General rains throughout California during the past few days have ushered in the "rainy season." The "rainy season" in this State designates that portion of the year when occasional showers and sometimes a rain that will last for several days in succession may be expected. The many beautiful days and weeks that are interspersed among these days of rain, are so glorious as to make one's heart go out instinctively in praise to our heavenly Father for His great temporal gifts. And since we can have such fine days in this sin-cursed earth, what will it be in that renewed earth that is to be the home of the redeemed? "The Lord Was above Them."—An article in the Sunday School Times of September 30, by Prof. Dr. A. Weidman, shows that the Egyptians at the time of the Exodus had no idea of the one God, all-powerful and all-wise. Their general conception was of a multitude of gods, each having his field and function in the reign of nature. Then how appropriate and merciful even were the plagues of Egypt! In them the Egyptians were not only shown that the one God of Israel was all-embracing, all-efficient, all-powerful, and all-wise, but that the various gods of Egypt, whether worshiped by king or peasant, were nothing in the sight of Jehovah. Truly Jethro said of the gods of Egypt and their worshipers, "Wherein they dealt proudly He [Jehovah] was above them." It is so to-day. "There is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him." 1 Cor. 8:6.