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"Here is the Patience of the Saints: Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus." Rev. 14 :12.

VOL. 77, No. 52. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., DECEMBER 25, 1900. WHOLE No., 2408.

ahe 1Review anb lberatb it HOW MUCH OWEST THOU? " also chapters ,27 and 28; for here are stated plainly ISSUED WEEKLY BY THE the blessings of obedience. These- Seventh - day Adventist Publishing Association MRS. E. G. WHITE directions, which the Lord gave to His people, express the principles of the law of the BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN THIS is the holilv season. At this time large kingdom of God, and they are made specific, so Terms, in Advance sums of moneyare spent for presents and in need- that the minds of the people may not be left in One Year...... $1.50 Four Months $ .so less self-indulgence. Pride, fashion, and luxuri- ignorance and uncertainty. These scriptures pre- Eight Months ,.00 Three Months 40 sent the never-ceasing obligation of all whom God Six Months .75 Two Months .25 ous living swallow up immense sums which are worse than thrown away; for this needless use of las blessed with life and health and advantages Address all communications and make all Drafts and means encourages prodigal expenditure, and often in temporal and spiritual things. The message Money Orders payable to — money is used in ways that injure health and has not grown weak because of age. God's REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. claims are just as binding now, just as fresh in [ENTERED AT 111E POST OFFICE AT BATTLE CREEK] endanger souls. 7 The question should come home to every heart, their importance, as God's gifts are fresh and " How much owest thou unto my Lord ? " He continual. gw-If you receive copies of this paper without has granted us privileges and blessings without Lest any should forget these important direc- ordering them, please remember that they are sent to tions, Christ has repeated them with His own you by some friend. Persons thus receiving copies number ; we are dependent on Him for every of the REVIEW will not be called upon to pay earthly favor, even for the breath of life; and now voice. He calls His followers to a life of conse- for them. If, after reading these copies, you do should not the bands of selfishness be broken, and cration and self-denial. He says : " If any man not care to keep them, please hand them to your the just claims of God and humanity be acknowl- will come after me, let him deny himself, and friends to read edged? take up his cross, and follow me." This means God delivered His people Israel from bondage what it says. Only by self-denial and self-sacrifice in Egypt. He brought them into their own land, can we show that we are true disciples of Christ. GOD'S SECRET and gave them a goodly heritage and sure dwell- fWhile parents are making sacrifices for the sake ing places. And He asked of them a recognition lot advancing the cause of God, they should teach !their children also to take part in this work. The; ELDER L. D. SANTEE of His marvelous works. The first-fruits of the earth were to be consecrated to Him, and given children may learn to show their love for Christ! ''''' "BUT of that day and that hour kaoweth no man, no, not the angels back as an offerinst_of gratitude, an acknowledg- Y'denying themselves needless trifles, for the pur-' which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." ment of I±ITS—FOTriess to them. For they said : chase of which much money slips through their There's a story that's heard when the gentle dews weep; "When we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, fingers. In every family this work should be 'Tis told in the play of the fountain ; the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our done. It requires tact and method, but it will be 'Tis sung by the stars when the flowers are asleep; affliction, and our labor, and our oppression : and the best education the children can receive. And i 'Tis breathed by the winds to the mountain; the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a if all the little children would present their offer- 'Tis heard when the sea, with tempestuous roar, ings to the Lord, their gifts would be as little `.. Lifts its hands in a wrathful commotion ; mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and 'Tis whispered by billows that lap on the shore; with great terribleness, and with signs, and with trivulets, which, when united and set flowing,, 'Tis breathed by the murmuring ocean ; wonders : and He hath brought us into this place, •iwould swell into a river. and hath given us this land, even a land that '1 The Lord looks with pleasure upon the little 'Tis chanted by song-birds that soar to the skies, floweth with milk and honey. And now, behold, phildren who deny themselves that they may make In the beautiful glow of the morning; an offering to Him. He was pleased with the 'Tis breathed by the flowers that in beauty arise, I have brought the first-fruits of the land, which All the hills and the valleys adorning. thou, 0 Lord, hast given me." idow who put her two mites into the treasury, Oh, can you not feel, when the sun's in the west, Concerning,these offerings the Lord said : "And ecause she gave with a willing heart. The Or in spring when the leaf-buds are swelling, thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and wor-, aviour thought her sacrifice in giving all that she Or the pale moon looks forth like a smile from the blest, ship before the Lord thy God : and thou shalt had of more value than the large gifts of the rich That a wonderful story is telling? rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy ti nen, who made no sacrifice in order to give. And •' These wonderful tidings I'll tell unto you; God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, S He is glad when the little ones are willing to My lips love to frame the glad story; thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is ;+,1 deny self that they may become laborers together And the best of it all is the story is true,— among you." They were . to remember " the with Him who loved them, and took them in His Our Lord will appear in His glory. -.3 Then sing it, ye winds! and repeat it, ye waves Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the arms and blessed them While the stars chant the wondrous evangel widow." This was a standing requirement. Christ counted it essential to remind His people That Christ, the "Anointed," the " Mighty to Save," The Lord calls for gifts and offerings, and He that obedience to the commandments of God is Will come in the clouds with His angels. claims the tithe also. He says : " All the tithe of for their present and future good. Obedience the land, whether of the seed of the land, or brings a blessing, disobedience a curse. Besides, But the wonderful secret that man never knew — No tongue of the seer has revealed it; of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's : it is when the Lord in a special manner favors His For God in His purpose, exalted and true, holy unto the Lord." Strictly, honestly, and people, He exhorts them publicly to acknowledge In His own loving heart has concealed it. faithfully, if possible without any failure, the His goodness. In this way His name will be In the song of the birds it has never been told, tithe is 'to be brought to the treasury of God. glorified ; for such an acknowledgment is a testi- Nor heard in the bees' drowsy humming,— His faithful messengers are to be sus- mony that His words are faithful and true. The " hour " of Christ's leaving the city of gold, tained, as they go out to communicate the light of • Our offerings are not accepted of God unless The " day " of His glorious coming! His word to those who are in darkness. they are presented in a spirit of reverence and " This day the Lord thy God bath commanded gratitude. It is the humble, grateful, reverential METHINKS 'twas on a perfect day like this, thee to do these statutes and judgments; thou heart that makes all offerings as a sweet-smelling The great Creator, looking on His work, shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine savor. The children of Israel might have given Declared it good ; beheld the newborn world, heart, and with all thy soul. Thou hast avouched all their substance; but had it been given in a Fresh from His forming hand, as pure as heaven. 0 holy age! e'er sin and sorrow came the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in spirit of self-sufficiency or pharisaism, with the To dim thy glory! 0 beloved World! His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His com- feeling that God was indebted to them, and for Though steeped in crime, thy beauty thrills our hearts, mandments, and His judgments, and to hearken this reason had bestowed upon them the favors• Forever lost primeval innocence; unto His voice." This is not the voice of man; they had received at His hand, their offerings Though fallen, yet redeemed by love divine, To eyes not holden thou art lovely still. it is the voice of Christ from the infolding pillar would have been rejected, utterly contemned of — Martha A. Kidder, in The Living Church. of cloud. Read carefully all of Deuteronomy 26, God. Ai8 Ani-EATT PkvrEitit AND ',5A EAT I-JERALD

Christ has, shown the estimate He places upon sins can be actually committed simply through rounding- waters, and the great body of water the human soul 'by giving himself up to a life of thinking. The words, " WhosoeVer ,hateth his filled with elemental life, as yet undeveloped, all self-denial and pain and to a cruel death. He is brother is a murderer," show that in hating, a around it. Earth was but, a speck in God's crea- soon coming again, and we have but a short time brother one violates the sixth commandment. tive plan; not only did He shape the worlds, in which to show that we appreciate the redemp- The seventh commandment can also be broken, but " he made the stars also," each, as astronomers tion that He, with His own. blood, has purchased by the mind alone; for, " Whosoever loOketh on suppose, the center of 'a system of worlds much for us and for others. Many lands that have a woman to lust after her hath committed adul- larger than ours. never heard the truth are yet to hear it, and to tery with her already in his heart." Covetous- And now the waters still enveloping the earth become vocal with the praise of God. If the ness is an action of the mind, and of that only ; are gathered and arranged into seas, so that earth Church of God will now use all her talents of though it often leads to other sins, as one sin may be ready for the next great impulse of that means and influence; the work may be carried for- always tends to another. Life within and overshadowing. What a change ward gloriously in these " regions beyond." Since there is danger of violating the holy law is this ! At the expression of the Master Build- Let all at this time consider the question, of God by our thoughts, as well as by word and er's wish, at a word of command, in the twinkling How much owest thou unto my Lord? " deed, how earnestly we should strive to heed the of an eye, certain elements on and near the surface admonition of Peter, and gird up the loins of of the earth just the right ones— rise, unite OUR THOUGHTS our mind. It will require strenuous effort, ,for in exactly the proper proportions, each to each, Satan takes control of, the mind whenever he can. and are arranged in most marvelous forms; and We need to watch and pray that we may be vic- MRS. B. J. CADY the infinitely varied yet all-inclusive plan in the (Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands)' — torious upon this point first of all; for we must mind of the great Organizer is revealed in its per- first have our mind in subjection to 'Christ before fection, each blade of grass and leaf of tree, de- WHEN Solomon said, " For as he thinketh in we can be perfected in Him. licious fruit and fragrant flower, worked out to his heart, so is he," he meant that our conver- " Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true ; the smallest minutia. Infinite Cause, inexpress- sation, disposition, and actions partake of the whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things ible effect! Yet the same wonderful work of or- character of our thoughts. A person who is con- are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever ganization goes on in the plant world to-day. , stantly cherishing thoughts of self, is necessarily things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good And God said : Let the earth bring forth a selfish person. We can not be otherwise than report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree selfish if, we are continually thinking of self ; for praise, think on these things." Phil. 4: 8. yielding fruit. . . . And the earth brought forth the root of selfish words and deeds is simply grass, and herb, . . . and the tree yielding fruit." selfish thoughts. ORGANIZATION We all have witnessed many a time how the We may be always thinking about how we The Science of Life's Development minute steel filings, in perfect obedience to, the are regarded by others, and may have a strong waves of energy from the magnet placed under- desire to be highly esteemed. The more we EARNEST A. RAYMOND neath, arrange themselves in beautiful curves and think about it, the stronger grows, that desire outlines on their paper plane. Thus did the ele- kr. self-exaltation. It leads to proud and boast- EARTH'S parent-source was God himself ; there- ments spring to their appointed places; in such a , ful words, and often to unkind remarks and fore let us trace with reverent steps the mar- manner rose the beautiful fabric of God's build- criticism of others. • velous unfolding of its well-nigh infinite possi- ing, without sound of ax or hammer, to its per- Satan seeks to make us belieVe that by depre- bilities by His life outworking His own plan fection and symmetry of completion. Earth's ciating some one else we ourselves are thought of organization, until His image and likenes's morning sun looked down on no misfits, no dis- of more highly. But this is a mistake; for we stand revealed. ordant elements ; matter responded perfectly to can not speak bitter words of condemnation First of all came forth the light. From a the impulse of all-harmonious Mind. against any one without lowering ourselves in careful reading of the record in Genesis, it is Thus did the earth bring forth in a day that the estimation of those who hear us. The lis- clearly evident that there were two steps in the which now grows only in years ; for nature's God tener may be gratified to hear the unkind sen- organization of those elements whose radiant " made [" formed, constructed," Hebrew; " or- tence, but it will only lessen his respect for the energy produces light for the world. It will ganized," N. T. Greek equivalent] every plant of one who pronounces it. be seen that they were at first widely diffused, the field before it was in the earth, and every Doubtless we should all be glad to overcome evidently entirely surrounding the mass of earth, erb of the field before it grew." And thus they the bad habit of evil-speaking. Then we must making light ,all sides at the same time ; for a stood forth as models of organization, of com- begin at the foundation,-7 we must stop thinking separate and.distinct act on the Creator's part was plete, symmetrical development. of self, and of what others think of us ; for the necessary to cause an absence of light (dark- Still the work goes on, and on the fifth day the desire to exalt self is the principal motive that .ness) on one side, while it remained 'light on waters of the sea are commanded to " swarm prompts us to expose the faults and failings of the other. " God divided the light from the [Hebrew] the moving creature that hath lifer our fellow men. Instead of selfishness, we need darkness," and thus caused day and night. From and fowl formed from the ground (see Gen. to cultivate thoughts of charity toward others, the record we also find. that the light-elements 2: 19) were bidden to fly forth in the midst of and such will surely manifest themselves in kind did not undergo the second step in their arrange- heaven. and charitable words. ment until the fourth day, when they were gath- The dawning of another day witnesses another If our thoughts were always pure and chari- ered together to form our sun, and those more great marvel: beasts of the field and cattle of table, our words and actions would be the same. distant suns, the stars. The moon; as all know, every kind emerge from the dust, and stand forth Hateful, unloving thoughts cause us to act in a sends us only a reflected radiance,— truly a lesser in the matchless perfection of nature's harmonious hateful manner. Selfish thoughts make us speak light. organization. " And God said, Let the earth and act selfishly. On the contrary, if our hearts There is something exceedingly wonderful bring forth the living creature, after his kind, are full of love, we are kind and loving. about the nature of our light. It is an, element,— cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth Thinking too much of self leads the rich man but only an element,— a part, of that inexpress- after his kind." " And OUT OF THE GROUND the to defraud his' poor neighbor, and to Withhold ible glory that radiates from the person of God Lord God formed every beast of the field, and that which rightfully belongs to his neighbor, — an expression of His life. The prophet says, every fowl of the air." and is really needful for his comfort. If the rich in speaking of that day when Christ shall And now for the finishing touch. The "mas-, man would consider the feelings and needs of his dwell in person with His people : " The light of terpiece " must yet appear, and take his place, be- unfortunate neighbor, he would be led to deal the moon shall be as the light. of the sun, and fore all is complete. " And God said, Let 'us charitably with him. the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the make man in our image, after our likeness: anti The Saviour shows plainly the importance of light of seven days." The revelator, speaking let them have dominion over . . . all the earth." our thoughts : " A good man out of the good treas- of the same, declares : " There shall be no night Such was the sovereignty of man under God, at ure of his heart bringeth forth that which is there ; " they have no need of the sun, for God earth's representative of the Omnipotent. In good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of himself is the light thereof. And the psalmist perfect harmony with the great Source of all' his heart bringeth forth that which is evil." So, sings, " With thee is the fountain of life : in thy power, he might ask what he would (he would if we wish to refrain from speaking harsh and light shall we see light." Then in that great day thus ask as God willed), and it should be done unkind words, we must guard our thoughts well. shall man see and grasp, in its fullness, the fact unto 'him. " With God all things are possible." ' When we can keep the latter under control, and that the glorious " orb of day " is but a spark Nothing shall be impossible with you. " If ye cherish only those which are good, then evil from the great central Sun of Righteousness, have faith, . . . ye shall say unto this mountain, words will not cause us endless mortification and only an element of that Light Everlasting, in Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; trouble by bursting out unexpectedly, and wound- whom is no darkness at all. and it shall be done." But out of harmony with ing the hearts of our friends. " For out of the But in the meantime the days intervening the direction of the current of life from God, he abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." between these two changes in the light-elements can only hinder and deflect from their perfeti Wrong thoughts not only lead to many griev- — wonderful results have been brought about working his waves of energy. ous sins, but are also sin in themselves. The by the-separation and relation of other elements. Whence should such a being come? and front Scripture says, " The thought of foolishness is A firmament (" expansion," Hebrew) was made what should he be formed?—" And the Lord God sin." Prov. 24: 9. It is a fact that the worst between the earth-mass, with its closely sur- formed man of the DUST OF THE GROUND." AbvENT PEVIEW. AND 8-AbnAtil HERALD 819

He " breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; cord, draws tight the silken bond, and day and " So the priests gave him hallowed bread: for and man became a living soul." night guards gate and wall. Lose trust, lose all. there was no bread there but the showbread, that Let earth receive her prince. Lofty in stature, The world knows the story well. Her bark was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread perfect in symmetry, noble in feature, the beauty was lost on the hidden rock of Self, just off the in the day when it was taken away." i Sam. and freshness of perfect health irradiating all,— entrance to the safe harbor of Individuality. " It 21 : 6. well might he be called " the son of God." Yet is not good that the man should be alone." " We If the bread was placed there hot, and they something was lacking. Only the Mind Omnis- are members one of another." were commanded to prepare it on the Sabbath, cient was conscious of it as yet; would that Mind's How quickly disorganization appeared, and it must have been baked on the Sabbath. The image just formed discern the need of one step showed its work ! Trust had changed to distrust Israelites were instructed to bake bread for their more for life's completeness ? of each other and of God. Too late they saw own use on the six working clays, and not ort the Christ the Saviour taught by object lessons. their utter nothingness, and feared to meet their Sabbath. Ex. 16: 23. But this bread was baked In like manner did Christ the Creator show to Father. Disorganization reigns, all is lost. on the Sabbath, was placed upon the table on the Adam His great and wonderful works, causing Yet not all, else hope itself were dead, and Sabbath, and was taken from the table and eaten all the beasts of the field and fowl of the air to reorganization an impossibility. Sin is lack of on the Sabbath. Every duty in any way con- pass in review before him. With keen, clear, and agreement with God in His plan of nature and nected with the showbread was Sabbath work. discerning eye and intellect, the man reads as an nature's development. Sin is disorganization, This work was a shadow of Christ's work for open book each unit of the animal creation. With disorganization is sin. us. Here was a work so important that one perfect clearness he comprehends their very na- " There is no power but of God." " In Him article of furniture in the sanctuary was devoted ture and the laws of their being. we live, and move, and have our being." " By exclusively to it. There were only four large God caused all these to pass before the man " to Him all things consist [stand together, are or- pieces of furniture in the tabernacle — the candle- see what he would call them : and whatsoever ganized]." Then as long as there is life, there is stick, representing the Spirit of the Lord ; the Adam called every living creature, that was the hope. Adam's hope, the hope of the world, is in altar of intercession ; the table of showbread ; and name thereof." That was it. That name per- reorganization. This is letting God trace out the ark. fectly expressed the nature, habits, needs,— again His plan in us. We are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, whose everything,— of each creature. How often, on a hot summer's day, have we service centers in the holy place in the heavenly At last all have .passed, and he stands alone. seen the flowers, the grass, the blades of corn, sanctuary. Then is there not some special con- He also is a creature. He considers himself. hang drooping, shriveled, seemingly almost life- nection between that showbread, - which was pre- " But for Adam there was not found [" he did not less in the fierce glare of the sun ! But evening pared, set in order, removed, and partaken of on find," Hebrew] an help meet for [" like, corre- by evening the refreshing dew and coolness revive the Sabbath, and the Sabbath blessing given to sponding to," Hebrew] him." In all that multi- them again, until at last come " veritable showers us? Christ revealed in the Word is the bread tude Adam found no congenial companion for of blessing,'-' and nature renews her youth, putting of life to us. This bread in the type was the himself. He almost felt as if left alone in the on again her perfection of form and color. So bread of His presence, and represented Christ in midst of earth. shall the human plant be reorganized ; in like a special sense. Not only fresh bread was placed In this shines forth the mind of the Master manner shall man be born again to life ever- before the people on the Sabbath, but the old through his masterpiece. Thus it had been that lasting. bread was eaten by the priests on the Sabbath. God himself, in the eternities long ago, felt that There is not only a lesson in the showbread for longing that would not be denied, for the lov- A SABBATH LESSON FROM THE SANCTUARY the rank and file of the laity, but a double lesson ing, sympathetic companionship of a being " like, for those who stand before the people as teachers. corresponding to," himself, and begat His only MRS. S. N. HASKELL If a minister or Bible worker goes out on the begotten Son. (Battle Creek, Mich.) Sabbath to give a Bible reading, and simply pre- Heaven's unit of perfect organization differed sents old, stale truths, the same thoughts he has 'from earth's only in form, not in reality. In both, WHEN we speak of the Sabbath as connected gone over and over again, not varying one the vital principle was that love that finds its with the sanctuary service, our minds naturally iota from the set form, which he can go through essence of joy and blessedness in giving rather revert to the law of God; yet we do not have to with his eyes closed, what kind of bread is he than in, receiving, of spending, yet never being go as far into the sanctuary as the ark, to find a setting before the people ? — It certainly is stale spent; and just beyond this lies the hidden spring most wonderful Sabbath lesson. bread. The Lord would have His workers give of Omnipotence The table of showbread was in the first apart- hot bread. When they go before the people, and At the loss of his own flesh and bone was ment. The twelve loaves represented the twelve officiate in the service of the Lord on the Sabbath, Adam's need supplied ; and thus at last, as then, tribes, and were covered with frankincense, repre- as they should, they have the privilege of placing through Love's infinite sacrifice shall the sun- senting the righteousness of Christ covering His hot bread before those whom they teach. dered elements of the units divine and human people. In " Patriarchs and Prophets," page 354, Perhaps some may say, I am not one of the unite in one, when " His wife hath made herself it is called the " bread of the presence ; " and in workers. Yet are we not all members of the ready." Adam said, " This is now bone of my some translations the same thought is brought royal priesthood ? Fathers and mothers, what bone, and flesh of my flesh." The Spirit said, out. It was constantly before the Lord. There are you setting before your household? When through Paul, " We are members of His body, were many lessons connected with it. It taught Sabbath morning comes, do you lie in bed until of His flesh, and of His bones." Such is the per- the continual presence of Christ in the midst of you have barely time, by hurrying and bustling, fection of organization, such the triumph of love ! Israel. It was bread, the staff of life, and repre- to arise and get your children ready for Sabbath- Well might the morning stars sing, -and all the sented the spiritual and temporal blessings that school? How much better it would be to arise sons of God shout, as Sabbath morning dawns were received from the Lord. in season, and, as a priest of the household,— for on a world all complete ; and love in his place sits But something else of great importance was the Lord holds you as such in His sight,— set be- enthroned. taught in this service. The study of a few texts fore your family fresh, living bread from the The " fatherhood of God," the " brotherhood of will bring out the thought ; " And other of their Word of life ! man,"— how much they mean ! yet without that brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over It makes no difference who we are ; this duty golden link let down from heaven, the home, both the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath." comes home to each of us. Not- so many chil- are absolutely meaningless. In the " garden of " And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake dren of Seventh-day Adventists would go to de- delights " was the first home circle organized, and twelve cakes thereof : two tenth deals shall be in struction if fathers and mothers each Sabbath the table spread with nature's gift of life-giving, one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, morning would set out the bread of life, hot and life-preserving bounties from heaven. In means six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. fresh from the Scriptures, before their house- working to an end, a purpose, a glorious and in- And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each holds. finite fulfillment, has God seen fit to lodge His row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, In the sanctuary service, when the priests set providence. even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. the bread warm upon the table, they partook of So might trust forever grow, Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the the old bread, which they removed. It was not So might faith eternal bloom; Lord continually, being taken from the children stale bread, because unleavened bread does not And human plant, as ages rolled, of Israel by an everlasting covenant. And it become stale. They themselves partook of the Still better fruit of life unfold. shall be Aaron's and his sons' ; and they shall eat bread which they placed upon the table, and as Upon such a scene as this looked Satan, the it in the holy place : for it is most holy unto him they ate it, it became a part of them. When great disorganizer, with jealous eyes. If discord of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a parents partake of the same spiritual bread which could once be sown and take root, how quickly perpetual statute." i Chron. 9 : 32 ; Lev. 24 : 5-9. they set out hot before their household, it be- would the scene change, and forever. With keen Notice that it was prepared and also set in order comes a part of their own lives, is woven into and practiced eye, he scanned every approach to on the Sabbath. After it had been in the sanc- their own experience, and they are strengthened the citadel, and found at last that Faith held the tuary a week, it was eaten by the priests. Aaron by it all the week, and the children see the results fortress keys. Love was the cord of life from and his sons partook of it. It was brought in on in the parents' lives. heaven, the silken bond of mutual strength, the the Sabbath, and left there during the following While this truth comes home forcibly to the granite wall and gate of steel to every foe with- week, covered with frankincense; the next Sab- workers, yet it also applies to every child of God. out. Faith, that perfect trust, lays hold of the bath it was taken and eaten. When Sabbath morning worship comes, we 820 ADVENT REVIEW AND SAEI3ATH HERALD 4

should not say : We will read a short Psalm this morning, as we have not time for more. We should never feel clear to say : Well, we will not have time to read at all this morning ; we are somewhat late; we will just have a word of prayer before getting ready for Sabbath-school. We are prone at times to read in such a hurried manner that no one can understand; or perhaps we, may go over some dry form, while the children are inattentve, allowing their minds to wander off somewhere else, because they are so familiar with the lesson that it is uninteresting stale — to them. When the word of God is presented fresh and hot, those who partake of it will realize that David Paulson it is fresh, and will receive a special blessing in 15,.. W. S. Sadler the Sabbath study of the Scriptures. If we do not receive this Sabbath blessing, we fail of our A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF THE privilege as worshipers in the sanctuary on high. dealing it out to the blood stream as it is needed. It is not necessary to hunt up some new, won- DIGESTIVE PROCESS It does not, however, have the power of holding derful, unheard-of thing, which we do not under- all the sugar, and undoubtedly the muscles to stand ourselves, in order to present fresh bread (Continued) a certain extent also act as storehouses for glycogen (Schaffer's Physiology, from the Scriptures. We need not say, I will BILE 917). This last-mentioned fact accounts for the phenom- turn over to Hosea, or Zephaniah, or some of THE liver is the largest gland in the body, and enon of hibernating animals. In the summer, those small books, and find some new truth with weighs several ,pounds. Under diseased condi- a large amount of glycogen is stored up in which I have not been familiar before. We must tions it may be so enormously enlarged as to the animal's muscles and liver ; then during the search the whole Bible, the old and familiar as weigh nearly twenty pounds. It is one of the most important digestive organs, as it has many and winter, all the functional activities are slowed well as the less familiar parts. Study and pray down to a minimum, and the animal's life is main- over some familiar verse, and the Lord will un- varied functions. In the light of modern investi- gations, the old idea that the liver has little or tained by the glycogen previously deposited in fold its meaning. Any chapter in the Bible may the system. And were it not for a similar be used. For illustration, John 14 could be read nothing to do but make bile, has had to be largely modified. While the action of the pancreatic provision, man could not take unusual physical fifty-two Sabbaths in the year to your household, exercise in an emergency, without sitting down and there could be a blessing received from the juice upon fat is a strictly chemical one, that of bile is purely mechanical, as it simply tends to and eating more food to replenish the immediate study every time, and the truth could be set before waste. emulsify the fat. Inasmuch as human milk con- them fresh and hot. You can get real blessing Quantity.— The quantity of bile secreted in and spiritual strength in your soul if you study tains four per cent of fat, we should naturally expect that bile would be secreted at birth, twenty-four hours has been variously estimated this chapter, and search it as for hidden treasures. at from one to three pints (Bunge's Physiological Search diligently for the gems of truth. Some and it has been ascertained that the process of forming bile is begun several months before Chemistry, 217). of the greatest spiritual blessings come to us when How Stimulated.— Bile is poured out to a cer- we discover a beautiful thought in a text com- the infant is born *(Bunge's Physiological Chemis- try, 214). tain extent during the entire twenty-four hours, mitted to memory in childhood. and is partially stored up in the gall bladder, There is just as much of a Sabbath blessing Another important function of the liver is that of acting' as an inspecting officer for all the although investigations made by accidental open- in studying and partaking of the spiritual bread of ings in the abdominal wall show that bile is more life in this time, as there was connected with the digested food, with the exception of fats. The circulation of the blood from the abdominal or- largely secreted several hours after a meal, or 'showbread of the sanctuary service. By pre- about the time when the digested food products paring and placing this bread before our house- gans is such that it must pass through the liver, and the liver possesses the remarkable property are passed from the stomach into the small intes- hold or congregation, and by incorporating these tine. One investigator has found that a hot lessons into our lives, we may lead others to of destroying, neutralizing, or temporarily retain- ing various poisons that may have been acciden- enema will cause an increased flow of bile. (Christ himself, the true, living Bread of Life, How Hindered.— While the liver will undoubt- :and be assured not only of a special Sabbath bless- tally or purposely taken into the system with the food, or formed as the result of fermentation and edly submit to more abuse and wrong treatment ing, but also of the Saviour's continued, daily than any other digestive organ in the body, yet -presence with us. putrefaction during the digestive process. Ex- periments have shown that a large percentage the same general violation of natural law, as of cocaine, nicotine, and morphine is thus de- related to digestion, has a corresponding influence upon the liver. The overwhelming of the liver A HUMBLE, REVERENT DISPOSITION stroyed. When human beings indulge in the average by poisonous so-called foods, and by substances that promote intestinal decomposition and putre- The King's Messenger Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, it is due to the patient and faithful work of the liver that faction, is one of the most potent causes that crip- ple its usefulness and activity. The wearing of WE learn the ways of the Holy Spirit by medi- serious results do not more frequently follow. tight clothing, which tends to compress it, and tation. We learn what kind of influences to look When rabbits are hung up in the market place in some instances even to crowd it out of place, for, and to recognize them when experienced. until they have so putrefied that their heads are is productive of • untold harm to this faithful Such meditation is not unnoticed nor neglected almost severed from their bodies, or when meat digestive organ. on high. By means of it the Holy Spirit im- has been kept in a refrigerator for weeks, or even Activity Ceases.— The activity of the bile grad- parts to us enlightenment, trust, and courage, months, to become tender, which is simply a ually ceases as it passes along the intestinal tract, without which we often should fail. A will- process of decay ; when large quantities of tea, partially because a large percentage of it is ab- ing spirit is essential. He who tries to stand coffee, or other poisonous substances are freely sorbed and carried back to the liver to be used apart from the sphere of the Spirit's in- poured into the stomach,— the only thing that over again — a very economical arrangement of fluence, and to analyze His workings in the stands between the person and the grave is the nature. critical spirit of an unconcerned outsider, is not power of the liver to retain and destroy poison. INTESTINAL JUICE in the right frame of mind to receive such But sometimes the much-abused liver becomes .a revelation. But, if there be .a humble, reverent, weary, and then it is called " torpid." A large share of the intestinal digestion is :and willing disposition, a desire to be entered and To correct this condition, powerful drugs are undoubtedly due to the presence of pancreatic controlled by God through His Spirit, a purpose frequently put into the, system to stir it up, instead juice, which has been carried on with the food to learn of Him at first-hand and to obey His of instituting vigorous dietetic reform, which substances. There is no positive proof that the teaching,—this disposition not only is recognized, would give the liver a much-needed rest. The intestinal juice has any definite action on any food but is enriched by divine influences to the largest liver is a closed door to keep poisons from enter- substance other than cane sugar. It has, however, degree. To learn the ways of the Holy Spirit it ing the general circulation. As the result of been found that from four to sixty per cent of is necessary to believe in His existence and power, unnatural dietetic habits, the liver sometimes be- cellulose ordinarily disappears in the intestinal to realize our need of Him, and to open the heart comes an open door, allowing the system to canal. This is, however, probably due to the to His entrance, that He may take charge of our become loaded with poison ; and the result of this action of germs, which ordinarily inhabit this lives. same abuse is that the kidneys become so crippled portion of the alimentary tract. Until recently, that they also allow poisons to accumulate in the it has been supposed that germs acted an impor- " No ONE has ever been reclaimed from a system, thereby hurrying the unfortunate sufferer tant part in the entire digestive process; but wrong position by censure and reproach; but to the tomb. definite experiments have demonstrated that stom- many have thus been driven from Christ, and led Another important function of the liver is that ach digestion is better and more successfully car- to seal their hearts against conviction." of storing up sugar in the form of glycogen, and ried on without the presence of germs. Nuttall 5 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD • 821

and Thierfelter, two German scientists, assisted a building,— if all these departments of work are ferent classes in society. The stomach does not mother guinea-pig to give birth to her young, by properly related, then one will stimulate the other complain of the saliva as doing too much work, performing an abdominal operation, thus taking whenever and wherever they come in contact. As neither does the saliva complain of the stomach. them from the abdominal cavity under aseptic the different digestive juices are especially adapted It is the work of each of the digestive juices and precautions. They were afterward placed under a to act upon different food elements, so it will be organs to co-operate one with the others ; God has bell jar, and arrangements made for their feeding found that the different lines of work in the cause arranged that they shall be a means of mutual so as entirely to exclude all germs. It was found of God are in a special sense adapted to reach dif- stimulation. at the end of a certain number of days, when they were killed, that the contents of the alimentary CHART OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS canal were entirely free from microbes, and the QUANTITY SE- guinea-pigs had grown faster than those not hav- DIGESTIVE DIGESTIVE DIGESTIVE HOW STIMU- CRETED IN 24 CHANGES How HINDERED REACTION ITS ACTIVITY ing the privilege of this germ-proof rearing. This ORGAN FLUID HOURS FERMENT LATED CEASES demonstrated that germs are in no way essential to the digestion, growth, and health of an animal. Ptyalin (secretion be- Dry foods Drinking at From 3o to 45 From I to 3 pints and meals In the intestinal juice is a ferment known as Mouth Saliva Starch to sugar gins with ap- Alkaline minutes after pearance of natural food Strong acids entering the invertin, which changes cane sugar back to malt- first teeth) flavors Tea and coffee stomach ose, the form into which saliva and the pancreatic juice transforms starch. Quantity.— It has been very difficult to deter- Hydrochloric Saliva acid Partially di- Ice-cold foods Stomach From Proteids to Pepsin and drinks mine absolutely the quantity of intestinal juice Gastric Juice gested starch Acid Upon leaving 5 to to quarts peptones Rennet Natural food Large quanti- stomach produced, but by experiments upon animals it (all present atflavors ties of liquids birth) has been estimated that man secretes about five pints in twenty-four hours (Schaffer's Physiol- Amylopsin Starch to sugar (secreted I mo. Continues ogy, 557). Under abnormal conditions, the ability Proteids to pep- after birth) By the products 3 .0. By the acidity of through the Pancreas Pancreatic Juice From tones Trypsin ( imperfect of _the intestines to secrete fluid is great. In 5 to 6 ounces Produces chem- before birth) of the stomach salivary and Alkaline whole length of the alimentary ical changes Steapsin (exact contents gastric digestion cholera morbus nearly all the fluid in the body can on fats time of appear- ,canal be drained off in this way, thus producing death in ance unknown) • a remarkably short time. , Emulsifies fats Changes sugar Contains no Gradually. How Stimulated.— Rapid changes of tempera- B the acidity By errors in ceases as it is Liver Bile From 1 to 2 pints back to glyco- ferment (its ture, in the form of hot and cold external applica- gen action is purely of the stomach diet and b y tight Alkaline passed along the ' Destroys and mechanical) contents clothing alimentary tions, have the power of increasing the flow of retains poisons canal intestinal juice.

