CERTAINTIES of the GOSPEL--See Page 3

CERTAINTIES OF THE GOSPEL--See page 3

The entrance to King Tut's tomb is below the large central opening. Tourists are looking over the parapet at the work proceeding below. Current History

Happenings of the day from all parts of the world

THE Birmingham Archxologi- Great Britain, forgetting the promises doubled in the last 90 years. To- cal Society is at present carrying they made during the war, try to pre- day it is estimated at 1,747,000,- on excavation work in connection vent us from getting them."— "Daily 00o." Quoting from the U.S. with the Roman city of Uriconium Chronicle," Tune 5, 1924. Census Report, the article con- at Wroxeter (Salop). The follow- tinues : "The net addition to the ing interesting description of the RESULTS of the Ruhr coal strike nation [America] over deaths and results of the excavations was, show a loss of 58,800,000 gold departures for the last ten-year published in the "Daily Chroni- marks (£2,94o,000) in wages. period (1910--192o) averaged cle" of June 5th : "The big strike of 1905 caused a nearly 4,000 persons per day. . . . loss of 21,000,000 gold marks The population of the United "Ur:conium, covering 17o acres, was (£1,o5o,000), and that of 1922 of States has been doubling itself ap- an important town, and its civil basilica, 7,800,000 gold marks (£390,000). baths and other public buildings were on a proximately each thirty years dur- The loss in production for the last ing the last century. It was large scale. Ruins of hypocausts (cham- strike is estimated at 7,194,000 bers in which fires were kindled for heat- 25,000,000 in 1850, 50,000,000 in ing baths and other rooms) have been tons of coal, worth 149,850,000 1880, and too,o0o,000 in 191o. If found during former excavations. On gold marks (£7,492,500). The loss this rate of increase continues, it the floor of one of these were many due to flooding and other damage will have grown to 700,000,000 in skeletons, mostly of women. It is sup- in the mines, and the losses to the less than too years!" posed that they had crawled there for railways and to steel and other in- shelter when the city was destroyed and dustries, cannot be calculated, but DURING the first three months the inhabitants probably massacred. must be very heavy." One of the skeletons was that of an of this year there were in London old man, who lay with his money bags, TESTS have been carried out near 16,691 street accidents, 157 of full of coins, scattered about him. It is Hull of a "winged incendiary roc- which were fatal. thought that the foundations of a forum ket which it is claimed will, when may be brought to light by the present "Among the mechanically propelled excavations, which are being carried out fired into the air, burst and spread vehicles, omnibuses were concerned in under the supervision of Mr. D. Atkin- a rain of molten metal over an 1,819 accidents, of which 32 were fatal ; son, of Manchester University. So far area of five to eight miles, destroy- tramcars in 1,104, 9 of them fatal ; cabs, the buildings show no signs of the influ- ing anything within its range." 912, 6 fatal; private motor-cars, 4,384, ence of Christianity in the Roman city, 44 fatal ; motor-cycles, 759, 7 fatal ; and but it is hoped that a Christian basilica UNDER the heading, "Can Sci- trade and commercial motors, 4,085, of may yet be revealed. From time to which 65 were fatal. There were thir- ence Save a Crowded World?" a teen accidents with traction engines, time there have been found pottery, tes- recent issue of "The Popular Sci- sellated pavements, coins, moulds, cin- none of which was fatal, while pedal- erary urns and sepulchral stones." ence Monthly" states that "the cycles figured in 1,590 accidents, one of population of the earth has which was fatal."

A SIGNIFICANT speech by Trot- • .....1...... 1...... ,...••••••••••••••00...•••••••••••••••• •••••.• sky was published recently. "The question of Constantinople and the Straits," he said, "was one of EVENTS OF 1924. those rare questions on which the Tsarist regime was not deceived. MAY 28th.-2o,00o workers in Mon- June 1st. —M. Poincare resigns French "We must proclaim to the world that mouths'.ire coalfield go on Premiership. we need the Straits and that we need strike. China recognizes Russian Constantinople. United States House of Repre- Soviet Government. "A country like ours must not be suf- sentatives votes ,30,000,000 for June 2nd.—New French Chamber sits focated on account of the caprices or in- naval reconstruction. for first time. terests of someone else. Therefore Bessarabia is vital to us, because Bess- June 4th.—Workers in railway shops and May 29th.—King and Queen of Italy re- power stations of Great Wes- arabia is the first step towards Constan- turn to Rome. tinople ; and if the Rumanians and their tern and London Electric Rail- unfortunate instruments, the Poles, try May 3oth.—Ruhr miners' dispute settled. ways go on strike. to bar the way we shall fight them. We Workers to receive 15% in- June 7th.—Japanese Cabinet resigns. are convinced that the Straits will belong crease and work extra hour un- Mosul negotiations break down. to us sooner or later—even if France and til September. Iraq refuses Anglo-Iraq Treaty.

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Vol. 40. No. 14. Price 2d. July 3, 1924. Certainties of the Gospel

