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God that bringeth salvation hath ap- peared to all men," making it possible for us to come boldly to the throne of grace. The preciousness of the privilege of prayer should be understood and ap- preciated. The price paid for this privi- lege is beyond our comprehension. We need to pray, not to inform God of our needs, nor to awaken in him an interest in us, for he knows all our needs, but that we may be prepared to receive his gifts. " Seek ye the Lord while he may 6 Come and Be at Rest will soon all 'come to an end, can not be be found, call ye upon him while he is JAMES POE-CRYDER questioned by the student of prophecy. near." Imagine, if possible, the hopeless state Mount Vernon, Ohio. I HAVE no light; the way is wrapped in of humanity if suddenly and without gloom, -6- -0- -6- While far I stray; warning the privilege of entering into I fear the awful mist that shrouds the the presence of the King should come Why Church Attendance Is on tomb, to an end. the Decline When it was known by Mordecai that That bars my way. K. C. RUSSELL Come thou, 0 Christ, a little nearer all the Jews of the kingdom were doomed Come, to die, he immediately appealed to his THE June number of the Hampton Co- And with thy changeless light, light thou niece, Esther the queen, to go into the lumbian Magazine contains an extended me home. presence of the king and intercede for article on the subject of revivals and her people. She declined to do so on revivalists, by Dr. Thomas E. Green, in What holds the silent grave, the voice- the ground that it was an offense pun- which he mentions many of the reasons less grave? why church attendance is on the de- I faint with fear ! ishable by death for one uninvited to Is there no God of love that still can enter into the inner court before the cline, as follows: — save, king, no matter -how urgent the mission. " The decline of popular belief in the That yet can hear? Nothing could save her unless the king fundamental statements of doctrinal 0 loving Christ! I cast my fears on thee. should graciously extend his scepter Christianity. Come thou, thou fount of love, 0 come to her. The gravity of the situation in " The demolition of the Bible as an to me! this instance was urged upon her; and inspired book by the alleged assertions of after much prayer in her behalf by the modern scholarship. " I am the way," I hear thy voice at last, Jewish people, she ventured into the for- " The improbability, or at least the " The way and light. unprovability, of the future life, at the To him who sees by faith, the night is bidden place and stood before the king. past, But a way had been provided whereby hands of the most advanced science. The mist of night. she escaped immediate punishment by " The unfortunate, to use the mildest Then come to me, and lie upon my death. We read: " And it was so, when word possible, the unfortunate fact of breast, the king saw Esther the queen standing the divisions and denominations into Thou one of sorrow, come and be at in the court, that she found favor in his which our religious world is scattered. rest." sight. . . . Then said the king unto " The character of the preaching in Gillespieville, Ohio. her, What wilt thou, Queen Esther? and many pulpits as not appealing to what is thy request? it shall be even thoughtful minds. The Privilege of Prayer given thee to the half of the kingdom." " The fact that owing to the poor ma- This remarkable experience is always terial support accorded to it, the pulpit E. K. SLADE read with deep interest. Ordinarily it is not attracting strong men to the min- THE throne of grace is too little ap- meant death for one to do as Esther istry, but rather the reverse. preciated by the children of God. It did, but through favor found in the sight " The fact that services and the pub- has been provided at an infinite sacrifice. of the king, her life was spared, and the lic worship are dry and unattractive, To make it possible, it was necessary to privilege of prayer was granted to her. often crude and inartistic, and that at- satisfy the demands of heaven's broken We still have a throne of grace, or tendance upon them is a burden rather law by the sacrifice of the sinless Son favor. Through Christ, the scepter " full than a pleasure. of God, by which act the law was mag- of grace," extended to us, we are per- " That life has become so strenuous, nified and made honorable. Through mitted to enter into the royal pres- and its constant duties so onerous, that this sacrifice there came into existence a ence, and find favor in the sight of the one needs every possible spare hour for dispensation of grace, or favor. The King. Though deserving to die, we are relaxation and repose. kingdom of grace and the throne of permitted to live and make our requests " The fact that the punitive side of grace have been in existence, and the known unto God, with the assurance that theology has been entirely abandoned, privilege of prayer has been granted to they will be granted. Esther went be- and that men are no longer afraid not sinners, for nearly six thousand years. fore Ahasuerus with great fear and to be religious. That that dispensation, that kingdom, trembling. For us the way is fully open, " The fact, most often urged as ex- that throne, and the privilege of prayer and the favor ample, for " the grace of planatory, that the constant supply of 4 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911 reading-matter — books, magazines, and to come, until the haughty rulers of sin, Nor was this all. He declared: papers — precludes the old-time willing- trembled as if already beholding the " Many of the brethren in the Lord, wax- ness, not to say desire, to listen to ser- terrors of the day of God. ing confident by my bonds, are much mons. No such opportunities were now more bold to speak the word without " The fact that, to a large degree, or- granted the apostle, confined as he was fear." ganized labor has declared itself as en- to his own dwelling, and able to proclaim Paul's patience and cheerfulness dur- tirely out of sympathy with the church the truth to those only who sought him ing his long and unjust imprisonment, his — the evangelical Protestant church — there. He had not, like Moses and courage and faith, were a continual ser- because it conceives the church to be Aaron, a divine command to go before mon. His spirit, so unlike the spirit of entirely opposed to its well-being and the profligate king, and in the name of the world, bore witness that a power its betterment. Organized labor declares the great I AM rebuke his cruelty and higher than that of earth, was abiding the church, in its teaching and in its oppression. Yet it was at this very time, with him. And by his example, Chris- operation, to be under the influence of when its chief advocate was apparently tians were impelled to greater energy as the forces that are hostile to labor's cut off from public labor, that a great advocates of the cause from the public rights and advancement." victory was won for the gospel; for from labors of which Paul had been with- While we would not say that all the the very household of the king, members drawn. In these ways were the apos- foregoing reasons are responsible for were added to the church. tle's bonds influential, so that when his the decline in church attendance, it must Nowhere could there exist an atmos- power and usefulness seethed cut off, and be admitted, however, that some of the phere more uncongenial to Christianity to all appearance he could do the least, reasons assigned unquestionably lie at than in the Roman court. Nero seemed then it was that he gathered sheaves for the foundation of the increasing lack of to have obliterated from his soul the last Christ in fields from which he seemed interest in religious things. This situa- trace of the divine, and even of the hu- wholly excluded. tion is but the sure harvest that is being man, and to bear the impress of Satan. Before the close of that two years' im- reaped after years of sowing disbelief His attendants and courtiers were in prisonment, Paul was able to say, " My and skepticism concerning the Word of general of the same character as him- bonds in Christ are manifest in all the God, and especially a disregard for God's self, fierce, debased, and corrupt. To all palace, and in all other places; " and eternal law. appearance it would be impossible for among those who sent greetings to the Takoma Park, D. C. Christianity to gain a foOthold in the Philippians he mentions chiefly them court and palace of Nero. " that are of Ciesar's household." Yet in this case, as in so many others, Patience as well as courage has its vic- Caesar's Household was proved the truth of Paul's assertion tories. By meekness under trial, no less that the weapons of his warfare were than by boldness in enterprise, souls may MRS. E. G. WHITE " mighty through God to the pulling be won to Christ. The Christian who "TIE gospel has ever achieved its down of strongholds." Even in Nero's manifests patience and cheerfulness greatest success among the humbler household, trophies of the cross were under bereavement and suffering, who classes. " Not many wise men after the won. From the vile attendants of a viler meets even death itself with the peace flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, king were gained converts who became and calmness of an unwavering faith, are called." It could not be expected sons of God. These were not Christians may accomplish for the gospel more than that Paul, a poor and friendless prisoner, secretly, but openly. They were not he could have effected by a long life of would be able to gain the attention of ashamed of their faith. faithful labor. Often when the servant the wealthy and titled classes of Roman And by what means was an entrance of God is withdrawn from active duty, citizens. To them vice presented all its achieved and a firm footing gained for the mysterious providence which our glittering allurements, and held them Christianity where even its admission short-sighted vision would lament, is de- willing captives. But from among the seemed impossible? In his epistle to the signed by God to accomplish a work that toil-worn, want-stricken victims of their Philippians, Paul ascribed to his own im- otherwise would never have been done. oppression, even from among the poor prisonment his success in winning con- Let not the follower of Christ think, slaves, many gladly listened to the words verts to the faith from Nero's household. when he is no longer able to labor openly of Paul, and in the faith of Christ found Fearful lest the Philippians might think and actively for God and his truth, that a hope and peace that cheered them un- that his afflictions had impeded the prog- he has no service to render, no reward to der the hardships of their lot. ress of the gospel, he assured them : "I secure. Christ's true witnesses are Yet while the apostle's work began would ye should understand, brethren, never laid aside. In health and sickness, with the humble and the lowly, its influ- that the things which happened unto me in life and death, God uses them still. ence extended until it reached the very have fallen out rather unto the further- When through Satan's malice the serv- palace of the emperor. ance of the gospel." ants of Christ have been persecuted, Rome was at this time the metropolis When the Christian churches first their active labors hindered, when they of the world. The haughty Cnsars were learned that Paul was to visit Rome, they have been cast into prison, or dragged giving laws to nearly every nation upon looked forward to a signal triumph of to the scaffold or to the stake, it was the earth. Either king and courtier were the gospel in that city. Paul had borne that truth might gain 'a greater triumph. ignorant of the humble Nazarene, or the truth to many lands; he had pro- As these faithful ones sealed their testi- they regarded him with hatred and de- claimed it in great cities. Might not this mony with their blood, souls hitherto in rision. And yet in less than two years champion of the faith succeed in winning doubt and uncertainty were convinced of the gospel found its way from the souls to Christ, even in the metropolis of the faith of Christ, and took their stand prisoner's lowly home into the imperial the world? But their hopes were courageously for him. From the ashes halls. Paul was in bonds as an evil-doer; crushed by the tidings that Paul had of the martyrs has sprung an abundant but " the word of God is not bound." gone to Rome as a prisoner. They had harvest for God. In former years the apostle had pub- confidently hoped to see the gospel, once The zeal and fidelity of Paul and his licly proclaimed the faith of Christ with established at this great center, extend fellow workers, no less than the faith winning power; and by signs and mir- rapidly to all nations, and become a pre- and obedience of these converts to acles he had given unmistakable evi- vailing power in the earth. How great Christianity, under circumstances so for- dence of its divine character. With their disappointment! Human expecta- bidding, rebuke slothfulness and lack of noble firmness he had risen up before tions had failed, but not the purpose of faith in the minister of Christ. The the sages of. Greece, and by his knowl- God. apostle and his associate workers might edge and eloquence had put to silence the Not by Paul's sermons, but by his have argued that it would be vain to arguments of proud philosophy. With bonds, was the attention of the court at- call to repentance and faith in Christ the undaunted courage he had stood before tracted to Christianity. It was as a cap- servants of Nero, subjected, as they kings and governors, and reasoned of tive that he broke from so many souls were, to fierce temptations, surrounded righteousness, temperance, and judgment the bonds that held them in the slavery by formidable hindrances, and exposed DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 5

to bitter opposition. Even should they greater watchfulness, and more earnest Jesus gave them, in the few words be convinced of the truth, how could prayer to the 'mighty Helper. Severe following, the true principle of prayer. they render obedience? But Paul did not trial endured by the grace of God de- Not a set form of words, not even these reason thus; in faith he presented the velops patience, vigilance, fortitude, and identical words he gave, would bring the gospel to these souls; and among those a deep and abiding trust in God. It is blessing. No; but the child of earth, in who heard were some who decided to the triumph of the Christian faith that it heart, in soul, in spirit, must enter into obey at any cost. Notwithstanding ob- enables its follower to suffer and be God's purposes for him, for others, upon stacles and dangers, they would accept strong; to submit, and thus to conquer; the points Jesus here outlines, termed the light, and trust God to help them to be killed all the day long, and yet to the Lord's prayer. We are to recognize let their light shine forth to others. live; to bear the cross, and thus to win the fatherhood of God; truly reverence Not only were converts won to the the crown of glory. him; manifest anticipation of, and con- truth in Clesar's household, but after + -4- -*- sequent preparation for, his future eter- their conversion they remained in that Emmanuel nal kingdom; be in subjection in every- household. They did not feel at liberty thing to his will; depend upon him for to abandon their post of duty because (God With Us) daily food; expect his forgiveness of their surroundings were no longer, con- ALEXANDER RITCHIE our sins in the same ratio that we for- genial. The truth had found them there, EMMANU-EL,— the Lord of Hosts, give those who injure us; shun tempta- and there they remained, by their The King of kings, whom Heaven tion; constantly recognize that the king- changed life and character testifying to adores, dom, the power, and the glory all belong the transforming power of the new faith. Whose praise moves e'en the very posts to God. Are any tempted to make their circum- Of heaven's everlasting doors. Thus, Jesus outlined the principles that stances an excuse for failing to witness Emmanuel,— from his glorious face should ever govern effectual, prevailing for Christ? Let them consider the sit- Earth's darkness fled in haste away; prayer. How little human qualification, uation of the disciples in Caesar's house- 'Twas he who left his royal place, desire, or acquirement figures in all this, hold—the depravity of the emperor, the And low in Bethlehem's manger lay. is worthy of careful consideration. True profligacy of the court. We can hardly prayer, then, leads the suppliant away imagine circumstances more unfavorable Emmanu-el,-- my God enshrined Within my lowly flesh and bone. from his human weaknesses and selfish to a religious life, and entailing greater 0 mystery of love refined desires to the contemplation of the in- sacrifice or opposition than those in That he should leave his royal throne! finitude of God's greatness and power, which these converts found themselves. to the entering into his plans and pur- Yet amidst difficulties and dangers they Emmanu-el,-- what tongue can show poses, and to the seeking to do his will. The depths of love within thy breast, maintained their fidelity. Because of ob- The results of such petitions only the stacles that seem insurmountable, the Which brought thee to this world below, To bring the heavy-laden rest? Lord can measure. It is said that a min- Christian may seek to excuse himself ister once dreamed that he saw rows of from obeying the truth as it is in Jesus; Emmanu-el,-- 0 blessed name! beautiful diadems, studded with precious but he can offer no excuse that will bear The wealth of heaven to sinners given; jewels. " Is that large one for me ?" investigation. Could he do this, he would To lift us from the pit of shame he asked of the angel, as he thought of His hands were pierced, his side was prove God unjust, in that he had made the wonderful revival in his church, riven. for his children conditions of salvation when many had turned to the Lord. with which they could not comply. And now in human flesh he stands "No, not for you," was the reply; "that He whose heart is fixed to serve God Before his Father's throne of grace, one is for the poor old deaf man who will find opportunity to witness for him. Redemption written on his hands used to sit by your pulpit stairs, and Difficulties will be powerless to hinder For every soul of Adam's race. plead with God for souls in the congre- him who is determined to seek first the But though to heaven again he rose, gation while you preached to them." kingdom of God and his righteousness. He still is our Emmanu-el; While men pray, not for themselves, In the strength gained by prayer and a His spirit gives our souls repose, but for others, God works. The church study of the Word, he will seek virtue And quenches all the darts of hell. was at prayer late into the night for and forsake vice. Looking to Jesus, the Peter, while the angel was leading him author and finisher of the faith, who Emmanu-el,— God with us still; When pressed by Satan's evil host, out through the barred doors to liberty. endured the contradiction of sinners Who wage a deadly war to kill, We may not be able to send out all the against himself, the believer will will- 0 then Emmanuel is our boast! missionaries we would like to, but some ingly brave contempt and derision. And one has said that through prayer their help and grace sufficient for every cir- Emmanu-el, abide with me, efficiency can be doubled. The prayers Thy name my tower, while here I cumstance are promised by him whose act as sharp sickles in the hands of the word is truth. His everlasting arms en- dwell; And when at last thy face I see, reapers. circle the soul that turns to him for aid. Thy name still more Emmanu-el. In his care we may rest safely, saying, " Prayer makes the darkest cloud with- "What time I am afraid, I will trust in .4— -4— -.- draw; thee." To all who put their trust in him, Teach Us to Pray Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith and love, God will fulfil his promise. T. E. BOWEN Brings every blessing from above. By his own example the Saviour has shown that his followers can be in the THE disciples, returning on one occa- "Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; world, and yet not of the world. He sion to their temporary abode, found Prayer makes the Christian armor came not to partake of its delusive pleas- their Master in earnest prayer. There bright; ures, to be swayed by its customs, and was something about that prayer that And Satan trembles when he sees to follow its practises, but to do his captivated them. After listening to Jesus The weakest saint upon his knees. Father's will, to seek and save the lost. pray, the thought seemed to steal over " Have you no word? Ah! think again; With this object before him, the Chris- them whether they had ever really Words flow apace when you complain, tian may stand uncontaminated in any prayed; evidently they had never prayed And fill your fellow creatures' ears surroundings. Whatever his station or as Jesus was pouring out his supplica- With the sad tale of all your cares. circumstances, exalted or humble, he will tions to God. At last one of them had the courage to say, " Lord, teach us to "Were half the breath thus vainly manifest the power of true religion in spent • the faithful performance of duty. pray." They wanted to get at the secret To heaven in supplication sent, Not in freedom from trial, but in the of really entering into the purposes of Your cheerful song would oftener be, midst of it, is Christian character de- God, so that a living connection would ' Hear what the Lord hath done for veloped. Exposure to rebuffs and op- be formed between heaven and their me.' " position leads the follower of Christ to souls. Takoma Park, D. C. 6 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911

