student of law, religion or medicine. The author seems to have tried with success to trace the influence of the mystery of sex on the human mind. BARNES' FEDERAL CODE: containing all federal statutes of general and public nature now in force. Edited by Uriah Barnes. Charleston, West Virginia: Virginian Law Book Company. 1919. pp. civ. 2831.

With a view of simplifying the arrangement and avoiding the perplexities and confusion of the law as set forth in the Statutes at Large, various collections of federal statutes, conveniently arranged and classified under leading topics, have been published from time to time under the name of United States Compiled Statutes. "Barnes' Federal Code,” published in 1919, is the most recent contribution in this field. It comprises a collection of all the United States Statutes of general and public nature in force at the present time, and follows in the main the order and arrangement of previous editions of Compiled Statutes. The marked and admirable quality of the book is its extreme compactness,—the great mass of existing statutes being contained in full within the limits of a single volume, attractive in appearance, and easily handled and carried. Through the means of thin paper and excellent typography the size of the book has been reduced to proportions never before attained in any previous edition of United States Statutes.

LL.D.

INCOME AND OTHER FEDERAL TAXES. By Henry Campbell Black, Fourth edition. Kansas City: Vernon Law Book Company. 1919. pp. xxi, 704.

The passage of the Revenue Act of 1918 (1919) required a new edition of Judge Black's standard treatise on the Income Tax. The new law, together with the decisions of two years and the rulings of the Department, has called for a twenty-per cent increase in the size of the book. The work appears to be done with care, and the statements of the text are sound. If a case that might be discussed is occasionally omitted, it may be laid to the newness of the subject, and to the extreme pressure of time on an author who has to get out two new editions of a book within two years. In short, Black's "Income Taxes" is an excellent book on a puzzling subject of universal interest; and each successive edition makes it more valuable.

THE TRIAL OF CHRIST

(Continued from Last Number.)

The record proves that Pilate furnished a cohort, led by a bribed betrayer, to take Jesus in the night. When brought before him for trial, Pilate's first offer is to deliver Jesus to the Jews to punish, "Take ye Him, and judge Him according to your law." (Jno. 18:31..) The answer of the Jews shows Pilate meant death. His first question is to get Jesus' confession to treason, for which the penalty was death. He can find no fault in Him, but refuses to set Him free. 'He sends Him to Herod, because he knows Herod wants to kill Jesus. He boasts the power to release, or to crucify Jesus, but does not release him. He scourges him horribly to extort confession, permits his soldier to mock, beat, spit upon, and thorn crown Jesus, when no Jew asked for it, none desired it. He crucified him between two thieves to make his death ignominious. He wrote in three languages an accusation of treason, nailed it to the cross, and refused to change it when besought; this is Pilate's admission against himself, in writing, thrice written by his own hand, and it is conclusive proof that no theorizing, nor church canonizing of Pilate, can change. With that accusation of treason found against Jesus, Pilate was bound to crucify Christ, or be a traitor to Rome. No sane person will believe that Pilate wanted to save Jesus by turning traitor to Rome, but was prevented by the Jews. He killed Christ, and summoned his centurion to make official report, to be sure that He was dead. 'He sealed the tomb, and set a soldier guard to make the work of death secure. Soon after the resurrection the Apostles in solemn prayer record, "Pilate against Jesus." The church declares it in its holy creed. These records make it impossible that Pilate tried to save Jesus by a sham death, and reviving a drugged sleeper. THE RESURRECTION IS REAL, AND TRUE.

If other irrefutable evidence that Pilate was against Jesus is wanted, it is found in the way Pilate worded the offer of Christ, or Barabbas.

"Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?" (Mark 15:9.) Remember that Pilate has tried Jesus, so here is the judge using the exact language of the accusation of treason. To be king of the Jews is treason against Rome, for they were subjects of Caesar, and the language of the judge makes Jesus king of the Jews; the court has so decided, so declares itself. Now, who ever answers yes to that question of Pilate's, "Will ye that I release unto you the king of the Jews?" is guilty of treason!

Pilate was a Procurator, who must have knowledge of the law, so he well knew all that was in the words of that question. Pilate well knew that no one could say yes to that offer without giving opportunity to mingle the blood of the Jews with their Passover, as he did the blood of the Galilieans with their sacrifices. (Luke 13:1.) Is this a saint trying to save the Savior, or is it a wholesale murderer?

