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PROPRIETORS: The " Conditional Immortality Association." PUBLISHING EDITOR: Cyrus E. Brooks, Malveru Link, Worcestershire. LONDON AGENT: F. Southwoll, 27, Ivy Lane, E.C. MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS: [Malvern. BIBLICALEUGESIS: Rev. B. B. Wale, F.R.G.S., SACREDSONG: Rev. G. P. Mackay, Lincoln. NOTESANDQUERIES: Gen. H. Goodwyn, Reading. FAMILYCIRCLE: Mr. J. J. Hobbs, Poole.
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FEBRUARY,

1883.

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ITORSHIPPING from home on a recent I\, Snnday, we listened to two practicai sermons from a divine of the most orthodox stamp. We marked, however, some glaring 'inconsistencies, which are inseparable from the false logic of orthodox teaching. Thus the congregation was spoken of as "A band of spirits that can neve1' die," yet this was followed by the aspiration, on its behalf, "Breathe into these spirits an endless life." We utterly failed to see the harmony of this. How there could be imparted to the congregation as a gift, external in its S07l1'ce, that which they were already supposed to possess by ruuural birth, Further, speaking of the soul's yearning after God and its struggle with sin, the preacher gave us a vivid mind-picture of an eagle rising from the heather -where it had been bitteu by a snake-into the blue ether, and there wrestling in sore agony with its foe, which it failed to cast off; thence falling

to the dust, wbere it died. Then we were told what you are at home. You see the ground is that was an illustration of the deathless soul of all new here, and we were free, to a great extent, man, stricken with sin, strugzling to be free, to form on the best possible basis, so we have and mounting higher and higher, Now it adopted that of churches. This we think will seemed to us that the illustration was qnite out work better than the plan of the English Assoof keepinu with the lesson attempted to be ciation. I expect the new Association will take taught. If the illustration taught anything, it over the book-stock by the' first of the year, and certainly was the mOTtaiity of the struggling take in hand all the work that I have been soul-inasmuch as the eagle died iu its struggle carrying on individually. We hope to start out with its foe-and where then was its' death. with the caravan in about six weeks. We are lessness? Further, Satan was spoken of as going with it into the same district that is now having a future of punishment, though now being worked by Bro. Aldridge. Remember me shaking the pillars of heaven, To illustrate to all enquiring friends." this, t~e legion of demons in the Gadarene A London friend favours us with a letter de~olll.ac w.as made to do duty for a personal received from Mr. Geo. Aldridge, above referred d~vII-I.n spite of the fact of the broad ~cl'lptural to, who writes from Hamilton East, Waikato, dIstm,c~lOn between Diabolos and hIS demon New Zealand. We make an extract :_" Since satellities. T~en, !,l'0n: the language of these my arrival in New Zealand, I have been engaged demons to Chns~,~r~ Thou co~e to ~orm.~nt in lecturing almost every Sunday evening, having us before the .tIme -It was plainly inferred delivered addresses at Onehunga, Auckland, (though not directly stat,ed), t~at Satan was Thames, and now I am at Hamilton, where I immortal, and thus tbat his pumsb.ment ,:,ould intend to settle for a year at least. if the Lord consiat m eternal ~o,.,nents; yet immediately will. Dnring last month Mr. Brown visited tile after-,:"th str~nge mconslstency-sp,ea~mg of town, and gave four lectures. I acted as the d~vl1 as. being able}o w~und Cbns~ s heel, chairman for him. Since he left I have carried th~ pre~cheI sa~~ that Christ ~ould the on Sunday evening services, and have had about serpent s. hea~; No;;,. as, the head IS t.J:re a hundred persons each night, This is the vtt~l pal t, to crush It, is to. de~troy theJlf~ largest congregation in the town. There is an of Its posses~or. W~ere th~u Its Immort:1lrty: evident desire to hear more on these themes, In such case, Satan s pu~~shment must (?lt~. and the people generally are glad that I am matel~l be that, of deatl~-:- Tile. wa~es of Sl~ ,~s staying for a time. I am very much struck with death ... We ale not wl.Itmg mele~y m t~e SpUIt the lax morals of Christians out here, Things of a critic, b.ut to show into what mcon~lste.nces are done which would not be done in England, good men are led by the errors of the prevailing for at home the feeling of veneration keeps Theology. many from going to tile length they otherwise The Rev, G, A. Brown, writing from Auckland, would. But out here people appear to shake New Zealand, says :-" Glad to hear that your themselves loose from all that kind of feeling, Conference was such a success. Our work in and consequently do things which would be New Zealand is still progressing, We have Bro. looked upon with serious eyes at. home, but Aldridge now settled at Hamilton, Waikato, a which are every day common-places here, I small town, but the centre of a large back bave remarked on this to others, but they tell .eountry. His last month'; report is very me I am mistaken, Perhaps I am, but I am favourable, and he thinks that we have done a convinced up to the present that I am not. I wise thing in opening out a cause iu that I must confess, however, that I have met with district, Bro, Taylor is still at the Thames. some good sterling Christian characters since my He, also, reports progress. The work with them arrival, men who have evidently drunk in tile is not, of course, self-sustaining; the Auckland Spirit of the Master, and whose religiou is real. Church makes up the deficiencies, Since Ilasl I mal' add that men do not wear here a coating wrote you, we have formed an Evangelistic and of conventionalism, but, as a rule, are above Publication Association, in connection with the board, even in their unpractical Christian churches. We are on a little different basis to I profession."

