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[While in Europe I took the following from our German paper, of Ham- 4 burg, thinking of the REVIEW first page. It is good to see how all Scripture I flashes these lights upon our Saviour, showing "the character He bears, and all I the forms of love He wears."—W. A. S.]

Wonderful Saviour.—"He is able also to save . . . to the uttermost." Heb. 7:25. 4 Wonderful Love.—"Who loved me, and gave Himself for me." Gal. 2:20. Wonderful Grace.—"By grace are ye saved." Eph. 2:8. 4 Wonderful Forgiveness.—"Him hath God exalted . . . to give . . . forgive- ness of sins." Acts 5:31. Wonderful Power.—"The power of an endless life." Heb. 7:16.

••• Wonderful Salvation.—"In whom we have redemption through His blood." 4 Eph. 1:7. Wonderful Peace.—"The Lord of peace Himself give you peace always." •••• 2 Thess. 3:16. I Wonderful Light.—"I am the light of the world." John 8:12. Wonderful Shepherd.—"I am the Good Shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." John 10:11. Wonderful King.—"He is Lord of lords, and King of kings." Rev. 17:14. And His name is Wonderful, the mighty God, the everlasting Prince of Peace; I 0 wondrous, saving Love, that brings my sinful heart release.

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I 111. 111•••••••••••••.• Cleanliness of Person and Premises

BY THE EDITOR

THROUGHOUT the Bible the under- no less of His people now, than He did pores, or little mouths, through which the lying principles of cleanliness of per- of ancient Israel. A neglect of cleanli- body breathes, become clogged and filled ness will induce disease. Sickness and with waste matter. The skin needs to be a son and premises are emphasized in premature death do not come without carefully and thoroughly cleansed, that the instruction God gave to Israel of cause. Stubborn fevers and violent dis- the pores may do their work in freeing the old. There are found many faithful eases have prevailed in neighborhoods body from impurities; therefore feeble admonitions regarding the preserva- and towns that had formerly been con- persons who are diseased surely need the tion of health. Undoubtedly some of sidered healthy, and some persons have advantages and blessings of bathing as died, while others have been left with often as twice a week, and frequently our modern laws of sanitation and broken constitutions, to be crippled with even more than this is positively, neces- quarantine hark back to the health disease for life. In many instances their sary. regulations which were enjoined upon own yards contained the agent of destruc- "Whether a person is sick or well, res- Israel of old. One who had become tion, which sent forth deadly poison into piration is more free and easy if bathing the atmosphere, to be inhaled by the fam- unclean from various reasons was re- is practiced. By it, the muscles become ily and the neighborhood."—"Counsels on more flexible, the mind and body are alike quired to wash his clothes. Contam- Health," p. 63. invigorated, the intellect is made brighter, ination from other sources required Scrupulous Sanitation and every faculty becomes livelier. The that one should isolate himself from bath is a soother of the nerves. It pro- "A great amount of suffering might be motes general perspiration, quickens the the camp for the day, remaining un- saved if all would labor to prevent dis- clean until evening. And in the case circulation, overcomes obstructions in the ease, by strictly obeying the laws of system, and acts beneficially on the kid- of some of the more serious diseases, health. Strict habits of cleanliness should neys and urinary organs. Bathing helps the cleansing process required the be observed. Many, while well, will not the bowels, stomach, and liver, giving en- take the trouble to keep in a healthy con- ergy and new life to each. It also pro- burning of clothing, and even of the dition. They neglect personal cleanliness, home in which the afflicted one lived. motes digestion, and instead of the sys- and are not careful to keep their clothing tem being weakened, it is strengthened. (Read Leviticus 13 :39-59.) pure. Impurities are constantly and im- During Israel's wilderness wander- perceptibly passing from the body, "Instead of increasing the liability to cold, a bath, properly taken, fortifies ing the strictest regard was paid to through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept in a healthy condi- against cold, because the circulation is cleanliness: No refuse was allowed tion, the system is burdened with impure improved, and the uterine organs, which to remain in the encampment. The matter. are more or less congested, are relieved; reason for this was: "The Lord thy "If the clothing worn is not often for the blood is brought to the surface, washed and frequently aired, it becomes and a more easy and regular flow of the God walketh in the midst of thy blood through all the blood vessels is camp, to deliver thee, and to give up filthy with impurities which are thrown off from the body by sensible and insen- obtained."—"Testimonies," Vol. III, pp. thine enemies before thee ; therefore sible perspiration. And if the garments 70, 71. shall thy camp be holy." Deut. 23: worn are not frequently cleansed from An Outward Sign of Purity Within 14. Before the Lord descended upon these impurities, the pores of the skin a "Believers should be taught that even Mt. Sinai and spake with His own absorb again the waste matter thrown off. The impurities of the body, if not though they may be poor, they need not voice His law of ten commandments, allowed to escape, are taken back into the be uncleanly or untidy in their persons or the hosts of Israel were required to blood, and forced upon the internal in their homes. Help must be given in wash their clothes and cleanse the organs. this line to those who seem to have no "Nature, to relieve herself of poison- sense of the meaning and importance of camp from all impurity. Ex. 19:10. cleanliness. They are to be taught that This principle of cleanliness is em- ous impurities, makes an effort to free the system. This effort produces fevers,, and those who are to represent the high and phasized in the New Testament Scrip- what is termed disease. But even then, holy God must keep their souls pure and tures. The believers are exhorted by if those who are afflicted would assist na- clean, and that this purity must extend the apostle: "Dearly beloved, let us ture in her efforts, by the use of pure, to their dress, and to everything in the home, so that the ministering angels will cleanse ourselves from all filthiness soft water, much suffering would be pre- vented. But many, instead of doing this, have evidence that the truth has wrought of the flesh and spirit, perfecting and seeking to remove the poisonous a change in the life, purifying the soul holiness in the fear of God." 2 Cur. matter from the system, take a more and refining the tastes. Those who, after 7:1. deadly poison into the system, to remove receiving the truth, make no change in a The old proverb that cleanliness is a poison already there. word or deportment, in dress or sur- roundings, are living to themselves, not next to godliness has in it much of "If every family realized the beneficial results of thorough cleanliness, they to Christ. They have riot been created truth. It is remarkable to see the would make special efforts to remove anew in Christ Jesus, unto purification manner in which the gospel brings to every impurity from their persons, and and holiness. the believer reformation in the phys- from their houses, and would extend their "Some are very untidy in person. ical habits, as well as a change of efforts to their premises. Many suffer They. need to be guided by the Holy decayed vegetable matter to remain about Spirit to prepare for a pure and holy heart. This is true because as soon their premises. They are not awake to heaven. God declared that when the as one recognizes that his body is the the influence of these things. There is children of Israel came to the mount, to temple of the Holy Spirit, he will constantly arising from these decaying hear the proclamation of the law, they endeavor to make his body a fit dwell- substances an effluvium that is poisoning were to come with clean bodies and clean ing place for the new life which has the air. By inhaling the impure air, the clothes. Today His people are to honor blood is poisoned, the lungs become af- Him by habits of scrupulous neatness and taken possession of his entire being: fected, and the whole system is diseased. purity. He will pray, as did the apostle, that Disease of almost every description will "Christians will be judged by the fruit his "whole spirit and soul and body" be caused by inhaling the atmosphere they bear. The true child of God will be may be sanctified wholly and "pre- affected by these decaying substances."— neat and clean. While we are to guard Id., pp. 61, 62. served blameless unto the coming of against needless adornment and display, we are in no case to be careless and indif- our Lord Jesus Christ." Frequent Bathing ferent in regard to outward appearance. In the special instruction that has "Persons in health should on no ac- All about our persons and our homes is to come to the church of today, clean- count neglect bathing. They should by be neat and attractive. The youth are to liness of person and premises is all means bathe as often as twice a week. be taught the importance of presenting strongly emphasized. Those who are not in health have impuri- an appearance above criticism, an ap- ties of the blood, and the skin is not in pearance that honors God and the truth." "In regard to cleanliness, God requires a healthy condition. The multitude of —"Counsels on Health," pp. 101, 102...... 111111111 ...... 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come deep-seated and deplorable; but, Christianity Still Lives thank God, these conditions do not be- come hopeless, for the living Christ is BY G. W. WELLS still leading His people. The church and Christianity can- Two generations ago a Christian pletely fulfills and meets the need in not die nor fail; for the Lord and boy went to hear a noted infidel lec- the life of every surrendered heart; Master solicited from His Father the ture. After he had listened awhile it alone answers the universal longing highest of all gifts, the Holy Spirit, to the bitter words and saw the blows of a believing soul. Christianity and He has come, not only for the that were struck by his fierce fist, leads to the loftiest ideals of holy and exaltation of God's people, but to im- Mailed with destructive unbelief and joyful living. It lifts the soul far part divine power to all who believe burning criticism, the boy hurried above the weak and beggarly elements and accept Christianity. The Holy home and buried his face in his moth- of earth into the very atmosphere Spirit is making effectual in the lives er's lap and sobbed out the words, of Christian perfection. of true Christians that which has been "Mother, Christianity is dead. It is The man who has truly accepted wrought out and made possible by dead !" The God-fearing mother with Christianity can, with abiding faith the world's Redeemer. reassuring faith and tender words and strong confidence, turn from the The Holy Spirit is now imparting told the frightened lad that Chris- dreary desolations of heartless infi- capabilities and rich blessings to the tianity was not dead. delity, vain conceits, human philoso- church, that she may represent the No, Christianity is not dead, phy, and science falsely so called, to sufficiency of her Lord and eventu- neither is it dying, Christ is the cen- the ever-living Son of God, and joy- ally, through the grace of God, ap- ter of Christianity; He is the risen fully exclaim with Peter, "Lord, to pear in full and final display of His Saviour, and still lives. Christianity whom shall we go ? Thou hast the glory. And all this is "to the intent is not just a creed, a mere theory words of eternal life." John 6:68. that . . . unto the principalities and about what Christ said or taught or That same Christ still lives. He ever powers in heavenly places might be did or had. It is a life in harmony lives; therefore Christianity lives. known by the church the manifold with the life of God. In Scriptural Neither Christianity nor the Chris- wisdom of God, according to the eter- language it is "Christ in you, the tian church can fail; for God is or- nal purpose which He purposed in hope of glory." Col. 1:27. There- ganizing and developing the supreme Christ Jesus our Lord." Eph. 3:10, fore it is an ever-living force, a business of carrying the glorious gos- 11. Therefore Christianity is not divine active power, a heavenly in- pel of Christ to all nations. The dead, and cannot fail. Through end- fluence that takes possession of the clouds overhanging the church and less ages the redeemed of all nations g whole man. It vitalizes, spiritualizes, the work of the church may at times shall walk in the light of the Lord, animates, and transforms the entire grow dark and ominous, the social and rejoice, and praise Him for the being, and through its blessed, living, perils may wax thick, the enemies unspeakable pleasures and eternal heavenly power it so elevates, en- without may sometimes seem defiant joys brought to them through the nobles, and lifts the human soul, that and aggressive, the apathy within be- Christ and Christianity. the man of faith grows continually in Christian experience and holy living. Christianity is not dead, neither &etches and Memories of James and can it fail; for the character, honor, and glory, and the blessed name and Ellen G. White promise of the infinite God are at 8take. Not until the stars outshine IV. Meeting Fanaticism

