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BROTHER ROGERS IN GREAT BRITAIN

Brother Rogers will be in England early in October, to begin an active campaign for the Truth. He will first of all make a personal trial of the new field, in order to discover its peculiarities, and to demonstrate its possibilities. Then he will be ready to instruct others in the art of selling DAWNS.

Already we have the addresses of several who desire to enter this “harvest” work, preaching sixteen discourses with the sale of each volume, and thus lifting up the light;—present truths, meat in due season for God’s people. Are there not others there who desire to spend themselves in God’s service, and who believe that the circulation of DAWN is the best method known to them? Let all such write us at once.

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MISSING CYLINDERS

They have dug up many wonderful baked-clay cylinders out of the ruins of Babylon and other ancient cities, but there are some not yet found.

I. They have not found any which speak of Moses and Joshua having called a “Parliament of Religions,” of Moabites and Ammonites, and Edomites, and Sodomites, to come together and compare notes as to what things they had in common—and how far they could strike hands and have worship in common.

II. They have not found any which speak of sturdy old Samuel having sent to Gath and Ekron to get a deputation of the priests of Dagon to come up to Shiloh and hold a conference with the priests of Jehovah; and also deliver a course of lectures on the best methods of making “cuttings for the dead;”—the best kind of charms and amulets to be put over the doors and be worn on the person, in order that poor, uninstructed Israelites could have a wider range of spiritual vision.

III. They have not found any which speak of old leather-belted Elijah having proposed a “congress” with the priests of Baal and Moloch for a week’s discussion of the tenets of their respective faiths, with a view to the promotion of mutual respect for each other’s religion. In the absence of the burnt cylinders, we are shut up to the old Bible account of the practical test demanded by Elijah and the tragic conclusion of it.

IV. They have not found any which speak of Daniel and his fellows having proposed a miscellaneous camp meeting to be composed of all sorts of religionists in the whole of the “one hundred and twenty provinces,” to come together and unite on a basis for some “Absolute Religion” of some sort.

None of such cylinders have as yet turned up, but they are still grubbing away as hard as they can. —W. Ashmore, China.

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A FAMINE IN THE LAND—AMOS 8:11

Some who are awaking are crying out for bread—the bread of truth instead of the stones of error offered by the various sects. The Rev. T. Chalmers said recently:—

“We cannot resist the inevitable. The creed of Calvinism is like a coat which is becoming too small for the rapid growth of human thought. With every movement of the arms it will be sure to rip somewhere, unless we refrain from all vigorous exercise. We do not want any coat which binds us so tightly that we cannot act with freedom. It is folly to attempt to keep pace with the ripping of the coat by a little sewing here and there. It is too small, and no amount of sewing and patching will help it any. It may have a good deal of good material which may be kept and still used, but the system of Calvinism as a system has done its service for humanity. We don’t want systems any more. We want liberty and truth and love and righteousness. We want more of Christ and less of creed. We want still to grow—to grow until we come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto the perfect man, unto the fulness of the measure of the stature of Christ.”

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— September 1&15, 1893 —