3. What did the officers say of Jesus?

4. What does Paul say Christ did? 5. What did Jesus say of Himself?

6. What did Peter say Christ was?

7. Where did Jesus say there are many mansions?

8. What did Jesus for His disciples after His resurrection?

9. What does Peter say is the only name for salvation?

10. What does Jesus claim as His?

11. What does Jesus say it is to know God?

12. Where does John say the names of believers are written?

13. What occurred in Samaria through the saying of the woman? 14. What did Jesus say to His disciples?

15. What does Paul say the gift of grace is by?

16. What does Paul say Jesus was?

17. Who does John say is the light of the New Jerusalem ?

18. What doth John say proceedeth from

the throne of God and the Lamb? 19. What does Paul say believers are looking for?

20. What did Jesus say he would give to the overcomers in the church of Smyrna ?

21. Who does John say shall enter the New Jerusalem ?

22. What does Paul say the promises in Christ Jesus are ?

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Come, for all things are now ready (Luke xiv. 17).

2. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? (Luke xxiv, 26). 3. Never man spake like this man (John vii. 46).

4. Died for our sins (1 Cor. xv. 3). 5. I am the way, the truth, and the life (John xiv. 6).

6. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God (Matt. xvi. 16). 7. In My Father's house (John xiv. 2).

12. In the Lamb's book of life (Rev. xxi. 27).

13. Many believed on Him there (John iv. 39).

14. My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you (John xv. 14). 15. One man, Jesus Christ (Rom. v. 15).

16. Raised from the dead for our justification (Rom. iv. 25). 17. The Lamb is the light thereof (Rev. xxi. 23).

18. A pure river of the water of life (Rev. xxii, 1).

19. Looking for that blessed hope (Titus ii. 13).

20. I will give thee a crown of life (Rev. ii. 10).

21. They which are written in the Lamb's book of life (Rev. xxi. 27). 22. Yea and Amen (2 Cor. i. 20).

S. J. TURNER.

A QUESTION. DEAR SIR,-I have been a constant reader of the RAINBOw, and

believer in the doctrine of Conditional Immortality for some ten years or more. In conversation

lately with a Methodist Minister, he proposed a question I was unable to answer, and shall feel truly obliged if you or some of your readers will give me some help on the subject, in your very valuable Magazine.

I state the question below, and remain with much respect, Yours faithfully,

ADA E.

"If eternal life be only received through personal faith in Jesus Christ, and those who do not believe will be annihilated,-What will become of infants and those who, though never having heard of the Saviour, live up to the light they have?"

"THY KINGDOM COME."

DEAR SIR,This prayer our Lord taught His disciples, and as it is so often repeated by Christians generally-it has occurred to me that its true meaning and import is either ignored or lost sight of, since there are very few amongst professedly devout men who, if you speak upon the subject, understand it, and many wilfully reject (when explained) this fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith, showing that the world, and not the "Kingdom," is what they seek; but true devotion is based upon believing what God has said, and expecting what He has promised, hence His children pray in the spirit and with the understanding, "Thy Kingdom Come," "Thy will be done on earth as it is heaven." We know that this will certainly be fulfilled, for the Lord Jesus will return and establish His Kingdom on the earth in truth and righteousness for ever, and it is certainly the privilege of His

people to give Him no rest till this is accomplished; hence, we ought to regard more earnestly the return of the Jews to their own land as a signal to their conversion and repentance, and help every effort put forth in their behalf, ourselves being partakers of the benefit upon which now a rich blessing rests in the certain hope of participation in the presence of joy and Him who will restore the Kingdom to Israel, when He will dwell in the midst and reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before His ancients gloriously. I am, yours truly,

CHAS. FORSBROOK.

AN EXPLANATION. DEAR SIR,-I desire to supply the omission of a note that should have accompanied my paper on "The Relative Position and Occupation of the Church and of Israel during the Millennium," in your issue of this month.

The subject prepared was to have been spoken at the late Conference of the Conditional Immortality Association, at Salisbury,which, owing to ill health, I was unable to attend, hence the matter, and especially the seven phenomena of section seven, were much abridged, owing to the limited Had time allowed on a platform. the paper been intended altogether for the RAINBOW, it would have been more matured, and each of the events would have been treated in more explanatory detail. There may, however, be sufficient to enable anyone who will search the Scriptures, to supply the necessary particulars.

Believe me, faithfully yours,
H. GOODWYN.

