A FEW weeks ago, while conversing with one of the trainers connected with an athletic club, a stalwart young man, observing that the gentleman smoked, remarked that he thought smoking was hardly consistent with the highest degree of physical development. Said the athlete: “You are certainly right. I am aware of this fact, and I do not believe in smoking. I gave up smoking three years ago, having noticed its injurious effects, and I have only recently returned to the habit. I am going to relinquish it.” Wishing to obtain information from a practical observer respecting the influence of tobacco upon physical endurance, he asked, “What evidence have you that tobacco injures you?” The prompt reply was:—
“Tobacco at once impairs the wind.”
“Do you find that after smoking a single cigar your breathing capacity is diminished?”
“Certainly. After having smoked a cigar I can not run or engage in violent exercise without getting out of breath. I learned long ago that I must never smoke before engaging in a boxing or fencing bout or any other vigorous exercise.”
“Have you noticed the same effect in others?”
“O, yes, it is universally the case. I have always noticed that men who smoke before they go on the running track in the gymnasium are out of breath after they have made two or three laps, while the same men, if they abstain from smoking before exercising, have good wind.”
The fact that tobacco weakens a man's wind and lessens his endurance, affords the best positive proof that it must shorten his life; for the power to live long means simply the power to endure long the physical strains and emergencies to which the body must be continually subjected during life. No man who cares to live long and well, can afford to smoke or use tobacco in any form.—Good Health.
RELIEVING COUGH.
A SUDDEN and wearing attack of coughing often needs immediate attention, especially in consumption, and those chronically ill. In an emergency, that ever-useful remedy, hot water, will prove very effective. It is much better than the ordinary cough mixtures, which disorder the digestion and spoil the appetite. Water, almost boiling, should be sipped when the paroxysms come on. A cough resulting from irritation is relieved by hot water through the promotion of secretion, which moistens the irritated surfaces.
Hot water also promotes expectoration, and so relieves the dry cough.—Health Magazine.
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PREACHING OUTSIDE OF THE PULPIT.
By Theodore L. Cuyler
[By Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., in Christian Work.]
For what purpose did I enter the ministry? is a vitally important question, which every conscientious minister will keep constantly before his mind. The answer which he will make to this question will be: I became a preacher in order to bring God’s messages to my fellowmen, to awaken those who are careless, instruct those who are ignorant, comfort those who are in trouble, help those who are weak, and lead souls to Jesus Christ; in short, my aim is to make bad people good, and good people better. To attract people to the house of God is of far less importance than to attract them to Christ; the making a good sermon is mainly of value that it makes a good man. A wise minister will not belittle his pulpit by neglecting to make full preparation for it, nor will he cheapen it by putting there anybody and everybody that he can lay hands upon. At the same time he recognizes that he can spend only about three or four hours in that pulpit on only one day of the seven; and whether in the pulpit or out of it, he is everywhere Christ’s ambassador.
The Bible is the best theological seminary, and in that he learns that his divine Master delivered two popular discourses which the Holy Spirit has preserved for us; one of them was delivered on a mountain, and the other by the seaside. The great body of our Lord’s instructions were in the form of personal conversations with individuals or with His little band of disciples. That quiet evening talk with Nicodemus has shaped all Christian theology and moulded myriads of human characters, and will continue to until the end of time. The apostles pursued the same methods with their Master; and the book of the Acts is largely the record of personal labors for the conversion and the spiritual benefit of individuals. Paul preached public discourses when he had the opportunity; but I question whether his sublime discourse on Mars Hill has ever brought as many souls to the Saviour as his brief talk with one poor awakened sinner in the prison of Philippi.
The danger with us ministers is that we look at our flocks too much as a totality; the word “masses” is a misleading word. We preach on Sunday to a congregation; but God’s eye sees only individuals. Guilt is a thing appertaining to an individual conscience; and conversion is the turning of the single soul to Jesus. If we preach to a congregation for an hour or two on the Sabbath, it is a joyful thought to an earnest soul-winner that he can preach outside of his pulpit for more than a hundred hours during the week.
