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ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
ALLIlCHIKY.
P
..
ing
the
glory
which
the
Father
had
given
him
from
the
founda·
tion
of
the
world-the
glory
of
his
mighty
creative
works,
with
all
the
other
evidences
of
his
Father's
love.-John
17
:22-24.
Thus
all
the
divine
family
are
bound
together
in
one
bond
of
love
and
fellowship
and
confidence
and
sympathy
and
har
mony
and
common
interest;
and
the
honor
and
glory
of
one
are
the
honor
and
glory
of
all.
The
Lord's
prayer
abounds
with
petitions
for
this
oneness.
Mark
the
expression
(verse
21)
-"That
they
all
may
be
one;
as
thou,
Father,
are
in
me
and
I
in
thee"
[thy
spirit
or
disposition
and
purposes
and
aim
being
common
to
us
all].
Hence,
he
would
have
us
adopt
the
same
Father's
spirit,
aim
and
purpose,
and
devote
all
our
powers
with
zeal
and
faithfulness
to
the
accomplishment
of
the
Father's
will.
Amen,
so
let
it
be.
VOL.
XXIV
ALLEGHENY,
PA.,
MARCH
15,
1903
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.6
ANCIENT
TABLETS
AGREE
WITH
THE
BIBLE
unto
which
we
do
well
to
take
heed,
as
unto
a
light
shining
In
view
of
the
fact
that
most
lecturers
on
the
Babylonian
in
a
dark
place
until
the
day
dawn."-2
Pet.
1:
19.
-excavations
are
endeavoring
to
prove
that
their
findings
date
CHRISTIAN
SOLDIERSHIl'
back
thousands
of
years
before
the
flood,
and
hence
are
in
total
We
are
pleased
to
credit
the
following
article
to
a
secular
disagreement
with
t.he
Bible
n~rrative!
the
following
testi~ony
journal-the
Atlanta
Oonstitution:-
to
their
corroborabon
of
Scnpture
IS
the
more
apprecIated.
"Endure
hardness
as
a
good
soldier
of
Jesus
Christ."-2
Excavators
seem
prone
to
"magnify
their
office"
and
to
make
Tim.
2:
3.
their
services
and
findings
more
wonderful
than
they
really
"The
service
of
Christ
resembles
no
other
so
much
as
that
are.
of
a
soldier.
There
are
few
life-callings
among
men
that
de·
"Dr.
Albert
T.
Clay,
curator
of
the
Babylonian
department
mand
such
absolute
self-surrender
from
the
recruit
as
that
in
the
museum
of
the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
lectured
in
of
the
soldier
.
.
.
.
Widener
hall
yest~rday
on
'The
Old
Testament
in
the
Light
of
"In
the
decision
to
be
a
soldier
one
subordinates
all
other
Recent
Excavations.'
considerations-those
of
self-will,
family
supremacy
and
the
"'Accounts
of
the
creation
and
deluge,'
he
said,
'have
been
varied
opportunities
of
the
freeman.
It
is
to
go
under
a
vow
deciphered
from
early
Babylonian
monuments.
No
direct
ac·
of
complete,
unquestioning
obedience
to
the
orders
of
suo
count
has
been
found
referring
to
the
fall
of
mankind,
al·
periors.
It
is
to
abandon
home
for
the
camp,
to
forego
~he
though
engraved
rocks
representing
a
man
and
woman
sitting
right
of
first
serv~ng
the
int~rests
of
father
and
moth.er,
WIfe
under
a
tree,
with
a
.,erpent
near
by,
have
been
found,
which
and
children,
bUSIness
or
fnends.
It
means
the
enbre
sup.
undoubtedly
refer
to
it.'
pression
of
every
selfish
interest
for
the
~dvancement
of
the
"The
lecturer
went
on
to
show
that
the
events
recorded
in
supreme
cause
one
has
contracted
voluntarIly
to
serve,
to
fol.
the
Bible
had
taken
place
contrary
to
what
had
been
con·
low
and
for
which,
if
need
be,
to
die.
tended
by
critics
of
the
Old
Testament
in
the
past
few
years.
"It
seems
hard
to
some
minds
to
compare
the
service
oi
He
presented
a
photograph
of
an
engraved
rock
referring
to
Christ
with
that
of
a
good
soldier.
Nine-tenths
of
those
who
the
deluge
and
translated
it.
Although
the
period
of
time
call
themselves
Christians
refuse
to
give
their
service
that
sig.
which
elapsed
while
Noah
was
in
the
.ark
did
.not
exactly
c~r.
nificance,
and
mutiny
outrigl1t
when
called
upon
to
act
upon
respond
to
the
number
of
days
given
In
the
BIble,
yet
the
hIS'
that
principle.