The Saints' Inheritance wherein dwelleth righteousness." " Be- the week (John 19: 30, 31), he stamped hold," says God, " I make all things the other side of the seventh day, by MRS. M. E. STEWARD new," not all new things. Rev. 21 : 5. resting in death, in the newly chiseled " EYE bath not seen, nor ear heard, The new earth : - tomb of Joseph. Both stamps bore the neither have entered into the heart of 1. Isaiah saw the new earth in holy signet of the government of heaven, and man, the things which God bath pre- vision. He says it " shall rejoice, and much more than doubled the value of pared for them that love him." 1 Cor. blossom as the rose." Isaiah 35. Again, the day. Both stamps are indelible, and 2:9. " Behold, I create new heavens and a remain intact. Both are at par in the The promise to Abraham: - new earth. . . . They shall build houses, heavenly government, and ought to be 1. The Lord said unto Abraham: " I and inhabit them; and they shall plant in the earthly. will give unto thee, and to thy seed after vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." But how different with Sunday, the thee, the land wherein thou art a stran- There always comes a time when this first day of the week. One side of it ger." Gen. 17: 8. can not be said of any mortal being; bears the pagan stamp in honor of sun- 2. " He gave him none inheritance in for man dies and leaves all he possesses. worship, instituted presumably at Babel, it, no, not so much as to set his foot " They shall not hurt nor destroy in all in the sunny land of Shinar. While upon on: yet he promised that he would give my holy mountain." Isa. 65: 17-25. The the other side of the day, we find the it to him for a possession, and to his Bible makes the saints' inheritance a stamp of the Roman emperor Constan- seed after him." Acts 7: 5. very real, material thing. tine, affixed early in the fourth century. 3. Since God can not lie, Abraham and 2. Abraham "looked for a city which Both stamps .remain intact, but neither his children will yet receive that land. bath foundations, whose builder and increases the value of the day; for at " Now to Abraham and his seed were the maker is God." Heb. Is : To. This can best, they are only human stamps of promises made. He saith not, And to be none other than the New Jerusalem. earthly governments; and earthly gov- seeds, as of many ; but as of one, And The revelator saw this " holy city . . . ernments can not by legislation make to thy seed, which is Christ." " And if coming down from God out of heaven, religious or holy things out of common ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's prepared as a bride adorned for her things; nor increase the value of things seed, and heirs according to the promise." husband." Rev. 21 : 2. Indescribably already made holy. The government of Gal. 3: 16, 29. beautiful, transcendently glorious, is the heaven alone can do this, leaving man The duration of the promise to Abra- city of gold and pearls and precious free to worship, or to observe holy ham : - stones ! It is to be the metropolis of things, or not, as he may choose. I. It is " an everlasting possession." the new earth, and the capital of all the When men are standing in the dark, Gen. 17:8. universe; for "the throne of God and as with the dollars so with the days; " Flesh and blood can not inherit 2. of the Lamb shall be in it." Rev. 22: 3. they may not be able to discern any dif- the kingdom of God; neither doth cor- 3. "Be ye glad and rejoice forever in ference, and often say, " One day is ruption inherit incorruption." 1 Cor. that which I create : for, behold, I create as good as another," but just let them 15:5o. Abraham in his mortal state Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a step into the light of the Word of God, could not have received an " everlasting joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and the difference is readily detected. possession; " he necessarily died with- and joy in my people : the voice of Said the Redeemer, " Men loved dark- out it. weeping shall be no more heard in her." ness rather than light." Why? John 3. " Behold, I show you a mystery; Tsa. 65: IS, 19. This glacl world, redeemed 3: 19. It is a crime to counterfeit, or . . . this corruptible must put on in- from the curse (Rev. 22 : 3), will eter- even to disfigure the silver dollar, or any corruption, and this mortal must put nally testify to the unspeakable love, the other coin of the United States, for the on immortality." Verses 51-53. " We marvelous salvation of our God. When coin represents the government. Men shall all be changed." Then Abraham our God " creates his people a joy," no seldom thus transgress. Is it not a crime and his children will receive the " ever- joy of any other creature can compare against the government of heaven to lasting possession." with theirs, and this will be increased by counterfeit God's seventh-day Sabbath, Events in the future: - seeing the joy of the Lord. that represents the government of heaven I. At the end of a thousand years after Sanitarium, Cal. and is embodied in the heart of his law? Christ's second advent, he will come to or even to disfigure it by making such earth again. At his second coming he an arrangement of time that the day will raise his people from their graves. The Difference shall begin at midnight instead of at When he comes at the end of the thou- S. THURSTON eventide, as God appointed? Where is sand years, they will all come with him. Zech. 14 : 5. He descends, and stands SUPPOSE there is a row of seven plain the counterfeiter or mutilator who would on the Mount of Olives, which cleaves blank silver pieces. The United States dare to face the government of the asunder and makes a " very great val- places its dollar stamp upon the seventh United States, and expect to go clear? True, he might secure a lawyer who ley." Then the New Jerusalem comes one. That stamp doubles the value of down from God out of heaven (Rev. that piece of silver. But suppose some in- would plead his case before the court; but who that is guilty of counterfeiting 21 : 2) upon this great plain. dividual or corporation within the juris- God's Sabbath will dare take such a 2. Christ raises the wicked dead all diction of that government should place chance at the bar of God in the great over the world. Satan goes out to deceive its stamp upon the first one in the row. court-room of heaven? I ask, What them (Rev. 20 : 8) with the idea that It does not increase its value in the least. they can take the holy city. They all When in the dark, men might not be advocate will he be able to secure, who gather around it, when fire comes down able to discern any difference, but let the would be allowed to plead such an un- from God out of heaven, and devours light appear, and the difference is read- reasonable case in that court? There them. Verse 9. This is the time when ily detected. But why this difference is but one Advocate who has been found " the elements shall melt with fervent in value ?- Because of the difference be- worthy to plead in that court; and his heat, the earth also and the works that tween the government and the individual services must be secured before that are therein shall be burned up." 2 Peter or corporation, and between the power tribunal opens. Sinner, " behold, now 3: io. The world becomes the lake of and authority that each has. is the accepted time: behold, now is fire. The New Jerusalem is preserved Just so with the seventh-day Sabbath the day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6: 2. on its bosom as Noah's ark was in the of Eden and the Sunday of the dark Ventura, Cal. flood. That day will be "the day of ages. Christ was creator. John 1 : 1-14.; judgment and perdition of ungodly men." COL 1 : 14-16; Heb. 1 : 1, 2. In honor Verse 7. of creation, Christ stamped one side of " WE talk about the sleep of death. 3. "Nevertheless we, according to his the seventh day with rest, blessing, and How much deeper, how much sadder, is promise [-the promise made to Abraham sanctification. Gen. 2: 1-3. And in the sleep of life - the unresponsive concerning his inheritance, Rom. 4: 13], honor of his work of redemption. which heart, the unawakened mind, the hand look for new heavens and a new earth, was also finished upon the sixth day of palsied by lack of will to do !" DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7

Stars of Our Night To illustrate: A picture is presented Brakes WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN of a large and costly edifice, evidently JOHN N. QUINN some public institution. The photog- OUT in the night when the stars are THE timely application of a brake has rapher, anxious to show the details of bright, prevented many a serious accident; the construction, came close to the building And the air is calm and still, failure of a brake to work at a critical with his camera, and allowed the struc- The sky is so clear that heaven seems moment has sent many a soul into eter- ture to monopolize all available space on near nity. A newly appointed brakeman had Its covenant to fulfil. his plate or film. As a mechanical piece just entered on his duties in connection of work, the photograph may be even with a steam railroad running through Return to the glare of the city's dense more than passably good, yet it fails to a rural district. A rather steep hill was air create any interest, as it tells no story, And the beacons appear but a few, crossed each day by the train, and if does not lead the mind to fill out details For its gilded charms seek with the lights the steam pressure in the boiler was by a mental association with it. Even of the street lower than usual the engineer found it the name and the location of the building To bedim all the gems in the blue. difficult to bring the train over the hill. have to be sought for by a reading of One day the train moved with greater the " legend," or inscription, given below Stars of our night are the promises difficulty than usual; a glance at the bright the picture, and by a perusal of the story With which God has bespangled our steam-gage showed sufficient steam in accompanying it. the boiler, and the engineer was at a loss sky; Had the artist dropped down with his his atmosphere pure, naught of earth to account for the slow and difficult In camera below the mound upon which the can allure, movement of his train. At last the top And we sense that his heaven is nigh. building stood, retreating to a proper of the hill was reached, and thrusting his distance, cutting down the size of the head out of the window, he called to the Count the stars if you can, or fathom his structure to one third of its former di- brakeman, " Well, lad, we had a hard plan mensions, allowing the surrounding scene time crossing over to-day." " Indeed we For his children who dwell in the to occupy the greater portion of the did, sir ; and had it not •been that I put night plate, then the eye would have abun- on the brakes, we should have gone down 'Tis a deep, boundless sea with a star dance of material to present to the mind the hill," was the reply which came to canopy upon which a story could be constructed. Till the dayspring appears to our sight. the ears of the astonished engineer. The surroundings then would give the Portland, Oregon. We smile at the stupidity of the brake- clue to the location of the building,— man, yet possibly we are doing a similar whether it was in a city, in a park, or in work. The superintendent of the Sab- The Photograph and the Press an isolated place; whether in a temperate bath-school is putting forth Herculean W. S. CHAPMAN zone or a tropical region; whether in efforts to make the weekly teachers' MAGAZINE and newspaper offices are a situation familiar personally or by re- meeting a success, and you, although one influenced by, and governed through, cer- port, or in a locality unknown to the of the teachers of the school, assume an tain fixed and inflexible methods, forms, reader. attitude of indifference to the superin- and systems as unalterable as the laws A camp-meeting scene consisting tendent and his work. In so doing, you of the Medes and Persians. merely of the " big tent," its expanse of have put on the brake on the up-grade. All connected with these enterprises, white canvas filling the entire back- The officers of the school are earnestly — the editors-in-chief, their assistants, ground, with possibly a figure or two in striving to begin the Sabbath-school with the contributors and writers, even the the foreground, is most decidedly a view each member in his place when the errand boys,— are amenable to these of "still life." The eye can scarcely be opening bell rings. Five minutes later well-defined plans and systems of action. tempted to give it a second glance. you saunter in, and leisurely take your No rule can be violated with impunity If, however, the artist had waited for place in a class. You may be a teacher by any one. Necessity created the want his opportunity, and, standing some dis- or a church officer or a scholar in the for these methods, forms, and systems, tance away, had caught a leading speaker class,— it makes but little difference,— and forced their adoption; hence policy in the foreground (the large tent in the you have the brake on while the train demands their rigid observance. rear and of reasonable proportions), is going up-hill. The librarian of the Among the many rules considered of reading to members of the local confer- church feels a burden that a spirit of vital importance is the one which de- ence a telegram just received containing activity shall permeate the entire church. mands that all the matter in any publi- some joyful news items,— there would be He spends hours in prayer and in ar- cation, even the most brief and most in- a story. As soon as the eye took in ranging plans for labor. He presents his significant, shall "tell something," "tell such a scene, the mind would begin to plans, and many sit and listen, believe a story,"— shall present some picture to clamor for a reading of the article in the plans to be good, and quietly pass the eye or mind, particularize some oc- order to obtain all possible details. Such out of the church without even a look at currence, or embody some entertaining an illustration would be a photograph the tract-rack. The librarian is the last fiction; that is, contain life or action. with life and action. one out of the room, and as he notices It is not so well understood that this Our foreign views as given in our how few take with them a supply of rule applies to the illustrations equally denominational publications often sadly tracts, he is tempted to feel discouraged as much as it does to the printed matter ; lack in interest, although always con- — so many in the missionary society with hence many a meritorious photograph is nected with matter of great importance. brakes on, while he is earnestly striving declined, and many an otherwise pleasing Our missionaries fail, generally, to re- to bring the church up to God's ideal. illustration, if accepted, fails to entertain, member that foreign scenery is unfa- There may at times be a tendency in because the rule governing the taking of miliar to the people at home, and that the church, in the Sabbath-school, or in photographs for the press was not under- without sufficient exhibition of the sur- the missionary society for things to " run stood, or not followed. rounding scenery, the pictures of their wild." Then is the time to apply the The main object in presenting a pic- houses, schools, or other institutions can brakes and save the day. It may require ture is more fully to impress the mind not be associated with their environment. fortitude and a spirit of determination of the reader with the value of the story If in these photographs some domestic to do so, but it is essential to the welfare before him, as well as to give him ma- scene connected with the life of the peo- of the work. There is a purpose and a terial upon which he can more fully fill ple, were shown there would be a story. time for everything under the sun; but out the scene as he reads. The picture Mentally, the reader would become at it is not the time to use brakes when the must be one that, in imagination, the once a spectator, a part of the story. work of God is surmounting difficulties. reader can enter into as a spectator, can A study of the principle involved in ma- Then is the time when the divine En- lose himself in the scene before his eyes, king illustrations for our publications gineer is crying out, " All brakes off ! " can become a part of the story the pic- would materially increase public interest Off with them, then, and thus help the ture is telling. in their contents. work of the Lord upward and onward. 8 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911

teaching or preaching anything that is ing at hand the knowledge that has been not sound doctrine. The Christian forthcoming in recent years, sought to, find in Genesis not only spiritual truth, preacher who is one in truth, has noth- but 'history and science. Such a con- ing else to preach, no matter of what ception eventually became part of their class or classes his audiences are made system and rendered them unable to ac- up. There is no other commission than cept facts that were afterward made to " preach the gospel to every creature," known. But coming to this document dealing with creation without any pre- "preach the word." Such preaching conceived theory of mechanical inspi- WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 21, 1911 may not be considered by the world to be ration, it soon becomes evident that it up to date; but it is the only preaching teaches neither science nor history in FRANCIS M. WILCOX EDITOR that counts in the salvation of souls; the the strict meaning of those terms. W. A. SPICER C. M. SNOW ASSOCIATE EDITORS only preaching that God has authorized To prove the unreliability of the his- W. W. PRESCOTT men to do; the only preaching that helps torical statements of the Bible a quota- All communications relating to the Editor& depart- to forward the cause of God and hinder tion is taken from " History of Baby- ment, and all manuscripts submitted for publication, the work of Satan. lonia and Assyria," by Prof. R. W. should be addressed to Editorial Department, Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., and not A man may be rich in this world's Rogers, who is declared to be "a most to any individual. goods and great in the eyes of his fellow cautious and guarded American Assyri- men, and at the same time be poverty- ologist." According to this authority, if Editorial stricken in the eyes of Heaven, and we go backward — counted as among the very least in the until we reach the period of more than final judgment of the supreme court of 4,000 years before Christ, we shall be Up-to-Date Preaching the universe. He may be clad in the able to discern here and there signs of THE preaching that aims merely to most expensive and gorgeous apparel life, society, and government in certain cities. Civilization has already reached be up to date in the estimation of the which this world can produce; but in the a high level, the arts of life are well world is entirely out of date in the esti- eyes of the all-seeing One be rated as advanced, and men are able to write mation of Him who bids us go into the miserable, and poor, and blind, and down their thoughts and deeds in intel- world to do his work. The Christian's naked." God sees not as man sees, nor ligible language and in permanent form. business is not to seek to please men in judges as man judges. When a fashion- All these presuppose a long period of development running back through mil- the position where they are, but to bring able, pleasure-loving, and appetite-in- lenniums of unrecorded time. them into a position where they will be dulging man or woman approves of the This quotation is regarded as " enough pleasing in the sight of Heaven; to make utterances of the minister of God, it is to convince the unbiased that this part them so dissatisfied with themselves and time for that minister to begin to make of Genesis does not teach history." It the service of the world that they will diligent inquiry, in the sanctuary of his is thus clear that in the estimation of find no peace to their souls until they own soul and face to face with God, as the writer of this article the inspired find it in the forgiveness of their sins to whether he is the minister of God in writings are of less authority than the and the acceptance of their Saviour. fact or only in name. The approval of statement of a modern historian, inas- Satan is doing all he can to make one this world is almost certain to be synony- much- as a single quotation from a pres- class satisfied with what they have out- mous with the disapproval of heaven. ent-day writer is accepted as sufficient side of Christ; and the other class dis- Let the burden be for souls, not for proof that the chronology of the Scrip- satisfied with everybody and everything, salary or position or worldly approval. tures is a misrepresentation of the facts. and disbelieving in all the plans and Let the question be, What would God In a similar way it is shown that " we work' of God. And it must be con- have me to say and to do and to be? can not interpret it [Genesis] as sci- fessed that the popular preaching of the In that attitude God can bless and use. ence." The proof in this instance is present day is doing little or nothing to To serve the kingdom of Christ is of taken from the writings of Dr. Driver, alter the condition of either of these more importance than to win the ap- a foremost representative of destructive classes. The great wealthy world is proval of all the world. c. M. S. criticism, who declares that the creation well pleased where it is; popular preach- -.- of the sun, moon, and stars after the ing tickles and pleases and keeps it where Genesis, Evolution, and the Gospel earth " is inconsistent with the entire it is. He is considered the " up-to-date " IN the issue of the Homiletic Review preacher who can meet his audience conception of the solar system — and, for November, 1911, an English clergy- indeed, if we think of the stars, with that where it is and please and satisfy it man, Rev. Walter Foxon, asks and at- of the whole celestial world — as re- there. He is the preacher who com- tempts to answer the question " Does the mands the high salary; and for that vealed by science." Here again human doctrine of evolution destroy the salary more than for hungry souls, too authority is taken to be more reliable teaching of Gen. I : I to 2 : 3 ? " This than divine inspiration, and the results many are laboring to-day. article is of interest as showing that the If Christ had preached as the up-to- of human research are accepted in the view of inspiration of a generation ago date preacher does, there would have place of divine revelation. The modern has been absolutely discarded, and such been no opposition to his work from interpretation of the Biblical record of an interpretation has been placed upon Israel's rulers; nor would there have creation is then given: — the Bible as makes it in reality a book been any crucifixion — or any salvation. If we are not to interpret Genesis as of merely human philosophy. The open- He would have pleased his hearers, and history or science, how are we to inter- ing sentences of the article under con- pret it? This is the point where relig- they would have made him king; but sideration set forth plainly the modern ious scholars redeem their promises. he would have lost all, and we would When we see first one and then another view concerning the first chapter of have perished in our sins. That is the supposed article of belief taken away, Genesis: — very result that is following the popular we begin to doubt; but with fuller knowl- edge there comes to us a reasonable con- preaching of the present day. Paul tells Looking through some of the discus- sions that have taken place on this sub- fidence. While research has shown that us in his second letter to Timothy: "The ject, it soon becomes evident that the Genesis is neither history nor science, time will come when they will not endure source of much of the difficulty expe- it has also made known other cosmogo- sound doctrine." The time now has rienced is to be found in the method of nies which have both similarities with, 1 come. But that gives us no excuse for interpretation. Early divines, not hay- and differences from, that of the open- DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

