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D.C.</p> + </div> + <div rend="page-break-before: always"> + <head>Contents</head> + <divGen type="toc" /> + </div> + + </front> +<body> + +<pb n='002'/><anchor id='Pg002'/> + + +<pb n='013'/><anchor id='Pg013'/> + +<div> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus013.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Word Of God. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light +unto my path." Ps. 119:105.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<div> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Bible; Its Origin, History, and Place in the World</head> + +<p> +The Bible contains proof in itself of its divine origin. No +other book can answer the questionings of the mind or satisfy +the longings of the heart as does the Bible. It is adapted to +every age and condition of life, and is full of that knowledge +which enlightens the mind and sanctifies the soul. +</p> + +<p> +In the Bible we have a revelation of the living God. Received +by faith, it has power to transform the life. During +all its history a divine watch-care has been over it, and preserved +it for the world. +</p> + +<div> +<head>How, When, and Why Written</head> + +<p> +After the flood, as men became numerous, and darkness was +again settling over the world, holy men wrote as they were +moved by the Spirit of God. Thus God spoke to His people, +and through them to the world, that a knowledge of God and +of His will might not perish from the earth. +</p> + +<p> +For centuries this work went on, until Christ, the promised +Seed, came. With Him, and the blessed message of light and +salvation proclaimed by Him and by His apostles, the Scripture +record closed, and the Word of God was complete. +</p> + +</div> + +<div> +<head>Original Writings and Translations</head> + +<p> +The Old Testament Scriptures were first written in Hebrew, +upon scrolls, or rolls of parchment, linen, or papyrus. These +were later translated into Greek, the oldest translation being +known as the Septuagint, or <q>Version of the Seventy,</q> made at +Alexandria, for the Alexandrian Library, by a company of +seventy learned Jews, under the patronage of Ptolemy Philadelphus, +<pb n='014'/><anchor id='Pg014'/> +about 285 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> The original order for this translation +is said to have been given by Alexander the Great, who previously, +upon visiting Jerusalem in 332 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi>, had learned from +the prophecy of Daniel that Grecia was to overthrow the Persian +kingdom. See Josephus's <q>Antiquities of the Jews,</q> book 11, +chap. 8, par. 5. This was the version in common use in the +time of Christ. +</p> + +<p> +The New Testament was all originally written in Greek, +except Matthew, which was first written in Hebrew, and later +translated into Greek. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus014.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Gutenberg Printing The Bible</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +At an early date, Latin translations, both of the Septuagint +and of the Greek New Testament, were made by different +individuals, and the more carefully prepared Latin Vulgate of +Jerome, the Bible complete, was made <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 383-405. +</p> + +</div> + +<div> +<head>Printing and the Bible</head> + +<p> +Printing, however, being yet unknown, copies of the Bible +could be produced only by the slow, laborious, and expensive +process of handwriting. This necessarily greatly limited its +circulation. Worse still, its illuminating and saving truths +were largely hidden for centuries by the errors, superstitions, +and apostasy of the dark ages. During this time the common +people knew little of its contents. +</p> + +<pb n='015'/><anchor id='Pg015'/> + +<p> +But with the invention of the art of printing about the middle +of the fifteenth century, and with the dawn of the great Reformation +in the century following, the Bible entered upon a new +era, preparatory to the final proclamation of the gospel throughout +the world. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus015.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Luther Translating The Bible</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +Not a little significant is the fact that the first book printed +from movable type was the Bible in Latin, which came from the +press of John Gutenberg, at Mentz, Germany, in 1456, a copy +of which, in 1911, was sold in New York City for fifty thousand +dollars, the highest price ever paid for a single book. +</p> + +</div> + +<div> +<head>The Bible in Native Tongues</head> + +<p> +Thus far, however, the Bible had been published only in +ancient tongues, now little understood by the common people. +Without the Word of God in their hands, the good seed sown +among them was easily destroyed. <q>O,</q> said the advocates +of its pure teachings, <q>if the people only had the Word of God +in their own language, this would not happen! Without this +it will be impossible to establish the laity in the truth.</q> +</p> + +<p> +And why should they not have it in their own tongue? they +reasoned. Moses wrote in the language of the people of his +time; the prophets spoke in the tongue familiar to the men whom +<pb n='016'/><anchor id='Pg016'/> +they addressed; and the New Testament was written in the language +then current throughout the Roman world. +</p> + +<p> +The translation of the Bible into English by John Wyclif, +in 1380, was the chief event in the beginning of the Reformation. +It also prepared the way for the revival of Christianity +in England, and the multiplying there of the Word by the millions, +for all the world, that has followed. +</p> + +<p> +To make such a translation at that time, says Neander, +<q>required a bold spirit which no danger could appal.</q> For +making it Wyclif was attacked from various quarters, because, +it was claimed, <q>he was introducing among the multitude a +book reserved exclusively for the use of the priests.</q> In the +general denunciation it was declared that <q>thus was the gospel +by him laid more open to the laity, and to women who could +read, than it had formerly been to the most learned of the clergy; +and in this way the gospel pearl is cast abroad, and trodden +underfoot of swine.</q> In the preface to his translation, Wyclif +exhorted all the people to read the Scriptures. +</p> + +<p> +A sense of awe and a thrill of joy filled the heart of the great +German Reformer, when, at the age of twenty, while examining +the volumes in the library of the university of Erfurt, he held +in his hands, for the first time in his life, a complete copy of the +Bible. <q>O God,</q> he murmured, <q>could I but have one of these +books, I would ask no other treasure.</q> A little later he found +in a convent a chained Bible. To this he had constant recourse. +</p> + +<p> +But all these Bibles here, as elsewhere, save in England, +were in an ancient tongue, and could be read only by the educated. +Why, thought Luther, should the living Word be confined +to dead languages? Like Wyclif, therefore, he resolved +to give his countrymen the Bible in their own tongue. This he +did, the New Testament in 1522, and the Bible complete, the +crowning work of his life, in 1534. +</p> + +<p> +Impressed with the idea that the people should read the +Scriptures in their mother tongue, William Tyndale, likewise, +in 1525, gave to the English his translation of the New Testament, +and later, of portions of the Old Testament Scriptures. +His ardent desire that they should know the Bible was well +expressed in the statement that if God spared his life he would +cause the boy that drives the plow to know more of the Scriptures +than was commonly known by the divines of his day. +</p> + +<p> +The first complete printed English Bible was that of Miles +Coverdale, printed at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1535. Matthew's +Bible, Taverner's Bible, and The Great Bible prepared at the +suggestion of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, appeared soon +after. Thus the light of truth began to shine forth once more; +but not without opposition. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='017'/><anchor id='Pg017'/> + +<div> +<head>Burning of Bibles</head> + +<p> +As Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes under King +Zedekiah showed their contempt for God by burning the writings +of Jeremiah, and confining the prophet in a dungeon (Jer. +36:20-23; 38:1-6), so now men sought to stem the rising tide +of reform by burning the Bible and its translators. +</p> + +<p> +Bible burning was inaugurated in England by the destruction +of copies of the Antwerp edition of Tyndale's New Testament, +at St. Paul's Cross, London, in 1527, followed by the burning +of a second edition in 1530. A little later there were wholesale +burnings of the writings and translations of Wyclif, Tyndale, +Basil, Barnes, Coverdale, and others. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus017.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Burning Of Bibles At St. Paul's Cross, London</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +Forty-three years after the death of Wyclif, or in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 1428, +by order of the Council of Constance his bones were dug up and +burned. Oct. 6, 1536, by order of Charles V of Germany, Tyndale +was strangled and burned at the stake at Vilvorde, near +Brussels. <q>If Luther will not retract,</q> wrote Henry VIII of +England, <q>let himself and his writings be committed to the +flames.</q> +</p> + +<pb n='018'/><anchor id='Pg018'/> + +<p> +Such, under the spiritual tyranny that ruled in those times, +was the fate of many who stood for God and His Word. +</p> + +</div> + +<div> +<head>The Word Not Bound</head> + +<p> +But the Word of God could not be forever bound. In attempting +to prevent its circulation men soon discovered that +they were undertaking a work beyond their strength. +</p> + +<p> +The Bible had taken deep root in the hearts of the people. +What kings and prelates had sought to suppress and destroy, +kings and prelates now began to foster and supply. +</p> + +<p> +In his <q>Stories From English History,</q> +pages 196, 197, Henry P. Warren +says: <q>Henry, by Cromwell's advice, +ordered a translation of the Bible +to be made in English, and a copy to +be placed in every church. There had +been English translations before, but +they had not been in the hands of the +people generally, and had only been +read secretly and in fear.... Cromwell +then appointed Cranmer and the +bishops to revise the Bible, and publish +it without note or comment; and +in the year 1539 a copy of the English +Bible was chained to the reading-desk +of every parish church. From that +time the Bible has never ceased to be +printed and sold freely.</q> +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus018.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Chained Bible</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +Says Charles C. Coffin, in his <q>Story +of Liberty,</q> page 44: <q>The people listen +to the reading with wonder and delight. +They begin to think; and when +men begin to think, they take a step +toward freedom. They see that the +Bible gives them rights which hitherto +have been denied them,—the right to +read, to acquire knowledge. Schools are started. Men and +women who till now have not known a letter of the alphabet, +learn to read; children teach their parents. It is the beginning +of a new life, a new order of things in the community—the +beginning of liberty.</q> +</p> + +</div> + +<div> +<head>The Bible to All the World</head> + +<p> +Finally great Bible societies were organized in England, +America, and many of the countries of Europe, for the purpose +of giving the Bible to the world,—to every nation, kindred, +<pb n='019'/><anchor id='Pg019'/> +tongue, and people in its own language. Since its organization +in 1804, the British and Foreign Bible Society, up to 1912, had +published the Scriptures, or portions of them in 440 languages +and dialects, with a total of 53,274,516 entire Bibles, 84,059,610 +New Testaments, and 89,816,644 portions of the Bible, or a +grand total of 227,150,770 copies. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus019.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>British And Foreign Bible Society House, London</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +The total issue of the American Bible Society in the first +ninety-six years following its organization, or from 1816 to 1912, +amounts to 96,219,105 copies. It now publishes the Bible in +over one hundred languages. +</p> + +<p> +These, while the largest of their kind, are but two of the +twenty-seven Bible societies now disseminating the Scriptures. +</p> + +<p> +Thus is the world being provided with the Word of God, +preparatory to the giving of the closing gospel message to all +mankind, the ending of the reign of sin, and the advent of the +Lord in glory. <q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be +preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and +then shall the end come.</q> Matt. 24:14. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='020'/><anchor id='Pg020'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Value Of Bible Study</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus020.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Forbidden Book. "God's Holy Word was prized when 'twas unsafe +to read it."</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +The Bible is God's great text-book for man. It is His +lamp to our feet and light to our path in this world of sin. The +value of Bible study cannot therefore be overestimated. +</p> + +<p> +Considered from a literary standpoint alone, the Bible +stands preeminent. Its terse, chaste style; its beautiful and +impressive imagery; its interesting stories and well-told narratives; +its deep wisdom and its sound logic; its dignified language +and its elevated themes, all make it worthy of universal +reading and careful study. +</p> + +<p> +As an educating power, the Bible has no equal. Nothing +so broadens the vision, strengthens the mind, elevates the +thoughts, and ennobles the affections as does the study of the +sublime and stupendous truths of revelation. A knowledge of +its principles is an essential preparation to every calling. To +the extent that it is studied and its teachings are received, it +gives strength of character, noble ambition, keenness of perception, +and sound judgment. Of all the books ever written, +none contains lessons so instructive, precepts so pure, or promises +so great as the Bible. +</p> + +<p> +There is nothing that so convinces the mind of the inspiration +of the Bible as does the reading of the Bible itself, and +especially those portions known as the prophecies. After the +resurrection of Christ, when everything else seemed to have +failed to convince the disciples that He had risen from the dead, +<pb n='021'/><anchor id='Pg021'/> +He appealed to the inspired Word, and <q>expounded unto +them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself</q> +(Luke 24:25-27), and they believed. On another occasion He +said, <q>If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they +be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.</q> Luke 16:31. +</p> + +<p> +As a guide, the Bible is without a rival. It gives a calm +peace in believing, and a firm hope of the future. It solves +the great problem of life and destiny, and inspires to a life of +purity, patience, and well-doing. It fills the heart with love +for God and a desire to do good to others, and thus prepares +for usefulness here and for a home in heaven. It teaches the +value of the soul, by revealing the price that has been paid to +redeem it. It makes known the only antidote for sin, and +presents the only perfect code of morals ever given. It tells +of the future and the preparation necessary to meet it. It +makes us bold for the right, and sustains the soul in adversity +and affliction. It lights up the dark valley of death, and +points to a life unending. It leads to God, and to Christ, whom +to know is life eternal. In short, it is the one book to live by +and die by. +</p> + +<p> +As the king of Israel was instructed to write him a copy of +the law, and to read therein <q>all the days of his life,</q> that he +might <q>fear the Lord,</q> keep His word, and thus prolong his +days and the days of his children (Deut. 17:18-20), so ought +men now to study the Bible, and from it learn that fear which +is the beginning of wisdom, and that knowledge which is unto +salvation. As an aid and incentive to this, <q>Bible Readings +for the Home Circle</q> has been prepared and published. +</p> + +<div> +<head>Bible Readings; Their Value and Use</head> + +<p> +Briefly stated, a Bible reading consists of questions asked +concerning some subject, and answers to them from the Bible. +In other words, Bible readings mean a topical study of the +Bible by means of questions and answers. +</p> + +<p> +In either receiving or imparting knowledge, there is nothing +like the interrogation-point. Nothing so readily quickens +thought or awakens interest as a question. Children would +learn little if they asked no questions, and he would indeed be +a poor teacher who asked and answered none. +</p> + +<p> +Knowing the value of this means of awakening thought, +arousing interest, and imparting information, God, in His wisdom, +inspired those who wrote the Bible to ask many questions, +that He might set us to thinking and studying about the great +themes with which it deals. See Job 38:4, 7; 14:14; Ps. 8:4; +Mal. 3:1, 2, 8; Ex. 32:26; 1 Chron. 29:5. +</p> + +<p> +But God not only asks questions; He answers them. The +<pb n='022'/><anchor id='Pg022'/> +following may be cited as a few short Bible readings, taken, +both questions and answers, directly from the Bible itself:— +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, +that he may see good?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking +guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue +it.</q> Ps. 34:12-14. +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? +who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath +redness of eyes?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek +mixed wine.</q> Prov. 23:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall +stand in His holy place?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath +not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He +shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness +from the God of his salvation.</q> Ps. 24:3-5. See also Psalm +15 and Isa. 33:14-17. +</p> + +<p> +The Bible itself, therefore, sets the example of giving instruction +and of imparting most valuable information by means +of asking questions and answering them. +</p> + +<p> +The readings in this book as originally prepared were contributed +by a large number of Bible workers, whose experience +in giving Bible readings had taught them the most effective +methods of presenting the different subjects treated. Over one +million two hundred and fifty thousand copies of the book as +thus prepared have been sold. +</p> + +<p> +The work has recently been thoroughly revised and rewritten, +much enlarged, entirely reillustrated, with the readings +classified and carefully arranged according to topics, by a +large committee of able critics and Bible students. So extensive +has been the revision, and so much and valuable the new +matter added, that the present work is practically a new book, +although retaining the same name and the same general plan +as the former work. Thus prepared, it is once more sent forth +on its mission of light and blessing. +</p> + +<p> +As a help in enabling the reader quickly to discover the +words which most directly answer the question asked, they are +generally printed in italic, unless the entire scripture quoted is +required for the purpose. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bible Readings</q> will be found an excellent aid to private, +family, and public study of the Word of God. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='023'/><anchor id='Pg023'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part I. The Bible; How to Study and Understand It</head> + +<pb n='024'/><anchor id='Pg024'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus024.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Sermon On The Mount. +"He opened His mouth, and taught them, +saying, Blessed." Matt. 5:2, 3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='025'/><anchor id='Pg025'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus025.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Baruch Writing The Prophecies Of Jeremiah. +"All scripture is given by inspiration +of God." 2 Tim. 3:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<div> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Scriptures</head> + +<p> +1. By what name are the sacred writings of the Bible commonly +known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in <hi rend='italic'>the Scriptures</hi>, +The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the +head of the corner?</q> Matt. 21:42. +</p> + +<p> +2. What other title is given this revelation of God to man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He answered and said unto them, My mother and +My brethren are these which hear <hi rend='italic'>the word of God</hi>, and do it.</q> +Luke 8:21. +</p> + +<p> +3. How were the Scriptures given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All scripture is given <hi rend='italic'>by inspiration of God</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. By whom were the men directed who thus spoke for God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: +but holy men of God spake as they were moved <hi rend='italic'>by the Holy +Ghost</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +5. What specific instance is mentioned by Peter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been +fulfilled, <hi rend='italic'>which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before +concerning Judas</hi>, which was guide to them that took Jesus.</q> +Acts 1:16. +</p> + +<p> +6. How does David express this same truth? +</p> + +<pb n='026'/><anchor id='Pg026'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The Spirit of the Lord spake by me</hi>, and His word was in +my tongue.</q> 2 Sam. 23:2. +</p> + +<p> +7. Who, therefore, did the speaking through these men? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>God</hi>, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in +time past unto the fathers by the prophets.</q> Heb. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +8. For what purpose were the Scriptures written? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written +<hi rend='italic'>for our learning</hi>, that we through patience and comfort of +the Scriptures might have hope.</q> Rom. 15:4. +</p> + +<p> +9. For what is all scripture profitable? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable +<hi rend='italic'>for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in +righteousness</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +10. What was God's design in thus giving the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the man of God may be <hi rend='italic'>perfect, thoroughly furnished +unto all good works</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +11. What estimate did Job place upon the words of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither have I gone back from the commandment of His +lips; <hi rend='italic'>I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary +food</hi>.</q> Job 23:12. +</p> + +<p> +12. Upon what evidence did Jesus base His Messiahship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And beginning at Moses and all the <hi rend='italic'>prophets</hi>, He expounded +unto them <hi rend='italic'>in all the scriptures</hi> the things concerning Himself.</q> +Luke 24:27. +</p> + +<p> +13. What three general divisions did Jesus recognize as including +all the writings of the Old Testament? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, These are the words which I spake +unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be +fulfilled, which were written <hi rend='italic'>in the law of Moses</hi>, and in +<hi rend='italic'>the prophets</hi>, and in <hi rend='italic'>the Psalms</hi>, +concerning Me.</q> Verse 44. +</p> + +<p> +14. What does God's character preclude Him from doing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In hope of eternal life, which God, <hi rend='italic'>that cannot lie</hi>, promised +before the world began.</q> Titus 1:2. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is God called in the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are +judgment: <hi rend='italic'>a God of truth</hi> and without iniquity, just and right +is He.</q> Deut. 32:4. +</p> + +<pb n='027'/><anchor id='Pg027'/> + +<p> +16. What, therefore, must be the character of His word? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sanctify them through Thy truth: <hi rend='italic'>Thy word is truth.</hi></q> +John 17:17. +</p> + +<p> +17. What test should therefore be applied to every professed +teacher of truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>To the law and to the testimony:</hi> if they speak not according +to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</q> Isa. +8:20. +</p> + +<p> +18. What does God design that His word shall be to us in +this world of darkness, sin, and death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy word is <hi rend='italic'>a lamp</hi> unto my feet, and <hi rend='italic'>a light</hi> unto my +path.</q> Ps. 119:105. +</p> + +<p> +19. To what extent has God magnified His word? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou hast magnified Thy word <hi rend='italic'>above all Thy name</hi>.</q> Ps. +138:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God did this by backing His promises with an oath +based upon Himself. Heb. 6:13, 14. By this He pledged and placed at stake +His name, or character, for the fulfilment of His word. +</quote> + +<p> +20. In what is the true poetry of life to be found? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thy statutes</hi> have been <hi rend='italic'>my songs</hi> in the house of my pilgrimage.</q> +Ps. 119:54. +</p> + +<p> +21. How long will the word of God endure? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but <hi rend='italic'>the word of our +God shall stand forever</hi>.</q> Isa. 40:8. <q>Heaven and earth shall +pass away, but <hi rend='italic'>My words shall not pass away</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:35. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O Word of God incarnate,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O Wisdom from on high,</l> +<l>O Truth unchanged, unchanging,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O Light of our dark sky!</l> +<l>We praise Thee for the radiance</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That from the hallowed page,</l> +<l>A lamp to guide our footsteps,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Shines on from age to age.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The church from her dear Master</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Received the gift divine,</l> +<l>And still that light she lifteth</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O'er all the earth to shine.</l> +<l>It is the golden casket</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Where gems of truth are stored;</l> +<l>It is the heaven-drawn picture</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of Christ the living Word.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>William How.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='028'/><anchor id='Pg028'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Study Of The Scriptures</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus028.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Searching The Scriptures. +"Study to show thyself approved +unto God." 2 Tim. 2:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did Christ say to the Jews concerning the study +of the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Search the Scriptures</hi>; for in them ye think ye have eternal +life: and they are they which testify of Me.</q> John 5:39 +</p> + +<p> +2. For what were the Bereans commended? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that +they received the word with all readiness of mind, and <hi rend='italic'>searched +the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so</hi>.</q> Acts 17:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>If God's Word were studied as it should be,</q> +says a modern Bible student, <q>men would have a breadth of mind, a nobility of character, +and a stability of purpose that are rarely seen in these times. But there +is little benefit derived from a hasty reading of the Scriptures. One may +read the whole Bible through, and yet fail to see its beauty or comprehend +its deep and hidden meaning. One passage studied until its significance +is clear to the mind and its relation to the plan of salvation is evident, is +of more value than the perusal of many chapters with no definite purpose +in view, and no positive instruction gained.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +3. By what comparison is it indicated that some portions +of God's Word are more difficult to understand than others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have +need that one teach you again which be <hi rend='italic'>the first principles of +<pb n='029'/><anchor id='Pg029'/> +the oracles of God</hi>; and are become such as have need of <hi rend='italic'>milk</hi>, +and not of <hi rend='italic'>strong meat</hi>.</q> Heb. 5:12. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what way is this comparison further explained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of +righteousness: for he is a <emph>babe</emph>. But strong meat belongeth to +them that are of <emph>full age</emph>, even those who by reason of use have +their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.</q> Verses +13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +5. What writings are specifically mentioned as containing +some things difficult to understand? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation; +even as our beloved brother <hi rend='italic'>Paul</hi> also according to the +wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all +<emph>his epistles</emph>, speaking in them of these things; <emph>in which are some +things hard to be understood</emph>, which they that are unlearned and +unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their +own destruction.</q> 2 Peter 3:15, 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Some scriptures are too plain to be misunderstood, +while the meaning of others cannot so readily be discerned. To obtain a comprehensive +knowledge of any Bible truth, scripture must be compared with +scripture, and there should be <q>careful research and prayerful reflection.</q> +But all such study will be richly rewarded. +</quote> + +<p> +6. Who alone comprehends the things of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the +spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth +no man, but <hi rend='italic'>the Spirit of God</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 2:11. +</p> + +<p> +7. How thoroughly does the Spirit search out the hidden +treasures of truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for <hi rend='italic'>the +Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God</hi>.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is one purpose for which the Holy Spirit was sent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the +Father will send in My name, <hi rend='italic'>He shall teach you all things, and +bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto +you</hi>.</q> John 14:26. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why cannot the natural man receive the things of the +Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit +of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know +them, <hi rend='italic'>because they are spiritually discerned</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 2:14. +</p> + +<pb n='030'/><anchor id='Pg030'/> + +<p> +10. For what spiritual enlightenment should every one pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Open Thou mine eyes</hi>, that I may behold wondrous things +out of Thy law.</q> Ps. 119:18. +</p> + +<p> +11. For what spiritual gift did the apostle Paul pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, +may give unto you <hi rend='italic'>the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the +knowledge of Him</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:17. +</p> + +<p> +12. Upon what conditions is an understanding of divine +things promised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yea, <hi rend='italic'>if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice +for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for +her as for hid treasures</hi>; then shalt thou understand the fear of +the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.</q> Prov. 2:3-5. +</p> + +<p> +13. What great blessing did Christ confer upon His disciples +after His resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Then opened He their understanding</hi>, that they might understand +the Scriptures.</q> Luke 24:45. +</p> + +<p> +14. What beings of a higher order than man desire to study +the truths revealed in the gospel of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which things <hi rend='italic'>the angels</hi> desire to look into.</q> 1 Peter 1:12 +</p> + +<p> +15. What is promised him who wills to do God's will? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man will [willeth to, R. V.] do His will, <hi rend='italic'>he shall know +of the doctrine</hi>, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of +Myself.</q> John 7:17. +</p> + +<p> +16. How did Christ reprove those who, though familiar +with the letter of the Scriptures, failed to understand them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered and said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Ye do err, not knowing +the Scriptures, nor the power of God</hi>.</q> Matt. 22:29. +</p> + +<p> +17. What are the Scriptures able to do for one who believes +them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, +<hi rend='italic'>which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith +which is in Christ Jesus</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +18. When asked by the rich young man the conditions of +eternal life, to what did Jesus direct his attention? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>What is written in the law? how readest +thou?</hi></q> Luke 10:26. +</p> + +<pb n='031'/><anchor id='Pg031'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus031.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Jesus At The Home Of Martha And Mary. +"Mary hath chosen that good part, +which shall not be taken away +from her." Luke 10:42.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='032'/><anchor id='Pg032'/> + +<p> +19. Whom did Jesus pronounce blessed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But He said, Yea rather, <hi rend='italic'>blessed are they that hear the word +of God, and keep it</hi>.</q> Luke 11:28. +</p> + +<p> +20. What did Christ say concerning the book of Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation +spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (<hi rend='italic'>whoso +readeth, let him understand</hi>).</q> Matt. 24:15. +</p> + +<p> +21. What other book of the Bible is especially commended +for our study? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear <hi rend='italic'>the words +of this prophecy</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>the book of Revelation</hi>], and keep those +things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.</q> Rev. 1:3. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='bold'><q>How Readest Thou?</q></hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>It is one thing to read the Bible through,</l> +<l>Another thing to read to learn and do.</l> +<l>Some read it with design to learn to read,</l> +<l>But to the subject pay but little heed.</l> +<l>Some read it as their duty once a week,</l> +<l>But no instruction from the Bible seek;</l> +<l>While others read it with but little care,</l> +<l>With no regard to how they read, nor where.</l> +<l>Some read to bring themselves into repute,</l> +<l>By showing others how they can dispute;</l> +<l>While others read because their neighbors do,</l> +<l>To see how long 'twill take to read it through.</l> +<l>Some read it for the wonders that are there,—</l> +<l>How David killed a lion and a bear;</l> +<l>While others read it with uncommon care,</l> +<l>Hoping to find some contradictions there.</l> +<l>Some read as if it did not speak to them,</l> +<l>But to the people at Jerusalem.</l> +<l>One reads with father's specs upon his head,</l> +<l>And sees the thing just as his father said.</l> +<l>Some read to prove a preadopted creed,</l> +<l>Hence understand but little that they read;</l> +<l>For every passage in the book they bend</l> +<l>To make it suit that all-important end.</l> +<l>Some people read, as I have often thought,</l> +<l>To teach the book instead of being taught;</l> +<l>And some there are who read it out of spite.</l> +<l>I fear there are but few who read it right.</l> +<l>But read it prayerfully, and you will see,</l> +<l>Although men contradict, God's words agree;</l> +<l>For what the early Bible prophets wrote,</l> +<l>We find that Christ and His apostles quote.</l> +<l>So trust no creed that trembles to recall</l> +<l>What has been penned by one and verified by all.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='033'/><anchor id='Pg033'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Power In The Word</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus033.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ The Word. +"He spake, and it was." Ps. 33:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Through what agency did God create the heavens? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By the word of the Lord</hi> were the heavens made; and all +the host of them <hi rend='italic'>by the breath of His +mouth</hi>.</q> <q>For <hi rend='italic'>He spake</hi>, +and it was done; <hi rend='italic'>He commanded</hi>, and it stood fast.</q> Ps. 33:6, 9. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what does Christ uphold all things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Upholding all things <hi rend='italic'>by the word of His power</hi>.</q> Heb. 1:3. +</p> + +<p> +3. Of what are some willingly ignorant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this they willingly are ignorant of, that <hi rend='italic'>by the word of +God the heavens were of old</hi>, and the earth standing out of the +water and in the water: <hi rend='italic'>whereby the world that then was, being +overflowed with water, perished</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 3:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +4. By what are the present heavens and earth reserved for +a similar fate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the heavens and the earth, which are now, <hi rend='italic'>by the same +word</hi> are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of +judgment and perdition of ungodly men.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +5. In what other scripture is it shown that creative power is +exercised through the word of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let them praise the name of the Lord: <hi rend='italic'>for He commanded, +and they were created</hi>.</q> Ps. 148:5. +</p> + +<p> +6. What change is wrought in one who is in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore if any man be in Christ, <hi rend='italic'>he is a new creature</hi> +[there is <hi rend='italic'>a new creation</hi>, R. V., margin]: old things are passed +away; behold, <hi rend='italic'>all things are become new</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 5:17. +</p> + +<pb n='034'/><anchor id='Pg034'/> + +<p> +7. What is this new creation also called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say +unto thee, Except a man be <hi rend='italic'>born again</hi>, he cannot see the kingdom +of God.</q> John 3:3. +</p> + +<p> +8. Through what agency is this new creation, or new birth, +accomplished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, +<hi rend='italic'>by the word of God</hi>, which liveth and abideth forever.</q> +1 Peter 1:23. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is the first creative commandment recorded in the +Bible? and what was the result of it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said, <hi rend='italic'>Let there be light</hi>: +and <hi rend='italic'>there was light</hi>.</q> Gen. +1:3. +</p> + +<p> +10. What connection is there between the creation of light +in the beginning, and the light of the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, +hath shined in our hearts, to give <hi rend='italic'>the light of the knowledge +of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 4:6. +</p> + +<p> +11. Why were the people astonished at Christ's teaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they were astonished at His doctrine: <hi rend='italic'>for His word +was with power</hi>.</q> Luke 4:32. +</p> + +<p> +12. What testified to the power of the word of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, +saying, What a word is this! for <hi rend='italic'>with authority and power He +commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out</hi>.</q> Verse 36. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did Christ say is the seed of the kingdom of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The seed is <hi rend='italic'>the word of God</hi>.</q> Luke 8:11. +</p> + +<p> +14. Where should the word of Christ dwell? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the word of Christ <hi rend='italic'>dwell in you</hi> richly in all wisdom.</q> +Col. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did Christ say of the unbelieving Jews respecting +the word of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ye have not His word abiding in you:</hi> for whom He hath +sent, Him ye believe not.</q> John 5:38. +</p> + +<p> +16. How does the word of God work in the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, +<pb n='036'/><anchor id='Pg036'/> +when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, +ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the +word of God, <hi rend='italic'>which effectually worketh also in you +that believe</hi>.</q> +1 Thess. 2:13. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus035.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Centurion. +"Speak the word only, and my servant +shall be healed." Matt. 8:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +17. What nature is imparted through the promises of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious +promises: <hi rend='italic'>that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature</hi>, +having escaped the corruption that is in the world through +lust.</q> 2 Peter 1:4. +</p> + +<p> +18. By what are believers made clean? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now ye are clean <hi rend='italic'>through the word which I have spoken unto +you</hi>.</q> John 15:3. +</p> + +<p> +19. How may a young man cleanse his way? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? <hi rend='italic'>by taking +heed thereto according to Thy word</hi>.</q> Ps. 119:9. +</p> + +<p> +20. How did God heal His people anciently? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He sent His word, and healed them</hi>, and delivered them from +their destructions.</q> Ps. 107:20. +</p> + +<p> +21. How did the centurion show his faith in the power of +Christ's word to heal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy +that Thou shouldest come under my roof: but <hi rend='italic'>speak the word +only, and my servant shall be healed</hi>.</q> Matt. 8:8. +</p> + +<p> +22. What power has the word when hidden in the heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy word have I hid in mine heart, <hi rend='italic'>that I might not sin +against Thee</hi>.</q> Ps. 119:11. See also Ps. 17:4. +</p> + +<p> +23. Why did God humble Israel, and suffer them to hunger? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and +fed thee with manna, ... <hi rend='italic'>that He might make thee know +that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth +out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live</hi>.</q> Deut. 8:3. +</p> + +<p> +24. What is required beyond a mere hearing of the word? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But be ye <hi rend='italic'>doers of the word</hi>, and not hearers only, deceiving +your own selves.</q> James 1:22. +</p> + +<p> +25. What is the result of doing God's will? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but +<hi rend='italic'>he that doeth the will of God abideth forever</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:17. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='037'/><anchor id='Pg037'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Life-Giving Word</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus037.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Raising Of Jairus's Daughter. +"His commandment is life everlasting." +John 12:50.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the nature of the word of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the word of God is <hi rend='italic'>quick</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>powerful</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>sharper +than any two-edged sword</hi>, piercing even to the dividing asunder +of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is <hi rend='italic'>a discerner +of the thoughts and intents of the heart</hi>.</q> Heb. 4:12. +</p> + +<p> +2. How are the oracles of God described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with +the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our +fathers: who received <hi rend='italic'>the lively oracles</hi> to give unto us.</q> Acts +7:38. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did Christ declare His words to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: +the words that I speak unto you, they are <hi rend='italic'>spirit</hi>, and they are +<hi rend='italic'>life</hi>.</q> John 6:63. +</p> + +<p> +4. What was Peter's testimony concerning Christ's words? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we +go? <hi rend='italic'>Thou hast the words of eternal life.</hi></q> Verse 68. +</p> + +<p> +5. What did Christ declare His Father's commandment +to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I know that His commandment is <hi rend='italic'>life everlasting</hi>.</q> +John 12:50. +</p> + +<pb n='038'/><anchor id='Pg038'/> + +<p> +6. What lesson was intended by feeding the children of +Israel with the manna? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and +fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy +fathers know; <hi rend='italic'>that He might make thee know that man doth not +live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth +of the Lord doth man live</hi>.</q> Deut. 8:3. +</p> + +<p> +7. What interpretation did Jesus give to this lesson? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, +Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but My Father +giveth you the true bread from heaven. <hi rend='italic'>For the bread of God is +He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.</hi></q> +John 6:32, 33. +</p> + +<p> +8. In further explanation of the meaning of this lesson, +what did Jesus declare Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>I am the bread of life</hi>: he that +cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me +shall never thirst.</q> Verse 35. +</p> + +<p> +9. What benefit is derived from eating this bread of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: +<hi rend='italic'>so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me</hi>. This is that bread +which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat +manna, and are dead: <hi rend='italic'>he that eateth of this bread shall live +forever</hi>.</q> Verses 57, 58. +</p> + +<p> +10. What instance is recorded of one who fed upon the true +manna? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thy words were found, and I did eat them</hi>; and Thy word +was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called +by Thy name, O Lord God of hosts.</q> Jer. 15:16. +</p> + +<p> +11. What name is applied to Jesus as the revelation of the +thought of God in the flesh? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning was <hi rend='italic'>the Word</hi>, and the Word was with +God, and the Word was God.</q> John 1:1. <q>And He was +clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called +<hi rend='italic'>The Word of God</hi>.</q> Rev. 19:13. +</p> + +<p> +12. What was in the Word? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In Him was <hi rend='italic'>life</hi>; and the life was the light of men.</q> John +1:4. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is Jesus therefore also called? +</p> + +<pb n='039'/><anchor id='Pg039'/> + +<p> +<q>That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, +which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, +and our hands have handled, of <hi rend='italic'>the Word of life</hi>.</q> 1 John 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +14. Why did the Jews fail to find life in the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal +life: and they are they which testify of Me. And <hi rend='italic'>ye will not +come to Me, that ye might have life</hi>.</q> John 5:39, 40. +</p> + +<p> +15. What constitutes a part of Christian experience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And have <hi rend='italic'>tasted the good word of God</hi>, and the powers of +the world to come.</q> Heb. 6:5. See answer to question 10. +</p> + +<p> +16. In assigning him his life-work, what instruction did +Jesus give to Peter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus saith unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Feed My sheep</hi>.</q> John 21:17. +</p> + +<p> +17. What apostolic injunction indicates the way in which +this instruction is to be obeyed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus +Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing +and His kingdom; <hi rend='italic'>Preach the word</hi>; be instant in season, out +of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and +doctrine.</q> 2 Tim. 4:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +18. How are we instructed to pray for both physical and +spiritual nourishment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Give us this day our daily bread.</q> Matt. 6:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When <q>the Word became flesh, and dwelt among +us,</q> the thought of God was revealed in human flesh. When holy men of God +<q>spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,</q> the thought of God was +revealed in human language. The union of the divine and the human in +the manifestation of God's thought in the flesh is declared to be <q>the mystery +of godliness;</q> and there is the same mystery in the union of the divine +thought and human language. The two revelations of God, in human flesh +and in human speech, are both called the <hi rend='italic'>Word of God</hi>, and both +are the <hi rend='italic'>Word of life</hi>. He who fails to find Christ thus in the +Scriptures will not be able to feed upon the Word as the life-giving Word. +</quote> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Like wandering sheep o'er mountains cold,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Since all have gone astray;</l> +<l>To life and peace within the fold,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>How may I find the way?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>To Christ the Way, the Truth, the Life,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I come, no more to roam;</l> +<l>He'll guide me to my Father's house,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To my eternal home.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='040'/><anchor id='Pg040'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christ In All The Bible</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus040.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>On The Way To Emmaus. +"He expounded unto them in all the +scriptures the things concerning +Himself." Luke 24:27.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of whom did Christ say the Scriptures testify? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal +life: and <hi rend='italic'>they are they which testify of Me</hi>.</q> John 5:39. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Search the Old Testament Scriptures: for they are +they that testify of Christ. To find Him in them is the true and legitimate end of +their study. To be able to interpret them as He interpreted them is the +best result of all Biblical learning.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dean Alford.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +2. Of whom did Moses and the prophets write? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have +found Him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did +write, <hi rend='italic'>Jesus of Nazareth</hi>, the son of Joseph.</q> John 1:45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In her translation of the Old Testament Scriptures, +Helen Spurrell expressed the following wish for all who should read her translation: +<q>May very many exclaim, as the translator has often done when +studying numerous passages in the original, <hi rend='italic'>I have found the +Messiah</hi>!</q> +</quote> + +<p> +3. From whose words did Christ say the disciples ought to +have learned of His death and resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that <hi rend='italic'>the prophets</hi> +have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, +and to enter into His glory?</q> Luke 24:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did Christ make it clear to them that the Scriptures +testify of Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, <hi rend='italic'>He expounded +unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning +Himself</hi>.</q> Verse 27 +</p> + +<pb n='041'/><anchor id='Pg041'/> + +<p> +5. What did He say a little later to the eleven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was +yet with you, that <hi rend='italic'>all things must be fulfilled, which were written +in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning +Me</hi>.</q> Verse 44. +</p> + +<p> +6. Where in the Bible do we find the first promise of a Redeemer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God said unto the serpent, ... I will +put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed +and <hi rend='italic'>her seed</hi>; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His +heel.</q> Gen. 3:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what words was this promise renewed to Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In thy seed</hi> shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.</q> +Gen. 22:18. See also Gen. 26:4; 28:14. +</p> + +<p> +8. To whom did this promised seed refer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. +He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to +thy seed, <hi rend='italic'>which is Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +9. Whom did God promise to send with Israel to guide them +into the promised land? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I send <hi rend='italic'>an Angel</hi> before thee, to keep thee in the +way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.</q> +Ex. 23:20. +</p> + +<p> +10. Who was the Rock that went with them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank +of that spiritual Rock that followed [went with, margin] them: +and <hi rend='italic'>that Rock was Christ</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 10:4. +</p> + +<p> +11. In what prophecy are Christ's life, suffering, and death +touchingly foretold? +</p> + +<p> +In the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. +</p> + +<p> +12. Where is the price of Christ's betrayal foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So they weighed for My price <hi rend='italic'>thirty pieces of silver</hi>.</q> Zech. +11:12. See Matt. 26:15. +</p> + +<p> +13. Where in the Psalms are Christ's dying words recorded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?</q> Ps. +22:1. See Matt. 27:46. <q>Into Thine hand I commit My +spirit.</q> Ps. 31:5. See Luke 23:46. +</p> + +<p> +14. How is Christ's resurrection foretold in the Psalms? +</p> + +<pb n='042'/><anchor id='Pg042'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus042.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Made Known In The Breaking Of Bread. +"Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked +with us by the way, and while He opened to us the +scriptures?" Luke 24:32.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='043'/><anchor id='Pg043'/> + +<p> +<q>I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto Me, +Thou art My Son; <hi rend='italic'>this day have I begotten Thee</hi>.</q> Ps. 2:7. +See Acts 13:33. +</p> + +<p> +15. Where again in the Psalms is His resurrection foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell</hi>; neither wilt Thou +suffer Thine Holy One to see <hi rend='italic'>corruption</hi>.</q> Ps. 16:10. See +Acts 2:25-31. +</p> + +<p> +16. In what words does Daniel foretell Christ's receiving +His kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, one like the <hi rend='italic'>Son of +man</hi> came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient +of days, and they brought Him near before Him. And <hi rend='italic'>there +was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom</hi>, that all +people, nations, and languages, should serve Him: His dominion +is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His +kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.</q> Dan. 7:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +See also Luke 1:32, 33; 19:11, 12; Rev. 11:15. +</p> + +<p> +17. How is Christ's second coming described in the Psalms? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together +before the Lord; <hi rend='italic'>for He cometh to judge the earth</hi>: with +righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with +equity.</q> Ps. 98:8, 9. <q><hi rend='italic'>Our God shall come, and shall not keep +silence</hi>: a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous +round about Him. He shall call to the heavens from +above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people. Gather +My saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant +with Me by sacrifice.</q> Ps. 50:3-5. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is Christ to one renewed after God's image? +<q>Christ is <hi rend='italic'>all</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>in all</hi>.</q> Col. 3:11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>A glory in the Word we find</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When grace restores our sight;</l> +<l>But sin has darkened all the mind,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And veiled the heavenly light.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>When God's own Spirit clears our view,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>How bright the doctrines shine!</l> +<l>Their holy fruits and sweetness show</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Their Author is divine.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>How blest we are, with open face</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To view Thy glory, Lord,</l> +<l>And all Thy image here to trace,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Reflected in Thy Word!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 14'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Campbell's Collection.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='044'/><anchor id='Pg044'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Titles Of Christ</head> + +<div> +<head>In the Old Testament</head> + +<lg> +<l>Seed of the woman. Gen. 3:15.</l> +<l>Mine Angel. Ex. 23:23.</l> +<l>A Star out of Jacob. Num. 24:17.</l> +<l>A Prophet. Deut. 18:15, 18.</l> +<l>Captain of the host of the Lord. Joshua 5:14.</l> +<l>A Friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. 18:24.</l> +<l>My Beloved. Song of Solomon 2:10.</l> +<l>Chiefest among ten thousand. Song of Solomon 5:10.</l> +<l>(One) altogether lovely. Song of Solomon 5:16.</l> +<l>The Mighty God. Isa. 9:6.</l> +<l>The Everlasting Father. Isa. 9:6.</l> +<l>The Prince of Peace. Isa. 9:6.</l> +<l>The Lord Our Righteousness. Jer. 23:5, 6.</l> +<l>The Son of God. Dan. 3:25.</l> +<l>The Son of Man. Dan. 7:13.</l> +<l>Michael, ... the Great Prince. Dan. 12:1.</l> +<l>The Branch. Zech. 6:12, 13.</l> +<l>The Messenger of the covenant. Mal. 3:1.</l> +<l>The Sun of Righteousness. Mal. 4:2.</l> +</lg> + +</div> + +<div> +<head>In the New Testament</head> + +<lg> +<l>The Word. John 1:1.</l> +<l>The Lamb of God. John 1:29.</l> +<l>The Bread of life. John 6:35.</l> +<l>The Light of the world. John 8:12.</l> +<l>The Door of the Sheep. John 10:7.</l> +<l>The Good Shepherd. Verse 11.</l> +<l>The Resurrection and the Life. John 11:25.</l> +<l>The Way, the Truth, and the Life. John 14:6.</l> +<l>The True Vine. John 15:1.</l> +<l>That Rock. 1 Cor. 10:4.</l> +<l>The last Adam. 1 Cor. 15:45.</l> +<l>The Chief Corner-stone. Eph. 2:20.</l> +<l>The Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2:5.</l> +<l>A Great High Priest. Heb. 4:14.</l> +<l>The Author and Finisher of our faith. Heb. 12:2.</l> +<l>The Chief Shepherd. 1 Peter 5:4.</l> +<l>An Advocate. 1 John 2:1.</l> +<l>Michael, the Archangel. Jude 9.</l> +<l>The Lion of the tribe of Judah. Rev. 5:5.</l> +<l>The Morning Star. Rev. 22:16.</l> +<l>King of kings, and Lord of lords. Rev. 19:16.</l> +</lg> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note</hi>.—Christ is referred to in the Bible under something +like three hundred different titles and figures, of which the above are only examples. +Why this is so is because He is all that these names and figures represent. +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='045'/><anchor id='Pg045'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part II. Sin; Its Origin, Results, and Remedy</head> + +<pb n='046'/><anchor id='Pg046'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus046.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Driven From Eden. +"Therefore the Lord God sent him forth +from the garden of Eden, to till the ground +from whence he was taken." Gen. 3:23.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='047'/><anchor id='Pg047'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Creation And The Creator</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus047.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Creation. "Behold, it was very good." Gen. 1:31.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By whom were the heavens and the earth created? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning <hi rend='italic'>God</hi> created the heaven and the earth.</q> +Gen. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. Through whom did God create all things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>by Him</hi> [the Son] were all things created, that are in +heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they +be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: <hi rend='italic'>all things +were created by Him</hi>, and for Him.</q> Col. 1:16. <q>All things +were made <hi rend='italic'>by Him</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>through Him</hi>, R. V., +margin]: and without Him was not anything made that was made.</q> John 1:3. +See also Heb. 1:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +3. What do the heavens declare? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The heavens declare <hi rend='italic'>the glory of God</hi>; and the firmament +showeth His handiwork.</q> Ps. 19:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. What was God's object in making the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God +Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established +it, He created it not in vain, <hi rend='italic'>He formed it to be inhabited</hi>.</q> +Isa. 45:18. +</p> + +<p> +5. In whose image was man created? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So God created man <hi rend='italic'>in His own image</hi>, in the image of +God created He him; male and female created He them.</q> Gen. +1:27. +</p> + +<pb n='048'/><anchor id='Pg048'/> + +<p> +6. What home did God make for man in the beginning? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God planted <hi rend='italic'>a garden</hi> eastward in Eden; +and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of +the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant +to the sight, and good for food.... And the Lord +God took the man, and put him into <hi rend='italic'>the garden of Eden</hi> to dress +it and to keep it.</q> Gen. 2:8-15. +</p> + +<p> +7. What may be perceived through the things that are made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the invisible things of Him</hi> from the creation of the +world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are +made, even <hi rend='italic'>His eternal power and Godhead</hi>; so that they are +without excuse.</q> Rom. 1:20. +</p> + +<p> +8. Whose workmanship is the Christian? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we are <hi rend='italic'>His workmanship</hi>, created in Christ Jesus unto +good works, which God hath before ordained that we should +walk in them.</q> Eph. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +9. What assurance is given concerning the unfailing power +of the Creator? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting +God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, +<hi rend='italic'>fainteth not, neither is weary</hi>? there is no searching of His +understanding.</q> Isa. 40:28. +</p> + +<p> +10. What encouraging statement follows concerning the +supply of power to the faint? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He giveth power to the faint</hi>; and to them that have no might +<hi rend='italic'>He increaseth strength</hi>.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<p> +11. To whom are those who suffer exhorted to commit their +souls? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God +commit their souls in well-doing <hi rend='italic'>unto a faithful Creator</hi>.</q> +1 Peter 4:19, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +12. What gave special force to the oath of an angel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon +the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that +liveth forever and ever, <hi rend='italic'>who created heaven, and the things that +therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the +sea, and the things which are therein</hi>, that there should be time no +longer.</q> Rev. 10:5, 6. +</p> + +<pb n='049'/><anchor id='Pg049'/> + +<p> +13. What contrast is drawn in the Scriptures between the +Creator and false gods? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus shall ye say unto them, <hi rend='italic'>The gods that have not made +the heavens and the earth</hi>, even they shall perish from the earth, +and from under these heavens.... The portion of Jacob +is not like them: for <hi rend='italic'>He is the former of all things</hi>; and Israel is +the rod of His inheritance: The Lord of hosts is His name.</q> +Jer. 10:11-16. +</p> + +<p> +14. To whom is our worship justly due? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before +<hi rend='italic'>the Lord our Maker</hi>.</q> Ps. 95:6. +</p> + +<p> +15. In view of the curse upon this creation, what has God +promised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For, behold, <hi rend='italic'>I create new heavens and a new earth</hi>: and the +former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.</q> Isa. +65:17. See Rev. 21:1. +</p> + +<p> +16. What is the true basis of the brotherhood of man? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Have we not all one Father? hath not one God created us?</hi> +why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, +by profaning the covenant of our fathers?</q> Mal. 2:10. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O Thou eternal One! whose presence bright</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>All space doth occupy, all motion guide;</l> +<l>Unchanged through time's all devastating flight!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou only God—there is no God beside!</l> +<l>Being above all beings! Mighty One,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Whom none can comprehend and none explore;</l> +<l>Who fill'st existence with Thyself alone,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Embracing all, supporting, ruling o'er;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Being whom we call God, and know no more!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thou from primeval nothingness didst call</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>First chaos, then existence; Lord, on Thee</l> +<l>Eternity hath its foundation; all</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Sprung forth from Thee,—of light, joy, harmony,</l> +<l>Sole origin,—all life, all beauty Thine;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thy word created all, and doth create;</l> +<l>Thy splendor fills all space with rays divine;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou art and wert and shalt be! Glorious! Great!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Light-giving, life-sustaining Potentate!</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Derzhavin.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='050'/><anchor id='Pg050'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Origin Of Evil</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus050.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Fall Of Satan. +"I beheld Satan as lightning fall from +heaven." Luke 10:18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. With whom did sin originate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that committeth sin is of the devil; for <hi rend='italic'>the devil sinneth +from the beginning</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Without the Bible, the question of the origin +of evil would remain unexplained. +</quote> + +<p> +2. From what time has the devil been a murderer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father +ye will do. <hi rend='italic'>He was a murderer from the beginning</hi>, and abode +not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.</q> John 8:44. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is the devil's relationship to lying? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for <hi rend='italic'>he is a +liar, and the father of it</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +4. Was Satan created sinful? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou wast <hi rend='italic'>perfect</hi> in thy ways from the day that thou wast +created, <hi rend='italic'>till iniquity was found in thee</hi>.</q> Eze. 28:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, and the +statement in John 8:44, that he <q><hi rend='italic'>abode</hi> not +in the truth,</q> show that Satan was once +<hi rend='italic'>perfect</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>in the truth</hi>. Peter +speaks of <q>the angels that <hi rend='italic'>sinned</hi></q> +(2 Peter 2:4); and Jude refers to <q>the +angels which <hi rend='italic'>kept not their first +estate</hi></q> (Jude 6); both of which show that +these angels were once in a state of sinlessness and innocence. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What further statement of Christ seems to lay the responsibility +for the origin of sin upon Satan and his angels? +</p> + +<pb n='051'/><anchor id='Pg051'/> + +<p> +<q>Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart +from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, <hi rend='italic'>prepared for the devil +and his angels</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:41. +</p> + +<p> +6. What led to Satan's sin, rebellion, and downfall? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty</hi>, thou hast +corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy <hi rend='italic'>brightness</hi>.</q> Eze. 28:17. +<q>Thou hast said in thine heart, <hi rend='italic'>I will ascend into heaven, I will +exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount +of the congregation, in the sides of the north: ... I will be +like the Most High</hi>.</q> Isa. 14:13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In a word, pride and self-exaltation led to Satan's +downfall, and for these there is no justification or adequate excuse. <q>Pride goeth +before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.</q> Prov. 16:18. +Hence, while we may know of the origin, cause, character, and results of +evil, no good or sufficient reason or excuse can be given for it. To excuse +it is to justify it; and the moment it is justified it ceases to be sin. All sin +is a manifestation of selfishness in some form, and its results are the opposite +of those prompted by love. The experiment of sin will result finally +in its utter abandonment and banishment forever, by all created intelligences, +throughout the entire universe of God. Only those who foolishly +and persistently cling to sin will be destroyed with it. The wicked will +then <q>be as though they had not been</q> (Obadiah 16), and the righteous +shall <q>shine as the brightness of the firmament,</q> and <q>as the stars forever +and ever.</q> Dan. 12:3. <q>Affliction shall not rise up the second time.</q> +Nahum 1:9. See reading on <q>Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan,</q> +page 499. +</quote> + +<p> +7. In contrast with the pride and self-exaltation exhibited +by Satan, what spirit did Christ manifest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to +be equal with God: but <hi rend='italic'>made Himself of no reputation</hi>, and took +upon Him the form of a <hi rend='italic'>servant</hi>, and was made in the likeness of +<hi rend='italic'>men</hi>: and being found in fashion as a man, <hi rend='italic'>He +humbled Himself</hi>, and became obedient unto <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, even +<hi rend='italic'>the death of the cross</hi>.</q> +Phil. 2:6-8. +</p> + +<p> +8. After man had sinned, how did God show His love, and +His willingness to forgive? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, +but have everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Inasmuch as God, who is love, who delights in mercy, +and who changes not, offered pardon and granted a period of probation to man +when he sinned, it is but reasonable to conclude that a like course was +pursued toward the heavenly intelligences who first sinned, and that only +those who persisted in sin, and took their stand in open revolt and rebellion +against God and the government of heaven, were finally cast out of heaven. +Rev. 12:7-9. +</quote> + +<pb n='052'/><anchor id='Pg052'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus052.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Cain And Abel--The First Murder. +"Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his +brother." 1 John 3:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='053'/><anchor id='Pg053'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Fall And Redemption Of Man</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus053.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sin And Its Remedy. +"The wages of sin is death; but the +gift of God is eternal life through +Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6:23.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is sin declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for +<hi rend='italic'>sin is the transgression of the law</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. What precedes the manifestation of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then when <hi rend='italic'>lust</hi> hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.</q> +James 1:15. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is the final result or fruit of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Same +verse. <q>The wages of sin is <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +4. Upon how many of the human race did death pass as the +result of Adam's transgression? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; +and so <hi rend='italic'>death passed upon all men</hi>, for that all have sinned.</q> +Rom. 5:12. <q>In Adam <hi rend='italic'>all die</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:22. +</p> + +<p> +5. How was the earth itself affected by Adam's sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Cursed is the ground</hi> for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat +of it all the days of thy life; <hi rend='italic'>thorns also and thistles shall it bring +forth to thee</hi>.</q> Gen. 3:17, 18. +</p> + +<p> +6. What additional curse came as the result of the first +murder? +</p> + +<pb n='054'/><anchor id='Pg054'/> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto Cain, ... And <hi rend='italic'>now art thou +cursed from the earth</hi>, which hath opened her mouth to receive +thy brother's blood from thy hand; <hi rend='italic'>when thou tillest the ground, +it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength</hi>.</q> Gen. 4:9-12. +</p> + +<p> +7. What terrible judgment came in consequence of continued +sin and transgression against God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created +from the face of the earth.... The end of all flesh is come +before Me; for the earth is filled with violence.</q> <q>And Noah +was six hundred years old when <hi rend='italic'>the flood of waters</hi> was upon the +earth.... The same day were <hi rend='italic'>all the fountains of the great +deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened</hi>.</q> Gen. +6:7-13; 7:6-11. +</p> + +<p> +8. After the flood, what came in consequence of further +apostasy from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, +which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, +the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they +begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, +which they have imagined to do. Go to, let Us go down, and +there <hi rend='italic'>confound their language, that they may not understand one +another's speech</hi>. So the Lord scattered them abroad from +thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build +the city.</q> Gen. 11:5-8. +</p> + +<p> +9. Into what condition has sin brought the entire creation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we know that the whole creation <hi rend='italic'>groaneth</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>travaileth +in pain together</hi> until now.</q> Rom. 8:22. +</p> + +<p> +10. What explains God's apparent delay in dealing with +sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some +men count slackness; but is <hi rend='italic'>long-suffering to us ward</hi>, not willing +that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.</q> +2 Peter 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +11. What is God's attitude toward the sinner? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth</hi>, saith +the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.</q> Eze. +18:32. +</p> + +<p> +12. Can man free himself from the dominion of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his +<pb n='055'/><anchor id='Pg055'/> +spots? <hi rend='italic'>then may ye also do good, that +are accustomed to do evil</hi>.</q> +Jer. 13:23. +</p> + +<p> +13. What place has the will in determining whether man +shall have life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that +heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And +<hi rend='italic'>whosoever will, let him take the water +of life freely</hi>.</q> Rev. 22:17. +</p> + +<p> +14. To what extent has Christ suffered for sinners? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was <hi rend='italic'>wounded</hi> for our transgressions, +He was <hi rend='italic'>bruised</hi> +for our iniquities: the <hi rend='italic'>chastisement</hi> of our peace was upon Him; +and with His <hi rend='italic'>stripes</hi> we are healed.</q> Isa. 53:5. +</p> + +<p> +15. For what purpose was Christ manifested? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And we know that <hi rend='italic'>He was manifested to take away our sins</hi>; +and in Him is no sin.... He that committeth sin is of +the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this +purpose the Son of God was manifested, <hi rend='italic'>that He might destroy +the works of the devil</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:5-8. +</p> + +<p> +16. What was one direct purpose of the incarnation of +Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and +blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; <hi rend='italic'>that +through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, +that is, the devil</hi>.</q> Heb. 2:14. +</p> + +<p> +17. What triumphant chorus will mark the end of the reign +of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, +and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that +are in them, heard I saying, <hi rend='italic'>Blessing, and honor, and glory, and +power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb +forever and ever</hi>.</q> Rev. 5:13. +</p> + +<p> +18. When and by what means will the effects of sin be removed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; +in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and +<hi rend='italic'>the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the +works that are therein shall be burned up</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 3:10. +</p> + +<p> +19. How will the curse of the confusion of tongues be brought +to an end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>then will I turn to the people a pure language</hi>, that they +<pb n='056'/><anchor id='Pg056'/> +may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one +consent.</q> Zeph. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +20. How thoroughly will the effects of sin be removed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God shall <hi rend='italic'>wipe away all tears</hi> from their eyes; and +there shall be <hi rend='italic'>no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither +shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed +away</hi>.</q> Rev. 21:4. <q><hi rend='italic'>And there shall be no more curse</hi>: but +the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it [the holy city]; +and His servants shall serve Him.</q> Rev. 22:3. +</p> + +<p> +21. Will sin and its evil results ever appear again? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What do ye imagine against the Lord? He will make an +utter end: <hi rend='italic'>affliction shall not rise up the second time</hi>.</q> Nahum +1:9. <q>There shall be <hi rend='italic'>no more death</hi>.</q> <q>And there shall be +<hi rend='italic'>no more curse</hi>.</q> Rev. 21:4; 22:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That sin exists none can deny. Why it was permitted +has perplexed many minds. But He who can bring light out of darkness +(2 Cor. 4:6), make the wrath of man to praise Him (Ps. 76:10), and turn +a curse into a blessing (Deut. 23:5), can bring good out of evil, and turn +mistakes and downfalls into stepping-stones to higher ground. Heaven +will be happier for the sorrows of earth. <q>Sorrows remembered sweeten +present joy,</q> says Robert Pollock, in <q>The Course of Time,</q> page 29. +In the final outcome it will be seen that all things have worked together +for good to them that love God. Rom. 8:28. Cowper, despondent and +about to drown himself, was carried the wrong way by his driver, and went +home to write the inspiring hymn below. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>God moves in a mysterious way</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>His wonders to perform;</l> +<l>He plants His footsteps in the sea</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And rides upon the storm.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Deep in unfathomable mines</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of never-failing skill,</l> +<l>He treasures up His bright designs,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And works His sovereign will.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The clouds ye so much dread</l> +<l>Are big with mercy, and shall break</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In blessings o'er your head.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>But trust Him for His grace;</l> +<l>Behind a frowning providence</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He hides a smiling face.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Blind unbelief is sure to err,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And scan His work in vain;</l> +<l>God is His own interpreter,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And He will make it plain.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 20'><hi rend='smallcaps'>William Cowper.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='057'/><anchor id='Pg057'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Creation And Redemption</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus057.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Creative Power. +"For we are His workmanship, +created in Christ Jesus unto +good works." Eph. 2:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is revealed concerning God in the first verse of +the Bible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning <hi rend='italic'>God created the heaven and the earth</hi>.</q> +Gen. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. What contrast is repeatedly drawn in the Scriptures between +the true God and false gods? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus shall ye say unto them, <hi rend='italic'>The gods that have not made +the heavens and the earth</hi>, even they shall perish from the earth, +and from under these heavens.... The portion of Jacob +is not like them: for <hi rend='italic'>He is the former of all things</hi>; and Israel is +the rod of His inheritance: The Lord of hosts is His name.</q> +Jer. 10:11-16. See Jer. 14:22; Acts 17:22-29; Rev. 14:6-10. +</p> + +<p> +3. Through whom did God work in creating all things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning was <hi rend='italic'>the Word</hi>, and the Word was with +God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning +with God. <hi rend='italic'>All things were made by Him</hi>; and without Him was +not anything made that was made.</q> John 1:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +4. Through whom is redemption wrought? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while +we were yet sinners, <hi rend='italic'>Christ died for us</hi>. Much more then, being +now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through +Him.</q> Rom. 5:8, 9. +</p> + +<p> +5. In what scripture do we learn that Christ, the active +agent in creation, is also the head of the church? +</p> + +<pb n='058'/><anchor id='Pg058'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For by Him were all things created</hi>, that are in heaven, and +that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, +or dominions, or principalities, or powers: <hi rend='italic'>all things were created +by Him</hi>, and for Him: and He is before all things, and <hi rend='italic'>by Him +all things consist</hi>. And <hi rend='italic'>He is the head of the body, the +church</hi>: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all +things He might have the preeminence.</q> Col. 1:16-18. +</p> + +<p> +6. What scripture shows that the Creator is also the Redeemer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now thus saith <hi rend='italic'>the Lord that created thee, O Jacob</hi>, and +He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for <hi rend='italic'>I have redeemed thee</hi>, +I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine.</q> Isa. 43:1. +</p> + +<p> +7. Who is declared to be the source of power to the weak? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting +God, the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>the Creator</hi> of the ends of the earth, +fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His +understanding. <hi rend='italic'>He giveth power to the faint</hi>; and to them that +have no might He increaseth strength.</q> Isa. 40:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +8. What prayer of David shows that he regarded redemption +as a creative work? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Create in me a clean heart</hi>, O God; and renew a right spirit +within me.</q> Ps. 51:10. +</p> + +<p> +9. Who keeps the heavenly bodies in their places? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? +saith <hi rend='italic'>the Holy One</hi>. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who +hath created these things, <hi rend='italic'>that bringeth out their host by number</hi>: +He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for +that He is strong in power; not one faileth.</q> Isa. 40:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +10. What can the same Holy One do for the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now unto Him that is able to <hi rend='italic'>keep you from falling</hi>, and to +present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding +joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and +majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.</q> +Jude 24, 25. +</p> + +<p> +11. What is the measure of the power which is available for +the help of the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of +glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in +the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being +<pb n='059'/><anchor id='Pg059'/> +enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, +and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, +and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us ward who +believe, <hi rend='italic'>according to the working of His mighty power, which He +wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set +Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:17-20. +</p> + +<p> +12. How great was the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian +bondage? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, +<hi rend='italic'>since the day that God created man upon the earth</hi>, and ask from +the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been +any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like +it?... <hi rend='italic'>Hath God assayed to go and take Him a nation from +the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, +and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out +arm, and by great terrors</hi>, according to all that the Lord your +God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?</q> Deut. 4:32-34. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The great deliverance of Israel from bondage and +oppression in Egypt is but a type of the power of God displayed in the deliverance of +man from the bondage and slavery of sin. In both is seen a manifestation +of creative power. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What scripture plainly states that it is creative power +which transforms the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we are His workmanship, <hi rend='italic'>created in Christ Jesus unto +good works</hi>, which God hath before ordained that we should +walk in them.</q> Eph. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +14. Of what great work is the Sabbath both a memorial +and a sign? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Remember the Sabbath day</hi>, to keep it holy. Six days shalt +thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the +Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, +thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy +maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy +gates: <hi rend='italic'>for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, +and all that in them is</hi>, and rested the seventh day: wherefore +the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.</q> Ex. 20:8-11. +<q>It is a <hi rend='italic'>sign</hi> between Me and the children of Israel forever: +<hi rend='italic'>for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth</hi>, and on the +seventh day He rested, and was refreshed.</q> Ex. 31:17. +</p> + +<p> +15. Inasmuch as creation and redemption are both wrought +by the same creative power, of what besides the original creation +was the Sabbath given to be a sign? +</p> + +<pb n='060'/><anchor id='Pg060'/> + +<p> +<q>Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between +Me and them, <hi rend='italic'>that they might know that I am the Lord +that sanctify them</hi>.</q> Eze. 20:12. +</p> + +<p> +16. Through whose agency is the material universe sustained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He [Christ] is before all things, and in Him all things +<hi rend='italic'>hold together</hi>.</q> Col. 1:17, R. V., margin. +</p> + +<p> +17. What statement shows that all things, both material +and spiritual, are sustained by the same personal agency? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But to us there is ... one Lord Jesus Christ, <hi rend='italic'>by +whom are all things</hi>, and we by Him.</q> 1 Cor. 8:6. +</p> + +<p> +18. Why is God worthy to receive glory and honor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and +power: <hi rend='italic'>for Thou hast created all things</hi>, and for Thy pleasure +they are and were created.</q> Rev. 4:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That comparatively modern view of creation known as +evolution, which rests upon human research rather than upon divine +revelation, and which substitutes an impersonal force for a personal Creator, +overthrows the very foundation of the gospel. Redemption is simply +the new creation, and the Creator is the Redeemer. The Head of the +original creation is the Head of the new creation. The original creation +was wrought through Christ by the power of the word; the new creation, +or redemption, is wrought in exactly the same way. The evolutionary +theory of creation inevitably involves an evolutionary theory of the gospel, +and sets aside the truth concerning sin, the atoning sacrifice of Christ, +and the necessity of becoming new creatures through faith in the saving +power of Christ. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O worship the King, all-glorious above,</l> +<l>And gratefully sing His wonderful love;</l> +<l>Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of days,</l> +<l>Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O tell of His might, and sing of His grace,</l> +<l>Whose robe is the light; whose canopy, space;</l> +<l>His chariots of wrath the deep thunder-clouds form,</l> +<l>And dark is His path on the wings of the storm!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?</l> +<l>It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;</l> +<l>It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,</l> +<l>And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail;</l> +<l>In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail;</l> +<l>Thy mercies, how tender! how firm to the end!</l> +<l>Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 30'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Robert Grant.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='061'/><anchor id='Pg061'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Character And Attributes Of God</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus061.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Bow Of Promise. +"This is the token of the covenant." +Gen. 9:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In what one word is the character of God expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is <hi rend='italic'>love</hi>.</q> +1 John 4:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. What are some of the attributes of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is <hi rend='italic'>righteous</hi> in all His ways, and <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi> in all His +works.</q> Ps. 145:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. Does Christ possess these same attributes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By His knowledge shall <hi rend='italic'>My righteous servant</hi> [Christ] +justify many.</q> Isa. 53:11. <q>Neither wilt Thou suffer <hi rend='italic'>Thine +Holy One</hi> to see corruption.</q> Acts 2:27. +</p> + +<p> +4. When proclaiming His name to Moses, how did the Lord +define His character? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him +there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord +passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, +<hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>gracious</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>long-suffering</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>abundant in goodness +and truth</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>keeping mercy for +thousands</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>forgiving iniquity and +transgression and sin</hi>, and that will by no means clear the guilty.</q> +Ex. 34:5-7. +</p> + +<pb n='062'/><anchor id='Pg062'/> + +<p> +5. What is said of the tender compassion of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Thou, O Lord, art a God <hi rend='italic'>full of compassion</hi>, and +gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.</q> +Ps. 86:15. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is said of God's faithfulness in keeping His promises? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, <hi rend='italic'>the +faithful God</hi>, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them +that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand +generations.</q> Deut. 7:9. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is said of the strength and wisdom of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, God is <hi rend='italic'>mighty</hi>, and +despiseth not any: He is <hi rend='italic'>mighty +in strength and wisdom</hi>.</q> Job 36:5. +</p> + +<p> +8. What treasures are hid in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In whom are hid all the treasures of +<hi rend='italic'>wisdom</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>knowledge</hi>.</q> +Col. 2:3. +</p> + +<p> +9. In what language is the justice of God described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for <hi rend='italic'>all His ways are +judgment</hi>: a God of truth and without iniquity, <hi rend='italic'>just and right +is He</hi>.</q> Deut. 32:4. +</p> + +<p> +10. In what words is His impartiality proclaimed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, +a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, <hi rend='italic'>which regardeth not persons</hi>, +nor taketh reward.</q> Deut. 10:17. <q>Then Peter opened +his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that <hi rend='italic'>God is no respecter +of persons</hi>: but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh +righteousness, is accepted with Him.</q> Acts 10: 34, 35. +</p> + +<p> +11. To how many is the Lord good? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is <hi rend='italic'>good to all</hi>: and His tender mercies are over all +His works.</q> Ps. 145:9. +</p> + +<p> +12. Why did Christ tell us to love our enemies? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that +curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them +which despitefully use you, and persecute you; <hi rend='italic'>that ye may be +the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh +His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the +just and on the unjust</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:44, 45. +</p> + +<p> +13. How perfect does Christ tell His followers to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be ye therefore perfect, <hi rend='italic'>even as your Father which is in +heaven is perfect</hi>.</q> Verse 48. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='063'/><anchor id='Pg063'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Love Of God</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus063.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Burial Of Christ. +"God so loved the world, that He gave +His only begotten Son." John 3:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is God declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God is love.</q> 1 John 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +2. How great is God's love for the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son</hi>, +that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have +everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what act especially has God's love been manifested? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because +that <hi rend='italic'>God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might +live through Him</hi>.</q> 1 John 4:9. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what does God delight? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and +passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? +He retaineth not His anger forever, because <hi rend='italic'>He delighteth in +mercy</hi>.</q> Micah 7:18. +</p> + +<p> +5. How are His mercies continually manifested? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because +His compassions fail not. <hi rend='italic'>They are new every morning</hi>: +great is Thy faithfulness.</q> Lam. 3:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +6. Upon how many does God bestow His blessings? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and +<pb n='064'/><anchor id='Pg064'/> +sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.</q> Matt. 5:45 +</p> + +<p> +7. What did Jesus say of the one who loves Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will +love him</hi>, and will manifest Myself unto him.</q> John 14:21. +</p> + +<p> +8. Into what relationship to God does His love bring us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed +upon us, that we should be called <hi rend='italic'>the sons of God</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:1. +</p> + +<p> +9. How may we know that we are the sons of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>as many as are led by the Spirit of God</hi>, they are the +sons of God.... <hi rend='italic'>The Spirit itself beareth witness with +our spirit</hi>, that we are the children of God.</q> Rom. 8:14-16. +</p> + +<p> +10. How is the love of God supplied to the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is +shed abroad in our hearts <hi rend='italic'>by the Holy Ghost</hi> which is given unto +us.</q> Rom. 5:5. +</p> + +<p> +11. In view of God's great love to us, what ought we to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beloved, if God so loved us, <hi rend='italic'>we ought also to love one +another</hi>.</q> 1 John 4:11. +</p> + +<p> +12. With what measure of love should we serve others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down +His life for us: and <hi rend='italic'>we ought to lay down our lives for the +brethren</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +13. What exhortation is based upon Christ's love for us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>walk in love</hi>, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath +given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a +sweet-smelling savor.</q> Eph. 5:2. +</p> + +<p> +14. Upon what ground does God's work for sinners rest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God, who is rich in mercy, <hi rend='italic'>for His great love wherewith +He loved us</hi>, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us +together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised +us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places +in Christ Jesus.</q> Eph. 2:4-6. See Titus 3:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +15. In what other way is God's love sometimes shown? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whom the Lord loveth He <hi rend='italic'>chasteneth</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>scourgeth</hi> +every son whom He receiveth.</q> Heb. 12:6. +</p> + +<p> +16. In view of God's great love, what may we confidently +expect? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up +for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely <hi rend='italic'>give us all +things</hi>?</q> Rom. 8:32 +</p> + +<pb n='065'/><anchor id='Pg065'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus065.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Bearing The Cross. +"Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting +love." Jer. 31:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='066'/><anchor id='Pg066'/> + +<p> +17. What is God's love able to do for His children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not harken unto +Balaam; but the Lord thy God <hi rend='italic'>turned the curse into a blessing</hi> +unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.</q> Deut. 23:5. +</p> + +<p> +18. When men appreciate God's love, what will they do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>How excellent is Thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore +the children of men <hi rend='italic'>put their trust under the shadow of Thy +wings</hi>.</q> Ps. 36:7. +</p> + +<p> +19. How enduring is God's love for us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, <hi rend='italic'>I +have loved thee with an everlasting love</hi>: therefore with loving-kindness +have I drawn thee.</q> Jer. 31:3. +</p> + +<p> +20. Can anything separate the true child of God from the +love of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, +nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to +come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be +able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ +Jesus our Lord.</q> Rom. 8:38, 39. +</p> + +<p> +21. Unto whom will the saints forever ascribe praise? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins</hi> in His +own blood, ... to Him be glory and dominion forever +and ever.</q> Rev. 1:5, 6. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>There's a wideness in God's mercy,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Like the wideness of the sea;</l> +<l>There's a kindness in His justice,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Which is more than liberty.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>There is welcome for the sinner,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And more graces for the good;</l> +<l>There is mercy with the Saviour;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>There is healing in His blood.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>For the love of God is broader</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Than the measure of man's mind,</l> +<l>And the heart of the Eternal</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is most wonderfully kind.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>If our love were but more simple,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We should take Him at His word;</l> +<l>And our lives would be all sunshine</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In the sweetness of our Lord.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Frederick W. Faber.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='067'/><anchor id='Pg067'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Deity Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus067.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Raising The Widow's Son. +"In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the +Godhead bodily." Col. 2:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How has the Father shown that His Son is one person +of the Godhead? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>unto the Son He saith</hi>, +Thy throne, <hi rend='italic'>O God</hi>, is forever +and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy kingdom.</q> +Heb. 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what other scripture is the same truth taught? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with +God, and <hi rend='italic'>the Word was God</hi>.</q> John 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what way did Christ refer to the eternity of His being? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self +with the glory which I had with Thee <hi rend='italic'>before the world was</hi>.</q> +John 17:5. <q>But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be +little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He +come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings +forth have been of old, <hi rend='italic'>from everlasting</hi>.</q> Micah 5:2. See +margin; and Matt. 2:6; John 8:58; Ex. 3:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +4. How was Christ begotten in the flesh? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the angel answered and said unto her, <hi rend='italic'>The Holy Ghost</hi> +shall come upon thee, and <hi rend='italic'>the power of the Highest</hi> shall overshadow +thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born +of thee shall be called the Son of God.</q> Luke 1:35. +</p> + +<pb n='068'/><anchor id='Pg068'/> + +<p> +5. What scripture states that the Son of God was God manifested +in the flesh? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with +God, and <hi rend='italic'>the Word was God</hi>.</q> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the Word was made flesh</hi>, +and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of +the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</q> +John 1:1, 14. +</p> + +<p> +6. What does Christ say is His relation to the Father? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I and My Father are <hi rend='italic'>one</hi>.</q> John 10:30. +</p> + +<p> +7. How was He manifested on earth as a Saviour? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For unto you is <hi rend='italic'>born</hi> this day in the city of David a Saviour, +which is Christ the Lord.</q> Luke 2:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why was it necessary that He should be born thus, and +partake of human nature? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like +unto His brethren, <hi rend='italic'>that He might be a merciful and faithful +high priest in things pertaining to God</hi>, to make reconciliation +for the sins of the people.</q> Heb. 2:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. How was He recognized by the Father while on earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And lo a voice from heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>This is My beloved Son</hi>, +in whom I am well pleased.</q> Matt. 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +10. What shows that Christ sustains the same relation to +the angels as does the Father? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father +<hi rend='italic'>with His angels</hi>; and then He shall reward every man according +to his works.</q> Matt. 16:27. See Matt. 24:31. +</p> + +<p> +11. How did Christ assert an equal proprietorship with His +Father in the kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall +gather out of <hi rend='italic'>His kingdom</hi> all things that offend, and them +which do iniquity.</q> Matt. 13:41. +</p> + +<p> +12. To whom do the elect equally belong? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And shall not God avenge <hi rend='italic'>His own elect</hi>, which cry day and +night unto Him, though He bear long with them?</q> Luke 18:7. +<q>And He [the Son of man] shall send His angels with a great +sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together <hi rend='italic'>His elect</hi> +from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</q> +Matt. 24:31. +</p> + +<p> +13. Who are equally joined in bestowing the final rewards? +</p> + +<pb n='069'/><anchor id='Pg069'/> + +<p> +<q>But without faith it is impossible to please Him [God, the +Father]: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and +that <hi rend='italic'>He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him</hi>.</q> Heb. +11:6. <q>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His +Father with His angels; and <hi rend='italic'>then He shall reward every man according +to his works</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the texts (Matt. 16:27; 13:41; 24:31) in which +Christ refers to the angels as <q>His angels</q> and to the kingdom as <q>His +kingdom</q> and to the elect as <q>His elect,</q> He refers to Himself as <q>the +Son of man.</q> It thus appears that while He was on earth as a man, He +recognized His essential deity and His equality with His Father in heaven. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What fulness dwells in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in Him dwelleth <hi rend='italic'>all the fulness of the Godhead bodily</hi>.</q> +Col. 2:9. +</p> + +<p> +15. What does God (Jehovah) declare Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and His Redeemer +the Lord of hosts; I am the <hi rend='italic'>first</hi>, +and I am the <hi rend='italic'>last</hi>; and beside +Me there is no God.</q> Isa. 44:6. +</p> + +<p> +16. In what scripture does Christ adopt the same expression? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, +to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha +and Omega, the beginning and the end, the <hi rend='italic'>first</hi> +and the <hi rend='italic'>last</hi>.</q> +Rev. 22:12, 13. +</p> + +<p> +17. Having such a wonderful Saviour, what are we exhorted +to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed +into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, <hi rend='italic'>let +us hold fast our profession</hi>. +For we have not an high priest which cannot be +touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points +tempted like as we are, yet without sin.</q> Heb. 4:14, 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Before the heavens were spread abroad,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>From everlasting was the Word;</l> +<l>With God He was, the Word was God,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And must divinely be adored.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ere sin was born, or Satan fell,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He led the host of morning stars;</l> +<l>His generation who can tell,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Or count the number of His years?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>But lo! He leaves those heavenly forms;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The Word descends and dwells in clay,</l> +<l>That He may converse hold with worms,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Pressed in such feeble flesh as they.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 32'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='070'/><anchor id='Pg070'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Prophecies Relating To Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus070.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Star Of Bethlehem. +"There shall come a Star out of +Jacob." Num. 24:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Whom did Moses say the Lord would raise up? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee <hi rend='italic'>a Prophet</hi> from +the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, unto Him ye +shall harken.</q> Deut. 18:15. See also verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +2. What use of this prophecy by the apostle Peter shows +that it referred to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For Moses truly said unto the fathers, <hi rend='italic'>A prophet</hi> shall +the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto +me.... Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those +that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold +of <hi rend='italic'>these days</hi>.</q> Acts 3:22-24. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what language did Isaiah foretell Christ's birth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son</hi>, and shall +call His name Immanuel.</q> Isa. 7:14. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what event was this prophecy fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now <hi rend='italic'>all this was done</hi> [the birth of Jesus of the Virgin +Mary], that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord +by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and +shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, +which being interpreted is, God with us.</q> Matt. 1:22, 23. +</p> + +<pb n='071'/><anchor id='Pg071'/> + +<p> +5. Where was the Messiah to be born? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou, <hi rend='italic'>Bethlehem Ephratah</hi>, though thou be little among +the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth +unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel.</q> Micah 5:2. +</p> + +<p> +6. When was Jesus born? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea <hi rend='italic'>in the days of Herod +the king</hi>.</q> Matt. 2:1. +</p> + +<p> +7. Under what striking emblem was He prophesied of by +Balaam? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There shall come <hi rend='italic'>a Star</hi> out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall +rise out of Israel.</q> Num. 24:17. +</p> + +<p> +8. In what scripture does Christ apply the same emblem +to Himself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the root and the offspring of David, and <hi rend='italic'>the bright +and morning star</hi>.</q> Rev. 22:16. See also 2 Peter 1:19; Rev. +2:28. +</p> + +<p> +9. What prophecy was fulfilled in the slaughter of the +children of Bethlehem? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise +men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and <hi rend='italic'>slew all the children +that were in Bethlehem</hi>, and in all the coasts thereof, from +two years old and under, according to the time which he had +diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled <hi rend='italic'>that +which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet</hi>, saying, In Rama was +there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, +Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, +because they are not.</q> Matt. 2:16-18. +</p> + +<p> +10. How was Christ's first advent to be heralded? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness</hi>, Prepare ye +the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for +our God.</q> Isa. 40:3. +</p> + +<p> +11. By whom was this fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the record of <hi rend='italic'>John</hi>, when the Jews sent priests +and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?... +he said, <hi rend='italic'>I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness</hi>, Make +straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.</q> +John 1:19-23. +</p> + +<p> +12. How was Christ to be received by His own people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He is <hi rend='italic'>despised</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>rejected</hi> of +men; a man of sorrows, and +<pb n='073'/><anchor id='Pg073'/> +acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from +Him; He was <hi rend='italic'>despised</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>we esteemed Him not</hi>.</q> Isa. 53:3. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus072.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Before Pilate. +"He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened +not His mouth." Isa. 53:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +13. How is the fulfilment of this prophecy recorded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and +the world knew Him not. <hi rend='italic'>He came unto His own, and His own +received Him not.</hi></q> John 1:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +14. What was predicted of Christ's preaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because <hi rend='italic'>the Lord +hath anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek</hi>; He hath +sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to +the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are +bound.</q> Isa. 61:1. +</p> + +<p> +15. What application did Jesus make of this prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: +and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath +day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered +unto Him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when He had +opened the book, He found the place where it was written, The +Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to +preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, +to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering +of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.... +And He began to say unto them, <hi rend='italic'>This day is this scripture +fulfilled in your ears</hi>.</q> Luke 4:16-21. See Luke 7:19-22. +</p> + +<p> +16. How, according to prophecy, was Christ to conduct Himself +when on trial? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, <hi rend='italic'>yet He opened not +His mouth</hi>: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a +sheep before her shearers is dumb, <hi rend='italic'>so He openeth not His mouth</hi>.</q> +Isa. 53:7. +</p> + +<p> +17. When accused by His enemies before Pilate, how did +Christ treat these accusations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said Pilate unto Him, Hearest Thou not how many +things they witness against Thee? And <hi rend='italic'>He answered him to +never a word</hi>; insomuch that the governor marveled greatly.</q> +Matt. 27:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +18. What prophecy foretold of the disposal of Christ's garments +at the crucifixion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They <hi rend='italic'>part My garments</hi> among them, +and <hi rend='italic'>cast lots</hi> upon +My vesture.</q> Ps. 22:18. +</p> + +<pb n='074'/><anchor id='Pg074'/> + +<p> +19. What record answers to this prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they crucified Him, and <hi rend='italic'>parted His garments, casting +lots</hi>: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, +They parted My garments among them, and upon My vesture +did they cast lots.</q> Matt. 27:35. +</p> + +<p> +20. What was foretold of His treatment while on the cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They gave Me also <hi rend='italic'>gall</hi> for My meat; and in My thirst +they gave Me <hi rend='italic'>vinegar</hi> to drink.</q> Ps. 69:21. +</p> + +<p> +21. What was offered Christ at His crucifixion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They gave Him <hi rend='italic'>vinegar</hi> +to drink mingled with <hi rend='italic'>gall</hi>: and +when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.</q> Matt. 27:34. +See also John 19:28-30, and page 167 of this work. +</p> + +<p> +22. With whom did the prophet Isaiah say Christ would +make His grave? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He made His grave with the <hi rend='italic'>wicked</hi>, and with the +<hi rend='italic'>rich</hi> in His death.</q> Isa. 53:9. +</p> + +<p> +23. With whom was Christ crucified? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then were there <hi rend='italic'>two thieves</hi> crucified with Him, one on the +right hand, and another on the left.</q> Matt. 27:38. +</p> + +<p> +24. Who took charge of Christ's body after it was taken +down from the cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>A rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph</hi>, ... went to +Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.... He wrapped it +in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which +he had hewn out in the rock.</q> Verses 57-60. +</p> + +<p> +25. What experience in the life of a noted prophet indicated +the length of Christ's stay in the grave? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But He answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous +generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be +given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for <hi rend='italic'>as Jonas was +three days and three nights in the whale's belly</hi>; so shall the Son of +man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</q> +Matt. 12:39,40. +</p> + +<p> +26. What prophecy foretold Christ's triumph over death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell</hi>; neither wilt Thou +suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.</q> Ps. 16:10. See +Acts 2:24-27. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='075'/><anchor id='Pg075'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christ The Way Of Life</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus075.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>At Jacob's Well. +"Whosoever drinketh of the water +that I shall give him shall never +thirst." John 4:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does Jesus declare Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus saith unto him, <hi rend='italic'>I am the way, the truth, and the life</hi>: +no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.</q> John 14:6. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what condition are all men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the Scripture hath concluded all <hi rend='italic'>under sin</hi>.</q> Gal. +3:22. <q>For <hi rend='italic'>all have sinned</hi>, and come short of the glory of +God.</q> Rom. 3:23. +</p> + +<p> +3. What are the wages of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wages of sin is <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +4. How many are affected by Adam's transgression? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and +death by sin; and so <hi rend='italic'>death passed upon all men</hi>.</q> Rom. 5:12. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is the gift of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The gift of God is <hi rend='italic'>eternal life</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +6. How many may receive this gift? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that +heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And +<hi rend='italic'>whosoever will</hi>, let him take the water of life freely.</q> Rev. +22:17. +</p> + +<p> +7. In whom is the gift? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, +and <hi rend='italic'>this life is in His Son</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:11. +</p> + +<pb n='076'/><anchor id='Pg076'/> + +<p> +8. In receiving the Son, what do we have in Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that hath the Son hath <hi rend='italic'>life</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +9. What loss do those sustain who do not accept Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he that hath not the Son of God <hi rend='italic'>hath not life</hi>.</q> Same +verse. +</p> + +<p> +10. In what other way is this same truth stated? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that +believeth not the Son shall not see life</hi>; but the wrath of God +abideth on him.</q> John 3:36. +</p> + +<p> +11. After one truly receives Christ, whose life will be manifested +in him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, +but <hi rend='italic'>Christ liveth in me</hi>: and the life which I now live in the flesh +I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave +Himself for me.</q> Gal. 2:20. +</p> + +<p> +12. In what condition are all before they are quickened with +Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He +loved us, even when we were <hi rend='italic'>dead in sins</hi>, hath quickened us +together with Christ.</q> Eph. 2:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is this change from death to life called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Being <hi rend='italic'>born again</hi>, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, +by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.</q> +1 Peter 1:23. +</p> + +<p> +14. When man first transgressed, what was done to prevent +him from living forever in sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the +tree of life, and eat, and live forever.... So <hi rend='italic'>He drove out +the man</hi>; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, +and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the +way of the tree of life.</q> Gen. 3:22-24. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is declared to be one purpose of Christ's death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and +blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; <hi rend='italic'>that +through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, +that is, the devil</hi>.</q> Heb. 2:14. +</p> + +<p> +16. Through whom will Abraham receive the promise of +the future inheritance? +</p> + +<pb n='077'/><anchor id='Pg077'/> + +<p> +<q>The Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto <hi rend='italic'>thy seed</hi> +will I give this land.</q> Gen. 12:7. +</p> + +<p> +17. How many were embraced in God's promises to Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in thy seed shall <hi rend='italic'>all the kindreds of the earth</hi> be +blessed.</q> Acts 3:25. +</p> + +<p> +18. To whom does the <q>seed</q> in these promises refer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. +He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to +thy seed, which is <hi rend='italic'>Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +19. What would make the death of Christ in vain? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If righteousness come by the law</hi>, then Christ is dead in +vain.</q> Gal. 2:21. +</p> + +<p> +20. Why have all been reckoned under sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, <hi rend='italic'>that the +promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe</hi>.</q> +Gal. 3:22. +</p> + +<p> +21. How then do all become children of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye are all the children of God <hi rend='italic'>by faith in Christ Jesus</hi>.</q> +Verse 26. +</p> + +<p> +22. With whom are the children of God joint heirs? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and <hi rend='italic'>joint heirs with +Christ</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:17. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Thou art the Way; to Thee alone,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>From sin and death we flee;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And he who would the Father seek,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Must seek Him, Lord, by Thee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou art the Truth; Thy word alone.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>True wisdom can impart;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou only canst inform the mind</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>And purify the heart.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou art the Life; the rending tomb</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Proclaims Thy conquering arm;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And those who put their trust in Thee,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Nor death nor hell shall harm.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Grant us that way to know,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That truth to keep, that life to win,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Whose joys eternal flow.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='078'/><anchor id='Pg078'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus078.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Serpent In The Wilderness. +"When he beheld the serpent of brass, +he lived." Num. 21:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='079'/><anchor id='Pg079'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Salvation Only Through Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus079.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>On The Cross. +"He is able to save to the uttermost." +Heb. 7:25.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what purpose did Christ come into the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that +Christ Jesus came into the world <hi rend='italic'>to save sinners</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 1:15. +</p> + +<p> +2. Why was He to be named <q>Jesus</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt call His name Jesus: <hi rend='italic'>for He shall save His people +from their sins</hi>.</q> Matt. 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +3. Is there salvation through any other? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none +other name under heaven given among men, <hi rend='italic'>whereby we must be +saved</hi>.</q> Acts 4:12. +</p> + +<p> +4. Through whom are we reconciled to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself +<hi rend='italic'>by Jesus Christ</hi>, and hath given to us the ministry of +reconciliation; to wit, that <hi rend='italic'>God was in Christ, reconciling the world +unto Himself</hi>, not imputing their trespasses unto them.</q> 2 Cor. +5:18, 19. +</p> + +<p> +5. What has Christ been made for us, and for what purpose? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For He hath made Him to be <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi> for us, who knew no sin; +<hi rend='italic'>that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him</hi>.</q> Verse +21. +</p> + +<p> +6. How dependent are we upon Christ for salvation? +</p> + +<pb n='080'/><anchor id='Pg080'/> + +<p> +<q>I am the vine, ye are the branches: ... <hi rend='italic'>without +Me ye can do nothing</hi>.</q> John 15:5. +</p> + +<p> +7. What three essentials for a Saviour are found in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Deity.</hi> <q>But unto the Son He saith, +Thy throne, <hi rend='italic'>O God</hi>, +is forever and ever.</q> Heb. 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Humanity.</hi> <q>When the fulness of the time was come, God sent +forth His Son, <hi rend='italic'>made of a woman</hi>, made under the law.</q> Gal. 4:4. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Sinlessness.</hi> <q><hi rend='italic'>Who +did no sin</hi>, neither was guile found in +His mouth.</q> 1 Peter 2:22. +</p> + +<p> +8. How did Christ show from the Scriptures that the promised +Saviour of the world must be both human and divine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked +them, saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is He? They +say unto Him, <hi rend='italic'>The son of David</hi>. +He saith unto them, <hi rend='italic'>How then +doth David in spirit call Him Lord</hi>; saying, The Lord said unto +my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, till I make Thine enemies +Thy footstool? <hi rend='italic'>If David then call him Lord, how is He his son?</hi></q> +Matt. 22:41-45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Another has aptly put this important truth +concerning the union of the human and divine in Christ thus: <q>Divinity needed humanity +that humanity might afford a channel of communication between God and +man. Man needs a power out of and above himself to restore him to the +likeness of God. There must be a power working from within, a new life +from above, before men can be changed from sin to holiness. That power +is Christ.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What two facts testify to the union of divinity and +humanity in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was +<hi rend='italic'>made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be +the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by +the resurrection from the dead</hi>.</q> Rom. 1:3, 4 +</p> + +<p> +10. How complete was Christ's victory over death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the first and the last: <hi rend='italic'>I am He that liveth, and was dead; +and, behold, I am alive forevermore</hi>, Amen; and have the keys of +<hi rend='italic'>hell</hi> and of <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Rev. 1:17, 18. See +Acts 2:24. +</p> + +<p> +11. How complete is the salvation obtained in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore, <hi rend='italic'>He is able also to save them to the uttermost</hi> that +come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession +for them.</q> Heb. 7:25. +</p> + +<p> +12. What should we say for such a Saviour? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.</q> 2 Cor. +9:15. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='081'/><anchor id='Pg081'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part III. The Way to Christ</head> + +<pb n='082'/><anchor id='Pg082'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus082.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Prodigal Son. +"When he came to himself, he said, +... I will arise and go to my +father." Luke 15:17, 18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='083'/><anchor id='Pg083'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Faith</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus083.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Joshua Commanding The +Sun To Stand Still. +"All things are possible to him that +believeth." Mark 9:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is faith declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Faith is <hi rend='italic'>the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of +things not seen</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. How necessary is faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Without faith it is impossible to please Him.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +3. Is mere assent to divine truth sufficient? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: +<hi rend='italic'>the devils also believe, and tremble</hi>.</q> James 2:19. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is required besides a belief in the existence of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and +<hi rend='italic'>that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him</hi>.</q> Heb. +11:6, last part. +</p> + +<p> +5. From whom does faith come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of +yourselves; <hi rend='italic'>it is the gift of God</hi>.</q> Eph. 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why did God raise Christ from the dead? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from +the dead, and gave Him glory; <hi rend='italic'>that your faith and hope might be +in God</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is Christ's relation to this faith? +</p> + +<pb n='084'/><anchor id='Pg084'/> + +<p> +<q>Looking unto Jesus the <hi rend='italic'>author</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>finisher</hi> of our faith.</q> +Heb. 12:2. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is the basis of faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by <hi rend='italic'>the word +of God</hi>.</q> Rom. 10:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What relation does faith bear to knowledge? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Through faith we understand</hi> that the worlds were framed +by the word of God.</q> Heb. 11:3. +</p> + +<p> +10. By what principle is genuine faith actuated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor +uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by <hi rend='italic'>love</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:6. +</p> + +<p> +11. Of what is faith a fruit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the fruit of the Spirit</hi> is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, +gentleness, goodness, <hi rend='italic'>faith</hi>.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +12. What in the early church showed living faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remembering without ceasing your <hi rend='italic'>work of faith</hi>, and +labor of love.</q> 1 Thess. 1:3. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is necessary in order that the preaching of the +gospel may be profitable? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: +but the word preached did not profit them, not being <hi rend='italic'>mixed +with faith</hi> in them that heard it.</q> Heb. 4:2. +</p> + +<p> +14. What is the character of any act or service not performed +in faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whatsoever is not of faith is <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi>.</q> Rom. 14:23. +</p> + +<p> +15. How does Abraham's experience show that obedience +and faith are inseparable? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By faith Abraham</hi>, when he was called to go out into a +place which he should after receive for an inheritance, <hi rend='italic'>obeyed</hi>; +and he went out, not knowing whither he went.</q> Heb. 11:8. +</p> + +<p> +16. With what, therefore, is the faith of Jesus joined? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep +<hi rend='italic'>the commandments of God</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>the faith of Jesus</hi>.</q> Rev. 14:12. +</p> + +<p> +17. In what other statement is the same truth emphasized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But wilt thou know, O vain man, that <hi rend='italic'>faith without works +is dead</hi>?</q> James 2:20. +</p> + +<p> +18. How is faith brought to perfection? +</p> + +<pb n='085'/><anchor id='Pg085'/> + +<p> +<q>Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and <hi rend='italic'>by works +was faith made perfect</hi>?</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is the result of faith's being put to the test? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The trying of your faith <hi rend='italic'>worketh patience</hi>.</q> James 1:3. +</p> + +<p> +20. What relationship to God is established by faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye are all the <hi rend='italic'>children of God by faith</hi> in Christ Jesus.</q> +Gal. 3:26. +</p> + +<p> +21. How do the children of God walk? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>we walk by faith</hi>, not by sight.</q> 2 Cor. 5:7. +</p> + +<p> +22. Upon what condition may one expect answers to prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>let him ask in faith</hi>, nothing wavering. For he that +wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and +tossed.</q> James 1:6. +</p> + +<p> +23. To what parts of the ancient armor is faith compared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Above all, taking the <hi rend='italic'>shield</hi> of faith, wherewith ye shall be +able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.</q> Eph. 6:16. +<q>Putting on the <hi rend='italic'>breastplate</hi> of faith and love.</q> 1 Thess. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +24. What chapter in the Bible is devoted to faith? +</p> + +<p> +The eleventh chapter of Hebrews. In verses 33-38 are summarized +the victories of the heroes of faith. +</p> + +<p> +25. What gives victory in our conflicts with the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is the victory that overcometh the world, <hi rend='italic'>even our +faith</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:4. +</p> + +<p> +26. What is the ultimate purpose of faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Receiving the end of your faith, even <hi rend='italic'>the salvation of your +souls</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 1:8, 9. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>'Tis by the faith of joys to come</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We walk through deserts dark as night;</l> +<l>Till we arrive at heaven, our home,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Truth is our guide, and faith our light.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The want of sight she well supplies;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>She makes the pearly gates appear;</l> +<l>Far into distant worlds she pries,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And brings eternal glories near.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Though lions roar, and tempests blow,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And rocks and dangers fill the way,</l> +<l>With joy we tread the desert through,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>While faith inspires a heavenly ray.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 30'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='086'/><anchor id='Pg086'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Hope</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus086.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Return Of The Dove. +"Blessed be God ... which ... hath +begotten us again unto a lively hope." +1 Peter 1:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the relation between faith and hope? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now faith is the <hi rend='italic'>substance</hi> of +things <hi rend='italic'>hoped for</hi>, the evidence +of things not seen.</q> Heb. 11:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. Why were the Scriptures written? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written +for our learning, <hi rend='italic'>that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures +might have hope</hi>.</q> Rom. 15:4. +</p> + +<p> +3. Why should God's wonderful works be rehearsed to the +children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We will not hide them from their children, showing to the +generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength, +and His wonderful works that He hath done.... <hi rend='italic'>That +they might set their hope in God</hi>, and not forget the works of God, +but keep His commandments.</q> Ps. 78:4-7. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what condition are those who are without Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles +in the flesh, ... that at that time ye were without Christ, +being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers +<pb n='087'/><anchor id='Pg087'/> +from the covenants of promise, <hi rend='italic'>having no hope</hi>, and without God +in the world.</q> Eph. 2:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does hope become to the Christian? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which hope we have as <hi rend='italic'>an anchor of the soul</hi>, both sure +and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.</q> +Heb. 6:19. +</p> + +<p> +6. Who have hope in their death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but <hi rend='italic'>the +righteous hath hope in his death</hi>.</q> Prov. 14:32. +</p> + +<p> +7. In bereavement, from what hopeless sorrow are Christians +delivered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning +them which are asleep, <hi rend='italic'>that ye sorrow not, even as others +which have no hope</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +8. Unto what has the resurrection of Christ begotten us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, +which according to His abundant mercy hath <hi rend='italic'>begotten us again +unto a lively hope</hi> by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the +dead.</q> 1 Peter 1:3. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is the Christian's hope called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Looking for <hi rend='italic'>that blessed hope</hi>, and the glorious appearing +of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.</q> Titus 2:13. +</p> + +<p> +10. At what time did Paul expect to realize his hope? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, +which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me <hi rend='italic'>at +that day</hi>: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love +<hi rend='italic'>His appearing</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 4:8. +</p> + +<p> +11. What will this hope lead one to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And every man that hath this hope in him <hi rend='italic'>purifieth himself</hi>, +even as He is pure.</q> 1 John 3:3. +</p> + +<p> +12. What does the prophet Jeremiah say is a good thing for +a man to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is good <hi rend='italic'>that a man should both hope and quietly wait for +the salvation of the Lord</hi>.</q> Lam. 3:26. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is said of the hope of the hypocrite? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So are the paths of all that forget God; and <hi rend='italic'>the hypocrite's +hope shall perish</hi>: whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust +shall be a spider's web.</q> Job 8:13, 14. +</p> + +<pb n='088'/><anchor id='Pg088'/> + +<p> +14. What is the condition of one whose hope is in God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Happy</hi> is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose +hope is in the Lord his God.</q> Ps. 146:5. <q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> is the +man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.</q> +Jer. 17:7. +</p> + +<p> +15. In what may the child of God abound? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in +believing, that ye may <hi rend='italic'>abound in hope</hi>, through the power of the +Holy Ghost.</q> Rom. 15:13. +</p> + +<p> +16. In what do Christians rejoice? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By whom also we have access by faith into this grace +wherein we stand, and <hi rend='italic'>rejoice in hope of the glory of God</hi>.</q> +Rom. 5:2. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will prevent us from being put to shame? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>hope maketh not ashamed;</hi> because the love of God is +shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given +unto us.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +18. In the time of trouble, who will be the hope of God's +people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice +from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: +but <hi rend='italic'>the Lord will be the hope of His people</hi>, and the strength of +the children of Israel.</q> Joel 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +19. What inspiring words are spoken to such as hope in God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be of good courage</hi>, and He shall strengthen your heart, all +ye that hope in the Lord.</q> Ps. 31:24. +</p> + +<p> +20. How long should our hope endure? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And we desire that every one of you do show the same +diligence to the full assurance of <hi rend='italic'>hope unto the end</hi>.</q> +Heb. 6:11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>How cheering is the Christian's hope</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>While toiling here below!</l> +<l>It buoys us up while passing through</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>This wilderness of woe.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>It points us to a land of rest</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Where saints with Christ will reign;</l> +<l>Where we shall meet the loved of earth,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And never part again,—</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>A land where sin can never come,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Temptations ne'er annoy;</l> +<l>Where happiness will ever dwell,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And that without alloy.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='089'/><anchor id='Pg089'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Repentance</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus089.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Micaiah Urging Israel To Repentance. +"The goodness of God leadeth thee +to repentance." Rom. 2:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Who are called to repentance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I came not to call the righteous, but <hi rend='italic'>sinners</hi> to repentance.</q> +Luke 5:32. +</p> + +<p> +2. What accompanies repentance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that repentance and <hi rend='italic'>remission of sins</hi> should be +preached in His name among all nations.</q> Luke 24:47. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what means is sin made known? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By the law</hi> is the knowledge of sin.</q> Rom. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +4. How many are sinners? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We have before proved <hi rend='italic'>both Jews +and Gentiles</hi>, that <hi rend='italic'>they +are all under sin</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +5. What do transgressors bring upon themselves? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of +these things cometh <hi rend='italic'>the wrath of God</hi> +upon the children of disobedience.</q> +Eph. 5:6. +</p> + +<p> +6. Who awakens the soul to a sense of its sinful condition? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When <hi rend='italic'>He</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>the Comforter</hi>] +is come, <hi rend='italic'>He will reprove</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>convince</hi>, +margin] <hi rend='italic'>the world of sin</hi>.</q> John 16:8. +</p> + +<p> +7. What are fitting inquiries for those convicted of sin? +</p> + +<pb n='090'/><anchor id='Pg090'/> + +<p> +<q>Men and brethren, <hi rend='italic'>what shall we do</hi>?</q> +<q>Sirs, <hi rend='italic'>what must +I do to be saved</hi>?</q> Acts 2:37; 16:30. +</p> + +<p> +8. What replies does Inspiration return to these inquiries? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Repent, and be baptized every one of you</hi> in the name of Jesus +Christ for the remission of sins.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>Believe on the Lord Jesus +Christ</hi>, and thou shalt be saved.</q> Acts 2:38; 16:31. +</p> + +<p> +9. What will the truly repentant sinner be constrained to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will <hi rend='italic'>declare mine iniquity</hi>; I +will be <hi rend='italic'>sorry</hi> for my sin.</q> +Ps. 38:18. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is the result of godly sorrow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For godly sorrow <hi rend='italic'>worketh repentance to salvation</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. +7:10. +</p> + +<p> +11. What does the sorrow of the world do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The sorrow of the world <hi rend='italic'>worketh death</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +12. How does godly sorrow for sin manifest itself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a +godly sort, what <hi rend='italic'>carefulness</hi> it +wrought in you, yea, what <hi rend='italic'>clearing +of yourselves</hi>, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, +what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In +all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.</q> +Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did John the Baptist say to the Pharisees and +Sadducees when he saw them come to his baptism? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from +the wrath to come?</q> Matt. 3:7. +</p> + +<p> +14. What did he tell them to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>There can be +no repentance without reformation. Repentance +is a change of mind; reformation is a corresponding +change of life.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. +Raleigh</hi>. +</quote> + +<p> +15. When God sent the Ninevites a warning message, how +did they show their repentance, and what was the result? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God saw their works, that <hi rend='italic'>they turned from their evil +way; and God repented of the evil that He had said that He would +do unto them</hi>; and He did it not.</q> Jonah 3:10. +</p> + +<p> +16. What leads sinners to repentance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance +and long-suffering; not knowing that <hi rend='italic'>the goodness of God +leadeth thee to repentance?</hi></q> Rom. 2:4. +</p> + +<pb n='091'/><anchor id='Pg091'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus091.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>John The Baptist Preaching +Repentance. +"Bring forth therefore fruits meet +for repentance." Matt. 3:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='092'/><anchor id='Pg092'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Confession And Forgiveness</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus092.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Mary Magdalene's Repentance. +"According unto the multitude of Thy +tender mercies blot out my transgressions." +Ps. 51:1.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What instruction is given concerning confession of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman +shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against +the Lord, and that person be guilty; <hi rend='italic'>then shall they confess their +sin which they have done</hi>.</q> Num. 5:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +2. How futile is it to attempt to hide sin from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the +Lord: and <hi rend='italic'>be sure your sin will find you out</hi>.</q> Num. 32:23. +<q>Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the +light of Thy countenance.</q> Ps. 90:8. <q>All things are naked +and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.</q> +Heb. 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +3. What promise is made to those who confess their sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we confess our sins, <hi rend='italic'>He is faithful and just to forgive us +our sins</hi>, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</q> 1 John +1:9. +</p> + +<p> +4. What different results attend the covering and the confessing +of sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that covereth his sins <hi rend='italic'>shall not +prosper:</hi> but whoso confesseth +and forsaketh them <hi rend='italic'>shall have mercy</hi>.</q> Prov. 28:13. +</p> + +<pb n='093'/><anchor id='Pg093'/> + +<p> +5. How definite should we be in confessing our sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these +things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned +<hi rend='italic'>in that thing</hi>.</q> +Lev. 5:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>True confession is +always of a specific character, and +acknowledges particular sins. They may be of such a nature as to be +brought before God only; they may be wrongs that should be confessed +to individuals who have suffered injury through them; or they may be of a +public character, and should then be as publicly confessed. But all confession +should be definite and to the point, acknowledging the very sins +of which you are guilty.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>Steps +to Christ</hi>,</q> page 43. +</quote> + +<p> +6. How fully did Israel once acknowledge their wrong-doing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants +unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for <hi rend='italic'>we have added unto +all our sins this evil, to ask us a king</hi>.</q> 1 Sam. 12:19. +</p> + +<p> +7. When David confessed his sin, what did he say God did? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have +I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the +Lord; and <hi rend='italic'>Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin</hi>.</q> Ps. 32:5. +</p> + +<p> +8. Upon what did he rest his hope for forgiveness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy loving-kindness: +<hi rend='italic'>according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies</hi> blot +out my transgressions.</q> Ps. 51:1. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is God ready to do for all who seek for forgiveness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For Thou, Lord, art good, and <hi rend='italic'>ready to forgive</hi>; and plenteous +in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.</q> Ps. 86:5. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is the measure of the greatness of God's mercy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>as the heaven is high above the earth</hi>, so great is His mercy +toward them that fear Him.</q> Ps. 103:11. +</p> + +<p> +11. How fully does the Lord pardon when one repents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man +his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have +mercy upon him; and to our God, for <hi rend='italic'>He will abundantly pardon</hi>.</q> +Isa. 55:7. +</p> + +<p> +12. What reason is given for God's readiness to forgive sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, +and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? +He retaineth not His anger forever, <hi rend='italic'>because He delighteth in +mercy</hi>.</q> Micah 7:18. See Ps. 78:38. +</p> + +<pb n='094'/><anchor id='Pg094'/> + +<p> +13. Why does God manifest such mercy and long-suffering +toward men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some +men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us ward, <hi rend='italic'>not willing +that any should perish</hi>, but that all should come to repentance.</q> +2 Peter 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +14. What prayer did Moses offer in behalf of Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Pardon, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of this people</hi> according +unto the greatness of Thy mercy, and as Thou hast forgiven +this people, from Egypt even until now.</q> Num. 14:19. +</p> + +<p> +15. What reply did the Lord immediately make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said, <hi rend='italic'>I have pardoned according to thy word</hi>.</q> +Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +16. When the prodigal son, in the parable, repented and +turned toward home, what did his father do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and +<hi rend='italic'>had compassion</hi>, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.</q> +Luke 15:20. +</p> + +<p> +17. How did the father show his joy at his son's return? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The father said to his servants, <hi rend='italic'>Bring forth the best robe, +and put it on him</hi>; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his +feet: and <hi rend='italic'>bring hither the +fatted calf, and kill it</hi>; and let us eat, +and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he +was lost, and is found.</q> Verses 22-24. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is felt in heaven when a sinner repents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise, I say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>there is joy in the presence of the +angels of God</hi> over one sinner that repenteth.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +19. What did Hezekiah say God had done with his sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but Thou hast +in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for +<hi rend='italic'>Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back</hi>.</q> Isa. 38:17. +</p> + +<p> +20. How completely does God wish to separate sin from us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.</q> +Micah 7:19. <q>As far as the east is from the west, so far hath +He removed our transgressions from us.</q> Ps. 103:12. +</p> + +<p> +21. How did the people respond to the preaching of John? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the +<pb n='095'/><anchor id='Pg095'/> +region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, +<hi rend='italic'>confessing their sins</hi>.</q> Matt. 3:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +22. How did some of the believers at Ephesus testify to the +sincerity of the confession of their sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And many that believed came, and <hi rend='italic'>confessed, and showed +their deeds</hi>. Many of them also which used curious arts <hi rend='italic'>brought +their books together, and burned them before all men</hi>: and they +counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of +silver.</q> Acts 19:18, 19. +</p> + +<p> +23. Through whom are repentance and forgiveness granted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The God of our fathers raised up <hi rend='italic'>Jesus</hi>, whom ye slew and +hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with His right hand +to be a Prince and a Saviour, for <hi rend='italic'>to give repentance</hi> to Israel, and +<hi rend='italic'>forgiveness of sins</hi>.</q> Acts 5:30, 31. +</p> + +<p> +24. What is the only unpardonable sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy +shall be forgiven unto men: but <hi rend='italic'>the blasphemy against the Holy +Ghost</hi> shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh +a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but +whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven +him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.</q> +Matt. 12:31, 32. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As the Holy Spirit +is the agent that convicts of sin, and +brings the offer of pardon through the Word, the denial of the Spirit's +work is the refusal of pardon. In other words, the only unpardonable +sin is the sin which refuses to be pardoned. +</quote> + +<p> +25. Upon what basis has Christ taught us to ask forgiveness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And forgive us our debts, <hi rend='italic'>as we forgive our debtors</hi>.</q> Matt. +6:12. +</p> + +<p> +26. What spirit must those cherish whom God forgives? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>if ye forgive men their trespasses</hi>, your Heavenly Father +will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, +neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.</q> Verses 14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +27. What exhortation is based on the fact that God has +forgiven us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, <hi rend='italic'>forgiving +one another</hi>, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.</q> +Eph. 4:32. +</p> + +<p> +28. In what condition is one whose sins are forgiven? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is +covered. <hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth +not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.</q> Ps. 32:1, 2. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='096'/><anchor id='Pg096'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Conversion, Or The New Birth</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus096.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ And Nicodemus. +"Ye must be born again." John 3:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How did Jesus emphasize the necessity of conversion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Verily I say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>Except ye be converted</hi>, and become +as little children, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall not enter +into the kingdom of heaven</hi>.</q> +Matt. 18:3. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what other statement did He teach the same truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Verily, verily, I say unto thee, <hi rend='italic'>Except a man be born again</hi>, +he cannot see the kingdom of God.</q> John 3:3. +</p> + +<p> +3. How did he further explain the new birth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, <hi rend='italic'>Except a +man be born of water and of the Spirit</hi>, he cannot enter into the +kingdom of God.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +4. With what comparison did He illustrate the subject? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The wind</hi> bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the +sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither +it goeth: <hi rend='italic'>so is every one that is born of the Spirit</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +5. What change is wrought in conversion, or the new birth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even when we were dead in sins, hath <hi rend='italic'>quickened</hi> us together +with Christ, (by grace ye are saved).</q> Eph. 2:5. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is one evidence of this change from death to life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know that we have passed from death unto life, because +<pb n='097'/><anchor id='Pg097'/> +<hi rend='italic'>we love the brethren</hi>. He that loveth not his brother +abideth in death.</q> 1 John 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +7. From what is a converted sinner saved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from +the error of his way shall save a soul from <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, and shall hide a +multitude of sins.</q> James 5:20. See Acts 26:14-18. +</p> + +<p> +8. To whom are sinners brought by conversion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right +spirit within me.... Then will I teach transgressors Thy +ways; and sinners shall be <hi rend='italic'>converted unto Thee</hi>.</q> Ps. 51:10-13. +</p> + +<p> +9. In what words to Peter did Jesus indicate the kind of +service a converted person should render to his brethren? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath +desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have +prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and <hi rend='italic'>when thou art converted, +strengthen thy brethren</hi>.</q> Luke 22:31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +10. What other experience is associated with conversion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are +dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any +time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, +and should understand with their heart, and should be <hi rend='italic'>converted</hi>, +and I should <hi rend='italic'>heal them</hi>.</q> Matt. 13:15. +</p> + +<p> +11. What gracious promise does God make to His people? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I will heal their backsliding</hi>, I will love them freely: for +Mine anger is turned away from him.</q> Hosea 14:4. +</p> + +<p> +12. By what means is this healing accomplished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He [Christ] was wounded for our transgressions, He was +bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was +upon Him; and <hi rend='italic'>with His stripes we are healed</hi>.</q> Isa. 53:5. +</p> + +<p> +13. What takes place when one is converted to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore if any man is in Christ, <hi rend='italic'>he is a new creation</hi>: +the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.</q> +2 Cor. 5:17, R. V., margin. See Acts 9:1-22; 22:1-21; 26:1-23. +</p> + +<p> +14. What is the value of merely outward forms? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in Christ Jesus <hi rend='italic'>neither circumcision availeth anything, +nor uncircumcision</hi>, but a new creature.</q> Gal. 6:15. +</p> + +<p> +15. Through what was the original creation wrought? +</p> + +<pb n='098'/><anchor id='Pg098'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By the word of the Lord</hi> were the heavens made; and all the +host of them by the breath of His mouth.</q> Ps. 33:6. +</p> + +<p> +16. Through what instrumentality is conversion wrought? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, +<hi rend='italic'>by the word of God</hi>, which liveth and abideth forever.</q> +1 Peter 1:23. +</p> + +<p> +17. What change is wrought by beholding Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory +of the Lord, are <hi rend='italic'>changed into the same image</hi> from glory to glory, +even as by the Spirit of the Lord.</q> 2 Cor. 3:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A beautiful statue once +stood in the market-place of an +Italian city. It was the statue of a Greek slave girl. It represented the +slave as tidy and well dressed. A ragged, uncombed little street child, +coming across the statue in her play one day, stopped and gazed at it in +admiration. She was captivated by it. She gazed long and lovingly. +Moved by a sudden impulse, she went home and washed her face and +combed her hair. Another day she stopped again before the statue and +admired it, and got a new idea. Next day her tattered clothes were +washed and mended. Each time she looked at the statue she found something +in its beauties to admire and copy, until she was a transformed child. +By beholding we become changed. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What are the evidences that one has been born of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that <hi rend='italic'>every one +that doeth righteousness is born of Him</hi>.</q> <q>Beloved, let us love +one another: for love is of God; and <hi rend='italic'>every one that loveth is born +of God</hi>, and knoweth God.</q> 1 John 2:29; 4:7. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is true of every one who believes in Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is <hi rend='italic'>born of +God</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:1. +</p> + +<p> +20. What do those born of God not do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know that <hi rend='italic'>whosoever is born of God sinneth not</hi>; but he +that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one +toucheth him not.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +21. What indwelling power keeps such from sinning? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for <hi rend='italic'>His +seed remaineth in him</hi>: and he cannot sin, because he is born of +God.</q> 1 John 3:9. See 1 John 5:4; Gen. 39:9. +</p> + +<p> +22. What will be the experience of those born of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is therefore now <hi rend='italic'>no condemnation</hi> to them which are +in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the +Spirit.</q> Rom. 8:1. +</p> + +<pb n='099'/><anchor id='Pg099'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus099.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Conversion Of Saul. +"It is hard for thee to kick against +the pricks." Acts 9:5.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='100'/><anchor id='Pg100'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Baptism</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus100.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Baptism Of Christ. +"Thus it becometh us to fulfil all +righteousness." Matt. 3:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What ordinance is closely associated with believing the +gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and +preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is +<hi rend='italic'>baptized</hi> shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be +damned.</q> Mark 16:15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did the apostle Peter associate with baptism in +his instruction on the day of Pentecost? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Peter said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Repent</hi>, and be baptized every +one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.</q> +Acts 2:38. +</p> + +<p> +3. In reply to his inquiry concerning salvation, what was +the Philippian jailer told to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they said, <hi rend='italic'>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ</hi>, and thou +shalt be saved, and thy house.</q> Acts 16:31. +</p> + +<p> +4. What followed immediately after the jailer and his +family had accepted Christ as their Saviour? +</p> + +<pb n='101'/><anchor id='Pg101'/> + +<p> +<q>And he took them [Paul and Silas] the same hour of the +night, and washed their stripes; and was <hi rend='italic'>baptized</hi>, he and all +his, straightway.</q> Verse 33. +</p> + +<p> +5. In connection with Christian baptism, what is washed +away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and +<hi rend='italic'>wash away thy sins</hi>, calling on the name of the Lord.</q> Acts +22:16. See Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21. +</p> + +<p> +6. By what means are sins washed away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins <hi rend='italic'>in +His own blood</hi>.</q> Rev. 1:5. +</p> + +<p> +7. Into whose name are believers to be baptized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, +baptizing them into the name of the <hi rend='italic'>Father</hi> +and of the <hi rend='italic'>Son</hi> and +of the <hi rend='italic'>Holy Ghost</hi>.</q> Matt. 28:19, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +8. When believers are baptized into Christ, whom do they +put on? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have +<hi rend='italic'>put on Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:27. +</p> + +<p> +9. Into what experience are those baptized who are baptized +into Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into +Jesus Christ were <hi rend='italic'>baptized into His death</hi>?</q> Rom. 6:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Baptism is a gospel +ordinance commemorating the <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>burial</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>resurrection</hi> +of Christ. In baptism public testimony is given +to the effect that the one baptized has been crucified with Christ, buried +with Him, and is raised with Him to walk in newness of life. Only one +mode of baptism can rightly represent these facts of experience, and that +is immersion,—the mode followed by Christ and the primitive church. +</quote> + +<p> +10. How is such a baptism described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore we are <hi rend='italic'>buried with him</hi> by baptism into death: +that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of +the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.</q> +Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +11. How fully are we thus united with Christ in His experience +of death and resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if we have been <hi rend='italic'>planted together</hi> in the likeness of His +<hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, we shall be also in +the likeness of His <hi rend='italic'>resurrection</hi>.</q> +Verse 5. +</p> + +<pb n='102'/><anchor id='Pg102'/> + +<p> +12. What will follow this union with Christ in His death and +resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall +also <hi rend='italic'>live with Him</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +13. In what working of God is faith to be exercised in connection +with baptism? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with +Him <hi rend='italic'>through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised +Him from the dead</hi>.</q> Col. 2:12. +</p> + +<p> +14. At the beginning of His ministry, what example did +Jesus set for the benefit of His followers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to +be <hi rend='italic'>baptized</hi> of him.</q> Matt. 3:13. +</p> + +<p> +15. What remarkable experience attended the baptism of +Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway +out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, +and He saw <hi rend='italic'>the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting +upon Him</hi>: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>This is My beloved +Son, in whom I am well pleased</hi>.</q> Verses 16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +16. What promise is made to those who repent and are +baptized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every +one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, +and <hi rend='italic'>ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost</hi>.</q> Acts 2:38. +</p> + +<p> +17. What question did the eunuch ask after Philip had +preached Jesus unto him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain +water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; <hi rend='italic'>what doth hinder +me to be baptized</hi>?</q> Acts 8:36. +</p> + +<p> +18. In order to baptize the eunuch, where did Philip take +him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and <hi rend='italic'>they went +down both into the water</hi>, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized +him.</q> Verse 38. +</p> + +<p> +19. How did the people of Samaria publicly testify to their +faith in the preaching of Philip? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning +<pb n='103'/><anchor id='Pg103'/> +the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, +<hi rend='italic'>they were baptized</hi>, both men and women.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +20. What instruction did the apostle Peter give concerning +the Gentiles who had believed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, +which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? <hi rend='italic'>And +he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord.</hi></q> +Acts 10:47, 48. +</p> + +<p> +21. How perfect is the unity into which believers are brought +by being baptized into Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all +the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so +also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all <hi rend='italic'>baptized into one +body</hi>, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or +free; and have been all <hi rend='italic'>made to drink into one Spirit</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. +12:12, 13. +</p> + +<p> +22. After being united with Christ in the likeness of His +death and resurrection, what should the believer do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye then be risen with Christ, <hi rend='italic'>seek those things which are +above</hi>, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.</q> Col. +3:1. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Lord, in humble, sweet submission,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Here we meet to follow Thee,</l> +<l>Trusting in Thy great salvation,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Which alone can make us free.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Naught have we to claim as merit;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>All the duties we can do</l> +<l>Can no crown of life inherit;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>All the praise to Thee is due.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Yet we come in Christian duty,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Down beneath the wave to go;</l> +<l>O the bliss! the heavenly beauty!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Christ the Lord was buried so.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 20'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Robert T. Daniel</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='104'/><anchor id='Pg104'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Reconciled To God</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus104.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jonah Preaching To The Ninevites. +"Be ye reconciled to God." +2 Cor. 5:20.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What message of entreaty has God sent to us through +his appointed messengers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God +did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, <hi rend='italic'>be ye +reconciled to God</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 5:20. +</p> + +<p> +2. Through whom is this reconciliation made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself +<hi rend='italic'>by Jesus Christ</hi>, and hath given +to us the ministry of reconciliation.</q> +Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +3. What was required in order to effect this reconciliation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by +<hi rend='italic'>the death of His Son</hi>, much more, being reconciled, we shall be +saved by His life.</q> Rom. 5:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. What basis for reconciliation was made by Christ's death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Having made <hi rend='italic'>peace</hi> through the blood of His cross, by Him +to reconcile all things unto Himself.</q> Col. 1:20. +</p> + +<p> +5. Through whom is the reconciliation received? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We also joy in God <hi rend='italic'>through our Lord Jesus Christ</hi>, by +whom we have now received the atonement [reconciliation, +margin].</q> Rom. 5:11. +</p> + +<pb n='105'/><anchor id='Pg105'/> + +<p> +6. By what union does Christ reconcile both Jew and Gentile +to God through the cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that He might reconcile both unto God <hi rend='italic'>in one body</hi> +by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.</q> Eph. 2:16. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what prophecy was the work of reconciliation foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon +thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of +sins, and <hi rend='italic'>to make reconciliation for iniquity</hi>.</q> Dan. 9:24. +</p> + +<p> +8. In thus reconciling the world unto Himself, what attitude +did God take toward men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, +<hi rend='italic'>not imputing their trespasses unto them</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 5:19. +</p> + +<p> +9. What rendered it possible for God to treat sinners thus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every +one to his own way; and <hi rend='italic'>the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity +of us all</hi>.</q> Isa. 53:6. +</p> + +<p> +10. What was Christ made, to release men from sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For He hath made Him to be <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi> for us, who knew no sin; +that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.</q> +2 Cor. 5:21. +</p> + +<p> +11. How was He treated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But He was <hi rend='italic'>wounded</hi> for +our transgressions, He was <hi rend='italic'>bruised</hi> +for our iniquities: the <hi rend='italic'>chastisement</hi> of our peace was upon Him; +and with His <hi rend='italic'>stripes</hi> we are healed.</q> Isa. 53:5. +</p> + +<p> +12. What did John declare concerning Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold the Lamb of God, <hi rend='italic'>which +taketh away</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>beareth</hi>, +margin] <hi rend='italic'>the sin of the world</hi>.</q> John 1:29. +</p> + +<p> +13. To what place did Christ carry these sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who His own self bare our sins in His own body <hi rend='italic'>on the tree</hi>, +that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: +by whose stripes ye were healed.</q> 1 Peter 2:24. +</p> + +<p> +14. What is the great purpose of Christ in His work of +reconciliation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in +your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the +body of His flesh through death, <hi rend='italic'>to present you holy and unblamable +and unreprovable in His sight</hi>.</q> Col. 1:21, 22. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='106'/><anchor id='Pg106'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Acceptance With God</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus106.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Noah's Sacrifice. +"He hath made us accepted in the +Beloved." Eph. 1:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In whom has God made us accepted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, +who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings ... in +Christ: according as He hath chosen us in Him ... to +the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us +<hi rend='italic'>accepted in the Beloved</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:3-6. +</p> + +<p> +2. What great gift comes with our acceptance of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one +which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have <hi rend='italic'>everlasting +life</hi>: and I will raise him up at the last day.</q> John 6:40. +See also John 17:2. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is the first and primary evidence of our acceptance +with God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we receive the witness of men, the <hi rend='italic'>witness of God is +greater</hi>: for this is the witness of God <hi rend='italic'>which He hath testified of +His Son</hi>.... And this is the record, <hi rend='italic'>that God hath given +to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:9-11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The primary basis of all +faith and acceptance is the word of +God,—that which God Himself has +<hi rend='italic'>said</hi>. To receive and believe this is +the first essential to salvation,—the first evidence of acceptance. +</quote> + +<pb n='107'/><anchor id='Pg107'/> + +<p> +4. Why did John write his testimony concerning God's +love and purpose in giving Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things have I written unto you that believe on the +name of the Son of God; <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know that ye have eternal +life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God</hi>.</q> +Verse 13. <q>These are written, <hi rend='italic'>that ye might believe that Jesus is +the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life +through His name</hi>.</q> John 20:31. +</p> + +<p> +5. What witness does the true believer in Christ have that +he is accepted of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that believeth on the Son of God <hi rend='italic'>hath the witness in +himself</hi>: he that believeth not God hath made Him a liar; because +he believeth not the <hi rend='italic'>record</hi> that God gave of His Son.</q> +1 John 5:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Faith and feeling +should not be confounded. Faith is ours +to exercise in the Word of God, regardless of our feelings, and often in opposition +even to our feelings. Many fail to accept the pardon and assurance +of the acceptance of Heaven, because they do not take God at His +word, but instead turn their attention to their changeable moods and feelings. +<emph>Faith</emph> always precedes the +<emph>joyful feelings</emph> which naturally result from +the assurance of forgiveness and acceptance. This order is never reversed. +</quote> + +<p> +6. How only do any become children of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye are all the children of God <hi rend='italic'>by faith in Christ Jesus</hi>.</q> +Gal. 3:26. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the foundation of faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing <hi rend='italic'>by the word of God</hi>.</q> +Rom. 10:17. +</p> + +<p> +8. What assurance has the believer of his union with God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, <hi rend='italic'>because +He hath given us of His Spirit</hi>.</q> 1 John 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +9. What three definite witnesses of acceptance are mentioned +by John? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There are three that bear witness in earth, the <hi rend='italic'>Spirit</hi>, and +the <hi rend='italic'>water</hi>, and the +<hi rend='italic'>blood</hi>: and these three agree in one.</q> 1 John +5:8. +</p> + +<p> +10. How does the Spirit witness to our acceptance with God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His +Son into your hearts, crying, <hi rend='italic'>Abba, Father</hi>.</q> Gal. 4:6. <q>The +Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the +children of God.</q> Rom. 8:16. +</p> + +<pb n='108'/><anchor id='Pg108'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus108.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Prodigal's Return. +"This my son was dead, and is alive again; +he was lost, and is found." Luke 15:24.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='109'/><anchor id='Pg109'/> + +<p> +11. Of what is Christian baptism an evidence? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have +<hi rend='italic'>put on Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In baptism, the water +and the Spirit both bear witness of God's +acceptance. The same Spirit which, at Christ's baptism, said, <q>This is +My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,</q> witnesses to the acceptance +of every sincere believer at his baptism. +</quote> + +<p> +12. To what does the blood of Christ witness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.... +If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have +fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His +Son <hi rend='italic'>cleanseth us from all sin</hi>.</q> 1 John 1:4-7. <q>In whom we +have redemption through His blood, <hi rend='italic'>the forgiveness of sins</hi>.</q> +Eph. 1:7. See also Rev. 1:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +13. When may we find acceptance with God through Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have heard thee <hi rend='italic'>in a time +accepted</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>in the day of salvation</hi> +have I succored thee: behold, <hi rend='italic'>now is the accepted time</hi>; +behold, <hi rend='italic'>now is the day of salvation</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 6:2. +</p> + +<p> +14. To whom, therefore, should we ascribe glory and honor? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His +own blood</hi>, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His +Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.</q> +Rev. 1:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is another evidence of divine acceptance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know that we have passed from death unto life, <hi rend='italic'>because +we love the brethren</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +16. What blessed assurance is given all believers in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, +shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.</q> Phil. +4:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Arise, my soul, arise,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Shake off thy guilty fears;</l> +<l>The bleeding Sacrifice</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In my behalf appears;</l> +<l>Before the throne my Saviour stands,</l> +<l>My name is written on His hands.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Five bleeding wounds He bears,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Received on Calvary;</l> +<l>They pour effectual prayers,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>They strongly speak for me.</l> +<l>Forgive him, O, forgive! they cry,</l> +<l>Nor let the contrite sinner die!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 20'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Charles Wesley.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='110'/><anchor id='Pg110'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Justification By Faith</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus110.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Penitent Thief. +"Thou shalt be with Me in paradise." +Luke 23:43.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the ground of justification on God's part? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That being justified <hi rend='italic'>by His grace</hi>, we should be made heirs +according to the hope of eternal life.</q> Titus 3:7. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is the means through which this justifying grace is +made available to the sinner? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Much more then, being now justified <hi rend='italic'>by +His</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>Christ's</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>blood</hi>, +we shall be saved from wrath through Him.</q> Rom. 5:9. +</p> + +<p> +3. How is justification laid hold upon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore we conclude that a man is justified <hi rend='italic'>by faith</hi> +without the deeds of the law.</q> Rom. 3:28. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is the only way sinners may be justified, or made +righteous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the +law, but <hi rend='italic'>by the faith of Jesus Christ</hi>, even we have believed in +Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, +and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law +shall no flesh be justified.</q> Gal. 2:16. +</p> + +<p> +5. What concrete example makes clear the meaning of this +doctrine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He brought him [Abraham] forth abroad, and said, +Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to +<pb n='111'/><anchor id='Pg111'/> +number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. +And <hi rend='italic'>he believed in the Lord; +and He counted it to him for righteousness</hi>.</q> +Gen. 15:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +6. How is the righteousness thus obtained described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And be found in Him, not having thine own righteousness, +which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, +<hi rend='italic'>the righteousness which is of God by faith</hi>.</q> Phil. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +7. Upon what basis is justification granted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the <hi rend='italic'>gift</hi>: for the +judgment was by one to condemnation, but <hi rend='italic'>the free gift</hi> is of +many offenses unto justification.</q> Rom. 5:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. Upon what basis does the reward come to one who works? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of +grace, but of <hi rend='italic'>debt</hi>.</q> Rom. 4:4. +</p> + +<p> +9. Upon what condition is faith reckoned for righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But to him that worketh not, but <hi rend='italic'>believeth on Him that +justifieth the ungodly</hi>, his faith is counted for righteousness.</q> +Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +10. How does grace, as the ground of justification, exclude +righteousness by works? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace +is no more grace</hi>. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: +otherwise work is no more work.</q> Rom. 11:6. +</p> + +<p> +11. In what way are both Jews and Gentiles to be justified? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is He the God of the Jews only? is He not also of the Gentiles? +Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which +shall justify the circumcision <hi rend='italic'>by faith</hi>, and uncircumcision +<hi rend='italic'>through faith</hi>.</q> Rom. 3:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +12. What statement testifies to Abraham's faith in God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; +but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and <hi rend='italic'>being fully +persuaded that what He had promised, He was able also to perform</hi>.</q> +Rom. 4:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did this bring to him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And therefore <hi rend='italic'>it was imputed to him for righteousness</hi>.</q> +Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +14. How may we receive this same imputed righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed +to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, +<pb n='112'/><anchor id='Pg112'/> +<hi rend='italic'>if we believe on Him that +raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead</hi>.</q> +Verses 23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +15. Why must justifying faith lay hold upon both the death +and the resurrection of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who was <hi rend='italic'>delivered for our offenses</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>was raised again for +our justification</hi>.</q> Verse 25. See 1 Cor. 15:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The resurrection of +Christ, the promised Seed (Gal. 3:16), +was necessary in order to fulfil to Abraham the promise of an innumerable +seed; and therefore Abraham's faith in the promise of God, which included +the resurrection, was reckoned to him for righteousness. His faith laid +hold upon that which made imputed righteousness possible. See Heb. +11:17-19. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What is inseparable from the experience of justification +by faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that +through this man is preached unto you <hi rend='italic'>the forgiveness of sins</hi>: +and by Him all that believe are <hi rend='italic'>justified from all things</hi>, from +which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.</q> Acts +13:38, 39. +</p> + +<p> +17. How has Christ made it possible for righteousness to +be imputed to the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, +so <hi rend='italic'>by the obedience of one</hi> shall many be made righteous.</q> Rom. +5:19. +</p> + +<p> +18. What prophetic declaration foretold this truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In the Lord</hi> shall all the +seed of Israel be <hi rend='italic'>justified</hi>, and shall +glory.</q> Isa. 45:25. +</p> + +<p> +19. What other prediction asserts the same great truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By His knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many</hi>; +for He shall bear their iniquities.</q> Isa. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +20. What does the imputed righteousness of Christ enable +God to do, and still be just? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: <hi rend='italic'>that He +might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus</hi>.</q> +Rom. 3:26. +</p> + +<p> +21. By what name is Christ appropriately called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise +unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and +prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. +In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely +<pb n='113'/><anchor id='Pg113'/> +and this is His name whereby He shall be called, <hi rend='smallcaps'>The Lord Our +Righteousness</hi>.</q> Jer. 23:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +22. What blessed experience follows upon the acceptance +of Christ as our righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore being justified by faith, <hi rend='italic'>we have peace with God</hi> +through our Lord Jesus Christ.</q> Rom. 5:1. +</p> + +<p> +23. What does Christ thus become to the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>He is our peace</hi>, who hath made both one, and hath +broken down the middle wall of partition between us.</q> Eph. +2:14. +</p> + +<p> +24. On what basis is there no possibility of justification for +the sinner? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore <hi rend='italic'>by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified +in His sight</hi>: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.</q> Rom. +3:20. +</p> + +<p> +25. How does the death of Christ bear testimony to this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I do not frustrate the grace of God: for <hi rend='italic'>if righteousness +come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain</hi>.</q> Gal. 2:21. +</p> + +<p> +26. What is proved by any attempt to be justified by the +law? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Christ is become of no effect unto you</hi>, whosoever of you are +justified by the law; <hi rend='italic'>ye are fallen from grace</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:4. +</p> + +<p> +27. Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, +hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? +<hi rend='italic'>Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of +the law.</hi> For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone.</q> Rom. +9:31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +28. What is revealed by the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By the law is <hi rend='italic'>the knowledge of sin</hi>.</q> Rom. 3:20 +</p> + +<p> +29. What bears witness to the genuineness of the righteousness +obtained by faith, apart from the deeds of the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, +<hi rend='italic'>being witnessed by the law and the prophets</hi>.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +30. Does faith set aside the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do we then make void the law through faith? <hi rend='italic'>God forbid</hi>: +yea, we <hi rend='italic'>establish</hi> the law.</q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<pb n='114'/><anchor id='Pg114'/> + +<p> +31. What scripture shows that the righteousness which is +received by grace through faith must not be made an excuse for +continuing in sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What shall we say then? <hi rend='italic'>Shall we continue in sin, that grace +may abound? God forbid.</hi> How shall we, that are dead to sin, +live any longer therein?</q> Rom. 6:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +32. Does faith exclude works? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But wilt thou know, O vain man, that <hi rend='italic'>faith without works +is dead</hi>?</q> James 2:20. +</p> + +<p> +33. What is the evidence of genuine, living faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Show me thy faith without thy works, and <hi rend='italic'>I will show thee +my faith by my works</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +34. What, then, are the visible proofs of genuine justification +by faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye see then how that by <hi rend='italic'>works</hi> a man is justified, and not +by faith only.</q> Verse 24. See also verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +35. What great exchange has been wrought for us in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; +that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.</q> +2 Cor. 5:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Said Luther: +<q>Learn to know Christ and Him crucified. +Learn to sing a new song—to despair of your own works, and to cry unto +Him, Lord Jesus, Thou art my righteousness, and I am Thy sin. Thou +hast taken upon Thee what was mine, and given to me what was Thine; +what Thou wast not Thou becamest, that I might become what +I was not.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>D'Aubigne's</hi> +<q><hi rend='italic'>History of the Reformation</hi>,</q> +<hi rend='italic'>book 2, chap. 8</hi>. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Look upon Jesus, sinless is He;</l> +<l>Father, impute His life unto me.</l> +<l>My life of scarlet, my sin and woe,</l> +<l>Cover with His life, whiter than snow.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Deep are the wounds transgression has made:</l> +<l>Red are the stains; my soul is afraid.</l> +<l>O to be covered, Jesus, with Thee,</l> +<l>Safe from the law that now judgeth me!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Longing the joy of pardon to know;</l> +<l>Jesus holds out a robe white as snow:</l> +<l><q rend='pre'>Lord, I accept it! leaving my own,</q></l> +<l><q rend='post'>Gladly I wear Thy pure life alone.</q></l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Reconciled by His death for my sin,</l> +<l>Justified by His life pure and clean,</l> +<l>Sanctified by obeying His word,</l> +<l>Glorified when returneth my Lord.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 24'><hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='115'/><anchor id='Pg115'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Righteousness And Life</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus115.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Lord Our Righteousness. +"He that hath the Son hath +life." 1 John 5:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is assured to the believer in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, +but have <hi rend='italic'>everlasting life</hi>.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is revealed in the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For therein is <hi rend='italic'>the righteousness of God</hi> revealed from faith +to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.</q> Rom. +1:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. What has Christ brought to light through the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who hath abolished death, and hath brought <hi rend='italic'>life and immortality</hi> +to light through the gospel.</q> 2 Tim. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. How closely are righteousness and life thus united? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the way of <hi rend='italic'>righteousness</hi> +is <hi rend='italic'>life</hi>; and in the pathway +thereof there is no death.</q> Prov. 12:28. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does he find who follows after righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth +<hi rend='italic'>life</hi>, righteousness, and honor.</q> Prov. 21:21. +</p> + +<p> +6. Through what does grace reign unto eternal life? +</p> + +<pb n='117'/><anchor id='Pg117'/> + +<p> +<q>That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace +reign <hi rend='italic'>through righteousness</hi> unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our +Lord.</q> Rom. 5:21. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus116.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Healing The Lame Man. +"In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth +rise up and walk." Acts 3:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the very life of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; +but the Spirit is life because of <hi rend='italic'>righteousness</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:10. +</p> + +<p> +8. What are the commandments of God declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All Thy commandments are <hi rend='italic'>righteousness</hi>.</q> Ps. 119:172. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did Jesus declare God's commandment to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I know that His commandment is <hi rend='italic'>life everlasting</hi>.</q> +John 12:50. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Life and righteousness are thus shown to be +inseparable. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What does the prophet Jeremiah declare Christ to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is His name whereby He shall be called, <hi rend='smallcaps'>The Lord +Our Righteousness</hi>.</q> Jer. 23:6. +</p> + +<p> +11. What does Christ declare Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the way, the truth, and the <hi rend='italic'>life</hi>.</q> John 14:6. +</p> + +<p> +12. How is righteousness received? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much +more they which receive abundance of grace and of <hi rend='italic'>the gift of +righteousness</hi> shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.</q> Rom. +5:17. +</p> + +<p> +13. How is eternal life bestowed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the wages of sin is death; but the <hi rend='italic'>gift</hi> of God is eternal +life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +14. What did Moses set forth as the basis of righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these +commandments</hi> before the Lord our God, as He hath commanded +us.</q> Deut. 6:25. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did Christ indicate as essential to eternal life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto him, Why callest thou Me good? there +is none good but one, that is, God: but <hi rend='italic'>if thou wilt enter into +life, keep the commandments</hi>.</q> Matt. 19:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The righteousness of God, which +is obtained by faith in +Christ, brings with it the life of God, which is inseparably connected with +righteousness; and the life of God, which is bestowed upon man as a gift +through his faith in Christ, is a life of righteousness,—the righteousness, +or right-doing, of Christ. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='118'/><anchor id='Pg118'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Consecration</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus118.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Carpenter's Son. +"Let this mind be in you, which was also in +Christ Jesus." Phil. 2:5.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What offering did King Hezekiah command to be made +when he reestablished the worship of the temple? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Hezekiah commanded to offer the <hi rend='italic'>burnt offering</hi> upon +the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the +Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments +ordained by David king of Israel.</q> 2 Chron. 29:27. +</p> + +<p> +2. After the people had united in this service, how did +Hezekiah interpret its meaning? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Hezekiah answered and said, <hi rend='italic'>Now ye have consecrated +yourselves unto the Lord</hi>, come near and bring sacrifices +and thank-offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation +brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many +as were of a free heart burnt offerings.</q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The morning and +the evening burnt offering, or the continual +offering (Ex. 29:42), symbolized the daily consecration of the people +to the Lord. +</quote> + +<p> +3. How is this consecration urged upon all Christians? +</p> + +<pb n='119'/><anchor id='Pg119'/> + +<p> +<q>I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, +that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable +unto God, which is your reasonable service.</q> Rom. 12:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is the continual sacrifice of praise declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Through Him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to +God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession +to His name.</q> Heb. 13:15, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +5. How is the service of consecration to be carried forward +by the Christian church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, +an holy priesthood, <hi rend='italic'>to offer up spiritual sacrifices</hi>, acceptable to +God by Jesus Christ.</q> 1 Peter 2:5. +</p> + +<p> +6. Who has set the example of complete consecration? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your +servant: even as <hi rend='italic'>the Son of man</hi> came not to be ministered unto, +but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.</q> Matt. +20: 27, 28. +</p> + +<p> +7. What position has Jesus taken among His brethren? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that +serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but <hi rend='italic'>I am among you as +he that serveth</hi>.</q> Luke 22:27. +</p> + +<p> +8. In what does likeness to Christ consist? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let this <hi rend='italic'>mind</hi> be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.</q> +Phil. 2:5. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did Christ's spirit of meekness and consecration +lead Him to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But made Himself of no reputation, and <hi rend='italic'>took upon Him the +form of a servant</hi>, and was made in the likeness of men.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +10. To what extent did Christ humble Himself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, +and became obedient <hi rend='italic'>unto death, even the death of the cross</hi>.</q> +Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +11. How does He exhort us to the same consecration? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me</hi>; for I am meek +and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.</q> +Matt. 11:29. +</p> + +<p> +12. What does He make the condition of discipleship? +</p> + +<pb n='120'/><anchor id='Pg120'/> + +<p> +<q>So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not +all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple.</q> Luke 14:33. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is proof that one does not belong to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.</q> +Rom. 8:9. +</p> + +<p> +14. How should he walk who professes to abide in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that saith he abideth in Him <hi rend='italic'>ought himself also so to +walk, even as He walked</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +15. Do we belong to ourselves? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Know ye not that ... <hi rend='italic'>ye are not your own</hi>? for ye +are bought with a price.</q> 1 Cor. 6:19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +16. What are we therefore exhorted to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore <hi rend='italic'>glorify God in your body, and in your spirit</hi>, +which are God's.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Our time, strength, and +means are God's, and should be +given to His service. +</quote> + +<p> +17. Of what are the bodies of Christians the temple? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What? know ye not that your body is <hi rend='italic'>the temple of the +Holy Ghost</hi> which is in you, which ye have of God?</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<p> +18. When truly consecrated, for what is one ready? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I +send, and who will go for us? <hi rend='italic'>Then said I, Here am I; send me.</hi></q> +Isa. 6:8. +</p> + +<p> +19. How is this willingness for service otherwise expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their +masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; +<hi rend='italic'>so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God</hi>.</q> Ps. 123:2. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Take my life, and let it be</l> +<l>Consecrated, Lord, to Thee!</l> +<l>Take my hands, and let them move</l> +<l>At the impulse of Thy love.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Take my feet, and let them be</l> +<l>Swift and beautiful for Thee;</l> +<l>Take my voice, and let me sing</l> +<l>Always, only, for my King.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Take my will, and make it Thine:</l> +<l>It shall be no longer mine!</l> +<l>Take my heart,—it is Thine own,—It</l> +<l>shall be Thy royal throne.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 16'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Frances Ridley Havergal.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='121'/><anchor id='Pg121'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Bible Election</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus121.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Ten Virgins. +"They that were ready went in with him to +the marriage." Matt. 25:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does the apostle Peter admonish us to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore ... brethren, <hi rend='italic'>give diligence to make your +calling and election sure</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This text at +once reveals the fact that our salvation, so far +as our own individual cases are concerned, is dependent upon our own +action. We are elected to be saved; but we are to give diligence to make +this election <emph>sure</emph>. If we do not, it will not meet its purpose in our case, +and we shall be lost. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What admonition given by Christ teaches the same +truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I come quickly: <hi rend='italic'>hold that fast which thou hast, +that no man take thy crown</hi>.</q> Rev. 3:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Crowns have been prepared +for each of the finally redeemed. +Every soul is a candidate in the race for eternal life, and hence for a +crown. Faith in Jesus, and perseverance to the end, will hold it fast. +</quote> + +<p> +3. Upon what condition is the crown of life promised? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be thou faithful unto death</hi>, and I will give thee a crown of +life.</q> Rev. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. In whom, and from what time, have we been chosen unto +holiness and salvation? +</p> + +<pb n='122'/><anchor id='Pg122'/> + +<p> +<q>According as He hath chosen us <hi rend='italic'>in Him</hi> +[<hi rend='italic'>Christ</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>before the +foundation of the world</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:4, first part. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is the character of those thus chosen before the +foundation of the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That we should be <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi> and +<hi rend='italic'>without blemish</hi> before Him in +love.</q> Same verse, last part, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +6. To what has God foreordained those who attain to this +character? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Having foreordained us <hi rend='italic'>unto adoption as sons</hi> through +Jesus Christ unto Himself.</q> Verse 5, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +7. According to what does God call us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And we know that all things work together for good to +them that love God, to them who are the called <hi rend='italic'>according to +His purpose</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:28. +</p> + +<p> +8. According to what have we been predestinated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Being predestinated <hi rend='italic'>according to the purpose of Him who +worketh all things after the counsel of His own will</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:11. +</p> + +<p> +9. How many does God desire to be saved? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Who will have all men to be saved</hi>, and to come unto the +knowledge of the truth.</q> 1 Tim. 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +10. Upon what condition is salvation offered? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ</hi>, and thou shalt be saved.</q> +Acts 16:31. +</p> + +<p> +11. For how long must this faith be preserved in order to +bring final salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that shall endure unto the end</hi>, the same shall be saved.</q> +Matt. 24:13. See James 1:12; Rev. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +12. What scripture is sometimes cited as evidence that God +is arbitrary in His dealings with men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore hath He mercy on whom He <hi rend='italic'>will</hi> have mercy, +and whom He <hi rend='italic'>will</hi> He hardeneth.</q> Rom. 9:18. +</p> + +<p> +13. But what other scripture shows with whom God <hi rend='italic'>wills</hi> +to be merciful, and with whom otherwise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With the <hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi> Thou +wilt show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi>; with +an <hi rend='italic'>upright</hi> man Thou wilt show +Thyself <hi rend='italic'>upright</hi>; with the <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi> +Thou wilt show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi>; and +with the <hi rend='italic'>froward</hi> Thou wilt +show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>froward</hi>.</q> Ps. 18:25, 26. See also Isa. 55:7. +</p> + +<pb n='123'/><anchor id='Pg123'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God wills that +men shall be saved. He has foreordained +the characters that will entitle men to salvation, +but He does not <emph>compel</emph> +any one to receive Christ, possess this character, and be saved. This is a +matter of individual choice. By His mighty acts and judgments in Egypt, +God <q>hardened Pharaoh's heart.</q> Ex. 7:3, 13, 22. But the same manifestations +<emph>softened</emph> the hearts of others. The difference was in the <emph>hearts</emph>, +and in the way God's message and dealings were received; not in God. +The same sun which melts the wax hardens the clay. Ex. 8:32 says +that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What, on man's part, is essential to salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Choose</hi> ye this day whom ye will serve.</q> Joshua 24:15. +<q>If any man <hi rend='italic'>willeth to do +His will</hi>, he shall know of the teaching.</q> +John 7:17, R. V. <q><hi rend='italic'>Believe</hi> on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou +shalt be saved.</q> Acts 16:31. <q>Whosoever <hi rend='italic'>will</hi>, let him take +the water of life freely.</q> Rev. 22:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A man once +wished to join a certain church, but said he +could not do so on account of the views this church held on the subject +of <q>election.</q> The minister to whom he was sent for help and enlightenment, +failing to make the matter clear, an old colored man, a layman, came +to the rescue, and said: <q>Brother, this is the very easiest thing in the +church. You see, it is like this: The votin' is goin' on all the time; and +God, He is votin' for you; and the devil, he is votin' agin you; and whichever +way <emph>you</emph> vote, that is the way the <emph>election</emph> goes.</q> Commenting +upon this incident, Rev. Wilbur Chapman, the noted evangelist, says: <q>I have +studied theology some myself, and graduated at a theological seminary; +but I never got anything quite so good as that.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +15. In what fact may every believer rejoice? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But rejoice <hi rend='italic'>that your names are written in heaven</hi>.</q> Luke +10:20, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +16. Whose names are to be retained in the book of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that overcometh</hi>, ... I will not blot out his name +out of the book of life.</q> Rev. 3:5. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O, happy day! that fixed my choice</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>On Thee, My Saviour and my God;</l> +<l>Well may this glowing heart rejoice,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And tell its raptures all abroad.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Tis done, the great transaction's done;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I am my Lord's, and he is mine;</l> +<l>He drew me, and I followed on,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Charmed to confess the voice divine.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Now rest, my long-divided heart,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Fixed on this blissful center rest;</l> +<l>Nor ever from thy Lord depart,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With Him of every good possessed.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 16'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Philip Doddridge</hi>.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='124'/><anchor id='Pg124'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Bible Sanctification</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus124.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Moses At The Burning Bush. +"The place whereon thou standest is holy +ground." Ex. 3:5.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What inspired prayer sets the standard of Christian +experience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the very God of peace <hi rend='italic'>sanctify you wholly</hi>; and I pray +God your whole <hi rend='italic'>spirit</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>soul</hi> and +<hi rend='italic'>body</hi> be preserved <hi rend='italic'>blameless</hi> +unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</q> 1 Thess. 5:23. +</p> + +<p> +2. How necessary is the experience of sanctification? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification +<hi rend='italic'>without which no man shall see the Lord</hi>.</q> Heb. 12:14, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +3. What encouragement is held out as an aid in attaining +this experience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>this is the will of God</hi>, even your sanctification.</q> +1 Thess. 4:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Whatever is the +will of God concerning us can be realized in +our experience if our wills are in harmony with His will. It is therefore +a matter of great encouragement to know that our sanctification is included +in the will of God. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What distinct purpose did Christ have in giving Himself +for the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the +church, and gave Himself for it; <hi rend='italic'>that He might sanctify and +cleanse it</hi> with the washing of water by the word.</q> Eph. 5:25, +26. +</p> + +<pb n='125'/><anchor id='Pg125'/> + +<p> +5. What kind of church would He thus be able to present +to Himself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That He might present it to Himself <hi rend='italic'>a glorious church, +not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing</hi>; but that it should +be holy and without blemish.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +6. In the experience of sanctification, what attitude must +one assume toward the truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation +through sanctification of the Spirit and <hi rend='italic'>belief of the truth</hi>.</q> +2 Thess. 2:13. +</p> + +<p> +7. What instruction shows that sanctification is a progressive +work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>grow</hi> in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and +Saviour Jesus Christ.</q> 2 Peter 3:18. See chap. 1:5-7. +</p> + +<p> +8. What description of the apostle Paul's experience is in +harmony with this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Brethren, <hi rend='italic'>I count not myself to have apprehended</hi>: but this +one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and +reaching forth unto those things which are before, <hi rend='italic'>I press toward +the mark</hi> of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.</q> +Phil. 3:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +9. By what is this cleansing from sin and fitting for God's +service accomplished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an +heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the +flesh: how much more shall the <hi rend='italic'>blood of Christ</hi>, who through the +eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, <hi rend='italic'>purge your +conscience from dead works to serve the living God</hi>?</q> Heb. 9:13, +14. See also chap. 10:29. +</p> + +<p> +10. What change is thus brought about? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And be not conformed to this world: but <hi rend='italic'>be ye transformed +by the renewing of your mind</hi>, that ye may prove what is that +good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.</q> Rom. 12:2. +</p> + +<p> +11. Can any one boast of sinlessness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the +truth is not in us.</q> 1 John 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +12. What are we exhorted by the prophet to seek? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have +<pb n='126'/><anchor id='Pg126'/> +wrought His judgment; <hi rend='italic'>seek righteousness, seek meekness</hi>: it may +be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.</q> Zeph. 2:3. +</p> + +<p> +13. In whose name should everything be done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, <hi rend='italic'>do all in the name of +the Lord Jesus</hi>.</q> Col. 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +14. In all we do, whose glory should we have in view? