VOL. 12.

No. 1.

AUCKLAND,

N.Z., ,TANUARY, 1892.

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the return of the New Zealand delegates from the Methodist CEcumeni_ cal Council we have been enabled to _~\',",,1 ascertain the truth about two disagreeable items that were cabled all over the world. The first was that the ~~~~~~~~ European delegates had refused to dine at the same table with their coloured brethren. No doubt, much has been made of this; but the fact is the trouble arose through the ignorance of the customs of the Washington restaurants, where they do not serve coloured people of any grade whatsoever. So, of course, when some of the delegates went for refreshments they were refused, and hence the untruthful cable. The other item we refer to was that in which Mr. Atkinson figured so prominently. This gentleman, it seems, is suffering from some brain trouble, and it would have been better for him to have remained away. Re recently got himself arrested in the House of Commons for his idiosyncrasies. However, when the Conference was in session one afternoon he referred in They demand just a little too much when they ask for a. jocular manner to the names of some of the sects repre- free administration of justice, free legal help, free medicine: sented there, teasing the' Bible Christians' and the' Prim i- and free medical attendance. Human nature is always tives' about the oddity of their names, Some of these ready to take a lot for nothing, if it can be obtained, and representatives not knowing Mr. Atkinson's weakness de, this part of the programme requires some little modification. manded the withdrawal of the offensive words, which he Progressive income, capital, and succession taxes are asked refused to do, when the five o'clock adjournment took for, instead of the indirect taxation and measures of place, and ended a session of more than usual warmth. economic politics that subordinate the interests of the Mr. Atkinson apologised next day, and said he was only general community to the interests of the privileged joking; but nothing at all occurred to warrant the cable minority. These are the main items of their demand 01' that was sent out. One wonders at times as we read the the whole community, while for the working classes they foolish and worthless items that appear in the daily press desire eight hours to be the maximum working day, the why those newspapers which pay so dearly for the news do prohibition of industrial labour to children under fourteen not take some steps to remedy the evil. , years of age, and of all night-work except in such branches

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The new programme issued by the German Socialists for presentation to the Congress is published. On glancing over it one is inclined to wonder what the German Emperor 01' his party can find in it to object to. Why, they are only demanding some of the things that colonists have enjoyed for years past. For instance, take the first item: U niversal suffrage for all free citizens over twenty-one years of age without distinction of' sex. Then, as the whole people take part in the election of the Legislature, they demand further, that they should say, first, what taxes shall be imposed annually, and second, that the decision of peace or war shall rest with the chosen representatives of the people. The claim to the free and unrestricted rights of expression of public opinion either by association or by mass meetings is one that should evoke world-wide sympathy, while the proposal that all State aid for ecclesiastical or religious purposes shall cease, will be one of the hardest items for them to gain. A powerful Church party exists, and will not give up their rights in this respect without a struggle. Again, regarding education, they desire it to be free, secular, and compulsory. Why not send them some of our heaven-born legislators over to show them how this is worked here.

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intelligent men and women, especially those who profess Christianity, can be so misguided passes my comprehension. Verily Satan goeth about not only as a roaring lion, but also as an angel of light. We drew attention a month or two since to the movement in Christian circles in England towards obtaining the citizenship for woman and the recognition of her equal rights with man. As one result of the discussion in the various religious bodies who have held their annual conventions in England, a meeting was convened in City Temple, at which the following, among other resolutions, was passed with great enthusiasm :-' That the time has come for the practical recognition of the truth that the Moral Law is equally binding upon men and women, and that all legal disabilities now imposed either on account of sect or sex should he repealed; that the exemptions hitherto accorded to immoral men from the social and political penalties at present enforced against those guilty of fraud, perjury, or criminal cruelty, should be abolished, as such exemption constitutes a veritable privilege to adulterers not extended to any other class in the community.'

of industry whose exigencies demand it, prohibition of the truck system, and the supervision by the Government of all branches and conditions of labour. The right of combination in self-defence is specially noted, while compulsory insurance for old age pensions for all working men by the State is also demanded. These are some of the just demands of a nation's working people, who form the back. bone of its strength and wealth; and yet the German Emperor the other day, in a speech to some recruits, is reported to have told them that they must be prepared to shoot their parents or brothers without reserve if Socialistic agitation rendered the order necessary.

Theosophy still occupies a prominent place in English journals, a fact much to be regretted. When we read and hear of men occupying leading positions in the world, men looked up to by their fellows as guides, giving undue prominence to this, the latest design of the great Enemy of man, it is enough to stir up one's deepest feelings, and to make us resolve to fight this infatuation to the utmostWhat appel\l's a peculiarity in this movement is the presence of women filling its leading positions. Why this should be we cannot say. The fact that woman is gradually assuming her place in the various departments of the world is patent to all, but it is regrettable to find her filling such positions The Remarks of Dr. Stephenson, President of the Wesas that lately occupied by Madame Blavatsky and now by leyan Conference at Nottingham, anent the matter, are Mrs Besant. worthy of a place in our columns. He said :-' There are one or two matters at which we must glance for a moment In Lucifer for September Mrs Besant gives a further before we approach the other subjects more immediately illustration of the spiritual part of man, and a Theosophical belonging to ourselves. For, looking a little outside our view of the dangers which attend spiritualistic seances, and own borders, two subjects have been prominently before warns her readers against a specific form of uncanny entity the mind of the Christian public during the year, and I called Kama Rupa, which, she contends, is a spirit straying make no apology for referring to them here, for they are about attached to all places in which animal desires are certainly not subjects which by general consent are exencouraged and satisfied, and is drawn into the current of cluded from the discussions of the Methodist Church Courts. those whose animal passions are strong and unbridled. Party politics have no place here; but there are some topics Mediums of low type attract these undesirable visitors. that arise out of political questions and yet are essentially -Verily if this is not a true case of the pot calling the kettle moral and religious questions. With these we have to do. black, we never saw one. While there are many objection. "Ve cannot avoid touching them, and to one or two of these able features in Spiritism as it has been known to the I must now refer. The great question of public morality world, Theosophy I am quite certain can boast of nothing has been before the mind of the country throughout the more elevating. Why draw a red herring across the whole year. It has been brought into prominence, as scent 1 Theosophy is nothing more nor less than Spiritism everybody knows, by questions affecting the reputation of dressed up in a new garb, and disguised in such a manner some of our public men. It is a matter of great thankful. as to beguile the class of people who adopt it as to the ness that in reference to this class of questions the public phenomena of the two religions. What is the difference conscience is much more sensitive than it used to be. Now, between a revelation rapped out upon a table under the I do not intend to say one word as to the merits of any control of a medium, and the translation of a letter that particular case. I do not doubt that many of the leading comes fluttering down, no one of course knows how or men in all sections of political life are as free from sympathy whence-save the confederate behind the scenes 1 Or what with wrong-doing in the particular direction at which I am the difference between a medium going into a trance and hinting as any person among us here is. Bnt it may revealing the secrets of the dead, and the Theosophist who answer some useful purpose if some one, speaking on behalf pretends to have visits from the Mahatmas, and obtains of his brethren, both ministerial and lay, should say there from them instructions how to proceed in case of a dilemma? are tens of thousands of Methodists and other Christians None whatever. The whole system is a gigantic fraud, and who intend to put these questions above all considerations has been years ago thoroughly exposed in India, where it of party interests. It would, no doubt, be much better had its stronghold and where now it has hardly an adherent. that some desirable measure should wait awhile-better Fudge, all of it. I can express myself no better. How even that this or that party should be placed for seven

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possession of all men, and that the gift of God through Jesus Christ is the privilege of spending it in holiness and happiness. 1 J. Scripture declares that 'the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil' (1 John iii. 8). The popular theory teaches that they will never be destroyed at all, but that a portion of the universe will be specially set apart for the eternal exhibition of them in their fullest maturity. 12. Scripture declares that Christ is to 'reconcile all things to God' (Col. i. 20). The popular theory teaches that all things will never be reconciled to God j that discord and disorder will never cease, but only be confined to one .particular locality. 13. declares that in Christ' all Scripture ". nDisconceptions. (001. i.Scripture The popular theory teaches things aconsist' 17). that whole kingdom will consist' forever, although not in Him.' A FEW PLAIN FACTS FOR THOUGHTFUL CHRISTIANS. 14. Scripture declares' he that hath the Son bath life, 1. SCRIPTURE declares that the 'everlasting punishment' but he that hath not the Son of God hath not life' (Matt. xxv. 46) of the wicked will consist of 'everlasting (1 John v. ]2) j that' if we live after the flesh we shall die, destruction' (2 Thess. i. 9). The popular theory teaches but if through the Spirit we mortify the deeds of the body that it will consist of everlasting pain. we shall live ' (Rom. viii. 13). The advocates of the 2. Scripture declares that God will 'destroy both body popular theory say that the life of believers and unbelievers and soul in hell' (Matt. x. 28). The popular theory teaches must be of equal duration. that He will destroy neither one nor the other,but will PROF. C. L. IVES, Yale College. preserve both of them alive forever in unmitigated agony. 3. Scripture declares that' our God is a consuming fire' years in the cold shade of opposition-than that men whose reputation is notoriously bad should be permitted to share in the councils of their party, or take high office in the service of the nation. I wish to put it plainly. There are thousands who are determined to put moral questions so high above party considerations who will, if necessary, by abstaining from voting, or voting on the other side, put their party in the minority, rather than allow 'men of noted immorality ever to be recognised as leaders.' vVe rejoice at such outspokenness, and believe that public conscience is so sensitive now that men of the class spoken against will hardly dare to show their face upon a public platform in the United Kingdom.