ing pages of Scripture. The similarities, new creation. To pervert the teaching with all the ardor of his first love in the along with other facts which compara- of the Bible concerning the original cre- blessed service of his Master. The rela- tive religion has brought to light, •have led scholars to conclude that the older ation is, therefore, to pervert its teach- tionship between Christ and every one cosmogonies form the basis of the one ing concerning the new creation; and of his children is so direct and personal contained in Genesis. When we seek to this perversion has gone steadily for- that no human factor can be interposed account for the differences, we find the ward until all the fundamental truths of without the consent of the believer. Our key that enables us to solve the problem the gospel of its interpretation. The verses that we have been set aside, and men faith is not built upon men. Its growth are at present considering are the work are really left without hope and without is not dependent upon the smiles and of a comparatively late writer with mon- God in the world. It is a thousand pities good will and recognition of our asso- otheistic ideas, which at once accounts that those who profess to be the de- ciates. Men may fail, but the foundation for the differences, and shows us that fenders of the Christian faith are the of Christ abideth ever. It is when we the method of interpretation is the pur- pose of the writer. Consequently, we very ones who have led in this de- forget this truth that our minds become no longer expect to find a perfect pres- structive movement. So long as we wish clouded. It is when we look to men entation of the results which modern re- to maintain our confidence in the salva- instead of to God that we begin to absorb search has established. The value of tion revealed in the Scriptures, we must the coldness of indifference and the doubt Genesis is to be found not on its sci- hold to the inviolable authority and re- entific, but on its theological side. In- of unbelief. It is only when we begin to , spiration did not impart to man truths liability of the Inspired Word. gage our lives by the lives of those of mathematical and physical science w. w. P. around us that we lose the freshness and that would not be known until centuries sweetness of simple faith. Then we be- later. What it did for him was to give him enlightenment in regard to spiri- Short-Lived Christians gin to feed upon criticism, become sen- sitive, and allow malice, envy, and vari- tual truths, and these he expressed in CHRISTIAN living to be effective must language that they understood. That is ance to come into our hearts. To the be continuous and enduring. The re- the position of this Semitic writer. He account of others we charge our failures. ward at last will be given to those who accepts the views of his contemporaries We excuse ourselves from doing good regarding the formation of the world, endure unto the end. Too many are sat- because others have done evil. We and adds to these those truths of God's isfied with a fitful, spasmodic experience. adopt the standard of the world as the connection with it which he thinks neces- They become revived for a season. Some sary to be believed. What he had gage of Christian living instead of the special occasion, like the week of prayer, learned of God's power and of his rela- high and holy standard of God. tion to the world and man by the inspi- serves to renew their faith for a little Let us guard against this weakening ration of the Holy Spirit he imparts to time, but they soon fall back into the old process, this sort of half-hearted Chris- his countrymen through an account of ruts of their experience. To this class creation which they all understood. tian living, in the coming year. In our the question propounded by the apostle Christian life we have only to live one Having thus interpreted the first chap- Paul is applicable: " Ye did run well; day at a time. If we can live to-day ter of Genesis as being neither historical who did hinder you that ye should not for God, we can live to-morrow for him. nor scientific, but rather a mere state- obey the truth?" or as the marginal If we can make one week a week of ment of the current views of an igno- reading expresses it: " Who did drive rant age through which some very hazy prayer, we can carry the same spirit into you back that ye should not obey the and indefinite spiritual truths were to be a whole month and into the whole year. truth? " conveyed, it is now asserted with much If by God's grace we can run well for The Lord illustrates this class of a little season, we can run well clear confidence that the doctrine of evolution Christians in the parable of the sower does not destroy this teaching. In other through to the end of the journey. His as recorded in the thirteenth chapter of words, having interpreted this portion grace is all-sufficient to those who will Matthew. Some of the gospel seed " fell of the Scripture from a purely evolu- seek to mold, their lives after this order. upon stony places, where they had not tionary standpoint, it is claimed that the Let us make the year to come the best much earth : and forthwith they sprung doctrine of evolution does not destroy year of our lives. Let us make it one up, because they had no deepness of this interpretation, and the article closes of prayer, one of earnest labor for oth- earth: and when the sun was up, they with these statements : — ers, one of song and praise, one of were scorched; and because they had no trust and confidence in God, and he The Christian has nothing whatever to root, they withered away." fear from the doctrine of evolution, will make it for us one of blessed victory. The secret of this early backsliding is which in reality only reveals to us the F. M. W. method of creation and not the cause. indicated in the fact that such Christians -4- -4.- Indeed, he may look 'to the evolutionist have no root. Their emotions have been Why? for knowledge which will enable him to stirred, their feelings aroused, but a deep appreciate even more than he does at conviction has not taken hold of their WHY should such a stir be caused in present the wealth of the truths taught this country when the head of the Roman by the ancient Semitic writer in the first souls, earnest settled purposes have not document of Scripture. possessed the life. They have begun to Catholic Church elevates three arch- bishops to the cardinalate? The positions taken and the arguments build without counting the cost; and Why should the papers of this country advanced by the writer of the article in when sacrifice is demanded, they are un- devote columns of space to this matter, question are in themselves sufficient to willing to make the surrender. going into the minutest details and prove conclusively that the doctrine of Will this be the experience of any who dwelling upon the most trivial features evolution, if accepted, does absolutely have started anew during the week of of the occasion? destroy the teaching of the first chapter prayer? Will they be found short-lived Why should President Taft send a of Genesis. The importance of this fact Christians? Will their Christian experi- cable message to the new cardinals, as- is not determined by the mere overthrow ence prove to be wavering and uncertain, suring them that it will give him pleas- of an ancient theory of creation. The fitful and transitory, and that which ure to receive them when they return to seriousness of this whole matter is brought a joy to their hearts in a new- America? perceiv,ed when we remember that the found Saviour prove but an illusive hope Why is it a matter of any more con- gospel of salvation is the gospel of crea- because they have not taken hold of the cern to the citizens of this country when tion, and that the Biblical teaching con- power and strength of the gospel? certain men are advanced to high posi- cerning the original creation is the basis No one can hinder the child of God tions in the Roman Catholic Church upon which rests the revelation of the from continuing with unabated zeal and 10 'THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21,' 1911

than if the same thing were done in the Christ;" and brings them out of their dead and the corruptible living both put Methodist Church, or the Presbyterian graves. They have not been in heaven. on incorruption. Both were mortal; but Church, or any other church? Christ comes at that time to take them both at that time " put on immortality." Why is there any more significance in there. (See verse 17.) They have not had it before, or they the growth of the Roman Catholic In harmony with this speaks the would not need to put it on at that time. Church in the United States than in the prophet Isaiah: " Thy dead men shall So the dead have not been " promoted " growth of any other ecclesiastical or- live, together with my dead body shall as they have passed into the silence; ganization? they arise. Awake and sing, ye that they have not "'gone home," unless we The correct answer to these questions dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew call the grave their home, and it cer- can be given only in the light of those of herbs, and the earth shall cast out tainly is not the home of the children prophecies which deal with the imme- the dead." Isa. 26: 19. of God. The dead have not " passed diate future of the Roman Catholic When does this event take place ? The over " to the shining shore. If they are Church, and which reveal what the Pa- two verses following the quotation tell among " the dead in Christ," they are pacy is to accomplish in shaping affairs us plainly enough: "Come, my people, peacefully sleeping the sleep of death, in this country. The student of proph- enter thou into thy chambers, and shut and so will continue to sleep until Christ ecy in considering the very rapid devel- thy doors about thee: hide thyself as conies to awaken them out of their sleep opment of the power of the Roman it were for a little moment, until the " with the voice of the archangel, and Catholic Church in the United States indignation be overpast. For, behold, with the trump of God," calling them can not escape the conviction that things the Lord cometh out of his place to out of death into immortal life. And foretold long ago are now coming to punish the inhabitants of the earth for that glad day is fast approaching. The pass, and that events are rapidly shaping their iniquity : the earth also shall dis- hope of the eternal inheritance is near- for the great consummation. It is a time close her blood, and shall no more cover ing its fruition. That day when the when every one should be laying hold of her slain." During all the centuries of tongue of the dumb shall be heard shout- that personal experience which will en- the past the earth has been cumbered ing the praises of our Redeemer ; that able him to stand in the trying times now with her dead. The slain of the Lord day when the eyes of the blind shall be so near at hand. in the deluge were covered by the earth opened to see the beauties and the won- itself through the instrumentality of the ders and the glories of the purified king- mighty surgings of the waters of the dom of our God; that day when the lame Where Are the Dead ? flood. The earth covered her slain. She shall leap as a hart, and the ears of FREQUENTLY, in the religious press, will not do this in the destruction of the deaf shall be opened to hear the where an account is given of the death the finally impenitent when the wrath of music of heaven and the voice of their of some church-member, we see the God is poured out for the last time upon Redeemer; that day toward which every statement that the deceased one has all the agencies of iniquity. sincere soul has looked with fondest " been promoted," has " passed over," This language of Isaiah shows plainly yearnings, and the assurances of whose or has " gone home." These have come where the dead are — the bodies of those reality have comforted the children of to be fashionable expressions, all of who have slept the sleep of death in God as they have gone down in death; them, in the parlance of general Prot- this earth since Adam and Eve laid down that day which puts an end to sin and estant and Catholic church-membership; their lives. The dew that has been fall- misery and sorrow and poverty and woe but how subversive of truth! We no- ing upon the grass and herbs has been and sickness and death; that day which ticed recently that one good woman was falling at the same time upon the dead puts the hand of the righteous dead declared by her pastor to have " gone over whom has been growing the grass again into the hand of the translated peacefully home " on a certain date. An- and the herbs. But when Christ comes, living, and binds up broken hearts, and other was declared to " have gone home " the earth shall cast out the dead." If dries the tears of the grief-stricken; that and entered into her rest." She had been they were in heaven, it would be impos- day which rights every wrong, and assured by her pastor in her last hours sible for the earth to cast them out. makes even the dead to triumph over that she was " almost home," meaning This text also furnishes a clew as to death and its author,— that day is near that she would step from her death-bed what class of the dead will be " cast out " at, hand, and its glorious dawning is directly into her heavenly abode. And at that time. It will be the righteous drawing on apace. C. M. S. this is the belief of the vast multitude of alone; for they are to "awake and sing." the religious people of the world to-day. The wicked dead will not sing when they But what say the Scriptures ? " Man awake. It is declared of them that they Sometime We' Shall Understand dieth, and is laid low : yea, man giveth will awake "to shame and everlasting LIFE presents many Mysterious prob- up the ghost, and where is he?" Then contempt." Dan. 12 : 2. But the right- lems. We look out into the great uni- Job, speaking as the inspired mouthpiece eous who have been dwelling in the dust, verse of God, and how many things there of God, answers the question: " Man will celebrate their deliverance and their are that we can not fathom nor under- lieth down, and riseth not: till the heav- Saviour's return with the gladdest of stand. The heavens above and the ens -be no more, they shall not awake, glad hosannas. depths beneath are beyond our compre- nor be roused out of their sleep." Job Eternal life and the heavenly inherit- hension. The Scriptures of truth con- I4: IO, 12. But that does not mean they ance are the reward of the saints. If tain mysteries. The lives of others are shall never awake; for in the " day of the righteous dead entered into that re- as closed books to our study, and even the Lord," at the second coming of ward at death, Christ would not be de- our own experiences have dark and unex- Christ, " the heavens shall pass away claring to us, as he does in Rev. 22: 12, plained chapters. We can not under- with a great noise " (2 Peter 3 : 10-13) ; " Behold, I come quickly; and my re- stand why certain things have befallen and at that same time " the Lord him- ward is with me, to give every man ac- us, why we have been called upon to pass self shall descend from heaven with a cording as his work shall be." That through certain trials, why certain influ- shout, with the voice of the archangel, reward, including eternal life, is given ences have shaped and molded our ex- and with the trump of God: and the at the second coming of Christ. He says periences. We have been bereft of dead in Christ shall rise first." I Thess. that he brings it with him to bestow at friends; we have suffered sickness; prop- 4:16. The voice of " the Lord himself " that time; this is shown also in i Cor. erty has been swept away; those we wakes the sleeping saints, the " dead in 15: 51-55. At that time the corrupted loved and trusted have apparently turned DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 11