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, +<hi rend='italic'>do all to the glory of God</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 10:31. +</p> + +<p> +15. What classes of persons are necessarily shut out of the +kingdom of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, +nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance +in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</q> Eph. 5:5. <q>Know ye +not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? +Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, +nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, +nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, +shall inherit the kingdom of God.</q> 1 Cor. 6:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +16. What must be crucified and eliminated from our lives +if we would be holy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; +fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, +and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things' +sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.</q> +Col. 3:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +17. When purged from these sins, in what condition is a +man, and for what is he prepared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If a man therefore purge himself from these, <hi rend='italic'>he shall be a +vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and +prepared unto every good work</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 2:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Sanctification +is the term used to describe the work of +God the Holy Ghost upon the character of those who are justified. We +are justified in order that we may be sanctified, and we are sanctified in +order that we may be glorified. <q>Whom He justified, them He also glorified.' +Rom. 8:30. The grace of God is given to make us holy, and so to +fit us for God's presence in eternity; for 'without holiness no man shall see +the Lord.</q> Heb. 12:14.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>The +Catholic Religion</hi></q> (<hi rend='italic'>Episcopal</hi>), <hi rend='italic'>by Rev. +Vernon Staley, page 327</hi>. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='127'/><anchor id='Pg127'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Importance Of Sound Doctrine</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus127.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Ezra Reading The Law. +"Prove all things; hold fast that which +is good." 1 Thess. 5:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Does it matter what one believes, so long as he is sincere? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation +through sanctification of the Spirit <hi rend='italic'>and belief of the truth</hi>.</q> +2 Thess. 2:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Doctrine affects the +<emph>life</emph>. Truth leads to life and God; error +to death and destruction. No one would think of saying it matters not +what <emph>god</emph> one worships, so long as he is sincere, any more than he would +think of saying it matters not what one <emph>eats</emph> or +<emph>drinks</emph>, so long as he <emph>relishes</emph> +what he eats and drinks; or what <emph>road</emph> he +travels, so long as he <emph>thinks</emph> he is +on the right road. Sincerity is a virtue; but it is not the test of sound doctrine. +God wills that we shall know the <emph>truth</emph>, and He has made provision +whereby we may know what is truth. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Did Joshua think it immaterial what God Israel served? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him in sincerity +and in truth: and <hi rend='italic'>put away the gods which your fathers served on +the other side of the flood and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord</hi>. +And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this +day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers +served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of +the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but <hi rend='italic'>as for me and my house, +we will serve the Lord</hi>.</q> Joshua 24:14, 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The influence of +all idolatrous worship is degrading. See +Rom. 1:21-32; Numbers 15; 1 Cor. 10:20; 1 John 5:21. +</quote> + +<pb n='128'/><anchor id='Pg128'/> + +<p> +3. How may we determine the truthfulness of any doctrine? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Prove all things</hi>; hold fast that which is good.</q> 1 Thess. +5:21. +</p> + +<p> +4. By what should we test, or prove, all doctrine? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>To the law and to the testimony</hi>: if they speak not according +to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</q> Isa. 8:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Bible is +the test of all doctrine. Whatever does not +harmonize and square with this, is not to be received. <q>There is but one +standard of the everlastingly right and the everlastingly wrong, and that +is the Bible.</q>—<hi rend='smallcaps'>T. De Witt Talmage.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +5. Of what kind of doctrines should we beware? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, +and carried about with every <hi rend='italic'>wind of doctrine</hi>.</q> Eph. 4:14. +See also Heb. 13:9. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is a <q>wind of doctrine</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the prophets shall become <hi rend='italic'>wind</hi>; +and <hi rend='italic'>the word is not +in them</hi>.</q> Jer. 5:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Calling a doctrine +a wind of doctrine does not make it such. +That is a wind of doctrine which is not sustained by the Word of God. +</quote> + +<p> +7. For what is all scripture profitable? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is <hi rend='italic'>profitable +for doctrine</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. What advice was given to Timothy while preparing for +the gospel ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to +<hi rend='italic'>doctrine</hi>.... Take heed unto +thyself, and unto the <hi rend='italic'>doctrine</hi>.</q> +1 Tim. 4:13-16. +</p> + +<p> +9. What solemn charge was given him concerning his public +work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus +Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing +and His kingdom; <hi rend='italic'>Preach the word; ... reprove, rebuke, +exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 4:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why did the apostle say this duty was so imperative? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine</hi>; +but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves +teachers, having itching ears; <hi rend='italic'>and they shall turn away their ears +from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables</hi>.</q> Verses 3, 4. +</p> + +<pb n='129'/><anchor id='Pg129'/> + +<p> +11. What similar instruction was given to Titus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But speak thou the things which become <hi rend='italic'>sound doctrine</hi>: +... in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: +<hi rend='italic'>in doctrine showing uncorruptness</hi>, gravity, sincerity.</q> Titus +2:1-7. +</p> + +<p> +12. What will sound doctrine enable the faithful teacher +to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, +that he may be able <hi rend='italic'>by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince +the gainsayers</hi>.</q> Titus 1:9. +</p> + +<p> +13. What danger attends the teaching of false doctrine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the +resurrection is past already; and <hi rend='italic'>overthrow the faith of some</hi>.</q> +2 Tim. 2:18. +</p> + +<p> +14. Who are the disciples of Jesus, and what gracious work +does the truth do for those who receive it? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If ye continue in My word</hi>, then are ye My disciples indeed; +and <hi rend='italic'>ye shall know the truth, and +the truth shall make you free</hi>.</q> +John 8:31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +15. Through what are they to be sanctified? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sanctify them through <hi rend='italic'>Thy truth</hi>: Thy word is truth.</q> +John 17:17. +</p> + +<p> +16. What kind of worship results from false teaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>But in vain they do worship Me</hi>, teaching for doctrines the +commandments of men.</q> Matt. 15:9. +</p> + +<p> +17. Can we close our ears to truth, and remain innocent +before God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, <hi rend='italic'>even +his prayer shall be abomination</hi>.</q> Prov. 28:9. +</p> + +<p> +18. What did Christ say of those who will to do God's will? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man willeth to do His will, +<hi rend='italic'>he shall know of the teaching</hi>, +whether it be of God, or whether I speak from Myself.</q> +John 7:17, R. V. See also Ps. 25: 9; John 8:12. +</p> + +<p> +19. What will God allow to come to those who reject truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because they receive not the love of the truth, that they +might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them <hi rend='italic'>strong +delusion</hi>, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be +<pb n='130'/><anchor id='Pg130'/> +damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</q> +2 Thess. 2:10-12. +</p> + +<p> +20. By what doctrines are some to be misled in the last +days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times +some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, +and <hi rend='italic'>doctrines of devils</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 4:1. See 2 Peter 2:1. +</p> + +<p> +21. What fate awaits blind teachers and their followers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And +if the blind lead the blind, <hi rend='italic'>both +shall fall into the ditch</hi>.</q> Matt. +15:14. +</p> + +<p> +22. To whom will the gates of the heavenly city finally be +opened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Open ye the gates, that <hi rend='italic'>the righteous nation which keepeth +the truth</hi> may enter in.</q> Isa. 26:2. See also Rev. 22:14. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Truth is the gem for which we seek,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O tell us where shall it be found!</l> +<l>For this we search, and pray, and weep,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That truth may in our hearts abound.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We want the truth on every point,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We want it all to practise by;</l> +<l>Do thou, O Lord, our eyes anoint</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With a fresh unction from on high.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 24'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Charlotte Haskins.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='131'/><anchor id='Pg131'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Present Truth</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus131.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Nehemiah Viewing The Ruins +Of Jerusalem. +"And they said, Let us rise up and +build." Neh. 2:18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By what are men sanctified? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sanctify them <hi rend='italic'>through Thy truth</hi>: Thy word is truth.</q> +John 17:17. +</p> + +<p> +2. To what knowledge would God have all men come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who will have all men to be saved, and <hi rend='italic'>to come unto the +knowledge of the truth</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +3. After receiving a <hi rend='italic'>knowledge</hi> of the truth, what must one +do in order to be sanctified by it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation +through sanctification of the Spirit and <hi rend='italic'>belief of the truth</hi>.</q> +2 Thess. 2:13. +</p> + +<p> +4. And what besides a mere belief in the truth is necessary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, +through sanctification of the Spirit, <hi rend='italic'>unto obedience</hi>.</q> 1 Peter +1:2. +</p> + +<p> +5. What effect does obedience to the truth have? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seeing <hi rend='italic'>ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth</hi> through +the Spirit.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +6. How should the truth ever be cherished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Buy the truth, and <hi rend='italic'>sell it not</hi>.</q> Prov. 23:23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, buy the +truth at whatever sacrifice or cost, and sell +it under no consideration. +</quote> + +<pb n='132'/><anchor id='Pg132'/> + +<p> +7. Does the Bible recognize what may be called <q>present +truth</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in +remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be +established in the <hi rend='italic'>present truth</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Some truths are +applicable in all ages, and are therefore +<emph>present</emph> truth for every generation; others are of a special character, and +are applicable to only one generation. They are none the less important, +however, because of this; for upon their acceptance or rejection depends +the salvation or loss of the people of that generation. Of this kind was +Noah's message of a coming flood. To the generation to whom it was +preached that message was <emph>present truth</emph>; to later generations it has been +<emph>past truth</emph>, and not a present, testing message. Similarly, had the first +advent message of John the Baptist, of the Messiah at hand, been proclaimed +in the generation either before or after John's time, it would +not have been applicable—would not have been <emph>present truth</emph>. The people +of the generation before would not have lived to see it fulfilled, and +to those living after, it would have been wrongly timed. Not so with +general truths, such as love, faith, hope, repentance, obedience, justice, +and mercy. These are always in season, and of a saving nature at all +times. Present truths, however, always include all these, and hence are +saving in character, and of vital importance. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What was the special message for Noah's day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said unto Noah, <hi rend='italic'>The end of all flesh is come</hi> before +Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; +and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an +ark of gopherwood.</hi></q> Gen. 6:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +9. How did Noah show his faith in this message? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, +moved with fear, prepared an ark</hi> to the saving of his house; by +the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the +righteousness which is by faith.</q> Heb. 11:7. +</p> + +<p> +10. How many were saved in the ark? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, +while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, <hi rend='italic'>eight souls +were saved by water</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 3:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Doubtless many who +were lost in the flood held, in a nominal +way, to faith in God; but the test as to the genuineness of this came with +Noah's special message; and the difference between their faith and his was +made plain when they rejected the saving truth for that time,—the warning +message concerning the coming flood. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What special message was given to Jonah for Nineveh? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the +word of the Lord.... And Jonah began to enter into +the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Yet forty days, +and Nineveh shall be overthrown</hi>.</q> Jonah 3:3, 4. +</p> + +<pb n='133'/><anchor id='Pg133'/> + +<p> +12. What saved the people from the predicted overthrow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So the people of Nineveh <hi rend='italic'>believed</hi> God, and proclaimed a +fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the +least of them.... And God saw their works, that <hi rend='italic'>they +turned from their evil way</hi>; and God repented of the evil, that He +had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.</q> +Verses 5-10. See Jer. 18:7-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—So likewise +would God have spared the antediluvian world +had they received Noah's message, and turned from their evil ways. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What was the special mission of John the Baptist? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. +The same came for a witness, <hi rend='italic'>to bear witness of the Light</hi>, that all +men through Him might believe.</q> John 1:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +14. What answer did he return when asked concerning his +mission? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He said, <hi rend='italic'>I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make +straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias</hi>.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did Christ say of those who rejected John's +message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the Pharisees and lawyers <hi rend='italic'>rejected the counsel of God +against themselves</hi>, being not baptized of him.</q> Luke 7:30. +</p> + +<p> +16. What did those do who were baptized of John? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all the people that heard Him, and the publicans, +<hi rend='italic'>justified God</hi>, being baptized with the baptism of John.</q> +Verse 29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, they +honored God by this act, which showed their +faith in His truth for that time. +</quote> + +<p> +17. Did God's chosen people receive Christ when He came? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He came unto His own, and <hi rend='italic'>His own received Him not</hi>.</q> +John 1:11. +</p> + +<p> +18. What reason did they give for not receiving Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know that God spake unto Moses: <hi rend='italic'>as for this fellow, +we know not from whence He is</hi>.</q> John 9:29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That was the +trouble; they had no faith in anything new. +They <emph>knew</emph> that God spoke by Moses: it required little faith to believe that. +They felt perfectly safe in accepting him, for everything had demonstrated +that he was sent of God. All could see that. But here was One whom, +although He had come in fulfilment of the prophecies of Moses and +the prophets as their long-looked-for Messiah, they felt there was a +risk in accepting, because they did not understand the prophecies +relating to Him, and time had not worked out to their satisfaction the +truthfulness of His claims. It required too much <emph>faith</emph>, as against their +<pb n='134'/><anchor id='Pg134'/> +desire to walk by <emph>sight</emph>, to accept Christ. It also called for a change of +views in some things, and a reformation in life. So they rejected Him. +They believed in the flood, faith in which had saved Noah; they believed +in Elijah also, and professed faith in all the prophets; but when it came +to this special truth for their time, they refused to accept it. Thus it +has been in all ages, and thus we may expect it to continue to be to +the end. +</quote> + +<p> +19. How did Christ say those who rejected Him reasoned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers +of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of +our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in +the blood of the prophets.</q> Matt. 23:29, 30. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—While +they condemned the action of their fathers in slaying +the prophets whom God had sent with messages of reproof and warning +applicable to those times, they soon filled up the measure of the iniquity +of their fathers by putting to death the Son of God. This showed that +they would have done as did their fathers had they lived in their day. +Thus we see that present truths are testing truths. +</quote> + +<p> +20. What was the result of the Jews' not accepting Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept +over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this +thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but <hi rend='italic'>now they +are hid from thine eyes</hi>.</q> Luke 19:41, 42. <q>Behold, your house +is left unto you <hi rend='italic'>desolate</hi>.</q> Matt. 23:38. +</p> + +<p> +21. Is there to be a special message for the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye +think not the Son of man cometh. <hi rend='italic'>Who then is a faithful and +wise servant</hi>, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, +<hi rend='italic'>to give them meat in due season</hi>?</q> Matt. 24:44, 45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the +last days a message will go forth which will be <q>meat +in due season</q> to the people. This must be the warning concerning the +Lord's soon coming, and the preparation necessary to meet Him. Because +such a message was not always preached, is no evidence that it is +not now to be proclaimed. In his farewell address to the Pilgrim Fathers +on their departure from Holland for America, John Robinson said: <q>The +Lord knoweth whether I shall ever see your faces more; but whether the +Lord hath appointed that or not, I charge you before God and His blessed +angels to follow me no farther than I have followed Christ. If God should +reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to +receive it as you ever were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am +very confident that the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth +out of His Holy Word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition +of the Reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and +will go no farther than the instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans +cannot be drawn to go any farther than what Luther saw; and the +Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of +God, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented; +for though they were burning and shining lights in their time, yet they +penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, +would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.</q> +</quote> + +<pb n='135'/><anchor id='Pg135'/> + +<p> +22. What does Christ say of that servant who, when He +comes, is found giving <q>meat in due season</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall +find so doing.</q> Verse 46. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The coming of +Christ in glory has been the hope of the +faithful in all ages. +</p> + +<p> +Luther declared: <q>I persuade myself verily, that the day of judgment +will not be absent full three hundred years. God will not, cannot, suffer +this wicked world much longer. The great day is drawing near in which +the kingdom of abominations shall be overthrown.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Melanchthon said: <q>This aged world is not far from its end.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Calvin bade Christians <q>not to hesitate, ardently desiring the day of +Christ's coming as of all events most auspicious;</q> and declared that <q>the +whole human family of the faithful will keep in view that day.</q> <q>We +must hunger after Christ, we must seek, contemplate,</q> he adds, <q>till the +dawning of that great day, when our Lord will fully manifest the glory of +His kingdom.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Said Knox, the Scotch Reformer: <q>Has not our Lord Jesus carried +up our flesh into heaven? and shall He not return? We know that He shall +return, and that with expedition.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Ridley and Latimer, who laid down their lives for the truth, looked +in faith for the Lord's coming. Ridley wrote: <q>The world without doubt—this +I do believe, and therefore I say it—draws to an end.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Said Baxter: <q>The thoughts of the coming of the Lord are most sweet +and joyful to me. It is the work of faith and the character of His saints +to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +23. What will be the burden of the closing gospel message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His +judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and +earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.... Babylon +is fallen, is fallen.... If any man worship the beast +and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his +hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.</q> +Rev. 14:7-10. +</p> + +<p> +24. How are those described who accept this message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +25. How earnestly is this work to be prosecuted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways +and hedges, <hi rend='italic'>and compel them to come in</hi>, that my house may +be filled.</q> Luke 14:23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This work is +now going on. In every part of the world the +sound of this closing gospel message is being heard, and the people are +being urged to accept it, and to prepare for Christ's coming and kingdom. +See readings on pages 251-263. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='136'/><anchor id='Pg136'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Obedience Of Faith</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus136.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Abraham Entering The +Promised Land. +"By faith Abraham, when he was called to +go out ... obeyed." Heb. 11:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did the Lord command Abraham to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the Lord had said unto Abram, <hi rend='italic'>Get thee out of thy +country</hi>, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, +<hi rend='italic'>unto a land that I will show thee</hi>.</q> Gen. 12:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. How did Abraham respond to this command? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>So Abram departed</hi>, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and +Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old +when he departed out of Haran.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +3. Of what was Abraham's obedience the fruit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By <hi rend='italic'>faith</hi> Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out +unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he +went out, not knowing whither he went.</q> Heb. 11:8, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +4. What command did the Lord later give to Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said, <hi rend='italic'>Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom +thou lovest</hi>, and get thee into the land of Moriah; <hi rend='italic'>and offer him +therefor a burnt offering</hi> upon one of the mountains which I will +tell thee of.</q> Gen. 22:2. +</p> + +<pb n='137'/><anchor id='Pg137'/> + +<p> +5. Upon what ground were the previous promises then renewed +to Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And said, By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for <hi rend='italic'>because +thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, +thine only son</hi>: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying +I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and +as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall +possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the +nations of the world be blessed; <hi rend='italic'>because thou hast obeyed My +voice</hi>.</q> Verses 16-18. +</p> + +<p> +6. What enabled Abraham to endure the test? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By <hi rend='italic'>faith</hi> Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: +and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten +son.</q> Heb. 11:17. +</p> + +<p> +7. Of what were the works of Abraham an evidence? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Was not Abraham our father <hi rend='italic'>justified</hi> by works, when he +had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?</q> James 2:21. +</p> + +<p> +8. By his works what was shown to be perfect? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and <hi rend='italic'>by works +was faith made perfect</hi>?</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +9. In what statement of the scripture was Abraham's +obedience really implied? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, <hi rend='italic'>Abraham believed +God</hi>, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and +he was called the Friend of God.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +10. What kind of faith avails with God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, +nor uncircumcision; but <hi rend='italic'>faith which worketh by love</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The faith which +justifies is the faith which works. Those +who say, and do not, are not men of faith. The obedience which is pleasing +to God is the fruit of that faith which takes God at His word, and submits +to the working of His power, being fully assured that what He has promised +He is able also to perform. This is the faith which is reckoned for righteousness. +See Rom. 4:21, 22. +</quote> + +<p> +11. For what purpose is the mystery of the gospel made +manifest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now [the mystery] is made manifest, and by the scriptures +of the prophets, according to the commandment of the +everlasting God, made known to all nations <hi rend='italic'>for the obedience of +faith</hi>.</q> Rom. 16:26. +</p> + +<p> +12. For what purpose is the grace of Christ received? +</p> + +<pb n='138'/><anchor id='Pg138'/> + +<p> +<q>Through whom we received grace and apostleship, <hi rend='italic'>unto +obedience of faith</hi> among all the nations, for His name's sake.</q> +Rom. 1:5, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +13. What example of obedience has Christ set for us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, +and <hi rend='italic'>became obedient unto death</hi>, even the death of the cross.</q> +Phil. 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +14. At what cost did even He learn the lesson of obedience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Though He were a Son, yet <hi rend='italic'>learned He obedience by the +things which He suffered</hi>.</q> Heb. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +15. To whom did Christ become the author of salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal +salvation <hi rend='italic'>unto all them that obey Him</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +16. How complete should this obedience be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth +itself against the knowledge of God, and <hi rend='italic'>bringing into +captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 10:5. +</p> + +<p> +17. What effect did the preaching of the apostles have upon +the hearers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the word of God increased; and <hi rend='italic'>the number of the +disciples multiplied</hi> in Jerusalem greatly; <hi rend='italic'>and a great company +of the priests were obedient to the faith</hi>.</q> Acts 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +18. What effect did the preaching of the apostle Paul have +upon the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which +Christ hath not wrought by me, <hi rend='italic'>to make the Gentiles obedient, +by word and deed</hi>.</q> Rom. 15:18. +</p> + +<p> +19. How highly does God regard obedience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt +offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? +Behold, <hi rend='italic'>to obey is better than sacrifice, and to harken than the fat of +rams</hi>.</q> 1 Sam. 15:22. +</p> + +<p> +20. With what sins are rebellion and stubbornness classed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For rebellion is as <hi rend='italic'>the sin of witchcraft</hi>, and stubbornness +is as <hi rend='italic'>iniquity</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>idolatry</hi>. +Because thou hast rejected the word +of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.</q> +Verse 23. +</p> + +<pb n='139'/><anchor id='Pg139'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus139.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Ruth And Naomi. +"Thy people shall be my people, and thy +God my God." Ruth 1:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='140'/><anchor id='Pg140'/> + +<p> +21. Whose voice had more weight with Saul than had the +commandment of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have +transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: +because <hi rend='italic'>I feared the people, and obeyed their voice</hi>.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +22. What charge did Jesus bring against the Pharisees? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, Full well <hi rend='italic'>ye reject the commandment +of God, that ye may keep your own tradition</hi>.</q> Mark 7:9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Human tradition is +simply the voice of man preserved in the +church. To follow the traditions of men instead of obeying the commandments +of God is to repeat the sin of Saul. +</quote> + +<p> +23. What will be the fate of those who do not obey the gospel +of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord +Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in +flaming fire <hi rend='italic'>taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that +obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> 2 Thess. 1:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +24. What condition is attained in obeying the truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seeing ye have <hi rend='italic'>purified your souls in obeying the truth</hi> +through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that +ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.</q> 1 Peter 1:22. +</p> + +<p> +25. What promise is made to the obedient? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye be willing and obedient, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall eat the good of the +land</hi>.</q> Isa. 1:19. +</p> + +<p> +26. Whose example are we urged to imitate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That ye be not slothful, but followers of them <hi rend='italic'>who through +faith and patience inherit the promises</hi>.</q> Heb. 6:12. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>To obey is better than sacrifice, the Lord hath said;</l> +<l>To harken when He commandeth, than an offering made.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>All ye who say, <q>There is naught to do since Christ doth save,</q></l> +<l>Remember what He commands you in the Book He gave.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Remember only the doers of the word are blessed;</l> +<l>'Tis well to hear and believe it, but to do is best.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='141'/><anchor id='Pg141'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part IV. Life, Parables, and Miracles of Christ</head> + +<pb n='142'/><anchor id='Pg142'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus142.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Immanuel—God With Us. +"In the beginning was the Word.... And the Word +was made flesh, and dwelt among us." John 1:1-14. +"He Was Wounded For Our Transgressions, He Was Bruised +For Our Iniquities: The Chastisement Of Our Peace Was Upon +Him; And With His Stripes We Are Healed." Isa. 53:5.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='143'/><anchor id='Pg143'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Birth, Childhood, And Early +Life Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus143.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Flight Into Egypt. +"Arise, ... and flee into Egypt." +Matt. 2:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In what promise was a Saviour from sin first revealed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto the serpent, ... I will put +enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and +<hi rend='italic'>her seed</hi>; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His +heel.</q> Gen. 3:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +2. Through whom was a restoration of the lost dominion +promised to Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To thee will I give it, and to <hi rend='italic'>thy seed</hi> forever.</q> Gen. 13:15. +</p> + +<p> +3. Who was this promised seed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, +And to thy seed, which is <hi rend='italic'>Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. Where was Christ to be born? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And ... he [Herod] demanded of them where Christ +should be born. And they said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>In Bethlehem of +Judea</hi>.</q> Matt. 2:4-6. See Micah 5:2. +</p> + +<p> +5. Of whom was Christ to be born? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>a virgin</hi> shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall +call His name Immanuel.</q> Isa. 7:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Immanuel means <q>God with us.</q> See Matt. 1:23. +</quote> + +<pb n='144'/><anchor id='Pg144'/> + +<p> +6. Before His birth, what did the angel say to Joseph concerning +the naming of the child? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And she shall bring forth a son, and <hi rend='italic'>thou shalt call His name +Jesus</hi>: for He shall save His people from their sins.</q> Matt. +1:21. +</p> + +<p> +7. At His birth, what message did the angel bring to the +shepherds abiding in the field? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, <hi rend='italic'>I +bring you good tidings of great joy</hi>, which shall be to all people. +For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, +which is Christ the Lord.</q> Luke 2:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +8. In what song of praise did a host of angels join? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the +heavenly host praising God, and saying, <hi rend='italic'>Glory to God in the +highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men</hi>.</q> Verses 13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +9. What prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled at Christ's birth? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given</hi>: and the +government shall be upon His shoulder.</q> Isa. 9:6. +</p> + +<p> +10. What did the prophet say His name should be called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The +mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. +Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no +end.</q> Verses 6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What did the devout Simeon say when he saw the child +Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for +Him after the custom of the law, then took he Him up in his +arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest Thou Thy +servant depart in peace, according to Thy word: for mine eyes +have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the +face of all people, a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory +of Thy people Israel.</q> Luke 2:27-32. +</p> + +<p> +12. How did the aged prophetess Anna express herself at +the sight of Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And she coming in that instant <hi rend='italic'>gave thanks likewise unto +the Lord</hi>, and spake of Him to all them that looked for redemption +in Jerusalem.</q> Verse 38. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did the wise men of the East do when they had +found Jesus? +</p> + +<pb n='146'/><anchor id='Pg146'/> + +<p> +<q>When they were come into the house, they saw the young +child with Mary His mother, and <hi rend='italic'>fell down, and worshiped Him</hi>: +and when they had opened their treasures, they <hi rend='italic'>presented unto +Him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh</hi>.</q> Matt. 2:11. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus145.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Visit Of The Shepherds. +"And they came with haste, and found ... +the babe lying in a manger." Luke 2:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +14. How came Jesus to live for a time in Egypt? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the +Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the +young child, and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou +there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child +to destroy Him.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +15. How does the revelator describe this satanic desire to +destroy Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready +to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.</q> +Rev. 12:4. +</p> + +<p> +16. By what means did Herod seek to destroy Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise +men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and <hi rend='italic'>slew all the children +that were in Bethlehem</hi>, and in all the coasts thereof, from two +years old and under.</q> Matt. 2:16. +</p> + +<p> +17. After Herod's death, where did Joseph and his family +live? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth</hi>: that it +might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall +be called a Nazarene.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is said of Christ's childhood and early life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the child <hi rend='italic'>grew</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>waxed strong in spirit, filled with +wisdom</hi>: and <hi rend='italic'>the grace of God was upon Him</hi>.... And He +went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and <hi rend='italic'>was subject +unto them</hi>.</q> Luke 2:40-51. +</p> + +<p> +19. Upon returning from a feast at Jerusalem, how came +Joseph and Mary to lose Jesus when He was twelve years old? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>they, supposing Him to have been in the company</hi>, went +a day's journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and +acquaintance. And when they found Him not, they turned +back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him.</q> Verses 44, 45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is how +many lose Jesus today. They suppose He is +in their <emph>company</emph>, but do not see to +it that He is with them <emph>personally</emph>. +Through carelessness it takes but a day to lose Him; but, when once lost, +it sometimes takes days of sorrowful searching, as it did Joseph and Mary, +to find Him again. +</quote> + +<pb n='147'/><anchor id='Pg147'/> + +<p> +20. What was Jesus doing when they found Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, that after three days they found Him +in the temple, <hi rend='italic'>sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing +them, and asking them questions</hi>.</q> Verse 46. +</p> + +<p> +21. How did His questions and answers impress those who +heard Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all that heard Him <hi rend='italic'>were astonished at His understanding +and answers</hi>.</q> Verse 47. +</p> + +<p> +22. With what words do the Scriptures conclude the record +of Christ's early life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor +with God and man.</q> Verse 52. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ's early life +is a pattern for all children and youth. It +was marked by respect and love for His mother. He was obedient to +His parents, and kind to all. He hated sin, and to every temptation turned +a deaf ear. He sought to understand the reason of things, and so increased +in knowledge and wisdom. He was sympathetic and tender-hearted, and +ever ready to relieve the oppressed, the sorrowing, and the suffering. If we +love Christ, we shall love to talk of Him; our sweetest thoughts will be of +Him; and by beholding Him we shall be changed into the same image. +See note on page <ref target='Pg098'>98</ref>. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>All praise to Thee, eternal Lord,</l> +<l>Clothed in a garb of flesh and blood;</l> +<l>Choosing a manger for Thy throne,</l> +<l>While worlds on worlds are Thine alone!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Once did the skies before Thee bow;</l> +<l>A virgin's arms contain Thee now:</l> +<l>Angels, who did in Thee rejoice,</l> +<l>Now listen to Thine infant voice.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>A little child, Thou art our guest,</l> +<l>That weary ones in Thee may rest;</l> +<l>Forlorn and lowly is Thy birth,</l> +<l>That we may rise to heaven from earth.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thou comest in the darksome night</l> +<l>To make us children of the light;</l> +<l>To make us, in the realms divine,</l> +<l>Like Thine own angels round Thee shine.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>All this for us Thy love hath done;</l> +<l>By this to Thee our life is won;</l> +<l>For this we tune our cheerful lays,</l> +<l>And tell our thanks in songs of praise.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Martin Luther.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='148'/><anchor id='Pg148'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christ's Ministry</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus148.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Nazareth. +"Who went about doing good, and healing all that +were oppressed of the devil." Acts 10:38.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. With what words had John the Baptist announced +Christ's ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I +am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy +Ghost and with fire.</q> Matt. 3:11. +</p> + +<p> +2. How old was Jesus when He began His ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus Himself began to be <hi rend='italic'>about thirty years of age</hi>.</q> +Luke 3:23. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what act and what miraculous manifestations was His +ministry opened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from +Nazareth of Galilee, and was <hi rend='italic'>baptized of John in Jordan</hi>. And +straightway coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens +opened, and <hi rend='italic'>the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him: and +there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art My beloved Son, +in whom I am well pleased</hi>.</q> Mark 1:9-11. +</p> + +<p> +4. Before entering upon His ministry, through what experience +did Jesus pass? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And immediately the Spirit driveth Him into the wilderness. +<hi rend='italic'>And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of +Satan</hi>; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered +unto Him.</q> Verses 12, 13. See also Matt. 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13. +</p> + +<pb n='149'/><anchor id='Pg149'/> + +<p> +5. With what was Jesus anointed for His work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth <hi rend='italic'>with the Holy Ghost +and with power</hi>: who went about doing good, and healing all +that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.</q> +Acts 10:38. +</p> + +<p> +6. Where did Jesus begin His ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into <hi rend='italic'>Galilee</hi>: +and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round +about. And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified +of all.</q> Luke 4:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did He announce His mission while at Nazareth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: +and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the +Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered +unto Him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when He had +opened the book, He found the place where it was written, The +Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to +preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me <hi rend='italic'>to heal the +broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering +of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, +to preach the acceptable year of the Lord....</hi> And He began +to say unto them, <hi rend='italic'>This day is this scripture fulfilled in your +ears</hi>.</q> Verses 16-21. +</p> + +<p> +8. How were the people impressed with His preaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all bare Him witness, and <hi rend='italic'>wondered at the gracious +words which proceeded out of His mouth</hi>.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why were the people at Capernaum astonished at His +teaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And [He] came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and +taught them on the Sabbath days. And they were astonished +at His doctrine: <hi rend='italic'>for His word was with power</hi>.</q> Verses 31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +10. Wherein did His teaching differ from that of the scribes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, +the people were astonished at His doctrine: <hi rend='italic'>for He taught them +as one having authority, and not as the scribes</hi>.</q> Matt. 7:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +11. How did the common people receive Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the common people heard Him <hi rend='italic'>gladly</hi>.</q> Mark 12:37. +</p> + +<p> +12. In His ministry, what work was closely associated with +His preaching? +</p> + + +<pb n='150'/><anchor id='Pg150'/> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, +and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and <hi rend='italic'>healing +all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people</hi>.</q> +Matt. 4:23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In His ministry, Christ +combined plain, practical teaching +with practical, helpful relief work. +</quote> + +<p> +13. How extensive was His fame, and how many were attracted +to Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And His fame went <hi rend='italic'>throughout all Syria</hi>: and they brought +unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases +and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and +those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and He +healed them. And there followed Him <hi rend='italic'>great multitudes</hi> of people +from <hi rend='italic'>Galilee</hi>, and from <hi rend='italic'>Decapolis</hi>, +and from <hi rend='italic'>Jerusalem</hi>, and +from <hi rend='italic'>Judea</hi>, and from <hi rend='italic'>beyond Jordan</hi>.</q> +Verses 24, 25. +</p> + +<p> +14. What expression used frequently in narrating His ministry +shows Christ's deep sympathy with mankind? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when He saw the multitude, <hi rend='italic'>He was moved with compassion</hi> +on them, because they fainted, and were scattered +abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.</q> <q>And Jesus went forth, +and saw a great multitude, and was <hi rend='italic'>moved with compassion</hi> +toward them, and He healed their sick.</q> Matt. 9:36; 14:14. +</p> + +<p> +15. In what few words did Christ sum up the object of His +ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man is come <hi rend='italic'>to seek and to save that which +was lost</hi>.</q> Luke 19:10. +</p> + +<p> +16. How did Christ feel over the impenitence of Jerusalem? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and <hi rend='italic'>wept +over it</hi>.</q> Luke 19:41. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In no other place +did Christ appear so much a reformer +as in Jerusalem, the headquarters of the Jewish religion, which religion, +though having come from Christ Himself, had degenerated into mere +formalism and a round of ceremony. Both the beginning and the close +of His ministry here was marked by a cleansing of the temple. See +John 2:13-18 and Matt. 21:12-16. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O blessed Christ! my Strength, my King,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He is my comfort and my stay;</l> +<l>In Him I hope, of Him I sing,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>While toiling o'er life's rugged way.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Chiefest among ten thousand He,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>For Christ, my King, is all to me.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='151'/><anchor id='Pg151'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christ The Great Teacher</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus151.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Teaching The Multitude. +"Never man spake like this +man." John 7:46.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What report did the officers bring who were sent out by +the chief priests and Pharisees to take Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Never man spake like this man.</q> John 7:46. +</p> + +<p> +2. How did Christ teach the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He taught them <hi rend='italic'>as one having authority</hi>, and not as the +scribes.</q> Matt. 7:29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The teaching of +the scribes and elders was cold and formal, +like a lesson learned by rote. To them the Word of God possessed no vital +power. Their own ideas and traditions were substituted for its teaching. +In the accustomed round of service they professed to explain the law, but no +inspiration from God stirred their own hearts or the hearts of their hearers.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +3. Why was Christ's preaching so impressive? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>His word was with power</hi>.</q> Luke 4:32. +</p> + +<p> +4. With what was He filled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus being <hi rend='italic'>full of the Holy Ghost</hi> returned from Jordan, +and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.</q> Verse 1. +</p> + +<p> +5. How freely was the Holy Spirit bestowed upon Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: +<hi rend='italic'>for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him</hi>.</q> John 3:34. +</p> + +<p> +6. How had Christ's teaching by parables been foretold? +</p> + +<pb n='152'/><anchor id='Pg152'/> + +<p> +<q>I will open My mouth <hi rend='italic'>in a parable</hi>: I will utter dark +sayings of old.</q> Ps. 78:2. +</p> + +<p> +7. How was this fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Without a parable spake He not unto them.</q> Matt. +13:34. +</p> + +<p> +8. What question did Christ's wonderful teaching call forth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He was come into His own country, He taught +them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, +and said, <hi rend='italic'>Whence hath this man this wisdom</hi>, and these mighty +works?</q> Verse 54. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did Isaiah say Christ would do with the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He will <hi rend='italic'>magnify</hi> the law, and +make it <hi rend='italic'>honorable</hi>.</q> Isa. +42:21. +</p> + +<p> +10. Because some thought He had come to destroy the +law, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the +prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I +say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle +shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever +therefore shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom +of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same +shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto +you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness +of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into +the kingdom of heaven.</q> Matt. 5:17-20. +</p> + +<p> +11. What testimony did Nicodemus bear concerning Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rabbi, <hi rend='italic'>we know that Thou art a teacher come from God</hi>: +for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God +be with him.</q> John 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +12. What did Christ's words at Jacob's well lead the woman +of Samaria to ask? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into +the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me +all things that ever I did: <hi rend='italic'>is not +this the Christ?</hi></q> John 4:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +13. How were the two on the way to Emmaus affected by +Christ's conversation with them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they said one to another, <hi rend='italic'>Did not our heart burn within +us, while He talked with us by the way</hi>, and while He opened to +us the Scriptures?</q> Luke 24:32. +</p> + +<pb n='153'/><anchor id='Pg153'/> + +<p> +14. In His teaching, to what did Christ direct attention? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded +unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.</q> +<q>And He said unto them, These are the words which +I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must +be fulfilled, which were written in the <hi rend='italic'>law of Moses</hi>, and in the +<hi rend='italic'>prophets</hi>, and in the +<hi rend='italic'>Psalms</hi>, concerning Me. Then opened He +their understanding, that they might understand <hi rend='italic'>the Scriptures</hi>.</q> +Verses 27, 44, 45. +</p> + +<p> +15. How did He encourage His disciples to look for the fulfilment +of prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, +spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (<hi rend='italic'>whoso +readeth, let him understand</hi>:) then let them which be in Judea +flee into the mountains.</q> Matt. 24:15, 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ was a +faithful student, a consistent user, and a perfect +expounder, of the Scriptures. He met temptation with the Scriptures; +He proved His Messiahship by the Scriptures; He taught from the Scriptures; +and He told His disciples to look to the Scriptures as their counselor +and guide for the future. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Blest they who seek</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>While in their youth,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>With spirit meek,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>The way of truth.</l> +<l>To them the Sacred Scriptures now display</l> +<l>Christ as the only true and living way;</l> +<l>His precious blood on Calvary was given</l> +<l>To make them heirs of bliss in heaven.</l> +<l>And e'en on earth the child of God can trace</l> +<l>The blessings of his Saviour's grace.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>For them He bore</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>His Father's frown;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>For them He wore</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>The thorny crown;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Nailed to the cross,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Endured its pain,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>That His life's loss</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Might be their gain.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Then haste to choose</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>That better part,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Nor e'en refuse</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>The Lord thy heart,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Lest He declare,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'><q>I know you not,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>And deep despair</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Should be your lot.</l> +<l>Now look to Jesus, who on Calvary died,</l> +<l>And trust on Him who there was crucified.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='154'/><anchor id='Pg154'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Parables Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus154.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Lessons From Nature. +"Consider the lilies of the field, how +they grow." Matt. 6:28.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What reference is made in the Psalms to Christ's use of +parables? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will open My mouth <hi rend='italic'>in a parable</hi>: +I will utter <hi rend='italic'>dark sayings +of old</hi>.</q> Ps. 78:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A parable primarily means +a <emph>comparison</emph> or <emph>similitude</emph>; +specifically it is a short story or narrative drawn from life or nature, by +means of which some important lesson is taught, or some moral drawn. +</quote> + +<p> +2. From what sources did Christ usually draw His parables? +</p> + +<p> +From nature and from every-day experiences. +</p> + +<p> +3. For what are His parables noted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Our Saviour's parables are distinguished above all others +for clearness, purity, chasteness, intelligibility, importance of +instruction, and simplicity. They are taken mostly from the +affairs of common life, and are intelligible, therefore, +to all men.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. +Albert Barnes, on Matt. 13:3.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +4. Following one of His parables, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who hath ears to hear let him hear.</q> Matt. 13:9. +</p> + +<p> +5. What question did the disciples then ask? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the disciples came, and said unto Him, <hi rend='italic'>Why speakest +Thou unto them in parables</hi>?</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +6. What reply did Christ make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He answered and said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Because it is given unto +<pb n='155'/><anchor id='Pg155'/> +you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven</hi>, but to them it +is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he +shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him +shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to +them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they +hear not, neither do they understand.</q> Verses 11-13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ's object, therefore, +in using parables was to teach the +mysteries, or truths, of the kingdom of heaven,—truths not necessarily +difficult to understand, but which had long been hidden or obscured by +sin, apostasy, and tradition,—in such a way that the spiritually minded +and those desirous of learning the truth, might understand them, and the +worldly-minded and unwilling would not. When asked the meaning of +any parable, Christ readily explained it to His disciples. See Luke 8:9-15; +Matt. 13:36-43; Mark 4:33,34. +</quote> + +<p> +7. After giving instruction by the use of parables, what +question did Christ ask His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus saith unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Have ye understood all these things?</hi> +They say unto Him, Yea, Lord.</q> Verse 51. +</p> + +<p> +8. How extensively did Christ make use of parables? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; +and <hi rend='italic'>without a parable spake He not unto them</hi>.</q> Verse 34. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Parables are +simply stories. All, young and old, like to +hear a story. Story-telling is one of the most successful means of awakening +an interest, securing attention, and teaching, illustrating, and +enforcing important truths. Christ, the greatest of all teachers, recognized +this, and therefore made constant use of this method of instruction. +See reading on <q>Preaching the Gospel,</q> page 631. +</quote> + +<p> +9. How did Christ suggest that His disciples follow His +example in teaching gospel truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said He unto them, Therefore every scribe which is +instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that +is an householder, <hi rend='italic'>which bringeth forth out of his treasure things +new and old</hi>.</q> Verse 52. +</p> + +<p> +10. Which are some of the most touching and soul-winning +of Christ's parables? +</p> + +<p> +The parable of the lost sheep, and that of the prodigal son. +Luke 15:3-7, 11-32. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Each parable +is designed to teach some one great and important +truth. The first twelve in the list here given are intended to +teach the following lessons, respectively: (1) Good and evil in life and +judgment. (2) Value of the gospel. (3) Seeking salvation. (4) The visible +church of Christ. (5) Truths new and old. (6) Duty of forgiving +others. (7) Call at various epochs. (8) Insincerity and repentance. +(9) Need of righteousness. (10) Watchful and careful profession. (11) +Use of abilities. (12) Final separation of good and bad. +</quote> + +<pb n='156'/><anchor id='Pg156'/> + +<p> +Christ's Parables +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{3.4cm} p{1.6cm} p{1cm} p{1cm} p{1cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(22) lw(12) lw(9) lw(9) lw(9)'"> +<row><cell>Parables</cell><cell>Locality</cell><cell>Matt.</cell><cell>Mark</cell> + <cell>Luke</cell></row> +<row><cell>I. Recorded in only one Gospel</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The Tares</cell><cell>Gennesaret </cell><cell>13:24-30</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The hid treasure</cell><cell></cell><cell>13:44</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The goodly pearl</cell><cell></cell><cell>13:45,46</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The draw-net</cell><cell></cell><cell>13:47-50</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Householder and treasure</cell><cell></cell><cell>13:52</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The unmerciful servant</cell><cell>Capernaum</cell><cell>18:23-35</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Laborers in the vineyard</cell><cell>Jerusalem</cell><cell>20:1-16</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The two sons</cell><cell></cell><cell>21:28-32</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Marriage of the king's son</cell><cell>Mt. of Olives</cell><cell>22:1-14</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The ten virgins</cell><cell></cell><cell>25:1-13</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The ten talents</cell><cell></cell><cell>25:14-30</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The sheep and goats</cell><cell></cell><cell>25:31-46</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>The seed growing secretly</cell><cell>Gennesaret</cell><cell></cell> + <cell>4:26-29</cell></row> +<row><cell>Householder and servants</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>13:34-37</cell></row> +<row><cell>The two debtors</cell><cell>Galilee</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>7:40-47</cell></row> +<row><cell>The good Samaritan</cell><cell>Jerusalem</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>10:25-37</cell></row> +<row><cell>The friend at midnight</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>11:5-13</cell></row> +<row><cell>The rich fool</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>12:16-21</cell></row> +<row><cell>The wedding-feast</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>12:35-40</cell></row> +<row><cell>The wise steward</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>12:42-48</cell></row> +<row><cell>The barren fig-tree</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>13:6-9</cell></row> +<row><cell>The seat to take</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>14:7-11</cell></row> +<row><cell>The great supper</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>14:15-24</cell></row> +<row><cell>Tower; king going to war</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>14:28-33</cell></row> +<row><cell>The piece of money</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>15:8-10</cell></row> +<row><cell>The prodigal son</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>15:11-32</cell></row> +<row><cell>The unjust steward</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>16:1-12</cell></row> +<row><cell>Rich man and Lazarus</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>16:19-31</cell></row> +<row><cell>The unprofitable servant</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>17:7-10</cell></row> +<row><cell>The importunate widow</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>18:1-8</cell></row> +<row><cell>Pharisee and publican</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>18:9-14</cell></row> +<row><cell>The pounds</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>19:11-27</cell></row> +<row><cell>II. Recorded in two Gospels</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>House on rock and sand</cell><cell>Galilee</cell><cell>7:24-27</cell> + <cell></cell><cell>6:47-49</cell></row> +<row><cell>The leaven in meal</cell><cell>Gennesaret</cell><cell>13:33</cell> + <cell></cell><cell>13:20,21</cell></row> +<row><cell>The lost sheep</cell><cell>Jerusalem</cell><cell>18:12-14</cell><cell></cell> + <cell>15:3-7</cell></row> +<row><cell>III. Recorded in three Gospels</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>New cloth on old garment</cell><cell>Capernaum</cell><cell>9:16</cell> + <cell>2:21</cell><cell>5:36</cell></row> +<row><cell>New wine in old bottles</cell><cell></cell><cell>9:17</cell><cell>2:22</cell> + <cell>5:37</cell></row> +<row><cell>The sower</cell><cell>Gennesaret</cell><cell>13:3-9</cell><cell>4:3-9</cell> + <cell>8:4-15</cell></row> +<row><cell>The mustard-seed</cell><cell></cell><cell>13:31,32</cell><cell>4:30-32</cell> + <cell>13:18,19</cell></row> +<row><cell>The wicked husbandmen</cell><cell>Jerusalem</cell><cell>21:33-43</cell> + <cell>12:1-9</cell><cell>20:9-16</cell></row> +<row><cell>The fig-tree</cell><cell>Mt. of Olives</cell><cell>24:32,33</cell> + <cell>13:28,29</cell><cell>21:29-31</cell></row> +</table> + +</div> + +<pb n='157'/><anchor id='Pg157'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Miracles Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus157.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Healing The Lunatic. +"A man approved of God ... by miracles +and wonders." Acts 2:22.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What testimony did the chief priests and Pharisees bear +concerning Christ's work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, +and said, What do we? for <hi rend='italic'>this man doeth many miracles</hi>.</q> +John 11:47. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what did Peter, on the day of Pentecost, say that +Christ had been approved by God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, +a man approved of God among you <hi rend='italic'>by miracles and wonders and +signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you</hi>, as ye yourselves +also know.</q> Acts 2:22. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what means did Christ claim to cast out devils? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if I <hi rend='italic'>with the finger of God</hi> cast out devils, no doubt the +kingdom of God is come upon you.</q> Luke 11:20. Matt. 12:28 +says <q>by the <hi rend='italic'>Spirit</hi> of God.</q> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Under the third +plague in Egypt,—that of turning the dust +into lice,—the magicians, failing to duplicate it, said to Pharaoh, <q>This +is the finger of God.</q> Ex. 8:18, 19. +</quote> + +<p> +4. Upon what ground did Nicodemus rest his belief that +Christ was a teacher from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher come from God: +<pb n='158'/><anchor id='Pg158'/> +<hi rend='italic'>for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be +with him</hi>.</q> John 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +5. After the healing of the blind man, upon what charge did +some of the Pharisees seek to prove that Christ was not of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of +God, <hi rend='italic'>because He keepeth not the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> John 9:16, +first part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This was a +false charge. Christ did keep the Sabbath, but +not according to the Pharisees' idea of Sabbath-keeping. See reading on +<q>Christ and the Sabbath,</q> page 430. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What question did others raise in opposition to this view? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Others said, <hi rend='italic'>How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?</hi> +And there was a division among them.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<p> +7. What was the result of Christ's working miracles at His +first Passover? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the +feast-day, <hi rend='italic'>many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles +which He did</hi>.</q> John 2:23. +</p> + +<p> +8. What question did the performing of these miracles lead +many to ask? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And many of the people believed on Him, and said, <hi rend='italic'>When +Christ cometh, will He do more miracles than these which this man +hath done?</hi></q> John 7:31. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why were many attracted to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A great multitude followed Him, <hi rend='italic'>because they saw His +miracles which He did on them that were diseased</hi>.</q> John 6:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A miracle is +the display of divine or superhuman power in +some unusual or extraordinary manner; hence its nature to attract attention. +Christ fed the five thousand with the multiplied loaves and fishes, +and all men wondered. Every day God feeds millions of humanity with +the multiplied fruits of the earth, and no one marvels. Christ, by a +shortened process, changed water into wine, and everybody was astonished; +but every year God does this in the usual way—through the vine—in +almost limitless quantities, and no one is astonished. A divine miracle, +therefore, whenever performed, is wrought to heal and to save, and +to call attention to the source of divine power. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What did the people say when they saw these things? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He hath done all things well</hi>: He maketh both the deaf to +hear, and the dumb to speak.</q> Mark 7:37. +</p> + +<p> +11. What kinds of disease and sickness did Jesus cure? +</p> + +<pb n='160'/><anchor id='Pg160'/> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, +and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and <hi rend='italic'>healing +all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people</hi>.</q> +<q>Great multitudes followed Him, and <hi rend='italic'>He healed them all</hi>.</q> +Matt. 4:23; 12:15. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus159.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Miraculous Draft Of Fishes. +"Launch out into the deep, and let down +your nets." Luke 5:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +12. Who were brought to Him for healing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they brought unto Him <hi rend='italic'>all sick people that were taken +with divers diseases and torments</hi>, and those which were <hi rend='italic'>possessed +with devils</hi>, and those which were +<hi rend='italic'>lunatic</hi>, and those that had the +<hi rend='italic'>palsy</hi>; and He healed them.</q> Matt. 4:24. +</p> + +<p> +13. To the woman who had been healed by touching His +garment, what did Christ say made her whole? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thy faith</hi> hath made thee whole.</q> Matt. 9:22. +</p> + +<p> +14. What did He say to the two blind men as He healed +them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>According to your <hi rend='italic'>faith</hi> be it unto you.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<p> +15. To another whose sight He had restored, what did +Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thy faith</hi> hath saved thee.</q> Luke 18:42. +</p> + +<p> +16. Why did not Christ work many miracles in His own +country? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He did not many mighty works there <hi rend='italic'>because of their +unbelief</hi>.</q> Matt. 13:58. +</p> + +<p> +17. What lesson did Christ design to teach in healing the +man sick of the palsy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon +earth to forgive sins</hi>, (He said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say +unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine +house.</q> Luke 5:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By His miracles, +therefore, Christ designed to teach faith +in the power of God not only to <emph>restore the body</emph>, +but to <emph>heal the soul</emph>. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What effect did Christ's miracles have upon the individuals +restored, and the people who witnessed them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And immediately he received his sight, and followed Him, +<hi rend='italic'>glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise +unto God</hi>.</q> <q>And all the people +<hi rend='italic'>rejoiced</hi> for all the glorious +things that were done by Him.</q> Luke 18:43; 13:17. +</p> + +<p> +19. What message did Christ send to John the Baptist while +John was in prison, to strengthen his wavering faith? +</p> + +<pb n='161'/><anchor id='Pg161'/> + +<p> +<q>Go and show John again those things which ye do hear +and see: <hi rend='italic'>The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers +are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the +poor have the gospel preached to them.</hi> And blessed is he, whosoever +shall not be offended in Me.</q> Matt. 11:4-6. +</p> + +<p> +20. In what miracle did Christ bring to a climax His works +on earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice, +<hi rend='italic'>Lazarus, come forth</hi>. And he that was dead came forth, bound +hand and foot with grave-clothes: and his face was bound about +with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him +go.</q> John 11:48, 44. +</p> + +<p> +21. What was the result of this great miracle? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then <hi rend='italic'>many of the Jews</hi> which came to Mary, and had seen +the things which Jesus did, <hi rend='italic'>believed on Him</hi>.</q> Verse 45. +</p> + +<p> +22. Because of the interest which this miracle created in +Him, what did the Pharisees say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>the world is gone after Him</hi>.</q> John 12:19. +</p> + +<p> +23. What did Jesus present to the people as a basis of confidence +in Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not. But +if I do, though ye believe not Me, <hi rend='italic'>believe the works</hi>: that ye may +know, and believe, that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.</q> +<q>Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or +else <hi rend='italic'>believe Me for the very works' sake</hi>.</q> John 10:37, 38; +14:11. +</p> + +<p> +24. Did Jesus ever make use of ordinary means in performing +His miracles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When He had thus spoken, He spat on the ground, and +made clay of the spittle, and He <hi rend='italic'>anointed the eyes of the blind +man with the clay</hi>, and said unto him, Go, <hi rend='italic'>wash in the pool of +Siloam</hi>, (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went his way +therefore, and washed, and came seeing.</q> John 9:6, 7. See +also Mark 7:33-35; 8:23-25; 2 Kings 5:1-14. +</p> + +<p> +25. Why were the miracles of Christ recorded by the inspired +writers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of +His disciples, which are not written in this book: but <hi rend='italic'>these are +written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of +God; and that believing ye might have life through His name</hi>.</q> +John 20:30, 31. +</p> + +<pb n='162'/><anchor id='Pg162'/> + +<p> +Christ's Miracles +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{2.6cm} p{1.1cm} p{1.1cm} p{1.1cm} p{1.1cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(24) lw(9) lw(9) lw(9) lw(9)'"> +<row><cell>Miracle</cell><cell>Matt.</cell><cell>Mark</cell><cell>Luke</cell> + <cell>John</cell></row> +<row><cell>I. Recorded in only one Gospel</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Two blind men healed</cell><cell>9:27-31</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>A dumb demoniac healed</cell><cell>9:32, 33</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Piece of money in mouth of fish</cell><cell> 17:24-27</cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Deaf and dumb man healed</cell><cell></cell><cell>7:31-37</cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>A blind man healed</cell><cell></cell><cell>8:22-26</cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Passed through throng unseen</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>4:28-31</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Draft of fishes</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell>5:1-11</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Raising the widow's son</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell>7:11-17</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing woman with infirmity</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell> 13:11-17</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing man with dropsy</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell>14:1-6</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing ten lepers</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell> 17:11-19</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing ear of Malchus</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell> 22:50, 51</cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Turning water into wine</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>2:1-11</cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing nobleman's son</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>4:46-54</cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing impotent man</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>5:1-16</cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing man born blind</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>9</cell></row> +<row><cell>Raising of Lazarus</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>11:1-46</cell></row> +<row><cell>Draft of fishes</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell>21:1-11</cell></row> +<row><cell>II. Recorded in two Gospels</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing centurion's servant</cell><cell>8:5-13</cell><cell></cell> + <cell>7:1-10</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Blind demoniac healed</cell><cell>12:22-30</cell><cell></cell> + <cell>11:14-26</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing Syrophenician maiden</cell><cell>15:21-28</cell><cell>7:24-30</cell> + <cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Feeding the four thousand</cell><cell>15:32-39</cell><cell>8:1-9</cell> + <cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Cursing the fig-tree</cell><cell>21:17-22</cell><cell>11:12-14</cell> + <cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Demoniac in synagogue healed</cell><cell></cell><cell>1:23-28</cell> + <cell>4:33-37</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>III. Recorded in three Gospels</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing the leper</cell><cell>8:2, 3</cell><cell>1:40-42</cell> + <cell>5:12, 13</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing Peter's mother-in-law</cell><cell>8:14, 15</cell><cell>1:30, 31</cell> + <cell>4:38, 39</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Stilling the storm</cell><cell>8:23-27</cell><cell>4:35-41</cell> + <cell>8:22-25</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Legion of devils cast out</cell><cell>8:28-34</cell><cell>5:1-20</cell> + <cell>8:26-37</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing man sick of palsy</cell><cell>9:1-8</cell><cell>2:3-12</cell> + <cell>5:18-26</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing woman with issue</cell><cell>9:20-22</cell><cell>5:25-34</cell> + <cell>8:43-48</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Raising Jairus's daughter</cell><cell>9:18-26</cell><cell>5:22-43</cell> + <cell>8:41-56</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Healing man's withered hand</cell><cell>12:10-13</cell><cell>3:1-5</cell> + <cell>6:6-10</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Walking on the sea</cell><cell>14:22-33</cell><cell>6:48-51</cell> + <cell></cell><cell>6:16-21</cell></row> +<row><cell>Curing demoniac child</cell><cell>17:14-21</cell><cell>9:14-29</cell> + <cell>9:38-42</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Curing blind Bartimæus</cell><cell>20:30-34</cell><cell>10:46-52</cell> + <cell>18:35-43</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>IV. Recorded in four Gospels</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell><cell></cell> + <cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Feeding the five thousand</cell><cell>14:15-21</cell><cell>6:35-44</cell> + <cell>9:12-17</cell><cell>6:5-14</cell></row> +</table> + +</div> + +<pb n='163'/><anchor id='Pg163'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Sufferings Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus163.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ In The Garden. +"There appeared an angel unto Him from heaven +strengthening Him." Luke 22:43.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what purpose did Christ come into the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that +Christ Jesus came into the world <hi rend='italic'>to save sinners</hi>; of whom I am +chief.</q> 1 Tim. 1:15. +</p> + +<p> +2. What constrained God to give His Son to die for man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>God so loved the world</hi>, that He gave His only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but +have everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. See 1 John 4:9, 10; +Rom. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did the prophet say Christ would be called to +endure? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was <hi rend='italic'>oppressed</hi>, and +He was <hi rend='italic'>afflicted</hi>, yet He opened not +His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a +sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. +He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall +declare His generation? for He was <hi rend='italic'>cut off out of the land of the +living</hi>: for the transgression of My people was He stricken.</q> +Isa. 53:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +4. Did Christ know beforehand the treatment He was to +receive? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then He took unto Him the twelve, and said unto them, +<hi rend='italic'>Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by +<pb n='164'/><anchor id='Pg164'/> +the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished</hi>. +For He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be <hi rend='italic'>mocked</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>spitefully entreated</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>spitted on</hi>: and they shall <hi rend='italic'>scourge +Him</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>put Him to death</hi>.</q> Luke 18:31-33. +</p> + +<p> +5. How heavy was the burden which rested on His soul on +the night of His betrayal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, +and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith He unto +them, <hi rend='italic'>My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death</hi>: tarry ye +here, and watch with Me.</q> Matt. 26:37, 38. +</p> + +<p> +6. What prayer of Christ shows that the redemption of a +lost world trembled in the balance in that terrible hour? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and +prayed, saying, <hi rend='italic'>O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass +from Me</hi>: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt.</q> Verse 39. +</p> + +<p> +7. How great was the agony of His soul? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly: and His +sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the +ground.</q> Luke 22:44. +</p> + +<p> +8. After He had prayed this remarkable prayer three times, +what occurred? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And while He yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that +was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew +near unto Jesus to kiss Him. But Jesus said unto him, Judas, +<hi rend='italic'>betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss</hi>?</q> Verses 47, 48. +</p> + +<p> +9. To what place was Christ taken? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then took they Him, and led Him, and brought Him <hi rend='italic'>into +the high priest's house</hi>. And Peter followed afar off.</q> Verse 54. +</p> + +<p> +10. While at the high priest's house, how did Peter deny +Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow +also was with Him: for he is a Galilean. And Peter said, <hi rend='italic'>Man, +I know not what thou sayest</hi>. And immediately, while he yet +spake, the cock crew. And the Lord turned, and looked upon +Peter.</q> Verses 59-61. +</p> + +<p> +11. To what insults was Christ subjected at the house of +the high priest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the men that held Jesus mocked Him, and smote Him</hi>. +And when they had blindfolded Him, <hi rend='italic'>they struck Him on the face</hi>, +and asked Him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote Thee?</q> +Verses 63, 64. +</p> + +<pb n='165'/><anchor id='Pg165'/> + +<p> +12. Where was Christ next taken? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the +chief priests and the scribes came together, and <hi rend='italic'>led Him into +their council</hi>.</q> Verse 66. +</p> + +<p> +13. What admission did they secure from Him as the basis +of condemning Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said they all, Art Thou then the Son of God? And +He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Ye say that I am</hi>. And they said, What need +we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of His own +mouth.</q> Verses 70, 71. +</p> + +<p> +14. What was the next step in their plan to secure lawful +authority to carry out their unlawful purpose? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the whole multitude of them arose, and <hi rend='italic'>led Him unto +Pilate</hi>.</q> Luke 23:1. +</p> + +<p> +15. When Pilate desired Christ released, how did they remonstrate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>they were the more fierce</hi>, +saying, <hi rend='italic'>He stirreth up the +people</hi>, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee +to this place.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This has ever +been a favorite accusation of the enemies of +truth against the work of true reformers. The Romans at this very time +had a law forbidding the teaching of any new religion <q>whereby the minds +of men may be <emph>disturbed</emph>.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +16. When Pilate heard that Christ was from Galilee, what +did he do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as soon as he knew that He belonged unto Herod's +jurisdiction, <hi rend='italic'>he sent Him to Herod</hi>, who himself also was at +Jerusalem at that time.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +17. Who appeared to accuse Christ before Herod? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the chief priests and scribes</hi> stood and vehemently +accused Him.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +18. To what indignities did Herod subject the Saviour? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Herod with his men of war <hi rend='italic'>set Him at naught</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>mocked Him</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe</hi>, and sent Him +again to Pilate.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +19. What did Pilate propose to do when Christ was again +brought before him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have found no cause of death in Him: <hi rend='italic'>I will therefore +chastise Him, and let Him go</hi>.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<pb n='166'/><anchor id='Pg166'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus166.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Crucifixion. +"There was a darkness over all the earth until +the ninth hour." Luke 23:44.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='167'/><anchor id='Pg167'/> + +<p> +20. Instead of consenting to His release, what did Christ's +accusers now demand? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>they were instant</hi> +[<hi rend='italic'>earnest</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>with loud voices, requiring +that He might be crucified</hi>. And the voices of them and of the +chief priests prevailed.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +21. Although Pilate had declared his belief in Christ's innocence, +yet what cruel punishment did he inflict upon Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and <hi rend='italic'>scourged Him</hi>.</q> +John 19:1. +</p> + +<p> +22. What shameful treatment did Christ receive from the +soldiers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon +His head</hi>, and a reed in His right hand: and they bowed the knee +before Him, and mocked Him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! +<hi rend='italic'>And they spit upon Him, and took the reed, and smote Him on the +head.</hi></q> Matt. 27:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +23. After bringing Him to the place of crucifixion, what +drink was offered Christ to stupefy Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They gave Him <hi rend='italic'>vinegar to drink mingled with gall</hi>: and when +He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.</q> Verse 34. +</p> + +<p> +24. In what prayer for those who crucified Him did Christ +manifest the true spirit of the gospel,—love for sinners? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said Jesus, <hi rend='italic'>Father, forgive them; for they know not what +they do</hi>.</q> Luke 23:34. +</p> + +<p> +25. With what words did the chief priests and others mock +Jesus while on the cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise also the chief priests mocking Him, with the +scribes and elders, said, <hi rend='italic'>He saved others; Himself He cannot save</hi>. +If He be the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the +cross, and we will believe Him.</q> Matt. 27:41, 42. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In their blindness they +could not see that Christ could not +save others and save Himself at the same time. +</quote> + +<p> +26. As He cried out in agony on the cross, and said, <q>I +thirst,</q> what was given Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And straightway one of them ran, and <hi rend='italic'>took a sponge, and +filled it with vinegar</hi>, and put it on a reed, +and <hi rend='italic'>gave Him to drink</hi>.</q> +Verse 48. See John 19:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +27. What closed this terrible scene? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said +<pb n='168'/><anchor id='Pg168'/> +It is finished: <hi rend='italic'>and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost</hi>.</q> +John 19:30. +</p> + +<p> +28. By what miracle, and phenomenon in nature did God indicate +the character of the deed which was being committed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it was about the sixth hour [noon], and <hi rend='italic'>there was a +darkness over all the earth</hi> until the ninth hour. And <hi rend='italic'>the sun was +darkened</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>the veil +of the temple was rent in the midst</hi>.</q> Luke +23:44, 45. +</p> + +<p> +29. What divine purpose was wrought out in the sufferings +of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom +are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, <hi rend='italic'>to make the +Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings</hi>.</q> Heb. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +30. For whom did Christ suffer all these things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was <hi rend='italic'>wounded for our +transgressions</hi>, He was <hi rend='italic'>bruised for +our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and +with His stripes we are healed</hi>.</q> Isa. 53:5. +</p> + +<p> +31. How much was included in the gift of Christ for the +salvation of man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for +us all, <hi rend='italic'>how shall He not +with Him also freely give us all things?</hi></q> +Rom. 8:32. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>'Tis midnight; and on Olives' brow</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The star is dimmed that lately shone:</l> +<l>'Tis midnight; in the garden, now,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The suffering Saviour prays alone.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Tis midnight; and from all removed,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The Saviour wrestles lone with fears;</l> +<l>E'en that disciple whom He loved</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Heeds not His Master's grief and tears.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Tis midnight; and for others' guilt</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The Man of Sorrows weeps in blood;</l> +<l>Yet He who hath in anguish knelt,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is not forsaken by His God.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Tis midnight; and from ether plains</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is borne the song that angels know;</l> +<l>Unheard by mortals are the strains</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That sweetly soothe the Saviour's woe.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>William B. Tappan.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='169'/><anchor id='Pg169'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Resurrection Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus169.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Visit To The Sepulcher. +"He is not here: for He is risen, as +He said." Matt. 28:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In what psalm was the resurrection of Christ foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell [Heb., <hi rend='italic'>Sheol</hi>, the +grave]: neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.</q> +Ps. 16:10. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what way was Jonah a type of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's +belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in +the heart of the earth.</q> Matt. 12:40. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what plain words did Christ foretell His resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>From that time forth began Jesus to show unto His disciples, +how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many +things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, +<hi rend='italic'>and be raised again the third day</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:21. <q>And while +they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man +shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill +Him, <hi rend='italic'>and the third day He shall be raised again</hi>.</q> Matt. 17: +22, 23. <q>The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected +of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, +<hi rend='italic'>and be raised the third day</hi>.</q> Luke 9:22. See also Matt. +20:17-19; Mark 8:31; 9:31, 32; 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34. +</p> + +<p> +4. When asked by the Jews for a sign of His Messiahship, +what did Jesus say? +</p> + +<pb n='170'/><anchor id='Pg170'/> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered and said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Destroy this temple, +and in three days I will raise it up</hi>.</q> John 2:19. +</p> + +<p> +5. To what temple did He refer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple +in building, and wilt Thou rear it up in three days? But <hi rend='italic'>He +spake of the temple of His body</hi>.</q> Verses 20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +6. After His resurrection, what effect had this prediction +upon His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples +remembered that He had said this unto them; and <hi rend='italic'>they believed +the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said</hi>.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did the chief priests and Pharisees seek to prevent +the fulfilment of Christ's words concerning His resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, +the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, +saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while He was +yet alive, After three days I will rise again. <hi rend='italic'>Command therefore +that the sepulcher be made sure until the third day</hi>, lest His +disciples come by night, and steal Him away, and say unto the +people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse +than the first.</q> Matt. 27:62-64. +</p> + +<p> +8. How did Pilate comply with their request? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, +<hi rend='italic'>make it as sure as ye can</hi>. So they went, and made the sepulcher +sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.</q> Verses 65, 66. +</p> + +<p> +9. How futile was all this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the +first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other +Mary to see the sepulcher. And, behold, there was a great +earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, +and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon +it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white +as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became +as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, +Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. +He is not here: for <hi rend='italic'>He is risen, as He said</hi>. Come, see the place +where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell His disciples that +<hi rend='italic'>He is risen from the dead</hi>.</q> Matt. 28:1-7. See also Mark 16:1-16; +Luke 24:1-8, 44-46; John 20:1-9. +</p> + +<p> +10. Was it possible for Christ to be holden of death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge +of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have +crucified and slain: whom God hath raised up, having loosed +the pains of death: <hi rend='italic'>because it was not possible that He should be +holden of it</hi>.</q> Acts 2:23,24. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus171.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Resurrection. +"Go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is +risen from the dead." Matt. 28:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +11. How does Paul speak of the resurrection of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, +how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; +and that He was buried, and that <hi rend='italic'>He rose again the third +day according to the Scriptures</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +12. Who does the apostle say saw Christ after He was risen? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He was seen of <hi rend='italic'>Cephas</hi>, then +of <hi rend='italic'>the twelve</hi>: after that, He +was seen of <hi rend='italic'>above five hundred brethren at once</hi>; ... after +that, He was seen of <hi rend='italic'>James</hi>; +then of <hi rend='italic'>all the apostles</hi>. And last +of all He was seen of <hi rend='italic'>me</hi> also, as of one born out of due time.</q> +Verses 5-8. +</p> + +<p> +13. What importance is attached to Christ's resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your +faith is also vain.... Ye are yet in your sins. Then they also +which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.</q> Verses 14-18. +</p> + +<p> +14. What positive assurance of the resurrection is given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>now is Christ risen +from the dead</hi>, and become the first-fruits +of them that slept.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +15. What great truth therefore follows? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made +alive.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +16. What cheering message has Christ sent to His people +touching His resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>I am alive +forevermore</hi>, Amen; <hi rend='italic'>and have +the keys of hell and of death</hi>.</q> Rev. +1:18. +</p> + +<p> +17. What is the measure of the power of God which believers +may experience in their daily lives? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That ye may know ... the exceeding greatness of +His power to us ward who believe, <hi rend='italic'>according to the working of +His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised +Him from the dead</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:18-20. +</p> + +<p> +18. What Christian ordinance has been given as a memorial +of Christ's burial and resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +Baptism, the symbol of the new birth. Rom. 6:3-5. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='173'/><anchor id='Pg173'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>A Sinless Life</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus173.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>A Teacher Of Righteousness. +"He was in all points tempted like as we are, +yet without sin." Heb. 4:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What testimony is borne concerning Christ's life on +earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Who did no sin</hi>, neither was guile found in His mouth.</q> +1 Peter 2:22. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is true of all other members of the human family? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For all have sinned</hi>, and come short of the glory of God.</q> +Rom. 3:23. +</p> + +<p> +3. With what question did Christ challenge His enemies? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which of you convinceth Me of sin?</q> John 8:46. +</p> + +<p> +4. To what extent was Christ tempted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>[He] was <hi rend='italic'>in all points tempted like as we are</hi>, yet without +sin.</q> Heb. 4:15. +</p> + +<p> +5. In His humanity, of what nature did Christ partake? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and +blood, <hi rend='italic'>He also Himself likewise took part of the same</hi>; that through +death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that +is, the devil.</q> Heb. 2:14. +</p> + +<p> +6. How fully did Christ share our common humanity? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore <hi rend='italic'>in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto +His brethren</hi>, that He might be a merciful and faithful high +<pb n='174'/><anchor id='Pg174'/> +priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for +the sins of the people.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In His humanity +Christ partook of our sinful, fallen nature. +If not, then He was not <q>made like unto His brethren,</q> was not <q>in all +points tempted like as we are,</q> did not overcome as we have to overcome, +and is not, therefore, the complete and perfect Saviour man needs and must +have to be saved. The idea that Christ was born of an immaculate or +sinless mother, inherited no tendencies to sin, and for this reason did not +sin, removes Him from the realm of a fallen world, and from the very place +where help is needed. On His human side, Christ inherited just what every +child of Adam inherits—a sinful nature. On the divine side, from His +very conception He was begotten and born of the Spirit. And all this was +done to place mankind on vantage-ground, and to demonstrate that <emph>in the +same way</emph> every one who is <q>born of the Spirit</q> may gain like victories +over sin in his own sinful flesh. Thus each one is to overcome <emph>as Christ +overcame</emph>. Rev. 3:21. Without this birth there can be no victory over +temptation, and no salvation from sin. John 3:3-7. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Where did God, in Christ, condemn sin, and gain the +victory for us over temptation and sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through +the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful +flesh, and for sin, <hi rend='italic'>condemned sin in the flesh</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God, in Christ, condemned +sin, not by pronouncing against +it merely as a judge sitting on the judgment-seat, but by coming and living +<emph>in the flesh, in sinful flesh</emph>, and yet without sinning. In Christ, He +demonstrated that it is possible, by His grace and power, to resist temptation, +overcome sin, and <emph>live a sinless life in sinful flesh</emph>. +</quote> + +<p> +8. By whose power did Christ live the perfect life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I can of Mine own self do nothing.</q> John 5:30. <q>The +words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but <hi rend='italic'>the +Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works</hi>.</q> John 14:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In His humanity +Christ was as dependent upon divine power +to do the works of God as is any man to do the same thing. He employed +no means to live a holy life that are not available to every human being. +Through Him, every one may have God dwelling in him and working in +him <q>to <emph>will</emph> and to <emph>do</emph> +of His good pleasure.</q> 1 John 4:15; Phil. 2:13. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What unselfish purpose did Jesus ever have before Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I came down from heaven, <hi rend='italic'>not to do Mine own will, but +the will of Him that sent Me</hi>.</q> John 6:38. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Have I need of aught, O Saviour!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Aught on earth but Thee?</l> +<l>Have I any in the heavens,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Any one but Thee?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Though I have of friends so many,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Love, and gold, and health,</l> +<l>If I have not Thee, my Saviour,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Hold I any wealth?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 26'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Corie F. Davis.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='175'/><anchor id='Pg175'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Our Pattern</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus175.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sea Of Tiberias. +"Leaving us an example, that ye should follow +His steps." 1 Peter 2:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In whose steps should we follow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also +suffered for us, <hi rend='italic'>leaving us an example, that ye should follow His +steps</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 2:21. +</p> + +<p> +2. How should the Christian walk? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to +walk, even as <hi rend='italic'>He walked</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:6. See Col. 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. What mind should be in us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.</q> +Phil. 2:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note</hi>.—The mind of Christ +was characterized by humility (verses +6-8); dependence upon God (John 5:19, 30); a determination to do only +the Father's will (John 5:30; 6:38); thoughtfulness of others (Acts 10:38); +and a willingness to sacrifice and suffer, and even to die, for the good of +others (2 Cor. 8:9; Rom. 5:6-8; 1 Peter 2:24). +</quote> + +<p> +4. As a child, what example did Christ set in the matter of +obeying His parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and +<hi rend='italic'>was subject unto them</hi>.</q> Luke 2:51. +</p> + +<p> +5. How are His childhood and youth described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus <hi rend='italic'>increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor +with God and man</hi>.</q> Verse 52. +</p> + +<pb n='176'/><anchor id='Pg176'/> + +<p> +6. What example did He set concerning baptism? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, <hi rend='italic'>to +be baptized of him</hi>. But John forbade Him, saying, I have need +to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to me? And Jesus +answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for <hi rend='italic'>thus it becometh +us to fulfil all righteousness</hi>. Then he suffered Him.</q> +Matt. 3:13-15. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did Christ teach the prayerful life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all +night in prayer to God.</q> Luke 6:12. <q>He took Peter and +John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.</q> Luke +9:28. +</p> + +<p> +8. To what kind of work did Jesus devote His life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who went about <hi rend='italic'>doing good</hi>.</q> Acts 10:38. +</p> + +<p> +9. For whom and why did Christ leave the riches of heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, +though He was rich, <hi rend='italic'>yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye +through His poverty might be rich</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 8:9. +</p> + +<p> +10. When reviled and mistreated, what did He do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who when He was reviled, <hi rend='italic'>reviled not again</hi>; when He +suffered, <hi rend='italic'>He threatened not</hi>; but committed Himself to Him that +judgeth righteously.</q> 1 Peter 2:23. +</p> + +<p> +11. How did He pray for those who crucified Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said Jesus, <hi rend='italic'>Father, forgive them; for they know not +what they do</hi>.</q> Luke 23:34. See Acts 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is the inspired testimony concerning Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity</hi>; therefore +God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness +above Thy fellows.</q> Heb. 1:9. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Majestic sweetness sits enthroned</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Upon the Saviour's brow;</l> +<l>His head with radiant light is crowned,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>His lips with grace o'erflow.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>No mortal can with Him compare,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Among the sons of men;</l> +<l>Fairer is He than all the fair</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That fill the heavenly train.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 26'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Samuel Stennett.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='177'/><anchor id='Pg177'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Our Helper And Friend</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus177.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Stilling The Tempest. +"He arose, and rebuked the winds ... and +there was a great calm." Matt. 8:26.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Through Christ, what has been opened to the house of +David? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In that day there shall be <hi rend='italic'>a fountain</hi> opened to the house +of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem <hi rend='italic'>for sin and for +uncleanness</hi>.</q> Zech. 13:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. Who has borne our sins, and stands ready to help us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I that speak in righteousness, <hi rend='italic'>mighty to save</hi>.</q> Isa. 63: +1. last part. +</p> + +<p> +3. For what purpose did Christ come to this world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man is come <hi rend='italic'>to seek and to save that which +was lost</hi>.</q> Luke 19:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. Through what was Christ made a complete and perfect +Saviour? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom +are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the +Captain of their salvation perfect <hi rend='italic'>through sufferings</hi>.</q> Heb. +2:10. +</p> + +<p> +5. Because of this, what is Christ able to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, <hi rend='italic'>He +is able to succor them that are tempted</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +6. How complete a Saviour is He? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore <hi rend='italic'>He is able also to save them to the uttermost that +<pb n='178'/><anchor id='Pg178'/> +come unto God by Him</hi>, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession +for them.</q> Heb. 7:25. +</p> + +<p> +7. From what is He able to keep us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now unto Him that is able <hi rend='italic'>to keep you from falling</hi>, and to +present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding +joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and +majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.</q> +Jude 24, 25. +</p> + +<p> +8. What does He call those who accept Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Henceforth I call you not servants; ... I have called +you <hi rend='italic'>friends</hi>.</q> John 15:15. +</p> + +<p> +9. What kind of friend is He? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is <hi rend='italic'>a friend that sticketh closer than a brother</hi>.</q> Prov. +18:24. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is the mark of a true friend? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>A friend loveth at all times</hi>, and a brother is born for +adversity.</q> Prov. 17:17. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>I will sing the wondrous story</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of the Christ who died for me,</l> +<l>How He left His home in glory,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For the cross on Calvary.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>I was lost, but Jesus found me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Found the sheep that went astray;</l> +<l>Threw His loving arms around me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Drew me back into His way.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>I was bruised, but Jesus healed me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Faint was I from many a fall,</l> +<l>Sight was gone, and fears possessed me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>But He freed me from them all.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Days of darkness still come o'er me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Sorrow's paths I often tread,</l> +<l>But the Saviour still is with me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>By His hand I'm safely led.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Yes, I'll sing the wondrous story</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of the Christ who died for me,</l> +<l>Sing it with the saints in glory,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Gathered by the crystal sea.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 26'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Francis H. Rowley.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='179'/><anchor id='Pg179'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part V. The Holy Spirit</head> + +<pb n='180'/><anchor id='Pg180'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus180.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Outpouring Of The Spirit At Pentecost. +"It shall come to pass in the last days +... I will pour out of My Spirit +upon all flesh." Acts 2:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='181'/><anchor id='Pg181'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Holy Spirit And His Work</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus181.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Ascension Of Christ. +"I will pray the Father, and He shall give +you another Comforter." John 14:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What precious promise did Jesus make to His disciples +shortly before His crucifixion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will pray the Father, and <hi rend='italic'>He shall give you another Comforter</hi>, +that He may abide with you forever.</q> John 14:16. +</p> + +<p> +2. Who is the Comforter, and what was He to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the Comforter, even <hi rend='italic'>the Holy Spirit</hi>, whom the Father +will send in My name, <hi rend='italic'>He shall teach you all things</hi>, and bring +to your remembrance all that I said unto you.</q> Verse 26, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +3. Why cannot the world receive Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, +<hi rend='italic'>because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +4. How intimate is His union with believers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But ye know Him; for <hi rend='italic'>He dwelleth with you</hi>, and shall be +<hi rend='italic'>in you</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +5. Whose presence does the Holy Spirit bring to the believers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will not leave you comfortless: <hi rend='italic'>I will come to you</hi>.</q> +Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +6. What promise is thus fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lo, <hi rend='italic'>I am with you alway</hi>, even unto the end of the world.</q> +Matt. 28:20. See also John 14:21-23. +</p> + + +<pb n='182'/><anchor id='Pg182'/> + +<p> +7. What threefold union is thus established? +</p> + +<p> +<q>At that day ye shall know that <hi rend='italic'>I am in My Father</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>ye in Me</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>I in you</hi>.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Rom. 8:9 shows +the Spirit of each of the three persons of the +Godhead to be one and the same Spirit. +</quote> + +<p> +8. How does Jesus, through the Spirit, seek an entrance +to every heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>I stand at the door, and knock</hi>: if any man hear My +voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with +him, and he with Me.</q> Rev. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why was it necessary for Christ to go away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you +that I go away: for <hi rend='italic'>if I go not away, the Comforter will not come +unto you</hi>; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.</q> John +16:7. +</p> + +<p> +10. What was the Comforter to do when He came? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He is come, He will <hi rend='italic'>reprove</hi> +[margin, <hi rend='italic'>convince</hi>] +the world of <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi>, and of <hi rend='italic'>righteousness</hi>, +and of <hi rend='italic'>judgment</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +11. By what other title is the Comforter designated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto +you from the Father, even <hi rend='italic'>the Spirit of truth</hi>, which proceedeth +from the Father, He shall testify of Me.</q> John 15:26. +</p> + +<p> +12. What did Jesus say the Spirit of truth would do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, <hi rend='italic'>He will +guide you into all truth</hi>: for He shall not speak of Himself; but +whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and <hi rend='italic'>He will +show you things to come</hi>.</q> John 16:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Spirit <emph>speaks</emph> +(1 Tim. 4:1); <emph>teaches</emph> (1 Cor. 2:3); <emph>bears +witness</emph> (Rom. 8:16); <emph>makes intercession</emph> (Rom. 8:26); +<emph>distributes the gifts</emph> +(1 Cor. 12:11); and <emph>invites the sinner</emph> (Rev. 22:17). +</quote> + +<p> +13. Whom did Christ say the Holy Spirit would glorify? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He shall glorify <hi rend='italic'>Me</hi>: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall +show it unto you.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is plain from these +scriptures that the Holy Spirit is the +personal representative of Christ upon the earth, abiding in the church by +dwelling in the hearts of the believers. It follows that any attempt to +make a man the vicegerent of Christ in the place of the third person of the +Godhead is an attempt to put man in the place of God. Thus does the +fundamental principle of the Papacy set aside the person and work of the +Holy Spirit. +</quote> + +<p> +14. How has God revealed to us the hidden things of the +kingdom? +</p> + +<pb n='183'/><anchor id='Pg183'/> + +<p> +<q>But God hath revealed them unto us <hi rend='italic'>by His Spirit</hi>: for +the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.</q> +1 Cor. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +15. Who moved upon the prophets to give their messages? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: +but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the <hi rend='italic'>Holy +Ghost</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +16. After Pentecost, how was the gospel preached? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.</q> 1 Peter +1:12. +</p> + +<p> +17. How are believers sealed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In whom also after that ye believed, ye were <hi rend='italic'>sealed with +that Holy Spirit of promise</hi>.</q> Eph. 1:13. +</p> + +<p> +18. What warning is therefore given? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God</hi>, whereby ye are sealed +unto the day of redemption.</q> Eph. 4:30. +</p> + +<p> +19. Is there a limit to the strivings of God's Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with +man.</q> Gen. 6:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The limit is +determined by the creature rather than by the +Creator. It is when there is an utter abandonment to evil, and further +appeals would be without avail. God foreknowing all things, may designate +a definite period of probation for man, as in the case of the one hundred +and twenty years before the flood (Gen. 6:3); but His Spirit never ceases to +strive with man as long as there is hope of his salvation. +</quote> + +<p> +20. For what did David pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Cast me not away from Thy presence; and <hi rend='italic'>take not Thy +Holy Spirit from me</hi>.</q> Ps. 51:11. +</p> + +<p> +21. How willing is God to give to us the Holy Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto +your children: how much more shall your Heavenly Father +give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?</q> Luke 11:13. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O for that flame of living fire?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Which shone so bright in saints of old;</l> +<l>Which bade their souls to heaven aspire,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Calm in distress, in danger bold!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Remember, Lord, the ancient days;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Renew Thy work, Thy grace restore;</l> +<l>And while to Thee our hearts we raise,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>On us Thy Holy Spirit pour.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 24'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Wm. H. Bathurst.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='184'/><anchor id='Pg184'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Fruit Of The Spirit</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus184.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>David And Jonathan. +"The fruit of the Spirit is love." Gal. 5:22.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the fruit of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, +goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.</q> Gal. 5:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +2. What are the works of the flesh? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; +Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, +witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, +heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such +like.</q> Verses 19-21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The evils here mentioned are +a close parallel to the lists found +in Matt. 15:18, 19; Mark 7:20-23; Rom. 1:29-31; and 2 Tim. 3:1-5. +</quote> + +<p> +3. How may the works of the flesh be avoided? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Walk in the Spirit</hi>, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the +flesh.</q> Gal. 5:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. By what is the love of God shed abroad in the heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts <hi rend='italic'>by the Holy +Ghost</hi> which is given unto us.</q> Rom. 5:5. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is love declared to be? +</p> + +<pb n='185'/><anchor id='Pg185'/> + +<p> +<q>And above all these things put on love, which is the <hi rend='italic'>bond of +perfectness</hi>.</q> Col. 3:14, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +6. By what does genuine faith work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, +nor uncircumcision; but <hi rend='italic'>faith which worketh by love</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:6. +</p> + +<p> +7. What does love do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hatred stirreth up strifes: but <hi rend='italic'>love +covereth all sins</hi>.</q> Prov. +10:12. <q>Have fervent charity among yourselves: for <hi rend='italic'>charity +shall cover the multitude of sins</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 4:8. +</p> + +<p> +8. Of what does the kingdom of God consist? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but <hi rend='italic'>righteousness</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>peace</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>joy</hi> +in the Holy Ghost.</q> Rom. 14:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note</hi>.—It is the +Christian's privilege to have righteousness, peace, +and joy,—a righteousness which is of God by faith (Rom. 3:21, 22); a +peace that passeth understanding (Phil. 4:7), which the world can neither +give nor take away; and a joy that rejoices evermore (1 Thess. 5:16; +Phil. 4:4). +</quote> + +<p> +9. In what way does love manifest itself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love +vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, +seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account +of evil.</q> 1 Cor. 13:4, 5, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +10. What does God's gentleness do for us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy gentleness hath <hi rend='italic'>made me great</hi>.</q> Ps. 18:35. +</p> + +<p> +11. What spirit should we show toward others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but <hi rend='italic'>be gentle +unto all men</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 2:24. +</p> + +<p> +12. What does the goodness of God do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance +and long-suffering; not knowing that <hi rend='italic'>the goodness of God +leadeth thee to repentance</hi>?</q> Rom. 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +13. How should we treat those who have wronged us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dearly beloved, <hi rend='italic'>avenge not yourselves</hi>, but rather give place +unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, +saith the Lord. Therefore <hi rend='italic'>if thine enemy hunger, feed him; +if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of +fire on his head</hi>.</q> Rom. 12:19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +14. How does faith determine our standing with God? +</p> + +<pb n='186'/><anchor id='Pg186'/> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>without faith it is impossible to please Him</hi>: for he that +cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder +of them that diligently seek Him.</q> Heb. 11:6. +</p> + +<p> +15. How does God regard the meek and quiet spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whose adorning ... let it be the hidden man of the +heart, ... even the ornament of <hi rend='italic'>a meek and quiet spirit, which +is in the sight of God of great price</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 3:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +16. In our Christian growth and experience, what is to accompany +faith, courage, and knowledge? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Add to your faith virtue [courage]; and to virtue knowledge; +and to knowledge <hi rend='italic'>temperance</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note</hi>.—One of the +briefest and best definitions of temperance is +<emph>self-control</emph>. The word in the text means much more than mere abstinence +from intoxicating drinks,—the limited sense now frequently given to it. It +means control, strength, power, or ascendency over exciting and evil +passions of all kinds. It denotes the self-rule which the overcomer or +converted man has over the evil propensities of his nature. Commenting +on this passage, Dr. Albert Barnes says: <q>The influences of the Holy +Spirit on the heart make a man <emph>moderate</emph> in all indulgences; teach him to +restrain his passions, and to govern himself.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +17. How highly is he commended who controls his spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and <hi rend='italic'>he +that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city</hi>.</q> Prov. 16:32. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is said of all these different virtues? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Against such there is no law.</q> Gal. 5:23, last clause. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The law condemns +sin. But all these things, being virtues, +are in harmony with the law. They are produced by the Spirit; and the +law, which is spiritual, cannot, therefore, condemn them. +</quote> + +<p> +19. From what condemnation does Spirit-leading save us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if ye be led of the Spirit, <hi rend='italic'>ye are not under the law</hi>.</q> +Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +20. To what unity are Christians exhorted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Endeavoring to keep <hi rend='italic'>the unity of the Spirit</hi> in the bond of +peace.</q> Eph. 4:3. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Spirit of life, and light, and love,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thy heavenly influence give;</l> +<l>Quicken our souls, our guilt remove,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That we in Christ may live.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>His love within us shed abroad,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Life's ever-springing well;</l> +<l>Till God in us, and we in God,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In love eternal dwell.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 22'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Thomas Haweis.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='187'/><anchor id='Pg187'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Gifts Of The Spirit</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus187.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Healing The Leper. +"He led captivity captive, and gave gifts +unto men." Eph. 4:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Concerning what subject ought we to be informed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now <hi rend='italic'>concerning spiritual gifts</hi>, brethren, I would not have +you ignorant.</q> 1 Cor. 12:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. When Christ ascended, what did He give to men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore He saith, When He ascended on high, He led +captivity captive [margin, a multitude of captives], and <hi rend='italic'>gave +gifts unto men</hi>.</q> Eph. 4:8. +</p> + +<p> +3. What were these gifts that Christ gave to men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He gave some, <hi rend='italic'>apostles</hi>; +and some, <hi rend='italic'>prophets</hi>; and some, +<hi rend='italic'>evangelists</hi>; and some, +<hi rend='italic'>pastors</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>teachers</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +4. How are these gifts elsewhere spoken of? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God hath set some in the church, first <hi rend='italic'>apostles</hi>, secondarily +<hi rend='italic'>prophets</hi>, thirdly <hi rend='italic'>teachers</hi>, +after that <hi rend='italic'>miracles</hi>, then +<hi rend='italic'>gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues</hi>.</q> 1 +Cor. 12:28. +</p> + +<p> +5. For what purpose were these gifts bestowed upon the +church? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, +for the edifying of the body of Christ</hi>: ... that we henceforth +<pb n='188'/><anchor id='Pg188'/> +be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with +every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning +craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking +the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is +the head, even Christ.</q> Eph. 4:12-15. +</p> + +<p> +6. What result is to be obtained by the exercise of the gifts +in the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Till we all come in</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>into</hi>, +margin] <hi rend='italic'>the unity of the faith</hi>, and +of the knowledge of the Son of God, <hi rend='italic'>unto a perfect man</hi>, unto the +measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +7. How is unity preserved in the diversities of gifts? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now there are diversities of gifts, but <hi rend='italic'>the same Spirit</hi>.</q> +1 Cor. 12:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. For what purpose is the manifestation of this one Spirit +given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man +<hi rend='italic'>to profit withal</hi>. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of +<hi rend='italic'>wisdom</hi>; to another the word of +<hi rend='italic'>knowledge</hi> by the same Spirit; +to another <hi rend='italic'>faith</hi> by the same +Spirit; to another the gifts of <hi rend='italic'>healing</hi> +by the same Spirit; to another the <hi rend='italic'>working of miracles</hi>; to +another <hi rend='italic'>prophecy</hi>; to another +<hi rend='italic'>discerning of spirits</hi>; to another +<hi rend='italic'>divers kinds of tongues</hi>; to +another the <hi rend='italic'>interpretation of tongues</hi>.</q> +Verses 7-10. +</p> + +<p> +9. Who controls the distribution of the gifts of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But all these worketh that one and <hi rend='italic'>the selfsame Spirit</hi>, +dividing to every man severally <hi rend='italic'>as He will</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +10. Was it God's design that all should possess the same +gifts? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all +workers of miracles? have all the gifts of healing? do all speak +with tongues? do all interpret?</q> Verses 29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +11. Were the gifts of the Spirit to continue forever? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whether there be prophecies, <hi rend='italic'>they shall be done away</hi>; +whether there be tongues, <hi rend='italic'>they shall cease</hi>; whether there be +knowledge, <hi rend='italic'>it shall be done away</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 13:8, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +12. When will the gifts of the Spirit be no longer needed? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>When that which is perfect is come</hi>, then that which is in +part shall be done away.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='189'/><anchor id='Pg189'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Gift Of Prophecy</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus189.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Writing The Prophecies. +"And He sent and signified it by His angel +unto His servant John." Rev. 1:1.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How did God communicate with man in Eden? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God <hi rend='italic'>called unto Adam, and said unto him</hi>, +Where art thou?</q> Gen. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +2. Since the fall, by what means has God generally made +known His will to man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have also spoken <hi rend='italic'>by the prophets</hi>, and I have multiplied +visions, and used similitudes, <hi rend='italic'>by the ministry of the prophets</hi>.</q> +Hosea 12:10. +</p> + +<p> +3. What things belong to God, and what to us? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The secret things</hi> belong +unto the Lord our God; but <hi rend='italic'>those +things which are revealed</hi> belong unto us and to our children forever.</q> +Deut. 29:29. +</p> + +<p> +4. How fully and to whom does God reveal His purposes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Surely the Lord God will do <hi rend='italic'>nothing</hi>, +but <hi rend='italic'>He revealeth His +secret unto His servants the prophets</hi>.</q> Amos 3:7. +</p> + +<p> +5. Can the wise men of the world foretell the future? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret +which the king hath demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, +magicians, nor soothsayers, show unto the king.</q> Dan. 2:27, +R. V. See notes on page <ref target='Pg202'>202</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +6. Who did Daniel say could reveal secrets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets</hi>, and maketh +<pb n='190'/><anchor id='Pg190'/> +known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter +days.</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did the prophet Daniel acknowledge the insufficiency +of human wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>As for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom +that I have more than any living</hi>, but for their sakes that shall +make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou +mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.</q> Verse 30. +</p> + +<p> +8. After revealing and interpreting the dream, what did +Daniel say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The great God hath made known to the king what shall +come to pass <hi rend='italic'>hereafter</hi>.</q> Verse 45. +</p> + +<p> +9. How does God show His foreknowledge? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the former things are come to pass, and <hi rend='italic'>new things +do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them</hi>.</q> Isa. +42:9. +</p> + +<p> +10. How does the Lord reveal Himself to His prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself +known unto him in a <hi rend='italic'>vision</hi>, and will speak unto him in a +<hi rend='italic'>dream</hi>.</q> Num. 12.6. +</p> + +<p> +11. Under what influence did the prophets of old speak? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: +but holy men of God spake <hi rend='italic'>as they were moved by the Holy +Ghost</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:21. See 2 Sam. 23:2. +</p> + +<p> +12. How are both the origin of prophecy and the means of +communicating it still further shown? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The revelation of Jesus Christ, <hi rend='italic'>which God gave unto Him</hi>, +to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to +pass; and <hi rend='italic'>He sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant +John</hi>.</q> Rev. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +13. What angel revealed to Daniel his visions and dreams? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man <hi rend='italic'>Gabriel</hi>, +whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to +fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. +And <hi rend='italic'>he informed me, and talked with me, and said</hi>, O Daniel, I +am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.</q> +Dan. 9:21, 22. See also chapter 10, and Rev. 22:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +14. What Spirit was in the prophets inditing their utterances? +</p> + +<pb n='192'/><anchor id='Pg192'/> + +<p> +<q>O which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched +diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto +you: searching what, or what manner of time <hi rend='italic'>the Spirit of Christ +which was in them</hi> did signify, when it testified beforehand the +sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.</q> 1 Peter +1:10, 11. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus191.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Anointing Of Christ. +"I saw the Spirit descending from heaven +like a dove, and it abode upon Him." +John 1:32.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +15. How were the Lord's words to the prophets preserved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: +then <hi rend='italic'>he wrote the dream</hi>, and told the sum of the matters.</q> Dan. +7:1. See Jer. 51:60; Rev. 1:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +16. By whom has God spoken to us in these last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in +time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last +days spoken unto us <hi rend='italic'>by His Son</hi>.</q> Heb. 1:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +17. What was one of the offices to be filled by the Messiah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee <hi rend='italic'>a Prophet</hi> from +the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye +shall harken.</q> Deut. 18:15. +</p> + +<p> +18. What was foretold through the prophet Joel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out +my Spirit upon all flesh; <hi rend='italic'>and your sons and your daughters shall +prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall +see visions</hi>.</q> Joel 2:28. +</p> + +<p> +19. When did this prediction begin to be fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; +And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour +out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters +shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and +your old men shall dream dreams.</q> Acts 2:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +20. What were some of the gifts Christ gave to His church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, +and gave gifts unto men.... And He gave some, <hi rend='italic'>apostles</hi>; +and some, <hi rend='italic'>prophets</hi>; and some, +<hi rend='italic'>evangelists</hi>; and some, <hi rend='italic'>pastors</hi> and +<hi rend='italic'>teachers</hi>.</q> Eph. 4:8-11. +</p> + +<p> +21. By what means did God deliver and preserve Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By a prophet</hi> the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and +<hi rend='italic'>by a prophet</hi> was he preserved.</q> Hosea 12:13. +</p> + +<p> +22. When Moses complained of his slowness of speech, what +did God say Aaron should be to him? +</p> + +<pb n='193'/><anchor id='Pg193'/> + +<p> +<q>And he shall be thy <hi rend='italic'>spokesman</hi> unto the people: and he +shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a <hi rend='italic'>mouth</hi>, and thou +shalt be to him instead of God.</q> Ex. 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +23. What did God afterward call Aaron? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a +god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be <hi rend='italic'>thy prophet</hi>.</q> +Ex. 7:1. +</p> + +<p> +24. What is one test by which to detect false prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>if the +thing follow not, nor come to pass</hi>, that is the thing which the Lord +hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: +thou shalt not be afraid of him.</q> Deut. 18:22. +</p> + +<p> +25. What other test should be applied in determining the +validity of the claims of a prophet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, +and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder +come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Let us go after +other gods</hi>, which thou hast not known, and <hi rend='italic'>let us serve them</hi>; +thou shalt not harken unto the words of that prophet, or that +dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know +whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with +all your soul. <hi rend='italic'>Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear +Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice</hi>, and ye +shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him.</q> Deut. 13:1-4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From these +scriptures it will be seen that, in the first place, +if a prophet's words do not prove to be true, it is evidence that God has not +sent that prophet. On the other hand, even though the thing predicted +comes to pass, if the pretended prophet seeks to lead others to break God's +commandments, this, regardless of all signs, should be positive evidence +that he is not a true prophet. +</quote> + +<p> +26. What rule did Christ give for distinguishing between +true and false prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By their fruits</hi> ye shall know them.</q> Matt. 7:20. +</p> + +<p> +27. What general rule is laid down for testing all prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>To the law and to the testimony</hi>: if they speak not according +to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</q> Isa. 8:20. +</p> + +<p> +28. How did God's prophets anciently use the words of former +prophets in exhorting the people to obedience? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried by the +former prophets</hi>, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity?</q> +Zech. 7:7. +</p> + +<pb n='194'/><anchor id='Pg194'/> + +<p> +29. What is the promised result of believing God's prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; +<hi rend='italic'>believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper</hi>.</q> 2 Chron. 20:20. +</p> + +<p> +30. What admonition is given regarding the gift of prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Despise not prophesyings.</hi> Prove all things; hold fast that +which is good.</q> 1 Thess. 5:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +31. What will characterize the last, or remnant, church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to +make war with the remnant of her seed, <hi rend='italic'>which keep the commandments +of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> Rev. +12:17. +</p> + +<p> +32. What is the <q>testimony of Jesus</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The testimony of Jesus is <hi rend='italic'>the spirit of prophecy</hi>.</q> Rev. +19:10. See Rev. 1:9. +</p> + +<p> +33. What results when this gift is absent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where there is no vision, <hi rend='italic'>the people perish</hi>: but he that +keepeth the law, happy is he.</q> Prov. 29:18. See also Ps. +74:9. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>What poor, despised company</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of travelers are these,</l> +<l>Who walk in yonder narrow way,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Along the rugged maze?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ah! these are of a royal line,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>All children of a King,</l> +<l>Heirs of immortal crowns divine;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And lo! for joy they sing.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Why do they, then, appear so mean,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And why so much despised?</l> +<l>Because of their rich robes unseen</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The world is not apprized.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>But why keep they that narrow road,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That rugged, thorny maze?</l> +<l>Why, that's the way their Leader trod,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>They love and keep His ways.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Why do they shun the pleasing path</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That worldlings love so well?</l> +<l>Because that is the road to death,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The open road to hell.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>What! is there then no other road</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To Salem's happy ground?</l> +<l>Christ is the only way to God,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>No other can be found.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='195'/><anchor id='Pg195'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Outpouring Of The Spirit</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus195.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Peter Preaching On The Day Of Pentecost. +"This is that which was spoken by the +prophet Joel." Acts 2:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what did Christ, just before His ascension, tell His +disciples to wait? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: +but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, <hi rend='italic'>until ye be endued with +power from on high</hi>.</q> Luke 24:49. +</p> + +<p> +2. With what did He say they would be baptized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye shall be baptized <hi rend='italic'>with the Holy Ghost</hi> not many days +hence.</q> Acts 1:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—John the Baptist +had foretold this baptism. He said: <q>I +indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but He that cometh after +me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize +you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.</q> Matt. 3:11. +</quote> + +<p> +3. For what work was this baptism to prepare them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is +come upon you: and <hi rend='italic'>ye shall be witnesses unto Me</hi> both in Jerusalem, +and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost +part of the earth.</q> Acts 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +4. What were some of the results of the preaching of the +gospel under the outpouring of the Spirit? +</p> + +<pb n='196'/><anchor id='Pg196'/> + +<p> +<q>Now when they heard this, <hi rend='italic'>they were pricked in their heart</hi>, +and said ... Men and brethren, what shall we do? +Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one +of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and +ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.... Then they +that gladly received his word were baptized: <hi rend='italic'>and the same day +there were added unto them about three thousand souls</hi>.</q> Acts +2:37-41. <q>And by the hands of the apostles were many signs +and wonders wrought among the people; ... <hi rend='italic'>and believers +were the more added to the Lord</hi>, multitudes both of men and +women.</q> Acts 5:12-14. <q>And the word of God increased; +and <hi rend='italic'>the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly</hi>; +and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.</q> +Acts 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +5. How did persecution affect the preaching of the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And at that time there was a great persecution against the +church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered +abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the +apostles.... <hi rend='italic'>Therefore they that were scattered abroad went +everywhere preaching the word.</hi></q> Acts 8:1-4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Persecution has +only had a tendency to extend and establish +the faith which it was designed to destroy.... There is no lesson +which men have been so slow to learn as that to oppose and persecute men +is the very way to confirm them in their opinions, and to spread their +doctrines.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Albert Barnes, on Acts 4:4.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +6. What words of Peter seem to indicate another outpouring +of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may +be blotted out, <hi rend='italic'>when the times of refreshing shall come from the +presence of the Lord</hi>.</q> Acts 3:19. +</p> + +<p> +7. What event does he speak of as immediately following +these times of refreshing? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And He shall send Jesus Christ</hi>, which before was preached +unto you: whom the heaven must receive [Syriac, retain] until +the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken +by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.</q> +Verses 20, 21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From this +it seems evident that we may look for another +outpouring of the Spirit for a final proclamation of the gospel to all the +world just before Christ's second advent and the restitution of all things. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What prophecy was fulfilled in the Pentecostal outpouring +of the Spirit in the time of the apostles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, +<pb n='197'/><anchor id='Pg197'/> +and said, ... These are not drunken, as ye suppose, +... but <hi rend='italic'>this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel</hi>; +And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour +out My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters +shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your +old men shall dream dreams: and on my servants and on my +handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they +shall prophesy.</q> Acts 2:14-18. See Joel 2:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +9. What expressions in the prophecy of Joel seem to imply +a double fulfilment of this outpouring of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord +your God: for He hath given you the <hi rend='italic'>former rain</hi> moderately, +and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the <hi rend='italic'>former +rain</hi>, and the <hi rend='italic'>latter rain</hi> +in the first month.</q> Joel 2:23. See +also Hosea 6:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In Palestine +the early rains prepare the soil for the seed +sowing, and the latter rains ripen the grain for the harvest. So the early +outpouring of the Spirit prepared the world for the extensive sowing of the +gospel seed, and the final outpouring will come to ripen the golden grain +for the harvest of the earth, which Christ says is <q>the end of the world.</q> +Matt. 13:37-39; Rev. 14:14, 15. +</quote> + +<p> +10. For what are we told to pray at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain</hi>; so the +Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, +to every one grass in the field.</q> Zech. 10:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Before the apostles +received the baptism of the Spirit in the +early rain on the day of Pentecost, they all <q>continued with one accord in +prayer and supplication.</q> Acts 1:14. During this time they confessed +their faults, put away their differences, ceased their selfish ambitions and +contentions for place and power, so that when the time for the outpouring +came, <q>they were all <emph>with one accord</emph> in one place,</q> ready for its +reception. To be prepared for the final outpouring of the Spirit, all sin and selfish +ambition must again be put away, and a like work of grace wrought upon +the hearts of God's people. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How is the closing work of the gospel under the outpouring +of the Spirit described by the revelator? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After these things I saw another angel come down from +heaven, having great power; and <hi rend='italic'>the earth was lightened with +his glory</hi>.</q> Rev. 18:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. What does this angel say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Babylon +the great is fallen, is fallen</hi>, and is become the habitation of devils, +and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and +hateful bird.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<pb n='198'/><anchor id='Pg198'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The religious +world will then be in much the same condition +as was the Jewish nation after it had rejected Christ at His first advent. +See 2 Tim. 3:1-5. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What did Peter on the day of Pentecost tell his hearers +to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And with many other words did he testify and exhort, +saying, <hi rend='italic'>Save yourselves from this untoward generation</hi>.</q> Acts +2:40. +</p> + +<p> +14. What similar call and appeal will be made under the +final outpouring of the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Come out +of her, My people</hi>, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that +ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto +heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.</q> Rev. 18:4, +5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—A great work +will be accomplished in a short time under +the final outpouring of the Spirit. Many voices all over the earth will +sound the warning cry. Signs and wonders will be wrought by the believers, +and, as at Pentecost, thousands will be converted in a day. +</p> + +<p> +Those who fail to heed this final gospel call, like the unbelieving +Jews, will be doomed to destruction. The seven last plagues will overtake +them, as war, famine, death, and destruction overtook the Jews, who, +not believing in Christ, failed to heed His call to flee, and shut themselves +up in Jerusalem to their doom. Those who heed the call, and separate +themselves from sin and from sinners, will be saved. +</p> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Come, Holy Spirit, come,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Let Thy bright beams arise,</l> +<l>Dispel the sorrow from our minds,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The darkness from our eyes.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Convince us all of sin,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Then lead to Jesus' blood,</l> +<l>And to our wondering view reveal</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The mercies of our God.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Revive our drooping faith,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Our doubts and fears remove,</l> +<l>And kindle in our breasts the flame</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of never-dying love.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Tis Thine to cleanse the heart,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To sanctify the soul,</l> +<l>To pour fresh life in every part,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And new-create the whole.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Come, Holy Spirit, come,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Our minds from bondage free;</l> +<l>Then shall we know, and praise, and love</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The Father, Son, and Thee.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 26'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Joseph Hart.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='199'/><anchor id='Pg199'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part VI. The Sure Word of Prophecy</head> + +<pb n='200'/><anchor id='Pg200'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus200.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Handwriting On The Wall. +"In that night was Belshazzar ... slain, and Darius the +Median took the kingdom." Dan. 5:30, 31.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='201'/><anchor id='Pg201'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Prophecy, Why Given</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus201.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Daniel In Babylon. +"Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but +He revealeth His secret unto His servants +the prophets." Amos 3:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Why were the Sacred Writings given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written +<hi rend='italic'>for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the +Scriptures might have hope</hi>.</q> Rom. 15:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what means is all scripture given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All scripture is given <hi rend='italic'>by inspiration of God</hi>.</q> 2 Tim 3:16, +first part. +</p> + +<p> +3. For what is it profitable? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And is profitable for <hi rend='italic'>doctrine</hi>, +for <hi rend='italic'>reproof</hi>, for <hi rend='italic'>correction</hi>, +for <hi rend='italic'>instruction in righteousness</hi>.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<p> +4. How was the prophecy given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: +but <hi rend='italic'>holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost</hi>.</q> +2 Peter 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is the Lord able to do regarding the future? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things +do I declare: <hi rend='italic'>before they spring forth I tell you of them</hi>.</q> Isa. +42:9. +</p> + +<pb n='202'/><anchor id='Pg202'/> + +<p> +6. How far-reaching is God's ability to reveal the future? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remember the former things of old: for I am God, ... +and there is none like Me, <hi rend='italic'>declaring the end from the beginning</hi>, +and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.</q> Isa. +46:9, 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In contrast +with this, note the following confession of a noted +modern historian as to man's inability to reveal the future:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>History has yet made so slight progress toward the scientific basis +that she is able to foretell nothing that is to be hereafter. As to the future, +she is stone-blind. There is not a philosopher in the world who can forecast +the historical evolution to the extent of a single day. The historian +is as completely dumb before the problems of 1895 as a charlatan weather-prophet +ought to be with respect to the meteorological conditions of the +next season. The year will come and go. It will fulfil its purpose in the +great calendar of man-life. Its events and issues will be evolved with +scientific exactitude out of antecedent conditions. But no man living can +predict what the aspect and event will be. The tallest son of the morning +can neither foretell nor foresee the nature of what is to come in the year +that already stands knocking at the door.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>John Clark +Ridpath, in Christian at Work, Dec. 27, 1894.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Knowing all things, the future is present with God. More, perhaps, +than any other one thing, the prophecies of the Bible and their fulfilment +bear witness to its divine inspiration. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +7. To whom does God reveal the secrets of the future? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth +His secret unto His servants <hi rend='italic'>the prophets</hi>.</q> Amos 3:7. +</p> + +<p> +8. To whom do the things which have been revealed belong? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those +things which are revealed belong <hi rend='italic'>unto us and to our children +forever</hi>.</q> Deut. 29:29. +</p> + +<p> +9. What testimony did the apostle Peter bear concerning +his experience on the mount of transfiguration? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For we have not followed cunningly devised fables</hi>, when we +made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus +Christ, <hi rend='italic'>but were eye-witnesses of His majesty</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:16. +</p> + +<p> +10. When did he say he saw the majesty of Christ, and +heard the voice from heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this voice which came from heaven we heard, <hi rend='italic'>when +we were with Him in the holy mount</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +11. How does he emphasize the reliability of prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And we have the word of prophecy <hi rend='italic'>made more sure</hi>.</q> +Verse 19, R. V. <q>Now <hi rend='italic'>more confirmed</hi>.</q> Boothroyd's translation. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Every fulfilment of +prophecy is a confirmation of the truthfulness +and reliability of prophecy. +</quote> + +<pb n='203'/><anchor id='Pg203'/> + +<p> +12. What admonition is therefore given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whereunto ye do well that ye <hi rend='italic'>take heed</hi>, as unto a lamp +shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star +arise in your hearts.</q> Verse 19, last part, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +13. What has ever been the theme of God's prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Receiving the end of your faith, even <hi rend='italic'>the salvation of your +souls</hi>. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and +searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should +come unto you.</q> 1 Peter 1:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +14. Whose spirit inspired their utterances? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Searching what, or what manner of time <hi rend='italic'>the Spirit of Christ +which was in them</hi> did signify, when it testified beforehand the +sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +15. In what prophecy did Christ recognize Daniel as a +prophet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, +spoken of by <hi rend='italic'>Daniel the prophet</hi>, stand +in the holy place, (<hi rend='italic'>whoso +readeth, let him understand</hi>).</q> Matt. 24:15. +</p> + +<p> +16. To what time were the prophecies of Daniel, as a whole, +to be sealed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, +even to <hi rend='italic'>the time of the end</hi>: +many shall run to and fro, and knowledge +shall be increased.</q> Dan. 12:4. +</p> + +<p> +17. What assurance was given by the angel that these +prophecies would be understood in the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed +up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, +and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: +and none of the wicked shall understand; <hi rend='italic'>but the wise shall +understand</hi>.</q> Verses 9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is the last book of the Bible called? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The Revelation of Jesus Christ</hi>, which God gave unto Him.</q> +Rev. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is said of those who read, hear, and keep the +things contained in this book? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of +this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein.</q> +Verse 3. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='204'/><anchor id='Pg204'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Nebuchadnezzar's Dream</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus204.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Daniel Interpreting The Dream. +"There is a God in heaven that revealeth +secrets." Dan. 2:28.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What statement did Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, +make to his wise men whom he had assembled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the king said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>I have dreamed a dream, and +my spirit was troubled to know the dream</hi>.</q> Dan. 2:3. +</p> + +<p> +2. After being threatened with death if they did not make +known the dream and the interpretation, what did the wise men +say to the king? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, <hi rend='italic'>There is +not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter</hi>: therefore +there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at +any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. And it is a rare +thing that the king requireth, and <hi rend='italic'>there is none other that can +show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with +flesh</hi>.</q> Verses 10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +3. After the wise men had thus confessed their inability to +do what the king required, who offered to interpret the dream? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then <hi rend='italic'>Daniel</hi> went in, and desired of the king that he would +give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.</q> +Verse 16. +</p> + +<p> +4. After Daniel and his fellows had sought God earnestly, +<pb n='205'/><anchor id='Pg205'/> +how were the dream and its interpretation revealed to Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel <hi rend='italic'>in a night-vision</hi>. +Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<p> +5. When brought before the king, what did Daniel say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, +The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, +the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show unto the +king; but <hi rend='italic'>there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets</hi>, and +maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter +days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, +are these.</q> Verses 27, 28. +</p> + +<p> +6. What did Daniel say the king had seen in his dream? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are +these; ... Thou, O king, sawest, and behold <hi rend='italic'>a great image</hi>. +This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before +thee; and the form thereof was terrible.</q> Verses 28-31. +</p> + +<p> +7. Of what were the different parts of the image composed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This image's head was of fine <hi rend='italic'>gold</hi>, his breast and his arms +of <hi rend='italic'>silver</hi>, his belly and his thighs of +<hi rend='italic'>brass</hi>, his legs of <hi rend='italic'>iron</hi>, his +feet <hi rend='italic'>part of iron and part of clay</hi>.</q> Verses 32, 33. +</p> + +<p> +8. By what means was the image broken to pieces? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou sawest till that <hi rend='italic'>a stone</hi> was cut out without hands, +which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, +and brake them to pieces.</q> Verse 34. +</p> + +<p> +9. What became of the various parts of the image? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the +gold, broken to pieces together, and <hi rend='italic'>became like the chaff of the +summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away</hi>, that +no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image +became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.</q> Verse 35. +</p> + +<p> +10. With what words did Daniel begin the interpretation +of the dream? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven +hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. +And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the +field and the fowls of the heaven hath He given into thine hand, +and hath made thee ruler over them all. <hi rend='italic'>Thou art this head of +gold.</hi></q> Verses 37, 38. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The character of +the Babylonian Empire is fittingly indicated +by the nature of the material composing that portion of the image by which +<pb n='206'/><anchor id='Pg206'/> +it was symbolized—the head of gold. It was <q>the golden kingdom of a +golden age.</q> The city of Babylon, its metropolis, according to history +towered to a height never equaled by any of its later rivals. <q>Situated +in the garden of the East; laid put in a perfect square sixty miles in circumference, +fifteen miles on each side, surrounded by a wall three hundred and +fifty feet high and eighty-seven feet thick, with a moat, or ditch, around +this, of equal cubic capacity with the wall itself; divided into six hundred +and seventy-six squares, laid out in luxuriant pleasure-grounds and gardens, +interspersed with magnificent dwellings,—this city, containing in +itself many things which were themselves wonders of the world, was itself +another and still mightier wonder.... Such was Babylon, with +Nebuchadnezzar, youthful, bold, vigorous, and accomplished, seated upon +its throne.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +11. What was to be the nature of the next kingdom after +Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After thee shall arise another kingdom <hi rend='italic'>inferior to thee</hi>.</q> +Verse 39, first part. +</p> + +<p> +12. Who was the last Babylonian king? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In that night was <hi rend='italic'>Belshazzar</hi> the king of the Chaldeans +slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about +threescore and two years old.</q> Dan. 5:30, 31. See also verses +1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +13. To whom was Belshazzar's kingdom given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy kingdom is divided, and given to <hi rend='italic'>the Medes and +Persians</hi>.</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<p> +14. By what is the Medo-Persian Empire represented in the +great image? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The breast and arms of silver.</q> Dan. 2:32. +</p> + +<p> +15. By what is Grecia, the kingdom succeeding Medo-Persia, +represented in the image? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His belly and his thighs of <hi rend='italic'>brass</hi>.</q> Verse 32. <q>And another +<hi rend='italic'>third kingdom of brass</hi>, which shall bear rule over all the +earth.</q> Verse 39. +</p> + +<p> +16. What is said of the fourth kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the fourth kingdom <hi rend='italic'>shall be strong as iron</hi>: forasmuch +as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron +that breaketh all these, <hi rend='italic'>shall it break in pieces and bruise</hi>.</q> +Verse 40. +</p> + +<p> +17. What scripture shows that the Roman emperors ruled +the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass in those days, that <hi rend='italic'>there went out a +<pb n='207'/><anchor id='Pg207'/> +decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed</hi>.</q> +Luke 2:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Describing the Roman conquests, Gibbon uses the very +imagery employed in the vision of Daniel 2. He says: <q>The arms of the +republic, sometimes vanquished in battle, always victorious in war, advanced +with rapid steps to the Euphrates, the Danube, the Rhine, and the +ocean; and the images of <emph>gold</emph>, or <emph>silver</emph>, +or <emph>brass</emph>, that might serve to represent +the nations and their kings, were successively broken by the <emph>iron</emph> +monarchy of Rome.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Decline and Fall of the Roman +Empire,</q> chap. 38, +par. I, under <q>General Observations,</q> at the close of the chapter.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +18. What was indicated by the mixture of clay and iron in +the feet and toes of the image? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' +clay, and part of iron, <hi rend='italic'>the kingdom shall +be divided</hi>.</q> Dan. 2:41. +</p> + +<p> +19. In what prophetic language was the varying strength of +the ten kingdoms of the divided empire indicated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as the toes of the feet were <hi rend='italic'>part of iron, and part of +clay</hi>, so the kingdom shall be <hi rend='italic'>partly strong, and partly broken</hi> +[margin, <hi rend='italic'>brittle</hi>].</q> Verse 42. +</p> + +<p> +20. Were any efforts to be made to reunite the divided empire +of Rome? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, <hi rend='italic'>they +shall mingle themselves with the seed of men</hi>: but they shall not +cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.</q> +Verse 43. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Charlemagne, Charles V, Louis XIV, and Napoleon all +tried to reunite the broken fragments of the Roman Empire, but failed. +By marriage and intermarriage ties have been formed with a view to +strengthening and cementing together the shattered kingdom; but none +have succeeded. The element of disunion remains. Many political +revolutions and territorial changes have occurred in Europe since the fall +of the Roman Empire in 476 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>; but its divided state +still remains. +</p> + +<p> +This remarkable dream, as interpreted by Daniel, presents in the +briefest form, and yet with unmistakable clearness, the course of world +empires from the time of Nebuchadnezzar to the close of earthly history +and the setting up of the everlasting kingdom of God. The history confirms +the prophecy. The sovereignty of the world was held by Babylon +from the time of this dream, <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 603, +until <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 538, when it passed to +the Medes and Persians. The victory of the Grecian forces at the battle +of Arbela, in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 331, +marked the downfall of the Medo-Persian Empire, +and the Greeks then became the undisputed rulers of the world. The +battle of Pydna, in Macedonia, in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> +168, was the last organized effort +to withstand a world-wide conquest by the Romans, and at that time +therefore the sovereignty passed from the Greeks to the Romans, and the +fourth kingdom was fully established. The division of Rome into ten +kingdoms is definitely foretold in the vision recorded in the seventh chapter +of Daniel, and occurred between the years 351 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> and 476 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='208'/><anchor id='Pg208'/> + +<p> +21. What is to take place in the days of these kingdoms? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in the days of these kings shall <hi rend='italic'>the God of heaven set +up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed</hi>: ... but it +shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it +shall stand forever.</q> Verse 44. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This verse +foretells the establishment of another universal +kingdom, the kingdom of God. This kingdom is to overthrow and supplant +all existing earthly kingdoms, and is to stand forever. The time +for the setting up of this kingdom was to be <q>in the days of these kings.</q> +This cannot refer to the four preceding empires, or kingdoms; for they +were not contemporaneous, but successive; neither can it refer to an establishment +of the kingdom at Christ's first advent, for the ten kingdoms which +arose out of the ruins of the Roman Empire were not yet in existence. +It must therefore be yet future. +</quote> + +<p> +22. In what announcement in the New Testament is the +establishment of the kingdom of God made known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great +voices in heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>The kingdoms of this world are become +the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ</hi>; and He shall reign +forever and ever.</q> Rev. 11:15. +</p> + +<p> +23. For what have we been taught to pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thy kingdom come.</hi> Thy will be done in earth, as it is in +heaven.</q> Matt. 6:10. +</p> + +<p> +24. What event is closely associated with the establishment +of God's everlasting kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus +Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at <hi rend='italic'>His appearing</hi> +and His kingdom.</q> 2 Tim. 4:1. +</p> + +<p> +25. With what prayer do the Scriptures close? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. +Amen. <hi rend='italic'>Even so, come, Lord Jesus.</hi></q> Rev. 22:20. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Look for the way-marks as you journey on,</l> +<l>Look for the way-marks, passing one by one:</l> +<l>Down through the ages, past the kingdoms four,—</l> +<l>Where are we standing? Look the way-marks o'er.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>First, Babylonia's kingdom ruled the world,</l> +<l>Then Medo-Persia's banners were unfurled;</l> +<l>And after Greece held universal sway,</l> +<l>Rome seized the scepter,—where are we today?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Down in the feet of iron and of clay,</l> +<l>Weak and divided, soon to pass away;</l> +<l>What will the next great, glorious drama be?—</l> +<l>Christ and His coming, and eternity.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='209'/><anchor id='Pg209'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Gospel Of The Kingdom</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus209.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jerusalem And The Mount Of Olives. +"In the days of these kings shall the +God of heaven set up a kingdom." +Dan. 2:44.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What gospel did Jesus preach? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, +and preaching <hi rend='italic'>the gospel of the kingdom</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:23. +</p> + +<p> +2. How extensively did He say this should be preached? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached <hi rend='italic'>in all the +world</hi> for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end +come.</q> Matt. 24:14. +</p> + +<p> +3. What shows that it has always been God's purpose that +all the world should hear the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy +country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, +unto a land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a great +nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou +shalt be a blessing: and <hi rend='italic'>in thee shall all families of the earth be +blessed</hi>.</q> Gen. 12:1-3. <q>And the Scripture, <hi rend='italic'>foreseeing that +God would justify the heathen through faith</hi>, preached before the +gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be +blessed.</q> Gal. 3:8. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did God warn Israel against formalism? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their <hi rend='italic'>mouth</hi>, +and with their <hi rend='italic'>lips</hi> do honor Me, but have removed their heart +far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the precept +of men: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous +work among this people: ... for the wisdom of their wise +men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men +shall be hid.</q> Isa. 29:13, 14. +</p> + +<pb n='210'/><anchor id='Pg210'/> + +<p> +5. What shows that they had substituted the ritual service +of the temple for heart service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord, ... Amend your ways and +your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. <hi rend='italic'>Trust +ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple +of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.</hi></q> Jer. 7:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +6. What national disaster did they bring upon themselves +by their apostasy from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, +they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, +<hi rend='italic'>who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression</hi>.</q> 1 +Chron. 9:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From the earliest times +it has been God's purpose that those +who receive the gospel should make it known to others. For this purpose +He chose a special people and established them in Palestine, in the highway +of the nations; but they shut up the revelation of the truth to themselves, +and so lost it. A few, like Daniel and his companions, maintained +a personal connection with God, although surrounded by spiritual declension +and dry formalism, and so were chosen by God to carry out His plan +that the gospel of the kingdom should be preached in Babylon. They were +tested and trained in Babylon, as shown in the first chapter of Daniel, and +then, being ready to make known the gospel, the way providentially opened +for them by the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. +</quote> + +<p> +7. In interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dream, what kingdom +did Daniel say would follow the four world empires? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in the days of these kings shall <hi rend='italic'>the God of heaven set +up a kingdom</hi>, which shall never be destroyed.</q> Dan. 2:44. +</p> + +<p> +8. What was this kingdom to do to the other kingdoms? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The kingdom shall not be left to other people, but <hi rend='italic'>it shall +break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +9. How long is this kingdom to continue? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall <hi rend='italic'>stand forever</hi>.</q> Same verse, last clause. +</p> + +<p> +10. What words of Christ imply the gospel's final triumph? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon +this rock I will build My church; and <hi rend='italic'>the gates of hell shall not +prevail against it</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Anciently the +gates to cities were places for holding courts, +transacting business, and deliberating on public matters. The word gates, +therefore, is used for counsels, designs, machinations, and evil purposes. +The gates of hell mean the plottings, stratagems, and designs of Satan to +overthrow the church. But none of these are to prevail. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What promises to David will thus be fulfilled? +</p> + +<pb n='211'/><anchor id='Pg211'/> + +<p> +<q>Thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever: +... thy throne shall be established forever.</q> 2 Sam. 7:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By uniting His divinity +with humanity in becoming the Son +of David, Christ laid the foundation upon which He built His church, and +thus established the house of David forever. The kingdom of God, the +house of David, and the church of Christ are so inseparably connected in +this prophecy that the establishment of either involves the establishment +of the other two. +</quote> + +<p> +12. Through whom are these promises to be fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He shall be great, and shall be called <hi rend='italic'>the Son of the Highest</hi>: +and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father +David: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and +of His kingdom there shall be no end.</q> Luke 1:32, 33. +</p> + +<p> +13. In order to fulfil these promises, whose son did the Son +of God become? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The son of <hi rend='italic'>David</hi>.</q> Matt. 22:42. +</p> + +<p> +14. What is this union of divinity and humanity called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And without controversy great is <hi rend='italic'>the mystery of godliness</hi>: +God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of +angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, +received up into glory.</q> 1 Tim. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did Jesus call this same mystery? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, Unto you it is given to know <hi rend='italic'>the +mystery of the kingdom of God</hi>: but unto them that are without, +all these things are done in parables.</q> Mark 4:11. +</p> + +<p> +16. In what confession did the wise men of Babylon deny +any knowledge of this essential doctrine of Christianity? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is +none other that can show it before the king, except <hi rend='italic'>the gods, +whose dwelling is not with flesh</hi>.</q> Dan. 2:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The union +of the divine and human in the person of Christ +is <q>the mystery of godliness,</q> or <q>the mystery of the kingdom of God.</q> +In the case of the seed which is sown in the field, this same principle is +illustrated by the union of the reproducing power with the material form. +As the seed is thus capable of multiplying itself, so Christ reproduces His +own character in believers, by making them partakers of the divine nature. +At His coming He bestows upon the subjects of the kingdom the gift of +immortality (1 Cor. 15:51-53), and so the kingdom will stand forever. +It is quite likely that the wise men of Babylon did not understand about +the incarnation of God in the flesh in the coming Messiah, but in their +statement that the dwelling of the gods was not with flesh they announced +the fundamental error of Babylon, both ancient and modern, and really +denied the vital principle of Christianity. This was the essential secret, +or mystery, of the kingdom of God, which needed to be known in Babylon, +and which is still to be proclaimed throughout the world. +</quote> + +<pb n='212'/><anchor id='Pg212'/> + +<p> +17. Concerning what did Daniel and his companions pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known +to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: that they would desire +mercies of the God of heaven <hi rend='italic'>concerning this secret</hi>.</q> +Verses 17, 18. +</p> + +<p> +18. What would have been the result of failure on their +part to obtain a knowledge of this mystery? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That Daniel and his fellows should not <hi rend='italic'>perish with the rest +of the wise men of Babylon</hi>.</q> Verse 18, last part. +</p> + +<p> +19. How was the secret concerning the king's dream revealed, +and thus the mystery of the kingdom of God made +known in Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel <hi rend='italic'>in a night-vision</hi>. +Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The most +vital truth of the gospel of the kingdom of God was +denied in the religion of Babylon. This made it necessary that this very +truth should be preached in Babylon. This mystery of the kingdom of +God was the real and essential secret which the wise men of Babylon could +not make known to the king, and which could be learned only by revelation. +This is the mystery which <q>from the beginning of the world hath +been hid in God</q> (Eph. 3:9); and the <q>riches of the glory of this mystery</q> +is <q>Christ in you, the hope of glory</q> (Col. 1:27), or <q>the mystery of the +gospel</q> (Eph. 6:19). +</quote> + +<p> +20. How did Nebuchadnezzar acknowledge God as the revealer, +and thus Daniel's intimate fellowship with Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, +that <hi rend='italic'>your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer +of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret</hi>.</q> Verse 47. +</p> + +<p> +21. When the gospel of the kingdom has been fully preached, +and Christ appears as King, what invitation will be extended +to those who have learned <q>the mystery of the kingdom</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the +holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His +glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations.... +Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, <hi rend='italic'>Come, +ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you +from the foundation of the world</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:31-34. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Thy kingdom come. Thus day by day</l> +<l>We lift our hands to God, and pray;</l> +<l>But who has ever duly weighed</l> +<l>The meaning of the words He said?</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='213'/><anchor id='Pg213'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Four Great Monarchies</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus213.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Isaiah's Vision Of The Ruins +Of Babylon. +"And the dream is certain, and the interpretation +thereof sure." Dan. 2:45.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. At what time was Daniel's second vision given? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon</hi> Daniel had a +dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the +dream, and told the sum of the matters.</q> Dan. 7:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, in the +first year of Belshazzar's office as associate +king with his father Nabonadius, or 540 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +2. What effect did this dream have upon Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I Daniel was <hi rend='italic'>grieved in my spirit</hi> in the midst of my body, +and the visions of my head <hi rend='italic'>troubled me</hi>.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The effect of +Daniel's dream upon him, it will be noticed, +was similar to the effect of Nebuchadnezzar's dreams upon him; it troubled +him. See Dan. 2:1. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What did Daniel ask of one of the heavenly attendants +who stood by him in his dream? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I came near unto one of them that stood by, <hi rend='italic'>and asked him +the truth of all this</hi>. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation +of the things.</q> Verse 16. +</p> + +<p> +4. What did the prophet see in this vision? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, +behold, <hi rend='italic'>the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea</hi>.</q> +Verse 2. +</p> + +<p> +5. What was the result of this strife? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>four great beasts came up from the sea</hi>, diverse one from +another.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<pb n='214'/><anchor id='Pg214'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus214.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Four Beasts Of Daniel 7. +"These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall +arise out of the earth." Dan. 7:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='215'/><anchor id='Pg215'/> + +<p> +6. What did these four beasts represent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These great beasts, which are four, are <hi rend='italic'>four kings, which +shall arise out of the earth</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word kings here, +as in Dan. 2:44, denotes kingdoms, as +explained in verses 23 and 24 of the seventh chapter, the two words being +used interchangeably in this prophecy. +</quote> + +<p> +7. In symbolic language, what is represented by winds? +</p> + +<p> +Strife, war, commotion. See Jer. 25:31-33; 49:36, 37. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That winds denote +strife and war is evident from the vision +itself. As a result of the striving of the winds, kingdoms rise and fall. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What, in prophecy, is symbolized by waters? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest +... are <hi rend='italic'>peoples</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>multitudes</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>nations</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>tongues</hi>.</q> +Rev. 17:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the second +chapter of Daniel, under the figure of an image +of man, the mere political outline of the rise and fall of earthly kingdoms is +given, preceding the setting up of God's everlasting kingdom. In the +seventh chapter, earthly governments, are represented as viewed in the +light of Heaven,—under the symbols of wild and ferocious beasts,—the +last, in particular, oppressing and persecuting the saints of the Most High. +Hence the change in the symbols used to represent these kingdoms. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What was the first beast like? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The first was like a lion</hi>, and had eagle's wings: I beheld +till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the +earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's +heart was given to it.</q> Dan. 7:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The lion, the first +of these four great beasts, like the golden +head of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, represents the Babylonian monarchy; +the lion, the king of beasts, standing at the head of his kind, as gold does of +metals. The eagle's wings doubtless denote the rapidity with which Babylon +extended its conquests under Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned from +<hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 604 to <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 561. +This kingdom was overthrown by the Medes and Persians +in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 538. +</quote> + +<p> +10. By what was the second kingdom symbolized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And behold another beast, <hi rend='italic'>a second, like to a bear</hi>, and it +raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of +it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, +devour much flesh.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>This was the +<hi rend='italic'>Medo-Persian</hi> Empire, represented here under +the symbol of a <emph>bear</emph>.... The Medes and Persians are compared +to a bear on account of their <emph>cruelty and thirst after blood</emph>, a bear being a +most voracious and cruel animal.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Adam Clarke, +on Dan. 7:5.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +11. By what was the third universal empire symbolized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After this I beheld, and lo another, <hi rend='italic'>like a leopard</hi>, which +<pb n='216'/><anchor id='Pg216'/> +had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also +four heads; and dominion was given to it.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—If the wings +of an eagle on the back of a lion denoted rapidity +of movement in the Babylonian, or Assyrian, Empire (see Hab. 1:6-8), +four wings on the leopard must denote unparalleled celerity of movement +in the Grecian Empire. This we find to be historically true. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The rapidity of Alexander's conquests in Asia was marvelous: he +burst like a torrent on the expiring Persian Empire, and all opposition was +useless. The gigantic armies collected to oppose him melted like snow in +the sunshine. The battles of Granicus, <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 334, Issus in the +following year, and Arbela in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 331, settled the fate of +the Persian Empire, and established +the wide dominion of the Greeks.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The Divine Program of the +World's History,</q> by H. Grattan Guinness, page 308.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The beast had also four heads.</q> The Grecian Empire maintained +its unity but a short time after the death of Alexander, which occurred +in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 323. Within twenty-two years after the close of his +brilliant career, or by <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 301, the empire was divided among +his four leading generals. +Cassander took Macedonia and Greece in the west; Lysimachus had Thrace +and the parts of Asia on the Hellespont and Bosporus in the north; Ptolemy +received Egypt, Lydia, Arabia, Palestine, and CÅ“le-Syria in the south; +and Seleucus had all the rest of Alexander's dominions in the east. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +12. How was the fourth kingdom represented? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After, this I saw in the night-visions, and behold <hi rend='italic'>a fourth +beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had +great iron teeth</hi>: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped +the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the +beasts that were before it; <hi rend='italic'>and it had ten horns</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +13. What was the fourth beast declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus he said, <hi rend='italic'>The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom +upon earth</hi>, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall +devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it +in pieces.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>This is +allowed on all hands to be the Roman Empire. It +was <emph>dreadful</emph>, <emph>terrible</emph>, and <emph>exceeding strong</emph>; +... and became, in effect, what the Roman writers delight to call it, the +<hi rend='italic'>empire of the whole world</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Adam +Clarke, on Dan. 7:7.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The final overthrow of the Greeks, by the Romans, was at the battle +of Pydna, in 168 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +14. What was denoted by the ten horns? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the ten horns out of this kingdom are <hi rend='italic'>ten kings that +shall arise</hi>.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The Roman Empire +was broken up into ten kingdoms between +the years 351 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> and 476 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>The historian Machiavelli, without the slightest reference to this +prophecy, gives the following list of the nations which occupied the territory +of the Western Empire at the time of the fall of Romulus Augustulus +(476 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>), the last emperor of Rome: The Lombards, the Franks, +the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Heruh, the +Suevi, the Huns, and the Saxons: ten in all.</q> +</p> + +<pb n='217'/><anchor id='Pg217'/> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Amidst unceasing and almost countless fluctuations, the kingdoms +of modern Europe have from their birth to the present day <emph>averaged</emph> ten in +number. They have never since the breaking up of old Rome been united +into one single empire; they have never formed <emph>one whole</emph> even like the +United States. No scheme of proud ambition seeking to reunite the +broken fragments has ever succeeded; when such have arisen, they have +been invariably dashed to pieces.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the division is as apparent now as ever. Plainly and palpably +inscribed on the map of Europe this day, it confronts the skeptic with its +silent but conclusive testimony to the fulfilment of this great prophecy. +Who can alter or add to this tenfold list of the kingdoms now occupying the +sphere of old Rome? <emph>Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, +Holland, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal</emph>—ten, and no more; ten, +and no less.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The Divine Program +of the World's History,</q> by H. Grattan +Guinness, pages 318-321.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. What change did Daniel see take place in these horns? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I considered the horns, and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>there came up among +them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first +horns plucked up by the roots</hi>: and, behold, in this horn were eyes +like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.</q> +Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +16. What inquiry on the part of Daniel shows that the fourth +beast, and especially the little horn phase of it, constitutes the +leading feature of this vision? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then <hi rend='italic'>I would know the truth of the fourth beast</hi>, which was +diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth +were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in +pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; <hi rend='italic'>and of the ten horns</hi> +that were in his head, and <hi rend='italic'>of the other +which came up</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>before +whom three fell</hi>; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth +that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than +his fellows.</q> Verses 19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +17. When was the little horn to arise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And another shall rise <hi rend='italic'>after them</hi>.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The ten horns, as +already shown, arose when Rome, the +fourth kingdom, was divided into ten kingdoms. This division was completed +in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 476. The little-horn power was to arise after them. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What was to be the character of the little horn? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall be <hi rend='italic'>diverse</hi> +from the first, and he shall <hi rend='italic'>subdue +three kings</hi>.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—That power which arose +in the Roman Empire after the fall +of Rome in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 476, which was entirely different from all the +ten kingdoms into which Rome was divided (for it demanded and exercised spiritual +power over the other kingdoms), and before whom three of the other kings—the +Heruli, the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths—fell, was the Papacy. +</p> + +<p> +Having located the place and the time of the kingdom of the little +horn, the study of its character and work will be considered in the readings +which follow. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='218'/><anchor id='Pg218'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Kingdom And Work Of Antichrist</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus218.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Papal Tiara. +"He shall speak great words against the +Most High." Dan. 7:25.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is said of the little horn as compared with the ten +horns of the fourth beast of Daniel 7? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He shall be <hi rend='italic'>diverse</hi> from the first, and he shall subdue three +kings.</q> Dan. 7:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Papacy, which +arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire, +differed from all previous forms of Roman power, in that it was an ecclesiastical +despotism claiming universal dominion over both spiritual and +temporal affairs, especially the former. It was a union of church and +state, with the church dominant. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What attitude of rivalry was the Papacy, represented by +the little horn, to assume toward the Most High? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall <hi rend='italic'>speak great words against the Most High</hi>.</q> +Verse 25, first clause. +</p> + +<p> +3. How does Paul, speaking of the man of sin, describe this +same power? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called +God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple +of God, showing himself that he is God.</q> 2 Thess. 2:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The following +extracts from authoritative works, most of +them by Roman Catholic writers, will indicate to what extent the Papacy +has done this:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, implying +<pb n='219'/><anchor id='Pg219'/> +His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to +the Pope.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Bellarmine, +<q>On the Authority of Councils</q> book 2, chap. 17.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the +director, thou art the husbandman; finally thou +art another God on earth.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>From +Oration of Christopher Marcellus in fourth session of Fifth Lateran +Council, Labbe and Cossart's <q>History of the Councils,</q> published in 1672, +Vol. XIV, col. 109.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>For not man, but God, not by human but rather by divine authority, +releases those whom, on account of the need of the churches or what is +regarded as a benefit, the Roman pontiff (who is vicegerent on earth, not +of mere man, but of the true God) separates +[from their churches].</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Decretals of Gregory IX,</q> book 1, title 7, chap. 3.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land. He is the +vicegerent of Christ, who is not only a priest forever, but also King of kings +and Lord of lords.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>From +the Civilta Cattolica, March 18, 1871, quoted in +<q>Vatican Council,</q> by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, American Tract Society +edition, page 220.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff; ... but all +power in heaven and in earth has been given to Christ; ... therefore +the chief pontiff, who is His vicar, will have this +power.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Gloss on the +<q>Extravagantes Communes,</q> book 1, <q>On Authority and Obedience,</q> chap. 1, +on words Porro Subesse Romano Pontiff. Canon law, published in 1556, +Vol. III, <q>Extravagantes Communes,</q> col. 29.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven, +and earth, and purgatory +(<hi rend='italic'>Infernorum</hi>).</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Prompta +Bibliotheca,</q> Ferraris, +Vol. VI, page 26, article <q>Papa</q> (the Pope).</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The decision of the Pope and the decision of God constitute one +decision, just as the opinion of the Pope and his disciple are the same. +Since, therefore, an appeal is always taken from an inferior judge to a +superior, as no one is greater than himself, so no appeal holds when made +from the Pope to God, because there is one consistory of the Pope himself +and of God Himself, of which consistory the Pope himself is the key-bearer +and the doorkeeper. Therefore no one can appeal from the Pope to God, +as no one can enter into the consistory of God without the mediation of +the Pope, who is the key-bearer and the doorkeeper of the consistory of +eternal life; and as no one can appeal to himself, so no one can appeal from +the Pope to God, because there is one decision and one curia [court] of God +and of the Pope.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Writings +of Augustinus de Ancona, printed without title-page +or pagination, Ques. VI, <q>On an Appeal From the Decision of the Pope.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>All the faithful of Christ must believe that the Holy Apostolic See +and the Roman pontiff possesses the primacy over the whole world, and +that the Roman pontiff is the successor of the blessed Peter, prince of the +apostles, and is true vicar of Christ, and the head of the whole church, and +father and teacher of all Christians, and that full power was given him in +blessed Peter to rule, feed, and govern the universal church by Jesus Christ +our Lord.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Petri +Privilegium,</q> in section on <q>The Vatican Council and +Its Definitions,</q> by Henry Edward Manning, archbishop of Westminster +(Roman Catholic), London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1871, page 214.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed; that the +Roman pontiff, when he speaks <hi rend='italic'>ex cathedra</hi>, that +is, when in the discharge +of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme +apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be +held by the universal church, by the divine assistance promised to him in +<pb n='220'/><anchor id='Pg220'/> +blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer +willed that His church should be endowed for defining doctrine +regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman +pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the +church.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id., page 218.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Should Jesus Christ come in person from heaven into a church to +administer the sacrament of reconciliation, and should He say to a penitent, +<q>I absolve thee,</q> and should a priest sitting at His side in the tribunal of +penance pronounce over a penitent the selfsame words, <q>I absolve thee,</q> +there is no question that in the latter case, as in the former, the penitent +would be equally loosed from his sin.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Jesus +Living in the Priest,</q> by the +Rev. P. Millet, S. J., English translation by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Sebastian +Byrne, D. D., bishop of Nashville; New York, Benziger Brothers, printers to +the Holy Apostolic See, 1901, pages 23, 24. Imprimatur, Michael Augustine, +archbishop of New York.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Among the twenty-seven propositions known as the <q>Dictates of +Hildebrand,</q> who, under the name of Gregory VII, was Pope from 1073-87, +occur the following:— +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>2. That the Roman pontiff alone is justly styled universal.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>6. That no person ... may live under the same roof with one +excommunicated by the Pope.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>9. That all princes should kiss his feet only.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>12. That it is lawful for him to depose emperors.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>18. That his sentence is not to be reviewed by any one; while he +alone can review the decisions of all others.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>19. That he can be judged by no one.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>22. That the Romish Church never erred, nor will it, according to +the Scriptures, ever err.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>26. That no one is to be accounted a Catholic who does not harmonize +with the Romish Church.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>27. That he can absolve subjects from their allegiance to unrighteous +rulers.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Annals of Baronius, 1076, +Vol. XI, col. 506. See Gieseler's +<q>Ecclesiastical History,</q> third period, div. 3, par. 47, note 3; and Mosheim's +<q>Ecclesiastical History,</q> book 3, cen. 11, part 2, chap. 2, par. 9, note.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>They have assumed infallibility, which belongs only to God. They +profess to forgive sins, which belongs only to God. They profess to open +and shut heaven, which belongs only to God. They profess to be higher +than all the kings of the earth, which belongs only to God. And they go +beyond God in pretending to loose whole nations from their oath of allegiance +to their kings, when such kings do not please them. And they go +<emph>against</emph> God, when they give <emph>indulgences for sin</emph>. +This is the <emph>worst</emph> of all +blasphemies.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Adam Clarke, on Dan. 7:25.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +4. How was the little horn to treat God's people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And shall <hi rend='italic'>wear out the saints</hi> of the Most High.</q> Dan. 7:25. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Under +these bloody maxims [previously mentioned], those +persecutions were carried on, from the eleventh and twelfth centuries almost +to the present day, which stand out on the page of history. After +the signal of open martyrdom had been given in the canons of Orleans, +there followed the extirpation of the Albigenses under the form of a crusade, +the establishment of the Inquisition, the cruel attempts to extinguish the +Waldenses, the martyrdoms of the Lollards, the cruel wars to exterminate +the Bohemians, the burning of Huss and Jerome, and multitudes of other +confessors, before the Reformation; and afterwards, the ferocious cruelties +practised in the Netherlands, the martyrdoms of Queen Mary's reign, the +<pb n='221'/><anchor id='Pg221'/> +extinction by fire and sword of the Reformation in Spain and Italy, by +fraud and open persecution in Poland, the massacre of Bartholomew, the +persecution of the Huguenots by the League, the extirpation of the Vaudois, +and all the cruelties and prejudices connected with the revocation of the +Edict of Nantes. These are the more open and conspicuous facts which +explain the prophecy, besides the slow and secret murders of the holy tribunal +of the Inquisition.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +First Two Visions of Daniel,</q> Rev. T. R. +Birks, M. A., London, 1845, pages 248, 249.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +A detailed summary of the number of the victims of the Inquisition +in Spain, under each Inquisitor-General, is given in <q>The History of the +Inquisition in Spain,</q> by Llorente, formerly secretary of the Inquisition, +pages 206-208. According to this authority the number who were condemned +and perished in the flames is 31,912. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The church has persecuted. Only a tyro in church history will deny +that.... One hundred and fifty years after Constantine the Donatists +were persecuted, and sometimes put to death.... Protestants +were persecuted in France and Spain with the full approval of the church +authorities. We have always defended the persecution of the Huguenots, +and the Spanish Inquisition. Wherever and whenever there is honest +Catholicity, there will be a clear distinction drawn between truth and error, +and Catholicity and all forms of error. When she thinks it good to use +physical force, she will use it.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The +Western Watchman (Roman Catholic), +of St. Louis, Dec. 24, 1908.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +5. What else does the prophecy say the little horn would do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall <hi rend='italic'>think to change the times and the law</hi>.</q> Dan. +7:25, third clause, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The little +horn, further, shall think to change times. The +description applies, in all its force, to the systematic perversion of God's +words by which all promises of millennial glory are wrested from their true +sense, and referred to the dominion and grandeur of the Church of Rome. +The orator of the Pope, for instance, in the Lateran Council, declares that +in the submission of all nations to Leo the prophecy was fulfilled: <q>All kings +shall fall down and worship Him; all nations shall serve and obey Him.</q> +The same antichristian feature appears in those advocates of the Papacy +who would clear it from the guilt of actual idolatry, because <q>it is part of +that church from which the idols are utterly abolished.</q> Thus are the times +changed; but only in the vain <q>thoughts</q> of dreamers who see false visions +and divine lying divinations; because the visible glory of Christ's kingdom +remains still to be revealed.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +First Two Visions of Daniel,</q> Rev. T. R. +Birks, M. A., London, 1845, pages 257, 258.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Although the ten commandments, the law of God, are found in the +Roman Catholic versions of the Scriptures, as they were originally given, +yet the faithful are instructed from the catechisms of the church, and not +directly from the Bible. As it appears in these, the law of God has been +changed and virtually reenacted by the Papacy. Furthermore, communicants +not only receive the law from the church, but they deal with the +church concerning any alleged infractions of that law, and when they have +satisfied the ecclesiastical authorities, the whole matter is settled. +</p> + +<p> +The second commandment, which forbids the making of, and bowing +down to, images, is omitted in Catholic catechisms, and the tenth, which +forbids coveting, is divided into two. +</p> + +<p> +As evidence of the change which has been made in the law of God by +the papal power, and that it acknowledges the change and claims the authority +to make it, note the following from Roman Catholic publications:— +</p> + +<pb n='222'/><anchor id='Pg222'/> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Question.</hi>—Have you +any other way of proving that the church has +power to institute festivals of precept?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Answer.</hi>—Had she +not such power, she could not have done that in +which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not have substituted +the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance +of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no +Scriptural authority.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>A +Doctrinal Catechism,</q> Rev. Stephen Keenan, +page 174. Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ques.</hi>—How prove you that the church hath +power to command feasts and holy days?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ans.</hi>—By the +very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which +Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, +by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded +by the same church.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ques.</hi>—How prove you that?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ans.</hi>—Because by +keeping Sunday they acknowledge the church's +power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping +the rest by her commanded, they deny again, in fact, the +same power.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>An +Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine,</q> composed in 1649, by Rev. +Henry Tuberville, D. D., of the English College of Douay; New York, John +Doyle, 1883, page 58.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday, to abstain on that +day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law +among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the +Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing +the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious +observance of Saturday, a day which we never +sanctify.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The Faith of +Our Fathers,</q> by James Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, John Murphy & Co., +1893, page 111.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +All Roman Catholic writers agree in this teaching. See page 441. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +6. Until what time were the saints, times, and laws of the +Most High to be given into the hands of the little horn? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they shall be given into his hand <hi rend='italic'>until a time and times +and the dividing of time</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:25, last clause. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what other prophecies is this same period mentioned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, +that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where +she is nourished for <hi rend='italic'>a time, and times, and half a time</hi>, from the +face of the serpent.</q> Rev. 12:14. <q>And there was given +unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and +power was given unto him to continue [margin, to make war] +<hi rend='italic'>forty and two months</hi>.</q> Rev. 13:5. See also Rev. 11:2. <q>And +the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place +prepared of God, that they should feed her there <hi rend='italic'>a thousand +two hundred and threescore days</hi>.</q> Rev. 12:6. +</p> + +<p> +8. In symbolic prophecy what length of time is represented +by a day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After the number of the days in which ye searched the +<pb n='223'/><anchor id='Pg223'/> +land, even forty days, <hi rend='italic'>each day for a year</hi>, shall ye bear your +iniquities, even forty years.</q> Num. 14:34. See Eze. 4:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—A time in +prophecy being the same as a year (see Dan. 11:13, +margin, and R. V.), three and one-half times would be three and a half +years, or forty-two months, or twelve hundred and sixty days, since the +calendar year of 360 days, or twelve months of thirty days each, is used in +prophetic chronology. As each day represents a year, the period, the end +of which was to mark the limit of the time of the supremacy of the little +horn, the Papacy, over the saints, times, and the law, would therefore +be twelve hundred and sixty years. +</p> + +<p> +The decree of the emperor Justinian, issued in +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 533, recognized the +Pope as <q>head of all the holy churches.</q> (Justinian's Code, book 1, title +1. Baronius's Annals, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 533.) +The overwhelming defeat of the Ostrogoths +in the siege of Rome, five years later, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +538, was a death-blow to +the independence of the Arian power then ruling Italy, and was therefore +a notable date in the development of papal supremacy. With the period +533-538, then, commences the twelve hundred and sixty years of this +prophecy, which would extend to the period 1793-1798. The year 1793 +was the year of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, and the +year when the Roman Catholic religion was set aside in France and the +worship of reason was established in its stead. As a direct result of the +revolt against papal authority in the French Revolution, the French army, +under Berthier, entered Rome, and the Pope was taken prisoner Feb. 10, +1798, dying in exile at Valence, France, the following year. This period, +1793-1798, during which this death-stroke was inflicted upon the Papacy, +fittingly and clearly marks the close of the long prophetic period mentioned +in this prophecy. Any standard history of the time may be consulted in +substantiation of the facts here stated. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What will finally be done with the dominion exercised +by the little horn? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the judgment shall sit, and they shall <hi rend='italic'>take away his +dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:26. +</p> + +<p> +10. To whom will the dominion finally be given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the +kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given <hi rend='italic'>to the people +of the saints of the Most High</hi>, whose kingdom is <hi rend='italic'>an everlasting +kingdom</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>all dominions</hi> +shall serve and obey Him.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Here, as +in the second chapter of Daniel, the announcement +of the setting up of the everlasting kingdom of God in the earth includes a +brief outline of the history of this world; and the prophecies of Daniel concerning +the powers that would oppose the purpose of God, furnish additional +features of this outline. The exact fulfilment of this outline in the +history of the world since the time of Nebuchadnezzar constitutes an unimpeachable +testimony to the inspiration of these prophecies, and furnishes +a ground of confidence that the unfulfilled portion of the prophecies +will be wrought out in the future with absolute certainty and in every +detail. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='224'/><anchor id='Pg224'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Vicar Of Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus224.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>St. Peter's And The Vatican. +"He as God sitteth in the temple +of God." 2 Thess. 2:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What appeared unto Daniel in 538 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi>, the same year +in which Babylon fell? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a <hi rend='italic'>vision</hi> +appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared +unto me at the first.</q> Dan. 8:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. Where was Daniel at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, +that I was <hi rend='italic'>at Shushan</hi> in the palace, which is in the province of +Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.</q> +Verse 2. +</p> + +<p> +3. What first attracted the prophet's attention? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there +stood before the river <hi rend='italic'>a ram</hi> which had two horns: and the two +horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the +higher came up last.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +4. What power was represented by the ram having two +horns? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The ram which thou sawest having two horns are <hi rend='italic'>the +kings of Media and Persia</hi>.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +5. How are the rise and work of this power described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and +southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither +was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did +according to his will, and <hi rend='italic'>became great</hi>.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +6. What symbol was next introduced in the vision? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as I was considering, behold, <hi rend='italic'>an he goat</hi> came from the +<pb n='225'/><anchor id='Pg225'/> +west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: +and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +7. What did the goat with the notable horn represent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the rough goat is <hi rend='italic'>the king of Grecia</hi>: and the great horn +that is between his eyes is <hi rend='italic'>the first king</hi>.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +8. How was the conquest of Medo-Persia by Grecia foretold +in this symbolic prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved +with choler against him, and <hi rend='italic'>smote the ram, and brake his two +horns</hi>: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, +but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: +and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.</q> +Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +9. When the he goat <q>was strong,</q> what occurred? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was +strong, <hi rend='italic'>the great horn was broken</hi>; and for it came up four notable +ones toward the four winds of heaven.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +10. Who was represented by <q>the great horn,</q> and what +followed when it was broken? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the rough goat is the king [kingdom] of Grecia: and +the great horn that is between his eyes is <hi rend='italic'>the first king</hi>. Now +that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, <hi rend='italic'>four kingdoms +shall stand up out of the nation</hi>, but not in his power.</q> Verses +21, 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—From +the interpretation given, it is plain that the notable +<q>horn</q> upon the he goat represented Alexander the Great, who led the +Grecian forces in their conquest of Medo-Persia. Upon the death of +Alexander at Babylon, <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 323, there followed a brief period +of confusion in the struggle for the kingdom, but the succession was definitely determined +by the battle of Ipsus, <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 301. Alexander's four leading +generals—Cassander, +Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus—became his successors. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The vast empire created by Alexander's unparalleled conquests was +distracted by the wranglings and wars of his successors, and before the +close of the fourth century before Christ, had become broken up into many +fragments. Besides minor states, four well-defined and important monarchies +rose out of the ruins.... Their rulers were Lysimachus, +Cassander, Seleucus Nicator, and Ptolemy, who had each assumed the +title of king. The great horn was broken; and instead of it came up four +notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Myers's +<q>History of Greece,</q> page 457, edition 1902.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +11. What came out of one of the four horns of the goat? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And out of one of them came forth a <hi rend='italic'>little horn</hi>, which waxed +<hi rend='italic'>exceeding great</hi>, toward the south, and toward the east, and +toward the pleasant land.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<pb n='226'/><anchor id='Pg226'/> + +<p> +12. What interpretation is given to this little horn? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors +are come to the full, <hi rend='italic'>a king of fierce countenance, and +understanding dark sentences, shall stand up</hi>.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did this little horn do to the people of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and <hi rend='italic'>it cast +down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped +upon them</hi>.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +14. In what literal language is this persecution of the people +of God further described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: +and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, +and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +15. How was this little horn to exalt itself against Christ +and His mediatorial work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yea, it magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host, and +<hi rend='italic'>it took away from Him the continual burnt offering</hi>, and the place +of His sanctuary was cast down.</q> Verse 11, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +16. In the interpretation of the vision, how is this self-exaltation +set forth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper +in his hand; and <hi rend='italic'>he shall magnify himself in his heart</hi>, and +by peace shall destroy many: <hi rend='italic'>he shall also stand up against +the Prince of princes</hi>; but he shall be broken without hand.</q> +Verse 25. +</p> + +<p> +17. What similar language is used by the apostle Paul in +describing the <q>mystery of iniquity,</q> or <q>man of sin</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That day shall not come, except there come a falling away +first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; +<hi rend='italic'>who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, +or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, +showing himself that he is God</hi>.</q> 2 Thess. 2:3, 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The last +two scriptures evidently describe one and the same +power,—a power which, while religious and professedly Christian, is anti-christian +in spirit, and the very <q>man of sin</q> himself. Possessed with the +selfish ambition of Lucifer (Isa. 14:12-14; Eze. 28:17), he assumes to occupy +the very seat and place of Deity in the temple of God. Professing +to be Christ's vicar, or personal representative on earth, he magnifies +himself against Christ, and <q>stands up,</q> or reigns, in the place of, and +<q>against,</q> the Prince of princes. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What was given into the hands of the power represented +by the little horn? +</p> + +<pb n='227'/><anchor id='Pg227'/> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the host</hi> was +given over to it together with <hi rend='italic'>the continual +burnt offering</hi> through transgression.</q> Dan. 8:12, first clause, +R. V. +</p> + +<p> +19. What did this power do to the truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>it cast down truth to the ground</hi>, and it did its pleasure +and prospered.</q> Same verse, last clause, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The +interpretation already given to this vision shows plainly +that the power represented by the little horn is the successor of Medo-Persia +and Grecia. In the vision of the seventh chapter of Daniel, which +is closely related to this vision, the fourth beast represented the fourth +kingdom, or Rome, in its entirety, special attention, however, being given +to the <q>little horn</q> phase of its history. As shown by the work attributed +to it, this little horn, which arose among the ten kingdoms into which Rome +was divided, was to be a religio-political power, which was to change the +times and law of God, and persecute the people of God. In the vision of +the eighth chapter the ecclesiastical features of this fourth world power are +especially noticed and emphasized, and hence the only symbol there used +to represent it is the <q>little horn</q> which waxed <q>exceeding great.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The religion of all the four great monarchies mentioned in these +prophecies was paganism; but the paganism of ancient Babylon was reproduced +in pagan Rome, and then adapted and adopted by papal Rome. +The little horn of the eighth chapter represents Rome, both pagan and +papal, in its ecclesiastical aspect, with its union of paganism, and later of +apostate Christianity, with the secular power; with its antichristian persecutions +of the saints of God; with its perversion of the priesthood of Christ; +and with its assertion of both temporal and spiritual power over all the +world. It is evident that pagan Rome is introduced into this prophecy +chiefly as a means of locating the place and work of papal Rome, and the +ecclesiastical features of pagan Rome as typical of the same features accentuated +in papal Rome, and that the emphasis is to be placed upon the +fulfilment of the prophecy in the work of papal Rome. A careful comparison +of Dan. 7:21, 25, with Dan. 8:10-12, R. V., and 2 Thess. 2:3, 4, will +amply justify this conclusion. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Romans could not forget—never did forget—that they had +once been masters and rulers of the world. Even after they had become +wholly unfit to rule themselves, let alone the ruling of others, they still +retained the temper and used the language of masters.... In the +absence of an emperor in the West the popes rapidly gained influence and +power, and soon built up an ecclesiastical empire that in some respects +took the place of the old empire and carried on its civilizing +work.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Myers's +<q>Rome; Its Rise and Fall,</q> Boston, 1900, pages 398, 399, 442, 443.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The host and the stars of Dan. 8:10 are the same as the saints of the +Most High of Dan. 7:25; and the Prince of the host of Dan. 8:11 is the +Prince of princes, or Christ. When the same being appeared to Joshua +(Joshua 5:13-15, margin), He applies the same expression to Himself. +</p> + +<p> +In Dan. 8:11-13, in the Revised Version, the words <q>burnt offering</q> +have been supplied by the translators after the word <q>continual,</q> but this +rendering seems to place too restricted a meaning upon the word <q>continual.</q> +The fact that no word is connected with <q>continual</q> in the +original text, although in the typical service of the sanctuary it is used +with <q>burnt offering</q> (Ex. 29:42), with <q>incense</q> (Ex. 30:8, here rendered +perpetual), and with <q>showbread</q> (Num. 4:7), indicates that that +which is continual represents the <emph>continual service or mediation of Christ +in the heavenly sanctuary</emph>, in which all that was continual in the typical +<pb n='228'/><anchor id='Pg228'/> +service found its antitype and fulfilment. See Heb. 6:19, 20; 7:1-3, 14-16, +23-25. The action which made the Pope the vicar of God and the high +priest of the apostasy, really took away from Christ, as far as human intent +and power were concerned, his place and work as the only mediator +between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), and this took away from Him, as far +as man could take it away, the continual mediation, according to the prediction +in this prophecy. +</p> + +<p> +The prophecies of Daniel are cumulative and widening in their view, +each carrying matters farther than the preceding one, and bringing out +more explicitly and more in detail important features down the stream of +time. In Daniel 2, under the fourth universal kingdom, the Papacy is +not represented under any direct symbol or figure at all,—simply Rome in +its united and divided state; in Daniel 7 Rome is symbolized by the <q>little +horn</q> coming up among the ten horns representing the divided state of +Rome; while in Daniel 8 the only figure used to represent the fourth world +power is the <q>little horn</q> which waxed <q>exceeding great.</q> +</p> + +<p> +In each of these last two chapters the little horn is introduced to tell +especially of the workings of the same terrible power—Rome papal. Both +chapters deal with the same great apostasy. In the seventh chapter, the +little horn takes away <emph>the law of God</emph>. In the eighth chapter, it takes +away <emph>the gospel</emph>. Had it taken away only the law, this would have vitiated +the gospel; for, with the law of God gone, even the <emph>true</emph> gospel could +not save, because the law is needed to convict and give a knowledge of +sin. And had the Papacy taken away only the gospel, and left the law, +salvation through such a system would still have been impossible, for there +is no salvation for sinners through even the law of God itself apart from +Christ and the gospel. But to make apostasy doubly sure, this power +changes, vitiates, and takes away both the <emph>law</emph> and the <emph>gospel.</emph> +</p> + +<p> +In changing the Sabbath, the Papacy struck directly at the very heart +and seal of the law of God, just as in substituting its own mediatorial system +for that of Christ's it struck directly at the heavenly sanctuary and its +service, which, in his epistle to the Hebrews, Paul shows to be the very +heart and essence of the gospel. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +20. What question was asked in the hearing of the prophet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said +unto that certain saint which spake, <hi rend='italic'>How long shall be the vision +concerning the daily sacrifice</hi>, and the transgression of desolation, +to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?</q> +Dan. 8:13. +</p> + +<p> +21. What answer was addressed to Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto me, <hi rend='italic'>Unto two thousand and three hundred +days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed</hi>.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In verse 13, R. V., +the vision is clearly defined. It is <q>the +vision concerning the continual burnt offering [or continual mediation], +and the transgression that maketh desolate,</q> which results in giving both +the sanctuary and the people of God to be trodden underfoot. The time +when the vision was to have its special application is stated in verse 17 +to be <q>at the time of the end,</q> or in the last days. This is additional +proof that this prophecy was to find its complete fulfilment in papal +Rome only, as pagan Rome passed away many centuries ago. The sanctuary +and the twenty-three-hundred-day period here referred to are considered +at length in succeeding readings. See pages <ref target='Pg230'>230</ref>, +<ref target='Pg238'>238</ref>. +</quote> + +<pb n='229'/><anchor id='Pg229'/> + +<p> +22. What prophetic period begins at the time when the +continual mediation of Christ was taken away by the Papacy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And from the time that the continual burnt offering shall +be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set +up, there shall be <hi rend='italic'>a thousand two hundred and ninety days</hi>.</q> +Dan. 12:11, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Inasmuch as +the taking away of the continual mediation of +Christ is made the beginning of a prophetic period, there must be some +definite act at some definite time which, in form and intent, takes from +Christ His priestly work in the heavenly sanctuary. This act was the +official decree of an ecclesiastical council held at +Rome in 503 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, by +which it was declared <q>that the Pope was judge as God's vicar, and could +himself be judged by no one.</q> See Hardouin's <q>Councils,</q> Vol. II, page +983; Labbe and Cossart's <q>Councils,</q> Vol. IV, col. 1364; and Bower's +<q>History of the Popes</q> (three-volume edition), Vol. I, pages 304, 305. +The work of Clovis, king of the Franks, who earned for himself the title +of <q>the eldest son of the church</q> by his campaigns to subdue the kingdoms +hostile to the Papacy, contributed much toward putting into practical +effect this claim of the Papacy, which finally resulted in establishing the +Pope as the head of the Roman priesthood which has usurped the priestly +work of Christ, and has established another system of mediation in its +place. This work of Clovis came to its climax in the period 503-508, and +this period therefore becomes the natural one from which to date the 1290 +years of Dan. 12:11, which would accordingly end in the period 1793-98, +at the same time as the 1260 years of Dan. 7:25. See notes on page +<ref target='Pg223'>223</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<q>With Rome would have fallen her bishop, had he not, as if by anticipation +of the crisis, reserved till this hour the master-stroke of his policy. +He now boldly cast himself upon an element of much greater strength than +that of which the political convulsions of the time had deprived him; +namely, that the bishop of Rome is the successor of Peter, the prince of +the apostles, and, in virtue of being so, is Christ's vicar on earth. In +making this claim, the Roman pontiffs vaulted at once over the throne of +kings to the seat of gods: Rome became once more the mistress of the +world, and her popes the rulers of the earth.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Papacy</q> by J. A. +Wylie, page 34.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +23. What assurance was given to Daniel concerning the +period of time mentioned in verse 14? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the vision of the evening and the morning which was +told <hi rend='italic'>is true</hi>; wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be +for many days.</q> Dan. 8:26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—By the +expression <q>the vision of the evening and the morning</q> +reference is made to the vision concerning the twenty-three hundred +days, as may be seen by referring to the marginal readings of Dan. 8:14. +</p> + +<p> +The interpretation of the vision of chapter 8 closes without making +any explanation of the long period of time which was mentioned to Daniel +in the answer to the question, <q>How long shall be the vision?</q> This important +feature was left to be interpreted later. See next reading. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='230'/><anchor id='Pg230'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>A Great Prophetic Period. +(The 2300 Days of Daniel 8.) +Or The Time Of Restoration And Of Judgment</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus230.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Artaxerxes Restoring The Vessels +Of The Temple. +"Unto two thousand and three hundred +days; then shall the sanctuary +be cleansed." Dan. 8:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Immediately after the vision of Daniel 8, what did +Daniel learn from his study of the prophecy of Jeremiah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the first year of Darius ... <hi rend='italic'>I Daniel understood by +books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to +Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the +desolations of Jerusalem</hi>.</q> Dan. 9:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The first +deportation to Babylon, when Daniel and his companions +were carried captive, was in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 606, and the seventy years of +Jeremiah's prophecy would therefore expire in +<hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 536. The first year +of Darius was <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 538, and +the restoration period was therefore only two +years distant from that time. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What did this nearness of the time of restoration from +captivity lead Daniel to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer +and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.</q> +Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +3. What urgent petition of the prophet connects this prayer +with the vision of the taking away of the continual mediation +and the desolation of the sanctuary recorded in Daniel 8? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of Thy servant, +and his supplications, and <hi rend='italic'>cause Thy face to shine upon Thy +sanctuary that is desolate</hi>, for the Lord's sake.</q> Dan. 9:17. +</p> + +<pb n='231'/><anchor id='Pg231'/> + +<p> +4. At the conclusion of Daniel's prayer, what assurance +did Gabriel give him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, <hi rend='italic'>O +Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding</hi>.</q> +Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +5. What previous instruction connected with the vision of +Daniel 8 was thus being more fully carried out? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, +which called, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Gabriel, make this man to understand the +vision</hi>.</q> Dan. 8:16. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why was further instruction concerning this vision necessary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days</hi>; afterward +I rose up, and did the king's business; and <hi rend='italic'>I was astonished +at the vision, but none understood it</hi>.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +7. To what did Gabriel now direct Daniel's attention? +</p> + +<p> +<q>At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment +came forth, and I am come to show thee: for thou art greatly +beloved: therefore <hi rend='italic'>understand the matter</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>consider the vision</hi>.</q> +Dan. 9:23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—There is +abundant evidence that the instruction in the ninth +chapter of Daniel supplements and interprets the vision of the eighth +chapter. Note the following facts:— +</p> + +<pb n='232'/><anchor id='Pg232'/> + +<p> +(1) Daniel did not understand the vision concerning the treading +down of his people and the sanctuary, and therefore searched the prophecies +anew concerning the period of captivity. +</p> + +<p> +(2) He evidently made a connection between the period of seventy +years mentioned by Jeremiah and the twenty-three hundred days of the +vision, and he at once began to pray earnestly for the restoration of the +city and the sanctuary. +</p> + +<p> +(3) The angel Gabriel, who appeared to him at the first, and interpreted +all the vision with the exception of the twenty-three hundred days, +now appears, and again directs his attention to the vision. +</p> + +<p> +(4) The events of the vision begin with the kingdom of the Medes and +Persians, the era of the restoration of the Jews to their own land. In the +absence of any instruction to the contrary, this would be the natural time +in which to locate the beginning of the period of twenty-three hundred +days; and this is the very time given for the beginning of the seventy weeks, +which are clearly a part of the twenty-three hundred days, and thus determine +the time of their commencement. +</p> + +<p> +(5) The seventy weeks, or four hundred and ninety years, extend from +the restoration of literal Jerusalem and the literal temple to the preaching +of the gospel to all the world. See Acts 15:14-17. This special preaching +of the gospel was completed in one generation, and was followed by the +destruction of Jerusalem. +</p> + +<p> +(6) The twenty-three hundred prophetic days, or twenty-three hundred +literal years, begin at the same time as the four hundred and ninety +years, or seventy weeks, or in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> +457, when the commandment to restore +and build Jerusalem went forth; and extend from the restoration of literal +<pb n='233'/><anchor id='Pg233'/> +Jerusalem and the typical temple service after the captivity in ancient +Babylon, in the time of the Medes and Persians, to +1844 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, the time for +the restoration of spiritual Jerusalem and of the knowledge of the mediation +of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, taken away by the little horn, after +the captivity in modern Babylon. This work of restoration is to be accomplished +in one generation by preaching the gospel to all the world (Rev. +14:6-12), and this will be followed by the destruction of the world, or fall +of all nations, of which the destruction of Jerusalem was a type. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus232.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The 2300 Days</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +The heavy line represents the full 2300 year-day period, +the longest prophetic period in the Bible. Beginning in <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 457 +when the decree was given to restore and build Jerusalem +(Ezra 7:11-26; Dan. 9:25), seven weeks (49 years) are measured off +to indicate the time occupied in this work of restoration. These, +however, are a part of the sixty-nine weeks (483 years) that +were to reach to Messiah, the Anointed One. Christ was anointed +in 27 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, at His baptism. Matt. 3:13-17; Acts 10:38. +In the midst of the seventieth week (31 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>), +Christ was crucified, or <q>cut off,</q> which marked the time when the sacrifices and +oblations of the earthly sanctuary were to cease. Dan. 9:26, +27. The remaining three and one-half years of this week reach +to 34 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, or to the stoning of +Stephen, and the great persecution of the church at Jerusalem which followed. Acts 7:59; +8:1. This marked the close of the seventy weeks, or 490 years, allotted to the +Jewish people. +</p> + +<p> +But the seventy weeks are a part of the 2300 days; and as +they (the seventy weeks) reach to 34 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, the remaining +1810 years of the 2300-day period must reach to 1844, when +the work of judgment, or cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, +was to begin. Rev. 14:6, 7. Then special light began to +shine upon the whole sanctuary subject, and Christ's mediatorial +or priestly work in it. +</p> + +<p> +Four great events, therefore, are located by this great +prophetic period,—the first advent, the crucifixion, the rejection of +the Jewish people as a nation, and the beginning of the work of final judgment. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +8. What portion of the 2300 days (years) mentioned in the +vision, was allotted to the Jews? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Seventy weeks</hi> are determined upon thy people and upon +thy holy city.</q> Verse 24, first clause. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>As both +the 2300 years of chapter 8 and the <q>seventy +weeks</q> of chapter 9 start from the Persian period of Jewish history, in +other words, as they both date from the <emph>restoration era</emph> which followed the +Babylonian captivity, their starting-points must be either identical or +closely related chronologically.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Light for the Last +Days</q> by H. Grattan Guinness, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1893, page 183.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is plainly a close correspondence between the two visions of +Daniel 8 and Daniel 9. The seventy weeks are said to be <emph>cut off</emph> for certain +distinct objects; and this implies a longer period from which they are +separated, either the course of time in general, or some period distinctly +revealed. Now the previous date (the 2300 days) includes two events,—the +restoration of the sacrifice, and the desolation. The first of these is +identical in character with the seventy weeks, which are a period of the +restored polity of Jerusalem; and hence the most natural of the cutting +off is that which refers it to the whole period of the +former vision.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>First +Elements of Sacred Prophecy</q> by T. R. Birks, London, 1843, pages +359, 360.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What was to be accomplished at the close of the seventy +weeks? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, +and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting +righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, +and to anoint the Most Holy.</q> Same verse, latter part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For <q>the +Most Holy,</q> the Douay version reads, <q>the Saint +of saints.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +10. What portion of this period was to reach to Christ, the +Messiah, or Anointed One? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth +of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto +Messiah the Prince shall be <hi rend='italic'>seven weeks, and threescore and two +weeks</hi>.</q> Verse 25, first part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word +Messiah means anointed, and Jesus was anointed +with the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38) at His baptism in +27 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> Matt. 3:16. +</quote> + +<p> +11. At the end of this time, what was to be done to Messiah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be <hi rend='italic'>cut +off</hi>.</q> Verse 26, first part. +</p> + +<pb n='234'/><anchor id='Pg234'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus234.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Rebuilding Of Jerusalem. +"And they builded, and finished it, according +to the commandment of the God of Israel." +Ezra 6:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='235'/><anchor id='Pg235'/> + +<p> +12. How was the destruction of Jerusalem and the sanctuary +by the Romans then foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the people of the prince that shall come shall <hi rend='italic'>destroy +the city and the sanctuary</hi>; and the end thereof shall be with a +flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.</q> +Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<p> +13. What was Messiah to do during the seventieth week? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He shall <hi rend='italic'>confirm the covenant</hi> with many for one week.</q> +Verse 27, first clause. See Matt. 26:26-28. +</p> + +<p> +14. What was He to take away in the midst of this week? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in the midst of the week He shall cause the <hi rend='italic'>sacrifice +and the oblation to cease</hi>.</q> Same verse, next clause. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Ancient Babylon took +away the typical service by the destruction +of the temple at the capture of Jerusalem. This service was +restored at the rebuilding of Jerusalem, but was perverted into mere formalism +by the Jews, and was taken away by Christ at the first advent, +when He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances, and <q>took it out of the +way, nailing it to His cross.</q> Col. 2:14. He then became <q>a minister +of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and +not man.</q> Heb. 8:2. Thus He established the service in the heavenly +sanctuary. The little horn, the Papacy, as far as was within its power, +took away from the people the mediation of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, +and substituted for it the Roman priesthood, with the Pope as Pontifex +Maximus, or high priest. Power over this truth of the gospel and +over the people of God was allowed to the Papacy because of transgression +(Dan. 8:12, R. V.), just as the people of Jerusalem were given into the +hand of the king of ancient Babylon for the same reason. 1 Chron. 9:1. +Thus has the Papacy <q>cast down the truth to the ground,</q> and has trodden +underfoot the sanctuary and the people of God. +</quote> + +<p> +15. How are the judgments upon Jerusalem again foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And for the overspreading of abominations He shall make +it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined +shall be poured upon the desolate.</q> Remainder of verse 27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Seventy +weeks would be four hundred and ninety days; and +as a day in prophecy represents a year (Num. 14:34; Eze. 4:6), this period +would be four hundred and ninety years. The commandment to restore +and build Jerusalem was brought to its completion by Artaxerxes Longimanus +in the seventh year of his reign (Ezra 6:14; 7:7, 8), which, as already +noted, was <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 457. +From this date the sixty-nine weeks, or four hundred +and eighty-three years, would extend to the baptism +of Christ in 27 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +and the whole period to 34 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +when the martyrdom of Stephen occurred, +and the gospel began to be preached to the Gentiles. Before the end of +that generation Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, +70 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> The +twenty-three hundred years would extend from +<hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 457 to 1844 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +when began the great second advent movement, which calls upon all to +come out of modern Babylon, and to prepare for the next great event, the +coming of Christ and the destruction of the world by fire. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What question was asked in the vision of Daniel 8? +</p> + +<pb n='236'/><anchor id='Pg236'/> + +<p> +<q>Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one +said unto that certain one which spake, <hi rend='italic'>How long shall be the +vision concerning the continual burnt offering, and the transgression +that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be +trodden underfoot</hi>?</q> Dan. 8:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Literal Jerusalem +was given into the hands of ancient Babylon, +and the typical service in the earthly sanctuary was thus taken away. +Dan. 1:1, 2. This was prophetic of the experience of spiritual Jerusalem +in modern Babylon, foretold in the prophecies of Daniel and John, and of +the taking away of the mediation of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary. +Dan. 7:25; 8:13. These two visions expose the work of modern Babylon, +the Papacy, and determine the limit of its permitted power over the people +of God, and of its perversion of the gospel of Christ in substituting another +mediatorial system for the work of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary. +</p> + +<p> +The general theme upon which the book of Daniel treats is Babylon, +both ancient and modern. Chapters 1-6, inclusive, present certain historical +facts leading up to the fall of ancient Babylon, and an attempt to +destroy the prophet Daniel himself and the final attempt to destroy the +people of God,—a brief historical outline, which is in itself a prophecy of +modern Babylon. Chapters 7-12, inclusive, contain prophecies relating +especially to modern Babylon, which supplement the historical prophecy +of the previous chapters, and which enable us to draw a very exact and +striking parallel between ancient and modern Babylon. A brief outline +of this parallel may be stated thus:— +</p> + +<p> +(1) In the religion of ancient Babylon, image-worship found a prominent +place. The same is true of modern Babylon. +</p> + +<p> +(2) Ancient Babylon affirmed that the gods (or God) dwelt not in the +flesh. By the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary +(that is, that she herself was born without the taint of original sin), modern +Babylon teaches that God, in the person of His Son, did not take the same +flesh with us; that is, sinful flesh. +</p> + +<p> +(3) Ancient Babylon persecuted those who refused to accept her dogmas +and worship according to her laws. Modern Babylon has done the same. +</p> + +<p> +(4) The king of ancient Babylon set himself above God, and attempted +to make his kingdom an everlasting kingdom. So does modern Babylon. +</p> + +<p> +(5) Ancient Babylon rejected the true gospel as taught to Nebuchadnezzar, +and the fall of Babylon came in consequence. Modern Babylon +has done the same in her rejection of the true gospel as brought to her in +the Reformation, and her fall is inevitable and impending. +</p> + +<p> +(6) The fall of ancient Babylon came just at the time when it was +giving expression to its contempt of all its enemies, and its confidence in its +own permanence. This experience will be repeated in the history of +modern Babylon. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +17. What prophetic period, therefore, extends to the deliverance +of God's people from the captivity in modern Babylon, +and the restoration to them of the mediation of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto me, <hi rend='italic'>Unto two thousand and three hundred +days</hi>; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The earthly +sanctuary was a type of the heavenly sanctuary +(Heb. 9:23, 24; Lev. 16:29, 30, 33); the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary +was typical of the cleansing in the heavenly sanctuary; and this cleansing +of the sanctuary accomplished on the great day of atonement is the closing +<pb n='237'/><anchor id='Pg237'/> +work of Christ in His mediation for sin. And the commencement of +the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary marks the beginning of a new era +in the experience of the people of God on earth; namely, the deliverance +from the power of modern Babylon, the restoration to them of the knowledge +of the mediation of Christ for them in the heavenly sanctuary, and a +cleansing from sin in preparation for the second advent of Christ. The +cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary involves the investigative judgment, +which will be followed by the plagues, and Christ's coming. This period, +therefore, determines the time of restoration and of judgment. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What is said of those who live to see the deliverance from +modern Babylon, and the restoration of the true gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand +three hundred and five and thirty days.</q> Dan. 12:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The 1335 days +(years) of Dan. 12:12 are evidently a continuation +of the 1290 days (years) of the previous verse, which commence +with the taking away of the mediation of Christ, in +the period 503-508 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +See under question 22 in reading on <q>The Vicar of Christ,</q> page 229. +The 1335 days, or years, would therefore extend to the period 1838-43, +the time of the preaching of the judgment-hour, in preparation for the +cleansing of the sanctuary, and the accompanying work at the end of the +2300 days, or years, of Dan. 8:14. At that time special blessings were to +come upon those who were delivered from the errors and bondage of Rome, +and had their minds directed anew to the mediation of Christ as the great +High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>General Note on the Prophecies of Daniel.</hi>—The second +chapter of Daniel presents in brief outline the divine program of history leading +up to the establishment of the everlasting kingdom of God. The seventh +chapter of Daniel presents somewhat more in detail the history of those +earthly kingdoms which were to precede the establishment of the kingdom +of God, the objective point of the prophecy being the little horn and its +effort to change the laws and ordinances of God, and to destroy the subjects +of the heavenly kingdom. The period allotted to the supremacy of +this power, the Papacy (the 1260 years), is also indicated. The prophecy +of the eighth chapter of Daniel covers the period from the restoration +era in the time of the Persian kings and the establishment of the people +of God in their own land, to the restoration era just preceding the second +advent of Christ and the setting up of His everlasting kingdom. In this +chapter the leading theme is the effort of the Papacy to substitute its own +mediatorial system for the mediatorial work of Christ, and the announcement +of a prophetic period (the 2300 years), at the end of which the counterfeit +system introduced by the Papacy was to be fully exposed. The +remaining chapters of Daniel supplement the prophecies of the second, +seventh, and eighth chapters, and show that at the end of the first portion +of the 2300-year period (the 70 weeks, or 490 years) Messiah was to appear +and be cut off, following which would come the destruction of Jerusalem. +In the closing chapter two new periods are introduced (the 1290 years +and the 1335 years), at the end of which, as with the 2300 years, was to +come the movement preparatory to the setting up of God's everlasting +kingdom in the earth, in harmony with the prophecies of the second and +seventh chapters. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='238'/><anchor id='Pg238'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Atonement In Type And Antitype</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus238.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Tabernacle In The Wilderness. +"Which was a figure for the time +then present." Heb. 9:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did God, through Moses, command Israel to make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And let them make Me <hi rend='italic'>a sanctuary</hi>; that I may dwell among +them.</q> Ex. 25:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. What was offered in this sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In which were offered <hi rend='italic'>both gifts and sacrifices</hi>.</q> Heb. 9:9. +</p> + +<p> +3. Besides the court, how many parts had this sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the veil shall divide unto you between the <hi rend='italic'>holy place</hi> +and the <hi rend='italic'>most holy</hi>.</q> Ex. 26:33. +</p> + +<p> +4. What was in the first apartment, or holy place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was +the <hi rend='italic'>candlestick</hi>, and the <hi rend='italic'>table</hi>, +and the <hi rend='italic'>showbread</hi>; which is called +the sanctuary.</q> Heb. 9:2. <q>And he put <hi rend='italic'>the golden altar</hi> in +the tent of the congregation before the veil.</q> Ex. 40:26. See +also Ex. 30:1-6. +</p> + +<p> +5. What was contained in the second apartment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called +the holiest of all; which had <hi rend='italic'>the golden censer, and the ark of the +covenant</hi> overlaid round about with gold, wherein was ... +<hi rend='italic'>the tables of the covenant</hi></q> Heb. 9:3, 4. See also Ex. 40:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +6. By what name was the cover of the ark known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And thou shalt put <hi rend='italic'>the mercy-seat</hi> above upon the ark; and +<pb n='239'/><anchor id='Pg239'/> +in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.</q> +Ex. 25:21. +</p> + +<p> +7. Where was God to meet with Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with +thee <hi rend='italic'>from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim +which are upon the ark of the testimony</hi>.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +8. What was in the ark, under the mercy-seat? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He wrote on <hi rend='italic'>the tables</hi>, according to the first writing, +<hi rend='italic'>the ten commandments</hi>.... And I turned myself and came +down from the mount, and <hi rend='italic'>put the tables in the ark</hi> which I had +made.</q> Deut. 10:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +9. When did the priest minister in the first apartment of +the sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests +go in <hi rend='italic'>continually</hi> into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the +services.</q> Heb. 9:6, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +10. Who alone went into the second apartment, how often, +and for what purpose? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But into the second went <hi rend='italic'>the high priest alone once every +year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the +errors of the people</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What were sinners desiring pardon instructed to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, +while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments +of the Lord ... then he shall bring his offering, a +kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath +sinned. And <hi rend='italic'>he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, +and slay the sin-offering in the place of the burnt offering</hi>.</q> +Lev. 4:27-29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—According to +this, if a man sinned in Israel, he violated one +of the ten commandments that were in the ark under the mercy-seat. +These commandments are the foundation of God's government. To violate +them is to commit sin, and so become subject to death. 1 John 3:4; +Rom. 6:23. But there was a mercy-seat reared above these holy and +just commandments. In the dispensation of His mercy, God grants the +sinner the privilege of confessing his sins, and bringing a substitute to +meet the demands of the law, and thus of obtaining mercy. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What was done with the blood of the offering? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his +finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, +and <hi rend='italic'>shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the +altar</hi>.</q> Verse 30. +</p> + +<pb n='240'/><anchor id='Pg240'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—After a +person discovered his sin by the law which demanded +the death of the transgressor, he first brought his offering, then he confessed +his sin while laying his hands on the head of the victim, thus, in +figure, transferring his sin to the victim; the victim was next slain in the +court, or outer part of the sanctuary, and its blood put on the horns of the +altar and poured at the foot of the altar. In this way sins were pardoned, +and, in the typical service, transferred to the sanctuary. +</quote> + +<p> +13. After the accumulation of the sins of the year in this +way, what service took place on the tenth day of the seventh +month of each year? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this shall be a statute forever unto you: that in the +seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict +your souls, ... for <hi rend='italic'>on that day shall the priest make an +atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all +your sins before the Lord</hi>.</q> Lev. 16:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +14. How was the sanctuary itself to be cleansed, and how +were the sins of the people to be finally disposed of? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he [the high priest] shall take of the congregation of +the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering.... +And he shall take the two goats, and present them before +the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot <hi rend='italic'>for the +Lord</hi>, and the other lot <hi rend='italic'>for the scapegoat</hi>.</q> Verses 5-8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Hebrew word +for scapegoat is Azazel. See margin of +verse 8. It is used as a proper name, and, according to the opinion of the +most ancient Hebrews and Christians, refers to Satan, or the angel who +revolted and persisted in rebellion and sin. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What was done with the blood of the goat upon which +the Lord's lot fell? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is for +the people, and bring his blood within the veil, ... <hi rend='italic'>and +sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat</hi>, and before the mercy-seat.</q> +Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +16. Why was it necessary to make this atonement? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, <hi rend='italic'>because +of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of +their transgressions in all their sins</hi>: and so shall he do for the +tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in +the midst of their uncleanness.</q> Verse 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Sins were +conveyed into the sanctuary during the year by +the blood of the personal sin-offerings offered daily at the door of the +tabernacle. Here they remained until the day of atonement, when the +high priest went into the most holy place with the blood of the goat on +which the Lord's lot fell; and, bearing the accumulated sins of the year +in before the mercy-seat, he there, in type, atoned for them, and so cleansed +the sanctuary. +</quote> + +<pb n='241'/><anchor id='Pg241'/> + +<p> +17. After having made atonement for the people in the most +holy place, what did the high priest next do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy +place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he +shall bring the live goat: and Aaron shall <hi rend='italic'>lay both his hands upon +the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of +the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, +putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away +by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness</hi>.</q> Verses 20, 21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The offering of +the Lord's goat cleansed the sanctuary. By +this offering the sins of the people, transferred there during the year, were, +in type, atoned for; but they were not by this offering finally disposed of, +or destroyed. The scapegoat, symbolizing Satan, the great tempter and +originator of sin, was brought to the sanctuary, and upon his head were +placed all these sins which Satan had tempted God's people to commit. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What final disposition was made of the sins of the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a +land not inhabited</hi>: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.</q> +Verse 22. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus242.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Scapegoat. +"And Aaron shall ... confess over him all the iniquities of +the children of Israel." Lev. 16:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +19. What was this earthly sanctuary and its round of service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which was <hi rend='italic'>a figure</hi> for the time then present.</q> Heb. 9:9. +</p> + +<p> +20. Of what sanctuary, or tabernacle, is Christ the minister? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, +<hi rend='italic'>which the Lord pitched, and not man</hi>.</q> Heb. 8:2. +</p> + +<p> +21. Of what was the blood of all the sacrifices of the former +dispensation only a type? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but <hi rend='italic'>by His own +blood</hi> He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained +eternal redemption for us.</q> Heb. 9:12. See Eph. 5:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Through the sacrifices +and offerings brought to the altar of +the earthly sanctuary, the penitent believer was to lay hold of the merits +of Christ, the Saviour to come. In this way, and in this way only, was +there any virtue connected with them. +</quote> + +<p> +22. At the death of Christ, what miraculous occurrence +signified that the priestly work and services of the earthly +sanctuary were finished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded +up the ghost. And, behold, <hi rend='italic'>the veil of the temple was rent in +twain from the top to the bottom</hi>.</q> Matt. 27:50, 51. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Type had met +antitype; the shadow had reached the substance. +Christ, the great sacrifice, had been slain, and was about to enter +upon His final work as our great high priest in the sanctuary in heaven. +<pb n='243'/><anchor id='Pg243'/> +The priestly work in the earthly sanctuary was typical of the work of +Christ in the heavenly sanctuary. In the earthly, the atonement was +performed on the last day of the ceremonial year. All who did not then +have their sins atoned for were <q>cut off,</q> and the camp was cleansed from +sin. The atonement day was virtually a day of judgment for Israel, and +the people whose sins had been atoned for were free from sin, and could +enter upon the services of the new year clean in the sight of God. This +work was kept up year after year. In the heavenly sanctuary, the sacrifice +is offered but once; and but one atonement, or cleansing of the heavenly +sanctuary, can be made, which must take place at the time assigned of +God for it. And when the great atonement, or cleansing, of the heavenly +sanctuary has been made, God's people will be forever free from sin, and +the fate of all will be forever sealed. See Rev. 22:11. This, as in the +type, will be a day of judgment. +</p> + +<p> +The round of service in the earthly sanctuary was God's service. It +had to do with the sins of the people; not that the blood of the sacrifices +offered there could in itself take away their sins, for it is expressly said that +it could not. Heb. 10:4. It could, however, show their <emph>faith</emph> in the +efficacy of <emph>Christ's blood</emph> yet to be spilled, and to which the sanctuary work +was intended constantly to direct their minds. The work there was a +type, or shadow, of Christ's atoning work, and, as such, carries with it a +significance that cannot be overestimated. Upon a correct understanding +of the type depends a correct understanding of the antitype. The entire +sanctuary service was an object-lesson of most important and vital gospel +truth,—that of man's salvation and the atonement of sin. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +23. What relation does the earthly sanctuary sustain to +the heavenly? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who serve unto the <hi rend='italic'>example</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>shadow</hi> of heavenly +things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to +make the tabernacle: for, See, saith He, that thou make all +things according to the <hi rend='italic'>pattern</hi> showed to thee in the mount.</q> +Heb. 8:5. +</p> + +<p> +24. By what comparison is it shown that the heavenly +sanctuary will be cleansed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in +the heavens should be purified with these; <hi rend='italic'>but the heavenly things +themselves with better sacrifices than these</hi>.</q> Heb. 9:23. +</p> + +<p> +25. When Christ has finished His priestly mediatorial work +in the heavenly sanctuary, what decree will go forth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is +filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be +righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.</q> Rev. +22:11. +</p> + +<p> +26. What event is directly connected with the blotting out +of sin and the final refreshing from God's presence? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may +be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from +<pb n='244'/><anchor id='Pg244'/> +the presence of the Lord; and <hi rend='italic'>He shall send Jesus Christ</hi>, which +before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive +until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath +spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world +began.</q> Acts 3:19-21. +</p> + +<p> +27. According to the view of the judgment presented to +Daniel, what is to be given to Christ while still before the +Father? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I saw ... and, behold, one like the Son of man came +... to the Ancient of days, and they brought Him near +before Him. And there was given Him <hi rend='italic'>dominion</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>glory</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>a kingdom</hi>, that all people, nations, and languages, should +serve Him.</q> Dan. 7:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +28. What will occur when the Lord descends from heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a +shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of +God: and <hi rend='italic'>the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive +and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to +meet the Lord in the air</hi>: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</q> +1 Thess. 4:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +29. What statement immediately following the announcement +mentioned in Rev. 22:11, indicates that a judgment +work had been in progress before Christ comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, behold, I come quickly; and <hi rend='italic'>My reward is with Me, to +give every man according as his work shall be</hi>.</q> Rev. 22:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The typical +sanctuary service is fully met in the work of +Christ. As the atonement day of the former dispensation was really a +day of judgment, so the atonement work of Christ will include the investigation +of the cases of His people prior to His coming the second time +to receive them unto Himself. +</quote> + +<p> +30. Is there a specified time for the cleansing of the heavenly +sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto me, <hi rend='italic'>Unto two thousand and three hundred +days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed</hi>.</q> Dan. 8:14. +</p> + +<p> +31. How may one know that this does not refer to the +earthly sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for <hi rend='italic'>at the +time of the end shall be the vision</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The prophetic +period of 2300 days (years) extends to 1844 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, while the divinely +appointed services of the earthly sanctuary ceased +at the cross (Dan. 9:27; Matt. 27:50, 51), and the sanctuary itself was +destroyed in 70 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, when +Titus captured Jerusalem. For explanation of +the period here mentioned, see the preceding reading. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='245'/><anchor id='Pg245'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Judgment</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus245.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Investigative Judgment. +"The books were opened: + ... and the dead +were judged out of those things which were +written in the books." Rev. 20:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What assurance have we that there will be a judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God ... hath appointed a day, in the which He will +judge the world.</q> Acts 17:30, 31. +</p> + +<p> +2. Was the judgment still future in Paul's day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and <hi rend='italic'>judgment +to come</hi>, Felix trembled.</q> Acts 24:25. +</p> + +<p> +3. How many must meet the test of the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I said in mine heart, God shall judge <hi rend='italic'>the righteous and the +wicked</hi>.</q> Eccl. 3:17 <q><hi rend='italic'>For we +must all appear before the judgment-seat +of Christ</hi>; that every one may receive the things done +in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good +or bad.</q> 2 Cor. 5:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. What reason did Solomon give for urging all to fear God +and keep His commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For God shall bring every work into judgment</hi>, with every +secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.</q> Eccl. +12:14. +</p> + +<p> +5. What view of the judgment scene was given Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld till the thrones were cast down [placed, R. V.], +and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as +snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool: His throne was +like the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire. A fiery +<pb n='246'/><anchor id='Pg246'/> +stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand +thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten +thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the +books were opened.</q> Dan. 7:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +6. Out of what will all be judged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the books were opened</hi>: and another book was opened, +which is the book of life: and <hi rend='italic'>the dead were judged out of those +things which were written in the books</hi>, according to their works.</q> +Rev. 20:12. +</p> + +<p> +7. For whom has a book of remembrance been written? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: +and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance +was written before Him <hi rend='italic'>for them that feared the Lord, and that +thought upon His name</hi>.</q> Mal. 3:16. See Rev. 20:12. +</p> + +<p> +8. Who opens the judgment and presides over it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld till the thrones were cast down [placed], and <hi rend='italic'>the +Ancient of days did sit</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:9. +</p> + +<p> +9. Who minister to God, and assist in the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thousand thousands [of angels] ministered unto Him, and +ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him.</q> Verse +10. See Rev. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +10. Who is brought before the Father at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>one like the Son of +man</hi> came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient +of days, and they brought Him near before Him.</q> Dan. 7:13. +</p> + +<p> +11. What does Christ as the advocate of His people confess +before the Father and His angels? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white +raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, +but <hi rend='italic'>I will confess his name before My Father, and before His +angels</hi>.</q> Rev. 3:5. See Matt. 10:32, 33; Mark 8:38. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—During this +judgment scene, both the righteous and the +wicked dead are still in their graves. The record of each one's life, however, +is in the books of heaven, and by that record their characters and deeds +are well known. Christ is there to appear in behalf of those who have +chosen Him as their advocate. 1 John 2:1. He presents His blood, as +He appeals for their sins to be blotted from the books of record. As the +place of judgment is in heaven, where God's throne is, and as Christ is +present in person, it follows that the work of judgment is also in heaven. +All are judged by the record of their lives, and thus answer for the deeds +done in the body. This work will not only decide forever the cases of the +dead, but will also close the probation of all who are living, after which +Christ will come to take to Himself those who have been found loyal to Him. +</quote> + +<pb n='247'/><anchor id='Pg247'/> + +<p> +12. After the subjects of the kingdom have been determined +by the investigative judgment, what is given to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there was given Him <hi rend='italic'>dominion</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>glory</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>a kingdom</hi>, +that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him.</q> +Dan. 7:14. +</p> + +<p> +13. When He comes the second time, what title will He bear? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name +written, <hi rend='italic'>King of kings</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>Lord of lords</hi>.</q> Rev. 19:16. +</p> + +<p> +14. What will He then do for each one? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father +with His angels; and <hi rend='italic'>then He shall reward every man according +to his works</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:27. See also Rev. 22:12. +</p> + +<p> +15. Where will Christ then take His people? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In My Father's house are many mansions</hi>: if it were not so, +I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And +if I go and prepare a place for you, <hi rend='italic'>I will come again, and receive +you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also</hi>.</q> John +14:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +16. How many of the dead will be raised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the hour is coming, in the which <hi rend='italic'>all that are in the +graves</hi> shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have +done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have +done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.</q> John 5:28, +29. See also Acts 24:15. +</p> + +<p> +17. What time intervenes between the two resurrections? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness +of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped +the beast, neither his image, neither had received his +mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and +reigned with Christ a thousand years. <hi rend='italic'>But the rest of the dead +lived not again until the thousand years were finished.</hi></q> Rev. +20:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +18. What work did Daniel see finally assigned to the saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, +and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of days came, and +<hi rend='italic'>judgment was given to the saints of the Most High</hi>; and the time +came that the saints possessed the kingdom.</q> Dan. 7:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +19. How long will the saints engage in this work of judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and <hi rend='italic'>judgment +was given unto them: ...and they lived and reigned with +Christ a thousand years</hi>.</q> Rev. 20:4. +</p> + +<pb n='248'/><anchor id='Pg248'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus248.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Lot Fleeing From Sodom. +"Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah +into ashes." 2 Peter 2:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='249'/><anchor id='Pg249'/> + +<p> +20. Who will thus be judged by the saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do ye not know that <hi rend='italic'>the saints shall judge the world</hi>? and if +the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the +smallest matters? Know ye not that <hi rend='italic'>we shall judge angels</hi>? +how much more things that pertain to this life?</q> 1 Cor. 6:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +21. How will the decisions of the judgment be executed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And out of His [Christ's] mouth goeth a sharp sword, that +with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with +a rod of iron: and He treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness +and wrath of Almighty God.</q> Rev. 19:15. +</p> + +<p> +22. Why is the <hi rend='italic'>execution</hi> of the judgment given to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to +the Son to have life in Himself; and hath given Him authority +to execute judgment also, <hi rend='italic'>because He is the Son of man</hi>.</q> John +5:26, 27. +</p> + +<p> +23. How was the opening of the judgment to be made known +to the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having +the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the +earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, +saying with a loud voice, <hi rend='italic'>Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the +hour of His judgment is come</hi>.</q> Rev. 14:6, 7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There are three +phases of the judgment mentioned in the +Scriptures,—the investigative judgment, preceding the second advent; +the judgment of the lost world and wicked angels by Christ and the saints +during the one thousand years following the second advent; and the executive +judgment, or punishment of the wicked at the close of this period. +The investigative judgment takes place in heaven before Christ comes, +in order to ascertain who are worthy to be raised in the first resurrection, +at His coming, and who among the living are to be changed in the twinkling +of an eye, at the sound of the last trump. It is necessary for this to +take place before the second advent, as there will be no time for such a +work between the coming of Christ and the raising of the righteous dead. +The executive judgment on the wicked occurs after their cases have been +examined by the saints during the thousand years. Rev. 20:4, 5; 1 Cor. +6:1-3. The investigative judgment is that which is announced to the +world by the angel's message of Rev. 14:6, 7. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Thou Judge of quick and dead,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Before whose bar severe,</l> +<l>With holy joy or guilty dread,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We all shall soon appear,—</l> +<l>Our cautioned souls prepare</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For that tremendous day,</l> +<l>And fill us now with watchful care,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And stir us up to pray.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Charles Wesley.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='250'/><anchor id='Pg250'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus250.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Wise Men Of The East. +"We have seen His star in the +east." Matt. 2:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='251'/><anchor id='Pg251'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Judgment-Hour Message</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus251.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The First Angel. +"Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour +of His judgment is come." Rev. 14:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What prophetic view of the judgment was given Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld till the thrones were cast down [placed], and the +Ancient of days did sit: ... thousand thousands ministered +unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood +before Him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.</q> +Dan. 7:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +2. What assurance has God given of the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because <hi rend='italic'>He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge +the world</hi> in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained; +whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, <hi rend='italic'>in that He hath +raised Him from the dead</hi>.</q> Acts 17:31. +</p> + +<p> +3. What message announces the judgment-hour come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having +the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the +earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, +saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to Him; for +<hi rend='italic'>the hour of His judgment is come</hi>: and worship Him that made +heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.</q> +Rev. 14:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +4. In view of the judgment-hour, what is proclaimed anew? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The everlasting gospel.</hi></q> Verse 6, first part. +</p> + +<p> +5. How extensively is this message to be proclaimed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To <hi rend='italic'>every nation</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>kindred</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>tongue</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>people</hi>.</q> +Verse 6, first part. +</p> + +<pb n='252'/><anchor id='Pg252'/> + +<p> +6. What is the whole world called upon to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Fear God, and give glory to Him.</hi></q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +7. What special reason is given for this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the hour of His judgment is come</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +8. Whom are all called upon to worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Him that made heaven, and earth.</hi></q> Same verse. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There is only +one gospel (Rom. 1:16, 17; Gal. 1:8), first +announced in Eden (Gen. 3:15), preached to Abraham (Gal. 3:8) and to +the children of Israel (Heb. 4:1, 2), and proclaimed anew in every generation. +In its development, the gospel meets the needs of every crisis in +the world's history. John the Baptist in his preaching announced the +kingdom of heaven at hand (Matt. 3:1, 2), and prepared the way for the +first advent. John 1:22, 23. Christ Himself in His preaching of the +gospel announced the fulfilment of a definite-time prophecy (the sixty-nine +weeks, or 483 years, of Dan. 9:25), and called the people to repentance, +in view of the coming of the predicted Messiah. Mark 1:14, 15. So when +the time of the judgment comes, and Christ's second advent is near, a +world-wide announcement of these events is to be made in the preaching +of the everlasting gospel adapted to meet the need of the hour. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What prophetic period extends to the time of the cleansing +of the sanctuary, or the investigative judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto me, Unto <hi rend='italic'>two thousand and three hundred +days</hi>; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.</q> Dan. 8:14. +</p> + +<p> +10. When did this long period expire? +</p> + +<p> +In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 1844. See reading on page <ref target='Pg230'>230</ref>. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Our Lord +based His preaching of the gospel upon the fulfilment +of the first part of the 2300 days, or years (Mark 1:14, 15), a prophecy +which determined the time of the first advent. The whole period extends +to the time of the judgment, just preceding the second advent, and at its +expiration a special gospel message is sent to all the world proclaiming the +judgment-hour at hand, and calling upon all to worship the Creator. The +facts of history answer to this interpretation of the prophecy: for at this +very time (1844) just such a message was being proclaimed in various +parts of the world. This was the beginning of the great second advent +message which is now being proclaimed throughout the world. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How is the true God distinguished from all false gods? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus shall ye say unto them, <hi rend='italic'>The gods that have not made +the heavens and the earth</hi>, even they shall perish from the earth.... +<hi rend='italic'>He [the true God] hath made the earth by His power, He +hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out +the heavens by His discretion.</hi></q> Jer. 10:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +12. For what reason is worship justly due to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all +gods.... <hi rend='italic'>The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed +<pb n='253'/><anchor id='Pg253'/> +the dry land</hi>. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel +before the Lord our <hi rend='italic'>Maker</hi>.</q> Ps. 95:3-6. +</p> + +<p> +13. Why do the inhabitants of heaven worship God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The four and twenty elders fall down before Him, ... +saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor +and power: <hi rend='italic'>for Thou hast created all things</hi>, and for Thy pleasure +they are and were created.</q> Rev. 4:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +14. What memorial did God establish of His creative power? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remember <hi rend='italic'>the Sabbath day</hi>, to keep +it holy.... <hi rend='italic'>For in +six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in +them is</hi>, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed +the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.</q> Ex. 20:8-11. +</p> + +<p> +15. What place has the Sabbath in the work of salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be <hi rend='italic'>a sign</hi> between +Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord +that <hi rend='italic'>sanctify</hi> them.</q> Eze. 20:12. +</p> + +<p> +16. How many are concerned in the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we must <hi rend='italic'>all</hi> appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; +that <hi rend='italic'>every one</hi> may receive the things +done in his body, <hi rend='italic'>according +to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 5:10. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will be the standard in the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in +one point, he is guilty of all. For He that said, Do not commit +adultery; said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, +yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. +So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged <hi rend='italic'>by the law +of liberty</hi>.</q> James 2:10-12. +</p> + +<p> +18. In view of the judgment, what exhortation is given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: <hi rend='italic'>Fear God, +and keep His commandments</hi>: for this is the whole duty of man. +For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every +secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.</q> Eccl. +12:13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A comparison +of Rev. 14:7 with Eccl. 12:13, 14, suggests +that the way to give glory to God is to keep His commandments, and that +in giving the judgment-hour message, the duty of keeping the commandments +would be emphasized. This is plainly shown in the description +given of the people who are gathered out of every nation, kindred, tongue, +and people as the result of the preaching of this message, in connection +with the other messages which immediately follow and accompany it. +Of this people it is said, <q>Here are they that keep the commandments of +God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Rev. 14:12. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='254'/><anchor id='Pg254'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Fall Of Modern Babylon</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus254.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Second Angel. +"Babylon is fallen, is fallen." Rev. 14:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What announcement immediately follows the judgment-hour +message of Rev. 14:6, 7? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there followed another angel, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Babylon is fallen, +is fallen</hi>, that great city.</q> Rev. 14:8, first part. +</p> + +<p> +2. What reason is assigned for the fall of Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because <hi rend='italic'>she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath +of her fornication</hi>.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<p> +3. How was the overthrow of ancient Babylon foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the +Chaldees' excellency, shall be <hi rend='italic'>as when God overthrew Sodom and +Gomorrah</hi>.</q> Isa. 13:19. +</p> + +<p> +4. What call was made to come out of Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his +soul: be not cut off in her iniquity</hi>; for this is the time of the Lord's +vengeance; He will render unto her a recompense.</q> Jer. 51:6. +</p> + +<p> +5. What did ancient Babylon do to all the nations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that +<hi rend='italic'>made all the earth drunken</hi>: the nations have drunken of her +<hi rend='italic'>wine</hi>; therefore the nations are +<hi rend='italic'>mad</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +6. What was the effect of this apostasy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Babylon is <hi rend='italic'>suddenly fallen and destroyed</hi>: howl for her; +<pb n='255'/><anchor id='Pg255'/> +take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +7. Just before the fall of Babylon, what did her king do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Belshazzar the king <hi rend='italic'>made a great feast</hi> to a thousand of his +lords, and <hi rend='italic'>drank wine</hi> before the thousand.</q> Dan. 5:1. +</p> + +<p> +8. By what command did the king repudiate the religion +taught in Babylon by Daniel and others who feared God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring +the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar +had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the +king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might +drink therein.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<p> +9. What marked the climax of Babylon's apostasy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out +of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and +the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank +in them.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +10. While drinking the wine, what gods did they honor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They drank wine, and <hi rend='italic'>praised the gods of gold, and of silver, +of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone</hi>.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +11. What immediately followed this complete apostasy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans +slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about +threescore and two years old.</q> Verses 30, 31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The gospel +of the kingdom was preached in Babylon (see +reading on <q>The Gospel of the Kingdom,</q> page 209), and Nebuchadnezzar +was brought to acknowledge and to worship the true God. But after the +death of Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon relapsed into idolatry again, and this +apostasy was rendered hopeless when Belshazzar used the sacred vessels +from the house of God, dedicated to the worship of God, in which to +drink the wine of Babylon while worship was offered to the false gods. +Then came the handwriting on the wall, and the fall of ancient Babylon. +</quote> + +<p> +12. In the visions of John, what interpretation is given to +the woman who sat upon many waters? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the woman which thou sawest <hi rend='italic'>is that great city</hi>, which +reigneth over the kings of the earth.</q> Rev. 17:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The great city +which reigned over the kings of the earth +in John's time was Rome, and that city has given its name to the church +which is represented by the woman, the Church of Rome, or the Papacy. +</quote> + +<p> +13. In this same prophecy, how is the Church of Rome, the +Papacy, designated as the antitype of ancient Babylon? +</p> + +<pb n='256'/><anchor id='Pg256'/> + +<p> +<q>And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, +BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS +AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +14. What specific statement emphasizes this identification? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, +and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk +with the wine of her fornication.</q> Verse 2. See verse 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The +Church of Rome is called Babylon, and its religion +is a revival of the religion of ancient Babylon. She claims a priesthood +with exceptional powers and privileges, just as did ancient Babylon. +Through the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, she +denies that God in Christ dwelt in the same flesh as fallen man has, just +as ancient Babylon did. See Dan. 2:11. She claims universal spiritual +jurisdiction, and demands submission under pains and penalties, just as +ancient Babylon did. See Daniel 3. She repudiates the fundamental +gospel truth of justification by faith, and boasts of works, just as ancient +Babylon did. See Dan. 4:30. A careful comparison of the ritual of +ancient and modern Babylon shows that the latter is copied from the +former; and it is easy to trace the connection historically through the +paganism of political Rome. +</p> + +<p> +On the overthrow of Babylon by the Persians, who nourished a traditional +hatred for its idolatry, the Chaldean priesthood fled to Pergamos, +in Asia Minor, and made it the headquarters of their religion.... +The last pontiff king of Pergamos was Attalus III, who at his death bequeathed +his dominions and authority to the Roman people, 133 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi>, and +from that time the two lines of Pontifex Maximus were merged in the +Roman one.—<hi rend='italic'><q>The False +Christ,</q> J. Garnier, London, George Allen, 1900, +Vol. II, pages 94, 95.</hi> Thus did the religion of ancient Babylon become +the religion of modern Babylon. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. What did Jesus say of the sacramental wine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This cup is the new covenant in My blood.</q> Luke 22:20, +R. V. +</p> + +<p> +16. What is the essential teaching of the new covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of +Israel after those days, saith the Lord; <hi rend='italic'>I will put My laws into +their mind, and write them in their hearts</hi>: and I will be to them a +God, and they shall be to Me a people.</q> Heb. 8:10. +</p> + +<p> +17. When Christ thus ministers the law in the heart, what +does it become? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus</hi> hath made +me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could +not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His +own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned +sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled +in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</q> +Rom. 8:2-4. +</p> + +<p> +18. In what other statement is this same truth expressed? +</p> + +<pb n='257'/><anchor id='Pg257'/> + +<p> +<q>It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: +the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are +life.</q> John 6:63. +</p> + +<p> +19. What kind of teaching have men substituted for the +words which are spirit and life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Howbeit in vain do they worship Me, <hi rend='italic'>teaching for doctrines +the commandments of men</hi>.... And He said unto them, +Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep +your own <hi rend='italic'>tradition</hi>.</q> Mark 7:7-9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—There are +two cups, the cup of the Lord and the cup of +Babylon. The wine in the Lord's cup represents the living truth, <q>as +the truth is in Jesus;</q> the wine in the cup of Babylon represents her false +doctrines, her substitution of human tradition for the living word and law +of God, and the illicit connection which she has made between the church +and the secular power, depending upon political power to enforce her teachings, +rather than upon the power of God. By this very thing, while maintaining +a form of godliness, she denies the power thereof. 2 Tim. 3:1-5. +</p> + +<p> +The following quotation states the position of that church in regard to +tradition: <q>Though these two divine streams [the Bible and tradition] are +in themselves, on account of their divine origin, of equal sacredness, and +are both full of revealed truths, still, of the two, tradition is to us more clear +and safe.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Catholic Belief,</q> +Rev. Joseph Faa Di Bruno, D. D. (Roman +Catholic), page 45.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The substitution of the law of the church for the law of God, in fulfilment +of the prophecy in Dan. 7:25, testifies to the complete subordination +of the Word of God to the authority of the church. The world-wide teaching +of these doctrines in place of the pure gospel has led the world astray, +and has made all the nations drink of the wine of her fornication. The +Reformation of the sixteenth century was an effort to return to the pure +truths of God's Word. In this the Reformers denied the supremacy of +tradition over the Bible. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +20. What relation does the Church of Rome sustain to other +apostate churches? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, +BABYLON THE GREAT, <hi rend='italic'>THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS</hi> +AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.</q> Rev. 17:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In the +creed of Pope Pius IV, an authoritative statement of +Roman Catholic belief, is found this statement: <q>I acknowledge the Holy +Catholic Apostolic Church for <emph>the mother and +mistress of all churches</emph>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Article +10.</hi> When the professed Protestant churches repudiate the +fundamental principle of Protestantism by setting aside the authority of +God's Word, and accepting tradition and human speculation in its place, +they adopt the fundamental principle of modern Babylon, and may be regarded +as the daughters of Babylon. Their fall is then included in the +fall of Babylon, and calls for a proclamation of the fall of modern Babylon. +</p> + +<p> +Many representatives of modern Protestantism have, in one way or +another, rejected many fundamental doctrines of the Bible, such as,— +</p> + +<lg> +<l>The fall of man.</l> +<l>The Bible doctrine of sin.</l> +<l>The infallibility of the Scriptures.</l> +<l>The sufficiency of the Scriptures as a rule of faith and practise.</l> +<pb n='258'/><anchor id='Pg258'/> +<l>The Deity of Christ, and His consequent headship over the church.</l> +<l>The miraculous conception and the virgin birth of our Lord.</l> +<l>The resurrection of Christ from the grave.</l> +<l>The vicarious, expiatory, and propitiatory atonement of Christ.</l> +<l>Salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.</l> +<l>Regeneration by the power of the Holy Ghost.</l> +<l>The efficacy of the all-prevailing name of Christ in prayer.</l> +<l>The ministration and guardianship of holy angels.</l> +<l>Miracles as the direct manifestation and interposition of God's power.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +Although many leaders of modern Protestantism known as higher +critics have not formally adopted the creed of the Church of Rome, and +have not become an organic part of that body, yet they belong to the same +class in rejecting the authority of God's Word, and accepting in its place +the product of their own reasonings. There is just as much apostasy in +the one case as in the other, and both must therefore be included in Babylon, +and both will go down in the fall of Babylon. The warning message +applies with equal force to both classes. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +21. To what extent is the apostasy, or fall, of modern Babylon, +the mother, and of her daughters, to be carried? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And after these things I saw another angel come down +from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened +with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, +saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and <hi rend='italic'>is become the +habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of +every unclean and hateful bird</hi>. For all nations have drunk of +the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the +earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants +of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.</q> +Rev. 18:1-3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In its +largest sense, Babylon includes all false religions—all +apostasy. The gospel message announcing her final overthrow should +be a cause of rejoicing to every lover of truth and righteousness. +</quote> + +<p> +22. What final call to come out of Babylon is to go forth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Come out +of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye +receive not of her plagues</hi>. For her sins have reached unto +heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.</q> Verses 4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +23. How complete is to be the fall of modern Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and +cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city +Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all</hi>.... And +in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and +of all that were slain upon the earth.</q> Verses 21-24. +</p> + +<p> +24. What song of triumph follows the overthrow of Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us +be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him.</q> Rev. 19:6, 7. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='259'/><anchor id='Pg259'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Closing Gospel Message. +A Warning Against False Worship</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus259.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Third Angel. +"If any man worship the beast and his image, ... +the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of +God." Rev. 14:9, 10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What indicates that the messages of the judgment-hour +and the fall of Babylon are two parts of a threefold message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the third angel followed them</hi>, +saying with a loud voice.</q> Rev. 14:9, first clause. +</p> + +<p> +2. What apostasy from the worship of God is named in this +message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man <hi rend='italic'>worship the beast and his image, and receive his +mark</hi> in his forehead, or in his hand.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is to be the fate of those who, instead of worshiping +God, engage in this false worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which +is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation</hi>; +and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence +of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and +the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: +and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and +his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.</q> +Verses 10, 11. See Isa. 33:13-17; 34:1-10; 1 Cor. 3:13; Heb. +12:29. +</p> + +<p> +4. How are those described who heed this warning? +</p> + +<pb n='260'/><anchor id='Pg260'/> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +5. What description is given of the beast against whose +worship this closing warning message is given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise +up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon +his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. +And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, +and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as +the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his +seat, and great authority.</q> Rev. 13:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In this +composite beast from the sea are combined the symbols +of the seventh chapter of Daniel, representing Greece, Medo-Persia, +and Babylon. The blasphemous words spoken by it, its persecution of +the saints, and the time allotted to it (verses 5-7) show that this beast, under +one of its seven-headed manifestations, is identical with the little horn of +the vision of the seventh chapter of Daniel, modern Babylon, the Papacy. +See reading on <q>The Kingdom and Work of Antichrist,</q> page 218. The +false worship here mentioned, the worship of the beast, is the rendering of +that homage to the Papacy which is due to God alone. The system of +religion enforced by the Papacy is the paganism of Babylon, Medo-Persia, +Greece, and Rome, indicated by the composite character of the beast +(verse 2), disguised under the forms and names of Christianity. The +Pontifex Maximus of the ancient pagan religions was continued in the +Pope, who is the head of the Roman priesthood, and who, in the exercise +of his priestly functions, took away the mediation of Christ, and substituted +a system of human mediation in its place, thus fulfilling the prophecy recorded +in the eighth chapter of Daniel. See reading on <q>The Vicar of +Christ,</q> page 224. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What challenge is made by those who worship the beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto +the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Who is like unto +the beast? who is able to make war with him?</hi></q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +7. Whose sovereignty is thus challenged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch as <hi rend='italic'>there is none like unto Thee, O Lord</hi>; Thou +art great, and Thy name is great in might.</q> Jer. 10:6. See +also Ps. 71:19; 86:8; 89:6, 8. +</p> + +<p> +8. What specifications of <q>the man of sin</q> are thus fully +met? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall +not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man +of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; <hi rend='italic'>who opposeth and exalteth +himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; +so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that +he is God</hi>.</q> 2 Thess. 2:3, 4. See pages 218-220. +</p> + +<pb n='261'/><anchor id='Pg261'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus261.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Noah Preaching. +"By faith Noah, being warned of God ... +prepared an ark." Heb. 11:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='262'/><anchor id='Pg262'/> + +<p> +9. What did Babylon give to the nations to drink? +</p> + +<p> +<q>She made all nations drink of <hi rend='italic'>the wine of the wrath of her +fornication</hi>.</q> Rev. 14:8, last part. See pages 256, 257. +</p> + +<p> +10. What are those to drink who accept the teachings of +Babylon, and thus render homage to the beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The same shall drink of <hi rend='italic'>the wine of the wrath of God</hi>, which +is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation.</q> +Verse 10, first part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The cup of +the Lord, which contains the new covenant in +the blood of Christ, and the cup of the wine of the wrath of Babylon are +both offered to the world. To drink of the former, that is, to accept the +teaching of the true gospel, is to receive everlasting life; but to drink of the +wine of Babylon, that is, to accept the false gospel taught by the Papacy, +will result in drinking of the wine of the wrath of God from the cup of His +indignation. The true gospel means everlasting life; the false gospel means +everlasting death. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Under what threatened penalty is the worship of the +image of the beast enforced? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, +that the image of the beast should both speak, and <hi rend='italic'>cause [decree] +that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should +be killed</hi>.</q> Rev. 13:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For an explanation +of the image of the beast, see reading on +<q>Making an Image to the Beast,</q> page <ref target='Pg271'>271</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What universal boycott is to be employed, in an attempt +to compel all to receive the mark of the beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, +free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their +foreheads: and <hi rend='italic'>that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the +mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name</hi>.</q> Verses +16, 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Regarding the +mark of the beast, see reading on <q>The Seal +of God and the Mark of Apostasy,</q> page <ref target='Pg416'>416</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Who is the real power operating through the beast and +his image, and demanding worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The <hi rend='italic'>dragon</hi> gave him his power, and his seat, and great +authority.</q> Verse 2, last part. +</p> + +<p> +14. Who is this dragon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called +the <hi rend='italic'>Devil</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>Satan</hi>, +which deceiveth the whole world: he was +cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.</q> +Rev. 12:9. +</p> + +<pb n='263'/><anchor id='Pg263'/> + +<p> +15. How did the devil seek to induce Jesus to worship him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the devil, taking Him up into an high mountain, +showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of +time. And the devil said unto Him, <hi rend='italic'>All this power will I give +Thee</hi>, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and +to whomsoever I will I give it. <hi rend='italic'>If Thou therefore wilt worship +me, all shall be Thine.</hi></q> Luke 4:5-7. +</p> + +<p> +16. How did Jesus show His loyalty to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus answered and said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Get thee behind Me, +Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and +Him only shalt thou serve</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +threefold message of Rev. 14:6-12 is proclaimed in +connection with the closing scenes of the great controversy between Christ +and Satan. Lucifer has sought to put himself in the place of God (Isa. +14:12-14), and to secure to himself the worship which is due God alone. +The final test comes over the commandments of God. Those who acknowledge +the supremacy of the beast by yielding obedience to the law of God as +changed and enforced by the Papacy, when the real issue has been clearly +defined, will, in so doing, worship the beast and his image, and receive his +mark. Such will take the side of Satan in his rebellion against the authority +of God. +</quote> + +<p> +17. How many will yield to the demand to worship the beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose +names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from +the foundation of the world.</q> Rev. 13:8. +</p> + +<p> +18. In the judgment-hour message, whom are all called upon +to fear, glorify, and worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Saying with a loud voice, <hi rend='italic'>Fear God, and give glory to Him</hi>; +for the hour of His judgment is come: and <hi rend='italic'>worship Him that +made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters</hi>.</q> +Rev. 14:7. +</p> + +<p> +19. Who will sing the song of Moses and the Lamb on the +sea of glass? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and +<hi rend='italic'>them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, +and over his mark, and over the number of his name</hi>, stand on the +sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song +of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, +Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty; just +and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints. Who shall not +fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art +holy: for all nations shall come and worship before Thee; for +Thy judgments are made manifest.</q> Rev. 15:2-4. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='264'/><anchor id='Pg264'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Satan's Warfare Against The Church</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus264.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Death Of Christ. +"He [Satan] +persecuted the woman [the church] that +brought forth the man child." Rev. 12:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Under what figure was the Christian church represented +to the apostle John? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there appeared a great wonder [margin, sign] in +heaven; <hi rend='italic'>a woman</hi> clothed with the sun, and the moon under her +feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.</q> Rev. 12:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Frequently in +the Scriptures a woman is used to represent +the church. See Jer. 6:2; 2 Cor. 11:2. The sun represents the light of +the gospel with which the church was clothed at the first advent (1 John +2:8); the moon under her feet, the waning light of the former dispensation; +and the twelve stars, the twelve apostles. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woman in her innocence was attacked by <q>that old serpent, called +the Devil, and Satan.</q> ... At the end of that first crafty assault and +speedy victory the dragon met with his rebuff, in words like these: <q>The +seed of the woman shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.</q> +... In the Revelation the scene is changed from Eden to the heavens, +and before you stand again the woman and the serpent, in the same position +of antagonism as before, the serpent still the assailant, only this time more +openly so.... The woman is no longer a simple, childlike personage, +but <emph>a wonder</emph>; she walks not among the trees and flowers, but amid the +orbs of heaven. She is clothed with the sun, the moon is under her feet, +and upon her head is a coronet of twelve stars. In her you see the great +cause of truth and righteousness embodied—she is, in fact, the church of +God in all ages, the woman whose Seed blesses all the nations of +the earth.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>C. +H. Spurgeon, in The Tabernacle Pulpit, March 15, 1896.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='265'/><anchor id='Pg265'/> + +<p> +2. How is the church at the first advent described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and +pained to be delivered.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The church is +in labor and pain while she brings forth Christ +and her children, in the midst of afflictions and persecutions. See Rom. +8:19, 22; 1 John 3:1, 2; 2 Tim. 3:12. +</quote> + +<p> +3. How are the birth, work, and ascension of Christ briefly +described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all +nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto +God, and to His throne.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Specifically this +must refer to Christ (see Ps. 2:7-9); but +through Him is also prefigured the experience of the people of God, who +finally in the judgment are to share with Christ in ruling the nations with +a rod of iron (Rev. 2:26, 27), and, like Him, when their work on earth +is accomplished be <q>caught up,</q> at His appearing, to God and to His +throne. 1 Thess. 4:15-17. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What other sign, or wonder, appeared in heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold +<hi rend='italic'>a great red dragon</hi>, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven +crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the +stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon +stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to +devour her child as soon as in was born.</q> Verses 3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +5. Who is this dragon said to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the great dragon was cast out, <hi rend='italic'>that old serpent</hi>, called +the <hi rend='italic'>Devil</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>Satan</hi>, +which deceiveth the whole world.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Primarily +the dragon represents Satan, the great enemy and +persecutor of the church in all ages. But Satan works through principalities +and powers in his efforts to destroy the people of God. It was +through a Roman king, King Herod, that he sought to destroy Christ as +soon as He was born. Matt. 2:16. Rome must therefore be symbolized +by the dragon. The seven heads of the dragon are interpreted by some +to refer to the <q>seven hills</q> upon which the city of Rome is built; by others, +to the seven forms of government through which Rome passed; and by still +others, and more broadly, to the seven great monarchies which have oppressed +the people of God; namely, Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia, Greece, +pagan Rome, and papal Rome, in either of which Rome is represented +and included. See page <ref target='Pg269'>269</ref>. The ten horns, as in the fourth +beast of Daniel 7, evidently refer to the ten kingdoms into which Rome was finally +divided, and thus again identify the dragon with the Roman power. +</quote> + +<p> +6. How is the conflict between Christ and Satan described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there was war in heaven; Michael and His angels +fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, +and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in +<pb n='266'/><anchor id='Pg266'/> +heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, +called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: +he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with +him.</q> Verses 7-9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This conflict, begun +in heaven, continues on earth. Near +the close of Christ's ministry, He said, <q>I beheld Satan as lightning <emph>fall +from heaven</emph>.</q> Luke 10:18. <q>Now is the judgment of this world: now +shall the prince of this world be <emph>cast out</emph>.</q> John 12:31. From the councils +of the representatives of the various worlds to which Satan, as the prince +of this world, was formerly admitted (Job 1:6, 7; 2:1, 2), he was cast out +when he crucified Christ, the Son of God. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What shout of triumph was heard in heaven following the +victory gained by Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, <hi rend='italic'>Now is come +salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power +of His Christ</hi>: for the accuser of our brethren is <hi rend='italic'>cast down</hi>, +which accused them before our God day and night.... Therefore +rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.</q> Verses +10-12. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why was woe at this same time proclaimed to the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! <hi rend='italic'>for the +devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth +that he hath but a short time</hi>.</q> Verse 12, last part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +not only shows that, since the crucifixion of Christ, +Satan knows that his doom is sealed, and that he has but a limited time +in which to work, but that his efforts are largely if not wholly now confined +to this world, and concentrated upon its inhabitants. Better than +many professed Christians, Satan knows that time is short. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What did the dragon do when cast to the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, +<hi rend='italic'>he persecuted the woman</hi> which brought forth the man child.</q> +Verse 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The persecution +of Christians began under pagan Rome, but +was carried on far more extensively under papal Rome. Matt. 24:21, 22. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What definite period of time was allotted to this great +persecution of God's people under papal Rome? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, +that she might fly into the wilderness, unto her place, where she +is nourished for <hi rend='italic'>a time, and times, and half a time</hi>, from the face +of the serpent.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is the +same period as that mentioned in Dan. 7:25, +and, like the ten horns, identifies the dragon with the fourth beast of Daniel +7, and its later work with the work of the little horn of that same beast. +In Rev. 13:5 this period is referred to as <q>forty-two months,</q> and in Rev. +12:6 as 1260 days, each representing 1260 literal years, the period allotted +<pb n='267'/><anchor id='Pg267'/> +to the supremacy of papal Rome. Beginning in +538 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, it ended in 1798, +when the Pope was taken prisoner by the French. See notes on page +<ref target='Pg223'>223</ref>. +The woman fleeing into the wilderness fittingly describes the condition +of the church during those times of bitter persecution. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What was Satan's design in thus persecuting the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood +after the woman, <hi rend='italic'>that he might cause her to be carried away of the +flood</hi>.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +12. How was the flood stayed, and Satan's design defeated? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And the earth helped the woman</hi>, and the earth opened her +mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out +of his mouth.</q> Verse 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The mountain +fastnesses, quiet retreats, and secluded valleys +of southwestern Europe for centuries shielded many who refused allegiance +to the Papacy. Here, too, may be seen the results of the work of the +Reformation of the sixteenth century, when many of the governments +of Europe came to the help of the cause of reform, by staying the hand of +persecution and protecting the lives of those who dared to take their stand +for the right. The discovery of America, and the opening up of this +country as an asylum for the oppressed of Europe at this time, may also +be included in the <q>help</q> here referred to. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What did Christ say would be the result if the days of +persecution were not shortened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Except those days should be shortened, <hi rend='italic'>there should no +flesh be saved</hi>: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.</q> +Matt. 24: 22. +</p> + +<p> +14. Still bent on persecution, how does Satan manifest his +enmity against the remnant church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and <hi rend='italic'>went to +make war with the remnant of her seed</hi>, which keep the commandments +of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</q> Rev. 12:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—To the +very end, Satan will persecute and seek to destroy the +people of God. Against the remnant, or last portion of the church, he is +especially to make war. Their obedience to God's commandments, and +their possession of the testimony of Jesus, or spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10), +are especially offensive to him, and excite his intense ire. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Soldiers of Christ, arise,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And put your armor on;</l> +<l>Fight, for the battle will be ours;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We fight to win a crown.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We fight not against flesh,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We wrestle not with blood;</l> +<l>But principalities and powers,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And for the truth of God.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Charles Wesley.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='268'/><anchor id='Pg268'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>A Great Persecuting Power +(The Ten-Horned Beast of Revelation 13)</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus268.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Early Christian Martyrs. +"He shall ... wear out the saints of the +Most High." Dan. 7:25.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the first symbol of Revelation 13? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw <hi rend='italic'>a beast rise +up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns</hi>, and upon his +horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.</q> +Rev. 13:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—As already +learned from studying the book of Daniel, a +beast in prophecy represents some great earthly power or kingdom; a +head, a governing power; horns, a number of kingdoms; crowned heads or +crowned horns, political rulership; waters, <q>peoples, and multitudes, and +nations, and tongues.</q> Rev. 17:15. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The beasts of Daniel and John are empires. The ten-horned beast +is the Roman power.... The head is the governing power of the +body. The heads of this beast represent successive +governments.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Romanism +and the Reformation,</q> by H. Grattan Guinness, pages 144, 145.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +2. How is this beast further described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the beast which I saw was <hi rend='italic'>like unto a leopard</hi>, and his +feet were as <hi rend='italic'>the feet of a bear</hi>, +and his mouth as <hi rend='italic'>the mouth of a +lion</hi>.</q> Verse 2, first part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—These are the +characteristics of the first three symbols of +Daniel 7,—the <emph>lion</emph>, <emph>bear</emph>, and <emph>leopard</emph> +there representing the kingdoms of +<emph>Babylon</emph>, <emph>Medo-Persia</emph>, and <emph>Grecia</emph>,—and +suggest this beast as representing +or belonging to the kingdom symbolized by the <emph>fourth beast</emph> of Daniel 7, +or <emph>Rome</emph>. Both have ten horns. Like the dragon of Revelation 12, it +<pb n='269'/><anchor id='Pg269'/> +also has seven heads; but as the dragon symbolized Rome in its entirety, +particularly in its pagan phase, this, like the <q>little horn</q> coming up among +the ten horns of the fourth beast of Daniel 7, represents Rome in its later +or papal form. Both it and the little horn have <q>a mouth</q> speaking great +things; both make war upon the saints; both continue for the same length +of time. +</p> + +<p> +Allowing a very broad meaning to the symbol, the Douay or Catholic +Bible, in a note on Rev. 13:1, explains the seven heads of this beast as +follows: <q>The seven heads are seven kings, that is, seven principal kingdoms +or empires, which have exercised, or shall exercise, tyrannical power +over the people of God: of these, five were then fallen, viz., the Egyptian, +Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian monarchies; one was present, +viz., the empire of Rome; and the seventh and chiefest was to come, viz., +the great Antichrist and his empire.</q> That the seventh head represents +Antichrist there can be little doubt. See page <ref target='Pg265'>265</ref>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +3. What did the dragon give this beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon gave him his <hi rend='italic'>power</hi>, +and his <hi rend='italic'>seat</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>great +authority</hi>.</q> Verse 2, latter part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +an undisputed fact of history that under the later Roman +emperors, beginning with Constantine, the religion of the Roman government +was changed from pagan to papal; that when Constantine removed +the seat of his empire from Rome to Constantinople +in 330 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, the city +of Rome was given up to the bishop of Rome, who, from Constantine and +succeeding emperors, received rich gifts and great authority; that after +the fall of Rome, in 476 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +the bishop of Rome became the ruling power +in Western Rome, and by decree of Justinian, March 15, 533, was declared +<q>head of all the holy churches,</q> and in a letter of the same year he was +designated as <q>corrector of heretics.</q> See note on page +<ref target='Pg223'>223</ref>. Thus Rome +pagan became Rome papal; the seat of pagan Rome became the seat of +papal Rome; church and state were united; and the persecuting power of +the dragon was conferred upon the professed head of the church of Christ, +or papal Rome. As Dr. H. Grattan Guinness, in his <q>Romanism and the +Reformation,</q> page 152, says, <q>The power of the Cæsars lived again in the +universal dominion of the popes.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +4. How are the character, work, period of supremacy, and +great power of the beast described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great +things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue +forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in +blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, +and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto +him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and +power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.</q> +Verses 5-7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—All +these specifications have been fully and accurately met +in the Papacy, and identify this beast as representing the same power as +that represented by the little horn phase of the fourth beast of Daniel +7, and the little horn of Daniel 8, in its chief and essential features and +work. See Dan. 7:25; 8:11, 12, 24, 25, and readings on pages +<ref target='Pg218'>218</ref>, <ref target='Pg224'>224</ref>. +For an explanation of the time period mentioned, see pages +<ref target='Pg223'>223</ref>, <ref target='Pg229'>229</ref>. +</quote> + +<pb n='270'/><anchor id='Pg270'/> + +<p> +5. What was to be inflicted upon one of the heads of this +beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw <hi rend='italic'>one of his heads as it were wounded to death</hi>; and +his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after +the beast.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This wound +was inflicted upon the papal head of this beast +when the French, in 1798, entered Rome, and took the Pope prisoner, and +for a time, it seemed, abolished the Papacy. But in 1800 another Pope +was placed upon the papal throne, and the deadly wound began to be +healed. Temporal dominion was taken away from the Papacy in 1870, +but nevertheless its power and influence among the nations have been increasing +since then. <q>In that year,</q> says Mr. Guinness in his work <q>Romanism +and the Reformation,</q> page 156, <q>the Papacy assumed the highest +exaltation to which it could aspire, that of infallibility.</q> To such a +position of influence over the nations is the Papacy finally to attain that +just before her complete overthrow and destruction she will say, <q>I sit a +queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.</q> Rev. 18:7. See Isa. +47:7-15; Rev. 17:18. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What is said concerning the captivity and downfall of +the Papacy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he +that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.</q> +Verse 10. See Ps. 18:25, 26; 109:17; Jer. 50:29; Rev. 16:4-6. +</p> + +<p> +7. What questions asked by its worshipers indicate the great +station to which this beast-power was to attain? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto +the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Who is like +unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?</hi></q> Rev. 13:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. How universal is the worship of this power to become? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose +names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from +the foundation of the world.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did John say was to be the end of this beast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet +that wrought miracles before him.... <hi rend='italic'>These both were +cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.</hi></q> Rev. 19:20. +See Isa. 47:7-15; 2 Thess. 2:3-8; Rev. 17:16, 17; 18:4-8. +</p> + +<p> +10. In what similar language is the fate of the fourth beast +of Daniel 7 described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which +the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was <hi rend='italic'>slain</hi>, and his +body <hi rend='italic'>destroyed</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>given to the burning flame</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:11. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='271'/><anchor id='Pg271'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Making An Image To The Beast. +The Prophecy Of Revelation 13</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus271.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers. +The vanguard of Protestantism, +who established "a Church without +a pope, and a State without a +king."</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When was the papal head of the first beast of Revelation +13 wounded? +</p> + +<p> +In 1793-98, by the French Revolution, and the temporary +overthrow of the Papacy in the latter year. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did the prophet see coming up at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I beheld <hi rend='italic'>another beast coming up out of the earth</hi>; and +he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.</q> Rev. 13:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Mr. Wesley, in +his notes on Revelation 13, written in 1754, +says of the two-horned beast: <q>He is not yet come, though he cannot be +far off; for he is to appear at the end of the forty-two months of the first +beast.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The previous beast came up out of the <q>sea,</q> which indicates its rise +among the peoples and nations of the world then in existence (Rev 17: +15); while this one comes up out of the <q>earth.</q> This would indicate that +the latter beast would arise where there had not before been <q>peoples, and +multitudes, and nations, and tongues.</q> In 1798, when the papal power +received its deadly wound, the government of the United States, located +in the western continent, was the only great and independent nation then +coming into prominence in territory not previously occupied by peoples, +multitudes, and nations. Only nine years preceding this (1789), the United +States adopted its national Constitution. +</p> + +<p> +It is within the territory of the United States, therefore, that we +may look, according to the prophecy, for an ecclesiastical movement to +arise, and exercise a dominating control, not only in the civil government +of this country, but also in the other nations of the whole world as well. +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='272'/><anchor id='Pg272'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus272.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Signing The Declaration Of Independence. +"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the +inhabitants thereof." Lev. 25:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='273'/><anchor id='Pg273'/> + +<p> +3. What is the character of this new power? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He had <hi rend='italic'>two horns like a lamb</hi>.</q> Rev. 13:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Pilgrim +Fathers were the vanguard of a great multitude +of Protestants, who, when persecuted and outlawed in the lands of +their birth, sought refuge in the New World, where they developed rapidly +under the protection of a government founded on the great Christian +principles of civil and religious freedom. The two horns may well symbolize +these two fundamental principles. +</quote> + +<p> +4. Notwithstanding the lamblike appearance of this power, +what is it ultimately to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he <hi rend='italic'>spake as a dragon</hi>.</q> Rev. 13:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The voice +of the dragon is the voice of intolerance and persecution. +This indicates that the ecclesiastical development dealt with +in this prophecy, obtaining a foothold for its initial power and influence +in the government of the United States, will repudiate the mild and +lamblike principles of civil and religious liberty, and become like the +beast before it, a world-wide persecuting power. This is why in Rev. +19:20 it is called <q>the false prophet.</q> Born of the Reformation, it will +repudiate Reformation principles. +</quote> + +<p> +5. How much power will this beast exercise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him</hi>, +and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship +the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The <q>first +beast before him</q> (papal Rome) exercised the +power of persecuting and putting to death all who differed from it in +religious matters. The only way the <emph>earth</emph> can be made to worship is by +causing work to cease on it through voluntary or enforced rest, or sabbath-keeping. +<q>For as long as she [the land] lay desolate she <emph>kept sabbath</emph>.</q> +2 Chron. 36:21. Enforced Sunday observance is evidently implied here. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What means will be employed to lead the people back into +this false worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth <hi rend='italic'>by the means of +those miracles which he had power to do</hi> in the sight of the beast.</q> +Verse 14, first part. +</p> + +<p> +7. What will this power propose that the people shall do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Saying to them that dwell on the earth, <hi rend='italic'>that they should +make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword; and +did live</hi>.</q> Verse 14, latter part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The beast +<q>which had the wound by a sword, and did live,</q> +is the Papacy. That was a church dominating the civil power. In other +words, it was a union of church and state, and enforced its religious dogmas +by the civil power, under pain of confiscation of goods, imprisonment, and +death. An image to this beast would be another ecclesiastical organization +clothed with civil power—another union of church and state—to +enforce religious dogmas by law. +</quote> + +<pb n='274'/><anchor id='Pg274'/> + +<p> +8. Is there any evidence that such an image will be made? +</p> + +<p> +Large and influential organizations, such as the National +Reform Association, the International Reform Bureau, the +Lord's Day Alliance of the United States, and the Federal +Council of the Churches of Christ in America, have been formed, +by professed Protestants, and for years have been persistently +working to that end. Many Roman Catholic societies recently +formed in the United States, such as the Knights of Columbus +and the American Federation of Catholic Societies, are looking +to a like end—that of making America Catholic. +</p> + +<p> +9. What, according to its constitution, is the avowed object +of the National Reform Association? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To secure such an amendment to the Constitution of the +United States as shall ... indicate that this is a Christian +nation, and place all the Christian laws, institutions, and usages +of the government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental +law of the land.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Article II of Constitution.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Upon +the question of making this a <q>Christian nation,</q> +Bishop Earl Cranston, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in an +address delivered in Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, +D. C., March 13, 1910, made the following observation:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>Suppose this were to be declared a Christian nation by a Constitutional +interpretation to that effect. What would that mean? Which +of the two contending definitions of Christianity would the word Christian +indicate?—The Protestant idea, of course, for under our system majorities +rule, and the majority of Americans are Protestants. Very well. But +suppose that by the addition of certain contiguous territory with twelve +or more millions of Roman Catholics, the annexation of a few more islands +with half as many more, and the same rate of immigration as now, the +majority some years hence should be Roman Catholics,—who doubts for +a moment that the reigning Pope would assume control of legislation and +government? He would say, with all confidence and consistency, <q>This +is a Christian nation. It was so claimed from the beginning and so declared +many years ago. A majority defined then what Christianity was, +the majority will define now what Christianity now is and is to be.</q> That +<q>majority</q> would be the Pope.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>The +Church and the Government</hi>,</q> page 7. +</p> + +<p> +The National Reformers in their attempts to justify the legal establishment +of Christianity as the national religion, have erroneously declared +that the statement of Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court of the United +States in 1892, <q>This is a Christian nation,</q> is a decision of the court, +whereas it was only a statement in the argument leading up to the decision +of the court. +</p> + +<p> +In a sermon at the centenary of the establishment of the Roman +Catholic hierarchy in the United States, in 1889, Archbishop Ireland said: +<q>Our work is to make America Catholic.... Our cry shall be, <q>God +wills it,</q> and our hearts shall leap with crusader enthusiasm.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The theory of the National Reformers is thus expressed: <q>Every +government by equitable laws, is a government of God; a republic thus governed +is of Him, and is as truly and really a <emph>theocracy</emph> as the commonwealth +of Israel.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>Cincinnati National +Reform Convention</hi>,</q> page 28. +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='275'/><anchor id='Pg275'/> + +<p> +10. How does this association regard the Catholic Church +on this point? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We cordially, gladly, recognize the fact that in South +American republics, in France and other European countries +the Roman Catholics are the recognized advocates of national +Christianity, and stand opposed to all the proposals of secularism.... +<emph>Whenever they are willing to cooperate in resisting +the progress of political atheism, we will gladly join hands +with them</emph> in a world's conference for the promotion of national +Christianity, which ought to be held at no distant day. Many +countries could be represented only by Roman +Catholics.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Christian +Statesman, Dec. 11, 1884, official organ of the +National Reform Association.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +11. What has the Pope commanded all Catholics to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>First and foremost, it is the duty of all Catholics worthy +of the name and wishful to be known as most loving children of +the church ... to endeavor to bring back all civil society to +the pattern and form of Christianity which we have +described.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Encyclical +of Pope Leo XIII, <q>Immortale Dei</q> Nov. 1, 1885, +<q>The Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII,</q> page 132.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The prophecy says +that this power will make an image to the +Papacy. In the days of Constantine and his successors, the church made +use of the civil power to carry out her aims: through this means the Papacy +was developed. In our own day the same theory is advocated, and prominent +men in the nation, in both church and state, are doing all they can +to bring about the same result, which, when their work is completed, cannot +fail to fulfil the specifications of the prophecy. The climax will be +an image of the Papacy. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What is the object of the International Reform Bureau? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Reform Bureau is the first <q>Christian lobby</q> established +at our national capital to speak to government in behalf +of all denominations.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>History of the International Reform +Bureau</hi>,</q> by its founder and superintendent, Rev. W. F. Crafts, +page 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The securing of +compulsory Sunday legislation is one of the +chief objects of this and other like organizations. See pages 61 and 65 of +the above-named work. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What are the objects of the Lord's Day Alliance of the +United States? +</p> + +<p> +<q>(1) To preserve the Lord's day [Sunday] for America; +(2) to secure an active Alliance in every State not yet organized; +(3) to induce the general government as far as possible +to set the example of Sabbath observance; (4) to press the +rest-day feature of the fourth commandment, until every toiler +in the land has guaranteed unto him fifty-two full rest days a +year.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>From leaflet published by the Alliance.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='276'/><anchor id='Pg276'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By +all of which is meant the securing, as far as possible, of +compulsory State and national Sunday legislation,—the very means by +which the church gained control of the state and by which church and state +were united in the fourth and fifth centuries of the Christian era. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What is the purpose of the Federal Council of the +Churches of Christ in America? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the great Christian bodies of our country should +stand together</q> in dealing with <q>questions like those of marriage +and divorce, Sabbath desecration, social evils.</q> etc.—<q><hi rend='italic'>Report +of Federal Council</hi></q> (1908), pages 5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +15. How does it propose that the matter of <q>Sabbath desecration</q> +shall be dealt with? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That all encroachments upon the claims and the sanctities +of the Lord's day should be <hi rend='italic'>stoutly resisted</hi> through the press, +the Lord's day associations and alliances, <hi rend='italic'>and by such legislation +as may be secured to protect and preserve this bulwark of our +American Christianity</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, page 103. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Thus it will +be seen that the securing of laws for the enforcement +of Sunday observance is a prominent feature in all these organizations +in their efforts to <q>Christianize</q> the nation. In doing this many fail to +see that they are repudiating the principles of Christianity, of Protestantism, +and of the United States government, and playing directly into the +hand of that power which originated the Sunday sabbath, and gained control +of the civil power through Sunday legislation—the Papacy. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What action of the American Federation of Catholic +Societies indicates that Catholics will gladly <q>join hands</q> with +Protestants in enforcing Sunday observance by law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Our societies in the various parts of the United States have +been urging the abolition of Sunday labor, and have indorsed +and assisted the movement of closing the post-office on +Sunday.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Tenth +Annual Convention of American Federation of Catholic +Societies, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 20-24, 1911.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—With the +active cooperation of the Lord's Day Alliance of +the United States, a Protestant organization, a proviso was attached to +the post-office appropriation bill, 1912, requiring that <q>hereafter post-offices +of the first and second classes shall not be opened on Sundays for +the purpose of delivering mail to the general public.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The following resolution was adopted by the Boston Archdiocesan +Federation of Catholic Societies:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>We are unalterably opposed to any relaxation of the Sunday laws. +Sunday is a day of rest to be devoted to the praise and service of God. +We hold the safest public policy at present is to adhere to the rigid observance +of the laws now safeguarding the sanctity of the Lord's +day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Boston +Pilot, official organ of Cardinal O'Connell, March 16, 1912.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +17. What complaint is made against Sunday trains and Sunday +newspapers? +</p> + +<pb n='277'/><anchor id='Pg277'/> + +<p> +<q>They get a great many passengers, and so break up a great +many congregations.</q> <q>The laboring classes are apt to rise +late on Sunday morning, read the Sunday papers, and <emph>allow the +hour of worship to go by unheeded</emph>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Elgin</hi> +(<hi rend='italic'>Ill.</hi>) <hi rend='italic'>Sunday-law +Convention, November, 1887</hi>. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In the fourth +century, Sunday games and Sunday theaters, +it was complained, <q>hindered</q> the <q>devotion</q> of the <q>faithful,</q> because +many of the members attended them in preference to the church services. +The church, therefore, demanded that the state should interfere, and enforce +Sunday observance by law. <q>In this way,</q> says Neander, <q>the +church received help from the state for the furtherance of her ends.</q> In +this way church and state were united, and the Papacy was placed in +power. The same course pursued now will produce the same results. +</p> + +<p> +It is proper and right for the church to teach Sabbath observance, and +to decry Sabbath desecration; but it should not attempt to secure Sabbath +observance through compulsory legislation; nor should it seek to fasten +upon the people by any means the observance of a day which God has never +enjoined, and for which, as is admitted on all hands, there is no Scriptural +command. See admissions on pages +<ref target='Pg441'>441</ref>, <ref target='Pg442'>442</ref>, +<ref target='Pg455'>455</ref>, <ref target='Pg456'>456</ref>, +<ref target='Pg560'>560</ref>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +18. What does the prophet say the two-horned-beast power +will attempt to enforce upon all the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, +free and bond, to receive <hi rend='italic'>a mark</hi> in their right hand, or in their +foreheads.</q> Rev. 13:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—This mark is +the mark of the beast, or the false sabbath. +See Rev. 14:9, 10, and reading on page +<ref target='Pg446'>446</ref>. God's seal, or mark, is set +in the forehead (Rev. 7:3; 14:1), the seat of the mind, the Lord accepting +only the worship of conviction and conscience. The mark of the beast, +however, is said to be received in the hand or forehead. Some are deceived +and give assent to the false teaching with their minds, receiving the mark +in the forehead; others, coerced or indifferent, give formal, outward consent, +and so receive the mark in the hand. +</p> + +<p> +Let the reader note this twofold aspect of the Sunday sabbath, as +expressed by one of the most ardent and active Sunday-law advocates in +the United States: <q>We, the Sabbath Union, W. C. T. U., all the churches, +and the Y. M. C. A., are laboring with all our might to carry the <emph>religious</emph> +sabbath with our right arm, and the <emph>civil</emph> sabbath with our left. Hundreds +of thousands will receive it as a religious institution, and all the rest will +receive it as a civil institution, and thus we will sweep in the whole +nation.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Rev. +W. F. Crafts, in Sunday Union Convention, Wichita, Kans., Sept. +20, 1889.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +19. What means will be employed to compel all to receive +this mark? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark</hi>, +or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, all +who refuse to receive this mark will be boycotted, +or denied the rights and privileges of business and trade, or the ordinary +means of gaining a livelihood. Already this spirit has begun to manifest +itself in the movement to enforce Sunday observance. In a sermon +<pb n='278'/><anchor id='Pg278'/> +preached in Burlington, Kans., Sunday, Jan. 31, 1904, Rev. Bascom Robins +said:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the Christian decalogue the first day was made the Sabbath by +divine appointment. But there is a class of people who will not keep the +Christian sabbath unless they are forced to do so. But that can be easily +done. We have twenty million of men, besides women and children, in +this country, who want this country to keep the Christian sabbath. If +we would say we will not sell anything to them, we will not buy anything +from them, we will not work for them, or hire them to work for us, the +thing could be wiped out, and all the world would keep the Christian +sabbath.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +20. By what authority was Sunday sabbath-keeping instituted? +</p> + +<p> +By the authority of the Catholic Church. See page <ref target='Pg439'>439</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +21. Why were the ancient Sunday laws demanded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the day might be devoted with less interruption to +the purposes of devotion.</q> <q>That the devotion of the faithful +might be free from all disturbance.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Neander's <q>Church +History,</q> Vol. II, pages 297, 301.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In short, it +was to secure the enforced observance of the day, +and through this means church attendance, and control over the people in +religious things. +</quote> + +<p> +22. Why are they demanded now? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Give us good Sunday laws, well enforced by men in local +authority, and our churches will be full of worshipers, and our +young men and women will be attracted to the divine service. +A mighty combination of the churches of the United States +could win from Congress, the State legislatures, and municipal +councils, all legislation essential to this splendid +consummation.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Rev. +S. V. Leech, D. D., in Homiletic Review, November, 1892.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +23. Who is responsible for the present State Sunday laws of +the United States? +</p> + +<p> +<q>During nearly all our American history <hi rend='italic'>the churches</hi> have +influenced the States to make and improve Sabbath laws.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Rev. +W. F. Crafts, in Christian Statesman, July 3, 1890.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>These Sunday +laws are a survival of the complete union of +church and state which existed at the founding of the +colony.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Boston +Post, April 14, 1907.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Such laws [as the Maryland Sunday law of 1723] were the outgrowth +of the system of religious intolerance that prevailed in many +of the colonies.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Decision +of Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, Jan. 21, 1908.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The first Sunday law in America, that of Virginia, in 1610, required +church attendance, and prescribed the death penalty for the third offense. +See <q>American State Papers,</q> edition 1911, page 33. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +24. Why is a national Sunday law demanded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The national law is needed to make the State laws complete +and effective.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Christian Statesman, April 11, 1889.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='279'/><anchor id='Pg279'/> + +<p> +25. Since the Sunday sabbath originated with the Roman +power (the beast), to whom will men yield homage when, +knowing the facts, they choose to observe Sunday, instead of +the Bible Sabbath, in deference to compulsory Sunday laws? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Know ye not, that <hi rend='italic'>to whom ye yield yourselves servants to +obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey</hi>?</q> Rom. 6:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The +observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage +they pay, in spite of themselves, to the +authority of the [Catholic] church.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>Plain +Talk About the Protestantism of Today</hi>,</q> page 213. +</p> + +<p> +The conscientious observance of Sunday as the Sabbath on the part +of those who hitherto have supposed it to be the Sabbath, has, without +doubt, been accepted of God as Sabbath-keeping. It is only when light +comes that sin is imputed. John 9:41; 15:22; Acts 17:30. See page 700. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +26. What does Christ say about our duty to the state? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Render therefore unto <hi rend='italic'>Cæsar</hi> the +things which are <hi rend='italic'>Cæsar's</hi>; +and unto <hi rend='italic'>God</hi> the things +that are <hi rend='italic'>God's</hi>.</q> Matt. 22:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Sabbath +belongs to God. Its observance, therefore, +should be rendered only to Him. +</quote> + +<p> +27. What special miracle is finally to be performed to deceive +men, and fasten them in deception? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he doeth great wonders, so that <hi rend='italic'>he maketh fire come +down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men</hi>.</q> Rev. 13:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the time +of Elijah, in the controversy over Baal-worship, +this was the test as to who was the true God,—the God that answered by +fire. 1 Kings 18:24. Now, as a counterfeit test, fire will be made to come +down from heaven to confirm men in an idolatrous and false worship. +</quote> + +<p> +28. To what length will this effort to enforce the worship +of the image of the beast be carried? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, +that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause [decree] +that as many as would not worship the image of the beast <hi rend='italic'>should +be killed</hi>.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +29. What deliverance will God finally bring to His people +in this controversy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and +<hi rend='italic'>them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, +and over his mark, and over the number of his name</hi>, stand on the +sea of glass, having the harps of God.</q> Rev. 15:2. +</p> + +<p> +30. What song will they sing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they sing <hi rend='italic'>the song of Moses</hi> the servant of God, and +<hi rend='italic'>the song of the Lamb</hi>.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +31. What was the song of Moses? +</p> + +<p> +A song of deliverance from oppression. See Exodus 15. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='280'/><anchor id='Pg280'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Seven Churches</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus280.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>John On Patmos. +"What thou seest, write in a book, and send +it unto the seven churches." Rev. 1:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What title is given the last book of the Bible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Revelation of Jesus Christ.</q> Rev. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. To whom do those things which are revealed belong? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but <hi rend='italic'>those +things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever</hi>.</q> +Deut. 29:29. +</p> + +<p> +3. For what purpose was the Revelation given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him +<hi rend='italic'>to show unto His servants +things which must shortly come to pass</hi>.</q> +Rev. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. What great event, according to this book, is imminent? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Behold, He cometh with clouds</hi>; and every eye shall see Him +and they also which pierced Him: and all kindreds of the earth +shall wail because of Him.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This book not +only opens and closes with the subject of +Christ's second coming, but its eight lines of prophecy all reach down to +this as the great culminating event to the church and the world. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What encouragement is given to study this book? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed is he that readeth</hi>, and +they that <hi rend='italic'>hear</hi> the words of +<pb n='281'/><anchor id='Pg281'/> +this prophecy, and <hi rend='italic'>keep</hi> those things which are written therein: +for the time is at hand.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +6. To whom was the book dedicated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>John <hi rend='italic'>to the seven churches which are in Asia</hi>.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +7. What were the names of these seven churches? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven +churches which are in Asia; unto <hi rend='italic'>Ephesus</hi>, +and unto <hi rend='italic'>Smyrna</hi>, +and unto <hi rend='italic'>Pergamos</hi>, and unto +<hi rend='italic'>Thyatira</hi>, and unto <hi rend='italic'>Sardis</hi>, and +unto <hi rend='italic'>Philadelphia</hi>, and unto +<hi rend='italic'>Laodicea</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These seven churches, +and the messages addressed to them, +apply to seven periods or states of the church reaching from the first to the +second advent of Christ. <q>Under this emblematical representation of the +seven churches of Asia,</q> says Vitringa, in the <q>Comprehensive Commentary,</q> +<q>the Holy Spirit has delineated seven different states of the Christian +church, which would appear in succession, extending to the coming +of our Lord and the consummation of all things.</q> Their good qualities +and their defects are pointed out, with admonitions, exhortations, and +warnings suitable for each, all of which are also applicable to individual +Christian experience. +</quote> + +<p> +8. By what title is the first state of the church distinguished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto the angel of the church of <hi rend='italic'>Ephesus</hi> write.</q> Rev. 2:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The meaning +of Ephesus is <emph>desirable</emph>, and fitly describes the +character and condition of the church in its first state, when its members +received the doctrine of Christ in its purity, and enjoyed the benefits and +blessings of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This applies to the first century, +or during the lifetime of the apostles. See dates in the accompanying +diagram, showing the beginning and close of the seven periods. +</quote> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus281.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Seven Churches.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +9. After commending this church for their good works, what +charge did the Lord bring against them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because <hi rend='italic'>thou +hast left thy first love</hi>. Remember therefore from whence thou +art fallen, and <hi rend='italic'>repent, and do the first works</hi>.</q> Verses 4, 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note</hi>.—The <q>first love</q> +is the love of the truth, and the desire of +making it known to others. The <q>first works</q> are the fruit of this love. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What name is given to the second state of the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto the angel of the church in <hi rend='italic'>Smyrna</hi> write.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The meaning +of Smyrna is <emph>myrrh</emph>, or <emph>sweet-smelling savor</emph>, +and applies to the period of time when many of the saints of God suffered +martyrdom under pagan Rome. +</quote> + +<pb n='282'/><anchor id='Pg282'/> + +<p> +11. How is the closing period of tribulation of the church +during this time referred to? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, +<hi rend='italic'>the devil shall cast some of you into prison</hi>, that ye may be tried; +and <hi rend='italic'>ye shall have tribulation ten days</hi>: be thou faithful unto +death, and I will give thee a crown of life.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The most +severe of what is commonly known as <q>the ten +persecutions</q> under pagan Rome, began under the emperor Diocletian, +and continued from 303 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> to +<hi rend='smallcaps'>313 a.d.</hi>, a period of ten prophetic days. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What name is given to the third state of the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To the angel of the church in <hi rend='italic'>Pergamos</hi> write.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The meaning of Pergamos +is <emph>height</emph>, or <emph>elevation</emph>, and fitly +represents that period of the Christian church, beginning with the reign +of the emperor Constantine in 313 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +when the power which had put the +Christians to death espoused the cause of the church, and by rewards, +edicts, and promised promotions to office in the government, sought to induce +the people to become Christians, thus bringing a flood of worldliness +and corruption into the church. Many of the heathen rites and ceremonies +previously introduced into the Christian religion, including the heathen +festival, <emph>Sunday</emph> (sun's day), were then established by law, resulting in the +first day of the week taking the place of the Sabbath of the Bible. +</quote> + +<p> +13. How was the faithfulness of this church commended? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where +Satan's seat is: and <hi rend='italic'>thou holdest fast My name, and hast not +denied My faith</hi>, even in those days wherein Antipas was My +faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.</q> +Verse 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<hi rend='italic'>Antipas</hi> +comes from two Latin words, <hi rend='italic'>anti</hi>, opposed to, and +<hi rend='italic'>papas</hi>, father, or pope, and denotes a class of people who were +opposed to papal rule. Regarding <hi rend='italic'>Pergamos</hi>, see note on page +<ref target='Pg256'>256</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What title was given to the fourth state of the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto the angel of the church in <hi rend='italic'>Thyatira</hi> write.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Thyatira means +<emph>song of labor</emph>, or <emph>sacrifice of contrition</emph>, and +points out the condition of God's people during the long, dark period of +1260 years, beginning with the establishment of papal supremacy in 538 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, and closing with the downfall of that power in 1798. See +notes on page <ref target='Pg223'>223</ref>. +During that time, millions of the saints of God were put to death in +the most cruel manner that wicked men and demons could invent. Christ +referred to this time in His wonderful prophecy recorded in Matthew +24, in these words: <q>For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not +since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And +except those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved: +but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.</q> The tribulation +of the 1260 years was cut short through the influence of the Reformation. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What promise did God leave for these persecuted ones? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And +<pb n='283'/><anchor id='Pg283'/> +he that overcometh, and keepeth My words unto the end, <hi rend='italic'>to +him will I give power over the nations</hi>: and he shall rule them with +a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to +shivers: even as I received of My Father.</q> Verses 25-27. +</p> + +<p> +16. By what name is the fifth state of the church addressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto the angel of the church in <hi rend='italic'>Sardis</hi> write.</q> Rev. 3:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Sardis means <emph>song of joy</emph>, +or <emph>that which remains</emph>. A cause for +<emph>joy</emph> at that time was the fact that the great tribulation of the people of God +was at an end. It was only as a result of the Reformation that any of +God's people were left <emph>remaining</emph>. See Matt. 24:21, 22, and note under +question 14. The Sardis church continued from the close of the papal +power, 1798 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, until the beginning of the great advent +movement in 1833, which was marked by the falling of the stars on November 13 of that +year, as foretold by Christ in Matt. 24:29. +</quote> + +<p> +17. What endearing title is given the sixth church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To the angel of the church in <hi rend='italic'>Philadelphia</hi> write.</q> Rev. 3:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Philadelphia means <emph>brotherly +love</emph>, and applies to the church +under the judgment-hour message. See page <ref target='Pg251'>251</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What words to this church show the second advent near? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Behold, I come quickly</hi>: hold fast that which thou hast, that +no man take thy crown.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is Christ's message to the last church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto the angel of the church of the <hi rend='italic'>Laodiceans</hi> write; +... I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor +hot.... Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in +goods, and have need of nothing; ... I counsel thee to +buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; +and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed.... As +many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, +and repent.</q> Verses 14-19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Laodicea signifies +<emph>the judging of the people</emph>, or, according to +Cruden, a <emph>just people</emph>. This church exists in the time of the judgment +and the proclamation of the final warning messages preceding Christ's +second coming. See Rev. 14:6-16, and readings on cages 251-263. This +is a time of great profession, with but little vital godliness and true piety. +</quote> + +<p> +20. What encouragement is given to heed this message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear +My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup +with him, and he with Me.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The pointed, +searching messages to the seven churches contain +most important lessons of admonition, encouragement, and warning +for all Christians in all ages. The seven promises to the overcomer found +in this line of prophecy (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26-28; 3:5, 12, 21), with the +eighth or universal promise recorded in Rev. 21:7, form a galaxy of promises +as precious, as comforting, and as inspiring as any recorded in the Scriptures. +See pages <ref target='Pg558'>558</ref>, <ref target='Pg762'>762</ref>. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='284'/><anchor id='Pg284'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Seven Seals</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus284.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Lisbon Earthquake. +"When He had opened the sixth seal, ... there +was a great earthquake." Rev. 6:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did John the revelator see in the right hand of +Him who sat on the throne? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne +<hi rend='italic'>a book</hi> written within, and +on the back side <hi rend='italic'>sealed with seven +seals</hi>.</q> Rev. 5:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did the Lamb do with this book? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He came and took the book out of the right hand of +Him that sat on the throne.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +3. Why was Christ declared worthy to open these seals? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals +thereof: <hi rend='italic'>for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy +blood</hi> out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.</q> +Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +4. What was shown upon the opening of the first seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, ... +<hi rend='italic'>a white horse</hi>: and He that sat on him had a bow; and a crown +was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to +conquer.</q> Rev. 6:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The number +<hi rend='italic'>seven</hi> in the Scriptures denotes completion or +perfection. The seven seals embrace the whole of a class of events in +which is narrated the history of the church from the beginning of the +Christian era to the second coming of Christ. The white horse, with his +rider going forth to conquer, fitly represents the early Christian church in +its purity, going into all the world with the gospel message of salvation. +</quote> + +<pb n='285'/><anchor id='Pg285'/> + +<p> +5. What appeared upon the opening of the second seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He had opened the second seal, ... there +went out <hi rend='italic'>another horse that was red</hi>: and power was given to him +that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they +should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great +sword.</q> Verses 3, 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As whiteness +in the first horse denoted the purity of the +gospel which its rider propagated, so the color of the second horse would +show that corruption had begun to creep in when this symbol applies. +It is true that such a state of things did succeed the apostolic church. +Speaking of the second century, Wharey, in his <q>Church History,</q> page +39, says: <q>Christianity began already to wear the garb of heathenism. +The seeds of most of those errors that afterwards so entirely overran the +church, marred its beauty, and tarnished its glory, were already beginning +to take root.</q> Worldliness came in. The church sought alliance with +the secular power, and trouble and commotion were the result. This +symbol extends from the close of the first century to the time of Constantine, +when a complete union of church and state was effected. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What was the color of the symbol under the third seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When He had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast +say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo <hi rend='italic'>a black horse</hi>; and he +that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +<q>black</q> horse fitly represents the spiritual darkness that +characterized the church from the time of Constantine till the establishment +of papal supremacy in 538 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> Of the condition of things in the +fourth century, Wharey (page 54) says: <q>Christianity had now become +popular, and a large proportion, perhaps a large majority, of those who +embraced it, only assumed the name, received the rite of baptism, and conformed +to some of the external ceremonies of the church, while at heart +and in moral character they were as much heathen as they were before. +Error and corruption now came in upon the church like a flood.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +7. What were the color and character of the fourth symbol? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He had opened the fourth seal, ... behold +<hi rend='italic'>a pale horse</hi>: and his +name that sat on him was <hi rend='italic'>Death</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>Hell</hi> [Greek, <hi rend='italic'>Hades</hi>, +the <hi rend='italic'>grave</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>followed with him</hi>. And power was +given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, <hi rend='italic'>to kill with +sword</hi>, and with <hi rend='italic'>hunger</hi>, and +with <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, and with the <hi rend='italic'>beasts of +the earth</hi>.</q> Verses 7, 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +an unnatural color for a horse. The original denotes +the <emph>pale</emph> or <emph>yellowish</emph> +color seen in blighted plants. The symbol evidently +refers to the work of persecution and death carried on by the Roman +Church against the people of God from the time of the beginning of papal +supremacy in 538 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> to the time when the Reformers commenced +their work of exposing the true character of the Papacy, and a check was placed +upon this work of death. +</quote> + +<p> +8. On opening the fifth seal, what was seen under the altar? +</p> + +<pb n='286'/><anchor id='Pg286'/> + +<p> +<q>And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the +altar <hi rend='italic'>the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for +the testimony which they held</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When the Reformers exposed +the work of the Papacy, it was +then called to mind how many martyrs had been slain for their faith. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What were these martyrs represented as doing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>they cried with a loud voice</hi>, saying, How long, O Lord, +holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on +them that dwell on the earth?</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The cruel +treatment which they had received cried for vengeance, +just as Abel's blood cried to God from the ground. Gen. 4:10. +They were not in heaven, but under the altar on which they had been slain. +On this point Dr. Adam Clarke says: <q>The altar is upon earth, not in +heaven.</q> See note under next question. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What was given these martyrs? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>white robes were given unto every one of them</hi>; and it +was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, +until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should +be killed as they were, should be fulfilled [have fulfilled their +course, R. V.].</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These had +been slain during the hundreds of years covered +by the preceding seal. Their persecutors, most of them, at least, had died. +And if they had at death passed to their punishment, as is by some supposed, +why should the martyred ones still importune for their punishment? In +this, as in other parts of the Bible, the figure of personification is used, +in which inanimate objects are represented as alive and speaking, and +things that are not as though they were. See Judges 9:8-15; Heb. 2:11; +Rom. 4:17. These martyrs had gone down as heretics under the darkness +and superstition of the preceding seal, covered with ignominy and shame. +Now, in the light of the Reformation, their true character appears, and they +are seen to have been righteous, and hence are given <q>white robes.</q> <q>The +fine linen [white robes] is the righteousness of saints.</q> Rev. 19:8. Righteousness +is ascribed to them; and when they have rested a little longer +where they are,—under the altar,—till all others who are to fall for their +faith have followed them, then together they will be raised to life and immortality. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What was first seen on the opening of the sixth seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, +there was <hi rend='italic'>a great earthquake</hi>.</q> Verse 12, first part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +doubtless refers to the great earthquake of Nov. 1, 1755, +commonly known as the Lisbon earthquake, the effects of which were felt +over an area of 4,000,000 square miles. Lisbon, Portugal, a city containing +150,000 inhabitants, was almost entirely destroyed. The shock of the +earthquake, says Mr. Sears, in his <q>Wonders of the World,</q> page 200, +<q>was instantly followed by the fall of every church and convent, almost +all the large public buildings, and one fourth of the houses. In about two +hours afterward, fires broke out in different quarters, and raged with such +<pb n='287'/><anchor id='Pg287'/> +violence for the space of nearly three days that the city was completely +desolated. The earthquake happened on a holy day, when the churches +and convents were full of people, very few of whom escaped.... +The terror of the people was beyond description. Nobody wept: it was +beyond tears. They ran hither and thither, delirious with horror and +astonishment, beating their faces and breasts, crying, +<q><hi rend='italic'>Misericordia! the +world's at an end!</hi></q> Mothers forgot their children, and ran about loaded +with crucifixed images. Unfortunately, many ran to the churches for +protection; but in vain was the sacrament exposed; in vain did the poor +creatures embrace the altars; images, priests, and people were buried in +one common ruin.... Ninety thousand persons are supposed to +have been lost on that fatal day.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +12. What was to follow the great earthquake? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the sun became black</hi> +as sackcloth of hair, and <hi rend='italic'>the moon +became as blood</hi>.</q> Same verse, latter part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +refers to the dark day and night of May 19, 1780, when +the darkness and gloom were such as to give the general impression that the +day of judgment was at hand. See readings on pages +<ref target='Pg311'>311</ref>, <ref target='Pg319'>319</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What other event is mentioned under this seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the stars of heaven fell unto the earth</hi>, even as a fig-tree +casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.</q> +Verse 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—This was +fulfilled in the wonderful meteoric shower of Nov. +13, 1833. Describing the scene in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, one writer +says: <q>No spectacle so terribly grand and sublime was ever before beheld +by man as that of the firmament descending in fiery torrents over the dark +and roaring cataract.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Our +First Century,</q> page 330; also The American +Cyclopedia, edition 1881, article <q>Meteor.</q></hi> See readings just referred to. +</p> + +<p> +A contributor, writing for the <hi rend='italic'>Journal of Commerce</hi> of Nov. 14, +1833, in regard to the falling stars of Nov. 13, 1833, said: <q>Were I to hunt +through nature for a simile, I could not find one so apt to illustrate the +appearance of the heavens as that which St. John uses in the prophecy. +The falling stars did not come as if from several trees shaken, but as from +<emph>one</emph>; those which appeared in the east, fell toward the east; those which +appeared in the west, fell toward the west; and those which appeared in the +south, fell toward the south. And they fell not as the <emph>ripe</emph> fruit +falls,—far from it,—but they flew, they were <emph>cast</emph>, like the +unripe fruit which at first refuses to leave the branch; and when, under a violent +pressure, it does break its hold, it flies swiftly, <emph>straight</emph> off, +descending; and in the multitude falling, some cross the track of others, as they are +thrown with more or less force; but each one falls on its own side of the tree.</q> See +page <ref target='Pg321'>321</ref>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +14. What is the next event mentioned in the prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the heaven departed as a scroll</hi> when it is rolled together; +<pb n='288'/><anchor id='Pg288'/> +and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.</q> +Verse 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This event +is still future, and will take place in connection +with Christ's second coming. We are now standing between the two +events,—the last of the signs in the heavens, and the parting of the heavens +and removal of earthly things out of their places. The great signs here +mentioned which mark the approach of Christ's second coming and the +dissolution of all earthly things, are all in the past, and the world awaits the +sound of the last trump as the closing scene in earth's drama. +</quote> + +<p> +15. How will this great event affect the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the +rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every +bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and +in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and +rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth +on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day +of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?</q> Verses +15-17. +</p> + +<p> +16. After the sealing work brought to view in Revelation 7, +which takes place under the sixth seal, how is the seventh seal +introduced? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He had opened the seventh seal, <hi rend='italic'>there was silence +in heaven</hi> about the space of half an hour.</q> Rev. 8:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +sixth seal introduced the events connected with the +second coming of Christ. The seventh seal most naturally, therefore, +would refer to that event, or to some accompanying result of it. When +Christ comes, all the holy angels will accompany Him (Matt. 25:31); and it +follows that silence will necessarily, therefore, reign in heaven during their +absence. A half-hour of prophetic time would be about seven days. The +seven seals, therefore, bring us down to the second coming of Christ. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>It may be at morn, when the day is awaking,</l> +<l>When sunlight through darkness and shadow is breaking,</l> +<l>That Jesus will come in the fulness of glory</l> +<l>To receive from the world His own.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>It may be at midday, it may be at twilight,</l> +<l>It may be, perchance, that the blackness of midnight</l> +<l>Will burst into light in the blaze of His glory,</l> +<l>When Jesus receives His own.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O joy! O delight! should we go without dying,</l> +<l>No sickness, no sadness, no dread, and no crying,</l> +<l>Caught up through the clouds with our Lord into glory,</l> +<l>When Jesus receives His own.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>H. L. Turner.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='289'/><anchor id='Pg289'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Seven Trumpets</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus289.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Symbols Of War. +"The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is +come, and the time of the dead, that they +should be judged." Rev. 11:18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Following the seven seals, under what symbols was the +next series of thrilling events shown the apostle John? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to +them were given <hi rend='italic'>seven trumpets</hi>.</q> Rev. 8:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. With what do these trumpets deal? +</p> + +<p> +With the wars, commotions, and political upheavals which +result in the breaking up and downfall of the Roman Empire,—the +first four with the downfall of Western Rome, the fifth +and sixth with the downfall of Eastern Rome, and the seventh +with the final downfall of Rome in its broadest sense, or all the +kingdoms of the world. See Revelation 8 and 9 and 11:14-19. +A trumpet is a symbol of war. Jer. 4:19, 20; Joel 2:1-11. +</p> + +<p> +3. Under what figures is the first trumpet described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The first angel sounded, and there followed +<hi rend='italic'>hail</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>fire</hi> +mingled with <hi rend='italic'>blood</hi>, and they were cast upon the earth: and the +third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was +burnt up.</q> Rev. 8:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Twice, at +least, before the Roman Empire became divided +permanently into the two parts, the Eastern and the Western, there was a +tripartite division of the empire. The first +occurred 311 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, when it was +divided between Constantine, Licinius, and Maximin; +the other, 337 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +on the death of Constantine, when it was divided between his three sons, +Constantine, Constans, and Constantius.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Albert +Barnes, on Rev. 12:4.</hi> +<pb n='290'/><anchor id='Pg290'/> +To Constantius was given Constantinople and the East; to Constans, +Italy, Illyricum, and northern Africa; and to Constantine II, Britain, Gaul, +and Spain. +</p> + +<p> +This trumpet describes the first great invasion upon Western or ancient +Rome, by the Goths, under Alaric, from 395 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> to 410 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> In 408 he +descended upon Italy, the middle <q>third part,</q> pillaging and burning +cities, and slaughtering their inhabitants. Says Gibbon, in his <q>Decline +and Fall of the Roman Empire,</q> chapter 33, closing sentence, <q>The union +of the Roman Empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; +and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the +North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of +Europe and Africa.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +4. What striking figure is used to describe the destruction +wrought under the second trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the second angel sounded, and as it were <hi rend='italic'>a great mountain +burning with fire was cast into the sea</hi>: and the third part of +the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which +were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships +were destroyed.</q> Verses 8, 9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +describes the invasions and conquests of the Vandals +under the terrible Genseric—first of Africa and later of Italy—from 428 +to 476 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> His +conquests were largely by sea. In a single night, near +Carthage, he destroyed, by fire and sword, more than half of the Roman +fleet, consisting of 1,113 ships and over 100,000 men. See Gibbon's +<q>Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,</q> chapter 36. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What was to take place under the third trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the third angel sounded, and <hi rend='italic'>there fell a great star +from heaven, burning as it were a lamp</hi>, and it fell upon the third +part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the +name of the star is called <hi rend='italic'>Wormwood</hi>: and the third part of the +waters became wormwood; <hi rend='italic'>and many men died of the waters</hi>, +because they were made bitter.</q> Verses 10, 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The +harassing invasions and conquests of Attila, the Hun, +are foretold here. His conquests were characterized by fire; sword, and +pillage along the Rhine, in Gaul, and northern Italy. He claimed descent +from Nimrod, styled himself the <q>Scourge of God</q> and the <q>Dread of the +World,</q> and boasted that grass would never grow again where his horse +had trod. His greatest battle was at Chalons, +in Gaul, 451 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, where of +his 700,000 men from 100,000 to 300,000 are said to have been left dead +on the field. See Gibbon's Rome, chapter 35, and <q>Fifteen Decisive +Battles of the World,</q> by Sir Edward Creasy, chapter 6. +</p> + +<p> +Says Gibbon (chapter 34), <q>In the reign of Attila, the Huns again +became the terror of the world;</q> and he proceeds to describe <q>the character +and actions of that formidable barbarian, who,</q> he says, <q>alternately insulted +and invaded the East and the West, and urged the rapid downfall +of the Roman Empire.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +6. What was to occur under the fourth trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the fourth angel sounded, and <hi rend='italic'>the third part of the sun +was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of +the stars</hi>; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the +<pb n='291'/><anchor id='Pg291'/> +day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.</q> +Verse 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This trumpet +brings us to the fall of Western Rome, in 476 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, when the +Herulian barbarians, under the leadership of Odoacer, took +possession of the city and scepter of Rome; and the great empire which +had hitherto been the empress of the world was reduced to a poor dukedom, +tributary to the exarch of Ravenna. Its luminaries, or civil rulers, +were smitten, and ceased to shine. <q>Italy now became in effect a province +of the empire of the East. The Roman Empire in the West had come to +an end, after an existence from the founding of Rome +of 1,229 years.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Myers's +<q>General History,</q> page 348.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +7. What was to be the character of the last three trumpets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst +of heaven, saying with a loud voice, <hi rend='italic'>Woe, +woe, woe</hi>, to the inhabiters +of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet +of the three angels, which are yet to sound!</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus291.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Seven Trumpets.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +8. After the fall of Western Rome, what power in the East +arose to harass and overrun the Roman world, East and West? +</p> + +<p> +Mohammedanism, commonly known as the Turkish or Ottoman +power, which arose in Arabia, with Mohammed, in 622 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +9. How is the fifth trumpet, or first woe, introduced? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw <hi rend='italic'>a star fall from +heaven unto the earth</hi>: and to him was given the key of the bottomless +pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a +smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; <hi rend='italic'>and the +sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit</hi>. +And there came out of the smoke <hi rend='italic'>locusts</hi> upon the earth: and unto +them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have +power.</q> Rev. 9:1-3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Attila +is symbolized by the star of the third trumpet (Rev. +8:10, 11); Mohammed, by the star of this trumpet. The bottomless pit +doubtless refers to the wastes of the Arabian desert, from which came forth +<pb n='292'/><anchor id='Pg292'/> +the Mohammedans, or Saracens of Arabia, like swarms of locusts. The +darkening caused by the smoke from this pit fitly represents the spread +of Mohammedanism and its doctrines over Asia, Africa, and portions of +Europe. Their power as scorpions is strikingly seen in their vigorous and +speedy attacks upon, and overthrow of, their enemies. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Over a large part of Spain, over north Africa, Egypt, Syria, Babylonia, +Persia, north India, and portions of Central Asia were spread—to +the more or less perfect exclusion of native customs, speech, and worship—the +manners, the language, and the religion of the Arabian +conquerors.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Myers's +<q>General History,</q> page 401.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +10. What command was given these locusts? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it was commanded them that they should not hurt +the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; +but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.</q> +Verse 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—When +the Arabian tribes were gathered for the conquest +of Syria, 633 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, the +caliph Abu-Bekr, the successor of Mohammed, instructed +the chiefs of his army not to allow their victory to be <q>stained +with the blood of women and children;</q> to <q>destroy no palm-trees, nor +burn any fields of corn;</q> to <q>cut down no fruit-trees, nor do any mischief to +cattle;</q> and to spare those religious persons <q>who live retired in monasteries, +and propose to themselves to serve God in that way;</q> but, he said, +<q>you will find another sort of people that belong to the synagogue of Satan, +who have shaven crowns: be sure you cleave their skulls and give them no +quarter till they either turn Mohammedan or pay tribute.</q> In this, +Mohammedanism, itself a false religion, is revealed as a scourge to apostate +Christianity. +</p> + +<p> +<q>In a short time they [the Mohammedan Saracens] had taken from the +Aryans all the principal old Semitic lands,—Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, +Assyria, and Babylonia. To these was soon added +Egypt.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Encyclopedia +Britannica, article <q>Mohammedanism.</q></hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +11. What were these locusts said to have over them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they had <hi rend='italic'>a king</hi> over them, which is the angel of the +bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, +but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon [margin, a +destroyer].</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—For hundreds of years the Mohammedans and invading +Tartar tribes, like the locusts (Prov. 30:27), had no general government +or king over them, but were divided into bands, or factions, under separate +leaders. But in the twelfth century Temuljin, king of the Mongols, or +Moguls, who is described as <q>the most terrible scourge that ever afflicted +the human race,</q> built up an empire <q>at the cost,</q> it is estimated, says +Myers in his <q>General History,</q> page 461, of <q>fifty thousand cities and +towns and five million lives.</q> This was followed by the more permanent +Tartar empire founded by Othman a century later, commonly known as the +Ottoman Empire, and ruled by the sultan. +</p> + +<p> +From the first, the great characteristic of the Turkish government has +been that of a <q>destroyer.</q> Speaking of a war by the Turks upon the +Byzantine Empire in 1050, Gibbon (chapter 57) says: <q>The myriads of +Turkish horse overspread a frontier of six hundred miles from Tauris to +Erzeroum, and the blood of one hundred and thirty thousand Christians +was a grateful sacrifice to the Arabian prophet.</q> +</p> + +<pb n='293'/><anchor id='Pg293'/> + +<p> +In 1058 the Turks wrested the Holy Land from the Saracens, desecrated +the holy places, and treated the pilgrims to Jerusalem with cruelty. +This brought on the nine unsuccessful crusades of the next two centuries +for the recovery of the Holy Land. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +12. What definite period is mentioned under this trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were +stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men <hi rend='italic'>five +months</hi>.</q> Verse 10. See also verse 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>It was +on the twenty-seventh of July, in the year 1299,</q> +says Gibbon, <q>that Othman first invaded the territory of Nicomedia,</q> +in Asia Minor, <q>and the singular accuracy of the date,</q> he adds, <q>seems to +disclose some foresight of the rapid and destructive +growth of the monster.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Decline +and Fall of the Roman Empire,</q> chap. 64, par. 14</hi> This, then, +we take to be the beginning of the period referred to. +</p> + +<p> +A Bible month consists of thirty days; five months would be 150 days. +Allowing a day for a year, 150 years from July 27, 1299, would reach to +July 27, 1449. During this period the Turks were engaged in almost +constant warfare with the Greek Empire, and yet without conquering it. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +13. With what statement does the fifth trumpet close? +</p> + +<p> +<q>One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more +hereafter.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +14. What command is given under the sixth trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the +four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the +sixth angel which had the trumpet, <hi rend='italic'>Loose the four angels which +are bound in the great river Euphrates</hi>.</q> Verses 13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—These four +angels are understood to refer to the four leading +Turkish sultanies—Aleppo, Iconium, Damascus, and Bagdad—of +which the Ottoman Empire was composed, situated in the country watered +by the river Euphrates. +</p> + +<p> +As a striking parallel it may be noted that under the sixth plague +(Rev. 16:12-16), the four angels of Rev. 7:1-3 will loose the winds of war, +the waters of the river Euphrates (the Turkish Empire) will be dried up, +and the armies of the nations will assemble for the battle of Armageddon. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. What warlike scene is given under this trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The number of the armies of the horsemen was <hi rend='italic'>twice ten +thousand times ten thousand</hi>: ... and the heads of the +horses are as the heads of lions; and <hi rend='italic'>out of their mouths proceedeth +fire and smoke and brimstone</hi>.</q> Verses 16, 17, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>In the +year 1453, Mohammed II, the Great, sultan of the +Ottomans, laid siege to the capital [Constantinople], with an army of over +200,000 men. After a short investment, the place was taken by storm. +The cross, which since the time of Constantine the Great had surmounted +the dome of St. Sophia, was replaced by the crescent, which remains to +this day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Myers's <q>General +History,</q> edition 1902, pages 462, 463.</hi> +</p> +<pb n='294'/><anchor id='Pg294'/> + +<p> +Thus Constantinople, the eastern seat of the Roman Empire since the +days of Constantine, was captured by the Turks. +</p> + +<p> +Reference also seems to be made here to the use of firearms, which +began to be employed by the Turks toward the close of the thirteenth +century, and which, discharged from horseback, would give the appearance +of fire and smoke issuing from the horses' mouths. In the battle of Armageddon, +to which allusion may here be made, an army of <q>twice ten +thousand times ten thousand,</q> or two hundred million, will doubtless be +assembled. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +16. What was the result of this warfare by means of <q>fire +and smoke and brimstone</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By these three was the third part of men killed.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This shows +the deadly effect of this new means of warfare. +<q>Constantinople was subdued, her empire subverted, and her religion +trampled in the dust by the Moslem +conquerors.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Elliott's <q>Horæ Apocalypticæ,</q> +Vol. I, page 484.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +17. What definite period is mentioned under this trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for +an <hi rend='italic'>hour</hi>, and a <hi rend='italic'>day</hi>, and +a <hi rend='italic'>month</hi>; and a <hi rend='italic'>year</hi>, for to slay the third +part of men.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—An hour +in prophetic time is equal to fifteen days; a day +stands for a year, a month for thirty years, a year for 360 years. Added +together, these amount to 391 years and fifteen days, the time allotted for +the Ottoman supremacy. Commencing July 27, 1449, the date of the close +of the fifth trumpet, this period would end Aug. 11, 1840. In exact fulfilment +of the words of inspiration, this date marks the fall of the Ottoman +Empire as an independent power. His empire wasted beyond hope of recovery +in a war with Mohammed Ali, pasha of Egypt, the sultan of Turkey +submitted to the dictates of the then four great powers of Europe, and his +minister, Rifat Bey, on that very day, Aug. 11, 1840, reached Alexandria, +bearing, not the sultan's ultimatum, but that of the powers, to place in +the hands of the rebellious pasha. Since then Turkey has existed +only by the help or sufferance of the great powers of Europe, and has commonly +been referred to as <q>the Sick Man of the East.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +18. With what announcement does the sixth trumpet close? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The second woe is past; and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>the third woe cometh +quickly</hi>.</q> Rev. 11:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The definite period +under the sixth trumpet brings us to +1840, when Turkey lost her independence. Her final downfall, we understand, +will come at the opening of the seventh trumpet. +</quote> + +<p> +19. What is to be finished when the seventh trumpet is +about to sound? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he +is about to sound, then is finished <hi rend='italic'>the mystery of God</hi>, according +to the good tidings which He declared to His servants the +prophets.</q> Rev. 10:7, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The mystery +of God is the gospel. Eph. 3:3-6; Gal. 1:11, +12, When this trumpet is about to sound, therefore, the gospel will close, +<pb n='295'/><anchor id='Pg295'/> +and the end will come. The <q>time of trouble,</q> of Dan. 12:1, and the +seven last plagues and the battle of Armageddon, spoken of in Revelation +16, will take place when this trumpet begins to sound. +</quote> + +<p> +20. What event marks the sounding of the seventh trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices +in heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms +of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever +and ever.</hi> And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God +on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshiped God, saying, +We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, +and wast, and art to come; because Thou hast taken to Thee +Thy great power, and hast reigned.</q> Rev. 11:15-17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +seventh trumpet, therefore, brings us to the setting up +of God's everlasting kingdom. +</quote> + +<p> +21. What is the condition of the nations, and what other +events are due or impending at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the nations were angry</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>Thy wrath is come</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>the +time of the dead, that they should be judged</hi>, and that Thou +shouldest <hi rend='italic'>give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the +saints</hi>, and them that fear Thy name, small and great; and +shouldest <hi rend='italic'>destroy them which destroy the earth</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The closing +scenes of this world's history and the judgment +are clearly brought to view here. Ever since the loss of independence by +the Ottoman Empire in 1840, the nations have been preparing for war as +never before, in view of international complications and a world war which +all fear is inevitable upon the dissolution of Turkey and the final disposition +of its territory. Towering above all others, the Eastern question has been +the one of paramount concern to them. +</p> + +<p> +The investigative judgment began in heaven in 1844, at the close of +the prophetic period of 2300 days. See readings on pages +<ref target='Pg230'>230-253</ref>. When +this is finished, the time of reward will have arrived, the end will have +come, and the saints will themselves sit in judgment. See Rev. 20:4; +1 Cor. 6:1-3. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +22. What scene in heaven was presented to the prophet +as the seventh trumpet was about to sound? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the temple of God was opened in heaven</hi>, and there was +seen in His temple <hi rend='italic'>the ark of +His testament</hi>: and there were lightnings, +and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and +great hail.</q> Rev. 11:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—This +forcibly calls attention to the closing work of Christ +in the second apartment, or most holy place, of the sanctuary in heaven, +which began in 1844. See readings referred to in preceding note. The +reference to the ark of God's testament is a forcible reminder also of that +which is to be the standard in the judgment,—the law of God, or ten commandments. +See Eccl. 12:13, 14; Rom. 2:12, 13; James 2:8-12. +</p> + +<p> +From its closing words—the reference to <q>great hail</q>—the seventh +trumpet evidently embraces the seven last plagues (see Rev. 16:17, 18); +and from its opening words—<q>the kingdoms of this world are become the +kingdoms of our Lord</q>—it marks the setting up of God's everlasting +kingdom. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='296'/><anchor id='Pg296'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Eastern Question</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus296.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Bosporus. +"He shall come to his end, and none shall +help him." Dan. 11:45.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What, briefly stated, is the Eastern question? +</p> + +<p> +The driving out of Turkey from Europe, and the final extinction +of the Turkish Empire, with the world-embracing +events that follow. It has been otherwise described as <q>the +driving of the Turk into Asia, and a scramble for his territory.</q> +</p> + +<p> +2. What scriptures are devoted to the Turkish power? +</p> + +<p> +Dan. 11:40-45; Revelation 9; and Rev. 16:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the +eleventh chapter of Daniel, Turkey is dealt with +under the title of the <q>king of the north;</q> in Revelation 9, under the +sounding of the fifth and sixth <q>trumpets;</q> and in Revelation 16, under +the symbol of the drying up of the water of the chief river of the Turkish +Asiatic possessions, <q>the great river Euphrates.</q> The actual drying up +of the river Euphrates was the signal for the overthrow of ancient Babylon. +</quote> + +<p> +3. When did Turkey take Constantinople, and thus the +northern division of ancient Greece and Rome? +</p> + +<p> +In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 1453, under Mohammed II. See pages +<ref target='Pg293'>293</ref>, <ref target='Pg294'>294</ref>. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—After the +death of Alexander the Great, the Grecian Empire +was divided by his four leading generals, Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, +and Ptolemy, into four parts,—east, west, north, and south,—the first +three of which were shortly afterward absorbed into one kingdom, the +kingdom of the north, Egypt remaining the king, or kingdom, of the south. +In the breaking up of the Roman Empire, the Turks gained possession +of the Holy Land in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +1058, and finally of Constantinople, and considerable +portions of eastern Europe,—the kingdom of the north,—in 1453, to +which, with varying fortunes and shrinking geographical boundaries, it has +held ever since. +</quote> + +<p> +4. How has Turkey been regarded by European nations? +</p> + +<pb n='297'/><anchor id='Pg297'/> + +<p> +<q>The Turks have ever remained quite insensible to the influences +of European civilization, and their government has been +a perfect blight and curse to the countries subject to their rule. +They have always been looked upon <hi rend='italic'>as intruders</hi> in Europe, and +their presence there has led to several of the most sanguinary +wars of modern times. Gradually they have been pushed out +from their European possessions, and the time is probably not very far distant +when they will be driven back across the Bosporus.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Myers's +<q>General History,</q> edition 1902, page 468.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +5. When did the independence of Turkey cease? +</p> + +<p> +In 1840, at the close of a two years' war between Turkey and +Egypt, when the fate of Turkey was placed in the hands of four +great powers of Europe,—England, Russia, Austria, and +Prussia. See page 294, under question 19. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is one of the last predictions of the prophecy of +Daniel concerning the king of the north? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble +him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and +utterly to make away many.</q> Dan. 11:44. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Upon this, Dr. +Adam Clarke, writing in 1825, said: <q>If the +Turkish power be understood, as in the preceding verses, it may mean that +the Persians on the <emph>east</emph> and the Russians on the <emph>north</emph> will at +some time greatly embarrass the Ottoman government.</q> Such indeed was the case, +and these conditions brought on the Crimean war of 1853-56, between +Russia and Turkey. In this war England and France came to the help of +Turkey, and prevented Russia from grasping Constantinople, her coveted +prize, and thus gaining access to the Dardanelles and the Mediterranean +and so possessing herself of the gateway of commerce between Europe +Asia. Without an outlet to the sea, Russia cannot be a strong naval +power. In his celebrated will, Peter the Great of Russia (1672-1725) admonished +his countrymen thus: <q>Take every possible means of gaining +Constantinople and the Indies, for,</q> said he, <q>he who rules there will be +the true sovereign of the world; excite war continually in Turkey and +Persia; ... get control of the sea by degrees; ... advance to the +Indies, which are the great depot of the world. Once there, we can do without +the gold of England.</q> The authenticity of this will has been questioned, +but it outlines a policy which Russia has quite faithfully pursued. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What since 1840 has saved Turkey from complete overthrow? +</p> + +<p> +The help and interference of various European powers. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>It +is not too much to say that England has twice saved +Turkey from complete subjection since 1853. It is largely—mainly—due +to our action that she now exists at all as an independent power. On +both these occasions we dragged the powers of Europe along with us in +maintaining the Ottoman government.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Duke +of Argyle (1895), in <q>The +Turkish-Armenian Question,</q> page 17.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +8. Why have these powers thus helped Turkey? +</p> + +<pb n='298'/><anchor id='Pg298'/> + +<p> +Not from love for Turkey, but for fear of the international +complications that its downfall might entail. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In his +Mansion House speech, Nov. 9, 1895, Lord Salisbury, +responding to a wide-spread demand for the overthrow of the Turkish +power, said: <q>Turkey is in that remarkable condition that it has now +stood for half a century, mainly because the great powers of the world have +resolved that <emph>for the peace of Christendom it is necessary that the Ottoman +Empire should stand</emph>. They came to that conclusion nearly half a century +ago. I do not think they have altered it now. <emph>The danger</emph>, if the Ottoman +Empire fall, would not merely be the danger that would threaten the +territories of which that empire consists; <emph>it would be the danger that the fire +there lit should spread to other nations, and should involve all that is most +powerful and civilized in Europe in a dangerous and calamitous contest</emph>. That +was a danger that was present to the minds of our fathers when they resolved +to make the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire a +matter of European treaty, <emph>and that is a danger</emph> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>which has not passed +away</hi>.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Balkan, or Near Eastern, question has been one of the most +complicated political problems of the world's history for half a century. +... For four centuries and a half, or ever since the conquering +Turk crossed the Bosporus and took Constantinople, the grim contest +has been on to dislodge him by war and +diplomacy.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>American Review +of Reviews, November, 1912.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Nearly a century ago, Napoleon, while a prisoner on St. Helena, +explained that when emperor of France, he would not consent for Alexander, +the czar of Russia, to have Constantinople, <q>foreseeing that the +equilibrium of Europe would be destroyed.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What is the divine prediction regarding the future and +final downfall of the king of the north? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between +the seas <hi rend='italic'>in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his +end, and none shall help him</hi>.</q> Dan. 11:45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It would +seem natural that the Ottoman government should +make its last stand at Jerusalem. Around the city of the Holy Sepulcher +and the tombs of the <q>saints</q> has been waged for long years a war between +the followers of Islam and the believers in the Christian religion. +In this place, many Bible students believe, Turkey will come to her end in +fulfilment of this scripture. +</quote> + +<p> +10. Under which of the seven last plagues is the water of +the Euphrates (Turkey) to be dried up, and for what purpose? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the sixth angel</hi> poured out his vial upon the great river +Euphrates; and the water thereof was <hi rend='italic'>dried up, that the way of +the kings of the East might be prepared</hi>.</q> Rev. 16:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For years +the drying-up process of the Turkish Empire has +been in progress, as may be seen from the following:— +</p> + +<p> +(1) In 1783 Turkey was compelled to surrender to Russia the territory +of the Crimea, including all the countries east of the Caspian Sea. +</p> + +<p> +(2) In 1828 Greece secured her independence. +</p> + +<p> +(3) In 1830 Algeria was ceded to France. +</p> + +<p> +(4) In 1867 Turkey was forced to recognize the independence of Egypt. +</p> + +<pb n='299'/><anchor id='Pg299'/> + +<p> +(5) In the same year Turkey lost possession of Servia and Bosnia. +</p> + +<p> +(6) In 1878 the Treaty of Berlin granted autonomous government to +Bulgaria, and independence to Roumelia, Roumania, and Montenegro. +</p> + +<p> +(7) In 1912 Tripoli was taken over by Italy. +</p> + +<p> +(8) In 1912 and 1913 the Balkan States and Greece dispossessed +Turkey of nearly all of her remaining territory in Europe. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +11. Under this plague, what incites the nations to war? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw <hi rend='italic'>three unclean spirits</hi> like frogs come out of the +mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out +of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are <hi rend='italic'>the spirits of +devils</hi>, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the +earth and of the whole world, <hi rend='italic'>to gather them to the battle of that +great day of God Almighty</hi>.</q> Verses 13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +12. At this time, what event is near at hand? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Behold, I come as a thief.</hi> Blessed is he that watcheth, and +keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his +shame.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +13. To what place will the nations be gathered for battle? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he gathered them together into a place called in the +Hebrew tongue <hi rend='italic'>Armageddon</hi>.</q> Verse 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Armageddon +consists of a great triangular plain in northern +Palestine, twelve by fifteen by eighteen miles, extending southeast from +Mt. Carmel, otherwise known as the plain of Esdraelon, or valley of Jezreel. +It has been the scene of many great battles, such as that of Gideon's overthrow +of the Midianites (Judges 6, 7), when <q>the Lord set every man's +sword against his fellow;</q> of Saul's defeat by the Philistines (1 Sam. 29: +1; 1 Chronicles 10); and of Josiah's defeat by Pharaoh Necho (2 Kings 23:29, +30; 2 Chron. 35:20-24): and, as this scripture indicates, it is the place +where, under the influence of evil spirits just preceding Christ's second +coming, the great armies of the world will be gathered for their final struggle +and utter destruction under the seventh plague. +</quote> + +<p> +14. When the king of the north comes to his end, what, +according to the prophecy, is to take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>at that time shall Michael stand up</hi>, the great Prince +which standeth for the children of thy people: and <hi rend='italic'>there shall be +a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation</hi> even +to that same time: and <hi rend='italic'>at that time thy people shall be delivered</hi>, +every one that shall be found written in the book.</q> Dan. 12:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +expression <q>stand up</q> occurs eight times in this line +of prophecy (Daniel 11 and 12), and in each case means <emph>to reign</emph>. See +Dan. 11:2, 3, 4, 7, 14, 20, 21; 12:1. Michael is Christ, as will be seen by +comparing Jude 9, 1 Thess. 4:16, and John 5:25. When the Turkish +Empire is brought to an end, therefore, the time will have come for Christ +to receive His kingdom (Luke 19:11-15), and begin His reign. This great +change will be ushered in by the downfall, not only of Turkey, but of all +nations (Rev. 11:15); by the time of trouble here spoken of; by the seven +<pb n='300'/><anchor id='Pg300'/> +last plagues described in Revelation 16; and by the deliverance of all God's +people,—those whose names are found written in the book of life (Rev. +3:5; 20:12),—which shows that probation and the investigative judgment +will then be past. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What will take place at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall +awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting +contempt.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—At the +resurrection of Christ there was a special resurrection, +when many of the saints were raised from the dead, were seen of many, and +were taken to heaven with Christ at His ascension. Matt. 27:52, 53; +Eph. 4:8. So, just prior to Christ's second coming and the general resurrection +of the righteous, many of the sleeping saints, and some colossal sinners +(those that <q>pierced Him,</q> Rev. 1:7), it seems, will be raised to witness +His coming, and hear God's covenant of peace with His people. +</p> + +<p> +This line of prophecy, therefore, brings us down to the resurrection of +the righteous, which takes place at the second advent. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +16. What false message will go forth before destruction +comes upon those unprepared for Christ's coming and kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so +cometh as a thief in the night. <hi rend='italic'>For when they shall say, Peace +and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them</hi>, ... +and they shall not escape.</q> 1 Thess. 5:2, 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +so-called Christian nations will not go to Palestine +merely to expel the Turks from the land. As in the crusades of the twelfth +and thirteenth centuries, the idea will be to rescue the Holy Land from the +Mohammedans, and make Jerusalem the center of a glorious kingdom, with +Christ as king. The Papacy itself, it is thought by some, will at this time +remove its seat to Jerusalem, and issue a great peace proclamation, directing +the nations to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into +pruning-hooks, and calling upon all to come up to the mountain of the +Lord, as described in Isa. 2:2-5 and Micah 4:1-5. Infatuated by the +doctrine of a temporal millennium, many nations will join in the call, and +say, <q>For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from +Jerusalem.</q> Isa. 2:3. But this will be but the signal for the battle of +Armageddon and the <q>sudden destruction</q> that is to overtake the world +and bring to an end the present order of things. See Rev. 19:17-21; Eze. +38:14-23; 39:17-22. Toward this consummation passing events all indicate +we are rapidly hastening. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Watchman on the walls of Zion,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>What, O tell us, of the night?</l> +<l>Is the day-star now arising?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Will the morn soon greet our sight?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O'er your vision shine there now some rays of light?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Tell, O tell us, are the landmarks</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>On our voyage all passed by?</l> +<l>Are we nearing now the haven?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Can we e'en the land descry?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Do we truly see the heavenly kingdom nigh?</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='301'/><anchor id='Pg301'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Seven Last Plagues</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus301.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Marshaling Of The Nations. +"And he gathered them together into +a place called ... Armageddon." +Rev. 16:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is God's final warning against false worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive +his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, <hi rend='italic'>the same shall drink of +the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture +into the cup of His indignation</hi>; and he shall be tormented with +fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the +presence of the Lamb.</q> Rev. 14:9, 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—During +probationary time God's wrath is always tempered, +or mingled, with mercy. Thus the prophet Habakkuk prays, <q>In wrath +remember mercy.</q> Hab. 3:2. God's wrath unmixed with mercy is +visited only when mercy has done its final work and evil has gone to the +limit, so that there is <q>no remedy.</q> See Gen. 6:3; 15:16; 19:12, 13; +2 Chron. 36:16; Matt. 23:37, 38; Luke 19:42-44; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 7. +</quote> + +<p> +2. In what is the wrath of God filled up? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, +seven angels having <hi rend='italic'>the seven last +plagues</hi>; for <hi rend='italic'>in them is filled up +the wrath of God</hi>.</q> Rev. 15:1. +</p> + +<p> +3. How does Joel describe the day of the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as +a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.</q> <q>For the day +of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?</q> +Joel 1:15; 2:11. +</p> + +<pb n='302'/><anchor id='Pg302'/> + +<p> +4. What has Daniel said of this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since +there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy +people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written +in the book.</q> Dan. 12:1. See Eze. 7:15-19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The seven last +plagues will be the most terrible scourges +ever visited upon man. As Ahab accused Elijah of being the cause of +Israel's calamities (1 Kings 18:17, 18), so, in the time of trouble, the wicked +and those who have departed from God will be enraged at the righteous, +will accuse them as being the cause of the plagues, and will seek to destroy +them as did Haman the Jews. See Esther 3:8-14. But God will miraculously +deliver His people at this time as He did then. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What will be the first plague, and upon whom will it fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the first went, and poured out his vial upon <hi rend='italic'>the earth</hi>; +and <hi rend='italic'>there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had +the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshiped his image</hi>.</q> +Rev. 16:2. +</p> + +<p> +6. What will constitute the second plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the second angel poured out his vial upon <hi rend='italic'>the sea</hi>; +and <hi rend='italic'>it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul +died in the sea</hi>.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +7. What will be the third plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the third angel poured out his vial upon <hi rend='italic'>the rivers +and fountains of waters</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>they became blood</hi>.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The second +plague affects the sea. The third plague comes +closer to the habitations of men, and affects the land. The water supplies +are contaminated. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Why, under these plagues, does the Lord give men blood +to drink? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets</hi>, and Thou +hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In this is +shown God's abhorrence of oppression and persecution. +The plagues are God's rebukes against colossal forms of sin. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What will be the fourth plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon <hi rend='italic'>the sun</hi>; +and <hi rend='italic'>power was given unto him to scorch men with fire</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +See Joel 1:16-20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Sun-worship +is the most ancient and wide-spread of all forms +of idolatry. In this plague God manifests His displeasure at this form of +idolatry. That which men have worshiped as a god, becomes a plague +and tormentor. Thus it was in the plagues of Egypt. Those things which +the Egyptians had worshiped became scourges to them instead of benefactors +<pb n='303'/><anchor id='Pg303'/> +and blessings. See <q>The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation,</q> +by <q>An American Citizen,</q> chapter 3. +</quote> + +<p> +10. Will even this terrible judgment lead men to repent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And men were scorched with great heat, and <hi rend='italic'>blasphemed +the name of God</hi>, which hath power over these plagues: and <hi rend='italic'>they +repented not to give Him glory</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +11. What will be the fifth plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon <hi rend='italic'>the seat of the +beast</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>his kingdom was full of darkness</hi>; and they gnawed +their tongues for pain.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This plague strikes +at the very seat of the great apostasy of +the latter days, the Papacy. It will doubtless be similar in effect to the +like plague in Egypt, which was a darkness that could <q>be felt.</q> Ex. +10:21-23. By this plague that iniquitous, haughty, and apostate spiritual +despotism which has set itself up as possessing all truth, and as being the +light of the world, is enshrouded in midnight darkness. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What takes place under the sixth plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great +river <hi rend='italic'>Euphrates</hi>; and +<hi rend='italic'>the water thereof was dried up</hi>, that the way +of the kings of the East might be prepared.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, we +understand, refers to the drying up of the Turkish +Empire by the great world powers preparatory to the battle of Armageddon. +See preceding reading. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What gathers the nations to the battle of Armageddon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw <hi rend='italic'>three unclean spirits</hi> like frogs come out of the +mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out +of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are <hi rend='italic'>the spirits of +devils</hi>, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the +earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of +that great day of God Almighty.... And he gathered +them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.</q> +Verses 13-16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This scripture +shows that it is the spirit of Satan which +incites men to war, and explains why the great nations of the world are +now making such preparations for war. The dragon represents paganism; +the beast, the Papacy; and the false prophet, apostate Protestantism,—the +three great religious apostasies since the flood. The plain Esdraelon, +in southwestern Galilee, is the Armageddon here referred to. See note +on page <ref target='Pg099'>99</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +14. At this time what event is imminent? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Behold, I come as a thief.</hi> Blessed is he that watcheth, +and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his +shame.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<pb n='304'/><anchor id='Pg304'/> + +<p> +15. What takes place under the seventh plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the seventh angel poured out his vial into <hi rend='italic'>the air</hi>.... +And there were <hi rend='italic'>voices</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>thunders</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>lightnings</hi>; +and <hi rend='italic'>there was a great earthquake</hi>, such as was not since men were +upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And +the great city was divided into three parts, <hi rend='italic'>and the cities of the +nations fell</hi>.</q> Verses 17-19. +</p> + +<p> +16. What accompanies the earthquake? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there fell upon men <hi rend='italic'>a great hail out of heaven</hi>, every +stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God +because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding +great.</q> Verse 21. See Job 38:22, 23; Ps. 7:11-13. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will the Lord be to His people at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice +from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: +<hi rend='italic'>but the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the +children of Israel</hi>.</q> Joel 3:16. See Jer. 25:30, 31; Haggai 2:21; +Heb.12:26; Ps. 91:5-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—To prepare +His people and the world for these terrible judgments, +the Lord, as in the days of Noah, sends a warning message to every +nation, kindred, tongue, and people. See Rev. 14:6-10. +</quote> + +<p> +18. Just before the pouring out of the plagues, what call +does God send to His people still in Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Come out +of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye +receive not of her plagues</hi>. For her sins have reached unto +heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.</q> Rev. +18:4, 5. See Gen. 19:12-17; Jer. 51:6; and page 254. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As +before the flood, many of God's people will doubtless +be laid away to rest shortly before the time of trouble. See Isa. 57:1; +Rev. 14:13. Referring to the time before the flood, an ancient book +says: <q>And all men who walked in the ways of the Lord, died in those +days, before the Lord brought the evil upon man which He had declared, +for this was from the Lord, that they should not see the evil which the +Lord spoke of concerning the sons of men.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Book +of Jasher 4:20.</hi> See +also chapter 5:21 of the same book. +</quote> + +<p> +19. How suddenly will the plagues come upon modern +Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore shall her plagues come <hi rend='italic'>in one day</hi>, death, and +mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with +fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.... For +in <hi rend='italic'>one hour</hi> is thy judgment come.