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Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., July 26, 1928
GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
Justified by His Grace
By Mrs. E. G. White
Why do you not cease from sin? You may overcome if you
will co-operate with God. Christ's promise is sure. He plgdges
Himself to fill the office of personal intercessor, saying, " I will
pray the Father." He who could not see human beings exposed
to destruction without pouring out His soul unto death to save
them from eternal ruin, will look with pity and compassion
upon every soul who realizes that he cannot save himself. He
will see no trembling suppliant without raising him up. He who
through His own atonement provided for them an infinite fund
of moral power, will not fail to employ this power in their
behalf. He will impute to them His own righteousness.
Christ accepts the surrender of the soul. He has pledged
Himself to be our substitute and surety, and He neglects no one.
There is an inexhaustible fund of perfect obedience accruing
from His obedience. How is it that such an infinite treasure is
not appreciated? In heaven the merits of Christ, His self-denial
and self-sacrifice, are treasured up as incense, to be offered up
with the prayers of His people. As sincere, humble prayers
ascend to the throne of God, Christ mingles with them the
merits of His life of perfect obedience. Our prayers are made
fragrant by this incense. Christ has pledged Himself to intercede in our behalf, and the Father always hears His Son. Pray,
then; pray without ceasing, an answer is sure to come. But let
me speak in warning: If any man regard iniquity in his heart,
the Lord will not hear him
It is our privilege to avail ourselves of Christ's mediatorial
influence. Let us then increase in wisdom and knowledge by
praying much, being instant in prayer at all times, looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. The name of Jesus
must be in our hearts and fall from our lips. The eye of faith
must behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.— General Conference Bulletin, 1899, pp. 101, 102.
Comments on
RRENT EVENTS.
SOUL SLEEPING. Sir Oliver Lodge, of spiritistic renown,
and Sir Arthur Keith, the head of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, and a pronounced skeptic, have engaged in a discussion as to the proofs of a
future life. Sir Oliver, of course, sets forth the stock
position of most Christian people with regard to the departure at death of a spiritual entity, known as a soul,
re-enforcing this orthodox view, however, with spiritistic
arguments and embellishments. Keith in reply proceeds
to make much sport of this line of reasoning, and with
a very real show of strength asks the question, why, if
there is a real entity that leaves a body at death, is there
no evidence of such departure when death claims the
individual?
Of course, in one sense, all such arguments are unsound, for matters in the spiritual realm cannot properly
be expected to be subject to the proofs employed in verifying things in the material realm. However, it is not
amiss for us to comment in this connection on the fact
that the so-called orthodox doctrine that the real man
is a spirit entity which is freed from the prison house
of the body at death, makes such an unnecessary demand
upon the faith of men in this scientific age when faith
is at a minimum.
But science and the Bible are not in conflict on this
matter, for the Bible does not teach any such doctrine
regarding man. There is no imponderable entity that
soars away at the time of death. Instead, the whole man
goes down into the grave, there to await the resurrection
day. So therefore, in addition to the many other comforting truths that grow out of a correct conception of
the nature of man, is to be found this one; namely, that
we are not confronted with the dilemma that presents
itself to the orthodox preacher who endeavors to prove
the existence of an entity which both the Bible and
scientific research deny.
and Christian teachings n life and morality that give
to us " a certain standar of conduct " which is so admirable.
Though the sun at tiln s may be obscured by the fog
and dust of the earth so hat its healing and healthful
rays are unable to bring fight and health to the earth,
no one thinks of discount ng the importance of the sun,
and declaring that some other agency is therefore responsible for any growt and help that comes to the
earth. Just so in the mtter of Christianity. At times
the bright, wholesome rags of Christian doctrine may be
prevented from bringing forth their natural fruit of good
works and good lives be ause of the fog and dust of
controversy and contrary wills that may intervene. But
the solution lies not in iscounting the importance of
doctrine, but in removing the obstacles that stand in the
way of the application op these truths.
Let us preach more vigorously than ever before the
clear, straight doctrines of our great religion, without
which Christianity becom s a frameless structure, swayed
about by every emotion a d trend of the day.
STATISTICS. It is a fre uent plaint of leaders in various denominations that heir members take very little
interest in the workings of the denomination, and are
grossly ignorant as to t e plans and status of the denomination. Religious le ders may well be distressed on
this point, because only s the members are conversant
with the conditions existi g in the organization, can they
hope to give intelligent support to the plans proposed
or to the appeals made f r funds. A well-informed constituency is the greatest source of strength. Because of
this fact, many organiz tions, not simply religious, but
also great business cone ns, are making a strenuous endeavor to acquaint thei constituents with the history
and plans and financial tanding of the organization.
In this matter we bell ve our people to be well above
DOCTRINES DISCOUNTED. Considerable publicity has
the average. Most Sev nth-day Adventists can give a
been given to the award at a State university of a certain
reasonably intelligent a d specific statement concerning
trophy " for Christian charour movement.
acter and distinguished servHowever, in one phase the
ice and scholarship," to a
lay members are oftentimes
Jewish student. The paranot so fully informed as they
dox, of course, lay in the fact
might be, and that is on the
of a Jewish student's being
matter of actual statistics,
considered the highest exboth as to membership
ponent of Christian chargrowth and as to financial
acter. The Committee of
features. These two points
Award explained their apare vital, and a better knowlparently contradictory action
edge of them would enable
by declaring that the word
many of our people to under" Christian " nowadays has
stand and appreciate more
come to mean a certain
fully the insistent and instandard of conduct instead
creasing appeal that is made
of adherence to a certain
for funds. We trust therefaith.
fore that our REVIEW readers
This is but another illusare studying carefully the
tration of the tendency
series of short articles by
among Christian people toBrother H. E. Rogers, the
day to minimize the imporstatistical secretary of the
tance of doctrine, and to
denomination. I n terse
Henry Miller
make light of the distinctive
fashion he is presenting
This globular house was displayed at an exposition in Dresde
tenets that have distin- Germany. The architect claims that it will soon replace the prase
from week to week in this
type of building.
guished Christianity through
series vital figures which
all the centuries. A highly
perhaps more clearly than
spiritualized, tenuous conception of Christianity has been
anything else reveal th real status of the denomination.
substituted. The logic of the statement by this ComStatistics usually are ry, dead things, but statistics on
mittee of Award is in the same catagory with the declarathe progress of this den mination are alive. If the progtion that the distinguishing characteristic of the day as
ress set forth by these tatistics does not look as hopeful
opposed to the night is found in the presence of light
as we would like, let u remember that they but reflect
during those twelve hours, and not in the presence of
the action that all of s have taken. The only way to
the sun in our sky from morning till evening. But it ismake them more encouraging is for all of us to give
the sun that gives the light, and it is Christian doctrine
stronger support to this work.
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My Experience in Tithing
BY W. W. EASTMAN
WHEN only a boy I came to understand the Lord's requirement concerning tithe paying, and after uniting
with the church, I paid tithe on the
small amount of earnings that occasionally came into my hands.
When I married and started out in
life for myself, my young wife and I
were eager to get ahead as fast as possible in the accumulation of the comforts of life that go to make up a home.
The only avocation I knew was cultivating the soil, hence ours was the
farm life.
The first year we were especially
blessed with a good crop, which
brought us a good little sum of money
for those days, and especially for us,
as neither of us had before our marriage been permitted to handle very
much money of our own. On this we
paid our tithe. With our first money
we were able to purchase our furniture,
some tools for farming, which, with our
two cows, and a team of mules which
were purchased on credit, we began our
second year full of youthful buoyancy
and promise. Again the Lord blessed
us with an abundant crop, which was
sold to good advantage.
Becoming convinced, with others,
that we could do better in another part
of the State a few counties away,
where the country was not so well developed, and with the vision of possibly
purchasing a home of our own later
on at a much more reasonable price
than where we were, the move was
made. But in order to meet our obligations we needed more than the nine
tenths of what we had, and the Lord's
tithe was withheld from the treasury
and used for ourselves.
Among other blessings the Lord had
given us our first baby, a healthy, normal boy.
Our first reverse after reaching our
new home was a crushed foot resulting from a falling horse while chasing
cattle. This kept me from my work
Sabbath Rest
BY J. W. MACE
A LITTLE brighter sun shines Sabbath day,
The cares of life and trials flee away.
We lay aside our toil and take our rest,
Knowing that God's own order is the best.
If all the week, each day in all the seven,
We labor on without a thought of heaven,
We have no hope beyond the joys of earth,
And nothing gained of any lasting worth.
But if upon the blessed day of seven
We turn our thoughts again to God and heaven,
There comes a satisfaction and a joy
That nothing earthly can its love destroy.
As Sabbath morning to the church we go,
And through our hearts the peace of God doth flow,
We sing the songs of Zion, and we read
A portion of the word, our hunger feed;
We gather power, consolation sure,
That help us in life's battle to endure,
Allay the troubles stirring in our breast,
And learn that God will give to us His best.
So let the Sabbath calm and peace and rest
Find us with every sin of life confessed,
And let the Sabbath be a joy each week,
The house of God the place we always seek.
For Sabbath rest is only just a type
Of that long rest that follows earth's dark night,
When that eternal joy and rest will be
Our portion, if we labor faithfully.
for weeks, along with much suffering.
Then came the heavy rains and storms
which flooded the country, particularly my field, and prevented planting
till late. And finally, although I
planted three times, only a partial
crop was made.
Feeling unable to attend, we missed
our first camp meeting that summer.
Others went, but we stayed at home
and worked. Later my wife, with the
baby, went to visit her sister and
cousin 200 miles away.
We were some distance from town,
and roads were not good those days,
so we did not get our mail very often,
but one day when I went to town I
found three letters waiting for me.
One told of the illness of the baby,
another urged me to come quickly,
and a third was draped in mourning,
for our nine-months-old baby had been
taken away suddenly with the dreaded
cholera infantum. I took the first
train, arriving only in time to see him
laid away in his little grave. It was a
great shock to us both, and began to
wake us up. When the year closed, we
had absolutely nothing left but two
cows.
Two years before, at camp meeting,
I had made a pledge to Union College,
which was at that time being established. In my ambition to accumulate,
that too had been left unpaid.
Our consciences were smitten, and it
seemed clear to us that the Lord had
withdrawn His protection. We made a
new covenant with God, that if He
would prosper us, we would bring all
the tithe into the storehouse, pay our
back pledge, and give ourselves to Him
for life.
Again we moved, and started life
over again just where we began at
first. We were greatly blessed. Our
crop was a surprise to our neighbors.
At the next camp meeting I was on
hand with my team to assist in pitching and taking down the camp, without cost to the conference. And best
of all, I pledged myself to the canvassing work at the close of the year when
the crops were gathered. We kept our
pledge.
In the meantime the Lord had
blessed us with our first little girl. We
had learned our lesson, that " the
blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich,"
and that " man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Mal-
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achi 3: 10, 11, had a new meaning to
me, and from that time (forty years
ago) to the present I have endeavored
to pay an honest tithe, and the Lord
has prospered and blessed beyond my
fondest dreams. To Him be all the
glory, now and ever. " Blessed be the
name of the Lord."
Protestantism and the Sabbath
BY CARLYLE B. HAYNES
THE position of Protestantism with
reference to the Sabbath is greatly
confused, Multitudes of voices are
raised, discussing all sides of the question, and advancing arguments which
are mutually destructive.
From an examination of the official
teachings of the various denominations of Protestantism it becomes apparent that Protestant Christians, in
observing Sunday, are engaging in a
practice for which there is no defense
in valid Protestant teaching, and
which, if the Protestant principle,
" The Bible and the Bible only," is
adhered to, must be discarded. Unfortunately, Protestant practice is not
always in accord with Protestant
teaching.
Protestantism took its rise in a protest against the corruptions of Romanism, and appealed to the Bible as
the sole authority in matters of Christian faith and practice. Chillingworth, in his famous statement, set
forth the Protestant platform in words
which have been, ought to be, and are
indorsed by all true Protestants. He
said:
The Bible, and the Bible Only
" The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the
religion of Protestants! . . . I for my part,
after a long and (as I verily believe and
hope) impartial search of the true way
to eternal happiness,' do profess plainly
that I cannot find any rest for the sole
of my foot but upon this rock only.
"I see plainly and with mine own eyes
that there are popes against popes, councils
against councils, some Fathers against
others, the same Fathers against themselves, a consent of the Fathers of one
age against a consent of the Fathers of
another age. . , .
" There is no sufficient certainty but of
Scripture only for any considering man to
build upon. This, therefore, and this only,
I have reason to believe: this I will profess; according to this I will live, and for
this, if there be occasion, I will not only
willingly, but even gladly, lose my life,
though I should be sorry that Christians
shotild take it from me. Propose me anything out of this Book, and require
whether I believe it or no, and seem it
never so incomprehensible to human reason, I will subscribe it with hand and
heart, as knowing no demonstration can
be stronger than this: God hath said so,
therefore it is true."—" The Religion of
Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation,"
page 463.
Dr. John Dowling, who for many
years was pastor of the Berean Baptist
church in New York City, wrote a
" History of Romanism," in which he
repeated this statement of Chillingworth's, and then went on to add the
following:
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pronou cements in their manuals, disciplines confessions of faith, and in
the WO ds of their recognized leaders.
Not on of them, so far as we have
record, takes the position that God's
law has been set aside and is no longer
bindin upon men. Indeed, their
united estimony is to the exact contrary.
In b th the Church of England and
the Pro estant Episcopal Church in the
United States it is customary for the
minist r, in celebrating the Lord's
supper to recite the ten commandments, and for the people, in response,
at the conclusion of each commandment, ro say, " Lord, have mercy upon
us, ant. incline our hearts to keep this
law." Certainly these branches of
Protes aneism do not officially teach
that to ten commandment law has
been s t aside.
ceptanCe, he asks, Is it to be found in
the Inspired Word? was it taught by the
Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles? If
they knew nothing of it, no matter to
him whether it be discovered in the musty
folio of some ancient visionary of the third
or fourth century, or whether it springs
from the fertile brain of some modern
visionary of the nineteenth, if it is not
found in the Sacred Scriptures, it presents no valid claim to be received as an
article of his religious creed. . . . He who
receives a single doctrine upon the mere
authority of tradition, let him be called
by what name he will, by so doing steps
down from the Protestant rock, passes
over the line which separates ProtestantThe Law " Eternal and Unchangeable"
ism from popery, and can give no valid
reason why he should not receive all the
The official teaching of the Bapearlier doctrines and ceremonies of Romanism upon the same authority."— tist d nomination is set forth in the
" Bapt 1st Church Manual," and there
Pages 67, 68.
In the light of this great and true certah LIy is no teaching of the aboliprinciple we direct attention to the tion, r even of the alteration, of
practice of Protestant people in ob- God's aw in this strong statement:
The Incarnation
)3Y EDWARD
J.
URQUHART
HE who is truth eternal,
And universal light,
Came to a world of untruth,
And to a land of night.
He who is life unending,
And wisdom infinite,
Came to a planet dying,
Willfully ignorant.
He who is power almighty,
Who is love incarnate,
Came to a world of weakness,
And to a land of hate.
He came a man of sorrows
To know Gethsemane,
To taste the sinner's portion
At awful Calvary.
He did it all for rebels
Enmeshed in sin and strife,
That they might find salvation,
And God, and endless life.
Such was the love of Jesus
For sinful men like me;
Thus I would sing His praises
To all eternity.
serving the first day of the week in-
stead of the true Sabbath of God,
which is the seventh day. How are
these things to be reconciled?
The Ten Commandments Not Abolished
There are some religious teachers
to-day who claim that the ten commandment law has been nullified,
abolished, set aside, nailed to the cross,
by Christ, and therefore no Christian
is under obligation to keep the Sabbath. Not even their own denomi-
national faith will justify them in such
" The Bible, I say, the. Bible only, is the a claim, to say nothing of the clear
religion' of Protestants. Nor is it of any teaching of the Holy' Scriptures. The
account in the estimation of the genuine
Protestant lib* early a doctrine originated, official teaching of the various Protif it is not found in the Bible. . . . Hence estant bodies regarding the perpetuity
if a doctrine be propounded for his ac- of the law of God, is set forth in clear
" We' believe that the law of God is the
eterna and unchangeable rule of His
moral government; that it is holy, just,
and g od; and that the inability which
the S riptures ascribe to fallen men to
fulfill its precepts arises entirely from
their ove of sin; to deliver them from
which, and to restore them through a
Media or to unfeigned obedience to the
holy 1 w, is one great end of the gospel,
and o the means of grace connected with
the e ablishment of the visible church."
— Art 12, p. 55.
Diso ning the Law Subverts the Gospel
Th t Christians, because they have
great r light, are under greater obitgatio to observe the precepts of the
law t an any others, is emphasized by
the aptist Publication Society in its
Trac No. 64, which declares:
" T prove that the ten commandments
are bi ding, let any person read them, one
by one, and ask his own conscience as he
reads) whether it would be any sin to break
them. Is this, or any part of it, the liberty
of th gospel? Every conscience that is
not s ared as with a hot iron must answer hese questions in the negative. . . .
The awgiver and the Saviour were one;
and elievers must be of one mind with
the ormer as well as with the latter;
but I we depreciate the law which Christ
delig ted to honor, and deny our obligatio s to obey it, how are we of His
mind Rather are we not of that mind
whit is enmity against God, which is
not ubject to the law of God, neither
'inde d can be? . . . If the law be not a
rule f conduct to believers, and a perfect
rule oo, they are under no rule; or, which
is th same thing, are lawless. But if so,
they commit no sin; for where no law is
ther is no transgression; and in this case
they have no sins to confess, either to
God or to one another; nor do they stand
in n ed of Christ as an advocate with the
Fat er, nor of daily forgiveness through
His lood. Thus it is, by disowning the
law, men utterly subvert the gospel. Believe s, therefore, instead of being freed
from obligation to obey it, are under
greater obligation to do so than any men
in the world. To be exempt from this
is, to be without law, and of course without hi.; in which ease we might do without Saviour, which is utterly subversive
of a 1 religion."—Pages 2-6.
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doth not bind Christians, nor ought the
civil precepts thereof of necessity be received in any commonwealth; yet, notwithstanding, no Christian whatsoever is
free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral."—
" Methodist Episcopal Church Doctrines
and Discipline," edited by Bishop Anapplication. We shall never get beyond
"Although the law given from God by
the necessity of 'knowing and keeping Moses as touching ceremonies and rites, drews, p. 23.
(To be continued)
them."— Page 51.
