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THE TWO SALVATIONS.

Covenant of sacrifice did we obtain our share in the merit of that great sacrifice. The world has not yet received its share of that promised blessing, but the operation of the Divine Plan is sure and will bring it to them "in due time," as St. Paul declares.-I Tim. 2:6.

The drawing and calling of the Church has not been along the lines of human perfection, for all are sinners and none righteous or perfect. And many of those drawn of the Lord were by nature much more fallen and depraved than some who give no evidence of the work of grace in their hearts. The Lord's calling and drawing seem to be along the lines of justice, love of righteousness, faith, humility and obedience. These qualities will all belong to the perfect man. But all have lost them in varying degrees. Such as respond to the Lord's call now are accepted as being in the right heart-attitude which, if they had perfect bodies, would constitute them perfect men. In other words, they have qualities of heart which, if brought to a knowledge of the Truth, would prove some of them to be pure in heart and such as the Lord would desire should have eternal life and all of His favors.

Terms of Salvation Differ.

Of course, these different salvations imply different terms or conditions. God's requirement of Adam, that he might continue to live forever and everlastingly enjoy Divine favor, his Eden Home, etc., was obedience to reasonable, just requirements. It was his violation of the Divine Law that brought upon him the sentence of death-"Dying thou shalt die❞—with all that this has implied to him and his posterity of mental, moral and physical decline, weakness, death. The requirement of God for the world of mankind during the Millennial Age will simply be obedience to God's just, reasonable regulations, laws.

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Whoever then will render may with proportionate rapidity go up on the highway of holiness toward perfection at its end. Whoever refuses obedience to the extent of his ability will fail to make progress and ultimately die the Second Death, from which there will be no redemption and no resurrection.

Such obedience as will be required of mankind in the great Mediator's Kingdom will include their co-operation in the resistance of their own fallen weaknesses. It will include the exercise of patience and kindness towards their fellow-creatures, fellowsufferers. The Divine Law of love to God with all the heart, mind, soul, strength, and for the neighbor as for one's self, they must learn fully. As they will realize their own blemishes and strive to overcome them and ask, not the Father, but the Mediator, for forgiveness, they will be obliged to follow the Divine rule of exercising towards others similar mercy and forgiveness to that which they desire for themselves.

The conditions governing the salvation of the Church are wholly different from those which will appertain to the world. The Church is called out of the world under a Divine invitation to suffer with Christ in the present life and during this Gospel Age and then to reign with Christ during the Millennial Age, participating in His Mediatorial Kingdom for the blessing, uplifting, salvation of the world. It is not in vain, therefore, that our Lord and the Apostles, in setting forth the call of the Church, during this Age, specified particularly and frequently the necessity for all who would share in this salvation to participate with the Redeemer in His sacrificing, in “His death," and consequently participate in "His resurrection" and in His reign of glory. Hark to the words, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life;" "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My Throne."

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"The Judgment House," by Gilbert Parker.

The story-teller's gifts of fascinating us by the illusion and the excitement of a smoothly flowing narrative is seldom so fully united with the novelist's power of rounding the depths of character and of making not only people, but events, play lifelike parts, as in Sir Gilbert Parker's new novel. Knowledge of men and motives, understanding of the deeper impulses and emotions, both are needed to vitalize such a drama of character and fatality as "The Judgment House," and both are strongly manifested. Each person of the story has his charm, or interest, of manner, of point of view, of individual expression. All are lifelike with respect to the many little matters of speech and behavior through which the primary impression of reality is created. But in every case we feel that the underlying personality has greater strength and actuality than most of those which we are accustomed to meet, in books, or out of them. Ian Stafford, the diplomatist, engagingly human as he is, seems always to have the solidity of character, the strength of purpose, necessary to a man concerned in world-affairs. In the course of the story we see him chiefly as a lover, as a man infatuated, disappointed, scornful, yielding again to passion, and at last achieving a difficult self-conquest. But in all this we are convinced that we see the struggles of no common man, but a man of undeniably strong nature and able and able mind swept by fierce emotions, held firm by a control that grips like a vise, confronted by problems of terrifying complexity. In Jasmine Grenfel we recognize a personality greater than her conduct would imply. Sympathy

follows her despite the lightness with which she discards Stafford for a new lover, Rudyard Byng, the South African millionaire. We feel so poignantly the forces working upon her and within her that her faithlessness toward her husband, when she reasserts her power over Stafford, still fails to ruin her in our estimation. Even the event that seems to condemn her past forgiveness-the discovery of a letter from the mere libertine, Adrian Fellowes, which seems to prove her unfaithful both to her husband and to her real lover-even this warms instead of chills our interest. What might be merely dramatized scandal becomes impressive tragedy.

