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was one of the “ all things.” That which
was made by Christ is Christian. The
seventh day is Christ's Sabbath, or the
Christian Sabbath.
The position taken by some that Christ
did not exist until he was born into this
world eighteen hundred years ago, is
proved incorrect by the foregoing texts.
The following texts are also definite.
Micah 5:2 reads: “ But thou, Bethlehem
Ephrata, though thou be little among
the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me that is to
be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old, from everlast-
ing.” The margin reads, “ The days of
eternity.”
“These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning
of the creation of God.” Rev. 3:14.
This was spoken of Christ. Jesus said
of himself, “ Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Before Abraham was, I am.” John
8:58. Other texts have shown that
when this earth was created, Christ was
there.
Having found the reasons for keeping
the Sabbath, and the Author of the Sab-
bath, we will consider the blessings prom-
ised in its observance, the length of time
it was to be kept, and its position in the
law of God.
The positions taken in this study are
not fanciful. They are plain Bible
statements, and will stand the test at the
judgment of God, where his word is the
standard.
KIER JN
PREACHING
I DESIRE my minister to preach every
Sunday the simple gospel. The “old,
old story” never wearies the average
congregation, if it comes from a devout
mind with preparation in the message.
My ideal sermon is one which has an
appeal to the unconverted and a spiritual
uplift for the Christian.
I want my minister to be abreast of the
times on all new theological questions
and research, but I do not want him to
bring them into the pulpit. I have
formed certan fixed views of Christ, his
gospel, and the inspiration of the Bible
from a careful reading of that Book of
books and of the shorter catechism, and
it will not make me a better Christian
or profit my spiritual life to unsettle these
views by a discussion in the pulpit of new
theories of Christ and the Holy Scrip-
tures.
THE WATCHMAN
HIS is the season of the year
when almost everybody has
a tendency to take cold.
Some part of the body gets
chilled by exposure to the
cold air, the equilibrium of
the circulation is upset, a
congestion of blood in the
head, throat, or lungs follows, and then
the victim “has a bad cold.”
Tt is not always possible to avoid a
certain amount of exposure to the cold
air; but we can avoid taking cold from
such exposure by keeping the system in
a proper condition of health. This is
the point we need to bear in mind. While
taking cold comes as the result of ex-
posure to the cold, back of this cause
lies another and by far the most impor-
tant cause, in the lowered vitality of the
system. If the system were kept al-
ways “up to concert pitch,” so to speak,
the blood circulation would be vigorous
enough to withstand any ordinary ex-
posure to which people are subjected by
the coming on of cold weather.
What causes the vitality of the sys-
tem to be lowered? Very often, we re-
ply, it is caused by errors in diet. You
have noticed that if you feed your stove
coal that is of an inferior quality, it soon
becomes clogged with clinkers, and you
have hard work to make it keep up a
good fire. Frequent poking and shaking
Finally, I want my minister to act upon
the belief that Christ’s gospel is the surest
cure of all social and political evils, and
that his best method of promoting tem-
perance, social morality, and good citi-
zenship is to bring men into the church.
In a word, I want my minister to empha-
size in his life work the declaration of
the most successful preacher, Paul: “It
pleased God by the foolishness of preach-
ing to save them that believe.’
J. Bryan.
William
TAKING COLD
down is necessary. Finally you dump
the grate, which removes everything that
interfered with the draught, and then
when the fire is again started, it burns
beautifully until the clogging process
again begins. That is the way it is with
the human body. It becomes clogged
with poisons, which lower the nerve force
and weaken every vital organ, and these
poisons have to be eliminated before the:
normal state of vitality can be re-estab-
lished. The nerves control the blood
vessels, so that any diminution of the
nerve force naturally weakens the circu-
lation. When the system gets clogged
with poisons, a clogging of the circula-
tion naturally follows, or at least is.
brought about by a very slight cause.
Nature finally makes an effort to get rid
of the obnoxious load, and this of itself
is sufficient to cause a serious disturb-
ance.
These poisons are the product of in-
digestion, which is due either to the eat-
ing of things which are indigestible or
nearly so, or the loading of the digestive:
organs with more food than they can
take care of. Very many persons im-
pose upon their systems a tremendous.
burden of eliminating superfluous por-
tions of their diet, and the strain sooner
or later causes a breakdown in the di--
gestive organs. Food which cannot be
taken care of in a short time, remains in
the stomach or other part of the di-
gestive tract and decomposes, giving off
poisons which are carried into the circu-
lation and affect the whole body. Cases.
have been noted in which decomposed
food remained in the stomach for severai
weeks, all this time, of course, doing
tremendous damage to the machinery of
the body. No wonder that a person un-
der such circumstances does not feel well’
or have a good appetite.
Profuse sweating helps to unload the-
system of poisons in the blood, and so.