AN we be certain of The first of a new series of short, their old conceptions are wrong, anything? Well-mean- complete articles on the funda- that their fathers were mistaken in their faith, that their Bibles are ing people, confused mentals of the Christian faith by t h e pronounce- not to be trusted. At the same ments of the Modern- time, however, they are being ists and by the conflicting claims ing away the very foundations of given nothing to take the place of of widely differing religious sects, the Christian faith. Ministerial these things but theories, argu- are beginning to ask themselves training colleges are full of it and ments, and the findings of science. this question. Is it possible, they the graduates are going out into And when a man faces death or are saying, that the great preach- a perishing world to preach a Gos- sorrow or heartbreaking disap- ers and teachers of the past may pel they neither believe nor under- pointment he wants something have been mistaken ? Did they lay stand. It is a situation full of peril. more than theories to comfort and emphasis on matters of religious Here is one sample quotation solace his soul. Which brings us importance not adequately estab- illustrating the methods of the back to our opening question, Can lished by facts? Have we been Higher Critical party in the we be certain of anything ? Are misled ? And again, desperately, churches. The Rev. Arthur there any fundamental truths in the words of Pilate, What is Pringle, chairman of the Congre- which we can believe and rely up- truth ? gational Union of England and on and trust ? Inquiry is the spirit of the age. Wales, is reported as having made It is our purpose during the next As Harry Emerson Fosdick said at the following assertion at the re- few weeks to consider some of the the City Temple a few weeks ago, cent annual gathering of that points of faith so frequently no ground is too holy fcr the feet body: - brought in question to-day, with a of the modern investigator. He "The silence of the earliest gospel view to establishing our readers probes into every field of thought. [Mark], of the epistles, of Christ Him- more firmly upon the rock of the Accepting nothing by faith, he self, concerning the virgin birth is not truth of God. Let us deal first seeks for fullest material evidence necessarily an argument for denial, but with that pivotal matter, of every tenet of belief. If his dis- it is an indication that the question is not coveries do not substantiate his of essential importance. THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE. "it is good news for busy, harassed preconceived ideas, then unhesi- people that the Bible need not be taken, We use the word "pivotal" ad- tatingly he discards them. all or none, as it stands." visedly, for upon the way one No one would deprecate inquiry. settles this question all else de- When conducted with a view to es- It is distressing to those who pends. If the Bible is not the tablishing faith it is all to the good. have not become thus modernized Word of God, if it is not to be Unfortunately it has been largely that the leader of the Congrega- taken as the rule of faith for Chris- carried on with other purposes in tional Union should have taken up tians, then there is an end to all view. A kind of Bolshevism such a position as this. However, faith, and confusion, uncertainty seems to have entered the ranks of as we have already said, Mr. and darkness are inevitable. Christ the Christian ministry: old stan- Pringle is by no means alone. is the basis of Christianity, the dards and beliefs are being cast There are tens of thousands of reason for every church, every aside, the authority and authen- ministers who believe as he does. Bible Society, every foreign mis- ticity of the Bible repudiated. And it is just because of this that sionary, every Christian service, Modernism, indeed, has come in "busy, harassed people" are every- and without the Bible the world like a flood, filling the minds of where asking what they are to be- would know nothing of Christ. preachers and teachers and sweep- lieve. They are being told that On the other hand, if this Book PAGE THREE can be shown to be the product of book which can change men's the glory of heaven. How does it divine authorship, then the path to lives is not a man's book, and come that these widely separated clear conceptions of faith and duty this breathes the love, the life and authors have unitedly described becomes plain. the power of God. That is our the career of a single character? That is the problem before us, first and main reason for believ- Surely it must be that their minds and it must be settled. We must ing the Bible to be inspired. were controlled by something become down on one side of the Equally convincing are the ful- yond themselves. The only pos- fence, tremendous as the conse- filled prophecies of the Bible. sible explanation is that God, quences must be in either case. Man unaided cannot foretell the whose purpose it was to send His For ourselves we are convinced events of the next hour, much less Son for the redemption of the that the Bible is indeed the Word of next year or the next century. human race, designed to commu- of God. This is not the mere You yourself cannot tell the na- nicate these wonderful tidings, repetition of a well-worn shibbo- ture even of to-morrow's weather. through human instrumentalities, leth. After hearing all the evi- But the men who wrote the Bible to the changing generations of dence against the Book it is still did not hesitate to speak of men. The presentation differs our considered judgment that the events that would happen hun- with the mentality of the instru- arguments in its favour far out- dreds of years from their day. ments used and with the persons weigh those of its adversaries. With more than human intuition to whom it was sent, but the sub- Take the supreme test first, the they described the rise and fall of lime message is the same through- power of this Book to change kingdoms as yet unfounded and out. men's lives. Place this Book in the unknown. Babylon, said Jere- The remarkable harmony of the hands of some wretched outcast, a miah, in the height of that city's Bible is another testimony to its drunkard, a "down and out." Let glory, would become "heaps." divine origin. The authors of it speak to his heart as only the (Jer. 51 : 37.) Nineveh, said Na- these many books differed widely Bible can. Then watch the trans- hum, would one day be empty, ir their station in life, in their at- formation. Somehow it gives him void and waste. (Nahum 2: io.) tainments, in their outlook on a new vision of what he might be, Egypt, said Ezekiel, would be de- the world. They wrote at differ- inspires him with desire and cour- based and 'no more rule over the ent times, to different people, in a age to attempt to break his chains, nations. Ezek. 29 : 8--13. Tyre, variety of places. Nevertheless and then, when the victory has been prosperous and powerful, would there are no contradictions. You gained, gradually polishes and re- become "a place for the spreading do not find Isaiah contradicting fines him into a respectable citizen. of nets in the midst of the sea." Moses, or Peter disputing the Somehow it "raiseth up the poor Ezek. 26: 5. To-day anybody can statements of Jeremiah. Con- out of the dust, and lifteth up the verify the exact fulfilment of flict is absent; harmony reigns. beggar from the dunghill, to set every prediction. How did these Each succeeding book but unfolds them among princes, and to make men know the future ? There is the mystery of God's love for them inherit the throne of glory." only one answer. Their minds man. Who planned it ? Surely Sam. 2 : 8. were enlightened and their pens the men who wrote the separate Not long ago we were talking guided by the One Who sees the portions could not have done it of with a missionary from the Solo- end from the beginning and Who themselves. The evidence of di- mon Islands. He told us how the rules in the affairs of men. In the vine guidance is overwhelming. Christian workers land on those words of Peter, "Prophecy came We are aware of the criticisms cannibal shores with nothing but not in old time by the will of man : levelled against the Bible. It has the Bible in their hands and the but holy men of God spake as they been frequently pointed out that love of Christ in their hearts and were moved by the Holy Ghost." the original manuscripts have how, within a few months, those 2 Peter I :21. been lost, that the possibility of man-eating savages cease their The extraordinary continuity of errors in copying is very great, internecine strife, give up their the Bible is further evidence that that there are words in the King devil-worship, clean up their a divine mind has guided in its James' version that have become homes, build churches and schools, preparation. Despite the fact obsolete and unintelligible to the learn to read and write, and live that the last book was written average reader to-day. Granted. together as decent men and hundreds of years after the first That may all be true. Neverthe- women. and that the prophecies, dis- less it is a fact that the Revised That is the power of this Book. courses and epistles that to-day Version, and particularly the later You cannot do these things with appear between them were written American Revised Version, is as any other book, and you know it. at widely separated periods, with- accurate a translation of the Greek If you saw your son going to the out any possibility of communica- and Hebrew manuscripts now in dogs, would you try to help him tion between the authors, never- existence as scholars can pro- with a copy of Shakespeare's theless through all the sixty-six duce. These revisions were not plays ? Would you not rather sections there runs one central issued until after the closest pray that the message of the theme of redemption. In the scrutiny and most careful investi- Bible might touch his heart and earlier books the form of a com- gation, and we may rest assured turn him from his course? Why? ing Deliverer can be traced that the Book we have to-day re- Because you know that this Book through symbols and ceremonies. flects as nearly as possible the has saved tens of thousands of Then the prophets declare more thought of the person who origin- other young men from a life of plainly the nature of His advent. ally wrote it under the guidance squalor and sin and that it has The apostles describe His com- of God. Let it be remembered power to save your boy. It is ing, tell of His life and deeds, also that no revision has resulted this power of the Book which is and the revelator emphasizes His in the change of any text affecting the seal of its divine origin. 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LOVE TO

THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. V TI HONOUR THY RATHER AND THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAY. THY MOTHER THAT THY DAYS EN IMAGE,OR ANY LIKENESS OF ANY THING THAT IS IN HEAVEN ADOVE,ORTHAT *IN THE EARTH BE MAY BE LONG UPON THE LAND HEATH, OR MAT IS IN THE WATERUNDERTIE CAM WHICH THE LORDTHY GOD THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELFM TOEI( GIVETH THEE NOR SERVE THEM FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD, ISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIROASO FOURTH GENERATION OF TORINO HATE MLANO THOU SHALT NOT KILL SHOWING MERCY UNTO THOUSANDS OF THEM NAT UNE ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS Va THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY THY GOD IN VAIN; FOR THE LORD WILL NUT NOLO HIM GUILTLESS THAT TAKETil HIS NAME VIM IN VAIN. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL MT, SINAI s\ REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAN.; TO KEEP IT HOLY SIX DAYS IS CALVARY SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK BUT THE SEv• THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WIT. And God spake all these ENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE NESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR "I have kept my Father's ild•:ied LORD THY GOD IN IT THOU SHALT words;'''andlte no NOT DO ANY WORK ,THOU, NOR THY comandments --Vrq,,,,- more. And he wrote them SON, NOR THY DAuGHTER,THY MAN _,. C--/ so:won:NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, IHOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGH. in two tables ofst one, and NOR THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANG. SOUR'S HOUSE, THOU SHALT NOT ER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES COVET THY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE delivered them unto me FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE NOR HIS MANSERVANT, NOR HIS HEAVEN AND EARTH,THESEA,AND MAIDSERVANT, NOR HIS OX, NOR ALL THAT IN THEM IS, AND RESTED HIS ASS, NOR ANY THING THAT IS THE SEVENTH DAY: WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH THY NEIGHBOUR'S DAY AND HALLOWED IT

