husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot, or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God. * * * Holding fast the faithful Word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers" (Titus 1: 5-10). According to this, no congregation of believers, is "set in order," without having elders ordained over it. In the Epistle to Timothy, directions are given relating to bishops and deacons. (1 Tim. 3: 1–10; 5: 1, 19). The elders were appointed to rule and also to labor in the Word and doctrine. "Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the Word and doctrine” (1 Tim. 5: 17). In his first Epistle, Peter writes: "The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock" (1 Peter 5: 1).

In the old dispensation, the priests, the sacrifices, the altar, and the temple were types which were done away with when they were fulfilled when Christ came. Most of the great cathedrals in the world in all countries were erected by an idolatrous Church; and have been

hotbeds of priestcraft, ignorance of the Scriptures, of the way of salvation, and of the grossest idolatry. Instead of building new ones, it would be a great benefit if they were all swept from the face of the earth. "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones" (Isa. 57: 15). "Thus saith the Lord: The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool: where is the house that ye build unto Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all these things hath Mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My Word" (Isa. 66: 1). The children of God are now the Temple of God. "Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you" (1 Cor. 3: 16). "For ye are the Temple of the living God; as God hath said, I dwell in them, and walk in them" (2 Cor. 6: 16; Eph. 2: 21, 22).

The word altar does not appear in the New Testament, except when referring to its use in the old, sacrifices being done away with, there is no more use for altars in the churches. Sacrifices being types of the sacrifice of Christ, are all done away with. "For now once at the end of the ages hath He

been manifested to put

away sin by the sacrifice of Himself" (Heb. 9: 25-28). "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), then hath He said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second. By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: but He when He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made the footstool of His feet. For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified" (Heb. 10: 8). The Passover continued to be a memorial of the deliverance from Egypt in the Church until Christ was offered as a sacrifice. It was a memorial, a type of the Lord's Supper, and was done away with when Christ was crucified. It was at the last celebration of the Passover, that Jesus said, "With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not eat it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God" (Luke 22: 15). "Our Passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ" (1 Cor. 5: 7). As the Passover was a memorial, so is the Lord's Supper. Christ said, "This do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22: 19).

In the account given 1 Cor. 11: 23 of the Sacrament, it is described as a memorial. "For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till He come." They who profess to turn the bread or wafer into the body of Christ and worship it, are guilty of perversion of the Scriptures, of blasphemy and idolatry. The sacrifices which Christians are to offer are themselves and their gifts. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service" (Rev. Ver. Margin, Spiritual Worship). (Rom. 12: 1). Paul writes: "I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God" (Phil. 4: 18).

"The

The Church which claims to be Church," and that it has "the Historical Episcopacy," is bearing its proper fruit. Its historical episcopacy being insisted upon; its ritual, with the doctrines of baptismal regeneration, its altar and priesthood, continually kept in the foreground, has been leading that Church rapidly backward toward Rome. The number of the churches is increasing at a fearful rate in Great Britain, where prayers for the dead are offered, incense is used, the confessional established, the consecrated water elevated and reserved, transubstantiation is taught, and there seems nothing to separate its clergy from that

of Rome, but the refusal to acknowledge the primacy of the Pope, and accept the celibacy of the clergy. These are the inevitable results of the teachings of all the Churches that put their traditions in the place of the Word of God.

The Reformed Church of Holland was started with the soundest of creeds and with elders according to the Scriptures. The neglect of the elders allowed the State to appoint heretical teachers in her theological schools to train ministers for her churches. These corrupted nearly the whole Church. The churches in New England not being formed with elders according to the Scriptures, allowed the introduction of heresies, universalism and unitarianism, etc.; which carried a great part of them into infidelity. The neglect of the elders in the Presbyterian Church in controlling some of its theological seminaries, has allowed the entrance of errors which have caused much evil and trouble in that branch of the Church.

If the elders of the Churches were faithful in seeing that their ministers, evangelists and teachers preached the Law of God, the wrath to come, and the Gospel, as Christ and the Apostles preached them, there would be fewer murders, less suicides, less crime and more souls saved. It is written of the Bereans: "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17: 11).