Christ is life. He is the life which we seek - not the animal life, but divine life, which is eternal in its quality as well as its duration. It partakes of what Jesus is. All that is spiritual in man is eternal, because it came from the eternal One.

POLITICS.

Politics as a science is next in importance to religion. The aim of politics is to establish the kingdom of heaven upon earth. The word politics is of Greek origin, meaning, "the city."

The Bible is a political book in the true sense of that term. Take the principle out of any great interest and it becomes mere empiricism. The true principles of statesmanship are to be found in the Bible. The Book of Daniel is the statesman's book. This prophet was a true statesman, for he stood by the higher law. The man who stood against Daniel went to grass. Some of our politicians ought to be turned out to grass. Politics must be based on right theories of society and of human progress. Darwin's development theory should be reversed. Sin makes man more like the animals. The Bible theory is that society is the creature of God. Any one who denies the divine origin of society is practically an atheist. Let the ministers preach true politics.

Our legislators are too much taken up with the care of property, and not enough with the care of the virtues of society, which can not be much longer overlooked.

Leviticus is a book of domestic economy.

It con

tains wisdom above that of the present age respecting the duties and vocations of life.

The Bible is political, and contains those principles to which we are going back after ages of false and injurious systems.

The tribes were all preserved in the nationality. Thus the Bible recognizes states' rights, but not state sovereignty. Nationality is a natural growth from the family, the tribe, and the social circle to the unity of the tribes in a nation. The Bible is the statesman's best guide.

The record of families, or genealogy, ought to be a distinct department of government.

The heathen nations were cosmocratic in government; the chosen people were theocratic. The spiritual organization of the nation was completed at Sinai; but there must now be a secular organization. The next thing is the invasion, that they may go up and possess the promised land.

There are

In Numbers we have the first census. In the early time of Christ we have another instance. two great objects in taking the census: to know the military force and to form a basis for taxation. The Book of Numbers gives an account of the preparation for war.

Joshua is the military book, and these two books

contain the military history of the jews. Judges is the book of military conditions.

Law is the great organizing force of society.

War has deteriorated from means of God's judgment to mere national uses and selfishness. War is only justifiable at the call of God, who uses it as a human instrumentality.

Nothing but righteousness will bind men together in permanent relations.

In Israel church and state went together.

Man is king when he rules himself through Christ in all his inferior powers.

We judge the character and position of nations by the general principles of the hereditary law of iniquity. Spain, for instance, has national traits which have flown down through several generations. We should study history in the light of these principles. We find in France the example of a revolutionary nation. Science just begins to treat this subject, but the Bible teaches it plainly.

The last commandment is for the protection of the family. Polygamy is not supported by the example of the patriarchs.

"Throne of David." David was the typical king, representing the spiritual kingship. He reigned in the hearts of the people and reached up to the idea of sonship to God. He gained the love of God, and the man who lives near to God can reign king in the hearts of men.

His

Christ was not Messiah until he was anointed. Messiahship was his official life; the thirty years were his private life.

sense.

God is king. His government is a despotism, which is the best form of government if the ruler is wise and good. But we must not think of despotism in any bad Government belongs to the Lord. Democracy is a heresy of Babylon. The kingdom of God alone is right-truth is the ruler and organizer. All human governments must go under. Democracy may be the last to go, but it will go in time.

A review of the history of Jehovah's kingdom will show us that his real kingdom is the rule of righteousThe kingdom of God is the kingdom of inspired

ness. souls.

Daniel is the prophet of politics.

The outward kingdom the Jews were thinking of I would not be restored. The spiritual kingdom could not be restored to them, for they had never had it, and did not want it. The outward was but a type of the spiritual; the real is eternal.