</q> Rev. 18:8-10. +</p> + +<pb n='305'/><anchor id='Pg305'/> + +<p> +20. What famine will come at this time upon those who have +rejected God's messages of mercy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that <hi rend='italic'>I will send a +famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, +but of hearing the words of the Lord</hi>: and they shall wander from +sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run +to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.</q> +Amos 8:11, 12. See Luke 13:25; Prov. 1:24-26; Heb. 12:15-17. +</p> + +<p> +21. What announcement is made under the seventh plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, +from the throne, saying, <hi rend='italic'>It is done</hi>.</q> Rev. 16:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God made man to bless him. Gen. 1:28. When His +blessings are abused, He withholds them, to teach men their source and +their proper use. Haggai 1:7-11. Judgments are sent that men may +<q>learn righteousness.</q> Isa. 25:9; 1 Kings 17:1. That men do not repent +under the plagues is no evidence that God has ceased to be merciful +and forgiving. They simply demonstrate that all have determined their +destiny, and that even the severest judgments of God will not move the +ungodly and impenitent to repentance. +</quote> + +<p> +22. Just preceding Christ's second coming, what solemn +decree will go forth showing that the cases of all have been +decided? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is +filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be +righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, +behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every +man according as his work shall be.</q> Rev. 22:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +23. What psalms seem to have been written especially for +the comfort and encouragement of God's people during the +time of the seven last plagues? +</p> + +<p> +Psalms 91 and 46. See also Isa. 33:13-17. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>The great decisive day is at hand!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The day when Christ will come,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To call His children home</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And to seal the sinner's doom,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Is at hand.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Where will the sinner hide in that day?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>It will be in vain to call,</l> +<l><q>Ye mountains on us fall,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For His hand will find out all</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>In that day.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='306'/><anchor id='Pg306'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Mystery Of God Finished</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus306.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Watchman, What Of The Night? +"The kingdoms of this world are become +the kingdoms of our Lord, and +of His Christ." Rev. 11:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Following his description of the sixth trumpet, what +did John see? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw <hi rend='italic'>another mighty angel come down from heaven</hi>, +clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his +face was as it were the sun.</q> Rev. 10:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did he have in his hand? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he had in his hand <hi rend='italic'>a little book open</hi>.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The book +of Daniel, which was to be <q>sealed,</q> or closed, +till the time of the end, is doubtless referred to here. See Dan. 12:4, 9. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What solemn announcement did this angel make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the angel which I saw ... lifted up his hand to +heaven, and sware by Him that liveth forever and ever, who +created heaven, and the things that therein are, ... <hi rend='italic'>that +there should be time no longer</hi>.</q> Rev. 10:5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Not literal +nor probationary time, but prophetic time. The +2300-day period, which ended in 1844, must be alluded to here. See page +<ref target='Pg230'>230</ref>. No prophetic period in the Bible reaches beyond this. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What did the angel say was to be finished when the +seventh trumpet was about to sound? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he +shall begin to sound, <hi rend='italic'>the mystery of God</hi> should be finished, as +He hath declared to His servants the prophets.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The mystery +of God is the gospel. Eph. 3:1-6; Gal. 1:11, 12. +The gospel, then, is to be finished as the seventh trumpet is about to sound. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What was John told to do with the little book? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of +the angel ... and <hi rend='italic'>eat it up</hi>.</q> Verses 8, 9. +</p> + +<pb n='307'/><anchor id='Pg307'/> + +<p> +6. What was to be the result of the eating of this book? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It shall <hi rend='italic'>make thy belly bitter</hi>, +but it shall be <hi rend='italic'>in thy mouth +sweet as honey</hi>.</q> Verse 9, last part. +</p> + +<p> +7. What does the apostle say of his experience in this matter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate +it up; and it was in my mouth <hi rend='italic'>sweet as honey</hi>: and as soon as I +had eaten it, my belly was <hi rend='italic'>bitter</hi>.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +this is most strikingly foretold the experience of those who +proclaimed the advent and judgment-hour message of 1843-44. Joyous +in the hope that Christ was coming then, like the early disciples regarding +His first advent (Luke 24:21; Acts 1:6, 7), they were bitterly disappointed, +and found that there was still a work on earth for them to do, as did the +early disciples following the crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of +Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What words of the angel to John show that both literal +and probationary time were to continue yet for a time, and that +God had a still further message for the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto me, <hi rend='italic'>Thou must prophesy again</hi> before +many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The message of +Revelation 10 is the same as that of Rev. 14:6, +7; and the later messages of Rev. 14:8-12 answer to the instruction, +<q>Thou must <emph>prophesy again</emph>,</q> of Rev. 10:11. But all are last-day +messages, and indicate that the end of all things is near at hand. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>How long, O Lord our Saviour,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Wilt Thou remain away?</l> +<l>Our hearts are growing weary</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of Thy so long delay.</l> +<l>O when shall come the moment</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When, brighter far than morn,</l> +<l>The sunshine of Thy glory</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Shall on Thy people dawn?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>How long, O gracious Master,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Wilt Thou Thy household leave?</l> +<l>So long hast Thou now tarried,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Few Thy return believe.</l> +<l>Immersed in sloth and folly,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thy servants, Lord, we see;</l> +<l>And few of us stand ready</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With joy to welcome Thee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O, wake Thy slumbering people;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Send forth the solemn cry;</l> +<l>Let all the saints repeat it,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'><q>The Saviour draweth nigh!</q></l> +<l>May all our lamps be burning,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Our loins well girded be,</l> +<l>Each longing heart preparing</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With joy Thy face to see.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='308'/><anchor id='Pg308'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Great Lines of Prophecy</head> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>The Great Image of Daniel 2.</hi> This prophecy, written +over twenty-five hundred years ago, is one of the greatest, briefest, +and most comprehensive prophecies in the Bible. Under +the symbol of a great metallic image, the rise and fall of nations +is outlined till the end of time and the setting up of God's everlasting +kingdom. See reading on page <ref target='Pg204'>204</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>The Four Beasts of Daniel 7.</hi> This line of prophecy covers +the same ground as that of Daniel 2, but with additional features +introduced, especially that concerning the development and work +of the <q>little horn</q> power of the fourth beast, under which God's +people were to be oppressed until delivered and placed in possession +of the kingdom <q>forever and ever.</q> See reading on page +<ref target='Pg213'>213</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>The 2300 Days of Daniel 8.</hi> This prophecy, after tracing +the course of empire down through Medo-Persia, Greece, and +Rome, introduces the longest prophetic period in the Bible, reaching +from the beginning of the movement to restore and build +Jerusalem before Christ's first advent, to a similar work to be +performed by God's people in the last days preparatory to Christ's +second advent. See reading on page <ref target='Pg230'>230</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>The Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9.</hi> This prophecy fixes the +date of the beginning of the 2300 days, of which the seventy +weeks are a part; definitely marks the time of Christ's first advent; +and briefly refers to the <q>consummation</q> and the overthrow +of the last of earthly kingdoms. See pages <ref target='Pg232'>232-236</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>The Standing Up of Michael—Daniel 11 and 12.</hi> A literal +prophecy tracing the rise and fall of kings and kingdoms +from the early rulers of Persia in the sixth century <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi>, to +the overthrow of Turkey, the <q>king of the north,</q> and the <q>standing +up,</q> or reign, of Michael, the Great Prince, which is Christ. See +page <ref target='Pg296'>296</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>The Prophecies of the Revelation.</hi> These are supplemental +to the prophecies of Daniel. Under the Seven Churches, +the Seven Seals, the Seven Trumpets, the Great Red Dragon, +the Leopard Beast, and the Two-Horned Beast, the history and +experience of the church and of earthly kingdoms are traced during +the Christian era, to the end of the age. See pages <ref target='Pg301'>301-310</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='bold'>Christ's Great Prophecy.</hi> Christ's claim to being a prophet, +and the greatest of all prophets, is fully established by His prophecy +recorded in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. In this He +depicts minutely the destruction of Jerusalem, the great tribulation +of the Dark Ages, and the signs that were to herald His +second coming. See pages <ref target='Pg311'>311-325</ref>. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='309'/><anchor id='Pg309'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part VII. Coming Events and Signs of the Times</head> + +<pb n='310'/><anchor id='Pg310'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus310.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Siege Of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. +"When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that +the desolation thereof is nigh." Luke 21:20.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='311'/><anchor id='Pg311'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Our Lord's Great Prophecy</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus311.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Foretelling The Destruction Of Jerusalem. +"When shall these things be? and what +shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of +the end of the world?" Matt. 24:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How did Christ feel concerning Jerusalem, as He was +about to make His final visit to the city before His crucifixion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and <hi rend='italic'>wept +over it</hi>, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this +thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they +are hid from thine eyes.</q> Luke 19:41, 42. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what words did He foretell its destruction? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall +cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee +in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and +thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one +stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy +visitation.</q> Verses 43, 44. +</p> + +<p> +3. What pitiful appeal did He make to the impenitent city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, +and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I +have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth +her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!</q> Matt. 23:37. +</p> + +<p> +4. As He was about to leave the temple, what did He say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, your house is left unto you <hi rend='italic'>desolate</hi>.</q> Verse 38. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That which +was to fill up their cup of iniquity was their +final rejection and crucifixion of Christ, and their condemnation and persecution +of His apostles and people after His resurrection. See Matt. 23:29-35; +John 19:15; Acts 4-8. +</quote> + +<pb n='312'/><anchor id='Pg312'/> + +<p> +5. Hearing these words, what questions did the disciples ask? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the +sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?</q> Matt. 24:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ's +answers to these questions are worthy of the most +careful study. The destruction of Jerusalem and the overthrow of the +Jewish nation attending it are a type of the final destruction of all the cities +of the world, and the overthrow of all nations. To some extent, therefore, +the descriptions of the two great events seem to be blended. When +Christ referred to the destruction of Jerusalem, His prophetic words reached +beyond that event to the final conflagration when the Lord shall rise out +of His place <q>to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,</q> and +when the earth <q>shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.</q> +Isa. 26:21. Thus the entire discourse was given not for the early disciples +only, but for those who were to live during the closing scenes of the +world's history. During the discourse Christ did, however, give definite +signs, both of the destruction of Jerusalem and of His second coming. +</quote> + +<p> +6. In His reply, how did Christ indicate that neither the end +of the world nor of the Jewish nation was immediately at hand? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered and said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Take heed that no man +deceive you</hi>. For many shall come in My name, saying, I am +Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and +rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: <hi rend='italic'>for all these things +must come to pass, but the end is not yet</hi>.</q> Verses 4-6. +</p> + +<p> +7. What did He say of the wars, famines, pestilences, and +earthquakes which were to precede these events? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All these are <hi rend='italic'>the beginning of sorrows</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These were to +precede and culminate in the great calamity +and overthrow, first, of Jerusalem, and finally of the whole world; for, as +already noted, the prophecy has a double application, first, to Jerusalem +and the Jewish nation, and secondly, to the whole world; the destruction of +Jerusalem for its rejection of Christ at His first advent being a type of the +destruction of the world at the end for its rejection of Christ in refusing to +heed the closing warning message sent by God to prepare the world for +Christ's second advent. +</quote> + +<p> +8. In what language did Christ briefly describe the experiences +of His people previous to these calamities? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall +kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for My name's +sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one +another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets +shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall +abound, the love of many shall wax cold.</q> Verses 9-12. +</p> + +<p> +9. Who did He say would be saved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>he that shall endure unto the end</hi>, the same shall be +saved.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<pb n='313'/><anchor id='Pg313'/> + +<p> +10. When did Christ say the end would come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>this gospel of the +kingdom</hi> shall be <hi rend='italic'>preached in all the +world</hi> for a <hi rend='italic'>witness</hi> unto <hi rend='italic'>all +nations</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>then shall the end come</hi>.</q> +Verse 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In 60 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> Paul carried the gospel to Rome, which was then +the capital of the world. In <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +64 he wrote of the saints of <q>Cæsar's +household</q> (Phil. 4:22); and the same year he says that the gospel had +been <q>preached to every creature which is under heaven.</q> Col. 1:23. +Very soon after this (October, 66 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>) +the Romans began their attacks +against Jerusalem; and three and one-half years later the overthrow of the +city and of the Jewish nation followed in the notable five months' siege +under Titus, in the spring and summer of 70 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Thus it was respecting the end of the Jewish nation; and thus it will be +in the end of the world as a whole. When the gospel, or good news, of +Christ's coming kingdom has been preached in all the world for a witness +unto all nations, the end of the world—of all nations—will come. As +the end of the Jewish nation came with overwhelming destruction, so will +come the end of the world. Armageddon, the battle of the nations, will be +fought, and the world will be swept with the besom of destruction under +the seven last plagues. See readings on pages <ref target='Pg206'>296</ref>, +<ref target='Pg301'>301</ref>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +11. What sign did Christ mention by which His disciples +might know when the destruction of Jerusalem was near? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies</hi>, +then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.</q> Luke 21:20. +</p> + +<p> +12. When this sign appeared, what were the disciples to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, +spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso +readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judea +<hi rend='italic'>flee into the mountains</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:15, 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In October, +66 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, when Cestius came against the city, +but for some unaccountable reason suddenly withdrew his army from it, +the Christians discerned in this the sign foretold by Christ, and fled. After +the departure of Cestius, Josephus, in his <q>Wars of the Jews,</q> chapter 20, +says that <q>many of the most eminent of the Jews swam away from the +city, as from a ship when it is going to sink.</q> It is a remarkable fact that +in the terrible siege which occurred under Titus three and one-half years +later, not a single Christian is known to have lost his life, while 1,100,000 +Jews are said to have perished in it. Here is a most striking lesson on the +value and importance of studying and believing the prophecies, and giving +heed to the signs of the times. Those who believed what Christ had said, +and watched for the sign which He had foretold, were saved, while the unbelieving +perished. So it will be in the end of the world. The watchful +and believing will be delivered, while the careless and unbelieving will be +snared and taken. See Matt. 24:36-44; Luke 21:34-36; 1 Thess. 5:1-6. +</quote> + +<p> +13. When the sign appeared, how suddenly were they to flee? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take +anything out of his house: neither let him which is in the field +return back to take his clothes.</q> Verses 17, 18. +</p> + +<pb n='314'/><anchor id='Pg314'/> + +<p> +14. Besides telling His disciples when to flee, how did Christ +further show His solicitude and tender care for them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But pray ye that your flight be not in <hi rend='italic'>the winter</hi>, neither +on <hi rend='italic'>the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The winter +would be an unfavorable time in which to flee, +entailing discomfort and hardship; and an attempt to flee on the Sabbath +day would doubtless have been met with difficulty, so false and pharisaical +were the notions of the Jews respecting the true character and object of +the Sabbath. See Matt. 12:1-14; Luke 13:14-17; Mark 1:32; 2:23-28; +John 5:10-18. +</p> + +<p> +The prayers of Christ's followers were heard. Events were so over-*ruled +that neither Jews nor Romans hindered the flight of the Christians. +Upon the retreat of Cestius, the Jews pursued after his army, and the +Christians thus had an opportunity to leave the city. The country also +had been cleared of enemies who might have endeavored to intercept them. +At the time of this siege, the Jews were assembled at Jerusalem to keep +the Feast of Tabernacles, and thus the Christians of Judea were able to +escape unmolested, and in the autumn, a most favorable time for flight. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. What trying experience did Christ then foretell? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>then shall be great tribulation</hi>, such as was not since +the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.</q> +Verse 21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In paragraph +4 of his preface to his <q>Wars of the Jews,</q> +Josephus, referring to the destruction of Jerusalem, says: <q>The misfortunes +of all men, from the beginning of the world, if they be compared to these +of the Jews, are not so considerable.</q> In this terrible calamity, the prophecy +of Moses recorded in Deut. 28:47-53, was literally fulfilled. He said, +<q>Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy +daughters, ... in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine +enemies shall distress thee.</q> For an account of the fulfilment of this, see +Josephus's <q>Wars of the Jews,</q> book 6, chap. 3, par. 4. +</p> + +<p> +Following the destruction of Jerusalem came the persecution of the +early Christians under the pagan emperors during the first three centuries +of the Christian era, that begun under Diocletian in 303 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, and continuing +for ten years (Rev. 2:10), being the most bitter and extensive +persecution of God's people the world had yet witnessed. Following this +came the still greater and more terrible persecution of the saints during +the long centuries of papal supremacy, foretold in Dan. 7:25 and Rev. +12:6. All these tribulations occurred under either pagan or papal Rome. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +16. For whose sake did Christ say the period of papal persecution +would be shortened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And except those days should be shortened, there should +no flesh be saved: but <hi rend='italic'>for the elect's sake those days shall be +shortened</hi>.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Through the +influence of the Reformation of the sixteenth +century, and the movements which grew out of it, the power of the Papacy +to enforce its decrees against those it pronounced heretics was gradually +lessened, until persecution ceased almost wholly about the middle of the +eighteenth century—the beginning of an epoch of freedom. +</quote> + +<pb n='315'/><anchor id='Pg315'/> + +<p> +17. Against what deceptions did Christ then warn us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, +or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and +false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch +that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</q> +Verses 23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +18. Answering the question as to what would be the sign of +His coming and the end of the world, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>There shall be signs</hi> in +the <hi rend='italic'>sun</hi>, and in the <hi rend='italic'>moon</hi>, and in the +<hi rend='italic'>stars</hi>; and upon the earth +<hi rend='italic'>distress of nations, with perplexity; the +sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and +for looking after those things which are coming on the earth</hi>: for +the powers of heaven shall be shaken.</q> Luke 21:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +19. When were the first of these signs to appear, and what +were they to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Immediately after the tribulation of +those days</hi> shall <hi rend='italic'>the sun +be darkened</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>the moon +shall not give her light</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>the stars +shall fall from heaven</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:29. +</p> + +<p> +20. How is this expressed by Mark? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>in those days, after that tribulation</hi>, the sun shall be +darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of +heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be +shaken.</q> Mark 13:24, 25. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As already +noted, papal persecution almost wholly ceased +about the middle of the eighteenth century. Then, true to Christ's words, +the signs of His coming at once began to appear. +</quote> + +<p> +21. When was there a wonderful darkening of the sun? +</p> + +<p> +On May 19, 1780. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—May 19, 1780, is +known in history as <q>the dark day.</q> On +this day over a large portion of the New World, upon which at this time +the eyes of all the world were centered, there occurred, at midday, a remarkable +darkness. <q>Candles were lighted in many houses. The birds +were silent, and disappeared. The fowls retired to roost.</q> In harmony +with the impression God evidently designed should be made by the sign, +many thought the day of judgment was at hand. See next reading. +</quote> + +<p> +22. When did the moon refuse to give her light? +</p> + +<p> +The night following the darkening of the sun, May 19, 1780. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Although +the moon had fulled only the night before, the +darkness of this night was so intense that for a time no luminous body whatever +appeared in the heavens, and a sheet of white paper could not be seen +when held within a few inches of the eyes. See next reading. +</quote> + +<p> +23. What sign was to follow the darkening of the sun and +the moon? +</p> + +<pb n='316'/><anchor id='Pg316'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus316.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Dark Day Of May 19, 1780. +"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the +sun be darkened." Matt. 24:29.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='317'/><anchor id='Pg317'/> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the stars shall fall from heaven</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:29. +</p> + +<p> +24. When did the stars fall, as here predicted? +</p> + +<p> +Nov. 13, 1833. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—On +the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, there occurred the most +wonderful exhibition of shooting stars the world has ever seen. Those who +witnessed it, says Professor Olmsted, the celebrated astronomer of Yale +College, <q>probably saw the greatest display of celestial fireworks that has +ever been since the creation of the world, or at least within the annals +covered by the pages of history.</q> The extent of this shower, he says, +<q>was such as to cover no inconsiderable part of the earth's surface.</q> And, +like the darkening of the sun and moon, it was considered by many who +saw it as <q>the harbinger of the coming of the Son of man.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +25. What were to be the signs on earth of Christ's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And upon the earth <hi rend='italic'>distress of nations</hi>, with perplexity; +<hi rend='italic'>the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear</hi>, +and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: +for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.</q> Luke 21:25, 26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +an exact picture of the condition of things in the +world today. Through greed of gain, lawlessness, licentiousness, increasing +violence, trouble between capital and labor, international complications, +and preparations for war, the nations are perplexed, and men's +hearts tremble with fear as they look into the future. The elements are +also disturbed, as seen in great earthquakes and storms on land and sea. +</quote> + +<p> +26. What did Christ say was to be the next great event following +these signs? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And then shall they see <hi rend='italic'>the Son of man coming in a cloud +with power and great glory</hi>.</q> Verse 27. See Matt. 24:30. +</p> + +<p> +27. When these things should <hi rend='italic'>begin</hi> to come to pass, what +did Christ tell His people to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when these things begin to come to pass, then <hi rend='italic'>look up, +and lift up your heads</hi>; for your redemption draweth nigh.</q> +Luke 21:28. +</p> + +<p> +28. When the trees put forth their leaves, what do we know? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; When his branch is +yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, <hi rend='italic'>ye know that summer is +nigh</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:32. +</p> + +<p> +29. What may be known with equal certainty when these +signs have been seen? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, <hi rend='italic'>know +that it is near, even at the doors</hi>.</q> Verse 33. <q>So likewise ye, +when ye see these things come to pass, <hi rend='italic'>know ye that the kingdom +of God is nigh at hand</hi>.</q> Luke 21:31. +</p> + +<pb n='318'/><anchor id='Pg318'/> + +<p> +30. What did Christ say of the certainty of this prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till +all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, +but My word shall not pass away.</q> Matt. 24:34, 35. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Every +one at all acquainted with history knows that what +Christ foretold concerning the destruction of Jerusalem came true to the +very letter. So likewise may we be assured that what He has said concerning +the end of the world will as certainly and as literally be fulfilled. +</quote> + +<p> +31. Who alone knows the exact day of Christ's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But of that day and hour <hi rend='italic'>knoweth no man</hi>, no, not the angels +of heaven, but <hi rend='italic'>My Father only</hi>.</q> Verse 36. +</p> + +<p> +32. What did Christ say would be the moral condition of +the world just preceding His advent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of +the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the +flood they were <hi rend='italic'>eating</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>drinking</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>marrying</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>giving in +marriage</hi>, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew +not until the flood came, and took them all away; <hi rend='italic'>so shall also +the coming of the Son of man be</hi>.</q> Verses 37-39. +</p> + +<p> +33. In view of the fact that we do not know the exact time +of Christ's coming, what important admonition has He given us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore <hi rend='italic'>be ye also ready</hi>: for in such an hour as ye think +not the Son of man cometh.</q> Verse 44. +</p> + +<p> +34. What will be the experience of those who say in their +hearts that the Lord is not soon coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My +lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, +and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that +servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and +in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder +[cut him off, margin], and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: +there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q> Verses +48-51. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>In the sun, and moon, and stars,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Signs and wonders have appeared;</l> +<l>Earth has groaned with bloody wars,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And the hearts of men have feared.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>But, though from His awful face</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Heaven shall fade and earth shall fly,</l> +<l>Fear not ye, His chosen race,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Your redemption draweth nigh.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Reginald Heber.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='319'/><anchor id='Pg319'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Signs Of The Times</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus319.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Falling Stars At Niagara. +"And the stars shall fall from +heaven." Matt. 24:29.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees and Sadducees? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but +<hi rend='italic'>can ye not discern the signs of the times</hi>?</q> Matt. 16:3. +</p> + +<p> +2. What sign had been foretold by the prophet Isaiah +by which Christ, at His <hi rend='italic'>first</hi> advent, might be known as the +Messiah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, +<hi rend='italic'>a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name +Immanuel</hi>.</q> Isa. 7:14. For fulfilment, see Matt. 1:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +3. Where had the prophet said Christ should be born? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou, <hi rend='italic'>Bethlehem</hi> Ephratah, though thou be little +among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come +forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel.</q> Micah 5:2. For +fulfilment, see Matt. 2:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. What prophet had foretold Christ's ride into Jerusalem? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter +of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, +and having salvation; <hi rend='italic'>lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon +a colt the foal of an ass</hi>.</q> Zech. 9:9. For fulfilment, see Matt. +21:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +5. What question did the disciples ask Christ concerning +His <hi rend='italic'>second</hi> coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples +came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things +<pb n='320'/><anchor id='Pg320'/> +be? and <hi rend='italic'>what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of +the world?</hi></q> Matt. 24:3. +</p> + +<p> +6. How, according to Luke, did Christ answer this question? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>there shall be signs</hi> in the +<hi rend='italic'>sun</hi>, and in the <hi rend='italic'>moon</hi>, and in +the <hi rend='italic'>stars</hi>; and upon the earth +<hi rend='italic'>distress of nations, with perplexity; +the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear</hi>, +and for looking after those things which are coming on the +earth.</q> Luke 21:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +7. What, according to Matthew's account, did Christ say +were to be the signs in the sun, moon, and stars? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the +sun be <hi rend='italic'>darkened</hi>, and the +moon shall <hi rend='italic'>not give her light</hi>, and the +stars shall <hi rend='italic'>fall from heaven</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:29. +</p> + +<p> +8. In what language had some of the Old Testament prophets +already foretold these signs? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth</hi>, +blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. <hi rend='italic'>The sun shall be turned +into darkness, and the moon into blood</hi>, before the great and the +terrible day of the Lord come.</q> Joel 2:30, 31. <q>The <hi rend='italic'>sun</hi> and +the <hi rend='italic'>moon</hi> shall be <hi rend='italic'>darkened</hi>, +and the <hi rend='italic'>stars</hi> shall <hi rend='italic'>withdraw their +shining</hi>.</q> Joel 3:15. <q>For <hi rend='italic'>the +stars of heaven and the constellations +thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened +in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine</hi>.</q> +Isa. 13:10. <q>I will cause the sun to <hi rend='italic'>go down at noon</hi>, and I will +<hi rend='italic'>darken the earth in a clear day</hi>.</q> Amos 8:9. +</p> + +<p> +9. When were the sun and moon darkened? +</p> + +<p> +May 19, 1780. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The nineteenth +of May, 1780, was a remarkably dark day. +Candles were lighted in many houses. The birds were silent, and disappeared. +The fowls retired to roost. It was the general opinion that the +day of judgment was at hand. The legislature of Connecticut was in +session at Hartford, but being unable to transact business, +adjourned.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>President +Dwight, in <q>Historical Collections.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In some places persons could not see to read common print in the +open air for several hours together. Birds sang their evening song, disappeared, +and became silent; fowls went to roost; cattle sought the barn-yard; +and candles were lighted in the houses. The obscuration began +about ten o'clock in the morning, and continued until the middle of the +next night, but with differences of degree and duration in different places.... +The true causes of this remarkable phenomenon are not +known.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster's +Unabridged Dictionary, edition 1883, page 1604, in article +<q>The Dark Day.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +Herschel, the great astronomer, says: <q>The dark day in Northern +America was one of those wonderful phenomena of nature which will +always be read with interest, but which philosophy is at a loss to explain.</q> +<pb n='321'/><anchor id='Pg321'/> +The darkness was not caused by any eclipse of the sun by the moon, +for the moon had fulled only the night before, and consequently was on the +opposite side of the earth from the sun. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The darkness of the following evening was probably as deep and +dense as ever had been observed since the Almighty first gave birth to light; +it wanted only palpability to render it as extraordinary as that which overspread +the land of Egypt in the days of Moses. If every luminous body +in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable shades, or struck out of +existence, it was thought the darkness could not have been more complete. +A sheet of white paper, held within a few inches of the eyes, was equally +invisible with the blackest velvet.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Our +First Century,</q> by R. M. Devins, +page 94.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The darkness of the night was as supernatural as that of the previous +day, from the fact, as stated by Dr. Adams, that <q>the moon had fulled +the day before.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +10. When was there a remarkable display of falling stars? +</p> + +<p> +Nov. 13, 1833. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The +celebrated astronomer and meteorologist, Professor +Olmsted, of Yale College, says: <q>Those who were so fortunate as to witness +the exhibition of shooting stars on the morning of Nov. 13, 1833, +probably saw the greatest display of celestial fireworks that has ever been +since the creation of the world, or at least within the annals covered by the +pages of history.... The extent of the shower of 1833 was such +as to cover no inconsiderable part of the earth's surface, from the middle +of the Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west; and from the northern +coast of South America to undefined regions among the British possessions +on the north the exhibition was visible, and everywhere presented nearly +the same appearance.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>At Niagara the exhibition was especially brilliant, and probably no +spectacle so terribly grand and sublime was ever before beheld by man as +that of the firmament descending in fiery torrents over the dark and roaring +cataract.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The American +Encyclopedia, edition 1881, article <q>Meteor.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +Upon reading a statement that modern fireworks excel this greatest +exhibition of shooting stars, Mr. Clarkson, father of the former editors of +the paper from which the following quotation is made, and himself agricultural +editor of it, said: <q>The writer of that sentence did not witness the +glorious meteoric shower of November, 1833, when the display was so +much superior to any artistic display of fireworks that neither language nor +any element in nature can furnish comparisons. The comparison of the +sheet-iron thunder of the theaters to the electric display of Providence +when the heavens are all on fire, and the earth trembles, would be tolerable. +But the awful grandeur of the display on the night of the thirteenth of +November, 1833, which made the stoutest heart stand in awe, and the +most defiant infidel quake with fear, is never to be compared with the most +brilliant fireworks. Those who witnessed the meteoric shower named saw +the greatest display that man ever will see until the day that Peter speaks +of when the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall +melt with fervent heat. The agricultural editor of the <hi rend='italic'>Register</hi> +was out alone with a team and load of lumber all night on that never-to-be-forgotten +night. And he cannot now consent to hear of human fireworks +being superior to that most grand and sublime spectacle ever before or +since beheld by man. Patent fireworks are no nearer this wonderful +phenomenon than a lightning-bug is equal to the +sun.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Iowa State Register, +July 12, 1889.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='322'/><anchor id='Pg322'/> + +<p> +Frederick A. Douglas, in his book <q>My Bondage and My Freedom,</q> +page 186, says: <q>I witnessed this gorgeous spectacle, and was struck with +awe. The air seemed filled with bright descending messengers from the +sky. It was about daybreak when I saw this sublime scene. It was not +without the suggestion at that moment that it might be <hi rend='italic'>the harbinger of +the coming of the Son of man</hi>; and in my state of mind I was prepared to +hail Him as my friend and deliverer. I had read that the stars shall fall +from heaven, and they were now falling.</q> +</p> + +<p> +A single star appeared to the wise men, and directed them to the +Saviour, at His first advent. Myriads of stars have announced the nearness +of His second advent. +</p> + +<p> +It will be seen that these signs produced the very impression that God +evidently intended that they should,—that the day of judgment, Christ's +coming, and the end of the world are near at hand. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +11. Have we reached the time when there is <q>distress of +nations, with perplexity</q>? +</p> + +<p> +Every intelligent person knows that the world is in a state +of unrest at the present time, and that men are troubled and +perplexed at the outlook of present conditions throughout the +civilized world. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Those who +study the map of Europe at the present moment, +and the condition of things in Europe, must feel that there is hanging +over us a war-cloud greater than any that has hung over Europe before. +It means when it bursts, and burst it will as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, +... a war of extinction, of devastation, between great nations +whose populations are armed and trained to fight.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Lord +Wolseley.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is impossible for any one to contemplate the present naval and +military arrangements without the gravest forebodings.... In fact, +we never now have any real peace; we live practically +in a state of war.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Sir +John Lubbock.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The danger, if the Ottoman Empire fall, would not merely be the +danger that would threaten the territories of which that empire consists; +it would be the danger that the fire there lit should spread to the other +nations, and should involve all that is most powerful and civilized in Europe +in a dangerous and calamitous contest.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Lord Salisbury, in +Mansion House Speech, London, Nov. 9, 1895.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>There can be no division of either of those countries [Turkey or +Persia] without setting all the nations of Europe at the throats of each +other.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Washington Post, April 24, 1909.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is the most unsettled condition of the world since the crucifixion +of Christ. The stability of government is no longer a fact. Change is in +the atmosphere.... Statesmen are at their wits' end. Philosophers +speculate in vain.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The Late Bishop Newman.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +12. Are men's hearts now <q>failing them for fear, and for +looking after those things which are coming on the earth</q>? +</p> + +<p> +Every one familiar with present-day conditions knows that +this is the case. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>We are marching toward the unknown. Who knows +what tomorrow has in store for us?</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Signor +Crispi, ex-Prime Minister +of Italy.</hi> +</quote> + +<pb n='323'/><anchor id='Pg323'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus323.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Falling Stars, Nov. 13, 1833. +"Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can +ye not discern the signs of the times?" +Matt. 16:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='324'/><anchor id='Pg324'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<q>In regard to the future I am filled with disquietude when I think how +easy it is to fan these international jealousies, and how difficult it seems to +allay them.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Lord Balfour, of England.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In this world of ours we seem to be borne down by commercial and +spiritual controversy.... We grope in the daytime with fear and +trembling for the future. Poor, distracted man is tossed over the night to +a more distraught tomorrow.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>John Wanamaker, +ex-Postmaster-General of the United States.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The bonds of society are relaxed; traditional principles are losing +their sacredness, and perils hitherto unknown are menacing the life of the +social organism.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Archbishop Ireland.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +These, with forebodings of coming droughts, famines, fires, storms, +earthquakes, tidal waves, and pestilences, are filling men's hearts with fear. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +13. What may be said of <q>the sea and the waves roaring</q>? +</p> + +<p> +Great tidal waves and storms at sea, with cyclones and +tornadoes on land, have become fearfully frequent of late years, +making men apprehensive of still greater calamities to come. +</p> + +<p> +14. What, according to the prophecy of Daniel, was to +characterize the time of the end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, +even to the time of the end: <hi rend='italic'>many shall run to and fro, and knowledge +shall be increased</hi>.</q> Dan. 12:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The time +of the end began in 1798. See Dan. 7:25; 11:35; +12:4, 9, and the reading <q>The Kingdom and Work of Antichrist,</q> page +218, under questions 5-8. Since 1798 there has been a most wonderful +increase of all kinds of knowledge, both scientific and religious. Men have +been <q>running to and fro</q> through both the world and the Word of God. +The prophecies of Daniel are now themselves understood. Since 1798 five +great Bible and tract societies have been organized; namely, the London +Religious Tract Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American +Bible Society, the American Tract Society, and the International +Tract Society, besides many smaller societies of the same kind. From +these have gone forth to the world hundreds of millions of copies of the +Bible, and countless pages of tracts and pamphlets, disseminating knowledge +upon the truths of salvation. Besides these, millions of copies of +religious papers are being circulated annually in the various countries of +the world. Missions have been established in all parts of the world. All +this has been accomplished since 1798. +</p> + +<p> +Concerning the increase of knowledge in the material, scientific, and +intellectual worlds, see the next reading. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. What is predicted of the moral condition of the world +in the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This know also, that in <hi rend='italic'>the last days perilous times shall +come</hi>. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, +boasters, proud, blasphemers, ... lovers of pleasures +more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying +the power thereof.</q> 2 Tim. 3:1-5. +</p> + +<pb n='325'/><anchor id='Pg325'/> + +<p> +16. How did the apostle Peter say the message of the Lord's +coming would be treated by some? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days +<hi rend='italic'>scoffers</hi>, walking after their own +lusts, and <hi rend='italic'>saying, Where is the +promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things +continue as they were from the beginning of the creation</hi>.</q> 2 Peter +3:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will God's faithful servants be doing at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord +hath made ruler over his household, to <hi rend='italic'>give them meat in due +season</hi>?</q> Matt. 24:45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The <q>meat +in due season</q> here spoken of evidently refers +to the proclamation of the message based upon the signs which indicate +the near approach of the Lord. The preaching of this message is what +causes scoffers mockingly to ask, <q>Where is the <emph>promise of His coming</emph>?</q> +</quote> + +<p> +18. What are all admonished to do when these signs have +appeared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore <hi rend='italic'>be ye also ready</hi>: for in such an hour as ye think +not the Son of man cometh.</q> Verse 44. +</p> + +<p> +19. How will Christ's coming overtake those evil servants +who say in their hearts, <q>My Lord delayeth His coming</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The lord of that servant shall come in a day <hi rend='italic'>when he looketh +not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of</hi>, and shall +<hi rend='italic'>cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites</hi>: +there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q> Verses 50, 51. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>We know not the hour of the Master's appearing,</l> +<l>Yet signs all foretell that the moment is nearing</l> +<l>When He shall return,—'tis a promise most cheering,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>But we know not the hour.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>There's light for the wise who are seeking salvation,</l> +<l>There's truth in the Book of the Lord's revelation,</l> +<l>Each prophecy points to the great consummation,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>But we know not the hour.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We'll watch and we'll pray, with our lamps trimmed and burning,</l> +<l>We'll work and we'll wait till the Master's returning,</l> +<l>We'll sing and rejoice, every omen discerning,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>But we know not the hour.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='326'/><anchor id='Pg326'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Increase Of Knowledge</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus326.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Modern Inventions. +"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall +be increased." Dan. 12:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. According to the words of the angel to Daniel, when +might the world look for an increase of knowledge? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, +<hi rend='italic'>even to the time of the end</hi>: +many shall run to and fro, and knowledge +shall be increased.</q> Dan. 12:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The prophecies +of Daniel were not to be shut up till the <emph>end</emph>, +for then there would be no time either to develop knowledge or to use the +knowledge thus acquired, but until <q>the <emph>time of the end</emph>,</q> which refers +to a short period just preceding the end. During this time there was to be a +wonderful increase of knowledge. Especially were the prophecies of the +book of Daniel to be unsealed, studied, and understood at this time. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Until what time were the saints to be persecuted under +the Roman power? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, +and to purge, and to make them white, <hi rend='italic'>even to the time of the +end: because it is yet for a time appointed</hi>.</q> Dan. 11:35. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The time of +the end, as shown by this text, was even then, +in the days of Daniel, an appointed time, in the mind of God. This is not +strange, when we learn that in the Scriptures both the judgment and the end +itself are said to be appointed times. Acts 17:31; Dan. 8:19. The close +of the period allotted for this persecution (1798) was to mark the beginning +of <q>the time of the end.</q> See page <ref target='Pg223'>223</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +3. According to the prophecy, how long was the power +represented by the little horn, or papal Rome, to persecute the +saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall speak great words against the Most High, +and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, ... and +they shall be given into his hand <hi rend='italic'>until a time and times and the +dividing of time</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:25. +</p> + +<pb n='327'/><anchor id='Pg327'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—As shown in +the reading on <q>The Kingdom and Work of +Antichrist,</q> page 218, this expression, <q>a time and times and the dividing +of time,</q> represents 1260 years, which extend from the period 533-538 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, the time of the decree of Emperor Justinian recognizing +the Pope as head of all the churches and the successful campaign against Arianism, +to the period 1793-98, when, as a result of the French Revolution, the +papal power received its deadly wound and the Pope was carried into captivity. +This, then, locates the beginning of <q>the time of the end</q> in 1798. +Up to that point the book of Daniel, as a whole, was to be closed up; in +other words, not understood by the people. But when the power that had +placed this embargo on the Word of God, and had tried to shut it away from +the people, was broken, then light of all kinds, Biblical, scientific, inventive, +and industrial, began to shine and penetrate in every direction. +</p> + +<p> +It is a singular and striking fact that immediately following the overthrow +of the papal power in 1798, Bible societies, tract societies, and Sunday-schools +sprang up in large numbers. The London Religious Tract +Society was organized in 1799, the British and Foreign Bible Society in +1804, the American Bible Society in 1816, and the American Tract Society +in 1825. The Bible has now been translated into about four hundred and +fifty languages and dialects, and sent to every part of the globe. Before +that time access to the Bible was confined to comparatively few. Now the +humblest person may possess it, and is as free to read and study it as is +the most exalted in the land. A little more than one hundred years ago +there was not a Sunday-school in the world, the first one being organized +by Robert Raikes, at Gloucester, England, in 1784. Now there are more +than 285,000 such schools, with over 28,000,000 officers, teachers, and +pupils. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +4. What may be said of the developments in the line of +scientific inventions since 1798? +</p> + +<p> +These have been remarkable, phenomenal, and without +parallel in the history of the world. The people of a century +and a quarter ago knew nothing of steamships, steam and +electric railways, telegraphs, telephones, photographs, phonographs, +sewing-machines, anesthetics, submarine cables, linotypes, +monotypes, motion pictures, X-rays, aeroplanes, or +wireless telegraphy. Were they to be raised from the dead, +they would be as much astonished at all these things as would +the people of four thousand years ago. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Of a verity, +this is the age of invention.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Scientific +American.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The great facts of the nineteenth century stand out so conspicuously +above the achievements of any preceding century that it would be affectation +of humility not to recognize and speak of +them.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Union Hand-*book, +1870.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The most striking characteristic of our times is the rapid strides which +the world is making in science, general intelligence, and +inventions.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Chicago +Republican, March 14, 1872.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Never was there such activity of invention within the history of mankind +as at the present day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Phrenological Journal, +April, 1871.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>More has been done, richer and more prolific discoveries have been +made, grander achievements have been realized, in the course of the fifty +years of our lifetime than in all the previous lifetime of the +race.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>London +Spectator.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='328'/><anchor id='Pg328'/> + +<p> +Some of the principal inventions and discoveries of modern times are +the following:— +</p> + +<lg> +<l>The balloon in 1798.</l> +<l>Gas for lighting purposes in 1798.</l> +<l>Cast-iron plow in 1800.</l> +<l>Steel pen in 1803.</l> +<l>Steamboat in 1807.</l> +<l>Steam printing-press in 1811.</l> +<l>Revolver in 1818.</l> +<l>Railroad-cars in 1825.</l> +<l>Lucifer-match in 1829.</l> +<l>Reaper and mower in 1833.</l> +<l>Electric telegraph in 1837.</l> +<l>Electrotyping in 1837.</l> +<l>Photography in 1839.</l> +<l>Sewing-machine in 1846.</l> +<l>Anesthesia by ether in 1846.</l> +<l>Anesthesia by chloroform in 1847.</l> +<l>Submarine cable in 1851.</l> +<l>Gatling gun in 1861.</l> +<l>Monitor war-ship in 1862.</l> +<l>Typewriter in 1868.</l> +<l>Automatic air-brake in 1872.</l> +<l>Telephone in 1876.</l> +<l>Phonograph in 1877.</l> +<l>Electric railway in 1879.</l> +<l>Modern seismograph in 1880.</l> +<l>Linotype in 1885.</l> +<l>Steam-turbine in 1888.</l> +<l>Roentgen or X-ray in 1895.</l> +<l>Wireless telegraphy in 1895.</l> +<l>Motion pictures in 1895.</l> +<l>Monotype in 1896.</l> +<l>Radium in 1902.</l> +<l>Aeroplane, first successful flying, Dec. 17, 1903.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +It will be noticed that none of these inventions antedate 1798. Go +back a little over a century and we find the world about where it was in +the days of the patriarchs. For thousands of years there seemed to be +scarcely any advancement or improvement in knowledge. But suddenly +with the opening of the nineteenth century, the world awoke from its long +sleep, and a new era dawned,—the time of the end, when knowledge was +to be increased. +</p> + +<p> +5. What did the Saviour say should precede the end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the +world for a witness unto all nations</hi>; and then shall the end come.</q> +Matt. 24:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Luther, the +Wesleys, and others could not, in their day, proclaim +the Lord's coming to be at hand, as the signs heralding this event +had not taken place. But now, the sun and moon have been darkened, +and the stars have fallen, as predicted by the Saviour knowledge has most +wonderfully increased, as stated by the angel to Daniel; and the gospel has +gone to nearly every kindred, tribe, and people in the world. Therefore +we may know that the end is near. +</quote> + +<p> +6. When we see all these things, what are we to know? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When ye shall see all these things, <hi rend='italic'>know that it is near, +even at the doors</hi>.</q> Verse 33. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Lift up the trumpet, and loud let it ring;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Jesus is coming again!</l> +<l>Cheer up, ye pilgrims, be joyful and sing;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Jesus is coming again!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Echo it, hilltops, proclaim it, ye plains;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Jesus is coming again!</l> +<l>Coming in glory, the Lamb that was slain;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Jesus is coming again!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 32'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Jessie E. Strout.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='329'/><anchor id='Pg329'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Conflict Between Capital And Labor</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus329.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Race For Supremacy. +"Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be +required of thee." Luke 12:20.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is one reason why the last days were to be perilous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Men shall be <hi rend='italic'>lovers of their +own selves, covetous</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. When, according to prophecy, were men to amass great +wealth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Go to now, <hi rend='italic'>ye rich men</hi>, weep and howl for your miseries +that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your +garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; +and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall +eat your flesh as it were fire. <hi rend='italic'>Ye have heaped treasure together +for the last days.</hi></q> James 5:1-3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We have +reached the age of vast accumulations of wealth, +when there seems to be a mad rush for making money quickly, and the +millionaire and the multimillionaire are much in evidence. Speaking on +this subject, Rev. H. W. Bowman, in his work <q>War Between Capital and +Labor,</q> says: <q>Such colossal fortunes, such hoarding of treasures, such +combinations of wealth, with such rapid increase in poverty, were never +witnessed before. Our age alone fits the prophetic mold.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +3. Why did Christ, in the parable, reprove the man who +hid his talent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I +<pb n='330'/><anchor id='Pg330'/> +reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: +<hi rend='italic'>thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, +and then at my coming I should have received mine own with +usury</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:26, 27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Servility +to wealth,</q> says J. S. Mill, <q>is a social curse.</q> +Vespasian spoke truly when he said, <q>Riches are well, if gotten well and +well spent;</q> and Peter Cooper likewise uttered a great truth when he said, +<q>A man of wealth is but a steward for the good of mankind.</q> James A. +Patten, the retired Chicago millionaire wheat broker, announcing his intention +to give away his fortune to charity, said: <q>I believe a man should +give away a good share of his wealth while he is living. He can't take a +dollar out of the world with him, although I know some men who seem to +believe they can. Personally, I mean to get rid of the most of my fortune. +I hope to help many charitable institutions before I die. I doubt the +advisability of leaving any great sum of money to one's children. Many +lives have been ruined by large bequests. The offspring of a rich man are +better off if they are required to hustle for +themselves.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Washington +Times, Nov. 5, 1910.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +4. What did Christ tell the rich young man to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, <hi rend='italic'>go and sell +that thou hast, and give to the poor</hi>, and thou shalt have treasure +in heaven: and come and follow Me.</q> Matt. 19:21. +</p> + +<p> +5. What, in the parable, did God say to the rich man who +thought to build larger barns in which to store his goods? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Thou fool, this night thy soul shall +be required of thee</hi>: then whose shall those things be, which thou +hast provided?</q> Luke 12:20. +</p> + +<p> +6. How does James say the rich have lived? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton</hi>; ye +have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.</q> James +5:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This indicates +that they have lived in luxury and for pleasure, +quite heedless of the needs of the poor and of the great world about them. +They have lived simply to have a good time themselves, with no thought +of their responsibility to God or to their fellow men. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Who gives men the power to get wealth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for <hi rend='italic'>it is He +that giveth thee power to get wealth</hi>.</q> Deut. 8:18. +</p> + +<p> +8. How does James say the rich have treated the just? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ye have condemned and killed the just</hi>; and he doth not +resist you.</q> James 5:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There is nothing +more rapacious and heartless than greed, +or covetousness. To obtain its ends, it disregards the rights, the welfare, +and even the lives of those affected by its merciless schemes and intrigues. +The righteous, or just, however, do not make forcible resistance to this +unjust treatment. +</quote> + +<pb n='331'/><anchor id='Pg331'/> + +<p> +9. How have the rich defrauded the laborers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your +fields, which is of you kept back by fraud</hi>, crieth: and the cries of +them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord +of sabaoth.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +10. Seeking a fair remuneration, what do many laborers do? +</p> + +<p> +Form labor-unions, engage in strikes, boycotts, etc. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—While these means +may hold matters in check for a time, +and afford temporary relief, they cannot eradicate the evil, and bring about +a final solution. The evil is deep-seated; it lies in the heart; and nothing +but conversion—a change of the heart and of the affections—can eradicate +it. It is the sin of selfishness, or covetousness,—a failure to love one's +neighbor as oneself. The conflict between capital and labor is an inevitable +and an irrepressible conflict as long as sin and selfishness are in the world. +And near the end it becomes the most acute and intense, because then sin +comes to the full. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Do the Scriptures indicate that there will be violence +manifested in this conflict? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how +long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! <hi rend='italic'>Shall +they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall +vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?</hi></q> Hab. 2:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +12. Would God have His people unite in these combinations? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people +shall say, A confederacy</hi>; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.</q> +Isa. 8:12. +</p> + +<p> +13. Whom should we fear and dread? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sanctify <hi rend='italic'>the Lord of hosts Himself</hi>; and let Him be your +fear, and let Him be your dread.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +14. What are God's people told to do at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.</hi> +Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the +earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early +and latter rain. <hi rend='italic'>Be ye also patient</hi>; +stablish your hearts: <hi rend='italic'>for +the coming of the Lord draweth nigh</hi>.</q> James 5:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +15. What commands obeyed would bring about a peaceful +solution to this wide-spread and growing conflict? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.</q> Matt. 22:39. +<q>Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on +the things of others.</q> Phil. 2:4. <q>Whatsoever ye would +that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.</q> Matt. +7:12. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='332'/><anchor id='Pg332'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christ's Second Coming</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus332.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Answering His Disciples' Questions. +"When ye shall see all these things, +know that it is near, even at the +doors." Matt. 24:33.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What promise did Christ make concerning His coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe +also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it +were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for +you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, <hi rend='italic'>I will come again</hi>, +and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be +also.</q> John 14:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +2. Following the signs of His coming, what did Christ say +would take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And then shall they see <hi rend='italic'>the Son of man coming in a cloud +with power and great glory</hi>.</q> Luke 21:27. +</p> + +<p> +3. Will the world be prepared to meet Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: +and <hi rend='italic'>then shall all the tribes +of the earth mourn</hi>, and they shall see +the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and +great glory.</q> Matt. 24:30. <q>Behold, He cometh with clouds; +and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him: +and <hi rend='italic'>all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him</hi>.</q> Rev. +1:7. +</p> + +<p> +4. Why will many not be prepared for this event? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, <hi rend='italic'>My lord +delayeth his coming</hi>; and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, +<pb n='333'/><anchor id='Pg333'/> +and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant +shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour +that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint +him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and +gnashing of teeth.</q> Matt. 24:48-51. +</p> + +<p> +5. What will the world be doing when Christ comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of +the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood +<hi rend='italic'>they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage</hi>, +until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not till +the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming +of the Son of man be.</q> Verses 37-39. <q>Likewise also as it +was in the days of Lot; <hi rend='italic'>they did eat, they drank, they bought, they +sold, they planted, they builded</hi>; but the same day that Lot went +out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed +them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the +Son of man is revealed.</q> Luke 17:28-30. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The idea is, not +that it is wrong in itself to eat, drink, marry, +buy, sell, plant, or build, but that men's minds will be so taken up with +these things that they will give little or no thought to the future life, and +make no plans or preparation to meet Jesus when He comes. +</quote> + +<p> +6. Who is it that blinds men to the gospel of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In whom <hi rend='italic'>the god of this world</hi> hath blinded the minds of +them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of +Christ, which is the image of God, should shine unto them.</q> +2 Cor. 4:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>To +my mind this precious doctrine—for such I must call +it—of the return of the Lord to this earth is taught in the New Testament +as clearly as any other doctrine in it; yet I was in the church fifteen or sixteen +years before I ever heard a sermon on it. There is hardly any church +that does not make a great deal of baptism; but in all of Paul's epistles I +believe baptism is spoken of only thirteen times, while it speaks about the +return of our Lord fifty times; and yet the church has had very little to say +about it. Now I can see a reason for this. The devil does not want us +to see this truth; for nothing would wake up the church so much. The +moment a man takes hold of the truth that Jesus Christ is coming back +again to receive His followers to Himself, this world loses its hold on him. +Gas stocks, and water stocks, and stocks in banks and railroads are of very +much less consequence to him then. His heart is free, and he looks for the +blessed appearing of his Lord, who, at His coming, will take him into His +blessed kingdom.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Second Coming of Christ,</q> by D. L. Moody, +pages 6, 7.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q><q>This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, <emph>shall so come +in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven</emph>,</q> is the parting promise of +Jesus to His disciples, communicated through the two men in white apparel, +as a cloud received Hun out of their sight. When after more than fifty +years in glory He breaks the silence and speaks once more in the Revelation +which He gave to His servant John, the post-ascension gospel which He +<pb n='334'/><anchor id='Pg334'/> +sends opens with, <q><emph>Behold, He cometh with clouds</emph>,</q> and closes with, +<q><emph>Surely I come quickly</emph>.</q> Considering the solemn emphasis thus laid upon +this doctrine, and considering the great prominence given to it throughout the +teaching of our Lord and of His apostles, how was it that for the first five +years of my pastoral life it had absolutely no place in my preaching? Undoubtedly, +the reason lay in the lack of early instruction. Of all the sermons +heard from childhood on, I do not remember listening to a single one +upon this subject.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>How Christ Came to +Church,</q> by A. J. Gordon, D. D., pages 44, 45.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +7. At His ascension, what assurance was given of Christ's +return? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He +went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; +which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into +heaven? <hi rend='italic'>this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, +shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven</hi>.</q> +Acts 1:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +8. How ancient is this doctrine of Christ's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of +these, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His +saints</hi>, to execute judgment upon all.</q> Jude 14, 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Seeking to cast +reflection upon modern believers in the advent +doctrine, a man in Hungary not long ago remarked to a colporteur of this +faith that he had heard that the first Adventist preacher is still living. +<q>Yes,</q> replied the colporteur, <q>the first Adventist preacher is still living, +yet the Adventist faith is thousands of years old. The Bible says that +Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, preached the coming of Christ in +glory and power, and Enoch is still living. He was translated to heaven +without seeing death, and will never die.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What was Job's confidence concerning Christ's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall +stand at the latter day upon the earth: ... whom I shall +see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; +though my reins be consumed within me.</q> Job 19:25-27. +</p> + +<p> +10. How does David speak of Christ's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall +devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous round +about Him.</q> Ps. 50:3. <q>For He cometh, for He cometh to +judge the earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, +and the people with His truth.</q> Ps. 96:13. +</p> + +<p> +11. How does Paul give expression to this hope? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we +look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.</q> Phil. 3:20. +<pb n='335'/><anchor id='Pg335'/> +<q>Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of +the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.</q> Titus 2:13. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is Peter's testimony regarding it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when +we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord +Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of His majesty.</q> 2 Peter +1:16. +</p> + +<p> +13. When are the saints to be like Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet +appear what we shall be: but we know that, <hi rend='italic'>when He shall +appear, we shall be like Him</hi>; for we shall see Him as He is.</q> +1 John 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +14. What scriptures show that Christ's coming will be a +time of reward? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father +with His angels; and <hi rend='italic'>then He shall reward every man according +to his works</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:27. <q>And, behold, I come quickly; +<hi rend='italic'>and My reward is with Me</hi>, to give every man according as his +work shall be.</q> Rev. 22:12. +</p> + +<p> +15. To whom is salvation promised at Christ's appearing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and +<hi rend='italic'>unto them that look for Him</hi> shall He appear the second time without +sin unto salvation.</q> Heb. 9:28. +</p> + +<p> +16. What influence has this hope upon the life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; +for we shall see Him as He is. And <hi rend='italic'>every man that hath this +hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +17. To whom does Paul say a crown of righteousness is +promised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure +is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished +my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for +me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous +judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but <hi rend='italic'>unto +all them also that love His appearing</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 4:6-8. +</p> + +<p> +18. What will the waiting ones say when Jesus comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we +have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we +<pb n='336'/><anchor id='Pg336'/> +have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.</q> +Isa. 25:9. +</p> + +<p> +19. Has the exact time of Christ's coming been revealed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But of that day and hour <hi rend='italic'>knoweth no man</hi>, no, not the angels +of heaven, but my Father only.</q> Matt. 24:36. +</p> + +<p> +20. In view of this fact, what does Christ tell us to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Watch therefore</hi>: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth +come.</q> Verse 42. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>In +the Scriptures, the constant note, the continually recurring +exhortation, is to be prepared for the Lord's coming.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dean +Alford.</hi> <q>The proper attitude of a Christian is to be always looking for his +Lord's return.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>D. L. Moody.</hi> See <q>How Christ Came +to Church,</q> by A. J. Gordon, pages 49, 50. +</quote> + +<p> +21. What warning has Christ given that we might not be +taken by surprise by this great event? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts +be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of +this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a +snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole +earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be +accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to +pass, and to stand before the Son of man.</q> Luke 21:34-36. +</p> + +<p> +22. What Christian grace are we exhorted to exercise in our +expectant longing for this event? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be <hi rend='italic'>patient</hi> therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the +Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit +of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the +early and latter rain. Be ye also <hi rend='italic'>patient</hi>; stablish your hearts: +for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.</q> James 5:7, 8. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>I am waiting for the coming</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of earth's long-expected Lord;</l> +<l>For the signs are now fulfilling</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That He gave us in His Word.</l> +<l>I am watching, I am waiting,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For that promised happy day;</l> +<l>Yet I do not cease my working;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I must work as well as pray.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 20'><hi rend='smallcaps'>W. S. Cruzan.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='337'/><anchor id='Pg337'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Manner Of Christ's Coming</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus337.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Coming In Glory. +"Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every +eye shall see Him." Rev. 1:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +</p> + +<p> +1. Is Christ coming again? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will come <hi rend='italic'>again</hi>.</q> John 14:3. +</p> + +<p> +2. How does Paul speak of this coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unto them that look for Him shall He appear <hi rend='italic'>the second +time</hi> without sin unto salvation.</q> Heb. 9:28. +</p> + +<p> +3. Did the early disciples think that death would be the +second coming of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Peter seeing him [John] saith to Jesus, Lord, and what +shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry +<hi rend='italic'>till I come</hi>, what is that to thee? follow thou Me. Then went +this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple <hi rend='italic'>should +not die</hi>: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I +will that he tarry <hi rend='italic'>till I come</hi>, what is that to thee?</q> John +21:21-23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—From this it +is evident that the early disciples regarded +death and the coming of Christ as two separate events. +</p> + +<p> +<q><q>Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the +Son of man cometh.</q> Some people say that means death; but the Word of +God does not say it means death. Death is our enemy, but our Lord hath +the keys of death; He has conquered death, hell, and the grave.... +Christ is the Prince of Life; there is no death where He is; death flees at +His coming; dead bodies sprang to life when He touched them or spoke to +them. His coming is not death. He is the resurrection and the life. +When He sets up His kingdom, there is to be no death, but +life forevermore.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Second Coming of Christ,</q> by D. L. Moody, pages 10, 11.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +4. At His ascension, how did the angels say Christ would +come again? +</p> + + +<pb n='338'/><anchor id='Pg338'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus338.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Ascension. +"This same Jesus ... shall so come in like +manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." +Acts 1:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='339'/><anchor id='Pg339'/> + +<p> +<q>And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, +He was taken up; and <hi rend='italic'>a cloud received Him out of their sight</hi>. +And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, +behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also +said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? +this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, <hi rend='italic'>shall +so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven</hi>.</q> Acts +1:9-11. +</p> + +<p> +5. How did Christ Himself say He would come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man shall come <hi rend='italic'>in the glory of His Father +with His angels</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:27. <q>Then shall all the tribes +of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming +<hi rend='italic'>in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory</hi>.</q> Matt. 24: +30. <q>For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, +of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when <hi rend='italic'>He shall come in +His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels</hi>.</q> Luke +9:26. +</p> + +<p> +6. How many will see Him when He comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, He cometh with clouds; and <hi rend='italic'>every eye shall see +Him</hi>, and they also which pierced Him.</q> Rev. 1:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ's second +coming will be as real as was His first, and +as visible as His ascension, and far more glorious. To spiritualize our +Lord's return is to pervert the obvious meaning of His promise, <q>I will +come again,</q> and nullify the whole plan of redemption; for the reward of +the faithful of all ages is to be given at this most glorious of all events. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What wonderful demonstration will accompany the +Lord's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven <hi rend='italic'>with a shout, +with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God</hi>: and the +dead in Christ shall rise first.</q> 1 Thess. 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. What warning has Christ given concerning false views +of the manner of His coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then if any man shall say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>Lo, here is Christ, or +there; believe it not</hi>. For there shall arise false Christs, and false +prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch +that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, +I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto +you, Behold, He is in the <hi rend='italic'>desert</hi>; go not forth: behold, He is in +the <hi rend='italic'>secret chambers</hi>; believe it not.</q> Matt. 24:23-26. +</p> + +<p> +9. How visible is His coming to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth +even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man +be.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='340'/><anchor id='Pg340'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Object Of Christ's Coming</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus340.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Transfiguration. +"Behold, I come quickly; and My reward +is with Me." Rev. 22:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what purpose did Christ say He would come again? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare +a place for you, <hi rend='italic'>I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; +that where I am, there ye may be also</hi>.</q> John 14:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +2. What part will the angels have in this event? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, +and <hi rend='italic'>they shall gather together His elect</hi> from the four winds, +from one end of heaven to the other.</q> Matt. 24:31. +</p> + +<p> +3. What takes place at the sounding of the trumpet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a +shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of +God: and <hi rend='italic'>the dead in Christ shall rise first</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. What will be done with the righteous living? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then we which are alive and remain shall be <hi rend='italic'>caught up together +with them in the clouds</hi>, to meet the Lord in the air: and so +shall we ever be with the Lord.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +5. What change will then take place in both the living and +the sleeping saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We shall not all sleep, but <hi rend='italic'>we shall all be changed</hi>, in a +<pb n='341'/><anchor id='Pg341'/> +moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the +trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised <hi rend='italic'>incorruptible</hi>, +and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on +<hi rend='italic'>incorruption</hi>, and this mortal must put +on <hi rend='italic'>immortality</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. +15:51-53. +</p> + +<p> +6. When are the saints to be like Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But we know that, <hi rend='italic'>when He shall appear, we shall be like +Him</hi>; for we shall see Him as He is.</q> 1 John 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +7. How many will receive a reward when Christ comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father +with His angels; and <hi rend='italic'>then He shall reward every man according to +his works</hi>.</q> Matt. 16:27. +</p> + +<p> +8. What does He say He will bring with Him when He +comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I come quickly; and <hi rend='italic'>My reward is with Me</hi>, to give +every man according as his works shall be.</q> Rev. 22:12. +</p> + +<p> +9. What promise is made to those who look for Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and +unto them that look for Him <hi rend='italic'>shall He appear the second time +without sin unto salvation</hi>.</q> Heb. 9:28. +</p> + +<p> +10. When did Christ say the good would be recompensed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For thou shalt be recompensed <hi rend='italic'>at the resurrection of the +just</hi>.</q> Luke 14:14. +</p> + +<p> +11. Have the worthies of old gone to their reward? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And these all, having obtained a good report through +faith, <hi rend='italic'>received not the promise</hi>: God having provided some better +thing for us, <hi rend='italic'>that they without us should not be made perfect</hi>.</q> +Heb. 11:39, 40. +</p> + +<p> +12. When did Paul expect to receive his crown? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, +which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me <hi rend='italic'>at that day</hi>: +and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.</q> +2 Tim. 4:8. +</p> + +<p> +13. Will this be a time of judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of +these, saying, Behold, <hi rend='italic'>the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His +saints, to execute judgment upon all</hi>.</q> Jude 14, 15. +</p> + +<pb n='342'/><anchor id='Pg342'/> + +<p> +14. How did David express himself on this point? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth</hi>: He shall +judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His +truth.</q> Ps. 96:13. +</p> + +<p> +15. When did Paul say Christ would judge the living and +the dead? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus +Christ, <hi rend='italic'>who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing +and His kingdom</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 4:1. +</p> + +<p> +16. What great separation will then take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the +holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His +glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations: and <hi rend='italic'>He shall +separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep +from the goats</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will He say to those on His right hand? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, +<hi rend='italic'>Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for +you from the foundation of the world</hi>.</q> Verse 34. +</p> + +<p> +18. What will He say to those on the left? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, <hi rend='italic'>Depart +from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and +his angels</hi>.</q> Verse 41. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>At the sounding of the trumpet, when the saints are gathered home,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We shall greet each other by the crystal sea;</l> +<l>When the Lord Himself from heaven to His glory bids them come,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>What a gathering of the faithful that will be!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>When the angel of the Lord proclaims that time shall be no more,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We shall gather, and the saved and ransomed see;</l> +<l>Then to meet again together, on the bright, celestial shore,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>What a gathering of the faithful that will be!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>At the great and final judgment, when the hidden comes to light,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When the Lord in all His glory we shall see;</l> +<l>At the bidding of our Saviour, <q>Come, ye blessed, to My right,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>What a gathering of the faithful that will be!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>When the golden harps are sounding, and the angel bands proclaim</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In triumphant strains the glorious jubilee;</l> +<l>Then to meet and join to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>What a gathering of the faithful that will be!</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>J. H. Kurzenknabe.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='343'/><anchor id='Pg343'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Resurrection Of The Just</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus343.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Resurrection Of Christ. +"I am He that liveth, and was dead; ... +and have the keys of hell and of death." +Rev. 1:18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Concerning what should we not be ignorant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, <hi rend='italic'>concerning +them which are asleep</hi>, that ye sorrow not, even as others +which have no hope.</q> 1 Thess. 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is set forth as the basis for hope and comfort? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, <hi rend='italic'>even so them +also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him</hi>.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +3. When will this resurrection of the saints take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we +which are alive and remain unto <hi rend='italic'>the coming of the Lord</hi> shall not +prevent [precede] them which are asleep. <hi rend='italic'>For the Lord Himself +shall descend from heaven</hi> with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, +and with the trump of God: <hi rend='italic'>and the dead in Christ shall +rise first</hi>.</q> Verses 15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +4. What will then take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together +with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: +and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +5. With what are we to comfort one another? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore comfort one another <hi rend='italic'>with these words</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The hope +of a resurrection from the dead to a life immortal +is the great hope set forth in the gospel. +</quote> + +<pb n='344'/><anchor id='Pg344'/> + +<p> +6. Concerning what did Christ tell us not to marvel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Marvel not at this: for <hi rend='italic'>the hour is coming, in the which all +that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth</hi>; +they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they +that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.</q> John +5:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is said of those embraced in the first resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: +on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be +priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand +years.</q> Rev. 20:6. +</p> + +<p> +8. Upon what one fact does Paul base the Christian hope? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, +how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the +dead? But <hi rend='italic'>if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ +not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, +and your faith is also vain</hi>. Yea, and we are found false witnesses +of God; because we have testified of God that <hi rend='italic'>He raised +up Christ</hi>: whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead rise +not. For <hi rend='italic'>if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if +Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins</hi>. +Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are <hi rend='italic'>perished</hi>. +If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most +miserable.</q> 1 Cor. 15:12-19. +</p> + +<p> +9. What positive declaration does the apostle then make? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>But now is Christ risen +from the dead</hi>, and become the first-fruits +of them that slept. For since by man came death, by +man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all +die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.</q> Verses 20-22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +resurrection of Christ is in many respects the most +significant fact in history. It is the great and impregnable foundation +and hope of the Christian church. Every fundamental truth of Christianity +is involved in the resurrection of Christ. If this could be overthrown, +every essential doctrine of Christianity would be invalidated. +The resurrection of Christ is the pledge of our resurrection and future life. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What does Christ proclaim Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I am the resurrection and the life</hi>: he that believeth in Me, +though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and +believeth in Me shall never die.</q> John 11:25, 26. <q><hi rend='italic'>I am He +that liveth, and was dead</hi>; and, behold, +<hi rend='italic'>I am alive forevermore</hi>, +Amen; <hi rend='italic'>and have the keys of hell and of death</hi>.</q> Rev. 1:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ changed death +into a <hi rend='italic'>sleep</hi>. Absolute death knows +no waking; but through Christ all who have fallen under the power of +death will be raised, some to a life unending, some to everlasting death. +</quote> + +<pb n='345'/><anchor id='Pg345'/> + +<p> +11. What question does Job ask and answer? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If a man die, shall he live again?</hi> all the days of my appointed +time will I wait, till my change come. <hi rend='italic'>Thou shalt call, and I +will answer Thee</hi>: Thou wilt have a desire to the work of Thine +hands.</q> Job 14:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +12. Why did Job wish that his words were written in a book, +graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For I know that My Redeemer liveth</hi>, and that He shall +stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin +worms destroy this body, yet <hi rend='italic'>in my flesh shall I see God</hi>.</q> Job +19:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +13. How does Paul say the saints will be raised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but +we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, +at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and <hi rend='italic'>the dead shall +be raised incorruptible</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:51, 52. +</p> + +<p> +14. What great change will then take place in their bodies? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So also is the resurrection of the dead. It +is <hi rend='italic'>sown in corruption</hi>; +it is <hi rend='italic'>raised in incorruption</hi>: +it is <hi rend='italic'>sown in dishonor; it is raised +in glory</hi>: it is <hi rend='italic'>sown in weakness</hi>; +it is <hi rend='italic'>raised in power</hi>: it is <hi rend='italic'>sown a +natural body</hi>; it is <hi rend='italic'>raised a spiritual body</hi>.</q> Verses 42-44. +</p> + +<p> +15. What saying will then be brought to pass? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?</q> +Verse 55. +</p> + +<p> +16. When did David say he would be satisfied? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall +be satisfied, <hi rend='italic'>when I awake, with Thy likeness</hi>.</q> Ps. 17:15. +</p> + +<p> +17. What comforting promise has God made concerning the +sleeping saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will <hi rend='italic'>ransom them from +the power of the grave</hi>; I will <hi rend='italic'>redeem +them from death</hi>: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will +be thy destruction.</q> Hosea 13:14. +</p> + +<p> +18. What else has He promised to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God <hi rend='italic'>shall wipe away all tears</hi> from their eyes; and there +shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall +there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.</q> +Rev. 21:4. See pages <ref target='Pg759'>759-785</ref>. +</p> + +<pb n='346'/><anchor id='Pg346'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus346.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Deluge. +"And knew not until the flood came, and took +them all away." Matt. 24:39.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='347'/><anchor id='Pg347'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The World's Conversion</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus347.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>After The Flood. +"Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and +worse, deceiving, and being deceived." +2 Tim. 3:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did Christ say would be the condition of the world +at His second coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>As it was in the days of Noe</hi>, so shall it be also in the days +of the Son of man.</q> Luke 17:26. See also verses 27-30. +</p> + +<p> +2. How was it in the days of Noah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God saw that <hi rend='italic'>the wickedness of man was great in the +earth</hi>, and that <hi rend='italic'>every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was +only evil continually</hi>.... And <hi rend='italic'>the earth was filled with +violence</hi>.</q> Gen. 6:5-11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In a sermon delivered at Savannah, Ga., Dec. 2 1912, +Bishop A. W. Wilson (Methodist) said: <q>Old Rome in her worst days +never harbored such conditions of vice as are prevalent in our highest +social circles. Never at any period of the world's history has the moral +stratum been so thin or so low.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +3. How did Paul characterize the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This know also, that in the last days <hi rend='italic'>perilous times shall +come</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. What did he say would make those times perilous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, +boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, +unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false +accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, +traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than +<pb n='348'/><anchor id='Pg348'/> +lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power +thereof.</q> Verses 2-5. +</p> + +<p> +5. Are things to grow better or worse before the Lord comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse</hi>, deceiving, +and being deceived.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Even to +the end of time there will still be occasion for the +same complaint; the world will grow no better, no, not when it is drawing +toward its period. Bad it is, and bad it will be, and <emph>worst of all</emph> just +before Christ's coming.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Matthew Henry, on Luke 18:8.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +6. According to the parable of the wheat and the tares, +how long are the good and bad to remain together? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The field is the world; the good seed are the children of +the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; +the enemy that sowed them is the devil.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>Let both grow together +until the harvest</hi>: and in the time of harvest I will say to +the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in +bundles to burn them.</q> Matt. 13:38, 39, 30. +</p> + +<p> +7. When does the harvest come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The harvest is <hi rend='italic'>the end of the world</hi>.</q> Verse 39. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Thus +it is plain that the wicked (the tares) live with the +righteous (the wheat) till the end of the world. There is, then, no time +before Christ's coming for a sinless state, in which all men will be converted +and turn to God. +</p> + +<p> +Harper's <q>Book of Facts,</q> edition 1906, article <q>Religion,</q> classifies +the population of the globe religiously as follows:— +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{1.7cm} p{1.6cm} p{1.7cm} p{1.6cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(13) lw(13) lw(13) lw(13)'"> +<row><cell>Non-Christian</cell><cell></cell><cell>Christian</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Buddhists</cell><cell>400,000,000</cell><cell>Roman Catholics</cell> + <cell>175,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Brahmans</cell><cell>250,000,000</cell><cell>Protestants</cell> + <cell>110,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Mohammedans</cell><cell>180,000,000</cell><cell>Greek Church</cell> + <cell>90,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Fetish-worshipers</cell><cell>150,000,000</cell><cell>Various</cell> + <cell>25,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Jews</cell><cell>8,000,000</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Various</cell><cell>62,000,000</cell><cell></cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell></cell><cell>1,050,000,000</cell><cell></cell><cell>400,000,000</cell></row> +</table> + +<p> +From this it will be seen that only about one fourth of the world's +population are even nominal Christians. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +8. For what purpose did Christ say the gospel was to be +preached in all the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all +the world <hi rend='italic'>for a witness unto all nations</hi>; and then shall the end +come.</q> Matt. 24:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—He did not say +that all would <emph>receive</emph> the gospel, but that +the gospel was to be <emph>preached</emph> in all the world <emph>for a witness</emph> +unto all nations, and that <emph>then</emph> the end would come. +</p> + +<p> +Commenting on Rev. 20:2, Dr. Adam Clarke says: <q>Probably no +such time shall ever appear, in which evil shall be wholly banished from +the earth, till after the day of judgment, when, the earth having been +<pb n='349'/><anchor id='Pg349'/> +burned up, a new heaven and a new earth shall be produced out of the +ruins of the old, by the mighty power of God; righteousness alone shall +dwell in them.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Clarke's Commentary, edition 1860.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. When is the <q>man of sin,</q> or <q>mystery of iniquity,</q> +called also <q>that Wicked,</q> to come to an end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord +shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy +with the brightness of His coming.</q> 2 Thess. 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +10. How long was the little horn of Dan. 7:25 to make war +with the saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, +and prevailed against them; <hi rend='italic'>until the Ancient of days came, and +judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time +came that the saints possessed the kingdom</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +11. How will the day of the Lord come upon the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For yourselves know perfectly that <hi rend='italic'>the day of the Lord so +cometh as a thief in the night</hi>. For when they shall say, Peace +and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, ... +and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, +that that day should overtake you as a thief.</q> 1 Thess. +5:2-4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There will +be but two classes in the world then: those in +darkness, who are looking for a time of peace and safety, and those not in +darkness, who are looking for the day of the Lord,—a day of waste and +destruction,—the coming of Christ and the end of the world. See Jer. +7:1-19; Dan. 12:1; Joel 2:1-11; Zephaniah 1. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What will some who are in darkness say when they hear +about the Lord's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Knowing this first, that <hi rend='italic'>there shall come in the last days +scoffers</hi>, walking after their own lusts, and saying, <hi rend='italic'>Where is the +promise of His coming?</hi> for since the fathers fell asleep, all things +continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.</q> +2 Peter 3:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +13. What will be popularly taught in the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But in the last days ... <hi rend='italic'>many nations shall come, and +say</hi>, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to +the house of the God of Jacob; ... and He shall judge +among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; <hi rend='italic'>and they +shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into +pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, +neither shall they learn war any more</hi>.</q> Micah 4:1-3. See also +Isa. 2:2-5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Notice, this +is not what the <emph>Lord</emph> says, but what the Lord +says <emph>many nations</emph> shall say in the last days. And this is the very message +<pb n='350'/><anchor id='Pg350'/> +now heard in every land,—a great world's peace movement; a call for all +nations to disarm, to go to war no more, and to profess religion. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What message indicates the true condition of things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; <hi rend='italic'>Prepare war, wake +up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come +up: beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks +into spears: let the weak say, I am strong</hi>.</q> Joel 3:9, 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—On this question +of preparing for war, note the following:— +</p> + +<p> +Armies of the World +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{3cm} p{2cm} p{2cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(20) rw(15) rw(15)'"> +<row><cell></cell><cell>Regular Standing Army (1909)</cell> + <cell>National Army Including Reserves</cell></row> +<row><cell>Austria-Hungary</cell><cell>409,000</cell><cell>5,840,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Belgium</cell><cell>45,000</cell><cell>125,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>British Empire</cell><cell>250,000</cell><cell>1,050,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>China</cell><cell>60,000</cell><cell>1,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Denmark</cell><cell>14,000</cell><cell>68,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>France</cell><cell>630,000</cell><cell>4,350,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Germany</cell><cell>617,000</cell><cell>3,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Greece</cell><cell>28,000</cell><cell>178,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Italy</cell><cell>264,000</cell><cell>3,200,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Japan</cell><cell>225,000</cell><cell>600,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Netherlands</cell><cell>40,000</cell><cell>500,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Norway</cell><cell>30,000</cell><cell>95,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Persia</cell><cell>24,500</cell><cell>105,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Portugal</cell><cell>30,000</cell><cell>175,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Russia</cell><cell>1,100,000</cell><cell>5,200,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Servia</cell><cell>35,000</cell><cell>353,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Spain</cell><cell>100,000</cell><cell>1,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Sweden</cell><cell>62,000</cell><cell>500,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Switzerland</cell><cell>140,000</cell><cell>275,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Turkey</cell><cell>350,000</cell><cell>1,500,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>United States</cell><cell>89,128</cell><cell> 208,054</cell></row> +<row><cell>Total</cell><cell>4,542,628</cell><cell>29,322,054</cell></row> +</table> + +<p> +Naval Expenditures of the Great Powers for Ten Years—1902-11. +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{2cm} r r'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(15) rw(15) rw(15)'"> +<row><cell></cell><cell>Expenditure</cell><cell>New Construction</cell></row> +<row><cell>Great Britain</cell><cell>$1,761,500,000</cell><cell>$589,875,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Germany</cell><cell>737,695,000</cell><cell>351,010,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>France</cell><cell>660,695,000</cell><cell>236,430,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Russia</cell><cell>556,730,000</cell><cell>164,280,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Italy</cell><cell>301,145,000</cell><cell>82,750,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Austria</cell><cell>154,070,000</cell><cell>74,165,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>United States</cell><cell>1,150,680,000</cell><cell>367,050,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Japan</cell><cell>288,505,000</cell><cell>76,155,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Total</cell><cell>$5,611,320,000</cell><cell>$1,941,715,000</cell></row> +</table> + +<p> +Thus in only ten years these eight great powers spent over seven and +one-half billion dollars on their navies. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The immense armies maintained by European countries have come +to be a terrific drain upon their respective +nations.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Nelson's Encyclopedia, +article <q>Army.</q></hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. While making these war preparations, what are men +saying? +</p> + +<pb n='351'/><anchor id='Pg351'/> + +<p> +<q>They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of My +people slightly, <hi rend='italic'>saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace</hi>.</q> +Jer. 6:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Every one conversant +with existing conditions in the world +today knows this is true. While the message of peace is being proclaimed, +the nations are arming as never before; wars are in progress almost continually; +international complications are constantly arising; and a world +war is feared as imminent, and constantly looming in sight. The world +today is a vast armed camp. +</quote> + +<p> +16. But does not the Bible say that the heathen are to be +given to the Lord for an inheritance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ask of Me, and <hi rend='italic'>I shall give +Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance</hi>, +and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.</q> +Ps. 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will the Lord do with them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt <hi rend='italic'>break them with a +rod of iron</hi>; Thou shalt <hi rend='italic'>dash +them in pieces</hi> like a potter's vessel.</q> Verse 9. <q>And out of +His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should <hi rend='italic'>smite +the nations</hi>: and He shall <hi rend='italic'>rule +them with a rod of iron</hi>: and <hi rend='italic'>He +treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty +God</hi>.</q> Rev. 19:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—How suddenly surprised those who have been preaching +peace and safety will be when the end comes is indicated in the text already +quoted: <q>For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh +as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then +<emph>sudden destruction cometh upon them</emph>.</q> 1 Thess. 5:2, 3. All heedless of +the signs of the times, and indifferent to the future, the world will come +up to the day of the Lord unprepared. As a thief in the night, coming +with stealthy, muffled tread, this day will take all unawares who are not +looking, watching, and waiting for their Lord's return. Instead of looking +for the world's conversion, we should be looking for Christ's coming. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>The coming King is at the door,</l> +<l>Who once the cross for sinners bore,</l> +<l>But now the righteous ones alone</l> +<l>He comes to gather home.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The signs that show His coming near</l> +<l>Are fast fulfilling year by year,</l> +<l>And soon we'll hail the glorious dawn</l> +<l>Of heaven's eternal morn.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Look not on earth for strife to cease,</l> +<l>Look not below for joy and peace,</l> +<l>Until the Saviour comes again</l> +<l>To banish death and sin.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Then in the glorious earth made new</l> +<l>We'll dwell the countless ages through;</l> +<l>This mortal shall immortal be,</l> +<l>And time, eternity.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='352'/><anchor id='Pg352'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Gathering Of Israel</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus352.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Wailing Place Of The Jews. +"The Lord shall set His hand again the +second time to recover the remnant of +His people." Isa. 11:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Because of disobedience, what experience came to Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of +the earth.</q> Jer. 34:17. See Jer. 25:8-11. +</p> + +<p> +2. What prophecy spoke of their return from captivity? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith +the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected +end.... And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when +ye shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found +of you, saith the Lord: and <hi rend='italic'>I will turn away your captivity, and +I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places +whither I have driven you</hi>, saith the Lord; and I will bring you +again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away +captive.</q> Jer. 29:11-14. See also Jer. 23:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The first +dispersion of the Jews occurred <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> 606-588, under +Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. In <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi> +457, under Artaxerxes, the Persian +king, large numbers of Jews returned to Palestine, their home land. +</quote> + +<p> +3. How had Moses spoken of another and greater dispersion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from +the end of the earth, ... and he shall besiege thee in all +thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein +thou trustedst, ... and the Lord shall scatter thee +among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the +other.</q> Deut. 28:49-64. +</p> + +<pb n='353'/><anchor id='Pg353'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +calamity and dispersion occurred in 70 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, under +Titus, the Roman general. Says the Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia, +Vol. II, article <q>Jerusalem,</q> page 932: <q>Jerusalem seems to have +been raised to this greatness as if to enhance the misery of its overthrow. +So soon as the Jews had set the seal to their formal rejection of Christ, +by putting Him to death, and invoking the responsibility of His blood upon +the heads of themselves and of their children (Matt. 27:25), the city's +doom went forth. Titus, a young, brave, and competent Roman general, +with an army of sixty thousand trained, victorious warriors, appeared before +the city in April, 70 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, and +the most disastrous siege of all history +began.</q> See pages <ref target='Pg314'>313</ref>, +<ref target='Pg314'>314</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +4. Under what striking symbol was all this foretold? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord, Go and get <hi rend='italic'>a potter's earthen bottle</hi>, +and ... break the bottle ... and ... say unto +them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; <hi rend='italic'>Even so will I break this +people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot +be made whole again</hi>.</q> Jer. 19:1-11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>No +city on the globe has suffered more from war and sieges +than Jerusalem.... Storming legions, battering-rams, and catapults +have razed it again and again. And yet, the general outline of the +city has always been preserved. Zion and Mt. Moriah remain in full view +from Olivet, and there, on those hills, stretching away toward the west, +city after city has come and gone in the passing +ages.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Popular and +Critical Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. II, article <q>Jerusalem</q> pages 928, 929.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +5. How long was Jerusalem to be trodden down of the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be +led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden +down of the Gentiles, <hi rend='italic'>until the times of the +Gentiles be fulfilled</hi>.</q> +Luke 21:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Jerusalem stands for +the people, the truth, and the true +worship of God. It is first mentioned in the Bible as Salem (Gen. 14:18); +is spoken of figuratively as a mother bringing forth the children of God +(Gal. 4:26, 27); and is a type of the holy city, New Jerusalem, which is +to be the metropolis of the new earth. In Rev. 11:2 it is used as a type +of God's people during the long period of 1260 years of papal persecution, +who are there referred to as <q>the holy city,</q> which the Gentiles <q>tread +underfoot forty and two months.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +6. What will terminate the <q>times</q> allotted to the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the +world for a witness unto all nations; and <hi rend='italic'>then +shall the end come</hi>.</q> +Matt. 24:14. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why was the gospel to be preached to the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the +Gentiles, <hi rend='italic'>to take out of +them a people for His name</hi>.</q> Acts 15:14. +</p> + +<p> +8. What false idea of this gathering were some to hold? +</p> + +<pb n='354'/><anchor id='Pg354'/> + +<p> +<q>And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us +go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God +of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in +His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of +the Lord from Jerusalem.</q> Micah 4:2. +</p> + +<p> +9. For what will the heathen be assembled in Palestine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of +Jehoshaphat.... Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of +decision [margin, concision, or threshing; i.e., war]: for the day +of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.</q> Joel 3:12-14. +</p> + +<p> +10. Under whose influence are the nations to be assembled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the +mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out +of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are <hi rend='italic'>the spirits of +devils</hi>, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the +earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of +that great day of God Almighty.</q> Rev. 16:13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Infatuated +by the doctrine of the world's conversion and a +temporal millennium of peace, prosperity, and good will among men, the +deluded nations will aim to make Jerusalem the center of a glorious kingdom, +at which place they will doubtless expect Christ will come and take +up His reign as their king. This was the favorite idea of the crusaders in +the dark ages. But the crusaders were mistaken in their conception, and +sorely disappointed. So also will the modern crusaders be mistaken and +disappointed; for one object of Christ's second coming will be to <q>smite +the nations</q> and to destroy these armies assembled. Rev. 19:15. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Unto whom are God's people to be gathered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver +from between his feet, until <hi rend='italic'>Shiloh</hi> +come; and <hi rend='italic'>unto Him shall +the gathering of the people be</hi>.</q> Gen. 49:10. +</p> + +<p> +12. How did Christ speak of the gathering of the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also +I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be +one fold, and one shepherd.</q> John 10:16. +</p> + +<p> +13. What great gathering yet awaits God's people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall come to pass in that day, that <hi rend='italic'>the Lord shall +set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His +people</hi>.... And He shall set up an ensign for the nations, +and shall <hi rend='italic'>assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the +dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth</hi>.</q> Isa. 11:11, +12. <q>And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a +trumpet, and <hi rend='italic'>they shall gather together His elect from the four +winds, from one end of heaven to the other</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:31. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='355'/><anchor id='Pg355'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Millennium</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus355.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Binding Of Satan. +"And he laid hold on ... Satan, and bound +him a thousand years." Rev. 20:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What text definitely brings the millennium to view? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and <hi rend='italic'>judgment +was given unto them</hi>: ... and <hi rend='italic'>they lived and reigned with +Christ a thousand years</hi>.</q> Rev. 20:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. Whom does Paul say the saints are to judge? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go +to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? <hi rend='italic'>Do ye not +know that the saints shall judge the world?... Know ye +not that we shall judge angels?</hi></q> 1 Cor. 6:1-3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From +these scriptures it is plain that the saints of all ages +are to be engaged with Christ in a work of <q>judgment</q> during the millennium, +or one thousand years. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What prophecy had Paul upon which to base his statement? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, +and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of days came, +and <hi rend='italic'>judgment was given to the saints of the Most High</hi>.</q> Dan. +7:21, 22. +</p> + +<pb n='356'/><anchor id='Pg356'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus356.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Millennium.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +The millennium is the closing period of God's great +week of time—a great sabbath of rest to the earth and to the people +of God. +</p> + +<p> +It follows the close of the gospel age, and precedes +the setting up of the everlasting kingdom of God on earth. +</p> + +<p> +It comprehends what in the Scriptures is +frequently spoken of as <q>the day of the Lord.</q> +</p> + +<p> +It is bounded at each end by a resurrection. +</p> + +<p> +Its beginning is marked by the pouring out +of the seven last plagues, the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of +the righteous dead, the binding of Satan, and +the translation of the saints to heaven; and its close, by the descent of the New +Jerusalem, with Christ and the saints, from +heaven, the resurrection of the wicked dead, the loosing of Satan, and the final +destruction of the wicked. +</p> + +<p> +During the one thousand years the earth +lies desolate; Satan and his angels are confined here; and the saints, with Christ, +sit in judgment on the wicked, preparatory to their final punishment. +</p> + +<p> +The wicked dead are then raised; Satan is loosed +for a little season, and he and the host of the wicked encompass the +camp of the saints and the holy city, when fire +comes down from God out of heaven and devours them. The earth is cleansed +by the same fire that destroys the wicked, and, +renewed, becomes the eternal abode of the saints. +</p> + +<p> +The millennium is one of <q>the ages to come.</q> +Its close will mark the beginning of the new earth state. +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='357'/><anchor id='Pg357'/> + +<p> +4. How many resurrections are there to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which +all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come +forth; they that have done good, unto <hi rend='italic'>the resurrection of life</hi>; +and they that have done evil, unto <hi rend='italic'>the resurrection +of damnation</hi>.</q> +John 5:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +5. What class only have part in the first resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed and holy</hi> is he that hath part in the first resurrection: +on such the second death hath no power.</q> Rev. 20:6. +</p> + +<p> +6. What will Christ do with the saints when He comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will come again, and <hi rend='italic'>receive you unto Myself</hi>; that where +I am, there ye may be also.</q> John 14:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In other words, Christ +will take them to heaven, there to +live and reign with Him during the one thousand years. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Where did John, in vision, see the saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no +man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and +tongues, <hi rend='italic'>stood before the throne, and before the Lamb</hi>, clothed +with white robes, and palms in their hands.</q> Rev. 7:9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This scripture +shows plainly that the righteous are all taken +to heaven immediately after the first resurrection. This accords with +the words of Christ in John 14:1-3, where He says, <q>I go to prepare a +place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, +and <emph>receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also</emph>.</q> Peter +desired to accompany Christ to those mansions; but Jesus answered, <q>Thou +canst not follow Me now; <emph>but thou shall follow Me afterwards</emph>.</q> John 13:36. +This makes it clear that when Christ returns to earth to receive His +people, He takes them to the Father's house in heaven. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What becomes of the living wicked when Christ comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>As it was in the days of Noe</hi>, so shall it be also in the days +of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married +wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered +into the ark, and <hi rend='italic'>the flood came, and destroyed them all. +Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot</hi>; ... the same day +that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from +heaven, and <hi rend='italic'>destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day +when the Son of man is revealed</hi>.</q> Luke 17:26-30. +</p> + +<p> +9. What does the apostle Paul say concerning this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When they shall say, Peace and safety; <hi rend='italic'>then sudden +destruction cometh upon them</hi>, ... and they shall not +escape.</q> 1 Thess. 5:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When Christ +comes, the righteous will be delivered and taken +to heaven, and all the living wicked will be suddenly destroyed, as they +were at the time of the flood. For further proof see 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. +6:14-17; 19:11-21; Jer. 25:30-33. There will be no general resurrection +of the wicked until the end of the one thousand years. This will leave the +earth desolate and without human inhabitant during this period. +</quote> + +<pb n='358'/><anchor id='Pg358'/> + +<p> +10. What description does the prophet Jeremiah give of +the earth during this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was <hi rend='italic'>without form, and void</hi>; +and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, +and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. +I beheld, and, lo, <hi rend='italic'>there was no man</hi>, and all the birds of the +heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the <hi rend='italic'>fruitful place was a +wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down</hi> at the +presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger.</q> Jer. 4:23-26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—At the +coming of Christ the earth is reduced to a chaotic +state—to a mass of ruins. The heavens depart as a scroll when it is +rolled together; mountains are moved out of their places; and the earth +is left a dark, dreary, desolate waste. See Isa. 24:1-3; Rev. 6:14-17. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How does Isaiah speak of the wicked at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish +the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the +earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, +as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and <hi rend='italic'>shall be shut up in +prison</hi>, and after many days shall they be visited.</q> Isa. 24:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +12. How long is Satan to be imprisoned on this earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key +of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he +laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, +and Satan, and <hi rend='italic'>bound him a thousand years</hi>, and cast him into +the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, +that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand +years should be fulfilled.</q> Rev. 20:1-3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word +rendered <q>bottomless pit</q> in this text is +<foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>abusos</foreign>, +the Greek term employed by the Septuagint in Gen. 1:2, as the equivalent +of the Hebrew word rendered <q>deep</q> in our English versions. A more +literal translation would be <q>abyss.</q> It is a term applied to the earth +in its desolate, waste, chaotic, dark, uninhabited condition. In this condition +it will remain during the one thousand years. It will be the dreary +prison-house of Satan during this period. Here, in the midst of the moldering +bones of wicked dead, slain at Christ's second coming, the broken-down +cities, and the wreck and ruin of all the pomp and power of this +world, Satan will have opportunity to reflect upon the results of his rebellion +against God. But the prophecy of Isaiah says, <q>After many days +shall they be visited.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +13. The righteous dead are raised at Christ's second coming. +When will the rest of the dead, the wicked, be raised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The rest of the dead lived not again <hi rend='italic'>until the thousand years +were finished</hi>.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—From this we see +that the beginning and the close of the millennium, +or one thousand years, are marked by the two resurrections. +<pb n='359'/><anchor id='Pg359'/> +The word millennium is from two Latin words, +<foreign lang='la' rend='italic'>mille</foreign>, meaning a +thousand, and <foreign lang='la' rend='italic'>annus</foreign>, +year—a thousand years. It covers the time during +which Satan is to be bound and wicked men and angels are to be judged. +This period is bounded by distinct events. Its beginning is marked by the +close of probation, the pouring out of the seven last plagues, the second +coming of Christ, and the resurrection of the righteous dead. It closes +with the resurrection of the wicked, and their final destruction in the lake +of fire. See diagram on page <ref target='Pg356'>356</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What change is made in Satan's condition at the close +of the one thousand years? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After that <hi rend='italic'>he must be loosed a little season</hi>.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—At the close +of the one thousand years, Christ, accompanied +by the saints, comes to the earth again, to execute judgment upon the +wicked, and to prepare the earth, by a re-creation, for the eternal abode of +the righteous. At this time, in answer to the summons of Christ, the +wicked dead of all ages awake to life. This is the second resurrection, the +resurrection unto damnation. The wicked come forth with the same +rebellious spirit which possessed them in this life. Then Satan is loosed +from his long period of captivity and inactivity. +</quote> + +<p> +15. As soon as the wicked are raised, what does Satan at +once proceed to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed +out of his prison, and shall go out to <hi rend='italic'>deceive the nations</hi> which +are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, <hi rend='italic'>to gather +them together to battle</hi>: the number of whom is as the sand of the +sea.</q> Verses 7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +16. Against whom do the wicked go to make war, and what +is the outcome? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They went up on the breadth of the earth, and <hi rend='italic'>compassed +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>fire came +down from God out of heaven, and devoured them</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—This is the +last act in the great controversy between Christ +and Satan. The whole human race meet here for the first and last time. +The eternal separation of the righteous from the wicked here takes place. +At this time the judgment of God is executed upon the wicked in the lake +of fire. This is the second death. This ends the great rebellion against +God and His government. Now is heard the voice of God as He sits upon +His throne, speaking to the saints, and saying, <q>Behold, I make all things +new;</q> and out of the burning ruins of the old earth there springs forth before +the admiring gaze of the millions of the redeemed, <q>a new heaven and a +new earth,</q> in which they shall find an everlasting inheritance and dwelling-place. +</p> + +<p> +The millennium is a great sabbath of rest, both for the earth and for +God's people. For six thousand years the earth and its inhabitants have +been groaning under the curse of sin. The millennium, the seventh +thousand, will be a sabbath of rest and release; for, says the prophet concerning +the land, <q>as long as she lay desolate she kept <emph>sabbath</emph>.</q> 2 Chron. +36:21. <q>There remaineth therefore a <emph>rest</emph> [margin, <emph>keeping of a +sabbath</emph>] to the people of God.</q> Heb. 4:9. This precedes the new earth state. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='360'/><anchor id='Pg360'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Length Of The Day Of The Lord</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus360.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Last Great Earthquake. +"For the great day of His wrath is +come." Rev. 6:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the character of the <q>day of the Lord</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth +greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man +shall cry there bitterly. <hi rend='italic'>That day is a day of wrath, a day of +trouble and distress.</hi></q> Zeph. 1:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +2. Under which of the seven seals does this day begin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I beheld <hi rend='italic'>when He had opened the sixth seal</hi>, and, lo, +there was a great earthquake, ... for <hi rend='italic'>the great day of His +wrath is come</hi>; and who shall be able to stand?</q> Rev. 6:12-17. +</p> + +<p> +3. What signs were to appear under this seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon +became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, +even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken +of a mighty wind.</q> Verses 12, 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For dates +and fulfilment of these signs, see readings on pages +<ref target='Pg311'>311</ref>, <ref target='Pg319'>319</ref>. +The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (page <ref target='Pg286'>286</ref>) should not be +confounded with that to take place under the seventh plague. Rev. 16:18. +</quote> + +<p> +4. Under which seal will the Lord come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He had <hi rend='italic'>opened the seventh seal</hi>, there was silence +in heaven about the space of half an hour.</q> Rev. 8:1. +</p> + +<pb n='361'/><anchor id='Pg361'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This silence in heaven +is the result of Christ and the angels +leaving heaven to come to this earth. See page <ref target='Pg288'>288</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +5. With what is the day of wrath to open? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, +seven angels having <hi rend='italic'>the seven last plagues; for in them is filled +up the wrath of God</hi>.</q> Rev. 15:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These plagues immediately +precede Christ's coming. See +Rev. 16:12-15, and reading on page <ref target='Pg301'>301</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What great event will take place at Christ's coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven: ... +and <hi rend='italic'>the dead in Christ shall rise first</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +7. How long after this will the wicked dead be raised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand +years were finished</hi>.</q> Rev. 20:5. +</p> + +<p> +8. As they gather around the holy city, what will take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured +them.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is this destruction called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, +and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, +and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth +with fire and brimstone: which is <hi rend='italic'>the second death</hi>.</q> Rev. 21:8. +</p> + +<p> +10. Unto what are the present heavens and earth reserved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same +word are kept in store, reserved <hi rend='italic'>unto fire against the day of judgment +and perdition of ungodly men</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 3:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When +the fire from heaven destroys the wicked, the earth +itself will also be burned and purified. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Does the day of the Lord include this burning day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the day of the Lord</hi> will come as a thief in the night; +in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and +<hi rend='italic'>the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also</hi> and the +works that are therein shall be burned up.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The day +of the Lord, therefore, begins with the seven last +plagues and the coming of Christ, and continues for one thousand years, +or till the wicked are destroyed, and the earth is renewed and given to +the saints. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='362'/><anchor id='Pg362'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Elijah The Prophet</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus362.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Mt. Carmel. +"How long halt ye between two opinions?" +1 Kings 18:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What promise, through the prophet Malachi, does the +Lord make concerning Elijah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the +coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.</q> Mal. 4:5. +</p> + +<p> +2. What will this prophet do when he comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall <hi rend='italic'>turn the heart of the fathers to the children, +and the heart of the children to their fathers</hi>, lest I come and smite +the earth with a curse.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +3. Whom did Christ indicate as fulfilling this prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the +scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and +said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all +things. But I say unto you, That <hi rend='italic'>Elias is come already</hi>, and +they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they +listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. +Then the disciples understood that He spake unto them of <hi rend='italic'>John +the Baptist</hi>.</q> Matt. 17:10-13. +</p> + +<p> +4. When John the Baptist was asked if he were Elijah, what +did he say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said, <hi rend='italic'>I am not</hi>.</q> John 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +5. Who did he say he was? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He said, <hi rend='italic'>I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness</hi>. +<pb n='364'/><anchor id='Pg364'/> +Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.</q> +Verse 23. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus363.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Translation Of Elijah. +"Behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, +... and Elijah went up by a whirlwind +into heaven." 2 Kings 2:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +6. In what sense does the angel Gabriel explain John the +Baptist to be the Elijah of Mal. 4:5? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord +their God. And he shall go before Him [Christ] <hi rend='italic'>in the spirit +and power of Elias</hi>, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the +children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make +ready a people prepared for the Lord.</q> Luke 1:16, 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—John went forth +<q><hi rend='italic'>in the spirit and power of Elias</hi>,</q> and, in +preparing a people for Christ's first advent, did a work similar to that done +by Elijah the prophet in Israel centuries before. See 1 Kings 17 and 18. +In this sense, and in this sense only, he was the Elijah of Mal. 4:5. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Near the close of the three and one-half years' drought +in Israel, brought about as a judgment through the intercessions +of Elijah (James 5:17) in consequence of Israel's apostasy, +what accusation did King Ahab bring against Elijah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab +said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Art thou he that +troubleth Israel?</hi></q> 1 Kings 18:17. +</p> + +<p> +8. What answer did Elijah make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he answered, <hi rend='italic'>I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and +thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of +the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Israel had +departed from God, forsaken His commandments, +and gone off into idolatry. Jezebel, Ahab's wicked and idolatrous wife, +had <q>cut off the prophets of the Lord</q> (verse 4), was supporting hundreds +of the prophets of Baal, and was seeking Elijah to slay him. Elijah called +for a famine on the land, and said to Ahab, <q>As the Lord God of Israel +liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, +but according to my word.</q> 1 Kings 17:1. Elijah's message was a call +to repentance and obedience to God's commandments. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What plain proposition did he submit to all Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, <hi rend='italic'>How long +halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow Him: but +if Baal, then follow him</hi>.</q> 1 Kings 18:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The result +of the test by fire which followed on Mt. Carmel, +can be read in the remainder of this wonderful chapter. There was a +great turning to God, the people saying, <q>The Lord, He is the God; the +Lord, He is the God.</q> Verse 39. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What was the burden of the message of John the Baptist? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Repent ye</hi>: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.</q> <q>Bring +forth therefore <hi rend='italic'>fruits</hi> meet for repentance.</q> Matt. 3:2, 8. +</p> + +<pb n='365'/><anchor id='Pg365'/> + +<p> +11. What was the result of this message? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all +the region round about Jordan, and <hi rend='italic'>were baptized of him in +Jordan, confessing their sins</hi>.</q> Verses 5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There +was a genuine work of repentance and reform. John +was not satisfied with a mere profession of religion. He told the Pharisees +and Sadducees who came to his baptism, to <q>bring forth fruits</q> answerable +to an <q>amendment of life.</q> He wished to see religion in the life, the +heart, the home. Thus he prepared a people for Christ's first advent. +</quote> + +<p> +12. But when, according to the prophecy, was Elijah to +be sent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the +Lord.</q> Mal. 4:5. +</p> + +<p> +13. How is this great and dreadful day described in this +same prophecy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; +and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: +and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of +hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.</q> Verse 1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This day +is yet future. It cannot be, therefore, that the +work done by John the Baptist at Christ's first advent is all that was contemplated +in the prophecy concerning the sending of Elijah the prophet. +It must be that there is to be another and greater fulfilment of it, to precede +Christ's <emph>second advent</emph>, and to prepare, or <q>make ready,</q> a people +for that great event. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What is the burden of the threefold message of Rev. +14:6-10? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment +is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, +and the sea, and the fountains of waters.... Babylon is +fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations +drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.... If +any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark +in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine +of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into +the cup of His indignation.</q> Rev. 14:6-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Like the messages +of Elijah and John, this is a call to repentance +and reform,—a call to forsake false, idolatrous worship, and to +turn to God, and worship Him, and Him alone. The first part of this +threefold message points out the true God, the Creator, in language very +similar to that found in the fourth, or Sabbath, commandment. This is +the message now due the world, and that is now being proclaimed to the +world. See readings on pages <ref target='Pg251'>251-263</ref>. Those who are proclaiming +these messages constitute the Elijah for this time, as John and his colaborers +did at the time of Christ's first advent. +</quote> + +<pb n='366'/><anchor id='Pg366'/> + +<p> +15. How are the people described who are developed by the +threefold message here referred to? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These will +be the ones who will be ready to meet Jesus when +He comes. They have heeded the Elijah-call to repentance and reform. +They have become concerned, not only for their own individual salvation, +but for the salvation of their friends and relatives. By this message the +hearts of the fathers are turned to the children, and the hearts of the +children to their fathers. Each becomes burdened for the conversion and +salvation of the other. There can be little religion in the heart of one who +cares not for the eternal interests of his loved ones. When this message +has done its work, God will smite the earth with a curse; the seven last +plagues will fall, and usher in the great day of the Lord described in the +preceding reading. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Light is beaming, day is coming!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Let us sound aloud the cry;</l> +<l>We behold the day-star rising</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Pure and bright in yonder sky!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Saints, be joyful;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Your redemption draweth nigh.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We have found the chart and compass,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And are sure the land is near;</l> +<l>Onward, onward, we are hasting.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Soon the haven will appear;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Let your voices</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Sound aloud your holy cheer.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='367'/><anchor id='Pg367'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part VIII. The Law of God</head> + +<pb n='368'/><anchor id='Pg368'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Law of God</head> + +<p> +I +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. +</p> + +<p> +II +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness +of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth +beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not +bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy +God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon +the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that +hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love +Me, and keep My commandments. +</p> + +<p> +III +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; +for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name +in vain. +</p> + +<p> +IV +</p> + +<p> +Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt +thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath +of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, +nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid +servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: +for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all +that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord +blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. +</p> + +<p> +V +</p> + +<p> +Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long +upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. +</p> + +<p> +VI +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not kill. +</p> + +<p> +VII +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not commit adultery. +</p> + +<p> +VIII +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not steal. +</p> + +<p> +IX +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. +</p> + +<p> +X +</p> + +<p> +Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not +covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid +servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy +neighbor's. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='369'/><anchor id='Pg369'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Law Of God</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus369.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Mt. Sinai. +"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting +the soul." Ps. 19:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When God brought His people out of Egypt, how did He +republish His law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: +ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye +heard a voice. And <hi rend='italic'>He declared unto you His covenant, which +He commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and He +wrote them upon two tables of stone</hi>.</q> Deut. 4:12, 13. See also +Neh. 9:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +2. Where are the ten commandments recorded? +</p> + +<p> +In Ex. 20:2-17. +</p> + +<p> +3. How comprehensive are these commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear God, and keep His commandments: for <hi rend='italic'>this is the +whole duty of man</hi>.</q> Eccl. 12:13. +</p> + +<p> +4. What inspired tribute is paid to the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The law of the Lord is perfect</hi>, converting the soul: the +testimony of the Lord is <hi rend='italic'>sure</hi>, making wise the simple. The statutes +of the Lord are <hi rend='italic'>right</hi>, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of +the Lord is <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi>, enlightening the eyes.</q> Ps. 19:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +5. What blessing does the psalmist say attends the keeping +of God's commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moreover by them is Thy servant warned: and <hi rend='italic'>in keeping +of them there is great reward</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +6. What did Christ state as a condition of entering into life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou wilt enter into life, <hi rend='italic'>keep the commandments</hi>.</q> Matt. +19:17. +</p> + +<pb n='370'/><anchor id='Pg370'/> + +<p> +7. Can man of himself, unaided by Christ, keep the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in Me, +and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for <hi rend='italic'>without +Me ye can do nothing</hi>.</q> John 15:5. See also Rom. 7:14-19. +</p> + +<p> +8. What provision has been made so that we may keep God's +law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through +the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful +flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness +of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the +flesh, but after the Spirit.</q> Rom. 8:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is the nature of God's law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we know that <hi rend='italic'>the law is spiritual</hi>: but I am carnal, +sold under sin.</q> Rom. 7:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In His +comments on the sixth and seventh commandments, +recorded in Matt. 5:21-28, Christ demonstrated the spiritual nature of the +law, showing that it relates not merely to outward actions, but that it +reaches to the thoughts and intents of the heart. See also Heb. 4:12. The +tenth commandment forbids lust, or all unlawful desire. Rom. 7:7. +Obedience to this law, therefore, requires not merely an outward compliance, +but genuine heart service. This can be rendered only by a regenerated +soul. +</quote> + +<p> +10. How is the law further described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore the law is <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi>, +and the commandment <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>just</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>good</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +11. What is revealed in God's law?. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And knowest <hi rend='italic'>His</hi> +[<hi rend='italic'>God's</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>will</hi>, and approvest the things +that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.</q> Rom. +2:18. +</p> + +<p> +12. When Christ came to this earth, what was His attitude +toward God's will, or law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is +written of Me, <hi rend='italic'>I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law +is within My heart</hi>.</q> Ps. 40:7, 8. See Heb. 10:5, 7. +</p> + +<p> +13. Who did He say would enter the kingdom of heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter +into the kingdom of heaven; but <hi rend='italic'>he that doeth the will of My +Father which is in heaven</hi>.</q> Matt. 7:21. +</p> + +<p> +14. What did He say of those who should break one of God's +commandments, or should teach men to do so? +</p> + +<pb n='371'/><anchor id='Pg371'/> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall teach men so, <hi rend='italic'>he shall be called the least +in the kingdom of heaven</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:19, first part. +</p> + +<p> +15. Who did He say would be called great in the kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>whosoever shall do and teach them</hi>, the same shall be +called great in the kingdom.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<p> +16. How did Christ estimate the righteousness of the scribes +and Pharisees? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall +exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall +in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven</hi>.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +17. For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But He answered and said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Why do ye also +transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?</hi></q> Matt. +15:3. +</p> + +<p> +18. How had they done this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother.... +But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his +mother, It is a gift, ... and honor not his father or his +mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment +of God of none effect by your tradition.</q> Verses 4-6. +</p> + +<p> +19. In consequence of this, what value did Christ place upon +their worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>in vain they do worship Me</hi>, teaching for doctrines the +commandments of men.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +20. What is sin declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for +<hi rend='italic'>sin is the transgression of the law</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:4. +</p> + +<p> +21. By what is the knowledge of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>by the law is the knowledge of sin</hi>.</q> Rom. 3:20. See +Rom. 7:7. +</p> + +<p> +22. How many of the commandments is it necessary to +break in order to become a transgressor of the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one +point, he is guilty of all</hi>. For He that said, Do not commit +adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, +and yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the +law.</q> James 2:10, 11. +</p> + +<pb n='372'/><anchor id='Pg372'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This shows that the ten commandments are a complete +whole, and together constitute but one law. Like a chain of ten links, +all are inseparably connected together. If one link is broken, the chain +is broken. +</quote> + +<p> +23. How may we be freed from the guilt of our sins, or our +transgressions of God's law? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If we confess our sins</hi>, He is faithful and just to forgive us +our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</q> 1 John +1:9. +</p> + +<p> +24. Why are we admonished to fear God and keep His +commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the +whole duty of man. <hi rend='italic'>For God shall bring every work into judgment</hi>, +with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be +evil.</q> Eccl. 12:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +25. What will be the standard in the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be <hi rend='italic'>judged by the +law of liberty</hi>.</q> James 2:12. +</p> + +<p> +26. What is said of those who love God's law? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Great peace have they which love Thy law</hi>: and nothing shall +offend them.</q> Ps. 119:165. +</p> + +<p> +27. What would obedience to God's commandments have +insured to ancient Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O that thou hadst harkened to My commandments! <hi rend='italic'>then +had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of +the sea</hi>.</q> Isa. 48:18. +</p> + +<p> +28. What is another blessing attending the keeping of God's +commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a <hi rend='italic'>good +understanding have all they that do His commandments</hi>.</q> Ps. +111:10. +</p> + +<p> +29. In what does the man delight whom the psalmist describes +as blessed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the +ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the +seat of the scornful. But <hi rend='italic'>his delight is in the law of the Lord; +and in His law doth he meditate day and night</hi>.</q> Ps. 1:1, 2. +See Rom. 7:22. +</p> + +<p> +30. Why is the carnal mind enmity against God? +</p> + +<pb n='373'/><anchor id='Pg373'/> + +<p> +<q>Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: <hi rend='italic'>for it is +not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:7. +</p> + +<p> +31. How do those with renewed hearts and minds regard +the commandments of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: +and <hi rend='italic'>His commandments are not grievous</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:3. +</p> + +<p> +32. What is the essential principle of the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore <hi rend='italic'>love</hi> is the +fulfilling of the law.</q> Rom. 13:10. +</p> + +<p> +33. In what two great commandments is the law of God +briefly summarized? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and +with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and +great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou +shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments +hang all the law and the prophets.</q> Matt. 22:37-40. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Does +any man say to me, <q>You see, then, instead of the +ten commandments, we have received the two commandments, and these +are much easier</q>? I answer that this reading of the law is not in the least +easier. Such a remark implies a want of thought and experience. Those +two precepts comprehend the ten at their fullest extent, and cannot be +regarded as the erasure of a jot or tittle of them. Whatever difficulties +surround the commands are equally found in the two, which are their sum +and substance. If you love God with all your heart, you must keep the +first table; and if you love your neighbor as yourself, you must keep the +second table.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The Perpetuity +of the Law of God,</q> by C. H. Spurgeon, +page 6.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +34. What is said of one who professes to know the Lord, but +does not keep His commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, +is <hi rend='italic'>a liar</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>the truth +is not in him</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +35. What promise is made to the willing and obedient? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye be willing and obedient, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall eat the good of the +land</hi>.</q> Isa. 1:19. +</p> + +<p> +36. How does God regard those who walk in His law? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law +of the Lord.</q> Ps. 119:1. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='374'/><anchor id='Pg374'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Perpetuity Of The Law</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus374.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Expounding The Law. +"Think not that I am come to destroy the +law, or the prophets." Matt. 5:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How many lawgivers are there? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is <hi rend='italic'>one lawgiver</hi>, who is able to save and to destroy.</q> +James 4:12. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is said of the stability of God's character? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I am the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>I change not</hi>.</q> Mal. 3:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. How enduring are His commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The works of His hands are verity and judgment; <hi rend='italic'>all His +commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever</hi>, and +are done in truth and uprightness.</q> Ps. 111:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +4. Did Christ come to abolish or to destroy the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the +prophets: <hi rend='italic'>I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes</hi>.—<emph>The law</emph>; +broadly, the writings of Moses; specifically, the +ten commandments, or moral law, from which the writings of Moses primarily +derived their name. <emph>The prophets</emph>; that is, the writings of the +prophets. Neither of these Christ came to destroy, but rather to fulfil, +or meet their design. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The laws of the Jews are commonly divided into moral, ceremonial, +and judicial. The moral laws are such as grow out of the nature of things, +which cannot, therefore, be changed,—such as the duty of loving God and +His creatures. These cannot be abolished, as it can never be made right +to hate God, or to hate our fellow men. Of this kind are the ten commandments; +<pb n='375'/><anchor id='Pg375'/> +and these our Saviour neither abolished nor superseded. The ceremonial +laws are such as are appointed to meet certain states of society, +or to regulate the religious rites and ceremonies of a people. These can +be changed when circumstances are changed, and yet the moral law be +untouched.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Albert Barnes, on Matt. 5:18.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus did not come to change the law, but He came to explain it, +and that very fact shows that it remains; for there is no need to explain +that which is abrogated.... By thus explaining the law He confirmed +it; He could not have meant to abolish it, or He would not have +needed to expound it.... That the Master did not come to alter +the law is clear, because after having embodied it in His life, He willingly +gave Himself up to bear its penalty, though He had never broken it, bearing +the penalty for us, even as it is written, <q>Christ hath redeemed us from +the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.</q> ... If the law had +demanded more of us than it ought to have done, would the Lord Jesus +have rendered to it the penalty which resulted from its too severe demands? +I am sure He would not. But because the law asked only what it ought +to ask, namely, perfect obedience, and exacted of the transgressor only +what it ought to exact, namely, death as the penalty for sin,—death under +divine wrath,—therefore the Saviour went to the tree, and there bore our +sins, and purged them once for all.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Perpetuity of the Law of God,</q> +by C. H. Spurgeon, pages 4-7.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The moral law contained in the ten commandments, and enforced +by the prophets, He did not take away. It was not the design of His coming +to revoke any part of this.... Every part of this law must remain +in force upon all mankind and in all ages, as not depending either on time +or place, or any other circumstance liable to change, but on the nature of +God, and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each +other.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>John Wesley, in his <q>Sermons,</q> +Vol. I, No. 25, pages 221, 222.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +5. When used with reference to prophecy, what does the +word <hi rend='italic'>fulfil</hi> mean? +</p> + +<p> +To fill up; to accomplish; to bring to pass; as, <q>that it might +be <hi rend='italic'>fulfilled</hi> which was spoken by Esaias the prophet.</q> Matt. +4:14. +</p> + +<p> +6. What does it mean when used with reference to law? +</p> + +<p> +To perform, to keep, or to act in accordance with; as, <q>Bear +ye one another's burdens, and so <hi rend='italic'>fulfil</hi> the law of Christ.</q> Gal. +6:2. See also Matt. 3:15; James 2:8, 9. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did Christ treat His Father's commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have <hi rend='italic'>kept</hi> My Father's commandments, and abide in +His love.</q> John 15:10. +</p> + +<p> +8. If one professes to abide in Christ, how ought he to walk? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that saith he abideth in Him <hi rend='italic'>ought himself also so to +walk, even as He walked</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for +<hi rend='italic'>sin is the transgression of the law</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:4. +</p> + +<pb n='377'/><anchor id='Pg377'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This text does not +say that sin <emph>was</emph> the transgression of the +law, but that it <emph>is</emph> this, thus demonstrating that the law is still in force +in the gospel dispensation. <q>Whosoever</q> likewise shows the universality +of its binding claims. Whoever of any nation, race, or people commits +sin, transgresses the law. +</quote> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus376.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Great Sacrifice. +"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: +yea, we establish the law." Rom. 3:31.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +10. In what condition are all men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>all have sinned</hi>, and come short of the glory of God.</q> +Rom. 3:23. +</p> + +<p> +11. How many are included in the <q>all</q> who have sinned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: +for we have before proved <hi rend='italic'>both Jews +and Gentiles</hi>, that <hi rend='italic'>they are +all under sin</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +12. By what are all men proved guilty? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now we know that <hi rend='italic'>what things soever the law saith</hi>, it saith +to them who are under the law: <hi rend='italic'>that every mouth may be stopped, +and all the world may become guilty before God</hi>.</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +what the law says, and not what one may interpret it +to mean, that proves the sinner guilty. Moreover, God is no respecter +of persons, but treats Jew and Gentile alike. Measured by the law, <emph>all +the world</emph> are guilty before God. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Does faith in God make void the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do we then make void the law through faith? <hi rend='italic'>God forbid: +yea, we establish the law</hi>.</q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<p> +14. What, more than all else, proves the perpetuity and immutability +of the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son</hi>, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but +have everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. <q>Christ died for our sins.</q> +1 Cor. 15:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Could the law have +been abolished, and sin been disposed of +in this way, Christ need not have come and died for our sins. The gift of +Christ, therefore, more than all else, proves the immutability of the law +of God. Christ must come and die, and satisfy the claims of the law, or +the world must perish. The law could not give way. Says Spurgeon +in his sermon on <q>The Perpetuity of the Law of God,</q> <q>Our Lord Jesus +Christ gave a greater vindication of the law by dying because it had been +broken than all the lost can ever give by their miseries.</q> The fact that +the law is to be the standard in the judgment is another proof of its enduring +nature. See Eccl. 12:13, 14; James 2:8-12. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What relation does a justified person sustain to the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but +<hi rend='italic'>the doers of the law shall be justified</hi>.</q> Rom. 2:13. +</p> + +<pb n='378'/><anchor id='Pg378'/> + +<p> +16. Who has the promise of being blessed in his doing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, +and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth, but <hi rend='italic'>a +doer that worketh</hi>, this man shall be blessed in his doing.</q> James +1:25, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +17. By what may we know that we have passed from death +unto life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We know that we have passed from death unto life, <hi rend='italic'>because +we love the brethren</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +18. And how may we know that we love the brethren? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By this we know that we love the children of God, <hi rend='italic'>when +we love God, and keep His commandments</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:2. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is the love of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this is the love of God, <hi rend='italic'>that we keep His commandments</hi>.</q> +Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +20. How are those described who will be prepared for the +coming of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Rev. +14:12. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O that the Lord would guide my ways</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To keep His statutes still!</l> +<l>O that my God would grant me grace</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To know and do His will!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O send Thy Spirit down to write</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thy law upon my heart,</l> +<l>Nor let my tongue indulge deceit,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Nor act the liar's part.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>From vanity turn off my eyes,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Let no corrupt design</l> +<l>Nor covetous desire arise</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Within this soul of mine.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Order my footsteps by Thy word,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And make my heart sincere;</l> +<l>Let sin have no dominion, Lord,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>But keep my conscience clear.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Make me to walk in Thy commands,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>'Tis a delightful road;</l> +<l>Nor let my head, nor heart, nor hands</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Offend against my God.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 28'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='379'/><anchor id='Pg379'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Why The Law Was Given At Sinai</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus379.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Moses With The Tables Of The Law. +"By the law is the knowledge of +sin." Rom. 3:20.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How does Nehemiah describe the giving of the law at +Sinai? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou earnest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest +with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and +true laws, good statutes and commandments: and madest known +unto them Thy holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, +statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses Thy servant.</q> Neh. +9:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is declared to be the chief advantage possessed +by the Jews? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there +of circumcision? Much every way: <hi rend='italic'>chiefly, because that unto +them were committed the oracles of God</hi>.</q> Rom. 3:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The law was +not spoken at this time exclusively for the +benefit of the Hebrews. God honored them by making them the guardians +and keepers of His law, but He intended that it should be held by them as +a sacred trust for the whole world. The precepts of the decalogue are +adapted to all mankind, and they were given for the instruction and government +of all. <q>Ten precepts, brief, comprehensive, and authoritative, cover +the duty of man to God and to his fellow men;</q> and all are based upon the +great fundamental principle of love. <q>Thou shalt love the Lord thy God +with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with +all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.</q> Luke 10:27. In the ten +commandments these principles are carried out in detail, and are made +applicable to the condition and circumstances of man. +</quote> + +<pb n='380'/><anchor id='Pg380'/> + +<p> +3. Before the giving of the law at Sinai, what did Moses say +when Jethro asked him concerning his judging the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge +between one and another, and <hi rend='italic'>I do make them know the statutes +of God, and His laws</hi>.</q> Ex. 18:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. What explanation did Moses give the rulers of Israel +concerning the withholding of the manna on the seventh day +in the wilderness of Sin, before they reached Sinai? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath +said, <hi rend='italic'>Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord</hi>.... +Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, +<hi rend='italic'>which is the Sabbath</hi>, in it there shall be none.</q> Ex. 16:23-26. +</p> + +<p> +5. When some went out to gather manna on the seventh day, +what did the Lord say to Moses? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto Moses, <hi rend='italic'>How long refuse ye to keep +My commandments and My laws</hi>?</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +evident therefore that the Sabbath and the law of God +existed before the law was given at Sinai. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What question does Paul ask concerning the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore then serveth the law?</q> Gal. 3:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, of what +use or service was the law announced at +Sinai? What special purpose had God in view in giving it then? +</quote> + +<p> +7. What answer is given to this question? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>It was added, because of transgressions</hi>, till the seed should +come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by +angels in the hand of a mediator.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The Greek +word here translated <q>added</q> is the same one +that is translated <q>spoken</q> in Heb. 12:19. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The meaning is that <emph>the law was given to show the true +nature of transgressions</emph>, +or <emph>to show what sin is</emph>. It was not to reveal a way of justification, +but it was <emph>to disclose the true nature of sin</emph>; to deter men from committing +it; to declare its penalty; <emph>to convince men of it</emph>, and thus to be ancillary +to, and preparatory to, the work of redemption through the Redeemer. This +is the true account of the law of God as given to apostate man, and this +use of the law still exists.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Albert Barnes, on +Gal. 3:19.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +8. How is this same truth again expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, +and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death +unto me? God forbid. <hi rend='italic'>But sin, that it might appear sin, working +death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment +might become exceeding sinful.</hi></q> Rom. 7:12, 13. +</p> + +<pb n='381'/><anchor id='Pg381'/> + +<p> +9. For what purpose did the law enter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moreover the law entered, <hi rend='italic'>that the offense might abound</hi>.</q> +Rom. 5:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By the giving +of the law at Sinai, then, God designed, not +to increase or multiply sin, but that men might, through a new revelation +of Him and of His character and will, as expressed in a <emph>plainly spoken</emph> and +<emph>plainly written</emph> law, the better see <emph>the awful sinfulness of +sin</emph>, and thus <emph>their utter helplessness</emph> and <emph>undone +condition</emph>. While in Egypt, surrounded as +they were with idolatry and sin, and as the result of their long bondage +and hard servitude, Israel even, the special people of God, had largely forgotten +God and lost sight of His requirements. Until one realizes that he +is a sinner, he cannot see his need of a Saviour from sin. Hence the entering, +or republication, of the law to the world through Israel at Sinai. +</quote> + +<p> +10. By what is the knowledge of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>By the law</hi> is the knowledge of sin.</q> Rom. 3:20. See +also Rom. 7:7. +</p> + +<p> +11. Under what condition is the written law good? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But we know that the law is good, <hi rend='italic'>if a man use it lawfully</hi>.</q> +1 Tim. 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +12. And what is indicated as the lawful use of the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Knowing this, that <hi rend='italic'>the law is not made for a righteous man, +but for the lawless and disobedient</hi>, for the +<hi rend='italic'>ungodly</hi> and for <hi rend='italic'>sinners</hi>, +for <hi rend='italic'>unholy</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>profane</hi>, +for <hi rend='italic'>murderers</hi> of fathers and <hi rend='italic'>murderers</hi> +of mothers, for <hi rend='italic'>manslayers</hi>, for +<hi rend='italic'>whoremongers</hi>, for them that <hi rend='italic'>defile +themselves with mankind</hi>, for <hi rend='italic'>menstealers</hi>, +for <hi rend='italic'>liars</hi>, for <hi rend='italic'>perjured +persons</hi>, and if there be any other thing that is contrary +to sound doctrine.</q> Verses 9, 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In other +words, the lawful use of the written law is to show +what sin is, and to convince sinners that they are sinners, and that they +need a Saviour. God's design, then, in giving the law at Sinai was to +shut men up under sin, and thus lead them to Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Who does Christ say need a physician? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They that be whole need not a physician, but <hi rend='italic'>they that +are sick</hi>.</q> Matt. 9:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Speaking of +how to deal with those <q>who are not stricken +of their sins,</q> and <q>have no deep conviction of guilt,</q> D. L. Moody, in +his <q>Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers,</q> says: <q>Just bring the law of God +to bear on these, and show them themselves in their true light.... +Don't try to heal the wound before the hurt is felt. Don't attempt to give +the consolation of the gospel until your converts see that they have sinned—see +it and feel it.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +14. Whom does Christ say He came to call to repentance? +</p> + +<pb n='382'/><anchor id='Pg382'/> + +<p> +<q>For I am not come to call the righteous, but <hi rend='italic'>sinners</hi> to +repentance.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is the strength of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is <hi rend='italic'>the +law</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:56. +</p> + +<p> +16. What are the wages of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the wages of sin is death</hi>; but the gift of God is eternal +life through Christ Jesus our Lord.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +17. Could a law which condemns men give them life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: +for <hi rend='italic'>if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily +righteousness should have been by the law</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:21. +</p> + +<p> +18. What, therefore, was the purpose, or special design, of +the giving of the law at Sinai? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore <hi rend='italic'>the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto +Christ</hi>, that we might be justified by faith.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>What +is the law of God for? for us to keep in order to +be saved by it?—Not at all. It is sent in order to show us that we cannot +be saved by works, and to shut us up to be saved by grace. But if you +make out that the law is altered so that a man can keep it, you have left +him his old legal hope, and he is sure to cling to it. You need a perfect +law that shuts man right up to hopelessness apart from Jesus, puts him +into an iron cage, and locks him up, and offers him no escape but by faith +in Jesus; then he begins to cry, <q>Lord, save me by grace, for I perceive that +I cannot be saved by my own works.</q> This is how Paul describes it to the +Galatians: <q>The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise +by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before +faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which +should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster +to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.</q> I say you +have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary when you set aside the law. +You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to +Christ. They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and +holy law. Therefore the law serves a most necessary and blessed purpose, +and it must not be removed from its place.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Perpetuity of the Law +of God,</q> by C. H. Spurgeon, pages 10, 11.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>And let it be observed that the law did not answer this end merely +among the Jews, in the days of the apostles: it is just as necessary to the +Gentiles, to the present hour. Nor do we find that true repentance takes +place where the moral law is not preached and enforced. Those who +preach only the gospel to sinners, at best only heal the hurt of the daughter +of My people slightly.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Adam Clarke, +on Rom. 7:13 (edition 1860).</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Commenting on Gal. 3:23, Mr. Spurgeon, in his <q>Sermon Notes,</q> +CCXII, says: <q>Here we have a condensed history of the world before the +gospel was fully revealed by the coming of our Lord Jesus.... The +history of each saved soul is a miniature likeness of the story of the ages.</q> +That is, in his experience, each individual that is saved is first in darkness; +he then comes to Sinai and learns that he is a sinner; this leads him to +Calvary for the pardon of his sins, and so to full and final salvation. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='383'/><anchor id='Pg383'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Penalty For Transgression</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus383.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Destruction Of Korah, Dathan, And Abiram. +"The wages of sin is death." +Rom. 6:23.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the wages of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the wages of sin is <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did God tell Adam and Eve would be the result +if they transgressed, and partook of the forbidden fruit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou +shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof <hi rend='italic'>thou +shalt surely die</hi>.</q> Gen. 2:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. Who does God say shall die? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The soul that sinneth</hi>, it shall die.</q> Eze. 18:4. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did death enter the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and +<hi rend='italic'>death by sin</hi>; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have +sinned.</q> Rom. 5:12. +</p> + +<p> +5. Why did God destroy the antediluvian world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the +earth</hi>.... And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I +have created from the face of the earth.</q> Gen. 6:5-7. +</p> + +<p> +6. While God is merciful, does this clear the guilty? +</p> + +<pb n='385'/><anchor id='Pg385'/> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving +iniquity and transgression, and <hi rend='italic'>by no means +clearing the guilty</hi>.</q> +Num. 14:18. See also Ex. 34:5-7. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus384.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Tower Of Babel. +"The Lord did there confound the language of +all the earth." Gen. 11:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the result of wilful sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>if we sin wilfully</hi> after that we have received the +knowledge of the truth, <hi rend='italic'>there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins</hi>, +but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, +which shall devour the adversaries.</q> Heb. 10:26, 27. +</p> + +<p> +8. Under the theocracy, how were the rebellious or wilful +transgressors treated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that despised Moses' law <hi rend='italic'>died without mercy</hi> under two +or three witnesses.</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<p> +9. What awaits those who despise the means of grace? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Of how much sorer punishment</hi>, +suppose ye, <hi rend='italic'>shall he be +thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God</hi>, and +hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was +sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the +Spirit of grace?</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<p> +10. Is it the duty of gospel ministers to execute vengeance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now then <hi rend='italic'>we are ambassadors for Christ</hi>, as though God did +beseech you by us.</q> 2 Cor. 5:20. See 2 Tim. 2:24-26. +</p> + +<p> +11. To whom does vengeance belong? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Vengeance is Mine; I will repay</hi>, saith the Lord.</q> Rom. +12:19. +</p> + +<p> +12. To whom has execution of judgment been committed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given +to the Son to have life in Himself; and <hi rend='italic'>hath given Him authority +to execute judgment also</hi>.</q> John 5:26, 27. See Jude 14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +13. Because evil is not punished immediately, what presumptuous +course do many pursue? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because sentence against an evil work is not executed +speedily, <hi rend='italic'>therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them +to do evil</hi>.</q> Eccl. 8:11. +</p> + +<p> +14. What message has God commissioned His ministers to +bear to men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Say ye to the righteous, that <hi rend='italic'>it shall be well with him</hi>: for +they shall eat of the fruit of their doings. <hi rend='italic'>Woe unto the wicked! +it shall be ill with him</hi>: for the reward of his hands shall be given +him.</q> Isa. 3:10, 11. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='386'/><anchor id='Pg386'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Law Of God In The Patriarchal Age</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus386.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Obedience Of Abraham. +"Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept ... +My commandments." Gen. 26:5.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Can there be sin where there is no law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because the law worketh wrath: <hi rend='italic'>for where no law is, there +is no transgression</hi>.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>Sin is +not imputed when there is no law.</hi></q> +Rom. 4:15; 5:13. +</p> + +<p> +2. Through what is the knowledge of sin obtained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>by the law</hi> is the knowledge of sin.</q> <q>I had not +known sin, but <hi rend='italic'>by the law</hi>.</q> Rom. 3:20; 7:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. What statement shows that sin was in the world before +the law was given on Mt. Sinai? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For until the law sin was in the world</hi>: but sin is not imputed +when there is no law.</q> Rom. 5:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The fact that sin +was imputed before the law was given at +Sinai is conclusive proof that the law existed before that event. +</quote> + +<p> +4. When did sin and death enter the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore, as <hi rend='italic'>by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world</hi>, +and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all +have sinned.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +5. With what words did God admonish Cain? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou +doest not well, <hi rend='italic'>sin lieth at the door</hi>.</q> Gen. 4:7. +</p> + +<pb n='387'/><anchor id='Pg387'/> + +<p> +6. What shows that God imputed sin to Cain? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy +brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground. And <hi rend='italic'>now art +thou cursed from the earth</hi>, which hath opened her mouth to receive +thy brother's blood from thy hand.</q> Verses 10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +7. What was the difference between Cain's and Abel's characters? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his +brother. And wherefore slew he him? <hi rend='italic'>Because his own works +were evil, and his brother's righteous.</hi></q> 1 John 3:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There must, therefore, +have been a standard at that time +by which the characters of men were weighed. That standard must have +defined the difference between right and wrong, and pointed out man's +duty. But this is the province of the law of God. Hence the law of God +must have existed at that time. +</quote> + +<p> +8. In what condition was the world before the flood? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The earth also was <hi rend='italic'>corrupt before God</hi>, and the earth was +<hi rend='italic'>filled with violence</hi>.</q> Gen. 6:11. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did God purpose to do with the people of that day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come +before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; +and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>I will destroy them with the earth</hi>.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is Noah called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth +person, <hi rend='italic'>a preacher of righteousness</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 2:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Noah must +have warned the antediluvians against sin, and +preached repentance and that obedience of faith which brings the life into +harmony with the law of God. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Why did the Lord destroy Sodom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The men of Sodom were <hi rend='italic'>wicked</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>sinners</hi> before the Lord +<hi rend='italic'>exceedingly</hi>.</q> Gen. 13:13. +</p> + +<p> +12. What was the character of their deeds? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation +of the wicked: (for that righteous man dwelling among +them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day +to day with their <hi rend='italic'>unlawful deeds</hi>).</q> 2 Peter 2:7, 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Their deeds +would not have been <emph>unlawful</emph> had there been +no law then in existence. <emph>Unlawful</emph> means <q>contrary to law.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +13. What did Joseph, in Egypt, say when tempted to sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>How then can I do this great wickedness, and <hi rend='italic'>sin against +God</hi>?</q> Gen. 39:9. +</p> + +<pb n='388'/><anchor id='Pg388'/> + +<p> +14. What did God say to Abraham concerning the Amorites? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the fourth generation they [Israel] shall come hither +again: for <hi rend='italic'>the iniquity of the +Amorites is not yet full</hi>.</q> Gen. 15:16. +</p> + +<p> +15. Of what sin were the Amorites specially guilty? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he [Ahab] did very abominably in <hi rend='italic'>following idols, +according to all things as did the Amorites</hi>, whom the Lord cast +out before the children of Israel.</q> 1 Kings 21:26. +</p> + +<p> +16. Why did the Lord abhor the Canaanites? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, +and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell +therein, spew you not out. And ye shall not walk in the manners +of the nation, which I cast out before you: <hi rend='italic'>for they committed +all these things</hi>, and therefore I abhorred them.</q> Lev. +20:22, 23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The statement +that <q>they committed all these things</q> +refers to what had been previously forbidden to the Israelites. Among +these things was idolatrous worship (Lev. 20:1-5), showing that the Gentiles, +as well as the Jews, were amenable to the law of God, and were abhorred +of God for violating it. +</quote> + +<p> +17. Why did God make His promise to the seed of Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, +My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.</q> Gen. 26:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Then God's +commandments and laws existed in the time of +Abraham. +</quote> + +<p> +18. Before giving the law at Sinai, what did God say because +some of the people went out to gather manna on the +seventh day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto Moses, <hi rend='italic'>How long refuse ye to keep +My commandments and My laws?</hi></q> Ex. 16:28. +</p> + +<p> +19. Had the Lord spoken regarding the Sabbath previous +to this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is that which the Lord <hi rend='italic'>hath said</hi>, Tomorrow is the rest +of the holy Sabbath.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +20. Before coming to Sinai, what had Moses taught Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge +between one and another, and <hi rend='italic'>I do make them know the statutes +of God, and His laws</hi>.</q> Ex. 18:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—All this shows that +the law of God existed from the beginning, +and was known and taught in the world before it was proclaimed at Sinai. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='389'/><anchor id='Pg389'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Law Of God In The New Testament</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus389.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Paul Preaching To The Thessalonians. +"This is the love of God, that we keep +His commandments." 1 John 5:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By what means did the Jews know God's will? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and +makest thy boast of God, and knowest His will, ... <hi rend='italic'>being +instructed out of the law</hi>.</q> Rom. 2:17, 18. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did they have in the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which hast <hi rend='italic'>the form of knowledge and of the truth</hi> in the +law.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The written law +presents the <emph>form</emph> of knowledge and of the +truth. Grace and truth, or grace and the reality or realization of that +which the written law demands, came by Jesus Christ. He was the law in +life and action. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What did Jesus say of His attitude toward the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: +<hi rend='italic'>I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By the +expression <q>the law</q> here is meant the five books +of Moses; and by <q>the prophets,</q> the writings of the prophets. Christ +did not come to set aside or to destroy either of these, but to fulfil both. +The ceremonialism of types and shadows contained in the books written +by Moses He fulfilled by meeting them as their great Antitype. The moral +law, the great basic fabric underlying all of Moses' writings, Christ fulfilled +by a life of perfect obedience to all its requirements. The prophets +He fulfilled in His advent as the Messiah, Prophet, Teacher, and Saviour +foretold by them. +</quote> + +<pb n='390'/><anchor id='Pg390'/> + +<p> +4. What did He teach concerning the stability of the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one +jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.</q> +Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +5. In what instruction did He emphasize the importance +of keeping the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least +in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach +them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</q> +Verse 19. +</p> + +<p> +6. What did Christ tell the rich young man to do in order +to enter into life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou wilt enter into life, <hi rend='italic'>keep the commandments</hi>.</q> Matt. +19:17. +</p> + +<p> +7. When asked which commandments, what did Jesus say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit +adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false +witness, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt +love thy neighbor as thyself.</q> Verses 18, 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—While not quoting all of the ten commandments, Jesus +quoted sufficient of them to show that He referred to the moral law. In +quoting the second great commandment He called attention to the great +principle underlying the second table of the law,—love +to one's neighbor,—which +the rich young man, in his covetousness, was not keeping. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Does faith render the law void? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do we then make void the law through faith? <hi rend='italic'>God forbid: +yea, we establish the law.</hi></q> Rom. 3:31. +</p> + +<p> +9. How is the law fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for <hi rend='italic'>he that +loveth another hath fulfilled the law</hi>. For this, Thou shalt not +commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, +Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if +there be any other commandment [touching our duty to our +fellow men], it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, +Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill +to his neighbor: therefore <hi rend='italic'>love is the +fulfilling of the law</hi>.</q> Rom. +13:8-10. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is of more importance than any outward ceremony? +</p> + +<pb n='391'/><anchor id='Pg391'/> + +<p> +<q>Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, +but <hi rend='italic'>the keeping of the commandments of God</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 7:19. +</p> + +<p> +11. What kind of mind is not subject to the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because <hi rend='italic'>the carnal mind</hi> is enmity against God: for it +is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.</q> +Rom. 8:7. +</p> + +<p> +12. What proves that the law is an undivided whole? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one +point, he is guilty of all.</hi> For He that said [margin, <hi rend='italic'>that law +which said</hi>], Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. +Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become +a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they +that shall be judged by the law of liberty.</q> James 2:10-12. +</p> + +<p> +13. How is sin defined? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for +<hi rend='italic'>sin is the transgression of the law</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:4. +</p> + +<p> +14. How may we know that we love the children of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By this we know that we love the children of God, <hi rend='italic'>when +we love God, and keep His commandments</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:2. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is the love of God declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments</hi>: +and His commandments are not grievous.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +16. How is the church of the last days described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to +make war with the remnant of her seed, <hi rend='italic'>which keep the commandments +of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: <hi rend='italic'>here are they that keep the +commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus</hi>.</q> Rev. 12:17; +14:12. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>How blest the children of the Lord,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Who, walking in His sight,</l> +<l>Make all the precepts of His Word</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Their study and delight!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>What precious wealth shall be their dower,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Which cannot know decay;</l> +<l>Which moth and rust shall ne'er devour,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Or spoiler take away.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Harriet Auber.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='392'/><anchor id='Pg392'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Love the Fulfilling of the Law</head> + +<p> +<q>If the love of God is shed abroad in your heart,</q> +says Mr. Moody, <q>you will be able to fulfil the law.</q> +Paul reduces the commandments to one: <q>Thou +shalt love,</q> and says that <q>love is the fulfilling of the +law.</q> This truth may be demonstrated thus:— +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>1. Love to God will admit no other god.</l> +<l>2. Love will not debase the object it adores.</l> +<l>3. Love to God will never dishonor His name.</l> +<l>4. Love to God will reverence His day.</l> +<l>5. Love to parents will honor them.</l> +<l>6. Hate, not love, is a murderer.</l> +<l>7. Lust, not love, commits adultery.</l> +<l>8. Love will give, but never steal.</l> +<l>9. Love will not slander nor lie.</l> +<l>10. Love's eye is not covetous.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +Principles Underlying the Ten Commandments +</p> + +<p> +1. Faith and loyalty. Heb. 11:6; Matt. 4:8-10. +</p> + +<p> +2. Worship. Jer. 10:10-12; Ps. 115:3-8; Rev. +14:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +3. Reverence. Ps. 111:9; 89:7; Heb. 12:28; +2 Tim. 2:19. +</p> + +<p> +4. Holiness, or sanctification, and consecration. +1 Peter 1:15, 16; Heb. 12:14; Ex. 31:13; Eze. 20:12; +1 Cor. 1:30; Prov. 3:6. +</p> + +<p> +5. Obedience, or respect for authority. Eph. 6:1-3; +Col. 3:20; 2 Kings 2:23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +6. Love. Lev. 19:17; 1 John 3:15; Matt. 5:21-26, +43-48. +</p> + +<p> +7. Purity. Matt. 5:8; Eph. 5:3, 4; Col. 3:5, 6; +1 Tim. 5:22; 1 Peter 2:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. Honesty. Rom. 12:17; Eph. 4:28; 2 Thess. +3:10-12. +</p> + +<p> +9. Truthfulness. Eph. 4:25; Col. 3:9; Prov. 6:16-19; +12:19; Rev. 21:27; 22:15. +</p> + +<p> +10. Contentment and unselfishness. Eph. 5:5; +Col. 3:5; 1 Tim. 6:6-11; Heb. 13:5. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='393'/><anchor id='Pg393'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Moral And Ceremonial Laws</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus393.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Law Written And Engraven +In Stones. +The Law Of Commandments +Contained In Ordinances.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What title of distinction is given the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye fulfil <hi rend='italic'>the royal law</hi> according to the scripture, Thou +shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have +respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law +as transgressors.</q> James 2:8, 9. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what law is the knowledge of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known +lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.</q> Rom. 7:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The law which +says, <q>Thou shalt not covet,</q> is the ten +commandments. +</quote> + +<p> +3. By what are all men to be finally judged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, +and <hi rend='italic'>keep His commandments</hi>: for this is the whole duty of man. +For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every +secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.</q> Eccl. +12:13, 14. <q>So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged +by <hi rend='italic'>the law of liberty</hi>.</q> James 2:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The law which +is here called <q>the law of liberty,</q> is the law +which says, <q>Do not commit adultery</q> and <q>Do not kill,</q> for these commandments +had just been quoted in the verse immediately preceding. +In verse 8, this same law is styled <q>the royal law;</q> that is, the kingly law. +This is the law by which men are to be judged. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What system was established on account of man's transgression +of the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +The sacrificial system, with its rites and ceremonies pointing +to Christ. +</p> + +<pb n='394'/><anchor id='Pg394'/> + +<p> +5. Why did the patriarch Job offer burnt offerings? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one +his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and +to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their +feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, +and rose up early in the morning, and <hi rend='italic'>offered burnt offerings</hi> +according to the number of them all: for Job said, <hi rend='italic'>It may be that +my sons have sinned</hi>, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did +Job continually.</q> Job 1:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +6. How early was this sacrificial system known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By faith <hi rend='italic'>Abel</hi> offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice +than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, +God testifying of his gifts.</q> Heb. 11:4. See Gen. 4:3-5; 8:20. +</p> + +<p> +7. By whom was the ten commandment law proclaimed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire</hi>: ye +heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye +heard a voice. And <hi rend='italic'>He declared unto you His covenant, which +He commanded you to perform, even ten commandments</hi>; and He +wrote them upon two tables of stone.</q> Deut. 4:12, 13. +</p> + +<p> +8. How was the ceremonial law made known to Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord called unto Moses, ... saying, <hi rend='italic'>Speak +unto the children of Israel, and say unto them</hi>, If any man of you +bring <hi rend='italic'>an offering</hi>,</q> etc. +Lev. 1:1, 2. <q><hi rend='italic'>This is the law of the +burnt offering, of the meat-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of +the trespass-offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of +the peace-offering</hi>; which the Lord commanded Moses in mount +Sinai, in the day that He commanded the children of Israel to +offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.</q> +Lev. 7:37, 38. +</p> + +<p> +9. Were the ten commandments a distinct and complete +law by themselves? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>These words the Lord spake</hi> unto all your assembly in the +mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick +darkness, with a great voice: <hi rend='italic'>and He added no more</hi>. And He +wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.</q> +Deut. 5:22. <q>And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to +Me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee <hi rend='italic'>tables of +stone</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>a law</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>commandments</hi> which I have written.</q> +Ex. 24:12. +</p> + +<p> +10. Was the ceremonial law a complete law in itself? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The law</hi> of commandments +<hi rend='italic'>contained in ordinances</hi>.</q> Eph. +2:15. +</p> + +<pb n='395'/><anchor id='Pg395'/> + +<p> +11. On what did God write the ten commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded +you to perform, even ten commandments; and <hi rend='italic'>He wrote +them upon two tables of stone</hi>.</q> Deut. 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +12. In what were the laws or commandments respecting +sacrifices and burnt offerings written? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might +give according to the divisions of the families of the people, +to offer unto the Lord, as it is written in <hi rend='italic'>the book of Moses</hi>.</q> +2 Chron. 35:12. +</p> + +<p> +13. Where were the ten commandments placed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he took and put the testimony <hi rend='italic'>into the ark</hi>, ... +and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark.</q> Ex. 40:20. +</p> + +<p> +14. Where did Moses command the Levites to put the book +of the law which he had written? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the +covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and +<hi rend='italic'>put it in the side of the ark</hi> of the covenant +of the Lord your God.</q> +Deut. 31:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is the nature of the moral law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The law of the Lord is <hi rend='italic'>perfect</hi>, converting the soul.</q> Ps. +19:7. <q>For we know that the law is <hi rend='italic'>spiritual</hi>.</q> Rom. 7:14. +</p> + +<p> +16. Could the offerings commanded by the ceremonial law +satisfy or make perfect the conscience of the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were +offered both gifts and sacrifices, <hi rend='italic'>that could not make him that did +the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience</hi>.</q> Heb. 9:9. +</p> + +<p> +17. Until what time did the ceremonial law impose the service +performed in the worldly sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, +and carnal ordinances, <hi rend='italic'>imposed on them until the time of +reformation</hi>.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +18. When was this time of reformation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>Christ being come</hi> an high priest of good things to come, +by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, +that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats +and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the +holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.</q> Verses +11, 12. +</p> + +<pb n='396'/><anchor id='Pg396'/> + +<p> +19. How did Christ's death affect the ceremonial law? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances</hi> that was against +us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing +it to His cross.</q> Col. 2:14. <q>Having <hi rend='italic'>abolished</hi> in His +flesh the enmity, even <hi rend='italic'>the law of commandments contained in +ordinances</hi>.</q> Eph. 2:15. +</p> + +<p> +20. Why was the ceremonial law taken away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment +because of its weakness and unprofitableness (for the law made +nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, +through which we draw nigh unto God.</q> Heb. 7:18, 19, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +21. What miraculous event occurred at the death of Christ, +signifying that the sacrificial system was forever at an end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded +up the ghost. And, behold, <hi rend='italic'>the veil of the temple was rent in +twain</hi> from the top to the bottom.</q> Matt. 27:50, 51. +</p> + +<p> +22. In what words had the prophet Daniel foretold this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: +and <hi rend='italic'>in the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the +oblation to cease</hi>.</q> Dan. 9:27. +</p> + +<p> +23. How enduring is the moral law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Concerning Thy testimonies, I have known of old that +<hi rend='italic'>Thou hast founded them forever</hi>.</q> Ps. 119:152. +</p> + +<p> +The Two Laws Contrasted +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{3.5cm} p{3.5cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(34) lw(34)'"> +<row><cell>The Moral Law</cell><cell>The Ceremonial Law</cell></row> +<row><cell>Is called the <q>royal law.</q> James 2:8.</cell> + <cell>Is called <q>the law ... contained in ordinances.</q> Eph. 2:15.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was spoken by God. Deut. 4:12, 13.</cell> + <cell>Was spoken by Moses. Lev. 1:1-3.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was written by God on tables of stone. Ex. 24:12.</cell> + <cell>Was <q>the handwriting of ordinances.</q> Col. 2:14.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was written <q>with the finger of God.</q> Ex. 31:18.</cell> + <cell>Was written by Moses in a book. 2 Chron. 35:12.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was placed in the ark. Ex. 40:20; 1 Kings 8:9; Heb. 9:4.</cell> + <cell>Was placed in the side of the ark. Deut. 31:24-26.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Is <q>perfect.</q> Ps. 19:7.</cell> + <cell><q>Made nothing perfect.</q> Heb. 7:19.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Is to <q>stand fast forever and ever.</q> Ps. 111:7, 8.</cell> + <cell> Was nailed to the cross. Col. 2:14.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was not destroyed by Christ. Matt. 5:17.</cell> + <cell>Was abolished by Christ. Eph. 2:15.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was to be magnified by Christ. Isa. 42:21.</cell> + <cell>Was taken out of the way by Christ. Col. 2:14.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Gives knowledge of sin. Rom. 3:20; 7:7.</cell> + <cell>Was instituted in consequence of sin. Leviticus 3-7.</cell></row> +</table> + +</div> + +<pb n='397'/><anchor id='Pg397'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Two Covenants</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus397.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Abraham Sending Away Hagar. +"Cast out the bondwoman and her +son." Gal. 4:30.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What two covenants are contrasted in the Bible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In that He saith, A <hi rend='italic'>new</hi> covenant, He hath made the first +<hi rend='italic'>old</hi>. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to +vanish away.</q> Heb. 8:13. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what other terms are these covenants designated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if that <hi rend='italic'>first</hi> covenant had been faultless, then should +no place have been sought for the <hi rend='italic'>second</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +3. In connection with what historical event was the old +covenant made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Not according to the covenant that I made with their +fathers in the day <hi rend='italic'>when I took them by the hand to lead them +out of the land of Egypt</hi>; because they continued not in My +covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.</q> Verse +9. See Ex. 19:3-8. +</p> + +<p> +4. When God was about to proclaim His law to Israel, of +what did He tell Moses to remind them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto +the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought +you unto Myself.</q> Ex. 19:3, 4. +</p> + +<pb n='398'/><anchor id='Pg398'/> + +<p> +5. What proposition did He submit to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore, <hi rend='italic'>if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My +covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all +people</hi>: for all the earth is Mine: and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom +of priests, and an holy nation.</q> Verses 5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +6. What response did the people make to this proposition? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all the people answered together, and said, <hi rend='italic'>All that +the Lord hath spoken we will do</hi>. And Moses returned the words +of the people unto the Lord.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +7. In this covenant with Israel, what obligation was imposed +upon the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore, if ye will <hi rend='italic'>obey My voice</hi> +indeed, and <hi rend='italic'>keep +My covenant</hi>.</q> Verse 5, first part. +</p> + +<p> +8. What was the Lord's covenant which they were to keep +as their part of this covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He declared unto you <hi rend='italic'>His covenant</hi>, which He commanded +you to perform, even <hi rend='italic'>ten commandments</hi>; and He wrote +them upon two tables of stone.</q> Deut. 4:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The ten +commandments were the <q>covenant</q> to which the +Lord referred, when, in proposing to make a covenant with Israel, He said, +<q>If ye will obey <emph>My voice</emph> indeed, and keep <emph>My covenant</emph>,</q> +etc. Ex. 19:5. The ten commandments were termed God's covenant before the covenant +was made with Israel: hence they cannot be the old covenant itself. They +were not an agreement made, but something which God commanded them +to perform, and promised blessings upon condition they were kept. Thus +the ten commandments—God's covenant—became the <emph>basis</emph> of the +covenant here made with Israel. The old covenant was made <emph>concerning</emph> +the ten commandments; or, as stated in Ex. 24:8, <q>concerning all these +words.