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(259-260) Incense and Satisfaction of Justice........... ‘© 1911 +‘ 239 Who Typified by Levites?...-5.............. ‘© 1911 ‘* 348 Why represented in Court?—Their Service After Day of Atonement.............. ‘€ 1911 ‘' 349 Tentative Levites ..........., (eee ‘f 31911 ‘' 349 _Type Changes at Close of Age.......... ‘€ 1911 «=‘* 349 Typical and Antitypical Gifts and Sacrifices... ** 1914 "415 Male and Female Distinctions to Cease—-when? (Luke 20:34-36) 2... cece ecw een een ‘* 1909 174 Moses a Mediator before Aaron a Priest...... ‘* 1909 ‘* 325 Levites had no Inheritance........... see "1912 «=** 152 ‘‘Urim_ and Thummim’’ ......0e cece eee ace ‘© 1912 6 '* «186 Great Company and First Resurrection ‘© 1912 3 ‘* 299 Were the Atonement Day Sin-offerings for the year preceding, or for the ensuing year?.... ‘© 1907 ‘* 280 Were the Atonement Day Sin-offerings for the year preceding, or for the ensuing year?.... ‘* 19138 ** | 619 Manifestation of High Priest..........-..+5. ** 1910 ‘* 186 White Robe of High Priest............0.000e ** 1910 «‘* 136 APPLICATION OF THE RANSOM Following references are helpful studied in connection with chapter IV., Tabernacle Shadows——‘‘The Great Day of Atonement:’’ World is not yet Bought.............ee-eaee Year 1912 Page 107 Ransom Points to be Remembered ........... ** 1909 ‘* 3 Deliverance from the Curse..........+...06- *' 1911 ‘'* 187 Ransom—Application to all Mankind......... ** 19110 ff 151 Does our Lord Now own the human race?...... ‘*- 1910 3‘ 199 ‘*Sold all he had and Bought’’.......-...008 ** 1909 ‘* 379 Christ Made a Curse for Israel.............. ‘©1912 ** 197 What the Church Sacrifices...........++00005 ‘© 1911 ‘* 390 WHEN THEIR HAPPY LIFE BEGAN Dear_y BrLoveD BROTHER RUSSELL :— May the love of God be with thee! It has long been my desire to tell you my appreciation in my feeble way. Three years ago I had the pleasure to listen to a workman in the THE WATCH TOWER Brooxiyn, N. Y. Standard Oil Yard, Pt. Richmond, Cal. When I heard him I was amazed and coming home that night I told my wife that I had heard a man talk as none else before in my life, although I used to seck around for the truth, but had failed to find that which I could love. My wife asked me to bring that man (Brother Starr) home, so I brought him home one night and I got some of my friends over to hear him. Thanks be to God for that night, for there began our happy life! Our home before that time was not very happy; but since then it has certainly changed. We are now consecrated to the Lord, and one of our friends, a sister, has done the same. Happiness untold in both homes is now to be found. The Lord has been feeding us from his storehouse, and each time when we read THE WatcH Tower, and see the letters from the friends, I simply must pray for each one of them! It has been hard for me to Jearn certain lessons. I have prayed for patience and would forget time and time again. I am a hard workman and my associates are very impatient. So in a recent Watcu TowER you told us to pray for love to be cultivated in us, and in the evening report to our heavenly Father. Since then I have had great blessings along the line of patience. Both my wife and I love the brethren, for among them we spend all the time we can, thanking the heavenly Father for his loving kindness to us. My wife is doing colporteur work as much as her strength permits, and we have both had great blessings therefrom, The six volumes have brought us untold happiness. Daily we pray the Lord to give you strength. We love you and ask you to include us in your petitions to the Lord that we may be among that little flock. BROTHER AND SISTER CHRISTIAN LARSEN.—Cal. VoL. XXXVI BROOKLYN, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 1, 1915 No. 17 CHRISTIAN DUTY AND THE WAR As the war progresses a bitter, partisan spirit spreads. The people of each of the warring nations are convinced that right is on their side, and that everything to the contrary is wrong. The sense of justice seems more and more to go blind. Any attempt to consider matters justly, equitably, is resented as disloyalty, stupidity, etc. The best elements of the natural man seem to be paralyzing under the influence of the war. Germany and her allies claim that they have maintained the world’s peace for thirty years, during all of which time their jealous neighbors, noting their prosperity, have sought to hinder it and have awaited only a favorable moment for attempting their destruction. To them their commercial progress and attempt to build a navy proportionate to their population have aroused the jealousy of their