the sun, the rivers no longer to the BY WILLIAM C WHITE ocean run, the everlasting verities fail, and the pillars of the universe Gon did not forget His people who Nor did the enemy of souls fail to crumble ; not until the bounds of were bewildered and dazed by their work with extraordinary cunning, to 111 eternity are reached, and there ceases great disappointment in the autumn bring in among these same people to be a Creator and a creation, will of 1844. Through the manifestation heresies and counterfeit supernatural Christianity fail. of the prophetic gift, He sent from manifestations, seeking to lead men to Christianity will never fail, neither heaven messages of encouragement adopt strained and erratic interpre- will, the honest and true grow weary and' guidance to direct their minds tations of Scripture. of its divine influence and blessed, into the, fuller light, as they dili- It should not cause surprise that uplifting power; for it alone com- gently studied His word. vliCnever God gives a Special Mani- 4 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 1935 festation of His power, Satan's strat- which had been so bitter to them, they " 'If man was made to walk erect, egy is exercised to introduce a closely saw that God had indeed led them, and The serpent made to crawl, they rejoiced in the truth. This awak- Why imitate the odious thing associated counterfeit manifestation. ened the most bitter opposition on the That introduced the fall?'" In this way he is able to deceive some, part of those who denied our past ex- —D. F. 733. and to cause many others to look with perience. The "No-Work Doctrine" "But we had a still worse element to disfavor upon the true revelation of A misguided and deluded man liv- God's wisdom and power. meet in a class who claimed that they were sanctified, that they could not sin, ing in Paris, Maine, was teaching that Among the disappointed Advent- that they were sealed and holy, and that the saints, while waiting for their ists, there was a fruitful field for fa- all their impressions and notions were the Lord, were to do no physical labor, mind of God. Conscientious souls were naticism. Especially was this true and he had a following in a number of those who still believed that God deceived by the pretended piety of these fanatics. Satan had worked artfully to of places. Of course, those who sought had been leading them, though they have these deluded ones accept the Sab- to live in harmony with this theory could not understand their disap- bath, as through their influence, while had to eat, and were satisfied to par- pointment. They were disorganized professing to believe one part of the take of the bounties of those who and without leadership. They could truth, he could crowd upon the people a earned their food by hard work, while not go back to the churches from great many errors. He could also use them to good advantage to disgust unbe- at the same time they condemned which they had separated or had been lievers, who pointed to these inconsistent, their hosts as reprobates. Of this a disfellowshiped. Under these circum- unreasonable ones as representatives of First Day Adventist historian says : stances it was not strange that, in Seventh-day Adventists. their confusion and bewilderment, "This class urged upon the people hu- "The sisterhood were compassionated man tests and manufactured crosses, who were obliged to perform extra labor some should fall an easy prey to the which Christ had not given them to bear. to care for them, which they endured, as wiles of the enemy. They claimed to heal the sick and to work only faithful woman can, with more than Yet it was from this class of loyal miracles. They had a satanic, bewitching Christian patience and fortitude; until Adventists, those who maintained power; yet they were overbearing, dicta- some of them concluded if it was sinful to work they would prepare no more food faith in God's leading in their past torial, and cruelly oppressive. The Lard used us as instruments to rebuke these for the table; and bringing this theory experience, that the future message, fanatics, and to open the eyes of His to a practical result, they soon defeated based upon that experience, must be faithful people to the true character of the theorists and worked a cure in some developed and was to gather strength their work. cases."—"History of the Second Advent for the onward progress of truth. "Peace and joy came into the hearts of Message," by I. C. -Wellcome, p. 400. Their confidence in the correctness of those who broke away from this deception In vision Miss Harmon was di- of Satan, and they glorified God as they rected to attend a meeting in Paris, the time element of their exposition saw His unerring wisdom in setting be- of the prophetic period was an es- fore them the light of truth and its pre- Maine, where the leader in this,,no- sential factor in their reception of the cious fruits in contrast with satanic here- work fanaticism was intending to further light concerning the sanc- sies and delusions. The truth shone in present his theories. There, while contrast with these deceptions, like clear praying, she was taken off in vision, tuary; and the light on the sanctuary gold amid the rubbish of earth"—Review was the "key to unlock the disap- and Herald, Nov. .20, 1883. and was given a Scriptural basis for refuting the errors of this man. She pointment." They were the "scat- A False Humility tered flock" for whom Ellen Harmon • was also shown that it would be seen Varied were the strange and by the honest in heart that he was was first bidden to search, and to strained interpretations given to cer- whom she was directed to give the not actuated by a right spirit, and tain Scriptures by fanatical teachers Heaven-sent messages that she bore. that his career would soon close. at that time.* Indeed, they were the only ones in a This prediction was fulfilled. He Some gave a literal interpretation position to receive them. continued to follow his impressions to the words of Christ recorded in until his mind became seriously de- False Sanctification Matthew 18 :1-6. In order to "become ranged and he committed suicide. In nearly every place where she la- as little children," they argued that bored, during those early years, she they should demonstrate their humil- The Resurrection Past encountered opposition from fanat- ity by creeping like infants. They Like Hymenmus and Philetus who ical teachers. Some of them, while practiced this, not only in their in Paul's day overthrew the faith of professing and advocating holiness homes, but in the streets, and even in some by saying "that the resurrec- and sanctification, were themselves the church where they met for wor- tion is past already," there were some secretly living in gross sin. As the ship. Ellen Harmon stood in oppo- in Maine who urged that the dead hidden corruption of their lives was sition to this. She relates the fol- had been raised at the end of the revealed to Miss Harmon in vision, lowing incident : 2300-day period. Of one experience she unflinchingly met them face to "An old gentleman who had heard me in meeting this false teaching, Miss face, and rebuked them for their fa- speak, made a request for an interview Harmon later wrote: naticism and their hypocrisy. with me. During our talk he said, 'Miss `'We met Elder D. and many others in Of the method of her labor in these Harmon, do you advocate the creeping meeting, and bore our testimony, that they early years of her public work and position?' I said, 'No, I do not. I have were in error and delusion in believing plainly stated that this action is a dis- that the dead had been raised. I told the fanaticism that was encountered, liquor to God. A Christian reveals true them that God had shown me that Satan Mrs. White has written : humility by showing the gentleness of had been introducing fanatical errors, "The disappointment in 1844 had con- Christ, by being always ready to help that he might deceive and destroy their • fused the minds of many, and they would others, by speaking kind words, and per- souls. When Christ should raise the not listen to any explanation of the mat- forming unselfish acts, which elevate and dead, there would be no small stir. He ter. They were impatient and unbeliev- ennoble the most sacred message that has would ride forth with power and great ing, and many seemed rebellious, coming come to our world' glory, escorted by the heavenly angels, out in a most decided manner against "During this interview, a sister whom with songs of triumph and victory."— their past advent experience. Others I loved as a Christian came into the room Letter 2, 1874. on her knees. Said the old gentleman in dared not go to this length, and deny the While she was quoting the familiar way the Lord had led them. These were clear, distinct tones: glad to hear arguments from the word` of words in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, God which would harmonize our position * The incidents related in this chapter oc- Elder D. rose, began to leap up and curred in the year 1845, but owing to lack of with prophetic history. As they listened dates in the original sources, we cannot deter- down, clapping his hands and crying to an explanation of the disappointment mine their exact date or sequence. out: Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH. HERALD 5

" 'The dead are raised and gone up; their errors. They were severe upon all would like to hear Miss Harmon in glory to God! glory, glory, Tory, halle- who did not believe with them."—Page 75. Boston. They agreed to make an ap- lujah!' Others followed his example. These men positively asserted that Elder D. said, 'Don't be tried, Brother pointment for her to speak to the White, I cannot sit still. The spirit and Ellen Harmon's visions were of the company there at their next meeting. power of the resurrection is stirring my devil, and that they were produced After they drove away, they art- very soul. The dead are raised, the dead through the mesmeric influence of fully undertook to frustrate the plans Pare raised, and gone up, gone up!' "— James White, and that they could not agreed upon. They proceeded to Ibid. occur in his absence. cancel the appointment for the meet- Through the influence of the clear Mr. Otis Nichols, a resident of Dor- ing in Boston, and arranged for the and powerful testimony borne by chester, Massachusetts, had become a company there to meet at Randolph, rational leaders, some were freed firm believer in Ellen Harmon's di- thirteen miles distant. from this delusion, but many of those vine call, having witnessed the sanc- But their attempt to deceive was who had accepted this doctrine clung tifying influence of her testimony, as thwarted. On the evening previous tenaciously to their errors, and re- he with his godly wife had taken her to the appointment, Ellen Harmon jected the counsel of God. They went and her sister from place to place to was shown in vision what these men farther and farther into delusion and meet with companies of believers. had done, and was directed to go to darkness, bringing a stain upon those He was distressed to see this attempt Randolph. The next day she arrived who still bore the name of Adventists. by false reports to destroy confidence with her friends at the morning serv- Mesmeric Influences in the Heaven-sent messages. ice, much to the discomfiture of those At this time the strange phenomena He visited Portland, and proposed who had expected her to go to Boston connected with mesmerism were that James White remain there, while and find an empty house. awakening much public interest. A Ellen and her sister Sarah should re- Between the morning and after- number of those who had been teach- turn with him to Massachusetts to noon meetings, Mr. Robbins confi- ers in the great movement of 1844, visit the companies near Boston who dently asserted to Sarah Harmon had been told that she was wholly and who were now confused and fa- that her sister could not have a vi- under the influence of Mr. White. natical, practiced mesmerism, and sion where he was. But in the after- called it the Spirit of God. Ellen He hoped that this would convince noon meeting, she was taken off in Harmon was sent from place to place the honest in heart that they had been vision before them all, and continued with a message pointing out their deceived by the reports of their fa- in that condition for more than two natical leaders. The proposed plan errors and the true character of this hours. During this time the fanat- influence. was promptly accepted, and Sarah ical leaders tried to drown her voice and Ellen Harmon were soon at the Then the fanatical leaders whom by singing and shouting and reading home of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols. she had reproved asserted that her loudly from the Bible. Nevertheless, A few days after their arrival, two visions were the result of mesmerism. her voice was clearly heard above the leaders of the company of Advent- They followed her from place to singing and shouting. ists in Boston and vicinity, Messrs. place, and by false statements turned As an eyewitness, Otis Nichols a Sargent and Robbins, drove in and the hearts of many against her wrote thus of this experience: told Mr. Nichols that they had come teachings. "Sister Ellen was taken off in vision to have a visit, and that they would In her little book, "Experience and with extraordinary manifestations, and spend the night at his home. Views," she says: continued talking in vision with a clear Mr. Nichols expressed his pleasure voice, which could be distinctly under- "There was in Boston and vicinity a to see them because he wanted them stood by all present until about sundown. company of fanatical persons, who held Sargent, Robbins, and French were much that it was a sin to labor. Their princi- to meet Sarah and Ellen Harmon, exasperated, as well as excited, to hear pal message was, 'Sell that ye have, and who were in the home. Suddenly Sister Ellen talk in vision, which they give alms.' They said they were in the Messrs. Sargent and Robbins changed declared was of the devil; they exhausted jubilee, the land should rest, and the poor their minds regarding a visit with all their influence and bodily strength to must be supported without labor. Sar- Mr. Nichols, and said that they must destroy the effect of the vision. They gent, Robbins, and some others were lead- would unite in singing very loud, and ers. They denounced my visions as being at once return to Boston. then alternately would talk and read of the devil, because I had been shown Mr. Nichols asked them if they from the Bible in a loud voice, in order that Ellen might not be heard, until their strength was exhausted, and their hands- would shake so they could not read from The First Sabbath the Bible; but amid all this confusion and noise, Ellen's clear and shrill voice, as she talked in vision, was distinctly BY MAY COLE KUHN heard by all present. The opposition of EMERGING from the hand of the Creator these men continued as long as they could In perfect symmetry, the earth rolled forth. talk and sing, notwithstanding some of Its oceans mirrored skies of deep, clear blue; their own friends rebuked them, and re- Its mountains, smooth and undulating, shone quested them to stop. But said Robbins, With precious jewels, and with rocks of gold; `You are bowed to an idol! you are wor- Rich forests shaded flower-besprinkled paths shiping a golden calf.' Where lions lay in quietness and peace. "Mr. Thayer, the owner of the house, Birds sang and warbled in the sweet, still air, was not fully satisfied that her vision was And man walked by life's river and life's tree. of the devil, as Robbins declared it to be. He wanted it tested in some way. He 'Twas Sabbath eve; God rested from His labor; had heard that visions of satanic power The stars shone forth in brightness like the day. were arrested by opening the Bible and I The mighty God communed with His created, laying it on the person in vision, and And showed them all His works which He had made; asked Sargent if he would test it in that Man walked and talked with Christ there in the garden, way, which he declined to do. Then Mr. Through the sweet hours that passed from eve to eve. Thayer took a heavy, large quarto fam- A chorus from the angels joined in worship, ily Bible which was lying on the table And all the sons of God sang the refrain, and seldom used, opened it, and laid it A song of joy, a hymn of glorious meaning, open upon the breast of Ellen while in And God with man kept the first Sabbath day. vision, as she was then inclined backward 6 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 1935 against the wall in the corner of the month, 1845. That Christ would then prayer for light. Their object, and room. come we firmly believed. A few days be- the truth regarding their place in "Immediately after the Bible was laid fore the time passed, I was at Fairhaven, the early advent history, were well upon her, she arose upon her feet and and Dartmouth, Massachusetts, with a walked into the middle of the room, with message on this point of time. At this stated by James White as follows the Bible open in one hand, and lifted up time, Ellen was with the band at Carver, "The revival of any or of all the gifts as high as she could reach, and with her Massachusetts, where she saw in vision will never supersede the necessity of411 eyes steadily looking upward, declared in that we should be disappointed, and that searching the word to learn the truth. a solemn manner, 'The inspired testimony the saints must pass through the 'time of . . . It is not God's plan to lead out His from God,' or words of the same import. Jacob's trouble,' which was future. Her people into the broad field of truth by And then, while the Bible was extended view of Jacob's trouble was entirely new the gifts. But after His people have in one hand, and her eyes looking up- to us, as well as herself."—"A Word to searched the word, if then individuals err ward, and not on the Bible, she continued the Little Flock," p. 22. from Bible truth, or through strife urge for a long time to turn over the leaves Thus, through the prophetic gift, erroneous views upon the honest seekers with her other hand, and place her finger not only was the advanced light con- for truth, then is God's opportunity to upon certain passages, and correctly utter correct them by the gifts. This is in har- their words with a solemn voice. firmed, but errors were corrected. mony with our entire experience on this "Many present looked at the passages The divine revelations were not given subject."—Review and Herald, Feb. 28, where her finger was pointed, to see if she as a substitute for Bible study and 1856. spoke them correctly, for her eyes at the same time were looking upward. Some of the passages referred to were judg- ments against the wicked and blasphem- Oat of the Cities ers; and others were admonitions and instructions relative to our present condi- tion."—"The Great Second Advent Move- BY W. W. EASTMAN ment," pp. 242, 243. Sargent, Robbins, and French were SOME one has said, "God made the them to dwell together, Abram sug-111 silenced. For the remainder of the country, and man made the town." gested a separation rather than strife, time of the meeting, they with many No doubt there is much truth in this and Lot was given first choice as to others seemed to be troubled and per- statement, for we read of the eldest which part of the country he should plexed. But they shut their eyes to son of Adam, "Cain went out from dwell in. the truth, and clung to their delu- the presence of the Lord; . . . and Self-interest led Lot to choose the sions. he builded a city, and called the rich plain of Jordan, which he con- A Providential Preservation name of the city, after the name of sidered the most promising; "and Lot Surrounded as she was by these his son, Enoch." Gen. 4 :16, 17. It dwelled in the cities of the plain, and and other fanatical teachings, it is in- was the descendants of Cain that pitched his tent toward Sodom." deed an indication of God's guidance came to be spoken of as the sons of Gen. 13 :12. that Ellen Harmon was kept from men. Gen. 6 :2. The record that follows tells of the yielding to false influences. In re- After the flood, Nimrod, the great- sad ending of it all,—the wickedness a viewing this period of her life, she grandson of Noah and the grandson of Sodom, the hurried call to get out, 11. wrote : of Ham, the evil-minded son of Noah, the destruction of the City, and the in founding his kingdom, seemed to loss of all Lot's property and family "The false impressions of these fanat- ics might have turned me from my duty, specialize in city building, including except two daughters, who were so had not the Lord previously shown me such cities as Babel and Nineveh. corrupted by the influences of city where to go and what to do. Although so Gen. 10 :6-11. life that they became the mothers of young and inexperienced, I was preserved Later as the population increased, two wicked nations, the Moabites and from falling into the snare of the enemy, through the mercy of God, in giving me men said one to another, "Let us build the Amorites, who were a menace to special instructions whom to fear and us a city and a tower; . . . and let the people of God till they were whom to trust. Had it not been for this us make us a name, lest we be scat- finally destroyed with the other protection, I now see many times when tered abroad upon the face of the wicked nations of Canaan. I might have been led from the path of whole earth." Gen. 11:3, 4. And the Jesus drew the comparison : "Like- duty. . . record says "the Lord came down to wise also as it was in the days of Lot; "I had been instructed that men would I come to me urging that I should go with see the city and the tower" that men . . . even thus shall it be in the day them to this place and that place, but built, and confounded their language when the Son of man is revealed." that I was not to go. At the same time and "scattered them abroad from Luke 17 :28-30. it was presented to me that I could trust Elder James White, that he would guard thence upon the• face of all the earth." During the last of the seven last me, and that with him I would be in no And the city was called Babel (or plagues, special mention is made of danger."—D. F. 733. Babylon), which means confusion. the destruction of the "cities of the A Message Against Time Setting (See Gen. 11 :1-9.) It is therefore nations," in connection with the While Ellen Harmon thus faith- evident that God's plan was that men wrath that is to be poured out upon fully rebuked hypocrisy and false should scatter out; but men are in- great Babylon. Rev. 16 :19. teaching, it must have been a source clined to build cities and centralize In "Testimonies for the Church," of courage to be supported by the in congested centers. Volume IX, page 89, we read: energy and strength of James White. When the Lord chose Abram as "There is coming rapidly and And she, in turn, with her divine rev- his representative in the earth, He surely an almost universal guilt upon elations, was able to steady him in called him from his father's house the inhabitants of the cities, because his search for truth. Thus, when he, and his kindred, promising to bless of the steady increase of determined with others, was advocating that him and make him a blessing. And wickedness. We are living in the Christ would come exactly one year "Abram departed, as the Lord had midst of an 'epidemic of crime,' at after the great disappointment, on spoken unto him; and Lot went with which thoughtful, God-fearing men October 22, 1845, he was corrected by him." Gen. 12:4. everywhere stand aghast. The cor- her shortly before that time. James When, under the prospering hand ruption that prevails, is beyond the White wrote of this experience: and special protection of the Lord, power of the human pen to describe. "It is well known that many were ex- their herds and flocks became so mul- Every day brings fresh revelations of pecting the Lord to come at the seventh tiplied that there was not room for political strife, bribery, and fraud; Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7

