What scriptural answer has Mr. Taylor for the failure of the Church to produce the

"signs" that the Lord said should "follow them that believe"? (Mark 16: 17-20). Paul

had them even at the end of Acts (28: 1-9), and the epistle that speaks of the Lord's

Supper, I Corinthians, is most emphatic regarding miraculous gifts. Those who

"rightly divide" the Word have a complete and scriptural answer.

It is not our intention to give an explanation of the whole case:  this we have

attempted during the last twenty years in a number of books and pamphlets. The present

paper is written simply to draw attention to facts that are vital, but which get no hearing

in Mr. Taylor's review.

We have omitted the bulk of this reply, but as the reader already knows, we rest the

whole issue upon the question of the New Covenant, the entire omission of this subject

from the criticism reveals more eloquently than words, the utter bankruptcy of the

reviewer's position. He did not meet the argument because he could not.

Very little has been said (in this survey) of our world circumstances, struggles and

disappointments on the one hand, and the most wonderful sustaining grace of the Lord

and the fellowship of a few of His people on the other.

Owing to a threatened physical collapse, it became necessary to move into the country

in order that an open air life might lead to some measure of recovery. Among the means

adopted to this end was the construction and working of a range of greenhouses, the

capacity of which may be gauged when it is learned that the first crop was four and half

tons of tomatoes. Health certainly improved, but the fact that after twelve to fourteen

hours physical toil (in which Mrs. Welch took part) the work of The Berean Expositor

had still to be done, made life very hard going. On top of that, I often had to sacrifice a

crop in order to fulfil speaking engagements, so that at length in 1926 after much prayer,

it was decided that the time had come to devote what measure of strength, health and life

were left to me entirely to the ministry of the Word. The house and nursery were

scarcely disposed of when an invitation came from readers in Canada, to conduct a series

of Bible Expositions in Toronto. The coming of this invitation was so timed that I could

not but see in it the confirmation by the Lord upon the decision already arrived at; so in

May 1927 I sailed in the Empress of Scotland for Quebec. Except for a visit occupying

Monday, July 18th to Friday, July 22nd at Creemore, the meetings were all conducted in

Toronto. The letters sent home by Mr. George H. Farnworth and Mr. Joseph Caldwell,

must now be allowed to speak for themselves. Extracts are only possible, but we believe

sufficient has been quoted to provide a fair and comprehensive story of this missionary