One of the unanswerable arguments for thorough pastoral visitation is that it brings a minister within arm’s length of his parishioners. He needs this personal contact for his own benefit. A good library is a good thing; but there is a great difference between a lifeless book on your shelf and the vitalizing and fertilizing study of a book in boots; for every life is a biography. You and I, my dear brother, are helping to make these biographies. Our sermons are addressed to everybody; a conversation is addressed to a single soul. “Thou art the man” is the meaning of every loving appeal, every kind rebuke and every personal invitation. A man may dodge a sermon; he can not dodge a personal conversation conducted in the right spirit. A faithful sermon ought to set your people to thinking. In one mind it may suggest difficulties, and when that person meets you, he may wish to have the difficulty explained; the door is thus opened for you to remove an obstacle, or to press home a needed truth. In another mind your sermon may have awakened a conviction of sin. That impression may fade away, or it may be deepened if it is followed up by a personal interview. Much of many a pastor’s best work has been done in an “inquiry meeting;” but even when no such method is used, there will be opportunities for every wide-awake pastor to find out who in his parish is an “anxious inquirer.” You ought to have a fixed time in every week when persons can call on you; and if any one breaks into your study during your morning hours for spiritual direction, you ought to rejoice to throw aside books or sermon notes and give him the light of day. The man that wants you is the man that you want. It is an excellent method also to request your congregation to send a request to you if they desire an interview in their own homes. Remember how cordially the Master met every one who came to Him for light or for healing, and what a long journey He took in order to bring relief to one poor woman in the coasts of Canaan. In dealing with awakened souls nothing can take the place of personal contact. To reach all such from the pulpit only is almost as absurd as it would be for a physician to read his prescriptions from a desk in a hospital instead of going from one bed to another to feel each pulse, and to examine each fever-coated tongue.
No pastor worthy of the name will need to be reminded how strong are the claims on him of the Lord’s “shut-ins,” whose faces are not seen in the sanctuary. Whomsoever you neglect, never neglect the sick—especially those who are in the by-lanes of poverty. There is no more Christlike work than that, and none that will grip your people to you more strongly. The hours you spend in ministrations of comfort to the sick and the sorrowing will often subject your nerves and your sympathetic sensibilities to a severe strain. The most celebrated pulpit orator in America once said to me, “It consumes more of my nerve force to spend an hour with people who are in trouble than to prepare two sermons.” That may be so; but is there any more Christly office in this old sobbing and suffering world than to “bind up the broken-hearted”? What your people want is the ministry of sympathy; and the rich often need it as truly as the wretched poor.
I have indicated some of the ways in which a faithful minister may preach outside of his Sabbath pulpit. There is one style of preaching that is vastly more effective than any other, and that is the irresistible eloquence of a pure, manly, noble, and unselfish life. “My pastor’s discourses are not very brilliant,” said an intelligent lady, “but his daily life is a sermon all the week.” The “living epistle” of Paul was as sublime and convincing as any words that fell from his lips on the hill of Mars; for Jesus Christ lived in him. Our people look at us when out of the pulpit to discover what we mean when we are in our pulpit. Piety is power. Your aim is to produce Christian character, and what argument is strong, so constant, so pervasive, so heart-reaching as the beautiful example of a life copied even imperfectly after Jesus Christ?
Answer “Yes” to Jesus,
His commands obey;
With a loving spirit
Serve Him every day;
Toil within His vineyard,
Fight the fight of faith,
Go where’er He bids you,
Do whate’er He saith.
CHORUS.—
Answer “Yes” to Jesus,
Hearken to His call;
To His blessed service
Consecrate your all.
Answer “Yes” to Jesus
In life’s op’ning hours,
To the Master yielding
All your blood-bought powers.
Let not courage falter,
Let not faith grow dim;
All upon the altar
Freely yield to Him.
Answer “Yes” to Jesus;
Faithful be, and true,
To this dear Redeemer
Who has died for you.
To the One who loves you
Every talent give;
Labor for the Master,
To His glory live.
Answer “Yes” to Jesus;
You are His by right;
In His royal service
Find your chief delight.
He who hath redeemed you
By your side will stand
Till you reach the border
Of the shining land.
Copyright 1904, by Meyer & Bro.
GOOD GOVERNMENT AND MISSIONS.
