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Progress in Russia

J. T. Boettcher

Ps. 147: 12-15 as greetings. I have visited the Little Russian field, and also the West Russian. Thus far in both these fields about one hundred seventy persons have been added to the church during the three quarters of 1811. The Lord is working for us. To-day I saw a book printed by the Russian government in which our faith and work are described, beginning with 1844 and com- ing down to 1911. It is the best thing I ever saw in print about Seventh-day Adventists. The book is in the Russian language, with one hun- dred one folios. It contains the following : " The Seventh-day Adventists in Russia show a splen- did, live, and active work. The movement con- tinues to take in new districts in the European ‘pnci\ Asiatic Russias. They reveal a determinate zeal in their missionary efforts to win souls. The whole organization is primarily a missionary one. . . . Eitery church-member must help forward the third angel's message, and be a witness for Christ." We praise the Lord that He even now uses the government to help forward this cause. •We are all of good courage. We lift up our heads, knowing that our salvation draweth nigh.

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touch the earth, in the uttermost parts of the world: " For thy mercy is great above the heavens : and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds." Ps. To8: 4. We thank God that the Holy Spirit stirred up our beloved brethren in America to send to us the truth of the third angel's message. They have done a work which can never be paid for in gold or silver; only God in heaven can reward in eternity. " There- fore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work ',Sowing and Reaping daily led to call earnestly upon the Lord of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that ALBERT CAREY of the harvest to send forth reapers. your labor is not in vain in the Lord." 0. A. HALL. Cor. 15:58. I wish some of the breth- SOME SOW in joy, and reap in tears ren might make a journey through mid- A harvest full of crushing woe. dle Asia and the whole region of Tur- The future has no weight to them, THE LEVANT.— Since the Friedensau To-day bears all they care to know. council, I have attended the Swiss, the kestan. I am sure it would make the French, and a general meeting in Spain. difficulties appear small in many other But ah ! alas the fatal goal, At all these meetings we have enjoyed lands. I do not say there are not difficul- Swung nearer by the haste for glee, great blessings from the Lord. I am ties in America; but one sees here, espe- Has ne'er a joy, but only tears,— now visiting the workers and companies cially among the poor aborigines, how A hopeless, waste eternity. in Italy. When I arrived at Gravina, I deeply fallen is man in regions of utter found Brother Creanza dying. He died darkness. It is sad that we are as yet do- But some there are who sow in tears; yesterday, and was buried to-day, Sab- ing really nothing for these native peo- The passing joys of time are spurned, ples, save -as we scatter such a quantity of And eyes, bedewed by pangs of grief, bath, October 28. Brother Creanza Toward a better world are turned. stayed at his post of duty until he could portions of the Holy Scriptures among not stand on his feet any more. He was them as we are able, which is all too lit- Earth's luring pleasures, tempting smiles, a faithful and very active worker. He tle. Greetings to all, in the Lord Jesus. Its teasing gaieties and dance, brought the truth to many, and was re- R. IDAR. Are turned aside as Satan's wiles spected by Protestants and Catholics. -4- -4- To stay the soul's sublime advance. He was a member of the school board of The Voyage and Shipwreck the city,, and the city authorities took But seed sown wisely, wet with tears, MRS. E. G. WHITE Springs up, though sin and cares an- part at his funeral. His death is a AT last Paul was on his way to Rome. noy, great loss to our work in Italy, where And for the sower's latest years we have so few workers. We sincerely " When it was determined," Luke writes, A harvest bears of endless joy. hope that the Lord will give us some one " that we should sail into Italy, they de- Nortons, Ore. to take his place. Brother Creanza livered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of -4- -4- leaves a wife and six young children. He was only thirty-seven years old. Rev. Augustus' band. And entering into a Cheering Messages 14: 13. The work in the Latin Union ship of Adramyttium, we launched, THE messages continue to come in is onward, but what an immense work meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; from our missionaries in distant lands. we have to accomplish before the Lord one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thes- Amid trials and difficulties, they send comes ! Can our people realize it, and salonica, being with us." us words of hope and cheer,— personal leave us to struggle without means and In the first century of the Christian greetings they are, to every loyal believer workers? We have right here in Italy era, traveling by sea was attended with at home helping to ".hold the ropes" by four men who could be put at work if peculiar hardship and peril. Mariners furnishing the " sinews of war." our budget would permit. directed their course largely by the posi- L. P. TIECHE. tion of the sun and stars; and when these CHOWKIAKOW, HONAN, CHINA.— did not appear, and there were indica- Greetings from Honan. We are filled PROM THE HEART OF ASIA.— Greet- tions of storms, the owners of vessels with courage as we see the Lord going ings for this week of prayer from Tur- were fearful of venturing into the open before us in every part of this province. kestan. It gives me joy to report that sea. During a portion of the year, safe There are now seventeen companies of the Lord is with us also, here in this navigation was almost impossible. Sabbath-keepers besides isolated believ- wild and desert land. I am glad to be The apostle Paul was now called upon ers, shining as lights in the midst of the a witness, here in Turkestan, to the love to endures the trying experiences that gross darkness that covers the people. of God that is revealed in his beloved would fall to his lot as a prisoner in On all sides the fields are white. Calls Son. As I look out upon the great moun- chains during the long and tedious voy- constantly come that we can not fill for tains, covered with everlasting snow and age to Italy. One circumstance greatly lack of laborers. With thirty-five mil- ice, in whose valleys our brethren and lightened the hardship of his lot,— he lion perishing souls, and with but one sisters live, I see how God's word is was permitted the companionship of man to devote his entire time to the literally fulfilled; for the truth has Luke and Aristarchus. In his letter to evangelization of such a field, we are reached these regions where the clouds the Colossians, he afterward referred to 4 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 191 the latter as his " fellow prisoner ; " but first work was to hoist this boat on board. The Sin of Envy All possible precautions were then taken it was from choice that Aristarchus W. A. GOSMER shared Paul's bondage, that he might to strengthen the ship, and prepare it to minister to him in his afflictions. withstand the tempest. The scant pro- Tills is one of the commonest as well The voyage began prosperously. The tection afforded by the little island did as one of the oldest sins in existence. It following day they cast anchor in the not avail them long, and soon they Were originated in heaven with Lucifer, who harbor of Sidon. Here Julius, the cen- again exposed to the full violence of the was envious of the position of Christ. turion, " courteously entreated Paul," storm. It entered into man's experience on the and being informed that there were All night the tempest raged, and not- day that Eve listened to the voice of the Christians in the place, " gave him lib- withstanding the precautions that had tempter, when the dark characteristics erty to go unto his friends to refresh been taken, the vessel leaked. " The of the father of evil took possession of himself." This permission was greatly next day they lightened the ship." the race. It is, therefore, common to appreciated by the apostle, who was. in Night came again, but the wind did not all men to a greater or less degree. All feeble health. abate. The storm-beaten ship, with its Christians have detected its workings in Upon leaving Sidon, the ship encoun- shattered mast and rent sails, was tossed their own hearts, and either have over- tered contrary winds; and being driven hither and thither by the fury of the come it or are struggling against it, from a direct course, its progress was gale. Every moment it seemed that the recognizing it as no part of the divine slow. At Myra, in the province of groaning timbers must give way as the nature, no fruit of the Holy Spirit. Lycia, the centurion found a large Alex- vessel reeled and quivered under the Being the opposite of love, it is one andrian ship, bound for the coast of tempest's shock. The leak increased of the most selfish and malignant sins Italy, and to this he immediately trans- rapidly, and passengers and crew worked in the catalogue of fleshly lusts. The ferred his prisoners. But the winds continually at the pumps. There was not righteous and the innocent have ever were still contrary, and the ship's prog- a moment's rest for any on board. " The been the object of its attacks. This was ress was difficult. Luke writes, " When third day," writes Luke, " we cast out true in the case of Christ, who was oc- we had sailed slowly many days, and with our own hands the tackling of the cupying his rightful place with his Fa- scarce were come over against Cnidus, ship. And when neither sun nor stars ther. Lucifer became discontented be- the wind not suffering us, we sailed in many days appeared, and no small cause another possessed what he wanted under Crete, over against Salmone; and, tempest lay on us, all hope that we should for himself. He then started out with hardly passing it, came unto a place be saved was then taken away." insinuation, slander, misrepresentation, which is called the Fair Havens." For fourteen days they drifted under falsehood, and underhand working, to At Fair Havens they were compelled a sunless and starless heaven. The apos- undermine the influence of Christ, and to remain for some time, waiting for tle, though himself suffering physically, to lower him in the estimation of the favorable winds. Winter was approach- had words of hope for the darkest hour, angels, meanwhile endeavoring so to gain ing rapidly; " sailing was now danger- a helping hand in every emergency. He their favor and to put himself in such ous ; " and those in charge of the vessel grasped by faith the arm of Infinite a light that they would finally acknowl- had to give up hope of reaching their Power, and his heart was stayed upon edge him as their leader. Although he destination before the season for travel God. He had no fears for himself ; he did this, he could not but know in his by sea should be closed for the year. knew that God would preserve him to heart that Christ was innocent. How- The only question now to be decided was witness at Rome for the truth of Christ. ever, the supreme, overmastering pas- whether to remain at Fair Havens, or But his heart yearned with pity for the sion to supplant Jesus was so great that attempt to reach a more favorable place poor souls around him, sinful, degraded, Satan was willing to see him go down in which to winter. and unprepared to die. As he earnestly covered with infamy if only he himself This question was earnestly discussed, pleaded with God to spare their lives, could be exalted to Christ's place. This and was finally referred by the centurion it was revealed to him that his prayer was the practical outworking of envy. to Paul, who had won the respect of was granted. There were also several prominent both sailors and soldiers. The apostle Taking advantage of a lull in the tem- Bible characters, all manifestly innocent, unhesitatingly advised remaining where pest, Paul stood forth on the deck, and who were typical examples of suffering they were. " I perceive," he said, " that lifting up his voice, said: " Sirs, ye through envy. Cain slew Abel through this voyage will be with hurt and much should have harkened unto me, and not envy. For the same cause Joseph's damage, not only of the lading and ship, have loosed from Crete, and to have brothers sold him into Egypt. The work but also of our lives." But " the master gained this harm and loss. And now I of Moses was made exceedingly hard and the owner of the ship," and the exhort you to be of good cheer: for there and trying by the envy of his brethren. majority of passengers and crew, were shall be no loss of any man's life among Saul sought to kill David because he unwilling to accept this counsel. Be- you, but of the ship. For there stood envied him. Through envy the politi- cause the haven in which they had an- by me this night the angel of God, whose cians of Medo-Persia sought to destroy chored " was not commodious to winter I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear Daniel. Pilate knew it was " for envy " in, the more part advised to depart not, Paul; thou must be brought before that the Jews had delivered Christ to thence also, if by any means they might Ccesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all death. They also were envious of Paul's attain to Phenice, and there to winter; them that sail with thee. Wherefore, success, and endeavored to kill him. Its which is a haven of Crete, and lieth to- sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe serious nature is seen in these examples; ward the southwest and northwest." God, that it shall be even as it was told for had not providence intervened, death The centurion decided to follow the me. Howbeit we must be cast upon a would have resulted in every case, judgment of the majority. Accordingly, certain island." through the working of him whom envy " when the south wind blew softly," they At these words, hope revived. Pas- had made a " murderer from the begin- set sail from Fair Havens, in the hope sengers and crew roused from their ning." that they would soon reach the desired apathy. There was much yet to be done, To-day, as in ages past, envy does harbor. " But not long after there arose and every effort within their power must not always terminate in murder, but it . . . ,a tempestuous wind; " " the ship be put forth to avert destruction. is, nevertheless, a source of great evil was caught, and could not bear up into (To be concluded) when it finds its way into the church. the wind." -+- -4- Strife for supremacy, divisions, church Driven by the tempest, he vessel " IT is better to go to the house of trials, and consequent loss of souls, are neared the small island of Clauda, and mourning than to go to the house of often the result of it. It has even come while under its shelter the sailors made feasting: for that is the end of all men; between workers in the Lord's vineyard. ready for the worst. The life-boat, their and the living will lay it to his heart. Success on the part of some has caused only means of escape in case the ship Sorrow is better than laughter: for by envy on the part of others. This has should founder, was in tow, and liable to the sadness of the countenance the heart been expressed by depreciating the char- be dashed in pieces any moment. Their is made better." acter of the work of the successful ones, NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 5 and by insinuations against their char- to appear as if these friends were pres- are to " grow in grace, and in the knowl- acters, amounting in some cases even to ent; the words that they uttered while edge of our Lord," Jesus, the " Bread falsehood. Thus the work has been hin- here, with which we were familiar, will of Life," the living Word, must contin- dered, alienation has sprung up, souls be spoken, and the same tone of voice uously enter into our lives. have been lost, all through the desire that they had while living, will fall upon Boulder, Colo. to exalt self at the expense of another. the ear. All this is to deceive the saints, How entirely different from this evil and to ensnare them into the belief of principle was the attitude of John the this delusion. I saw that the saints must Glad Tidings Baptist toward Christ. Instead of deny- get a thorough understanding of present OSCAR HILL ing his own commission by envying truth, which they will be obliged to main- " I wILL make a man more precious Christ, or depreciating his work when tain from the Scriptures. They must than fine gold; even a man than the he saw his own popularity waning, he understand the state of the dead; for golden wedge of Ophir." Isa. 13: 12. said to those who called his attention the spirits of devils will yet appear to We have here one of the precious gos- to this phase of his experience, " He must them, professing to be beloved friends pel promises given through a prophet for increase, but I must decrease." Instead and relatives, who will declare to them the encouragement of the people of God of feeling downcast at the growing pop- that the Sabbath has been changed, also till the great work of redemption is com- ularity of the Master, 'he gloried in the other unscriptural doctrines. They will pleted. It is glad tidings of salvation. thought that his own mission was being do all in their power to excite sympathy, It is not only salvation from sin, but also accomplished, and that he was the true and will work miracles before them, to a complete redemption from all the ef- messenger of the Lord. This element confirm what they declare. The people fects of sin. of character made him truly great. of God must be prepared to withstand The apostle Peter, in speaking of our Christ himself bore witness that of those these spirits with the Bible truth that salvation, says. " Of which salvation the born of women, none were greater than the dead know not anything, and that prophets have inquired and searched dili- John. This principle was also strongly they who appear to them are the spirits gently, who prophesied of the grace that exemplified in the life of Jonathan. of devils. . . . We must seek wisdom should come unto you." He further says While we recognize that envy has from on high that we may stand in this of them, " -Unto whom it was revealed, nothing in common with self-renouncing day of error and delusion. We must ex- that not unto themselves, but unto us love,'while we recognize it as a malig- amine well the foundation of our hope, they did minister the things, which are nant evil, still there is consolation in the for we shall have to give a reason for now reported unto you by them that have thought that envy, however bitter its at- it from the Scriptures. This delusion preached the gospel unto you with the tacks, can work no real harm to one will spread, and we shall have to contend Holy Ghost sent down from heaven." I whose heart is right with God. To him with it face to face; and unless we are Peter I : 10, 12. In verse II he says it was such an experience means character de- prepared for it, we shall be ensnared the Spirit of Christ which was in them; velopment and a fitting up for heaven. and overcome."—"Early Writings," and in 2 Peter 3: 2, A. R. V., the apostle This was true in the cases of Moses, pages 87, 88. says, " Ye should remember the words David, Daniel, Paul, and others. Envy Are we prepared for this? Have we which were spoken before by the holy can not hinder the accomplishment of such a knowledge of Bible truth as to prophets." In verse 5 he speaks of some God's purposes. In eternity it will be enable us to meet this delusion? who, not caring to remember what the clearly manifest that through the suf- For half a century this people has prophets have said, " wilfully forget." ferings of Christ, on account of Satanic heard about the " latter rain " of the We often meet with persons who claim envy and all other resultant sins, the Spirit of God, and yet how many of us to be Christians, and yet will say they universe itself will have been placed upon will recognize it when it comes? God have no use for the prophecies of the a basis of everlasting security. has promised to pour out his Spirit upon Old Testament Scriptures. Let us ex- Melrose, Mass. " all flesh." Do you suppose that all will amine Isa. 13:6-13 and see if the judg- recognize it, and respond to it? I tell ments and promises there given do not you, No. How was it when Jesus The Scriptures Our Safeguard extend even beyond our time: " Howl prayed, " Father, glorify thy name," and ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; CLAUDE E. ELDRIDGE there came a voice saying, " I have both it shall come as a destruction from the WE must know the Scriptures of truth glorified it, and will glorify it again,"— Almighty. . . . Behold, the day of the if we would escape the delusions of the how was it that on that occasion some Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and last days. This knowledge we shall need " said that it thundered "? Why did fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: to be safe from the delusions of Spiri- they think it was thunder ?— Because and he shall destroy the sinners thereof tualism. This fearful snare of satanic they had not become. familiar with God's out of it." Verses 11-13 read: " And cunning is already entangling many of voice. And so " in the time of the lat- I will punish the world for their evil, the most brilliant and well-educated men ter rain," when God is pouring out his and the wicked for their iniquity; and and women of the day; and its manifes- Spirit, some will fail to recognize it. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud tations are so frequent and wide-spread Shall we be among those who call it to cease, and will lay low the haughti- as to occasion little more than passing thunder, or shall we be among those who ness of the terrible. I will make a man comment. have had ears to hear, who have studied more precious than fine gold; even a man While it is true, generally speaking, the Scriptures, and read therein " what than the golden wedge of Ophir. There- that Spiritualism is accepted as a mat- the Spirit saith unto the chUrches," and fore I will shake the heavens, and the ter of course, we may say, We don't be- are familiar with his voice, and are able earth shall remove out of her place, in lieve a word of it. Suppose a spirit to recognize the day of our visitation? the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in should appear to you, and in familiar God grant that we may be among " the the day of his fierce anger." voice and manner profess to be one of wise," who " shall understand." And These words must have their applica- your dear friends who has died. Sup- yet, if we are, some of us will have to tion at the same time as the words of pose this apparent friend should declare begin a new experience. Rev. 6:17: " For the great day of his that the Sabbath had been changed, and " Man shall not live by bread alone, wrath is come; and who shall be able to seek to excite your sympathy by working but by every word that proceedeth out stand?" When this time of the wrath miracles; what would you do? But, you of the mouth of God." " In the begin- of God shall come; then the promise, may argue, such a thing is ridiculous ! ning was the Word, and the Word was " I will make a man more precious than Listen to the testimony of the servant of with God, and the Word was God." fine gold," will be visibly fulfilled to all the Lord:— Jesus is the Word. Just as truly as our the people of God. Now it is a matter " Satan will have power to bring be- physical nature demands daily food, just of faith with each of us. " But we know fore us the appearance of forms pur- so truly does our spiritual experience re- that, when he shall appear, we shall be porting to be our relatives or friends quire daily nourishment. " Jesus said like him; for we shall see him as he is." now sleeping in Jesus. It will be made . . . I am the bread of life." If we The apostle Peter speaks of " exceed- 6 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911 ing great and precious promises " being in lowliness of mind let each esteem like the grace of Christ, no learning given unto us, that by these we " might other better than themselves." like the knowledge of Christ. If sin be partakers of the divine nature." As If Christ humbled himself to honor were better known, Christ would be bet- these promises were given for this pur- our nature, we ought to humble our- ter thought of. " Sin, when it is fin- pose, they are a means of grace to lead selves to honor his name. Humility is ished, bringeth forth death." " The us nearer to God. the royal road to the kingdom of heaven. wages of sin is death." Man does not Then let us treasure up in our minds Matt. 18:4. To be humble is the way die because he came from clay, but be- these precious promises which the proph- to rise. Repentance begins in humilia- cause he is infected with sin. It is our ecies contain, meditating on them till we tion of heart, and ends in reformation business in this world to secure an in- are indeed partakers of the divine nature. of life, and though we lack power to terest in the next. They that spend Santa Ana, Cal. repent, yet we do not lack means, nor their days in faith and prayer, shall end the power to use the means. them in perfect peace. " 0 that men -41- .-41- A humble confession of sins may bring would praise the Lord for his goodness, Meet Me There shame to ourselves, but glory to God. and for his wonderful works to the If we turn to God with our whole heart, children of men!" 0, that they would WALLACE D. MOORE he will turn to us; and then we shall be deny themselves of the pleasures of sin WHEN the saints of all the ages happy, though the world turns against for a season, that they might live in the From this earth are gathered home, us. No man ever prevails in prayer un- presence of the Redeemer through the Will you then, my brother, sister, less he prays in the shadow of the cross ceaseless ages of eternity! It is a true Meet around the judgment throne? of Christ. But as Noah's dove could saying that the devil promises comforts Will you meet to part, no, never, find no rest for the sole of her foot, so and pays in sorrow. If you follow Sa- In that home beyond the sky, the Spirit of God can find no residence tan, you will find your tempter to be Where the Lord shall reign eternal, in the heart that is filled with sin. The your tormenter. If you follow God, And the saints shall never die? acceptance of Jesus Christ in the human you will find your counselor to be heart is the daybreak of eternity. The your comforter. In every vocation of Strive to enter there, my brother, anointing of God's salvation will remove life aim at God's glory and your eternal Strive the pearly gates to win; the stain of corruption. salvation. Covet earnestly the gift of Then when Jesus comes in glory, If others neglect their duty to you, the Holy Spirit for the renewirig of He will bid you enter in. be sure that you perform yours to them. your life, that you may serve the Lord 0, that day is fast approaching To render railing for railing is to re- acceptably with your whole heart. When the Lord shall claim his own ! turn sin for sin. " Whatsoever ye would " Create in me a clean heart, 0 God; And we then, if only faithful, that men should do to you, do ye even and renew a right spirit within me," Shall sit down around his throne. so to them." should be the constant prayer of every The devil could as easily pluck Jesus one who is striving for the mastery; Will you meet me, 0 my brother, out of heaven as out of the humble be- for out of the heart are the issues of Meet me in that blessed day liever's heart. Never use the garb of life. When all sickness, sin, and sorrow Christianity in which to serve the enemy It matters not who are our accusers, From this earth are cleansed away? of Christianity. Grace differs from if Christ is our advocate. He made him- Santa Ana, Cal. glory only as the bud from the blossom. self like unto us, that he might make us What is grace but glory begun ? what like unto himself. But remember that Practical Christianity is glory but grace perfected? " There- no one can be saved from his sins, and be fore if any man be in Christ, he is a approved of God, and made into the A. G. PEART new creature: old things are passed likeness of Jesus, without desiring such " BLESSED is the man that endureth away; behold, all things are become an experience. And no man can return temptation : for when he is tried, he new." to a sinful life after receiving pardon, shall receive the crown of life, which the There are two things that every con- and still retain fellowship with God. Lord hath promised to them that love scientious man should resolve upon by There is no salvation from sin and him. Let no man say when he is the grace of God; namely, to judge him- death in any false worship; God is not tempted, I am tempted of God: for God self, and to judge no one else. God in partnership with the devil. We can can not be tempted with evil, neither requires these two things — to be partic- do nothing without divine help; and he tempteth he any man: but every man is ular toward yourself, and charitable to- has provided this divine assistance for tempted, when he is drawn away of his ward others. Take a true measure of all the emergencies to which our re- own lust, and enticed." James : 12-14. yourself, and consider what you are. sources are unequal. He gives his Holy Run not into temptation; maintain a A conceited knowledge is the greatest Spirit to help in every time of need, to constant watch against sin; keep your enemy to true knowledge, and the great- carry us through every strait, to tongue from evil; mind your own busi- est argument of ignorance. " For if a strengthen our hope and assurance, to ness; study to show yourself approved; man think himself to be something, when illuminate our mind, and to purify our study to be quiet; study the nature of he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But heart. Let us therefore, as dear chil- God; prepare to meet God,— these are let every man prove his own work, and dren, submit ourselves unto the influence in substance some of the plain instruc- then shall he have rejoicing in himself of the Holy Spirit, which alone can tions from our kind Heavenly Father to alone." purify our souls unto the day of Jesus his dear children on earth. The apostle " Fret not thyself because of evil- Christ. James seems to sum up the reasons for doers, neither be thou envious against Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West these admonitions in the third chapter the workers of iniquity. For they shall Indies. and second verse of his epistle: " For soon be cut down like grass, and wither -41- in many things we offend all. If any as the green herb." " Though thou man offend not in word, the same is shouldest make thy nest as high as the " BECAUSE sentence against an evil a perfect man, and able also to bridle the eagle, I will bring thee down from work is not executed speedily, therefore whole body." God is in earnest with thence, saith the Lord." When a wicked the heart of the sons of men is fully set us; therefore we ought to be in earnest man turns to God, a new nature is in them to do evil. Though a sinner also. We should thank him for what given to him, and it is far more easy do evil an hundred times, and his days we have, and trust him for what we for him to be rid of sin than to live be prolonged, yet surely I know that it need. " Be careful for nothing; but in in sin. He will then feel to say that shall be well with them that fear God, everything by prayer and supplication he knew not what a comfortable life which fear before him : but it shall not with thanksgiving let your requests be was till then. be well with the wicked, neither shall he made known unto God." " Let nothing There is no honor known to the world prolong his days, which are as a shadow ; be done through strife or vainglory; but like the relationship to Christ, no riches because he feareth not before God." NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7