every day brings its heartsiekening in the cities while probation lasts, but food and other necessities of life dur- record of violence and lawlessness, of this should not deter others, who can ing the so-called depression, and have indifference to human suffering; of and should move, from doing so. been comparatively free from the brutal, fiendish destruction of human Ten years ago the writer with his perplexities that have come to many life. Every day testifies to the in- family moved into the country on a who are living in the cities. In other , crease of insanity, murder, and sui- small acreage of land, and we have words, we have had fulfilled to us all k cide. The cities of today are fast thanked God many times for His the promises God has made to those becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah." guidance in the matter. We have who would follow His counsel in the This description of conditions in been provided with an abundance of matter. the cities has, if possible, been greatly intensified since it was written, twen- ty-six years ago. While it is true `Borderline Christians that these conditions have more or less spread into the rural districts, BY A. T. ROBINSON yet the country still offers a com- paratively safe asylum from city "Ha that is not with Me is against A Royal Name conditions to those who desire to sep- Me; and he that gathereth not with "It was in Antioch that the disci- arate themselves from them. Me scattereth abroad." Matt. 12:30. ples were first called Christians. The Much valuable instruction is given In the light of this passage there name was given them because Christ on this question in "Life Sketches of is no middle ground between the was the main theme of their preach- Ellen G. White," in the chapter enti- church and the world, between Christ ing, their teaching, and their conver- tled, "The San Francisco Earth- and Satan. Satan makes it easy for sation. . . . Well might the heathen I quake." On pages 409 and 410 of his followers. He does not object to call them Christians, since they this book is reported a portion of an his followers' being members of the preached Christ, and addressed their address to the Southern California church, provided they are not too prayers to God through Him. It was Conference in 1906: particular, do not draw the line too God who gave to them the name of " 'Out of the cities, out of the cit- closely between the church and the Christian. This is a royal name, ies I' she declared ; 'this is the message world. When his agent, Pharaoh, given to all who join themselves to the Lord has been giving me. The felt obliged, under pressure, to let Christ."—"The Acts of the Apos- earthquakes will come ; the floods will God's people go out of Egypt, it was tles," p. 157. come; and we are not to establish with the proviso, "Only ye shall not One of the ten words spoken from ourselves in the wicked cities, where go very far away." "I will let you go, Mt. Sinai is, "Thou shalt not take the enemy is served in every way, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your the name of the Lord thy God in and where God is so often forgotten. God in the wilderness; only ye shall vain." When we leave the family of . . . We must make wise plans to not go very far away." Ex. 8:28. Satan, into which we were born, and I warn the cities, and at the same time Satan's Whispered Suggestions become members of the heavenly fam- live where we can shield our children ily, the Lord gives us the new family and ourselves from the contaminating When Sataxi can no longer hold his subjects wholly for the world, he name. One of the characteristics of and demoralizing influences so preva- Seventh-day Adventists is their pro- lent in these places.' " whispers his suggestions: "Do not be too particular. Do not go to ex- fession of keeping the command- " 'He who taught Adam and Eve in tremes. While playing fair with oth- ments of God. How careful we ought Eden how to tend the garden, would ers, it is all right to get the best end to be in the observance of that pre- instruct men today. There is wisdom of the bargain if you can. If you cept which says, "Thou shalt not take for him who holds the plow, and are selling fruit or vegetables to your the name of the Lord thy God in plants and sows the seed. The earth customer, it is all right to put the vain." How sacredly we should has its concealed treasures, and the best things on the top. You know guard the honor of the name of our Lord would have thousands and tens others do so ; and if you do not look Father and of our Elder Brother. of thousands working upon the soil I out for yourself, no one will look out "The disciples were to carry their who are crowded into the cities to for you. 'All work and no play work forward in Christ's name. watch for a chance to earn a trifle. makes Jack a dull boy;' other Chris- Their every word and act was to fas- . • . Those who will take their fam- tians attend the races, the ball games, ten attention on His name. . . . ilies into the country, place them the movies, and other places of Christ's name was to be their watch- where they have fewer temptations.' " amusement. If it is all right for them, word, their badge of distinction, their —Id., 355, 356. why should you deny yourself such bond of union, the authority for their Much other instruction is given pleasures? The theater is not so bad course of action, and the source of elsewhere from the pen of the Lord's as some people think it is," says the their success. Nothing was to be rec- servant, which our people should tempter, "you can take what is good ognized in His kingdom that did not study at this time, but space forbids and forget anything that savors of bear His name and superscription." further quotations. the low." Through this liberal pol- —Id., p. 28. The writer does not advocate any icy, Satan's followers become far An effort to be partly for Christ spasmodic or fanatical movement more numerous than the true follow- and partly for the world, is to be from the cities, but it is plainly evi- ers of the meek and lowly Jesus. wholly for the world. The Lord does dent that the time has fully arrived The Lord's invitation is, "My son, not accept anything less than the when our people should not only give give Me thine heart." When the whole heart's affection. Only Satan, I careful and prayerful study to the heart is fully surrendered to Jesus, accepts halfhearted service. How sad matter, but should, after due counsel, one loses the desire for those things to think that there are some border- make early plans to act on the in- that are of a questionable nature. line Seventh-day Adventists. Thank struction given us. One learns not only to love righteous- the Lord, there is still time for every It is true that some who occupy ness, but also to hate iniquity. The one to make a full surrender before key positions may find it necessary, Lord accepts only wholehearted serv- Jesus comes to gather His own chil- in the interest of the work, to remain ice. dren. 8 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 1935 DITORIAL WATCHMAN,WHAT OF THE NIGHT? THE WATCHMAN SAH3.11-1E MORNING COME 11, AND ALSO THE NIGHT' ISA.21.II,I2

period of years. According to this "v1 Permanent Miracle" table, which appears in the Literary Digest of February 23, 1935, the esti- "WE see the hand of God in the rica and East Africa. It is hoped mated expenditure for 1935 will be colporteur work," cried U. Augsbur- soon to start it in Abyssinia. "Our $4,654,000,000. There are many who ger, president of the French Swiss colporteurs," he said, "are now sta- place the figure very definitely higher Conference; "it is a permanent mir- tioned from Hammerfest, the north- than this. acle I" ernmost city of the world, to points The Scoffer Answered And so it is, year in, year out, and south of the equator." Often when we present the facts of day by day. Once it "couldn't be Their aim for sales in the Northern wars and rumors of wars as evidence done in Europe." But God has Division for 1935 totals well over a of fulfilling prophecy, scoffers en- helped His people to do it. It is a quarter of a million dollars. The deavor to minimize the force of the permanent miracle for the spreading British Union is assigned the largest evidence by reminding us that there of the light. The report of F. Char- amount—$100,000. Well I remember have always been wars in the world. piot, the ever-enthusiastic publishing when, in 1887, we were assured by This is true, of course, but it is not leader in Southern Europe, showed the Spirit of prophecy (Sister White the whole truth. Almost everything $10,000 gains in book sales in nine then being in Europe) that the can- that is occurring in these last days months of 1934—gains in the Madeira vassing work could be successfully has, to a certain extent, occurred be- and Canary Islands, in Algeria, in undertaken in those countries. It fore. Their significance, as signs of Mauritius (in the Indian Ocean), was not a plan that worldly publish- the second advent, is often their and even in Italy. In spite of the ers generally thought feasible. I re- magnitude or intensity. For exam- growing power of the Catholic call one brother who, it seemed, really ple, there have always been earth- Church in Italy, our publications are criticized himself out of sympathy quakes, but it is their intensity and selling. It fulfills the forecast of that with us because, under the counsel frequency today that give them a old classic of colporteur work, writ- of the gift that so often has guided, significance for our time. ten long ago in Australia, of the on- brethren in Britain planned to intro- Thus with war. The prophets ward march of the colporteur: duce the subscription book plan. The point to the last days as being so "E'en where the Pope is throned by Ti- plan has worked from that day to marked by great war movements as a ber's flow, this ; and here is Britain taking the I see him tread, and angels with him go." to cause such movements to be defi- lead in aiming at sales of $100,000 in nitely distinguishing marks of the At the Northern Division meeting, 1935. closing hours of earth's history. The in Poland, J. J. Strahle told us of The old-time publishing activity of very fact, therefore, that wars have fifteen publishing houses in that one the Reformation times is seen over always occurred through the centu- division. The colporteur work is get- again in our work in Europe. ries makes more difficult our task of ting under way in parts of West Af- W. A. S. using present war conditions as a sign of the advent. But if the end of the world is really near at hand, virmament Appropriations as we believe, we are obliged to show proof that war conditions are indeed Their Meaning as Signs of the Advent so strikingly intensified as to permit I them to constitute a distinguishing THE subject of war is one that must still remains a fact that billions are mark of our day, and thus fulfill the frequently receive consideration by staggering amounts, and that these prophecy. those who believe that the prophecies billions of which we read must come It is in the light of these facts that of the last days are being fulfilled from some source. They cannot come the staggering appropriations for ar- before our eyes. There is a bewil- out of thin air, unless, of course, in- maments take on their greatest sig- dering array of things happening in flation takes place, and then there is nificance. We have waited until this our world in these times. There are general collapse. If we can but re- present time to have nations which strange and momentous developments member these few elementary facts, were apparently at peace with each in the religious and the social and we can see a great deal more in the other, laying longtime plans for war the economic world, all of which terse announcements from the va- of a magnitude that surpasses the changes may well give us pause. But rious capitals of the nations that ap- dreams of the Cmsars. And the sig- standing in the very forefront of the propriations totaling so many billions nificance of these appropriations is fast-moving procession of significant will be expended in war preparations. only heightened by the fact that they happenings, is the feverish interna- Two Facts on War Appropriations are made in the face of staggering tional program for war preparedness. There lies before us as we write deficits in government treasuries. In Our modern ideas of large expendi- a table giving the figures on appro- other words, with governments un- tures, and especially the gigantic ap- priations for armaments over two able to provide sufficient means to propriations for curing the depres- decades. Two startling facts imme- care for the needy among their citi- sion, have so benumbed our senses diately meet the eye; the first is the zenry, they nevertheless go forward that it is difficult for us to express magnitude of the appropriations, and with increasingly feverish haste to surprise when we read of billions be- the second is that these appropria- sink, not millions, but billions in ing expended on this or that. But it tions have increased steadily over a plans for war. Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

"Historical Error" Examined rival; thus began the competition to sit with Me in My throne, even as About three years ago Gugliehno which became more and more acute, I also overcame, and am set down Ferrero, a former premier of Italy, and which ended by drawing in the with My Father in His throne." wrote an article on disarmament in other powers. It was like an ava- Verse 21. which he dealt with this question of lanche. The growth of the popu- Concerning this prophecy the serv- repeated wars through the centuries. lation in the conscription countries ant of the Lord says: I He opened his article with a refer- placed an increasing number of men "The names of the seven churches ence to the cynical attitude taken by at the disposal of the general staffs; are symbolic of the church in differ- many toward disarmament; namely, the increase of wealth permitted, ent periods of the Christian era. The that because nations have always been without too much difficulty, the ex- number seven indicates completeness, fighting, there is no reason to believe pansion of the military budgets; the and is symbolic of the fact that the that you can get them to disarm now. progress in the metallurgy, in the me- messages extend to the end of time, He declares that "this reasoning is chanical and chemical industries, and while the symbols used reveal the con- based on a historical error," and adds the invention of new arms obliged the dition of the church at different peri- immediately that the nations "have general staffs to renew armaments ods in the history of the world."— not always armed to the same degree. every ten years, at the same time in- "The Acts of the Apostles," p. 585. From the beginning of history up creasing and improving them. Thus The Apostolic Church until 1870, all states followed a con- it happened that armies increased stant rule in their armaments,—re- from year to year, and military "Of the church at Ephesus, which duced them to the lowest possible budgets also. the Lord Jesus used as a symbol of minimum in times of peace, increased "The final outcome of this policy the entire Christian church in the them only in times of war."—Satur- was the World War. This war had apostolic age, the Faithful and True day Evening Post, Jan. 30, 1932. many causes, but the chief one was Witness declared: I This, he declared, was the rule fol- the competition in armaments which " 'I know thy works, and thy labor, lowed, for example, by the Roman Re- became so intense in Europe after and thy patience, and how thou canst public and Empire, and by all the 1870." not bear them which are evil: and European states up to 1870. But he Competition Only Increasing thou hast tried them which say they continues: Since he wrote that article, three are apostles, and are not, and hast "After 1870 there appeared in Eu- years ago, the competition has not found them liars: and hast borne, and rope a formidable innovation of decreased, but increased. His arti- hast patience, and for My name's which all the preceding generations cle was written in connection with sake hast labored, and hast not had had no idea,—the unlimited com- the opening of the long-awaited Dis- fainted.' " Rev. 2:2, 3.—Id., pp. 578, petition in armaments. For the first armament Conference at Geneva ; 579. time in history, armies and fleets did and he set forth as an inevitable con- Ephesus means desire, or desirable, not cease to increase in periods of clusion that we must either have dis- and refers to the church of the first century,—a fit appellation for the I peace, just as if a state of war existed armament or another war. And now, always. This terrible innovation had behold, as we look back over these church during the ministry of the its origin in the war of 1870 between three swiftly moving years, we find apostles. The period closed with France and Prussia. After the Peace a steady enlargement of war plans, the death of John, about 100 A. D. of Frankfort, Germany, fearing re- whether it be for airplanes, infantry, The church of this period had re- venge, wished always to maintain a or submarines. ceived the truth from the lips of slight superiority of force over Next week we shall discuss further Christ, the fount of all truth. In the France ; France, in her turn, wished facts that bear on the war situation. light of His life, teachings, death, and always to be at least equal to her F. D. N. resurrection, the Scriptures of truth glowed with new glory. Captivated by the glad tidings of salvation, the apostles went forth declaring what cif cress to the Tree of Life they had seen and heard. Their mes- sage was received with joy and glad- The Church of Ephesus ness by multitudes. These in turn THE first prophecy of the Revela- years? Had they no message from passed on the good news to still tion has to do with the seven churches. the One who is watching over and others, until that generation had The One who walks in the midst of ministering to the church universal? heard the message of redemption. the seven candlesticks gives a brief It seems reasonable to believe that The Secret of Success picture of the churches through suc- these messages are for the church What was the secret of apostolic ceeding ages. He tells of the fail- throughout the ages until redemp- power and achievement? We have ures and triumphs of His people. He tion's work is complete. already mentioned the purity of the gives messages of reproof and com- Seven Periods message. It was a message of the mendation. He lavishes the church Furthermore, it seems plausible word of God. The Master Himself with promises, and cheers her on to that these seven churches represent gave the first demonstration of pre- final victory. seven periods through which the senting gospel truth. He began with The messages are addressed to the church of Christ was to pass. The Moses and all the prophets, and ex- seven churches in Asia ; but it hardly names chosen, the promises made, pounded the Scriptures concerning seems consistent that these local support this position. As we ap- Himself. This was the keynote of churches alone are pictured here. proach the last of these, representing apostolic preaching. Such preaching t There were other churches of impor- the people living near the close of bears the divine credentials. tance in this territory. May not the time, there are such promises as fol- The church of Ephesus not only be- instruction be just as applicable to low : "Behold, I come quickly : hold lieved and lived the message, but the them? And then, how about the that fast which thou hast, that no early believers carried the glad tid- future congregations brought together man take thy crown." Rev. 3 :11. ings to others. The church of the for worship through the succeeding "To him that overcometh will I grant first century was a working church. 10 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 1935