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We insert the following letter from a sub- be at all surprising in a member of the orth<:dox Christian faith, with the ghostly expectations scriber, together with the copy of letter referred FRA.NcE.-A luminous star has fallen, both early to therein :-" Dear Sir,-I am glad that yon and traditions of such. A member of the undermentioned Committee. and unexpectedly. At the age of 45-Leon have opened your colnmns to the question of writes to ns :-" It will also interest you to Gambetta-The French Tribune-has "gone the' conscious state' of the' dead in Christ.' I His death cannot fail to have long felt that the ipse dixit style of some know that Mr. (H. B.) Murray (formerly of over to the majority." Cheltenham) has received a temporary engage- affect the policy of the French nation. How of your contributors, who hold the' unconscious/ if not the' extinct' state of all the dead until ment as Evangelist for the Notts., Derby a.nd sad however, that a star of so great magnitude Baptist Associatio~, and. begins sho~ld sink in the gloom of a Christ-less night. the resurrection day, has been the means of Lincolnshire this week at Gainsborough. H,S appointment Yet so it is. The Papacy mnst be thanked for estranging from you the sympathies of many, shows that there is not so much objection as this. Little wonder that the thoughtful minds who, like myself, firmly believe in the doctrine of 'Conditional Immortality,' but who at the formerly to Conditional Immortality meu. The of the continent should see the Harlot under the appearance of the true C~urch, and, fai~ing to same time maintain that the Scriptures .teach Committee fully knew his position as to that realise that the counterfeit proves the existence that the believer in Christ, who has departed to matter." somewhere of the true, are driven outside the be with the Lord, has not lost his identity, but pale of the Christian Church. Our comfort isis consciously, peacefully, and happily resting "Rome shall perish-Write that Word In the with the Lord, awaiting the resurrection, although not actively engaged in His service-as HE following picture of Chicago as it n?w blood that she has shed." exists is given by the Rev. Dr. Herriek some teach. I speak of the saved, but as reGERMANy.-M. Gambetta's removal can gards the unsaved I believe that' the dead know John son of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in scarcely fail to affect the plans and purposes of that city :-" Politics seized by .unpYincipled Germany. not anything '-and that 'the Lord knoweth Relieved of the necessity of watching how to reserve the unjust unto the day aspirants for power and place; official patrona~e and guarding so closely her recently-acquired of judgment to be punished.' I enclose dispensed with no regard whatever for t~e public territory iu Alsace-Lorraine, she will be able to weal' ballots sometimes served out hire fixed push forward her schemes on her southern and one pound towards the expenses of the ~8S0ciation, and also the copy of a letter wntten ammunition and dropped into the box at the eastern borders. Her" man of blood and iron" by a clergyman, who is well known throughout word of command with a kind of military pride -rightly or wrongly-is credited with a strong England, as one of the most godly and powerful in not caring what they contained, provided they desire to push Austria southwards into Turkish evangelists of the day. The letter wa~ not come from the proper quarter; a ma:yor who territory, that he may absorb, for the fatherland, written to me, and as I have no authority to will go into a liquor dealer's convention and Austria',s German provinces of Bohemia, publish his name, I purposely withhold it. If publicly boast o! ~is ha~ing been brought up o~ Moravia, and Silesia. A tempting bait, which you think fit, you can print the letter in the whisky; a municipal chief whose sworn.d~ty.'t might prove a material gain to the impoverished Bible Standard.-I am, dear Sir, yours in is to enforce law seeking to regulate' an iniquity empire. Such a result is not unlikely: for such which he is under legal obligation to suppress; Christ, E.W.P.T." an extension of German territory has always "l\fy dear Friend,-In answer to your kind gambling-houses flaunting their shameless and been insisted on, as 'a prophetic necessity, by a letter I can only state, very briefly, that years lawless infamy in open day; dogs' dens and large school of prophetic students, on the. asof patient study of the testimony of the Holy low varieties visited and often crowded by sumption of the re.construction of the ancient Scriptures have convinced me of the following hundreds and thousands of young men and Roman-empire. Inasmuch, then, as these points :-1. That Scripture nowhere teaches the young women (1,180 actually counted as enter- provinces lay outside that empire, they will necessary immortality of the human soul, but ing one of these vile establishments on one probably be separated therefrom, and be added represents immortality as the special gift of evening between the hours of 7 and 12 p.m.); to a non-Roman power, such as Germany or God. 2. That it does teach that the soul sur- 4 boo places for the sale of liquor-that is more Russia. The Rhine provinces of Germany have vives after death, but not, that it is incapable of saloons tban lamp. posts; 15 miles of solid grog suffered immensely from the inundations of destruction. 3. On the contrary, that the end shops' liquor sold to minors in flagrant viola- November and January. No such widespread of the wicked will be complete destruction, penal tion of the law and boys and girls found drunk calamity has befallen the empire during this extinctton, accompanied by whatever features in the streets' 'a Sabbath that, in some portions century. In the valley of the Reid alone, 8.00 of jndgment God may see fit to impos~. This of the city, i~ a kind of high carni,val, where houses have fallen; 1.0.0 lives have been lost; destruction is compared to the consuming away men and women trample on everythmg sacred and 10,000 persons are homeless and destitute. of the fat of lambs; the burning up root and with defiant and insolent scoff; over 7.0,.000 The overflow of the Danube has also been branch; the devouring of the body by worms; children, between the ages of 6 and 21, wi~h~ut marked by similar scenes of suffering and lossthe dissolution of organic matter by devouring any religious instruction wh!l'tever; th.e majority though happily not so severe. This, however, flames' all the strongest emblems that can be of crime in the city committed by minors, and has chiefly fallen on Austria. It is true that employ~d, of utter and complete destruction criminal classes controlling the juries and p~ck- rivers have always been in the habit of overand extinction, but none of them emblems of ing them to their purpose." What ~ terrible flowing, when swollen by severe floods of rain or torture. This conclusion rolls away from the picture we have here of human del?ravlty. .B~t melted snow, but it is equally true that such Christian faith the gravest stumbling-block with its most terrible feature lies in this-s-that It IS inundations cause vastly more loss and suffering which tradition has hampered it. More infidels not a picture of Chicago merelJ:' but of ever.y now than ever of old, owing to the increase of have been manufactured by the theory of ever- great city in the world. Turning f~o~ this population and commerce npon their banks. lasting torture than by any other doctrine, sup- description to the words of Paul, dascribing the Such floods therefore in 1882-3 are not for a posed to be Christian, or by .all Christia;n features of the latter days, who can fail to see moment to be compared with any previous year doctrine put together, and I believe that this how fully the two coincide. and thus as index fing~r or century. misapprehension of our God's teachiJ?g has been point the end near. "This know also, that lD AusTRIA..-There are not wanting signs that expressly invented .by the enemy m. order to the last days perilous times shall come. For Austria-Hungary is prepared to profit by prejudice men against a God too WIse to err, men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, Turkey's expected dissolution, with a view of too good to be unkind. I fear from the tone of boasters, proud, blasphemers, ?isobedient to securing the lion's share of the spoil-as far as your note, that this frank declaration will cause parents, unthankful, unholy, WIthout n.atural her European provinces are concerned. It is you much pain, and this I greatly regret, but affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, moonnecessary to the growth and expansion of the the loss of the good opinion of our Christian tinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Hungarian half of this composite empire, that it friends is not unfrequently the price that they traitors heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure should have a seaport on the Mediterranean. must pay who are determined to buy the truth more than lovers of' God. Having a form of Trieste being far too distant for practical serand sell it not. I can only assure you that I godliness, but denying the power thereof." (2 vice. The best and nearest is Salouiea (ancient have not reached these conclusions lightly, nor Tim. ill.) Thessalonica), at the head of the Archipelago. without much reading, on both sides, and much General Goodwyn writcs :-" Another New 1'0 effect this purpose, Austria seems to be study and prayer. I may further add, that this Year and' The Bright and Morning Star' has bidding for the headship of the South Slavonian view is fast obtaining general acceptance among not arisen-Lo, earth's night c?ntinues! Well, States. The recent and premature death of the the earnest evangelical men of our time.-I am, we 'With patience wait for It." If the Lord Russian General, Scobeleff the Younger, the yours faithfully, --." should tarry may increasing blessing .rest ?-p<:n enthusiastic, and almost idolised, advocate of A contemporary has suggested, as an excellent you, knowing that your labour IS not m vain tn Russian Pan-Blavism, has greatly assisted field for spiritualistic research, the singular case the Lord." Austria in her supposed plans to take the place of a Chinaman recently executed in tbe States, The Return of the Jews to Palestine goes on of Russia as the patron of the Slav nationalities. who displayed a most inexplicable desire to be steadily. The increasing nnmber now there EGYPT.-In the chapter of accidents (sospeedily executed, on the ground that he would will probably soon create ano~her. phase of ~he called), Egypt, "The basest of kingdoms" has then be able to return, in ghostly shape, to "Eastern Question," and this time a Jewish been cast into the lap of Britain. In the haunt his enemies. This is a singular state of one. 'Ve shall .hail such a sign as full of interests of that down-trodden country-and of mind for a member of a nation believing in promise, believing that the" redemption of the its sorely oppressed labouring population, the nirvana- or practical extinction-but would not body draweth nigh."

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fellaheen-it is greatly to be desired that it remain under the fostering care of British rule and law. Whatever the responsibility it might lay upon this country, we ought not-in the interests of an enslaved people and a fertile province-to shrink from assuming it, even though it involved the shifting of the seat of suzerainty from east to west, from Constantinople to London. What we have done for India we might, at least, attempt for Egypt. GREEcE.-By Turkey's recent concessions, Greece has gained some substantial strategical advantages in the settlement of the, new boundary line. The, comparatively, rapid rise and extension of modern Greece, is a striking testimony to the accuracy of the school of Scripture expositors who, long since, foretold her rise and rank among the latter-day kingdoms. Austria, probably, will have to take Greece into her calculations, whenever her own forward movement takes place; and it will go hard with the little kingdom if it does not win back some part, at least, of its old Macedonian kingdom,the Macedonia of Philip, and of Alexander the Great, BRITAIN.-The most noticeable home features lie in the Bradford catrstrophe, by which 54 lives were sacrificed, and the sudden cuttingdown of the s.s. City of Brussels, with a loss of 10 lives. The trade of the country still seems under a cloud, the exports showing a falling off of above 2,000,000 for December. JA:MAICA.-"Fire is a good servant, but a bad master." True, and it has been painfully illustrating the latter fact during the last year or two. We have heard much speculation as to the cause, but no denial as to the fact of the large increase in the number and destructiveness of fires. The most lamen~able recent case is that of Kingston, Jamaica, where tens of thousands of persons were made homeless. The Governor of the Island says, "I have seen nothing comparable but the ruins of Pompeiiliterally nothing is left but cracked or blackened walls." A]IERICA.-Amidst the general laxity of the times, one bright feature presents itself in the adoption, in the United States, of the "Civil Service Reform Bill." The change of office, consequent upon the change of the governing party, has for many years kept wide open the floodgates of corruption in that country. By the new law, honesty, purity, and patriotism, will receive a decided impetus. TURIillY.-There are grave reasons for believing that Sultan Abdul Hamid's reason is affected, at least so think such papers as the Daily News, Spectator, and Pall Mall. What is certain, is, that the Sultan is unequal to the strain of his exalted position, and that his kingdom seems to be in the last throes of dissolution. Important news may be shortly expected from Constantinople. A change in the government of that magnificent but neglected empire, cannot well be for the worse, since its present deep of misery, corruption, and suffering, forbids a deeper depth. Notwithstanding all promises of reform, Armenia still remains in a most wretched and scandalous condition; suffering, more especially, from the ruffianism of its lawless Kurd neighbours. Its present state is a scandal to Europe, as the signatories of the Berlin Treaty, which insisted on its reform. Turkey too, can ill afford to leave so foul a sore open, seeing that Russia is credited with designs inimical to the security of Turkish Armenia. On Turkey's African borders there hangs a cloud. Very small at present.e=no larger than a man's hand, -but which may give Italy a reason for interference in Tripoli. Greater thiugs than this have arisen out of lesser causes than the insult offered to the Italian Consul by a Turkish soldier. Turkey's estimated deficit on the year's revenue is equal to near 5,000,000.

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How long can such a Bankrupt State-without credit-continue? PALESTINE.-A writer in a recent number.of Blackwood's Magazine justly argues that the, practical, possession of Egypt by England must result in an early movement for the nationalization of Palestine, and, probably, during the present year. Few things more likely. And few things more desirable than that "the dispersed of Judah" should thus get their own again. No other race can have it. And since "the desolate land shall be tilled "-according to the dictum of Jehovah-it must be tilled by the "tribe of the wandering foot and weary breast." All things around us suggest early and speedy changes. The outlook is a troubled one, wherever the eye may rest. All" creation groaneth." Is the Deliverer nigh? Time will show. Our purpose is to record facts, rather than fancies: the opinions of others-speaking with authority-rather than our own. Events, however, march so rapidly that the opinion of this month may be the faot of next. We will wait and see.

