VOLUME 45 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, FEBRUARY 5, 1918 NUMBER 6

Can Man Overturn the Prophecies?

By ARCHER V. COTTON

HE greatest question confronting the be fused into one. After this manner Concerning the kaiser's ambition to es- T human race is the world-old question, have the nations of Europe come into tablish a great Eui•opean empire, Newell Whom shall we believe and obey, God or existence. Men have attempted to unite Dwight Hillis, in the Detroit Journal of • man? Man inherently stands opposed to them into great empires. October 18, 1917, writes as follows: "This God. He who has become wise in his own Notable among those who have tried, war began in 1892, in a meeting in the wisdom does not hesitate to place criti- are Charles V of Germany and Napoleon palace at. Potsdam. The kaiser at that cism upon the word of God. His conduct Bonaparte. Each in turn saw his dreams time placed in the hands of his advisers is openly at variance with the word of vanish as vapor in mid-air. Each made a document marked 'Secret and confiden- the Creator. a signal failure. Of the two named, the tial.' The first line held these words: Twenty-five centuries ago, Nebuchad- first ended his days in voluntary exile, `The Pan-German Empire.' The second nezzar, king of Babylon, had a dream and the second in forced exile. God had line read, 'From Hamburg and the North portraying the rise and fall of nations, said of those nations, that they would be Sea to the Persian Gulf.' The third line which culminated in the establishment partly strong, and partly divided; and was, 'Our immediate goal is the Germani- of God's everlasting kingdom. In this Europe is broken up into more fragments zation of all nations.' On the second dream, he saw an image with a head of than ever before in its history. page there was, an extract from the gold, breast and arms of kaiser's speech. 'From my silver, sides of brass, and childhood, I have been un- legs of iron. Each of these der the influence of five divisions represented an men—Alexander, Julius empire, beginning with Caesar, Theodoric the Sec- that of Babylon; followed ond, Frederick the Great, by Medo-Persia, Greece, and Napoleon. These five and Rome. The feet and men dreamed their dreams toes of the image were an of a world empire—they amalgamation of iron and failed. I too have a dream clay, and represented the of a world empire—I shall divided state of Rome, succeed!" which became a reality The foregoing becomes after the fourth century very interesting when con- A. D. Concerning this di- sidered with a statement vision, the prophet de- the kaiser made to our clared: "Whereas thou ambassador, James W- sawest the feet and toes, Gerard, which, the latter part of potters' clay, and gives in his recent book, part of iron, the kingdom "My Four Years in Ger- shall be divided; but there many": "America had bet- shall be in it of the ter look out after this strength of the iron, for- war," and, "I shall stand asmuch as thou sawest the no nonsense from America iron mixed with miry clay. after the war." And as the toes of the Of course, the kaiser feet were part of iron, and will fail in his ambitions, part of clay, so the king- just the same as any other dom shall be partly strong, ruler would fail, because and partly broken. And God, through the prophet, whereas thou sawest iron declared of those nations, mixed with miry clay, they that they "shall be partly shall mingle themselves strong, and partly broken," with the seed of men: but and "they shall not cleave they shall not cleave one one to another, even as to another, even as iron is iron is not mixed with not mixed with clay." clay." Daniel 2: 41-43. Besides attempts to weld Of the nations that the nations through force would grow up out of the of arms, alliances have Roman empire, some woul been sought through inter- be strong, and others weak. marriage in the royal As iron and clay will not families. All t h e royal adhere one to the other, families of Europe are re- neither could these nations "They shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." (Continued on page 4) Said in Few Words

A Text and a Thought for Each Indeed, an uplift "forever" must em- hearts. "Hearken unto Me, ye that know brace all this and more. In the experi- righteousness, the people in whose heart Day in the Week ence of every child of God, there must be is .My law; fear ye not the reproach of SUNDAY.-1 Corinthians 13: 13; 14: 1. first the continual treading down of sin men, neither be ye afraid of their re- "Faith ends in sight; hope ends in pos- in this life; each God-conquered sin being vilings. For the moth shall eat them up session ; love never ends." a stepping stone to higher things, an "up- like a garment, and the worm shall eat MONDAY.—Joshua 1: 8. "Reading and lift"; and following this must be the yet them like wool: but My, righteousness meditation must lead to obedience and unknown uplifts of the life to come. shall be forever, and My salvation from action before I can enjoy prosperity and Too many of us are content with an generation to generation." Isaiah 51: success." up-and-down experience—the mountain 7, 8. top to-day, the bottomless pit to-morrow; If there are those who reproach us, TUESDAY.—Ezekiel 18: 4. "The soul now victory, now defeat; sin sometimes because we take God at His word, and that sinneth little or much." conquered, sometimes conquering. But love and obey His commandments, we WEDNESDAY.—Mark 1: 35. "If our God does not want any child of His to need not be afraid of their revilings. public life is to count for God, our pri- have such a checkered career. He de- Let us remember how short and uncer- vate life must be strong and deep." lights to see us riding on the•high places tain is the life of man, while the right- THURSDAY.—Psalm 48: 14. "Personal (Isaiah 58: 14), and would have us al- eousness of God shall be forever. guidance is promised,—not a chart, but ways victorious, always triumphant. 2 A blessing is pronounced upon the man a Guide." Corinthians 2: 14. whose delight is in the law of God, and FRIDAY.—Hebrews 6: 19. "Sure be- He is able, too, to supply the power for who meditates in His law. "He shall be cause of the character of the anchor such an experience. With every tempta- like a tree planted by the rivers of water. a (`the hope set before us') ; steadfast be- tion, He provides "a way of escape." that bringeth forth his fruit in his sea- cause of the anchorage (`within the There is nothing inevitable about the falls son; his leaf also shall not wither; and veil')." and the failures. He who, in the fight whatsoever he doeth s h a 1 1 prosper." against sin, "stooped to conquer," now SABBATH.—Matthew 6: 34. To-mor- Psalm 1: 1-3. IVA F. CADY. stoops to uplift His children above sin. row's providence will meet to-morrow's Those who grasp His wounded but all. ERNEST LLOYD. need. powerful hand, He will uplift, imparting all needed strength, and doing so continu- Fetters Forged by Passions Foolish Philosophies ously, till the work begun in us is finished, ARE not the words of Edmund Burke and we are ready for the new uplifts of worthy of consideration when we con- "CANST thou by searching find out the eternal ages. template present-day conditions? God? canst thou find out the Almighty ARTHUR S. MAXWELL. "Men are qualified for civil liberty in unto perfection?" Job 11: 7. So asked exact proportion to their disposition to a friend of Job's in the early dawn of put chains upon their own appetites; in history. Yet all the race of philosophers Written Within the Heart proportion as their love of justice is in all time have attempted to discover above their rapacity; in proportion as God. SOME say that under the new covenant, their soundness and sobriety of under- Philosophy is the study of the origin the law of the Father is abolished. But, standing is above their vanity and pre- of things. Men have endeavored to find instead of that, His law comes under the sumption. . . . Society cannot exist un- the ultimate or absolute by the aid of new covenant. It is in our hearts. God less a controlling power upon the will reason alone. Each school of philoso- Himself writes it there. and appetite is placed somewhere; and phers has originated a new system of The first record we have of the prom- the less of it there is within, the more reasoning, contrary to its predecessors. ise is in Jeremiah 31: 33. It is twice there must be of it without. It is or Each proclaims the other system foolish- quoted by Paul in his letter to the He- dained in the eternal constitution of ness. The Word says that all are fool- brews. "This is the covenant that I will things, that men of intemperate habits ishness to God. (1 Corinthians 1: 20.) make with the house of Israel after those cannot be free. Their passions forge The origin of things is not to be found days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws their fetters." And let it be added that in that way. "Spiritual things are into their mind, and write them in their the gospel of Jesus Christ, and not hu- spiritually discerned." hearts: and I will be to them a God, and man laws and regulations, is the one The various systems of philosophy are they shall be to Me a people." See He- power that can break the fetters of sin the best means man has reasoned out to brews 8: 10 and 10: 16. Paul here ap- and its passions. J. W. RICH. account for existence; but they are men- plies this scripture to the Christian dis- tal towers of Babel. The proper starting pensation. point has never been possessed by these So, according to the promise of the pagan reasoners. It is plainly stated in Lord, He will, if we are in submission Love That Excels Proverbs 1: 7: "The fear of the Lord is to Him, put His laws into our mind, and "GREATER love hath no man than this, the beginning of knowledge." write them in our hearts. We need not that a man lay down his life for his HENRY F. BROWN. struggle along, as some say, "in our own friends." This text of Scripture is often weak way"; but if we look to the Lord interpreted to mean that the greatest love by faith, He will Himself write His law man can possibly attain or manifest is Uplifts or the Bottomless Pit in our hearts. that of laying down his life for his "SAVE Thy people, . . . and lift them• And when the law is in our hearts, friends. up forever." Psalm 28: 9. When David how will it be with us? In a prophecy of Instead of this, the text shows the prayed this prayer, it cannot be that he Christ, it is written that He said, "I de- weakness of man's heart. It illustrates expected God to raise His people sud- light to do Thy will, 0 My God: yea, Thy what man may perhaps accomplish with- denly to such a high spiritual plane that law is within My heart." Psalm 40: 8. out the love of Christ in the heart. they would sin no more. Rather, David Then if the law is written in our hearts, But with the love of Christ in the had in mind the thought of a continual we too will delight to obey it. It will not heart, man can "do all things through series of uplifts—a divine "lift" to-day, be a burden, but a pleasure, to do what Christ which strengtheneth" him. He another to-morrow. "Bear them up for- we know will please our Lord. can follow Christ's example by laying ever," is the rendering of the Revised And when it is our delight to do God's down his life for his enemies. He can Version. Very probably the psalmist will, we shall not be doing so much stum- explore the love of God to unknown thought of the elevating process as con- bling and falling all the way along. "The depths throughout eternity. tinuing beyond this life, even forever, the law of his God is in his heart; none of W. E. BELLEAN. uplifts of the life to come being made up his steps shall slide." Psalm 37: 31. of an ever increasing knowledge of divine Then we have some words of encour- PAUL didn't have much eyesight, but things, and an ever deepening insight agement for those who submit themselves the Lord gave him an abundance of fore- • into the mysteries of salvation. to the Lord, and cherish His law in their sight. ORVA LEE ICE. The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 3

