No. 24. The Seal of God Resurrection Number
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Christ Is Risen
Christ is risen ! Tell the tidings ! Tell it to His own who wait In Tradition's darksome guidings, By the tomb disconsolate.
Tell it to the sinner, sunken In the depths of sin and crime ; To the pleasure-seeker, drunken, Killing self while killing time:
Tell them there is life and blessing, Power o'er vice and death and sin; Life for each His name confessing, Righteousness and peace within.
Christ is risen ! Tell the story To the multitudes that go, Hoping still to find the glory, In the paths of long ago. Tell them paths of old tradition, Leading to the holy grave, Can not bring the sin's remission, From the self it can not save.
Christ is risen ! lo, He goeth Ever, ever on before ; Truth and light He ever soweth, As He sowed in days of yore. For His Word can fail thee never; Follow Him ; His truth makes free ; From His love naught can thee sever, In His service thou shalt see Him, the Christ of Galilee. M. C. W.
Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California Please Be Definite.— For instance, a question common for criminals to linger upon the cross two the wandering, apostate ones whom God recognizes comes to us asking us to be so kind as to explain or three days; and when the soldiers came near at a:. His children, but it is the remnant who abide the meaning of the latter part of "the 28th verse of Hebrews." But the question is not definite the set of sun to take the thieves down, lest they with Him, however small that remnant may be. enough so that we may know what chapter is re- might eceape, their legs were broken, and they were They constitute His children. God also has a record ferred to. There are five chapters in Hebrews left to suffer and die, crushed and bruised in that of these tribes in heaven. He remembers them which have 28 verses or more: chapter 7, chapter way. there; consequently the true Israel before God is 9, chapter 10, chapter 11, chapter 12. If our cor- respondent will tell us what chapter is referred to Jesus Himself died,— the spear thrust proved the Israel by faith, those who are grafted in by we will be glad to answer the question if we can. that,— but He did not then ascend into heaven. We faith. See Rom. 9:7, 8; 11:17-24. read in John 20:17 that when Mary came to wor- So these same tribes are represented in the twelve ship Him He told her to touch Him not, for He gates of the city (Revelation 21 and 22), and all 3079.— Church of the First-Born. Heb. 12: 23 had not yet ascended unto God. Shortly after this who enter those gates come in under some one of What do you understand by the church evidently He ascended to the Father, because He the tribes of Itrael, spiritual tribes, and in God's of the first-born? B. G. B. allowed His disciples to embrace Him. He must reckoning there are none lost; all are complete in The term "first-born" is not always used as first ascend, after His resurrection, to the Throne Him. regards time. Esau was the first-born, but Jacob of Heaven, and be accepted of the Father in be- _ is called the first-born. Ephraim is called the half of the work that He had done for fallen man. Lord's first-born, altho Manasseh was older than Inasmuch as He had not ascended to His Father, 3082.— Lead Us Not into Temptation Ephraim. It sometimes means preeminence, as well He certainly had not ascended to Paradise, because Please explain the expression in the Lord's prayer, "Lead us not into temp- ts priority in time. Jesus Christ is the First-Born Paradise is in the third heaven, where God dwells. tation." INQUIRER. preeminently. God's children are the first-born; See 2 Cor. 12:2-4; Rev. 2:7; 22:1, 2, by which that is, they are God's first-born, those who are texts it will be seen that the Tree of Life is in It isn't the meaning of the text, "Leave us not preeminently His. There may be thousands in the midst of the Paradise of God, and hard by into temptation," as some would wish to read it. the world who profess to be His children; some that the Tree of Life is God's throne. Consequently The Greek word eisphero rendered "lead into" are nominally so, like Israel of old, according to Jesus did not go to Paradise on that day. There- means to carry inward, and is rendered "bring," the flesh. Such ones have not been really born fore the only conclusion we can draw from His "lead into." See Luke 5:18, 19, where it is ren- again. They have not that birth which is pre- words is that He said to the thief that day, that dered "bring;" and in Acts 17:20, "bringest." eminent, and whieh comes from God on high. Con- that repentant soul would in the future, when He All the versions so far as we know render, "Bring sequently those who are born from above, tho they came into His kingdom, be with Him in -Paradise. us not into temptation," or "Lead us not into may be born later as regards time, yet are Sometimes this is objected to by the form of the temptation." God is said to do sometimes what preeminently the Lord's, and are therefore counted expression "shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." He permits to be done. There are those who court His first-born; and so the church of the first-born It is simply an old form of placing a part of the temptation. God can not keep such. The true are those who are preeminently the Lord's — the verb before its subject, but just as truly in the spirit is, "Do not suffer me to be tempted, for I entire church of Christ. No, we do not understand indicative mode as "thou shalt be with Me in am weak." The prayer is an expression of the dis- that the name of the Lord's church is "The Church Paradise." It is simply an old English form of position we ought to cherish. It is the right ex- of the First-born," but we do understand that all which there are many in the Scriptures. The text pression of the human soul. It shows distrust in true members of the church of Christ are the church could just as well read, ''Verily I say unto thee human strength. Great dangers lie before the man of the first-born; all whose names are written in to-day, thou shalt be with Me in Paradise." Roth- who courts temptation and feels anxious to meet it. Sooner or later his strength will be found heaven. The term "first-born" does not apply to erham renders: "Verily I say unto thee this day: weak- ness, his wisdom folly, and his self-sufficiency a Christ because in His very beginning He was born With Me shalt thou be, in Paradise." The Syriac, broken reed. The Lord's prayer inculcates or created. Of that we know nothing. We read " Thou shalt be with Me in Paradise." "With hu- mility. of Him before He came to this earth that His Me thou shalt be in the Paradise" is the literal — -1( — "goings forth have been from of old, from ever- word-for-word rendering. lasting [or "from the days of eternity"]." Micah -- — 3083.— The Spirit at Death 5:2, margin. It is very much easier to under- 3081.— Who Are the Twelve Tribes? Will you please tell us what beomes of stand the term "first-born" as it is used in the Will you kindly explain as to the twelve the spirit when one dies? Does it still Bible referring to preeminence rather than priority. tribes; what is meant by the two lost live, or does it go direct to God? B. tribes, and who are they; and what is --u-- meant by the other ten tribes, and who To this question Eecl. 12:7 furnishes a good 3080.— Our Lord and the Repentant Thief. were they? And are these tribes mentioned reply: "Then shall the dust return to the earth Luke 23: 43 in James 1:11 E. G. as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who Please explain Luke 23:43. Did the The twelve tribes are the twelve divisions of the gave it." The real trouble regarding spirit or B. thief go to Paradise-on that day? children of Israel asset forth over and over in the soul is a wrong conception of what spirit is. The scripture reads as follows: "And Jesus said books of Moses. Jacob had twelve sons, and each "Spirit" used in this sense simply means life and unto him, Verily I say unto thee to-day shalt thou of the twelve sons became the head of a tribe. only life. It came from God life, it goes back to be with Me in Paradise." First of all note the When these tribes were settled in the promised land, Him life, just as the body came from the dust request of the thief, "Lord, remember me when after the death of Solomon,. there came a division. and goes back to dust again. It does not go back Thou comest into Thy kingdom; " not when You die, Two of the tribes, Judah and Benjamin, held the a living, breathing body in the dust; it simply dis- not when You ascend to the Father, but "when kingship. Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned integrates and goes back to dust. The spirit is the Thou comest into Thy kingdom." The wild, roving over them. Ten of the tribes revolted and formed life-giving power of God in that body, the breath of robber had doubtless been in the crowds where a kingdom of their own under Jeroboam the son life which God breathed into it. Gen. 2:7. When Jesus had preached, and where He had preached of of Nebat. Those ten tribes went on into idolatry the body dies, God takes that life back to Himself, His coming kingdom in this earth. See Luke 19, worse and worse, God sending them prophets and and holds it there until the resurrection. The idea for instance, and other discourses of our' Lord. His warnings; but these were unheeded until at last, ac- that man is dual, that he consists of two parts, one heart had doubtless been touched on those occasions, cording to the 17th chapter of 2 Kings, the larger of which can exist separately from the other, is and he had longed for the time to come when the part of them were carried away into captivity, entirely unscriptural. It comes down wholly through oppressor would no more be found among God's and people from other lands were brought in and paganism from the author of that first falsehood, children, and when there would be peace and hap- settled in the territory formerly occupied by the "Ye shall not surely die." piness; and now when he saw how Jesus had met ten tribes. From that time forward there was no patiently in His mock trial all the contumely, buf- kingdom among them. These ten tribes are called the lost tribes; not the two lost tribes. The Bible feting, and cruelty, the repentant robber was con- 3084.— A Lesson Incident does not give them that name. Jesus speaks of vinced that Jesus was indeed the Christ, the Sa- I would like an explanation of Ex. 4: viour of men; that He was there dying for men, "the lost sheep of the house of Israel." By that 24-26. I can not understand why such a and that He would come again to take His king- He evidently means the wandering ones and those complete change of subject is introduced dom. Hence his prayer, "Lord, remember me when who are away from the fold of God. there, or what lesson it is designed to teach. L. R. Thou comest into Thy kingdom." Did Jesus an- These tribes were not lost, because the record swer that question? — He certainly did. His an- tells us just where they were taken and how they The lesson is that Moses had neglected a duty. swer was, "Verily I say unto thee to-day,"— this were scattered. Many of them never went back; God had revealed this duty to His children, and day, when My own nation have rejected Me and some of them came back and joined with Judah. evidently Moses understood just what his duty was are putting Me to death through the hated Roman When the children of Israel went back from the respecting his son, but he was going on his mission rower; this day, when to all seeming purposes I Babylonian captivity under the proclamation of regardless of his duty. He seems to have failed Myself have no power at all; this day, when I am Cyrus, which proclamation included all of the to do this on account of the objection on the part dying as a malefactor upon the cross; this day of tribes of Israel (see Ezra 1:1-3), we find the twelve of his wife; but when it is found to be necessary, seemingly utter defeat, I promise thee that thou tribes represented in the building of the temple. and that his very life is endangered by it, she her- shalt be with Me in Paradise. See Ezra 2:70; 6:16, 17, which passages show that self does what she had seemingly prevented her What lends this more force is the fact that the the twelve tribes were recognized among those who husband from doing. Read "Patriarchs and thief in all probability did not die that day. It was returned. We learn by Bora. 11:1-5 that it isn't Prophets" upon the subject. • "Even as we have been approved of God to he en rusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who proveth our hearts."
