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TWO (Continued from Yesterday.) Among the late klng'a papers they found an envelope addressed to Hath lyn. It was In grandiloquent English. Brevity of speech Is unknown to the EaKt Indian. Kathlyn read It with frowning eyes. She gave It to her father to road: and It hurt her to note the way his eyes took fire at the con tents of that letter. The filigree basket nf gold and goma; the trinkets for ’Which he had risked his own life, iKatblyn’s, then Winnie’s. In turn Braoe and R&mabal perused the let ter; and to Ramabal came the Inspira tion They would seek this treasure, but only he, Ramabal, and Pundlta would fwtum. Here lay their way to freedom without calling upon Rails Khan for aid, The matter, howevor, had to bo submitted to the priests, and those wily men In yellow robes agreed. They could very well promise lhirga Ram his freedom again; pursue those treas ure seekers and destroy them, that { Wonld be Durga Ram’s ransom. The return to the palace was Joy ous this time; but in her heart of hearts Kathlyn waa skeptical. Till she trod the deck of a ship homeward hound she would always be doubting. Bruoe did not have to seek Data fChan. The night of Kathlyn’s defi ance Ahmed had acquainted them with bis errand. He wan now on bis way to Bala Khan. They need trouble themselves no longer regarding the fu ture. "All goes well." said Ramabal, "for, to reach this hiding place, we must pass the city of Rala Khan. I know where this cape la. It Is not large. It Juts out Into the sea. the Poraian gulf, perhaps half a dosen miles. At high tide It becomes an Island. None liven about exoept the simple fisher man. Still, the Journey Is hazardous. The truth Is, ft Is a spot where there Is much gun running; In fact, where we found our guns and ammunition. I understand that there are great se oret stores of explosives hidden there." "Any seaport nearT" asked the oolo nel. "Perhaps swvsmty miles north Is the very town we stopped st a few weeks UO" The colonel seised Knthlvn In his arms. She played at gaiety for his sake, but her heart was heavy with foreboding. “And the filigree basket shall be di vided between you and Pundlta, Kit." “Give It nil to her, father. I have tootun to hate what men call precious stones "It shall be as yon say ; but we may all take a handful as a keepsake ” Two days later the expedition was ready to start. Thay Intended to ptok up Ahmed on the way. There was nothins bat the bungalow itself at the MSP TJmbnTla was thereupon secretly to jnen from the treadmill. He wrs given a darnel and told what to do. He duns. * curse st the mlnafets and towers And domes looming mistily In the ( moonlight Hansom? He would de stroy them; aye, and take the treasure himself, since he knew where It now lay, this Information having bsen oh- j . talnad for trim He would seek the l,world, choosing his hsbltatlon where ns would. Dsy after day be followed, tireless, Indomitable, as steadfast upon the trail as a Jackal after a wounded ante ‘ lope. never coming within range, skulk | tng about the oamp at night, dropping I behind In the morning, not above pick Ing up bits' of food 14ft by the irons I Bro seekers Money and revenge; | these would have kept him to the chase had he been dying! As for Hals Khan, he was at once gtad and sorry to see his friends Nothing would have pleased him more ■than to fall upon AUaha like the tbun ■derbolt he whs. Rut he made Kamnbal ■procnlss that If ever he had need of ■llm. to send And Ranmhal promised. Sloping that he could adjust nnd regu late his affairs without foreign assist ance. They went on. this time with lAhmed Toward the end of the Journey they Would be compelled to cross a chaam on a rope and Tine bridge Umballa. knowing this, circled and reached this bridge before they did. He set about weakening the supports, so that the weight of passengers could osuse the structure to break and fall Into the torrent below. He could not other wise reach the spot where the treasure lay waiting The elephants would ba forced to ford the rapids below tbe bridge. (Kathlyn, who had by this time re. gained much of ber old confidence aud buoyancy, declared that she must be first to cross tbe bridge. Sbe gained the middle, when she felt s sickening aag. She turned and ahouted to the others to go back. She made a dee perate effort to reach the far end; but tbe bridge gave way. and she was I burled Into the swirling rapids She I was stunned for a moment; but the In r etlnct to live was strong. As sbe swung to snd fro, whlHed here, flung there, sbe managed to catch hold of a rook which projected above the flying The Adventures of Kathlyn By HAROLD MAC GRATH Illustrated by Pictures from tbe Moving Picture Production of the Sellg Polyscope Cm 'X mnhout, seeing her danger, urged his elephant toward her and reached her Juat as she was about to let go. CHAPTER XXIV. In