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Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 11.

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Review and Herald

Mar 17, 1903

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1903

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Our Country, Its Past, Present, and Future, and What the Scriptures Say of It
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The Threefold Message of Rev. 14: 6–12 “Fear God”

THIS threefold message is such a proclamation of the everlasting gospel as will meet the need of the world in the period just before the coming of the Lord. The Lord foresaw what would be the condition of things in these closing days, and he revealed to his servant John, for the benefit of the church, just the way in which the gospel message should be given in order to save men from the delusions of the enemy of their souls.
The line of prophecy, of which this threefold message is a part, begins with the twelfth chapter of Revelation, and covers the time from the birth of Christ to his coming “on the cloud.” The whole prophecy reveals to us the working of the great dragon, “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan,” in paganism, in the papacy, and in apostate Protestantism, which are simply variations of the one principle of self-salvation. In all this deception it is the purpose of Satan to hide from view the revelation of God in Christ as the Saviour from sin, to lead man to trust in some form of self-effort or self-revelation, and thus to keep him in the bondage of sin.
In the twelfth chapter the dragon is revealed in his true character as the enemy of the man child, Jesus, and the persecutor of the woman, the church. This chapter throws a true light upon the whole prophecy, as we see that the same dragon spirit works against the church all through this period, and at the last is found wroth with the woman, and making war “with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” In the first part of the thirteenth chapterwe find the dragon hiding himself behind the composite beast to whom he gives “his power, and his throne, and great authority.” By comparing the specifications given in Rev. 13: 5-7 with those given in Dan. 7: 8, 23-25, it will be evident that this composite beast of Revelation 13 corresponds to the little horn of the fourth beast of Daniel 7, that horn in which were “eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” And this is modern Babylon, the papacy, described by the apostle Paul in 2 Thess. 2: 3-7, and characterized as “the man of sin,” and “the mystery of iniquity.” In the latter part of the thirteenth chapter of Revelation we find another beast with two horns, through which the dragon still speaks. This dragon voice, speaking through the two-horned beast, directs those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the composite beast, and then the same persecuting spirit is revealed against those who refuse homage to this image of the beast. But under the symbol of the two-horned beast we have set forth the rise of the United States as the one nation in which are revealed in their purity the genuine principles of Protestantism, standing in their own strength as apart from the civil power, followed by that apostasy in which the principles of the papacy gain the ascendancy, and the persecuting spirit of the dragon reveals itself.
The false prophet of Rev. 19: 20 is the same as the two-horned beast of Rev. 13: 11, as the same work is ascribed to him; and inasmuch as both the beast and the false prophet are “cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone,” it is evident that these two powers are active in the closing days of the great controversy. Now it is the special purpose of this threefold message to unveil the deception of the dragon, to call the whole world to a recognition of God in his true character, and to set forth in its purity again “the gospel of God . . . concerning his Son.” But the principles of the papacy and of apostate Protestantism are identical with the principles of ancient heathenism. They all spring from the same root idea, the putting of self in the place of God. They are expressed by putting man’s idea of God in the place of the revelation which God has made of himself. In paganism the false conception of God takes the form of a visible image of dead matter, of wood or stone. In the papacy there is a variation of paganism; the images of paganism are supplanted by the images of saints, angels, the Virgin Mary, and Christ; and a pretended vicegerent of the Son of God, humanity without divinity, is made the head of the church. This is “the man of sin” described by the apostle Paul, “he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.” In apostate Protestantism we have the most refined form of paganism. All visible images are discarded, but a mental image, a false conception of God, is put in the place of the revelation of God as made in his Word. What is called “spiritual consciousness” is substituted for the Word of God, men are taught to look within for God, and the personal being of God becomes “the Universal Presence.” Thus in paganism, in the papacy, and in apostate Protestantism there is one common principle, the setting aside of the true God as revealed in the person of his Son, and the accepting of a false conception of God inspired by “the deceiver of the whole world.” In each case man is left without any barrier against sin. He is led to trust in his own weakness, and thus becomes an easy prey to the author of sin.
The very wording of the message, “Fear God, and give him glory,” reveals the true situation and the remedy. It is the very message which the Lord sent to his people through the prophet Jeremiah in the olden time when they were enticed by the image making of the pagan nations around them. The whole passage is well worth reading in this connection: “Hear ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they can not go. Be not afraid of them; for they can not do evil, neither is it in them to do good. There is none like unto thee, O Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.” Jer. 10: 1-7. And through the prophet Isaiah the Lord says, “I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.”
In view of this instruction through the prophets, the message, “Fear God, and give him glory,” makes it clear that the same principles of heathenism are now enticing the people away from the true God as in the days of old, even though the image making may be mental instead of material, and that there is the same necessity of setting forth the true God in his true character. Thus the issues at stake to-day are shown to be the same as in the time of the prophets. Modern infidelity is simply the old paganism in a refined form. It is the work of this threefold message to expose the wolves that are parading in sheep’s clothing, and to declare in its purity and power the gospel of the Son of God, the union of divinity and humanity through his incarnation, his atoning work, and his heavenly ministry as the one only Mediator and Saviour from sin. This is the very essence of the threefold message.

