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The Bright Side. passion to be found in Him. The Instead of having the cause of God THERE is many a rest in the road of life, only doubt in the apostle's mind at heart and the welfare of others, If we only would stop to take it ; is, whether those to whom he is those who are moved by this spirit And many a tone from the better land, writing adequately realize and act from separate and selfish inter- If the querulous heart would wake it! To the sunny soul that is full of hope, appropriate the un search able ests. They neither feel nor labour And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth, riches that abound in Christ and for the whole body, but for them- The grass is green and the flowers are whether they are living up to the selves. Rather than put their bright, exalted standard as His professed gifts into the common stook, to ad- Though the winter storm prevaileth. followers. The Revised Version vance the glory of God, they use Better to hope though the clouds hang gives these virtues in a slightly them to promote their own power low, different form and order, viz ; and prestige, without regard to the And to keep the eyes still lifted ; For the sweet blue sky will soon peep comfort," " consolation of love," highest good of all. Where this through, "fellowship of the Spirit," "ten- spirit is, there will be strife and When the ominous clouds are rifted. der mercies and compassion." dissension ; where it is not there There was never a night without a day, Now if an individual be really and will be peace, happiness, harmony Nor an evening without a morning ; truly " in Christ " h e will be and progress. Hence they should And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes, happily conscious of the bless- each, in lowliness of mind, esteem Is the hour before the dawning. ings arising out of that desirable the other better than themselves, There is ever a gem in the path of life state. Such was Paul's own and not become so absorbed in Which we pass in our idle pleasure, experience. Often amid perils, their own affairs as to have neither That is richer far than the jewelled perplexities, and persecutions had thought nor care for those of their crown he found in Christ comfort and brethren. A sympathetic interest Or the miser's hoarded treasure : consolation. He knew something should be shown towards those It may be the love of a little child, Or a mother's prayer to Heaven, of the supreme joy and confidence who have trials and difficulties, Or only a beggar's grateful thanks of being "in Christ," and naturally and a spirit of oo-operation should For a cup of water given. he desired the Philipplan brethren enter into all their associations Better to weave in the web of life to share these with him. To know one with another. Not that any A bright and golden filling, that they were deriving comfort, should interfere unduly with their And do God's will with a ready heart, consolation, and sweet fellowship neighbours' business and fail to And hands that are swift and willing, from their connection with Jesus mind their own, but show a kind, Than to snap the delicate, slender threads and their associations with one tactful, Christian interest in others. Of our curious lives asunder, another would make his own joy This attitude is the very essence And then blame Heaven for the tangled full and complete. Hence his ex- of the Christian religion. ends, pressed desire that they might Christ's Humiliation. And sit and grieve and wonder. " be of the same mind, having the —Selected. Now the natural man of himself' same love, being of one accord and cannot do this. By nature he is of one mind." Verse 2, R V. prone to think more of his own Humbled and Exalted.* Nothing gives the faithful preacher comfort and convenience than of Phil. Ii. 1-77. of the Gospel more joy than to see the well being of his neighbour. "The Blessings in Christ." those for whom he has laboured Only by letting go his selfish mind THE word " if," with which the finding their chief delight and and exchanging it for the mind apostle introduces this chapter, by blessing in the truth he has brought of Christ can he show a right no means suggests that there is them. attitude toward others ; " L e t any doubt in his mind that the A Barrier to Spiritual Progress. this mind be in you which was virtues he mentions all centre per- Having exhorted them to unity also in Christ Jesus," says the feotly in Christ. On the contrary and love he proceeds to point out Apostle Paul. What are the char- it should be regarded as a strong to them that if they would reach acteristics of Christ's mind ? How declaration that there is con- this happy state they must avoid does it compare with the carnal solation, comfort of love, fellow- entertaining in their midst the mind of man 2 Next to God Christ ship of the Spirit, mercy and oom- spirit of " vain glory " or self- held the highest position in 'the 'International Sunday-School Lesson interest, which is destructive of universe. Yet He was willing to for February 13, 1916. true fellowship, peace, and progress. relinquish it to save fallen man, 68 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No 5.

Unlike sinful man, who, at all Has His memory faded from the the Prince of Peace, so unpopular costs, will hold on proudly, jealously world ? No. He is recognized by in practice, if not in theory, will 4 and tenaciously to personal power friend and foe alike as the greatest have to be acknowledged the most and position, He declined to secure spiritual and moral force this world worthy and enduring. Soon He or enhance His own reputation at hasever known. The power and in- will return to this earth, not as the expense of a lost world. Hence flaenoe of His teaching has emir. the despised and rejected One, but He came down to this earth and cled the world and the conquests as the King of kings and Lord of associated himself with sinful it has made over the hearts of men lords to reap the harvest of His human nature ; and at His death in all ages have been immeasurably great sacrifice and to put down he became identified with the most greater and more lasting than the once and for all the " vainglory " degraded characters, even robbers conquests of force conducted by of unregenerate mankind which, and outcasts ; for " He was num- earthly potentates. Without wav- for over six thousand years, has bered with the transgressors." ing banners, martial music, and kept this world in a state of tur- More than this, He became obedient the clash of arms He has secured moil and strife. H. F. D. unto death. Not a natural, or what for Himself an infinitely larger is reckoned by the world to be an army than ever rallied round King The All-Sufficient Word. honourable death, but an ignomin- or Kaiser. His voluntary humili- (Concluded.) ions death on the cross, such as ation, while it may have secured " Ve Must Be Born Again." When Nicodemus, a learned and intellectual Jewish ruler, oame to k Ff Christ by night to investigate, in 1,41.,V; his own way, the claims of the tat new Teacher Who had created such a stir among the people, he received the unexpected and start- ling reply, " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom • of God." John iii. 3. Not dis- cerning the spiritual meaning of "OBEDIENT UNTO • Christ's words, Nicodemus asked DEATH." i; in surprise and perplexity, " How can a man be born when he is old? was usually meted out to the can he enter a second time into lawless. And all this that the his mother's womb and be born?" world might be freed from the Verse 4. Then Christ explained penalty of sin hanging over it. that the birth of which He spoke Love, infinite and supreme, marked was spiritual. Like the natural His whole life and prompted the for him the contempt of the world, one, however, it was an incom- sacrifice of Himself on the cruel has, by the power of God, raised prehensible mystery, but no less cross. He showed as none other Him again to the highest place in real and evident on that account, had ever done, the possibility of the universe. He is now infinitely even as the blowing of the wind, meeting oppression, persecu- more precious in His Father's eyes which can be heard and felt, but tion, opposition and death at the because of the sacrifice He has whose coming and going cannot hands of cruel and malignant made and for what that sacrifice be traced. The Spirit of God enemies without becoming aroused has accomplished for mankind. works mysteriously but effectively to feelings of hatred or resentment Infinitely more have been blessed on the heart of man, transforming towards them. Even in His dying both temporally and spiritually by the sinner into a saint. But unlike agonies He loved His enemies and His non resistive death than have the natural the spiritual birth is self-abnegationprayed for them. He By demonstrated his life of been benefited by the brutal and brought about, " not of corrupt• ible seed, but of incorruptible, to the world that His weapons of bloody conflicts of earthly cham- warfare were not carnal ; that love pions. And soon--very soon—the by the word of God, which liv- and love alone controlled His whole whole world will have to acknow- eth and abideth for ever." 1 life. He stood to the last for the ledge Him as the supreme Ruler, Peter i. 23. To preach the Gos- principle of non-resistance to Teacher and Guide of mankind ; pel is to proclaim that Word. brute force. the righteous willingly and gladly ; Hence Paul's solemn exhortation H is Exaltation. the wicked reluctantly and un• to Timothy : " Preach the Word." And what has been the result ? graciously. Soon the principles of By that Word man is made a new

