QUES. 3.-Can it be right for one to say, " Jesus might have had it easier if He had not had man's nature to fight against, besides His own nature "? Had Jesus two natures?

ANS.-From eternity to eternity Jesus is God, the eternal "I am." At His incarnation He became man as well. He was therefore, is now, and forever will be, both God and man united in one person-a mystery which God alone can fathom, which is deep as eternity, but which is the foundation and delight of faith. As to having "man's nature to fight against," not only it is not right to say such a thing of our Lord, but it is serious error and sin against Him. We, have two natures-a sinful one by natural birth, and a holy one by new birth. This causes conflict in us, but not so in our glorious Lord. His incarnation was by the Holy Spirit. It was therefore said of Him, "That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God " (Luke 1:35). To speak of our Saviour as having "man's nature to fight against" is blasphemy. It destroys, moreover, the possibility of His being a Saviour to us at all; for had there been in Him the least taint of sin, His blood would not have been "the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot," and could not have cleansed us from sin.

We would call your special attention to the letter on our Lord's temptations published in the previous number of this magazine. Pass it to your friend who used the painful expression you mention. If he is a Christian, he will sooner or later own his sin. Everywhere now blasphemous and antichristian doctrines are abroad and the Lord's people must "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints."

QUES. 4.-"A Seeker sifter Light."

ANS.-We can scarcely here discuss in full the questions which your letter raise?. One passage of Scripture, however, answers much of what yon ask. It is Jer. 15 :16-19.

Our present times in the Church are much like his were in Israel, and the same ways of God apply. If our eye is single, and we approach God in all our ruin and need, His word molds and fashions us for Himself, and guides our feet in the path which is consistent with all truth. It would then be a serious thing, after having been thus guided, to let the loneliness and difficulties of that path tempt us to make compromise. " To him that overcometh" are eternal rewards promised.

Were we where you are, we would identify ourselves without hesitation with a company of God's people who assemble within easy reach of you. The Lord Jesus Christ has His rightful place among them, we believe, and the word of God free from end to end. We have not their address by us just now, but you can easily obtain it from our Publishers. Our heart goes out after you, dear young brother, and bears you up before the throne of grace.

QUES. 5.-How could a guest get in to the wedding without a wedding garment on, as we read in Matt. 22 :11, 12, since it is the Lord Himself who gives that garment to let them in, as we read in Luke 15?

ANS.-The verses preceding Matt. 22 :11,12 show that the gathering of guests is going on now by the preaching of the gospel. All who profess to receive the gospel take their place among the guests. The sifting of the unreal from the real will be at the coming of the Lord, as we see in Matt. 25 :1-13.

QUES.-What is the meaning of John 6:53, " Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you"?

ANS.-Verse 63, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life," shows plainly that the Lord's words, of which you inquire, are not to be taken in a material sense. The eating and the drinking of which He speaks is not done with the mouth; nor has it the least reference to the Lord's Supper, where we eat bread and drink wine, though in eating and drinking these we profess to be of those who have eaten the Saviour's flesh and drunk His blood.

It is faith, and faith alone, which, in the power of the Holy Spirit, can and does eat His flesh and drink His blood. Flesh and blood separated means death. Feeding on the death of Christ by faith is what the poor sinner does when he realizes himself guilty and condemned. The substitutional death of Jesus thus received brings him life. Apart from this, the Lord has said, " Ye have no life in you.''