Its members were workers together in prayer ? Do His words in Holy Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are with God, and enjoyed that fellow- Writ hold that charm for us that they sealed unto the day of redemption." ship with Christ which comes alone did when we first entered the Chris- Promise to the Overcomer in service. tian way ? These are questions it The message closes with this beauti- The apostolic church was a church would be well for us to consider ear- ful promise to the overcomer : of order. Its congregations did not nestly and ask ourselves. If we have "To him that overcometh will I give •Ai receive false teachers among them or lost our first love, the way back is to eat of the tree of life, which is in bid them Godspeed. They "tried" clearly pointed out in the message to the midst of the Paradise of God." those who said they were apostles, Ephesus. Said the Lord : Long has the pilgrim church of but were not, and "found them liars." "Remember therefore from whence God waited for the fulfillment of this Well would it be if the churches of thou art fallen, •and repent, and do promise. Our first parents were today were as discriminating at all the first works ; or else I will come driven from Eden, the garden (Greek, times as were the believers of those unto thee quickly, and will remove Paradise) of God, because of sin. days. It is safe to open the pulpit thy candlestick out of his place, ex- Their children have reaped the wages only to men who bear credentials cept thou repent." Verse 5. of transgression. Some of them have from the church of Christ. In apos- Our Lord never changes in His un- cherished the hope of the final res- tolic times, the church, under the failing love for us. If there is a toration. To such as overcome, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, set apart change, it comes in us. Have we promise is that they shall eat of the men to the sacred work of the min- drifted away from Him ? The in- tree of life in the Paradise of. God. istry. This is a safe plan to continue struction is, "Repent, and do the first After sin entered our fair world, until the gospel work is finished. works." As we first came to our Sav- the hand of God transferred the gar- The early church maintained strict iour, sinful and unworthy, we may den of Eden to heaven, where atten- standards for membership. "But this again come confessing our sins, and tive hands have cared for it. The I thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds find forgiveness. How good it is tree of life is said to be in "the midst of the Nicolaitanes, which I also that God does not cast off His chil- of the Paradise of God." It is also on hate." Rev. 2 :6. Of this sect Euse- dren when their feet slip, when they either side of the river of life, which bins, a church historian of the early flows from the throne of God. (See part of the fourth century, says : verse 7; 22:1, 2; also. Eze. 28:13, There "arose the heresy of those The Narrow Way Septuagint.) called Nicolaites, of which also men- Concerning the restoration of Eden, tion is made in the Revelation of BY LOIS BRUCE the Spirit of prophecy says : John.... And thus those that adopted THE way may seem dark and narrow, "The garden of Eden remained his heresy, following both this exam- And your life may be filled with sin; upon the earth long after man had ple and expression [of their leader] But the patient arms of Jesus become an outcast from its pleasant literally, rush headlong into fornica- Are ready to take you in. paths. The fallen race were long per- AN tion without shame."—"Ecclesiastical He bids you call upon Him, mitted to gaze upon the home of in- 111 History," Book III, Chap. XXIX. No matter how dark the night; nocence, their entrance barred only The apostle Paul wrote plainly to For peace and comfort He'll give you, by the watching angels. At the the Corinthians about retaining in the And guide you back to light. cherubim-guarded gate of Paradise church open transgressors. He bit- Oh, why not accept this Saviour— the divine glory was revealed. Hither terly reproved the church for per- A Saviour who died for men? came Adam and his sons to worship mitting fornication in their members. He is always ready to help you; God. Here they renewed their vows He said : "Know ye not that a little He died to save you from sin. of obedience to that law the trans- leaven leaveneth the whole lump ? Nok.m.wina gression of which had banished them Purge out therefore the old leaven, from Eden. When the tide of iniq- that ye may be a new lump, as ye are become infatuated with the things of uity overspread the world, and the unleavened." 1 Cor. 5 :6, 7. this world and forget Him, when wickedness of men determined their If the church of God is to retain they grow cold and indifferent to- destruction by a flood of waters, the her power and purity, she must sepa- ward the One who was crucified for hand that had planted Eden with- I rate from her communion the open them; but His heart yearns for the drew it from the earth. But in the transgressor of God's law. Thus did straying, as a mother longs for the final restitution, when there shall be the apostolic church maintain her return of her prodigal. Infinitely `a new heaven and a new earth,' it is purity of life as well as of doctrine. greater is the love of God than that to be restored more gloriously adorned "Thou Hast Left Thy First Love's of an earthly parent. "Can a woman than at the beginning. But the "Faithful and True Wit- forget her sucking child, that she "Then they that have kept God's ne,,s" not only commends, but admin- should not have compassion on the commandments shall breathe in im- isters reproof whenever needed. To son of her womb ? yea, they [the mortal vigor beneath the tree of the church in Ephesus He said : mothers] may forget, yet will I not life; and through unending ages the "Nevertheless I have somewhat forget thee." What a mighty incen- inhabitants of sinless worlds shall against thee, because thou hast left tive for the straying, the indifferent, behold, in that garden of delight, a thy first love." Rev. 2:4. to return to the fold of Christ ! sample of the perfect work of God's This experience is not characteristic On the other hand, the Holy Spirit, creation, untouched by the curse of of Ephesus alone. How often it is persistently resisted, will ultimately sin,—a sample of what the whole true of Christians in other ages. Well cease His pleading with the impeni- earth would have become, had man would it be for us to examine our- tent. The warning to Ephesus was, but fulfilled the Creator's glorious selves to see if we have the ardor and "Repent," else the candlestick would plan."—"Patriarchs and Prophets," • devotion of our first love. Do we love be removed—the oil, representing the page 62. Christ as ardently as when we first Holy Spirit, would be withdrawn, Such is the promise to the over- entered into fellowship with Him ? and the light would go out. To us, comer, to be realized when the final Do we think and talk of Him Do as well as to Ephesus, comes the ad- restoration is made through our Re- we hold frequent converse with Him monition, "Repent ;" "grieve not the deemer. T. M. F. Vol. 11'2, No: 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 11

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Four Baptismal Services c/I New Medical Mission for Barotseland We had six week-end meetings in different sections of the field, when BY J. F. WRIGHT the workers and lay members all congregated for three days of special FOR a number of years the Zam- now, since the way was opening for meetings. Baptismal services were besi Union Mission field committee us to enlarge this phase of the work held in four places, and eleven were labored untiringly to obtain an en- of the mission, it seemed we ought to added to the church. We brought trance into Barotseland, but it seemed strike while the iron was hot. With- before the people the present situa- as if the door would never open. At out doubt a hospital at this place tion of the world, and the progress last, however, the hand of divine would wonderfully increase our in- the message has made in other parts Providence intervened; and during fluence among the people of the tribe. of the world, which helped them to 1928 S. M. Konigmacher, who pio- So, after giving the request careful reconsecrate their lives to the Mas- neered the way into this section of the consideration, we are pleased to re- ter's service. I division, opened our first mission sta- port a doctor has been placed under A clear idea of the Sabbath school tion in that country, Liumba Hill appointment, for which we are ex- and educational work was presented Mission. ceedingly thankful. to them. Many Hindus present at From the very opening of the sta- The next thing to plan for is the these meetings decidedly promised tion the "Lord of the harvest" richly construction of the medical unit. We that they would do anything on this blessed the efforts put forth by hope to begin work on the hospital earth if they could only have a place Brother and Sister Konigmacher. building in the near future. In or- in the home that Christ has gone to These servants of God labored hard der to provide funds with which to prepare for His children. Never in and zealously for the cause of truth. put up this building, the division South India have I seen the people And now, since Sister Konigmacher committee has voted to apply two so willing to place themselves under has passed to her rest, this station thirds of the thirteenth Sabbath Christian instruction in order that stands as a beacon light for the mes- overflow toward this new project. they may become heirs to the eternal sage as well as a memorial to the sac- This offering is to be received in all kingdom. It seems the Lord is pour- I rifice which she, with her husband, so our churches March 30, 1935. ing out His Spirit upon all flesh, willingly rendered to the cause of We believe our people everywhere since we are nearing the end. In missions. will rejoice with us in the opening various stations I found many Indian It was not long after our entrance of this new medical center, and that sisters who are very earnest in shar- into Barotseland that the king made when the next Thirteenth Sabbath ing the message with others. They an earnest request for us to send a Offering is received, they will give are prepared to make any sacrifice doctor among his people to carry for- liberally of their means. Be assured to interest others in the truth. All ward medical missionary work. He we will do our best throughout the our Sabbath schools in that field have had been greatly interested in the Southern African Division in help- pledged to double their membership medical work done by Brother Kon- ing to make a large thirteenth Sab- by the end of 1935. igmacher at the dispensary. And bath overflow possible. Some of the evangelists hold meet- ings either every morning or every evening, and assist the people in the 6-Un usual Opportunities study of the Sabbath school lessons. Some adults are taught to read and BY E. D. THOMAS write in their own tongue, so that they may enjoy reading the Bible for I HAVE just returned from a trip his Christian and Hindu friends and themselves. We encouraged the work- to the Telugu field, where I spent six relatives, and as a consequence, today ers and lay members to render this weeks visiting all the mission stations we have in that place many people help wherever possible. where we have workers. There are interested in the message. Thirty- Progress in the Schools 26,374,000 Telugus in South India. two of them have been baptized, and We visited the eleven schools. One We have there thirty-four Sabbath others are definitely planning to be of them is a high school, and the rest schools, with a membership of 1,095, baptized in the near future. are primary schools. They have an of whom 400 are baptized. The We have very good interests in enrollment of 334 pupils, of whom largest Sabbath school is at Manda- four other heathen villages, not far 181 are boys and 153 girls. Brother peta near Rajahmahendri in the East from this new church, with a Sabbath Hunter and I took time to examine Godavari District. Very recently school membership of 187. All have the students in these schools. It was one of the members of this village, come to us direct from heathenism. very gratifying to note the progress I a Baptist, became interested in the These villages are situated within a they have been making. Some of truth by perusing one of our small radius of twenty miles. We have these primary schools are getting tracts on the Sabbath question. only one evangelist to foster the in- government grants, and the inspec- After further study with our worker terest created here. He visits them tors have given very good reports of he took his stand for the truth. He each Sabbath and looks after their the work done. C. A. Randolph is then, in turn, gave the light to all spiritual interests. the principal of the high school at 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 1935

