QUES. 21.-I would like to ask a favor of you, as the "labor unions" have been quite active around here lately. Will you state in your magazine what you consider the proper attitude of a Christian toward unions and labor questions in general ? Some Christians seem to think all is well by paying the "fees" and having nothing else to do with them ; but my conscience is not freed by this. It tells me that if I pay fees to any association I am responsible for their actions in a greater or lesser measure, whether I take active part in them or not. But this is no light question when one has a family to support. I pray the Lord may give me faith to trust Him and grace to act accordingly, when called upon.

ANS.-It is with fear and trembling we answer your question, for while we are in the fullest agreement with your convictions, we dread exciting any Christian beyond his faith. " Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers" is the pleading of Divine Love with its family. A more tender, touching appeal than is made in that paragraph in which the passage occurs (2 Cor. 6 :14-7:1) could not perhaps be found in all the Scriptures. It asks that the children of God should satisfy that love, so that the sweets of the relationship between Father and children may have no check to their outflow but be freely enjoyed. And has not God the right to expect this from His children, when it has cost Him so much to redeem and acquire them ? Can He be free with them and they with Him while linked up with His enemies? Impossible ! And there, no doubt, lies a large cause of the spiritual deadness and indifference of so many. Nor is the yoke with "labor unions" the only unequal yoke. There are others. How many Christians now-a-days seem to have no conscience about allying themselves in matrimony, or business, or church, or secret societies, with manifest unbelievers.

What loss to their souls! How little they must realize that, sooner or later, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

But, as we have said, we dread urging a Christian beyond his faith, especially when, as you say, the bread of the family is at stake. A true husband and father will feel this more than aught else of earthly things. To see his family suffer will make him suffer. He must therefore take the step-the good and needful step-of separation, by faith. He needs to be able to say, If my Father in heaven claims this of me, He will look after all the consequences; and if I trust Him for my soul's eternal salvation, I can surely trust Him for the daily bread of my family.

Brother, beloved in Christ, though unknown to us, if you can say this to God, not only will you never regret having taken the path of separation from evil, but you will experience the realities of your relationship with God as never before. Yon will learn and acquire things which will abide for eternity as you could not under an unequal yoke. You will also prove how true His promise is, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." Read Luke 12:22-31. Those blessed words from our Lord's lips are true to the letter. Believe them. You will prove Him as truly interested in your daily temporal needs as He was in your eternal when He was bearing your sins in His own body on the tree.

QUES. 22.-Who is the " Man child " mentioned in Isaiah 66 :7, and when will the judgment announced in verse 15 take place ?
ANS.-The language is figurative in verse 7. It describes the suddenness of the deliverance the Lord will bring to the glad remnant amid the apostate nation of Israel at the time of His appearing. The first five verses of the chapter describe the condition of the apostate nation and their persecution of the faithful remnant. Then suddenly, in verse 6, deliverance comes and brings blessing with heretofore unheard of swiftness.

The judgment of verse 15 is what falls on the apostate nation at that time.

All your other questions on that chapter are easily solved in the light of the above. The day of grace has not ended of course ; that will not end till the millennium is over. But " the day of vengeance of our God" has come too in that chapter, to clear the earth of His enemies preparatory to the establishment of the kingdom of our Lord.

As to their brethren being brought as an offering to the Lord, will it not be a delight to Him to see His people brought back ? -even as to us, if any one returned a long-lost, valued treasure?