The promenade passes into forested hills criss-crossed by miles and miles of beautiful walks extending to seemingly interminable distances. The woods are like a sylvan park, the ground being clear of underbrush and the trees betraying the improving hand of man.

At the foot of a terrace and built into the hillside stands, in a wreath of stately pines and drooping ash, ash, the so-called mausoleum, the tomb of the princely family. The front, crowned by a cross, is completely hidden under a garment of shining ivy. While you linger there, the hush and serenity of the spot are imparted to your mind.

Some points afford pictures out of the idyllic flicked landscape, framed by extending branches of beech trees. Scattered cottages and villas shine white on the undulation of green, and bright streaks of road stretch in loops down the slopes and along the valleylike rivers crawling out of the timbered hills.

The splendid macadamized roads are lined with apple trees, the proceeds of which are turned over to the road fund.

A prominent summit of the Teutoburg Forest is graced by a monstrous national monument, erected to commemorate a battle fought near Detmold between the ancient Germans, under their leader, Herman or Arminius, and the Romans. It was one of the fifteen decisive battles of the world. The Roman legions were annihilated, and, out of despair, their commander, Varus, committed suicide by flinging himself upon his sword. The battle took place during the reign of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and at a time when our Saviour was nine years old. The monument consists of a stone pedestal one hundred feet high and a copper statue of Hermann of the same height.

Another historical event having occurred near Detmold is a victory that Charlemagne won over the heathen Saxons in the year 783. A chapel that Charlemagne founded near the battle

field is still in existence, and serves a Protestant congregation as a place of worship.

Behind the leafy upheaval of a ridge lies an immense game park. King among the animals of the hunting ground is the red deer, a native of the forest here. During the mating season the stags are vicious. On a quiet. night their bellowing and peculiar grunting can be heard miles away. This is their way of expressing defiance and challenging a rival to contest, sometimes killing him in the ensuing fight. It is astonishing to see the deer, with their immense antlers upon their heads, chase through the woods without retarding their speed in the slightest. They calculate the distance between the trees to a nicety, and hardly ever strike a branch.

The hunting lodge in the game park was built in 1680. It contains a number of trophies of the chase-deers' antlers and wild boars' heads mounted on brackets along the walls.

There is also a famous stud in the park, established eight hundred years ago. The horses run wild in the woods the whole year round until five years old. They have a reputation for their hardiness and speed.

Another attraction in the vicinity of Detmold is a group of five solitary rocks, one hundred and twenty-five feet in height. They are the remnants of a ridge, the earth being washed away. Two of the cliffs are mountable by means of steps hewn into their sides. An ancient open chapel is on the top of one, and the base of another is hollowed out into a great chamber containing a baptismal font. The life-size relief on the outside, of Christ's removal from the Cross is pronounced the oldest piece of Christian sculpture in Germany.

Softened with the tints of shrubs oozing out of their fissures, the stone Cyclops mirror their hard features in a lake, set in a mat of velvety greensward and a strong frame of sloping woodland. Like an emerald on a silver tray, a tree-grown island graces the center of the lake.

I

SAT there dumfounded, the only one left on the front row of seats. What had become of my $50 watch? It was a birthday present from my wife. The thought of losing it had taken all fear away.

People had come from towns, ranches and farms remote, within a radius of 150 miles of Idaho Falls, to see Ringling's big show of trained animals give a performance on the afternoon of July 4, 1906.

Postponing my business with a dry goods dealer, I crossed to the west side of the famous Snake river, where the tents were all ready up, and took chances with rough cow-boys, ranchers and farmers, who shoved, crowded and jammed to secure tickets for the circus.

My ticket was purchased just in time to get the only vacant seat on the front row, directly facing the side of the middle saw-dust ring. The show had begun half an hour earlier, on account of the indications of a bad wind rising. Circus men dread those sudden dust-winds that are so prevalent to Idaho climate in July. They say it frightens the animals so they will not go through their parts in the programme.

Dogs, all sizes, colors and shapes, had finished their clever tricks. As they left the ring, here comes the big elephant, called Trumbo, followed single file by thirteen others, graded to a very small one in size.

Forming in a military flank, they marched to music; rolled barrels. around the ring, and stood on their hind feet, placing both front feet together. Cracking his whip at them, the trainer asked for some one on the

front seats to kindly step up to the ring and present his watch. Trumbo would show the time of day to the people, and then return it safely to the

owner.

I hesitated; my watch was a valuable one; but no one else responding, I walked up to the ring, and no sooner undid the watch from the chain, when Trumbo swung out his huge trunk, took the watch, opened it, and just as he began waving it too and fro for the audience to see the time of day, a terrific, whistling gale struck the tent.