against us; our fellows have counted faith to cast down reasoning, and to build The following appointments or trans- our best efforts for naught, misjudged our hopes, not upon the unstable founda- fers have been recommended: — our motives; and it has seemed at times, tion of our own philosophy, but upon Walter S. Mead and his wife, of the as it did to Jacob of old, that our experi- the sure word and promises of God. We Foreign Mission Seminary, to India, for ences were against us. may not understand how divine omnipo- the English school at Mussoorie, or for To the trusting child of God there is tence can shape the experiences of life mission station work, as the necessities comfort in the thought that the darkness so that they will work out our eternal may require. will sometime give place to the light; good, but our great Father of wisdom Miss Rachel Jones, of the Foreign that the crooked places will be made and love has pledged his word that this Mission Seminary, who has been en- straight and the • dark places plain. shall' be done for us, as far as we will gaged during the summer in Bible work Sometime, if not in this world then in patiently submit our cases into his hands. with the Northern New England Con- the world to come,' we shall have the Then let us not repine and mourn and ference, to India, to engage in Bible privilege of viewing questions from the complain. Let us be patient through the work in connection with the evangelistic standpoint of heaven's exalted plane. purifying process, trusting that in the effort in the cities, or in village dispen- We shall see, in so far as finite can see glorious future we shall understand all sary work, as the needs may require. through infinite eyes, as God sees. We of life's mysteries, and know why God W. L. Burgan, of Baltimore, appointed shall measure with the great measuring has led us over the road we have •trav- secretary of the Press Bureau of the rule of divine wisdom. eled and brought us through the experi- General Conference, with headquarters The apostle Paul refers to this time ences which have befallen us. in the General Conference Office building and to this experience in the thirteenth In the following song the poet has in Washington. chapter •of First Corinthians when he beautifully expressed our thought and W. L. Burgan, secretary of the Press says : " For we know in part, and we the hope that should comfort our hearts Bureau, to attend the winter union con- prophesy in part. But when that which throughout life's journey: — ference sessions in the North, to give is perfect is come, then that which is " The desert way He sometimes leads us, instruction in press work, and to report in part shall be done away. . . . For now The simple manna that he feeds us, proceedings of the sessions in the public we see through a glass, darkly; but then The humble work for which he needs us, press. We may not always understand; face to face: now I know in part; but But while for Canaan gardens yearning, Elder C. B. Haynes, of Baltimore, to then shall I know even as also I am God's lessons patiently . we're learning; attend union conference sessions in the known." The fiery pillar still is burning: South, to give instruction in press work, This more perfect knowledge is to be He leads, he leads, and to report the sessions. We need not understand. a part of the glorious heritage of the Elder N. H. Pool and his wife, of children of God in the ages to come. " The bondage' which we've left, repent- Indiana, to the West Indies, in response How blessed it will be to see with un- ing, to the call for an evangelist in the is- dimmed eyes ! How sweet to carry about The foe that follows unrelenting, The deep, wide sea our flight preventing, land of Trinidad, just off the coast of with us the consciousness that our asso- We need not always understand; Venezuela. ciates are in sympathy with our purposes But we've a Father wise as loving, C. F. Innis, of Colorado, to the For- and understand our ,motives ! We shall Let faith his promises be proving; eign Mission Seminary, under provisional Stand still and see the waters moving: not see through a veil, dimly, but face appointment for the book work in Span- He rules, he rules, to face. We shall know even as we are We need not, understand. ish-speaking fields, Brother Innis having known. Some of the hard, trying expe- formerly been in Central America. riences through which we have been " Why to the bitter fountains guided, When 'twas for crystal springs we Elder J. Z. Walker and his wife, of called upon to pass will then be explained chided, the Foreign Mission Seminary, to go by our own blessed Master, Nor knew we prayed with heart divided, forward to the French-speaking republic " Christ will lead his redeemed ones We may not always understand; of Haiti, in the West Indies, early in beside the river of life, and will explain But by the lonely pool of Marah, 1912, to take the superintendency of the The living water seemeth dearer, to them all that perplexed them in this And Christ, the riven Rock, is nearer : work in that field. world. The mysteries of grace will un- Life flows, life flows, Charles Degering and his wife, of the fold before them. Where their finite We need not understand. North Pacific Union, to the West Carib- minds discerned only confusion and " And when we reach the Jordan River, bean Conference, headquarters in Pan- broken purposes, they will see the most Where day's last shadows faintly quiver, ama, to act as secretary and treasurer perfect and beautiful harmony." 0 may the arms of the Life-giver of the conference. In view of this experience which Bear safely to the promised land! E. R. Allen and his wife, of the For- awaits us, let us be patient. We are Till then we trust the One who knoweth, No storm forbidden ever bloweth, eign Mission Seminary, to the Canadian now in God's great training-school. By No tear unnoticed ever floweth: Union, in response to the call for Brother the trials and difficulties that we meet He knows, he knows, Allen to act as field agent in the book he is endeavoring to fit us for a place in Sometime we'll understand." work. his coming kingdom. The trials are his F. M. W. -4- -.- Elder H. S. Prener, formerly of South workmen. By them our rough char- General Conference Committee America, recently returned on account acters are chiseled and fashioned and of Sister Prener's health, recommended Actions molded after the divine similitude. The to the German work in Baltimore, Chesa- rough, sharp corners are taken off, and SOME actions of the General Confer- peake Conference. we are fitted to become beautiful stones ence Committee at the time of the au- Elder George M. Brown and his wife, in the temple of our God. tumn council relating to the distribution of North Carolina, to Cuba. By faith we may know, as did 'the of workers were not listed in the reports apostle Paul, that " all things work to- of that council, time being required to Departmental Committees gether for good to them that love God." communicate with the persons concerned. Changes and additions were made in Again and again human reasoning will A further report can now be made, and the advisory committees of General Con- deny the truth of this statement as ap- will be of general interest. We include ference departments. The following plied to our personal experience; but it is also actions taken by the General Con- were added to the committees: — for us through God's grace to permit ference Committee since the council. Publishing Department: G. C. Haskin 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 191I

(Pacific Press), J. W. Westphal (South who seek the courts are parents. There American Union). Note and Comment is one divorce suit in the District to every four marriage licenses. It is also a most Religious Liberty Department: I. H. remarkable fact that less than ten per Evans (China), H. A. Weaver (Mich- Danger in Meat-Eating cent of the couples who seek the courts igan), M. N. Campbell (Iowa), W. F. NONE too much has been said of the are parents. There is a warning in Martin (North Pacific), J. L. McElhany dangers attending the indiscriminate use these statistics to young people who run away to be married, and a caution to (Washington, D. C.), William Guthrie of flesh foods. It is exceedingly difficult persons to consider well when inclined (Canada). for the ordinary purchaser to determine to marry in haste. Young People's Department: H. M. the character of the food which he pur- Marriage in these days is often en- Hiatt (Southeastern Union), J. L. Shaw chases from the market. We do not be- tered into hastily and unadvisedly. The (India), E. E. Farnsworth (Southwest- lieve that flesh taken even from animals motives are caprice and pleasure rather ern Union), M. M. Hare (Atlantic in a normal, healthy condition is man's than love and sober judgment, and yet Union). natural food, nor that upon which he this is one of the most solemn relation- German Department Advisory Com- should subsist. It surely formed no part ships in our lives. It is one thing to mittee: H. F. Graf (Cleveland), B. E. of the original dietary given to the hu- associate with another for a day, a week, Miller (New York City). man race, and when God called his or a month, with the full knowledge that Other Recommendations people out of Egypt, it did not form a the association can be terminated at That in response to the suggestion of part of the bill of fare which he provided pleasure. It is quite another thing, how- the Sabbath-school Department, the for them in the wilderness, and was al- ever, to link one's destiny with another treasurer be authorized to designate lowed only inconsequence of their mur- by that indissoluble tie. Then whatever some special enterprise to be made the muring and complaining. comes through the weeks and months object of the Sabbath-school mission The abnormal conditions which sin and years, the union holds. Such unions gifts on one Sabbath of each quarter. has entailed haye served to engender should be entered into only after the That the treasurer be authorized to disease in the brute creation as well as most serious consideration and prayer, send forward further remittances from in the human family. These diseased and those who enter into such kind of the $300,000 Fund, as follows: — conditions are apparent on every side. relationships should carefully determine To India, to build a printing-office and The finest herds are often found in- beforehand whether they are suitable to supply other needs, $10,000. fected with tuberculosis, and slaughtered each other, and if they are taking a To Mexico, in behalf of the Mexican by the order of the State authorities. step upon which the blessing of Heaven printing plant, $1,000. From a Pennsylvania paper just come may be expected to rest. To Argentina, South America, for in- to hand, we extract the following: — -4- -4- -4- stitutional work, $4,000. The herd of dairy cows of near To Brazil, for institutional work, , condemned recently as being af- Fifteen Million Theatergoers doubtless the equipment of their print- fected by tuberculosis, were shipped to ACCORDING to the report of the New Philadelphia, and on Wednesday they ing plant for the better circulation of York State Society for the Prevention were slaughtered. The post-mortem literature throughout that great Portu- showed that all ten of the cows were of Cruelty to Children, the moving-pic- guese-speaking country, $2,000. affected by the disease, four of them so ture show has created fifteen million new To the West African Mission, for fit- much so that their carcasses could only theatergoers in the United States during ting up treatment rooms, such an amount be used for tankage. The others were the last year. By far the large majority only slightly affected, and their carcasses as may be necessary up to $500. were passed as fit for food. of these are children. This report de- The following action was taken re- scribes the deplorable influence which With what satisfaction can one turn garding means for enabling the two many of the exhibitions have on the away from a dietary involving such risks union conferences in South America to morals of children as revealed in con- to the one made up of heaven's choicest be of mutual help and strength to each nection with the workings of some of bounties as found in vegetables, grains, other, now that the conferences and mis- the New York City courts. Thirty-two fruits, and nuts! One may partake of sions in Brazil are organized into the men who conducted places of this kind, these foods in their natural state with- new Brazilian Union Conference: — and admitted children to them contrary out fear of infection, and with the as- " Voted, That we recommend that in to law, have been convicted and sent to surance that they contain all necessary order to strengthen the work in the two prison. The United Presbyterian of strength-giving elements. unions in South America and make them Nov. 23, 1911, to which we are indebted -4-- -4-- -*- mutually helpful to each other, we ad- for this information, adds, "All over the Elopements and Divorces vise the president of the Brazilian Union country these pest-spreading agencies are to attend, if possible, the biennial union THAT the divorce evil is a growing doing their work." sessions of the South American Union menace to society, must be apparent to It is to be deplored that in too many Conference, and that similarly we recom- every observer. Closely connected with instances these agencies of evil are pat- mend the president of the South Amer- this great evil, indeed in many instances ronized and supported and even defended ican Union to attend the Brazilian Union the contributing cause, is that of elope- by Christian people. This is done, we sessions." ment or " runaway matches." There is are forced to conclude, because these peo- Other recommendations made regard- a rapidly lessening regard these days ple are not cognizant of the real evil ing exchanges and transfers of laborers for the marriage relation. Speaking of influences which attend these exhibitions. in the North American Division are still runaway matches, the Christian Advo- As to the character of the influence that awaiting further consultation and cor- cate of November 2, says: — they exert upon our young men and respondence. Statistics compiled from the records of women, and our boys and girls, igno- W. A. SPICER, Secretary. the District Supreme Court at Washing- rance can no longer be a virtue on the ton, D. C., show that forty per cent of -4- -4- -*- all divorces in that city are the result part of the guardians of the flock. Par- THE temperance campaign is on in of runaway matches, and that thirty per ents and Christian teachers instead of Australia, and a late number of the Aus- cent result from marriages where one of condoning these evils, should be among tralasian Signs of the Times comes out the contracting parties was under twenty- the first to raise against them a cry of one years of age. Eighty per cent of the as a splendid and effective document in warning, in an effort to save the youth favor of the principles of temperance divorce suits have been filed by women, and the prohibition of the liquor traffic. and less than ten per cent of the couples From their pernicious influence. DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 13

Mayor Gaynor to the Clergy MAYOR GAYNOR, of New York, raises the question as to how much good min- isters of the gospel are really doing. They have been preaching for thousands of years, and the wholesome influence of their godly lives in the community he thinks is to be commended; but he wonders if the professed representatives of the Lord really represent the spirit and character of their meek and lowly South China—the Open Doors pleasant. But still our boys and girls cling to their work. Most all our boys Teacher, Christ Jesus. In the Literary GEORGE HARLOW Digest of Dec. 2, 1911, he says:— are earning their way through school by FOR the last few months south China selling our periodicals. We certainly Do you reach out among the unfortu- has been in great unrest. The people long for the time to come when we can nate and the lowly and those that want are continually looking for something to to be lifted up? Or are your churches have better quarters; but we have con- so finely aisled and cushioned and car- happen, but just what that something is fidence that our people in the home land peted that a man like that will stand they do not know. This gives us a won- are pulling hard for us, so we patiently at the door, and be afraid to go in? derful opportunity to speak of the second wait for what the Lord will send us. Who are you? Does the great heart of coming of Christ, and to let them know Canton. Jesus throb in you — the one who took that just before the Master comes, peo- -*- all the lowly by the hand and said, Come ple will be in exactly this state of mind. West Africa unto me, and I will help you? You must We thought at first that the revolution- answer that question for yourselves. ary unrest would be a great hindrance D. C. BABCOCK When I go to the churches, one quarter THE workers in this field have passed filled, here in this town, and look at the to the progress of the work, because for fine pews and carpets and cushions and awhile the selling of literature was pro- through some severe experiences during the absence of anybody who has on his hibited under severe penalties. In one the present year. On the third of Jan- hand the sign of toil, I begin to wonder instance, a colporteur of another mis- uary Brother W. H. Lewis's little girl whether all this is not tending to a fail- sion was taken without trial and be- was taken ill with an attack of black- ure after all. We can be little coteries headed; but our work has not suffered. water fever, and a few days later Mrs. unto ourselves, and think we are good, Our boys stopped selling for a few days, Lewis was taken severely ill with the and try to be good; but is the heart of but have renewed their work with as same disease. She was unable to be up Jesus among us after all? In the last great vigor as before; and since the again for nearly five months. On the analysis of everything, we have to an- people are looking for something with eighteenth of January, Sister T. M. swer that question. French, as a result of the same disease, -*- revolutionary ideas, they buy any paper or tract that can be had. So the work was laid away to await the coming Sa- Mushy Sentimentality goes on. viour. This was a severe experience for Tms is the term which the Nation of Brother Bach writes from Pakhoi: the work on the Gold Coast. Owing to Nov. 30, 1911, uses in speaking of the " The work here has made decided prog- overwork, and the sad experience he was " kind letters " and " expressions of in- ress, as the church was awakened to its called to go through, Elder French was terest and sympathy " which have been duty of helping the mission as far as it greatly reduced in vitality, and was ad- showered upon a recent criminal sent can. In our last monthly meeting our vised to return home to regain his health. This left the Gold Coast in a helpless to the electric chair : — church-members decided to help the church next year, and offered fifty-two situation, and Brother C. E. F. Thomp- Mushy sentimentality, of which this dollars. This is a noble gift toward the son was advised to drop the work at case has furnished a somewhat extreme expense of the work here if we consider Bouthe Sherbro, and go to the Gold illustration, is a more serious element in the hard times the people are in. Three Coast to take up the work that Brother our national life than most people realize. In the matter of homicide itself, we have more have accepted the truth. We now French was compelled to lay down. no doubt that it constitutes one of the have seventy-three who keep the Sab- I am glad to say, however, that the chief reasons of our country's most un- bath of the fourth commandment, and message is gaining ground again on that enviable preeminence. . . . Yet the most who are looking for the soon return of part of the West Coast, and each mail serious consequence of this shallow sen- our Lord." If you could have been with brings encouraging reports from Brother timentality is not to be found in its im- me at Pakhoi and seen the dire poverty Thompson. mediate effects upon action in specific of some of these people, fifty-two dol- Owing to needed rest, and an invita- cases. More deplorable is its inevitable lars would look much larger than it tion to attend the General Conference weakening of profound instincts that Committee Council in Germany, the have their root in ages of human ex- sounds. perience — of real and effective senti- Brother Bach sent an earnest appeal writer and family left the field early in ments in regard to crime. More than in for another worker, but for lack of June, and paid a short visit to the Ca- police and juries and judges, society finds funds we did not feel free to grant his re- nary Islands, with a view to establishing its protection from crime in the instinc- quest; we hope ere many months roll by a recuperating-station for our West Af- tive association of it with feelings of ab- to be able to send another evangelist rican workers when they need rest from horrence, and with the stigma of uni- to him. the work and trying climate. versal disgrace. To be a thief is to The workers at every station are re- Shortly after we reached Germany, we be not only punished, but despised and porting decided progress in the work. received word from Sierra Leone that shunned; to be a murderer is not only to The only thing we lack, it seems to me, Sister F. S. Bolton was sick. subject one's self to the danger of death, but to be detested and cast out by all is sufficient funds to keep up with the After a short stay in Germany and men. Children no sooner learn the mean- work as it advances. If ever John England, and having received generous ings of the words than they acquire along 4 :35 was true, I, believe it is true to-day treatment at the Caterham Sanitarium, with them those sentiments of abhor- in China. Every day several come to we returned to our field of labor, only to rence which, far more than any cal- me asking to know the truth, and nearly find three of our foreign workers sick. culation of chances, make the very every day I find plenty of opportunities Brother and Sister Bolton were hardly thought of the commission of these to hold Bible readings with as many as able to care for each other. When I crimes impossible to the vast majority of I have time for. looked into their pale faces, my heart mankind. To trifle with this inherited Our schools are both laboring under sank. Silently I asked my Father to defense — not merely of society against help; he never fails. evil-doers, but, what is even more im- very trying conditions. The buildings portant, of individuals against tempta- were not built for school purposes, and Mrs Lewis was again taken down tion to evil — is no light matter. are anything but what make a school with the black-water fever, so we re- 14 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911

