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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 31.

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Review and Herald

Aug 2, 1906

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 2, 1906

Our Publishing Work

By Editor

The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. Psalm 68:11.
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Our Watchword

By Editor

Editorial

Our Watchword

FROM the early days of this advent movement it has been believed and advocated that this third angel's message would be proclaimed in all the world within the limits of one generation, and that when this was accomplished, the Lord would come to receive his people and to himself. Five years ago this hope received a stimulus, and the cry was that raised anew, “The advent message to all the world in this generation.” Since that time this expression of our purpose has been the watchword of the believers in this message. This watchword does not simply represent the desire of hearts impatient for the return of their Lord; it is based upon the definite statement of Jesus to his disciples when they inquired of him concerning his coming and the end of the world. After giving the signs which would be proclaimed in the great and final advent movement, our Lord said: “Now from the fig-tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh; even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.” In adopting this watchword we have not followed cunningly devised fables, and we have not been carried away by a wave of enthusiasm. We have simply accepted and believed the word of the Lord and the testimony of the spirit of prophecy. But this watchword is more than a sentiment; it is a working program. It means that we are to give ourselves wholly to the work of spreading this advent message in all the world, planning on the basis that we ourselves are to finish the work, and not hand it over to the next generation. It means that we are to advance the lines of our missionary forces rapidly, and that a retreat is never to be sounded. It means that in every land, even in the darkest parts of the earth, the great message of the coming of Jesus, with all the truths associated with this wonderful event, is to be made known to all the people. It means the consecration of time and strength and means to one great purpose—“the advent message to all the world in this generation.”

Our Confidence

THE definite expression of our confidence that the advent message will be given in all the world in this generation is found in the following prophecy: “And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth forever and ever, who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there shall be delay no longer: but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.” The course of the history of the gospel has been marked by what seemed to be times of delay in the accomplishment of God's purposes. So long was the apparent delay in the coming of the Messiah in the flesh that the psalmist cried out: “Lord, where are thy former loving-kindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness? Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples, wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.” The explanation of all this seeming delay is thus given: “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is long-suffering to youward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” But after the long periods of the time-prophecies have all been completed, and the specific predictions have all been fulfilled, then comes the assurance that “there shall be delay no longer.” We have reached the days of the voice of the seventh angel. The period allotted to the sixth angel of this series expired Aug. 11, 1840. The sixth angel and the second woe trumpet are the same, and the statement is clear: “The second woe is past: behold, the third woe cometh quickly.” The third woe is the seventh trumpet, and this comes quickly after the sixth trumpet. Our confidence, therefore, for finishing the work rests upon the assurance that the limit of time is reached, the hour of God's judgment has come, and “there shall be delay no longer.” Our watchword and our confidence should arouse us to earnest and untiring effort in giving the message.

“Ridiculous and Unreasonable”