</q> A covenant means a solemn pledge or promise based on conditions. +</quote> + +<p> +9. After the law had been proclaimed from Sinai, what did +the people again say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all the people answered with one voice, and said, <hi rend='italic'>All +the words which the Lord hath said will we do</hi>.</q> Ex. 24:3. +</p> + +<p> +10. That there might be no misunderstanding, what did +Moses do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, ... and +he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of +the people.</q> Verses 4-7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What did the people once again promise to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they said, <hi rend='italic'>All that the Lord hath said will we do, and +be obedient</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<pb n='399'/><anchor id='Pg399'/> + +<p> +12. How was this covenant then confirmed and dedicated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which +offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen +unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it +in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And +he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of +the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we +do, and be obedient. And <hi rend='italic'>Moses took the blood, and sprinkled +it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which +the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words</hi>.</q> Verses +5-8. +</p> + +<p> +13. How does Paul describe this dedication of the covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people +according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, +with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and <hi rend='italic'>sprinkled both the +book, and all the people</hi>, saying, This is the blood of the testament +which God hath enjoined unto you.</q> Heb. 9:19, 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We here have +the complete account of the making of the +first or old covenant. God promised to make them His peculiar people +on condition that they would keep His commandments. Three times +they promised to obey. The agreement was then ratified, or sealed, with +blood. +</quote> + +<p> +14. Within less than forty days after the making of this +covenant, while Moses tarried in the mount, what did the people +say to Aaron? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Up, make us gods, which shall go before us</hi>; for as for this +Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, +we wot not what is become of him.</q> Ex. 32:1. +</p> + +<p> +15. When Moses came down from Sinai, what did he see? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the +camp, that he saw <hi rend='italic'>the calf</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>the dancing</hi>: and Moses' anger +waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake +them beneath the mount.</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The great +object and secret of the old covenant is revealed +here. The people did not realize the weakness and sinfulness of their +own hearts, or their need of divine grace and help to keep the law; and so, +in their ignorance, they readily pledged obedience to it. But almost +immediately they began to commit idolatry, and thus to break the law of +God, or the very conditions laid down as their part of the covenant. In +themselves the conditions were good; but in their own strength the people +were unable to fulfil them. The great object of the old covenant therefore +was to teach the people their weakness, and their inability to keep the law +without the help of God. Like the law itself, over which the old covenant +was made, this covenant was designed to shut them up to the provisions +of the new or everlasting covenant, and lead them to Christ. Gal. 3:23, +<pb n='400'/><anchor id='Pg400'/> +24. And the lesson which Israel as a nation had to learn in this, each +individual now must learn before he can be saved. There is no salvation +for any one while trusting in self. Unaided, no one can keep the law. +Only in Christ is there either remission of sins or power to keep from sinning. +The breaking of the tables of the law signified that the terms of the +covenant had been broken; the renewing of the tables (Ex. 34:1, 28), God's +patience and long-suffering with His people. +</quote> + +<p> +16. Wherein does the new covenant differ from and excel +the old? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by +how much also He is the mediator of <hi rend='italic'>a better covenant</hi>, which was +established upon <hi rend='italic'>better promises</hi>.</q> Heb. 8:6. +</p> + +<p> +17. What are the <q>better promises</q> upon which the new +covenant was established? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house +of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>I will put My law in +their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; ... I will +forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more</hi>.</q> +Jer. 31:33, 34. See Heb. 8:8-12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These are simply +the blessings of the gospel through Christ. +They are promised upon condition of repentance, confession, faith, and +acceptance of Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant, which means salvation +and obedience. In the old covenant there was no provision for +pardon and power to obey. It is true there was pardon <emph>during the time of +the old covenant</emph>, but not by <emph>virtue</emph> of it. Pardon then, as now, was +through the provisions of the new covenant, the terms of which are older than the +old covenant. +</quote> + +<p> +18. In what statement was Christ promised as a Saviour +and Deliverer of the race as soon as sin entered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God said unto the serpent, ... I will +put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed +and <hi rend='italic'>her seed</hi>; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His +heel.</q> Gen. 3:14, 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The covenant +of grace, with its provisions of pardon and +peace, dates from the foundation of the world. +</quote> + +<p> +19. To whom was this covenant-promise later renewed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said unto <hi rend='italic'>Abraham</hi>, ... Sarah thy wife +shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: +and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting +covenant, and with <hi rend='italic'>his seed</hi> after him.</q> <q>I will make thy +seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, ... and in <hi rend='italic'>thy +seed</hi> shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.</q> Gen. +17:15-19; 26:4. +</p> + +<p> +20. Who was the seed here referred to? +</p> + +<pb n='402'/><anchor id='Pg402'/> + +<p> +<q>Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. +He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to +thy seed, <hi rend='italic'>which is Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:16. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus401.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Moses Breaking The Tables +Of The Law. +"Moses said unto the people, Ye have +sinned a great sin." Ex. 32:30.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +21. What shows that the new or second covenant and the +Abrahamic covenant are virtually the same? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs +according to the promise.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—No one +should allow himself to be confused by the terms +<emph>first covenant</emph> and <emph>second covenant</emph>. While the covenant made at +Sinai is called the first covenant, it is by no means the first covenant that God +ever made with man. Long before this He made a covenant with Abraham; +He also made a covenant with Noah, and with Adam. Neither must +it be supposed that the first or old covenant existed for a time as the <emph>only</emph> +covenant with mankind, and that this must serve its purpose and pass +away before any one could share in the promised blessings of the second +or new covenant. Had this been the case, then during that time there +would have been no pardon for any one. What is called the new or second +covenant virtually existed before the covenant made at Sinai; for the +covenant with Abraham was confirmed in Christ (Gal. 3:17), and it is +only through Christ that there is any value to the new or second covenant. +There is no blessing that can be gained by virtue of the new covenant that +was not promised to Abraham. And we, with whom the new covenant is +made, can share the inheritance which it promises only by being children +of Abraham, and sharing in his blessing. Gal. 3:7, 9. And since no one +can have anything except as a child of Abraham, it follows that there +is nothing in what is called the new or second covenant that was not in the +covenant made with Abraham. The second covenant existed in every +essential feature, except its ratification, long before the first, even from the +days of Adam. It is called second because its ratification occurred after +the covenant made and ratified at Sinai. +</quote> + +<p> +22. What is necessary where there is a covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For where a covenant is, there must also of necessity be +<hi rend='italic'>the death of that which establishes it</hi>. For a covenant is made +firm over the dead victims; whereas it is of no force while that +which establisheth it liveth.</q> Heb. 9:16, 17, Boothroyd's +translation. +</p> + +<p> +23. With whose blood was the new covenant dedicated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And [He took] the cup in like manner after supper, saying, +This cup is the new covenant in <hi rend='italic'>My blood</hi>, even that which is +poured out for you.</q> Luke 22:20, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +24. What power is there in the blood of this covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead +our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the +blood of the everlasting covenant, <hi rend='italic'>make you perfect in every good +work</hi> to do His will.</q> Heb. 13:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +25. Through which covenant only is there remission of sins? +</p> + + +<pb n='403'/><anchor id='Pg403'/> + +<p> +<q>How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through +the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish unto God, +cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? +And for this cause He is the mediator of a <hi rend='italic'>new covenant</hi>, that a +death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions +that were under the first covenant, they that have been +called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.</q> Heb. +9:14, 15, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The fact +that Christ, as mediator of the second covenant, +died for the remission of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, +shows that there was no forgiveness <emph>by virtue</emph> of the first covenant. +</quote> + +<p> +26. Under the old covenant, what did the people promise? +</p> + +<p> +To keep the law of God in their own strength. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Under +this covenant the people promised to keep all the +commandments of God in order to be His peculiar people, and this without +help from any one. This was virtually a promise to make themselves +righteous. But Christ says, <q>Without Me ye can do nothing.</q> John +15:5. And the prophet Isaiah says, <q>All our righteousnesses are as filthy +rags.</q> Isa. 64:6. The only perfect righteousness is God's righteousness, +and this can be obtained only through faith in Christ. Rom. 3:20-26. +The only righteousness that will insure an entrance into the kingdom of +God is <q>the righteousness which is of God by faith.</q> Phil. 3:9. Of those +who inherit the kingdom of God, the Lord says, <q>Their righteousness is +of Me</q> (Isa. 54:17); and the prophet Jeremiah says of Christ, <q>This is +His name whereby He shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.</q> +Jer. 23:6. +</quote> + +<p> +27. Under the new covenant, what does God promise to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in +their hearts.</q> Jer. 31:33. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The new +covenant is an arrangement for bringing man again +into harmony with the divine will, and placing him where he can keep +God's law. Its <q>better promises</q> bring forgiveness of sins, grace to renew +the heart, and power to obey the law of God. The dissolution of the old +covenant and the making of the new in no wise abrogated the law of God. +</quote> + +<p> +28. Where was the law of God written under the old covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and hewed <hi rend='italic'>two tables +of stone.... And He wrote on the tables ... the ten +commandments</hi>, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount +out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the +Lord gave them unto me.</q> Deut. 10:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +29. Where is the law of God written under the new covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the +house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>I will put My +law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts</hi>.</q> Jer. 31:33. +</p> + +<pb n='404'/><anchor id='Pg404'/> + +<p> +30. What reason is given for making the new covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if that first covenant had been <hi rend='italic'>faultless</hi>, then should +no place have been sought for the second. For <hi rend='italic'>finding fault +with them</hi>, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when +I will make a new covenant.</q> Heb. 8:7, 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +chief fault in connection with the old covenant lay with +<emph>the people</emph>. They were not able, in themselves, to fulfil their part of it, +and it provided them no help for so doing. There was no Christ in it. +It was of <emph>works</emph> and not of <emph>grace</emph>. +It was valuable only as a means of impressing +upon them their sinfulness and their need of divine aid. +</quote> + +<p> +31. What unites all believers under the new covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles +in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is +called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at +that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth +of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, +having no hope, and without God in the world: <hi rend='italic'>but now in Christ +Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of +Christ</hi>.</q> Eph. 2:11-13. +</p> + +<p> +Similarities Between The Two Covenants +</p> + +<lg> +<l>1. Both are called covenants.</l> +<l>2. Both were ratified with blood.</l> +<l>3. Both were made concerning the law of God.</l> +<l>4. Both were made with the people of God.</l> +<l>5. Both were established upon promises.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +Dissimilarities Between The Two Covenants +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{3cm} p{3cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(30) lw(30)'"> +<row><cell>Old Covenant</cell><cell>New Covenant</cell></row> +<row><cell>Called the old covenant.</cell><cell>Called the new covenant.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Called the first covenant.</cell><cell>Called the second covenant.</cell></row> +<row><cell>A temporary compact.</cell><cell>An everlasting covenant.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Dedicated with the blood of animals.</cell> + <cell>Ratified with the blood of Christ.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was faulty.</cell><cell>Is a better covenant.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was established upon the promises of the people.</cell> + <cell>Is established upon the promises of God.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Had no mediator.</cell><cell>Has a mediator.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Had no provision for the forgiveness of sins.</cell> + <cell>Provides for the forgiveness of sins.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Under this, the law was written on tables of stone.</cell> + <cell>Under this, the law is written in the heart.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Was of works.</cell><cell>Is of grace.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Conditions: Obey and live; disobey and die.</cell> + <cell> Conditions: Repent and be forgiven; believe and be saved.</cell></row> +<row><cell><hi rend='italic'>If.</hi> If <hi rend='italic'>ye</hi>. If ye +<hi rend='italic'>will</hi>. If ye will <hi rend='italic'>do</hi>.</cell> + <cell><hi rend='italic'>I.</hi> I <hi rend='italic'>will</hi>. +I will <hi rend='italic'>do</hi>.</cell></row> +<row><cell>If ye will do <hi rend='italic'>all</hi>.</cell> + <cell>I will do <hi rend='italic'>all</hi>.</cell></row> +<row><cell>If ye will do all, <emph>then</emph>—ye shall be My people, +<emph>and</emph> I will be your God.</cell> + <cell>I will do all, <hi rend='italic'>and</hi>—will be your +God, <emph>and</emph> ye shall be My people.</cell></row> +</table> + +</div> + +<pb n='405'/><anchor id='Pg405'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>What Was Abolished By Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus405.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Veil Rent In Twain. +"Having abolished in His flesh ... the +law ... contained in ordinances." +Eph. 2:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How did Christ's death on the cross affect the whole +sacrificial system? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off.... +And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one +week: and <hi rend='italic'>in the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and +the oblation to cease</hi>.</q> Dan. 9:26, 27. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did Christ nail to His cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blotting out <hi rend='italic'>the handwriting of ordinances</hi> that was against +us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, <hi rend='italic'>nailing +it to His cross</hi>.</q> Col. 2:14. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did He thus abolish? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even <hi rend='italic'>the law of +commandments contained in ordinances</hi>; for to make in Himself +of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might +reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain +the enmity thereby.</q> Eph. 2:15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +4. To what did the ordinances pertain that were thus +abolished? +</p> + + +<pb n='406'/><anchor id='Pg406'/> + +<p> +<q>Let no man therefore judge you in <hi rend='italic'>meat</hi>, +or in <hi rend='italic'>drink</hi>, or in +respect of an <hi rend='italic'>holy day</hi>, or of +the <hi rend='italic'>new moon</hi>, or of the <hi rend='italic'>sabbath +days: which are a shadow of things to come</hi>; but the body is of +Christ.</q> Col. 2:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +5. From what statement do we learn that these ordinances +related to the sacrificial system? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the law <hi rend='italic'>having a shadow of good things to come</hi>, and not +the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices +which they offered year by year continually make the comers +thereunto perfect.</q> Heb. 10:1. +</p> + +<p> +6. What occurred at the time of the crucifixion which indicated +that the typical system had been taken away by Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, behold, <hi rend='italic'>the veil of the temple was rent in twain</hi> from the +top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.</q> +Matt. 27:51. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what language is this clearly stated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God. <hi rend='italic'>He +taketh away the first, that He may establish the second.</hi></q> Heb. +10:9. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is the first which He took away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Above when He said, <hi rend='italic'>Sacrifice</hi> and +<hi rend='italic'>offering</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>burnt +offerings</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>offering for sin</hi> +thou wouldest not, neither hadst +pleasure therein; which are offered by the law.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>He taketh +away the first.</q> The connection plainly indicates +that what Christ took away was ceremonialism as expressed in the +typical service of sacrifices and offerings, and that what He established, by +giving Himself to do the will of God, was the experience of doing the will of +God on the part of the believer. Thus He made possible the answer to the +petition which He taught His disciples, <q>Thy will be done in earth, as it is +in heaven.</q> Instead of abolishing the moral law, Christ made such provision +that every believer in Him may become a doer of that law. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The word <hi rend='italic'>first</hi> here refers +to sacrifices and offerings. He takes <emph>them</emph> +away; that is, He shows that they are of no value in removing sin. He +states their inefficacy, and declares His purpose to abolish them. +<q><emph>That He may establish the second</emph></q>—to +wit, the doing of the will of God.... +If they had been efficacious, there would have been no need of His coming +to make an atonement.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Albert Barnes, on Heb. 10:9.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. In what statement to the woman at Jacob's well did +Jesus intimate that the ceremonial system of worship would be +abolished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, +when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, +worship the Father.</q> John 4:21. +</p> + +<pb n='407'/><anchor id='Pg407'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The worship +of the Jews centered in the typical system, or +ritual service, of the temple, <q>at Jerusalem,</q> while the Samaritans had +instituted a rival service <q>in this mountain,</q> Mt. Gerizim. In His statement +to the woman of Samaria, Jesus therefore indicated that the time was +at hand when the whole typical system would be done away. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What test case arose in the time of the apostles over +this question? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And certain men which came down from Judea taught the +brethren, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Except ye be circumcised after the manner of +Moses, ye cannot be saved</hi>.</q> Acts 15:1. +</p> + +<p> +11. What requirement was made by these teachers from +Judea concerning the ceremonial law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out +from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, +saying, <hi rend='italic'>Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law</hi>: to whom we +gave no such commandment.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +12. After conferring over this matter, what decision was +reached by the apostles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay +upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; <hi rend='italic'>that +ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from +things strangled, and from fornication</hi>: from which if ye keep +yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.</q> Verses 28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +13. What charge was made against Stephen concerning his +attitude toward the ceremonial law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth +not to speak blasphemous words against <hi rend='italic'>this +holy place</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>the +law</hi>: for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth +shall destroy this place, and shall <hi rend='italic'>change the customs which +Moses delivered us</hi>.</q> Acts 6:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +14. What similar charge was brought against the apostle +Paul? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This fellow persuadeth men to worship God <hi rend='italic'>contrary to +the law</hi>.</q> Acts 18:13. +</p> + +<p> +15. What statement did Paul make concerning his faith +and manner of worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they +call <hi rend='italic'>heresy</hi>, so worship I +the God of my fathers, <hi rend='italic'>believing all +things which are written in the law and in the prophets</hi>.</q> Acts +24:14. +</p> + +<pb n='408'/><anchor id='Pg408'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The charge +against Stephen and Paul was not based upon +any violation of the moral law, but upon their teaching concerning the +ceremonial law; and Paul's admission that he was guilty of what they called +heresy meant simply that he differed from them as to the obligation to +observe any longer the precepts of the law which was imposed upon them +<q>until the time of reformation.</q> The simple fact that such charges were +preferred against these able exponents and teachers of the gospel shows +that in their view the ceremonial law had been abolished by the death of +Christ, and that, like the giving of the moral law at Sinai it was designed +to lead men to Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What is one of the offices of the moral law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore the law was <hi rend='italic'>our schoolmaster to bring us unto +Christ, that we might be justified by faith</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:24. +</p> + +<p> +17. How is this same teaching expressed in another place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>Christ is the end of the law for righteousness</hi> to every +one that believeth.</q> Rom. 10:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Murdock's translation +of the Syriac New Testament renders +this passage: <q>For Messiah is the <emph>aim</emph> of the law, for righteousness, unto +every one that believeth in Him.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +18. In what statement is there a similar use of the word end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Receiving <hi rend='italic'>the end of your faith</hi>, even the salvation of your +souls.</q> 1 Peter 1:9. See also 1 Tim. 1:5; James 5:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the +ceremonial law there was <q>a shadow of good things +to come,</q> a type of the mediatorial work of Christ, our great High Priest. +The moral law makes known sin, places the sinner under condemnation, +and forces him to Christ for pardon and cleansing. The ceremonial law +was abolished by the work of Christ, but the moral law was established +by both His life and death. +</quote> + +<p> +19. What testimony did Christ bear concerning His relation +to the law and the prophets? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the +prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.</q> Matt. +5:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Christ kept +the law. If He had ever broken it, He would +have had to die for Himself; but because He was a Lamb without spot or +blemish, His atoning death is efficacious for you and me. He had no sin of +His own to atone for, and so God accepted His sacrifice. Christ is the end +of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. We are righteous +in God's sight because the righteousness of God which is by faith in +Jesus Christ is unto all and upon all them that +believe.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Weighed and +Wanting,</q> by D. L. Moody, pages 123, 124.</hi> See also notes on pages +<ref target='Pg374'>374</ref>, <ref target='Pg375'>375</ref>, +<ref target='Pg382'>382</ref>, and <ref target='Pg389'>389</ref>. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='409'/><anchor id='Pg409'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Law And The Gospel</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus409.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sinai And The Cross. +"The law was our schoolmaster to bring us +unto Christ." Gal. 3:24.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is one of the uses of the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be +justified in His sight: for <hi rend='italic'>by the law is the knowledge of sin</hi>.</q> +Rom. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +2. In thus making known sin, and the consequent need of +a Saviour, what part does the law act? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore the <hi rend='italic'>law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto +Christ</hi>, that we might be justified by faith.</q> Gal. 3:24. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is the gospel declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is +<hi rend='italic'>the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth</hi>; to the +Jew first, and also to the Greek.</q> Rom. 1:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is the significance of the name bestowed by the +angel upon the Saviour before His birth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His +name <hi rend='italic'>Jesus</hi>: for <hi rend='italic'>He +shall save His people from their sins</hi>.</q> +Matt. 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +5. In whom is this power to save from sin revealed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-*block, +and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which +are called, both Jews and Greeks, <hi rend='italic'>Christ the power of God</hi>, and +the wisdom of God.</q> 1 Cor. 1:23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +6. What was foretold concerning Christ's attitude toward +the law of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is +<pb n='410'/><anchor id='Pg410'/> +written of Me, <hi rend='italic'>I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law +is within My heart</hi>.</q> Ps. 40:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the first promise of the new covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of +Israel after those days, saith the Lord; <hi rend='italic'>I will put My laws into +their mind, and write them in their hearts</hi>.</q> Heb. 8:10. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is Christ's relation to this new covenant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by +how much also He is the <hi rend='italic'>mediator</hi> of a better covenant, which +was established upon better promises.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +9. How is this same work for man otherwise described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: +wherefore <hi rend='italic'>it is of necessity that this Man have somewhat +also to offer</hi>. For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, +seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law.</q> +Verses 3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is necessary on the part of the individual in order +to receive the benefit of Christ's work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With the heart man <hi rend='italic'>believeth</hi> unto righteousness; and with +the mouth <hi rend='italic'>confession</hi> is made unto salvation.</q> Rom. 10:10. +</p> + +<p> +11. For what did the apostle Paul trust Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency +of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom +I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but +dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having +mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which +is through the faith of Christ, <hi rend='italic'>the righteousness which is of God +by faith</hi>.</q> Phil. 3:8, 9. +</p> + +<p> +12. What relation does the law sustain to this righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, +<hi rend='italic'>being witnessed by the law</hi> and the prophets.</q> Rom. +3:21. +</p> + +<p> +13. Does the faith which brings righteousness abolish the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: +yea, <hi rend='italic'>we establish the law</hi>.</q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The law reveals +the perfection of character required, and so +gives a knowledge of sin; but it is powerless to confer the character demanded. +In the gospel, the law, first written in the heart of Christ, becomes +<q>the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,</q> and is thus transferred +to the heart of the believer, in whose heart Christ dwells by faith. Thus +<pb n='411'/><anchor id='Pg411'/> +the new covenant promise is fulfilled that the law shall be written in the +heart. This is the genuine experience of righteousness by faith,—a +righteousness which is witnessed by the law, and revealed in the life in +harmony with the law. The gospel is thus seen to be the provision for +restoring the law to its place in the heart and life of the one who believes +on Christ, and accepts His mediatorial work. Such faith, instead of +making void the law, establishes it in the heart of the believer. The gospel +is not against the law, therefore, but upholds, maintains, and presents the +law to us in Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What did Christ take away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, +Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away <hi rend='italic'>the sin of the world</hi>.</q> +John 1:29. +</p> + +<p> +15. What has Christ abolished? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour +Jesus Christ, who hath <hi rend='italic'>abolished death</hi>, and hath brought +life and immortality to light through the gospel.</q> 2 Tim. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +16. What change is brought about through the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory +of the Lord, are <hi rend='italic'>changed into the same image</hi> from glory to glory, +even as by the Spirit of the Lord.</q> 2 Cor. 3:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +sometimes claimed that Christ changed, abolished, or +took away the law, and put the gospel in its place; but this shows a misapprehension +of the real work of Christ. The individual believer is changed +by beholding the glory revealed in the gospel (2 Cor. 4:4; John 1:14); +death has been abolished through the death of Christ; and sin has been +taken away by the great Sin-bearer; but the law of God still remains unchanged +as the very foundation of His throne. See note on page <ref target='Pg098'>98</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +17. What spiritual interpretation did Christ give to the +sixth commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou +shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the +judgment: but I say unto you, That <hi rend='italic'>whosoever is angry with +his brother</hi> without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: +and whosoever shall say to his brother, <hi rend='italic'>Raca</hi>, shall be in danger +of the council: but whosoever shall say, <hi rend='italic'>Thou fool</hi>, shall be in +danger of hell-fire.</q> Matt. 5:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +18. How did He interpret the seventh commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou +shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That <hi rend='italic'>whosoever +looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with +her already in his heart</hi>.</q> Verses 27, 28. +</p> + +<p> +19. Of what prophecy was this teaching a fulfilment? +</p> + +<pb n='412'/><anchor id='Pg412'/> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness' sake; <hi rend='italic'>He +will magnify the law, and make it honorable</hi>.</q> Isa. 42:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ not +only gave a spiritual interpretation to the law, +and Himself observed it according to that interpretation, but He showed +the holiness and the immutable nature of the law by dying on the cross to +pay the penalty of its transgression. In this way, above all, He magnified +the law, and showed its far-reaching, immutable, and imperishable nature. +</quote> + +<p> +20. In what promise was the gospel preached to Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the +heathen through faith, preached before <hi rend='italic'>the gospel</hi> unto Abraham, +saying, <hi rend='italic'>In thee shall all nations be blessed</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:8. +</p> + +<p> +21. On what basis was Abraham accounted righteous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For what saith the scripture? <hi rend='italic'>Abraham believed God, and +it was counted unto him for righteousness.</hi></q> Rom. 4:3. +</p> + +<p> +22. What scripture cuts off all hope of justification by works? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore <hi rend='italic'>by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified +in His sight</hi>: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.</q> Rom. +3:20. +</p> + +<p> +23. In what way are all believers in Jesus justified? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Being <hi rend='italic'>justified freely by His grace</hi> through the redemption +that is in Christ Jesus.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +24. After this work of grace has been accomplished, is the +believer expected to go on in sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that +grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead +to sin, live any longer therein?</q> Rom. 6:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Even in the +days of Abraham the same gospel of righteousness +by faith was preached as now, while the law made known sin, and witnessed +to the righteousness obtained through faith, just as it has done since +the cross. From this it is evident that the relation between the law and +the gospel has always been the same. +</quote> + +<p> +25. What was Christ's personal attitude toward the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: +<hi rend='italic'>I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:17. <q>If +ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even +as <hi rend='italic'>I have kept My Father's commandments</hi>, and abide in His +love.</q> John 15:10. +</p> + +<p> +26. What scripture shows that God's remnant people will +have a right conception of the proper relation between the law +and the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: <hi rend='italic'>here are they that keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus</hi>.</q> Rev. 14:12. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='413'/><anchor id='Pg413'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part IX. The Sabbath</head> + +<pb n='414'/><anchor id='Pg414'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus414.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>In The Corn-Field On The Sabbath Day. +"The Sabbath was made for man, and not +man for the Sabbath." Mark 2:27.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='415'/><anchor id='Pg415'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Institution Of The Sabbath</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus415.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Garden Of Eden. +"God blessed the seventh day, and +sanctified it." Gen. 2:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When and by whom was the Sabbath made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus the heavens and the earth, were finished, and all the +host of them. And <hi rend='italic'>on the seventh day God ended His work</hi> which +He had made; <hi rend='italic'>and He rested on the seventh day</hi> from all His work +which He had made.</q> Gen. 2:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +2. After resting on the seventh day, what did God do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God <hi rend='italic'>blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it</hi>: because +that in it He had rested from all His work which God created +and made.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what three distinct acts, then, was the Sabbath made? +</p> + +<p> +God <hi rend='italic'>rested</hi> on it; He +<hi rend='italic'>blessed</hi> it; He <hi rend='italic'>sanctified</hi> it. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Sanctify</hi>: <q>To make sacred or +holy; to set apart to a holy or religious +use.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +4. Did Christ have anything to do with creation and the +making of the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things were made <hi rend='italic'>by Him</hi>; +and <hi rend='italic'>without Him was not +anything made that was made</hi>.</q> John 1:3. See also Eph. 3:9; +Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ, being the +active agent in creation, must have rested +on the seventh day with the Father. It is therefore His rest day as well +as the Father's. +</quote> + +<p> +5. For whom does Christ say the Sabbath was made? +</p> + +<pb n='416'/><anchor id='Pg416'/> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>The Sabbath was made for man</hi>, +and not man for the Sabbath.</q> Mark 2:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It was +not made for the Jews alone. The Jews derive their +name from Judah, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, from whom they are +descended. The Sabbath was made more than two thousand years before +there was a Jew. When Paul says, <q>Neither was the man created for the +woman; but the woman for the man</q> (1 Cor. 11:9), we understand him +to mean that marriage was ordained of God for all men. So likewise with +the Sabbath. It was made for the race. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What does the Sabbath commandment require? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</hi> Six days shalt +thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the +Sabbath of the Lord thy God: <hi rend='italic'>in it thou shalt not do any work</hi>, +thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy +maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within +thy gates.</q> Ex. 20:8-10. +</p> + +<p> +7. What reason is given in the commandment for keeping +the Sabbath day holy? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and +all that in them is, and rested the seventh day</hi>: wherefore the Lord +blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Sabbath +is the memorial of creation, and the sign of +God's creative power. Through the keeping of it God designed that man +should forever remember Him as the true and living God, the Creator of +all things. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Did God bless and sanctify the seventh day while He was +resting upon it, or when His rest on that day was past? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: <hi rend='italic'>because +that in it He <hi rend='smallcaps'>had</hi> rested from all His work</hi> which God +created and made.</q> Gen. 2:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—God blessed +and sanctified the seventh day then future, +answering to the day on which He had just rested. The acts of blessing +and sanctifying involve the idea of a future use of those things which are +blessed and sanctified. Past time cannot be used. It is gone forever. +The blessing and sanctification of the day, therefore, must have related +to the future—to all the future seventh days. +</p> + +<p> +In Joel 1:14 we read: <q>Sanctify [i.e., appoint] ye a fast, call a solemn +assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the +house of the Lord.</q> Wherever used in the Bible, the word sanctify means +to appoint, to proclaim, or to set apart, as in the margin of Joshua 20:7; +2 Kings 10:20, 21; Zeph. 1:7. So when the Sabbath was sanctified, as the +last act by which it was made for man, an appointment, or proclamation, +of the Sabbath was given. See Ex. 19:23. +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we had no other passage than this of Gen. 2:3, there would be no +difficulty in deducing from it a precept for the universal observance of a +Sabbath, or seventh day, to be devoted to God as holy time, by all of that +race for whom the earth and its nature were specially prepared. The +<pb n='417'/><anchor id='Pg417'/> +first men must have known it. The words <hi rend='italic'>He hallowed it</hi> can have no +meaning otherwise. They would be a blank unless in reference to some +who were required to keep it holy.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Lange's +Commentary, Vol. I, page 197.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. How did God prove Israel in the wilderness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, <hi rend='italic'>I will rain bread +from heaven for you</hi>; and the people shall go out and gather a +certain rate every day, <hi rend='italic'>that I may prove them, whether they will +walk in My law, or no</hi>.</q> Ex. 16:4. +</p> + +<p> +10. On which day was a double portion of manna gathered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, that <hi rend='italic'>on the sixth day they gathered +twice as much bread</hi>, two omers for one man: and all the rulers +of the congregation came and told Moses.</q> Verse 22. +</p> + +<p> +11. What reply did Moses make to the rulers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>This is that which the Lord hath +said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath</hi> unto the Lord.</q> +Verse 23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This was a full +month and more before they came to Sinai. +</quote> + +<p> +12. <hi rend='italic'>When</hi> had God <hi rend='italic'>said</hi> this? +</p> + +<p> +In the beginning, when He sanctified the Sabbath. Gen. 2:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In the wilderness +of Sin, before Israel came to Sinai, Moses +said to Jethro, his father-in-law, <q>I do make them +know the <hi rend='italic'>statutes</hi> of God, +and His <hi rend='italic'>laws</hi></q> (Ex. 18:16), +which shows that these statutes and laws existed +before they were proclaimed on Sinai. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What did some of the people do on the seventh day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It came to pass, that <hi rend='italic'>there went out some of the people on the +seventh day for to gather</hi>, and they found none.</q> Ex. 16:27. +</p> + +<p> +14. How did God reprove their disobedience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto Moses, <hi rend='italic'>How long refuse ye to keep +My commandments and My laws?</hi></q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<p> +15. Why was double manna given on the sixth day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>See, <hi rend='italic'>for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore +He giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days</hi>; abide ye every +man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh +day.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<p> +16. How, then, did the Lord prove the people (verse 4) +whether they would keep His law, or not? +</p> + +<p> +Over the keeping of the Sabbath. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Thus we see +that the Sabbath commandment was a part of +God's law before this law was spoken from Sinai; for this incident occurred +in the wilderness of Sin, before the children of Israel came to Sinai, where +the law was given. Both the Sabbath and the law existed from creation. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='418'/><anchor id='Pg418'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>God's Memorial</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus418.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ The Word. +"He hath made His wonderful works to be +remembered." Ps. 111:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is to endure throughout all generations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy name, O Lord, endureth forever; and <hi rend='italic'>Thy memorial, +O Lord; throughout all generations</hi>.</q> Ps. 135:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Memorial</hi>: <q>Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person +or event; something which serves to keep some person or thing in remembrance, +as a monument or a practise.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +2. What illustration of this is given in the Bible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>these stones shall be for a memorial</hi> unto the children of +Israel forever.</q> Joshua 4:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. What were these stones to commemorate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your +children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What +mean these stones? then <hi rend='italic'>ye shall let your children know, saying, +Israel came over this Jordan on dry land</hi>.</q> Verses 21, 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These stones were to +be a standing memorial, or reminder, +of Israel's coming dry-shod over the Jordan. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What was another memorial instituted to commemorate +another signal providence in behalf of the Israelites? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>this day shall be unto you for a memorial</hi>; and ye shall +keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall +keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.</q> Ex. 12:14. +</p> + +<pb n='419'/><anchor id='Pg419'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, the Passover, +was a <emph>periodical</emph> memorial, to be observed +on the fourteenth day of the first month of each year, the day on which the +Israelites were delivered from Egyptian bondage, and its celebration was +to be, with the seven days' feast of unleavened bread following and connected +with it, in commemoration of that event. See Ex. 13:3-9. +</quote> + +<p> +5. Does God design that His great work of creating the +heavens and the earth shall be remembered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them +that have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and glorious: +and His righteousness endureth forever. <hi rend='italic'>He hath made His +wonderful works to be remembered.</hi></q> Ps. 111:2-4. +</p> + +<p> +6. What has He commanded men to observe in memory of +this great work? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy</hi>; ... for in +six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that +in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord +blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.</q> Ex. 20:8-11. +</p> + +<p> +7. Of what was this memorial to be a sign? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be <hi rend='italic'>a sign</hi> between +Me and you, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know that I am the Lord your God</hi>.</q> +Eze. 20:20. +</p> + +<p> +8. How long was the Sabbath to be a sign of the true God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever</hi>: +for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh +day He rested, and was refreshed.</q> Ex. 31:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is manifest that +if the object of the Sabbath was to keep +God as the Creator in mind, and it had been faithfully kept from the first, +there would not now be a heathen or an idolater on the face of the earth. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What besides creation were Israel to remember when +they kept the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, +and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty +hand and by a stretched-out arm</hi>: therefore the Lord thy God +commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.</q> Deut. 5:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There +is a deep significance to this scripture not apparent +to those unacquainted with the facts. In Egypt, through oppression and +idolatrous surroundings, the keeping of the Sabbath had become not only +almost obsolete, but well-nigh impossible. See reading on <q>Reasons for +Sabbath-Keeping,</q> under questions 9 and 10, page <ref target='Pg423'>423</ref>. +Their deliverance +from bondage was in order that they might keep God's law (Ps. 105:43-45), +and particularly the Sabbath, the great seal, sign, and memorial-institution +of the law. The recollection of their bondage and oppressed condition +in Egypt was to be an additional incentive for keeping the Sabbath in the +land of freedom. The Sabbath, therefore, besides being a memorial of +<pb n='420'/><anchor id='Pg420'/> +creation, was to be to them a memorial of their deliverance from bondage, +and of the great power of God as manifested in this deliverance. And as +Egypt stands as a symbol of the condition of every one in the world under +the slavery of sin, so the Sabbath is to be kept by every saved soul as a +memorial of the deliverance from this slavery by the mighty power of God +through Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +10. Of what else does God say He gave the Sabbath to His +people to be a sign, or reminder? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be <hi rend='italic'>a sign</hi> between +Me and them, <hi rend='italic'>that they might know that I am the Lord +that sanctify them</hi>.</q> Eze. 20:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Sanctification is +a work of redemption,—of making holy +sinful or unholy beings. Like the work of creation itself, this requires +creative power. See Ps. 51:10; John 3:3, 6; Eph. 2:10. And as the +Sabbath is the appropriate sign or memorial of the creative power of God +wherever displayed, whether in creation, deliverance from human bondage, +or deliverance from the slavery of sin, it is to be kept as a sign of the work +of sanctification. This will be one great reason for the saints' keeping it +throughout eternity. It will remind them not only of their own creation +and the creation of the universe, but also of their redemption. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Through whom do we have sanctification? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But of Him are ye in <hi rend='italic'>Christ Jesus</hi>, who of God is made unto +us wisdom, and righteousness, and <hi rend='italic'>sanctification</hi>, +and redemption.</q> +1 Cor. 1:30. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Then, as +the Sabbath is a sign or memorial of sanctification, +and as Christ is the one through whom the work of sanctification is accomplished, +the Sabbath is a sign or memorial of what Christ is to the believer. +Through the Sabbath, therefore, God designed that the believer and Christ +should be very closely linked together. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What statement of the redeemed shows that they will +remember God's creative power? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and +power: <hi rend='italic'>for Thou hast created all things</hi>, and for Thy pleasure +they are and were <hi rend='italic'>created</hi>.</q> Rev. 4:11. +</p> + +<p> +13. How often will they congregate to worship the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will +make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your +seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that +<hi rend='italic'>from one new moon to another</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>from one Sabbath to another</hi>, +shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord.</q> +Isa. 66:22, 23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Sabbath, which +is the memorial of God's creative power, +will never cease to exist. When this sinful state of things shall give way +to the sinless new earth, the fact upon which the Sabbath institution is +based will still remain; and those who shall be permitted to live in the new +earth will still commemorate the creative power of God, while singing the +song of Moses and the Lamb. Rev. 15:3. See Rev. 22:1, 2. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='421'/><anchor id='Pg421'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Reasons For Sabbath-Keeping</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus421.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Mt. Sinai--Where The Law Was Given. +"That ye may know that I am the Lord +your God." Eze. 20:20.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the one great feature by which the true God is +distinguished from all false gods? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and an +everlasting king.... <hi rend='italic'>The gods that have not made the +heavens and the earth</hi>, even they shall perish from the earth, and +from under these heavens. <hi rend='italic'>He hath made the earth by his power</hi>, +He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched +out the heavens by His discretion.</q> Jer. 10:10-12. +</p> + +<p> +2. When Paul wished to preach the true God to the idolatrous +Athenians, how did he describe Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I +unto you. <hi rend='italic'>God that made the world and all things therein.</hi></q> +Acts 17:23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did the apostles say to the idolaters at Lystra? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We ... preach unto you that ye should turn from +these vanities unto <hi rend='italic'>the living God, which made heaven, and earth, +and the sea, and all things that are therein</hi>.</q> Acts 14:15. See +also Rev. 10:6; 14:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +4. What reason is given in the fourth commandment for +keeping the Sabbath day holy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the +sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.</q> +Ex. 20:11. +</p> + +<pb n='422'/><anchor id='Pg422'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The +Sabbath is the great memorial of creation and of God's +creative power, a constant reminder of the true and living God. God's +design in making the Sabbath, and in commanding that it be kept holy, +was that man might never forget Him, the Creator of all things. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The original Sabbath being a perpetual memorial of God, the Creator +calling man to imitate God in the observance of the same, man could not +keep the original Sabbath and forget God.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Prof. +E. W. Thomas, M. A., +in Herald of Gospel Liberty, June 19, 1890.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +When we remember that two thirds of the world's inhabitants today +are idolaters, and that since the fall, idolatry, with its train of associated +and resultant evils, has ever been a prevailing sin, and then think that the +observance of the Sabbath, as God ordained it, would have prevented all +this, we can better appreciate the value of the Sabbath institution, and the +importance of Sabbath-keeping. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +5. What does God say the Sabbath will be to those who +hallow it, or keep it holy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And hallow My Sabbaths; and <hi rend='italic'>they shall be a sign between +Me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God</hi>.</q> +Eze. 20:20. +</p> + +<p> +6. How important is it that we know God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>this is life eternal</hi>, that they might know Thee the only +true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.</q> John 17:3. +</p> + +<p> +7. Is there any danger of God's chosen people forgetting +Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God</hi>, in not keeping +His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes.</q> +Deut. 8:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. What other reason is given for keeping the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep: <hi rend='italic'>for it is a sign between +Me and you</hi> throughout your generations; <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know that +I am the Lord that doth <hi rend='smallcaps'>sanctify</hi> you</hi>.</q> Ex. 31:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—To +sanctify is to make holy, or to set apart for a holy use. +The sanctification, or making holy, of sinful beings can be wrought only +by the creative power of God through Christ by the Holy Spirit. In 1 +Cor. 1:30 we are told that Christ is made unto us <q>sanctification;</q> and in +Eph. 2:10 it is said that <q>we are His workmanship, <emph>created</emph> in Christ Jesus +unto good works.</q> The Sabbath, therefore, is a sign of sanctification, and +thus of what Christ is to the believer, because it is a reminder of the creative +power of God as manifested in the work of regeneration. It is the sign +of the power of God, therefore, in both creation and redemption. To the +believer, it is the evidence, or sign, that he knows the true God, who, +through Christ, created all things, and who, through Christ, redeems the +sinner and makes him whole. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What special reason did the Israelites have for keeping +the Sabbath? +</p> + +<pb n='423'/><anchor id='Pg423'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, +and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty +hand and by a stretched-out arm</hi>: therefore the Lord thy God +commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.</q> Deut. 5:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In their +bondage the Israelites had to some extent lost the +knowledge of God, and departed from His precepts. The Sabbath came +to be greatly disregarded by them; and in consequence of the oppression +of the Pharaohs, especially the Pharaoh of the exodus, as witnessed by +the rigorous exactions made upon them by this latter king through their +taskmasters, its observance was made apparently impossible. See Ex. +5:1-19. The special point, both of reform and of conflict, just preceding +their deliverance from bondage, was over the matter of Sabbath observance. +Moses and Aaron had shown them that obedience to God was the first condition +of deliverance. Their efforts to restore the observance of the Sabbath +among the Israelites had come to the notice of Pharaoh; hence his +accusation against them, <q>Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, <emph>let</emph> [hinder] +the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.... Behold, +the people of the land are many, and ye make them <emph>rest</emph> +[Heb., <foreign lang='he' rend='italic'>Shabbath</foreign>] +from their burdens.</q> Ex. 5:4, 5. Deliverance from this oppression +was indeed, therefore, an additional and special reason for their keeping +the Sabbath. But Egypt and Egyptian bondage simply represent sin and +the bondage of sin. See Rev. 11:8; Hosea 11:1; Matt. 2:15; Zech. 10:10. +Every one, therefore, who has been delivered from sin has the same +reason for keeping the Sabbath as had the Israelites who were released from +Egyptian bondage. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What does the psalmist say was the reason why God +brought His people out of Egypt, and placed them in Canaan? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen +with gladness: and gave them the lands of the heathen: ... +<hi rend='italic'>that they might observe His statutes, and keep His laws</hi>.</q> Ps. +105:43-45. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Their +deliverance from Egyptian bondage was a reason for +the keeping not only of the fourth commandment, but of every precept +of God's law. This is indicated by the preface or preamble to the law as +given on Sinai: <q>I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of +the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other +gods before Me,</q> etc. Ex. 20:2, 3. See also Lev. 19:35-37; Deut. 10:19; +15:12-15; 24:17, 18. Likewise, every one who, through Christ, has +been delivered from the bondage of sin, God calls to obedience, not only +in the matter of Sabbath-keeping, but to every precept of His holy law. +<q>Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold +on it; that <emph>keepeth the Sabbath</emph> from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from +doing <emph>any</emph> evil.</q> Isa. 56:2. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What is the meaning of the word sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +Rest. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Previous to the +fall, God designed that man's time should +be occupied with pleasant, invigorating, but not wearisome labor. Gen. +2:15. Laborious, wearisome toil came in consequence of sin. Gen. 3:17-19. +While under the fall the Sabbath, therefore, may bring physical +rest to both man and the beasts of burden (Ex. 23:12) in a way not originally +intended, physical rest was not its original and primary design or +purpose. Cessation from the ordinary labors and occupations of the +<pb n='424'/><anchor id='Pg424'/> +week was ordained, not because these are wrong or sinful in themselves, +but that man might have an appointed time and a frequently recurring +period for the contemplation of the Creator and His works. Under the +gospel, the Sabbath is a sign of spiritual rest and freedom from sin. So we +read, <q>For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his +own works, as God did from His.</q> Heb. 4:10. +</quote> + +<p> +12. Who gives this rest from sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and +<hi rend='italic'>I will give you rest</hi>. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; +for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto +your souls.</q> Matt. 11:28, 29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +Sabbath, then, is the sign of the soul-rest which Christ +gives to the weary and ladened with sin. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Was the Sabbath intended as a day for public worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the +Sabbath of rest, <hi rend='italic'>an holy convocation</hi>.</q> Lev. 23:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A convocation is an assembly of people. +</quote> + +<p> +14. Does the New Testament teach the same duty? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to +good works: <hi rend='italic'>not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together</hi>, as +the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so +much the more, as ye see the day approaching.</q> Heb. 10:24, 25. +</p> + +<p> +15. What does Malachi say of those that fear the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then they that feared the Lord <hi rend='italic'>spake often one to another</hi>: +and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance +was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, +and that thought upon His name. And they shall be Mine, +saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels; +and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth +him.</q> Mal. 3:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +16. Will the Sabbath be observed as a day of worship in the +new earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will +make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed +and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from +one new moon to another, and <hi rend='italic'>from one Sabbath to another, shall +all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord</hi>.</q> Isa. 66:22, +23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Thou hast +made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless +till it find its rest in Thee.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>St. Augustine.</hi> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='425'/><anchor id='Pg425'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Manner Of Observing The Sabbath</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus425.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sabbath Morning. +"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it +holy." Ex. 20:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is first commanded in the Sabbath commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Remember</hi> the Sabbath <hi rend='italic'>day</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. Which day is the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The seventh day</hi> is the Sabbath.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +3. For what purpose are we to remember the Sabbath day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remember the Sabbath day, <hi rend='italic'>to keep it holy</hi>.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—All through +the week the keeping holy of the Sabbath day +is to be remembered, or borne in mind. No business contracts or arrangements +are to be made, no manner of living indulged in, which will prevent +or interfere with the proper or holy observance of the day when it comes. +The keeping of this commandment, therefore, is in the interests of, and +with a view to, holy living <emph>all the time</emph>. The +<emph>commandment itself</emph> enjoins a +duty, and is to be kept, all through the week; the <emph>Sabbath</emph> is to be kept +when it comes. The Sabbath commandment, therefore, like every other +precept of the decalogue, but contrary to the conception of many, is to be +kept <emph>all the time</emph>, and not simply one day in the week. In this matter we +should distinguish between the <emph>Sabbath</emph> and the Sabbath +<emph>commandment</emph>. +</quote> + +<p> +4. Who made the Sabbath day holy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore the <hi rend='italic'>Lord</hi> blessed +the Sabbath day, and <hi rend='italic'>hallowed +it</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God <emph>made</emph> +the Sabbath day holy; we are to <emph>keep</emph> it holy. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What is it that makes a thing holy? +</p> + +<p> +God's <hi rend='italic'>presence</hi> in it. See Ex. 3:5; 29:43-46; Joshua 5:13-15. +</p> + +<p> +6. Then in order to keep the Sabbath day holy, what must +be recognized? +</p> + +<pb n='426'/><anchor id='Pg426'/> + +<p> +God's <hi rend='italic'>presence</hi> in the day; +His <hi rend='italic'>blessing</hi> upon it; and His +<hi rend='italic'>sanctification</hi> of it. +</p> + +<p> +7. When, according to the Bible, does the Sabbath begin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the <hi rend='italic'>evening</hi> and the morning were the first day.</q> +<q>And the <hi rend='italic'>evening</hi> and the morning were the second day,</q> etc. +See Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +evening begins <q>at the going down of the sun.</q> See +Deut. 16:6; Mark 1:32; Deut. 23:11; 1 Kings 22:35,36; 2 Chron. 18:34. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Does the Bible recognize this as the proper time for beginning +and ending the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>From even unto even</hi>, shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.</q> +Lev. 23:32. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—One great +advantage of keeping the Sabbath according to +the Bible method of reckoning the day, that is, from sunset to sunset, over +keeping it according to the Roman reckoning, or from midnight to midnight, +is that by the former one is awake to welcome and to bid adieu to the +day when it comes and goes, while by the latter he is asleep when the day +begins and ends. God's ways are always best. The setting of the sun is +a great natural sign for marking the division of time into days. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What kind of labor is to be done through the week? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Six days shalt thou labor, and do all <hi rend='italic'>thy work</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:9. +</p> + +<p> +10. Is any of this kind of work to be done on the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In it thou shalt not do <hi rend='italic'>any work</hi>.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If the +Sabbath is to be kept <q>holy,</q> mere physical rest one +day in seven cannot be the great object of the Sabbath institution. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How does the Lord, through the prophet Isaiah, indicate +what is true Sabbath-keeping? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou <hi rend='italic'>turn away thy foot +from the Sabbath</hi>, from doing <hi rend='italic'>thy +pleasure</hi> on My holy day; and <hi rend='italic'>call the Sabbath a delight, the holy +of the Lord, honorable</hi>; and shalt <hi rend='italic'>honor Him, not doing thine own +ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own +words</hi>: then shalt thou <hi rend='italic'>delight +thyself in the Lord</hi>; and I will cause +thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee +with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord +hath spoken it.</q> Isa. 58:13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Whether +the Sabbath becomes a delight or a burden depends +upon the spirit with which a man meets it. Indeed, the spirit of +the man settles the question as to the benefits to come from any duty he +may perform. One man cannot understand why his neighbor should prefer +the park or the ball ground to the church, simply because his spirit is +different. He has cultivated the higher nature until he loves spiritual +things above all others, and to him the Sabbath is indeed a delight. It +comes to his weary soul as a reminder of God, and brings him nearer to +heaven in heart and mind than does any other +day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Sabbath Recorder, +Dec. 12, 1910.</hi> +</quote> + +<pb n='427'/><anchor id='Pg427'/> + +<p> +12. What is the character of God, and how only can He be +truly worshiped? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>God is a Spirit</hi>: and they that worship Him must worship +Him <hi rend='italic'>in spirit and in truth</hi>.</q> John 4:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +one reason why the attempt to produce Sabbath-keeping +by human Sabbath laws is altogether out of place. Such laws can +never produce true Sabbath-keeping, for that is <emph>spiritual</emph>, and must be of +the <emph>mind</emph> and from the <emph>heart</emph>, and not <emph>perfunctory</emph>, +<emph>mechanical</emph>, nor of <emph>force</emph>. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What is one thing for which God has given the Sabbath +to be a sign? +</p> + +<p> +That He <hi rend='italic'>sanctifies</hi> His people, or +makes them <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi>. See +Ex. 31:13; Eze. 20:12; and page <ref target='Pg420'>420</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +14. What does the <q>psalm for the Sabbath day</q> suggest +as proper acts and themes for thought and meditation on the +Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is a good thing to <hi rend='italic'>give +thanks unto the Lord</hi>, and to <hi rend='italic'>sing +praises unto Thy name, O Most High</hi>: to show +forth <hi rend='italic'>Thy loving-kindness</hi> +in the morning, and <hi rend='italic'>Thy +faithfulness</hi> every night, <hi rend='italic'>upon +an instrument of ten strings</hi>, and upon the +<hi rend='italic'>psaltery</hi>; upon the <hi rend='italic'>harp</hi> +with a solemn sound. For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad +<hi rend='italic'>through Thy work</hi>: I will +triumph in <hi rend='italic'>the works of Thy hands</hi>. O +Lord, <hi rend='italic'>how great are Thy works</hi>! +and <hi rend='italic'>Thy thoughts are very deep</hi>.</q> +Ps. 92:1-5. +</p> + +<p> +15. What do the works of God declare? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The heavens declare <hi rend='italic'>the glory of God</hi>; and the firmament +showeth <hi rend='italic'>His handiwork</hi>. Day +unto day uttereth <hi rend='italic'>speech</hi>, and +night unto night <hi rend='italic'>showeth knowledge</hi>. There is no speech nor +language, where <hi rend='italic'>their voice</hi> is not heard.</q> Ps. 19:1-3. See +margin. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God designed +that the Sabbath should direct the minds of +men to His created works, and through these to Him, the Creator. Nature +itself speaks to our senses, telling us that there is a God, the Creator and +Supreme Ruler of the universe. The Sabbath, ever pointing to God +through nature, was designed to keep the Creator constantly in mind. +The proper keeping of it, therefore, must naturally tend to prevent idolatry, +atheism, agnosticism, infidelity, irreligion, and irreverence; and, being +promotive of the knowledge and fear of God, must of necessity be a deterrent +to sin. In this may its value and importance be seen. +</quote> + +<p> +16. Was the Sabbath designed to be a day for public worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the +Sabbath of rest, <hi rend='italic'>an holy convocation</hi>.</q> Lev. 23:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word +convocation means <q>a calling together,</q> and is +always used in the Bible with reference to meetings of a religious character. +</quote> + +<pb n='428'/><anchor id='Pg428'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus428.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Gathering The Manna. +"On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread." "But on the seventh +day ... there shall be none." Ex. 16:22, 26.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='429'/><anchor id='Pg429'/> + +<p> +17. What example did Christ set in Sabbath observance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as His custom was, <hi rend='italic'>He went into the synagogue on the +Sabbath day, and stood up for to read</hi>.</q> Luke 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +18. What else did Jesus do on the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it was the Sabbath day when Jesus <hi rend='italic'>made the clay, +and opened his eyes</hi>.</q> John 9:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A large share +of Christ's ministry consisted of miracles and +acts of mercy performed for the relief of suffering humanity; and not a few +of these were done on the Sabbath. On this day, as on other days, He +<q>went about doing good.</q> See next reading. +</quote> + +<p> +19. With what words did He justify acts of mercy on the +Sabbath day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore it is <hi rend='italic'>lawful</hi> to do well on the Sabbath days.</q> +Matt. 12:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Not +a little of Christ's earthly ministry was devoted to up-lifting +the Sabbath, and showing the beneficent character of the Sabbath +institution. It was not meant to be a day of sorrow, austerity, or gloom. +Disinterested works of love and mercy toward man or beast are always in +place on the Sabbath. <hi rend='italic'>Lawful</hi> means <q>according to law.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +20. What day is especially indicated as the day to prepare +for the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that day [the sixth day] was <hi rend='italic'>the preparation</hi>, and the +Sabbath drew on.</q> Luke 23:54. See also Ex. 16:22, 23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +order to keep the Sabbath day holy, it must be remembered +all through the week; and on the sixth day, or the day just before +the Sabbath, special preparation should be made <emph>to be ready</emph> to welcome +and observe the day when it comes. +</quote> + +<p> +21. How did the Israelites in the wilderness on the sixth +day prepare for the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, that <hi rend='italic'>on the sixth day they gathered +twice as much bread</hi>, two omers for one man.</q> Ex. 16:22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The +Sabbath should not be a day of either ordinary labor, +idleness, or amusement, but one of rest, reflection, holy joy, worship, and +helpfulness. It should be the happiest, the brightest, and the best of all +the week. Such it should be made for young and old. Very early the +children can be taught the stories of creation and redemption, and taken +out amid the handiworks of God and taught to see Him and to commune +with Him through nature. Preparation for the Sabbath, therefore, is an +essential to its proper observance. God's blessing is upon the first moments +of the Sabbath as well as upon the last; and, as far as possible, everything +should be got in readiness so that the entire day may be devoted to +God and humanity in the manner indicated. +</p> + +<p> +In making the Sabbath, God rested upon, blessed, and sanctified the +day. Ex. 20:11. Whoever, then, keeps the Sabbath aright, may expect +that there will be brought into his life God's <emph>rest</emph>, +<emph>blessing</emph>, and <emph>sanctification</emph>. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='430'/><anchor id='Pg430'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christ And The Sabbath</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus430.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Healing On The Sabbath Day. +"Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath +days." Matt. 12:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of what did Christ say the Son of man is Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Son of man is Lord even <hi rend='italic'>of the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Matt. +12:8. See also Mark 2:28. +</p> + +<p> +2. Who made the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things were made <hi rend='italic'>by Him</hi> +[<hi rend='italic'>Christ, the Word</hi>]; and without +Him was not anything made that was made.</q> John 1:3. +</p> + +<p> +3. Did Christ, while on earth, keep the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As His custom was, <hi rend='italic'>He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath +day, and stood up for to read</hi>.</q> Luke 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. Although Lord, Maker, and an observer of the Sabbath, +how was He watched and spied upon by the scribes and Pharisees +on this day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the scribes and Pharisees watched Him, <hi rend='italic'>whether He +would heal on the Sabbath day</hi>; that they might find an accusation +against Him.</q> Luke 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +5. With what question did Christ meet their false ideas and +reasonings regarding Sabbath-keeping? +</p> + +<pb n='431'/><anchor id='Pg431'/> + +<p> +<q>Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; <hi rend='italic'>Is +it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, +or to destroy it?</hi></q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +6. How did they manifest their displeasure at His healing +the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they were <hi rend='italic'>filled with +madness</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>communed one with +another what they might do to Jesus</hi>.</q> Verse 11. <q>And the +Pharisees went forth, and straightway <hi rend='italic'>took counsel with the +Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him</hi>.</q> Mark +3:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—They were +angry because, notwithstanding the fact that by +the miracle performed Christ had given evidence that He was from God, +He had shown no respect for <emph>their views of Sabbath-keeping</emph>, but, on the +contrary, had shown these to be <emph>wrong</emph>. Wounded pride, obstinacy, and +malice, therefore, combined to fill them with <emph>madness</emph>; and they went out +immediately and held council with the Herodians,—their political enemies +with whom they disagreed in the matter of paying tribute to a foreign +power,—for the purpose of accomplishing His death. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Because Jesus healed a man on the Sabbath day, and +told him to take up his bed and walk, what did the Jews do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore did the Jews <hi rend='italic'>persecute +Jesus</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>sought to slay +Him</hi>, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day.</q> +John 5:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +a fact worthy of note that over the question of proper +Sabbath observance the Jews not only <emph>persecuted</emph> Jesus, but <emph>first took +counsel to kill Him</emph>. Not the least of the malice which finally culminated +in His crucifixion, was engendered over this very question of Sabbath observance. +Christ did not keep the Sabbath according to their ideas of +Sabbath-keeping, and so they sought to kill Him. And they are not +alone. Many today are cherishing this same spirit. Because some do not +agree with their ideas regarding the Sabbath, or Sabbath observance, they +seek to persecute and oppress them,—seek laws, and alliances with political +powers, to compel respect for their views. +</quote> + +<p> +8. How did Jesus answer them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Jesus answered them, <hi rend='italic'>My Father worketh hitherto, and +I work</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The ordinary operations +of nature, as manifested in God's +almighty, upholding, beneficent, and healing power, go on on the Sabbath +the same as on other days; and to cooperate with God and nature in the +work of healing, relieving, and restoring on the Sabbath, cannot, therefore, +be out of harmony with God's will, nor a violation of His Sabbath law. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What effect did this answer have upon the Jews? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore the Jews <hi rend='italic'>sought the more to kill Him</hi>, because +He not only had broken the Sabbath [i.e., in their estimation], +but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal +with God.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<pb n='432'/><anchor id='Pg432'/> + +<p> +10. Because the disciples plucked a few ears of corn on the +Sabbath day to satisfy hunger, what accusation did the Pharisee +make against them to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Pharisees said unto Him, <hi rend='italic'>Behold, why do they on +the Sabbath day that which is not lawful?</hi></q> Mark 2:24. +</p> + +<p> +11. What was Christ's reply? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, Have ye never read what David +did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they that +were with him? how he went into the house of God in the days +of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the showbread, which +is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them +which were with him? And He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>The Sabbath was +made for man, and not man for the Sabbath</hi>.</q> Verses 25-27. +</p> + +<p> +12. Because of Christ's healing a woman of an infirmity on +the Sabbath, what did the ruler of a certain synagogue say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, +because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto +the people, <hi rend='italic'>There are six days in which men ought to work: in +them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> +Luke 13:14. +</p> + +<p> +13. How did Christ answer him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, +doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass +from the stall, and lead him away to watering? and ought not +this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath +bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the +Sabbath day?</q> Verses 15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +14. What effect did Christ's answers have upon the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He had said these things, <hi rend='italic'>all His adversaries +were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things +that were done by Him</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +15. By what method of reasoning did Christ justify acts +of mercy on the Sabbath day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, +and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day? +And they could not answer Him again to these things.</q> Luke +14:5, 6. <q>What man shall there be among you, that shall have +one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he +not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man +better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the +Sabbath days.</q> Matt. 12:11, 12. +</p> + +<pb n='433'/><anchor id='Pg433'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus433.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Healing Impotent Man On +The Sabbath. +"Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and +sought to slay Him, because He had done +these things on the Sabbath day." John 5:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='434'/><anchor id='Pg434'/> + +<p> +16. Into what perplexity did Christ's working of miracles +on the Sabbath throw the Pharisees? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore said some of the Pharisees, <hi rend='italic'>This man is not of +God, because He keepeth not the Sabbath day</hi>. Others said, <hi rend='italic'>How +can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?</hi> And <hi rend='italic'>there was a +division among them</hi>.</q> John 9:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The working +of these wonderful, beneficent, and gracious +miracles on the Sabbath was an evidence that Christ was from God, and +that His views of Sabbath-keeping were right. By these miracles God +was setting the seal of His approval to Christ's views and teachings respecting +the Sabbath, and to His manner of observing it, and thus condemning +the narrow and false views of the Pharisees. Hence the division. +</quote> + +<p> +17. According to Isaiah, what was Christ to do with the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He will <hi rend='italic'>magnify</hi> the law, +and <hi rend='italic'>make it honorable</hi>.</q> Isa. +42:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In nothing, +perhaps, was this more strikingly fulfilled than +in the matter of Sabbath observance. By their traditions, numerous +regulations, and senseless restrictions the Jews had made the Sabbath a +burden, and anything but a delight. Christ removed all these, and by +His life and teachings put the Sabbath back in its proper place and setting, +as a day of worship and beneficence, a day for doing acts of charity and +mercy, as well as engaging in contemplation of God and in acts of devotion. +Thus He magnified it and made it honorable. One of the most prominent +features of Christ's whole ministry was this great work of <emph>Sabbath reform</emph>. +Christ did not <emph>abolish</emph> the Sabbath, nor <emph>change</emph> the Sabbath; but +He did rescue it from the rubbish of tradition, the false ideas, and the superstitions +with which it had been buried, and by which it had been degraded and +turned aside from the channel of blessing and practical service to man +designed by its Maker. The Pharisees had placed the institution <emph>above</emph> +man, and <emph>against</emph> man. Christ reversed the order, and said, <q>The Sabbath +was made <emph>for man</emph>, and not man <emph>for the Sabbath</emph>.</q> He showed +that it was to minister to the happiness, the comfort, and the well-being of both +man and beast. +</p> + +<p> +Because of the false ideas which the Jews held concerning the Sabbath +and its observance, and the conflict which Christ had with them in consequence, +many of the professed followers of Christ a little later were led +into the error of rejecting the Sabbath itself as Jewish, and, without any +divine command or Scripture warrant, to substitute another day in its place. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +18. Knowing that the unbelieving Jews would still cling to +their false ideas respecting the Sabbath, and that flight from +Jerusalem and Judea on that day would be attended with difficulty, +for what, in view of the coming destruction and desolation +of the city and people, did Christ tell His disciples to pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, <hi rend='italic'>neither +on the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Christ's +experience with the Jews, the chosen and professed +people of God at that time, respecting the Sabbath is but a type of what, +according to prophecy, is to occur in the last days. Already it is beginning +to find its parallel in the movement to enforce Sunday observance by +law. See readings on pages <ref target='Pg271'>271</ref>, +<ref target='Pg484'>484</ref>, <ref target='Pg488'>488</ref>. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='435'/><anchor id='Pg435'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Sabbath In The New Testament</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus435.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Paul On The Way To Assos. +"And they ... rested the Sabbath day according +to the commandment." Luke 23:56.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. According to the New Testament, what day immediately +precedes the first day of the week? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the end of <hi rend='italic'>the Sabbath</hi>, as it began to dawn toward the +first day of the week.</q> Matt. 28:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—According to +the New Testament, therefore, the Sabbath +had passed when the first day of the week began. +</quote> + +<p> +2. After the crucifixion, what day was kept by the women +who followed Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; +and <hi rend='italic'>rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment</hi>.</q> Luke +23:56. +</p> + +<p> +3. What day is the Sabbath, <q>according to the commandment</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the seventh day is the Sabbath</hi> of the Lord thy God.</q> +Ex. 20:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. What was Christ's custom respecting the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought +up: and, as His custom was, <hi rend='italic'>He went into the synagogue on the +Sabbath day and stood up for to read</hi>.</q> Luke 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +5. In what instruction to His disciples did Christ recognize +the existence of the Sabbath long after His ascension? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, <hi rend='italic'>neither +on the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:20. +</p> + +<pb n='436'/><anchor id='Pg436'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +destruction of Jerusalem under Titus occurred in the +spring and summer of 70 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +The flight of the Christians took place three +and one-half years earlier, or late in October, 66 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, following the arrival +and sudden withdrawal of Cestius and his army. See pages +<ref target='Pg313'>313</ref>, <ref target='Pg314'>314</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +6. On what day did the Jews meet for worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, +being read in the synagogues every <hi rend='italic'>Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Acts 15:21. +</p> + +<p> +7. On what day did Paul and Barnabas preach at Antioch? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue +on <hi rend='italic'>the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Acts 13:14. +</p> + +<p> +8. When did the Gentiles request that Paul should repeat +the sermon he had preached at Antioch on the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the +Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them +<hi rend='italic'>the next Sabbath</hi>.</q> Verse 42. +</p> + +<p> +9. On what day did Paul and his companions preach to the +devout women at Philippi? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>on the Sabbath</hi> we went out of the city by a riverside, +where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake +unto the women which resorted thither.</q> Acts 16:13. +</p> + +<p> +10. What was Paul's manner respecting the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the +Jews: and Paul, <hi rend='italic'>as his manner was, went in unto them, and three +Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures</hi>.</q> Acts +17:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It was +Paul's manner, as it was Christ's custom (Luke 4:16), +to attend religious services on the Sabbath. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How did the apostle spend the working days of the week +when at Corinth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came +to Corinth; and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in +Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; ... +and because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and +<hi rend='italic'>wrought</hi>: for by their +occupation they were <hi rend='italic'>tent-makers</hi>.</q> Acts +18:1-3. See Eze. 46:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. What did he do on the Sabbath days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath</hi>, and persuaded +the Jews and the Greeks.</q> Acts 18:4. +</p> + +<p> +13. How long did he continue this work there? +</p> + +<pb n='437'/><anchor id='Pg437'/> + +<p> +<q>And he continued there <hi rend='italic'>a year and six months</hi>, teaching +the word of God among them.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Here, +then, were seventy-eight Sabbaths on which Paul +preached in one city. The record further says that he worked at his trade, +and we may justly infer that Paul worked at tent-making just as many +Sundays as he preached Sabbaths. If to these seventy-eight Sabbaths we +add the three he spent at Thessalonica, the one at Philippi, and the two at +Antioch, we have a record of eighty-four Sabbaths on which the apostle +held religious services, while, so far as the record shows, he held only one +meeting on the first day of the week, and that a night meeting, immediately +following the Sabbath. See Acts 20. Evidently Sunday was not the +Sabbath in Paul's day. +</quote> + +<p> +14. On what day was John in the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was in the Spirit <hi rend='italic'>on the Lord's day</hi>.</q> Rev. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +15. Who is Lord of the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.</hi></q> Mark 2:28. +</p> + +<p> +16. What, through the prophet Isaiah, does the Lord call +the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing +thy pleasure on <hi rend='italic'>My holy day</hi>.</q> Isa. 58:13. +</p> + +<p> +17. Why does the Lord call the Sabbath His day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, +and all that in them is, and <hi rend='italic'>rested the seventh day</hi>: wherefore +the Lord <hi rend='italic'>blessed</hi> the +Sabbath day, and <hi rend='italic'>hallowed</hi> it.</q> Ex. 20:11. +</p> + +<p> +18. Through whom did God create the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by <hi rend='italic'>His +Son, ... by whom also He made the worlds</hi>.</q> Heb. 1:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—From +beginning to end, the Bible recognizes but one weekly +Sabbath,—the day upon which God rested in the beginning; which was +made known to Israel at Sinai (Neh. 9:13, 14); was observed by Christ +and His apostles; and is to be kept by the redeemed in the world to come. +Isa. 66:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +The terms Sabbath, Sabbaths, and Sabbath days occur sixty times in +the New Testament, and in every case but one refer to the seventh day. +In Col. 2:16, 17, reference is made to the annual sabbaths connected with +the three annual feasts observed by Israel before the first advent of Christ. +</p> + +<p> +The first day of the week is mentioned but eight times in the New +Testament, six of which are found in the four Gospels, and refer to the day +on which Christ arose from the dead. See Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; +Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19. The other two (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2) refer +to the only religious meeting held on the first day of the week after the +ascension, in apostolic times, recorded in the New Testament, and to a +systematic accounting and laying by in store at home on that day for the +poor saints in Judea and Jerusalem. +</p> + +<p> +It is evident, therefore, that the Sabbath of the New Testament is the +same as the Sabbath of the Old Testament, and that there is nothing in the +New Testament setting aside the seventh-day Sabbath, and putting the +first day of the week in its place. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='438'/><anchor id='Pg438'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Law of God</head> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{3cm} p{3cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(34) lw(34)'"> +<row><cell>As Given By Jehovah</cell><cell>As Changed By Man</cell></row> +<row><cell>I</cell><cell>I</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt have no other gods before me.</cell> + <cell>I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.</cell></row> +<row><cell>II</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not make unto thee +any graven image, or any likeness +of anything that is in +heaven above, or that is in the +earth beneath, or that is in the +water under the earth: thou +shalt not bow down thyself to +them, nor serve them: for I the +Lord thy God am a jealous God, +visiting the iniquity of the fathers +upon the children unto the +third and fourth generation of +them that hate Me; and showing +mercy unto thousands of them +that love Me, and keep My commandments.</cell><cell></cell></row> +<row><cell>III</cell><cell>II</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for +the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.</cell> + <cell>Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.</cell></row> +<row><cell>IV</cell><cell>III</cell></row> +<row><cell>Remember the Sabbath day, to +keep it holy. Six days shalt thou +labor, and do all thy work: but +the seventh day is the Sabbath of +the Lord thy God: in it thou +shalt not do any work, thou, nor +thy son, nor thy daughter, thy +man servant, nor thy maid servant, +nor thy cattle, nor thy +stranger that is within thy gates: +for in six days the Lord made +heaven and earth, the sea, and +all that in them is, and rested +the seventh day: wherefore the +Lord blessed the Sabbath day, +and hallowed it.</cell> + <cell>Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.</cell></row> +<row><cell>V</cell><cell>IV</cell></row> +<row><cell>Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be +long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.</cell> + <cell>Honor thy father and thy mother.</cell></row> +<row><cell>VI</cell><cell>V</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not kill.</cell><cell>Thou shalt not kill.</cell></row> +<row><cell>VII</cell><cell>VI</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not commit adultery.</cell> + <cell>Thou shalt not commit adultery.</cell></row> +<row><cell>VIII</cell><cell>VII</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not steal.</cell><cell>Thou shalt not steal.</cell></row> +<row><cell>IX</cell><cell>VIII</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.</cell> + <cell>Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.</cell></row> +<row><cell>X</cell><cell>IX</cell></row> +<row><cell>Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet +thy neighbor's wife, nor his man +servant, nor his maid servant, +nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything +that is thy neighbor's.</cell> + <cell>Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.</cell></row> +<row><cell></cell><cell>X</cell></row> +<row><cell></cell><cell>Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.</cell></row> +<row><cell>Ex. 20:3-17.</cell><cell>Butler's Catechism, page 28.</cell></row> +</table> + +</div> + +<pb n='439'/><anchor id='Pg439'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Change Of The Sabbath</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus439.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Changing The Law. +"He shall think to change the times and +the law." Dan. 7:25, R. V.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of what is the Sabbath commandment a part? +</p> + +<p> +The law of God. See Ex. 20:8-11. +</p> + +<p> +2. What, according to prophecy, was to be Christ's attitude +toward the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness' sake; <hi rend='italic'>He +will magnify the law, and make it honorable</hi>.</q> Isa. 42:21. +</p> + +<p> +3. In His first recorded discourse, what did Christ say of +the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: +I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.</q> Matt. 5:17. +</p> + +<p> +4. How enduring did He say the law is? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass, one +jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be +fulfilled.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +5. What did He say of those who should break one of the +least of God's commandments, and teach men so to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall teach men so, <hi rend='italic'>he shall be called the least +in the kingdom of heaven</hi>.</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From this +it is evident that the entire code of ten commandments +is binding in the Christian dispensation, and that Christ had no +<pb n='440'/><anchor id='Pg440'/> +thought of changing any of them. One of these commands the observance +of the seventh day as the Sabbath. But the practise of most Christians +is different; they keep the first day of the week instead, many of them believing +that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own words, we +see that He came for no such purpose. The responsibility for this change +must therefore be looked for elsewhere. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What did God, through the prophet Daniel, say the +power represented by the <q>little horn</q> would think to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall +wear out the saints of the Most High: and <hi rend='italic'>he shall think to change +the times and the law</hi>.</q> Dan. 7:25, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For a full +explanation of this symbol, see readings on <q>The +Kingdom and Work of Antichrist</q> and <q>The Vicar of Christ,</q> pages +<ref target='Pg218'>218</ref>, <ref target='Pg224'>224</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What did the apostle Paul say the <q>man of sin</q> would do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For that day shall not come, except there come a falling +away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; +<hi rend='italic'>who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or +that is worshiped</hi>.</q> 2 Thess. 2:3, 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There is only +one way by which any power could exalt itself +above God, and that is by assuming to change the law of God, and to require +obedience to its own law instead of God's law. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What power has claimed authority to change the law of +God? +</p> + +<p> +The Papacy. +</p> + +<p> +9. What part of the law of God especially has the Papacy +thought to change? +</p> + +<p> +The fourth commandment. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>They +[the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, +the Lord's day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears; neither is +there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. +Great, say they, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed +with one of the ten commandments.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Augsburg +Confession, Art. XXVIII.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It [the Roman Catholic Church] has <emph>reversed</emph> the fourth commandment, +doing away with the Sabbath of God's Word, and instituting Sunday +as a holy day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>N. Summerbell, +in <q>History of the Christians,</q> page +418.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +10. Why did God command Israel to hallow the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between +Me and you, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know that I am the Lord your +God</hi>.</q> Eze. 20:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As +the Sabbath was given that man might keep God in mind +as Creator, it can be readily seen that a power endeavoring to exalt itself +above God would first try to cover up or remove that which calls man's +special attention to his Creator. This could be done in no other way so +<pb n='441'/><anchor id='Pg441'/> +effectually as by setting aside God's memorial—the seventh-day Sabbath. +To this work of the Papacy Daniel had reference when he said, +<q>And he shall ... think to change <emph>times</emph> and +<emph>laws</emph>.</q> Dan. 7:25. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Does the Papacy acknowledge that it has changed the +Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +It does. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Question.</hi>—How +prove you that the church hath power to +command feasts and holy days?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Answer.</hi>—By the +very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, +which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves +by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feast days +commanded by the same church.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Abridgment +of Christian Doctrine,</q> +by Rev. Henry Tuberville, D. D., of Douay College, France (1649), page 58.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ques.</hi>—Have +you any other way of proving that the church has +power to institute festivals of precept?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ans.</hi>—Had +she not such power, she could not have done that in +which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not have substituted +the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the +observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is +no Scriptural authority.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>A +Doctrinal Catechism,</q> by Rev. Stephen +Keenan, page 174.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Catholic Church of its own infallible authority created Sunday +a holy day to take the place of the Sabbath of +the old law.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Kansas City +Catholic, Feb. 9, 1893.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Catholic Church, ... by virtue of her divine mission, +changed the day from Saturday to Sunday.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Catholic +Mirror, official +organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ques.</hi>—Which is the Sabbath day?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ans.</hi>—Saturday is the Sabbath day.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Ques.</hi>—Why do we observe Sunday instead +of Saturday?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ans.</hi>—We observe Sunday +instead of Saturday because the Catholic +Church, in the Council of Laodicea (<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +336), transferred the solemnity +from Saturday to Sunday.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine,</q> +by Rev. Peter Geiermann, C. SS. R., page 50, third edition, 1913, a +work which received the <q>apostolic blessing</q> of Pope Pius X, Jan. 25, 1910.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +What was done at the Council of Laodicea was but one of the steps +by which the change of the Sabbath was effected. See under questions +17-21. The date usually given for this council is 364 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +12. Do Catholic authorities acknowledge that there is no +command in the Bible for the sanctification of Sunday? +</p> + +<p> +They do. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>You may +read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and +you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. +The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which +we never sanctify.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Cardinal +Gibbons, in <q>The Faith of Our Fathers,</q> +edition 1892, page 111.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can +be defended only on Catholic principles.... From beginning to end +of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of +weekly public worship from the last day of the week to +the first.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Catholic +Press (Sydney, Australia), Aug. 25, 1900.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='442'/><anchor id='Pg442'/> + +<p> +13. Do Protestant writers acknowledge the same? +</p> + +<p> +They do. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Is there +no express commandment for observing the first +day of the week as Sabbath, instead of the seventh day?—None whatever. +Neither Christ, nor His apostles, nor the first Christians celebrated the +first day of the week instead of the seventh as +the Sabbath.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>New York +Weekly Tribune, May 24, 1900.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week the Sabbath.... +There is no Scriptural authority for so doing, nor of course any +Scriptural obligation.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The Watchman (Baptist).</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The observance of the first instead of the seventh day rests on the +testimony of the church, and the church +<emph>alone</emph>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Hobart Church News +(Episcopalian), July 2, 1894.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +For additional testimonies, see reading on page <ref target='Pg454'>454</ref>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +14. How did this change in observance of days come about, +suddenly or gradually? +</p> + +<p> +Gradually. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The Christian +church made no formal, but a gradual and +almost unconscious transference of the one day to the +other.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The Voice +From Sinai,</q> by Archdeacon F. W. Farrar, page 167.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +This of itself is evidence that there was no divine command for the +change of the Sabbath. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +15. For how long a time was the seventh-day Sabbath observed +in the Christian church? +</p> + +<p> +For many centuries. In fact, its observance has never +wholly ceased in the Christian church. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Mr. Morer, +a learned clergyman of the Church of England, +says: <q>The primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, +and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted +that they derived this practise from the apostles +themselves.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Dialogues +on the Lord's Day,</q> page 189.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Prof. E. Brerwood, of Gresham College, London (Episcopal), says: +<q>The Sabbath was religiously observed in the Eastern church three hundred +years and more after our Saviour's passion.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Learned +Treatise of +the Sabbath,</q> page 77.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Lyman Coleman, a careful and candid historian, says: <q>Down even +to the fifth century the observance of the Jewish Sabbath was continued +in the Christian church, but with a rigor and solemnity gradually diminishing +until it was wholly discontinued.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Ancient +Christianity Exemplified,</q> +chap. 26, sec. 2.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The historian Socrates, who wrote about the middle of the fifth century, +says: <q>Almost all the churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred +mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria +and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, refuse to +do this.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Ecclesiastical +History,</q> book 5, chap. 22.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Sozomen, another historian of the same period, writes: <q>The people +of Constantinople, and of several other cities, assemble together on the +Sabbath as well as on the next day; which custom is never observed at +Rome.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Ecclesiastical History,</q> book 7, chap. 19.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='443'/><anchor id='Pg443'/> + +<p> +All this would have been inconceivable and impossible had there been +a divine command given for the change of the Sabbath. The last two +quotations also show that Rome led in the apostasy and in the change of +the Sabbath. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +16. What striking testimony is borne by Neander, the noted +church historian, regarding the origin of the Sunday sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Opposition to Judaism introduced the particular festival +of Sunday very early, indeed, into the place of the Sabbath.... +The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always +only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions +of the apostles to establish a divine command in this +respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic church, +to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday. Perhaps at the +end of the second century a false application of this kind had +begun to take place; for men appear by that time to have considered +laboring on Sunday as a sin.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Neander's <q>Church +History</q> Rose's translation, page 186.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +17. Who first enjoined Sunday-keeping by law? +</p> + +<p> +Constantine the Great. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The earliest +recognition of the observance of Sunday as a +legal duty is a constitution of Constantine in 321 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, enacting that all +courts of justice, inhabitants of towns, and workshops were to be at rest +on Sunday (<foreign lang='la' rend='italic'>venerabili die Solis</foreign>), +with an exception in favor of those engaged +in agricultural labor.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, +article <q>Sunday.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Constantine the Great made a law for the whole empire +(321 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>) +that Sunday should be kept as a day of rest in all cities and towns; but he +allowed the country people to follow their +work.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Encyclopedia Americana, +article <q>Sabbath.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Unquestionably the first law, either ecclesiastical or civil, by which +the Sabbatical observance of that day is known to have been ordained, +is the edict of Constantine, 321 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi></q>—<hi rend='italic'>Chambers's Encyclopedia, +article <q>Sabbath.</q></hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +18. What did Constantine's law require? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let all the judges and town people, and the occupation +of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun; but let those +who are situated in the country, freely and at full liberty, attend +to the business of agriculture; because it often happens +that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines; +lest the critical moment being let slip, men should lose the commodities +granted by heaven.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Edict of +March 7, 321 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, +Corpus Juris Civilis Cod., lib. 3, tit. 12, 3.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This edict, issued +by Constantine, under whom the Christian +church and the Roman state were first united, in a manner supplied the +lack of a divine command for Sunday observance, and may be considered +the original Sunday law, and the model after which all Sunday laws since +then have been patterned. It was one of the important steps in bringing +about and establishing the change of the Sabbath. +</quote> + +<pb n='444'/><anchor id='Pg444'/> + +<p> +19. What testimony does Eusebius (270-338), a noted bishop +of the church, a flatterer of Constantine, and the reputed father +of ecclesiastical history, bear upon this subject? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things whatsoever that it was duty to do on the Sabbath, +these <hi rend='italic'>we</hi> have transferred +to the Lord's day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Commentary +on the Psalms,</q> Cox's <q>Sabbath Literature</q> Vol. I, page 361.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The change of +the Sabbath was the result of the combined +efforts of church and state, and it was centuries before it was fully accomplished. +</quote> + +<p> +20. When and by what church council was the observance +of the seventh day forbidden, and Sunday observance enjoined? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The seventh-day Sabbath was ... solemnized by +Christ, the apostles, and primitive Christians, till <hi rend='italic'>the Laodicean +Council</hi> did, in a manner, quite abolish the observation of it. + ... The Council of Laodicea [<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 364] ... first +settled the observation of the Lord's day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Prynne's +<q>Dissertation +on the Lord's Day Sabbath,</q> page 163.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +21. What did this council, in its twenty-ninth canon, decree +concerning the Sabbath and Christians who continued to observe +it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [Sabbath], +but shall work on that day.... If, however, they +are found Judaizing, <hi rend='italic'>they shall be shut +out from Christ</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Hefele's +<q>History of the Councils of the Church,</q> Vol. II, page 316.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Some of +the further steps taken by church and state authorities +in bringing about this change may be noted as follows:— +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>In 386, under Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius, it was decreed +that all litigation and business should cease [on Sunday]....</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Among the doctrines laid down in a letter of Pope Innocent I, written +in the last year of his papacy (416), is that Saturday should be observed +as a fast-day....</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>In 425, under Theodosius the Younger, abstinence from theatricals +and the circus [on Sunday] was enjoined....</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>In 538, at a council at Orleans, ... it was ordained that everything +previously permitted on Sunday should still be lawful; but that work +at the plow, or in the vineyard, and cutting, reaping, threshing, tilling, and +hedging should be abstained from, that people might more conveniently +attend church....</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>About 590 Pope Gregory, in a letter to the Roman people, denounced +as the prophets of Antichrist those who maintained that work ought not +to be done on the seventh day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Law +of Sunday</q> by James T. Ringgold, +pages 265-267.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The last paragraph of the foregoing quotation indicates that even as +late as 590 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> there were those in +the church who observed and who taught +the observance of the Bible Sabbath, the seventh day. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +22. What determines whose servants we are? +</p> + +<pb n='445'/><anchor id='Pg445'/> + +<p> +<q>Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants +to obey, <hi rend='italic'>his servants ye are to whom ye obey</hi>?</q> Rom. 6:16. +</p> + +<p> +23. When tempted to bow down and worship Satan, what +reply did Christ make? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Get thee hence, Satan</hi>: for it is written, Thou shalt worship +the Lord thy God, and <hi rend='italic'>Him only shalt thou serve</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:10, +11. +</p> + +<p> +24. What do Catholics say of the observance of Sunday by +Protestants? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of +Jesus Christ, has transferred this rest to the Sunday in remembrance +of the resurrection of our Lord. Thus <hi rend='italic'>the observance +of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of +themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] +church</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Plain +Talk About the Protestantism of Today,</q> by Mgr. Segur, page 213.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +25. What kind of worship does the Saviour call that which +is not according to God's commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>in vain they do worship Me</hi>, teaching +for doctrines <hi rend='italic'>the +commandments of men</hi>.</q> Matt. 15:9. +</p> + +<p> +26. When Israel had apostatized, and were almost universally +worshiping Baal, what appeal did Elijah make to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>How long halt ye between two opinions? <hi rend='italic'>if the Lord be God, +follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him.</hi></q> 1 Kings 18:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In times +of ignorance God winks at that which otherwise +would be sin; but when light comes He commands men everywhere to repent. +Acts 17:30. The period during which the saints, times, and the +law of God were to be in the hands of the Papacy has expired (Dan. 7:25); +the true light on the Sabbath question is now shining; and God is sending +a message to the world, calling upon men to fear and worship Him, and to +return to the observance of His holy rest day, the seventh-day Sabbath. +Rev. 14:6-12; Isa. 56:1; 58:1, 12-14. See pages +<ref target='Pg259'>259</ref>, <ref target='Pg446'>446</ref>, +<ref target='Pg463'>463</ref>, <ref target='Pg547'>547</ref>. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Who is on the Lord's side</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Always true?</l> +<l>There's a right and wrong side,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Where stand you?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thousands on the wrong side</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Choose to stand,</l> +<l>Still 'tis not the strong side,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>True and grand.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Come and join the Lord's side:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>Ask you why?—</l> +<l>'Tis the only safe side</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 4'>By and by.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'><hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='446'/><anchor id='Pg446'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Seal Of God And The Mark +Of Apostasy</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus446.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Angel With The Seal. +"Bind up the testimony, seal the law among +My disciples." Isa. 8:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does the Bible present as the object of a sign, +or seal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now, O king, <hi rend='italic'>establish</hi> +the decree, and <hi rend='italic'>sign the writing, +that it be not changed</hi>.</q> Dan. 6:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, +affix the signature of royalty, that it may have the +proper authority, and thus be of force. Anciently it was customary for +kings to use a ring, containing their name, initials, or monogram, for this +purpose. Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, <q>wrote letters in Ahab's <emph>name</emph>, and +sealed them with his <emph>seal</emph>.</q> 1 Kings 21:8. Of the decree issued under +Ahasuerus for the slaying of all the Jews throughout the Persian Empire, +it is said that <q>in the <emph>name</emph> of King Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed +with the king's <emph>ring</emph>.</q> Esther 3:12. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What are the three essentials to an official seal? +</p> + +<p> +To be complete, an official seal must show three things: +(1) The name of the lawgiver; (2) his official position, title, or +authority, and so his right to rule; and (3) his kingdom, or the +extent of his dominion and jurisdiction. Thus: <q>Woodrow +Wilson, President of the United States,</q> <q>George IV, King of +Great Britain,</q> <q>Nicholas II, Czar of Russia.</q> +</p> + +<p> +3. With what is God's seal connected? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bind up the testimony, <hi rend='italic'>seal</hi> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>THE LAW</hi> <hi rend='italic'>among My disciples</hi>.</q> +Isa. 8:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. Does the first commandment show who the author of +the law is? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt have no other gods before <hi rend='italic'>Me</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:3. +</p> + +<pb n='447'/><anchor id='Pg447'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Who the +<q>me</q> here spoken of is, the commandment itself +does not state. Such a prohibition might come from any source. Any +heathen could claim it as a command from his god, and, so far as the commandment +itself goes, no one could disprove his claim. +</quote> + +<p> +5. Does the second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, +or tenth commandment indicate the author of the decalogue? +</p> + +<p> +No; none of them. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +second commandment forbids the making of and bowing +down to images, but does not in itself reveal who the true God is. The +third commandment says, <q>Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy +God in vain,</q> but it likewise fails to reveal the true God and giver of the +law. A worshiper of the sun might say he kept this commandment so far +as it itself reveals what god is meant. So of the other commandments +here referred to. In the last five commandments the name of God is not +even mentioned. +</quote> + +<p> +6. Which commandment alone of the decalogue reveals the +true God and Author of the law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days +shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is +the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any +work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, +nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is +within thy gates: for in six days <hi rend='italic'>the Lord made heaven and earth, +the sea, and all that in them is</hi>, and rested the seventh day: wherefore +the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.</q> +Verses 8-11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The fourth commandment alone +reveals the <emph>name</emph>, <emph>authority</emph>, +and <emph>dominion</emph> of the Author of this law. +In six days, (1) the <emph>Lord</emph> (name); +(2) <emph>made</emph> (office, Creator); (3) <emph>heaven and earth</emph> +(dominion). This commandment +alone, therefore, contains <q>the <emph>seal</emph> of the living God.</q> By +what is revealed in this commandment is shown what God is referred to in +the other commandments. By the great truth revealed here all other gods +are shown to be false gods. The Sabbath commandment, therefore, contains +the seal of God; and the Sabbath itself, the observance of which is +enjoined by the commandment, is inseparably connected with this seal; +it is to be kept in memory of the fact that God is the Creator of all +things; and it is itself called a <q>sign</q> of the knowledge of this great truth. +Ex. 31:17; Eze. 20:20. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What reason does God give for the Sabbath being an +everlasting sign between Him and His people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is <hi rend='italic'>a sign</hi> between Me and the children of Israel forever: +<hi rend='italic'>for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh +day He rested, and was refreshed</hi>.</q> Ex. 31:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +Sabbath is the sign, or mark, or seal, of the true God, the +Creator. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Of what does God say the keeping or hallowing of the +Sabbath is a sign? +</p> + +<pb n='448'/><anchor id='Pg448'/> + +<p> +<q>And hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be <hi rend='italic'>a sign</hi> between +Me and you, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know that I am the Lord your God</hi>.</q> +Eze. 20:20. +</p> + +<p> +9. Of what besides a knowledge of God as Creator, is the +Sabbath a sign? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is <hi rend='italic'>a sign</hi> between +Me and you throughout your generations; <hi rend='italic'>that ye may know +that I am the Lord that doth</hi> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>sanctify</hi> <hi rend='italic'>you</hi>.</q> Ex. 31:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Sabbath is +the great sign of God's creative power wherever +and however manifested, whether in creation or redemption; for redemption +is creation—<emph>re</emph>-creation. It requires +the same power to <emph>redeem</emph> +that it does to <emph>create</emph>. +<q><emph>Create</emph> in me a clean heart.</q> Ps. 51:10. +<q>For we are His workmanship, <emph>created</emph> in Christ Jesus unto good works.</q> +Eph. 2:10. At each recurrence of the Sabbath, God designs that it shall +call Him to mind as the One who created us, and whose grace and sanctifying +power are working in us to fit us for His eternal kingdom. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What scripture shows that a special sealing work is to +take place just before the letting loose of the winds of destruction +upon the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And after these things I saw four angels standing on the +four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, +that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor +on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, +<hi rend='italic'>having the seal of the living God</hi>: and he cried with a loud voice +to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and +the sea, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, +till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads</hi>. And +I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were +sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes +of the children of Israel.</q> Rev. 7:1-4. See Eze. 9:1-6. +</p> + +<p> +11. Where did the apostle see this same company a little +later, and what did they have in their foreheads? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood <hi rend='italic'>on the mount Sion</hi>, +and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, <hi rend='italic'>having His +Father's name written in their foreheads</hi>.</q> Rev. 14:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The <hi rend='italic'>seal of God</hi> +and the Father's <hi rend='italic'>name</hi> must refer to the same +thing. The seal is the sign or stamp of perfection, and God's name stands +for His character, which is perfection. And the Sabbath of God, kept as +God ordained it to be kept, holy, and in holiness, is <emph>a sign</emph> of this same +thing—perfection of character. When this seal is finally placed upon +God's people, it will be an evidence that His grace and His sanctifying +power have done their work, and fitted them for heaven. In the world to +come, all will keep the Sabbath, and will therefore have this seal or mark +of sanctification, holiness, and perfection of character. Isa. 66:22, 23. +</quote> + +<pb n='449'/><anchor id='Pg449'/> + +<p> +12. What is said of the character of these sealed ones? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in their mouth was found no guile: for <hi rend='italic'>they are without +fault before the throne of God</hi>.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +13. How is the remnant church described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the <hi rend='italic'>patience</hi> of +the saints: here are they that <hi rend='italic'>keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +14. Against what three things does the third angel of Revelation +14 warn men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, +If any man <hi rend='italic'>worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark +in his forehead, or in his hand</hi>, the same shall drink of the wine +of the wrath of God.</q> Verses 9, 10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +beast represents the Papacy; the image to the beast +represents another ecclesiastical body dominating civil power. See readings +on pages <ref target='Pg268'>268</ref>, <ref target='Pg271'>271</ref>. +And over against the seal of God stands the mark +of the beast, the mark of apostasy. Against this false and idolatrous worship +and the reception of this mark, God sends this solemn warning. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What power mentioned in the thirteenth chapter of +Revelation is to enforce this mark? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>he</hi> [the two-horned beast] causeth all, both small and +great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive <hi rend='italic'>a mark</hi> in their +right hand, or in their foreheads.</q> Rev. 13:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +two-horned beast is understood to represent the United +States of America. See reading on page <ref target='Pg271'>271</ref>. +As this nation repudiates +her principles of civil and religious liberty, and becomes a persecuting +power, other nations will follow her example in oppressing those who +refuse to yield their allegiance to God. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What does the Papacy set forth as the mark, or sign, +of its power and authority? +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Question.</hi>—How prove you +that the church hath power to +command feasts and holy days?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Answer.—By the +very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday</hi>, +which Protestants allow of.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Abridgment of Christian +Doctrine,</q> by Rev. Henry Tuberville, D. D., page 58.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—In a +letter written in November, 1895, Mr. H. F. Thomas, +chancellor to Cardinal Gibbons, replying to an inquiry as to whether the +Catholic Church claims to have changed the Sabbath, said: <q>Of course the +Catholic Church claims that the change was her act, ... and the +act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things.</q> For other +statements concerning this, see pages <ref target='Pg441'>441</ref>, +<ref target='Pg444'>444</ref>, <ref target='Pg464'>464</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +The true Sabbath being a sign of loyalty to the true God, it is but +natural that the false sabbath should be regarded as a sign of allegiance +to apostasy. And such we find to be the case. +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='450'/><anchor id='Pg450'/> + +<p> +17. What do papal authorities say of the observance of Sunday +by Protestants? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The observance of <hi rend='italic'>Sunday</hi> by the Protestants is an homage +they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic] +church.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today,</q> +by Monsignor Segur, page 213.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +statement here made is true, and a full realization of the +fact will lead those who honestly, but ignorantly, have heretofore been +observing Sunday as the Sabbath, to refuse longer to pay homage to apostasy, +and return to the observance of that which is the sign of loyalty to +heaven,—the only weekly day of rest which God, in His Word, has commanded +men to keep holy, the seventh day. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What will be the dragon's attitude toward the remnant +people who keep the commandments of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon <hi rend='italic'>was wroth with the woman, and went to make +war with the remnant of her seed</hi>, which keep the commandments +of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</q> Rev. 12:17. +</p> + +<p> +19. How strongly will this false worship and the enforcement +of this mark be urged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the image of the beast should both speak, and cause +[decree] that as many as would not worship the image of the +beast <hi rend='italic'>should be killed</hi>. And he causeth all, both small and great, +rich and poor, free and bond, to receive <hi rend='italic'>a mark</hi> in their right +hand, or in their foreheads: and <hi rend='italic'>that no man might buy or sell, +save he that had the mark</hi>.</q> Rev. 13:15-17. See note under +question 19, on page <ref target='Pg227'>227</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +20. Over what do the people of God finally gain the victory? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and +them that had gotten the victory <hi rend='italic'>over the beast, and over his image, +and over his mark, and over the number of his name</hi>, stand on the +sea of glass, having the harps of God.</q> Rev. 15:2. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>The God that made the earth,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And all the worlds on high,</l> +<l>Who gave all creatures birth,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In earth, and sea, and sky,</l> +<l>After six days in work employed,</l> +<l>Upon the seventh a rest enjoyed.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The Sabbath day was blessed,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Hallowed, and sanctified;</l> +<l>It was Jehovah's rest,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And so it must abide;</l> +<l>'Twas set apart before the fall,</l> +<l>'Twas made for man, 'twas made for all.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 28'><hi rend='smallcaps'>R. F. Cottrell.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='451'/><anchor id='Pg451'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Lord's Day</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus451.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>John's Vision On Patmos. +"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." +Rev. 1:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. From what time was Christ, the Word, associated with +God, the Father? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In the beginning</hi> was the Word, and the Word was with +God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning +with God.</q> John 1:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +2. By whom were all things created? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in +God, <hi rend='italic'>who created all things by Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> Eph. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +3. By whom were the worlds made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake +in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these +last days spoken unto us by <hi rend='italic'>His Son, ... by whom also +He made the worlds</hi>.</q> Heb. 1:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +4. How does Paul again express this same truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>by Him were all things created</hi>, that are in heaven, and +that are in earth, visible and invisible, ... <hi rend='italic'>all things were +created by Him</hi>, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by +Him all things consist.</q> Col. 1:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +5. Was there anything made without Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things were made by Him; and <hi rend='italic'>without Him was not +anything made that was made</hi>.</q> John 1:3. +</p> + +<pb n='452'/><anchor id='Pg452'/> + +<p> +6. Was the Sabbath <q>made</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>The Sabbath was +<hi rend='smallcaps'>made</hi> for man</hi>.</q> +Mark 2:27. +</p> + +<p> +7. Then by whom was the Sabbath made? +</p> + +<p> +By Christ. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +conclusion is inevitable. If all things were made by +Christ, and without Him was not anything made that was made, and the +Sabbath was one of the things that was made, then it follows that the Sabbath +must have been made by Christ. This being so, the Sabbath must +be the Lord's day. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What did God do in the beginning on the seventh day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had +made; and <hi rend='italic'>He rested on the seventh day</hi> from all His work which +He had made.</q> Gen. 2:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If all +things were made by Jesus Christ, then He, with the +Father, rested on the first seventh day from all His labor in the work of +creation. +</quote> + +<p> +9. After resting on the seventh day, what did God do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God <hi rend='italic'>blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because +that in it He had rested</hi> from all His work which God created +and made.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—And inasmuch +as this blessing and this sanctification of the +day were a part of the <emph>making</emph> of +the Sabbath, as well as the <emph>resting</emph> upon +the day, these also must have been done by Christ; for the Sabbath was +<emph>made</emph> by Him. +</quote> + +<p> +10. How much honor is due to Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That all men should honor the Son, <hi rend='italic'>even as they honor the +Father</hi>.</q> John 5:23. <q>I and My Father are <hi rend='italic'>one</hi>.</q> John +10:30. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In keeping the +Sabbath, then, we honor Christ equally with +the Father. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Did Christ keep the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought +up: and, <hi rend='italic'>as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the +Sabbath day, and stood up for to read</hi>.</q> Luke 4:16. <q><hi rend='italic'>I have +kept My Father's commandments.</hi></q> John 15:10. +</p> + +<p> +12. Did Christ's followers keep the Sabbath after His death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; +<hi rend='italic'>and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment</hi>.</q> Luke +23:56. +</p> + +<pb n='453'/><anchor id='Pg453'/> + +<p> +13. Did they observe it after His resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Paul, <hi rend='italic'>as his manner was</hi>, +went in unto them, <hi rend='italic'>and three +Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures</hi>.</q> Acts +17:2. See also Acts 13:14, 42, 44; 16:13; 18:1-4, 11. +</p> + +<p> +14. On what day does John say he was in the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was in the Spirit on <hi rend='italic'>the Lord's day</hi>.</q> Rev. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +15. What day does the commandment say is the Lord's? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The seventh day</hi> is the Sabbath of the Lord.</q> Ex. 20:10. +</p> + +<p> +16. By whose Spirit did the prophets write? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The Spirit of Christ</hi> which was in them.</q> 1 Peter 1:11. +</p> + +<p> +17. What does the prophet Isaiah, speaking for God through +this Spirit of Christ, call the seventh-day Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My holy day.</q> Isa. 58:13. +</p> + +<p> +18. Does Christ anywhere in the Scriptures ever claim any +other day of the week than the seventh as His? +</p> + +<p> +He does not. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We do not +need to speculate as to what day is the Lord's, if +we will but take the Word of God for our guide, for loyalty to which John +was banished to the isle of Patmos. See Rev. 1:9. +</quote> + +<p> +19. If John, therefore, referred to a day of the week, on what +day must he have been in the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +The seventh day. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—No other +day of the week in all the Bible is claimed by God +as His day. During the second, third, and fourth centuries of the Christian +era, when apostasy came in like a flood, men, without any warrant +or command of Scripture, thinking to do honor to Christ and despite +to the Jews who crucified Christ, began to neglect the Sabbath of the +fourth commandment, and to honor the day of the week on which Christ +rose from the dead, the first day, as <q>the Lord's day,</q> until finally the +Sabbath was almost wholly lost sight of, and the Sunday quite generally +took its place. But there was no more warrant for this change in the divine +and unchangeable law of God than there was for other errors and changes +which crept into the professed Christian church during this same time, such +as abstaining from meat on Friday in honor of the crucifixion; Mariolatry, +or the worship of the Virgin Mary; the mass; purgatory; indulgences; +prayers for the dead; saint-worship; and the human vicarship of Christ. +There was no more divine authority for one than for the others. All came +in through apostasy. The Bible knows but one true and living God, one +Lawgiver, one Mediator between God and man, one Lord and Saviour +Jesus Christ, one body, one Spirit, one hope, one faith, one baptism, and +<emph>one Sabbath</emph>. See Jer. 10:10-12; Rev. 14:6, 7; 1 Tim. 2:5; Eph. 4:4-6; +Ex. 20:8-11. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='454'/><anchor id='Pg454'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Walking As He Walked</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus454.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jesus In The Synagogue On +The Sabbath. +"Leaving us an example, that ye should +follow His steps." 1 Peter 2:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. The way of the Christian life was set for us by Jesus +Himself. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to +<hi rend='italic'>walk, even as He walked</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:6. <q>Leaving us an example, +that ye should <hi rend='italic'>follow His steps</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 2:21. +</p> + +<p> +2. The footprints that Jesus set for us to follow, lead unvaryingly +along the way of God's commandments. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I have kept My Father's commandments</hi>, and abide in His +love.</q> John 15:10. <q>For this is the love of God, <hi rend='italic'>that we keep +His commandments</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:3. +</p> + +<p> +3. The pathway is the same today as when Jesus walked in +Judea. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus Christ <hi rend='italic'>the same yesterday, and today, and forever</hi>.</q> +Heb. 13:8. +</p> + +<p> +4. When it is shown that Jesus kept the seventh day holy +as our example, many ask, <q>Why have not scholar and churchmen +found out that there is no Bible authority for first-day +sacredness?</q> +</p> + +<pb n='455'/><anchor id='Pg455'/> + +<p> +The answer is, They have found it so, and have freely declared +the fact. +</p> + +<div> +<head>Testimony Of Eminent Men</head> + +<p> +5. The extracts that follow are from noted clergymen, scholars, +and eminent writers, all of whom doubtless kept the Sunday +as a matter of church custom. But they nevertheless +bear witness that there is no Bible command for it. +</p> + +<p> +Church Of England Writers +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +Archdeacon Farrar: <q>The Sabbath is Saturday, the seventh day of +the week.</q> <q>The Christian church made no formal, but a gradual and +almost unconscious transference of the one day to the +other.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Voice From Sinai,</q> pages 163, 167.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Canon Eyton (of Westminster): <q>There is no word, no hint, in the +New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday.</q> <q>The observance +of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly on the same footing as +the observance of Sunday.</q> <q>Constantine's decree was the first public +step in establishing the first day of the week as a day on which there +should be secular rest as well as religious worship.... Into the rest +of Sunday no divine law enters.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The Ten +Commandments,</q> Trubners +& Co.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Canon Knox-Little, replying to those who quote the example of Christ +against the High-church ritualism, says:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is certain that our Lord when on earth <emph>did</emph> observe Saturday, and +did <emph>not</emph> observe Sunday.</q> <q>If they are consistent, as I have said, they +must keep Saturday, not Sunday, as the day of +rest.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Sacerdotalism,</q> +Longman Company.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Sir William Domville: <q>Centuries of the Christian era passed away +before the Sunday was observed by the Christian church +as a Sabbath.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Examination +of Six Texts,</q> chap. 8, page 291.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +Writers Of Other Churches +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +Bishop Grimelund, of Norway (Lutheran): <q>The Christians in the +ancient church very soon distinguished the first day of the week, Sunday; +however, not as a sabbath, but as an assembly day of the church, to study +the Word of God together.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Geschichte +des Sonntags,</q> page 60.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Dr. R. W. Dale (British Congregationalist): <q>It is quite clear that +however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping +the Sabbath.... The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine +command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday.... +There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest +that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity +of Sunday.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Ten Commandments,</q> Hodder and Stoughton, pages 106, 107.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Dr. Lyman Abbott (American Congregationalist): <q>The current +notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first +day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in +the New Testament.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Christian +Union, June 26, 1890.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Dr. Edward T. Hiscock (Baptist): <q>There was and is a commandment +to <q>keep holy the Sabbath day,</q> but that Sabbath was not Sunday. +It will, however, be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the +Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week.... +Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the +New Testament—absolutely not.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The +New York Examiner, Nov. 16, +1893.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='456'/><anchor id='Pg456'/> + +<p> +Dr. D. H. Lucas (Disciple): <q>There is no direct Scriptural authority for +designating the first day the Lord's day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Christian +Oracle, Jan. 23, 1890.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Cardinal Gibbons (Roman Catholic): <q>You may read the Bible from +Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the +sanctification of Sunday.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Faith +of Our Fathers,</q> edition 1892, page 111.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Prize Essay of American Sunday-school Union: <q>Up to the time of +Christ's death, no change had been made in the day.... So far as +the record shows, they [the apostles] did not give any explicit command enjoining +the abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and its observance +on the first day of the week.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Lord's +Day,</q> pages 185, 186.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +Encyclopedias And Church Manuals +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> + +<p> +<q>Dictionary of Christian Antiquities:</q> <q>The notion of a formal substitution +by apostolic authority of the Lord's day [meaning Sunday] for the +Jewish Sabbath, and the transference to it, perhaps in a spiritualized form, +of the Sabbatical obligation established by the promulgation of the fourth +commandment, has no basis whatever, either in the Holy Scriptures or in +Christian antiquity.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Article <q>Sabbath,</q> +Smith and Cheetham.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Cyclopedia of Biblical Theology:</q> <q>It must be confessed that there +is no law in the New Testament concerning the first +day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Article <q>Sabbath,</q> +McClintock and Strong.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Methodist Episcopal <q>Theological Compend,</q> by Amos Binney: <q>It +is true, there is no positive command for infant baptism.... Nor is +there any for keeping holy the first day of the +week.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Pages 180, 181.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Protestant Episcopal <q>Manual of Christian Doctrine:</q> <q>Is there any +command in the New Testament to change the day of weekly rest from +Saturday?—None.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Page 127.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Protestant Episcopal <q>Explanation of Catechism:</q> <q>The day is now +changed from the seventh to the first day; ... but as we meet with +<emph>no Scriptural direction for the change</emph>, we may conclude it was done by the +authority of the church.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +6. What influence do the Bible and history show working +in the church immediately after apostolic days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse +things, to draw away disciples after them.</q> Acts 20:30. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>In +the interval between the days of the apostles and the +conversion of Constantine, the Christian commonwealth changed its aspect.... +Rites and ceremonies of which neither Paul nor Peter ever +heard, crept silently into use, and then claimed the rank +of divine institutions.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. +W. D. Killen's (Presbyterian) <q>The Ancient Church,</q> Preface.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +7. What did Christ say of worship based upon the commandments +of men? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In vain they do worship Me</hi>, +teaching for doctrines the commandments +of men.</q> Matt. 15:9. +</p> + +<p> +8. What did He say should be done with every plant not +planted by God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Every plant, which My Heavenly Father hath not planted, +<hi rend='italic'>shall be rooted up</hi>.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='457'/><anchor id='Pg457'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Sabbath In History</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus457.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Israel In Captivity. +"To fulfil the word of the Lord, ... +until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths." +2 Chron. 36:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When and by what acts was the Sabbath made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And on <hi rend='italic'>the seventh day</hi> God ended His work which He had +made; and He <hi rend='italic'>rested</hi> on the seventh day from all His work which +He had made. And God <hi rend='italic'>blessed</hi> the +seventh day, and <hi rend='italic'>sanctified</hi> +it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which +God created and made.</q> Gen. 2:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +2. What division of time is marked off by the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +The week. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>One of the +most striking collateral confirmations of the +Mosaic history of the creation is the general adoption of the division of +time into <emph>weeks</emph>, which extends from the Christian states of Europe to the +remote shores of Hindustan, and has equally prevailed among the Hebrews, +the Egyptians, Chinese, Greeks, Romans, and northern barbarians,—nations +some of whom had little or no intercourse with others, and were +not even known by name to the Hebrews.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Horne's +<q>Introduction to the +Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures,</q> Vol. I, page 69, edition +1841.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seven has been the ancient and honored number among the nations +of the earth. They have measured their time by weeks from the beginning. +The original of this was the Sabbath of God, as Moses has given the +reasons for it in his writings.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Brief +Dissertation on the First Three Chapters +of Genesis,</q> by Dr. Lyman Coleman, page 26.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Gen. 7:4, 10; 8:10, 12, show that the week was known at the time +of the flood. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +3. How widely recognized is the seventh-day Sabbath in +the different languages of the world today? +</p> + +<pb n='458'/><anchor id='Pg458'/> + +<p> +It is very generally so recognized. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Some years +ago the late Dr. William Mead Jones, of London, +published a <q>Chart of the Week,</q> showing the style of the weekly cycle +and the designations of the different days of the week in one hundred and +sixty different languages. This chart shows very vividly that the seven-day +period, or week, was known from the most ancient times, and that in +no fewer than one hundred and eight of these languages the seventh day +is designated as the Sabbath, or holy day. The following is from this +chart:— +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{2cm} p{2cm} p{2cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(15) lw(15) lw(15)'"> +<row><cell>English</cell><cell>The seventh day</cell><cell>The Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Hebrew</cell><cell>Shabbath</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Greek</cell><cell>Sabbaton</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Latin</cell><cell>Sabbatum</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Arabic</cell><cell>Assabt</cell><cell>The Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Persian</cell><cell>Shambin</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Armenian</cell><cell>Shapat</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Turkish</cell><cell>Yomessabt</cell><cell>Day the Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Abyssinian</cell><cell>Sanbat</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Russian</cell><cell>Subbota</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Polish</cell><cell>Sobota</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Hindustani</cell><cell>Shamba</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Malay</cell><cell>Ari-Sabtu</cell><cell>Day Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Afghan</cell><cell>Shamba</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>German</cell><cell>Samstag</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Prussian</cell><cell>Sabatico</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>French</cell><cell>Samedi</cell><cell>Sabbath day</cell></row> +<row><cell>Italian</cell><cell>Sabbato</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Spanish</cell><cell>Sabado</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +<row><cell>Portuguese</cell><cell>Sabbado</cell><cell>Sabbath</cell></row> +</table> + +</quote> + +<p> +4. What reason did God assign at Sinai for having blessed +and set apart the seventh day as a day of holy rest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, +and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.</q> Ex. +20:11. +</p> + +<p> +5. What promise did God make to Israel, through Jeremiah, +if they would keep the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently harken unto Me, +saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this +city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no +work therein; <hi rend='italic'>then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings +and princes sitting upon the throne of David</hi>, riding in chariots +and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and +the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and <hi rend='italic'>this city +shall remain forever</hi>.</q> +Jer. 17:24, 25. +</p> + +<p> +6. What did He say would happen if they did not hallow the +Sabbath day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>if ye will not harken unto Me to hallow the Sabbath day</hi>, +and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem +<pb n='459'/><anchor id='Pg459'/> +on the Sabbath day; <hi rend='italic'>then will I kindle a fire in the gates +thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall +not be quenched</hi>.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +7. What befell the city of Jerusalem when it was captured +by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in 588 <hi rend='smallcaps'>b.c.</hi>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all the vessels of the house of God ... he +brought to Babylon. And <hi rend='italic'>they burnt the house of God, and brake +down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with +fire</hi>.</q> 2 Chron. 36:18, 19. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why was this done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, +until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay +desolate she kept sabbath.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Israel's +Babylonish captivity, under Nebuchadnezzar and +his sons, was seventy years long because that for 420 years, or for six times +seventy years,—from the days of Solomon to Nebuchadnezzar's time,—they +had largely neglected to keep the Sabbath. See Eze. 22:8, 26; Jer. +25:8-11; 17:24, 27; 2 Chron. 36:15-21. The seventy years' desolation +made up for the 420 years of Sabbath desecration. So during the millennium, +or the one thousand years after Christ's second advent, the whole +earth will lie desolate, or keep sabbath, for one thousand years, because +that for six thousand years the world's inhabitants have disregarded the +Sabbath. See this period and condition pointed out in Rev. 20:1-4; Isa. +24:1-6; Jer. 4:23-27. The periods of rest and desolation of the land are +divinely appointed sabbatical compensations for man's irreligion, as manifested +in Sabbath desecration. They are impressive lessons on the importance +of keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, and the results of breaking +and disregarding it. +</quote> + +<p> +9. After Israel's restoration from the Babylonian captivity, +what did Nehemiah say was the reason for their punishment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto +them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and <hi rend='italic'>profane the Sabbath +day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring +all this evil upon us, and upon this city?</hi> yet ye bring more wrath +upon Israel <hi rend='italic'>by profaning the Sabbath</hi>.</q> Neh. 13:17, 18. +</p> + +<p> +10. How does he speak of God's giving the Sabbath to Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest +with them from heaven, and <hi rend='italic'>gavest them right judgments, and true +laws, good statutes and commandments: and madest known unto +them Thy holy Sabbath</hi>.</q> Neh. 9:13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Let it be +noted that this text does not say that God <emph>made</emph> the +Sabbath then, but simply that He made it <emph>known</emph> to Israel then. They had +largely forgotten it while in Egypt. See pages <ref target='Pg419'>419</ref>, +<ref target='Pg423'>423</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How did Christ, while on earth, regard the Sabbath? +</p> + +<pb n='460'/><anchor id='Pg460'/> + +<p> +<q>And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought +up: and, <hi rend='italic'>as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the +Sabbath day</hi>, and stood up for to read.</q> Luke 4:16. +</p> + +<p> +12. By what did Christ recognize the Sabbath law? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, ... It is <hi rend='italic'>lawful</hi> to do well +on the Sabbath days.</q> Matt. 12:11, 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—William +Prynne says: <q>It is certain that Christ Himself, His +apostles, and the primitive Christians for some good space of time, did constantly +observe the seventh-day Sabbath.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Dissertation on the Lord's +Day Sabbath,</q> page 33.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Morer, a learned clergyman of the Church of England, says: <q>The +primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, and spent +the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted that they +derived this practise from the apostles themselves, as appears by several +scriptures to that purpose.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Morer's +<q>Dialogues on the Lord's Day,</q> +page 189.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The historian Neander says: <q>Opposition to Judaism introduced the +particular festival of Sunday very early, indeed, into the place of the +Sabbath.... The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was +always only a human ordinance, and it was far from the intentions of the +apostles to establish a divine command in this respect,—far from them, +and from the early apostolic church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath +to Sunday. Perhaps at the end of the second century a false application +of this kind had begun to take place; for men appear by that time to +have considered laboring on Sunday as a +sin.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Neander's <q>Church History,</q> +Rose's translation, page 186.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Dr. Lyman Abbott says: <q>The current notion that Christ and His +apostles authoritatively substituted the first day of the week for the seventh, +is absolutely without any authority in the New +Testament.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Christian +Union, June 26, 1890.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Archdeacon Farrar says: <q>The Christian church made no formal, but +a gradual and almost unconscious transference of the one +day to the other.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>The +Voice From Sinai,</q> page 167.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +13. What was the first effort of the Roman Church in behalf +of the recognition of Sunday? +</p> + +<p> +In 196 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, Victor, bishop of Rome, attempted to impose +on all the churches the Roman custom of having the Passover, +or Easter, as it is commonly called, celebrated every year on +Sunday. See Bower's <q>History of the Popes,</q> Vol. I, pages +18, 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, +Dr. Bower, in his <q>History of the Popes,</q> Vol. I, page +18, styles <q>the first essay of papal usurpation.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +14. What was one of the principal reasons for convoking +the Council of Nice? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The question relating to the observance of Easter</hi>, which was +agitated in the time of Anicetus and Polycarp, and afterward +in that of Victor, was still undecided. It was one of the principal +reasons for convoking the Council of Nice, being the most +<pb n='461'/><anchor id='Pg461'/> +important subject to be considered after the +Arian controversy.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Boyle's +<q>Historical View of the Council of Nice,</q> page 23, +edition 1836.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +15. How was the matter finally decided? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Easter day was fixed on the Sunday immediately following +the full moon which was nearest after the vernal equinox.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id., +page 24.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +16. In urging the observance of this decree on the churches, +what reason did Constantine assign for it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us have nothing in common with the most hostile +rabble of the Jews.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id., page 52.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +17. What had Constantine already done, in 321 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, to +help forward Sunday to a place of prominence? +</p> + +<p> +He issued an edict requiring <q>the judges and town people, +and the occupation of all trades</q> to rest on <q>the venerable day +of the sun.</q> See Encyclopedia Britannica, article <q>Sunday;</q> +and this work, page 443. +</p> + +<p> +18. Who did Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea, and one of Constantine's +most ardent supporters, say had transferred the obligations +of the Sabbath to Sunday? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All things whatsoever that it was duty to do on the Sabbath, +<hi rend='italic'>these <hi rend='smallcaps'>we</hi> have transferred +to the Lord's day</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Eusebius's +<q>Commentary on the Psalms,</q> quoted in Cox's <q>Sabbath Literature,</q> +Vol. I, page 361.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +19. What did Sylvester, bishop of Rome, 314 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> to 337 +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>, do for the Sunday +institution by his <q>apostolic authority</q>? +</p> + +<p> +He officially changed the title of the first day, calling it the +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Lord's day</hi>. See <q>Historia Ecclesiastica,</q> by M. Ludovicum +Lucium, cent. 4, cap. 10, pages 739, 740, edition Basilea, +1624. +</p> + +<p> +20. What did the Council of Laodicea decree in 364 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>? +</p> + +<p> +Canon 29. <q>Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on +Saturday [Sabbath], but shall work on that day; but the +Lord's day they shall especially honor.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>A History of the +Councils of the Church,</q> Charles Joseph Hefele, Vol. II, page 316.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +21. How late did Christians keep the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Down even to the fifth century, the observance of the +Jewish Sabbath was continued in the Christian church.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Lyman +Coleman's <q>Ancient Christianity Exemplified,</q> chap. 26, +sec. 2.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='462'/><anchor id='Pg462'/> + +<p> +22. How generally does the historian Socrates, who wrote +about the middle of the fifth century, say the Sabbath was observed +by the Christian churches of his time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate +the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet +the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some +ancient tradition, refuse to do this.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Socrates's +<q>Ecclesiastical +History,</q> book 5, chap. 22.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +23. What day was observed in the dark ages by some of the +Waldenses? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They kept the Sabbath day, observed the ordinance of +baptism according to the primitive church, instructed their +children in the articles of the Christian faith and the commandments +of God.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Jones's <q>Church History,</q> Vol. II, chap. 5, +sec. 4.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +24. Who among the early Reformers raised this question +of Sabbath observance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Carlstadt held to the divine authority of the Sabbath from +the Old Testament.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Life of Luther,</q> by Dr. Barnes Sears, +page 402.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +25. What did Luther say of Carlstadt's Sabbath views? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Indeed, if Carlstadt were to write further about the Sabbath, +Sunday would have to give way, and the Sabbath—that +is to say, Saturday—must be kept holy.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Luther, Against +the Celestial Prophets, quoted in <q>Life of Martin Luther in Pictures,</q> +page 147.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +26. What claim is now made by the Roman Church concerning +the change of the Sabbath to Sunday? +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Question.</hi>—Have you any +other way of proving that the +church has power to institute festivals of precept?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Answer.</hi>—Had she not such power, she could not have done +that in which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could +not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of +the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a +change for which there is no Scriptural +authority.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Doctrinal +Catechism,</q> by Rev. Stephen Keenan, page 174.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Through +want of sufficient light and investigation, and because +of the efforts of some who opposed the Sabbath during the Reformation, +Sunday was brought from Catholicism into the Protestant church, and +is now cherished as an institution of the Lord. It is clear, however, that it +is none of His planting, but rather the work and result of apostasy. But +a message is now going forth to revive the truth on this point, and calling +for a genuine reformation upon it. See pages <ref target='Pg251'>251-263</ref>, +and next reading. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='463'/><anchor id='Pg463'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Sabbath Reform</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus463.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The House Of Prayer. +"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, +from doing thy pleasure on My holy day." +Isa. 58:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What kind of worship does Christ say results from doctrines +based on the commandments of men? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>But in vain they do worship Me</hi>, teaching for doctrines the +commandments of men.</q> Matt. 15:9. +</p> + +<p> +2. What commandment did Christ say the Pharisees had +made void by their teaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother</hi>.... But +ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his +mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by +me; and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free.</q> +Verses 4-6. +</p> + +<p> +3. What was the result of their course? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus have ye <hi rend='italic'>made the commandment of God of none effect</hi> +by your tradition.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By a +gift or dedication of property to the temple service, +they taught that a man might be freed from the duties enjoined by the fifth +commandment. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What question did the disciples soon afterward ask Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Knowest Thou that the Pharisees were offended</hi>, after they +heard this saying?</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +5. What answer did the Saviour make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But He answered and said, <hi rend='italic'>Every plant, which My Heavenly +Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up</hi>.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<pb n='464'/><anchor id='Pg464'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—What is true +of the fifth commandment is true of every other +commandment. If through tradition men set aside any other of God's +commandments, the words of Christ to the Pharisees are equally applicable +to them. They are guilty of making void the commandment of God, and +of instituting vain worship. +</quote> + +<p> +6. When, and by whom, was the Sabbath <q>planted</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in six days <hi rend='italic'>the Lord</hi> made heaven and earth, the sea, +and all that in them is, and <hi rend='italic'>rested the seventh day: wherefore the +Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:11. +</p> + +<p> +7. Who claims to have planted the Sunday institution? +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>Question.</hi>—Has <hi rend='italic'>the [Catholic] +church</hi> power to make any +alterations in the commandments of God?</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Answer.</hi>—... Instead of the seventh day, and other +festivals appointed by the old law, the church has prescribed +the Sundays and holy days to be set apart for God's worship; +and these we are now obliged to keep in consequence of God's +commandment, instead of the ancient Sabbath.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Catholic +Christian Instructed,</q> by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Challoner, page 211.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>We Catholics, +then, have precisely the same authority for +keeping Sunday holy, instead of Saturday, as we have for every other +article of our creed; namely, the authority of <q><emph>the church</emph> of the living +God, the pillar and ground of the truth</q> (1 Tim. 3:15); whereas, you who are +Protestants have really no authority for it whatever; for <emph>there is no authority +for it in the Bible</emph>, and you will not allow that there <emph>can be</emph> +authority for it anywhere else. Both you and we do, in fact, follow +<emph>tradition</emph> in this matter; but <emph>we</emph> follow it, believing it to +be a part of God's word, and the church to +be its divinely appointed guardian and interpreter; <emph>you</emph> follow it, denouncing +it all the time as a fallible and treacherous guide, which often <q>makes +the commandment of God of none effect.</q></q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Clifton +Tracts,</q> Vol. IV, +article <q>A Question for All Bible Christians,</q> page 15.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +For further quotations on this, see pages <ref target='Pg441'>441</ref>, +<ref target='Pg444'>444</ref>, <ref target='Pg455'>455</ref>, +<ref target='Pg456'>456</ref>. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +8. When is final salvation to be brought to God's people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who are kept by the power of God through faith <hi rend='italic'>unto +salvation ready to be revealed in the last time</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 1:5. +</p> + +<p> +9. When God's salvation is <hi rend='italic'>near to come</hi>, upon whom does +He pronounce a blessing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: +for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to be +revealed. <hi rend='italic'>Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man +that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it</hi>, +and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.</q> Isa. 56:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +10. Is this promised blessing confined to any one class? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Also the sons of the</hi> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>stranger</hi> that join themselves to the +<pb n='465'/><anchor id='Pg465'/> +Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His +servants, <hi rend='italic'>every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it</hi>, +and taketh hold of My covenant; <hi rend='italic'>even them will I bring to My +holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer</hi>.</q> +Verses 6, 7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +evident from these scriptures that in the last day, when +men are waiting for the Saviour to appear, there will be a call for those who +really love the Lord to separate themselves from the world, to observe the +Lord's true Sabbath, and to depart from all evil. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What does God tell His ministers to do at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Cry aloud, spare not</hi>, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and +<hi rend='italic'>show My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their +sins</hi>.</q> Isa. 58:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. What message of Sabbath reform does He send? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou <hi rend='italic'>turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy +pleasure on My holy day</hi>; and call the Sabbath a delight, the +holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing +thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking +thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; +and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, +and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the +mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.</q> Verses 13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Sabbath +of Jehovah is not now, by the majority even +of professed Christians, called holy and honorable. By many it is stigmatized +as <q>Jewish.</q> The Lord foresaw how this would be in this age, +and inspired the prophet to write as he did. <q><emph>If thou turn away thy foot +from the Sabbath.</emph></q> This is a strong expression, indicating that many +would be trampling upon God's day, and doing their own pleasure upon it, +instead of seeking God, and honoring Him by keeping the Sabbath holy. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What will those be called who engage in this reformation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And thou shalt be called, <hi rend='italic'>The repairer of the breach, The +restorer of paths to dwell in</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +14. What does another prophet say professed teachers among +God's people have done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Her priests have <hi rend='italic'>violated My law</hi>, +and have <hi rend='italic'>profaned Mine +holy things</hi>: they have <hi rend='italic'>put no difference between the holy and +profane</hi>; neither have they shown difference between the unclean +and the clean, <hi rend='italic'>and have hid their eyes from My Sabbaths</hi>, +and I am profaned among them.</q> Eze. 22:26. +</p> + +<p> +15. What have they done to maintain their theories? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And her prophets have <hi rend='italic'>daubed them with untempered mortar</hi>, +<pb n='466'/><anchor id='Pg466'/> +seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Thus +saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken</hi>.</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Untempered mortar +is that which is improperly worked, +and will not therefore hold together or stand the test. Thus it is with the +reasons advanced for keeping Sunday instead of the Bible Sabbath, the +seventh day. They are not only unsound and untenable in themselves, +but are utterly inconsistent, contradictory, and destructive one of the +other, among themselves. They are like the witnesses employed by the +Jewish leaders to condemn Christ. Of these the record says: <q>The chief +priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put Him to +death; and found none. For many bare <emph>false witness</emph> against Him, but +<emph>their witness agreed not together</emph>.</q> Mark 14:55, 56. The lack of +<emph>agreement</emph> among them was evidence in itself of the +<emph>falsity</emph> of their testimony. +In nothing, perhaps, is a lack of agreement better illustrated than in the +reasons assigned for Sunday-keeping. Note the following:— +</p> + +<p> +One says the Sabbath has been <emph>changed</emph> from the seventh to the first +day of the week. +</p> + +<p> +Another says that the Sabbath commandment requires only one day +of rest after six of labor, and hence <emph>there has been no change</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Some reason that all ought to keep Sunday, because although, as they +affirm, God did not appoint a <emph>particular</emph> day, yet <emph>agreement</emph> +is necessary; and to have any or every day a sabbath would be equal to no sabbath at all. +</p> + +<p> +Others, to avoid the claims of God's law, assert that the Sabbath +precept is one of those ordinances which was <emph>against us, contrary to us, +blotted out, and nailed to the cross</emph>. Still, they admit that a day of rest and +convocation is necessary, and therefore the day of Christ's resurrection, +they say, has been chosen. +</p> + +<p> +Another class say they believe it is impossible to know which is the +<emph>seventh day</emph>, although they have no difficulty in ascertaining which is the +<emph>first</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Some are so bold even as to declare that <emph>Sunday is the original seventh +day</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Others, with equal certainty, say that those who keep the seventh +day are endeavoring to be <emph>justified by the law</emph>, and are +<emph>fallen from grace</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Another class, with more liberal views, say they believe that every one +should be fully persuaded in his own mind, whether he keep this day, or +that, or none at all. +</p> + +<p> +Still again, as if having found the great desideratum or missing link +in the argument, men credited with even more than ordinary intelligence, +will sometimes declare that it is <emph>impossible to keep the seventh day on a round +and rolling earth</emph>; and yet, strange to say, they find no difficulty in keeping +<emph>Sunday anywhere</emph>, and believe that this day +should be observed <emph>the world +over</emph>! +</p> + +<p> +Lastly, and more terrible and presumptuous than all the rest, some, +like Herod of old in slaying all the children of Bethlehem in order to make +sure of killing Christ, have gone so far as to teach that <emph>all ten commandments +have been abolished</emph>, in order to avoid the duty enjoined in the +<emph>fourth</emph>. But as in the case of Herod, God's Anointed escaped the murderous +blow of this wicked king, so in the judgment such will have to meet God over +His broken law, and will find that the Sabbath precept stands there unchanged +with the rest. +</p> + +<p> +Said Christ, <q>Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom +of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be +called great in the kingdom of heaven.</q> Matt. 5:19. +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='467'/><anchor id='Pg467'/> + +<p> +16. What does the Lord say will become of this wall thus +daubed with untempered mortar? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, +that <hi rend='italic'>it shall fall</hi>: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, +<hi rend='italic'>O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend +it</hi>.</q> +Eze. 13:11. +</p> + +<p> +17. When are these hailstones to fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast +thou seen <hi rend='italic'>the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against +the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war</hi>?</q> Job 38:22, +23. +</p> + +<p> +18. Under which of the seven last plagues will this hail fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the seventh angel</hi> poured out his vial into the air; +... and the cities of the nations fell: ... and every +island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there +fell upon men <hi rend='italic'>a great hail</hi> out of heaven, every stone about the +weight of a talent.</q> Rev. 16:17-21. +</p> + +<p> +19. In order to prepare His people for that terrible time, +what does God expect His ministers to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye have not <hi rend='italic'>gone up into the gaps</hi>, +neither <hi rend='italic'>made up the hedge</hi> +for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the +Lord.</q> Eze. 13:5. +</p> + +<p> +20. Instead of trying to close up this breach made in God's +law [the loss of the Sabbath], and so make up the hedge, what +have they done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They have seen vanity and lying divination, <hi rend='italic'>saying, The +Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them</hi>: and they have made +others to hope that they would confirm the word.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +21. During these closing scenes, what message is God sending +to the world to turn men from false worship to the worship +of the true and living God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment +is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, +and the sea, and the fountains of waters.... Babylon is +fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations +drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.... If +any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark +in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine +of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into +the cup of His indignation.</q> Rev. 14:7-10. +</p> + +<pb n='468'/><anchor id='Pg468'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +the last gospel message to be sent to the world before +the Lord comes. Under it will be developed two classes of people, one +having the mark of the beast (the Papacy), and the other keeping the commandments +of God, and having His seal, the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. +See readings on pages <ref target='Pg259'>259</ref>, <ref target='Pg446'>446</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +22. What, besides attending and taking part in religious +services (Luke 4:16), did Christ do on the Sabbath day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who <hi rend='italic'>went about doing good</hi>.</q> Acts 10:38. See Matt. +8:14-17; 12:1-15; Mark 2:23-28; 3:1-6; Luke 6:1-11; 13:11-17; +14:1-6; John 5:1-18; 9:1-41. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When we come +to study the life of Christ, we find that He +did not make the Sabbath a day of idleness, nor even a day confined +wholly to public and private worship, but one of active service in blessing +others. On this day especially He went about doing good, ministering to +the sick, and bringing relief to those long bound by Satan. Luke 13:15, +16; John 5:5, 6. And as He is our pattern in all things, we, too, like +Him, should seek to make the Sabbath a day for helping and blessing +others. To loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, deal +bread to the hungry, clothe the naked, and let the oppressed go free, is +the fast which God has chosen, and the Sabbath-keeping most acceptable +to Him. Isa. 58:1-12. In this kind of work and ministry there is +room for a world-wide Sabbath reform. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Brother! up to the breach</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>For God's freedom and truth;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Let us act as we teach,</l> +<l>With the wisdom of age, and the vigor of youth.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Heed not their cannon-balls;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Ask not who stands or falls;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>Grasp the sword of the Lord,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 10'>And—Forward!</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='469'/><anchor id='Pg469'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part X. Christian Liberty</head> + +<pb n='470'/><anchor id='Pg470'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus470.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Christ And The Tribute-Money. +"Render to Caesar the things that are +Caesar's, and to God the things that +are God's." Mark 12:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='471'/><anchor id='Pg471'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Author Of Liberty</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus471.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Peter Delivered From Prison. +"I am the Lord thy God, which have brought +thee ... out of the house of bondage." +Ex. 20:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How is the bondage of Israel in Egypt described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the children of Israel <hi rend='italic'>sighed</hi> by reason of the bondage, +and they <hi rend='italic'>cried</hi>, and their cry came up unto God by reason of +the bondage.</q> Ex. 2:23. Compare with James 5:1-4. +</p> + +<p> +2. Who heard their groaning? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>God</hi> heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant +with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did God say to Moses? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is +come unto Me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith +the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will +send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people +the children of Israel out of Egypt.</q> Ex. 3:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +4. In giving Israel His law, how did God describe Himself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the Lord thy God, which have <hi rend='italic'>brought thee out of</hi> +the land of Egypt, out of <hi rend='italic'>the house of bondage</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:2. +</p> + +<p> +5. What provision did God make against slavery and oppression +in Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, +<pb n='472'/><anchor id='Pg472'/> +be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then <hi rend='italic'>in the seventh +year thou shall let him go free</hi> from thee. And when thou sendest +him out free from thee, <hi rend='italic'>thou shall not let him go away empty</hi>: thou +shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, +and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the Lord thy God +hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And <hi rend='italic'>thou shalt remember +that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt</hi>, and the +Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this +thing today.</q> Deut. 15:12-15. <q><hi rend='italic'>Thou shalt neither vex a +stranger, nor oppress him</hi>: for ye were strangers in the land of +Egypt.</q> Ex. 22:21. See 2 Cor. 1:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +6. What was one reason assigned why Israel should keep the +Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt</hi>, +and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a +mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm: <hi rend='italic'>therefore the Lord thy +God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day</hi>.</q> Deut. 5:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This would +suggest the idea that in their servitude and oppression +in Egypt they had had difficulty regarding the observance of the +Sabbath, which is a fact. From the accusation brought against Moses +and Aaron by Pharaoh, as recorded in Ex. 5:5,—<q>Ye make them <emph>rest</emph> +[Heb., <foreign lang='he' rend='italic'>Shabbath</foreign>] +from their burdens,</q>—it is plain that the Sabbath had +been denied them, that they had been required to work on the Sabbath, +and that Moses and Aaron were teaching them to keep it. Where individual +rights and religious liberty are recognized, Sabbath observance +is neither denied nor required by civil law. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What proclamation was to be made throughout the land +of Israel every fifty years? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and <hi rend='italic'>proclaim liberty +throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof</hi>: it shall +be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his +possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.</q> +Lev. 25:10. +</p> + +<p> +8. Because Israel failed to do this, became oppressive, and +disregarded and misused the Sabbath, what did God do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not harkened unto +Me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every +man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith +the Lord, to the <hi rend='italic'>sword</hi>, to the +<hi rend='italic'>pestilence</hi>, and to the <hi rend='italic'>famine</hi>; and +<hi rend='italic'>I will make you to be removed +into all the kingdoms of the earth</hi>.</q> +Jer. 34:17. See also Jer. 17:24-27; 2 Chron. 36:19-21. +</p> + +<p> +9. What fault did God find with the way in which Israel +came to celebrate her fasts and seasons of worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold; in the day of your fast ye <hi rend='italic'>find +pleasure</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>exact +<pb n='473'/><anchor id='Pg473'/> +all your labors</hi>. Behold, ye fast for +<hi rend='italic'>strife</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>debate</hi>, and to +<hi rend='italic'>smite with the fist of wickedness</hi>.</q> Isa. 58:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +10. What does God set forth as the acceptable fast to Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to <hi rend='italic'>loose the bands +of wickedness</hi>, to <hi rend='italic'>undo the +heavy burdens</hi>, and to <hi rend='italic'>let the oppressed +go free</hi>, and that ye <hi rend='italic'>break every +yoke</hi>? Is it not to <hi rend='italic'>deal thy bread +to the hungry</hi>, and that thou <hi rend='italic'>bring +the poor that are cast out to thy +house</hi>? when thou seest the naked, that thou +<hi rend='italic'>cover him</hi>; and that +thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?</q> Verses 6, 7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—All this shows that +God loves liberty, and hates bondage +and oppression. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What was Christ's mission to this world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath +anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent +Me <hi rend='italic'>to heal</hi> the broken-hearted, +<hi rend='italic'>to preach deliverance</hi> to the captives, +and recovering of sight to the blind, <hi rend='italic'>to set at liberty</hi> them +that are bruised.</q> Luke 4:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Gospels +show that a large part of Christ's time even +on the Sabbath was devoted to relieving the oppressed and distressed. +</quote> + +<p> +12. In what condition are those who commit sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever committeth sin is <hi rend='italic'>the servant of sin</hi>.</q> John +8:34. +</p> + +<p> +13. Why was Christ's name to be called Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And thou shalt call His name Jesus: <hi rend='italic'>for He shall save His +people from their sins</hi>.</q> Matt. 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +14. What lies at the root of all sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When <hi rend='italic'>lust</hi> hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.</q> James +1:15. <q>I had not known <hi rend='italic'>lust</hi>, except the law had said, Thou +shalt not <hi rend='italic'>covet</hi>.</q> Rom. 7:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Lust, covetousness, +and unlawful desire are only different +names for <emph>selfishness</emph>. Selfishness lies at the root of all sin; and +selfishness is simply the love of self to the disregard of the equal rights of others. +</quote> + +<p> +15. By what scripture is the equality of rights clearly shown? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt love thy neighbor <hi rend='italic'>as thyself</hi>.</q> Lev. 19:18. +</p> + +<p> +16. What rule of conduct has Christ laid down in harmony +with this command? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye +even so to them.</q> Matt. 7:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Selfishness, then, +must be uprooted from men's hearts before +they will recognize the equal rights of their fellow men. +</quote> + +<pb n='474'/><anchor id='Pg474'/> + +<p> +17. Who alone can cleanse men's hearts from selfishness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none +other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must +be saved.</q> Acts 4:12. See also 1 John 1:9. +</p> + +<p> +18. Who alone, then, can give men real freedom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If <hi rend='italic'>the Son</hi> therefore +shall make you free, ye shall be <hi rend='italic'>free +indeed</hi>.</q> John 8:36. +</p> + +<p> +19. What was Christ's attitude toward unbelievers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man hear My words, and believe not, <hi rend='italic'>I judge him +not</hi>: for I came not to <hi rend='italic'>judge</hi> +the world, but to <hi rend='italic'>save</hi> the world.</q> +John 12:47. +</p> + +<p> +20. What spirit did Christ say should control His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Jesus called them to Him, and saith unto them, Ye +know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles +exercise <hi rend='italic'>lordship</hi> over them; and their great ones exercise +<hi rend='italic'>authority</hi> upon them. But +<hi rend='italic'>so shall it not be among you</hi>: but +whosoever will be great among you, shall be your <hi rend='italic'>minister</hi>: and +whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be <hi rend='italic'>servant of all</hi>. +For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to +minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.</q> Mark 10:42-45. +</p> + +<p> +21. What is present where the Spirit of the Lord is? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the +Lord is, there is <hi rend='italic'>liberty</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +22. What kind of worship only is acceptable to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers +shall worship the Father <hi rend='italic'>in spirit and in truth</hi>: for the Father +seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit: and they that +worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.</q> John +4:23, 24. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Freedom and reason make brave men;</l> +<l>Take these away, what are they then?—</l> +<l>Mere groveling brutes, and just as well</l> +<l>The beasts may think of heaven or hell.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Know, then, that every soul is free</l> +<l>To choose his life, and what he'll be;</l> +<l>For this eternal truth is given:</l> +<l>That God will force no man to heaven.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>He'll call, persuade, direct him right,</l> +<l>Bless him with wisdom, love, and light,</l> +<l>In nameless ways be good and kind,</l> +<l>But never force the human mind.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='475'/><anchor id='Pg475'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Powers That Be</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus475.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Worship Interfered With By The State. +Christians surprised by troops while +worshiping in a cavern.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Who should be subject to civil government? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let <hi rend='italic'>every soul</hi> be subject unto the higher powers. For +there is no power but of God.</q> Rom. 13:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. By whom are the powers that be ordained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The powers that be are ordained of <hi rend='italic'>God</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +3. What does one resist, who resists civil authority? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth <hi rend='italic'>the +ordinance of God</hi>: and they that resist shall receive to themselves +damnation.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>That is, they +who rise up against <emph>government itself</emph>, who +seek anarchy and confusion, who oppose the regular execution of the laws. +It is implied, however, that those laws shall not be such as violate the rights +of conscience or oppose the law of God.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. +Albert Barnes, on Rom. 13:2.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +4. What do the Scriptures indicate as the proper sphere and +legitimate work of civil authority? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the <hi rend='italic'>evil</hi>.... +If thou do that which is <hi rend='italic'>evil</hi>, be afraid; for he beareth +not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, <hi rend='italic'>a revenger +to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil</hi>.</q> Verses 3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +5. For whom is law made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous +man, but <hi rend='italic'>for the lawless and disobedient</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 1:9. +</p> + +<pb n='476'/><anchor id='Pg476'/> + +<p> +6. How are Christians admonished to respect civil authority? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and +powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work.</q> +Titus 3:1. <q>Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for +the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto +governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment +of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.... +Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor +the king.</q> 1 Peter 2: 13-17. <q>For this cause pay ye tribute +also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon +this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to +whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom +fear; honor to whom honor.</q> Rom. 13:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what words does Christ show that there is another +realm outside of Cæsar's, or civil government? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's; +<hi rend='italic'>and unto God the things that are God's</hi>.</q> Matt. 22:21. +</p> + +<p> +8. To whom alone did He say worship is to be rendered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt worship <hi rend='italic'>the Lord +thy God</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>Him only shalt +thou serve</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:10. +</p> + +<p> +9. What decree did King Nebuchadnezzar once make respecting +worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, +that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, +sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye <hi rend='italic'>fall down +and worship the golden image</hi> that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath +set up. And whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall the +same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.</q> +Dan. 3:4-6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This decree +was in direct conflict with the second commandment +of God's law, which forbids making, bowing down to, and serving +images. It was religious, idolatrous, and persecuting in character. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What answer did the three Hebrew captives, Shadrach, +Meshach, and Abed-nego, return when asked by the king why +they had not fallen down and worshiped the golden image, as +he had commanded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to +the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee +in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to +deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver +us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, +<pb n='477'/><anchor id='Pg477'/> +O king, that <hi rend='italic'>we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden +image which thou hast set up</hi>.</q> Verses 16-18. +</p> + +<p> +11. What did Nebuchadnezzar then do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of +his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: +... and he commanded the most mighty men that +were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, +and to <hi rend='italic'>cast them into the burning fiery furnace</hi>.</q> Verses 19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +12. After their miraculous deliverance, what did Nebuchadnezzar +say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God +of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent His +angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have +changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they +might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.</q> +Verse 28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By preserving +these men in the fire, and thus changing the +king's word, God was demonstrating before all the world, through this greatest +of then-existing earthly kingdoms, that with the question of religion civil +governments can of right have nothing whatsoever to do; that religion is a +realm outside the legitimate sphere of civil authority; and that every individual +should be left free to worship, or not to worship, according to the +dictates of his own conscience. The lesson to be learned from this is that, +although ordained of God, civil governments are not ordained to direct +or oppress men in religious matters. +</quote> + +<p> +13. How only did the envious princes and rulers under King +Darius conclude that they could effect the downfall of Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against +this Daniel, except we find it against him <hi rend='italic'>concerning the law of +his God</hi>.</q> Dan. 6:5. +</p> + +<p> +14. To this end, what decree did they prevail upon the king +to make and sign? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man +for thirty days, <hi rend='italic'>save of thee, O king</hi>, he shall be cast into the +den of lions.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Unlike +the decree of Nebuchadnezzar, this decree forbade +the worship of the true God, and was therefore in direct conflict with the +first commandment, which forbids the worship of any other than the true +God. Like it, however, it was religious and persecuting in character. +</quote> + +<p> +15. How did Daniel regard this decree? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he +went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber +toward Jerusalem, <hi rend='italic'>he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, +<pb n='479'/><anchor id='Pg479'/> +and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime</hi>.</q> +Verse 10. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus478.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Daniel Praying In Babylon. +"When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, ... he kneeled upon his knees +three times a day, and prayed, ... as he did aforetime." Dan. 6:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +16. What was finally done with Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and +<hi rend='italic'>cast him into the den of lions</hi>.</q> Verse 16. +</p> + +<p> +17. What did Darius say to Daniel the next morning when +he came to the lions' den? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of +the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, +able to deliver thee from the lions?</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +18. What was Daniel's reply? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever. My +God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that +they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before Him innocency +was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no +hurt.</q> Verses 21, 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Here again +was demonstrated by a most remarkable miracle, +wrought in the face of the greatest nation then in existence, that with +the directing, prescribing, proscribing, or interfering with religion or its +free exercise, civil governments can of right have nothing whatever to do; +that religion is an individual matter, and should be left to the dictates of +each one's own conscience. +</quote> + +<p> +19. Before leaving His disciples, what command did Christ +give them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every +creature.</q> Mark 16:15. +</p> + +<p> +20. What counter-command did the Jewish Sanhedrin soon +afterward give them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they called them, and commanded them not to speak +at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.</q> Acts 4:18. +</p> + +<p> +21. What reply did Peter and John make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Peter and John answered and said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Whether +it be right in the sight of God to harken unto you more than unto +God, judge ye</hi>. For we cannot but speak the things which we +have seen and heard.</q> Verses 19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +22. For continuing to preach Jesus, what did the Jewish +rulers do to the apostles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with +him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with +indignation, and <hi rend='italic'>laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in +the common prison</hi>.</q> Acts 5:17, 18. +</p> + +<pb n='480'/><anchor id='Pg480'/> + +<p> +23. What did an angel of God then do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the angel of the Lord by night <hi rend='italic'>opened the prison doors, +and brought them forth</hi>, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Go, stand and speak in the +temple to the people all the words of this life</hi>.</q> Verses 19, 20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Here +once again is demonstrated the fact that men have +no right to interfere with the free exercise of religion, and that when the +laws of men conflict with the law and Word of God, we are to obey the +latter, whatever the consequences may be. God Himself has set the seal +of His approval to such a course. John Bunyan was imprisoned for +twelve years for daring to preach the gospel contrary to law. +</quote> + +<p> +24. Upon the apostles being called before the council again, +what question did the high priest ask them? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach +in this name?</hi> and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your +doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.</q> +Verse 28. +</p> + +<p> +25. What reply did the apostles make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, <hi rend='italic'>We +ought to obey God rather than men</hi>.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Obedience +is to be rendered to all human governments, +in subordination to the will of God. These governments are a recognized +necessity, in the nature of the case, and their existence is manifestly in +accordance with the divine will. Hence the presumption is always in +favor of the authority of civil law, and any refusal to obey must be based +on the moral proof that obedience will be sin.... It is still true that +obedience to human law often involves sin against God and man. There +are cases so clear that no one can question the duty to refuse obedience. +In all times and in all lands such cases have arisen.</q> <q>It is too obvious +to need discussion, that the law of God, the great principle of benevolence, +is supreme, and that 'we ought to obey God rather than men' in any case +of conflict between human law and the divine.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Moral +Philosophy,</q> +by James H. Fairchild, pages 178-181.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +26. Who is higher than the <q>higher powers</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting +of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at +the matter: for <hi rend='italic'>He that is higher than the highest</hi> regardeth; and +<hi rend='italic'>there be higher than they</hi>.</q> Eccl. 5:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +attempting to defend the right of civil government to +enforce religious observances by law, some still ask, <q>Shall we not obey +the powers that be?</q> We answer, <q>Yes, when they are in harmony with +the higher powers that be. God made His law for all the universe. He +created man; He gives the bounteous provisions of nature, and holds our +breath and life in His hand. He is to be recognized, His law honored, +before all the great men and the highest earthly powers.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +27. Because Mordecai refused to bow down to Haman in +accordance with the command of King Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1-6), +<pb n='481'/><anchor id='Pg481'/> +what decree did Haman succeed in having the king issue +and send to every province throughout the Persian Empire? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, +<hi rend='italic'>to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young +and old, little children and women, in one day</hi>, even upon the thirteenth +day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and +to take the spoil of them for a prey. The copy of the writing +for a commandment to be given in every province was published +unto all people, that they should be ready against that +day.</q> Esther 3:13, 14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—By an +overruling of Providence the carrying out of this terrible +decree was averted, and Haman was hanged on the very gallows +which he had erected for the execution of Mordecai. See Esther 7:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +God has placed the sword (civil authority) in the hands of Cæsar +(civil government) for the punishment of evil-doers; but when the sword +is raised to slay the <emph>innocent</emph>, as in the case of the children of Bethlehem +(Matt. 2:16); or to <emph>enforce idolatrous worship</emph>, as in the case of the three +Hebrews (Daniel 3); or to <emph>prohibit the worship of the true God</emph>, as in the +case of Daniel (Daniel 6); or to slay <emph>all of God's people</emph>, as in the time of +Esther; or to <emph>enforce the observance of a false sabbath</emph>, as in the case of +all Sunday laws, it is an <emph>abuse</emph> of civil authority, and not a proper or +justifiable use of it; and God honors those who, under such circumstances, in the face of +persecution, oppression, and death, remain loyal and true to Him. +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Government is never the gainer in the execution of a law that is +manifestly unjust.... Conscientious men are not the enemies, but +the friends, of any government but a tyranny. They are its strength, +and not its weakness. Daniel, in Babylon, praying contrary to the law, +was the true friend and supporter of the government; while those who, in +their pretended zeal for the law and the constitution, would strike down +the good man, were its real enemies. It is only when government transcends +its sphere that it comes in conflict with the consciences of men.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'>But it is objected that the example is corrupting,—that a bad man +will violate a good law, because the good man refuses to obey a wicked +law. The cases are just as unlike as right and wrong, and any attempt to +justify the one by the other is gross dishonesty. Unquestionably, the +principle can be abused by the wicked, and so can any truth whatever; +but the principle of unquestioning obedience to human law is false, and +needs no perversion to make it mischievous....</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It should always be remembered that the great end of government +is human well-being, that law and authority are nothing in themselves, +and that all their sacredness arises from the uses which they serve. The +machinery of government is valuable only for the work it does; in itself, +it has no value.... The most grievous of all imperfections in government +is the failure to secure the just and good result.... Injustice +and oppression are not made tolerable by being in strict accordance +with the law. Nothing is surer, in the end, than the reaction of such +wrong to break down the most perfectly constituted +government.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Moral +Philosophy,</q> by James H. Fairchild, pages 184-186.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +God is above all earthly rulers, and His law above all human laws. +He made us, and we therefore owe allegiance to Him before any earthly +power, potentate, or tribunal. And this is saying nothing in disparagement +of civil authority exercised in its rightful domain—civil things. +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='482'/><anchor id='Pg482'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Individual Accountability</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus482.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Esther At The Banquet. +"We are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, +to be slain, and to perish." +Esther 7:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is religion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The recognition of God as an object of worship, love, and +obedience.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> Other definitions equally good are: +<q>The duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of +discharging it.</q> <q>Man's personal relation of faith and obedience +to God.</q> +</p> + +<p> +2. In religious things, whom alone did Christ say we should +recognize as Father? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And call no man your father upon the earth: <hi rend='italic'>for one is your +Father, which is in heaven</hi>.</q> Matt. 23:9. +</p> + +<p> +3. When tempted to fall down and worship Satan, what +Scripture command did Christ cite in justification of His refusal +to do this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it +is written, <hi rend='italic'>Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only +shalt thou serve</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:10. See Deut. 6:13; 10:20. +</p> + +<p> +4. To whom alone, then, is each one accountable in religious +things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So then every one of us shall give account of himself <hi rend='italic'>to +God</hi>.</q> Rom. 14:12. +</p> + +<pb n='483'/><anchor id='Pg483'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—With this +agree the words of Washington: <q>Every man who +conducts himself as a good citizen, is accountable alone to God for his +religious faith, and should be protected in worshiping God according to +the dictates of his own conscience.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Reply +to Virginia Baptists, in 1789.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +5. What do those do, therefore, who make men accountable +to them in religious affairs? +</p> + +<p> +They put themselves in the place of God. See 2 Thess. +2:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why, in religious matters, did Christ say men should +not be called masters? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither be ye called masters: <hi rend='italic'>for one is your Master, even +Christ</hi>.</q> Matt. 23:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Every one, +therefore, who acts as master in Christ's church, +or lords it over God's heritage (1 Peter 5:3), puts himself in the place +of Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +7. To whom, then, as servants, are we responsible in matters +of faith and worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? <hi rend='italic'>to his +own master he standeth or falleth</hi>.</q> Rom. 14:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. Whose servants are we not to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye are bought with a price; <hi rend='italic'>be not ye the servants of men</hi>.</q> +1 Cor. 7:23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Satan's +methods ever tend to one end,—to make men the +slaves of men,</q> and thus separate them from God, destroy faith in God, +and so expose men to temptation and sin. Christ's work is to set men +free, to renew faith, and to lead to willing and loyal obedience to God. +Says Luther: <q>It is contrary to the will of God that man should be subject +to man in that which pertains to eternal life. Subjection in <emph>spirituals</emph> +is a real worship, and should be rendered only to the +Creator.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>D'Aubigne's +<q>History of the Reformation,</q> edited by M. Laird Simons, book +7, chap. 11.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +9. Where must all finally appear to render up their account? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we must all appear <hi rend='italic'>before the judgment-seat of Christ</hi>; +that every one may receive the things done in his body, according +to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.</q> 2 +Cor. 5:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Inasmuch, then, +as religion is an individual matter, and each +individual must give account of himself to God, it follows that there +should be no human constraint nor compulsion in religious affairs. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Dare to be a Daniel,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Dare to stand alone;</l> +<l>Dare to have a purpose firm,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Dare to make it known.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>P. P. Bliss.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='484'/><anchor id='Pg484'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Union Of Church And State</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus484.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Paul And Silas In Prison. +"These men, being Jews, ... teach customs, +which are not lawful for us ... to observe, +being Romans." Acts 16:20, 21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What was already at work in the church in Paul's day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the mystery of iniquity</hi> doth already work.</q> 2 Thess. +2:7. +</p> + +<p> +2. What class of men did he say would arise in the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I know this, that after my departing shall <hi rend='italic'>grievous +wolves</hi> enter in among you, not sparing the flock. <hi rend='italic'>Also of your +own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away +disciples after them.</hi></q> Acts 20:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +3. Through what experience was the church to pass, and +what was to develop in the church, before Christ's second +coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let no man deceive you by any means: for <hi rend='italic'>that day shall +not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of +sin be revealed</hi>, the son of perdition.</q> 2 Thess. 2:3. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what was shown the first tangible evidence of this +<q>falling away</q> from the truth of God? +</p> + +<p> +The adoption of heathen rites and customs in the church. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +bishops augmented the number of religious rites in +the Christian worship, by way of accommodation to the infirmities and +<pb n='485'/><anchor id='Pg485'/> +prejudices, both of Jews and heathen, in order to facilitate their conversion +to Christianity.... For this purpose, they gave the name of <emph>mysteries</emph> +to the institutions of the gospel, and decorated particularly the holy +sacrament with that solemn title. They used in that sacred institution, +as also in that of baptism, several of the terms employed in the heathen +mysteries, and proceeded so far, at length, as even to adopt some of the +rites and of the ceremonies of which those renowned mysteries +consisted.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Mosheim's +<q>Ecclesiastical History</q> (Maclaine's translation), cent. 2, part +2, chap. 4, pars. 2-5.