The Jews.

How near must be the end of our own dispensation (that of the Church) and the ushering in of the new (that of Israel) the following, which appeared recently in the New York Times, speaks loudly:

"Letters from Jerusalem say that the proclamation of the Constitution in Turkey has thrown open the doors of Palestine to the incoming of Jews from all parts of the world. In Jerusalem alone four-fifths of the population of 100,000 now belong to the Jewish faith; while at Jaffa, Tiberias, Safed, and Haifa, Jews are reckoned by tens of thousands.

"Almost the whole extensive plain of Esdraelon has been bought up by them. Their prosperous colonies spread from Dan to Beersheba, and even further south to the outskirts of Egypt. Thousands are escaping from Persia to find shelter and protection in the Holy Land; while every ship from Odessa carries hundreds of them.

"The valley of the Jordan, once the property of the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid, is being eagerly sought after by Jewish capitalists and syndicates of Zionists, whose agents, distributed all over the land, are buying up rich properties of Mohammedan offenders whose incomes since the revolution are considerably lessened.

"The Holy City is essentially a Jewish town. Banking, as well as trade and commerce, is monopolized by Jews. The government has found it necessary to organize a company of Jewish gendarmes. Hundreds of thousands of pounds are sent annually from Europe and America to enable the colonists to build homes, hospitals, schools, and invalid homes. Over one hundred Jewish schools already exist in Jerusalem alone, and synagogues are going up everywhere.

" The value of land has risen fourfold. The ignorant and poverty-stricken fellaheen are being ousted from their homes and villages by the sharp European Jewish settler, whose modern agricultural implements and methods have made the land produce harvests never before dreamed of by the natives. The Anglo-Palestine Company, a Zionist banking and commercial enterprise, is pushing the cause of Israel with great determination.

"The racial exclusiveness of the Jews and their clannish proclivities are arousing the opposition of the Ottomans, and the Turkish constitutional regime has in this question one of the greatest problems that a new and patriotic government ever faced."

How plainly the prophecy of Ezek. 37 is being fulfilled in this! "There was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone" (ver. 7). Who can tell how soon God may now say, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live," and Israel be a nation once more among the nations of the earth ?

We are living in interesting times – blessed though solemn to the children of God, but dark and dismal to the enemies of Christ.
The "Scientists."

All know what a great place science has acquired in our day. On the one hand, the love of money has become so great and so general, that any true scientific discovery in the industrial world which promises riches is fairly worshiped. On the other hand, the breach between man and God has so rapidly widened of late years in Christendom, that any supposed discovery in the other sciences which would seem to be in opposition to the word of God has been hailed with delight by multitudes. This has set up as demigods a class of men who call themselves Scientists, whose field is chiefly geology and biology. They profess to make discoveries which annul this or that part of the Scriptures. They have therefore become wiser than the Scriptures, and they are going to set up a new foundation, through their discoveries, better than the foundation God has already laid, upon which they will erect a better religion than God has erected. Here is a college of new apostles, who by the discovery of strange skeletons and fossils can prove their essentially important doctrine of evolution to be right, and thus overthrow the Scripture record of the creation of man and of his downfall.

Kind reader, peruse the following; then judge for yourself if these new apostles are more trustworthy than the old ones:

"Prof. Ernst Haeckel, of the University of Jena, announced his retirement from public life in February of last year. To us the principal interest surrounding the man is the fact that he was the most prominent exponent of the Darwinian theories in Germany. He belonged to an association of Monists, whose chief objects are to prove that man has evolved gradually – developed step by step from lower animals; to refute the Bible; and to do away with the belief in the immortality of the individual soul, and in a personal anthropomorphic God as Creator.

"Shortly before his retirement there was a startling exposure made of some of the methods by which he tried to bolster up science against Christianity. Over his own signature he was compelled by other scientists to admit the existence of deliberate forgeries in his scientific writings. He had taken drawings of other biologists and altered them, taking away fifteen or sixteen vertebrae from one monkey embryo and changing the name. He also altered a human embryo so as to contain eleven vertebrae not occurring in the original-thus, if possible, to bridge the chasm of the never-to-be-found 'missing link,' and to bring monkey-kind and mankind together and disprove the word of God.

"We have before us an extract from his own confession that appeared in January in the Munchner Allegemeine Zeitung, in which he says:'To put an end to this unsavory dispute, I begin at once with the contrite confession, that a small per cent. (six or eight per cent.) of my embryo-diagrams are really forgeries . . . those, namely, for which the observed material is so incomplete or insufficient as to compel us . . . to fill in and reconstruct the missing links by hypothesis and comparative synthesis . . . I should feel utterly condemned and annihilated by the admission, were it not that hundreds of the best observers and most reputable biologists lie under the same charge. The great majority of all morphological, anatomical, histological and embryological diagrams . . . are not true to nature, but are more or less doctored, schematized, and reconstructed.'

"There has been much excitement in German scientific circles over Haeckel's downfall, and hi's repudiation is now unanimous and complete."
"So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish :whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web" (Job 8:13, 14)