Two Dispensations but One Law By H. F. DE'ATH OD is love." There- of Him,,elf to man according to the The same unchangeable God and fore He must, in the consciousness and capacity of the everlasting Father spake to both very nature of His age in which He works. Thus we ages. Both Father and Son shared being, reveal Himself find in the Old Testament Scrip- in the creation of man. (Gen. 1 : to mankind, whom He tures a gradually unfolding revela- 26, 27; John I : 1--3; Col. I :16, 17.) has made capable of loving and tion of God to man. That progres- Both co-operated in the plan of re- serving Him. And since God is siv.e revelation of the divine demption. When man fell both perfect love His character and the reaches its climax in the New Tes- joined in appealing to a sinful principles of His government must tament, when in "the fullness of world through loyal Enoch, right- of necessity never vary. It is not the time . . . God sent forth His eous Noah and through faithful love, but weak sentimentalism, Son,made of a woman, made under Abraham, and the nation which that lowers its standard and the law, to redeem them that were sprang from his loins. (I Peter I : changes its rules to suit the weak- under the law, that we might re- 1o, 1.) "God, having of old ness and waywardness of its ceive the adoption of sons." Gal. time spoken unto the fathers in the charges. True love blends firm- 4 : 4, 5. Never before had there prophets by divers portions and in ness with kindness ; it is longsuf- been such a perfect demonstration divers manners, hath at the end of fering, but does not spoil; if it of what God the Father was like as these days spoken unto us in His did, it would soon fail to command when His Son Jesus appeared in Son, through Whom also He made the respect of those it seeks to human flesh to walk and talk with, the ages." Heb. i : 1, 2. R.V. help and so cease to be love. It is and die for, men: and true to the (margin). quite consistent, however, with the character of His Father, God, character of love to change its Christ adopted the step-by-step, THE NEW COVENANT. methods. Love is pre-eminently progressive method in presenting With this new dispensation was adaptable to varying conditions the truth to men, unfolding it to introduced a new covenant. Not and circumstances in the lives of them "by divers portions and in that it was new in substance, any those who need its ministrations. divers manners" as they were able more than a fully matured rose can Just as a wise earthly parent ad- to receive it. (John 16: 12.) But be said to be substantially new in justs his or her methods of instruc- while the advent of Jesus into the comparison with the bud from tion and training to the age, ex- world opened a new dispensation, which it has burst into maturity. perience and development of the nothing fundamental was thereby On God's side the covenant was child, so God adapts the revelation cancelled or made void in the old. new only in the comparative full-

