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F ALL announcements ever mado since time began, this is the grandest.

It is the death warrant of man's great adversary. It is the Emancipation Proclamation to every slave. of sin. It is God's New Deal to every soul who battles with evil. It is the Magna Charta of the believer's liberty.

In the original it means, not something brought to an end, but to successful completion, ac- complishment, perfection.

Over three worlds rang out that ery of eternal victory wrested from the kingdom of darkness for us-and the devils cowered in defent; the unfallen Intelligences sang for joy; and human beings, helpless and hopeless, found the gates of deli- verance wide open.

"It is Anished." What Was finished? Seven things were finished. Let us enumerate them.

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FIRST, Christ's earthly life of per-

life

never moving save in

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more sorrow now.

IS FINISHED"

·Fifthly, the rejection of their King| wan accomplished. "Art Thou, questioned Pilate of Jesus, "the King of the Jews?" Came the clear an- swer, "Thou anyest." "Shall I cru- cify your King?" asked the Roman of the Hebrew people. "But they cried out, Away with Him, .. crucify Ilim." "We have no king but Caesar." They demonstrated It by killing Hlm. They fulfiled His prophecy of the wicked husbandmen.

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JESUS of Nazareth never rejected

the Jews, But when, as a na- tion, they rejected Him who had given them every proof by fulfilled prophecy and supernatural works that He was their Messiah, what could He do? He was true heir to the throne of David, and they ac- eused Him of trenson to their no- tion. He was the Son of God, and they crucifted Him for blasphemy;

have Israel would

no king but Cacsur.

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The

Average German

Conversations With Philip Gibbs

Although written before the latest crisis, an article by Mr. Philip Gibbs in Truth,caded. "Conversation In Berlin," la significant as showing the atti tude of typical Germans towards the danger of another European war. Extracts from this article are reproduced below.

The reason for all the subsequent

WEEK or two ago I was talking. tragedies of this anddest of ou races ← to a German working-man in. is Golgotha, They are no longer a Berlin and after he had gone I mads nation; so as a nation they cannot a note of what he had told me so accept Him now. But the only un- that I might have his exact words. swer to all the miseries and heart- They are more important than other aches and sorrows of the individuu)| things I heard from people in high Jew is by the way of that same places because this man spoke the Golgotha, There, for the Jew, as thoughts and anxieties of his own well as for the Gentile, the Martyred | class, that of millions of German One shed His blood for remission of working-folk. slus, praying, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

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"We Germans," he said, "want fect obedience was ended. All

peace above all things. Wo want tranquility, so that we can get on He had been given to do He had

with our work without, fear in our done, All His Father's command- THIRDLY, the power of the des- troyer was crushed.. "Of whom

minds. Wo all want friendship with ments He had kept. Loolding back a man is overcome, of the same is he

England and France. But this un- IXTHLY, the vindigation of God's certainty is frightful. We have over His life, Be could have no brought in bondage." For four regrets. Looking into His heart, He thousand years that tyranny had held law and His mercy was complete. Black screen in front of us and can't If that law could have been in any see through. I have two boys of 15 could be conscious of no stain. No man in its thralldom. Usurper Sa-

sense abrogated, Jesús need never und 17. I don't want them to be engagement 15 announced

where the first have died. "Sin is the transgression killed. They know what war is all this world." But between Priscilla (Pat) Wright man ever lived, before or since, tan was, but none the less "prince of eldest daughter of Thomas Ree-Whose

of the low" and "the wages of sin is right and don't like the iden of it. was one of perfect Adam fell, the second Adam had pre- man Wright, Grays, Essex, Eng obedience.

"I've told them about it, I was bad- vailed, "Now is the crisis faccord death". Therefore Christ, the sin-

less Christ, who was made sin for ly wounded three times. Certainly ing to the Greek of this worki," land, and Alexander McGregor, And now

that perfect life has the Saviour had said of the conflet, was under the condemnation of Hitler has done great things for the elder son of Mrs, and the Inte

that law. That broken law. de- German folk, but most of us arc Captain R. F. Mitchell, Hong-reached its end-denth by crucifixion He faced: "now shall the prince of the kong. (Shanghai papers please at the age of thirty-three. These this world be east out." In witness manded the death of Him who took wondering whether all that is going If that law had not been to be spoilt by another war in witch our place. copy).

of that victory, "the graves were hands, never outstretched save in

of the irrevocable, He need not have died, our BURS would be sacrificed. blessing, cease to move. Those feet, opened: un many bodies

