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(<•) Orcr Prosperity requiring the surgeon's knife of War. 

 Sir Amos vi, 1-11, 1 M— 14. 



(d) Worship of Wealth. Zeph. i, 4-12, 17-19. 



(r) Spiritual indifference among the Clergy for their duties. 

 See Mai. i, 6-ii, 9 ; iii, 7-10. 



(/) Picture of the modern Prussian character in the ancient 

 Chaldeans. See Hab. i, 2-17 and ii, 4-17. 



6. We are witnessing now the break-up of old Europe — the 

 Europe of Caesar, of Charlemagne, of the Papacy and old Feu- 

 dalism. The German nation is once more employed in the process, 

 as it was in the days before Caesar's Empire fell. May we not see 

 in these things the exhaustion of the Gentile power " in order 

 that the way of the Kings of the East" — that is, the empires of 

 China and Japan, of India and Africa — " may be prepared," and 

 that the Jews may return to their own land once more as the 

 head of the nations before the end come ? 



Discussion. 



The Chairman said that he thought the Lecturer had rendered 

 them a service by pointing out the constantly recurring fulfilments 

 of prophecy. Past writers on prophecy had spoken of the "double 

 sense," but there was more than a " double sense." The Hebrew 

 words used to denote a prophet indicated the real meaning of 

 prophecy, just as the Greek words used in the New Testament for 

 miracle made clear the true meaning to be attached to that word. 

 One Hebrew word used meant " a seer," and was translated in the 

 Septuagint by a Greek word derived from the verb which means 

 " to see." Consequently a prophet was a man inspired above his 

 fellows to see the laws regulating God's control of the universe. 

 Another Hebrew word translated prophet signified " to proclaim," 

 and was translated in the Septuagint by a word which means " to 

 speak forth " or " proclaim." So the prophet proclaimed to the 

 world what he was inspired to see, viz., the great principles of God's 

 governance of man and the world. These were constantly being 

 fulfilled in the past, the present, and the future. For God never 

 changes. He is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. And 

 prophets still exist — men who see deep spiritual realities and laws, 

 and consequently can foretell what will inevitably happen if certain 

 courses are pursued. God speaks through them now as in the olden 

 time. 