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a living message for the needful NOW, just The Triumph of the Ages as God designed it should be in every age. "Christ Is Risen ;" " Christ Is Risen Indeed " If "historical Christianity" had learned this truth, all the empty traditionalisms of the T is God's message of light and Eternal character could not long abide the past would have perished forever. We cheer to the captives of sin and darkness of death; "it was not possible that should not have had the sevenfold surges death. By its inspiring, vital- He should be holden of it." of two centuries of crusades beating against' izing, death-destroying truth souls As His devout disciples drew near to the the Moslem borders for the recovery of a tra- are set free, blind eyes are opened, deaf ears rock-hewn tomb, closed with the ponderous ditional spot concerning which the heavenly are unstopped, the dead are raised. It is an stone, they asked themselves, "Who shall roll messenger had forever said, "HE IS NOT absolutely vital essential of the HERE." The vast amounts of Gospel. For "if Christ hath not money lost in costly shrines, the been raised," declares His great vast cost of pilgrimages and the apostle, "then is our preach- maintenance of armies of priests ing vain, your faith also is vain. by the traditional churches, the Yea, and we are found false y early spectacles of fighting witnesses of God; because we sects, held in check only by Mo- witnessed of God that He raised hammedan soldiers, would have up Christ." 1 Cor. 15 : 14, 15. been spared us. "The Holy How the old story needs re- Sepulcher," they call it, and peating ! How the living truth "The Church of the Holy needs ever to be renewed in life Sepulcher;" but above all their and character ! For the resur- mad worship and fierce zeal, the rection of Christ Jesus is not a child of faith hears the cry of mere historical event. It is not Christ's messenger, a mere w o n d e r f u l incident "HE IS NOT HERE." among many others, belief in which may be set aside as non- But God pities these blind essential in character-making. worshipers, as He pitied the dis- It is 'not a mere dogma of a ciples of old. A great void is in creed ; for all the cold, dead dec- their hearts, which formalism larations. of the ages can not save can never satisfy. To many of a soul. The story of Christ's these, as to them, He commis- resurrection is a life-story. sions His servants to say, "He "Christ-is-risen" is a warm, liv- is not here." He is not in the ing, vitalizing truth to him who old, rock tomb, worn smooth, receives it. mayhap, with touches of devo- With sad and grief-filled tion. He is not in the cast-off hearts came the holy women to cerements of traditionalism. He Joseph's lent sepulcher nearly is not in narrow, worn-out meth- nineteen centuries ago. They ods of work, tho once He blessed expected to find it closed. They them ; He is not in human creeds did not know that the chief and human plans and human or- priests, under the evil principle ganizations, tho He may have that "the e n d justifies the blessed honest heart and honest means," had stretched their tra- work in them. He is not in the dition-bound consciences enough dead past ever. Matters it not to ask Pilate to seal the sepul- that He was there or has been cher and guard the place where here; where is the Saviour, the reposed the Christ. They • did Master, the Leader, now? not know that the strongest Thank God, He leaves us not power on earth had stamped the with negations. The negative is to disabuse our minds ; but the closed tomb with the seal of au- Piockhorst thority. Neither did they know "He is risen; He is not here." great positive, living truth is to that the omnipotency of right- fill them, fill them to the full, eousness had prostrated Roman guards, bro- us away the stone 2" They would perform and flow out and on into other lives and ken Roman seal, opened the grave, and called the completing task of embalming Him before hearts. to life Him who died for all. They did not He was shut from their sight forever. There- "He is risen from the dead; and lo, He appreciate the encouragement of the psalm fore they sought Him in the tomb. Other goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye predicting the triumph of God, which they disciples also sought Him there. Hence the see Him: 10, I have told you." had so often heard chanted by the great reproof of the angel: "Why seek ye Him There is life in the Word. The grave could choir in the temple : that liveth among the dead? He is not not hold Him. He died for the sinner. He "He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: here, but is risen." lives to justify, to save. Tell it, soul.. The Lord will have them in derision." Let it be history no longer. Let it be Say to all that Christ is risen. Let your W (180) Vol. 37 g fb 'Form-t-itErri nt eg,0
new life in Christ Jesus tell it. Let your pleasure, for happiness, for gladness of ()logical reasoning to see that success will one loyalty and faithfulness tell it. Tell it to heart, for rest of soul, for power over sin day crown the effort. the sinner. There is hope for him. Go — say to them all," Christ is risen ;"" Christ But when the world does enforce the out into "Galilee of the nations;" say to is risen indeed," and there is hope and claims of Rome in respect of the sun-day, it the blind, wandering seeker for light, for strength and life for all in Him. will be doing exactly what the prop' states ; namely,.compelling men by law t homage to the power which first gave th day its usurped place,— requiring men to The Sabbath Through the Ages worship the beast, the Papacy. The Sunday-sabbath is the mark of papal XIV. The Seal of God authority. She points to it as evidence of By Charles L. Taylor her right to "command men under sin." Arid when, in the soon-to-come final conflict, TER these things I saw four another power is forcing upon them its mark. Sunday is placed before the world as a angels standing on the four cor- Says the Scripture, "He causeth all, both compulsory rest day, in opposition to God's ners of the earth, holding the four small and great, rich and poor, free and claim for the Sabbath of His law, its keeping winds of the earth, that the wind bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, will mark one as being opposed to the com- should not blow on the earth, nor on the or in their foreheads : and that no man might mandments of God, and as standing for the sea, nor on any, tree. And I saw an- buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or authority of the beast. To keep Sunday, other angel ascending from the east, hav- the name of the beast, or the number of his ac enforced by law at .that time, will be to ing the seal of the living God ; and he cried name." Rev. 13 : 16, 17. And God specially receive the "mark" of the Papacy, against with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom warns men, under pain of suffering His un- which God has warned. it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, mixed wrath, not to receive this mark. Rev. God's Sign 14: 9-11. saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, Now all 'through the Scriptures God's Before turning to a further study of nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants Sabbath has been set forth as His sign, His of our God in their foreheads." Rev. 7: 1-3. God's "seal," note that "the beast" is the mark of authority. "It is a sign," said He, This scripture brings to view a most im- power which enforces the "mark." That "between Me and the children of Israel for- portant time in earth's history. Great ever." Ex. 31 : 17. Again, "I gave them troubles are impending. The "four winds" As We Go My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and of commotion, strife, and bloodshed are about them, that they might know that I am the to be let loose ; and the day spoken of in LET us walk in simple kindness, 'Mid earth's darkness and its blindness; Lord that sanctify them." Eze. 20 : 12, 20. the prophecies — the day of angry nations, 0, so carefully, so gently, let us go. And as we have seen in former articles, God the day of wrath, the day of judgment — Be it ours to bless and brighten, Be it ours to cheer and lighten, made that Sabbath-sign the one all-important is soon to dawn. But ere that day comes, Toiling faithfully within a world of wo. test of loyalty to law. See Ex. 16: 4, whose coming pronounces the end of time With a patient, calm endurance, 27, 28. The history of Israel was a demon- and the close of probation's hour, messen- With an earnest, strong assurance, Let us lift the weak and weary as we go, stration of the fact, that to disregard the gers are hastened from the throne of the In- Till our happy eyes, beholding sign, the memorial, of God's creative power finite with the burning command to hold God's eternal plan unfolding, All the beauty of His mysteries shall know. invariably meant to lapse into idolatry. everything in abeyance until the seal of 'God CARRIE PHELPS. The words "seal" and "sign" are used has been • placed upon the foreheads of His Rock Creek, Ohio. interchangeably in the Bible. Of Abraham children. it is said, "He received the sign of circum- A Finishing Work of Character "beast" is the Papacy. In the last days, cision, a seal of the righteousness of the The work of sealing is therefore equally therefore, the papal power is to be restored ; faith which he had." Rom. 4:11. The important as the time. It is one which puts and when it shall have succeeded in regain- Sabbath is God's "sign," or "seal." It is upon the people of God the finishing touches ing its lost prestige, it will, according to the the sign of His creative power, and the seal of character preparatory to their being prophecy, take its final stand against God's of the law of which it is a part. ushered into the presence of the Almighty, law of truth. Did it not in earlier days, As brought to view in the Bible, the seal to receive the glorious gift of immortality. through apostasy and wanton attack, set was always used in connection with law and Evidently it is the last part of Heaven's itself against God and above God in chan- exercise of authority. When Joseph was great Gospel work for man, which imme- ging His law and substituting the Sunday given the king's signet (sign) ring, he be- diately precedes the second coming of Christ for the Sabbath? Does it not now boastfully came ruler. Gen. 41: 42. When the king's and the end of the world. claim that it alone made that change ? Is it seal (the impress of his signet ring) was Without going into many interesting and not true that it points to the change which placed upon Haman's decree for the de- easily furnished details of Scripture proof, was made, as evidence of its supremacy over struction of God's people, it then became let it be said here that the sealing of God's the Word of God and His commands law which no man could reverse. Esther servants, which takes place in the closing Just as apostasy once brought the Sunday 8 : 8. See also Esther 3 : 10, 12; 1 Kings hours of time, is identical with the great mes- to the front in opposition to the authority 21 : 8 ; and other scriptures. The seal, or sage of Sabbath reformation brought to view of the fourth commandment, so it will do sign, of the earthly ruler, placed the stamp of authority upon the legal documents of which in the previous article. The Sabbath of again. Even now we are upon the eve of Jehovah is His "seal;" and faithful. ob- it was made a part. In the same sense does that accomplishment. Papal influence and the seal of God give authority to His law. servance of the Sabbath in the times of stress teaching are leading men backward ; and and trial and persecution and death which everywhere, the world over, the Sunday rest Seal the Law come just before our Lord's return, will day is crowded to the front, and both Prot- Direct reference to this truth is found in place upon men the stamp of perfection and estant and Romanist are joining in the cry a message of the prophet Isaiah. Speaking holiness —"the Father's name"— which for laws to enforce its observance. To-day, to His servants living in the last days, when will fit them to enter into glory. as never before, the papal sun-day is pitted they are looking for the Lord's return, God An Opposing Work against the Sabbath of the Lord. And when says, "Bind up the testimony, seal the law It may not have occurred to you, dear an international federation of Protestant among My disciples." Isa. 8 : 16. God's reader, that coincident with this sealing of churches in league with a like federation of law is to be sealed, or, in other words, have God's people, there is to be carried forward Catholic societies sets about the task of se- its seal restored. And this restoring of the on earth a tremendous world-wide work of curing from earthly governments a universal seal is to be "among My disciples." If the apposition. At the very time that Heaven recognition of sun-day sacredness, it requires Sabbath be the seal, as has been- stated, then is placing its seal upon the hearts of men, no stretch of imagination or hair-spun the- this is a direct command to restore the No. 12 (181) 5
