MONDAY. APRIL 19, 1913.
rLATTSMOTJTlt SEMTVWEEKL? JOURNAL.
By
I . rl -SLi-iI i i H I lif ,
A. Comedy of Youth Founded by Mr. planners on His
Great Play of tire Same Title Illustrations
From Photographs of the Play
Copyright, 1913, by Dodd, Mead Comptny
CHAPTER VIII.
For the Cause.
'COXXELL had changed very
iuucb since the days of St Ker
nan'a MM. As was foreshad
owed earlier, he no longer urged
violence. He had come under the iu-j
fiueuce of the more temperate men of i
the party and was content to win by J
legislative means what Ireland hadj
failed to accomplish wholly by con
f.ict. although no one recognized more
thoroughly than O'Connell what a!
large part the determined attitude ot;
the Irish party in resisting tin? Eng
lish laws, depriving tbetn of the rigbtj
of free speech and of meeting to.
spread lizlrt among the ignoratt. had
played in wringing some measure ot
recognition and of tolerance frcm the
English ministers.
What changed O'Connell more par
ticularly was the action of a hand of
so called patriots" who operated in
many parts of Ireland maimii;g cat
tle, ruining crops, injuring peaceable
farmers who did not il their lidding
and shooting at landlords and promi
nent people connected with the govern
ment. He avoided the possibility of im
prisonment again for tue sake of 1'eg.
What would befall her if he were tab
en from her?
The. continual thougLt that preyed
upon him was that tie would have
nothing to leave her when tiis call
came. Do what he would, he could
make but little money, and. w! en he
had a small surplus he would s end it
on Peg a shawl to keep cer wi rra n
a ribbon t give a gleam of cclor ic
the drab little clothes.
On great occasions he would buy
her a new dress, and then Per was
the proudest little child in the whole
of Ireland.
Every year on the minivers:. ry of
her mother's death O'Connell Had a
mnss sai l for the repose' ot Angela's
son!, and he would kneel beside Fo"g
through the service :?i:d be silent tor
the rest of the day. One year t.e had
candles blessed by the nrchbist op lit
on Our La 3y's altar, and he stayel long
after the service was over. 11 sent
I Vet noine. But, although I'eg obeyed
him partially by leaving the caureu,
she kept watch outside until her fa
ther came out. lie was wiping .his
eyes as ho saw her. He pretended to
be very angry.
"Didn't 1 tell ye to go home?"
"Ye did. father."
"Then why didn't ye obey me'."
"Sure an what world 1 be doin at
home, all alone, without you? Don't
be cross with me. father."
He took her band, and they valked
home in silence. He had been trying,
and Peg could not understand it. She
had never sk'U him do such a thing be
fore, and it worried her. Jt dd not
.?om right that a man should cry. It
seemed a weakness, and that her fa
ther of all men shou.d do it, ht? who
was not afraid of anything or any one.
vas wholly unaccountable to her.
When they reached home Peg busied
herself about her father, trying to
make him comfortable, furtively watcfi
i .z him all the while. When s! e had
f it hhn in an easy c!iar.r and brought
tim Ids slippers aul built up tie fire
sae snt down on a little stool by ins
f we. After a huig silence she srrokeJ
t ie buck of his band and then mve
t in a little tug. He looked down af'
her.
"What is it. Peg?"
"Was my mother very beautifMl. fa
t'. er;"
"The mot beautiful woman that
over lived in all the wurrld, I'eg."
"She looks U-autiful in the picture
y li:ive of Jier."
From the insido pocket of his coat
h- drew out a little beautifully paint
ed miniature. The frame had long
s i"-e boen worn and frayed. O'Con
n !! looked ::t the fa-e, and his eyes
s j'-;h'.
"The man that painted it couldn't
T ! tj. tii rf li..t- ,itii jt. Ttat lie
C uMii't: I'Ot the SOlii of HT
"Aril I like li.-r at all. father;" asked
Teg wistfully.
"Sometimes ye are. dear, very like."
After a little pan IVg said:
"Ye loved her very much, father,
3'.i. n't ye?" . ,
lie nodded. "1 Pved her with all
the heart of me and all the strength of
r.e."
I'eg sat quiet for so ne minutes; then
;he asked him a question very nict'y
ml htmgin suspense on his answer:
"Do ye love nie as much as ye loved
Scr. father?"