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[IN accordance with the wrll of the Committee we open our columns to the above. It must, however, be distinctly understood that neither the Association nor the Editor are to be held responsible for, or as endorsing in any way the views expressed herein. These are simply the personal convictions of the several writers, and appear in these colums merely that our readers may have the opportunity of studying the question as it appears to the different believers in the cardinal truth of Conditional Immortality," and then forming their own opinion thereon.-En. B.S.]
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man is in a state of utter unconsciousness until such time as life is restoredsuch is the uniform and unq ualified testimony of scripture regarding man in death. He sleeps; and sleep, even the sleep of life, precludes the idea of consciousness just as truly and utterly as death excludes the idea of life, or perfect darkness that of light. Still the idea prevails, and is all but universal, that the condition of the dead is just another condition of life; that the soul, the living principle, as it is called, is incapable of dying, and in what is called death simply passes into another sphere of life and action. And as this conception is entertained by truly Christian men, as well as others, there must be some imagined scripture grounds for holding it. And accordingly several passages of scripture are appealed to as not only favouring this belief in the continued consciousness of the dead, but absolutely demanding it. Such are, mainly, the parable of the rich man and Lazarus,-the words of Christ to the penitent thief on the cross, -the words of our Lord to the question of the Sadducees respecting the resurrection,-the words of the Apostle Paul usually quoted as reading, " absent from the body, present with the Lord,"-" to depart and to be with Christ."the statement about Christ preaching to spirits in prison; and perhaps a few other Scriptnre facts and statements. Those who hold the belief in the unconsciousness of the dead from the moment of death till the time of the resurrection, do not of course overlook these passages, and are prepared to show that, rightly understood, they are quite consistent with such belief.

With respect to the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, it is obvious that if it had been spoken for the purpose of revealing the state and "THE li~ing know that they sh~ll die," is a condition of the soul of man in the intermediate scriptural statement which finds a state, and of teaching that in that state and before thorough, though, perhaps, not over-ready re- the resurrection the soul is capable of, and is sponse in the hearts of all who live. It is a really in a state of active and intensely conscious enjoyment or suffering, then, of course, such a branch of knowledge which is all but as universally diffused as is the air which forms the doctrine is true, and to be believed, however breath of life-the very minimum, it may be difficult or impossible we may find it to be to it with the teaching of other said to be, of human knowledge: "the living harmonise know that they shall die," "But the dead know scriptures, for these are the words of the Great not anything,"-so concludes the second part of Teacher Himself. But in that case scripture as More than the two-fold averment. And the second is like a whole would be irreconcilable. that, the discourse in question would not be a unto the first, simple, distinct, and Divine. parable at all, but a history. Certainly it is our But does it find a like response in the human duty to take the plain words of scripture in their heart ? Nay, it is opposed and rejected nearly as much and as universally as the other is ad- plain and obvious meaning; but we must demitted and believed. God says, " the dead know cline to take the words of a parable in their where would be the not anything," man believes and says, the dead plain meaning-otherwise, Certainly it is not only unwise and know almost everything. Human knowledge in parable? in the highest degree to build the present life they admit, is limited, but death unreasonable such a doctrine on the wording of this parable, releases man from the limitations of the present but impossible so to do except by altogether and lifts him at once into a new and immensely superior life, where that which is perfect shall giving up the plain teaching of the Bible on the And are we to allow the framework of have superseded the imperfect; where what we subject. a parable to control and upset the plain teaching could not before know we shall then know; where indeed we shall know even as 'we are of the Scriptures? known: where the very maximum of human Regarding the words of Christ to the penitent knowledge shall be attained. And so the word thief, "to-day shalt thou be with Me in of the Lord, "the God of truth," "the dead Paradise," we ought to take into account the know not anything," is rejected, and the word of circumstances of the case in connexion with the the devil," the father of lies," is received and words of the Saviour. These words were the believed as the very gospel, "ye shall be as gracious answer of our Lord to the prayer of the gods knowing." dying man; "Lord, remember me when Thou Nothing is more evident than that in scripture comest in Thy kingdom." His thought in his life and death are set in direct opposition the prayer was not of the departing of Christ in one to the other. No two things indeed are put death, but of His coming again in His kingdom; in more sharp and absolute contrast than they obviously involving the idea and belief of His are. And no one will question but that the' rising again from the dead. And surely the Divine statement above referred to, is spoken truest and highest as well as the most Scriptural not of living and dead things, but strictly of conception of Paradise is in connexion with man, living and dead. Every man who breathes "the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and the breath of life, sooner or later must draw his Saviour Jesus Christ," which kingdom is always last breath, and be no more liviug, but' dead; associated with His coming again. Observe the death being the failure 'of life; and dying, ceasing words of the dying man. It is not when or to live. Bereft of life, and all the powers of life where Thou goest, but "when Thou comest."
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He was not thinking as regarded himself of how it would be with his soul when he died, but how it would be with him after death, when raised again to life, And the answer of Christ is appropriate to the prayer, and it assured the dying man that he should be with Him in His glory,-" Thou shalt be with Me in Paradise," I will not forget thee in the day of My kingdom and My glory, Presumably then the "to-day" has reference entirely to the time in which the gracious promise was made to him; and Zech, ix. 12, is an example of the same use of the phrase in which it is used by Christ, namely as having reference emphatically to the time of promising or declaring something that shall afterwards be fulfilled; and according to which a true and just paraphrase of the passage would read -" Even to-day do I declare unto thee, thou shalt be with Me in Paradise," And so of the words of our Lord to the Sadducees, " God is not the God of the dead but of the living," He was speaking not of the state of the dead, but strictly of the resurrection. of the dead; and to argue from His words that the dead are not really dead but consciously alive is, in short, not only to subvert the Bible doctrine of the resurreetion, but to render it absolutely impossible, as in that case there would be no dead to be raised, How, it may be asked-and the question is pertinent -how could night be turned into day, if there were no such thing as night? Again, the words o! Paul about departing and being with Christ are often, if not usually misquoted, and nothing is more common than to be told regarding death that to depart is to be with Christ, and similarly it is affirmed by a like misquotation that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, In both cases the reading is at fault, and corrected is "to depart and to be with Christ," To be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord," We know that Christ said, "I go away and come again"; but we do not therefore argue that the going away is the coming again, And to put a like meaning into the other words referred to is surely rash in the extreme. Plainly the teaching both of Christ and of Paul on this subject is that the time of the saints being with Christ is when He comes to receive them to Himself, at the period of the resurrection and not before. Regarding the statement about Christ preaching to the spirits in prison, one single fact shows that we ought to seek an interpretation of these words other and different from that which sees in them that Christ during the three days He was dead and buried, went to where the spirits of the wicked and disobedient in the days of Noab were suffering the due reward of their d. eds and preached to them; and that these spirits heard His preaching, and repented and believed tbe gospel-it is this, that in that case He would have bean doing what He himself said that no man could do-" The night cometh in which no man can work." In His own ca-e it would have been" work" of the highest kind, And not less so in the case of the" spirits :" for if these spirits of dead men could listen to preaching, and think, and reason, and accept or reject a message brought to them, would not that be working also? "For this is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent," It cannot, plainly, be both possible and impossible for men during the period of death to work.

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sight of God, for Abraham still lives in His purpose, "Who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were." We thus see that the only wa,y to perceive the point of Ch,rist's arguI?ent IS, by assuming that Abraham IS, for the time bemg, actually dead as an entire man, and was so recarded both by Jesus and the Sadducees. I do not see as some of our friends appear to do, that' any reference is here, made to the promises given to the patriarchs. These would form the basis for another and independent line of argument. Havinz then conclusive proof that Jesus regarded Abraham as really dead until resurrection we may approach the parable of the rich'man and Lazarus, without much fear of going astray, Abraham wa~ dead, therefore, if the parable represents him as speakmg, it is proof positive that the events related are pure fiction, and that the most .certam wa,y of misunderstanding the parable IS to take It literally. " We have scripture precedent m Isa. xiv. 8-11, for representing dead men and in,ammate objects as speaking; of course, parabolically. And ~,s for Hades or Sheol we find it, iu Ezelciei XXXll. 27 identified most unmistakeably with the gr~ve, 01' the state of dead men, ~aving the teaching of scripture, we do not ask l?formatlOn from heathen 01' rabbinical mythologies. If Paradise forms part of Hades, then when we read in Rev. xx. 14, " And death and hell (Hades) were cast into th~ lake of ,fir~< ~f course SIXTH ARTICLE. Paradise was cast there likewise, if it tS included BY M. M. WILSON. in Hades ! If Moses and Elias were personally and really EAR SIR,-Having read iu the Bible present on the Mount of Transfiguration, then Standard. the various articles in your Moses must have been raised from the dead for " Symposium" on the Intermediate State, I find the purpose, as Samuel was to appear to Saul, what seems to me to be grave misinterpretations and as the saints who arose after the crucifixof the teaching of Jesus and His apostles. ion and appeared unto many, As for Elias, the Respecting Christ's argument with the Sad- correspondent to whom I allude, appears to dncees as to the resurrection, I must regard it as be most remarkably forgetful that Elijah never unquestionable proof that the dead ace not alive, died. or at any rate, were not when Jesus spake. I The thief on the cross would have some diffirefer to Luke xx, 27-38 and lJIatt. xxii. 23-3,1, culty in meeting tbe soul of Christ in Paradise, and especially the words" For He is not a God for the" simple reason that Jesus did not go of the dead, but of the living; for all live unto there beiuz in Hades between His death and Him," We mnst understand that God may be resur;'ectio~, See Acts ii,24, 27, 31. If Paradise the creator and ruler of all things, visible and was in Hades, it is strange tbat David and Peter in visible, animate and inanimate; but He is only should represent Christ as ?'ejoicing to get out the God of those who live to worship and to of it while, at the same time, we are asked to praise Him. believe that it was a special favour for tile thief Christ's argument is to prove the necessity of to be allowed to go there. a resurrection. This must be strictly borne in I believe the natural explanation of the diffimind or we shall miss His meaning and line of culty in this saying of Christ to the dying thief thought, altogether. Firstly: Let us examine is, that the comma is misplaced. Literally it His argument on tile common assumption that reads, without stops," Verily I say to thee to-day Abraham and the other patriarchs are alive now with Me thou shalt be in the Paradise." The thief in Heaven or Paradise, thendid not ask for an answer: Jesus goes beyond "I am the God of Abraham,"his request and gives him His promise most Abraham was then alive somewhere,emphatically there and then. The use of the " God is not the God of the dead but of the " to-day" to give emphasis is common enough living."in Scripture, and we ourselves constantly use Therefore Abraham must rise from the dead! ! ! the word" now" in a similar manner, The Sadducees would have replied at once We are told that Jesus preached to the spirits " That does not follow at all: rather if Abraham in prison during the interval between His death is alive now, there is no need for his resurrection; at all events, not on the ground of your and resurrection, but there is no scriptural warHe did so, no doubt, argument that' God is not a God of the dead, but rant for this idea. of the living; , all the conditions are fulfilled in somehow, at sometime, though we are' l~ft to conjecture when, I believe that it was personAbrahsm's case without resurrection, therefore ally, and after His resurrection, that He went resurrection is unnecessary." and preached or proclaimed the tidings to the On the other handangels which sinned, who kept not their first "I am the God of Abraham ," estate, and who are now kept under chains of Abraham was then really dead,The strongest of all proofs for the doctrine of God is not the God of dead men, i:e. those dai kness until the judgment, the unconsciousness of the dead is the argument of the Apostle Paul in 1 G01'. xv. regarding the who have forever passed out of existence.There is plenty of" proof that these fallen Therefore Abraham must rise from the dead, angels are the" Sons of God" who" saw the resur: ection. Paul there affirms thatif the dead ,Ve are told the Saddueees wei e put to silence, daughters of men that they were fair," and" took rise not, "then they who are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." That could not possibly be and no wonder, for this argument is uuauswerthe III wives of whom they chose." Both Peter the case if there is such a thing as being with able. and J ude speak of them as if the matter was The mere fact of Abraham being actually Christ in a blessed and happy and glorious state commonly well understood, therefore if we can asleep in death now, amounts to nothing in the obtain any contemporary of existence during the period of death. evidence of what was

