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JULY SPECIAL

Jesus Amid the Shadows

VOL. 43, NO. 27

MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, JULY 2, 1928

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(JESUS AMID THE SHADOWS The Gospel in the Old Testament

THE whole Bible is a mani-festation of Christ. The one great purpose of the

Scriptures is to reveal the Per-son of the gospel. This is equally true of both Old and New Testa-ments ; for just as the dewdrops on the morning meadow sparkle and glisten, each reflecting the whole sun, so do the paragraphs

Report of an address delivered in His Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, Sunday,

April 29, 1928 by

R. ALLAN ANDERSON

of the prophets flash with the presence of Jesus. Every fas-cinating Bible story, every bi-ography, parable, or prophecy, has for its objective the revela-

tion of Him who afterwards lived and suffered and died ; and who, rising triumphant over death, ascended to the "Majesty in the heavens," to the highest pin-nacle of eternal glory as our "Forerunner" a n d Mediator. Heb. 8 : 1, 2 ; 6 : 20.

With these strong, clear state-ments the speaker opened his

Sport & General Photo Sir Granville Ryrie, the High Commissioner for Australia, laying the Australian wreath on the Cenotaph, London, in memory of the landing

at Gallipoli.

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It was God's design that in the sacrificial system of the Old Testament dispensation should be seen the shadow of the cross of Calvary, upon which the Son of God suffered for the sins of the world.

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subject, and turning to the Book of Luke, chapter 24, he read in verses 27 and 44, 45. This is the record of our Saviour's meeting with the disciples on the day of His resurrection. The greatest evidence He could give of His Messiahship was to trace the fulfilment of prophecy in His own experience. "And be-ginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." "Then opened He their under-

they which bear witness of Me." Verse 39, R.V.

A technical knowledge of the Bible is powerless to change the life. To be able to repeat scrip-ture even in the remarkable way those Pharisees could, is per-haps to lose the all-important purpose of all our study. It did not help them at all, for they afterwards crucified the very One whom all their Scriptures revealed. Wonderful as it was, their whole service of ritualism was only "a shadow of good

been rightly stated that "the Book of Leviticus was the seed plant of the New Testament." Imperfect and powerless as was the mere ritualistic service of the Jews, it was nevertheless a wonderful shadow. We fre-quently say that "coming events cast their shadows before them." It is no wonder then that the greatest event—the incarnation and sacrifice of the Son of God —should cast so long a shadow. And we should study the wor-ship and history of God's an-

standing that they might under-stand the Scriptures." There is no other way to understand the Scriptures than so to study them that we find there "the things concerning Himself."

Fifteen hundred years before, Moses had written of Jesus. In-deed Christ made the writings of Moses a test of real disciple-ship. John 5: 46, 47. Address-ing the self-satisfied Pharisees of His day, who prided them-selves upon their knowledge of the prophetic scrolls, He said: "Ye search the Scriptures, be-cause ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are

things to come, and not the very image of the things." Heb. 10: 1. That was all God ever in-tended It to be — a shadow or type of good things to come.

The sacrificial service com-mitted to Israel was only an elaboration of the patriarchal worship. All the varied features of the sanctuary worship were but types and illustrations of the reality afterward to come. It was the shadow of the cross extending from Calvary back to the gates of the garden from whence man was driven because of sin. It was a compacted prophecy of the gospel. It has

cient people from that perspect-ive. Paul desired the Corinthian church to learn the great truth of that study. "I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea ; and were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea ; and did all eat the same spiritual meat." 1 Cor. 10: 1-3.

He opens his dissertation by referring first to the cloud. What a depth of thought is here presented! The cloud resting on the sanctuary was the emblem of God's presence with them. But the presence of God was to

The innocent victim slain for the sins of the people was a type of the One whose blood "cleanseth us from all sin." 1 John 1: 7.

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give them rest. Rest can be found nowhere else. It was this truth in the promise of God that inspired Moses as the leader of that people. Ex. 33 : 14. The wicked cannot rest; but are "like the troubled sea whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace . . . to the wicked." Isa. 57 : 20, 21.

Jehovah delivered Israel that they might have rest—rest from sin. " However, not all that came out of Egypt" enjoyed this privilege. They did not enter into this rest because of their unbelief or disobedience. The cloud which covered the sanctu-ary in the wilderness taught the lesson of salvation in a very beautiful way. T h e sinner bringing his offering to the priests, confessed over the head of the lamb his transgression and iniquity and in type trans-ferred his sin from himself to the victim. Its life was then taken, and the blood, the emblem of life, was carried into the court and placed on and around the altar. That blood, the evi-dence of confession on the part of the transgressor, and the evidence of forgiveness on the part of God, foreshadowed the great sacrifice of "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1: 29), by whose virtues only could the penitent receive the atonement.

But more than that. Once at the sanctuary, the cancelled sin, and the token of forgiveness in type, of course, remained under the cloud. The once penitent sinner could now return to his home confident in his forgive-ness, and to forget the sin that once separated him from his God, rejoicing in the truth that as far "as the east is from the west," so far were his trans-gressions removed from him. Ps. 103: 12.

This great truth David learned in the sanctuary. He found there God's "way." Ps. 77: 13. But to find that "way" is to find Him who said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the

ife." John 14: 6. The central truth—indeed the

purpose for which the sanctuary existed—was to teach reconcili-ation. Lev. 8 : 15. But this was the gospel. It is still the gospel.

And as ambassadors for God we still "pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." 2 Cor. 5 : 19, 20.

Standing on Echo Point in the famous Blue Mountains, N.S.W., how wonderfully Jamieson Val-ley opens to our view. Its rugged outline of cliffs — sheer precipices almost overgrown with gnarled and weather-beaten shrubs, tell the story of storms that have swept that giant val-

ley for centuries. The winding paths that thread their way through the tangled forest and bush below, interrupted here and there by a splashing stream which glances in the sunlight as its waters tumble over the rocks, present a picture of romance and extraordinary interest. The awful grandeur of the scene im-presses the most unemotional with the power of nature. The whole valley, hundreds of square miles in area, with an average depth of 2,500 feet, declares the story of tremendous upheaval. That is one picture only. Go again when the mountain mists have gathered. Stand where you did before. Look across the valley ; and behold ! The whole scene is wonderfully changed. The dizzy depth is no more. All that the day before presented, of torn and broken cliffs, has disappeared. The winding paths

of man's devising are no more. What has happened ? The cloud has covered it all. Instead of a valley, awe-inspiring, with its giant jaws wide open to receive the unwary, whose foothold giv-ing way plunges headlong to a tragic end—all seems so changed and peaceful, with almost the appearance of a beautiful lake flecked here and there with tiny islands which in reality are the tops of mountains rising from

the valley below. But the cloud has changed the whole scene, and has blotted out the very out-line of all that impressed us a few hours before. All that is left is the outline of the cliff that now receives the fleecy mist. To the sincere penitent of that dis-pensation of shadow, his for-giveness meant all this to him. His past was blotted out, for there it rested in type in the sanctuary under the cloud.

