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June 21, 1911 ] THE
BIBLE ALPHABET.
(From an old I'rimer in use more than fifty
years ago.)
A is for Adam who was the first man;
He broke God's command and thus sin
began.?Gen. 3.
B is for Book which to guide is given;
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xnougn written oy man tne worcis came
from Heaven.?2 Peter 1:20-21.
C is for Christ who for sinners was slain;
By him Oh, how freely salvation we gain.
?John 3:16.
D is for Dove with an olive leaf green ;
Returning in peace to the ark she is seen.
?Gen. 8:11.
E is for Elijah whom by the brook side,
Daily with food the ravens supplied.?1
Kings 17:4.
P is for Felix who sent Paul away,
and designed to repent on some future day.
?Acts 24:25.
G is for Goliath?lo! stretched on the plain,
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M-*j tut puug ui puling t/nviu, ilie ^iam is
slain.?1 Sam. 17 :49.
H is for Hannah, how happy is she:
Her son, little Samuel, how holy was he.?
1 Sam. 1:20; 2:26.
I is for Isaac, like Jesus he lies,
Stretched out on the wood a meek sacrifice.
?Gen. 22:1-13.
J is for Joseph who trusted God's Word;
Was lifted from prison to Egypt's lord.?
Gen. 41:40-44.
K is for Korah; God's wrath he defied,
And lo! to devour him the pit opened wide.
?Num. 16:30-33.
L is for Lydia; God opened her heart.
What he had bestowed, it was her joy to
impart.?Acts 16:14-15.
M is for Mary, who fed on Christ's word?
And Martha her sister, beloved of the Lord.
?Luke 10:38-42.
N is for Noah; with God for his guide,
Safely he sails over the billowy tide.?
Gen. 7:7, 18.
O is for Obadiah who, the prophets to save,
Twice fifty concealed and fed in a cave..?
1 Kings 18:4.
P is for Peter who walked on the wave
But, sinking, he cried, "Lord, I perish; Oh
save!"?Matt. 14:24-30.
Q is for Queen, who from distant land came,
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fame.?1 Kings 10:1-10.
R is for Ruth; she goes forth mid the sheaves.
Gleaning the ears the husbandman leaves.
?Ruth 2:23.
S is for Stephen, Christ's martyr who cried
To God for his murderers and then died.?
Acts 7 :51-60.
T is for Timothy, taught in his youth
To love and to study the Scriptures of
truth.?2 Tim. 3:15.
U is Uzziah, in rashness and pride,
Profaning God's altar, a leper he died.?
2 Chron. 26:16, 21.
V is for Vine; a green branch may I be,
Bearing fruit to the glory of Jesus, the
Tree.?John 15:1.
W is for Widow, her two mites she gave,
And trusted in God to sustain her and save.
?Mark 12:41-44.
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a is me v;ross our near ?aviour nore;
Oh, think of His sorrows and grieve him
no more.?John 19 :17.
Y is the Youth Eutychus killed by a fall;
By a miracle wrought was recovered by
Paul.?Acts 20:9:12.
Z is for Zoar, where Lot wished to be.
It reminds me of Christ, a refuge for me.
?Gen. 19:22.
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
WILL WE PAY THE PRICE?
In the first place, we are not able to say positively
that the world can be evangelized in this
generation, nor can we estimate the exact cost
of such a conquest; but if we find that the goal
is in sight, and that we have the means needed
to reach it, are we willing to pay the price? That
is the question that men and churches are asking
all over the land, and with the affirmative
answer to that question will come the solution
of the missionary problem of the century. No
problem of church or State is of such vast or
vital importance as this. In the history of Christian
propaganda, this is the crisis of the ages.
It is a part of the faith of missionary experts,
those who have been in the work and on the
field with head and heart, and who are redlining
principles and policies to actual tests, that the
world can be evangelized in the next thirty
years, and the question of ability has changed
to that of disposition?will we do it? Moreover,
it is said that we have the men and the money
for this achievement, and that all God and the
boards need is the price of the conquest. "Will
we pay the priee??Religious Telescope.
Scripture Studies in Brief
BY REV. JAMES STACY, D. D.
THE SECOND COMING.
That Christ is to come again, and to come but
once, is the undivided opinion of the Christian
world. "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing
up into heaven, this same Jesus which is
taken up from you into heaven, shall so come
in like manner as ye have seen him go into
heaven." Acts 1:11. "1 will come again and
receive you unto myself, that where I am, there
ye may be also." John 14:3.
