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light of Present Truth is pretty hot. Meantime thechurch trust is growing up to keep off the heat.We are not to have anything to do with hischurch federation. "Say ye not, A confederacy, toall them to whom this people shall say, Aconfederacy." "Take counsel together, and itshall come to naught; speak the word and it shallnot stand; for God is with us." (Isa. 8:10, 12.)Pretty soon something will happen to the churchtrust, and their shade will be gone. Then the Lordwill say to them, "Oh, you need not feel so badly! You are not thefirst people that ever made a mistake. You havemade lots of them, to be sure. Thou hast had pityon the church trust which grew up in one yearand blew up in another year; and should not Ispare the poor world, that as far as theirknowledge of right and wrong is concerned donot know the difference between their right handand their left hand?"(17) Micah has written of the coming of theKingdom of God in the earth, accompanied bythe rebuking of strong nations afar off; that thenthey shall beat their swords into plowshares, andtheir spears into pruninghooks; that nation shallnot lift up sword against nation, neither shallthey learn war any more. But they shall sit everyman under his vine and under his fig tree [not thelandlord's]; and none [be they doctors, landlords,employers, sheriffs, or undertakers] shall makethem afraid; that all peopleFM93will walk in the name of our God, and that thefirst dominion [lost by Adam in Eden] will berestored to Christ, the Tower of the Flock.—Micah 4:1-5, 8.(18) Nahum was the next one of the holyProphets; and after prophesying in the last verseof the preceding chapter about the coming of theKing with His good tidings of peace to the sinburdenedearth, he next tells (Nahum 2:3-6) of aninteresting thing that will be a matter of commoneveryday experience at the time the Kingdom isestablished. He describes a railway train in