Sabbath in the experience of God's people, By right relation to truth, we may now set- and unalterable, we, having our Father's and thus put the seal of God upon their tle all in favor of God's complete law, and name written in our foreheads (Rev. 14: 1), foreheads. The Sabbath, torn from the law thus, have it said of us, "Here are they that shall, with those who have gotten the victory by the high-handed blasphemy of papal as- keep the . commandments of God." Rev. over the beatit and his mark, stand upon the . .)tion, is again to be seen in the law of 14: 12. And when the final victory is won, sea of glass before the throne of God. Rev. ,Jod and in the life of the people. and character for heaven has become fixed 15 : 2. Any .complete seal showed "the name, the authority, and the realm of the law- giver, thus: 'Edward, king of Great Britain and Ireland.' The name is Edward; the The Sign of Loyalty authority, king; the realm, Great Britain and Ireland. God's law, the only document By Mrs. E. G. White He has ever spoken or written to men, is the issue of the great contest be- throughout your generations; that ye may found in Ex. 20: 1-17, in ten different pre- tween the forces of good and of know that I am the Lord that doth sanc- cepts. In six of these precepts, the first, evil, two parties are to be de- tify you." not sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, veloped,— those who " worship The mark of the beast is the opposite of one of the necessary features of the seal is the beast and his image, and neceive this,— the observance of the first day of given. In the second, third, and fifth, only his mark," and those who receive "the the week as the sabbath enforced by human the name and authority are given,—` Jehovah seal of the living God," and have "the law. This mark distinguishes those who' ac- thy God.' But in the fourth commandment Father's name written in their foreheads." knowledge the supremacy of the papal au- we have every characteristic of the In the fourth commandment is found the thority from those who acknowledge the au- the name, Jehovah; the authority, 'thy seal of God's law. This only, of all.the ten, thority of God. God;'the extent of authority and right to brings to view the name and the title of the Claimed as Her Mark command, 'the Creator of the heavens and Lawgiver. It dectares Him to be the Creator the earth.' " . • of the heavens and the earth, and thus shows As the sign of the authority of the Cath- olic Church, papist writers cite "the very "Seal the law among My disciples," is His claim to reverence and worship above act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, God 's command. Why 1— Because even the all others. Aside from this precept, there law of Jehovah, without its seal, is void. which Protestants allow of, . . . because Take ,the Sabbath commandment from the by. keeping Sunday strictly they acknowledge Decalogue, • and it ceases to be a heavenly the church's power to ordain feasts, and to " If Any Man Will " statute. It is through the fourth command- command them under sin." No SLAVES in the kingdom of glory,— The Roman church thus declares tha't by ment alone that the heathen, who know not The home of the free and the pure; the true God, the Creator, can be introduced Love reigns, and His servants serve gladly; observing the first day of the week as the to Him. Love's throne will forever, forever endure. sabbath, Protestants are recognizing her But when the Papacy changed the day of CHQRUS power to legislate in divine things. And it the Sabbath, and put its false substitute My heart does rejoice as I hear the sweet voice is true that those who, understanding the Of the Master o'er mountain and sea: into the place of the true, it did exactly "If any man will," is the message, claims of the fourth commandment, choose what Inspiration says,— it took away the "Let him come, let him come unto Me." to observe a false sabbath in the place of the true, are thereby paying homage to that seal of Jehovah's statutes. It robbed God's And Jesus, the Friend of the sinner, people of their greatest bulwark against the IGave freely a ransom — His life, power by which alone it is commanded. That every heart longing may seek Him, The Roman church has not relinquished ever-increasing flood of idolatry and world- And conquer Sin's bondage, its folly and strife. liness. Hence, when the great conflict is her claim to supremacy; and when the world about to close, and the church faces the The voice of Jehovah is calling: and the Protestant churches accept a sabbath "America, land of the free! period of her greatest need and sorest dan- Seek not to force men to do homage — of her creating, while they reject the Bible ger, the Lord thunders forth to the world If any man will, let him come unto Me." Sabbath, they virtually admit this assump- FLORA E. WARREN. the command to • restore the seal, and give tion. They may claim the authority of tra- the true Sabbath its place among His wait- dition and of the Fathers for the change; ing people. but in so doing they ignore the very prin- is nothing in the Decalogue to show by ciple which separates them from Rome,— . The Great Issue whose authority the law was given. that "the Bible, and the Bible only, is the The issue is on. God's Sabbath-seal is The Sabbath enjoined by the fourth com- religion of Protestants." The papist can right now being heralded to the world. Into mandment was instituted to commemorate see that they are deceiving themselves, will- all lands the message has gone. Persecution the work of creation. Had the seventh day ingly closing their eyes to the facts in the has come and will come to some, calumny always been kept, there would never have ease. As the movement for Sunday en- end reproach to others; but nothing can been an idolater, an atheist, or an infidel. forcement gains favor, he rejoices, feeling prove a bar to the great onward work. Sun- The sacred observance of God's holy day assured that it will eventually bring the day is being shown up in its true light, and would have directed the minds of men to whole Protestant world under the banner of men and women are turning from its falsity their Creator, the true and living God. Rome. to the Sabbath truth. Everything in nature also would have With rapid steps we are approaching this On the other hand, men are showing brought Him to their remembrance; and period. When the Protestant churches shall greater determination to force the claims of would have borne witness to His power and unite with the secular power to sustain a the papal Sunday-mark. Laws are sought to love. false religion, for opposing which their an- make it obligatory upon all the people of cestors endured the fiercest persecution ; earth. Those laws will finally materialize, The Seal of God The Sabbath of the fourth commandment when the state shall use its power to enforce and those who refuse to how down to the the decrees and sustain the institutions of decree will be ostracized and disfranchised. is the seal of the living God. It points to God as the Creator, and is the sign of His the church,— then will Protestant America Earth will afford no place of refuge for those have formed an image to the Papacy, and rightful authority over the beings He has who do not, at least in form, submit to there will be a national apostasy which will made. Those who obey this law will bear the .earthly papal dictation. end only in national ruin. The day of supreme test in this matter is seal of God, for He has set apart this day as not far away. Now is the time to lay strong a sign of loyalty between Himself and His God Rather than Man and deep our . foundations for life. The people. To Moses on Mount Sinai He said, The laws of nations should be respected as mighty question of whether we shall receive "Speak thou also unto the children of long as they do not conflict with the laws of the seal of God or the mark of the Papacy, Israel, saying, Verily My Sabbaths ye shall God; but when there is collision between is being determined by present decisions. keep ; for it is a sign between Me and you (Continued on page 14) O 6 (1S2) Vol. 37
signed to be a memorial of any, work of ' Christ Is Risen God for which God has given a memorial, the acceptance of the human makes void the By A bdiel ordinance of God, and so the one error leads LL over Christendom March 27 not a day in coming forth from the tomb: to many others. will be observed as "Easter Sun- In fact, the Scriptures place no emphasis Other evils which need not be named fol- day" in honor of the resurrection upon the day of His resurrection, thus show- low in the wake of Easter Sunday as a me- of Christ. The very term " Easter ing that the particular time is not in any- morial in honor of the resurrection. A large Sunday' should arouse investigation on the wise important. The resurrection of Christ amount of human energy, which should be part of every lover of God's Word, of every has in it nothing which would connect it devoted to God, is expended in the intro- true Protestant, of every disciple of the Lord with a particular day of the week; for the duction and observation of the day. It Jesus Christ; for neither one of the terms types of which our Lord was the antitype exalts the yearly day, by the very manner of is Christian or Scriptural. The word fell on various days of the week. its observance, above the simple faith of the "Easter" occurs once in the Bible (Acts But apart from any positive declaration Gospel, by appealing to the sordid motive 12: 4); of which the original is "Passover," of Scripture to that effect, is it not well of pleasing God by works which He has not and is so rendered in the commanded. And finally Revised Version. The it blinds the church and origin of the word is the world to the impor- "Eostre," the name of a tance of the very thing heathen goddess wor- which Infinite Wisdom set shiped in the springtime apart as an abiding evi- by our pagan Saxon an- dence of a risen Christ. cestors, whose votive of- ferings consisted of vernal A Memorial of Christ's plants and flowers, for Resurrection Eostre was the goddess All that God asks that of spring, and the wor- we may be received into ship rendered her was His family, is willingness nature worship, the char- on our part. This implies acter of which is well submission and faith; but known to those versed in Biblical faith compre- mythological lore. The hends it all. "Believe on spring or Easter festival the Lord Jesus Christ, is wholly of pagan ori- and thou shalt be saved." gin. Acts 16 : 31. "He that The term "Sunday" believeth and is baptized has a similar origin. It shall be saved," are the is the name given by our words of Christ in Mark pagan ancestors to the 16: 16. But baptism is first day of the week, not a work of the man dedicated by them to the which saves or helps to worship of the sun. Los- save him ; it is an act of ing sight of God, the faith. The properly in- Source of all light, who structed soul will count is light, they turned to it a privilege. When a w or s h i p the creature true woman has won the made by God as a light- love of a noble husband, bearer. The first day of her next desire is to show the week became the sun's the union of their hearts, day. The worship of the the trueness of their love, sun is also nature wor- before the world. She ship, and can be traced has espoused him, given back into remote pagan herself to be his alone, and times farther than any 888 CChurch of the Sepulchre Easter. 0 a lc irche Facade de FEglIse du Stpulcre she desires the world to know it. Therefore the other form of idolatry. Scene in Jerusalem on "Easter Sunday" at the "Church of the Holy Sepulcher." No Sunday has no place in one can prove that our Lard was here buried. marriage ceremony ; there- Scripture. It is neither fore the privilege of the taught as a duty nor revealed as a privilege. to set apart a day in honor of the resurrec- bride to name the day. So it is that It is never presented as a holy day, either tion ? Is it not well to draw the minds of when we have accepted Christ, when we by express declaration or by inference. the church and the world to that great event have yielded all to Him, we wish the So much for the term "Easter Sunday." of Christendom at least once a year ? To world to knoW it. We desire the truth The words are both of pagan origin, point- this last query I would reply most emphat- of the union to be made known. We have ing us back to the dead heathen worship ically that it is well ; but how shall it be become dead to the world, we have renounced rather than to a living Saviour. done ? by human devices, or in the way re- its sin, that we might "be married to an- Not a Matter of a Day vealed of God in His Word ? In devising other, even to Him who is raised from the and carrying into effect human plans and dead." Rom. 7 : 4. See also Acts 8 : 35-38. True, the feast of the Passover came in institutions, these evils arise : (1) Not "For as many of you as have been baptized the spring; but the object of the Passover having the Word of God, much more human into Christ have put on Christ." Gal. 3 : 27. ceased when "Christ our Passover" was energy is expended, and always unsatisfac- Baptism is therefore the marriage ceremony "sacrificed for us." 1 Cor. 5: 7. True it is torily, in securing their, adoption and observ- between the believer and Christ. that Jesus rose from the dead in the spring ance by the people. (2) This extra energy But the marriage is "to Him who is raised of the year, just after the time of the Pass- placed upon a purely human ordinance tends from the dead, that we should bring forth over ; but what is there in that event which to exalt it above the divine, about which less fruit [by the power of that risen life] unto cells for the celebration of a day I He was is done and said. And if the human is de- God." Rom. 7: 4. Baptism has direct ref- Virr/ NO. 12 (183) 7 erence, therefore, to the risen Christ. Here life who died for us, and who lives to in- makes every other drop of water instantly is another testimony : "We are buried with tercede in our behalf, who lives in all those clear and clean. Him by baptism into death: that like as who trust Him. Reader, when, how, where, This is the striking parable of the heart Christ was raised up from the dead by the are you proclaiming that Christ is risen? of Christ. The moment another life touches glory of the Father, even so we also should He is our Passover; let Him be manifest to His life, the result is inevitable and miracu- walk in newness of life. For if we have been the world every day. lous. Nature has no phenomena to surprise planted together in the likeness of His death, us and no reality to change us like this. we shall be also in the likeness of His To come into contact, with the purity of resurrection." Rom. 6: 4, 5. The Miracle of Galilee Christ, is to become pure. We have named The great facts of the Gospel, Christ's WE stand at the northern end of the it something else and harder to be under- death, burial, and resurrection (see 1 Cor. lake and witness a strange phenomenon. stood, but this is the great change. This is 15: 1-4), are the very facts set forth in tho The waters of the upper Jordan have jour- the supreme wonder. This is the glorious ordinance of baptism ; and in going forward neyed down mountainside and through possibility in human life— the muddy iL that ordinance we declare to the world morass and past modern village and ancient stream made pure enough to reflect heaven, that we accept of Christ's death and life for ruin to gather to themselves the impurities by touching Christ. This is the power of us. He died for our sins; Christianity and the de- His burial was proof of mand upon every Chris- His death; He lives for tian life. The Christian our -justification and vic- life is the Christ life, and tory. Our baptism shows that is the purity of the that we should hence- upper world. Character, forth "walk in newness and nothing less than His of life ;" and we are mar- character, is the result in ried to Him, that "we any life which pours should bring forth