The
weakness
of
the
church
universal
as
the
torical
significance
of
the
event
was
corroborated.
Dr.
Clay
leader
of
morals
and
life
culture
in
the
world
is
due
to
the
presented
many
such
photographs,
all
of
which
had
been
ex·
fact
that
most
Christian
men
and
women
serve
Christ
as
in.
cavated
in
Babylonia,
and
are
now
in
the
museum.
The
tran.s.
dependent
camp
followers.
They
are
unattached,
or
uncom.
lations
of
these
were
parallel
accounts
to
passages
found
In
manded
or
disobedient
to
the
duty
of
discipline,
and
do
as
the
Bible.
they
pl~a"e
rathl'r
than
liS
they
are
obligated
by
the
commands
"He
further
said:
'This
work
is
yet
in
its
infancy.
Re·
and
principles
of
Christ.
search
has
not
yet
come
to
a
limit.
The
low~st
excavations
"Goethe
said
that
'earnestness
is
eternity,'
and
the
spirit
show
civilization
in
advanced
stages
and
there
IS
every
reason
of
God
is
the
spirit
of
earnestness.
He
who
is
~nfor~ed
to
believe
that
future
excavations
will
bring
to
light
the
ma-
llnd
inflamed
by
that
spirit
will
be
filled
to
overflowln/l:
WIth
jority,
if
not
all,
the
history
recorded
in
the
Old
Testament.'
"
zeal,
courage,
daring,
fortitude
and
the
faith
of
conquest.
In
-Philadelphia,
Time,q.
the
fervor
and
forcefulness
of
these
feelinA's
he
will
serve
his
A
STATESMEN'S
VIEW
OF
EUROl'E'S
FUTURE
Master,
as
the
soldiers
of
Alexander
followed
unquestioning
A
Philadelphia
Ledger
correspondent
writing
of
the
emi·
where
he
led;
as
the
soldiers
of
Leonidas,
who
died
rather
than
nent
correspondent
of
the
Times,
M.
de
BlOWltz,
deceased,
retreat;
as
the
soldiers
of
Napoleon,
who
believed
him
invin
says:-
cible
always;
and
as
the
soldiers
of
Lee,
who
felt
that
he
"Blowitz
believed
that
his
own
forecast
of
events
was
more
could
not
lead
them
wrongly
or
to
defeat.
accurate
than
that
of
any
livin/l:
statesman.
He
not
only
"If
Christ
possessed
in
this
world
today
an
army
of
men
placed
himself
on
an
intellectual
level
with
Bismarck,
but
he
and
women
one-hundredth
part
the
figures
of
official
Christen.
spoke
of
himself
as
belongin/l:
to
the
same
rank.
I
am
not
at
dom
who
would
follow
him-who
would
labor,
fight
and
en.
all
sure
that
he
was
not
right,
and
that
if
his
early
lot
had
dur~
as
do
the
soldiers
of
our
American
armies-he
could
not
been
cast
in
high
places
Blowitz
would
not
have
been
a
greater
long
be
kept
from
his
world-wide
conquest.
man
than
Bismarck.
He
had
his
faults
and
vanities,
but
he
"But
he
has
few
real
soldiers
in
his
service.
Most
of
hig
was
a
man
of
extraordinary
capacity.
followers
are
pensioners,
pleading-
always
that
he
will
do
some·
"His
opinions
about
the
future
of
Europe
are
interesting,
thing
for
them-ease
their
pains,
disperse
their
enemi,:s,
because
his
predictions
were
so
often
fulfilled,
and
his
views,
smooth
their
paths,
increase
their
fortunes
and
bed
them
In
therefore,
on
the
subject
are
worth
consideration.
As
far
back
places
of
plenty
and
comfort.
They
are
a
hungry
and
a
help.
as
ten
years
ago
de
Blowitz
held
that
in
the
course
of
a
gen-
less
host.
eration
Europe
would
be
a
congerie
of
bankrupt
states;
t~at
"One
would
expect
naturally
to
find
in
the
pulpits
stalwart
all
the
national
debts
in
Europe
would
be
repudiated,
WIth
captains
of
the
army
of
our
Lord.
And
yet
how
few
are
they
the
exception
of
Britain's,
and
that
vast
social
changes,
in-
who
do
not
look
more
closely
to
their
hire
than
to
their
op·
volving
bloody
~ars
and
reigns
of
t~r~or~
w~uld
come
to
pass
portunities
to
endure
hardness?
They
ar,e
eager
for
rich
and
in
many
countnes.