Methodism Upholds the Law
Rev. Dr. John R. Sampey, in his
Turning now to the official teach" Syllabus for Old Testament Study,"
published by the Baptist World Pub- ing of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
we find that great community of
lishing Company, says:
"The ten commandments, while given Christians thus upholding the obligaprimarily to the Hebrews, are of universal tion to observe the law of God:
Grace and Atonement Rendered Void by
Antinomianism
Rev. Andrew Fuller, an eminent
Baptist minister known as " the Franklin of Theology," says:
" If the doctrine of the atonement leads
us to entertain degrading notions of the
law of God, or to plead an exemption from
its preceptive authority, we may be sure
it is not the Scripture doctrine of reconciliation. Atonement has respect to justice, and justice to the law, or the revealed will of the Sovereign, which has
been violated; and the very design of the
atonement is to repair the honor of the
law. If the law which has been transgressed were unjust, instead of an atonement being required for the breach of it,
it ought to have been repealed, and the
Lawgiver have taken upon Himself the disgrace of having enacted it. . . . It is easy
to see from hence, that in proportion as
the law is depreciated; the gospel is undermined, and both grace and atonement
rendered void. It is the law as abused,
or as turned into a way of life, in opposition to the gospel, for which it was
never given to a fallen creature, that the
Sacred Scriptures depreciate it; and not
as the revealed will of God, the immutable standard of right and wrong. In
this view the apostles delighted in it;
and if we are Christians we shall delight
in it too, and shall not object to be under
it as a rule of duty; for no man objects
to be governed by laws which he loves."
—" Atonement of Christ," Works of Andrew Fuller, pp. 160, 161.
Incomparable Perfection Proof of the
Law's Divinity
Charles Spurgeon, that prince of
Baptist preachers, in his " Perpetuity
of the Law of God," says:
" Jesus did not come to change the law,
but He came to explain it, and that very
fact shows that it remains; for there is
no need to explain that which is abrogated. . . . By thus explaining the law
He confirmed it; He could not have meant
to abolish it, or He would not have needed
to expound it. . . . That the Master did
not come to alter the law is clear, because
after having embodied it in His life, He
willingly gave Himself up to bear its
penalty, though He had never broken it,
bearing the penalty for us, even as it is
written, ' Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse
for us.' . . . If the law had demanded
more of us than it ought to have done,
would the Lord Jesus have rendered to it
the penalty whiCh resulted from its too
severe demands? I am sure He would
not. But because the law asked only
what it ought to ask, namely, perfect
obedience, and exacted of the transgressor
only what it ought to exact, namely, death
as the penalty for sin,— death under divine wrath,— therefore the Saviour went
to the tree, and there bore our sins, and
purged them once for all."— Pages 4-7.
Again, in his " Sermons," Spurgeon
says:
• " The law of God is a divine law,
holy, heavenly, perfect. . . . There is not
a command too many; there is not one
too few; but 'it is so incomparable that
its perfection is a proof of its divinity.
. . No human lawgiver could have given
forth such a law as that which we find
in the decalogue."— Page 280.
The Things Which Happen
BY J. BERGER JOHNSON
How often we hear expressions such
as these, " Why did this thing happen
to me? " or, " I do not understand why
the Lord permitted this calamity to
happen to me." It is more than likely
that we have uttered the same words
at one time or another. We fail to
recognize that what befalls us is not
an accident. To the child of God,
nothing takes place by chance. That
which comes to us is divinely ordered.
God is watching over His own, and al-
passed through; and yet, as he cast
a backward glance over his career, he
had not a doubt that everything in his
experience had contributed to the advancement of God's work, and with
this he was satisfied. He gloried in
the fact. He wished his brethren to
be cognizant of the fact.
A Review of Paul's Experiences
Just what were some of the experiences through which Paul had passed?
What were the things that had " happened " to him, and of which he
speaks in the Philippian letter? Here
The Price of a Soul
is the list as he himself itemizes it
BY JESSIE DAVIS KINGSLEY
in the second letter to the Corinthians,
Ox, what will you give for the price of a chapter 11 and verses 23-28:
soul,
" In stripes above measure, in prisons
My friends, have you ever thought?
more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews
Have you offered silver and gold and gems five times received I forty stripes save one.
For the price of the soul you bought? Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was
I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a '
Can you answer for it, when your name is night and a day I have been in the deep;
called,
in journeyings often, in perils of waters,
Will your paltry gifts suffice?
in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own
In the hour when all heaven awaits to countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in
hear
perils in the city, in perils in the wilderWhat excuse you will give for that life? ness, in perils in the sea, in perils among
false brethren; in weariness and painfulOh, what will you take for the price of ness, in watchings often, in hunger and
your soul?
thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
Do you think that you dare to sell
nakedness. Beside those things that are
For trinkets and things of this earthly life, without, that which cometh upon me daily,
Everlasting life for hell?
the care of all the churches."
Come, ask of those who have almost lost
What an array of adverse experiTheir souls for these things that pall; ences! And yet all these things that
They will truly say they are naught but
happened to him had served their purdregs,
pose in advancing the interests of his
And beseech you to leave them all.
Master.
Oh, call on One who has paid the price
In order better to comprehend Paul's
By a sinless life and a death on the cross,
declaration,
it will be helpful to reThat He might present us faultless to God,
view very briefly a few of the things
Wholly cleansed of all earthly dross.
though His purposes are sometimes inscrutable, we may have the assurance
that what happens He permits for our
personal good and for the advancement of His cause in the earth. The
apparent calamities through which we
are called to pass are but God's means
with which He furthers His interests
and strengthens us in our experience.
Would that each of us had the certainty that the apostle Paul had, as
he reviewed the many experiences
through which God had permitted
him to pass, seemingly adverse experiences which had " happened " to
him. Note his stirring words: "
would ye should understand, brethren,
that the things which happened unto
me have fallen out rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel." Phil. 1:12.
Many things happened to Paul. Few
if any of God's children have been
called to pass through what Paul
that happened to him. We shall find
that these experiences, although they
spelled apparent defeat for Paul and
the infant church with which he had
been so signally allied, did contribute
to the spread of the news of the crucified, buried, and risen Lord.
Review for a moment the experiences prior to Paul's definite call to
the ministry for Christ. Rehearse the
last scenes in the life of Stephen, one
of the foremost of the leaders of the
church established by Christ but a
few years previous to that occasion.
Stephen was a preacher of deep piety
and strong faith. He was one of the
most substantial pillars of the church.
Why should it happen that he should
be stoned and his voice silenced, just
at the time when he was most needed?
This appeared nothing short of a dire
calamity for the struggling sect of ,
the Nazarene. Evidently God had forsaken His flock, and left them to the
caprices of chance. But, no; in the
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audience which listened to Stephen's
clear, powerful arguments on that fatal day, stood Saul, persecutor of the
church to which Stephen belonged.
Stephen's death was a cruel blow to
the church, " but it resulted in the
conviction of Saul, who could not efface from his memory the faith and
constancy of the martyr, and the glory
that had rested on his countenance."
" Saul had taken a prominent part in
the trial and conviction of Stephen,
and the striking evidences of God's
presence with the martyr had led Saul
to doubt the righteousness of the cause
he had espoused against the followers of Jesus. His mind was deeply
stirred."—" The Acts of the Apostles,"
pp. 101, 112, 113.
Although Paul set himself with a
frenzied zeal to persecute the hated
sect as never before, there remained
indelibly impressed on his memory the
scene of Stephen's rapture as he
looked into the kingdom of God. The
foundation for Paul's future work for
Christ was laid there that afternoon
when Stephen expired. An apparent
calamity to the church in the death
of Stephen meant the adding to the
ranks of the heralds of the cross that
intrepid warrior, Paul. Surely what
had happened had furthered the
gospel!
On the Damascus Road
Go with Paul on that trip down the
road to Damascus and witness the
scene. Behold the dazzling glory that
blinded the persecutor completely for
three days, and which ever after left
him with weak eyesight. We know
that God had chosen Paul to be one
of His stanchest witnesses, but why
should this permanent affliction overtake him, happen to him? Could not
Paul serve Christ with his perfect eyesight better than he could with his
vision impaired? Surely this incident
was not included in those things that
happened, mentioned in his letter to
the Philippians. But Paul objects to
our premise. He affirms:
" Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in
the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above
measure. For this thing I besought the
Lord thrice, that it might depart from
me. And He said unto me, My grace is
sufficient for thee: for My strength is made
perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities,
that the power of Christ may rest upon
me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ's
sake: for when I am weak, then am I
strong." 2 Cor. 12:7-10.
What a blessed thing it would be for
us if we, like Paul, could always, in
every experience, however forbidding,
see God's hand operating for our own
good and for the glory of His name!
Scarcely had Paul begun his ministry when, in obedience to a heavenly
vision, he was directed to Macedonia,
being assured that the Lord had called
him there to preach the gospel. No
sooner, however, had he begun his
ministry there than he and his com-
panion were caught, beaten with many
stripes, and cast into the prison of
Philippi, having their feet made fast
in the stocks to make sure that they
would not escape. What a disaster for
the new church that was beginning to
extend its roots to new lands! Here
in a new field, where evidently for the
first time the gospel of the Christ was
being preached, this calamity happened to God's servants. Surely Paul
and his fellow worker had cause to
be discouraged if any one ever did.
But that which seemed to be a crisis
for the work in Macedonia, turned out
to the furtherance of the gospel. The
prayers and songs of praise that ascended to God from His workers in
that inner prison opened the door of
the prison, as well as the door of the
hearts of the jailer and his whole family, and they were all baptized and
united with the Christian church, the
first baptized believers in Macedonia.
Apparent failure turned into a positive success!
God Does Not Forsake
Does God forsake His faithful servants when they cast all their care
upon Him? Never! The prospects
may be dark and forbidding, the future may be clouded and the sun may
hide its face; but behind the clouds
the Sun of Righteousness is ever shining, and sooner or later we shall see
that God leads us by no path we would
not ourselves choose if we, like Him,
could see the end from the beginning.
The shipwreck of Paul and his companions on their way to Rome was
another calamity that happened to
him. But God had some work there
on Miletus for Paul to do, and His
only way to get Paul there was,to shipwreck him. The sick on Miletus must
be cured in the name of the Christ,
miracles must be performed in the
power of his Master, and the word
must be preached to every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people, and what
may for the time have seemed an
overwhelming disaster for the servant
of God, turned out to the advancement
of the gospel of Christ.
And so on through the whole life
work of Paul we see the operation
of God's hand turning apparent disaster and irretrievable loss and ruin into
a great and glorious success for His
cause and those who are connected
with it.
Before me on my desk is the issue
of the REVIEW AND HERALD containing
Elder Lee's article recounting the experiences of God's operation in China
in behalf of His truth and His servants. It is a most captivating story
Elder Lee repeats, and it shows more
than ever that no matter if the outlook be gloomy, God is at the helm to
bring out a glorious triumph for His
message and His people. Well can
we remember this thought expressed
at the beginning of the trouble in
China, when it became necessary to
withdraw from the mission stations
those who had been sent there: " Why
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does God permit such a calamity to
overtake our work in China? Why
does He llow such a thing to happen
in that reat field where there is so
much yet to be done? " Now we read
Elder Le 's report, and see what' has
come ou of the stc.rm. The article
is worth reading and re-reading and
then putting into practice. As Brother
Lee says:
" We believe that the Lord had a hand
in shaln 'g the nest in Central China.
Was it n t that we might learn dependence on God, to seek new methods of
labor, an have revealed to us the precious nea ness of Christ in all our work?
Every xn in attendance at this meeting
believed t is."
Is it of easy to comprehend how
this re olution that happened to
China a d to our work in China, will
yet cont ibute to the speedy conclusion
of God's last message of grace in that
immens field? Surely if Paul were
with us nd saw what we see in China,
he woul say as of old: I would ye
should nderstand, brethren, that the
things hick happened unto you have
fallen o t rather unto the furtherance
of the gospel.
May onr confidence grow stronger as
the day go by, as we see the fulfillment of prophecy, as we witness again
and ag in the mighty operation of
God's p wer to bring order out of apparent haos and success out of seeming fail re.
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God s Ways Versus Man's
Ways
BY IL E. SIIVIKIN
ren find in the Bible, as in
other laces, important thoughts repeated iby way of emphasis. Is this
why Proverbs 16:25 repeats Proverbs
14:12 " There is a way which seemeth ri ht unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death " ?
When carefully considered, the
thought expressed certainly deserves
repetition more than once. It is evident t at the way which leads to death
is one' own way.
It is natural to seek one's own way.
A chit in its earliest infancy always
tries i . In later childhood and in
early aturity it is still sought, althoug it may be in a modified form.
Huma ity naturally seeks its own way
all th ough life.
The second verse of the sixteenth
chapter says, " All the ways of a mans
are cle n in his own eyes." Here is the
source of trouble. Man thinks his way
is rig t. Often he can see it in no
other fight.
" A an's heart deviseth his way:
but t e Lord directeth his steps." So
we se that before a man yields to
Divini y, his own devising is frequently
contra ry to the Lord's directing; but
when he does so yield, he Is led into
all tr th.
" W en a man's ways please the
Lord, e maketh even his enemies to
be at peace with him." The lesson is
plain, not to insist upon having one's
own ay.
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Persecution or Persuasion?
BY PHILIP GIDDINGS
quality of one's religion may
be shown by how he treats those whose
religion differs from. his. Not that he
should be indifferent as to what he
considers their error, their heresy, but
that he should love them in spite of
it, using every Christian means to
bring them to his view; failing, he
should not spitefully prey on them,
but pityingly pray for them, leaving
them in the hands of Him who alone
is their Master and Judge. He ought
not to go farther than Jesus went, for
He said to the religionists of His day:
" If any man hear My words, and
believe not, I judge him not: for I
came not to judge the world, but to
save the world. He that rejecteth Me,
and receiveth not My words, hath one
that judgeth him: the word that I
have, spoken, the same shall judge
him, in the last day." John 12:47, 48.
There is a long way between " Saul
of Tarsus," the persecutor, and " Paul,
a servant of Jesus Christ," the persuader. In the first case, " being exceedingly mad against them," he persecuted them " even unto strange
cities." In the second, converted, he
says, " We persuade men; but we are
made manifest unto God; and I trust
also are made manifest in your consciences." 2 Cor. 5:11.
Persecution has never made a Christian. On the' contrary, it makes one
of two things,— or better say, the two
things: victims and hypocrites,— victims of strong minds who do their
own thinking and enforce their wills;
and unwilling hypocrites of the timorous, who, to save their bodies, lie
against their souls. Paul admits that
some " were put to death; " others
were " compelled to blaspheme; " but
he admits also " being exceedingly
mad." They are no less insane — religiously insane — who want to repeat
to-day this Jerusalem-Damascus inquisitorial errand.
" Servants of Jesus Christ " persecute no one, not even infidels, much
less those who love and serve the same
Jesus, though possibly in a different
way.
Ever after Saul's conversion, the
word used by him as well as by his
enemies concerning his evangelism,
was " persuade." (See Acts 13:43; 18:
13; 19:8, 26; 26:28; 28:23.) " We persuade men; but we are made manifest
unto God; and I trust also are made
manifest in your consciences." 2 Cor.
5:11.
THE
One's Persuasion
We do not want to serve God after
other men's consciences, but after our
own; or until their persuasion succeeds in convincing our heads and
converting our hearts to blend our
consciences with theirs. " Let every
man be fully persuaded in his own
mind," says the converted Paul. Rom.
14 : 5.
This word expresses so truly the only
Christian procedure for the Christian
methods and religion, that one's
creed, or the religious denomination
to which he belongs, is called his
"persuasion; " but by the Sunday sabbath agitation that is taking place today, Mr. Lankford and his companions
would change that term into one's
"persecution."
If Sunday were the right day to
keep, Mr. Lankford and his supporters
would simply be wrong in advocating
it in a wrong way; but Sunday being
the wrong day and advocated in a
wrong way, Mr. Lankford and his militant party, in matter and manner,
are doubly wrong.
Of ancient Israel it is written: " My
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people have committed two evils: they
have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold
no water." Jer. 2:13.
Borrowing the quotation for an
analogy: Mr. Lankford and his friends,
forgetting the divine authority that
says, " Remember . . . the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,"
have committed one evil. Substituting
the first day of unauthorized human
tradition for the seventh day divinely
appointed, they commit two evils;
compelling all, under pain of punishment, to comply with their view, they
would commit three evils.
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The First Angel's Message
(Concluded)
Chapter 14, Verses 6, 7
NOT only is the first angel's message an announcement of the hour of
God's judgment come, but it is a definite call to remember God as the Creator; so that here in the very forefront of the three angels' messages
we find a call to keep the law of God.
We say, and say truly, that the
fourth commandment is the only one
of the ten that sets forth plainly,
simply, and forcefully the ground of
the authority of the Lawgiver. True,
as rendered in some versions, the
name Jehovah appears in the preface,
or enacting clause, of the law, as also
in the second, third, fourth, and fifth
commandments; but it is only in the
fourth that He is set forth as the Creator of all things, having therefore a
divine right to issue such a law. There
were then, as in the time of the apostles, " gods many and lords many."
And all these gods had names. But
so far as we know, Jehovah was the
only God that claimed a universal
right to rule by virtue of being the
Creator of all things.
Every nation had its god or gods;
indeed, every tribe and almost every
family had its god. But all these were
local deities, not only as to territory,
but as to the particular things or functions over which they ruled, or rather
were by their devotees supposed to
rule.
But with Jehovah It is different.
He claims authority as universal Lawgiver, because He, and He alone,
is the Creator of all things. And as
already said, only the fourth commandment shows this; only the fourth
precept of the decalogue tells who
Jehovah is. To all the heathen, and
even no doubt to very many in Israel,
the name Jehovah, without definition,
meant no more than the name Baal,
or Dagon, or Ashima meant to the
Semites; or Ptah, or Amon, or Ra, or
Osiris to the Egyptians.
But all these people, however ignorant they might be, would have some
conception of the meaning of a claim
to universal right to rule because of
creative power, and that universally
exercised; hence the words in the
fourth commandment:
" For in six days Jehovah made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20:
11, A. R. V.
The Seal of the Law
It is this clause of the commandment that constitutes that precept the
seal of the divine law. Only Jehovah
could give such a law; but it is the
fact that Jehovah is Creator, rather
than the name He bears, that gives
validity to the " ten words " promulgated in awful majesty from Sinai.
And never in all the history of the
church of the living God was there
more need to emphasize the fact of
creation than in the very time in
which we live. It was in 1871 that
Charles Darwin gave to the world his
book, " The Descent of Man," and even
before that the foundation for the
evolutionary theory had been laid.
That theory is a distinct denial of
creation, and a direct challenge of
Jehovah's right to command men
under sin. Therefore the message of
the first angel of Revelation 14 is more
than an announcement of the hour
of God's judgment; it is a reassertion
of Jehovah's right to universal sovereignty, and a call to all men to
recognize Him as the One Being to
whom all men must give account in
the judgment.
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EDITORIAL
" Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire.
inquire ye: return, come:' Isa. 21:11, 12.
The Tragedy of Lost Vision
Feeding the Flock Chaff Instead of Wheat
THE lesson is from long ago, but it
is well adapted to present needs.