PAGE FIVE ness and completeness of its reve- not do for themselves, that they if the old dispensation revealed lation of divine truth. The foun- might, out of love and gratitude, God's infinite and implacable dation of the new covenant (Heb. with godly fear and humility of hatred of sin through the sacrifice 8 : io--12) in which God under- heart, keep His commandments. of animals, how much more in- takes the initial step to secure Hence He prefaced His law with tensely is it revealed in the new man's redemption, was already laid a declaration of Who He was and dispensation by the shedding of in Eden, and was set into opera- what He had done for them in "the precious blood of Christ." tion as soon as man fell. Address- order to remind them continually If Christ in His earthly life and ing Himself in the beginning to that true obedience must spring teaching magnified the law of the adversary of souls, He said : from an experimental knowledge (god, how much more did He do "I will put enmity between thee of God's power to save and to so in His death. As He Himself and the woman, and between thy keep. "I am the Lord thy God, expressly declares, He came not to seed and her seed; it shall bruise which have brought thee out of destroy the law, but to fulfil it ; not thy head, and thou shalt bruise his the land of Egypt, out of the house to abolish it, but to more fully in- heel." Gen. 3 : 15. This neces- of bondage." Exod. 20 : 2. But, terpret it. (Matt. 5 : 17-20.) If sary divine provision for man's re- as the psalmist says, "They soon the Cross is the supremely intensi- demption was embraced by faithful forgat His works." Psa. Io6: 13. fied revelation of God's love it is Abel, whose offering was preferred Listen to their confident response equally the supremely intensified to Cain's, in that by its very nature to God's appeal through Moses for revelation of His inviolable law. it expressed faith in the "Lamb their loyal obedience to Him : "All If "God so loved the world, that slain from the foundation of the that the Lord hath spoken we will He gave His only begotten Son," world," Who bears away the sins do." Exod. 19 : 8. These words He also so hated sin that in sacri- of the world. Cain, however, ig- fitly sum up the self-sufficient, self- ficing His Son He made the su- nored this necessary provision confident attitude which was Is- preme effort to save the world and refused to recognize his help- rael's undoing. Herein, on man's from it. "What a strange sense less, undone condition before the side, lay the weakness and ineffici- of gratitude these men must claims of the broken law. His ency of the old covenant. As the have," says Dr. Horatius Bonar, offering represented the self- writer to the Hebrews puts it : "who suppose that because love sufficiency and the pride of his own "The word preached did not profit has cancelled the penalties of law, works, by which he thought to in- them, not being mixed with faith and turned away its wrath, there- gratiate himself with God. Abel in them that heard it." Heb. 4: fore reverence and obedience to looked by faith to the cross of Cal- 2. Such a covenant, based on the that law are no longer due. Is vary and thus "lived" that he altogether unreliable and ineffec- terror, in their estimation, the only might "obey." Cain stumbled at tual promises of man, was fore- foundation of duty; and when love the cross, and was inevitably doomed to failure, leading inevit- comes in and terror ceases, does broken, as must all be broken, to ably to apostasy and rejection. duty become bondage ? Let whom the cross becomes a rock of men," he concludes, "who look offence, who try to reform them- THE UNCHANGEABLE LAW. but at one side of a subject say selves in their own way and in their what they will, this is the truth own unaided strength. But the infinite patience and of God, that we are liberated from The self-same lesson of the in- longsuffering of God were not ex- the law just in order that we may evitable cross was preached to Is- hausted; nor were His resources. keep the law; we get the 'no con- rael just before the Exodus, when He had sent His tried and trusty demnation,' in order that 'the the destroying angel passed over servants, Moses and the prophets, righteousness of the law may be the houses with blood-sprinkled but their divine messages had been fulfilled in us.' " Rom. 8:4. doorposts. The staff, the san- largely ignored and they them- Speaking of the old dispensation dalled feet, the girt loins, the eat- selves shamefully treated. Now in contrast with the new, how ing of unleavened bread, the par- He would send His own Son Who solemn are the warnings of the ticipation in the feast, and all the should die for the sins of the world. writer to the Hebrews : "For activities associated with the pre- The world would now have at once if the word spoken by angels parations of a hurried departure the full and final proof of God's [Acts 7 : 53; Gal. 3 : 19 ] proved were unavailing to escape the infinite love for sinners and of His stedfast, and every transgression angel of death, unless the blood infinite hatred of sin. If the and disobedience received a just was on the doorpost. The one in- hearts of men were not softened recompense of reward ; how shall exorable condition was, "When I and subdued by this supreme reve- we escape, if we neglect so great see the blood, I will pass over lation of God's character then no- salvation ?" "He that despised you." In Egypt the Israelites thing further could be done for Moses' law died without mercy were helpless, hopeless slaves and them; they must be given over to under two or three witnesses : of could not keep the law of God. "a certain fearful looking for of how much sorer punishment, sup- Deliverance must first be effected judgment and fiery indignation, pose ye, shall he be thought from the galling bondage of which shall devour the adver- worthy, who hath trodden under Pharaoh; and for this they were saries." Heb. to : 27. The shed foot the Son of God, and hath absolutely dependent on the love, blood of animals in the ancient counted the blood of the covenant, mercy and power of God. It is tabernacle service represented the wherewith he was sanctified, an significant that Jehovah never acknowledgment by the penitent of unholy thing, and hath done de- urged the claims of His law upon the broken law, the one inexcus- spite unto the spirit of grace ?" His chosen people until He had able basis of divine forgiveness Heb. 2 : 2, 13; 10:28, 29. "Do we placed them in a position of free- and man's reconciliation to God; then make void the law through dom and power to observe it. He for "without shedding of blood is faith? God forbid; yea, we estab- first did for them what they could no remission." Heb. 9: 22. Now lish the law." LAGS SIX i••••••• ••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••,.....,•••••••••••• Our Bible Service Dept. I Conducted by J. M cA voy NOTE :—This department has been opened for the benefit of readers who may be troubled with Bible problems. Address all questions to the Editor. Anonymous communications ignored. • 101.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••• ••••••• ••••.•••• WON. 111.1•••••••••••••,...... •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Zechariah's Prophecies know in their day the things that because the people left their would have brought them peace. homes and dwelt in bowers made "Will you please explain Zechariah, chapter 14. The latter half I find par- Nor did they know the day of their from palm branches. ticularly puzzling. D.C." visitation. (Luke 19 : 42, 44.) Two significant ceremonies THE immediate purpose of the God visited Jerusalem by Christ preceded the final festival of the work of Zechariah was to revive and by His apostles in the power year—the blowing of trumpets the rebuilding of tn,., temple at of the Holy Spirit, but they re- and the great day of atonement. Jerusalem which had languished jected Christ and drove out His The blowing of trumpets was a through the unfaithfulness of the apostles. Then followed the day call to get ready for the judgment people (Haggai t : 2), and had of God's judgment by which Jeru- on the day of atonement. finally been stopped as recorded in salem was destroyed and the Jew- On that day the people were to Ezra 4: 23, 24. ish community scattered. turn from all earthly affairs, Haggai and Zechariah appeared The following comparisons will "afflict their souls," and make an on the scene and the work of re- make it clear that Zechariah 14 is offering by fire, which signified a storing the temple was revived a prophecy of Christ's future com- putting away of sin and consecra- and prospered and finished through ing and the establishment of His tion to God. Those who did not the influence of their prophecies. kingdom. have this experience were cut off Ezra 5 : 2 ; 6 : 14. Verse 9. The Lord shall be from the people of God (Lev. The first six chapters of Zecha- King over all the earth. Compare 23 : 29, 3o) and therefore could riah record eight symbolic visions Rev. 21 : 1-4. not come up to keep the feast of revealing the spiritual condition Verse 11. There shall be no tabernacles. Thus every year and needs of the people, and God's more curse. R.V. Compare there was a day of judgment fol- purpose and provision to restore Rev. 22 : 3. lowed, five days later, by a time His people, city and temple. Verse 6. There shall be no more of rejoicing before the Lord, for Chapters seven and eight con- night. Compare Rev. 22 : 5. all who were not cut off (Lev. 23: tain instructions, warnings and 4o) foreshadowing the second exhortations, intermingled with coming of Christ "to be glorified in His saints" and to consume in prophecies concerning the restora- The Future Feast of Tabernacles tion and enlargement of Jerusalem flaming fire those who obey not "What is the meaning of keeping the the Gospel. (2 Thess. : 8--io.) and its blessing to all the nations. feast of tabernacles in Zechariah 14 and But the last six chapters are de- of 'no rain' on those who come not up to All this was depicted in the typi- voted to direct predictions about keep that festival? D.C." cal services of the seventh month the first and second comings of THERE were three annual feasts of each year; the antitype of which Christ. in the Jewish economy, the pass- is foretold in Zech. 14: 12--19. Note the following : over, pentecost and the feast of All the people who fought Chapter 9:9. The entrance of tabernacles. These foreshadowed against Jerusalem must mean all Christ into Jerusalem on an ass. the complete work of Christ. who refuse the opportunity of Matt. 21 : 5. When we use the word "pente- atonement and continue to war Chapter 10:2, 3. The shepherds cost" we think of the gift of the against God. They are consumed fail and God visits His flock. Holy Spirit on a certain day by a plague. And all who are left Mark 6 : 34. which was a fulfilment of all the of all the nations go up to worship Chapter 12:10. His crucifixion. pentecostal festivals that had the Lord of hosts and to keep the John 19 : 37. gone before. So also with the feast of tabernacles. And the Chapter 13 :7. The Shepherd passover. Christ is our passover. punishment of all who go not up smitten and the flock scattered. Cor. 5 : 7.) He was the first- to keep the feast is that upon Matt. 26:31. fruits of them that slept. (1 Cor. them shall be no rain. But as all It is clear that these prophecies 15 : 2o.) He rose from the tomb who are left do go up to keep the were fulfilled at Christ's first com- on the very day that the firstfruits feast (Zech. 14: 16) it is plain that ing-. But it is equally clear that were waved before the Lord those who do not go up are those chapter 14 can only be fulfilled by every year. (Lev. 23:11.) It is who are dead—consumed by the His future coming called in the obvious that these annual services plague. (Verses 12, 13.) Scriptures "the day of the Lord." were empty ritual apart from their The last two verses indicate See Zeph. 1 : 14, 18; Mal. 4 : 1, 5; 2 fulfilment in Christ. The great- that every thing on earth in that Peter 3 : to; Zech. 14 : 1. est feast of the year was the last day is holy. The bells on horses Man's day of God-given grace one in the end of the year. See were a symbol of war and strife and opportunity is followed by Exod. 23 : 14--16; Lev. 23 : 34-36. but this is all ended when the God's day of judgment. Jesus It was a harvest home joy feast Lord becomes King of the earth. told the Jews that they did not called the "feast of tabernacles" (Zech. 14 :9, 2o.) PAGE SEVEN In the Lam Chapter 4.—Thi