Trumbo trumpeted, threw his trunk in the air as though frightened, and charged for the tent door, followed by all the other elephants, excepting Jude, who was held by the men.

The bedlam was something awful. The lions roared tremendously; the dogs howled, barked and jumped about; the monkeys screamed, and Jude trumpeted loudly.

The circus manager jumped onto a barrel and ordered and yelled for the people to clear the tent. They scrambled and fell over each other in a panic-frightened desire to get out quickly.

For a moment I was dazed and confused. The only thing that kept me from following the crowd was the thought of losing my watch. What had become of it?

Going over where I gave it to the elephant, I began scratching around in the saw-dust to see if it had been dropped.

An increasing volume of wind, accompanied with clouds of dust, blew around the tent. The lions uttered deep, gutteral, deafening roars that made my hair stand on end. They

leaped wildly around in their ironbarred cages, trying to break out. I could hear yelling, cursing and hammering, as the men moved about in the tent giving orders.

While I was pawing here and there on the ground, one of the circus men came up and gruffly ordered me to get out, as they were pulling down the tent.

When I explained, he remarked with a knowing grin: "Don't you worry, old man; if you gave a watch to Trumbo, he'll hang onto it 'til th' last. He's one o' th' best trained elephants in th' herd."

This assurance did not pacify me very much. I went outside, thinking my watch was a goner.

I could see crowds of apparently excited people running up and down the river banks; some shouting; some with ropes, and others standing on the bridge.

Hurrying down to the bridge, some two blocks away, I beheld an interesting sight. All of those stampeded elephants were in the river, about two inches of their trunks showing above the water, and floating tail downward.

A short distance above and below the bridge, the river narrows up. Perpendicular lava-rock cliffs, nearly sixty feet higher than the surface of the water, are formed by years of wearing away. At this particular place of the rapids, the natives of Idaho Falls claim that the lost river sinks and flows underground off into the Pacific Ocean. They say that fence poles, dead horses and other things have been known to sink, and never come up.

Those elephants, their heavy bodies tail downward, all under water, and only a small portion of their trunks exposed to take in the air, floated gracefully as a duck, right under the bridge, and through those dangerous, whirling rapids, without sinking.

While watching them from the

bridge, I imagined I could see something yellow glitter in the trunk of the third elephant as he floated under the bridge.

Asking a circus man standing near me if he did not think that was the elephant I gave my watch to, he said, "Sure! That's Trumbo, all right. If you gave him your watch, he's goin' to keep it 'til he sees you agin."

This comforting information led me to ask: "Is there any danger of the elephants giving out and drowning?”

"Naw! I should say not. I've know'd 'em to swim three miles out in th' ocean an' stay all day." He smiled, as he further added, “They kin live fifteen minutes under water."

"How will you get them to come out," I anxiously inquired.

"See that man leadin' Jude?” he indicated, pointing. "Notice Jude trumpet. Soon as them elephants come to a low bank they'll come out in answer to that call."

His words proved true. The elephants, one by one, a tired lot, slowly climbed up the shallow bank of the river, a half mile below the bridge. I hurried down to meet the man leading Trumbo.

"Did you find my watch?" I eagerly and excitedly asked.

For reply, he pointed to Trumbo's trunk, and explained with a laconic grin: "Not much! I tried to coax him ter giv' it to me, partner, but no use; he just kept swingin' it 'round out o' my reach."

As Trumbo saw and recognized me, he slowly raised his trunk, and brought it gently down, depositing the much wanted watch into my trembling, expectant hands, from some hidden recess of his trunk; flapped his big ears, as if satisfied he had done his duty, and throwing out his long rubber-like trunk he squirted a stream of water over me, saturating my clothes from head to foot. He then wobbled off amid the laughter of the circus men.

"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."John iii, 16.

"Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing of water by the Word; that He might present it to Himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."-Ephesians 5, 25-27.

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OME APPLY the first text only and think of the Divine Program as being merely an endeavor to rescue mankind from sin and death to righteousness and eternal life in the present time. Such as hold this view are much confused, because it must be acknowledged that comparatively little has been done, or is now being done, for man's uplift. After six thousand years it is still true that "The whole world lieth in the Wicked One;" "Darkness covers the earth and gross darkness the heathen." In order to have any confidence at all in this theory, those who hold it are obliged to greatly lower their standards. They are forced to hope that God will admit millions of unfit people, crude, rude, ignorant and wicked to eternal life and happiness, or perchance provide for them Purgatorial experiences, to make them fit, righteous and acceptable for life eternal. As a whole, Christian people are greatly bewildered. The tendency of their bewilderment is toward doubt, skepticism, atheism.

