QUES. 7.-Please explain 2 Cor. 5:10, "That every one may receive the things done in the body." Has this any reference to our life before we were born again ?

ANS.-"The things done in the body" seems clearly to show that the entire life is contemplated, and not merely that part after conversion. In the government of God all must be answered for from the time when responsibility begins. Grace has blotted out all sins, past, present, and future, through the precious blood of Christ, but as this does not affect the appraisal of the life after conversion, neither would it that before. All will be manifested, that God may be glorified, and we receive the blessed lessons to be learned.

QUES. 8. What is the Lord's table ? Is it where any truly and with brokenness remember the Lord, or does it exist only where saints are gathered to the Lord's name according to His word ?

ANS.-The Lord's table is the opposite of the "table of devils " (see 1 Cor. 10:20, 21). Saints of God may be thoroughly unintelligent as to the scriptural ground of gathering, and be remiss, through that ignorance, in maintaining the Lord's honor at His table. But it would be dreadful to speak of their remembrance of Him, as being a " table of devils." We could not consistently be identified with what we know to be disobedience to His word, and so could not break bread with those going on in disobedience to the truths of Christ as to His Church; but let us not sin against God by calling their ignorance the "table of devils." Alas, individually, many may put to blush, by their devoted and adoring love, those far more intelligent.

On the other hand, we would shrink from applying the title "Lord's table," to the idolatrous service of the "mass" in the Church of Rome, or to the act of those holding fundamental error, such as denial of the atonement or any other foundation truth.

QUES. 9.-Will the " great multitude " mentioned in Rev. 7:9, be on earth or in heaven ?

ANS.-The entire chapter shows that the earth is in view, and not heaven. The Church has been taken up, and the martyred remnant is not yet seen. This is the multitude of Gentiles, who, with the spared remnant of the nation of Israel, are brought " through the great tribulation," into the millennial blessing of the earth. That they stand "before the throne and before the Lamb," has seemed to indicate that they are a heavenly company. But this language is the general usage of the book, and suggests that close intercourse between heaven and earth, to which, alas, earth is now a stranger. Then, "I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth" (Hos. 2:21). This multitude has a place of priestly nearness and access to the earthly temple. The Church is seen above.

QUES. 10.-Please explain John 12:32, " I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me."

ANS.-The next verse shows, " This He said signifying what death He should die." He was "lifted up" (John 3:14) on the cross, rejected by earth, forsaken of God, and accursed for us, but drawing weary sinners to Himself.
QUES. 11.-What is the difference between "the Kingdom of heaven," and "the Kingdom of God"?

ANS.-The Kingdom of heaven is used in Matthew, and almost always means the kingdom or rule of the heavens over the earth, in a dispensational way. It may, and often does, include mere profession as in Matt. 13:"The kingdom of God" is used similarly in Luke, though it seems to refer in many cases more to the moral than the external. Thus it is used by the apostle in the Acts and Epistles.

QUES. 12.-If a man is scripturally separated from his wife, for no fault of his own, can he marry again ?

ANS.-The tie that bound them having been broken, it seems clear that the brother or sister would be free to marry in such a case. But on the other hand, one can understand and sympathize with the spirit which would go on in widowhood, walking softly and alone the remainder of the pilgrim journey. Let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind before God, and the conscience of the, saints and of the world be respected.

QUES. 13.-In the Lord's supper, should thanks be given only at the breaking of the bread, or at the cup also ?

ANS.-Our blessed Lord's example gives the answer. "And He took the cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them" (Mark 14:23). We give thanks at the breaking of the bread, and " after the same manner " we give thanks at the cup. Both acts are distinct parts of the same feast, and it would maim it to omit the thanks at the cup.

The opposite error is for one brother to give thanks at the breaking of bread and another at the cup. This makes two separate acts, and is equally foreign to Scripture. It is one feast, and if one is led of the Spirit to give thanks at all, it should be both at the bread and the cup.