Bearch of Treasure. "Those ropes were cut,” declared Ahmed. "Rut who In the world could have cut them?” demanded the colonel. Ahmed shrugged. "We may have been followed by thieves. They could have gotten here before us, as we were forced to use the elephant trails. Let us keep our eyes about us, sahib. When one speaks of gold, the wind carries the word far. And then . . He paused, scowling. "And then what?” “I do not want the memsahlb to hear,” Ahmed whispered. "But who shall say that this Is not the work of the gurus, who never forget, who never forgive, sahib?” “Rut. they would not follow!" “Nay, but their servant would, on the fear of death. I will watch at night hereaftor.” Ahmed searched thoroughly about the ledge from which the east side of the bridge had swung, but the barren rocks told him nothing. Armed with his rifle, he plunged boldly back along the elephant trail, but returned with out success. Whoever was following them was an adept, as secret as a Thuggee. All this worried Ahmed not a little. He readily understood that the murderous attempt had not been directed against Kathlyn alone, but against all of them. Hut for her eager noss and subsequent warning some of them would have been dead at this mo ment. "Sahib, It would be better to make ramp on the other side of tho ford. The memsahlb Is weak from the shock and might collapse if we proceeded.” "I leave everything to you, Ahmed. Rut Is there not some placo farther below where the water does not run so fastT” "llamabni will know." But Hamabal knew only the bridge. They would have to Investigate and explore the bank. Half an hour's Jour ney—rather a difficult one—brought them to still and shallow water. Here they crossed and made camp beyond, In a natural clearing. They erected the small tent for Kathlyn, Inside of which she changed her clothes, drank her tea and lay down to sloep. "What does Ahmed think?" asked Bruce anxiously. "That wo are being followed by some assassins hired by our friends the priests." "Colonel, let us make straight for the port snd let this damnable bushel of trinkets stay where It la,” urged Bruce, the lover. "That Is not possible now," replied Hamabal "Wo can now reach there only by tho sencoast Itself, or return to tho desort nnd Journey over the old trail. We must go on." The colonel smoked his pipe mood ily. He wss pulled between necessity and desire. He had come (o Asia for this filigree basket, and he wanted It, with a passion which was almost miserly. At one moment he silently vowed to oust the whole thing Into the sea. and st the next hls Angers would twitch snd he would sigh. Sometimes It seemed to him shat there was some Invisible force work ing In him, drawing and drawing him against tbe dictates of hls heart He had experienced this feeling back In California, and had fought against It for weeks, without avail And frequent ly now, when alone nnd undisturbed, he oould see the old guru, shaking with tha venom of hls wrath, the blood dripping from hls laceratad fingers, which he shook In tha colonal'a face, flecking It with blood. A curse. It was so. He must obey that Invisible will; he must go on and on. Hls pipe slipped from hls fingers and bis head fell upon hls knees; and thus Kathlyn found him. "Let him sleep, memsshfb," warned Ahmed from across the Are. "He has been lighting ths old guru “ "What?" Kathlyn whispered back. "Where?" Ahmed smiled grimly and pointed to ward hls forehead. 'is there really such evil. Ahmed?” "Evil begets evil, heaven born, Juet as good begets good The Colonel So hlb did wrong. And who shall deny some of these gurus a supernatural power? I have aeen; I know." "Rut once you said that we should sventually escape, all of us." "And 1 still say It, memaahlb. What Is written Is written.” phlegmatically. Wearily ehe turned toward her tent, hut paused to touch the head of her (•sleeping father ae she passed. Her ( occidental mind would not and could j not accept as possibilities thess mys j terlous attributes of tbe oriental mind. , That a will could reach out and pro arrange a man's mMortunes wss to her mind lncredlbls, for there were no precedents She never had witnessed s genuine esse of hypnotism, those ex amples she had seen were miserable buffooneries, travesties, hoodwinking not even the newsboys In the upper gallery. True, she had read of sutji (Cwyyrigtt by Harold lUcOmb) thlngß, but from the name angle with which she had read the Arabian Nights —fairy stories. Yet, here was her father, thoroughly convinced of the efficacy of the guru's curse; and here was Ahmed, compla cently watching the effects, and not doubting In the least that his guru would In the end prove the stronger of the two. One of the elephants clanked his chains restlessly. He may have heard the prowling of a cat. Far beyond the fire, beyond the sentinel, she thought she saw a naked form flash out and back of a