week, ‘and the attendance has been
good each night,” until Sunday night,
February 27, when the weather man
interfered with sleet, snow, and rain.
The ground is now covered with a good
blanket of snow and it is still coming
down at a rapid rate,
We are expecting, when the bad
weather breaks, that the people will
give us a good hearing and the Lord
will cause many of them to accept and
obey the message for this time.
ISAAC BAKER.
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ECHOES_FROM THE
COLPORTEURS’ INSTITUTE
1 certainly have appreciated the insti-
tute this time. This is the seventh that
I have attended. The first one I at-
tended I thought I had learned about
all there was to learn, but every one I
goto I learn more. Brother Young
wrote me a few days before the insti-
tute that he had a new vision of the
work, and I think we all have the same
now. — —E. A. Huelsenbeck.
I can certainly say that this has been
the best institute that I have ever at-
tended and I certainly have a stronger
determination to go forward in the col-
porteur work. —N. O. Hibbetts.
This is my first institute, but I have
enjoyed it more than any camp meeting
I have ever attended. Some of the old-
er workers havestated that every insti-
tute is better than the one before. Next
year no doubt I will be able to verify
their statements. — Fletcher Fant.
About fifteen years ago I attended
an institute, and while there some one
stated that such meetings are getting bet}
ter every year, but 1 was skeptical. Be- .
fore coming to the bookmen’s convention
last year, I had an idea that such train-
ing would benefit me little if any. But
can truly say that Brother Harrison's.
talk on economy, or how to get by, was’
worth a great deal more than time
I spent. I thought I learned my lesson.
well, but his sermon on this subject
this afternoon has made it soak in still
deeper and I believe any God-fearing
colporteur can make a success of this
business if he will carry out these prin-
ciples. —J. B. Hawkins.
This is my first institute, and I thank
the Lord for the help I have received.
I am planning on working for the Lord
until the work is finished, — Mrs. Killis
Boyce.
I am glad I came to the institute. I
did not think it was possible to learn so
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mence canvassing right away. I will
never work for any one but the Lord
again, for I want to help warn the
world of His coming again —Killis
Boyce.
Sister Rachel Hall always expressed
herself as being thankful for the oppor-
tunity of attending the institute. She
was very faithful in attendance, and re-
ceived much inspiration to press for-
ward in the Lord’s work. She will contin-
ue with her good work of placing our
books in the homes of the people here in
Little Rock.
Our recent colporteurs’ institute held
in Little Rock will long be remembered.
Elder Montgomery conducted the spir-
itual meetings, morning’ and evening,
which were indeed a feast to all. The
colporteurs were strengthened and in-
spired to greater activities for the Lord
as a result of these meetings.
Elder Harrison seemed to be more en-
thusiastic than ever in the good instruc-
tions urging us to adhere to right princi-
ples, right methods, ‘and right plans, if
we would have success attend our. ef-
forts. Brother E. H. Abbott gave us very
valuable help both in a spiritual aud
practical way. Brother Black and Miss
Winn brought out some very helpful
suggestions in the way of business
transactions with the Book and Bible
House.
We appreciate all this help very
much. All the colporteursresponded by
frequently making remarks as follows:
“It is the best institute I ever at-
tended.”” “I am certainly glad I came
to the Institute, I did not know they
were like this.”” “‘I would just as soon
go to an institute as toa camp meeting,’
~The spirit of the Lord was with us
in great measure, and although there
were few In number, with the blessings
of the Lord resting upon us we will
march forth to victory, God being our
leader.-~C. N. Young.
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THE PASSOVER AND
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
NO. 3
According to Exodus 12:3, 6, 11, Is-
rael was to select a lamb on the tenth
day of the month, and slay it in the
evening of the fourteenth day, and eat
it that night which would be the fif-
teenth. See Numbers 28:16, 17.
The Pascal lamb was a typeof Christ,
our passover, 1 Corinthians 5:7, through
whose blood we are saved from death
the ‘same as the firstborn in Egypt
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blood on the door post. Col. 1: 14; Ex.
12:23.
The wave sheaf was to be offered on
the sixteenth day of the month or the
morrow after the passover Sabbath.
Lev. 23:10, 11.
It will be noticed from the above
scripture that Israel was not to offer
the wave sheaf until they came into
theland. On the same day the sheaf
was offered, they were to offer burnt
offerings, meat offerings, and drink
offerings, See Lev. 23: 12-14. On that
day they were to eat parched corn and
green ears, but not until then, verse 14.
Joshua 5:10, 11, shows they ate of
parched corn on the day after the pass-
over. The passover Sabbath being on the
fifteenth day of the month, it is plain
the wave sheaf was offered on the six-
teenth day of the month. The wave
sheaf represented the firstfruits. Lev.
23; 10; so Christ is the firstfruits of
them that slept. 1 Cor. 12: 20,
Thus it is plain that the Pascal lamb
represented the death of Christ and
and the wave sheaf represented the
resurrection, and these offerings were
tobe on the fourt.enth and sixteenth
days of the month, respectively. No
doubt Paul had his mind on this when
he says in 1 Cor. 15: 3,4, that Christ
died and arose again according to the
scriptures,
Inasmuch as the Lamb was slain in
the afternoon or evening of the four-
teenth of the month, Lev. 23:5; Deut.
16:6, and the “wave sheaf was offered
on the sixteenth day of the month, Lev.
22:10-14; Josh. 5:10, 11, by no hook or
crook can one figure seventy-two hours
between these two events. Therefore
if Christ was crucified and resurrected
in harmony with the type he could not
have been in the grave three full days:
and three full nights as some try to
make Matt. 12:40, teach from Jonah
being in the in the fish or whale three
days and nights. Matt. 12: 40, says
nothing about the grave, but it says
"Christ should be in the heart of the
earth. There is no way of proving that
the tomb of Jesus was the heart of the
earth. In fact the evidence is all
against that idea for he was buried in.
a rock on top of the ground, when the
heart of the literal earth would be the
geographical center.
Itis evident from the following ref-
erences that the inhabitants of the
earthare at times, at least referred
to, as the earth, see Deut. 32: 1; Josh,
23- 1; Isa. 34:1; Micah 1:2. Therefore
may itnot be that Matt.12: 40 refers to
Christ under the ruling powers of
earth from the time of his arrest until
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