But perhaps nothing taught the deep lesson of reconciliation more definitely than the very sanctuary itself. It was placed in the midst of the people, while each tribe was arranged. in its respective order. T h e old prophet could cry out in rapture, "Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee !" How powerfully it illustrated the truth, afterwards proclaimed by

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A CONTRIBUTOR to one of our contemporaries gives the following interesting

account of the origin of the Sunday-sabbath. The author is not a Seventh-day Adventist; but he has been doing some searching along the line of the Sabbath controversy. What he says concerning Dr. Channing will open the eyes of many. To quote :—

"In 1829, almost a century ago, the famous American preacher, Dr. W. E. Channing, said in reference to Sunday observance: 'We think that cases may occur which justify severe toil on this day; and we should judge a man unfaithful to himself and his family, ungrateful to Providence, and superstitious, who should lose a crop rather than harvest it during the por-tion of time ordinarily set apart for Christian worship.'

"Dr. Channing's views were evi-dently far in advance of his time, and it must have taken some degree of. moral courage to express such heretical opinions at that period. A point which is seldom remembered by those who advocate Sunday observ-ance is that there is a distinction be-tween the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sunday. The former was held on our Saturday, and is still held on that day by the Jews, so that the strictest of 'Wee Frees,' or 'Breth-ren,' is still a Sabbath-breaker under the law of Moses, since it is plain that the Sabbath mentioned in the Bible is always the seventh day of the week.

"It may be argued by some that the Sabbath was changed to the first day of the week by the early Chris-tian church, and observed by them as a day of rest from labour. This is not the case. The first day of the week, or Sunday, was their day of meeting for worship, but it was not kept as a holiday. Indeed, many of them were slaves, or poor people, who could have no choice in the matter. Some of the Jewish converts kept up

their own Sabbath observance, as the church had no restriction on them. It was not until the reign of the Em-peror Constantine, in the year 321, that a law was passed which forbade Sunday labour. Even then, farmers were specially exempted from this law, as it was considered that Sunday work might be necessary in some cir-cumstances for agriculture.

"After the break-up of the Roman empire, when the church gradually became more powerful, Sunday la-bour was more and more restricted, until during the reign of Charle-magne (crowned A.D. 800) it was en-tirely prohibited. It will be seen from this brief outline that Sunday ob-servance in its modern form had its origin less anciently than its advo-cates think."

As a matter of fact, it was not until the second century that there began to be even a sus- picion of an apostasy from the observance of the true Sabbath, and even then, the invasion was very slight—such as the meeting of the people for a Scripture reading, a hymn, and a prayer in the early morning, and then off to their various kinds of la-bour in fields or workshops.

Concerning the change of the Sabbath (or supposed change) Dr. J. Eck, the great Catholic champion in the controversy with Luther, makes the follow-ing admission :—

"The church has changed the ob-servance of the Sabbath to Sunday on its own authority, without Scrip-ture, doubtless under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit." — Enchiridion, 1533, page 78.

And one of the most famous of Catholic historians, Dr. J. J. Dollinger, writes :—

"The church established her own weekly festival. . . Nor is it true

to say that the apostles changed the Sabbath into Sunday, the observance of the seventh day to the observance of the first. For, on the one hand, there is no trace of such a transfer-ence taking place, and, on the other, the Christian Sunday differs widely from the Sabbath of the law."—"The First Age of Christianity," London, 1877, Vol. II, pages 206, 207.

That the sanctification of the Sunday was not commanded by the church before the fourth century is thus attested by a standard Catholic Church lexi-con : "The sanctification of Sun-day appears as a commandment of the church in the beginning of the fourth century."—"Kir-chenlexikon," by Wetzer and Welte, article, "Kirchenjahr," page 782.

During the Council of Laodi-cea (about 364) this was passed :

"Canon 29. — Christians shall net Judaise and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord's day [by which they meant Sunday] they shall especially honour, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If, however, they shall be found Judaising, they shall be shut out from Christ."—Hefele's "Councils," Vol. II, book 6, par. 93.

The evidence is clear and posi-tive that the Sunday institution is an establishment of man, is without divine sanction, and that Christians are without ex-cuse for trampling upon the Sabbath of Jehovah while they observe an institution which He never established.

The Advent Movement THIS advent movement stands

for all that the Word of God teaches. It knows no comprom-ise with sin ; its standard of righteousness is the law of God as interpreted in the teaching of the life of Christ. Its aim is to prepare a people clothed, through faith, with the right-eousness of Christ, who will await their Lord's second com-ing in glory and power. Such a people, both in their life and in their work, must live unmoved and uninfluenced by the condi-tions of sin about them. This people must not drift. They cannot drift and fulfil their mis-sion to the world.—I. H. Evans.

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THE SAVIOUR REVEALED IN SYMBOLS AND SHADOWS MAKES

His Presence Real in the Holy Spirit Radio Talk by W. W. Prescott, Broadcasted from Station KFAB, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

THE instruction which Jesus gave on that last night be-fore He went to the cross,

was intended for us just as much as for those who were as-sembled in that upper room. Happy are those who recognise this, and enter fully into the privileges which the promises of Jesus make sure to all sincere believers.

After Jesus had revealed to His wondering disciples as much of the glorious prospect of the new experiences which awaited them in the dispensation of the Spirit as they were able to ap-prehend, He disclosed to them that there were still further revelations to be made to them by the Comforter after He should enter upon His mission. "I have yet many things to say unto you," He declared, "but ye cannot bear them now. How-beit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He shall guide you into all the truth : for He shall not speak from Himself ; but what things soever He shall hear, these shall He speak : and He shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall take of Mine, and shall declare it unto you." John 16: 12-14.

It is abundantly clear that it would be the office of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to con-tinue the work of teaching which was commenced by Jesus in the flesh, and it is especially important to notice that there were subjects to be presented after Jesus had returned to the Father which could not have been dealt with earlier. And here I must remind you again that Christianity is a religion which is based upon actual his-torical facts, and that therefore there could not be the full reve-lation of the truths of Christian-ity until these facts had become a part of history. But the cross and the empty tomb, symbols of the death and resurrection of Christ, had not yet entered into

the experience of the disciples. and therefore their meaning in life could not be made known. Many simple-hearted people to whom theological definitions and theoretical discussions of a creed would be like hearing some one speak in an unknown tongue, do really know more of the truth as it is in Jesus than some who are rated high as scholars, but have not been taught of God. Truth has been personalised in Him who declared, "I am . . . the truth." Truth is a living power realised in experience.