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dotted here and there with mud houses and tropical palms. For some distance the land is cultivated, large areas being devoted to the raising of sugar cane, but gradually it becomes more and more barren until at last there is nothing to be seen but sand and rocks. Ruins of the temple of Rameseum, near Luxor. Now the sun seems to beat down with increased inten- N the days when King Tut lived at Luxor, Thebes, sity. There is no movement as the place was then called, must have been a city of the air, which becomes of great beauty and grandeur. The Pharaohs of hotter and still more hot. Upper Egypt certainly chose the most attractive The gradually converging site available for their capital city. The low hills hillsides, absorbing and re- that confine the Nile in its narrow valley for so many miles, flecting the heat rays, trans- recede at this point for a considerable distance, leaving hun- form the land between into dreds of acres of broad, flat, fertile land before closing in again an oven. s he donkeys move farther south. The natural beauty of the hills, the river and the more slowly. Even t h e palm trees still remains, but the palaces have crumbled and the donkey-boys, who, with ruins of the mighty temples retain but a vestige of their ancient amazing energy, have trotted glory. The broad Nile, unchanged by time, laps the base of behind all the way from the their broken columns as it sweeps by triumphantly towards the Nile, begin to lag. The Mr. Howard Carte sea. riders perspire and hope that It was the belief of the Pharaohs of those early times that the next hill will be lofty they must, during their lifetime, construct a suitable resting- enough to throw a shadow across the place for their remains at death. No sooner did a king ascend roadway. the throne than he gave orders for the cutting of his tomb and Mr. Carter's bungalow comes into the preparation of view, reminding us that we are about to h i s sarcophagus. enter the valley of the kings. This dwell- Nothing was further ing is the only one in all that desolate from their minds region and as one views it for the first time than the modern idea one cannot but admire the courage and of leaving all such persistence of the man who would live in details to one's be- such a place as this to achieve the purpose reaved relatives. of his soul. The site chosen for Now the road winds around the base of the burial place of the hills that form the valley of the kings, the Pharaohs is situ- each bend of the road being marked by ated several miles the presence of a well-armed Egyptian from Thebes, in the soldier, obviously placed there to prevent Libyan desert. To the unauthorized removal of any of the reach it from Luxor priceless treasures from the newly-discov- it is necessary to ered tomb. At last the walls of use valley cross the Nile by seem to close in and form something of row boat and then, the shape of a Roman amphitheatre. In ride on donkey-back deep "pockets" in the sloping sides of this for about two hours. "amphitheatre" are the tombs of the Provided one has a kings. docile donkey and the Several of the I imbs have been known day is not too hot, to excavators for many years and most of the journey is not un- these are now open to the public. During duly arduous. The the tourist season they are lit with electric first section is light, supplied by a small plant erected on En route to the tombs. Commencing the through country that the spot for the purpose. One wonders journey on the west bank of the Nile. is sparsely populated, what the Pharaohs would say if they )f King Tut bs of the Kings

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should awaken to discover this modern invasion of their sacred resting places, and see men and women from every country on earth wandering around the tombs they sealed so carefully. It is an experience of sur- passing interest to descend one of these tombs. The floor in most cases has been sloped with scientific care, The strange tunnel-shaped ruins near Rameseum, which are said to be the evidently so that the huge remains of Joseph's granaries. sarcophagus containing the least four thousand years ago and shows us that the people even body of the king might be slid in those early times had a knowledge of right and wrong, of down with ease. In some of future judgment and of rewards for the righteous and the the tombs, however, the pas- wicked. sage is not carried straight King Tut's tomb is almost the first to which one comes on down to the sepulchral cham- entering the section in which the tombs are located. Our front ber. Evidently the Pharaohs page picture makes its position clear. The large opening is were aware that attempts that of Rameses VI, King Tut's being below the level of the might be made to rifle their roadway. While there we saw Mr. Carter arrive and watched tombs in days to come, and to the removal of the temporary door, and the work of the day throw possible robbers off the commence. The happy snapshot reproduced on this page is track they occasionally led unique in that it is probably the last photograph ever taken ng into King Tut's the main passage into a room showing Mr. Carter entering the tomb. Almost immediately which might be mistaken for after came the discord between him and the Egyptian Govern- the final resting place of the ment and the same armed guard which prevented our entry into body, and then opened up the wall of the the inner recesses of the tomb soon barred the ingress of Mr. room and carried the passage onwards and Carter. As to the articles of furniture recovered from the tomb, downwards again to the real chamber; now on view in the Cairo Museum, we have already referred to afterwards carefully sealing the opening these in a previous in the upper room. In one of the tombs chapter. the passage was made to end in a deep On the return jour- pit. When the modern excavator com- ney from the valley of menced work he discovered that the wall the kings, three at the opposite side of the pit was nollow places of exceptional and when opened led on down to the interest may he visit- sarcophagus of the Pharaoh, which was ed. The first is discovered intact. The pit had deceived Rameseum, another all previous investigators. of the ancient temples The sides and ceilings of the tombs are credited to Rameses covered with pictures and hieroglyphic II, the great builder writing. Emblems of the sun are depicted of early Egypt. Here everywhere, indicating the nature of the one finds still more worship of the early Egyptians. Amen- statues of this king; Ra, one of the chief gods, is very much in but despite the inor- evidence. He holds in his hand a curious dinate opinion o f emblem known as the key of life. himself which Ra- One scene on the walls of a tomb par- meses undoubtedly ticularly arrested our attention. Amen- possessed, Time has Ra is depicted as holding court, to which brought both him and the dead are brought to be judged. Those his statues to the who have lived a good life are seen in the dust. While he lies picture as going upwards to "heaven" a mouldering while the condemned ones are being mummy in the Cairo dropped into a blazing fire in the lower Museum, his great- regions. This picture must have been cut est statue—said to be Scene in the valley of the kings, showing Pastor on the walls of that subterranean tomb at (Contin'd on p. 14.) A. L. Baker and the. guides. PAGE NINE The Home Corner

Conducted by " Naomi"

A Mother's Mistake

HE was an excellent mother, and devoted to ner little S daughter. She was conscien- tious in teaching her the prime vir- tues of life—obedience, temper- ance, sweetness of spirit, unsel- fishness. But she had a hard time to make up her mind quickly about requests from her child. © Anne Shriber "Mother ! mother!" came the staccato insistence of Little go sometime. Mother, why can't learning, tramping off through Daughter's voice, "Mother, I go ?" the woods for twenty miles to bor- mayn't I go to see Dorothy this And the consequence is that row a book, and spelling it out morning ?' Little Daughter either goes, or crouching before the glare of the Mother continued her reading gets shut in another room till her burning logs ? without an answer. crying can be diverted by some Distinctly and vividly I remem- "Mother ! mother ! " and the new interest. ber a squat, freckled boy who was childish voice was more urgent Why does this excellent mother born in the slums, and used to pick and a little impatient, "Mother, teach her child to tease ? Because up coal along railway tracks. A you said I could go sometime. I she does not put her mind instantly few months ago I had to go before want to go now. Mother, mayn't upon the subject, weigh the pros a court of appeal on a certain mat- I go ?" and cons fairly, incline to liberty ter. That boy from the slums was Mother fidgeted a little, but her if there is a doubt, and make an the judge who granted my peti- eyes stayed on her book. immediate answer. Her indecision tion. is intuitively sensed by her child, "Mother, listen to me, why Yesterday I rode on horseback don't you ?" who half believes that further pressure, even after the decision, past a field where a boy was "I am listening, daughter." ploughing. The lad's hair stuck "Well, why don't you say can effect a change. And sometimes it does !—Selected. out through the top of his hat, something ? I asked you if I one suspender held his trousers in couldn't go to see Dorothy." place, his form was bony and awk- "Well, sweetheart, mother ward, his bare legs and arms were thinks it is rather cold." Be Patient With the Boys brown and scratched and brier- "Oh, no, mother, it isn't. scarred. He turned his horses Didn't you go out in the snow HAVE a profound respect for just as I passed by, and from when you were a little girl ? boys. Grimy, ragged tousled under the flapping brim of his hat There's no snow now. Mother, I boys in the street often attract he cast a quick glance out of dark, let me go." me strangely. A boy is a man in half-bashful eyes, and modestly No answer from mother. She a cocoon—you do not know what returned my salute. When his is hesitating to decide, and she it is going to become—his life is back was turned, I took off my camouflages her indecision by big with possibilities. He may hat and sent a God-bless-you down keeping her eyes on her book. make or unmake kings, change the furrow after him. "I think you might let me go. boundary lines, write books that I think I ought to go. Dorothy will mould character, or invent Who knows ? Some day I may was here the last time, and her machines that will revolutionize go to that boy to borrow money, mamma won't let her come any the commerce of the world. Every or to hear him preach, or beg him more if you don't let me go. man was a boy—it seems strange, to defend me in a lawsuit. Mother, mayn't I go ?'' but it is really so. Wouldn't you Be patient with the boys; you "No," says mother. like to turn time backward, and are dealing with soul-stuff. Des- "Oh, dear ! Oh, d-e-a-r-r ! " and see Abraham Lincoln at twelve, tiny waits just round the corner. the querulous voice begins wail- when he had never worn a pair of Be patient with the boys ! — ing, "I just never can go any- boots—the lank, lean, hungry boy Elbert Hubbard, in "The Philis- where ! Mother, you said I could —hungry for love, hungry for tine." PAGE TEN

