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wear a badge, and such marks of merit as may be earned. Every home with a boy or girl in the gar- Lilottiolimummummonnommosommomilimmi den army may display a distinctive service flag. EXPERTS of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry say that it will take 160 pounds of wool a year to clothe every soldier they send to the trenches, and that it will keep twenty sheep working to supply that amount. This is supposing that each sheep gives a fleece of eight pounds. So you see that for every million men sent over the ocean there must be 20,000,000 full-grown sheep at home, or in some other parts of the world, and this in ad- GREAT BRITAIN'S expenditure during the finan- dition to the vast amount of wool needed to clothe cial year ended March 31 last amounted to,£2,696,- the people of America. 221,405. THE Eskimo has superstition woven into the very THERE is a strong effort being made in America fabric of his nature. If he has killed a bear with a to make English the language of the nation, figures rifle, he must not kill a deer with it. He will not showing that to 5,000,000 people in that country, use an implement if a woman has stepped over it. the English language is an unknown tongue. A dead whale or seal, when brought ashore, must have a drink. If the Eskimo moves into a house by THERE is displayed in Paris for advertising pur- way of the door, he must go out by the skylight. If poses an automatic figure of a man which can be a child has died, the father stands guard around the given more than five thousand poses by electric igloo, with a snow knife, to keep evil spirits away. motors concealed in the body, while a hidden He will not drive nails at that time. If he wants phonograph enables it to sing and speak. work done, another Eskimo will do it for him. THERE is in use in the French army a two- wheeled cart for transporting wounded soldiers CARPETING the bottom of the Mississippi River from the battlefield to hospital. Its construction near Memphis, Tennessee, with gigantic mats woven of willow trees is the extraordinary feat ac- eliminates much of the shock resulting from travel complished by American engineers. The mats on rough roads, and it proves itself specially were found necessary in order to keep Memphis on adapted to mountain travel. the river, inasmuch as for several years the stream had been cutting a new channel near the city, PRESIDENT WILSON has received a petition threatening to leave it high and dry a mile from the signed by twenty-eight presidents of national or- channel of the stream. The willow mats, some of ganisations, representing nearly 6,000,000 women. which were a mile long and two hundred feet wide, The list is headed by the name of Mrs. Frances Cleveland Preston, at one time mistress of the were sunk into place by means of heavy loads of stone placed on them, and were then pinned to the White House. The petition urges the President to bottom with piles. stop the manufacture of beer by an executive order, and thus conserve food materials. INTENSE indignation is felt by the army and peo- ple of Roumania over the terms of the preliminary JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER will pay this year to the peace imposed upon Roumania by the Central American Government approximately £7,700,000 Powers. With its military forces scattered and its income tax, if the estimate recently made by a hopeless strategical position, Roumania had no re- financial authority is correct. This is within course except to yield to her powerful and ruthless £600,000 of the amount collected in personal income foe. The King and Queen, through the Associated taxes from the entire country in 1915. The thirty Press, "express the earnest hope that the American wealthiest persons of the country will pay about people will have a sympathetic appreciation of the £24,900,000, which is nearly four-fifths of the total tragical circumstances that forced peace on Rou- income tax receipts for 1917. mania, and that the warm friendship that has al- IN India the average income of the native is said ways existed between the two nations will in no- to be £2 /s ad. a year. In the government of wise be impaired."— Youth's Instructor. India's three million people, Great Britain employs only twelve hundred Europeans. The post offices WE read in the Youth's Instructor: Mr. 0. L. not only distribute mail, but conduct savings de- Moore, of Bluff Point, New York, says that accord- partments, in which one may start an account with ing to a journal of Augustine Washington, father of 4d. They are also the telegraph offices of the George Washington, the tree that George cut when country. Messages of ten words may be sent any- a boy was not a cherry tree at all, but a plum tree, where in India for . and that it was cut with a saw and not a hatchet. The entry referred to, dated March 1, 1739, reads THE United States is to raise a new army of thus : " A fine day and warm. This A.M. I found 5,000,000, known as the United States Garden Army. my best young plum tree spoiled with a saw. I The Secretary of the Interior is to be its com- thought it was some vagabond, and spoke of it at mander-in-chief, and its members the 5 000,000 noon. My son George owned up to the deed. school children throughout the country. 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'41r. Warburton, Victo.ia, July 22, 1918 1 but the stern records of history make it 1. impossible to accept the statements of Father Merner. Rome has patronised the arts, and she has established semin- Notts and TottunatiB aries and her own system of education ; but it is a system that reduces the mental powers to servitude to theological dogma. Galileo and Newman, though far apart in time, are cases in point. Galileo had demonstrated the truth of the Copernican system of astronomy ; yet he was forced The Roman Church and Science by Rome on bended knees to abjure his IT is one thing to convince a man of teachings and his demonstration, and to error by argument and the eloquence of swear on the Gospels that he would teach undisputable facts. It is quite another them no more. Di Bruno in " Catholic to convince him by calling him a nar- Belief " (pages 322-326) makes a strenu- row-minded bigot. With a certain class ous effort to explain away and justify of theological disputants that unconvinc- Rome's action in the case of Galileo. ing epithet of last resort has been used He says that Galileo's chief offence was until it has become shiny and threadbare in setting forth the Copernican system with reiteration ; and still we are not t( as a demonstrated fact," and that he convinced. At a lecture on " The "pretended to prove it from Scripture." Church and Science," given at a Catholic The argument is that if he had not pre- church in