The death and the resurrec-tion of Christ are central in the gospel, but it is only as we have been crucified with Him and raised with Him that we can un-derstand and appreciate the truth thus revealed. So it was the work of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, entering upon His mission after the death and res-urrection of Christ, to make known to the disciples and to us the meaning of these wondrous events.

While Jesus was here upon the earth He glorified His Father by revealing Him to the world and bearing witness of Him. Concerning the work of the Comforter He declared, "He shall bear witness of Me," and "He shall glorify Me." The Son glorified the Father, and the Comforter glorifies the Son, and in this way the glory of the God-head is made known as a saving power, and "all flesh shall see the salvation of God."

THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS NO NEW MESSAGE

THE Comforter does not have a new message to declare, but a further unfolding of the ever-lasting gospel. As the executive of the Godhead, "He shall not speak from Himself ; but what things soever He shall hear, these shall He speak." The ab-solute unity of the Godhead is revealed by the way in which each Person of the Godhead is

related to the others. Here we see the real meaning of plural-ity in unity.

Dr. Alexander Maclaren thus writes of the meaning and re-sult to the apostles of the prom.-ise to guide them into all the truth : "The Acts of the Apostles is the best commentary on these words. There you see how these men rose at once into a new re-gion ; how the things about their Master which had been bewild-ering puzzles to them, flashed into light; how the cross, which had baffled and dispersed them, became at once the centre of union for themselves and for the world ; how the obscure became lucid, and Christ's deati and the resurrection stood forth to them as the great central facts of the world's salvation. In the book of the Apocalypse we have part of the fulfilment of this closing promise: 'He shall show you things to come' ; when the seer was 'in the Spirit' on the Lord's day, and the heavens were opened, and the history of the church . . . was spread before him as a scroll."

A PERSONAL QUESTION TO BELIEVERS

So far Dr. Maclaren. But I wish now to consider some very practical and personal questions in relation to our own Christian experience in this period of the dispensation of the Spirit. First, May we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? It is interesting to read of the experience of the apostles after Pentecost, but can we share in such an experience? I think the answer is plainly given in the words of Peter on the day of Pentepst. When he was asked by those who heard him, "What shall we do?" he replied : "Repent ye, and be bap-tised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For to you is the prom-ise, and to your children, and to

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all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto Him."

Surely this includes us, and the promise is to us. But is there any further instruction concerning the conditions upon which we may claim this prom-ise? Yes, there is, and we do well to give earnest heed to it. When Peter had preached the gospel to the Gentiles in the house of Cornelius, he was criti-cised for this by some of the Jews, who thought the blessings of the gospel were for them ex-clusively, but he justified his course by the fact that the Holy Spirit was given to them, and said : " If then God gave unto them the like gift as He did also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"

THE CONDITION OF HIS RECEPTION

NOTE , the significance of the words, " When we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ." Here is the prime condition upon which we may claim the promise of the Holy Spirit. We must fix our faith upon Him who died and rose again, who ascended to the right hand of God, and who as our High Priest ministers to believers the Holy Spirit. This was the explanation which Peter gave of the Pentecostal experi- ence. Listen to his words : "This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses. Being therefore at the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the prom-ise of the Holy Spirit, He hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear." Acts 2: 32, 33.

We must not lose sight of Jesus simply because He has re-turned to heaven. We must be-lieve on Him in the work which He wrought for us while here upon earth, and we must still believe on Him in the work which He is now doing for us since He has 'entered into hea-ven, "now to appear before the face of God for us."

That the gift of the Holy Spirit may be expected when we believe on Christ is again made clear in the question which Paul asked of those twelve men at Ephesus: " Did ye receive the

Holy Spirit when ye believed?" The plain inference is that be-lieving on Christ should result in receiving the Holy Spirit, but there must be an intelligent faith. The reply of these dis-ciples shows that they had not been properly instructed. They said, "Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given." I fear that there are many church members to-day who could say the same thing. I ask you, my listeners, Have you been instructed about the coming of the Comforter, and has the blessing of His pres-ence been experienced in your lives? Have you considered that the work of Christ for us while here in the flesh would be all in vain if the Holy Spirit does not make effectual in us the work which Jesus wrought for us? The lack of the triumphant tone in the testimony of many pro-fessed Christians is due to the fact that they do not experience the fellowship of the Spirit.

All power for victory over sin and for Christian service is due to the indwelling of the Spirit, according to the words of Jesus to His disciples : "Ye shall re-ceive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you : and ye shall be My witnesses." Acts 1 : 8. 0 that, as of old, Jesus may breathe upon us and say to us, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." So shall we be brought into fellowship with God. So shall our lives be quickened and transformed. So shall we be enabled to walk with God.

TO US AS MUCH AS TO THEM

THERE is a very practical side to this matter which I would like to urge upon your attention. The presence of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, is the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in a very real way ; and He can enter our hearts only as the Lord of our lives. Unless we are ready to surrender all to Him, and give Him His place on the throne of our hearts as supreme director in all our experience, we close the door against Him. This has been so plainly set forth by a Christian writer that I quote at some length : "Christ promised the gift of the Holy

Spirit to His church, and the promise belongs as much to us as to the first disciples. But like every other promise, it is given on conditions. There are many who profess to believe and claim the Lord's promises; they talk about Christ and the Holy Spirit ; yet they receive no bene-fit, because they do not surren-der their souls to the guidance and control of the divine agen-cies. We cannot use the Holy Spirit; the Spirit is to use us. Through the Spirit God works in His people 'to will and to di, of His good pleasure.' But many will not submit to be led. They want to manage them-selves. This is why they do not receive the heavenly gift. Only to those who wait humbly upon God, who watch for His guid-ance and grace, is the Spirit given. This promised blessing, claimed by faith, brings all other blessings in its train. It is given according to the riches of the grace of Christ, and He is ready to supply every soul ac-cording to the capacity to re-ceive."

I ask every one of my listen-ers to make a personal applica-tion of this searching instruc-tion. Have I surrendered to the Lordship of Christ? Am I will-ing that He shall rule in my life? Do I watch for His guid-ance and grace? Have I re-ceived the gift of the Holy Spirit which brings all other blessings in its train? Let each one make his answer to God.