How Hindered.— The secretion of the intesti- Changes cane External appli- Continues the sugar to grape Absence of entire length of nal juice is hindered by food that contains but Intestines sugar Invertin (pres- cations of hot cellulose in the Generally Intestinal juice About 5 pints caattnd cold the alimentary little bulk, which is largely free from cellulose; Probably assists ent at birth) food, and by a alkaline canal, with in completing Internal irrita- sedentary life Don diminished ac- also by a sedentary life, thus giving rise to obsti- starch digestion. tivity nate constipation. Its reaction is generally alka- line, although when a large number of germs are Copyrighted, 19oo, by David Paulson and W. S. Sadler. present, it may, on account of the fermentations produced, become acid. HOME another inhabit," we " shall not plant and an- CO-OPERATION AND UNITY IN THE CAUSE OF GOD — other eat." Here, we are often in poverty; A LESSON FROM DIGESTION there, our share is riches and honor. Even MRS. N M. COON The saliva acts upon just one element of the in this sin-cursed earth there are many beau- (Battle Creek, Mich.) food that is to be transformed into living material tiful mansions which men have builded, but — the human temple. The gastric juice likewise they perish with time. But in the new earth acts upon a single element, and this is also true of Is THERE another place on this broad earth that will be the New Jerusalem, prepared by the the bile. The pancreatic juice, however, is able is the center of so much pure affection, around Lord himself, whose mansions are everlasting. to transform a larger number of food elements, which cluster so many fond memories, or where so When we see the beauty of the flowers ; when we and thus prepare them for suitable material in much perfect rest may be found? It is our treas- behold the grandeur of the mountains, and delight the construction of the body-temple. This co- ure-house, and here dwell those we love best. in the mighty rivers, and the glories of the operative process of the various digestive juices It is a place of sympathy and encouragement. heavens above us, we pause to remember that the is a beautiful object lesson of the sympathy, co- Those who are wearied with the cares, and disap- Lord, who made them, has prepared a home for operation, and mutual encouragement that should pointments of life come here for rest and counsel, us, and we are lost in amazement and adoration. exist among Christian laborers in the many de- with no fear of being deceived ; for in each loved For He has told us in His word : " Eye hath not partments of the cause of God. Various forms one we may confide. seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the and diverse methods of labor are required to effect Early in life the love of home is shown. Watch heart of man, the things which God hath prepared that transformation in the hearts of sinful men the little toddling child in its first intelligent play, for them that love Him." which is spoken of as translation from the realm and see how, almost invariably, it will play Here in this world we often receive promises of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son. " house." Just a corner that contains the little which are not fulfilled, because they who promise Like the saliva, some departments of God's work one's belongings is divided off, perhaps, by a few are not able to perform; but He who has made are calculated to reach in a special manner but a chairs. And then you will hear the dear baby this promise is able to carry out all that it contains. single class, while other departments, like the voice say, " This, baby's home; that, mama's The Lord of glory will be with us there ; for He pancreatic juice, may be able to act upon and influ- home." In after years the association is no less has said, " Where I am, there ye may be also." ence a number of the various elements that go to dear to those who have gone out from the family Let us keep this in our hearts, and have " respect make up human society. circle. Have you ever met a friend, and, on unto the recompense of the reward." Let us think Looking from a different standpoint, we see inquiry, have received this answer from the tired of the earth as it comes from the hand of the still another lesson : The food is acted upon step one, " Oh, I am going to father's to rest a little Creator the last time, restored to its Edenic by step, one digestive juice after another perform- while, and to see what they think I had better do." beauty, and the New Jerusalem in all its unim- ing its characteristic work in preparing the food It is not grandeur of structure nor elegance agined splendor as its crowning glory. Turn to for assimilation. So the human intellect must be of furnishings that makes the true home. It Rev. 21 : Io, and read the brief but graphic de- led on step by step, line upon line, precept upon may be the humblest of cottages, but love dwells scription recorded there. pgecept, no new light contradicting light formerly within. May we have the faith which takes hold of these received, no new truth undermining truth for- When God created man, He placed him in the precious promises and appropriates their life-giv- merly learned. In conditions of health the various midst of perfect environments, and implanted ing truths, that when the New Jerusalem descends digestive juices co-operate, the presence of one within him a love for his surroundings. The from God out of heaven, we may " enter in always stimulating the other to activity, as illus- Christian home is the nearest approach to this through the gates into the city," and dwell for- trated in the tendency of the saliva to stimulate the first model of any since the fall. Yet even here ever in the light of the Son of God. flow of gastric juice. And so one truth has a perfect peace can not hold undisputed sway ; for tendency to create hunger and thirst for another an enemy is abroad in the land, scattering death truth ; and thus, if medical missionary work, the and disappointment everywhere. " FORGET not that your first and principal busi- educational work, the canvassing work, the reli- But we have the promise of a home into which ness as a disciple of Christ is to give the gospel gious liberty work, and various other branches of sorrow, death, and destruction can never enter, to those who have it not. He who is not a mis- work are properly related as a whole, representing and where nothing can ever harass or make afraid. sionary Christian will be a missing Christian the great work of transforming fallen men, thus Compare this with our present home. Here, we when the great day comes for bestowing the re- rendering them fit for a place in the heavenly have no surety ; there, we " shall not build and wards of service." 822 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 6

We have just received an encouraging letter from a brother and sister who are engaged in the canvassing work. They say that they are fifty years old, and the Lord is certainly blessing them in the work. They give uS the names and addresses of four persons to whom to write and send reading-matter on different subjects. Three of this number have begun to keep the Sabbath• through the efforts of this brother and sister, and all are seeking for more light. We are glad in- deed to begin correspondence with these persons, and to do what we can to assist in bringing the whole truth before them, and would be glad to co-operate with all our canvassers in this way. "The' Lord giveth the word: the women that publish the tidings are a great host." Ps. 68: is, R. V. " Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence." Eze. 7:23 There is no class of workers who have a better opportunity to get acquainted with the people JOY-Do not forget the re AL hour of prayer for one another, our work, and for those for whom special requests are made than the canvassers, and we shall be glad to re- ceive the names and addresses of persons whom LOVE THE ERRING also that this habit is increasing every year. Just they meet and think would be good subjects to think what must be the effects of all this drug- work with. BLESSED assurance, He's coming again ; ging on the sensitive nervous system of women ; Look up, and he joyful, ye children of men ! and through this nervous demoralization of the Soon the long night of sorrow and sin will be o'er; REQUESTS FOR PRAYER Bright shines the light from Eternity's shore. mothers, how the children must suffer ! Opium especially is used in many forms. In PRAY for a wild and unsettled boy. There are sad homes on earth where the tempter still some cases it is taken after the Eastern method, A sister requests prayer for three unconverted friends, reigns, by smoking until the narcotic sleep is produced ; Where captives are moaning and clanking their chains, and for herself and little girl, that they may cease to be Looking in vain for strong, helping hands in other cases it is taken in the form of morphine selfish and become true Christians. Able to rescue, and break the strong bands. injections, and in yet others in the form of fluid " I request prayer for myself. I am an Adventist girl, preparations, as laudanum, paregoric, and the seventeen years of age. My parents are Sabbath-keep- So long are the days, and still longer the nights ! many forms of infantile " soothing " sirups, which ers, and I wish to join with them, but I am weak in Strong is the battle, and feeble their might. annually soothe many little ones into oblivion, and Like the prisoner doves to the strong window panes, faith." which are " so handy " as sleep producers for the Prisoners still, and still clanking their chains. " Please pray for my husband, who is not in the truth, unprincipled nurse when she wishes to spend an and for my children, that I may bring them up for the 0 Father, look down from thy kingdom above, afternoon with some favorite chum or admirer. Lord. There is only one other sister and two small And give us, we pray thee, hearts melting with love, How frequently have I seen mothers thought- children here, and we are trying to be faithful." To gather the lost ones from mountain and plain, lessly. handle these deadly drugs, and indifferently To meet thee, prepared, at thy coming again. " I ask the dear sisters to pray for my children. Our —Mrs. Melissa Sollars. pour them out for their babies. To be sure, the boys have been working away from home, and have little one rested after taking the benumbing drug. grown careless. Pray that they may be thoroughly con- The fermenting food, which was injuring the deli- verted during the Week of Prayer. Pray also for me, THE EVIL EFFECTS OF NARCOTIC DRUGS cate digestive organs, went on doing its work just that I may have more of the love of Christ in my heart, USED AS MEDICINE the same. The little sufferer made no outcry. and more patience in caring for my children." KATE LINDSAY, M. D. Pain was stopped, because the nerves were dead- " I am working out, and so do not have much time. ened. It would be just as sensible for the sleepy I have five children. Two of them are working out in IN addition to the almost universal use of nar- army officer who did not wish to get up and face the world. My daughter, fourteen years old, has been baptized, but is discouraged. I do want a home where cotics, without either their prescription or their the on-coming enemy at night, to order the sen- tinel killed who fired off his rifle and gave the I can gather my children together, and prepare them sanction by a physician, the use of a great number for the coming of the Lord, which I do not think is far of drugs of the same nature, which are prescribed signal that the enemy was near. off. Will you please pray that the Lord will open the by the profession as medicines, is gradually be- If the welfare of the people demands that a way for this to be?" coming more prevalent among the laity, without pledge be taken against all previously mentioned injurious drugs, there is surely need of one " Offer the prayer of faith for my husband now. He any medical advice or prescription. is struggling against conviction, and is seeking excuse In fact, it would seem as if the use of narcotics against the use of narcotic medicinal drugs, espe- rather than truth, I fear. He has always been a good, by the people at large often begins with a med- cially the use of such strong and dangerous drugs noble-hearted man, and would be a power if he only had ical prescription filled once by the doctor's orders, as are opium and all its preparations. the truth. He is preparing to devote all his time to and ever after by order of the patient, who soon More will be written concerning the mental Sunday-school work, and tries to regard it as a grand and physical effects of these drugs. work; but I can not rejoice with him. I believe he will learns that the taking of this drug gives immunity conie into the light, and that the Spirit is striving with from physical suffering, for a short time, at least, him. Pray that the Lord will melt away his prejudice or produces unconsciousness of mental discom- EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE and pride." fort. The temptation to get even short periods of freedom from mental and physical suffering leads A DEAR isolated sister, whose husband has been NOTICE ! to indifference concerning the after results, which addicted to the tobacco habit, writes as fol- are increase of pain and mental distress. Once hmvs-- the patient has taken on himself the prescribing, " ABOUT two years ago I took two children to My husband has been much discouraged, but I think raise,— a girl of seven and a boy of six years of it means larger doses of the medicine at more fre- his courage is growing stronger. Last Sabbath, after my quent intervals ; for the nerves become weakened age. They are very promising, bright children, testimony in our social meeting, at which just he and I but I can not give them the care they should have, by the use of the drug, and the body loses its were present, he took his tobacco out of his pocket power to endure pain and discomfort. and handed it to me, saying: "Here, mother, you take neither can I place them in a church school, as it There is a long list of these drugs in common it, and do what you please with it." I stepped to the has become necessary for me to engage in work in use by the profession, the principal of which are stove, and committed it to the flames. I ask you to a home not my own, and under wages, and so I pray earnestly for him, that he may get the victory over can not do a mother's duty by them. They must opium and its various preparations. Then there his appetite. are chloral, kola, hasheesh, absinth ; all the coal- be raised for the Lord: I should rather bury tar preparations, as antifebrine, antipyrine, phe- Your kind letter of advice and encouragement was them than raise them for any other purpose. I nacetin, cocaine, etc. ; and the bromides ; to say received with thankfulness. I was greatly concerned wish to find a good motherly sister who will take nothing of the extracts of the various nerve-quiet- about what I should do, and I sought the Lord in the care of them, while I earn the money. I can prayer to know what was best. Soon after, I was called pay one hundred dollars a year for board and care. ing herbs, as valerian, celery, and a long list used to take care of a woman with typhoid fever. The neigh- by patent-medicine men in the manufacture of bors desired that I should not go, for fear I should take They are well clothed, for a year, at least. I their various compounds. the disease; but I went,,trusting in the Lord. When should like to have them placed within access of a All these are purchased and swallowed in the this woman recovered sufficiently to hear and under- church school. They have been carefully raised; form of patent medicines by a gullible public, or stand, I read and prayed with her, trying all the time have always had a cold sponge bath every day, to do the Lord's will instead of mine. I did all I could never ate meat, and have always lived on two taken under their own proper name as purchased for her both spiritually and temporally, and I was won- from the druggist. One and all, they damage and derfully blessed. After that I took care of two other meals a day, and I should like to have them con- derange the nerves, and destroy the harmonious, women, and have just returned home from nursing tinue in this way." painless working activity of the different organs a family of seven, who have all had the smallpox. If any wish to correspond with this sister, her I was truly thankful that I did not get that dreadful name and address can be obtained by writing to of the body. ' It has been estimated that there are sickness. I am the mother of eleven children, some about half a million opium inebriates in the of whom are converted, and some are not. Please find the Office of the Woman's Gospel Work, 271 W. United States, three fourths of whom are women ; inclosed five dollars for the work. Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. 7 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 823