The Scribes (lawyers) knew that to ask release of Jesus was to invite death as a traitor. The Jews warned Pilate himself, during this trial, "If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend." A covert threat to report Pilate to Caesar as a traitor.

The custom of releasing a prisoner at the feast was used by Pilate to set a trap for the Jews he hated; hence he made the offer in words that caught them, if they asked for release of Him who was condemned as a traitor, by the very language of the offer.

The Jew lawyers saw the trap, the Scribes and priests led the mob, and they adroitly used the perilous offer to compel the people to choose Barabbas, and reject Jesus. They had only to show the mob that it was

death to ask release of Jesus.

That this was Pilate's villainous design, is confirmed by the fact that after the people avoided the trap by choosing Barabbas, Pilate set it again in other words:

"What will ye then that I shall do unto Him whom ye call the King of the Jews?" (Mark 15:12.)

Some call this another effort of the good Pilate to save Jesus; but it purposely makes any voice for release impossible, and "Away with Him!" the one of safety. Pilate continues to taunt, and tauntalize, until he tricely triumphs in the revenge he sought, by driving the enraged Jews to apostasy in the cry: "We have no king but Caesar." When his attempts to entrap the Jews fail, his pretended efforts for Jesus end. Jesus is speedily sentenced and crucified.

I see no other reasonable explanation of Pilate's conduct.

He loved office too well to sacrifice it for sentiment; he loved life too well to lose it in saving a hated Jew that wanted to rival Caesar. Pilate did not understand Jesus' kingdom in the spiritual sense, and thus acquit him of treason, for Pilate the heathen had no knowledge of spirituality. Evidently he accepted Jesus' confession in court.

Art thou the King of the Jews? And
Thou sayest it." (Mark 15:2.)

"And Pilate asked Him: He answering said unto him: Here Jesus' answer confesses, "I am." Pilate believed Jesus to be only man, and on this confession condemned Him for treason, just as the Jews condemned Jesus for blasphemy before Caiaphas, on confession. Both Gentile and Jew right as to law, wrong as to fact.

(Pilate was a willing executioner, and not coerced, as commentaries claim; for Mark is recorded authority that settles it:

"And so Pilate, WILLING to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged Him, to be crucified. (Mark 15:15.)

Pilate's true character is shown by the records, and it will make his double dealing and diabolism more easily comprehended in the following pages. It will lead straight to the truth that Pilate and the Gentiles maltreated and crucified Christ.

If Jesus was divine as well as human, if He was a true prophet, if He foreknew even His own future, then the Gentiles, not the Jews, mal

treated and killed Christ. On the way up to Jerusalem to die, with His passion plainly before Him, He foretold it to His disciples. Matthew, Mark and Luke agree in reporting His words, and the evidence is decisive that the Gentiles mocked, beat, spit upon, scourged and crucified Christ. Read:

"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death. And all shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him; and the third day he shall rise again." (Math. 20:18, 19.)

Jesus tells what the Jews will do, "condemn, and deliver Him;” and He tells what the Gentiles will do, "mock, scourge, and crucify Him."

The Jews condemned Him for blasphemy because they believed Him only man, and with this view they lawfully condemned Him. Their mistake was a mistake of fact, not of law. The hierarchy did not believe on Him, rejected Him as the Messiah, as the Scriptures foretold; and lured the people to rejection.

Here is Mark's confirmation:

"And He began to teach them, that

the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again." (Mark 8:31.)

Here we are told by the Divine One, who "knew all things that should come upon Him," just how rejection should be, "elders, chief priests, and scribes," and not the people, except as betrayed and misled. Now read how the Jews will condemn, and the Gentiles scourge and crucify:

"And He took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto Him. Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles. And they shall mock Him, and shall scourge Him, and shall spit upon Him, and shall kill Him; and the third day He shall rise again." (Mark 10:32, 33, 34.)

Jesus is misquoted, or mistaken, otherwise the Gentiles were to do all the maltreating, and the killing. The Gospel records require this, and they are the words of Him who cannot lie.

Luke triples the divine testimony, read: "Then He took unto Him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on. And they shall scourge Him, and put Him to death; and the third day He shall rise again." (Luke 18:31, 32, 33.)

(To be continued.)

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