In a recent issue of the Christian Guardian (Toronto) there appeared an article setting forth the scope and value of the new Canadian Sunday law as they appear to a representative of the Lord’s Day Alliance. From this article we quote the following paragraphs:—
In the first place, it is an immense advantage that we have a Lord’s Day act for the whole Dominion which recognizes the Lord’s day as a national institution; the toiler’s day of rest and liberty; the church’s day of glorious opportunity. This in itself is a gain worth all the effort. . . .
A very persistent effort was made before the select committee of the House of Commons, before the House itself, and before the Senate, to have the Jews and others who observe some other day of the week as a rest day exempted from the provisions of the act, but in both Houses this proposed exemption was voted down by very large majorities. It was felt that no special privileges should be given to any class, and that such an exemption would make evasion of the law easy, would give an unfair advantage to the exempted class in certain trades, such as baking and newspaper publication, and while giving some financial relief to Jewish employees, would, on the other hand, put upon a much larger number of Christian employees in Jewish-owned factories, which under the exemption would be closed on Saturday, an equally serious disability, and our legislators felt that in a Christian land this would be unjustifiable. . . .
The most objectionable amendment of all was put in by the Senate, making prosecution dependent upon the permission of the attorney-general of the province. This was probably intended to make vexatious prosecution with malicious intent impossible. But whateverthe object, it is impossible for any one to justify making it necessary to obtain the consent of the attorney-general before it is possible to take action to close a corner shop that is doing Sunday trading, or to put a stop to a company of Italian navvies doing construction work in the building of a new railway. It is simply ridiculous and unreasonable in the last degree. However, we do not share with some the opinion that the attorney-generals will be unwilling to give their consent. Some critics in Parliament said this meant that the act would be a dead letter. We have a higher opinion of the attorney-generals in the various provinces, and anticipate that since this duty is put upon them, they will accept the responsibility, and provide the most convenient machinery for the carrying out of the object of the law. . . .
All considered, therefore, the new act is an immense gain, and will accomplish much good. Its very existence will have a powerful deterrent effect, and it can be improved as the need is demonstrated. This is doubtless not the last time we shall be applying for legislation at Ottawa. We shall not ask needlessly, nor for anything unreasonable, and the success attending the recent effort shows that anything in reason can be obtained where public opinion demands.
We have quoted thus at length from this article so that our readers may perceive for themselves the spirit which is behind this legislation. The writer of it represents the Lord’s Day Alliance, which really secured the passage of the act, and speaks in its behalf. He is certainly a sturdy and outspoken representative of that class of ecclesiastics who advocate religion by law, and who act upon the theory of Augustine that “it is, indeed, better that men should be brought to serve God by instruction than by fear of punishment, or by pain. But because the former means are better, the latter must not therefore be neglected.”
Let us note some of the more striking statements in the quotations which we have made from this remarkable article:
1. By this legislation the so-called Lord’s day becomes “a national institution.” In a certain sense this is consistent. Sunday is not a divine institution, and is not enforced by any divine legislation. It rests wholly upon human authority. But how ignorant of the spirit of true Christianity are those who set up “a national institution,” and then attempt to compel, under threat of pains and penalties, conscientious observers of the divinely instituted Sabbath to regard the rival day! In the same paragraph the so-called Lord’s day is defined as “the toiler’s day of rest and liberty; the church’s day of glorious opportunity.” The Lord’s Day Alliance has assumed the prerogative of prescribing, through the machinery of Parliament, just how “the toiler” shall spend his day of “liberty.” The “glorious opportunity” of the church will be greatly improved, it appears, by an act which restrains people from doing almost everything except to go to church. A compulsory church-going clause may be among the improvements to be asked for later.
2. It was decided “by very large majorities” that the observers of another day than Sunday should not be exempt from the provisions of this act, because “it was felt that no special privileges should be given to any class.” And it is further declared that such an exemption would involve “serious financial disability” to “Christian employees,” and that it was felt that “in a Christian land this would be unjustifiable.” It appears from this that “in a Christian land” it is the duty of the lawmakers to look out for the financial interests of professed Christians, even though in doing so they may oppress other equally conscientious persons, and that what are called “rights” in countries where there is no union of church and state are regarded as “special privileges” by the Lord’s Day Alliance. Such Christianity as this flourished during the Dark Ages. The Inquisition flourished at the same time.
3. The “most objectionable” feature of this legislation is the fact that there is a check upon applying it at the pleasure of its promoters. This is regarded as “simply ridiculous and unreasonable in the last degree.” It certainly must be trying to these truly Christian members of the Lord’s Day Alliance to go to all the trouble of installing the machinery of persecution, and then not be permitted to start it at will. Evidently there is need of improvement, but there is comfort in the thought that “it can be improved as the need is demonstrated.” But what a travesty is all this upon the principles advocated by the Founder of Christianity! The lord whose day has become “a national institution” in Canada must be some other than the Lord who said: “If any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not.” He who proclaimed himself as “Lord even of the Sabbath” would certainly repudiate the principles advocated by this Lord’s Day Alliance.
4. This is only the beginning of religious legislation in Canada. Nothing “unreasonable” will be demanded, allowing the Lord’s Day Alliance to be the judge; but what these men regard as reasonable may be fairly inferred from what they have already asked for and obtained. The one thing which has already been decided to be unreasonable in Canada is religious liberty. Hereafter such “special privileges” as Parliament, under the guidance of the Lord’s Day Alliance, may see fit to grant must be thankfully received, but rights may not be expected.
The enactment of this Lord’s Day act in the Canadian Parliament is an indication of the ease with which religious legislation, and consequent persecution, may come in any country. While the act itself and its defense by this writer seem to us “ridiculous and unreasonable,” yet this legislation is commended by some of the religious papers in this country, and there are many who would be glad to see a similar law passed by Congress. This situation is an emphatic call to us to hasten our work. Doors which are open now may soon be closed. Work which is left undone now may be necessarily carried forward a little later under the most unfavorable circumstances. Let every one do his duty now.

