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it gives an answer to the questions which the manifestation suggests; whether it does so fully or partially as a final com munication, or as the commencement of information to be completed afterwards. This is the subject which will next claim our attention as the first step in the in quiry; how the Christian doctrine was added to the Christian facts, the divine interpretation to the divine intervention. The relations between these two parts of the Gospel have now in some measure come into. view. We have seen that the evangelical narrative creates the want and gives the pledge of an evangelical doctrine; that it also deposits its material and pro vides its safeguard.
Him now? and in what way has this brief appearance affected our position before God and the state and destiny of the soul? What is the nature of the redemption which He has wrought, of the salvation which he has brought, of the kingdom of God which He has opened to all believers? These were questions left for the dis ciples when Jesus was gone; and, when the reader of the Gospel story reaches its close, these questions remain for him. The disciples would- recall what their Master had spoken in order to gather th.e whole result of the words of His lips. The reader also will review that personal teach ing of Christ which is interwoven with His visible manifestation, and will ask whether and instructive than watching the lions. Magnificent specimens they were-with .their long hair and manes, and awful in their quiet exhibition of strength ! On this oc casion they were very restless and showed an uneasiness that .caused one'to. fear that pent-up anger might soon give way to an outburst of passion. However, I soon learned the cause of' their impatience—they were hungry. The keeper has a regular time for feeding them and told me that he seldom varies by as much as five minutes. But on the day of my visit he was unavoid ably detained and when I- reached the den it was long past the time for .their meal. They had learned to know the regular time and expected to be fed promptly. On this day they realized that the keeper was late and were walking to and fro, grqwling and roaring in a dangerous way. As I thought of the incident there came to me the words of the Psalmist, and they made a wonder ful impression upon me as I saw their truth in a new light. “The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.”— TOURING ^ garden a recent visit to a zoological nothing was more interesting
A COMFORTING PROMISE
Psalm 34:10. The child of the world may suffer hunger and lack many good things; but the child of God' may ever feed at the bountiful table of a generous and loving Father .—Alan Pressley Wilson.'
The Japan Evangelist says : “The Church in Japan is remarkably sensitive to the main currents of universal Christian life and thought, and is far more influenced by them than by Buddhist and other Oriental thought. If the Church in other lands re mains vigorous and sound, it will be a virtual guarantee of the vigor and sound ness of the Japanese Church. The day has passed when every Wind of doctrine can disturb the leaders or even the rank and file of the Japanese church. The last dec ade of the nineteenth century correspond ed in their experience with the ' stormy days of adolescence when many Japanese Christians sold their birthright. Now every year makes less and less likely any wide divergence from the tested verities of historic Christianity or any splitting off from the Church Universal.”
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