VOL. XVI. OCTOBER 1, 1895. No. 19.
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CONTENTS.
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Special Items.....................................222
Views from the Tower..............................223
The Typical Red Heifer............................225
Pittsburg Prophetic Conference....................227
Your Safety in the Coming Trouble.................229
Bible Study: The Triumph of Gideon................231
Bible Study: Ruth's Choice........................231
Encouraging Letters...............................232
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DAWN VOL. II. IN SWEDISH AND IN DANO-NORWEGIAN.
These volumes are now ready. Orders sent in now will be filled in rotation as received.
Although the cost of these foreign translations is much greater than the English, because the demand is less and the editions smaller, yet the price of MILLENNIAL DAWN in the German, Swedish and Dano-Norwegian languages will be uniform with the English. Some warm-hearted friends of the Truth, knowing that the English editions are sold at cost, and realizing that the foreign editions would cost nearly double, because smaller, volunteered to pay the difference through the Tract Fund, so that the foreigners, who often are less able to purchase, might have the benefit of the low prices of the English. Their donation amounts to four hundred and twenty dollars on each foreign volume.
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ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM FAITHFUL WORKERS.
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DEAR BROTHER:--Enclosed you will find check to be placed to the credit of the Church of Boston. We are all out of "Do You Know" tracts. There is a great interest among the brethren here to spread the glad tidings, and we find use for lots of printed matter. We generally meet the people coming out of meetings.
Enclosed find clipping. How true it is that these "powers" shall be rolled together as a scroll. (Isa. 34:4.) Our hearts should be continually at the throne of grace, knowing just where we stand; and God grant it may be our privilege to help with our dear Head to bring all things to a condition of peace.
Yours in Christ, A. SIMPSON.
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MY DEAR BROTHER AND SISTER RUSSELL:--Though never have we met (and perhaps never shall we) in this life, yet for the last eight or nine years my spirit has been oft refreshed from yours. At the first reading of The Plan of the Ages I was interested, impressed, converted. Before that my soul had been wandering and searching and longing for the pure waters, in a wilderness of theologies, theories, philosophies and fictions--groping after the "unknown God."
You have known something of the development of my thought in the later years by kindly exchanging your publications for mine--The Grand Army Advocate; and though it is a secular paper, yet never has a number left me without bearing a word for the King. Meekly and humbly, I trust, have these gone forth from my hand, and the purpose has been to stir up thought and direct the seeing eye toward the "old paths;" how far successfully I do not know--God knoweth.
And now I am full of thankfulness and praise to our Father for the new light which in these last times hath been shed abroad eminently through your ministry. The truth which makes and keeps you free has graciously gone forth in freedom to many a searching soul, and its work, mayhap, is only yet commencing.
I have just read your last Old Theology Quarterly. Its compact scope and perfect impartiality are marvelous. I can wish that every thoughtful mind might read it. Of course, however, conviction of truth comes only through the ministration of the spirit of truth; and ears must be opened or they cannot hear.
We have here, under the faithful teachings of Brother Page, a little band. The dear Lord is in our midst when only two or three meet together; but generally there are more, and I am sure that enlargement of thought and research in Scriptural matters are rapidly opening up the gates that the King of glory may come in.
And now, dear Brother and Sister, that the cry goes loudly up to you, "Watchman, what of the night?" may the Lord God of Hosts sustain you and keep you faithful unto the end.
Sincerely yours in Christ, J. F. BISHOP.
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VOL. XVI. OCTOBER 15, 1895. No. 20.
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CONTENTS.
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Special Items; Letters of Withdrawal..............234
Views from the Tower..............................235
The Hope of Immortality...........................237
What is the Soul?.................................240
Bible Study: The Child Samuel.....................243
Bible Study: Samuel the Judge.....................244
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MONEY MAY BE SENT BY EXPRESS, N.Y. DRAFT, MONEY ORDER,
OR REGISTERED. FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES BY FOREIGN
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Those of the interested, who by reason of old age or accident, or other adversity are unable to pay for the TOWER will be supplied FREE, if they will send a Postal Card each December, stating their case and requesting the paper.
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IF YOU wish for extra copies of this issue send for them at once. Five cents each; fifty cents a dozen.
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LETTERS OF WITHDRAWAL FROM BABYLON.
Frequently those who leave Babylon get no opportunity to communicate to their Church brethren the cause of their withdrawal; because the officers of many churches in their zeal for the prosperity of their denomination (we regret to say it) seem to forget that honesty is an important element of Christian character, and either smother the matter of the withdrawal and permit the impression that the brother or sister who has withdrawn is still a member, but no longer faithful to his church engagements, or else hasten to spread a false report of his belief (as much by insinuation, tone of voice and manner, as by words) in order to forever break his or her influence. To thus bear false witness against God's faithful children is mistakenly considered a service to God, --it is really against the Lord's cause and for the upholding of sectarianism, lest the influence should open the eyes of others of the Lord's sheep and they too escape from the bondage of human traditions, into the light and liberty of the truth.
To meet such emergencies we have prepared, for those who may desire them, Letters of Withdrawal, which express about what would be your sentiments and merely require the signature of the user and the date. These might be sent by mail, to each member of the church from which you withdraw, as well as to the minister; for you joined the church membership and not merely the minister. We suggest that with the letter you enclose copies of tracts Nos. 1, 21 and 27 in a Missionary Envelope. All this, unsealed, will require but one cent postage, each. We will supply the tracts free and the letters (envelopes included) for two cents each, or free to those too poor to purchase. The printing is in type-writer characters. Printing these in quantities permits this low price.
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