June 1926
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VII. The Religious Sign The last sign, the religious one, has a dark and a bright side. The apos tasy at the end of the Church age, foretold in the Holy Scriptures, is as marked in the Holy Land as anywhere, with its double aspect of Modernism and Ritualism. Here we see all too clearly the hand of domineering priest craft and communistic lawlessness, with its addition of the false teaching of Bahaism, Mormonism, Russellism, Christian Science. Almost every kind of worldly pleasure and extravagance are found in the Holy City and are spreading over the Holy Land, so novel to the steady-moving, listless charac teristics of the ancient Orient under Turkish domination. One of the happier signs tells of a deep desire on the part of God’s true children to be one, as witness the first United Conference of the Evangelical, Jewish Missions of Palestine and Syria last May in Jerusalem. Then there is the steady increase of the number of Hebrew Christians by bap tism and by settlement in the Land of their forefathers. This is encourag ing, as also- the changed attitude of most of Jewry towards the New Testa ment, and the readiness of the younger generation to purchase and read it, es pecially in the Hebrew tongue. The “ remnant according to the election of grace” is growing, and the time also when the nation as a whole shall look upon Him whom they have pierced and mourn for Him as one mourneth for 1is only son and be - in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn, is fast approaching (Zech. 12 : 10 ) . This consummation is the work of the God of Sovereign Grace Himself, for it is Jehovah who declares: “ And I will pour upon the House of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced/' Turning from the past to the un known future, in fervent faith and full expectancy that our great JEHOVAH JESUS will continue to show us Divine Favor, we unitedly wish you, our fel low-laborers in the Gospel, every blessing at this season, and pray that the coming year may be a year of joy ful1service in the Master’s cause and Kingdom.
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of the Law Courts add general admin istration, and the fact that Englishmen and Arabs also are learning it, cannot be ignored. It was a great help to attend the first Hebrew Summer School held for the Jewish missionaries of Palestine under the direction of Dr..Christie, of Scots Mission, Tiberias, and Principal Semple of Scots College, Safad, during last August. Surely this return to the language was most marked also at the opening of the Hebrew University on the Mount of Olives, at the beginning of April 1925. Before the Ceremony the choir sang in Hebrew, “ Out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3; Micah 4 :2 ), and chanted the 19th Psalm, telling of the glory of God in -Creation and His Word in Revelation. Rabbi Kook, of Palestine, too, gave a long quotation in Hebrew from many parts of the Old Testament, and prayed In Hebrew. M a n y of the addresses were in Hebrew, and Dr. Herz, the Chief Rabbi of England, prayed a most fervent prayer for blessing on her King .and people, and on Israel and all nations, in Hebrew, ending With the triple priestly benediction of Num bers 24:26, while the choir closed the proceedings with a rendering in He brew of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.
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