We had just listened to an address
to a large gathering of Seventh-day
Adventists. The occasion was of a
special character. As we were passing
from the assembly room a gray-haired
sister, a mother in Israel, inquired,
" How did you like the address? " We
countered, " How did you enjoy it? "
She remarked, " Poor man, he has
lost his vision. What a tragedy! " We
felt, at least, that the speaker had
not arisen to the occasion. Inspiration was afforded for a masterly effort,
for instruction that would warm the
heart, convince the judgment, and inspire the lives of the listeners. An
excellent opportunity was offered• for
emphasizing the many openings for
Christian service in the world field
and the call of God to His people, and
particularly to the youth, who composed a large part of the audience, to
respond to that call.
Appropriately and impressively could
the speaker have presented such ideals
of Christian consecration and loyalty
to the work of God as would have
stirred the hearts of his listeners and
been to them a clarion call to duty.
Instead, the address was light and
superficial; it dealt with commonplace
topics and experiences; it abounded
with repartee and witticisms and cheap
jokes; it produced hearty laughter,
and made strong appeal to the emotions of the young and inexperienced.
But many left the audience chamber
wondering what it was all about,
what message the speaker designed to
convey, and if any lasting impressions
for good were left in any mind.
Too many times have occasions of
this character, which afforded such
a wonderful opportunity for high and
holy appeal, been thus prostituted to
cheap and selfish ends. It is so easy
to make an appeal to passing fancy
and the popular mind, and receive the
cheap praise of men, while we evade
the solemn respontibilities resting
upon us as God's messengers.
Lesson for All Ministers
The lesson is for every minister of
the gospel. God has not given this
holy commission to His servants to
treat lightly. A minister of Christ,
whenever he speaks, should speak as
the oracle of God. All his ministry
should be as of the grace that God
giveth.
The minister of Christ has not been
called of God to preach merely a lofty
idealism. We heard it stated, some
time ago, of one Seventh-day Adventist minister, that his sermons would
appropriately fit any audience,— Baptist, Presbyterian, or any other Protestant congregation. He preached a
lofty idealism, but this was all. In
it there was no denunciation of sin;
there was no vital, throbbing appeal
for a life of righteousness. There was
no reference to the special truths for
this day and generation.
No man can preach the third angel's
message without preaching a lofty
idealism, but when a Seventh-day Adventist preacher tries to proclaim the
lofty idealism outside of the setting of
the third angel's message, and apart
from the particular world situation of
the present hour, his preaching becomes weak and powerless and insipid.
And this is the temptation that appeals to all of us, to minimize the unpleasant duties of rebuking sin and
standing stiffly for vital principles, as
against the rising tide of spiritual
declension.
It is so pleasant to pass as a hail
fellow well met, to be counted broad
and liberal and optimistic, to excuse
sin on the plea of a new age and
changed standards, to apologize for
the excesses of youth on the basis of a
changed psychology, to please in the
pulpit and praise in private, to preach
so as not to offend; to give more attention to well-rounded sentences and
rhetorical finish than to plain, simple,
practical instruction, appropriate to
life's homely needs; to choose subjects
of popular acclaim rather than those
which furnish meat in due season to
the church of Christ.
Sentimental Preaching
Preaching about Christ, exalting
Him as a noble character, as a high
and lofty ideal, telling in glowing
terms what He has done for the world,
— this sort of adulation and fulsome
lip service is not preaching Christ in
the gospel sense; it is the cheap sentimentalism of preaching, and is probably as repugnant to the Master as
were the formal sacrifices of old, unaccompanied by heart service. To
preach Christ truly is to preach Him
concretely, to present Him as the one
who saves from sin to-day. Preaching
Christ is presenting the claims of His
holy law, the path of obedience
through His grace, the life of faith
and holy works, the life of consecration and sacrifice and toil, and withal
the life of holy joy and blessed companionship.
Shall we preach as the oracles of
God or as the oracles of man? We
thank G d for the faithful, uncompromisin testimony that is being
borne b the great majority of
Seventh- ay Adventist ministers. We
deplore t e weak, compromising testimony t at is borne by some. May
God gran that every Seventh-day Adventist m nister who has lost his vision
may obt in a new revelation of the
Lord Je s Christ, a new view of the
message or this day and generation,
a new u derstanding of his solemn
responsib lity in giving that message
to the w. ld. Thus only will he save
his own oul and the souls who look
to him fo leadership. " He that hath
My word, et him speak My word faithfully. W at is the chaff to the wheat?
saith the ord."
F. M. W.
St pping the Paper
fo lowing editorial, which we
quote fro a recent number of the
Baptist, i well worth passing on for
the reader s of the REvigw:
" When eath steps in and stops the
paper the editor bows to the inevitable;
but when ad temper cuts off a subscription, the et tor looks serious, and carefully
considers ow he can reduce the percentage of mor ality in the circulation due to
heated imi ulse. In order to please all
subscribers the paper might take the attitude of ti e country school-teacher who,
when asked by the president of the school
board how she taught geography, replied,
' I can tea h that the earth is round or
flat accord ng to the wishes of the patrons.' But we fear that would lose more
subscribers I than it would gain, and the
percentage f dissatisfied customers would
increase al rmingly. No, the art of facing
both ways s unworthy of any newspaper
which stan s for integrity.
" What t en shall be done about the
irate subscr ber who finds something in the
paper with which he does not agree, and
then forthw th notifies the management to
cancel his ubscription? Will it pay to
reason wit him? or is it wiser to cancel
the subscrip ion, and charge it off to profit
and loss? -weet reasonableness is often
persuasive.
" Stoppin the paper because it contains
in a coital issue something offensive to
the views o a sensitive subscriber, is usually due to n unreasonable impulse. One
would not s op his daily paper because it
does not co e up to his expettations. One
would not eave his church because the
preacher at times says things in his sermons that urt. One would hardly expatriate hi self from his country without
a tremendo s cause for it. The man who
gives up hi home and family and takes
himself to boarding house because his
meals are s metimes unpalatable, is a fit
subject for a psychopathic clinic.
" Is stoppi g the paper on impulse because one i offended as unreasonable as
any of thee ? Possibly it is the sanest
thing a subs riber can do. We do not dare
to say. Bu v we have a suspicion that if
we stopped patronizing everything that
does not al' aye please us, we should have
to live a he mit life."
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In the Southern Pacific
BY A; G. DANIELLS
(Extracts From a Letter to the Ministerial
Association O ffice)
Somo SOMO, TAVENNI ISLAND,
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May 23, 1928.
OUR good old boat pulled alongside the
wharf at six o'clock Thursday morning.
At eight Brother E. B. Rudge, superintendent of the Fiji Mission, with his family and
other workers, came on board. After
greetings and a pleasant visit, our things
were taken ashore, put through the customs, and loaded into the Chevrolet, our
mission car. Brethren Fletcher and AnderSon came in two or three hours later
from' Australia. Then two carloads of us
started over the hills and flats to catch
a steamer that had left Suva the night
before, for this island. We were taken
across the river Rewa on a barge, and
driven on to another river, seventeen miles
from, Suva, where we were transferred to
a small launch to be taken forty miles
across the water, where we caught our
steamer at Levuka. As soon as we could
get aboard, we started for this place,
some two hundred miles distant.
We arrived here at noon the next day,
Friday. Here we niet about 200 Fijian
delegates to the base (pronounced bassie,
and meaning " conference "). These were
made up of preachers, teachers, students,
hiefs, and lay members. It would be too
tedious to take you through the formalities of the reception the chiefs and preachers gave the " big white chiefs," but it was
all most courteous and cordial.
The base is closing to-day, but the
preachers and teachers are remaining
three days for institute work. Then we
go back to Suva.
We appreciate this privilege of having a
week of real native life. Mrs. Daniells and
I occupy a native house made of bamboo
poles and covered with a grass-thatched
roof. We live on the floor like the natives. As I write, Mrs. Daniells and one
of the missionaries are sitting on the
floor visiting. Our bed, suitcases, clothes,
and everything else are hung around on
the floor. In front of our hut is one in
which I can see two women, a baby, two
dogs, a pig, all on a dirt floor, with the
charcoal stove, the few dishes they have,
and raw food, and swarms of flies. But
our house is not occupied with all those
kinds of occupants. This is a great experience, but we think ten days will be
enough, and we shall be glad to get back
to Suva and civilization.
But now let me tell you that we have
a grand lot of Adventists here. This is
the aristocratic island of the group. Here
live many chiefs who once had great
power; even now they are very influential.
I think we must have about twenty of
these .chiefs as delegates, Ratu Meli, the
chief you saw in America, is one. One of
.our fine old men was a king in the olden
days. In this village of Somo Somo lives
the roko (practically governor) of this
rich island and some of the adjacent islands. His wife is a princess, great-granddaughter of old King Thakombau, who
ceded Fiji to Queen Victoria. This roko
and his wife are very friendly to us. He
has attended every evening meeting we
have held, and she has been present part
of the time. They sent a native to bring
Mrs. Daniells and me to their home
for an afternoon visit. They presented
uS a whale's tooth, the greatest gift of
honor a Fijian can give. He sat on the
floor at my feet, thus recognizing me as
a greater chief than himself. Ratu Meli
acted as ambassador. The ceremony of
presentation was very impressive.
The roko's cousin is a greater man from
the native standpoint than the roko. He
attends our meetings, and they are all
deeply impressed with our message and
people. Both of these men speak fairly
good English. One spent six years in a
college in New Zealand.
Now the point in all this is that our
people have the high regard and warm
support of the highest native officials in
Fiji. That means more than I can express to you in this brief statement.
Perene Mission, Amazon
BY V. E. DEUGII
the time the work began in the
jungles of central Peru, I have hoped that
sometime I might have the privilege of
seeing for myself the possibilities of this
field.
As I have had the opportunity of seeing
the work personally, I must say that the
half has never been told. Brother and
Sister F. A. Stahl penetrated the forests
and located the Perene Mission in 1921. It
was with great difficulty, and not without
much hardship and danger, that the work
was started. The mission is in the very
heart of savagery and witchcraft. Many
times the lives of Elder and Mrs. Stahl
have been threatened, but through it all
they have labored on and have at last won
the confidence of the various tribes of the
whole surrounding country.
I have had the privilege to-day of sitting in the midst of and worshiping with
more than 300 of these former savages of
the forest. Men were there who had been
leaders of witchcraft and who had caused
the sacrifice of many lives. Others were
present who had taken the lives of their
fellow men, and had bound their wives
and children and sold them into slavery.
FROM
To-day things are different. These very
men whose hearts were formerly controlled
by a spirit of murder and hatred, are today worshipers of the lovely Jesus. As
they listened to the words of life spoken
by the gospel minister, their hearts rejoiced. As the Scriptures were read containing the promises of the soon-coming
Saviour, they responded with amens of
great rejoicing.
You ask me, " Are these men and women
of the forest really converted? " The best
example that I am able to give is the fruit
of the lives of our baptized members.
These men who a short time ago had no
respect for women, and cared little for
their own children, are to-day true fathers
in Israel. The mother of the home is beloved and respected by the husband, and
he loves his children, and is willing to sacrifice to educate and train them to be
laborers in the cause of God.
I had the privilege to-day of attending
one of the most beautiful baptismal scenes
I ever witnessed. Hundreds of Indians
gathered on the bank of the Metraro
River, and with reverence and quietness
they stood and saw thirty-six of their
people enter the watery grave. One of
those who were baptized was formerly one
of the most notorious characters of the
forest. He was a witch doctor, and had
great influence among the people of his
tribe. To-day he is a changed man, and
he and his faithful wife walked down into
the water and were buried with their Lord
in baptism. At present there are 110 baptized members in the Perene Mission, and
many others are waiting for further preparation before taking this step.
A day school is operated, with an enrollment of eighty bright boys and girls, the
future workers among the many tribes
living in these dense forests.
When converted, these Chuncho Indians
become willing and faithful givers to the
cause of God. The Sabbath school offering to-day was a marvel to me. The plate
was filled to overflowing with silver coins.
The outlook for an entirely self-supporting
work at this station is very encouraging.
The splendid work that is being carried
on here at the Perene Mission, we hope in
the near future to see duplicated in many
places along these rivers.
Colportage in the Nile Valley
Elder A. G. Danielle and Chief Ratu Heti
THE fourteenth annual report of the Nile
Valley Colportage Committee, quoted in
Blessed Be Egypt, says of the qualifications
of colporteurs:
" This work is not easy. There is not
only a vast amount of illiteracy, so that
very few of the hundreds can read, and
consequently have no use for literature of
any kind. There is also religious opposition on the part of most of the minorities
that can read. Of these, there is frequently as much opposition from the Coptic Christians as there is from the Mohammedans. A colporteur has, therefore, to be
not only a keen trader among other traders, but he has also to have much grace
and spiritual insight, as well as great patience, tact, and perseverance, to get his
books looked at, at all. He has to have the
pleasant word that turns away wrath and
fanaticism, and to know very intimately
the manners and the thoughts of the people, their sore points and their weak ones,
and how best to induce them to buy."—
The Missionary Review of the World.
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The Bible in Education
In Two Parts — Part One
By M. E. KERN
THE only education that is proper
for a Christian is Christian education,
and in Christian education the book of
Christianity must be supreme. The
Bible is that book. God's life has
touched sinful humanity, and out of
that divine touch has come the Bible.
Holy men of old spake as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit. Through
the avenue of these inspired writings
God has given to all humanity a revelation of His will. And the sincere
study of this divine-human book
brings the individual into touch with
God, enabling him to meet God's
standards in thought and deeds. And
such a person is able to communicate
that divine influence to the lives of
others. And this is what is needed.
Purpose of Education
The one supreme need of every human being is the restoration of a
righteous character. Through the fall
of man all his powers were weakened,
especially the spiritual faculties.
There is only one power that can restore man's spiritual nature, and enable him to fulfill the purpose of his
creation, and that is the power of
God as manifested in Jesus Christ.
Now the great purpose of education is
the development of character.
During the last few days there have
come to me by mail very concrete and
forceful illustrations of the supreme
importance of character in education,
above any specific training for a
limited sphere of activity.
From one great center came the sad
news of the ,sudden death, without a
moment's warning, of a senior nurse
in one of our sanitariums. She was to
have taken her State board examination the next day, and was under appointment as a missionary for China.
From one of our junior colleges, in
another part of the country, came the
news of a similar sadness during the
closing school days. There was a class
of seven young women in the normal
course. One was suddenly taken ill,
and died on the operating table. And
instead of joyfully finishing their
course together as they had planned,
the other six, as pallbearers, bore their
classmate to her last resting place.
To her, the closing days of school, instead of being the commencement of
a life of active service in her chosen
profession, were the end of her career.
It was my privilege a year and a half
ago, I am thankful to say, to study the
Bible with this young woman, and to
help her meet a crisis in her life, and
make a definite decision to yield her
all into the hands of God.
On such occasions as these which I
have related, the knowledge acquired
or the technical training obtained, is
of small consequence in comparison
with the great question of character
preparation to meet the standards of
the judgment.
In other words, the highest education consists, not in the accumulation
of information, but in the inculcation
of principles; not merely in the communication of knowledge, but in the
impartation of life. We have been admonished to keep the cross upheld in
our schools " as the foundation of true
education."
The results of this education are
demonstrated by such genuine heroism
and devotion to God as is shown in
the following story:
In the year 1900 the Boxers in China
surrounded a Christian school and
locked all the doors except one. In
front of this door they laid a cross on
the ground, and sent a message to the
hundred pupils that every one who
went over the cross, going out of the
door, should remain alive, the others
should be killed. Then came the long
line of students. The eighth, a girl,
knelt down in front of the cross and
passed it on the right; she was immediately shot. And all who followed
her did the same. They would not
trample on the cross, and therefore
were killed.
Similar scenes have been enacted in
the recent antiforeign, anti-Christian
uprisings in China. In our Central
China Union alone, thirteen faithful
Chinese Seventh-day Adventists suffered martyrdom rather than deny
their Lord. Such stanchness of character and devotion to duty is the best
testimony to the value of a Christian,
education.
This need of character education is
recognized by thinking men and women everywhere. A French minister
of education said: " The purpose of
education is to aspire to train a child
to the yoke of discipline and obedience,
to create in him a principle of energy
which shall enable him to resist his
passions, accept of his own free will
the law of labor and duty, and contract habits of order and regularity; "
and he adds, significantly, " To do this,
unless the force is derived from religion, is to attempt an impossible
task."— Quoted by Dean Hart, of Denver, Colo. (See Review of Aug. 29, 1912.)
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This is ight. The transformation of
human haracter is • a superhuman
task, an can be accomplished only
through
vital connection with God.
As Baldw n says, " Jesus lived the one
perfect li e, and taught the one perfect mor code." And it is through
union wit Him, the Supreme Architect of ch racter, that we are enabled
to fulfill his moral code. The chief
enemy of man's moral nature is an
unbraced will. Weak wills are best
made stro g by contact with a strong
personalit
Our adjustment to life
can be co plete only as we come into
personal f llowship with that Man who
mastered imself as no other has ever
done.
In Chris , who was the Word " made
flesh," are hidden " all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge," and these
precious t easures are revealed to us
in His writ ten word.
Luther, n that burst of dawn after
medieval d rkness, saw clearly the absolute nec ssity of the Bible in education. IH said: "I much fear the
universitie will become wide gates to
hell, if du care is not taken to explain the oly Scripture and engrave
it• on the earts of the students. My
advice to e ery person is, not to place
his child w ere the Scripture does not
reign pare ount. Every institution in
which the tudies carried on lead to a
relaxed do sideration of the word of
God, must prove corrupting."—" The
Bible in Ed cation," p. 35.
The spirit of prophecy has said that
" higher edi cation is an experimental
knowledge f the plan of salvation;
and this kn wledge is secured by earnest and di igent study of the Scriptures."—" C unsels to Teachers," p. 11.
In the clo 'ng hours of the redemption work or. earth there has been revealed to u s most clearly the place
that God w uld have His Book occupy
in education We have been told in
the spirit of prophecy that "the Holy
Scriptures re the perfect standard
of truth, an I as such should be given
the highest place in education."—
" Education,' p. 17. We are also told
that "the, 'ble should be made the
foundation o f study and of teaching "
(" The Mini try of Healing," p. 401) ,
and "the` roundwork and subject
matter of ed ication."— Fundamentals
of Christian Education, p. 474. And'
further, " Ab eve all other books, the
word of God must be our study, the
great textbo lc, the basis of all education " (" T stimonies," Vol. VI, p.
131) ; and to our educational workers:
it is said, " ill not teachers awake to,
their responsi ility in this matter, and
see that the ord of God has a larger
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place in the instruction given in our
schools? "—" Testimonies," Vol. VI,
page 133.
This brings us squarely face to face
with the problem, the Bible the basis
of all education. Have we made it
so? How can we do it? What does
it mean? Does it mean that we are
to study the Bible and nothing else?