By much of the teaching which is prevalent today Chris-tianity is being robbed of its dis-tinguishing characteristic and Christians are being deprived of its chief blessing. The world needs less human philosophy and a more powerful demonstra-tion of the reality of Christian-ity in the lives of those who profess it. The Holy Spirit has not been given His place, and there is a consequent lack of vital godliness. The only way to bring about the much needed change is to return to the first love, surrender to a life of con-secration and obedience to the will of God, and yield our bodies to be the temples for the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit, the

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jOHN the Baptist was baptis-ing in Jordan. Jesus, the Son of man and Son of God,

came down to the Jordan to be baptised. John, seeing Him coming, pointed to Him and said : "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John knew that there was about this man some-thing that was more than hu-man, and he hesitated to per-form the ordinance of baptism for Him. But Jesus urged : "Suffer it to be sn now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all right-eousness. Then He suffered Him." Matt. 3: 15.

In that act there was a shadow, or type, of all that re-demption means, and of the means whereby it is attained. That Jesus,Son of man and Son of God, was the antitype of all the lambs that had been slain in sacrifice since the first one was offered just outside the gates of Eden. Through the long centuries that slender red thread of sacrificial blood typified t h e crimson stream that would one day flow on Calvary to atone for the sins of repentant humanity. In that shadowy ceremony lay the chrys-alis of our redemption. It came to reality when the spear of a Roman soldier opened that foun-tain of cleansing in the heart of that divine Man who had given Himself for our justification and our eternal salvation. Moses smote • the rock in the wilder-ness, and there flowed forth life-

giving water for all the camp of Israel. It was with them all the days of their wandering, and by it they lived.

That smitten rock was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ, smit-ten for our sins, bruised in our place, but giving to us who fol-low Him the water of life, and that cleansing fount through whose virtue we shall live eter-nally—a wonderful shadow pointing to a wonderful sub-stance.

In the laws of ancient Israel, when an estate that had been forfeited through debt was to be redeemed, it must be redeemed by a kinsman of the family that had lost the estate. So Boaz re-deemed the inheritance of Elim-elech, and his sons Mahlon and Chilion, for the wife and mother Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabitess. In this simple and touching story found in the Book of Ruth, we find a shadow and type of our redemp-tion. The redeemer in Israel's law must be a kinsman. So our great Redeemer is our kinsman-Redeemer, the Son of God and the son of man. He is flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, partaking of the same food that we partake of, drinking of the same water, feeling the same infirmities of the flesh, hunger-ing and thirsting as we hunger and thirst, feeling all the sor-rows and disappointments that can come to us, "that He might be a merciful and faithful High

Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people." Heb. 2: 17. And speaking of the ex-periences of the children of Is- ral, the Word says: "In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them : in His love and in His pity He redeemed them ; and He bare them and carried them all the days of old." Isa. 63: 9.

That bearing and that carry-ing were typical of His love and attention for His people through all the days that were to inter-vene between then and the day when He will come to usher His faithful followers into the anti-typical promised land. The an-gel of His presence is with all His faithful followers today, even as he was then. A reitera-tion of His invitation to His people of old is found in our Sa-viour's invitation to us : "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

He was leading His people of old to their, typical land of rest. He is leading His people today to the real land of rest. That leading through the shadow land of the patriarchal days was a type of His leading of us through the day of His approaching re-turn when the light of the gos-pel is illuminating every step of our way. Their shadows have become our pillars of cloud by day and our pillars of fire by night, and we know that in that guiding we cannot go astray. Our Kinsman has redeemed us ; our Lamb has been slain for us ; from our Rock still gushes forth the water of life. We, as prodi-gals, are returning to our Father's house, and the " best robe," the robe of Christ's right-eousness, is being borne to us in the hands of our loving Father, who is coming down the paths of the sky to meet us, to wel-come us, and to conduct us into the home that has been waiting for us through the centuries.

But what a load of pain and suffering a n d disappointment awaited Him when the shadows met the substance in the person of our blessed Lord! The bit-terness of centuries of Satanic hatred was poured out upon His devoted head. The thorns and

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the thistles were a type of the curse that rested upon the world because of man's original sin ; and the ingenuity of demons plaited a crown of thorns for the brow of Him who was to bear the curse of the world. The ingenuity of the devil exhausted itself in the things that were in-vented for our Saviour's pain and suffering on the day on which He was offering Himself for us. He was "brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth." Isa. 53 : 7.

What a blessed comfort comes to us in the knowledge of the fact that our Saviour has met and fulfilled everything that was

rrHE whole ritual or cere-monial law of the sanctu-ary service given to the

children of Israel by God was "a shadow of good things to come." Heb. 10 : 1; Col. 2 : 17. In other words, it was the plan of salvation through faith in the redeeming work of Christ set forth in types and symbols. A prayerful and careful study of this wonderful typical law re-veals how clearly the plan for man's redemption was made known to those who had faith to grasp the spiritual significance of the sanctuary service.

To deal even briefly with all the sacrifices and offerings, as well as other features of this divinely appointed service, would require much space. In this article we propose to study a little concerning but one fea-ture—the showbread.

The showbread consisted of twelve loaves, or cakes, of un-leavened bread, which were placed on a table in the first apartment of the sanctuary. The bread was placed on the table hot each Sabbath, where it remained for a week. The fol-lowing Sabbath it was removed and eaten by the priests, and a fresh supply took its place on

predicted of Him, everything that it was essential for Him to do for our redemption, and that now that fountain for sin and uncleanness is still open to us for our cleansing. The robe of righteousness that is to cover our unworthiness is waiting our acceptance ; the power of God that is awaiting our demand and reception is sufficient for every emergency ; the God of heaven is waiting for the completion of our part of the work ; the gates of heaven are waiting to wel-come the redeemed hosts from this painful wandering in the wilderness of sin. Everything in heaven and earth. is waiting —on us. Therefore, in humility and consecration, let us arise and do our part.

the table. Thus it remained be-fore the Lord continually, and hence it was also called "the continual bread." See Ex. 25: 30 ; Lev. 24 : 5-8; Num. 4 : 7.

In the Hebrew the expression translated "showbread" is "bread of the face," or "bread of the presence," or (as the margin of the Revised Version of Ex. 25: 30 puts it) "Presence-bread." It was so named because it was always before the face of the Lord.

This feature of the sanctuary service was designed to teach a very important lesson. Says W. Shaw Caldecott

"It was a continual reminder to the worshippers of the truth that man does not live by bread alone, emphasised by the fact that these most holy offerings were afterward eaten. It was the Old Testament version of the prayer, 'Give us this day our daily bread' ; and in the fact that the holy table was never for a moment left without some loaves lying on it, we have the symbol of man's continued and unbroken dependence upon God."

Another writer has this to say concerning its significance :—

" The showbread was kept ever before the Lord as a per-

petual offering. Thus it was a part of the daily sacrifice. It was called showbread, or 'bread of the presence,' because it was ever before the face of the Lord. tt was an acknowledgment of man's dependence upon God for both temporal a n d spiritual food, and that it is received only through the mediation of Christ. God had fed Israel in the wilder-ness with bread from heaven, and they were still dependent upon His bounty, both for tem-poral food and spiritual bless-ings. Both the manna and the showbread pointed to Christ, the living bread, who is ever in the presence of God for us. He Himself said, 'I am the living bread which came down from heaven.' " — " Patriarchs and Prophets," page 340.

