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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
Editorial.
A Good Conscience (notes) ........ 1, 2
The Law of Christ (Romans 15:1-7), E. J. W. ........ 2, 3
Church and State in Israel, W. N. G. ........ 4
The Curfew of Oakland ........ 4
A “Strong” Fallacy ........ 5
Answers to Questions.—No. 408, An Israelite Indeed—No. 409, Babylonian Empire—No. 410, The 144,000—No. 411, Smoke of Their Torment, the Millennium—No. 412, The Desolate Earth, Man and Beast—No. 413, John the Baptist and Elijah—No. 414, A Ruler in Judah, Tithes ........ 5
Poetry.
The Light of the Nations, MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE ........ 6
The Sabbath, the Sunday, the Change, and the Restitution, S. O. JAMES ........ 7
Nobody Knows But Mother ........ 9
Give What You Wish ........ 11
General Articles.
That Christ May Abide in Your Hearts by Faith, MRS. E. G. WHITE ........ 6
The Blessed Hope, PROF. G. W. RINE ........ 7
For a Testing Time ........ 7
Saving Faith, etc., No. 5, D. T. BOURDEAU ........ 8
Lay Sermon on Giving ........ 8
The Fireside.—A Vegetable Mission—A Doll That Served the Government—The Basilica of St. Peter’s, Rome ........ 9, 10
Missions.—Japan—The Needs of Japan—Items about Mexico—Our Work and Workers ........ 11, 12
International Sabbath School Lesson.—Christ in the Scriptures: the Miracle of the Loaves (Lesson 12, Sabbath, September 19, 1896) ........ 12, 13
International Sunday School Lesson.—Destructive Vices, (Lesson 12, Sunday, September 20, 1896) ........ 13
