of God is now dividing the new from the old, as Jesus taught in the parable of the new piece of cloth and the old garment. Patchwork will not do, the new house of Israel cannot be patched on to the old.-The two seeds must be separated, the seed of Jacob must be separated from the seed of Esau, that it may be brought home and gathered into the barn. Then Jacob will rejoice and Israel shall be glad; and we do rejoice this day that the true seed of Abraham are now fast being gathered from out of this apostasy wherein they are held captive. The Spirit of God is causing His people to seek the piece which was lost in paradise, and this is the whole substance of the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost. For as in Adam, all have lost the piece, even so in Christ shall all find it. But every man in his own order. The reward is according to the material wherewith we build in Christ, whether wood, hay, stubble or gold, silver and precious stones. Christ the first-fruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. Then the woman who lost the piece, after she hath found it,— she calls in her friends and her neighbours together saying: Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I (the woman in the creation) had lost. The friends and neighbours here called in are the neighbours who shall live and reign with Christ and His bride, during the Millennium, or one thousand years on earth. Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God.-The piece which the woman lost in the beginning and which she is now diligently sweeping and searching the house to find, and which is found, is the piece which cleanses the whole house of Israel;-it is the helpmate that was promised to be given;-that eternal helpmate that is to help male and female to what they lost in paradise, i.e., the inheritance.-Man and woman lost it, while in that state, for they were both as one in that immortal Spirit, until they had taken of that which God had placed in the city, which was stronger than their spirits, and caused God to give the fruit of His body, the blood, for the sin of His soul,-being that which Adam charged Him with in giving him the woman who had beguiled him, and through being beguiled have they

not sown of the husks until this day? when they were beguiled through the serpent, they did eat of the husks in the lust of the flesh, placed in the city. And the Gentiles to this hour are sowing in unfallowed ground, sowing in the husks. and reaping corruption.-This is the nineteenth century and under the cloak of religion. Is it then to be marvelled at, that God's judgments are about to descend upon the nations of the earth;-for the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters, (many nations) with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. No marvel that the atmosphere we breathe to-day, savours of wars and rumours of wars. The time has come for the golden cup, with all its abominations and filthiness of fornication to be dashed to the earth.-The time is at hand for the purple phylacteries, the enlarged borders of the scarlet garments, with false deckings of a pharisaic apostasy to be stripped of its sanctimonious trappings and left naked in the balance, in all its ghastly deformities to an astonished multitude.—Be not deceived, God will not be mocked with impunity.—Jesus said: -"For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind." "If ye were blind ye should have no sin: but now ye say: 'we see,' therefore your sin remaineth." Christendom is divided against itself, and cannot stand. Each day shows us that it is fast receding back to the quarries of Popery from whence it originated. This apostasy will soon discover to its utter confusion, that it will avail them little to say: Lord! Lord! have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?—have we not built churches and steeples innumerable to thy name? -have we not raised the standard of Calvary, the cross, and placed it upon the highest pinnacles, reaching even to the clouds of heaven,—that all men might see it. Have we not compassed land and sea for thy name's sake? but says Jesus: I will profess to this apostate Christendom: "I never knew you,-depart from me, ye that work iniquity. I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat, I was thirsty, and ye gave