tree. She stared Intently at the tree for a time; but as she saw nothing more, she was convinced that her eyes had deceived her. Besides, her body seemed dead and her mind too heavy for thought. llmballa, having satisfied himself that the camp would not break till morning, slunk away Into the shadows. He had failed again; but his bate had made him strotig. He was naked ex cept for a loin clout. His board and hair were matted, the latter hanging over his eyes. His body was smeared with ashes. Not even Ahmed would have recognized him a yard off. He had something less than nine hourß to reach the capo before they did; and it was necessary that he should have ac complices. The fishermen he knew to be of predatory habits, and the prom ise of gold would enmesh them. The half Island which constituted the cape had the shape of a miniature volcano. There was verdure at the base of Its slope and trees lifted their heads here and there hardily. It was a mile long and a half mile wide; and In tho oarly morning It Btood out like a huge sapphire against the rosy sky. Rotween the land and the promontory there lay a stretch of glistening sand; there was half a mile of It. Over this a flock of gulls were busy, as scaven gers always are. At high tide, yonder was an Island In truth. Sometimes a British gunboat would drop down here suddenly; but It al ways wasted Its time. The fishermen knew nothing; nothing in the way of guns and powder ever was found; and yet the British raj knew that some where about lay tho things for which It so diligently and vigorously sought. On the beach fishermen were disem barking. A sloop with a lateen sail lay at anchor In the rude harbor. Some of the fishermen were repairing nets, and some wore tinkering about their fishing boats. Beyond the beach nestled a few huts. Toward these other fishermen were making prog ress. The chief of the village—the head man —disembarked from this Bloop. He was met by his wife and child, and the little one clambered about hls legs in ecstasy. Among the huts stood one more Imposing than the others, and toward this the chief and hls family wended their way. In front of the hut stood an empty bullock cart. Attached to one of the wheels was a frisking kid. The little child paused to play with her pet. Absorbed In her pastime, sbe did not observe the approach of a gaunt be ing with matted hair and beard and ash besmeared body. Children are gifted with an Instinct which leaves us os we grow older; the sensing of evil without seeing or understanding It. The child suddenly gazed up. to meet a pair of eyes btnek and fierce as a kite’s. She rose screaming and fled toward the house. The holy roan shrugged and waited. When the parents rushed out to learn what had frightened their little one they were solemnly confronted by Umballa ••I am hungry." The chief salaamed and ordered hls wife to bring tbe holy man rice and milk. "Thou art an honest man,” said Um balla. "It Is said," replied the chief grav«- l r "Thou art poor." "That Is with the gods I serve." "But thou art not without ambi tion " "Who Is?" The chiefs wonder grew. What meant theee peculiar eenteneaa? “Wouldat put thy hand Into gold as far as the wrist and take what thou couldst hold?" "Yes, holy one; for I am human. Whither lead theee questions? What Is It you would of mes" 'There are eoma who need to be far away to see things. Well, good man, there Is a treasure under your test." falling Into ths vernacular. The chief could not resist looking down at the ground, startled. "Nay," smiled Umballa, “not there. Think; did not something unusual happen here five years ago?” The chief smoothed the tip of hls nose "My father died and 1 became headman of the village.'* "Would you call that unusual?" Ironically “No. Ha!" suddenly. "Five years ago; yea, yea, I remember now. Sol diers, who made us lock ourselves In our huts, not to stir forth on the pain of death till ordered. My father alone was permitted outside. He was com pelled to row out to the Island. There *ros blindfolded _Quly two men ac THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA oompanied him. They some thing that was very heavy. My father pever knew what the strange, shining basket held. Then the soldiers went away and we came out No one was allowed on the Island till my father died." “Did he tell you what It was he helped bury yonder?" "No, holy one. He was an honorable man. Whatever the secret was, it passed with him. We were not curi ous." "It was the private treasure of the king of Allaha, and the man was the king himself.” The fisherman salaamed. "And I am sent, because I am holy, to recover this treasure, which was willed to the temple of Juggernaut” “But, holy one, I know not where It Is hidden!” “I do. What I want is the use of your sloop and men I can trust. To you, as much gold as your hands can hold.” “I will furnish you with men at hon est as myself.” "That