QUES. 5.-Will yon kindly explain what is meant to be taught in Heb. 7 regarding Melchizedek, especially vers. 2 and 3? I do not understand who this person was, how he came to be a priest of God and. in that country, and what is meant to be taught by it. Others have asked me regarding it also, and I would be glad to know.

ANS.-Your question is a very large one, requiring more than can be answered here, interesting as it might be to us and to others, for it embodies that great office of our Lord Jesus Christ which endears Him forever to every soul that truly knows Him. We would recommend to yon, "Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews," by S. Ridout; "Genesis in the Light of the New Testament," by F. W. Grant; also, the volume of the Numerical Bible containing the Epistle to the Hebrews ; all of which can be had of our Publishers.

QUES. 6.-Please explain Mark 16 :17, 18. In going into people's houses to seek after their souls, I have been asked to prove my Christianity by the miraculous powers told out in that scripture. How am I to meet this ?

ANS.-As the Lord did to the same generation of people in Matt. 12 :39-"An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonas."

By a careful reading of the passage concerning which you enquire, you will find it does not make signs necessary for all time in them that believe. So plainly was it for that time only the time of the setting up of Christianity-that the last verse of the chapter declares it accomplished.

When God was establishing Christianity, He gave abundant proof of its being of Him and not of men. But while providing an external proof, miracles never change the heart of man. So we have, in Luke 16:31, "If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead," and this we have exemplified in John 12:9-11.

At the close, in the days of Christianity's full apostasy, the powers that accompany it are, according to 2 Thess. 2 :8-12. "after the working of Satan." Lei the people of God, therefore, beware of all pretenders to miraculous powers.
A Letter from a Japanese Christian.