The Gathering went to him, and bound up his wounds, is troubled, to put me into the pool." pouring in oil and wine, and set him on L. D. SANTEE These were the special objects of his his own beast, and brought him to an compassion. He came to demonstrate " Gather my saints together unto me." Ps. inn, and took care of him. And on the what the grace of God could do. He de- 5o: 5. morrow when he departed, he took out lighted to bring hope to the hopeless. are coming, the blood-washed mil- THEY two pence, and gave them to the host, The Pharisees said of him, " This man lions, and said unto him, Take care of him; From the north, the south, and the receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." east; and whatsoever thou spendest more, Because he went to the needy and the And the west yields up its treasures, when I come again, I will repay thee." degraded, he was stigmatized as " a As guests for the marriage feast,— After he •had related this incident, Jesus gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a From the wash of the inland rivers, inquired: " Which now of these three, friend of publicans and sinners." To From the shifting sands of the sea, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him this accusation Jesus replied, " They At the voice of the great Archangel that fell among the thieves?" The that be whole need not a physician, but Their ashes shall gathered be. reply came, " He that showed mercy they that are sick." on him." Then said Jesus, " Go, and Among the professed people of God From many a grave neglected, do thou likewise." Where the weeds grow rank above; at that time, the general feeling pre- From tombs, by their friends protected, To love our neighbor is to be com- vailed that their special work was not Where roses were strewn by love; passionate and to show mercy; it is to to be in behalf of the outcasts and sin- From lonely graves on the mountain, put 'ourselves in his place, and then do ners. Their burden was to call the And resting-place by the sea; for him just as we would like to be righteous •and the worthy, out of other From mounds beneath the willow. done by. This is the law and the proph- sects, and thus make up the subjects for The saints shall gathered be. ets. The one who lives this, fulfils the God's kingdom. 'In this work they were requirements of the law, and he will very active. They compassed land and Whether but lately buried hear the "Well done, thou good and sea to make a proselyte. But Jesus said, Or sleepers for many years, faithful servant: . . . enter thou into " I 'am not come to call the righteous, They will be by the angels carried To a region unknown to tears. the joy of thy Lord." To such it will but sinners •to repentance." Where the They will rise from their • dusty pillows, be said: " Come, ye blessed of my Fa- greatest need existed, he found his work. Triumphant over death; ther, inherit the kingdom prepared for " The work that I do shall ye do also," They will hail the joyful summons, you from the foundation of the world: Jesus said to his followers. For all time With love's unquestioning faith. for I was an hungered, and ye gave me the work he did was to be the chief meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me work of his church. It is the revival Their song of blest redemption drink: I was a stranger, and ye took of this work in the church of Christ that The angels can never sing; me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I will distinguish her in the world as a And harps will throb with their praises was sick, and ye visited me: I was in distinct church, as Christ's church. It To the Prophet, Priest, and King. is for this reason so much has been All heaven will thrill with music prison, and ye came unto me." From those who will never die, To no others but this class are the said regarding the need of going not While their shouts shall render vocal words addressed, " Come, ye blessed of merely into the highways and among the The gardens of the sky. my Father." To all others, no matter better classes with the last message of What their profession may have been, or mercy, but also into the hedges. All When doubts the way would shadow, how'high their official position, the words classes are to be reached and helped. And the " home of soul" looks dim, are spoken: " Depart from me, ye This work we have failed in a great We think how the Lord shall gather cursed: . . . for I was an hungered, and measure to do, and as a result the The loved ones unto him; ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and church is lacking in physical and spiri- We think how his hand shall banish ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, tual life. " Wherefore have we fasted, All grief and tears and pain, And our faith in the coming kingdom and ye took me not in: naked, and ye say they, and thou seest not? wherefore Grows strong and bright again. clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and have we afflicted our soul, and thou tak- ye visited me not. Then shall they also est no knowledge?" God does not ask And while the world around us answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we the members of his church to go about Is toiling in paths of pain, thee an hungered, or athirst, or a with heads bowed down like a bulrush, With vain and foolish fancies, stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, thus giving the impression to the world And hopes that are worse than vain, and did not minister unto thee? Then that the religion of Christ deprives of We look for the coming glory Shall he answer •them, saying, Verily I real joy •and happiness. Ministering to In the slowly lighting sky, say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it others has a reviving and refining in- And we say, " Our King" is coming; We shall see him by and by. not to one of the least of these, ye did it fluence on the church. " Is it such a n•ot to me." It is evident from this that fast that I have chosen?" he asks. " Is Moline, Ill. only those who engage in personal min- not this the fast that I have chosen? -.- -4- -41- istry here on earth, have any assurance to loose the bands of wickedness, to Theu Shalt Love Thy Neighbor of the hereafter. Pure religion has not undo the heavy burdens, and to let the as Thyself changed. For the believer it is still to oppressed go free, and that ye break visit the " fatherless and widows in their every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread . D. H. IMESS, M. D. affliction, and to keep himself unspotted to the hungry, and that thou bring the To obtain the best definition of the from •the world." poor that are cast out to thy house? word neighbor, we must appeal to the The work •of Christ is im this incident when thou seest the naked, that thou Bible. To the question, " Who is my represented by the work of the good cover him; and that thou hide not thy- neighbor?" Jesus said: " A certain man Samaritan. He came not to be min- self from thine own flesh? went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, istered unto, but to minister. He went " Then shall thy light break forth as and fell among thieves, which stripped about ministering to the needs of man- the morning, and thine health shall him of his raiment, and wounded him, kind, helping those who had none to spring forth speedily: and thy right- and departed, leaving him half dead. help. In his ministry he gave special eousness shall go before thee; the glory And by chance there came down a cer- attention to the most needy, those who of the Lord shall be thy rereward. Then tain priest that way: and when he saw were passed by by others as hopeless shalt thou call, and the Lord shall an- him, he passed by on the other side. cases,— the leper; the palsied man; the swer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, And likewise a Levite, when he was at man born blind; the woman who had a Here I am." the place, came and looked on him, spirit of infirmity for many years, and Of the members of the Church re- and passed by on the other side. But had spent all she possessed upon physi- ferred to in this chapter, it will some- a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, cians and remedies, only to grow worse; time be said, " They love their neighbors came where he was: and when he saw the helpless man at Bethesda, who said, as themselves." him, he had compassion on him, and " Sir, I have no man, when the water Lonia Linda, Cal. 8 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND -SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911

The Prayer and Social Meeting The Social Service yielding the time to others, lest having Following the prayer service, we usu- used more than a just portion, others CLARENCE SANTEE ally have a social service in which all might be excluded from a part in the IT is impossible to have too much con- can speak of the goodness of God, and blessing. fidence in the power of earnest, heartfelt their present blessings. We believe that Persons who are of mature years, or prayer. The most remarkable instances a mistake is often made in the social who are becoming aged, may sometimes of the revealing of the power and near- meeting by many, in thinking that they enjoy a long argument based upon some ness of God have been associated with must have a short lesson to add to the portion of Scripture, in the place of the the time of prayer. one given by the leader. Usually that short, direct testimony of present bless- Peter and John went up into the tem- given by the leader has been sufficiently ings, but the younger portion of the con- ple to attend the regular prayer service, long, and at times partakes of the na- gregation is not fed, and the meeting and the lame man was healed. Acts ture of a sermon, which is not best for has not accomplished that which the 3: 1-8. While Christ was praying, the the meeting save in exceptional cases. Lord intended; and even with the older transfiguration took place, and Moses One may give a short or a long talk in ones, there May be a fostering of a spirit and Elijah appeared. Luke 9:28-3o. which are good thoughts and Bible that does not need cultivation as much " And when they had prayed, the place truths, but the present experience of the as does the spirit of warm, tender, pres- was shaken where they were assembled individual is entirely, or in great meas- ent helpfulness and labor. together; and they were all filled with ure, left out. Why? Is there no present Loma Linda, Cal. Christian experience that could be given the Holy Ghost." Acts 4: 31. " And at -4- -.6- -.- midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and in the place of that subject chosen for sang praises unto God: and the pris- a theme? Are there no blessings remem- The Meek bered that call for gratitude and ac- oners heard them. And suddenly there H. E. SAWYER-HOPKINS was a great earthquake, so that the foun- knowledgment? If there are, their re- dations of the prison were shaken." cital will use all the time that should be " BLESSED are the meek: for they shall Acts 16:25, 26. The prison doors were used by one. Even then the recital inherit the earth." It was such a spirit, opened, and all bands were loosed. There should bring up only present blessings a willingness to be taught, that one of is a lesson in this, that all the bands of as sources of encouragement, and not old Christ's chosen disciples possessed; every sin can be loosed through prayer. experiences carried in the memory from word that the Master imparted to the While Daniel prayed, the angel laid other days. Those are stored in our disciples was eagerly received and cher- his hand upon him. After Christ was memories by the Lord, for our own en- ished by Matthew. Though a man of baptized, he kneeled upon the bank of couragement, while the present experi- wealth, he was ready to make any sac- the river and prayed. While praying, ence is the one which gives courage to rifice for the advancement of Christ's the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove others. There are times when this may kingdom. He had a heart full of love descended upon him. Luke 3 : 21, 22. be varied, but I am speaking of the for the Saviour, whose teachings had This was the anointing for his life-work. usual social meeting. I am persuaded great attractions for him; and when Acts Jo: 38. Of that wonderful prayer that where there is a present experience Jesus said, " Follow me," he willingly it is said, " Never before had angels lis- of Christian growth, it will be the most did so, although he felt it was an un- tened to such a prayer as Christ offered encouraging topic for every listener. deserved honor conferred upon him. To at his baptism."—" Spirit of Prophecy," A student once said to me, " If I could be in his presence was the disciple's de- Vol. II, pages 6o, 61. Prayer does not only think of something interesting to light; he gladly listened to his words of always bring deliverance; instead, it say like —, I would be willing to wisdom and beheld his wonderful works. often brings grace to bear affliction. 2 speak; but all can say is my own ex- Is not this a lesson for the true child Cor. 12 : 8, 9, is an instance of this. perience, and no one would care to hear of God in this present age? While form- In the garden Christ prayed with an that." I told him that his experience ing a character for a home in the new earnestness that brought drops of blood would be more interesting to others than earth, we should not only willingly listen from the pores of his skin. The cup was all the truths he might put together in a to words of wisdom to fit us for that not removed, but an angel from heaven talk, with that experience left out. future home, but carefully treasure them brought the strength to drink the cup. As long as members give short testi- up in our hearts and carry them out The Lord has given us the privilege of monies of present experiences, whether in our daily lives, without murmuring prayer; and we should remember that of defeat or victories, longing to glorify or doubting, saying with the sweet singer when we join in the prayer service, we God, all will be awake; but when two of Israel, " I &light to do thy will, 0 are in a special sense near to the power or three follow each other with a bur- my God: yea, thy law is within my of God and heavenly beings. This being den to teach others the way, a long heart." so, we should choose our words with step has been taken toward killing the May these beautiful words find a ready great care. The Spirit says, " God is spiritual power of the meeting. " That response in the heart of every humble in heaven, and thou upon earth: there- reminds me " is an old saying, and many disciple of the meek and lowly Jesus: fore let thy words be few." Eccl. 5: 2. a testimony is given upon some thought " If we possess the humility of the Mas- I find another caution in " Testimonies suggested by some other person, and ter, we shall rise above the slights, the for the Church," Vol. IV, pages 70, 71: with no reference to a present experi- rebuffs, the annoyances to which we are " Those who are most superficial gen- ence or an individual need. This is daily exposed, and they will cease to erally have the most to say. Their wearisome to men, and can not be less cast a gloom over the spirit!? " Lowli- prayers are long and mechanical. They so to angels. ness of heart is the strength that gives weary the angels and the people who The idea that a social meeting is in- victory to the followers of Christ." listen to them. Our prayers should be tended for an instruction meeting, is Pomona, Cal. short and right to the point." a grave mistake. This part of the meet- " When in the house of God, we should ing is preeminently one for thanksgiving. pray for a present blessing, and should It was so represented in ancient times " WHEN thou vowest a vow unto God, expect God to hear and answer our among the offerings of the Lord. With defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleas- prayers."— Id., Vol. I, page 146. this thought retained, the necessity for ure in fools: pay that which thou hast "If all moved as they should, no pre- cautions in regard to long testimonies, vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest cious time would run to waste, and no which so often crowd out others that not vow, than that thou shouldest vow reproofs would be needed for long would be given, will not exist. and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to prayers and exhortations; all the time How precious the service when each cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou would be occupied by short, pointed testi- one present quickly acts a part, using before the angel, that it was an error: monies and prayers. Ask, believe, and the least time possible in which to tell wherefore should God be angry at thy receive."---"Early Writings," Supple- of the present courage, hope, and joy, voice, and destroy the work of thine ment, page 29. or, sometimes, it may be of clouds, then hands? " NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