that could deliver the ram out of his hand." Daniel 8: 5-8. Kingdoms Symbolized by Beasts Will you believe me if I tell you that you have read a prophecy of the over- BY ALBERT MARION DART throw of Medo-Persia by Grecia? That is what you have just read; for "the ram EHOLD, the former things are The object of the vision is to fit souls which thou sawest having two horns are 4413 come to pass, and new things do I for the heavenly kingdor ; for after the kings of Media and Persia. And the declare: before they spring forth I tell stating that the four beasts represent rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the- you of them." Isaiah 42: 9. kingdoms, the angel said, "But the saints great horn that is between his eyes is the What privilege of the human family of the Most High shall take the kingdom, first king." Verses 20, 21. is greater than' history in advance? and possess the kingdom forever, even THE NATIONS SYMBOLIZED Through this, the human mind is led to forever and ever." Verse 18. see the divine origin of the holy Bible, So it is not simply to make Bible facts In the seventh chapter, the lion repre- . which points out the way of salvation. stand out clearly that I write, but that sents Babylon, corresponding to the head In Hosea 12: 10, the Lord says, "I the Holy Spirit may influence souls to of gold in the metallic image of Daniel 2; have also spoken unto the prophets, and become saints of God, and thus come the bear, succeeding the lion, represents I have multiplied visions; and by the into possession of the eternal inherit- Medo-Persia, and corresponds to the ministry of the prophets have I used ance. breast and armk of silver in the image, similitudes." A. R. V. An understanding of this great proph- and the ram of chapter 8. In the seventh chapter of Daniel, four ecy will surely help us to make a sensible The bear "raised up itself on one, side." beasts are used as symbols of Babylon, choice. The ram had two horns, and "one was Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome, uni- Daniel's vision of the eighth chapter higher than the other, and the higher ersal monarchies. will be an aid in a study of the vision of came up last." O the seventh chapter. He saw a ram with These characteristics are significant, SAW FOUR GREAT BEASTS two horns, one higher than the other, and from the fact that there were two promi- "Daniel spake and said, I saw in my the higher coming up last; and a goat nent factors in the Medo-Persian king- . vision by night, and, behold, the four with a notable horn between its eyes. dom,—the Medes and the Persians. The winds of the heaven strove upon the The two animals were in deadly conflict. Medes were prominent; but Cyrus the great sea. And four great beasts came Speaking of the goat, the prophet says: Persian accomplished the overthrow of up from the sea, diverse one from an- "He came to the ram that had two horns, Babylon—"the higher came up last." other." . . . and ran unto him in the fury of his The leopard beast represents Grecia, The beasts are described as a lion with power, . . . and smote the ram, and and corresponds to the thighs of brass in eagle's wings; a bear with three ribs in brake his two horns: and there was no the image of the second chapter, and the its mouth, raising itself up on one side; power in the ram to stand before him, notable goat of Daniel 8. a leopard-like beast with four wings and but he cast him down to the ground, and But why the four heads on the leopard? four heads; and "a fourth beast, dread- stamped upon him: and there was none This is explained in the prophecy of the ful and terrible, and strong eighth chapter. N o t i c e: eedingly; and it had great "Therefore the he-goat [Gre- iron teeth: it devoured and cia] waxed very great: and brake in pieces, and stamped when he was strong, the great the residue with the feet of horn was broken; and for it it: and it was diverse from came up four notable ones to- the beasts that were before ward the four winds of 't; and it had ten horns." heaven." Daniel 8: 8. Grecia has four heads, as INTERPRETS THE BEASTS represented in Daniel 7. The angel said the great There can be no question as to the meaning of the sym- horn between the eyes of the goat was the first or principal bols; for Daniel, being trou- king. The prominent actor bled about the vision, asked THE MORNING YET TO BE in Grecia's conquests was the angel about it. "So he By MILTON C. WILCOX Alexander the Great, repre- told me, and made me know sented by the horn. "And t h e interpretation of t h e O THE beauty of the morning yet to be! when he was strong, the great things. These great beasts, O the gladness of the morning yet to be! horn was broken." which are four, are f our When the dawn of God shall break, kings, which shall arise out Sun of righteousness awake, KINGDOM HE DID NOT TAKE of the earth." Verses 2-17. And God's mighty power shall make That the king stands for The heavens and earth from sin forever free, Grecia was strong because the kingdom is evident from And the universe from death forever free! of the strength of her leader. the twenty-third verse, where But he was not strong in the the fourth beast is said to be O the beauty of the morning drawing nigh! sense of taking the kingdom O the glory of the morning drawing nigh! as the saints will take it, for t h e fourth kingdom upon When shall vanish sin's black night! NV earth." Smitten by the dawning light, he died at the age of thirty- That we must begin with Fades the blasting cause and blight; two, in a drunken debauch, Babylon in our reckoning is For the King appears who once for man did die. and it is written that no seen from the fact that his- Unveiled glory man shall see with undimmed eye. drunkard "shall inherit the tory records but four uni- kingdom of God." Alexander versal kingdoms from the O the beauty of the morning coming soon! could take earthly kingdoms; time of the vision, the first O the sweetness of the morning coming soon ! but it requires "heirs of God, When the mighty splendor streams, year of Belshazzar, king of and joint heirs with Christ" With God's healing in its beams, Babylon; and in the second And the real's beyond our dreams! to take the heavenly kingdom. chapter of Daniel, the For no language can describe God's blessed boon, Only such will overcome per- prophet, in interpreting Neb- Of the days and nights that need nor sun nor moon. verted appetite and passion, uchadnezzar's dream, said to and form enduring charac- the king of Babylon, "Thou O the beauty of the morning yet to be! ters. Character is of infi- art this head of gold." Three O the blessings of the morning yet to be! nitely more value than merely more universal kingdoms fol- When the mighty King of kings, worldly fame and honor. We low, as represented by the Myriad host His praises sings, might not be able to attain to Aye, forever blessing brings, other metals in the image, the latter, should we try; but Blessings rich and glad and lasting, full and free, we can reach the former, for making four universal king- Which He offers now, dear heart, to you and me! doms from the time of the 'as many as received Him, to vision. them gave He power to be- FF.77.77,„