have the time of its duration, and the events that BEREAN LIBRARY STUDY mark its beginning and ending. The language Revelation 9; ,4 Thoughts on the Revelation," used in describing this power and what it would Pages 469-487 do, could apply to no other nation that ever ex- isted. We have the name of the river the Eu- phrates — upon which it is situated. One hun- DAILY READING FOR DEC. 30,1900, TO JAN. 5, 1901 dred and fifty years from July 27, 1299 A. D., Sunday, "Thoughts on the Revelation," verse I. brings us to a definite date for the sounding of Monday, " verses 2-4. Tuesday, Ct tf 5-12. the sixth trumpet ; namely, July 27, 1449 A. D. Wednesday, it f 13-17. But what was the condition of this power at tt CC this particular time that would answer to the four Thursday, 18-21. Friday, Reading Cicle Study on this page. angels bound in the great river Euphrates? The four principal sultanates of the Turkish power at QUESTIONS READING CIRCLE STUDY this date were situated at Damascus, Iconium, I. Who was symbolized by the star in verse i ? Aleppo, and Bagdad. These powers were loosed What power had he been restraining? Ninth Chapter of Revelation for three hundred and ninety-one years and fifteen 2. What was the pit opened by his death ? days, ending Aug. II, 1840 A. D. That very day What was the significance of the sun and the air S. N. H. the sultan signed away his independence into being darkened by the -smoke? the hands of England, Russia, Austria, and 3. What was symbolized by the locusts? To Prussia; and it is a well-known fact that Turkey what was their power compared? When did THE ninth chapter of Revelation is one of the has existed by sufferance ever since then. Some Mohammed die? most wonderful prophecies in the Bible. There have supposed that the entire number of his army . 4. Who delivered the command of verse 4, are over forty figurative expressions in the is given in verse 16. The Turks were the first and under what circumstances? twenty-one verses of this chapter. The historical to use firearms. The apostle had never seen any- 5. How was their power limited during five facts arc so clearly described by even infidel his- thing like this. The appearance of the warriors, months ? How much real time was represented by torians, that among commentators there is seldom shooting upon horseback, coming toward John in the five months ? any disagreement in the application of this proph- vision, with breastplates upon both the horses 6. Describe the Saracen Warriors. Verses ecy. We refer the reader to the pamphlet " The and the men, is described in verses 16, 17. The 7-1o. Seven Trumpets," published at the Review Office, expression " the heads of lions " denotes the fierce 7. When was the kingdom established out of for the historical facts and an exposition of these appearance of the horses while in battle. A the Mohammedan factions? Who was the first trumpets. horse's tail is a Turkish emblem of authority, king? What was his character? Trumpets, when connected with nations, in a symbol of office. 8. What event marked the beginning of the prophecy denote war. Zeph. I : 16. The restored It is a fact worthy of mention that the Moham- five months ? Give date. Persian Empire was in the height of its glory medans themselves acknowledge that they were 9. What marked the end of the fifth trumpet, when suddenly, like a falling star, it fell before the commissioned of God to destroy the Romanists or first woe? Give date. hordes of the Mohammedans. This opened the and the Greeks, and claim that these are not Chris- to. When the sixth angel sounded, from what way for that system of error to be propagated tians, but infidels. While in South Africa ten place was a voice heard? extensively. The moral atmosphere was darkened years ago, I became acquainted with the secre— I. What command was given ? What were with its deadly influences, and is well illustrated tary of their society. After he had invited me the four angels supposed to represent? by locusts issuing from the smoke of the bottom- to his house, he said to me, in true Arabian style, 12. Reckon up the prophetic time given in verse less pit. Abu-Bekr, the successor of Mohammed, " This house and library are free to you at any 15. Give date for beginning and ending of this when addressing his soldiers, used almost the time." We spoke freely of their history as a period. same words contained in the fourth verse. This people. He stepped to his library and took down 13. What historical event marked the end of was concerning certain Sabbath-keeping Chris- a copy of " Thoughts on Daniel and the Revela- this period? Give particulars. tians living in the foothills of their course. The tion," by Elder Smith, and turning to this chapter, 14. What new departure in warfare is sup- fleetness of the Arabian horse in rushing upon the acknowledged the application of the prophecy, and posed to be represented in verse 17? enemy, and then as suddenly retreating, is most said that God called them to this work. " But," 15. Did the apostate church change her charac- strikingly illustrated by the sting of the scorpion. I said, " you killed Christians." He then referred ter on account of the work accomplished under Othman organized these ravaging hordes into me to the historical fact of verse 4, and said : "No ; the first six trumpets ? Verses 20, 21. the government known as the Ottoman Empire. the Catholics and Greeks are not Christians, they He first entered Nicomedia, July 27, 1299 A. D. are idolaters." He then alluded to their images, This was the date taken for the beginning of the etc. This is simply a testimony as to the cor- PASS IT ALONG five months, or one hundred and fifty years. The rectness of the application of this prophecy. warriors had long hair, and wore yellow turbans. Letting this testimony remain for what it is worth, CHRIST filled the cup of salvation with His own As the prophet, in vision, saw them rushing toward the application of this prophecy to the Turkish hands. He gave it to His disciples to drink. him to battle, they appeared as having the teeth power is an established fact. Drink, and pass it along. " Freely ye have re- of lions. Upon the men and upon the horses were William Miller and Josiah Litch wrote on this ceived, freely give." " Ye shall be witnesses unto breastplates, and the fury of their clashing upon subject in 1838, taking this position, and said that me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in their prey is described in the ninth verse. Led if they were right in their calculation, the inde- Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the on by Satan, they were properly called Abaddon, pendence of the Turkish power would cease Aug. earth." " Go ye therefore." or Apollyon, signifying destroyer. I I, 1840 A. a Previously to this time the corn- So the apostles partook, and then passed it on. The time given for the sixth trumpet is one of ing of the Lord had been quite extensively They of Jerusalem passed it on to Antioch; and the most remarkable in the Scriptures, as it speci- preached, but it had not made much stir in the they of Antioch passed in on to Ephesus and fies the number of days. It was prepared for an world. They further stated that if they were cor- Corinth and Philippi ; and they of Ephesus, Cor- hour, one twenty-fourth part of a year, 36o days, rect on this point, the little time " quickly " of inth, and Philippi passed it on to Rome ; and they making fifteen days; a clay, one year; a month, Rev. i i : 14 would come in between then and 1844 of Rome passed it on to Britain ; and they of thirty days, or years; a year, 36o days, or A. D. So the conclusion was that at that time the Britain passed it on to us in America ; and we of years,— a total of three hundred and ninety-one twenty-three hundred days would end, and the America are to pass it on `to Japan, and China, years and fifteen clays. But why should God be so Lord would come. Many educated men, of po- and India, and to the isles of the sea which have definite in this, if it were not to impress the Bible sition and influence, looked forward with interest it not. 'student with the importance of these dates? to the 11th day of August, 1840 A. D. When it be- But there are some who hold on to the cup, When God brought his people out of Egypt,. he came known that on that very day the sultan did and will not pass it on. " It is good," they say .; referred to the year in round numbers, even when sign away his independence into the hands of " blessed ! oh, most blessed ! " but they will not a definite day was referred to. Ex. 12 : 41. But the European Powers, many identified them- pass it on. The heathen are perishing for want here God mentions the exact number of years and selves with the Adventists. It gave such an of that cup, but they will not pass it on. There days for the Ottoman Empire to continue. impetus to the doctrine of the second coming of is more salvation in that cup than they can ever God has three, ways of describing nations : (I) Christ, that it resulted, especially in this country, use themselves, but they will not pass it along. By calling them by name before they have acted in the greatest religious movement that had been When others say, " We have found it so good. their part in prophecy. Dan. 8 : 20, 21 ; (2) by experienced since the days of the apostles. Lan- ourselves, let us pass it over to those millions of naming the river upon which the country is guage would fail to give the reader a correct poor Chinamen," they say, " No, we are not in- situated. Isa. 8: 5-8; (3) by language that could idea of those times. The movement was not con- terested in foreign missions." be applied to no other power than the one de- fined to this country, but God raised up men in And so the Lord waits. For " this gospel of scribed. Dan. 7: 19-25. And then, to make it Europe and Africa and in different parts of the the kingdom shall be preached in all the world more emphatic, the time is sometimes connected world to proclaim the first angel's message — for a witness unto all nations ; and then shall the with the description. 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And again : " Forasmuch•I then as the children are angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham. partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made took part of the same." Verse 14. He, in His like unto His brethren," whose blood-brother He be- human nature, took the same flesh and blood that came in the confirming of that everlasting covenant. men have. All the words that could be used to make And this He did, in order " that He might be a this plain and positive are here put together in a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining single sentence. to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the BATTLE CREEK, MICH., DECEMBER 25, 1900. See : the children of men are partakers of flesh and people. For in that He himself hath suffered being blood. Because of this He took part of the same. tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted." ALONZO T. JONES EDITORS But this is not all: He also took part of the same URIAH SMITH " For we have not an high priest which can not be flesh and blood as that of which the children are par- SPECIAL CONTR IRUTORS touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was takers. GRo. A. IRWIN, OLE A. OLSEN, STEPHEN N, HASKELL, in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." himself took part of the WM. W. PREsccrrr, HENRY P. HOLSER Nor is this all: He also Heb. 4: 15. Being made in His human nature, in all same flesh and blood as that of which the children of things like as we are, He could be, and He was, THE FAITH OF JESUS men are partakers. tempted in all points like as we are. Nor yet is this all : He also himself likewise took As in His human nature He is one with us, and " LET this mind be in you, which was also in part of the same flesh and blood as that of which as "himself took our infirmities" (Matt. 8 : 17), Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought men are partakers. He could be " touched with the feeling of our in- it not robbery [" a thing to be seized upon and held Thus the Spirit of inspiration so much desires that firmities." Being in all things made like us, He fast ") to be equal with God: but emptied himself, this truth shall be made so plain and emphatic felt just as we feel, and knows all about it; and so and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was that it shall be understood by all, that He is not con- can help and save to the uttermost all who will re- made in the likeness of men." Phil. 2 : 5-7. tent to use any fewer than all the words that could ceive Him. As in His flesh, and as in himself in In our studies of Christ as He is revealed in the be used in the telling of it. And, therefore, it is the flesh, He was as weak as we are, and of himself first and second chapters of Hebrews, we have found declared that just as, just as certainly as, the chil- could "do nothing" (John 5 : 3o) ; so when He " bore that, as He was in heaven, His nature was the same dren are partakers of flesh and blood, He also him- our griefs, and carried our sorrows" (Isa. 53 : 4), as the nature of God; and that when He came to the self likewise took part of the same flesh and blood. and was tempted as we are, feeling as we feel, by His earth, His nature was the same as the nature of man : And this He did in order " that through death He divine faith He conquered all, by the power of God -that, whereas, on the side of God, Jesus and God are might . . . deliver them who through fear of death which that faith brought to Him, and which in our " of one" — of one flesh, of one nature, of one sub- were all their lifetime subject to bondage." He took flesh He has brought to us. stance,— so, on the side of man, Jesus and man are part of the same flesh and blood as we have in the Therefore, His name is called Immanuel, which is bondage of sin and the fear of death, in order that " of one" — of one flesh, of one nature, of one sub- " God with us." Not God with Him only, but God stance. " For which cause He is not ashamed to call He might deliver us from the bondage of sin and with us. God was with Him in eternity, and could them brethren." the fear of death. have been with Him even though He had not given And so it is written : " In all things it behoved And therefore again it is written : " Both He which himself for us. But man through sin became with- Him to be made like unto His brethren." The first sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of out God, and God wanted to be again with us. chapter of Hebrews, in revealing that His likeness one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them Therefore Jesus became us, that God with Him to God is not simply in form or representation, but brethren." might be God with us. And that is His name, be- also in very substance, in that demonstrates that His , This great truth of the blood-relationship, this cause that is what He is. likeness to men is not simply in form or in repre- blood-brotherhood, of Christ with men, is taught in And this is " the faith of Jesus " and the power sentation, but also in very substance. It is likeness the gospel in Genesis. For when God made His of it. This is our Saviour : one of God, and one to men as they are in all things, exactly as they are. everlasting covenant with Abraham, the sacrifices of man; and therefore able to save to the uttermost Wherefore, again it is written : " In the beginning were cut in two, and ..He, with Abraham, passed be- every soul who will come to God by Him. was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the tween the pieces. By this act the Lord entered into Word was God. . . . And the Word was made flesh, " the most solemn covenant known to the Oriental " The following comment by the and dwelt among us." John r, 14. or to all mankind,— the blood-covenant,— and thus Christian Advocate on the real condition of things at the end of the nine- And that this is likeness to man as he is in his became blood-brother to Abraham, " a relation which teenth century, is a true sign of the times : — fallen, sinful nature, and not as he was in his outranks every other relation in life." original, sinless nature, is made certain by the word : This great truth of Christ's blood-relationship to The nineteenth century goes out in war all around " We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the man is further taught in the gospel in Leviticus. In the world. The Hague Conference led some to sing " Ho- angels for the suffering of death." Therefore, as the gospel in Leviticus there is written the law of redemption of men and their inheritances. When sanna! " and to cry, " The age of peace dawns ! " man is since he became subject to death, this is what We sat among the doubters ; for human nature un- we see Jesus, in His place as man. any one of the children of Israel had lost his inherit- regenerated is the same all over the world. Therefore, just as certainly as we see Jesus lower ance, or himself had been brought into bondage, there The Christians are still cutting one another's than the angels, unto the suffering of death, so cer- was redemption provided. If he was able of himself throats in South Africa. The Christians are not done cutting one another's tainly it is by this demonstrated that, as man, Jesus to redeem himself or his inheritance, he could do it. But if he was not able of himself to redeem, then throats in the Philippine Islands. took the nature of man as he is since death entered; The Christians and the pagans are but pausing for and not at all the nature of man as he was before the right of redemption fell to his nearest of kin in breath in China. he became subject to death. blood-relationship. It fell not merely to one who Clouds are rising over various parts of Northern But death entered only because of sin : had not was near of kin among his brethren, but to the one Africa, and the shadow of revolution is upon a score of nations in South and Central America and on the sin entered, death never could have entered. And who was nearest of kin, who was able. Lev. 25: 24-28, 47-49; Ruth 2 : 20; 3 : 12, 13 ; 4 : 1-12. Continent of Europe. we see Jesus made lower than the angels for the An epidemic of lynching pervades this country. suffering of death. Therefore we see Jesus made in Thus in Genesis and Leviticus there has been Prize fighting is a great popular amusement. New the nature of man, as man is since man sinned, and taught through all these ages the very truth which York loves it, and also can breed a race riot. not as man was before sin ever entered. For this we find here taught in the second chapter of Hebrews Society at Newport defies conventionalities, social and religious. One of the worst phases of the sit- He did that He might "taste death for every man." — the truth that man has lost his inheritance and is himself also in bondage. And as he himself can uation is the development of shamelessness. " First " For it became Him, for whom are all things, and families " rush into the courts with their matrimonial not redeem himself nor his inheritance, the right of by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto troubles, and appear not able to blush when scenes glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect redemption falls to the nearest of kin, who is able. whioh would disgrace those born in and to vulgarity is the only one in all the universe through sufferings." Heb. 2 :-ro. Thus, in becom- And Jesus Christ are portrayed by the sensational papers. ing man, it became Him to become such as man is. who is able. Those premillenarians who think that the world But to be the redeemer he must be not only able, must get worse before Christ can come are solemnly Man is subject to suffering. Therefore it became pointing to these things as portents. Him to come to the man where he is, in his he must be a blood-relative. And he must also be of kin, but the nearest of kin; and These things are portents. And why should not sufferings. not only near Before man sinned, he was not in any sense sub- the nearest of kin by blood-relationship. There- people think that the world will get worse before ject to sufferings; and for Jesus to have come in the fore, " as the children " of man — as the children Christ comes, when the word of God says that " in nature of man as he was before sin entered, would of the one who lost our inheritance —" are partakers the last days . . . evil men and seducers shall wax worse have been only to come in a way and in a nature in of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part and worse, deceiving and being deceived "? which it would• be impossible for Him to know the of the same"— took part of flesh and blood in very The item in the Christian Advocate has the head- sufferings of man, and therefore impossible to reach substance like ours, and so became our nearest of ing, " Dark Enough, but Not Midnight." No; it is him to save him. But since it became Him, in bring- kin. And therefore it is written that he and we not midnight : it is the darkness just before day. ing men unto glory, to be made perfect through " are all of one." For which cause He is not ashamed to call us brethren. sufferings, it is certain that Jesus, in becoming man, The late Latin-American Congress, held at Madrid, partook of the nature of man as he is since he be- But the Scripture does not stop even yet with the adopted, by almost unanimous vote, the principle of came subject to suffering, even the suffering of statement of this all-important truth. It says, fur- "compulsory •arbitration in disputes between the death, which is the wages of sin. ther,: " For verily He took not on Him the nature of American republics." And since by the Monroe doc- •

