1893 256 This pamphlet is the reproduction of a supplement to the sixth revised edition of Dr. R. Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible. It is now issued with a Map and an Index, and will be found useful as a Bible-class help, or for private study. It contains copious references to many recent works not generally accessible, and here impressed into service. Thus much useful and interesting information is condensed into small space and ready application. Necessarily the knowledge is of an external kind. Light in the interpretation of scripture depends on our subjection to the Holy Spirit's use of the word in glorifying Christ.
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Beginning of Recent Testimony.
To the Editor of the Bible Treasury. Dear Sir,
1893 304 In a recent number of the interesting papers on The Gospel and the Church, I notice this paragraph:
"The eminent servant of Christ referred to already, who was God's instrument in the marvellous movement, wrote of those days at the request of a French religious journalist: "We were only four men, who came together for the breaking of bread and prayer, on the authority of the word, Where two or three are gathered unto my Name, there am I in the midst of them."
One of these "four men" told me that the meetings had gone on for some time before this period was reached. The first meeting consisted (in 1825 I believe) of himself and the Misses D—y in Dublin; and it was a considerable time after this that "the eminent servant" referred to above joined them. [Before these ladies, E. C. and E. T. broke bread together. Ed. B.T.]
I asked him why he had not communicated these facts; and he replied that Mr. A. Miller, when writing his Short Papers on Church History, had sent him a paper with a number of questions on these subjects, desiring him to answer them; but that he had at the time doubted the advisability of publishing that portion of the book and had therefore refrained from giving the particulars asked for. — Yours sincerely. J. C. B.
Christ's Life and Death.
1893 363 God hath sent His Son that we might live through Him; but He sent Him also as propitiation for our sins by His death. For having life does not change our place; which is by His dying and entering as man risen into a new place according to His work. And baptism is the sign, not of quickening as Christendom says, but of our burial with Him unto death (Rom. 6) as well as of washing away our sins (Acts 22:16).