So that while we name the dates 1896‐7 as being significant, we are not “fixing dates” in the ordinary sense of the term, but merely pointing out some of “the signs of the times,” concerning which we ought not to be ignorant. The _true interpretation_ will in any case still remain, and will surely be literally fulfilled in its own time. The Word of God will be vindicated; its prophetic truth will be verified; God Himself will be glorified; and His people saved with an everlasting salvation. Meanwhile the members of His Body will “wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess. i. 10). They will live “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people (R.V., a people for His own possession) zealous of good works” (Titus ii. 13, 14). They will “look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,” from heaven, believing that there is no hope either for “the Jew, the Gentile, or the Church of God,” or for a groaning creation, until “the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ, whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of ALL HIS HOLY PROPHETS SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN” (Acts iii. 19‐21). “The world is sick, and yet not unto death; There is for it a day of health in store; From lips of love there comes the healing breath,— The breath of Him who all its sickness bore, And bids it rise to strength and beauty evermore. Evil still reigns; and deep within we feel The fever, and the palsy, and the pain Of life’s perpetual heartaches, that reveal The rooted poison, which, from heart and brain, We labour to extract, but labour all in vain. Our skill avails not; ages come and go, Yet bring with them no respite and no cure; The hidden wound, the sigh of pent‐up woe, The sting we smother, but must still endure, The worthless remedies which no relief procure,— All these cry out for something more divine, Which the worst woes of earth may not withstand; Medicine that cannot fail—the oil and wine, The balm and myrrh, growth of no earthly land, And the all‐skilful touch of the great Healer’s hand. Man needs a prophet: Heavenly Prophet, speak, And teach him what he is too proud to hear. Man needs a priest: True Priest, Thy silence break, And speak the words of pardon in his ear. Man needs a king: O King, at length in peace appear.” APPENDIX. NOTE ON THE SIGN LIBRA. On page 47 we called attention to the point that in all probability the Sign LIBRA was a very ancient corruption.