The REMNANT OF ISRAEL
Entered as Second Class matter March 17, 1915, at the post.
office at Britton, Okla., under the act of March 3, 1870.
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Volume 4 JANUARY 1920 Number 49
SPECIAL ATTENTION.
- We would again call attention to Brother Gould’s booklet,
“To the Remnant of Israel.” Brother Gould has furnished this
office with quite a few for us to distribute to the readers. Ie
places no price on them. So they are free for the postage, three
cents. If any wish to pay fifteen cents for them it will be
forwarded to Brother Gould to aid him in his missionary work.
He has no settled office so mail could reach him from here
generally. Get the booklet from this office.
THE COMING YEAR.
We now see that God is giving us much to bring out for the
readers the coming year which they need. Light shines more
and more in the path of the just. Not the trading of lamps but
the triming of the same lamp to cause it to shine more and more
on the truth God has been giving in the past and new rays of
light for the future. Come brethren, wake up and do not loose
the prize. Says the prophet, “Let no man take thy crown.”
Others will come and do the work in our place, and we be lost
if we are not faithful. I earnestly plead for faithfulness in all
our doings in God’s work that you and I may hear the “Well done
good and faithful servant.” No man who is covetous, proud,
dislonest with God will ever hear it said of him.
ONCE MORE.
Once more we reach the end of another year. This issue
is the first of this year’s issues. We will say that our list will
be revised and no doubt many names will be dropped from the
list for want of interest on their part. We cut no one off who
wishes the paper sufficint to work for its advancement and study
its contents. But unless we hear from them the name will be
dropped. We have many who have helped in the past, so their
names stand whether we hear or not. We trust there will be a
general move to secure new subscribers and also to send the paper
to those whom you are interested in. We wish every name both
in this country and foreign that can be sent to us. The year
means much if we mistake not in the work of God. Who will
come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty- No man’s
religion amounts to much who does but little.
WHAT SHALL WE DO?
There are but few new subscribers placed on our list for the
coming year.
as best we can. It is this, so far as lieth in our power physically,
mentally and financially we shall by the Lord’s help keep the
work going as we have for the past five years in the printing of
the paper. At present it looks at times dark financially. But it
has looked so many times but the way was opened so we kept
going along. Personally we are ready to quit when the door is
What shall we do?We answer the above question .
THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL
closed so we can go no further. We will then feel clear. We
did the best we could, and that is all that is required. We feel
so thankful for all past favors shown us. We feel to praise the
Lord every day that he has given us the chance he has to give
to cthers that which he gives to us and fed our souls on the
bread of life. I have no fears that the work we have started
will die. That cannot be. God never allows his word to return
to him void. This work will in some way continue.
A CHALLENGE.
I have of late received not less than four or five communi-
cations which have tried to help Dr. Reed on his side of the
question as to the resurrection day of Christ, or rather to prove
that Christ was in the grave three days and three nights.
We did not care to say more than we have said about that
question, for a time at least, but one of these challenges any
person “To prove that Christ arose on the first day of the week.”
The record says in each instance that when the women went to
the sephulchre he was risen. Therefore I suppose because the
woman did not see him come out of the grave it is evident he
did not rise on the first day of the week. Let us look at it.
Such persons are reminders of Thomas, who would not believe
till he felt of the prints of the nails in his hands. Well, if they
will just believe the Bible the matter can be very easily proven
he did arise on the first day of the week, whether they saw him
or not. The record says plairly he would rise the third day, as we
have cited in many instances where this is written. The record
says he was placed in the tomb after the sixth hour on the pre-
peration day before the Sabbath. It says that “the women rested
the Sabbath according to the command, and early the first day of
the week they went early in the morning and he was risen.” He
had had twelve hours in which to rise the first day before they
got there. Now the deciples said that that first day of the week
was the third day. Now if this brother who challenges will be-
lieve the word then his trouble will end, but if like Thomas, he
must have some one see him rise, we cannot help his unbelief.™
This same brother says Brother Reed cannot prove he rose on
the Sabbath. That is true, for he did not rise on that day. He
accuses Brother Reed correctly, for the women did not go to the
sephulcre on the Sabbath. Neither did Christ arise on the Sab-
bath. So we reccommend this brother and Dr. Reed to settle
their difficulty.
Another, the Editor of the “Evangel of Hope,” tries next to
help Brother Reed, but they disagree also, for the Editor says
the heart of the earth is Palestine and not the grave. He then
next says, in order to evade the plain record that the “Disciples
said the first day of the week was the third day. The Editor
says the Catholics changed the original and made it read that way
to help themselves out. This reminds us of a preacher whom
we know who tried to preach on profound subjects. But soon
after he started, he would get where he could not see how to
follow his line any further, and so he always resorted then to the
text that said, “Great is the mystery of Godliness.” That let him
out and he could take a fresh start. So now it is one of the
common things if any scripture does not sustain those who have not
the truth, they say this was not correctly translated, or the
Catholics changed it, and it does not teach the truth as it should.
I wish some of these would give us a correct translation who
make these charges. Such in most of cases would be a curiosity.
But even that would be easier than to have Christ in the grave
three nights, and still believe Christ himself when he said he
would rise the third day. These teachers must have some manner
of figuring which I was not taught in school, and a thing could
happen today as the first day,and then not have day after tomorrow
“not be the third day. Then they must have some kind of reckon-
ing different to any thing I know of to get three nights between
the first and the third day. So it is true that those in error do
net agree with themselves. It is also true that they have strange
logic, and wish people to believe it then it is directly in contradic-