. moved both families to Freetown. It been nearly tripled. In spite of the many to high duties, but also to a very severe seemed for some time that it would be difficulties that our work incurs, and the press censorship, so that it is almost almost impossible for Mrs. Lewis ever to great restrictions, the message steadily impossible for canvassing work to be car- recover her health. For more than a advances. ried on if it is dependent upon publi- month a hard battle was fought, but vic- From Jan. I, 1912, this important field cations from without. Our six Span- tory came. will be divided into three different fields : ish canvassers in the field had thus far Again we appeal to our dear people Bohemia, with a population of nearly sold mostly our papers and tracts; but for help to equip treatment-rooms, and 7,000,000; Moravia-Silesia, with nearly when Brother Brown came, he at once for a doctor and nurses. We have been 3,000,000 inhabitants; and the remainder, took up the work with big books, and greatly encouraged lately by letters from including the rest of Austria outside of found the prospects as promising in the Mission Board stating that nurses Galicia, will contain about io,000,000 Spain as they are in Mexico. One of would soon be on their way to this needy people. The membership is quite evenly the first orders he took was secured from field. We are very thankful for this en- divided among the three fields. Here, the governor. couraging word, but we need more help. as elsewhere, the great lack is workers; We are sadly in need of some large We need an experienced physician, able and here especially we must have native books, printed in the country itself. But to advise and direct in severe tropical workers, on account of the restrictions. all can readily see that if we print diseases. I quote filom a recent letter All we could give to these large di- these books only for Spain, we shall received from Dr. A. B. Olsen: " Surely it is high time that you get suitable sanitarium bath-rooms for treatment at a very early date, also a doctor if that could be managed. Personally, I feel that we ought to have medical mission- aries connected with all our missions throughout the world; I mean qualified doctors imbued with the missionary spirit, and supported by competent nurses to look after the natives as well as the foreign workers, and I hope that that day will speedily come." If any place on earth is in need of such aid, surely it is West Africa. We have a suitable building located on one of the healthiest spots that can be found, but we need the means to equip it. • I wish to express our gratitude on be- half of those who have been greatly benefited by the earnest efforts of the young people's society which has raised money to provide homes, and to pipe water from the mountain to the homes This has already brought some relief. AUSTRIAN BELIEVERS (CITY HALL, VIENNA) The schoolboys are also putting up a visions was fifteen gospel workers, and have to print small editions, and the suitable living place, and the wagon fac- each division has only one minister, the books will be necessarily expensive. But tory is doing a good work in providing superintendent. Brother Reihlen was if we can cooperate with our brethren means for this building. ordained to the ministry. Over $400 in other Spanish-speaking fields and The prospect for the work before us was voted for the mission fields beyond. print larger editions of some of the is encouraging. There is a good mission- We surely ought to remember Austria books, they, as well as we, will reap the ary spirit among the churches, and each in our prayers, that the Lord may send benefits. When we take into considera- one is seeking for a life in harmony forth more laborers into this needy field. tion that Spain alone has a population of with God's requirements. Since my last The accompanying illustration shows a 19,000,000,— nearly equal to the Spanish report, fifteen have been baptized, and number of our Austrian members in population of South America,— we can new faces are seen in our Sabbath meet- front of the Vienna city hall. at once see the importance of doing all ings. The school work is advancing, and At the French capital, I spent several we can to put the work in this hardest we are sending our young men into the days with Brethren L. P. Tieche and E. of all Spanish-speaking countries upon needy fields. By the time this article Robert in counsel. From here Brother the most favorable basis. The highest is read in the REVIEW, we hope to have a Tieche and I proceeded to Barcelona. of all considerations is not the employ- new station opened about one hundred There were constant rumors of revo- ment of our people, nor the growth of fifty miles in the hinterland, among the lution in Spain, but, thank the Lord, business; it is the salvation of souls; and Timne tribe. Our courage is good. when we reached the' place, somewhat with this in view there is but one thing to Sierra Leone. late, we found convened the largest do,— to commence the publishing work -4- -4- -4- meeting we, ever had in Spain, and an in Spain. The more countries shut them- General Meetings in Austria and excellent spirit prevailing. Of our ninety selves in by high tariffs to protect their Spain members, something like sixty had come own trade in the ever-increasing com- together, and all our workers were pres- petition, the more they look down upon L. R. CONRADI ent. Brother John Brown and Brethren anything that comes from without. The FROM September 12 to 28, the writer W. G. and Frank Bond did all they could difficulty of selling our books in Catholic visited Vienna, Paris, and Barcelona. to instruct the workers And to encourage countries is greatly increased where Our meeting in Vienna was held first. them. Brother E. Bode had been here these publications must be imported. Brethren J. G. Oblander, J. F. Huener- for some time to investigate again the The Spanish field had twenty-four ad- gardt, and the writer were present to possibilities of our printing Spanish lit- ditions during the first half of 1911. It assist in the meetings. The growing erature in this city, or its suburbs. Bar- will soon have its first one hundred mem- work of Austria was represented by fifty celona is a city of half a million, and is bers, and the canvassing force must be delegates, and a large attendance of our a most important seaport, having the strengthened. We enjoyed this meeting brethren in general. The membership best of connections with every part of with our Spanish- people very much, and has increased during the last twelve the world. All publications which are we are sure that brighter prospects are months from 188 to 372. The tithe has shipped into Spain are subject not only before the field. DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

friends she is to visit, and then stick to it. It is far easier to work if one is work- ing toward a definite point. If there is any doubt about being able to accept an invitation for an evening, it would be better to refuse, and give your friends the privilege of arranging their affairs otherwise, than to keep them in a state of expectancy. If a child asks a question, give him a Pardon, Peace, and Power seven forty sure." We've driven to three definite answer if possible; and don't say JOHN FRANCIS OLMSTEAD trains in one day, got two special meals " no " when you can say " yes." for her, and had her put off coming When you go into a store to buy some- DO you e'er feel the threatening clouds until the next day ! thing, have your mind made up what That harrow hearts of men, Ask her to come over and spend the Which cast a shade of doubt and gloom you want, ask for it, and decide upon it Before us now and then? evening. " I'm sure I can't tell," she will one way or another. Don't stand around, Then turn, 0 turn to God above say, at ten o'clock in the morning. " I fingering things and asking the clerk if In every trying hour! don't know for sure just what I'll do. he thinks they will wash well. Ten to And he will give us freely here If I can come, I'll be there by quarter one he does not know, and anyway it is His pardon, peace, and power. past eight; if I'm not there by that time, his business to sell, not to advise. A don't wait for me." We stay at home pretty safe rule is, if you are in doubt When battles rage in conflicts sore and wait for her until too late to make as to whether you want a thing, do not Which try the hearts of all, buy. Of course, if you wish to spend Some then will flee, and some will fight, any other arrangements, and she does And some will wounded fall. not come after all. two or three hours just looking about But if nobility of soul Children are annoyed to the point of the shop to see what they have, there is E'er prompts in sun or shower, irritation, and exasperated to anger by no particular harm in it so long as you We need not fear, for God will give the indecision of their mothers. do not make the clerks pull down a lot His pardon, peace, and power. " Mother, may I go over to Jennie of things, and then do not buy. Brown's this afternoon? She wants I have seen women go to every store When we the doubts and battles face me." in town to buy something, and then go Which chase and threaten here " 0, I don't know. Don't begin at back to the first store, and buy the first The mighty throngs of helpless men, Who flee when danger's near, eight o'clock in the morning to ask me article they looked at. It isn't wise if Just lift the heart, and look to him what you can do in the afternoon." you're buying a hat or a suit or some Who keeps us every hour, " But, mother, I want to know. I other thing that you need to be par- And we shall ever, ever feel want to tell Jennie. She's waiting." ticular about, to walk into a store and His pardon, peace, and power. " Tell her I'll see when afternoon buy the first thing you are shown. But Columbus, Ohio. comes." it is wise to know what you want before " But, mother —" the child begins to you go ; what color and what style and whimper, already excited and anxious. how much you niean to pay; then tell Decision, and Lack of It " Now, don't begin to cry. If you the clerk what you want, and waste no ONE of the most deplorable traits of cry, you'll not go anyway." time looking at lavender when you want character that any person can possibly " Well, mother, may 'I go if I'm good? gray. possess, and one that brings annoyance I'll be good if I may go." Women do waste so much time. And and exceeding discomfort upon both him- " Be good anyway, and stop teasing. time is such a precious possession. Look self and everybody with whom he has Perhaps you may go, and perhaps you ahead! No matter whether you are any dealings, is a lack of decision, the may not. Maybe I'll go over to Aunt twenty or forty, the years are not enough inability to give a decided, definite an- Lucy's, and if I do, you'll go with me." in which to do all the things you want swer. " But I don't want to go to Aunt to do. Think of all the books to read, No man can ever make a success in Lucy's, mother. I want to go to Jen- pictures to look at, music to learn, lands business life and not be able to make nie's. She's got a new doll buggy. Can't to see, people to know that are worth decisions. To decide quickly and defi- I go to Jennie's anyway?" knowing. nitely, to weigh carefully but swiftly, to " I tell you I don't know. Now you Make up your mind definitely and trust one's own judgment and act upon stop teasing and run away, or •I'll say, quickly over each thing as it comes it, are qualities which are absolutely ' No, you can't.' " along, get it out of the way, and. tackle necessary for success in business life. Fearful lest her mother's vacillating something else. Don't waste time going Equally true is this of success in the mind should take a sudden negative de- over and over the same ground. home life. Most unsatisfactory and dis- cision, the child turns away, depressed, Be dependable. You yourself know cordant is that home where the woman perhaps sullen, unable to make her own persons of whom you say, "Well, I'd ask at the head of it is of indecisive, waver- decision, and with the example of a most Mildred to do that, but you never can ing, vacillating character. Ask her what deplorable habit before her. depend on her. She seldom makes up she is going to do to-day, and she replies, Women who are making housekeeping, her mind, and when she does, she " 0, I don't know. I haven't decided home-making, and motherhood their pro- changes it." I don't believe in never yet." Ask her if she will go for a drive fession have great need of being able changing my mind. Sonnetimes it is far at three o'clock and she says, " 0, I to make decisions quickly and with de- better to alter a faulty decision than to don't know. I couldn't tell till after cision. A woman should know when stick to it. But if you say you will do dinner." Ask her what train she is go- she gets up in the morning just what a thing on which other people are de- ing to take for a proposed visit, and she she is going to do that day, and whether pending, try to do it. Don't say you'll will tell you she does not know — yet. she is going to have any leisure or not. do things unless you are reasonably sure Perhaps she will get the eleven thirty, If she is, she ought to be able to decide you can. To be dependable is one of and perhaps the two ten. Possibly not till just how she wants to use it. If she is the most valuable qualities of character. five eight. Pleasant experience for the going on a visit, she ought to make up Plan your work. Systematize it. friend she is going to visit, isn't it? But her mind in the very beginning what Then keep at it according to schedule. we have all had that kind of guest. "I'll train she is going on, and how long she You can accomplish more in' that way. get the eleven thirty if I can get around," is going to stay, the latter, of course, I do not mean, make yourself 'a slave she writes, "but if not, I'll come on the subject to the convenience of her hosts. to it, nor allow washing the supper dishes two ten. If I miss that, I'll come at She should give this information to the to interfere with your accepting an invi- 16 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911

tation to drive. But I do mean, lay out albolene or liquid vaseline containing five to consider the beam that is in our own your day's work to the best advantage, per cent each of camphor and menthol, eye. We do not know enough of any and then turn it off until it is all done, is bland and soothing. human life and of the secrets of any with some leisure left. One should be careful not to blow the human heart to pronounce an infallible It is useless and foolish to say in the nose violently, as this is apt to force judgment. To know any man thoroughly morning that you " don't know whether mucus up into the Eustachian tubes, and we would have to know all his ancestors you can get two hours' time in the after- cause middle-ear trouble and permanent and his good or evil inheritance from noon or not " for something besides deafness. them, all his circumstances, his mental work. You know perfectly well, as a It should never be forgotten that " cold infirmities, the fire of his passions, the general thing, just what work there is in the head " may be the beginning of strength or weakness of his will, and to be done during the day, and after you some serious contagious diseases, like all his environment, in the broadest sense have had a few weeks' experience, you measles. A child with cold in the head of that word. Especially would we need ought to know how long it takes to do should invariably be removed from to know perfectly the spiritual history each task. All you need is decisive school; for in any case the trouble is of his heart, its moral conflicts and thought, manner, and action. infectious. agonies. Begin to-day, if you never have be- -4,- -4,- " What's done we partly may compute, fore, to put decision into what you A Swarm of Bees But know not what's resisted." think, say, and do. Not only in big B HOPEFUL, B cheerful, B happy, B kind, And if our knowledge of all the hered- things, such as buying a farm or a hat, B busy of body, B modest of mind, ity, the environment, the deeds, and the but in the little things about the house. B earnest, B truthful, B firm, and B fair, hearts of others were perfect instead of A character without decision is like an Of all Miss B havior B sure to B ware. being very imperfect, not one of us is empty sack, depending upon some out- B think, ere you stumble, of what may without some personal bias, however un- side force to keep it upright.— Della B fall; conscious of it he may be. The cen- B true to yourself, and B faithful to all. Thompson Lutes, editor American Moth- sorious consider not the beam that is in erhood. B brave to B ware of the sins that B set; B sure that one sin will another B get. their own eye. The spectroscope can tell B just and B generous, B honest, B us of the metals in a remote star, but it Treatment of a Cold in the Head wise; is impossible for us to obtain an exact B mindful of time, and B certain it flies. and complete analysis of any human G. H. HEALD, M. D. B prudent, B liberal, of order B fond, character. It was not the man who IT is not necessary to describe symp- B uy less than you need B fore B uying thanked God that he was not as other toms, except to remind the reader that B yond. men who was commended by Christ, but the time to begin treatment is when the B careful, but yet B the first to B stow; the one who smote himself on the breast, B temperate, B steadfast, to anger B nostrils first feel dry and stuffy, before saying, " God be merciful to me a sin- slow; the nose begins to " run." B thoughtful, B thankful, whate'er may ner."— Selected. The old-fashioned purge by castor-oil B tide; is an excellent beginning, though the full B just and B joyful, B cleanly, B side. The Test of Yesterday's Work enema may accomplish much good. The B pleasant, B patient, B gentle to all, next treatment should be a cabinet bath. B best if you can, but B humble withal; A NUMBER of years ago, in a town in The apparatus may be improvised from B prompt and B dutiful, still B polite, Germany, there lived a chain-maker un- the following articles: A chair, with a B reverent, B quiet, B sure to B right; known to fame. He was poor, but an blanket, or other protection on the seat B calm, B retiring, B ne'er led astray; excellent workman, and very conscien- B grateful, B cautious of those who and down the front; under the chair a tious in all that he did. He might have _ B tray; shirked his work. He might have done pan of boiling water over an alcohol- B tender, B loving, B good, and B nign; stove; in front of the chair a pail of B loved thou shalt B, and all else shall poor, imperfect work. But no. Each hot water; a large double blanket; a B thine. link of the great chains he made must cloth wrung out of cold water; an at- — Selected. be right, and so he labored. tendant to give the treatment. The bed —4-- Years passed, and on the great ocean there sails a large vessel with many pas- should be convenient. Censoriousness The patient, in nightshirt, should sit sengers. On the deck is coiled the great in the chair with his feet in the pail of IT is not our privilege to sit in judg- chain, attached to the sheet-anchor. It hot water. The blanket should be formed ment upon our fellow human beings. lies there unnoticed, unthought of. Sud- into a kind of tent around the patient We have not the power to do it either denly a storm arises, and grows in in- (leaving his head out), chair, and pail, intelligently or without some personal tensity. So fierce does it become that and so arranged that more hot water bias. We can form opinions that are the ship is in danger. She flounders. may be added to the pail as the patient of practical value concerning our rela- Anchor after anchor is cast over, but the can bear it. The treatment should be tions to them, or their relations to so- storm is so severe that the chains snap continued until free perspiration is in- ciety. A bank cashier must consider a like cords. duced. Meantime the cold cloth should man's character as well as his business Then comes the captain's order, "Let be kept on the patient's head, and wrung ability. We must constantly be more or go the sheet-anchor! " Now is the mo- out of cold water as often as it warms less consciously making decisions based ment of suspense. It is the last hope of up. More hot water should be added to upon our acquaintance with the charac- safety. Will it share the fate of the the pail until it is as hot as can be borne. ter of others, though that acquaintance others? Down into the deep it goes. When free perspiration is established, is always superficial and imperfect. In a moment the chain is out its length. the patient, after his feet have been thor- Juries have the responsibility of deciding The vessel quivers from stem to stern oughly dried, may stand, and with the whether men and women are guilty of between the grasp of the two forces, the blanket wrapped close around him, get certain crimes. But none of us knows storm and the anchor. The old German into bed and remain there for twenty- any man's standing before the omniscient chain-maker is battling with the ele- four hours if practicable. If the treat- Judge of all, who is also the loving ments. He wins. The anchor holds. ment is begun early and faithfully fol- Father of all. Censoriousness is one of The vessel is saved. His work stood in lowed, it will abort any ordinary cold. the most common of sins, and is most the great moment of trial. Unfortunately few attempt to " break severely condemned by Christ, who has In the last great day every man's work up " a cold until it is too late. said, " Judge not, that ye be not judged. shall be tried, and faithfulness alone will At the beginning a spray of an alkaline For with what judgment ye judge, ye win the crown. May we near the voice antiseptic solution (tablets on sale at shall be judged: and with what measure of our ascended Lord say to each one drug stores) or of salt or baking-soda, ye mete, it shall be measured to you of us " Be thou faithful unto death, and a teaspoonful to a pint of water, is good again," It is easier for us to see the I will give thee a crown of life."— as a cleansing agent. Later a spray of mote that is in our brother's eye than Pulpit Treasury. DECEMBER .2I, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 17