"It's different. Peg. quite, q'd e dif
lerent." "Why is it?" She waited.
He did not answer.
"Sure, love is love whether ye feel
It for a woman or a child." she per
sisted. .'Cornell remained silent.
"Hid ye love her letther than ye
love roe. father?" Her -u! was in hjr
great blue eyes as she waited ex itedly
Cor the answer to that to btr. n.oineu-
d HEART
J.'HartleyiManners
tous questions
"Whv do ye ask me that?
said
O'Connell.
"Because I always feel a little sharp
pain right through my heart whenever
ye talk about me mother. Ye see. fa
ther, I've thought all these years that
I was the one ye really loved"
"Ye're the only one 1 have in the
wurrld. Peg."
"And ye don't love her memory bet
ther than ye do me?" x
O'Connell put both of his arms
around her.
"Yor mother is with the saints. Peg.
and here are you by me side. Sure
there's room in me heart for the mem
ory of her and the love of you.'
She breathed a little sigh of satis
faction and nestled on to her father's
shoulder. The little fit of childish jeal
ousy of her dead mother's place in her
father's heart passed.
She wanted no one to share her fa
ther's affection with her. She gave him
all cf hers. She needed all of his.
When Peg was eighteen years old
and they were living in Dublin. O'Con
nell was offered quite a good position
in New York. It apiea!ed to him.
The additional money would make
things easier for I'eg. She was almost
a woman now. and he wanted her to
get the finishing touches of education
tLat Mould prepare her for a position
in the world if she met the man she
feit she could marry. Whenever he
would speak of marriage' I'eg would
langh scornfully:
"Who would 1 le afther marryin, I'd
like to know? Where in the wnrrld
would I hr.d a man like you?"
And no coaxing would make her car
ry ou the discussion or consider its
possibility.
It still harassed him to think he had
so little to leave her if anything hap
pened to him. The offer to go to Amcr-ica-'seemed
providential. Her mother
was buried there. He would take I'eg
to her grave.
Peg grew very thoughtful at the idea
of leaving Ireland. 'AH her little likes
and dislikes, her impulsive affections
and hot hatred, were bound up in that
country. She dreaded the prospect of
meeting a number of new people.
Still, it was for her father's good, so
she turned'a brave face to it and said:
"Sure it is the finest thing in the
worrid for both uf ik
But the night befoce they" left Ire
land she sat by the little window in
her bedroom until daylight looking
back through all the years of her short
life.
It seemed as if she were cutting off
all that beautiful golden period. ' She
would never again know the free, care
less, happy-go-Incky. living from day
to day existence that she had loved so
much.
It was a pale, wistful, tired little
Peg that joined her father at break
fast nest morning.
His heart was heavy too. But he
laughed and joked and sang and said
how glad they ought to be going to
that wonderful new country and, by
the way. the country I'eg was born in
too! And then he laughed again and
said how fine she looked and how well
he felt and that it seemed as if it were
God's hand in it all.
And Peg pretended to cheer up, and
they acted their parts right to the end
until the last line of laud disappear
etl and they were headed for America.
Then they separated and went to their
little cabins to think of all that had
been. And every day they kept up the
little deception with each other until
they reached America.
They were cheerless days at first for
O'Connell. Everything reminded him
ot his first landing twenty years be
fore with his young wife both so full
of hope, with the future stretching out
like some wonderful panorama before
them. He returns twenty years older
? begin the fight again this time for
his daughter.
His wife was buried in a little Cath
olic cemetery a few miles outside New
York city. There he took Peg one day,
and they put Rowers on the little
mound of earth and knelt awhile in
prayer. Beneath that earth lay not
only his wife's remains, but O'Con
nell's early hopes and ambitions were
buried with her.
Neither spoke either going to or re
turning from the cemetery. O'Con
ncll's heart was too full. Peg knew
what was passing through his mind
and snt with her hands folded in her
lap silent. Hut her little brain was
busy thinking back.
- Peg had much to think of during the
rarly days following her arrival in
New York. At first the city awed her
with, its huge buildings and ceaseless
whirl of activity and noise She long
ed to be back in her own little green,
beautiful country.
O'Connell was away during those
first days until late at.nfgbt.
