Great Britain's Chair of State. Notice, the stone "wonderful" in the seat is supported about 9 inches from the ground, and is 22 in length, 13 broad and I deep, and is of steel color-a freestone. It represents the El-Beth-El, the God of the House of God. The Hebrew people have become, and will be during the millennium, "the House of God and the Gate of Heaven."-See page 429.

nation, which keepeth the truth may enter in" (Isa. 26:2). The one nation is the twelve tribes Federated into the one great and mighty nation, according to the promise (Gen. 18:18). At the period to which this text refers they keep the truth, not the Law. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ and he was the way to the truth and the Life.

THE CORONATION DAY.

"No man having drunk old wine straightway desireth new, for he saith the old is better" (Luke 5: 39). The Jews through one whole dispensation have been thinking that the old Law "is better" and the word "straightway" marks the limit of their desire, indicating that the time will come when the new wine of the kingdom will be sought. Many of them we think will go back to Jerusalem in unbelief; and so great will be their wealth, and influence, that the jealousy of other nations will be excited, and war will be waged against them. Then will be the time of 'Jacob's trouble,' a time of tribulation so great and terrible that they will cry to God for deliverance, and Jesus Christ will appear on their behalf-His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives' -and he will destroy their enemies by the brightness of his coming. The Jews will then say as "Judah said, What shall we say unto my Lord? What shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants, behold we are my Lord's servants" (Gen. 44: 16). Then will they cry out, "This is our God: we have waited for him (Isa. 25:9); but as he comes nearer they will say, "What are these wounds in thy hands?" Then he answers, "These are the wounds wherewith I was wounded in the house of my friends." "He came unto his own, and his own received him not"

(John 1:11). "They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and they shall be in bitterness for him" (Zech. 12:10). When he comes again no throne will be too costly to give him, no allegiance too loyal for them to render him, their long-rejected Messiah; "and in the very city where he was crucified he will reign and they shall become the kingdom of our God, and of his Christ."

"The crowning day is coming,

Is coming by and by,

When our Lord shall come in 'power,'

And 'glory' from on high.

Oh, the glorious sight will gladden

Each waiting, watchful eye,

In the crowning day that's coming by and by."

The coronation of the King, his person, his retinue, the overhanging canopy of the Shekinah, and the entire audience makes this one of the grandest events ever to transpire on earth. The view from the mount (Sinai) and his wilderness tent obscured Jehovah as to his divine personage. Here it will be unfolded distinct and glorious.

"My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but now is my kingdom not from hence" (John 18:36). The present tense in the first clause should be referred to the present dispensation, which leaves ample time for the introduction and development of a spiritual kingdom under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This is not the "my kingdom" spoken of in the text, but rather the kingdom of the Holy Ghost (Rom. 14: 17). "But now," until my return, "is my kingdom not from hence." When the "my kingdom" comes, then "to him that overcometh

will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also have overcome and have sit down with my Father in his throne" (Rev. 3:21). Thus, we expect Christ to occupy the throne of his Father David, the earthly government.

I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man (see Luke 19: 12) came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed (Dan. 7:13-14).

Christ was anointed by the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38) at the beginning of his ministry. We may, therefore, look for his crowning at the beginning of his earthly administration in government. The anointing was visibly manifested in the descending dove and the coronation will doubtless be in the same visible and public manner. At the present time he is only recognized as "a Prince and a Savior," "the Prince of Life," "the Prince of the kings of the earth" (Rev. 1:5), and after the coronation the same John sees him "with many crowns" (19: 12), and in the midst of his people as "the King of kings and Lord of lords" (16).

But the great body of the kingdom at this time must be of the Hebrews. The kingdom of the Holy Ghost through the whole gospel age belonged to this race, with slight exceptions, and now with spiritual bodies they are none the less, as regards their earthly relations the descendants of Abraham. They too had in the earthly state been anointed. with the Holy Spirit, as indicated in receiving the name of Christian, since the Christ means the anointed, and the word Christian can mean no less (1 John 2: 27); hence, they, also, are qualified to receive the crown of life.