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POOR BROTHER BROWN.
By Mrs. Ogden Lewis
YES, poor Brother Brown. His feelings were so often wounded by his brethren; they did not seem to have brotherly love for him, and his heart was grieved over the many remarks that were made reflecting on him.
One day after a certain brother had nearly "killed" him, he decided to walk out by himself to brood over his trials and pity himself—as no one else would—so thought he. As he came near the border of the woods, he noticed a party of boys stoning a mud turtle. He hastened to the spot, while the boys ran farther away, continuing the stoning. As he drew near, it put out its head, but as the stones came, it drew its head back within its hard shell. Said Brother Brown:
"That reminds me of the way my brethren stone me. You poor little turtle; there's no one to pity. How it must frighten you! How it must hurt your feelings!"
At that moment a ragged little waif rushed out from the corner of the rail fence, saying:
"Why, mister, he don't keep his feelings out where they can get hurt. He hides them in his shell."
"What are his feelings, my little lad? what do you know about a turtle's feelings?"
"Why, sure," said the boy, "his feelings is hisself, o' course."
"Ah, that strikes me forcibly!" said Brother Brown. His feelings are himself. My feelings are myself; and I must not keep them out where they can get hurt. Like the turtle, I must hide them." A deep sigh, and he whispered, "Lord, I give myself to Thee." A change came over his countenance as he said, "Where do you live, my boy?"
"O, anywhere and everywhere!"
"Where is your mother?"
"Dead," and the tears came thick and fast.
"Why, how do you get along in this world with no friends? Are people kind to you?"
"O I guess so! I don't stop to think much about that; mama told me when she was dying that I must learn to have no feelings and I would be happier and get along better. I sleep most anywhere nights, and the hotel-keeper lets me have leavings from the tables to eat, and that's good enough for me; so I get along somehow, and feel happy only when I think of mama. Papa died 'fore I was born, and she left me with relatives who turned me out o' doors, but I don't let it hurt my feelings, 'cause I 'member what she told me."
Brother Brown's heart was softened, and the dirty little hand was placed in the large, strong hand, as the two walked on together. When he could control his voice (for he had been weeping) he said:
"Little boy, you shall have father, mother, and home as long as I live, if you will walk home with me. I have a nice home and all heart could wish for, but have been a selfish man, and you and the turtle have taught me a lesson. Thank God."
The two went rejoicing, and Heaven alone knows which of the two was the happier. That night Brother Brown prayed:
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee."
And the next Sabbath the blessing of the Lord rested upon him as he told the story of the boy and the turtle and confessed his sin.
His brethren, one after another, arose and expressed their love for him, told how they had tried to help him, and how many times they united their petitions in his behalf. Self had misrepresented their motives and caused all his sorrow.
Now self was hid with Christ in God, and all the poor in the place knew it. How do you think they found it out?
THE NATION'S LIBRARY.
By N. Y. World
THE Library of Congress, which, according to the report of Librarian Herbert Putnam, now contains 1,344,618 books, not including more than a quarter of a million maps, charts, and art prints, ranks easily as the first collection in America.
Long counted among the first half-dozen libraries of the world, it has reached a rate of growth which, in point of numbers, promises soon to assure it third place.
In the Bibliothèque Nationale, in Paris, France possesses the greatest library in the world. Ten years ago the official figures were 2,600,000 books. Since 1666 it has been in the present building, where it narrowly escaped destruction during the French Revolution. Two of its librarians were sent to the guillotine.
Congressional Library.
The British Museum Library owes its foundation to the gift of two old private collections to the nation in 1700. It has three miles of book-cases and contains over 2,000,000 volumes. The Imperial Library at St. Petersburg and the Berlin Library in size are about on a par with the Library of Congress. But it is at the Vatican, the Bodleian at Oxford, and several of the smaller national and university libraries of Europe, that scholars find some of the richest stores of old manuscripts and rare works.
