corner of Henry and Remsen Sts . Forinformation concerning rooms, etc ., write to MissNorma Mitchell, 360 Third Ave ., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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33Feasting in the Banquet Hall

HE following helpful thoughts are gleane dfrom the July 15, 1914 Watch Tower :

"As we draw nearer to the close of the Harvest ,we shall not be surprised if the way becomes stil lnarrower, still more difficult, and if the temptation sco stumble and to fall become still more frequent .Let us then, dear brethren, be more and more o nour guard against the wiles of the great enem yof our souls, and against the deceptions of our ownfallen nature. Let the perfect love of God rul ein your hearts, driving out self-love and world-love ,with their pride, ambition and folly. Let entiredevotion to God bring into your hearts the promise dfullness of joy and rest and peace . Be fruitfu lbranches in the Vine, abiding ever in Him, respond-ing to all the prunings of the great Husbandmanwith more abundant fruitage .

"If beguilements come to us, let us say with th eapostles of old : ` Lord, to whom shall we go? Tho uhast the words of eternal life .' There is life no -where .else, and we wish to go nowhere else . We arefeasting in the banquet hall of our Father's House ,` and His banner over us is love!' We have anabundant supply : our table is richly laden . So weeat and go on our way rejoicing . We are nearin gHome. We shall soon reach the last mile-stone inour journey!- Then, with a song on our lips, let uspress on!"

"Tempted and tried, whatever betide,In His secret pavilion His children shall hide .'Neath the 'shadowing wing of eternity's King ,His children may trust, yea, His children may sing .

"Tempted and tried, yet the Lord will abid eThy faithful Redeemer and Keeper and Guide ,Thy shield and thy sword, thine exceeding reward ;Then enough for the servant to be as his Lord .

BIBLE STUDENTS' LECTURE SThe listing of speakers does not imply that those liste d

indorse the, various articles appearing in THE DAWN, o rare in anv way connected with the work represented b yTHE DAWN .

-With the exception of conventions, this service will b e

limited to ,appointments outside of the speaker's homeclass . In sending in appointments, please give date, hourand address of meeting ; or else proper person from whichsuch information can be obtained .

BROTHER W. T, BAKER :Providence, R, I ., June 4, 3 P . M„ Church of th e

ator, Elmwood Avenue and Peace- Street ,

BROTHER C . P, BRIDGES :Boston, ' Mass ., June 11, 3 and 5 P, M., 30 Huntington

Avenue ,

BROTHER B. BOULTER :Chester, Pa, July 2 (convention, see announcement) .

BROTHER J. E. DAWSON :Pen Argyle, Pa., June 25 (convention, see announcement) .

BROTHER C . F. GEORGE :New Kensington, Pa., June 11, 3 P. M,, Odd Fellows

Hall .Duquesne, Pa ., June 18, 11 A . M. , First Street .

BROTHER W. F. HUDGINGS :Brookside, Mass., June 18 (convention, see announce-

ment) .Pen Argyle, Pa., June 25 (convention, see announcement) ,

BROTHER J . C . JORDAN :Duquesne, Pa., June 4, 11 A. M., First Street.

BROTHER GEORGE KENDALL :Pittsburgh, Pa„ June 4, 3 and 8 P . M., 610 Arch Street,

North Side .Columbus, Ohio, June 28 (for information, write, Dr .

J. E. Campbell, 2444 Summit St„ Columbus, Ohio.Chicago, Iil ., July 1-4 (convention, see announcement) ,

BROTHER J . G, KUEHN :Chicago, Ill., July 1-4 (convention, see announcement) .

BROTHER OSCAR MAGNUSON :Brookside, Mass., June 18 (convention, see announce-

ment) .Pittsburgh, Pa ., June 25 (for information, write, J . C.

.Jordan, 247 Greenwood Ave ., Pittsburgh, Pa .) .Dayton, Ohio, June 28 (for information, write, Mrs .

B . A. Grenier, 2430 Hillview Ave ., Dayton, Ohio) .Chicago, Ill ., July 1-4 (convention, see announcement) .Waukesha, Wis., July 2 and 3 (convention, see Announce-

ment) .

BROTHER J. W. REIMER :Chester, Pa ., July 2 (convention, see announcement) .

BROTHER WALTER SARGEANT :Vineland, N . J ., June 4, 3 P . M., Grange Hall, Woo d

Street, between 7th and 8th Streets,Morrisville, Pa ., June 10, 8 P .M., 319 Penn. Avenue .Pen Argyle, Pa,, June 25 (convention, see announce-

ment )Chester, Pa ., July 2 (convention, see announcement) .

BROTHER J. I. VAN HORNE :Duquesne, Pa ., 11 A, M., First Street .

BROTHER E . F , WILLIAMS :Youngstown, Ohio, June 11, 2 P . M., Guthrie Home ,

La Belle Avenue.East Liverpool, Ohio, June 25, 3 P . M . (for information ,

address, Cyril A . Kuhn, Box 177, Midland, Pa .) .

BROTHER G . M. WILSON :Chicago, Ill., July 1-4 (convention, see announcement) .

ASSOCIATED BIBLE STUDENTS, BROOKLYN, N.Y .For the benefit of friends who may be temporarily i n

New York, or vicinity, we take this opportunity to an-nounce that the Associated Bible Students of Brookly nand Greater New York hold meetings regularly on Sun-day afternoons, from 3 to 5 :30 o'clock, in the Church o fthe Pilgrims, corner of Henry and Remsen Sts., Brooklyn .In addition, there are prayer and study meetings durin gthe week . Those interested will be given full informatio nby communicating with the class secretary, Miss Norm aMitchell, . 360 Third Ave ., Brooklyn, N. Y. Telephone,South 8-9430 .

BROTHER NORMAN WOODWORTH :Brookside, Mass., June 18 (convention,

ment) .Cincinnati, Ohio, June 28 (for information, write ,

°W. N. Poe, 2128 Linden Road, Southgate, Ky . ) ,

see announce -

Mrs .

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Chicago, Ill ., July 1 . 4 (convention, see announcement) ,

'Waukesha, Wis„ July 2 and 3 (convention, see announce-ment),

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