In a recent lecture at Calcutta, India, Mr. A. J. Fraser-Blair, editor of The Englishman, discussed the question as to how more cordial relations can be established between Europeans and Indians. After speaking of the lack of real interest in the Indian people manifested by Englishmen generally, he turns to the missionaries as a shining example and pays them the following tribute:—
The missionaries have, practically unaided, created modern India. I am now, of course, regarding their work from a purely political and educational point of view, leaving its religious aspect to be dealt with by those better qualified to review it than myself. If we carefully consider the careers of Warren Hastings and Alexander Duff, and mark their effect upon history, which, weighing everything, shall we say did more for India—the English adventurer or the Scottish missionary? And, looking to Warren Hastings’ successors, may it not be truthfully asserted that the glittering procession of titled persons who have held high office in India during a century and a half have left it very much as they found it, while every missionary teacher throughout the same period has been the center of influences which are now transforming the whole Eastern world?
This great work has been accomplished by dint of determined efforts of the missionaries to know the people and make themselves known; to learn their many languages and then inoculate them with the speech and knowledge of the West. Further, missionaries have taken infinite pains to penetrate the dim interior of the native mind, which can only be reached by the intricate avenues of its religious beliefs. It is by these means that the missionaries have come to know the people and to gain their love and confidence in so many cases. It is thus that they have become at crises the right hand of the district officer, and the intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled. Their work, from a purely secular standpoint, is exactly that which was done by the Founder of Christianity Himself.
A MISSIONARY APPLE TREE.
In the garden of a vicarage in Surrey, England, according to The Youth’s Companion, there was “dedicated” in 1870 to the cause of missions an apple tree. Since that time the fruit from this single tree has brought over $125, which has gone to the work indicated. There is a practical suggestion in this incident. On every farm and in many forms of business there are things yielding a regular income that could be conscientiously set aside for religious purposes. Many a person could pay his tithe in this way without realizing it.
The non-Christian, the unsympathetic, and the miserly may smile if they will at accounts of missionary acres, fruit trees, cows, or poultry, but such consecration of a portion of the humble and honest resources of the giver is not to be despised. The boundaries of such farms, and the territory of such business enterprises, include the kingdom of God Himself, for these servants have taken His will to heart and Himself into partnership.
JAPANESE FAITHFULNESS.
In a letter to our mission board, Prof. F. W. Field, of Tokio, Japan, tells of the experience of one of our Japanese evangelists, Brother Kuniya, who had seen service in the Chinese War, and received his commission when the truth came to him. But he was still subject to call in case of war. Professor Field says:—
Early this month the order came for him to join the army. He returned from Kobe to Tokio, and on the appointed day, instead of reporting at the barracks at Akabane, he went to the General Staff office in Tokio. Here he saw several officers, and made known to them his determination not to engage in war, which he could not conscientiously do as a Christian. The first officer scoffed; the next, himself a professed Christian, defended the present order; but all said that they had no authority to excuse him, nor to act in his case. So he was constrained to report at the barracks. On account of his visit to the General Office, he arrived at the barracks about three hours late. He was obliged to call on one of the officers at his hotel. To this officer he explained his case, and received considerable sympathy. Now, the penalty for being even several days late in reporting is two months’ solitary confinement. But this officer excused him for his tardiness,—a special favor. But he said that he, too, had no authority to deal with his case, or to excuse him from service. Then, as a further favor, he permitted Brother Kuniya to return home for the night. Early next morning Brother Kuniya repaired again to the barracks, and again stated his case to other officers. With the same result; they could do nothing in his case. Reluctantly he joined the other men in order to pass the required physical examination. The first examiner tested his eyes, and passed him. The next questioned him about as follows: “Are you quite well?” “Fairly well, but not so strong formerly.” “Do you sleep well?” “Sometimes not very well.” “All right; that will do.” Supposing that he had been passed as fit for service, he went on to the dressing-room. Very soon two of the examining physicians came to him, and said, “You had better go home and care for your health,” and left him. He could hardly believe that he was free, so went to the office, and was again assured that he was free to go home. He says that the only thing he can understand in the matter is that the Lord guided their minds as to his condition of health; for while not so strong and rugged as he was ten years ago, he was in very fair health. Another remarkable thing is, that of about three hundred examined that day, he was the only one excused, so far as he could learn. Next day was Sabbath, and Brother Kuniya occupied the time with an account of his experience. Then we united in heartfelt praise to God. But other trials await us, so we must be constant in prayer. Two of our young men must pass their military examination very soon. But our trust is in God.
ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM CHINA.
That the Lord is still a physical as well as a spiritual Healer, is attested by a report from Drs. A. C. Salmon and H. W. Miller, of Honan, China. To the mission board they write as follows:—
“The Lord has promised in Mark 16:17, 18, that these signs shall follow them that believe. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” We have seen the Lord make this promise good. A young man was brought into our mission, having an affection of the bone of the left forearm. The arm was greatly swollen. We found upon examination that the swelling was caused by pus. The pain was very great, and the fever high. We made an opening down upon the cavity, and gave exit to a large quantity of decayed flesh and bone. Amputation was the only resource to save the man’s life. There was no place to perform the operation except the open courtyard, where we have already been treating the patients who have come to us; for as yet we do not have sufficient funds to rent a place where we can have a dispensary. Having already begun to treat this case, and it was very evident that the man would soon die, we came to a place of great need. It was our extremity and God’s opportunity. So, calling in two of our Chinese converts, we stood about the man, laying our hands on his head, and asked the Lord to heal him. We explained to him that only Jesus could heal him, for we of ourselves could do nothing for him. After prayer we told him that Jesus had done the work, and immediately he stopped groaning for pain, and his face brightened up. The arm had been growing worse from day to day, but, following this, recovery was very rapid. The man’s arm was saved as the result of the Lord’s work; but, had he been treated in the best hospital in the United States, he would now be minus one arm, and in all probability would not be living.
Calls are coming in to us from the cities and country round about, and every week some one will come begging us to go with them and preach to a company who want to hear the “true doctrine.” Just to-day a cart and two men have come from a city forty miles to the north of us, requesting that Brother Blanquist go back with them and tell them further about Jesus.
LIFE IN MOROCCO.
TWO KINDS of life, quite distinct in principle, are found respectively among the city and country classes. Though originally all were identified with their proper tribes, those who have become civilized—or “citified”—have departed from many of their tribal characteristics. The cities are generally walled for defense, and are firmly under the hand of the general government, upon whose protection, trade and the safety of property depend.
Outside the fenced cities, the warp that binds the whole fabric together is entirely patriarchal. The government has authority and control only to the extent of its military force. Regions inaccessible to its army do not obey its orders. As there is no spiritual or moral principle to protect a man from his fellow, the family becomes the real unit. Immediate relatives make up a large circle, which, with other related circles, might for convenience be called a clan. This is enlarged by other similar clans more distinctly related to it, until a sub-tribe is formed. These sub-tribes combined constitute what receives the general tribal name. It is possible for even the great tribes to be related in a general way, which would have an influence, in proportion to the nearness of the relationship, in determining their friendliness toward each other in time of need. These tribes, sub-tribes, clans, and even families, constantly quarrel among themselves, “Pay old scores and make new ones,” and shed blood, but in case of need, they all unite against a common foe. This helps us to understand why the patriarchs, from Abraham down, desired to have many sons, and throws a side-light upon Oriental polygamy, and the esteem in which different wives were held.
The traveler among unsubdued tribes, having been accepted as a guest, is for the time being regarded as a member of the family, and so ultimately finds the whole tribe morally bound to fight for him, protect him, and avenge his death. When Mr. Reed and I visited our Berber friends among the Yusis a year ago, one of them said, “Should you be killed, we would not bury you or remove your body until we had called our brethren, and they had called theirs, and we had fought and shed blood over your body.”
Under such conditions, the unsubdued tribes are often more prosperous than those which are obedient. The government only hopes to keep the former stirred up one against another, so that they may not become too strong and independent; while the latter are ground between the upper and nether millstone, as it were, and often become distressingly poor.—Gospel Message.
A USELESS MEMBER.
“Yes,” said Aunt Sarah, surveying her bandaged wrist, “the doctor says it’s a bad sprain; and the minister says I know now how the church feels, in not having the use of all its members. The minister didn’t mean that just for a joke, either; he looked at me as if he wanted to see how I’d take it. I had sense enough, too, to feel I deserved to have him say it to me. A word like that comes home pretty straight when one of your own members is useless, and worse.