Narsapur. He is assisted by five fering, the knowledge of the Great and happier. These people were teachers, three of whom are the prod- Physician also is imparted to the ready to provide a school and a small uct of our South India Training patients. Some Hindus, in speaking salary for the teacher, so we hope to School at Krishnarajapuram. I felt with me, said they greatly appre- find a self-sacrificing teacher who will very much encouraged to see these ciated the sympathetic treatments be willing to go among them, and young men carrying heavy responsi- given by the workers in our hospitals. teach them the way to God and hap- bilities in training other young peo- Financial Help Needed piness. I ple, and molding characters for the Owing to the present financial The Reinish Mission has worked on kingdom to come. C. A. Schutt was stringency, many of our village this island a number of years, and has in charge of the Narsapur institution schools are not properly equipped, several churches and missions. The before he returned to the homeland. and the necessary repairs to the In- climate is very good, much cooler Some of our laymen are conduct- dian workers' houses have not been than on the plains. ing schools of their own, independent made. The administrative building As in the evenings we walked to of the mission. We visited three of and the students' hostels at Narsapur and fro with our worker to his Bible their schools. These men are loyal are inadequate. And there also come studies in the kampongs around Pan- and faithful to the message, and are cries from many directions to open goeroeran, our hearts rejoiced to hear teaching the Sabbath school lessons new stations and conduct meetings on the songs of the message sung by regularly to the little children in present truth. All these call for some young girls who, but a few their classes; thus they let the light men and means. I cannot perceive months ago, were heathen. Five Sab- spread. haw long we can go on denying the bath schools are studying the same At different places we met our privileges of the last message of lessons with us. Our two teachers go loyal colporteurs, who are very mercy to these people who have been from one place to the other on the proud of their high calling. Some sending in their Macedonian cries. Sabbath. These people are poor, and of them are doing very successful D. W. Hunter, the only foreign if we could have some Sabbath School I work. missionary devoting his full time to Picture Rolls we should be very glad. Hospitals in the Telugu Field the evangelistic work, is now at We cannot afford to pay for them. We have three hospitals in the Nuzvid. He was with me during the Balige is a town on the mainland. Telugu field which are doing excel- six weeks I was in that field. J. C. Last year we held a public effort here, lent work. At the Nuzvid Hospital H. Collett, the Sabbath school secre- and seven months later had the privi- is Dr. D. W. Semmens, assisted by tary for the South India Union, was lege of burying nineteen with Christ Miss Binder and many Indian help- with us for fourteen days. We ap- by baptism in the beautiful lake. ers. This is the place where Dr. preciated his help, but regretted very Eighteen more were baptized last A. E. Coyne settled when he was in much that he was obliged to leave June in the same place, and fourteen India. At the Narsapur Hospital us so soon. others in another town forty kilome- are Dr. A. E. Clarke and his family. The future is very. bright. We ters distant, also on the lake shore. Dr. G. A. Nelson has labored here have a loyal band of Indian evangel- Seven kilometers farther on a Sab- bath school has been started. • for the last six years. In the Bobbili ists, teachers, colporteurs, and medi- Hospital are Dr. Emma Hughes and cal workers in the Telugu field. May We have just returned from a trip Nurse Gore. The Doctors Browns- the Lord bless the seeds that are to another district, where we held berger were here before they returned being scattered, and help us reap a' services in four different villages. In to America. In addition to the medi- plenteous harvest of souls in due one of these we have a church, but in cal help given to the sick and suf- season. each of the other three we have just an isolated family. It was encourag- ing to see how eager these families were to share their joy with their 6Battakland Mission neighbors by opening their little homes for the services, and doing all BY G. A. WOOD they could to make them a success. WE are on our way back to Balige school here. Our teacher hung up Eight years ago the husband and a from. Pangoeroeran, where we spent the Sabbath School Picture Roll, and father in one of these homes worked five days with our workers stationed two hundred faces, old and young, as houseboy with us in Padang. It there. were turned in his direction. Then gave us great joy to see him now in Pangoeroeran is the chief town of these natives listened for the first time this village, holding a Sabbath school Samoesir, an island in Lake Toba, to news of the Saviour's return. in his own house, and doing all he can which one, passing from the highway, The chief of the village urged us to for the Master by kindly deeds and would think too small to be of much start a school, so the children could ministering to the needy in any way importance; but by closer investiga- learn to read. We told the people he can. Though himself young, he tion we learn that on this island, that if they could furnish a school- has the respect of his neighbors, and about twenty-five kilometers (fifteen house and a house for the teacher, and we hope that some from this village miles) long and twelve wide, live supply him with food, we would try will soon be ready to follow their 90,000 people. Only a small percent- to find a teacher. They replied that Lord in baptism. age of these know anything about the they were too poor to do this, and if true God. looks are anything to go by, that was -- During our stay we visited a num- surely true,; but still we hope that the "Jr this whole world followed you— ber of kampongs (villages), some en- Followed to the letter— Lord has some way by which they Would it be a nobler world, tirely heathen. One of these made a may have an opportunity to hear the All deceit and falsehood hurled I lasting impression on my memory. message for this time, and perhaps From it altogether; One hundred eighty families live in learn to read it. Malice, selfishness, and lust a few houses, built up high off the The next village we visited has Banished from beneath the crust Covering human hearts from view— ground to allow for pigs and cattle about the same number of inhabit- Tell me, if it followed you, underneath. They have never had a ants, but they looked a little cleaner Would the world be better?"

Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 13 We desire to report briefly the sec- Turan, Anam ond of the series held in the beautiful city of Santa Fe, capital of the prov- BY R. H. WENTEAND ince of the same name. OUR work in Turan has been under about one thousand kilometers [600 As word was sent in from the field, way for about a year. Except for miles] from Turan. Our furlough it became apparent that our own I our occasional visits, it has been left is overdue, and health conditions meeting hall was too small, and so a entirely to the care of native workers. oblige us to leave soon, but how can beautiful hall was hired in the center About two months ago we started a we leave all this new work without of the city. The meeting began special evangelistic effort to prepare some one to look after it ? Wednesday night, January 16, and a few of the converts for baptism. About forty or fifty kilometers out closed Sunday night, the 20th. An Last Sabbath, December 8, 1934, we of Turan (the French Concession) excellent group was present at the had the privilege of baptizing forty- we have more than sixty families very first meeting, and the number nine. With the few who were bap- keeping the Sabbath. However, the grew until we had more than 250 tized some months ago, we were able government does not allow us to make young people present, besides a to organize a church with fifty-four any propaganda there, because we goodly number of adults, who came charter members. are not French. We have a native with their young people. All the con- It is truly an inspiration to see worker living there, but he cannot ference workers were present as vis- these new believers rejoice in the do much because of prevailing con- itors,—I. H. Evans and the writer blessed advent message. I often wish ditions. We are hoping soon to get from the General Conference, H. B. that some of our people, who give permission from the government to Lundquist from the division, W. E. so faithfully to missions, could visit carry on missionary work, for surely Murray and J. T. Thompson from the Austral Union, and several workers from neighboring conferences. The 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 attendance on the Sabbath, by actual count, ran over the 400 mark. Standards Set by an Army of Youth These Anam Peo- ple Walked Forty- It was indeed inspiring to see and five Kilometers hear this fine army of youth discuss (a bout twenty- freely their own problems and set sev en miles) to their own standards for Christian liv- Sabbath School, ing. Not in one instance did they and Were on Time vote to lower the standard, and at, at 8 A. M. times they were almost more exacting with themselves than one would ex- pect. Our South American young people hold to the solid Seventh-day 1111111111111111i1111111111M111111111111111111 Adventist principles. The Lord came near with His sweet Spirit in all the meetings. The entire these new members and see the won- this message must go to this impor- Sabbath was a day of blessing. On derful results of mission work, all tant province. Sunday morning Elder Evans spoke made possible by the prayers and Last Sabbath eighteen people earnestly in the devotional meeting. gifts of God's children the world walked in to our Sabbath school here This was followed by a precious serv- over. In a few more months we ex- at Turan. They were on time, arriv- ice of consecration. A large number pect to baptize many more. We now ing at 8 A. M., after walking forty- took their stand for, the first time, and p have several hundred Sabbathkeepers five kilometers. Some of them are plan to be baptized in their home who we hope will finally all be bap- over seventy-five years of age. churches. Backsliders sought God tized and received into the church. Surely God must have some way far a new experience, and all together The work here should have Euro- to furnish us with means and men, sought a deeper experience. The pean supervision. We must soon and secure the necessary permission, meeting lasted more than two hours, have a missionary family here; if so we can bring this saving gospel and will be an outstanding, occasion not, our work will suffer much, for to the millions in Anam who are anx- in ;the memory of those who were it is too far from Cochin China for iously waiting for the hope that we present. us to look after it properly. We are have. At the closing meeting on. Sunday night, after a very brief tallc;:,ocai. sion, was given for testimonies, :All expressed their gratitude for,the priv. Youth's Congress in South America ilege' of attendance and for the bless- ings gained. At the same time they BY C. P. CRAGER expressed a fixed purpose to ,return IT would be difficult to express Inspired by the reports of success to their respective churches to live the fully the joy experienced in attend- attained by these congresses in other life that counts, that is in harmony ing a youth's congress in South Amer- parts, Brother Lundquist and his col- with the standards voted, and to work ica by one who for many years had leagues caught the vision, which grew as never before for the Master: been intimately connected with the upon them, and finally, in spite of The meeting cost the conference work in behalf of the youth of this apparent obstacles and problems, the something, as do: all good things, but continent. Surely it spells a new day division committee voted to hold a it was a profitable investment. for this important branch of the work series of these congresses throughout God bless our dear youth of this of God. South America. 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today he is the city attorney in a `Boys, Keep Out! Western metropolis. Think, also, of your own boyhood BY W. C. RALEY experiences. I dare say that many IN effect, and _in reality, this sign reduction plant. Its gates carried successful careers have found their is on our office doors and factory "Keep Out" signs. beginnings and their inspirations in gates and over the entrances to our "When George and a crony were some of those chance contacts with mills, shops, pressrooms, hospitals, one day caught within the gates by life's actualities that were opened to laboratories, and committee rooms. the superintendent himself, they ex- the boy at a time when he was hun- Our modern, specialized life has made pected trouble. But the superintend- gry for a part in life's work. When it so. At an age when a boy is most ent ended by showing the boys men opened the door and took me behind the counter and had patience anxious for an active part in real through the plant. It took him half 1 work and accomplishment, we shut a day. He invited the boys to return. enough to show me the thing itself, him away from the "going" and the They became chronic visitors. When something vital happened. Those in- "doing" life of his father and his the boys went to college, the super- terests and urgings that make one grandfather. Even the modern farm intendent gave them summer employ- mentally alive began to take shape. is so highly developed and special- ment at the plant. And George—his It may not be easy to break through ized that there is not much room for interest fired by his acquaintance the crust of reserve and specialism so the boy. with the man and the industry—at- that youth may see what is going on It is true our boys are sent to tended the Colorado School of Mines inside. But we might begin by crook- school; they study textbooks, see pic- with credit to himself, and to the su- ing a friendly finger and saying, tures, read about people, and hear perintendent who refused to join the "Come in." The contractor might secondhand reports about things and cry to 'Keep Out.' " take a boy with him on a special happenings. But a boy wants actual An intelligent but unsettled youth hurry-up job. The bookkeeper might participation in hard and taxing re- was permitted to watch a surgeon say, "Take a look at our ledger ar- a alities. The harder the realities in perform an operation on his father's rangement, and try our new book- which he has a part, the more satis- eye. The boy's life suddenly blazed keeping machine some day." The fied is the boy, and the more con- with the light of ardent purpose. He nurseryman might suggest, "We are tented is he to pursue the school is now a distinguished member of a starting some grafting experiments work, the textbook study, and the noted faculty of surgeons. Then tomorrow ; drop around." The edu- theme writing. there is the boy who went to court cational secretary might take a rest- In modern life our boys do not with his uncle, a lawyer, involved in less boy with him on a school inspec- accompany their fathers on the hunt; an important trial. The unexpected tion trip. The conference president they do not bear a. large part in pro- result was that Ben studied law, and might invite James to go with him to viding the food, drink, and shelter of the tribe; they do not serve appren- ticeships ; they do not stand guard at the door at night to warn of dangers. The Man to Be a Seldom do they accompany their fa- thers in the daily work of providing SOME day the world will need a man of Some day the world will need a man! I stand beside his cot at night for their families' temporal needs. courage in a time of doubt, And somewhere, as a little boy, that fu- And wonder if I'm teaching him, as best Seldom do they find a place in the ture hero plays about. I can, to know the right. social activities of their fathers, and Within some humble home, no doubt, that I am the father of a boy,—his life is mine rarely do they find opportunity to instrument of greater things to make or mar,— sit with their fathers in business Now climbs on his father's knee, or to his And he no better can become than what mother's garments clings. my daily teachings are. councils and committee meetings. And when shall come that call for him to There will be need for some one great; No; we expect our boys to "keep out" render service that is fine, I dare not falter from the line— until they are graduated. He that shall do God's mission here may The man that is to serve the world may When his schooling is finished, the be your little boy or mine. be that little boy of mine. boy is expected to assume the full Long years of preparation mark the Perhaps your boy and mine may not as- dignity and responsibility of a sea- pathway for the splendid souls, cend the lofty heights of fame; soned man, and to perform with the And generations live and die and seem no The orders for their birth are hid. We regularity and judgment of a diplo- nearer to their goals; know not why to earth they came. mat. Should we criticize the school And yet the purpose of it all, the fleeting Yet in some little bed tonight the great pleasure and the woe, man of tomorrow sleeps, if it fails to give youth the degree of The laughter and the grief of life that all And only He who sent him here, the balance and seasoned poise that we who come to earth must know secret of His purpose keeps. think it should have given? May be to pave the way for one—one As parents, then, our care is this,—to man to serve the will divine, keep in mind the great design; Firing a Bog's Interest And it is possible that he may be your The man the world shall need some day The story is told of a boy who lived little boy or mine. may be your little boy or mine. in the neighborhood of a large metal —Edgar A. Guest. Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

a church business meeting or a pub- new associations. Starting a young was 'speaking a piece,' and I forgot lic service. The evangelist and the man in his work without such assist- it. I became terrified; and my terror pastor have interesting visits to make. ance is like starting him on the ap- wasn't eased a bit when somebody The doctor might take a serious- proach of a bridge with an open out in the audience laughed at me." minded boy with him on a country draw. When he comes to the opening "I shoUld say not !" Martha sym- I call. Both doctor and boy would in the bridge, the boy will jump and pathized. "But what has that to do probably benefit from the association. endeavor to swim across the channel, with James?" Work With Them but there is no telling which way the Julia went on musingly, "After One of my recent regrets is that current will carry him, or how far. that I turned positively ill at the the crust of modern prejudice and Men may frown at these sugges- very thought of an audience, and business ethics does not permit my tions and say, "I'm too busy. My stoutly refused to appear before the own boy to work in the office with me. work is too important to be tinkered public again. But finally a chum But I recall with satisfaction the time with by boys." Of course mistakes persuaded me to be in a dialogue. he remained away from a school pic- will be made. But think, men! If The chum and I were twins, and went nic in order to vacation for a day you and I had been put out because around holding hands all the time. with real work with real horses ; and we made mistakes, and had been kept And, do you know,• I was the boldest the long days and portions of nights out until we had become perfect, most child on the platform! If my knees that he spent, without pay, doing of us would still be out. Think again. began to wobble, one big pressure yards of adding machine work and The boy's repeated mistakes, which from that friendly hand steadied many pages of schedules and reports, spell failure, may not be failure of them instantly." for the "fun" of having a part in the boy, but failure of the man, the "And now you give lectures all actual accomplishment. teacher, because he failed to make a over the country," laughed Martha. Such gestures, to be effective, must success of the boy, the apprentice. "Good for the chum!" I be more than sight-seeing tours. An honest, substantial boy will Julia smiled. "May I be a friend Mere sight-seeing tours are disap- more than compensate in youthful to poor, frightened James?" pointing, and if carried too far, may enthusiasm and actual work accom- Martha looked dubious, but at last be decidedly damaging, tending to plishment for the time and effort she reluctantly consented. blight the enthusiasm that should be spent in his training. He will go Julia went into the other room. developed and made permanent. The through fire for you, men, or stand "Let's play !" she challenged the tear- contacts made should be followed up. immovable against the waters that ful James. In fact, it is the personal balance flood over your interests and activi- The boy was only too Willing.. that counts, for that is the only ties. Association with, and common Anything to postpone the dread or- safe bridge between the generations. understanding of, young men will deal of going into that dark nursery. Friendship and understanding grow tend to keep young men young and There was a merry game with much out of common interests and activ- to make old men yoanger. It has laughter. Fear and darkness were I ities. been wisely said that no man has comPletely forgotten. In the end Even after the young man has been made a success of his work until he Julia said, "Now, let's be airplanes given a regular job, he should con- has trained a younger man to do and sail 'up and up." tinue to receive definite instruction that work better than he himself can Up and up the stairs the two about his work and guidance in his do it. planes went, with no dread of a dark room. James's mind was too fully occupied with fun to be fearful. Anyhow, Was not this friendly play- 6-Kelp the Child to Conquer Fear mate with him.? Still chattering gaily, giving him no time to collect BY LOIS SNELLING his bogey fears, Julia rolled him into bed. "On, dear, oh, dear," sighed convince him that there is nothing "Good night, little plane," she said, Martha Grant, "he'll drive me crazy! to be afraid of." turning toward the door: Every night it's like this, except "Do you go with him?" Julia James thought that was funny—a when I let him sit up so late that he asked, "and turn on the light if he little plane going to bed in its hangar falls asleep at his play. gets too panicky'?" --and-was chuckling to hiinSelf as she "Afraid of the dark ! Why, James, "Mercy, no! If I once did that, went out of the room. She did not I should think you'd be ashamed of go directly downstairs, however, but yourself—a great big boy like you." moved about in the hall a little dis= Ashamed or not, four-year-old tanee from his door, humming softly James in the adjoining room only to herself. There was no further screamed the louder at the thought sound from James: of going to the dark nursery. Of course, all this was only "first "I have always tried to keep him aid to the injured," but as such it from being afraid of the dark," Mar- was decidedly worth while.—Issued tha said, "but one night the cat got by the National Kindergarten Asso- in his room. We didn't know it was ciation. there, and when it suddenly jumped et% I upon the bed, James, not knowing what it was, almost went into hys- "MOST problem children who get terics. He's been afraid ever since." the right help at the right time cease "M-m-m," murmured her guest, he'd be spoiled forever. No, he must to be problem children, and do not be- Julia Carr, thoughtfully, "no wonder." go alone and in the dark." come problem adults or criminals. "But he must overcome that fear, "Well," Julia said, "I remember The thing to do is to give the right so I try to argue him out of it, and once when I was in high school I help before it is too late." 16 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 1.935

