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This paper will be sent free to any of the Lord's poor who willsend a card yearly requesting it. Freely we have received and freelywe would give the truth. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye tothe waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat--yea,come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." Andyou that have it-- "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which isnot bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearkendiligently--and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delightitself in fatness."-- ISAIAH 55:1,2.==================== page 1----------WALL CHARTS.--We have no more.FLORIDA LAND.--Only two plots of the land donated to theZ.W.T. Tract Fund remain for sale.R748 : page 1====================VIEW FROM THE TOWER."Ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is itthat ye do not discern this time?" Luke 12:56-59.Glance backward for a little more than eighteen centuries. Therestands Jesus with twelve disciples; they are mostly young men, theMaster himself being but little over thirty. They have never had aneducation, and most of them have been ordinary fishermen. Butthough "unlearned and ignorant men" (Acts 4:13), the disciples hada confidence and power in teaching which marked them amongmen as peculiar; and wherever they went "they took knowledge ofthem that they had been with Jesus," for though their Master had"never learned," yet he was scholarly, a man of letters. John 7:15.But after all, that was an insignificant little band in the eyes of themilitary governor Pilate, in the eyes of the chief priest, and in theeyes of the Scribes, and Pharisees--the Doctors of Divinity--theapostles of legal holiness in that day. The class chosen to announceJesus as the King of the Jews, saying, "The time is fulfilled and thekingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:15), was not a prepossessingone, and to the zealous Jew was so unlike what might be expectedof their long anticipated Messiah, and so out of harmony with theirgreat religious teachers, that they failed to recognize Jesus as such.The miracles and teachings of Jesus, and the correspondence ofthese with the predictions concerning Messiah, made by the Lord'sprophets long before, were the only evidence Israel had, that Jesuswas the long-expected King. This could be evidence to such only asby careful heed to the "more sure word of prophecy," knew what toexpect, and who by humility of mind would be prepared not only tonote the prophetic utterances which foretold the rejection and