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creature. " If any man be in it is my meditation all the day." good works, church membership, Christ, he is a new creature [crea- Pea. cxix. 97. or church ceremonies. " Ye must & tioni ." 2 Cor. v. 17. By the Word Dear reader, has this change be born again." This change can of God alone may the perfect taken place in your life 2 Is there be wrought only by the ever-living, image of God, lost through sin, be in your heart a rebellious feeling all powerful word of God, " which, restored in man. against God's holy will ? Examine by the Gospel, is preached unto The Sustaining Word. yourself carefully. Be honest ; you you." Do not rest satisfied until cannot afford to deceive yourself you know this change has been But this is not all. The same in this matteDo not think to wrought, without which you have word that creates also upholds substitute fords change of heart, no hope of future glory. II.F.D. and sustains. This is true both

in the natural and the spiritual 1`ti,wiii yuids ou Into olt iruth.704 world. The regeneration of which Christ spoke to Nicodemus is but the beginning of a new life whi3h must be jealously guarded and nurtured. " As new born babes," says the Apostle Peter to the newly converted, " desire the sin- cere milk of the Word, that ye The Path of the Just, may grow thereby." 1 Peter ii. 2. BY F. A. SPEARING. Unless this desire for the Word is cultivated and fed, spiritual death Chapter 3.—The Gospel Tent. must quickly and inevitably fol- • ON the morning following the " Oh, that is a subject in which low. The mind and heart that interview recorded in the last I am deeply interested," said Mrs. has become aroused by the living chapter, a quietly• dressed young Brown. "What is your answer to and active Word must be con- lady about twenty two years of the question ? " she added with a stantly renewed by the same age might have been seen visiting smile. means. Proper food and exercise every house in Ranelagh Terrace, " I believe simply the plain ensure healthy growth of the soul Eaglesf ord. When she came to statement of Scripture that holy as well as of the body. This thought No. 27 she knocked as usual, and men of God spake as they were was doubtless in the mind of the the door was opened by Mrs. Brown moved by the Holy Ghost,' " re- Apostle Paul when he said : " Be who resided at that address. plied the visitor. not conformed to this world : but "Good morning," said the stran- " And do you take that texb be ye transformed by the renewing ger pleasantly, " we hope to com- quite literally?" asked Mrs. Brown. of your mind." Rom. all. 2. This mence a series of meetings in the " I see no reason for not doing new man is created in the image Gospel Tent,' which has been so," was the response. " I take of the One Who originally made erected in Mr. Corney's field, at every passage of Scripture to be man in His own image. " Pat on the corner of Wheatsheaf Road, literal, except where the contexb the new man, which after God is and we shall be glad to welcome plainly reveals the fact that the created in righteousness and true von and your friends at the open- text is figurative, in which case holiness." Eph. iv. 24. The natural ing service next Sunday evening the explanation is to be sought for or carnal mind is opposed to God, at 7 o'clock. Perhaps you will be in the Bible itself. Bat I think I " for it is not subject to the law of kind enough to take one of our in- can promise that if you come on God, neither indeed can he." Rom. vitation cards for future reference? Sunday night the subject will be viii. 7. " Let this mind be in you We are hoping to have the tent dealt with to your satisfaction ; which was also in Christ Jesus," full on Sunday, and I feel sore and many questions that are being says Paul to the Philippians. Phil. that those who come will experience asked on this point by earnest ii. 5. When a soul receives the mach of the Lord's blessing." inquirers will be answered. Shall mind of Christ his aspirations and " Thank you," said Mrs. Brown, we expect you 2 " affections change completely, so as she took the card that had been Mrs. Brown was much impressed that the things he once loved he handed to her. " I would very with the quiet assurance with now hates, and those he once much like to go, but my husband which her visitor spoke. She hated he now loves. His rebellion and I are members of the Pro- knew intuitively that the latter against the law of his Maker is gressive Church, and we seldom was a Christian, and from the broken down, and the love of God miss the services. What is the visitor's remarks Mrs. Brown was becomes shed abroad in his heart, subject for next Sunday 2 " convinced that Bible truth would so that he is able to say with the "Is the Bible the Word of God ?" be upheld in the tent. She felt a psalmist : " 0 how love I Thy law; was the reply. strong desire to attend the first 70 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 5.

meeting, and promised to be pres- three friends sat in the garden at the church, and when he does ent if her husband were favour- beneath the spreading boughs of a there is always a good reason for able. As soon as she was left large mulberry tree. The garden it ; but I think he would be justi- alone, Mrs. Brown looked at the was at its best. There were fied on this occasion, even though invitation card for the first time. roses, pink and white, blood-red he is an officer of the church. It was a small piece of pasteboard, geraniums with variegated leaves, What does your husband say 2" very neat in appearance, and the peonies a rich dark red, simple " I am afraid Mr. Johnson won't subject of the opening address, blue cornflowers, golden yellow be there," was the answer. " He " Is the Bible the Word of God 2 " marigolds, white carnations, mig- says it is his duty to support Mr. stood out boldly. At the top of nonette, sweet peas of every shade, Winterton ; and he doesn't think the card was the invitation, ex- and many other flowers too numer- any good will be accomplished by tended to all, Christians and un- ous to mention. The lower part the tent meetings. I think he believers alike ; lower down the of the house at the bank was prac- would rather Grace and I did not time of meetings was given ; then tically covered with the purple go, but we feel that we must go, the fact was stated that questions clematis, while sweet-scented and we believe God wills it so." were invited at the close, to which honeysuckle grew over the porch. " I am certain, Mrs. Brown, that Bible answers would be given ; In the centre of the well-kept God has a message for the people and finally at the bottom of the lawn was the tree under whose of Eaglesford, and I believe that card the following text was quoted : shade Mrs. Brown and her friends message will be delivered in the " Be ye also ready, for in such an sat. Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown tent," said Grace. " I don't think hour as ye think not the Son of were amateur gardeners, and both the truth of God is being taught man oometh." took great interest in horticulture. at any of the churches here. The As Mrs. Brown read the card, Trees, and flowers, and grass, spoke established churches with their the question came into her mind : to them of their great Creator and belief in transubstantiation, con- • Was it a mere coincidence that His wonderful love. Even little fession, and prayers for the dead, the tent services should commence Eddie at the age of ten was begin• are more Roman Catholic than just as she and her husband were ning to appreciate the lessons Protestant ; and nearly all the feeling unsettled at their own from nature his parents were con- Free Churches seem to be devo- church 2 Was it by chance that stantly striving to teach him. tees of the higher criticism. It is the opening address was to be on The conversation was opened by true that the other Nonconformist the very subject that had been Mrs. Johnson. " Have you heard bodies have not gone so far as Mr. dealt with on the previous Sunday the news Mary 2" she began. Mrs. Winterton, bat they certainly do by Mr. Winterton ? No ! Impos- Brown guessed what the " news " not stand by the principles of the sible! The more Mrs. Brown con- was. Bible." sidered the subject the stronger " Do you mean respecting the Both Mrs. Brown and Mrs. became her conviction that it was Gospel Tent 2 " she said smiling. Johnson were silent for a time ; not mere coincidence that the tent " Yes ! I see you already know they realized the truth of the was pitched at that particular about it," replied Mrs. John- statement made by Grace, and time ; and the choice of the open- son. " Well, Grace and I have had often prayed for a spiritual ing subject was not due to chance; made up our minds to go on Sun• revival among the professing both bad been ordained