The Coming Conference

By Editor

Editorial

The Coming Conference

THE next General Conference will convene in Oakland, Cal., in a few days. While this conference will not be attended by so many delegates as in former years, and there will be but few representatives from the distant fields, yet questions of the gravest importance, which will have a most decided bearing upon the future of this movement, will come before this council of the brethren. A policy and plans should be adopted which really mean the finishing of this work in this generation. This will bring us to a sense of the need of “the Spirit of Jehovah . . . the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah,” that we may be “of quick understanding in the fear of Jehovah.” This is our only hope of success. The hearts of men have become more hard and unimpressible. Stronger and stronger does the tide of evil grow. And those to whom has been offered the privilege of being used in the final conflict of the great controversy have not been fully awake to their responsibility. “O if those who have been blessed with such grand and solemn truth would arise and shake off the spell that has benumbed their senses and caused them to withhold from God their true service, what would not their well-organized efforts accomplish for the salvation of souls!” We ask that all our people will make the coming general conference a subject of daily prayer. Let there be earnest pleading with God that he will reveal his presence at this meeting in a marked manner, and that “there shall be showers of blessing.” Pray that there may be signal tokens of the divine leading in all the counsels, and that the whole gathering may be a pentecostal season which shall mark the beginning of a new power for service throughout the field. We suggest that Sabbath, March 28, the first Sabbath of the conference, be a time of special prayer in all our churches in behalf of this meeting. It will strengthen the hearts of those who are gathered in Oakland to know that the believers in this message throughout the land are before the same throne of grace with them, all uniting in the one prayer, “O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake.” Our hope is that the Captain of the Lord’s host will appear in our midst to give the instructions for a successful campaign. For this let us all pray.

Advertising Sin

THE knowledge of sin incites to sin. The detailed description of wrong-doing suggests to a certain class of minds the doing of the same wrong. And forms of evil of which innocent minds had previously been in blissful ignorance, have been first made known to them by ill-advised reports of some so-called thrilling experience among hardened men and women. We believe that the gospel is able to save the chief of sinners. We believe that efforts should be made to teach the saving truth of the gospel to those in the very depths of sin; but we believe that this work should be done by those of mature years and Christian experience, and that they should employ some other method of interesting Christian people in their work than the plan of giving sensational descriptions of the worst forms of sin. There is no difficulty in interesting the average audience in these stories of vice; but what has been accomplished by it? Seeds of evil have been planted in some minds which will bring forth fruit unto death. An opportunity has been given to the enemy of which he will not be slow to take advantage. In some hour of weakness he will revive these pictures of evil before the mind as a temptation to commit the same sin. It was of just such evil practices as prevail in our modern Sodom that the apostle Paul said, “It is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.” We suggest that these words are applicable now. It appears to us that there is danger of adopting purely sensational methods of work, and of really debauching those who are pure, in a misdirected effort to carry the saving gospel to the impure. Even at the risk of being misunderstood, we must say that we seriously question whether our young people, with comparatively little experience in the ways of the world, are prepared to deal with the worst forms of sin in our large cities. We hope some other opportunities for usefulness may be opened up before them.