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(Heb, xii. 20). The popular theory teaches that He is only a scorching fire. 4. Scripture declares that the 'fiery indignation' will , devour the ad versaries ' (Heb. x. 27). The popular theory teaches that it will do no such thing, but only torture them. 5. Scripture declares that the wicked will 'perish like natural brute beasts' (2 Pet.er ii. ] 2). The popular theory teaches that there will be no analogy whatever between the two cases. 6. Scripture declares that whosoever 'will save his life' hy unfaithfulness to Christ, shall ultimately lose it (Matt. xvi. 25), in a far more terrible manner. The popular theory teaches that no man can lose his life, and that the second death is no death at all, but eternal life in misery. 7. Scripture declares that 'whosoever doeth the will of God abideth for ever' (1 John ii. 17). The popular theory teaches that every man will abide for ever, whether he does the will of God or not. 8. Scripture declares that if we desire 'Immortality' we must seek it 'by patient continuance in well-doing' (Rom. ii. 7). The popular theory teaches that every man possesses inherent, indefeasible Immortality, and what we seek for is that it may prove a blessing and not a curse to us. 9. Scripture declares that 'the wages of sin is death' (Rom. vi. 23). The popular theory teaches that it is eternal life in misery j in other words, that God will inflict upon impenitent sinners a punishment infinitely greater than what He has pronounced to be their due. 10. Scripture declares that 'the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord' (Rom. vi. 23). The popular theory teaches that eternal life is the common

Simple 'UUltllingness.
'A SIMPLE willingness to serve the Master.' It was a petition in a good man's prayer, which, falling on the ear of the writer, has long d welt in her memory. In this busy, hurrying age, when so many are working at fever heat, in the Church, as well as out of it-when OUt' books and papers, the sermons we hear, even our intercourse with friends, all seem to stimulate to yet greater activitythat prayer for 'simple willingness' falls like a soothing balm uFon the overwrought. There are some of us-not a few-i-whose hands are not idle, but who chafe and fret against the bounds of our appointed place, and look longingly towards what we deem a nobler, larger work. The words 'mission,' 'vocation,' , a higher sphere of activity,' so much on the lips nowadays, too often steal between us and a simple willingness. We are too prone,
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to look too eagerly' beyond to some great work we should love to perform for the Master; while we count as 'common' the work He Himself has laid upon our hands. We pant to serve Him in the throng, when He calls us to a desert place. 'Do not pray for strength to bear the tortures of the Inquisition,' says Spurgeon, 'when what you need may be grace to uncomplainingly darn the family hose /' "Ve may fondly think how well we might serve the Master 'in such and such a place.' 'If I were free from such heavy, homely cares,' sighs one j 'If I had only my once firm health,' moans another. But what we may need for service anywhere is the simple willingness to 'do the next thing,' whatever that may be. How would the Church-i-aye, the world-grow in grace if the servants of Christ more frequently and sincerely lifted and practised this beautiful petition.

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TRULY a Christ walking through life on it flowery path would have been little use to mankind. AB He pursued the even tenor of his way, ,prin~ and summer ever around Him, with no sear -an.l yellow- autumnal leaf, no winter frost or biting blast to chill and to depress He might have exeited our en v)' or our admiration, but He could have called forth, no feelings from our human nature but bitterness of spirit as we tried to follow His example and attain to His blessedness, and, defeated by one thing and another, signally failed. And so God, who meant
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low; how the meanness, and untruthfulness, and the falseness, and baseness of Pharisees, and Sadducees, and doctors of the law grated against his whole being. And ill some degree we can understand dis isolation. True, He was seldom alone in the sense in which we speak of being aIOIIP. but there are other solitudes besides what we understand by the words' being by one's self.' There is the isolation of the heart, of the sentiment, of the lack of sympathy, even of comprehension; and Jesus dwelt amid these. Even His disciples contiuual ly misunderstood Him; His very manhood was too pure for them. for them. . He was pitched too high in aim and thought

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And then His ministry and position brought much all Him in the way of suffering. He had to abide in t.he presence of sin. He probably often thought of that verse of the Psalmist, ' Oh, that I had the wings of a dove, for then would I flee alray and be at rest."; but He had to walk the earth in its troubled places-v-where the troublings of sin were, there had He to be. The Psalmist sneaks of His table being prepared by God in the presence of His enemies; and it 'vas in the presence of His enemies that Jesus had to dwell. Had Be only His holy, human will to obey, He would have fled from the presence of the distasteful temptation. It was suffering for Him to be under it; but, until all was fulfilled, there must He remain. It is only when the Devil had ended all that temptation that He left him, ancl then angels came anrl ministered unto Him. That was typical and prophetical ; it was an epitome of what was to be His life; He must abide in the presence of temptation until all was fulfilled. The mere abiding under temptation and mere living in the presence of sin is a woe to a holy soul. TI len, thilm 1( h 011' tl le pa tilence o. th e L or d must Irave f t . d b tl d 1 d meanness, an d wan t 0 f een ne y le u ness, an . itl H' IS un d ers t an dimg 1I1 tl rose WI I IV h om HId la to d o. e bl tl ht f cl litt l . tl . no e 10Ug s oun I e response In lell' POOl', mean 1171'1 H e was tl 11>1 I' . cmg 0 f wlnl1lng a.11 tfle I' wi ones, H 11 e {lng d oms . th ld f 01' th e soverergu t y 0 f a ngeous .. . ht 111 e war sceptre, thei th oug It s aspire d no I' Iier th an th e kimg clom b emg . . ell' I 11g res t ore d a t th a t tiime t 0 I srae I ; w Iien H e warne d t I18m 0 f th e perva diIng power 0 f'l eYI, th e I eaven 0 f th e PI iansees . d . dd uce,es th ey cou Id see no thiII1g b u t a warumg a b ou t o;;! . an a cI'I y b re.ad ' H ow IS it th a t ye 1 is I ai rave no un d ers t an diinzt n' . ht have been tile . conti mua If're ram upon H' IS I'IpS. t cmlg b And so, wherever we turn, we find our Lord acquainted with suffering. As it says of Him in the prophet, He was , . . ., a man of sorrows, and acquaIn~ed wl~h gne,f. He came upon the. very scene of the suffen?gs WIth which he, was ~o sympathise; and He took experience of those things 111 which He was to be o.ur Teacher and our Hell)' Here, then, we have our Lord upon the scene of suffering. Now, let us ask ourselves how He behaved Himself thereon; for it is only by watching what lIe did, and was, that we can know what to be, and how to do,

many trials too. And now, first of all, what sufferings had Christ 1 I answer, we can understand hut little of them. 'Ye are almost ashamed to attempt to write of it. 'Ye cannot read His soul, 'Ye are told in the Psalms that the' iron entered into .Ioseph's soul,' though we read nothing of this in the story itself; and the iron, we may be well assured, entered into the soul of Jesus on many an occasion, when all that we have in the record is that such and such events took place. "Tith regard to physical sufteriugs, which form so large a part of the 1I'0es of mankind, our Lord must, apart from His crucifixion, have been to a great extent free from them as they are experienced by many now. The idea that His life was a strong, healthy one is probably the truth, and He needed its strength to carry Him through His appointed work. The early training of the body of Christ was all . . . .. calculated, by Its regularity, and purity, and occupation, to . . . .' . bnng With It health. And It seems to be nrzed With v. reason that had the physique of our Lord been feeble, It .. . .. .. would have been a physical impossibility for HIm to .have . . undergone. except by perpetual supernatural interposiuon,