Does it mean that though we may use
other textbooks, we must use the Bible
also as a textbook in every subject, or
bring forth some direct statements
from the Bible upon every artificial
division of knowledge which we may
pursue? I believe it has a deeper
meaning than this. I am profoundly
convinced, dear fellow workers in the
field of education, that after fifty years
of instruction and effort, we yet fall
far short of God's ideal in making
our education Bibliocentric.
There are, I believe, new depths of
meaning in Christian education which
we have not fathomed, new heights for
us to attain. Instead of a drift toward
worldly methods in education, there
should be a wider and wider line of
demarcation. The perfected system of
Christian education will stand out in
bold contrast to that of the world. It
will not be based on precedent. It will
not be molded by teachers who return
from university work to adopt rather
than adapt what they have been
taught. As has been pointed out in
the spirit of prophecy, it " will not be
tied by so much as a thread to the
educational policies of those who do
not discern the voice of God."—" Counsels to Teachers," p. 255. Nor will there
be anything that is true left out of it
simply because some one else may
have discovered it before us.
In the early days of our work, it
was revealed through the spirit of
prophecy that God had declared His
purpose to have one college in the land
where the Bible should have its proper
place in the education of the youth.
(See " Counsels to Teachers," p. 89.)
Now we have many schools to exalt
this ideal; and it is God's purpose that
through this system of education, and
by the excellent and high character of
work done in these institutions, the
attention of the world shall be directed, not to our great men nor to
our scholastic attainments (for as we
have been told in " Fundamentals,"
page 169, " Those who receive a valuable education . . . will not be regarded
as the world's best-educated men ") ;
but it shall be directed to " the last
great effort to save the perishing"
(" Testimonies," Vol. VI, p. 126) , to the
last mighty struggle between the
forces of good and evil. And when
we attain to this, it will be because
the Book of God has been made the
basis of our education, because the
Bible has become " the fountain light
of all our day, the master light of all
our seeing."
that if the Bible is to be the basis of
education, it must first be the basis
of the character of the teacher. In
this educational reform there must,
first of all, be a new spiritual life in
the teacher (" Special Testimonies on
Education," p. 29) , otherwise changes
in the curriculum will avail nothing.
Education is the communication of
life and vitalizing energy which comes
from contact of mind with mind and
heart with heart. So the word of God
must first be incarnate in the heart
of the teacher before it can be made
the basis of education.
If the teachers would have their
students appreciate and receive into
their hearts the word of God, they
must have more than mere words
about the Bible to present before
them; more than some mechanical
supplementing of other studies with
the Bible. They must have an experimental acquaintance with it, and
must themselves be growing into a
deeper knowledge of this wonderful
book, which, like the book of nature,
is a revelation to the mind and heart
that receives it, and must itself create
the taste for it and power to appreciate it.
What we need, to make the Bible
the basis, is not a method thrust upon
us, but an experience from which will
follow the true method.
The Bible a Book of Principles
But how? that is the question. How
can the Bible be the foundation of all
education and culture, the basis for
the study of history, language, mathematics, and every line of science?
The Bible is a book of principles,
and contains all the foundation principles which it is necessary for men
to know. (See " Education," p. 123.)
It does not, to be sure, contain the
results, but the first principles of all
science and philosophy. If it gave all
the results, it would be the pinnacle
as well as the basis of all knowledge.
The Bible discloses the origin and
final cause and the consummation of
all things. As nature is pre-eminently
God's revelation for the physical and
intellectual wants of man, as a creature of time, the Bible is a revelation
for His spiritual wants as a creature of
eternity. It is the guidebook for time
and eternity. The extent and grandeur of its truths, and its charming
beauty, make it worthy of its name,
" The Book of books."
Now all vital knowledge is comprehended in certain fundamental principles. These principles are comparatively few when we take into account
the immense range of knowledge
which the mind is able to grasp or
comprehend under them. Those principles are not like facts of knowledge
which may be easily lost or forgotten.
When once awakened in the soul, they
do not easily pass out of it, but grow
stronger and stronger with every inThe Bible in the Teacher
crease of knowledge, as the roots of a
In the development of this idea I tree go deeper and deeper with every
wish to mention first of all, and be- year's growth of the branches. Knowlcause I believe it of most importance, edge is systematized and applied by
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means of these principles, and the
principles shed light upon all departments and subjects of knowledge.
It is absolutely necessary that we
have some authoritative statement of
these basal principles, for without
them we would be in intellectual
chaos, without any assurance of certainty. Without these fundamental
principles the greatest efforts of reason would end in doubt. For in every
attempt to trace a subject back to its
foundation or source, we come to a
limit beyond which we cannot go,—
as one has said, to " a great ocean
which bounds the whole continent of
knowledge, from which all its streams
are derived, and into which they
empty and lose themselves, in whose
infinity the mind itself is lost." That
is, there are certain truths at the
foundation of all knowledge which
must be taken for granted by the
mind, which cannot be demonstrated
or even understood. They must be
taken by faith, and known only as
they are believed.
Such are the truths concerning God,
the great first cause, creator, and upholder of all; the soul, its freedom and
responsibility; right and wrong, and
the eternal distinction between them;
the origin, nature, and destiny of man.
The existence of God, as has been truly
said, " is an intuition of reason, and
not a deduction of the understanding; " an intuition which is brought
to clear light and substantiated by
revelation. " Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
the word of God." Heb. 11:3. The
Bible contains a clear statement of
these truths.
When the truth is revealed, and
received by faith, the reason finds
abundant confirmation of it. It has
been truly said that without this revelation of the mysteries about us, the
" foundation stone of all true knowledge would be wanting, and superstition would take the place of science,
and idolatry of true religion."
The freedom and responsibility of
man would not be known except from
the Bible. The whole doctrine of human rights, about which there has
been so much strife and bloodshed, is
derived from what man has learned
in the Bible concerning himself; and
where the Bible is not, these rights
are not regarded. What meaning
could attach to these rights if man
is not a spiritual being with freedom
of choice, if he is merely a creature
of evolution?
The Bible in Every Line
We might go on, but enough has
been said to show the Bible to contain
the foundation principles of all knowledge. Thus the truths of the Bible
are the pedestal upon which all knowledge rests; and as creatures of God's
handiwork we are absolutely helpless
intellectually and spiritually without
His revelation. Any system of education which does not contain this Book
as its foundation, cannot educate man
to fulfill the purposes of his creation,
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but is built on the inventions of man,
and will go down when everything that
is artificial and untrue shall perish.
To the mind that has a firm grasp
of truth there is a unity of all knowledge, and the artificial divisions for
the sake of study and teaching do not
appear as something entirely distinct
and separate from other lines of
thought. All truth is God's truth, and
if the teacher is permeated with the
Bible, and it is a very part of his life,
and he has seen that it contains the
foundations of all knowledge, it will
affect his consideration of every subject. And without any forced or mechanical process, he will teach what
he has seen and heard, he will lead
his students to the fountain at which
,he quenches his own thirst. I care
not whether he be teaching the life of
Jesus or the principles of mathematics,
this will be true. If the Bible is
brought in in any other way, it is the
form without the Spirit, and the students will intuitively feel that there is
something insincere about it. A
teacher of this character will spiritualize so-called common things, rather
than allow the spiritual to become
common.
I thoroughly believe in the use of
the Bible in every line, and that the
first impressions of the child should
be from the very words of the Holy
Book. Some years ago an aged woman was dying in College View. As
her daughter stooped over the unconscious form, she heard the mother repeating something in an unknown
tongue. The modern language teacher
was called, and it was found that she
was repeating a little bedtime prayer
in the French language. She had left
France when seven years of age, and
had entirely forgotten the language,
but those earliest childhood memories
were the list to fade away. Let the
mind be filled with the words of God,
and as fast as character develops, let
those divine principles take hold on
the life till everything is done for God,
and every study, whether it be an end
in itself, or a means to an end, is
looked upon as a part of God's plan.
IF we keep the Lord ever before us,
allowing our hearts to go out in
thanksgiving and praise to Him, we
shall have a continual freshness in our
religious life. Our prayers will take
the form of a conversation with God,
as we would talk with a friend. He
will speak His mysteries to us personally. Often there will come to us
a sweet, joyful sense of the presence of
Jesus. Often our hearts will burn
within us as He draws nigh to commune with us as He did with Enoch.
When this is in truth the experience
of the Christian, there is seen in his
life a simplicity, a humility, meekness,
and lowliness of heart, that show to all
with whom he associates that he has
been with Jesus and learned of Him.—
" Christ's Object Lessons," pp. 129, 130.
Vol, 105, No. 30
The Story H ur
BY JAMES I. ROBISON
" On, tell me a story, daddy,"
Was the 'quest of my little girl,
As onto my knee she scrambled
And tossed from her face a curl.
wrapped my arms around her,
And held her close to my breast
As I asked, " What tale would you
rather
I'd take from the old story chest? "
I
" Oh, tell of the little children
In the mission fields afar,
Or when Jesus was a baby,
Or the wise men's evening star."
So settling back in the armchair
In front of the evening blaze,
With the glimmering light ashining
On her curls and upturned face,
I paused a moment in thinking,
And from her dimpled lips
Came a sigh of full contentment,
As a bee when nectar it sips.
Then with the key of memory
I unlocked the old story chest,
And chose from its rare old treasures
The one she liked the best.
I told of the long, long journey
Of Joseph and Mary of old,
All the way from Nazareth's village
To Bethlehem's lone sheepfold;
Of the coming of the Christ-child,
Of the angels' midnight song,
Of the visit of the wise men,
And of Egypt's flight so long.
She had heard the same old story
A dOzen times or more,
And all the other best ones
Kept in memory's store;
But t see her face all eager
As t e story unfolded anew,
To fee the hug of a " Thank you,"
As e bade little Jesus adieu;
And t • hear her whisper softly,
"I lo e you, daddy mine,"
Was orth a thousand stories
And all the wealth of time.
Into t e flickering firelight
We gazed, our hearts as one;
I saw the long, long pathway
The little feet must run;
And Ithought of the snares and pitfalls
Unseen to care-free eyes,
And Prayed to the Friend of children
To keep ever sure these ties
To a home where love binds stronger
Th n all the attractions of sin,
And o guide the feet of my darling,
Wit h her father's, to enter in
To t at better home over yonder,
Wl ere the Lover of children dear
Will tell the same old story,—
Ma our children be there to hear.
Do You Remember and Welcome the Sabbath?
BY LIZZIE M. GRE
HAVING looked forward with pleasure
to spending the week-end, with friends
recently, I arrived at their home about
four o'clock one Friday afternoon, almost two hours before the sun would
sink in the west, and the sacred hours
of the Sabbath be ushered in. I was
much impressed as I noticed that practically everything was in readiness to
welcome the Sabbath. The shopping
was all done, the food all prepared,
and the work practically all finished,
and there was a joyful anticipation
of the blessings the Sabbath would
bring.
Fully one-half hour before sunset,
chairs were drawn before the western
windows, the family gathered around,
and as we sat and watched the glorious sunset, various experiences of the
Lord's goodness during the week were
recalled and talked over. The joyful
realization came to us that " now is
our salvation nearer than when we
believed." Taking up that good
hymnal, " Hymns and Tunes," we
found ourselves singing the old song:
" O'er the hill the sun Is setting,
And the eve is drawing on;
Slowly drops the gentle twilight,
For another day is gone.
Go e for aye, its race is over,
oon the darker shades will come,
St 1 'tis sweet to know at even,
e are one day nearer home.
" Ntrer home, nearer home,
dearer to our home on high,
To the green fields and the fountains
f the land beyond the sky."
Ho good that home looked to us!
How e longed to reach it, and join
with 11 the redeemed of the Lord in
true abbath observance. As all knelt
in pr yer, the sweet blessing of the
Sabb th came as a balm to each one.
The orld was shut out. That whole
Sabb th day was blessed and joyous.
Do you welcome the Sabbath as it
come to you, or does it find you in
a to moil, rushing to complete your
work your shopping, or your business?
The laeginning of the Sabbath makes
a gr at difference throughout the entire ay. When do you begin each
week to " remember the Sabbath " ?
Sun ay morning or Friday afternoon?
The Sabbath should be in our plans
ever day of the week, and everything
shou d be arranged so that our work
is w 11 out of the way early Friday
afte noon. An early start in the week
usua ly means that the end will take
care of itself.
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Try it, tired mother and father, and as taxing the memory or taking time
the Sabbath will bring its reward of from tennis or some other enjoyment.
rest and blessing both physically and They have little thought of caring for
spiritually.
room or clothing, because " mother always attends to such things." In fact,
they live with no thought other than
the thought of pleasure.
Disciplining Children
Thus the life of the average young
" Do " List
person goes on until school ends. Then
1. PRAY with children before pun- when they must earn a living, they
are at sea. The boy goes into an office
ishing them.
2. Always speak kindly to the chil- where everything is system, order, and
precision. He is expected to keep
dren.
things neat and orderly, to file letters,
3. Be patient.
4. Request the children rather than to do errands, in short, to become
a part of a well-regulated machine,
command.
5. Request only reasonable things. where everything moves in systematic
6, Gratify the children's wants grooves, and each employee is responsible for the correctness of his departwhen consistent.
7. Remember children have a sense ment, and where, in place of having
his comfort ministered to, he finds
of honor.
8. Recognize the children as part- taskmasters, more or less lenient, to
ners or part of the firm in the home. be sure, but everything in marked con9. Be companions with your chil- trast to his previous life.
In many instances the change is
dren.
10. Encourage the children while too great. Errors become numerous.
Blunders, overlooked at first, get to
young to give their hearts to God.
11. Encourage the children to think, be matters of serious moment; then
act, and decide questions for them- patience is overtaxed, and the young
selves.
12. Remember every impatient, fretful word Is recorded in heaven.
" Don't " List
1. Don't whip unless other means
fail.
2. Don't rule by fear, but by love.
3. Don't scold or censure the children.
4. Don't speak in a loud voice to
the children.
5. Don't command, but request the
children.
6. Don't " clash " with the children
if possible to avoid it.
7. Don't coax or bribe children to
obey.
8. Don't make many rules, but enforce those you make.
9. Don't treat the children like
dumb animals.
10. Don't wait until children are
several years old before disciplining
them; start with the babe in arms.
11. Don't try to break the child's
will.— Parents' Society of the Denver
(Colo.) Church, in Central Union Outlook.
More Important Than Book
Learning
BY D. C. RETSLOFF
is one element in home instruction which children should receive from the time of their birth,
to which too little attention is usually
given. It is the cultivation of habits
of system, punctuality, order, and responsibility. In too many homes children are administered to more than
is wise, by loving mothers, worshipful
aunts, or doting grandmothers. Up
in the mornings just in time for breakfast, they have nothing to do but start
toff early enough so as not to be late
at school. They look upon an errand
THERE
The Evening Prayer
day is ended. Ere I sink to sleep,
My weary spirit seeks repose in Thine.
Father, forgive my trespasses, and keep
This little life of mine.
THE
With loving kindness, curtain Thou my
bed,
And cool, in rest, my burning pilgrim
feet;
Thy pardon be the pillow for my head,
So shall my sleep be sweet.
At peace with all the world, dear Lord,
and Thee,
No fears my soul's unwavering faith can
shake;
All's well whichever side the grave for me
The morning light may break.
Author Unknown.
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Good Taste
BY RUTH L. FRANKEL
KATHERINE was nine. She had just
arranged some flowers that one of her
mother's guests had brought.
" Where shall I put them, mother? "
she asked.
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" Anywhere you like, dear," her
mother answered. " You have very
good taste, and I feel sure that we
shall enjoy them in the place that
you select."
So Katherine stood for a minute
studying the room, and finally placed
the blue vase of pink roses on a window sill where the combination contrasted pleasantly with the dull tan
curtains.
Anne was also nine. She passionately hated the color purple and all its
" relations," protesting loudly whenever she was asked to wear a lavender
gingham dress in her wardrobe.
" What can you know about it? "
snapped the annoyed mother, fastening the child into the hated garment.
" This is one of Smith and Gordon's
nicest styles, and I'm sure I think the
dress is very pretty."
So Anne, half sobbing, gazed at her
pale reflection in the mirror, and
vowed that never, never, never, if
she ever had a little girl, would she
make her 'wear anything she disliked, no matter how pretty she herself thought it.
Children have individual preferences and individual tastes. Sometimes their taste is bad, but the wise
mother never forces her own personality on her children. Whenever she
can, because she wishes them to grow
up able to decide wisely, she lets them
make decisions.
Katherine, selecting a place for the
flowers at nine, will at twelve or thirteen, appreciate harmony of color in
furniture, hangings, and all kinds of
things. Her mother is helping her to
develop good taste, and what is more
important still, confidence in her own
judgment.
Anne, forced to give up her own
preferences for her mother's, is likely
later on to question her own decisions,
and to be dubious about every choice
she is forced to make. It isn't only
the lavender dress her mother would
force upon her; she would have her
accept also the depressing conviction
that her opinions are so utterly worthless and unreliable that they must
simply be ignored. Probably, this
unwise mother will later bewail her
child's lack of taste, never thinking
that she herself is to blame; while the
wise mother will have the double satisfaction of worth-while accomplishment and pleasure in her daughter's
artistic ability.— Issued by the National Kindergarten Association.
man or young woman is told that he
or she is no longer wanted. The parents are surprised and shocked, and
often never know that the failure
of the child can be traced to early
training.
What is wanted, what is needed
to-day as never before, is to have every
boy, every girl, in this broad land
trained to duty. Give them something special to do at a certain hour.
Train them to watch for that hour and
its duty. Train them from the earliest
days of childhood to be answerable
for a certain part of the household
work, or some work that they can do
around the yard. Teach them to
anticipate the time when they can
enter the ranks of business. Make
them realize that to be fortified with
habits of energy, accuracy, application,
and punctuality is often of more importance than to have superficial book
" WE know that all things work tolearning. Teach them that success in gether for good to them that love God,
life is gained by fidelity in the accom- to them who are the called according
plishment of every task.
to His purpose."
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Rolling Logs
"DON'T go into the woods, boys," said
Mr Carter to his sons, Jerry and Roscoe. " Logging operations make it
dangerous."
The Carters were vacationing in the
woods near a lumber mill. Thinking
that the best way they could obey
father was to go in the opposite direction from temptation, Jerry and Roscoe set out toward the lumber mill.
Here they found many things which
were strange to them, city-born and
city-bred boys as they were. They
watched the planing of boards, the
cutting of logs, and finally, going
backward in the process of making
lumber, they arrived at the pond
where the logs went up the chute into
the mill.
A car of logs was being dumped into
the pond, and Jerry and Roscoe edged
nearer to see just how it was done.
They did not know what a gigantic
splash a car of logs can make when
dumped into a shallow pond until a
giant splash enveloped them, leaving
them wet with dirty water. They both
gasped for breath, and sputtered violently. When Jerry had gained breath,
he groaned:
" Now just look at us, Roscoe. Aren't
we a pretty mess? It would have
been better if dad had told us to go
into the woods; we wouldn't have
been half as dirty."
" We couldn't possibly be any dirtier," Roscoe admitted sadly.