me no drink. I was a stranger and ye took me not in, naked and ye clothed me not: sick and in prison and ye visited me not. I never knew you.-Now he that loseth not that which he has received, more is added to it, but if he lose any part of it, that which remaineth with him is taken away. It is written he that had but one talent, went and hid it in a napkin ; then the parable goes on to say: "I knew that thou wast a hard master, reaping that which thou hast not sowed, gathering that which thou hast not strewed, and taking up that which thou hast not laid down,--But every man's own deeds will judge him. Be not deceived and think that ye will be judged as a criminal is before a judge at a temporal court, for every man's own deeds will either condemn or justify him before the judgment-seat of Christ. If a man make no use of what he has, that which he has (the natural body) is taken away. Of those who are born in fornication, there is nothing required, but their souls; they having no promise of the immortal life of the natural body,-it being under the curse; -but those who have come from under the second curse, which is the soul, their soul will rise at the first resurrection, a spiritual house for their spirit to dwell in. So to those whom He has given, He expects more to it, that He may reap, so the word is more merciful than the parable. In some parts of scripture, men and women are compared to vine trees, or as oak trees whose substance is in them, and though the oak trees should be cut down to the root, still there is life: so it is with the seed of the house of Israel. The inheritance is handed down to the offspring. Then if death stayed with the trees, would they not be cut down-would hell have seen its plagues?-For the devil is now come, knowing that his time is short in the kings to battle, and it shall be such a battle as has never been fought. They are to-day sweeping and striving for peace and may have obtained a temporary peace with honour, as shortlived as its framers, but Pharaoh's heart has been given to them not to give in, and it will be the scourge to the whole planet; that the everlasting gospel-this Flying Roll may be heard in all islands that stand out of the water, for not one island shall escape. "And some of them

of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end." 'And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." "And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High."And now the time is at hand fulfilling the word of God which speaks of the dreadful war of the canons, and steam to steam, fire to fire among the nations of the earth. Every man who bears not of the true vine, must go to the ground. Ye must bear either of the wild vine or of the true vine. For six thousand years, man has borne of the wild vine, and so death has ruled, but now is the true vine flourishing and spreading forth its branches into all lands. Every man who goes to the grave bears his father's iniquity, and every one who lives, bears his own iniquity, for the mouth of the Lord has declared it.-Jesus said to Peter three times: "Feed my sheep, feed my lambs "-He did not say: "Feed my cattle" but called them His sheep. Now, it was said that it was not time for the cattle to be gathered, or the sheep to be separated, for they have all been mixed together for a purpose. The time is now come for the cattle of Israel to be gathered together from a thousand hills, and the salvation of Israel to come out of Zion, to be brought home and gathered into the barn. The present disturbed state of Europe, which is fast being fanned into a flame, until the whole will be in a blaze, when the six kings will be engaged in deadly conflict, which will result firstly in the total destruction of the crescent. The Berlin Treaty has only given Turkey a fresh, but very short lease of its existence-and the certain and final overthrow of the Ottoman Power is a sure and certain sign to all Israel that the time of the restoration and ingathering of Israel is at hand. The two houses Ephraim and Manasseh will gather themselves together and go to Jerusalem ;—a law will be passed in all nations to carry them back, then all nations will be gathered against them.-The great progress now being made in all nations, in the matter of the great and wonderful strides in science and new inventions is another sure and certain sign to Israel that the time of their deliver

ance is at hand, for in all things relating to science great wisdom has been given to the world, and in this they do exceed the house of Israel, for these things the house of Israel do not see. This shows the two armies, the dead and the living, and the knowledge of the dead shall go far beyond that of the living in all these things relating to improvements in science and new inventions; as it is written: "The children of this world are wiser in their own evil than the children of light." So, when God has pushed the house of Israel together, then, in a moment behold destruction like as it was to Sodom and Gomorrah and behold they are no more seen. So at that time shall the borders of the grave be greatly enlarged. Jesus said: "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." Jesus came not to bring peace to the world but a sword and: "he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one "-that is to say: Let my followers strip themselves of Satan's clothing and buy the sword of the Spirit "the truth." To combat the evil in his own father, and the daughter likewise the evil in her mother and motherin-law. Jesus did not mean for His followers to handle or wield the temporal sword of the world, that belongs to the world and not to His followers ;- for when one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest and smote off his ear Jesus rebuked him saying: "Put up again thy sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father and He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? " He could then have called forth the spirits of the just, the seed of Israel, the 144,000. And when the Lord commanded Moses, saying: "Let every man put his sword by his side, and go in and out and slay every man his brother, and every man his neighbour "These were all ensamples for our learning and profit