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trine all other nations are excluded from the affairs stated that men blasphemed God because of their some who do not receive it. Rev. i5: 2. Therefore of this continent, south of the Canadian line, who but " sores." What sores ? No other sore has ap- it can not be a literal mark; because, if it were, no the United States can be the source of ultimate peared in the record save the first. Also the word one could successfully escape it; it could be stamped appeal, to do the compelling? "And he exerciseth used for sore in both cases is the same. We then even after death. It must, then, be a spiritual mark. all the power of the first beast before him "— in his conclude that few, probably none, will be able to What this mark is can easily be determined. It sight. shake off, when once received, this distressing is said to be " a mark in their right hand, or in their plague, while others will be added to it. foreheads." Since it is a spiritual mark, it must Who will receive this grievous visitation of God's needs be one that will spiritually affect the right anger ?— Those who receive the mark of the Beast hand and the forehead. Do the Scriptures mention and worship his Image. How far over the earth any such mark? Only two marks which affect the shall this plague eXtend?— As far as the worship of hand and the forehead can be found in the Bible. the Beast with the enforcement of his mark has Of these two we may easily know the right one; gone. because the Lord has abolished one of the two. In order to escape the penalty of receiving the The first one, the one abolished, is the Passover. mark of the Beast, it must be determined what the " And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine Beast is. To get this understanding, it would be best hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that '1'HE FIRST PLAGUE to go to the record where the Beast is first intro- the Lord's law may be in thy mouth." Ex. 13: 9. duced, and there, at its origin, to study the descrip- By noticing the nature of the Passover, it can be THE seven angels of Revelation 15, standing within tion of it, and from that to follow onward its career. seen how it was a spiritual mark upon the hand and the temple, receive their commission to pour out the The Beast, as " the beast," begins with Revelation upon the forehead. The expression " between thine vials of the wrath of God. With intense interest, 13. In the first ten verses of this chapter his de- eyes " means the forehead. they had been watching the mighty struggles going scription is so fully and so accurately given that he The observance of the Passover required that on on in chapters 12-14. In these struggles they had is easily identified. There is only one power which certain days no usual work should be done. Thus it seen the first Beast of chapter 13, while in the midst can answer to this record — it is .the papacy, the was a mark on the right hand; for the forbearance of his blasphemous career, receive a deadly wound. Church of the pope. from labor, and especially for religious reasons, They saw that as, wounded almost to death, he lay One characteristic will be sufficient to locate him. would certainly have a discriminating effect. To weak and dying, suddenly a second Beast appeared. John says : " He opened his mouth in blasphemy keep properly the Passover it was also required They beheld this new arrival go to the Beast with against God, to blaspheme His name, and His taber- that the mind should be occupied with God's law. the deadly wound, and offer to raise up again his nacle, and them that dwell in heaven." To this A true observer would then refuse to enter into worship and enforce the mark of his authority. power are attributed blasphemies greater and more conversation or to engage in any scheme not in har- Then opened to their view the third and last great successful than those of any other rebel mentioned mony with God's law. Thus that person would be struggle between the children of God and worldly in Scripture. In fact, it is its unusually blasphemous marked. The Passover would, by obedience to these powers. They had watched the first struggle be- character that marks this power as Antichrist. requirements, become a sign on the hand and on the tween the dragon and the Church. They had fol- Since the clear meaning of Antichrist is one who forehead. lowed with intense interest the second mighty puts himself in the place of Christ, we must expect There was another such sign. It is found in Deut. conflict — the one between the Beast and the saints this blasphemy to consist of pretentious claims and : 53, 18: " Ye shall hearken diligently unto my upon whom he made war. But as the third struggle acts ----- claims and acts that are justified in Christ commandments which I command you this day. . . . began between the combined forces of the two beasts alone. The Bible thus defines two such blas- Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your of Revelation 13 and the remnant Church, the seven phemies : heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon angels received their commission to act. 1. " Jesus answered them, Many good works have your hand, that they may be as frontlets between " And the first went, and poured out his vial upon I showed you from my Father; for which of those your eyes." A frontlet was a band worn on the the earth ; and there fell a noisome and grievous works do ye stone me? The Jews answered Him, forehead. sore upon the men which had the mark of the saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for Moses is speaking here of God's commandments. Beast, and upon them which worshiped his image." blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, These commandments were to be a sign upon the Wickedly obstinate to the claims of God, the ungodly makest thyself God." Jesus did not deny this defini- hand and upon the forehead. How could they be? are arrested in their career by the outpouring of the tion of blasphemy. His answer indorsed it, by All the commandments, or each one of them, could first vial. The contents of this cup fall with fearful showing that He is the Son of God, and therefore be a sign on the forehead,— in the mind,— for on effect. The followers of the Beast and the receivers had not blasphemed by putting himself in the place them could we think, and by them could we regulate of his mark are at last awakened to the seriousness of God. Since blasphemy here is putting man in our conduct. But only one of these commandments of the issue. the place of God; and since all admit that Antichrist could be — like the Passover, by requiring us to cease This third, and last, great struggle of the Church would arise in the Christian Church, what blas- from labor — a sign on the hand. The fourth com- being as surely just before us as the two preceding phemous power has arisen in the Christian Church, mandment, the keeping of the Sabbath, imposes the conflicts are behind, let us examine this plague. Its putting itself in the place of God? John so: 32, 33. refraining from labor one day each week. There- reality, its nature, and its duration are very clear. 2. " When Jesus saw their faith, He said unto the fore it is a sign upon the hand. Like the Passover, This plague must be literal. If it were symbolical, sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But the proper observance of the Sabbath requires that what then would be the plague? Moreover, almost there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and the observer shall not speak his own words. This all the plagues are literal. It may be urged that the reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus Isaiah says in chapter 58: 13. drying up of the river Euphrates in the sixth plague speak blasphemies!' who can forgive sins but God Of these two marks,— the Passover and the Sab- is symbolical. But how could it be otherwise? only ? " Mark 2 : 5-so. Again Jesus indorsed this bath,— which is the one to which the Beast of Reve- Under the third plague the rivers have been turned definition of blasphemy by demonstrating His power lation 53 will oppose a counterfeit mark? It can not into blood. It would then be no plague, but a bless- to forgive sins. Would that all who claim power be the Passover; for that ceased at the cross of Christ. Since then, no holy time has been given ing, to dry up the great river, which surely the third to forgive sins could as divinely support their claim ! angel did not overlook. In its nature, a plague is a Here blasphemy is claiming power to forgive sin. that in its nature is similar — similar by demanding torment, vexatious to existence. Since the torment In each of the two Scripture quotations given, it cessation from labor. Since the Sabbath is the only spiritual, second, a of the guilty is aimed at in the first plague, the end stands out clear that blasphemy consists of those acts mark remaining that is, first, the mark of the is better secured by the falling of this sore than which would be expected of Antichrist. What great mark on the hand and forehead, by some unknown thing symbolized. power having the publicity attributed to the Beast Beast must be a counterfeit Sabbath. How plain at once does this make the first plague. We might have a better understanding of the of Revelation 13, claims the power on earth to for- The combined forces of the two beasts are deter- severity of this plague if the somewhat antiquated give sins ?— There is only one; it is the papacy. mined to have a mark. Judas and the Jews united language by which the Greek is translated did not Demanding that men shall recognize the power of its to accomplish the death of the Saviour; but they conceal its nature. The Greek word from which priests to change at the service of the mass a flour both perished in a terrible retribution. So these " sore " is translated is set over almost literally into wafer into the body of Christ, and common wine into His blood, the papacy blasphemously puts itself powers, combining to enforce a mark unreceivable the Latin as ulcus, from which we get our word by God's people, are themselves compelled to receive " ulcer." This sore, then, is similar to an ulcer. It in the place of Christ; it further blasphemes when it _a retributive mark. The awful sore of the first is of a deeply imbedded, severe, and corrupting na- claims a full and unconditional power to forgive sins. plague falls to mark those who have received the ture. Malignant and deadly in its character, it is The Beast is the papacy. ,His mark, what is it? sign of the Beast. more fearful than a sore occasioned by a bruise. It can not be a literal mark; for a literal mark is one God warned the world not to receive the false Sab- It does not relieve its prey by ending their pains no man can resist receiving from a strong power. bath. It was His design to place a mark upon all with death; for while the fifth plague is falling, it is Suppose it were a brand upon the head. What man could avoid receiving it were the government officers people by leading them to observe the Sabbath He EDITORS' NOTE: This Is the fourth in the series of eight studies to bind him and stamp it by force? The combined gave. But the majority preferred to receive the on The Plagues The next article will be " The Second and Third Plagues." Your friend should read thege articles. invest twenty- forces of the two beasts hold full sway, do they not ? forbidden mark. Since they would not receive the five cents in a two-months' subscription for him. If you can invest fifty cents to send these eight articles to TWO friends, Upon penalty of death, they require all men to mark which was God's choice, God now makes them so much the better. Wecan furnish the back numbers. You MIN pay in postage stamps if you wish. receive this mark. Rev. i3: i6, 17. But there are receive a mark which is not their choice. They

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would not listen to God's pleadings not to receive the and perils of every kind and form. He had sud- follow the right course of action, or be true to mark of the Beast; now God will not listen to their denly become willing to suffer with Christ, that he their convictions of duty, for fear that wicked pleadings not to receive the mark of this plague. might reign with him. men will ridicule them, or denounce them, or The first plague falls with fearful effect. So dis- So, passing these considerations all aside, he says, otherwise make their situation unpleasant and tressing does it become that the men blaspheme God. " Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." embarrassing? Those who are influenced by such The character of the Beast is now apparent : " He His language involves more than the mere negative considerations are certainly conferring with men opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blas- idea conveyed by the words used. It means that he in regard to their duty, and letting them de- pheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them that immediately took such steps as to show that he was cide. What does James say on this point? He dwell in heaven." Its blasphemous character may not consulting flesh and blood in the matter. All says " that the friendship of the world is enmity be hidden in the day of God's mercy; but in the day that a good and conscientious man wishes to know with God; " and that therefore whosoever "will be of His wrath it is openly manifest: they who receive in regard to any course of conduct, is simply whether a friend of the world is the enemy of God." James the mark of the Beast blaspheme God as the very or not it is the will of God. Being satisfied 4: 4. What must the Lord think of His professed first consequence of having received the mark. that it is settles the question. When you take any- follower who holds a conference with the sworn How far will the visitation of the first plague be thing else into consideration, what are you doing? enemy of God? felt ?— As far as the mark of the Beast has gone. —You are putting something else on a par with the The principle applies also to the special, services " Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, be- will of the Lord. And this is simply to renounce which God requires of us to Him. From these we cause she made all nations drink of the wine of the the Lord, whom we profess to take as our com- are not to be held back by the consideration of per- wrath of her fornication." Rev. 14: 8. Do not seek mander and guide, and to put man in His place. sonal weakness, or the lack of visible means; because for mission fields entirely free from Babylon's cor- Take the whole list of worthies mentioned in He- whatever God calls us to do, He will provide strength rupting influence. There are none. Babylon has brews •I ; it appears that the only warrant they and means for its accomplishment. Dr. Payson says: gone to all nations. Then arise, and go after her. wanted in what they had to do was faith that it " Whatever God calls a man to do, He will carry it Go, and warn the people everywhere that if they re- was the Lord's will. through. I would undertake to govern half a dozen ceive the mark of the Beast, they must also receive To hesitate to obey the call of duty, from selfish worlds if God called me to do it; but if He did not the plagues. Go, believing that as surely as Rome is interests, is to put self in the place of the Lord, and call me, I would not undertake to govern half a regaining her power, so surely will the 'enforcement openly renounce' Him by asserting that our own in- dozen sheep." of her sovereign badge follow. Go, knowing that terests are better and more important than His will. The fear of not being able to hold on keeps many as certainly as the churches refuse to renounce this To enter into a conference with flesh and blood, from starting in the known duty of leading a Chris- forbidden mark, so certainly is approaching the fall- in regard to our duty, and defer its claims to their tian life. But this is distrusting the power of Christ; ing of the first plague. B. G. WILKINSON. judgment and promptings, is to turn our backs upon or else it is a confession that we do not intend to Christ, who expects us, as His disciples, to give our- trust Him. The more common reason for conferring selves to Him without question or reserve. And with flesh and blood is a reluctance to give up the A CONFERENCE NOT TO BE HELD when, instead of doing duty promptly, we delay till world, and a secret clinging to some of its easy ways we can take counsel with what Paul calls flesh and and indulgences. This is a most perilous course, "IMMEDIATELY I conferred not," says the apostle blood, we generally do not perform the duty at all. against which the Lord particularly warns us: " Re- Paul, " with flesh and blood." The occasion referred The principle involved in this question has a wide member Lot's wife." to in this remark was when it pleased God to call application to duties that are recognized as general. The example and exhortation of Paul not to confer him by his grace, and reveal His Son in him, that In forsaking sin, we are not to consult society. In with flesh and blood in matters of conviction of he might preach the gospel to the heathen. Gal. the duty of dealing uprightly, we are not to follow ditty, commends itself to the best judgment of all : 15-17. The case is a very clear one, even from the customs that prevail in trade, in the world's busi- men. We look with disdain upon the man who has our distant point of view; and it was a clear one to ness. In consecration to Christ, we are not to con- no mind of his own, but acts like the Hindoos, whose him; that is, he knew that there was no occasion form to the low standard common to multitudes of course of action, according to a returned missionary, for him, under the circumstances, to hold a confer- the professors of religion. In our own personal in their own words is : " I do as ten men do; " that ence with flesh and blood in reference to the great service we are not to consult our individual likes and is, he has no settled course of duty of his own, but issue then at stake,— the duty he owed to the call of dislikes, nor personal ease or honor, nor the pros- follows custom. But we commend the man who rests God,— just as there need not be to any now, under pects of advancement or remuneration, nor to let his convictions upon an enlightened conscience, and like circumstances. His call from God was direct these considerations swerve us a hair's breadth from then has courage to carry them out. The judgment and plain; and it is a notable instance of the power duty. of the eternal world will certainly approve such a of the gospel that it can cause its influence to prevail We are to consider, moreover, that the path of course. over a man in such a position, of such learning, and duty is a path of sacrifice: if we can not hold a It is the privilege of every one to be in such com- such energy of character; but we need not be sur- situation and remain honest, sacrifice the situation, munion with God that his duty will be to him as prised at this; for the gospel "is the power of God if that can be called a sacrifice, but keep honor pure; clear and plain as Paul's duty was to him, and he will unto salvation." This instance has been the means if remaining true to the dictates of religion causes have no need to confer with any earthly wisdom in of bringing many souls to Christ. loss in trade, sacrifice the trade, but be true to the regard to a proper course of life, any more than had But from the standpoint of his position, Paul might principles of religion. When some flattering posi- Paul with reference to his preaching the gospel. To have been tempted to stop and reason: " What ! tion of honor and trust opens before us, but we find begin parleying with the enemy is to enter upon the should I, who' have been persecuting the disciples of that we can not reach it without lying, bribery, path of defeat. " I did not ask your opinion," said Christ, turn around now, and go to preaching the deception, or departing in some respect from what the Duke of ,Wellington, to an officer of the en- gospel ? What will people think of me ? How will we had promised by word or action, better sacrifice gineers, who was urging the impossibility of execut- it affect my standing and prospects as a member of the position than to indulge in these evil princi- ing an order he had received. " I gave you orders, the honorable Sanhedrin ? How will it change my ples. If, through some misunderstanding or lack of and I expect them to be obeyed." Can our Lord be prospects in life? I think I wth talk a little with knowledge of the facts in the case, we give our any less rigid in His directions? my neighbors before I make any such move." This word and pledge to do some act, or carry out some would have been conferring with flesh and blood. agreement, which is, at the time, all right in itself, but But the apostle knew the call he had received; which we afterward find will involve us in special SENTIMENTALISM IN FOREIGN WORK and he knew who had called him; and he would give burden or loss to carry out, we had better bear the no opportunity for side influences to come in and loss and keep the pledge. This we understand is what ANYTHING that tends to make distinctions be- embarrass his convictions of duty. He would not David means when he says that " he that sweareth tween home and foreign service is against the for- even go to those who were already in the faith, to to his own hurt, and changeth not . . . shall never eign work. Through the backwardness of the whom his mind would most naturally turn under be moved." Ps. 15:4. churches to recognize the duty of evangelizing the such circumstances. But knowing that his com- While in the matter of conviction of duty it is not world, there has come in a sort of romance of mis- mission was a virgin call from the Lord, he would best to defer too largely even to the influence of sions, a habit of appealing to the sentimental side of not go to others, whatever their standing or qualifica- good men,— for they may be governed by wrong religious feeling. But sentimentalism in the work tions, lest it might seem that he had received his gos- motives, may lack in judgment, faith, or devotion,— of the Lord is bad. Work is work, that is all, pel at secondhand, and had gathered his determina- what shall be said of conferring with wicked men in wherever it is done; and the battle against sin abroad tions from the wishes and directions of men. regard to our convictions of duty? Would they be is just the same as the battle against it at home. He did not consult his relatives in the flesh, who likely to give the right counsel or exert the right There is no special inspiration, peculiar to foreign would have thought him led away by some sudden influence ? — Surely not. work, provided to keep the worker abroad going. and blind impulse, and would have advised him to • " But," says one, " I should not think of conferring There is much of an effort to popularize foreign wait and be cautious in the matter. with such persons." Of course not, knowingly and missions, to work up an enthusiasm of a special kind, He did not consult his own worldly interests. openly. But what about doing it unconsciously, and in order to get the workers and their support. I These would all have led him in the opposite direc- beneath the surface ? How many are doing this noticed a little time ago that Dr. A. T. Pierson, who tion. But these he counted all loss- for Christ. very thing, from the naked and unvarnished state- has always been a home worker for foreign missions, He did not consult even his own personal safety; ment of which they shrink with great aversion. Is said that he was " a little afraid of what is called and he knew he would expose himself to dangers not this virtually done by all those who fear to missionary enthusiasm." He said, further: —