As is stated in the foregoing paragraph, the showbread pointed to Christ, the true bread of life. He Himself declared : "The bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. . . . I am the bread of life : he that cometh to Me shall never hun-ger ; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst." "I am the living bread which came down from heaven : if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." See John 6: 33-35, 48-51. It is significant that the name of the town in which Christ was born—Bethlehem—means "house of bread." So Christ, the "bread of life," came from the "house of bread."

The words of verse 51 proved very puzzling to the Jews and also to many of the disciples of Jesus. However, the Saviour explained the meaning of His figurative language when He de-clared : "It is the spirit that quickeneth [giveth life, A.R.V.] the flesh profiteth nothing : the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Verse 63.

By feeding spiritually on the words of Christ we are partak-ing of the life of Christ. Thus the Bible, which is the Word of Christ, becomes the bread of life.

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The Bread of Life in Shadow and Substance

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The Old Testament is still a mine of precious thins. Its shadows are filled with life. Its ceremonies point an unerring finger to the Lamb of God; and in it we find

The Gospel of Christ Amid the Shadows C. V. BELL

WHEN Paul wrote to the Hebrews, he presented before them the minis-

tration of the sanctuary erected in the wilderness, in its true relation to the work of Christ, our great High Priest. Speak-ing of the priests of the earthly sanctuary, he said: "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things." Heb. 8 : 5. And referring to the law gov-erning this ministration, he wrote: "For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of those things," etc. Heb. 10: 1. The word " shadow " is here synonymous with the word "type."

WHAT IS A TYPE? A TYPE prefigures

by persons or things, and is a prefiguration in a lower sphere of a fact belonging to a higher ; is something very closely related to prophecy, a n d pre-sents a very full and clear picture of the greatest and loftiest truths. Prophecy fore-tells by words ; types are prophecies in vis-ible action.

REDEMPTION THE act of sin on

the part of man is de-scribed in the Word of God as equivalent to selling himself into bondage. 1 Kings 21 : 25 ; Isa. 52: 3. Truly man has sold himself for naught. Death, the wages of sin, is an eternal nothingness. But the promise is, "Ye shall be redeemed without money." Isa. 52 : 3. Redemption, or "buying back," was the first act on the part of God in the sal-

vation of man. Prompted by His love for a race of sinners, God provided and gave the price of the purchase in the person of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

When the tabernacle in the wilderness was building, God commanded Moses to take of every man above twenty years of age "a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah." The ransom price was half a shekel, and was called "the atonement money." This money was appointed for the service of the tabernacle. Ex. 30 : 11-16.

Thus the tabernacle taught the people that the salvation of man was made possible, being

founded upon the great fact that a redemption price was provided for all. "The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less." Ex. 30 : 15. One price has been paid for rich and poor alike ; for Jesus Christ, by the grace of God tasted death for every man. Heb. 2: 9. "Ye are bought with a price."

RECONCILIATION

THE ministration of the priest was performed in the court-yard and within the tabernacle. That part of the ministration performed in the courtyard was a type of the work to be accom-plished by Jesus Christ while on this earth. Just inside the

entrance to the court-yard stood the altar of burnt offering. To this altar the sinner brought his offering. After laying his hand on the head of the vic-tim, thus transferring in figure his sins to the innocent substi-tute, he killed the ani-mal with his own hands. This act sig-nified his recognition of the fact that the sins by which his own life was forfeit were the cause of its death. "And it shall be ac-cepted for [in place of] him [the sinner]." Lev. 1 : 1-9. By faith in the atoning death, prefigured in the offer-ing, the sinner was reconciled to God.

Paul writes in his Epistle to the Romans, "For if while we were enemies we were rec-onciled to God through the death of His Son, much more being rec-onciled, we shall be

saved through H i s life." Rom. 5: 10. The tabernacle and its contents taught many precious lessons of truth

concerning the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.

The tabernacle, with its shadowy services and its symbols pointing forward to Christ as our Sacrifice and our High Priest, was the centre of worship for the children of Israel.

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And again, "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Him-self." 2 Cor. 5 : 19. Sin in man separated him from God ; but "the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin." Thus the death of Jesus provided a means by which man might be separated from his sins, and the cross became a meeting place for reconciliation between God and man. Nowhere else and in no other way can man be recon-ciled to God from whom he was separated by sin.

RE-CREATION

BETWEEN the altar of burnt offering and the door of the tabernacle stood the laver. Ex. 30 : 17-21 ; 38 : 8. The laver was made of brass "of the mir-rors of the ministering women," and took on a very high polish. The sides of the laver gave a clear reflection of the person of the officiating priest. The gar-ments worn by the priest were typical of character. Dirt upon the person of the priest, or upon his garments, or a rent in any portion of the dress, was typical of sin, and excluded the priest from the tabernacle. "Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3 : 4. In the Epistle of James the law is likened to a mirror (James 1 : 22-25), in that to any person who com-pares his character with God's great standard of righteousness, there will be revealed the de-fects which sin has caused. The priests who ministered, washed their hands and feet in the water contained in the laver before commencing their service. Jesus was baptised by John before commencing His ministry among men. And when visited by Nicodemus He startled this ruler of the Jews by declaring, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." John 3 : 5.

RE-CREATION AT the door of the tabernacle

was that which symbolised the great Instructor of the pur-chased, reconciled, and gener-ated church. Five pillars over-laid with gold, each one stand-ing in a socket of brass, sup-ported the veil of the door. Ex. 26: 36, 37. The anoilitinc;

oil, typical of the Holy Spirit, was compounded of five ingredi-ents : myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, cassia, and olive oil. Ex. 30: 22, 23. The Psalmist prayed : "Create in me a clean heart, 0

God • and renew a right spirit within me." Ps. 51: 10. Re-creation of the soul in the image and likeness of God is the work of the Holy Spirit, and follows regeneration by baptism. "Ex-cept a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Jesus Christ mentioned five dis-tinctive offices of the Holy Spirit. A Comforter, a Teacher, Remembrancer (John 14 : 16, 26), a Convincer of sin, and a Guide. John 16: 8-13.

His first work is to convince of sin. We are told that "when He, the Holy Spirit, is come, He will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." Here it is distinctly stated that the work of convic-tion is not limited to believers. He will convince the world. Of what? Of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.

In sin, men were perishing ; as sinners, God loved them ; to sinners God gave His Son ; for sin, Christ was crucified. How reasonable then that the Holy Spirit should be first said to con-vince of sin.

