ject to his deceptions, will be fully recovered and fully informed respecting them. God undoubtedly sees that the permitting of sin to take its course will eventually bring to the world, to angels, and to the Church, a wider knowledge of good and evil, of right and wrong, than could have been communicated to them in any other way.

Satan, evidently always hopeful that he might outwit the Almighty and accomplish his purpose, has especially labored during the past nineteen centuries. When he could not seduce the great Redeemer to disloyalty to God, he sought to put Him to ignominious death, only to find that in this he had fulfilled the Scriptures. Later, in persecuting the Church and and in bringing in damnable heresies, through seducing spirits inculcating doctrines of demons, Satan has sought to turn the hearts of all against the Heavenly Father, and to mislead them in respect to the Divine character and Plan.

Sin's Wage is Death.

Our great Creator has one Law for His Empire: "The wages of sin is death; the gift of God is eternal life." Satan was given this gift; but it was conditional-dependent upon his obedience. From the moment of his rebellion he was worthy of the sentence of death. But it was not decreed. Time was given him to see the folly of his course. Century after century increased Satan's spirit of opposition to God and to righteousness.

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the terrible disaster of sickness, sorrow and death which he has brought upon mankind swerved him not from his evil course. Even the death of the Savior for the redemption of the race. moved him not to sympathy and pity. His heart seems to have become the more hardened in proportion as he has seen manifestations of Divine love and pity. This is an illustration of the general trend of sin-to hardness of heart.

A certain time has been fixed in the Divine Program for the execution of this great murderer. He must first

witness the undoing of all his work. He must behold how the light of the knowledge of the glory of God will sweep away all the delusions which he has fostered, and will emancipate humanity and lead to the anthem, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

The Scriptures do not inform us of where Satan will be during the period of his bondage, during the period of his restraint from doing evil-during the thousand years of Messiah's Reign. It merely informs us that at the conclusion of that period he will be loosed again, that he may bring a trial and a test upon the human family, then perfect in the flesh. Their number, we are told, will be as the sand of the seashore-a world full. They all will have enjoyed the full benefit of Messiah's Reign-Restitution to all that was lost-to full human perfection. The earth, brought to perfection, will be as the Garden of Eden -the Garden of the Lord, Paradise restored.

Why Will Satan Be Loosed?

The Bible answer is that God desires to prove, to test, all of the human family. They will have had a knowledge of sin, a knowledge of God's goodness, a knowledge of human recovery from sin to death. But the question which God would decide with them is, Have they so learned the lesson of the sinfulness of sin and the bitterness of its results that they would hate sin and love righteousness -that they would be obedient to God, trusting Him where they could trace Him and where they could not? Any who after all the experiences they will have passed through would not be absolutely loyal to the Lord to the very core in word, in deed and in thought, would not be dependable-would not be worthy of eternal life, which God purposes only for those who have demonstrated fully established characters in harmony with the Creator's.

As to the nature of the test we are not informed. We are merely told that Satan will be loosed that he may

tempt all mankind. We may be sure that the temptations will be along the lines of full submission to the Divine will. The Scriptures imply that when Messiah shall deliver up the Kingdom at the close of the Millennium, the government of the world will become a republic, in which each person is a king, and one of these kings chosen by vote to be the administrator of the affairs of the government.

All Will Be Tested.

Let us suppose as an illustration that mankind would be expecting such a change of government at a particular time. Let us suppose that God had allowed them to misunderstand some feature of His Plan, and thus to expect the change of government at the wrong time. Here would be an opportunity for a test upon all. A question would arise which would tend to cause a division amongst all mankind. Some might be inclined to say, The time for the change has come, and it should be made; and those who are retaining the government are in error. So believing, they might make a demand upon the earthly representatives of the Divine government that a transfer should be made, and that the world should become a Republic instead of remaining a theocracy.

Others of mankind might say: Nay, we are debtors to God for all that we have. We may have misunderstood the time or some feature of the Divine purpose, but we are very happy, very thankful to God, very appreciative of the blessings we are enjoying. If God wishes to make a change in the government, well and good. If God wishes that the present government shall hold over indefinitely, all well and good. We refuse to join with. those who are proposing a demand for the transfer of the government.

Something of this kind would seem to be implied in the figurative expressions of Revelation 20:9. "The camp of the saints and the Beloved City" would seem to represent the earthly phase of the Kingdom, and

the encompassing of the camp would seem to imply a protest. Such a division of sentiment would show clearly how many had fully learned to commit everything to God and to trust absolutely in the Divine supervision of their affairs, and how many, after all the great lessons of seven thousand years, would still be inclined to take matters into their own hands-worldwide.

Destruction of Satan and All God's Enemies.

The denouement here and elsewhere pictured is that there came down fire from Heaven and devoured themSatan and all those who took the side of self-will and who indicated a measure of disloyalty and unfaithfulness.

Many are the Scriptures which seem to tell us of the final destruction of Satan; as, for instance, Romans 16:20, which declares that God will ultimately bruise Satan under the feet of the Church, thus associating the Church, the Body of Christ, with the Lord, the Head. This corresponds with the Divine statement in Eden that ultimately the Seed of the woman would crush the Serpent's head-ultimately destroy the Serpent and all that he stands for: namely, sin and rebellion against God.

Thus, eventually the wages of sin and death must be meted out to any wilful, persistent rebel against the Divine Law, whether he be an outward rebel or one secretly disloyal. The lesson is one for all of God's people and for the whole world. If we know the Spirit of the Lord in respect to sin, happy are we if we conform our lives thereto.

