September* 1935
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Mary Leighton Floyd, the last survivor of the first contingent of American Christian Zionists to enter Palestine, is shown receiv ing at her home a visitor to Palestine, A. F. Futterer of Edendale, Calif. Mrs. Floyd's death in November of 1934 marked the close of a life of wide influence.
Courtesy, Palestinian Exhibition, Edendale, Calif.
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B y LOUIS S. BAUMAN* Long Beach, California
cording to the authoritative voice of the incarnate God Himself, “cannot be broken” (John 10:35). E zek ie l ' s V ision of t h e V alley of D ry B ones : The prophet Ezekiel was “carried . . . out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set . . . down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones . . . and, lo, they were very dry” (Ezek. 37:1, 2). It was a valley of absolute death. The Lord asked : “Son of man, can these bones live ?” The per plexed prophet replied : ' “O Lord God, thou knowest” ! Then Omnipotence commanded His prophet to “prophesy upon these bones," saying to them that they shall live ! Thus the prophet declares : So I prophesied as I was commanded : and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sineiys and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above : but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophe sied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceed ing great army (Ezek. 37:7-10). What an astonishing, bewildering, breath-taking scene it must have been! If Ezekiel had possessed a drop of the blood that supposedly flows beneath ebony skins, he would have disappeared from that scene with an appalling speed. But he stood his ground, and the Lord gave to him a mar velous revelation: Then he [the Lord God] said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of
poet, Crabbe, wrote of An amazing race, deprived of land and laws, A general language, and a public cause; With a religion none can now obey, With a reproach that none can take away; A people still, whose common ties are gone; Who, mixed with every race, are lost in none.
Need any one ask who this “amazing racé . . . mixed with every race . . . [and] lost in none,” may be? It is the race of whom the eternal God hath said: “This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise” (Isa. 43:21), and ‘‘ye. shall be named The priests of the Lord: men shall call you The ministers of our God” (Isa. 61 :6). Assuredly, a people of whom the most high God could thus speak, could not be other than “an amazing race,” pe culiar, wonderful, and indestructible. T h e N ational R esurrection of “A n A mazing R ace ” Without' controversy, the most stupendous event this terraqueous globe of ours has ever seen was seen on that memorable morning when the Son of David crashed through the theretofore impregnable gates of death and hell, and triumphed over the mightiest foes of our fallen race. The resurrection of Jesus Christ brought forth the assurance of endless life to despairing humanity. But, we are wondering whéther the world of men is utterly oblivi ous to the fact that today, in this very hour, another resur rection, buoyant with a glorious hope for the despairing sons of men, is taking placé before our very eyes? The resurrection of which we speak is set forth by the prophets of God in words so plain that the simplest child can read and understand—set forth in the Scriptures, which, ac- *Pastor, First Brethren Church.
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