“I’ve never thought just what being a member of the church meant before, tho’ I’ve been one for thirty-five years. I’ve never felt obliged to do what the church wanted done. I felt it was a favor, my doing it at all, and half the time I let some one else do it instead. When I was through with work at home, and with what things I liked to do outside, then I was willing to do something in the church—if it was the kind of work that suited me. I guess I’ve been about as useless a member to the church as the sprained hand is to me, all stiff and crippled, and refusing to bend more than an inch or two.
“There’s lots of things I need to do, but I can’t use this member to do them—that’s certain. That’s the way the minister has felt about me, I guess. I’ve been a useless member for thirty-five years, that’s the long and short of it; and, if the rest of the members had been like me, the church would have been as paralyzed as old Cousin Josiah Jones, who can’t move hand nor foot. I’m ashamed of myself—I truly am—and things are going to be different from now on,” and Aunt Sarah nodded her head with a firm determination, as she looked at the church spire from her window.—Forward.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
THE brethren at Rolla, Mo., are planning to build a house of worship.
THE Missouri Conference is supporting seven tent companies this season.
AT the recent quarterly meeting at Olean, N. Y., two members were added to the church.
ON the 14th inst. three candidates were baptized at Keene, Texas, by Brother J. F. Lorenz.
AT the last quarterly meeting of the church in Amery, Wis., four members were added.
THE meeting-house recently purchased by the church in Prentice, Minn., will be dedicated June 26.
MAY 7 four candidates were baptized by Brother F. F. Peterson, and received into the church at La Grand, Wis.
TEN candidates for baptism are the result of labor at Fergus Falls, Minn., by Brethren S. E. Jackson and E. M. Chapman.
SEVEN persons were baptized and admitted to the church in Galesburg, Ill., on the 14th ult. All were young people but one.
TWO young men connected with the Scandinavian Department of Union College were baptized on the 14th ult., and added to the church at College View, Neb.
IN the New York Indicator, Brother S. H. Lane reports the baptism of three Swedish sisters at Jamestown, April 30, and the dedication of a new meeting-house on the day following.
THE Nebraska Reporter says that the brethren at McCook have recently purchased the Methodist church at that place at a cost of $800. They contemplate painting and making some other repairs on the building. The Methodists and Seventh-day Adventists are to use the same church, pending the erection of a new building by the former.
OF the closing of the state meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, Brother D. E. Lindsey says in the Visitor: “Altho most of our Ohio workers had departed to their homes, when Sunday evening came we found a full house—auditorium, vestry, and large gallery. The church choir, assisted by several friends from other churches, rendered ‘The Nazarene,’ a cantata. The occasion was one long to be remembered by the Cleveland church.”
AN interest in the truth at Pagetown, Ohio, started by a brother and sister connected with Emmanuel Missionary College, has developed so far that steps have been taken to purchase and repair a building for a meeting-house. One of those who have identified themselves with this work has been keeping the Lord’s Sabbath for twenty years while holding a ministerial license in the Christian Church. He has not before had opportunity to connect with our people.
THE Review of May 19 contains a list of fifty-one camp-meetings to be held in the United States and Canada during the present season, and even this is not a full list. Three of these are now in the past, and as this paper goes to press three are in progress—one in this city, one in Loup City, Neb., and one in Colfax, Iowa. Others to be held the present month are as follows: Oakley, Kansas, June 9-19; Canton, S. D., June 13-19; Helena, Mont., June 16-26; London, Ont., June 16-26; Crawford, Neb., June 21-27; Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, June 28 to July 10.
THE aggressive work in behalf of the “image,” against which the Third Angel’s Message is set to warn the world (Rev. 14:9-11), is thus noted in the Workers’ Bulletin, of Des Moines, Iowa: “Writing from Burlington, Brother F. M. Corbaley says: ‘The Sunday League of America has one hundred and seventy-five thousand members, and five million adherents, all working to accomplish the end for which the League is set. The general manager, Rev. Edward Thomson, has appointed a meeting to be held at Burlington, June 19, at which time they expect to lay definite plans. “One built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar.” This means much to the people of God. Are we ready for the issue?’”
