STUDY VII.
THE DELIVERANCE AND EXALTATION OF THE CHURCH.
1. Having located the Harvest, what are now the principal points of interest to the saints? 227 ¶ 1.
2. When especially did Jesus say we should rejoice? Is this rejoicing selfish? 227 ¶ 2.
3. When will the deliverance of the saints take place? What two thoughts help us approximate it? 228 ¶ 1.
4. Explain Luke 21:36. How are the saints now escaping the trouble? Yet, what is our hope of escaping the severest of the trouble? 228 ¶ 2.
5. Explain Ps. 46:1-5 in detail. 229 ¶ 1, 2.
6. How are the saints at present realizing God's promised help in this time of need? 229 ¶ 3.
7. How do the Scriptures indicate that our work will be cut short? What will we then do? 230 ¶ 1.
8. How long may the Church thus "stand"? What will be her final trial? Distinguish between the Church's morning and the Millennial morning. 230 ¶ 2.
9. How are the final experiences of the true Church typed by Elijah and John the Baptist? 231 ¶ 1.
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10. What argument will probably be used by Babylon to stop the spread of the Truth? What will probably be the experience of antitypical Elijah? 231 ¶ 2.
11. At what approximate time will the last members of the Church be "changed"? In every trial that comes, what thoughts should comfort and uphold us? 231 ¶ 3.
12. What is St. Paul's statement regarding the manner of the Church's "change"? 232 1, 2.
13. What is the order in their change? 233 ¶ 1.
14. Is the exact date of the awakening of the sleeping saints directly stated in Scripture? What may we reasonably infer? Why? 233 ¶ 2.
15. What date, then, must be established? What does the parallelism show on this? What would probably be Jesus' first exercise of kingly power? 233 ¶ 3.
16. Is this conclusion unreasonable because of the fact that we do not see the risen saints? 234 ¶ 1.
17. Upon what does our belief that the Kingdom began to be set up in April 1878 rest? 235 ¶ 1.
18. While the majority of the Church are exalted, why do some remain for a time this side the veil? 235 ¶ 2.
19. How are these feet members, with their message, clearly pointed out by the Prophet Isaiah? 236 ¶ 1.
20. How are they regarded by men, and by the Lord and their glorified fellow-members? 236 ¶ 2.
21. What thoughts should inspire us in delivering our popularly hated and discredited message? 237 ¶ 1.
22. What is the privilege of all the "feet" as to their present work and joys? 237 ¶ 2.
23. Will the work of the last members cease with their "change"? Rev. 14:13. 237 ¶ 3.
24. What will it mean to be caught away together "with the Lord in the air"? Who has been the "prince of the power of the air"? What will be his experience, and who will take away his dominion? 238 ¶ 1.
25. Must all the "feet" members die? Quote Scriptural support for the position taken. 238 ¶ 2.
26. In Ps. 82:6, to whom does the term princes apply? Like which of these two princes do the members of Christ's body fall? 239 ¶ 1.
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27. To whom does, "Ye are gods," apply? 239 ¶ 2.
28. What is the difference between dying and sleeping? How long did Jesus sleep? The Apostles? Is there any reason for their continuing to sleep after the Lord's return? Or for the living members, who now die, to wait in death for a future resurrection? 239 ¶ 3.
29. When did our Lord declare, "All power in heaven and on earth is given unto me"? When will The Christ be fully empowered for the work of Restitution? 240 ¶ 1.
30. What is the only instance in Scripture where death is represented as a blessing? 240 ¶ 2.
31. Who only are "the dead who die"? 241 ¶ 1.
32. What are the present experiences of the saints who die and those who remain, respectively? 241 ¶ 2, 3.
33. Should we now expect the true Church to decrease or increase in influence and numbers? 242.
STUDY VIII. THE WORK OF HARVEST.
1. What is the most interesting relic? 243 ¶ 1.
2. As a people, how are the Jews marked and peculiar even today, as in centuries past? 244 ¶ 1.
3. What happens to Israel "in that day"? Why cannot Amos 9:11, 14, 15 be symbolic? 244 ¶ 2.
4. Have the Jews as a people lost faith in Jehovah? Why did they crucify the Prince of Life? 246 ¶ 1.
5. How was the work of the Jewish Harvest completed by the destruction of Israel as a nation? 246 ¶ 2.
6. What has been Israel's experience from that time to the present? 246 ¶ 3-247 1 ¶ 1.
7. As the time for the return of God's favor draws on, what do we see among the Jews? What are the Orthodox and the Non-orthodox Jews? 247 ¶ 2.
