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where she now is, said, “I wondered what made her seem so different since she re turned from the hospital.” Followed by a Bible woman from the County Hospital to a tiny green cottage high on a mountain side was a woman who for years had been a church mem ber, but had never accepted the Lord as her Saviour. “Couldn’t you do it today?” was asked. She looked the Bible woman steadily in the eye, for a minute or two, and then said, slowly, “Why, I believe I could.” Together they knelt by the little couch and there was rejoicing in heaven, for a sinner had repented. A dying consumptive woman, found in the rear room of a tenement, renewed her covenant with God. She was taken to the County Hospital, where her min istry for Him was acknowledged by both nurses and patients. Three weeks later standing beside her coffin, her husband accepted her Christ as his Saviour. scientific help to the understanding of the Old Testament.” To this Cobern adds, “Many of these' works would not afford a hint that their authors had ever suspected there was such a thing as an ancient Egyptian or Babylonian lit is tranquillized; captured is the land of we shall see Him as He is.” I John 3:2.) erature.” PERSONALS. Chester White, who has been for sev eral months with Dr. Henry in Evan gelistic work, has returned to take up work with the Institute. Tom Hannay pays us an occasional visit. He slips in and out on his mission of blessing to the young people of Cali fornia. He is being greatly owned by God and we praise him for his use fulness. Paul Brown, the old reliable repre sentative for the State Endeavorers, is having a successful work among the youn people of San Francisco and vi cinity. He reports the work in the Bible College as progressing finely. Dr. W. C. Sherman, who has been with us for several weeks, will do some evangelistic work in the southern part of the State this winter. Dr. J. Q. A. Henry has been holding some great meetings in Manitoba and Washington. He expects to be back in California in January. Good letters are coming from Miss Helen Smith of the Class of 1911. She is happily at work in China.
spiritually. Her testimony is hearing rich fruitage. A unique Bible class has been held several evenings in the home of one of the Bible women. Theosophists, Christ ian Scientists, Spiritualists, and out and out believers, have met to hear the Word taught dispensationally. God has hon ored His own Word, and deep conviction has been brought to the hearts of many of these unbelievers. By invitation, one of the Bible women, in each week visiting the Juvenile Court Ward in the County Hospital, where there are from seven to thirteen girls— Spanish, black and white. Quietly and with earnest faces they have listened to the reading of “The Man That Died for Me.” “Beautiful Snow!” “Old John is Dead, I’m New John,” and the little talks that follower. After a week’s thought, one little 16-year-old sister accepted our Lord. The matron of the Juvenile Hall, Egyptian Archaeology in Rela tion to the Bible. (Continued from Page 17) the critic do? Yet this blind Samson led forth from the dungeon of ages, has laid his hands on them, and already tot- ering they will soon fall and bury these Philistines of traditionalism under the ruins of temple they have so laboriously reared. “Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin,” is inscribed on their walls. Mene, the days of the derisive criticism are ended; tekel, it is weighed in the balance and found wanting; peres, it is given into the hands of the Medes and Persians, the Chaldeans and the Egyptians. Now we know what the pyramids were for, to bury the sceptics in. But of all this the “higher critic” is willingly ignorant. The hypothetical he knows, the psychological he knows, but to the archaeological he says, “Who are you?” He has a Nelsonian knack of put ting the glass to his blind eye and ignor ing defeat. Reviewing two typical works, the “Introductions,” of Driver and Cornhill, Dr. Osgood wrote: From these Introductions one would never imagine the existence of that vast sphere of knowledge which has revolutionized our whole idea of ancient history and given us the environment of Palestine from a thousand years before Moses to the time of Christ. These volumes will be search ed in vain for the first evidence of any acquaintance with this most learned and
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