Our New Cover-Page and Department Heads.
—Have you studied our new cover page? It is a sermon in itself. The decoration around the title at the top is the passion flower, emblematic of the sufferings of Christ. In the upper left-hand corner is the ancient altar of burnt offering and the priest offering sacrifice. In the center is the open ancient sanctuary, with its holy and most holy places. These were typical of Christ's sacrifice and priesthood, the only means by which sin could ever be taken away. Sin is and ever has been the transgression of God's law, represented by Sinai and the tables of stone, which still thunder in the ears of sinners, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Below is the cross, the teaching of Christ, and the empty tomb, proclaiming a conquering Saviour. Our Missions and Home headings speak for themselves. In our Outlook heading the old watchman on the high tower is anxiously looking over the intervening darkness of valley and plain to the breaking of morning over the mountain tops beyond. We can hear the ancient cry, "Watchman, what of the night?" and the reply, "The morning cometh." And spiritually the long night of sin is almost gone, and the morning of eternal peace is about to break.