Building on a Sure Foundation

In building for time, a good foundation is important. In building for eternity, it is absolutely essential. The Lord intends that Zion shall stand forever, and with this in view he has provided a sure foundation. “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.” It is certain that this sure foundation is Jesus Christ. Here is a scripture which will make this clear: “So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone.” It is also clear that this rock foundation upon which a human temple may be built which shall stand forever, is the union of divinity and humanity in the person of Jesus, Son of God and Son of man. We are assured of this in our Lord’s own words. After Peter, speaking in behalf of all the disciples, had confessed his confidence that Jesus was “the Christ, the Son of the living God,” our Lord said unto him, “Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.” The testimony of the apostle Peter is to the same effect: “The Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood.” In giving his only begotten Son to take the flesh, Jehovah has laid in Zion a sure foundation. Resting upon this foundation, the church of the living God will stand forever. Death will not prevail over it, because Jesus, its founder and its foundation, has conquered death. This is the Christian’s hope.
Concerning this foundation it is said, “He that believeth shall not be in haste.” Further light is thrown upon the meaning of this statement by its use in the New Testament. Thus the apostle Peter says, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.” By putting these two readings together, it is evident that the expression“shall not be in haste” and the expression “shall not be put to shame” are equivalent in meaning. The one interprets the other. “The meaning is that those who believe the divine declaration, and thus rest for safety on the foundation here promised, shall feel themselves so perfectly secure that they shall never have occasion to suspect their confidence; or, under the impulse of fear and shame, to betake themselves with speed to another refuge. It is security which can never fail.”
But the inquiry may be raised, With what propriety can it be said that we believe on a foundation? Those to whom this statement was originally made through the prophet Isaiah did not need to ask this question, for to those who used the Hebrew language the connection was apparent. The word here translated “believe” is closely associated with the word meaning “to build.” He who believes on this foundation thereby builds upon this foundation, and he will never be put to shame because of any defect in the foundation. His only care need to be that he uses the right kind of material in building. “For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; each man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man’s work of what sort it is.” We might add, however, that those who really believe on this foundation, who really build by faith, will find that their building will stand. For genuine faith deals only with the Word of God, and “the Word of our God shall stand forever.”
In this time of storm and tempest every one ought to know for a certainty that he is building upon the sure foundation. Those who are building upon anything else than the rock foundation will soon be put to shame.
“O build on the Rock forever sure,     The firm and the true foundation;     Its hope is the hope which shall endure,     The hope of our salvation.     We’ll build on the Rock, on the solid         Rock,     On Christ, the mighty Rock.”

Christianity Versus Socialism

By L. A. S.

Ever since Christianity was made known to the world as God’s plan for human salvation, there have been devised other systems claiming to be Christian, or to be founded on Christian principles, aiming at the reformation of governments and of society. They promise by this means to bestow upon men salvation from the chief ills that afflict them in this life, and in this they profess to be identical or in harmony with Christianity, and are confounded with it in very many minds. One such system, and one which is greatly stirring the world to-day, is socialism. It is often spoken of as “Christian socialism.”
There was never an age when it was more necessary for men to know what Christianity really is, and wherein it is distinguished from every philanthropic scheme of human origin.
The difference between Christianity and all the “isms” which promise so much good for the human race, is fundamental. Whatever apparent similarity there may be between them outwardly, looking beneath the surface, and examining the foundation principles of each, we behold a difference as broad as the world. Of socialism this is as true as of anything else.
Socialism originated in the desire of some to obtain something which was in the possession of others. Christianity originated in a desire to impart to others something in the possession of the giver. Socialism seeks to provide happiness by forcing some to give up a part of their earthly possessions for the general welfare. Christianity provides happiness by offering to all as a free gift the riches of heaven. The one aims to level society down to a common human plane; the other aims to elevate mankind to the divine plane. The one aims to please and to serve self; the other proceeds only by self-surrender. The one operates by the power of a carnal commandment of man; the other by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. In nothing does Christianity represent any of the wisdom or devices of men. It is impossible for anything to be Christian of which God himself is not sole author.
Christianity is God’s plan of redemption for all peoples, from all ills, for all ages. It has promise both “of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” “Seek ye first the kingdom of God,” it says, “and all these things [temporal necessities] shall be added unto you.” For the poor man, it has the blessing of God to add to his few loaves and fishes, making them sufficient for all needs. For the one in affliction it has the provision, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” The Christian never joins in any movement to save men from poverty, or to remove social inequalities by law. He sees that there is no necessity for such movements. He does not feel it necessary to join himself to any of the numerous confederacies that exist in the land, since he has joined himself to the Lord, who has all power, all wisdom, and all authority.
Christianity is not socialism, and socialism is not Christianity. All the powers of earth and everything that is not Christian are finally to be arrayed against Christianity, and the influences are now at work, the movements are now on foot, which are to prepare the way for that contest. In this work socialism is acting a leading part. The Christian is not a Christian socialist, a Christian scientist, nor anything which the name Christian but partly expresses. He is a Christian, and that is all. The one cause with which he is forever identified is the cause of God. The one organization to which he joins himself for all philanthropic and moral purposes is the Christian church. L. A. S.