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come the sons of God, even to them that Grecian empire after the death of Alex- tation, which must benefit their after believe on His name." John 1: 12. ander the Great! lives. Upon the death of Alexander, his king- After the angel had told Daniel that There is a tract of 1,700 acres of land dom was divided among his four leading the four beasts represented four king- obtainable at a very low figure, adjacent generals, Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleu- doms, and reminded him of the fact that to the school, where irrigation and water cus, and Ptolemy. The prophecy calls for the saints of God would take the king- power can be had with very little labor, the division of the kingdom toward the dom and possess it forever, Daniel said, from never failing mountain streams. four winds of heaven. History accords "Then I would know the truth of the The land is covered with exeellent saw Xassander the western part, Lysimachus fourth beast." Daniel 7: 17-19. timber; and with the water power for the northern, Seleucus the eastern, and Some striking facts concerning the sawing, and student labor for the con- Ptolemy the southern portion of the em- fourth beast, Rome, given in answer to struction of the needed buildings, the pire. the prophet's desire, to know the truth_ school could soon be put into its own How definitely does the leopard beast about it, will be considered in the study quarters, instead of having to depend of Daniel 7 point to the division of the next week. upon rented buildings, as at present. The irrigation that could be easily obtained would insure a crop even in years of drought. My report on the school and its work led the General Conference of Seventh- Through Central America day Adventists to make possible the pur- chase of the land referred to, and to ap- point a teacher possessing the degrees of on a Mule A. B. and A. M., who is also well BY RUFUS W. PARMELE equipped with the Spanish language, to connect with the school as principal. I HAVE just made a tour through Cen- hammock, and eating little else than Brother Snow will thus be left free til° tral America, a good portion of the what was obtainable from the natives, develop the industries of the school, and trip being made on a mule. As I was the School of English and Arts, located I believe it will prove a strong factor in obliged to stop nights with the natives, I at Siguatepeque, Honduras, seemed to me bettering conditions in Honduras. Should had an excellent opportunity to study like an oasis in a desert. The comfort- these lines appeal to the charitably in- their condition and needs. able bed and the good things to eat pro- clined, gifts for the school would be I was often led to remark that this is vided there, made me feel like wishing thankfully received from such, and would a land of contradictions. The land is that my journey might end right there. be promptly forwarded, if addressed to very fertile, but very little cultivated. AN APPRECIATED WORK W. T. Knox, General Conference treas- Corn is planted with the machete, and urer, Takoma Park Station, Washing- F. then receives no further care. Bananas Brother and Sister Karl Snow have ton, D. C. grow abundantly; yet during a trip of been conducting this school for a number eight days by mule, I was able to buy the of years. Thus far they have received in fruit but once. In fact, in one place, I all only about $300 from the States to Can Man Overturn the saw the people boiling banana peelings assist them. They have built up a good to get the nourishment from them. Other work, and the influence of the school Prophecies ? fruits, guavas in particular, grow wild; reaches all parts of the republic of Hon- (Continued front page 1) but I was unable to obtain them. duras. Every year, the president sends lated by ties of blood, notable among them his New Year greetings. The gov- them being the king of England, the ex- POTTERS BUT NOT FARMERS ernment has given them freedom from iled czar of Russia, and the kaiser of The natives are artists in making pot- import duties, and has in other ways Germany, who are first cousins. Not- tery, stone jars, etc.; and there is plenty showed appreciation of the work they are withstanding their close relationship, of rosin in the trees every- their countries are en- where in those parts; but gaged in a terrible war it seems never to have oc- and their families are at curred to the people that enmity. they could can the fruits This is a very striking in season for use when fulfillment of the scrip- they are scarce. As a con- ture, "They shall mingle sequence of this failure to themselves with the seed prepare in times of plenty, of men: but they shall not starvation o f ten stares cleave one to another, even them in the face. as iron is not mixed with There is an abundance clay." of minerals in the moun- It is a sad spectacle to tains, but there are very see one who is nominally few mines in operatic) 1. "head of the church" en- Doubtless the reason for deavor, whether ignorant- this is the lack of trans- ly or knowingly, to defeat portation facilities, and of the word of God. In those . enterprising men to push efforts, he is fulfilling the a mining project. specifications of prophecy. The people are very re- Many in the last days ligious, yet they have mea- Typical Native Family Group in Honduras will ask, "Where is the ger ideas of real Christi- promise of His coming?" anity. They nearly all belong to a church doing. But the school might have done 2 Peter 3: 4. Thus they give expression —the Roman Catholic—that does not very much more than it has done, if it to their unbelief ; but just as surely as countenance divorce, but there are more had received more encouragement from God's word was fulfilled of old, and as it unmarried couples living together as hus- the friends of reform. is being fulfilled by men and rulers of to- band and wife than there are of those who This school is just what the people of day, so surely will His promise to "come are married. I have before me the birth that country need. There the young not again" be fulfilled. He says, "In the record of a certain city for one month, as only have set before them high ideals of days of these kings [the divided mon- published in the newspaper of that city. Christian living, but learn how to do archies of Europe] shall the God of It shows that during the previous month, things. They learn that proper culti- heaven set up a kingdom, which shall there were born 27 boys and 23 girls that vation of crops brings enough greater re- never be destroyed: and the kingdom were legitimate, and 67 boys and 60 girls turns to justify abundantly the effort. shall not be left to other people, but it that were illegitimate. They learn that fruit and vegetables may shall break in pieces and consume all After I had traveled astride the mule be preserved for use when those articles these kingdoms, and it shall stand for- for five days, sleeping at night in my are scarce. They also get ideas of sani- ever." Daniel 2: 44. The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 5 fered so much."—Idem, pages 102-105: As to what the new superstitions were, THE THIRD SEAL another Catholic writer, Th. de Cauzons, candidly says, in his "History of the In- (CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK) quisition in France," page 115, note 1: "Polytheism avenged itself, in a cer- VI—When the Church Rode the Black Horse tain sense, of the religion that conquered it, by introducing into it a portion of BY JEAN VUILLEUMIER what it had been itself. An external re- ligion with outward practices and a thou- In his studies of the seven seals of the book. of BLACK IN DOCTRINE TOO sand gods variously named; with its pil- Revelation, Mr. Vuilleumier presented last week grimages, sources, processions, holidays; in part the world conditions that had brought Not only in its life had the church about the blackness spoken of under the third with its sorcery and its superstitions— seal. This week he concludes his study of the turned "black," but also in its doctrine. paganism passed more or less into Chris- third seal, and next week he will follow with a "After the fall of Rome," says the Catho- study of the fourth seal. EDITORS. tianity. . . . The gods were dethroned lic historian just quoted, whose sympathy by the saints; . . . holy sources seem HE historian who proves most con- for the church is evident, "entire popula- certainly to derive from the venerated Tclusively that the "whiteness" of tions passed under the Christian stand- springs of the ancients; pilgrimages re- apostolic simplicity and purity had be- ards; but as they passed, they took with mind us of those of Ephesus and Delphi. come- "black," is an ecclesiastical writer them their baggage of foolish tenets and . . . As to the Christian holidays, they of the fifth century, called Salvian. superstitious practices. The church could naturally adjusted themselves to the days "The church, which ought everywhere not hold back this crowd of self-styled already chosen for the heathen festivals to propitiate God, what does she but to believers, and still less, order them to lay [among them the day of the sun.—J. V.], rovoke Him to anger? How many may down immediately all their ancient er- so that the Christians might not seem e meet, even in the church, who are not rors; she therefore yielded to the circum- 6 too different from the pagans, on the one still drunkards, or debauchees, or adul- stances, and these concessions on her hand, and so that the people might see terers, or fornicators, or robbers, or mur- part were not altogether voluntary. They less difference between two religions that derers, or the like, or all these at once, may also be considered as a wise calcu- celebrated the same days. . . . Sur- without end? It is even a sort of holi- lation on the part of the leaders of the rounded by icons, image s, statues, ness among Christian people to be less church, as much as the consequence of Christs, pictures, external rites continu- vicious. From the public worship of God this sort of irruption, in the beginning ally increasing in number, it became diffi- and almost during it, they pass to deeds of the fifth century, on the part of popu- cult for intelligent and sensitive souls of shame. Scarce a rich man but would lations, who, notwithstanding their abju- to discover the simple apostolic customs commit murder and fornication. We have ration, were pagan in their manner of and the spiritual worship of a God in lost the whole power of Christianity, and life, tastes, prejudices, and ignorance. spirit and in truth." offend God the more, that we sin as "The Romans had received from their Christians. . . . You, Romans, Chris- religion an excessive love for public THEY ADOPTED SUNDAY tians, and Catholics, are defrauding your shows. For them, long processions, har- With particular reference to the sub- brethren and grinding the faces of the monious hymns, glaring vestures, the stitution of the Sunday rest day for the poor, are frittering away your lives over light of torches, the perfume of incense, Sabbath, the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia the impure and heathenish spectacles of were the essential part of religion. says: "Sunday (dies solis; of the Roman the amphitheater, you are wallowing in Christianity, far from hindering a dis- Calendar, 'day of the sun,' because dedi- licentiousness and inebriety."— Quoted position which only required to be di- cated to the sun), the first day of the by Schaff, "History of the Christian rected with more wisdom, adopted a part E week, was adopted by the early Chris- Church," section 12, part 3. of the ceremonial system of the ancient tians as a day of worship. The 'sun' of cult. It changed the object of the cere- Latin adoration they interpreted, as the HOW THE CHURCH HAD SUNK monies, purifying them of their old pol- `Sun of righteousness.' " lution, but retained the time at which "The 'corruption of life among the peo- Tertullian, in the third century, con- several of them were kept. Thus the firmed this statement as follows: "Others ple of the lower and intermediate classes multitude found in the new religion, as Ihad made rapid strides during the last . . . suppose that the sun is the god of much as in the old, the means of satisfy- the Christians, because it is a well-known fifty years of the fourth century. . . . ing their leading propensity."—/dem, fact that we pray towards the east, or How many times the church, who sought, pages 264, 266. but without success, to resist the grow- because we make Sunday a day of festiv- ing evil, had reason to regret the too ity. What then? Do you do less than HEATHENISH PRACTICES easy recruits made in the lower ranks of this? Do not many among you, with an society! Men shamefully ignorant, with- "All the practices of sorcery were in affectation of sometimes worshiping the out honor, without a shadow of piety, great favor among the Christians. . heavenly bodies, likewise move your lips open only to the vilest motives, desecrated They swore by the false gods, they kept in the direction of the sunrise? It is you, by their presence the assembly of the the fifth day dedicated to Jupiter [and at all events, who have even admitted the faithful.. . . the first day dedicated to the sun.—J. V.], sun into the calendar of the week, and "How little did the church resemble, and took part in the plays, festivities, you have selected its day, in preference . seventy years after the death of Con- and sacred banquets of the pagans. The to the preceding day, as the most suitable stantine, what it should have been! . . . ceremonies of Christianity had kept al- in the week for either an entire absti- IIV Toward the end of his life, Saint Jerome most nothing of their ancient majesty. nence from the bath, or for its postpone- also planned to write an ecclesiastical It was not unusual to hear pagan hymns ment until evening, or for taking rest or history, his object being to show that un- sung at Christian festivities, nor to see for banqueting."—Ad Nations, chap- der the Christian princes, the church had the worshipets forwing dances in front ter 13. always been going downward; a severe of their cathedrals, according to pagan CONSTANTINE'S SUNDAY LAW judgment undoubtedly, . . . but the cor- custom. Decency was not observed any In 321, Constantine, at the request of rectness of which is proved by all the better inside of . the churches. People the bishops, made a law compelling rest historical documents of that period. went there to talk over business affairs from labor on the venerabilis dies solis Often this illustrious leader lost all cour- or to have a good time; the noise and the (venerable day of the sun) ; in 325, Syl- age as he reflected upon the deplorable laughter were so loud that the reading vester, bishop of Rome, followed by a condition of the church; and he declared, of the holy books could not be heard; the decree bestowing upon the dies solis the disheartened, that he had no strength worshipers were seen quarreling and Christian name of Lord's day (dies left to go on with his narrative. Plenty fighting; sometimes they called up the domini, still called domenica by the Ital- of historians have portrayed, in vivid officiating minister, urged him to close, ians, and dimanche by the French), while colors, the excessive pomp of the bishops or forced him to sing according to their in or about 338, Eusebius, bishop of of that time, and the covetousness, igno- fancy. Thus Saint Augustine was justi- Caesarea, candidly stated, in his "Com- rance, and profligacy of the lower clergy." fied in calling this powerful influence of mentary on Psalms," that "all things —Beugnot, Hist. de la Destruction ou the old cult a persecution of the devil whatsoever it was duty to do on the Sab- Paganisme, volume 2, pages 97, 98, more hidden and more subtle than that bath, these we [Constantine, Eusebius, 102-105. from which the primitive church had suf- and the other bishops] have transferred 6 The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 to the Lord's day as more appropriately the beginning of the sixth century. Evi- this is true, we shall be forced to admit belonging to it." dently, unless a radical reformation takes that there is more than coincidence in the But as many Christians were still keep- place inside of the church itself, we may harmony of the dates. If we but con- ing holy the Sabbath of the Lord, the expect to find in the next period condi- sider that this vision was given to Daniel council of Laodicea in 364 went one step tions much worse still, if possible. eighty-one years before the decree for farther in abolishing this ancient Bible The concluding declaration of the third the restoration of Jerusalem was given institution, and passed the following de- seal, "A measure of wheat for a shilling, to Ezra, and that after that, in order to cree, its twenty-ninth : "Christians shall and three measures of barley for a shill- fulfill the prophecy, a period of four not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but ing," implies, says the margin, "great hundred eighty-three years must elapse shall work on that day; but the Lord's scarcity." It refers to the scarcity of before the appearing of the Messiah, and day they shall especially honor, and, as true Christianity during this period. The if. we find the actual fulfillment of this being Christians, shall, if possible, do no admonition that follows, "And the oil and prophecy in the unfolding of events, we work on that day. If, however, they are the wine hurt thou not," gives the assur- shall be ready to acknowledge the hand found Judaizing, they shall be shut out ance that in this period of dense dark- of the All-seeing One not only in the giv- from Christ." ness, the little flock that loved God, the ing of the prophecy of this scripture, but Such was the dark condition of the purchase of the blood of Christ, would be also in the manifestation of the Messiah Christian church Under the third seal, at protected from the general apostasy. which followed. With these facts clearly in mind, it is a simple thing to work out the inter- pretation of the prophecy. When the Saviour was born into the world, they called His name Jesus, but not Christ. A Challenge to the Skeptic The terms "Christ" and "Messiah" are equivalent, and mean the Anointed On. (See John 1: 41, margin.) Jesus w BY PHIL. C. HAYWARD baptized by John, and was anointed by the descent of the Holy Ghost in the fall EVENTY weeks was the limit which found in the seventh chapter of the book of the year A. D. 27, just four hundred S God set upon the Jewish dispensation of Ezra, and fully meets the specifica- eighty-three years, to the very month, from the time of the going forth of the tions of the prophecy. from the time of the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Je- decree of Artaxerxes to restore and build rusalem. This was revealed to the ONE SIMPLE PRINCIPLE Jerusalem. And now the question as to prophet in a vision, and is only a sugges- It will now be necessary for us to un- how Daniel could have known of the tion of the mighty challenge to unbelief derstand only one simple principle of in- time when the decree should go forth,, or which is contained in the prophecy of terpretation before the entire vision be- the time when the Messiah should come, the eighth and ninth chapters of the book comes perfectly plain to us. Wherever and that exactly four hundred eighty- of Daniel. time is introduced in any of the prophe- three years should intervene between This vision was given in the year in cies, it is to be interpreted as a year of these two dates, cannot be satisfactorily which the Babylonian kingdom was over- literal time for each day of prophetic answered except upon the hypothesis of thrown and the great Persian kingdom time. Examples of this principle of in- divine inspiration. took its place, 538 B. c. At that time, the terpretation will be found in Numbers whole nation of Israel was in exile, held 14: 32-34, and Ezekiel 4: 4-6; and the BUILT THROUGH TROUBLE captives in Babylon since the days of same rule applies throughout the Scrip- Another interesting test of the proph- Nebuchadnezzar, and their own land and tures, and every prophecy must stand or ecy is presented in the unusual form o_ the holy city lay desolate. But the prom- fall by it. the expression "seven weeks, and three ise of .the restoration was cherished by In the vision which we are studying, score and two weeks." In its ordinary the Jewish heart; and the more devout Gabriel said to Daniel, "From the going form, the expression would be "three- among the people sought, by prayer and forth of the commandment to restore and score and nine weeks"; but a division of confession, for evidences of divine favor. to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the the time is indicated by the form of ex It was at this time and under these con- Prince" shall be sixty-nine weeks, or four pression used, and the key to this it ditions that the angel Gabriel was dis- hundred and eighty-three days. This, found in the last clause of the twenty- patched to the praying Daniel, and he being prophetic time, would be equal to fifth verse, "The street shall be built said to him: four hundred and eighty-three literal again, and the wall, even in troublous years. We here have a chance to test times." DEFINITE PREDICTION this rule of interpretation, for we have As we study the book of Nehemiah, it "Seventy weeks are determined upon the exact date when the decree for the becomes very plain to us that exceedingly thy people and upon thy holy city, to fin- complete restoration of Jerusalem went troublous times did attend the rebuilding ish the transgression, . . . and to seal forth; namely, 457 B. C. As to the ac- of Jerusalem. The hereditary enemies up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint curacy of this date, there can be no ques- of the Jews opposed them in every step. the Most Holy. Know therefore and un- tion. The canon of Ptolemy fixes the This opposition was so relentless that derstand, that from the going forth of reign of Artaxerxes as beginning in the the builders were actually forced to work the commandment to restore and to build year 464 B. c. Thus the seventh year of with their weapons of defense in their Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince his reign, the year in which this decree hands. However, trying as were the con- Al shall be seven weeks, and threescore and was issued (Ezra 7: 8), would be the ditions under which they labored, the. two weeks." Daniel 9: 24, 25. year 457 B. c. Ussher's chronology, work progressed year by year until the The command for the restoration and which gives us the marginal dates in our temple was finally completed, the walls rebuilding of Jerusalem was given by Bible, follows the cation of Ptolemy; and of the city restored, the streets rebuilt, Artaxerxes, the Persian king, in the year more than twenty solar eclipses testify and Jerusalem became a fit place for 457 B. C. This decree provided that all to the accuracy of this system. Indeed, habitation again in the year B. C. 408. the people of Israel who were minded to so far as we have ever known, no one has This we have upon the authority of the do so should go up to Jerusalem, and that questioned these dates. great Josephus, Jewish historian. they should carry with them silver and The next step in the unfolding of the gold, which the king and his counselors YEAR OF THE DECREE prophecy is noticed in the next statement, gave them for that purpose, together It being, then, an accepted fact that "And after threescore and two weeks with the freewill offerings of all the peo- the commandment for the complete res- shall Messiah be cut off." Sixty-two ple. It also provided that Ezra should toration of Jerusalem went forth in the weeks reach from the restoration of the appoint magistrates and judges over all year 457 B. c., we are forced, under the city and temple, in the year 408 B. C., to the land; that the temple and the city statement of the scripture, to adopt this the anointing of Jesus as the Messiah, in should be rebuilt; that civil government as the opening date for the prophecy; A. D. 27, just four hundred thirty-four should be reestablished, with power to and we shall not be at all surprised if years, which is sixty-two prophetic weeks. arrest, banish, put to death, or confiscate we find that exactly four hundred and Thus the prophecy becomes an open chal- the property of those who should refuse eighty-three years after this, the Messiah lenge to those who question the inspira- to yield obedience to it. This decree is actually appeared. And if we find that (Continued on page 12) The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 7

