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JANUARY 1, IQII teachings become universal. The news that I am referring to will make history as soon as it is made public. Very truly yours, ADOLPH B. LANDAU. My Dear Brother Russell:— When ‘‘the vow’? first came out I was undecided for some months as to whether I should take it or not. I could not see any objection to any of its features, although I felt that I had made a full consecration to the Lord and hence did not need to add anything to it. In the meantime many friends seemed to be greatly blessed through the taking of ‘‘the vow,’’? and I came to the conclusion that I could not afford to miss any blessings, so I took it. THE WATCH TOWER (15-19) It went along about a year and the Lord finally showed me, through ‘‘the vow,’’ that after all my consecration had not been as complete and deep as it might have been. Then and there ‘‘the vow’’ became to me a real thing and for the past year I have had a wonderful blessing through it in the way of a closer walk with my Lord and Master. The contemplation of what ‘‘the vow’? has done for me during the past year proves to me that it is only another feature of the truth—‘‘meat in due season.’’ My daily prayer for you is that you some day may hear the ‘‘ Well done.’’ Your brother in the Anointed, 8S. M. PEererson. JEWISH HOPES AND PROSPECTS We have in the English a pamphlet which gives certain extracts from STUDIES IN THE ScRipruRES, Vol. III., and the Jerusalem sermon, 10c. each; in quantities, 60ce. per dozen. For those Jews who read Yiddish we have secured a large edition of the newspaper, Die Stimme, which contains Jerusalem news and reports of several of Brother Russell’s sermons to the Jews. This paper is very acceptable amongst the Jews. It does not point them to Jesus of Nazareth, but does point to the Messiah of Glory. It gives assurances that the time of the establishment of his Kingdom is near, and that then the Jews will be blessed. It points them to the land of Palestine as the place where the national blessings will begin. It does not say so, but all WatcuH Tower readers well know that according to prophecy it will be then and there that Israel’s blindness will be turned away and they will recognize him whom they pierced. It is not our expectation that the Jews will be converted to Christianity. Theirs is the chief of earthly blessings. If some few of them have the hearing ear for the spiritual message, they will hear it, but they will be the exceptional few. We can supply these Die Stumme papers in any quantity— free. Any of our readers who would like to have some for free circulation amongst the Jews should advise us immediately, as we are about to order a new edition. Vout. XXXII BROOKLYN, N. Y., JANUARY 15, 1911 No, 2 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER NEW DANGER IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ‘Death is mortal error!’’ This is the declaration of Christian Science. All Christian Scientists thus far have made failure; at least, according to their own theory. They had hoped that Mrs. Eddy would never yield to mortal error and hence that she would never die. But she, too, has gone the way of all the earth. How uncomfortable must be the religious theory which fails its votaries at the very last! Every other religious system at least claims progress, growth, from grace to grace; from knowledge to knowledge; from one attainment to another. But Christian Science must admit that thus far all of its votaries have made shipwreck of their faith in the end—have yielded, according to their own theory, to ‘‘mortal error’’—to the error of thinking that there is such a thing as death and going into it. Alas! how poor and weak is the human mind! How easily deluded! BEHOLD NOW A GRAVE DANGER! We have already pointed out that the teachings of Christian Science (that there is no sin and there is no death) is in direct contradiction to God’s Word—‘‘ The wages of sin is death,’’? ‘‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die.’? We have pointed out, on the contrary, that Christian Scienee is in full agreement with Satan’s first falsehood, by which he deceived our first parents, saying, ‘‘Ye shall not surely die.’’? (Gen. 3:4.) We do not mean to say that Christian Scientists are knowingly in league with Satan and willingly propagating his falsehoods. We have, however, declared and now repeat that we believe that Christian Science delusion is of Satan, with whose word it agrees, and that it is not of God, whose Word it contradicts. The Apostle speaks of the ‘‘depths of Satan,’’ and again says that ‘‘we are ignorant of his devices.’?’ We have pointed out the probability that Satan would prosecute his work in the near future through various materializations for the further deception of humanity and their further enslavement to error. But it had not oecurred to us that the adversary might make more use of Mrs. Eddy after death than before it—that her ‘‘mortal error’’ might be made an oceasion for the still further delusion and enslavement of well-meaning but deceived people. The latest pronouncement from one of Mrs. Eddyv’s most prominent followers, Augusta, E. Stetson, implies much:— (1) Christian Scientists are now directed to expect that, as Jesus arose from the dead and appeared to his disciples after his resurrection, so will Mrs. Eddy do. This, to us, means that, if possible, the fallen angels will materialize and personate Mrs. Eddy for the further deception of those who have almost worshiped her. Such materializations and deceptions are only what we have expected, although we looked for nothing of this kind from the Christian Science quarter. (2) That the teachings of Christian Science will hereafter be modeled more earefully along the line which we believe to be the truth—teaching that the millennium is nigh, even at the door, with its reign of righteousness and inauguration of a new social order. We may be sure, however, that our great adversary, Satan, will not advocate any measure of the truth except for the purpose of injuring it or to take advantage of seeds of truth, which the Lord has been permitting us to plant through millions of copies of the Press. It is a part of his policy, as the Apostle explains, to put light for darkness and darkness for light. At every presentation of the truth of the past Satan has more or less successfully introduced grievous errors under its cloak. Undoubtedly wonderful times are immediately ahead of us. It behooves all those who have been blessed of the Lord with the opening of the eyes of their understanding to walk very faithfully—-to remember that theirs is a covenant of sacrifice and to count all earthly things but as loss and dross, that they may win Christ and be found in him—members of his body in glory, members of the Anointed Prophet, Priest, King, Mediator between God and men. We give the following extracts from the New York World :— AUGUSTA E. STETSON’S DECLARATIONS ‘“‘T know, and every true believer in Christian Science must know, that Mrs Eddy will make a manifestation, will reveal herself to me and to others, to the outside world, the unbelievers, too. ‘‘The same situation exists todav as when Jesus of Nazareth died and was buried. After three days he manifested himself, to prove that there is life after death. Mrs. Eddy will do the same, for she oceupies in the world of today precisely the same position that Jesus occupied in his day. “Tt may take, will take, longer for Mrs. Eddy to pass through the experience of material death to the stage of demonstration of everlasting life. It may not oecur for vears, or it mav occur tomorrow or next week. But she will manifest herself, and all men shall know of it. ‘“‘Those in the chureh who profess douht of such a demonstration are like the disciples who doubted till they saw and felt of Jesus. T shall see Mrs. Eddy again, and I shall walk by her side, holding her hand, along the path that leads to life which has no death. All men who will believe will be shown how they may, by spiritual means, demonstrate over death, but first they must await Mrs. Eddy’s manifestation. “<Vesterdav I would not answer questions relating to the expected demonstration by Mrs, Eddy—her resurrection, as some call it. JT felt then that the hour for me to speak had not eome. Today I am convinced the time is proper. From all quarters I am receiving reports of demoralization and [4743]