Righteoiisness is the opposite of sin ; it is God's ideal for man ; it was illustrated in Christ's

character and life ; and is offered in Christ to men who are per-ishing for the want of it. How reasonable then that the Holy Spirit should be next said to convince of righteousness.

"Of judgment." Not "judg-ment to come," but of "that act of the mind by which two no-tions or ideas (as sin and right-eousness), which are appre-hended as distinct, are com-pared for the purpose of ascer-taining their agreement or dis-agreement." Sin and righteous-ness are moral opposites. And the judgment referred to here is the true and unerring judg-ment of God which marks the eternal difference between sin and righteousness. Paul speaks of "those who by reason of use ;lave their senses exercised to discern good and evil." Heb. 5: 14. "We need clear discern-ment that we may measure sin by the Lord's standard, and not by our own. Let us take for our rule., not human opinions, but the divine Word."—Mrs. E. G. White.

The nature of conviction of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment, by the Holy Spirit, should be clearly understood to be a simultaneous process. A man's convictions are his ac-cepted and settled certainties of mind. Thus in the re-creation of the image and likeness of God in man, the Holy Spirit con-vinces of sin, of righteousness,

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and of judgment, according to the divine estimate of these things, and implants in the mind of man the divine conviction of what sin is, of what righteous-ness is, and of what is God's judgment, and should be man's judgment, concerning them. "I will put My laws into their minds, and on their heart also will I write them."

INTERCESSION

BEFORE the veil separating the most holy from the holy place, and in the holy place, stood the altar of incense. Ex.30 :1-10. The altar was four-square, and at each of two corners diagon-ally opposite to one another was fastened a ring. Through these two rings staves were placed to bear the altar. Whether the staves were placed perpendicu-lar or parallel to the veil, the four corners of the altar pointed to the four cardinal points of the earth. The incense com-pounded of four spices of each of which there was to be a like weight (Ex. 30: 34-38) , was of-fered upon the altar. Morning and evening t h e fragrance which filled the tabernacle and diffused itself far beyond the precincts of the courtyard, was added to the worship of the people (Rev. 8 : 3, 4) , repre-senting the merits and interces-sion of Jesus Christ, by which alone worship can be made ac-ceptable to God. The position of the altar pointing north, south, east, and west, indicated that the intercession of Jesus, our great High Priest, now min-istering in the heavenly sanc-tuary, takes in the whole earth. The intercession of Christ on be-half of man is as unlimited as is the gospel. "Whosoever will" of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people is included in the perpetual atonement of Calvary and the unceasing intercession of the One who "was dead, but is alive for evermore." Heb. 7: 25 ; Rev. 1 : 18.

SANCTIFICATION

EACH one of the boards which formed the sides of the taber-nacle stood upon two sockets of silver. For each side of the tabernacle were made five bars. The long, bars were inserted

through a mortice in the thick-ness of each board at the centre, and when the tabernacle was erected, were unseen. The four shorter bars were inserted through fastenings provided at the top and bottom of the boards on the outside. Ex. 26: 19, 26-29. This was a significant repre-sentation of the church of God. The Psalmist writes : " The words of Jehovah are pure words; as silver tried in a fur-nace on the earth, purified seven times." Ps. 12 : 6, A.R.V. In his prayer for His disciples Jesus prayed : "Sanctify them through Thy truth : Thy Word is truth." John 17: 17. Every believer who, through redemp-tion, is sanctified by the Word of truth, will obtain that sanc-tification which is revealed in the Old and New Testaments.

As the centre bar, unseen by human eyes, held the boards to-gether as one, so in the hearts of the believers that "love, which is the bond of perfectness" will give diligence "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Col. 2 : 14 ; Eph. 4 : 3. God "so loved." Jesus Christ expressed that love in action. "The fruit of the Spirit," who dwells within the human heart, "is love." But love cannot live to itself. It must find expres-sion in action. Therefore, "joy" is love in ecstasy; " peace " is love at rest; "longsuffering" is love in pain ; "gentleness" is love in thoughtfulness ; " goodness " is love in deeds ; "faith" is love in hope ; "meekness" is love at Jesus feet; "temperance" is love in self-control, that reins in and reigns. "Against such there is no law." Gal. 5: 22, 23. This is true sanctification, oneness with God in character.

JUSTIFICATION

BEYOND the veil, in the holy of holies, stood the ark of the covenant. Upon the mercy-seat, covering the ark, stood the two cherubim, between which the presence of God was manifested, while beneath the mercy-seat within the ark were the tables of stone, upon which God had written with His own finger His holy law.

Once a year, on the day of atonement, the high priest en-

tered the holy of holies, and with incense and with blood he made an atonement for the sins of the people, before the ark contain-ing the law of God. Having cleansed the sanctuary, the high priest confessed the sins of the people upon the head of the "scape-goat." The animal was then sent away by the hand of a fit man, and left to perish in the wilderness. Thus the sins of the people were separated from them in the victim, and the peo-ple were "justified" in the sight of God.

John the beloved writes these words : "And there was opened the sanctuary of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in His sanctuary the ark of His covenant." Rev. 11: 19, A.R.V., margin. Jesus Christ "was de-livered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justifica-tion." Rom. 4 : 25, R.V. Since He ascended to heaven, He, as the High Priest of the human fam-ily, has been making atonement for the sins of His people within the heavenly sanctuary that was shown to John. This is "the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." Heb. 8: 1, 2.

When the last case shall have been examined in the judgment, Jesus Christ will leave the hea-venly sanctuary and confess upon the antitypical scape-goat, Satan, the sins atoned for by His (Christ's) blood. The di-vine sentence will be pro-nounced, "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." Rev. 22: 12. From this divine decision there can be no appeal. From the time of its announcement, the character and destiny of the justified and the unjustified will be eternally unalterable. T h e righteous Judge of all the earth will do justly. " For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God : being justified freely by His grace through the redemp-tion that is in Christ Jesus : whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His right-

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eousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God : to declare, at this time His righteousness : that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Rom. 3 : 23-26.

To a study of the "gospel in the shadows" the reader is earnestly invited. Very soon the judgment in heaven will close. And once it closes, all hope of salvation passes away. Salva-tion is free to all in Christ Jesus. But Paul writes these words of warning, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation." Respond now to the gracious invitation, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."

Jesus Amid the Shadows (Continued from page 3)

Jesus Himself, that where His people meet together in His name, there He is in the midst. Matt. 18: 20. Every particular feature of that moveable struc-ture erected in the wilderness was designed to declare either the Person or the work of the coming Redeemer.

