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[Continuation of Mr. Kimball's answers to questions propounded to him before the Bloomington (Ill.

"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

Interesting and uplifting communion services were held on last Communion Day, Sunday, October 7th, at Copley Hall. The large hall was filled to its utmost seating capacity, it being roughly estimated that there were one thousand persons present.

Five years ago we were seized with the gold fever. Seemingly, wealth was within our grasp.

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " Psa.

Mr. Norcross , in his sermon to business men yesterday morning, took for his text: "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

The tabernacle, set up by Moses in the wilderness, was a type of that true worship which enables man to realize the ever presence of God. In accordance with the directions given in Sinai, it was placed within an enclosure called the Court of the tabernacle.

Bondage , or slavery, says Webster, is involuntary servitude. Thus a service independent of our own free-will or choice.

What is religion? It has been made identical with the membership of this and that organization which has arrogated to itself, often in the teeth of all evidence, the exclusive title of "the Church. " Religion is not church membership.

In the Old Testament we find the records of many strange, and to us, inexplicable ceremonies which, as Paul says, were a "figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the sacrifice perfect as pertaining to the conscience. " However a search into the "deep things of God," reveals the deep import of many things which at first sight seem to have no particular significance, and the real meanings of which were unknown even to the participators.