will be sufficient; and you shall have your gold.” The word of a holy man Is never subjected to scrutiny In India. Umballa was In good humor. Here he was, several hours ahead of his enemies. He would have the filigree basket dug up and transferred to the sloop before the Colonel Sahib could reach the village. And Umballa would have succeeded but for the fact that the wind fell unaccountably and they lost more than an hour In handling the aloop with oars. When the sloop left the primitive landing the chief returned to bis hut and told hts wife what had taken place, like the good husband he was. They would be rich. Suddenly the child set up a walling. Through the window she had seen a bold leopard trot over to the bullock cart and carry away the kid. The chief at once summoned his remaining men, and they proceeded to set a trap for the prowler. The cat had already killed one bullock and Injured another. They know that the boast would not return for some hours, having gorged Itself upon the kid. But It was well to be prepared. Toward noon the other treasure seekers drew up within a quarter of a mile behind the village. The men folk thought It advisable to reconnol ter before entering the village. One never couM tell. Winnie declared her Intention of snoozing while they wait- Kathlyn, Bruce and the Colonel Plan. ed, and curled up In her rugs. Kath lyn, however, could not resist the longing to look upon the sea again. She could see the lovely blue water through the spaces between the trees. Soon she would be flying over that wfe tor, flying for home, home! She went farther from the camp than she really Intended, and came un expectedly upon the leopard, which stood guarding Its cubs while they growled and tore at the dead kid. Kathlyn realized that she was un armed, and that the leopard was be tween her and the camp. She could see the roofs of the village below her; so toward the huts she ran. Tbe leop ard stood still for a while, eyeing her doubtfully, then made up its mind to give chase. She had tasted blood, but had not eaten. Meantime the little child had forgot ten her loss In her Interest in the bul lock cart with Its grotesque lure; and aha climbed into tho cart just as Kath lyn appeared, followed by the excited toopard. She saw the child and anatched her Instinctively from the cart. The leopard leaped Into the cart at the rear, while Kathlyn ran toward the chiefs hut. Into which she stag gered without the formality of an nouncing her advent The father of the child had no need to question, though he marveled at the white skin snd dress of this visitor, who had doubtless saved hls child from death. He flung the door shut and dropped the bar. Next be sought hls gun and fired through a crack In the door. He missed, but the noise and smoke frightened the leopard away. And lateif Bruce, wild with anxiety over tbe disappearance of Kathlyn. came aoross the chief battling for hls life. He had gone forth to hunt the leopard, and the leopard had hunted him. Bruce dared not fire, for fear of killing the man; so without hesl tanoe or fear ha caught the leopard by the back of the neck and by a hind leg and swung her Into the sea. The chief was severely mauled, but he was able to get to hls feet and walk. The white woman had saved hie child and tbe white man had saved him. He would remember. Thus the leopard quite Innocently served a purpose, for all her doadly In tentions; the chief was filled with gratitude. When the colonel and the others came Into view the former seized Kath lyn by the shoulders and shook w hysterically. (To B« C i-ittnued Tomorrow.) ■ ■ m i In the Past til isisap prteien HOW CHRIST WILL APPEAR. Messiah Comes to Bless—First His Faithful Church, Secondly All People. Scriptures Previously Misunderstood. The Man of Sorrows No Longer—He Comes the King of Glory—A Quick ened Spirit—Secretly, as a Thief In the Night—Later Revealed to All. Utica, N. Y.. Aug. 10. Pastor Russell was pres ent at the opening of the Photo-Dra ma of Creation here today. The object of the Dra ma Is declared to be the re-establish ment of faith in the Bible. Mani festly, it Is splen didly adapted to this end. None can [PASTOR gjUSSQIj witness it without experiencing a deep er reverence for God and a stronger desire for righteousness. It tells the simple Bible story from first to last, and It Illustrates it all with most beau tiful pictures. Excepting the first part, nearly all the films are richly hand-colored, and in this respect supe rior to anything ordinarily shown. in the morning address, the Tastor spoke on “The Second Coming of Christ,” from tho text. “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall V« also appear with Him In glory.”