The provisions of the law which require that copies of all copyrighted books shall be filed in Washington, keep the Library of Congress supplied with new books. Of late years Congress has shown a more liberal tendency and granted appropriations for the purchase of rare manuscripts and works. But it is by donation that the national collection receives many of its most valuable additions. The sentiment is spreading that it is the proper depository for all papers and documents bearing on the country's history. Within the last year Librarian Putnam notes especially the purchase of the papers of President Franklin Pierce and the gift of eight hundred letters received by Martin Van Buren while Secretary of State, Vice-president and President. The private papers of nine Presidents of the United States now form part of the collection.
In its new building the Library of Congress should be safe against destruction for many centuries. Fire has cost the world many of its greatest collections. It ruined the ancient Alexandrian Library of the Ptolemies when the Christians sacked the temple of Serapis in the year 275. It cost the world thousands of ancient manuscripts that were stored in Constantinople when the Crusaders captured the city. Twice the Library of Congress has suffered by fire—first at the destruction of the Capitol by the British in 1814 and again in 1851. In its present housing it is protected by every possible safeguard, and directed in its development by the most expert of custodians. And with a sense of pride in which all Americans must share, the nation has given to its foremost sculptors and artists the opportunity to enrich its walls with their works.
It is a monument to American thought and learning which must grow in value and significance with each new year.—N. Y. World.
THE SPARE ROOM.
"Now, John."
Little Mrs. Beecher was guilty of button-holing her husband, just as he was all ready to go to his office.
"One moment, dear."
He didn't say, "Hurry, then!" He was too astonished, as she never hindered him, when once the coat was on and the hat in hand. "Bless her for it; she is a woman of sense!" he had always said to himself on his unimpeded way. Now here she was doing just like other women. What could it mean?
"You say you are willing I should arrange the house as I think best?"
"Perfectly."
"That's all; good-by. I won't stop you again."
"Good-by, dear."
The little woman stood a moment lost in thought, just where he had left her. Then she started with a laugh: "That's the last time I will ever listen to the tempter. The spare room shall be the back chamber."
Running upstairs, she just stopped to kiss Roly-Poly, the baby, and give him a toss, returning him to Adaline's care, who had him in charge, as it was Saturday. Then she hurried off.
For the next two hours there was no busier woman in all Briarfield than Mrs. Beecher. A neighbor looked in, and called her to the head of the stairs, where she leaned over, her pretty brown hair all tied up in a sweeping-cap.15"My! You ain't settled yet!" exclaimed the neighbor.
"All to rights except the spare room," called Mrs. Beecher over the railing.
"I always fix that first in my fall cleaning," observed the neighbor. "My!—supposing anybody should come and find you all sixes-and-sevens!"
"I should rather be caught by chance company than to have my family find me napping," laughed little Mrs. Beecher.
This was such a new idea that the neighbor had nothing to say only, "I'll drop in again when you ain't so driven," and Mrs. Beecher was free to hurry back to her "settling up" once more.
It wasn't very attractive, certainly, this little back room with its one window. And all the pretty furnishings in the world could not make it a fine place.
But Mrs. Beecher, bustling around, setting the bureau in one corner, putting a gay rug here, and a bright sofa pillow there, sang at her work, out of a satisfied heart.
When it was all done, and the supply of clean bed linen and towels put in the drawer ready to be arranged on the arrival of the chance company, the little woman gave a sigh.
"I hope John will like the change. I'm only sorry I kept Adaline in here so long."
But vain regrets not being in Mrs. Beecher's line, she hurried off to a large sunny room just around the hall.
Adaline was already there with the baby, wild to see her own things in the new room.
"I'm going to be perfectly happy, don't you know?" she said in a burst of confidence to Roly-Poly. "And I'm going to be awfully good, too."
"Um," said Roly-Poly. Mrs. Beecher paused by the open door.
"It's the most beautiful place," ran on Adaline; "see, Roly, the sun shines always here, and I never saw a bit in the other room—never the leastest bit," she added, emphatically.
The little mother's heart had a pang just then, and like a flash the pale cheeks that had greeted her at the breakfast table every morning came back to her now.
"Don't you ever tell, Roly," cried Adaline, in a stage whisper, "but I used to cry in there, and wish my papa could afford to buy a nice house, where the sun danced all around. Now promise; don't you ever tell; say, No, real loud."