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the labour which he endured. . Some sufferings He doubt. less had, such as from occasional hunger, and thirst, and weariness; but . the acute agonies which are the accompaui. ments of some Illnesses, and the wearIng out weakness and . . distress which are a part. of others, He does not seem to . . have ever known. HIS wearings-out came from another . direction, and there were enongh to enable Him to enter into all wearings-out which come on us. . H t k hi h . A n d as t 0 th e pains 0 f tl le bod ony, e 00 Ig experience of them on the cross; so that along the worst paths of acute suffering we can trace His footmarks, and know that whither we have come, hither has He come before. To a nature such as Christ s, the suffenngs 0 sensitiveness were, no cloubt, more acute than would have been any bodily pains, Sensibility in Him was high-pitched and refined. It was affected by what we do not even perceive. The very construction, so to speak, of Christ's nature

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ourselves. We must be able to see the footprints before we can set our own feet in them. Our Saviour, then, accepted suffering as the dispensation for the time being. Whatever His future might be, that was His present lot, by the ordination of His Father; it was the right thing at that time: The end He no doubt had ever before Him; 'for the joy that was set before Him He endured the cross, despising the shame; and is now set down at the right hand of God.' But He never attempted to forestall the end. He was contented that it should keep its own place as a hope, an energiser, a future. And so Be applied Himself to the present, with all that belonged to it. When the day's trials came, He did not consider that any strange thing had happened to Him; it was the expected. It was deliberately accepted suffering. With His whole will He accepted the will ol His Father that was in Heaven.

others as well as ourselves, to believe that they may be enduring and needing help as well as we. If anyone might have been absorbed in what he was suffering, Christ is the One, but He steadfastly forbade self to swallow up His thoughts. And now, how shall we try to put our feet in the footprints of Jesus? Distinctness of effort will be very helpful to us. In tile spiritual, as in the natural life, we lose a great deal by vagueness and desultoriness. But looking at Christ Himself will be a correction to that. It is no small part of the boon of His presence ill human life that, looking at Him, we learn to live. Our effort is able to take shape and form when it copies what He did and was. 'Ye have thc inestimable privilege and advantage of having a pattern tu work by. vVe have that which we can copy for our first effort, and that by which we can correct our failures when ~ ow, suffering of some kind is sure to come to us, and it may come without our accepting it; worse still, striving our poor little effort has been made. against it. The ways of meeting suffering are of almost as And it will be very helpful to have the' man Christ J esus ' many kinds and degrees as suffering itself. They vary before us in our efforts. Abstract principles are weak with from surly indifference to open rebellion in those who refuse us, living examples are strong. The man who tells us 'to to accept it of the Lord; and from simple acquiescence be good' has less power with us than the one who 'is The more distinctly we can feel that we are trying with the will of God, and resignation to it, up to a oneness good.' of heart with Him; so that the activity of our will goes to be like Christ in the way He did or bore this or that, with the activity of His will, and we believe that all is best the more power sh~ll we feel flowing into our efr"ort. as our Father orders. The Saviour has left us the footprints At best there must be a deep consciousness of shortin which we are to go. And He did not want to emerge coming. The nearer we approach to Christ the more shall from it before the proper time. He was willing that it we feel this j but this is one of the great helps to our should run its course. ~He could have cut short His sufferings advancing. This downward growth of root must accomat any time, if he had chosen thereby to cut short His pany the upward growth of branch. When we think we mission also; the two had to run their course together, and have been resigned, patient, accepting to the full all that He patiently endured. That is a footprint in which we are comes from a Father's hand, we have but to set ourselves to tread. We have many trials which have to run a course. side by side with Him and we shall see with how trembling There is much attached to them which cannot be attained a hold we have taken the cup which He took with a firm without the whole course being run. And in some of these hand and drained to the dregs. trials our own will can come in, and we may cut them Thus having Christ with us, humbly identifying ourselves short. with Him, trying to be as He was, evermore looking for Our Blessed Lord has left us a footprint in another His footprints and setting our feet in them, suffering will direction also, viz., in His uon- absorption in His own not miscarry in its mission. It will ennoble, not debase llS. sufferings. Whatever came upon Him, He was always Being baptized wih His baptism, and drinking of His cup ready to enter into the wants of others. If He was weary, in our poor measure, we shall in that measure be exalted as He yet came forth to minister to the crowds; if one was He is. Suffering of every kind has to each of us a mission, sick far away, He said' I will go and heal him'; and when in whatever form it may come. There is nothing pUl:pose He might have been expected to be completely absorbed in less in nature, nothing in providence, nothing in grace, Purposeless His own exceeding agony of mind and body, His ears and nothing in the meaning of the Almighty. suffering would, indeed, be hard to bear. It is hard to heart were both open to the cry of the penitent thief. The Father's Suffering acts in opposite ways. It hardens the heart those who think they are afflicted with it. It into selfishness, or it softens it and makes it more capable hand is not and cannot be seen in trials of this kind, than it was before to take in the sufferings of others. Our has no alleviations, no prospects, no compensations, no Lord left us an example of what it was to be to us. And assistauces from above. It knows nothing of the peaceable in truth He has thus taught us where to find the blessing. fruit; how the acid ripens and mellows into the sweet. For there is no greater alleviation of our own suffering For the joy that was set before Him, Jesus endured the than what is to be had in lightening the sufferings of cross, despising the shame; and he who sets his feet in others. The penalty of selfishness may meet us in our own the footprints of his Lord shall always have a joy set before sufferings as well as in our spendings or enjoyments; we him too. may so turn in upon ourselves as to be self.clevoured. The The terrors of the gloomy ways will be to a great degree great sweetener of suffering is unselfish ness ill it, to feel for dispelled if we. see a human footmark on the unknown

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path. Someone has been there before us, and there is footprint after footprint; whoever he is, he has gone on. Who had been there 1 Who but the Son of God! And the footprints do not disappear suddenly. If they did, we might, if we depended upon them, some day find ourselves deserted, and be bewildered and lost. No; we trace them easily enough to Gethsemane and Oal vary. vVe arc allowed to see them up to the very last. And not only then. After the feet were nailed to the cross, there were no more footprints of sorrow to be left by Him on the earth. We have a last footprint on the Mount of Ascension. It reminds us of the end of the long way of suffering for ourselves also. Jesus ascended to His Father and our Father; and now, giving us His blessed companionship by the way, He shows us what will be the end tliereof-footprints to the Mount of Crucifixion first, and to the Mount of Ascension afterwards. REV. P. B. POWER, M.A.

carried by birds or by squirrels; some the coats of men or till they are rubbed in all sorts of ways

the Creator secures the dispersion, planting, and growth of seeds, everyone of which has wrapped up in it a spark of tll1.l;.thidden life which no man can produce, and which only God imparts to the things which He has made.

'H~otes on Scriptures.
MANY notes OIl the Scriptures shed more darkness than light-they cover the window with cobwebs so the light of the Gospel can scarcely shine in. Other notes go to the root the matter, and bring out the truth with great force p.nd apply it to the heart and to the conscience. John Wesley was very eminent as a critic and commentat.or, and his 'Notes on the New Testament' have been very helpful and useful; but it is doubtful if any of his notes ever came with more force and impressiveness than one he sent to Samuel Bradburn, a good preacher, but a poor man, who was in straitened circumstances, To him Wesley once enclosed a five pound note in the following letter: 'DEAR SAMMY: Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt also be fed.- Yours affectionately, 'J'OHN vV ESLEY.' The reply was in the following words: 'REV. AND DEAR StH: I have often been struck with the beauty of the passage of Scripture quoted in your letter, but 1 must confess that I never saw such useful expository notes upon it before.-I am, reverend and dear sir, your grateful servant, 'S. BRADBURN.'

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THERE are some people who never seem to know how to do things. Their fingers are all thumbs; they blunder and bungle, and never dare to undertake things that are diffi, cult, or that require skill and intelligence. Other people are full of ingenuity and resource, and if anything needs to be done they are likely to find a way to do it. 'James Nasmyth, the inventor of the steam hammer, was a man who could find a way out of most of the difficulties which he encountered. His skill as a landscape gardener was remarkable. The Duke of Athole consulted him once as to certain improvements which that nobleman desired to make in his woodland scenery near Dunkeld. There was a rocky crag called Craigybarns, which the Duke wished to have planted with trees, to relieve the grim barrenness of its appearance; but it was impossible for any man to climb the crag in order to set seeds or plants in the clefts of the rock. , "A happy idea struck Nasmyth," says his biographer. " Having' observed in front of the castle a pair of small cannon used for firing salutes on great days, it occurred to him to turn them to account. His object was to deposit the seeds of the various trees among the soil in the clefts of the crag. A tinsmith in the village was ordered to make a number of canisters. with covers. The canisters were filled with all sorts of suitable tree seeds. The cannon was loaded and the canisters were fired up against the high face of the rock. They burst and scattered the seed in all directions." 'Some years after, when Mr. Nasmyth revisited the place, he was delighted to find that his scheme of planting by artillery had proved completely successful, for the trees were flourishing luxuriantly in all the recesses of the cliff.' Did you ever think how many ways the Lord has planned to scatter the seeds of the various plants over the earth 1 Some have wings to fly with, some ani flung out by springs; some snap out from exploding pods; some are borne on

How many of God's promises would shine with fresh lustre if some of the Lord's stewards would add a few notes to them, and send them forth to the poor, the widowed, the sorrowing and the sad. The Scriptures themselves are wonderfully good, but the notes help to deepen the impresssion and confirm the believer's faith.

