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into supposing either yourself or others changed until you cando as Jesus said everyone born of the Spirit can do, and as he didwhen he was born from the dead, viz.: Go and come like thewind, and no man know whence you came or whither you went."So is every one that is born of the Spirit." John 3:6.How beautifully clear it is that our change from natural tospiritual conditions is not the marriage but a preparation for it.The Bridegroom is since His resurrection a spiritual body, andhow fittingly proper it would seem that the bride should bechanged to the same image and nature before sharing the gloryof power with him--the marriage.----------Other questions and articles crowded out this month.====================R202 : page 8DEAD AND BURIED.In the fourth century a young earnest disciple sought aninterview with the great and good Macarius, and asked him whatwas meant by being dead to sin. He said, "You remember ourbrother who died and was buried a short time since. Go to hisgrave and tell him all the unkind things you ever heard of him.Go, my son, and hear what he will answer." The young mandoubted whether he understood; but Macarius only said, "Do asI tell you, my son; and come and tell me what he says." Hewent, and came back, saying, "I can get no reply; he is dead.""Go again and try him with flattering words--tell him what agreat saint he was, what noble work he did, and how we misshim; and come again, and tell me what he says." He did so, buton his return said, "He answers nothing, father; he is dead andburied." "You know now, my son," said the old father, "what itis to be dead to sin, dead and buried with Christ. Praise andblame are nothing to him who is really dead and buried withChrist." (Rom. 6:3.)--Selected.====================page 8NO WESTERN TRIP YET.Some of the tracts seem to require much more time forpreparation than we had expected, especially the one on the"Tabernacle." Our Western trip we therefore indefinitelypostpone. You will, however, be duly advised of the timethrough our paper or by mail.R204 : page 8