Tempted as We Are times of trial, he likewise bequeaths to 41411AIIEIJUI1611/.././ 1,27111:1DVINETir. THE ground of our assurance in com- us this heritage of victory over sin. As ing to the Lord Jesus is the fact that he he took hold of divine power, it is our took upon himself the nature of man, privilege to do the same. The resources and in this human form conquered Satan, open to his demand are open to our de- thus bridging the gulf which sin had mand. made between God and humanity. Go- It is comforting to a struggling child ing through this experience in behalf of of God to learn, in reading the Bible WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 23, 1911 the lost race, he became a perfect Sa- story, that not only did Christ succeed in his conflict with the great adversary, FRANCIS M. WILCOX EDITOR viour. He became identified with man W. A. SPICER in all of his trials and temptations. " In but that in every age of the world's his- C. M. SNOW ASSOCIATE EDITORS tory others also, through his help, have W. W. PRESCOTT that he himself bath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that succeeded in that conflict. We have All communications relating to the Editorial depart- are tempted." He " was in all points only to look back to such men as Abra- ment, and all manuscripts submitted for publication, ham, Moses, David, Paul, and many should be addressed to Editorial Department, Review tempted like as we are, yet without *rid Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., and not sin." In consequence, the apostle con- others to find men who, though weak to any individual. cludes, " Let us therefore come boldly by nature like ourselves, through divine unto the throne of grace, that we may grace became mighty in behalf of right- Editorial obtain mercy, and find grace to help in eousness, notwithstanding all the assaults time of need." of the adversary. And of such men the record We may not fully understand in just is that they were "subject to Made Like Unto His Brethren what way Christ was " in all points like passions as we are." James 5: 17. " FOR it became him, for whom are all tempted like as we are." We may not While this is predicated of Elijah, it is things, and through whom are all things, be able to make application of this truth likewise true of the men and women of in bringing many sons unto glory, to to the details of the various trials and God in every age. By God's grace pas- make the author of their salvation per- temptations through which mankind sions were subdued, sins were overcome, fect through sufferings. For both he passes. We may, however, accept and character was developed that stood that sanctifieth and they that are sancti- through faith this statement of fact as the test of Heaven. fied are all of one : for which cause he a blessed truth. And `believing it, we What assurance the record of these is not ashamed to call them brethren, shall be drawn closer to the Saviour, and other worthies gives us to-day ! Do saying, I will declare thy name unto my and shall be able to experience much we sometimes fail? Do we have to re- brethren, in the midst of the congrega- more of his keeping power in the trials trace our steps, confess our wrongs? tion will I sing thy praise. And again, that come to us. Men in the past who lived on this earth I will put my trust in him. And again, It is comforting indeed when passing as we are now living to-day, who wor- Behold, I and the children whom God through trying experiences to realize that shiped the same God, who fought the hath given me." there is a true and tried friend who has same enemy, had the same human frail- gone the way before us, who knows by ties in their natures. They fought, and " SINCE then the children are sharers his own experience how we feel. Are were sometimes vanquished in their in flesh and blood, he also himself in we tired and weary? He himself, struggles. They sometimes failed, but like manner partook of the same; that through his earthly pilgrimage, experi- through the mercy of God and heavenly through death he might bring to naught enced weariness in the extreme degree. grace they came off victors in and him that had the power of death, that Do we experience nerve tension, and feel through the blood of the same blessed is, the devil ; and might deliver all them sometimes that we have reached the Saviour who to-day is our faithful and who through fear of death were all their breaking point, that we can not possibly merciful high priest. lifetime subject to bondage. For verily endure more? Christ experienced all Victory in the Christian warfare is not to angels doth he give help, but he this. He knew what it was to be hun- not dependent upon noble ancestry, good giveth help to the seed of Abraham." gry and thirsty. He knew what it was birth, or earthly station. It depends to be deserted by his dearest friends, to upon the operation of God's marvelous be the object of ridicule and scorn, to grace in a subject willing to submit to " WHEREFORE it behooved him in all have his name cast out as evil, to have him and to be molded by the Holy Spirit. things to be made like unto his brethren, imputed to him selfish and sinister mo- Amos was a humble herdsman. David that he might become a merciful and tives. If we would only remember this was a shepherd boy. The apostles were faithful high priest in things pertaining when passing through similar trials, and fishermen, men of humble calling, in their to God, to make propitiation for the sins come boldly to the throne of grace, there natural make-up possessing evil traits, of the people. For in that he himself to find the needed help and strength, we bad dispositions, and many wrong tend- hath suffered being tempted, he is able should then realize the blessedness of this encies. But by submission to God, by to succor them that are tempted." great truth of Christ's temptation and casting themselves upon his mercy and sympathy of which the Scriptures as- permitting his grace to rule and reign " HAVING then a great high priest, who sure us. in their lives, they became the mighty bath passed through the heavens, Jesus Christ was sorely and severely tempted, agents of divine power for the accom- the Son of God, let us hold fast our con- to a degree and to an extent which no plishment of a great work in the world. fession. For we have not a high priest other human being ever experienced, yet Dear reader, God is willing to accom- that can not be touched with the feeling he endured all this without sin. Not plish all this for you. He may not, in of our infirmities ; but one that hath been once did he yield to the tempter's power. his providence, call you or me to the in all points tempted like as we are, yet In every conflict he was victorious. kingship ; we may never become great without sin. Let us therefore draw near With a mind stayed upon God, with trust apostles; we may never speak with with boldness unto the throne of grace in the love and power of his Heavenly prophets' tongues ; but there may be that we may receive mercy, and may find Father, he resisted at every turn the at- seen in our experiences the working of grace to help us in time of need." Heb. tacks of the enemy. And in addition to the same divine power, the same miracu- 2: io-18; 4:14-16, A. R. V. the sympathy which he affords us in lous transformation of divine grace, that 10 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911 was seen in the lives of these men of Catholic documents. It is, therefore, al- to be either garbled or without any foun- old. together unwarrantable to use this quo- dation whatever ; and we have noticed Have we failed in the past? The fail- tation as being the assertion of a Roman a goodly number of cases where this ure has not been because God's hand was Catholic. might have been done, if any one had shortened, or his ear heavy. The failure The controversy with Rome is rapidly taken it upon himself to challenge the has been through lack of submission on growing more and more intense, and rep- citations used. Great care is exercised our part, through resistence to the di- resentatives of Roman Catholic interests in verifying citations of this character vine working. Let us renew our conse- are watching carefully for any errors which appear in the Protestant Maga- cration, casting ourselves at the feet of committed by Protestant writers and zine, and our intention is to make it a the Lord Jesus Christ, asking him to speakers, and are quick to note them and repository for reliable material of this change our hearts, and work in and to deal with them. A recent case will kind. We shall, therefore, esteem it a through us according to his own good illustrate this: A correspondent of a favor if any one who detects any error pleasure. Philadelphia paper wrote at some length of this kind will bring it to our at- Our appeal for divine succor will not on the opposition of the papal hierarchy tention. be in vain. The cry of helplessness will to the public-school system, using a long One who is sure that he is on the side be heard. Trusting faith will bring a list of quotations to establish his position. of truth can afford to be fair, and even response from him who has identified Immediately upon the appearance of this generous, in any controversy with those himself with us as our brother. Through article a leading Roman Catholic, paper who differ from him, and Protestants his grace we may come off more than took up the matter in the following who charge Rome with deception and conquerors. E. M. W. fashion:— with the perversion of the truth, ought -4- The reverend gentleman seems to be not to give the least occasion for just the possessor of a stock of childlike sim- criticism concerning their fairness or To Our Speakers and Writers plicity that would do credit to Ah Sin, the absolute truthfulness and reliability the heathen Chinee, judging from the of their statements. W. W. P. WE desire to impress upon the minds character of the " proofs ' he now of- -4- -4- of those who write and speak upon topics fers in the organ of his sort of wisdom. Here are a few specimens of his art- relating to the controversy with Rome, Building New Babels lessness: — that it is very necessary to use only " The public-school system is a swindle THE lesson of the Babel tower has accurate quotations, and in every case on the people and an outrage on justice, gone unheeded as far as the larger por- to give such a reference as will make it a foul disgrace on the matter of morals, tion of humanity is concerned. That was possible to trace the quotation to its and should be abolished forthwith.— The a human plan for salvation. In smiting Tablet, Freeman's Journal." source and prove its reliability. There Which paper? What date? the top of that tower and dispersing its are many garbled citations that have " These public schools are a devouring builders, God taught the world that hu- been handed down from one writer to fire and pits of destruction. They ought Man plans for accomplishing a divine another, and other paragraphs purporting to go back to the devil from whence purpose are worse than useless. they came.-- Freeman's Journal." to be the utterances of various persons, Every general, when he goes into bat- Date? or to be extracts from publications more "The public school is a national fraud; tle, has his own plan of campaign. The or less well known, but all dates and it must cease to exist, and the day will plans of all others must conform to his; places are omitted in the credits given. come when it will cease to exist.— they must not be used unless they are a Such omissions render the quotations ab- Sermon by Father McCarthy, Dec. a3, part of his plans. Anything else would 1887." solutely valueless as testimony concern- Father McCarthy of where? bring confusion and disaster, and would ing the doctrines or actions of the papal " The public schools have produced not be tolerated for a moment. hierarchy. nothing but a godless generation of All men recognize the wisdom of this In our attempt to verify some such thieves and blackguards. — Priest arrangement in earthly affairs, and ex- Schauer." pect to conform to that condition when statements, we have found that quite a Priest Schauer of where? Also date number of them can not be rightfully of speech wanted. working for another. In spiritual af- used, as they either do not fairly repre- " Unless you suppress the public-school fairs, however, we find many and great sent the. Roman position, or are the views system as at present conducted, it will departures from that principle. It cer- of Protestants based upon the declara- prove the damnation of the country.— tainly is not unreasonable to suppose that Father Walker." tions of Roman writers, rather than the Date and locality needed. the Saviour of the world has his own exact words of the writers themselves. " Catholic parents who send their chil- plan of salvation; yet how many ways As a sample of this kind of quotation, dren to the so-called public schools are have been invented by human beings for we call attention to one which appears, guilty of mortal sin.— Rev. Dr. Frul." obtaining salvation, all of which are with some variations, substantially as Date and locality needed. Also, who worse than useless! If there is a plan is Rev. Dr. Frul? follows : " The Pope has power to change " When I see them drag from me the of salvation, it is one plan; it is God's times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense children, the poor little children, and plan, and not men's. God will save men with all things, even the precepts of give them an infidel education, it breaks according to his plan, not theirs. That Christ." This is sometimes credited to my heart.—Pope Pius IX." plan is revealed in God's Word, and Is this any wonder? Pope Nicholas, and one reference is " The common-school system of the plainly revealed; and, foreseeing that men Decretal de Translat. Episcop. Cap. United States is the worst in the world. would invent ways of their own for seek- This abbreviated reference given in full — Cardinal Manning." ing salvation, Christ declared, " Every would read, Decretal de Translatione Where was this said or printed? plant, which my Heavenly Father hath Episcoporum, Caput, which may be ren- When these are the kind of proofs not planted, shall be rooted up." All that the Rev. coolly asks us to ac- dered thus: " Decretal Concerning the cept, we feel sorry that we have wasted human plans of salvation are such plants. Transference of Bishops, Chapter," but our time in looking over them, but shall They can accomplish nothing; they will the number of the chapter is omitted. not repeat such a mistake. be rooted up; they will carry to ruin It makes little difference which refer- Instances have also come to our knowl- those who have trusted in them in pref- ence is given to this citation, as neither edge where some of our own workers erence to the one plan of the Lord him- is correct, and the statement was made have been brought into very embarrass- self for saving men. by a Protestant writer who based his ing positions by having some quotations Men are to-day ignoring the inspired view upon the general tenor of Roman that they used in their arguments proved plans of God, and are trusting in their NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 1 own in, spite of his plain warning: "Put certainty of salvation, as against every The Roman Peril ' not your trust in princes, nor in the son plan of the human, every Babel tower THE editorial in the Outlook for No- of man, in whom there is no help." Ps. of unbelief, in which there is certainty vember 4, based upon the interview with 146:3. Some have even gone so far as of nothing but disappointment, disaster, Cardinal Gibbons published in the same and death. The one is a plain message, to worship man; to pronounce him his issue, raises a question of the gravest own savior, encouraging him to look unadorned, but savoring of life unto importance to the religious and political within himself for help and strength and life. The other is filled with all the in- future of this country. As one reason salvation. Of this nature, too, are the tricacies of the mysteries of iniquity, for expressing your belief that " the Ro- cults and philosophies that are multiply- gaudy with the trappings of ostentatious man Catholic Church is not a peril to ing so rapidly at the present time. Under display, but, like the whited sepulchers of American institutions ; its growth in the the glamour of human " knowledge " and old, filled with dead men's bones, and United States is not a menace," you refer " civilization," men have , gone farther savoring of death unto death. to the declaration of Pope Leo XIII con- and farther from God, turning to fables, When the gates of the eternal city cerning the relation between the church philosophies, and traditions, and trusting are about to swing open for the proces- and the state. As stated by Cardinal in them. Everything that is outside the sion of the redeemed to enter in, it is Gibbons, this doctrine is: " The Almighty plan of God will perish. Human plans well for the world that God declares has appointed the charge of the human are outside the plans of God, and will his last message of warning and prepara- race between two powers, the ecclesias- perish when he brings again the harmony tion in no uncertain language. That he tical and the civil; the one being set that sin has marred. has done in the third angel's message; over divine, the other over human, The antediluvians trusted in them- and with the responsibility for its proc- things. Each in its kind is supreme, selves rather than in God, and the flood lamation we are charged. No such tre- each has fixed limits within which it is came and swept them all away. The mendous responsibility was ever placed contained, limits which are defined by postdiluvians built a tower to save them- upon any people in this world, and there- the nature and special objects of the selves from future floods, forgetting the fore none were ever so favored. While province of each. . . . Neither obeys promise of God that he would not again the people of this world are building the other within the limits to which each destroy the earth by a flood. So their Babel towers to be consumed — with is restricted by its constitution." Bab-ilu —" gate of heaven " — God their builders — in the fires of the last The average Protestant who is accus- turned into Babel —" confusion," and he day, to us is given a message that will tomed to accept official utterances in scattered to the four corners of the earth save not only those who give it, but their obvious meaning, would conclude those who trusted in that human plan those who receive it; in truth, an ark from this quotation that the separation for salvation. The Jews finally came to of safety that will save unto life eternal of the church from the state was an put their trust in the cold forms of their those who accept 'it. Soon the fires of established principle with the Papacy. temple worship. They forsook Him to God will wrap this world in their fierce But the Roman Catholic who is well in- whom the temple and its services embrace, and all that is mortal and formed concerning the interpretation, and pointed, and crucified him, and then God earthly will be burned to ashes. Human application of this principle, in both past declared, " Your house is left unto you plans will be forgotten, human glory will and present history, knows that he can desolate," and he rent the temple veil, be seared like a charred leaf, human assent to this statement and yet maintain and permitted heathen hands to destroy greed will pitch its hoardings to the moles the subordination of the civil to the pon- the temple in which they trusted. and the hats, human strifes will vanish in tifical power. Now the world is• alive with human the horror of impending judgment, hu- It will be pertinent in this connection schemes for men to put their trust in, man towers of hope will be forsaken, for as throwing light upon this subject to in preference to the God of our salvation. "the great day of their wrath is come; refer to the syllabus issued by Pope Pius But they can not bring salvation; for and who is able to stand? " IX, in 1864, condemning " the principal there is no savior in them. They are Thank ,God, he has made it possible errors of our time." Among the " er- simply Babels of modern make. We for men to stand even in that time. The rors " thus condemned are these: " The have condemned the heathen for trust- way of escape has been provided. Under church has not the power of availing her- ing in their idols; but the inhabitants the shadow of the wing of the Almighty self of force or any direct or indirect of enlightened and civilized lands are no there is safety. It is even the time of temporal power." (" Ecclesia vis infer- better than the idol-worshiping heathen trouble that is drawing nigh; but God has endae potestatem non habet, neque po- if they trust their souls' eternal welfare promised that his faithful shall be testatem ullam temporalem directam vel to some human scheme, and turn their saved out of it. And they will not only indirectam."—Prop. 24.) " The church backs upon the plan of salvation that be standing loyally for God and his truth ought to be separate from the state, and God himself has devised and guaranteed. in that time, but will be sounding the the state from the church."—Prop. 55. Now, when the world is full of phi- warning broadcast to a doomed world. According to the Jesuit Schrader, the losophies and substitutes for God's plan, That is our work, and whether we are condemnation of the " error " referred to it is time for us to make known and deemed worthy of a place among God's in proposition 24 establishes this affirm- make prominent God's purpose and plan. people on that day will depend upon how ative proposition: " The church has the With one great religious denomination, faithfully we have performed it. power to apply external coercion (aus- which numbers its adherents at over two C. M. S. -40- -4- -.- seren Zwang anzuwenden) : she has also hundred millions, denying the Word of a temporal authority direct and indirect." God to its members, and with the leaven UNDER the new Greek constitution of the infidelity of Higher Criticism eat- an absolute prohibition forbids the pub- This article, written by Prof. W. W. Pres- lishing or circulation of the Bible in cott, one of the editors of the REVIEW, was ing like a cancer at the vitals of many sent to the editors of the Outlook (New of the other denominations, we can not modern Greek. This applies even to York) for insertion in the department of Let- be too earnest or too industrious in pro- the Old Testament, written originally in ters to the Outlook, but they returned it with the stereotyped statement that they " do not claiming to the world God's last message Hebrew. The ancient Greek is not un- find it available." It will not be very difficult of warning and of mercy. That message derstood by the common people, so the for the readers of this paper to give a reason Bible will hereafter be available only to that will be convincing, to themselves at sets God before the people as the Bible least, why the article was rejected. The sub- reveals him, makes known his plan, in scholars, the masses being left without ject is considered further in the current issue which there is assurance of victory and the Word of God. of the Protestant Magazine.— En. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911

