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our way back to Palestine, salvation is to be by money
What a sign is this that the end of this dispensation is
near.
If it stood alone we might well give heed to it. But
when we find it supported by all these other signs, set
forth in the Word, how can we refuse to believe it?
Shall we Christians condemn the Jews for not accept-
ing the cumulative evidence that Jesus is the Messiah; and
ourselves refuse this other cumulative evidence that His
second coming is near?
It is significant that this first Zionist congress assembled
just 1,260 years after the capture of Jerusalem by the Mo-
hammedans in A. D. 637. Dan. 12:7.
It is probable that "the times of the Gentiles" are near-
ing their end, and that the nations are soon to plunge into
the mighty whirl of events connected with Israel's god-
less gathering, "Jacob's trouble" (Jer. 30:6, 7), that aw-
ful time of tribulation, like which there has been none in
the past,, nor shall be in the future. Mat. 24 :21.
But we, brethren, are not of the night. We are to
watch and pray always that we may escape all these
things that shall come to pass and stand before the Son of
Man. Lu. 21:36.
Oh! glorious Hope. No wonder the Spirit and the
Bride say come. No wonder the Bridegroom saith, "Sure-
I come quickly," and shall not we all join with the
ly
enraptured apostle,
"Even so come, Lord Jesus"?

"I must work the works of Him that sent me while it
is day: the night cometh when no man can work." John
9:4.
All the World-Wide Mission Field demands increased
consecration of ourselves, our time, and our substance.
fellow servants, let us improve the wonderful oppor-
tunities of our day to make investments for eternity.