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Show uu COIff MEETING OF IE LOCAL SEVENTH-DAY BOHTISTS "Thy name, O Lord, endureth forever; for-ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations," was the text 'of Pastor E. W. Farnsworth last night at the Seventh Day Adventist camp-meeting. Washington avenue and Twenty-sixth street. He said In part: "The names of great men, and often of-ten remarkable events are perpetuated perpetu-ated by some memorial. We build monuments to great men. When our friends and relatives die, we place tombstones on the grave to mark the resting place with some manner of words in memorial of the dead. If I should ask you, what It Is that commemorates com-memorates the signing of the declaration decla-ration of Independence, you would at once tell me tho Fourth of July. It Is the day the nation has seen fit to set apart to keep remembrance the Independence of the country. "A memorial always looks back. A type looks forward A type shadows forth something to come. "It is a very Interesting study to notice some of tho memorials of the Bible. "The passover was a memorial of tho deliverance of the children of Israel from the la,nd of Egypt. The passover lamb was slain, and the blood was sprinkled en tho lintel and door posts of tho house. Whea the destroying angel passed over Egypt, all houses that had tho blood on the lintel and on the posts, were spared. The death angel passed over. Those who refused" to heed the Instruction of God suffered the death of their flrsi born. Israel kept the passover as a memorial. Said the Lord, When your children ask you, what mean you by this service? ye shall say, it Is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover.' Ex. 12 26,27 They were then instructed to tell their children the full meaning of the passover." oo 1 |