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gWahing Digestion Easy Importance of Fruits and Vegetables Fruits and vegetables are impor- BY BELLE WOOD-COMSTOCK, M. D. tant for many reasons. Their ulti- mate importance lies in their bone, FOOD has a long way to travel from cises his mental powers more than his tooth, and blood building qualities. the time it enters the mouth until it physical. The invigoration of a day But the reason for their use we are reaches its ultimate destination, some spent in picnicking or hiking, in discussing now is that which mani- of it as many as twenty-five to thirty outdoor work or play, tends so to in- fests itself more immediately in their feet along a muscular tubal tract that vigorate the body musculature that effect upon ease of digestion. If a moves it ahead by dint of the pro- the digestive wall may, under such sufficient fruit or vegetable bulk is pelling force of its contracting mus- conditions, take care of a food mass included in every meal, it will tend to cular wall. that at other times it might find en- prevent the overeating of concen- In an early part of this tubular tirely too heavy. trated food, which, of itself, is a very pathway there is a dilated portion common cause of digestive as well as a forming a pouch, called the stomach, Substantials Must Be Diluted other nutritional disturbances. Over- into which the food is received and The mechanical ability of a diges- eating of concentrated food is very retained for a little time until it has tive tract to take care of any food common, especially among those who been thoroughly softened and formed mass that is introduced into it de- are in average health and have ordi- into a smooth, souplike mixture. pends not only upon the actual size nary appetites. The way to avoid Then it passes on into the tubelike of the food bulk, but also upon its this excess is to eat sufficiently of the coils that we call the small bowel, or weight and concentration. There fruits and vegetables which are so small intestines. Here, as it is moved must be a certain food bulk to sat- necessary for other. reasons. along by a wormlike muscular ac- isfy the appetite; but if a person de- And again .we are reminded that tion, it is more thoroughly dissolved, pends upon ordinary substantials to eating enough of essential foods is a and its nutritional elements are satisfy his appetite, the chances are very definite safeguard against eating sucked through the wall to become a that he is placing upon his digestive those things without which the body I part of the body fluids, and to be car- tube too heavy a task. Substantials may be better off. Positive instruc- ried by the blood stream to the body must be diluted with foods that, be- tion in correct eating is so much more cells which are so, dependent upon sides furnishing bulk, also lessen the interesting and conducive to happy this regular supply. compactness of the entire food mass, results than are the negative things Two Important Actions in Digestion thus making it lighter in weight and that so irk the usual mind. Learn to The two important actions that more easily handled. Such foods are eat the things you should, and the take place in digestion are this "push- fruits and vegetables. These should great question of what you should not ing along," and the putting into so- be eaten along with the more compact eat will tend to take care of itself. lution, or dissolving, of the food. If and satisfying portions, so that by the And again we say, as we have said either one of these processes is hin- time the stomach has that comfort- before, that nearly all food is good dered, digestion is handicapped. And able feeling of adequacy which sug- food providing it is clean, free from when digestion is not carried on in gests that the meal is done, the sum drug effect, and is balanced properly due time, food is retained too long, total of food will not form too solid at any meal with other essential I and of course trouble follows. In a mass. foods. this way the body may be robbed of People often complain that they A Balanced Diet some of its needed nourishment be- cannot eat starch; that bread, pota- What kind of food bulk are you cause the food has not been prepared toes, and cereals are not well borne putting into your stomach ? Just size as it should have been for body utili- by them. The trouble is they attempt up this meal that you are about to zation. to eat these starchy foods with an eat. Are you sitting down to a din- The ability of this muscular wall insufficient amount of the fruit or ner of potato, corn, hubbard squash, of the digestive tract to move the food vegetable bulk that would, by its ex- cottage cheese, bread, and pie; to a along on schedule time, depends celsiorlike consistency, ensure a light- combination of beans, carrots, rice, largely upon the strength of the mps- ness that would make easy the muscu- beets, and pudding; to a breakfast of cies as compared, with the heaviness lar work of the digestive wall. oatmeal, banana, toast; or, perhaps, and compactness of the food mass This article is not written to the of corn bread, eggs, and dates or that has to be moved. Let us think dyspeptic who has already reached prunes? There's nothing wrong with of the digestive tract in its mechan- the stage where his starch must be any of these foods, but they are not ical phase as a muscular machine dextrinized, his vegetables pureed, his mixed with enough of the kind of with a definite power. The digestive cereals grueled (there is, a very fine bulk that would lighten the whole tract of a soldier on the march, or of place in digestive ills for all such pre- mass and make it easily handled by a mountain climber, or of a physical digested foods), but to normal or the digestive organs. One or two worker, has more strength in its near normal persons who, by their leafy vegetables, as spinach, cabbage, muscle wall than has that of the one persistence in a concentrated food string beans, beet tops, asparagus, who is a school teacher, an office program, are laying the foundation etc., should be added, or better still, worker, or any one whose work exer- for digestive disturbances later. 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pieces of pots with a composition. "The Gray Angel of Success" Four hours they baked. Four hours, and then the material on one piece BY EUNICE GRAHAM had melted. Yet that was only the beginning. "THERE is always room at the top," fered a position with Scribner's, at With his own hands he built a fur- has long been the watchword of am- a salary of $18, and after five years nace for his further experiments, car- bitious young people. But we must became editor of the Ladies' Home rying the bricks himself. He made climb ; for, as one wit has remarked, Journal, his own vessels. Finally all was "the elevator isn't running " And it In the midst of his phenomenal ready, the pots were in the kiln, and is that climbing, that drudgery, that success, he did not forget his own he sat by his furnace for a day, but is "the gray angel of success." early years and his struggle for still the enamel would not melt. Two Consider some of those who have knowledge. To assist young people days, three, four, five, six days he I achieved their goal through the sim- in their education, he inaugurated watched, but his work failed. He ple means of drudgery, of constant the scholarship plan through the sale was bankrupt. and intelligent application to their of subscriptions. But his credit was good, and he daily tasks. Andrew Carnegie started work as borrowed an amount for his last, Edward Bok started to school in a bobbin boy at a cotton factory, desperate experiment. He was once Brooklyn, without knowing a word working from early morning till late more sitting by the furnace, waiting. of English. Even as children, he and at night, for which he received $1.20 The fire was running low, but the his brother William were on the look- a week. When he was fourteen he enamel had not melted. He burned out for additional tasks. At home became a telegraph boy, and made $3 the garden fence palings. He burned they rose early, built the fire, cooked a week. Two years later he was pro- the furniture. He burned the shelv- breakfast, and washed the dishes; and moted to telegraph operator, at $300 ing—and the enamel melted ! after school they swept and scrubbed, a year. His start in his financial After sixteen years of experiments, helped with supper, and again washed career came shortly afterward, when Palissy assumed the title of "Potter." the dishes. Edward's first job was he purchased ten shares in an ex- But he was never content with his I cleaning a baker's window twice a press company, mortgaging his home present achievement; he always aimed week, for which he received fifty to do so. Later he turned to steel at the greatest perfection possible, cents. One day he waited on a cus- construction work, and became known and for that cause endured reproach, tomer, and did it so well that the eventually as the "Steel King." He hunger, and misery. baker employed him when he was out summed up his philosophy of work Josiah Wedgwood, the great Eng- of school, raising his pay to $1.50. thus: "Concentration is my motto. lish potter, in spite of the handicaps Then the boy took a newspaper route, First, honesty, then industry, then of disfigurement and lameness, the and earned an additional dollar concentration." results of smallpox, experimented for weekly. A man who won lasting fame years, and finally won renown and a Before he was thirteen, he did a against almost insuperable difficul- remunerative trade by duplicating a piece of work which was to give di- ties was Francis Parkman, author of large plate for an aristocratic family. rection to his future life. He re- the "History of the Conspiracy of The story is told of Comte de Buf- ported a party he attended, telling Pontiac," and other annals of early fon, authority on natural history, that the names of all the guests, and writ- America. Because of poor eyes, he he determined to break himself of the ing the report so well that the editor was unable to read ; and because of habit of late rising. Being unable to of the Brooklyn Eagle promised him his practical invalidism, he was un- accomplish this himself, he asked his $3 a column for such news. Shortly able to listen to some one else read servant Joseph to help him, and afterward, he became an office boy for for more than two hours at a time. promised him a crown for each time the Western Union, and left school. He could write only with his eyes he succeeded in getting him out of When he was eighteen his father shut, and once, for a period of a year bed before six. Again and again died, and the two boys determined and a half, he averaged only six lines Joseph "forced Buffon to rise, not- to make their mother comfortable. It of writing each clay. withstanding his entreaties, expostu- was at this time that he was asked to Bernard Palissy was originally a lations, and threats of immediate dis- edit a magazine published by the glass painter, and knew almost noth- charge from his service." If he Young People's Society of Plymouth ing about pottery making when he failed, he was only met with rebuke. church, of which Henry Ward started his experiments in enamel- "One morning Buffon was un- Beecher was pastor. This Brooklyn ware. He neglected his trade, search- usually obstinate, and Joseph found Magazine carried articles by famous ing after the secret of the ancient it necessary to resort to the extreme men, and because of its merit and Etruscan enamel, until his family was measure of dashing a basin of ice- I active promotion, gradually increased destitute. For years he worked, buy- cold water under the bedclothes." its circulation. A year later Bok ing pots, breaking them up, and cov- Buffon would often say that to this gave up his Western Union work, ering each piece with some compound, servant he owed several of his books. and devoted his whole time to editing then waiting excitedly until they were and publishing this journal, which is taken from the oven. Finally, after egk, now the American Magazine. Be- nearly ten years, he made one last THE great thoughts come from the fore he was twenty-one he was of- effort, and covered three hundred heart.—Vauvaravrgues. 18 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH. HERALD March 2L 1935