Only God to Cling to ONLY God to cling to, in this vale of Our Sympathy Circle tears, Those we love may fail us, causing many Dear Home Folk : for the kisses so kindly sent by tears— As promised in the last issue I Joycey to "Aunty Naomi." As Still His arms are round us, bidding us am passing on to you some iron- Mrs. Rollins has already received be still, mould removing suggestions a "surprise," I think perhaps Only cling to Jesus and obey His will. which have come from members Joycey had better look out for the of "Our Sympathy Circle." postman this time. I shall be Only God to cling to, can you hear His Mrs. Vaughan of Leeds will re- writing to ner "mamma" in a day voice, ceive a "surprise" this time—that or two. Saying, "In My presence shall your is, of course, if she sends me her Now for a plan which will help hearts rejoice"? address, which she omitted to put to prevent the appearance of iron- Disappointments gather whilst we're mould stains on your linen. Of here below, on the letter I received. This is If we are but faithful, we His love shall how it reads : — course, it's not always possible to know. find out just how some of these "Place the article over a basin and stains are caused, but it very often completely cover the spot with a small Only God to cling to—Christian, can quantity of salts of lemon. Then im- happens that the mark comes from you stand, mediately pour boiling water over it the inside of the copper during tne Sharp temptations round you, foes on when you will find the stain disappear. boiling process. If this is so in every hand? Rinse thoroughly in the usual way. I your case, try this remedy. Pro- Loyal be and faithful, He will never fail, have tried this time after time with suc- cure a child's wooden hoop, a And at last will take you safe beyond cess. I trust this will help someone." little bit larger than the size of the the vail. top of your copper, make a calico I like the last sentence—that's bag big enough to fit the inside, the spirit ! It's good to know that Only God to cling to—darker grows the and sew this on to the hoop. If, night— "Our Sympathy Circle" readers when you boil your clothes, you al- Fiercer grows the conflict as we stand are anxious to help one another— for right, ways put them into this bag and that is our aim. slip this into the interior of the But the truth shall conquer, Satan's em- An equally good suggestion was copper, you will have far fewer pire fall, sent by Mrs. A. Gowlett of Oxhey With His calm sweet presence over-rul- stained garments and save lots of to whom also one of the "sur- ing all. time and trouble. prises" will be forwarded. This Only God to cling to—Christian, then, reader recommends oxalic acid and SNOW CAKE. be strong, tells us to Be the overcomer over every wrong ; Ingredients : Four ounces of flour, four He is close beside you, and He leads "first wash the linen, and while damp ounces of cornflour, four ounces of cas- tor sugar, four ounces of butter, two the way, soak the stained part in a solution of If we only trust Him, and His love obey. oxalic acid. (Two pennyworth can be eggs, one large teaspoonful of baking purchased from the chemist and only powder, a little milk, half a teaspoonful about a quarter of it need be used.) of vanilla, a pinch of salt. Only God to cling to—what can we want Then wash the linen in the usual way. Method : Mix together the flour, corn- beside? For a coloured article, dip a rag in the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt, In His love most precious may we thus solution and rub the stained parts with and put them through a sieve. Beat the abide— it." butter to a cream and add the sugar and Joy will be the service we can thus be- sifted flours. Add the well-whipped eggs, stow To this last suggestion I would the vanilla, and about one tablespoonful On each fellow-labourer whilst we're like to add that it is best, when the of milk. When thoroughly mixed, bake here below. stain has been removed, to rinse in a well-greased tin in a moderate oven. the cloth and then place it in a Only God to cling to—may we then press This inexpensive cake will help on— solution of washing soda in order out the bread and butter at the end Cheerful be and dauntless till the vic- to neutralize any acid remaining. of the week when the jam has tory's won, By the way, another hint re- failed. There is nothing rich about And the overcomer hear Him say, commending salts of lemon came it and probably you already have "Well done," from Mrs. Rollins of Birmingham. the dry ingredients in the house, And at last united we shall be at home. She also sent a delightful photo- so that all you need to buy extra —Selected. graph of herself with her little girl. are the eggs which nowadays are Very many thanks for same, also quite cheap. "NA0mt."

A Morning Resolve •••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••4411 "I WILL this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life ; re- A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK A few more smiles of silent sympathy, a pelling promptly every thought of few more tender words, a little more re- discontent, anxiety, discourage- straint of temper may make all the differ- ment, impurity, and self-seeking; ence to the people with whom I live. cultivating cheerfulness, magna- 410 1.." r-r-, 0 a I nimity, charity, and the habit of \ holy silence; exercising economy FOR NEXT WEEK in expenditure, carefulness in con- 4 The world is a looking glass and gives versation, diligence in appointed back to every man the reflection of his own .lt face. service, fidelity to every trust, and • a childlike confidence in God." ii••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1..••••••••,.••••ms.1•••••••••••••••••••••••••••...... •••••• PAGE ELEVEN The Children's Two Pages

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The Wild Beast Show week the boys were glad enough They didn't stare long. It was AuL FORDEN is a that they had not played rebel. a matter of seconds, then a small coward!" "Hickley's menagerie is com- figure in flannels dashed forward, P The words rang through ing to town," announced Robert and with all the strength of the court where the boys were at Beale. twelve-year-old muscles rushed play. It was Lewis Graves who Every boy in the town started the heavy door to with a clang in had spoken. saving his pennies for the outing. the face of the tiger as it crouched Paul stood flushed but straight, "May I come with you, Paul ?" for its spring. facing a cluster of angry class- asked Evvy. But the clutch had gone home mates. Paul was glad. He felt un- and the bolt was shot as the mon- "That's not true, Lewis," he happy at being cut by his class- ster cat hurled itself against the replied quietly. "And calling me mates, though he guessed that bars with a roar echoed sympa- a coward won't bully me into act- the master knew, and was glad. thetically by many others of the ing differently." Anyway, something inside of Paul beasts. A clamour arose among the was glad. At first it was just the roaring, lads. And Hickley's show was fine. but it found another echo as cheer "What is it, Loo ?" chorused They were wild beasts! How after cheer rang through the several. they roared behind the bars of fields. Lewis laughed scornfully. their big cages! And what It almost took Paul's breath "You know how we had crowds of people watched their away to be made a hero like that, planned to hide all the class-books tricks, their feeding, and their but what he preferred was the to-morrow and pay the master great, grim selves! little scene that took place next back for cutting our play-hour-- And then suddenly—no one day in the old class-room when young Paul won't join." knew how it happened—a bolt the master shook hands with him "Well," quoth another boy, had slipped, or a keeper had been before the school, and his class- "we can get along without him." careless, but somehow, all at mates rose to cheer him in friendly "No. we can't !" snapped once, the crowd petrified in cold pride. Lewis; "the game's off. Paul horror at the sight of a cage-door They hadn't known of the mas- says he'll tell where the books are swinging wide, and a great yel- ter guessing their plan about the if 1.”2's asked. He's a sneak and low-and-black tiger standing there hooks, but he told them then. a coward. Let's boo him." facing them, its tail slowly mov- "It's the boy who does right Paul paled. He was a sturdy ing as it dawned on the terrible and faces his friends' sneers," youngster who loved comrade- forest cat that those hateful bars said the master plainly, "who ship. Till the coming of Lewis had disappeared. can shut the door of a tiger's Graves he had been popular with No one screamed. They just cage." his class-mates. froze up, staring in a cold sweat And Lewis Graves led the cheer. Now, with their boos ringing in of fear. But it was Evvy Harding who his ears, he hurried homewards. was the first to reach Paul's side ItO V.1.0 • r...41••••••.•01.410.0.••....11 Among all those who had afterwards. "I knew you'd do chummed with him and followed Chickie's Puzzle it," Evvy said.—Selected. his lead only little Evvy Harding a I'd like to know how it happened; j had pulled at his sleeve as he left I can't understand it a bit: A moment ago I was curled up so j Madam Bruin's Mistake the playground. There was naught I could do but "You-you-you're a brick, Paul," pick. ONE day when he was on his stuttered Evvy. -Lewis was go- So I picked and picked, and by and :1 way back to camp after a day's ing to make me help, and I didn't by. shooting, a hunter suddenly came There came a great crashing ,1 in sight of a big bear, with two want to." sound; And Evvy's gratitude helped And first thing I knew, the shell cubs following her in single file. Paul to keep a stiff upper lip dur- was in two, They were proceeding along a ing the next two days. And I standing safe on the ridge, the forms of all of them But the school-books were not ground. —Selected. j sharply outlined against the even- touched, and before the end of the ing sky. PAGE TWELVE