by an day, and we would very much like Christians of their native town. overruling providence. It may be you to come too. The meeting And now it seemed as though that some who were fast losing commences, I think, at 7 o'clock, their prayers were to be answered. their confidence in the Scriptures half an hour later than our's, but After an interval of two or three through the influence and teach- I will make sure." Mrs. Johnson minutes Mrs. Brown replied ing of Mr. Winterton were to be read aloud from an invitation card " What you say is right, Grace, brought back to God, and to an she took from her bag and now but we must remember that God acknowledgment of His truth, as a held in her hand : " Opening ser- has His own faithful ones in every result of the services to be con- vice, Sunday, June 22nd, at 7 p.m.' denomination, and these consti- ducted in the Gospel Tent. I thought that was the time. Can tute, in His eyes, the true church. During the afternoon Mrs. Brown you come " I feel with you that the recognized received a visit from her friends, " I hope to be able to do so," religions bodies are in a deplorable Mrs. Johnson and her daughter. said Mrs. Brown, " but I cannot condition ; there is so little true This was no extraordinary event, say for oertain yet. I want to consecration within the church, for the two families were particu- talk the matter over with my hus- and so little desire for the Gospel larly intimate, but on this occasion band. I think he also will be in- of Christ without, that those who the visit was quite unexpected, clined to come when he knows the are truly the children of God are though none the less welcome. It subject. It is not often Mr. Brown apt to get discouraged when they was a warm summer day, and the absents himself from the services think of the magnitude of the February 3 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 71 work committed to them. It our offences, and was raised again faith. While the Lord shows un- seems strange, dear, that you for our justification. Rom. iv. 4, limited pity and grace in the par- should place such confidence in 5. There is need of an atonement don of our great sins, much more the tent missioners without hav- that will satisfy the demands of does He show His compassion and ing seen them or heard them ; but justice by giving one to die in our grace in working within us entire I must admit that I also wonder place ; there is also need of a victory over our besetments. if they have not been sent here divine power that will make us The Christian who knows that by God for a purpose. Have you strong where we showed ourselves God for Christ's sake has forgiven seen the young lady from the tent weak in the past, and raise up the his sins need never be discouraged yet ? " character that sin has ruined. over his own slowness to learn the " Yes," answered Mrs. Johnson, The fifty•third chapter of Isaiah secret of spiritual power. As long " she called on us this morning. sets before us the twofold work. as he truly desires conquest over That is how we got to know of the There Jesus is revealed as the pro- the flesh he may know that God will mission. She seems an earnest pitiation for our sins : " He was never weary of helping. All doubt Christian girl, doesn't she ? " wounded for our transgressions, on this point should be removed by (To be continued) He was bruised for our iniquities : the fact that God so loved us as to the chastisement of our peace was give His only begotten Son to die upon Him ; and with His stripes in our stead. With this premise ife-s t aire- we are healed. . . . The Lord hath established, the logic of faith o anstoers laid on Him the iniquity of us all." argues thus " When we were Verses 5, 6. When we take advan- without strength Christ died for "Much More." tage of this merciful provision, the ungodly ; God commendeth however, we find that the Man of His love towards us, in that while " Please explain Rom. v. 10 : ' If, Sorrows can do more than pay when we were enemies, we were recon- we were yet sinners, Christ died ciled to God by the death of His Son, the debt we have incurred : He is for us : " then if, under these cir- much more, being reconciled, we shall able to put within us new elements cumstances, we were justified by be saved by His life.' Is there any dif- of character, new principles of life the blood of Christ, much more ference between the salvation we re- and righteousness, which work a may we be confident, as disciples, ceive through the death of Christ and new birth in us, and make us par- the salvation we receive by His life?" of being saved from failure and takers in living reality of His own doom through Christ. " For if, THE salvation that comes to us holy and exalted being. " When when we were enemies, we were through Christ is twofold. It Thou shalt make His soul an offer- reconciled to God by the death of deals with the sins we have com- ing for sin, He shall see His seed. His Son, much more, being recon- mitted in the past, and with the . . . He shall see of the travail of ciled, we shall be saved by His life we have yet to live. His soul, and shall be satisfied." life." If salvation did not possess this Verses 10, 11. So the Apostle Paul rejoices in double aspect it would not be com- While we recognize that it is the thought that no matter how plete. For although the adorable God's plan to make us upright and much sin may have abounded, the life of Jesus might inspire some to pure, in addition to forgiving our graoe of God always much more rise above their natural level, there sins, this does not mean that He abounds. If then sin has reigned would still remain the sinful past is prepared to deal with us on lines in the past, much more may we be to be accounted for : and2 this of grace only so far as our past. assured that grace will yet reign would condemn the guilty, no mat- sins are concerned ; that He will and triumph by Jesus Christ. ter how much they might improve rigorously exact full compliance Rom. v. 20, 21. upon it in the future. with His law, on a debtor and On the other hand, although creditor basis, when our sins have Grace is not an uncertain quan• sinners might be freely forgiven been forgiven. There is so much tity, measurable by our own indi- through the blood of Christ, that weakness in our characters to be vidual weakness ; it is an active would not affect the future, unless overcome that God has to exercise force, a sovereign power. It is the pardoned sinner received. a infinite patience and lovingkind- identical with the highest energy new power to rise above the weak- ness with His pardoned and recon- in the universe, the love of God, nesses of the past, and bring forth ciled children. He imparts to us by which He rules in heaven and the fruits of righteousness. strength and spiritual privilege, earth. It is revealed in the death Some Christians lay emphasis not according to our deserving but of the Son of God, but even more on the atoning blood of Christ, according to our need. The love in the resurrected life which He and others lay emphasis on the that led Him to sacrifice His only shares with those who accept Him quickening life of Christ, but the begotten Son for us is the measure as their righteousness, for the Bible lays emphasis on both. Jesus of the love with which He stands uttermost conquest over tempta- was delivered and crucified for ready to help us in the new life of tion. 72 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 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the people of God. Virtually, the THROUGH THE VEIL No. 5. day of atonement was for Israel a day of judgment. It lined them I up on the one side or the other, for HAVING discovered that the two anoint the Most Holy." Dar. ix. God or for Azazel. The sins that thousand three hundred prophetic 24. were not forgiven on that day days began in 457 B.C. it is a simple The last phrase "anoint the were never forgiven. This was matter to calculate their termina- Most Holy " refers, as scholars the great difference that distin- tion. A period of two thousand agree, to the anointing of a sanc- guished the tenth day of the three hundred years that begins tuary. It brings to view the setting seventh month from every other in 457 B.C. will end in the corre- apart of a sanctuary at the end of day in the Jewish year. sponding part of 1844 A D. We the seventy weeks, at the very When the antitypioal day of have therefore arrived at the inter- time when the sanctuary on earth atonement comes in 1844, it will esting conclusion that we who live is being discarded. Thus the mark a similar distinction between to-day are more than seventy years beginning of the seventy weeks the brief period then begun and past the date at which, according concurs with the restoration of the centuries prior to that year. to the angel of Daniel's vision, the the earthly temple ; the closing of The antitypioal day of judgment sanctuary was to be cleansed. the seventy weeks marks the will have begun. It will be a time The main events in the period of abandonment of that earthly sanc- for those who have hitherto been two thousand three hundred years, tuary, and the inauguration of the careless and indifferent to afflict of which the seventy prophetic heavenly ; and the end of the their