—" Der Papst and die Modernen Ideen," tics. . . We always declared that if the elections, and all public services, meet- Von P. Clemens Schrader, S. J., page Pope wanted the States of the Church, ings, and gatherings. All Catholics 64. This remark is added by Schrader: or any other states, we wanted him to must make themselves felt as active ele- " Not souls alone are subject to her au- have them, and were willing to go any ments in daily political life in countries thority." lengths to secure -them to him. . . . The where they live. All Catholics should ex- The assumption of the right by the head of the church knows what he wants, ert their power to cause the constitutions present pontiff, Pope Pius X, to interfere and every Catholic should do his best of states to be modeled on the principles in the affairs of the nations is a forcible to assist him in attaining it. . . . We of the true church."— Cited in "Facing comment upon, and an authoritative in- care nothing for the opinions of Cath- the Twentieth Century," by James M. terpretation of, the principle stated by olics in Europe or America when they King, page 213. Leo XIII. In his encyclical letter dated are not in agreement with the views of From the letter of Pope Leo XIII to May 24, 1911, the present Pope asserts the Vatican. We care nothing for the Cardinal Gibbons, dated Jan. 22, 1889, his power to nullify a nation's law in interests of Italy or any other country this extract is taken: " From the fore- condemning the law of separation re- when the higher interests of the church going [paragraphs] it is manifest, be- cently enacted in Portugal. The follow- and religion are at stake."— Western loved son, that we are not able to give ing extract from this letter is taken from Watchman (St. Louis), Sept. 21, 1911. approval to those views which, in their the American Catholic Quarterly Review This is quite in harmony with the collective sense, are called by some (Philadelphia) for July, 1911: " Where- principle enunciated in an article in ' Americanism.' For it would give rise fore, as a sense of our apostolic duty the Catholic World for July, 187o, Vol. to the suspicion that there are among prompts, in view of this insolence and II, page 439: " While the state has some you some who conceive and would have audacity of the enemies of God, that we rights, she has them only in virtue and the church in America to be different should vigilantly guard the dignity and by permission of the superior authority, from what it is in the rest of the world." honor of religion and preserve the rights and that authority can only be expressed The Roman Catholic Church in Amer- of the holy Catholic Church, we of our through the church; that is, through the ica must defend and act upon the prin- apostolic authority reprobate, condemn, organic law infallibly announced and ciples established by the authoritative and reject the law separating church unchangeably asserted, regardless of teachings of the Pope of Rome, or reject and state in Portugal. . . . And whilst temporal consequences." the ex cathedra utterances of the head we complain in the strongest manner that To the same effect is the argument of the church; but it has not repudiated a law of this kind should be passed, sanc- made by Dr. 0. A. Brownson, an Amer- these doctrines, neither will it dare to tioned, and brought forward in public, ican writer who abandoned Protestant- do so. and solemnly expostulate with all who ism for Romanism. In his " Essays and Inasmuch as semper eadem is the boast have prepared it or taken part in the Reviews" (New York, P. J. Kennedy of the Papacy, I think I am fully war- work, we proclaim and announce that and Sons) he uses this plain language: ranted in affirming on the strength of whatsoever it contains contrary to the " She [the church] is, under God, the the testimony already introduced (and inviolable rights of the church is null supreme judge of both laws [revealed much more is available) that the author- and void, and is to be so held." and natural], which for her are but one itative teachings of the Roman Catholic In their protest against the same law law ; and hence she takes cognizance, in hierarchy on the relations of the church the bishops of Portugal declare: her tribunals, of the breaches of the nat- to the state are diametrically opposed to " Though the church does not and can ural law as well as of the revealed, and the views entertained by the founders of not approve in theory or in principle of has the right to take cognizance of its this nation, and destructive of political the doctrine which regards separation as breaches by nations as well as of its and religious liberty, and that therefore a better regime and more in accordance breaches by individuals, by the prince as the growth of the Roman Catholic with progress, it may, for all that, under well as the subject, for it is the supreme Church in this country is a peril to special circumstances, hypothetically ac- law for both. The state is, therefore, American institutions. cept separation as tolerable and as a only an inferior court, bound to receive -4- -4- -4- lesser evil. . . . If the formula, ' A free the law from the supreme court [the The Service of Man, the Glory church in a free state,' does not repre- church], and liable to have its decrees sent the ideal, it may be tolerable."— reversed on appeal."— Page 284. of God The Catholic Mind, July 8-22, 1911, It requires no argument to show that IT is the business of Christians, as well page 232. the doctrine set forth in these remarkable as their blessed privilege, to be workers From these official utterances of recent utterances is utterly subversive of the together with God. He, through the cen- date, it is perfectly clear that the Roman American and Christian principle of the turies of the past, has been working for Catholic Church does not believe in the separation of church and state, as .under- man. They who would be workers to- Protestant idea of the separation of stood by Protestants, and yet they are gether with God must also be workers church and state, and in the last analysis the official declarations of the Papacy as for man. To be in such service accept- claims the right to interfere with the interpreted by modern American Cath- ably means the consecration of all the civil power when in its judgment the olics. faculties of the being to the work of rights of the church are abridged. An In conclusion, I will call attention to God. appeal to history shows that this has been some utterances by Leo XIII, in addition We often hear the expression: " I the consistent record of the Roman to the one quoted by Cardinal Gibbons. must look out for number one," which Catholic Church for many centuries. In his encyclical " Immortale Dei " of means, I must look out for myself. Self That the interests of the state are to Nov. 7, 1885, is found this paragraph: is the first consideration. But the true be treated as wholly subordinate to the " Every Catholic should rigidly adhere and trusting Christian knows that his interests of the Roman Catholic Church to the teachings of the Roman pontiff, own interests are best served when he is the doctrine taught by a leading Ro- especially in the matter of modern lib- leaves them in the hands of God, and man Catholic paper in America. To erty, which, already, under the semblance goes out in the service of others, looking quote: " For the forty-five years that we of honesty of purpose, leads to destruc- out for their interests. There is an eter- have been editing a Catholic paper, we tion. We exhort all Catholics to devote nal increment thus added to the ever- have made it our invariable policy to fol- careful attention to public matters, and lasting inheritance of men that can be low the lead of the holy father in poli- take part in all municipal affairs and attained in no other way. It is upon NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 13

this principle that "'he that hath pity fellow men. Sacrifice and service are may require, for the promotion of .this upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; what God holds out before us now. To work, and for giving help and instruc- and that which he hath given will he pay the man of the world, near-sighted tion to conference laborers, church offi- cers, and members. him again." Prov. 19: 17. through continual close scrutiny of his 5. That the General Conference employ The faculties that are consecrated to own wants and interests, it is foolishness; an experienced missionary secretary to God are fulfilling the purpose God had but to the trusting child of God it opens labor for the organization and advance- in mind when he endowed us with them. the gates of paradise and the long vistas ment of the church missionary work. They are performing his work, and thus of eternity. Religious Liberty we who possess them are working " to- Consecrate your faculties to the serv- The situation confronting us in this gether with God." But let us use those ice of God. There is no investment in country, regarding the constant pressure faculties for our own selfish ends, and this world that can compare with it. for religious legislation, was reviewed, we at once pervert his purpose. Then C. M. S. and the following actions taken:— the exercise of those faculties becomes -4- -4- -4- Inasmuch as there is great need for displeasing in the sight of God. They Autumn Council of the General the enlightenment of all the people on the are stagnant water where springs and Conference Committee subject of the principles of religious lib- erty, which increases with each new wells should be; deserts in the place of Third (and Last) Report day ; and,— fruitful fields. The continued exercise Distribution of Laborers Whereas, There are now measures of an unconsecrated faculty toward a THE following further recommenda- pending before Congress, and to be sub- mitted to Congress, affecting these prin- selfish end works toward the final ruin tions may be reported: — of the soul. The rapidity with which ciples; and,— Dr. W. C. Dunscombe, of Edinburgh, Whereas, There are movements in this that end is reached depends upon the Scotland (formerly of Japan), to Eng- country, propelled by Roman Catholicism number of faculties so used, and the land, to engage in sanitarium work. as well as apostate Protestantism, with extent to which the individual has aban- Herman Olson, of America, to study which our people and the world should doned the counsels of God's Word. in the University of Upsala, Sweden, in become conversant and understand the preparation for teaching. meaning thereof; therefore we recom- Many a man who should have been a Miss Gertrude Johnston, of the For- mend,— steward for God has flung aside his eign -Mission Seminary, to engage in i. That union and State conferences be scruples one by one, and has finally bent Bible work in Virginia. urged to supply Liberty regularly to every faculty of his being toward the A. L. Shidler, of the Foreign Mis- State, county, and municipal officials, amassing of wealth for his own gratifica- sion Seminary, to Mexico, to engage in legislators, judges, and attorneys in their the book work. respective fields. tion. Such a one is, day by day, selling Elder J. C. Rogers and his wife, of the 2. That campaigns be inaugurated with his eternal birthright for a mess of pot- Nyassaland Mission, Central Africa, to local churches, to take Liberty in clubs tage, selling his soul for gold; and there come to America for the furlough voted for missionary purposes and to secure is bound to come a time when that sale at the Friedensau council. individual subscriptions; also that com- petent persons be selected to engage in will be complete, when there will be no Ben. Hoffman and his wife, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Japan, to the work of selling the magazines. desire on the part of the individual to engage in evangelistic work. 3. That local and union conferences turn to God. Others endowed with a Miss Anna Hoffman, of Oakland, Cal., place " American State Papers " in all faculty for acquiring knowledge have to Washington, D. C., as stenographer public libraries, and supply it to govern- perverted that faculty by turning it into and assistant in the office of the Sabbath- ors, legislators, judges, and other public school Department. officials. unsanctified channels, or by using it for Church Missionary Work 4. That the publishers of " American selfish interests or for gain, and have State Papers " issue a subscription edi- Study was given to plans for increas- come to that place where the desire for tion, and that special efforts be made to ing activity in home tract and missionary the things of God is fast vanishing away. place it in the hands of editors, edu- work. The following actions were cators, and the legal profession through- There will come a time when •continu- taken:— out the United States generally. ance in that course will entirely crush 5. That religious liberty institutes be out all desire for participation in either Whereas, The responsibility for the held in churches and local and union con- development of the church missionary the work of God or the promised bless- ferences where arrangements can be work rests primarily, upon church and made and competent persons can be pro- ings. The faculty perverted has sold conference officers and other laborers, vided for conducting them. the soul. representing the work of the cause as ,a 6. That we ask the union conferences It matters not how good the faculty, whole, instead of resting largely upon to devote a reasonable time, during the any one department; and,— of how great worth in the cause of God, coming biennial sessions, to the study of Whereas, The work of the Publishing the religious liberty interests. its perversion to selfish ends will bring Department has so developed as. to make ruin to the soul. Its consecration to GO it difficult for that department to give Medical College and his work will make its possessor a attention to the chlirch missionary work The following action was taken in be- which its great importance demands; half of the Loma Linda (Cal.) Medical coworker with God, a sharer with him therefore we recommend,— in the renewed universe, a dweller with i. That provision be made by confer- College: — him in the courts of heaven. We can ence and church officers for a strong, In view of the great need of additional not be too careful in the matter of the active development of the church mis- facilities at the Loma Linda College of use to which we put the faculties with sionary work. Medical Evangelists in the way of build- 2. That conference laborers be urged ings, more properly to carry on the work which we have been endowed by our to take this responsibility, and enter ac- of the institution,— Creator. " Let this mind be in you, tively upon the work of leading our We recommend, That a fund of $10,- which was also in Christ Jesus." He laid churches into all important lines of mis- 000 be raised for this purpose during aside the glory of heaven that he might sionary activity, and of instructing the 1912, said amount to be apportioned to churches how to do the work. the General, union, and Southern Cali- give himself to the service of men and 3. That each conference tract • society fornia conferences as follows:— the glory of God. " Go, and do thou be given sufficient help to enable the sec- Pacific Union $ 1,5o0 likewise." We have not the glory of retary, or some one appointed for that Southern California 1,000 heaven to lay aside, but we have ,a glori- purpose, to give primary attention to the General Conference 1,000 ous inheritance to participate in if we development of church missionary work, Central Union 1,500 both by correspondence and by personal Lake Union 1,5oo turn aside from the allurements of this labor in the field. North Pacific Unton i,000 world of sin, and set our faces toward 4. That conference and church mis- Northern Union 500 Zion's hill in the service of God and our sionary conventions be held, as the needs Southwestern Union 50o

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Southern Union 250 Southeastern Union 250, Columbia Union 500 Atlantic Union 300 Canadian Union IGO West Canadian Union I00

Total $10;o0o Publishing Work The representatives of the publishing houses and the field book work held fre- quent councils. Actions were taken re- lating to — Week of Prayer Greetings in Abyssinia. The seed of truth that has been sown, we hope will remain with The manufacture of the larger sub- MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.—Greet- them; and we are earnestly praying God scription books in foreign languages in ings from " The Pearl of the Orient." to water it by his Holy Spirit. We hope the United States by the Pacific Press. The First Seventh-day Adventist Church that these, with others, may return to The manufacture and sale of the of Manila desire at this season of smaller foreign books by the Interna- us for the coming school year, which prayer to express their thanks to God, tional Publishing Association. we expect to open on New-year's day, and their appreciation to you, for send- The circulation of the ten-cent maga- the Lord willing. We have asked the ing to them the third angel's message, zines in every part of the country. Mission Board for means and permis- calling them out of darkness into its In response to calls from the fields, the sion to double our number of students marvelous light. A new hope has sprung officers of the Publishing Department the coming year, which we hope will be up in our hearts, and we with you are granted, the treasury allowing. We are were asked to select workers as fol- striving to prepare for the coming King. made glad by the recent arrival of lows :— But, brethren, how can we expect to Brother Emery Lorntz, of Norway, as Two canvassers from Mexico for Cen- enter into that kingdom ourselves, num- a colaborer for this field. Brother P. N. tral America. bering only sixty-two, and leave behind, Lindegren is at present in the Debaroa Two canvassers from the United unwarned, nine millions of our brothers States for Mexico. District, better to acquaint himself with for whom Christ died? So we earnestly One canvasser from Mexico for Cuba. the language and the people. Several solicit a share in your prayers and offer- One canvasser for Colombia, South deaths by cholera have taken place in America. ings, that the good news may be carried the capital city, Asmara; but the Italian One canvasser for India. quickly to our fellow countrymen. government has taken rigid measures to Thus the calls come, year after year, L. V. FINSTER. stamp it out, which seem to have been for more workers. And the work itself, effective. We are of good courage. spreading constantly and rapidly, calls SINGAPORE.— Never has the work ANOL GRUNDSET. looked more encouraging than at the ever for dedication of lives and of means present, nor have victories over dark- -4- -4- -*- to the missionary cause. ened and biased minds been more appar- The Third Angel's Message in To the last day of the council, Elder ent. Never have we so felt our need of Peru C. B. Haynes furnished reports to the more funds to draw upon that a dozen Washington papers and the news agen- other intelligent men and women, born A. N. ALLEN cies. Asked as to the circulation of the in the land and already possessing an NEARLY three years have passed since reports, he said: "The aggregate num- education with a knowledge of lan- we landed in Peru. Though deprived of ber of Washington papers circulated, con- guages, may he set at work among the everything except our trunks by the sink- taining reports of the council, was 1,636,- people of these cosmopolitan lands who ing of the steamship " Finance," on are waiting for this message. Within which our household goods were shipped, 000. This is the actual number of copies, about a month we have had three bap- we, with the help of God, have again sur- not readers. In addition, the Associated tisms. Seventeen souls have broken rounded ourselves with some of the com- Press sent out over the country briefer every barrier down through the revela- forts of life. God has blessed his work reports ; but it is of course impossible tion of the gospel of Jesus in their souls. in this field, and the seed sown by the to count these papers." Several others are almost ready for bap- colporteurs and in other ways is con- W. A. SPICER, Secretary. tism. Since the, beginning of the work stantly bearing fruit. The membership -+- -4- -4- here, we have not seen such an awaken- in this field, which was twenty-two when AFTER five years' work by expert ing among the young people as now. we came, has grown to over one hundred. tabulators, the War Department's card What shall we do with them? Shall we Several thousand dollars' worth of liter- index to the bodies of soldiers buried in let them drift back into the world? ature has been sold, mostly by natives. national cemeteries is nearing comple- That is the inevitable, unless gifts come 0 It has cost considerable to maintain tion. The work was begun under direc- in to provide a home and a teacher to the mission and secure these results. instruct and prepare them for service. The field being large and the believers tion of Quartermaster-General Aleshire, The Lord is soon coming. We pray and widely scattered, much traveling has in igo5. There are at the present time plead. May it not be in vain. been necessary. However, we are put- 78 military cemeteries in the United G. F. JONES. ting forth every effort to reach a normal States, with 360,753 soldiers buried in basis, and as the tithe increases from them. Of this number, 207,075 are ASMARA, EAST AFRICA.-- Our school year to year, we hope the time will soon known, and 153,678 are unknown. The has just closed for a three months' vaca- come when self-support may be possible. graves of the unknown are marked with tion. All the students have scattered The state of mind of a large per cent a marble monument six inches square to their various homes and villages, of the people of Peru is best expressed , and extending eight inches• above the where they will meet numerous questions by an occurrence in Uruguay recently ground, and those of the known are concerning us and our work and faith. referred to by Brother Maximo Trum- mer. From the last page of the REVIEW marked by a flat headstone bearing the Thus our school will be better known among the people. We feel thankful of August 31, I quote: " From early name of the soldier, his age, and other to God for our first year's school work. morning until late at night, carriages details. These stones -cost the govern- Though there were many obstacles to en- were driven from one part of the city ment five dollars each. Last year the counter in making a beginning, the work to the other, from which were distributed total amount expended for this purpose has gone well. The Lord has sent us leaflets with such titles as, these: ' Away was in excess of $75,000. In 1902 it was students from places we never thought with God ; " Let the Family and Church only $25,000, the amount having in- of, places never visited by us. We even Be Separate ; " We Desire to Be Free creased slightly each year since. had one lad from away across the border, From All Religion.' Young women NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