— Colossians 3:4. Sympathy was expressed for the long-held view that Jesus, at His Sec ond Coming, would be a man In the flesh to reign as an earthly monarch: nevertheless, the speaker styled this view absurd. Christ had accomplish ed the work for which He was made flesh. He was glorified and ascended up to Heaven—"where He was before” —on the spirit plane. The One who is to come ngain Is the Lord of Glory, and not tho man of sorrows, and He Is to come In power and great glory. The Pastor explained that Jesus at His Second Coining in glory would not be visible to human eyes—even us an gels of glory are Invisible to men. Nor would it be advantageous to the world that their physical eyes should be open ed as were those of Saul of Tarsus The effect might be the same. Th< promise of the Bible, that “all the blind eyes shall be opened.” and that “Every eye shall see Him” relates not to the natural eye. but to the eyes ol understanding, so long darkened, con fused, bewildered, by error. The True Light will shine; the True Knowledge of the Lord will fill the earth and all will receive a blessing thereby. Christ’s Parousia and Epiphania. Careful Bible study reveals the fact that different Greek words are used In respect to Christ’s Second Coming One word, parousia, signifies proseuci —not coming in our ordinary use ol the word. Over and over again the Scriptures tell of the Presence of the Son of Man In the end of this Age and relate that during Hls Parousia the world will be unaware of It. and attending to the ordinary affairs of life. Tbe only ones who will know will be the most saintly p«>ple of God And these win know, not by some out ward sign, but by tbe Light of tbe Lamp of God’s Word. “Ye, brethren, are not In darkness, that that day should overtake you ns a thief”—though It shall come ns a thief and ns a snare on all the world.—l Tbessalouians 5:4. An Increasing number of Bible Stu dents all over the world are convinced from the Scriptural testimony, backed by the outward evidences, that tbe Parousia of our Lord began In October. 1874. Tbe great enlightenment that has come to tbe world as well as t<i Bible Students during tbe period sine* Is accredited to tbe fact that we havn been living In the dawning time of tht New Dispensation. But the Scriptures with equal clear ness point out that the Presence of Jesus is to be made manifest to world. He Is to "appear,” to be "re vented.” Hls Presence Is to be made known to tbe whole world so that ev cry eye may see Him; that Is, that the eyes of understanding of tbe whole human family may be opened to u realisation of the great tmtb that Messiah's Kingdom has come into power, and Is thenceforth to rule tbe world, to overthrow sin, to uplift righteousness, to.bless all the willing and obedient and to destroy In the Second Death all wilful sinners. According to the Bible, It be a terrible, rude shock that will startle the world and open the eyes and earv of their understanding and prepare them for the Highway of Holiness .The revealing, or manifesting, to the world of Messiah's Presence ns the New Ruler of earth, will come with a great Time of Trouble, which the Prophet declares will be severer than anything ever before known—"A time of trouble, such as never was sines there was a nation" (Daniel 12:1). It will be a time of Judgments, of pun ishments, upon Rations, individuals and ecclesiastical systems, as well as upon inequitable financial Institutions Tho symbolic picture Is that tbe READ HERALD WANT ADS whole tatiiac or society, ecclesiastical, political, financial, will be “on fire.” St. Peter declares symbolically that “the elements will melt with fervent heat’’— the social elements. Concerning that awful trouble, tbe Bible declares, “He shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking vengeance.” All will know, all will see, all the world will mourn and be In terror, the more so because of the false doctrines which have represented that beyond the present life is an eternity of torture for ail. except the saintly elect few. Such wrong of the future make doubly severe the trials and disappointments and losses of the present life which are the real judg ments of the Lord, the Bible knowing nothing of an eternity of torture in the future, but telling us everywhere that the dead sleep, waiting for the glorious Kingdom of Him who redeemed them more than eighteen centuries ago by the sacrifice of Himself. Christ will not appear to His Church in flaming tire—only to the world: “When He shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him In glory.” Be fore the consummation of that great Time of Trouble, every saint, every member of the Church of the First born, whose names are written in Heaven, will have been changed from earthly nature to spirit nature, because “flesh and blood cannot inherit tne Kingdom ” Neither will the sympathy of Christ, or the sympathy of the Church with poor humanity, interfere to prevent the great catastrophe with which this Age will end. The Kings, Emperors and Czars of the world would no more give over to Jesus