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habitable regions of the Roman empire
including Palestine.
The last passage to which L call at
tention is Luke 21:24, in which it is stat
ed that Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the gentileS until the time of the gen
tiles be fulfilled. This is supposed to in
volve events which did not take place in
that generation, The times of the gen
tiles are assumed to be the times and OPP
portunities of grace afforded to the gen.
tiles under the gospel. What in the con-
text or text can give rise to this thought
[ cannot see. Burget says, The times
of the gentiles are the times allotted to
the gentiles to tread down the city DIR.
Terry says the most natural and OBJ
rious parallel to this passage is Rev.
Xi:2, where the outer court of the tenn
pie is said to be given to the gentiles,
hy whom the whole city shall be trodden
down forty and two months. This is a
symbolic period of judgment. 1t is three
and a half a divided Z. short period of
woe. 1t answers the approximately three
and half years during which the gen.
tile armies besieged and tramped down
Jerusalem. Meyer explains the passage,
Till the time of the gentiles be fulfill
ed as meaning IT'LL the time that the
periods which are appointed to the gen
tiles for the completion of the divine
judgments. not the period of grace for
the gentiles, shall have run out"
Thus it would appear that the events Of
this verse have had their fulfillment and
that they occurred al the end of the
Jewish age.
There are other texts and other ques-
tons which bear upon this question
which might be examined with profit, but
the limitations in the subject assigned Of
the time and of your patience forbid thai
Il should consider them.
In closing I ask, in view of fact Of the
definite declaration of Scripture as 10
the time of the second advent of Jesus,
n declaration which led the apostolic
church 10 expect it in the near future
and which still conveys the same thought
to multtudes of readers, and in view of
the Interpretation herein given to some
passages which seem to preclude the
possibility of the events having occurred
before the present does my affirmation,
mat Christ has come according to the
Scriptures, that He came at the ''end of
the ages" that He took possession of
His kingdom and has since ruled in Is
stand?
G.. AT KAWAIAHAO.
Sunday evening in Kawaiahao Church
Rev. W. d. westervelt preached on
The Telescope ard the star" IN part
he spoke as follows,
IN the last week of Christ's life during
~. days now known as the time ot his
9ssion'' or suffering, certain Greeks
- to Jerusalem and finding Philip
tC him, "Sir, we would see Jesus .
IJ'f.i"sc the conversation ghici followed
] su '@id. IT. if be lifted Up from the
earth, WilI draw all men unto me-" -he
civili2a-'rn of the West, representei 10y
the Cir, Ks, bowed before the great
Teacher 1T the close of His life>work
The civilization Of the East came t.
1.-THE Dawn OF the better civilizadonNwhe
the Wis, men bowed before the infant
lChrst and offered gifts and received I'm
me asurably more than they gave. TINS
the Morning STAR was looked for b,
1.-THE world hungry for light,
So came many individuals seeking
lChrist From Nicodemus, the Pharisee
to Ia cchaeus. the Publican; from tn
blind. he sick, the lepers and the friend
lof The dead and diving, came the cry
1--WE w II see Jesus" It was the hear
of stuff mankind longing for symPa
thy anG ealing. The eyes fixed on tn
star saw ''}l1e day spring from on high.
and ''the Eight which came to them tia
sit in darkness and in the shadow O
death. to guide the feet into the way o
peace"
The telescope of Yerkes Observatory
connected with Chicago University, va
used as an illustration of the best way