this time should receive the especial at- tention of every citizen of the United States. Who Are Her Daughters? Many housewives, as their attention is called to the food pledge, echo the senti- BY ALLEN WALKER ment, "I do not see how I can be any more saving than I am now." But to "be sav- I N Revelation 17, we have the striking 22, page fl, we have this statement: ing" is not all that is required during symbol of a woman "decked with gold "The king annulled forever all privileges this strenuous time in our national his- and precious stones and pearls," and granted to the Huguenots. He absolutely tory. seated upon a scarlet colored beast. prohibited the exercise of their religion There are few self-supporting house- According to Daniel 7: 23, a beast throughout the kingdom with the sole ex- holds in our land that are free from the stands for a government or kingdom. By ception of Alsace. He ordered their tem- habit of making use of more food than is referring to 2 Corinthians 11: 2, we see ples to be leveled to the ground and their needed such as our government now im- that a woman represents a church,—a ministers to quit France within fifteen plores us to save—wheat, beef, mutton, pure woman a pure church (Revelation days, and required that their children be 12: 1), a corrupt woman a corrupt baptized henceforth by the Catholic pork, animal fat, and sugar. church. Thus a corrupt woman seated priests." BETTER THAN MEAT on a scarlet colored beast would repre- Of course, the church was back of all sent a corrupt church supported by the this, and the purpose was to add converts Up-to-date science teaches that less fine government. to the church "by might" and "by power." flour, and more Graham, whole wheat, The woman of Revelation 17 undoubt- These facts merit for her the name "har- and rye flour and corn meal are con- edly primarily represents the Church of lot," and the Scriptural assertion that ducive to health. It teaches that beans, Rome during the period when she was she "committed fornication with the kings peas, lentils, nuts, etc., are better for united with or supported by the govern- of the earth." health than meat, and that vegetable * shortening is preferable to animal fats ments of Europe. As a result of this union, the Roman Catholic Church be- THE DAUGHTERS from a health standpoint. came a great persecuting power. John The fifth verse of this seventeenth As to sugar conservation—we must says, "I saw the woman drunken with the chapter of Revelation declares that this plead guilty to waste in this direction. blood of ,the saints, and with the blood of "woman" is a "mother of harlots." She Besides extravagance in the use of sugar the martyrs of Jesus." Revelation 17: 6. has daughters that are of her character. in cooking and in beverages, many Ameri- In the first verse of this chapter, this Who are her daughters? They are not cans have contracted the daily candy woman is called a "harlot." The reason the members of the Catholic Church, be- habit, and thus consume an excess of assigned for this title is found in sugar, which is absolutely harmful. the next verse, which says, "With American children learn in baby- whom the kings of the earth have hood to devote their pennies to the committed fornication." purchase of candy; and excess in this direction proves a contributing SPIRITUAL ADULTERY cause of dyspepsia, which is wide- The Church of Rome committed spread among Americans. spiritual adultery by uniting with The annual confectionery bill of the kings of the earth. the United States reaches the enor- The church sustains the same re- mous sum of $178,000,000, not to lation to Christ that a woman sus- mention the sugar used in the $500,- tains to her husband. Ephesians 000,000 worth of soda fountain 5: 23. The reason for the marriage products that are annually con- relation between husband and wife sumed. is that they may "be fruitful, and "The strikiWg symbol of a woman . . . seated upon a It is but reasonable also that we multiply." When a woman for- scarlet colored beast." comply with the president's re- sakes her lawful husband for an- quest to be saving of good dairy other, she becomes a harlot, or an adulter- cause these compose the mother. The butter, eliminating it from cooking, un- ess. Christ is "the head of the church"; mother being an organized system—an less in cases of illness. There are good and the reason for this relationship is that apostate church—her daughters must be vegetable substitutes for butter in cook- they may "bring forth fruit." Romans the same. Which organized apostate ing. The best of cake can be made with 7: 4. Through the cooperation of Christ systems then are her daughters? They some of these as shortening. Their fluf- with the church, men and women are to must be any churches or organized sys- finess makes them preferable to butter; be "born again," and thus become mem- tems of apostate religion that appeal to and with the addition of a little extra salt bers of the heavenly family. In order to the government for assistance to produce and the usual flavoring, the substitution. produce spiritual children, the church children—add members to their churches is not noticeable. But since cake requires must remain true to Christ, and seek no —and by this unlawful ,union, commit so much sugar, we should seek to con- other aid. She is not permitted to seek spiritual fornication, thus constituting serve in this direction. the assistance of "the kings of the earth," themselves "harlots." In addition to keeping the waste can or the civil power. "Not by might, nor Any church or denomination that seeks free of all needless waste, let us eat that • by power, but by My Spirit, saith the the aid of the government to further its which is best for bodily strength; and at Lord." Zechariah 4: 6. interests, instead of depending wholly the same time save for the starving peo- The Roman Catholic Church forsook upon Christ, the lawful husband, is a ple who are looking to us as their only the only lawful head of the church, and daughter of the "woman." She was source of food supply. relied upon the aid of "the kings of the seated on a "beast"—supported by the Our country has taken a long step in earth" to increase the number of her civil power; and any denomination that the right direction by diverting from the children. seeks the support of the civil power is distilleries the millions of bushels of History will abundantly confirm this assuming the same position the woman grain which now flow into the food chan- assertion. "Milton's Pattison," chapter occupied. nels of the world. And, as has been sug- 11, in speaking of the persecutions of gested, if we will now cease to devote our the Vaudois, says: "The Vaudois were fertile lands to the culture of poisonous wretchedly poor. In January, 1665, a tobacco, and instead raise grain and other sudden determination was taken by the Keynote of Food Conservation food products, another channel of food government to make them conform to the BY MARY ALICE HARE LOPER supply will be opened to answer the dire- Catholic religion by force. The whole of ful need of other countries. the inhabitants of three valleys were or- O not eat what you do not need. President Wilson himself does not use dered to quit the country within three D The American people know little of tobacco, and may his worthy example be days under pain of death unless they economy as it is known in many other emulated by all who would seek health would become Catholic." countries of the world; and President and the relief of the starving people of Again in "Students' France," chapter Wilson's request for food conservation at Europe. 8 The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918

heart, until, like a babe in its mother's arms, he trusts wholly in Christ, sharing with Him the innermost secrets of the The Highway of Peace heart. • Why was the "maw," or stomach, of BY MRS. S. N. HASKELL every animal given to the officiating priest? In the laws regulating the peace ILLIONS of armed men on the bat- of the animal given to the priest repre- offerings, given in Leviticus, the maw is M tle fields of Europe are fighting for sented service that must be rendered our not mentioned; but when Moses re- peace, while mothers and wives at home High Priest by all who long for the peace hearsed the laws, near the end of the are anxiously scanning the daily papers of God. The blood was sprinkled before pilgrimage wanderings, the two cheeks in hopes of finding some indication that the Lord, and the fat was burned by the and the maw were included with the por- peace will be consummated before the priest. The sprinkled blood represented tions given to the priest. No doubt the lives of their dear ones are sacrificed on the blood of Christ, which cleanses from experience of Israel's lusting for flesh the altar of war. sin • and the fat was a type of sin. 1 and despising the food the Lord had sent John 1: 7; Psalm 37: 20. from heaven, until many were slain by LEFT HIS PEACE It is not enough simply to confess our the plague, was the reason why the maw Where sin and wickedness reign, there past sins; if we wish true peace, we must was included with the priest's portion. can be no true, abiding peace. Treaties examine our hearts, and cut out of our WHEN RULED BY APPETITE of peace which will stop open war may be lives every tendency that would lead us made between the nations, but true peace No man can be in perfect peace who is into sin. The sinner separating.the fat ruled by his appetite. He cannot serve comes only where the laws of the Prince from the different organs of the sacrifice of peace are obeyed. It is a great com- two masters. The appetite must be was a forcible illustration of the heart- placed in subjection to the Prince of fort, in this time of war and strife, to searching work to be done by the seeker know that our Redeemer is the Prince of peace before a man can experience the gar after true peace. Leviticus 4: 8-10. peace Christ left in this sin-cursed earth peace. The right shoulder was given to the for His followers. It matters not One of the most precious legacies the officiating priest, a type of the Prince of Saviour left in this sin-cursed earth was whether the man lusts after a glass of peace, who carries upon His shoulder the whisky, or a cup of tea, or a plate of His peace. As He neared the cross, and government of every one who fully be- felt its shadow resting heavily upon Him, flesh; if his appetite rules him, he does longs to His kingdom. Isaiah 9: 6. The not have heavenly peace in his soul. "He He said to His disciples, "Peace I leave key of the lives of His subjects rests upon with you, My peace I give unto you: not that hath no rule over his own spirit is His shoulder; and when He opens ways like a city that is broken down, and with- as the world giveth, give I unto you." before His people, none can shut them; John 14: 27. The abiding peace of God out walls." Proverbs 25: 28. and what He shuts, none can open. Isa- In order that a person may experience in the heart is not obtained in the pur- iah 22: 22. suit of worldly fame or riches. perfect peace, his appetite must be sur- Many who confess their sins to Christ rendered wholly to Christ, and he must PEACE OFFERING and are forgiven, never obtain perfect learn to relish the diet God outlines for peace, because they fear to place the gov- him, and never crave the articles of food The laws regulating the peace offering ernment of their lives and all that per- excluded from the diet of Christ's fol- in the ancient Levitical service beauti- tains to them upon the shoulder of Christ. lowers. fully taught, in type and shadow, how to They fear that He would open ways be- The two cheeks were also given the obtain this much coveted treasure; for fore them which they would not wish to priest. The cheeks quickly betray either the entire Jewish economy was a com- enter, or take from them some cherished anger or shame. Peter's cheeks no doubt pacted prophecy of the gospel. The idol. If they could only believe the prom- flushed with shame when, in the judg- peace offering was different, in many re- ise, "Thou shalt preserve them in the ment hall, the maid said, "Surely thou spects, from all other offerings. It was most perfect peace; because they trust in art one of them." How very often the the only offering, except the Passover, Him" (Isaiah 26: 3, Spurrell's transla- cheeks of Christ's professed followers of which the people could eat the flesh; tion), then would their peace be "as a flush with anger! And shameful as it but unlike the Passover, which was con- river," and their "righteousness as the may be, there are modern Peters whose fined to one day in the year, the peace waves of the sea." Isaiah 48: 18. cheeks flush with shame at being identi- offering could be offered at any time. fied with the followers of Christ. The peace offering was often associated NOT GIVEN TO STRANGERS We cannot imagine a flush of anger with other sacrifices; and wherever, in We never place even our earthly inter- covering Christ's cheek when false wit- the Bible, except at the Passover, the ests in the care of strangers; and in nesses testified against Him. We love to people ate of the flesh of the• sacrifice, order to be related to Christ so closely think of His countenance as serene and we may know it was the peace offering. that we can lay the government of our composed, even when "they spit in His Type has met antitype; but "whatso- lives on His shoulder, we must experience face," as when He took the children ill ever things were written aforetime were what was represented by the breast's His arms and blessed them. Matthew written for our learning, that we through being given to the officiating priest. The 26: 67; Isaiah 50: 6. breast is mentioned before the shoulder patience and comfort of the Scriptures No one can attain to that perfect peace might have hope." Romans 15: 4. The when the portions given to the priest unmoved by shame or anger until he has are enumerated. Leviticus 7: 30-34. antitype of what was typified by the confessed his sins and put sin out of his peace offering can be realized in the life Isaiah, the gospel prophet, gives us life, and leaning on Jesus as his most of every one who will accept Christ as the key that explains this type. Of intimate friend, places the government of his crucified Saviour, and prayerfully Christ he says, "He shall feed His flock his life, appetite, and all connected with carry out in his life what was typified like a shepherd: He shall gather the him, in His care and keeping. "The by the ancient peace offering. lambs with His arm, and carry them in peace of God, which passeth all under- His bosom." Isaiah 40: 11. John "lying REPRESENTED CHRIST standing, shall keep your hearts and on Jesus' breast" during the last supper minds through Christ Jesus." Philip- The animal sacrificed as a peace offer- illustrates this close relationship. John pians 4: 7. ing was without blemish, a type of Christ, 13: 25. We never read of Peter's "lying the perfect Saviour. The blood, the fat, on Jesus' breast," although he loved his the right shoulder, the breast, the two Lord. At the time of Christ's death, Do you desire to become a follower of cheeks, and the maw of every peace offer- Peter had not laid the government of his Christ, yet know not how to begin? Are ing were given to the priest. Leviticus life on Christ's shoulder. To him Jesus you in darkness, and know not how to 7: 30-34; Deuteronomy 18: 3. These por- said, "Thou girdedst thyself, and walk- find the light? Follow the light you have. tions were not distributed among the edst whither thou wouldest;" but John, Set your heart to obey what you do know priests, but the priest "that offereth the the beloved disciple, let nothing separate of the word of God. His power, His blood of the peace offerings, and the fat," between him and his Master. He could very life, dwells in His word. As you was to have the other portions. Leviti- lie upon His bosom in perfect trust, receive the Word in faith, it will give you cus 7: 33. knowing that self will on his part did not power to obey. As you give heed to the The priest, as well as the sacrifice, rep- separate him from his Lord. No one can light you have, greater light will come. resented Christ; therefore the portions experience the peace of God fully in the MRS. E. G. WHITE.