3- f..uu
:;d J sebeyl for T't-tj . h& did
0:it iv;t!it to tB io n.' iitr jttfft f.o plpas?
ber father sh? agreed She lasted in it
just oue week" Theyla ughedat her
brogue and teased and tormented her
for . her absolute lack of knowledge
Peg put up with that just as long as
she could. Then one day she opened
out on them and astonished iiem.
They could not have been more amaz
ed had a bomb exploded in their
midst. The little, timid looking, open
eyed, Titian haired girl was a veritable
virago She attacked and belittled and
minified and berated theni. They
had talked of her brogue! They shouid
listen to their own nasal utterances,
that sounded as if they were speaking
with their noses and not with their
tongues! Even the teacher did not go
nuscathed. She came in for an on
slaught too. That closed Teg's career
as a New York student.
Her father arranged his work so that
he could be with her at certain peri
ods of the day and outlined her studies
from his own slender stock of knowl
edge. One wonderful day they had an ad
dition to their small family. A little,
wiry haired, scrubby, melancholy Irish
lerrier followed O'Connell for miles.
""Je tried to drive him away. The dog
would turn and run for a few seconds,
and the moment O'Connell would take
his eyes off him he would run along
and catch him up and wag his over
long tail and look up at O'Connell with
his sad eyes. The dog followed him
all the way borne, and when O'Connell
opened the door he ran in. O'Connell
had not the heart to nun him out. so
he poured out some milk and bnAc up
some dry biscuits for him and then
played with him until I'eg came home.
She liked the little dog at once, and
then and there O'Counell adopted him
and gave him to I'eg. He said the
dog's face had a look of Michael Quin
lan. th- Fenian. So Michael he was
named, and he took his place in the
little home. lie became Peg's boon
companion. Thoy romped together
like children, and they talked to each
other and understood each other.
The days Cowed quietly on, O'Cmi
nell apparently satisfied with his lot.
But to Peg's sharp eye all was not
well with him. There was a settled
melancholy about hi:u whenever she
surprised him thinking alone. She
thought he was fretting for Ireland
and their happy days together and so
said nothing.
lie was really worrying over Peg's
future. He had such a small amount
of money put by, and working on a
salary it would be long before he
could save onoiurh to leave Teg suffi
cient to carry her on for awhile if
"anything happened." The'e was al
ways that "if anything happened" run
ning iu his mind.
(To Be Continued.)
DOING THEIR DUTY
Scores of Plattsmouth Headers Are
Learning the Duty of the
Kidneys.
To filter the blood is the kidneys'
duty.
When they fail to do this the kid
neys are weak.
Backache and other kidney ills may
follow.
Help the kidneys do their work.
Use Doan's Kidney Tills the test
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I had an almost constant backache
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Trice 50c, at ail dealers. Don't
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Stock to Pasture.
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4-19-tfwkly
For Sale.
Eggs for hatching and d2y-old
;hicks from Single Comb Rhode Is
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per 100; chicks, 10c each. Special
mating prices upon request.
A. O. Kamge,
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2-22-tf-d&w
FOR SALE 2 milch cows, an almost
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Also would like light work by the
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No. 3G7-J. 4-19-tfd
Stsf r f Ojfo. Clrr of Tol"1i. I.tira County. .
Frani J. b"n?y m.:k-s tb thnt be in senior
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the turn of OXK ntXDREK DOLLARS for
each and pvrv eaiw of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hull's Catarrh Cure
FRANK J. CEE.nET.
Sworn to boforo m and nnNcrtoed in my
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Notary Public.
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tree.
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JESS WILLARD
the cnou
TO BE III
Human Dreadnaught to Demonstrate
Just How He Put the 'Big
Smoke" to Sleep.
" Instead of waiting nineteen months,
Omaha has only to wait nineteen days
from the date of the big battle at
Havana before seeing in the flesh Jess
Willard, the man who brought the
world's heavyweignt pugilistic cham
pionship back to the white race, for
with the wreath of victory on his mas
sive head, the new idol of sport-lovers
will begin a three and a half days'
engagement at the Gayety theater,
Omaha, beginning Sunday afternoon.
April 25th, appearing twice each day
in conjunction with the Great Behman
Shew, the regular music burlesque at
traction, which will be at that theater
throughout the week.