sixteen counties that 'have not been en- tered they have the privilege of doing pioneer work. A few earnest individuals are laboring untiringly, and God is greatly blessing them. Are there not others who feel impressed to come and join them? As these lines are read, if any should be impressed that this is the field where God would have them labor, we shall be glad to correspond with them, and try to help them find a proper location. The Glad Fruition bound more firmly to India, and our The needs are great. The laborers are very few. Who will volunteer to help? WILLIAM BRICKEY only desire is to labor and toil here until our work is done. Address the writer at Route 5, Spartans- LORD, I read of thy salvation " We are glad for the great effort that burg, S. C. W. H. BRANSON.: In the volume of the Book; is being put forth for obtaining evan- -4- -4- • 'Tis indeed a new creation, gelists for English work. The situation And with eager eyes I look in Calcutta is critical. It seems abso- Our Work in Haiti For the work to be completed, lutely imperative to make a good, strong AUGUST 16 I began visiting the And all sin to be defeated effort there this year. We hope we shall churches and companies in the northern So it ne'er will be repeated not be disappointed, even though these part of Haiti. I spent four days in In the universe of God. workers may be a little late." Limbe, preaching and teaching., Our -•-- believers stand fast in the Lord. Many Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, unbelievers manifested a great interest Then will sit on David's throne; Openings and Needs in South in the message, and I hope some of them We shall sing redemption's story, Carolina will soon be found rejoicing in a knovd- We shall know as we are known. Of the river of his pleasure THERE are more than a million and edge of the truth. a half people in this State who must Our brethren and sisters of Plaisance We shall quaff in copious measure hear the truth; many will accept it when are walking in the light, and with hearts As it rolls its priceless treasure they are given this opportunity. Our full of joy are waiting for the second Through the paradise of God. present force of laborers is so small that coming of Christ in power and glory. it would seem like a hopeless task to do After laboring among them five' days, I, All our bliss will be supernal, left for Cape Haitien. October 8 I went Born of Him who reigns above this great work, were we not certain that the Lord will raise up yther work- to Pignon. The godliness and brotherly In the realms of the Eternal, love of our church there• impressed me In the paradise of love. ers who will cooperate with us in it. very much. The believers study the And I feel no indecision, Untold good might be accomplished if Sabbath-school lessons in a delightful For I see a happy vision, some of our people in States where the way. In the homes of some of the And it fills with joys Elysian conferences are stronger would move to brethren each day, very early in the All the universe of God. this State, and locate where there is morning, there are special meetings for only a small company of believers who Kamiah, Idaho. the Sabbath-school lessons, in which :all need some one to give them instruction, the people are much interested. All the -4- 1- -4- and to lead out in their Sabbath meet- believers are found there, both parents ings In many places there are two or Through Trials in West India and children. The educated believers three lone Sabbath-keepers as the only translate and explain the lessons in cre- WE take the following extract from a representatives of this message in a ole for those who can not read. By so personal letter from Elder George F. whole city. Others could be raised up doing they afford all, even the boys, Enoch, working on the Bombay side of if the right persons would move in there opportunity to obtain a thorough knowl- India:— and live out the truth, at the same time edge of the facts presented, as well as "You have doubtless heard of our doing missionary work with our tracts of the spiritual truths these facts are great loss in the death of our little Ger- and books. Thus strong companies designed to teach. When the Sabbath ald. We went down to Panwel about might be raised up. comes, the Sabbath-school lesson is well the first of the year. The only house There are many ways • here in which learned, and there is always great in- available was in a large mango orchard. self-supporting workers can make a terest. The house was very good; but alas! in good living. We would not hold out any After leaving Pignon I went to Ran- the treacherous, but pleasant shade of money-making inducements to get per- guitte, where I spent three days in con- the mango-trees, deadly malaria was sons to leave their home State and come firming the souls of the believers and lurking. here, but we do not fear to say that any seeking to turn a few .unbelievers to the " We all got through the heat of May one who can make a living elsewhere light' of the third angel's message. An fairly well, but were rather thin. Bertha can do so here. The chief farming prod- educated young man living here is an had an attack of malaria in June, but a uct is cotton, but wheat, oats, corn, and efficient agent in the hands of God for short change to the near-by, hills set her other small grains are raised quite ex- the enlightenment of those who sit in right again. For months we looked for- tensively. Stock-raising is a paying busi- darkness. He finished successfully his ward to our trip to Mussoorie the first ness. All kinds of garden-stuff can be studies at the Lyceum of Port an Prince of September, and spent many happy raised, and marketed at fair prices. up to philosophy, and was for a few hours in our plans. But only three days Poultry-raising is profitable, and prices years a student of medicine, but was before we were to leave, both children for this kind of produce are always good. hindered from completing his medical were taken very ill with malaria. I Fruits are usually plentiful in most lo- studies. He is now a blessing to others. telegraphed to the nurses at Bombay, calities. The climate here is mild and A few souls accepted the last message who were able to render us splendid as- delightful. as a result of his labors. He continues sistance; but in spite of all we could do, Prices for tradesmen are as good as in to preach and teach earnestly., His our little boy died August 27, the very most other States. Carpenters get from younger brother is also laboring .ear- day we were to start for the mountains. $2 to $3 a day, and other workmen ac- nestly for Christ, and brings souls to " We took him to Bombay, and with cordingly. There are no unions here to him. broken hearts laid him away in the hinder our people from getting work. On the seventeenth of September, sev- beautiful Sewri Cemetery. The experi- If a contractor would locate in the State, eral brethren and sisters went .with me ence came as a bolt from the sky, and and thus furnish employment to men who from Ranguitte to a station where there we can not understand it. However, come out of the mills and have no other are many believers. Brother M. Theo- we bow the knee to Him who is above occupation but who could learn a trade, dore, who is laboring there, presented to all, and pledge our lives anew to his great good might be done. us new converts receiving instruction service. Were it not for the ' blessed Last, but not least, this is one of the for baptism. We held meetings, in hope' we would not know what to do; very best places for canvassing for our which the people were much interested. but in its light we renew our consecra- hooks and selling our magazines. Those After preaching to them, we bade fare- tion to Jesus for the hastening of the who are engaged in this work are meet- well, and came to Grande Riviere, visit- glad reunion day. Our hearts are now ing with good success; and as there are ing two Adventist families on the way. 18 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911

Before reaching the interior of people to the appeals made from time toms and habits; and should have a Grande Riviere, we arrived at a station to time. The Lord has greatly blessed knowledge of the history of Christian situated on the, summit of a mountain Elder Hansen and his faithful colabor- missions, and the many problems which many hundred feet high. On every side ers by giving material increase to the must be met and surmounted. Still are pleasant gardens and high trees, membership of this church, and the pros- more important is it that they should making the air fragrant. All around pects are bright for a further develop- have a knowledge of the religions to be are ranges of hills clothed with luxu- ment of the work in that city. met, the specious, subtle errors they con- riant green, presenting a pleasing pic- Leaving Grand Rapids after a stay tain, and the wise and effective manner ture. of eight days, I spoke Sunday afternoon, of displacing these by the Word of God. When evening came, some of our December 3, in the Methodist church at These alone, if no other reasons were converts gathered, and I spoke to them. Otter Lake, Mich. Among those in at- presented, made necessary a place of The next morning, at eight o'clock, al- tendance at the meeting was the pastor special training for foreign mission- most all the believers came to hear the of the church, besides another Methodist aries." word of God. About thirty Seventh-day minister. The spirit of prophecy has stated that Adventists live at this place. Their By the urgent request of Brother H. A. this school should be a place " where leader exerts a good influence upon the Weaver, who has charge of the work at students are to be tested and proved, that dwellers among the mountains, and by Port Huron, Mich., I spoke in that it may be seen what their adaptability is." his labors many souls are won to Jesus. place on the theme, " Which Will It Be: Great saving has come to the cause al- At Grande Riviere, I spent five days Universal War, or Universal Peace? " ready as a result of the establishment preaching and teaching. Among those present at this meeting of this Foreign Mission Seminary. A September 25, I took the train to Cape was a prominent attorney, who mani- large number of those who have attended Haitien. I am waiting for the suc- fested a deep interest in the subject have already gone to foreign fields, or cessor of Elder W. J. Tanner before discussed. are under appointment. It is true that going to labor at another place where Wednesday, December 6, in company in some cases, after medical examina- the precious seeds of truth have never with Brother Weaver, I went to Buffalo, tion or months of close contact with the been dropped. I am grateful to my N. Y., where I spoke to our people in teachers, persons have been advised to Heavenly Father for the opportunity their commodious church. There was take up work in the home field. .Had of being connected with him in pro- a most excellent attendance present for these been sent out without this careful claiming the gospel to a lost world. a midweek meeting. The Lord has cer- M. NORD ISAAC. " testing process " that goes on in the • tainly blessed Elder T. B. Westbrook and Seminary, the Mission Board would have his wife in their earnest labors in that been to great expense in returning them, Michigan and New York city. Harmony and unity prevail in the or in some cases the loss of life would church, and the workers are succeeding have been the result. NOVEMBER 25 to December 2 the writer in reaching with the truth a most ex- It has been a great advantage to have assisted in conducting a special series of cellent class of people. It is indeed such teachers as Elder J. L. Shaw, who gospel meetings with the Seventh-day gratifying to see the work in this impor- spent years in India, and Elder J. N. Adventist church at Grand Rapids, Mich. tant city being placed upon such a strong, Anderson, who spent a number of years The meetings were held in the new substantial basis after so many years of in China. Some of our brethren think church building which has recently been trials and difficulties. that if they have an academy or a col- erected by our people there. The body I would have responded to other calls lege, with the advantages of a sanita- of the church has seating capacity for for meetings during this trip in the West rium in close proximity, they have all three hundred persons, and there is a had it not been for the extra work de- they need to train men and women for commodious gallery in the front end of manded of the Religious Liberty Depart- the foreign fields. Recognizing fully the the church. The approximate cost of ment because of the opening of Con- advantages of having a sanitarium in the church property was $8,000. There gress. K. C. RUSSELL. connection with any of our schools, we are three street-car lines within a few make a great mistake if we conclude that blocks of the building. a sanitarium cooperating with one of our The first meeting of the special series A Visit to the Foreign Mission schools is all that is necessary in fitting was held Sabbath evening, November 25. Seminary individuals for the foreign fields. If the There was a large attendance, consisting reader will note what Professor Shaw of the members of the Grand Rapids WHEN in Washington at the recent has said, as a result of years of experi- church and the representatives of other council, it was my privilege to stop at ence in a foreign country, he will see Seventh-day Adventist churches in that the Foreign Mission Seminary during that the work of the Seminary takes vicinity. my stay. I was greatly pleased with the in a much broader field than would be The spirit that pervaded this first character of the students in attendance, possible for one of our colleges or acad- meeting should be a fitting index to and with what I saw and heard. emies to cover in its ordinary round of all future services which will be held I well remember when definite instruc- work. in the church, because of the manifest tion came through the spirit of prophecy The Sanitarium at Takoma Park, lo- presence of the Lord, which was wit- to the General Conference Committee cated on the same campus as the Semi- nessed by the presence of his Spirit in concerning the establishment of this nary, cooperates in .giving the students many hearts. This meeting was indeed a school. The instruction was clear and of the Seminary special training; but this dedicatory service of the soul, which was very definite, but some of us could is not sufficient. The Seminary has ar- a preparatory one for the dedication of scarcely see how it was possible to find ranged with the Central Dispensary and the church building, which took place a place for another school, located in Emergency Hospital, in Washington, for the following day, November 26. Washington. When the change was those in preparation for foreign fields to When the hour arrived which had made about four years ago to make the take a course of twelve weeks in this been set for the dedication of the church, training in this school definite in lines Emergency Hospital. The experience the attendance was so large that many of foreign missionary work, the spirit of that our young people get in this institu- extra seats were required, and a large prophecy sustained the move, and it met tion is very valuable from the standpoint number were obliged to remain standing with general approval. of such medical work as they will at during the entire service. The platform Prof. J. L. Shaw, who is qualified to times be compelled to do in foreign fields. was beautifully decorated with flowers, speak from ten or more years' experience A nurse, speaking from the standpoint which were contributed by one of the in India, and who for a time acted as of one who has been graduated from one florists of the city. A large choir, di- president of the school, says: — of our sanitariums, in relation to what reoted by Elder B. F. Stureman, fur- " The aim of the Foreign Mission can be secured in connection with the nished the music. Elder S. E. Wight, Seminary is to give the necessary train- Foreign Mission Seminary by a course president of the West Michigan Confer- ing for the mission field. Missionaries in this dispensary in Washington, says: ence, Elder C. A. Hansen, pastor of the who have spent a number of years in " I saw more wounds and bruises and Grand Rapids church, and the writer mission fields have a very definite con- putrefying sores in one day than I would united in conducting this important viction regarding the preparation re- observe in twelve months in one of our service. quired by those who go to the regions sanitariums." The Seminary has ar- Although it was Thanksgiving week, beyond. They urge that volunteers for ranged for a postgraduate course for the meetings of the series were, in the missions should obtain a good knowledge nurses who have been graduated from main, well attended, and a deep spirit of the geography of the country to which our sanitariums, which is especially help- of consecration prevailed, as was evident they are going; should be familiar with ful to those who may be sent to foreign from the ready responses inqde by the the history of the people and their cus- fields. Thus the advantages of both hos- DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 19

pital and sanitarium experiences are be- Field Notes ing given in a way that it is impossible Christian Liberty to receive outside of this institution. Two adults in Kingston, Ontario, have begun to observe the Sabbath. I was pleased to go out to the farm Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to that the Seminary has rented, about the current history of the rights three quarters of a mile from the school. ON November 25, five new Sabbath- of conscience This farm comprises about one hundred keepers united with the company at twelve acres, and scarcely a weed can Englewood, Chicago. Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau be found on the premises. There is on K. C. RUSSELL the farm at the present time fifty-three Secretary THE First Seventh-day Adventist S. B. HORTON - Assistant Secretary head of stock, among which are thirty- Church, of Troy, N. Y., was recently or one fine-grade dairy cows. A rotation of ganized, with thirty-one members. crops is planned so as to utilize the ground The Joy of the Sons of God for more than one crop in the season in L. D. SANTEE many cases. Those in charge raised ELDER J. A. STRICKLAND administered millet, cow-peas, rye, corn, etc., as for- the ordinance of baptism to three candi- YE shall grieve no more, on the other age for the cows. The past season they dates in Halifax, N. S., November 14. shore; had I1,000 tomato plants, five acres of For the toils of the way are past, sweet corn, and 8,000 Lima bean poles SEVERAL weeks ago two students in the And words are weak when the soul which looked like a forest the last of Gravel Ford Academy, in Southern Ore- would speak.; October. They also raise cabbages, gon, were baptized by Elder F. S. Bunch. Thank God, you are home at last. spinach, squashes, and such things as are O'er the streets of gold is the Shepherd's fold, grown in truck-farming. They raised NOVEMBER 5, the new church building Where sin has never trod; sweet potatoes that averaged 'two hun- at Jackson, Mich., was dedicated. Spe- dred fifty bushels to the acre and were Ye shall walk in white, with the saints in cial services were held at the time, Elder light, of fine quality. They sell milk to the William Ostrander assisting. Sanitarium and school, besides running In the joy of the sons of God. a milk route in Takoma Park. The farm gives employment and self-support to a ELDER J. F. PIPER reports that the 0, the eyes are bright, and the heart is number of students who are attending the meetings on Cliff Island, Maine, are con- light, Foreign Mission Seminary, besides a tinuing with good interest. Some have For sorrow shall flee away ; practical experience in this kind of work. already decided to obey the truth. With the loved you'll stand in the dear Of course the expense of running the home land, farm is necessarily very heavy, but the SEVERAL weeks ago four new Sabbath- In the light of an endless day. farm has paid for its rent and other ex- keepers united with the church at In- No pain, no tears in the coming years; penses, and has given a clear profit of dianapolis, Ind. These had accepted the Ye shall walk where the angels 'trod, $495 the past year. If the farm was truth as a result of the tent effort held In that city above, in that home of love, owned by the Seminary, of course it in that city. In the joy of the sons of God. would be much better. All that now is put onto the farm in the way of im- SEVERAL weeks ago Elder W. A. T. Ye shall see each face, with its tender provement must necessarily be a benefit Miller baptized a believer, who united grace, to the owner, and not to the school. with the church at Alamogordo, N. Mex. And eyes with love shall glow; Some brethren who have means could She accepted the truth through reading And brows so white, where the curls lay make no better investment than to put the Signs of the Times. bright, ten or fifteen thousand dollars into a Like sunbeams o'er the snow. good farm for the Foreign Mission Sem- FOUR adults have accepted the third Ye list for the song of the blood-washed inary at Washington. Who will do this? angel's message in the vicinity of Blu- throng, I am sure we have brethren in different ford, Ill. On Sabbath, November II, Ye would leave this earth's low clod, parts of the field who could do this, and Elder William Woodford baptized four Till desires grow strong, and your spirits it would be a great blessing to the school, new believers at Orchardville. long and a source of pleasure and eternal gain For the joy of the sons of God. to the donors. ELDER B. W. BROWN recently held a Moline, Ill. The Seminary gives most thorough ten days' meeting with the church at —0— —0— work in lines of historical, prophetic, and Louisville, Ky., at the close of which Censored Views in the Philippines Biblical study. The total enrolment for three were buried with the Lord in bap- last year was one hundred ten. Special tism, and united with the church there. WIT the coming of school-teachers classes for training ministers and Bible from the United States to connect with workers are organized. One clay each ELDER T. G. LEWIS reports from the public-school system of the Philippine week is set apart for practical mission- Wisconsin: " At Oshkosh we had a good Islands, there has arisen what seems to ary work in the city by the students. quarterly meeting. After the service two some a crisis regarding free speech in I asked the president of the school that territory. Searching for the source of the Seminary persons were baptized." Three sisters 'what the greatest needs were baptized a short time ago by Elder of information upon which the Michigan are at present. He enumerated three P. C. Hanson. Presbyterian Synod based resolutions things as most important : First, a good condemning the federal order that re- farm, owned by the school ; second, a city THE Lord richly blessed the workers quired public-school teachers to maintain dispensary and hospital of our own in silence in and out of school hours re- Washington to do as thorough work in at Omega, Ohio, as they presented the truth to the people during the tent ef- garding Protestantism, the following was emergency cases as the city can do, which located :— would be a great advantage over our fort just closed. Seven are now observ- present arrangement; third, a large ex- ing the Sabbath, and many others are " BUREAU OF EDUCATION deeply interested. Elder F. H. Hender- tension of the library, which is greatly " MANILA, MARCH Ti, 1908. needed. Here is an opportunity for our son writes from Zanesville: " We have two new Sabbath-keepers, and hope for " Circular brethren to remember this institution. " No. 32, 5, 1908 We should encourage our young people more soon." to avail themselves of the splendid op- " RELIGIOUS TEACHING FORBIDDEN portunity at the Seminary to fit them- ELDERS T. H. Watson and Fred Brink, " To Division Superintendents. selves to do successful work in foreign of the North California-Nevada Confer- ence, report that at the close of the tent " It appears from one or two cases fields. Life and money have already recently occurring that former decisions been saved to the cause by the instruc- meeting which they have been holding in Orland, two persons were baptized. relative to religious teaching by teach- tion this school has given to those who ers are not now generally known by all go out to the more difficult fields in Three adults have recently accepted the truth at Stillwater. During the past sea- concerned. In a case arising in 1902, the heathen lands. This institution should secretary of public instruction, in for- have our prayers, our sympathy, and our son the fruits of two months' tent effort in Sacramento are eighteen souls taken warding the papers to the civil governor, means, and we should encourage our best laid down the following rule: — young people to avail themselves of its into the church, and many more inter- " Criticism by teachers of doctrines advantages. R. A. UNDERWOOD. ested. 20. THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 21, 1911