EDITORIAL *-n A. O. TAIT 6DPCORS L. E. FROOM

TAKING UP A REPROACH LOOKING FOR THE WRONG EVENT HE psalmist asks the question, "Lord, who shall abide WHEN Christ was here in person, He made some very definite in Thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in-Thy holy hill?" predictions in regard to the overthrow of old Jerusalem; and Psalm 15: 1. In his answer to these all-important in view of what Jerusalem might have been had her people questions, he says, among other things, "He that back- heeded the counsels of the Almighty, we read: "When He was biteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neigh- come near, Ile beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou bor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor." hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things Psalm 15: 3. which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine Taking up "a reproach against his neighbor" is one of the eyes." Luke 19: 41, 42. things that will debar the individual from God's "holy hill." Of the time when the Master was hanging upon the cross, If we believe a report against a neighbor on mere hearsay, we we read: "Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, have taken up the reproach against him. God declares against yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was - such things; and how good it will be to dwell in God's holy hill, rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did where there will not be found a single person who is a back- quake, and the rocks rent." Matthew 27: 50, 51. Speaking of biter or who will either peddle or receive a reproach_ against the Jewish nation and Jerusalem, He also said, "Behold, your a neighbor! house is left unto you desolate." Matthew 23: 38. Those who dwell with God eternally will need to learn these When the Master stated that the Jewish house was left deso- great lessons by careful late, and that unseen hand practice while here in our rent the veil of the temple probationary time upon from top to bottom, the earth. fate of the Jews as a na- tion was forever sealed. As individuals, the same DREAMS as any other nationality, ONE of the favorite they may accept the dreams of mankind f o r Christ; but never again millennium after millen- are they to be restored to nium has been to produce Palestine, to be placed in a world peace that would the family of the nations. be everlasting. We have Those who are looking had trade-unions and com- for the restoration of the binations, h o 1 y alliances Jews to Palestine, will see, and Hague tribunals, in if they give careful study more modern times, that to the Scriptures of both have come as a sort of the Old and the New heritage of the efforts of Testament, that this expec- mankind to produce world tation is doomed to disap- peace. But all through the pointment. The Christ is centuries, there has come © Underwood,.N.1. about to return the second sounding down to us in the British tank shows American army men at big American camp what marvelous things time, not to Palestine it can do. Standing almost straight up on its "hind legs," this big British tank makes merely, but to the whole clearest tones the voice of a remarkable picture as it hurtles into action on its way "over the top." This tank the old Hebrew prophet, weighs thirty-six tons, and can travel over rough country hills, embankments, and world. His coming, and "There is no peace, saith trenches at the rate of jour miles an hour. It is armed with six Lewis machine guns. not the return of the Jews the Lord, unto the wicked." to their land of earthly Isaiah 48: 22. Yet no other age perhaps has ever had the Canaan, is the great event to be looked for. The Jews, with thought of peace as a universal craze as has the age in which the Bible in their hands, hid their eyes to the things belonging we live. We had peace societies to the number of between to their peace. Is the Christian world making similar blunders ? seven and eight hundred before the war broke out, and they each and all promised us that never again would there be any international clashes at arms. Since the war, these societies A SIGN TO US have gone on explaining, and they are now telling us that this MANY professing Christians, as well as other people, miss is the last war we are ever to have; that they have learned the one of the most precious experiences because they do not take solution, and now will soon fix it so we will have peace the time to understand properly the blessings God designs eternally. should come to us through Sabbath keeping. God's word has proclaimed that "evil men and seducers shall The vast majority of mankind regard the Sabbath as merely wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." 2 Timo- a Jewish institution, with a remnant of it, perhaps, in the thy 3: 13. And in the very nature of things, we know, by this Christian dispensation, in the way of Sunday keeping, and all text, that we will have the worst of all wars at the end of time. for the purpose that we may have physical rest. The great mass of mankind are deluding themselves. They are But the principal object of the Sabbath is not physical rest. self-hypnotized, so to speak. In due time, we may expect a "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily cessation of hostility; and then we will hear the world say, as My Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between Me and it has never said in the past, that we are to have peace and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I safety. am the Lord that doth sanctify you." Exodus 31: 13. But God's old Book keeps on saying: "The wicked are like This text teaches that the Sabbath is given as a "sign" of the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up God's sanctifying power. The same thought is expressed in mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." Ezekiel 20: 12, 20, and elsewhere in the sacred Scriptures. Isaiah 57: 20, 21. And we must ever bear in mind that it is Throughout the generations of men, the loyal Sabbath keeper when the great wicked world is predicting peace and safety as has had an experience in the sanctifying power of God that never before, that sudden destruction will come, and they shall enables him to know for himself that He who has the power not escape. But those who carefully heed just what the Bible to create also has the power to redeem. teaches, will not be deluded. They have a perfect guide, which The thought may come into mind, that the foregoing state- will not lead them astray. If ever there was a time when men ment was addressed to Israel. So let it be. Also, in that con- should carefully and prayerfully study their Bibles, that time nection, recognize the great New Testament truth that the is right now. The enemy is preparing the greatest deception literal seed of Abraham do not receive the promise unless they of the ages for those who fail to give close heed to the Word. become the spiritual Israel of God, and God's spiritual Israel 10 The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918

embraces every individual in all times and in all nationalities Competition between nations seems fiercer than between indi- as they give their hearts to God. The meaning of "Israelite" viduals." is one who has the power to prevail with God; and such are As illustrating how trade entanglements raise controversies the ones that God acknowledges as His, and to them He ad- between the most friendly nations, he says further: "New dresses His great Sabbath truth. Zealand is now stirred by fear of America's meat trust; and Says the Master, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not within a few weeks, the finance minister has officially de- man for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also manded that the imperial government take control of the beef of the Sabbath." Mark 2: 27, 28. The Sabbath, then, was not importation, and, to use his words, 'guard us against foreign merely made for the Jew, but it was made for all mankind. competition in the meat trade, and make the empire self-sus- And if we will but receive this great truth, we may learn, by taining.' These two English-speaking countries, who have been experience, of the sanctifying power for which God Himself embracing each other and exchanging eternal vows, before the declares Sabbath keeping to be a sign. war is over find a cause of disagreement in a cargo of meat." We shall see, if we look the facts squarely in the face, that our divine Father knew what He was talking about when He THE MAIN OBSTACLES inspired the apostle Paul to tell us that perilous times would IN discussing the problems that confront the enforcement of be created in the last days, through the love of self and the peace in the World Court, Henry E. Pelton says: "Really the love of money. Please read carefully the first verses of the main obstacles to a permanent peace are trade and finance. third chapter of 2 Timothy.