All last week the new hero of the
i ing appeared at Hammerstein's
vaudeville theater in New York City,
at a salary of $4,000 for the week,
and although that theater has a tre
mendous capacity, there was nowhere
near the room to acccommodate the
countless thousands anxious to pay
homage to the big Kansan because of
his clean-cut victory over the black.
The New York theatrical men have
offered tempting inducements to Man
ager Johnson of the Gayety, Omaha,
in an effort to get him to release Wil
laid from his Omaha engagement, and
although it is costing the Omaha man
a pretty sum to the extent of $3,500
in salaries and transportation from
New York to Omaha and return for
the entire Willard party, Manager
Johnson has stood pat, believing the
new and popular champion would be
of far greater interest next week to
the people of this section of the coun
try than though twelve to eighteen
months should elapse before he came
west. This will be Willard's only ap
pearance in the middle west, as he is
booked for many months in the big
eastern cities, after which an Europ
ean tour is contemplated.
At every performance he will box
several rounds with his sparring part
ners, do shadow boxing and gymn
asium work and illustrate his terrible
forty-two centimetre knockout punch
that terrific jab that sent the "big
smoke" down and out.
Let is be clearly understood that
this is not a moving picture display,
1 ut instead Jess Willard personally,
himself, in the flesh and decidedly in
action.
The Gayety theater management
announces that it will hold seats re
served by mail until 2 and 8 p. m. pre
ceding the performance they are
ordered for.
Just eyes. This is an age of
specialists. No man can be proficient
in more than one profession. For
nearly twenty years I havj made a
special study of "just eyes."
Frank E. Colby.
4-l-2td-itw
Runs Twig in His Ear.
From Friday's Dally.
While G. W. Harshman, living four
miles east of Avoca, was engaged in
trimming some apple trees a few
days ago he ran a twig from a limb
into his ear, causing a swelling. He
was taken to Omaha by his son, R. C.
Harshman and wife, in their auto
mobile Friday, and will be treated
by a specialist. It is not thought that
the injury will result seriously.
For Sale.
Three incubators for sale. Good
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Told That There Was No Cure for
Him.
"After suffering lor over twenty
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ether sufferers as well as your own
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months, although I am a man of 65
years," writes Jul. Grobicn, Houston,
Texas. Obtainable everywhere.
FOR SALE.. .
FOR SALE Good Early Ohio seed
potatoes, 75c a bushel. Inquire of
Ralph Ilaynie. 4-7-tf-d&w
FOR SALE Fawn and White Indian
Runner duck eggs, white egg strain,
$1.00 per IS, $5.00 per 100. Inquire
of A. O. Ramge, Route 1, Platts
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OMAHA
I 1 1
HE 01 1
A SpboliGEl Eiuls Ficiure cf
Present Day Religions
Conditions.
IVoman a Symbol of the Church Jew
ish Marriage Typical of the Union of
Christ and the Church The True
Church a Betrothed Virgin "The
Marriage of the Lamb" "The Spirit
and the Bride Say Come" Who Are
the Seven Women? Who Is the
Man? Why He Turns From Them.
Rochester, X. Y.,
April IS. Pastor
Russell spoke
twice here today.
We report his dis
course on the text,
"Seven w o m e n
shall take hold of
one Man in that
Day, saj'imr, We
will eat our own
bread ;md wear
our own apparel;
only let us he call
ed by Thy name,
to take away our reproach." (Isaiah
4:1.) lie said in part:
Many of the Old Testament prophe
cies are highly figurative. Doubtless
they had some measure of application
at fhe time they were written, hut
we have Apostolic authority for con
eluding that they were intended for
Spiritual Israel. (1 Peter 1:12.) Our
Lord and the Apostles quoted contin
ually from the prophecies and invaria
bly applied the lesson to the Gospel
Age. Ilence we are abundantly justi
fied in assuming that our text is ap
plicable to the present. Its iecu!iar
expression, "in that Day," is usual
throughout Scripture iu referring to
the close of this Gospel Age, with its
trouble aud confusion incident to the
inauguration of the Millennium.
Throughout the Scriptures a woman
is a .ymlol of the Church a pure wo
man of a pure Church, a corrupt wom
an of a false Church. Our Lord com
pared the true Church in the end of
this Age to a company of virgins part
wise and part foolish and likens Him
self to the Dridegrooin, who had come
at the end of the Age to receive His
espoused Church to Himself in glory.