" Hello there, boys, did I get you
wet? " a voice asked.
Both boys looked up in surprise.
There, before them, stood a jolly-faced
Irishman. He was such a likable sort
of fellow that the boys couldn't hold
a grudge against him, and they both
broke into a grin.
" We stood too close," Jerry explained; " we didn't know it would
make such a big splash."
" Sorry I didn't notice you, boys,"
the Irishman told them. " But would
a ride on my train make you feel any
better? "
" Have you got a train? " demanded
Roscoe incredulously.
" Don't exactly own it; but it's my
train just the same," the Irishman
stated expansively. " Hop up on this
empty car, boys, and you can have a
ride. We'll be back in an hour."
Roscoe and Jerry were quite delighted at the prospect of having a
ride on an empty flat car, so they
obeyed the man's orders. After they
had traveled a short distance, Jerry
noted that they were traveling toward
the woods.
" Why didn't we ask that funny man
where he was going? He's taking u§
into the woods."
"We'll get punished when we get
home, I suppose," said Roscoe disconsolately. " But I guess it serves us
right for not asking where we were
going."
Presently the train entered the deep
woods. Giant firs towered above them
on every hand. As they went farther,
they came upon an area that was
logged off, bare save for many stumps.
Finally the train came to a stop in the
midst of a logging camp.
" Amuse yourselves until we are
loaded up," the Irishman directed
them.
The boys watched the lumbermen
cut trees for some time. It interested
them greatly, for they had never seen
such a sight before. The lumbermen
cut a notch in one side of the trees,
then they chopped on the other side,
and the tree would fall on the side
where the notch was cut. The men
seemed to be very accurate in making
a tree fall where they desired.
With a donkey engine they moved
the fallen trees about as if they
were giant toothpicks. The boys returned to the train upon which they
had come to watch it being loaded
.with another donkey engine. The
lumbermen attached a cable around
the log, and the machine would raise
it above the car, dropping it after the
men had pushed it in the air to the
spot where it was to lie. Most of the
cars held three logs, though some of
them only held one or two, if the logs
were exceptionally large.
The boys wandered out on a spur
track. Here they saw logs and flat
cars which had evidently run off the
spur. A log was now lashed across
The Little Gentleman
WHEN mother drops things on the floor,
My father asks me, " Who
Should always pick them up for her? "
And so I always do.
He says I haven't far to reach,
And that a gentleman
Must do things for his mother,
And be helpful as he can.
But mother bends down, just the same —
She has to, don't you see?
For after she's said, " Thank you, dear,"
She stoops and kisses me.
— Our Little Ones.
the spur to prevent other similar runaways.
Suddenly one of the cars started to
run slowly toward the spur upon which
the boys were standing. As it came
toward them, it steadily gained momentum.
" Will the log lashed across the track
stop the train? " both boys asked
themselves in terror.
Finally the carload of three logs
was so close that the boys lost their
nerve. They were afraid the log lashed
to the track would not stop the runaway car. Diving feet first off the
track, Roscoe landed on a log and was
able to scramble out of the way of
danger.
Considerably less fortunate was
Jerry, for his foot landed between two
giant logs, and tug as he would he was
unable to dislocate it. Terror-stricken
at his predicament, he was forced to
watch the train race out on the spur
which was above his head.
The log did not stop the car, for
only one end held. The car tipped,
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but did nog leave the track. Two logs
flew like r mbling giants off the spur
on the other side of the track from
Jerry.
But the third log rolled on Jerry's
side. There was a stump near Jerry,
somewhat taller than the boy. Strange
as it may Seem, the log landed on this
stump with. a tremendous thud. There
it balanced, rocking back and forth.
If it fell dne way, or failed to remain
on the st mp, Jerry would be crushed
to a pulp It was a terrible moment
to all spe tators, but most terrible to
the boy hose foot was caught.
Finally the log came to rest on its
strange• p rch, and all breathed a sigh
of relief. Jerry was close to fainting
when the burly Irishman, shaking like
a leaf, c me to his assistance and
helped ex ricate the caught foot. Going home in the engine, neither boy
spoke; they were both as white as
sheets.
When hey told the story to their
father th t night in a hushed whisper,
he never said a word. He knew they
had learTd a lesson they would never
forget. ut it Was a lesson that nearly
cost Jerry his life.— John Scott Douglas, in tle Presbyterian.
ffo
Th Children's Books
IN cho sing books for children these
rules, rec ntly laid down by an author
of books for boys, are worth the consideratio of parents:
" Read your children's books yourself. Or better still, get your boy or
girl to r ad them aloud to you. Ask
yourself during the reading:
" ' Doe this book lay stress on villainy, d ception, or treachery?
" ' Are all the incidents wholesome,
probable and true to life?
"` Doe it show young people contemptuo s toward their elders and
successf lly opposing them?
" ' Do he young characters in the
book sh w respect for teachers and
others i authority?
" ' Are these characters the kind of
young people you wish your children
to associate with?
" ' Does the book speak of and describe franks, practical jokes, and
pieces of thoughtless and cruel mischief • a if they were funny and
worthy f imitation?
"` Is he English good, and is the
story w itten in good style? ' "— One
Hundre and One Famous Poems.
LET
others come to Jesus with
their pe plexities. They will find grace
to aid em in the care of their children. he gates are open for every
mother who would lay her burdens at
the S viour's feet. He who said,
" Suffer the little children to come
unto e, and forbid them not," still
invites mothers to bring their little-,
ones to be blessed by Him.— Mrs. E. G..
White.
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Conference, served as master of ceremonies. The sanitarium band of thirty
pieces, with several soloists, and a Pacific
Union College quartet furnished excellent
music.
Representative men from cities and
communities in Napa County and elsewhere brought to this anniversary celebration the spirit of appreciation and affection felt by their people. Judge H. C.
Gesford, for eighteen years a superior
judge, on behalf of the chamber of commerce of the city of Napa, presented to
the sanitarium a beautiful silver loving
cup. " Who would have thought," he said,
" that upon this hillside an institution
would have been built that would increase
in power until to-day its influence extends
to all parts of our country? It stands for
elevation of standards both physically and
morally; it ministers to the physical and
moral natures of man. We see here many
men and women who have received physical help through the years. What a compliment to the institution that the men
and women who have gained this help
have come back to bask in its sunshine,
and join together in this celebration. God
bless this institution. May it thrive and
prosper until hundreds of thousands, instead of a few thousands, lift up their
voices in praise of what it has meant to
them."
With similar feeling other leading men
expressed themselves. These included Superior Judge Percy S. King, District Attorney Walter Rutherford, and the mayor
of St. Helena, Walter Metzner, Chief
Justice of the State William H. Waste was
represented by a letter of congratulations.
Ous pioneer health institution on the
Pacific Coast, the St. Helena Sanitarium
and Hospital, situated on Howell Mountain
overlooking Napa Valley near St. Helena,
Calif., has just celebrated its fiftieth birthday. This golden jubilee was held on
June 19 and 20. It brought together for
a two days' program of entertainment
and education more than twelve hundred
people from all, parts of California, as well
as from several other States. Among these
were many former guests and patients,
some prominent in business and official
circles, all eager to participate in making
this a great occasion for the institution.
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People of many different persuasions religiously, and of various classes socially,
returned to the sanitarium, and for these
two days mingled together as in a great
family reunion.
The weather was ideal, the arrangements for caring for the crowds were per-4
fectly worked out, and the spirit all the
way through was wonderful. A large outdoor auditorium, arranged so that the verandas of the main buildings served as
balconies, pleasantly and comfortably provided for the guests during the regular
program hours. A great outdoor cafeteria
conducted on the tennis courts supplied
every one with excellent meals during the
two days. Arrangements had been made
in advance for rooms within reasonable
distance, so that all were well cared for.
In the early part of the program various
speakers gave prominence to the health
principles represented by this and other sissuussmississsisur
like institutions conducted by Seventh-day
Adventists. " Seventh-day Adventists take
their mission in life seriously," declared
J. L. McElhany, of Takoma Park, D. C.,
president of the North American Division
of Seventh-day Adventists, in addressing
the guests of the sanitarium on this occasion. " We believe that there has been
committed to us a great work, a gospel View of the Main
work that is to be carried on throughout Buildings of the
the earth. Our conviction is that a part
St. Helena
of this work is to carry on the ministry of
Sanitarium
healing as manifested in the work of this
institution. The success of this institution
is due to its loyalty and fidelity to the
great principles upon which it has been
founded."
J. E. Fulton, president of the Pacific
Union Conference, spoke of our health
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and minds in dark heathen lands. This
The spirit of this sanitarium celebragave opportunity to outline the scope of
our sanitariums, more than sixty in- tion was still further extended by an institutions in all, representing an invest- teresting educational radio program put
ment of nearly ten million dollars, and out from one of Oakland's leading- stahaving more than five hundred physicians, tions on Wednesday night. This had been
nurses, and helpers, and more than a arranged by a prominent business man, a
thousand student nurses. Reference was friend of the sanitarium, who wanted to
also made to the work of the Loma Linda be of some service on this occasion. The
newspapers throughout the State noticed
medical school.
Doctors George Thomason, A. W. Tru- this jubilee, and gave much space to adman, and H. F. Rand, prominent phy- vance notices and reports of it. All the
sicians, touched upon the world's physical way through, the principles of health, and
needs, emphasizing that a superhuman ef- the providence of God in His leading in
fort is needed to stem the tide of misery the work of the institution have been feaand woe due to vicious habits of living. tured.
Other leading men formerly associated
At suitable hours during the celebration
with the sanitarium took part on the pro- the medical staff, headed by Dr. H. W.
gram, among these J. A. Burden, Charles Vollmer, and the business organization,
E. Rice, L. M. Bowen, and W. C. White. headed by M. C. Lysinger, the business
G. A. Roberts, president of the California manager, conducted the guests in attend-
ante through the various departments of
the sanitarium and hospital, and brought
them into close touch with the workings
of the institution, featuring always the
efforts that are made in restoring people
to health through the simple rational
methods that God has given.
In 1874 the servant of the Lord was
shown that there would be a health in=
stitution in California. Without any'
knowledge of this, three men, Dr. M. 0.
Kellogg, W. A. Pratt, and A. B. Atwood,
had by 1878 founded the Rural Health
Retreat on the eight and a half acres of
land given by Mr. Pratt. Fourteen' pa.
tents came in answer to an advertisement in the San Francisco Call of June 1,
1878. From that small beginning the St.
Helena Sanitarium and Hospital has
grown, now comprising 477 acres of land
and fifty-one buildings, with a total in-,
vestment of $365,000. Out from it haVe
gone during recent years 428 graduate
nurses. Since its founding other large
institutions doing a similar work have
come into service, and the, blessing of
God attends our health work as it reaches
out here and in foreign lands. A beautifully illustrated souvenir booklet, recounting some of the interesting points in the
history of the St. Helena Sanitarium, was
given each guest attending the jubilee.
As the institution begins its second half,
century of service, there is reason to thank'
God for His guiding hand and many blessings, and for the influence that has gone
out from this health center/ through the
years. May it continue true to the principles on which it was founded, and prove
of still greater blessing in the future.
THE ST. HELENA SANITARIUM
HISTORY OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT ANII
PROGRESS
THE St. Helena Sanitarium was first
known as " Crystal Springs " because of
the crystal water that poured forth from
the springs on the mountain side; later
the Rural Health Retreat Association was
formed, and the name changed to Rural
Health Retreat. The stockholders of the
association invested their money without
hope of reward, except that which comes
from doing good, the plan being that all
profits should go back into the institution,
and to carry on the work in other places
as opportunity afforded.
The story of the institution really goes
back more than fifty years ago to 1871,
when W. A. Pratt settled in what has
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for more than half a century been known
as Pratt Valley. In 1873 a Seventh-day
Adventist church was organized in St.
Helena, which counted among its charter
members the Pratt family. Subsequently
Elders J. N. Loughborough and I. D. Van
Horn happened to visit the Pratt homestead, and were deeply impressed with
the magnificent view of the valley from
the slope of the hill on which the sanitarium now stands.
The first month saw the Crystal Springs
resort filled to overflowing, but there were
many obstacles to overcome. It was all
new business, and many things had to be
learned. After five years it seemed that
the work must be abandoned because of
lack of sufficient patronage and financial
support. Mrs. Ellen G. White, the leader
of the Adventist Church at that time,
had become greatly interested in the work,
however, and would not hear to an abandonment, and counseled perseverance and
faith in God. The struggle continued and
improvements were made as circumstances
permitted. More land was acquired from
time to time until the original tract of
eight and one-half acres had grown to an
acreage of 477. Laundries, barns, poultry
houses, grocery store, and other structures
were erected until to-day the plant consists of fifty-one buildings, many of them
being the latest word in modern construction. Meanwhile the work was taken
over by the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, and the name of the
institution changed to the St. Helena Sanitarium.
AN ERA OF PROSPERITY
While the institution grew steadily after
the first few years, it was not until 1900
that the tide turned and prosperity and
expanding usefulness gave the St. Helena
Sanitarium an almost world-wide reputation.
In 1901 a post office was established,
largely through the efforts of Frank L.
Coombs, of Napa, who was a Congressman
at that time. In 1903 the Sanitarium
Mercantile Company began operations as
a subsidiary of the institution.
Sunday, Oct. 20, 1907, a new hospital
building was dedicated to meet pressing
demands. This building is detached from
the main group. It is 32 x 52 feet in
size, with 8-foot verandas all around.
There are four floors, each being for a
distinct and separate purpose. All surgical
cases are cared for in this building, and it
is fitted up with the very latest appliances
and conveniences.
The feature of the dedicatory service was
the address of Mrs. E. G. White, gifted
leader of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church. She took as her topic, " Why Do
We Build Sanitariums? " She gave Scriptural authority for the use of water, air,
and exercises in the healing of the sick.
Mrs. White, although nearly eighty years
old, spoke in a strong voice, and was distinctly heard by the large throng gathered
about the building. Other addresses were
made by Dr. H. F. Rand and Elder J. N.
Loughborough, the latter dwelling upon
the history of the institution. Elder
Loughborough told how in November, 1877,
Dr. M. G. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, and
Messrs. Pratt and Atwood formed a copartnership to establish the Rural Health
Retreat. Mr. Pratt furnished several acres
of land on the mountain side and $3,000
in cash; and Dr. Kellogg and Mr. Atwood
each put up $1,000, making a capital of
$5,000 with which the start was made.
EARLY BEGINNINGS
The first building was 76 x 28 feet in
size and two stories in height. During
the winter and spring of 1878 and 1879
the ground was prepared and a second
two-story building, 50 x 30 feet in size, was
erected on the site of the present main
building.
In the fall of 1879 Dr. Kellogg withdrew
from the Retreat, and returned to Battle
Creek, Mich., and a local stock company
was formed. For one year Dr. E. J. Wag-
goner acted as physician. He was succeeded by a Dr. Chase, and in 1883 and
1884 Mrs. Dr. Chamberlain was in charge.
During the winter of 1884 the Retreat
was closed. Other interesting facts were
brought out by Elder Loughborough, regarding physicians and managers, that led
his hearers to the day of the dedication
of the hospital.
In May, 1885, Dr. Gibbs was elected
physician and J. D. Rice was made business manager. Then followed such men
as John Fulton and John Bites as managers, with Dr. W. P. Burke as physician.
During that period the chapel and gymnasium building was erected. Dr. W. H.
Maxson and his wife, Dr. Hattie Maxson,
served on the medical staff, and during
that time Leucine cottage was erected, and
walls, rose trellises, and cement walks
were constructed. After the Doctors Maxson, came Dr. A. J. Sanderson, with John
Burden as superintendent. An addition
was then built to the main building and
other extensive improvements were made.
On June 2, 1900, L. M. Bowen was made
business manager, and his administration
was very successful. In April, 1906, Dr.
H. F. Rand was called as chief physician,
and a period of great prosperity began,
which has continued until this day.
A woman who was connected with the
sanitarium for many years was Mrs. J. L.
Ings, the matron, and no history written
of the institution would be complete without mention and praise of this angel of
mercy that so tenderly cared for all who
entered the doors of the sanitarium.
When she died in 1921, her place was
taken by Mrs. Eleanor Holser Saxby.
LATER IMPHOVEMENTS
While improvements were continually
being made, the next notable ones after
the dedication of the hospital were the
completion in 1916 of the new medical
building and the erection in 1918 of the
nurses' home. The interior of the chapel
was renovated in 1919, and the food factory transferred from the valley to the
hillside. The new unit known as Oakhurst was erected in 1922, and the lobby
and business offices were remodeled. A
new power plant was erected, and many
additions made to the medical equipment
and apparatus, including quartz lamps,
high-frequency machines, X-ray machines,
sterilizer, batteries, etc.
In October, 1922, Oakhurst, the re-enforced concrete annex to the main building of the sanitarium, was completed,
and on the evening of the fifth of that
month open house was kept, the able and
accommodating manager, C. E. Ripe, being
host to many visitors, mostly business men
and their wives from St. Helena. After an
inspection of the building, a delicious banquet was served, and at its conclusion Mr.
Rice welcomed the guests most cordially.
F. B. Mackinder acted as toastmaster, and
short addresses were made by Mayor H. J.
Chinn, Elder H. W. Cottrell, Dr. Leslie
A. Stern, Rev. Irving E. Baxter, E. M.
Murray, F. L. Alexander, Bismarck Bruck,
Elder J. N. Loughborough, William
Whalen, Mrs. Baxter, and Dr. G. K. Abbott, then medical director. Dr. P. B.
Jones, a former sanitarium physician, was
also present.
Oakhurst occupies a site south of the
main building, but connected with the
principal structure by verandas at the
front of the medical department.
The building is 60 x 50 feet in size and
four stories in height. There are twentyeight rooms, ranging in size from 13 x 15
to 15 x 22, six of which have screened
sleeping porches. Twenty-two have private baths, and the accommodations are
such as will be found in the best hotels
in the country.
At that time Dr. Abbott had on his
medical staff Dr. R. M. Smith, Dr. Ida S.
Nelson, and Dr. Elsie B. Merritt. Dr.
Nelson is still at the sanitarium, and is a
very popular physician. All the women
patients are very fond of Dr. Nelson,
and in ministering to suffering humanity
she has ndeared herself to hundreds, who
have no e but kind words for this good
woman.
Thus tom a small institution has grown
the St. elena Sanitarium, with assets of
approxi ately $500,000.
The ood factory, laundry, and store
are all subsidiaries of the main institution, and do a large business, that of the
Sanita um Mercantile Company exceeding $J,000 a year.
Ther is in connection with the sanitarium a school for nurses, established in
1891, t at has grown in usefulness, efficiency, and attendance year by year.
Many f these graduates are sent to foreign 1 nds as medical missionaries, and
spreading the gospel, and while
assist
doing o minister to the sick and the
afflicte
THE PRESENT STAFF
The St. Helena Sanitarium is open to
local p ysicians, who frequently take, advanta of the hospital service which is
there available, and every attention is
given heir patients.