Were the doctrine that the dead are alive while they are dead, true, it would find very fitting expression in the inspired words of the Apostle Paul in Rom. xiv. were we to alter just one word and read it " whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die we live unto the Lord," but retaining it as it stands it is dead against such a theory, And so is what we read in Acts xxv. 19, in connexion with a stirring incident in the life of Paul, on his defence at the bar of Festus on a charge concerning "one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive "-just the very thing commonly affirmed of any dead, or of all the dead; but there is this tremendous difference in the case, that Jesus is alive because" God raised Him from the dead." The resurrection is our one hope of immortality; and let us rejoice that the sleep of death is not a sleep which knows no waking; but that we who believe in the unconsciousuess of the dead, believe also, just as firmly as they do who think of them as alive and conscious, that the moment of falling "asleep in Christ" is succeeded as a matter of consciousuess by the moment of being" with Christ" in resurrection life-the life that now is, and the life that is to come, thus as it were touching each other, intervening years aud ages notwithstanding, because they are passed in unconsciousness.Abe?'deen,

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the common belief we shall know what is meant way here disclosed, but such practice does but expresses an opinion that v. 1315 of chap. i., of 2 Peter is much more difficult," and asks for by the" Angels which sinned". In Josephus' lead away from the context, and robs the passage light. "Antiquities of the Jews" I find" For many of its meaning. The Apostle is writing about REPLY: I can only say that the 1st chap. of angels of God accompanied with women, and Resurrection, not au unclothed state; but in 2 Peter does not in any way treat of the nature begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of order to render his language plain and consistent, If, however, Our Querist will state the all that was good," &c.; and Whiston's note to I must first state an axiom; viz: that whilst every of man. tbe above is "This notion that the fallen angels person must submit to the act of dying, the particular point in the passage wherein the diffiwere, in some sense, the fathers of the old giants, word eaVaTOS, (death), is not the act of dying, but culty on tbis subject lies, I will by grace enwas the constant opinion of antiquity." Jesus the end of dying, or state of death, which for the deavour to explain. NOTE. From the examples hitberto presented might therefore preach to the spirits in prison Believer is abolished as to its continuity, because to the Replicant of 'queries, it appears desirable, without proving thereby that dead men are alive. the Redeemer in His atonement, Resurrection, for the joint benefit botb of himself and the There is, however, a sense in which living and Ascension has overcome it. The doctrine querist, that a few observations be made on the men may be considered as dead, and that is of the Resurrection, therefore, is most naturally when they are under irrevocable sentence of contrasted as the great object of faith, an too prevailing habit of reading the Scriptures in mere fragments; a practice that invariably leads death. This was the condition of the ante"evidence of things not seen;" and it is to this diluvians to whom Noah preached. St. Peter object that Paul always directs the hope of Be- away from the context, thus preventing the discovery both of the subject of the writer, and consays, (1 Epistle iv. 6,) "For, for this cause was lie vel'S through their career of suffering. This, Author. the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, however, only in a few passages-of which our sequently the meantng of the Divine (literally, to dead ones,) that they might be chap. 2 COl'. v., is one-where he realises his full It tends to obscure the mind as to the ionote judged according to men in the flesh, but live definition of faith (v, 7.), speaking of the Resurcounsel of God, and the purposes for which His according to God in the spirit." The gospel of rection, and of the return of the Lord as of Two volumes have been written as One entire Work. resurrection, by the same Spirit which raised up events contemporaneous with the state of death; Jesus, was preached by Noah to" dead ones" as if the latter event, in fact, was actually There is, furthermore, a tendency of the mind, arising out of the fractional method of perusal who were past hope, so far as this world is con- merged in the reality of the former. cerned. They could not escape the judgment Let the reader bear these truths in mind as alluded to, which confirms a bad principle, viz: or adoption of some under which the world then lay, but there was essential to the right understanding of the that of the entertainment opinion before the Bible has been still hope held' out to those who would repent. Apostle's subject, which commences at the 8th particular systematically searched for the reciprocal light Those who will read the latter part of the 3rd verse of chap. iv. and continues to the 11th verse that each volume of the whole work can throw chap. of this same Epistle, and continue reading of chap. v. After recounting his own and of the -Ith chap. up to the words I have quoted, Timothy's perplexities aud perseeutions, he says upon the other, in order to the apprehension Mark well the Lord's words, "Every will see the close connexion, or rather identity, they were not in despair, not forsaken, nor des- truth, scribe instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven in the mind of the Apostle, of the antediluvian troyed. Upon this he grounds his assurance bringeth forth out of his treasure human sinners with the" dead ones" to whom that" He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall this gospel was preached. raise us up also by Jesus, and shall present us things new and old" I I write from a painful experience, that an inMany of our brethren, while convinced that with YO!!," chap. iv. 14. Here at the outset is a discriminate search for texts in order to support the unrighteous dead are really dead, hold a declaration that no detached person or persons a presupposed view, is more or less attended belief that believers do not really die at all. can be "present with the I .ord " ; if such could with mischief. Safer far to dispossess the mind This is a V61-y pleasant belief from one point of be, the incident wonld dislocate the members of yiew, though from anotheI: it is n.ot so very the Body; for, whatever the interval between the of bias and prej udice, and permit tenet, creed, "The Joyful. Fancy a .poverty.stncken ~ehever tra,:,s, Apostle's demise and that of the rest of the Body or view to be moulded on the Word. if humbly relied on, can only ferred to glory: It canno~ be very Jo~fnl for hI~ of Christ, none could precede others, (1 These. Spirit of Truth" "guide into all Truth." to kn~w. that hIS. bereaved deal. ones ale iv. 15.) Again, Mr. Poster (" Biblical Psych. Reading. strugglingjand suffering, while he hImself, may ology,") reminds us that" to understand the exnot return to help and comfort ~hem. Is It not pression 'absent from the body and to be better that the words of Eccleeiastes should be esent with the Lord ' literally and immediately true, " The dead know n~t anything?" How. death, would prove too much; for Christ is CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY ever, If any p~ssage of Scnp~n~'~ could be ,quoted said to be on the Mercy Seat at the right-hand TE ACHING OF CHRIST. to p~ove, WIthou;, a po.sslblh~y ,?f .mbtak~n of God; therefore to be personally present w~th THE meamng, that the de~d, III Christ . are .ahve In the Lord there in an immediate sense, would mBy THE REV. W. R. TOMLINSON, M.A. glOll' I should be willing to ~eheve It; but, volve a present and partial participation in the ~ntIl th.en, I a~, content to believe that they glorious Presence of the Godhe~d." Now the THE prophet Ezekiel (xiii. 19,) pronounces a sleep In Jesus. . . 14th verse of chap. iv. forbids this, and so does woe on those who would "slay the souls If we. mu~t accept the ancient doctrine .of the the Apostle's avowed belief tbat the entire Body !ransm~gratlOn of souls because Jesus did not, would simultaneously be "establisbed unblamethat should not die, and save the souls alive that In partlCula~, condemn It, we m~y bold ourselve.s able in boliness before God, at the coming of our open to receive a strange assortment of tradi- Lord Jesus Christ WI'rH ALL HIS SAINTS." (1 should not live," and he brands those who tions, on the ground tbat Jesus !l:pproved of Thess, iii. 13,) would teach otherwise, as" lying to my people them, because He did not, so far as IS recorded, " ., '. h refute each articular error by name. Sensible Paul s gl~at desire was to impress upor: t. e that hear your lies." men will SUl~IY agree with me in declining to body of Believers tbat their affhctions In this hfe In perfect harmony with the above donunciabelieve this hoary superstition on any such are but momentary wh~n contrasted WIth the tion of the prophet, are the words of our Lord d eternal glory which awaits them at the Resurgroun s. t' (h' 1~ 18) d h -oceeds to en explicit enough in all conscience. One thing Christ did; He warned His dis- ree IOn c.' IV.. " r: an :, PI" . Himself, ciples to beware of the doctrine both of the large on this subject III eh. v. . ~OR, says he, Among others are the following: "Broad is the Pharisees and Sadducees, and it is our wisdom ., We k~ow that we :,ave a bUlldI~g of "God not narrow is to act accordingly.-.Liverpool. made withrhands, eternal III the heal ens, -Le. an way that leadeth to destruction .... . imnwTtal body-we earn estly desire to attain to the way that leadeth unto life" (Matt. vii. 13, this body, having no wish to be unc'othed-i.e. to die-in order to terminate our afllictions, but to 14). "If thou wilt enter into life keep the be numbered with those who, ., in the twinkliug commandments" (ilIatt. xix, 17). "Whosoever of an eye," will be changed into incorruptibility EDITED BY GEN. H. GOODWYN. (1 COT. xv. 52.), when "mortality will be believeth in Him should not perish, but have 1. QUERY: "I desire to be absent from the swallowed UP of LIFE." (2 C01. v. 4.) Now too, everlasting life" (John iii. 15). "Except ye body."-Intended to be a quotation from 2 C01". he adds, "It is for this self-same thing" that repent ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke xiii. V. 8, which it is not. The words are" \Ve are God has prepared us, viz.: the possession of the 3). "Ye will not come unto Me that ye might confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent immortal body. from the body, and to be present with the Lord." shall fall With this premise the Apostle comes to the have life" (John v. 40). "Whosoever This is a very different tbought.-Appended to conclusion in verse 6; that if God has thus on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsothe above is the following question: " Was it not wrought on our behalf, we may be confident in Paul himself who was to be absent-But Paul His work, and brace up our desire to part with ever it shall fall it will qrimd. him to powder" must have been something more than breaththe present mortal body, that we may be in an (JIatt. xxi, 44). "He will come and destroy the what was it that was to be absent? I think this immortal body meet for our home with the Lord. husbandman" (Ma1'k xii. 9). "What is a man passage is in favour of an unclothed state."11. QUERY: "A seeker after truth," having Mrs. G., Maidenhead. profited if he shall gain the whole world and REPLY: Perhaps our Querist's words may been" reading about the nature of man whether mortal or immortal" in the v. chap. 2 C01. lose his own soul?" (Matt. xvi. 26). "Fear not favour that idea when viewed in the fragmentary