of any church; religious sect, or denomi- relation of a teacher to his pupils, no their wake the special ushers to the nation, and attempts by them to influ- religious instruction of any nature President,• Mgrs. Russell and Cerretti. ence the pupils of any public school for should be given by him at any time, even Then came the President, and, after a or against any religion, are definitely outside of the schoolroom.' few minutes elapsed, a stately and more prohibited by law. Under, and by virtue " It is not believed that anything august incident, came to pass,— Cardinal of, the terms of Act 74, Section i6: " No further can be added to make more clear Gibbons, in gorgeous array, attended by teacher or other person shall teach or the attitude of the department and of a brilliant entourage of priests and pages, criticize the doctrines of any church, the administration on this point. The was ushered to the altar premises. religious sect, or denomination, or shall above excerpts are published for the in- The services over, Mgr. Russell attempt to influence the pupils for or formation and guidance of all teachers. ascended the pulpit, and requested the against any church or religious sect in " DAVID P. BARROWS, Director. audience to stand and remain so until any public school under this act. . . ." "Exhibit G.' " the President and other distinguished The law can not be construed to mean Without doubt, the policy outlined in guests had left the building; and, as if that it was intended to regulate the con- the above order subserves the interests to deny to the executive of this great duct of the teacher in public only, and of the Roman Catholic Church, and indi- republic even a brief moment of fitting that privately, not to say secretly, the rectly favors the same. courtesy in permitting his exit to be first, purpose of the enactment might be de- In an act for establishing religious he had to wait until the cardinal should feated beneath the shadow of his own freedom in Virginia, adopted in 1785, the pass down the aisle. roof with impunity; and even if it could, American principle of freedom of speech This Pan-American Thanksgiving the teacher must not hope to escape was expressed in the following lan- service is without doubt an official func- administrative condemnation for his at- guage: — tion of the Roman Catholic Church. The tempt to circumvent a law whose purpose local press of Washington in referring is so plain and unequivocal. One of the " Be it therefore enacted by the Gen- to this service spoke of it as follows: — most serious obstacles which the Amer- eral Assembly, That no man shall be " The only official celebration of ican system of education has had to en- compelled to frequent or support any re- Thanksgiving will occur at St. Patrick's counter and is now encountering in the ligious worship, place, or ministry what- Church this morning at eleven o'clock, Philippine Islands, is the suspicion of the soever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, where the third Pan-American Thanks- native inhabitants that the school is to molested, or burthened in his body or giving-day service will be held. President be used to undermine and destroy the goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on ac- Taft, Secretary of War Stimson, and faith of their children. That this sus- count of his religious opinions or belief; Secretary of the Interior Fisher, Chief picion is wholly without foundation goes but that all men shall be free to profess, Justice White of the United States Su- without saying; but the American teacher and by argument to maintain, their opin- preme Court, Justice McKenna, and rep- who fails to recognize that it is a factor ions in matters of religion, and that the resentatives of all the Latin-American to be reckoned with, and to conduct him- same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, countries, will be in attendance. Cardi- self accordingly, is a detriment to the or affect their civil capacities." nal Gibbons will assist at the mass."— service. . . . The first commandment of It must be admitted that teachers of Washington Herald, Nov. 30, 1911. the insular government is: Respect all public schools should be debarred from Impressed with the pomp and circum- religions, war with none, favor none, teaching religion in the schoolroom, dur- stance of the incident, the Washington teach none. The failure to be neutral in ing school hours; but to restrict a public- Herald, of Friday, December i, again religious matters . . . not only seri- school teacher or other officer of the referring to the Pan-American Thanks- ously impairs his usefulness and effi- government from exercising the right of giving service, gives utterance to the fol- ciency as a teacher, but also hampers free speech outside of the schoolroom lowing suggestive language: — the administration in its work of main- or office, should be cause for serious " If the state and the church were taining good relations with the people alarm. If the federal government can united in this country, the pomp and cir- of the islands, and serves to discredit its promulgate and enforce such a rule in cumstance with which the third Pan- i frequently announced policy of non-in- the Philippine Islands against the right American Thanksgiving mass was cele- terference in purely religious matters.' of free speech on the part of public serv- brated at St. Patrick's Church yesterday " In returning the above paper, the ants, what assurance have we that a morning in the presence of President civil governor, among other things similar order may not be promulgated Taft, members of his Cabinet, justices said: • and enforced in this country? of the Supreme Court, members of both S. B. H. " We occupy a peculiar position in -4- -4- houses of Congress, the diplomatic repre- this country in the teaching in public sentatives of twenty Latin-American re- schools, which grows out of the fact A Truly Significant Occasion publics and other countries, and mem- that most people in the islands are Cath- AT the recent Thanksgiving-day serv- bers of official and resident society, could olics, and have been used to the close ice conducted at St. Patrick's Church in not have been more beautiful and im- union of religious and secular instruc- Washington, a, situation was presented pressive." S. B. H. tion. The priests and the people, many that is in keeping with the usual political of them, are naturally suspicious that the strategy of the Roman Catholic Church. THE regular session of the Sixty-sec- introduction of the new system bodes no Thanksgiving-day services in Amer- ond Congress of the United States con- good for the orthodox religion. If, now, ican churches are held presumably out of vened in Washington December 4. This agents of the government, in carrying deference to and in response to the Congress will doubtless have before it on its schools, manifest opinions which Thanksgiving proclamation of the Pres- many important questions vitally affect- are adverse and hostile, either to the ident. The occasion is distinctively Prot- ing the interests of the people. Its de- church, their ministers, or their relig- estant and American in its conception liberations will be carefully noted from i ioits methods of instruction, they disable and practise. But the possibility of turn- day to day. Already a Sunday bill has themselves from performing the duties ing this national custom to her own ad- been introduced. What will result from which they are employed and paid to vantage dawned upon the Catholic it, we can not now tell. In the meantime perform, and much interfere with their Church leaders in 1909, and accordingly we should be doing all we can to edu- powers for usefulness. The question a scheme was devised to make that which cate the people with reference to the whether the Bible shall be freely read distinctly pertains to the United States principles involved in such legislation. by the young and the old without the a Pan-American affair. In this arrange- We can never hope to save the United assistance,of ministers or others who can ment, the church apparently pays defer- States government from, in the end, explain its texts, is a question upon ence to the President's Thanksgiving committing itself to Sunday legislation ; which churches have differed; and what- proclamation, and at the same time pro- but we may save individuals from be- ever may be thought of it, it is not for poses that all the incidents connected coming ensnared by these evil principles. the teachers in public schools in this therewith shall be arranged in such a The object of the conflict which we Catholic country either to encourage the way as to indicate that the church is wage against such legislation should be study of the Bible — especially of the carrying out an occasion of its own cre- to present the principles of the gospel Protestant Bible — among their pupils, or ation. of Christ, seeking in this way to retard to say to those pupils anything upon the Upon the occasion referred to, the as long as possible the passing of such subj ect.' most notable personages present were laws, and to enlighten each individual "In deciding upon a similar case, it President Taft and Cardinal Gibbons. citizen with reference to the evil of such was held by the secretary of public in- As the clock struck eleven, a retinue of legislation, that he may take his stand struction in June, 1904, that: — priests and altar boys came down the in the final conflict upon the side of God " In view of the intimate personal aisle of St. Patrick's Church, leading in and his truth. 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— After more than nine years of in- —A 500-mile canal, projected to drain News and Miscellany vestigation by the government, the first the great swamps of Florida, would re- criminal prosecution of individual meat claim 6,500,000 acres of land. Notes and clippings from the daily packers under the Sherman Anti-Trust — Twenty-five million dollars is a con- and weekly press act, has begun before judge George A. servative estimate of the sum to be ex- Carpenter, in the United States district pended by the various nations for aero- court at Chicago. plane equipment in the next three years, — Hereafter chewing-gum will be — The Supreme Court of the United said Jerome Fanciulli, an aeroplane ex- banished from the ship-stores of the States has just rendered an interesting pert of New York, at the New Willard. navy. decision regarding the right of moving- The appropriations already announced — Last year there were made in Swit- picture promoters to use pictures based by the various governments for aviation zerland 4,462,071 nickel and metal on the scenes described in copyrighted purposes next year amount to nearly $5,000,000. Watches, 3,135,991 silver watches, and books. The right is denied them, and the 1,010,905 gold watches. decision is considered a hard blow for — A tailor whose firm has been contin- the moving-picture business. uously in business in Philadelphia for 105 — The Italian government authorized years, has compiled from his books of an extraordinary expenditure of $65,000,- — Great Britain is to be the only nation absolutely independent of cable measurements some interesting statistics. 000 to cover the cost of the war with These statistics show that the American Turkey until the end of November. communication with any part of the globe. This result will be attained, say in the past century has grown taller, — Forty nations are to be represented the London papers, by a chain of world- stronger, and slimmer — greater in in the net Olympic games, which will encircling wireless stations, for which height and in chest girth, less in the girth be held in Sweden. Even China has be- negotiations have just been concluded of waist and hips. The average chest gun to produce athletes, and some of between the British postmaster-general of 1795 was 36 inches. It is 38 inches these will compete in the games. and the Marconi company. now. The average height was 5 feet 7 inches. It is now 5 feet inches. — Yale University is to become the — The fresh agitation for a decrease possessor of the famous Shakespeare The length of leg has increased in the in the German naval program, which same proportion. The shoulders and quartos and folios of the Huth collection, calls for a reduction in 1912 of the num- recently sold in London. These volumes chest have greatly developed. The waist, ber of big ships laid down annually from on the other hand, has lost 2 inches. were purchased at an estimated cost of four to two, has met with official silence. $200,000. —" King - Emperor " George and An agency which is sometimes well in- " Queen-Empress " Mary, as they are — Chicago, it is announced, is to have formed in naval matters, however, states officially styled since their arrival in a huge building for conventions, shows, that an increase has been decided on. their great eastern empire, landed De- and sports. It will seat 35,00o persons, The government, it says, is determined cember 2 from the steamer " Medina " will cover a space of 325 by 600 feet, to spend $90,000,000, spread over six at the quay at the Apollo Sunder, Bom- and will be large enough for indoor base- years, on the augmentation of the fleet. bay, India. They were met by the gov- ball and football games. It is not yet decided whether the in- ernor of Bombay and a large gathering — Within thirty months nearly two creased appropriations are to be covered of high officials of the civil and military hundred persons have been convicted of by new taxation or by a loan. service. A royal procession was formed. cheating the government out of customs — The time for the French election is It was a mile in length, and comprised revenue in the port of New York. Only drawing near. It will take place in 1912, representatives of all branches of the a few have received jail sentences, but so that the two great republics of France European and native armies in India. the offenders have been obliged to pay and America will elect chief magistrates It subsequently traversed all parts of the fines and forfeitures amounting to $8,- the same year. France elects for seven decorated city. Enormous crowds every- 000,000. years; America, for four. An exchange where heartily acclaimed their majesties.. — An American by-product of the notes the following contrasts: France — The law for the care of the chil- Chinese revolution, is the stranding of rarely gives its president a second term, dren of poor mothers in Illinois before Chinese students who are in this coun- while the United States gives him a Nov. 18, 1911, was that when mothers try, supported by the Boxer indemnity second chance, almost always. France's found it impossible to support their chil- which we gave back to China. Their president's principal occupation is to sign dren, they were turned over to the juve- remittances from home have ceased, for documents, and go to the chief races nile court, and that court plaeed them in China has need of all her money at home on Sunday. The American President in- other homes, the county paying $10 a just now. fluences legislation, and if he went to a month each for their maintenance. The horse-race on Sunday, he probably would new law provides that, instead of break- — In no previous year has so much be impeached. The French president ing up the family, the mother herself cotton been ginned up to November 14 as never takes the stump except to inaugu- receive the pension for the maintenance during the present season, the census rate a statue or open a chrysanthemum of her own children. On the first day bureau's report yesterday showing a to- show. France pays $300,000 a year to when the new law went into effect, forty tal of 11,269,986 bales, which is almost its president ; the United States, only mothers, chiefly widows, applied for the a million and a half bales more than $7.5,000. pension, and each received a sum ac- were ginned to that date in the record cording to the number of children she year of 1904. — A movement has been started in Washington, D. C., by friends of the had. — Dr: Frederick A. Cook, the ex- Indian tribes, their descendants, and — In every State of the Union there plorer, filed suit December 1 to recover those whose interests by intermarriage will pass out of existence on January $100,000 damages from the New York lie with the Indians, for the formation a historic court practically as old as the Times on the ground that his reputation . of the " Brotherhood of North Ameri- State itself. On that day 76 United has been injured, and public distrust has can Indians." The movement is being States circuit courts will cease to do been engendered through the publication directed by a full-blooded Indian of edu- business at the 76 different places they by the Times of a story that he was cation, a professional man resident in have been accustomed to meet. Arrange- egged when he tried to lecture in Copen- Washington, who does not care to dis- ments for this change are now being hagen on 'October 24 last. close his identity at this time. Dis- perfected in Washington and through- The Chinese in New York City cussing the proposed brotherhood of out the circuits. The elimination of the have had a great parade in honor of the his people, he said recently: "It is circuit courts was one of the reforms republican movement in their native our purpose to amalgamate the remnant provided for in the new judiciary code, land. The Bowery is accustomed to of our race into a compact organiza- enacted by Congress on March 3, 1911, many strange sights; but the spectacle of tion along the lines of self-protec- to become effective Jan. 1, 1912. The its strange citizens with queues clipped tion with a view of commanding and code provided that after the latter date off, riding in automobiles, and tramping demanding justice at the hands of the there should be only the district courts, in parade, carrying their new flag, was national, or federal government; to bring the nine circuit courts of appeal, and enough to stir it from end to end. The about a unity of our people in the ex- the Supreme Court. The existence of parade was led by the Young Chinese ercise of the franchise as voters, and the circuit courts since 1891, when the Association of America, to celebrate the fight for our rights at the ballot-box circuit courts of appeal were created, victories of their countrymen in rebel- where our numbers can demand a hear- has been regarded as expensive and su- lion. ing." perfluous.