Myr n C. Lysinger, who has been manager d treasurer of the sanitarium since
the re ignation of C. E, Rice several years.
ago, I a splendid executive, and under his
maim ement the business is growing by
leaps nd bounds. He sees that the patients and guests have the best of care
and e ery attention. Mr. Lysinger is looking fo ward to the time when a better roadway ill be provided, so that the sanitariu may be reached in the highest
degre of comfort. He calls attention to
the ast sum that has been paid thd
count in taxes, and to the business in
whic St. Helena naturally shares. He
hope that in the near future. Pratt AVenue
and he road leading to the sanitarium
may be paved, and thus add another
very great improvement to the facilities
affo ed the visitors for , their comfort.
Th medical staff at the sanitarium at
prese t is composed of Dr. H. W. Vollmer,
sune .intendent; C. A. Gregory, M. D.;
Ida
Nelson, M. D.; Franke Cobban,
direr or of nurses; Mrs. Winifred Lindsay, ietitian; Ruth Miller, M. D., pathologi t; William D. Edwards, M. D., eye,
ear, ose, and throat; C. E. Nelson, M. D.,
surg on; E. F. Stow, X-ray technician;
and scar Woesner, laboratory technician.
e first board of trustees of 1878 was
com osed of W. A. Pratt, president; M. G.
Kell gg, secretary; A. B. Atwood, treasurer, James Creamer and John Mavity.
Mrs Creamer, widow of one of these first
trustees, was an interested and honored
guest at the Golden Jubilee.
inpresent board of directors is cornTe
pos d of the following: G. A. Roberts,
pre ident; A. C. Larson, secretary; H. W.
Vol er, W. E. Nelson C. A. Gregory, E. F.
Sto , M. C. Lysinger, H. H. Hicks, W. M.
Ad ms, B. M. Emmerson, W. C. White,
C. . Jones, C. E. Nelson, and J. E. Fulton.
I is impossible in the space available
for an article such as this, to touch other
tha the high lights of the history of such
a lendid institution as the sanitarium
wit its fifty years of service so successful y celebrated this week, or to mention
all he physicians, nurses, office employees,
an other helpers, all of whom have contra uteri so much to building up this insti ution that is such an asset to St.
He ena, Napa County, and the country at
large.— St. Helena Star.
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students and people won
by the Chillan Training School were baptized during the year. Two of these were Alk
Araucanian Indian boys, believed to be the Mr
fir t of their race to accept the truth.
T ey entered the canvassing field after
sc ool.
ENTY-EIGHT
Timm have been 563 baptisms in the
N rthern California Conference during the
la st four years.
July 26, 1928
THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD
cottages for workers. The office building is
two stories high. On the first floor are a
chapel and two guest rooms, and on the
IT was my privilege to attend the an- second floor are offices for the officers
111) nual meeting of the Inter-American Di- and departmental secretaries. The homes
vision Committee held in Balboa, Canal of the workers are plain and simple, and
Zone, June 4-14. Just preceding the com- yet all cozy and comfortable. The style
mittee meeting there had been held a of building is much like that followed by
meeting of the mission treasurers and a the United States Government in the
home missionary secretaries' convention, buildings erected for the employees of the
and thus an unusually large representation Panama Canal.
from the entire Inter-American territory
The location of our division headquarters
was present at the opening of the com- is all that can be desired. Balboa is what
mittee meeting. The business of the com- might, be termed the capital of the Canal
mittee was largely routine, arranging for
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furloughs of workers, transfer of workers
between fields, making up of budgets for
next year, etc.
Time was given in the evening to the
representatives of various sections of the
field to report the progress of the work.
Headquarters of the
These reports were very encouraging and
Inter-American Diinspiring. From all sections of the field
vision, Panama,
there is distinct evidence that God has set
Canal Zone
His hand to finish the work in a short
time. This seems particularly true of
fields which have hitherto been looked
upon as difficult, if not unpromising.
D. A. Parsons, superintendent of the
Mexican Union Mission, said that for more
than two years the work in that great
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field has been without leaders, for the
reason that the lay members of the church Zone, for here is the Administration
had been so active in creating new in- Building for the Panama Canal and the
terests that it was taking all the time Canal Zone. Land is scarce and difficult
of those who would otherwise be leaders to obtain in Balboa. None is sold, and
to follow up these interests. It has been all that is used by private individuals or
impossible for any of these workers to organizations is leased. The plot secured
hold a public effort, because all their time by the people on which to erect the headis taken up in caring for the new be- quarters is high and on a corner formed
lievers who have accepted the message as by the junction of the two principal roads
a result of the work of the members of from Balboa to Panama City. On the
the church.
property are quite a number of large
William Steele, as he was sailing for mango trees, affording both shade and a
Venezuela, his present field of labor, said supply of fruit. It has been a source of
that he felt sure, if conditions were such surprise to many that such a fine location
as to permit of his holding a public effort should be secured. The Lord has surely
in Caracas, the capital city, a new church blessed our brethren in the securing and
of thirty or forty members could be raised building of a headquarters for the great
up within a few weeks. Other workers Inter-American field, and we rejoice to see
gave similar reports.
them so comfortably housed. Our group
The Inter-American field has an ear- of buildings, standing as it does on the
nest corps of workers, and the bringing principal road between Balboa and Panof them together proved to be a source ama City, attracts considerable attention,
of great encouragement and inspiration to and will no doubt cause many persons to
them. Having come from widely distant inquire concerning the truth which it
points in the homeland to labor in a represents.
field whose territory is in many cases
separated by miles of ocean, many of
these workers had never before had the
privilege of meeting one another. Hav- WHAT A BUSY UNION PRESIDENT
THINKS OF THE FIRESIDE
ing now had the privilege of meeting together in Christian fellowship, they have
BY M. E. OLSEN
returned to their respective fields with a
IT is especially encouraging to the Firefeeling of unity and of sympathetic interest in one another's problems that side workers to see our brethren who are
would not have been possible otherwise. carrying heavy administrative duties out
The new headquarters for the Inter- in the field, finding time to carry on corAmerican Division was completed just in respondence studies. At a recent camptime for the meeting. The headquarters meeting when correspondence study was
consists of an office building and five under discussion, F. H. Robbins, president
INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION
BY H. H. COBBAN
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of the Columbia Union Conference, bore
this testimony:
" I am glad to say a word for the Fireside, and I can speak from personal experience. A few years ago I enrolled for the
course in journalism because I desired to
know more about how to use the newspapers in my public work. I endeavored to
be regular in sending in my recitation papers, and these were returned promptly,
with helpful suggestions and criticisms. I
found my instructor deeply interested in
my progress, and willing to help me in
every possible way. The course was a real
benefit to me, and while it required some
effort at times to find opportunity to write
out the test papers and send them in, I
felt that I was richly repaid. I completed
that course and received my certificate.
This summer I have enrolled for the course
in parliamentary law. I shall be carrying
around in my pocket the little blue textbook, and in due time I shall finish this
course also.
" Brethren, it is worth our while to take
time for growth and self-improvement.
We must not take a cheap view of the work
God has committed to us. It is a sacred
work, and it calls for the best that is in
us. There are correspondence courses
that fit the needs of workers in all ranks.
It is just as necessary for the colporteur to
master the art of salesmanship as for the
blacksmith to learn his trade. It takes
practice to become a good colporteur, but
it also requires study of the fundamental
principles, and the Fireside course prepared especially for our colporteurs should
be taken by all who desire to excel.
" Study by correspondence is also well
adapted to the needs of our ministers. We
need the knowledge that comes from taking courses in Bible, history, and English,
in order to grow intellectually. Let us get
the best preparation we can. The best is
none too good for those who are coworkers
with the God of heaven. This is no common work we are engaged in. The devil
may try to discourage us, but we must go
right forward with our work, and expect
of ourselves more diligence and skill day
by day. There is nothing that will do more
to put our ministry on vantage ground
than for every one of our ministers to cultivate the habit of giving a few minutes
daily to advanced study, with the help of
a teacher."
THE INTER-MOUNTAIN CAMP
MEETING
BY W. A. SPICER
I FOUND myself wishing our missionaries
Homes of Our Workers in Panama, Canal Zone
in the far lands could have dropped into
that Inter-Mountain Conference campmeeting among the mountains of western
Colorado. It seemed to me I caught the
keynote of the meeting in the school
chapel of the Inter-Mountain Academy,
where church officers and Sabbath school
officers had gathered, led by Elder J. W.
Turner, the president, in a study of how
to stand by the missionary advance. It
was agreed that the entire conference from
that time forth should aim to increase
mission gifts in a very definite way. It was
a .i437,,to hear these. brethren and sisters
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talk, and to see them vote to stand by the
missionary advance.
It was a good camp meeting, one of those
smaller ones where we can all meet one
another. God blessed the local workers
and the visiting workers. My heart was
blessed by the preaching of the local staff
and by all, and showers of blessing came
upon the believers. Hearts rejoiced on the
closing Sabbath in special victories won.
The Inter-Mountain Conference had
baptized more converts in the first quarter
of this year than in the entire year 1927.
That is a good beginning, and a goodly
number were baptized at the camp meeting
in June.
For one thing, the believers cleared away
the last of their academy debts, and set the
institution free. In Prof. W. N. Nelson and
his associates of the Inter-Mountain Academy, this conference, which is the smallest
one, to be conducting an academy of its
own, has a splendid equipment for the
training of its young people. May God
bless the churches and workers of the
Inter-Mountain Conference, and may the
young people press on into the academy
and out into the fields of service.
RAPID GROWTH OF THE FAR EASTERN BRANCH OF THE FIRESIDE
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
Vol. 105, No. 30
the day may come when the only educa- " THI IS THE LORD'S DOING; IT IS
tional institution able to function will be
MIARVELOUS IN OUR EYES"
our Correspondence School. It is the
BY F. C. GILBERT
prayers of those responsible for the development of this part of the Lord's work that
FloTthe instruction given to us from
in the event our Correspondence School the m ssenger of the Lord concerning the
will have to function in place of our regu- Jewish people, we find the following:
lar resident schools, that it will be able
" GO expects His messengers to take
to do so efficiently, so that the training
of workers for this great unfinished work particular interest in the Jewish people
whom they find in all parts of the earth."
may go on unhampered."
This is indeed a remarkable showing. —" Th • Acts of the Apostles," p. 381.
First Year Class in Our Temporary School of Chinese tudies Conducted in Shanghai, China
Our brethren and sisters in the Far East
This statement indicates that a general
are eager to make the most of the oppor- move ent will go forward among the lost
THE correspondence method is gradually tunities afforded them by the home study sheep f Israel, and the workers will mantaking hold of our people in this country, plan. If they continue as they have be- ifest a !special interest in these people. We
and an increasing number of men and gun, the branch will presently have more have s6en glimpses of a fulfillment of this
women are giving their evenings to study; students than the home school.
prediction in recent years, but during the
Our Fireside branch in Australasia is past winter and spring an unusual interest
but in the Far Eastern Division, under the
inspiring leadership of W. A. Scharffen- also having a successful career. The stu- has ben awakened among the workers and
berg, the work is going forward literally dents who are taking the work are making believes, and they have put forth special
by leaps and bounds. This will easily be excellent records, and the number of stu- effort mong the Jewish people.
evident from the following extracts from dents is likely to grow considerably in
The religious liberty phase of our work
Professor Scharffenberg's annual report:
the near future.
has ben of special interest to the seed of
Word has recently come from Prof. C. P. Abrah m. To them, civil and religious lib" By the close of 1926 a total of 232 persons had matriculated in the Far Eastern Crager, head of our educational work in erty ispt. vital principle. When we consider
branch of the Fireside Correspondence the South American Division, that plans the f evsi liberties and privileges these people
School. By the close of 1927 this number are under way for starting a branch of have e joyed for many centuries, they are
had increased to 536, a gain of 294 new the Fireside Correspondence School in that in a p sition to appreciate the doctrine of
students during the year 1927. This is great field. The home study idea is stead- liberty when it includes them. Tons of our
an increase in one year of 112 per cent over ily growing as men and women find that religio s liberty literature have been placed
they are able, by the use of this method, in their hands. The Jews are a literary
the preceding five-year period.
" Our goal for 1927 was 200 new enroll- to attain knowledge and skill in all de- people. Very little illiteracy exists among
ments. Not only have we passed our goal, partments of learning.
them. They have come to appreciate the
princip es of liberty and equality for all
men lich we advocate, and as our laborers ha e interviewed these people and presented to them our work, they have responde3 in an unusual manner.
Colu n after column of newspaper and
magazi Ie space has been devoted by editors and writers in expressing appreciation
of the work being done by us in defense of
true liberty. Articles have appeared in no
less th n twenty of their most prominent
news s eets the past winter and spring;
and on of the leading magazines has given
as mu h as 16 per cent of space in one
issue to the defense of the religious liberty
work conducted under the auspices of the
Religious Liberty Department.
The !Kansas City Jewish Chronicle of
April ip, 1928, makes the following observation:
'" For unately, the friends of freedom are
not all asleep in this critical hour of our
history There are yet many who have not
bowed the knee to this modern Baal. . . .
Second Year Class in Our Temporary School of Chinese Studies, Shanghai, China
But these scattered lovers of liberty must
but we have practically trebled it. We
May the Spirit of God impart to many be united before their influence can be felt
believe that with proper promotion our more members of the great REVIEW family in the nails of Congress. Accordingly, the
enrollment for the year 1928 will far out- an earnest, longing desire to give their Religious Liberty Association, of Washingstrip that of 1927.
evenings, and their spare moments to sys- ton, a C., is now circulating petition
" To date 126 certificates have been tematic study of Bible, history, English, blanks through its volunteer workers, and
issued. Ninety-two of these were issued and other subjects that help to qualify for million have, by signing their names, alduring the year 1927. Many are now the work. There are great possibilities ready xpressed their protest against the
ready for their final examinations, others wrapped up in the lay men and women Sunda bill. . . . These volunteers are now
are pushing their work forward, and we in our churches. If they can get the vi- active in Kansas City, and they should be
believe that during the year 1928 several sion of these possibilities, and can apply encourred in their work."
hundred certificates will be issued."
themselves to systematic study, there is
In it issue of Feb. 17, 1928, this same
" We have had an exceptional oppor- no limit to what they can do. Our work- journal has an article of several columns
tunity during the past year. With the ers, too, will greatly benefit by availing discuss ng the principles of freedom. The
question of registration and governmental themselves of the advanced college courses editor vidently is familiar with the prinenforcement being brought to the front, offered by the Fireside.
ciples ¢¢¢f true liberty.
By M. IC OLSEN
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The American Hebrew, New York, issue
of February 17, 1928, gives space in the
most prominent section in that magazine
to a discussion of the principle of liberty,
in which the editor says:
" The so-called Lankford bill . . . contains many charges of dynamite for the
blasting of American liberties.
" Mr. C. S. Longacre, general international secretary 'of the Religious Liberty
Association, in a letter to the editor of the
American Hebrew, points to the well-laid
plans of organized fanaticism."
The editor quotes freely from Elder
Longacre's letter, and appeals to his readers to ponder well what may be involved if
the liberties of the people are abridged.
The Jewish Ledger, Rochester, N. Y.,
Dec. 16, 1927, notes the following:
" The Religious Liberty Association of
the United States is taking an active interest in preventing the legislation from going
through. Seventh-day Adventists are very
busy championing the cause of religious
liberty. But both of these groups need
vigorous support."
The editor of the Jewish Transcript,
Seattle, Wash., says in the issue of Dec.
23, 1927:
" We are very glad to comply with the
request of the Seventh-day Adventists, and
can assure them of the hearty co-operation
of all the Jews in the Pacific Northwest,
and of America in general, in the common
battle for religious liberty which, as they
rightfully say, we are both waging.
" Let us fight to maintain the religious
liberties guaranteed us by the founders of
this Republic, and let us Jews join with all
others whose liberties are threatened."
The Yiddish Tageblatt, a Jewish daily
of New York, presents the following in its
issue of Jan. 15, 1928:
" The Seventh-day Adventists have lately
undertaken a strong movement against the
blue Sunday laws. This group of Christians observe the Sabbath. . . . This movement is supported by many Jews."
Time and space forbid multiplying expressions from editors and other writers of
the splendid work being accomplished
along these lines; but tens of thousands of
these people are familiarizing themselves
with the principles of truth. The results
of the workers' efforts will not be in vain,:
for many are inquiring specifically concerning the faith we hold. This is illustrated by a letter received not long since
from one of the lay workers, who takes a
great interest in this people. It says:
" One of the Jewish girls from the senior
high school invited me to attend the Friday evening service at the synagogue. I
told her I would be pleased to go. So I
went, and took a petition blank along and
some of the leaflets and Present Truth. I
was introduced to nearly the entire congregation, also to the rabbi. . . He asked me
to come again, and also asked me all about
what Seventh-day Adventists believe.
While we were talking, many were standing near listening, and I silently prayed
that God would help me to be a true witness, as those people were taking in all I
said. They certainly treated me well, and
gave me a hearty invitation to come to
their services again.
" One man, a storekeeper, asked me to
call on the rabbi of a larger synagogue in
the city. He said he would go with me if
I wished. So I went to his store the next
week, and he left his store and went with
me to the home of Rabbi —, who has
charge of two synagogues. He introduced
me to him, and said, ' Mrs. — is a Seventh-day Adventist. She keeps the Sabbath from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday. She does not eat pork either, and
has a message for you'
" The rabbi opened his eyes in surprise,
and asked me what message I had for him.
I was nearly as surprised as he. . . . He
told me he would be only too glad to do
anything he could, if I would tell him
.
what he could do. . . . Then he asked me
all about Seventh-day Adventists, and we
had a very nice visit. He asked me to
come again, and seemed very much pleased
to think I came.
" I went out three afternoons, . . . and
had many interesting visits with the people. Many were so surprised to think I was
working against the Sunday bill. They
seemed pleased when they really saw I was
working for their interests too, and they
surely treated me with the greatest respect. I enjoyed the work among them,
and intend to follow it up the best I can."
Another statement from the spirit of
prophecy concerning these people is as follows:
" As the Old Testament Scriptures are
blended with the New in an explanation
of Jehovah's eternal purpose, this will be
to many of the Jews as the dawn of a new
creation, the resurrection of the soul. As
they see the Christ of the gospel dispensation portrayed in the pages of the Old
Testament Scriptures, and perceive how
clearly the New Testament explains the
Old, their slumbering faculties will be
aroused, and they will recognize Christ as
the Saviour of the world."—" The Acts of
the Apostles," p. 381.
The query may arise, How can the Old
Testament Scriptures blend with the New
when the Jews have refused to recognize
the New? The Lord knew how this could
come about; and only the Lord can bring
it to pass.