He
to?k
a
pesslmI~t!C
VIew
of.
the
future
easy
pastorates,
they
dwell
in
luxuries
and
preach
as
those
of
Britain,
thou/l:h
he
admIred
the
qualIties
of
perSIstence
and
who
make
pleasant
music
on
a
lute.
Transfer
them
to
posts
freedom,
which
form
part
of
the
British
character.
of
poverty,
scant
rations,
hard
service
among
the
poor
and
''He
believed
that
the
twentieth
century
would
be
a
century
the
'lick,
and
they
beeome
broken-hearted
over
their
lot
as
of
struagle,
and
that
in
Germany
and
Russia
especially
the
de·
soldiers!
velopm~nt
of
the
industrial
idea
would
lead
to
the
evolution
of
"The
true
soldier
does
not
debate
his
cause.
He
is
rightly
new
surfaces
of
society,
just
as
the
iceber/l;
which
has
changed
supposed
to
have
settled
upon
its
justice
and
righteousness
its
centre
of
g-ravity
presents
a
new
profile
to
the
spectator.
before
he
enlisted
to
serve
it.
Thereafter
he
avouches
it
and
If
these
predictions
had
been
made
today
no
great
power
of
defies
contradiction
of
it.
He
is
ready
to
spend
all
and
be
all
discrimination
would
be
credited
to
the
prophet.
To
have
spent
in
its
defense.
He
does
not
fight
for
the
rations
that
formed
such
views
ten
years
ago
implies
the
possession
of
are
doled
to
him,
but
for
the
great
principles
and
great
pur.
great
analytic
power,
coupled
with
imaginative
faculty."
poses
of
the
cause
to
which
he
is
committed
.
.
.
.
•
•
•
"No
man
should
deceive
himself
in
a
matter
so
plain
and
This
is
interesting,
as
showin~
how
the
wisdom
of
this
serious
as
the
service
of
Christ.
If
he
doesn't
mean
to
aban
world
corroborates
the
forecast
of
prophecy-the
revelations
don
himself
to
the
commands
and
demands
of
hi~
.Master,
he
of
the
divine
Word.
"We
have
a
more
sure
word
of
prophecy,
ought
to
be
hone"t
enough
not
to
offer
a
hypOCrItIcal
profe&-
[3162]
<83-84) ing the glory which the Father had given him from the foundation of the world—the glory of his mighty creative works, with all the other evidences of his Father’s love—John 17 :22-24, Thus all the divine family are bound together in one bond of love and fellowship and confidence and sympathy and harmony and common interest; and the honor and glory of one are the honor and glory of all. The Lord’s prayer abounds ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa, with petitions for this oneness, Mark the expression (verse 21)—“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, are in me and IJ in thee” [thy spirit or disposition and purposes and aim being common to us all]. Hence, he would have us adopt the same Father’s spirit, aim and purpose, and devote all our powers with zeal and faithfulness to the accomplishment of the Father’sa will. Amen, so let it be. Vou. XXIV ALLEGHENY, PA., MARCH 15, 1903 No. 6 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER ANCIENT TABLETS AGREE WITH THE BIBLE In view of the fact that most lecturers on the Babylonian excavations are endeavoring to prove that their findings date back thousands of years before the flood, and hence are in total disagreement with the Bible narrative, the following testimon to their corroboration of Scripture is the more appreciated. Excavators seem prone to “magnify their office” and to make their services and findings more wonderful than they really are, “Dr. Albert T. Clay, curator of the Babylonian department in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, lectured in Widener hall yesterday on ‘The Old Testament in the Light of Recent Excavations.’ “*Accounts of the creation and deluge,’ he said, ‘have been deciphered from early Babylonian monuments. No direct account has been found referring to the fall of mankind, although engraved rocks representing a man and woman sitting under a tree, with a serpent near by, have been found, which undoubtedly refer to it.’ “The lecturer went on to show that the events recorded in the Bible had taken place contrary to what had been contended by critics of the Old Testament in the past few years. He presented a photograph of an engraved rock referring to the deluge and translated it. Although the period of time which elapsed while Noah was in the ark did not exactly correspond to the number of days given in the Bible, yet the historical significance of the event was corroborated. Dr. Clay presented many such photographs, all of which had been excavated in Babylonia, and are now in the museum. The transjations of these were parallel accounts to passages found in the Bible. “He further said: ‘This work is yet in its infancy. Research has not yet come to a limit. The lowest excavations show civilization in advanced stages and there is every reason to believe that future excavations will bring to light the majority, if not all, the history recorded in the Old Testament.’ ” —Philadelphia Times. A STATESMEN'S VIEW OF EUROPE’S FUTURE A Philadelphia Ledger correspondent writing of the eminent correspondent of the Times, M. de Blowitz, deceased, gays :— “Blowitz believed that his own forecast of events was more accurate than that of any living statesman. He not only placed himself on an intellectual level with Bismarck, but he spoke of himself as belonging to the same rank. I am not at all sure that he was not right, and that if his early lot had been cast in high places Blowitz would not have been a greater man than Bismarck. He had his faults and vanities, but he was a man of extraordinary capacity. “His opinions about the future of Europe are interesting, because his predictions were so often fulfilled, and his views, therefore, on the subject are worth consideration. As far back as ten years ago de Blowitz held that in the course of a generation Europe would be a congerie of bankrupt states; that all the national debts in Europe would be repudiated, with the exception of Britain’s, and that vast social changes, involving bloody wars and reigns of terror, would come to pass in many countries. He took a pessimistic view of the future of Britain, though he admired the qualities of persistence and freedom, which form part of the British character. ‘He believed that the twentieth century would be a century of struggle, and that in Germany and Russia especially the development of the industrial idea would lead to the evolution of new surfaces of society, just as the iceberg which has changed its centre of gravity presents a new profile to the spectator. If these predictions had been made today no great power of discrimination would be credited to the prophet. To have formed such views ten years ago implies the possession of great analytic power, coupled with imaginative faculty.” * * * This is interesting, as showing how the wisdom of this world corroborates the forecast of prophecy—the revelations of the divine Word. “We have a more sure word of prophecy, unto which we do well to take heed, as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn.”—2 Pet. 1:19. CHRISTIAN SOLDIERSHIP We are pleased to credit the following article to a secular journal—the Atlanta Constitution :— “Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”—2 Tim. 2:3. “The service of Christ resembles no other so much as that of a soldier. There are few life-callings among men that demand such absolute self-surrender from the recruit as that of the soldier. ... “In the decision to be a soldier one subordinates all other considerations—those of self-will, family supremacy and the varied opportunities of the freeman. It is to go under a vow of complete, unquestioning obedience to the orders of superiors. It is to abandon home for the camp, to forego the right of first serving the interests of father and mother, wife and children, business or friends. It means the entire suppression of every selfish interest for the advancement of the supreme cause one has contracted voluntarily to serve, to follow and for which, if need be, to die. “It seems hard to some minds to compare the service of Christ with that of a good soldier. Nine-tenths of those who call themselves Christians refuse to give their service that significance, and mutiny outright when called upon to act upon that principle. The weakness of the church universal as the leader of morals and life culture in the world is due to the fact that most Christian men and women serve Christ as independent camp followers. They are unattached, or uncommanded, or disobedient to the duty of discipline, and do as they please rather than as they are obligated by the commands and principles of Christ. “Goethe said that ‘earnestness is eternity,’ and the spirit of God is the spirit of earnestness. He who is informed and inflamed by that spirit will be filled to overfiowing with zeal, courage, daring, fortitude and the faith of conquest. In the fervor and forcefulness of these feelings he will serve his Master, ag the soldiers of Alexander followed unquestioning where he led; as the soldiers of Leonidas, who died rather than retreat; as the soldiers of Napoleon, who believed him invincible always; and as the soldiers of Lee, who felt that he could not lead them wrongly or to defeat. “If Christ possessed in this world today an army of men and women one-hundredth part the figures of official Christendom, who would follow him—who would labor, fight and endure as do the soldiers of our American armies—he could not long be kept from his world-wide conquest. “But he has few real soldiers in his service. Most of his followers are pensioners, pleading always that he will do something for them—ease their pains, disperse their enemies, smooth their paths, increase their fortunes and bed them in places of plenty and comfort. They are a hungry and a helpless host. “One would expect naturally to find in the pulpits stalwart captains of the army of our Lord, And yet how few are they who do not look more closely to their hire than to their opportunities to endure hardness? They are eager for rich and easy pastorates, they dwell in luxuries and preach as those who make pleasant music on a lute. Transfer them to posts of poverty, scant rations, hard service among the poor and the sick, and they become broken-hearted over their lot as soldiers! “The true soldier does not debate his cause. He is rightly supposed to have settled upon its justice and righteousness before he enlisted to serve it. Thereafter he avouches it and defies contradiction of it. He is ready to spend all and be all spent in its defense. He does not fight for the rations that are doled to him, but for the great principles and great purposes of the cause to which he is committed. ... “No man should deceive himself in a matter so plain and serious as the service of Christ. If he doesn’t mean to abandon himself to the commands and demands of his Master, he ought to be honest enough not to offer a hypocritical profes (3162)
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