8. Describe the Orthodox Jews' faith. 248 ¶ 1.
9. Of what does their worship consist since the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem? 249 ¶ 1.
10. What is the attitude of the Non-orthodox or Reformed Jews? 249 ¶ 2.
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11. Which class will readily accept the reigning Christ? Is there no hope for the other Jews? 249 ¶ 3.
ANGLO-ISRAELITES.
12. What is the Anglo-Israel theory? 250 ¶ 1.
13. What can we reply to their claims? 250 ¶2.
14. Was it to their credit that the ten tribes strayed away from the two? What was true of all the tribes when their return from Babylon was permitted? 250 ¶ 3.
15. How many returned to Palestine? Were many of the original captives among them? 251 ¶ 1.
16. How did Jesus speak of them? Of even those who had clung to the promises? What conclusions are reasonably drawn from similar expressions? 252 ¶ 1.
17. Even if Anglo-Saxons were a part of "the lost ten tribes," what advantage would they enjoy? From whom was God's favor taken for their rejection of Christ? To whom should it now return? 252 ¶ 2.
18. Will the coming favor to Israel be exclusive? Will many be ready for the Millennial reign? 253 ¶ 1.
19. Why did the Jews stumble over remission of sins through faith? How will the Jews' respect for the Law prepare them for Millennial requirements? 253 2.
20. Similarly, as the Jews were blinded on the Law, how and from what will many Gentiles be hindered? 254¶ 1.
21. Show how the celebration now of the Atonement Day should prepare the Jew to recognize Jesus' death as his ransom. 254 ¶ 2-256 ¶ 1.
TO THE JEW FIRST.
22. How did Israel's blinding come? How will recovery come? Explain Simeon's prophecy. 256 ¶ 2, 3.
23. Should Acts 15:16; Luke 1:32; Ezek. 37:24 be interpreted literally or figuratively? Why? 256 ¶ 4.
24. What authority did David have and exercise? Upon whose throne did he sit? What will be David's chief honor in the earthly phase of the Kingdom? 257 ¶ 1.
25. What does the name David signify? Of what was it typical? How should we distinguish between the old Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem? 258 ¶ 1.
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26. When was Israel's double fulfilled and the turning away of their blindness due to begin? 258 ¶ 2.
27. Explain Jer. 24:5-7; 30:18, 20, 21; 31:8-12. 259 ¶ 1, 2.
28. What does Ezek. 37:12-14 show? 260 ¶ 1.
29. When will these promises be fulfilled? When did they have a marked beginning? 260 ¶ 2.
30. Why has England long felt the necessity for protecting. Turkey? What incident resulted in the Berlin Conference? Who was the chief figure at this meeting? What did England guarantee to Turkey? 260 ¶ 3.
31. Under whose care, therefore, is Palestine? What persecutions followed this opening of Palestine to the Jews? What is the proportion of Jews to other nationalities in Jerusalem today? 261 last ¶.
32. Why is Palestine so important to the statesman, historian, religionist, merchant? 262 ¶ 1, 2.
33. Who claims it as rightly his? 263 ¶ 1.
34. How are great nations born? Why is the Jew best adapted to develop the land of Palestine? 263 2.
35. What are the hopes, longings and predictions of the Jews as to their restoration? 264 ¶ 1, 2.
36. How near to the truth have worldly men come in the statement, that "Abraham would himself fain be present to receive" this land of promise? 265 ¶ 1.