Melbourne on June 19 by tended to substantiate his theory by " Father " Merner, the Roman Church Scripture, the Inquisition would not have was held up as the patron of science and troubled him. It is the old and yet ever the friendly custodian of art and educa- present intolerance of Rome that none tion. The Catholic Tribune of June 20, in but she must interpret Scripture. Ac- a brief summary of the address, says:— cording to Di Bruno, Galileo had no right to affirm as a fact that which he had He convincingly showed that the Church had never been the enemy of science, as some narrow- demonstrated to be a fact ; and he had minded bigots contended. Father Merner said the no right to read and interpret the Word Church had always encouraged scientific pursuits, of God for himself, although his inter- and she gave her warm-hearted support to every pretations are now admitted even by Ro- discovery and invention for the benefit of man- kind. . . . True science was the upholder of manists to have been true and accurate. religion, and the Church right through had been the Because he had dared to do such a thing, patron of the arts and sciences. It was a con- he was summoned before the Inquisition spiracy against the truth to say that the Church had and compelled to recant—to swear that ever been the persecutor of science. It was stock in trade of ignorant and professional bigots to make what he knew to be true was not true. charges against the Church, but investigation Such a defence as that which Di Bruno showed these charges to be baseless. The Church, makes is in itself a condemnation. He had nothing to fear from a full investigation of the further pleads :— truth. She welcomed the truth, and her archives and libraries were always open to the historian. For us who live in times when the system of . . The Church sought in every way to ad- Copernicus is no more regarded as a theory but as vance the interests of the people, and between the a demonstrated truth, it seems very easy to recon- Church and true science there could never be any cile it with Holy Scripture, by saying that Scripture conflict. never intended to teach any astronomical system. . . . But it wa not an easy thing when the We would rejoice with the Catholics Copernican system was only a system supported by themselves if that could be proven true ; lucre probabilities. 452 JULY 22, 1915

Very true; but what then becomes of 311 of his clergy 168 could not repeat the the plea of the infallibility of the Roman ten commandments ; 31 of these could Church ? And what is the infallibility not tell in what part of the Bible they worth that could cast a man into prison were found; 40 could not tell where the in one century for proclaiming what, two Lord's prayer was found ; and 31 of centuries later, all admit to be in har- these 40 did not know who was the mony with science and the Scriptures ? Author of it. The Bishop of Dunkeld. And is not the world better off without said, "Thank God I have lived many such infallibility ? Di Bruno refers to years without knowing whether there us who live in a time when the Coper- were an Old or yet a New Testament."— nican system is a demonstrated truth. Burnet's "History of the Reformation," Vol. But who demonstrated it ? Did the 2, page 722. See also Strype and Fuller. Church do it ? Nay, verily. Moreover, In countries where Rome does not con- the Church would have burned Galileo trol the Government, she poses as the to death for demonstrating it if he had patroness of education; but where she not recanted. Now the world accepts does control the Government, the educa- Galileo's demonstration—not his recan- tion of the general public is her least tation—in spite of the Church and the concern. For instance, in Mexico, only Inquisition, and the Church admits they 24 persons out of loo can read ; in Por- are right, and in that admission condemns tugal, only 25 ; in Cuba before American herself for condemning Galileo. Who was occupation, only 26 ; in Uruguay, 53 ; right, then, Galileo or the infallible and in other South American countries Church that smote him, and forced him the percentage of illiteracy is so high to declare his demonstration untrue and that the governments do not publish it. swear to a falsehood ? We prefer to The conditions in the Philippine Islands stand with Galileo as he stood before the from an educational standpoint were de- Inquisition had frightened him into re- plorable when America took over the cantation. government from Spain ; and Rome had And Newman, at the bidding of the had control there for several hundred Roman Church, set learning, Scripture, years. Now they have schools every- and common sense aside in the matter of where. Volumes might be written in transubstantiation. He said :— disproof of Father Merner's declara- People say that the doctrine of transubstantiation tion ; but it is not necessary ; the dis- is difficult to believe. I did not believe it till I was proof of his statement can be found in a Catholic. I had no difficulty in believing it as almost any library. We would rather soon as I believed that the Catholic Roman Church give evidence to confirm than to con- was the oracle of God, and that she declared this doctrine to be part of the original revelation.— found him; but we cannot rewrite his- Apologia, page 239. tory, nor can we assent to its revision. That surrender of the intellect is in Furthermore, it is no part of God's harmony with the requirements of the plan or of the gospel to keep mankind in Roman system. The Papal Circular of ignorance and darkness. Christ said Pope Gregory xVi (August 15, 1832) de- that they who loved darkness rather than clares thus :— the light did so because their deeds were If it [the Roman Church] so requires, let us evil. True Christianity will never put a sacrifice to it our opinions, our knowledge, our in- handicap on general education, never telligence, the splendid dreams of our imagination, prohibit it, never penalise those who de- and the most sublime attainments of the human sire it ; and true Christianity and true understanding. science are not enemies, but hand- That was what they compelled Galileo maidens. The true Church will not be to do ; and the result of that system's found condemning and threatening a application to the Church as well as to Galileo in one generation and teaching the world has had a blighting and a dis- his system in her own schools in another astrous effect upon mankind. As an in- generation. Rome may condemn Gali- dication of the state of learning among leos and anathematise comets, but the the Roman priests in the sixteenth cen- records of the past cannot be altered by tury, Bishop Hooker reported that out of decrees, declarations, or anathemas. JULY 22, 1918 453