In Newer Brazilian Fields

By William Ambrose Spicer

WHILE our boat is spending two days in the fine harbor of Bahia, I will send on a message regarding the newer fields in Brazil, which now we must help our brethren to work.
As the conferences in the southernmost part of Brazil are aiming at self-support, our mission funds for Brazil are now to be used to press the work in newer fields. What has been done in the portions already organized into conferences must be attempted in other States.
We may hopefully expect good results; for wherever the seed has been sown thus far, the fruits have appeared. In fact, so far as the work among the Portuguese-speaking Brazilians is concerned, the most promising fields are these States of the middle south Atlantic seaboard.
One after another we must locate workers in these States, which have all too long been left unentered. It is in these very portions of the country that the Bible Society colporteurs have had most success in selling the Bible. This splendid effort of the colporteurs is placing about sixty thousand copies of the Book of books in priest-ridden Brazil every year.
Elder Westphal and I have just visited the State of Sao Paulo, generally spoken of as the most progressive of the Brazilian States. It is now set apart as a mission field under Elder Hoelzel’s direction. The truth has but a very small representation in this new mission. But the smaller their force, we may depend upon it, the greater will be their earnestness in labor. It will be a great encouragement to the believers to have some one in the field to lead them in service.
In the city of Sao Paulo we visited Brother A. B. Stauffer and his family. Brother Stauffer is the pioneer worker in Brazil, having entered the field in the first canvassing campaign in South America, and he has remained in the country ever since. For the sake of his children, and for the pioneering of anew part of the country, he has decided to turn for a time to industrial work in the newly opened far west of the State of Sao Paulo, on the borders of the Indian country. He promises to report his experiences in this effort to demonstrate the possibilities of self-supporting mission work as a pioneer farmer in this almost unknown region. This effort means a new part of the country entered, and it is with the thought of establishing light in a dark place that our brother moves on into regions beyond.
The city of Sao Paulo, with over a quarter of a million, is perhaps the most modern and European city in South America. It is an educational center in Brazil, and all the appointments of the city seem quite up-to-date. About half the population is Italian, and as soon as we have Portuguese literature to sell, such cities as these ought to be worked with Portuguese, Italian, and German literature together.
Our work is turning now toward those States where there are railway facilities, and where the larger masses of population are found. Now there is a more urgent call than ever for us to stand by our brethren in these countries, as they seek to open new fields, and actually to occupy all their territory.
About a hundred miles northwest of the city of Sao Paulo we visited Brother William Stein and his wife. Brother Stein has been editor of the Portuguese paper in Brazil for seven years, and now, on account of his health, is working on a farm; but he hopes erelong to get into the evangelistic field, and to be able to give all his time to direct work for the message. Away across the valley from his home, he pointed to a blue ridge of mountains, marking a district where the anti-Protestant prejudice is so strong that no known Protestant traveler can get food or shelter. This is exceptional, however. Nearly everywhere the way is open for the evangelistic colporteur or preacher, though he may expect to meet more or less opposition.
Our brethren have their eyes upon the next State northward, also — Minas Geraes — the great mining country of Brazil. It is the most populous State of all, with 4,360,000 inhabitants. It is hoped to locate a worker there soon.
And here is the State of Bahia, waiting for the sower of the seed-corn of the kingdom. Years ago, I believe, some of our German literature was put out here in the city of Bahia. It is not a bad-looking city, and is open to Protestant effort. The Baptists, Methodists, and others are here. We ought to be here also. It is a city of churches. There are three hundred Catholic churches, a missionary told me. This means one church for every thousand persons, according to the population claimed. As I write, I can count over twenty churches along the water front. The harbor is full of ships. Electric cars and electric lights give the place an up-to-date appearance, but religiously these multitudes are living in the darkness of the Middle Ages. The light must stream in — is coming in. The situation appeals to us to seek somehow to supply workers for these needy fields.
VIEW IN SAO PAULO, CAPITAL OF A NEW BRAZILIAN MISSION FIELD
VIEW IN SAO PAULO, CAPITAL OF A NEW BRAZILIAN MISSION FIELD
As it is, Elder Spies is director of the Northern Brazil mission field, which means everything in Brazil north of Sao Paulo. But with the work in Rio de Janeiro and the companies in the State of Espirito Santo, he has all that one man can do. The harvest truly is great, and the laborers are few. Here again is the call to prayer to the Lord of the harvest.
W. A. S. Bahia, Brazil.

