QUES. 29.-I enclose herewith a tract which is being distributed in our section. It seems to me to strike a serious blow against our Lord, and to bring Him down to the level of a common man. If you will kindly read it, and make comments on it in your magazine, you will greatly oblige, yours, etc.

ANS.-It has been a painful task to read this tract you have sent us. The authoress, Mrs. F. L. Saxton is a fresh proof of the old saying, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." She has some notion of dispensational truth, and with it she throws dust in the eyes of the ignorant. Thus she denies New Birth to the Old Testament saints. The Lord said that without it none would see the kingdom; and Scripture abounds with proof that they will see the kingdom (Matt. 8 :11).

She confounds the evil nature in man with the devil, and thus makes every man a demoniac.

She reasons foolishly about Eve's fall, and then, by her evil teaching about our Lord's human nature, she denies the scripture, "That holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."

She knows nothing of the atoning sacrifice of our Saviour. She therefore carefully excludes the first goat from her remarks on Lev. 16, and what she says of the second goat is worthy of the notorious Mrs. White of Seventh-Day Adventist fame.

She calls the blood of Christ the Holy Spirit, and so Christ "sheds it still, and will continue to shed it until the last believer is safe home in glory."

If Mrs. Saxton had heeded the apostolic injunction, "I suffer not a woman to teach," she would not thus have dishonored our Lord, nor herself, nor denied others. She commits no ordinary wickedness in seeking to make Rom. 8:3 responsible for her doctrine, when she says," So Jesus in His 'sinful flesh' (Rom. 8:3) bore our old man," etc.

If people love such teaching, they love not the truth. The truth exalts Christ, humbles man, and makes him glory only in the Lord (1 Cor. 1:30, 31). This teaching degrades Christ, and makes man well pleased with the wonderful perfection he feels within himself.

QUES. 30. -Kindly explain Mark 10:28-30. It speaks of those who have forsaken various things for Christ as receiving a hundredfold here-houses, etc. Yet we do not see men devoted to Christ getting riches.

ans. – Our Lord's words are figurative, as you can see by His including "mothers." No man literally ever gets more than one mother. But whatever he forsakes on account of Christ, for it he receives already in this life a hundred times its value. In this sense "persecutions "are included as one of the rewards, for persecution has present effects of great value, as well as of eternal results.

Ques. 31. – What is the proper form of distributing the bread and wine at the Lord's Supper? I see a scholar makes Matt. 26 :26 ; Mark 14 :22, and Luke 22 :19, read differently from what appears in our common version.

ans. – Never mind "scholars." Follow simply what those passages say, just as they read, and you will not err.

ques. 32. – How can a Christian find out, in the present scattered condition of God's people, the place where he may truly please God ?

ans. – We once asked the same question practically at a meeting for the study of Scripture. We were on 2 Tim. 2:22, and were considering together the admonition, "Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." We asked, "How can one find out those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart? " Some one replied, "If one is himself that, the Lord will soon find the right company for him." To this our soul consented at once, for He who cares for a sparrow is surely interested, and that most deeply, in the path of His people, especially since that path is so intimately linked with their growth and development, and eternal reward. In Ps. 32, after expressing the grace of His heart toward the repentant sinner, He says, " I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go :I will guide thee with Mine eye." Human influences, natural ties, prejudice, selfish motives, love of ease, ambition, and many other things, may hinder our seeing the way His eye points ; hence our multiplied difficulties ; but "if thine eye he single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

We do not, however, forget that " in the last days perilous times shall come," and that those perilous times are sure to increase our difficulties. Therefore the greater need to watch "and pray, and keep very near to the Lord,

ques. 33. – We sometimes hear speeches which expatiate on such trivial matters that it seems to me the majesty of God is lowered. For instance, Job says, "Thou numberest my steps" (chap. 14:16). He feels the searching eye of God, who from His glory looks upon him, and sees the sin of his steps. This is full of majesty, and searches one's soul. But now to expatiate upon such a passage, and to bring God down as if He were busy counting the steps we take – it is this which seems to me out of place. What is the remedy?

ans. – First of all, patience; the range of mind in some of God's people, as well as in others, is not large; if ours is larger, we are more responsible. Then, prayer; how much may be corrected, improved and enlarged in one and the other through the earnest prayers in secret of those who may suffer from others' faults and weakness, but who love. Then, if called for, a word of exhortation :Heb. 3 :13 shows this to be God's way of helping one another.

ques. 34. – Please explain Matt. 20 :1-16.

ans. – The Lord utters this parable to illustrate the last verse of chapter 19. He had just answered Peter's question, "Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed Thee ; what shall we have therefore?" He had told Peter what reward each would get. But to this He added a warning :"Many which are first shall be last ; and the last first." This warning He illustrates in the verses you ask about. He shows there that it is not those who work for a reward, those who make the fairest show in the eyes of men, who are first at last. Indeed, it is those who have come in at the eleventh hour, those who have made no conditions, but receive all as of grace, who at last turn out to be first (see verse 8). The others do like the elder son in Luke 15 – they murmur ; they do not know what grace is ; they are not in the current of God's thoughts ; they have never read His heart.

Every one will at the end receive his just reward at the hand of a just God; but the reward of the thief on the cross for his eleventh-hour toil in the vineyard may be more desirable than that of many a lauded life of good works. All depends on what actuates the soul.

ques. 35. – Please state when the five forms of government existed that ruled Rome previous to the Emperor which was in John's day.

ANS. – The five forms of government Rome had, prior to John's day, were Kings, B. C. 753 ; Consuls, 509 ; Dictators, 498 ; Decemvirs, 451; and Consular Tribunes, 444. John wrote the Revelation in the 6th form of Roman government, the Emperors, which began with Caesar Augustus, in the time of our Lord.

Morrish's Bible Dictionary ($4.50) would give you all such information and much besides, and valuable helps in all lines of truth.

ques. 36.- Do these two Scriptures point to the same thing? "Until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" Romans 11:25. "Until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled " Luke 21:24.

ANS. – Rom. refers to the ingathering of the Gentile believers – the Church of God – in this dispensation of grace, The close of which must precede somewhat Luke 21:24 which speaks of the close of Gentile rule, when Christ the "stone cut out without hands," smites the great image upon its feet, breaks it in pieces, and "fills the whole earth" (Daniel 2:31-35).