is that God dealt with and still deals with all His children. And it may be truly Crucible of Character said that if we could see the end, we would ourselves choose the very trials BY WALTER E. GILLis that so often call forth our murmurings. The Bible records of the experiences of 44 NOW ye therefore that they which In Abraham's life history, we find it men should be studied carefully, and not K are of faith, the same are the demonstrated that "it is not by arbitrary with the transient attention allotted to children of Abraham." "And if ye be law or rule that the graces of character the characters in books of fiction. All Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and are developed. It is by dwelling in the these biographies are recorded because heirs according to the promise." Gala- atmosphere of the pure, the noble, the they vividly present, in the characteris- tians 3: 7, 29. true. And wherever there is purity of tic attitudes of everyday experiences, the In these two Scripture statements are heart and nobleness of character, it will very things we need to know, and to es- yoked up the two dispensations of the be revealed in purity and nobleness of chew or practice, as they relate them- gospel; for "the Scripture, foreseeing action and of speech." selves to or against the laws of God. that God would justify the heathen And when his experience had grown TAKE THE PROPHETS through faith, preached before the gos- to the place that he could believe God pel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall on evidence without demonstration, his The apostle James saw this truth, and all nations be blessed." Galatians 3: 8. desire for the promised heir was re- said to the church: "Take, my brethren, The prominence given to the character warded. With this event, the gospel the prophets, who have spoken in the of Abraham is warrant to believe that a promises became more real; and his de- name of the Lord, for an example of sufficient record of his experiences will sire to see Christ, the promised Seed who suffering affliction, and of patience. Be- be found in the Bible to instruct us in the was to gain complete victory over Satan, hold, we count them happy which endure. way he trod so successfully. In this, we became so intense that God gave him the Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and are not disappointed. We find that he experience of offering his only son, his have seen the end [object] of the Lord; was a man of Ur of the Chaldees, who heir, the child of his old age, his beloved that the Lord is very pitiful, and of ten- served the living God, notwithstanding Isaac, on an altar on Mount Moriah, in der mercy." James 5: 10, 11. the fact that in his father's house, idols order that he might see in vision the day The Old Testament record was inspired were adored. It took a hundred years of of Christ and understand its meaning. by the Angel of the covenant (see 1 Peter varied experiences to develop the faith 1: 10, 11; 2 Peter 1: 21), the One who WAS THE TRIAL CRUEL? for which he is noted. Trial after trial must Himself come and be guided by tested the genuineness of his experience The trial seemed a cruel one; but those records in living a perfect life, and in the knowledge of God. Christ told the people of His day, "Abra- at a time when the world and His own ham rejoiced to see My day: and he saw people were enthralled in the subtle net CALLED TO STRANGE COUNTRY it, and was glad." John 8: 56. Thus it of deception that caused them to see in Called to forsake the scenes of his early life, and sojourn, in a strange coun- try, not as a titled ambassador protected by the arms of a sovereign court, but to live the common life of a shepherd, he obediently set forth, not knowing his des- tination. As his family grew and the cares of life increased, seasons of fam- ine tested his faith for daily suste- nance. Later, wealth appealed to any lust for gain or power that might be lurking in his heart. Fear conquered him once, and an unwise desire for an heir brought many sorrows into his life and home. Through all of these daily tests, he de- veloped a constant habit of obedience to the laws of heaven, so that finally God could say, without fear of challenge: "I know him, that he will command his chil- dren and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of Him." Genesis 18: 19. "Christ must be chosen as the heavenly guest." The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 11 the Holy One of God an agent of Satan, the truth of this law when He said to the of evil did they at last develop characters and hence to slay Him. And the record Jews: "If ye were Abraham's children, that were proof against the assults of is that "we have not an high priest which ye would do the works of Abraham." sin. cannot be touched with the feeling of our "Ye are of your father the devil, and the How my soul thrills as I think of 'what infirmities; but was in all points tempted lusts of your father ye will do." John God was able to do for these men and like • as we are, yet without sin." He- 8: 39, 44. women of the Bible who were willing and brews 4: 15. Enoch walked with God; Abraham was obedient, and know that the same God is accounted the friend of God; Moses talked to-day longing to do the same things for WITHOUT GREATER HELP with God face to face; Elijah was trans- you and for me! The experience of Christ as a man was lated; and these men, we are assured, were all men of like passions with our- "Oh, let me walk with Thee, my God, a human experience; and He proved the As Enoch walked in days of old! value of the instruction written, and selves. A careful study of their biogra- Place Thou my trembling hand in Thine, phies confirms the assurance, for it shows And sweet communion with me hold. without greater help or other instruction E'en though the path I may not see, than is open and available to us, devel- that only by daily conflict with the forces Yet, Jesus, let me walk with Thee." oped a character that the law of heaven declares to be without flaw. "And He is the propitiation for our sins." "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2: 2, 6. The Dawn of Morning The gospel asks no impossibilities. "If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted BY LUCAS A. REED according to that a man hath, and not ac- "His going forth is prepared as the morning." Hence the Christian's morning, when cording to that he hath not." 2 Corinthi- Hosea 6: 3. God revealed Himself for the first time, ans 8: 12. However, do not let us con- OD'S manifestation of Himself to the becomes a pledge of that brighter morn- clude, as many do, that the willingness is G human soul comes as gently as the ing when the unveiled light of God's pres- all there is to it. The apostle Paul says: dawning of a beaqtiful day. When at ence shall dawn upon the soul. The time "Now therefore perform the doing of it; last the awakened soul becomes conscious when first the darkness of sin gave way that as there was a readiness to will, so of the divine presence, the exact moment to the beams of God's righteou.ness shin- there may be a performance also out of when the heavenly influence began its ing in our souls becomes a picture and that which ye have." 2 Corinthians 8: 11. glorious work cannot be known. The symbol of that lifelong unfolding of the "Work out your own salvation with fear King's coming has been as silent as the beauty of His character which attains its [lest your feeble efforts may mar the light. The glory has broken gently, like fullest manifestation when we enter at work of God] and trembling. For it is the dawn of morning. last the undimmed glory of the city of God which worketh in you both to will Even one who has been watching anx- God. and to do of His good pleasure." Philip- iously for the break of day, cannot tell pians 2: 12, 13. Thus without ostentation, without cry just when the critical moment came that "Your energies are required to cooper- of herald, without blast of trumpet or marked the transition from dark to light. ate with God. Without this, if it were beat of drum, the King of kings comes in. There was first the faint light above possible to force upon you with a hun- There has been no outward display. The the eastern horizon; then the highest ob- dredfold greater intensity the influences Lord of glory though He is, yet is He jects before us were slowly silhouetted of the Spirit of God, it would not make "meek and lowly of heart." And just as against the sky; foreground objects be- you a Christian, a fit subject for heaven. He has manifested Himself to us does He came more distinct; gently the light in- The stronghold of Satan would not be expect us to manifest Him to others. Not broken. There must be the willing and creased; and after a time, we hardly arbitrarily, not suddenly, unexpectedly, the doing on the part of the receiver. knew when, the day had come. With the with intention to embarrass by the im- There must be an action represented as rising of the sun, the whole world about petuousness of the attack, but in supreme coming out from the world and being us woke to a new morning. love and kindness, tactful as the gentle separate. There must be a doing of the After the same gracious manner, the wooings of the ardent lover, we are to words of Christ. The soul must be emp- Lord of glory reveals His character to make known the goodness of our heavenly tied of self, that Christ may pour His the sons of men. From the time of soul Father to our fellow men. Spirit into the vacuum. Christ must be darkness until the moment when, under THE DIVINE PREPAREDNESS chosen as the heavenly guest. The will the tender manifestations of the Spirit, must be placed on the side of God's will. we enthrone Christ in the heart as king, But there is one, the enemy of all good, Then there is a new heart, and new, holy there is the same slow, -gentle, silent dif- who comes upon us in the sudden fury of resolves. It is Jesus enthroned in the fusion of light amidst the darkness. a quick gathering storm. He "comes in soul that makes every action easy in His Though we cannot name the moment like a flood." He would sweep us away service." when the darkness gave way to the light, suddenly, before we have opportunity to we can at last hail the daydawn of the resist him. He would take us quickly, in UNCLEAN SPIRITS' INDUSTRY soul, and rejoice in the radiant beams some moment when we are unprepared. The Saviour vividly describes the state of the Sun of righteousness. With a sharp blow in the face, he would if possible rouse the latent self within. of those who at first see beauty in the WOOINGS OF A LOVER gospel, and are willing to receive of its By some harsh, cruel word, spoken by one benefits, but who are unwilling to bear Thus God's going forth "is prepared as from whom we least expected it, in a the responsibilities and sacrifices entailed. the morning"; not by taking advantage moment when we are off guard, per- He says: "When the unclean spirit is of us in some sudden move for which we chance—by one sweeping stroke, as it gone out of a man, he walketh through are not prepared, but God gently leads were—he would cause us to array our- dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. us from the deep darkness of sin into selves on his side. Then driving us to Then he saith, I will return into my house that light in which there is no darkness retaliate as suddenly, to speak as harshly from whence I came out; and when he is at all. Tenderly He woos us, gently lead- and as quickly, as another has spoken to come [and how persistently he returns!] ing us to renounce our sinful ways, bring- us, he gains the mastery through the he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. ing us at last to acknowledge Him as cunning and malignity of his swift ap- Then goeth he, and taketh with himself God of our lives. proach. seven other spirits more wicked than But the work thus begun is to continue But God never yields to such methods. himself, and they enter in and dwell throughout the days of our earthly pil- When Christ was reviled, He reviled not there: and the last state of that man is grimage. As God on the first occasion again. Struck suddenly in the face and worse than the first." Matthew 12: manifested Himself to us, so will He con- spit upon, He did not resent it. To in- 43-45. tinue to reveal all the fullness of His excusable wrath and jealousy, He could It is an unerring law of life that as a character to us, bringing us on from give the soft answer, or use the greater man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." faith to faith, from glory to glory, from might of a patient, unruffled silence that ,What he thinks, he will do. And the grace to grace. The path of the just revealed the God within. more diligent the thinking, the more_zeal- man "is as the shining light, that shineth And so in Christ we may safely meet ous the doing. The Saviour recognized more and more unto the perfect day." all the attacks of Satan. When by faith 12 The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918