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them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul: 28). but rather fear Him which is able to (Matt. x. destroy both soul and body in hell" see death" viii. 24). (John viii. 51). "The "If

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be lost, from fire. tbe God The charity. that Some study the Scriptures the doctrine religion. to see how It is said of eternal When the the natives

assures us will die, perish, A soul emancipated be hurt by material

be destroyed. flesh cannot utmost

hard they can possibly make them. in New Zealand

"U a man keep My saying he shall never ye believe not (John

makes His angel ministers a flame of fire.

misery has been the main cause of the Maories' apostacy from the Christian missionaries the doctrine of everlasting first went they taught

this text can mean in the way so many for it as long as sin lasts. sinner, this we know from he inevitably dies when have failed. to sin by to keep it in James of soul the transIt

that I am He, ye shall die in your sins" quenchable fire" never perish" (Luke iii. 17, New life,

delight to quote it, is that there is a Nemesis for sin, a punishment Christ's As to the individual teaching, that

chaff He will burn up with unVersion). shall liveth and they

burnings. with their But since the In

reading, writing, and arithmetic.

" I give unto them eternal (John x. 28).

natives have been able to teach each other,great has been the falling off from tbe Churches. a beautiful and Amoia," the century, poem by Alfred Domelt, Esq., late his in

"Whosoever

his time comes; and probably, only when all the means spread out for his salvation The soul is, like the body, subject nature, and needs God's holy Spirit straight. quality, The word rendered sensual have been translated Even psychical,-,pvx,xij. iii. 15, should

and believeth in Me shall never die " (John xi. 26). All the above sayings of our Lord teach that life and death are the only ultimates ity. And we further state, "Fear learn that destruction of humanthis death and

Prime Minister of New Zealand, called " Ranolph a work which Mr. Browning, Mr. Domelt gives a very describes this fellow-poet, declared has not been surpassed picture of meetings of the natives old chiefs, and graphically emas of the latter heresy, exposed at length against under

does not take place in (aO'l.) Hades, but after the judgment Him which is able to The Hades to the

striking their

the intermediate in (YEEvva) hell. destroy Revised both

lators of the Revised Testament to give this word its right

have not dared

the anath-

soul and body in hell." has restored

meaning, alas!

sad and per-

Testament

has been asked, "Can the soul be immortal per se, which is classed with what is earthly and devilish? " As regards the other text from our Lord's

nicious, yet hugged, beloved, and long-continued so powerfuIly and efficiently by the "Conditional and repudiated Association."

laity, which Luther and the English translators kept back from them for a purpose which they doubtless considered worthy, but it was, we boundaries lips, it think, a mistake, or " enlarging the of hell by adding Hades to it." such an array of texts follows, therefore, same source, that interpreted individual, relegating that from

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lips which has been made use of, and is made use of, to favour the doctrine of eternal misery, conoerning the rich man and Lazarus, translators plainly have done their shewn that the rich man the new duty, for they have was not in in the intermediate by ScripThen about it the

Having, then, our Lord's

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shewing the finality of the sinner to be death; and one only, as I believe, proceeding may be and has eternal sinner as conveying the individual

if we find a single text, from the been long as

hell at all, but in Hades, of as the" appears

state, which Bishop Heber, among others, speaks state which we are taught the final judgment." ture precedes

misery to the to death eternal,

but which may be also interpreted

to me the whole argument taught

I assert that we are bound interpretation our itself. L01'd's general

to assume the latter consistent with

everlasting misery of the rich man in the parable, so frequently and energetically pulpits, judgment in Hades, falls to the ground; from the for, as our Lord

as the true one, if we would make teaching

Of course I refer to Matt. xxv. 46, and punishment, there enunof mean the punishment

Himself shows (Matt. x. 28,) it is not until after that a man's fate is finally sealed, not but in hell: "Fear Him who is able The soul and body in hell."
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affirm that everlasting ciated, must of necessity eternal death,

to be in any way in accord with And I do not "the declaration of St. Paul,

to destroy both

what our Lord says elsewhere. doubt that the wages of sin is death, explanation

body here alluded

to is probably the spiritual of the Greeks, and

body of St. Paul, the

but the gift of God is has caused so

the imago of tbe Latins. It is a pity those teachers who understand

eternal life," is a true and probably intentional of the text which to mankind. much anguish are not. There are two other quotations which have been, I think, most produced as implying individual. First, that the eternal from our Lord unwarrantably misery of the For life and death

Greek have not generally told their hearers that the rich man was not in heIl, for surely honesty is the best policy, even in religion. little doubt but that very grave truth; the That next. "now" But It is true a the history itself is in parable, but there can be it was told to represent and was intended to point out surely "Now thou art torbe prenow" Such acslave-

are in true antithesis,

while life and punishment

that the careless in this life will suffer for it in mented" can never mean tormented for eternits], is now "then." It would

from the 9th chapter of worm dieth not, It is a quotation

Mal'k, where it is said, "Their and the fire is not quenched." from Isaiah destruction, that

about dead bodies eaten by worms, and was so well handled by the Rev. into it, but will merely dieth not, and our Lord so

difficult to prove to any but the obstinately judiced, and their victims, that suffering" could ever mean never-ending teaching has been probably suffering. found useful,

and devoured by fire, in fact, a tale of death and B. B. Wale, in his published sermon at Salisbury, I need not enter remark that it is the worm that impenitent sinner, whose soul

cording to the sense of some, like the that common sense and mercy

driver's whip; but both must be laid aside now are found at length, to be in alliance with truth and Christian

the fire that is not quenched, not the individual

MR. J. J. ROBBs. N catering for the readers of a Magazine, one seems to feel in a worse position than that of a blind preacher in the pulpit. Others may be able to tell him a few particulars concerning his congregation, their numbers, ages, and so on, but who can describe the number, or ages, or character of readers of a paper like this? Scarcely more would be the joy of a blind preacher, could he with open eyes gaze for a moment upon the faces of his au~ience, than would be the delight of a writer for the press to see before him the readers of his productions. Well, as this gratification is hardly to be expected, the next best thing is to draw upon the imagination; and with such an aid, I see before me a goodly number of dear young friends with smiling faces and outstretched hands, willing to welcome an unseen friend to their homes, at the same time only wishing imagination could be made to give place to more pleasing reality, and that one could receive their pleasing greetings face to face. Only lately we bade our interestine family circle a happy new year. Sinc~ then we have fairly entered upon it, and now we trust all are getting on most comfortably together with the new acquaintance. Christmas holidays with all their delights have come and gone. Luxurious fare, social parties, Christmas ~nd New Year's cards, and pleasures, Innumerable as they are fleeting, are for the most part over, and once more we are settling down to the many and various duties of life. Many of you are again

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immersed in the routine"of school duties. May you learn to appreciate your mercies, and find pleasure in them. A irecent writer says school life is not what it once was; that the dark ages are over-for our boys and girls. What do I hear you say, " You only wish 'twas true ?" If you do not believe it, maybe it is simply because you do not know what schools and school teachers were in days of yore. But now, how are we to bring brightness into our homes, and sunshine into our hearts? By accepting the inevitable and making the best of it: "Godliness with contentment, is great gain." So said a wise man many years ago, and the ages have as yet discovered no higher wisdom. Godliness-Godlikeness. Confidence in G~d's goodness will do more than anything else to secure a bright and happy experience for us. Even the great sceptic, Renan, boasts of his peace arising through confidence in God. What then must be the peace a Christian ought to know through resting in God? " Contentment" is joined unto this Godliness. What robs us of peace and joy more than ought beside? Discontent. Life is marred by it, and everything spoiled. A girl going by a palace thinks what a grand thing it must be to be a queen or an empress, and she sings, " I wish I were an empress, And had a crown to wear, All glistening with diamonds, And pearls to deck my hair, And a train of velvet, For noblemen to bear."