37. Cite evidences of the gradual progress of restitution in Palestine. 265 ¶ 2-266 ¶ 1.
38. Of the rebuilding of Jerusalem. 266 ¶ 2.
39. Despite the long oppression of the Jews, to what positions have many of them attained? 266 ¶ 3.
40. Since 1878, what is the attitude of prominent Jews on colonizing of Palestine? 267 ¶ 1-268 ¶ 1.
41. What is the opinion of the Jewish Messenger on Israel as a coming power? 268 ¶ 2-269 ¶ 1.
42. What does the Jewish Chronicle say on the restoration of the Jews as a matter of prophecy? 269 ¶ 2.
43. Are Gentiles noting the rising prominence of Israel? Cite instances. 269 ¶ 3-271 ¶ 3.
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44. What is a recent Jewish proverb on a railway to Jerusalem? How has this been fulfilled? 272 ¶ 1, 2.
45. What appeared in the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1889 on present progress in Palestine? Describe the Jews' wailing place. 272 ¶ 3-277 ¶ 2.
46. Not until what time will the wealthier classes of Jews be attracted to Palestine? 277 ¶ 3.
ISRAEL'S BLINDNESS DEPARTING.
47. What prophecy of St. Paul's on Israel's blindness should begin to fulfill? When will it pass fully away? How are 1878 and 1881 related to it? 277 last ¶.
48. Through whom will Israel's full recognition of the true Messiah doubtless be brought about? 278 ¶ 1.
49. What signs indicate that the blindness of Israel has begun to pass away? Describe the Rabinowitch movement. What was Rabinowitch's attitude toward Jesus and the New Testament? What were his principal exhortations to his followers? 278 ¶ 2-285 ¶ 3.
50. What similar awakening has been progressing in Siberia? 285 ¶ 4, 5.
51. In restoring fleshly Israel and gathering Spiritual Israel, what agency is not used? 286 ¶ 1.
52. What does the re-gathering of Israel signify, according to the Apostle Paul? 286 ¶ 2.
53. How was a Jewish Kingdom proposed in the Memorial offered to President Harrison by Mr. William E. Blackstone in 1891? 288 ¶ 1-290 ¶ 4.
THE ANGLO-ISRAELITISH QUESTION.
54. In reply to a criticism of the first edition of this book, on the Anglo-Israelitish question, what position is taken as to the experiences of the ten tribes? What did Jesus mean when He declared, Salvation is of the Jews? What texts prove that Jesus recognized the twelve 'tribes as one nation, and not divided? In what three senses is salvation of the Jews? 290 ¶ 5-293 ¶ 2.
55. What would be necessary in any case for members of the "ten tribes," if they would have a share in the Covenant made with Abraham? 294 ¶ 1.
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56. What Scriptures prove that liberty to return from Babylon was offered to all and accepted by some from the twelve tribes? 294 ¶ 2-295 ¶ 2.
57. What reply is made to the opponent's statement that the ten tribes were to be re-married to Jehovah in a New Covenant? 295 ¶ 3-297 ¶ 4.
58. What must first be done to the New Covenant, before fleshly Israel, and others, can be blessed under it? 298 ¶ 1.
59. If the Anglo-Saxon races are descended from the ten tribes, why would it be to their advantage for God to overlook it and count them as Gentiles? 298 ¶ 2.
60. Would Israelitish origin gain any special advantage during the Gospel Age? 298 ¶ 3.
61. How does Rom. 11:31 apply to fleshly and spiritual Israel, respectively? How will the Abrahamic promises be fulfilled to both seeds? 299 ¶ 1.
62. What do Anglo-Israelites claim as to the terms Israel and Judah? How do Jesus and St. Peter refute this thought? 300 ¶ 1.
63. Did the curses mentioned by Moses (Deut. 28:15, 46, 49-63-67) have their fulfilment upon the Israel of our Lord's day? If the British nation be any part of Israel, have vs. 64 and 65 yet been fulfilled? 300 ¶ 2, 3.
STUDY IX.
THY GOD REIGNETH!
1. In view of our foregoing studies, what should we unhesitatingly declare unto Zion? 301 ¶ 1.
2. What do these wonderful truths imply? To whom do Jude 14, Zech. 14:5, Matt. 25:31 and Dan. 7:10 refer? 302 ¶ 1, 2.
3. Contrast Jesus' first and second advent positions. How is his judgment progressing? 302 ¶ 3.
4. What is the work now of the glorified saints, and of those on this side the vail? 303 ¶ 1.
5. How have three classes of saints been blest by the promise of Jesus' return? 303 ¶ 2.
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6. Contrast the experiences of nominal Zion and real Zion at the present time. 304 ¶ 1-3.