souls and consider seriously weeks formed the first part, have whole period of twenty three hun- whether they are ready for the to do with the sanctuary. For dred years brings ns to the cleans- winding up of the Saviour's priestly instance, the period begins with ing of the heavenly sanctuary, the ministry. In 1844 the Saviour the going forth of a commandment final stage of its ministration. enters upon the final aspect of His 4 to restore and build the earthly Jnst as the typical day of atone- work, the dealing in judgment Jerusalem, with its sanctuary. ment marked a transfer of priestly with all who have professed His The termination of the first seventy labours from the Holy to the Most name. weeks brings us to the time when Holy Place, so the antitypioal Does the Bible reveal that such the earthly sanctuary ceases to cleansing in 1844 marks a oorre a day of judgment will begin for play its part in the work of God ; spending change. Let us consider the human race before probation when the antitypioal sacrifice is briefly in what the difference con- ends, and before the Saviour ap- offered on Calvary. On the very sisted, so far as the typical service pears in glory to reap the harvest day that Jesus was crucified a re- was concerned. of the earth 2 It does. Even markable event occurred in the The individual who brought his while the everlasting Gospel is temple. The veil separating the offering to the altar and confessed being preached to every kindred Holy from the Most Holy was rent his sin over it was forgiven : for and tongue and people, there will in twain, from the top to the bottom, him, if he continued to confess come a day when the wise and this circumstance proving that and forsake all known sin, the day faithful servants who are watching angel hands, not human, had done of atonement only brought faller for their Lord's return, and who the deed. Here was a clear inti• confirmation of the forgiveness. are giving to His household meat mation to Israel that their earthly For the man, however, whose con- in due season, will add to the sanctuary had served its purpose, science was asleep, and who ex- Gospel message this special but and reached its end. Thenceforth cused himself in sin, postponing to authorized note of argent warning: the only sanctuary which Heaven some more convenient season the " Fear God, and give glory to Him, recognized would be the temple day of confession, the great day of for the hour of His judgment is above, where the atoning blood atonement brought a solemn choice : come." Rev. xiv. 6, 7. would be applied by the great High he must either on that day afflict Has such a message ever been Priest Himself. Gabriel had fore- his soul and put away his sin, or heard among men 2 Yes. There shadowed this important develop- be cut off from Israel. Mon might is a body of Christians at work in ment in God's plan of salvation in procrastinate at other times, but the world, who are now preaching the words : "Seventy weeks are not on the tenth day of the seventh this very message of judgment in determined upon Thy people and month. Unless they seized that eighty different languages. And upon Thy holy city, to finish the last opportunity, and claimed an when did they originate ? In the transgression, and to make an end interest in the blood of atonement, year 1844. In the providence of of sin, and to make reconciliation and the putting away of sin from God, at the exact time pointed out for iniquity, and to bring in ever- the entire camp, the sun would by the prophecies of Daniel for the lasting righteousness, and to seal set upon them as rebellious out- cleansing of the heavenly sane up the vision and prophecy, and to casts, no longer numbered with tuary, earnest men and women February 3 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 73

were raised up to proclaim on the them together into a place called elusive and backward ; but awak- strength of those prophecies that in the Hebrew tongue Armaged- ened from her long slumbers she the hour of God's judgment had don." is now progressive and powerful. commenced. From that day to At the present moment the na- She has built, in her own ship- this their message has been going tions of Europe are engaged in a building yards, a merchant fleet of to the world with increasing volume. colossal struggle, compared with which she can well be proud. Her All about us to day are the plainest which all the battles of the past ocean liners are floating palaces, evidences that we have reached pale into insignificance. But this is and trade to many parts of the the closing years of earth's sinful not Armageddon. A much more world. She has also her own history. Soon the Lord Jesus will terrible day is coming. navy yards, where first class come, clad not in priestly garments In the struggle now raging the Dreadnoughts, cruisers, and sub- but in royal apparel, to take His great Eastern nations are repre- marines are constructed. faithful people home, and make an sented by Japan alone, and that Rising so quickly out of her end of all rebellion. It is to pre- only in a small way. No heavy recent obscurity and exclusiveness, pare men for that tremendous war burdens are borne by them. Japan has surprised the world. event that the warning message This is not their quarrel. Why Her war forces have already meas- is being sounded everywhere : should they plunge into this de- ured swords with one of the great " Fear God . . . for the hour of structive and expensive war 2 western nations, and proved vic- His judgment is come." Bnt at Armageddon all nations torious. And now, conscious of The question may be asked, will be represented. As the time her own powers, and being in a " Why has the work of judgment nears for God to gather the saints, position to influence and perhaps required so many years 2 Sorely and visit upon ungodly nations the to develop the resources of the if judgment had actually begun last vials of His wrath, and smite countries near her, Japan is a in 1844 it would have been com- them with His sword, Satan antici- power to be reckoned with. w pleted long ere this 2" pates the time by sending forth his The far east has received a A brief study of what the Scrip- agents to gather the nations of thrill of new life. The shackles tures teach regarding the judg- " the earth and of the whole that held these countries so long ment will help to answer this world " to " the battle of that in an enslaved condition have question. And indeed, if we are great day of God Almighty." Rev. been broken. There has come a actually living in the hour of God's xvi. 14. mighty recoil from the old forms judgment, there is no Bible truth The prophecy is emphatic at this and conditions. One marvels at more timely than this, or one that point. Twenty-seven centuries the changes that are taking place calls more decidedly for earnest ago the prophet Joel, forecasting in the Orient. study. the signs of " the great and ter- Seven years ago the writer stood (To be continued). rible day of the Lord," tells us on the old city walls at Canton, that the heathen nations shall in where the conservative and exclus- the last days awaken from their ive Chinese proudly boasted their Armageddon and the Kings slumbers, and arm themselves for city had remained unchanged for of tile Far East. a mighty conflict. See Joel iii. 9- hundreds of years. But on a " AND the sixth angel poured 12. recent visit Canton was seen to out his vial upon the great river John the revelator oalls these have been the centre of a mighty Euphrates ; and the water thereof nations " the kings of the east," or upheaval. The old Manchu dyn- was dried up, that the way of the as the Revised Version renders asty, standing for an effete despot- kings of the East might be pre- the verse, " the kings that come ism, had been attacked by the pared. And I saw three unclean from the sunrising." These are young Chinese of that and other spirits like frogs come out of the to be at Armageddon. Is it not cities, the empire had fallen, and month of the dragon, and out of significant that Japan is called a republic had been established. the mouth of the beast, and out of " the Sunrise Kingdom " 2 No change so wonderful has taken the mouth of the false prophet. Japan's population forms but a place among the nations in cen• For they are the spirits of devils, small part of the countries of the turies. True, the republic of working miracles, which go forth east, whose inhabitants make up China is not really such, but unto the kings of the earth and of nearly two-thirds of this earth's rather a dictatorship. Still, vastly the whole world, to gather them millions ; but Japan is a great improved conditions have been to the battle of that great day of empire, and the leading nation of reached. God Almighty. Behold, I come as the east. She is fully abreast But the future has yet greater a thief. Blessed is he that watch- with the nations of the day in wonders in store. The east is in eth, and keepeth his garments, commerce as well as in prepared- only the transition stage. A great lest he walk naked, and they see ness for war. awakening has been accomplished, his shame. And he gathered Japan in former years was ex- and a national spirit has been 74 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 5.