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It feeds on excitement; it seeks incitements; it wherever' we may be. Of course far more workers of our'Saviour's 'soon coming, and the needful:. prepa; likes imaginative pictures drawn in highly colored tints; but it fades and faints before discouragement will yet be sent abroad, proportionately; for the ration to meet Him: " I have set before thee an and difficulty. We want something nobler even than work will not be done till the cry is sounded abroad. open door, and no man can shut it." How, wonder- Such enthusiasm; namely, simple, calm, steady obedi- If home demands are allowed to monopolize more fully has the way been opened that the gospel of ence, implicit compliance with an explicit command; than a fair share of labor, the home work, will simply Christ may be proclaimed to all nations, and that in not a calculating, hesitating policy, but simple, uni- have to drag on slowly, waiting for the work abroad the most striking manner, in the last half-century — form, steadfast, immediate obedience. to be done. The sooner the whole world is warned, since the going forth of the great threefold advent In the idolatrous fields it is the need of the people the sooner will the home work be finished. message rather than their own expression, or even knowledge W. A. Siut, In tracing the advancement of the present truth of their need, that appeals for help. Speaking re- among the different nationalities, we see, all the way cently in England, Mrs. Bishop, who has traveled OPPORTUNITIES along, that when the time came to introduce the through all Asia, said she was constrained to utter third message to those of another, nation, the Lord one word of warning concerning a fallacy that has " AND let us not be weary in well doing: for in' due has moved upon some one to accept the truth who been helped on by the romantic school of foreign season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have was familiar with the language of that nation. In mission writers. " Some would have them suppose," therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, several instances persons have first come to our peo- she said, " that these people were thirsting for God. especially unto them who are of the household of ple with some of our works — tracts or pamphlets — It was not so. There was no such manifest desire faith." Gal. 6: 9, To. already translated into their language, and asked to on their part their thirst was rather for gold and " Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,j3aptizing have the work printed and circulated among their the good things of this life." That is, they are like them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and people. men the world over, and to help them means a steady, of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all Step by step, works have been prepared, until now plodding effort that does not live on mere sentiment. things whatsoever I have commanded you : and, lo, there are publications in thirty-nine languages on There is such a thing as a burden for a special I am with you alway, even unto the end of the some point of present truth. Although some of field. No one having an interest in the work of the world." Matt. 28: x9, 20. these are small tracts only, it is nevertheless a be- Lord would think of ignoring such special leadings. " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel ginning, and will lead to something still greater if But the burden that precedes this is a burden to see to every creature." Mark 16: 15. the work is continued. In 1852, when I accepted souls saved, and the work of God advanced in the Opportunity is defined as " a time or occasion at- present truth, our facilities for advancing the mes- hearts of men. In a foreign field, I believe most of tended with propitious or favoring circumstances; sage were limited to a sixty-four-page tract, and an us would prefer to see somebody coming who, pos- fit or convenient time;; favorable or advantageous eight-page Anvzwr REVIEW, semimonthly, and in sibly, had had no special burden for our particular chance or opening. English only. What a different outlook at the pres- field, but who had proved, by experience in the work, In the things of this world, it is often the case that ent time ! that wherever he was placed he had a burden to• one sees something that ought to be done; but much With this article we give a tabulated statement of work, rather than to see some one coming who had as he desires to perform the work, he has not the the various languages in which reading-matter has a tremendous burden to get abroad, but who had authority to do it; nor the means at hand for ac- already been printed, and the number of persons in demonstrated no particular ability to make a success complishing that which he desires, even if he had the the different langnages; who, in some manner, should of the work at home, in the steady, plodding way. authority. Therefore a real opportunity embodies be furnished with the light on the great truths for No amount of traveling can make a missionary. The (1) a knowledge of what needs to be done; (2) this time. liberty to perform the work; (3) power, and facilities best burden of all, the one that is least likely to mis- In collecting-the statistics of the number of persons lead any, is the burden to bear burdens just where with which to meet.the emergency, and do that which in the different languages, I have availed myself of we are. And then the moment the Lord may show should be done. the use of the census reports, encyclopedias, and en- us and the brethren that there is greater need some- In the things of the Lord, as declared above, we cyclopedias of missions, etc. Some of the statistics "do good" wherever and where else, we are ready to get a burden to go any- are fully commissioned to were mot quite up to date, so the number I give may whenever an " opportunity " appears to us. In doing t ai where under the sun. And any with a genuine bur- fall a little below what a present accurate census the field of operation is the whole world — den to go abroad ought, generally, to prove their good, _might show. " all nations." As for power to do, the Lord has fitness and find their place in the work in practical In making out the list of periodicals, books, pam- said, to the worker : "All power is given unto me in j service at home. This will save time and money. phlets, and, tracts, with the number of pages, I have Go ye THEREFORE, . . and That the sentimental idea in foreign mission work heaven and in earth. carefully examined the cataloglies of our various even unto the end of the often sends men into trying fields who ought to have lo, I am with you alway, publishing houses, and the reports of our different been tried and tested and developed at home, is per- world." missionaries. This has taken considerable time, and Foremost in the doing for all men is the conveying fectly evident in the work of 'every society. It is in some cases I could learn only that they were pub- to them the precious light of the gospel of Christ,7-- really irritating to find somebody who is prepared fishing in a certain language, but am unable to say teaching others what Christ taught in His life and t 1 to find • strange peoples " interesting." They are not what, or to give the number of pages. The figures doing this, not simply in theory, but in specimens to be looked at., They are living souls to ministry,— given would therefore be slightly increased if I had our lives bearing the Christ-fruits, willed and 1 be saved; and their personal peculiarities and pic- wrought in us by the Spirit of the living God. all these blanks filled. In counting books sold by turesque appearance is a secondary and trifling mat- The Lord has emphatically said, concerning the canvassers, where there are several styles of binding, ter. We are as strange to them as they are to us. work of bearing to our fellow mortals the message I have counted, in each case only one 'book, so the What of it? Sin in them is just as sinful as in our- selves, and the gospel is just as powerful to kayo TABLE OF PUBLICATIONS IN THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES them from it. , • I wonder if there are any who still think it would Papers. _. Total Tote Reg No. of No.of N of M,2 '°• (;° No, of NO. of-s NO, of No'.. . be pleasant to work in the South. Seas, and see the No. Speaking It ular sairoyn 8B0000ksnd pages , pPharet Pages Tracts Pages Books p LANGUAGE?„ , agJ wavelets roll in upon the coral beach. Bishop Patte- ,_—_-- 6 96 6 9( son, of the Melanesian Islands Mission, had a horror x3,cocz000 28 '21 Arabic . 7 7 Turkish-Armenian 300,00o - 4 x6 4 re of this class of missionaries. He said:— 300000 . ,16., Armenian Greek 3 -276 2 .5- .250 Bohemian 6 000 coo I 22 I I: A man who takes the sentimental view of coral Bulgarian • 1 3.154,375 2 32 , 2 . 3N 38,097,000 x Bengali . I 120 / 24 2 144 islands and cocoanuts, of course, is worse than use- x6 . 5 Basuto 3 50 2 66 less; a man possessed with an idea that he is making • 402,68o,oco /,/97: 67 1,006 , n2 8,xos Chinese 3 14 5,906 II Danish-Norwegian . 4,595,122 6,880 291 2,842 ,'485 40)95 a sacrifice will never do; and a man who thinks any 114100,000 27 44 120 36,373 ' ' 74 26 2 2xf English 1 • zoo x 650.000 , . 860 kind of work beneath a gentleman will simply be in Esthonian 2- I 12 3,299 3 750 , 48 73 4.909 51,200000 2 40 6 213 the way. French 2,270012 1 - 65 3 ao8 Finnish I 3 ' 4' • 228 121,798 I 40' 88 Fiji , 31 20,633 -. 21 .2,782: .76' .1,374 . 128 14,7t9 It is possible for a man to be a Seventh-day Ad- n. ...,, 75,200,000 4 '2 160 ' 7 ' 16o -Herma . . ' 7' reek.... 2,48.806 24 43? 46 . 4.958 ventist in good and regular standing, and yet have r6,518,629 2 '" 10 A,782 12 ' -744 Holland . 3 32 29 ' 124- 32 x56 41,827.700 I 26 F . i6 his •usefulness crippled by getting some one or all Hungarian . . . Hawaiian. 39.504 . 1 16 x ' ' 16 : 82,50o,000. iinihistani '126 64 6 /no of these potions into his head. Romanticism in 88,400,00o 1 . 5 talian . ,566 x .566, mission work is responsible for much. There is celandic . 79.445 1 '38 . x 38 41.089,940 1 1 apanese , .x 520 3 24 4 144 too much hero worship in the world, too much glori- Caffir , 2,459,288 36 . 136 3,0o9,000 1 I00 4 5 .elfish ..• •• ...... ' x x6 .r 26 fication of men, especially if the life-work may have . , ' 1,121.000 , -.40 Avonian 50.000 •,. 3 40 3 4aori I I 120 3 24 4 144 had a strange and far-away setting. We do not need 23.000,000 'ortuguese IV:K.0,000 2 24‘ 3 40 7 364 any of the devices that popular religion makes use Polish 1 — 8 5 ' 24 . 6, - 32 Rumanian , 46,314 112 24 5 , 136 75,000,000 2 3 of, with the best of motives, no doubt, to urge on :uss1an xo,000 , 9 ' 104 9 - 104 laratongan a,o69 50 957 18 8,886 . 5,284,01 . 3 2 18 6,86o . xo foreign mission work. As Seventh-day Adventists, S wedish 3 1,071 . I 44- 14, ' 180 x8 .1,205. -- 42,400,000 4 1 2 S panish 9 24 8 , 4 . 32 S 2.096.043 : 0 I ' ,260 we kriow that the. Lord is coming when the witness ervian 92,250 ' 1 16o S 1/2 2 10,8 , . . 3 220,, of this gospel of the kingdom is given to all nations. 1.aarii°Z. ‘-: x2,800 2 ,I95 . 22,000 ongan 4 1 120. . .4 38 , 5 . 258 To give this witness is the regular, ordinary, and 7CISh '. 1,501,034 9,26 :172 15,068 685 7.972 '2.072 920267 only work we have. Let us go at it, every man in Totals - 39. 1,130,851.941, 51 48 , :215. 6 7 the place where God puts him. It is the same work 828 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 12

numbers given below are for distinct and separate Who will heed the call, and improve the opportunity I wriggled and twisted every way, but could not get books. to do good in this last great message to a perishing away from the conclusion that I must sell some of The preceding table contains thirty-nine lan- world? these books myself. I promised the Lord that I guages, spoken by 1,130,851,941 persons. Publica- " Who will answer, gladly saying, would do it if He would open the way and furnish the tions already prepared by Seventh-day Adventists in Here am I, 0 Lord, send me?" opportunity. This He soon did, and I sold the first these various tongues consist of the following: fifty- J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. book by telephone. one regular weekly, semimonthly, monthly, and quar- I was talking business with a gentleman in an- terly journals, and forty-eight missionary papers other city, and while waiting for information, sold issued in the interest of Conference and colporteur him a book. He was so interested in our plan of work; 215 bound books, containing 69,167 pages; paying our debts that he offered, of his own accord, 172 pamphlets, of 15,068 pages; 685 tracts, with.. to help us sell the books. This encouraged me very 7,972 pages, or a total of 1,072 books containing much. 92,207 pages. I wish I could give you all my experience in sell- The few books already issued in Chinese are in the ing the books. Perhaps I can sometime. I can only dialects read by three fourths of the Chinese nation. take time now to tell you that the Lord has opened If we deduct one fourth —100,670,000--from the the way and helped me to sell seventy-five books in Chines& the total number of persons in whose lan- a little over two weeks. During this time I have guage reading is already printed would be 1,030,- RECENTLY a young girl, who works hard with her worked just the same in the Office, losing no 181,941, or about five sevenths of the total number hands for all that she has, sent in a gift of one hun- time whatever. I do not think it has taken me on of the inhabitants of the world. Thus, as far as dred dollars for the RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS. an average more than two minutes to sell a book. I material with which to prosecute our work is con- With the draft she writes: — have sold to every one I have asked to buy. All cerned, there is surely a good beginning. • " Accept this little offer of one hundred dollars these books have been sold to those not of our faith. As to places in which to work, the Spirit of the toward material for books, and oblige, Quite a number have paid two dollars each for the Lord has said to us : " God calls for personal effort " Yours in the work, book; some one dollar and a half, and none less than 4t from those that know the truth. He calls for Chris- one dollar and a quarter. One gentleman bought tian families to go into communities that are in " P. S.— May the blessing of the Lord rest upon four for Christmas presents; one, three; another, darkness and error, to go into, foreign fields, to be- every feeble effort for good." two. come acquainted with a new class of society, and to The spirit of self-sacrifice in this letter has touched While selling these boOks, I have improved many work wisely and perseveringly for the cause of the me deeply. Many who are abundantly able to give opportunities to speak of the goodness and love of Master. . . . almost infinitely more than this poor girl have not the blessed Saviour. I have been greatly blessed. " The Macedonian cry is coming from every quar- given offerings a quarter, or even a twentieth, as It has been a precious experience to me. I am full ter of the world, and men are saying, ' Come over, large as hers. of courage, and can now see how our church can . . and help us,' and why is there not a decided The RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS is testing swell its quota. The Lord has helped me to sell response ? Thousands ought to be constrained by the hearts and proving character. P. T. MAGAN. books, and He will help all who will try in His Spirit of Christ to follow the example of Him who strength. I can not tell you how anxious I am for every one has riven His life for the life of the world. . . . A LETTER Those who have means are doubly responsible; for of our leaders and ministers to go to work at once Showing What a Busy Man Can Do this means has been intrusted to them of God, and and sell some of these books, so that they may tell they are to feel their accountability to forward the the brethren how to do it. work of God in its various branches. . . . Will BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Nov. II, 1900. Dear brother, if you have not already sold a lot you be content to enjoy the comforts of your home, Elder R. M. Kilgore, of these books, will you not do it at once? Then, and not try to tell perishing souls how they may 18 West Fifth Street, Kansas City, Mo. when you come in contact with the people, whether obtain the mansions. Christ has gone to prepare for DEAR BROTHER: You know that at the last council in private or public, you can encourage them to go those who love Him? Will you not sacrifice your meeting, I expressed myself as being deeply in- and do likewise. It will not do for our ministers to possessions, in order that others may obtain an im- terested in the plan of selling " Christ's Object Les- buy a few of these books, and then give them away. mortal inheritance? "— Review and Herald, July sons " for the relief of the schools. Well, as the We must sell them, and by so doing get our friends 21, 1896. days go by, my interest deepens, and I can see greater to help us. Our people everywhere should sell these The Lord has not called us to go alone, for we read possibilities in the plan than ever before. I am per- books. They are well worth the price asked for again : " All heaven is in activity, and the angels of fectly satisfied that we can sell three hundred thou- them. There is no Seventh-day Adventist who has God are waiting to co-operate with the human agent sand books in an incredibly short time if we all take not at least six personal friends who would buy one who will devise plans whereby souls for whom Christ hold in earnest. If you will pardon me, I will give book each to help along a good cause. died may hear the glad tidings of salvation."— Id., you a little of my experience. These books can be sold by mail; for I have tried Feb. 28, 1893. At the Conference, as you will remember, I urged it, and sold several in that way. Will you not sell " Heavenly intelligences are combined with human all the brethren in responsible positions, leaders, to some in that way? instrumentalities in carrying forward the Lord's take hold of the work in earnest themselves, and I would like to write much more, but must for- work. Angels have their places assigned them in thus set an example for the ministry, and the rank bear for fear I shall weary you. May the Lord connection with the human agents on earth. They and file will follow. About that time I was elected greatly bless you and all who take hold of this good will work through every person who will submit him- president (librarian) of the Battle Creek missionary work, and hasten the day when the last of the three self to labor in heaven's ways; therefore not one society, which has over two thousand members. I hundred thousand books are sold, the debts paid, and .human being should be cast aside or left with no began at once to plan how we could handle our share we all, by the effort put forth, are brought into per- fect union and prepared for the great closing work part to act."— Id., July 9, 1895. of tnis great work. It took but few figures to " God reminds his army that they are to fight in show that our quota would be about twelve thousand of the Third Angel's Message. unison with the angels of heaven, and that more than copies. The magnitude of the undertaking fairly Your brother in Christ, angels are engaged in this warfare. The Holy staggered me, and I began to study the reasons why [Signed] W. C. SISLEY. Spirit, Christ's representative, is in their ranks, arm- we should be excused from taking so large a number. ing the weakest with His might to press forward Such a busy people, such a poor people, no territory unto victory."— Id., Oct. '6, 1896. to work in, etc., came up as excuses; but I was not UNION COLLEGE„ NEB., Dec. 2, 1900. " All heaven is waiting to co-operate with those satisfied; I could not escape the conclusion that we DEAR BROTHER MAGAN : I am glad to receive who will be subordinate to the ways and will of God. must do our part, but how to do it was the question. letters from you from time to time, and am sorry God gives grace, and He expects all to use it"— Id., I began to cast about in my mind to find those who that I am unable to answer as I would like. I have Nov. 9, 1897. could devote a large amount of time to the work, but been very busy, however, this fall, much of my writ- In view of these facts, what an " opportunity " is could think of but few ; nearly all were too busy or ing being done with pen and ink; so I am unable before those who have the light of the Third Angel's too indifferent. In spite of my best endeavors to to do as much work by correspondence as some of Message — material prepared with which to work the contrary, I began to feel that it was no use trying. our teachers are. I am always glad to receive your among five sevenths of earth's inhabitants; calls from We could never do it. In this state of mind, I began letters, and to know of the progress of the work with " all the world" for the workers, and an assurance to seek the Lord, and think upon His promises. My the new book. We are endeavoring to do some- that angels and the Spirit of God will use every con- hope began to revive. Something seemed to say to thing with it here, and we hope that this district may secrated worker ; angels " waiting " to accompany me, " You sell some, and you will see how the work do at least its part. I have written to all the dis- those who give themselves and their substance to the can be done. You set the example, and others will trict laborers within the last few days, calling their work. Truly, it can be said of this people: " Thy follow." I had never sold books, and you know, attention to the " Christ's Object Lessons " "enter- light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon Brother Kilgore, that I am very busy, hardly having prise, and sending them the little pamphlet that was thee." Isa. 6o: I. The " Gentiles "— nations — will a moment I can call my own. I tried to excuse my- issued during the summer, containing the Testimony come to the " brightness of thy rising." Who will self, suggesting many plans for others, thus helping on the RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS. heed the injunction of the Lord to arise and shine? them work, but not engaging in the work myself. Nebraska, I believe, will sell a large number of is ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 829