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iOopicd froui Life and Advent Hymns No. 60.) LIFE in the' Living One!' Oh, that is gracious; Gladly we hail it as worthy of God; 'I'o those who receive it, Jesus is precious, Leading the pilgrim along the right road. , Immortal by nature,' alas, for the thought! A creature of dust by Satan deceived; Dark clouds of mistake on the truth it has brought, For man in his pride the falsehood believed. Life in the' Living One ;' sing it with gladness! This is like' Gospel,' or news from on high: It thrills through our hearts, and scatters OUI' sadness; For if 'Christ is our life' we never can die. We may sleep fo'r a while like Jesus our Head, 'Who redeemed us to God in His marvellous grace; But by union to Him we shall rise from the dead, To serve and to love Him, and look on His face. The glory to come is a glory divine; 'Immortal in Christ' admits to its bliss; And none in that age that is coming shall shine But the subjects of light and salvation in this. W. LEASK, D.D.

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From. ' W01dsof Truth.' lO.-THE Doosr OF THE UNGODLY. to 2 Thes. i. 9, and you will find an explanation of this everlasting punishment, where we read that those who know not God, and obey not the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ, "shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power," 'Let me sum up the argument in the form of a syllogism: , Loss of a prized possession is a punishment. 'Life is a prized possession. , Therefore, the loss of lif~ is a punishment, and if the loss or deprivation is for ever, the punishment is everlasting. 'The whole difficulty with this text,' continued Uncle Daniel,' is in the conception that there can be no punishment without conscious existence to appreciate pain. The whole testimony of Scripture is that the wages of sin is death, and that everlasting destruction or death is the everlasting punishment herein referred to. , I have argued this subject, allowing the widest possible latitude to the words, but the fact is that the orizinal o Greek word, here translated punishment, will not bear the idea of torment. The word is kolasin, derived from the ver~ kolaso, the radical meaning of which is to "prune, excise or cut off," a secondary meaning being" to restrain," and js metaphorical meaning to punish. I have here a Greek Testament with interlineary English translation, which renders the text as follows: "And shall b away , "0 these into a cutting off age-lasting; and the just ones into life age-lasting." This text teaches what is tauzht in e hundreds of others-ete1'nal life and eternal death, as the respective reward and punishment of the righteous and ungodly. Is this clear to you, Mrs. Brown 7' , Perfectly clear,' was the reply, 'and so harmonious with the general testimony of Scripture, and the Divine character as to bear the stamp of positive truth.' 'How about the story of the rich man and Lazarus given in Luke xvi r enquired Mark Wilson. ' 'This is the bulwark of those who insist on introducinz b the doctrine of the heathen Tartarus into Christianity,' replied Uncle Daniel, 'but never was a doctrine builded on a more flimsy foundation. In the first place I would ask is this a record of fact or a parable T All present conceded that it must be a parable.
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said about the moral character of the rich man, or to prove that Lazarus was more virtuous than he from whose bounty he was fed l' , If we are to take this as a literal fact or based on facts, it appears to teach that poverty is a virtue, and riches a vice,' replied David Gordon, 'and, in that cast', there must be a lot of tramps reposing in Abraham's bosom.' Turning to Mark Wilson, who had asked for the explanation, Uncle Daniel enquired: 'Do you find anything that indicates the duration of the torment in this case l' , Not a word,' was the reply, "and this parable is, therefore, no evidence in support of the doctrine of eternal torment.' , Do you see anything in the story about the soul or spirit of either the rich man or Lazarus l' enquired Uncle Daniel of Alice Dungan. 'I do not,' was the reply, 'I read that Lazarus died there is nothing said about his being buried, as in the case of the rich man, and that he is carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.' , If this is a record of fact it certainly presents a queer picture,' said Robert Passmore. 'We have pictured a dead beggar covered with loathsome sores, with no special virtue to recommend him except his poverty, borne by angels, and deposited in the bosom of Abraham, This is certainly not a very entrancing picture of Heaven.' , Now let us look at the case of the rich man,' said Uncle Daniel. ' Unlike Lazarus he is buried, and while buried ~e, not his spirit, lifts up his eyes, and sees Lazarus lying l~l Abraham's bosom, and talks with Abraham, and requests literal water to cool the thirst of his literal tongue. If taken literally the story becomes a laughable farce, and if taken figuratively, as is the only proper way to consider a parable, it no longer becomes an argument for the support of the doctrine of torment of the damned. Furthermore, thi. place of torment is Hades, the dwelling place of the dead, both good and bad, now universally accepted as not being the Hell of orthodoxy, and not so translated in the revised version. To sum up: First--This is not a literal narrative, but a parable based upon a doctrine of the Pharisees to whom it was addressed. Second-It in no sense teaches the doom of the ungodly, because there is no question of morality iutroduced. Third-It does not teach eternity of torment, because there is no question of duration of time. Fourth-If considered literally, it reduces the whole narrative to such an absurdity as to be beneath argument. 'I believe there is a most beautiful lesson taught by this parable,' continued Uncle Daniel, 'regarding the introduction of the Gentile '-IVorld, represented bv Lazarus , to share in the divine blessings, which" good things" had formerly been the exclusive portion of the Israelites. We cannot consider this at present, but will have to stop after demonstrating that this parable in no sense teaches the doom of the ungodly.'

'I agree with you,' continued Uncle Daniel, 'and the basis of the parable is not even a fact, but instead, a Jewish tradition or superstition seized upon by Jesus in rebuking the Pharisees, the better to point His moral. Yet, we now find this parable, based upon Jewish conception of Hades, taken as actual fact as a basis for so-called Christian doctrine. ; The absurdity of this can be manifested in a few questions. In the first place I would en~uire: Is anything

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lx uright summer sunshine fair Christmas was spent ; With music and carols he came and he went; Wi th Ilowers of all hues from the rlower-mantled earth To kindle right feelings and innocent mirth. Rut Christuras has passed with it pleasures and checr,I wish you a Happy New Year. ' ", c think on the clift-girdled land of our birth And term it the loveliest isle of the earth. There stout-hearted Cromwell for liberty fought: There God-fearing ~lilton its principles taught: Ant! there, like good omens, white snow drops appear: 'J wish yon a Happy Xew Year.'
V,: e greet the new year o'.!r those buried old times, The lone lone auo and the sweet villace chimes: The 81l0~:,co\'~reJ l:i1b, and the log all ~-blaze, In "ay festi ve hall of our forefuthers' days; 'Vh~n voices mug out both from peasant and peer: ,I wish you a Happy Xew Year.'

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be one ill which every believer therein must engage. There is work for all. Do not be afraid to take the humble task of circulating truth by means of a paper. If you are persuaded that the BlBLl<: ~T.\NJHm) contains important truths-truth for the cLge-pass it 011. Your neighbuur may be hungering for just such truth, and not know it. Now is the paper. Begin publisher, time .to renew yom subscriptions for this the year well by remitting at once to the Karangahape Road, Auckland.

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And here, in these warm, southern isles of the sea, ,\lay smiling Zealandia for ever be free From those pressing imposts which Englislnuen bore, When hound to grirn tyrants ill eras of yore. ';\lay their greeting still be without favour or fear-'1" wish you a Happy Kew Year.' St.il l raise high your Standard of Biblical truth To solace the aged, and turn wayward youth To Labour's green paths where true honesty Iies-; Where Nature rewards with suflicien t supplies; While Friendship's voice whispers in accents sincere, ,I wish you a Happy New Year.'
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With this issue the editor resumes charge of the paper, and hopes that he may be able to continue his work without further break. He is grateful for the assistance rendered by loving brethren, and trusts that future issues will be graced by contributions from those who have proved their ability to write.

The Annual Conference, held' 011 Christmas Day, was, in many respects, a very gratifying one. The attendance at the business meeting was good, and all were deeply interested in the discussion that took place . The February issue will be the Conference number, and will contain an account of the meetings, with the papers read and the addresses given.