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power." Such thought and conviction the Saviour seeks as He says," What think ye of Christ ?" Tbe conviction sought is also a personal one. One from the iron of our own thoughts, heated in the furnace of our own hearts, and forged by the hammer of personal interest in this grand and gracious theme. There is no need that we should offer Christ the echo of another's thoughts, for it is perfectly practicable for each of us to form our own. We have time-even the busiest of us -ability and abundant material: seeing that we possess life,mind and revelation, and thus enjoy the needed power, will and light. Moreover the subject itself is an inspiration. The person, office and purpose of Christ, His relationship to us, is a matter of transcendant personal importance. Thus the query, "What think ye of Christ ?" For our assistance in forming and fostering such a personal conviction, with its intensely important and far-reaching issues, let us gaze upou the Saviour as He is presented to us in the Gospels: gaze, both with the mental and emotional eye. We behold Him then
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birds were singing and I began to find out that things were right, all right, and the country was right, and the church was right, and everybody was right but myself. So I thought I would get right, and I did, and now everything is right. I met a man up there and I said, ' This is a nice place to live in. Can you tell me what the name of it is?' and the man said, ' This is the land of Good Content.' 'I should like to come up here to live. Is the rent much?' I asked, 'No,' said the man, 'the houses are all rentfree. Nobody can make you pay anything for living in the land of Good Content.' 'But the rates are very heavy, I am afraid? ' The man shook his head. 'No,' he replied, 'there are no rates, nor taxes either.' Then I'll come up here to live,' I said. 'But how do I get in ?' '0, all you have to do is to walk straight up, turn the key, and go in, and stay as long as you like.' 'That will just suit me,' and so I went home for my wife and children, and ever since I have lived in the land of Good Content, and everything is al ways right now.' " Happy are the people that are in such a case. Here, then, without hesitation or delay, let us, dear friends, hand in hand, at once wend our way up this same hill and so share in all the blessings it affords.
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EAR FRIEND,-It is the same voice treasured up by the Holy Spirit tbat speaks to us in the Word to-day, as of old spake amidst the sacred scenes of the Holy Land, saying, " What think ye of Christ?" But to the modern audience the question has a wider scope and deeper meaning than to the ancient, for, since then, by Apostolic lips, God has revealed His long hidden purpose of grace unto the Gentiles; the "mystery" of Christ's Body, the Church. Their Messiah, at best, appeared but as an earthly ruler, a Jewish king; ours, both earthly and heavenly, both Jewish and Gentile, both natural and spiritual, both temporal and eternal. Human teachers have oft times pressed questions which were of no real importance, either to questioner or questioned, like those Athenian philosophers of whom Luke observes that they " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to heal' some new thing." (Acts xvii. 21.) Not so the Saviour. His question is grave and weighty and demands consideration, for on it depends our immortality and eternal life. Human teachers also press questions which, though of interest, on which it might be well to have an opinion, are not strictly necessary, and on which we can afford to dispense with thought and conviction. But here is one on which it is necessary to form an opinion; one which we cannot afford to be careless concerning, except at the risk of personal and eternalloss-" What think ye of Christ ?" But it is more than a simple opinion that is sought, it is a conviction. Let us not deceive ourselves by supposing that mere surface thought or emotional feeling will do. "Knowledge i

The empress looking out of the palace window, saw the little maid tripping along, and she muttered to herselfLooking :down the crowded street, I behold the maidens go, Brisk of feet, To the market or the show, Laughing, tripping, in a row, To and fro. Woe is meFor their light limbs moving free, For their brisk elastic tread, For their cheeks with cherries red, For their hair, Flowing fair. Oh, the May-time I have lost! Oh, the nipping of the frost! "

This manger-cradle holds a Babe of unique being and wondrous worth: "The Son of the Highest;" yet born of David's seed, child of a virgin-mother, Here Deity and humanity combiue: God and Man. A Babe: yet the theme of angel-anthem; the object of the magi's adoration; the subject of holy Simeon's praiseful joy, and of devout Anna's hopeful prophecy. True, but a Babe: but What a Babe! He who filleth all things with His glorious presence is incarnated and pillowed here. Look into this cradle, and, looking, think what it reveals. Omnipotence-creating and controlling unnumbered worlds-here hides itself in the flesh of a Babe so weak, that it is utterly dependent on the love of its human mother for every office! Omniscience-comprehending all things, from Whom nothing can be hid-yet hiding itself in tbis Babe whose whole world is its mother's breast and face: Boundless Spirit-pervading all things and beings, yet seen of none-bounding itself by the visible, corporeal being of a Babe, so small and light that it proves no burden to the mother's arms. The Far-distant God-to whom reverent human thought has assigned a central habitation in the vast system of the Pleiades, His Throne, Alcyone, to us a speck in spacebrought nigh in the person of this lowly Babe! This is no common scene. Tread softly round this cradle. Yea, bow thereat the knee of lowly, speechless adoration, for He who holds the thunderbolts of heaven, and keeps the worlds rolling in their spheres, has condescended thus to take our nature, thus to carry out His grand and gracious and essential purposes of saving grace. Gazing thus on Bethlehem's Babe, " What think ye of Christ i"
AS " THE MAN OF SORROWS."

Yes, happiness is not in outward circumstances, but dwells within, and with a heart made right: we carry it about wherever we go. " For ailong time I lived down in the land of discontent, and when living there I thought everything was wrong but myself. My wife was always wrong, and my children were always wrong, and the country was all wrong, and the minister was wrong, and the church was wrong, and all was wrong. But one day I came to a hill, and as I went up it, I found. it a wonderfully pleasant place. The sun was shining, and the

Do we, Diogenes-like seek an honest man? Then list ~o Pilate's language, concerning Him who once was Babe of Beihlehem->: Behold the Man I" Do we seek a pattern man? Pilate, the Saviour's judge, said of this bis innocent prisoner, "I find in Him no fault." Do we seek a pure man? Christ said, concerning Himself, before those who had known His manner of life from His youth up, "Which of you coovinceth Me of Sin 1" And none accused Him: no voice spake save that of the slanderer, which said, "Thou hast a devil and art mad." Do we seek a sympathetic man? Consider Him who at Nain, said to the weeping, childless widow, " Weep not:" at the same moment restoring her dead son to life. And Who addressed the fallen but penitent woman, brought to Him by the proud Pharisees, in tones of sympathy, saying, " go, and sin no more." Do

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we seek a self-denying man? Think of Him whose testimony was "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work." Do we seek a benevolent man? The record concerning Jesus is, "Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil." Do we seek a b..ave man? Mark this Man, who bearded to their face the unjust rulers of the people, saying, of and to them, "0 generation of vipers." Yea, Who in the desert, alone with" The prince of the power of the air," could say, "Get thee hence, Satan." Brave words, from the" Man of sorrows" to the" god of this world;" whom not even Michael the archangel attempted to personally accuse, but said, "The Lord rebuke thee." Do we seek a loving man? Christ who after His passion did not attempt to screen Himself from the noisy mob who sought "Jesus of Nazareth," but calmly replied" I am He," did seek to screen His loved disciples, saying, " Let these go their way." His own cup of suffering not so full but that His heart of love could care for others: as seeu when hanging on the cross, in the crisis of His agony, He said to Mary, " Woman, behold thy son:" then turning to the disciple John, "Behold thy mother." Do we seek a merciful man? At that same time Jesus breathed a prayer for His tormentors and murderers, saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Observing thus the "Man of sorrows," "What think ye of Christ ?" AS THE GREATTEACHER. He came" not to be ministercd unto, but to minister." It has been urged-with a painful measure of truth-against many professed Christian teachers, that, like milestones, they pointed a road to others that they themselves did not travel. But of this Teacher it could not solbe'said, for the key-note of His teaching was"Follow Me." In a teacher we need an Exemplar. Christ was" In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." We need a Guide. He who said" Follow me" is competent to lead; for He knows the mind of God and the heart of man; the power of God and the needs of man. We need an Instructor, Of Him it was said " Never'[man spake like this Man;" that" He spake with authority, and not as the scribes." Of old, He was heard gladly by the poor and simple, to whose hearts and eyes He spake : whilst the "advanced thinkers" of His day and nation found in Him one who could solve their deepest problems, so that they durst not "ask Him any more questions." From an instructor we need positive and not merely negative teaching. Jesus taught positive truth. Uttered the earnest convictions of His own mind and heart. For the obedient believer He taught Resurrection from among the dead to" Eternal Life;" saying, "I~give:unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish.Fneither shall anyone pluck them out''ot My hand." "And this is the will of Him that Rent Me, that everyone which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." (John x. 28: vi. 40). For the disobedient unbeliever He taught Resurrection at the Judgment-day, followed by the "Second Death" in the "Gehenna" of fire; saying, "Fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna." (JJIatt. x. 28.) Beholding thus the Great Teacher, " What think ye of Christ l"
AS" THE LAMB OF GOD."