Reading.

A CORRECTION.

DEAR SIR,-I see some wellknown and exquisite lines in the RAINBOW for this month,-“ The Veiled Bride." I have known them for twenty years, but I have always believed them to be from the pen of my friend and brother minister, the Rev. W. B. Robertson, D.D., 'late

of Irvine-indeed if I remember right, he published them in "Good Words," in or about 1862, for I remember an accompanying sketch of the wooing.

I am sure you will be glad to have this error pointed out. Yours sincerely,

WILLIAM BOYD.

Westwood Park, Forest Hill, S.E.

THE ATONEMENT.

DEAR SIR,-Perhaps you will allow me to say a few words in reply to the criticisms (?) of your correspondent, Mr. C. Underhill, on my pamphlet. I cannot but be sorry that a work which called forth such high commendation as you were pleased to express in last month's RAINBOW, should be so obnoxious to so earnest a Christian as Mr. Underhill seems to be. But at the same time it seems to me that if he had been as carefully studious in the subject as he is earnest, he would not have so hastily condemned what he evidently does not quite understand. begins by saying that "no one can study the Scriptures without perceiving that God has been pleased to develop a theory of the Atonement." This statement is utterly contrary to well-known facts, for although the Scriptures have been studied for over 1,800 years, and never so thoroughly as now, yet to

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Mr. Underhill characterises as shocking" the statement that "our sins are the victim" in the Atonement sacrifice, because the Levitical law required that the victims offered in the sacrifices should be clean, spotless, and without blemish. But he strangely overlooks the statement that the sins of the people were to be confessed over, and put upon, the victims, and then the victims, as bearing the sins, and as representing the sins, were slain and put away. So also in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the Spotless Lamb of God, but our sin was put upon Him, and He "who knew no sin, was made sin " (2 Cor. v. 21), and then, as sin-as the representative of sin-He was put to death. The Lord Jesus, truly, was the victim, as was the goat; the latter as the typical representative of sin, Jesus as the real representative. The very words which Mr. Underhill quotes indicates this, as he may see, if he will patiently think of them.

"Christ hath put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself," that is, He sacrificed sin when He sacrificed Himself; both were sacrificed in the one transaction, because in it, for the purposes of Atonement, Christ and sin were identical. He, Himself, was made to be sin, for us (2 Cor. v. 21). See also (Rom. viii. 3), "God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for (or, as) sin, condemned sin in the flesh," i.e. condemned sin in the person of His Son, whom He sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, or, as the original reads: "in the flesh of sin." The same idea is also expressed by Jesus Himself when He said: "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up." The Serpent, a Scriptural emblem of sin, is here stated by Jesus to represent Himself! So, whether the idea be shocking or not, it is Scriptural.

Mr. Underhill confuses one aspect of the work of Christ with another when he says that according to my theory, "God is asked to accept sin as an offering of a sweetsmelling savour," and as "a sacrifice in which God could delight, and upon which both God and man could feed and have

fellowship." I did not say or mean anything of the kind, nor does my argument involve it.

Mr. Underhill stumbles over the old human theory, nowhere expressed in Scripture, that "the fundamental basis of the Atonement consists in the necessity of satisfying the claims of Divine justice." Now,

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he himself is satisfied with the Scriptural statement that the penalty, the wages of sin, is death. Then the claims of Divine justice are surely satisfied when the penalty is inflicted on men, and they die ! What more can justice require, since all men die? Justice is satisfied, and does its work in putting all men to death, and would leave them there for ever. the love and mercy of God have also something to do, and in and through the work of Jesus reconcile men to God, and save them out of death. Not by Jesus bearing the penalty instead of us (which idea is contrary to the fact, for we have to bear the penalty ourselves), but by His bearing our sins, to be sacrificed in His own body on the cross; and then opening the way for us, out of death, by resurrection. "The fundamental basis of the Atonement" is not the necessity of satisfying the Divine justice, but the necessity of effecting the reconciliation of man to God, by the putting away of that which separates them, i.e. sin.

We are, therefore, called upon, as Mr. Underhill will see, by a careful reading of Rom. vi., vii., and viii., to personally contribute our share in the Sacrifice of Sin, by reckoning as dead, an! by putting to death, all the sinfulness that is in us-having first recognised that God, on His part, while we were enemies, had reconciled us to Himself, by the death of His Son (Rom. v 10).

Yours very truly,
T. KIRKMAN.