With this I close my review, at least for the present. There are some points in the Doctor's book which I have not particularly noticed, but as they are based on the assumption that the parts I have noticed are firmly settled, and as I believe I have fairly pointed out the fallacy of his positions so far, he will excuse me, I am confident, from going further.

Following the Doctor's example, I propose now to give a summary of Bible eschatology.

CHAPTER XIII.

SUMMARY OF ESCHATOLOGY.

Last things implies first things. Paul says: "So it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” The first Adam was made to have dominion over the earth and all its creatures; to multiply his race till earth was replenished or filled with them. But by rebellion against the Supreme Power, he (as men do under all human governments) forfeited his political franchise as ruler of the earth: his property-that beautiful home in the garden—and his life; and thus became alienated from the life of God, he and all who should spring from him. “For by one man's disobedience sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so, death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” All died in Adam. But "as in Adam all die: even so in Christ shall all be made alive." That is redemption and recovery.

Adam was to replenish the earth by natural generation; Christ is to do it by the regeneration of the old Adamic race, or such as accept the last Adam by faith. Unbelief, resulting in disobedience to God, wrought the ruin; and belief in Christ producing obedience will accomplish the recovery. How that simple act of believ

ing in Christ as the Son of God can bring about such a change of soul and body as shall bring the man back to holiness and immortality, is a mystery. So it was how looking on a brass serpent could neutralize the poison in the blood of the bitten Israelites, restoring perfect health. But that was God's plan and promise, and he did it; and so is this. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." It is ours to believe, and God's to save with complete and everlasting salvation.

Christ is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. The shedding of his blood was the satisfaction rendered to the violated law of God in the sinner's place. Now God can be just and justify the penitent believer: by his incarnation, death, resurrection, and intercession, Christ has purchased and secured the right of redemption, both of the inheritance and the heirs. So the believer is "sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession." The world in the beginning was given to Adam to replenish and govern, Gen. 1: 26-28; Psa. 8: 4–8. The earth was cursed for Adam's

sin, Gen. 3: 17-19.

The earth and its dominion given once to Adam, and lost, are to be restored in "the world to come," to Christ, "the Son of man": Psa. 8: 4-8, as explained by Paul, Heb. 2: 5-10.

The promise of God to Christ of the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession (Psa. 2: 8) is most explicit: "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen

for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."

This earth, the kosmos, the whole globe, is to be Christ's kingdom, or empire. Rev. 11: 15, "And there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

Christ, having borne our sins in his own body on the tree, and died for our sins, was buried, rose again the the third day in the same body in which he died, and proved it, (1), by leaving his tomb empty; (2), by showing himself to his disciples and calling on them to handle him and see that he had flesh and bones, as a spirit has not; and (3), by taking from their hands "a piece of a broiled fish and of an honey-comb" and eating before them. This material body, identified by such tests, left the mount of Olives from their midst and in their sight: they watching him as he went up, until a cloud received him from their sight. On the instant two in bright apparel stood with them and confirmed what Christ had told them-" If I go away I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am. there ye may be also,"-by saying: "This same Jesus. which is now taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11). Jesus, then, shall so come as he went: yes, come again. A cloud received him, and a cloud will reveal him; so said Jesus (Luke 21: 27), "And they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory."

When he comes again it will be to manifest who are his, by taking them all from earth to meet him in the

air to be forever with him. 1 Thess. 4: 16, 17, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord." Some rely on this passage in proof that the saints are to go with Christ to heaven as their everlasting home. But if this proves anything in that direction it only raises them to meet Christ in the air, not in heaven. But if we trace them further, we find in Rev. 19th, that after the marriage of the Lamb (his eternal union with his people in the New Jerusalem, thus organizing his kingdom), Christ and all the armies of heaven attending him with martial pomp come down to earth again, conquer the combined armies of earth, get the victory, possess the earth, and reign a thousand years before the wicked rise from the dead, and then reign on forever, even forever and ever, while the devil and all whose names are not written in the book of life, are cast into the lake of fire -the second death.

THE SOUL

is that element of the human being which animates the body, and is in the Bible rendered interchangeably, life, or soul; sometimes in the same passage it is rendered by both words. It is a great question with philosophers in what part of the body it has its seat. But the Being who made man has given its location: "The life of the flesh is in the blood."-Lev. 17:11. As the blood is the seat of the soul, the vitalizing agent, as soon as the