fruit itself into the divine life. unto God." — Cortland Myres. An Abiding, Daily ——.4( Evidence Now as death came by To-Day's Test sin (James 1 : 15; Rom. THERE is no hardship 5: 12), the triumph over ahead of us in life that death is the triumph over may not be made easier sin (see Rom. 8: 1, 2; by our doing the hard Rev. 1: 18). The reason thing of to-day with un- why the grave could not flinching faithfulness. hold Christ, was because And every hardship that He was righteous. Acts lies ahead will be the 2: 24. H e triumphed harder to meet by any over sin in the flesh, and failure of ours in to-day's His resurrection was a test. This day's test- proof of His power. ing and trial is sure to be This is the power for severe. It probably seems which Paul relinquished unfairly so. It may be all, else,—"the power of the hardest we have ever His resurrection,"— and yet known. It is sure to this power, this "newness seem dull, and unattract- of life," this "fruit unto ive, and utterly lacking God," is the proof to the in those elements of pic- world that there is a risen turesqueness or heroism Chris t, who has tri- or adventure that seem to umphed over sin and ,kcivi mark the achievements of death, and who by His .10011L04 the world's great victors. grace gives in answer to 339 Ceremony of the Washing of the Feet. titifivaodintia. Lavement des Pieds. But that is what makes the faith of His people it hard to the point of The ordinance of feet-washing was instituted by_our Lord as recorded in John 13. It was the same power to them. celebrated in the early church in connection with the Lord's Supper. See note on last page. being worth while. And It is this very righteous- here is another reason ness which He longs to put upon them in an- and muddiness of a fast-running, unattract- for taking up its' challenge manfully: swer to faith. See Rom. 3: 22. It is this ive stream. Now the miracle is on. Those "For this commandment which I command very power which He desires them to have in yellow waters plunge into this pure water thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, answer to faith. See Eph. 1: 15-23. It is of Galilee, which reflects in its bosom the neither is it afar off." How we ought to re- this manifestation of the righteousness, and sapphire glory' of the upper world, and im- joice that there is something close at hand power of God which reveals to all men that mediately the stream is lost, and becomes that is big enough to test us but not big "Christ is risen indeed." And because the at once purified. Where it ,pours itself into enough to break us ! — Great Thoughts. celebration of a day either weekly or yearly, the lake, you can look down twenty feet hides this great and all-important fact, we are opposed to it and protest against it as a and see the bright pebbles and shining fish. " THE Lord brought Abraham up from Ur part of that mystery of iniquity which would In no other place in the world does this of the Chaldees, but he stopped half way. make void the mystery of God. seem to be paralleled. The great streams He had no blessing till, having set out to Christ is risen! Proclaim that Christ is like the Ganges push their colored waters go to the land of Canaan, to the land of risen, but not once a year alone, not once eighty miles and more into the sea, a dis- Canaan he came. He 'was safe and alone, a week alone, but every day and every hour tinct current. Smaller rivers sometimes even in the midst of foes. Lot was not safe of the day, in the manifestation to the world make their yellow track across the entire in Sodom, tho in a circle of friends. Our of "the power of an endless life"— His lake; but the marvelous purity of Galilee safety is in dwellini apart with God." Vol. 37
The Call of the Night sermon that is growing so prevalent in some " In the End of the Sabbath" THERE'S a cry in the wind to-night localities, to which I wish to call our pastors' From the lands where the Lord is unknown, attention. It seems as if a large part of the "IN the end of the Sabbath, as it began While the Shepherd above, in His pitiful love, to dawn toward the first day of the week, Intercedes at His Father's throne. Sabbath desecration of to-day were. due to came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary There's a call from the dark to-night, this fault. It has been shown from investi- That haunts the lighted room, gation during the last fifteen years that on to see the sepulcher." Matt. 28 : 1. See From His "other sheep" on the broken steep also Mark 16: 1, 2. One writer says of this At the edge of eternal doom. account of this lack of something worth going for, thousands of young men do not attend text, " The right translation of Matt. 28 : 1, There's a pain at my heart to-night — and kindred scriptures, gives us the Chris- From the heart of God it came — church; and that the preachers who prepare For I can not forget that He loves them yet, sermons with the single purpose of winning tian Sabbath, and leaves Saturday-worship- And they've never heard of His name. ers without • a foundation to stand upon." souls to Christ, have the largest congrega- There's a sob in my prayer to-night, tions and the best results in their general Then he .proceeds to give us what he calls When I think of the million homes a "right translation of Matt. 28: 1," as fol- Where never a word for the Lord is, heard, church work. The man who lifts up Christ, lows : Nor a message from Jesus comes. will never fail to draw hearers ; the man who — Author Unknown. "Now, in the 'end of the sabbaths at the * * has a real message, will never lack an au- dience. dawning toward the first day of sabbaths, A Purpose for the Ministry The efficiency of the Gospel sermon is at- came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher." By Bertha Bellows Streeter tested by the foreign mission reports. The true missionary realizes that there is at Now we can not agree with this so-called II AT if every preacher could real- "right translation," for all scholarship is ize the truth of the assertion made least one in his congregation who has never heard of Christ and may never again do so. against it, as will appear by reading a few by the young minister's aunt in other translations of the phrase in question. regard to the audience he would To him he preaches. That one may go from that service to his home in some hamlet "Now late on the Sabbath day, as it began to address the first Sabbath after assuming his dawn toward the first day of the week."— Ameri- pastorate? "Ye maun mind, laddie, that never reached by• a Christian; but the mis- can Revised Version. they're no clever and learned like what ye sionary for Christ has tried to tell 'him "Now after the Sabbath, as it was dawning to are, but just plain country fouk, ilka ane enough in that sermon so that he will want the first day of the week."— Emphatic Diaglott. wi' his ain temptation, an' a' sair trachled to learn more and can lead others to Christ. "And after the Sabbath, when it began to dawn In point of conversions, the method of on the first day of the week."— Sawyer's Transla- ' mony cares o' this world. They 'ill tion. need a clear word tae Comfort their herts preaching employed by the missionaries pays "Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn and show them the way everlasting." What about fourteen per cent. Here in the home toward the first day of the week."— Wesley'8 makes this passage so striking is the fact that land, pastors almost without exception (and Translation. it is descriptive of the needs, not alone of these exceptions are so noticeable that we "Sabbath being over, and the first day of the call them "evangelists," a name we ought week beginning to davin."— Campbell, Macknight, that little kirk in Drumtochty, but of every and Doddridge's Translation. church in the world. to be able to apply to all ministers) take it "After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the Would that every pastor might be im- for granted that all in the audience have been first day of the week."— Weymouth's Translation. pressed as was John when his devoted aunt brought up in Christian homes, know the "After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week concluded : "But, 0, laddie, be sure ye• say Gospel story by heart, pray and read -the began to dawn."— Twentieth Century New Testa- a gude word for Jesus Christ." Under the Bible every day, and have such a knowledge ment. of and love for Christ that on Sunday they " And the Sabbath being over, in the dawn. of influence of this counsel, John burned the the first day of the week."— Norton's Translation. learned discourse he had prepared; and on need a change of thought, something "lib- "And the Sabbath being over, as it began to that memorable Sunday, his congregation eral," something "broad." And many dawn toward the first day of the week."—Noyes's quietly left the house of worship feeling a prayers seem to be offered for oratorical ef- Translation. nearness to God and love to their fellow fect, many "sermons" preached to pander From the above we judge the so-called men, instead of awe and admiration for the to the supposed tastes of the whole congre- "right translation" to be in error, and the young preacher's learning and studied elo- gation, because, perhaps, one or two of the assertion a mistake. ARTHUR L. MANOUS. quence. You remember that Donald re- least spiritual have expressed a desire for _____ -pc marked, as he went thoughtfully homeward: lectures. And these methods, in point of "There was a man sent from God, and his conversions, pay us one and three tenths per The Divine Order name was John." cent. FIRST made pure, then sacrificial. This is It is a fact greatly to be deplored, that Do not these facts, added to other observa- the normal life. It is not something to many pastors forget that the Gospel alone tions we can make for ourselves, give us a be feared. It is to be experienced with can satisfy the hearts of men. Thousands of hint as to .how we are to accomplish the pur- delight. This is life at its best and its their flocks are starved on lectures fed to pose of the church — the evangelization of happiest. Without it Galilee becomes a them. If discourses upon such topics as the whole world? In every other business Dead Sea;— no beauty, no music, no life; "When Silence Is a Virtue," "Long Beds there is an aim, to the accomplishment of death everywhere. We live by dying. We and Short Bedclothes," "Where Shall We which every part of the organization is con- save by giving. We find by losing. The Live ?" were occasional ones ; if they were tributory ; but, strange to say, some very man who keeps his religion has not a religion interspersed with sermons that warm, one's important parts of our organization seem worth keeping. It is a strange statement but heart to the Saviour, that inspire greater to have forgotten the purpose for which they true, that Christianity must be given away faithfulness to Him and His cause, the rea- have been called to our pulpits — to lift up in order to be kept.— Cortland Myres. son for regret would not be so great. But Christ, and Him alone. * — these topics are illustrative of the constant Now, we do not have to think that this is diet provided by many ministers for their something that we, as laymen, can not help. How Do You Work? Sunday morning congregation; and in some If you feel a deep need of the Gospel, tell MAN must work. That is certain as the such lectures to which I have listened, not your pastor so. There is not a man in our sun. But he may work grudgingly, or he once even was the name of Christ mentioned. pulpits to-day who does not desire to please may work gratefully; he may work as a Now, we are not intolerant of all except his people. And if these same people ask man, or he may work as a machine. He can the oldest of thought and method, but rather, for the talks that will bring them closer to not always choose his work, but he can do are inclined to be as liberal as the rest of Christ, just that kind of sermons will they it in a generous temper, and with an uplook- the college-bred young people of to-day. In get. But it is Gospel sermons that the pastor ing heart. There is no work so rude that he our opinion, a certain amount of such dis- cught to preach anyway, "not as pleasing may not exalt it; there is no work so impas- mission is all right, provided it does not men, but God, which trieth our hearts." sive that he may not breathe a soul into it ; exclude the preaching that centers around 1 Thess. 2 : 4. there is no work so dull that he may not Christ. It is the exclusion of the Gospel Jackson, Mich. enliven it.— Henry Giles. (185) 9
