Church was organised at Rome, as will be seen from the following which I quote from the admirable work by John E. Remsburg entitled The Christ. What Mr. Remsburg has to say on the subject is largely quoted from other works :

"From Soury's account of the sanctified prostitu"tion of Israel I quote the following: 'The tents of "the sacred prostitutes were generally erected on the """high places," where sacrifices were offered, "beside the tablet of Baal or Iahveh (Jehovah) and "the symbol of Aschera (Isaiah lvii, 7, et seq.; "Ezekiel xxiii, 14; Hosea iv, 17). These tents were ""woven and ornamented with figures by the "priestesses of Aschera. Robed in splendid

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garments, their tresses dripping with perfumes, ""their cheeks painted with vermillion, their eyes "black-circled with antimony, their eyelashes "lengthened with a compound of gums, musk, and "'ebony, the priestesses awaited the worshippers of "the goddess within these tents (Numbers xxv, 8) "'on spacious beds (Isaiah Ivii, 8); they fixed their "own prices and conditions, and poured the money ""into the treasury of the temple' (Religion of Israel, "p. 71). After describing the temple of Zarpanit, "which was furnished with cells for the use of the "Babylonian women, Dr. Soury says: 'Cells of the "same kind, serving the same purpose, existed at "Jerusalem in the very temple of Jehovah, wherein “‘Aschera had her symbol and was adored' (Ibid., "p. 72). "Prostitutes,' says this writer, 'were of both 666 sexes. The men were called kedeschim, the "women kedeschoth-that is, "holy, vowed, con"""secrated." Deuteronomy bears witness that both "the one and the other brought the hire of their 'prostitution into the treasury of the temple of

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Bible Picture.

A VERY FINE God-Box.

The ancient Jews were an extremely religious people. They were in constant communication with God, who assisted them in making war on other tribes, and in order to facilitate matters God gave them explicit orders how to construct a suitable residence for him while on Earth. The illustration shows the box that God lived in. It was made of shittim wood, and very heavily bound with gold; and when the Jews were making war upon other tribes they carried their God about with them, sometimes on their shoulders, and sometimes on an ox cart. If the Chinese will read the twenty-fifth chapter of Exodus, they will be able to form a fair idea of the size and character of Jehovah, the tribal deity of the Jews, who was afterwards taken over by the Christians as their principal God.

To face p. 142.