"No," shouted the baby.
The tears came now into the eyes of the little woman hearing the unpleasant truths out there in the hall. But there was more to tell.
"I'm a big girl," Adaline was saying; "I'm company now, and I'm going to behave nice. I wonder why people don't always do so, and give the children who live at the house all the year round a good place. Don't you?"
"Ar—goo," said Roly-Poly.
"I wonder so, too," said Mrs. Beecher, softly, with all her heart, as she stole away.
"You're a wise woman," said John, when he came home to dinner, peering into the spare room. "I always wondered why you didn't take this room for the spare chamber, instead of giving up that splendid sunny one to people who only dropped in once in a dog's age."
"O John! why didn't you say so?" cried Mrs. Beecher. "There I've been worrying, afraid you wouldn't like to be different from other people, who always have one handsome room."
"I'd rather be hospitable to my own family first," said John, "and give them sunshine instead of doctor's stuffs. It's the best thing you've done in one spell, Martha. Come, there's the dinner bell."—Woman's Magazine.
PERHAPS to thee thy burden seems
A heavy load;
Perhaps no sunshine ever gleams
Upon thy road;
Perhaps—perhaps thou chosest, when
Thy choice was made,
The path that ever since has been
Within the shade.
O soul, let not thy light be dim;
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him."
Come, cast thy burden on the Lord—
He cares for thee;
Thy path He'll brighten thro' His word,
Till thou canst see.
A creature He hath made of you—
Let Him direct,
And thou wilt find thy pathway true
In each respect.
O soul, to Him all praises be,
For Christ, the Lord, hath died for thee.
When social life or business care
Thy mind would fill,
Just take it to the Lord in prayer,
And ask His will.
Then, tho the world may laugh and say,
"Thy sight is dim,"
Take courage, and from day to day
Acknowledge Him.
O soul, let angels now record,
"I'm not ashamed to own my Lord."
—Selected.
LITERARY NOTICES.
By Editor
"A Dictionary of American Authors." By Oscar Fay Adams. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston and New York.
This is an excellent, convenient little work, concise, independent, and as inclusive as a work of its size can well be made. Over seven thousand names are given of American writers. The author exercises his independence of judgment in drawing a distinction between the poets and the verse-writers, tho some of the admirers of the versatile verse-writers will hardly agree with him. Some of the lovers of Will Carleton will surely count their favorite author equal to the Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, and we shall sympathize with them, tho we should count neither a poet if measured by their popular dialect pieces. But this is apart from the object of the work. It tells who the people are. We hope the next edition will be alphabetically consecutive. Every succeeding edition secures greater accuracy. It is a convenient little work.
"International French-English and English-French Dictionary." Bound in cloth with leather back and corners; 602 large octavo pages. Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 31-35 West 15th Street, New York City.
This splendid work is one of a series of "International Dictionaries" which this firm, that has already done so much in the way of education, has set itself to publish, in somewhat uniform style. German, Latin, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Russian, and others will follow, treated in the same manner, all bi-lingual.
This volume is for the English-speaking people, and is designed to be thoroughly standard. It has for its editorial critic on pronunciation in French, Paul Passy, professor of phonetics in the University of Paris, secretary of the International Phonetic Association, editor of Maître Phonétique, author of "Changements Phonétiques," "Sons du Français," etc.; and for its critic of English pronunciation George Hempl, professor of English philology and general linguistics in the University of Michigan, president of the American Dialect Society, and recently president of the American Philological Association, and president of the Modern Language Association of America. The very latest dictionaries have been consulted. Both brevity and clearness have been sought, the page is large, the type clear and legible. Irregular parts of every irregular verb are given. The definitions are not long explanations, but largely equivalents. When difference in idiom demands fuller illustration, phrases are sometimes given. A list of French proper nouns is given with pronunciation and English equivalent. The pronunciation is indicated by a full respelling in the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association. When understood and properly used, it is the best means yet devised for indicating in one system, simply and accurately, the pronunciation of words in various languages. A key is given for the application of the phonetic alphabet to both English and French, and it does not take long to become acquainted with it. Yet we fear it will trouble many. This series should prove the help in this country that Cassell's series is in Great Britain.