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(1) “Now late on the Sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. (2) And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it. (3) His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow; (4) and for fear of him the watchers did quake, and became as dead men. (5) And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who hath been crucified. (6) He is not here; for He is risen, even as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. (7) And go quickly, and tell His disciples, He is risen from the dead; and lo, He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him: lo, I have told you. (8) And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word. (9) And behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and took hold of His feet, and worshiped Him. (10) Then saith Jesus unto them, Fear not: go tell My brethren that they depart into Galilee, and there shall they see Me.
(11) “Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city, and told unto the chief priests all the things that were come to pass. (12) And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave much money unto the soldiers, (13) saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole Him away while we slept. (14) And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and rid you of care. (15) So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day.”
Golden Text.—“Now is Christ risen from the dead.” 1 Cor. 15:20.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What took place after the Sabbath on which Christ rested in the tomb? Verse 1. Note 1 . (2) What great phenomenon had occurred? What had caused it? What rendered it impossible for any one to again close the tomb? Verse 2. Note 2 . (3) What is said of the appearance of the angel? Verse 3. (4) What effect did this appearance have upon the guard? Verse 4. (5) What did the angel say to the woman? Verse 5. Note 3 . (6) Why could they not see Jesus? What did the angel invite them to see? Verse 6. Note 4 . (7) To whom did the angel tell the women to go? With what message? How did the angel emphasize his command? Verse 7. (8) With what spirit did they respond? Verse 8. (9) Whom did they meet on the way? How did He accost them? What action showed that they recognized Him? Verse 9. Note 5 . (10) What else did Jesus say to the women? Verse 10. Note 6 . (11) As the women went on their way, what were some of the guard doing? Verse 11. (12) Then what did the priests do? Verse 12. (13) For what was the money given to the soldiers? Verse 13. Note 7 . (14) What protection did the priests promise the soldiers? Verse 14. Note 8 . (15) What course did the soldiers pursue? Was the story spread to any extent? Verse 15. Note 9 .
NOTES.
LESSON XII.—THE MEASURING OF THE TEMPLE AND THE TWO WITNESSES.
(Study for Sabbath, June 18.)
QUESTIONS.
1. AFTER the bitter disappointment in 1844, what commission was given the church? Rev. 10:11.
2. From that time what solemn work has been going forward in heaven? Dan. 8:14; Rev. 14:6; 10:7.
3. To what place is the faith of Israel directed in this hour of God's judgment? Heb. 8:1, 2; Rev. 11:19, first part; 3:8.
4. What, then, must be a special aim of the Gospel message in this time?—To call attention to the work going forward in the temple of God and to the means of grace by which to meet the standard, or measure, of the judgment.
5. What view in John's vision shows that this was the very message assigned the church after 1844? Rev. 10:11 and 11:1, together.
7. What was to be left out in measuring? What would the nations do? What period of time is mentioned? Is it previously referred to in prophecy? Rev. 11:2. Note .
8. Was God to be left without witness in those days? Verse 3.
9. Who are these witnesses? Verse 4. Note .
10. What power have the witnesses to maintain their testimony? Verses 5, 6. Note .
11. What experience came to these witnesses as the long prophetic period drew to a close? Verse 7.
12. Where is this said to take place? Verse 8.
13. What was seen in fulfilment of this prophecy?—The infidel attack upon the Bible in the French Revolution. Note .
14. What was the attitude of other peoples? Verse 9.
15. Why did infidelity hate the Word of God and rejoice at silencing it? Verse 10. Compare 1 Kings 22:8.
16. Were the two witnesses permanently silenced? Verse 11. Note .
17. What followed this infidel effort to overthrow the two witnesses? Verses 11 (last part), 12, 13. Note .
18. What lesson is there for us in these historical efforts, first of papal and then of infidel powers, to suppress the Word of God? Matt. 24:33–35; Isa. 40:8–10; Rev. 12:11.
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617 MARKET ST. (PALACE HOTEL) SAN FRANCISCO
OR S. P. COMPANY'S AGENT
Sundown or Midnight, Which?
Does the Sabbath begin at sun down or at midnight? This question with many others is answered in the little work entitled, “Scripture References.”
