upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not found written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world." It is the "image" of this king (that Jesus calls "The abomination of desolation") referred to in Revelation 13:14-15.

True, "false Christs" and false prophets shall arise, for Jesus so declared, "and they shall show great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible they would deceive the very elect," but Jesus certainly implied that they will not deceive the elect, for his coming is to be as "The lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be." And our duty is not to watch and judge even false prophets; nor to try to gather up the tares for "the Son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do inquity." (Matt. 13:41.) But the one thing needful for us is to "watch ye therefore and pray always that ye be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21:36.)

I want to explain that whatever I've said of Japan and China or the Shintu religion is original—and not to be charged to Mr. Watson. He thought it possible that the kingdom of the "little horn king" might be Russia; and advised his readers to watch the development of that empire. But later events seem to me to point to Japan. We are told that the "beast" rose out of the sea, which seems to indicate an island, and Mr. Watson often spoke of the "bottom

less pit" as an island prison. If we are in the time of the end when the seals will be opened we may expect many things to be revealed that have heretofore been hidden. This king's first manifestation will be as the maker of the sevenyear covenant with the Jews; and the final identification will be that his name contains the figures "666." (X. E. 5.)

Mr. Watson thought one peculiar sign for which we should watch would be a general profession (in this nation of the vile king) of Christianity, but that on account of the terrible persecution there will be an apostasy or the "falling away" spoken of by Paul. I was much interested in a letter just published in the Christian Herald, on "Japan seeking toward Christ" and after giving some very hopeful signs of the influence of Christianity in that country it says: "Japan will never willingly surrender to foreignization either in politics, education or religion."

V.

"SATAN AND HIS WORKS."

The entity, or nonentity as some declare, spoken of in the Bible first, as the serpent, Satan and the devil, "Angel of the bottomless pit," whose name is in the Hebrew Abaddon, but in the Greek Apollyon (Rev. 9:11) by Paul as the "Prince of the power of the air" and by Jesus as the prince of this world, has all his titles summed up except the last two named, in place of which he is called the great dragon (Rev. 12:9) "that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world." It is this ability to deceive the whole world that has caused all the sin and suffering that has constituted what is known as the curse of the world. It was Mr. Orr, I think, who said if the "fall of man had not been recorded in Genesis it would have been impossible not to have traced the evils of humanity to just such a source." There is positively only one way to avoid his delusions and that is to abide in Christ, who is the truth and the truth shall make us free; again Jesus says, "resist the devil and he will flee from you"; but like a hungry jackal, the retreat is only temporary, until he finds one unawares and the attack is renewed and it is this that causes the continual confusion which Paul speaks of "when I would do good evil is present with me." "It is written," is the only weapon that can overpower him, as proved by Jesus both by precept and example.

Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, when he, the spirit of truth, is come he will guide you into all truth." If Sir Isaac Newton was able to discover the law of gravitation by seeing an apple fall, and James Watts the effect of steam by its power to lift the lid of the teakettle, shall we not by observing carefully the occasions and causes and effects of Satan's appearances as recorded in the infallible word of God, find aid in the knowledge of evil and its consequences and through prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit learn how to overcome the evil? I shall enumerate the occurrences in order as laid down in "The Exhaustive Concordance" of James Strong, L. L. D. First of the serpent in Eden, when his direct denial of God's declaration, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt die." Satan said: "Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil" (Gen. 2:17-3:45); but so delusive is the power of evil that today, after more than 6000 years of the truth of God's word, "that dying thou shalt die"-the number of those who believe God are exceedingly few. Satan hates nothing so much as the truth, and in causing men to believe that the soul is immortal ("shall not die") and that God will punish his children with endless torture, he removes from himself the terrible enmity of his own guilt in contemplation of what many Christians declare to be justice of God; and while Satan himself is not mentioned in con

nection with the flood, God said that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The kindest act God could do was to destroy them, for while God is good and every act of His is good and only good, Satan is evil and only evil: "Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do." He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it (Jno. 8:14). I shall now quote the references to devils. First in Lev. 17:7: "And there shall no man offer their sacrifices unto devils after whom they have gone whoring"; Deut. 32:17: "They sacrifice unto devils, not to God"; (Ps. 106:37): "Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils." All of which shows how much more earnest the followers of evil are, than those who follow God, for they sacrificed their children, which God forbade. Deut. 18:10: "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire or that useth divination or an observer of time, or one enchanted, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all these things are an abomination unto the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord doth drive them out before you." But to this day many of these things have a wonderful fascination for a great many people and only a very close walk