his hand from doing any evil." Isa. 56:2. /Me That is God's own promise to the man 99/911e1 who honours His hallowed Sabbath day. The one who does it God will cause to WARB17RTON, VICTORIA, , JULY 29, 1918 " ride upon the high places of the earth," and to be fed " with the heritage of All manuscript should Jacob." Isa. 58 : 14. That is better than lie addressed to Editor. For further particulars anything which can be provided in the see last page. " Continental Sunday " or the " American Sunday," or any other kind of pseudo- God Has Made a Difference sabbath. Man is not a source of divine blessing ; so no sabbath that he can in- REV. LYMAN ABBOTT is quoted as say- stitute can carry a divine blessing with it. ing, " I want something better for The speaker above referred to declares America than the Sunday of Continental that " there is no distinction in the Europe." Why not take "the Sabbath days," and proposes to have the Sunday of the Lord thy God " ? Next to Christ preserved," one-half for religious culture, Himself, it is God's best and most blessed and the other half for real rest and recu- gift to the human race. It was blessed peration," Now that is a man-made ar- and hallowed by the Lord when given to rangement, pure and simple. There is the world. That blessing and that sanc- no blessing pronounced upon it by Him tification were never repealed by the One who alone can bless humanity with who only could have the right to repeal spiritual blessing. No one who has the them. The institution itself was never right and power to hallow a day or a set aside by the command of the One Sabbath has hallowed that one. As no who only could have the right and the divine blessing has been put into it by power to make such a change. One of the One who alone has authority and the purposes of its establishment was to power to do it, it can carry no divine keep always in men's minds the memory blessing. and love of the Maker of the " heavens More than that, it is a distinct defiance and the earth." God pronounced a bless- to the Author of the true Sabbath; for ing upon those who would remember to the would-be founder of this half-and- keep it. Christ kept it. He neither half Sunday sabbath has declared that changed it nor intimated that He ever in- there is no difference in the days. To tended to change it. His disciples kept him and to many others it makes no dif- it. There is no record, sacred or profane, ference in the days for God Himself to that they ever ceased to keep it, or that declare one blessed and hallowed, and they ever kept any other day. No state- command it to be kept. ment of the New Testament can by any But God has put a difference between fair or impartial interpretation be made the days of the week; and in the body of to teach that they kept any other day as the law which He wrote " with His own the Sabbath, or sought to teach others to finger," He has declared that difference. do so. He is the same unchangeable God, " yes- We are free to admit that the world terday, and to-day, and forever." "I am needs something better as a Sabbath the Lord, I change not." Mal. 3 :6. The than the "Continental Sunday." And difference is still there ; the blessing is we know that there is something better. still there ; and he who honours God in It is the Sabbath of Jehovah, given in the keeping of His holy day will receive Eden ; given with His seal, protected by and know that blessing, and he will have Him through all the ages; still in force something better than the " Continental as when He spoke the law concerning it ; Sunday." never to be repealed. "Blessed is the Then, why not take Him at His word, man that doeth this, and the son of man honour the day which He has appointed that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the for the Sabbath,—the only one He ever Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth did appoint,—and get the blessing He 454 JULY 22, 1918

has in it for us ? Let us be loyal to the great King now, if we expect to dwell forever under His government by and by.

THIS old world has waited long for its release from the hypnotic spell cast over it by Satan when man, through disobedi- ence to God, his Creator, fell under the power of that malicious spirit. The con- tinuance of that triumph of satanic pur- 503—To the Lost Sheep Only pose over man has been a long drawn What did Christ mean when He used the words, out period of suffering and disappoint- "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house ment and distress ; but the time of earth's of Israel" ? * * * release is drawing near. God has placed The Jewish people, being descendants of Abra- in the heavens themselves the unmistak- ham, to whom the promises were made, were to able signs of the near approach of that have part, if faithful, in the fulfilment of all that great and glorious event which will be was spoken to Abraham by Jehovah. They proved the consummation of the gospel and of unfaithful to Him at many times, and yet He would have carried out His promises to that people to the God's purpose concerning man. Since very last, if they had not rejected Him, turned their the time when man fell the universe has backs upon Him, and finally crucified His Son. waited for that consummation, for the Christ was sent to them as God's most powerful, coronation of our Redeemer King, and most effectual, and last appeal. God bore with their iniquities, transgressions, idolatries, and back- the vindication of God's love and justice. slidings for generation after generation. He pur- In Christ's triumph, every loyal child posed that no just accusation could ever lie against of God will triumph also, and in His Him in His dealings with His chosen people. So coronation every obedient follower of when Christ came, He came as God's direct mes- senger to that people, as God's last effort to turn His will be clowned with the of their feet in the path of redemption. Until their re- everlasting life. Soon we shall see Him, jection of Him was demonstrated in their cruci- either to welcome Him or to fall before fixion of Jesus on the cross, He still was God's par- the power of His consuming presence ; ticular messenger to them. But when they had demonstrated their enmity toward His Son in that and which we do depends entirely upon cruel murder on Calvary, Jesus Christ then became the choice which we ourselves are mak- God's messenger, not to one people, but to all of ing from day to day. His glorious in- the world. It was God's purpose in establishing vitation to us can be accepted or rejected. Israel where He did, on the highway of the nations of the earth, to make them His missionary people to If accepted, the glories, the beauties, the all other peoples and languages. But they refused peace and happiness of that eternal life to keep that exalted position and became so hide- are ours to enjoy forever. If