we abide in Him, the blow aimed at us forth upon their public ministry, He in- The year A. D. 34 marks the close of the falls upon Him instead. Thus we do not structed them, saying, "Go not into the seventy weeks, or four hundred ninety feel the force. We take no slight to way of the gentiles, and into any city of years, which fixed the limit of the Jew- heart, for self is dead, and Christ is the Samaritans enter ye not: but go ish dispensation. Beginning with the de- reigning king. He has control, and all rather to the lost sheep of the house of cree of Artaxerxes in 457 B. C., seventy His goings forth are as the soft beaming Israel." Matthew 10: 5, 6. After His res- prophetic weeks bring us to the year A. D. of the dawning light. Thus His gentle.. urrection, He instructed them to return 34. And the movements which reached ness can make us great through the mani- to Jerusalem and wait for the promise of their climax in that year present a ques- festation of the God of love within. the Holy Ghost. When this power was tion which cannot be openly faced by the given, upon the day of Pentecost, they so-called higher critic and atheistical REFLECTS HIS GRACES began right there preaching to the Jews scholar who would discredit the Scrip- Oh, that we may never speak the quick, who were assembled in Jerusalem. Daily tures as the inspired word of God; for impatient word! Why should we put this they continued in the temple and from by no stretch of the imagination could sudden strain upon any one of God's crea- house to house, preaching and alleging one conceive of the possibility of any tures, or, as is often the case, upon one that Jesus was the Christ. man, however wise, being able to fore- we love? There is no Golden Rule of As multitudes believed and were added cast with such wonderful accuracy the Christ in this. But that Golden Rule is to the church, bitter opposition sprang dates and events of this prophecy. These the very foundation of all courtesy. The up, and'the Jewish leaders tried in every dates are fixed and immovable, and could one whom Christ controls will be ever way within their power to suppress the not be changed without overthrowing the gentle and patient. He will love others disciples, positively forbidding them to entire system of chronology upon which as he loves himself, and hence will not speak any more in the name of Jesus. all history is based; and the prophecy, seek to vindicate or justify self with dis- The disciples were imprisoned, the believ- in these seven specifications, fits in with advantage to his fellows. He will do to ers were driven from their homes, and the facts of history in such a way as to others as he would have them do to him. finally the climax of Jewish hatred was make impossible even the suggestion that He will manifest the character of God. reached in the stoning of Stephen, one these events and dates could have been He will show forth the graces of Christ. of the leaders in the young Christian simply coincidents. • Through such a .self-surrendered soul, church, in the year 34 A. D. Who but omnipotent God could have God's way to others will be prepared as known the length of time that would TURNED TO THE GENTILES the morning; and almost before they elapse between the decree of restoration know it or we are aware of it, they will At this time, Saul was one of the most and the anointing of the Messiah? Who be glorifying our Father in heaven. active members of the Jewish council; but He could have known that exactly What a privilege that the same light and in his zeal, he left Jerusalem armed forty-nine years would be consumed in which dawned in our souls may, by our with authority to hunt down, to imprison, the rebuilding of Jerusalem? Who but lives, be made to dawn in other souls, and to return to Jerusalem every mem- He could have known that from the com- to the never ending glory of God! ber of the hated Christian sect, wher- plete restoration to Messiah the Prince ever he might find them. Upon his way should be sixty-two prophetic weeks, or down to Damascus, he received a miracu- four • hundred thirty-four years? Who A Challenge to the Skeptic lous revelation of the Messiah, accepted but God, in whose hands all things are, the call to repentance, and from that could have known that from the anoint- (Continued from page 6) moment, became Paul the great apostle ing of the Messiah to His crucifixion tion of the Bible; for in no way aside to the gentiles. At this time also, Philip, should be just three and one half years, from direct revelation could Daniel have under the direction of the Holy Ghost, and that after that, for another three and foretold that the city would be exactly made and baptized the first gentile con- one half years, the work of the disciples forty-nine years in rebuilding, and that vert. And the newly converted Paul should be confined exclusively to the Jew- four hundred thirty-four years would in- boldly declared to the Jewish leaders who ish people? Who but God could have tervene between the dedication of the rejected his testimony, "It was necessary known that in the year A. D. 34, condi- city and the anointing of the Messiah. that the word of God should first have tions should arise that would scatter the But there are still more interesting been spoken to you: but seeing ye put disciples through the entire world, like specifications by which to test the proph- it from you, and judge yourselves un- burning embers from a forest fire, and ecy. We read in the twenty-seventh worthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to that the gentiles should receive the gos- verse, speaking of the Messiah, "He shall the gentiles." pel at that time upon the same terms as confirm the covenant with many for one These mighty movements which the Jews? And who but God could have week: and in the midst of the week He marked the close of the Jewish dispensa- known that this entire period of seventy shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation tion had their real beginning with the weeks, or four hundred ninety years, to cease." The Messiah entered upon martyrdom of Stephen, the conversion of should measure the span of the Jewish His ministry in the latter part of the the apostle Paul, and the making of the dispensation from the going forth of the year A. D. 27; and just three years and first gentile convert by Philip in the year 'commandment to restore and build Je- a half after that, in the spring of the A. D. 34. And the year A. D. 34 was just rusalem? These questions set the seal year A. D. 31, He was betrayed and cruci- seven years, or one prophetic week, after of divine inspiration upon the prophecy, fied. Now three and one half years are the anointing of the Messiah in the year and forever demonstrate the Bible to be just half of a week of years, or in the A. D. 27; and these movements fulfill the in truth the very word of God. language of the prophecy, they bring us prophecy which said, "He shall confirm to the "midst [middle] of the week." By the covenant with many for one week," WHY DOUBT? what system of reasoning or speculation or seven years. But another truth of far greater im- ,could Daniel have known, five hundred Now the question again arises, How portance than any other is also demon- thirty-eight years before the beginning could Daniel have known that the work strated by this most wonderful prophecy. of the Christian era, that the public min- of the followers of the Messiah would Has any one ever been tempted to ques- istry of the Messiah would continue only be confined to the Jews for exactly three tion whether Jesus is really the Christ, three and one half years? Yet the proph- and one half years after He was cut off the Son of God, and the Saviour of the ecy is clear and understandable, and the for the sins of the people, and that then, world? Let him stop and consider that accurate fulfillment of its predictions like the bursting forth of a mighty flood, the Man of Galilee came in response to can be accounted for only upon the theory the gospel would go forth, sweeping away this very prophecy, fulfilled its every of divine inspiration. every mark of racial distinction, and specification, and met its every require- doing more in less than one generation to ment as to both time and event. WORKED ONLY FOR JEWS win the world to God than they had ac- This Christ who thus came at that But the prophecy says, "He shall con- complished in forty-two generations? Yet time and in such a manner was really the firm the covenant with many for one all of this is clearly foretold in the Son of the living God, whose advent had week;" and the public ministry of Christ prophecy, and the very time of its ac- been so long foretold, and who made full covered only the first half of that week. complishment is fixed, which raises it reconciliation for our iniquities in His The events of the last half of that week above any possibility of human concep- own body upon the tree. And in Him, of years furnish us with another inter- tion, and stamps it with the seal of di- if we will but receive it, we have com. esting demonstration of the prophecy. vinity. plete redemption and the remission of When Jesus first sent His disciples Another point also should be noticed: our sins. The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 13

prayers similar to the one offered by David will be heard: "Set a watch, 0 Lord, before my mouth; . . . and let me not eat of their dainties." Psalm The Influence of 141: 3, 4. The great variety of dishes, highly seasoned foods and delicacies, served on modern tables, tends to fever the blood Our Eating and to deaden the brain cells. Through indulgence of the appetite, Satan often gets control of man's mind. Jesus began the work of redeeming BY DANIEL H. KRESS, M. D. man, where the ruin began, on the point of appetite. The first step to be taken in the elevation of man morally, is the cor- HAT men, women, and children eat 5, 6. He says, "Add to your . . . tem- rection of wrong physical habits. In re- W determines to a considerable ex- perance patience." ferring to the Greek athletes, Paul said: tent what they are. In raising up a deliverer for His peo- "Every man that striveth for the mas- "This our son is stubborn and rebellious, ple anciently, God commanded the mother tery is temperate in all things. Now . . . he is a glutton" (Deteronomy 21: before his birth, "Now therefore beware, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; 20), was the sad admission made by par- I pray thee, and drink not wine nor but we [as Christians practice the same ents in bringing before the elders of the strong drink, and eat not any unclean temperance in order to gain] an incor- city an unmanageable son. Stubborn- thing." Judges 13: 4. It is evident, ruptible." 1 Corinthians 9: 25. Men ness in children is frequently traceable from this, that the work of reform was must strive in God's way if they would to bad feeding. to begin before the birth of the child; win. "Add . . . to temperance pa- Solomon prayed, "Feed me with food for what the mother ate and drank would tience; and to patience godliness; and convenient for me: lest I be full, and exert an influence upon the child. The to godliness brotherly kindness; and to deny Thee." Proverbs 30: 8, 9. habits of parents before the birth of their brotherly kindness charity." These are "Fullness of bread, and abundance of children, have much to do in determining successive steps in the development of idleness" were largely responsible for the future of the children. There should a Christian character. "If ye do these the sins that prevailed in Sodom. Ezekiel be carefulness on the part of the mother, things, ye shall never fall: for so an 16: 49. before the birth of the child, in selecting entrance shall be ministered unto you her food. After its birth, much care The admonition is, "When thou sit- abundantly into the everlasting kingdom should be exercised in selecting the food test to eat with a ruler, consider dili- of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." for the child. gently what is before thee." Proverbs 2 Peter 1: 5-11. A man is "not crowned, except he strive lawfully." 2 Timothy 23: 1. This every one must do who aims ON VEGETABLE DIET to lead a pure life; for what he eats has 2: 5. to do with what he is morally as well as To the mother of John the Baptist, the physically. instruction was given, "He . . . shall The Wilderness Prophet Philosophers of the past have recog- drink neither wine nor strong drink." nized the intimate relation existing be- Luke 1: 15. John subsisted on a purely BY HERBERT M. KELLY tween food and morals. Porphyry wrote, vegetable diet. His food was locust and STARTLED by a voice from the wilder- "It is not among the eaters of the sitnple wild honey, and his drink was water. ness, the people went out to hear. vegetable foods, but among the eaters of Jesus could say of him, "Among them They heard the voice of a prophet, but flesh, that one meets assassins and ty- that are born of women there hath not they saw a man. There was nothing they rants." risen a greater than John the Baptist." saw that appealed to the proud, but there The poet Byron said: "Flesh eating Matthew 11 : 11. was something they heard that appealed makes me ferocious. The devil always Daniel, the Hebrew captive, knowing to the wise. comes with it until I starve him out." the influence of foods and drinks on John the Baptist was a mere man, but Sydney Smith, in a letter to Arthur morals, "purposed in his heart that he he was a man with a message. He was Kingslake, wrote, "Character and vir- would not defile himself with the portion simplicity personified, but he was the tues are powerfully affected by beef, of the king's meat, nor with the wine greatest man of his day. He came from mutton, pie crust, and rich soups." which he drank." Daniel 1: 8. He re- the wilderness unknown and unpolished, quested that he might have pulse to eat Canon Home Littleton, former head of but wise men sent to ask his name. He and water to drink. The morals of this Hallyburg, one of the greatest British was not educated by men; but by read- man remained untainted amid the cor- public schools, said, "It is well-nigh im- ing the scrolls of the prophets, he had rupting influences of court life in Baby- possible for even the best intentioned become wise. lon. man to live physically pure if he eats He was not influenced by men in his Products which irritate the joints, the meat in excess." manner of living, in his manner of eat- muscles, and the nerves, causing gout, Dr. Gauthier, a noted French scientist, ing, in his manner of dressing, nor in his rheumatism, and neuritis, will also irri- manner of working; yet he delivered a affirms, "A flesh diet is a more important tate the brain and the nervous system, factor in determining a savage or violent message that startled the world and sent and will produce irritability and impa- multitudes to the banks of Jordan. disposition in any individual than the tience. Immoral acts are frequently race to which he belongs." Thousands were thrilled, many believed, committed while the mind is under the and some were converted. WITHHELD FLESH influence of some poison either directly Many admired him because he was introduced into the system or formed in fearless and true. Some loved him be- When the Lord led Israel out of Egypt, the alimentary canal through dietetic cause he was kind and good. Multitudes He promised to make of them a pure error. hated him because he told the truth. He and holy people, but it was on condition Drunkenness and gluttony were the loved all men, but feared none. Herod that they cheerfully obey His voice. To causes of the moral corruption that ex- became the victim of his remarks, as if make purity of life possible, He with- isted before the Flood. The records tell he were a man of low degree. He in turn held from them animal food, and gave us, "They were eating and drinking." became the victim of Herod's knife, as them water from the rock for their "So shall also the coming of the Son of if he were a man of no degree. drink. In order to elevate men morally, man be," said Jesus, in referring to this Leaders of society condemned him. He found it necessary to correct their time. Among the last words of Jesus They said his dress was not cut after an physical habits. The history of Israel were the foilowing: "Take heed to your- approved pattern, which was true per- was written especially for those upon selves, lest at any time your hearts be haps. They said the material was not whom the end of the world is come. The overcharged with surfeiting, and drunk- becoming to a man of his rank, which apostle urges, "Abstain from fleshly enness, . . . and so that day come upon was true perhaps. But he did not change lusts, which war against the soul." 1 you unawares." Luke 21: 34. When the his dress to meet public requirements. Peter 2: 11. intimate relation existing between food Dieticians condemned him. They said God's plan is outlined in 2 Peter 1: and morals is better understood, more his diet was not balanced, which was 14 The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 true perhaps. But he did not change his And so the man, the prophet, the fore- The Two Covenants diet to please his critics. runner of Christ, was condemned and be- Theologians condemned him. They headed, not because of his dress, not be- No One Ever Saved Under the Old said he was not orthodox, which was true cause of his diet, not because he was not BY W. H. BRANSON perhaps. But he did not change his faith orthodox, nor because he was not diplo- to meet the approval of orthodoxy. matic, but because he told the truth. HE old covenant, which passed away, Statesmen condemned him. They said Then, after he was dead, Jesus Christ, T was not the Ten Commandments, as he was not diplomatic, which was true the great character critic, said he was many suppose. It was only an agree- perhaps. one of the greatest of men. But when ment made between God and His people A woman condemned him. She said he the manhood of John was put against the concerning the keeping of the Ten Com- had dared to expose certain sins, which character of the prophet, it would bear no mandments. was absolutely true. And for this he comparison ; for "he that is least in the Many confuse the old covenant with was beheaded. kingdom of heaven is greater than he." the Ten Commandments. They suppose that the two are identical, and that there- fore in the passing away of the old cov- enant, the law of God was abolished. We shall find, however, that they were Constitution of God's Government not the same. It will be noticed that the old covenant BY CHARLES THOMPSON was faulty. It was established upon poor promises. It decayed, waxed old, and vanished away. Hebrews 8: 6-13. The do right. But when a man transgresses, HAT portion of the Holy Scriptures ten-commandment law is not faulty, but and does wrong, the righteous law can- Tknown as "the law of God" is recorded is "perfect," "holy, and just, and good.d' not excuse him without saying that in Exodus 20: 3-17. It contains the Psalm 19: 7; Romans 7: 12. All the wrong is right; and by so doing, the law words of Jehovah spoken amid the thun- promises of the Ten Commandments are derings and lightnings of Mount Sinai, would become sin. But God has put His • good promises. The commandments have "Forbid" to this position. Romans 7: 7. and transcribed with His own finger upon not decayed, but "stand fast forever and Therefore the law can only condemn, and the tablets of stone, and is the covenant ever." Psalm 111: 7, 8; Luke 16: 17. demand the penalty, which is death. He commanded to a thousand genera- That law has not vanished away, but is Hence "the letter killeth." tions. 1 Chronicles 16: 15. established in faith. Romans 3: 31. The commandments here recorded are "But what the law could not do, in that the constitution of God's moral govern- it was weak through the flesh, God send- COMMANDMENTS VERSUS COVENANT ment, the standard by which character ing His own Son in the likeness of sinful is to be tested to determine whether or flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the Thus it is seen that the old covenant not it is sufficiently pure to receive the flesh: that the righteousness of the law was not identical with the Ten Com- touch of immortality. Ecclesiastes 12: might be fulfilled in us." Romans 8: mandments. That covenant was an agreement made concerning the keeping 13, 14. 3, 4. Christ came to do what the law of this law. God promised that if they TRANSCRIPT OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER could not do. What was that? Paul answers by saying, "The commandment, would obey His voice, He would make This law, like all other laws, reflects which was ordained to life, I found to be them a peculiar people above all people the character of the lawgiver, hence is a unto death." Romans 7: 10. The law upon the earth. The Jews in turn prom- transcript of the character of Christ. transgressed could not give life; and as ised that they would do all the Lord com- This is clearly taught by the words of Christ came to do what the law could not manded. This covenant, or agreement, is inspiration referring to Him which say: do, evidently His mission was to give recorded in Exodus 19: 5-8. "Lo, I come: in the volume of the book life. John 10: 10. The people found, however, that they it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy had no power to keep this law aside from will, 0 My God ; yea, Thy law is within THROUGH DEATH, GIVES US LIFE Christ. They had promised to keep it, My heart." Psalm 40: 7, 8. How could this be done? "For He hath but could not fulfill that contract. They The purpose of Christ in coming into made Him to be sin for us, who knew no were sinful, unregenerated people, as this world was to give a demonstration sin; that we might be made the right- seen in Isaiah 1: 2-4; and Paul states, in of His character. This He could do only eousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians Romans 8: 7, that the carnal heart, or by living what was in His heart; for it 5: 21. In being made sin for us, Christ mind, is "not subject to the law of God, is written, "As he thinketh in his heart, took the penalty that the law demanded neither indeed can be." No one can obey so is he." Proverbs 23: 7. Again, "Keep of us, and in His own body, bore our sins God while in sin; hence the necessity of thy heart with all diligence; for out of it on the tree. 1 Peter 2: 24. He "died for the new covenant. are the issues of life." Proverbs 4: 23. the ungodly." Romans 5: 6. The de- NEW COVENANT These are the words of the Master; and mands of the law were met in Him; and they are as applicable to Him as to any when we accept of Him, He sets His The new covenant brings in Christ. living intelligence, for He could not thus death to our account, and imputes His Hebrews 8: 8-10. He makes all the teach and Himself do differently. There- life to us. promises. He agrees to come into the fore what He lived was what was in His Thus we are freed from the condemna- heart by faith, and write this same law heart, and this was "the law of God." tion of the law, and He is just, and the —which man otherwise cannot keep— Hence the best commentary the world justifier of them that believe in Him. upon its fleshly tables, and put it into has upon the law of God is the life of Romans 3: 26. We are henceforth to the mind. He becomes the mediator— Christ, and the most condensed record we reckon ourselves "to be dead indeed unto helper—of the new covenant; and as He have of His life is the law of God. sin, but alive unto God through Jesus is admitted into the heart by faith, He Christ our Lord" (Romans 6: 11) ; for will live there the same life of obedience THE LETTER KILLETH the spirit has given life. to the law of the Father that He lived It was from this viewpoint that the The apostle Paul's Christian experi- here upon the earth 1,900 years ago. apostle Paul wrote when he said, "The ence is in exact harmony with these prin- Therefore those who have accepted the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." ciples. He says: "I through the law am terms of the new covenant are those 2 Corinthians 3: 6. The letter of Christ's dead to the law, that I might live unto who, by the help of Christ, are keeping life is the law. The spirit of the law is God. I am crucified with Christ: never- the law of God, and are free from sin, the life of Christ. Hence Paul said that theless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth ich is its transgression. by the commandment, sin slew him. Ro- in me: and the life which I now live in No one was ever saved under the mans 7: 11. And Christ said, "I am the flesh I live by the faith of the Son terms of the old covenant. That was a come that they might have life, and that of God, who loved me, and gave Himself covenant of "do and live." By it, man they might have it more abundantly." for me." Galatians 2: 19, 20. His ex- was brought to the place where he could John 10: 10. perience thus expressed is the true plan realize his utter inability to do the will "The wages of sin is death." Romans upon which the human family are re- of God and keep His law. It is not 6: 23. "Sin is the transgression of the deemed. But "do we then make void the within the power of man to keep the law." 1 John 3: 4. "The law is holy" law through faith? God forbid: yea, we law of God unaided; therefore only (Romans 7: 12), and demands that men establish the law." Romans 3: 31. under the terms of the new covenant, The Signs of the Times for February 5, 1918 15

