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and darkness are round about him for a time. She knows that"Behind a frowning providenceHe hides a smiling face.""The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice" also; for it is great causefor rejoicing if they could only have faith to realize it. But werejoice further to know that though their eyes are now so blinded byprejudice and false doctrine that they cannot see the evidence onwhich to rest faith, by and by their blindness shall be removed andthey shall have the evidence in demonstration.The first to realize it after Zion, will be the daughters of Judah,fleshly Israel, whose blindness shall be taken away. Already welearn that the blindness is beginning to be turned away. Soon all thedaughters of Judah will see and rejoice together because of theLord's judgments against oppression and tyranny, and because ofthe returning favor of his "Covenant people." Soon the glory of theLord will be revealed to all; theR816 : page 8clouds being rolled away the Sun of righteousness shall shine forthwith healing [restitution] in his beams and all flesh shall recognizeit together.R814 : page 8====================KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO FREEDOM."The force of education is making itself felt in all Europeancountries, and in the old way, too, of producing commotions andturbulence. Wherever it appears it turns the world upside down. InFrance it has changed the whole complexion of the nationalpolitics. In Belgium it has excited active and tumultuous interest. InRussia it has led to violence characteristic of that country, and weread that in Spain it is giving warning to the clericals that theirreign must soon come to an end. The tremendous movement that isin progress in England also, a movement that under any other manalmost than Gladstone would be a revolution, is due to the fact thatthe peasantry are getting the benefit of schools and other means ofintelligence and training. In a way that is similar, and yet different,the same result is being reached in heathen countries under theoperation of Christian missions."--United Presbyterian.We are glad that our neighbor is getting its eyes open on thissubject. It should notice also, that education and thought arebreaking the fetters of fear, which have so long kept many in thenominal Churches. Some are coming to recognize the real Churchwhose names are in heaven, and to approach the liberty wherewithChrist hath made them free, while others, deceived by the creedsare discarding the teaching of the Bible totally and becoming socalledRational Christians, really Unbelievers.