every act and attribute of His character is gards God's immutability emphatically true. one of supreme love for all His creatures. "I am Jehovah; I change not;" "with Sin produces sorrow, misery, and wo. To whom is no variableness, neither shadow of prolong the lives of the impenitent would be turning," are the words of Holy Writ. How MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., MARCH 22, 1910 but to prolong their misery and suffering. is it, then, that the Roman Catholic Church Manuscripts should be addressed to the Editor God in love takes from them that life which would presume to change the holy law of of itself has become a burden. 'In all this God in the substitution of Sunday, the first Men versus God He vindicates His own honor, and contrib- day of the week, for the Sabbath, the sev- utes to His own glory and the happiness of enth day of the week ? She claims authority MucH is made nowadays as to what His people. to do that. Does not that very claim, prove, learned men may have to say concerning demonstrate that she is not the true church a doctrine or belief. The majority of Chris- of the unchangeable God ? • tian scholarship, it is said, is against the The Unfathomable Fulness "Higher Criticism." What of it? Sup- THE eternal ages of the future will fail One of the German societies conducting in- pose they were for it? Would that affect to reveal to our minds the fulness of one the truth? It may be that one man knows vestigations in the Holy Land, are making ex- single attribute of the character of our cavations in Jericho, the city whose walls fell down a fact, and one thousand others do not be- blessed Lord. So long as God shall be higher before the marching of Israel. They claim that lieve it; does that change the fact? So far than man, which will be so long as He main- the evidences which they have unearthed show that as the Gospel of Jesus Christ is concerned, tains His character of God, there will be in the city was a strong city before the day of Israel, the men of worldly wisdom have always been Him unexplored and unfathomable depth as the Bible intimates. The most remarkable re- found against its work for their day. The sult of the excavations was the finding of a double and greatness. One of the joys of the eter- wall embracing the whole city of Jericho. This children of' the Exodus' doubtless believed nal state will be the study of God and of double wall may have been erected by the Jews at a in God's work through Abraham and Joseph, His matchless love as manifested in the gift later date. but not through Moses. The Pharisees and of His Son. And every time the arches of ••;. scribes and learned doctors of the law in heaven resound with the praise of the re- • the time of our Lord's sojourn on earth, be- deemed, there will be revealed to their minds lieved in God's work through Moses, or some new phase of heavenly beauty and Schedule thought they did; but they rejected Him loveliness, which will call forth from them for Week Ending April 2 whose coming Moses predicted. Many Sunday March 27 Joshua 5-8 fresh expressions of delight and holy, en- Monday " 28 " 9-11 learned men will tell us to-day that they Tuesday " 29 " 12-14 raptured joy. Thus it is that those whom '' believe in the work of Jesus and the apostles Wednesday " 30 15-17 John saw round about the throne cry day and (g 31 •if Thursday 18, 19 for their day, but they do not believe the it night, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Al- Friday April 1 20-22 things which Christ and His apostles taught Sabbath " 2 '' 23; 24 mighty." --K— for our day. - Ourt week's reading begins with Joshua 5 and The only true faith is a present, living closes with the book. It will be noted that the first faith, which lays hold of a present Saviour, The Unchangeable God thing that Israel did after crossing the Jordan was a present truth, a present Gospel. "All to carry out the ceremony of circumcision, which HE following excerpt is from a sermon flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof was the indication that they had cut themselves by the Rev. D. S. Phelan, D.D., editor is as the flower of the field ; . . . the grass off from all unholy intercourse with the world, and T of the Roman Catholic Western had dedicated themselves to God. We have the withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the Word Watchman, and is published in that paper record after this of the Captain of the Lord's host of our God shall stand forever." "Ye have in its issue of February 10 last : appearing to Joshua, showing that He was coop- plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity ; erating with. him in the work that God gave him ye have eaten the fruit of lies : because thou "Men tell us that everything is changing; that to do. didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of development is the universal law; that the world - 4( - is changing; that men are changing; that the thy mighty men." "For ye see your calling, THEN follows the encompassing of the wicked moral system is changing; that everything is un- city of Jericho. God is no respecter of persons; brethren, how, that not many wise men after dergoing a process of change. Therefore, religion and every time - that Israel marched around that the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, must change, the Gospel of Jesus Christ must city, there was opportunity for the inhabitants of are called : but God hath chosen the foolish change, the world needs now another Redeemer. . Jericho to open the gates of that city and welcome things of the world to confound the wise; -Men demand a new Gospel. Now what has changed? them in. But every time, their hearts grew harder, and God hath chosen the weak things of the Has anything changed? Has the sun changed? until the time came that God 's host threw down the Does he not rise and set as he always did? Have walls, of the city, and only Rahab and her house- world to confound the things which are the stars changed in their courses? Have the rivers hold were saved. mighty ; and base things of the world, and changed? Have the mountain ranges changed? -- things which are despised, hath God chosen, Have the seasons changed? Do they not follow THAT city God devoted to destruction, and Achan yea, and things which are not, to bring to each other in regular course, and have they not committed the awful trespass of taking what be- naught things that are ; that no flesh should been doing it from the beginning? Have the ani- longed to God. He' showed how one traitor to God mals changed? Are not the bears what bears al- glory in His presence." But those who in a church or an assembly can turn away the bless- ways were? Are not lions what lions always were? ing of God from all connected with him; a great trust in God will find Him in Jesus Christ Are not the oxen, and the sheep, and the domestic and awful fact, which has been repeated many "wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctifica- animals, what they always were? There is nothing times since. tion, and redemption." "He that doeth the changed there; nothing changed in the heavens - - will of. God [not of men] abideth forever." above, nothing changed in the earth beneath. Then THE remainder of the book tells of the wars of what has changed? Has God changed? God is Israel, the division of the land, Joshua's solemn —**— the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; He charge before he lays down his burdens. Very knows no change; upon Him never falls a touching and forcible is his plea to halting, un- Vindicative and Vindictive shadow of alteration. God is essentially im- believing Israel. He had served when others had mutable. Has truth changed? Has the multi- THE judgment of God in the punishment failed; and at the very last he declares, "If it plication table changed? Have men's minds seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose ye of the finally impenitent will not be vindic- changed f• Have men's hearts changed? No, men this day whom ye will serve; . . . but as for me tive in its nature, but rather vindicative. are the same as they always were; men are the 'and my house, we will serve Jehovah." same inconstant and inconsistent beings they al- God will not punish a man because He has — - a grudge against him, from petty spite, or ways were. Men to-day love what is good and' run after what is bad. Men to-day approve the right ONE can but reflect, as he reads the experience through feelings of revenge. This would and do the wrong. Men to-day are false to them- of Israel during the days of Joshua, that had they be vindictive, the same spirit that prompts selves and false to each other, as men always were. been faithful to God, He would as truly have driven man to revenge on his fellow some real or If we read the history of the world aright, we out or destroyed their foes from before them, as He did the city and inhabitants of Jericho. They fancied wrong. In the destruction of the will find that men are the same in every age, and there is no change in humanity." would not have needed to imbrue 'their hands with wicked will be manifested the highest ex- blood; God, who saw all hearts and knew all con- hibition of God's love. "God is love," and All of which is generally true, and as re- ditions, would have fought for them. Mexico The Decadence of France namely, during the Reformation period. But the Prot- estants were driven out, France was held to Roman WE have received advance sheets of the North THERE has been running for some time in a Catholicism, and the Revolution followed. Now that American Review for February containing a striking popular magazine a series of articles entitled Revolution is being repeated. The reaction has article on "The Decadence of, France," by Mrs. "Barbarous Mexico," charging that country with swept back again, perhaps not as aggressively as in Bellamy Storer, in which Mrs. Storer goes on to thousands of cases of chattel slavery, with peon- the eighteenth century, but nevertheless as truly. show that France is rapidly degenerating into ab- age, with inhuman treatment of Yaqui Indians, Infidelity is but the reaction of extreme tradition- solute infidelity; that the secular schools, instead etc., etc. Not long ago we inquired of a gentle- alism. One puts a man and history in the place of of being purely secular, are not only non-religious, man who had been for some time in Mexico, and God, and the other puts the living, carnal human but really anti-religious; more than this, are making who was conversant with conditions in all parts in the same place, and both tend to degeneracy. of the republic, regarding the truthfulness of these a religion of infidelity. She gives samples of how articles. ' His reply was in substance that some of in books expressions which refer in any wise to God or providence have been cut out, and nature these things were in a measure true, and that many The Star of Bethlehem things occurred which would not be done in Amer- or the state has been substituted. ica, but conditions were vastly different in the For instance, she tells us that in the events of THE question is asked by Prof. Garrett P. Serviss, republic of Mexico than they were in America, and Robinson Crusoe, when he came to a time of great in the San Francisco Examiner: "Was it Halley 's the government found that Comet which was the guid- some things were abso- hog star of Bethlehem!" lutely necessary that would And any Bible reader. can not be tolerated in the answer just, as definitely, THERE IS NO older republic of the North. SUCH THING- "No, it was not." Why "SOUL AS GOD-GIVEN This gentleman considered, AFFINITY AND UNCNAN614 it is that men who profess IS BETTER ORAL117 to believe the Bible, will however, that on the whole THAN Mexico was getting as MARRIAGE endeavor to fix up some good a government as combination of stars, or could be expected, and he will suggest or believe doubted very seriously in- that some particular comet deed whether' a course op- must have appeared at posite to that pursued by that time, is beyond our the present government comprehension. The whole would get better results. Biblical account is con- The government meets trary to any such suppo- constant and persistent op- sition. If the contention position from the Roman was that it was a meteor, church and also from the there would be some ground lawless classes; and many for that; but the idea of of the reports of cruelty a comet or a star acting and unjustifiable severity as the light which guided are greatly exaggerated. the wise men is prepos- The above is confirmed terous. by an article in the Liter- That star guided them ary Digest of February 26 for days in their journey which has just come to from the East to Jerusa- hand, and which quotes lem; it was not seen when from Mr. Elisha H. Tal- they were counseling with bot in a series of articles the chi e f priests and in Moody's Magazine. It Herod. When they came declares that the articles f r o m that consultation referred to above are a with the king, that star libel upon a "much ma- went before them about ligned and sadly misrepre- two miles, out to the lit- sented country." Some of tle city of Bethlehem, and the details mentioned by came and stood over the the above series of articles house where the young are pronounced "wicked Child lay. An utterly pre- fabrications" by General posterous supposition re- This cartoon is not meant to include all colleges; for there are honorable exceptions, especially Torres. garding a star or a comet. among the smaller schools. The expressions on the banners, however, are actual quotations from the Then what was it? By "No peaceable Yaqui teaching of various educators in great universities and colleges. This teaching tramples under foot the those who believe in God's was ever deported to very essentials of Christianity. Religious anarchy breeds political and social anarchy and fosters crime. Yucatan or elsewhere; Word, who belidve in an- only such are deported as gelic ministration, who be- have been guilty of criminal acts; and no Mexican need, he prayed, "Lord, help me, for my need is lieve in His miraculous interposition, it can very families have ever been deported — only Yaquis, great." Then he remembered that he had tobacco easily be believed that it was a bright and shining and these after many appeals have been made to in a trunk, and in searching for tobacco he found company of heavenly messengers which guided those them to obey the laws of the land, and after re- a Bible, in the Bible a promise, and he pleads the wise men across the trackless wastes and led them peated warnings to cease pillaging and murdering." promise, and his fever leaves him; but the revised to the very house where the Child appeared. When David E. Thompson, former United States min- edition of the book in the schools of France omits the mission of those angels was over, their glory ister to Mexico, is quoted as saying, " The Mexican all mention of the Bible and everything connected became invisible to mortal eyes. government has dealt more kindly with these blood- with it, and the idea is left that the tobacco cured thirsty Indians than justice demanded." him. An American lawyer, Robert J. Kerr, says: . Of course Mrs. Storer, a 'devout Roman Catholic, At an experiment in Arizona, Febniary 27, "During the period of nine years covered by my feels that the condition of France is awful beyond Mr. Charles K. Hamilton, using a Curtiss biplane, personal experience there have been in that dis- description; and it is. It is a sad, sad thing when rose to the height of 4,500 feet, and flew over the trict two or three instances of improper treatment infidelity is openly and aggressively taught; and international line into Mexico. He was in the of laborers by their employers; but these were in- yet there is one thing, it seems to us, which Mrs. air twenty minutes, and covered a distance of vestigated as soon as reported, and the offenders Storer and other good Catholics ought to think about were severely punished." nearly fifteen miles. in the study of the question. —*— Mr. Talbot has this to say regarding the charge What drove France to infidelity was the recoil that President Diaz is a despot: from the conditions brought about by the church March 4 gives us the information that "I doubt if there is a country on earth that can of Rome, which had ruled it for years. If Protes- Fuego, the great volcano of Guatemala, is in erup- point to a cleaner retort} in this regard [that is, tantism stood where it ought to stand, it would save tion, and the people surrounding it are in great in the matter of amassing great wealth at the ex- many of the French from infidelity; there was a time fear. The volcano is situated about forty miles pense of the country] than can Mexico." when God desired to save France from her infidelity; northwest of Guatemala City. No. 12 (187) 1 1
