To his tender exhortation to be patient until the coming of the Lord, which James writes in the first chapter of his epistle, there is added the suggestive illustration: "Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receive the early and latter rain." {212} As in husbandry the one rain belonged to the time of sowing, and the other to the time of harvest, so in redemption the early rain of the Spirit was at Pentecost, the latter rain will be at the Parousia; the one fell upon the world as the first sowers went forth into the world to sow, the other will accompany "the harvest which is the end of the age," and will fructify the earth for the final blessing of the age to come, bringing repentance to Israel and the remission of sins, "that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Jesus Christ, before appointed for you, whom the heavens must receive until the times of the restitution of all things" (Acts 3: 19-21). [1] "Through the Eternal Spirit," by Elder Cumming, D. D., p. 185. {213} SCRIPTURE INDEX PAGE Genesis 50: 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Exodus 30: 30-33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Leviticus 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Leviticus 23: 11-16 . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Leviticus 8: 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Leviticus 14: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 1 Samuel 16: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 2 Samuel 23: 2, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 1 Kings 19: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Psalms 133: 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Psalms 17: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Psalms 84: 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Psalms 17: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Isaiah 11: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Isaiah 59: 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Isaiah 32: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Joel 2: 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Joel 3: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Amos 9: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Zechariah 12: 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Matthew 3: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Matthew 12: 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Matthew 3: 11, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Matthew 16: 24, 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Matthew 6: 27, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Matthew 18: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Mark 13: 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Mark 12: 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Luke 3: 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Luke 4: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Luke 4: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Luke 10: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Luke 2: 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Luke 2: 34, 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Luke 19: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208