7. Give a resume of the prophetic landmarks pointing to this as the most wonderful period in the world's history. How does the resurrection of the sleeping saints in 1878 parallel that of their Head? 304 ¶ 4.
8. What has prophecy taught us to expect on the manner of our Lord's return? Have Elias and the Man of Sin yet come? 305 ¶ 1.
9. What precious truths have been learned from Daniel's visions on certain days? 305 ¶ 2.
10. What do we see on 1874 and 1878? 306 ¶ 1.
11. As to Divine favor returning to natural Israel? What positive assurance is thus given us? 307 ¶ 1.
12. Since the end of present conditions is near, what should be our attitude? 307 ¶ 2-308 ¶ 3.
STUDY X. THE TESTIMONY OF GOD'S STONE WITNESS AND PROPHET, THE GREAT PYRAMID IN EGYPT.
1. What comment has been made by Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth on the symbolic teachings of this wonderful building, as set forth in this book? 311, 312.
2. How many wonders of the world were recounted by the ancients? What position was accorded the Great Pyramid of Egypt? What did a leading granite man say on the Pyramid's great blocks of stone? What area is covered by the Great Pyramid? What is its height and breadth? What is its estimated weight? What power would be required to remove it? 313 ¶ 1.
3. Why has it peculiar interest for God's people? 314 ¶ 1.
4. Are there other pyramids? Describe them and their purpose. 314 ¶ 2.
5. How does the Great Pyramid differ from the others? Is its testimony an addition to the written Revelation? If not, how does it witness to God's plan? Where is it referred to in Scripture? 314 ¶ 3.
6. Is it plainly referred to? Why? 315 ¶ 1, 2.
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7. Quote Scriptures showing how the term Egypt is symbolically applied. 316 ¶ 1, 2.
8. When will men cry unto the Lord for help? What part will the Great Pyramid play in God's program? For whom chiefly is its witness? 316 ¶ 3-317 ¶ 1.
9. How does it refer to Jer. 32:20? 318 ¶ 1.
10. Show how Job 38:3-7 fits it. Is there any doubt that it is referred to in Scripture, or that it will fully corroborate God's written Word? Who only would dispute its witness? 318 ¶ 2-319 ¶ 1.
WHY, WHEN, AND BY WHOM WAS THE GREAT PYRAMID BUILT?
11. What was the ancient theory as to its purpose? When did its secrets begin to unfold? 319 ¶ 2.
12. When and by whom was the first work written, proving its scientific features? To whose work are we mainly indebted for the data used in this study? 319 ¶ 3.
13. Who first suggested that the Great Pyramid was an important witness to Divine Truth? 320 ¶ 1.
14. What soon became apparent as to the object of its construction? Why did former students not grasp the scope of its teachings? Why has this wonderful witness kept silent until the present day? 320 ¶ 2.
15. When was it built, as determined by Prof. Smyth? How did he reach his conclusion? 321 ¶ 1.
16. How was this later corroborated? 322 ¶ 1.
17. To whom is ascribed the honor of having built the Pyramid? What supports this thought? 322 ¶ 2, 3.
ITS PECULIAR LOCATION.
18. How and where is the Great Pyramid situated? What peculiarity marks its location? 325 ¶ 1.
19. Who first noted its remarkable relationship to the sea-coast? What was his exclamation? 325 ¶ 2.
20. Explain just how the Great Pyramid is located "in the midst of the land of Egypt," and at the same time "at the border thereof." What is its location with respect to the land surface of the world? 325 ¶ 3.
ITS SCIENTIFIC LESSONS.
21. How does the Great Pyramid speak to us? How
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not? What were the only original marks found in it? What are some of its scientific teachings? 326 ¶ 1.
22. What sublime thought on its "summit corner" has been suggested by Dr. Joseph Seiss? 327 ¶ 1, 2.
ITS TESTIMONY RELATING TO THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.