Published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York.

Books on Social Hygiene.

The Century Company is to issue in the immediate future the notable series of books on the social evil prepared under the auspices of the Bureau of Social Hygiene, of which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is the chairman. The first book of the series, "Commercialized Prostitution in New York City," by George J. Kneeland, is now in press, and will appear shortly This will be followed in the early summer by "Prostitution in Western Europe," by Abraham Flexner. Other books along the same lines will come later. In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-considered discussion on the social evil now filling columns of the daily press, the value of really informing and scientifically collected material on the subject can hardly be over-estimated. These books are said to be written in a simple narrative style, with valuable appendices of a statistical nature.

IN THE REALM OF BOOKLAND.

"The Gods are Athirst." By Anatole France. Translation by Alfred Allinson.

"The Gods are Athirst" is a picture and a study of the French Revolution written in the form of a novel. The hero is Evariste Gamelin, a young painter, who lives with his mother in a garret. He loves the citoyenne Elodie, daughter of Jean Blaise, a dealer in prints and engravings. Evariste is a pure idealist, and yet he becomes one of the most cruel and relentless figures of the Revolutionary tribunal. Romance and history are closely woven together in its pages. The entire plot of the story is built up around Robespierre; the dominant figure is that of the terrible Maximilian. The author brings to life again the extraordinary Paris of the Terror. The book is issued in two styles: the octavo size, uniform with the other works of Anatole France; and also in a popular 12mo edition.

Published by John Lane Co.

"The Career of Dr. Weaver," by Mrs. Henry Backus.

A big and purposeful story interwoven about the responsibilities and problems in the medical profession of the present day. Dr. Weaver, a noted specialist, and head of a private hospital, had allowed himself to to drift away from the standards of his youth in his desire for wealth and social and scientific prestige. When an expose of the methods employed by him in furthering his schemes for the glorifying of the name of "Weaver" in the medical world is threatened, it is frustrated through the efforts of the famous doctor's younger brother, Dr. Jim. The story is powerful and compelling, even if it uncovers the problems and temptations of a physician's career. Perhaps the most important character, not even excepting Dr. Weaver and Dr. Jim, is "The Girl," who plays such an important part in the lives of both

men.

Illustrated, net $1.25; postpaid, $1.40. Published by L. C. Page & Co., 53 Beacon street, Boston, Mass.

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No book is more likely to satisfy the curiosity of the public regarding the great financier, patron of art, and philanthropist, who died recently, than this volume. So far as we know, this is the only biography of Mr. Morgan. It is his personal history-not a theory of Wall Street, nor an argument about the Money Power. The story of Mr. Morgan's early life and business beginnings is followed by an accurate account of his immense achievements. The book is a study, too, of a personality of extraordinary power and singular interest. The record of fact is enlivened by anecdote, personalia and first-hand "inside" information that will prove highly informing and at times equally diverting. Full attention is given to Mr. Morgan's struggle with Jay Gould, to the new birth of railroads under his hand, to the gold controversy of 1895, to the creation of U. S. Steel, to the true story of the panic of 1907, and to many other matters of hardly less moment.

Published by Sturgis & Walton, New York. Illustrated, $2.50 net.