their power and role and gov ernment than would the clergy give over the spiritual control. Tbe Divine Program seems to be to allow human institutions to wreck themselves in showing their own incompetency and opposition to the Divine arrangement Thank God for the better Day be yond—when the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing In His beams for the blessing of all the families of the earth! Thank God that the Re deemer, full of sympathy, will be wise to know how deeply the plowshare of sorrow and trouble may go to properly prepare the hearts of men for the rich blessings His Millennial Kingdom will have to bestow! Thank God for the assurance that Messiah’s Kingdom will prove to be “the desire of all nations.” How Christ Will Come. How unreasonable, how unscripturr.'., we now see were the theories respect ing the Second Coming of Christ hand ed down from a darker time! We wen informed that tbe Redeemer would come again in the flesh, whose only glory would be a kind of shining of the skin. We overlooked entirely the great change which came to our Master aft er H'e hud finished tbe sacrificial work given Him to do. His ascension signi fied a return not only to Heaven, but also to tlie Heavenly condition which He left when He humbled Himself to be made flesh for the purpose of being man's Redeemer. We overlooked the statement that He was “put to death in flesh, but quick ened in spirit." We overlooked tbe fact that tho Master declared, “My flesh I give for the life of tbe world." We overlooked tbe fact that the Scrip tures assure us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. and that consequently the elect Church, before entering tbe Kingdom condl tion, must be changed by the power of the First Resurrection—made Heav enly, or spirit beings, like onr glorified Redeemer. From Hie foregoing is it not evident that the presence of the Lord will not be discerned except by the few? Tbe masses will not know, even as tbe masses knew not in tbe time of Noah But as Noah and his family knew about tbe comiug Deluge, so the saints of God will know approximately the time of the great trouble with which this Age will close and the Kingdom Age be inaugurated. Thus the Apostle says, “Ye, brethren, are not in dark ness, that that Day should overtake you as a thief,” though it shall come as a snare upon the whole world.—l Thessalonians 5:1-G. The period of Christ’s presence, "as a thief in the night,” unknown to the world, will be a time of special scrutiny and judgment in the Church— a time of giving reward to those found faithful, This dealing with the Church Includes, we believe, the Resurrection reward that will be given to the Apostles and all the faithful ones of the Church who have fallen asleep aud have been waiting for this very hour and Its blessings. So the Apostle tells ns that those of the Church alive and remaining until that time will not hinder, or prevent, those who have gone before. The dead in Christ shall rise first” They will enter into the Joys of their Lord first, and will experience the resurrec tion change first Later on, the breth ren then living will be dealt with, down to the last member. Then the Church having been glorified, the next step of the Divine Program will be in order—the Epiphania, or shining forth of the Lord in glory. When speaking of Christ's Epiphania, or revealing, we are not to understand that nis Paronsla has ceased. Rather, as at the First Advent Christ’s pres ence covered a number of years, so at Qis Second Advent His Paronsla, nis presence, will be for the entire thousand years of His Reigu. At the first however, the Pnrousla will be known only to the Church, and to them merely by the eye of faith. Subse quently. changed by the First Resur rection, they will see their present Lord as He is—a spirit Being. Then will come His Epiphania to the world —His shining forth in power and great glory. But this shining forth (Epi phania) will bring quite a shock of surprise to the world. It will mean n sudden blazing forth of God's righteous USE BE RAID WANT ADS. SUNDAY, AUGUST 23. Indignation against everything sinful, against everything unjust The poetess caught the proper thought when writing respecting the Epipbanla of Christ: “I see His flaming Judgment* As they circle all the earth, The sign* and groanlnga promised To precede a second birth. I read His righteous sentence In the crumbling thrones of earth— Our King !