rejected, we bound in their own national prejudices that it was sentence ourselves to that long night of impossible for them to be used in that capacity. For that reason He left them to themselves, com- black oblivion from which we shall missioned His disciples to go to all the world, and never wake. The invitation of our their city and nation were destroyed. Now He is blessed Lord is given in these words : using other peoples to finish the work which He " The Spirit and the bride say, Come. gave Israel to do. If they had accepted Jesus when He came to them, then He would have taught them, And let him that heareth say, Come. instructed them, and prepared them to carry the And let him that is athirst come. And gospel to all the earth. They would not have it so. whosoever will, let him take of the water They would not listen either to Him or to His dis- of life freely." Rev. 22 : 17. " And, be- ciples, and so Peter says, "Lo, we turn to the Gen- hold, I come quickly ; and My reward is tiles." with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22 : 12. 504—Cast Out the Bondwoman With all that is involved in the mak- Please explain what is meant by the figure Paul ing of that tremendous choice, can there uses in Galatians 4—the bondwoman and the free. be any question as to the wisdom of Does the casting out of the bondwoman mean the choosing for God, and the foolishness of abolition of the law of God? E. S. turning away from His blessed and lov- We must understand this scripture in the light of ing invitation ? other scriptures. If one takes the position that this ]iiLY 22, 1918 455 scripture teaches the abolition of the law, then he they may be saved. Salvation comes as the gift of is putting Paul's testimony against the testimony of God, and is not by works that we may do, for they Jesus Christ. Jesus says, " Think not that I am are all imperfect. come to destroy the law, or the prophets : I am not Now comes the question, If we are not saved come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto through keeping the law, then may we not as well you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle break it ? No indeed ; for the moment that we de- shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be ful- liberately determine to break God's law, we pro- filled." Matt. 5:17, 18. He also tells us in the very claim ourselves rebels against the government of next verse that those who break even one of these God. You will read in Isa. 51 :7 like this, " Hearken commandments and teach others to do so shall be unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the people in called the least in the kingdom of heaven. Now if whose heart is My law." If we within our heart the text in Galatians contradicts this text in Mat- purpose to do God's will, that ranges us on His side thew, what are we going to do? Naturally, as true even though we may not, through the weakness of Christians, we would say we must follow Christ, be- the flesh, be able to keep it:in its entirety. If saved lieving what He says in the scriptures I have just in the kingdom of God, it will be because we have quoted, and let Paul be judged by Him for taking a been followers of Jesus Christ. We are not follow- position contrary to that taken by the One whom ers of Jesus Christ if we go contrary to His will and he professed to serve. way. You will- read in i John 2 : 6 like this: "He But it is not at all necessary to think that here is that sayeth he abideth in Him ought himself also so a contradiction between Paul and Jesus. The to walk even as He walked." How did He walk? trouble comes, if there is any trouble, in our mis- Turn to Psalm 40 and read verses 7 and 8. Verse understanding the figures of speech which Paul uses 8 says : "I delight to do Thy will, 0 My God : yea, in Galatians. The Christians of Paul's day were Thy law is within My heart." very largely converts from among the Jews, and some Now if we follow Him, we must have the same of themnot fully comprehending the gospel, desired desire in our hearts that He had in His, and that was to bring Jewish rites and ceremonies into the to do His Father's will and have His Father's law, Christian Church. It was this that Paul was speak- not abolished, but in His heart as His actuating ing against, as you will see by the very next verses motive. in the fifth chapter of Galatians. Paul did not di- Those who are saved are saved by virtue of the vide his letter up into chapters. That has been done new covenant. The old one was found faulty be- by the translator, and chapter five is a close continua- cause men were unable to do what they promised to tion of chapter four. In these verses in chapter five do; but under the new covenant it is expressly stated Paul speaks of a yoke of bondage, and he tells us at that the law of God is to be written in our hearts. once what that yoke of bondage was. It is found So the new covenant Christians are Christians who in the ceremonial law. You will see that clear have God's law, not abolished, but in their hearts. down to verse eleven Paul is talking about the rite You will see this by reading Jer. 31: 33. He prom- of circumcision. Some of the Jewish converts to ises to put His law in their inward parts and write Christianity wanted to bring circumcision into the it in their hearts, and says that He will be their God Christian Church and Paul was fighting against it. and they shall be His people. Then verse 34 says But circumcision was only one of many ordinances He will forgive their iniquity and remember their that went to make up the ceremonial law. There sins no more. That this is the new covenant is is nothing about circumcision, or the washing of shown by reference to Heb. 8 : 10-13, where the hands, or the sacrificing of animals, in the law of words of this covenant are repeated almost word the ten commandments. The ordinance of circum- for word; and then verse 13 says: "In that He cision, being a bloody ordinance, pointed forward saith, A new covenant, He hath made the first old. to the shedding of the blood of our Saviour. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready When that blood was shed, there was no longer any to vanish away." Does the new covenant vanish need for the continuation of the ceremony which away ? Ah no ; it is the old that vanisheth away, pointed forward to it. That ceremony and all and the new covenant stands through all time; but others in the ceremonial la v passed away at the note this fact: in the new covenant is found this cross, or, as one Bible writer puts it, was nailed to promise, I will put My law in their inward parts the cross. That was not so with the law of the ten and write it in their hearts." commandments, Jesus Christ Himself plainly mak- ing this declaration in Matt. 5:17-19. The bondwoman that was to be cast out was the 505—A Place Prepared old covenant, that is, the covenant in which the Please explain how it is that Christ could say, "I people made this promise : "All these things will ,co to prepare a place for you" (John 14 : 2), when, we do and be obedient." They were not able in their own strength to do what they promised to do. in Matt. 25 : 34 He states that there is a place that has been prepared for His followers from the foun- They thought they could accomplish their own dation of the world. salvation by their own strength, by their own doing A.E.W. of the law. The Bible tells us, however, that The place which our Lord went "to prepare" "there is none that doeth good, no not one." So in for His faithful followers is in the " house " or city trusting to their own works for their own salvation, of God in heaven. " In My Father's house are they were literally in bondage to sin. Their own many mansions. . . . I go [there] to prepare a works, being imperfect and inefficient, could not place for you." John 14 : 2. That " place" or city save them; and then, being adjudged transgressors comes down from heaven at the time of the final of the law, their souls would be forfeit, and they destruction of sin. The kingdom prepared for man sold in sin. Now, however, through their belief and from the foundation of the earth was and is this world. trust in Jesus Christ, in the power of the gospel, It is the inheritance of the saints. See Ps. 37:9-1T. 456 JULY 22, 191g

- Hebrew, in complying with the sanctuary ritual, confessed his sin over the head of the victim, the blood of which (repre- senting the forfeited life of the trans- gressor) was transferred to the sanctuary, the priest sprinkling it before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law which the confessor had trans- gressed, so " by faith the sins of the re- pentant are placed upon Christ and The God Who Knows—No. 12 transferred, in fact, to the heavenly sanctuary." Christ will bear these con- Thos. H. Craddock fessed sins until the close of the Investi- Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your gative Judgment, when He will place sins may be blotted out, when the times of refresh- them upon the head of their originator, ing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto Satan. This was forcibly taught in the you : whom the heaven must receive until the times of earthly sanctuary by illustration at the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the close of each yearly atonement day. On mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. that day the high priest typically trans- Acts 3 : 19-21. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your ferred the sins of the repentant and par- hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, doned Hebrews to the head of the scape- and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you goat. See Lev. 16 :20-22. unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them The scapegoat could not, as some have that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted erroneously supposed, typify Christ, be- worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, cause only one lot was for the Lord, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21: 34-36. and the goat which represented the For the time is come that judgment must begin at the Lord was slain. The Hebrew word for house of Go 1 : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? I scapegoat," as given in the margin of Peter 4: 17. Lev. 16 : 8, is Azazel. The Syriac has " Azzail," the angel (strong one) who re- The Final Disposal of Fin volted. That is to say, the devil. EACH of the above quoted scriptures Each year's service in the earthly has specific reference to the closing days sanctuary was a type of the whole work of the great controversy between good of 'Christ in the heavenly sanctuary. and evil. As has been pointed out in We have briefly reviewed these vital former articles, it is in the Hebrew sanc- points of the Hebrew sanctuary ritual in tuary service where we learn, by forcible order that the mind of the reader may be object lessons, what the end of sin will clear concerning the closing work of our be,—death, absolute and complete. "The great High Priest in the heavenly sanc- wages of sin is death." Rom. 6 :23. tuary. The closing work of our divine- The services of the sanctuary are human Advocate commenced with the described in all details in Leviticus and opening of the anti-typical atonement Numbers, and very briefly summarised day,—the Investigative Judgment,—in in Heb. 9 : 6, 7. The sanctuary built by 1844. Moses was a figure (verse 9), or pattern (verse 23), of the sanctuary, or tabernacle, The Message of Revelation 10 which is in heaven. Heb. 8 :1, 2. All the The attention of the reader having al- services were performed with the law of ready been called to this chapter, we God in view. " Whosoever committeth will not, therefore, repeat. It will be sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is sufficient to say that the message of this the transgression of the law." I John chapter is coincident with the message 3, 4. of Rev. 14: 6, 7, until A.D. 1844, when the Clearly, then, the ordinances of divine thousands who were looking for their service connected with the heavenly Lord's return experienced their bitter sanctuary are for the purpose of separ- disappointment. It contains the phase ating the sinner from his sins. As the of definite time that was connected with quLY 22, 1918 457 the first angel's message prior to that "The Book of Death" contains the rec- disappointment. The message of Reve- ords of sins committed from the dawn of lation 10 closed in 1844, because the each individual's responsibility. See light which came from the study of the Jer. 2 : 22 ; Isa. 65 : 3-7 ; Ps. 149 : 9. When sanctuary explained the disappointment, we confess our sins, pardon is written the work to be done at the end of the over against our names ; but the record 2,30o years, and the nature of the mes- of the sin still remains in the book until sage to be given at its close. See Rev. the judgment. In the type there is re- _To : 7, II ; 14 : 6-12. membrance again made of sins every year; "but now once in the end of the The Work of the Judgment world hath He appeared to put away It would be impossible for the keenest, sin "; and "the worshippers once purged most imaginative of human minds to should have had no more conscience of conceive a more solemn, awe-inspiring sins." scene than the opening of the judgment Every decision in heaven's great tri- session in the courts of heaven. The in- bunal will be righteous judgment. " God spired Book describes the scene to the is no res7Jcter of persons." Acts To : extent that the mind of man can grasp. 