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The brethren ill Adelaide are determined ;10t to let the \\'l~ are glad to report that we commence the present year's grass grow under their feet. eckly meeti ngs are being issue of the STANDAltll very hopefully. The past year has helel, and the results so far are encouraging. At a recent been the most successful we have yet experienced. '\T e meeting, Pastor Lees in the chair, Bro. Gamble read a have circulated a larger number of copies per month, and papcr, which recently appeared in Tl.e Faith, upon' Eternal our subscribers have remitted more promptly, although Life, 'The Myth of Science;' 'The truth of Scripture.' This there are a few outstanding sums that we should be glad meeting should be the rallying centre for all the life-believers to receive. in that city, and should receive their prayerful, sympathetic, ,Ve are grateful that our effort of faith in reducing the and personal support. Now that the truth is moving ill price of the paper has met with such a response. We are this and other Australian cities, we may look forward to looking forward to the time when we shall be able to issue the time when an Australasian conference shall be held. at the low price of 'one penny.' ,Ye cannot do this yet, A dream says someone; perhaps so, but should our Lord but jf all our friends will work hard this year it can be delay His coming for a few years, it is 1110re than likely done by January, 1893, if the Lord should tarry so long. that that dream may come true.

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us enter. vVe know not what awaits us within. But we know that we shallli ve 'but one day at a time, and as each day comes it will bring with it the needed grace. We shall be stronger if we but look at the Hope which shines brightly upon us-the hope of our Master's return, Year by year we point to this as the bright star which ever shines upon the believer's pathway. As time passes on it is growing in brightness, and we think that now it is a sun shedding warmth as well as brilliancy upon us as we journey. Oh, what gladsome things are centred in the return of the Lord! -Eternal Life, conquest over death, the rewards of the Kingdom, the Kingdom itself, ( Eye hath not seen, no!' ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared.' And He may come this New Year. Glorious possibility! Christ is coming 80011, how soon we cannot tell. Oh, ring it! ring in the new! Let the music be but the prelude to the swelling resonant chimes that shall usher in the world's New Yea!', when evil shall have. been abolished, and righteousness shall reign. In hope of the near return of your Lord, he joyful, brethren. 'Make melody in your hearts to the Lord.' Hing it! Sing it! The Lord is coming. Oh, what a glad New Year this will be if He makes it the season of His advent. Enrrou.

NeE more we are bidding good-bye to a departing yeal', and once more we stand eager to welcome a new one. The past, with all its sorrows and joys, its temptations and failures, lies behind us. It has left its marks upon us, some of which will remain with us as long as life shall last, like the deep scars of severe wounds, and memory will cause a rush of sorrowful sadness, and maybe of humiliation, as she recalls the experiences of 1891. Much that has been done we would gladly undo if the opportunity were given, but time hurries on and does not permit us to retrace our steps that we may obliterate the past. Yes, the old year lies behind us; but it has not been all a failure. In the wealth of experience that has been garnered, much has been of a blessed type. As we look back upon it all, and weigh one side against another, who can say, (I had rather not have lived that year?' How good God has been to ~ all ! Not once has He gone back upon His word. His love and grace have shone in upon us at all t.imes, and even our harshest experiences have been employed to yield instruction and hlessing. In darkest seasons of sorrow He has been to us (The God of all comfort,' and when with blinding tears and humiliation of heart we have found our way to Him, confessing our sins, we have found Him to be (The God of grace and forgiveness.' But it is well here to ask, as we (ring out the old,' what is the record which it bears, of us and for us with regard to the ages to come. The Lord intends to reward

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lE, servants when H, returns. How has th is P"" year's ARMONY 'J:f:'ignst~ll'ough all "the, works, ~nd doings contributed to the honours of the future? Have they" i revealed words, of God. Endless variety helped to swell the ( exceeding and eternal weight of glory," obtains in the myriad forms of beings and 0[' has there been a diminution of that reward already stored /~ __,Y),ljJ objects on which .Jehovah has lavished Hi, up? For that dreadful possibility is indicated in the ex- creative wisdom and goodness. Yet there is a bond of hortations, c Look to yourselves that ye lose not the things union-a silken cord that winds through the vast world that ye have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.' of being-testifying the great bruth that the One Infinite 'Hold that fast that thou hast, that no man take thy and Eternal Mind planned, and the equally Great and crown.' This 'question must be left; but let us be sure Divine Executor carried out, the design to its completion, that 'the day will declare it.' The answer will be given at agreeable to the statement of John i. 1-3, 'In the beginning the Judgment Seat of Ohrist, to our shame 01' to our praise. was the Word,' etc. We have been wayward and sinful, but God has been good. The bond of union ill the material creation exists also ltl He has borne with us with unspeakable forbearance; He that Divine revelation we call the Sacred Scriptures. A has ministered help .and comfort to us in a thousand ways; large number of men, almost exclusively belonging to the and as we think of all these things we do ring out the old. favoured nation of Israel, scattered over a period of fifteen Yes; let the glad music chime; ~he notes of sorrow which hundred years-men of various degrees of mental ability, }\~\:.Q\:<:'~it\~ in, tl\~i\: uudertoues, but. s.et forth. ill s.trik- , g;,e.l1.\.US., ~1J..<:.a.tiQ:l\, , and, :l\3..t,m:a.l. ta.l':mt-'\~xe, tb.'0 &\l;!M.\t\\, 4;1 ing contrast the silvery peals of praise, that tell that (He which the Spirit of God gave to us this wonderful volume hath done all things well,' and that (All things work of Divine Eternal Truth. This is OUt only standard ..-together for good to them that love God.' 'The Word of God that liveth and abideth for ever.' We Yes; the old year lies behind us. It is well if the accept its teachings, bow to its decisions, as the final Coui-t result of its lessons and experiences is such as to place us of Appeal. It is to us the Divine Fountain of Light and with steady gaze, earnest resolve, and fervent hope at the Knowledge of all that pertains to God, angels, and the opening portals of the New Year. 'With ourhearts chastened, I human race. with self-subdued, and trusting only and fully ill Christ let All that is true in Science,u:hen flllly e.cplored, we

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creature into union with the Son of God, making him a partaker of the Divine nature-s-God in Christ beeoming his Father, and he a child of God and joint-heir with Christ. There are some remarkable peculiarities about man and his world calculated to call out adoring gratitude and praise. Ours is the only nature that has been taken into union with the Divine in the Person of the Son of God; and thus by Redemption the possibilities of exaltation and glory are far greater than were set before Adam in the rVe accept the Bible account of God's creation of man as we find it in the early chapters of Genesis, and sustained Garden. There is also in our nature an imperfectness that and Flesh cry throughout the Book: 'The Lord God formed man out of only the Lord Himself can supply-heart out for the Living God. As of Israel so of the saints: the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul '-or creature 'This people have I formed for Myself; they shall shew (Gen. ii. 7). Literaliy,' our foundation is in the dust.' forth My praise.' It is a grand truth, that only he that doeth the will of Yet notwithstanding our lowly origin, and the humble material out of which we were made, our Divine Creator God abideth for ever; and its counterpart will be equally has endowed man with marvellous capacities, and possi- true, all the wicked will God destroy. bilities. As to our world, it seems to have been the chosen arena In Genesis i. 26, 2i, we have the record of a wonderful on which the awful problem of evil should be worked out council: 'Let Us make man in OU?' image after OU?' and so clearly demonstrated that it need never to be likeness.' Was not this the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit 1 repeated again, involving, as it does, the awful destruction The One J ehovah ! But here we may not dwell. The of all that is incorrigibly wicked in fallen angels and men, proposal was carried out, as we read, 'God created man in who shall perish for ever, and a cleansed world and His own image, in the image of God created He him ; male universe be the glorious result, our earth, in its renewed and female created He them.' The question arises, what is form, becoming the' Tabernacle of God' and the redeemed meant by the Image of God? Does it refer to physical or for ever. But on these glorious themes we must not moral qualities? or both? Whatever it embraces, it does linger. not include Immortality or deathlessness, 'For God only Now we hasten to the special points of our topic: hath Immortality.' Our contention is that no argument 1st. That Eternal Life can only be obtained by union for ~ atural Immortality can be founded on man being with Jesus Christ. The whole testimony of Scripture goes made in the image of God, for the following reasons, to prove that man never had it as an attribute of his gathered from the narrative. nature. He rejected the 'Tree of Life' for that which believe will harmonize with what God has here revealed. vVe gladly accept all that the Great Creator' is pleased to teach us by His works, as well as by His Word, for they demonstrate each other. In this' Mission' of ours we only profess to deal wit)l persons who accept the Bible as the revealed truth of Goel. So that all infidel objections are outside the pale of our present enquiry. Life and death were set before him as the test of obedience. Transgression involved the Divine penalty for sin, which is death, viz., the loss of life. The' Tree of Life' would not have been needed by a deathless being. The sentence passed by God on man the sinner, 'Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return,' is fatal to inherent immortality, and the expulsion from the Garden, for the reason assigned--' Lest he put forth his hand,' etc.-shows very clearly that deathlessness was not that part of the image of God in which man was formed. The whole testimony of the Book confirms the narrative of Genesis. 'Sin entered and death by sin.' What we contend for, as included in being made in the image of God, is the ability to know, love, and obey God; to choose between good and evil; with power to exercise dominion in the sphere given to him by the Great Creator. But this has all been forfeited, not one natural claim left. In fact the race must have perished in our first parents but for redeeming love and mercy, in the promised Seed of the woman, the Incarnate Son of God. So that life of every kind rests entirely upon the redemption that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Man in himself has no claim to life, no power to live apart from God. But this wondrous plan of redemption, re eived and accepted by man, lifts the dust - formed involved death; and was driven out after he had sinned, lest he should put forth his hand and take of the 'Tree of Life' and live for ever. God will not have an Immortal Sinmes: .' Eternal Life is the Fee gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. But this can only be received by MOR'l'ALS-abeing-possessed-of an immortal soul could not receive it.' and, mark, we arc forbidden to change the term Eternal Life for Eternal Happiness. We need Life conscious being, to have either happiness or misery, and it is this deathless being that is God's free gift to the believer in Christ; and, mark, it is only through this union with Christ, the Life Giver, it can be received and enjoyed. 0 the riches of Divine Grace, as it shines forth in the redemption by Christ Jesus. The vanished Eden and the forfeited' Tree of Life' are redeemed and brought back to us, with added blessings, by Him who stands before the Throne as 'the Lamb that had been slain,' before Whom a challenged universe unitedly give their assent to His claim as He takes the book of a once forfeited but now redeemed inheritance from the hand of the Eternal Father. Then breaks forth, in strains that Heaven had never heard before, the new song of redemption, 'Thou art worthy to take the Book' (Rev. v. 7, 8). Brethren, God has irrevocably settled the question of Eternal Life only in Christ. ' And this is the record that