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +5. How early was this tendency manifested? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This imitation began in the eastern provinces; but, after +the time of Adrian [emperor 117-138 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi>], who first introduced +the mysteries among the Latins, it was followed by the +Christians who dwelt in the western parts of the +empire.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, +par. 5. +</p> + +<p> +6. What has been one great characteristic of the Papacy? +</p> + +<p> +A union of church and state, or the religious power dominating +the civil power to further its ends. +</p> + +<p> +7. When was the union of church and state formed from +which the Papacy grew? +</p> + +<p> +During the reign of Constantine, 313-337 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +8. What was the character and the work of many of the +bishops at that time? +</p> + +<p> +<q><emph>Worldly-minded bishops</emph>, instead of caring for the salvation +of their flocks, were often but too much inclined to travel about, +and <emph>entangle themselves in worldly +concerns</emph>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Neander's <q>History +of the Christian Religion and Church</q></hi> (Torrey's translation), +Vol. II, page 16. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did the bishops determine to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This theocratical theory was already the prevailing one +in the time of Constantine; and ... the bishops voluntarily +made themselves dependent on him by their disputes, +<hi rend='italic'>and by their determination to make use of the power of the state for +the furtherance of their aims</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, page 132. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The <q>theocratical +theory</q> was that of a government administered +by God through the church, particularly through the church +bishops. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What was the date of Constantine's famous Sunday law? +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 321. +</p> + +<p> +11. When and by whom was the Council of Nice convened? +</p> + +<p> +By the emperor Constantine, 325 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +12. Under what authority were its decrees published? +</p> + +<pb n='486'/><anchor id='Pg486'/> + +<p> +<q>The decrees ... were published under the <hi rend='italic'>imperial +authority</hi>, and thus obtained a political +importance.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, +page 133. +</p> + +<p> +13. What was one principal object in calling this council? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The question relating to <hi rend='italic'>the observance of Easter</hi>, which +was agitated in the time of Anicetus and Polycarp, and afterward +in that of Victor, was still undecided. It was one of the +principal reasons for convoking the Council of Nice, being the +most important subject to be considered after the Arian controversy.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>It appears that the churches of Syria and Mesopotamia +continued to follow the custom of the Jews, and celebrated +Easter on <emph>the fourteenth day of the moon</emph>, whether falling on Sunday +or not. All the other churches observed that solemnity +<emph>on Sunday only</emph>, namely; those of Rome, Italy, Africa, Lydia, +Egypt, Spain, Gaul, and Britain; and all Greece, Asia, and +Pontus.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Boyle's <q>Historical View of the Council of +Nice,</q></hi> +page 23, edition 1836. +</p> + +<p> +14. How was the matter finally decided? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Easter day was fixed on the Sunday</hi> immediately following +the full moon which was nearest after the vernal +equinox.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, page 24. +</p> + +<p> +15. What was decreed by the Council of Laodicea, <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 364? +</p> + +<p> +That Christians should keep the Sunday, and that if they +persisted in resting on the Sabbath, <q>they shall be shut out +from Christ.</q> See Hefele's <q>History of the Councils of the +Church,</q> Vol. II, page 316. +</p> + +<p> +16. What imperial law was issued in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 386? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By a law of the year 386, those older changes effected by +Constantine were more vigorously enforced; and, in general, +civil transactions of every kind on Sunday were strictly +forbidden.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Neander's +<q>Church History,</q></hi> Vol. II, page 300. +</p> + +<p> +17. What petition was made to the emperor by a church +convention of bishops in <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> 401? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the public shows might be transferred from the +Christian Sunday and from the feast-days to some other days +of the week.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Ib.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +desired law was secured in 425 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi> See pages +<ref target='Pg444'>444</ref>, <ref target='Pg489'>489</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +18. What was the object of the church bishops in securing +these Sunday laws? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the day might be devoted with less interruption to +<pb n='487'/><anchor id='Pg487'/> +the purposes of devotion.</q> <q>That the devotion of the faithful +might be free from all disturbance.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, pages 297, 301. +</p> + +<p> +19. How was the <q>devotion</q> of the <q>faithful</q> disturbed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Church teachers ... were, in truth, often forced to +complain that <emph>in such competitions the theater was vastly more +frequented than the church</emph>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, page 300. +</p> + +<p> +20. What does Neander say of the securing of these laws? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In this way the church received help from the state for +the furtherance of her ends.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, page 301. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +this way, more perhaps than in any other, church and +state were united. In this way the church gained control of the civil power, +which she later used as a means of carrying on most bitter and extensive +persecutions. In this way she denied Christ and the power of godliness. +</quote> + +<p> +21. When the church had received help from the state to +this extent, what more did she demand? +</p> + +<p> +That the civil power should be exerted to compel men to +serve God as the church should dictate. +</p> + +<p> +22. What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or +church-and-state theory, teach concerning it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who doubts but what it is better to be led to God by instruction +than by fear of punishment or affliction? But because +the former, who will be guided only by instruction, are +better, the others are still not to be neglected.... Many, +like bad servants, must often be reclaimed to their Master by +the rod of temporal suffering, ere they can attain to this highest +stage of religious development.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, pages 214, 215. +</p> + +<p> +23. What is Neander's conclusion regarding this theory? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It was by Augustine, then, that a theory was proposed +and founded, which, tempered though it was, in its practical +application, by his own pious, philanthropic spirit, nevertheless +contained the germ of that whole system of spiritual despotism, +of intolerance and persecution, which ended in the tribunals +of the Inquisition.</q> <q>He did not give precedence to the question, +What is <emph>right</emph>? over the question, What is <emph>expedient</emph>? But +a theory which overlooks these distinctions leaves room for +any despotism which would make holy ends a pretext for the +use of unholy means.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, pages 217, 249, 250. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It +was thus that the union of church and state was formed, +out of which was developed <q>the beast,</q> or Papacy, of the Apocalypse, +which made <q>war with the saints</q> and overcame them. A like course +cannot fail to produce like results today. Dr. Philip Schaff, in his work +on <q>Church and State,</q> page 11, well says: <q>Secular power has proved a +satanic gift to the church, and ecclesiastical power has proved an engine +of tyranny in the hands of the state.</q> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='488'/><anchor id='Pg488'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Sabbath Legislation</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus488.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Reproving The Pharisees. +"For the Son of man is Lord even of the +Sabbath day." Matt. 12:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Who made the Sabbath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In six days <hi rend='italic'>the Lord</hi> made heaven and earth, the sea, and +all that in them is, and <hi rend='italic'>rested +the seventh day</hi>; wherefore <hi rend='italic'>the Lord +blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:11. +</p> + +<p> +2. To whom does the Sabbath belong? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The seventh day is the Sabbath of <hi rend='italic'>the Lord thy God</hi>.</q> +Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +3. To whom, then, should its observance be rendered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and <hi rend='italic'>to God +the things that are God's</hi>.</q> Mark 12:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When men make +Sabbath laws, therefore, they require Sabbath +observance to be rendered to the <emph>government</emph>, or, presumably, by +indirection, to God <emph>through the government</emph>, which amounts to the same +thing. +</quote> + +<p> +4. In religious things, to whom alone are we accountable? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So then every one of us shall give account of himself <hi rend='italic'>to +God</hi>.</q> Rom. 14:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—But when men make compulsory Sabbath laws, they make +men accountable to the <emph>government</emph> for Sabbath observance. +</quote> + +<p> +5. How does God command us to keep the Sabbath day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:8. +</p> + +<p> +6. What does He indicate as one of its purposes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the +<pb n='489'/><anchor id='Pg489'/> +Sabbath of rest, <hi rend='italic'>an holy convocation</hi>; ye shall do no work therein: +it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.</q> Lev. 23:3. +</p> + +<p> +7. Seeing, then, that the Sabbath is <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi>, +is to be <hi rend='italic'>kept holy</hi>, +and is a day for <hi rend='italic'>holy convocations</hi>, what must be its character? +</p> + +<p> +It must be <hi rend='italic'>religious</hi>. +</p> + +<p> +8. What, then, must be the nature of all Sabbath legislation? +</p> + +<p> +It is <hi rend='italic'>religious legislation</hi>. +</p> + +<p> +9. When the state enacts religious laws, what is effected? +</p> + +<p> +A union of church and state. +</p> + +<p> +10. What has always been the result of religious legislation, +or a union of church and state? +</p> + +<p> +Religious intolerance and persecution. +</p> + +<p> +11. What was Constantine's Sunday law of March 7, 321? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let all the judges and town people, and the occupation +of all trades rest on the venerable day of the sun; but let those +who are situated in the country, freely and at full liberty, attend +to the business of agriculture; because it often happens +that no other day is so fit for sowing corn and planting vines; +lest the critical moment being let slip, men should lose the commodities +granted by heaven.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Corpus Juris Civilis Cod., lib. 3, +tit. 12, 3.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +12. What further imperial legislation in behalf of Sunday +observance was issued in 386? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By a law of the year 386, those older changes effected by +the emperor Constantine were more rigorously enforced, and, +in general, civil transactions of every kind on Sunday were +strictly forbidden.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Neander's <q>Church History,</q></hi> +Vol. II, page 300, edition 1852. +</p> + +<p> +13. At the instance of church bishops, what still further law +was secured under Theodosius the Younger, in 425? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the year 425, the exhibition of spectacles on Sunday +and on the principal feast-days of the Christians was forbidden, +in order that the devotion of the faithful might be free from all +disturbance.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, pages 300, 301. +</p> + +<p> +14. What does the historian say of this legislation? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In this way the church received help from the state for the +furtherance of her ends</hi>.... But had it not been for that +confusion of spiritual and secular interests, had it not been for +the vast number of mere <hi rend='italic'>outward conversions</hi> thus brought about, +she would have needed no such help.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, page 301. +</p> + +<pb n='490'/><anchor id='Pg490'/> + +<p> +15. What did Charlemagne's Sunday law of 800 require? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We decree ... that servile works should not be done on +the Lord's day, ... that is, that neither should men do field +work, either in cultivating the vineyards or by plowing in the +fields, by cutting or drying hay, or by placing a fence, or by +making clearings in the woods or felling trees or working on +stones or constructing houses or working in the garden; +neither should they come together to decide public matters +nor be engaged in the hunt.... Women may not do any +textile work nor cut out clothes nor sew nor make garments.... +But let them come together from all sides to church to +the solemnities of the mass, and let them praise God for all +things which he does for us on that day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Historical +Chronicles of Germany,</q></hi> Sec. 2, Vol. I, 22 General admonition, 789, +M. Martio 23, page 61, par. 81. +</p> + +<p> +16. How does the Sunday law of Charles II, of 1676, read? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the better observation and keeping holy the Lord's +day, commonly called Sunday: be it enacted ... that all +the laws enacted and in force concerning the observation of +the day, and repairing to the church thereon, be carefully +put in execution; and that all and every person and persons +whatsoever shall on every Lord's day apply themselves to the +observation of the same, by exercising themselves thereon in +the duties of piety and true religion, publicly and +privately.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Revised +Statutes of England From 1235-1685 <hi rend='smallcaps'>a.d.</hi></q> (London, +1870), pages 779, 780; cited in <q>A Critical History of Sunday +Legislation,</q></hi> by A. H. Lewis, D. D., pages 108, 109. +</p> + +<p> +17. What did the first Sunday law enacted in America, that +of Virginia, in 1610, require? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Every man and woman shall repair in the morning to the +divine service and sermons preached upon the Sabbath day, and in +the afternoon to divine service, and catechizing</hi>, upon pain for the +first fault to <hi rend='italic'>lose their provision and the allowance for the whole +week following</hi>; for the second, to <hi rend='italic'>lose the said allowance and also +be whipped</hi>; and for the third to <hi rend='italic'>suffer +death</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Articles, Laws, +and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martial, for the Colony in Virginia: +first established by Sir Thomas Gates, Knight, Lieutenant-General, +the 24th of May, 1610.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—These are +the original Sunday laws, after which all the Sunday +laws of Europe and America have been modeled. Church attendance +is not generally required by the Sunday laws of the present day, nor was it +required, in terms, by the earliest Sunday laws; but that is and ever has +been the chief object of all Sunday legislation from Constantine's time on, +and it is as much out of place today as it ever was. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='491'/><anchor id='Pg491'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Who Persecute And Why</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus491.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Stoning Of Stephen. +"Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever +killeth you will think that he doeth God +service." John 16:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Because Jesus had not kept the Sabbath according to +their ideas, what did the Jews do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay +Him</hi>, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day.</q> +John 5:16. +</p> + +<p> +2. What kind of fast is most acceptable to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is not this the fast that I have chosen? <hi rend='italic'>to loose the bands +of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed +go free, and that ye break every yoke?</hi></q> Isa. 58:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +what Jesus did. He, the Author and Lord of the +Sabbath, in addition to attending and taking part in religious services +(Luke 4:16), went about doing good, healing the sick, relieving the oppressed, +and restoring the impotent, lame, and blind, on the Sabbath day. +But this, while in perfect accord with the law of God, the great law of love, +was contrary to the traditions and perverted ideas of the Jews respecting +the Sabbath. Hence they persecuted Him, and sought to slay Him. +</quote> + +<p> +3. Why did Cain kill Abel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, +that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was +of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew +<pb n='493'/><anchor id='Pg493'/> +he him? <hi rend='italic'>Because his own works were evil, and his brother's +righteous.</hi></q> 1 John 3:11, 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The following +comment upon this passage by M. de Chesnais, +a Catholic priest of New Zealand, is well put: <q>If you would read the +Word of God, you would find that from the beginning all good people were +persecuted because they were good. Abel was slain by his brother because +he was good, and Cain could not endure the sight of +him.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Kaikoura +(New Zealand) Star, April 10, 1884.</hi> +</quote> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus492.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Fiery Furnace. +"Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us +from the burning fiery furnace." Dan. 3:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +4. Commenting upon the treatment of Isaac, the son of +Sarah, by Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman, what principle +does the apostle Paul lay down? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But as then, <hi rend='italic'>he that was born after the flesh persecuted him +that was born after the Spirit</hi>, even so it is now.</q> Gal. 4:29. +</p> + +<p> +5. What other instances of persecution mentioned in the +Bible, demonstrate the correctness of this principle? +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>a.</hi> Esau, who sold his birthright, persecuted Jacob, who +vowed his loyalty to God. Gen. 25:29-34; 27:41; 32:6. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>b.</hi> The wayward and envious sons of Jacob persecuted +Joseph, who feared God. Genesis 37; Acts 7:9. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>c.</hi> The idolatrous Egyptians persecuted the Hebrews, who +worshiped the true God. Exodus 1 and 5. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>d.</hi> The Hebrew who did his neighbor wrong thrust Moses, +as mediator, aside. Ex. 2:13, 14; Acts 7:26, 27. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>e.</hi> Saul, who disobeyed God, persecuted David, who feared +God. 1 Samuel 15, 19, 24. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>f.</hi> Israel, in their apostasy, persecuted Elijah and Jeremiah, +who were prophets of God. 1 Kings 19:9, 10; Jer. 36:20-23; +38:1-6. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>g.</hi> Nebuchadnezzar, while an idolater, persecuted the three +Hebrew captives for refusing to worship idols. Daniel 3. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>h.</hi> The envious and idolatrous princes under Darius, persecuted +Daniel for daring to pray to the God of heaven. Daniel 6. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>i.</hi> The murderers of Christ persecuted the apostles for +preaching Christ. Acts 4 and 5. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>j.</hi> Paul, before his conversion, persecuted the church of +God. Acts 8:1; 9:1, 2; 22:4, 5, 20; 26:9-11; Gal. 1:13; +1 Tim. 1:12, 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The history +of all the religious persecutions since Bible times +is but a repetition of this same story,—the wicked persecute the righteous. +And thus it will continue to be until the conflict between good and evil is +ended. +</quote> + +<p> +6. Who does Paul say shall suffer persecution? +</p> + +<pb n='494'/><anchor id='Pg494'/> + +<p> +<q>Yea, and <hi rend='italic'>all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer +persecution</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:12. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is essential to extensive religious persecution? +</p> + +<p> +Ecclesiastical control of the civil power, or a union of church +and state. +</p> + +<p> +8. Since persecution is invariably wrong, and the persecutor +is generally in the wrong on religious subjects, what must be +true of persecuting governments? +</p> + +<p> +They likewise must be in the wrong. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>There +are many who do not seem to be sensible that all +violence in religion is irreligious, and that, whoever is wrong, the persecutor +cannot be right.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Thomas Clarke.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Have not almost all the governments in the world always been in +the wrong on religious subjects?</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Macaulay.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Do not the Scriptures clearly show that they who persecute are +generally in the wrong, and they who suffer persecution in the right,—that +the majority has always been on the side of falsehood, and the +minority only on the side of truth?</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Luther.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Religion was intended to bring peace on earth and good will towards +men, and whatever tends to hatred and persecution, however correct in +the letter, must be utterly wrong in the spirit.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Henry +Varnum.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +God never forces the will or the conscience; but, in order to bring +men under sin, Satan resorts to force. To accomplish his purpose, he +works through religious and secular rulers, influencing them to enact and +enforce human laws in defiance of the law of God. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. Under what terrible deception did Christ say men would +persecute His followers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not +be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, +the time cometh, that <hi rend='italic'>whosoever killeth you will think that he +doeth God service</hi>.</q> John 16:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +10. Who is the original murderer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye are of your father <hi rend='italic'>the devil</hi>, and the lusts of your father +ye will do. <hi rend='italic'>He was a murderer from the beginning</hi>, and abode not +in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh +a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father +of it.</q> John 8:44. +</p> + +<p> +11. When James and John wished to call down fire from +heaven to consume the Samaritans who did not receive Christ, +what did Christ say to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He turned, and rebuked them, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Ye know not what +manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to +destroy men's lives, but to save them</hi>.</q> Luke 9:55, 56. +</p> + +<pb n='495'/><anchor id='Pg495'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Some +of the reasons given in justification of persecution +may be noted in the following quotations:— +</p> + +<p> +<q>The state cannot afford to permit religious liberty. We hear a +great deal about religious tolerance, but we are only tolerant in so far as +we are not interested. A person may be tolerant toward a religion if he +is not religious.... Intolerance means fervor and zeal. The best +the state can do is to establish a limited religious liberty; but beyond a +certain degree of tolerance the state cannot afford to admit the +doctrine.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Monsignor +Russell (Catholic), quoted in Washington Post, May 5, 1910.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The church has persecuted. Only a tyro in church history will +deny that.... We have always defended the persecution of the +Huguenots, and the Spanish Inquisition. When she thinks it good to use +physical force, she will use it.... But will the Catholic Church give +bond that she will not persecute at all? Will she guarantee absolute freedom +and equality of all churches and all faiths? The Catholic Church +gives no bonds for her good behavior.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Editorial +in Western Watchman +(Catholic), of St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 24, 1908.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Inquisition was a very merciful tribunal; I repeat it, almost a +compassionate tribunal.... A man was only allowed to be racked +once, which no one can deny was a most wonderful leniency in those +times.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Catholic Mirror, official +organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Aug. 29, 1896.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>We confess that the Roman Catholic Church is intolerant; that is +to say, that it uses all the means in its power for the extirpation of error +and sin; but this intolerance is the logical and necessary consequence of +her infallibility. <emph>She alone has the right to be intolerant, because she alone +has the truth.</emph> The church tolerates heretics where she is obliged to do so, +but she hates them mortally, and employs all her force to secure their +annihilation.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Shepherd of the Valley +(St. Louis, Mo.), 1876.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +This erroneous position has been well refuted by Lord Macaulay +in the following words: <q>The doctrine which, from the very first origin +of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed +into few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: +I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, +you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when +I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute +error.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Essay on <q>Sir James Mackintosh.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +Benjamin Franklin well said: <q>When religion is good it will take care +of itself; when it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to +take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is +evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Letter +to Dr. Price.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +John Wesley gave the following Christian advice: <q>Condemn no man +for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty +of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every +man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in +any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution. If you cannot reason nor +persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If +love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the Judge of all.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +12. What does Christ say of those who are persecuted for +righteousness' sake? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' +sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when +men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner +<pb n='496'/><anchor id='Pg496'/> +of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Rejoice, and be +exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted +they the prophets which were before you.</q> Matt. 5:10-12. +See Rev. 2:10; 6:9-11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>In the furnace God may prove thee,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thence to bring thee forth more bright;</l> +<l>But He can never cease to love thee;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thou art precious in His sight:</l> +<l>God is with thee,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'><q rend='post'>God, thine everlasting light.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +13. What divine precepts received and obeyed would do +way with all oppression and persecution? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.</q> Matt. 22:39. +<q>All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do +ye even so to them.</q> Matt. 7:12. +</p> + +<p> +14. What does love not do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Love worketh no ill to his neighbor</hi>: therefore love is the +fulfilling of the law.</q> Rom. 13:10. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +The Bigot's Creed +</p> + +<lg> +<l>Believe as I believe—no more, no less;</l> +<l>That I am right, and no one else, confess;</l> +<l>Feel as I feel, think only as I think;</l> +<l>Eat what I eat, and drink but what I drink;</l> +<l>Look as I look, do always as I do;</l> +<l>And, only then, I'll fellowship with you.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>That I am right, and always right, I know,</l> +<l>Because my own convictions tell me so;</l> +<l>And to be right is simply this: to be</l> +<l>Entirely and in all respects like me.</l> +<l>To deviate a jot, or to begin</l> +<l>To question, doubt, or hesitate, is sin.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Let sink the drowning man, if he'll not swim</l> +<l>Upon the plank that I throw out to him;</l> +<l>Let starve the famishing, if he'll not eat</l> +<l>My kind and quantity of bread and meat;</l> +<l>Let freeze the naked, too, if he'll not be</l> +<l>Supplied with garments such as made for me.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Twere better that the sick should die than live,</l> +<l>Unless they take the medicine I give;</l> +<l>'Twere better sinners perish than refuse</l> +<l>To be conformed to my peculiar views;</l> +<l>'Twere better that the world stood still than move</l> +<l>In any way that I do not approve.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='497'/><anchor id='Pg497'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XI. Life Only in Christ</head> + +<pb n='498'/><anchor id='Pg498'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus498.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Open Grave At Hanover, Germany. +"This grave, purchased for eternity, must +never be opened."—German Princess. See +page 515.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='499'/><anchor id='Pg499'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Origin, History, And Destiny Of Satan</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus499.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Temptation. +"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, +son of the morning!" Isa. 14:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Have any others than the human family sinned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God spared not <hi rend='italic'>the angels that sinned</hi>, but cast them down +to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved +unto judgment.</q> 2 Peter 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is the name of the one who led the angels to sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared +for <hi rend='italic'>the devil</hi> and his angels.</q> Matt. 25:41. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what other names is he known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the great <hi rend='italic'>dragon</hi> was +cast out, that old <hi rend='italic'>serpent</hi>, called +the Devil, and <hi rend='italic'>Satan</hi>, which deceiveth the whole world.</q> Rev. +12:9. See also Isa. 14:12, where he is called <q>Lucifer.</q> +</p> + +<p> +4. What was Satan's condition when created? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thou wast perfect</hi> in thy ways from the day that thou wast +created, till iniquity was found in thee.</q> Eze. 28:15. +</p> + +<p> +5. What description is given of him by the prophet Ezekiel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord God; <hi rend='italic'>Thou sealest up the sum, full of +wisdom, and perfect in beauty</hi>. Thou hast been in Eden the +garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, ... the +workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in +thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed +cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon +the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in +the midst of the stones of fire.</q> Verses 12-14. +</p> + +<pb n='500'/><anchor id='Pg500'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From +this it is evident that Satan was a high and exalted +angel before he fell, a masterpiece of wisdom and beauty. From the reference +to his <q>tabrets</q> and <q>pipes</q> it seems probable that he was chorister +of heaven, and led the angelic host in song. In the earthly sanctuary +the cherubim overshadowed the mercy-seat. Ex. 25:16-22; Heb. 9:3-5; +Ps. 99:1. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What unholy, ambitious spirit took possession of Satan, +and led to his fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, +I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon +the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will +ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most +High.</q> Isa. 14:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +7. Did pride also contribute to his fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty</hi>, thou hast +corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy <hi rend='italic'>brightness</hi>.</q> Eze. 28:17. +</p> + +<p> +8. What does Solomon say precedes destruction and a fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Pride</hi> goeth before destruction, +and <hi rend='italic'>an haughty spirit</hi> before +a fall.</q> Prov. 16:18. +</p> + +<p> +9. How does the prophet Isaiah describe Satan's fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the +morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst +weaken the nations!</q> Isa. 14:12. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why was Satan cast from his high position? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the +midst of thee with violence, <hi rend='italic'>and thou hast sinned</hi>: therefore I +will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will +destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones +of fire.</q> Eze. 28:16. +</p> + +<p> +11. When cast out of the mountain of God, to what place +were Satan and his angels banished, to be kept till the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but <hi rend='italic'>cast +them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness</hi>, +to be reserved unto judgment.</q> 2 Peter 2:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, we +understand, is the darkness surrounding this world, +and is symbolic of the darkness of utter hopelessness and despair in rebellion +and sin. When Satan led man to sin, darkness was brought upon +this world. But God did not leave man to hopelessness. In His mercy +and great love He caused <q>the light of the glorious gospel of Christ</q> to +shine, to call men <q>out of darkness into His marvelous light.</q> That Satan +and the angels who fell with him had a period of probation and opportunity +to repent, there can be no doubt. Their fate is the result of stubborn +rebellion and persistence in sin in spite of the overtures of mercy and the +<pb n='501'/><anchor id='Pg501'/> +offers of pardon. For this they were cast out of heaven. The wicked +angels are kept in everlasting chains of darkness. +</quote> + +<p> +12. How is the conflict which took place in heaven between +Christ and Satan described by the revelator? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there was war in heaven: Michael and His angels +fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, +and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in +heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, +called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: +he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with +him.</q> Rev. 12:7-9. +</p> + +<p> +13. In what terms did Christ refer to Satan's fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>I beheld Satan as lightning fall +from heaven</hi>.</q> Luke 10:18. +</p> + +<p> +14. Has Satan ever appeared before God since his fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present +themselves before the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>and Satan came also among +them</hi>.</q> Job 1:6. See also chapter 2:1. +</p> + +<p> +15. When asked whence he came, what was Satan's reply? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, <hi rend='italic'>From going to +and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it</hi>.</q> Job +1:7. See Job 2:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By tempting man to sin, Satan usurped man's dominion +over the earth. Rom. 6:16; 2 Peter 2:19. This he now claims as his +kingdom (Luke 4:6); hence the temptation in offering the kingdoms of +this world to Christ. As the <q>god</q> and ruler of this world, Satan, for +four thousand years before the crucifixion of Christ, appeared before God +among the representatives of other worlds, as the representative of this +world. After accomplishing the death of Christ, the Son of God, the sinless +One, Satan was cast out of this council, or assembly, and has not been +permitted to enter it since. This was his second fall, and the one, doubtless, +to which Christ, just before His crucifixion, alluded when he said, +<q>Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be +<emph>cast out</emph>.</q> John 12:31. His final fall and destruction are still future. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What has been the character of Satan since his fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that committeth sin is of the devil; for <hi rend='italic'>the devil sinneth +from the beginning</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:8. +</p> + +<p> +17. Was he ever in the truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your +father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and +<hi rend='italic'>abode not in the truth</hi>, because there is no truth in him.</q> John +8:44. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The expression +<q><emph>abode</emph> not in the truth</q> implies that Satan +was once <emph>in</emph> the truth, but that he did not <emph>remain</emph> there. +</quote> + +<pb n='502'/><anchor id='Pg502'/> + +<p> +18. What is the only <q>beginning</q> of which we have record? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the beginning God <hi rend='italic'>created the heaven and the earth</hi>.</q> +Gen. 1:1. +</p> + +<p> +19. What besides a <hi rend='italic'>murderer</hi> did Christ say Satan is? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for <hi rend='italic'>he is a +liar, and the father of it</hi>.</q> John 8:44. +</p> + +<p> +20. What did God tell Adam and Eve would be the result +if they transgressed by partaking of the forbidden fruit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt <hi rend='italic'>surely die</hi>.</q> Gen. 2:17. +</p> + +<p> +21. What did Satan say to Eve concerning this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the serpent said unto the woman, +<hi rend='italic'>Ye shall <hi rend='smallcaps'>not</hi> surely +die</hi>.</q> Gen. 3:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, as +far as the record shows, was <emph>the first lie</emph>,—a direct +denial of the word of God. By persuading Eve to accept and believe it, +Satan led our first parents to <emph>commit sin</emph>; +and, as <q>the wages of sin is <emph>death</emph>,</q> +by it, also, he caused their <emph>death</emph>, and so +became, in reality, <emph>the first murderer</emph>. +A lie, therefore, is a twin brother to murder, and one of the most hateful +things to God, the <q>God of <emph>truth</emph>.</q> See Prov. 6:16-19. <q>The lip of +truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.</q> +Prov. 12:19. <q>All liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth +with fire and brimstone.</q> Rev. 21:8. See also Rev. 21:27; 22:15. +</quote> + +<p> +22. What has been the result of sin's entrance into the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By one man sin entered into the world, and <hi rend='italic'>death by sin</hi>.</q> +Rom. 5:12. <q>By one man's disobedience <hi rend='italic'>many were made +sinners</hi>.</q> Verse 19. <q><hi rend='italic'>The +whole world lieth in wickedness.</hi></q> +1 John 5:19. <q>In Adam <hi rend='italic'>all die</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:22. +</p> + +<p> +23. When Christ came to redeem man, what did Satan do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And immediately the Spirit driveth Him into the wilderness. +And He was there in the wilderness forty days, <hi rend='italic'>tempted +of Satan</hi>.</q> Mark 1:12, 13. See also Matt. 4:1-11. +</p> + +<p> +24. How severely was Christ tempted of Satan? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched +with the feeling of our infirmities; but was <hi rend='italic'>in all points tempted +like as we are</hi>, yet without sin.</q> Heb. 4:15. +</p> + +<p> +25. What has the church suffered since the days of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when the dragon [Satan] saw that he was cast unto the +earth, <hi rend='italic'>he persecuted the woman</hi> +[<hi rend='italic'>the church</hi>].</q> Rev. 12:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Many +millions of the people of God have been put to death +since the beginning of the Christian era, under pagan and papal persecutions, +all of which have been instigated by Satan. See Buck's Theological +Dictionary, any commentary or church history on the subject of +persecution, and the readings on pages <ref target='Pg218'>218</ref>, +<ref target='Pg264'>264</ref>, <ref target='Pg268'>268</ref>, +<ref target='Pg491'>491</ref>. +</quote> + +<pb n='503'/><anchor id='Pg503'/> + +<p> +26. Is the remnant church to feel his wrath, and why? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to +make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments +of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</q> +Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +27. How will Satan deceive men in the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth <hi rend='italic'>by the means +of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast</hi>.</q> +Rev. 13:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, we +understand, refers to Spiritualistic manifestations +and miracles to be wrought to fasten men in error and deception. See +readings on pages <ref target='Pg530'>530</ref>, <ref target='Pg533'>533</ref>. +</quote> + +<p> +28. What will influence the nations to gather for the great +battle of Armageddon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They are <hi rend='italic'>the spirits of devils</hi>, working miracles, which go +forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, <hi rend='italic'>to gather +them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty</hi>.</q> Rev. 16:14. +</p> + +<p> +29. Why will men be allowed thus to fall under the delusion +of Satan? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Because they received not the love of the truth</hi>, that they might +be saved. <hi rend='italic'>And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, +that they should believe a lie</hi>: that they all might be damned +who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</q> +2 Thess. 2:10-12. See 1 Kings 22:20-23. +</p> + +<p> +30. For how long is Satan to be bound at the second advent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the +key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And +he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, +and Satan, and <hi rend='italic'>bound him a thousand years</hi>.</q> Rev. 20:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +31. What is to take place at the close of the thousand years? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when the thousand years are expired, <hi rend='italic'>Satan shall +be loosed out of his prison</hi>, and shall +<hi rend='italic'>go out to deceive the nations</hi> +which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, +<hi rend='italic'>to gather them together to battle</hi>: the number of whom is as the +sand of the sea.</q> Verses 7, 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Satan's +evil career began in rebellion against God in heaven, +and ends in rebellion against Him on earth. +</quote> + +<p> +32. As Satan and his host compass the camp of the saints, +what will take place? +</p> + +<pb n='504'/><anchor id='Pg504'/> + +<p> +<q>And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and +<hi rend='italic'>fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them</hi>.</q> +Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +33. What is to be Satan's final doom? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth</hi> in the sight of all +them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the +people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and +<hi rend='italic'>never shalt thou be any more</hi>.</q> Eze. 28:18, 19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A gladsome +thought! Satan, sin, and sinners are finally to +come to an end, and be no more. Then God will have a clean universe. +</quote> + +<p> +34. Why did Christ partake of our nature? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and +blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; <hi rend='italic'>that +through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, +that is, the devil</hi>.</q> Heb. 2:14. +</p> + +<p> +35. What exhortations are given to Christians in view of +Satan's hatred against God and all that is good? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be sober, be vigilant</hi>; because your adversary the devil, as a +roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: +whom <hi rend='italic'>resist steadfast in the +faith</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 5:8, 9. <q><hi rend='italic'>Resist +the devil</hi>, and he will flee from you.</q> James 4:7. +</p> + +<p> +36. With what weapon did Christ successfully meet Satan's +temptations? +</p> + +<p> +The Word of God. <q><hi rend='italic'>It is written, ... It is written, +... It is written.</hi></q> Matt. 4:4-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +Word of God is the <q>sword of the Spirit.</q> Eph. 6:17. +If Christ met and vanquished the enemy with this, so also may we. But +no one can use it who is unfamiliar with it. How important, then, that +we search, study, and know it! See first readings in this book, and reading +on <q>Importance of Sound Doctrine,</q> page <ref target='Pg127'>127</ref>. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Gracious Father, guard Thy children</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>From the foe's destructive power;</l> +<l>Save, O save them, Lord, from falling</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In this dark and trying hour!</l> +<l>Thou wilt surely prove Thy people,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>All our graces must be tried;</l> +<l>But Thy Word illumes our pathway,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And in God we still confide.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='505'/><anchor id='Pg505'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>What Is Man?</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus505.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sea Of Galilee. +"And the Lord ... breathed into his nostrils +the breath of life; and man became a living soul." +Gen. 2:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In what condition was man created? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou madest him <hi rend='italic'>a little lower than the angels</hi>.</q> Ps. 8:5. +</p> + +<p> +2. What will be the final condition of the righteous? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the +angels</hi>; and are the children of God, being the children of the +resurrection.</q> Luke 20:35, 36. +</p> + +<p> +3. What are angels called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And of the angels He saith, Who maketh His angels <hi rend='italic'>spirits</hi>, +and His ministers a flame of fire.</q> Heb. 1:7. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is the difference between the two Adams? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The first man Adam was made <hi rend='italic'>a living soul</hi>; the last Adam +was made <hi rend='italic'>a quickening spirit</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:45. +</p> + +<p> +5. Are our present bodies natural or spiritual? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that +which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.</q> +Verse 46. +</p> + +<p> +6. When will the righteous have spiritual bodies? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is sown a natural body; <hi rend='italic'>it is raised a spiritual body</hi>. +There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.</q> +Verse 44. +</p> + +<p> +7. To what does the sowing here spoken of refer? +</p> + +<pb n='506'/><anchor id='Pg506'/> + +<p> +<q>That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it <hi rend='italic'>die</hi>.</q> +Verse 36. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Man does +not now possess the undying, spiritual nature +of the angels, except as he holds it by faith in Christ; nor will he until the +resurrection. Then, if righteous, he will be made immortal, and he cannot +die any more (Luke 20:36), because he will be <q><emph>equal unto the angels</emph>.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +8. How is man's nature defined? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Shall <hi rend='italic'>mortal man</hi> be more just than God?</q> Job 4:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Mortal</hi>: <q>Subject to +death.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What is God's nature? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now unto the King <hi rend='italic'>eternal, immortal, invisible</hi>, the only +wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.</q> +1 Tim. 1:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Immortal</hi>: <q>Exempt +from liability to die.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +10. Of what was man formed in the beginning? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God formed man <hi rend='italic'>of the dust of the ground</hi>.</q> +Gen. 2:7, first part. +</p> + +<p> +11. What act made him a living soul? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And [God] <hi rend='italic'>breathed into his nostrils the breath of life</hi>; and +man became a living soul.</q> Same verse, last part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The living soul was not put <emph>into</emph> the +man; but the breath of <emph>life</emph> which was put into man, made +<emph>him</emph>—the man, made of the earth—a +<emph>living</emph> soul, or creature. +</p> + +<p> +The original for <q>living soul</q> in this text is +<foreign lang='he' rend='italic'>nephesh chaiyah</foreign>. On the +use of this expression in Gen. 1:24, translated <q>living creature,</q> Dr. Adam +Clarke says: <q>A general term to express all creatures endued with animal +life, in any of its infinitely varied gradations, from the half-reasoning +elephant down to the stupid potto, or lower still, to the polyp, which +seems equally to share the vegetable and animal life.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +12. Are other creatures besides man called <q>living souls</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; +and it became as the blood of a dead man: and <hi rend='italic'>every living soul +died in the sea</hi>.</q> Rev. 16:3. See also Gen. 1:30, margin. +</p> + +<p> +13. Do others besides man have the <q>breath of life</q>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of <hi rend='italic'>fowl</hi>, +and of <hi rend='italic'>cattle</hi>, and of <hi rend='italic'>beast</hi>, +and of <hi rend='italic'>every creeping thing</hi> that creepeth +upon the earth, and every man: <hi rend='italic'>all in whose nostrils was the +breath of life</hi>.</q> Gen. 7:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +14. Is their breath the same as man's? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, <hi rend='italic'>they have all one +breath</hi>; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for +all is vanity.</q> Eccl. 3:19. +</p> + +<pb n='507'/><anchor id='Pg507'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That +is, here men, as well as beasts, die. This present life, +with them, as with the rest of the animal creation, is dependent upon their +breath. When this is gone, they, the same as beasts, die. In this respect +they have no preeminence over beasts. But men have a future unending +life held out before them, and may, if they will, die in hope of eternal life, +which is a very great preeminence over the rest of the animal creation. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What does Job call that which God breathed into man's +nostrils? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All the while my breath is in me, and <hi rend='italic'>the spirit of God is +in my nostrils</hi>.</q> Job 27:3. +</p> + +<p> +16. When man gives up this spirit, what becomes of it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and +<hi rend='italic'>the spirit shall return unto God who gave it</hi>.</q> Eccl. 12:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, +the spirit of life by which man lives, and which is +only lent him of God, at death goes back to the great Author of life. Having +come from Him, it belongs to God, and man can have it eternally only as a +gift from God, through Jesus Christ. Rom. 6:23. When the spirit goes +back to God, the dust, from which man was made a <q>living soul</q> in the +beginning, goes back <emph>as it was</emph>, to the earth, and the individual no longer +exists as a living, conscious, thinking being, except as he exists in the mind, +plan, and purpose of God through Christ and the resurrection. In this +sense <q>all live unto Him</q> (Luke 20:38), for all are to be raised from the +dead. See John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15; Rom. 4:17. +</quote> + +<p> +17. Who only have hold of the life eternal? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that hath the Son hath +life</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>he that hath not the Son of +God hath not life</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +veriest sinner has this temporal life; but when he yields +up this life, he has no prospect nor promise of the life eternal. That can +be received only through Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +18. Why was Adam driven from the garden of Eden and +excluded from the tree of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the +tree of life, and eat, and <hi rend='italic'>live forever</hi>.</q> Gen. 3:22. +</p> + +<p> +19. What was done to keep man away from the tree of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the +garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned +every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +20. How are all men in the natural state regarded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We all ... were by nature <hi rend='italic'>the children of wrath</hi>, even +as others.</q> Eph. 2:3. +</p> + +<p> +21. If the wrath of God <hi rend='italic'>abides</hi> on a person, of what does it +deprive him? +</p> + +<pb n='508'/><anchor id='Pg508'/> + +<p> +<q>He that believeth not the Son <hi rend='italic'>shall not see life</hi>; but the +wrath of God abideth on him.</q> John 3:36. +</p> + +<p> +22. Through whom is the sinner saved from wrath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall +be saved from wrath <hi rend='italic'>through Him</hi>.</q> Rom. 5:9. +</p> + +<p> +23. With whom is the Christian's future life hid? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye are dead [to sin], and your life is <hi rend='italic'>hid with Christ in +God</hi>.</q> Col. 3:3. +</p> + +<p> +24. When will this life be bestowed upon the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>When Christ, who is our life, shall appear</hi>, then shall ye also +appear with Him in glory.</q> Verse 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word <emph>immortal</emph> +occurs but once in the English Bible +(1 Tim. 1:17), and is there applied to God. +</quote> + +<p> +25. Who only possesses inherent immortality? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, +and Lord of lords; <hi rend='italic'>who only hath immortality</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 6:15, 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God +is the only Being who possesses original life or immortality +in Himself. All others must receive it from God. See John 5:26; +6:27; 10:10, 27, 28; Rom. 6:23; 1 John 5:11. +</quote> + +<p> +26. Through whom has immortality been brought to light? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But is now made manifest by the appearing of <hi rend='italic'>our Saviour +Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and +immortality to light through the gospel</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +27. To whom is eternal life promised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To them who by patient continuance in well-doing <hi rend='italic'>seek +for glory and honor and immortality</hi>, eternal life.</q> Rom. 2:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—One +does not need to seek for a thing which he already +possesses. The fact that we are to seek for immortality is proof in itself +that we do not now possess it. +</quote> + +<p> +28. When will the faithful be changed to immortality? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but +<hi rend='italic'>we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, +at the last trump</hi>: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall +be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.</q> 1 Cor. 15:51, +52. +</p> + +<p> +29. What is then to be swallowed up? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, +and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be +brought to pass the saying that is written, <hi rend='italic'>Death is swallowed +up in victory</hi>.</q> Verse 54. See verse 57. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='509'/><anchor id='Pg509'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Life Only In Christ</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus509.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Moses Smiting The Rock. +"They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed +them." 1 Cor. 10:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is the wages of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wages of sin is <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +2. Through whom only is there salvation from sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Neither is there salvation in any other</hi>: for there is none other +name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be +saved.</q> Acts 4:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If men +do not die, why should Christ die to save them from +death? And what need of the resurrection and the second advent? +</quote> + +<p> +3. Why did God send His only begotten Son to this world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That whosoever believeth in Him should not <hi rend='italic'>perish</hi>, but +have <hi rend='italic'>everlasting life</hi>.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +4. What does Christ declare Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the way, the truth, and <hi rend='italic'>the life</hi>.</q> John 14:6. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does He say He gives to those who follow Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they +follow Me: and <hi rend='italic'>I give unto them eternal life</hi>; and they shall never +perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.</q> +John 10:27, 28. +</p> + +<pb n='510'/><anchor id='Pg510'/> + +<p> +6. Upon what is the possession of this life conditioned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Except ye <hi rend='italic'>eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His +blood</hi>, ye have no life in you.</q> John 6:53. +</p> + +<p> +7. In whom is the life eternal? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal +life, <hi rend='italic'>and this life is in His Son</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. Who only have this life? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that hath the Son hath life</hi>; and he that hath not the Son +of God hath not life.</q> Verse 12. <q><hi rend='italic'>He that heareth My word, +and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life</hi>, and shall +not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.</q> +John 5:24. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is Christ therefore fittingly called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When Christ, who is <hi rend='italic'>our life</hi>, shall appear, then shall ye +also appear with Him in glory.</q> Col. 3:4. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>There is a fountain filled with blood,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Drawn from Immanuel's veins;</l> +<l>And sinners plunged beneath that flood</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Lose all their guilty stains.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The dying thief rejoiced to see</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That fountain in his day;</l> +<l>And there may I, though vile as he,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Wash all my sins away.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Thou dying Lamb! Thy precious blood</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Shall never lose its power,</l> +<l>Till all the ransomed church of God</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Are saved, to sin no more.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>E'er since by faith I saw the stream</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thy flowing wounds supply,</l> +<l>Redeeming love has been my theme,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And shall be till I die.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Lord, I believe Thou hast prepared,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Unworthy though I be,</l> +<l>For me a blood-bought, free reward—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Eternal life for me.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>There in a nobler, sweeter song,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I'll sing Thy power to save,</l> +<l>When this poor lisping, stam'ring tongue</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is ransomed from the grave.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>William Cowper.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='511'/><anchor id='Pg511'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Intermediate State</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus511.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Burial Of Sarah. +"If I wait, the grave is mine house." +Job 17:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By what figure does the Bible represent death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning +them which are <hi rend='italic'>asleep</hi>, that ye sorrow not, even as +others which have no hope.</q> 1 Thess. 4:13. See also 1 Cor. +15:18, 20; John 11:11-14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In sound sleep +one is wholly lost to consciousness; time goes +by unmeasured; and the mental functions which are active during consciousness +are suspended for the time being. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Where do the dead sleep? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And many of them that <hi rend='italic'>sleep in the dust of the earth</hi> shall +awake.</q> Dan. 12:2. See also Eccl. 3:20; 9:10. +</p> + +<p> +3. How long will they sleep there? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So man lieth down, and riseth not: <hi rend='italic'>till the heavens be no +more</hi>, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.</q> +Job 14:12. +</p> + +<p> +4. For what did Job say he would wait after death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed +time will I wait, <hi rend='italic'>till my change come</hi>.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +5. Where did he say he would wait? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If I wait, the grave is mine house</hi>: I have made my bed in +the darkness.</q> Job 17:13. +</p> + +<pb n='512'/><anchor id='Pg512'/> + +<p> +6. While in this condition, how much does one know about +those he has left behind? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His sons come to honor, and <hi rend='italic'>he knoweth it not</hi>; and they +are brought low, but <hi rend='italic'>he perceiveth it not of them</hi>.</q> Job 14:21. +</p> + +<p> +7. What becomes of man's thoughts at death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; <hi rend='italic'>in that +very day his thoughts perish</hi>.</q> Ps. 146:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. Do the dead know <hi rend='italic'>anything</hi>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the living know that they shall die: <hi rend='italic'>but the dead know +not anything</hi>, neither have they any more a reward; for the +memory of them is forgotten.</q> Eccl. 9:5. +</p> + +<p> +9. Do they take any part in earthly things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Also their <hi rend='italic'>love</hi>, and +their <hi rend='italic'>hatred</hi>, and their <hi rend='italic'>envy</hi>, is now +<hi rend='italic'>perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything +that is done under the sun</hi>.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If one +continued in consciousness after death, he would know +of the promotion or dishonor of his sons. But Job says he does not know +this. Not only so, but in death one loses all the attributes of mind,—love, +hatred, envy, etc. Thus it is plain that his thoughts have perished, +and that he can have nothing more to do with the things of this +world. But if, as taught and held by some, man's powers of thought +continue after death, he <emph>lives</emph>; and +if he lives, he must be <emph>somewhere</emph>. Where +is he? Is he in heaven, or in hell? If he goes to either place at death, +what then is the need of a future judgment, or of a resurrection, or of the +second coming of Christ? If the judgment does not take place at death, +but men go to their reward at death, then their <emph>rewards</emph> precede their +<emph>awards</emph>, and there would arise the possibility that some have at death gone +to the wrong place, and must needs be sent to the other, after having been +in bliss or torment for ages, perhaps. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What does the psalmist say about the dead praising God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The dead praise not the Lord</hi>, neither any that go down +into silence.</q> Ps. 115:17. +</p> + +<p> +11. How much does one know of God when dead? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For in death <hi rend='italic'>there is no remembrance of Thee</hi>.</q> Ps. 6:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—There is not +even a remembrance of God. As already seen, +the Bible everywhere represents the dead as <emph>asleep</emph>. If they were in heaven +or in hell, would it be fitting to represent them thus? Was Lazarus, whom +Jesus loved, in heaven when the Saviour said, <q>Our friend Lazarus +<emph>sleepeth</emph></q>? John 11:11. If so, calling him to life was really robbing him +of the bliss of heaven that rightly belonged to him. The parable of the rich man +and Lazarus, recorded in Luke 16, was given to teach, not consciousness +in death, but that in the judgment riches will avail nothing unless rightly +and beneficently used, and that poverty will not keep one out of heaven. +</quote> + +<pb n='513'/><anchor id='Pg513'/> + +<p> +12. But are not the righteous dead in heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>David is not ascended into the heavens</hi>.</q> Acts 2:34. +</p> + +<p> +13. What must take place before the dead can praise God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy dead men shall live, together with My dead body shall +they arise. <hi rend='italic'>Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust</hi>: for thy dew +is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.</q> +Isa. 26:19. +</p> + +<p> +14. When did David say he would be satisfied? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall +be satisfied, <hi rend='italic'>when I awake, with Thy likeness</hi>.</q> Ps. 17:15. +</p> + +<p> +15. Were there to be no resurrection of the dead, what would +be the condition of those fallen asleep in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if +Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. +<hi rend='italic'>Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.</hi></q> +1 Cor. 15:16-18. +</p> + +<p> +16. When is the resurrection of the righteous to take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven</hi> with a +shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of +God: <hi rend='italic'>and the dead in Christ shall rise first</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 4:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—If, as +stated in Eccl. 9:5, the dead know not anything, +then they have no knowledge of the lapse of time. <q>Six thousand years +in the grave to a dead man is no more than a wink of the eye to the living.</q> +To them, consciousness, our only means of measuring time, is gone; and it +will seem to them when they awake that absolutely no time has elapsed. +And herein lies a most comforting thought in the Bible doctrine of the sleep +of the dead, that in death there is no consciousness of the passing of time. +To those who sleep in Jesus, their sleep, whether long or short, whether +one year, one thousand years, or six thousand years, will be but as if the +moment of sad parting were followed instantly by the glad reunion in the +presence of Jesus at His glorious appearing and the resurrection of the just. +</p> + +<p> +It ought also to be a comforting thought to those whose lives have +been filled with anxiety and grief for deceased loved ones who persisted +in sin, to know that they are not now suffering in torments, but, with all +the rest of the dead, are quietly sleeping in their graves. Job 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +Again, it would mar the felicity of one's enjoyment in heaven could +he look upon earth and see his friends and relatives suffering from persecution, +want, cold, or hunger, or sorrowing for the dead. God's way is best,—that +all sentient life, animation, activity, thought, and consciousness +should cease at death, and that all should wait till the resurrection for +their future life and eternal reward. See Heb. 11:39, 40. +</p> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Sleep on, beloved! sleep, and take thy rest;</l> +<l>Lay down thy head upon thy Saviour's breast.</l> +<l>We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 12'>Good night.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='514'/><anchor id='Pg514'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Two Resurrections</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus514.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ's Second Coming. +Descent Of The Holy City.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What comes to all men as the result of the fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In Adam <hi rend='italic'>all die</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:22. See also Rom. 5:12. +</p> + +<p> +2. Where do all go at death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All go unto <hi rend='italic'>one place</hi>; all +are of <hi rend='italic'>the dust</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>all turn to dust +again</hi>.</q> Eccl. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what condition is man while in the grave? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; +for <hi rend='italic'>there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the +grave, whither thou goest</hi>.</q> Eccl. 9:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, +man, when dead, has no use of the powers of mind +or body. He cannot, therefore, while in the grave, praise God, or even +think of Him (Ps. 6:5); for in the day he dies his thoughts perish. Ps. +146:2-4. See preceding reading. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What has been promised in order that man may be redeemed +from this condition? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem +them from death</hi>: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will +be thy destruction.</q> Hosea 13:14. +</p> + +<p> +5. Through whom will come this redemption from the grave? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection +<pb n='515'/><anchor id='Pg515'/> +of the dead. For as in Adam all die, <hi rend='italic'>even so in Christ +shall all be made alive</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +6. What would have been the result to the dead had not +Christ procured their release from the grave? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if +Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. +Then <hi rend='italic'>they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished</hi>.</q> +Verses 16-18. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why did God give His only begotten Son to the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son, <hi rend='italic'>that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish</hi>, but have +everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. What did the Sadducees in Christ's time deny? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then came to Him certain of the Sadducees, <hi rend='italic'>which deny +that there is any resurrection</hi>.</q> Luke 20:27. +</p> + +<p> +9. How did Christ, from the Old Testament Scriptures, +prove the resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the +bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God +of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. For He is not a God of the +dead, but of the living: for all live unto Him.</q> Verses 37, 38. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, in +view of the resurrection—of the fact that there +is to be a resurrection—all live unto God. In His purpose, all are alive. +It is in this sense that Paul speaks of God as the one <q>who quickeneth the +dead, and <emph>calleth those things which be not as though they were</emph>.</q> +Rom. 4:17. +</quote> + +<p> +10. Under what illustration from nature are the resurrection +and the final salvation of the righteous taught? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>That which thou sowest</hi> is not quickened, except it die.</q> +1 Cor. 15:36. <q>Verily, verily, I say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>Except a corn +of wheat fall into the ground and die</hi>, it abideth alone: but if it +die, it bringeth forth much fruit.</q> John 12:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The seed +dies to spring forth into new life. In this we are +taught the lesson of the resurrection. All who love God will spring forth +to life, and live again through endless ages in the earth made new. +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>The Open Grave.</hi>—The +truth of the resurrection has been forcibly +illustrated by the following incident: In the city of Hanover, Germany, +is a grave known as <q>The open grave.</q> It is that of a woman, an infidel +German princess, who died over one hundred years ago, and who, on her +death-bed, gave orders that her grave should be covered with a great +marble slab, weighing perhaps a ton, surmounting solid blocks of stone +firmly bound together with clasps of iron, with this inscription placed on +the lowermost stone of the tomb: <q>This grave purchased for eternity, +must never be opened.</q> But no human device can thwart the plans of +<pb n='517'/><anchor id='Pg517'/> +God, or hinder the workings of life from Him. It happened, providentially +no doubt, that a birch-tree seed was buried with the princess. Soon it +began to sprout. Its tiny shoot, soft and pliable at first, found its way up +through the ponderous stones of the massive masonry. Slowly and imperceptibly, +but with irresistible power, it grew, until at last it burst the +bands of iron asunder, and opened this never-to-be-opened grave, leaving +not a single stone in its original position. See illustration on page +<ref target='Pg498'>498</ref>. +What a rebuke to infidelity! and what a mute but striking promise that, +erelong, in God's own time, all graves shall be opened, and the sleeping +ones awake from their dusty beds! +</p> +</quote> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus516.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Raising Of Lazarus. +"I am the Resurrection, and the Life." +John 11:25.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +11. Where are the dead when they hear the voice of Christ +calling them to life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which +all that are <hi rend='italic'>in the graves</hi> shall hear His voice, and shall come +forth.</q> John 5:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +12. How many distinct classes will have a resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the <hi rend='italic'>just</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>unjust</hi>.</q> Acts 24:15. +</p> + +<p> +13. By what terms did Christ refer to the two resurrections? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall +come forth; they that have done good, unto <hi rend='italic'>the resurrection of +life</hi>; and they that have done evil, unto +<hi rend='italic'>the resurrection of damnation</hi>.</q> +John 5:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +14. When will the resurrection of the just occur? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout</hi>, +with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: +<hi rend='italic'>and the dead in Christ shall rise +first</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 4:16. See also +1 Cor. 15:23. +</p> + +<p> +15. When are the righteous to be recompensed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For thou shalt be recompensed <hi rend='italic'>at the resurrection of the +just</hi>.</q> Luke 14:14. +</p> + +<p> +16. In what condition did David expect to rise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall +be satisfied, <hi rend='italic'>when I awake, with Thy likeness</hi>.</q> Ps. 17:15. +</p> + +<p> +17. What great contrast will be seen between the present +body and the one to be put on in the resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in +<hi rend='italic'>corruption</hi>; it is raised in +<hi rend='italic'>incorruption</hi>: it is sown in <hi rend='italic'>dishonor</hi>; +it is raised in <hi rend='italic'>glory</hi>: it is sown +in <hi rend='italic'>weakness</hi>; it is raised in <hi rend='italic'>power</hi>: +it is sown a <hi rend='italic'>natural body</hi>; it is raised +a <hi rend='italic'>spiritual body</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. +15:42-44. +</p> + +<pb n='518'/><anchor id='Pg518'/> + +<p> +18. After whose body will these resurrected ones be fashioned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall +change our vile body, that it may be fashioned <hi rend='italic'>like unto His +glorious body</hi>.</q> Phil. 3:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +19. What will the righteous do upon rising from the grave? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall +they arise. <hi rend='italic'>Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust</hi>: for thy dew +is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.</q> +Isa. 26:19. +</p> + +<p> +20. In what words will their triumph over death and the +grave be expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?</q> +1 Cor. 15:55. +</p> + +<p> +21. How long will they live? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Neither can they die any more</hi>: for they are equal unto the +angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the +resurrection.</q> Luke 20:36. +</p> + +<p> +22. How long do the other class wait after the first resurrection +before they are raised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they [the righteous] lived and reigned with Christ +a thousand years. <hi rend='italic'>But the rest of the dead lived not again until +the thousand years were finished.</hi></q> Rev. 20:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +23. What is to be their fate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured +them.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +24. Who are to share this fate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the <hi rend='italic'>fearful</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>unbelieving</hi>, and the <hi rend='italic'>abominable</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>murderers</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>whoremongers</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>sorcerers</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>idolaters</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>all liars</hi>, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with +fire and brimstone: which is the second death.</q> Rev. 21:8. +</p> + +<p> +25. What is the last enemy to be destroyed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The last enemy that shall be destroyed is <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. +15:26. See Rev. 20:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +26. How will the righteous ever afterward appear? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall the righteous <hi rend='italic'>shine forth as the sun</hi> in the kingdom +of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.</q> +Matt. 13:43. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='519'/><anchor id='Pg519'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Fate Of The Transgressor</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus519.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Giving Of The Law. +"Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth +death." James 1:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What question does Peter ask regarding the wicked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the time is come that judgment must begin at the +house of God: and if it first begin at us, <hi rend='italic'>what shall the end be of +them that obey not the gospel of God</hi>?</q> 1 Peter 4:17. +</p> + +<p> +2. What does the Bible say is the wages of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the wages of sin is <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:23. <q>The soul +that sinneth, it shall <hi rend='italic'>die</hi>.</q> Eze. 18:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Die</hi>: <q>To pass +from physical life; to suffer a total and irreparable loss +of action of the vital functions; to become dead; +to expire; perish.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +3. What will be the character of this death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who shall be punished with <hi rend='italic'>everlasting destruction</hi> from +the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.</q> +2 Thess. 1:9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Destroy</hi>: <q>To unbuild; to break +up the structure and organic existence +of; to demolish; to spoil utterly; to bring to naught; to put an end to; +to annihilate.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +4. How complete will be the destruction of the wicked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear Him which is able to <hi rend='italic'>destroy both +soul and body in hell</hi>.</q> +Matt. 10:28. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does Christ say will befall those who do not repent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Except ye repent, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall all likewise perish</hi>.</q> Luke 13:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Perish</hi>: <q>To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be +lost; to waste away; to die.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<pb n='520'/><anchor id='Pg520'/> + +<p> +6. How does the apostle Peter say they shall perish? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and +destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; +and <hi rend='italic'>shall utterly perish in their own corruption</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 2:12. +</p> + +<p> +7. To what are the wicked in their punishment compared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord +shall be <hi rend='italic'>as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall +they consume away</hi>.</q> Ps. 37:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Consume</hi>: <q>To destroy; as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or +fire.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +8. How does John the Baptist describe the destruction of +the wicked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that cometh after me is mightier than I, ... +whose fan is in His hand, and He will throughly purge His +floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but <hi rend='italic'>He will burn up +the chaff with unquenchable fire</hi>.</q> Matt. 3:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +9. For whom does Christ say the fire which will finally destroy +the wicked was originally prepared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart +from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, <hi rend='italic'>prepared for the devil +and his angels</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:41. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This fire is called +<q>everlasting</q> because of the character +of the <emph>work</emph> it does; just as it is called <q>unquenchable</q> because it +cannot be <emph>put</emph> out, and not because it will not <emph>go</emph> +out when it has done its work. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What will be the result of this punishment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As the whirlwind passeth, <hi rend='italic'>so is the wicked no more</hi>: but the +righteous is an everlasting foundation.</q> Prov. 10:25. +</p> + +<p> +11. Will any part of the wicked be left? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; +and all the proud, yea, and <hi rend='italic'>all</hi> that do wickedly, shall be stubble: +and the day that cometh shall <hi rend='italic'>burn them up</hi>, saith the Lord of +hosts, that <hi rend='italic'>it shall leave them neither root nor branch</hi>.</q> +Mal. 4:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. What will then be their condition? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall +all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and +they shall swallow down, and <hi rend='italic'>they shall be as though they had not +been</hi>.</q> Obadiah 16. +</p> + +<p> +13. Where will the <hi rend='italic'>place</hi> of the wicked then be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yea, +<pb n='521'/><anchor id='Pg521'/> +<hi rend='italic'>thou shalt diligently consider his place, +and it shall not be</hi>.</q> Ps. +37:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It would +be difficult to keep the wicked in eternal torment +without any place for them, even, in which to exist. +</quote> + +<p> +14. Where are both the righteous and the wicked to be +recompensed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed <hi rend='italic'>in the earth</hi>: +much more the wicked and the sinner.</q> Prov. 11:31. +</p> + +<p> +15. Do the wicked go directly to their punishment at death, +or wait till the day of judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, +and <hi rend='italic'>to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be +punished</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 2:9. +</p> + +<p> +16. To what are the present heavens and earth reserved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same +word are kept in store, <hi rend='italic'>reserved unto fire against the day of judgment +and perdition of ungodly men</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 3:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Both the +present heavens and earth and sinners await the +fires of the last day. +</quote> + +<p> +17. What will be the result of the fires of the last day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of +God, wherein <hi rend='italic'>the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the +elements shall melt with fervent heat</hi>.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>The +earth also, and the +works that are therein shall be burned up.</hi></q> Verses 12, 10. +</p> + +<p> +18. By what means does Christ say His kingdom is to be +cleansed from sin and sinners? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and <hi rend='italic'>they shall +gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which +do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire</hi>.</q> Matt. +13:41, 42. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Satan and +the wicked now have this world as their <q>place.</q> +In due time Christ will have it. He will cleanse it from sin and sinners, +and restore it, that He may give it to the saints of the Most High for an +everlasting possession. See Dan. 7:18, 22, 27. +</quote> + +<p> +19. When are the wicked dead to be raised to receive their +final punishment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the rest of the dead lived not again <hi rend='italic'>until the thousand +years were finished</hi>.</q> Rev. 20:5. +</p> + +<p> +20. Whence will come the fire that will destroy them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed +<pb n='522'/><anchor id='Pg522'/> +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: +<hi rend='italic'>and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them</hi>.</q> +Verse 9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +called God's <q>strange act</q> and His <q>strange work,</q>—the +work of destruction. Isa. 28:21. But by this means God will once +and forever cleanse the universe of sin and all its sad results. Death itself +will then be at an end—cast into the lake of fire. Rev. 20:14. +</quote> + +<p> +21. To what will this fire reduce the wicked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And ye shall tread down the wicked; for <hi rend='italic'>they shall be ashes +under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this</hi>, saith the +Lord of hosts.</q> Mal. 4:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The wicked +are to be utterly destroyed—consumed away +into smoke, brought to ashes. Having inseparably allied themselves with +sin, they have forfeited the right to life and an immortal existence, and +chosen the way of death and destruction. By their choice they have +proved themselves worthless. For this reason they are compared to chaff, +briers, thorns, etc. Their destruction will consequently be no real loss. +They will themselves have lost their opportunity to obtain eternal life; +but by the way in which they used their probationary time they proved +themselves unworthy of it. Their destruction will, in fact, be an act of +love and mercy on the part of God; for to perpetuate their lives would only +be to perpetuate sin, sorrow, suffering, and misery. Terrible, therefore, +as this judgment will be, there will, in consequence of it, be nothing of +value lost,—nothing lost worth saving. The experiment of sin will be +over, and God's original plan of peopling the earth with a race of holy, +happy beings will be carried out. 2 Peter 3:13. +</quote> + +<p> +22. What is this final destruction of the wicked called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is <hi rend='italic'>the second death</hi>.</q> Rev. 20:14. +</p> + +<p> +23. After the burning day, what will appear? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for +<hi rend='italic'>new heavens and a new earth</hi>, wherein dwelleth righteousness.</q> +2 Peter 3:13. +</p> + +<p> +24. Where will the righteous then be found? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun <hi rend='italic'>in the kingdom +of their Father</hi>.</q> Matt. 13:43. +</p> + +<p> +25. What promise of the Saviour will then be fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are the meek: for <hi rend='italic'>they shall inherit the earth</hi>.</q> +Matt. 5:5. See also Ps. 37:11, 29; Isa. 65:17-25; Dan. 7:18. +</p> + +<p> +26. What universal song of praise will then be sung? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, +and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are +in them, heard I saying, <hi rend='italic'>Blessing, and honor, and glory, and +power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb +forever and ever</hi>.</q> Rev. 5:13. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='523'/><anchor id='Pg523'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Ministration Of Good Angels</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus523.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Moses On The Nile. +"He shall give His angels charge over +thee." Ps. 91:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of what family does Paul speak in Ephesians? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our +Lord Jesus Christ, of whom <hi rend='italic'>the whole family in heaven and earth</hi> +is named.</q> Eph. 3:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what name are the members of this family called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now there was a day when <hi rend='italic'>the sons of God</hi> came to present +themselves before the Lord.</q> Job 1:6. <q>Behold, what manner +of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should +be called <hi rend='italic'>the sons of God</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:1. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what name are those composing the family in heaven +commonly known to us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many <hi rend='italic'>angels</hi> round +about the throne.</q> Rev. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +4. Did angels exist before the death of any of the human +family? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the +garden of Eden <hi rend='italic'>cherubim</hi>.</q> Gen. 3:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Cherub</hi>: <q>A creature of +a sacred and celestial nature.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Gesenius.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +5. Who witnessed the laying of the foundations of the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who +<pb n='524'/><anchor id='Pg524'/> +laid the corner-stone thereof; when <hi rend='italic'>the +morning stars</hi> sang together, +and all <hi rend='italic'>the sons of God</hi> shouted for joy?</q> Job 38:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +6. How many of these beings did John see around the throne? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I beheld, and I heard the voice of <hi rend='italic'>many angels</hi> round +about the throne; ... and the number of them was +<hi rend='italic'>ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands</hi>.</q> +Rev. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +7. What does Paul say of their number? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the +living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to <hi rend='italic'>an innumerable +company of angels</hi>.</q> Heb. 12:22. See also Dan. 7:10. +</p> + +<p> +8. Are angels of a higher order of beings than man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou hast made him <hi rend='italic'>a little lower than the angels</hi>.</q> Ps. +8:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—There are different +orders of angels: <q>Cherubim</q> (Gen. +3:24); <q>Seraphim</q> (Isa. 6:2, 6); <q>Archangel</q> (1 Thess. 4:16; Jude 9). +</p> + +<p> +Some of their names are: <q>Michael</q> (Dan. 10:13, 21; 12:1; Jude 9); +<q>Gabriel</q> (Dan. 8:16; 9:21; Luke 1:19); <q>Uriel</q> (2 Esdras [Apocrypha] +4:1, 36; 5:20. See 1 Chron. 15:5); <q>Ariel</q> (doubtless of angelic +origin. See Ezra 8:16). +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Michael</hi> means, <q>Who is +<hi rend='italic'>like</hi> God,</q> and hence is a fit title for +Christ. <hi rend='italic'>Gabriel</hi> signifies, <q>The +<hi rend='italic'>strength</hi> of God,</q> an appropriate name for +the angel or being who stands next to Christ (Dan. +10:21). <hi rend='italic'>Uriel</hi> means, +<q>The <hi rend='italic'>light</hi> of God;</q> +<hi rend='italic'>Ariel</hi>, <q>The <hi rend='italic'>lion</hi> of God.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. Is Christ ever called an angel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I send <hi rend='italic'>an Angel</hi> before thee, to keep thee in the +way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.</q> +Ex. 23:20. See verse 23; Acts 7:38; and margin of 1 Cor. +10:4. <q><hi rend='italic'>The Angel of His presence</hi> saved them.</q> Isa. 63:9. +<q>Michael <hi rend='italic'>the Archangel</hi>.</q> Jude 9. See also Dan. 12:1; +1 Thess. 4:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Angel means +<hi rend='italic'>messenger</hi>. In Mal. 3:1, Christ is called <q>the +<hi rend='italic'>messenger</hi> of the covenant.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +10. What is said of the strength and character of the angels? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bless the Lord, ye His angels, <hi rend='italic'>that excel in strength, that do +His commandments</hi>, harkening unto the voice of His word.</q> +Ps. 103:20. +</p> + +<p> +11. What description is given of Gabriel in Daniel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His body also was like the <hi rend='italic'>beryl</hi>, and his face as the appearance +of <hi rend='italic'>lightning</hi>, and his eyes +as <hi rend='italic'>lamps of fire</hi>, and his arms +and his feet like in color to <hi rend='italic'>polished brass</hi>, and the voice of his +words <hi rend='italic'>like the voice of a multitude</hi>.</q> Dan. 10:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Similar descriptions +are given of God, the <q>Ancient of days,</q> +in Dan 7:9; and of Christ, <q>the Son of man,</q> in Rev. 1:13-15 +</quote> + +<pb n='525'/><anchor id='Pg525'/> + +<p> +12. What was the appearance of the angel that rolled away +the stone from the sepulcher at the resurrection of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His countenance was <hi rend='italic'>like lightning</hi>, +and his raiment <hi rend='italic'>white +as snow</hi>.</q> Matt. 28:3. +</p> + +<p> +13. What shows that the angels sent to Abraham and Lot +were real beings? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he [Abraham] took butter, and milk, and the calf +which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by +them under the tree, and <hi rend='italic'>they did eat</hi>.</q> <q>And he [Lot] made +them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and <hi rend='italic'>they did eat</hi>.</q> +Gen. 18:8; 19:3. +</p> + +<p> +14. What reason does Paul give to encourage us to entertain +strangers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: <hi rend='italic'>for thereby some +have entertained angels unawares</hi>.</q> Heb. 13:2. +</p> + +<p> +15. In his dream at Bethel, what did Jacob see? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, +and the top of it reached to heaven: <hi rend='italic'>and behold the angels of God +ascending and descending on it</hi>.</q> Gen. 28:12. +</p> + +<p> +16. To whose authority are the angels subject? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus Christ: who is gone into heaven, and is on the right +hand of God; <hi rend='italic'>angels and authorities and powers being made subject +unto Him</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 3:21, 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In Joshua +5:13-15, Christ is called <q>captain of the Lord's +host.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +17. In what work are angels engaged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Are they not all <hi rend='italic'>ministering spirits</hi>, sent forth to minister +for them who shall be heirs of salvation?</q> Heb. 1:14. +</p> + +<p> +18. What scripture indicates that each child of God has an +accompanying angel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for +I say unto you, That in heaven <hi rend='italic'>their angels</hi> do always behold +the face of My Father which is in heaven.</q> Matt. 18:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Another has said: +<q>Christians who live in the light of God's +countenance are always accompanied by unseen angels, and these holy +beings leave behind them a blessing in our homes.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +19. How is their watch-care over God's people expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The angel of the Lord <hi rend='italic'>encampeth round about them that +fear Him, and delivereth them</hi>.</q> Ps. 34:7. +</p> + +<pb n='526'/><anchor id='Pg526'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus526.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Daniel In The Lions' Den. +"The angel of the Lord encampeth round about +them that fear Him, and delivereth them." +Ps. 34:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='527'/><anchor id='Pg527'/> + +<p> +20. By what means were the three Hebrews protected while +in the fiery furnace? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and +they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is <hi rend='italic'>like the Son of +God</hi>.... Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed +be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath +<hi rend='italic'>sent His angel, and delivered His servants</hi> that trusted in Him.</q> +Dan. 3:25-28. +</p> + +<p> +21. When cast into the lions' den, how did Daniel say he +had been saved from death? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>My God hath sent His angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths</hi>, +that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before Him innocency +was found in me.</q> Dan. 6:22. +</p> + +<p> +22. When surrounded by the Syrian host, what did Elisha +say, and for what did he pray, to encourage his frightened +servant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he answered, <hi rend='italic'>Fear not: for they that be with us are more +than they that be with them</hi>. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, +I pray thee, <hi rend='italic'>open his eyes, that he may see</hi>. And the Lord opened +the eyes of the young man; <hi rend='italic'>and he saw: and, behold, the mountain +was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha</hi>.</q> +2 Kings 6:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +23. What does the psalmist say of the chariots of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even <hi rend='italic'>thousands +of angels</hi>.</q> Ps. 68:17. +</p> + +<p> +24. By what means were the apostles delivered from prison? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The angel of the Lord</hi> by +night <hi rend='italic'>opened the prison doors</hi>, and +brought them forth.</q> Acts 5:19. +</p> + +<p> +25. How was Peter delivered later? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The angel of the Lord came upon him</hi>, and a light shined in +the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, +saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.... +And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, +and follow me.... They came unto the iron gate that +leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: +and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith +the angel departed from him.</q> Acts 12:7-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>What +we call physical law is no obstruction to angelic +ministrations. Bolts and bars and prison gates disappear at their volition, +and dungeons like palaces shine in their presence. No place can be +so dismal, no cavern so deep and dark, no Inquisition cell so hidden and +<pb n='528'/><anchor id='Pg528'/> +fetid, no fortress so strongly guarded, that they cannot find quick and easy +access, if a child of God is there.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Footprints +of Angels in Fields of +Revelation,</q> by E. A. Stockman, pages 74, 75.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +26. When Elijah was about to take a forty days' journey, +how was he strengthened for it? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and +touched him, and said, Arise and eat</hi>; because the journey is too +great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went +in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto +Horeb the mount of God.</q> 1 Kings 19:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +27. After His forty days' fast and temptation in the wilderness, +how was Christ strengthened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then the devil leaveth Him, and, behold, <hi rend='italic'>angels came and +ministered unto Him</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:11. +</p> + +<p> +28. How was Christ strengthened while suffering in the +garden of Gethsemane? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>there appeared an angel unto Him from heaven, strengthening +Him</hi>.</q> Luke 22:43. +</p> + +<p> +29. Are the angels interested in the plan of salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which things <hi rend='italic'>the angels desire to look into</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 1:12. +</p> + +<p> +30. Are they interested in the conversion of men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise, I say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>there is joy in the presence of the +angels of God over one sinner that repenteth</hi>.</q> Luke 15:10. +</p> + +<p> +31. Before whom are we said to speak? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou +shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause +thy flesh to sin; <hi rend='italic'>neither say thou before the angel</hi>, that it was an +error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy +the work of thine hands?</q> Eccl. 5:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +32. For what must men give account in the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I say unto you, That <hi rend='italic'>every idle word</hi> that men shall +speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.</q> +Matt. 12:36. See also Eccl. 12:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +33. Out of what will they be judged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; +and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which +is the book of life: and the dead were judged <hi rend='italic'>out of those things +which were written in the books</hi>, according to their works.</q> Rev. +20:12. +</p> + +<p> +34. What shows that the actions of men are recorded? +</p> + +<pb n='529'/><anchor id='Pg529'/> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord harkened, and heard it, and <hi rend='italic'>a book of remembrance +was written before Him</hi> for them that feared the Lord, +and that thought upon His name.</q> Mal. 3:16. See also Isa. +65:6; Jer. 2:22. +</p> + +<p> +35. In the judgment how many angels minister before God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: +<hi rend='italic'>thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times +ten thousand stood before Him</hi>: the judgment was set, and the +books were opened.</q> Dan. 7:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Since the +angels are our ministering spirits, and our lives +are open before them, it is reasonable to infer that they make the record +of our lives. Then when the books are examined, they will of necessity +be present, to minister before God. +</quote> + +<p> +36. What does Christ promise overcomers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white +raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, +but <hi rend='italic'>I will confess his name before +My Father, and before His angels</hi>.</q> +Rev. 3:5. +</p> + +<p> +37. What protection has God promised His people during +the seven last plagues? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague +come nigh thy dwelling. For <hi rend='italic'>He shall give His angels charge +over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in +their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone</hi>.</q> Ps. 91:10-12. +</p> + +<p> +38. When Christ comes, who will come with Him, and what +will they do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father +<hi rend='italic'>with His angels</hi>.</q> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>they shall gather together His elect</hi> from +the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</q> Matt. +16:27; 24:31. +</p> + +<p> +39. Where will all the saints then go? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then we which are alive and remain <hi rend='italic'>shall be caught up together +with them in the clouds</hi>, to meet the Lord in the air: and so +shall we ever be with the Lord.</q> 1 Thess. 4:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We shall +then have the privilege of seeing and conversing +not only with the good and blest of all ages, but with the angels who have +ministered to us during our earthly pilgrimage. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O, may Thine angels, while I sleep,</l> +<l>Around my bed their vigils keep;</l> +<l>Their love angelical instil,</l> +<l>Stop every avenue of ill!</l> +<l>May they celestial joys rehearse,</l> +<l>And thought to thought with me converse.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Bishop Kent.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='530'/><anchor id='Pg530'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Dark Ministries Of Bad Angels</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus530.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Satan's Entrance To Eden. +"The prince of this world cometh, and hath +nothing in Me." John 14:30.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Against whom do we wrestle? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but <hi rend='italic'>against +principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness +of this world, against spiritual wickedness</hi> +[margin, <hi rend='italic'>wicked spirits</hi>] +in high places [margin, heavenly places].</q> Eph. 6:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +facts of history concur with the statements of revelation +in forcing upon us the unwelcome conviction that the human race is +subject to the malevolent influence of an organized and all-pervading +demonism. Alike in the career of nations and in the phenomena of personal +destiny the presence of demoniacal skill and power is often prominent, +frequently dominant, always evil.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Footprints +of Angels in Fields of +Revelation</q> by E. A. Stockman, page 2.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +2. To what place were the angels that sinned cast? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but <hi rend='italic'>cast them +down to hell</hi> [Greek, <foreign lang='el' rend='italic'>tartarus</foreign>, +a place of darkness], and delivered +them into <hi rend='italic'>chains of darkness</hi>, to be reserved unto judgment.</q> +2 Peter 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is Satan himself called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The <hi rend='italic'>god of this world</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. +4:4. <q>The <hi rend='italic'>prince of this +world</hi>.</q> John 14:30. <q>The +<hi rend='italic'>prince of the power of the air</hi>.</q> +Eph. 2:2. +</p> + +<p> +4. How numerous are these wicked spirits, or fallen angels? +</p> + +<pb n='531'/><anchor id='Pg531'/> + +<p> +<q>And He asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, +saying, My name is <hi rend='italic'>Legion</hi>: for +we are <hi rend='italic'>many</hi>.</q> Mark 5:9. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is the chief occupation of Satan and his angels? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He was there in the wilderness forty days, <hi rend='italic'>tempted +of Satan</hi>.</q> Mark 1:13. <q>Be sober, be vigilant; because your +adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, <hi rend='italic'>seeking +whom he may devour</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 5:8. See Rev. 12:9, 12; 16:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>In +undiminished possession of their intelligence and +strength, they constantly assault us in every weakness, through every +avenue, by every means, by methods foul or fair.... Whom they +cannot destroy they cease not to worry, torment. They inspire evil tempers; +arouse dark passions; instil ill will; beget malice, envy; impose care, +fear, distrust; suggest deceit, fraud, and all the forms of crime.</q> <q>Supremely +do they revel in the criminal domain. They foster falsehood, +incite revenge, fan jealousy, beget quarrels, help on thefts, robbery, and +arson, further divorces, plan defalcations, instigate murders. They run +the saloons and edit the <hi rend='italic'>Police +News</hi>.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Footprints of Angels in Fields of +Revelation,</q> pages 9, 10, 22.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +6. What are we admonished not to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon +your wrath: <hi rend='italic'>neither give place to the devil</hi>.</q> Eph. 4:26, 27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Those who +give vent to anger or retain old grudges, who +parley with temptation or tamper with vice, who indulge in intemperance, +pride, foolishness, or levity, or give way to any other weakness, give place +to the devil; that is, they give the devil an opportunity to work through +them—give him an advantage over them. We should therefore close +every avenue to Satan and his angels. We should suppress anger, be +sober and watchful, and nip in the bud every prompting to sin. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What spirits stand ever ready to deceive and ruin those +who are off guard or bent on going astray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said, Who shall persuade [margin, deceive] +Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?... +<hi rend='italic'>And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, +I will persuade him.</hi> And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? +And he said, I will go forth, and <hi rend='italic'>I will be a lying spirit in the +mouth of all his prophets</hi>. And He said, Thou shalt persuade +him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.</q> 1 Kings 22:20-22. +See 2 Thess. 2:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +8. With what were many possessed in Christ's time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken +with divers diseases and torments, and those which were <hi rend='italic'>possessed +with devils</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Vampire-like, evil +angels take possession of, and make their +abode with, all over whose minds and bodies they can gain control. Only +through Christ can this demoniacal captivity be broken. Until this is +done, one in this condition is led captive by Satan <q>at his will.</q> His self-control +and power to resist temptation are gone. See 2 Tim. 2:26. +</quote> + +<pb n='532'/><anchor id='Pg532'/> + +<p> +9. How do evil spirits sometimes treat those thus possessed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as he was yet a coming, <hi rend='italic'>the devil threw him down, and +tare him</hi>.</q> Luke 9:42. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Those +under demoniacal control are simply the sport and +plaything of the evil spirits possessing and controlling them. +</quote> + +<p> +10. As we near the closing scenes of human probation, why +may we expect an increase in demoniacal manifestations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! <hi rend='italic'>for the +devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth +that he hath but a short time</hi>.</q> Rev. 12:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Acquainted, as +they are, with the laws of nature, Satan and +his angels raise storms and scatter disease and death as far as lies within +their power; and, as enemies of God, they likewise pervert the truth and +disseminate error as far as possible. Far better, also, than the inhabitants +of the world, do they know that the end of all things is fast approaching, +and that their time to work is short. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Concerning what have we been definitely informed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that <hi rend='italic'>in the latter times +some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, +and doctrines of devils</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 4:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. What class of God's servants have evil angels, through +wicked men, seemed to make special objects of attack? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Which of <hi rend='italic'>the prophets</hi> have not your fathers persecuted?</q> +Acts 7:52. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Of all +classes of men employed by the Heavenly Father +in the work of redemption, none are more fiercely hated by the wicked +angels than the whole line of the prophets; for from the first to the last +they foretell the final and eternal overthrow and utter extinction of the +<q>powers of darkness,</q> the <q>spirits of +disobedience.</q></q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Footprints of Angels +in Fields of Revelation,</q> page 14.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Evil angels also incite men and nations to war, and by this means +divert their attention from things pertaining to the kingdom of God, and +so take peace from the earth. Rev. 16:14. This will end in Armageddon. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Familiar with the laws which govern mental conditions, the fallen +hosts ply all their specious arts to excite personal suspicions and animosities, +and to create national resentments and bloody conflicts, their +chief delight being to compass the destruction of peace and the banishment +of concord from the earth, to embitter the poor children of sin and sorrow +against each other, and turn our world into an arena +of strife and crime.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, +page 22. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +13. What will be the final doom of Satan and his angels? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart +from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, <hi rend='italic'>prepared for the devil +and his angels</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:41. <q>And the day that cometh +shall <hi rend='italic'>burn them up</hi>, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave +them neither <hi rend='italic'>root</hi> nor +<hi rend='italic'>branch</hi>.</q> Mal. 4:1. See Rev. 20:9. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='533'/><anchor id='Pg533'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Spiritualism</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus533.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Saul And The Witch Of Endor. +"They are the spirits of devils, working +miracles." Rev. 16:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is Spiritualism defined to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals +by means of physical phenomena, as by rapping, or during +abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly +manifested through a medium; spiritism.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>Spiritism</hi>: <q>The theory that mediumistic phenomena are caused by +spirits of the dead.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +very central truth of Spiritualism is the power and +possibility of spirit return, under certain conditions, to communicate with +those in the material form.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>N. +F. Ravlin, Spiritualistic lecturer, of +California.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +2. Did this doctrine exist in ancient times? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Regard not them that have <hi rend='italic'>familiar spirits</hi>, neither seek +after <hi rend='italic'>wizards</hi>, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.</q> +Lev. 19:31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +phenomenal aspect of modern Spiritualism reproduces +all essential principles of the magic, witchcraft, and sorcery of the past. +The same powers are involved, the same intelligences +are operating.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>F. F. +Morse, in <q>Practical Occultism,</q></hi> page 85. +</quote> + +<p> +3. How does God regard sorcerers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I will come near to you to judgment; and <hi rend='italic'>I will be a +swift witness against the sorcerers</hi>.</q> Mal. 3:5 +</p> + +<pb n='534'/><anchor id='Pg534'/> + +<p> +4. What does He say of the teachings of enchanters and +sorcerers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore harken not ye to ... your enchanters, +nor to your sorcerers, ... for <hi rend='italic'>they prophesy a lie unto you</hi>, +to remove you far from your land.</q> Jer. 27:9,10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Rev. F. B. +Meyer, of England, gives the following warning +against dabbling in Spiritualism: <q>I have known several families that have +been cursed by having recourse to clairvoyants and mediums. There are +grave dangers in these things; and when occult powers are used for selfish +ends, it is possible for men and women to be filled with evil spirits, as was +the girl at Philippi. People are fools to play with the dregs of the spirit +world.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Present Truth, Sept. 7, 1911.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am perfectly certain that the whole movement known as modern +Spiritualism is in the hands and under the direction of the father of evil +spirits; in other words, is thoroughly and unmistakably +diabolical.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. +C. Williams, of London, England.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +5. Before their entrance into Canaan, what instruction did +Moses give Israel concerning these things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God +giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations +of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one +that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, +or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, +or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar +spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these +things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these +abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before +thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.</q> +Deut. 18:9-13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Whoever +consults or has to do with mediums or any who +profess to receive instruction or communications from the spirits of the +dead, disregards this plain instruction, and places himself upon the enemy's +ground. Ever since Satan told that first lie in Eden, when he denied that +<emph>death</emph> would be the result of <emph>sin</emph>, +in the very face of death itself, he, working +upon man's natural dread of death and upon his distress at the thought +of being separated from loved ones, has been endeavoring to persuade +men to believe that the dead are not dead, and that men do not die. Idolatry, +heathenism, Spiritualism, occultism, and the whole brood of false isms +of this kind, it will be noticed, deal very largely with <emph>death</emph>. This, of +itself, indicates their origin, and should be a warning to all to let them alone—to +have nothing whatever to do with them. They are from beneath, and not +from above. However promising or pleasing they may be at first, they are +downward and destructive in their tendency, and ultimately lead away from +God, into unbelief of His Word and into sin. They promise life by denying +death, and apparently <q>make good</q> Satan's lie in Eden, through the +ministration and manifestations of evil angels representing themselves +to be the spirits of the dead. +</p> + +<p> +In a sermon on <q>Spiritualism an Imposture,</q> Rev. T. De Witt Talmage +said: <q>Spiritualism takes advantage of those who are weak and morbid +<pb n='535'/><anchor id='Pg535'/> +with trouble. We lose a friend. The house is dark, the world is dark, +the future seems dark. If we had, in our rebellion and weakness, the +power to marshal a host and recapture our loved one, we should marshal +the host. Spiritualism comes in at that moment, when we are all worn out +by watching,—all worn out, body, mind, and soul,—and says: <q>Now I +will open that door; you shall hear the voices. Take your places around +the table; all be quiet now.</q> ... O, I hate Spiritualism, because it +takes advantage of people when they are weak, and worn out, and morbid +under life's bereavements and sorrows!... If Spiritualism had its +way, it would turn the world into a pandemonium of carnality. It is an +unclean and adulterous system.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +6. Under the theocracy of Israel, what was the law concerning +witches and those who had familiar spirits? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.</q> Ex. 22:18. <q>A +man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a +wizard, shall surely be put to death.</q> Lev. 20:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This shows +how dangerous and deadly everything of this +character is in God's sight. +</quote> + +<p> +7. With what is witchcraft classed by Paul, and what does +he say to those who are guilty of such things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, +strife, seditions, heresies.... I have also told you in time +past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom +of God.</q> Gal. 5:20-23. +</p> + +<p> +8. What should one do if asked to inquire of a familiar +spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that +have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that +mutter: <hi rend='italic'>should not a people seek +unto their God?</hi> for the <hi rend='italic'>living</hi> +to the <hi rend='italic'>dead</hi>?</q> Isa. 8:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Giving the +sense of this passage, Dr. Adam Clarke says: +<q>Should not a nation seek unto its God? Why should you seek unto the +dead concerning the living?</q> But this is exactly what Spiritualism teaches +men to do,—to seek unto the <emph>dead</emph> concerning the <emph>living</emph>. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What instruction does the apostle John give touching +this subject? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beloved, believe not every spirit, but <hi rend='italic'>try the spirits whether +they are of God</hi>.</q> 1 John 4:1. +</p> + +<p> +10. By what are we to try them? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>To the law and to the testimony</hi>: if they speak not according +to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</q> Isa. 8:20. +</p> + +<p> +11. Should we allow ourselves to be influenced by signs or +wonders performed by those who would try to lead us away +from God and His law? +</p> + +<pb n='536'/><anchor id='Pg536'/> + +<p> +<q>If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, +and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder +come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after +other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; +<hi rend='italic'>thou shalt not harken unto the words of that prophet; or that dreamer +of dreams</hi>: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether +ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your +soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear Him, +and keep His commandments, and obey His voice.</q> Deut. +13:1-4. +</p> + +<p> +12. How much do the dead know of what is going on among +men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. +His sons come to honor, and <hi rend='italic'>he knoweth it not</hi>; and they are +brought low, but <hi rend='italic'>he perceiveth it not of them</hi>.</q> Job 14:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +13. Do the dead know <hi rend='italic'>anything</hi>? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the living know that they shall die: but <hi rend='italic'>the dead know +not anything</hi>.</q> Eccl. 9:5. <q>His breath goeth forth, he returneth +to his earth; <hi rend='italic'>in that very day his thoughts perish</hi>.</q> Ps. +146:4. +</p> + +<p> +14. What scripture forever precludes the idea that the +dead come back to earth to communicate with the living? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now +perished; <hi rend='italic'>neither have they any more a portion forever in anything +that is done under the sun</hi>.</q> Eccl. 9:6. +</p> + +<p> +15. Then when miracles are performed by spirits purporting +to be those of our dead friends, to what shall we attribute them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For they are <hi rend='italic'>the spirits of devils, working miracles</hi>.</q> Rev. +16:14. +</p> + +<p> +16. What will be one characteristic of last-day apostasies? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times +some shall depart from the faith, <hi rend='italic'>giving heed to seducing spirits, +and doctrines of devils</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 4:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The following items +illustrate a condition widely prevalent:— +</p> + +<p> +<q><q>A lawyer with a national reputation, well known to me,</q> said J. L. +Hall, of New York, <q>never begins the preparation of a difficult case without +getting <q>advice from the other side,</q> as he describes the search.... +Another distinguished man of New York City once asserted to me that he +had his familiar spirit with which he talked as freely as with a +human companion,</q></q>—<hi rend='italic'>Washington +Herald, May 8, 1911.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +A noted Brooklyn divine some years ago, not realizing that he was +voicing Spiritualistic views, gave expression to the following: <q>What are +our departed Christian friends, who in this world had their joy in the healing +<pb n='537'/><anchor id='Pg537'/> +art, doing now?—Busy at their old business. No sickness in heaven, +but plenty of sickness on earth.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Christian +Herald, July 8, 1882.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Writing concerning <q>Communion With the Departed,</q> General +Booth, of the Salvation Army, said: <q>Through all my history, my personal +intercourse with the spirit world has been but limited. I have not been +favored with many visions, and it is but seldom that I dream dreams that +impart either pleasure or profit; and yet I have a spiritual communion +with the departed saints that is not without both satisfaction and service. +And especially of late the memories of those with whom my heart has had +the choicest communion in the past, if not the very beings themselves, have +come in upon me as I have sat at my desk or lain wakeful on my bed in the +night-season. Amongst these, one form, true to her mission, comes more +frequently than all besides, assuring me of her continued partnership in +my struggle for the temporal and eternal salvation of the multitudes—and +that is my blessed, my beautiful wife!</q>—<hi rend='italic'>War +Cry, Nov. 27, 1897.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, London, has openly declared +that he prayed to his departed wife every day. He said that he +never came to the City Temple to preach without asking her to come with +him. He further says: I encourage my friend to pray to his wife, and to +pray God to ask her to come to his help. She will be more to him than +twelve legions of unknown angels.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The +Living Church, Nov. 14, 1899.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The emperor Nicholas ... has fallen under the influence of a +Spiritualist named Philipp, who rules the emperor to such an extent that +His Majesty makes no important decision, even in relation to family life, +without consulting his Spiritualistic guide.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Melbourne +Age, Nov. 15, 1902.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +In a statement given put Dec. 20, 1910, soon after the death of Mrs. +Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Amelia Stetson, one of the +leaders of the Christian Science Church of New York City, said: <q>Mrs. +Eddy, who was the female Christ, will return to earth. I am watching +and waiting for the manifestation of Mrs. Eddy in the semblance of human +form. It may come today, it may come next week, it may not come for +ten years, but it will surely come.... The millennium is at hand. +Mrs. Eddy is not dead. She is still alive, and when she appears again on +earth, it will be as herself—as Mary Baker Eddy.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A message purporting to come from Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the +founder of Christian Science, through Mr. William T. Stead, the noted +English journalist, shortly after the former's death, says, <q>There is no +death; all is life; all is freedom,</q></q>—<hi rend='italic'>Signs +of the Times, Feb. 28, 1911.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +And soon after Mr. Stead himself went down on the <q>Titanic,</q> April +15, 1912, Spiritualists in different parts of the world received numerous +messages purporting to have come from him. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +17. How does Satan deceive the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And no marvel; for Satan himself is <hi rend='italic'>transformed into an +angel of light</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 11:14. +</p> + +<p> +18. What role do his agents assume? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be <hi rend='italic'>transformed +as the ministers of righteousness</hi>.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +19. Will Satan and his agents attempt to counterfeit the +coming of Christ, and work signs and wonders to confirm their +pretentious claims? +</p> + +<pb n='538'/><anchor id='Pg538'/> + +<p> +<q>Then if any man shall say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>Lo, here is Christ</hi>, +or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, +and false prophets, <hi rend='italic'>and shall +show great signs and wonders</hi>; insomuch +that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</q> +Matt. 24:23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +20. What will be one of the last great signs performed by +this means, to fasten men in deception? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he doeth great wonders, so that <hi rend='italic'>he maketh fire come +down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men</hi>, and deceiveth +them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles +which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to +them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image +to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.</q> +Rev. 13:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +21. What scripture shows that Satan is to work with special +power and deceptive wonders just before Christ's second coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whose coming is <hi rend='italic'>after the working of Satan with all power +and signs and lying wonders</hi>, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness +in them that perish.</q> 2 Thess. 2:9, 10. See +also Rev. 12:12. +</p> + +<p> +22. While many will be deceived by these wonders, and +accept of the false Christs that appear, what will those say who +have maintained their love for the truth, and patiently waited +for Christ's return? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall be said in that day, <hi rend='italic'>Lo, +<hi rend='smallcaps'>this</hi> is our God; we +have waited for Him, and He will save us: <hi rend='smallcaps'>this</hi> is the Lord; +we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation</hi>.</q> +Isa. 25: 9. +</p> + +<p> +23. What warning has been given us through the apostle +Peter? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be sober, be vigilant</hi>; because your adversary the devil, +as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,</q> +1 Peter 5: 8. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Wicked spirits gather round thee,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Legions of those foes to God—</l> +<l>Principalities most mighty—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Walk unseen the earth abroad;</l> +<l>They are gathering to the battle,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Strengthened for the last deep strife;</l> +<l>Christian, arm! be watchful, ready.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Struggle manfully for life.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='539'/><anchor id='Pg539'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XII. Christian Growth and Experience</head> + +<pb n='540'/><anchor id='Pg540'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus540.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Jacob Going Down Into Egypt. +"God Almighty appeared unto me ... +and blessed me." Gen 48:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='541'/><anchor id='Pg541'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Growth In Grace</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus541.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Gideon Choosing His Army. +"Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him +return and depart." Judges 7:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How does the apostle Peter close his second epistle? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>grow in grace</hi>, and in the knowledge of our Lord and +Saviour Jesus Christ.</q> 2 Peter 3:18. +</p> + +<p> +2. How may grace and peace be multiplied in believers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Grace and peace be multiplied unto you <hi rend='italic'>through the knowledge +of God, and of Jesus our Lord</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:2. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is implied in a knowledge of God and Jesus Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>this is life eternal</hi>, that they might know Thee the only +true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.</q> John 17:3. +</p> + +<p> +4. By what may we be partakers of the divine nature? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whereby are given unto us <hi rend='italic'>exceeding great and precious +promises</hi>: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine +nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world +through lust.</q> 2 Peter 1:4. +</p> + +<p> +5. What graces are we to add in our character building? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Add to your faith <hi rend='italic'>virtue</hi> [courage]; +and to virtue <hi rend='italic'>knowledge</hi>; +and to knowledge <hi rend='italic'>temperance</hi> [self-control]; and to temperance +<hi rend='italic'>patience</hi>; and to patience +<hi rend='italic'>godliness</hi>; and to godliness +<hi rend='italic'>brotherly kindness</hi>; and +to brotherly kindness <hi rend='italic'>charity</hi>.</q> Verses +5-7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<emph>Faith</emph> +is the first round in the Christian ladder, the first +step Godward. <q>He that cometh to God must <emph>believe</emph>.</q> Heb. 11:6. +</p> + +<pb n='542'/><anchor id='Pg542'/> + +<p> +But an inoperative faith is useless. <q>Faith without <emph>works</emph> is dead.</q> +James 2:20. To be of value, there must be coupled with faith that <emph>virtue</emph>, +or <emph>courage of conviction</emph>, which impels to <emph>action</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +To courage there needs to be added <emph>knowledge</emph>; otherwise, like the +stumbling Jews, one may have a zeal, <q>but <emph>not according to knowledge</emph>.</q> +Rom. 10:2. Fanaticism is the result of such courage, or zeal. Knowledge, +therefore, is an essential to healthy Christian growth. +</p> + +<p> +To knowledge there needs to be added <emph>temperance</emph>, +or <emph>self-control</emph>—<emph>self-government</emph>. +See Acts 24:25, American Standard Version, and margin +of Revised Version. To know to do good, and not do it, is as useless +as is faith without works. See James 4:17. Instead of <emph>temperance</emph>, +the Twentieth Century New Testament invariably says <emph>self-control</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +<emph>Patience</emph> naturally follows <emph>temperance</emph>. +It is well-nigh impossible for +an intemperate person to be <emph>patient</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Having gained control of oneself, and become patient, one is in a +condition to manifest <emph>godliness</emph>, or <emph>God-likeness</emph>. +</p> + +<p> +Having become godly, <emph>kindness toward the brethren</emph>, +or <emph>brotherly kindness</emph>, +naturally follows. +</p> + +<p> +<emph>Charity</emph>, or love for <emph>all</emph>, even +our <emph>enemies</emph>, is the crowning grace, the +highest step, the eighth round, in the Christian ladder. +</p> + +<p> +The arrangement in this enumeration of graces is by no means accidental +or haphazard, but logical and sequential, each following the other +in natural, necessary order. The finger of Inspiration is seen here. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +6. What is said of charity in the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Charity <hi rend='italic'>suffereth long, and is kind; ... thinketh no +evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity</hi>, but +<hi rend='italic'>rejoiceth in the truth; beareth +all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things</hi>.</q> +1 Cor. 13:4-7. <q>And above all things have fervent charity +among yourselves: for <hi rend='italic'>charity shall +cover the multitude of sins</hi>.</q> +1 Peter 4:8. <q>Love covereth all sins.</q> Prov. 10:12. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is charity called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And above all these things put on charity, which is <hi rend='italic'>the +bond of perfectness</hi>.</q> Col. 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is the result of cultivating these eight graces? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if these things be in you, and abound, <hi rend='italic'>they make you +that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of +our Lord Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is the condition of one who lacks these graces? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But he that lacketh these things <hi rend='italic'>is blind, and cannot see +afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins</hi>.</q> +Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is promised those who add grace to grace? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye do these things, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall never fall</hi>.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='543'/><anchor id='Pg543'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Christian Armor</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus543.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Midianites Put To Flight. +"The weapons of our warfare are not +carnal." 2 Cor. 10:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What power was to make war upon the remnant church +prior to the second advent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the dragon</hi> [Satan] was wroth with the woman, and +went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep +the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus +Christ.</q> Rev. 12:17. +</p> + +<p> +2. What reward is promised to the overcomer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To him that overcometh will I give <hi rend='italic'>to eat of the tree of life</hi>, +which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</q> Rev. 2:7. See +also Rev. 2:11, 17, 26-28; 3:5, 12, 21. <q>He that overcometh +shall inherit <hi rend='italic'>all things</hi>.</q> Rev. 21:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. Through whom are we able to conquer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors +<hi rend='italic'>through Him that loved us</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:37. +</p> + +<p> +4. Who was the invisible leader of the armies of Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, there stood a man over against him with His +sword drawn in His hand: and Joshua went unto Him, and said +unto Him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And He said, +Nay; but as <hi rend='italic'>captain of the host of the Lord</hi> am I now come.</q> +Joshua 5:13, 14. See also 1 Cor. 10:1-4. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is the character of the Christian's weapons of +warfare? +</p> + +<pb n='544'/><anchor id='Pg544'/> + +<p> +<q>For the weapons of our warfare are <hi rend='italic'>not carnal, but mighty +through God to the pulling down of strongholds</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 10:4. +</p> + +<p> +6. What are these weapons able to conquer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Casting down <hi rend='italic'>imaginations</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>every high thing that exalteth +itself against the knowledge of God</hi>, and bringing into captivity +<hi rend='italic'>every thought</hi> to the obedience of Christ.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +7. What are we to put on? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Put on the whole armor of God</hi>, that ye may be able to stand +against the wiles of the devil.</q> Eph. 6:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. With what kind of forces do we have to contend? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against +<hi rend='italic'>principalities</hi>, against <hi rend='italic'>powers</hi>, +against <hi rend='italic'>the rulers of the darkness +of this world</hi>, against <hi rend='italic'>spiritual +wickedness in high places</hi>.</q> +Verse 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The margin +says, <q>wicked spirits</q> in <q>heavenly</q> places. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What are the first essentials of the needed armor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Stand therefore, having your <hi rend='italic'>loins girt about with truth</hi>, +and having on <hi rend='italic'>the breastplate of righteousness</hi>.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is the truth with which one's loins should be +girded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sanctify them through Thy truth: <hi rend='italic'>Thy word is truth</hi>.</q> +<q>I am the way, the truth.</q> John 17:17; 14:6. +</p> + +<p> +11. What is meant by having the loins girded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore gird up <hi rend='italic'>the loins of your mind</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 1:13. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is the righteousness of which the breastplate is +composed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My tongue shall speak of Thy word: for <hi rend='italic'>all Thy commandments +are righteousness</hi>.</q> Ps. 119:172. <q>And this is His +name whereby He shall be called, <hi rend='italic'>The Lord Our Righteousness</hi>.</q> +Jer. 23:6. See Rom. 13:14; 1 Thess. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +13. With what are the feet to be shod? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And your feet shod with <hi rend='italic'>the preparation of the gospel of +peace</hi>.</q> Eph. 6:15. See also Eph. 2:14; James 3:18. +</p> + +<p> +14. What piece of armor is next mentioned as necessary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Above all, taking <hi rend='italic'>the shield of faith</hi>, wherewith ye shall be +able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.</q> Eph. 6:16. +See 1 John 5:4; Heb. 11:6. +</p> + +<pb n='545'/><anchor id='Pg545'/> + +<p> +15. What armor is to be put on as a protection to the head? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And take <hi rend='italic'>the helmet of salvation</hi>.</q> Eph. 6:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In 1 Thess. 5:8 +the helmet is called <q>the <hi rend='italic'>hope</hi> of salvation.</q> +The helmet was worn to protect the head. So the hope of salvation will +preserve the courage, and thus aid in protecting the spiritual life of the +Christian pilgrim when beset by the enemy of righteousness. +</quote> + +<p> +16. With what sword is the Christian soldier to be armed? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The sword of the Spirit</hi>, which +is <hi rend='italic'>the word of God</hi>.</q> Eph. +6:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By this Christ defeated the enemy. See Matt. 4:1-11; +Luke 4:1-13. But no one can <emph>use this sword</emph> who +does not <emph>know</emph> it. Hence, +the importance of studying and knowing the Bible. +</quote> + +<p> +17. In what words are the courage, faithfulness, and loyalty +of the remnant church expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by +the word of their testimony; and <hi rend='italic'>they loved not their lives unto +the death</hi>.</q> Rev. 12:11. +</p> + +<p> +18. Will Christ's loyal soldiers be victorious under Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and +them that had <hi rend='italic'>gotten the victory</hi> over the beast, and over his +image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, +stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.</q> Rev. 15:2. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Soldiers of Christ, arise,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And put your armor on;</l> +<l>Fight, for the battle will be ours;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We fight to win a crown.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We fight not against flesh,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We wrestle not with blood;</l> +<l>But principalities and powers,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And for the truth of God.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>With wicked spirits, too,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That in high places stand,</l> +<l>Perverting oft the Word of God,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And say 'tis by command.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Put all the armor on,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Like valiant soldiers stand;</l> +<l>Let all your loins be girt with truth,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Waiting our Lord's command.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>While Jesus is our friend,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And His rich grace supplies,</l> +<l>We'll march like valiant soldiers on:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We're sure to win the prize.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The battle's almost o'er;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The race is nearly run;</l> +<l>Then with our glorious, conquering King</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We'll sit down on His throne.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Charles Wesley.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='546'/><anchor id='Pg546'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus546.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Paul At Ephesus. +"Many ... which used curious arts brought +their books, ... and burned them." Acts +19:19.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='547'/><anchor id='Pg547'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Walking In The Light</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus547.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Abraham's Journey To Canaan. +"By faith Abraham, when he was called to +go out, ... obeyed." Heb. 11:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How important is it that we walk in the light when it +comes to us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Walk while ye have the light, <hi rend='italic'>lest darkness come upon you</hi>: +for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.</q> +John 12:35. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It +is important to settle a plain question of duty at once, +and not delay obedience under the excuse of waiting for more light. To +do as did Balaam—ask God again concerning that which He has plainly +and expressly spoken—is dangerous. Nor should we, like the unbelieving +Jews, seek a sign from heaven to convince us that we ought to obey the +written Word. Has God spoken? Is it His word? Then obey. Do not +insult Heaven with the question whether it is right to obey. If one gets +an answer to such prayers, it will more than likely be a permission to +have one's own chosen way of continuing in disobedience, the end of which +is death. See 1 Kings 22:1-36; Eze. 14:1-5. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Upon what condition are we promised cleansing from sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light</hi>, we have +fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His +Son cleanseth us from all sin.</q> 1 John 1:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. How long may the just expect increased light to shine +upon their pathway? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the path of the just is as the shining light, <hi rend='italic'>that shineth +more and more unto the perfect day</hi>.</q> Prov. 4:18. +</p> + +<p> +4. For whom is light sown? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Light is sown for the righteous</hi>, and gladness for the upright +in heart.</q> Ps. 97:11. +</p> + +<pb n='548'/><anchor id='Pg548'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +more earnestly one desires to know the will of God, +while living up to all the light he has, the more light and truth from God +will shine upon his pathway. The fact that one has the evidence of his +acceptance with God, is no proof that he has all the light there is for +him. If light is sown for the righteous, such are the very ones who may +expect advanced light to come to them, and to see new duties presented +to them from a study of the Word of God. +</quote> + +<p> +5. Who was told by an angel of God that his ways pleased +the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the +day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, +<hi rend='italic'>Cornelius</hi>. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, +What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine +alms are come up for a memorial before God.</q> Acts 10:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +6. Because Cornelius's ways pleased the Lord, was this +evidence that he had nothing more to learn or do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose +surname is Peter: he lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose +house is by the seaside: <hi rend='italic'>he shall tell +thee what thou oughtest to do</hi>.</q> +Verses 5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +reason why the Lord favored Cornelius with a visit +from one of His angels, was not because Cornelius knew the way of salvation +perfectly, but because the Lord saw in him a sincere desire for more +light, and a willing mind to comply with every known requirement. That +spirit was pleasing to God, and He therefore opened the way for Cornelius +to learn the whole truth from Peter, that he might be saved. God never +changes. He does the same now with sincere, devoted persons. All may +now receive advanced light, if, like Cornelius, they seek it, and are willing +to walk in it when it comes to them. If it is neglected, they are guilty +before God, and will be left to the buffetings of the enemy. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What will become of the light which one has if he fails +to walk in it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye +is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye +is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. <hi rend='italic'>Take heed therefore +that the light which is in thee be not darkness.</hi></q> Luke 11:34, 35. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why did Christ say that the sin of those who rejected +Him remained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no +sin: but now ye say, <hi rend='italic'>We see</hi>; therefore your sin remaineth.</q> +John 9:41. See also John 15:22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—With advanced +light comes increased responsibility. Duty +is always in proportion to one's light and privileges. Present truth always +brings with it present duty. See reading on <q>Present Truth,</q> page +<ref target='Pg131'>131</ref>. +</quote> + +<pb n='549'/><anchor id='Pg549'/> + +<p> +9. Why are those condemned that do not come to the light? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the +world, and <hi rend='italic'>men loved darkness rather than light, because their +deeds were evil</hi>.</q> John 3:19. +</p> + +<p> +10. If one is really seeking for truth, what will he do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But he that doeth truth <hi rend='italic'>cometh to the light</hi>, that his +deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.</q> +Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +11. What will those who reject light and truth, finally be +led to believe? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, +<hi rend='italic'>that they should believe a lie</hi>: that they all might be damned who +believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</q> +2 Thess. 2:11, 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +opposite of light is darkness; the opposite of truth is a +lie. For those who reject light and truth, only darkness and error remain. +God is sometimes in the Scriptures represented as sending that which he +permits to come. See Ps. 81:12; 1 Kings 22:20-23; Rom. 1:21-28. +</quote> + +<p> +12. Who is the light of the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I am the light of the world</hi>: he that followeth Me shall not +walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.</q> John 8:12. +</p> + +<p> +13. How are we to walk in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord</hi>, so walk +ye in Him.</q> Col. 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +14. What has God given to guide our feet aright in the path +of truth and duty? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thy word is a lamp</hi> unto +my feet, and <hi rend='italic'>a light</hi> unto my path.</q> +Ps. 119:105. See Prov. 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +15. What does the entrance of God's word give? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The entrance of Thy word <hi rend='italic'>giveth light</hi>; it giveth understanding +unto the simple.</q> Ps. 119:130. +</p> + +<p> +16. Who does Christ say will be blessed through the prophecies +of the book of Revelation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is <hi rend='italic'>he that readeth</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>they that hear</hi> the words of +this prophecy, <hi rend='italic'>and keep those things which are written therein</hi>.</q> +Rev. 1:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We are +in the last days, in the generation that is to hear the +final warning message contained in this book. See Rev. 14:6-10; 18:1-5. +<pb n='550'/><anchor id='Pg550'/> +Those who accept this message are described as keeping the commandments +of God and the faith of Jesus. See Rev. 12:17; 14:12; 22:14; and +readings on pages <ref target='Pg251'>251-263</ref>. +Now especially this book should be studied. +</quote> + +<p> +17. May those who have once been led of God, be rejected +by Him on account of unbelief? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once +knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of +the land of Egypt, <hi rend='italic'>afterward destroyed them that believed not</hi>.</q> +Jude 5. +</p> + +<p> +18. Upon what condition only may we be made partakers +of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we are made partakers of Christ, <hi rend='italic'>if we hold the beginning +of our confidence steadfast unto the end</hi>.</q> Heb. 3:14. See +Matt. 10: 22; 24:12, 13; Heb. 10:35-39. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Walk in the light! so shalt thou know</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That fellowship of love</l> +<l>His Spirit only can bestow</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Who reigns in light above.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Walk in the light! and thou shalt own</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Thy darkness passed away;</l> +<l>Because that light on thee hath shone</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In which is perfect day.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Walk in the light! and e'en the tomb</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>No fearful shade shall wear;</l> +<l>Glory shall chase away its gloom,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For Christ hath conquered there.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Walk in the light! and thine shall be</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>A path, though thorny, bright;</l> +<l>For God, by grace, shall dwell in thee,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And God Himself is light.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Bernard Barton.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='551'/><anchor id='Pg551'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Saving Faith</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus551.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jesus Walking On The Sea. +"Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the +word of God." Rom. 10:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Faith is the <hi rend='italic'>substance</hi> +[margin, <hi rend='italic'>ground</hi>, or <hi rend='italic'>confidence</hi>] of +things hoped for, the <hi rend='italic'>evidence</hi> of things not seen.</q> Heb. 11:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. How important is faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Without faith it is impossible to please Him</hi>: for he that +cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder +of them that diligently seek Him.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +3. How only can we truly know God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, <hi rend='italic'>and +he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him</hi>.</q> Matt. 11:27. +</p> + +<p> +4. In whom must we believe in order to be saved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God so loved the world, that He gave <hi rend='italic'>His only begotten +Son</hi>, that whosoever believeth in <hi rend='italic'>Him</hi> should not perish +but have everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +5. What challenge does the apostle James make as to the +evidence that one has genuine faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Show me thy faith <hi rend='italic'>without</hi> thy works, and I will show thee +my faith <hi rend='italic'>by</hi> my works.</q> James 2:18. +</p> + +<p> +6. How did Abraham show that he had perfect faith in God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Was not Abraham our father justified by works, <hi rend='italic'>when he +had offered Isaac his son upon the altar</hi>? Seest thou how faith +<pb n='552'/><anchor id='Pg552'/> +wrought with his works, and <hi rend='italic'>by works was faith made perfect</hi>?</q> +Verses 21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +7. By what practical example does the apostle illustrate the +difference between genuine, living faith, and a dead faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, +and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed +and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which +are needful to the body; what doth it profit?</q> Verses 15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +8. How necessary are works in maintaining living faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But wilt thou know, O vain man, that <hi rend='italic'>faith without works +is dead</hi>?... For <hi rend='italic'>as the body without the spirit</hi> [margin, +<hi rend='italic'>breath</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>is dead, +so faith without works is dead also</hi>.</q> Verses 20-26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The apostle +was not here arguing for justification or salvation +by faith <emph>and</emph> works, but for a living faith—a +faith <emph>that</emph> works. +</p> + +<p> +<q>There are two errors against which the children of God—particularly +those who have just come to trust in His grace—especially need +to guard. The first ... is that of looking to their own works, trusting +to anything they can do, to bring themselves into harmony with God. +He who is trying to become holy by his own works in keeping the law, is +attempting an impossibility. All that man can do without Christ is +polluted with selfishness and sin. It is the grace of Christ alone, through +faith, that can make us holy. The opposite and no less dangerous error +is that belief in Christ releases men from keeping the law of God; that +since by faith alone we become partakers of the grace of Christ, our works +have nothing to do with our redemption.... Obedience—the +service and allegiance of love—is the true sign of discipleship.... +Instead of releasing man from obedience, it is faith, and faith only, that +makes us partakers of the grace of Christ, which enables us to render +obedience. We do not earn salvation by our obedience; for salvation is +the free gift of God, to be received by faith. But obedience is the fruit +of faith.... That so-called faith in Christ which professes to release +men from the obligation of obedience to God, is not faith, but +presumption.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Steps +to Christ,</q> pages 64-66.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Says Luther: <q>If Christ alone takes away sin, we cannot do so by all +our works. But good works follow redemption as surely as fruit appears +upon a living tree.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>D'Aubigne's <q>History +of the Reformation,</q></hi> book +2, chap. 6. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. What does the hope of salvation lead one to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And every man that hath this hope in Him <hi rend='italic'>purifieth himself</hi>, +even as He is pure.</q> 1 John 3:3. +</p> + +<p> +10. Upon what condition are we made partakers of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we are made partakers of Christ, <hi rend='italic'>if we hold the beginning +of our confidence steadfast unto the end</hi>.</q> Heb. 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +11. Upon what conditions has God promised us cleansing +and the forgiveness of our sins? +</p> + +<pb n='553'/><anchor id='Pg553'/> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>if we walk in the light</hi>, as He is in the light, we have +fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ +His Son cleanseth us from all sin.... <hi rend='italic'>If we confess our +sins</hi>, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse +us from all unrighteousness.</q> 1 John 1:7-9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Intelligent faith +as to what God will do for us touching any +matter must be gained by what God's Word says concerning that point. +No one can consistently hope for that which God has not promised. To +expect that God will do that which He has never promised to do is only +presumption. Faith is distinct from presumption. To have abiding +confidence in the promise of God is faith; but presumption may rest entirely +on feeling or desire. Feeling cannot therefore be relied on in the +matter of faith. Faith is a pure belief, a confiding trust, in the promises +of God, irrespective of feeling. This perfect trust enables one to surmount +difficulties under the most trying circumstances, even when the feelings +are depressed or well-nigh crushed. +</quote> + +<p> +12. Upon what, then, is genuine, saving faith based? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by <hi rend='italic'>the word of God</hi>.</q> +Rom. 10:17. +</p> + +<p> +13. What was the cause of Peter's sinking after he had +started to meet the Saviour on the stormy sea? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and +caught him, and said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>O thou of little faith, wherefore +didst thou doubt?</hi></q> Matt. 14:31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +boisterous sea caused Peter to doubt the strength of +Christ's word, <q>Come.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +14. With what is it our privilege to be filled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the God of hope <hi rend='italic'>fill you +with all joy and peace in believing</hi>, +that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the +Holy Ghost.</q> Rom. 15:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Faith may +be strengthened by daily exercise. It is not +some great thing, done once for all, that gives an individual faith; but an +every-day, simple, childlike trust in God, and an implicit obedience to +His Word. Some make faith a more difficult matter than God would +have them, because they try to embrace too much at one time. They +take on the burdens of tomorrow or next week, when the Lord supplies +strength only for <emph>today</emph>. When tomorrow comes, grapple with its duties, +but not until it does come. We should remember the precious promise, +<q>As thy days, so shall thy strength be.</q> Deut. 33:25. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Away, my unbelieving fear!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Fear shall in me no more have place:</l> +<l>My Saviour doth not yet appear,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He hides the brightness of His face;</l> +<l>But shall I therefore let Him go,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And basely to the tempter yield?—</l> +<l>No, in the strength of Jesus, no;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I never will give up my shield.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Charles Wesley.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='554'/><anchor id='Pg554'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Trials And Their Object</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus554.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Job Hearing Of His Losses. +"Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; +and experience, hope." Rom. 5:3, 4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does the apostle Peter say concerning the trials +through which every believer must pass? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beloved, <hi rend='italic'>think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which +is to try you</hi>, as though some strange thing happened unto you: +but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; +that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with +exceeding joy.</q> 1 Peter 4:12, 13. +</p> + +<p> +2. How important is the trial of our faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the trial of your faith, <hi rend='italic'>being much more precious than +of gold that perisheth</hi>, though it be tried with fire, might be found +unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus +Christ.</q> 1 Peter 1:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>When David +was fleeing through the wilderness, pursued +by his own son, he was being prepared to become the sweet singer of Israel. +The pit and the dungeon were the best schools at which Joseph ever graduated. +The hurricane that upset the tent and killed Job's children prepared +the man of Uz to write the magnificent poem that has astonished +the ages. There is no way to get the wheat out of the straw but to thresh +it out. There is no way to purify the gold but to burn +it.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Talmage's +<q>One Thousand Gems,</q> page 83.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Nothing <q>happens</q> to the Christian. Everything that enters his +life is sent or permitted to come by an all-wise and all-loving Heavenly +Father, and is designed for the perfection of character, and the fitting up +and the enlargement of capacity for service. The rocks and rough places +on the mountainside are the things we climb on. Even failures, if taken +rightly, may become stepping-stones to higher ground. +</p> +</quote> + +<pb n='555'/><anchor id='Pg555'/> + +<p> +3. What reason did Paul give for glorying in tribulations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We glory in tribulations also: <hi rend='italic'>knowing that tribulation +worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: +and hope maketh not ashamed</hi>; because the love of God is shed +abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.</q> +Rom. 5:3-5. +</p> + +<p> +4. What, according to the prophecy of Daniel, was to befall +the people of God down through the ages? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they that understand among the people shall instruct +many: <hi rend='italic'>yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, +and by spoil, many days</hi>.</q> Dan. 11:33. +</p> + +<p> +5. Why was this to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And some of them of understanding shall fall, <hi rend='italic'>to try them, +and to purge, and to make them white</hi>, even to the time of the end.</q> +Verse 35. +</p> + +<p> +6. Looking forward to the conflicts through which His followers +must pass, what cheering message did Christ send them +through the revelator? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Fear none of those things which thou shall suffer</hi>: behold, +the devil shall cast some of you into prison, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may be tried; +... be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown +of life.... He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second +death.</hi></q> Rev. 2:10, 11. See notes on pages <ref target='Pg282'>282</ref>, +<ref target='Pg314'>314</ref>. +</p> + +<p> +7. What description does Paul give of the sufferings endured +by some of God's people in former ages? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Others were <hi rend='italic'>tortured</hi>, not accepting deliverance; that they +might obtain a better resurrection: and others had trial of <hi rend='italic'>cruel +mockings</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>scourgings</hi>, yea, moreover +of <hi rend='italic'>bonds</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>imprisonment</hi>: +they were <hi rend='italic'>stoned</hi>, they were +<hi rend='italic'>sawn asunder</hi>, were <hi rend='italic'>tempted</hi>, +were <hi rend='italic'>slain with the sword</hi>: they wandered about in sheepskins +and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom +the world was not worthy:) <hi rend='italic'>they wandered in deserts, and in +mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:35-38. +</p> + +<p> +8. How many does Paul say will suffer persecution? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Yea, and <hi rend='italic'>all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer +persecution</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:12. +</p> + +<p> +9. Does God willingly afflict the children of men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord will not cast off forever: but though He cause +grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude +<pb n='556'/><anchor id='Pg556'/> +of His mercies. <hi rend='italic'>For He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the +children of men.</hi></q> Lam. 3:31-33. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why, then, does God permit the chastening rod to fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For they [parents] verily for a few days chastened us after +their own pleasure; but He <hi rend='italic'>for our profit, that we might be partakers +of His holiness</hi>.</q> Heb. 12:10. +</p> + +<p> +11. Referring to Peter's coming sore trial, for what did +Christ say He had prayed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as +wheat: but I have prayed for thee, <hi rend='italic'>that thy faith fail not</hi>.</q> +Luke 22:31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +12. What cheering promise is made to those who endure +the trials and temptations of this life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when +he is tried, <hi rend='italic'>he shall receive the +crown of life</hi>, which the Lord hath +promised to them that love Him.</q> James 1:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Says +a Christian writer: <q>Our sorrows do not spring out of +the ground. God <q>doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.</q> +When He permits trials and afflictions, it is <q>for our profit, that we might +be partakers of His holiness.</q> If received in faith, the trial that seems so +bitter and hard to bear will prove a blessing. The cruel blow that blights +the joys of earth will be the means of turning our eyes to heaven. How +many there are who would never have known Jesus had not sorrow led +them to seek comfort in Him! The trials of life are God's workmen, to +remove the impurities and roughness from our character. Their hewing, +squaring, and chiseling, and their burnishing and polishing, is a painful +process. It is hard to be pressed down to the grinding-wheel. But the +stone is brought forth prepared to fill its place in the heavenly temple.</q> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>There's never a night but is followed by day,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And the darkest to dawn must give place:</l> +<l>There's never a sorrow that crosses our way</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>But is sent with a message of grace.</l> +<l>It comes to the peasant, it comes to the king,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>It comes in our pleasures and pain;</l> +<l>It comes from the Father of mercies, to bring</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To His fold His own stray ones again.</l> +<l>O soul! is thy burden too heavy to bear?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Does the load seem too weighty for one?</l> +<l>There's a Helper at hand all thy sorrows to share,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>'Tis thy Father's own well-beloved Son.</l> +<l>Then cast every burden on Jesus thy Lord,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And thy troubles will quickly depart;</l> +<l>Make every sweet promise in His precious Word</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>An entrance to His loving heart.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Rev. John Williams.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='557'/><anchor id='Pg557'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Overcoming</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus557.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Meeting Of Jacob And Esau. +"But thanks be to God, which giveth us +the victory through our Lord Jesus +Christ." 1 Cor. 15:57.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What overcomes the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>whatsoever is born of God</hi> overcometh the world.</q> +1 John 5:4, first part. +</p> + +<p> +2. In whose victory may the Christian ever rejoice and take +courage? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might +have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of +good cheer; <hi rend='italic'>I have overcome the world</hi>.</q> John 16:33. +</p> + +<p> +3. Who is it that overcomes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who is he that overcometh the world, but <hi rend='italic'>he that believeth +that Jesus is the Son of God</hi>?</q> 1 John 5:5. +</p> + +<p> +4. Through what, then, is the victory gained in the work of +overcoming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even +<hi rend='italic'>our faith</hi>.</q> Verse 4. last part. +</p> + +<pb n='558'/><anchor id='Pg558'/> + +<p> +5. Through whom do we obtain the victory? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory <hi rend='italic'>through +our Lord Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 15:57. <q>Nay, in all these +things we are more than conquerors <hi rend='italic'>through Him that loved us</hi>.</q> +Rom. 8:37. +</p> + +<p> +6. How did Christ overcome when tempted? +</p> + +<p> +By the Word of God. See Matt. 4:1-11. +</p> + +<p> +7. How do the Scriptures say the saints overcame the +enemy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they overcame him <hi rend='italic'>by the blood of the Lamb, and by +the word of their testimony</hi>; and they loved not their lives unto +the death.</q> Rev. 12:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. With what does the apostle Paul tell us to overcome evil? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not overcome of evil, but <hi rend='italic'>overcome evil with good</hi>.</q> +Rom. 12:21. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why was Jacob's name changed to Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but +Israel: <hi rend='italic'>for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, +and hast prevailed</hi>.</q> Gen. 32:28. +</p> + +<div> +<head>Exceeding Great And Precious Promises</head> + +<p> +<q>To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of +life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</q> Rev. 2:7. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.</q> +Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +<q>To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden +manna.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the end, +to him will I give power over the nations.</q> Verse 26. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white +raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of +life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before +His angels.</q> Rev. 3:5. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple +of My God.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +<q>To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My +throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My +Father in His throne.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that overcometh shall inherit <hi rend='italic'>all things</hi>; and I will be +his God, and he shall be My son.</q> Rev. 21:7. +</p> + +<pb n='559'/><anchor id='Pg559'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus559.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Jacob Wrestling With The Angel. +"And he said, I will not let Thee go, except Thou bless +me.... And He blessed him there." Gen. +32:26-28.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='560'/><anchor id='Pg560'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Ministry Of Sorrow</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus560.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Gethsemane. +"He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the +children of men." Lam. 3:33.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Why is it better to go to the house of mourning than to +the house of feasting? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to +the house of feasting: <hi rend='italic'>for that is the end of all men; and the living +will lay it to his heart</hi>.</q> Eccl. 7:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did David ask God to teach him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lord, <hi rend='italic'>make me to know mine end</hi>, and the measure of my +days, what it is, <hi rend='italic'>that I may know how frail I am</hi>.</q> Ps. 39:4. +See also Ps. 90:12. +</p> + +<p> +3. Why is sorrow better than laughter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sorrow is better than laughter: <hi rend='italic'>for by the sadness of the +countenance the heart is made better</hi>.</q> Eccl. 7:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Many of +the loveliest songs of peace and trust and hope +which God's children sing in this world they have been taught in the hushed +and darkened chambers of sorrow.... Afflictions, sanctified, soften +the asperities of life. They tame the wildness of nature. They temper +human ambitions. They burn out the dross of selfishness and worldliness. +They humble pride. They quell fierce passions. They reveal to +men their own hearts, their own weakness, faults, blemishes, and perils. +They teach patience and submission. They discipline unruly spirits. +They deepen and enrich our experience.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Week-Day +Religion,</q> by J. R. +Miller, D. D., pages 92, 93.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +4. Are the righteous freed from afflictions in this world? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Many are the afflictions +of the righteous</hi>: but the Lord delivereth +him out of them all.</q> Ps. 34:19. +</p> + +<pb n='561'/><anchor id='Pg561'/> + +<p> +5. Does God delight to afflict any? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord will not cast off forever: but though He cause +grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude +of His mercies. <hi rend='italic'>For He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the +children of men.</hi></q> Lam. 3:31-33. +</p> + +<p> +6. Does He afflict to leave the one chastened in despair? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore +despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: <hi rend='italic'>for He maketh +sore, and bindeth up: He woundeth, and His hands make whole</hi>.</q> +Job 5:17, 18. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what language is the same truth again expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for <hi rend='italic'>He hath torn, +and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up</hi>.</q> +Hosea 6:1. See also Isa. 61:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +8. Whom does the Lord chasten? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth</hi>, and scourgeth every +son whom He receiveth.</q> Heb. 12:6. +</p> + +<p> +9. Is this, for the time being, a source of pleasure? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now <hi rend='italic'>no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but +grievous</hi>: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit +of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.</q> +Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Many +of the sweetest joys of Christian hearts are songs +which have been learned in the bitterness of trial.</q> <q>Many a cold, +icy nature is made warm and tender by the grief +that crushes it.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Week-Day +Religion,</q></hi> by J. R. Miller, D. D., pages 91, 93. +</quote> + +<p> +10. What, aside from sin, causes more sorrow than all else? +</p> + +<p> +Death, or the loss of loved ones. +</p> + +<p> +11. Does death bring to Christians unassuaged sorrow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning +them which are asleep, <hi rend='italic'>that ye sorrow not, even as others which +have no hope</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 4:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +loss of loved ones God often uses as a means of conversion, +and of severing the ties which bind to earth. Persecution; sickness; +the loss of sight, hearing, or limb; the loss of property; or other calamities, +may likewise be instrumental in drawing us nearer to God. See Ps. 119:71; +Isa. 26:9. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What do our transient afflictions do for us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, <hi rend='italic'>worketh +for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. +4:17. See Rom. 8:28. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='562'/><anchor id='Pg562'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Comfort In Affliction</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus562.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>David Mourning For Absalom. +"When thou passest through the waters, +I will be with thee." Isa. 43:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Are God's people free from affliction? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Many are the afflictions of the righteous</hi>: but the Lord +delivereth him out of them all.</q> Ps. 34:19. +</p> + +<p> +2. How does God regard the afflicted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He <hi rend='italic'>heareth the cry</hi> of the afflicted.</q> Job 34:28. +</p> + +<p> +3. What has He promised to be to those in trouble? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God is our refuge and strength, <hi rend='italic'>a very present help in +trouble</hi>.</q> Ps. 46:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. With what feelings does the Lord look upon His children? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Like as a father pitieth his children</hi>, so the Lord pitieth them +that fear Him.</q> Ps. 103:13. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does He know and remember? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For He knoweth <hi rend='italic'>our frame</hi>; He +remembereth <hi rend='italic'>that we are +dust</hi>.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +6. What has the Lord promised to be to the oppressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord also will be <hi rend='italic'>a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge +in times of trouble</hi>.</q> Ps. 9:9. +</p> + +<p> +7. What has God promised His children when passing +through trials and afflictions? +</p> + +<pb n='563'/><anchor id='Pg563'/> + +<p> +<q>When thou passest through the waters, <hi rend='italic'>I will be with thee</hi>; +and through the rivers, <hi rend='italic'>they shall not overflow thee</hi>: when thou +walkest through the fire, <hi rend='italic'>thou shalt not be burned; neither shall +the flame kindle upon thee</hi>.</q> Isa. 43:2. +</p> + +<p> +8. What did David say with reference to his being afflicted? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>It is good for me that I have been afflicted</hi>; that I might learn +Thy statutes.</q> Ps. 119:71. +</p> + +<p> +9. When afflicted, for what did he pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Look upon my affliction and my pain; and <hi rend='italic'>forgive all my +sins</hi>.</q> Ps. 25:18. +</p> + +<p> +10. Before he was afflicted, what did he do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Before I was afflicted I went astray</hi>: but now have I kept +Thy word.</q> Ps. 119:67. +</p> + +<p> +11. What did Christ learn through suffering? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Though He were a Son, yet <hi rend='italic'>learned He obedience by the +things which He suffered</hi>.</q> Heb. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +12. In perfecting character, what must come to all? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh +unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou <hi rend='italic'>the chastening +of the Lord</hi>; nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: <hi rend='italic'>for +whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom +He receiveth</hi>.</q> Heb. 12:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +13. Is this chastening a pleasant experience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now <hi rend='italic'>no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but +grievous</hi>: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit +of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.</q> +Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +14. What courage and strength, therefore, should come to +us even in the hour of affliction? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore <hi rend='italic'>lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble +knees</hi>.</q> Verse 12. See also Job 4:3, 4; Isa. 35:3. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did Job say in the midst of his afflictions? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.</q> Job 13:15. +</p> + +<p> +16. What is God called in the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The God of all comfort.</q> 2 Cor. 1:3. +</p> + +<p> +17. Whom does God comfort? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God, that comforteth <hi rend='italic'>those that are cast down</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. +7:6. +</p> + +<pb n='564'/><anchor id='Pg564'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus564.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ The Consoler. +"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give +you rest." Matt. 11:28.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='565'/><anchor id='Pg565'/> + +<p> +18. What promise is made to those that mourn? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are they that mourn: for <hi rend='italic'>they shall be comforted</hi>.</q> +Matt. 5:4. +</p> + +<p> +19. Why does God comfort us in tribulation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, <hi rend='italic'>that we may be +able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort where-*with +we ourselves are comforted of God</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 1:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—One who +has passed through trouble and affliction himself, +and received comfort from God, is better able to minister comfort to others. +</quote> + +<p> +20. How should we sympathize with others in their sorrows? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Weep with them that weep.</q> Rom. 12:15. <q>To him +that is afflicted <hi rend='italic'>pity should be +showed from his friend</hi>.</q> Job 6:14. +</p> + +<p> +21. Does Jesus sympathize with us in our afflictions? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we have not an high priest which cannot be <hi rend='italic'>touched +with the feeling of our infirmities</hi>; but was in all points tempted +like as we are.</q> Heb. 4:15. +</p> + +<p> +22. How did He manifest His sympathy in the case of Mary +and her friends weeping over the death of Lazarus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also +weeping which came with her, <hi rend='italic'>He groaned in the spirit, and was +troubled</hi>, and said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto +Him, Lord, come and see. <hi rend='italic'>Jesus wept.</hi></q> John 11:33-35. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Not alone +for Mary and her friends did Jesus weep. Looking +down through the ages, He saw the tears and the heartaches which +death would bring to mankind in this sin-stricken world. His heart was +touched with human woe, and He wept with those that wept. +</quote> + +<p> +23. Whatever may come, what blessed assurance has every +one who loves God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And we know that <hi rend='italic'>all things work together for good to them +that love God</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If +one loves God, he may rest assured that out of every trial +and affliction good will come. +</quote> + +<p> +24. In bereavement, like whom should we not sorrow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As others which have no hope.</q> 1 Thess. 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +25. When our friends fall asleep in death, with what words +are we told to comfort one another? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so +them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.... +For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, +<pb n='566'/><anchor id='Pg566'/> +with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: +and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive +and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, +to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the +Lord. <hi rend='italic'>Wherefore comfort one another with these words.</hi></q> Verses +14-18. +</p> + +<p> +26. What promise has God made to bereaved mothers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, +and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith +the Lord; and <hi rend='italic'>they shall come again from the land of the enemy</hi>.</q> +Jer. 31:16. +</p> + +<p> +27. What did Christ say would be the experience of His +people in this world? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In the world ye shall have tribulation</hi>: but be of good cheer; +I have overcome the world.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>Ye shall weep and lament</hi>, but +the world shall rejoice: and <hi rend='italic'>ye shall be sorrowful</hi>, but your sorrow +shall be turned into joy.</q> John 16:33, 20. +</p> + +<p> +28. In what respect is the reaping of God's people to differ +from their sowing? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.</hi> He that goeth forth +and <hi rend='italic'>weepeth</hi>, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again +with <hi rend='italic'>rejoicing</hi>, bringing his sheaves with him.</q> Ps. 126:5, 6. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Sometime when all life's lessons have been learned,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And sun and moon forevermore have set,</l> +<l>The things that our weak judgments here have spurned,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet,</l> +<l>Will flash before us, out of life's dark night,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>As stars shine most in deepest tints of blue,</l> +<l>And we shall see how all God's ways were right,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And how what seemed reproof was love most true.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>May Riley Smith.</hi> +</p> + +<lg> +<l>Be of good cheer! I know sometime</l> +<l>Life's song will run in perfect rhyme.</l> +<l>Somewhere, I know, all things will be</l> +<l>Attuned to perfect harmony.</l> +<l>Sometime, somewhere, each sad refrain</l> +<l>Shall be its own surcease of pain.</l> +<l>The compensation love will send</l> +<l>Will be in bringing friend to friend;</l> +<l>And all the heartaches that we bore,</l> +<l>In God's good time will be no more.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Robert Lee Walden.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='567'/><anchor id='Pg567'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Trusting In Jesus</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus567.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Peter's Deliverance. +"In Him shall the Gentiles trust." +Rom. 15:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did the prophet Isaiah predict of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall +stand for an ensign of the people; <hi rend='italic'>to it shall the Gentiles seek: +and His rest shall be glorious</hi>.</q> Isa. 11:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Paul +renders this, <q>In Him shall the Gentiles <hi rend='italic'>trust</hi>.</q> Rom. +15:12. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Why does God wish us to trust in Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That we should be <hi rend='italic'>to the praise of His glory</hi>, who first +trusted in Christ.</q> Eph. 1:12. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did the Ephesians do upon hearing the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In whom ye also trusted</hi>, after that ye heard the word of +truth, the gospel of your salvation.</q> Verse 13, first part. +</p> + +<p> +4. What experience followed this trust in Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In whom also after that ye believed, <hi rend='italic'>ye were sealed with +that Holy Spirit of promise</hi>.</q> Verse 13, last part. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—To trust in +Jesus is to believe in Him, to have abiding and +unbounded confidence in Him. When such trust exists, we are sealed by +the Holy Spirit of promise. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What is the gospel to every one that believes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for <hi rend='italic'>it is the power +of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth</hi>.</q> Rom. 1:16. +</p> + +<pb n='568'/><anchor id='Pg568'/> + +<p> +6. How does God regard one who abandons his faith? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the just shall live by faith: but <hi rend='italic'>if any man draw back +My soul shall have no pleasure in him</hi>.</q> Heb. 10:38. +</p> + +<p> +7. Is there danger of believers losing their hold on Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And because iniquity shall abound, <hi rend='italic'>the love of many shall +wax cold</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:12. +</p> + +<p> +8. By what does one gain the victory over the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This is the victory that overcometh the world, <hi rend='italic'>even our +faith</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:4. +</p> + +<p> +9. What encouragement does Jesus give us to meet cheerfully +the troubles and trials of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might +have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but <hi rend='italic'>be of +good cheer; I have overcome the world</hi>.</q> John 16:33. +</p> + +<p> +10. What has this firm trust in Jesus led many to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by +the word of their testimony; and <hi rend='italic'>they loved not their lives unto +the death</hi>.</q> Rev. 12:11. <q>And others had trial of cruel mockings +and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: +they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were +slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and +goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the +world was not worthy).</q> Heb. 11:36-38. +</p> + +<p> +11. What did it lead Moses to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By faith Moses, when he was come to years, <hi rend='italic'>refused to +be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer +affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin +for a season</hi>; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches +than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense +of the reward.</q> Verses 24-26. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is promised those who trust in Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or +sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for +My sake, and the gospel's, but <hi rend='italic'>he shall receive an hundredfold +now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, +and children, and lands</hi>, with persecutions; and <hi rend='italic'>in the world to +come eternal life</hi>.</q> Mark 10:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is Jesus able to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now unto Him that is <hi rend='italic'>able to keep you from falling, and to +present you faultless before the presence of His glory</hi>.</q> Jude 24. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='569'/><anchor id='Pg569'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Patience</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus569.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Job And His Friends. +"Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have +seen the end of the Lord." James 5:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What has the Bible to say concerning patience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The <hi rend='italic'>patient in spirit</hi> is +better than the <hi rend='italic'>proud in spirit</hi>.</q> +Eccl. 7:8. <q>Be patient <hi rend='italic'>toward all men</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 5:14. <q>In +your patience <hi rend='italic'>possess ye your souls</hi>.</q> Luke 21:19. +</p> + +<p> +2. What contrast is drawn between the patient and the hasty +in spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that is slow to wrath is of <hi rend='italic'>great understanding</hi>: but he +that is hasty of spirit <hi rend='italic'>exalteth folly</hi>.</q> Prov. 14:29. +</p> + +<p> +3. Who are cited as examples of patience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take, my brethren, <hi rend='italic'>the prophets</hi> ... for an example +of suffering affliction, and of <hi rend='italic'>patience</hi>.... Ye have heard +of the patience of <hi rend='italic'>Job</hi>.</q> James 5:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is said of those who endure? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>we count them happy which endure</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed</hi> is the man that endureth temptation.</q> James 1:12. +<q>He that endureth to the end <hi rend='italic'>shall be saved</hi>.</q> Matt. 10:22. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does the trying of faith work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Knowing this, that the trying of your faith +<hi rend='italic'>worketh patience</hi>.</q> +James 1:3. <q>Not only so, but we glory in tribulations +also: knowing that tribulation <hi rend='italic'>worketh patience</hi>.</q> Rom. +5:3. +</p> + +<p> +6. What grace is to be added to temperance, or self-control? +</p> + +<pb n='570'/><anchor id='Pg570'/> + +<p> +<q>And to temperance <hi rend='italic'>patience</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Patience naturally +follows temperance. Hence the importance +of right living,—of gaining control over the appetites and passions. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Why are we exhorted to patience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But let patience have her perfect work, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may be perfect +and entire, wanting nothing</hi>.</q> James 1:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. What important test of perfection of character is given? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If any man offend not in word</hi>, the same is a perfect man, +and able also to bridle the whole body.</q> James 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +9. How are we exhorted to run the Christian race? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us <hi rend='italic'>run with patience</hi> the race that is set before us, looking +unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.</q> Heb. +12:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +10. For what glorious event are we bidden patiently to wait? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and +into <hi rend='italic'>the patient waiting for +Christ</hi>.</q> 2 Thess. 3:5. <q>Be <hi rend='italic'>patient</hi> +therefore, brethren, <hi rend='italic'>unto the coming of the Lord</hi>.... +Be ye also <hi rend='italic'>patient</hi>; stablish +your hearts: for <hi rend='italic'>the coming of the +Lord draweth nigh</hi>.</q> James 5:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +11. What will be one characteristic of the remnant church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the <hi rend='italic'>patience</hi> of the saints: here are they that keep the +commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Rev. 14:12. +</p> + +<p> +12. What should be the language of every heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait</hi>, and in His word do I +hope.</q> Ps. 130:5. +</p> + +<p> +13. When Christ comes, what will His people say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; <hi rend='italic'>we have +waited for Him</hi>, and He will save us: this is the Lord; <hi rend='italic'>we have +waited for Him</hi>, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.</q> +Isa. 25:9. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>The home where changes never come,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Nor pain nor sorrow, toil nor care;</l> +<l>Yes! 'tis a bright and blessed home;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Who would not fain be resting there?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Yet when bowed down beneath the load</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>By heaven allowed, thine earthly lot,</l> +<l>Thou yearn'st to reach that blest abode,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Wait, meekly wait, and murmur not.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>W. H. Bellamy.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='571'/><anchor id='Pg571'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Contentment</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus571.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sea Of Tiberias. +"I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith +to be content." Phil. 4:11.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does the apostle say is great gain? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>godliness with contentment</hi> is great gain. For we +brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry +nothing out.</q> 1 Tim. 6:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +2. With what are we exhorted to be content? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let your conversation be without covetousness; and <hi rend='italic'>be +content with such things as ye have</hi>: for He hath said, I will never +leave thee, nor forsake thee.</q> Heb. 13:5. <q>And <hi rend='italic'>having food +and raiment</hi> let us be therewith content.</q> 1 Tim. 6:8. +</p> + +<p> +3. Concerning what does Christ tell us not to be anxious? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not therefore anxious, saying, <hi rend='italic'>What shall we eat?</hi> or, +<hi rend='italic'>What shall we drink?</hi> or, +<hi rend='italic'>Wherewithal shall we be clothed?</hi> For +after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your Heavenly +Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.</q> Matt. +6:31, 32, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Live not in +<emph>careful suspense</emph>.</q> Luke 12:29, margin. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What evils befall those who are determined to be rich? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But they that will be rich <hi rend='italic'>fall into temptation and a snare, +and into many foolish and hurtful lusts</hi>, which drown men in destruction +and perdition. For the love of money is the root of +all evil: which while some coveted after, they have <hi rend='italic'>erred from +the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows</hi>.</q> +1 Tim. 6:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +5. By what illustrations did Christ teach contentment? +</p> + +<pb n='572'/><anchor id='Pg572'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Consider the ravens</hi>: for they neither sow nor reap; which +neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how +much more are ye better than the fowls?... <hi rend='italic'>Consider the +lilies</hi> how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say +unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one +of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the +field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will +He clothe you, O ye of little faith?</q> Luke 12:24-28. +</p> + +<p> +6. What lesson in contentment did Paul say he had learned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have learned, <hi rend='italic'>in +whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content</hi>.</q> +Phil. 4:11. +</p> + +<p> +7. What ancient promise should lead to contentment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and +cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall +not cease.</q> Gen. 8:22. +</p> + +<p> +8. Upon whom should we cast all our care? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Casting all your care upon <hi rend='italic'>Him</hi> [God]; for He careth for +you.</q> 1 Peter 5:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Contentment +produces, in some measure, all those effects +which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's +stone. If it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the +desire for them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising from a man's +mind, body, or fortune, it makes him easy under +them.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Addison.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +A contented mind sees something good in everything,—fair weather +in every wind, blessings in every storm. +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we cannot get what we like, we should try to like what we get.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is no malady more severe than habitual +discontent.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Fleming.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>If you cannot frame your circumstances in accordance with your +wishes, frame your will in harmony with +your circumstances.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Epictetus.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A contented mind is a continual feast.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>God holds the future in His hand.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O heart of mine, be still!</l> +<l>His love will plan the best for thee.</l> +<l>The best, or light or dark it be:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Then rest ye in His will.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>God holds the future in His hand,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Why should I shrink or fear?</l> +<l>Through every dark and cloudy day—</l> +<l>Yea, all along my pilgrim way—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>His love will bless and cheer.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>God holds the future in His hand.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And I can trust His love.</l> +<l>The past declares His faithfulness;</l> +<l>His eye will guide, His heart will bless</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Till I am safe above.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='573'/><anchor id='Pg573'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Cheerfulness</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus573.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Daughters Of Israel. +"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." +Prov. 17:22.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Before leaving His disciples, what did Jesus say to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might +have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but <hi rend='italic'>be of +good cheer</hi>; I have overcome the world.</q> John 16:33. +</p> + +<p> +2. What were some of the cheering words He said to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe +also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it +were not so, I would have told you. <hi rend='italic'>I go to prepare a place for +you.</hi> And if I go and prepare a place for you, <hi rend='italic'>I will come again, +and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be +also</hi>.</q> John 14:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what spirit should we serve the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Serve the Lord with <hi rend='italic'>gladness</hi>: come before His presence +with <hi rend='italic'>singing</hi>.</q> Ps. 100:2. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is sown for the upright in heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Light is sown for the righteous, and <hi rend='italic'>gladness</hi> for the upright +in heart.</q> Ps. 97:11. +</p> + +<p> +5. What effect has a merry heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A merry heart <hi rend='italic'>doeth good like a medicine</hi>: but a broken +spirit drieth the bones.</q> Prov. 17:22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From +this we may learn the influence which the mind has +over the body. Cheerfulness is conducive to life and health; sorrow, care, +anxiety, and worry tend to disease and death. +</quote> + +<pb n='574'/><anchor id='Pg574'/> + +<p> +6. What effect do helpful, cheerful words have upon the +heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but <hi rend='italic'>a good +word maketh it glad</hi>.</q> Prov. 12:25. +</p> + +<p> +7. By what temporal blessings does God fill men's hearts +with gladness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nevertheless He left not Himself without witness, in that +He did good, and <hi rend='italic'>gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons</hi>, +filling our hearts with <hi rend='italic'>food</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>gladness</hi>.</q> Acts 14:17. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why and for what may every child of God rejoice? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful +in my God; for <hi rend='italic'>He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, +He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness</hi>.</q> Isa. 61:10. +</p> + +<p> +9. Against what are Christians warned? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured</hi>, and +were destroyed of the destroyer.</q> 1 Cor. 10:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>There +are those who take to gloom as a bat to darkness +or as a vulture to carrion. They would rather nurse a misery than cherish +a joy. They always find the dark side of everything, if there is a dark +side to be found. They appear to be conscientious grumblers, as if it were +their duty to extract some essence of misery from every circumstance.... +On the other hand, there are rare spirits who always take cheerful +views of life. They look at the bright side. They find some joy and +beauty everywhere.... In the most faulty picture they see some +bit of beauty which charms them. In the most disagreeable person they +discover some kindly trait or some bud of promise. In the most disheartening +circumstances they find something for which to be thankful, some gleam +of cheer breaking through the thick gloom.... When a ray of sunlight +streamed through a crack in the shutter and made a bright patch on +the floor in the darkened room, the little dog rose from his dark corner and +went and lay down in the one sunny spot; and these people live in the same +philosophical way. If there is one beam of cheer or hope anywhere in +their lot, they will find it.... We have no right to project the gloom +of our discontent over any other life. Our ministry is to be ever toward +joy. There is nothing so depressing in its effects upon others as morbidness.... +Discontent helps nothing.... One never feels better +for complaining.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Week-Day +Religion,</q></hi> by J. R. Miller, D. D., pages +236-241. +</p> + +<p> +<q>How many people,</q> says Jeremy Taylor, <q>are busy in the world +gathering together a handful of thorns to sit upon.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>As a little girl was eating, the sun dashed upon her spoon, and she +cried, <q>O mama, I have swallowed a spoonful of sunshine!</q> Would God +that we all might indulge in the same +beverage!</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Talmage's <q>One Thousand +Gems,</q></hi> page 56. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +10. Even when persecuted, what are we told to do, and why? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they +<pb n='575'/><anchor id='Pg575'/> +shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, +and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. <hi rend='italic'>Rejoice +ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is +great in heaven.</hi></q> Luke 6:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +11. When beaten by the Jewish rulers for preaching Christ, +what did the apostles do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they departed from the presence of the council, <hi rend='italic'>rejoicing +that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His +name</hi>.</q> Acts 5:41. +</p> + +<p> +12. After receiving <q>many stripes,</q> with their feet made +fast in the stocks, what did Paul and Silas do while in prison? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And at midnight Paul and Silas <hi rend='italic'>prayed, and sang praises +unto God</hi>: and the prisoners heard them.</q> Acts 16:25. +</p> + +<p> +13. What assurance is given that the child of God may +bravely endure every trial and hardship of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And we know that <hi rend='italic'>all things work together for good to them +that love God</hi>, to them who are the called according to His purpose.</q> +Rom. 8:28. +</p> + +<p> +14. How constant should our rejoicing be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rejoice in the Lord <hi rend='italic'>alway</hi>: +and again I say, <hi rend='italic'>Rejoice</hi>.</q> +Phil. 4:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Good +cheer is the hall-mark of a brave and healthy soul. +To give way to gloomy thoughts, otherwise the <q>blues,</q> is a sign of weakness. +This isn't asserting that no one but weaklings is attacked by the +blues; but it is one thing to be attacked and another to rout the disturber. +And that is what the brave soul does. There may be a very real and +tangible reason why the heart faints and halts, for life is serious, and the +world full of unexpected trials; but to sit and brood over a trouble only +makes it look larger and larger until it finally obscures the horizon line, +and darkness descends upon the soul. Wherefore, the thing to do is to +cast aside all thoughts of worry for a moment,—just say to yourself, It +is only for a moment,—and when you return to it again you will be surprised +to find it has lessened in size and +importance.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The New World.</hi> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>When things don't go to suit you,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And the world seems upside down,</l> +<l>Don't waste your time in fretting,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>But drive away that frown;</l> +<l>Since life is oft perplexing,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>'Tis much the wisest plan</l> +<l>To bear all trials bravely,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And smile whene'er you can.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='576'/><anchor id='Pg576'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christian Courtesy</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus576.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Moses Defending The Maidens. +"But Moses stood up and helped them, and +watered their flock." Ex. 2:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What should be our conduct one toward another? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Love as brethren, be pitiful, <hi rend='italic'>be courteous</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 3:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. How many should we honor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor <hi rend='italic'>all men</hi>. Love the brotherhood.</q> 1 Peter 2:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. Whom should we salute? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than +others? do not even the publicans so?</q> Matt. 5:47. +</p> + +<p> +4. What respect should be shown the aged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt <hi rend='italic'>rise up</hi> before the +hoary head, and <hi rend='italic'>honor</hi> the +face of the old man.</q> Lev. 19:32. See 2 Kings 2:23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +5. Whom especially should children honor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy <hi rend='italic'>father</hi> and +thy <hi rend='italic'>mother</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:12. +</p> + +<p> +6. How should faithful gospel ministers be regarded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of <hi rend='italic'>double +honor</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 5:17. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the basis of true Christian courtesy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Charity [love] ... is kind; . . . charity vaunteth +not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, +seeketh not her own.</q> 1 Cor. 13:4, 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Genuine +Christian courtesy is the outgrowth of love, and +manifests itself in thoughtful consideration for others. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='577'/><anchor id='Pg577'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Confessing Faults And Forgiving +One Another</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus577.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Joseph Forgiving His Brethren. +"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our +debtors." Matt. 6:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What has God promised to do when we confess our sins? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we confess our sins, <hi rend='italic'>He is faithful and just to forgive us +our sins</hi>, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</q> 1 John +1:9. +</p> + +<p> +2. How has it been made possible for sins to be forgiven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, +Jesus Christ the righteous: and <hi rend='italic'>He is the propitiation for our +sins</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +3. To whom should sins be confessed, and why? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned</hi>, and done this evil +in Thy sight.</q> Ps. 51:4. See Gen. 39:9. +</p> + +<p> +4. What instruction is given concerning confession of faults? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Confess your faults one to another</hi>, and pray one for another, +that ye may be healed.</q> James 5:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The Bible makes +a distinction between a sin and a fault. +We sin against God; for sin is the transgression of His law. 1 John 3:4. +</p> + +<pb n='578'/><anchor id='Pg578'/> + +<p> +We trespass one against another. These offenses, while involving sin, +are called faults, and should be corrected by confession and forgiveness. +The only remedy for either pointed out in the Word of God is heartfelt +confession. One writer aptly says: <q>Confess your sins to God, who only +can forgive them, and your faults to one another. If you have given offense +to your friend or neighbor, you are to acknowledge your wrong, and it is +his duty freely to forgive you. Then you are to seek the forgiveness of +God, because the brother you have wounded is the property of God, and +in injuring him you sinned against his Creator and Redeemer.</q> +</p> + +<p> +To confess one's faults is not an easy thing to do; in fact, it is one of +the hardest lessons to learn, for it requires the grace of humility as well as +that of sorrow and true repentance. It has been said that the four hardest +words to pronounce in the English language are, <q>I made a mistake.</q> +Frederick the Great wrote to the Prussian senate, <q>I have just lost a +battle, and it is my own fault.</q> Concerning this Goldsmith says, <q>His +confession shows more greatness than his victories.</q> +</p> + +<p> +The confession should not only be complete, but it should be as broad +and as public as was the offense. Private offenses should be confessed +in private. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +5. When we do wrong, what is the natural thing for us to do? +</p> + +<p> +Excuse it, seek to hide it, or blame some one else for it. +See Gen. 3:12, 13; 4:9. +</p> + +<p> +6. After David's great sin had been pointed out to him, what +did he say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have sinned.</q> 2 Sam. 12:13. <q>I acknowledge my +transgressions.</q> Ps. 51:3. +</p> + +<p> +7. When David in contrition of heart confessed his sin, what +was God's word to him by Nathan, the prophet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the +Lord. And Nathan said unto David, <hi rend='italic'>The Lord also hath put +away thy sin</hi>; thou shalt not die.</q> 2 Sam. 12:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +scripture is especially encouraging. God hates sin. +He wants us likewise to hate it and shun it, because it invariably gets us +into trouble, causes sorrow of heart, and in the end brings death. But +when involved in it, as was David, as soon as it is acknowledged and sincerely +confessed, <emph>that very moment it is forgiven</emph>. David said, <q>I have +<emph>sinned</emph>.</q> The immediate answer was returned, +<q>The Lord also <emph>hath put +away thy sin</emph>.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +8. Is it ever right to tell a brother of his faults? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thy brother shall trespass against thee, <hi rend='italic'>go and tell him +his fault between thee and him alone</hi>: if he shall hear thee, thou +hast gained thy brother.</q> Matt. 18:15. <q>Thou shalt not +hate thy brother in thine heart: <hi rend='italic'>thou shalt in any wise rebuke +thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him</hi>.</q> Lev. 19:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. In what spirit should this kind of work be done? +</p> + +<pb n='579'/><anchor id='Pg579'/> + +<p> +<q>Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are +spiritual, restore such an one <hi rend='italic'>in +the spirit of meekness</hi>; considering +thyself, lest thou also be tempted.</q> Gal. 6:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +much easier to tell <emph>some one else</emph> of a brother's faults +than it is to tell <emph>him</emph> of them <emph>himself</emph>; +but this is not the Christian way to proceed. The first efforts should +be made with the offender <emph>in person</emph>, +and <emph>alone</emph>. But it is easier even to tell <emph>a brother</emph> +of <emph>his</emph> faults than it is to confess +to him <emph>our own</emph>. This, again, let it be noted, is the one very difficult +lesson to learn, the one Christian duty difficult to perform. Only +humility and the grace of God will enable one to do it. +</quote> + +<p> +10. When we pray, what does Christ tell us to do, and why? