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who make of the predicted returning of Christ a social evolutionary current in the flow of history, if they would but justly interpret the terrible portents of our time. The Child of Isaiah was the Saviour of-mankind from its evolutions and retrogressions. The Lord of the Second Coming, the Prince of Peace, will be no less per sonal. If you wish peace, prepare for the coming. Coming Convention The World’s Christian Fundamentals Association is returning to Philadelphia, its birthplace, for its four teenth annual convention, which will be held in Bethany Presbyterian Church (the Wanamaker Church), May 17 to 24, 1931. From year to year, at these conferences, emphasis has been laid on various cardinal themes. For instance, last year, in the meetings held in Los Angeles, the general subject was “The Holy Spirit.” This year, the theme will be “The Personal Return of Christ.” The outstand ing need of the hour is a heaven-sent revival and the speedy evangelization of the world. There is no better way to meet this need than by emphasizing the Lord’s return and related themes. No subject could be more timely and pertinent. Among the expected speakers are the following: Dr. Harry A, Ironside, Moody Memorial Church, Chicago, 111. Dr. Arno C. Gaebelein, author and Bible teacher, New York, N. Y. Dr. W. B. Riley, First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Will H. Houghton, Calvary Baptist Church, New York, N. Y. Dr. W. H. Rogers, Hinson Memorial Church, Port land, Ore. Dr. Stewart P. MacLennan, First Presbyterian Church, Hollywood, Calif. Dr. M. R. DeHaan, Calvary -Undenom inational Church, Grand Rapids, Mich. Rev. Paul W. Rood, Beulah Tabernacle, Turlock, Calif. Mr. Arthur H. Carter, Editor of Bible Witness, Lon don, Eng. Dr. David L. Coopér, President of Biblical Research Society, Los Angeles, Calif. Miss Elizabeth L. Knauss, author and lecturer, Daven port, la. Special sessions will be held for laymen, women, Sun day-school workers, educators, pastors, evangelists, mis sionaries, and mission workers. A prayer meeting for world-wide revival will be held each morning at nine o’clock. A special excursion has been arranged by the Presi dent of the Association. Friends who wish to take ad vantage of this privilege will leave Los Angeles, San Fran cisco, and Portland on May 12, uniting at Ogden, and being joined later by parties from Denver, Minneapolis, Kansas City, etc. The company will leave Chicago on May 15, spending the following day in Washington, D. C., and reaching Philadelphia that evening. For informa tion concerning rates and reservations, write to Rev. Paul W. Rood, Turlock, Calif. Friends in the Middle-West, who desire general information about the Convention, should address Mrs. H. Look, 1020 Harmon PI., Minne apolis, Minn.
metrical form is most marked where the expression ap proaches the prophetic type, while in the .descriptive parts, the meter is closer to thé form common in the Eclogues.” A M arked C orrespondence As there seems to have been no other source for Ver gil’s idea, we are perhaps justified in concluding that the divine Child of Isaiah 9—Wonderful, Counsellor, Prince of Peace—-was in the background of “his mind. This comes out when we compare the following lines of the Eclogue (in Wharton’s translation) with chapters 11 and 35 of Isaiah: . “Peace, Virtue, Justice, now return. See a new progeny from’ heaven descend. For thee, O child, spontaneous earth shall pour Green ivy, mixed with every choicest flower; Each, field shall breathe Assyria’s rich perfume. And sweets ambrosial round thy cradle bloom; With milk o’er-chgrged the goats shall homeward speed, And herds, secure from mighty lions, feed. The baleful asp and speckled snake shall die, Nor poisonous herb ’mid flow’rs concealed shall lie. Then clustering grapes on forest thorns shall grow; Swains, without culture golden harvests reap, And knotted oaks shall showers of honey weep.” “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose . . . The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree and the box together . . . The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion, and the failing together : and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; thèir young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s dèh.” M isunderstanding —A nc ien t and M odern Horace would have abandoned Rome to her fate. Vergil protested that the eternal city had still a future before it. This future was symbolized under the figure of a child who was the type, as Professor Ramsay thinks, of a reborn Roman people, a new and better generation. It was not to be expected that Vergil should have under stood the personal Messianic character of Isaiah’s proph ecy. So he spiritualizes the Child of the First Coming, as so many today spiritualize the personal .character of the Second Coming, reducing the coming Prince of Peace to “world peace through mutual understanding,” a thing of protocol and peace pact. Vergil cried out that Rome’s Golden Age was right ahead of them, fruit of the wise administration of the young Augustus, the security and good order which he was going to bring in. So in the Georgies he tells of the blessings which improved agri culture is to introduce in the disappearance of noxious animals and troublesome weeds, in the husbanding of natural resources, in the gradual ushering in of a human itarian millennium. He would no doubt have rent his garments in anguish if he could have foreseen the out come of the next five centuries. So would those today ,
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