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 Answers From the Holy Bible

whether they both shall be alike good. Eccle. xiii, ?, 1, 6.
 Q.-What about Pharaoh's two dreams?
 A.-Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after l tkensevan years of famine; and al the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt: and the famine shall ! consume the land; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.-Gen. xii i:29-31. Q.-Does this teach us that we should provide for the future?
 A.-And let them gather all the eed of those good years that come. and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven wears of famine, which shall be in the land Of Egypt; that the land perish rot through the famine.-Gen. Xli:35. 36.
 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. Gen. xG:47.
 Q.-Will the industrious gardener CT farmer prosper?
 Ale that tilloth his land shall have plenty o flood bread: but he tha- followeth after vain persons shall have poverty.-Prov. Xxviii:19.
 He that giveth unto the poor shall shall have many . curse-rov. xviii: 27.
 Q.-Will there be a great consump- tion of foodstufs?
 A.-Now therefore be ye not mock CTS. lest your bands be made strong: for l have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption. even deter mined upon the whole earth. Give ye ear, and hear my voice: hearken. and hear my speech. Doth the ploughman riough all day tosow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the ap- pointed barley and the rye in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. Isa. iii:22-26.
 Q.-What is the lesson we should keep in mind every hour of the day?
 Al have planted Apolos watered: l BUT GOD GAVE THE INCREASE. 1 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: BUT GOD THAT GINETH THE IN CREASE. Now he that planteth and he that waterath are one: and every man shall receive his own reward ac- cording to his own labour. For we are labourers toegther with God: ye are Gods husbandry. ve are Gods build ine.-I Cor. iii:6-9.
 Q.-What saith the Lord of hosts to the God fearing?
 A.-For the seed shall b. prosper GUS; the vine shall give her fruit. and the ground her increase. and the heav- ems shall give their dew: and l will cause the remnant of this people to Oossess all these things.-Zech. vii: IS.
 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit. and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall ba safe i'll their land. and shall know that 1 am the Lord.-EZek. xxxiv:27.
 Q.-Shall We raise livestock?
 Ale causeth the grass to grow for the cattle. and herb for the service Of man: that he may bring forth food cur of the earth.-Ps. civ:14.
 Q.-Should We have every conf dence in Gods goodness?
 A.-Lord. Thou hast been favorable unto Thy land Show us Thy mercy. o Lord, and grant us Thy salvation. Surely His salvation is night them that fear Him: that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace hava kissed each other Truth shall spring out Of the earth: and right eousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go be- fore Him: and shall set us in the way Of His stAps.-Ps. lXxviii:1. !, 9-12.
 Q.-Shall wa have mercy on the poor?
 Ale that despieth his neighbor Sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor. happy is he.-Prov. Xiv:2l,