23. In what feature is centered our greatest interest? To whom does the top-stone evidently refer? 328 ¶ 1, 2.
24. How is this prophetically portrayed by Isaiah, Zechariah, Job and David, respectively? 329 ¶ 1.
25. How did the head-stone of the Great Pyramid beautifully illustrate the foregoing? 329 ¶ 2.
26. What does the Pyramid figure represent? 330 ¶ 1.
HOW THE INTERNAL CONSTRUCTION OUTLINES THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.
27. What does the Great Pyramid's outward form illustrate? Its inner construction? 330 ¶ 2.
28. Describe the Entrance Passage. Into what does this Passage lead? Describe this room. What do the Entrance Passage and the Subterranean Chamber each symbolize? 331 ¶ 1.
29. Describe the First Ascending Passage and the hallway into which it leads. What do the Ascending Passage and the Grand Gallery each represent? 331 ¶ 2.
30. Where does the Horizontal Passage begin, and to what does it lead? Into what does the low passage at the upper end of the Grand Gallery lead? 332 ¶ 1.
31. What is the Pyramid's chief room? Describe the location and object of the Construction Chambers. What is the Pyramid's only piece of furniture? How is the King's Chamber ventilated? 332 ¶ 2.
32. Describe the Well. What was apparently the original condition of the passage to the Queen's Chamber and the Well's mouth? What does the appearance of the Well's mouth suggest? 335 ¶ 1.
33. What barrier is found at the upper or south end of the Grand Gallery? What peculiarity marks the south end wall of this passage? 335 ¶ 2.
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Pyramid? Where is the Granite Plug located? How was it originally hidden by the builders? 336 ¶ 1. 35. Who was Al Mamoun? What was his object in forcing a passage into the Pyramid? What did the labor of his Arabs unwittingly reveal? When did this occur? 336 ¶ 2.
THE PYRAMID'S TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE PLAN OF THE AGES.
36. What suggestions were made by Robert Menzies on the Great Pyramid's religious teachings? 337 ¶ 1, 2.
37. How does the "Well" act as a Key? 337 ¶ 3.
38. By what was the Pyramid's date of building corroborated? 338 ¶ 1.
39. If the Great Pyramid be indeed "a Bible in Stone," what should reasonably be expected of it? 338 ¶ 2, 3.
40. How are the Bible time-proofs of the Lord's second advent shown in the Great Pyramid? What is the starting point? To what point should we measure to find the beginning of the Time of Trouble? 341 ¶ 1, 2.
41. Does the fact that world conditions are endurable disprove that we are in the Harvest? 342 ¶ 1, 2.
42. Describe and interpret the peculiarities in the shape and finish of the Pit. What two features of the Divine purpose are represented in the Pit? 343 ¶ 1, 2.
43. How does the Entrance Passage near the Pit? What does this symbolize? 334 ¶ 1-345 ¶ 1.
44. While this horizontal section suggests the social improvement of the world, to what erroneous theory has this upward movement given rise? 345 ¶ 2, 3.
45. While the testimonies of the foregoing measurements were harmonious, which measurement seemed to be out of harmony? What was the difficulty? 345 ¶ 4.
46. How was this difficulty ingeniously bridged by the Granite Plug? 346 ¶ 1.
47. How long was the period from the exodus of Israel from Egypt to the full end of their national favor, as shown by the Pyramid? Does this contradict the teaching shown in the Parallels of the Jewish and Christian Dispensations, that each was 1845 years long? 347 ¶ 1, 2.
48. Describe the Grand Gallery. 347 ¶ 3-348 ¶ 2.
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49. What does the Grand Gallery symbolize? 348 ¶ 3.
50. What does the lofty height of the Grand Gallery symbolize? What does the King's Chamber represent? What is symbolized by the Well? 349 ¶ 1.
51. What significance in the great length of the Grand Gallery, its narrowness and steepness? 349 ¶ 2.
52. Looking up along the Grand Gallery to its end, what thought does it suggest? 350 ¶ 1.
53. How is the way by which the Church may enter into heavenly glory pictured at its upper end? 350 ¶ 2.
54. What does the low passage leading into the Ante-Chamber represent? Of what material is the floor in the Ante-Chamber, and what does this signify? Describe the Granite Leaf with its symbolic teaching. 351 ¶ 1.