The fact that He had to die to satisfy don't understand why England and saints which slept aruse, and came

its demands on our behalf forever Cermany are at cross-purposes-es- ministry of out of the graves aller His resur-

vindicates His own word concerning pecially after Munich, which we love, cease to net. That heart, never rection, and went into the holy city,

it in Malthew. "Think not that I hoped would bring peace and good- many." Cap beating sava in aching tenderness, and appeared unto

am come to destroy the law or the will." reases to throb. Those hands have tives from the enemy's. dark reulin

released from his death dungeons, prophets: I am not come to destroy, STORM AFTER MUNICH been spiked by sin. Those feet have trophies of the triumph of immunucil

but to full. For verily I say unto: you. Till heaven and earth pass, one ment was the prelude to a new era. They thought the Munich agree- been pierced by hate. That heart He died in order that through death has been broken by ingratitude. But He might destroy him that had the Jot or one tittle shall in nowlso pass of peace and friendship with Eng- 110 more pain, no more loneliness, power of death, that is, the devil: from the law, ill all be fulllcd." and based on justice, and they were. and deliver then who through fear Christ, therefore, certainly did not disconcerted and dismayed when a

To have The struggle of death were all their lifetime sub-repeal the law He gave,

of the section

English Press and Is all over. The darkness is past. jeet to

have immortalized political world broke out into a storm bondage." These saints, done so would "It is finished"-His life of perfect whom His death had berated He transgression.

of rage against the British Prime Minister and shouted the words "Be- obedience lived always in the shadow presented to the Father as the un- fitypical wave sheaf, the first fruits

trayal!" and "Surrender!" They wero of the cross,

and earnest of the resurrection of

even more disconcerted when they the just at His coming.

Y HIS Me He proved that the law heard of the terrific Intensification of BY

could he aleyed, by grace. "British rearmanent Immediately have kept," He said, "My Father's following the Munich agreement. It seemed to them inconsistent with keep My commandments."

to hold some kind of threat. It was His death Не the Italian invasion of Albania, ated. No longer

Ace teas made, once for all. Let By

proved As the that the Jaw could not be the reason, they thought, why Hiller

"He broken without death. God did not spoke harsh words in the an attempt at territorial acquisi-memorial sacrifices and rites which there be no doubt of that.

Angllean Prayer Book 'puts it: pointed forward to the Lamb of God made there [by is one oblation of euange its law, for it is righteous Munich meetings.

speeches he had made after the tion that is as impudent as that efficacious. Type had Inet anti- Himself once offered] a full, perfect, puss, the revelation of His character;

I found that this thought still so successfully undertaken by type, for that Lamb had been slain, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and but in His unfathomable mercy for

"When the loud cry, 'It is finished, satisfaction for the sins of the whole sinners, le sacrificed Himself in His rankles in German minda. Owing to Herr Hitler in Bohemia and

world," And that is scriptural. own Son, our substitute. So love the controlled news In their Press came from the lips of Christ, the

found a way to be just, and yet "the and the machinery of propaganda Moravia.

priests were offeinting in the tem- Why, then, the frequent repeti- justifier of him which believeth in the ordinary people in Germany,

church Jesus." pic. It was the hour of the evening lions of that sacrifice on

"For what the law could not without other means of information, "How is this eternal aggression sacrifice. The lamb representing altars-of-to-day-in-the-Fucharist do, in that it was weak-through-the do not low or understand the sud

where, it is believed. His very body flesh, God sending His own Son in den realisation that came to our to be stopped?

Christ had been brought to be slain. In actuality is broken again, and thus the likeness of sinful flesh, and for own Government and people during Clothed in his significant and bent- the Son of God is crucified afresh? sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the September crisis of our deplor- It must eventually lead to war

tiful dress, the priest stood with "Why do ye also transgress the com- the righteousness of the law might able weakness and of the grim and on a devastating scale in Europe.lified knife, as did Abraham when mandment of God by your tradi- be fullied in us, who walk not after urgent necessity for intensive rear- "In vain they do worship Me, the flesh, but after the Spirit." Onmament after an experience when he was about to slay his son.

With tion?" Are dictators really maniacs, intense interest the people

tenching for doctrines the command-

Calvary the vindication of God's law their own leader had not hesitated to were

ments of men." Once for all Ile and mercy was complete.

risk a world war with that threat, as pyschologists firmly insist? looking on. But the earth trembles died, when He died for all; and to

Tharshly made, behind his demands. We could not submit again to that All their actions seem to point to and quakes; for the Lord Himself kill 1im again, even in the Mass, if

kind of diplomacy, draws near. With a rending noise He were there, would be to repent an element of truth in the the inner veil of the temple is torn the murder of the Jewish priests.

what accusation. To

other from top to bottom

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Easter Message

Events are again hurrying forward in Europe.