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God hath given to us Eternal Life, and this Life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath the Life, and he that hath not the SOil hath not the Life.' This Divine utterance is clear as the crystal, and firm as the Eternal Throne. But now we come to our next point, and we will put it , in the form of a question: Is there a Scriptural bond of union between Life only in Christ and the Advent? The affirmative reply come to us rolling down the ages, gathering volume and intensity from that first promise spoken by the Eternal Himself, in passing sentence on the serpent: 'The Seed of the woman shall crush thy head'; until the grand chorus mingles Earth with Heaven in the jubilant refrain, , Hallelujah! The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.' Our time will not allow us to quote at large from the prophets, the Psalms, the glowing pictures of the latter-day \ glory, but of these times of blessing all the prophets have spoken, as we learn from Peter in Acts iii. 18-26. The testimony borne by Christ Himself, both in plain speech and parable, is exceedingly extensive, plain, and clear. The Divine Spirit, through the Apostles, reiterates and enlarges, by going into further detail, what had been given by prophets, psalmists, and Christ Himself, until we get the closing revelation, and the graphic scene is portrayed before us as ' the revelation of J'esus Christ, that God gave unto Him.' Now it cannot be denied by those who believe the Bible that Christ will come again. All attempts to allegorize or spiritualize these clear, plain statements are doomed to miserable failure, for they are only part of the one grand scheme of Redemption by Christ. But we are, according to our topic, to show the Scriptural bond of union between Life only in Ch1'ist and His Advent, Kingdom, and Reign. ] st, We hold that this union is in Christ Himself, for He is the TRUTII, the LIFE, the ,VAY. The Kingly character of our blessed Lord was the one in which He was; announced by Gabriel to His human mother. Read Luke ii. 31-33 (John was the herald of the King-' Repent, for the Kingdom of the Heavens is at hand '). The wise men from the East enquired, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' and they worshipped Him as such. The teaching of Jesus accorded with this, and His parables. True, the rejection of Christ by the Jews has delayed the Kingdom, but not frustrated its ultimate establishment. The confession of Christ before the chief priest proves this: , Hereafter shall ye see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of Heaven.' This confession proved both the Divine and Kingly character of Christ (Matt. xxvi, 63, 64). Before Pilate the same grand truth was confessed (J ohn xviii. 36, 37), and the inscription over His cross 'in three languages declares the same, '1'hi8 is the King of the Jews.' The Father's resurrection of Christ from the dead confirms every promise, and seals the everlasting covenant made with Christ, that all shall be fulfilled. Nay, He has gone, among other sublime purposes, to receive the Kingdom and Return. Seated in
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honour and glory at the right hand ofl the Majesty of Heaven, as the Regent Of the Universe, He waits the time appointed of th~ Father when He shall come in all the glory of the Father and the holy angels. '1'0 our mind the Second Advent of our blessed Lord is a Divine Necessity-c-as it will be the crowning act of redemption. It is necessary to the Divine veracity. God has pledged Himself to set His King upon the hill of Zion. The decree has passed the lips of the Eternal Father that to Christ every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess Him Lord to the Glory of God, the Father. The word of Divine Prophecy is full of those sublime pictures of the state of the earth and its people, when He shall COUle in that day; and these are so circumstantial they will not permit of change for what some may regard as more spiritual blessings. Our Heavenly Father is the God of Truth. He does not promise us one thing and give us quite another instead of it: 'He has magnified His word above all His name,' and He will keep it, though the heavens should pass away. Then there are the Promises of Christ: 'I will come again and receive you to Myself'; ''1'0 him that overcometh will I give to sit with Me on My throne, even as I have overcome.' All those exhortations to watch and pray that we may stand before the Son of :!\'[an-the testimony of the angels at the ascension of Christ, 'this same Jesus,'-the promise of the Divine Spirit in and through the Apostles, and all the grandeur of the Apocalypse combine into one vast Pledge and Promise of J ehovah, that the Son of God must reign. Nay more. Is it not part of the Everlasting Covenant that is ordered in all things and sure? It is not necessary that the glorious God, that keepeth truth for ever, should, on the ground of His OWll aithfulness and truth, give the f kingdom to His Son 'I Then again on the ground of Redemption, is not the kingdom part of the joy set before Christ ? Is it not the counterpart of the sufferings of Christ, and included in the glories that shall follow 1 Are not the Cross and Crown linked in indissoluble union? , Must not the Man whoworethe crownof thorns, ,V hoseclaimthe worldrejects and scorns, In Gloryqreat appear.' Heaven and Earth respond the' grand Amen.' But do not the claims of the redemptive work of Christ demand and provide for this Eternal Life as the free gift of God through J-esus Christ, OUI'Lord 1 It is throuch . 0 union with Him that that which was forfeited by being expelled from 'the Tree of Life' is given back to the redeemed. But how is the lost dominion recovered but in virtue of the Crown rights of the Second Advent. Yes, brethren, He, who is the Son of God, is our Elder Brother, is a Priest for ever-but it is after the order of Melchisedek. Re shall sit upon His Throne, and the council of peace shall be between both offices, and it will be in virtue of this that His redeemed shall be Kings and Priests unto God, and we shall reign on the earth. We go further and

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observe it is only in this Kingly character of our Blessed Lord that the curse will be rolled back from the earth, the vast creation delivered-from the bondage of corruption, and man's lost dominion restored by the Lord from Heaven. What a sublime procession that is, that was seen by the prophet, and shall be witnessed in the reign of Christ on .earth, when the wolf shall lie down 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! How is this 1 'I'he Redeemer has restored man's lost dominion; Redemption by Christ has made possible the original purpose of God in creation; and Jesus is crowned Lord of all. But the cry is raised, This is contrary to nature! Of course it is, to that which has been perverted by sin; and so it is contrary to our fallen nature f~r th~ dead to live again, but Christ's redemption will accomplish this for the believer, and so will raise him up at the last day. But this is what out' God has promised to accomplish by His Son, our great and glorious Redeemer. Only He who is the Resurrection and the Life can raise tbe dead; and here we see tbe union of the Eternal Life and the Kingdom of Christ. The Heavens must receive Him until the dispensation of the fulness of times, until He receives the Kingdom; and then in all the power and glory of Godhead, with the right of redemption, He takes possession of a ransomed earth, and of all those who are the believing, adopted purchase of His precious. blood; and thus the-length of days for ever and ever shall be spent in the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Oh, brethren, what God has joined together ill Jesus Christ, let no poor human theory attempt to put asunder. For He must reign, not beyond the skies, but from seu to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth; and this glorious concord between Eternal Life and Everlasting Dominion will be the Divine and crowning act of Redemption. Amen.

