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(430-435) THE ‘‘He was compelled to confess to the Judge that he could not produce any Hebrew text. But still he was sanguine that the New Testament would furnish what he had sought for without success in Moses and the Prophets. He prosecuted his study of the Greek of the New Testament eight years. The result was that he could not name a portion of it, from the first verse in Matthew, to the last of Revelation, which, fairly interpreted, affirms that a part of mankind will be eternally miserable. ““Phe Doctor concludes by saying: ‘It is an important and most instructive fact that I was brought into my present state of mind (the repudiation of the dogma of eternal torment) by the Bible only—a state of mind running counter to all the prejudices of my early life, of parental precept, of school, college, theological seminary, and professional caste.’ ““How could the Doctor expect to find any such teaching in the New Testament, after he discovered that it was not found either in Moses or in any other of the Prophets? And if he could have found any passage in his Greek of the New Testament which might secm to teach what he could not find on so fundamental a matter in Moses and the Prophets, would he have accepted it as genuine? “OLIVER SPENCER HALSTED, ««Ex-Chancellor State of New Jersey.’’ My Dear Brother Russell:— Yours dated August 9 reached me today, and I praise the Lord for all his goodness. It seems that the Lord is answering the prayers of thousands here in India. May the Father bring you speedily so that you may proclaim the glad tidings here also. It would be a great disappointment to the friends here if you should omit them. You ean hold meetings in three places in Travancore. There is a little improvement in the traveling, as a motor service was recently started between three important places. If I could know definitely about your coming here T could make arrangements for some meetings in English and also one or two meetings for the brethren in these parts. May the Lord bless you and bring you in His own time in our midst. With love and prayers from us all, Your brother and servant in the harvest field, S. P. DEVASAHAYAM. Dear Brother Russell:— Being somewhat familiar with the subject of inenbation, I submit the following as illustrative of the development of the new creature: We are not able to determine at the time of BROOKLYN, N. Vou. XXXH God has greatly blessed us on our present tour. The mectings huve been grandly inspiring. Not only have the attendances been large, but the interest has been keen and evidently deep. The friends as well as myself have been encouraged, Tn every place thus ‘far visited the very hest halls available have been secured. The volunteering has been thoroughly done, and the posters have been well placed. All of our Sundays were apportioned to London Tabernacle exeept one given to Glasgow on the oceasion of its convention. Good audienees were the rule. The Tabernacle was packed in the evenings, sometimes with standing room only. This is encouraging to us and to all the friends who shall read this report and who properly feel that the work is theirs, beenuse it is the Lord’s and the Society's, THE GLASGOW CONVENTION This convention was every way a success. The attendanee ranged from 700 to 800 at the ordinary sessions, and the mecting advertised for the public ran up to 5,000, of whom about 500 stood, while ahout 200 failed to gain admission. And such attention from so vast an audience! You could have heard a pin drop. For nearly two hours they studied with us ‘‘Which Is the True Gospel?’’ Together we considered what has been presented as the Gospel by various denominations, and then came to the one preached in advance to Abraham, and finally announced ‘‘in due time’’ by Jesus, who brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. The audience saw a vast difference between the creeds of the dark ages and the Gospel of divine grace, of which St. Paul was not ashamed and in which we, too, may well rejoice. We had three delightful days of spiritual refreshment at this convention. Friends attended from England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Our goodby greetings were at the railway platform, where about 300 tried to shake hands with us; WATCH Y., DECEMBER 1, 1911 EDITOR’S BRITISH AUTUMN TOUR TOIVER Brooxiyn, N.Y. filing the ineubator whether the eggs are fertile or sterile. At the first testing the sterile eggs are sorted out and removed, as they would lower the temperature of the egg chamber, not developing the degree of heat perceptible in the fertile egg. At the next testing there are found to he eges that were fertile and in which the development had progressed to a certain degree. Under inspection these are proved to he lifeless, the germ of the new being having died, and, further progress toward development being impossible, these are removed from the ineuhator, as they would not only lower the temperature of the egg chamber, but they would lefoul the atmosphere. The effect of these ‘‘bad eegs’’ is to weaken the vitality of the live embryos. Just before hatching time we usually again make sure that there are no *‘had eggs’? in the incubator, as these become offensive in proportion to their stage of development. Does not the Lord aceept to the knowledge of the truth both naturally-minded and spirituallvy-minded persons? Only those actually begotten of the spirit are represented in the ‘‘fertile’’ eggs. But are there not many who come under the influence of the truth who, after testing, fail to reveal the warmth and life—the zeal represented in the heat of the ‘“fertile’’ egg? When a spirit-Legotten new ereature, after having received the germ of the new heing, the new mind, the mind of Christ, and after having progressed to some extent in the new life, discloses the fact that the new life has died, does he not give evidence of this fact hy a course somewhat similar to the cee in the ineuhator? Does not the Lord find it necessary to remove such from the fellowship of those who still have the life and the vitality of the Spirit lest their coldness and general offensiveness jeopardize the interests of the other live embryos of spiritual heing? Is it not also true that the dead embryos reveal offensiveness in proportion to the advance in their stage of development? Is it not observable that the persons who were never begotten of the Spirit, even if they have heen defiled by sin, never seem to reach the depths of heart-defilement revealed in those who once ‘‘tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the holy Spirit and have tasted the powers of the world to come?’’ This would seem to be illustrated in the difference in the measure of corruytion of the fertile and the sterile egg. Praying the Master's rich blessing upon your service and labor of love, I remain your brother in the fellowship of Christ, W. A. Wnerrnrr.—N. Y. . No. 23 they all waved ard sang us away, using ‘‘Blest le the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love’’ and ‘‘God be with yon till we meet again.’’ BRIGHTON—SOUTHAMPTON—-PORTSMOUTH, ETC. In the South of England, where we had few or no friends, we now have some loyal defenders of the divine plan of the ages; and more, we trust, are ripening. At Brighton we had a grand auditorium, The Dome, whose capacity, 3,000, was none too much. We spoke on the ‘‘Tereafter’’ and had close attention to the message of God’s wisdom, justice, love and power. Besides this witness 35,000 PropLes PULPITs had heen previously used in announcing the mecting. The Lord only knows how many or how few had really ‘‘hearing ears.’’ At Southampton we had the Coliseum, seating 2,000, and a splendid audience: we used same topic; 20,900 copies of PEOPLES PuLPit had heen distributed. Some told of blessing received; others are thinking. Portsmouth: Another rousing meeting, in Town Hall, seating 2,000, crowded, middle class, reverential, thoughtful, many grav and bald heads; mostly men; same subject, ‘‘ Hereafter’’?; 20,000 PropLes PuLprit. How many ripe grains of wheat and what will the Harvest be only the Lord knows. Bournemouth: 10,000 PropLes PULPIT; we had an extremely intelligent and attentive audience—700—in St. Peter’s Chureh Hall. The volunteering in some of these places was done considerably by brethren, who journeyed 100 miles or more at their own expense to thus serve the Lord, the truth and brethren as yet unknown to them. How precious is such loving service in the sight of our Lord and his brethren! PERTH—DUNDEE—-PAISLEY—GREENOCK Our visit amongst the Scotch Bible students was extremely interesting and encouraging, in the smaller places as well as in Glasgow. Everywhere we had the best halls obtainable, and correspondiugly large and intelligent audiences. Our [4924]