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CECONDLY, the old dispensation of

were the im-

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Yesterday came the news of types and aliadows was termin- TOURTHLY, the all-sufficient sacri commandments." "If ye love Me, Mr. Chamberlain's peace policy, and

reason can be attributed this lust for power that has gripped them to such an extent that they be- come men without honour-men to whom treaties are as much scraps of paper us was a famous pact in 1914?

What

Easter FIN

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the multitude a place once filed with HE ransom He paid was suffelent. the presence of God.... But lo, this "Jesus paid it all." That pay- was not in part. It covers vell is rent in twain. The most holy ment place of the earthly sanctuary is no every sinner who will accept. The check is made to "whosoever bo- longer sacred,

Heveth." "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."

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LL IS terror and

"A rest is about confusione

victim; but the knife drops about his nerveless hand, and the lamb escapes. Type has met anti-type in the death of God's Son. The great sacrifice has been made. The way into the holiest is laid open. A new and living way is presented for' all. No longer need sinful, sorrowing humanity awalt the coming of the high priest. Henceforth the Saviour way to officlute'ns priest and ad- vocute in the heaven of heavens. The authorities are silent re-to the worshippers: There is now unl was as if a living volce had spoken garding the repeated calls for end to all sacrifices and offerings for

'By His own

blood' He tunnels, which can provide the entereth in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption only true shelter in this Colony. for us."

Is Hongkong to be given full protection against air raids? At the moment the answer is "No,"

They take too long to build: they

sin.'

It

are too expensive: the Govern-miles already surrounded by ment has a plan for mass evacua-war? tion of population.

By all means let us have tem- The qucation of protection for |porary shelters and gas-proof the Hongkong citizen admits no rooms. Keep on the good work delay. We are not a day nearer already undertaken. But the proper shelter from mass air more urgent problém of real pro- raids than we were when tection must be tarkled bombers were first recognised as quickly as possible.

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monaco to civilisation. We may never need air raid Tunnels should be no more shelters. We may be lucky. expensive to dig in Hongkong If, which God forbid, we are than roads and nullahs. Mass involved in a Pacific war, we evacuation? Where to, in this will pay the penalty of procras- | Colony of a few hundred square 'tination, and pay heavily.

will

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first

ND lastly, the work of redemp

"DARK DESTINY" But they A tion was finished. "My meat is minds, like that working-man whose are uneasy in their to do the will of Hirn that sent Me, words I have quoted. It was not a Saviour. And in His and to Anish His work," declared the working man but one of high rank

Gethsemane

prayer, He said, "I have finished the who expressed the sense of some evil work which Thou gavest Me to do.'

spell which hangs over us all in this time. Now "it is finished."

GRIN AND BEAR IT

-L. A. W.

By Lichty

• "Mr. Fizzbee has such a lovely temperature to-day, we're testing

all the thermom eleri”on him!”

"There is some dark destiny." he

said.

"which prevents friendship be- tween Germany and England. It is not the faull of the peoples, who want peace with each other. It is a class of political forces without rea- son on either side. I am afraid of this race in urmaments, If it goes on it will lead to an explosion. I am afraid of the conflict and challenge stirred up by the Press because of rival ideologies.' The Left Press in England insists that Germany is the enemy. They seem to want a wor with us. Do they want it?"

Talking to people in Berlin, in high places and low, I became aware of certain Ideas prevalling in the German mind. The September crisis has not altered in any way the de- sire to the whole people for friend- chip with us except by Intensifying it. But they are deeply anxious over the possiblity of a new crisis arising from political and economie causes. "We must export or die,” sald Hitler, but they are aware that their exports are decllning heavily and that they are losing the power

of the purchasing many materlula necessary for their in- ternal need and the machinery of

of

their life.

jy

outside

TO THE SOUTH-EAST

raw

For that reason they belleve, right- or wrongly, that they need colonies which they could adminis- ter with German currency, useless in other markets, but they know that this question is, for a time at least,

practical possibilites be cause of the temper of these days.

They look Lowards South-east Europe as their only means of econo-, mic expansion, not by conquest but by trade preferences, but they sus- pect that we wish to cut them oft in that direction. "If your Governa ment adopts a dog-in-the-munnger policy," I was told by Himmler nearly a year ago, "and tiles to draw. Jino against us in South-cost. Europe, It will be one of the roads to war"

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