When I took the offering to the rabbi, he said, "Preacher, I think this is the first time on record since the Christian church was founded that there has been an offering taken especially for Jewish relief. There always was some evangelistic string attached to it." I told him that we were just giving him this money to feed his poor and take care of the children. They had a convention and to show a vote of thanks, they honored me by asking me to give an address. I went to the convention. They had rabbis from New York, they had rabbis from other cities, and I didn't know what in the world I was going to say. “I was among the rabbis," and I'm an Irishman, or rather I am a Canadian. I was there among these rabbis. I didn't know what in the world I was going to say. They talked in Yiddish and a New York rabbi told how the Jews were going to be back in their land and about the declaration of the British Government. I got my cue and began by saying, "Brethren, you are going to have the land; it is your land; God has decreed it. Your prophets have prophesied that you are going back. It looks to me as if the door is opening and you are soon to be there. The flag of Judah is going to float again over the city of David." They jumped to their feet and they hugged each other, and some of them took off their hats and threw them in the air. I never was so affected in my life. You talk about patriotism. You know some people tell us that we should not be patriots. When the war broke out up there

in Canada, some of my church members criticized me, some of them left my church because my boys went to the war. One man wrote me a long letter. He said, "Preacher, why is it you, as a Christian believing in the New Testament, think more of the British nation than of the German nation?" and I read his letter to my people; I thought they ought to know. I said, "He wants to know why I think more of the British nation than I do of the German nation." I said, "He had as well have asked me why I thought more of the Philpotts than I did the Joneses." I said, "The Joneses may wear better clothes than the Philpotts and they may live in better houses, but the Philpotts for me, if you please!"

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead

Who never to himself hath said

This is my own, my native land?"

Jesus loved his own city, but when he beheld His city, He wept over it. Paul was a patriot. He said, "I could wish myself accursed for my brethren, my kindred." You see, beloved friends? And when I saw those Jews, think of it, hugging each other, after their forefathers had been away from that country 2000 years, what in the world ever put that longing in their hearts for their land? God put it there. Their faces are turned back toward the Holy City. Jesus said, "Now learn a parable of the fig-tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: so ye in like manner, when ye

shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." We are living in the end time. The time seems to be nearly here. May the Lord God help us to go out of this building with solemn hearts! The night when I first got this truth,-when I listened to Rev. Arthur T. Pierson and Rev. A. J. Gordon conduct a convention years ago, I got my view point changed. My whole life changed. I was preaching His truth quite a bit at first and one night as I was going to my bed I heard my daughter Grace moving in her cot and I went into her room and she was awake. I said, "Grace, why are you not asleep?" She said, "Father, I was lying here wondering if Jesus might not come." I thought, "I have terrified this child.' She said, "Father, do you think He will come to-night?" and do you know what I found out, that while I couldn't say the hour nor the day when He will come, I could not tell the hour or the day that He wouldn't come. I did not dare say to that child, "No, He will not be here to-night." I said, "Grace, He might be here, what then?" I'll never forget her little face. It was aglow. She clapped her little hands and said, “Oh, Daddy, wouldn't it be lovely?” I say, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." When I think of my boys, all those I love and those who are lying beneath the poppies of France, I say, "Come, Lord Jesus, and take the scepter and reign. Come and cover the face of the earth with righteousness and peace. Come, Lord Jesus."

In opening the Conference sessions for Thursday-Memorial Day and the day set apart by the President for public humiliation, fasting and prayer-Mr. Charles L. Huston, Chairman, said:

In view of news received this morning, and in view of this day which is set apart as Memorial Day; and, further, the call of our President to spend not only to-day but all this week in humiliation and prayer before God; it seems proper to read the President's proclamation as a preliminary to the devotional hour which will be in that direction. When Israel of old, hard beset by their enemies, humbled themselves before God and confessed their sin, turning to Him for help, the full victory came. When, in our revolutionary war in the beginning of this country's history, President Washington bowed the knee before God in prayer, only then did the victory come. When did the tide turn in our fearful civil war? Only when President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling on the nation for a time of humiliation and prayer, and that call was responded to by the country, did the tide turn in that fearful catastrophe. Let us hope that the confession of sin and prayer for victory of this day, set apart by our nation and probably observed throughout all the countries that are joined with us in this fearful clash, may turn the tide of battle. I will now read the proclamation:

By the President of the United States

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas, The Congress of the United States, on the second day of April last, passed the following resolution:

"Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That it being a duty peculiarly incumbent in a time of war humbly and devoutly to acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection, the President of the United States be, and is hereby, respectfully requested to recommend a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting, to be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnity and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth";

And whereas, It has always been the reverent habit of the people of the United States to turn in humble appeal to Almighty God for His guidance in the affairs of their common life;

Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Thursday, the thirtieth of May, a day already freighted with sacred and stimulating memories, a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting, and do exhort my fellow-citizens of all