THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.
By P. T. Magan
“The Jubilee Song of Freedom.”
THERE is still another most remarkable sentence in the Testimony that tells us to hasten to the financial relief of our schools. Here it is: “If all will take hold of this work in the spirit of self-sacrifice, for Christ’s sake, and for the truth’s sake, it will not be long before the jubilee song of freedom can be sung throughout our borders.” Every fiftieth year, in the days when Israel served the Lord, was the year of jubilee. “And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee [“loud of sound,” margin] to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.” The year of jubilee, then, was ushered in at the time of the day of atonement; the day of atonement was the time when all sins were forgiven and washed away. The day of atonement came every year, but the year of jubilee only once in fifty years. Now what was the great event of the year of jubilee? It is written: “Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession; and ye shall return every man unto his family. . . . Ye shall not oppress one another.” Can you imagine a happier state of affairs than when a man knows that every sin he has, or ever has had, has been not only forgiven, but blotted out, and at the same time is conscious that in his earthly affairs every debt is paid, every obligation satisfied, and that he can return to his possession, and freely enjoy it? God knew that no happier condition of things could exist on earth; hence this year was called the year of jubilee, or the year of “the loud sound.”12 Now we are living in the antitypical day of atonement; we are also living in the antitypical year of jubilee. Very soon those who wish it so are to have all their sins not only forgiven, but blotted out. This is indeed a joyful experience. This is the experience of the day of atonement. Are you enjoying this experience? Along with it comes another experience, that of the year of jubilee. The experience of the year of jubilee is not the forgiving of sins and the wiping out of sins; it is the forgiving of debts and the wiping out of debts. God calls us to wipe out the debts hanging over our schools. To do this is to enjoy the experience of the year of jubilee, the experience of “the trumpet of the loud sound.” We have long been looking for the loud cry of the third angel. If we will do this thing which God has told us to do, the song of the loud cry will soon be sung throughout our borders. This is a real, practical thing; and let every man, woman, and child who expects to have a part in it take hold in this as God gives light. This experience is not a sentimental one; it is an experience that comes from doing what God tells us to do. The list of the names of those giving to this fund is swelling. Let us keep on swelling it; for to swell it is to swell the loud cry of the Third Angel’s Message. W. O. Palmer ........................................ $1,000 00
G. A. Irwin ................................................ 100 00
Russell Hart ................................................ 100 00
Frederick Griggs ............................................ 50 00
H. W. Cottrell .............................................. 50 00
J. N. Loughborough .......................................... 50 00
J. L. Locke .................................................. 20 00
J. L. Whitney ................................................ 50 00
Lloyd Manful ................................................ 50 00
Mary Lamont .................................................. 50 00
Ella M. Nesmith .............................................. 50 00
W. H. Gilmore ............................................... 50 00
W. T. Knox ................................................... 50 00
C. A. Rood ................................................... 20 00
Greenville Holbrook .......................................... 50 00
Alex Patton .................................................. 50 00
A friend of the truth, Ont .................................. 100 00
Hans N. Hanson .............................................. 100 00
E. Erickson .................................................. 50 00
R. F. Clark .................................................. 25 00
W. Newton .................................................... 50 00
F. J. Edberg ................................................ 50 00
Hannah Carlson ............................................... 25 00
Mary E. Moulton .............................................. 25 00
J. E. Rikardson .............................................. 50 00
Thomas Hurd .................................................. 100 00
A. M. Hurd .................................................... 25 00
Maria Clauson ................................................. 25 00
D. S. Harper .................................................. 25 00
A. M. Hills ................................................... 100 00
H. E. Crane ................................................... 25 00
J. S. Brower .................................................. 25 00
D. E. Fish .................................................... 50 00 Send money to A. G. Adams, care Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. P. T. MAGAN.