34. " We must all appear before the " God Himself is Judge." Ps. 5o : 6. judgment seat of Christ; that every one The beloved prophet describes the open- may receive the things done in his body, ing of this solemn session as follows :— according to that he hath done, whether " I beheld till the thrones were cast it be good or bad." 2 Cor. 5 : 10. down [placed, R.v.], and the Ancient of In the judgment no name or place or days did sit, whose garment was white circumstance will be overlooked: " I will as snow, and the hair of His head like make mention of Rahab and Babylon to the pure wool : His throne was like the them that know Me: behold Philistia, fiery flame, and His wheels as burning and Tyre, with Ethiopia ; this man was fire. A fiery stream issued and came born there. And of Zion it shall be said, forth from before Him : thousand thou- This and that man was born in her : and sands [of angels] ministered unto Him, the Highest Himself shall establish her. and ten thousand times ten thousand The Lord shall count, when He writeth stood before Him : the judgment was up the people, that this man was born set, and the books were opened." Dan. there." Ps. 87:4 6. 7 : 9, 1o. So correct are the heavenly recorders The books referred to are the records that no one will be able to charge them kept by the heavenly accountants and with inaccuracy or mistake :— the recording angels. Mal. 3 : 16 ; Rev. " Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy 20 : 12 ; Jer. 2 : 22. flesh to sin ; neither say thou before the " The Book of Life" contains the names angel that it was an error: wherefore of all candidates for eternal life. That should God be angry at thy voice, and is to say : The time, place, and circum- destroy the work of thine hands." Eccl. stances under which each decision was 5 : 6. made to serve God and live righteously. In that awful tribunal humanity is rep- Compare Luke Jo : 20 with Phil. 4 : 3 and resented by a Divine-human Advocate Rev. 21 : 27. —the resurrected Christ. I John 2 : I. "The Book of Remembrance" contains The " judgment will begin at the house records of good deeds performed and of God." That is to say : With His kind words spoken for God and human- Church, His professed followers and ser- ity. It records every struggle with the vants. The condition on which Christ enemy of righteousness; of heartaches, will defend each case and confess each sorrows, tears, and victories won. Com- name is plainly stated in the following pare Mal. 3 :16 with Acts 16: 31 and Ps. scriptures :— 56 : 8. This book also records the " word " Whosoever therefore shall confess of their testimony." Compare Mal. 3 : Ito Me before men, him will I confess also with Rev. 12 : ii. The word of their before My Father which is in heaven. testimony enabled them to overcome. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, 458 JULY 22, 1918

him will I also deny before My Father fiat of the Judge of all the earth :— which is in heaven." Matt. 10 : 32, 33• "He that is unjust, let him be unjust See also Luke 12 : 8, 9. still : and he which is filthy, let him be In Christ's message to the Church at filthy still : and he that is righteous, Sardis, He said : " He that overcometh, let him be righteous still : and he that is the same shall be clothed in white rai- holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, ment; and I will not blot out his name I come quickly ; and My reward is with out of the book of life, but I will confess Me, to give every man according as his his name before My Father, and before work shall be." Rev. 22: II, 12. His angels." Rev. 3 : 5• " The Rule of the Judgment " and " The The decision of the judgment will be Execution of the Judgment," as foretold final and irrevocable. At the close of by "the God who knows," will be the the judgment the following will be the subjects of our next article.

Fighting For a Home Will the Jews Return from Their Third Exile ? HORACE G. FRANKS A SMALL, band of Jews recently left during the first two years of the war, the America to assist in blazing the trail into Jews helped to surmount a Palestine for the wives, sisters, mothers, mighty obstacle surrounding the manu- and sons they had left behind. They facture of munitions. As a reward for sailed away from the shores of the land their services they did not ask for a of independence in a vessel bearing the fabulous sum, but they merely requested name Commonwealth (was it a happy co- that, if the Allies were victorious, they incidence ?), fired with an ambition to would help the Zionists towards the help make the beloved home of their realisation of their dreams : Palestine for forefathers as free and as inviting and as the Jews. And it is understood that the wholesome as the country they were just promise was readily given. leaving. Their aim was the sworn aim of the great Zionist movement, which A Striking Contrast was expressed and laid down in 1897 in The capture of Jerusalem brought these words : "To create for the Jewish about a tremendous change of religious people a publicly recognised, legally se- thought in the Jewish world. On August cured home in Palestine." 4, 1914, the Orthodox Jews were fasting and sitting on the bare floors of their A Mighty Change synagogues reciting the Lamentations of It can be safely said that every one of Jeremiah, and commemorating the ninth the fourteen million Jews in the world day of the month Ab, the anniversary of felt their hearts thrill with pleasure in the destruction of the Temple. That day that glad December of 1917 when the also marked the anniversary of the time news of the capture of Jerusalem by the when they were led into captivity, first British flashed around the world. In that by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian event they saw a hope; in the happen- monarch, and second by Titus, the Roman ings of a few days they saw the pos- general. sibilities of a wonderful future, for in the It was on this very day that the great preceding month had not the British war was declared by the nations of Cabinet, through Mr. Balfour, declared Europe ! To the saddened minds of many the full sympathy of England with the Jews this betokened another period of Zionist movement, and also England's woe for the literal descendants of Abra- decision to establish the Jewish people ham. And in many ways their fears in Palestine as their national home ? have not proved groundless. Over half It is declared on good authority that a million gallant Hebrews are at war, JULY 22, 1918 459'