The Head of Every Man

By Arthur G. Daniells

There is much to be gained in Christian experience by an intelligent recognition of the sovereign position which the Holy Spirit is to occupy in the heart of every believer, and thus in the church of Christ on earth. Let us note the following inspired statements:—
“Ye are not your own.” 1 Cor. 6: 19.
“I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ.” 1 Cor. 11: 3.
“Christ is the head of the church.” Eph. 5: 23.
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” “I will not leave you comfortless.” “I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world can not receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” John 14: 1, 2, 18, 16, 17.
“I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth; for the Spirit who is my presence would be grieved for the souls which I have made.” Isa. 57: 16, Spurrell's translation.
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” Zech. 4: 6.
“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” Rom. 6: 13.
This is the teaching of God's Word regarding the headship of Christ. This teaching reveals the way of personal experience and the power of the church.
We are not our own. The head of every man is Christ, and Christ has sent the Holy Spirit into this world to represent him during his ministry in the sanctuary of God in heaven. Thus the Holy Spirit is his presence, and has become the head, as Christ's representative, of every man, and of the church. His Spirit is working in the world for the accomplishment of his mighty purpose. He is working upon all flesh. He is holding in check the powers of evil that wouldhinder the work of God. He is directing men's minds, as far as God sees fit, that they may be used of God for the final accomplishment of his work in the earth.
He is in the great councils of States and of nations, to control the minds of men in their decisions, and to prevent them from enacting laws that would hinder the people of God from carrying on his work. He is also in the halls of science, the workrooms of inventors, and the offices of financiers. He is in all these places, guiding, so far as God sees best, the minds of those men, so that their talents, their energies, their powers, and their wealth shall be used by the Lord in the accomplishment of his glorious purpose. The world is not having its own way altogether. There is a great deal of sin, a great deal of evil, a great deal that is against God; but the Holy Spirit is working upon all flesh, to shape affairs so that God shall be glorified at last.
That is the way we must view the work of inventors, explorers, discoverers, translators, and missionaries of all denominations. It is the way we must view the mighty projects of financiers, and even of great trusts and combinations. While God is not in all their thoughts, yet he lays his hand upon them, and uses them, and directs their minds, for the accomplishment of his work. It has been a power mightier than any of earth that has pressed men on in their great projects which they have pursued so perseveringly.
That great government of Russia, which has in some ways stood against our work, has been carrying out certain projects that God will yet use as mighty facilities in his work. It has, at immense cost, and immense loss apparently, projected a railway from St. Petersburg to the Pacific Ocean. This has brought China and all the Oriental nations many days nearer to America than they ever could have been by steamship lines.
Why could Mr. Cecil Rhodes never rest day nor night until he had, even in the palaces of kings, obtained concessions to permit a railway line to be built from Cairo to Cape Town? Why was he willing to devote his enormous wealth to that project?—It was that a great highway might be established through the heart of the Dark Continent. God wanted this highway that his people might, by that means, quickly reach the enormous populations of that country, and give them this message.
Thus the Spirit of God is in the world to-day as the head, the representative of Christ; and men who do not recognize God are being in a measure controlled by that Spirit, to devote their talents, their energies, their powers, to the end that the gospel shall be finished in this generation.
It is easy enough for us to see this; but we must go further, we must bow down at the feet of Christ, and proclaim him head,—enthrone him Lord of all; and then definitely recognize the Holy Spirit as his immediate presence in the church, and the leader of every Christian.
What a blessed thought it is that a man may from day to day be conscious of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, the head of the church; that he may talk with him, receive from him enlightenment, and the quickening of his mighty power. All the wisdom, all the grace, all the creative power, and so all the healing power of Jesus center in his representative, the Holy Spirit. And he is the head of every man.
It is time for us more definitely, specifically, and knowingly to make this recognition of the Holy Spirit's headship in the church, and of every man. How are we to make this recognition, and how are we to come into this personal association with the Holy Spirit, the head of the church?—By unqualified surrender to his leadership. That is the way. Yield not your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin. Satan is working in the world to thwart the purpose of God, to misrepresent him, and to dethrone him at last. Man is not to yield his powers, his mental faculties,—his eyes, his ears, his power of speech,—as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.
Yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. That is the way our faculties are to be yielded, instruments of righteousness unto God. But these faculties are to be made righteous, else they can not be instruments of righteousness. These lips, this tongue, endowed with the precious gift of speech, are not to be used to bruise, to injure, and to forward the work of Satan; they are to be used as instruments under the control of the Holy Spirit.
It is the absolute and unqualified surrender of these powers to God that constitutes a true recognition of the headship of the Holy Spirit, who is Christ's presence. This is the true recognition, and there is no other. We can not by mere profession of faith, by subscribing our names to articles, by lip service alone, make that recognition. But by the surrender of the will, by the surrender of the body, with all its faculties, we can recognize and proclaim the Holy Spirit as our head.
When that recognition is made, a union is formed between the human and the divine. A fellowship is established between man and the mightiest power of earth, the Holy Spirit. And when that fellowship is established, there is Christian experience, there is divine headship to the man. And when every member of the church makes that surrender, and experiences that union, then there is divine headship to the church. Then the church will have put on its strength and its beautiful garments; then it will have broken the bands that are about its neck, and have shaken itself from the dust; then it will have arisen, and have sat down with Jesus Christ at the right hand of God.
It is this experience that both the church and the world need to-day. It is this experience that the third angel's message has come to give.
A. G. DANIELLS.