John the Raptist pictured the matter
after the same figure, saying. -lie that
hath the Rride is the Bridegroom";
and St. Paul amplifies the thought, de
claring, "I have espoused you Ithe con
secrated Church as a chaste virgin
unto one husband, which is Christ."
(John oi9; 2 Coriuthians 11:2.) Here,
as in the parable of the Ten Virgins,
the Jewish marriage is set forth as the
type ot the union between Christ and
the Church a very uifitreut figure
from modern marriage customs.
With the Jews in olden time, when
a betrothal took place, legal and bind
ing documents were signed by or for
the contracting parties, but no actual
marriage occurred for about a year.
During that period it was required
that the espoused be as faithful to her
espousal as is now expected of any
true wife. We see the harmony be
tweeu the Jewish marriage custom and
the Lord's dealings with the Church.
No one is espoused to our Lord who
has not entered into a formal aud defi
nite contract with Iliin. On our Lord's
part the contract is the great and pre
cious promises of Scripture, assuriug
the esioused that if faithful, she shall
be joint-heir with her Lord in His Mil
lennial Kingdom. On the Church's
part the contract is our covenant of
consecration, faithfulness to our Re
deemer even unto death.
The interim' between our1 personal ac
ceptance of the Lord's gracious prom
ises and our death corresponds in a
measure to the betrothal period of the
Jewish maiden; but the more exact
fulfilment of the figure is found iu the
history of the Church as a whole. Our
Lord's virgin Church was espoused to
Him at Tentecost, and has Iteen await
ing the coming of the Bridegroom and
her resurrection change to glory, honor
ind immortality the marriage, the
nion for nearly nineteen centuries.
The Bride In Kingdom Glory.
In His last Message to the Church,
recorded in the Revelatiou, our Lord
continues to picture the Church as a
betrothed virgin, unmarried, but under
strictest obligations to nurity and faith
fulness dowu to the end cf this Gospel
Age, where she is represented as mak
ing herself ready for the Bridegroom's
coming and for the marriage. To be
ready she must have on the welding
garment, and it must be "without spot
or wriukle or any such thing." (Ephe
sians 5:27.) That robe represents the
imputed righteousness of Christ, ithich
covers her every unintentional blemish
and imperfection; and any t or
wrinkle upon this role would be a
cause of such grief to the betrothed
one thfft the staiu would be removed
and the wrinkle pressed out by the
gracious arrangement made therefot
by the Heavenly Bridegroom: for He
presented the robe and gave directions
by which it might be kept ''unspotted
fmni tto yrizll."
The Revelation shows that with her
resurrection change in the end of this
Age the "espoused virgin" Church. will
be no mere. She will have passed into
,tae more exalted, state of the Bride j
ID
fPASTOR. KU5SEID
married or united to her Lord and
Bridegroom. Note the symbolical pic
ture by whi"h she is represented "the
New Jerusalem, comiug down from
Gcd out of Heaven." (Revelation 21 :2.
9, 10.) That is, the Heavenly King
dom, the new rulersbip of the world, ia
then pictured as the BriJe. The grand
work of the Church in glory is also
pictured as the work of the Bride
"The Spirit and the Bride say. Come.
And whosoever will, let him take of.
the Water of Life freely." Rev. 22:17.
At the pi vent time not only is the
Church not The Bride, but she is not
privileged to say. Come, to whosoever
will: for with the calling of this Age
there is a measure of election. Our
Lord declared, "No man can come unto
Me except the Father which sent Mc
draw him." (John G:41.) Moreover,
there is no River of the Water of Life
now. That bountiful provision is for
the future for the world during the
Millennial Ace. Now. as our Lord ex
plained, those who become His conse
crated followers are granted to have
in themselves "a well of water spring
ing up into everlasting life." John 4:14.
Many Churches of Christ.
The heathen and children in Chris
tian lands when they begin to study the
Bible are perplexed and inquire. Which
is the Church of Christ? They sec
churches of various names claiming
to be branches of the Church; and they
ask. Which did Jesus establish? The
answer imples confusion and reproach.