"The United States in the Twentieth Century." By Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu, authorized translation by H. Addington Bruce. 8vo, cloth, 400 large, neatly-printed pages, price, net, $2.00. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London.
This work is considered one of the most striking books on the United States since Bryce wrote his "American Commonwealth." While the author is a foreigner, he shows a remarkable understanding of the country and a good grasp of its resources, social, political, and economic. The book is in four parts: "The Country and the People," "Rural America," "Industrial America," "Commercial America." All these phases the author discusses intelligently and lucidly. While he points out great problems to be solved, he finds no cause of discouragement. His last sentence on "Commercial America" reads thus: "The day—doubtless still far distant—when it does regain it [that is, America regain old-time maritime power] will mark the extension of its economic influence over a very large portion of the world, if not over the entire world." The author does not touch social or moral conditions. America ought to be glad.
"Frenzied Finance. The Crime of Amalgamated." By Thomas W. Lawson of Boston. 560 pages. The Ridgeway-Thayer Company, New York.
This tremendously-vigorous book is volume 1 on "Frenzied Finance." It deals with the "Crime of Amalgamated." Many thousands have read the book in the articles in Everybody's Magazine, for this volume is a reprint of those articles. We have followed them carefully, unbiasedly, in Everybody's, and we are glad to get them in this form. They were doubted at first, now we opine they are generally believed. Mr. Lawson writes with tremendous force. His style is always interesting, at times decidedly brilliant, coruscating with striking similes and flashing metaphors. He has opened a great and ugly sore in American commercialism which extends its poisoned suckers, its devil-fish tentacles, into every phase of national life, political, social, commercial, religious. Knowing it or not, Mr. Lawson is recording some of the phases of latter-day corruption foretold by holy prophets. He will propose a remedy which he thinks will be effectual to arouse the American people and enable them to throw off the vampire-incubus of the system. But will they? He will be disappointed. The malady is too deep and wide-spread. The world has many prophets to warn, many to point out the evils, and Mr. Lawson has been a bold, uncompromising one; but there is one Saviour—God-sent—and Him the world will not have. But the warnings will rouse many. For that we are glad.
"Addresses for Young People." By Charles C. Lewis, President of Union College, College View, near Lincoln, Neb. Cloth; 280 pages; price, $1.00; Union College Press, College View, Neb.
The author has been for many years a teacher of youth, spending his summer months in attending meetings, conventions, etc. He has thus given many addresses. This book contains those considered most helpful in leading the young to a better, higher, nobler experience in the path of life. Among the subjects treated are "Christian Manliness," "Manual Training in the Public Schools," "Ideals and Ambitions," "The Sure Foundation," "Workmen Approved of God," "Acquaintance with God," "Habit and Education," "Behold He Cometh" (blank verse), "The Keeping of the Heart." The reading of these addresses, we are sure, would help young people on their way. We can but wonder, tho, at the advice the lecturer gives on page 61. If one thousand poor souls should start out to investigate and compare and test the Bible by the works there named, nine hundred and ninety-nine would get hopelessly lost in as many quicksands and quagmires before they came to clear light. John 7:17 is the one best test of Christ and His mission. Of course the Old Book would stand the test if man were competent to make it. But it meets man's needs, and the same book translated in part in many of these addresses, and we doubt not, all (we have not found time to read), will be helpful to the young.
"Glad Tidings, No. 1. How to Obtain Health and Happiness." By John J. Snyder. Cloth, gold side stamp, 104 large pages, 6¼ x 9¼. Price, post-paid, 50 cents. Address Goodman & Co., Publishers, Ravensword Station, Chicago, Ill.
The author has written this book for the sole purpose of bringing souls to see the privileges which they have in Christ Jesus. If when the author says all healing is from God, he by that means all true healing, which leaves not one ill to remove another, we agree with him, but if he means all the apparent and real physical healing on the part of many who know not the first principles of Christ's Gospel, we do not believe such healing is of God. Satan can afflict, and for aught we know, remove the affliction to better secure the soul. "Glad Tidings" bases pardon and healing on obedience and faith, on the obedience of faith. May God bless the little book to the good of all its readers.
