To our Contributors.

A number of excellent articles from our contributors are on hand waiting but for room. It is no little encouragement to be so abundantly provided with what we believe will be real "help" and real "food" to the Lord's dear people who are accessible to us. It is but just to our contributors that their papers should appear as soon as possible. This we do as fast as our space allows, having, however, for our primary object such a blending of subjects as will, in our judgment, render each number most edifying.

Hades and Gehenna.

The confusion in the translation of these two Greek words in our ordinary English Bible has given much help to the teachers of annihilation and the various deniers of the immortality of the soul. The two original words have very different meanings indeed, but being both usually translated by the same word, "hell," it hinders the ordinary reader from apprehending that difference.

Hades means the unseen, as in contrast with the seen. When a man has died he is no longer seen among his fellows. He has gone to an unseen place. It does not define his state-whether he is happy or unhappy. It is only a temporary condition-it will end with the resurrection of the dead, when all will again be in a visible condition.

Gehenna is final and eternal. It is God's penitentiary prepared (not for man, but) for the devil and his angels, and where men too must go who have turned away from Christ as the only Deliverer.