Good it. In his appeal to President Taft he cites in- Jose; yet Mr. E. K. Johnston, managing editor of stances of how money is fraudulently piled up in The Mercury, met with them and gave an interesting THE Reverend Doctor A. Rucker has lately entered this way. Wall Street is one of the storm centers. and forcible address on the independence and worth kmphatic, protest against the theory that it makes Supreme Court Justice Wesley 0. Howard, of New of the country papers, which ought to be recog- difference what our religious beliefs are. He York State, truly says, "While the extremest pen- nized. San Jose editors will probably be included concedes that differences of opinion on subordi- alties are being provided for the suppression of in the future meetings. nate things have practically little or no effect upon penny-ante and kindred crimes, a gambling institu- Most of the papers in the county were repre- the character and life of men as long as they agree tion rivaling Monte Carlo in magnitude and au- sented by about a score and a half of gentlemen on fundamentals; but on the other hand it is a dacity, and rivaling it in the wild uproar of its and ladies, mostly editors and their wives, as fol- fact beyond dispute that a man's religious ideals conduct. in the colossal magnitude of its stakes, lows: Palo Alto Citizen, by Mr. and Mrs. L. P. and ideas will consciously or uneounscionsly be and in its astonishing freedom from official in- Hathaway; Palo Alto Times, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. transferred into practical life as molding forces, terruption, is said to flourish in the very heart of Simkins, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Kelly; Mayfield and preeminently it is true that a man will be what the metropolis." News, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ostermeyer; Sunnyvale he • believes. Absolute indifference as to religious — Standard, Mr. W. K. Roberts; Santa Clara Journal, belief can not help affecting what a man is and Miss Bernice Downing; Santa Clara News, Mr. and does. The popular claim that doctrine and dogma The Comet A 1910 Mrs. Hairy R. Roth; Gilroy Advocate, Mr. and Mrs. are nothing, while life is everything, is entirely "A 1910 is the name given to the recent won- Will F. Blake; Gilroy Gazette, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. untenable. And then illustration is given that the McKenney; Campbell derful comet, which appeared unexpectedly, to in- Interurban. Press, Mr. and atheist who believes nothing greater or better in dicate that it was the first important comet seen Mrs. Lewis C. Dick; Los Gatos News, Mr. W. H. B. the world than humanity, becomes practically his in the year. Prof. Garrett P. Serviss gives us the Trentham; Los Gatos Mail, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. own god, and consequently there follows self-deifi- following characteristics of this wonderful visitor Smith; Mountain View Register. Mr. and Mrs, cation, with all that grows out of the imperfect as science looks upon it. Charles A. Miller; Mountain View Leader, Mr. and human. First, it is a brand new comet. Mrs. P. Milton Smith. Other gentlemen and ladies The summary of Dr. Backer's article is given in Secondly, it is composed of sodium, or practically were present from Mountain View and near-by Current Literature for March, 1910. We hope that common table salt, and radium, the rarest known towns. The election of officers for the association it may get strong grip on those who are preaching element. for the following year resulted as follows: Mr. P. the senseless and utterly unehristian, uubiblical Thirdly, its orbit is like a hairpin, which is why Milton Smith, president; Mr. Will F. Blake, vice- theory that it matters not what we believe. it could creep up behind the sun unperceived. president; Miss Bernice Downing, secretary; Mr. Fourthly, it ran only 3,000,000 miles from the W. H. B. Trentham, treasurer. sun — closer than any other comet known. The banquet given by the Mountain View Board Oriental Powers Fifthly, it was heated, by this proximity, to a of Track) was all that could be desired. Sufficient temperature equal to about 600 times that of the and ample was the unique menu. There was noth- REFERRING to war forces in the Far East, we hottest summer day on earth, which is why it could ing stronger than water, nor weaker than tea. learn from the Literary Digest of February 26 that be seen in the daytime. After the banquet followed speech-making; all of Russia continues to maintain 200,1100 men in the which were sensible, kindly, suggestively helpful, Far East, which could be quickly reinforced by and genial. The chairman of Mountain View City 100,000 more. Japan maintains her army on a peace Council, Judge B. E. Burns, welcomed the editors footing of 250,000 men who in time of war could in his peculiarly happy vein, and was responded to be reinforced by 750,000 men. Japan has also on it, an excellent speech by Mr. L. P. Hathaway, the the stocks several great cruisers of the Dreadnought out-going president. After the banquet a ride in type, so that at the present time. she holds the automobiles in the vicinity of the town, closing with fifth place among the naval powers of the world; a brief visit to the home of the SIGNS or THE TIMES, and it is quite probable that by 1911 she will have completed the day. attained the fourth place. • We were glad to meet this clean, genial body of China, on account of her military feebleness, public educators. May the shadow of each never has not been considered as of any consequence in grow less, and may they ever keep before their constituencies with whom they come in such direct the political estimation of the Far East; but now The course of A 1.910, showing how it came up and living contact, all that makes for true man- she is organizing her army on a European basis, behind the sun, swerved toward the earth, turned hood and womanhood and for the highest type of and in accordance with this project the Chinese a little toward Venus, but was held by the sun. liberty-loving citizenship. army will comprise, on a peace footing, some thirty- It shows also how its tail diminished. six divisions of 20,000 men each. These statistics are taken from the Prussian General von der Boeck Sixthly, it showed at one point of its orbit an There has come to our table a pamphlet in an article appearing in the Deutsche Revue. unusual desire to break away toward the earth; which attempts to disparage the inspiration of The nations of the East are also getting ready for manifested the same desire as it approached Venus. the Scripture by casting ridicule upon various Armageddon. Seventhly, it had first one tail; then two tails; things which seems to the great wisdom of the and at last one tail broke near the top and fell writer ridiculous. The writer starts out in the very beginning by showing his utter ignorance of The "Christian Advocate" declares that away at an angle of 70 degrees. the Bible when he states there were only two four fifths of the membership of the church is re- Eighthly, it is the fastest comet known, having a speed of forty miles a second. The earth's cir- animals of a kind on earth, for they had just come cruited from the ranks of the Sunday-school. From out of the ark. A casual reading of the record 1846 to 1909 4,712,225 conversions were reported cumference is about 25,000 miles, and the earth turns once in 24 hours, or, roughly speaking, a shows that Noah took into the ark clean beasts by from the Sunday-schools by the pastors, an average " sevens." The Hebrews have a dual number, of 73,600 per year. The statistics for 19(19 report thousand miles an hour; but A 1910 moved at the and the "sevens" indicates that there were two 154.346 conversions in the Sunday-schools, and 63,- rate of 144,000 miles an hour. Ninthly, it has been estimated that its size is sevens. They went in two and two; fourteen of 047 net gain in the total membership of the church. each kind of clean beasts, instead of two as this That is, the deaths and excommunications were less 500,000 times that of the earth; yet if its substance brilliant writer declares. Of the unclean beasts than one half of the conversions from the Sunday- were condensed to that of the earth, it might not weigh more than 100 tons. there were simple pairs. This is generally char- school, on the supposition that there were no other acteristic of critics of the Bible. Many, very many conversions from other sources. This of course Tenthly, if its radium-laden tail had swept earth, of them are ignorant of its teachings. has to do with the Sunday-schools of the Methodist it might have produced extraordinary phenomena. Church alone. It might have destroyed life by injection of deadly —*— gases, or by intense radio activity. This, however, A number of scientists ate some of the - is all supposition. The last supposition that be steak from the mammoth the carcass of which was gives is that it isn't likely ever to return. discovered in Russia some time ago. Some scien- liIr. Thomas W. Lawson sends out a strong, tists declared that this mammoth was alive before characteristic appeal to the New York Stock Ex- the glacial period, and their estimate is that the change, to Governor Hughes, and to President Taft, MeetinA of Public Educators steak was about 250,000 years old, but the meat . to stop above all things else the most serious phase was pronounced excellent. So states the news itehi, is in no sense a local of gambling in Wall Street, which he designates "a THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES but all of it can doubtless be taken as was the ir newspaper, not having to do with town, county, or matched trade;" in other words, to expel from the aged meat, cum grano salis. state matters. It is a religious journal with a world- tock Exchange any member who directly or in- ____ 4( — etly executes the buying or selling end of a wide constituency, and its aim is to preach the world- which he knows or has good reason to know wide Gospel. But it is published in Mountain View, Horse Flesh for Food.— In 1908 2,000 horses matched trade; and a matched trade he defines Santa Clara County, California, and because of this were shipped from Leith, Scotland, to the Euro- one where the stocks, bonds, or securities in- its editor and his wife had the pleasure of attend- pean continent for food. Most of these horses were volved do not in fact change ownership by or be- ing the annual meeting and banquet of the Santa old, broken, poor. There are seventy shops in Paris cause of the transaction. It is pure fraud. And Clara County Editors' Association, held in Moun- which advertise by the sign of a gilded horse be declares that if that action were taken by the tain View the last day of February. This asso- head that horse meat is for sale. Much of it is Exchange, there would be little trouble arise from ciation does not include the city editors of San made into sausages and "dried beef." theoforroiti
Copyright, 1910, Pacific Press Publishing Association By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
Chapter IV—The Plotting of Herod and those of Anna the prophetess, who is so aged frowning towers of Herod;• and finally pass out of that she babbleth like a foolish child; so saith my the 'sacred city. As they journey on over the road OW," continued the prophet, turning to master. What' sayest thou, Sylvanus? Believest toward Bethlehem, glancing backward they see the the young man Bar-jona, "I will tell thee thou that the carpenter of Nazareth hath indeed de- all-glorious temple with its royal porch white and where. I beheld Him — the Desire of the nation. Not many days ago, as I was parted into Egypt? And pray," continued Demas, dazzling, as the rays of the westering sun linger praying in my house, the Holy Spirit , came upon sneeringly, "why tarry the wise men of the East lovingly upon it; on over the far-famed Valley of me, and the angel of the Lord said unto me, 'Arise, at Bethlehem, that they return not hither, even to Hinnom, with its perpetual fires and its ascending 0 Simeon, and go into the temple of the Lord; for the palace of our lord King Herod?" smoke; past the beautiful mansions of the lordly there thou shalt behold the Holy One, even the Shiloh "Verily, Demas," replied Sylvanus, "the princes Pharisee or Sadducee, or the more sumptuous pal- of Jacob.' Then I arose, and threw my mantle of the East tarry not in Bethlehem. But I believe aces of their Roman conquerors. Now they pass the about me, and entered into the temple. Then the thou art a spy, suborned by Jozarus thy master. "Valley of Giants," where were the magnificent Spirit led me to a young Babe, the first-born of His I thought it not of thee," he continued; while his gardens of Solomon, climb the hill on its western mother. In an ecstasy of spiritual delight I lis- young companion, Bar-jona, panting with excite- slope, and gaze with reverent awe over the historic tened to the simple prayer of the Nazarene car- ment and indignation, exclaimed hotly: mountain of Zion. penter, as he presented the Child untO the priest "Give me thy staff, Sylvanus, that I may lay this "Seest thou how the bloody theater of the apos- according to the law: tate King Herod looms up against the " 'Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord our sky?" questioned Sylvanus. " The un- God, King of heaven and earth, who holy house is adorned with pagan or- bath sanctified us with Thy command- naments, and is an offense unto Je- ments, and commanded us to perform hovah." the redemption of a son. Blessed art " Ah, surely," replied Bar-jona, Thou, 0 Lord, our God, who haat "when Shiloh shall take to Himself maintained us, and preserved us to the kingdom and shall reign over Je- enjoy this season.' rusalem, then shall He subdue all the "When he had left off praying, I heathen, and Israel shall rejoice over took the Babe in mine arms, and lift- her enemies." ing up mine eyes toward heaven, I Finally, about a mile from Bethle- blessed the Most High that He had hem, they pass the sacred place where verified His promise toward me, and Jacob buried his loved wife — the that mine eyes beheld His Anointed." tomb of Rachel; and just before reach- The aged prophet settled back upon ing the northeastern gate of their home his couch, and his voice grew faint city, they pause to drink at the well and fainter. The roll of parchment of David, the same cooling waters of slipped from his stiffening fingers; a which were brought to the king by his gray shadow passed over the wrinkled three mighty men more than ten cen- face; the long, white locks fell over turies before. the bolstei, and surrounded the noble At last, just as the sun is sinking head like a halo; the lips moved in behind the hills of Judea, our travelers prayer. A gentle breeze stirred the enter the gate of Bethlehem. light draperies at the window, which "Come in, come in, Sylvanus, and seemed to .the spellbound visitors like thou, Bar-jona," cried Esther joyfully, the soft rustling of an angel's wing. while the little child Perpetua ha- Suddenly the dim eyes opened for a .tened to unfasten the door. moment and rested upon Bar-jona. "Surely, my husband, thou didst "Young man, understandest thou the not tarry long at Jerusalem. Didst words of the Lord which I have read thou find the carpenter, Joseph of unto thee?'' Galilee?" "They are very plain, 0 prophet of "What news, my son?" questioned God." the patriarch eagerly. "Verily, I wot A. look of perfect peace rested upon the young Child is safe; surely He the marble countenance, as the dying who is compassed about with legions of man whispered: angels, needeth not the protection of '" 'I know that my Redeemer liveth, feeble arms like thine and mine. But and that He shall stand at• the latter didst thou find the Babe?" day upon the earth: and tho after my. "Nay, father Eliab, the holy Babe skin worms destroy this body, yet in H. Hofmann journeyeth afar into the land of On the Way to Egypt my flesh shall I see God.' Now, Lord, Egypt; so said Simeon the prophet lettest Thou Thy servant depart in this day ere he died." peace; for mine eyes have seen Thine Anointed." 