created. Japan particularly has is as strong, in its way, as the asked, "Do you not think we ought even reached a stage of great spirit of democracy now rising in to send some missionaries to Eng- efficiency ; and China, the mighty Europe is in another. Japan has land ? " giant just awakening from cen- demonstrated the efficiency and But here to-day not one but turies of slumbers, is now shaking energy of the yellow race. China many of the nations are embroiled himself, and getting ready. Large is awakening, and no one can pre- in a savage and relentless war. bodies move slowly ; but once mo- dict what the amorphous giant What a sad comment on our civi- mentum is gained, something is will do when thoroughly aroused. lization ! And what an example likely to happen to any opposing India, where one fifth of the world's to the heathen world ! We have forces. population is living, is stirred un- sown the wind, and shall reap the Notwithstanding the friction, easily to her depths by all sorts of whirlwind. Good seed must be the differences, and the wars be- new doctrines and ideas." placed in good, well cultivated tween China and Japan, the for- But let us stop to think how ground, and receive continued mer has been greatly influenced Asiatics must view us in our care; but wild and evil seed thrown by the latter. The two nations vaunted civilization in so-called broadcast bears an abundant har- have much in common. They are Christian nations, now that this vest. The influence of civilized (?) kindred races. The immigration cruel and destructive war has been Europe upon heathen Asia must restriction laws passed by Aus- raging a whole year, with no signs certainly bring a day of reckoning. tralia and America are deeply felt of a termination in sight. Nations, " What shall the harvest be ? " and resented by all the peoples of of course, are not Christian as JOHN E. FULTON. the east. Such legislation will not such ; but long has it been held be forgotten by these Orientals. before these eastern peoples that our education, our politics, our It will tend to make these eastern 11 NO 6 0i4E.kS0 ‘ - people see they have a common Christianity, in fact everything cause, and must ally themselves. that goes to make up our civiliza- CONGREGATIONAL statistics for 1914 And in an alliance sure to be made tion, is worthy of imitation by the show another decline in membership of by them, Japan, the pushing, Oriental peoples. But now they 1,645, and a drop in Sunday-school membership of 10,823. Very little of wide awake, diplomatic, and mili receive a rude shock. How can the decline can be attributed to the Lary nation of the east, is certain they reconcile our profession with war, which will necessarily make large to be the leading spirit. Japan our acts ? No heathen tribe or inroads into the total for 1915. During has a dominating influence in the nation ever fought so savagely as the year nine ministers left Congrega- far East, and sooner or later China our civilized ones do. How can tionalism fur other denominations, and two came in from other bodies. will come more and more under we expect them to trust us now ? her tutorship, perhaps not always What a blasting influence such a THE licensing regulations have not worked so well in Glasgow as in other as an admiring pupil, but never- war must have on the nations of large cities. In Liverpool since the theless at her feet as a learner. the heathen world! order came into force the number of With Japan and China bound Years ago, during the Boer war, convictions has fallen from 193 to 116, together by a strong alliance, we when the writer was a missionary in Birmingham from 53 to none, but in can then well calculate what a in Fiji, a chief came in agitation Glasgow only from 488 to 409. The Licensing Bench of Glasgow has decided power may soon develop under to make certain inquiries about to recommend the prohibition of all such a mighty combination. Can- the war. "Are not both the Boers sales of spirits in the Glasgow area dur- not we then see more clearly what and the English professing Chris• ing the war, permitting licence-holders is meant by " the kings that come Wane ? And do not the chaplains to revert to the former hours for the from the sunrising " in the great in both armies pray to the same sale of beer and lighter intoxicants. world conflict just before us ? God ? " he asked. " How," he THE authoress of "Kings, Queens, and One who travels in the east continued, " can God answer their Pawns " tells how the glamour of war died for her, one moonlight night, cannot but sense the force of the pray era ? " He stated that once among the trenches in Flanders, with following words of Archibald R. Fiji was in terrible heathenism, the Germans 200 yards away across the Colquhonn, and cursed with intertribal wars. inundated land. " How deep is the " There is no question that the Then came the missionary from water ? ' I asked. ' It varies—from two victory of Japan over Russia, and Great Britain, and told them of a to eight feet. Here it is shallow.' I should think they would come over.' the Anglo-Japanese alliance, raised better way. Finally they gave The water is full of barbed wire,' he the question of relations between heed to the instruction of the said grimly. And some, a great many, white and yellow in an entirely missionaries, and gave up their have tried—and failed.' " The odour of new form, and moreover, that a fighting, and as a pledge of good that war, she writes, was horrible. In spirit of renaissance is at work faith old King Cakabau sent his the presence of that stench, any linger- ing belief she had in the grandeur and throughout Asia which is destined war club to Queen Victoria. Since glory of war died, slain by the frightful to challenge the vaunted suprem- then there has been no war in odour of what had been brave men, acy of the white man. This spirit Fiji. Then in all seriousness be fathers and brothers. February 3 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 75

THERE are always plenty Of cham His song. The maid says at the door opinion which they have received pions to stand up for the trafflo in strong " No answer ! " and he's off once more. drink on the ground of individual liber- as to the substantial advantages ty. Anna Martin in the " Nineteenth both to .employers and workers No answer through the empty years I Century" gives us a glimpse of what - No answer but a mother's tears I following the establishment of an the liberty sometimes involves. She —Edward Shillito. effective and well-managed can- writes : " The pluck with which fragile teen. These benefits have been little women face night after night the possibility of being shut up in two or direct and indirect. Among the former has been a marked im- three small rooms with a drink-mad- TEMPERANCE dened mate is astonishing. I begins AND provement in the health and phy- 44 HEALTH A4, to tremble about nine o'clock every t4A,k,% sical condition of the workers, a evening,' said Mrs. M., a-listenin' for reduction in sickness, less absence 'is step. If it isn't steady I know what Food and Munitions. I'm in for.' I'd better tell you the and broken time, less tendency to truth,' sobbed Mrs. H. to a lady who So many men and women have alcoholism, and an increased effici- was expostulating about the irregular been draf ted into munition work ency and output: among the latter attendance of a girl for whom she had that the Government has had to has been a saving of the time of found a good opening, Nelly often appoint a special committee to lies quaking half the night, listening if the workman, a salutary though her father is knocking me about, and in look into the health of this section brief change from the workshop, the morning she's too worn out.' " of its employees. greater contentment, and a better Certain investigations by this THE claim that war brings moral mid day ventilation of the work- purification to a people is apparently committee have resulted in its shop." not being sustained in Germany. There being forcibly reminded that "pro- In almost all the large work- is hardly a German paper that does not ductive output in regard to qual- shops the committee found at least lament the increase in crime since:the ity, amount, and speed is largely war broke out. Says the Berlin twenty-five per cent of the workers, Y " Kreuzzeitung " : " The people are liv- dependent upon the physical effici- both men and women, underfed ing a life of such repulsive immorality ency and health of the worker," and ill fed. They came to the and indecency, so shameless in its open and that the human body calls for conclusion that the condition of ostentation and depravity, that soldiers a constant supply of food, " first these ill fed workers "accounts in returning home turn their heads away for growth, for the building up of in horror and ask themselves why they a large degree for such inefficiency should sacrifice their lives for such a tissues and for repair, and secondly as exists, and that energy and out- as fuel for the production of heat ▪ people. Did these heroes know more of put is reduced in the absence of the secret of what is really going'on, and energy, both requirements suitable feeding arrangements." they would see that, dark as the picture being indispensable." is on the surface, it is far blacker under- This committee has also oome neath." The Amsterdam correspondent