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when ye stand praying, <hi rend='italic'>forgive</hi>, if ye have aught +against any: <hi rend='italic'>that your Father</hi> also +which is in heaven <hi rend='italic'>may forgive +you your trespasses</hi>.</q> Mark 11:25. +</p> + +<p> +11. If we do not forgive others, what will God not do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if ye do not forgive, <hi rend='italic'>neither will your Father which is +in heaven forgive your trespasses</hi>.</q> Verse 26. See, for illustration, +Christ's parable recorded in Matt. 18:23-35. +</p> + +<p> +12. What words of Joseph to his brethren show that he forgave +them for selling him into Egypt? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore <hi rend='italic'>be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, +that ye sold me hither</hi>: for God did send me before you to preserve +life.... <hi rend='italic'>So now it was not you that sent me hither, but +God.</hi></q> Gen. 45:5-8. +</p> + +<p> +13. What was Christ's reply to Peter's question as to the +number of times we should forgive one another? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall +my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? +Jesus saith unto him, <hi rend='italic'>I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, +Until seventy times seven</hi>.</q> Matt. 18:21, 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That +is, an unlimited number. We must pardon offenses +against us though ever so often done; we must forgive to the end. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What spirit did Jesus manifest toward those who nailed +Him to the cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then said Jesus, <hi rend='italic'>Father, forgive them; for they know not +what they do</hi>.</q> Luke 23:34. +</p> + +<p> +15. How did Stephen manifest the same spirit toward those +who stoned him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, ... and +he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, <hi rend='italic'>Lord, lay not this +sin to their charge</hi>.</q> Acts 7:59, 60. See 1 Peter 4:8. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='580'/><anchor id='Pg580'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Duty Of Encouragement</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus580.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Father Forgiving His Son. +"His father ... had compassion, and ... fell +on his neck, and kissed him." Luke 15:20.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When the ten spies brought back an evil report from the +land of Canaan, what did Caleb say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Let +us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it</hi>.</q> +Num. 13:30. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did the ten spies say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the men that went up with him said, <hi rend='italic'>We be not able to +go up against the people; for they are stronger than we</hi>.</q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<p> +3. What effect did this evil report have upon the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and <hi rend='italic'>cried</hi>; +and the people <hi rend='italic'>wept</hi> that night. And all the children of Israel +<hi rend='italic'>murmured</hi> against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole +congregation said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Would God that we had died in the +land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!</hi>... +And they said one to another, <hi rend='italic'>Let us make a captain, +and let us return into Egypt</hi>.</q> Num. 14:1-4. +</p> + +<p> +4. With what words did Moses seek to encourage Joshua? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the +sight of all Israel, <hi rend='italic'>Be strong and of a good courage</hi>.... The +Lord, He it is that doth go before thee; He will be with thee, +He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: <hi rend='italic'>fear not, neither be +dismayed</hi>.</q> Deut. 31:7, 8. +</p> + +<pb n='581'/><anchor id='Pg581'/> + +<p> +5. In his final charge to Joshua, what did Moses, speaking +for God, say to him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, +<hi rend='italic'>Be strong and of a good courage</hi>: for thou shalt bring the children +of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be +with thee.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +6. After Moses' death, how did the Lord encourage Joshua? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' +minister, saying, ... There shall not any man be able to +stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, +so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. +<hi rend='italic'>Be strong and of a good courage.</hi></q> Joshua 1:1-6. +</p> + +<p> +7. When Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came against Jerusalem, +what did King Hezekiah say to Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed</hi> for the +king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for +there be more with us than with him: with him is an army of +flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight +our battles.</q> 2 Chron. 32:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +8. What effect did these words have upon the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah</hi> +king of Judah.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +9. How did Josiah seek to promote the worship of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he set the priests in their charges, and <hi rend='italic'>encouraged them +to the service of the house of the Lord</hi>.</q> 2 Chron. 35:2. +</p> + +<p> +10. By what message, through the prophet Haggai, did God +seek to encourage the people to rebuild the temple? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be strong, O Zerubbabel</hi>, saith the +Lord; and <hi rend='italic'>be strong, O +Joshua</hi>, son of Josedech, the high priest; and <hi rend='italic'>be strong, all ye +people of the land</hi>, saith the Lord, <hi rend='italic'>and work: for I am with you, +saith the Lord of hosts</hi>.</q> Haggai 2:4. +</p> + +<p> +11. What encouraging message has Christ left us? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be of good cheer</hi>; I have overcome the world.</q> John 16:33. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—A +dispirited man, like a discouraged horse, is powerless to +perform his task. +</p> + +<p> +<q>What men need most in this world's struggle and strife is not usually +direct help, but cheer.... Many men have fainted and succumbed +in the great struggles whom one word of cheer would have made strong to +overcome. We should never, then, lose an opportunity to say an inspiring +word. We know not how much it is needed, nor how great and far-reaching +its consequences may be.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Week-Day +Religion,</q> by J. R. Miller, D. D., +page 170.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='582'/><anchor id='Pg582'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Unity Of Believers</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus582.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Bethlehem. +"That they may be one, even as We are one." +John 17:22.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What relation do the Father and the Son sustain to each +other? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I and My Father <hi rend='italic'>are one</hi>.</q> John 10:30. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what does this oneness consist? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I seek not Mine own will, but <hi rend='italic'>the will of the Father</hi> which +hath sent Me.</q> John 5:30. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Their +oneness, therefore, consists in their having the same +mind, will, and purpose. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What did Christ pray the Father in behalf of His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>That they may be one</hi>, even as We are one.</q> John 17:22. +See also verses 11 and 23. +</p> + +<p> +4. Why did Christ desire this oneness, or unity, to exist +among His followers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and +I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: <hi rend='italic'>that the world may +believe that Thou hast sent Me</hi>.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +5. By what did Christ say all men should know His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, <hi rend='italic'>if ye +have love one to another</hi>.</q> John 13:35. +</p> + +<pb n='583'/><anchor id='Pg583'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>God +has united believers in church capacity in order that +one may strengthen another in good and righteous endeavor. The church +on earth would indeed be a symbol of the church in heaven if its members +were of one mind and of one faith. It is those who are not moved by the +Holy Spirit that mar God's plan, and cause division, and strengthen the +forces of darkness. Those who are sanctified by the blood of Christ will +not counterwork God's work, nor perpetuate division in the church. When +there is disunion among believers, the world concludes that they cannot be +the people of God because they are working against one another. When +believers are one with Christ, they will be united among themselves.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +6. How did Paul show his concern in this matter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord +Jesus Christ, <hi rend='italic'>that ye +all speak the same thing</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>that there be no +divisions among you</hi>; but <hi rend='italic'>that +ye be perfectly joined together in the +same mind and in the same judgment</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +7. What was a prominent cause of division in the early +church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous +wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also <hi rend='italic'>of your +own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away +disciples after them</hi>.</q> Acts 20:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +8. What was already at work in the church in Paul's day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the mystery of iniquity doth already work</hi>: only he who +now letteth [hindereth] will let, until he be taken out of the way.</q> +2 Thess. 2:7. +</p> + +<p> +9. Before Christ should come, what did Paul say was to +take place? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall +not come, except there come <hi rend='italic'>a +falling away</hi> first, and <hi rend='italic'>that man of +sin be revealed, the son of perdition</hi>; who opposeth and exalteth +himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so +that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself +that he is God.</q> Verses 3, 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +huge system of error now fostered in the papal church +is the result of the falling away here referred to. Says Wylie in his <q>History +of Protestantism,</q> Vol. III, page 25: <q>Rome manifestly was the +schismatic; she it was that abandoned what was once the common faith +of Christendom, leaving by that step to all who remained on the old ground +the indisputably valid title of the true church.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +10. Together, what do believers in Christ form? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now <hi rend='italic'>ye are the body of Christ</hi>, and members in particular.</q> +1 Cor. 12:27. +</p> + +<p> +11. Being members of Christ's body, of what else do we +become members? +</p> + +<pb n='584'/><anchor id='Pg584'/> + +<p> +<q>So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and <hi rend='italic'>every one +members one of another</hi>.</q> Rom. 12:5. +</p> + +<p> +12. As members of one another, what is the duty of each? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That there should be no schism in the body; but that <hi rend='italic'>the +members should have the same care one for another</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. +12:25. +</p> + +<p> +13. What should they endeavor to keep? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye +walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all +lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one +another in love; <hi rend='italic'>endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the +bond of peace</hi>.</q> Eph. 4:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +14. What unity of faith is finally to exist among God's +watchmen? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together +shall they sing: for <hi rend='italic'>they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord +shall bring again Zion</hi>.</q> Isa. 52:8. +</p> + +<p> +15. What solemn message, just before the Lord's coming, +will unite God's people in bonds of faith and love? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment +is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, +and the sea, and the fountains of waters.... Babylon is +fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations +drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.... If +any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark +in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine +of the wrath of God.</q> Rev. 14:7-10. See Rev. 18:1-5. +</p> + +<p> +16. How are those who receive this message described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +17. When the Lord comes, what will be the united cry of +God's people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have +waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have +waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.</q> +Isa. 25:9. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>How blest the sacred tie that binds</l> +<l>In sweet communion kindred minds!</l> +<l>How swift the heavenly course they run</l> +<l>Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes, are one.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='585'/><anchor id='Pg585'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Meekness And Humility</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus585.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jesus Scourged. +"He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He +opened not His mouth." Isa. 53:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What promise is made to the meek? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are the meek: for <hi rend='italic'>they shall inherit the earth</hi>.</q> +Matt. 5:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='italic'>Meek</hi>: <q>Mild of +temper; not easily provoked or irritated; forbearing; +submissive; humble.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +2. What did Christ say of His own character? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for <hi rend='italic'>I am meek +and lowly of heart</hi>: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.</q> Matt. +11:29. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is said of the character of Moses? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now <hi rend='italic'>the man Moses was very meek</hi>, above all the men which +were upon the face of the earth.</q> Num. 12:3. +</p> + +<p> +4. Whom has God promised to guide in judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The meek</hi> will He guide +in judgment: and <hi rend='italic'>the meek</hi> will He +teach His way.</q> Ps. 25:9. +</p> + +<p> +5. Of what is meekness a fruit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the fruit of the Spirit is</hi> love, joy, peace, long-suffering, +<pb n='587'/><anchor id='Pg587'/> +gentleness, goodness, faith, <hi rend='italic'>meekness</hi>, temperance: against such +there is no law.</q> Gal. 5:22, 23. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus586.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Christ In The Garden. +"Nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be +done." Luke 22:42.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +6. What does Christ say of those who exalt themselves? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whosoever exalteth himself <hi rend='italic'>shall be abased</hi>; and he that +humbleth himself shall be exalted.</q> Luke 14:11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +spirit of self-exaltation is of Satan. See Isa. 14:12-14; +Eze. 28:17. Christ humbled Himself, made Himself of no reputation, +and became obedient even to the death on the cross. See Phil. 2:5-8. +</quote> + +<p> +7. By what means did Jesus illustrate true humility? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus called <hi rend='italic'>a little child</hi> unto Him, and set him in the +midst of them, and said, ... <hi rend='italic'>Whosoever therefore shall +humble himself as this little child; the same is greatest in the kingdom +of heaven.</hi></q> Matt. 18:2-4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Humility +is <q>freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness +of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth.</q> It implies a sense of +one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness, and consists +in rating our <emph>claims</emph> low, in being willing to +<emph>waive our rights</emph>, and to <emph>take +a lower place than might be our due</emph>. It does not require that we under-rate +ourselves or our life-work. The humility of Christ was perfect, yet +He had a true sense of the importance of His life and mission. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Humility is like a tree, whose root, when it sets deepest in the earth, +rises higher, and spreads fairer, and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every +step of its descent is like a rib of iron.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Bishop Taylor.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +8. How will humility lead us to esteem others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in +lowliness of mind <hi rend='italic'>let each esteem other better than themselves</hi>.</q> +Phil. 2:3. +</p> + +<p> +9. With whom does God dwell? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I dwell in the high and holy place, <hi rend='italic'>with him also that is of +a contrite and humble spirit</hi>, to revive the spirit of the humble, +and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</q> Isa. 57:15. +</p> + +<p> +10. When asked a reason for our hope, in what spirit should +we answer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready +always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason +of the hope that is in you <hi rend='italic'>with meekness and fear</hi>.</q> 1 Peter +3:15. +</p> + +<p> +11. Who should labor for one overtaken in a fault, and in +what spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, <hi rend='italic'>ye which are +spiritual</hi>, restore such an one <hi rend='italic'>in +the spirit of meekness</hi>; considering +thyself, lest thou also be tempted.</q> Gal. 6:1. +</p> + +<pb n='588'/><anchor id='Pg588'/> + +<p> +12. With what should Christian women adorn themselves? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting +the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; +but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not +corruptible, even <hi rend='italic'>the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit</hi>, which +is in the sight of God of great price.</q> 1 Peter 3:3, 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The instruction given +here, <emph>in principle</emph> applies with equal +force to men professing godliness. It is the needless display of apparel +and outward adornment that is here condemned. God desires the ornaments +<emph>within</emph>, displayed in the heart +and life, rather than those <emph>without</emph>, +simply to be seen of men. Needless outward adornment, therefore, may +generally be taken as an indication that the inward adornment, so precious +in the sight of God, is lacking. Neatness in dress is not here discouraged. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Why are we exhorted to humble ourselves? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of +God, <hi rend='italic'>that He may exalt you in due time</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 5:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own +esteem.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Spurgeon.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +14. With what has the Lord promised to beautify the meek? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people: <hi rend='italic'>He will beautify +the meek with salvation</hi>.</q> Ps. 149:4. +</p> + +<p> +15. What are the meek exhorted to seek? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have +wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, <hi rend='italic'>seek meekness</hi>: it may +be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.</q> Zeph. 2:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +fact that the meek are exhorted to seek meekness, is +evidence that the meek themselves should cherish and cultivate meekness, +and that sanctification, or the development of a perfect character, is a +progressive work. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What inheritance is promised the meek? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, +thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. +But <hi rend='italic'>the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves +in the abundance of peace</hi>.</q> Ps. 37:10, 11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>I count this thing to be grandly true:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That a noble deed is a step toward God,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Lifting the soul from the common clod</l> +<l>To a purer air and a broader view.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We rise by the things that are under our feet;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>By what we have mastered of good and gain;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>By the pride deposed and the passion slain,</l> +<l>And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 32'><hi rend='smallcaps'>J. G. Holland.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='589'/><anchor id='Pg589'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Sobriety</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus589.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's Dream. +"Young men likewise exhort to be +sober-minded." Titus 2:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. To what extent did Solomon test the pleasures of this +world? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Whatsoever mine eyes desired</hi> I kept not from them, I withheld +not my heart from <hi rend='italic'>any joy</hi>.</q> <q>I said in mine heart, Go +to now, I will prove thee with <hi rend='italic'>mirth</hi>, +therefore enjoy <hi rend='italic'>pleasure</hi>.</q> +Eccl. 2:10, 1. +</p> + +<p> +2. How much true enjoyment did such a course afford? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, <hi rend='italic'>all was vanity and vexation of spirit</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +3. Of what does Solomon bid the young, in the buoyancy of +youth, to be mindful? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart +cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of +thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; <hi rend='italic'>but know thou, that for +all these things God will bring thee into judgment</hi>.</q> Eccl. 11:9. +</p> + +<p> +4. How does the grace of God teach us that we should live? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared +to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly +lusts, we should <hi rend='italic'>live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present +world</hi>.</q> Titus 2:11, 12. +</p> + +<pb n='590'/><anchor id='Pg590'/> + +<p> +5. What classes of individuals are admonished to be sober? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That the <hi rend='italic'>aged men</hi> be sober, grave, temperate, sound in +faith, in charity, in patience. The <hi rend='italic'>aged women</hi> likewise, that +they be in behavior as becometh holiness, ... that they +may teach the <hi rend='italic'>young women</hi> to +be sober.... <hi rend='italic'>Young men</hi> +likewise exhort to be sober-minded.</q> Verses 2-6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—These four classes include all. All should be sober. +</quote> + +<p> +6. What similar advice is given in the epistle to the Romans? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and +drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife +and envying.</q> Rom. 13:13. +</p> + +<p> +7. What testimony does the apostle Peter bear on this point? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, <hi rend='italic'>be sober</hi>, and hope +to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the +revelation of Jesus Christ.</q> 1 Peter 1:13. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why are foolish talking and jesting to be avoided? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, <hi rend='italic'>which +are not convenient</hi>.</q> Eph. 5:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—To indulge +in such things is not becoming a Christian. Life, +with all its responsibilities and great issues at stake, is too serious a matter +to be spent in such vanities. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What is the thought of foolishness declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The thought of foolishness is <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi>.</q> Prov. 24:9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Levity, +foolishness, light and loose talking, throw us off our +guard, and open the way to temptation and sin. To avoid sin, we must +be sober and constantly on guard. +</quote> + +<p> +10. Why are sobriety and vigilance especially necessary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be sober, be vigilant; <hi rend='italic'>because your adversary the devil, as +a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour</hi>.</q> +1 Peter 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +11. What other consideration should lead us to sobriety and +watchfulness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the end of all things is at hand</hi>: be ye therefore sober, +and watch unto prayer.</q> 1 Peter 4:7. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>How vain are all things here below!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>How false, and yet how fair!</l> +<l>Each pleasure hath its poison, too,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And every sweet a snare.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 28'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='591'/><anchor id='Pg591'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Wisdom</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus591.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Wisdom Of Solomon. +"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of +wisdom." Ps. 111:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Why are we told to get wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Wisdom is the principal thing</hi>; therefore get wisdom.</q> +Prov. 4:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Wisdom implies +the ability to judge soundly and deal sagaciously. +It is knowledge, with the capacity to make due use of it. One +may have abundance of <emph>knowledge</emph>, and at the same time possess little +<emph>wisdom</emph>. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Of how much value is wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou +canst desire are not to be compared unto her.</q> Prov. 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +3. What blessings follow the acquisition of wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Exalt her, and she shall <hi rend='italic'>promote +thee</hi>: she shall <hi rend='italic'>bring thee +to honor</hi>, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine +head <hi rend='italic'>an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to +thee</hi>.</q> Prov. 4:8, 9. +</p> + +<p> +4. Who gives wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord giveth wisdom.</q> Prov. 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +5. How may it be obtained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any of you lack wisdom, <hi rend='italic'>let him ask of God</hi>, that giveth +<pb n='592'/><anchor id='Pg592'/> +to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; <hi rend='italic'>and it shall be given +him</hi>.</q> James 1:5. +</p> + +<p> +6. When Solomon became king, what did he ask the Lord +to give him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Give me now <hi rend='italic'>wisdom and knowledge</hi>.</q> 2 Chron. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did the Lord regard this request? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the speech pleased the Lord</hi>, that Solomon had asked +this thing.</q> 1 Kings 3:10. +</p> + +<p> +8. How was Solomon's prayer answered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this +thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast +asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; +... <hi rend='italic'>behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have +given thee a wise and an understanding heart.... And I +have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and +honor.</hi></q> Verses 11-13. +</p> + +<p> +9. Are great men always wise? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Great men are not always wise</hi>: neither do the aged understand +judgment.</q> Job 32:9. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is the beginning of wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The fear of the Lord</hi> is the beginning of wisdom: a good +understanding have all they that do His commandments.</q> Ps. +111:10. +</p> + +<p> +11. By what means was the psalmist made wiser than his +enemies? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou <hi rend='italic'>through Thy commandments</hi> hast made me wiser than +mine enemies: for they are ever with me.</q> Ps. 119:98. +</p> + +<p> +12. Why did his understanding excel that of his teachers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have more understanding than all my teachers: <hi rend='italic'>for Thy +testimonies are my meditation</hi>.</q> Verse 99. +</p> + +<p> +13. What effect does wisdom have upon the countenance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A man's wisdom maketh his face to <hi rend='italic'>shine</hi>.</q> Eccl. 8:1. +</p> + +<p> +14. In what did Christ say the children of this world excel +the children of light? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the children of this world are in their generation <hi rend='italic'>wiser</hi> +than the children of light.</q> Luke 16:8. +</p> + +<pb n='593'/><anchor id='Pg593'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, they +show more prudence, more cunning, and more +intelligence about their business than do Christians concerning the things +of God's kingdom. <q>They show more skill, study more plans, contrive +more ways, to provide for themselves than the children of light do to promote +the interests of religion.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Albert Barnes.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +15. In what did the apostle say he would have us wise, and +in what simple? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I would have you <hi rend='italic'>wise unto +that which is good</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>simple +concerning evil</hi>.</q> Rom. 16:19. +</p> + +<p> +16. How many kinds of wisdom are there? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: +yet not <hi rend='italic'>the wisdom of this +world</hi>.... But we speak <hi rend='italic'>the +wisdom of God</hi> in a mystery, even <hi rend='italic'>the hidden wisdom, which God +ordained before the world unto our glory</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 2:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +17. How is worldly wisdom regarded by God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the wisdom of this world is <hi rend='italic'>foolishness</hi> with God.</q> +1 Cor. 3:19. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is the character of that wisdom which comes +from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the wisdom that is from above is +first <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi>, then <hi rend='italic'>peaceable</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>gentle</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>easy to +be entreated</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>full of mercy and good fruits</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>without partiality</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>and +without hypocrisy</hi>.</q> James 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +19. What wisdom are the Scriptures able to give? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, +which are able to make thee <hi rend='italic'>wise unto salvation</hi> through +faith which is in Christ Jesus.</q> 2 Tim. 3:15. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Broad is the road that leads to death,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And thousands walk together there;</l> +<l>But wisdom shows a narrow path,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With here and there a traveler.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Deny thyself, and take thy cross,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is thy Redeemer's great command;</l> +<l>Nature must count her gold but dross,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>If she would gain that heavenly land.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The fearful soul that tries and faints,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And walks the ways of God no more,</l> +<l>Is but esteemed almost a saint,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And makes his own destruction sure.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 26'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='594'/><anchor id='Pg594'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Diligence</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus594.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Reading God's Word. +"Give diligence to make your calling and +election sure." 2 Peter 1:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What general command has God given concerning labor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work.</q> Ex. 20:9. +</p> + +<p> +2. Instead of living upon the earnings of others, what instruction +is given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let him that stole steal no more: but rather <hi rend='italic'>let him labor, +working with his hands</hi> the thing which is good, that he may have +to give to him that needeth.</q> Eph. 4:28. +</p> + +<p> +3. What general rule does Paul lay down upon this subject? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, +that <hi rend='italic'>if any would not work, neither +should he eat</hi>.</q> 2 Thess. 3:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what language does he condemn idleness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, +<hi rend='italic'>working not at all</hi>, but are busybodies. Now them that +are such <hi rend='italic'>we command and exhort</hi> +by our Lord Jesus Christ, <hi rend='italic'>that +with quietness they work, and eat their own bread</hi>.</q> Verses 11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +5. What example did the apostle himself set in this matter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught; but <hi rend='italic'>wrought +with labor and travail night and day</hi>, that we might not be chargeable +to any of you.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<pb n='595'/><anchor id='Pg595'/> + +<p> +6. What labor was appointed man in consequence of the fall? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread</hi>, till thou return +unto the ground.</q> Gen. 3:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A life +of laborious and perpetual toil, in a world cursed with +weeds, thorns, and thistles, was appointed to man in consequence of the +entrance of sin. This was a part of the curse. And yet even this was +appointed in love, and, under existing circumstances, is a blessing in disguise. +It was a discipline rendered necessary because of sin, to place a +check upon the indulgence of appetite and passion, to develop habits of +industry and self-control, and to teach lessons on overcoming evil. Were +not man called to labor thus, his sins and miseries would be multiplied +manyfold. +</quote> + +<p> +7. What are some of the results of industry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that tilleth his land <hi rend='italic'>shall have plenty of bread</hi>.</q> Prov. +28:19. <q>The hand of the diligent <hi rend='italic'>maketh rich</hi>.</q> Prov. 10:4. +<q>The soul of the diligent shall be <hi rend='italic'>made fat</hi>.</q> Prov. 13:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. What results from slackness and indolence in business? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He <hi rend='italic'>becometh poor</hi> that dealeth with a slack hand.</q> Prov. +10:4. <q>The soul of the sluggard desireth, and <hi rend='italic'>hath nothing</hi>.</q> +Prov. 13:4. +</p> + +<p> +9. What does Solomon say concerning diligence in business? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.</q> +Eccl. 9:10. <q>Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, +and look well to thy herds.</q> Prov. 27:23. <q>He that gathereth +in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son +that causeth shame.</q> Prov. 10:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way +to market. It depends chiefly on two words—<emph>industry</emph> +and <emph>frugality</emph>; that is, waste neither <emph>time</emph> +nor <emph>money</emph>, but make the best of both. Without +industry and frugality nothing will do, and with +them everything.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Benjamin +Franklin.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +10. What does Solomon say of the industrious woman? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not +the bread of idleness.</hi> Her children arise up, and call her blessed; +her husband also, and he praiseth her.</q> Prov. 31:27, 28. +</p> + +<p> +11. What has Paul said of the professed Christian who does +not provide for his own family? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those +of his own house, <hi rend='italic'>he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an +infidel</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +12. What picture has Solomon given of the slothful man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of +the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over +<pb n='596'/><anchor id='Pg596'/> +with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the +stone wall thereof was broken down.</q> Prov. 24:30, 31. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>An indolent man draweth his +breath, but does not live.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Cicero.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The parent who does not teach his child a trade, teaches him to be a +thief.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Brahmanic Proverb.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are +the founders of human civilization.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Daniel Webster.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>If a man be indolent, the best discipline to which he can be subjected +is to suffer the evils of penury.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Wayland.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nothing can be done with a man who will not work. We have in +our scheme of government no room for the man who does not wish to pay +his way through life by what he does.... Capacity for work is +absolutely necessary, and no man can be said to live in the true sense of the +word if he does not work.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Theodore Roosevelt.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Luck is waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes +and strong will, will turn up something. Luck whines. Labor whistles. +Luck relies on chances. Labor, on character. Luck slips down to indigence. +Labor strides upward to independence. Luck lies in bed, and +wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy. Labor turns out +at six o' clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation +of a competence.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Cobden.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +13. In spiritual matters, what is also necessary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And beside this, <hi rend='italic'>giving all diligence</hi>, add to your faith virtue; +and to virtue knowledge.... Give <hi rend='italic'>diligence</hi> to make +your calling and election sure.</q> 2 Peter 1:5-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +temporal matters the difference between a prosperous +man and a sluggard lies principally in the improvement of opportunities. +One grasps these, while the other is too indolent to do so. In the gaining +of eternal life this same principle applies. God has placed salvation +within the reach of all. None need be lost. Christ died for all, but all +will not be saved, for some do not care enough for eternal life diligently +to lay hold of it. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Neat be your farm; 'tis long confessed</l> +<l>The neatest farmer is the best;</l> +<l>Each bog and marsh industrious drain,</l> +<l>Nor let vile balks deform the plain,</l> +<l>Nor bushes on your headland grow,</l> +<l>Nor briers a sloven culture show.</l> +<l>Neat be your barns, your houses sweet;</l> +<l>Your paths be clean, your dooryards neat;</l> +<l>No moss the sheltering roof enshroud,</l> +<l>No wooden panes the windows cloud;</l> +<l>No sink drains should above ground flow,</l> +<l>Nor weeds with rankling poison grow;</l> +<l>But flowers expand, and fruit-trees bloom,</l> +<l>And fragrant shrubs exhale perfume.</l> +<l>Neatly enclose your garden round;</l> +<l>Smooth, enrich, and clear the ground;</l> +<l>For if to taste and profit you incline,</l> +<l>Beauty and use you always should combine.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='597'/><anchor id='Pg597'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Perfection Of Character</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus597.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Paul Shipwrecked. +"In all these things we are more than conqueror +through Him that loved us." Rom. 8:37.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Why are we exhorted to patience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But let patience have her perfect work, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may be +perfect and entire, wanting</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>lacking</hi>] +<hi rend='italic'>nothing</hi>.</q> James 1:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. How perfect does Christ tell us to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be ye therefore perfect, <hi rend='italic'>even as your Father which is in +heaven is perfect</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:48. +</p> + +<p> +3. In whom are we complete? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And ye are complete <hi rend='italic'>in Him</hi>.</q> Col. 2:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. After accepting Christ, what are we to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, +<hi rend='italic'>let us go on unto perfection</hi>.</q> Heb. 6:1. +</p> + +<p> +5. In what is the Christian to grow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But grow in <hi rend='italic'>grace</hi>, and +in <hi rend='italic'>the knowledge of our Lord and +Saviour Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 3:18. +</p> + +<p> +6. How may one grow in grace? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Giving all diligence, <hi rend='italic'>add to +your faith virtue</hi>; ... <hi rend='italic'>knowledge</hi>; +<pb n='598'/><anchor id='Pg598'/> +... <hi rend='italic'>temperance</hi>; ... +<hi rend='italic'>patience</hi>; ... <hi rend='italic'>godliness</hi>; ... +<hi rend='italic'>brotherly kindness</hi>; ... +<hi rend='italic'>charity</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 1:5-8. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why does Christ desire this growth in His followers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That He might present it to Himself <hi rend='italic'>a glorious church</hi>, +not having <hi rend='italic'>spot</hi>, or <hi rend='italic'>wrinkle</hi>, +or <hi rend='italic'>any such thing</hi>; but that it should +be <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>without blemish</hi>.</q> Eph. 5:27. +</p> + +<p> +8. What will cause the Christian to grow? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As new-born babes, desire <hi rend='italic'>the sincere milk of the word</hi>, +that ye may grow thereby.</q> 1 Peter 2:2. +</p> + +<p> +9. In order to grow by the word of God, what must one do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy words were found, and I did eat them.</q> Jer. 15:16. +<q>Thy word have I <hi rend='italic'>hid in mine +heart</hi>.</q> Ps. 119:11. See Col. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +10. What does God's word then become to the believer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy word was unto me <hi rend='italic'>the joy and rejoicing of mine heart</hi>.</q> +Jer. 15:16, last part. +</p> + +<p> +11. Why are the Scriptures given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable +for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in +righteousness: <hi rend='italic'>that the man of +God may be perfect</hi>, throughly furnished +unto all good works.</q> 2 Tim. 3:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +12. How may the lack of wisdom be supplied? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any of you lack wisdom, <hi rend='italic'>let him ask of God</hi>, that giveth +to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; <hi rend='italic'>and it shall be given +him</hi>.</q> James 1:5. +</p> + +<p> +13. In how many things may we ask help from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be careful for nothing; but <hi rend='italic'>in everything</hi> by prayer and +supplication with thanksgiving <hi rend='italic'>let your requests be made known +unto God</hi>.</q> Phil. 4:6. +</p> + +<p> +14. What is an evidence of perfection? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man</hi>, +and able also to bridle the whole body.</q> James 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +15. What is the bond of perfection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And above all these things put on <hi rend='italic'>charity</hi>, which is the bond +of perfectness.</q> Col. 3:14. See Phil. 3:13, 14; Heb. 12:14. +</p> + +<p> +16. How perfect would God have us become? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the very God of peace <hi rend='italic'>sanctify you wholly</hi>; and I pray +God <hi rend='italic'>your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless</hi> +unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</q> 1 Thess. 5:23. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='599'/><anchor id='Pg599'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Sowing And Reaping</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus599.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jacob's Dream. +"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he +also reap." Gal. 6:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does Paul say regarding sowing and reaping? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for <hi rend='italic'>whatsoever a man +soweth, that shall he also reap</hi>.</q> Gal. 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +2. How is the same truth expressed by Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and +ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: +give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, +and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your +bosom. <hi rend='italic'>For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be +measured to you again.</hi></q> Luke 6:37, 38. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—A man's deeds, +good or evil, usually return to bless or curse +him. A farmer who sold butter to a village storekeeper and took sugar in +exchange, complained that he was getting short weight. <q>Look here,</q> +said he to the merchant, <q>it seems to me you're giving me short weight +sugar.</q> <q>No,</q> replied the storekeeper, <q>that cannot be, for in measuring +out that sugar of yours I always use a pound of your butter as a weight.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Good and evil come back.... God made the universe on the +plan of the circle. Isa. 40:22.... We ourselves start the circle of +good or bad actions, and it will surely come around again to us unless by +divine intervention it be hindered. Those bad or good actions may make +the circuit of many years; but come back to us they will as certainly as that +God sits on the circle of the earth.... What a stupendous thought +that the good and the evil we start come back to us! Do you know that +the judgment-day will be only the point at which the circle joins, the good +<pb n='600'/><anchor id='Pg600'/> +and the bad we have done coming back to us, unless divine intervention +hinders,—coming back to us, welcome +of delight or curse of condemnation?</q>—<hi rend='italic'>T. +DeWitt Talmage.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +3. On what condition does Christ say God will forgive us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>if ye forgive men their trespasses</hi>, your Heavenly Father +will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, +neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.</q> Matt. 6: +14, 15. See also Matt. 18:23-35. +</p> + +<p> +4. According to what principle does God deal with men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With the <hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi> Thou wilt +show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi>; with +an <hi rend='italic'>upright</hi> man Thou wilt +show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>upright</hi>; with the <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi> +Thou wilt show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi>; +and with the <hi rend='italic'>froward</hi> Thou wilt +show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>froward</hi>.</q> Ps. 18:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +5. How is the same truth again taught touching the wicked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As he loved <hi rend='italic'>cursing</hi>, so let it come unto him: as he delighted +not in <hi rend='italic'>blessing</hi>, so let it be far from him.</q> Ps. 109:17. +</p> + +<p> +6. According to what was judgment called upon Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Recompense her according to her works; according to all +that she hath done, do unto her.</q> Jer. 50:29. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why did Christ tell Peter to put up his sword? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Put up again thy sword into his place: <hi rend='italic'>for all they that take +the sword shall perish with the sword</hi>.</q> Matt. 26:52. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why was the Papacy to go into captivity? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity</hi>: he that +killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.</q> Rev. +13:10. See Lev. 25:10; Jer. 34:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is to be the punishment of spiritual Babylon? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Reward her even as she rewarded you</hi>, and double unto her +double according to her works.</q> Rev. 18:6. +</p> + +<p> +10. What does the psalmist say will come to the persecutor? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>His mischief shall return upon his own head</hi>, and his violent +dealing shall come down upon his own pate.</q> Ps. 7:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In his +letter addressed to the Jews, dated Nov. 16, 1905, +President Roosevelt said: <q>I feel very strongly that if any people are +oppressed anywhere, the wrong inevitably reacts in the end on those who +oppress them; for it is an immutable law in the spiritual world that no one +can wrong others and yet in the end himself escape unhurt.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +11. What befell Haman, who sought to slay all the Jews? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared +for Mordecai.</q> Esther 7:10. See Ps. 9:15. +</p> + +<p> +12. If one would have friends, what must he do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A man that hath friends <hi rend='italic'>must show himself friendly</hi>.</q> +Prov. 18:24. +</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='601'/><anchor id='Pg601'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XIII. Prayer and Public Worship</head> + +<pb n='602'/><anchor id='Pg602'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus602.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Groves Were God's First Temples. +"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto +Thy name, O Most High." Ps. 92:1.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='603'/><anchor id='Pg603'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Importance Of Prayer</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus603.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Ezra In Prayer. +"Men ought always to pray, and not to +faint." Luke 18:1.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By what title does the psalmist address God? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>O Thou that hearest prayer</hi>, unto Thee shall all flesh come.</q> +Ps. 65:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. Of whom does the Bible teach that God is a rewarder? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A rewarder <hi rend='italic'>of them that diligently seek Him</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. How willing is God to hear and answer prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto +your children, <hi rend='italic'>how much more shall your Father which is in +heaven give good things to them that ask Him</hi>?</q> Matt. 7:11. +</p> + +<p> +4. What above all else shows God's willingness to do this? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for +us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?</q> +Rom. 8:32. +</p> + +<p> +5. Upon what conditions are we promised needed blessings? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Ask</hi>, and it shall +be given you; <hi rend='italic'>seek</hi>, and ye shall find; +<hi rend='italic'>knock</hi>, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that +asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that +knocketh it shall be opened.</q> Matt. 7:7, 8. +</p> + +<pb n='604'/><anchor id='Pg604'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Prayer is +not the overcoming of God's <emph>reluctance</emph>; it is the +taking hold of God's <emph>willingness</emph>.</q> <q>Prayer is the opening of the heart +to God as to a friend.</q> Prayer does not change God; but it does change <emph>us</emph> +and our <emph>relation</emph> to God. It places us in the channel of blessings, and in +that frame of mind in which God can consistently and safely grant our +requests. +</p> + +<p> +<q>How shall we pray so as to be heard and to receive help? For one +thing, there must be a real desire in our hearts. Forms of words do not +make prayer: we must want something, and must realize our dependence +upon God for it.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>J. R. Miller, D. D.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +6. From whom do all good and perfect gifts come? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and +cometh down from <hi rend='italic'>the Father of +lights</hi>, with whom is no variableness, +neither shadow of turning.</q> James 1:17. +</p> + +<p> +7. If one lacks wisdom, what is he told to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any of you lack wisdom, <hi rend='italic'>let him ask of God</hi>, that giveth +to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given +him.</q> Verse 5. +</p> + +<p> +8. How must one ask in order to receive? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But let him <hi rend='italic'>ask in faith, nothing wavering</hi>. For he that +wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and +tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything +of the Lord.</q> Verses 6, 7. See Mark 11:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Prayer is +the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's +storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +9. Under what condition does the Lord not hear prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If I regard iniquity in my heart</hi>, the Lord will not hear me.</q> +Ps. 66:18. See Isa. 59:1, 2; James 4:3. +</p> + +<p> +10. Whose prayers does Solomon say are an abomination? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law</hi>, even his +prayer shall be abomination.</q> Prov. 28:9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Contention +and discord quench the spirit of prayer. 1 Peter +3:1-7. Many grieve the Spirit and drive Christ from their homes by +giving way to impatience and passion. Angels of God flee from homes +where there are unkind words, contention, and strife. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What did Christ say concerning secret prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou, when thou prayest, <hi rend='italic'>enter into thy closet</hi>, and when +thou hast shut thy door, <hi rend='italic'>pray to thy Father which is in secret</hi>; +and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.</q> +Matt. 6:6. +</p> + +<p> +12. To what place did Jesus retire for secret devotion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when He had sent the multitudes away, <hi rend='italic'>He went up +into a mountain apart to pray</hi>: and when the evening was come, +He was there alone.</q> Matt. 14:23. +</p> + +<pb n='605'/><anchor id='Pg605'/> + +<p> +13. For whom did Christ teach us to pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that +curse you, do good to them that hate you, and <hi rend='italic'>pray for them +which despitefully use you, and persecute you</hi>.</q> Matt. 5:44. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We cannot hate those for whom we pray. +</quote> + +<p> +14. When praying, what must we do in order to be forgiven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when ye stand praying, <hi rend='italic'>forgive, if ye have ought against +any</hi>: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you +your trespasses.</q> Mark 11:25. +</p> + +<p> +15. With what should our prayers be mingled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and +supplication <hi rend='italic'>with thanksgiving</hi> let your requests be made known +unto God.</q> Phil. 4:6. +</p> + +<p> +16. How often should we pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Praying always</hi> with all prayer and supplication in the +Spirit.</q> Eph. 6:18. <q><hi rend='italic'>Pray without ceasing.</hi></q> 1 Thess. 5:17. +<q><hi rend='italic'>Every day will I bless Thee</hi>; and I will praise Thy name forever +and ever.</q> Ps. 145:2. +</p> + +<p> +17. How often did David say he would pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Evening</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>morning</hi>, +and at <hi rend='italic'>noon</hi>, will I pray, and cry +aloud: and He shall hear my voice.</q> Ps. 55:17. See Dan. +6:10. +</p> + +<p> +18. What is said of Cornelius and his family? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A devout man, and one that <hi rend='italic'>feared God with all his house</hi>, +which gave much alms to the people, <hi rend='italic'>and prayed to God alway</hi>.</q> +Acts 10:2. +</p> + +<p> +19. In whose name did Christ teach us to pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And whatsoever ye shall ask in <hi rend='italic'>My name</hi>, that will I do.</q> +John 14:13. +</p> + +<p> +20. Why did the unjust judge answer the widow's prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet <hi rend='italic'>because this +widow troubleth me</hi>, I will avenge her, <hi rend='italic'>lest by her continual coming +she weary me</hi>.</q> Luke 18:4, 5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The lesson +of the parable is that <q>men ought always to pray, +and not to faint.</q> Verse 1. If this woman, by her persistence in asking, +obtained her request from such a man, surely God, who is just, will answer +the earnest, persistent prayers of His people, though the answer may be +long delayed. +</quote> + +<pb n='606'/><anchor id='Pg606'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus606.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Jesus Teaching The Woman Of Samaria. +"God is a Spirit: and they that worship +Him must worship Him in spirit and +in truth." John 4:24.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='607'/><anchor id='Pg607'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Meditation And Prayer</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus607.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Secret Prayer. +"My meditation of Him shall be sweet." +Ps. 104:34.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What was one of Paul's injunctions to Timothy? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Meditate upon these things</hi>; give thyself wholly to them.</q> +1 Tim. 4:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Meditation +is to the soul what digestion is to the body. It +assimilates, appropriates, and makes personal and practical that which has +been seen, heard, or read. +</quote> + +<p> +2. When did David say he would praise God with joyful lips? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>When I remember Thee</hi> upon +my bed, <hi rend='italic'>and meditate on Thee</hi> +in the night-watches.</q> Ps. 63:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. How will such meditation be to one who loves God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My meditation of Him shall be <hi rend='italic'>sweet</hi>.</q> Ps. 104:34. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what does the psalmist say the man who is blessed +delights and meditates? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His delight is in <hi rend='italic'>the law of +the Lord</hi>; and in <hi rend='italic'>His law</hi> doth he +meditate day and night.</q> Ps. 1:2. +</p> + +<p> +5. With what adversary do we constantly have to contend? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be sober, be vigilant: because <hi rend='italic'>your adversary the devil</hi>, as a +<pb n='608'/><anchor id='Pg608'/> +roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.</q> +1 Peter 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +6. When is a man tempted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But every man is tempted, when <hi rend='italic'>he is drawn away of his +own lust, and enticed</hi>.</q> James 1:14. +</p> + +<p> +7. That we may not be overcome, what are we told to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation</hi>: the spirit +indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</q> Matt. 26:41. +</p> + +<p> +8. How constantly should we pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pray <hi rend='italic'>without ceasing</hi>.</q> 1 Thess. 5:17. +<q>Continuing <hi rend='italic'>instant</hi> +in prayer.</q> Rom. 12:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This does +not mean that we should be constantly bowed +before God in prayer, but that we should not <emph>neglect</emph> prayer, and that we +should <emph>ever be in a prayerful frame of mind</emph>, even when walking by the way +or engaged in the duties of life,—ever ready to send up our petitions to +heaven for help in time of need. +</quote> + +<p> +9. That we might be prepared for His coming, what admonition +did Christ give? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Take ye heed, watch and pray</hi>: for ye know not when the time +is.... And what I say unto you I say unto all, <hi rend='italic'>Watch</hi>.</q> +Mark 13:33-37. See also Luke 21:36. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why are watchfulness and prayer especially imperative +in the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the +devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he +knoweth that he hath but a short time.</q> Rev. 12:12. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Lord, what a change within us one short hour</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>What heavy burdens from our bosoms take!</l> +<l>What parched grounds refresh, as with a shower!</l> +<l>We kneel, and all around us seems to lower!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We rise, and all, the distant and the near,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.</l> +<l>We kneel, how weak! we rise, how full of power!</l> +<l>Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong,</l> +<l>Or others, that we are not always strong,</l> +<l>That we are ever overborne with care,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That we should ever weak or heartless be,</l> +<l>Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 32'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Archbishop Trench.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='609'/><anchor id='Pg609'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Watching Unto Prayer</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus609.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Rock Of Ages. +"Simply to Thy cross I cling."—<hi rend='italic'>Toplady.</hi></head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Unto what are we exhorted to watch? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, +and <hi rend='italic'>watch unto prayer</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 4:7. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is one of the petitions of the Lord's prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lead us not into <hi rend='italic'>temptation</hi>.</q> Matt. 6:13. +</p> + +<p> +3. By what means can we escape temptation? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Watch and pray</hi>, that ye enter not into temptation: the +spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</q> Matt. 26:41. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We should +couple with our prayers a spirit of watchfulness, +thus cooperating with God in answering them. This is watching unto +prayer. +</quote> + +<p> +4. How is this duty again expressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Continue in prayer, and <hi rend='italic'>watch in the same</hi> with thanksgiving.</q> +Col. 4:2. +</p> + +<p> +5. How faithful should we be in this matter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the +spirit, and <hi rend='italic'>watching thereunto +with all perseverance</hi> and supplication +for all saints.</q> Eph. 6:18. +</p> + +<p> +6. When did Israel prevail in battle? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, <hi rend='italic'>when Moses held up his hand, that Israel +<pb n='610'/><anchor id='Pg610'/> +prevailed</hi>: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.</q> +Ex. 17:11. +</p> + +<p> +7. When the householder ceased watching, what happened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known +in what watch the thief would come, he would have <hi rend='italic'>watched</hi>, +and would not have suffered his house to be <hi rend='italic'>broken up</hi>.</q> Matt. +24:43. +</p> + +<p> +8. What experience comes to those who wait upon the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength</hi>; +they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and +not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.</q> Isa. 40:31. +</p> + +<p> +9. For what did Habakkuk say he would watch? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, +and <hi rend='italic'>will watch to see what He will say unto me</hi>.</q> Hab. 2:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Some are +very anxious that God should hear them when they +pray, but are quite indifferent as to what He says in reply. +</quote> + +<p> +10. How may we escape the evils coming on the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Watch ye, therefore, and pray always</hi>, that ye may be accounted +worthy to escape all these things that shall come to +pass, and to stand before the Son of man.</q> Luke 21:36. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Vigilance, as well +as prayer, is necessary if we would escape +the evils, delusions, and calamities of the last days. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What will be the result of not watching? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But and if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth +his coming; and shall begin to beat the men servants and +maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken, <hi rend='italic'>the lord of +that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at +an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will +appoint him his portion with the unbelievers</hi>.</q> Luke 12:45, 46. +</p> + +<p> +12. What will Christ's servants be doing when He comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; +and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when +he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and +knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are +those servants, whom the lord when he +cometh shall find <hi rend='italic'>watching</hi>.</q> +Verses 35-37. +</p> + +<p> +13. How general is the command to watch? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And what I say unto <hi rend='italic'>you</hi> I +say unto <hi rend='italic'>all</hi>, <hi rend='smallcaps'>Watch</hi>.</q> Mark +13:37. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='611'/><anchor id='Pg611'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Answers To Prayer</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus611.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jacob Wrestling In Prayer. +"If we ask anything according to His will, +He heareth us." 1 John 5:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How does God anticipate the needs of His children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall come to pass, that <hi rend='italic'>before they call, I will answer</hi>; +and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.</q> Isa. 65:24. +</p> + +<p> +2. Is there any limit to God's ability to help? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now unto Him that is <hi rend='italic'>able to do exceeding abundantly above +all that we ask or think</hi>.</q> Eph. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +3. How fully has God promised to supply our needs? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>My God shall supply all your need</hi> according to His riches +in glory by Christ Jesus.</q> Phil. 4:19. +</p> + +<p> +4. Do we always know what to pray for? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: <hi rend='italic'>for we +know not what we should pray for as we ought</hi>.</q> Rom. 8:26. +</p> + +<p> +5. Does God always see fit to grant our petitions? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might +depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient +for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.</q> 2 Cor. +12:8, 9. +</p> + +<pb n='612'/><anchor id='Pg612'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Paul's +affliction, it seems, was impaired sight. Acts 9:8, 9, +18; 22:11-13. The retaining of this imperfection would be a constant reminder +to him of his conversion, and hence a blessing in disguise. +</quote> + +<p> +6. If an answer does not come at once, what should we do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Rest in the Lord, and <hi rend='italic'>wait patiently for Him</hi>.</q> Ps. 37:7. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why was the parable of the importunate widow given? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He spake a parable unto them to this end, <hi rend='italic'>that men +ought always to pray, and not to faint</hi>.</q> Luke 18:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +importunate widow got her request because of her persistency. +God wants us to <emph>seek</emph> Him, and to seek Him <emph>earnestly</emph>, when we +pray. He is a rewarder of them that <emph>diligently</emph> seek Him. Heb. 11:6. +</quote> + +<p> +8. How did Elijah pray before obtaining his request? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and +<hi rend='italic'>he prayed earnestly</hi> that it might +not rain: and it rained not on the +earth by the space of three years and six months. And he +prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought +forth her fruit.</q> James 5:17, 18. See Rev. 11:3-6. +</p> + +<p> +9. Upon what condition does Christ say we shall receive? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, +when ye pray, <hi rend='italic'>believe that +ye receive them, and ye shall have them</hi>.</q> +Mark 11:24. +</p> + +<p> +10. Without this faith, will God answer prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.</hi> For he that +wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and +tossed. For <hi rend='italic'>let not that man think that he shall receive anything +of the Lord</hi>.</q> James 1:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What petitions may we confidently expect God to hear? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, <hi rend='italic'>if +we ask anything according to His will</hi>, He heareth us: and if we +know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have +the petitions that we desired of Him.</q> 1 John 5:14, 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God's +will is expressed in His law, His promises, and His +Word. Ps. 40:8; Rom. 2:17,18; 1 Peter 1:4. +</quote> + +<p> +12. When Daniel and his fellows were about to be slain because +the wise men of Babylon could not reveal to Nebuchadnezzar +his dream, how did God answer their united prayers? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night-vision.</hi> +Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.</q> Dan. 2:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In 1839 the +sultan of Turkey decreed that not a representative +of the Christian religion should remain in the empire. Learning of +this, Dr. William Goodell, an American missionary to Turkey, came home +to his friend and colleague, Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, the first president of Robert +College, Constantinople, with the sad news: <q>It is all over with us; we have +<pb n='613'/><anchor id='Pg613'/> +to leave. The American consul and the British ambassador say it is no +use to meet with antagonism this violent and vindictive monarch.</q> To +this Dr. Hamlin replied: <q>The Sultan of the universe can, in answer to +prayer, change the decree of the sultan of Turkey.</q> They gave themselves +to prayer. The next day the sultan died, and the decree was never executed. +See Dan. 4:17, 24, 25. +</quote> + +<p> +13. When Peter was imprisoned and about to be executed +by Herod, what did the church do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Peter therefore was kept in prison: but <hi rend='italic'>prayer was made +without ceasing of the church unto God for him</hi>.</q> Acts 12:5. +</p> + +<p> +14. How were their prayers answered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, ... +and he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow +me.... And they went out, and passed on through one street; +and forthwith the angel departed from him.</q> Verses 7-10. +</p> + +<p> +15. Because Solomon asked for wisdom rather than for long +life and riches, what besides wisdom did God give him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because thou hast asked this thing, ... behold, I +have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise +and an understanding heart.... And I have also given +thee that which thou hast not asked, <hi rend='italic'>both riches, and honor</hi>.</q> +1 Kings 3:11-13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +following are some things we are taught in the Scriptures +to pray for:— +</p> + +<p> +(1) For daily bread. Matt. 6:11. (2) For the forgiveness of sin. +2 Chron. 7:14; Ps. 32:5, 6; 1 John 1:9; 5:16. (3) For the Holy Spirit. +Luke 11:13; Zech. 10:1; John 14:16. (4) For deliverance in the hour of +temptation and danger. Matt. 6:13; John 17:11, 15; Prov. 3:26; Psalm +91; Matt. 24:20. (5) For wisdom and understanding. James 1:5; 1 +Kings 3:9; Dan. 2:17-19. (6) For peaceable and quiet lives. 1 Tim. +2:1, 2. (7) For the healing of the sick. James 5:14, 15; 2 Kings 20:1-11. +(8) For the prosperity of the ministers of God and the gospel. Eph. 6:18, +19; Col. 4:3; 2 Thess. 3:1. (9) For those who suffer for the truth's +sake. Heb. 13:3; Acts 12:5. (10) For kings, rulers, and all in authority. +1 Tim. 2:1, 2; Ezra 6:10. (11) For temporal prosperity. 2 Cor. 9:10; +James 5:17, 18. (12) For our enemies. Matt. 5:44. (13) For all saints. +Eph. 6:18. (14) For all men. 1 Tim. 2:1. (15) For the Lord to vindicate +His cause. 1 Kings 18:30-39. (16) For the coming of Christ and of +God's kingdom. Matt. 6:10; Rev. 22:20. +</p> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Prayer makes the darkest cloud withdraw;</l> +<l>Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw,</l> +<l>Gives exercise to faith and love,</l> +<l>Brings every blessing from above.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;</l> +<l>Prayer makes the Christian's armor bright;</l> +<l>And Satan trembles when he sees</l> +<l>The weakest saint upon his knees.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>William Cowper.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='614'/><anchor id='Pg614'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Public Worship</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus614.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Solomon's Temple. +"Mine house shall be called an house of prayer +for all people." Isa. 56:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How only can God be truly worshiped? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God is a Spirit: and <hi rend='italic'>they that worship Him must worship +Him in spirit and in truth</hi>.</q> John 4:24. +</p> + +<p> +2. How are we instructed to worship the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name; <hi rend='italic'>worship +the Lord in the beauty of holiness</hi>.</q> Ps. 29:2. +</p> + +<p> +3. What attitude is indicative of reverence in worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O come, let us worship and <hi rend='italic'>bow +down</hi>: let us <hi rend='italic'>kneel</hi> before +the Lord our Maker.</q> Ps. 95:6. +</p> + +<p> +4. Is singing a part of divine worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His +courts with praise.</q> <q>Come before His +presence with <hi rend='italic'>singing</hi>.</q> +Ps. 100:4, 2. +</p> + +<p> +5. Does the Bible approve of the use of musical instruments +in the worship of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Praise Him with the sound of the <hi rend='italic'>trumpet</hi>: praise Him with +the <hi rend='italic'>psaltery</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>harp</hi>. Praise +Him with the <hi rend='italic'>timbrel</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>dance</hi> +[margin, <hi rend='italic'>pipe</hi>]: praise Him with <hi rend='italic'>stringed +instruments</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>organs</hi>. +Praise Him upon the <hi rend='italic'>loud cymbals</hi>: praise +Him upon the <hi rend='italic'>high-sounding +cymbals</hi>.</q> Ps. 150:3-5. See also Ps. 92:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is promised to those who wait upon the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They that wait upon the Lord shall <hi rend='italic'>renew their strength</hi>; +<pb n='615'/><anchor id='Pg615'/> +they shall <hi rend='italic'>mount up with wings +as eagles</hi>; they shall <hi rend='italic'>run, and not +be weary</hi>; and they shall <hi rend='italic'>walk, and not faint</hi>.</q> Isa. 40:31. +</p> + +<p> +7. Is Christ's presence limited to large congregations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where <hi rend='italic'>two or three</hi> are gathered together in My name, there +am I in the midst of them.</q> Matt. 18:20. +</p> + +<p> +8. What were David's feelings concerning public worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was <hi rend='italic'>glad</hi> when they said unto me, Let us go into the house +of the Lord.</q> <q>My soul <hi rend='italic'>longeth</hi>, +yea, even <hi rend='italic'>fainteth</hi> for the +courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh <hi rend='italic'>crieth out</hi> for the +living God.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>For a day +in Thy courts is better than a thousand.</hi> +I had rather be a <hi rend='italic'>doorkeeper</hi> in the house of my God, than to +dwell in the tents of wickedness.</q> Ps. 122:1; 84:2, 10. +</p> + +<p> +9. What admonition has Paul given concerning assembling +for public worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the +manner of some is</hi>; but exhorting one another: and so much the +more, as ye see the day approaching.</q> Heb. 10:25. +</p> + +<p> +10. Does God take account of the meetings of His people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: +<hi rend='italic'>and the Lord harkened, and heard it</hi>, and a book of remembrance +was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that +thought upon His name. And they shall be Mine, saith the +Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels [margin, +special treasure]; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his +own son that serveth him.</q> Mal. 3:16, 17. +</p> + +<p> +11. Is there a blessing in habitual church attendance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are they that <hi rend='italic'>dwell</hi> in Thy house: they will be still +[ever and constantly] praising Thee.</q> <q>One thing have I +desired of the Lord, that I will seek after; that I may <hi rend='italic'>dwell</hi> in +the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty +of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.</q> Ps. 84:4; 27:4. +</p> + +<p> +12. What caution is given regarding behavior in God's house? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be +more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they +consider not that they do evil.</q> Eccl. 5:1. See 1 Tim. 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +13. What day has God specially designed for public worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The seventh day</hi> is a +Sabbath of rest, <hi rend='italic'>an holy convocation</hi>.</q> +Lev. 23:3. +</p> + +<p> +14. How has God commanded us to keep this day? +</p> + +<pb n='616'/><anchor id='Pg616'/> + +<p> +<q>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it <hi rend='italic'>holy</hi>.... In +it thou shalt not do any work.</q> Ex. 20:8-10. See Isa. 58:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +15. Are offerings an appropriate part of divine worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name: <hi rend='italic'>bring an +offering</hi>, and come into His courts.</q> <q>Vow, and pay unto the +Lord your God: let all that be round about Him <hi rend='italic'>bring presents +unto Him</hi> that ought to be feared.</q> Ps. 96:8; 76:11. +</p> + +<p> +16. Will there be public worship in the new creation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, +shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and +your name remain. <hi rend='italic'>And it shall come to pass, that from one new +moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh +come to worship before Me</hi>, saith the Lord.</q> Isa. 66:22, 23. +</p> + +<div> +<head>Rules On Going To Church</head> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +1. Go early to church. Not only be punctual, but be in your place +before the hour announced for the service to begin. +</p> + +<p> +2. Go in a reverent spirit. On the way remember whither you go. +Avoid lightness of manner and conversation on worldly topics. +</p> + +<p> +3. Before you enter and as you enter the church breathe a silent +prayer of invocation for the influence of the Holy Spirit. +</p> + +<p> +4. As you take your place, bow your head reverently in prayer for +yourself and for all others who enter the sanctuary. +</p> + +<p> +5. Resolve that you will foster no thought, fix your eyes on no object, +utter no word, that will tend to divert your mind from the holy purpose +for which you have come into this place. +</p> + +<p> +6. As the minister enters the pulpit, offer an earnest silent prayer in +his behalf. +</p> + +<p> +7. In all the service take an active part, as hearer, as worshiper. +</p> + +<p> +8. At the close of the service, after a moment of prayerful silence, +greet with cheerfulness and good will all whom you happen to meet, remembering +that Christian fellowship is a part of Christian worship.—<hi rend='italic'>Bishop +Vincent.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—An excellent suggestion is +contained in the notice posted at +the doorway of many churches: <q>Whosoever thou art that entereth this +church, remember it is the house of God. Be reverent, be silent, be +thoughtful. And leave it not without a prayer to God, for thyself, for +him who ministers, and for those who worship here.</q> +</p> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Before Jehovah's awful throne,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;</l> +<l>Know that the Lord is God alone;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He can create, and He destroy.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>His sovereign power, without our aid,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Made us of clay, and formed us men;</l> +<l>And when like wandering sheep we strayed,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He brought us to His fold again.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='617'/><anchor id='Pg617'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Reverence For The House Of God</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus617.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>A Jewish Synagogue. +"Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence +My sanctuary." Lev. 19:30.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Why did God instruct His people to build a sanctuary? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And let them make Me a sanctuary; <hi rend='italic'>that I may dwell among +them</hi>.</q> Ex. 25:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. How did He tell them to regard this dwelling-place of +God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and <hi rend='italic'>reverence My sanctuary</hi>: +I am the Lord.</q> Lev. 19:30. +</p> + +<p> +3. What does the Lord say of things dedicated to His service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Every devoted thing is <hi rend='italic'>most holy</hi> unto the Lord.</q> Lev. +27:28. +</p> + +<p> +4. When God met Moses at the burning bush, why did He +tell him to take off his shoes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, +<hi rend='italic'>for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground</hi>.</q> +Ex. 3:5. See also Joshua 5:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The presence +of God made the place holy. Wherever God +meets with His people, that place is holy. +</quote> + +<p> +5. When the tabernacle was reared anciently, what occurred? +</p> + +<pb n='618'/><anchor id='Pg618'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus618.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Jesus Cleansing The Temple. +"Take these things hence; make not My +Father's house an house of merchandise." +John 2:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='619'/><anchor id='Pg619'/> + +<p> +<q>Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and +<hi rend='italic'>the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle</hi>.</q> Ex. 40:34. See 2 +Chron. 5:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why should all show respect for the house of worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The Lord is in His holy temple</hi>: let all the earth keep silence +before Him.</q> Hab. 2:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—A failure to recognize +this fact leads many to treat the house +of worship without due respect. Nothing seems more appropriate to +divine worship than that a sense of awe and silence should pervade the +place of worship, and that only the sound of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving +to God should be heard within its walls. Both upon entering and +just before leaving the house of God it is highly appropriate and a most +excellent practise for each worshiper to bow the head for a few moments +in silent prayer. +</quote> + +<p> +7. How did Christ manifest His regard for the sanctity of +God's house? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the +temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the +temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and +the seats of them that sold doves; and would not suffer that any +man should carry any vessel through the temple. And He +taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be +called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it +a den of thieves.</q> Mark 11:15-17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +cleansing occurred at the close of Christ's public ministry. +There was a similar cleansing also at the beginning of His ministry. +See John 2:13-17. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What punishment did God bring upon Nadab and Abihu +for offering strange or common fire in the tabernacle service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of +them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, +and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He commanded +them not. <hi rend='italic'>And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured +them, and they died before the Lord.</hi></q> Lev. 10:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This, like +the two cleansings of the temple by Christ at the +beginning and close of His ministry (John 2:13-17; Matt. 21:12-16), +shows that God is particular in regard to the worship and conduct of the +worshipers in His house. No performance or exercise should be permitted +in any church or building especially dedicated to God's service which is +not in keeping with its sacred character, or conducive to reverence for God +and for holy things. It should not be made a place for feasting, visiting, +or worldly entertainment and amusement. +</quote> + +<p> +9. For what purpose are we exhorted to have grace? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, +<pb n='620'/><anchor id='Pg620'/> +let us have grace, <hi rend='italic'>whereby we may serve God acceptably with +reverence and godly fear</hi>: for our God is a consuming fire.</q> Heb. +12:28, 29. +</p> + +<p> +10. In what spirit did David say he would worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But as for me, I will come into Thy house in the multitude +of Thy mercy: and <hi rend='italic'>in Thy fear will I worship toward Thy holy +temple</hi>.</q> Ps. 5:7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What instruction has Solomon given respecting our conduct +in the house of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and +be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they +consider not that they do evil.</q> Eccl. 5:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. How extensively has God said He would be honored? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down +of the same My name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in +every place incense shall be offered unto My name, and a pure +offering: for My name shall be great among the heathen, saith +the Lord of hosts.</q> Mal. 1:11. +</p> + +<p> +13. For how many did God design that His house should +be a house of prayer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even them [the sons of the stranger] will I bring to My +holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer: +their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon +Mine altar; for Mine house shall be called <hi rend='italic'>an house of prayer +for all people</hi>.</q> Isa. 56:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +fifty-sixth chapter of Isaiah contains a prophecy relating +to New Testament times. It is plain, therefore, that Christ enunciated +a general principle, applicable to all houses dedicated to God's service, +when, quoting this prophecy, He said that God's house should be a +house of prayer for all nations. See margin of Mark 11:17. +</quote> + +<p> +14. Who is present in all assemblies met in Christ's name? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For where two or three are gathered together in My name, +<hi rend='italic'>there am I in the midst of them</hi>.</q> Matt. 18:20. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>With reverence let the saints appear,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And bow before the Lord;</l> +<l>His high commands with reverence hear,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And tremble at His word.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O Jesus, Lord of earth and heaven,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Our life and joy, to Thee</l> +<l>Be honor, thanks, and blessing given</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Through all eternity.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='621'/><anchor id='Pg621'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christian Communion</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus621.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Lord's Supper. +"This do in remembrance of Me." +1 Cor. 11:24.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What was connected with the worship of God before the +first advent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then verily the first covenant had also <hi rend='italic'>ordinances of divine +service</hi>, and a worldly sanctuary.</q> Heb. 9:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Paul +says that these ordinances consisted <q>in meats and +drinks, and divers washings,</q> imposed <q>until the time of reformation,</q> +and that they were <q>a shadow of good things to come.</q> Heb. 9:10; 10:1. +</quote> + +<p> +2. To whom did the sacrificial offerings point forward? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And walk in love, as <hi rend='italic'>Christ</hi> +also hath loved us, and <hi rend='italic'>hath +given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God</hi> for a sweet-smelling +savor.</q> Eph. 5:2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Through the +provisions of the sacrificial law, the repentant +sinner showed his faith in the coming Redeemer, who was to shed His +blood for the sins of mankind. These sacrificial offerings were ordinances +which pointed forward to the work of Christ, which they typified. Since +the crucifixion, the ordinances of the Christian church point backward, and +are designed to show faith in the work of Christ already accomplished. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What does the Lord desire us to keep in mind? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By which also ye are saved, if ye <hi rend='italic'>keep in memory</hi> what I +preached unto you, ... <hi rend='italic'>how that Christ died for our sins</hi> +according to the Scriptures; and that He was <hi rend='italic'>buried</hi>, and that +He <hi rend='italic'>rose again</hi> the third day according to the Scriptures.</q> +1 Cor. 15:2-4. +</p> + +<pb n='622'/><anchor id='Pg622'/> + +<p> +4. What ordinance commemorates Christ's burial and resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Buried with Him in <hi rend='italic'>baptism</hi>, wherein also ye are risen with +Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised +Him from the dead.</q> Col. 2:12. +</p> + +<p> +5. For what purpose was the Lord's Supper instituted? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed +took bread</hi>: and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and said, +Take, eat: <hi rend='italic'>this is My body</hi>, which +is broken for you: <hi rend='italic'>this do in +remembrance of Me</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 11:23, 24. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is signified by the wine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This +cup is <hi rend='italic'>the new covenant in My blood</hi>: this do, as oft as ye drink +it, in remembrance of Me.</q> Verse 25, R. V. +</p> + +<p> +7. What do both the bread and the wine commemorate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do +show <hi rend='italic'>the Lord's death</hi> till He come.</q> Verse 26. +</p> + +<p> +8. What caution is given concerning engaging in this +ordinance unworthily? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the +Lord, unworthily, shall be <hi rend='italic'>guilty of the body and blood of the +Lord</hi>.... He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth +and drinketh damnation to himself, <hi rend='italic'>not discerning the Lord's +body</hi>.</q> Verses 27-29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +last expression shows what is meant by eating and +drinking unworthily. It is not the one who has a deep sense of his sinfulness +and of his unworthiness of God's mercy and grace, but he who does +not discern that Christ died for his sins—who is not penitent—that eats +and drinks unworthily. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What preparation should be made for this service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let a man <hi rend='italic'>examine himself</hi>, and so let him eat of that bread, +and drink of that cup.</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is essential to Christian fellowship and cleansing +from sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If we walk in the light, as +He is in the light</hi>, we have fellowship +one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son +cleanseth us from all sin.</q> 1 John 1:7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What still higher fellowship does the Christian enjoy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And truly our fellowship is <hi rend='italic'>with the Father, and with His +Son Jesus Christ</hi>.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='623'/><anchor id='Pg623'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Praise And Thanksgiving</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus623.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Joy And Gladness. +"O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt +His name together." Ps. 34:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When did the psalmist say he would bless the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will bless the Lord <hi rend='italic'>at +all times</hi>: His praise shall <hi rend='italic'>continually +be in my mouth</hi>.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>Every day</hi> will I bless Thee; and I +will praise Thy name <hi rend='italic'>forever and ever</hi>.</q> Ps. 34:1; 145:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. What do those do who offer praise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoso offereth praise <hi rend='italic'>glorifieth Me</hi>.</q> Ps. 50:23. +</p> + +<p> +3. Where does David say he will praise God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My praise shall be of Thee <hi rend='italic'>in the great congregation</hi>: I will +pay my vows before them that fear Him.</q> Ps. 22:25. +</p> + +<p> +4. What does he exhort all to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O magnify the Lord with me, and <hi rend='italic'>let us exalt His name +together</hi>.</q> Ps. 34:3. +</p> + +<p> +5. What personal experience does he say he will declare in +the hearing of all who fear God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and <hi rend='italic'>I will declare +what He hath done for my soul</hi>.</q> Ps. 66:16. +</p> + +<p> +6. What effect do such testimonies have upon the humble? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: <hi rend='italic'>the humble shall +hear thereof, and be glad</hi>.</q> Ps. 34:2. +</p> + +<pb n='624'/><anchor id='Pg624'/> + +<p> +7. Into what condition did those lapse anciently who failed +to glorify God and to be thankful? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him +not as God, neither were thankful; but <hi rend='italic'>became vain in their +imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened</hi>.</q> Rom. 1:21. +</p> + +<p> +8. What element should enter into all our worship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and +supplication <hi rend='italic'>with thanksgiving</hi> let your requests be made known +unto God.</q> Phil. 4:6. See Col. 4:2. +</p> + +<p> +9. In how many things should we give thanks? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In everything give thanks</hi>: for this is the will of God in Christ +Jesus concerning you.</q> 1 Thess. 5:18. +</p> + +<p> +10. How often, and for how much, should we render thanks? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Giving thanks <hi rend='italic'>always for all things</hi> unto God and the Father +in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.</q> Eph. 5:20. +</p> + +<p> +11. With what exhortation does the psalmist close his songs +of praise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in His sanctuary: praise +Him in the firmament of His power. Praise Him for His mighty +acts: praise Him according to His excellent greatness. Praise +Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the psaltery +and harp. Praise Him with the timbrel and dance: praise +Him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise Him upon +the loud cymbals: praise Him upon the high-sounding cymbals. +Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the +Lord.</q> Psalm 150. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Bow down before Him, His glory proclaim;</l> +<l>With gold of obedience, and incense of lowliness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Kneel and adore Him, the Lord is His name.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Low at His feet lay thy burden of carefulness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>High on His heart He will bear it for thee,</l> +<l>Comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy prayerfulness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Guiding thy steps as may best for thee be.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Fear not to enter His courts in the slenderness</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of the poor wealth thou wouldst reckon as thine:</l> +<l>Truth in its beauty, and love in its tenderness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>These are the offerings to lay on His shrine.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He will accept for the Name that is dear;</l> +<l>Mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Trust for our trembling, and hope for our fear.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='625'/><anchor id='Pg625'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Value Of Song</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus625.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>David And His Harp. +"Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His +presence with singing." Ps. 100:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How early in the world's history do we read of singing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? +... <hi rend='italic'>when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of +God shouted for joy</hi>?</q> Job 38:4-7. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did Israel do when delivered from Egypt? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto +the Lord, ... The Lord is my strength and song, and He +is become my salvation: ... and I will exalt Him.</q> Ex. +15:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +3. How did the angels manifest their joy at Christ's birth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the +heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the +highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.</q> Luke +2:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +4. How are we told to come before the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Serve the Lord with gladness: <hi rend='italic'>come before His presence +with singing</hi>.</q> Ps. 100:2. See 2 Chron. 29:30. +</p> + +<p> +5. How does David say such service is regarded by God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will praise the name of God with <hi rend='italic'>a song</hi>, and will magnify +Him with <hi rend='italic'>thanksgiving</hi>. <hi rend='italic'>This +also shall please the Lord better +than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.</hi></q> Ps. 69:30, 31. +</p> + +<pb n='626'/><anchor id='Pg626'/> + +<p> +6. What instruction did Paul give concerning singing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; +teaching and admonishing one another in +<hi rend='italic'>psalms</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>hymns</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>spiritual songs, singing +with grace in your hearts to the Lord</hi>.</q> +Col. 3:16. See also Eph. 5:19; James 5:13; Ps. 149:5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—Music, like +poetry and flowers, is elevating and refining in +its nature, and should therefore have its place in the worship of God, and +in the life and experience of God's people. It is adapted to every mood and +feeling of the human soul, and many times has reached hearts when other +means have failed. Next to prayer, music seems best adapted to worship. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The history of the songs of the Bible is full of suggestion as to +the uses and benefits of music and song. Music is often perverted to +serve purposes of evil, and it thus becomes one of the most alluring agencies +of temptation. But, rightly employed, it is a precious gift of God, +designed to uplift the thoughts to high and noble themes, to inspire and +elevate the soul. As the children of Israel, journeying through the wilderness, +cheered their way by the music of sacred song, so God bids His children +today gladden their pilgrim life. There are few means more effective +for fixing His words in the memory than repeating them in song. And +such song has wonderful power. It has power to subdue rude and uncultivated +natures; power to quicken thought and to awaken sympathy, to +promote harmony of action, and to banish the gloom and foreboding that +destroy courage and weaken effort.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Education,</q> +pages 167, 168.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>O that we might sing evening and morning, and let song touch song +all the way through! O that we could put songs under our burden! O +that we could extract the sense of sorrow by song! Then sad things would +not poison so much. Sing in the house; teach your children to sing. When +troubles come, go at them with song. When griefs arise, sing them down. +Lift the voice of praise against cares. Praise God by singing; that will +lift you above trials of every sort. Attempt it. They sing in heaven, +and among God's people on earth song is the appropriate language of +Christian feeling.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Henry Ward Beecher.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +7. What instrument did John see the saints have? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I saw ... them, ... <hi rend='italic'>having the harps of God</hi>.</q> Rev. 15:2. +</p> + +<p> +8. And what song are they to sing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they sing <hi rend='italic'>the song of +Moses</hi> the servant of God, <hi rend='italic'>and +the song of the Lamb</hi>, saying, Great and marvelous are Thy works, +Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of +saints.</q> Verse 3. See Ps. 87:7. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Out of my heart I sing a song,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>O world so great and grand!</l> +<l>But hearts are weak, and hands reach out</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For the touch of a kindly hand.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O song that I sing, I pray you bring</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To some sad soul thy balm;</l> +<l>Fall soft, I pray, like the breath of May,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Or the touch of a loving hand.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>I sing for hearts that ache and break,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I sing for hearts that are true;</l> +<l>O world so vast, O world so wide,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I sing my song for you!</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='627'/><anchor id='Pg627'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XIV. Christian Service</head> + +<pb n='628'/><anchor id='Pg628'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus628.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Good Samaritan. +"When he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and +bound up his wounds." Luke 10:33, 34.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='629'/><anchor id='Pg629'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Gift Of Giving</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus629.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Abraham Offering Up Isaac. +"God so loved the world, that He gave His +only begotten Son." John 3:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What example of giving has God given to the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God so loved the world, that <hi rend='italic'>He gave His only begotten Son</hi>, +that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have +everlasting life.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what were Abraham's faith and devotion tested? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By faith Abraham, when he was tried, <hi rend='italic'>offered up Isaac</hi>; +and he that had received the promises <hi rend='italic'>offered up his only begotten +son</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. What did Christ do to redeem us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who <hi rend='italic'>gave Himself</hi> for our sins.</q> Gal. 1:4. See also Titus +2:14; 1 Tim. 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +4. Why did He lay aside His riches and become poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, +though He was rich, yet <hi rend='italic'>for your sakes He became poor, that ye +through His poverty might be rich</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 8:9. +</p> + +<p> +5. After Abraham was blessed, what was he to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will bless thee, ... <hi rend='italic'>and thou shalt be a blessing</hi>.</q> +Gen. 12:2. +</p> + +<pb n='630'/><anchor id='Pg630'/> + +<p> +6. As Christ sent out His disciples to preach, to heal the +sick, and to raise the dead, what did He say to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Freely ye have received, <hi rend='italic'>freely give</hi>.</q> Matt. 10:8. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why does God comfort us in our troubles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, <hi rend='italic'>that we may be +able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith +we ourselves are comforted of God</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 1:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—All +who accept the gospel take upon themselves the obligation +to pass its blessings on to others. In this way the work of salvation +is extended. Every soul reclaimed from sin, God expects to join in the +same work for others which lifted him up, and placed his feet upon the +Rock. The good things of God are not to be selfishly kept to ourselves. +We receive to give. Says Whittier, <q>The soul is lost that's saved alone.</q> +And as love prompted God's great gift, so His love in our hearts will prompt +us to give, to minister, and to engage in loving service for the welfare and +the happiness of others. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What did Christ say of the blessedness of giving? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought +to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord +Jesus, how He said, <hi rend='italic'>It is more blessed to give than to receive</hi>.</q> +Acts 20:35. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The government +of God is founded on the principle of benevolence, +or the desire to bless others. Our richest blessings come as the +result of the good things we have passed on to our fellow men. +</p> + +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>The quality of mercy is not strained,</q></l> +<l>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven</l> +<l>Upon the place beneath; it is twice blessed—</l> +<l><q rend='post'>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +9. For what was Christ anointed by the Holy Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord +hath anointed Me <hi rend='italic'>to preach good tidings unto the meek</hi>; He hath +sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to +the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are +bound.</q> Isa. 61:1. See Luke 4:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +Holy Spirit is given to fit God's children for service. +</quote> + +<p> +10. After being thus anointed, what did Jesus do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who went about <hi rend='italic'>doing good</hi>.</q> Acts 10:38. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Have you had a kindness shown?</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Pass it on;</l> +<l>'Twas not given for you alone.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Pass it on;</l> +<l>Let it travel down the years,</l> +<l>Let it wipe another's tears,</l> +<l>Till in heaven the gift appears—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 8'>Pass it on.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='631'/><anchor id='Pg631'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Preaching The Gospel</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus631.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Gospel Commission. +"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel +to every creature." Mark 16:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Before leaving His disciples, what great commission did +Christ give them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Go ye into all the world, and preach +the gospel to every creature</hi>.</q> Mark 16:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word gospel means good news, or glad tidings. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What is the gospel of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for <hi rend='italic'>it is the power +of God unto salvation to every one that believeth</hi>.</q> Rom. 1:16. +</p> + +<p> +3. How extensively and for how long did Christ say the +gospel should be preached? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached <hi rend='italic'>in all +the world</hi> for a witness unto all nations; and <hi rend='italic'>then shall the end +come</hi>.</q> Matt. 24:14. +</p> + +<p> +4. Why was the gospel to be preached to the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the +Gentiles, <hi rend='italic'>to take out of them a people for His name</hi>.</q> +Acts 15:14. +</p> + +<p> +5. How are those who preach the gospel described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that +<pb n='632'/><anchor id='Pg632'/> +bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good +tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, +Thy God reigneth.</q> Isa. 52:7. +</p> + +<p> +6. What was the object of Christ's ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I the Lord have called Thee in righteousness, and will +hold Thine hand, and will keep Thee, and give Thee for a covenant +of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; <hi rend='italic'>to open the blind +eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit +in darkness out of the prison-house</hi>.</q> Isa. 42:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +7. For what purpose did Christ select the apostle Paul, and +send him to the Gentiles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said, ... I have appeared unto thee for this +purpose, <hi rend='italic'>to make thee a minister and a witness ... to open +their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the +power of Satan unto God</hi>, that they may receive forgiveness of +sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith +that is in Me.</q> Acts 26:15-18. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is the Christian minister commanded to preach? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Preach <hi rend='italic'>the word</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 4:2. +</p> + +<p> +9. Of what did Christ say the Scriptures testify? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They are they which testify of <hi rend='italic'>Me</hi>.</q> John 5:39. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Every +one, therefore, who preaches the word aright, will +preach Christ. Paul, who faithfully preached God's word, said he was +determined not to know (i.e., to make known) anything <q>save Jesus Christ, +and Him crucified.</q> 1 Cor. 2:2. Jonathan Edwards was once asked by +a young minister what he thought of a sermon he had just preached. <q>It +was a very poor sermon, indeed,</q> said Mr. Edwards. <q>Why?</q> asked the +young minister. <q>Because,</q> said Mr. Edwards, <q>there was no <emph>Christ</emph> +in it.</q> All the great truths of the Scriptures center in Christ. Rightly +understood, all lead to Him. Christ, therefore, should be presented in +every discourse as the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, of the +great plan of salvation. +</quote> + +<p> +10. How does God expect His ministers to preach the word? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that hath My word, let him speak My word <hi rend='italic'>faithfully</hi>.</q> +Jer. 23:28. +</p> + +<p> +11. How did Christ present the truth to the people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And with many such parables spake He the word unto +them, <hi rend='italic'>as they were able to hear it</hi>.</q> Mark 4:33. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Ministers +should learn to adapt their labors to those for +whom they labor—to meet the people where they are. +</quote> + +<p> +12. What rule for teaching doctrine is laid down in the Bible? +</p> + +<pb n='633'/><anchor id='Pg633'/> + +<p> +<q>For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; +line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.</q> +Isa. 28:10. +</p> + +<p> +13. How should the servant of God labor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle +unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those +that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance +to the acknowledging of the truth.</q> 2 Tim. 2:24, 25. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—While the +claims of the law of God are presented to the sinner, +ministers should never forget that love—the love of God—is the +only power that can soften the heart and lead to repentance and obedience, +and that to <emph>save</emph> men is their great work. +</quote> + +<p> +14. As a preparation for their work, what did Christ do to +the apostles? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then <hi rend='italic'>opened He their understanding</hi>, that they might +understand the Scriptures.</q> Luke 24:45. +</p> + +<p> +15. For what did He tell them to tarry in Jerusalem? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, <hi rend='italic'>until ye be endued +with power from on high</hi>.</q> Verse 49. +</p> + +<p> +16. How did the apostles preach the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.</q> 1 Peter +1:12. +</p> + +<p> +17. What was the result of this preaching? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Many</hi> of them which heard +the word <hi rend='italic'>believed</hi>.</q> <q>And the +word of God <hi rend='italic'>increased</hi>; and +<hi rend='italic'>the number of the disciples multiplied</hi> +in Jerusalem <hi rend='italic'>greatly</hi>; and +a great company of the <hi rend='italic'>priests</hi> were +obedient to the faith.</q> Acts 4:4; 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +18. What promise is made to the faithful gospel minister? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, +<hi rend='italic'>shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves +with him</hi>.</q> Ps. 126:6. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>To every clime, where lost by sin,</l> +<l>The grace of Christ a soul may win,</l> +<l>From here Thy messengers go forth</l> +<l>From east to west, from south to north.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Perchance, in heaven one day to me</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Some blessed soul may come and say,</l> +<l>All hail, beloved! But for thee</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>My soul to death had been a prey.</l> +<l>Ah, then what sweetness in the thought</l> +<l>One soul to glory to have brought!</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='634'/><anchor id='Pg634'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus634.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Good Shepherd. +"Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof." +1 Peter 5:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='635'/><anchor id='Pg635'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Shepherd And His Work</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus635.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Feeding The Five Thousand. +"Give ye them to eat." Matt. 14:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Who did Christ say is the good shepherd? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the good shepherd.</q> John 10:11. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is Christ elsewhere called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Shepherd and <hi rend='italic'>Bishop of +your souls</hi>.</q> <q>The <hi rend='italic'>chief +Shepherd</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 2:25; 5:4. +</p> + +<p> +3. What does the expression <q>the <hi rend='italic'>chief</hi> Shepherd</q> imply? +</p> + +<p> +That there are <hi rend='italic'>under</hi>-shepherds. +</p> + +<p> +4. How does the good shepherd manifest his love and care +for the sheep? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The good shepherd <hi rend='italic'>giveth his life for the sheep</hi>.</q> John +10:11. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does the hireling, or false shepherd, do, and why? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The hireling <hi rend='italic'>fleeth, because he +is an hireling</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>careth not +for the sheep</hi>.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +6. What example will the true shepherd set before his flock? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In all things showing thyself <hi rend='italic'>a pattern of good works</hi>.</q> +Titus 2:7. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the special work of the gospel shepherd? +</p> + +<pb n='636'/><anchor id='Pg636'/> + +<p> +<q>Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, +over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, <hi rend='italic'>to +feed the church of God</hi>, which He hath purchased with His own +blood.</q> Acts 20:28. <q><hi rend='italic'>Feed the flock of God</hi> which is among +you, <hi rend='italic'>taking the oversight thereof</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 5:2. See also John +21:15-17. +</p> + +<p> +8. With what kind of food will the true shepherd feed the +flock? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus +Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at His appearing +and His kingdom: <hi rend='italic'>Preach the word</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 4:1, 2. <q>O +son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; +therefore <hi rend='italic'>thou shalt hear the word at My mouth, and warn them +from Me</hi>.</q> Eze. 33:7. See Eze. 3:17-21. +</p> + +<p> +9. Was there to come a time when people would not listen +to plain Bible truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine</hi>; +but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves +teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their +ears from the <hi rend='italic'>truth</hi>, and +shall be <hi rend='italic'>turned unto fables</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. +4:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +10. Instead of the straight testimony, what kind of preaching +will such demand? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Prophesy not unto us right things, <hi rend='italic'>speak unto us smooth +things, prophesy deceits</hi>.</q> Isa. 30:10. +</p> + +<p> +11. What test is given by which we may distinguish between +true and false shepherds? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>To the law and to the testimony</hi>: if they speak not according +to this word, it is because there is no light in them.</q> Isa. 8:20. +<q>For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and <hi rend='italic'>they +should seek the law at his mouth</hi>.</q> Mal. 2:7. +</p> + +<p> +12. What will those servants be doing upon whom Christ +pronounces a blessing when He comes? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord +hath made ruler over his household, <hi rend='italic'>to give them meat in due +season</hi>? Blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh +shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make +him ruler over all his goods.</q> Matt. 24:45-47. +</p> + +<p> +13. What excuses are made by some for not expounding the +prophecies? +</p> + +<pb n='637'/><anchor id='Pg637'/> + +<p> +<q>And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a +book that is sealed, which men deliver to <hi rend='italic'>one that is learned</hi>, +saying, Read this, I pray thee: and <hi rend='italic'>he saith, I cannot; for it is +sealed</hi>: and the book is delivered to him +that is <hi rend='italic'>not learned</hi>, saying, +Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, <hi rend='italic'>I am not learned</hi>.</q> +Isa. 29:11, 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +prophecies of Daniel were to be unsealed at <q>the time +of the end.</q> See Dan. 12:4, 9, 10; Rev. 10:1, 2. In Jer. 25:34-37 is +found a warning message addressed to unfaithful shepherds. +</quote> + +<p> +14. After receiving his commission to preach, how did the +apostle Paul feel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: +for necessity is laid upon me; yea, <hi rend='italic'>woe is unto me, if I preach not +the gospel</hi>!</q> 1 Cor. 9:16. +</p> + +<p> +15. How faithfully will the true shepherd watch the flock? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They watch for your souls, <hi rend='italic'>as they that must give account</hi>.</q> +Heb. 13:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Mark +Guy Pearse once said to Mr. Spurgeon: <q>When I was +a young fellow in London, I used to sit right over there and hear you preach, +and you will never know how much good you did me. You used to wind +me up like an eight-day clock. I was bound to go right for a week after +hearing you.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +16. If God's watchmen fail to warn the wicked, what terrible +responsibility will be charged to their account? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, +that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but <hi rend='italic'>his blood will I +require at thine hand</hi>.</q> Eze. 33:8. See Isa. 3:10, 11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Watchman, blow the gospel trumpet,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Every soul a warning give;</l> +<l>Whosoever hears the message</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>May repent and turn and live.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sound it loud o'er every hilltop,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Gloomy shade and sunny plain;</l> +<l>Ocean depths repeat the message,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Full salvation's glad refrain.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Sound it in the hedge and highway,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Earth's dark spots where exiles roam;</l> +<l>Let it tell all things are ready,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Father waits to welcome home.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Blow the trumpet, trusty watchman,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Blow it loud o'er land and sea;</l> +<l>God commissions, sound the message!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Every captive may be free.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 20'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Dr. H. L. Gilmour.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='638'/><anchor id='Pg638'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Missionary Work</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus638.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Ruth Gleaning In The Field Of Boaz. +"For the love of Christ constraineth +us." 2 Cor. 5:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What has been given to every man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who +left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and <hi rend='italic'>to every +man his work</hi>.</q> Mark 13:34. +</p> + +<p> +2. Besides work, what else has been given to every man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And unto one he gave five <hi rend='italic'>talents</hi>, to another two, and to +another one; <hi rend='italic'>to every man according +to his several ability</hi>.</q> Matt. +25:15. +</p> + +<p> +3. What are those called to whom this work is committed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a +far country, who called his own <hi rend='italic'>servants</hi>, and delivered unto +them his goods.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +4. What use did these servants make of their talents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then he that had received the five talents <hi rend='italic'>went and traded +with the same</hi>, and made them other five talents.... But +he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and +hid his lord's money.</q> Verses 16-18. +</p> + +<pb n='639'/><anchor id='Pg639'/> + +<p> +5. What excuse did the one who hid his talent make? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I was afraid</hi>, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: +lo, there thou hast that is thine.</q> Verse 25. +</p> + +<p> +6. What did his master say to him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His lord answered and said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Thou wicked and +slothful servant</hi>.</q> Verse 26. +</p> + +<p> +7. What did he say the servant should have done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou oughtest therefore to have <hi rend='italic'>put my money to the exchangers</hi>, +and then at my coming I should have received mine +own with usury.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is characteristic of slothful persons? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be +slain in the streets.</q> Prov. 22:13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—That is, they +see great obstacles before them, and are always +ready with excuses. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What was the fate of the slothful servant? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness</hi>: there +shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q> Matt. 25:30. +</p> + +<p> +10. What was said to the servant who improved his talents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His lord said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Well done, thou good and faithful +servant</hi>: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make +thee ruler over many things: <hi rend='italic'>enter +thou into the joy of thy lord</hi>.</q> +Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +11. Why did Christ endure the cruel death on the cross? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; +<hi rend='italic'>who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising +the shame</hi>, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of +God.</q> Heb. 12:2. +</p> + +<p> +12. What will bring to the Lord this satisfaction and joy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He shall <hi rend='italic'>see of the +travail of His soul</hi>, and shall be satisfied.</q> +Isa. 53:11. +</p> + +<p> +13. How will Christ demonstrate His joy over the saved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He will joy over thee <hi rend='italic'>with singing</hi>.</q> Zeph. 3:17. +</p> + +<p> +14. What did Paul set forth as his crown of rejoicing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? <hi rend='italic'>Are +not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?</hi> +For ye are our glory and joy.</q> 1 Thess. 2:19, 20. +</p> + +<pb n='640'/><anchor id='Pg640'/> + +<p> +15. Since this joy comes to Christ only through His self-denial +and suffering for others, in what way must all others +partake of that joy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with Him, we shall +also live with Him: <hi rend='italic'>if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him</hi>: +if we deny Him, He also will deny us.</q> 2 Tim. 2:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +16. What motive should prompt to soul-saving labor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>the love of Christ constraineth us</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 5:14. +</p> + +<p> +17. Whom does every faithful Christian worker represent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now then we are <hi rend='italic'>ambassadors for Christ, as though God did +beseech you by us</hi>: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled +to God.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +18. What does God do with the unfruitful members? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away</hi>: +and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may +bring forth more fruit.</q> John 15:2. +</p> + +<p> +19. Can one occupy a mere neutral position toward Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that is not with Me is <hi rend='italic'>against</hi> Me: and he that gathereth +not with Me <hi rend='italic'>scattereth</hi>.</q> Luke 11:23. +</p> + +<p> +20. For what does the Lord tell us to pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: <hi rend='italic'>pray +ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth laborers +into His harvest</hi>.</q> Luke 10:2. +</p> + +<p> +21. How are we cautioned against delaying the work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh +harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on +the fields; for they are white already to harvest.</q> John 4:35. +</p> + +<p> +22. What promise is made to those who sow the gospel seed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They that sow in tears <hi rend='italic'>shall reap in joy</hi>. He that goeth +forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, <hi rend='italic'>shall doubtless come +again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him</hi>.</q> Ps. 126:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +23. What promise is made to soul-winners? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that winneth souls is <hi rend='italic'>wise</hi>.</q> Prov. 11:30. <q>And +they that be wise [margin, teachers] shall <hi rend='italic'>shine as the brightness +of the firmament</hi>; and they that turn many to righteousness <hi rend='italic'>as +the stars forever and ever</hi>.</q> Dan. 12:3. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='641'/><anchor id='Pg641'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Poor, And Our Duty Toward Them</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus641.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>On The Way To The Inn. +"He ... bound up his wounds, ... and +set him on his own beast." Luke 10:33, 34.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is God's attitude toward the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He shall <hi rend='italic'>deliver</hi> the needy when he crieth; the poor also, +and him that hath no helper.</q> Ps. 72:12. +</p> + +<p> +2. For what purpose did Christ say God had anointed Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He hath anointed Me <hi rend='italic'>to preach the gospel to the poor</hi>.</q> +Luke 4:18. +</p> + +<p> +3. When did He say we could minister to the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Whensoever ye will</hi> ye may do them good.</q> Mark 14:7. +</p> + +<p> +4. What did Paul say regarding our duty to the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have showed you all things, how that so laboring <hi rend='italic'>ye ought +to support the weak</hi>, and to remember the words of the Lord +Jesus, how He said, <hi rend='italic'>It is more blessed to give than to receive</hi>.</q> +Acts 20:35. +</p> + +<p> +5. What promises are made to those who consider the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver +him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and +keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and +Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The +Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: Thou +wilt make all his bed in his sickness.</q> Ps. 41:1-3. +</p> + +<pb n='642'/><anchor id='Pg642'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus642.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Lazarus At The Rich +Man's Gate. +"Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, +he also shall cry himself, but shall not be +heard." Prov. 21:13.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='643'/><anchor id='Pg643'/> + +<p> +6. How does the Lord regard kindness shown to the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that hath pity upon the poor <hi rend='italic'>lendeth unto the Lord</hi>; +and that which he hath given <hi rend='italic'>will He pay him again</hi>.</q> Prov. +19:17. <q>For <hi rend='italic'>God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor +of love</hi>, which ye have showed toward His name, in that ye have +ministered to the saints, and do minister.</q> Heb. 6:10. +</p> + +<p> +7. What fate awaits those who turn a deaf ear to the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, <hi rend='italic'>he also shall +cry himself, but shall not be heard</hi>.</q> Prov. 21:13. +</p> + +<p> +8. What classes are we especially enjoined to help? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Learn to do well; seek judgment, <hi rend='italic'>relieve the oppressed</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>judge the fatherless</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>plead for the widow</hi>.</q> Isa. 1:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is pure and undefiled religion declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father +is this, <hi rend='italic'>To visit the +fatherless and widows in their affliction</hi>, and +to keep himself unspotted from the world.</q> James 1:27. +</p> + +<p> +10. What kind of fast is most acceptable to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is not this the fast that I have chosen?... Is it +not to <hi rend='italic'>deal thy bread to the hungry</hi>, +and that thou <hi rend='italic'>bring the poor +that are cast out to thy house</hi>? when thou +seest <hi rend='italic'>the naked, that thou +cover him</hi>; and that <hi rend='italic'>thou +hide not thyself from thine own flesh</hi>?</q> +Isa. 58:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +11. What is promised those who do this work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt +cry and He shall say, Here I am.... And if thou draw +out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then +shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the +noonday. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and +satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou +shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose +waters fail not.</q> Verses 9-11. +</p> + +<p> +12. How did the patriarch Job treat the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was a <hi rend='italic'>father</hi> to the +poor: and <hi rend='italic'>the cause which I knew not +I searched out</hi>.</q> Job 29:16. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did Christ tell the rich young man to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, <hi rend='italic'>go and sell +that thou hast, and give to the poor</hi>, and thou shalt have treasure +in heaven: and come and follow Me.</q> Matt. 19:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From Matt. +25:31-45 we learn that Christ identifies Himself +with needy, suffering humanity; and that any neglect shown them He regards +as done unto Himself. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='644'/><anchor id='Pg644'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christian Help Work</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus644.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Samaritan At The Inn. +"He ... brought him to an inn, and took +care of him." Luke 10:33, 34.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What was the character of Christ's work among men? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who went about <hi rend='italic'>doing good</hi>.</q> Acts 10:38. +</p> + +<p> +2. What will His true followers do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so +<hi rend='italic'>to walk, even as He walked</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. In ministering to the needy, whom are we really serving? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these +My brethren, <hi rend='italic'>ye have done it unto Me</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:40. +</p> + +<p> +4. How long will there be poor in the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye have the poor <hi rend='italic'>always with you</hi>.</q> Matt. 26:11. +</p> + +<p> +5. What relation do all sustain to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The rich and poor <hi rend='italic'>meet +together</hi>: the Lord is <hi rend='italic'>the maker</hi> of +them all.</q> Prov. 22:2. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is one good evidence of genuine repentance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities +by <hi rend='italic'>showing mercy to the poor</hi>.</q> Dan. 4:27. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is one evidence that one has a knowledge of God? +</p> + +<pb n='645'/><anchor id='Pg645'/> + +<p> +<q>He <hi rend='italic'>judged the cause of the poor and needy</hi>; then it was well +with him: was not this to <hi rend='italic'>know Me</hi>? saith the Lord.</q> Jer. +22:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. What classes are subjects for Christian help work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father +is this, To visit the <hi rend='italic'>fatherless</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>widows</hi> in their affliction, and +to keep himself unspotted from the world.</q> James 1:27. +</p> + +<p> +9. Is it our duty always to give what is expected or asked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but <hi rend='italic'>such as +I have give I thee</hi>: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise +up and walk.</q> Acts 3:6. See 2 Cor. 12:8. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is sometimes of greater value even than money +to discouraged souls? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I <hi rend='italic'>smiled on them</hi> when they had no confidence.</q> Job 29: +24, margin R. V. +</p> + +<p> +11. What divine law of retroaction attends giving? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Give, and it shall be given unto you</hi>; good measure, pressed +down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give +into your bosom. For <hi rend='italic'>with the same measure that ye mete withal +it shall be measured to you again</hi>.</q> Luke 6:38. See Ps. 18:25, +26; 109:17; Gal. 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is promised those who give to the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the +Lord; and <hi rend='italic'>that which he hath given will He pay him again</hi>.</q> +Prov. 19:17. <q>He that giveth unto the poor <hi rend='italic'>shall not lack</hi>.</q> +Prov. 28:27. +</p> + +<p> +13. How did Job learn of the needs of the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The cause of him that I knew not <hi rend='italic'>I searched out</hi>.</q> Job +29:16, R. V. <q>I used <hi rend='italic'>to investigate</hi>.</q> Jewish Version. +</p> + +<p> +14. What parable illustrates practical Christian help work? +</p> + +<p> +The parable of the good Samaritan. Luke 10:30-37. +</p> + +<p> +15. When Christ sent out the seventy, what did He tell them +to do in the cities whither they went? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>heal the sick</hi> that are therein, and say unto them, +The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +16. Amidst poverty, suffering, and distress, what kind of +workers does God wish to see? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But this is a people <hi rend='italic'>robbed</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>spoiled</hi>; they are all of them +<hi rend='italic'>snared in holes</hi>, and they are +<hi rend='italic'>hid in prison-houses</hi>: they are for +<pb n='646'/><anchor id='Pg646'/> +a <hi rend='italic'>prey</hi>, and <hi rend='smallcaps'>none delivereth</hi>: +<hi rend='italic'>for a spoil</hi>, and none saith, +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Restore</hi>. Who among you will give ear to this?</q> Isa. 42: +22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +17. What is our duty toward the outcast and wandering? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Hide</hi> the outcasts; +<hi rend='italic'>bewray not him that wandereth</hi>. Let +Mine outcasts <hi rend='italic'>dwell with thee</hi>.</q> Isa. 16:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +18. What incentive have Christians for doing prison work? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I was in prison</hi>, and ye came unto Me.</q> Matt. 25:36. +</p> + +<p> +19. Who notes the groans of the prisoner? +</p> + +<p> +<q>From heaven did <hi rend='italic'>the Lord</hi> +behold the earth; <hi rend='italic'>to hear the +groaning of the prisoner</hi>.</q> Ps. 102:19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +20. What work constitutes the fast most acceptable to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is not this the fast that I have ordained, to untie the knots +of wickedness; to relax the burden of the yoke; and rescue those +who are oppressed by violence: and that ye withdraw every +yoke? Is it not to part thy bread with the famished, and to +bring the vagrant poor into thy house? when thou seest the +naked, that thou clothe him?</q> Isa. 58:6, 7, Spurrell's Version. +</p> + +<p> +21. What promises are made to those who thus minister +to the wants and distresses of others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the +afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy +darkness be as the noonday: and the Lord shall guide thee +continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy +bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring +of water, whose waters fail not.</q> Verses 10, 11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Somebody near you is struggling alone</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Over life's desert sand;</l> +<l>Faith, hope, and courage together are gone:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Reach him a helping hand,</l> +<l>Turn on his darkness a beam of your light;</l> +<l>Kindle, to guide him, a beacon-fire bright;</l> +<l>Cheer his discouragement; soothe his affright;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Lovingly help him to stand.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Somebody near you is hungry and cold;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Send him some aid today.</l> +<l>Somebody near you is feeble and old,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Left without human stay:</l> +<l>Under his burdens put hands kind and strong;</l> +<l>Speak to him tenderly, sing him a song;</l> +<l>Haste to do something to help him along</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Over his weary way.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 24'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Mrs. E. E. Williams.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='647'/><anchor id='Pg647'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Visiting The Sick</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus647.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>A Message Of Comfort. +"I was sick, and ye visited Me." Matt. 25:36.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what will Christ finally commend the righteous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was sick, and <hi rend='italic'>ye visited Me</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:36. +</p> + +<p> +2. Why, in His earthly ministry, did Christ heal the sick? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the +prophet, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Himself took +our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses</hi>.</q> +Matt. 8:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. With what is Christ touched? +</p> + +<p> +<q>With the feeling of our infirmities.</q> Heb. 4:15. +</p> + +<p> +4. What relief did He bring to Peter's household? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, He saw his +wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. <hi rend='italic'>And He touched her +hand, and the fever left her</hi>: and she arose, and ministered unto +them.</q> Matt. 8:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +5. What example did He leave us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who <hi rend='italic'>went about doing good</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>healing all that were oppressed +of the devil</hi>; for God was with Him.</q> Acts 10:38. <q>As +He is, so are we in this world.</q> 1 John 4:17. +</p> + +<p> +6. What should we not forget in our ministry for the sick? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Pray one for another, that ye may be healed.</hi> The effectual +fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.</q> James 5:16. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='648'/><anchor id='Pg648'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Healing The Sick</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus648.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Healing The Blind Men. +"Himself took our infirmities, and bare our +sicknesses." Matt. 8:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does the Lord declare Himself to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I am the Lord that <hi rend='italic'>healeth</hi> thee.</q> Ex. 15:26. <q>Who +forgiveth all thine iniquities; <hi rend='italic'>who +healeth all thy diseases</hi>.</q> Ps. +103:3. +</p> + +<p> +2. What was promised Israel on condition of obedience? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, ... and +<hi rend='italic'>the Lord will take away from thee all sickness</hi>.</q> Deut. 7:11-15. +</p> + +<p> +3. When through disobedience Jeroboam's hand was withered, +by what means was it restored? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the king answered and said unto the man of God, +Entreat now the face of the Lord thy God, and <hi rend='italic'>pray for me, +that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God +besought the Lord, and the king's hand was restored him again, +and became as it was before.</hi></q> 1 Kings 13:6. +</p> + +<p> +4. When Miriam was stricken with leprosy, how was she +healed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>Moses cried unto the Lord</hi>, saying, Heal her now, O +God, I beseech Thee.</q> Num. 12:13. +</p> + +<p> +5. What mistake did Asa make in his severe affliction? +</p> + +<pb n='649'/><anchor id='Pg649'/> + +<p> +<q>And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was +diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet +in his disease <hi rend='italic'>he sought not to +the Lord, but to the physicians</hi>.</q> +2 Chron. 16:12. +</p> + +<p> +6. How was a child restored to life by Elijah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and +<hi rend='italic'>cried unto the Lord</hi>, and said, O Lord my God, I pray Thee, let +this child's soul come into him again. And the Lord heard the +voice of Elijah; <hi rend='italic'>and the soul of the child came into him again, +and he revived</hi>.</q> 1 Kings 17:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +7. How was Hezekiah's prayer for restoration from sickness +answered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, <hi rend='italic'>I have +heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy +days fifteen years</hi>.</q> Isa. 38:5. +</p> + +<p> +8. What constituted a large part of Christ's ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, +and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and <hi rend='italic'>healing +all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people</hi>.</q> +Matt. 4:23. +</p> + +<p> +9. In doing this, what prophecy was fulfilled? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all that +were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias +the prophet, saying, <hi rend='italic'>Himself took our infirmities, and bare our +sicknesses</hi>.</q> Matt. 8:16, 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The essence of +the gospel is restoration, or healing of body, +soul, and spirit. See John 3:16, Luke 4:17-19; Acts 3:19-21; Rom. 8:21-23; +1 Cor. 15:51-55. +</quote> + +<p> +10. In the case of the woman healed of an infirmity, what +gave effect to her touch of Christ's garment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: <hi rend='italic'>thy +faith hath made thee whole</hi>; go in peace.</q> Luke 8:48. +</p> + +<p> +11. Before sending out the twelve, what power did Christ +give them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then He called His twelve disciples together, and gave +them power and authority over all devils, and <hi rend='italic'>to cure diseases</hi>. +And He sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and <hi rend='italic'>to heal +the sick</hi>.</q> Luke 9:1, 2. See Matt. 10:1, 7, 8; Luke 10:1, 9. +</p> + +<p> +12. What notable miracle was performed by the apostles +shortly after the day of Pentecost? +</p> + +<pb n='650'/><anchor id='Pg650'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus650.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Great Physician. +"And He healed them all." Matt. 12:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='651'/><anchor id='Pg651'/> + +<p> +<q>Then Peter said [to the lame man], Silver and gold have +I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus +Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the +right hand, and lifted him up: and <hi rend='italic'>immediately his feet and +ankle-bones received strength</hi>. And he leaping up stood, and +walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and +leaping, and praising God.</q> Acts 3:6-8. +</p> + +<p> +13. Among others, what gift has God set in the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily +prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then <hi rend='italic'>gifts +of healing</hi>, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.</q> 1 Cor. +12:28. +</p> + +<p> +14. In sickness, what is every child of God privileged to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Is any sick among you? <hi rend='italic'>let him call for the elders of the church; +and let them pray over him</hi>, anointing him with oil in the name of +the Lord.</q> James 5:14. +</p> + +<p> +15. What assurance of blessing is given to those who ask +according to God's will? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord +shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be +forgiven him.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Physical +healing may not always be for our good or to the +glory of God. Hence we must be ready to pray with Jesus, <q>Nevertheless +not my will, but Thine, be done.</q> Luke 22:42. Paul was denied the removal +of infirmity, but the Lord assured him, <q>My grace is sufficient for +thee.</q> 2 Cor. 12:9. It is not a denial of faith to make use of the simple +remedial means that God has given, or those ordinary essentials upon which +He makes life dependent, as proper food, pure air, rest, exercise, and sunshine. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>We may not climb the heavenly steeps,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To bring the Saviour down;</l> +<l>In vain we search the lowest deeps,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For Him no depths can drown.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>But warm, sweet, tender, even yet</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>A present help is He;</l> +<l>And faith has yet its Olivet,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And love, its Galilee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The healing of the seamless dress</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is by our beds of pain;</l> +<l>We touch Him in life's throng and press,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And we are whole again.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Through Him the first fond prayers are said</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Our lips of childhood frame;</l> +<l>The last low whispers of our dead</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Are burdened with His name.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 22'><hi rend='smallcaps'>John G. Whittier.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='652'/><anchor id='Pg652'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Prison Work</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus652.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>In Prison. +"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound +with them." Heb. 13:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does Christ give us as one reason why He will +bid the righteous welcome into His kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was <hi rend='italic'>in prison</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>ye came unto Me</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:36. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is pure and undefiled religion declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +To visit those in affliction. James 1:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In 1909 +there were 100,221 prisoners in 195 penal institutions +in the United States, or an average of 112 to each 100,000. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What does God see when He looks down from heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For He hath looked down from the height of His sanctuary; +from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; <hi rend='italic'>to hear the groaning +of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death</hi>.</q> Ps. +102:19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +4. For what purpose did God send His Son into the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that +sit in darkness out of the prison-house.</q> Isa. 42:7. +</p> + +<p> +5. For what work did Christ say He was anointed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To preach the gospel to the poor; ... <hi rend='italic'>to preach +deliverance to the captives, ... to set at liberty them that +are bruised</hi>.</q> Luke 4:18. +</p> + +<pb n='653'/><anchor id='Pg653'/> + +<p> +6. Why did the psalmist wish to be brought out of the +prison-house of sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Bring my soul out of prison, <hi rend='italic'>that I may praise Thy name</hi>.</q> +Ps. 142:7. +</p> + +<p> +7. Whose prison-house does Satan not open? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the +cities thereof; <hi rend='italic'>that opened not the +house [the grave] of his prisoners</hi>.</q> +Isa. 14:17. +</p> + +<p> +8. For what does the psalmist pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Let the sighing of the prisoner come before Thee</hi>; according +to the greatness of Thy power <hi rend='italic'>preserve Thou those that are appointed +to die</hi>.</q> Ps. 79:11. +</p> + +<p> +9. How does God regard His people who are in prison? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord heareth the poor, and <hi rend='italic'>despiseth not His +prisoners</hi>.</q> Ps. 69:33. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why has the devil been permitted to cast some of God's +people into prison? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, +the devil shall cast some of you into prison, <hi rend='italic'>that ye may be +tried</hi>.... Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give +thee a crown of life.</q> Rev. 2:10. See Dan. 11:33-35. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Dr. William +Dodd (1729-77), an unfortunate English divine, +who, under stress of circumstances, became a heavy forger, was imprisoned +at Newgate for a time, and finally executed. Upon visiting him, John +Wesley found <q>a penitent and hopeful malefactor,</q> and in his <q>Journal</q> +says: <q>A real, deep work of God seemed to be already begun in his soul. +Perhaps by driving him too fast, Satan has driven him to God, to that repentance +which shall never be repented of.</q> Visiting him shortly before +his execution, Mr. Wesley is reported to have replied to Mr. Dodd's apologies +for receiving him in the condemned cell, <q>Courage, brother; perhaps +God saw that nothing else would do.</q> See <q>Life of John Wesley,</q> by +Richard Watson, page 207. +</quote> + +<p> +11. How would God have us sympathize with those in bonds +and adversity? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Remember them that are in bonds, <hi rend='italic'>as bound with them</hi>; +and them which suffer adversity, <hi rend='italic'>as being yourselves also in the +body</hi>.</q> Heb. 13:3. +</p> + +<p> +12. What blessed invitation will Christ finally extend to +those who have ministered to the wants of the needy, and +visited the sick and those in prison? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, +<hi rend='italic'>Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for +you from the foundation of the world</hi>.</q> Matt 25:34. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='654'/><anchor id='Pg654'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Order And Organization</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus654.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Camp Of Israel. +"Let all things be done decently and in +order." 1 Cor. 14:40.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of what is God the author? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God is not the author of confusion, but of <hi rend='italic'>peace</hi>, as in +all churches of the saints.</q> 1 Cor. 14:33. See 1 Cor. 11:16. +</p> + +<p> +2. Why did Paul give instruction to Timothy concerning +the duties and qualifications of bishops and deacons? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These things write I unto thee, ... <hi rend='italic'>that thou mayest +know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God</hi>, +which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground +[margin, stay] of the truth.</q> 1 Tim. 3:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +3. How should everything pertaining to God's work be done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let all things be done <hi rend='italic'>decently and in order</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 14:40. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Order is heaven's +first law.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Milton.</hi> In the Scriptures +Christians are likened to soldiers, and their work to that of a warrior, or +to a conqueror going forth to conquer. 2 Tim. 2:3, 4; 1 Tim. 1:18; Rev. +6:2. As order, organization, direction, and discipline are necessary in +an army, so are they also in the church. The weapons used and the +object sought are different in each case (Rom. 13:4; 2 Cor. 10:3, 4); but +the necessity for order and organization are the same in both. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What is one prime essential of soldiers in an army? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All these men of war, that could <hi rend='italic'>keep rank</hi>, came with a +perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel.</q> +1 Chron. 12:38. +</p> + +<p> +5. That the burden of judging and looking after the affairs +<pb n='655'/><anchor id='Pg655'/> +of Israel might not all rest on Moses, what instruction did Jethro, +his father-in-law, give him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, +such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and +place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of +hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And let them +judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great +matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they +shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear +the burden with thee.</q> Ex. 18:21, 22. +</p> + +<p> +6. How many apostles did Christ at first ordain to preach +the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>He ordained twelve</hi>, that they should be with Him, and +that He might send them forth to preach.</q> Mark 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +7. How many did He later appoint to this work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>After these things the Lord appointed <hi rend='italic'>other seventy also</hi>, +and sent them two and two before His face into every city and +place, whither He Himself would come.</q> Luke 10:1. +</p> + +<p> +8. When the number of the disciples multiplied, what instruction +did the apostles give the believers, that none might be +neglected in the daily ministration of temporal necessities? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of +honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we +may appoint over this business.</q> Acts 6:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The men +thus selected were known as deacons. The lesson +to be learned from this is that leaders and people should unite in planning +and providing for the necessary organization and officering of the church +according to its growth and needs. This cooperation is again shown in the +words of Paul, <q>Whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will +I send.</q> 1 Cor. 16:3. See also Acts 15:22. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What word came through the Spirit to the ministering +prophets and teachers laboring at Antioch? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy +Ghost said, <hi rend='italic'>Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto +I have called them</hi>. And when they had fasted and prayed, +and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.</q> Acts +13:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is one of the gifts which God has set in the church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily +prophets, thirdly teachers, after that ... helps, +<hi rend='italic'>governments</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 12:28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +word here rendered <hi rend='italic'>governments</hi> implies the work or +office of <q>steering, piloting, directing.</q> +</quote> + +<pb n='656'/><anchor id='Pg656'/> + +<p> +11. For the direction of matters in each local church, what +instruction did the apostle Paul give to Titus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set +in order the things that are wanting, and <hi rend='italic'>ordain elders in every +city</hi>, as I had appointed thee.</q> Titus 1:5. +</p> + +<p> +12. What instruction did he give to the members of the +church as to their relationship to those thus appointed? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Obey them that have the rule</hi> +[margin, <hi rend='italic'>guide</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>over you, and +submit yourselves</hi>: for they watch for your souls, as they that +must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with +grief.</q> Heb. 13:17. See 1 Peter 5:5; Mark 10:42-45. +</p> + +<p> +13. What instruction and caution are given to elders? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an +elder, ... <hi rend='italic'>Feed the flock of God</hi> +which is among you, <hi rend='italic'>taking +the oversight thereof</hi>, not by constraint, but willingly; not for +filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; <hi rend='italic'>neither as being lords over God's +heritage</hi>, but being ensamples to the flock.</q> 1 Peter 5:1-3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For the +qualifications and duties of elders, see 1 Tim. 3:1-3; +Titus 1:6-9; Acts 20:28-31; and the scripture just quoted. How +God regards rebellion against divinely appointed authority and leadership, +is illustrated in the expulsion of Satan and his angels from heaven, +and in the fate of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. See Rev. 12:7-9; Numbers +16. The unity and harmony which should exist among believers is +described in John 13:34, 35; 17:20-23; and Eph. 4:1-6. The evil of +place-seeking in the church is shown in Mark 10:35-45 and Luke 14:7-11; +and of ecclesiastical tyranny, in Dan. 7:25; 8:24, 25; 2 Thess. 2:3, +4; and John 16:2. The course to be pursued toward offending members, +and in cases where differences arise, is pointed out in Matt. 18:15-18; 5:23, +24; Gal. 6:1; 1 Tim. 5:19, 20; Titus 3:10, 11; 1 Corinthians 5; and +Acts 15. And the guide-book in all matters of both doctrine and discipline +should be the Bible. Isa. 8:20; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; 4:1, 2. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Has some one seen Christ in you today?</l> +<l>Christian, look to your heart, I pray;</l> +<l>The little things you have done or said—</l> +<l>Did they accord with the way you prayed?</l> +<l>Have your thoughts been pure and words been kind?</l> +<l>Have you sought to have the Saviour's mind?</l> +<l>The world with a criticizing view</l> +<l>Has watched; but did it see Christ in you?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Has some one seen Christ in you today?</l> +<l>Christian, look to your life, I pray;</l> +<l>There are aching hearts and blighted souls</l> +<l>Being lost on sin's destructive shoals,</l> +<l>And perhaps of Christ their only view</l> +<l>May be what they see of Him in you.</l> +<l>Will they see enough to bring hope and cheer?</l> +<l>Look to your light! does it shine out clear?</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='657'/><anchor id='Pg657'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Support Of The Ministry</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus657.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jacob's Vow. +"Of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give +the tenth unto Thee." Gen. 28:22.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is one way in which we are commanded to honor +God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor the Lord <hi rend='italic'>with thy substance</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>with the first-fruits +of all thine increase</hi>.</q> Prov. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +2. What part of one's income has the Lord especially claimed +as His? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>all the tithe</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>tenth</hi>] +<hi rend='italic'>of the land</hi>, whether of the seed of +the land, or of the fruit of the tree, <hi rend='italic'>is the Lord's: it is holy unto +the Lord</hi>.</q> Lev. 27:30. +</p> + +<p> +3. For whose support and for what work was the tithe devoted +in Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I have given <hi rend='italic'>the children of Levi</hi> all the tenth in +Israel for an inheritance, <hi rend='italic'>for their service which they serve, even +the service of the tabernacle of the congregation</hi>.</q> Num. 18:21. +</p> + +<p> +4. In what language does Paul approve of the same method +of support for the gospel ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great +thing if we shall reap your carnal things?... Do ye not +know that they which minister about holy things live of the +things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers +with the altar? <hi rend='italic'>Even so hath the Lord ordained that they +<pb n='658'/><anchor id='Pg658'/> +which preach the gospel should live of the gospel</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 9:11-14. +</p> + +<p> +5. Upon what fundamental basis does the requirement of +tithe-paying rest? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The earth is the Lord's</hi>, and the fulness thereof; the world, +and they that dwell therein.</q> Ps. 24:1. +</p> + +<p> +6. Who owns all the gold and silver in the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, saith the Lord of +hosts.</q> Haggai 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +7. Who owns all the cattle and fowls of the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a +thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the +wild beasts of the field are Mine.</q> Ps. 50:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +8. Who gives man power to get wealth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for <hi rend='italic'>it is He +that giveth thee power to get wealth</hi>.</q> Deut. 8:18. +</p> + +<p> +9. What statement of Christ shows that man is not an +original owner, but a steward of God's goods? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far +country, who called his own servants, and <hi rend='italic'>delivered unto them +his goods</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:14. See 1 Cor. 4:7. +</p> + +<p> +10. How early in the history of the world do we read of +tithe-paying? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most +high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of +the kings, and blessed him; to whom also <hi rend='italic'>Abraham gave a tenth +part of all</hi>.</q> Heb. 7:1, 2. See Gen. 14:17-20. +</p> + +<p> +11. What vow did Jacob make at Bethel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, +and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread +to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's +house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: ... and +<hi rend='italic'>of all that Thou shalt give +me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee</hi>.</q> +Gen. 28:20-22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +thus evident that the duty of paying tithes was recognized +by the patriarchs as a religious obligation. +</quote> + +<p> +12. After what order was Christ made a high priest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even <hi rend='italic'>Jesus, made +an high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec</hi>.</q> Heb. 6:20. +</p> + +<pb n='659'/><anchor id='Pg659'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As Christ's +priesthood succeeded the Aaronic or Levitical +priesthood, which was supported by the tithes of Israel; and as Christ +was made a priest after the order of Melchisedec, who received tithes +of the patriarchs before the Levitical priesthood was ordained, it is but +logical and natural to conclude that the ministry under Christ's priesthood +should be supported by the same means as were both of these priesthoods,—the +tithes of God's people. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Did Christ Himself approve of tithe-paying? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have +omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and +faith: <hi rend='italic'>these ought ye to have done</hi>, and not to leave the other +undone.</q> Matt. 23:23. +</p> + +<p> +14. Of what is one guilty who withholds the tithe and free-will +offerings? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Will a man rob God? Yet <hi rend='italic'>ye have robbed Me</hi>. But ye +say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? <hi rend='italic'>In tithes and offerings.</hi></q> +Mal. 3:8. +</p> + +<p> +15. Concerning what does the Lord ask us to prove Him, +and upon what conditions does He promise great blessings? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse</hi>, that there may +be meat in Mine house, and <hi rend='italic'>prove Me now herewith</hi>, saith the +Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, +and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough +to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, +and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall +your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the +Lord of hosts.</q> Verses 10, 11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>My gracious Lord, I own Thy right</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To every service I can pay,</l> +<l>And call it my supreme delight</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To hear Thy dictates, and obey.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>What is my being, but for Thee,—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Its sure support, its noblest end?</l> +<l>'Tis my delight Thy face to see,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And serve the cause of such a Friend.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>I would not sigh for worldly joy,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Or to increase my worldly good;</l> +<l>Nor future days or powers employ</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To spread a sounding name abroad.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>'Tis to my Saviour I would live—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To Him who for my ransom died;</l> +<l>Nor could all worldly honor give</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Such bliss as crowns me at His side.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 28'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Philip Doddridge.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='660'/><anchor id='Pg660'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus660.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Widow's Mites. +"This poor widow hath cast in more than +they all." Luke 21:3.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='661'/><anchor id='Pg661'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Free-Will Offerings</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus661.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Bringing Gifts To The Feast. +"Bring an offering, and come into His +courts." Ps. 96:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By what has God ordained that His work be sustained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Tithes and offerings.</q> Mal. 3:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. How are we told to come into His courts? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Bring an offering</hi>, and come into His courts.</q> Ps. 96:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Various offerings +are mentioned in the Bible, such as thank-offerings, +peace-offerings, sin-offerings, and trespass-offerings. +</quote> + +<p> +3. In celebrating the three annual feasts, what instruction +did God give to His people anciently? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.... +And <hi rend='italic'>none shall appear before Me empty</hi>.</q> Ex. 23:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +4. With what spirit would God have us give? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let +him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for <hi rend='italic'>God loveth a cheerful +giver</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 9:7. +</p> + +<p> +5. On what condition did Paul say he would have a reward? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If I do this thing <hi rend='italic'>willingly</hi>, I have a reward.</q> 1 Cor. 9:17. +</p> + +<p> +6. What has Christ said regarding giving? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is <hi rend='italic'>more blessed to give than to receive</hi>.</q> Acts 20:35. +</p> + +<p> +7. How does God regard the covetous man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the +covetous, <hi rend='italic'>whom the Lord abhorreth</hi>.</q> Ps. 10:3. See Ex. 18:21. +</p> + +<pb n='662'/><anchor id='Pg662'/> + +<p> +8. What warning did Christ give against covetousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take heed, and <hi rend='italic'>beware of covetousness</hi>: for a man's life +consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.</q> +Luke 12:15. +</p> + +<p> +9. How, in the parable, did God regard the selfish rich man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Thou fool</hi>, this night thy soul shall +be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which +thou hast provided?</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +10. What application does Christ make of this parable? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not +rich toward God.</q> Verse 21. See 1 Tim. 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +11. By what means can men lay up treasure in heaven? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags +which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, +where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.</q> Luke +12:33. See 1 Tim. 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +12. What charge was Timothy instructed to give the rich? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not +high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living +God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; <hi rend='italic'>that they do good</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>that they be rich in good works</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>ready to distribute</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>willing to communicate</hi>; +laying up in store for themselves a good foundation +against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal +life.</q> 1 Tim. 6:17-19. +</p> + +<p> +13. How does God regard such a course? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But to do good and to communicate forget not: <hi rend='italic'>for with +such sacrifices God is well pleased</hi>.</q> Heb 13:16. +</p> + +<p> +14. According to what rule should one give? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Every man shall give as he is able</hi>, according to the blessing +of the Lord thy God which He hath given thee.</q> Deut. 16:17. +</p> + +<p> +15. Upon what basis are gifts acceptable to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if there be first a willing mind, <hi rend='italic'>it is accepted according +to that a man hath</hi>, and not according to that he hath not.</q> +2 Cor. 8:12. +</p> + +<p> +16. What indicates where our hearts are? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>where your treasure is</hi>, there will your heart be also.</q> +Luke 12:34. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='663'/><anchor id='Pg663'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Hospitality</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus663.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Elijah And The Widow. +"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers." +Heb. 13:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What do the Scriptures say concerning hospitality? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Use hospitality one to another</hi> without grudging. As every +man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one +to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.</q> +1 Peter 4:9, 10. <q>Be kindly affectioned one to another with +brotherly love; ... <hi rend='italic'>distributing to the necessity of saints; +given to hospitality</hi>.</q> Rom. 12:10-13. +</p> + +<p> +2. Is a mere expression of good wishes sufficient? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, +and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed +and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which +are needful to the body; <hi rend='italic'>what doth it profit</hi>?</q> James 2:15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +3. When should we exercise hospitality? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>As we have therefore opportunity</hi>, let us do good unto all +men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.</q> +Gal. 6:10. +</p> + +<p> +4. What encouragement is given to entertain strangers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for <hi rend='italic'>thereby some +have entertained angels unawares</hi>.</q> Heb. 13:2. See Gen 18: +1-8; 19:1-3. +</p> + +<p> +5. What blessings are promised those who do such work? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The liberal soul <hi rend='italic'>shall be made fat</hi>: and he that watereth +<hi rend='italic'>shall be watered also himself</hi>.</q> Prov. 11:25. 1 Kings 17:8-16. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='664'/><anchor id='Pg664'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Who Is The Greatest?</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus664.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jesus Washing The Disciples' Feet. +"Whosoever of you will be the chiefest, +shall be servant of all." Mark 10:44.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. At the last Passover, what did Christ say to His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto them, With desire have I desired to eat +this Passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I +will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom +of God.</q> Luke 22:15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +2. Concerning what had there been a strife among the disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there was also a strife among them, <hi rend='italic'>which of them +should be accounted the greatest</hi>.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +3. How did Christ rebuke this spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise +lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them +are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but <hi rend='italic'>he that is +greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, +as he that doth serve</hi>.</q> Verses 25, 26. See Mark 10:42-45. +</p> + +<p> +4. What did the Saviour say of His own position? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that +serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but <hi rend='italic'>I am among you as +he that serveth</hi>.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +5. Notwithstanding that He was their Lord and Master, +what example of humility and willing service did Christ give? +</p> + +<pb n='665'/><anchor id='Pg665'/> + +<p> +<q>He riseth from supper, and laid aside His garments; and +took a towel, and girded Himself. After that <hi rend='italic'>He poureth water +into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them +with the towel wherewith He was girded</hi>.</q> John 13:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +6. What was the custom anciently respecting feet-washing? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and <hi rend='italic'>wash your +feet</hi>.</q> <q>And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray +you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and <hi rend='italic'>wash +your feet</hi>.</q> <q>And the man brought the men into Joseph's +house, and <hi rend='italic'>gave them water, and they washed their feet</hi>.</q> Gen. +18:4; 19:2; 43:24. See also Judges 19:21; 2 Sam. 11:8. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did Christ reprove Simon for misjudging Him in +permitting a woman who was a sinner to wash His feet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest +thou this woman? I entered into thine house, <hi rend='italic'>thou gavest Me no +water for My feet</hi>: but she hath washed My feet with tears, and +wiped them with the hairs of her head.</q> Luke 7:44. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—From the +scriptures just cited, it appears that the usual +custom in Christ's time was for the guests to wash their own feet. +</p> + +<p> +<q>As sandals were ineffectual against the dust and heat of an Eastern +climate, washing the feet on entering a house was an act both of respect +to the company and of refreshment to the +traveler.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Complete Dictionary +of the Bible, by Smith and Barnum, article <q>Washing the Hands and Feet.</q></hi> +</p> + +<p> +At a feast it was an Oriental custom for servants or slaves to wash the +feet of guests. See 1 Sam. 25:40, 41. It was not the custom, however, +of <emph>equals</emph> to wash the feet of <emph>equals</emph>, +much less for <emph>superiors</emph> to wash the +feet of <emph>inferiors</emph>. But this is the very thing that Christ did when He +washed the disciples' feet, and instituted the ordinance of feet-washing. +In this lies the lesson of humility and willingness to serve which He designed +to teach. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +8. What question did Peter ask concerning this proffered +service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then cometh He to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto +Him, <hi rend='italic'>Lord, dost Thou wash my feet</hi>?</q> John 13:6. +</p> + +<p> +9. What answer did Jesus make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered and said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>What I do thou knowest +not now; but thou shalt know hereafter</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +10. How did Peter feel about the Saviour's washing his feet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Peter saith unto Him, <hi rend='italic'>Thou shalt never wash my feet</hi>.</q> +Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +11. What was the Master's reply to Peter? +</p> + +<pb n='666'/><anchor id='Pg666'/> + +<p> +<q>Jesus answered him, <hi rend='italic'>If I wash thee not, thou hast no part +with Me</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +ordinance is a type of a higher cleansing,—the cleansing +of the heart from the stain of sin. It is a rebuke to all selfishness and +seeking of place and preferment among Christ's professed followers, and a +witness to the fact that, in God's sight, it is true humility and loving service +which constitute real greatness. +</quote> + +<p> +12. Learning that union with Christ depended on this service, +what did Peter say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord, <hi rend='italic'>not my feet only, but +also my hands and my head</hi>.</q> Verse 9. See verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +13. After having washed their feet, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>I have given you an example</hi>, that ye should do as I have +done to you.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +14. What did He say about their washing one another's feet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. +If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; <hi rend='italic'>ye also +ought to wash one another's feet</hi>.</q> Verses 13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did Christ say would be their experience in obeying +His instruction? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye know these things, <hi rend='italic'>happy are ye if ye do them</hi>.</q> +Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +16. How does Christ regard an act performed toward the +humblest of His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these +My brethren, <hi rend='italic'>ye have done it unto Me</hi>.</q> Matt. 25:40. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The great +lesson intended to be taught by the instituting of +this ordinance evidently was such humility as would lead to willing service +for others. The ordinance itself has been practised by many of the most +devout followers of Christ during the Christian era, and is still observed +by some. Kitto, in his Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, says it became +<q>a part of the observances of the early Christian church,</q> and that <q>traces +of the practise abound in ecclesiastical history.</q> The Waldenses held it +as an ordinance of the church (see their <q>Confession of Faith,</q> page 12); +and according to the Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature (Vol. III, page +616), <q>the Church of England at first carried out the letter of the command.</q> +It is a great test of character, and its observance tends to unite +hearts in Christian fellowship and love. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>I will never, never leave thee,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I will never thee forsake;</l> +<l>I will guide, and save, and keep thee,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For My name and mercy's sake:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 6'>Fear no evil,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Only all My counsel take.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='667'/><anchor id='Pg667'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XV. Admonitions and Warnings</head> + +<pb n='668'/><anchor id='Pg668'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus668.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Dream Of Pilate's Wife. +"Have thou nothing to do with that just Man: for I have suffered many things this +day in a dream because of Him." Matt. 27:19.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='669'/><anchor id='Pg669'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Pride</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus669.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jonah And The Whale. +"Pride goeth before destruction." +Prov. 16:18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How does the Lord regard pride? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Six things doth the Lord <hi rend='italic'>hate: ... a proud look</hi>,</q> etc. +Prov. 6:16-19. +</p> + +<p> +2. Of what is pride a forerunner? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pride goeth before <hi rend='italic'>destruction</hi>, and an haughty spirit before +<hi rend='italic'>a fall</hi>.</q> Prov. 16:18. See Prov. 29:23. +</p> + +<p> +3. What was the cause of Satan's downfall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thine heart was <hi rend='italic'>lifted up because of thy beauty</hi>.</q> Eze. 28:17. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is God's attitude toward the proud? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God <hi rend='italic'>resisteth</hi> the proud.</q> James 4:6. See Ps. 40:4; +101:5; 138:6; 1 Tim. 6:4. +</p> + +<p> +5. Why should we not indulge in pride? +</p> + +<p> +<q>An high look, and a proud heart, ... is <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi>.</q> Prov. 21:4. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is to be one of the sins of the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Men shall be ... <hi rend='italic'>proud</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +7. How are the proud now generally regarded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now we call the proud <hi rend='italic'>happy</hi>.</q> Mal. 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is to be the fate of the proud? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All the proud ... shall be stubble: and <hi rend='italic'>the day that +cometh shall burn them up</hi>.</q> Mal. 4:1. +</p> + +<pb n='670'/><anchor id='Pg670'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus670.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Nathan's Parable. +"The rich man ... spared to take of his own +flock, ... but took the poor man's lamb, and +dressed it." 2 Sam, 12:2-4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='671'/><anchor id='Pg671'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Selfishness</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus671.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jacob Deceiving His Father. +"Thou shalt not covet." Ex. 20:17.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What great commandment excludes selfishness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.</q> Matt. 22:39. +</p> + +<p> +2. What sin is forbidden by the tenth commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt not <hi rend='italic'>covet</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. What sins are to characterize the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Men shall be <hi rend='italic'>lovers of their own selves, covetous</hi>.</q> 2 +Tim. 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +4. How prevalent is this sin of self-seeking? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>all seek their own</hi>, not the things which are Jesus +Christ's.</q> Phil. 2:21. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does charity not do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Charity ... <hi rend='italic'>seeketh not her own</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 13:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +6. How are we admonished with regard to selfishness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let no man <hi rend='italic'>seek his own</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 10:24. <q>Look not +every man <hi rend='italic'>on his own things</hi>, but +every man also <hi rend='italic'>on the things +of others</hi>.</q> Phil. 2:4. <q>Even as I please all men in all things, +<hi rend='italic'>not seeking mine own profit</hi>, but the profit of many, that they +may be saved.</q> 1 Cor. 10:33. <q>Let every one of us <hi rend='italic'>please +his neighbor</hi> for his good to edification.</q> Rom. 15:2. +</p> + +<p> +7. What example of unselfishness did Christ leave us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For your sakes <hi rend='italic'>He became poor</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. 8:9. <q>Even +Christ <hi rend='italic'>pleased not Himself</hi>.</q> Rom. 15:3. See 1 John 3:17. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='672'/><anchor id='Pg672'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Covetousness</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus672.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Sin Of Achan. +"When I saw ... I coveted them, and +took them." Joshua 7:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What warning did Christ give concerning covetousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Take heed, and beware of covetousness</hi>: +for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the +things which he possesseth.</q> Luke 12:15. +</p> + +<p> +2. What commandment forbids this sin? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt not covet.</q> Ex. 20:17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +Covetous: <q>Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and +possess (especially money); avaricious.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Webster.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +3. What showed this principle to have been strong in the +rich man who already had abundance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said, This will I do: <hi rend='italic'>I will pull down my barns, and +build greater</hi>; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. +And I will say to my soul, <hi rend='italic'>Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for +many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry</hi>.</q> Luke 12:18, +19. +</p> + +<p> +4. What did God say to him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God said unto him, <hi rend='italic'>Thou fool, this night thy soul shall +be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast +provided</hi>?</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +5. What application of this parable did the Saviour make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So is he that layeth up <hi rend='italic'>treasure +for himself</hi>, and is not <hi rend='italic'>rich +toward God</hi>.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<pb n='673'/><anchor id='Pg673'/> + +<p> +6. What does Paul call covetousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; +fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, +and <hi rend='italic'>covetousness, which is idolatry</hi>.</q> Col. 3:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Do not +wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's +comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, <q>It passeth +away;</q> for indeed it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. +Never suffer your goods to become your god.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Spurgeon.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +7. What do these sins bring upon mankind? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For which things' sake <hi rend='italic'>the wrath of God</hi> cometh on the +children of disobedience.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +8. What double service did Christ say is impossible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye cannot serve <hi rend='italic'>God</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>mammon</hi>.</q> Luke 16:13. +</p> + +<p> +9. Of what sin were the Pharisees guilty? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Pharisees also, <hi rend='italic'>who were covetous</hi>, heard all these +things: and they derided Him.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +10. What reply did Christ make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves +before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for <hi rend='italic'>that which +is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God</hi>.</q> +Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +11. How does the Lord regard the covetous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth +the covetous, <hi rend='italic'>whom the Lord abhorreth</hi>.</q> Ps. 10:3. +</p> + +<p> +12. What did this sin lead Achan to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, +and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold, ... +<hi rend='italic'>I coveted them, and took them</hi>.</q> Joshua 7:21. +</p> + +<p> +13. What did covetousness lead Judas to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief +priests, <hi rend='italic'>to betray Him</hi> unto them. And when they heard it, +they were glad, and <hi rend='italic'>promised to give him money</hi>. And he sought +how he might conveniently <hi rend='italic'>betray Him</hi>.</q> Mark 14:10, 11. +</p> + +<p> +14. Why are the last days to be perilous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall +come. For men shall be <hi rend='italic'>lovers of their own selves, covetous,</hi> +boasters, proud, blasphemers.</q> 2 Tim. 3:1, 2. +</p> + +<pb n='674'/><anchor id='Pg674'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus674.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Balaam And The Angel. +"The elders of Moab, ... with the rewards +of divination in their hand, ... came unto +Balaam." Num. 22:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='675'/><anchor id='Pg675'/> + +<p> +15. What parable did Christ give to correct the false idea +of the Pharisees that wealth was a sign of special favor with +God? +</p> + +<p> +The parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Luke 16:19-31. +</p> + +<p> +16. What did He point out as one of the dangers of the possession +of wealth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto His disciples, +<hi rend='italic'>How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom +of God!</hi>... Jesus answereth again, and saith unto +them, Children, <hi rend='italic'>how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter +into the kingdom of God!</hi></q> Mark 10:23, 24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—And how hard +it is for those who have riches not to trust +in them! +</quote> + +<p> +17. As a rule, what class generally accept the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Harken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen <hi rend='italic'>the +poor of this world</hi> rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which +He hath promised to them that love Him?</q> James 2:5. +</p> + +<p> +18. How difficult did Christ say it is for a rich man to enter +the kingdom of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, +than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</q> Mark +10:25. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If Christ +here referred to a small, low gate in the walls of +Jerusalem, called <q>The Needle's Eye,</q> as is thought by some, the force of +the statement still remains; for, before a camel could pass through this +gate, it was necessary that he should be relieved of his burden, and get +down on his knees and creep through. +</quote> + +<p> +19. Why was the rich young man desiring salvation, unwilling +to sell what he had and give alms, as Christ told him +to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when the young man heard that saying, <hi rend='italic'>he went away +sorrowful: for he had great possessions</hi>.</q> Matt. 19:16. +</p> + +<p> +20. What is the love of money declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the love of money is <hi rend='italic'>the root of all evil</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 6:10. +</p> + +<p> +21. What evils befall those who are determined to be rich? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But they that will be rich <hi rend='italic'>fall into temptation and a snare, +and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in +destruction and perdition</hi>.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +22. Who gives man the power to get wealth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for <hi rend='italic'>it is He +that giveth thee power to get wealth</hi>.</q> Deut. 8:18. +</p> + +<pb n='676'/><anchor id='Pg676'/> + +<p> +23. How may all, rich and poor, honor God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor the Lord <hi rend='italic'>with thy +substance</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>with the first-fruits +of all thine increase</hi>.</q> Prov. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +24. What caution is given concerning riches? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If riches increase, <hi rend='italic'>set not your heart upon them</hi>.</q> Ps. 62:10. +</p> + +<p> +25. Can riches be retained to men's hurt? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, +namely, <hi rend='italic'>riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt</hi>.</q> Eccl. +5:13. +</p> + +<p> +26. What charge is given to the rich? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Charge them that are rich in this world, <hi rend='italic'>that they be not +high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God</hi>, +who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they <hi rend='italic'>do good</hi>, +that they be <hi rend='italic'>rich in good works</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>ready to distribute</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>willing to +communicate</hi>; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation +against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal +life.</q> 1 Tim. 6:17-19. +</p> + +<p> +27. What makes rich without adding sorrow? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The blessing of the Lord</hi>, it maketh rich, and He addeth no +sorrow with it.</q> Prov. 10:22. +</p> + +<p> +28. How are true riches obtained? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By <hi rend='italic'>humility</hi> and the +<hi rend='italic'>fear of the Lord</hi> are riches, and honor, +and life.</q> Prov. 22:4. +</p> + +<p> +29. How did Moses esteem the reproach of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Esteeming the reproach of Christ <hi rend='italic'>greater riches than the +treasures in Egypt</hi>: for he had respect unto the recompense of +the reward.</q> Heb. 11:26. +</p> + +<p> +30. What two classes of rich men are mentioned in the Bible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is that maketh himself <hi rend='italic'>rich</hi>, +yet <hi rend='italic'>hath nothing</hi>: there +is that maketh himself <hi rend='italic'>poor</hi>, +yet hath <hi rend='italic'>great riches</hi>.</q> Prov. 13:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In Luke +12:16-20 is an example of the first class; in Acts +4:34-37 are examples of the second. +</quote> + +<p> +31. What solemn warning is addressed to the rich who, in +the last days, have heaped up treasure, and oppressed the poor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Go to now, ye rich men, <hi rend='italic'>weep and howl for your miseries +that shall come upon you</hi>. Your riches are corrupted, and your +garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; +and <hi rend='italic'>the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat +<pb n='677'/><anchor id='Pg677'/> +your flesh as it were fire</hi>. Ye have heaped treasure together for +the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped +down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: +and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the +ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the +earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a +day of slaughter.</q> James 5:1-5. +</p> + +<p> +32. Will silver or gold be able to deliver in the day of wrath? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver +them in the day of the Lord's wrath.</q> Zeph. 1:18. See also +Prov. 11:4. +</p> + +<p> +33. What will the rich men do with their money then? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall +be removed</hi>: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver +them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy +their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling-block +of their iniquity.</q> Eze. 7:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—When the steamer +<q>Central America,</q> with nearly six +hundred passengers aboard, was wrecked off Cape Hatteras, Sept. 12, +1857, in a fearful storm, many of the passengers who were returning miners +from the gold-mines of California, divested themselves of their treasure +belts and scattered the gold upon the cabin floors, telling those to take it +who would, lest its weight about their persons should carry them to their +death. <q>Full purses, containing in some instances thousands of dollars, +lay around untouched. Carpetbags were opened, and the shining metal +was poured out on the floor with the prodigality of death's despair. One +of the passengers opened a bag and dashed about the cabin twenty thousand +dollars in gold-dust, and told him who wanted to gratify his greed for gold +to take it. But it was passed by untouched, as the veriest +dross.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Our +First Century,</q> pages 642, 643.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +When the steamship <q>Arctic</q> was lost from a collision in mid-ocean, +Sept. 20, 1854, one passenger offered thirty thousand pounds sterling, or +one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, if the life-boats would put back +to save him. They turned to do so, but he sank before they reached +him.—<hi rend='italic'>Id.</hi>, +page 614. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +34. As stewards of God's gifts, what are we told to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I say unto you, <hi rend='italic'>Make to yourselves friends of the mammon +of unrighteousness</hi>; that, when ye fail, they may receive you +into everlasting habitations.</q> Luke 16:9. <q>As every man +hath received the gift, <hi rend='italic'>even so minister the same one to another</hi>, +as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.</q> 1 Peter 4:10. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Is not the way to heavenly gain</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Through earthly grief and loss?</l> +<l>Rest must be won by toil and pain;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The crown repays the cross.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 23'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Henry F. Lyte.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='678'/><anchor id='Pg678'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Debts</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus678.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Forging The Chains. +"The borrower is servant to the lender." +Prov. 22:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What general rule is laid down in the Bible respecting +the meeting of obligations? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Render therefore to all their dues</hi>: tribute to whom tribute +is due; custom to whom custom.... <hi rend='italic'>Owe no man anything, +but to love one another.</hi></q> Rom. 13:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +2. In what condition is one who borrows? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The borrower is <hi rend='italic'>servant to the lender</hi>.</q> Prov. 22:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. To what extent is one responsible for that borrowed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, +or die, ... <hi rend='italic'>he shall surely make it good</hi>.</q> Ex. 22:14. +</p> + +<p> +4. Why did the young man in Elisha's time feel so bad +about the loss of an ax head? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the +water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for +<hi rend='italic'>it was borrowed</hi>.</q> +2 Kings 6:5. +</p> + +<p> +5. What miracle was wrought by Elisha for its restoration? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; <hi rend='italic'>and the +iron did swim</hi>.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From this +we may learn God's willingness to help those who +honestly seek to meet their obligations. +</quote> + +<p> +6. How does the good man guide his affairs? +</p> + +<pb n='679'/><anchor id='Pg679'/> + +<p> +<q>A good man showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his +affairs <hi rend='italic'>with discretion</hi>.</q> Ps. 112:5. +</p> + +<p> +7. To what should those listen who lack business discretion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth <hi rend='italic'>instruction</hi>: +but he that regardeth <hi rend='italic'>reproof</hi> shall be honored.</q> Prov. +13:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +wise for those who, from lack of natural business ability, +find themselves constantly running into debt, to seek advice and counsel +from those endowed with more wisdom in such matters. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Which of Christ's parables teaches business discretion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not +down first, and <hi rend='italic'>counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish +it</hi>? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not +able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, +This man began to build, and was not able to finish.</q> Luke +14:28-30. +</p> + +<p> +9. How were means provided for building the tabernacle? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children +of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, +saying, Take ye from among you <hi rend='italic'>an offering</hi> unto the Lord: +whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of +the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,</q> etc. Ex. 35:4-9. +</p> + +<p> +10. What provision did David make for building the temple? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have prepared with all my might for the house of my +God.</q> 1 Chron. 29:2. +</p> + +<p> +11. How did the people respond to his call for contributions? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then the chief of the fathers and princes ... <hi rend='italic'>offered +willingly</hi>.... Then the people rejoiced, for that <hi rend='italic'>they +offered willingly</hi>, because with perfect heart +<hi rend='italic'>they offered willingly</hi> +to the Lord: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.</q> +Verses 6-9. +</p> + +<p> +12. When King Jehoash wished to repair the temple, what +provision did he make for raising the necessary means? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the +dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, +... and all the money that cometh into any man's heart +to bring into the house of the Lord, let the priests take it to +them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the +breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.</q> +2 Kings 12:4, 5. +</p> + +<pb n='680'/><anchor id='Pg680'/> + +<p> +13. When, after sixteen years, it was found that these repairs +had not yet been made, what was done? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jehoiada the priest <hi rend='italic'>took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid +of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into +the house of the Lord</hi>: and the priests that kept the door put +therein all the money that was brought into the house of the +Lord.</q> Verse 9. +</p> + +<p> +14. What was done with the money thus raised? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They gave the money ... into the hands of them +that did the work, ... and they laid it out to the carpenters +and builders, that wrought upon the house of the Lord.</q> +Verse 11. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—These +examples furnish good lessons on financing gospel +enterprises. In each instance, it will be noticed, the means were provided +before the work of building was begun. No debt, therefore, was created. +In all business transactions this plan is an excellent one to follow. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Debt! There is no worse demoralizer of character. The sad +records of defaulting, embezzling, and dishonest failure which we meet +with so constantly in the daily press are often, indeed most frequently, +the result of the demoralization of debt, and the consequent desperate +efforts of extraction. The financial props have given way.... Debt +ruins as many households and destroys as many fine characters as rum; +it is the devil's mortgage on the soul, and he is always ready to foreclose. +Pay all your bills. Look every man in the face, conscious that you owe +the world no more than it owes you. Be indebted for nothing but love, +and even that be sure you pay in kind, and +that payments are frequent.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Talmage.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>This running into debt is a great cause of dishonesty.... +Young men are growing quite shameless about being in debt; and the immorality +extends throughout society. Tastes are becoming more extravagant +and luxurious, without the corresponding increase of means to enable +them to be gratified. But they are gratified nevertheless; and debts are +incurred, which afterwards weigh like a millstone round the neck.... +The safest plan is to run up no bills, and never get into debt; and the next is +if one does get into debt, to get out of it again as quickly as possible. A +man in debt is not his own master: he is at the mercy of the tradesman he +employs.... No man can be free who is in debt. The inevitable +effect of debt is not only to injure personal independence, but, in the long +run, to inflict moral degradation. The debtor is exposed to constant +humiliations.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Thrift,</q> +by Samuel Smiles, pages 243-247.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +The following testimony on this subject is borne by a Chicago lady, +who had been happily wedded for fifty years. <q>I know why John and I +have been happy during these fifty years. In the first place, we have +made it a rule never to go in debt. I have lived in Chicago sixty-eight +years, and never during that time have I owed a person a cent.... +I believe a good deal of unhappiness is caused by spending more than you +make. It has been our policy to buy what we could well afford to have, +and then stop.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Chicago Tribune, Aug. 24, 1902.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='681'/><anchor id='Pg681'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Respect Of Persons</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus681.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Peter In The House Of Cornelius. +"Of a truth I perceive that God is no +respecter of persons." Acts 10:34.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of what has God made all nations? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And hath made <hi rend='italic'>of one blood</hi> all nations of men for to dwell +on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before +appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.</q> Acts 17:26. +</p> + +<p> +2. To how many is God good? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord is <hi rend='italic'>good to all</hi>: and His tender mercies are over all +His works.</q> Ps. 145:9. +</p> + +<p> +3. Is God a respecter of persons? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither doth God respect any person.</q> 2 Sam. 14:14. +</p> + +<p> +4. Who is accepted with God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive +that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation +<hi rend='italic'>he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with +Him</hi>.</q> Acts 10:34, 35. +</p> + +<p> +5. What prohibitions are given in the Scriptures against +having respect of persons? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye shall not respect persons <hi rend='italic'>in judgment</hi>; but ye shall hear +the <hi rend='italic'>small</hi> as well as +the <hi rend='italic'>great</hi>; ye shall not be afraid of the face of +man.</q> Deut. 1:17. <q>Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: +thou shalt not respect the person of the <hi rend='italic'>poor</hi>, nor honor +<pb n='682'/><anchor id='Pg682'/> +the person of the <hi rend='italic'>mighty</hi>: but in righteousness shalt thou judge +thy neighbor.</q> Lev. 19:15. <q>Blessed is that man that +... respecteth not the <hi rend='italic'>proud</hi>, nor such as turn aside to +<hi rend='italic'>lies</hi>.</q> Ps. 40:4. +</p> + +<p> +6. Of what are those guilty who respect persons? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye have respect to persons, <hi rend='italic'>ye commit sin</hi>, and are convinced +of the law as <hi rend='italic'>transgressors</hi>.</q> James 2:9. <q>He that +despiseth his neighbor <hi rend='italic'>sinneth</hi>.</q> Prov. 14:21. +</p> + +<p> +7. By what illustration is this sin made plain? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, +the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come +unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, +and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have +respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, +Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou +there, or sit here under my footstool: are ye not then partial +in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?</q> James +2:1-4. +</p> + +<p> +8. What led to the appointment of deacons in the early +Christian church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And in those days, when the number of the disciples was +multiplied, <hi rend='italic'>there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the +Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration</hi>.</q> +Acts 6:1. +</p> + +<p> +9. What mistake did Peter and others make some years +later in their conduct? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to +the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain +came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: <hi rend='italic'>but when they +were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which +were of the circumcision</hi>. And the other Jews dissembled likewise +with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away +with their dissimulation.</q> Gal. 2:11-13. +</p> + +<p> +10. How are all national, unholy, and unjust distinctions +among men swept away in Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have +put on Christ. <hi rend='italic'>There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither +bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one +in Christ Jesus.</hi></q> Gal. 3:27, 28. See also Col. 3:11. +</p> + +<pb n='683'/><anchor id='Pg683'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus683.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Pharisee And The Publican. +"I tell you, this man [the publican] went down +to his house justified rather than the other." +Luke 18:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='684'/><anchor id='Pg684'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Backsliding</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus684.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Peter's Denial. +"And again he denied with an oath, I do not +know the Man." Matt. 26:72.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How does God regard backsliding? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy backslidings shall reprove thee: ... <hi rend='italic'>it is an +evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God</hi>, and +that My fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.</q> Jer. +2:19. <q>If any man draw back, <hi rend='italic'>My soul shall have no pleasure +in him</hi>.</q> Heb. 10:38. +</p> + +<p> +2. What has ever been the tendency of God's people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My people are <hi rend='italic'>bent to backsliding from Me</hi>.</q> Hosea 11:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. What inevitably leads to departure from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you <hi rend='italic'>an evil +heart of unbelief</hi>, in departing from the living God.</q> Heb. 3:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Unbelief is +<q>the sin which doth so easily beset us.</q> Heb. +12:1. +</quote> + +<p> +4. In what ways did the constant backsliding of the people +of Jerusalem manifest itself? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a +perpetual backsliding? <hi rend='italic'>they hold +fast deceit, they refuse to return</hi>. +<pb n='685'/><anchor id='Pg685'/> +I harkened and heard, but <hi rend='italic'>they spake not aright: no man repented +him of his wickedness</hi>, saying, What have I done? <hi rend='italic'>every one turned +to his course</hi>, as the horse rusheth into the battle.</q> Jer. 8:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +5. To what is backsliding likened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Surely <hi rend='italic'>as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband</hi>, +so have ye dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, +saith the Lord.</q> Jer. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +6. To regain God's favor, what must the backslider do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed +against the Lord thy God</hi>, and hast scattered thy ways to the +strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed My +voice, saith the Lord.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +7. On what condition does God promise mercy to sinners? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his +thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord</hi>, and He will have mercy +upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.</q> +Isa. 55:7. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why must the wicked forsake their thoughts and ways? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your +ways My ways, saith the Lord.</q> Verse 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God +desires that we shall think His thoughts, which are +right thoughts, pure thoughts, everlasting thoughts. He desires also that +we shall take on His ways, which are ways of pleasantness, and walk in +His paths, which are paths of peace. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What is especially necessary to prevent backsliding? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.</hi> The spirit +truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.</q> Mark 14:38. +</p> + +<p> +10. What are believers exhorted to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your +own selves.</hi> Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus +Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?</q> 2 Cor. 13:5. +</p> + +<p> +11. If one has God's law in the heart, what will not occur? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The law of his God is in his heart; <hi rend='italic'>none of his steps shall +slide</hi>.</q> Ps. 37:31. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is one characteristic of backsliding? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even from the days of your fathers <hi rend='italic'>ye are gone away from +Mine ordinances, and have not kept them</hi>. Return unto Me, and +I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, +Wherein shall we return?</q> Mal. 3:7. +</p> + +<pb n='686'/><anchor id='Pg686'/> + +<p> +13. In response, what neglected ordinance does God cite? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me. But ye +say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In <hi rend='italic'>tithes and offerings</hi>.</q> +Verse 8. +</p> + +<p> +14. What remedy is indicated? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be +meat in Mine house</hi>, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord +of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour +you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive +it.</q> Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +15. Because of Christ's plain teachings, what did some of +His disciples do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>From that time many of His disciples <hi rend='italic'>went back, and walked +no more with Him</hi>.</q> John 6:66. +</p> + +<p> +16. When the backslider repents, what does God do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto Him, +Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we +render the calves of our lips.... <hi rend='italic'>I will heal their backsliding, +I will love them freely</hi>: for Mine anger is turned away from +him.</q> Hosea 14:2-4. +</p> + +<p> +17. Will there be special danger of backsliding in the last +days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall +wax cold.</q> Matt. 24:12. +</p> + +<p> +18. What are some of the evils against which we are specially +warned at this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts +be overcharged with <hi rend='italic'>surfeiting</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>drunkenness</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>cares of +this life</hi>, and so that day come upon you unawares.</q> Luke +21:34. +</p> + +<p> +19. In view of the perils surrounding us, what are we told +to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Watch ye therefore, and pray always</hi>, that ye may be accounted +worthy to escape all these things that shall come to +pass, and to stand before the Son of man.</q> Verse 36. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O for a closer walk with God!