the books. You were in attendance at the State —An earthquake shock of one minute's duration was — The population of Berlin, Germany, is 1,884345; in meeting in Iowa, and of course know what they are recently felt at-Joplin, Mo. 1895 it was 1,677,304. attempting to do • there. I hope that ,they may be Two negroes were lynched by a mob, in the jail — Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, has been appointed able to sell every book that they have voted to. I yard at Rockport,* Ind., the 16th inst. by Governor Lind, of Minnesota, to the United States believe, also, that the canvassers will do a good George von L. Meyer, of Massachusetts, has been senatorship, to succeed the late Senator Davis. work. I have heard practically nothing from the selected as ambassador to Italy by President Mc Kinley. — The National Civil Service Reform League, in — After New Year's. the Northern Pacific Railroad session at New York, unanimously elected President other States in the district. Daniel C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, presi- Lincoln is being divided into districts, and the will reduce passenger rates in Montana to three cents mile, dent of the league, in *lace of Carl Schurz, resigned. students of the college, together with the teachers, - The empress dowager of China has consented to will do •their part in canvassing the city and sur- — The natural gas supply at Akron, Ohio, gave out Monday, December 17, the Coldest day thus far this the following peace conditions: " The early return of rounding country. winter. Emperor ',Kwang Su to Peking; indemnity to the We have a large number of students here at pres- amount of $200,000,000; the right of each legation to — The Fowler Bicycle and Carriage Company's works maintain a guard of 2,000 troops; and the appointment ent, and a most excellent spirit is in the work. Our at Chicago were destroyed by fire, the 19th inst. Loss, of a foreign adviser to each province of the empire." attendance now is about three hundred. New ones $80,000. — Speaking of the China situation, the Spectator, of are coming in constantly. — Initial steps have 'been taken in the organization London, says: "The Chinese will win. The quarrel Very sincerely yours, of a Hebrew regiment for the National Guard of New, has been brought to the test of force; the force on the [ Signed] W. T. BLAND. York State. civilized side has proved insufficience " It maintains — The czar of Russia is rapidly recovering his health, that this result is " chiefly due to the attitude of Russia and his physicians have declared that they will issue no and the United States, and regards it as not unlikely OURAY, COLO., Dec. 8, 1900. more bulletins. that China will escape with the payment of small in- PROF. P. T. MAGAN, deninity and many promises on paper. *Shanghai cor- — Michael G. Mulhall, the famous statistician, died Battle Creek, Mich. -respqndents are becoming active again. One of them in England, the 13th inst. He was born in Dublin, Ire- says that in a Chinese theater in that place the allies-are DEAR BROTHER:. I am engaged in selling the new land, in 1836. represented by a soldier with, an enormous month, who book, " Christ's Object Lessons." I regard it as a —The extensive plow works of the A. T. Stewart does nothing but talk, until his career is end,ed by his great privilege to have part in a work the Lord has ComPany, at Carnegie, Pa., were destroyed by fire, head being cut off." so clearly outlined. I hope to sell at least a thousand December 17. Loss, •$40,000- —It seems that " the disfranchisement bill in the copies of this wonderful book. - Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds dined at the royal pal- Georgia Legislature, of which Representative Hard- Your brother in the work, ace, with Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, and Dowager wick, of Washington, is the author, and which was Queen, Emma, December 14. • - • overwhelmingly defeated last year, will probably take [Sigried] BENTON W. MARSH. a unique turn this session. The governor has recom- — The German training-ship "Gneisenau " was mended restricted suffrage in his message, and the -sen- wrecked in Malaga harbor, December 16, by a hurricane, timent in the Legislature -has undergone, it .is claimed, too or 15o men losing their lives. a wonderful change in the last two years. The present We eeruestly request all our kind friends to re.; — The United States auxiliary cruiser "Buffalo," scheme of Hardwick is to ask the Legislature to sub- member that FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. is with 250 naval recruits,: has sailed from New York for mit to the people the question of calling .a constitu- needed to pay for the material in "Christ's Object Manila, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. tional convention, which shall consider the advisability Lessons." We ask for large contributions from the of enacting disfranchiSement legislation." At the .rate rich, and small gifts from the poor. Money for this Archbishop Ireland and Bishop Mc Goldrick, of some things are going, it would not take very long for purpose should be Sent to the treasurer of the General Duluth, argued in favor of the army canteen, before the slavery to be re-established in the United. States; and, Conference Association, care of Review and Herald, Senate Committee on Military Affairs, the 13th inst. indeed, what is to hinder, when the national govern- Battle Creek, Mich.; and be sure to state that it is — Dr. Matzon, professor of law, in the University of ment supports slavery under its j jurisdiction in the for THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS. Copenhagen, has been appointed to represent Denmark Sulu Islands? in the International Court of Arbitration at The 'Hague. DECEMBER 6, the first payment was made by the The Cunard steamer "Lucania " left New York the -r8th inst., with 2,013 sacks of mail matter, the larg- Battle, Creek College to the RevieW and Herald on est amount ever carried op one boat across the Atlantic. , • the big debt. On that day the sum of $1,004.78 was --The State normal and training school, at Fre- turned into the Review and Heald treasury. This donia, N. Y.,' was destroyed by fire, December 15, the is the beginning. Now let the good work go on janitor and six -young lady students perishing in the until every cent is paid. flames. Loss, $200,000. , - - ‘ RELIEF FUND — Curiosity to see a: drowning man, caused the death THE PARADISE OF THE .1WI*IP RECENT PLEDGES TO THE , of zoo passengers on a steamboat in. 'West River, China, the 15th inst. The, hoar ,was overturned by the rush BEFORE coming to these islands, the. expression " the A friend in Michigan $100 00 of "passengers to the side. `paradise-of the Pacific," was often spoken in my pres- ence, and I read it in all the literature, that I, could E. E. Brinke 25 00 — Li Hung Chang recently informed General Chaffee that " he and all the people of Chihli Province are ex- ;obtain concerning the islands. I began almost _to loath J. H. Haughey :100 00 coming, .lest I should here lapse into idle enjoyment 200 00 tremely pleased'and gratified at the behavior of Ameri- of the delightsomeness' of the ,situation. Many. of the J. H. Kellogg can troops toward the Chinese." H. E; Osborne 10.00 workers in the 'home, field seemed to. think that ours 5 00 —The plant of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying was the sweetestof privileges,. with almost no hardships J. D. Bradley Machine Company, one of the' largest industries of connected therewithi and from, what we were told, we, A. G. Moon , 3 00 Cleveland, Ohio, was burned December 19. LOss, $x,- too, were quite afraid that that would be the, case. So L. A. Mopes 10 00 000,000. Over i,000 men were employed. prevalent was this view, that it' seems. to me a proper Clarence C. Crisler 10 00 —A citizen of Detroit, Mich., who does not wish, his setting of the situation is 'due our brethren at home, as 10 00 name to be known, has arranged with a local shoe house Well as thee-workers here., E. P. Boggs When we came here in July, the sense of disappoint- E. A. Sutherland 50 00 to give each member of the Newsboys' Association of ment would have been- complete had we been looking Miss A. Helen Wilcox, gold •watch, with that place a pair of new shoes for Christmas. only for a " snap." We were first driven through more silverware. —The best educated of the people now coming to the than fifty acres of burned district, which was truly as $523 00 United States are the Finns. Last year 6,753 of them barren and waste as we have ever imagined the Sahara came over, and of these all but sixty-two were able .to to be; then thrbugh an unfinished street, through a nar- read and write. They are generally Lutherans. row alley ten feet wide, and at last through our unim- — Because of- the withdrawal, by Portugal, of the ex- proved but clean, school campus, to the front of the equatur of the Dutch consul at Lorenzo Marques, the three cottages,that are the teachers' homes, the last Of minister from the Netherlands to Portugal, and the which we: now occupy. Portuguese minister at The Hague have left-their posts. Our yards were, so full of tall, dry, ugly weeds that we could scarcely walk through them. Honolulu Was — In the German Reichstag, Dr, Stoecker, former in the midst of an extensive drought, and the ":hottest court chaplain, recently announced that he had " private weather .eyer known here" Was 'on. We worked hard information'that the reason the .empress dowager hates under a vertical sun to dig up Weeds, plant fruit, and ,Emperor Twang` Su, is' that: the, • latter, has become • start a small garden. So far; all ..we' haVe .Succeeded 'Christian." _ „ „ - in, raising, .after four-months' "trial is a few banana --An exchange says, that " it is singular that no at- plants Atrkt we did, not have sufficient water. But tempt has been •made to‘ improve or -cultivate the blue now,now, the scene is changed, the water has come, and our —France's naval estimate for the coming year is berry, one of the best native fruits. As far as known, are converted into small swamps. Young plants $152,453,200. no single variety has ever been named, and propagated, that were becoming thrifty, have rotted, and the grass and weeds are again taking possession in a wild man- —All of the available British mounted infantry has yet there is diversity of size,'fiavor, and time of ripen- ing." ner; for we can not get onto the ground to cut them, been ordered to South Africa. on account of the mud and water. ' — It is said that Wm. T. Stead is at The Hague, The Swedish government is waging a stern fight We were told that all, or about all; one had to do het'e "drawing up' a manifesto for Mr. Kruger." against drunkenness, says the Canadian Baptist. It aim- for a living was to get out of bed, shake a' tree, and prisons all relapsed drunkards in houses of correction, -,down into his lap would fall his breakfast, perhaps all Owing to heavy rains, the Senne River has inun- and doses them 'with rum in all of their food'and drinlc, ready to eat. But the hiseious, papaits are ten cents dated a portion of the city of Brussels, Belgium. until they beCome utterly nauseated with it. This treat. each; the rich alligator pears are three for a quarter, — Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New Yorker ment is said to effect a'permanent titre in nine cases or more; the breadfruits are likewise dear. Only ba- Staats Zeitung, died' in New York, December 15. out of ten. nanas are cheap, selling at five or ten cents a dozen, Aivb SABBATH 1--i-EPALr)