Drink in War-Time. of the " Sunday Times " writes : " At to realize that labourers and others • the recent meeting of the General Synod " whose food amounts only to a AT a meeting of the National of Berlin, the Rev. Dr. Weber, of Bonn, bare minimum cannot either put Temperance League, Mr. J. T. Rae, declared that conditions in the_Rhine forth the same energy or work at the secretary, reported a set-back province were unspeakable, that the the same speed as a well-nourished to temperance in the army. He criminal and immoral contamination of the youth of both sexes was appalling. man; that the man who has to declares that the granting of com- Other clergymen told similartales 'of work hard, long or rapidly needs a missions to a large number of their own districts, and it was generally proportionately ample food supply, habitually heavy drinkers has had decided that the state of affairs was so composed of highly nutritive in- a bad influence on the hitherto bad that it was a case for special legis- gredients to withstand the strain." comparatively Lieber Territorial lation. The great war, said one pastor, battalions. Moreover, among many which, it was expected, would raise the A Successful Experiment. moral tone of the nation, had, to the of the " old school," whose services horror of all true Germans, the exactly To meet the need and to supply were requisitioned by the Army opposite effect." workers with " a dietary contain- Medical Service at the outbreak ing a sufficient proportion and of war, there existed " an anti- The Telegraph Boy. quantity of nutritive material, quated obsession in favour of al. DEATH bids her heralds go their way suitably mixed, which is easily di- oohol." Added to this "dead weight On red-rimmed bicycles to day. gestible, appetizing, and obtain. of unenlightened opinion," there Arrayed in blue with streaks of red, A boy bears tidings of the dead : able at a reasonable cost," so that was " a still more -ignorant and He pedals merrily along, the maximum amount of work can self-interested force of political Whistling the chorus of a song ; be obtained, industrial canteens, and social influence against which Passing the time of day with friends, or workpeople's dining-rooms, are the military authorities had been Until the journey almost ends. being established in or near many unable to contend." Then, slowing down, he scans each gate For the doom'd name upon the plate. of the munition factories. That found, he loudly knocks and rings, " The committee has been im• " BE not drunk with wine Hands in the yellow missive, sings pressed with the consensus of wherein is excess." No. 5. 76 THE PRESENT TRUTH. that had so persistently filled up np their throats for many hours since the departure of their beloired mother and father. Annie being only ten, and two years younger than Eric, had had the bigger lump, and had found it a little harder to swallow, but then, of course, as he 1 was a boy, Erio thought it was only the girl's place to cry--in spite of A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. the fact that he had been doing just a little of it himself. Chapter I. Uncle Jack did his best to con- sole them both, and under his Tile First Fortnight. brother take charge of the home and children during his absence. happy influence their spirits soon JOHN CLIF- " Well, well, well," said Uncle began to revive. TON, better Jack after his brother had hurriedly They were both bright children, known in certain told his story ; " this is a sur- with clear, intelligent-looking features. Annie, with her spark- circles as " Uncle prise ! " Jack," was just " Bat will you comet" earnestly ling eyes and pretty, golden hair, the ideal type of queried Mr. Tom Clifton. arranged and neatly tied with a uncle ; like those " I should like to but—er—well, piece of brown ribbon, looked the one reads about I don't know—perhaps I ought to essence of sweetness. Eric had a in story books sometimes. Such a think about it ; " said Uncle Jack. manly bearing, and disposition, too, kind face he had—one which could " Impossible ! there isn't time, and the bright flash from his big, beam all over at anything funny, we've only two days left, and, Jack, blue eyes seemed to say, " honest and yet could express the deepest I've seen you before, you take a all over." sympathy whenever the children week to think sometimes—come As Uncle Jack looked at them he chanced to hurt themselves. He on now, say yes, quickly." thought of the enjoyable time he always dressed very plainly, but " Well, seeing it's so pressing, would have with them, and dreamed the children thought he must have perhaps I'd better—." of multitudes of pleasant things heaps of money, because he always they might do together. Especially " Oh, yes, and the change is sure gave them a whole threepenny did he anticipate a beautifully quiet to do you an immense amount of piece every time be came to see " holiday " in which he could do good, and the children will be highly them. However, apart from the his business at his leisure and have delighted to have yon," interrupted attraction of the small silver coin, plenty of time for peaceful and their father. Uncle Jackwas loved by the children " All right, then," said his brother ; quiet study. because he was always so willing when do you want me 2 " But for once Uncle Jack made a to join with them in any and all mistake. He overlooked the well- " To-night if you like, the sooner of their enterprises. Often had he known fact that even good boys the better ; then you can help us taken off his coat to play games and girls are often brimful of pack up." with them, and had spent hours mischief. Of course, Uncle Jack " Right you are, Tom. I'll be with Eric over his steamboat, and soon found this out, but he found there as soon as I can get these in amusing Annie with new " in- it out too late--when Mr. and Mrs. few papers out of the way. Good- ventions " for her doll's house. Clifton were far across the briny bye for the present." Uncle Jack was sitting in his ocean, and he was unable to recall London office one day when a them. One would think that he knock oame at his door. In answer And so it came about that on should have found it out before,'' to his cheery " come in " the door the twenty-fourth of Jannary,nine- when he was visiting them. Per- opened and in stepped his brother teen hundred and --, Mr. John haps he should, but then you know Tom, the father of Eric and Annie. Clifton found himself fully installed children, as well as grown-ups, Mr. Tom Clifton had that morn- as guardian-in-chief of his brother's can be very good when people visit ing received a request from his em- house and children--the " sub- them and especially when they,,, ployer to leave England at once guardian " being an old nurse who want someone to help them make to take charge of the firm's busi- had been in the family for many things, or play with them. ness in Bermuda for a few months. years. It did not take very long for the As Mr. Clifton desired to take his The good byes had all been said excitement of Mr. and Mrs. Clif- wife with him to benefit her health and Eric and Annie were gulping ton's departure to wear off. Then he had come to request that his down for the last time the lumps the fun began--for the children. February 3 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 77

After a week had passed Uncle Jack still be seen, though somewhat in- directing the children's energies bern to realize that all his fair distinctly, the greater part of into profitable channels, he re- dreams of peaceful study and quiet them being overgrown with grass entered the house and after read- relaxation were but will or- the- and moss. Weeds flourished in ing a passage from the good old wisps. the borders, in spite of the fact Book, he went upstairs to bed. It will not be necessary to tell of that the cold weather had destroyed A. S. M. all the little games that the chil- a number of them. In the centre (To be continued.) dren got up to, and too, it might beds, amidst the chaos of stones, not be wise to do so as it might in- broken bricks, and the remains of Company Manners. spire other little children—just as a bonfire, a few stray, overgrown good as Eric and Annie—to do the cabbages drooped, weary with age, " WELL," said Bessie, very em- same. Suffice it to say that a fort- while half a-dozen unkempt cur- phat,cally, "I think Russel Morton night of this treatment brought rant bushes stretched out their is the best boy there is, anyhow." Uncle Jack almost to despair. Of straggling arms, as though asking " Why so, pet ? " I asked, settling course, he was on good terms with to be pruned. At the house end of myself in the midst of the busy the children and never scolded the garden there was a small patch group gathered round in the fire- them unduly (for he could appre- of grass—" Annie's lawn "—which light. ciate a good joke), but he thought had long ago lost all right to such "I can tell," interrupted Wilfred, that something must be done to turn their energies into a different channel. How could it be done ? It was a problem that would have worried • a Greek philosopher. Uncle Jack thought and puzzled, and puzzled and thought over it for quite a long•time. One evening just after the chil- dren had gone to bed, he went and sat down in his armchair by the window. The moon was shining brightly and he