QUES. 12.-I noticed your answer, in January number, to Question No. 1. Would you kindly give a word as to the positive side of woman's service in the Church? You intimate her having a place. What is that place, as given in Scripture?

'As also saith the law," ml Cor. 14:34

Also, what does refer to ?

Also, a word on 1 Cor. ll:4-15, as to the covering. Is the woman to put on a covering, or is her hair the covering itself? These may seem trivial matters, but one sincerely desires to be in all things in communion with our blessed God and Father.

ANS.-Acts 18 :24-26 and Rom. 16 :3-5 give an instance of a woman's service, in connection with her husband-to Apollos, to Paul, to an assembly of God in Rome, and "also all the churches of the Gentiles." Her husband alone could not have kept open house to the people of God. Priscilla fully shares with her husband in all this great service recorded to their account in Scripture.

Rom. 16 :6 is another instance-a lone woman this time. Ver. 12 mentions three other women who have " labored much in the Lord "-not by public preaching and teaching surely, since it is emphatically forbidden them (1 Tim. 2 :11, 12). From Col. 2:1, 2; 4:12, 13, we learn bow one may "labor," and yet not preach or teach. May God grant us more such "laborers."

Phebe, "a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea, is another instance. What a field among the sick and afflicted for a godly woman ! What opportunities for instructing, comforting, exhorting ; giving a helping hand to burdened mothers at the same time ! Such service may require more humility than to appear in public, but it has God's approval. We might cite many women of to-day who, while abiding in the woman's place, are devoted servants of the Church, and labor much in the Lord.

The words "as also saith the law" refer to the fact that the place of subjection is in the Old Testament, as well as in the New, given to the woman. Gen. 3 :16 says it in words. The whole order of God in the Jewish economy says it in practice. The covering mentioned in 1 Cor. 11:4-15 is to be put on. Nature gives her long hair as a sign that she should cover her head wherever the man should uncover his. A man would not think of praying with his hat on, though he wear short hair.

QUES. 13.-Mark 3:29 says, "But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of , eternal damnation."

Is it possible that a child of God may commit this against the Holy Ghost?

ANS.-It is evident from John 10 :26-30 ; Rom. 8 :33-39 ; 1 Peter 1:3-5, and a host of other scriptures, that this is impossible. The danger of the child of God in relation to the Holy Spirit is mentioned in Eph. 4:30.
QUES. 14.-What time is meant in John 6 :39, 40, 44, 54 in, the Lord's words, " I will raise him up at the last day ? Does it apply before, or after, the Millennium ? Does it apply to the resurrection, or the ascension, of saints?

ANS.-It applies before the Millennium, and to the resurrection, not the ascension, of saints, though the two are simultaneous. No saints will be left to be raised after the Millennium. All who are raised after the Millennium are in their sins, are raised to appear before "the Great White Throne," and are cast into the lake of fire (Rev. 20 :4-15).

The great mass of God's people are raised "at the last day" of the Christian dispensation (1 Thess. 4:14-17; 1 Cor. 15 :51, 52) ; the rest, who are slain or die from that time till the Lord appears, are raised at " the last day " of the Jewish, or Law. dispensation, just before the Millennial Age is ushered in, when no saints will die any more. Rev. 20 :4 refers to those who have suffered death between the event of 1 Thess. 4 :14-17 and the Lord's appearing.

QUES. 11.-In Rom. 4 :19 it says that Abraham's body was dead, and through God's power Isaac was born. In Gen. 25 :1 he marries Keturah, and has six sons, long after Isaac. How is this explained?

ANS.-Abraham's taking Keturah to wife, while mentioned only after Sarah is dead, may have taken place long before. Polygamy was prevalent everywhere then. Yet in the light of the circumstances which circle about Hagar and Ishmael, we incline to the thought that Sarah was the only wife daring her lifetime, and that Abraham took Keturah after her death. The renewal of his strength for the fulfilment of God's promise in the birth of Isaac was continued. It was as easy for God to continue it as to impart it at all. And, indeed, it was necessary for the fulfilment of God's purposes. In Abraham's three families is seen the range of God's blessing. Ishmael, the bondwoman's son, represents the people of God linked with the Jerusalem on earth; Isaac, the free woman's, represents those linked with the Jerusalem above; the sons of Keturah represent the saved nations of the Gentiles blessed through the millennial reign of Christ.

QUES. 15.-Need there be any difficulty as to whether " the sons of God" of Gen. 6 :2-4 were fallen angels, or men?

Were the "giants," and "men of renown " the fruit of those marriages, and did God destroy the Old World because of that particular sin ?

Is there any connection between this and Jude 6 ?

ANS.-We do not see what possible difference it can make whether those "sons of God" were fallen angels, or men. We hardly think it even profitable to raise such questions. Fallen angels can, like fallen men, stoop to anything, as we see by the various demoniacs in the time of our Lord; but they must take their abode in men for such ends. The great matter is, that in a fallen world like this, "the sons of God" should be a people separate from it. They can be God's true witnesses only as separate from it, from its mind, and principles, and ways. When, therefore, they make alliance with it, no matter how "fair" the object may be, God's testimony ceases, and nothing but judgment remains, for there is nothing more for God on the earth.
The passage says that the "men of renown " were the fruit of those marriages ; just as to-day the Christian making alliance with the world gets power and renown among men in the measure of that alliance, whilst the lowly, obedient follower of our Lord Jesus Christ gets reproach. This world has many "fair daughters," and Christians generally have allied themselves so thoroughly with them that judgment is now impending as it did in those days.