standard of character, and the deception of Satan will be complete unless decided resistance is made against the first approach of the enemy. Unless God is sought in prayer, unless his converting grace comes to the soil, there will be no inclination to oppose Satan's wily temptation. Paul asks, is Christ divided? Have we not one spiritual head? Christ has been the uniting stone, the chief cornerstone in all ages. The patriarchs, the Levitical priesthood, and Christians of today all have their center in him. He is all and in all. The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. The cross of Christ is the pledge of our fellowship and union. The time must come when the watchman will see eye to eye, when the trumpet shall give a certain sound, when Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim any more. Review and Herald, January 3, 1899. Review and Herald, June 23, 1904, says it this way, I have been instructed to direct the minds of our people to the 56th chapter of Isaiah. This chapter contains important lessons for those who are fighting on the Lord's side in the conflict between good and evil. This is Gideon's battle. This is the pledge that God's people are to make in these last days. Their acceptance with God depends on a faithful fulfillment of the terms of their agreement with him. God includes in his covenant all who will obey him. To all who will do justice and judgment, keeping their hand from doing any evil, the promise is, even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than the sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. The Lord God, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, yet will I gather others to him, because those that are gathered, besides those that are gathered unto him, seek ye out of the book of the law and read. In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people. To it shall the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious, and it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathos, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.