but.they are only about one half the size of the Florida spent one week at La Grande and Hilgard. At La PUBLICATIONS WANTED kind sold in the Eastern States. Grande we celebrated the ordinances. One brother was The folldwing'retital.tif.tioW the native HaWaiian gets baptized. They have a good church building almost N. B.— Attention has been repeatedly called to the from nature's StOrehbrise-his- free breakfast may be of completed at this place. At •Union I.stopped over one necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not • interest. it ig,4 trtlef.story- by an eyewitness, day, spoke to a good audience in the evening, and visited roll or wrap too fine. With !the dawning of -the' new day,—,or, ,rather, long Cover papers well, so that they and held ,a Bible reading with a woman who was per- will be clean after it has!dawned ;. for the native dOes'Ottike to stop plexed over, some points or our faith. Brother E. E. when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, and others have expressed litera- his music; .singing, and " swipes," filF,abont riiidnight,— Smith was here, Working in. the- interest of the special the .family, bestir themselves .lazilOrOni,their,',Inats on number 'of the ture when it would have been cheaper to send by mail, at Signs. four ounces for one cent. the floor, and two children are sent otit;With small pails I spent several days at Baker City, helping Elder to pilfer their "morning riatores-; bountiful Oliver build a fence around the church property. Quar- The following persons desire late, clean copies of our StipPly, After • a tour of: SiStrie'rfieighboringtaro. patch terly.. meeting was : held. here also. I spent Sabbath publications, postpaid : — Or rite field; their butkefifare full, dad ttre-meal is'readY„ and Sunday at Payette, Idaho. There is a good, live No cooking is reeMired:•; Air Et; al.-mm-(14ml'. Liegiri.-Aut W. L. Robinson, Green Forest, Ark., REVIEW, Signs, school and Sabbath-school at Payette.. We held several Sentinel. what delidiottS morsel; isit With s which they are tO7.iat Meefings here with a good attendance of those not of is fy their: appetites ?"• (OW ;the pails. are of ,,'.dainty our faith, A -good'sized-Club' Of the World's Outlook Lulu Wightman, 9 Beeman St., Canandaigua, N. Y., snails t, One ;one,:•ithey Axe, taken -outf thor.recep-o Number of the Signs was taken. November 13 I came papers at once. tacley:the4)rotrodirig!portiOri bitten' off,, atitbrthe' reMain, to' Boise, and have held services in the church for sev- • Of M. C. Guild, 209 Dunbar St., Alpena, Mich., REVIEW, der ,sucked', from. its„ retreat„ in, the, t pearly eral; evenings. The attendance and interest are good. and Signs, Sentinel, Instructor. course,. there are natives here' that, olishedareas,o p We hope to see many souls gathered into the fold. My refined as ,any white inan';:)blit 'they are. not the kind courage . in God and, His precious truth was never that- take nature's '.`free lunch ". for, breakfaSt. conie stronger. We know that victory is just before us. I People in the States often say they ,Wotild, like.tQ intend to remain here for several days. BUSINESS NOTICES to Hawaii to hire on the bountiful fruits iloundl here; W. F. MARTIN. but .those here actually live almost .entirely on fruit BRIEF business notices and " wants " will be published frOm the States. And these fruits sell here at the same in this department, subject to the discretion of the pub- fairty price that.foreign fruits sell for at home,— VIRGINIA lishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of grapes, two pouns for twenty-five cents ; oranges, five four lines or less, and of twenty-five cents for every line cents each, or more; apples, eight or, ten for a quarter; BUENA VISTA AND STAUNTON.— October 8 I organ- over four, will be made, though in the case of the poor other fruits accordingly; and the native frtiits; too; are ized a church of seven members at Buena Vista, and who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. largely valued and sold on the same basis.; others expect to join soon. The first quarterly meeting There are homes here which are gorgeously mag- Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing with the church was held November 8-12. Elders Hottel house must furnish good references. nificent, scenes entrancingly beautiful, arid cultivated and Purdham were present and gave timely instruction vegetation that is almost beyond comparison; but it re- It was a season long to be remembered; for the Lord WANTED.— Place on farm, among Sabbath-keepers, •quires an abundance of gold coin to take part in these was present, and revealed himself to us all. by man 43 years old. Not able to do very heavy work. things, save to see them with the eyes. Since coming I came to Staunton, November 15, and began meetings Address Albert Wilson, 265 Bowen Ave., Chicago, Ill. here, we have seen persons return to the Coast dis- in a building that had been used as a schoolhouse. From gusted' with a salary of three and one-half or four dol- WANTED.— A woman to keep house in small family the first the attendance was good. I have more calls on farm,— one who will live out truth of Third Angel's lars a day, saying that they can not live on that here. for cottage meetings than I am able to fill. I am visit- Though our salary since coming here has been about Message, and help spread it in neighborhood. Address ing the families, holding Bible readings, and placing the A. Stenburg, Luton, Iowa. the same as that received in the home field, it has been Signs of the Times among them. I should be glad to adequate to provide only an economically prepared table, have our brethren and sisters send me all the Signs and with none left for clothes, or for that " time of need " REVIEWS (clean copies) that they can with which to that is so much talked of by some. Here we shall have do mission work. We expect to erect a chapel here in a to let our Father take care of that time; for we have no short time. A corner lot on Sear's Hill was given, to us, funds from which to "lay up." and one hundred and fifty dollars, and part of the ma- These facts are written, not to complain of our hard- terial for building, were promised. We shall be glad "I am the resurrection and the life."—Tesus. ships,, but only that you who read may know that even to have help from our people in Virginia. We expect .here " there's a cross to be borne," and that we have to pay as we go when we build. T. H. PAINTER. NELsobr.— Leroy Marion Nelson was born Oct. 8, the .privilege of knowing, at least a little, of "the fel- 1892; died from the effects of an accident, Oct. 27, 1900, lowship of His suffering's." aged 8 years, 16 days. He loved to heat' his mother read As a Whole, the work,in Honolulu has paised through the Bible. He was loved by all. Funeral services were some exceedingly discouraging times. At present there conducted by the writer. R. S. WHEAT, are omens of a break in the 'clouds and of a steady advance'. In the school, the workers at times •feel al- SILVER. — Died at Albany, Wis., Oct. 28, 'goo, Sister most spellbound. with the sight of what God is accom- Harriet Silver, aged 76 years, 7 days. In 1865 she plishing, for us. There is a pretious semination of learned and accepted present truth, and has ever been divine truth--taking place in 'young Itearts,;_*hich some true to God and his cause. At the funeral Elder I. San- day must bear a rich harvest in souls saved ; for the born called attention to God's comforting promises. same 'God -that' " sPake, and it was done,". has said, My SILAS LEWIS. word " shall. not return unto' me void, but it shall act BUTLER.— Died at Palatka, Fla., Oct. 14, 19oo, David complish' that "which I please, and it shall piosPer in the B., son of Sister Butler, aged 5 years, 8 months, 16 days. thing' whereto I sent it." The boys are being taught ATTENTION from the Bible; " Gospel Primer," "Early Writings," He was a bright boy, and his greatest pleasure was to go to Sabbath-school and learn of Jesus. Words of " Marshaling of the Nations," " Daniel and the ReVe- MEMBERS of the Seventh-day Adventist church of lation," and other of our leading works; and are thus comfort were spoken by the writer, from .Thess. 4: 14 and we know Oxford, Wis., are requested to report, in time for the and Jer. 31: 15-17. HENRY IRVING. receiving the truth, and the present truth; coming quarterly meeting, to the church elder, John W. God will develop here " trees of righteousneSs," if we but Blake, Glen, Wis. BRADEN.— Died Sept. 28, 19o0, at Leroy, Mich., Sister allow them to be wholly " the planting of •the Lord, that Rachel Braden, aged 64 years, • I/ months. She was He might be glorified." faithful in home duties, and loved by all who knew her. " Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord THE LITTLE FOXES THAT SPOIL THE VINES Her religious life began when about fourteen years may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with old. During the period following, she has.;-been con- you." • ALBERT CARY. is the general heading of an excellent series of articles to nected by membership with four different churches, in begin in the Instructor of January 17. These articles are all of which she .was a faithful member and worker, UPPER COLUMBIA written for young people, by a young man,—one who and maintained a high spiritual standing. She leaves has had a wide experience in working for and with young a husband, seven sons, a brother, and three sisters, to persons,— Brother W. S. Sadler. They are not dry mourn their loss. The funeral services were conducted SEPTEMBER 6 I arrived in Baker City, Ore., to assist theories, but every one is a chapter out of the book by the writer, assisted by the Congregational minister, in preparing the grounds for the local camp-meeting to of a live experience. They tell how the " little foxes " who kindly opened his house of worship for, the oc- be held at that place. Elder H. W. Oliver and the began their work of spoiling the vine of a useful, help- casion. I. D. VAN HORN. brethren of the Baker City 'church assisted in this work. ful character, and the result. The meeting began September 13; and lasted ten days. There are eleven of these articles in the series, and RAYMOND.— Fell asleep in Jesus, at Stowe, Vt., Oct. The laborers present were 'Elders G. W. Reaset and 7, 1900, of cancer, our beloved sister,11rsX.X. Church- we wish they could be placed in the hands of thousands ill Raymond, aged 82 years. She retained her facul- H. W. Oliver, Brother J. A. Castbeer, Drs. Winegar of young persons who do not now have the Instructor. ties and powers of mind to a remarkable degree. Within and Leadsworth, and the writer. The weather Was For. only TWENTY-FIVE CENTS you can send the the last few years she had been quite active in mission- cold arid rainy during a part of the meeting,' yet no Instructor four months to some young friend who needs ary work, in distributing a large number of the complaint was. made, arid all engaged heartily in seek- help, and who may find in these articles, just the sugges- Signs of the Times, going on foot to do this. All our publi- ing the Lord. A' rich blessing Was given to God's tion and encouragement he needs. Brother Sadler has cations were prized by her. We remember hearing her . an excellerif:impression people, and the meeting made signified his willingness to correspond with any who may express surprise that any of our brethren and sisters on the people of the town. After the *se :of the become interested by reading these articles ; and from the could do without our good REVIEW. She said that if camp-meeting, the tent was kept Standing! for, One results that have followed such work, we know that this she were put to the test, she would rather live on one week, and services were .held each evening. Several will prove a blessing and, help to many. meal a day, than do without the REVIEW. It was in the of the campers remained ,on the, grounds. Duritig ,this If you do not have the Instructor. yourself, and can autumn of 1852 that Sister , Raymond, with her former week two .decided to keep all God's, commandments. not afford to send the full subscription price, why not husband, acceedpt the views of the Seventh-day Ad- The last Sunday of the meeting a sermon on Spiritual- send twenty-five cents, and thus receive it for one third ventists. Soon a companywere gathered about them, ism and hypnotism was preached-. Some very intelligent of a year? And do not neglect the opportunity of send- and their house was opened for meetings for many persons were present,' and. listened, attentively to what ing the paper to some friend who is discouraged or years. But death and removals brought a change, and was said. indifferent. Thousands of extra copies of the paper she was left with none of like faith. Yet her light con- After the close of this meeting, I. spent. a short time should be printed during the next, three months, and tinued to shine, and her end was that of the righteous at, home, during which. I visited the church at.Milton, _put into the hands of young people everywhere. —peace, and a blessed assurance of a glorious immor- Ore., and held quarterly- meeting with.them. November Remember, this whole series, and six extra numbers tality when Christ shall come. A husband, several chil- 20-I again left home to-.visit the different tompanies _and of the Instructor, will be sent to any address in the dren and grandchildren, are left to mourn. churches in the southern part of the Conference. I United States or Canada for only twenty-five cents. MRS. A. D. HUTCHINS.

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R, WHEELER, • Ticket Aiot, Altai Creek. 832 ADVENT REVIEW AND SA BATH HERAO 16 eirer, for the guidance A LAST APPEAL warded to the of dibursement of the 'fund hi those having AT the time of the reading of this article, you hand. will be well alOng in the Week -of Prayer, and I *),t this,time give His people a May the Lord siving, and bless both th,: givers trust will have had a large measure of God's spirit of liberal I Spirit and blessing. But before you make your and the gift-- GEO. A. IRWIN. offering, I ask you to notice carefully this final appeal. 3 FROM THE BEST BOOR " BATTLE CREEK, MICH., DECEMBER 25, 1900. 4g BEST STORM In order to meet the demands upon us at the k. The first fifty-five pages Er If you receive copies of this paper without present time, our annual offerings should be is a handsome wortk,primer, of lessons for be- ordering them, please remember that they are sent to form a department, three times as large as on any former occasion, °onward. The rest of the you by some friend. Persons thus receiving copies ginners, from A B C, of the REVIEW will not be called upon to pay because there are three objects before us at this forty-five pages, is read- book, one hundred an for them. If, after reading these copies, you do time, any one of which, taken alone, should re- if interesting stories from not care to keep them, please hand them to your ing for all, composed ceive an amount equal to, or greater than, Our 1 of Lucifer to the " clo- friends to read the Bible, from the I,, last annual offering:— all sin shall have been minion restored " t First, and foremost of all objects in this offer- af ',se. The price is twenty- ing, is the securing of sufficient money for the swept from the olive THAT MOST 44 INTERESTING ARTICLE uve cents, according to proper maintenance and enlargement of our five, fifty, or seventyiew to Seventh-day Adventists," which last week we and Herald, Battle work in foreign fields. The reason and need for binding. Address, Rtz promised for this week, is " Opportunities," on Press, Oakland, Cal. this is found in the universal character of our Creek, Mich.; or S"adit page 827. As you read it, just think closely, , . commission. Every nation, kindred, tongue, and to take in the full meaning of the situation that n the issue of January, 1901, people must know of the message before the BEGINNING Wip col, it reveals. But we have done more than we 'Ain a series of special the Life Boat promised; for the article, " Sentimentalism in Lord can come. The Spirit of the Lord has gone v,y its Aitors, on the subject of 04. out before us, and as a result the Macedonian Foreign Work," is just as good, and is of just as articles prepared drug habits. These are sub- cry is heard from every quarter. Our time in much importance to Seventh-day Adventists. intemperance "all ow people should be famil- which to do the work assigned us is very short, jects with whichaicnhg, And we have done even doubly more than we morphine, opium, and so what we do must be done quickly. promised; for the article on "The Plagues," in iar, as the use oy on the increase. These arti- Second, the raising of sufficient money to en- cocaine are this issue, which makes so plain exactly what is great both the scientific and spirit- able the General Conference to meet the obliga- des will deal wssubject, the mark of the Beast, is of just as much impor- giving special attention tance to Seventh-day Adventists and all other tions it has assumed in behalf of the Christiania ual aspects of thud spiritual treatment of the publishing house. The honor of the cause of to the physical ii people as the other two articles are particularly .s of drughabits. All the God not only in Scandinavia, but throughout the unfortunate vie,mix to Seventh-day Adventists. So, first of all, if r ought to have those arti- possible, read carefully these three articles. whole world, is at stake in this transaction, and readers of the ,tbscribe for the Life Boat just hence we must meet the obligation promptly. des. Therefore it but twenty-five cents for the now. It will cost :si will APPOINTMENTS Third, the obtaining of money with which to get hundreds of items, assist the Skodsborg Sanatorium over a time of whole year; and ) articles, that will be worth besides these spec THE Lord willing, I will meet with the crisis. This is the only institution in all Scandi- ity_ _ five cents. Get it. churches in District II of Michigan, as follows : navia that is teaching the true principles of many times the t‘ Traverse City, January 4-8; Frankfort, January health reform and rational treatment of disease, ;ntefully remember Brother 11-16. I expect Elder 0. Soule to help in the OUR readers all- which is an essential part of the general reform _1(slien, Ind., who has given meeting at Frankfort. B. F. STUREMAN. Wm. P. Pearce, oli inaugurated and promulgated by the Third An- tes in the REVIEW. Well, good sermons and art gel's Message. The work of this institution is and splendid little book of THE World's Outlook Number of the Signs he has written a unkr rapidly coming into prominence, and is exerting " The Master's Greatest of the Times is being circulated grandly. More ninety-three pageA a salutary 'influence in behalf of the truth in that --, (most excellent reading, than two hundred thousand copies have been Monosyllables." field. Very little aid has been given this enter- It and all the proceeds are sold, and still they go by the thousands. Good : healthful and prise by the denomination at large, the work stmmg of one of our brethren keep it so agoing. And just now when multi- having been started and carried hitherto almost dedicated to the "ben helpless invalid of nine- tudes of people are expecting some great good entirely by local aid and effort. A generous gift Who is a confirmed a bound, and the price is merely by their passing from one minute to an- now upon our part would place the institution teen years. It is !c other in the middle of the night of December 31, upon a more solid financial basis, and enable it twenty-five cents. k----1.

— just now, and for a month or two to come, by God's blessing to handle its own affairs, and ----)06tivwneewv:, d....:y,.. ,vexv, ami will be the best time to get to them the good accomplish the work He has given it to do. V,1111NrE TUESDAYS THERE AR'?.,., that is in this World's Outlook Number of the The means we have in our possession, which n- iingJoanuur aRryE,L9Wo I ; In4)4 Signs. This good is real and substantial: the we call our own, is only held in trust for the .411 that subscrip- Intlinelist,illesday of the other is only imaginary. Lord, who is testing us through the objects and tions will expire tit very T‘s of five sub- opportunities now before us ; and He expects month. Here are ft4 WANTED . naineS)m the list) each one to be a faithful steward in giving back scribers (taken at mnlom fl the 1st, 8th, THE Battle Creek College printing office has to Him, in willing offering, that wIlich is His whose subscriptions expire otqary, respec- i5th, 22d, and 2(ft. need of typesetters and pressmen. It prefers to own. A failure to come up to the help. of the of Jar tivdy:— give work to young persons who desire to take Lord at this time will mean the loss of many m C urtis Ruled. •vi4A. 01. studies in the college. Here is an excellent souls, besides placing our own in jeopardy. GeorgeWirte 47,a opportunity to attend college, and at the same- Who can afford to take the chances, by being Joanna:Maid- ,1' 15! 2''Iti6 time learn a trade. If you are a practical work- indifferent to the appeals now being made? EhnerHoispeo By previous arrangement, all offerings made GeorgePtItri*e f 29$ tin, you can earn wages from the first; if you If your subscriptiori to sihe REVIEW ex- at this time should be sent to the treasurer of ire learning the trade, you can deposit fifty dol- pires in January, 10, A:,. yell* label on lars, and agree to, work in the office until pro- the Foreign Mission Board, Room 1906, 15o Nas- your latest paper rweived willhow you ficient. sau St., New York, N. Y.; and it is expected on which Tuesday k expires. : While re- ipqn, kill you not " Let the study of bo4s-,be combined with that each contributor will exercise his right, newing your own,g4ttr useful manual labor. . . . This'imill give you an when making his gift, to clearly state which one also send us a two-rnonthembShiption for that friend of yours; that liemayread those all-round- education." of the foregoing objects he wishes especially to eight articles on " The Plag'es" ? We can aid by his offering. A careful note of prefer- Let the young men, and the young wo too, supply all the back numbers You may pay who wish to obtain an education in this way, ences expressed should be made by the librarian the 25 cents in postage stads, if more con- once address the president of Battle Creek Col- or the one appointed to have charge of the offer- venient. ItviEw-kND 'HERALD. Battle Creek, Mich. ing.in each church, and with the offering for- Aftri,or"...etioAft"..."04W11,,,reurduv-hee"../"."...",".• •