QUES. 21.-Do you know "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life," and "The Science of Motherhood," by Mrs. Hannah Whit-tall Smith ? If so, will you kindly say if they accord with truth?

ANS.-We read the first, long ago, and found it much tainted with the perfectionism of the flesh. This ever cultivates the love of self, and is therefore ever doomed to disappointment. Christ, the believer's All, is the only One in whom there is no disappointment. We are not acquainted with the other book you mention.

QUES. 22.-Will you kindly explain Matt. 6 :20 ? How may we lay up treasures in heaven ?

ANS.-Laying up treasures upon earth is the accumulation of wealth. Laying up treasures in heaven is bestowing our goods in a way which God loves. Caring for those who spend their life ministering the word of God is one way. See Phil. 4 :10-20. Bestowing on the needy is another (Acts 2:45). Even a cup of cold water given for Christ's sake is treasure laid up in heaven (Mark 9:41). If only God's people realized their present opportunity more, how much richer many might find themselves for eternity than they will be-how much less bestowed on self there would be-how much more on Christ!

QUES. 23 (To H. A. I.).-Can you show any internal evidence that Aquila and Priscilla were at Rome at the time when Rom. 16 was written? An infidel told me Rom. 16 was not inspired, for the two persons being Jews, could not go back to Rome so long as Claudius' orders held good (Acts 18 :2).

ANS.-The objection is far-fetched on the face of it. Claudius was, if not exactly an imbecile, yet so under the control of favorite freedmen, ambitious women, and even slaves, that orders given one day were often countermanded the next; so it is not to be wondered at if the decree of banishment in regard to the Jews was soon repealed. Many others to whom greetings are sent in Rom. 16 are also evidently Hellenistic Jews, to judge from their names ; and we know that when Nero assumed the purple, a little later, there were vast numbers of Jews in Rome. H. A. I.

QUES. 24.-Kindly tell me, is it wrong, or sinful, as some say, for a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ to work on Sundays at a bakery, which hinders his attending the Lord's Supper? I work only six days out of the seven, as we have no work on Saturdays, all day and night. "Six days thou shalt work," the Word says. We understand that Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath. We are not Jews:we keep "Sunday." But what is the difference? Who can tell if any day is to be especially kept?

ANS.-First of all, we are redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ, not to live any more to ourselves, but unto Him who died for us, and rose again (2 Cor. 5 :15). We belong to Him-body, soul, and spirit.

Next, what we do with the Lord's day is not a question of rest, or of our comfort, in any sense. We are "dead to law" (Rom. 7:4), and therefore have nothing to do with the seventh or any other day as a sabbath. The Lord's day is the day of our Saviour's resurrection-of His triumph over all our foes ; and our keeping that day sacred is not as a command of law, nor for our rest or convenience, but to celebrate Him and His sorrows, to praise and worship Him, to edify ourselves, and to use our opportunities to make Him known to others.

Our redemption has cost Him a fearful price. He established His Supper as a memorial of this. His request to those who love Him is, "Do this in remembrance of Me." The disciples, in their first love, apparently responded to this request day by day (Acts 2:41-47). When church order was established by Paul, the apostle of the Church, they came together on the first day of the week ("Sunday ") for this (Acts 20:7).

Any disciple of Christ who willingly, or for self-interest, neglects such a request from his Master, sins against his Master (Jas. 4 :17). Love neglected or despised is a heinous thing. An Israelite indifferent about keeping the Passover was accounted guilty indeed (Num. 9:13):how much more a Christian indifferent about remembering His Lord's sacrifice for a far greater deliverance !

Circumstances may come in which are beyond our control; others are permitted for the test of faith. Under the first, we can but bow our head and submit to the will of God. If He has placed me on a bed of sickness, or under some special care or circumstance which forbids my assembling with His people, I abide peacefully where He has put me. Under the second, we are not to surrender; we are being proved, or tempted, as Scripture calls it, that our true spiritual condition may be manifested. If I deliberately sacrifice the Lord's day-the day of my Christian privileges-because I need bread, I prove how little I really look to God for my bread. It is true I am responsible to earn my bread and to provide for my own, and if I do not I am worse than an unbeliever; but is God the one Hook to for my task in this? If I fail to rightly provide for my own, it is plain I am not being led by Him; for a man who walks with God, in the path God appoints him, will be enabled to provide suitably for his own, even though he may pass through times of trial.

Realizing, therefore, both my responsibility to use the Lord's day according to the Lord's mind, and to provide for my needs and those of my own, I need to look to Him for such labor as will enable me to fulfil both. Nor will the Lord ever fail to answer the faith that trusts Him in truth.