Reading Through the Bible
By John Quincy Adams
I HAVE for many years made it a practise to read through the Bible once a year. My custom is to read four or five chapters every morning after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to be the most suitable manner of beginning the day. In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.—John Quincy Adams.
ADULTERATED.
WITH sawdust food they sapped his power;
They fed him chalk instead of flour
From bright glue-jelly dieting
He got coal-product flavoring.
Straight from the can he used to eat
Prepared and ptomaine-seasoned meat;
And when he thirsted he would sop
His throat with nitric acid pop
Tastefully dyed with aniline
And labeled "Good as Genuine."
When in despair, he turned at length
To liquor to revive his strength,
'Twas fiery logwood claret first
He swallowed to decrease his thirst,
Then multiplied his visions queer
By bitter salicylic beer,
Adding to this a long highball
Of prune-juice and wood alcohol—
The jug he carried down the line
Was labelled "Good as Genuine."
No wonder that his lips were blue,
His eyes were of a codfish hue;
That thoughts were poison or inane
Within his imitation brain;
That both his morals and his talk
Were undetermined as his walk;
That in the guise of truth he spent
False logic and false sentiment—
Nourished on sham, the man within
Was NOT as "Good as Genuine."
—Selected.
Life and Its Channels.
By Editor
In an article in another column entitled "Our Source of Energy, or Life," which is worthy of thoughtful reading, is this sentence, "But all power comes from the same source;" and this is true, but it does not come through the same channel. The life question in our minds will never be understood or truly grasped until we recognize that man is under a twofold law, physical and spiritual. We see evidence of this life around us on every side. Life through one current makes a vegetable, through another an animal. He who has no faith in God whatsoever, who lives in harmony with the laws of his physical being, has a plenitude of health, speaking after the manner of this fallen world. He appropriates the energy which God has placed in food, in water, in air. He is strong physically, but he has no spiritual life, he has "no hope," and "is without God in the world," "alienated from the life of God," as expressed by the apostle.
In the words of our Saviour, he has not come to Him that he may have life. Over and over it is stated in the Gospel of John that those who do not have faith in Christ are cut off from the life which the spiritual man has. They live the life of the flesh, and are dominated by its influence.
On the other hand we see a poor sick soul with no physical power and energy, and no strength of body to appropriate the life stored in the food, and yet he is filled with spiritual life. Faith has opened the soul to God; and as the trolley arm connects with the live wire overhead and makes the living car, so faith has opened the channel of communication between the soul and God, and the spiritual life through His Word and the ministration of angelic beings, and His great omnipresent Spirit flows in and restores the soul. But what God wants is that there shall be so much of this life that it will be all-controlling, dominating not only the soul, but also the flesh, purifying the very life of the flesh, so that the child of God shall receive all his life, both through spiritual channels and physical, as from the Father. And this we understand the article to teach.
THE TWO-HORNED BEAST; WHAT IT SYMBOLIZES.
By Editor
IN Rev. 13:11-18 is a symbol of some power to arise after the ten-horned beast of the same chapter, representing papal Europe, went into captivity. It has been declared that the two-horned beast symbolizes the United States. That has been assumed in both of these articles rather than proved, on account of the lack of space. We wish to present to our readers two specifications in that prophecy which very clearly identify it with this nation.
Apart from the fact that it was "another beast," occupying different territory, and coming up at a different time than the Old World powers, represented by the ten-horned beast in the same chapter, it had two horns like a lamb. Horns are a symbol of power and glory; a lamb is a symbol of Christ. Rev. 5:6. Therefore those characteristics in the government represented by that beast must be the characteristics of the Christian religion. More than this, they must be peculiar characteristics of the Christian religion in contradistinction to all other religions, and peculiar to the nation represented in contradistinction to all other nations, else they would not identify. The characteristics of the Christian religion which give it prominence and influence, apart from its supernatural power, were the same characteristics, apart from its wealth and resources, which gave to this government its power and prestige.
The first of these is the equality of man: "there is no respect of persons with God." Rom. 2:11. "God that made the world and all things therein . . . hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." Acts 17:24-26. "One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren."