A Faithful Standard Bearer

By Stephen N. Haskell

“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?” 2 Sam. 3: 38.
With the deepest regret we are called to mourn the death of Elder Uriah Smith, who fell on his way to his post of duty, March 6.
Brother Smith was connected with the work from the very beginning. He was one of God's own choosing and anointing to bear a prominent part in the editorial work of our leading denominational paper. His early experience and the Spirit of God fitted him for this position. His mother, a godly woman, had consecrated him to God's service in his childhood, and after she accepted present truth, her great burden was that her children also might be partakers of the same hope. Through a series of circumstances, that are too numerous to mention, Brother Smith was brought where the light of truth fell upon his pathway. He became interested, and accepted it. Soon he was connected with the paper at Rochester, N. Y. When the publishing work first began, and the facilities were very limited, the tracts were trimmed with a penknife, and Brother Smith assisted in this work. He has ever been more or less connected with the printing office and the editorial work on the REVIEW AND HERALD.
His experience has been varied, like that of every one who has long been connected with this work; but his love for the truth has been such that no circumstances have led him to depart from its principles. He is the author of many of our leading publications. In the early days of this message, Elder White, who was associated with him, suggested that he write some thoughts on the books of Daniel and the Revelation for the REVIEW, and after they had appeared in the REVIEW, he could revise them, and have them published in a book. This was the origin of the book “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” and many in all parts of the world are rejoicing in present truth to-day, who received their first rays of light on the message by reading “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.”
Years ago, in the early camp-meeting experience, Elder Smith attended manyof our camp-meetings, and took an active part not only in bringing out the truth, but in presenting it to the thousands who attended these meetings. His general life has been the same from the beginning. He had one point to make, and that was to get the truth before the people. In this God has wonderfully blessed him, and while from time to time there have been changes in the editorial staff, and in the work on the paper, yet he has occupied his position in the editorial chair.
When Biblical institutes were started among our people, Elder Smith was one of the first to teach in them. His principal method of teaching was to go over the principles underlying present truth, and bring out those truths that would direct the mind to the times in which we live. In times of controversy upon points of present truth, Elder Smith's pen always stood in defense of the truth. From this he never swerved. Others have come and have gone, but in the time of a crisis, there has been one man among a few others, whose position has ever been the same in the work of God.
But Elder Smith rests from his labors. His work is over. His record is made up, and we deeply mourn his loss. The cause will be made to realize, in the crisis that is before us, the need of able defenders for present truth. He, who has ever stood foremost, and whose pen has ever been true, will no more act his part. Of him it can be truly said, His works follow him. A few other standard bearers are left, of whom it can be said, Which were from the beginning, which have heard, which have seen with their own eyes of the Word of life, and can bear a living testimony to the rise and progress of present truth. We mourn, but not without hope; we are sad, but not without rejoicing. His conflict is over, and to him there will be no measurement of time between his falling under the stroke and his rising immortal in the resurrection of the just.
We heartily sympathize with his family, and can only pray that God may hasten the time when he, with other pioneers in the present truth, and all who are looking for Christ's coming, will meet around the great white throne in the kingdom of glory.
S. N. HASKELL.
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