The reader should always turn to the Bible and read the passages referred to.

QUES. 10.-Will you please show us, through Help and Food, if God's Word teaches or expects us to lay up for a future day, or old age, or in case of sickness?

ANS.-Faith in God is what Scripture exhorts us to. Confidence in His love and care takes away anxiety for both the present and the future. The great point is:Do I trust God, or myself? Let us search our hearts with this practical question. It is what our Lord presses upon us in Matt. 6:24-34.-Read the whole passage. It closes with, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof;" 1:e., the burden of duties in our daily task is enough without un-profitably burdening ourselves as to the future. Let us faithfully attend to today's duties, and rest there; and our Father will see to the future. This certainly will not make for indolence or shiftlessness; for, as 2 Thess. 3:10 says, "If any will not work, neither should he eat;" and whilst God provided daily food for Israel in the wilderness the manna was not put in their bread^pans, but it lay upon the ground, where they had to gather it daily, or go without food.

In the usual course of life, the labor of our younger days naturally and usually provides for old age's necessities, as the sowing of spring-time is reaped in the fall. The ploughing and sowing is our simple duty. It is God who gives fruitage to our labor.

QUES. 11.-(1) What is the force of "Doth not even nature teach you," in 1 Cor. 11:14?

ANS.-"Nature" is what God has established in creation as natural laws, which abide, though sinful man perverts them in various ways.

(2) How does nature teach a man to wear his hair short, and a woman's long? and why is it "a shame" for a woman to be shorn? Is it not a question of custom?

ans.-God made the male strong, bold, aggressive, and the female delicate, timid, retiring behind the male's protection. A woman's long hair is an indication of this–indicates the veiling of herself. The creature's glory is to fill its God-appointed place, and a shame to go contrary to it. The boasted "new woman's" boldness, vulgarity and coarseness is a marked perversion of "nature."

(3) What is the meaning of verse 10, "Because of the angels?"-

ans.-The apostle says in 1 Cor. 4:9, "We are made a spectacle to the world-both to angels and to men." In Eph. 3:10 we learn that by means of the Church God is now making known His manifold wisdom to the hosts in heaven. As Adam was a figure of Christ (Rom. 5:14) so was Eve, his bride, a figure of the Church; and "as the Church is subject to Christ," the woman is to exemplify this in the Church to the observing angels. In view of this, disregarding or distorting God's order is of the devil.

If the truth of these things is understood and submitted to-as every child of God should gladly do-various details will regulate themselves. But if Paul is called "a woman-hater bachelor," and that what he taught on this subject "need not hold us," it shows ignorance as to what actuated this most faithful servant of Christ, on the one hand, and on the other, it is a beginning of rebellion against the Word of God, as he said on a similar occasion:"If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord" (1 Cor. 14:37). Let any one guilty of this consider the seriousness of it.

Satan's special attacks in these days are upon the Word of God. He begins cautiously, as at the beginning in Eden-"Yea, hath God said?" and in a little, God's Word is boldly contradicted. Let us watch, therefore, against these beginnings, for they soon increase to more impiety" (2 Tim. 2:16).