Week of Prayer and Christmas Giving
By Editor
WEEK of prayer begins December 23. But do not wait till that time to seek God. Make every week, every day, every hour, weeks, days, and hours of prayer; and in the "week of prayer" you will be able to help others to get nearer the Master. WE sincerely hope that in Christmas gifts Christ and his cause will be liberally remembered. Means for the redemption of souls first, help for the poor around us secondly, and then gifts of remembrance to those who really do not need them, last. Let the unselfishness of Christ be manifested on the part of his people. WE hope that none pass by our News and Notes columns. Some of the best things of the paper are often found there. The reader will always find the most important facts of the news of the week, carefully winnowed of chaff, gathered from the most reliable sources we have at hand. They are written by a conscientious and experienced newspaper man, Brother W. N. Glenn, with whose writing in other lines our readers are familiar. WE regret that the important article on "Review of Sunday Legislation in Century Nineteen" is of necessity divided. The second part will appear next week. He who reads the first will desire the second. It discusses a most important topic, "The United States Government Sold to the Papacy." Read in connection with that the article entitled, "Shall America Be Romanized?" But a modicum of evidence of Rome's power has thus far been presented; but has there not been sufficient to raise the question, What does it all mean? What does it mean to the nation? What does it mean to religion? What does it mean to you, reader? “God nowhere says, ‘He that keepeth the Jewish Sabbath shall be saved,’ but ‘he that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ.’” True, the Lord never says anything about the Jewish Sabbath. He does say, however, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” and Jesus says, “Keep the commandments.” The Scriptures also say, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness,” or right being and right doing. How would many regard it who argue as does the one quoted, if an idolater, when told by them to cease his sinning, should reply, “God nowhere says, ‘He that worships the Jewish God, or refrains from idolatry, shall be saved,’ but ‘he that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ.’” The two cases are parallel. He who truly believes in Christ, if instructed, will not be an idolater; and he who truly believes in Christ, if instructed, will observe his Sabbath.