■ marching on.” Nevertheless, this flaming forth of Messlah’o judgments, severely awful as they will be, will be manifestations of the Love of God and of Christ. By the consuming of the dross In the fire of that tribulation, will be blessed, transformed, uplifted, devel oped. This flaming fire In which Christ and His Church, God's Kingdom in glory, will be revealed to mankind, Is elsewhere in the Bible spoken of as the fire of God’s anger. Of it we read that the proud and all that do wickedly will be as stubble, and that the fire of that time will consume them, root and branch. The hope, of course, is that as they realize the changed conditions they will drop their pride and their wickedness, and turn unto the Lord. He will send the flaming fire of judg ments for the very purpose of consum ing the world’s impurities, end thus of blessing and purifying all who will learn to love righteousness. When Christ Will Come, Again -we were misled by eur creed* in reipect to the time of Christ'a Sec ond Coming. Some of us declared that He already had come the second time and that His Kingdom was set up long ago. Our Catholic friends claim that the establishment of the Kingdom took place in the year SOO, under Rope 111., and that the thousand years of Christ's Reign are in the past. We sincerely hope that they are In error; for. If that theory be correct, Christ's Kingdom has accomplished far less for the world than the Bible statement would lead us to expect Protestants have also lield that Christ's Kingdom has been established, that His Reign began centuries ago; that tbe Church of England has been reigning, also the Church of Germany, the Church of Swedeu and the Church of Russia each claiming authority in tbe earth. The majority of Christian people are much confused, bewildered; hut Bible students are of late getting a better focus upon this subject. They are seeing that, according to the Bible, we should still pray, "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will he done on earth, as It is done in Heaven:” that we should still wish fop the Son of God from Heaven, and that we should still remember St Peter’s words respecting the Times of Restitution, blessing and favor, which will come to the world at tbe Second Advent of Christ-Acts 3:19-21. Admitting that those who Interpret the prophecies to teach that we are now living In the time of the Second Advent of Christ are not Infallible la their interpretation, we must, neverthe less, concede that there are signs all about us today which closely tally with what the Bible tells us respecting the condition of things which will de tain at Christ's Second Coming. Let us note some of these: St. Paul to!d of the end of the Age (also St. Peter), that it would be marked by a form of Godliness but lack the power; that it would be marked by disobedience to parents, l>y heartiness, by high-minded ness, by love of pleasure, by unre liability. (2 Timothy 3:1-5.) Surely we see on every hand what answers well to these Apostolic prophecies of the closing time of this Age and the dawn ing of the New Age. On the other hand, we have prophecies which tell us of glorious blessings due to come to tho world in conjunction with Messiah’s Second Ad vent Hearken m the Lord's Word In the prophecy of Daniel. Wo read that in the Time of the End (of the present order of things—ln tbe time of the dawning of the new order of things) (1) “Many shall run to and fro;” (2) “Knowledge shall be in creased;" (3i "The wise shall under stand;” (1) “There shall be a time of trouble such us never was since there was a nation.” Are we not at the time when the whole world is on the move ns never before in the past? Steamboats, steam and electric railways, etc., are only a century old and fife only reaching their climax of efficiency. It would seem as though God had prospered human in telligence along those lines just at the opportune moment to bring in the run ning to and fro at the appropriate time —ln the end of this Age. How about the increase of knowl. edge? Is It not true that greater la crease has been made in knowledge within the past fifty years than evei before? Not only Is this knowledge exemplified in tunnels, bridges, build lngg, machinery, electric lighting ant power, and iu ever)’ conceivable devle* for human comfort, but it is especially marked in human education. Within the past thirty years free schools, yea. compulsory education, have seemingly been forced upon the people of every land, as though to fulfil this prophecy, "Knowledge shall be increased.” What about the statement that the wise shall understand? Many are per plexed by these things and wondering ly are deserting the Bible and flocking to evolution theories, only to find them nnwise. The wise are those who hold fast to the Word of God, and in its in creasing light gee new beauties. The only satisfactory explanation of the times in which we are living Is that these are the dag* of the Sen-of Man. Do not these thing* give the people of God a ground for faith that w« are now in the closing of this Age and in the dawning of the Messianic Age. when the world Is to be blessed - by God's Kingdom? Many, of course, may scoff at the thought; but many others, God's saintly ones, ore lifting np their head* and rejoicing, “knowing that their redemption die weth nigh." BEAD HERALD WANT ADS