The other view, briefly stated, is

that God never intended the salvation of the world, but merely the salvation of the Church, "elect according to the fore-knowledge of God through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the Truth." Those who hold this theory have great confusion also, because it seems incomprehensible that God would make no provision for "thousands of millions" of Adam's race, but arrange for them to be born in sin, shapen in iniquity, and to go down to the tomb (or worse) without a clear knowledge of God and His Purposes and Will respecting them.

As we have already frequently set forth, both of the described theories are erroneous. The Scriptures set forth two salvations, entirely separate and distinct. They are different as respects time, in that the one "salvation began to be spoken by our Lord" at His First Advent, and began to be applicable to His Church at Pentecost, and will wholly cease at His Second Coming in the end of this Age. The other salvation neither applied before our Lord's First Advent nor during this Gospel Age, but will apply to all mankind, except the Church, during the Millennium-the thousand years of the reign of Christ and the Church, specially designed for the blessing of the world and its uplifting out of sin and death conditions.

These two salvations are distinctly different as to kind, as well as respects their plan of operation. The salvation of the Church during this Gospel age -since Pentecost-means not only a deliverance from sin and death conditions to eternal life, but provides that the eternal life will be on the heavenly or spiritual plane and not on the

earthly or human plane of existence. Thus the Apostle declares that our "inheritance is incorruptible and undefiled and fadeth not away and is reserved in heaven for us, who are kept by the power of God through faith. unto salvation." (I Peter 1:4, 5.) Our Lord also told that in the resurrection we shall be like unto the angels. The Apostle also declares that at that time we shall be partakers of the divine nature and like our Lord and Redeemer.

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The world's salvation which will follow will be wholly different from this. It will not include a from earthly to spirit nature. It will mean a rescue from sin and death to the earthly perfection of the original man, in the image and likeness of his Creator, and surrounded by every necessary blessing for his his comfort. Human perfection and the Eden home were lost through disobedience to God. The Divine arrangement is that the merit of our Lord's obedience unto death, when ultimately applied for mankind, shall fully cancel the death sentence upon him. More and better than this, God has promised that the same Sin-Offering shall seal a New Covenant between himself and mankind. The blessings of that New Covenant arrangement will then immediately begin. The great Redeemer will thenceforth be the great Mediator of that New Covenant. The whole world of mankind will be fully under His supervision and government for their blessing, their correction in righteousness, their uplifting out of sin and death conditions-back, back, back to all that was lost in Eden. All of this was the original design of the Great Creator. All of this will be outworked through the Great Redeemer. All of this was secured or suretied by His death, finished at Calvary.-Heb. 7:22.

St. Peter, pointing down to that glorious time of the world's blessing, calls it "times of refreshing and times of restitution." He tells us that all the holy prophets described the blessings of those restitution times-the thou

sand years, the Millennium. (Acts 3: 19-21.) When once we get the eyes of our understanding opened, we find the Apostle's words thoroughly corroborated by the Divine records, which describe the wonderful blessings that are to come when the earth shall yield her increase. Then Paradise Lost shall be Paradise Regained. Then God will make his earthly footstool glorious. Then the blessing of the Lord shall make rich and He will add no sorrow therewith. Then streams shall break forth in the desert and the wilderness and solitary places shall be glad. But most glorious will be the change in humanity. The Lord promises to turn to the people a "pure message"-instead of the contradiction of creeds of heathenism and Churchianity. He promises that Satan shall be bound for that thousand years, that he may deceive the nations no more. He promises that then all the "blinded eyes shall be opened and all the deaf ears shall be unstopped."-Isaiah 35:5; II Cor. 4:4.

Two Salvations-One Savior.

Both of these salvations, according to the Bible, result from the death of Jesus our Redeemer, who died in obedience to the Divine will, “Died, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God." (I Peter 3:18.) The Scriptures clearly show not only the two salvations, but also two parts of the Redeemer's work, distinctly separating His work for the Church from His work for the world. In His death there was a Divine general provision for the sins of the whole world and a special provision for the sins of the Church. The two thoughts are frequently brought out in the Scriptures. One text distinctly declares, "He is the propitiation (satisfaction) for our sins (the Church's sins), and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." His death constituted the satisfaction price. The Redeemer applied that merit for the Church's sins, "for us," long ago, eighteen centuries before we were born. Only when we became believers and entered into a