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We areguiIty and need a sacrifice," for without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin." Christ, as that sacrifice, "by His own blood entered in once into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us:" having been ".once'offered to bear the sins of many." As " The Lamb of God, bearing away the sin of the world," He i(,fo1'.us. a .Sufficient Sacrifice; for,

it is written, " How much more shall the Blood Me, though he were dead, yet shall he Uve" of Christ purge your conscience to serve the (John xi. 25). What means this claim? What, Living God?" He is also a Full Sacrifice; for but that He who had power to lay down His the Spirit declares, "Jesus Christ by the grace own life and to take it again, has also power to of God tasted death for every man." A Free call back from the dust and sleep of death all Sacrifice: "Ask and ye shall receive:" "Him that the Father hath given Him; and to make that cometh unto i\le I will in no wise cast out." them immortal as their deathless Head. Thus A Personal Sacrifice: "Whosoever believeth in the words of Paul in 1 COl'. xv. 54, "So when Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." this corruptible shall have put on incorruption; A Peace-Brinqinq Sacrifice: " Being justified by and this mortal shall have put on immortality, faith, we have peace with God." Also an then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." Abiding Sacrifice: for" Ye shall never perish." Regarding thus the" Lamb of God," "What Where writteu j In Isaiah xxv. 8, in connecthink ye of Christ t" tion with the Second Advent of our blessed Lord -" He will swallow up death in victory." In AS THE "FIRST FRUITS FROM THE DEAD." the day that His people say "Lo, this is our "Make it as sure as ye can," was Pilates' God; we have waited for Him, and He will answer to those Jews who demanded measures save us." for the safe keeping of the dead, but still dreaded But this resurrection is not to life merely, but Christ. "So they went, and made the sepulchre to incorruptible, deathless life. Thus He is not sure, sealing the stone and setting a watch." only" the Resurrection," but" the Life," also. It is now the morn of the "first day of the The former speaks of re-existence only, but the week:" will he rise? as He said He would? latter of an eternal and incorruptible existence: "Destroy this 'I'emple, and in three days I will a spiritual, not a natural being: a semi-Divine, raise it up again; "-" He spake of the Temple not a human nature: "Sons of God," not sons of His body." (John ii. 19-21.) La I The of Adam: 'r joini-heirs with Christ "-and thus answer.-" A great earthquake :" " The angel of "partakers of Divine nature:" streams of the the Lord" descends from heaven and rolls back Ever-Living Fountain; branches of the Eternal the stone of the sepulchre, scattering the "Vllle;" possessors with Him of incorruptible, trembling guards, and saying tu the wondering fadeless, unchanging life. women, "Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." Jesus, Who was crucified. He is not here : for We touch but one further feature, that of HiR He is risen, ASHE SAIDHE WOULD I" But was Kingship. He is revealed as the "King of He seen of men? Yes, for as the eleven disciples As the Ruler and are met together, "Jesus, Himself, stands in the kings, and Lord of lords." Head of redeemed, glorified humanity. A midst of them, and says, Peace be unto you;" "Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I righteous and perfect Ruler, because a DivinelyAs such He is to sit upon" the Myself: handle Me and see." Considering Him human Ruler. And He shall as the "First fruits from the Dead," the throne of His father David; firstbomfrom the grave-in the power of an in- reign over the house of J acob for ever: and of corruptible and deathless life-" What think ye His kingdom there shall be no end" (Luke i. 32, 33). In Him too all the Gentiles are to reof Christ ?" ceive a Supreme Head and King. Thus reAS EXALTEDOF GOD. verently regarding Him "of whom Moses and " What if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend the prophets did write," "What think ue of up where He was before?" was the question Christ ? " Jesus put to His disciples. Luke records it, May these thoughts influence our lives, form fulfilment, "And He led them out as far as to our characters and shape our eternal destinies Bethany, and He lifted up His hands, and for" glory, honour and immortality;" and also blessed them. And while He blessed them, He promote His glory Whom we 10Vll and serve.was parted from them, and carried up into Faithfully yours, " Devon." heaven." In this last scene of the First Advent He gave us one further example that He whom DISCARDING A MISSIONARY. " wicked hands had crucified and slain" was the Maker and Monarch of earth'a laws. [ COMMUNICATED.] Let us follow Him in thought whither He has ON Monday last the Committee of the Church gone; being guided therein by those gracious Society came to the resolution of glimpses of the otherwise unknown, which His Missionary expelling from their employment one of the Word supplies. ablest and most useful missionaries in their Dying Stephen witnessed, "I see the heavens of his public adoption opened, and the Son of Man standing on the service in consequence ?'ight hand of God." Paul declared, " I saw in of the Doctrine of Life in Christ, which involves and of the the way a Light from heaven, above the briqht- the denial of inherent immortality, Mr. Dening has ness of the sun. And I said, Who art Thou, doctrine of endless misery. Lord? And He said, 'I am Jesus.''' John embraced these views after long and careful testified, "I saw heaven opened "-and de- study of the questions concerned, and in full experience of their bearing on the faith of cribing Christ as He tben appeared, he addedThe Committee " His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on Hi, Buddhists and Confucianists. head were many c?owns." How great the con- required his presence at home, in order to give trast between the cross and this exaltation to an account of his change of belief. Leaving his wife and family on the other side of the globe, rule and power as "the Sun of Righteousness" eo-reigning with the Father. Thus following he returned to England, to learn within a fortHim from Ascension into heaven, " What think night, and without a hearing before the General Committee, that the Church Missionary Society ye of Christ.' " A step further, ere we close the Volume of will tolerate no teaching in its stations among Inspiration. "\\'e have yet to regard Him in His the heathen, except that of natural immortality, and the endless torments of the un saved. Mr. future relationship to this planet, as the Dening has laboured for ten years in Japan, "RESURRECTION AND LIFE." has translated works such as "Mozley on and has 'gained a " I am .He that liveth, and was dead; and, Miracles," into Japanese, behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen; an~ strong hold upon native scholars of the upper It have the keys of Hades and of Death" (Rev. !. classes, as well as on the common people. 17,18). 'I'his IS no new claim, for It was also now remains only for Mr. Dening to make an asserted ~t the grave .of Lazarus, "I am the appeal to the Christian public to enable him to His church will Resurrectionand the LIfe: he that believeth in continue his work in Japan.

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follow him into a position separate from the Church Mission, but he will not resign his position as a clergyman of the Church of England, We shall announce in good time the measures which will be taken to give an opportunity to the Churches at home of practically showing that at least a vast number will assist in advancing a mission not based on the fundamental tenets of the Church Missionary Society, but at least bearing the appearance of close conformity to the letter of Holy Scripture.Christian World, Jan. 11.

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excitedly, " I could have upset the lot of you ." which he repeated with increasing warmth. The lecturer quietly asked, . Why did you not do so then? You were invited to put questions?" To which he responded (unwittingly paying the lecturer and the truth he advocated, a high complirnent.) "Wbat was the use of it? You carried the whole meeting with you ?"

BIBLICAL EXEGESIS,
By BURLINGTON B. WALE,

No. 3. F.R.G.S.

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E have taken this chapter for examination, because there is one verse in it so frequently quoted to prove the eternity of future torments (v. 14). Isaiah prophesied in the reign of Hexekiah, in whose reign Sennacherib King of Assyria, invaded Judea. To prevent his attacking the capital-J erusalem-c-Hezelriah sent an embassy to him, with overtures of peace. The Assyrian monarch in return laid upon the Jewish king a tribute of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold. This, Hezekiah paid (2 K'ings xviii. 14-16; Isa. xxxvi.) But, having received the tribute, the Assyrian king "broke the covenant," and advanced rapidly towards Jerusalem, and surrounded it with 200,000 men. It was under these circumstances that the prophet wrote the chapter under examination, The chapter opens with an apostrophe by the prophet to the invader: "Woe to thee that spoil est, and thou wast not spoiled: and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and wheu thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee." This was fulfilled immediately after. One hundred and eighty thousand of his troops were slaiu by the destroying angel in one night, and the Jews took the " spoil"; and on the return of Seuuacherib to his own land, he was "treacherously" slain by his two sons, while worshipping in the house of Nisroch, his god. In verse 2, the pious Jews apostrophise Jehovah, and call upon Him for help. In reply to their prayer, in verses 3 and 4, Jehovahaddressing the invader-announces his approaching destruction. In verses 5 and 6, a chorus of Jews is introduced, praising the Lord for His promised deliverance, while in verses 7, 8, and 9, we have their lamentations over the desolations the invader has brought upon the land. In response to these lamentations, in verses 10, 11, 12, and 13, Jehovah undertakes to interpose on behalf of His people, and threatens the invader with total destruction. But, in contemplation of the approaching danger which menaced the capital, and either not relying upon the Divine promise, or else being ignorant of it, "The sinners [the wicked] in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites"; and they ask the question, Who among us shall dwell with these "devouring" fires? who among us shall dwell with these perpetual [Gholahrn] burnings. In the next verse the prophet answers the question. Who! "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppression, that shaketh his hand from holding of bribes; He shall dwell on high (in safety): his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him ; his waters shall be sure." Thus it is the righteous, and not the wicked, who were to dwell calmly amid the "devouring" fires kindled by