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The first general to serve a cause so all-inclusive that it time to come when knowledge shall meeting of Adventist Sabbathkeepers embraces all peoples, all places, and be increased. We are now in that was held in 1848. Two years and all that is within God's purpose for time. Never before have men claimed seven months after that first general this generation. It is not concerned to know as much as just now. There meeting, the publication of the with class or color or party or racial has been a surpriSing increase of SECOND ADVENT REVIEW AND SAB- distinction. It does not think in knowledge within our own years. But BATH HERALD was begun. Still an- terms of citizen or alien. It is un- a far more surprising thing is, that other two years after that, the first restricted in its conception of field this vast increase of human knowl- general contribution of means re- and extent of service. It has nothing edge is accompanied by an appalling ceived from the believers of the sec- less than the whole human race in ignorance of spiritual things. The ond advent and Sabbath truths was mind, and is purposed to bring the idea has long prevailed that the sum received. This contribution was made knowledge of the rapidly approaching of human happiness is increased as with the purpose of purchasing a second advent of our Saviour to all the mind of man is better instructed. a printing press, type, and material peoples. But the present condition of our with which to publish the REVIEW AND Essentially Missionary world has completely exploded that HERALD It is interesting to observe It is essentially missionary in its idea. Never has the mind of man that the amount contributed was outlook and purpose. It exists to go been better instructed concerning $655.84, and that the amount spent in "into all the world, and preach the many things, but never has the race purchasing the press and other ma- gospel to every creature." It aims to been more confused and despairingly terials at that time was $652.93. The do this by the influence of a litera- unhappy. The knowledge that has pioneers evidently believed in living ture ministry, which no other move- been so increased to men at this time within their budget. ment has ever thought of initiating. has begotten in their hearts neither Two years before the movement It does this, not merely because it be- interest in things relating to God's had decided to giye itself a general lieves that this is a good work and kingdom, nor the spirit to seek God organization, it had taken steps to in behalf of themselves or of others. very much needed, but because it I organize its publishing work. Ac- is possessed of an unshakable con- In consequence of this, the peoples cordingly, on May 3, 1861, the Sev- viction that this is its supreme and of our world were never less prepared enth-day Adventist Publishing Asso- urgent duty. It believes with Paul, to face spiritual realities. At this ciation was incorporated, the name "Woe is me if I preach not the gos- time, when, more than any other; they of this corporation afterward being pel." needed to know God and to be pre- changed to the Review and Herald There is an idea prevailing in pared to meet Him, they have de- Publishing Association. Christian minds, that about all the parted from God, led away by the Now why .was' this corporation ever church can hope to do for this world conceit of their minds. Truly has formed? It has acted no part in the is to leaven it with the principles of the psalmist pictured their condition world's politics. It has had nothing the kingdom of God, and thus pre- with those five little words, "They to do with the world's ordinary work- serve in it decency and safety for its have all gone aside." aday commercial doings. It never peoples. This publishing house stands It is to a race of men that have all has entered into the struggle between for something far more positive than gone aside that our message is di- national and international forces. Its that. Not, merely to leaven with right- rected, and our field is wherever there voice has never been heard either eousness the lump of this world's are men. This publishing house cheering on or critically discouraging wickedness is our aim, but to proclaim stands to give, by the printed page, contending parties for governmental the gospel to all with such ringing the message that this movement exists favor. Its influence has never been clearness that it shall constitute a to proclaim to all men. Its worktieill given to aid the ambitious seeker for mighty call to a new-life altogether in not be finished until there is no longer worldly office. What, then, is the Christ Jesus; not to preach- the gos- need for such a movement to ekist. purpose of its existence ? Where, ex- pel as if there were yet a long stretch It Exists to Give Information oAildtess delivered at the Revielv and Herald of time for its leaven to'Work in the With such a general organization annual constituency meeting; February 27, 1950. lump, but to ring out -its message as as ours it is highly important that. Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH' HERALD 19 the membership of the movement be But where the foreign leader will not odicals which are published to regu- supplied with exact information con- be permitted to live, our church pa- late church affairs, to promote cluirch cerning the work that we are doing in per, the REVIEW AND HERALD, Will still activity, and to stabilize and enrich all parts of the world. Ignorance of take its message. It must always be the experience of our church mem- what has been done, what is being ac- a true counselor, a trustworthy guide, bers. The influence and service of complished, and what yet must be an unwavering leader of the indige- this house must always be strongly undertaken, is a deadly enemy to, co- nous church at such a time. It must, counted on for the spiritual quicken- ordination and cooperation. The co- through the national leaders who read ing and oversight of our home church ordination of all the forces of the its pages, keep the church there one members. Our work in all this wide movement, and the cooperation of all with the church here and in all other world depends very much upon their persons and peoples of the movement, places, and go before the people as a being well done. It depends at least are absolutely necessary to our suc- pillar of fire by night and a pillar of as fully upon this as it does upon the cess. cloud by day. personal consecration and self-sacri- It is here that the Review and Her- The Review and Herald as an or- ficing devotion of the missionaries ald chiefly through the service of its ganization already has a wonderful that the church at home sends out to periodicals, is rendering the cause a record of service in this cause, but its represent it in lands afar. very high service. It collects facts greatest and most glorious work is yet May the messages that leave this of missionary and evangelical impor- ahead. It has willingly and cheer- publishing house week by week and tance. It tells us what has been ac- fully accepted great responsibility in month by month be prepared and complished. It keeps us informed as days gone by, but it must undertake published with all this in view. May to what is being done, and it calls us larger things and accept heavier re- God graciously add to that work all always to greater things, and to un- sponsibilities in days that are yet to that is needed beyond what our hu- man efforts can impart to it, that the I reached places, with the purpose to come. Against a great array of op- evangelize the whole world, and to posing forces that are surely being church in the homeland, as it faces its make ready a people prepared for the marshaled to overwhelm us, we must task of giving this message to all the Lord. This service is of inestimable still more earnestly project the truth world, shall come behind in no good value to the cause that we all serve. for this time by means of the printed and spiritually necessary thing. The Workers in the Review and Herald It Is a Unifying Agent page. Then, whether we go in person or are denied that privilege, the peo- Intimately Associated With Greitt The whole church in all the world, ple will yet be warned, and the voice World Problems working together at the same task, of general leadership shall yet be In a much More intimate way than with the same purpose• and the same heard in all the earth. they recognize, and in a way that no vision, proclaiming the same message, other publishing house staff does, the acknowledging one general organiza- A Spiritual Leader in the Homeland workers in this institution labor very tion, and operating its policies to the The prosperity of the church close to the heart of the denomina- I uttermost part of the earth, is a spec- abroad depends a great deal on the tion's great world problems. No tacle that, so far as I know, no other spiritual condition of the church at world plan for our work is ever au- Protestant denomination presents. home. In all our plans for success thorized but its promotion, outside of The influence of the Review and Her- abroad, emphasis must be laid on the the General Conference office, begins ald office has had a great deal to do ability of the home church to under- with the Review and Herald staff. As with the development of the will and take for God in regions beyond its I face world situations in my own the spirit to unify the whole member- own borders. Certain it is that the work, and seek to lay plans for the ad- ship of this movement. It must al- church is spiritnally no stronger vancement of God's work under all ways be a leading force in the main- abroad than it is within its own doors. conditions, I find it absolutely neces- tenance of unity in our work. In It must know the power of the Holy sary to take the service of this house order to continue thus to serve the Ghost in its own life before it will de- into consideration' fin- the effective cause, the Review and Herald must pend more upon that same power for outworking of those plans. It is, preserve within itself the will and success abroad than it does upon therefore, important that the spirit the spirit with which God imbued this the money and facilities that it pro- of this institution shall always be in whole movement at its beginning. vides by its sacrifice for foreign syinpathy with the aims and'purposes And never must its high purpose be service. of General Conference leadership. brought down to the level of a mere The home church, to be spiritually •It is important, too, that the lead- bookmaking and bookselling concern. strong, must be simple and trustful ers of this institution shall be men of Should that ever occur, its exalted and prayerful. It must cherish the experience in the Message and the service as an effectual force for unity things of the kingdom. It must "love movement, Men of vision and sound among this people will have ceased, not the world, neither the things that judgment in all matters that concern and a chapter of failure will have are in the world." The church is in our world work. ThiS fact will, I be- closed its record as a useful factor in the world, but the world must not be lieve, ,be made more apparent. to us the cause of God. Come what will, permitted in the church: The church by future developmentA of our work. this influence, this agency, must not at home must be alert and ready in When this institution was Yonng, be lost from our work. the service of home missions. The the executive committee of the Gen-, Time of New Opportunity Ahead publishing houses of the honieland eral Conference iconsisted of three The time is coming when it will be have an important part to act in serv- men.' The twenty' delegates gathered I impossible for us to provide foreign ing the spiritual need;s of the home at its session represented the Whole leadership in many countries. Al- church. movement at that time. But that. is ready some of the countries in which Especially is thiS true Of the Re- not the situation now. The 'General we.are working have excluded foreign view and Herald; from which issue Conference Cominittee now numbers missionaries. Under those conditions, every week the REviii,v, our time- some two frundred or more in its mem- the leadership of the church has per- honored church paper, and the bership'.' More' of its ittemberS meet force to depend altogether upon the Outh's Instruetor, and at less fre- regitlarly in its -Minority meetings, national workers in all such places. quent periods the many other peri- thaii`then iria.de up the hill delegation 20 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21, 193,5 at That General Conference session. now, and in the hearts of all who shall leges, and is accredited by the Massa- That, of course, was the day of follow us in time to come. chusetts State Board of Nurse Exam- small beginnings, and we are not in Operating Success iners. The new State inspector of the spirit to despise them. The dif- For the good success of the associa- nursing schools, who recently made a ference between that day and ours tion in 1934 we congratulate the staff. visit to the institution, was pro- is, the development of the work that foundly impressed with the extent The increased business for the year I then was in its beginning. In those was not quite sufficient, I am given and high standards of our health and days the active operators of the pub- to understand, to pay the entire cost educational work. lishing house were in closest coopera- of operating. However, the operat- In harmony with the General Con- tion with the General Conference ing results show a very decided im- ference plan, the prenursing year in leaders. Indeed, this was so because provement over the previous year, college will be required for admis- the men of the General Conference and for this we are glad. In any sion to the School of Nursing, after were the men of the publishing asso- case, while I am always anxious to this year. The class entering in 1935 ciation. But now the work is much have this movement in all its concerns will, therefore, be the last to be ad- too large for any such identity of pay its way, I shall not forget that mitted with only twelve grades of men at both places. while it is possible for an institution education. The additional year will There must, however, continue to to make a net gain and yet fail of suc- provide more time for professional be the same close and understanding ceeding in the thing it exists to do, I studies, since many of the sciences cooperation as though both were am proudly conscious that the Review will have been completed in the operated by one man. Because the and Herald has been blessed with college. demands of a growing work have much success in those more important As the student cares for newborn things of which I have spoken. infants and their mothers, the person greatly increased the staffs at both recovering from an operation, the vic- places of responsibility, there must We are all hopeful that 1935 will tim of an accident, or the sick child, a be the greater care taken' always to be a year of very fruitful service for she has the opportunity to use hydro- have the work conducted an a basis the institution, and of great blessing therapy, massage, electricity, special of coordinated effort and close coun- to the individual members of the Re- diets, and other forms of rational sel to the very end of the task. That view and Herald staff. May God in treatment that characterize our this relationship has obtained until His goodness give grace to all those health work. She also has the priv- now is a matter of mutual satisfac- upon whom the burdens of leadership ilege of giving spiritual help and tion. May the good Spirit of God rest, and make His name glorious in comfort to many of these patients. still preserve it in the hearts of all of the work that this institution shall Because the sanitarium is the only us on both sides of the lawn just do for Him throughout 1935. medical institution in town, and re- ceives all the town welfare cases as well as most of the accidents and Aeu) England Sanitarium School of Nursing many surgical and maternity pa- tients, there is abundant opportunity I BY MRS. EDITH F. STRAND, R. N. for supervised practice and experi- ence. • On every side we see evidences that our denominational work is soon THIRTY years ago the REVIEW AND to many influential people in and to. close. A Seventh-day Adventist HERALD published the following state- around Boston. young person who chooses nursing as ment from the pen of Mrs. E. G. The School of Nursing is a member her profession is in an excellent posi- White : "I have now been at the Mel- of the Seventh-day Adventist Asso- tion to have a part in advancing the rose Sanitarium for a week, and find ciation of Secondary Schools and Col- it one of the most favorably located work for this time. sanitariums that I have ever seen. The spacious lawns, the noble trees, the beauty of the scenery all around, an- Dedication of Italian Church at Santa swer to the representations given me of what our sanitariums ought to be. Rosa, California The quietude is delightful. The sur- BY J. E. FULTON roundings are attractive to the eye and refreshing to the mind. Here I AFTER months of conflict against The chapel is of stucco construc- see the very pictures that I have been the forces of evil, Elder R. Calderone tion outside, and neatly finished in- shown in vision,—patients amid beau- has succeeded in bringing out a very side with plastered walls and Floren- tiful surroundings lying out in the fine company of Italian believers in tine glass windows. A cloak and hat sunshine in wheel chairs and on cots. the beautiful little city of Santa vestibule projects out from the main I see before me the sights that the Rosa, the home of Luther Burbank. auditorium. The auditorium has a Lord has helped me to present before He and the believers there have seating capacity of between 125 and our people in print." erected a neat little chapel, that cer- 150, the pews having been made in Since that time the sanitarium has tainly is a credit to the cause of God, the Santa Rosa planing mill espe- grown until it now consists of more and will prove a great blessing in cially for church purposes. The than twenty buildings, including establishing our work with the Ital- floors have been finished with shellac many additions and improvements ian citizenry in that place. and varnish, with runners in the for patients and workers. Elder Calderone purchased a resi- aisles. The rostrum is carpeted, and Last year the institution eared for dent property, moved the residence to has three new overstuffed rostrum a 2,419 patients within its walls and the rear, and constructed a neat chairs for the ministers, and there is treated 1,913 in its outpatient de- chapel in the front, annexing in the a beautiful large "Rock of Ages" pic- partment. This has meant much in rear a portion of the residence to the ture in a gold frame at the rear of breaking down prejudice and pre- chapel for Sabbath school and other the rostrum. The building is heated senting our truths in a favorable light class purposes. with a new circulating heater. Vol. 112, No. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 21