The coverings of the building illustrate the importance of a detailed study of that ancient worship. The outer layer of badger skins, or as some say, seal skins brought from Egypt, was all that was actually seen from the outside. Underneath this was another covering of ram skins dyed red, and then another of white goat skins. Beneath these again was a beau-tiful curtain of blue and purple and scarlet, depicting angels, artistically wrought with needle work. This latter covering was seen as the ceiling from the in-side.

The sinner in all his dire need was fittingly represented by the rough outer covering. But passing through the blood foun-tain opened in the house of David for sin and uncleanness, he was made as white as snow, ready to take his place as one of the servants of Jehovah, to work

for Him and build a character that will one day associate with the angels in the presence of God. But those only who have passed through the fountain represented by the red ram skins, and have come out as

white as snow, illustrated by the white goat skins, can the Lord accept as true servants of His.

Our work commences after our salvation, not before. We work from the cross, not to it. Could anything more completely set forth the great truth of Isa. 1 : 18. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall he as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." The study of chromatics in sci-ence has discovered the depth of this promise. To take a crimson rose and examine it behind a scarlet glass, you will find it im-mediately becomes as white as snow. And the Father, examin-ing us through the scarlet, blood-stained vesture of His only begotten Son, sees only His vir-tues ; and lo ! we are, because of His merits, as white as snow.

Praise His name for such re-demption. Surely you can take Him as your Saviour. He, the same yesterday, today, and for ever—the God who changes not —the One who amid the shad-ows of the sanctuary taught the blessing of forgiveness and rec-onciliation, is now seated at the throne of grace ready to dis-pense to us mercy and help in all our times of need. Heb. 4: 16.

He longs to forgive you and make you one with Him. If you have never accepted Him before, come to Him now. Are you afraid? Then just think of His dealings with that woman who was hurried into His presence by her hypocritical accusers. Listen to His gracious words—"neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more." Such forgive-ness—such boundless love—in-spired that woman with courage to overcome. Her past was as white as snow. She stood under the blood-stained banner of her new Master and Lord. He can do that for you. Let Him do it. Let Him cover the storm-swept valley of your life of failures with the fleecy cloud of His own presence. Surrender to Him, and He will blot out the past with all its tragedy, and like the little dove (Lev. 14: 4-7) which was plunged into the water al-ready stained by the blood, and buried head, feet, and feathers, and then let go at the hand of

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the priest, you too will be able to fly away and be at rest. "Every valley shall be exalted, . . . and the rough places plain." Isa. 40: 4. "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matt. 11: 28.

His Presence Real in the Holy Spirit

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Spirit of love, the Spirit of joy, the Spirit of peace. In the words of another : "Without the Holy Spirit one may have the appearance, the external show, of Christianity, but he cannot have its reality; without the Holy Spirit, repentance is but a sterile regret, faith an intellect-ual adhesion, charity philan-thropy, prayer a motion of the lips or a vague elevation of the soul. With the Holy Spirit, re-pentance is a holy pain, faith a conviction which seizes the whole being, charity a twofold flame leading us towards God and towards our brother, prayer is finally a sigh of the Spirit which descends from heaven and ascends again bearing us with it."

I close with this stanza from an old-time hymn :—

"Thrice happy! God my Father is! My Brother Christ! The Holy Ghost Comes to my help when sorrows rise, When clouds are dark and all seems

lost; They save from hell, they give the

earth To all who are of heavenly birth."

GOD BLESS YOU. GOOD NIGHT.

[Scripture quotations in this article are from the American Revised Version.]

The Bread of Life in Shadow and Substance

(Concluded from page 8)

Although the showbread was eaten by the priests on the Sab-bath, it was lying on the table during all the week. Thus we may learn that although the Sabbath is the day on which we should feed upon the bread of life in a special way, we should not neglect to partake of a nec-essary portion every day of our

lives. The showbread was a "continual bread." So we should continually feed upon Christ in His Word. And we should also remember that prayer and medi-tation are inseparably linked with true Bible study.

The howl) rea d, it will be re-membered, w a s " presence-bread," or "bread of the pres-ence" of God. Thus in our study of the Bible — feeding upon Christ, the antitypical presence-bread—we are brought into the presence of God Himself, and may enjoy sweet and abiding communion with Him. This ex-perience the children of Israel might have had (and some of them, we believe, did have it) if they had allowed the valuable, though shadowy, lessons of the sanctuary service to be im-pressed upon their hearts and minds by the Spirit of God. But they perverted that beautiful service so that it became a life-less form, and thus they sepa-rated themselves from God.

And whereas they had merely the shadow, we have the sub-stance, and our privileges and responsibilities are so much greater in proportion. Let us then not "fall after the same example of unbelief," but let us rather learn to appreciate more and more the precious lessons that have been written for our learning and edification and eternal salvation. F.

The Temptation of Jesus THERE is no more mysterious

scene in the whole story of the Gospels than the temptation in the wilderness. That dark enigma, the existence and the awful power of a personal lord of evil, recognised every-where as a fact in the New Tes-tament, appears here in all its darkness. And, darkness is in-deed a living midnight, when we see it face to face with the sin-less Son of God and man. Who shall fathom the depth of the secret reasons which constrained the Lord, under the immediate power and guidance of the Holy Spirit poured on Him without measure, to submit Himself to the personal, positive, and pro-

foundly subtle assaults of the evil spirit, alone and in the waste?

All that we can know is that the dreadful encounter was a vital factor in His incarnate ex-perience, and that the endurance of it, and then the victorious sequel, like all that He did and suffered, were of infinite import for our blessing.

This at least we know, that the Lord Jesus Christ is now, in the power of that strife and of that victory, able to enter into the very depth of every moral struggle of His disciples, and "able to succour also them that are tempted," with the sympa-thetic power of an almighty but all-sensitive Fellow - Sufferer.—H. C. G. Moule.

Jesus—a Character Unparalleled

IT is acknowledged by all students of the subject that the Hebrew prophets made predic-tions concerning the fortunes of their own and other countries which were unquestionably ful-filled. It is a simple and univer-sally recognised fact that, filled with these prophetic images, the whole Jewish nation—nay, at last the whole Eastern world—did look forward with longing expectation to the coming of this future Conqueror. Was this un-paralleled expectation realised? And here again I speak of facts which are acknowledged by Ger-mans and Frenchmen, no less than by Englishmen, by critics and by sceptics, even more fully than by theologians and ecclesi-astics. There did arise out of this nation a Character by uni-versal consent as unparalleled as the expectation which had preceded Him. Jesus of Naza-reth was, on the most superficial no less than on the deepest view we take of His coming, the greatest name, the most extra-ordinary power, that has ever crossed the • stage of history. And this greatness consisted not in outward power, but precisely in those qualities on which from first to last the prophetic order had laid the utmost stress—justice and love, goodness and truth.—A. P. Stanley, D.D.

