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A MOMENTOUS QUEST

"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found."— Isa. lv: 6. Isaiah stands head and shoulders above the other Old Testament authors in vivid descriptiveness of Christ. Other prophets…

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ALL THE WORLD AKIN

"And hath made of one blood all nations of men."— Acts xvii: 26. Some have supposed that God originally made an Asiatic Adam and a European Adam and an African…

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STORMED AND TAKEN

"And Abimelech gat him up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him, and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough…

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WINDOWS TOWARD JERUSALEM

"His windows being open and his chamber toward Jerusalem."—Dan. vi: 10. The scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged on by political jealousy against Daniel, have succeeded in getting a law passed…

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THE LORD’S RAZOR

"In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the King of Assyria."—Isaiah vii: 20. The Bible is…

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VICARIOUS SUFFERING

"Without shedding of blood is no remission."— Heb. ix: 22. John G. Whittier, the last of the great school of American poets that made the last quarter of a century…

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THE QUEEN’S VISIT

"Behold, the half was not told me."— I Kings x: 7. Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem should be the center of all sacred, regal, and commercial magnificence. He set himself…

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