'fellow low. What! " he demanded, as his more "Is Simeon of Jerusalem dead?" cried Esther The eyes closed once more; the flickering lamp of prudent companion slipped an arm about him, and and the old man in one voice, while the former, with life had gone out. The silver cord was loosed. compelled the young man to follow. "What! shall the babe Matthias in her arms, seated herself by Hurriedly the attendants glanced into the peaceful the fellow stir all Jerusalem with his prating the side of her husband, listening intently as he face, and at once broke out into loud and plaintive tongue? Wherefore should the priests and rulers and Bar-jona related the adventures of the day. wailing for the dead. The chamber of death echoed persuade Herod to pursue either the magi or the "Yes; they bury him to-morrow in the sepulcher with their mournful cries, as Sylvanus and his young carpenter of Nazareth?" of his fathers. But father Eliab, it is plain from companion sought the streets of the sacred city. "Verily, Bar-jona, Herod the king needeth no the rolls of the prophets, that not only hath Shiloh As they passed out of the chamber, they noticed persuasion; surely his crown already resteth un- already been born, but that He must appear 9 a man Aanding in the outer doorway, who stepped easily upon his gray head," replied Sylvanus. Messiah, the Anointed, when He is thirty years old. back hastily as they passed, as if he would avoid Conversing thus, the two men passed on toward •But dost thou remember Demas, the servant of them• Something in his appearance arrested the the eastern gate of the city, while the servant Jozarus the priest?" attention of Sylvanus, who glanced quickly into his Demas hastened in the opposite direction, his sneer- Then followed a minute description of the chance ' face: ing laugh echoing unpleasantly in their ears. We meeting with the man servant Demas, of his strange "Ho, Demas, thou servant of Jozarus the high follow them as they pass Mount Moriah, where al- words and still stranger conduct. priest, how camest thou in hither? Verily, I 'be- most two thousand years before, the patriarch "I tell thee, my children," said Eliab, lieve thou west in the chamber, and I saw thee not bound his son,— the mountain over which echoed the words of this Demas are cruel; but this I kno —eh, fellow?" welcome voice of the angel, "Lay not thine hand am assured of, the God of Jacob will protec, "Wherefore should I refuse to go whither my upon the lad." Son. But the heart of Herod is filled with master sendeth me, especially when he maketh my Hastening onward, they pass the bridge which chief, and Jozarus the high priest deviseth evil. heels nimble with a coin? Verily, the aged patri- crosses the Tyropeon vale, past the palace of Herod Well saith the prophet David: 'Why do the heathen arch speaketh well, but he will speak no more. But, and the hill Zion. Now they reach the gate called rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The behold, all Jerusalem is filled with his idle tales, Gennath, over which hang the shadows of the three kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers le No. 12 (189) 13 tf„.. ari ittpn
take counsel together, against the Lord, and against man whose hands drip with the blood of the son Help Wanted • His Anointed.' " of Herod the king! "* WE are desirous of securing the services of ten Esther pressed her babe closer to her heart, and The young centurion hoped by mention of this graduated or trained nurses at once. Apply St. •-•rmured, "May the God of Israel protect His fact, to rouse some faint spark of pity or paternal Helena Sanitarium, Sanitarium, Cal. Jaen!" But that night as she laid herself down tenderness in the callous soul of the despot. But to sleep, a feeling of unrest and insecurity haunted the centurion knew not the depth of wickedness in Notice her. The dream of the magi, which they had re- the black heart of the royal Edomite. Once again the claw-like fingers bury themselves in the gray THE next class in the St. Helena Sanitarium and , lated to Sylvanus and Heber but the day before, Hospital Training School for medical missionary it together with the strange conduct of Demas, was locks: nurses will be organized Monday, April 4, 1910. sufficient to arouse the fears of her timid and " I know not, and I care not. Disobey the Owing to the large number and great variety of gentle heart. Why should the angel of the Lord orders of the king at thy peril. Hearest thou, cases that flock to this institution for relief, and the young man? To-morrow morning at rise of sun, wide experience thus offered the students both in have been sent with a warning to the princes of surgical and general hospital nursing, the course is the East, unless there were arising grave dangers? King Herod hath no rival in Bethlehem." especially strong from a practical missionary stand- Again, for what purpose had Jozarus sent his serv- point. In addition to the opportunities for mis- ant Demas to the chamber of Simeon to act as *It was well known that the infant son of Herod sionary work at the sanitarium, the San Francisco Dispensary, which the institution has taken over, spy? What could have been the real object of the Great, was at this time in Bethlehem. affords training in city mission work. The institu- the high priest? tion has also undertaken to open up mission work Meanwhile, over in Jerusalem, at the palace of in China the present year, thus giving those who Herod, there is excitement and unrest. Lights flash desire, a definite foreign mission field for which through the latticed windows, and dart and gleam IN THREE DAYS to prepare and upon which to enter when their from one end to the other of the sumptuous grounds. course is completed. Twenty-five consecrated young men and women, Servants gather in little groups, and speak to each whose desire it is to enter the. work for the sake other in whispers. of fallen humanity and not for profit, are wanted In an inner chamber, closeted with the king, are to join this class. Overland Limited There are also classes in Bible, history, and two centurions. The aged monarch, as cruel and music for the regular workers. unscrupulous as he is suspicious and jealous, is Send for the training school catalog by address- giving his parting instruction and orders to these ing: Dr. H. F. Rand, superintendent, or Mrs. S. J. TAKES YOU Whitney, secretary, Sanitarium, Napa County, Cal. officers before they set out upon their murderous errand. The deep, dark eyes of the angry monarch are bloodshot and terrible; and often, as he speaks Free to his officers, he thrusts his trembling and bloated To Chicago Home-Grown Seeds for Signs Readers fingers into his gray hair, while his voice shakes with a passion which he makes no effort to control. I will send 1909 seed of the beautiful Santa Rosa Poppy — looks like wrinkled silk; lovely shades and "Look thou, Varro, and thou, Marcus; let not bright colors; also seed of the "Sunny South" one child escape. It hath also been told me by Poppy, very showy; also other seeds FREE to any Demas, the servant of Jozarus the priest, that the who will simply write for Seed Circular, and not ACROSS GREAT SALT LAKE forget to enclose a plainly self-directed and stamped Persian princes have already left Bethlehem two envelope. Good seed sold at moderate price. days. since. I suppose they be now hiding — per- AND Address Addie H. Parker, Taylor, Cortland chance in the mountains of Moab. 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Did not Demas tell thee that the old nizing the church and state as ordained of Heaven for Careful and Attentive Dining specific and distinct purposes, but vigorously protesting man Simeon, a prophet of the Jews, declared that against the alliance of the church with the state in the Service attempt to advance religion and to promote the state. He was gone into Egypt? Why wouldst thou slay Price 25 cents per year. Liberal terms to agents. an hundred helpless babes for naught?" Address, LIBERTY, Takoma Park, D.C. The wrinkled face of Herod grows livid with Parlor Observation Car with Li- passion, and his voice shakes with rage, as he brary and Cafe turns upon the young centurion: Ladies' Reading Room "Ha! and thou failest me also, thou son of a Roman father. One would think thee a Jew. Gentlemen's Smoking Room Life and Health Verily thou art no Roman soldier; thou wouldst PRACTICAL health journal, published with a view weep like a woman, at sight of blood! 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The Sign of Loyalty nient, we dwarf and enfeeble our higher na- breathe right, in the fullest, truest, and (Continued from page 5) tures, and become so morally diseased that highest sense, unless he breathes a pure them, every true disciple of Christ will say, the result is the loss of life eternally. physical, moral, and spiritual atmosphere. as did Peter when commanded to speak no Hence, let us live in and by this heavenly at- In this way, and in this way only, is the more in the name of Jesus, "We ought to mosphere, which is as free for us all as the whole man properly nourished. Jesus /obey God rather than men." air we breathe. The one is invisible ; so is breathed on His disciples, and said, "Receive Paul wrote to the Romans, "If it be pos- the other. If the latter is potent for good, ye the Holy Ghost." And when He was sible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably the former is much more so. glorified with His Father in heaven, on the with all men." But there is a point beyond Therefore let us expand our souls heaven- Day of Pentecost, He sent down the atmos- which it is impossible to maintain union and ward, breathe in the revivifying atmosphere phere of heaven like a rushing mighty wind, harmony without the sacrifice of principle. of faith, salvation, hope, and love, in whole- and the disciples were all filled therewith, Separation then becomes an absolute duty. some, refreshing draughts. The Spirit of and they went forth from thence every- Christ never purchased peace and friend- God is for all who sense their need, and where breathing, NOT a spirit of foolishness ship by compromise with evil. The life of simply ask for and receive; then we will or frivolity, malice or mischief, selfishness or Jesus, the suffering which He endured from breathe out with the natural breath that sensuality, impatience or immorality; unbe- a perverse nation, demonstrate to His fol- which we have taken in spiritually, even lief or uncertainty, carelessness or cruelty, lowers that there must be no sacrifice of praises to our God. deceit or deviltry; no, no. All such things principle. ,Peace is too dearly obtained if David evinced what kind of air he had are the sure indications of the worst kind purchased by the smallest concession to been breathing when he said, "I will praise of breath and, breathing. On the contrary Satan's agencies. The least surrender of the name of God with a song, and will mag- they went forth everywhere breathing a principle entangles us in the snares of Satan. nify Him with thanksgiving." Ps. 69 : 30. spirit of song and salvation, health and The Sabbath question is to be the issue And with him we would say, "Let every- happiness, life and liberty, truth and tender- in the great final conflict, in which all the thing that hath breath praise the Lord." ness, hope and holiness, grace and godliness, world will act a part. Men have honored Ps. 150 : 6. For He says, "Whoso offereth praise and prayerfulness, faith and fruit- Satan's principles above the principles that praise glorifieth Me." Ps. 50:23. It is fulness, love and loveliness. Only such have rule in the heavens. They have accepted the only when we have breath that we can thus learned how to breathe. properly in this spurious sabbath, which Satan has exalted glorify our Maker and our King. Of man world ; and all such have the immutable as the sign of his authority. But God has we read in Ps. 146: 4, "His breath goeth promise, that some day they will be privi- set His seal upon His royal requirement. forth, he returneth to his earth ; in that very leged to breathe the atmosphere of the holy Each Sabbath institution, both true and day his thoughts perish." "The dead praise city, and of the new heavens and new earth, false, bears the name of its author, an inef- rot the Lord, neither any that go down into in the kingdom of immortal glory. Reader, faceable mark that shows the authority of silence." Ps. 115 : 17. These thoughts are you learning how to BREATHE for TIME each. pressed themselves sa forcibly upon Heze- and ETERNITY? The great decision now to be made by kiah's heart, he was led to exclaim, "The ______every one is, whether he will receive the mark living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as of the beast and his image, or the seal of the I do this day." "For the grave can not Our Lord's Coming living and true God. And now, when we are praise Thee, death can not celebrate Thee." THE first deeply important point in con- on the very borders of the eternal world, Isa. 38 : 19, 18. nection with the subject before us is this,— what can be of so much value to us as to A Higher Atmosphere it is certain that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again. It is certain that it is the will be found loyal and true to the God of There is another kind of figurative atmos- of our heavenly. Father that the second com- heaven ? What is there that we should prize phere, which we will do well to shun — the ing of Christ should ever be the great hope above His truth and His law? What is so miasma of self-love, error, and hatred. Bel- of the church of God. Let us increasingly necessary as a knowledge of "what saith shazzar, dwelling in such an atmosphere, re- seek to meditate on this, to lay to heart and the Scripture ?" ceived this rebuke from the prophet of the rejoice in the truth,— Jesus will come again ; -**— Lord, upon that fateful night of the hand Jesus will destroy the works of Satan ; Jesus writing his doom on the wall : " The God How to Breathe will reign ; Jesus will be manifested in His in whose hand thy breath is, . . . hast thou By Mrs. H. A. St. John kingly office. not glorified." Dan. 5 : 23. And others not Another deeply important point is this,— CORRECT understanding of this only fail to glorify God with, their breath, question, and a faithful appli- but are active in "breathing out cruelty," are we prepared for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ? Are we, individually, truly cation of the knowledge obtained, as were the enemies of David. Ps. 27: 12. converted The question is not, Are we are very necessary for our phys- Saul the persecutor had an extremely bad among the number of the professed disciples ical well-being. 