Ques. 5.-When I am asked, "Have you registered, and are you going to vote at the next election? " what should I answer? I believe for a woman to vote is absolutely wrong. Please answer in help and food.

Ans.-A citizen of England, of France, of Germany, etc., has no right to vote here in the United States, being a citizen of another country. Now the citizenship of the child of God, of a true Christian, is in heaven-he belongs to heaven ; he is acknowledged there. "For our citizenship is in heaven," says Phil. 3:21. "I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims," writes Peter to fellow-Christians; and our Lord, praying for His own, as He was going back to the Father, says:"I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world " (Jno. 17 :15, 16).

And the world has rejected Christ. Over His head, on the cross, they put this inscription, "THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS," and they mocked and laughed Him to scorn. It was written in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, representing the "cultured" world, the world in power, and the religious world. The Jew openly reviles Him still. Christendom makes a profession of faith in Him where it is popular (having derived many benefits from the light of Christianity), but it soon denies Him where ridicule, or loss, or persecutions are to be borne. The rest of the world (Mohammedanism, Buddhism, etc.) are all opposed to the Christ of God.

Why then should the true Christian, who is "not of the world," made with its politics ? Well meaning persons, but ignorant as Christians, often do ; but no enlightened Christian can, without disloyalty to Christ.

We honor, obey, and pray for rulers and those in authority, as Scripture instructs us to do (1 Tim. 2 :1, 2); for government was appointed of God for man's good upon the earth, in which we are " strangers and pilgrims."

As to women entering politics, voting, etc., they are as much out of their God-given place as a man who would take upon him the care of the babies and the home. Politics unwomans woman ; it will ruin home-life. Let the world make and unmake its laws and customs. The God-appointed place for the Christian is not there.

Ques. 6.-(Too long for insertion). We answer thus :Yours is received, asking us to pray for your afflicted mother, which we gladly do. Let me say, however, that God's will is not always to heal His people or to free them from affliction. To glorify Him in the affliction is often a greater triumph of grace than being made well, though we usually think more of the healing than learning in trial and in submission how God can comfort, and use our physical sufferings for spiritual blessing.

We also believe that medicines will not accomplish what we desire unless God is pleased they should ; but with God's blessing they may be used as His means to effect physical cure. We believe we should not despise them. They are part of God's creation. He Himself sometimes has commanded His people to use them-see Isa. 38 :21; 2 Kings 20 :7 ; 1 Tim. 5 :23. Speaking of Luke, the apostle Paul calls him "the beloved physician " (Col. 4 :14), which he surely would not have said if a physician was contrary to God's mind.

Ques. 7.-Answer to a correspondent. Dear Sister in Christ:In answer to yours received concerning woman's place-if it is Scripture one desires to follow, it is simply settled. No amount of inferences one may draw from certain examples adduced (which may easily be perverted by the bias of our minds) can set aside or in the least weaken the direct and plain commands given in God's Word.

First, we have the order of Creation, which is maintained in the Christian assembly (1 Cor. 10:2-16). By the woman taking the lead, and her husband following her (reversing the order God had established), transgression was introduced in Eden. This is the reason Scripture gives why the woman is not to be a religious teacher, in 1 Tim. 2 :8-14. Led by her heart rather than by reason, she becomes an easy prey to the wily adversary. In affections and service woman is superior to man. It is the mother that forms the inner character of the family-of mankind therefore. The man is the responsible head of all outside relations.

But some may say, In Christ " there is neither male nor female." True, new birth has no regard to sex. So, before God, "Ye are all brethren "-Christ's brethren, as members of a new spiritual heavenly family. But does that make us cease to be men and women-fathers and mothers-here in this world? Nay, the natural conditions abide now and here until we are changed in Christ's likeness. In view of this objection (as if creation order were superseded in Christ), Scripture gives us direction in 1 Cor. 14 :34-38, where the subject of the chapter is, God's order in the assembly here upon earth. Man and woman are also types or figures of Christ and the Church, and the saints are to show before the on-looking angels God's order and purpose. How uncomely for the Church to lead or be insubject to Christ! (Eph. 5 :22-32 ; 1 Cor. 11 :10).

As to Luke 2 :36-38, Joel 2 :28, or Acts 21:9, and other passages, I hardly see that they can be of any real difficulty to one subject to God. Do not godly sisters often refresh and edify and sustain others by conversation, by letters, by example, etc., without in the least entering into any public place such as teaching, preaching, etc. ?

If any will make a difficulty, of course they can do so-and they do, alas, even speak slightingly of "old Paul" and "those bygone days,'' etc., as if it was not Scripture that he wrote to similar objectors in Corinth, to whom he wrote:"If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write are the commandments of the Lord" (1 Cor. 14 :37).

Ques. 8.-Are we to understand that there is a difference in the meaning of Rom. 4:5 and Rom. 5:19, and 2 Cor. 5 :21- that the one is "imputed" righteousness'' and the other imparted righteousness, yet both credited to the believing sinner?

Ans.-Rom. 4 :5 speaks of faith in contrast with works as the ground of acceptance with God. Christ having met all the claims of righteousness in our behalf, faith, confiding in Christ, comes to God as Abel did with his slain lamb, and was accepted, not on the ground of what he was or had done, but of what his offering represented.

Rom. 5:19 and 2 Cor. 5:21 speak of positional righteousness, 1:e., of the believer's standing before God in Christ the righteous, instead of fallen Adam. It is not "imparted righteousness" in any case.