It was a long range for a shot, but the sportsman fired. The re- sult was amusing. The procession stopped. The bear scratched herself hastily, then turned round, and regarding the cub immediately behind with severe disap- proval, boxed its ears soundly. Mother Bear then went on her way, her back uncommonly rigid and unrelenting, and it was clear- ly apparent to the sportsman that she was under the impression that Our Competition Corner her frolicsome offspring had been up to some mischief that must not 'PHE postman must be thinking Kelly. By the way, Alfred has hit be repeated.—Selected. I've had a birthday this week, so upon quite a good idea. In his let- many interesting-looking parcels ter he says : "We are saving all have arrived—in varying degrees the photographs of Our Corner Built of Sixpences of squashedness ! Of course, I friends to make a big picture for DID you ever hear how St. knew what to expect when I our bedroom." Isn't that a happy Paul's Cathedral came to be built ? opened them—daffodils. thought? Alfred sends his love to Long ago, when it was settled The first one which arrived was all of you and hopes you'll all win that the cathedral was to be from Mary Rodgers. Mary, by as nice a prize as his one day ! built, a tax of sixpence was put the way, wins a prize. Her flower I've had two interesting letters on each ton of coal which was was beautifully neat and from Willie Slow lately. brought into the port, and the very carefully made—it He tells me that he has a money that was gained in this even had a stamen in the horse named Polly "which way went to pay for the building centre of its bell. when we go down starts of the cathedral. Just one little The next one I found neighing before we get to sixpence after another, each one lying on my door-mat one it. It is a nice gentle of very little value; and yet they morning. That was from horse which will not helped to erect one of the grand- Elsie Throssel and also kick." Then Willie est buildings in the world. Your wins a prize. wrote again one -miser- life may be just as grand and The others whose daf- able morning" w hen noble as St. Paul's Cathedral, fodils were good are : it w a s raining hard and yet it may be built out of Jessie Mayo (Luton); May and when he was feeling small things, as the cathedral was. Cornish (Beckenham); El- John Bullock, and his sister sorry that we're ch•ang- "East and West." sie Pratt (Sittingbourne); Weymouth. i n g our competition. and Rose, Alfred, Ernest and Kitty "We have fourteen little chickens The Difference Kelly (Bristol). I think Kitty de- to look after now," Willie says serves special mention for she is farther on in his letter. "I like A WAYFARER, passing along the only five and her daffodil really little chickens much better than highway, came upon three stone- was well made for such a tiny tot. fowls for I think they are amusing masons cutting stone in a great quarry. I was delighted to hear from little things." Muriel Coates again the other "What are you doing, friend ?" I love chicks, too, don't you ? he asked one of the masons. day. As she says, it really is a By the way, have you read the little very long while since she wrote "Trimming the stone, can't you chick poem on the other page ? see ?" was the answer. to us. Muriel sent me a photo- Ruby Waite told me the other graph of herself as well. Turning to the second mason, Very clay that her mother has been ill. the wayfarer said : "What are you many thanks. We're so sorry. Please give her doing, my friend ?" Hilda, Freda and Elsie Bull who lots of our love and tell her we live at Croscombe sent me a pic- "Working for my wages," re- hope she's quite well again by now. plied the mason. ture df themselves, too, this week. Ruby says : "We have a pony, its So did Ernest, Rose and Alfred "And you," the wayfarer asked name is Lady, ten head of poultry, the third mason, "what are you doing ?" Cut out this form nil pin it to your answer. July 21st. the competition closes. "I am helping to build a cathedral." Even so. There is a difference Pickle Competition No. 1 between men.—Selected.