Jew engaged in mortal combat with Jew. the magnitude of that frightfulness and Four millions of them,—men, women, and its horrors, for the actual woes, sorrows, children, of all ages, healthy and sick, and agonising tragedy of the martrydom rich and poor,—have been ruthlessly of this great scattered people can never driven along dreary roads, through be fully and accurately penned. marshes and loathsome bogs, abandon- ing land, cattle, treasures, and home, A Wonderful Deliverance pursued relentlessly by pitiless foes, and But the deep-laid plans of a British met in front by the grim twin fiends, general operating in Palestine gave poverty and starvation. In attempting to ewry a vision of better times. When

THE OLD WAILING-PLACE OF THE JEWS AT JERUSALEM save their lives they have lost them. on that Tuesday morning, December The Jew saw his national hope fade into at half-past seven, official entry was thin air, and, as though in grim irony, made into Jerusalem, bright vistas of that path which four thousand years be- hope loomed before the eyes of the Jews. fore had heard the tramp of the Israelites Jerusalem, that Holy City, besieged on fleeing from bondage in Egypt now heard seventeen occasions; twice totally de- the scuffle and drank the blood of Jewish stroyed; captured by Assyrian; Egyp- refugees fleeing from Palestine back into tian, Babylonian, Greek, Syrian, Roman, Egypt. Arabian, Crusader, and Turk; beloved During those first sad years of war, by the Jew, respected by the Christian, there was no promised land before them ; and worshipped by the Mohammedan ; in fact, we are not able to comprehend the link between the East and the West ; 460 JULY 22, 1918

the buffer between the old and the new God's Word we declare unhesitatingly civilisations, was at last in the hands of th1t the Utopian Commonwealth of Israel that mighty empire which favoured the will never be a living, existing reality as cause of the Jews. Well might the a result of man's efforts. people in Jerusalem's streets call out, as Before drawing attention to Bible proof the procession entered, "This is our day of this assertion, we present the views of of liberation ! " many leading Hebrews on this question. Leading Zionists looked on that great The few extracts appended here will event which so romantically stirred the show that many Jews are looking as- world as the beginning of a new era of kance at restored Palestine. freedom and justice, and immediately Says Dr. Samuel Schulman in the plans were set on foot to prepare the way American Hebrew (New York) :— for a national State. The task of re- The Jewish community in Palestine cannot be patriation of the exiles was first organ- taken as the centre of the whole Jewish community ised, and then the re-organisation of the in the world.. . . Palestine cannot be declared a Jewish community in Palestine—educa- homeland for the Jewish people. The people has grown to a number too large for Palestine, and the tionally, economically, and socially,— people has grown in the spirit which has long ago was considered. Already a movement transcended the confines of Palestine, or even the to raise £20,000,000 has been started with conception of any particular political organisation. the object of erecting a Jewish university on the Mount of Olives, and the matters And says the editor of Jewish Com- of boundary-lines, water-supply, and ment :— Let Palestine be one of the many homes where modernising of the Holy City are being Jews may live in peace and happiness. . . . Jews carefully looked into. cannot appropriate Palestine as exclusively their And so we see the change of plans. own. Whereas the Orthodox Jews, at the con- Geographically it is one of the most important countries in the whole world. When the British plans ception of the Zionist movement, consid- in Mesopotamia mature, . . . Palestine, as the key to ered it sacrilege to attempt to bring about all the marvellously rich territory east of the by human means that which could only Mediterranean, will be a prize tempting enough result from what they termed direct for the greatest world Power or for the greatest combination of Powers. . . . Divine interposition, and whereas also In course of time the Jewish nation in Palestine the Reformed Jews decided in 1845, and will totter, and the Jews who had hoped for a re-affirmed in 1885, to eliminate from the country of their own will find themselves once liturgy every prayer for the return to the more homeless, and the dispersion history of the land of their forefathers and for the Jews will repeat itself. restoration of a Jewish State, declaring While Mr. Israel Zangwill, the leader that " we therefore expect neither a re- of the English Zionists, declares :— turn to Palestine . . . nor the restoration None of us who hope for such a nation expect or of any of the laws concerning the Jewish believe that all Jews, wherever now located, will State" (see the Pittsburg conference), come to Palestine and live under the new country. to-day things are very different. Ortho- dox Jews and Reformed Jews are flocking The Testimony of the Bible in increasing numbers and with glowing We have seen, therefore, from the enthusiasm around the Zionist banners viewpoints of numbers, geography, and with eyes and hearts turned toward politics, that a permanent Jewish State Jerusalem. in Palestine is not expected in many in- fluential quarters, because it is not prac- Will the Jews Return ? ticable. And the Word of God bears out If the above question is asked unmodi- these deductions. It is true that there fied, the answer must be Yes; but if it is are many prophecies referring to a return asked if the Jews will achieve their aim of the Jews, but careful study will show and realise their hopes, we must answer that the majority of these prophecies No. It is very probable that an attempt were conditional on the Hebrew nation will be made to set up a national Jewish proving true and loyal to the Lord. But, State; in fact, this is already being as all know, not only did Israel forsake planned for. But on the authority of the Lord, but crucified Him who had JULY 22, 1918 461 come to redeem her. In that act and in turies is nothing but a striking fulfilment the later refusal to accept the gospel of verses 64-67. teaching of the apostles, Jewry signed its Thus we have seen that a glorious national death-warrant. Christ, in fore- Commonwealth of Israel as a result of telling the future of Jerusalem and the schemes of man's devising, even though Jews, in Matthew 24, went no further they be fostered by the great Powers of down the stream of years than A.D. 70, the day, will prove but a passing dream. the year which is so well remembered for At a village at the foot of the Judean the destruction of Jerusalem. And then plateau a visible memorial to Herzl, the Christ had said, " Behold, your house is founder of the Zionist movement, was left unto you desolate." Does this leave being planted in the form of an olive- room for hope of a restoration of the tree forest. But a visitor there to-day temple and the city ? would see rows of lopped branches and And because it was for the rejection of bare tree