utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth" (Amos 9: 8). Christ said: "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke 21: 24). Paul says: "I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles." * * * "For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead." * * "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved" (Rom. 11: 11, 15, 25).

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Since their return from their captivity in Babylon, five hundred years before Christ came to the present day, the Jews have never been idolaters; but have remained faithful to the worship of one God; while for over twelve hundred years, the whole visible Christian Church was grossly idolatrous. They are living witnesses for the truth of the writings of Moses and of the prophets; of the truthfulness of the whole Bible; although for two thousand years,

all men have been against them. The wonderful prophecies concerning their dispersion have been literally fulfilled; and are being so now; and the prophecies of their being brought again into the visible Church, with the fulness of the Gentiles, are equally certain. A full end has God made, according to His Word, of many nations: but the Jews, although without a country, and sifted through all nations, still continue a great people; witnesses for the truth of the Bible, as they have been in all the past generations; and they will continue a perpetual miracle, proving the truth of the Word of God to the generations to come; until the Gospel shall be preached to all nations; and then, shall the Jews be brought into the Church of Christ; with the fulness of the Gentiles (Rom. 11: 25).

ERRORS IN CHURCHES SINCE

CHRIST CAME.

IN the New Testament we have the account of the Church in the days of Christ. In the Epistles, we have a record of the errors in the churches founded by the Apostles. In the Revelation, we have the errors of the seven churches in Asia, which led to the removal of their light, and to their extinction; and also, a prophetic account of the rise and fall of the great apostate church. The most of the errors, spoken of and condemned, still exist in the greater part of the churches. The children of God should be warned against them; that they may avoid them. In the Gospels, we read the warnings of Christ against the rulers of the Church in His day. "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees" (Matt. 16: 6). "They be blind leaders of the blind" (Matt. 15: 14). "Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition" (Matt. 15: 6). "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the the damnation of hell?" (Matt. 23: 33). The "generation of vipers" still lives; and they are the leaders in large portions of the Church at the present day. It was to a ruler in the Church, Christ said: "Except a man be born

again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3: 3, 5). It was to the leaders in the Church that Jesus said: "Ye neither know Me, nor My Father : if ye had known Me, ye would have known My Father also" (John 8: 19). The greater part of the Church has had such teachers and rulers ever since. The account Christ gives of their teachings and works, as recorded in the twenty-third chapter of Matthew and elsewhere, should be studied: and believers in Christ should take heed and beware of them. In the Epistle to the Corinthians Paul writes: “It hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? (1 Cor. 1:11). There would be fewer contentions in the Church, if men had regard to the words of Christ, instead of following men. the fifth chapter he charges them with not using proper discipline over the members of their church. "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you.” And tells them, “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Purge out, therefore, the old leaven' (1 Cor. 5: 1, 5, 7). "Now, therefore, there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another” (1 Cor. 6: 1-7). “I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among

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you, that they which are approved may be manifest among you" (1 Cor. 11: 18). "When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. * * * Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not" (1 Cor. 11: 20). "I fear, lest when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, back bitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults" (2 Cor, 12: 20). To the churches of Galatia, he writes: "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ" (Gal. 1:6). "When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed." * * * "And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, etc." (Gal. 2: 11). Continuing, Paul writes, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth" (Gal. 3:1). "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" (Gal. 3: 3). "How turn ye again to the weak and beggarly