If Jesus is to come, as premillenialists tell
us, at what they call "the Rapture," and which
may occur at any moment, when he shall change
the living and raise the dead, and take them
up in the air, for seven years or 70, as Dr. Seiss
holds, that they may escape the great tribulation
to be then sent upon the earth.
If he is to come again, as they teach, at the
end of the seven or seventy years, at what they
call "The Revelation," with his saints, to sit in
judgment upon the nations, and to set up his
kingdom, now for the first time set up, and determine
who are the members of it, and who
are to reign with him a thousand years on
earth.
And if he is to come again at the last day
with his saints, to judge the wicked dead, as
they say, who are then to be raised up;
Then here are three distinct periods, and
three distinct purposes, for which he is to come
again. First, to come for his people; and, with
his people, and to reign with them on earth for
a thousand years, and third, to judge the wicked,
and yet he is to come but once! How reconcile
these things? The Scriptures cannot contradict
themselves. They cannot say one thing at
one time, and quite another thing at another
time. They cannot say that he will come but
once, and yet at the same time that he is to
come three times.
The only rule for the interpretation of Scripture
is to adont what, is f?lf?nr1v oconr+nd
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unmistakably true, and to make all other utteranees
agree thereto. As all are agreed in the
belief that he is to come once again, we Jay down
this broad postulate, that he is to come again
hut once. To this statement all others must be
made to agree.
Tf he is to come hut once again, then all those
Scriptures which exhort us to watch, as we
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know not at what hour he will come, must refer
to his individual coming for us at death, and not
his personal coming.
If he is to come but once again, then the
whole interpretation of his coming to reign
upon earth for a thousand years must be made
to receive a figurative, and not a literal meaning.
And if he is to come but once, at the last day,
it will not be for a partial judgment, to judge
the wicked dead simnlv. hut. fnr tho ioo+
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versal judgment, when he is to judge the whole
earth, and "render to every man according to
his deeds."
To relieve the sacred writers of this palpable
contradiction, Rutledge, Seiss and others would
make these three separate and distinct comings,
but different stages of the one coming. But we
are quite at a loss to see how this can be, when
the comings are, so distinct in purpose, so widely
separated in time, and are connected with a
return in each instance. The Saviour comes
first for his people, whom he raises from the
dead, and takes them back with him to the
skies. Then after seven, or seventy years, according
to the theory, he returns with his people
to set up his kingdom and reign with them
on earth for a thousand years. And then again
after some time in heaven during the unchaining
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returns with them to judge "The wicked dead."
And yet these three distinct comings, at three
distinct purposes at three different times, are
but three different stages of the one coming!
A man visits your city in his boyhood, for study,
in middle life, to buy a stock of goods, in old
age to be treated for disease; to say that these
three are but different stages of the same visit
would be nothing short of the perversion of all
language. How these three visits of the Saviour
at different times and for different purposes can
be hut different stages of the same visit we are
unable to comprehend!
As we gather from the sacred writers the following
is the order in which future events are
yet to occur.
Jesus will not come again till the last day;
for it is expressly asserted, "whom the heaven
must receive till the times of restitution of all
things." Acts 3:21. "But this man. after he
had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat
down at the right hand of God: from henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his
footstool." Heb. 10:12, 13.
Things will continue as at present till the conelusion
of the sixth and seventh vial, when the
last great earthquake or upheaval is to occur,
and which is to introduce the millennium, when
Sahin is to be chained for one thousand years.
After which he is to be loosed again, and deceive
the nations, and the world become wicked
again. "When the Son of man cometh will he
find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8. For as
in the days of Noah they were eating and drinking,
and knew not till the flood came and took
them away, "So also shall the coming of the Son
of man be." Matt 24:30 Satan shall then gather
his forces as the sands upon the sea, to make
his final assault Then the resurrection of the
dead, first of the saints, those who are alive at
the time, being first changed and together with
the others caught up to meet the Lord in the
air, and sit with him in judgment. Then the
universal chorus of thanksgiving and praise:
For every knee is to bow and every tongue con
fess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the
Father." Then the new heaven, and new earth.
Then the delivery of the kingdom to the Father.
Then the eternity of glory!
What supurbly grand and thrilling scenes,
Through which we are yet to pass!
Newnan, Qa.