SEMI-MONTHLY
VOL. XXIII. MARCH 1, 1902. No. 5.

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CONTENTS

Views from the Watch Tower........................ 67
Hermogenes to Titus........................... 67
Progress in Church Federation
Abroad and at Home.......................... 68
Madame Guyon's Full Surrender
to the Lord................................. 69
God's Providences Cooperate....................... 69
Awake Thou that Sleepest and Arise................ 73
Sanctified Through a Knowledge
of the Truth................................ 76
Letters of Interest............................... 79
Volunteer Work for 1902........................... 66

LETTERS FOR THE EDITOR SHOULD BE SENT TO ALLEGHENY, PA., U.S.A.
SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
--ADDRESS TO--
WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY,
"BIBLE HOUSE," 610, 612, 614 ARCH ST., ALLEGHENY, PA., U.S.A.
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PRICE, $1.00 (4S.) A YEAR IN ADVANCE, 5c (2-1/2d.) A COPY.
MONEY MAY BE SENT BY EXPRESS, BANK DRAFT, POSTAL ORDER, OR REGISTERED.
FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES BY FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS, ONLY. SPECIAL
TERMS TO THE LORD'S POOR, AS FOLLOWS:--

Those of the interested who, by reason of old age, or other infirmity or adversity, are unable to pay for the TOWER, will be supplied FREE, if they send a Postal Card each December, stating their case and requesting the paper. We are not only willing, but anxious, that all such be on our list continually.

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ABOUT BIBLES--CORRECTED PRICES.

On January 1st we received word from all Bible-publishers that the prices were thereafter advanced. We had a good supply on hand then, but now, as we are obliged to re-order, we must also advance prices, as our Bibles are sold at cost prices.

Notice price list in December 15th issue, and add five cents each on all prices under 70 cents, ten cents to all between 70 cents and $1.15, and twenty cents to all above $1.15, except the India Paper Bibles, which are unchanged.

THE MEMORIAL SUPPER APRIL 20

In the interest of friends in far off lands--China, Australia, Alaska, etc.--we give early notice that the anniversary memorial of our Lord's death this year falls on Sunday evening, April 20th,--after 6 p.m.

ORDER ALL THE TRACTS YOU NEED.

The Post Office Department is considering whether or not they will deprive us of the cheap mail rate on the "Old Theology Tracts." If you have not a good supply we advise that you send your orders at once.

THE VOLUNTEER WORK FOR 1902.

Many of the dear friends are still doing splendid service in the circulating of the pamphlet "Food for Thinking Christians," on Sundays, near church entrances. The weather this winter has been quite favorable. The Washington City friends, having finished their own territory, have been going to nearby cities and towns. The same is true of the Boston friends: recently forty-six of them went to Lawrence, Mass., and served forty-two churches;--taking some as they assembled and others as they dismissed.

We advise that those who have not completed the distribution of "Food" shall do so; we hope to be able to supply all the ammunition requisite. Meantime, for those who have finished the distribution, we are preparing other literature which we hope to have ready for announcement in April. Meantime, let us get ready for an active campaign --choose captains and lieutenants, and so far as possible get all the friends interested. Our experience is that those who can and do engage in this volunteer work are proportionally blessed.

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SEMI-MONTHLY.
VOL. XXIII. MARCH 15, 1902. No. 6.

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CONTENTS.

Truth "Wounded in the House of
its Friends"................................ 83
The Parousia of our Lord Jesus and
His Subsequent Apokalupsis and
Epiphania at His Second Advent.............. 85
For What are We Watching?..................... 85
Proofs of His Presence........................ 88
Israel's Experiences were Prophetic........... 90
The Jubilee Prophecy.......................... 90
"Behold the Bridegroom"....................... 91
Presence Gradually Revealed................... 92
"Cometh not with Observation"................. 93
"Knew not the Time of Their
Visitation"................................. 94

LETTERS FOR THE EDITOR SHOULD BE SENT TO ALLEGHENY, PA., U.S.A.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS AND REMITTANCES
--ADDRESS TO--
WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY,
"BIBLE HOUSE," 610, 612, 614 ARCH ST., ALLEGHENY, PA., U.S.A.
--OR TO--
BRITISH BRANCH--131 GREEN ST., FOREST GATE, LONDON.