marched through the streets carrying a Ten Thousand Miles on the six thousand, the other much smaller. banner with the inscription, `All Women They have been visited again and again Who Are Against the Church, Come to Amazon by colporteurs, and Protestant preachers the Meeting.' " [Mr. Uttley left Buenos Aires in are now stationed there. Our colporteur, Is the French Revolution to be re- March, this year, with the object of Snr. Lima, expects to pay another visit peated in South America? What can be reaching Manaos, a town one thousand to both places during the next few done to meet this situation? What is miles from the coast, situated on the months. the responsibility resting on us as a Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon. Our steamer was booked to stop at people in this continent? The impor- His purpose was to find out whether it Itacoatiara, or Serpa, a small town at tance of the words found in " Testimo- is possible to extend the Bible society's the mouth of the Madeira River, which is nies for the Church," Vol. IX, page 67, work in the Amazon valley, a region the most important of the tributaries of becomes apparent: " Why . . . do not quite as large as half of Europe, but the Amazon, and rises far away in Bo- our people appreciate and circulate more with a population estimated by Mr. Utt- livia. It has great numbers of planta- widely the books bearing the divine cre- ley to be not over one million. This tions along its banks for the first two dentials? Why is not a specialty made descriptive article will be read with in- hundred miles of its course, from the of the books containing the warnings terest by REVIEW readers, as it tells of point where it joins the Amazon. For regarding Satan's work? Why do we a vast unentered territory to be reached seven hundred miles it is navigable by not give greater effort to circulating the by the message.] the largest steamers. Then commence books that point out Satan's plans to THE journey from Para up the river cataracts and rapids stretching for the counterwork the work of God, that un- to Manaos is perhaps one of the most next two hundred miles, and impeding cover his plans and point out his decep- unique voyages in the world. Para is the passage of even small river craft. tions? " Every student of prophecy situated about sixty-five miles from one Beyond these breaks, the river is again knows what this " counterwork " is. of the mouths of the great river. The free, and navigable for another thou- Here in South America thinking men main mouth reaches the sea farther sand miles right into the heart of the and women have seen the corruption of north. Some idea may be gained of the continent. At San Antonio, the village this false system, and instead of seeking size of the Amazon when we state that where these rapids begin, the river is so the true faith, they are preparing to one island in the center of this estuary deep close to the banks that boats of repeat the history of France. How ur- is as large as the whole of Wales. seven thousand tons coming all the way gent that we circulate books here, not The river itself is over four thousand from Liverpool and New York anchor only revealing the deceptions of the false miles long, and in some places over six there. When the railway is finished, system, but also teaching the truth for hundred feet deep. It has twelve tribu- which is now being constructed rapidly this time. taries over one thousand miles in length, by an American company for the Bra- The leading men in Peru are Masons, one, the Madeira, being over two thou- zilian government, much of the com- and a large per cent of the young men sand miles. At Iquitos, in Peru, twenty- merce of this rich region of Brazil, and are atheists. The women are also rapidly three hundred miles from the sea, the of a great part of Bolivia, will be brought losing faith in the priests. Strong anti- Amazon is three miles wide, has a five- down the Madeira, past the port of Para, clerical articles find place in all the lead- knot current, is navigable by ocean-going and into the Atlantic. At present this ing newspapers. Other papers are pub- steamers of three thousand tons, and Bolivian commerce has to be taken over lished with the sole purpose of combating has a difference of forty feet between the passes of the Andes, twelve thousand the power of the priest in politics, home, high- and low-water mark. This is due feet high, and by the way of the Pacific and business. Our papers find a ready to the quantity of water brought down to Europe and the United States. It can sale in all parts of the republic. Shall from the Andes and other places during easily be seen that this railway is a very we hesitate longer in giving the people the rainy season. At Manaos the rise important one, and that the port of Para the books dealing with these subjects and fall is sixty feet, and the Rio Negro will gradually become a great deal more in the light of prophecy and history? tributary, on which the town stands, is influential than it is at present — perhaps Some agitation is continually going five miles wide, though nearly one thou- the next commercially after Buenos on in favor of liberty of worship. Ap- sand miles from the sea. The volume Aires and Rio de Janeiro. parently one of the chief hindrances to of water carried out to the ocean by the This railway, when completed, will be the changing of the constitution so as to Amazon is said by some writers to equal one of, the most costly in human life legalize freedom of worship is the strait- that of all the other rivers of North and that the world has known. It passes over ened political relation of Peru with her South America combined. Be that as it immense stretches of swamp; for the neighbors, which have granted freedom, may, we know that owing to its immense river overflows its banks, and great and thus have to a degree lost their con- tributaries it possesses altogether twen- masses of water collect at the back of the nection with Rome. But Peru fears to ty-five thousand miles of navigable line which is in course of construction. lose any advantage of influence she may waterway, and its aggregate length of When the dry season begins, this water have over her neighbors through the waters is sixty thousand miles. recedes, and again and again it has Pope. For this reason she hesitates to I was exceedingly glad to find myself washed away the earth in large quan- offend by making any laws unfavorable moving up its turbid and restless cur- tities from under the line. The railway to the Church of Rome. However, pub- rent. From the deck of the steamer, one had to be built up several times before lic opinion is very liberal, and I have yet might easily believe one's self at sea. a secure bottom was reached. Owing to to experience any serious difficulty in Now and again the coast on, one side these swamps, and the insect pests which holding public meetings anywhere in the is out of sight, and the view is very accumulate there, great numbers of country. In one place we were given, unlike that of a river. workmen have died. At the beginning free of charge, a large municipal hall It took us four days to steam the it is said that about fifty per cent suc- for our meetings. In another place we distance of one thousand miles to Ma- cumbed. The company, however, is have the offer of the free use of the naos. I was very sorry not to be able working nobly to overcome the terrible municipal theater whenever we wish to to call at some places on the way. But difficulties with which it has to deal. hold public services. For all these open- none of these quicker ocean-going ves- The company has fine hospitals, well- ings we praise God, and push ahead with sels stop at these towns; and to take a qualified doctors and nurses, mosquito- the message. small native boat would have meant proof dwellings, and pays the ordinary If our brethren in the home land could prolonging my stay a great deal, and workman it a day and all expenses. The see the joy with which some of these running risks of being detained for pe- difficulty now is to get labor. Not a people accept the truth, and how they riods of time which I could not afford. few foreign powers have taken energetic labor and sacrifice in order to give it From various sources, however, I gath- steps to prohibit their countries from to others, they would feel highly repaid ered valuable information with reference becoming recruiting-grounds. One of for all their sacrifice for foreign mis- to these places, of which the only im-, the few places left open is Buenos Aires. sions. portant ones are the towns of Santarem But on board the boat which I joined Lima. and Obidos, one with a population of at Pernambuco, there were about eighty- 16 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, I 9 I I five men, Greeks and Spaniards. At Para these were again embarked on the steamer in which I was traveling. They had been carefully prevented from going ashore, as so many who had landed at I Para on previous occasions had never returned to the steamer : they had heard of the climate of the region to which they were bound. When we reached Serpa, the port where these men change in order to go up the Madeira, we were met by a large Standing Still tion is worth a pound of cure;" and yet tug and launch belonging to this Amer- it is passing strange that, knowing what ican railway. The eighty Greeks passed ALLEN F. GAGE we do about the practical value of this from our ship onto the tug without at,y " STAND still, and watch God work "— truth, but few practise it. difficulty ; but when it came to the Span- This is the hardest part, Another saying that is given wide iards, who had conversed with and un- The means that try the soul prominence is, " Cleanliness is next to derstood the Portuguese passengers, and And test the bravest heart. godliness." There is much truth in this had heard dreadful stories about the We see our fellows strive old saying, but very few actually prac- place to which they were going, trouble 'Gainst sin and crime and wrong; tise it. Startling facts have been com- began. We long to act our part, ing to light during the past year, espe- Though their fares had been, paid And sing the victor's song. cially during the past few months, in for them all the way from Buenos regard to the diseases that are trans- Aires, they declared that they would not To stand, to wait, to hope, mitted because of dirty hands. How leave our ship. An American official To rest, to trust, to pray, many lives have been sacrificed from came on deck, and informed the captain, Are lessons he would teach this cause alone no one can ever tell; who at the moment was speaking with In his appointed way. but the subject is of such great impor- me, that these men would not move. We may not know the end— tance that each one should be informed, Without another word, the captain gave He doeth all things best, and join the ranks of those who are try- an order; and in a few moments we saw In darkness as in light; ing to prevent disease. them being carried forcibly onto the Then in his choosing rest. That clean hands were necessary from tug. They looked pictures of misery, Chicago, Ill. a sanitary standpoint, as well as properly and could not have presented a much to appear before the Lord, is clear to any sorrier sight had they been going to one who will read a few chapters in be shot. Dirty Hands Leviticus, and look up the marginal ref- On arriving in Manaos, we found an erences. If any one touched a dead F. M. ROSSITER, M. D. especially bad epidemic of yellow fever. body, or any filth, or any unclean thing, People were dying every day. I ar- How to prevent disease is the greatest he was unclean for some time, and had ranged to visit the town during the day problem that confronts the medical pro- to bathe and wash his hands thoroughly. and return on board to sleep. The doctor fession to-day. While wonderful tri- In many instances he was to bathe in told me it would be foolish to do any- umphs have resulted because of the ear- running water. There is a great sani- thing else. A newcomer is specially nest and self-sacrificing efforts put forth tary truth couched in these few words. liable to infection. None of the crew to prevent certain diseases, much re- Running water is always the cleanest are ever allowed to go ashore here dur- mains yet to be done. and the purest water; and if one washes ing an epidemic, and rarely at other Because of ignorance that prevailed in in any other water, he must rinse off times. reference to smallpox, it is estimated that the water that he has soiled from his Manaos is perhaps the most expensive in one century, from 17oo to 1800, about own body. We gather from the instruc- place in the whole of South America in fifty million people in Europe alone were tion given in Leviticus that the Hebrew which to live. An egg costs 6d.; a bottle carried off by that terrible disease. Now people were amply supplied with running of ginger beer, Is. 6d.; the cheapest we know how to prevent the disease, so water for all that great host to keep hotel or boarding-house, which in Lon- that ordinarily there is absolutely no ex- clean and free from contamination. don would cost no more than a bank cuse for any one's having it. Because ,of increased prevalence of, clerk could afford, costs here LI a day. A physician discovered that the mos- and decreased resistance to, disease, My first call in the town was upon the quito caused malaria, so we at once there is more reason why people in this Brazilian Baptist minister. I found him found out how to prevent it, and also age of the world should keep their hands far from well, and some of his family how to cure it. clean. When I speak of dirty hands, I were suffering from fever. He was For centuries yellow fever was a have in mind more than the generally keeping a small day-school, in order to scourge in many parts of the world. understood meaning of the word dirt. get a living. I had an interesting con- Then a physician, after enduring great A man who works in a trench washes versation with this pastor about our perils, came forth with the claim that a his hands before eating. The machinist work, and found that he and his helper certain mosquito was the cause of it, tries to get all the oil and grime off were selling Bibles for the American and he was laughed to scorn; but it was his hands before appearing among his Bible Society. He greatly helped Snr. true, and so now we hear very little friends. The carpenter or the farmer Lima, our colporteur, when he visited about this terrible disease. While the has soiled hands, and usually washes be- Manaos last year. On that visit, Snr. remedies for this disease failed, sanita- fore meals. But all this dirt, in the eyes Lima sold all the books he had brought tion has nearly blotted it out. When we of medical science, is clean dirt. with him. know how to prevent a disease, it is not Nevertheless, people who are not care- I next called on the Brazilian Pres- necessary to look for a remedy to cure it. ful about keeping their hands free from byterian minister, and here found one of Every physician knows that there is no this kind of dirt are not likely to be his children just recovering from fever. drug nor combination of drugs that will particular about the real dirt; for the He was exceedingly kind to me during cure tuberculosis; and every schoolboy ordinary dirt can be seen on the hand, my visit, and took me all over the town. or schoolgirl knows, or should know, while the dirt •that is so dangerous I met other Christian workers, and ar- the cause of this dread disease, and how is not likely to be seen, and may even be ranged for our books to be kept in stock to prevent its spread. on a hand that is perfectly manicured and sold for us by my friend the Pres- So I might tell about hookworm dis- or covered by a glove. byterian pastor, until I could arrange for ease, typhoid fever, and many other dis- According to Webster's Dictionary the another colporteur. eases. No other adage is so universally word dirt comes from the Saxon word (Concluded next week) accepted to-day as, " An ounce of preven- drit, meaning excrement. The Scrip- NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 17

tures give the same meaning. See Judges with typhoid fever. She did the cooking the slaughter? Shall we hear the groans 3 : 21, 22; Deut. 23: 13. Professor Sedg- for these laborers. Ten years before this of the suffering and the dying as we wisk, speaking of this meaning of the she had had typhoid fever, and examina- administer palliatives to lessen their word, says: "Dirt is dangerous, not be- tion proved her to be a typhoid fever misery, and not do our share toward cause it is of the earth, earthy,' but be- carrier. It is by means of carriers that putting a stop to such fearful results, by cause too often it is drit, or excrement." typhoid fever makes its appearance in teaching the people what constitutes real Another writer says: " It is the unseen new regions. cleanliness? Would that a modern drit that plays the mischief with human There are also carriers of dysentery, Hosea might proclaim from our Chris- life, because it is alive and can multiply plague, cholera, influenza, spinal menin- tian pulpits, ' My people are destroyed indefinitely." gitis, hookworm disease, and many other for lack of knowledge,' and then burn No one knows how much mischief may diseases. The Lord knew about these into the hearts and minds of his listeners be done by a few typhoid fever germs things when the hygienic directions were that the one thing they all need is to on the finger of a man who milks with- given to Moses for his people, and the know just when and how they should out washing his hands. Dr. Eyre made same measures of cleanliness should be wash their hands." this experiment: By actual count he put as strictly regarded to-day. Special care should be exercised at 78 typhoid fever germs in absolutely From the facts before us, it is time our camp-meetings, as conditions are fresh milk. In twenty-four hours there that there was a hand-washing reform such in most camp-grounds that to have were 6o,000; in forty-eight hours, 1o,- on the part of every man, woman, and clean hands is not a very easy matter. 3oo,000 ; and in seven days, 480,000,000. child. In this matter, however, women Would it not be a great step forward Most milk is twenty-four hours old be- are more often offenders, for they have if camps were so provided with sanitary fore used, and germs thrive in it. How to do with the preparation of the food arrangements that all might wash in run- much typhoid fever do you think would and drink for the household. ning water at times when they should? result from a few germs in a milk-can? A writer has said: " We may prate In the majority of camps this can be eas- Reports that have been collected from about cleanliness being next to godliness; ily arranged without much trouble and Germany, England, and the United but unless cleanliness brings freedom with very little expense. If there is any States during the past year, and from a from disease germs in our food, it is but place where people should be clean, it bulletin very recently issued by the S. S. as ' sounding brass, or a tinkling cym- is when they come together to worship Public Department, show very conclu- bal.' If our hands are dirty with un- the Lord. " Who shall ascend into the sively that of those who have typhoid namable dirt, though we may not per- hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in a certain percentage becomes what is sonally be disease carriers, yet we his holy place? He that hath clean known as chronic typhoid fever " car- should be deemed responsible because of hands, and a pure heart." The clean riers; " or, in other words, these persons the risk that we bring upon others.. . . hands here no doubt mean more than are continually throwing off typhoid He who, by his unspeakably disgusting physical cleanliness, but it includes that. fever germs in the excreta. Only too habits, kills his dearest friends, sends In many places when the Scripture often they are careless, and so are the into eternity his own children, delivers speaks of washing the hands, it means direct cause of spreading the disease, to the reaper death his own wife, sister, washing up to the elbows. not only among the members of the im- or parent, should be taught — forcibly, Some may feel that undue prominence mediate family, but in a more extensive if need be — when and how to wash his is being given to this matter of dirty way. hands, in order to put an end to such hands, but to such it can be said that Ten to twenty per cent of those who wholly avoidable tragedies." the subject is only being touched upon. have typhoid fever become carriers for How many typhoid Marys there are Others may say, " I have lived fifty years many weeks, and three to five per• cent among us all the time no one knows, and nothing has happened." How do become permanent carriers. When we but careful observation among even the you know? That is what people say who remember that there are hundreds of better classes in hotels and on the palace use alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, and thousands of people all over the coun- ocean liners has shown that not half the other harmful things, but it does not try that have had typhoid fever, we can people wash their hands at times when prove anything. appreciate the unseen danger that sur- they should, although they have all the North Yakima, Wash. rounds us. conveniences to do so. If this is true A few months ago there was a woman among the more favored classes, what in a large Eastern city known as " ty- must be the condition among the com- WOULD it not be better to leave to- phoid Mary," because it was found out mon people and the " great unwashed "? morrow with God? That is what is on investigation that in many families When dirty hands handle our food,— our troubling men; to-morrow's temptations„ where she worked in various States sev- bread, our milk, our fruit, our potatoes, to-morrow's difficulties, to-morrow's bur- eral members came down with typhoid everything we eat,— the thought is not dens, to-morrow's duties. Martin Lu- fever. She was carefully examined, and reassuring. It is gruesome, and yet it ther, in his autobiography, says: " I have found to be a typhoid fever carrier. is true. Dirty hands need more than one preacher that I love better than any The London Lancet reports the case of to be dipped into the water and wiped other on earth; it is my little tame robin, a woman seventy-four years of age who on the common towel. Soap and water who preaches to me daily. I put his had typhoid fever in 1856. From 1905 need to be used freely, and running water crumbs upon my window-sill, especially to 1908 she ran a boarding-house, doing whenever possible. at night. He hops onto the window-sill all the housework and the cooking. In What percentage of farmers and when he wants his supply, and takes as a period of less than three years one hun- those who milk wash their hands in the much as he desires to satisfy his need. dred fifty-nine cases of typhoid fever morning before milking? If personal Thence he always hops to a little tree occurred among her boarders. On ex- knowledge and observations are taken close by, and lifts his voice to Goct and amination it was found that she was as a standard, the percentage is exceed- sings his carol of praise and gratitude, throwing off typhoid fever germs in ingly small. There ought to be .a. great tucks his little head under his wing and large numbers; and that after a lapse of shout all over the land, and in other goes fast asleep, and leaves to-morrow fifty-two years. It must be obvious to lands, " Wash the hands." This is no to look after itself. He is the best every reader of this article that this small matter, but a very serious one. preacher that have on earth."— H. W. woman did not wash her hands when she " Shall we continue to endure in si- Webb-Poploe. ought to have done so, even if she had lence this awful indignity, eating food - 7 not been a typhoid fever carrier. prepared by those who have not properly A woman in Strasburg owned a washed soiled hands ? Shall we permit " BE not rash with thy mouth, and bakery, which was scrupulously clean thousands of Rachels to continue weep- let not thine heart be hasty to utter and passed the rigid German sanitary ing for their children and refusing to be anything before God: for God is in inspection. It was found that her em- comforted, their ignorance and the igno- heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore ployees were continually coming down rance of their servants having caused let thy words be few." 18 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911