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California 3936 2095 209.50 cially is this work with the magazines Atlantic Union Conference Utah 126 100 10.00 solving the proposition of reaching the Maine 75o 975 $ 97.50 Totals 7508 masses in the great cities of this country. Massachusetts 2511 1231 123.10 6821 682.10 The greatest difficulty we have met. Southern Union Conference N. New England 46o 353 35.30 thus far in launching this work, has been S. New England 902 Alabama 280 1210 121.00 640 64.00 to organize it into a strong movement Gr. New York 3437 1285 128.50 Kentucky 1031 585 58.50 under the direction of competent leaders. Louisiana 273 27.30 New York 1529 2300 230.00 385 We have already published the plans W. New York 770 855 85.5o Mississippi 706 415 41 .50 laid by the General Conference Commit- Tennessee River 155 1067 106.70 tee at the recent autumn council for Totals 10359 7639 763.90 strengthening this work, and these plans 2557 Canadian Union Conference Totals 355o 355.0o have been explained by correspondence. 2.50 Southeastern Union Conference The way is prepared for all to unite in Maritime . 25 Cumberland 270 400 40.00 an effort to place the sale of magazines Ontario 1041 385 38.50 Florida 125 1295 129.50 upon the same sound, organized basis Quebec Georgia 1875 1135 113.50 as our subscription-book work. This Newfoundland 85 510 51.00 North Carolina 441 70 7.00 can be done promptly and thoroughly if 975 290 29.00 all who carry responsibility will unite Totals 1126 920 92.00 South Carolina heartily in the effort. The following Western Canadian Union Conference Totals 3686 3190 319.00 is a brief restatement of - Alberta 146 156 15.6o British Columbia 846 278 27.80 Southwestern Union Conference Plans and Suggestions Manitoba 226 300 30.00 Arkansas 348 685 68.5o 1. Beginning with Jan. I, 1912, all our Saskatchewan 34 220 22.00 New Mexico 86 570 57.0o colporteur work will be managed as one Oklahoma 1325 485 48.50 work, whether the colporteurs sell sub- Totals 1252 954 95.40 Texas 1652 1191 11.9.10 scription books, forty-per-cent books, Central Union Conference South Texas ... 115 11.50 helps, or periodicals. Colorado West Texas 5o 75 7.50 2, The magazine work will be under 531 435 43.50 W. Colorado 82 I0 I.00 the direction of the field agents of the East Kansas Totals 3461 3121 312.10 local conferences and the general agents 476 775 77. 0 West Kansas 482 48.20 Foreign & Misc 16166 16499 16 of the union conferences. 775 49.90 In large conferences where the North Missouri 1055 385 38.50 Mailing lists 2232I 33881 3388.10 3. South Missouri 800 work is too heavy for one field agent, St. Louis Mis. 280 8o 8.00 it will doubtless be desirable for an as- Grand totals ..102795 110118 $11011.80 Nebraska 38o 1570 157.00 sistant field agent to be appointed. Or Summary Wyoming 81 321 32.10 Comparative if a field missionary secretary is already TOTALS TOTALS TOTALS in charge of the magazine work, it may Totals 1909 1910 1911 be thought best by some conferences to 4460 4058 405.80 Columbia Union Conference January 71094 89462 122202 continue that arrangement. 2336 40.00 February 91812 116198 4. The field agents will select the col- Chesapeake 400 99234 24.70 March 206 132165 porteurs, train them, and assign territory District of Col 870 247 134 244003 145o 145.00 April 120582 183981 192757 for magazines, the same as they do for New Jersey 2170 582 71.70 May 174886 141204 subscription books. E. Pennsylvania 717 115145 92.00 June 193727 145025 5. The publishers of our ten-cent W. Pennsylvania 1016 920 163545 magazines will furnish to field agents a Ohio 1258 1053 105.30 July 168689 222146 197582 DECEMBER 21, 1911 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 23

TOTALS TOTALS TOTALS Change of Address WANTED.— Man and his wife, both trained 1909 1910 1911 THE address of Elder M. W. Lewis is 1716 nurses and Adventists, to assist in small sur- August 174136 15252o 215773 First Ave. North, Fort Dodge, Iowa, instead gical hospital. The man should be capable of looking after certain business matters and September 102033 120020 135179 Hof 717 Foster St., Burlington, Iowa. -*- the woman should have some training in October 108571 116157 164537 operating-room methods. Send references. November 106860 102795 110326 Publications Wanted Drs. Mason, Evans, and Keys, Murray, Ky. December 90737 99137 THE following-named persons desire late, PURCHASE your Scriptural Mottoes from clean copies of our publications sent post- Emmanuel Children's Home (Art Dept.), Totals ...1447510 1703187 1767822 paid: — Mountain Grove, Mo. Their most beautiful C. L. Burlingame, Northport, Nebr., de- design in silver letters and beveled edges, sires any of our denominational papers to use " We look for the Saviour," 35 cents, prepaid .31 in missionary work. in United States. Free catalogue and cir- . Mrs. Lizzie Symons, Sterting, Mich., R. culars showing over one hundred eighty mot- NOTICES AND F. D. t, desires copies of the Watchman, toes, from 5 cents to 25 cents each. Twenty- PPO1NTM ENTS Life Boat, Signs of the Times, and tracts for six, all different (12 x 16), $1, prepaid, includ- free distribution. ing entirely new designs Father and Mother -4- -4- -4- Mottoes. Eighteen Scriptural Post-cards, all Annual Meeting, Southern Publishing Atlantic Union Conference different, 25 cents, prepaid. Proceeds are de- voted to this self-supporting children's home. Association THE next biennial session of the Atlantic NOTICE is hereby given that the fourth an- Union Conference will convene in the city nual•meeting of the constituency of the South- of Brooklyn, N. Y., in Tollner Hall, corner ern Publishing Association of Seventh-day of Bedford and Putnam Avenues, Monday, Obituaries Adventists will be held on Thursday, Jan. 18, Jan. 8, 1912, closing Sunday evening, Jan- 1912, at to A. M., at the Seventh-day Adventist uary 21. At this time officers will be elected church, on Twenty-third Ave. N., and Sei- for the coming biennial term, and all neces- sary business transacted. SNIPES.— Mollie Snipes, wife of Alonzo fried St., Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose Snipes, died Nov. 29, 1011, aged 33 years, of electing aboard of directors for the ensuing The first session of the conference will be 6 months, and 24 days. About two years ago year, and for the transaction of such other held at 4 P. M. Monday, January 8. At this she joined the Seventh-day Adventist church business as may properly come before the time the conference will be organized, and the standing committees appointed. Each con- at Palisades, Colo. Her husband and five meeting. C. F. MCVAGII, President; children mourn their loss, but are sustained L. A. SmiTit, Secretary. ference in the Atlantic Union is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and by the bright hope of meeting their loved one -4- -4- -*- one additional delegate for every one hundred at the resurrection of the just. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Northern Union Conference fifty members. W. B. WHITE, President; Cor. 15: 26. N. W. KAUBLE. THE Northern Union Conference will hold PEARL L. REES, Secretary. EVANS.— Died at Ada, Mich., in her seventy- its fifth biennial session in connection with -4- -4- -*- fourth year, Lucinda Hawkins Evans. Sister the ministerial institute to be held at College Business Notices Evans was born in Iowa, but came to Mich- View, Nebr., January 16 to February 4. The igan early in life, where she found present first meeting of the conference will open Jan- THIS department is conducted especially for truth. For twenty years she was a faithful uary 16 at io A. NI., for the election of officers the accommodation of the Seventh-day Ad- member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. and such other business as may properly come ventist readers of this paper. Her suffering was severe, yet she was patient before the conference. All names of dele- Conditions to the last, and fell asleep with the bright gates who are selected by the local confer- Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement hope of a part in the first resurrection. Serv- ences should be reported to the union confer- satisfactory written recommendation. The fact ices were conducted by the writer, who spoke ence secretary, Thomas D. Gibson, 2718 Third that one is a subscriber does not necessarily from Mal. 3: I5-I£3. C. A. HANSEN. Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. make him " known " to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such rec- GAGE.— R. A. Gage was born in Peoria, R. A. UNDERWOOD, President; ommendation should come from one of our min- T. D. GIBSON, Secretary. isters, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Hill Co., Tex., May 30, 1875, and died at his Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to father's home, Nov. 23, 1911. He was reared -4- -*-- -*- some individual by name. Secure his recom- in a Seventh-day Adventist home, but not Northern Union Conference Association mendation in writing, and send it. until a few months before his death did he We open no accounts for advertising, and fully accept the truth and begin to keep the THE Northern Union Conference Associa- cash must accompany each order. A charge of two dollars will be made for each Sabbath. He was a dutiful son and a loving tion of Seventh-day Adventists incorporated, insertion of forty words or less. Each addi- brother. His father, three brothers, and will hold its opening local meeting for the tional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents. three sisters are left to mourn •the loss of election of officers and the transaction of such No discount for several insertions. other business as may be necessary, at Col- their dear one. We laid him to rest in the SPECIAL until January first: too Bible hope of meeting him on the resurrection lege View, Nebr., January 16 at 2: 30 P. M. A. W. JENSON. The delegates of the Northern Union Confer- Mottoes delivered, $3.65; 300, $10. 5o cards morning. ence which meet at College View at this time free with a $10 order. Highest Grade Cooking are the constituency of the corporation. Oil (delivered) : 5 gallons, $4; 30 gallons, R. A. UNnzawoon, President; $23. Address Hampton Art Company, Ne- S. E. JACKSON, Secretary. vada, Iowa. Aburnt Eruirni FOR SALE.— A well-improved relinquishment •-• -*- of 32o acres; 6o acres in cultivation. Near tntb Lthhatil iqrrath Nebraska Conference the mountains in eastern Colorado, in a good THE next annual session of the Nebraska farming and dairying district; healthful cli- Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be mate. Price $2,500. Write for particulars. Elrootrb to tip Prortantatton of " tier held, just prior to the Central Union Confer- Jake Osborne, Limon, Colo. ence, at College View, Nebr., Jan. 11-15, COOKING OIL direct from refinery; pure, unto mut hrttuerrb 1912, for the election of officers for the en- healthful, delicious. Bbl. (5o gallons), at 58 unto ttit ffntinto suing year, and for the transaction of such cents; 3o gallons, at 59 cents; five-gallon can, other business as may properly come before $3.25; ten gallons, $6.25; 8 one-gallon cans, the conference. The first meeting will be $5.90. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking ISSUED EACH THURSDAY BY THE held Thursday evening, January Tr, at 7:3o Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. Review & Herald Publishing Association o'clock, in the College View Seventh-day Ad- FOR SALE.— Eight-room residence in Post- ventist church. J. W. CHRISTIAN, President; office block, College View, near college, church, General Church Paper of the Seventh day Adventists PEARL E. JONES, Secretary. and street-car line; good well, cistern, and cellar ; good barn, hen-house; ten fruit-trees. Terms: in Advance -*- Price, $2,000; terms, $1,950 cash. Address One Year $1.75 Six Months 90 Nebraska conference Association Chas. A. Schultz, Keene, Tex. Three Months ...... ,...50 SANITARIUM Cooking Oil. Noted for No extra postage is charged to countries within THE regular annual session of the constit- the Universal Postal Union. uency of the Nebraska Conference Associa- quality. Free from animal fat. Eight one- tion of the Seventh-day Adventists will be gallon cans, $6.60; 5-gallon can, $3.90; two 5-gallon cans, $7.60; 30-gallon barrel, 66 Make all Post-office Money-orders payable at the held at College View, Nebr., Jan. II-15, 1912, WASHINGTON, D. C., post-office (nc' Takoma Park Sta- in connection with the annual Adventist cents a gallon. Cash with order. Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky. tion). Address all communications, and make all Drafts conference, for the election of trustees, and and Express Money-orders payable for the transaction of such other business LIBERAL OFFER.— Best cottonseed-oil for REVIEW AND HERALD as may properly come before the meeting. all cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutri- The first meeting will be held Friday, Jan- tious, fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guar- Takoma Park Station - Washington, D. C. uary 12, at lo: 3o A. NI., in the Seventh-day anteed free from animal fats and all impuri- Adventist church at College View. ties: 5 gallons, $3.25; Io gallons, $6.25; [Entered as second-class matter, August 14 J. W. CHRISTIAN, President; barrel, $17.60. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chat- 1903, at the post-office at lis.45..§1zington, D5 C., ANNA M. PETERSON, Secretary. tanooga, Tenn. under the act of Congress of Mich 3, 1879.1

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DR. A. B. OLSEN, writing f coin Cater- to leave. We know our Leader will di- ham, England, in speaking of the work rect matters just right. being done in the circulation of our Writing from Shanghai, November 8, a. publications in Great Britain, says: Dr. A. C. Selmon, acting superintendent "Our Christmas Good Health is going of the China Union Mission, says:— very well indeed. We shall certainly A telegram received last night re- circulate at least. 75,000 copies. This ports that our workers in Honan, with, year we are making a big pull with WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 21, 1911 the exception of F. A. Allum, have fled, Present Truth, and. we hope to sell roo,- by way of Peking and Tientsin, and will CONTENTS 000 copies or more of that paper." soon arrive in Shanghai. I have had no, General Articles . definite word from Chang-sha, but from -4- -4- reports received to-day, it is very prob- The Privilege of Prayer, E. K. Slade 3 Why Church Attendance -Is on the De- able that our brethren there are already WHILE at this season we are making cline, K. C. Russ,ll 3 on their way to Shanghai. All our Cnsar's Household, Mrs. E. G. White 4 the annual offering to missions,— a pre- workers were compelled to flee from Teach to Pray, T. E. Bowen 5- cious and sacred gift of dedicated means, Hankow some time ago. So far our only The Saincs' Inheritance, Mrs. M. E. property loss has been the burning of our Steward 6 — some are called in unhealthful climes chapel at Hankow, with all of our litera- The Difference, S. Thurston 6 to give yet more precious gifts than sil- ture stored there and a large amount of The Photograph and the Press, W. S. ver or gold. Writing from India, of the chapel furniture and dispensary supplies. Chapman 7 We are grateful that in these troublous Brakes, John N. Quinn sudden death of his little boy, from 7 times the lives of all our workers thus malaria, which evidently was lurking in Editorial far have been spared. Up.to-Date Preaching — Genesis, Evolu- the shade of the mango-trees surrounding tion, and the Gospel — Short-Lived the only available house they could find, Concerning South China, Dr. Selmon Christians — Why? — Where Are the writes in the same communication: — Dead? — Sometime We Shall Under- Elder George F. Enoch says:— stand — General Conference Committee Word from the south just received is 8-13 We can not understand it. However, Actions we bow the knee to Him who is above to the effect that S, A. Nagel and his The World-Wide Field 13, 14 all, and pledge our lives anew to his wife and Mrs. J. P. Anderson have left Home and Health 15, 16 service. Were it not for the blessed Wai Chau and are now in Canton. Can- ton passed into the hands of the revolu- 17-19 hope " we would not know what to do; The Field Work tion peaceably, but conditions there are 19, 20 but in its light we renewed our consecra- Christian Liberty tion to Jesus for the hastening of the very critical, and it may be that the News two Atisceilan • 21 glad reunion day. Our hearts are now workers will have to leave. The Publishing Work 22, 23 hound more firmly to India, and our only -4-- -4-- Atiscellaneou, 23 desire is to labor and toil here until our work is done. FROM the eastern coast of the great T CIE master of our Alaskan Mission -4- -4- South American continent, comes this message from Brother F. W. Spies:— cruiser, " Searchlight," Brother Fred W. From Troubled China Temple, who attended the North Pacific The few workers in Brazil feel that IN these days we know that our people Union Conference last October, reports they are facing an immense problem. In are watching for news from our workers the already-entered fields there is more again from Alaska, in winter quarters: in China. From Chang-sha, the capital work than the workers can do. But the " It is dark here at 3 P. m., and the sun of Hunan, comes a letter, dated Novem- message is stretching out beyond into does not appear until after 8 A. M." ber 2, from Elder R. F. Cottrell, super- new fields. In a recent letter from Elder -4- -*- John Lipke, superintendent of the East intendent of our South Central China Brazil Mission, he says: " There are now WHAT a glorious day it will be when Mission, which he intended as a week three members in Parahyba, and others all our institutions, like the St. Helena of prayer greeting. He writes:— are keeping the Sabbath there, and de- Sanitarium, can show every year a sur- sire to be baptized." This means that plus of earnings above expenses to do- Greetings to our brethren in Amer- the Sabbath truth has gained a foothold ica. Though in the midst of revolution nate for the extension of the work in in a new state, and that the message is and unrest, we are neither dismayed nor pushing its way on farther north toward the great mission fields! All, we believe, discouraged. The consul has ordered all the Amazon region. But rarahyba is a should earnestly labor with this object foreigners to remain out of the city, and part of the North Brazil- Mission. Elder in view. all women with children to leave the Lipke has fully as much to do as two -10- -*- vicinity. We were never more glad for men can handle, but as there is no min- ELDER J. H. SCHILLING, Of the North a little refuge away from the storm- ister in all the North Brazil Mission, a center. When the trouble began, we American Foreign Department, and su- field composed of ten states and over were just moving into our new houses half of Brazil's territory, and as I could perintendent of the German work east of that the $300,000 Fund enabled us to not go to Parahyba, we asked Elder the Mississippi, has located in Brooklyn, erect. Not only have these homes been Lipke to visit these interested souls. Is N. Y. He finds an encouraging outlook a great blessing to us, but we have been it any wonder that we are often per- sharing them with foreigners of three in the German work in the East. " I am plexed, not knowing which way to turn? other missions who have been driven And is it any wonder that at times years sure it will prosper," he writes, " just out of the city. pass and souls who have made a start in the same as in the old country." " Our annual meeting was set for Oc- obeying the message wait and pray and -4- -41,- tober 4, and despite the unrest, about wonder if the day will dawn when a one hundred have been in attendance. minister will come to help them? My S. N. CURTISS, manager of the Review During the past summer our work has dear brother, my dear sister, as you and Herald Publishing Association, left found foothold in three new places, and read this and similar appeals from our Washington recently for Mountain View, a fourth is calling loudly for the living many fields, pray, pray with us that the Cal., where, together with R. Hook, preacher. With famine and revolution, Lord of the harvest may soon Send forth some of our people are having a hard Jr., manager of the Southern Publishing more reapers. time. Next Sabbath we expect to have -*- Association, and C. H. Jones, manager a baptismal service for over twenty. of the Pacific Press Association, detail Brother and Sister 0. J. Gibson, ELDER G. A. IRwIN, president of the study will be given to the adoption of a Brother and Sister Chandler Harris, and Pacific Union Conference, reports that Mrs. Cottrell and I are well. We plan uniform system of estimating costs and to stand by our post as long as the con- the biennial session and ministerial insti- keeping accorcnts in the three publishing sular authorities will permit, and sin- tute for that conference will be held in houses. cerely trust that it will not he necessary Los Angeles, Cal., March 12-26.