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By E. P. Hammond

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Mildmay Park Conference

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The Evangelization Society... 432 United Mission in Tenby. 432 A Re.opening and Thanksgiving 433 Mateer and Parker

433

The Gospel Ships........ 433 Home Gleanings

"Burning the Books"

434

Dr. Cairns on Free Breakfasts 434 Erin's only Hope.... 434

Upper-class Servants..... 434 Work in West Marylebone..

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Home Mission Notes

Miss Anstey in Colar

Testifying at Epsom

Christian Evidence Society. The National Refuges.

PENTECOST AND WHITSUNTIDE.

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434 435 436 436 436

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HE Passover stands first among Jewish festivals

as commemorating the birth of the nation. On the eve of the exodus from Egypt, sheltered by the sacrificial blood which stained the door-posts and lintels, the redeemed people fed in solemn expectation on the flesh of the victim by whose death the lives of the first-born were spared. That night closed their long servitude, and from it they marched forth into the free life of the wilderness, with its peculiar privilege of national fellowship with God. Their national history began with blood-shedding, and the whole economy under which God placed them testified with a thousand tongues" without shedding of blood there is no remission."

the future resurrection which awaits His people. We shall surely in Christ be made alive, "but every man in his own order; Christ the firstfruits; afterwards they that are Christ's at His coming."

IN

N Leviticus xxiii, there is a detailed account of the seven feasts of the Lord, beginning with the Sabbath and ending with the Feast of Tabernacles. The first marks the beginning of history, when God rested from the works He had made; the last marks the completion of history, when the redeemed of the Lord shall enter upon the rest which remaineth. The other five lie between these dates. As we have seen, the Passover tells of redemption, the wave-sheaf of resurrection, and for the next, the feast of Pentecost, let us turn to the terms of its appointment: "Ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waveoffering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the first-fruits unto the Lord."

This, we are informed, is a new meat-offering. We cannot fail to note the difference between it and the other offering of similar character so closely

cance of this type. Through grace we have beheld the "Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." We know that we have not been "redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." We have learned that "Christ our passover is sacrificed for us," and that it is our privilege to "keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice or wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." On the very threshold of spiritual life we must master the primary truth which declares redemption by the sacrifice of a Substitute.

On the third day of the Paschal feast the first sheaf of the harvest field was to be waved before the Lord. Perhaps to some this might mean nothing more than an acknowledgment of God's bounty and a frank confession that He had a right to claim the first-fruits of our toil. But a new meaning enters into the type when Christ rises from the dead as the "first-fruits

of them that slept." Our thoughts are carried by this fact altogether away from the harvests of men to the great harvest in which angels are the reapers. The resurrection of Christ is the pledge and pattern of

suades three thousand penitents to welcome the Henceforth Saviour whom the nation rejected. Pentecost becomes associated with the gift of the Father, and the day becomes memorable as the day on which the Spirit was poured out from on high. When we speak of Pentecostal blessings we date back to this early season of refreshing, which prepared the infant Church for the season of suffering and service on which it was so soon to enter.

Let us not miss, however, the significance of the leaven. However honoured saints may be, they are not allowed to forget that in the flesh there dwelleth nothing good. Our acceptance is only in Him in whom there was no sin, though God is pleased to endow us with His Spirit, and to accept our service.

SON

POPISH PLOTS TO-DAY.

OME years ago Dr. Manning (the so-called cardinal) recognised clearly that the strength of Protestantism is really to be found in this country. Here, therefore, is the battle-ground on which the Papacy must win its greatest triumph or suffer its most humiliating defeat. We need not be surprised if strong and stubborn endeavours be made to bring both our institutions and churches into nearer accord with Rome. We are not measuring at present the success or failure of these efforts, we are merely explaining them. There is no likelihood of their discontinuance or diminution. Therefore it is of the utmost importance to understand their character and design. The following extract from Lord Robert Montagu's book is sufficiently

instructive:

Cardinal Manning wrote: that the Queen's supremacy is the essence of heresy, and "the Reformation in concreto; " and that the English Government "has headed the unbelief and the sedition of Europe, and directs the full power of England against the Catholic Church, and, above all, against the Holy See;" and is "essentially a denial of the Divine institution of the Church, and represents a population not only in schism and heresy, but traditionally hostile to the spiritual authority of the Church and the Pontiffs." Again he said: "If ever there was a land in which work was to be done, and perhaps much to suffer, it is here. I shall not say too much if I say that we have to subjugate and subdue, to conquer and rule, an imperial race. We have to do with a will which reigns throughout the world as the will of old Rome reigned once. We have to bend or break that will, which nations and kingdoms have found invincible and inflexible. Were heresy conquered in England, it would be conquered throughout the world. All its lines meet here, and therefore in England the Church of God must be gathered in its strength."

That this was a fixed determination with Cardinal Manning is shown by the fact that in his "Address to the Third Provincial Council of the Archdiocese of Westminster," he reverted to the same subject: "This nineteenth century will make a great epoch in the history of the Church . . . It is good for us to be here in England. It is yours, right reverend fathers, to subjugate and subdue, to bend and to break, the will of an imperial race; the will which, as of Rome of old, rules over nations and peoples, invincible and inflexible

....

You

have a great commission to fulfil, and great is the prize for which you strive. Surely a soldier's eye and a soldier's heart would choose, by intuition, this field of England for the warfare of the faith. None ampler or nobler could be found

It is the head of Protestantism, the centre of its movements, and the stronghold of its powers. Weakened in England, it is paralyzed everywhere. Conquered in England, it is conquered throughout the world. Once overthrown here, all is but a war of detail. All the roads of the whole world meet in one point; and this point reached, the whole world is open to the Church's will. England is the key of the whole position of modern error."

And therefore all the efforts and energies, all the duplicities and dissimulations, of which they are masters, will be directed to bending and breaking the will of the English people, and to subjugating and subduing Englishmen to the will of the Pope. If this cannot be done by means of Home Rule agitations in Ireland, and if dynamite explosions and socialist riots in England do not suffice to accomplish their purpose, then other measures will be resorted to.

Further, Cardinal Manning said: "There is only one solution of the difficulty-a solution, I fear, impending-and that is, the terrible scourge of a continental war, a war which will exceed the horrors of any of the wars of the First Empire."

That is the aim of the Papacy, to weaken and to humble Eng land, to dismember the Empire, to render her the prey to her enemies in a great continental war.

The words on which we lay special emphasis are these "Were heresy conquered in England, it would be conquered throughout the world." They indicate a strong conviction, and are the basis of a clear and consistent policy. For, as Dr. Manning says, Romanism must, in this country, be "gathered in its strength."

We are no extremists. Some discover the action of Rome everywhere, others are unable to trace it anywhere. Now, we believe that it is present in considerable force in the politics of to-day, though we confess it is not always easy to unmask it. But only crass ignorance or stubborn prejudice can fail to note its impetus and direction in the case of Ireland. Roman Catholic organs at home and abroad speak on this subject with one voice. They make no secret of their wish for Irish independence. It is passing strange that Protestants remain deaf to this testimony. The greater number seem to regard the question of union or separation as simply one of political expediency; whereas, unless we are to unlearn all the history of the past, it is designed to "bend or break that will, which nations and kingdoms have found invincible and inflexible."

ATM

A NATION IN PERIL.

T the present juncture the Lord's people must realize the necessity of waiting upon Him on behalf of the nation. We venture, therefore, to think very special attention will be given to the following just to hand from Pastor Frank H. White.:

Meetings for prayer and testimony will be held in the Powis Hall, Powis Gardens, Talbot Road, Notting Hill (back of the Talbot Tabernacle), on Monday next, the 21st of June. All who are in any measure alive to the dangers which threaten by the spread of infidelity and Popery and their exaltation to high places in the land are earnestly invited.

The chair will be taken in the afternoon at three o'clock, in the evening at seven. H. Sinclair Paterson, M.D., Chas. Graham, W. Fuller Gooch, W. Frith, G. D. Hooper, Robert Alexander, LL.D., and others, will take part.