largest in the history of the school. The school family numbers about seventy-five, and this crowds our present capacity. The Madison school is training sol- diers for active service. It has a right, therefore, to select its students, and those who prove equal to the situation here are found to have good fiber for making missionaries. The school is a democratic body, and the government rests on the shoulders of all. Everybody has his part in the work North India king up different points of present truth. of the institution, and practically every This meeting is appreciated by the na- exercise of the school is educational You have no doubt received a report tives, as they have opportunity to ask along the lines of burden-bearing, inde- of our workers' meeting, and heard our questions and receive light on the truth. pendence of thought and action, ability call for a man to help in the Hindustani At the conclusion of the afternoon meet- to take the initiative, ability to endure work. As Elder S. A. Wellman is called ing a week ago, one young man stood up hardships, faith in the leadings of God, to edit the Oriental Watchman and the and asked what he must do to be saved. self-reliance, and other traits which the Herald of Health and to do other liter- He has now accepted the Saviour, and is Word and the Testimonies say must ary work, he is practically out of the keeping the Sabbath. Another young characterize those who have a part in Hindustani work for some time to come. man on an adjoining farm has also be- the closing message. This leaves us to struggle on alone gun to keep the Sabbath, and takes part Brother Charles Franz, who has been among one hundred twenty millions of in the meetings. laboring in Cuba for the past ten months, native people in north India. Do you About two months before we came visited Madison at the beginning of the not think our call for a man is an urgent here, Brother I. B. Burton and Faba term. Brother Franz and his wife, and one? We can not push the work much went down to Fish River among the Red Sister Burgos, the third member of this until we have a man upon whom to de- Kafirs. They labored there about six Cuban company of workers, are all pend for help, as we feel it would not weeks, and when they left, about ten former students of the Nashville Agri- be wise to open up new interests until adults were professing to keep the Sab- cultural and Normal Institute. They we are able to care for them properly. bath. These are still loyal to the truth went through the training just men- The work here in Garhwal is growing, as far as they know it, and the ;work tioned; and in his recent visit, Brother and we hope in time to have a harvest of has grown until at the present time there Franz said the lessons learned here made souls. It takes a little time, however, are twenty-eight who do not work on the possible the degree of success that has as we are building from the foundation. Sabbath. I have had meetings there, and attended the work in Cuba. The spirit These people had never heard a word they are anxious to know more of the of prophecy says that such an all-round of the gospel until we came among them. truth. The congregation usually num- training will make the workers efficient L. J. BURGESS. bers from fifty to sixty persons, many of in foreign fields. These workers find --4- -o- them in their red blankets. a wide space in which to work, and in spite of the fact that two of them had Maranatha Mission, Africa At the next location to this, the head man sent a message asking us to come a language to learn, they have been self- THIS session of the school has been to his place to hold some meetings, and supporting. They are about to begin a open about six weeks, with thirty-nine we hope soon to do so. school for Cuban youth on an eighty- students in attendance, twenty-five board- Brother Tarr is studying the native acre farm. The same school will offer ers in the home, and fourteen from the language more fully, with the object of opportunities for other teachers from neighboring farms. helping in the evangelistic work. the States to study the language and At the Fish River schOol, carried on We pray the Lord to water seeds of grow accustomed to Cuban life before by Brother Taba, there are thirty-seven truth sown in weakness, and we hope starting centers themselves. students, with an average attendance of that some jewels may be gathered here There are over twenty industrial about thirty. This school is partially on for the soon-coming kingdom of Christ. schools now being conducted by Madison the self-supporting basis, as the parents D. SPARROW. students. The frequent reports from meet the necessary supplies required by -4- -.- these schools by visiting representatives, the students, the conference paying the and the occasional visit's of students to teacher's salary only. The New School Year at the Nash- near-by highland schools, keep alive an Brother Claude Tarr is now teaching ville Agricultural and Normal active interest in this work. The sani- the Maranatha school. He teaches both tarium family brings the school in touch English and Kafir, which is a great help Institute with the outside world, and there is to the students, as he explains the Eng- THE fall term of the Nashville Agri- scarcely time for one to lose sight of the lish words to them in their own lan- cultural and Normal Institute, known to mission of the Madison school, or the guage, and they appreciate this. Since many as the Madison school, opened Oc- work ahead of its students. The family adopting this plan, there has been a tober 18. The season in Tennessee is is almost invariably a happy-one, because marked improvement in the school. rather late this year, and the crops were it has a well-defined purpose. We have a number of natives who de- scarcely gathered when the term began. The Madison school family is looking sire a training to fit them to labor for The last days of the vacation were busy forward to the completion of a new their own people, and they wish to make ones for the men at the school, for they dining-hall. The rooms in the old planta- native language their chief study, get- filled two silos with sorghum-cane, — tion house, which have always served as ting a Bible training as well. two hundred fifty tons of winter feed dining-rooms, are crowded to the utmost. The evangelistic part of the work is for the dairy stock. The new dining-room is being built by very encouraging. The attendance at It is interesting to see students hitherto the class in carpentry, and it is hoped to the Sabbath morning meeting usually unaccustomed to such schooling, getting have it ready to occupy by the first of the numbers from forty to sixty, many of their first lessons in self-supporting work new year. whom do not understand English. Stran- in the South in the harvest-field, or in We invite friends to visit us for the gers are continually coming into these treading ensilage, or in feeding the hum- sake of learning more of the great South, meetings. mer, alongside students who have had its need of them, and their need of it. We have planned to have a meeting as longer experience in these practical M. BESSIE DEGRAW. often as possible at a native kraal about phases of education. One is reminded of five miles from the mission. The first Gideon's army. The Lord told him not meeting was held to-day, with about fifty- to start to the battle with any timid or Philippine Islands five present. These, services will be con- homesick soldiers, so all who were faint- SUNDAY, September 3, was another ducted in the native language. hearted were allowed to go home. happy day for the little church here in On Sabbath our program is somewhat The voice of the hummer and the Manila. Early in the morning we all different. Sabbath-school is held • at whistle of the engine were scarcely si- went to the sea, where eighteen dear A. M., and church service from 12: 15 to • lenced when class work was begun. souls were baptized, and we trust arose I : 15. This service is usually conducted Fifty-five stalwart men and earnest, to live a new life. Some of these are in both languages. At 3 r. M. we have brave young women were enrolled. This aged people who have lived more than a Bible study in the native language, ta- is not a large company, but it is the their threescore and ten years. It takes NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 19

much courage to be born again and to " Giving all diligence, add to your faith ON Sunday, October 22, five persons break away from lifelong customs, at virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to were baptized at Colman, S. Dak. such an age. All, men and women, use knowledge temperance; and to temper- tobacco and chew betel-nut from earliest ance patience ; and to patience godliness ; THE new church building at Gilchrist, youth, and nothing but the power of God and to godliness brotherly kindness; and Minn., was dedicated October 29. Elders can break this custom and set them free. to brotherly kindness charity. . . . He S. E. Jackson, H. Steen, and L. H. Chris- But the gospel is that power of God that lacketh these things is blind, and tian were present to assist in the serv- which works the same upon the Filipino can not see afar off, and hath forgotten ices. as upon the American, if the heart will that he was purged from his old sins. submit. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give dil- A SHORT series of meetings was re- Our number has grown so large that igence to make your calling and election cently held at Grove, Ky. The Lord we shall soon have to build a place of sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall blessed the workers in presenting the worship, for all can not get into our never fall: for so an entrance shall be message, and several were added to the room at the mission home. ministered unto you abundantly into the church at that place. Our native helpers have proved them- everlasting kingdom of our Lord and selves of great assistance in the work. Saviour Jesus Christ." 2 Peter I: 3-11. THE Danish-Norwegian tent effort in They know the customs of the people, How to Stir the World and can get among them much better Brooklyn, N. Y., under the direction of than a foreigner. " Heavenly intelligences are waiting Elder N. P. Neilson, closed October 8. Six souls have united with the church, We attended a native funeral yester- to cooperate with human instrumentali- and others are deeply interested. day. The relatives of the deceased all ties, that they may reveal to the world gather as soon as the death occurs, and what human beings may become."— the family must furnish a feast for two "Testimonies for the Church," Vol. IX, As a result of the summer's tent effort days. They spend the time in discussing page 30. in Omaha, Neb., conducted by Elder and the good and bad deeds of the deceased. We can not all preach, but we can Mrs. G. R. Hawkins and Brother P. A. They generally have a band playing work in one or more of the many ways Field and wife, with associate Bible most of the time. Just before the burial, that God has provided so that all will workers, between twenty and twenty-five I was asked to preach to the people. be without excuse when Christ comes have taken a firm stand for the truth. to claim his own. After I had done so, they began the serv- ice of taking the body from the room, The Time Is at Hand SEVEN adults in Wooster, Ohio, have and then the wailing began. I can still when all should do something with our signified their intention to obey the truth. hear those awful groans and wails ring- truth-filled literature. `Now is the time At Thornport two persons openly took ing in my ears. Death is a dreaded to sell our books, both large and small, their stand with us at the close of the enemy to all nationalities alike; but soon either for cash or by taking orders, for tent-meetings, and several others ex- the glad morning will come when there the holidays. Thousands of books are pressed their intention of so doing. shall be no more death. used as presents at this time of the year, L. V. FINSTER. and our books rank in beauty with the A SABBATH-SCHOOL of forty-five mem- -*- best, and in quality, we know, are su- bers has recently been organized at Luf- Federated Malay States perior to all others. Our periodicals and kin, Tex. Elder J. I. Taylor baptized tracts should be scattered like the au- three new Sabbath-keepers at Houston UPON coming to the Orient, we stopped tumn leaves. The Harvest Ingathering several weeks ago. The workers at Hale at Singapore and remained there almost campaign is on in earnest, and all who report that twenty have begun to keep six months. While working for the know the truth and withhold their serv- the Sabbath there, and they hope to English-speaking people, we studied the ices in this great effort to send aid to organize a church soon. Malay language. It was a great pleasure those sitting in " gross darkness " to-day, to be associated in the work there with will be counted just that much short, IT is reported of the work in Portland, Brother and Sister Jones. They have when the Master comes to reward Ore., that on Sabbath, October 21, thir- had a number of years' experience work- " every man according as his work shall teen candidates went forward in baptism, ing among the people of these islands, be." making a total of forty-six added to the and we were much benefited by being Our relief work should be taken up church in the past few weeks. Several with them. with renewed effort, and " Ministry of others are waiting only "for further in- About three months ago we came to Healing" should be placed in thousands struction before taking this step. Brother Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Fed- of homes, so that the people may have H. W. Oliver reports that one family has erated Malay States. This is a nice city the help, both spiritual and physical, that taken a stand for the truth at Yoncalla. of about fifty thousand inhabitants, and the book will give, and also that finan- is located up among the mountains. The cial aid may be given to the needy in- population is composed mostly of Tamil OF the result of the tent effort in stitutions as quickly as possible. Citronelle, Ala., Elder E. G. Hayes re- Indians and Chinese, many of whom The blood of souls will be found on read and speak English. ports : " Eleven adults signed the cove- the garments of those who do nothing. nant, seven of whom united with the There are eight Tamil men attending The admonition is sent to us : " If we are our Bible readings, and we hope some church, and still others have begun to not active in the service of Christ, we observe the Sabbath. Five of those uni- of them will accept the message. While are ranking with those who are in posi- many in this city are afflicted with ma- ting with the church were baptized be- tive hostility against him; for we are in fore the close of the tent-meetings; the larial fever, we are thankful that our the position of stumbling-blocks." But health is good, and that God has been so other two were satisfied with their for- if we are busily engaged in seeking to mer baptism. Several others are deeply merciful to us. We are of good courage, know and do the will of God, we shall and enjoy the work. interested in the message, and will con- feel such a burden for perishing souls, tinue to study the truth." MR. AND MRS. R. P. MONTGOMERY. such an unrest of mind, that we can not -4- be restrained from fulfilling the commis- FROM Norman, Okla., comes the word The Work of Soul-Saving sion, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature," thus that as a result of the tent effort there, " CHRIST accepts, 0 so gladly ! every saving our own souls and the souls of two have requested baptism, and several human agency that is surrendered to him. others. I. G. 13IGELow. others are interested in the truth. Con- He brings the human into union with cerning the progress of the German• work the divine, that he may communicate to -4- in that State Elder A. A. Meyer writes: the world the mysteries of incarnate love. Field Notes "It has been my joyful privilege to lead Talk it, pray it, sing it, fill the world with about fifty precious souls to Christ, and the message of his truth, and keep press- THE summer's work among the colored to baptize them. They are all now stanch ing on into the regions beyond." people in New York City resulted in Christians, and active members of some The preceding, taken from " Testimo- seventeen baptisms. of our various German churches. I nies for the Church," Vol. IX, page 3o, also baptized between twenty-five and should stimulate to activity every one EIGHTEEN persons were baptized at the thirty at our last two annual camp-meet- who has a knowledge of present truth; close of the camp-meeting at Sanford, ings, and a few were baptized by other and the following should be a warning Fla., and ten at the close of the meeting brethren. So, in all, we have gained and an admonition to all who profess to for the colored people. The new church about one hundred German members in believe this message : — at Orlando was dedicated October 14. the last year and a half." 20 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911