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PAGE THIRTEEN nineteen chicks, a cat, a kitten and non. Some impression of their Noontide Rest I haven't any sisters or brothers." huge size can be gathered by com- In noonday benediction falls We have quite a few birthdays paring the statue with the donkey God's peace on vale and hill; this month, so I'll make a list of and its rider alongside. Think of And all the waters gently flow, And all the winds have ceased to blow, them : the work entailed in the construc- And all the leaves are still— June 2nd : Doreen Vine was II. tion of these immense obelisks. Leaf, air, and stream, are still. They have been standing there on 9th : Ivy Forrester was 16. This holy quiet I would share 17th : Claudia Eyre will be i 1. the Theban plain for century after With wind and stream and tree, 18th : Lu Lu Taylor will be 13. century, the wonder of succeeding To drink from founts that never cease loth : Ruth Jones will be 11. generations. Even to-day the Repose and health and strength and peace 3oth : Agnes Caswell will be 9. most travelled person cannot pass And rest, my God, in Thee— Then on the 29th Eileen Read them unaffected. Their purpose Dear God of rest, in Thee. will be one year older. Eileen is still a mystery, but it is thought used to live here but she's in Swit- that they may have stood at the REST is the gift of God. It zerland now. She writes to me entrance of some mighty temple, comes not by will of man. Men sometimes. Very many happy re- long since destroyed. Much of the say, "Go to, now, let us make our- turns all of you. M. s. land behind them has already been selves a rest." Then God comes down and confounds the lan- guage of their hearts, and they find Babel and striving where Certainties of the Gospel they looked for order and peace. (Continued from page 4.) They leave their homes and any of the great fundamental their native land in search of rest truths of the Gospel. they never find. And all the We may not understand all while God's voice within them that is in the Bible or the reason cries, "Wherefore do ye spend for the inclusion of certain money for that which is not seemingly "difficult" portions. bread ? and your labour for that Probably we never shall. If it which satisfieth not." And the were a man's book it would be reason is, now as of old, they different. Then it might be mas- are without the true God and tered. But being God's Book without law. The "brutish man we need not wonder if we are knoweth not," but the wise un- sometimes perplexed by its say- derstand that apart from God ings and occasionally com- there is no rest. pelled to admit that we cannot Some fail to discern that idle- comprehend fully the mind of its ness is not rest. They think infinite Author. A. S. M. that inactivity is bliss. But in truth the sweetest rest comes in close company with the hardest In the Land of King Tut toil and the greatest achieve- ment. Those who are promised (Continued from page 9.) rest are those whose works do the largest in the world—prone One of the colossi of Memnon. Puzzle: find follow them. Our dearest hope and broken, mingles with the the donkey. of heaven is not that we shall ruins of this once majestic tem- recline listlessly in the midst of ple. Deep in the huge marble head enclosed for purposes of investi- angelic song or be wafted volup- is a saw-cut, as though someone, gation. It is more than probable tuously along the streets of gold. forgetting or despising the glory that discoveries of the greatest in- It is rather that in the midst of of the departed monarch, had at- terest will be made when excava- new activites bestowed upon us tions are commenced. tempted to use a portion of his with the giving of our immortal head for building purposes else- (To be continued.) powers, there shall be the inef- where. How are the mighty fallen! 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PAGE FOURTEEN fable rest born of His presence Whom having not yet seen we love, the nearness of Whom will be to us an eternal fountain of calm-flowing peace. It is even so with us now. The truest rest is Just Off the Press not found in idle sloth, but in earnest labour in some service of love. The mountain stream, plunging down its steep course in swift current and whirling rapid and white cascade, has here and there be- Christ's hind some jutting rock or in some sheltered vale a deep, still pool. The spreading tree is never for a moment free from the weight of its great branches. Yet it has its Glorious Return seasons of perfect rest, when every twig is motionless and By the Editor of " Present Truth - every leaf is still. God grant that we, like the mountain stream, may have our moments of quiet rest. In all the turmoil and uproar of life's hurry- Read the author's preface : ing flow, may there be eddies of calm, sweet thought and wave- On all sides to-day there is a growing agitation on the less pools of trustful peace. Like subject of the second coming of Jesus Christ. The decay of the stalwart oak, may we know civilization, the chaos in central Europe, the collapse of the secret of divine stillness while currencies and the consequent ravages of famine and disease, bearing the burdens from which are causing men and women to turn their eyes heavenward we can never be free. May God's for deliverance. The conviction is spreading that there is no peace be on us, as the hush upon hope for the world save in Christ. Aching hearts are turning the noon, till the Scripture be ful- to Him for comfort. Millions of sorrowing souls, smitten by filled which saith, "In . . . rest the great disasters that have followed each other with stagger- shall ye be saved." ing rapidity during recent years, are praying with renewed ear- "Return unto thy rest, 0 my nestness, Thy kingdom come 1 Thousands, weary of earth's soul; for the Lord hath dealt tragedies, are yearning for the peace and security of the bountifully with thee." Psa. 116 : heaven to be. They long for reunion with the dear ones they 7- have "loved long since and lost awhile." "Thus saith the Lord God, the Will their hopes ever be realized? Will Jesus Christ Holy One of Israel; In returning return? Will He come soon? God has answers to all these and rest shall ye be saved; in questions and the seriousness of the times demands that we quietness and in confidence shall give them earnest attention. It is the purpose of this book be your strength." Isa. 3o : 15. to consider, in the light of the Scriptures, the main evidence "My people shall dwell in a concerning this sublime theme of the second advent. It is peaceable habitation, and in sure the writer's prayer that it may lead many to cherish more dwellings, and in quiet resting zealously "the blessed hope" and prepare more earnestly for places." Isa. 32 : 18. the fast-approaching day of EUGENE ROWELL. CHRIST'S GLORIOUS RETURN.

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1+4 )+1 1+1 A GREAT woman poet has wise. The reason is not far to 1+1 divided society into two classes, seek. Men have lost their faith namely, lifters and leaners, or in God, and with it their ability in other words, those who carry to trust Him. As a direct con- burdens and those who shirk s( quence, they are anxiously them. In almost every family careful about their life and its of any size, there is one con- material necessities, troubled spicuous Issachar, on to whose about many things, unable to broad, strong shoulders the cast their cares upon God, be- heaviest responsibilities of the cause they do not beli!ie He household a r e dexterously cares for them. It is to be shifted, leaving the other mem- feared, however, that even bers to have what is popularly, Christians are not exempt from though often erroneously, this failing. How many of us, called a good time. But pro- if we were strictly honest, vided the burdens are of the would have to confess that we right description and bravely have tried "to follow and obey, borne, it is the carriers and not and bear our burdens too." the care-free who are the ones How many of us, when brought to be envied. Many mistaken into a tight place, have imme- people, however, are weighted diately set our wits to work to down with loads which they extricate ourselves, instead of ought to get rid of, as decided praying and quietly waiting for hindrances in the journey of the salvation of the Lord Who life. is silently planning for us in The first of these is sin. In love, and never leaves His peo- Psa. 38 :4 the Psalmist declares Some people make burdens for them- ple hopelessly stranded? that his iniquities have gone selves like this poor Indian fakir. Some people's life-work is over his head ; as a burden they fraught with such heavy respon- are too heavy for him. No sibilities that they would fain frail mortal need expect to escape from it, and they look carry around 'a load of uncon- Burden-Bearing forward to the day when, with fessed and unforgiven sin and By A. V. Middleton the poor, over-wrought char- make spiritual progress at the woman, they will do nothing same time. We recall how Christian set out for the for ever and ever. This, however, is a fool's para- Celestial City with a burden of guilt upon his back dise, existing only in their own imagination, and if and how it fell from him when he reached the cross, Christians, they had better disabuse their minds very leaving him light and free to pursue his course in the quickly of such an idea, for even in heaven "His ser- right direction. Let us likewise, remembering Him vants shall serve Him." Labour is one of the bur- Who bare our sins in His own body on the tree, lay dens none of us can conscientiously shirk, but its aside this weight that we may run with patience the pressure may be greatly modified by working together race that is set before us. with Him Who has said, "Come unto Me, all ye After Adam and Eve had fallen, they discovered that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you they were naked, which simply means they had lost rest." Matt. II :28. Christ, as our yoke-fellow al- God-consciousness and had acquired self-conscious- ways takes the heaviest end of the load. ness instead, and ever since then the cry uttered by Love to God and those for whom we work will also Job has found an echo in hundreds of human hearts, greatly lighten our labour. A very small girl, carry- "I am a burden to myself." Job 7 :2o. Many of us ing a rather big baby, on being told he was too heavy have been made painfully aware of this fact in our for her, stoutly replied, "He is not heavy, he is my early attempts to do service for the Lord in public. brother." How are we to get rid of this burden of self? Again, As we bravely bear the burdens assigned to us, the cross is the only answer. "Deny thyself [ignore they will gradually change into benefits, sobering us, thyself], and take up thy cross." The most success- steadying us, "lest we should be exalted beyond ful preacher, it has been said, is he who can effectu- measure," keeping us in the path of duty when we ally hide himself behind the cross. In teaching, as in would otherwise fly off at a tangent. The graceful preaching, the same principle obtains, and ne, who, carriage of the Eastern women is due almost entirely next to the Master Himself, ranks as the greatest of to their habit of carrying their water-pots upon their our teachers, had learned the secret when he said, heads, and thus, in their case at least, burden-bearing "I am crucified with Christ ; it is no more I that iiye, becomes a beautifier. Let us, therefore, cast our but Christ is living in me." Gal. 2 :2o (Conybeare sins, ourselves, and our cares upon the great Burden- and Howson's translation). bearer, and boldly shoulder our God-given tasks and Many people have found life itself so intolerable a responsibilities, above all not forgetting to take up our burden that they have committed suicide—a tendency cross daily, for " a Christian without a cross is a which seems to be on the increase rather than other- moral impossibility."

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