trunks disfigured by the demons Christ and rebellion against God and of war. His law that the Jews as a nation were Even so will the pleasant dream of Dr. disbanded and scattered, is it in any way Herzl and his followers be shattered possible for the Lord to bring them once with the coming of the dawn. again into His favour while they are still What will that dawn be ? rebellious and still stubborn, and while Will there ultimately be a Utopian this twentieth century finds them farther Commonwealth of Israel ? away from God than they were at the Who will be the Israel to inhabit the advent of Christ ? New Jerusalem ? These questions will be answered in God's Solemn Covenant next week's issue. In Deuteronomy 28 are found the de- tails of one of the most solemn covenants of history ; an agreement the conditions A CHRISTIAN HOME of which were formulated in heaven. W. R. Carswell The first part (verses 1-14) contains a list METHINKS I see a godly home of all the blessings God would bestow Where Christian virtues are displayed, And 1 would sing, where'er I roam, upon the children of Israel if they should Its praise to ev'ry youth and maid. hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord The father and the mother wise their God. Verse 15 commences a sad list In godly fear their children train of "curses " pronounced upon them if To choose the path where duty lies, they should be unfaithful and rebellious. Though it bring trial oft and pain. History has shown which they received, It is a picture fair to see The earnest youth, the modest maid, the blessings or the curses. Their re- The children fair, from cares all free, bellion and utter sinfulness brought down Gathered where prayer is daily made. the righteous indignation of God upon Or in God's house on His own day their guilty heads, and a careful reading What joy to hear His blessed Word From youthful lips, or hear them pray of the " curses " will show how definitely Where sounds of prayer are daily heard. that Heaven-sent prophecy has been ful- May Heaven bless the Christian home, filled. There is no mention of a return in Bulwark of truth in error's land ; the latter part of that chapter, but truly And may its youth where'er they roam, the Hebrew nation has become an as- Sustained by an almighty hand, tonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, Rebuke the rebel Satan's power And conquer in temptations all ; among all the nations." Verse 37. Thus by the Word, the gospel's power, " Moreover all these curses shall come Prepared to meet the Saviour's call. upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and May souls who see this truth alive, ,overtake thee, till thou be destroyed, . . Lived out in such a home of grace, and they shall be upon thee for a sign Desire in truth, that they may strive and a wonder, and upon thy seed forever." In God's true Church to find a place. Thus from the Christian homes shall shine Verses 45, 46. A light to brighten darkened ways; And the terror-stricken existence of the And souls redeemed, 'mid light divine, Jews in many countries for many cen- Shall bring to God eternal praise. 462 JULY 22, 1918

" Come, kitty, kitty " ; but he couldn't drink it as pussy did, and he tipped it -1-11 ins • over before he had tasted a drop. Then K-1 he lay down on the rug before the fire. 6iirttrr He tried to curl himself up in a little ball ; but he bumped nis head, and he couldn't lie still and purr, though he tried very hard. In a few moments he jumped up and said : " Mamma, I don't want to be a little boy yet. What else can I be ? " Mamma A Bedtime Story smiled, and said, " Do you want to be a " OH, dear, I wish I wasn't a little boy," flower ?" said Rob. And what do you think made "Oh, yes," said Rob. "I will be a him say it ? It was because his mamma morning glory." He had heard his had just told him to put away his blocks mamma call his baby sister her little and to take Prince to the stable and give morning glory as she lay cooing to her- him some oats. Prince is his rocking- self in her crib, and he thought it was a horse, and the stable is the corner be- very sweet name. tween the rocking-chair and the south " Well," said mamma, " the morning window. Every night Rob ties Prince to glories have all gone to sleep by this the chair, and holds a saucer of birdseed time. So you must come and stand by under his nose till he has eaten as much me, and go to sleep too." supper as a rocking-horse ought to eat. Rob went to her and stood very still to It doesn't take long, and he likes to feed show he was on the stem. Mamma put his pony ; but he knows bread and milk his arm through hers, because that is ready by that time, and bedtime has flower always puts out little runners to come. That is why he said, " Oh, dear !" hold on by. Then she told him how it twists itself up when its early bedtime " Why, what should I do if I hadn't comes, and Rob shut his eyes so tight any little boy ? " said mamma, " and and puckered his lips so close that his what would you do if you hadn't any little face was as red as a rose. little bed ? " Just then nurse came into the room, Rob thought a minute, and then said: with a bowl of bread and milk, and " If I was a little bird, I shouldn't want mamma said, " Shall I sprinkle my flower one. Oh, mamma, may I play I am a with water or shall I give my little boy bird ?" his supper ? " His mamma said, "Yes you may be a " Oh, I'll eat my supper," said Rob, robin." So he began to hop about on the "I'd rather you'd be my mamma than floor flapping his arms for wings. When anything else." he was tired of doing that, she told him And then she washed his face and to stand on one foot, and put his head hands, and called him her little kitten, down on one side and go to sleep. because the mother cat always washes " Why, mamma," he said, " I can't her kittens. sleep in that way. Besides, I am hungry." And, when she put on his nightgown, " Are you ?" said his mamma. " Well, she said he was her little flower and wore here are some crumbs left from a cake a white dress, like the other flowers. my little boy had. You may eat them ; And then she kissed him, and said, if you are a robin, you must sleep as " My darling little boy " ; and that was robins do." the best of all. Rob stood on one foot for two minutes. When he had said, "Now I lay me," He thought it was an hour, he was so and the prayer mamma made for him, he tired ; and then he said he would rather asked if he might say one more. MaminS. be a cat, because- he could lie down. smiled. " Yes "; and he said, " Dear His mamma poured some milk into a God, I thank You for making me a little saucer, and put it on the floor, and said, boy."—The Pacific. JULY 22, 1918 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES 463

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