all these magazines paid their way and The Publishing Work showed a small credit balance. Brother Christian Liberty F. F. Byington, manager of the Inter- Conducted by the Publishing Department of the national Publishing Association, under Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to General Conference date of November 19, writes:— the current history of the rights - Secretary E. R. PALMER " We are glad to report that there is of conscience N. Z. Towx - - Assistant Secretary a growing interest in our foreign maga- zines. In reference to our Swedish Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau magazine, a correspondent recently wrote He Alone Is Great K. C. Russum. - Secretary as follows : I will honestly say that your 5. B. HORTON - Assistant Secretary I LIKE the man who faces What he must paper is the very best I ever read. I With step triumphant and a heart of can not get along without it. I have cheer; found many precious truths in that pa- Religious Measures Before Who fights his daily battle without per.' In reference to our Danish maga- Congress fear, zine, an Eastern editor writes : I will Sees his hopes fall, yet keeps unfaltering gladly put the Lys over Landet on my THE next session of Congress will trust exchange list. It has been a welcome convene Monday, December 4. At the That God is God, and somehow true and friend ever since the first issue I had the present time there are two measures be- just privilege of reading, came. I would like fore Congress which affect, in our judg- His plans work out for mortals; not a to know whether I could obtain all the ment, the principles of our American in- tear issues published as I wish to have them stitutions. One of these is the District Is shed when fortune, which the world bound for reference.' " Sunday bill (S. 237), known as the Johns- holds dear, These are good words of cheer for ton Sunday bill. This bill is now on the Falls from his grasp (better with love a our brethren who are struggling with Senate Calendar, and may be called by crust these pioneer undertakings. Let us help majority vote of the Senate at any time. Than living in dishonor) ; envies not them all we can by our prayers and It is a well-known fact that the bill, in Nor loses faith in man, but does his best; cooperation. E. R. P. its title as well as in the section granting Nor ever murmurs at his humbler lot, -AI- -4- -4- exemption to those who keep another day But with a smile and words of hope gives as the Sabbath, is a religious measure, zest " Good News From a Far and violative not only of American prin- To every toiler. He alone is great Country" ciples of civil government, but also of the Who by a life heroic conquers fate. express terms of the First Amendment — Sarah Bolton. THE past week we received at our to the Constitution. office a report from Brother John L. -4- -4- -.- The other measure is pending in the Brown, of Spain, showing the sale of House of Representatives, and is known Scholarships for Mount Vernon literature during \ the month of October. as A Bill for the Observance of Sunday College He reports nine canvassers,— five, who in Post-Offices (H. R. 9433). This meas- are selling books, and four, who are ure is in the hands of the Committee on FROM the Columbia Union Visitor we selling papers. During the month they the Post-Office and Post-Roads, and is learn of the success of the students from sold 283 books, 1,576 papers, 28 helps, likely to be reported from that committee Mount Vernon College in their efforts to 441 tracts, and took io subscriptions for at any time during the next session. earn scholarships during last summer's the missionary paper, the total value of There is no legislation before this Con- vacation. Thirty-four students joined in which in American money is $429.68. gress which is of more vital concern to the undertaking. The value of book Brother Brown says:— our country than these two measures, sales required for a scholarship was $275. " We are all of good courage, and are because of the principles involved ; and Of the thirty-four who made a begin- determined to .remain in this battle until on that account every American citizen ning in the spring, eighteen earned the Spain is carpeted with our literature. should petition Congress, remonstrating full scholarship, and thirteen a one-half We have our difficulties to overcome, and against the passage of these bills. scholarship. One of these students, Ro- the enemy to face at every turn; but S. E. H. sella Smith, earned three and one-half by God's help, we will have complete -4-- -0- -4- scholarships. This is a good record, and victory over every besetment. We need speaks volumes for the scholarship plan. the prayers of all our loved ones in the Notes May we not hear from other schools? home land." THE November-December Bulletin of E. R. P. Indeed, Brother Brown and his little American Federation of Catholic So- -4- -4-- -4- band of brave workers will be remem- cieties contains the following boycott ad- Our Foreign Magazines bered in our prayers. Our eyes fill with vice on its editorial page: " Don't buy tears, and our hearts overflow with the Encyclopedia Britannica, and advise THE International Publishing Associa- thanksgiving to God, as we study this all your friends not to buy it. It is un- tion at College View, Neb., is now issuing report, and try to realize what its note trustworthy as to Catholic matters. It magazines in the German, Danish-Nor- of determination and victory means for is malicious, bigoted, offensive, and false. wegian, Swedish, and French languages. the future of the work in this difficult Do all you can to prevent its sale." It The managers are' endeavoring to get in mission field. is presumed that in all other respects the touch with all agents for the English We speak of this field as difficult, and Encyclopedia Britannica is trustworthy. magazines, and wish to secure orders yet we believe that God takes delight in This, together with other campaigns in- from our agents for as many of these giving the most signal victories where augurated by Rome against history, foreign magazines as they can dispose the difficulties are greatest. He has shows that she wishes to stifle the record of to people they meet in their respective plainly shown us his attitude toward our of the past. In this, perhaps, the Roman territories, many of whom prefer litera- work in such difficult fields in giving the Church can not be blamed. ture in one of those languages. victory that has been gained in Mexico, This is a very enterprising effort on South America, Russia, China, and in the part of this publishing house. The many other fields that may properly be " FOR the forty-five years that we have Foreign Department of the General Con- called difficult. been editing a Catholic paper, we have ference is taking a great interest in this The Bible, also, gives us encourage- made it our invariable policy to follow difficult but important work. We all ap- ment on this point. Read Hab. 3: 17-19. the lead of the holy father in politics. preciate this effort to provide the truth This scripture teaches that when outward We never were ready to go to the length in acceptable form for the many people conditions are the most forbidding, the of saying that the temporal power was who have come to this country from Lord lifts his people up upon his " high of divine right. We hesitated to assent other lands, and we trust that all col- places." There is a high place of victory to the statement of Cardinal Manning porteurs for magazines will secure sam- where we are not subject to the depress- that it was an ecclesiastical question, ples of these papers, and use as many ing and forbidding conditions that pre- and as near to the church's heart as the as they can in their territories. Our vail in this wicked world. Brother vestments of the altar. But we always brethren and sisters in the churches, also, Brown and his colaborers, evidently, declared that if the Pope wanted the can sell these magazines to neighbors have their feet upon one of those high States of the Church; or any other states, and friends who prefer literature in one places. Let us unite in praying that we wanted him to have them, and were of these languages. they may continue in this " highway " of willing to go any lengths to secure them Considerable success has already at- victory prepared for the ransomed of the to him."— Western Watchman (St. tended this effort. During the year 1910 Lord. E. R. P. Louis, Mo.), September 2 T . NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND ,SABBATH HERALD 21

THE press reports that the kaiser, in — This year's apple crop is about 3o,- addressing a deputation of the Branden- 000,000 barrels. It exceeds last year's — The schooner " Edith E. Dennis " burg Senate, said: " The clergy should by twenty per cent. One sixth of it is was sunk off Fort Terry, N. Y., Novem- let dogmatic preaching alone. They in the State of New York. ber 13. Four persons were drowned. should talk less about penitence and such — The Greek steamer " Lord Byron," — In the recent contest for the world's things, and pay more attention to the from Theodosia for Antwerp, foundered baseball championship, on each team one person of Christ: They should make him in the English Channel during the gale of the most skilful players was a full- the center of their religious services and blooded American Indian, preaching." This is certainly wholesome on November 6. Twenty-two of the crew of twenty-five were lost. advice, especially the latter part of the — It is said that 2,50o daily newspapers rkaiser's statement, not only to the Cath- — Almost a million divorces were are published in the United States, 1,500 olic clergy, to whoin this language was granted in the United States between in Germany, and only 250 in Great Brit- addressed, but to all the people who 1887 and 1906. Last year there were ain. Japan has 400 dailies, one of them name the name of Jesus. 72,062 divorces as against 13,18o in with a circulation of 400,000. France, which has the next largest — The streets of New York have be- number, IN the Western Watchman of Septem- come so littered with piles of garbage ber 14, a letter from London, England, — At a meeting of the members of as the result of the street cleaners' strike, refers to the jubilee of united Italy, the Philadelphia Hotel Association No- that Street. Cleaning Commissioner Ed- in which, by the way, the church took vember 8, the members who are the wards has begun the use of disinfectants, no part. The statement is made: managers of the leading hotels of the — Tolstoi's estate, which would have " There is a distinct note of hope in the city agreed to act in conjunction to do been divided among the peasants living air, for next year will see a magnificent away with the " tipping " system. thereon if the owner's wishes had been celebration in honor of the fifteen-hun- — More than a score of deaths, several carried out, is, it is reported, to be sold dredth anniversary of Constantine's con- million dollars' property loss, and much for the benefit of his family. It is urged version, and the consequent Christiani- suffering and inconvenience resulted that the house be bought by subscription, zing of the Roman empire, and pilgrims from the sudden fall of temperature and kept as a memorial of the novelist. are expected in immense numbers from through the central portion of the United — Recent reports say that the whole all parts of the world to do homage to States, November II, 12. In many places Persian cabinet, together with the regent, the spiritual emperor of Christendom." severe storms accompanied this cold, has resigned. This action follows the When one realizes that the Sunday law wave. presentation by Russia of an ultimatum of Constantine in 321, promulgated after — The death roll of aviation for 1911 demanding an apology and reparation for his so-called conversion, was the enter- promises to be of shocking length. In- insults to her consular officers, in con- ing wedge which brought the union of cluding the tragedy at Macon, Ga., when nection with the confiscation of the prop- the church and state, thus " Christian- Eugene Ely volplaned to death in a erty of the premier. izing the Roman empire," it ought not brilliant flight at the State fair, thus far —" The bank deposits of Butler to be difficult to see that the success of since the first of January sixty-five per- present efforts to secure from Congress County, Kansas, show more money per sons have been killed, as aviators or pas•- capita than any other agricultural a Sunday law will bring about results sengers or as spectators watching flights. similar to those attending the " Christian county in the State," says a newspaper Roman empire." S. B. H. — President Taft returned to Wash- despatch. The reason assigned is that ington November 12, having completed the Kafir corn, which is largely raised his trip across the country. He has in this country, withstood the drought News and Miscellany visited Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kan- of last summer, while other crops failed. sas, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyo- — The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of ming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Cali- Salt Lake City, Utah, is to make a tour Notes and clippings from the daily fornia, Nevada, Utah, Montana, South of the country. This is said to be one Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois again, and and weekly press of the largest musical organizations in Pennsylvania. The journey covered the world, comprising six hundred mem- about 13,000 miles. bers. The choir's repertoire will include — Eight cadets at West Point were — The union between the Free Bap- grand opera selections, oratorio, part found to have smuggled liquors into their tists and the regular Baptists of the songs, and ,some " characteristic Utah quarters, and to have become intoxicated Northern States, which has been under pieces." upon them. They were tried and dis- discussion and negotiation, has been ef- — English meteorologists have to go missed from the service. President Taft fected. The Free Baptists numbered confirmed the sentence dismissing four back in their records for seventy years 8o,000. Hereafter, they will support the to find a summer with as high an aver- of them, and commuted the sentence of missionary and other work which has age temperature — namely, a fraction the other four, who are to suffer some been maintained by the Baptists. The kind of humiliation as a punishment. over sixty-six degrees — as that of 1911. separation thus ended began in 1780, and The hottest day of last summer, August — In a resume of the ethnological grew out of doctrinal differences. 9, when the thermometer registered Ioo° losses caused by the fire in the State — On November 13, Secretary of Capitol at Albany, N. Y., last spring, the at Greenwich, has also had no parallel State Knox received $966,000 from the since the summer of 1841. American Anthropologist notes the curi- government of Chile in settlement of ous fact that almost the only articles that the long-standing Alsop claim. At the — A new naval training station is to escaped injury were those having a relig- time of the treaty of peace between Bo- be established at Lake Bluff, on Lake. ious significance. The medicine masks livia and Chile, the mining territory Michigan, a few miles from Chicago. and other paraphernalia of the Indians' which this company controlled was ceded Secretary Meyer is reported as saying religious rites were uninjured, while the to Chile, with the understanding that she of it: "This naval training station will rest of the valuable collection was almost settle all outstanding claims with the be the finest in the world. I believe that totally destroyed. In another age this firm. This she tried to evade, and a pay- when the station is in full operation, might have been considered significant; ment has just been forced. seventy-five per cent of the men joining now it is only a freak of the fire-fiend. the navy will enlist from the Middle — Complete agreements between the West." — The government brought suit telegraph operators and officials of the against the United States Steel Corpora- Southern Railway and the Baltimore — Not more than 60,000 of the 4,00o,- tion in the federal circuit court at Tren- and Ohio Railroad, by which the em- 00o books in the British Museum are in ton, N. J., on October 26. J. Pierpont ployees of the former will receive an common use, the museum's chief libra- Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and An- increase of twelve per cent in salary, rian is reported as saying. Only occa- drew Carnegie are among the eighteen and those of the latter will be given a sionally is one of the other 3,940,000 individual defendants in the suit. The six-per-cent increase, were reached re- books asked for by a delver in forgotten court is asked to say that all the de- cently. Shorter working hours and lore. " Acres and acres of books here fendants are violating the law; to re- other concessions were also granted the are uncut," says the librarian, " and have strain them perpetually by injunction; to men. The agreement will cost the South- never left their shelves since they were order a dissolution of the company, its ern Railway approximately $120,000 placed on them." And yet in the future constituent companies, and the companies more annually. The signing of the any one of these forgotten books may of which they were made; to declare agreement ends negotiations that have prove to some special student to be of the ore lease illegal, and to cancel it. been pending for several months. priceless value.

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— At the recent International Prohibi- — Dr. Wu Ting Fang, ex-minister of — For the fiscal year ending June 3o, tion Conference held at The Hague, Hol- China to the United States, is writing 1911, according to the official figures is- land, thirty-nine countries were repre- a book on his impressions of this country, sued by United States Commissioner of sented. Thg reports were of the growth especially American women. The com- Internal Revenue, R. E. Cabell, the con- of temperance sentiment and the enact- pletion of the book is said to be held sumption of distilled spirits was 134,600,- ment of prohibition legislation. The up by Dr. Wu's present efforts to secure 193 gallons; the consumption of beer conference unanimously agreed on a me- foreign recognition of the revolutionists. during the same period was 1,952,722,381 morial, addressed to all governments, He has already signed a contract to have gallons. These totals represent an in- asking for suppression of the liquor the book published by an American com- crease of over 8,000,000 gallons of traffic, and proposing an international pany. Dr. Wu declares that the Amer- whisky and of over 113,000,000 gallons convention. ican women are astoundingly clever and of beer over the figures of 191o, and beautiful, but that they are no more break all existing records for liquor sales — A new archeological expedition has free than other women. Corsets, he says, in this country. The combined increase left England for Jerusalem, to continue are as bad as •the tiny shoes of the Chi- is 121,049,823 gallons, which represents the work on the site of ancient Zion, nese women. While he finds America a an increase of 1.3 gallons per capita, with a view to discovering the birth- great nation, he thinks that many of its making the total per capita consumption places of David and Solomon. Captain social customs are outlandish. of liquors to-day 22.29 gallons. The Parker, brother of the earl of Morley, highest previous consumption of distilled is in charge, and has taken with him — A shipment of specimens from the spirits was for the year 1907. some English laborers, who will resume National Zoological Gardens of the Ar- the work in the underground passages — The United States is the world's gentine Republic, at Buenos Aires, was greatest cotton producer, the estimate for on Mount Ophel, a cabbage garden which received at the Washington Zoo last now supplies Jerusalem with vegetables, the last season being 10,155,000 bales of week. Two half-grown tapirs, of a 500 pounds each; India, 4,186,000 bales; and is supposed to be the site of the an- species that is fast disappearing, are the cient Zion. China, 1,200,000 bales; Egypt, 970,000 stars of the new troupe of arrivals. The bales; Russia (Asiatic provinces), 768,- — Vigorous efforts to stay the ravages male, only one year old, weighs almost 000 bales; Mexico, 125,000 bales; and of the chestnut bark disease, which al- 500 pounds. Two handsome coypous miscellaneous, including Brazil, Peru, ready has destroyed $25,000,000 worth of were also in the shipment. They very Persia, Turkey, and other countries, 645,- valuable timber in the Eastern States, are much resemble the muskrat that abounds 000 bales; making the total world crop to be made by the Department of Agri- in this country. A pair of owls also for the season of 1900-1o, 18,049,000 culture. Dr. Haven Metcalf, in charge arrived. These birds are about twice the bales. Of the product of China, 200,000 of the work, is taking •the question up size of the American owl, and their bales are now annually exported to with the authorities. At a conservative feathers are of a deeper and prettier Japan. Of the cotton crop of India, estimate, the chestnut stand of the coun- brown than those of their American slightly less than one half is exported. try is worth between $300,000,000 and cousins. A stork, four feet high, of a Of the Egyptian cotton, practically all is $400,000,000; and as the disease spreads species that is almost extinct in South exported, going chiefly to Europe and rapidly, it will mean a great economic America, was also sent. The shipment the United States, its long staple and loss to the country if we can not check was completed by two agoutis, a branch silky luster rendering it especially valu- the infection. of the rabbit family. able for use in conjunction with the — While American missionaries are — Miss Margaret Kelly, a woman shorter-stapled cotton of other parts of traveling to the ends of the earth to thirty-five years of age, is to-day in ac- the world. The value of raw cotton im- make converts to Christianity, an insid- tual charge of the manufacture of coins ported into the United States during the ious " heathen " propaganda, so it is of the United States, having been made year 1910 was, in round terms, about claimed, is undermining our spiritual examiner of mints, and being in ac- $15,000,000, of which $1o,000,000 worth health. Mabel Potter Daggett, who, in tual charge, in the absence of Director came direct from Egypt, $2,000,000 from the Hampton Columbian Magazine, Roberts, of the money-making institu- the United Kingdom (presumably also writes at length of this heathen invasion, tions of the United States. She is the chiefly from Egypt), nearly $1,000,000 finds that women are its chief victims. highest-paid woman in the employ of the worth from Peru, and $750,000 from " Eve," she says, " is eating the apple United States, her salary being $3,000 a China. again." She continues: " Yoga, that year. She received $2,250 as chief clerk Eastern philosophy the emblem of which of the Bureau, from which position she is the coiled serpent, is being widely dis- was promoted. Beginning as a stenog- seminated here. And before a charm rapher, she has occupied almost every that seemingly they can not resist, thou- position in the Bureau, and " is acknowl- sands of converts are yielding to the edged to be the greatest authority in the temptation to embrace its teachings of country on mints, excepting only Di- strange mysteries." rector Roberts, her chief." The next Publications Wanted — After an agitation of several years, highest-paid woman on the government THE following-named persons desire late, the women teachers of New York have pay-roll receives $2,500. clean copies of our publications, sent post- at last won their fight for equal pay for paid: — both sexes in the public schools. This — The Canadian census figures show C. F. Campbell, Perth, Ontario, Canada, RE- will add $3,500,000 to the annual metro- a total population of 7,081,869. In 1901 VIEW, Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, Life politan budget. The bill for equal pay the population was 5,371,315. The popu- Boat, magazines, and tracts. lation of certain cities and their gains has passed the State legislature several Mrs. Eleanor A. Himebaugh, is Clinton times, but until now has invariably been are as follows: — Ave., Fredonia, N. Y., desires clean copies vetoed. In some New York school TOTAL GAIN of our •publications for free distribution. Montreal 466,197 grades, the women teachers already have 198,467 Mrs. Martin Kierstead, Norton, New Bruns- equal pay with the men, and there are Quebec 78,067 9,227 Toronto wick, REVIEW, Instructor, Little Friend, old or many large cities throughout the coun- 356,240 167,200 new; also the Protestant Magazine, Life and try where uniform compensation for Winnipeg 135,430 93,090 Health, and Christian Education. Vancouver / . . 100,333 73,323 both sexes is the rule. The increase to -+- -4- the New York taxpayers will be four Victoria 31,620 10,084 mills on the dollar. While the result of Edmonton 24,882 22,256 Notice to Missionary Workers Regina 30,210 27,961 the campaign will be to give higher pay ALL who desire to have five or more copies to the women teachers now in com- Saskatoon 12,002 11,889 of our ten-cent magazines mailed to five or mission, it will probably be the means Moosejaw 13,824 12,266 more of •their friends, should send the names of opening the way for the appointment Ottawa 86,340 26,412 and addresses to the publishers, who will ad- of a larger number of men teachers, who The parliamentary representation of dress and mail the magazines for only five will be chosen for certain grades •the the West will now be increased; that of cents a copy. This is a much better and more readily that pay will now be equal the East reduced. The basis of repre- cheaper way than for individuals to order the magazines in quantities, at four or five cents, for both sexes. In other words, it will sentation will henceforth be one seat to and then address wrappers or envelopes, and now be a question of absolute fitness in 30,000 population, instead of 25,00o. pay the postage, which runs from two to three deciding appointments, instead of being Even so, eleven new seats will be added, cents a copy. A word to the wise is sufficient. one largely, of economy or favoritism bringing the membership of the Domin- A. J. S. BotiRDEAu, as formerly. ion Parliament up to 232. Manager Magazine Department. NOVEMBER 23, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 23