could distinctly see every object in the barren plot _ of ground that sometimes was • called, rather untruthfully, the " garden." As he gazed and pon- dered an idea came to his mind. " Good ! " he exclaimed; "the very " When Mr. and Mrs. Clifton were far across the Briny Ocean." thing. I believe it will answer." Almost as soon as the idea flashed a genteel name, and which, in its " Bessie likes RUBS because he is so into Uncle Jack's mind there long, rank state bore but one re• polite." followed it a multitude of doubts semblance to a lawn in that it was " I don't oare, you may laugh," and queries. Would the children green. In the right hand corner said frank little Bess ; " that is the take hold of it ? How could it be nearest the house stood a frame reason—at least one of them. made to look most attractive ? with two very dirty lights, He's nice ; he don't stamp and hoot • Would they soon tire of it 2 sadly the worse for neglect. On in the house—and he never says, While weighing up these con- the same side as the frame but at Hallo, Bess,' or laughs when I 4 siderations he opened the door the other end of the garden were fall on the ice." leading into the barren, dilapidated the remains of a grotto, minus half "Bessie wants company manners garden and stepped out into the its stones. all the time," said Wilfred. And cold night air. The moonlight As Uncle Jack gazed upon the Bell added : " We should all mit distinctly showed up every object. desolate scene he continued to grown up, if she had her fastidious- The garden was the ordinary weigh the possibilities and proba- ness suited." size for a suburban villa, about bilities of his idea. " Yes," he Bell, be it said in passing, is very forty-five feet long and thirty feet muttered at length, "I think it will fond of long words, and has asked for broad; but it had scarcely been do fine : I will suggest it to them a dictionary for her next birthday touched since the last tenant had before they go to school in the present. left it some months before. The morning." Dauntless Bessie made haste to outline of the gravel paths could Still musing on his scheme for retort, " Well, if growing up would 78 THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 5. make some folks more agreeable, lively and sometimes frolicsome, his girls to realize, until they have it's a pity we can't hurry about it." manners are always good. You never grown too old to easily adopt rtiw " Wilfred, what are company see him with his hair uncombed, ones, how important it is to guard manners ? " I interposed from the or his hat on in the house. He against contracting careless and depths of my easy chair. never pushes ahead of you to get awkward habits of speech and man- " Why—why—they're—it's be- first out of the room. If you are ners. Some very unwisely think it having, you know, when folks are going out, he holds open the door ; is not necessary to be so very par- here, or we go visiting." if weary it is Burke who brings a ticular about these things except " Company manners are good glass of water, places a chair, when company is present. But manners," said Horace. springs to pick up your handkerchief this is a grave mistake, for coarse- " Oh, yes," I answered, meditat- —and this without being told to ness will betray itself in spite of ing on it. I see ; manners that do so, or interfering with his own the most watchful sentinelship. are too good—for mamma—but gaiety in the least. It is impossible to indulge in one just right for Mrs. Jones." " This attention isn't only given form of speech, or have one set of " That's it," cried Bess. to me as the guest, or to Mrs. Jones manners at home, and another " But let us talk it over a bit. when he visits her, but to mamma, abroad, because in moments of Seriously, why should you be more Aunt Jenny, and little sister, just confusion or bashfulness, such as polite to Mrs. Jones than to mamma? as carefully; at home, in school, every young person feels sometimes You don't love her better ? " or at play, there is always just as who is sensitive and modest, the " Oh, my ! no indeed," chorused much guard against rudeness. His habitual mode of expression will the voices. courtesy is not merely for state discover itself. " Well, then, I don't see why occasions, but a well fitted garment It is not, however, merely because Mrs. Jones should have all that's worn constantly. His manliness refinement of speech and grace of agreeable ; why the hats should is:genuine lovingkindness. In fact, manners are pleasing to the sense, • come off and the tones soften, and that is exactly what real po- that our young friends are recom- ' please,' and thank you,' and liteness is ; carefulness for others, mended to cultivate and practise excuse me,' should abound in her and watchfulness over ourselves, them, but because outward refine- house, and not in mamma's." lest our angles shall interfere with ment of manners reacts on the " Oh ! that's very different." their comfort." character and makes it more sweet " And mamma knows we mean It is impossible for boys and and gentle and lovable. Selected. all right. Besides, you are not fair, cousin ; we were talking about boys and girls—not grown up peo- ple." Thus my little audience assailed me, and I was forced to a change, of base. " Well, about boys and girls, then. Cannot a boy be just' as happy, if, like our friend Russel, he is gentle to the little girls, doesn't throw his little brother " Must They Be Spoiled P " son the Lord has taught me by my down, and respects the rights of his YES, that was the question de- Maggie's uncertain health. It is cousins and intimate friends ? It bated at a " mother's meeting " of that I must not stake my happi- seems to me that politeness is just two in the cosy parlour of Mrs. ness on my child's well-being, but as suitable to the playground as Brown, where entered her friend that I must get my pleasure out of the parlour." Mrs. Smith, she of the knotted-up Him Who never fails — out of " Oh, of course ; if you'd have a brow so characteristic of harassed what He is in Himself, and what fellow give up all fun," said Wilfred. mothers whose children or circum- He is to us. Then we are not at " My dear boy," said I, " that stances appear to them to be in- the mercy of every blowing wind: isn't what I want. Run, and jump, tractable. Maggie does not see it,' but she and shout as much as you please ; " Well, how are you ? " inquired will, for God is on the side of skate, and slide, and snowball ; but the cheery hostess. every mother who works for a VP do it with politeness to other boys " Oh, never ask for me, ask for godly seed. She knows Jesus has and girls, and I'll agree you shall Jean. When she's well, I'm well, the far ben' of my heart. I could find just as much fun in it. You but it's a heavy heart and step always say, Whom have I in sometimes say I pet Burke Holland with me since her last attack." heaven but Thee ? ' and now I can more than any of my child friends. " Dear," said Mrs. Brown, " I'm say, There is none upon earth Can I help it ? For though he is sorry, but let me tell you the les- that I desire beside Thee.' " February 3 THE PRESENT TRUTH. 79

The lines of the puckered brow bat very loving and admiring sis- And the other day I do not worry about is to morrow. To morrow, 4relaxed. " You and I have the ters. There is no 'hushing up' as one child and the one trouble. if the defect was unmentionably with all its possible adversities, its Pity the mother of one say I, and serious. Consequently the brave burdens, its perils, its large pro- pity that one. Pity the spoiler girl follows suit, and takes kindly mise and poor performance, its fail- and pity the spoiled. As the to her trouble. ures and mistakes, is as far beyond Scotch say, Ae bairn is wanr than " How we should thank heaven the reach of mastery as its dead nae bairn.' " that, as the Word says, 'It is good sister yesterday. It is a day of " Let me quote another proverb that one should bear the yoke in God's. Its sun will rise in roseate to set against yours," qnoth Mrs. . . . youth. " splendour, or behind a mask of Brown—"' There's never a month Mrs. Smith's brow-puckers al- sweeping clouds. But it will rise. sent but there's a spoon to fill it.' most disappeared. " I daresay Until then, the same love and pa- My rendering is, There's never a now that by always pitying our tience that hold yesterday, hold child born but there's grace offered girls and trying to ease the yoke, to-morrow. Save for the star of to train it.' You and I have but we are only attracting their atten- hope that gleams for ever on the the one and that one afflicted, and tion to it, and so they fail to learn brow of to-morrow, shining with yet we needn't bring upon them to endure hardness as good sol- tender promise into the heart of the second calamity of the deve- diers of Jeans Christ.' Now I to-day,. I have no possession in lopment of a selfish character. I think of it, He refused to be pitied. that unborn day of grace. All hold that the faults of invalid Just so, too much pity sof bens and else is in the safe keeping of the children should in no wise be enervates our children. I think, Infinite Love that holds for me passed over because there seems Mrs. Brown, I'll take my seat in the treasures of yesterday ; the to be more temptations and more the same class as you, in the Love that is higher than the