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As dawns another New Year's Day, Awake my soul, and sing and pray, And praise thy God, from Whose kind hands Flow blessings countless as the sands. Each morning on its radiant wings ~ ew tokens of His mercy brings, And every swift revolving year, Is brightened with His love sincere. Awake, my soul! The past is dead; Lift up to heaven thy droopinl?head: Rest not in shadow nor in night, Catch on thy brow the morning" light. Look unto Him, and thou shalt be Enlightened, comforted, made free; And shame shall vanish from thy face, Beneath the beaming of His grace. Go forth and trust thy Friend Divine, His JIlighty hand is clasping thine; Faint Hot nor fal ter, doubt nor fear; (;0 wal k with God another year. His will be thine, thy path be His .: That path shall shine with light and bliss ; While years of blessing go and come, And lead to His Eternal Home. If.L.B.

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By A LlIfONJ., BALLA]{AT. I HADhad a very busy day, and experienced a delightfui feeling of restfuluess as I settled myself in a comfortable armchair, after having said' good night' to my children. Just before going they had sung their evening hymn. As their sweet childish voices had joined with that of their mother, one verse had made an impression on my mind. I was familiar with it, but it came to me with a new beauty and force. It was :.Kot a brief glance I beg, a passing word, But as thou dwell'st with Thy disciples, Lord; Familiar, condescending, patient, free, Come not to sojourn but abide with me.

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CHEERFULNEi:iSan become a habit, and habits sometimes c help us over hard places. A cheerful heart seeth cheerful things. A lady and gentleman were in a lumber yard situated by a dirty, foul-smelling river. The lady said: 'How good the pine boards smell !' 'Pine boards!' exclaimed the gentleman. ' Just smell this foul river l' , No, thank you,' the lady replied, 'I prefer to smell the pine boards.' AlId she was right. . If she, or we, can carry this principle through our entire living, we shall have the cheerful heart, the cheerful voice, and cheerful face.

My wife went away with the little ones to see them into bed, and I was left alone with this verse of the .hyrnn repeating itself in my memory; and the thought came to me, Suppose He were to come as He came to His disciples, am I altogether prepared to receive Him into my house, to abide with me 1 And as I meditated on the subject I fell asleep, and dreamed, and lo! the door of the room opened, and in walked one whom I knew at once to bethe Ohrist. Not the glorified Redeemer as seen by John in the isle of Patmos. No. He had answered the prayer of our hymn, and had come ill humble, human form,
Familiar, condescending, patient, free.

I knelt before Him, but He laid His hand on me, and There is in some houses all unconscious atmosphere of domestic and social ozone which brightens everybody. said, ' Arise, for I have come to tarry with thee.' Wealth cannot give it nor can poverty take it away.-JlisiI Jlft~loch. My recollection of my dream here grows somewhat con-

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fused, but I remember it again when the next morning seemed to have arrived, ant: I was gathering my children around me, and telling them that Jesus had come to stay with us in the house. The little ones clapped their hands for joy, and my dear wife's face beamed with a rapture that seemed to transfigure her. Just then the Lord Himself entered the worn, and we took our seats around the breakfast table. What language can I use to describe the wondrous peace which filled all our souls, or how our hearts burned within us as He talked with ?s ~ But when the meal was over, and we had family worship, which to us that day was truly a foretaste of heaven itself, I was filled with perplexity. What should I do with my strange visitor? lt seemed disrespectful to leave Him behind me at home, yet it would mean serious loss to me to stay away from my place of business that (lay; but I could not take Him with me, that was certain. Who ever heard of taking Christ to a counting-house? The Saviour surely knew my thoughts, for He said, ' I will go with thee. How didst thou ask me ? Was it not
" Come not to sojourn, but abide with me?"

for forgiveness for past\ sinfulness and strength for t!me to come. , My child,' said He, in tender accents, 'thon speak est as if My presence were something strange to thee. But I have al ways been with thee, I have seen, and have seen with grief, the way thou hast dealt with thy fellows in business, and marvelled at thy unbelief of My promise that I would be ever with thee. Have T not said to my servants, " Abide in me and T in you." , Just as He had said these words another gentleman entered the office. He was a customer whom I could !.'ot afford to offend, and I had uniformly shown a cordiality to hi.n which I was far from feeling in my heart. He was vulgar, profane, and often obscene in his talk. He had not been mallY minutes in my office, before lie made use of an expression which brought a hot flush to my cheek. I had heard him speak in a similar way before, and although I felt repelled by it, I had for fear of offending him, met it with hint laughter. But now I felt as I should have had it been uttered in the presence of a lady, only this feeling was intensified hy the realisation of the absolute purity of the Divine One W;IO had been a hearer of the speech. I gave expression to my feeling in a word of expostula. tion, and he exclaimed, 'Yon seem to have suddenly grown very prudish.' and left me in a rage. Again I turned to the Christ with a cry for pardon for past transgression, and once more I had brought to me the thought, that though unseen by me the Lord had beheld all my former intercourse with this man.
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So whatever thou art doing henceforth J will be beside thee. Lo, I am with you alway even unto the end of the world.' It seemed rather strange to me, but I could 1I0t., of course, question'what He said; so I started for my office with the dear Lord by my side. At my counting-house I found a man awuiting my coming with a good deal of impatience. He was a stock and sharebroker who transacted a considerable business for me. To tell the truth, I was not greatly pleased to see him there, as I was afraid that he might bring forward matters which I would scarcely feel inclined to go into with Jesus listening to our conversation. It was as I feared. He had come to tell me of a transaction he had arranged which, whilst perfectly honourable, according to the usual code of morals of the share-market, meant the saving of myself from the fear of loss' by placing another person in the danger of it. He laid the whole scheme before me, without taking the slightest notice of

I was now called into the adjoining office where my clerks were employed, and found that. one of them had made a foolish blunder which would mean a considerable complication, and perhaps loss. I am naturally irritable, and at once lost my temper and spoke to the delinquent in unmeasured terms. Turning my head I saw that J esus had followed me out of my private office, and was standing close beside me. Again I was humbled, and had to cry for mercy.

the Lord; I know not if he even saw Him. i Opening my letters, I found that difficulties had arisen er I cannot tell the bitter shame I felt. I saw how impos I a very serious nature for me. I. seemed suddenly hemmed sible it was to square such a transaction with the golden in, and unless help came in a few hours, loss and even ruin rule, but I could not hide from myself the fact that the threatened me. From what quarter the aid would come I broker told me of it with a manner and tone that meant knew not, but I just took the letter containing the news, that he had no doubt whatever that I would applaud him and laid it on the table before the Master, and said-' Lord. for his cleverness, and eagerly close with the offer. 'Vhat if Thou hadst not been here my heart would have been overmust that mean to the Christ? Would it not tell Him that whelrned, but now I can with confidence and joy leave all I was in the habit of dealing with one thought only in my in Thv hands' mind-s-how I could benefit myself. 'l'h:n He replied, '0 thou of little faith. Because than The broker was astonished when I rejected his pro- hast seen Me, thou hast believed; blessed are they that hav posals on the ground that they would- be prejudicial to the not seen and yet have believed.' interests of the other party in the transaction, and left me Yet though He rebuked me for my want of faith, He abruptly, apparently thinking T had developed a mild showed me how the difficulty was to be met, and put a new species of insanity. song of gratitude into my month. Humbled, I fell at my Saviour's feet, and cried to Him

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Through all that strange day similar incidents to these occurred, and the presence of the Master, which I thought would have been a joy, was a rebuke to me. It showed me, as I had never dreamed before, that I had framed my !if on the supposition that He had but little to do with it. But on the other hand there were times during the day when my soul was filled with rapture; times when He smiled on me in loving approval, or when He spoke words of pardon and absolution, or when he opened out before my wondering gaze some fresh beauty of His character and person. Such a time was the moment when on our return to my home the children came crowding round Him, and wanted to show Him their toys, and their pigeons, and a brood of newly hatched chickens, and I rebuked them, and said to them, 'Run away, children! Trouble not the Master with such trifles.' And He seated Himself, and took my curly-headed boy on His knee, and called my two little girls to His side, and said to me, 'Suffer these little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. He laid a pierced hand in tender blessing on the bright golden curls, and there came a joy to my heart which was as much as I could bear. Then the Saviour went with them to see their treasures, and smiled graciously on them as they told Him in their childish prattle of their love for Him who had first loved them.

time they cry, till they have dyspepsia. If they were fed regularly, and given a drink of water between meals, they would be well. Others eat like pigs till their stomachs are like swill-barrels, full of food that has soured before they could digest it; others are thinly clad, and exposed to colds; and so in a thousand ways the lives of children are cut short. Somebody gives the following as a fond mother's account of the 'mysterious providences' which carried off her children:
'Little J emimy was the greatest hand for b'iled cabbage ever ye did see, and pork! how that child would holler for fried pork! :fhere wan't no peace to the wicked till she got it; she'd ha' been a splendid child ef she'd lived, but the summer complaint was dreadful prevalent that year, and it took her off in the wink of an eye, as ye may say; allers does the healthy children. Then my Sarnwell, why, he was the greatest hand for pickles that ever was; he'd get a hunk 0' fried steak into one leetle hand, an' a pickle into t'other, all' he would crow an' squeal. Cuttin' 0' his summer teeth was the end 0' him, got 'cm too early, was took with convulsions, an' died right off. An' the twins; well, they favoured beans; baked beans an' minute puddin'; they were eighleen months old when they died, an' they eat toast an' cider like good fellers only the day they was took sick; we had buckwheats an' tree molasses for breakfast that day, an' I expect they'd eat so much sweet it kind of made 'em squeamy, so't the hard cider jest hed the right tang. Poor little erecters ! mebbe 'twas the billiows colic a-corniri' on 'em made 'em dry; anyway, they was awful sick with 't an' they died a Sunday.'