55. Describe the Ante-Chamber. What does its peculiar appearance suggest? 351 ¶ 2.
56. How is the Church's actual death shown? What does the King's Chamber picture? What was Christ's twofold mission on earth? What does the Grand Gallery symbolize? 352 ¶ 1.
57. Describe the King's Chamber. What is the capacity of the Coffer? 355 ¶ 1, 2.
58. Compare the granite in the Pyramid with the gold in Israel's Tabernacle and Temple. With what parts of the Tabernacle do the two low passages leading into the Ante-Chamber and King's Chamber correspond? With what does the Coffer correspond? 355 ¶ 3.
59. How are the Holy and Most Holy represented? What does the Ante-Chamber represent? How is the first vail represented? 356 1.
60. How is the New Creature's further progress symbolized? What pictures his actual death? The divine nature and everlasting glory of the Church? 356 ¶ 2, 3.
61. What is taught by the granite floor not extending quite to the front of the Ante-Chamber, while the granite ceiling reaches the full length of this room? What does the Granite Leaf represent? How are the steps by which the called ones of this age are to enter into glory marked in the Pyramid? 357 ¶1.
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THE HUMAN AND SPIRITUAL NATURES SHOWN.
62. From the illustration of the Pyramid, show how the human and spiritual natures are symbolized. 357 ¶ 2.
63. What does the Queen's Chamber represent? Why is its back wall on a line with the Pyramid's axis? What do all the upward passages leading in the direction of this axis teach? 358 ¶ 1.
64. How is the possibility that some of the begotten ones may commit the sin unto death shown by the Pit and the Ante-Chamber? 358 ¶ 2.
65. What is taught by the relationship of the location of the Pit to the axis of the Pyramid? 358 ¶ 3.
66. On which side of the axis is the Well's mouth? What does this represent? On which level is its mouth? What does this signify? What significance in the fact that the Grotto was natural? What does its location above the basal line of the Pyramid represent? 361 ¶ 1.
67. What is another crucial test of the Pyramid as to the Grand Gallery? 361 ¶ 2, 3.
68. Give the dates of the end of Gentile Times, the beginning of the harvest, and the end of the general call. Give three measurements taken on the floor line of the Grand Gallery. 362 ¶ 1-3.
69. What do these measurements indicate? 363 ¶ 1.
70. Show how this three-fold ending is in harmony with the Scriptures. 363 ¶ 2-364 ¶ 1.
71. Where and how is the second advent of Christ symbolized in the Great Pyramid? 364 ¶ 2.
72. Why is such exactness marvelous? 365 ¶ 1.
73. What is indicated by the juncture of the Well with the Descending Passage? How do we proceed to find and apply this measurement? 365 ¶2-366 ¶ 2.
74. How do we calculate the time from the date of Isaac's inheritance to the year A. D. 1881? 366 ¶ 3.
75. What beginning of Restitution work was marked by the date Oct. 1881? 367 ¶ 1, and footnote.
76. How does the Pyramid illustrate the Bible teaching that "Christ brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel"? 368 ¶ 1, 2.
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77. How does it show that by the Law Covenant none of the fallen race could reach either life or immortality? How is the cross specially marked? 368 ¶ 3.
78. What lesson does the low passage to the Queen's Chamber teach? 369 ¶ 1.
79. How does the Queen's Chamber symbolize human perfection? 369 ¶ 2.
80. What peculiarity in its floor, and what does this suggest? What is symbolized by the differences in height in the passage leading to it? 369 ¶ 3, 4.
81. Have any yet walked in this way? 370 ¶ 1.
82. How does this passage agree with the Bible on the way to perfect human life? 370 ¶ 2.
83. What is pictured by the air tubes of the King's Chamber, and the Queen's Chamber, respectively? What peculiarity marked those of the Queen's Chamber, and how were they discovered? 370 ¶ 3-373 ¶ 1.
84. Why is this wonderful corroboration of the Scriptures doubly significant in this day? 373 ¶ 2.
85. How does Dr. Seiss express himself as to the Pyramid's refutation of the modern and anti-Biblical theory of Evolution? 374 ¶ 1-375 ¶ 2.
86. How do our Lord's words to the Pharisees on entering Jerusalem have a corroboration in the Pyramid's testimony? 375 ¶ 2-376 ¶ 1.
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