2. Liberty of conscience, or freedom of religious worship, or not to worship. Christ's Gospel compels no one; it is not Thou shalt not Thou shalt not; its language is Whosoever will. "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as tho God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." "Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." 2 Cor. 5:20, 11. Jesus says, "If any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world . . . . The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:47, 48. No religion of all the past or present contained such principles as these, the equality of man, absolute religious liberty in worship.
But these very principles are embodied in the Federal Government of the United States. Equality of men in the Declaration of Independence,—"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And this liberty was secured by the Constitution, which declares: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
In no religion of earth save Christianity have these principles obtained; and in no government of the earth have these principles been established by law, save in the Federal Government of the United States of America. These absolutely identify the symbol with this nation, and in the near future it will be seen that the speaking of the dragon voice will just as clearly add to this identification. The dragon was to persecute; to speak is the uttering of a persecuting law; and at the present rate of progress church-and-stateward the time draweth near.
CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.
By Editor
Poetry.
The Ascending Son of God, L. D. SANTEE . . . . . . . . . . 11
Wondering . . . . . . . . . . 12
Those Home Burdens . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adulterated . . . . . . . . . . 15
Editorial.—The Anointing of the Promised One—Unreliable Testimony—A New Menace to Children—God's Means of Restoring Order . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Outlook.—Our London Letter, M. E. OLSEN—Should Not Be Surprising—Out for State-Enforced Religion—The Great Meteoric Shower of 1833; Its Extent . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7
General.
Fundamental Principles, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Will of God, W. A. SWEANY . . . . . . . . . . 8
Our Source of Energy, or Life, D. H. KRESS, M. D. . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Federation of Churches, ALONZO T. JONES . . . . . . . . . . 9
The First-Great Lie, H. A. ST. JOHN . . . . . . . . . . 11
Spiritualism (Bible-Reading) . . . . . . . . . . 11
Next week will close the series of articles on the "Federation of Churches." Its topic is "The False Prophet."
FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.
By Editor
A TELEGRAM from Brother K. C. Russell, chairman of the Religious Liberty Bureau of the General Conference, requests us to announce that on the 24th inst. a general collection will be taken throughout the United States in behalf of the religious liberty work. As this work should be pushed with increased and increasing vigor, to meet the aggressive movements toward church and state union in this Republic, there ought to be a liberal response to this call. Perhaps no better means could be adopted for a general awakening along this line, as "where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Let our religious liberty work be not merely a matter of self-protection, but of earnest, faithful warning to the unsuspecting masses, who know not the meaning of fast-fulfilling prophecy.
Words of Jesus
By Editor
"Words of Jesus."—From the Hallett Publishing Company, Los Angeles, Cal., comes a little booklet, neatly bound, and printed with flexible cloth covers, entitled "The Words of Jesus as Recorded in the New Testament," chronologically arranged, with dates and places inserted. Now we do not know what particular value this is. We have read in the New Testament, the words of Christ in their proper setting and logical connection, and I do not know why we should regard these words left us by the evangelists as more important than the words which they themselves have left us, words inspired by the Spirit of Christ, "Which things we teach," said an apostle, "not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."
The same spirit which would discriminate in the words of the Book would discriminate between the commands of the Book and the promises of the Book, would discriminate between the miracle of the impotent man at the Pool of Bethesda and the impotent man at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; between the raising of Jairus's daughter and the raising of Tabitha; and that, forsooth, because one was wrought by the Spirit of God through Jesus of Nazareth, and the other by the same Spirit through the apostle or the chosen servant of Jesus Christ. It was Christ who said, "If I by the Spirit of God cast out demons;" it was the Spirit of God upon Him that fitted Him for His work, and it was He who said of His Spirit-filled disciples: "And greater works than these shall ye do because I go to My Father." Now we do not want the reader to misunderstand this. We believe in the Deity and the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, but we believe just as truly that the Scriptures are "God-breathed," and are profitable. The very example of our Lord Himself shows that He made no discrimination. Why should we? It was "the Spirit of Christ which was in them [the prophets, that]" "testified."
