92 THE KING’S BUSINESS the Life of Christ." Dr. Thomas F. Cummings, the leading teacher of the world in Phonetics, will be present through the entire month, with a special view of helping those who are preparing for foreign mission work. As is gen erally known, the leading Missionary Boards in the East now send all their accepted candidates for foreign mission work to Dr. Cummings for a course before leaving for their field. Evangelist W. P. Nicholson will hold evangelis tic meetings at night, from February 10 through the mqnth. The regular teachers, Dr, Torrey, Dr., Evans, Mr. Hunter, Mr. W. H. Pike, Mr. Baldwin, and the teachers in the musical department will carry on their regular work. This is a very unusual opportunity for ministers, missionaries or lay-workers who wish a larger equipment for their work along the lines of Bible study and teaching. . One of the most suggestive and significant and heartening results of the war up to date is the taking of Jerusalem by the English forces. Whether or not they will be able to hold it, of course, remains to be seen. _If they do, according to England’s explicitly expressed purpose, Jerusalem will be turned over to some form of Jewish government. Whether this will be possible or not: at the present time depends upon the further developments of the war. But whether this is accomplished at the present time or not, it will be accom plished sooner or later. The Word of God makes it perfectly clear that Jerusa lem again is to be the center of a Jewish government. A few years ago there seemed to be no probability of such a thing, but,history is making most rapidly in these days. But there is-to be, according to the prophecy in the Word of God, not merely the establishment of a Jewish government there again, but an awful siege of Jerusalem, and an awful time of trouble for Jacob, in compari son with which that which they have passed through in the centuries, is as nothing, but the outcome of that will be the return of our Lord to deliver His people when the darkness of their sorrow and anguish becomes the deepest. There are thousands of young men in the various cantonments through out the United States who, while they may not confess it (though they often do confess it), are filled with apprehension of the loss of their lives when they go to France. But why should they fear that? If they are not Christians, of course, there are reasons to fear, but if they really have accepted Christy and are confessing Him as their Saviour, and living to please Him in all things, there is nothing whatever to dread, but everything to welcome, in the death that they may meet on the field of battle; for to die for the believer is a privilege. The moment he closes his eyes upon this world he opens them upon a far brighter and better world. “To depart, and be with Christ; . ^ . is very far better” (Phil. 1:23). If a Christian man is called upon to lay down his present body shot through and through with bullets, or blown to pieces by bombs, he knows that he has a far better body, “a building of God, a house not J ERUSALEM. W HY FEAR DEATH.
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