The editor of the American Hebrew is
also a rabbi of one of the most prominent
temples in New York. He is a leader
among men, and he carries a strong influence with his synagogue and with the Jewish people generally. In connection with
his synagogue, for a number of years he
has conducted a parochial school. The
curriculum of this institution deals largely
with Old Testament teaching, apocalyptic
literature, and rabbinical and Talmudic
lore.
In the issue of Nov. 4, 1927, of the American Hebrew appeared an article entitled,
" Jewish Bible School Introduces New Testament Study Course," and the editor made
some interesting observations. He said:
" The Bible School of Temple Israel of
Far Rockaway . . . opened its courses . . .
on October 26. This year there has been
introduced in the Adult School of Religion
a course in the New Testament.
" The time has come when the New Testament should no longer be a closed book
to the Jews. Not so long ago the name
of Jesus and the Christian Holy Book
were anathema among our people. The
Jews will never be able to understand their
Christian fellows until they know what
there is in the New Testament which creates a wall of misunderstanding between
them.
" Our New Testament course comes after
five years' study of the Jewish Scriptures.
. . . Our studentsare well prepared on both
the Jewish and pagan background to the
New Testament, religious and cultural.
" We shall study the Christian Scriptures
from the modern, scientific point of view,
as we have done our own. . . . We shall
attempt to analyze and understand the
point of cleavage between Judaism and
Christianity as these are presented in the
two Testaments.
" There is a blank page between these
Scriptures which can best be filled in by
Jewish scholars. It is amazing that Jews
have permitted Christian scholarship only,
to write and interpret this fascinating period of human history to which we have
contributed so fundamentally. We inaugurate this course under the aegis of the
synagogue, with the hope that other Jewish congregations will follow."
This call from so eminent a rabbi is, we
believe, " the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes." While this man,
doubtless, is not conscious of the stream of
influence he has started, we believe we may
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see in this endeavor a sound of the going
forth in the tops of the mulberry trees.
From the foregoing statement of this editor may we not perceive a bit clearer the
significance of the following testimony
from the servant of the Lord?
" Among the Jews are some who, like
Saul of Tarsus, are mighty in the Scriptures, and these will proclaim with wonderful power the immutability of the law of
God. The God of Israel will bring this to
pass in our day. His arm is not shortened
that it cannot save. As His servants labor
in faith for those who have long been neglected and despised, His salvation will be
revealed."—" The Acts of the Apostles," p.
381.
How wonderfully the Lord is fulfilling
His word! What remarkable changes have
taken place with this people since this gospel has been presented in its fullness! Our
hearts are greatly cheered because of what
God has done; and shall we not pray that
God will mightily work to fulfill in a short
time the exceeding great and precious
promises He has made concerning His ancient people?
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STATISTICAL FACTS
NO.
GROWTH IN MEMBERSHIP
BY H. E. ROGERS
THIS movement was the outgrowth of
the discussion of, and belief in, the doctrine of the coming of the Lord, entertained by many believers in this and
other countries in 1840-44. However, the
number of adherents was not sufficient to
make necessary a separate organization
until 1863, when there were approximately
3,500 members, comprising six conferences,
425 churches, with a total force of thirty
laborers. During the sixty-five years
which have followed since 1863, the standing at the close of each decade, in respect
to the foregoing items, was as follows:
Decade
ending Conf. Miss. Churches Laborers Members
1872
12
1
205
86
4,801
1882
26
6
660
301
17,169
1892 34 11 1,102 400 33,778
1902 72 42 2,077 2,278 67,150
1912 126 100 2,874 5,101 98,044
1922 143 153 4,927 7,600 208,771
1927 * 146 211 5,987 9,873
274,064
Thus do we see a gain in all the lines
of work, and the rapid extension of this
message in many lands.
For five years.
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COLORADO CAMP-MEETING
BY JAY J. NETHERY
annual camp-meeting for the Colorado conference was held at Manhattan
Beach, in Denver, June 15-24. Seven large
tents and more than 200 small tents were
pitched, and approximately 1,200 people,
camped on the grounds. The avera
evening attendance was 1,800, and the a
tendance at the Sabbath services was b tween 2,500 and 3;000. Elder Rice a d
his workers labored untiringly on beh If
of those present. Elder W. A. Spi er,
J. T. Boettcher, and F. D. Nichol were the
General Conference representatives at the
meeting. Elder J. A. Wasenmiller, from
Oklahoma, with Elder Boettcher, labored
in behalf of the German people. Daily
meetings were also held in Spanish and
Scandinavian. The union workers were
pleased to join with these General men,
with the local workers, and with Professors
Thompson and Hilts, of Union College, in
this excellent meeting.
The Sabbath school offerings for the
two Sabbaths were over $2,000. Offerings
and pledges to foreign missions on the
last Sabbath amounted to nearly $5,000.
THE
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The total literature sales during the camp
meeting were $3,684.
The conference is prospering. The mem.,
bership is increasing, and the funds are
in good shape. Determined efforts are
being put forth this year to increase the
mission offerings much above the gifts
of last year.
The old-time •messages were proclaimed
in simplicity, and the lay members respon ed heartily to the appeals made.
The embers of this good conference desire t do their full share in the finishing
of G d's great message in the world in
the c osing hours of time allotted to this
gene ation.
CHRISTIAN E UCATION
SHALL OUR SCHOOLS HOLD
STEADY?
BY W. E. HOWELL
SHALL WE MAINTAIN THE SOCIAL STANDARDS
THAT ARE BECOMING TO A PEOPLE PREPARING TO MEET THEIR LORD SOON, OR
SHALL WE COMPROMISE WITH LAX PRACTICES OF THOSE WHO DISREGARD THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD?
•-• -
IN His last and only recorded prayer
in behalf of His people, not long before
He ascended, Jesus supplicated the Father
that those who believe on His name might
be " in the world," but " not of the world."
He did not pray for us to be taken bodily
out of the world until our work is done,
but He did pray that we might be kept
from the evil in the world. To be in the
world, but not of the world, is therefore
the searching test of the genuineness of
a child of God.
Of nothing is this more true than of
the way in which we observe social standards in the home, in the school, in the
church, and in the community about us.
The truth of the matter is that we are
very much indeed in the world at the present time. The time was when one part
of the world knew little of what the other
part was doing. To catch a view of :What
others were engaged in and a gliriipse of
the spirit that ruled the life, it was necessary to go to the city with its multitude
of dwellers, or to take a toilsome journey
to some distant part of greater fame or
notoriety. In this happy isolation of
former days, the home, the school, and
the church took on a distinctive atmosphere of their own, and our children could
be brought up according to our own ideals
without much molestation or interruption
from without.
It is a remarkable fact to be thought
of in this connection, that in ancient times,
" the men who held fast God's principles
of life dwelt among the fields and hills.
They were tillers of the soil and keepers
of flocks and herds; and in this free, in- •
dependent life, with its opportunities for
labor and study and meditation, they
learned of God, and taught their children
of His works and ways." On the other
hand, it is as definitely stated that " those
who departed from God built for themselves cities, and congregating in them,
gloried in the splendor, the luxury, and
the vice that make the cities of to-day
the world's pride and its curse."—"Educai it," pp. 33, 34.
erhaps no words could picture in more
elk quent language the condition of society
inancient times in its relation to God's
truth and His true people. It also piea es in 'principle the very situation in
society that faces us to-day, The large
difference is that to-day we are in a certain sense much more emphatically in the
world than they were in ancient times.
The times and conditions of society have
changed in outward respects, though sin
and the spirit of the natural man have
not changed, except in the ways and means
of expressing themselves. The inventions
of men have broken down largely the distinctions between country and city life that
formerly prevailed. Tlitough the motor
ear, the telephone, and electric 'light and
power, the city is spreading over the count
try and devouring the fair landscape• in,
large areas. It is nothing for the modern
city man to have his home twenty-five or
fifty miles in the country, and to carry
into the country the spirit of city life,
while it is a small chore for the country
man to drive into the city a like distance
for an evening of pleasure or dissipation,
and retire in his own home at night without serious loss of time. In this combination of things, the spirit of the city is fast
absorbing the spirit of the country home,
while the home in the city breathes the
very atmosphere of social laxity, and sin
of every sort.
THE PROBLEM OF THE CHRISTIAN
The problem of the Christian is how to
live in a world like this, breathing its
atmosphere, hearing the sounds of its
pleasure and dissipation, seeing the reflection of its life in the blaze of its white
lights, and still maintain his integrity with
God. To our children without experience,
without the judgment of maturity, lured
by the sights and sounds of evil on every
hand, the problem of bringing them up
for God is an exceedingly difficult one
under the best of conditions.
In dealing with this problem, however,
we should rid ourselves of one false, deceptive view of social affairs to-day,
namely, that the times have changed,
things are different from what they used
to be, and therefore we must deal with
our children differently from what we used
to do. It is true that times have changed,
outwardly, in many important respects,
but the nature of man has changed very
little, and the nature of sin not at all.
The manifestations of sin are more open
and bold in some respects, and more hidden and subtle in other respects, than
in former times, maybe, but sin itself will
never change in any essential way, unless
it be to increase its sinfulness and its deceptive power. Society was putting on a
very respectable and attractive veneer
until the World War came, and the passions of men broke loose upon the world,
with all their consequent vices and breaking down of moral barriers. Society has
never recovered from the shock, and never
will until sin is wiped out of the universe.
Yes, many things have changed and are
different from what they once were. These
changes have been facilitated by inventive
genius and accelerated by many false and
subtle teachings. The spirit of contentment in the home and in the individual
life has changed, and a carping restlessness has taken its place. The spirit of
sobriety has changed, and a tempest of
superficial pleasure seeking and excitement has taken its place. Moral standards, so far as the consensus of social
opinion governs them, have been changed
by letting them down. Social proprieties
that formerly protected young men and
women have been discarded to a large
degree, and scattered to the winds, and
hooted at.
These are all real changes, but there are
two things that have never changed, unshakable and immutable as the hills. One
of these is the nature of sin, and the other
of these is the remedy for sin. Regardless of what form of respectability or innocence sin may take on, it is the same
hideous, soul-destroying force it always
has been from the day it was born in the
heart of Lucifer. Whatever philosophy
or scienc or human erudition may bring
forth as he means of restoring and uplifting so iety from the ravages that sin
has mad , it is all vain and false and deceptive "thout the only. remedy Heaven
ever prov ded,— the gospel of Jesus Christ,
and all he safeguards and uplift that
the gos 1 makes available to father and
mother d to son and daughter in these
changin times.
NOT OF TILE WORLD
Nevert eless it is in the face of all this,
and foreseeing all this, that the petition
of the Lbrd Jesus that we should be " not
of the orld " applies to the people of
God. Tne supreme task of the home is
to shielthe
younger members of the
i
family om worldly influences that press
in at e door, creep in at the window,
and all bit saturate the atmosphere we
breathe. It has been God's purpose from
the hegii nning that the home should be a
bulwar of strength to resist evil. As a
hen gathers her brood under her wings
to shied them from the elements without a from dangers that lurk in the
night, so it was intended that fathers and
mother should gather their children into
their wn houses, and shield them by
loving are and instruction from the perils
that t reaten from without. But because
of CO roding care, or deceitfulness of
riches, or love of pleasure, or worldly ambition, or spiritual indifference, God's plan
for th home has not been fully realized.
To thel extent that it has not been realized
in thehome, it has not been realized in
the clilurch. Being not willing " that one
of the* little ones should perish," God
provide d the institution of the school to
make p the breach in the home, and in
turn o serve as a barrier for our youth
again t the corrupting influences of the
world. The Christian school is God's emergency measure to save the children and
youth The Christian school must not fail.
The ,eventh-day Adventist school must
not f 1 of its purpose to save the children
of.thy church.
To accomplish this sacred but stupendous ask, the school must be not of the
wonl in its spirit or in any of its practices. However ideal the school may be
in th s respect, it would not seem sufficient
to a' complish its task unless the parents
who patronize the school are themselves
" not of the world." While the school is
God' way of re-enforcing the home, the
hom• in its turn is, or may be, the strongest upporter of the school. The home
and he school must be a solid unit in purpose and practice before the maximum
resu is can be achieved.
THE CRUX OF THE MATTER
at all this means is that the home
and the school have a joint interest in
the hildren of the church, and as things
no' stand, equal or at least joint ,responsiblity for their salvation. If either one
fail to do its part in the earnest. endeavor
to r store the lowered standards of society
to he. Christian level, . the work of the
oth r will either fail or be doubly hard.
In act, it is a matter of common report
am • ng the managers of our schools that
the r chief difficulty in maintaining the
Christian standards the school stands for
is a lack of support in the homes represe ted, and by. what might be called public
opi ion in the churches. While this may
so nd like placing the blame outside the
sc ool, yet the reader must not be too hard
in his judgment of what the school is
str ving to accomplish. In truth, every
on concerned should bear in mind these
sa lent points:
. The social standards in our schools
ar largely set and defined for us in the
Bi le and the spirit of prophecy.
. The rregulations of the school are
b sed upon these standards, with such inte pretation and application in 'detail as
y he necessary to make them, workable.
. The schoOl being , God's eniergency
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measure for saving the situation socially
in the home and the church, He has
laid upon the school the chief responsibility for carrying out His purpose.
4. The home has the first opportunity to
train the boys and girls right; but if the
home fails, the school is the next opportunity to save the child.
5. So large a responsibility is laid upon
the school because it deals with our boys
and girls at a tender, teachable, and growing age.
6. It has always been God's plan to
depend upon the rising generation to accomplish His purpose of reform and restitution. In the wilderness He let all His
people above twenty years of age die while
He raised up a new generation to subdue
and possess the Promised Land.
7. If the present emergency measure to
save our youth through the school fails,
we have no knowledge that another one
will be forthcoming.
ing on the program accordingly? If Christian standards forbid theater or movie
going, dramatic or undignified entertainments, or social gatherings copied after the
fashions of the world, organized games
instead of honest manual labor that draws
the sweat of the brow or some other exercise that is useful, or if it forbids the use
of the motor car for any other than supervised missionary work and necessary business, will you co-operate with the school
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managers in maintaining these standards
in the everyday life of the school?
If our children are ever to learn the
secret of the spiritual art of being not of
the world and living as not of the world,
the period of school life, and in our own
schools, is about the last general opportunity offered us of Heaven to accomplish
this high purpose. Shall our schools hold
steady in maintaining these high social
standards, and will you help hold them?
The "Review" Forward Movement
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IN THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCES
ALABAMA CONFERENCE
Birmingham, Ala.: April 28, 11 a. m.;
165 Present; 37 Subscriptions
I was impressed that God has a very
faithful church at Birmingham. I greatly
enjoyed the service this morning. The
Lord blessed in a marked manner. Thirtyseven families subscribed for the REVIEW
AND HERALD. There were 165 in attendance
at the meeting. At present they have no
pastor. The city of Birmingham presents
a great opportunity for evangelistic work.
Birmingham (Colored): April 28, 1 p. m.;
45 Present; 16 Subscriptions
Elder T. S. Tate is the pastor, and the
Lord is blessing him in the work here.
We had a blessed meeting with the church
this afternoon, and sixteen families subscribed for the REVIEW. Elder Tate will
follow up this work well.
Clanton, Ala.: April 29; 17 Present;
4 Subscriptions
This is the conference headquarters. I
had a good visit at the office to-day. Here
I met Brother C. 0. Franz, the secretary
and treasurer, and Brother R. R. Coble,
formerly of South America, now field missionary secretary of this conference. This
night we had a blessed meeting. Many
young people were present. Four of the
families present subscribed for the REVIEW.
Montgomery (Colored), Ala.: April 30; 15 Present;
5 Subscriptions
God is blessing His work in this church.
While the membership is small, it is growing under the labors of Brother E. Wilkins,
the pastor. This church has a very active
membership. They support a good church
school. I was greatly interested to learn
that this church leads the conference in
its per capita for mission offerings. One
reason for this activity and liberality is
that the REVIEW has been in practically
every home of the believers. Five families
renewed and subscribed for the REVIEW
this night.
Pensacola, Fla.: May 1; 40 Present;
13 Subscriptions
Brother W. W. Walker is the pastor.
He gave me excellent co-operation. We
had a good meeting this night. The attendance was encouraging. Thirteen
families subscribed for the REWEW. I was
glad to meet Dr. Palmquist here. Many
of the older workers will remember him.
Mobile, Ala.: May 2; 50 Present;
7 Subscriptions
There was an excellent attendance this
night at the service. Elder Weeks, who
has just come from the Western Oregon
Conference, is the pastor, and his cooperation was very encouraging.
Mobile (Colored): May 2; 25 Present;
7 Subscriptions
At 8:45 this evening I had the opportunity of speaking at the Mobile No. 2
church, of which Brother W. H. Baker is
pastor. The attendance was good and the
Lord blessed. Seven families subscribed
for the REVIEW. This 'is my last appointment in this field.
L. W. Graham,
APPEAL TO PARENTS
Takoma Park, D. C.
In view of these serious factors in the DEAR BROTHER GRAHAM:
social situation, let me appeal to every
It was my enjoyable privilege to spend
father and mother who reads this article
to stand solidly behind the schools in their nine days (April 24 to May 2) in the Alasoul-saving task, with your prayers, with bama Conference. This is a very interestyour patronage, but especially with your ing field, comprising the State of Alabama
and a few counties in Florida, having a
co-operation:
First, bear in mind that you may be population of about two and one-half milsending to the school children that you lion. At present there are twenty-five
have failed to bring up faithfully in the churches, with a membership of 827. Elder
nurture and admonition of the Lord. You A. B. Russell, the president, and all the
may not have placed them in a school of laborers whom I met, gave me and this
our own during their tender years in the good work a warm welcome and hearty
grades when they were more teachable co-operation. The work is growing in this
and pliable than when they grew older. part of the Lord's vineyard, and the brethYou may have kept them in the schools ren and sisters and workers are of good
of the world even into or through the high courage and strong faith. The Lord has
school, and thought you would send them a faithful people here. I had opportunity
to the college to have all their weaknesses of meeting with eight of the churches.
of character inbred up to that time cor- The attendance was 482. Ninety families
rected and set right. You may be sending subscribed for the REVIEW.
them to the school as a last resort to save
Florence, Ala.: April 24
them, or you may have brought them up
Here at Florence I visited the El Reposo
conscientiously according to your own Sanitarium conducted by Brother Neal
understanding, but find that the school Martin and his wife. The Lord is blessexacts higher standards in harmony with ing the work. We have a small company
intensive study of the instruction given us. of believers here. I had a good visit with
Bearing all these in mind, if your son Elder C. N. Martin, who has spent many
or daughter is to be disciplined for honesty, years in this work, laboring in Montana,
will you support the discipline? If your Idaho, and the Northwest. The REVIEW
son must be broken of the habit of smok- has always been in his home, and itS ining that he has learned from bad com- fluence has been good for the children.
panions, will you support the teachers in There are five, Neal, Walter, Ruth, Mary,
measures that may be found necessary? and Ralph. Now notice where these chilIf your boy or girl is found untrustworthy dren are: Neal is conducting the sanitaand breaks some social regulation under rium work here at Florence, Walter is
cover of darkness, will you stand back of teaching at Oakwood Junior College, Ruth
the faculty in its necessary discipline? If is a missionary in South America, Mary
the laws of discretion and safety in a com- is a missionary nurse preparing for the
pact community life like the school re- foreign fields, and Ralph has just graduquire your daughter to be chaperoned ated from Hinsdale Sanitarium and is
when away from the protection of the preparing for the medical work. Thus
home, will you be resentful toward the you find the workers coming from the
school when the measure is carried out? homes where the good old REVIEW read.