PRICE, $1.00 (4S.) A YEAR IN ADVANCE, 5c (2-1/2d.) A COPY.
MONEY MAY BE SENT BY EXPRESS, BANK DRAFT, POSTAL ORDER, OR REGISTERED.
FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES BY FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS, ONLY. SPECIAL
TERMS TO THE LORD'S POOR, AS FOLLOWS:--

Those of the interested who, by reason of old age, or other infirmity or adversity, are unable to pay for the TOWER, will be supplied FREE, if they send a Postal Card each December, stating their case and requesting the paper. We are not only willing, but anxious, that all such be on our list continually.

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OUR NEW LINEAR BIBLE, with wide margins and extra references to Dawns and Towers, we hope to begin to ship to purchasers in a few days. But it will require some weeks to bind and send out so many.

A WORD TO INTERESTED READERS.

We are preparing a very large edition of this issue, and tender free to each reader as many copies for his friends as he may see fit to order. We trust that as a result of your efforts and ours, under the Lord's guidance, many will read this paper carefully and prayerfully, and receive therefrom a blessing. All such will surely feel a hunger and thirst for more, and we are glad to announce that we have more spiritual food for them; prepared, we trust, under the divine direction and out of divinely prepared ingredients--"meat in due season for the household of faith." We will be glad to have all such as subscribers to this journal,--free, if unable to pay; but we urge upon all as of still greater importance, the reading of the five volumes of the MILLENNIAL DAWN series; "The Plan of the Ages," "The Time Is at Hand," "Thy Kingdom Come," "The Day of Vengeance," "The At-one-ment Between God and Man." These are advertised in the adjoining column. The prices are extremely low--25c per volume, postpaid. No other books of the kind are sold at the price. Nevertheless, for those who hunger for the truth, and who have not the wherewithal to purchase, we are glad to offer the loan of these books free, one volume at a time, on application. Do not delay! Write to us at once, for our encouragement and for your profit.

METHODS OF SERVICE.

The chiefest service we could commend, open to all who are unencumbered and in active use of their faculties, is the colporteur work. It is an honorable form of ministering the truth from house to house, as the apostles served. It is a service which the Lord seems to have blessed as much or more than any other for gathering the "wheat." It is apparent at once to all that to sell such books as the Dawns at 25 cents each, cannot be for money-making; that it is merely another way of preaching the truth. No other religious books are sold at any such price. Indeed few subscription books sell for less than two to three dollars each. Any who can serve in this work are invited to write to us for "Hints to Colporteurs."

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MILLENNIAL DAWN
--THIS IS--
THE GENERAL TITLE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS BY THE EDITOR OF ZION'S WATCH TOWER

VOL. I., The Plan of the Ages, gives an outline of the divine plan revealed in the Bible, relating to man's redemption and restitution: 358 pages, paper bound 25c. (1s.), postpaid; in embossed cloth 35c. (1s.6d.), plus postage 10c. (4d.).

VOL. II., The Time is at Hand, treats of the manner and time of the Lord's second coming, considering the Bible testimony on this subject: 370 pages, paper bound 25c. (1s.), postpaid; in embossed cloth 35c. (1s.6d.), postage 10c. (4d.).

VOL. III., Thy Kingdom Come, considers prophecies which mark events connected with the "Time of the End," the glorification of the Church and the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom; it also contains a chapter on the Great Pyramid, showing its corroboration of the dates and other teachings of the Bible: 384 pages, paper bound 25c. (1s.), postpaid; in embossed cloth 35c. (1s.6d.), plus postage 10c. (4d.).

VOL. IV., The Day of Vengeance, shows that the dissolution of the present order of things is in progress, and that all the panaceas offered are valueless to avert the predicted end. It marks in these events the fulfilment of prophecy, noting specially our Lord's great prophecy of Matt. 24, and Zech. 14:1-9: 660 pp., paper 25c, postpaid; in embossed cloth 35c. (1s.6d.), plus postage 10c. (4d.).

VOL. V., The At-one-ment Between God and Man, treats an all-important subject,--the hub, the center around which all the features of divine grace revolve. Its topic deserves the most careful and prayerful consideration on the part of all true Christians: 507 pages, paper bound 25c. (1s.) postpaid; in embossed cloth 35c. (1s.6d.), postage 10c. (4d.).

IN FULL LEATHER BINDING, gilt edges, the set (5 vols.) $5.00 (L.1), plus postage 50c. (10d.).

MILLENNIAL DAWN is published in foreign languages as follows: in German, four vols.; in Swedish, three vols.; in Dano-Norwegian, two vols.; in French, one vol.; bound in cloth and paper, uniform with the English edition, prices the same.

WHOLESALE RATES TO WATCH TOWER SUBSCRIBERS

IN CLOTH, 25c. (1s.1d.) per vol.; in LEATHER, $3.00 (11s.) per set--delivered.

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