QUES. 9.-Can you tell me through " Help and Food" what this " Watchtower Bible and Tract Society," Allegheny, Pa. is? A man is canvassing our town with three books on " The Plan of the Ages," etc. I have asked my brother, aud he warns me against them. I would like to know.

ANS.-We are living in "perilous times," when men can look pious and yet defy the God of heaven and make Him a liar to His face. The Bible teaches that " Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever " (Heb. 13:8). Speaking of Him, it says, "Thy throne, O god, is forever and ever" (Heb. 1 :8).

The "Watchtower" or "Millennial Dawn " publications declare Him a changeable and changing person. They deny He is, and ever was, God. According to them He was but a spirit-creature of a higher order than the angels before He became Man. Then when He became Man He ceased to be a spiritual being. Then He has gone through another change, for He is now no more a Man. Yet the Bible, looking forward to the coming judgment, says "God . . . now commandeth all men every where to repent, be" cause He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by THAT man whom He hath ordained ; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead " (Acts 17:30, 31). But the "Watchtower Bible Society " denies that God has raised "that Man" from the dead. Though the Scriptures never speak of the resurrection of Christ except as applying to His body; though the sepulcher was found empty; though Jesus bid His wondering disciples handle Him and see that He was again among them, aud in His raised body; though over 500 witnesses had seen Him at once; though the company with Him on the Mount of Olives saw Him taken up bodily from their midst and carried up to heaven ; though God has left no possible ground to deny the resurrection of the body of His Son, these professed teachers of the Bible flatly contradict Him and annul His testimonies. In explanation they tell us that "our Lord's human body was, however, supernaturally removed from the tomb." How they know this they do not say. There is but one who dares contradict God :It is he that said " Ye shall not surely die" when God hail said, "Thou shall surely die." To do this, he transforms himself "into an angel of light," and to do effectively as he does "his ministers" also must transform themselves into "ministers of righteousness " 'See 2 Cor. 11 :15).

We might say much more, but what we have said should be sufficient to remind us forcibly of Peter's warning, " There were false prophets also among the [Jewish] people, even as there shall be false teachers among you [Christians], who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways ; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of" (2 Peter 2 :1, 2).

So this teaching has indeed"many"who "follow" it, and this for a manifest reason:It promises them another opportunity of salvation after death. This is sweet to the lovers of sin ; they need not worry while enjoying and practicing it, for they are going to have another chance in the after-life ; and, besides, if they miss that, there is nothing to be feared, for they are then to be annihilated. Only the "father of lies" is the author of such a gospel.

One's soul mourns at seeing multitudes thus deceived. How insidiously the elements are preparing for the final apostasy of Christendom ! May God's beloved people carefully abide under His shelter.
If you desire fuller and more detailed information concerning this evil sect, our publishers can supply you with it. They have issued several excellent pamphlets.

QUES. 10.-The Scriptures say that " the chastisement of our peace was upon Him (Christ); and with His stripes we are healed." He must then have suffered the full and entire penalty of our sins, or our salvation would not be a righteous one. But Christ was under the wrath of God upon the cross only for a few hours, whilst the unrepentant are to be in "everlasting punishment." Justice must be in this, somehow, for God is just; but I would be thankful to understand it.

ANS.-If you were set with a bucket at the task of emptying the ocean, how long do you think it would take you? We hear you say, Oh I could never do that, for I have no place to hold the water; it would go back as fast as I took it out. True ; now let God take up the task ; how long will it take Him " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand" to do it? The difference in the person makes all the difference in the work. No mere man could ever suffer the full measure of what sin deserves at the hand of God, for no mere creature can fathom the heinousness of sin nor the holiness of God. Christ, being both God arid Man in His person, could fathom both, suffer accordingly the full penalty of sin in a moment of time, and thus empty the cup of divine wrath to the last drop. A man in hell-fire for eternity cannot do this any more than an ounce forever offered can ever make it a pound.

This is one reason why the true Christian can no more yield up the deity of Christ than His humanity. Apart from either there is no salvation, because there can be no true atonement.