All claim genuineness and originality,
but none can show any existence of its
present organization earlier than the
Third Century. When we contrnsj
their elaborate and formal services
with the simplicity of the early Church,
ns described in the New Testament,
we are sure that they cannot be the
same. When we compare their doc
trines with those of Christ and the
Apostles, as set forth in fhe New Testa
ment, their claims fall to the ground
for lack of support.
To illustrate: The Scriptures teach
that there is but one God, the Father,
and one Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinth
ians S.-); that the Father, who is above
all, sent His Son to be our Redeemer;
that when the Son had faithfully ac
complished that work, the Father rais
ed Him from the dead and exalted Ilinj
to His own right hand, or place of
favor next to Himself. Our Lord Him
self said. "My Father is greater than
I." (John 14:28.) But the various
churches, each claiming to be the orig
inal, unite in telling us that there are
three Gods, "equal in power and glory."
Some explain that the three Gods op
erate as one; others teach that these
are but three different manifestations
of the one God. What confusion!
All this has tended to undermine the
faith of the more rational members of
these various churches. So disgusted
have people in general become with
their inability to harmonize with com
mon sense the creeds formulated in
the Dark Ages that many of the bright
est minds have abandoned them and
sought to frame new and more ration
al conceptions.
But. alasl the great Adversary, as the
Apo.stle forewarned, has manifested
himself as an angel of light and leader
into all truth, :;nd has capt'Ji'ed thoir
college a?:J seminary professors and
their most prominent ministers. With
wonderful unanimity they have become
Higher Critics and Evolutionists. In
the name cf nil that is holy and good
they are persuading the leading minds
in the various sects that the Bible is
not the Word of God; that it is not re
liable; that while Jesus and the Apos
tles were honest enough, they were
not briilinnt scholars, aud therefore
could not detect the falsities of the
Old Testament, upou which all of their
teachings are based.
"Denying the Lord That Bought Them."
These wise men of our time assure
us that the story of Adam and Eve is,
at very most, an allegory, which twen
ty men might interpret in twenty dif
ferent ways; lhat there never was a
Garden of Ldeu; that there never was
a sentence upon Adam because of hi
disobedience in perfection; and that,
therefore, the Scriptures delude us
when they declare that by reason of
Adam's disobedience sin mid death en
tered the world. Since they deny man's
fall, they perforce deny the need of a
Savior. They deny our Lord's words
that He came "to seek and to save that
which was lost" Luke 10:10.
Denying that there was any sin. they
deny that Christ died for our sins and
rose again for our justification. (1
Coriuthians lo:3; Romans 4:21, 25.)
They ignore the Apostle's statement
that by one man's disobedience sin en
tered into the world, and death as a"
result of sin; and that thus death pass
ed upon all men, lecause all are sin
ners. (Romans 5:12.) Thus do they
make void the Word of God and set
up. instead, human theories the gold
en image to which all are required to
bow down and worship if they would
be called respectable, intelligent.
Church ianity Confusion Babylon.
All this while the true Church has
been "in the wilderues.s," as the Scrip
tures explain. (Revelation 12:14.) In
other words, she has been in disfavor,
ignored, an& unknown to the worldly
wise. Some of her members have been
scattered throughout the various de
nominatious. aud some have been out
side of all these. The popular institu
tions known as churches are worldly;
their aims, ambitious cud methods are
worldly. Hence there can be very lit
tle religious sympathy, fellowship and
cooperation between the majority fn
these, systems and the minority who
ire true to the Lord and His Word.
Our Lord's parable of the Wheat
and : the Tares pictures the situation
exactly. He and His 'Apostles sowed
the good seed.'" Subsequently the Ad
versary sowed errcrs. and brought into
nominal Chrirtexidcci many who were
Christians In name merely and. who
professed morality for personal profit
either to escape eternal torment or to
gain present advantage. Iook where
we- may over the Held of Christeudom,
we see comparatively few true disci
ples of Christ, willingly and gladly
walking in His footsteps in the narrow
way of self-sacrifice and service. We
see the vast majority ijrant of the
Truth and of the grace of the Lord
not knowing Jesus as their personal
Savior, not knowing from what they
were redeemed, not knowing to what
they have been called, and not knowing
the trials and difficulties of this pres
ent time for all the faithful one.
We see that the fruits of the Spirit
meekness, gentleness, patient e, long
suffering, love possessed by the wheat
class, are not esteemed by the tares.