I awoke, and 10 ! it was a dream. But the dream has made me ask myself this question as I never did before-Must not our realisation of the presence jio"e makes tbe JDifference. of the Saviour be very poor for it to exercise so small an influence upon our lives 1 Do we not contradict by our , OH, it is just as different as can be,' said one of my youn~ daily conduct what we often assert, that Christ is abiding friends. in us 1 And the words spoken by Jesus when on earth , What is it~' I asked. and which He had seemed to repeat in my vision, came to 'vVhy, being a Christian. Everything 18 so different me With a new and intenser meaning, 'Blessed are they from what I expected.' that have not seen, ani yet have believed.' , What did you expect l' 'When you used to talk with me about being a Christian, I used to say to myself: "No, I can't now, for I should IDl2sterioU6 have to do so many hard things, and I can never do them." ' , What hard things j' WE hear much said about 'mysterious providences ' when 'Oh, I used to think, "Now, if I become a Christian, I children die. Well, there is a good deal of mystery about the' matter, and the greatest mystery is that a good man y shall have to walk just so; shall have to go to church and prayer-meeting -; shall have to pray and read the Bible !" of them do not die sooner. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, and He often It is so different from what I thought !' 'Why, James, what do you mean ~ You go to church and takes away children from mothers who do not know how to to prayer-meeting; you read the Bible and pray.' feed them, clothe them, and take care of them. 'Oh, yes; but then I love to do them. That makes all Aged people usually die in the winter or early spring, from cold weather and lack of vital heat; but children die the difference. I love Jesus, and love to do all he wishes largely in the summer in the days of green apples and me to.' unripe trash, and often because they are overfed with food that is not fit for their use. A little attention to the rules Infinite toil would not enable yon to sweep away a mist; laid down in the Law of Moses would save many lives. Some eat food that would blister the skin if applied as a but by ascending a little 'YOIl may often look over it altoSo it is with our moral improvement. We poultice on the outside; and others eat salted food till gether. they are forced to swill down large quantities of water wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit which would have no which injures the health. Many infants are fed every hold upon us if we ascend .into ;. higher moral atmosphere,

Perhaps some of the greedy children, who want to eat all day long, and who cry for everything they see, would do well to read this over twice about' green apple time.'

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ANSWERS TO THE, QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS.

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OMPETITORS must be under eighteen years of age. It will be understood that the answers sent are the entire work of the children.
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1. Bethlehem (Matt. ii. 1). 2. Micah. (Mic. v, 2). 3. 'Glory to Goelin the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men' (Luke ii. 14). 4. Because He would save His people from their sins (Matt. i. 21). 5. The shepherds (Luke ii. 15-16). 6. The wise men (Matt. ii. 1-2). 7. Gold, frankincense and myrrh (Matt. ii. 11). 8. Mary (Matt. i. 20-21). 9. Acts i. 14.
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Green; Eight correct : Bertha Aldridge, Helen Brewster, .Iamex French, Fanny French, Sydney Smith, VV. KOITiR.

Paul at Philippi. -Acts xvi., 16-37. . 1. "That is the meaning of soothsayil1g? 2. 'Yhere do we read of Jesus addressing Rpirits or demons? See verse 18.) Give two references. 3. What promise made by Jesus was fulfilled by this miracle" (See verse 18.) 4. In which of his Epistles does Paul refer to his cruel treatmen t in Philippi ? 5. Where had he been cruelly treated before this? 6. In Old Testament times some of the prophets suffered imprisonment, Give two instances. 7. Where else in Acts do we read of a great shaking? (See (verse 26.) 8. Why was the jailer about to kill himself? 9. Who are meant by the sergeants in verse 35 ? 10. What is the meaning of openly in verse 37 "
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AUCKLAND.- The year just closing has been, in many respects, a memorable one, and as we look back upon it we again raise our , Ebenezer.' Truly, God has been good to us beyond all telling, Love and harmony have abided with us, and we set our faces for the New Year, steadfastly Christwards, desiring that our life as a Church, or as individuals, shall evidence that the indwelling Spirit of God has taken entire possession of us, as leading us into paths of service, where our Master shall be most honoured and God most glorified. On Thursday, December 17th, we laid one of our Sunday School scholars to rest, to wait until the Master shall awaken His sleeping ones. Thus, as the Old Year draws to its close, we are reminded of the evil and sorrow that still abide in the world, and as the New Year comes upon us we cry the more loudly lor the' Return of Him,' whose coming shall be the signal for the overthrow of evil and the destruction of death. Although the evenings J:ave been very close and oppressive, the attendance at the lectures has kept up well. Our pr'-yer is, that results from these addresses may be such as shal-l cause joy in heaven, The Annual Sunday School Festival was held on Boxing Day, scholars, parents, and friends went by boat to St. Helier's Bay, and spent a very happy day together. The weather was most favourable, and all the arrangements went off without a hitch. \Ve all returned home, tired, cut happy: grateful that we are permitted to meet in such a free and easy manoer at least once a yer.r, DUNEDIN.-Bro. Carr is holding forth the Word of Life, and some are manifesting an interest therein. vVe look forward with hope that good results will follow the faithful preaching of the Word, and that with oneness of purpose and unity of action, progress will be made to the glory of God. ,.,.,re hope you will have a good annual meeting, and that all in the good work will continue and increase their efforts to spread the truth of life in Christ to a perishing world. Our efforts in the year that is past have not been in vain, and we are encouraged tu continue, knowing that our labour is J1C)t n vain to the Lord. i ADEl.AIDE.-A morning meeting IS being held at the residence of Bro. Hughes, North Terrace. The meetings have been very cheering and beneficial. and the attendance has been very encouraging. A confession of faith has been drafted for the purpose of placing before enquirers a reliable and definite resuanc of 'the things most surely believed among us.'

11. What is to be understood by the term' spirit of divination ?, (Verse 16.) What was the source of the power? 12. What is to be understood by the word' baptized ?' (Verse 33.) Why was this act performed? Answers to questions 11 and 12 should be written as fully as possible with necessary Scripture, or other reference. We cannot give the list of prize-winners for the last year's answers in this month's issue, as promised; it shall be given next month. \Ve can, however, assure competitors that the prizes we have in hand to give, are worth the winning, and therefore worth the waiting for. vYe hope that the circle of competitors will be largely increased this year, not for the sake of prizes, although we hope to be able to suitably reward successful students, but for the pleasure and profit which will arise from 'Searching the Scriptures. '

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BARON HIRSCH is pushing forward his gigantic scheme for the transplanting of the Russian Jews. A colony called Woodbine has been established in New Jersey. It consists of over five thousand acres. Manufactures are to be instituted, while each Jew who chooses to follow agriculture is to receive a farm of fifteen acres. The children are taught English in schools specially instituted on their account, and ale showing marked ability in acquiring a knowledge of our tongue. One lad was able to write a letter in good English after four months' training.

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Less is, perhaps, heard of the persecution of the Russian Baptist than of the Jews; but it is more bitter and more dastardly. An organiseu attempt is being made to extirpate Protestantism in the Russian Empire. The recent great Moscow conference, specially appointed to consider how the work is to be done, has sent recommendations to the Government which are steeped in the worst traditions of persecution. The Protestants are to be punished with the severest penalties or the law, and to secure their conviction a priest is to sit on the magisterial bench. They are not to Le allowed to buy or rent land; they are to be excluded from all official appcintrnents, and their children are to be taken from them and to be brought up in the true faith. Theodore Bent, who was sent to investigate the famous Zimbabye ruins inSouth Africa, writes home that these ruins arc undoubtedly of Phcenician origin, and that the inscriptions and other evidence he has found, un mistakably indicate the form of worship, the manner of decoration and the system of gold smelting practised by the vanished people who erected the structures. They are relics of a people far advanced in civilization, though the present inhabitants are mere sav3ge:::.. General Booth had most successful meetings in Adelaide, his final port of call in Australia. He promised his hearers, that if able, he would pay another visit to their shores.

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