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NOW then, Katie, for a walk," shouted Tom ; "and be quick."

Katie was nothing loath, and very soon had her bonnet on (for little girls wore bonnets in those days) ready for the walk. They were not brother and sis-ter, but their mothers were friends, and just now Katie's mother w a s visiting Tom's mother. As Tom had no sister of his own, it was a curious sort of novelty to have a girl to play with ; but he never teased her, and was quite polite always.

His father had trained him in all good habits, and especially in obedience. Being a rather stern man, a scholar, he was most anxious that his son should be one too, so that he put aside holidays and play and such things as utterly unnecessary, and interfering with the real business of life.

Once, do you know, Tom was taken out for a little tour with his father and mother, and I will tell you what happened.

Tom had been looking for-ward to the journey with in-tense delight ; and though it was only to be through some of the southern counties (for this was in England), it was to him a magnificent prospect. There were no railways then, so they were to travel in a gig, which held two, with a seat for Tom between them ; and when they started that summer day, the little boy on his stool thought that in all England there could be nobody happier than he was.

But, alas ! there was evil at hand. They had not gone far

before his father produced from under the seat—a Latin gram-mar ! He remarked at the same time that it would be wrong for it to be all holiday, and he would wish him to continue his studies as he went along.

Tom's heart sank ; his dream of happiness was gone, but he was too obedient to think for a moment of disputing his father's will.

I am glad to tell you, however, that through the mother's inter-cession the Latin grammar did not appear the next day, though it still was brought out on wet days or when their journey was interrupted.

This was many years ago, and I do not think fathers now would like to cheat the children out of a holiday. They would say rather, " Work while you work ; then you can play when you play."

But Tom showed his obedi-ence in other things besides in the matter of the Latin gram-mar. As we have already said, they were starting for a walk, the two children, and the two mothers with them. The elders enjoyed their talk, for they were great friends, while the children ran hither and thither gathering wild flowers, jumping the ditches, and racing up and down the banks. They went across the meadows and through the lanes, and then they came to an open grassy place with a very steep hill.

"Now then," said Tom, "for a scramble" ; and seizing Katie's hand, he began to rush down headlong with a merry shout.

"Come back, Tom," cried his mother.

He did not stop to ask why, nor say, "How tiresome in the midst of our fun !" but gave a pull to Katie, and without a word went back at once to his mother.

Then they all walked quietly down the hill, and at the bot-tom, right in a line with the path the children were taking, they came to an open unused well. They did not know it was there, and as they could not have stopped themselves suddenly, they must have fallen in and perished.

And thus it was Tom's habit of instant obedience which saved two lives.—Selected.

Taking Babies to Church in Lapland

ONE of the most curious customs of the Laplanders is the manner of taking

the babies to church, described in the Ram's Horn. The moth-ers go regularly, even when they have wee, tiny babies. Some-times they ride ten or fifteen miles in a sleigh drawn by a reindeer. They all have warm clothes on, the baby in particu-lar. Often it is wrapped in bearskins.

As soon as the family arrivee at the little church and the rein-deer is secured, Father Lap': shovels out a bed of snow anc Mother Lapp wraps baby snug13 in skins and lays it down there Then Father Lapp piles the snow all around it and the par ents go into the church. Ovei twenty or thirty of these babies lie out there in the snow. Th( little ones are not strong enougi to knock the snow aside and ge' away, so they just lie still am go to sleep. When church is out the father goes to the spot, pal his hands down into the snow and pulls the baby out an( shakes off the snow ; then the reindeer trots off and take: them all home again.—Selected

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M. JEAN CONFIDA, who is teaching Parisians to speak English within fifteen hours, recently gave a lesson in Spanish to students of the Poly-technic, London. "I found that French students who could translate Shake-speare and Dickens were unable, after six years' study, to ask in English for a glass of water," M. Confida told a Daily Chronicle representative. "I therefore invented a new method. I am now teaching all the Paris police, railway servants, salesmen in the big Paris stores, and all the members of the Chamber of Deputies. Last sum-mer I enabled 2,500 American Legion-aries to speak French in fifteen hours. In 1922 I was asked by the town of Le Toquet to live with them for a year and teach them English. Before I left, every one, from the wealthiest squire to the lowest groom, had a good working knowledge of your lan-guage." M. Confida's method enables anyone to speak English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish with equal rapidity. The lesson he gave at the Polytechnic was a revelation, and almost a revolution, in the teach-ing of languages.

A LARGE percentage of the injuries resulting from automobile accidents are due, not to the smash-up of the car itself, but to the flying glass from windows and windshield. Con-sequently the adoption of triplex glass this year by two well-known automobile manufacturers and two cab companies in the United States has aroused great interest in this product. The type of triplex used in windshields and windows of auto-mobiles is identical in appearance with ordinary plate glass and consists of three layers. The two outside layers are of the finest obtainable plate or sheet glass, according to specifications, and the middle layer a binding composition commercially known as pyroxalin plastic. This is a perfectly transparent sheet of cellu-lose material, like celluloid, which may, in fact, also be used. Two pieces of glass and one piece of pyroxalin plastic are cut to the exact size and shape of the desired windshield or window. This must be done with in-finite care, as after it is finished triplex cannot be cut or altered in size. These three layers are then laid together and put through seventeen processes, including chemical clean-ing, pressing between huge presses, which exert many tons pressure on each piece of glass, heating, grinding, polishing, and sealing. The sealing compound is applied to the outside of the juncture of the three laminations. It keeps out weather, moisture, vibra-tion, and all other influences which, if they could get in between the lay-ers, would in time eliminate the very safety features which are essential. Under ordinary impact triplex will not shatter or create flying frag-ments, because the flexible centre layer holds tightly to the outside layers. Under very severe impact, it is important to note, triplex will yield and let a flying body pass through it.

July 2, 1928

RED-HOT samples of steel are shot through pneumatic tubes recently in-stalled between a German steel mill and its testing laboratory. This novel method of conveyance is employed in order to allow the laboratory to be located away from the smoke and dirt of the mill itself.

CONCRETE houses superior to those built by old methods of construction, yet turned out one after the other, as automobiles are made, by progressive assembly, is now possible with the use of metal forms which are the inven-tion of Mr. J. Edward Lambie of Cleveland, U.S.A. The new moulds are composed of light steel units, rolled and shaped for great strength and rigidity, and so designed that they may be set up with great rapid-ity for moulding houses with a wide variety of form and appearance. Speed of construction and variety of design are the salient features of the lamolithic process. It is claimed that seven or eight men can mould two houses a week by the use of these forms and the special concrete mix-ing and pouring machines. This in-cludes all work from the setting up of forms to their removal after setting of concrete.

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