stars, suffering in their lives." school of Christ." wider than the skies, deeper than " But my poor Jean always gets MRS. E. FISHER. the seas. To-morrow—it is God's worse when I reprimand her." own day. It will be mine. "Well, even though she does," There is left for myself, then, said Mrs. Brown calmly, "just con- The Golden Day. but one day of the week—to day. THERE are two days in the week tinue to be lovingly faithful. Is Any man can fight the battles of not character of more importance upon which and about which I to day. Any woman can carry the never worry. Two care-free days, than physical well-being 2 The burdens of just one day. Any Word of God does not tell as that kept sacredly free from fear and man can resist the temptations of without health no one shall see apprehension. to-day. 0 friends, it is only when God, but that without holiness no One of these days is yesterday. to the burdens and cares of to-day, one shall see' Him." Yesterday, with all its cares and carefully measured out to us by " But Jean is so sensitive about frets, with all its pains and aches, the infinite wisdom and might that her lameness that I feel she has all its faults, its mistakes and blun- gives with them the promise, " As enough to bear without any pun- ders, has passed for ever beyond the thy day, so shall thy strength be," ishments of mine." reach of my recall. I cannot undo we wilfully add the burdens of Mother Brown said sadly, " I an act that I wrought. I cannot those—yesterday and to-morrow— have been similarly tempted, but unsay a word that I said on yester- that we break down. It isn't the was corrected by thinking, What day. All that it holds of my life, experience of to day that drives if this affliction has been per- of wrong, regret and sorrow is in men mad. It is the remorse for mitted to supply my want of firm- the hands of the Mighty Love that something that happened yester- ness with Maggie 2 I got the can bring honey out of the rock, day, the dread of what to morrow length of thanking the Lord for and sweet waters out of the bitter may disclose. These are God's taking the reins of my child's est desert—the love that can make days. Leave them with Him. training into His own skilled the wrong things right, that can hands. He taught me too that we turn weeping into laughter, that Therefore, I think, and I do, should not be ever shielding our can give beauty for ashes, the gar- and I journey but one day at a children from observation and re- ment of praise for the spirit of time. That is the easy day. That marks about their several physical heaviness, joy of the morning for is the man's day. Nay, rather, infirmities. This course leads the woe of the night. that is our day—God's and mine. them to think that their misfor- Save for the beautiful memories, And while faithfully and dutifully tunes are too dreadful to be re- sweet and tender, that linger like I run my course, and work my ap- ferred to and increases their mor- the perfume of roses in the heart pointed task on that day of ours, bid sensitiveness. A very merry of the day that is gone, I have no- God, the almighty and all-loving, lame girl I know is often called thing to do with yesterday. It takes care of yesterday and to- 'Cripple Meg' by her plain-spoken was mine ; it is God's. morrow.—Robert J. Burdette. SO THE PRESENT TRUTH. No. 5.

tion. The war is to be succeeded " The distinctive feature of what is by an economic conflict. Nations called Old Testament ' is, that its cen- the 'Present truth tre is Jehovah as King of the Jews and Iv are resigning themselves to an era of all nations, Theocracy or Christ°. Price one penny. Published every of bitter hatred and jealousy. ()racy ; whereas the peculiarity of the Thursday, by the International Tract Sinful hearts have marred the ' New Testament' is that it sets forth Society, Ltd. (Seventh-Day Adventist work of clever brains, and evil Jesus as Head and Bridegroom of the publishers), at Stanborough Park, Wat- church, referring to the times of the ford, Herts. passions are in the ascendant. Gentiles, and unfolding the mystery EDITOR : • W. T. BARTLETT. In the few years that yet remain which was not made known until the Ass' T EDITOR : - H. F. DE' ATH. Christians must lift up the Saviour outpouring of the Spirit, viz., the mys- a3 never before as the one hope of tery of the church, the body of Christ. Agents deliver the paper weekly in most our sinful race, and hasten to Therefore I would call the writings of districts. Where we have no represen- Moses and the prophets—Book of the tative, the paper is sent post free for preach Him in the simplicity of Kingdom, and the writings of evangel- 4/4. per annum. Make orders and His own Gospel throughout the cheques payable to The International ists and apostlas—Book of the Church." Tract Society, Ltd., Stanborough Park, earth, that the witness may be Watford, Herts. borne to every people, and so the last great sign be accomplished, Do Things for Yourself. and the way made ready for the SPEAKING of the present day appearing of the King in His glory. THE most essential part of the superficiality of mach that passes education of a human being is to for religion, Dr. W. L. Watkinson, learn to do things for himself. in a recent sermon, is reported to THE names Old and New Testa- The beginnings of character con- have put the case thus :— ments applied to the divisions of sist in the disposition and ability " We say we read the Bible, but we the Bible, are, according to Adolph to wait on oneself. satisfy ourselves with a short Psalm. Saphir, a Hebrew Christian scholar, This is also the essence of de- We go to church, if it is not damp. We mocracy. allow the rain to settle most of our misleading. In his book, problems. We deal with our religion " Christ and Israel," the following It is also the gist of the religion as if it was a bit of by play instead of interesting passage on the subject of Jesus. the main question of lite—solemn, pro- is found :— The first symptom of the down- found, and blessed." " The Bible we believe to be inspired fall of the soul is the feeling of a by the Holy Ghost ; and here we make necessity of being waited upon. no distinction, and especially none be- The child who has formed the CITING some of the evidences tween what is called Old and New habit of picking up his scattered which, to his mind, auger the soon Testament. Genesis is as authoritative toys, cleaning his own floor, mak- coming of the Son of man, Dr. as Matthew's gospel, the prophet Isaiah ing his own bed, emptying his own F. B. Meyer, in the " Christian," as true a messenger as the Apostle Paul, the pages of Zechariah as truly given slops, washing his own plate, and makes mention of by the Most High as the Apocalypse polishing his own boots, is already "remarkable chronological coincidences entrusted by Jesus to the beloved disci- half cured of the original sin of ple. The Spirit foresaw all things, and which the advocates of the year day the race. system can recite; and the eager look- all future manifestations and develop. ing for the coming of the Lord, which ments of God's eternal purpose, when For the original sin is the desire is becoming the attitude of myriads of He caused the beginnings of the great to rule. believers. There never were such mul- history to be written in the Pentateuch. The original virtue is the wish titudes as now who are trimming their "The very names, Old and New Tes- to serve. tament, I believe to be erroneous, and lamps in anticipation of the Bride- People do not understand the groom's approach. The lightning flash to have been productive of mischief. of the advent will encircle the world in For what is meant by calling the writ- real inwardness of the " tempta- an instant. Here it will be night— ings of Noses and the prophets Old tion in the wilderness." When ' two men in one bed.' There it will Testament ' 9 Do they not set forth the the devil took Jesus up to a high be twilight — two women shall be covenant of grace? The doctrine of justification by faith : does not Paul in mountain and showed Him all the grinding together' for the morning kingdoms of the world, he was meal. Yonder it will be midday—' two his epistle to the Romans prove it from shall be in the field.' But everywhere , Genesis [case of Abraham] and from appealing to the wickedest thing the same greeting will spring to our the Psalms [ease of David, Pea. xxxii.]? in human nature, that which has lips : Lo, this is our God ; we have Where is the doctrine of substitution caused most of its unhappiness, waited for Him, and He will save us : and the vicarious sufferings of the Mes- the lust of ruling. No man ever this is the Lord, we will be glad and siah set forth more clearly than in had that wish gratified except in 4 rejoice in His salvation.' " Leviticus and in the fifty-third of Isaiah? The term Old Testament ' leads people proportion as he fell down and Except for those whose outlook to fancy it is an antiquated book ; worshipped the devil. is brightened with this blessed whereas, in many respects, it is newer The Saviour of the world oame hope, the future holds little to cheer than the New Testament, referring more fully to the age of glory and bles- to serve it, not to rule it. And so and uplift. Europe has shown sedness on the earth which is still be- does every good man.—F. Crane, itself false to the ideals of civiliza- fore us. D.D.