On the following evening the course was continued. Subject: "Immortality: Who shall live for ever?" In the absence of the Rev. W. R. Stevenson and Mr. Councillor Acton, who had conditionally promised to take the chair, but pleaded the Malagasy Envoys as a previous engagement, Mr. G. W. Barber (Local Secretary) presided. The attendance was good, and still larger than on the previous night. The proceedings commenced with singing the hymn, . I give unto My sheep eternal life," and prayer. The Chairman having briefly introduced the lecturer, the rev. gentleman, at the outset, proceeded to trace the counection hetween the lecture of the previous night and the subject in hand. To whom did immortality belong? If the popular belief was true, and the punishment of sin was eternal torture, then immortality belonged to every member of the human family. They believed that immortality was eternal life, the gift of God through Christ to those who believed in Him. As on the previous night he should adhere closely to the Book. He had great reverence for it, and whatever was its testimooy that he would receive. He did not seek to bring to it certain theories of his own, put them in, then take them out and say, Heal' what the Bible says. He thought the word" death" simply meant that and nothing more. He could not see that . death" or "destruction" meant eternal preservation in fire. The question was, "Was immortality the possession of every man, or was it given only to those who believed in the Lord TESTIMONY IN NOTTINGHAM. Jesus Christ ?" Beginning at the Mosaic account of the Creation, did it not show that E are chiefly indebted to the Nottingham God created man with a possibility of living for Daily Express for the following report :On Wednesday, January 10th, a lecture on" The ever, subject to certain conditions, the chief Revealed Penalty of Sin" was given in the being that he should continue in perfect obedience to his Maker. Glancing at the symbolical Lecture Hall of the Mechanics' Institution, under the auspices of the Local Committee of sacrifices of the Jewish economy, the lecturer the" Conditional Immortality Association," by next proceeded to point out the teachings of the Saviour Himself on the subject of immortality. the Rev. Burlington B. Wale. W. B. Baggalley, Esq., occupied the chair, and there was a In John, chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10, they life," "living moderately numerous audience. The proceed- found the phrases, "everlasting ings commenced with singing the hymn" All water," "should have life," and" should never perish," Some of them might think that they hail the power of Jesu's name," and prayer, The Chairman, in opening, said it was usual if had eternal life in themselves, but in John vi. possible to have a chairman presiding over a Christ said they had no life in themselves. meeting who was in general if not in full How, if they were to understand by these terms happiness or blessedness were the words never sympathy with the views to be enunciated. used? Turning to St. Paul, he spoke of sin He confessed that was not his position, and he had said so when asked to take reigning unto death and grace reigning unto eternal life, that the wages of sin was death, and the position. He belonged to what might be called the old school of thought, believing the gift of God eternal life. "Life" and" death" in the doctrines held by his fathers. He had were the antithesis from Genesis to Revelations. come tbere in search of the truth, and he should If they went away and called the one happiness and the other torment they must do so at their be very glad indeed if their friend, the lecturer, own peril. The word" immortal" was used but could convince him of error and put him right. once throughout the Bible, and there it was He thought that in the past tbere had possibly been too much disinclination to leave the old applied to God alone. The word" immortality" occurred foul' times, and in no case was it spoken lines, and that, if looked into thoroughly, mauy of the old doctrines would not hold water to-day. of as being the possession of man as man. To He had been requested to mention that the find the author of the thought that man was naturally and inherently immortal, they must society was not confined to Christadelphiaus 01' indeed any sect, but included many Church of turn to Genesis ii., God said, "In the day thou Satan went into the England clergymen, and ministers and laymen of eatest thou shalt die;" The same all denominations. [As a matter of fact it con- garden and said, There is no death. tains no Christadelphians. ED. B.B.] The thought was elaborated by Plato some centuries impressive lecture which followed was well re- after. It was grafted on to Christianity 200 ported. At its close, questions were invited, but years A.D. Until then the d~trines of immornone asked. The meeting terminated with sing- tality and endless suffering were not accepted, and he quoted passages from the Fathers of the ing and prayer. To show the favourable nature of the impression made upon an audience of Apostolic age to show it, Tertullian was the near 300 persons, we may repeat what passed in first to speak of endless suffering, and to glory in it, and to speak of man as immortal apart the lohby after. One of the audience-apSeven hundred years after, Pope parently a minister or teacher-said very from Christ.

the Assyrian invader. Jerusalem and its king should retain their beauty and their quiet (v. 17-21), undisturbed by the invader: "Thine heart shall meditate (upon the past) terror;" and rejoice in thy deliverance. And then the prophet asks in a tone of quiet irony, Where is the" scribe" who was deputed by the Assyrian monarch to take an inveutorv of the spoil in Jerusalem when he should have captured it? "Where is the receiver " who was to take possession of the property when the " scribe" had taken a record of it? "Where is he that counted the towers?" the man who went round the beleagured city before the siege began to "count the towers," and to take note of their number, their size, and their strength, to see where would be the best place to commence the attack. Where? perished with the hundred and eighty thousand whom the angel had destroyed in one night. Then once more apostrophising the Assyrian king in a sarcastic vein, the prophet says, "Thy tacklings are loo sed "-thou wert coming in full sail, but they could not well strengthen the mast-their gear got out of trim-they could not spread the sail -they were shipwrecked in sight of port. And the vast "spoil" that they had brought with them under the very walls of Jerusalem, should be takeu possession of by the Jews-and so complete should be the destruction of the Assyrian host that even the lame (among the Jews), the veriest cripples, should come out of the city and" take the prey." And the terrified inhabitants of the city, the weak and the infirm, who would be, as they anticipated, the very first to suffer, if the city were besieged and famine ensued, shall be relieved of their terror, and the inhabitant shall not say" I am sick," for the threatened puuishment shall pass away-for their iniquity shall be forgiven.

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Clement V. decreed that the doctrine should be accepted. He (the lecturer) recommended them when doctrines were presented to them with which they were not familiar, or which they were not inclined to receive, to apply the test, " Does the doctrine propounded exalt Christ, or does it in any way degrade Him?" If it tended to degrade Him, let them reject it; if to exalt Him, let them accept it. He thought no doctrine so exalted the Saviour as that which made Him the giver of eternal life. Let them remember what was the object of. the Incarnation? That Christ came into the world that He might destroy the works of the Devil. These works were sin, suffering, and death, and He came that He might destroy him who had the power over death. Questions were invited, but none asked, and the meeting terminated with singing the hymn, " Eternal life" and prayer. It had been feared that the grand entertainment given by the Mayor to the Malagasy Envoys-who were visiting the town-would have injured the attendance at the lecture, so far from this, however, near 400 persons were present: a fact very creditable to Nottingham, and suggestive of a spirit of real enquiry as to " What is truth ?" The last lecture of the course was delivered on Friday evening. Subject:" The Pre-Millennial Advent: Its Natnre, Necessity, and Nearness." The attendance being near 300 persons. The chair was taken by the Rev. W. R. Stevenson, Ba ist Minister. The Members of the Association may well take encouragement from the result of this first course of lectures organised in connection with our Special Lecture Fund.Donations invited. 'I'he Local Secretary writes :-" I assure you, you would have been delighted had you heard many, whom I have heard, express themselves thorougbly satisfied witb the force of argument, and the agreeable way of putting our heterodox views before its very enemies; many of whom are now changed into friends. It now remains to endeavour to gather the fruit, which I conceive may be done by holding weekly meetings, so to continue to agitate the question. I hope soon to see Mr. Wale here again."

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to be true, my Father, Y As Thou would'st have me be, Amid the mountain billows Of life's tempestuous sea. Oh to be true, my Father, When storms come on apace; As true as when the sunshine Reveals Thy smiling face. Oh to be true, my Father, When disappointments come, And earthly hopes lie buried Beneath the silent tomb. Oh to be true, my Father, Beneath the chast'ning rod; Resting with full reliance Upon the love of God. Oh to be true, my Father; And then I know at last Tbou'lt wake me in Thy likeness, When death's dark night is past. For Thou art true, my Father; Thy promises are sure; Thou wilt grant life immortal To all who shall endure. R. FURNISH.

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Jehovah; lift Thy standard; Set Thy King on Zion's height; Draw Thy sword, and grasp Thy sceptre, Righteous warrior, King of might. Let the rebel nations tremble At the sounding of Thy law: Let the outcasts of tbe people Worship Thee, with reverent awe.

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W'1I'rOME, Saviour, come! Thy waiting people 'VI, here Long for Thy presence to dispel the gloom, Intensely long for Thee to soothe and cheer; Come, Saviour, come! Whilst Thou art absent sin can do its worst, And Satan tbreatens with impending doom, And cries of anguish from our fain t hearts burst; Come, Saviour, come! Our loved ones glide from our entwining arms, Slowly, in tears, we lay them in the tomb; Then, broken, turn to face the world's alarms; Come, Saviour, come! When Thou shalt come in clouds and fiery flame, And trumpet of A,rchangel calls us home, The dead in Thee shall leap and shout Thy name; Come, Saviour, come! The quick and risen shall exulting spring To meet their Lord beneath heaven's vaulted dome, Whilst thrilling accents for the last time ring: Come, Saviour, come! Then, happy time, for ever with the Lord, Sin gone, death done away, and safe at home; The victory ours, and ours the great reward, The Saviour come. A. M. KING.

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