Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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settinga bad example. What better way of fostering hypocrisy!
We are safe in saying that no person however honest
at the start, can
remain so, who does anything for an
example, and that they .will be dominated by an hypocrisy
so subtle that nothing but the light of the Spirit
can reveal it to them.
The great onesof earth have never dreamed of being
examples, much less of posing to be examples. The
great souls who have given out truths to uplift humanity
have exhorted humanity to receive the truth but not to
look to their personality.
This living for example is a concoction of men's
own
evil minds, to enable them to appear what they would
like to be-but what they are not. Our
great Light, and
Teacher that we have had here among us, gave us this
wonderful motto: "To be and to appear what you really*
are, is a magnificent attainment."
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"AND Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of
the Gentiles be fulfilled."
"The
lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is
on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and
ihy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant."-Luke xxi. 24; Jeremiah
v. 7.
E-4-»_.£,i_$.,,.\~{ HE heritage of Jacob is exprest in these
£11 Q, words: "Therefore God give thee the dew
of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and
4..- _...Lia plenty of corn and wine: let people serve
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;` ' l " thee, and nations bow down to thee: be
lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's
sons bow