neighbors already entrenched commercially on the sea. They claim that Belgium was not neutral, but conniving with their enemies, and that, any way, the passing of German armies through Belgium was a military necessity. Similarly they claim that the protection of their national life against the European combination makes necessary their submarine warfare and blockade and other things which they do not prefer. They claim, too, that necessity knows no law, that this is the hour of their necessity, and that the object of war is success—to be obtained as honorably as possible, but to be obtained. Britain and her allies take the contrary view. They declare that for forty years they have noted the progress of the Germans and considered it a menace to their rights. Accordingly, the French maintained an army of equal size with Germany; Russia, an army of double the size; while Great Britain has striven to have a navy Stronger than that of all the remaining nations of the world. If Germany be not crushed now, her spirit of progress will ultimately put her at the head of the nations, commercially and financially. This would mean that all the other nations would be less powerful proportionately. They see in this a terrible nightmare of militarism, Germany must be crushed at any cost, not only for the sake of the present, but also for the sake of future generations, The Bible declares, “God is not in all their thoughts.” (Psalm 10:4) Although all the nations of the Continent, except the Turks, style themselves Christian nations, not one of them manifests any faith in God. They all feel that the entire responsibility, both for the present and for the future, rests altogether upon themselves. ‘‘FEAR HATH SURPRISED THE HYPOCRITES" Convinced of having a divine commission and with sundry forms of godliness, but without any of its power or faith, many of these nations are only now awakening to the fact - terrible. that this war is not like other wars—that God hag let loose the winds, is no longer restraining them. The time has come for him to allow the angry passions of men to bring the whirlwind of trouble, which shortly will lead on to revolution and then to anarchy, and will thus prepare the way of the Lord and his kingdom. What a sad spectacle the war presents—twenty millions of soldiers engaged, at a cost of over forty million dollars per day for their maintenance! Twelve millions of men in the prime of life have already been wounded, captured or killed. The consumption of ammunition is astounding. One of the British ministers recently declared that in one battle in Belgium the British forces used more ammunition than in the entire Boer war! National debts were already enormous, and British consols (bonds) were selling at twenty-five per cent. less than their face value before this war began. Can any rational] person suppose that the debts of the warring nations represented by their bonds will ever be paid? And when the people shall realize the meaning of all this and of the crash of financial institutions which this will involve, the discovery will be The only logical result to be expected of the discouraged people will be as the Bible predicts—so great an earthquake as was not since man was on the earth—social earthquake, revolution, gigantic in its character.—Rev. 16:18. WAR’S DEMORALIZING INFLUENCE Professed ministers of Christ, of various denominations seem to be vying with each other in leaving the Great Captain of our Salvation and his standard of peace and love in order to associate themselves more and more with militarism. Appealed to by the representatives of the Government, these professed representatives of the Prince of Peace are making themselves popular with their governments by preaching war. We hear only a little from Great Britain along these lines, but the suggestion from the Bishop of London is quite sufficient on this point. His suggestion urges boys and girls to marry early and to raise large families, presumably for mortal combat—not to be soldiers of the Cross of Christ and followers of the Lamb, but soldiers of the Cross of St. George which marks the British flag. Recently in Canada the Editor was astounded by the activity of the preachers there—especially those of the Church of England. One was out in Khaki uniform marching through the streets with the volunteers, Asked by a college friend, “Did I see you in the ranks?” he answered, “Yes, I wanted to encourage the boys.” “And did you think of going to the front, to the trenches?” “Not a bit of it!” He was merely acting as a decoy to get others to the front; just as a bull they have at one of the Chicago stockyards which meets the [5754]