The tare class is full of earthly ambi
tions, schemes and plans; in every
sense of the word they give evidence
that they are of the earth earthy.
Some of these tares are fine, noble leo
ple iu many respects; but they have
never consecrated their lives to the
Lord's service even unto death; they
have never entered the narrow way.
which alone leads to glory and honor.
Having in mind the numerous brands
of Churchianity and their various con
flicting doctrines, we cannot wonder
that the Scriptures use the word Baby
lon confusion as a name fof these
systems as a whole. One can put his
finger with some degree of definiteness
upon the teachings of Coufucius, and
his followers know what they believe;
the same with those of Buddhists.
Brahmins, etc., but not so with Chris
tians; for their doctrines are legion.
The confusion of doctrines amongst
the various branches of Churchianity
has brought reproach upon them all.
The heathen are inquiring how it come
that there are so many kinds of Chris
tians, and how it is that they all get
their conflicting theories out of the
same Book. This reproach is keenly
felt by the leading minds of all denom
inations. Consequently their creeds are
very generally ignonnl: but the organ
izations built uioh those creeds are
held to most firmly. The pysteuis are
worshiped, and the creds repudiated.
"Seven Women In That Day."
We have seen that fn Scriptural unge
women symbolize the churches; that
the true Church is represented by u
virgin, and the false systems by har
lots, unfaithful to their esjoiisals and
associating with the world. (Revela
tion 17:5.) Throughout Scripture the
number seven is well recognized as
the symbol of completeness. Accord
ingly we assume that in- our text it
signifies all the churches of this world,
but does not include the true Church,
which is not of this world and does
not follow its course.
We have come to the time when these
seven women an the various sects and
denominations are with one heart feel
ing the reproach of their situation. And
what is their conclusion as to the prop
er course to be pursued? We answer
that it is prophetically voiced in our
text. The one Man represents our Lord,
the Heavenly Bridegroom. Our text
thus signifies that all the nominal
churches have come, or are about to
come, to the place where they desire to
le called the churches of Christ, bnt
care to have nothing more to do wltU
Him. They wish to hold their secta
rian names and at the same time to le
called Christians. The name of Christ
is almost their only asset. For the doc
trines of Christ they care nothiug; and
for any thought of redemption and eov
ering of sins through Him they care
nothing. It is merely His name that
they desire. "We will eat our own
bread and wear our own apparel; mere
ly let us le called by Thy name."
Still associated with these various
earthly systems are some members of
the true Church, but they will not long
remain therein; for one by one they
are hearing the voice of Truth calling
to them, "Come out of her I Babylon.
My people, that ye le not partakers of
her sins and receive not of ber plagues."
(Revelation 18:4.) The more these wo
men desire to eat their own bread and
to wear apparel of their own furnish
inont, the more the Lord's true people
amongst them will awaken to the sit
uation and find that they have neither
part nor lot there.
Attitude of the True Church.
The true Church does not wish to eat
her own bread; she wants the Bread
lhat came down from Heaven. She
does not prefer her own schemes, her
own theories, her own plans of salva
tion, her own methods; she de-ires that'
which God has provided as her daily
port ion "meat la dor season" for "the
Household o Faith" things new an
ld from the Storehouse of Divine
Truth. Neither does the espoused vir
gin of the Lord desire to wear her own
apparel; for she has come to under
stand that her own righteousness is us
filthy rags. (Isaiah ;4:1.) More nnd
more does she appreciate the role giv
en her by the Heavenly BrMetrrootn
the wedding garment (Matthew 22:11.)
More and more does she trust lii the
merit of her Redeemer, the justifica
tion furnished by whom was sym
bolized by the skins of tbe s-ioviflce
given to Adam arid Eve to cover their
nakedness.
The Message of the Lord has gTTi?
forth to His Church of the present
Epoch, counseling all who claim to lv
His that they trust not in uncertain
riches, but that by faithful saTificinf
of the earthly interests they buy off
Hirij the gold tried hi the fire, the IH
vlne nature, and that they maintain
the white ralmehf of jntiflerftion.
that they may see clearly the thing
that make for their peace and th
things to come the riches of grace. th
knowledge of which bus not enter1
into the heart of the natural man.
Therefore let His true people anoint
their eyes and see the glorious itnatiu
of the Lord's espoused. Rev. 3:14-22.