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Mountain View, California of titt times February 5, 1918 The Safe Shelter there will be the greatest scramble that 20. But having denied the power the world has ever seen among manufac- thereof. S perplexities, difficulties, and dark- turing and commercial men. And at the Speaking of these conditions, all of A ness cover the earth more and more, same time, labor will be thrown into con- which, according to the apostle, are to and have a tendency to bring anguish fusion, and discontent, anarchy, and vio- be prevalent in the last days, he affirms into the stoutest heart, then how like a lence will result, and finally we shall see that we are to know that they will cause soothing balm come the words of the the supreme manifestation of the perils grievous times. Every one knows that Master: that the apostle Paul has said will come the world was never before *so full of "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and in the last days as the result of the love these grievous ingredients as it is to-day. are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. of self and the love of money. Yet these things taken alone would not Take My yoke upon you, and learn of This old earth has passed into its be conclusive evidence that the end of all Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: death throes. Society is breaking into things is at hand and that the Lord's and ye shall find rest unto your souls. a medley of discontent and revolution. coming is very near. But there are nu- For My yoke is easy, and My burden is The physical world itself is filled with merous other prophecies, all of which light." Matthew 11: 28-30. tempest, storm, and calamity of every taken together show beyond a peradven- There is protecting power with Christ. sort. These conditions will continue to ture just where the world is drifting, and There is an enduring peace; and under grow worse and worse, until finally the what is the next great event to be ex- the most distressing circumstances, we glorious moment is reached when we pected on the program of time. can safely trust Him. And we find joy shall see the sign of the Son of man in That Christ is coming soon is the most and rejoicing springing up in our hearts, the clouds of heaven, as He returns to soul-enrapturing and the most soul-com- because we know that He will soon res- earth to resurrect the righteous dead, to forting and soul-satisfying thought that cue every confiding heart from the tur- immortalize the righteous living, and to can thrill the heart of man. All should moil and distress of this world, and bring put an end forever to suffering, sorrow, know that they are invited to get ready us into the happiness of our everlasting and sin. for that sublime and happy hour. inheritance. Let us heed the invitation If we are standing with Christ, the of the Master, and come to Him, to re- future is all bright and glorious; but if ceive His blessing and His rich reward. our hope is upon the things of this earth, Word with New Meaning it is doomed to utter disappointment. We need to know and to sense the great truth "EVER since the eventful days of Au- Commerce After the War which God has given to the world for gust, 1914, 'Charity' has been a word this time, and to regulate our lives ac- with a new meaning. By some extra- MEN are already laying gigantic plans cordingly. ordinary perversion, there was at one for great commercial enterprises follow- time a stigma attaching to the word ing the war. They are telling us of the under certain circumstances. That has big markets that will be afforded for this The Ingredients of Grievous gone for good. . . . Huge sums have and that commodity. But we should not been gathered in and sent to Britain— allow ourselves to be deceived. Times all to help sufferers in the world war Mr. James A. Farrell, president of THE apostle Paul speaks of certain or to aid the empire in its great need." the United States Steel Corporation, is things that will occasion grievous times —London Times. also chairman of the National Foreign in certain days when a certain period of Trade Council. Mr. Farrell has issued the world's history is reached. If we a call for a meeting of the Foreign Trade IN his letter to the Colossians, the read his list with one word following the Council in Cincinnati in mid-February. apostle Paul says, "Set your affection on other in the paragraph, we may not get The meeting is regarded as being of suffi- things above, not on things on the earth." the force of it as we would to have them cient importance, among manufacturing Colossians 3: 2. If we will follow this arranged with one characteristic or speci- and commercial men, that arrangements injunction, we will be able to see fication under another in a vertical col- have been made for three special trains, straighter. He who has his affections all umn, as follows: two from the Atlantic coast, and one entangled with and set upon earthly 1. Lovers of self. from the Pacific, in addition to a number • things is not likely to be able to see the of special cars, which will bring the dele- 2. Lovers of money. clear prophecies of the Bible which point gates to the convention. It is said 3. Boastful. so unmistakably to the second coming of that— 4. Haughty. Christ as a very near event. "Several men of high authority will 5. Railers. address the convention for the purpose of 6. Disobedient to parents. A HEADING to a recent dispatch says, calling its attention to the measures nec- 7. Unthankful. "Only Eight Ships Sunk in Week by Tor- essary for leaders in our foreign trade 8. Unholy. pedoes." It has not been very many to take, if the country is to meet the new 9. Without natural affection. years since the sinking of eight ships in situation when peace is restored, and to 10. Implacable. any single week would have been thought hold the gains it has made in recent 11. Slanderers. a calamity worthy of full-page headlines. years. This, Mr. Farrell says, undoubt- 12. -Without self-control. We need to guard ourselves lest we be- edly involves organization in production 13. Fierce. come unduly hardened by the calamities and cooperation in marketing." 14. No lovers of good. that are spreading themselves all about. With so many cities, villages, and 15. Traitors. other structures of the world destroyed 16. Headstrong. by the war, it will appear to men that 17. Puffed up. THE value of farm products in the • there will be great commercial oppor- 18. Lovers of pleasure rather than lov- United States during 1917 exceeds twen- tunities following the cessation of hos- ers of God. ty-one billion dollars, the largest in the tilities. The indications are clear that 19. Holding a form of godliness. history of the nation.

© Underwood, N. Y. Guatemala City, thrice resurrected after being destroyed by earthquakes, but wiped out again by a series of shocks. This time the destruction was complete. Not a building was left standing in the city.