By and by the world will be made to know about God's wonderful character and Plan. The light of the knowledge of the glory of God will then fill the whole earth. (Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14.) But the Church of Christ get this knowledge beforehand. In coming into the family of God we have entered the School of Christ, and He is teaching us all these things. They are written in the Bible "for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come," in order that by thus knowing Him we may be prepared for our glorious inheritance with Christ Jesus our Lord and Head.-1 Corinthians 10:11; Colossians 1:12.

The Lord's Precious Jewels.

God's promise to this class that reverenced him and thought upon His name is that they shall be His in that Day when He shall make up His jewels. As one who cares for precious jewels, so God cares for His saints. The man who handles the jewels sees to it first that they are properly cut and polished; and afterwards he mounts them. They would not look well except they were mounted; for the mounting has much to do with the beauty of the jewels.

God is now cutting and polishing these saintly jewels of His. The first and greatest of these was our Lord Jesus Christ. The twelve Apostles were twelve large stones, fine grained and beautifully cut. Throughout the Gospel Age jewels of different sizes have been found and cut. Presently God will mount all the jewels that remain unmounted. This mounting is done in the First Resurrection.

Of His jewels our God will make a beautiful diadem, set in the gold of the Divine nature. Is He to wear this royal diadem? Oh, no! Jehovah

needs no diadem to add to the charms of His Person. To the jewel class the Prophet declares: "Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God." (Isaiah 62:3.) The Church will be in the HAND of our God, to be exhibited to angels and to

men, as a marvelous piece of workmanship, which God has wrought.

In preparing these jewels the Lord has not used force, coercion. Originally they were some of the poor sons and daughters of Adam. God did not compel them to leave their father's house, but simply led them by His Spirit and by the exceeding great and precious promises of His Word. Ultimately they will be diamonds of the first water-pure, stainless. They are to be faultless in love before the Father; and perfect love casts out not only fear, but also selfishness, animosity, evil surmisings, evil speaking, pride and self-love. As they daily think upon the character of God, His goodness, His infinity, His Plan, His love, they come to know Him more and more intimately, and to realize His grand perfection more clearly. Thus they are gradually changed into His character-likeness-"from glory to glory."-2 Corinthians 3:18.

God's Jewels are His Sons.

The Lord presents to us in His Word great truths under figures of speech which even the least learned can comprehend. For instance, instead of telling us that He has knowledge of His faithful ones and will never forget those who are His, and who diligently endeavor to know and to serve Him, He pictures the information, telling us in His Word that He has a "Book of Life" and a "Book of Remembrance." Through these figures we get the thought that He would have us get; namely, that He takes full knowledge of them that are His.

Then He encourages this class with the assurance that their love and devotion shall one day have its reward; that a great change is coming in His general dealings with the world of mankind; and that then every sigh, every tear and every sacrifice for righteousness' sake and for love of the Lord, for His Cause and for His brethren shall be rewarded in a manner that is beyond our present comprehension. This class, however, serve not for selfish reasons, but from devo

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tion, from fidelity and consequently from love; hence they shall find that the light afflictions of the present, which are only for a moment, working out for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, as they look not at the things now seen but at those now unseen-the eternal things.-2 Corinthians 4:17, 18.

Without attempting to detail the riches of grace in reservation for them that love God, the Scriptures use two figures that are quite expressive to the eye and ear of faith-God's jewels, God's faithful sons. These two phrases suggest a full explanation of present experiences. The proper father will instruct, correct and discipline his son, although he may pass by the greater faults and blemishes of those who are not his children. As respects jewels, we all know the necessity for cutting and polishing them, to the intent that their real qualities may be developed. Thus the Church class see themselves in their Heavenly Father's School of discipline, in preparation to be His heirs-joint-heirs with Christ in His Kingdom. They see the necessity of the trials and perplexities and the persecutions of this present time, that they may be polished and prepared for the glorious future.-Romans 8:17; Galatians 3:29.

The time for making up these jewels is the close of the Gospel Age. The faithful followers of our Lord Jesus from His day until now will all have part in the First Resurrection. All of the jewels now living will, when polished and found worthy, be "changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye," to be with their Lord-the moment of their death being the moment of their change. These have no need to sleep in death; for the gathering time of the saints has come. They will be spared from passing through the culmination of the great Time of Trouble already begun.

Our Day the Close of the Age. According to our best knowledge of the Word of God, we have now come down to the close of the Gospel Age.

All about us we can see the foretold signs of our Lord's Second Presence and the end of the Age. To His Church our Lord Jesus said, "When ye see these things begin to come to pass, then lift up your heads; for your deliverance draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28, 31.) We see "these things" coming to pass in the great war in Europe, in the mutterings of revolution among the nations, in the world-wide Zionist movement of the Jews, etc. The Church, the Bride of Christ, is almost complete. But we do not yet know how long it will be until we shall have finished our earthly course. That is for the Lord to determine.

"Faithful is He that hath called you, who will also do it." Our eye of faith has sighted the Prize of glory, honor, immortality and joint-heirship with Christ. "God hath given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these we might become partakers of the Divine nature." (2 Peter 1:4.) And we have been able to receive these promises. There is nothing that compares with them. The more we know of the great Divine Plan of the Ages and of the privileges which we may have in that Plan, the more we are enthused, the more we would glorify the Father and the Son, the more we rejoice together as brethren in the Body of Christ.

Those who have comprehended this Divine Plan for human salvation have an abundant theme, a never-ending theme, a theme which above all others will fill their hearts and their minds, and which will crowd out all worldly topics as not worthy of comparison. It will crowd out all complainings and murmurings, as wholly improper on the part of those who have been recipients of so many Divine favors and who have "much advantage everyway," in that they have delivered unto them the Divine Oracles. Especially is this true in view of our adoption into the family of God as sons, "joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Lord, if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified. together."

Let us, then, as true sons of God, re

member the importance of honesty "truth in the inward parts"-when we come together to study the Divine Word and to help one another as members of the Body of Christ. "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory," but let each esteem the other greater than himself in saintliness,

seeking to see in each other so far as possible, the noble, the good, the true; and let each seek to watch his own heart and to know his own blemishes. Thus shall personal humility and brotherly love keep pace with our growth in the knowledge of Divine things.

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Harold Bell Wright has been called "the apostle of the wholesome," and in his new story, "When a Man's a Man," a story of manhood, he has nobly sustained the characterization. He has never written a cleaner, better story, nor one that is more uplifting. It combines those qualities that make "The Winning of Barbara Worth" a big and virile novel with the qualities that make "The Shepherd of the Hills" a sweet and simple story.

"When a Man's a Man" is a story of the real heart of the life of the unfenced land of ranch and range in Northern Arizona. The spirit and motive of the story is best expressed, perhaps, in the familiar lines of that

heart of the world, "A man's a man for a' that." While the pages are crowded with the thrilling incidents that belong to the adventurous life depicted, one feels, always, beneath the surface of the stirring scenes the great primitive and enduring life forces that the men and women of this story portray, and we are made to feel and understand that there come to every one those times when in spite of all, above all and at any cost, a man must be a

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"More Smiles Than Sighs," by Chas. Howard Kegley.

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