Let us mark well the course that will ultimately lead to Satan's destruction. Let us mark well also the course of Jesus, which led to the highest glory. Which example shall we follow? Shall we in humility walk in the footsteps of our Redeemer, and become His joint-heirs, or shall we take the other course of pride, and thus become disciples of the Adversary, and reach his doom?

Gerry.

With the newer woman has come gradually a newer type of love story -the romance in which the initiative, the adventure, are with the woman rather than with the man. "What Will She Do With It?" might be the title of many a modern novel, in which it is the girl, not the youth, who responds to the call of a chivalrous quest. It is an American girl of the baffling, fascinating, enterprising, modern sort who is the heroine of Margarita a girl who is boyish yet alluringly feminine; innocent minded. yet keenly aware, timid yet coolly self-assured, Marjorie Spofford lights up the whole story with her radiant, winning personality; her unworldliness, the courage with which she rallies from the pain of wounded pride and plucks the finer truth out of disillusion, make a spirited appeal. Marjorie's case was not the usual one of the girl dazzled by the glamour of the theatre; she wasn't "stage struck," or even particularly vain of her undeniable beauty; nor was she in need of money. It was the spirit of adventure that led her to the office of Jere Newbold, the masterful young theatrical director. Newbold saw that she had no dramatic talent, knew nothing of emotion or technique; but he gave her a minor role because she interested him. Then in due time Marjorie, who had always thought of love as a smooth, comfortable affair, was shocked by one of its cruder manifestations, and learned that men are not always as deeply civilized as they seem. Yet Marjorie stuck to the company, and when Newbold joined them on the road and fell ill of typhoid

ankle kept her at the same hospital.

Then, little by little, she was admitted to the wide country of a man's friendship, learning the fine side of the man she had hated, and assisting him with the play he was writing. With money newly inherited, she dared to help him out of financial difficulties without his knowledge, and the result was that she came into collision for the first time with the man's code of ethics, learning after bitter struggle the last lesson needed to deepen her from girl to woman. Always interesting as to its background and its many subsidiary touches of character, the story holds one's absorbed attention as a clear-cut drama of that conflict of sex-antagonism and sex-attraction that may shock the serenest soul to new consciousness.

Published by Harper & Bros.,. Franklin Square, N. Y.

"Prayer: What It Is and What It

Does," by Dr. Samuel McComb. Nowadays we are swinging farther and farther away from the scientific rationalism that has dominated philosophy and even religious thought for so long. Practically no one to-day calls himself a "materialist" in the old sense, and faith and mysticism are everywhere reasserting their claims. The inspiring little book called "Prayer: What It Is and Does," belongs to the new order of thought-the thought that tries to see things whole. and to recognize realities of whatever kind. That prayer is a real force, that according to the pragmatic test "it works" in the midst of life, effecting not only spiritual but even physical changes, is a thing that can no longer

be doubted at this time of day. The cases of men who have been genuinely born anew, the cases in which physical ills have been ameliorated if not healed, are too convincing to be easily. dismissed. Nor does the notion that prayer may be effective necessarily conflict with the laws of science. Only we must recognize the limitations of prayer and get rid of the antiquated notion that it is a matter of petition instead of being, as it really is, a communion that enables us to escape from our petty selves. The whole matter, including the delicate question of how one should pray, is luminously and sympathetically set forth by Dr. Samuel McComb. For most readers his little book contains more truth and suggestions than a two volume treatise on philosophy, and after reading it one will be slow to attribute the phenomena of prayer to mere imagination or self-hypnotism.

Published by Harper Brothers, Franklin Square, New York.

"Adventures of the Infallible Godahl,"

by Frederick Irving Anderson, with eight illustrations.

A fascinatingly unconventional hero makes his first public bow in book form in this account of the exploits of the "Infallible Godahl." A well bred young New Yorker, popular in the respectable circles to which he belongs, Godahl possesses an insatiable craving for adventure, and at the same time has the will and cultivated skill to cover his tracks after taking the most daring chances. While undeniably a villain, he has the saving grace of engaging in the business of crime. for the fun of the thing. He hesitates at nothing, not even at an attempt on the United States Assay Office. For the sake of tapping one mighty safe full of jewels he sets off eighteen hundred burglar alarms in the Maiden

Lane district of New York. The author knows New York and New York people thoroughly, and at every turn he gives daringly intimate glimpses of the life of the city. As a character in one dramatic episode the reader has no difficulty in recognizing, under a thin disguise, one of America's foremost women philanthropists.

Cloth, 12mo., $1 net; postage extra. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York.

"Worry," by Ralph Kent Buckland, author of "In the Land of the Philippino," "Philippine Journeys," etc.

In view of their own past mental tortures, the cerebral contortions of the heroine of this story-the querulous Mrs. Simkins, past mistress of the art of worry-will prove a delightful relaxation to those who have worried. Those who have yet to know what it is to "borrow trouble" will be attracted and held by the bubbling humor of the story and by the unfolding of the delicately wrought plot and the following of the love theme here interwoven. It is a book for young and old-a homely, pleasant little tale that leaves an altogether wholesome impression and a lingering desire to know more of Mrs. Simkins and her numerous problems. Every one who worries should read it.

Cloth, 12mo. $1 net: by mail, $1.10. Published by Sherman, French & Co., Boston.

"Kirstin, a Play in Four Acts," by Alice Cole Kleene.

This is a version in blank verse, drama form, of the sea nymph as developed by Hans Christian Anderson, in which numbers of songs are introduced. The form is well chosen to develop the action along the conception of the author.