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T H I S beautiful photo graph of ' i ha L a d y Chapel" of Glouceater Ca thedral, wae sent to the editor by Mr. H o w a r d Frost, Vice President of the Bible Institute of Loe Angeles, who, with his wife a n d s o n , s p e n t l a s t summer in the British Islea and Switzerland. Glouces ter Cathedral la 420 feet In length, and 144 In width. The height of the central tower, which la Its great est external ornament, and contains the "Great Peter" bell, weighing over three tons. Is 225 feet. The clois ters also, of great beauty, form a large square. The history of the city of Gloucester is traceable to a very remote antiquity. It was the “Caer-Glow” of the Britons, and an impor tan t town under the Sax ons, by whom it was called "Glean-Ceaster," hence its present name. Miles Smith, B i b l i c a l translator, and Robert Raikea, the founder and promoter of Sunday Schools, were natives of Gloucester.
desolate is become like the GARDEN OF EDEN; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then the nations that are left round about you, shall know that I, Jehovah, build the ruined places, and plant that which was desolate; I Jehovah have spoken it, and I will do it” (vs. 35, 36). We must observe carefully, that with regard to the Holy Land, the honor of the Holy One of Israel is at stake, and it is not a question of the Hebrew people or the Mandate of the British .Nation given by a League of Nations, that we are dealing with. Again, we refer to the passage in verse 22: “Therefore say unto the House of Israel, Thus salth Jehovah God, I do not this for your sakes, but for Mine Holy Name’s sake, which ,ye have profaned among the nations whither ye went;,T'and v. 35: "Therefore, saith the Lord God, truly in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea which have appointed my Land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful mind, to cast it out for a prey.” "Prophesy, therefore, concerning the Land of Israel............ Because ye have borne the shame of the heathen, therefore, thus said Jehovah (the Triune Creator Elohim, Father, Son and Spirit), I have lifted up Mine Hand (the Divine Man date), surely the nations that are about you, they shall bear their, shame; but yet O Mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come.” A learned Professor from an American University, a great Bible student (how gone to his rest), who had not prophetic foresight, told us ih Jerusalem a few years ago, “that the Jews ought not to come back to Palestine, that they must not, they shall not, and will not.” My only reply was “But they will,” yes, because it is the will of the Sovereign of the universe. What are we daily seeing and hearing here at the port of Haifa at the foot of the lovely range of mountains—Car mel? Jews from all parts of the globe coming week by week to what is to them the sacred soil of Palestine, the ancestral home of their fathers. More than 1,000,000 Dunans of (Continued on page 771)
Canaan, the fact that the Inhabitants were cannibals, and be grounded his statement on this verse. Of course, that is not the meaning, though in seasons of famine women have lost all sense of motherhood, and have fed on their own off spring, as prophecy warned (Deuteronomy 28:56, 57), and history records (2 Kings 6:28, 29); as see also the record of the Jewish historian, Josephus, concerning the siege of Jerusalem in the time of the Roman Emperor, Titus. But it was because of the terrible abominations of the dwellers in the Holy Land that it was said to “vomit” or “spue out” its Inhabitants (Lev. 18:25-28), and Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, warned His people through the Law of Moses, say ing, “Ye shall keep therefore all my statutes and all my judgments, and do them; that the land whither I bring you to dwell in spue you not out” (Lev. 20:22). We want especially to note the way the God of Israel speaks of His Land as related to His earthly people in this chapter. He, after having called it in v. 5, “MY LAND,” in v. 6 terms it the “Land of Israel.” Then, referring to the House of Israel in v. 17, He speaks of their own land that they defiled by their own ways, and their own doings. We have next the sad result of the failure of the Chosen People to be true witnesses to their Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, so that the nations among whom God scat tered them said derisively of them: “These are the People of Jehovah who have gone forth out of HIS LAND.” But the grace of God is boundless, and His covenant, promise and love endless, and so He declares: “I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and bring you into (and there the terms are so marked again) Your Own Land.” And then there is the promise of conversion, regeneration and sanctification, resulting in obedience, and the state ment, “And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God” (vs. 24-28). And later follows the wonderful prophecy, which we cannot very well deny is in some small measure being fulfilled before our very eyes: “And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This Land that was
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