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1912 Watch Tower - A2Z.org

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Los Angeles, Cal., was reached in due time for Sundayservices, Dec. 10th. A more hearty welcome couldnot be asked. "Love Divine, all love excelling," seemsto be the secret of this class's progress. About 400 werepresent in the forenoon, and about 2,100 at the afternoonmeeting for the public.Fresno, Cal., we reached for services on the 11th.About 60 of the friends from surrounding country attendedduring the day, and at the public meeting at nightthe attendance was about 500. Matters went exceedinglywell, considering that there is no Class of I.B.S.A. there.San Francisco, Cal., was reached on Dec. 12th (orrather Oakland). Good testimonies in the forenoonshowed that the classes here are in splendid condition--R4957 : page 32apparently faithful and humble. The afternoon meetingwas on consecration and the evening meeting on Baptism.At our request no advertising was done, so the attendanceof about 300 must have been chiefly interested people.About 26 symbolized their consecration. The sessionclosed with an enjoyable Love Feast. The next daynearly 100 bade us goodby and sang us away on our journeyas the steamship Shinyo Maru left dock.With much love to you--one and all--your brotherand servant,C. T. RUSSELL.R4958 : page 32====================PREPARE YE FOR THE KINGDOM--LUKE 3:1-17.--FEBRUARY 18.--"Repent ye, for the Kingdom ofHeaven is at hand."--Matthew 3:2.JOHN THE BAPTIST was the last of theProphets and Jesus declared that none ofthem was his superior--"There hath notarisen a greater Prophet than John the Baptist--and yet I say unto you that the leastin the Kingdom of Heaven is greater thanhe." (Matt. 11:11.) Every member of theKingdom of Heaven class must be higherthan John because begotten of the HolySpirit. They are reckoned as members ofthe House of Sons, while the Prophets belong to the precedingHouse of Servants: "Moses verily was faithful inall his House as a servant, but Christ as a Son over Hisown House, whose House are we."--Heb. 3:5,6;John 1:13.God proposed from before the foundation of the worldthat He would redeem man and that He would establish

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