1 will not enter into a full breath; for was he not "breathing out of the Lord Jesus Christ ? not, Are we reck- description of the process of proper respira- threatenings and slaughter against the dis- oned among the people of God ? but, Are we tion, being neither qualified nor desirous to ciples of the Lord"? This he did ignorantly. able, on Scriptural grounds, to satisfy our- do so; but this much I will say,— there are Are not many of us just as blind as to what two essentials to the maintenance of the kind of spiritual atmosphere we are breath- selves that, by the grace of God, we do trust health of our pulmonary systems; namely, ing? And will we not continue in that ig- alone in the Lord Jesus Christ for the sal- vation of our souls I Have we been made the breathing of pure air, and a full and norance until our minds shall be illuminated to see, under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, constant inflation of the lungs with the same. and transformed by the divine Spirit ? 0, that we are lost, ruined, wicked, guilty sin- To a disregard for these rules are due that we would take earnest heed to the fol- troublesome colds, the dread pneumonia, lowing exhortation : "Pray that the ners ? Have we confessed this before God, and which carries off hundreds in the winter mighty energies of the Holy Spirit, with all have we been enabled, after having passed season, and a long list of other lung troubles, their quickening, recuperative, and trans- sentence on ourselves, to trust in the Lord some more, some less pernicious. forming power, may fall like an electric Jesus Christ for the salvation of our souls? These results are serious enough ; but the shock on the palsy-stricken soul, causing If so, we belong no more to the world, but to question of how to breathe, in another sense, every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring the heavenly family. If so, we are regen- is of still greater moment. By breathing the whole man from his dead, earthly, sen- erated, we are pardoned sinners, we stand foul air, or even good air in insufficient sual state, to spiritual soundness." justified before God, we have an interest. in quantities, and thus inducing some fatal dis- the intercession of our adorable Lord Jesus ease, we affect only this present, physical Conclusion Christ at the right hand of God, and we need life ; but by a neglect to place ourselves in a From the foregoing we learn that man is not be afraid to hear about His coming. But pure spiritual atmosphere, and to inhale a trinity, consisting of body, soul, and if this matter is not settled, so long as it is sufficient quantities of that life-giving ele- spirit, and that he does not and can not not settled, we have no real peace in our No. 12 (191) 1 5
souls. Let me entreat and beseech any not go in the ditch, as trains sometimIA clo,.knd thus prepared for the return of the Lord a brandy bottle in the cab of elle eng- Jesus, to see to it that they delay no longer would look bad to the coroner 's jury." to cry earnestly to God to have mercy on liquor traffic multiplies the, perils of the
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un the yiar 30Q, when the Council of Elvira pro- way parties to the Philadelphia affair. March 9 a ited it. One can see, by'referring to the Scrip- car loaded with passengers was lilown up by dyna- ure record, that our Lord did not confine it to mite deliberately placed for that purpose. While any particular class, as, have the perversions of the the car was wrecked and blown from the track, ordinance ever since. He washed the feet of all His providentially the people on board were not fatally disciples, and told them that "ye should do as I - injured. It would seem that both state and national MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., MARCH 22, 1 o have done to .you." In Jerusalem it is one of the authorities ought to do all in tlfeir power to restore 4 I Pharisaic ceremonies performed-''on that day, some peace and safety in harmony with right and justice. 44.. Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old prelate washing the feet of beggars or penitents. and New ,Testaments. When the Common ("KingrTames" Fr . "Author4ed") Version or the American Stan4ard Re- Young Anarchists.— The Kansas City Journal, fisIld Version is used, the version will not generally be CI in connection with the great strike in Phila- designakd in reference. Any Bible quotation in this paper, therefore, differing from the Common Version; unless other- The Signs of the Times for the Year delphia notes the faetakitit•fnuch of the riot, dis- wise indiAted, will be almost invartably from the American to Come order, and violence has been done by boys and young Standard edition of.-the RevAlpirBible, copyright 1901, by men who were not personally concerned in the, strug- Thomas Nelson & Sons. In our next issue but one, the SIGNS gle; and flirther says that it is one of the most For further parti,culare, eubscription rates, etc., see page 16. will enter upon a new plan in the pub- deplorable phases of strike situatione. "The hood- lishing of the great Gospel message. In- lums and young ruffians_ always take advantage of stead of making each number a sym- the opportunity offered to commit all sorts of deeds Contained in This Issue posium upon some one subject, it will of violence and rowdyism. Many boys yet in their carry these subjects through the year in teens, and utterly lacking in the sense of responsi- PAGE Editorial serial articles and in book study. bility, have helped to stone and burn street-cars, The Triumph of the Ages 3 Some of the books which will be es- and place obstructions upon the tracks." It is a Men versus God 9 pecially covered in these studies are the sad and sorry situation. Many of the strikers with- Vindicative Not Vindictive 9 Revelation, the book of Zechariah, the out question are peaceable. Doubtless their griev- The Unfathomable Fulness 9 book of Haggai. These books are of re- ance• has a 'real foundation. They may not be re- The Unchangeable God - 9 markable interest. They are not dull, ceiving the wages which they should have from the Our Bible Band 9 dry essays dealing with dead issues. wealthy company; but it seems as tho in some way Each and all of them contain living, they ought to discountenance the anarchy, the hood- General present truth for this day, and our read- lumism, the crime which is committed in their name The Sabbath Through the Ages (XIV. The ers will miss much indeed if they discon- or in sympathy with them. The Journal truly says: Seal of God) - 4 nect from the paper now. ''The young rioters will grow up to be American The Sign of Loyalty - 5 Besides these books, some Of the great citizens with a natural disrespect for law and order. Christ Is Risen - - 6 living subjects will be covered in serial They will have had a taste of lawlessness and blood, The Miracle of Galilee - 7 articles, like the Sabbath, some of the and they will form an exceedingly dangerous element 8 great prophetic lines, the Lord's coming, in our population. The fathers and mothers of these A Purpose for the Ministry "In the End of the Sabbath" 8 the signs of the times, the great subject irresponsible boys do not seem to realize what they How to Breathe - - - 14 of Christ's priesthood, life in Christ, and are bringing their children. The evil effects of Our Lord's Coming - - 14 His coming kingdom. this strike will be reflected long after it has been The Engineer Who Broke the Record - 15 Our story, "Shiloh: the Man of Sor- all but forgotten." rows," has already begun. How do our — -lc-- Question Corner readers like it? It will grow in interest The latest news from the terrible snowslide Questions Nos. 3079 to 3084 2 as the weeks go by. In these days when there are so many voices calling away on the Great Northern at Wellington places the death roll at 115, and this may go still higher. The The Outlook from God's Word, we appeal to our read- trains were swept 300 feet down the mountainside Mexico — The Decadence of France — The ers who love the old Book to aid us in every way they can in giving its mighty by the avalanche. Many of the dead will never be Star of Bethlehem — Good — Oriental Pow- found, in all probability. The last two weeks have truths wider circulation. ers — Comet A 1910- Public Educators — beenweeks of fearful storms and wash-outs on - - 10, 11 Our Bible Band will continue through Notes - - nearly all the transcontinental railways. The South- the year. Questions of paramount in- ern Pacific at the present writing are sending their The Story terest will be answered in the Question Ogden trains by the short line to Portland and Corner; and the signs of the times daily Shiloh: the Man of Sorrows (Chapter 4 — thence town the 'coast, and trains that had been - - 12 and weekly occurring, almost every one The Plotting of lerod) - sent as far as Nevada have been turned back to of which are answers of the elements in go east by the way of Portland. Poetry the earth to the prophetic Word, will be Christ Is Risen 1 faithfully chronicled. As We Go ; • 4 The aim of the SIGNS OF THE The book sales of our various publishing "If Any Man Will" 5 TIMES will not be to please. It would houses in the year 1908 were more than $820,000 in the United States and Canada, and in foreign fields The Call of the Night - 8 become more popular by so doing, but they exceeded $450,000. The total sales .of 1908 we do not believe that our readers wish were $1,290,181.24. The gain in the United States that; "bit as we are allowed of God to ,first and Canada during 1909 was $120,324.77. Allow- So-called Easter Sunday is always the be put in trust with the Gospel, even so ing for no gain in foreign fields, the sales for 1909 Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, were $1,410,506.01, next after the 21st day of March. If a full moon who trieth our hearts." We shall en- happens upon a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday deavor as best lies in our power to be — 4( — after. true to our mission, true to our motto, February 18 a severe earthquake was felt true to the Gospel. throughout the island of Crete, acompanied by vio- On page 7 of this number is a reproduction We would make the paper in the year lent subterranean explosions. A number of build- of a photograph showing a custom which is ob- to come, by His grace, a great soul- ings were damaged at Canea, and a minaret of a served on Maundy Thursday in Jerusalem. The or- saving agency; and so again we appeal mosque crashed through the dome. Six persons dinance of feet-washing was instituted by our Lord to our readers and friends to give it were buried in ruins at Varipetro. Himself as recorded in John 13. It has been con- the widest circulation possible. The _4( — tinued in perverted forms in the church nearly ever times demand it, and we believe that the The March "Watchman" is one that is de- since. In the seventeenth Council of Toledo in 694 worth of the paper in the year to come it was made obligatory on the Thursday of "holy cidedly given to the subject of present truth. The will not disappoint those who unite with departments of Outlook, Editorial, General Articles, week" in the Catholic Church, throughout the us to increase its field of usefulness. churches of- Spain and Gaul. In 1530 Wolsey Mission Fields,, as well as others, are well filled. Price, ten centS:.-. Southern Publishing Association, washed, wiped, and kissed the- feet of fifty-nine poor men at Peterborough. The practise was con- Nashville, Tenn: tinued by English sovereigns till the reign of James ,At this writing, March 10, the strike situa- —*— II, and as late as 1731 the Lord High Almoner tion in Philadelphia looks exceedingly serious. The One of tIxt latest things reported is the for- washed the feet of the recipients of the royal gifts state Federation of Labor passed a resolution ask- mation, or steps to that end, of an automobile trust at White Hall on Maundy Thursday. As instituted. ing the American Federation of Labor, in the event of $300,000,000; at the head of which is said to be by our Lord, it was in connection with . the last of arbitration failing, to call a nation-wide strike John Pierpont Morgan. supper. Smith's "Dictionary of Christian Antiqui- of organized and unorganized labor. The resolu- ties" tells us that it was performed in the early tion was offered by the leader of the strike in _ Our thanks are due for catalog of Sperry's church with the catechumens, and said also that Philadelphia. Such a strike would paralyze trade well-known seed house. Sperry's seeds are always others engaged in it, but it seems to have occurred and commerce, and bring untold distress, which .reliable and bear true to name. They can be de- once a year. In fact it was more or less observed would largely fall upon those who are not ih any ..pcnded upon.