, Two Good Pamphlets CHRISTMAS, is coming, and we have 1,000,000 URN ELL.- Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Elin Bible Mottoes to sell. Size, 12 x 16. Special Violet Ornell, infant daughter of Brother and I HAVE been impressed to prepare two more offer: $1.50; 50, $2.5o; too, $4.50; 25o, Sister L. Ornell. She was born Nov. 1, 1909, pamphlets. One I have called " Last-Day 25, $10; 500, $17; 1,000, $30. Express prepaid. and fell asleep Oct. 28, 1911. The parents Tokens," and it has 206 pages. It calls Spanish, German, English. Address Hampton and four sisters mourn their loss. Words of attention to the rise of the advent movement Art Company, Nevada, Iowa. comfort were spoken by Elder N. P. Neilsen in various parts of the world, and its prog- and the writer. E. ROSENWOLD. ress down to date. It has three chapters WANTED.- To correspond with an able farm showing the fulfilment of the word of the laborer. Must be honest, kind-hearted, Sev- BoasT.- Ethel Boist died in Detroit, Mich., Lord by the prophet Joel, when his servants enth-day Adventist married man. Prefer one Nov. 4, 1911. Besides her parents, she leaves should " sound an alarm. . . . The day of the who can teach Sabbath-school, but if right in four sisters and one brother to mourn for her. Lord cometh, it is nigh at hand." He would other ways would be accepted. Must give Services were conducted by Elder Ostrander, " show wonders in the heavens." In these good references in first reply. Austin Stitzel, who spoke from Revelation 22 and Matthew 5, three chapters is an account of fifty-four such Lakeville, Holmes Co., Ohio. bringing out many words of comfort. In- wonders that have been seen in various coun- FOR SALE.- Forty acres, fine farming land, terment took place in St. Charles Cemetery. tries. There are pictures of thirty-six of the near Covert. Church and church-school privi- MRS. LUCY THEILE. same. Twenty-two of these, found on sixteen leges. Twenty acres seeded, rest in cultiva- pages of the pamphlet, are in the same colors tion. Apple- and pear-trees and strawberries. LAFFERTY.- Llewellyn Lleforest Lafferty, as witnessed. An astronomer, who is in Barn, *ell, house newly papered. Soft water son of Brother and Sister James Lafferty, charge of the telescope in one of our California in house. Only $1,8o0 if sold soon. Address was born July 5, 1908, and departed this life observatories, recently said to me, after seeing Mrs. Mark Wilbur, R. F. D. 5, Eaton Rapids, at his home in Cedar Lake, Mich., Oct. 23, these pictures, " No astronomer can explain Mich. 1911. The parents mourn the loss of their these things. The only solution is they are little one, and miss his prattle in the home; produced directly by the power of the Lord." FOR SALE.- Fifty-acre school farm of the but they are assured that it is well with the Many persons who have heard my talks Eufola Agricultural and Mechanical Academy. child, and that when the Life-giver comes, on spiritual gifts and their manifestation in The school building will be donated and little Llewellyn will be placed again in his connection with the advent movement, in which deeded to the conference. An opportunity to mother's arms. Words of comfort were spoken I have told what I have seen and known of take up self-supporting school work, as the by the writer, assisted by J. H. McEachern. the manifestation of the gift, have desired founder feels called to take up work in' an- ROSCOE U. GARRETT, these things in print. As the older workers other field. Address Eufola Academy, Eu- decline in strength, and the labor falls upon fola, N. C. BULLOCK.- Mrs. Orill A. Bullock was born younger persons, who " must take up the work Sept. II, 1851, in Greeley, Iowa, and died ELEGANT imported gelatin Scripture Cards where the old ones leave it," it seemed best at her home near Esbon, Kan., Oct. 27, 1911, - new on market. Handsomely illustrated for me to prepare another pamphlet of 104 being 6o years, I month, and 16 days old. hymns, greetings, birthdays. Assorted, post- pages, entitled " Prophetic Gift in the Gospel Sister Bullock united with the Seventh-day paid: to, to cents; too, 99 cents. Beautiful Church." In this pamphlet is not only the Adventist Church when twenty-two years of lithographed, Bible Mottoes (12 x 16) ; sample, Bible testimony on the perpetuity of spiritual age, and continued faithful till the time of 6 cents; dozen, 65 cents; too, $3.75, post- gifts, but also twenty-two comparisons of the her death. She now sleeps, awaiting the paid. Stamps refused. Waterbury Specialty manifestations of the gift in connection with trumpet call at Jesus' glorious appearing. A Co., Brandon, Wis. the third angel's message, with itsI nanifesta- husband and seven children, four sons and tions in connection with the Script prophets. three daughters, survive her. Words of com- An edition of each of these p rnphlets" has fort were spoken by the writer from Rev. recently been printed, and can 1Y,6 secured at Obituaries 14 : 13. 0. E. JONES. the following rates : " Last-Day Tokens," 5o cents each ; " Prophetic Gift," to cents each. CLow.- Sister Clara Clow (née Thompson) Let the pamphlets be out in the field doing their PAINTER.- Died at his home near Stanley, was born in Waubeek, Wis., May 24, 1859, work. This they can not do on the shelves Va., Oct. II, 1911, Joseph Painter, aged 73 and died Oct. 29, 19x1, in Duluth, Minn., at of the publishing offices. Order from your years, 9 months, and 22 days. Before his the age of 52 years, 5 months, and 5 days. tract society. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. death he expressed a bright hope of life beyond Until 1894 she made her home in Wisconsin, but in that year she went to Portland, Ore., -4- -4.- -*- the grave. Funeral services were held at the Seventh-day Adventist church, conducted by where she was married to Mr. Henry Clow. Business Notices Brother A. J. Painter, assisted by the writer. To them one child was born, a son now ten THIS department is conducted especially for B. F. PURDHAM. years of age, who, with her husband, one the accommodation of the Seventh-day Ad- brother, and two sisters survive her. When a BOTIMER.- Mrs. Catherine Botimer fell ventist readers of this paper. young woman, Sister Clow accepted the Sev- asleep at her home in Vassar, Mich., Oct. enth-day Adventist faith, and was a faithful Conditions 23, 1911, at the age of 57 years. She accepted member of that church until her death. Fu- Any person unknown to the managers of present truth about thirty years ago, and from neral services were conducted by the writer. this paper must send with his advertisement that time was a faithful worker for the Lord. E. L. SHELDON. satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily She was the mother of nine children, seven make him " known " to the managers, nor of whom survive, with their father, to mourn constitute sufficient recommendation. Such rec- their loss. Words of consolation were spoken ommendation should come from one of our min- isters, or from the elder of a Seventh-day by Elder William Ostrander. D. MALIN. Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recom- THOMPSON,- Amanda Thompson was born Olfr Aburtit &flirt' mendation in writing, and send it. in Evinston, Canada, in 1836, and died in We open no accounts for advertising, and Erie, Pa., Oct. 2o, 1911, aged 75 years, 8 cash must accompany each order. unit Oatiliattir Wrath A charge of two dollars will be made for each months, and 8 days. She came to the States insertion of forty words or less, Each addi- with her parents when about nine years of tional word, initial, or group of figures in age, and was married to James R. Thompson excess of forty, will cost three cents. l3r.uotrb to UR Prortamation of " ttir No discount for several insertions. in x852. About thirty years ago she heard the message of a soon-coming Saviour, and uitgrif tuas mar DrIturreb Fos SALE.- Cooking Oil, finest quality: by the help of the Lord lived ready to meet Barrel (5o gallons), per gallon, 61 cents; him. She leaves to mourn their loss seven unto ttlr *Muth barrel (3o gallons), per gallon, 62 cents; 5-gal- children, four sons and three daughters; and lon cans, $3.5o; 8 1-gallon cans, $6.40. Cash also a grandson, who has been a comfort to ISSUED EACH THURSDAY BY THE with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chat- her in her old age. Words of comfort were tanooga, Tenn. spoken by the writer from Rev. 14: 13. Review & Herald Publishing Association LIBERAL OFFER.- Best Cottonseed-Oil for all P. N. WILLIAMS. cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutritious, HASKELL.- Mattie J. Haskell was born at General Church Paper of the Seventh day Adventists fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guaranteed free Plattsburg, N. Y., July 29, 1876, and died at from animal fats and all impurities : 5 gal- Brayton, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1911, aged 35 years, Terms: in Advance lons, $3.25; to gallons, $6.25; barrel, $17.60. 2 months, and 28 days. Sister Haskell was One Year $1.75 Six Months 90 Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. raised in the Adventist faith from childhood, Three Months 50 COPYING WANTED,- I Wish to do typewriting 'No extra postage is charged to countries within her grandmother being a believer in the great the Universal Postal Union. for our own people. Can furnish correct copies advent movement of 1844. At the early age at such a loW figure it will pay you to send of fifteen, Sister Haskell gave her heart to the Make all Post-office Money-orders payable at the your manuscripts to me. References from Lord, and was baptized by Elder M. G. Huff- WASHINGTON, D. C., post-office Oct Takoma Park 'Sta- General Conference. Address Vida V. Young, man in 1891. Her life gave evidence of a tion). Address all communications, and make all Drafts Siloam Springs, Ark. genuine Christian experience. When she fell and Express Money-orders payable 'o asleep, it was with the confident assurance Da. GODSMARIC'S Hygienic Cooking Oil is REVIEW AND HERALD that she would awake at the sound of the used in thousands of homes, schools, and sani- Takoma Park Station a Washington, D. C. tariums. The most highly refined vegetable Master's voice, and be numbered with the re- shortening. 5 gallons, $4.5o; to gallons, $8.5o; deemed. The funeral service was conducted IA barrel, $22.60. Cooking formulas free. by the writer at her home church, in the [Entered as second-class matter, August 14. Order to-day. Hygienic Cooking Oil Co., presence of a large circle of her friends. 1903, at the post-office at Washington, D. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.1 Chattanooga, Tenn. P. G. STANLEY. 24 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD NOVEMBER 23, 1911

FOLLOWING the distribution of the IN this age when so much is being said about germ diseases and the neces- 40101lidg0 iii n'Piwili~ii`l' Missions number of the Signs of ,the Times weekly, let an effort be made to sary measures of sanitation and disin- eilivenf atm permanently increase the circulatior of fection in order to prevent them, it is this excellent journal. Secure yearly or strange that the simpler and common 41 fill 2E short-term subscriptions for the paper forms of cleanliness are not more care- traM from your friends and neighbors. fully observed. Doubtless, if the facts -*- were known, v, e should be startled to LEAVING Washington last week, Prof. learn how many diseases have been com- municated through failure to observe or- WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 23, 1911 H. R. Salisbury spent several days at the ministerial institute at Battle Creek, dinary cleanliness of the person. The Mich. Later he will proceed to College article " Dirty Hands," by Dr. F. M. CONTENTS View, Neb., where, from November 29 Rossiter, in our Home and Health de- to December 5, will be held a council partment, is worthy of a careful reading, General Articles and not only of a careful reading, but Cheering Messages meeting for the educational secretaries of the American union conferences. the good instruction which it contains The Voyage and Shipwreck, Mrs. E. G. should be put into daily practise by White 3 -4- -4- The Sin of Envy, W. A. Gosmer every reader. 4 THE Review and Herald Publishing -4- -4- The Scriptures Our Safeguard, Claude Association still has left a few copies E. Eldridge 5 The Harvest Ingathering Glad Tidings, Oscar Hill of " Home and Health " in the library Practical Christianity, A. G. Pears 6 binding that were slightly damaged by Campaign Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thy- water at the time of our fire. The books MANY have now enjoyed the actual self, D. H. Kress, M. D. 7 are not hurt for practical use. The reg- work of distributing the Missions num- The Prayer and Social Meeting, Clarence ular price in this binding is $4, but we ber of the Signs among their friends and Santee 8 will furnish these at $1.25, post-paid. The Meek, H. E. Sawyer-Hopkins 8 neighbors, and of receiving offerings -4- -*- from them. These experiences were Editorial ACCOMPANIED by Miss Eunice LeMas- varied. Good reports begin to come in, Made Like Unto His Brethren— ter, a stenographer and office helper, and more will follow. An experience Tempted as We Are — To Our Speak- Elder I. H. Evans and wife sailed from meeting was held here at Takoma Park, ers and Writers — Building New Babels San Francisco, Wednesday, November Tuesday evening, November 14. It was —The Roman Peril—The Service of 22, for China. Brother Evans's children a splendid meeting. Some had received Man, the Glory of God — Autumn Coun- remain in the States to continue their more, some less, some not anything, but cil of the General Conference Commit- all had t oroughly enjoyed the work. The tee 9-14 studies. As Brother Evans resumes his work, accompanied by his wife, many workers the General Conference Office The World-Wide Field '4-16 earnest prayers will be offered that God's and in t Review and Herald, besides Home and Health l Vii, 17 blessing shall rest in a marked manner many of t brethren and sisters residing The Field Work 113, 19 upon the efforts put forth for the ad- here, wen out with the papers. The The Publishing Work 20 vancement of the message in the Orient. Seminary teachers and students are also Christian Liberty 20, 21 -4-- -4- doing a good work in the city. News and Miscellany 21, 22 B. B. ALDRICH, wife, and babe, of There is still opportunity to work. It is to be hoped that all the conferences Miseellaneou, 22, 23 Rome, N. Y., sailed from New York, on the " Baltic," Wednesday, November 15. will continue the work until the Missions Brother Aldrich and his wife spent one Signs in hand shall be judiciously used, No Second Sabbath Readings are be- year recently at the Foreign Mission and that more will be ordered if needed. ing sent out this month, as the week of Seminary, and now go to open a new Orders are still being received at the prayer begins December 9. The next mission station on the Canary Islands Pacific Press. They have now printed service will be Sabbath, January 13. (Spanish), off thc west coast of north 550,000, with 472,000 papers sent out up -4-- -*- Africa. This will als• provide a near-by to November to, and their presses stand with forms ready to run more papers on IN order to prepare more literature in place for w01 kers 0 the Gold Coast, West Africa, rest ,nd recuperation. short notice should they be needed. Tamil, and to secure a change and rest Twenty-nine conferences (November 5) fora time, Brother J. S. James has re- have exceeded the orders of last year. moved to Bangalore, leaving Brother IN a letter from R. W. Munson, of This is a good record. And the orders and Sister Lowry to carry forward the Java, dated October . he writes that the this year have been conservative, that is, work at Nazareth and its vicinity, south previous Wednesday night, at midnight, carefully estimated in order that all the India. his wife was suddent', seized with a papers might be used. Some conferences hemorrhage of the lungs. Others fol- may still further supplement their orders. WHILE attempting to open a church lowed, and although everything possible The reports received so far express window at Rangoon, Burma, Brother was being done by physicians and nurses, hopefulness that the mission harvest will Robert Beckner fell about six feet, and she was in a very critical condition. 'If exceed that of 191o. The Mountain struck upon a water-pipe, breaking one Sister Munson should rally sufficiently to View church-school children secured of his legs midway between the knee and be able to leave, he planned to start for $22. Brother Ferren, missionary secre- ankle. He was taken immediately to the America at once. About three years ago tary of the Pacific Union Conference, hospital. Fortunately, there have been Sister Munson was afflicted in the same on the night of November o sent out the no serious complications, and we trust he manner. The prayers of God's people following night telegram to all the State may make a favorable and complete re- are requested for this dear family. conference secretaries in his territory:— covery. -4- " Mountain View Ingathering cam- -4.- -*- A NOTE from Elder A. G. Daniells paign reached nine towns and country. ELDER F. L. PERRY, wife, and son of speaks of the excellent ministerial insti- Hundred and one went out, including eight, after two years in the States, tute that the Lake Union Conference is nearly all Pacific Press force. Used over sailed from New York, Monday of this holding in •Battle Creek, Mich, which 2,60o papers. Received $205, and more week, again to take up work in South Elders W. A. Spicer and G. B. Thompson confidently expected. All greatly encour- America. Brother Perry will have also are attending. He says: " We are aged by good experiences." charge of the work in Uruguay. Miss having a fine institute. It is different We believe the blessing of God has Cassie Wilson, of the Foreign Mission from any of the others we have had, but rested upon this effort so far this year. Seminary, a Bible worker, accompanies it seems to he as good and profitable as If you have not yet taken part in this them to South America, her chosen field. any. Our class numbers about one hun- work, remember it is not too late to ob- Also on the same boat Elder Henry dred seventy-five. Of course at night tain the papers from your State tract Meyer, wife, and three children leave we have the auditorium full. Last Sab- society .f r use in soliciting for missions. for their field in Brazil. It is a source bath we had the largest attendance that Tho undersigned will be glad to receive of encouragement that after the earnest has been in the Tabernacle for many reports of some of the interesting experi- and long-continued pleas from South years. The church here seems to be ences gained while working among the America for additional help, these work- doing well. The Lord has not deserted people with the Missions Signs. ers can respond. May the Lord bless those who have taken a loyal stand for T. E. BowEN, their labors in this needy field. his truth." Assistant. Secretary General Cenference.

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