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Rh Throw this p1cture upon the blue sky as the back ground, "A woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," and you will have the Lord's representation of an enlightened faith and Church. The woman is the Lamb's bride, the Church, the mother by whom under God we are born again.

The woman clothed with the sun, is the Church clothed with the love of God as its habit. The moon under her feet is the Church established upon truth derived from love. The crown of twelve stars is the Church possessed of all spiritual truths as the regal principle. Continuing, the man child to be born is the Church pregnant with manly principles of life, or in other words, because God is a man, the man child is a complete system of divine, human doctrine. The dragon standing before the woman to destroy the child, is the world of sin. The flood of waters is false reasonings from the dragon, which is