"An Outline History of China." Part I: From the Earliest Times to the Manchu Conquest, A. D. 1644. By Herbert H. Gowen, F.R.G.S., Lecturer on Oriental History at the University of Washington. Nothing more is claimed for this book than its title implies. It is, in the strictest sense of the word, an outline sketch. There are two reasons for presenting it to a public already deluged with works on China. First is the importance of the subject. "China's new day" makes it extremely desirable to know something of her wonderful past, out of which the present has, in the main, sprung. Second, the early history of China has been seriously neglected by English and American writers, and there is no work in English which enables the student to grasp the singular continuity of China's social and political life. It has been treated almost invariably from the point of

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view of Foreign Relations, and a few pages have sufficed for the five millenniums prior to the Manchu occupation, while hundreds of pages have been used to discuss the foreign view of the events of the past few decades. To make available a brief, proportionate and continuous narrative, calculated to convey a clear idea of the trend of Chinese history during nearly five millenniums is, therefore, to fill a blank, and so to render a distinct service. This is what has been done in the present work.

Illustrated; cloth; 8vo; $1.20 net; by mail, $1.30. Published by Sherman, French & Co., Boston, Mass.

John Galsworthy and His New Story. John Galsworthy's latest work of fiction, to run nearly through the year, "The Dark Flower" (The Love-Life of a Man), Spring, Summer, Autumn, begins in the April Scribner's. It is a story of sentiment, of ideals, written in a poetic vein, and with an intimate appeal to all mankind, to all who have ever loved or known the influence of love. Readers will recall his play, "The Little Dream," that appeared in the same magazine. "The search of the soul for the ideal was its theme; the scene, a peasant cottage among the Dolomites. A young peasant girl, Seelchen (Little Soul), longing for the world beyond the mountains, falls asleep, and learns from the visions and voices of her dream the true values of life." Recently a little story, "Quality," that showed the author's keen sympathy with and understanding of an old shoemaker who would not sacrifice his work in the competition with machinery and hurry, attracted wide attention.

Mr. Galsworthy made his first wide impression in America by his very dramatic play of "Strife"-the strife between capital and labor-which showed him keenly alive to the problems of the day.

He shows his sympathy for for the working classes more clearly than in either novels or plays in two volumes

of sketches and studies, "A Commentary" and "A Motley," the first published in 1908, the other in 1910. The sketches composing "A Commentary" were the "outcome of what a man must see if he keeps his eyes open in London," says Galsworthy, and this remark, if the words "in London" be omitted, applies as well to "A Motley.”

The organization in Edinburgh of a Marden Club for the discussion and propagation of Orison Swett Marden's philosophy and writings indicates the widespread attention which this inspirational author's works are attracting abroad. In Barcelona, Spain, where the Marden Books have made series of four public lectures has been an unusually strong impression, a arranged around some of the leading topics dealt with in them. Dr. Marden's American publishers, the Thomas Y. Crowell Company, recently received with an order from Oklahoma a letter saying, "The Marden Books have helped me more than any other book I have ever read except the Bible."

More Editions of "The Debt."

A second American edition is already announced of William Westrupp's South African story, "The Debt," which was published in March by the Thomas Y. Crowell Company. This brilliant work has gone into its fourth edition in England. New printings have also been made of Katharine Lee Bates' "America the Beautiful and Other Poems," Oscar Kuhns' "Switzerland," McSpadden's "Opera Synopses," Sheldon Leavitt's "Paths to the Heights," and Jones' "Life of Thomas A. Edison."

The Century Company has published Jack London's latest book, "The Abysmal Brute." It is a story of the prize-ring, in which the chief character, "the abysmal brute," is a scholar as well as a bruiser-honest, clean, and, up to the moment of disillusionment, innocent of the crookedness of prize-ring methods.

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"Fire's Out"

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HEN comes the matter of insurance. You get out your policy and note the company in which you are insured. Certain questions should not arise to worry you at such a time.

You should not be worried by the question of whether you will be fairly treated by the company in which you are insured.

You should not be worried over the question of whether the company can pay the loss.

You should not be worried by the question of whether you have had enough protection to cover your claim.

To be insured in the Hartford Fire Insurance Company eliminates the first two of these worries. By consultation with a Hartford Agent before taking out your policy, he will tell you the proper proportion of insurance to carry and that eliminates the third.

The evident thing to do before the fire in order to eliminate worry is to be insured in the right kind of company.

INSIST on the HARTFORD

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