FOOD FOR THINKING CHRISTIANS. WHY EVIL WAS PERMITTED AND KINDRED TOPICS.

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PREFACE.

THE design of this pamphlet is, first, to supply to such Christians as are alive and fully consecrated, and hungering and thirsting after a fuller knowledge of “Our Father” and his plans, what we believe to be “meat in due season;” leading such to perform all their consecration vows: secondly, to awaken those who are asleep in Zion—showing those who are not truth-hungry, what they are too much occupied with worldly plans to know, viz., that they are starving for the “good word of God,” though they say—We are “rich and increased in goods and have need of nothing.”

“I love to tell the Story! More wonderful it seems,

Than all the golden fancies Of all our golden dreams:

I love to tell the Story!
It did so much for me; And that is just the reason

I tell it now to thee.”

It is our part, under heavenly direction, to thus scatter the food—the seeds of thoughts; it is God’s part to water and give the increase—in some thirty, some sixty, and in some a hundred- fold to his praise. We leave the results with him.

ZION’S WATCH TOWER.

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