Elder Calderone has worked very After remarks made by Elder Cal- hand. Feeling strongly, that she- hard and under many difficulties. derone in English and in Italian, and should call for special prayer, we He has had great opposition from after some appropriate statements by sought God earnestly with her and a some who wanted to overthrow his C. C. Mattison, secretary-treasurer small group of believing friends, and work. Warnings were given against of the conference, with reference anointed her. Today she is rejoicing ilk his work, threats were made against to financial matters involved in the• in restoration to health. whim, and to intimidate those who at- erection of the chapel, the writer A man in the building trade heard tended the meetings, but the work has preached the dedicatory sermon, call- the advent message. As an employer been carried on notwithstanding all ing attention to the rise of this work of labor in a country where restric- these difficulties, and we are happy in obscurity, and its spread to all tions are numerous at the best of to see the results. lands, among so many different na- times, he was faced with a grave Elder Calderone had a very well- tionalities. Following this sermon problem. He took a wholehearted ordered program arranged for the the dedicatory prayer was offered in stand. His seventy men were told dedicatory service, with special music Italian by Elder Calderone and in there would be no Saturday work, by the Italian young people. There English by the writer. Elder Calder- and many of them protested that this were sixty-two new Italian members one very appropriately and beauti- was hard treatment after they had and interested believers present for fully rendered as a closing song, stood by him as he built up his busi-, the service. "The Lord Is My Light." ness from nothing. However, the man went ahead and was baptized. Shortly afterward his work grew,, Aews From Old England and he was employing eighty men in- stead of seventy. This good brother BY Ii. W. LOWE today radiates the joy of this message I wherever he goes. INFIDELS transformed into faithful cost the conference very little indeed. We expect more of these rich ex- Adventists, communists converted to In a fourth place this same staff of periences as we journey on, and hum- Christ, tobacco fiends saved from life- workers has had the unique experi- bly we seek God for a greater infill- long habits, drunkards delivered ence of building a church before a ing of His good Spirit. from their bondage, sick people re- single Adventist sermon had been People Evangelistically-Minded stored miraculously to health, sinners preached in the town. At the mo- Not in a quarter of a century have by the score rescued from destruc- ment it looks as if a good baptism our people been so evangelistically- tion ! Does all this sound like a mis- will follow in this place. The ruling minded, or so zealous to press on sionary report from the South Seas? passion of these new people seems to with this soul-saving message for the It is but part of the romance of serv- be to preach the message and raise up last days. The larger vision is on us. ice for Christ in old England. churches in a new town each year. The larger power for service is with Here in south England we have Miracles of Grace us in increasing measure. For the been battling against a strongly en- 0 A communist came to a London finishing of God's work in the world trenched conservatism for over half meeting to heckle, but he remained to we pray and press on. a century, but there are signs that a call upon Christ for mercy and for- We have 2,600 loyal members and great religious awakening is coming giveness. about forty workers in this confer- in this proud old country. The larg- A poor man in another town had ence, among a population of eighteen est evangelistic drive ever undertaken been unemployed and on the dole million This is the only self-support- is already planned to open soon by (small government grant) for three ing conference in the British Union. the finest evangelists of all denomina- years. He heard this message, and The possibilities are enormous for tions in the country. This attack will came face to face with the tithe ques- making this field a still stronger base concentrate on London, since the tion. Resolutely he began to pay of supplies in men and means for heartthrobs of this great city are felt tithe one Saturday night. On Mon- work elsewhere. throughout the country and empire. ihn day morning he found regular em- Our greetings to the REVIEW family Increasing Success in Evangelism ployment! in all the world. May God keep us The mother of a large family was Our own network of evangelistic all by His grace in loyalty till the suddenly afflicted with a withering efforts has been spreading during re- victory is complete in Jesus. cent years, and our men in the me- tropolis have had wonderful experi- ences in spiritual revival among their Sabbathkeeping. Experiences people. Not for many years have we held three to four thousand people BY 11. A. GOBER in our audiences each. Sunday night in London as we did this winter. We Mas. F. was very timid, but felt and she plainly but kindly said, "No." should constantly enlarge our spheres that she must keep the Sabbath of She was asked why, and replied, "I'm of activity, and ultimately "launch the Lord. She was notified that going to keep the Sabbath." into the deep" by taking a large hall eleven hands must work on Sabbath, "The Sabbath ! What do you of national repute among the nine January 26. She had not publicly mean ?" one exclaimed. millions of people in the London identified herself with the Seventh- Mrs. F. replied, "Tomorrow, Sat- district. day Adventist Church, but was fully urday, is the Bible Sabbath, and God Equally soul-stirring experiences convinced of the Sabbath and all the commands us to keep it holy, and by II have come to our evangelists in other third angel's message. His help I mean to do it." parts of the conference. In one sec- Being asked by some of the factory On going to the office, Mrs. F. tion, an evangelist, with a small staff, workers if she was going to work found the manager was gone. Per- has raised up three baptized congreT Saturday, she replied, "I do not know plexed to know what to do, she lin- gations and built three churches in as yet." A little later she was asked gered; but on leaving the factory, many years. These buildings have again whether she was going to work, she saw the manager coming in. She 22 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD March 21', 1035 went bravely to him and said, 'Mr. full and complete in our lives, and D., did you say we should work to- that we may be ready when Jesus Tho Present Truth. morrow?" comes. "Yes," said the manager. .4;7e,A "Well," said Mrs. F., "I can't come -711)1a1; tomorrow." Making Digestion Easy "Why ?" asked Mr. D. (Continued front page 16) "Tomorrow is the Bible Sabbath, substituted for one of the foods just and I've decided to obey God. I'm listed for the dinner. willing to work any day and every Breakfast might be made much 'The Present Truth day in the week for you except the more digestible by the addition of a Sabbath, if you want me, but if you juicy, not too concentrated, fruit, as do not, I cannot work on the Sab- any fresh fruit in season, or stewed bath." fruit of the more bulky type and Mr. D. began by saying, "You are not overly sweetened. These fruits right; Saturday is the Sabbath, and should be eaten freely throughout the the Seventh-day Adventists are the entire meal. One small saucedish of only people who are living up to the fruit may be entirely inadequate to teachings of the Bible and keeping all balance a breakfast of cornmeal of God's commandments." He closed mush, breakfast gems, hot cakes, and by saying to Mrs. F., "You come sirup. By the time a sufficient right on and work for me every day amount of fruit is eaten to balance you can." Mrs. F. was baptized Jan- these concentrated foods, their intake uary 27, 1935. I is decreased to near the amount the PRESENT TRUTH for MARCH Mr. R., being fully convinced of body can take care of to advantage. the Sabbath and being very much Tomatoes, raw or cooked, may take No. 78 "A Morally Sick World" "Christ's Second Advent the Only troubled as to how he could manage the place of fruit at any meal. To- to observe it and not lose his job, Hope for a Better World" matoes are very versatile. They may "A Physically Sick World" came to me and said, "I have decided serve as fruit or vegetable as the need No. 79 "Is the End of the World to keep the Sabbath, but it means I may be. Near?" shall lose my job." One-sided Meats THIS ISSUE CONTAINS "Not necessarily," I said; "perhaps an up-to-date discussion There is too great a tendency to eat of the following points: they will arrange for you to be off on Increase of Knowledge one-sided meals. One will eat bread Finishing Gospel Work the Sabbath." Loss of Religious Faith with cereals, a roll with spaghetti or Wars and Rumors of Wars "No, no," he said, "I've tried dif- Capital and Labor Troubles macaroni. Rarely would one think Gripping Fear ferent times to get them to let me off of having potato soup, mashed pota- A year's subscription, 24 issues cover- I on Sunday, and they would not." ing all the main points of doctrine, is toes, and potato salad served at the only 35 cents, or three for $1, effective I said, "Brother R., do you believe April 1. (District of Columbia, Canada, it is possible for God to work this same meal, yet frequently meals are and foreign, 50 cents.) In bulk, 75 made up largely of two or three cents per 100; 1,000 copies for only $4.75 out for you?" dishes so much alike, as far as their Order from your Book and Bible House, or the He replied, "I do." REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. ASSN. food content is concerned, that the Then I said, "Let us kneel here on Takoma Park - - Washington, D. C. the ground and ask God to speak to tendency is for the body to get too e,e" Zej4itvgilt -'°'" ' .4 SabInttil e the man's heart that he may give you much of one kind of food with a deficiency in other kinds quite as im- a favorable reply." ) l etNeti) a i ertti , L'..V12=t portant. This is not to say that two ;1• ' When the opportune time came, starches are not to be eaten at any Mr. R. said to the manager, "I want Devoted to the proclamation of "the faith which one meal; that bread and potatoes are was once delivered unto the saints." to talk with you when you have a a bad combination ; that one cannot little time." The manager said, have oatmeal and toast at the same EDITOR FRANCIS MCLELLAN WILCOX fili "Come right into my office. I know ASSOCIATE EDITORS breakfast. For naturally, smaller W. A. SPICER F. D. NICHOL C. P. SOLLMAN what you want—you are thinking of T. M. FRENCH servings of two starchy foods may be SPECIAL. CONTRIBUTORS keeping Saturday with these Advent- quite the same as a larger serving of C. H. WATSON A. G. DANIELLS I. H. EVANS 0. MONTGOMERY J. ists, and you want to have your Sab- L. MCELHANY J. L. SHAW one, and there is nothing intrinsically M. E. KERN W. H. BRANSON G. W. SCHUBERT E. E. ANDROSS L. H. CHRISTIAN bath off. You may have your Sab- A. V. OLSON harmful in the combination. The N. P. NEILSEN baths off. I shall not stand between J. F. WRIGHT A. W. CORKAGE total amount of starch food that can H. W. MILLER F. GRIGGS W. G. TURNER you and your God for anything." well be eaten depends upon the ap- CIRCULATION MANAGER W. P. ELLiorr Marvelous works of grace are being petite and the way these starches are This paper does not pay for articles, and be- wrought in the lives of men and cause of the large number of contributions con- balanced with other less solid foods. stantly received for publication, we cannot under- women today. One who had ,.treas- The important point is that enough take either to acknowledge their receipt or to return manuscripts. Duplicates of articles or re- ured her jewelry for fifty years of leafy vegetables or of bulky, juicy ports furnished other papers are never acceptable. gladly put it away. Another who fruit be eaten with the starchy and All communications relating to the Editorial had used snuff fifty-two years gave it other heavy combinations, so that the Department, and all manuscripts submitted for publication, should be addressed to Editor Review up joyfully. A man of eighty, whose entire concentration of the meal will and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. choice meat was swine's flesh, is re- not be too great. In this way, not joicing in the new-found faith, and TERMS: IN ADVANCE. only will digestion be made easier, One Year $2.50 Three Years $7.00 has put away all unclean meats and but the tendency will be to get the Two Years 4.75 Six Months 1.40 No extra postage is charged to countries all filthy habits. He rejoices to be all-round diet that most nearly meets within the Universal Postal Union. Make all counted worthy to suffer the bitter post office money orders payable at the Wash- the body needs. There are other im- ington, D. C., post office (not Takoma Parlc). persecutions of his own household. portant reasons for the use of fruits Address all business communications and make all drafts and express money orders payable to We solicit the prayers of God's peo- and vegetables which will be dis- REVIEW AND HERALD, Takoma Park, Wash- ington, D. C. In changing address, do not fail ple that the work of grace may be cussed in later articles. to give both old and hew address. 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of New York. The book deals with •the religious history of the islands, and with the activities of the various denomina- OF SPECIAL INTEREST ti tions at the present time. The work of these different groups is treated in a broad-minded, sympathetic manner. Ref- erence is made to the coming of Seventh-s ACCOMPANIED by his wife and daugh- Continued Advancement in the day Adventists. The author says: ter, Elder George C. Nickle, of Southern Southern African Division "There are many valuable lessons to be California, sailed on the "California" learned from the methods of these ear- from Wilmington, February 18, for WE have just closed our year-end di- nest people.... They give Filipino work- Panama. He goes to that field to take vision committee meeting. It was one ers generous appreciation by word and the presidency of the Panama Confer- of the most interesting meetings, I think, in their written reports. They are very ence. we have ever held here in the Southern kind, very free from caste. 'The policy et% African Division. True, we had many of the denomination is to develop native problems confronting us, but the Lord, ability and resources.' They succeed at THOUSANDS of our readers, particu- according to His promise, helped in the larly those in North America and Africa, both, especially the resources! Their solution of these problems, so we feel members gave 14.38 pesos [one peso who have known Mrs. W. H. Branson that strong plans have been laid for the and have loved her for her noble, wo- equals 50 cents U. S. currency] per year 1935. Our men have returned to capita for evangelistic work in 1921 ! manly qualities, will be pained to learn their fields of labor filled with courage, of her death, which occurred in Takoma "To get the full weight of this figure, and are determined to press on in the one must make comparisons. The near- Park, Maryland, March 5, 1935. Sister work as never before. Branson was an earnest Christian woman, est approach to them is made by the One of the interesting features of our Presbyterians; but 'approach' is a poor a true mother, not only in her own home, work considered by the committee at this but in the church. She entered sym- word to use, with a per capita giving time was the medical work. Plans have for all purposes of 2.16 pesos, a little pathetically and efficiently into the re- been now finalized so that the brethren sponsible and extensive labors of her more than one seventh of the capita can enter the new opening in the Lake giving of the Seventh-da dventists. husband, and her loss will be keenly felt Ngami region in Bechuanaland. You by many. We extend to her husband, To reveal the per capita giving of each will recall I told the story relative to this denomination would be unpleasant, but son, daughter, and other relatives our opening at the time of the Autumn Coun- deepest sympathy. it ought to prove a valuable stimulus cil. We are receiving excellent coopera- to them to state that they average 1.43 tion from the government, and this new pesos, or exactly one tenth of the per opening should prove to be a wonderful capita giving of the Adventists. The The "Review" a Winner of advance for our work in Africa. Also, tithing plan, in other words, produces Souls definite plans are being laid to open up among the Adventists exactly ten times a new hospital in Barotseland as soon as much in the way of contributions as I HAVE been a reader of the REVIEW as possible. Then, too, consideration is the methods used by other denominations. for nearly fifty years, and it grows being given to calling for a doctor to These figures may be confirmed by divid- dearer as the years go by, just as the connect with the Kirundu Mission, near ing the total contributions of each de- truth grows more precious. the Congo River. Thus our medical work nomination by its total membership. My mother, whose maiden name was is being greatly strengthened throughout "One other, and the most striking, les- Susan McIntosh, was the first nurse, or this division. There seems to be no limit son to be learned from the Adventists lady helper, as they called them then, in to what our doctors can accomplish if is told at length in the chapter on Chris- NI the old Health Reform Institute. In my they will but keep themselves rightly re- tian literature: Fifty colporteurs sell boyhood home the REVIEW seemed like lated to their great Physician as it is 200,000 pesos' worth of books in nine a member of the family, with its precious their privilege to do day by day: languages each year!" messages direct from Sister White, and Another item of interest which was J. C. THOMPSON. from many of the early pioneers. called to our attention while together Baguio, P. 1. I sometimes visited Elder Uriah Smith in committee session, was the statistical in the Review office, and although I was report given by the division secretary. egt., but a humble youth, he treated me as an Just a few figures will be of interest to equal, and completely won my heart. The you relative to the growth of our work Freed From the Influence of articles from his pen in defense of the during the last fifteen years: Demons truth made a great appeal to me when Fifteen years ago we had 172 workers I was quite young, and I have always laboring in this division; today we have IN his report of the work in French considered them masterly. 1,048. Fifteen years ago we had a bap- West Indies, A. Orville Dunn gives the Today I would rather do without a tized membership of 2,383; today we following interesting experience: meal any time than miss the REVIEW. have 23,531. Fifteen years ago we had "Brother Berle, from Pointe-a-Pitre, We use the REVIEW in missionary work, 600 people in the Bible classes preparing Guadaloupe, writes the experience of a as we consider it a winner of souls. for baptism; today we have 21,026. This woman who was constantly tormented by M. C. GUILD. gives us a total of 44,557 Sabbathkeepers the evil spirits and had spent thousands etk, as compared with 2,983 fifteen years ago. of francs seeking, by the help of the The growth in the Sabbath schools dur- sorcerers, to rid herself of the evil influ- To Members of Rotarian Clubs ing the same period has run from 4,307 ence of the demons. But the more she to 43,819. Fifteen years ago we had spent, the worse she was tormented. THE reform calendar issue will be con- 3,364 pupils enrolled in our schools; When she became acquainted with our sidered at the International Convention today we have 25,252. people, she longed for their peace of of the Rotarian Clubs next June in Mex- We look to the year 1935 with courage mind. ico City. For the information of read- and renewed faith in God our Father, "One Saturday evening Brethren Berle ers who do not understand, we will say and Jesus our mighty Captain. We be- and Plancel, both young men, were visit- that these clubs are made up of business lieve we are living in the time of the ing the family. They offered to pray and professional men, organized for the "latter rain," and we desire so to relate for her, and she accepted. Brother Berle purpose of promoting the interests they ourselves to the Lord here in this division explained that if we wished our prayers represent. Some of our brethren may that He may be able to accomplish all He answered, we must be in harmony with be members of these clubs. If so, we desires in the spreading of the message the Lord's will as far as it lies in our should like to hear from them at once. at this time. J.J F. WRIGHT. power, and that we must be willing to We should be pleased to get in touch obey im as He reveals His will to us. with delegates who may be chosen to The girls took off their ornaments, and attend this International Convention, and Tribute to Our Work. the mother asked the young men to help place calendar information in their hands her clear the house of the objects the in advance of this meeting. Will any ONE of the best and most widely read sorcerers had placed there to ward off the of our brethren interested also send us books dealing with the inhabitants of spirits. After this was done, Brother the names and addresses of the officers the Philippine Islands, particularly with Berle asked the Lord to free the woman of their Rotary Clubs and of members their religious life, is Doctor Frank from the influence of the demons. The who are of the Hebrew race? Address Charles Laubach's sizable work entitled, prayer was answered, and today the wo- the writer at Takoma Park, Washing- "The People of the Philippines," pub- man and her daughters are attending the ton, D. C. C. S. LONGACRE. lished by the George H. Doran Company services."