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>A calm and heavenly frame,</l> +<l>A light to shine upon the road</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That leads me to the Lamb.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>William Cowper.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='687'/><anchor id='Pg687'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Unbelief</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus687.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Moses And Aaron Before Pharaoh. +"Let us lay aside ... the sin which +doth so easily beset us." Heb. 12:1.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What warning is given in the Bible concerning unbelief? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an <hi rend='italic'>evil +heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God</hi>.</q> Heb. 3:12. +</p> + +<p> +2. Without faith, what is impossible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Without faith it is impossible <hi rend='italic'>to please Him</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. How only can we be justified? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Being justified <hi rend='italic'>by faith</hi>, we have peace with God through +our Lord Jesus Christ.</q> Rom. 5:1. +</p> + +<p> +4. By what do the just live? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the just shall live <hi rend='italic'>by faith</hi>.</q> Heb. 10:38. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If men are <hi rend='italic'>justified</hi> +by faith, and are to <hi rend='italic'>live</hi> by faith, it follows +that to be unbelieving is not to be justified, and consequently not to live in +the sense here referred to. +</quote> + +<p> +5. In whom does the Lord have no pleasure? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if any man <hi rend='italic'>draw back</hi>, My soul shall have no pleasure +in him.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<pb n='688'/><anchor id='Pg688'/> + +<p> +6. What kind of report did the ten spies bring back concerning +the promised land? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They brought up <hi rend='italic'>an evil report</hi> of the land which they had +searched.</q> Num. 13:32. +</p> + +<p> +7. What did Caleb say of the ability of Israel to take it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us go up at once, and possess it; for <hi rend='italic'>we are well able to +overcome it</hi>.</q> Verse 30. +</p> + +<p> +8. What did the ten spies say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the men that went up with him said, <hi rend='italic'>We be not able to +go up against the people; for they are stronger than we</hi>.</q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why did not Israel attain to the standard of righteousness? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, +hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? +<hi rend='italic'>Because they sought it not by faith.</hi></q> Rom. 9:31, 32. +</p> + +<p> +10. When told of the disciples' failure to heal an afflicted +son, what did Christ say of that generation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He answereth him, and saith, <hi rend='italic'>O faithless generation</hi>, how +long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him +unto Me.</q> Mark 9:19. +</p> + +<p> +11. What did Christ say to Thomas because he did not believe +the testimony of his brethren concerning His resurrection? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Reach hither thy finger, and behold My hands; and reach +hither thy hand, and thrust it into My side: and <hi rend='italic'>be not faithless, +but believing</hi>.</q> John 20:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The Lord +rebuked Thomas for his unbelief, because he would +not accept the testimony of so many credible witnesses who had seen Him. +How much more reprehensible is that unbelief which holds out against the +present <q>cloud of witnesses</q> of prophecy fulfilled and fulfilling! +</quote> + +<p> +12. After speaking of the numerous examples of faith presented +in Hebrews 11, what does Paul exhort us to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so +great a cloud of witnesses, let us <hi rend='italic'>lay aside every weight, and the +sin which doth so easily beset us</hi>, and let us run with patience +the race that is set before us.</q> Heb. 12:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +<q>every weight</q> here spoken of includes those traits of +character and habits of life that retard or hinder our running successfully +the Christian race. These are to be laid aside. But there is one thing +referred to here that is more than a weight; it +is a <hi rend='italic'>sin</hi>, and one that easily +besets us all,—the sin of <hi rend='italic'>unbelief</hi>. +To be unbelieving, therefore, is sinful. +</quote> + +<pb n='689'/><anchor id='Pg689'/> + +<p> +13. Why did many fail to enter into God's rest anciently? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And to whom sware He that they should not enter into +His rest, but to them that <hi rend='italic'>believed +not</hi>? So we see that <hi rend='italic'>they +could not enter in because of unbelief</hi>.</q> Heb. 3:18, 19. +</p> + +<p> +14. How are these unbelieving ones spoken of? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with +<hi rend='italic'>them that had sinned</hi>, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?</q> +Verse 17. +</p> + +<p> +15. What lesson should we learn from their course? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Let us therefore fear</hi>, lest, a promise being left us of entering +into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.</q> +Heb. 4:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—God does +not change. If He was grieved at the unbelief +of the Israelites, and refused them admittance to Canaan in consequence, +He cannot permit us to enter the heavenly rest as long as we indulge in +unbelief. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What should all labor to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let us labor therefore <hi rend='italic'>to enter into that rest</hi>, lest any man +fall after the same example of unbelief.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +17. Against what are we warned when rebuked of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, +<hi rend='italic'>nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him</hi>.</q> Heb. 12:5. +</p> + +<p> +18. Whom does the Lord chasten? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth</hi>, and scourgeth every +son whom He receiveth.</q> Verse 6. +</p> + +<p> +19. When God made a promise to Abraham that seemed impossible +of fulfilment, how did the patriarch receive it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; +but was <hi rend='italic'>strong in faith</hi>, giving glory to God.</q> Rom. 4:20. +</p> + +<p> +20. For what was Abraham's faith counted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, +and <hi rend='italic'>it was counted unto him for righteousness</hi>.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<p> +21. When troubled with doubts, how should we pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lord, I believe; <hi rend='italic'>help Thou mine unbelief</hi>.</q> Mark 9:24. +</p> + +<p> +22. What is promised those who believe when they pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, +when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and <hi rend='italic'>ye shall have +them</hi>.</q> Mark 11:24. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='690'/><anchor id='Pg690'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Judging</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus690.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Slaying The First-Born. +"Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith +the Lord." Rom. 12:19.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What warning does Christ give concerning judging? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Judge not, that ye be not judged.</q> Matt. 7:1. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is Satan called in the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The accuser of our brethren</hi> ... which accused them +before our God day and night.</q> Rev. 12:10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Then when +we judge, accuse, and condemn one another, we +are doing the work of Satan. +</quote> + +<p> +3. If we bite and devour one another, what may we expect? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But if ye bite and devour one another, <hi rend='italic'>take heed that ye be +not consumed one of another</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:15. +</p> + +<p> +4. Before attempting to judge, criticize, or correct others, +what should we first do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's +eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or +how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote +out of thine eye: and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou +hypocrite, <hi rend='italic'>first cast out the beam out of thine own eye</hi>; and then +shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's +eye.</q> Matt. 7:3-5. +</p> + +<pb n='691'/><anchor id='Pg691'/> + +<p> +5. What did Christ say He did not come to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him +not: for <hi rend='italic'>I came not to judge the world</hi>, but to save the world.</q> +<q>For God sent not His Son into the world to <hi rend='italic'>condemn</hi> the world; +but that the world through Him might be <hi rend='italic'>saved</hi>.</q> John 12:47; +3:17. +</p> + +<p> +6. What question does Paul ask concerning judging? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Who art thou that judgest another man's servant?</hi> to his own +master he standeth or falleth.</q> Rom. 14:4. +</p> + +<p> +7. To whom are all to give account? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So then every one of us shall give account of himself <hi rend='italic'>to +God</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +8. What exhortation, therefore, does the apostle give? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Let us not therefore judge one another any more</hi>: but judge +this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion +to fall in his brother's way.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +9. Instead of railing on His enemies, what did Christ do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He +suffered, He threatened not; but <hi rend='italic'>committed Himself to Him that +judgeth righteously</hi>.</q> 1 Peter 2:23. +</p> + +<p> +10. Wherein do man's judging and God's judging differ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for <hi rend='italic'>man looketh on +the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart</hi>.</q> 1 Sam. +16:7. <q>Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but +<hi rend='italic'>God knoweth your hearts</hi>: +for <hi rend='italic'>that which is highly esteemed among +men is abomination in the sight of God</hi>.</q> Luke 16:15. +</p> + +<p> +11. How does Christ tell us to judge? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Judge <hi rend='italic'>not according to +the appearance</hi>, but <hi rend='italic'>judge righteous +judgment</hi>.</q> John 7:24. +</p> + +<p> +12. How, by whom, and in what spirit should those having +committed faults be dealt with? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, <hi rend='italic'>ye which are +spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering +thyself, lest thou also be tempted</hi>.</q> Gal. 6:1. +</p> + +<p> +13. Of what are those generally guilty who judge others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou +art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest +<pb n='692'/><anchor id='Pg692'/> +thyself; <hi rend='italic'>for thou that judgest doest the same things</hi>.</q> +Rom. 2:1. +</p> + +<p> +14. Whom are we not likely to judge and condemn? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if we would judge <hi rend='italic'>ourselves</hi>, we should not be judged.</q> +1 Cor. 11:31. +</p> + +<p> +15. What instruction does James give regarding judging? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Speak not evil one of another, brethren.</hi> He that speaketh +evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the +law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art +not a doer of the law, but a judge.</q> James 4:11. See Titus 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +16. Why is it safer not to judge and condemn others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye +shall not be condemned.</q> Luke 6:37. <q><hi rend='italic'>For with what judgment +ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it +shall be measured to you again.</hi></q> Matt. 7:2. See Ps. 18:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +17. To what time are we exhorted to defer judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore judge nothing before the time, <hi rend='italic'>until the Lord +come</hi>, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, +and will make manifest the counsels of the heart.</q> 1 Cor. 4:5. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q>Judge not;</q> the workings of his brain</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And of his heart thou canst not see.</l> +<l>What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In God's pure sight may only be</l> +<l>A scar, brought from some well-won field</l> +<l>Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The look, the air, that frets thy sight,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>May be a token that, below,</l> +<l>The soul has closed in deadly fight</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With some infernal, fiery foe</l> +<l>Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace,</l> +<l>And cast thee shuddering on thy face.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The fall thou darest to despise—</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Perhaps the angel's slackened hand</l> +<l>Has suffered it, that he may rise</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And take a firmer, surer stand;</l> +<l>Or, trusting less to earthly things,</l> +<l>May henceforth learn to use his wings.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>And judge none lost, but wait and see,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With hopeful pity, not disdain;</l> +<l>The depth of that abyss may be</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The measure of the height of pain,</l> +<l>And love, and glory, that may raise</l> +<l>The soul to God in after-days.</l> +</lg> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Adelaide A. Procter.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='693'/><anchor id='Pg693'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Gossiping And Backbiting</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus693.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Sowing Tares. +"While men slept, his enemy came and sowed +tares." Matt. 13:25</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does the ninth commandment forbid? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt not bear <hi rend='italic'>false witness</hi> against thy neighbor.</q> +Ex. 20:16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +evident object of this commandment is to guard the +rights, interests, and reputation of our neighbor, by guarding our conversation, +and confining our words to that which is strictly true. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What instruction did John the Baptist give the soldiers +who asked of him advice regarding the way of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, <hi rend='italic'>neither +accuse any falsely</hi>; and be content with your wages.</q> Luke 3:14. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is one test of a perfect man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man <hi rend='italic'>offend not +in word</hi>, the same is <hi rend='italic'>a perfect man</hi>, +and able also to bridle the whole body.</q> James 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did Christ teach the importance of guarding our +speech? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But I say unto you, That <hi rend='italic'>every idle word</hi> that men shall +speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. +For by thy <hi rend='italic'>words</hi> thou shalt +be justified, and by thy <hi rend='italic'>words</hi> thou +shalt be condemned.</q> Matt. 12:36, 37. +</p> + +<pb n='694'/><anchor id='Pg694'/> + +<p> +5. To whom are our words all known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, <hi rend='italic'>O Lord, Thou +knowest it altogether</hi>.</q> Ps. 139:4. +</p> + +<p> +6. Of what are one's words an index? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Out of the abundance of <hi rend='italic'>the heart</hi> the mouth speaketh.</q> +Matt. 12:34. +</p> + +<p> +7. What conduct is condemned by the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt not go up and down <hi rend='italic'>as a talebearer among thy +people</hi>: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: +I am the Lord.</q> Lev. 19:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. To what are the words of a talebearer compared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The words of a talebearer are <hi rend='italic'>as wounds</hi>.</q> Prov. 26:22. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is their effect? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but <hi rend='italic'>he that +repeateth a matter separateth very friends</hi>.</q> Prov. 17:9. +</p> + +<p> +10. What would follow if there were no talebearers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so <hi rend='italic'>where there +is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth</hi>.</q> Prov. 26:20. +</p> + +<p> +11. Among other things, what did Paul fear he would find +in the Corinthian church? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as +I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would +not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, <hi rend='italic'>backbitings</hi>, +whisperings, swellings, tumults.</q> 2 Cor. 12:20. +</p> + +<p> +12. What result follows backbiting and like evils? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou +shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But <hi rend='italic'>if ye bite and devour +one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another</hi>.</q> +Gal. 5:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +13. How may a backbiting tongue be rebuked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The north wind driveth away rain: <hi rend='italic'>so doth an angry countenance +a backbiting tongue</hi>.</q> Prov. 25:23. +</p> + +<p> +14. To whom is the promise made of abiding in the tabernacle +of the Lord, and dwelling in His holy hill? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, +and speaketh the truth in his heart. <hi rend='italic'>He that backbiteth not with +<pb n='695'/><anchor id='Pg695'/> +his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach +against his neighbor</hi>.</q> Ps. 15:2, 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Never +carry a sword in your tongue to wound the reputation +of any man,</q> says Kirkle. Noah Webster laid down this rule: <q>We +should say nothing of a person in his absence that we should be unwilling +to say if he were present.</q> How few govern their conversation according +to this rule! See Prov. 31:10, 26. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What caution is given in regard to receiving an accusation +against an elder? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Against an elder receive not an accusation, <hi rend='italic'>but before two +or three witnesses</hi>.</q> 1 Tim. 5:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>He that +lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is +either a man of very mean morals, or has no more sense of understanding +than a child.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Menander.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +16. Can man, unrenewed by grace, control his tongue? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, +and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: +<hi rend='italic'>but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of +deadly poison</hi>.</q> James 3:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +17. As a guard against the misuse of the power of speech, +therefore, for what should we pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Set a <hi rend='italic'>watch</hi>, O Lord, before +my mouth; keep the <hi rend='italic'>door</hi> of +my lips.</q> Ps. 141:3. +</p> + +<p> +18. What vow did David take against offenses of the tongue? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I said, <hi rend='italic'>I will take heed to my ways</hi>, that I sin not with my +<hi rend='italic'>tongue</hi>: <hi rend='italic'>I will keep +my mouth with a bridle</hi>, while the wicked is +before me.</q> Ps. 39:1. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is a sure cure for backbiting? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.</q> Matt. 22:39. +<q>Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even +so to them.</q> Matt. 7:12. <q>Speak evil of no man.</q> Titus +3:2. See also James 4:11. +</p> + +<p> +20. What are those words like which are fitly spoken? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A word fitly spoken is <hi rend='italic'>like +apples of gold in pictures of silver</hi>.</q> +Prov. 25:11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>Keep a watch on your words, my darlings,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For words are wonderful things:</l> +<l>They are sweet like bees' fresh honey;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Like the bees they have terrible stings;</l> +<l>They can bless like the warm, glad sunshine,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And brighten a lonely life;</l> +<l>They can cut in the strife of anger,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'><q rend='post'>Like an open, two-edged knife.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='696'/><anchor id='Pg696'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus696.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Joseph Sold Into Egypt. +"Where envying and strife is, there is confusion +and every evil work." James 3:16.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='697'/><anchor id='Pg697'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Envy, Jealousy, And Hatred</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus697.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Saul Seeks David's Life. +"Who is able to stand before envy?" Prov. 27:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What does Solomon say of envy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but <hi rend='italic'>who is able to +stand before envy</hi>?</q> Prov. 27:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is said of jealousy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jealousy is <hi rend='italic'>cruel as the grave</hi>.</q> Song of Solomon 8:6. +</p> + +<p> +3. What is said of one who hates his brother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever hateth his brother <hi rend='italic'>is a murderer</hi>.</q> 1 John 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +4. What did envy lead the chief priests to do with Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For he [Pilate] knew that the chief priests had <hi rend='italic'>delivered +Him [to be crucified] for envy</hi>.</q> Mark 15:10. +</p> + +<p> +5. What did it lead the Jews to do in Paul's day? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled +with envy, and <hi rend='italic'>spake against those things which were spoken by +Paul, contradicting and blaspheming</hi>.</q> Acts 13:45. +</p> + +<p> +6. What exists where envy and strife are? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For where envying and strife is, there is <hi rend='italic'>confusion and +every evil work</hi>.</q> James 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why should the heart be closely watched? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Keep thy heart with all diligence; for <hi rend='italic'>out of it are the issues +of life</hi>.</q> Prov. 4:23. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='698'/><anchor id='Pg698'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Hypocrisy</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus698.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Jesus Betrayed By A Kiss. +"Let love be without dissimulation." +Rom. 12:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Of what sin were the Pharisees guilty? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which +is <hi rend='italic'>hypocrisy</hi>.</q> +Luke 12:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Hypocrisy is a +feigning to be what one is not; dissimulation; +a concealment of one's real character or motives; especially, the assuming +of a false appearance of virtue or religion. +</quote> + +<p> +2. How did the Pharisees show themselves to be hypocrites? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, +This people <hi rend='italic'>draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth +Me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me</hi>.</q> Matt. 15:7, +8. +</p> + +<p> +3. How did they make void one of God's commandments? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and +mother.... But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father +or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited +by me; and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be +free. <hi rend='italic'>Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect +by your tradition.</hi></q> Verses 4-6. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did Christ say hypocrites pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites +are: for <hi rend='italic'>they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the +corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men</hi>. Verily I say +unto you, They have their reward.</q> Matt. 6:5. +</p> + +<pb n='699'/><anchor id='Pg699'/> + +<p> +5. What does Christ call one who readily sees the faults of +others, but does not see nor correct his own? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Thou hypocrite</hi>, first cast out the beam out of thine own +eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of +thy brother's eye.</q> Matt. 7:5. +</p> + +<p> +6. How does a hypocrite treat his neighbor? +</p> + +<p> +<q>An hypocrite with his mouth <hi rend='italic'>destroyeth his neighbor</hi>.</q> +<q>For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: <hi rend='italic'>Eat and drink, saith +he to thee; but his heart is not with thee</hi>.</q> Prov. 11:9; 23:7. +</p> + +<p> +7. Which of the apostles was once guilty of dissimulation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him [Peter]; +insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their +dissimulation.</q> Gal. 2:13. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why did Paul say he opposed Peter in this matter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to +the face, <hi rend='italic'>because he was to be blamed</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +9. What did David say he would not do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have not sat with vain persons, <hi rend='italic'>neither will I go in with +dissemblers</hi>.</q> Ps. 26:4. +</p> + +<p> +10. How pure should be our love? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let love be <hi rend='italic'>without dissimulation</hi>.</q> Rom. 12:9. +</p> + +<p> +11. What will become of the hypocrite's hope? +</p> + +<p> +<q>So are the paths of all that forget God; and <hi rend='italic'>the hypocrite's +hope shall perish</hi>.</q> Job 8:13. +</p> + +<p> +12. What is to be the fate of that servant who, while professing +to love the Lord, shows by his actions that he is worldly, +and is not looking nor longing for His coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh +not for Him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and +shall cut him asunder, and <hi rend='italic'>appoint +him his portion with the hypocrites</hi>: +there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</q> Matt. +24:50, 51. <q>The sinners in Zion are afraid; tearfulness hath +surprised the hypocrites.</q> Isa. 33:14. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is characteristic of heavenly wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, +gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good +fruits, without partiality, and <hi rend='italic'>without hypocrisy</hi>.</q> James 3:17. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='700'/><anchor id='Pg700'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Danger In Rejecting Light</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus700.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>John Reproving Herod. +"Walk while ye have the light." John 12:35.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How does God regard sins of ignorance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the times of this ignorance God winked at</hi>; but now +commandeth all men everywhere to repent.</q> Acts 17:30. +</p> + +<p> +2. To whom is sin imputed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore <hi rend='italic'>to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not</hi>, +to him it is sin.</q> James 4:17. +</p> + +<p> +3. In what words did Christ teach the same truth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no +sin: but now ye say, <hi rend='italic'>We see</hi>; therefore your sin remaineth.</q> +<q>If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: +but <hi rend='italic'>now they have no cloak</hi> [margin, +<hi rend='italic'>excuse</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>for their sin</hi>.</q> John +9:41; 15:22. See John 3:19. +</p> + +<p> +4. In view of this, what instruction does He give? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.... +While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be +the children of light.</q> John 12:35, 36. +</p> + +<p> +5. Who courts the light? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Every one that doeth evil hateth the light.... But +<hi rend='italic'>he that doeth truth</hi> cometh to the light, that his deeds may be +made manifest, that they are wrought in God.</q> John 3:20, 21. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='701'/><anchor id='Pg701'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Just Recompense</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus701.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Destruction Of Sennacherib's Army. +"Who will render to every man according +to his deeds." Rom. 2:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How has God recompensed men in the past? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every +transgression and disobedience received <hi rend='italic'>a just +recompense of reward</hi>; +how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?</q> +Heb. 2:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +2. How are all to be rewarded in the judgment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; +that every one may receive the things done in his body, <hi rend='italic'>according +to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad</hi>.</q> 2 Cor. +5:10. <q>Who will render to every man <hi rend='italic'>according to his deeds</hi>: ... +for there is no respect of persons with God.</q> Rom. +2:6-11. <q>Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for <hi rend='italic'>whatsoever +a man soweth that shall he also reap</hi>.</q> Gal. 6:7. +</p> + +<p> +3. What will be the reward of the wrong-doer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh +reap <hi rend='italic'>corruption</hi>.</q> +Verse 8. <q><hi rend='italic'>Tribulation</hi> and +<hi rend='italic'>anguish</hi>, upon every +soul of man that doeth evil.</q> Rom. 2:9. +</p> + +<p> +4. What will be the recompense of the righteous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap +<hi rend='italic'>life everlasting</hi>.</q> Gal. 6:8. +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>glory, honor, and peace</hi>, to +every man that worketh good.</q> Rom. 2:10. +</p> + +<pb n='702'/><anchor id='Pg702'/> + +<p> +5. What general rule of recompense is laid down in the Bible? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Judge not, that ye be not judged. For <hi rend='italic'>with what judgment +ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it +shall be measured to you again</hi>.</q> Matt. 7:1, 2. <q>With the +<hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi> Thou wilt show Thyself +<hi rend='italic'>merciful</hi>; with an <hi rend='italic'>upright</hi> +man Thou wilt show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>upright</hi>; +with the <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi> Thou wilt +show Thyself <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi>; and with +the <hi rend='italic'>froward</hi> Thou wilt show Thyself +<hi rend='italic'>froward</hi>.</q> Ps. 18:25, 26. +</p> + +<p> +6. In view of this, what are we warned not to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Recompense to no man <hi rend='italic'>evil for evil</hi>.</q> Rom. 12:17. <q>Not +rendering <hi rend='italic'>evil for evil</hi>, or +<hi rend='italic'>railing for railing</hi>: but contrariwise +blessing.</q> 1 Peter 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is said of those who render evil for good? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoso rewardeth evil for good, <hi rend='italic'>evil shall not depart from his +house</hi>.</q> Prov. 17:13. +</p> + +<p> +8. What principle of justice should govern us in our dealings? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Withhold not good from them <hi rend='italic'>to whom it is due</hi>, when it is +in the power of thine hand to do it.</q> Prov. 3:27. +</p> + +<p> +9. Where are all to be recompensed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed <hi rend='italic'>in the earth</hi>: +much more the wicked and the sinner.</q> Prov. 11:31. +</p> + +<p> +10. In meting out the final awards, what may we be sure +God will do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Shall not the Judge of all the earth <hi rend='italic'>do right</hi>?</q> Gen. 18:25. +<q><hi rend='italic'>Justice</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>judgment</hi> +are the habitation of Thy throne: +<hi rend='italic'>mercy</hi> and <hi rend='italic'>truth</hi> +shall go before Thy face.</q> Ps. 89:14. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O that the Lord would guide my ways</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To keep His statutes still!</l> +<l>O that my God would grant me grace</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To know and do His will!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Order my footsteps by Thy word,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And make my heart sincere;</l> +<l>Let sin have no dominion, Lord,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>But keep my conscience clear.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Make me to walk in Thy commands,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>'Tis a delightful road;</l> +<l>Nor let my head, nor heart, nor hands</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Offend against my God.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 28'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Isaac Watts</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='703'/><anchor id='Pg703'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XVI. The Home</head> + +<pb n='704'/><anchor id='Pg704'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus704.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Marriage At Cana. +"Home is the grandest of all institutions."—<hi rend='italic'>Spurgeon.</hi> +See page 711.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='705'/><anchor id='Pg705'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Marriage Institution</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus705.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Isaac And Rebekah. +"Marriage is honorable in all." Heb. 13:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. After creating man, what did God say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God said, <hi rend='italic'>It is not good that the man should +be alone</hi>.</q> Gen. 2:18. +</p> + +<p> +2. What, therefore, did God say He would make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will make him <hi rend='italic'>an help</hi> meet for him.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Not a <hi rend='italic'>helpmeet</hi> +nor a <hi rend='italic'>helpmate</hi>, but—two words—a help +<hi rend='italic'>meet</hi> for him; that is, <hi rend='italic'>fit</hi> or +<hi rend='italic'>suitable</hi> for him. The word +<hi rend='italic'>meet</hi> in the original +means a front, a part opposite, a counterpart, or mate. Man's companion, +or help, was to correspond to him. Each was to be suited to the +other's needs. +</quote> + +<p> +3. Could such a help be found among the creatures which +God had already made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the +air, and to every beast of the field; <hi rend='italic'>but for Adam there was not +found an help meet for him</hi>.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +4. What, therefore, did God do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, +and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the +flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken +from man, <hi rend='italic'>made he a woman, and brought her unto the man</hi>.</q> +Verses 21, 22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—How beautiful, +in its fulness of meaning, is this simple but +suggestive story, at which skeptics sneer. God did not make man after +the order of the lower animals, but <q>in His own image.</q> Neither did He +<pb n='706'/><anchor id='Pg706'/> +choose man's companion, or <q>help,</q> from some other order of beings, but +made her from man—of the same substance. And He took this substance, +not from man's <hi rend='italic'>feet</hi>, that +he might have an excuse to degrade, enslave, or +trample upon her; nor from man's <hi rend='italic'>head</hi>, +that woman might assume authority +over man; but from man's <hi rend='italic'>side</hi>, +from over his <hi rend='italic'>heart</hi>, the <hi rend='italic'>seat of affections</hi>, +that woman might stand at his side as <hi rend='italic'>man's +equal</hi>, and, <hi rend='italic'>side by side with +him</hi>, together, under God, work out the purpose and destiny of the race,—man, +the strong, the noble, the dignified; woman, the weaker, the sympathetic, +the loving. How much more exalted and inspiring is this view than +the theory that man developed from the lower order of animals. +</quote> + +<p> +5. What did Adam say as he received his wife from God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Adam said, <hi rend='italic'>This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of +my flesh</hi>: she shall be called <hi rend='italic'>Woman</hi>, because she was taken out +of <hi rend='italic'>Man</hi>.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<p> +6. What great truth was then stated? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, +and shall cleave unto his wife: and <hi rend='italic'>they shall be one flesh</hi>.</q> +Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what words does Christ recognize marriage as of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. <hi rend='italic'>What +therefore God hath joined together</hi>, let not man put asunder.</q> +Matt. 19:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Thus was +the marriage institution ordained of God in Eden, +before man sinned. Like the Sabbath, it has come down to us with the +Edenic dews of divine blessing still upon it. It was ordained not only for +the purpose of peopling the earth and perpetuating the race, but to promote +social order and human happiness; to prevent irregular affection; +and, through well-regulated families, to transmit truth, purity, and holiness +from age to age. Around it cluster all the purest and truest joys of home +and the race. When the divine origin of marriage is recognized, and the +divine principles controlling it are obeyed, marriage is indeed a blessing; +but when these are disregarded, untold evils are sure to follow. That +which, rightly used, is of greatest blessing, when abused becomes the +greatest curse. +</quote> + +<p> +8. By what commands has God guarded the marriage relation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt not commit adultery.</q> <q>Thou shalt not covet +thy neighbor's wife.</q> Ex. 20:14, 17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What New Testament injunction is given respecting +marriage? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Let marriage be had in honor among all</hi>, and let the bed be +undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.</q> Heb. +13:4, R. V. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By many, marriage +is lightly regarded—is often made even +a subject of jest. Its divine origin, its great object, and its possibilities +<pb n='707'/><anchor id='Pg707'/> +and influences for good or evil are little thought of, and hence it is often +entered into with little idea of its responsibilities or its sacred obligations. +The marriage relationship is frequently used in the Scriptures as a symbol +of the relationship existing between God and His people. See Rom. +7:1-4; 2 Cor. 11:2; Hosea 2:19, 20; Rev. 19:7. +</quote> + +<p> +10. After the fall, what sort of marriages were introduced +by men, which were productive of great evil? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the +face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that +<hi rend='italic'>the sons of God saw the daughters of men</hi> that they were fair; +<hi rend='italic'>and they took them wives of all which they chose</hi>.</q> Gen. 6:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Not +only was there plurality of wives, which in itself is an +evil, but the <q>sons of God,</q> descending from Seth, married the <q>daughters +of men,</q> the descendants from the idolatrous line of Cain, and thus corrupted +the seed, or church, of God itself. All the barriers against evil +thus being broken down, the whole race was soon corrupted, violence filled +the earth, and the flood followed. +</quote> + +<p> +11. What restriction did God make respecting marriages +in Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let them marry to whom they think best; <hi rend='italic'>only to the family +of the tribe of their father shall they marry</hi>.</q> Num. 36:6. +</p> + +<p> +12. What prohibition did God give His chosen people against +intermarrying with the heathen nations about them, and why? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Neither shalt thou make marriages with them</hi>; thy daughter +thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou +take unto thy son. <hi rend='italic'>For they will turn away thy son from following +Me, that they may serve other gods</hi>: so will the anger of the +Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.</q> +Deut. 7:3, 4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Intermarriage +with the ungodly was the mistake made by +the professed people of God before the flood, and God did not wish Israel +to repeat that folly. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What instruction is given in the New Testament regarding +marriage with unbelievers? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers</hi>: for what +fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what +communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath +Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an +infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? +for ye are the temple of the living God.</q> 2 Cor. 6:14-16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +instruction forbids all compromising partnerships. +Marriage of believers with unbelievers has ever been a snare by which +Satan has captured many earnest souls who thought they could win the +unbelieving, but in most cases have themselves drifted away from the +<pb n='708'/><anchor id='Pg708'/> +moorings of faith into doubt, backsliding, and loss of religion. It was one +of Israel's constant dangers, against which God warned them repeatedly. +<q>Give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters +unto your sons, nor seek their peace [by such compromise] or their wealth +forever.</q> Ezra 9:12. See also Ex. 34:14-16; Judges 14:1-3; Ezra 9 +and 10; and Neh. 13:23-27. Even Solomon fell before the influence of +heathen wives. Concerning him the inspired Word has left this melancholy +record: <q>His wives turned away his heart after other gods.</q> 1 Kings +11:4. No Christian can marry an unbeliever without running serious risk, +and placing himself upon the enemy's ground. The Scriptures do not +advocate separation after the union has been formed (see 1 Cor. 7:2-16), +but good sense should teach us that faith can best be maintained, and +domestic happiness best insured, where both husband and wife are believers, +and of the same faith. Both ministers and parents, therefore, +should warn the young against all improper marriages. +</quote> + +<p> +14. What instruction did Abraham give his servant Eliezer +when sending him to select a wife for his son Isaac? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt take a wife for my son <hi rend='italic'>of my kindred, and of my +father's house</hi>.</q> Gen. 24:40. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +passage indicates that in early Bible times parents +generally had more to do in the selection of life companions for their children +than they commonly have now. Young people who are wise will +seek the advice and counsel of their parents, and above all, will seek to +know the will of God, before entering upon this important relationship, +with its grave responsibilities and its momentous consequences. +</quote> + +<p> +15. For how long does marriage bind the contracting parties? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the +law to her husband <hi rend='italic'>so long as he liveth</hi>.</q> Rom. 7:2. See 1 Cor. +7:39. +</p> + +<p> +16. What only does Christ recognize as proper ground for +dissolving the marriage relationship? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whosoever shall put away his wife, <hi rend='italic'>except it be for fornication</hi>, +and shall marry another, committeth adultery.</q> Matt. +19:9. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Civil +laws recognize other reasons as justifiable causes for +separation, such as extreme cruelty, habitual drunkenness, or other like +gross offenses; but only one offense, according to Christ, warrants the +complete annulment of the marriage tie. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>There is a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When two that are linked in one heavenly tie,</l> +<l>With heart never changing and brow never cold,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 48'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Moore.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='709'/><anchor id='Pg709'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>A Happy Home, And How To Make It</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus709.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Home Circle. +"Happy the home when God is there, And love fills every breast."</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Where and by whom were the foundations of home laid? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the Lord God</hi> planted +a garden eastward <hi rend='italic'>in Eden</hi>; and +<hi rend='italic'>there</hi> He put the man whom He had formed.</q> Gen. 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. In making this home, what besides man was needed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should +be alone; I will make him <hi rend='italic'>an help meet</hi> +[one <hi rend='italic'>adapted</hi>, or <hi rend='italic'>suitable</hi>] +<hi rend='italic'>for him</hi>.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +3. After creating Adam and Eve, what did God say to them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, <hi rend='italic'>Be fruitful, +and multiply, and replenish the earth</hi>.</q> Gen. 1:28. +</p> + +<p> +4. To what are the wife and children of the man who fears +the Lord likened? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy +wife shall be <hi rend='italic'>as a fruitful vine</hi> by the sides of thine house: thy +children <hi rend='italic'>like olive-plants</hi> round about thy table.</q> Ps. 128:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +5. What are children declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lo, children are <hi rend='italic'>an heritage of the Lord</hi>.</q> Ps. 127:3. +<q>Children's children are <hi rend='italic'>the crown of old men</hi>; and the glory of +children are their fathers.</q> Prov. 17:6. +</p> + +<p> +6. How should the wife relate herself to her husband? +</p> + +<pb n='710'/><anchor id='Pg710'/> + +<p> +<q>Wives, <hi rend='italic'>submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto +the Lord</hi>. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as +Christ is the head of the church.</q> Eph. 5:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +7. And how should husbands regard their wives? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Husbands, <hi rend='italic'>love your wives, even as Christ also loved the +church</hi>, and gave Himself for it.... So ought men to +<hi rend='italic'>love their wives as their own bodies</hi>. He that loveth his wife +loveth himself.... Let every one of you in particular +<hi rend='italic'>so love his wife even as himself</hi>; +and the wife see that she reverence +her husband.</q> Verses 25-33. +</p> + +<p> +8. Against what are husbands cautioned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Husbands, love your wives, and <hi rend='italic'>be not bitter against them</hi>.</q> +Col. 3:19. +</p> + +<p> +9. Why should wives be in subjection to their husbands? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; +<hi rend='italic'>that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be +won by the conversation</hi> [<hi rend='italic'>manner of +life</hi>] <hi rend='italic'>of the wives</hi>.</q> 1 Peter +3:1. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why should husbands be considerate of their wives? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to +knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, +and as being heirs together of the grace of life; <hi rend='italic'>that your prayers +be not hindered</hi>.</q> Verse 7. +</p> + +<p> +11. Why should children obey their parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Children, obey your parents in the Lord: <hi rend='italic'>for this is right</hi>.</q> +Eph. 6:1. +</p> + +<p> +12. How should parents bring up their children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: +but <hi rend='italic'>bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord</hi>.</q> +Verse 4. +</p> + +<p> +13. Why should fathers not provoke their children to anger? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, <hi rend='italic'>lest they be +discouraged</hi>.</q> Col. 3:21. +</p> + +<p> +14. By what means may the mother bind the hearts of the +loved ones at home together? +</p> + +<p> +<q>She openeth her mouth with <hi rend='italic'>wisdom</hi>; and in her tongue is +<hi rend='italic'>the law of kindness</hi>.</q> Prov. 31:26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>We want +to get into the hearts of our children if we hold +them, and help them, and bless them, and take +them to heaven with us.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Frances +Murphy.</hi> +</quote> + +<pb n='711'/><anchor id='Pg711'/> + +<p> +15. How will such a mother be regarded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Her children arise up, and <hi rend='italic'>call her blessed</hi>; her husband also, +and <hi rend='italic'>he praiseth her</hi>.</q> Verse 28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Show me +a loving husband, a worthy wife, and good children, +and no pair of horses that ever flew along the road could take me in a +year where I could see a more pleasing sight. Home is the grandest of all +institutions.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Spurgeon.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +16. How faithfully should parents teach the precepts and +commandments of God to their children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And thou shalt <hi rend='italic'>teach them diligently</hi> unto thy children, and +shalt talk of them <hi rend='italic'>when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou +walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou +risest up</hi>.</q> Deut. 6:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The +home should be made a school of instruction, rather +than a place of monotonous drudgery. The evenings should be cherished +as precious seasons, to be devoted to the instruction of the children in the +way of righteousness. But how many children are sadly neglected! They +are not educated in the home, that they may comprehend the truth of God, +and are not trained to love justice and to do judgment. They should be +patiently instructed, that they may understand the laws that govern +them, and that they may know the springs of their actions. They are +to be brought into harmony with the laws of heaven, to cherish the truth +as it is in Jesus. In this way they may be fitted to join the society of the +angels, and to stand in the presence of the adorable +Redeemer.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Sabbath +School Worker, August, 1896.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world +within a world, is spelled by four letters—home! If things go right +there, they go right everywhere; if things go wrong there, they go wrong +everywhere. The door-sill of the dwelling-house is the foundation of +church and state.... In other words, domestic life overarches and +undergirds all other life.... First, last, and all the time, have Christ +in your home.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Talmage.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +17. What is the great secret of a happy home? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Better is a dinner of herbs where <hi rend='italic'>love</hi> is, than a stalled ox +and hatred therewith.</q> Prov. 15:17. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Happy the home when God is there,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And love fills every breast;</l> +<l>When one their wish, and one their prayer,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And one their heavenly rest.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Happy the home where Jesus' name</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Is sweet to every ear;</l> +<l>Where children early lisp His fame,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And parents hold Him dear.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Happy the home where prayer is heard,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And praise is wont to rise;</l> +<l>Where parents love the Sacred Word,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And live but for the skies.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='712'/><anchor id='Pg712'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Religion In The Home</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus712.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Worship In A Cavalier's Home. +"First, last, and all the time, have Christ +in your home."—<hi rend='italic'>Talmage.</hi></head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How well acquainted is God with each individual's life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising. Thou +understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my +path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. +For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou +knowest it altogether.</q> Ps. 139:2-4. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is the beginning of wisdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>The fear of the Lord</hi> is the beginning of wisdom: a good +understanding have all they that do His commandments.</q> +Ps. 111:10. +</p> + +<p> +3. Upon whom is God's fury to be poured? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Pour out Thy fury upon <hi rend='italic'>the heathen that know Thee not, +and upon the families that call not on Thy name</hi>.</q> Jer. 10:25. +</p> + +<p> +4. How are parents instructed to bring up their children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but +<hi rend='italic'>bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord</hi>.</q> Eph. +6:4. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Religion +is love, and a religious home is one in which love +reigns. There must be love in action, love that flows out in all the home +intercourse, showing itself in a thousand little expressions of thoughtfulness, +kindness, unselfishness, and gentle courtesy.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Week-Day +Religion</q></hi> +by J. R. Miller, D. D., page 83. +</quote> + +<pb n='713'/><anchor id='Pg713'/> + +<p> +5. How faithfully should parents teach their children the +Word of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be +in thine heart: and <hi rend='italic'>thou shall teach them +diligently unto thy children</hi>, +and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, +and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, +and when thou risest up.</q> Deut. 6:6, 7. +</p> + +<p> +6. What is the value of proper early instruction? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Train up a child in the way he should go: and <hi rend='italic'>when he is +old, he will not depart from it</hi>.</q> Prov. 22:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—No man ever +said that he began the service of God too young. +No parent ever regretted bringing up his children to love, fear, honor, and +obey God. +</quote> + +<p> +7. How early were the Scriptures taught to Timothy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that <hi rend='italic'>from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures</hi>, +which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith +which is in Christ Jesus.</q> 2 Tim. 3:15. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Timothy's father +was a Greek, and his mother a Jewess. +From a child he had been taught the Scriptures. The faith of his mother +and of his grandmother in the Word of God had early been implanted in +him through their faithful instruction. 2 Tim. 1:5. The piety which he +saw in his home life had a molding influence upon his own life. This, with +his knowledge of the Scriptures, qualified him to bear responsibilities and +to render faithful service later in the cause of Christ. His home instructors +had cooperated with God in preparing him for a life of usefulness. +Thus it should be in every home. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Why did God confide in Abraham, and commit sacred +trusts to him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I know him, <hi rend='italic'>that he will command his children and his +household after him</hi>, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, +to do justice and judgment.</q> Gen. 18:19. +</p> + +<p> +9. Wherever Abraham went, what was his practise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called +upon the name of the Lord.</q> Gen. 12:8. See also Gen. 13:4; 21:33. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>The +manner in which the family worship is conducted is +very important. It should be made so pleasant as to be looked forward +to with gladness even by the youngest children. Too often it is made +tedious, monotonous, or burdensome.... To make it dull and irksome +is treason to true religion.... A few minutes given every day +to preparation for family worship will serve to make it, as it should be, the +most pleasant and attractive incident of the +day.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Week-Day Religion,</q></hi> +by J. R. Miller, D. D., pages 81-83. +</quote> + +<pb n='714'/><anchor id='Pg714'/> + +<p> +10. What instruction suggests the giving of thanks for +daily food? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>In everything give thanks</hi>: for this is the will of God in +Christ Jesus concerning you.</q> 1 Thess. 5:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As a rule, +children will reflect the life and principles manifested +in their parents. The reason why so many children are irreverent, +irreligious, and disobedient today is because their parents are so. +Like parent like child. If parents would see a different state of things, they +must themselves reform. They must bring God into their homes, and +make His Word their counselor and guide. They must teach their children +the fear of God, and that His Word is the voice of God addressed to them, +and that it is to be implicitly obeyed. <q>In too many households prayer +is neglected.... If ever there was a time when every house should +be a house of prayer, it is now. Fathers and mothers should often lift +up their hearts to God in humble supplication for themselves and their +children. Let the father, as priest of the household, lay upon the altar +of God the morning and evening sacrifice, while the wife and children unite +in prayer and praise. In such a household Jesus will love to +tarry.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Christian +Education,</q></hi> page 221. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Are all the children in? The night is falling,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And storm-clouds gather in the threatening west;</l> +<l>The lowing cattle seek a friendly shelter;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The bird hies to her nest;</l> +<l>The thunder crashes; wilder grows the tempest,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And darkness settles o'er the fearful din;</l> +<l>Come, shut the door, and gather round the hearthstone:</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Are all the children in?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Are all the children in? The night is falling,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When gilded sin doth walk about the streets.</l> +<l>O, <q>at the last it biteth like a serpent</q>!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Poisoned are stolen sweets.</l> +<l>O mothers, guard the feet of inexperience,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Too prone to wander in the paths of sin!</l> +<l>O, shut the door of love against temptation!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Are all the children in?</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Are all the children in? The night is falling,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The night of death is hastening on apace;</l> +<l>The Lord is calling, <q rend='pre'>Enter thou thy chamber,</q></l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'><q rend='post'>And tarry there a space.</q></l> +<l>And when He comes, the King in all His glory,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Who died the shameful death our hearts to win,</l> +<l>O, may the gates of heaven shut about us,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With all the children in!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 30'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Elizabeth Rosser.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='715'/><anchor id='Pg715'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Honor Due To Parents</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus715.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Washington And His Mother. +"Honor thy father and thy mother." +Ex. 20:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. By what is every child known? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Even a child is known <hi rend='italic'>by his doings</hi>, whether his work be +pure, and whether it be right.</q> Prov. 20:11. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is the duty of every child? +</p> + +<p> +<q>My son, <hi rend='italic'>hear the instruction +of thy father</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>forsake not +the law of thy mother</hi>.</q> Prov. 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +3. What does the fifth commandment require of children? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Honor thy father and thy mother</hi>: that thy days may be long +upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.</q> Ex. 20:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—While this +precept refers directly to our earthly parents, +it also includes God, our Father in heaven; for in honoring them we honor +Him. To the child too young to know God, the earthly parent takes the +place of God. Learning to honor, respect, and obey his earthly parents +is the child's first and most important lesson in learning to honor, respect, +and obey God, his Heavenly Parent. Benjamin Franklin well said: <q>Let a +child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +4. For how long a time should one honor his parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Harken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not +thy mother <hi rend='italic'>when she is old</hi>.</q> Prov. 23:22. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As long +as parents live, they should be honored and respected +by their children. The duty enjoined in the fifth commandment does not +cease at maturity, nor when the child leaves the parental roof. +</quote> + +<pb n='716'/><anchor id='Pg716'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus716.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Jesus With The Doctors In The Temple. +"And He went down with them [His parents], +and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto +them." Luke 2:51.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='717'/><anchor id='Pg717'/> + +<p> +5. What is the character of a child who will not listen to his +father's instruction? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A <hi rend='italic'>fool</hi> despiseth +his father's instruction: but he that regardeth +reproof is prudent.</q> Prov. 15:5. +</p> + +<p> +6. What course on the part of children is well-pleasing to +the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Children, <hi rend='italic'>obey your parents in +all things</hi>: for this is well-pleasing +unto the Lord.</q> Col. 3:20. +</p> + +<p> +7. In what spirit should children obey their parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Children, obey your parents <hi rend='italic'>in the Lord</hi>: for this is right.</q> +Eph. 6:1. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is one way in which a child may dishonor his +parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that is <hi rend='italic'>a companion of riotous men</hi> shameth his father.</q> +Prov. 28:7. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is said of one who robs his father or his mother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is +no transgression; <hi rend='italic'>the same is the companion of a destroyer</hi>.</q> +Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +10. How did Jesus honor His parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and +<hi rend='italic'>was subject unto them</hi>.</q> Luke 2:51. +</p> + +<p> +11. How did the Jewish leaders in the days of Christ, for the +sake of gain, make void the fifth commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, +<hi rend='italic'>It is a gift</hi>, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; and +honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have +ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.</q> +Matt. 15:5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The word +translated <hi rend='italic'>gift</hi> in this text means a thing dedicated +to God, and therefore not to be used for any other purpose. In this way +the Jewish teachers, by their traditional law, taught children that by saying +that their property was thus dedicated to the temple or to religious +purposes, they were free from the obligation to honor and support their +parents, thus making void one of the commandments of God. This Christ +condemned. +</quote> + +<p> +12. In what other way do some dishonor their father and +mother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There is a generation that <hi rend='italic'>curseth +their father</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>doth not +bless their mother</hi>.</q> Prov. 30:11. +</p> + +<pb n='718'/><anchor id='Pg718'/> + +<p> +13. What will be the fate of the one who curseth his father +or his mother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoso curseth his father or his mother, <hi rend='italic'>his lamp shall be +put out in obscure darkness</hi>.</q> <q>The eye that mocketh at his +father, and despiseth to obey his mother, <hi rend='italic'>the ravens of the valley +shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it</hi>.</q> Prov. 20:20; +30:17. +</p> + +<p> +14. What will be the reward of those who honor their +parents? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy father and thy mother: <hi rend='italic'>that thy days may be +long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +fulness of this promise will be realized in the life to come, +when the earth, restored to its Edenic beauty, will become the eternal +home of all those who have truly honored their parents and kept all God's +commandments. +</quote> + +<p> +15. What comment has the apostle Paul made upon this +commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy father and mother; <hi rend='italic'>which is the first commandment +with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest +live long on the earth</hi>.</q> Eph. 6:2, 3. +</p> + +<p> +16. In what age of the world is disobedience to parents +to be especially manifest? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This know also, that <hi rend='italic'>in the last days</hi> perilous times shall +come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, +boasters, proud, blasphemers, <hi rend='italic'>disobedient to parents</hi>, unthankful, +unholy.</q> 2 Tim. 3:1, 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Disobedience +to parents is a marked characteristic of the +present generation. Never before was it so common or so wide-spread. +The root of the evil, however, lies not so much in the children as in the +parents. Many of the latter are disobedient to God, their Father in heaven, +and so have failed to bring up their children in the fear of God and in the +ways of righteousness. Bible instruction, lessons of faith, and prayer must +not be neglected in the home if we would see obedient, God-fearing children +growing up in the world. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Who loved thee so fondly as he?</l> +<l>He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And joined in thy innocent glee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Be kind to thy mother, for lo! on her brow</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>May traces of sorrow be seen;</l> +<l>O well may'st thou cherish and comfort her now,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For loving and kind hath she been.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='719'/><anchor id='Pg719'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Child Training</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus719.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>His First Teacher. +"Bring them up in the nurture and admonition +of the Lord." Eph. 6:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How should parents train their children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Train up a child <hi rend='italic'>in the way he should go</hi>: and when he is old +he will not depart from it.</q> Prov. 22:6. <q>And, ye fathers, +provoke not your children to wrath: but <hi rend='italic'>bring them up in the nurture +and admonition of the Lord</hi>.</q> Eph. 6:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. How diligently should parents teach children God's Word? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in +thine heart: and <hi rend='italic'>thou +shall teach them diligently unto thy children</hi>.</q> +<q>Ye shall teach them your children, <hi rend='italic'>speaking of them +when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way +when thou liest down, and when thou risest up</hi>.</q> Deut. 6:6, 7. +11:19. +</p> + +<p> +3. What high ideal should be placed before the young? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let no man despise thy youth; but <hi rend='italic'>be thou an example of +the believers</hi>, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in +faith, in purity.</q> 1 Tim. 4:12. +</p> + +<p> +4. What duty does God require of children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy father and thy mother.</q> Ex. 20:12. +</p> + +<pb n='720'/><anchor id='Pg720'/> + +<p> +5. What is to be one of the prominent sins of the last days? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, +boasters, proud, blasphemers, <hi rend='italic'>disobedient to parents</hi>, unthankful, +unholy.</q> 2 Tim. 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why did God reprove Eli? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I +have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make +an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house forever +for the iniquity which he knoweth; <hi rend='italic'>because his sons made themselves +vile, and he restrained them not</hi>.</q> 1 Sam. 3:12, 13. +</p> + +<p> +7. How should the youth be taught to regard the aged? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt <hi rend='italic'>rise up before the hoary +head</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>honor the face +of the old man</hi>, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.</q> Lev. 19:32. +</p> + +<p> +8. What are some good fruits of proper child training? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Correct thy son, and <hi rend='italic'>he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give +delight unto thy soul</hi>.</q> Prov. 29:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What will result if correction is withheld? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The rod and reproof give wisdom: but <hi rend='italic'>a child left to himself +bringeth his mother to shame</hi>.</q> Verse 15. See Prov. 22:15. +</p> + +<p> +10. Is there danger of delaying correction too long? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Chasten thy son while there is hope</hi>, and let not thy soul spare +for his crying.</q> Prov. 19:18. See Prov. 23:13, 14. +</p> + +<p> +11. Does proper correction evidence a want of parental love? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but <hi rend='italic'>he that loveth +him chasteneth him betimes</hi>.</q> Prov. 13:24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—One +Christian mother writes thus concerning the importance +of child training: <q>Children who are allowed to come up to manhood or +womanhood with the will undisciplined and the passions uncontrolled, will +generally in after-life pursue a course which God condemns. The neglect +of parents to properly discipline their children has been a fruitful source +of evil in many families. The youth have not been restrained as they +should have been. Parents have neglected to follow the directions of the +Word of God in this matter, and the children have taken the reins of government +into their own hands. The consequence has been that they have +generally succeeded in ruling their parents, instead of being under their +authority. False ideas and a foolish, misdirected affection have nurtured +traits which have made the children unlovely and unhappy, have embittered +the lives of the parents, and have extended their baleful influence +from generation to generation. Any child that is permitted to have his +own way will dishonor God and bring his father and mother to shame.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +12. Whom does the Lord chasten? +</p> + +<pb n='721'/><anchor id='Pg721'/> + +<p> +<q>For whom the Lord <hi rend='italic'>loveth</hi> He chasteneth, and scourgeth +every son whom He receiveth.</q> Heb. 12:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From +this we may learn that all child training should be done +in love, and that proper child training is an evidence of true love. +</quote> + +<p> +13. Against what evil should fathers guard? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fathers, <hi rend='italic'>provoke not your children +to anger</hi>, lest they be discouraged.</q> +Col. 3:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Correction +should never be given in anger, for anger in the +parent stirs up anger in the child. It is well to pray with a child before +correcting him, and frequently mild but faithful instruction, admonition, +and prayer are all the training necessary,—are, in fact, the best training +that can be given. But in any case of perverseness, stubbornness, or wilful +disobedience, the correction, whatever it may be, should be persisted +in until the child yields submissively to the will and wishes of the parent. +It is best, generally, that correction should be done in private, as this tends +to preserve the self-respect of the child, a very important element in character +building. No correction nor training should be violent or abusive, +or given for the purpose of breaking the will of the child, but rather to +direct the will, bring it into proper subjection, and the child to a realizing +sense of what is right and duty. +</quote> + +<p> +14. How are the present effects and future results of chastisement +contrasted? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, +but <hi rend='italic'>grievous</hi>: nevertheless afterward +<hi rend='italic'>it yieldeth the peaceable +fruit of righteousness</hi> unto them which are exercised thereby.</q> +Heb. 12:11. +</p> + +<p> +15. What question must every unfaithful parent meet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful +flock?</q> Jer. 13:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Happy +will those parents be who can say, <q>Behold, here am +I and the children Thou gavest me.</q> See Isa. 8:18. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>The oldest university was not on India's strand,</l> +<l>Nor in the valley of the Nile, nor on Arabia's sand;</l> +<l>From time's beginning it has taught and still it teaches free</l> +<l>Its learning mild to every child—the school of Mother's Knee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The oldest school to teach the law, and teach it deeply, too,</l> +<l>Dividing what should not be done from what each one should do,</l> +<l>Was not in Rome nor Ispahan nor by the Euxine Sea;</l> +<l>But it held its sway ere history's day—the school of Mother's Knee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The oldest seminary, where theology was taught,</l> +<l>Where love to God, and reverent prayer, and the Eternal Ought</l> +<l>Were deep impressed on youthful hearts in pure sincerity,</l> +<l>Came to the earth with Abel's birth—the school of Mother's Knee.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The oldest, and the newest, too, it still maintains its place,</l> +<l>And from its classes, ever full, it graduates the race.</l> +<l>Without its teaching, where would all the best of living be?</l> +<l>'Twas planned by heaven this earth to leaven—the school of Mother's Knee.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='722'/><anchor id='Pg722'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus722.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Christ And His Mother. +"Blessed art thou among women." +Luke 1:28, 42.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='723'/><anchor id='Pg723'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Mother</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus723.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Manoah's Sacrifice. +"How shall we order the child, and how shall we +do unto him?" Judges 13:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. WHY did Adam call his wife's name Eve? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Adam called his wife's name Eve: <hi rend='italic'>because she was the +mother of all living</hi>.</q> Gen. 3:20. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—It is +said that the three sweetest words in any language are +mother, home, and heaven. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What did God say to Abraham concerning his wife, +Sarah? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, +I will bless her, and <hi rend='italic'>she shall be a mother of nations</hi>; kings of +people shall be of her.</q> Gen. 17:16. +</p> + +<p> +3. What commandment guards the honor of the mother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy father and thy <hi rend='italic'>mother</hi>.</q> Ex. 20:12. +</p> + +<p> +4. How early did Hannah dedicate her son Samuel to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou +wilt indeed ... give unto thine handmaid a man child, +then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life.</q> +1 Sam. 1:11. +</p> + +<p> +5. To whom did God commit the care and early training of +His only begotten Son? +</p> + +<pb n='724'/><anchor id='Pg724'/> + +<p> +<q>And when they were come into the house, they saw the +young child with <hi rend='italic'>Mary His mother</hi>, and fell down, and worshiped +Him.</q> Matt. 2:11. +</p> + +<p> +6. Under the influence of her tender care and faithful instruction, +what is said of the child life of Jesus? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with +wisdom: and the grace of God was upon Him.... And +Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God +and man.</q> Luke 2:40-52. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>The +hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the +world.</q> +</p> + +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>A mother is a mother still,</q></l> +<l><q rend='post'>The holiest thing on earth.</q></l> +</lg> + +<p> +A Christian mother, above all others, can deeply implant and faithfully +cherish the seeds of truth in the young and tender heart. More even than +the father, the mother molds the life, character, and destiny of man. +Every stage and phase of life is touched and influenced by her. Infancy, +childhood, youth, manhood, and old age alike center in her. She is both +the morning and the evening star of life,—the angel spirit of the home. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +7. What tender, filial regard did Christ manifest for His +mother in the hour of His death? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple +standing by, whom He loved [John], He saith unto His mother, +<hi rend='italic'>Woman, behold thy son!</hi> Then +saith He to the disciple, <hi rend='italic'>Behold +thy mother!</hi> And from that hour that disciple took her +unto his own home.</q> John 19:26, 27. +</p> + +<p> +8. How early did Timothy know the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And that <hi rend='italic'>from a child</hi> thou hast known the Holy Scriptures.</q> +2 Tim. 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +9. What is said of his mother and his grandmother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When I call to remembrance <hi rend='italic'>the unfeigned faith</hi> that is in +thee, <hi rend='italic'>which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother +Eunice</hi>.</q> 2 Tim. 1:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—No +position in life is superior to that of the mother, no +influence more potent for good or evil. <q>All that I am or hope to be, I +owe to my mother,</q> said Abraham Lincoln. <q>All that I have ever accomplished +in life, I owe to my mother,</q> declared D. L. Moody. <q>A kiss +from my mother,</q> said Benjamin West, <q>made me a painter.</q> <q>My +mother was the making of me,</q> declares the noted inventor, Thomas A. +Edison. And Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire, who gave his mother his +earnings when a boy, adds, <q>I am deeply touched by the remembrance +of one to whom I owe everything that a wise mother ever gave to a son +who adored her.</q> It has been truly said that the home is the primeval +school, the best, the most hallowed, and the most potential of all academies, +and that the mother is the first, the most influential, and therefore the +most important of all teachers. See poem on page <ref target='Pg721'>721</ref>. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='725'/><anchor id='Pg725'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Teaching The Children</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus725.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Child Timothy. +"From a child thou hast known the Holy +Scriptures, which are able to make thee +wise unto salvation." 2 Tim. 3:15.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What should be the prayer of every parent? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O my Lord, ... teach us what we shall do unto the +child that shall be born.</q> Judges 13:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This is +a part of the prayer of Manoah, the father of Samson. +</quote> + +<p> +2. How should our children be taught? +</p> + +<p> +<q>All thy children shall be <hi rend='italic'>taught of the Lord</hi>; and great shall +be the peace of thy children.</q> Isa. 54:13. +</p> + +<p> +3. What will happen if a child is not properly instructed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A child left to himself <hi rend='italic'>bringeth his mother to shame</hi>.</q> +Prov. 29:15. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did Solomon's parents regard him as a child? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I was my father's <hi rend='italic'>son, tender and only beloved</hi> in the sight +of my mother.</q> Prov. 4:3. +</p> + +<p> +5. What does Solomon say his father did for him as a child? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He <hi rend='italic'>taught me also</hi>, and +said unto me, <hi rend='italic'>Let thine heart retain +my words; keep my commandments, and live</hi>.</q> Prov. 4:4. +</p> + +<pb n='726'/><anchor id='Pg726'/> + +<p> +6. From what time does David say he himself was taught? +</p> + +<p> +<q>O God, Thou hast taught me <hi rend='italic'>from my youth</hi>.</q> Ps. 71:17. +</p> + +<p> +7. How should all Christian parents bring up their children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring +them up <hi rend='italic'>in the nurture and admonition of the Lord</hi>.</q> Eph. 6:4. +</p> + +<p> +8. How was Moses taught during the days of his early +childhood? +</p> + +<p> +<hi rend='italic'>By faith</hi>, under the instruction of a devoted mother. See +Heb. 11:23; Ex. 2:1-10. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The hiding +of Moses was at the time when Pharaoh, king of +Egypt, had issued a decree that every Hebrew male child should be killed +as soon as he was born, to prevent too rapid an increase of the Hebrews. +The second chapter of Exodus tells the story of the finding of Moses by the +king's daughter, and his being brought up by his own mother employed as +a nurse. She was a woman of faith, and her teaching of Moses was such +that after he had been at the Egyptian court till he <q>was come to years,</q> +he chose to suffer affliction with God's people rather than to enjoy the +honor of succeeding to the throne of Egypt as the adopted heir. He became +the leader of God's people when they escaped from the Egyptian +bondage, and after he died, he was raised to life and taken to heaven. See +Heb. 11:24-26; Jude 9; Matt. 17:1-3. +</quote> + +<p> +9. How was Joseph regarded by his father? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Israel <hi rend='italic'>loved Joseph</hi> more than all his children, because he +was the son of his old age.</q> Gen. 37:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +wonderful record of Joseph's life, found in Genesis 37-50, +shows that he lived intimately with his father till he was seventeen years +of age. He must have been carefully taught of God also, for in all his +marvelous experience as slave, prisoner, and premier of Egypt, he remained +true to his heavenly Father, not a single sin being recorded of him +to the day of his death. +</quote> + +<p> +10. How was Esther brought up? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He [Mordecai the Jew] brought up Hadassah, that is, +Esther, his uncle's daughter, ... when her father and mother +were dead.</q> Esther 2:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Mordecai +was a man who feared and served God, as is shown +by his wise and courageous counsel to Esther, and by his own Christian +conduct when the lives of both were at stake in their efforts to save the +people of God from destruction while in captivity in Medo-Persia. He +undoubtedly taught Esther from childhood to fear and serve God. Otherwise +she would not have met the crisis with such fearless courage and such +confidence in God. +</quote> + +<p> +11. After she became queen of Persia, how did Esther show +her integrity to God? +</p> + +<p> +By risking her life to save her own people. +<pb n='727'/><anchor id='Pg727'/> +<q>Then Esther bade them [the messengers] return Mordecai +this answer: Go, gather together all the Jews that are present +in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three +days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; +and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the +law: and if I perish, I perish.</q> Esther 4:15, 16. +</p> + +<p> +12. How early does Paul say Timothy was instructed? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>From a child</hi> thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which +are able to make thee wise unto salvation.</q> 2 Tim. 3:15. +</p> + +<p> +13. How earnestly should parents teach their children the +things of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou shalt teach them <hi rend='italic'>diligently</hi> unto thy children.</q> <q>Ye +shall teach them your children, speaking of them <hi rend='italic'>when thou sittest +in thine house</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>when +thou walkest by the way</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>when thou +liest down</hi>, and <hi rend='italic'>when thou risest up</hi>.</q> Deut. 6:7; 11:19. +</p> + +<p> +14. What reward in this life is promised the faithful +mother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband +also, and he praiseth her.</q> Prov. 31:28. +</p> + +<p> +15. What beautiful picture of home life is drawn by the +psalmist for the father who fears the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the side of thine +house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. +Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the +Lord.</q> Ps. 128:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +16. What motive will inspire all true parents to faithfulness +in teaching their children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; +that our daughters may be as corner-stones, polished after the +similitude of a palace.</q> Ps. 144:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—We often +hear the saying, <q>The hand that rocks the cradle +rules the world.</q> This is not out of keeping with the saying of the wise +man, <q>Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he +will not depart from it.</q> Prov. 22:6. No father or mother knows the +future of the little child prattling about the home circle. But God knows, +as He did in the cases of Moses and Esther and Timothy. Whether it is +His purpose for some of our children to rule the world, as did Joseph and +Daniel virtually, as prime ministers; or for some of them to <q>stand before +kings,</q> as did Moses and Esther and Daniel; or for some of them to serve +and suffer for the name of Christ, as did Peter and John and Paul, it is +our sacred privilege to teach the children faithfully and diligently during +their tender years. +</quote> + +<pb n='728'/><anchor id='Pg728'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus728.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Christ Blessing Little Children. +"Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me." +Matt. 19:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='729'/><anchor id='Pg729'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Promises For The Children</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus729.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Eli And Samuel. +"Of such is the kingdom of heaven." +Matt. 19:14.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What is said of the fifth commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy father and mother; which is <hi rend='italic'>the first commandment +with promise</hi>.</q> Eph. 6:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. What is promised those who honor their father and their +mother? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Honor thy father and thy mother: <hi rend='italic'>that thy days may be +long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee</hi>.</q> Ex. +20:12. +</p> + +<p> +3. What does God desire to teach the children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Come, ye children, harken unto Me: <hi rend='italic'>I will teach you the +fear of the Lord</hi>.</q> Ps. 34:11. +</p> + +<p> +4. What is the fear of the Lord declared to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The fear of the Lord is <hi rend='italic'>the beginning of wisdom</hi>: a good +understanding have all they that do His commandments.</q> Ps. +111:10. +</p> + +<p> +5. What is said of the poor but wise child? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Better</hi> is a +poor and a wise child <hi rend='italic'>than an old and foolish +king</hi>, who will no more be admonished.</q> Eccl. 4:13. +</p> + +<pb n='730'/><anchor id='Pg730'/> + +<p> +6. How did Christ show His tender regard for children? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto Me</hi>: +for of such is the kingdom of heaven.</q> Matt. 19:14. +</p> + +<p> +7. How did He show that He loved them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon +them, and blessed them.</q> Mark 10:16. +</p> + +<p> +8. With what promise do the Old Testament Scriptures +close? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the +coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and <hi rend='italic'>he shall +turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children +to their fathers</hi>, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.</q> +Mal. 4:5, 6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From this +we learn that while disobedience to parents and the +breaking up of home ties will characterize the last days (2 Tim. 3:1-3; Matt. +24:37-39; Gen. 6:1, 2), God's message for the last days will strengthen the +cords of love and affection, and bind the hearts of parents and children +together. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What peaceful, happy conditions will prevail in the next +world as compared with those of this life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They shall not labor in vain, <hi rend='italic'>nor bring forth for trouble</hi>; +for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and <hi rend='italic'>their offspring +with them</hi>.</q> <q><hi rend='italic'>The sucking child shall play on the hole of +the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' +den.</hi> They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: +for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the +waters cover the sea.</q> Isa. 65:23; 11:8, 9. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>A pair of very chubby legs</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Incased in scarlet hose,</l> +<l>A pair of little stubby boots</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With rather doubtful toes,</l> +<l>A little kilt, a little coat,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Cut as a mother can—</l> +<l>And, lo! before us strides in state</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The future's <q>coming man.</q></l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ah! blessings on those little hands,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Whose work is yet undone,</l> +<l>And blessings on those little feet,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Whose race is yet unrun.</l> +<l>And blessings on the little brain,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That has not learned to plan.</l> +<l>Whatever the future holds in store,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>God bless the <q>coming man.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='731'/><anchor id='Pg731'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Evils Of City Life</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus731.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Burning Of Sodom. +"And Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain." +Gen. 13:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. When Abraham told Lot to choose that part of the +country which he preferred, what choice did Lot make? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of +Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord +destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord.... +<hi rend='italic'>Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan.</hi></q> Gen. 13:10, +11. +</p> + +<p> +2. Where did Lot dwell? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and <hi rend='italic'>Lot dwelled in the +cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +3. What was the character of the inhabitants of Sodom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the men of Sodom were <hi rend='italic'>wicked and sinners before the +Lord exceedingly</hi>.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +<p> +4. What further description is given of this city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, <hi rend='italic'>pride</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>fulness of bread</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>abundance of idleness</hi> was in her and in her +daughters, <hi rend='italic'>neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and +needy</hi>. And they were <hi rend='italic'>haughty</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>committed abomination</hi> +before Me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.</q> Eze. +16:49, 50. See Gen. 19:1-9. +</p> + +<p> +5. How did their conduct affect Lot? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And delivered just Lot, <hi rend='italic'>vexed with the filthy conversation of +<pb n='732'/><anchor id='Pg732'/> +the wicked</hi>: (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in +seeing and hearing, <hi rend='italic'>vexed his righteous soul from day to day with +their unlawful deeds</hi>).</q> 2 Peter 2:7, 8. +</p> + +<p> +6. Before destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, whom did the +Lord send to deliver Lot and his family? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there came <hi rend='italic'>two angels</hi> to Sodom at even.... +And the men [angels] said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? +son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever +thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place: for we will +destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before +the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.</q> +Gen. 19:1-13. +</p> + +<p> +7. What did Lot do, and how were his efforts rewarded? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Lot went out, and <hi rend='italic'>spake unto his sons-in-law</hi>, which +married his daughters, and said, <hi rend='italic'>Up, get you out of this place</hi>; +for the Lord will destroy this city. <hi rend='italic'>But he seemed as one that +mocked unto his sons-in-law.</hi></q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +8. What did the angels say to Lot the next morning? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here</hi>; +lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.... +<hi rend='italic'>Escape for thy life; look not behind thee</hi>, neither stay thou in +all the plain; <hi rend='italic'>escape to the mountain</hi>, lest thou be consumed.</q> +Verses 15-17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What then took place? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah +brimstone and fire</hi> from the Lord out of heaven; and He overthrew +those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the +cities, and that which grew upon the ground.</q> Verses 24, 25. +</p> + +<p> +10. Because she disregarded the instruction given by the +angels, what became of Lot's wife? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But his wife looked back from behind him, and <hi rend='italic'>she became +a pillar of salt</hi>.</q> Verse 26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As a +result of choosing a city life, Lot lost nearly all his family. +</quote> + +<p> +11. Foretelling the condition of the world previous to His +second advent, to what did Christ liken it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Likewise also <hi rend='italic'>as it was in the days of Lot</hi>; they did eat, they +drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but +the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone +from heaven, and destroyed them all. <hi rend='italic'>Even thus shall it +be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.</hi></q> Luke 17:28-30. +</p> + +<pb n='733'/><anchor id='Pg733'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The cities +of today are fast becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah—centers +and sink-holes of vice, pride, violence, confusion, and crime. +The cities of the United States, while containing only about one half the +population of the country, furnish ninety-seven per cent of the crime. Out +of 268 boys in the Kansas State Reform School a few years ago, all but +three came from cities. In New York City a murder is committed every +thirty-six hours. The numerous holidays, the whirl of excitement, pleasure, +and sports, theatergoing, horse-racing, gambling, liquor drinking, and reveling +in the cities, attract thousands from the sober duties of life, and stimulate +every evil passion to activity. What a poor place, therefore, are the +cities of today in which to rear a family! Too many, like Lot, have pitched +their tent toward Sodom. +</quote> + +<p> +12. Of what is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah a +type? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes +condemned them with an overthrow, <hi rend='italic'>making them an ensample +unto those that after should live ungodly</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 2:6. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The destruction +of such cities as Sodom and Gomorrah, +Babylon and Jerusalem, is set forth as a type of the destruction awaiting +the world. Says one writer: <q>The time is near when the large cities will +be visited by the judgments of God. In a little while these cities will be +terribly shaken. No matter how large or strong their buildings, no matter +how many safeguards against fire may have been provided, let God touch +these buildings and in a few minutes or in a few hours they will be in ruins. +The ungodly cities of our world are to be swept away by the besom of +destruction. In the calamities that are now befalling immense buildings +and large portions of the cities, God is showing us what will come upon +the whole earth.</q> The destruction of the great cities now almost wholly +given up to sinful pleasure, pride, mammon-worship, and idolatry, is impending. +It is time, therefore, that those who are really in earnest concerning +their children's salvation begin to think about leaving these cities. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What is to take place under the seventh plague? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; +... and there was <hi rend='italic'>a great earthquake</hi>, such as was not since +men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so +great.... <hi rend='italic'>And the cities of the nations fell.</hi></q> Rev. 16:17-19. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>How prone are professors to rest on their lees,</l> +<l>To study their pleasure, their profit and ease!</l> +<l>Though God says: <q rend='pre'>Arise, and escape for thy life,</q></l> +<l><q rend='post'>And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife.</q></l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Awake from thy slumbers, the warning believe;</l> +<l>'Tis Jesus that calls you, the message receive;</l> +<l>While dangers are pending, escape for thy life!</l> +<l>And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The ways of religion true pleasure afford,</l> +<l>No pleasures can equal the joys of the Lord;</l> +<l>Forsake then the world, and escape for thy life,</l> +<l>And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='734'/><anchor id='Pg734'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Purity</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus734.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Pharisees Accusing The Woman. +"He that is without sin among you, let him +first cast a stone at her." John 8:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did Christ say of the pure in heart? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.</q> +Matt. 5:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did He declare to be a violation of the seventh +commandment? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou +shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That <hi rend='italic'>whosoever +looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with +her already in his heart</hi>.</q> Verses 27, 28. +</p> + +<p> +3. What exhortations did the apostle Paul give Timothy? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Flee also youthful lusts.</q> 2 Tim. 2:22. <q>Keep thyself +pure.</q> 1 Tim. 5:22. +</p> + +<p> +4. To whom are all things pure? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Unto the pure all things are pure</hi>: but unto them that are +defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and +conscience is defiled.</q> Titus 1:15. +</p> + +<p> +5. When tempted to sin, what noble example did Joseph set? +</p> + +<pb n='735'/><anchor id='Pg735'/> + +<p> +<q>How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against +God?</q> Gen. 39:9. +</p> + +<p> +6. Against what are the people of God warned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>fornication</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>all uncleanness</hi>, or covetousness, <hi rend='italic'>let +it not be once named among you</hi>, as becometh saints; <hi rend='italic'>neither +filthiness</hi>, nor <hi rend='italic'>foolish talking</hi>, +nor <hi rend='italic'>jesting</hi>, which are not convenient: +but rather giving of thanks.</q> Eph. 5:3, 4. +</p> + +<p> +7. What are mentioned as works of the flesh? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: +<hi rend='italic'>Adultery</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>fornication</hi>, +<hi rend='italic'>uncleanness</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>lasciviousness</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:19. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is said of those who do such things? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They which do such things <hi rend='italic'>shall not inherit the kingdom of +God</hi>.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +9. Against keeping company with whom are we warned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now I have written unto you not to keep company, +if any man that is called a brother be +<hi rend='italic'>a fornicator</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why are evil associations to be avoided? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not deceived: <hi rend='italic'>evil communications corrupt good manners</hi>.</q> +1 Cor. 15:33. +</p> + +<p> +11. What inexorable law is laid down in the Scriptures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for <hi rend='italic'>whatsoever a man +soweth, that shall he also reap</hi>. For he that soweth to his flesh +shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the +Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.</q> Gal. 6:7, 8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>Keep virtue's simple path before your eyes,</q></l> +<l><q rend='post'>Nor think from evil good can +ever rise.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Thomson.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +12. Instead of sanctioning evil, what should we do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, +but rather <hi rend='italic'>reprove them</hi>. For it is a shame even to speak of +those things which are done of them in secret.</q> Eph. 5:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +13. How should we guard our conversation? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth</hi>, +but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister +grace unto the hearers.</q> Eph. 4:29. +</p> + +<p> +14. What scripture shows that social impurity was one of +the chief sins which brought on the deluge? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the +<pb n='736'/><anchor id='Pg736'/> +face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the +sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and +<hi rend='italic'>they took them wives of all which they chose</hi>.... And God +saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that +<hi rend='italic'>every imagination of the thoughts +of his heart was only evil continually</hi>.... +And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom +I have created from the face of the earth.... The earth +also was <hi rend='italic'>corrupt</hi> before +God, and the earth was filled with violence.</q> +Gen. 6:1-11. +</p> + +<p> +15. What was the character of the inhabitants of Sodom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the men of Sodom were <hi rend='italic'>wicked and sinners</hi> before the +Lord exceedingly.</q> Gen. 13:13. <q>And they were <hi rend='italic'>haughty</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>committed abomination</hi> before Me: therefore I took them +away as I saw good.</q> Eze. 16:50. See also verse 49. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Gen. +19:1-9 and 2 Peter 2:6-8 show that they were exceedingly +corrupt in morals. +</quote> + +<p> +16. What did Christ say would be the condition of the world +at His second advent? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>As it was in the days of Noe</hi>, so shall it be also in the days +of the Son of man.... Likewise also <hi rend='italic'>as it was in the days +of Lot</hi>; ... even thus shall it be in the day when the Son +of man is revealed.</q> Luke 17:26-30. +</p> + +<p> +17. What does the Lord call upon the wicked man to do? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Let the wicked <hi rend='italic'>forsake his way</hi>, and the unrighteous man +his <hi rend='italic'>thoughts</hi>: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have +mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.</q> +Isa. 55:7. +</p> + +<p> +18. What are the proper things to engage one's mind? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are <hi rend='italic'>true</hi>, whatsoever +things are <hi rend='italic'>honest</hi>, whatsoever +things are <hi rend='italic'>just</hi>, whatsoever things +are <hi rend='italic'>pure</hi>, whatsoever things +are <hi rend='italic'>lovely</hi>, whatsoever things are of +<hi rend='italic'>good report</hi>; if there be any +<hi rend='italic'>virtue</hi>, and if there be any <hi rend='italic'>praise, +think on these things</hi>.</q> Phil. 4:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +greatest foes to social purity are immoral associates, +impure literature, improper dress, idleness, intemperance, and theater-going, +including questionable picture shows, all of which are confined +almost exclusively to city life. For this reason parents should look well +to their children's home life; their companions; the books, papers, and +magazines they read; how their time is occupied; what they eat, drink, +and wear; where they spend their nights; and the character of their amusements. +<q>Pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness</q> were contributing +causes to the gross immorality of Sodom, and its consequent +downfall. Eze. 16:49, 50. +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='737'/><anchor id='Pg737'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XVII. Health and Temperance</head> + +<pb n='738'/><anchor id='Pg738'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus738.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Life In The Country. +"I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper +and be in health." 3 John 2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='739'/><anchor id='Pg739'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Good Health</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus739.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Family Table. +"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, ... do +all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What did the apostle John wish concerning Gaius? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beloved, I wish above all things <hi rend='italic'>that thou mayest prosper +and be in health</hi>, even as thy soul prospereth.</q> 3 John 2. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did God promise His people anciently? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless +thy bread, and thy water; and <hi rend='italic'>I will take sickness away from the +midst of thee</hi>.</q> Ex. 23:25. +</p> + +<p> +3. Upon what conditions was freedom from disease promised? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>If thou wilt diligently harken to the voice of the Lord thy God, +and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His +commandments, and keep all His statutes</hi>, I will put none of these +diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: +for I am the Lord that healeth thee.</q> Ex. 15:26. +</p> + +<p> +4. What does the psalmist say the Lord does for His people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; <hi rend='italic'>who +healeth all thy diseases</hi>.</q> +Ps. 103:3. +</p> + +<p> +5. What constituted a large part of Christ's ministry? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who went about doing good, and <hi rend='italic'>healing all that were oppressed +of the devil</hi>.</q> Acts 10:38. See Luke 13:16. <q>And +Jesus went about all Galilee, ... <hi rend='italic'>healing all manner of sickness +and all manner of disease among the people</hi>.</q> Matt. 4:23. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why should the health of the body be preserved? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye are bought with a price: therefore <hi rend='italic'>glorify God in +<pb n='740'/><anchor id='Pg740'/> +your body</hi>, and in your spirit, which are God's.</q> 1 Cor. 6:20. +</p> + +<p> +7. What is the body of the believer said to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>What? know ye not that <hi rend='italic'>your body is the temple of the Holy +Ghost</hi> which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your +own?</q> Verse 19. +</p> + +<p> +8. What will God do to those who defile this temple? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If any man defile the temple of God, <hi rend='italic'>him shall God destroy</hi>; +for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.</q> 1 Cor. +3:17. +</p> + +<p> +9. What example did Daniel set in this matter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Daniel purposed in his heart <hi rend='italic'>that he would not defile +himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which +he drank</hi>.</q> Dan. 1:8. +</p> + +<p> +10. With what food did he ask to be provided? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and <hi rend='italic'>let them +give us pulse to eat, and water to drink</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +11. What was the original diet prescribed for man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said, Behold, I have given you <hi rend='italic'>every herb bearing +seed</hi>, which is upon the face of all the earth, +and <hi rend='italic'>every tree, in the +which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed</hi>; to you it shall be for +meat.</q> Gen. 1:29. +</p> + +<p> +12. Why did the Lord restrict the Hebrews in their diet? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the +Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself</hi>, above +all the nations that are upon the earth. Thou shalt not eat any +abominable thing.</q> Deut. 14:2, 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Both mind and body are affected by the food we eat. +</quote> + +<p> +13. What effect does cheerfulness have upon the health? +</p> + +<p> +<q>A merry heart <hi rend='italic'>doeth good</hi> like a medicine.</q> Prov. 17:22. +</p> + +<p> +14. How did the Saviour provide rest for His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a +desert place, and <hi rend='italic'>rest awhile</hi>.</q> Mark 6:31. +</p> + +<p> +15. How are we exhorted to present our bodies to God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I beseech you ... that ye <hi rend='italic'>present your bodies a living +sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God</hi>.</q> Rom. 12:1. +</p> + +<p> +16. What high purpose should control our habits of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, +<hi rend='italic'>do all to the glory of God</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 10:31. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='741'/><anchor id='Pg741'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Christian Temperance</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus741.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Signing The Pledge. +"Daniel purposed in his heart that he would +not defile himself." Dan. 1:8.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Concerning what did Paul reason before Felix? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He reasoned of righteousness, <hi rend='italic'>temperance</hi>, and judgment +to come.</q> Acts 24:25. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Temperance means +habitual moderation and control in the +indulgence of the appetites and passions; in other words, self-control. +</quote> + +<p> +2. Of what is temperance a fruit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>the fruit of the Spirit</hi> is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, +gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, <hi rend='italic'>temperance</hi>.</q> Gal. 5:22, +23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>Temperance +puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, +flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment +in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in +the body.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Benjamin +Franklin.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +3. Where in Christian growth and experience is temperance +placed by the apostle Peter? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and +to knowledge <hi rend='italic'>temperance</hi>; and to temperance patience; and to +patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to +brotherly kindness charity.</q> 2 Peter 1:5-7. See page <ref target='Pg542'>542</ref>. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Temperance is +rightly placed here as to order. Knowledge +is a prerequisite to temperance, and temperance to patience. It is very +difficult for an intemperate person to be patient. +</quote> + +<p> +4. What is said of those who strive for the mastery? +</p> + +<pb n='742'/><anchor id='Pg742'/> + +<p> +<q>And every man that striveth for the mastery is <hi rend='italic'>temperate +in all things</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 9:25. +</p> + +<p> +5. In running the Christian race, what did Paul say he did? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection</hi>: lest +that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself +should be a castaway.</q> Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +6. Why are kings and rulers admonished to be temperate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>It is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong +drink: lest they drink, and <hi rend='italic'>forget the law, and pervert the judgment +of any of the afflicted</hi>.</q> Prov. 31:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +7. Why were priests forbidden to use intoxicating drink +while engaged in the sanctuary service? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine +nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into +the tabernacle: ... <hi rend='italic'>that ye may put difference between holy +and unholy, and between unclean and clean</hi>.</q> Lev. 10:8-10. +</p> + +<p> +8. Why is indulgence in strong drink dangerous? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And be not drunk with wine, <hi rend='italic'>wherein is excess</hi>; but be +filled with the Spirit.</q> Eph. 5:18. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +danger in the indulgence of stimulating foods and drinks +is that they create an unnatural appetite and thirst, thus leading to excess. +Both food and drink should be nourishing and non-stimulating. +</quote> + +<p> +9. For what should men eat and drink? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, +and thy princes eat in due season, <hi rend='italic'>for strength</hi>, and not for +drunkenness!</q> Eccl. 10:17. +</p> + +<p> +10. Why did Daniel refuse the food and wine of the king? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But Daniel purposed in his heart <hi rend='italic'>that he would not defile +himself</hi> with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine +which he drank.</q> Dan. 1:8. See Judges 13:4. +</p> + +<p> +11. Instead of these, what did he request? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them +give us <hi rend='italic'>pulse to eat</hi>, and +<hi rend='italic'>water to drink</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +12. At the end of the ten days' test, how did he and his companions +appear? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared +<hi rend='italic'>fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the +portion of the king's meat</hi>.</q> Verse 15. +</p> + +<p> +13. At the end of their three years' course in the school of +<pb n='743'/><anchor id='Pg743'/> +Babylon, how did the wisdom of Daniel and his companions +compare with that of others? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now at the end of the days ... the king communed +with them; <hi rend='italic'>and among them all was found none like Daniel, +Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah</hi>: ... and in all matters +of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, +<hi rend='italic'>he found them ten times better</hi> +than all the magicians and astrologers +that were in all his realm.</q> Verses 18-20. +</p> + +<p> +14. What warning is given against leading others into intemperance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest +thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken.</q> Hab. 2:15. +</p> + +<p> +15. What kind of professed Christians are not fellowshiped? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now I have written unto you not to keep company, +if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, +or an idolater, or a railer, or a <hi rend='italic'>drunkard</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +16. Can drunkards enter the kingdom of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, ... nor thieves, +nor covetous, nor <hi rend='italic'>drunkards</hi>, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall +inherit the kingdom of God.</q> 1 Cor. 6:9, 10. See Rev. 21:27. +</p> + +<p> +17. For what perfection of character did the apostle pray? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray +God <hi rend='italic'>your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless</hi> +unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.</q> 1 Thess. 5:23. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—For +notable examples of total abstinence in the Bible, see the +wife of Manoah, the mother of Samson (Judges 13:4, 12-14); Hannah, +the mother of Samuel (1 Sam. 1:15); the Rechabites (Jer. 35:1-10); +and John the Baptist (Luke 1:13-15). +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +Song Of The Rye +</p> + +<lg> +<l>I was made to be eaten,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And not to be drank;</l> +<l>To be threshed in the barn,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Not soaked in a tank.</l> +<l>I come as a blessing</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When put through a mill;</l> +<l>As a blight and a curse</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>When run through a still.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Make me up into loaves,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And your children are fed;</l> +<l>But if into drink,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I'll starve them instead.</l> +<l>In bread I'm a servant,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The eater shall rule;</l> +<l>In drink I am master,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The drinker a fool.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='744'/><anchor id='Pg744'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus744.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Two Robbers. +"Your money and your life."</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='745'/><anchor id='Pg745'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Evils Of Intemperance</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus745.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Home Destroyer. +"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow?... they +that tarry long at the wine." Prov. 23:29, 30.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What do the Scriptures say of wine? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wine is a <hi rend='italic'>mocker</hi>, strong drink +is <hi rend='italic'>raging</hi>: and whosoever +is <hi rend='italic'>deceived</hi> thereby is not wise.</q> Prov. 20:1. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—All +intoxicating drinks are deceptive. They seem to give +strength, but in reality cause weakness; they seem to create heat, but in +fact lower the general temperature; they seem to impart vitality, but +really destroy life; they seem to promote happiness, but cause the greatest +unhappiness and misery. To intemperance may be attributed much of +the world's sorrow. +</quote> + +<p> +2. What is one of the evil results of intemperance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: +for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to <hi rend='italic'>poverty</hi>.</q> Prov. +23:20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +3. What are other evil effects of intemperance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Whoredom and wine and new wine <hi rend='italic'>take away the heart</hi>.</q> +Hosea 4:11. <q>They also have <hi rend='italic'>erred</hi> through wine, and through +strong drink are out of the way; ... they err in <hi rend='italic'>vision</hi>, +they stumble in <hi rend='italic'>judgment</hi>.</q> Isa. 28:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—<q>One +of the subtlest effects of this many-sided drug is to +produce a craving for itself, while weakening the will that could resist +that craving.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Alcohol,</q> by Dr. Williams, page 48.</hi> +</quote> + +<p> +4. With what sins is drunkenness classed? +</p> + +<pb n='746'/><anchor id='Pg746'/> + +<p> +<q>Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, +witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, +heresies, envyings, murders, <hi rend='italic'>drunkenness</hi>, revelings, and such +like.</q> Gal. 5:19-21. +</p> + +<p> +5. What are common accompaniments of intemperance? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who hath <hi rend='italic'>woe</hi>? who hath +<hi rend='italic'>sorrow</hi>? who hath <hi rend='italic'>contentions</hi>? +who hath <hi rend='italic'>babbling</hi>? who hath +<hi rend='italic'>wounds</hi> without cause? who hath +<hi rend='italic'>redness of eyes</hi>? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go +to seek mixed wine.</q> Prov. 23:29, 30. +</p> + +<p> +6. How do intoxicants serve one in the end? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth +his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. <hi rend='italic'>At the last +it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.</hi></q> Verses 31, 32. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—The effects +of alcoholic liquors are thus described in the +American Prohibition Year Book for 1912, pages 26, 27:— +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>On the Individual.</hi> +Alcoholic liquors, whether fermented, brewed, +or distilled, are poisonous, increasing greatly the liability to fatal termination +of diseases, weakening and deranging the intellect, polluting the affections, +hardening the heart, and corrupting the morals, <q>bequeathing to +posterity</q> a degeneration of physical and moral character.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>On the Family.</hi> +A disturber and destroyer of its peace, prosperity, +and happiness, and thus removing the sure foundation for good government, +national prosperity and welfare.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q rend='pre'><hi rend='italic'>On the +Community.</hi> Producing demoralization, vice, and wickedness, +counteracting the efficacy of religious efforts and of all means for +the intellectual elevation, moral purity, social happiness, and eternal +good of mankind.</q> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>On the State.</hi> Promoting crime and pauperism, paralyzing thrift +and industry, corrupting politics, legislation, and the execution of laws.</q> +</p> + +<p> +Alcohol tends to destroy the higher forms of cells, those directly concerned +with the vital processes, particularly the delicate brain-cells, and +to replace them with useless and harmful connective tissue, or what is +commonly known as scar tissue. Reliable statistics demonstrate that the +total abstainer has an advantage of at least twenty-one per cent over the +moderate drinker. +</p> + +<p> +<q>The offspring of alcoholics show impaired vitality of the most +deep-seated character, such as deformities, neuroses, which may take +the severe forms of chorea, infantile convulsions, epilepsy, or +idiocy.</q>—<hi rend='italic'><q>Alcohol,</q> +page 44.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +7. To what extent is intemperance the cause of crime? +</p> + +<p> +A lord chief justice of England declared, <q>If sifted, nine +tenths of the crime of England and Wales could be traced to +drink.</q>—<q><hi rend='italic'>Alcohol.</hi></q> +</p> + +<p> +8. What may be said of the use of tobacco? +</p> + +<p> +Being a rank poison, its use is highly injurious. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Tobacco is +the most subtle poison known to chemists, +except the deadly prussic acid.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>M. +Orfila, president Medical Academy, +Paris.</hi> +</p> + +<pb n='747'/><anchor id='Pg747'/> + +<p> +<q>Tobacco is ruinous in our schools and colleges, dwarfing body and +mind.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Dr. Willard Parker.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I shall not hesitate to pronounce tobacco in young men to be evil, +and only evil, physically, mentally, and +morally.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Edward Hitchcock, +of Amherst College.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The use of intoxicating liquor by men, and the use of cigarettes +by boys, is creating a race of feeble-minded, unhealthy, and valueless +citizens.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>John Wanamaker.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>We might as well go to the insane asylum for our men as to employ +cigarette smokers.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>The +late E. H. Harriman, railroad magnate.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Cigarettes are ruining our children, endangering their lives, dwarfing +their intellects, and making them criminals, fast. The boys who use +them seem to lose all sense of right, decency, and +righteousness.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Judge +Crane, of New York City.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Cigarette smoking in the case of boys partly paralyzes the nerve +cells at the base of the brain, and this interferes with the breathing and +heart action. The end organs of the motor nerves lose their excitability, +next the trunks of the nerves, and then the spinal cord.... The +power of fine coordination is decidedly +lost.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Prof. Sims Woodhead, of +Cambridge University.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The use of cigarettes affects the nervous system, weakens the will-power, +and destroys the ability of the boy to resist temptation; and because +of this he easily falls a victim of those habits which not only destroy +the mind and soul, but irresistibly lead him into a violation of the laws +of the state.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>George Torrance, +superintendent Illinois State Reformatory.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Tobacco using is demoralizing in its general effects, and tends to +create an appetite for strong drink. It originated with the natives of +North America, the Indians. In November, 1492, when Columbus +discovered the island of Cuba, he sent two sailors to explore it, who, +when they returned, reported, among many other strange and curious +discoveries, that the natives carried with them lighted firebrands, and +puffed smoke from their mouths and noses, which they supposed to be +the way the savages had of perfuming themselves. They afterward +declared that they <q>saw the naked savages twist large leaves together, +and smoke like devils.</q> Originating with the wild barbarians of America, +the smoking habit, after some years, was introduced into Europe, and +was rapidly adopted, not only by the lower classes, but by those in high +authority, even princes and nobles participating in the new intoxication. +It has since become well-nigh universal. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +9. Where does intemperance often begin? +</p> + +<p> +Intemperance often begins in the home. Many who would +not think of placing on their tables wine or liquor of any kind +will load them with food that creates a thirst for strong drink,—with +strong tea and coffee, injurious condiments, rich pastry, +highly seasoned foods, and the like. +</p> + +<p> +10. What will drunkards, with other workers of iniquity, +never inherit? +</p> + +<p> +"Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, ... nor thieves, +nor covetous, nor <hi rend='italic'>drunkards</hi>, ... shall +inherit <hi rend='italic'>the kingdom +of God</hi>." 1 Cor. 6:9, 10. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='748'/><anchor id='Pg748'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The World's Curse</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus748.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Gin-Mill. +"All its history is written in tears and blood."—<hi rend='italic'>Robert +J. Burdette.</hi></head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What admonition against intemperance did Christ give +that is especially applicable at the present time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts +be overcharged with <hi rend='italic'>surfeiting</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>drunkenness</hi>, and cares of +this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.</q> Luke +21:34. +</p> + +<p> +2. What did He say would be the condition of the world just +before His second coming? +</p> + +<p> +<q>As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the +Son of man be.... They were <hi rend='italic'>eating</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>drinking</hi>, marrying +and giving in marriage.</q> Matt. 24:37, 38. +</p> + +<p> +3. How has the consumption of liquor increased in gallons +in the United States since 1840:— +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{0.7cm} p{1.4cm} p{1.4cm} p{1.4cm} p{1.6cm} p{0.6cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(5) rw(11) rw(11) rw(13) rw(13) rw(5)'"> +<row><cell></cell><cell>Spirits</cell><cell>Wines</cell><cell>Liquors</cell> + <cell>Total</cell><cell>Per Capita</cell></row> +<row><cell>1840</cell><cell>43,060,884</cell><cell>4,873,096</cell> + <cell>23,310,843</cell><cell>71,244,823</cell><cell>4.17</cell></row> +<row><cell>1850</cell><cell>51,833,473</cell><cell>6,316,393</cell> + <cell>36,563,009</cell><cell>94,712,875</cell><cell>4.08</cell></row> +<row><cell>1860</cell><cell>89,968,651</cell><cell>10,933,981</cell> + <cell>101,346,669</cell><cell>202,249,301</cell><cell>6.43</cell></row> +<row><cell>1870</cell><cell>79,895,708</cell><cell>12,225,067</cell> + <cell>204,756,156</cell><cell>296,876,931</cell><cell>7.70</cell></row> +<row><cell>1880</cell><cell>63,526,694</cell><cell>28,098,179</cell> + <cell>414,220,165</cell><cell>505,845,038</cell><cell>10.08</cell></row> +<row><cell>1890</cell><cell>87,829,623</cell><cell>28,945,993</cell> + <cell>855,929,559</cell><cell>972,705,175</cell><cell>15.53</cell></row> +<row><cell>1900</cell><cell>97,356,864</cell><cell>29,988,467</cell> + <cell>1,222,387,104</cell><cell>1,349,732,435</cell><cell>17.76</cell></row> +<row><cell>1910</cell><cell>133,538,864</cell><cell>60,548,078</cell> + <cell>1,851,340,256</cell><cell>2,045,427,018</cell><cell>21.86</cell></row> +<row><cell>1911</cell><cell>138,585,989</cell><cell>62,859,232</cell> + <cell>1,966,911,744</cell><cell>2,169,356,695</cell><cell>22.79</cell></row> +</table> + +<pb n='749'/><anchor id='Pg749'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +The total consumption of alcoholic liquors in the United States for +forty-two years (1870-1911) was 43,611,000,564 gallons. +</p> + +<p> +The drink bill of the United States for 1911 was estimated at $1,833,653,425, +or nearly twice the national debt. +</p> + +<p> +The number of liquor dealers in the United States in 1910 was 255,765, +or over a quarter of a million. +</p> + +<p> +The capital invested in the manufacture of liquor in the United +States in 1850 was less than $10,000,000. In 1910, sixty years later, +it had increased to over $770,000,000, or more than 7,700 per cent. +</p> + +<p> +The total internal revenue received by the United States for liquor +for forty-nine years, or from 1863 to 1911, was $5,245,916,047.01. +</p> + +<p> +The use of whisky, beer, cigars, and cigarettes in the United States +increased enormously in 1912. During the three months of July, August, +and September of this year alone, 33,150,000 gallons of whisky were used, +an increase of 450,000 gallons over the corresponding period of the previous +year; 19,800,000 barrels of beer were drunk, an increase of 320,000 barrels +over the same months of 1911; 1,950,000,000 cigars were smoked, a record +consumption; and more than 3,800,000,000 cigarettes were consumed, an +increase of 1,000,000,000 over the same period of the previous year. +</p> +</quote> + +<p> +4. What can be said of intemperance in Great Britain? +</p> + +<p> +Speaking of intemperance in Great Britain, the <hi rend='italic'>English +Watchword</hi> says:— +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +<q rend='pre'>Thanks to our brewers and publicans, and the cooperation of the +magistrates who license them, and the consent of the Christian church +which permits the liquor traffic to continue, we have:—</q> +</p> + +<lg> +<l><q rend='pre'>1,000,000 paupers on the rates through drink,</q></l> +<l>100,000 criminals in jail through drink,</l> +<l>50,000 lunatics in asylums through drink,</l> +<l>60,000 deaths annually through drink, and a standing army of—</l> +<l><q rend='post'>60,000 confirmed drunkards.</q></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<p> +5. To what extent is beer manufactured in the world today? +</p> + +<p> +The enormous extent of the beer industry in the world at +the present time is indicated by the following table prepared +in 1903 by Gambrinus, of Vienna:— +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{2cm} p{1cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(25) rw(10)'"> +<row><cell>Germany</cell><cell>18,230</cell></row> +<row><cell>United Kingdom</cell><cell>5,547</cell></row> +<row><cell>America and Australia</cell><cell>2,210</cell></row> +<row><cell>Austria-Hungary</cell><cell>1,436</cell></row> +<row><cell>Belgium</cell><cell>3,319</cell></row> +<row><cell>France</cell><cell>3,360</cell></row> +<row><cell>Russia</cell><cell>920</cell></row> +<row><cell>Sweden</cell><cell>250</cell></row> +<row><cell>Denmark</cell><cell>370</cell></row> +<row><cell>Switzerland</cell><cell>228</cell></row> +<row><cell>Holland</cell><cell>372</cell></row> +<row><cell>Other countries</cell><cell>260</cell></row> +<row><cell>Total</cell><cell>36,502</cell></row> +</table> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +The amount of beer produced by these 36,502 breweries is estimated +at considerably over 150,000,000 barrels annually. +</p> + +<pb n='750'/><anchor id='Pg750'/> + +<p> +Gallons of Liquor Consumed Annually by the World Today +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{2cm} p{1.5cm} p{1.5cm} p{1.5cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(15) rw(10) rw(10) rw(10)'"> +<row><cell></cell><cell>Wine</cell><cell>Beer</cell><cell>Spirits</cell></row> +<row><cell>Australia</cell><cell>7,925,000</cell><cell>47,976,000</cell><cell>3,297,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Austria-Hungary</cell><cell>192,800,000</cell><cell>545,674,043</cell><cell>120,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Belgium</cell><cell>8,948,200</cell><cell>395,285,258</cell><cell>9,895,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Bulgaria</cell><cell>29,100,000</cell><cell>946,000</cell><cell>770,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Denmark</cell><cell></cell><cell>63,213,000</cell><cell>4,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Dominion of Canada</cell><cell>1,386,235</cell><cell>39,896,636</cell><cell>6,054,790</cell></row> +<row><cell>France</cell><cell>1,710,900,000</cell><cell>289,103,000</cell><cell>97,177,968</cell></row> +<row><cell>German Empire</cell><cell>79,600,000</cell><cell>1,782,778,000</cell><cell>124,313,300</cell></row> +<row><cell>Holland</cell><cell>1,980,000</cell><cell></cell><cell>9,328,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Italy</cell><cell>856,520,000</cell><cell>6,725,000</cell><cell>11,150,400</cell></row> +<row><cell>New Zealand</cell><cell>126,000</cell><cell>7,381,000</cell><cell>602,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Newfoundland</cell><cell>7,200</cell><cell>312,000</cell><cell>364,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Norway</cell><cell></cell><cell>8,756,000</cell><cell>1,672,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Portugal</cell><cell>108,320,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Roumania</cell><cell>52,840,000</cell><cell>1,320,000</cell><cell>6,996,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Russian Empire</cell><cell>76,620,000</cell><cell>151,633,892</cell><cell>232,813,382</cell></row> +<row><cell>Servia</cell><cell>6,605,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Spain</cell><cell>428,000,000</cell><cell>20,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Sweden</cell><cell>898,200</cell><cell>44,440,000</cell><cell>10,730,500</cell></row> +<row><cell>Switzerland</cell><cell>22,190,000</cell><cell>45,452,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>United Kingdom</cell><cell>26,349,873</cell><cell>1,021,123,632</cell><cell>38,133,721</cell></row> +<row><cell>United States</cell><cell>62,000,000</cell><cell>1,851,342,256</cell><cell>133,538,684</cell></row> +<row><cell>Total</cell><cell>3,673,115,708</cell><cell>6,323,357,717</cell><cell> 810,836,745</cell></row> +</table> + +<p> +Grand total, 10,807,310,170 gallons.—<hi rend='italic'>American +Prohibition Year Book, +1912.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +Comparative Annual Cost of Liquor and Other Things in the +United States +</p> + +<table rend="latexcolumns: 'p{2cm} p{1cm}'; + tblcolumns: 'lw(25) rw(15)'"> +<row><cell>Intoxicating liquor</cell><cell>$1,752,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Tobacco</cell><cell>1,200,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Iron and steel</cell><cell>1,035,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Jewelry and plate</cell><cell>800,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Printing and publishing</cell><cell>750,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Lumber</cell><cell>700,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Cotton goods</cell><cell>675,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Automobiles</cell><cell>500,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Woolen and worsted goods</cell><cell>475,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Flour</cell><cell>455,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Boots and shoes</cell><cell>450,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Panama Canal</cell><cell>400,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Public education</cell><cell>371,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Sugar and molasses</cell><cell>310,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Furniture</cell><cell>245,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Silk goods</cell><cell>240,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Potatoes.</cell><cell>210,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Confectionery</cell><cell>200,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Church and home work</cell><cell>175,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Soft drinks</cell><cell>120,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Tea and coffee</cell><cell>100,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Brick</cell><cell>100,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Millinery</cell><cell>90,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Patent medicines</cell><cell>80,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Chewing-gum</cell><cell>13,000,000</cell></row> +<row><cell>Foreign missions</cell><cell>12,000,000</cell></row> +</table> + +<pb n='751'/><anchor id='Pg751'/> + +<p> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Notes.</hi>—<q>Grape-Juice +has killed more people than grape-shot.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Spurgeon.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away +their brains!</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Shakespeare.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The liquor traffic is the most degrading and ruinous of all human +pursuits.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>William McKinley.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>All its history is written in tears and +blood.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Robert J. Burdette.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>In every community three things always work together,—the +grog-shop, the jail, and the gallows,—an +infernal trinity.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Henry +Ward Beecher.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>Give me a sober population, not wasting their earnings in strong +drink, and I will know where to get my +revenue.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>William E. Gladstone.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have looked into a thousand homes of the working people of Europe; +I do not know how many in this country. In every case, as far as my +observation goes, drunkenness was at the bottom of the +misery.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Carroll +D. Wright, former Commissioner of Labor, U. S. A.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The liquor traffic is a hydra-headed monster, which, with ceaseless +and tireless energy, wastes the substance of the poor, manufactures +burdensome taxes for the public, monopolizes the time of courts, fills +the jails and penitentiaries and asylums, terrorizes helpless women and +children, and mocks the law.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Gen. Nelson A. Miles.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>I have no sympathy with the statement, so often made, that the +manufacture and sale of liquor have contributed to the industrial development +of the nation. On the contrary, I believe that liquor has contributed +more to the moral, intellectual, and material deterioration of the +people, and has brought more misery to defenseless women and children, +than has any other agency in the history of +mankind.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>John Mitchell, +vice-president American Federation of Labor.</hi> +</p> + +<p> +<q>The saloon is the mortal enemy of peace and order, the despoiler +of man and the terror of women, the cloud that shadows the face of children, +the demon that has dug more graves and sent more souls unshriven +to judgment than all the plagues that have wasted life since the plagues +of Egypt, or all the wars since Joshua stood +before Jericho.</q>—<hi rend='italic'>Henry W. +Grady.</hi> +</p> +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +What A Barrel Of Whisky Contains +</p> + +<lg> +<l>A barrel of headaches, of heartaches, of woes;</l> +<l>A barrel of curses, a barrel of blows;</l> +<l>A barrel of sorrow for a loving, weary wife;</l> +<l>A barrel of care, a barrel of strife;</l> +<l>A barrel of unavailing regret;</l> +<l>A barrel of cares, a barrel of debt;</l> +<l>A barrel of hunger, of poison, of pain;</l> +<l>A barrel of hopes all blasted and vain;</l> +<l>A barrel of poverty, ruin, and blight;</l> +<l>A barrel of tears that run in the night;</l> +<l>A barrel of crime, a barrel of groans;</l> +<l>A barrel of orphans' most pitiful moans;</l> +<l>A barrel of serpents that hiss as they pass,</l> +<l>That glow from the liquor in the bead of the glass;</l> +<l>A barrel of falsehoods; a barrel of cries</l> +<l>That fall from the maniac's lips as he dies!</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='752'/><anchor id='Pg752'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Scripture Admonitions (A Responsive Reading)</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus752.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Home Crusher. +"The drunkard ... shall come to poverty." +Prov. 23:21.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they +may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame +them!</hi></q> Isa. 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, +are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, +neither consider the operation of His hands.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine +nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee.</hi></q> Lev. 10:8, 9. +</p> + +<p> +<q>They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall +be bitter to them that drink it.</q> Isa. 24:9. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; +nor for princes strong drink.</hi></q> Prov. 31:4. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, +whose glorious beauty is a fading flower.</q> Isa. 28:1. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth +wine and oil shall not be rich.</hi></q> Prov. 21:17. +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: +and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.</q> Prov. 23:21. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy +bottle to him, and makest him drunken also.</hi></q> Hab. 2:15. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men +of strength to mingle strong drink.</q> Isa. 5:22. +</p> + +<pb n='753'/><anchor id='Pg753'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with +the Spirit.</hi></q> Eph. 5:18. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever +is deceived thereby is not wise.</q> Prov. 20:1. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who +hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness +of eyes?</hi></q> Prov. 23:29. +</p> + +<p> +<q>They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek +mixed wine.</q> Verse 30. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his +color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.</hi></q> Verse 31. +</p> + +<p> +<q>At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an +adder.</q> Verse 32. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Be not deceived: neither +fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, ... nor +thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor +revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.</hi></q> +1 Cor. 6:9, 10. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine +nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing.</q> Judges 13:4. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost +which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your +own?</hi></q> 1 Cor. 6:19. +</p> + +<p> +<q>For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in +your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.</q> Verse 20. +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all +to the glory of God.</hi></q> 1 Cor. 10:31. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Look not upon the wine</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That sparkles in its flow,</l> +<l>For death is slumbering there,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Beneath its ruddy glow.</l> +<l>No happiness it bringeth,</l> +<l>At last it only stingeth;</l> +<l>It biteth, and it wringeth</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The heart with bitter woe.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Lift up the tempted soul</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Now fallen in despair,</l> +<l>Direct his thoughts above,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To God, who heareth prayer.</l> +<l>His arm in mighty power</l> +<l>Can bid the demon cower,</l> +<l>And in temptation's hour</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Will an escape prepare.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 20'><hi rend='smallcaps'>F. E. Belden.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='754'/><anchor id='Pg754'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus754.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Guardian Angel. +"What maintains one vice would bring up two +children."—<hi rend='italic'>Benjamin Franklin.</hi></head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='755'/><anchor id='Pg755'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>True Temperance Reform</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus755.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Save The Boys. +"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when +he is old, he will not depart from it." Prov. 22:6.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What was the original food provided for man? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God said, Behold, I have given you every <hi rend='italic'>herb</hi> bearing +<hi rend='italic'>seed</hi>, which is upon the face +of all the earth, and every <hi rend='italic'>tree</hi>, in +the which is <hi rend='italic'>the fruit of +a tree</hi> yielding <hi rend='italic'>seed</hi>; to you it shall be for +meat.</q> Gen. 1:29. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In other +words, vegetables, grains, fruits, and nuts. +</quote> + +<p> +2. After the flood what other food was indicated as permissible? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Every moving thing that liveth</hi> shall be meat for you; even as +the green herb have I given you all things.</q> Gen. 9:3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From this +it is evident that flesh food was not included in the +original diet provided for man, but that on account of the changed conditions +resulting from the fall and the flood, its use was permitted. +</quote> + +<p> +3. When God chose Israel for His people, what kinds of flesh +food were excluded from their diet? +</p> + +<p> +Those called unclean. See Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy +14. +</p> + +<p> +4. What special food did God provide for the children of +Israel during their forty years' wandering in the wilderness? +</p> + +<pb n='756'/><anchor id='Pg756'/> + +<p> +<q>Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain <hi rend='italic'>bread +from heaven</hi> for you.</q> <q>And the children of Israel did eat +<hi rend='italic'>manna</hi> forty years, until they came to a land inhabited.</q> Ex. +16:4, 35. +</p> + +<p> +5. At the same time what did God promise to do for them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I will take <hi rend='italic'>sickness</hi> away from the midst of thee.</q> Ex. +23:25. +</p> + +<p> +6. What testimony does the psalmist bear regarding their +physical condition? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There was not one feeble person among their tribes.</q> +Ps. 105:37. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—When +they complained at God's dealings with them, and +longed for the food of Egypt, God gave them their desires, but sent <q>leanness +into their soul.</q> See Numbers 11; Ps. 106:13-15; 1 Cor. 10:6. +Like many today, they were not content with a simple but wholesome +and nourishing diet. +</quote> + +<p> +7. Where, above all, should true temperance reform begin? +</p> + +<p> +In the home. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Unless +fathers and mothers practise temperance, they cannot +expect their children to do so. +</quote> + +<p> +8. What classes of men especially should be strictly temperate? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be thou an <hi rend='italic'>example</hi> of the believers.</q> 1 Tim. 4:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Of all men +in the world, ministers and physicians should lead +strictly temperate lives. The welfare of society demands this of them, +for their influence is constantly telling for or against moral reform and +the improvement of society. By precept and example they can do much +toward bringing about the much-needed reform. +</quote> + +<p> +9. Can the fact that the liquor traffic brings in a large revenue +to the state justify men in licensing it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Woe to him that buildeth a town with <hi rend='italic'>blood</hi>, and stablisheth +a city by <hi rend='italic'>iniquity</hi>.</q> Hab. 2:12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +all the walks and relationships of life, whether in the +home, the medical profession, the pulpit, or the legislative assembly, +men should stand for temperance. To license the liquor traffic is to +legalize and foster it. It cannot exist nor thrive without the patronage +of each rising generation, a large number of whom it must necessarily +ruin, body, soul, and spirit. For the state to receive money from such +a source, therefore, must be highly reprehensible. The practise has fittingly +been likened to a father catching sharks, and baiting his hook with +his own children. +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='757'/><anchor id='Pg757'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Part XVIII. The Kingdom Restored</head> + +<pb n='758'/><anchor id='Pg758'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus758.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Transfiguration. +"There be some standing here, which shall not taste +of death, till they see the Son of man coming in +His kingdom." Matt. 16:28.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='759'/><anchor id='Pg759'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Kingdom Of Glory</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus759.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Triumphal Entry. +"Behold, thy King cometh." Zech. 9:9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Who is to reign finally over God's kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Thou, O tower of the flock [Christ], ... unto +Thee shall it come, even the first dominion.</q> Micah 4:8. +</p> + +<p> +2. When asked if He was a king, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the +world.</q> John 18:37. +</p> + +<p> +3. In His transfiguration how did Christ appear? +</p> + +<p> +<q>His face did <hi rend='italic'>shine as the sun</hi>, +and His raiment was <hi rend='italic'>white +as the light</hi>.</q> Matt. 17:2. +</p> + +<p> +4. Who else appeared on this occasion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>There appeared unto them <hi rend='italic'>Moses</hi> +and <hi rend='italic'>Elias</hi>.</q> Verse 3. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +this miniature representation of Christ's kingdom, as in His +triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Matt. 21:1-9), Christ appeared as King; +Moses (Jude 9) represented the sleeping saints to be raised at Christ's +coming; and Elijah (2 Kings 2:11) the living saints to be translated then. +</quote> + +<p> +5. For what purpose will Christ come again? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To be glorified in His saints.</q> 2 Thess. 1:10. +</p> + +<p> +6. Of what will the saints speak? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They shall speak <hi rend='italic'>of the glory of Thy kingdom</hi>.</q> Ps. 145:11. +</p> + +<p> +7. How enduring is this kingdom to be? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thy kingdom is <hi rend='italic'>an everlasting kingdom</hi>.</q> Verse 13. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='760'/><anchor id='Pg760'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Saints' Inheritance</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus760.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Return Of The Spies. +"The land ... floweth with milk and honey; +and this is the fruit of it." Num. 13:27.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. How great reward has God promised those that love Him? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, +neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which +God hath prepared for them that love Him.</q> 1 Cor. 2:9. +</p> + +<p> +2. By what have these things been revealed to us? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But God hath revealed them unto us <hi rend='italic'>by His Spirit</hi>: for +the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.</q> +Verse 10. +</p> + +<p> +3. What reward awaits the true child of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now being made free from sin, and become servants +to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end <hi rend='italic'>everlasting +life</hi>.</q> Rom. 6:22. +</p> + +<p> +4. What will he reap who sows to the Spirit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap <hi rend='italic'>life +everlasting</hi>.</q> Gal. 6:8. +</p> + +<p> +5. For what purpose did God give His Son to the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +<pb n='762'/><anchor id='Pg762'/> +Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but +have <hi rend='italic'>everlasting life</hi>.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus761.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Moses On Mt. Nebo Viewing The Promised Land. +"And the Lord showed him all the land, ... +unto the uttermost sea." Deut. 34:1, 2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +6. What is to be the reward of those whose works are good? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who will render to every man according to his deeds: +... <hi rend='italic'>glory</hi>, <hi rend='italic'>honor</hi>, +and <hi rend='italic'>peace, to every man that worketh good</hi>.</q> +Rom. 2:6-10. +</p> + +<p> +7. What will he receive who endures temptation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he +is tried, he shall receive <hi rend='italic'>the crown of life</hi>, which the Lord hath +promised to them that love Him.</q> James 1:12. +</p> + +<p> +8. What promise is made to them that walk uprightly? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give +grace and glory: <hi rend='italic'>no good thing will He withhold from them that +walk uprightly</hi>.</q> Ps. 84:11. +</p> + +<p> +9. What are the meek to inherit? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the meek shall inherit <hi rend='italic'>the earth</hi>; +and shall delight themselves +in the abundance of peace.</q> Ps. 37:11. +</p> + +<p> +10. What is promised to the willing and obedient? +</p> + +<p> +<q>If ye be willing and obedient, <hi rend='italic'>ye shall eat the good of the +land</hi>.</q> Isa. 1:19. +</p> + +<p> +11. What delights and pleasures await the child of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou wilt show me the path of life: in Thy presence is +<hi rend='italic'>fulness of joy</hi>; at Thy +right hand there are <hi rend='italic'>pleasures forevermore</hi>.</q> +Ps. 16:11. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>I will sing you a song of that beautiful land,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The far-away home of the soul,</l> +<l>Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>While the years of eternity roll.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O, that home of the soul! in my visions and dreams</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Its bright jasper walls I can see,</l> +<l>Till I fancy but thinly the veil intervenes</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Between the fair city and me.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>That unchangeable home is for you and for me,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Where Jesus of Nazareth stands;</l> +<l>The King of all kingdoms forever is He,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And He holdeth our crowns in His hands.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O, how sweet it will be in that beautiful land,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>So free from all sorrow and pain;</l> +<l>With songs on our lips and with harps in our hands,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To meet one another again!</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 30'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Mrs. Ellen H. Gates.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='763'/><anchor id='Pg763'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Promises To The Overcomer</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus763.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Israel Crossing The Jordan. +"He that overcometh shall inherit all +things." Rev. 21:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What are we admonished to overcome? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Be not overcome of evil, but <hi rend='italic'>overcome evil</hi> with good.</q> +Rom. 12:21. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In John 5:4 +that which we are to overcome is called <q>the +world;</q> and in 1 John 2:15-17 the things of which <q>the world</q> consists +are described as <q>the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye, and the pride +of life.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +2. What only can overcome the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>whatsoever is born of God</hi> overcometh the world.</q> +1 John 5:4. +</p> + +<p> +3. What gives us the victory in our conflict with the world? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the victory that overcometh the world, <hi rend='italic'>even +our faith</hi>.</q> Same verse. +</p> + +<p> +4. What promises are made by Christ to the overcomer? +</p> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>a</hi>) <q>To him that overcometh +will I give <hi rend='italic'>to eat of the tree of +life</hi>, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</q> Rev. 2:7. +</p> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>b</hi>) <q>He that overcometh +<hi rend='italic'>shall not be hurt of the second +death</hi>.</q> Verse 11. +</p> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>c</hi>) <q>To him that overcometh +will I give <hi rend='italic'>to eat of the hidden +manna</hi>, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a +new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth +it.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<pb n='764'/><anchor id='Pg764'/> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>d</hi>) <q>He that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the +end, to him will I give <hi rend='italic'>power over the nations</hi>: and he shall rule +them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be +broken to shivers: even as I received of My Father. And I +will give him <hi rend='italic'>the morning star</hi>.</q> Verses 26-28. +</p> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>e</hi>) <q>He that overcometh, the +same shall be <hi rend='italic'>clothed in white +raiment</hi>; and <hi rend='italic'>I will not +blot out his name out of the book of life</hi>, but +I will <hi rend='italic'>confess his name +before My Father, and before His angels</hi>.</q> +Rev. 3:5. +</p> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>f</hi>) <q>Him that overcometh will +I <hi rend='italic'>make a pillar in the temple +of My God</hi>, and he shall go no more out: and I <hi rend='italic'>will write upon him +the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God</hi>, which +is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from My +God: and I will write upon him <hi rend='italic'>My new name</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +(<hi rend='italic'>g</hi>) <q>To him that +overcometh will I grant <hi rend='italic'>to sit with Me in +My throne</hi>, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My +Father in His throne.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +5. In what one promise are all these promises summed up? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that overcometh shall inherit all things</hi>; and I will be his +God, and he shall be My son.</q> Rev. 21:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Here are +the exceeding great and precious promises to the +overcomer, eight in number. They embrace everything,—eternal life, +health, happiness, and an everlasting home. What more could be asked? +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>In heaven there will be no parting, no pain to bear;</l> +<l>No care-worn brow, no sigh, no silvery hair;</l> +<l>No death to snatch our loved ones from our side,</l> +<l>No angry waves, no sea, no treacherous tide.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>In heaven there'll be no thirst, no cry for bread;</l> +<l>No soul who knows not where to lay his head;</l> +<l>No one to feel the winter's chilling blast,</l> +<l>For there the piercing storms will all be past.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>In heaven there'll be no toil without repay;</l> +<l>No building for a brief, ephemeral day;</l> +<l>For all the joys that prophets old have told</l> +<l>'Twill take the endless ages to unfold.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>In heaven there'll be no weary pilgrim band;</l> +<l>No seekers for a better, fairer land;</l> +<l>For all who reach that blissful, happy shore,</l> +<l>Will never cry nor sigh, nor wish for more.</l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='765'/><anchor id='Pg765'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Subjects Of The Kingdom</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus765.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Final Rewards. +"And He shall separate them ... as +a shepherd divideth his sheep from his +goats." Matt. 25:32.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. Upon whom was the name Israel first bestowed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he said, Thy name shall be called no more <hi rend='italic'>Jacob</hi>, but +<hi rend='italic'>Israel</hi>: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, +and hast prevailed.</q> Gen. 32:28. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Israel means +a <q>prince,</q> or <q>one who prevails with God.</q> +</quote> + +<p> +2. Afterward who came to be called by this title? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now these are the names of <hi rend='italic'>the children of Israel</hi>, which +came into Egypt; ... Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, +Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, +and Asher.... Joseph.</q> Ex. 1:1-5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +other words, the descendants of Jacob, the grandson of +Abraham, were known as the twelve tribes of Israel. +</quote> + +<p> +3. What special blessings were conferred on the Israelites? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the <hi rend='italic'>adoption</hi>, and +the <hi rend='italic'>glory</hi>, and the <hi rend='italic'>covenants</hi>, +and the <hi rend='italic'>giving of the law</hi>, and the +<hi rend='italic'>service of God</hi>, and the +<hi rend='italic'>promises</hi>; whose are the fathers, and of +whom as concerning the flesh <hi rend='italic'>Christ came</hi>, who is over all.</q> +Rom. 9:4, 5. +</p> + +<p> +4. Who constitute the true Israel, or seed of Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>They are not all Israel, which are of Israel: neither, because +they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, +<pb n='766'/><anchor id='Pg766'/> +in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the +children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but <hi rend='italic'>the +children of the promise are counted for the seed</hi>.</q> Verses 6-8. +</p> + +<p> +5. What did John the Baptist say to the Pharisees and Sadducees +who came to his baptism? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And think not to say within yourselves. We have Abraham +to our father: for I say unto you, that <hi rend='italic'>God is able of these stones +to raise up children unto Abraham</hi>.</q> Matt. 3:9. +</p> + +<p> +6. What determines whether one is a child of Abraham? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Know ye therefore that <hi rend='italic'>they which are of faith, the same are +the children of Abraham</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:7. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Because of +unbelief many of the Israelites fell in the wilderness, +and were not permitted to enter the promised land. Num. 14:27-33; +Deut. 1:34-36. +</quote> + +<p> +7. To whom must one belong in order to be Abraham's seed? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And if ye be Christ's</hi>, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs +according to the promise.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<p> +8. In what scripture are Christians recognized as Israel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on +them, and mercy, and upon <hi rend='italic'>the Israel of God</hi>.</q> Gal. 6:16. +</p> + +<p> +9. To whom is the epistle of James addressed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ <hi rend='italic'>to +the twelve tribes</hi> which are scattered abroad, greeting.</q> James +1:1. +</p> + +<p> +10. To whom is the gospel the power of God unto salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the +power of God unto salvation <hi rend='italic'>to every one that believeth</hi>; to the +Jew first, and also to the Greek.</q> Rom. 1:16. +</p> + +<p> +11. To whom did Jesus first send the twelve disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, +saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any +city of the Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to <hi rend='italic'>the lost +sheep of the house of Israel</hi>.</q> Matt. 10:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +12. When the woman of Canaan came to Christ, beseeching +Him to heal her daughter, what did He say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But He answered and said, <hi rend='italic'>I am not sent but unto the lost +sheep of the house of Israel</hi>.</q> Matt. 15:24. +</p> + +<p> +13. When she persisted in her request, and fell down to +worship Him, what did He say? +</p> + +<pb n='767'/><anchor id='Pg767'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus767.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>Coming In Glory. +"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit +the earth." Matt. 5:5.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='768'/><anchor id='Pg768'/> + +<p> +<q>But He answered and said, <hi rend='italic'>It is not meet to take the children's +bread, and to cast it to dogs</hi>.</q> Verse 26. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—By +her persistent faith, this woman, although a Canaanite, +showed that she was really a true child of Abraham. +</quote> + +<p> +14. While dining with Zaccheus, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>This day is salvation come to this house, <hi rend='italic'>forsomuch as he +also is a son of Abraham</hi>.</q> Luke 19:9. +</p> + +<p> +15. What did He say to the woman of Samaria as to the +source of salvation? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: +for <hi rend='italic'>salvation is of the Jews</hi>.</q> John 4:22. +</p> + +<p> +16. When the Jews rejected Paul's preaching of the gospel, +what did he and Barnabas say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was +necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken +to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy +of everlasting life, <hi rend='italic'>lo, we turn to the Gentiles</hi>.</q> Acts +13:46. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—From all +this it is plain that had not the Jews as a nation +rejected Christ, they would still have maintained the preeminence as +the children of God, and as God's light-bearers to the world. But on +account of this rejection, they were rejected as God's peculiar people, +and others took their place, and now bear +the name of <hi rend='italic'>Israel</hi> in common +with those who were first called by that name. +</quote> + +<p> +17. Under what figure are the Gentile believers represented +who have become a part of the true Israel of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, +being <hi rend='italic'>a wild olive-tree</hi>, wert grafted in among them, and with +them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree; boast +not against the branches.</q> Rom. 11:17, 18. +</p> + +<p> +18. Lest the Gentile grafts should boast, saying that the +Jews were broken off to let them come in, what warning is +given them? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou +standest by faith. <hi rend='italic'>Be not high-minded, but fear</hi>: for if God +spared not the natural branches, <hi rend='italic'>take heed lest He also spare +not thee</hi>.</q> Verses 20, 21. +</p> + +<p> +19. What encouragement is held out concerning the branches +which have been broken off? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, <hi rend='italic'>shall be +grafted in</hi>: for God is able to graft them in again.</q> Verse 23. +</p> + +<pb n='769'/><anchor id='Pg769'/> + +<p> +20. What will be the final result of the gospel? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And so <hi rend='italic'>all Israel shall be saved</hi>.</q> Verse 26. +</p> + +<p> +21. Before Gentiles become Israelites, in what condition +are they? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles, +... at that time ye were <hi rend='italic'>without Christ, being aliens from +the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants +of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world</hi>.</q> Eph. +2:11, 12. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—If, in +order to be saved, Gentiles must become Israelites +as is everywhere asserted, then when converted from their Gentile ways +to the ways of Israel, they certainly must have faith in Christ, and their +lives must conform to the moral law which God gave to Israel, otherwise +it would not be the commonwealth of Israel, but of the Gentiles. The +writing of the law in the heart is one of the provisions of the new covenant +with true Israel. See Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 8:8-12. +</quote> + +<p> +22. How are God's remnant people described? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that <hi rend='italic'>keep +the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus</hi>.</q> Rev. 14:12. +</p> + +<p> +23. Whose names are in the foundations of the holy city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in +them <hi rend='italic'>the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb</hi>.</q> Rev. 21:14. +</p> + +<p> +24. Whose names are on the twelve gates of the city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And [the wall] had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve +angels, and names written thereon, which are <hi rend='italic'>the names of the +twelve tribes of the children of Israel</hi>.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +25. Who will walk in the light of the city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the nations of them which are saved</hi> shall walk in the +light of it: and <hi rend='italic'>the kings of the earth</hi> do bring their glory and +honor into it.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +city, the New Jerusalem, will be for all the nations +of the saved; and yet all who enter therein will enter through gates on +which are written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, from which it +is evident that all who are saved will belong to Israel. The name Israel +will be perpetuated in the new earth state, and very appropriately so, +because of its meaning. All who share in that future home of the saved +will be overcomers—princes and prevailers with God. See Rev. 3:12; +21:7. Christ recognized this division of the saved into twelve nations, +in selecting His apostles. He chose twelve. He recognized it again +when to the twelve He said: <q>Ye which have followed Me, in the regeneration +when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall +sit upon <emph>twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel</emph>.</q> +Matt. 19:28. And the apostles, after Christ's resurrection and ascension, themselves +recognized it, when, to fill the place of Judas, who fell, they appointed +another, in order to preserve the proper number, twelve. +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='770'/><anchor id='Pg770'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Eternal Life</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus770.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Morning Of Christ's Resurrection. +"He that believeth on the Son hath +everlasting life." John 3:36.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What precious promise has God made to His children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the promise that He hath promised us, even +<hi rend='italic'>eternal life</hi>.</q> 1 John 2:25. +</p> + +<p> +2. How may we obtain eternal life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son, <hi rend='italic'>that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, +but have everlasting life</hi>.</q> John 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +3. Who has everlasting life? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that believeth on the Son</hi> +hath everlasting life.</q> Verse 36. +</p> + +<p> +4. Where is this everlasting or eternal life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal +life, and <hi rend='italic'>this life is in His Son</hi>.</q> 1 John 5:11. +</p> + +<p> +5. What therefore follows? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He that hath the Son hath life</hi>; and he that hath not the +Son of God hath not life.</q> Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +6. What does Christ give His followers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>I give unto them <hi rend='italic'>eternal life</hi>; and they shall never perish.</q> +John 10:28. +</p> + +<pb n='771'/><anchor id='Pg771'/> + +<p> +7. Why, after the fall, was man shut away from the tree +of life? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Lest he put forth his hand, and <hi rend='italic'>take also of the tree of life, +and eat, and live forever</hi>.</q> Gen. 3:22. +</p> + +<p> +8. What has Christ promised the overcomer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>To him that overcometh will I give <hi rend='italic'>to eat of the tree of life</hi>, +which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</q> Rev. 2:7. +</p> + +<p> +9. To what is the life of the redeemed compared? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>as the days of a tree</hi> are the days of My people, and +Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</q> Isa. +65:22. +</p> + +<p> +10. When will immortality be conferred upon the saints? +</p> + +<p> +<q>We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a +moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the +trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, +and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, +and this mortal must put on immortality.</q> 1 Cor. +15:51-53. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—In +accepting Christ the believer receives <q>that eternal life, +which was with the Father,</q> and this eternal life he retains as long as Christ +dwells in the heart by faith. This wondrous gift may be lost by failure to +maintain the faith which holds Christ fast. At the resurrection, immortality +is conferred upon those who have fallen asleep in Christ, and thus the +possession of eternal life becomes a permanent experience. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>Toil on a little longer here,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For thy reward awaits above,</l> +<l>Nor droop in sadness or in fear</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Beneath the rod that's sent in love;</l> +<l>The deeper wound our spirits feel,</l> +<l>The sweeter heaven's balm to heal.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Faith lifts the veil before our eyes,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And bids us view a happier clime,</l> +<l>Where verdant fields in beauty rise,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Beyond the withering blasts of time;</l> +<l>And brings the blissful moment near,</l> +<l>When we in glory shall appear.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Then let us hope; 'tis not in vain;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Though moistened by our grief the soil,</l> +<l>The harvest brings us joy for pain,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The rest repays the weary toil;</l> +<l>For they shall reap, who sow in tears,</l> +<l>Rich gladness through eternal years.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 26'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Annie R. Smith.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='772'/><anchor id='Pg772'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Home Of The Saved</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus772.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The New Earth. +"The saints ... shall take the kingdom, and +possess the kingdom forever." Dan. 7:18.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. For what purpose was the earth created? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God +Himself that formed the earth and made it; He hath established +it, He created it not in vain, <hi rend='italic'>He formed it to be inhabited</hi>.</q> +Isa. 45:18. +</p> + +<p> +2. To whom has God given the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but <hi rend='italic'>the +earth hath He given to the children of men</hi>.</q> Ps. 115:16. +</p> + +<p> +3. For what purpose was man made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thou madest him <hi rend='italic'>to have dominion over the works of Thy +hands</hi>; Thou hast put all things under his feet.</q> Ps. 8:6. +See Gen. 1:26; Heb. 2:8. +</p> + +<p> +4. How did man lose his dominion? +</p> + +<p> +Through sin. Rom. 5:12; 6:23. +</p> + +<p> +5. When man lost his dominion, to whom did he yield it? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought +in bondage.</q> 2 Peter 2:19. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Man was overcome by Satan in the garden of Eden, and +there yielded himself and his possessions into the hands of his captor. +</quote> + +<p> +6. In tempting Christ, what ownership did Satan claim? +</p> + +<pb n='773'/><anchor id='Pg773'/> + +<p> +<q>And the devil, taking Him up into an high mountain, +showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment +of time. And the devil said unto Him, All this power will I +give Thee, and the glory of them: <hi rend='italic'>for that is delivered unto me; +and to whomsoever I will I give it</hi>.</q> Luke 4:5, 6. +</p> + +<p> +7. Through whom is this first dominion to be restored? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And Thou, <hi rend='italic'>O tower of the flock</hi>, the stronghold of the daughter +of Zion, <hi rend='italic'>unto Thee shall it +come, even the first dominion</hi>; the kingdom +shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.</q> Micah 4:8. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The <q>tower of the flock</q> is Christ. +</quote> + +<p> +8. Why did Christ say the meek are blessed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Blessed are the meek: <hi rend='italic'>for they shall inherit the earth</hi>.</q> +Matt. 5:5. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—This +inheritance cannot be realized in this life; for here the +truly meek generally have little of earth's good things. +</quote> + +<p> +9. Who does David say have most now? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For I was envious at <hi rend='italic'>the foolish</hi>, when I saw the prosperity +of <hi rend='italic'>the wicked</hi>.... Their eyes stand out with fatness: +<hi rend='italic'>they have more than heart could wish</hi>.</q> Ps. 73:3-7. +</p> + +<p> +10. Where are the righteous to be recompensed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed <hi rend='italic'>in the earth</hi>: +much more the wicked and the sinner.</q> Prov. 11:31. +</p> + +<p> +11. What will be the difference between the portion of +the righteous and the wicked? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and <hi rend='italic'>He shall exalt +thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt +see it</hi>.</q> Ps. 37:34. +</p> + +<p> +12. What promise was made to Abraham concerning the +land? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated +from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the +place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, +and westward: for <hi rend='italic'>all the land which thou seest, to thee will I +give it, and to thy</hi> <hi rend='smallcaps'>seed</hi> +<hi rend='italic'>forever</hi>.</q> Gen. 13:14, 15. +</p> + +<p> +13. How much did this promise comprehend? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world</hi>, was +not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through +the righteousness of faith.</q> Rom. 4:13. +</p> + +<p> +14. How much of the land of Canaan did Abraham own +in his lifetime? +</p> + +<pb n='774'/><anchor id='Pg774'/> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And He gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much +as to set his foot on</hi>: yet He promised that He would give it to +him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he +had no child.</q> Acts 7:5. See Heb. 11:13. +</p> + +<p> +15. How much of the promised possession did Abraham +expect during his lifetime? +</p> + +<p> +<q>By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into +a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; +and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith +<hi rend='italic'>he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country</hi>, +dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with +him of the same promise: <hi rend='italic'>for he looked for a city which hath +foundations, whose builder and maker is God</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:8-10. +</p> + +<p> +16. Who is the seed to whom this promise was made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. +He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, <hi rend='italic'>And to +thy seed, which is Christ</hi>.</q> Gal. 3:16. +</p> + +<p> +17. Who are heirs of the promise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs +according to the promise</hi>.</q> Verse 29. +</p> + +<p> +18. Why did not these ancient worthies receive the promise? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And these all, having obtained a good report through +faith, received not the promise: God having provided some +better thing for us, <hi rend='italic'>that +they without us should not be made perfect</hi>.</q> +Heb. 11:39, 40. +</p> + +<p> +19. What is to become of our earth in the day of the Lord? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; +in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, +and <hi rend='italic'>the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and +the works that are therein shall be burned up</hi>.</q> 2 Peter 3:10. +</p> + +<p> +20. What will follow this great conflagration? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Nevertheless we, according to His promise, <hi rend='italic'>look for new +heavens and a new earth</hi>, wherein dwelleth righteousness.</q> +Verse 13. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—As +shown in the reading on <q>The Millennium,</q> page <ref target='Pg355'>355</ref>, +at the coming of Christ, the living wicked will die, and the saints will be +taken to heaven to dwell with Christ a thousand years, or until the wicked +of all ages are judged, and the time comes for their destruction and the +purification of the earth by the fires of the last day. Following this, the +earth will be formed anew, and man, redeemed from sin, will be restored +to his original dominion. +</quote> + +<pb n='775'/><anchor id='Pg775'/> + +<p> +21. To what Old Testament promise did Peter evidently +refer? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and +the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.</q> +Isa. 65:17. +</p> + +<p> +22. What was shown the apostle John in vision? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And I saw <hi rend='italic'>a new heaven and a new earth</hi>: for the first +heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was +no more sea.</q> Rev. 21:1. +</p> + +<p> +23. What will the saints do in the new earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they +shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall +not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another +eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of My people, +and Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They +shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are +the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with +them.</q> Isa. 65:21-23. +</p> + +<p> +24. How readily will their wants be supplied? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will +answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.</q> Verse 24. +</p> + +<p> +25. What peaceful condition will reign throughout the +earth then? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion +shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's +meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, +saith the Lord.</q> Verse 25. +</p> + +<p> +26. What seasons of worship will be observed in the new +earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I shall +make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your +seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that +<hi rend='italic'>from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another</hi>, +shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord.</q> +Isa. 66:22, 23. +</p> + +<p> +27. What will the ransomed of the Lord then do? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to +Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads</hi>: they shall +obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee +away.</q> Isa. 35:10. +</p> + +<pb n='776'/><anchor id='Pg776'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus776.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Land Of Peace. +"A little child shall lead them.... They shall not hurt nor destroy +in all My holy mountain." Isa. 11:6-9.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='777'/><anchor id='Pg777'/> + +<p> +28. How extensive will be the reign of Christ? +</p> + +<p> +<q>He shall have dominion also <hi rend='italic'>from sea to sea, and from +the river unto the ends of the earth</hi>.</q> Ps. 72:8. +</p> + +<p> +29. What does Daniel say of this kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the +kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of +the saints of the Most High</hi>, whose kingdom is an everlasting +kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.</q> Dan. +7:27. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—Let +imagination picture the home of the saved fair and +beautiful as it may, yet remember that it will be more glorious than our +brightest imagination can conceive. See 1 Cor. 2:9. +</quote> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O, sweetly through the gloomy years</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That roll their dimming veil between,</l> +<l>The promised goodly land appears,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Arrayed in never-fading green!</l> +<l>And from that peaceful, happy clime,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Transporting bursts of song arise,</l> +<l>And, rolling through the mists of time,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Tell us of joy that never dies.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>As voyagers on the stormy deep</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Look for some bright and sunny bay</l> +<l>Where winds and waves are hushed in sleep,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And joy lights up the happy day,</l> +<l>So o'er the tossing sea of years</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We glance the eye and stretch the hand</l> +<l>Where, robed in fadeless light, appears</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The border of the shining land.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>There angel hosts of glorious ones,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With sinless hearts and stainless hands,</l> +<l>Call us in glad and loving tones,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And bid us welcome to their bands.</l> +<l>Hark! how their harps and voices tell</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The glories of that radiant strand,</l> +<l>And bid us breast the waves that swell</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Between us and the shining land.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>Ear hath not heard, eye hath not seen,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The glories of that home of song;</l> +<l>Though stormy billows roll between,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>I go to join the angel throng.</l> +<l>But of the joys beyond the tide,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The welcomes on that golden strand,</l> +<l>The best shall be from Him who died</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To bring us to the shining land.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 30'><hi rend='smallcaps'>H. L. Hastings.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='778'/><anchor id='Pg778'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The New Jerusalem</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus778.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Holy City. +"He looked for a city which hath foundations." +Heb. 11:10.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What was one of Christ's parting promises to His disciples? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not +so, I would have told you. <hi rend='italic'>I go to prepare a place for you.</hi></q> +John 14:2. +</p> + +<p> +2. What does Paul say God has prepared for His people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: +wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for <hi rend='italic'>He +hath prepared for them a city</hi>.</q> Heb. 11:16. +</p> + +<p> +3. Where is this city, and what is it called? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But <hi rend='italic'>Jerusalem which is above</hi> is free, which is the mother +of us all.</q> Gal. 4:26. +</p> + +<p> +4. For what did Abraham look? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For <hi rend='italic'>he looked for a city</hi> which hath foundations, whose +builder and maker is God.</q> Heb. 11:10. +</p> + +<p> +5. What assurance has God given to believers? +</p> + +<p> +<q>God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath +prepared for them a city.</q> Heb. 11:16. +</p> + +<p> +6. What did John see concerning this city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And <hi rend='italic'>I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming +down from God out of heaven</hi>, prepared as a bride adorned for +her husband.</q> Rev. 21:2. +</p> + +<pb n='779'/><anchor id='Pg779'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus779.png' rend='width: 60%'> + <head>The Descent Of The New Jerusalem. +"And I John saw the holy city, New +Jerusalem, coming down from God +out of heaven." Rev. 21:2.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<pb n='780'/><anchor id='Pg780'/> + +<p> +7. How many foundations has this city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the wall of the city had <hi rend='italic'>twelve foundations</hi>, and in +them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.</q> Verse 14. +</p> + +<p> +8. What is the measurement of the city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large +as the breadth: and <hi rend='italic'>he measured the city with the reed, twelve +thousand furlongs</hi>.</q> Verse 16. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The +measure around it, as the words length and breadth, +imply, and as was the early custom of measuring cities, is 12,000 furlongs. +This is equal to 1,500 miles, 375 miles on each side, making a perfect +square. The area of this city is therefore 140,625 square miles, or 90,000,000 +acres, or 3,920,400,000,000 square feet. Allowing 100 square feet +to each person, or a space ten feet square, the city would hold 39,204,000,000 +persons, or twenty-six times the present population of the globe. +</quote> + +<p> +9. What is the height of the wall? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he measured the wall thereof, <hi rend='italic'>an hundred and forty +and four cubits</hi>.</q> Verse 17. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—One +hundred and forty-four cubits are equal to 216 feet. +</quote> + +<p> +10. Of what material is the wall constructed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the building of <hi rend='italic'>the wall of it was of jasper</hi>: and the city +was pure gold, like unto clear glass.</q> Verse 18. +</p> + +<p> +11. With what are the twelve foundations adorned? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished +with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was +<hi rend='italic'>jasper</hi>; the second, <hi rend='italic'>sapphire</hi>; +the third, a <hi rend='italic'>chalcedony</hi>; the fourth, +an <hi rend='italic'>emerald</hi>; the fifth, +<hi rend='italic'>sardonyx</hi>; the sixth, <hi rend='italic'>sardius</hi>; the seventh, +<hi rend='italic'>chrysolite</hi>; the eighth, <hi rend='italic'>beryl</hi>; +the ninth, a <hi rend='italic'>topaz</hi>; the tenth, a +<hi rend='italic'>chrysoprasus</hi>; the eleventh, a <hi rend='italic'>jacinth</hi>; +the twelfth, an <hi rend='italic'>amethyst</hi>.</q> +Verses 19, 20. See Ex. 28:15-21; Isa. 54:11, 12. +</p> + +<p> +12. Of what are the twelve gates composed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the twelve gates were <hi rend='italic'>twelve pearls</hi>: every several +gate was of one pearl.</q> Rev. 21:21. +</p> + +<p> +13. What is written on these gates? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.</q> +Verse 12. +</p> + +<p> +14. Of what are the streets of the city composed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the street of the city was <hi rend='italic'>pure gold</hi>, as it were transparent +glass.</q> Verse 21. +</p> + +<p> +15. Why will this city have no need of the sun or moon? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, +<pb n='781'/><anchor id='Pg781'/> +to shine in it: <hi rend='italic'>for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb +is the light thereof</hi>. And the nations of them which are saved +shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring +their glory and honor into it.</q> Verses 23, 24. See Rev. +22:5; Isa. 60:19, 20. +</p> + +<p> +16. Why are its gates not to be closed? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: <hi rend='italic'>for +there shall be no night there</hi>.</q> Rev. 21:25. +</p> + +<p> +17. What will be excluded from this city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And there shall in no wise enter into it <hi rend='italic'>anything that defileth, +neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie</hi>.</q> +Verse 27. +</p> + +<p> +18. Who will be permitted to enter it? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>Blessed are they that do His commandments</hi>, that they may +have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates +into the city.</q> Rev. 22:14. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The late +English and American revisions render this, <q>Blessed +are they that wash their robes,</q> etc. The result is the same, for those who +wash their robes cease to sin, and hence do God's commandments. +</quote> + +<p> +19. When this city becomes the metropolis of the new earth, +what will be the condition of God's people? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and +there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither +shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed +away.</q> Rev. 21:4. +</p> + +<p> +20. What will flow through the city? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And he showed me <hi rend='italic'>a pure river of water of life</hi>, clear as +crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.</q> +Rev. 22:1. +</p> + +<p> +21. What stands on either side of the river? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the +river, was there <hi rend='italic'>the tree of Life</hi>, which bare twelve manner of +fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of +the tree were for the healing of the nations.</q> Verse 2. +</p> + +<quote rend='display'> +<hi rend='smallcaps'>Note.</hi>—The tree +of life which Adam lost through transgression is to +be restored by Christ. Access to this is one of the promises to the overcomer. +Rev. 2:7. Its bearing twelve kinds of fruit, a new kind each +month, suggests a reason why in the new earth <q>from one <emph>new moon</emph> to +another,</q> as well as <q>from one Sabbath to another,</q> all flesh is to come +before God to worship, as stated in Isa. 66:22, 23. +</quote> + +<p> +22. What will be the privilege of those who enter there? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>And they shall see His face.</hi></q> Rev. 22:3, 4. See Matt. +5:8; Heb. 12:14; 1 Cor. 13:12. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='782'/><anchor id='Pg782'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Conflict Ended</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus782.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Rest Remaining. +"And God shall wipe away all tears from +their eyes." Rev. 21:4.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. In narrating the work of creation, what statement is +made concerning its completion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Thus the heavens and the earth were <hi rend='italic'>finished</hi>, and all +the host of them. And on the seventh day God <hi rend='italic'>ended</hi> His work +which He had made.</q> Gen. 2:1, 2. +</p> + +<p> +2. When expiring on the cross, what did Christ say? +</p> + +<p> +<q>When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, +<hi rend='italic'>It is finished</hi>: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.</q> +John 19:30. +</p> + +<p> +3. At the pouring out of the seventh plague, what announcement +will be made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; +and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, +from the throne, saying, <hi rend='italic'>It is done</hi>.</q> Rev. 16:17. +</p> + +<p> +4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, +and the holy city, New Jerusalem, has descended +from God and become the metropolis of the new creation, +what announcement will then be made? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make +all things new. And He said unto me, Write: for these words +are true and faithful. And He said unto me, <hi rend='italic'>It is done</hi>. I +am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.</q> Rev. +21:5, 6. +</p> + +<pb n='783'/><anchor id='Pg783'/> + +<p> +5. In the new earth, what will be no more? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God shall wipe away all <hi rend='italic'>tears</hi> from their eyes; and +there shall be no more <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, neither +<hi rend='italic'>sorrow</hi>, nor <hi rend='italic'>crying</hi>, neither +shall there be any more <hi rend='italic'>pain</hi>: for the former things are passed +away.</q> Verse 4. <q>And there shall be no more <hi rend='italic'>curse</hi>.</q> Rev. +22:3. +</p> + +<p> +6. What will then be the condition of all the earth? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard +shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion +and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. +And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall +lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And +the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the +weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They +shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the +earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters +cover the sea.</q> Isa. 11:6-9. +</p> + +<p> +7. How does the prophet again speak of this time? +</p> + +<p> +<q>The whole earth is at <hi rend='italic'>rest</hi>, and +is <hi rend='italic'>quiet</hi>: they break forth +into <hi rend='italic'>singing</hi>.</q> Isa. 14:7. +</p> + +<p> +8. What universal chorus of praise will then be heard? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, +and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that +are in them, heard I saying, <hi rend='italic'>Blessing, and honor, and glory, +and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto +the Lamb forever and ever</hi>.</q> Rev. 5:13. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>O what a mighty change</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Shall Jesus' followers know,</l> +<l>When o'er the happy plains they range,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Incapable of woe!</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>There all our griefs are past;</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>There all our sorrows end;</l> +<l>We gain a peaceful rest at last,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With Jesus Christ our Friend.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>No slightest touch of pain,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Nor sorrow's least alloy,</l> +<l>Can violate our rest, or stain</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Our purity of joy.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>In that eternal day,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>No clouds nor tempest rise;</l> +<l>There gushing tears are wiped away</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Forever from our eyes.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 18'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Charles Wesley.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +<pb n='784'/><anchor id='Pg784'/> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus784.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>Paradise Lost To Paradise Restored. +"And Thou, O tower of the flock, ... unto Thee shall it come, even the +first dominion." Micah 4:8. +The Way Of Life.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='785'/><anchor id='Pg785'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Pleasures Forevermore</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus785.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Eternal Home. +"They shall build houses, and inhabit them.... +Mine elect shall long enjoy the +work of their hands." Isa. 65:21, 22.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +1. What will finally be the privilege of God's children? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they shall <hi rend='italic'>see His face</hi>.</q> Rev. 22:4. +</p> + +<p> +2. How perfect will be their knowledge of God? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face +to face: now I know in part; but <hi rend='italic'>then shall I know even as also +I am known</hi>.</q> 1 Cor. 13:12. +</p> + +<p> +3. Whom will they be like? +</p> + +<p> +<q>Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not +yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall +appear, <hi rend='italic'>we shall be like Him</hi>; for we shall see Him as He is.</q> +1 John 3:2. +</p> + +<p> +4. From what ills will the saints be forever delivered? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And God shall wipe away all <hi rend='italic'>tears</hi> from their eyes; and +there shall be no more <hi rend='italic'>death</hi>, neither +<hi rend='italic'>sorrow</hi>, nor <hi rend='italic'>crying</hi>, neither +shall there be any more <hi rend='italic'>pain</hi>: for the former things are passed +away.</q> Rev. 21:4. +</p> + +<p> +5. How completely will the pains and sorrows of the former +world pass away? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: <hi rend='italic'>and +the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind</hi>.</q> Isa. +65:17. Margin, <q>Come upon the heart;</q> i.e. to be desired. +</p> + +<pb n='786'/><anchor id='Pg786'/> + +<p> +6. Who will dwell with the redeemed? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>He</hi> will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, +and <hi rend='italic'>God Himself shall be with them</hi>, and be their God.</q> Rev. +21:3. +</p> + +<p> +7. What will it mean to dwell in God's presence? +</p> + +<p> +<q>In Thy presence is <hi rend='italic'>fulness of joy</hi>; at Thy right hand there +are <hi rend='italic'>pleasures forevermore</hi>.</q> Ps. 16:11. +</p> + +<p> +8. What peaceful condition will prevail in the earth made +new? +</p> + +<p> +<q><hi rend='italic'>They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain</hi>: +for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the +waters cover the sea.</q> Isa. 11:9. +</p> + +<p> +9. How will the ransomed of the Lord return to Zion? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come +to Zion <hi rend='italic'>with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads</hi>: they +shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall +flee away.</q> Isa. 35:10. +</p> + +<p> +10. How enduring will be their pleasures? +</p> + +<p> +<q>For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, and +<hi rend='italic'>Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their +hands</hi>.</q> Isa. 65:22. +</p> + +<p> +11. How long will they possess the future kingdom? +</p> + +<p> +<q>But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, +and possess the kingdom <hi rend='italic'>forever</hi>, even +<hi rend='italic'>forever and ever</hi>.</q> Dan. +7:18. +</p> + +<p> +12. How long will they reign? +</p> + +<p> +<q>And they shall reign <hi rend='italic'>forever and ever</hi>.</q> Rev. 22:5. +</p> + +<milestone unit='tb' rend='rule: 50%'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<lg> +<l>I am longing for the home land,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And its rest from sin and strife;</l> +<l>I am yearning for the welcome,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With its warmth of light and life;</l> +<l>And the days seem long and weary,</l> +<l>Mid earth scenes so dark and dreary,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>While I wait for my Redeemer</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>To come in clouds for me.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>O the home land, blessed home land,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With its bliss beyond compare!</l> +<l>How our ardent souls are yearning</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>For the joys that wait us there!</l> +<l>And we haste to barge our treasure</l> +<l>On the river of Thy pleasure,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>In the home where life eternal</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Awaits the ransomed throng.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 12'><hi rend='smallcaps'>Worthie Harris Holden.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +<pb n='787'/><anchor id='Pg787'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Game Of Life In Progress</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus787.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Struggle. +"We wrestle ... against the rulers of the +darkness of this world." Eph. 6:12.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +In these three beautiful pictures illustrating the game of +life, Satan, the prince of darkness, is represented as playing +with man for his soul. +</p> + +<p> +The scene chosen is a wide vault, whose arch is embellished +with lizard-shaped monsters, which adhere closely to the two +pillars, down which they seem to creep. On the left-hand side +of the picture, near Satan, is an open-mouthed lion ready to +devour his victim at the first opportunity. +</p> + +<p> +The upper surface of a sarcophagus is transformed into a +chess-board, beside which man sits, his head resting on his +hand, and his countenance full of careful thought as to what +moves he should make next. +</p> + +<p> +Opposite him is Satan, seated, his chin resting on his hand, +his hair and beard bristling wildly, and every feature expressive +of cunning intent, and a determination to watch every move, +take advantage of every mistake, and win if possible. +</p> + +<p> +Beneath the arch, in the background, stands a lovely angel +form unnoticed by either of the players, but watching intently +the progress of the game. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='788'/><anchor id='Pg788'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Game Of Life Lost</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus788.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Defeat. +"What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole +world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +Here we see the results of the game lost. Satan has been +victorious. With a wild and horrid leer and a deathlike grip +he has seized his victim, and in triumph points to the sure but +gruesome signs of death,—the skulls and cross-bones. Amidst +smoke and flame, the hand of Death rises to strike man with +his poisoned dart. +</p> + +<p> +In sadness and despair man sits, with covered face, and +weeps over his defeat. His hope is gone; he knows no peace; +he feels the icy clasp of his conquering foe. With keen regret, +he now ponders over his loss of faith, his neglect of prayer, and +his failure to study and follow his Guide-book. Life, with its +opportunities for gaining the life to come, has been wasted; and +now, when too late to make amends, he sees his fatal moves and +his great mistakes. +</p> + +<p> +The figures on the wall have changed their visage, and seem +ready to pounce upon the doomed and helpless man. The +lion also has become more fierce, and thirsts for his blood, while +the angel turns in sadness from the scene and weeps. +</p> + +<p> +The entire view is one of inexpressible sorrow and regret. +</p> + +</div> + +<pb n='789'/><anchor id='Pg789'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>The Game Of Life Won</head> + +<p rend='text-align: center'> + <figure url='images/illus789.png' rend='width: 80%'> + <head>The Victory. +"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I +have kept the faith." 2 Tim. 4:7.</head> + <figDesc>Illustration.</figDesc> + </figure> +</p> + +<p> +In the closing scene of this allegorical representation of man's +conflict with the powers of darkness, we have pictured the +happy issue of a faithful Christian life. +</p> + +<p> +Satan has been defeated, and has departed. +</p> + +<p> +The sleeping lion, the open Word, the cross and crown, all +speak of victory. +</p> + +<p> +Instead of sitting in sorrow and mourning over defeat, the +man, with cheerful looks and thankful heart, lifts his eyes toward +heaven, and rejoices that he has met and vanquished his +deadly foe. +</p> + +<p> +In the place of the ugly monsters on the wall, cherubs are +seen, with laurel wreaths ready to place upon the victor's brow, +while the angel, with joyful satisfaction, points the victor to his +exceeding great reward. +</p> + +<p> +This is the game which all, whether conscious of the fact +or not, are playing. What its outcome will be in each case +depends upon how each one meets and fights life's battle day +by day. All may be victors if they will. +</p> + +<p> +<q>Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the +issues of life.</q> Prov. 4:23. +</p> + +<pb n='790'/><anchor id='Pg790'/> + +<quote rend='display'> +<p> +The Goodly Land +</p> + +<lg> +<l>We have heard from the bright, the holy land,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We have heard, and our hearts are glad;</l> +<l>For we were a lonely pilgrim band,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And weary, and worn, and sad.</l> +<l>They tell us the saints have a dwelling there,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>No longer are homeless ones;</l> +<l>And we know that the goodly land is fair,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Where life's pure river runs.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>They say green fields are waving there,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>That never a blight shall know;</l> +<l>And the deserts wild are blooming fair,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And the roses of Sharon grow.</l> +<l>There are lovely birds in the bowers green,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Their songs are blithe and sweet;</l> +<l>And their warblings, gushing ever new,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>The angels' harpings greet.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>We have heard of the palms, the robes, the crowns,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And the silvery band in white;</l> +<l>Of the city fair, with pearly gates,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>All radiant with light;</l> +<l>We have heard of the angels there, and saints,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>With their harps of gold, how they sing;</l> +<l>Of the mount, with the fruitful tree of life,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>Of the leaves that healing bring.</l> +</lg> + +<lg> +<l>The King of that country, He is fair,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>He's the joy and light of the place;</l> +<l>In His beauty we shall behold Him there,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And bask in His smiling face.</l> +<l>We'll be there, we'll be there in a little while,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>We'll join the pure and the blest;</l> +<l>We'll have the palm, the robe, the crown,</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 2'>And forever be at rest.</l> +<l rend='margin-left: 34'><hi rend='smallcaps'>W. H. Hyde.</hi></l> +</lg> +</quote> + +</div> + +</div> + +<pb n='791'/><anchor id='Pg791'/> + +<div rend='page-break-before: always'> +<index index='toc'/> +<index index='pdf'/> +<head>Index Of Subjects</head> + +<p> +Abolished by Christ, what was, <ref target='Pg405'>405</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Acceptance with God, <ref target='Pg106'>106</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Accountability, individual, <ref target='Pg482'>482</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Admonitions and warnings, <ref target='Pg667'>667</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Admonitions, Scripture, <ref target='Pg752'>752</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Affliction, comfort in, <ref target='Pg562'>562</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Angels, dark ministries of bad, <ref target='Pg530'>530</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Angels, the ministration of good, <ref target='Pg523'>523</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Answers to prayer, <ref target='Pg611'>611</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Antichrist, kingdom and work of, <ref target='Pg218'>218</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Apostasy, the mark of, <ref target='Pg446'>446</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Armies of the world, <ref target='Pg350'>350</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Armor, the Christian, <ref target='Pg543'>543</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Atonement in type and antitype, <ref target='Pg238'>238</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Attributes of God, character and, <ref target='Pg061'>61</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Author of liberty, the, <ref target='Pg471'>471</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Babylon, the fall of modern, <ref target='Pg254'>254</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Backbiting, gossiping and, <ref target='Pg693'>693</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Backsliding, <ref target='Pg684'>684</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Baptism, <ref target='Pg100'>100</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Beast, making an image to the, <ref target='Pg271'>271</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Beast of Revelation 13, <ref target='Pg268'>268</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Beast, the mark of the, <ref target='Pg277'>277</ref>, <ref target='Pg279'>279</ref>, <ref target='Pg446'>446</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Beasts, four great monarchies, <ref target='Pg213'>213</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Believers, unity of, <ref target='Pg582'>582</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, Christ in all the, <ref target='Pg040'>40</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible election, <ref target='Pg121'>121</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, <q>How Readest Thou?</q> <ref target='Pg032'>32</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, printing and the, <ref target='Pg014'>14</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible readings, value and use, <ref target='Pg021'>21</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible sanctification, <ref target='Pg124'>124</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible study, the value of, <ref target='Pg020'>20</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, the; how to study, <ref target='Pg023'>23</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, the; how written, <ref target='Pg013'>13</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, the, in native tongues, <ref target='Pg015'>15</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, the; original writings, <ref target='Pg013'>13</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bible, the, to all the world, <ref target='Pg018'>18</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Bibles, burning of, <ref target='Pg017'>17</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Birth, childhood, of Christ, <ref target='Pg143'>143</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Burning of Bibles, <ref target='Pg017'>17</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Capital and labor, <ref target='Pg329'>329</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Ceremonial law, abolished, <ref target='Pg405'>405</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Ceremonial laws, the moral and, <ref target='Pg393'>393</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Change of the Sabbath, the, <ref target='Pg439'>439</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Change the law, think to, <ref target='Pg221'>221</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Character and attributes of God, <ref target='Pg061'>61</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Character, perfection of, <ref target='Pg597'>597</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Cheerfulness, <ref target='Pg573'>573</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Children, promises for the, <ref target='Pg729'>729</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Children, teaching the, <ref target='Pg725'>725</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Child training, <ref target='Pg719'>719</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ a Sabbath-keeper, <ref target='Pg454'>454</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ and the Sabbath, <ref target='Pg430'>430</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, birth, childhood of, <ref target='Pg143'>143</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ in all the Bible, <ref target='Pg040'>40</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, life only in, <ref target='Pg497'>497</ref>, <ref target='Pg509'>509</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, life of, <ref target='Pg141'>141</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, miracles of, <ref target='Pg157'>157</ref>, <ref target='Pg162'>162</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, parables of, <ref target='Pg154'>154</ref>, <ref target='Pg156'>156</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, prophecies relating to, <ref target='Pg070'>70</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, salvation only through, <ref target='Pg079'>79</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, suffering of, <ref target='Pg163'>163</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, the deity of, <ref target='Pg067'>67</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ the Great Teacher, <ref target='Pg151'>151</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, the resurrection of, <ref target='Pg169'>169</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, the vicar of, <ref target='Pg224'>224</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ the way of life, <ref target='Pg075'>75</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, the way to, <ref target='Pg081'>81</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ, titles of, <ref target='Pg044'>44</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ's coming, manner of, <ref target='Pg337'>337</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ's coming, object of, <ref target='Pg340'>340</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ's coming, signs of, <ref target='Pg315'>315</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ's ministry, <ref target='Pg148'>148</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christ's second coming, <ref target='Pg332'>332</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian armor, the, <ref target='Pg543'>543</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian communion, <ref target='Pg621'>621</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian courtesy, <ref target='Pg576'>576</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian growth and experience, <ref target='Pg539'>539</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian help work, <ref target='Pg644'>644</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian liberty, <ref target='Pg469'>469</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian service, <ref target='Pg627'>627</ref> +</p> + +<p> +Christian temperance, <ref target='Pg741'>741</ref> 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