Or will you say, "That is just what I want
Huntsville, Oakwood Junior College: April 25;
for the protection of my daughter while
125 Present
away from home " ?
If Christian propriety and decency reLocated in a very beautiful part of the
quire the prescribing of certain details of country, on an old plantation where slaves
dress, will you co-operate with the school were once bought and sold, is the Oakwood
in providing garments in harmony with Junior College, for the colored. This is
what is required, support the teachers in indeed a wonderful school. God is cerenforcing regulations pertaining to dress, tainly doing a great work here. I was
and set the right example to your children impressed with the fine group of college
on their return home? If the standards buildings. I was told that about 1,000
given us in the word of Inspiration def- acres of land are owned by the college,
initely forbid engaging in flirtation, court- and best of all, the whole place is out of
ship, and untimely marriage during the debt. I spoke both morning and evening
period of school life, will you support the to the student body,— about 125 earnest
school management in regulating the re- young men and women who are here prelationships of the sexes in harmony with paring for the work. This coming year I
this instruction, and this no matter how believe that the REVIEW will be placed in
fittingly your son or daughter may later every room. I found that about 50 per
contemplate and consummate the holy cent of the young people are now reading
ordinance of marriage at the proper time it weekly. We were pleased to meet Sister
and under proper conditions?
M. S. Boyd, who is teaching here. She
If the best interests of the young peo- was one of our first missionaries to Africa.
ple in school require as regular attend- Prof. E. C. Jacobsen and Elder U. Bender
ance at religious exercises on the Sabbath gave me good co-operation. Prof. J. A.
LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE
,
and at other times, as ,it does their attend- Tucker, the president, was away attending
The above conference is comprised of
ance in the classroom or the laboratory, an important meeting. My visit to Oakwill you commend the teachers for carry- wood will be remembered with pleasure. the two States, and has a population of
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over three and one-half million. At present there is a membership of 1,087 organized into twenty-nine churches. It
was my privilege to spend ten days (May
3-12) in this interesting field visiting as
many churches. The combined attendance
at the meetings was 572, and 102 families
subscribed for the REVIEW AND HERALD. I
appreciated the hearty co-operation of
Elder• DeVinney, the president of this field,
and all the workers.
-Piattiesburg, Miss.: May 5; 32 Present;
7 Subscriptions
This night at Hattiesburg we had an
extra good Meeting. There was a gcxkl
attendance, including many young people. Seven families subscribed for the
REVIEW. I was glad to meet Brother
Cooper, who has long been a. reader of
the paper. He is the father of five children and grandfather of fourteen, and
all of them, with their wives, are in this
blessed message. The influence of the
reading of the REVIEW has been a help in
this large family. While in Hattiesburg
we enjoyed the hospitality of the home of
Brother and Sister H. 0. Rogers.
New Orleans, La.: May 5, 11 a. M.;
125 Present; 25 Subscriptions
This is a very beautiful city, and one
of the oldest in the South. It is situated
below the level of the great Mississippi
River. A year ago, at the time of the great
flood, there was much fear here that the
city would be flooded. The brethren have
a very beautiful and well-located church
building, and I was impressed with the
excellent class of people who are members
of this church. God is blessing the wofk
here under the leadership of Elder J. D.
Smith. I was blessed in speaking this
morning, and the people gave excellent
attention. The hearts of all seemed deeply
impressed, and twenty-five families subscribed for our great church paper. Elder
Smith will follow up this work faithfully,
I believe.
Vicksburg, Miss.: May 10, 1:30 p.
20 Present; 6 Subscriptions
In old historic Vicksburg God has bright
light shining for His truth. I was glad to
meet with the brethren here. We had a
good meeting. Six families subscribed for
our church paper.
Vicksburg (Colored) : May 10, 8:45 p. ra.;
5 Present; 2 Subscriptions
I considered it quite a privilege to speak
at this church. This excellent building
was put up by J. E. White, son of Sister
White. It was here at Vicksburg that
Elder White landed when he came down
the Mississippi River in the " Morning
Star." He labored here, and a company
of colored brethren and sisters took their
stand, and this church was built at that
time. To-day the membership is small.
Five only were present, but the Lord
blessed in the meeting. Two subscribed.
While at Vicksburg we enjoyed the association and kind hospitality of Brother
F. C. Bee. He has been a reader of the
REVIEW for about fifty years.
Shreveport, La.: May 12, 11 a. m.;
75 Present; 15 Subscriptions
God is blessing Elder M. L. Wilson,
pastor of this church, in the work here.
I appreciated his co-operation to-day. We
had an unusually blessed service. The
people gave the best of attention. Fifteen
families subscribed for our church paper.
I was so pleased to meet our elderly
Brother King, formerly of the raSt.
Shreveport (Colored): May 12, 1 p.
25 Present; 7 Subscriptions
In company with Elder Wilson we visited
and spoke to the Shreveport No. 2 church.
We all enjoyed this meeting. God's presence was with His people. Seven families
subscribed for the Rrvrzw. Previous to
this meeting only the elder had this paper.
Elder Wilson's good wife is the daughter
of Elder A. L. Miller, of the Iowa Conference. I was pleased to make the acquaintance of Elder and Sister Wilson, and
New Orleans (colored): May 5, 1 p. m.;
be with them this day in the Lord's work.
75 Present; 15 Subscriptions
Sincerely your brother in Christ,
This afternoon it was my privilege to
A. E. SANDERSON.
speak to the New Orleans No. 2 church,
and fifteen families subscribed for the
REVIEW. God blessed in the service. The
work is going forward in this church.
Baton Rouge and Denham Springs, La.: May 6;
140 Present; 15 Subscriptions
appointmentii anb
This was a union meeting held at Denham Springs, about twenty miles from
Baton Rouge. It was one of the regular
CAMP MEETINGS FOR 1928
Sunday evening services being conducted
by Elder I. C. Pound. Very many who
CENTRAL UNION
were not members were present. Fifteen Missouri, week-end meetings
beginning
Aug. 11, 18, 25
families subscribed for the REVIEW. The
Nebraska, Lincoln
Aug. 16-26
Lord is greatly blessing Elder Pound in Kansas,
Enterprise
Aug. 24-Sept. 1
the evangelistic work, and new ones are
COLUMBIA UNION
accepting the blessed truth.
Jackson, Missi May 7; 50 Present;
7 Subscriptions
This day we traveled for many miles beside the great levee of the Mississippi
River, and saw a number of places where
the water had broken through at the time
of the great flood last year. We could
see the marks of that flood everywhere.
Jackson is the headquarters of this conference. The brethren have some beautiful church and office buildings. This night
Elder DeVinney was with me, also the
conference home missionary secretary, and
Brother A. B. Schroeder, the secretary
and treasurer of the conference. Brother
F. C. Bee, of Vicksburg, formerly of Keene,
N. H., with whom I had been acquainted
for many years, was present. I was glad
to see him. The Lord richly blessed in
this service, and while many had the REvrew, there were seven families that subscribed.
Jackson (Colored): May 9; 25 Present;
5 Subscriptions
Elder DeVinney was with me this night,
and I appreciated his whole-hearted cooperation in this work. The Lord is blessing this church. We had a good meeting.
Five families as a result subscribed.
Ohio, Elyria
Chesapeake, Catonsville, Md.
Aug. 16-26
Aug. 23-Sept. 2
EASTERN CANADIAN UNION
Maritime, Mernramcook
Aug. 23-Sept. 2
LAKE UNION
Illinois, Petersburg
July 19-29
NORTHERN UNION
Iowa, Nevada
Aug. 25-Sept. 2
NORTH PACIFIC UNION
Western Oregon, Forest Grove
Aug. 2-12
Western Washington, Auburn
Aug. 9-19
Montana, Billings
Aug. 16-26
PACIFIC UNION
Southern California
Aug. 2-12
California
Aug. 9-19
SOUTHEASTERN UNION
Cumberland
Aug. 9-18
Carolina
Aug. 16-26
Georgia
Aug. 23-Sept. 2
Florida
Oct. 18-28
Colored
Cumberland
Aug. 9-18
Georgia
Aug. 23-Sept. 2
Carolina
Aug. 30-Sept. 9
Florida
Oct. 18-28
SOUTHERN UNION
Kentucky, Lexington
Aug. 3-11
Alabama, Selma
Aug. 10-18
Louisiana-Mississippi, Baton Rouge
Aug. 17-25
Tennessee River, Madison
Aug. 24-Sept. 1
SOUTHWESTERN UNION
Arkansas, Little Rock
July 19-29,
South Te •as, San Antonio
July 26-Aug. 5•
North Te as, Keene
Aug. 2-12'
Texico, A uquerque, N. Mex.
Aug. 9-19
Oklahoma Guthrie
Aug. 16-26
01110 CONFERENCE
The si th biennial session of the Ohio Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene
in conne tion with the camp meeting to be held
in Elyria, Ohio, Aug. 16-26, 1928, for the purpose
of electi g officers for the ensuing term, and
for the transaction of such other business as
may pro erly come before the conference. The
first mee ing will be called Friday, Aug. 17, 1928,
at 10 a. m.
C. V. Leach, Pres.
A. E. King, Sec.
ff0
0 10 CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION
Notice is hereby given that the Ohio Conference A sociation of Seventh-day Adventists
will h ld a business session in connection wi h the camp meeting in Elyria, Ohio,
Aug. 16 26, 1928. The first session will convene M nday, Aug. 20, 1928, at 10 a. m. The
meeting is called for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing term, and to transact
other b siness which may properly come before
the ass ciation.
C. V. Leach, Pres.
A. E. King, Sec.
CUM ERLAND CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION
Notic is hereby given that the regular annual
session of the Cumberland Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in
connect on with the conference and camp meeting at Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 9-19, 1928. This
meetin is called for the purpose of electing
officers for the ensuing year, and transacting
such o her business as may properly come before t is body. All regular delegates to the
Cumbe land Conference are delegates to this
session The first meeting is called for 10 a. m.,
Tuescis, , August 14.
R. I. Keate, Pres.
F. R. Boggs, Sec.
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER
Tho' gh widely separated from one another, the
follow rs of our Lord and Master can meet in
spirit ally at the throne of grace. In our devotions et us remember our brethren and sisters
who a e in affliction. Says the apostle: "Remember t em that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and t em which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." We ourselves shall share
in th blessings we seek for others. " The Lord
turn
the captivity of Job when he prayed for
his f lends." We suggest the noon hour as an
appro riate time for remembering these special
rogue ts.
A alifornia sister desires prayer for the conversio of her four children, that her husband
may reconsecrate himself to the Lord, and
that he may prove faithful.
On of our South American missionaries who
is o sick leave in the States, requests prayer
that his health may be quickly restored, that
he m y resume his work again.
Pr yer for the conversion of her husband, and
that the way may open for the Christian educatio of her four children, especially that the
two • ldest may enter an Adventist academy this
fall, is requested by a sister in the State of
Was ington.
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following this excellent series of articles.
The error was found and corrected before
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FROM Elder Steen Rasmussen, of the
European Division, we have received an
announcement of " Handbook of the First
European Young People's Missionary Volunteer Congress." This was to be held
in Chemnitz, Saxony, July 17-22, 1928.
Brother Rasmussen says:
" This meeting will be the first of its
kind ever held in Europe, and in fact, ever
organized by us as a people. It will have
representatives from twenty-five countries.
Two thousand one hundred delegates
have already been listed at this writing,
but we expect a few hundred more. This
meeting will probably be attended by between 3,500 and 4,000 of our youth and our
people in general. We are very anxious
that this congress shall mean a great
spiritual uplift to our youth, a real Pentecostal experience in their lives."
GOOD TIDINGS
FROM FIELDS AFAR
CONTINUALLY there come to us new
agencies for hastening the message on.
One of the latest documents is a little
mimeograph paper called The Glad Tidings, the organ of the Kaflrland Mission
field, South Africa. So in far parts of the
world the glad tidings are being proclaimed
with louder voice. In the list of workers
we find such names as Qobo, Ngxabani,
Mgquamqo, Mndzovi, and Ntsikeni, names
hard to pronounce by the stranger, but
doubtless in the language of Kafirland as
easy as Smith, Jones, or Robinson.
BY an article in the South American
Bulletin we are reminded that the mes-
sage is going even to the uttermost parts.
Brother E. H. Meyers, formerly secretary
of the South American Publishing Department, reports that one of our colporteur brethren, 0. Juarez, recently crossed
the Strait of Magellan to carry forward
the work in the famous island of Tierra
del Fuego, the southernmost part of the
habitable earth.
THE fruitage of the seed sowing by the
colporteurs is springing up far in advance
'of the evangelistic reapers. Elder N. P.
'Neilsen, president of the South Brazil
Union, reports that he is sure there are at
,
truth, many of them keeping the Sabbath,
whose only contact with our message thus
far has been with the colporteurs. Thus
it is that all our mission fields need an
ever-increasing staff of ministerial laborers
to come in and instruct and baptize believers.
IN one of the interior towns of Peru,
where Brother Pedro Kalbermatter pioneered the way recently, he had the experience of being attacked by a mob called
out by the ringing of the church bell, the
monks leading the mob. But while the
cry, " Death to the Protestant heretic,"
was ringing through the streets, God sent
deliverance. Our brother will surely tell
us the full story later.
THE home missionary work is being carried forward in many a land amidst difficulties that we know little of in this country. Elder J. T. Thompson, superintendent
of the Peru Mission, tells how three of our
Indian brethren went over into another
valley to sow the seeds of truth. They
were ordered out by an official, but before
they could flee to the next place, they were
attacked by a mob. Finally they were
stood up while three men with loaded
rifles prepared to shoot them. " At that
moment a man rushed up shouting,
' Neighbors, what are you doing? I will
not permit that my town shall be besmirched with innocent blood. Desist, I
beg you, and let these men go.' At this
appeal our brethren were released, some
of the mob even begging their pardon for
the treatment they had been given."
Vol. 105, No. 30
was he d in that part of Poland which,
before he war, was a part of Russia, so
most of those at the meeting were Russian.
Many f them have known real persecution fo the truth's sake. They love the
truth, nd seem never to tire of attending
meetin s, though hours in length. Following one extended meeting, the people,
in an unbroken group, remained in the
chapel singing songs of Christ's coming.
It stir ed my heart to hear them sing,
"The oming King is at the door."
I ca e from that little meeting in east
Poland with a new vision of the triumphs
of this movement. We have nearly a thousand believers in that part of Poland.
Truly God is gathering men and women
from every nation to rejoice in the hope
of a soon-coming Saviour.
B. E. BEDDOE.
ffP
ELD a A. SKAU, of the South India
Union Mission, in sending articles for the
REV
under date of June 10, writes:
" W are just ready for another school
year. School will open on the 13th. Some
of th students have already come. Two
of the boys who went out in the colporteur
work re back with full scholarships. We
are h ping that many of the thirty boys
will be here again with full scholarships.
The c 1porteur work is fast becoming popular ith the students here in South
India We take this as an indication of
the n arness of the end, The Lord is preparin the people of India for the last
event . Kindly remember us all in your
prays s. The Lord is working mightily,
but he devil has dug himself in very
deep n the minds of the people. He has
reign d supreme here for centuries, without Interference, so the struggle is intense "
WE learn that the English evangelistic
effort which Elder C. B. Haynes, president
of the South American Division, has been
conducting in Buenos Aires, has aroused
more than ordinary interest. The sermons
preached have been printed in the Buenos
Aires Herald, an English daily with 15,000
circulation. The report says, " People talk
DEATH OF MRS. J. J. NETHERY
about these things everywhere. Nothing
UNDER date of July 11 the following
for a long time has created such general telegram was received by the General Coninterest among English-speaking people ference from Elder R. T. Emery, of Linhere."
coln, Nebr.:
" Mrs. J. J. Nethery was fatally burned
IN the mimeograph organ of the colporteurs of the Far East, Elder J. J. Strahle, this forenoon, and died at seven to-night,
division secretary, tells how Brethren Esteb result of explosion of gasoline in baseand Yang called upon one of the leading men of her home, evidently caused by
Chinese governors recently. Brother Es- spar s from motor of electric washing mateb says: " The governor was greatly im- chin . Elder Nethery at home attending
preSsed as we explained to him the truths colle e board meeting and union cornwhich we believe as a people. Brother mitt e. Family heartbroken. Funeral
Yang, our colporteur, wept as we talked to prob bly Sabbath,"
T e hearts of our readers will go out in
the governor, and that official wept too.
We then had prayer together. Think of deep sympathy to Brother Nethery and his
praying with a governor! It was a won- family in this terrible affliction. We pray
derful occasion. The governor was brought that the Lord may comfort them.
up a Christian, and to-day he made a
resolution to witness for His Lord in the
future. He gave us introductions and
treated us like brethren. Truly it was the
REPORTS OF SUNDAY LAW
leading of the Lord! Who knows but
HEARING
this may be the beginning of a new light
IF
any
of
our
ministers who have releading to full acceptance of the truth?
When we spoke of the signs of the times, ceived copies of the " Sunday Law Hearthe governor replied, Truly, the kingdom ings " during the previous year, would be
wiling to part with them, the Department
of heaven is at hand! ' "
would like to receive several copies to
W. A. SPICER.
supply the Dartmouth College Library,
and also for the classroom where they
are teaching the principles of religious
libe ty. These copies are very earnestly
WHEN JESUS COMES
des'red by this college. Kindly send to
POINTING toward heaven, a Russian tIe Religious Liberty Department headers here at Washington, D. C., and
brother who was telling me good-by, made
me understand that he would meet me we will forward them to the Dartmouth
C. S. LONGACRE.
again when Jesus comes. He was leaving COl ege.
the little camp meeting to return home.
His tongue was Russian and his ear knew
no English. ,Hoping he might understand,
RS. W. E. HENDERSON of Terrell, Texas,
I said in German, " Good-by, Brother."
His face lighted up. He gripped my hand a 1 ng-time reader of the REVIEW says this
more vigorously. Waving his hand to me in ending in her renewal:
and again to himself, he pointed heaven" It is not my intention ever to let it
ward, saying in German, " When Jesus std coming to me. For forty-five years
it as been a welcome visitor, yes, more,
comes."
This incident fitly illustrates the ear- a onstant friend and guide. As time
nestness with which our Russian believers na, ses and I grow older, it seems dearer
are rejoicing in this message. The meeting to e."