A Righteousness That Can Not Save

By C. M. S.

WHAT God knows of us and our limitations, and what he has said of us and our powers, should be of infinitely more concern to us than any theory of the human mind. It matters not how captivating such theories may be, they can not save—they can only make captive. Everything that is out of harmony with God’s purpose for us and his declarations concerning us, is designed to lead us into ruin. If we could but realize that there is no neutral zone between the powers of good and of evil, no place but a place of danger when outside the line of absolute truth, we would look much more closely to our bearings than we do.
The campaign by pen and pulpit against the position and work of Jesus Christ is extending everywhere, and the masses are becoming saturated with this man-pleasing but deadly solution. It is the supreme effort of the powers of darkness against the kingdom of Christ. While the attack is general all along the line, the citadel of the Christian’s hope is now the chief point of attack. That citadel is the work of Christ in man’s behalf. The fact that this is now the focal point of attack should indicate to us that the battle is nearly finished. In harmony with this deduction are the reiterated statements in recent Testimonies that the work is more nearly finished than we think.
While men are exalting man to the skies and declaring the work of Christ for us unnecessary, the truth of the Bible still rings out over the turbid waters of earth’s night: “All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.” Isa. 40: 6-8.
We see that this inspired testimony is directly contrary to the theory of man’s self-sufficiency in the matter of salvation, and his oneness with the divine. “The grass withereth;” and “surely the people is grass.” Then the people wither, and as “the flower fadeth,” so the people fade. As the goodliness of the flower fades in the strong rays of the sun, so does all the goodliness of the flesh fade away into nothing under the bright light of God’s great detector of sin.
The righteousness that God requires is not found in the human heart. Listen to the Word again: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?” Jer. 17: 9. That is how the human heart looks to God, and therefore that is its true condition. In human reasonings, with an exalted opinion of our own worth and power, and with a desire for the exaltation of self, we may blind our eyes to our own imperfections; but we can not turn aside one ray of the searching light of heaven that will show us just as we are; and the reward we receive will be measured according to what we are, and not according to what we think we are. Therefore, if we appear at the judgment bar with the light of heaven shining back over the record of our lives, and we have left out Jesus Christ as our Saviour, we are lost. The law will condemn us; the righteousness which it demands as the condition of eternal life will not be found in us. We shall be clad in the “filthy rags” of “our own righteousness” instead of the faultless apparel of the righteousness ofChrist.
“Christ. “He that is filthy, let him be filthy still,” will be heaven’s decree concerning such.
“Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.” Rom. 10: 4. Having “the mind of Christ,” having Christ enthroned in the heart, that righteousness will be wrought out which the law demands and heaven approves. “In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.” Prov. 12: 28. God’s law is set as the standard of righteousness. We have not been able by our own efforts to reach that standard; but there stands Christ ready to work out righteousness in and for us. Inside the eternal kingdom will enter nothing that does not meet the standard. There is no other way. Those who are outside of Christ are foredoomed to condemnation by that standard, and that condemnation means eternal death. This will be said of them: “Being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.” Rom. 10: 3. They are “ignorant of God’s righteousness” because they are ignorant of its standard, the law of God.
Let us give careful study to the importance of the work of Christ in our behalf, that we be not lost in the quicksands of one of Satan’s most deceptive errors.
C. M. S.

Who Will Join the Educational Missionary Movement?

By Arthur G. Daniells

THE last two numbers of the REVIEW have contained extended notices of the statement adopted by the educational convention, which outlines a new educational missionary movement. Before the officers of the Department of Education left the convention, they made arrangements for the publication of this statement in all the leading papers in our denomination. It was also arranged to have this contemplated movement placed before our people in all the fall camp meetings.
The principals of our schools and their associate teachers are in earnest about this matter. They believe that the third angel’s message must be preached in all the world, to all nations, before the Lord will come. They see that this means a great work; that it calls for a larger staff of missionaries. They realize that our schools have been established to educate our young people to become missionaries, and that it is to these schools that the slender staff of our missionaries now toiling in the great mission fields must look for new comrades. They are encouraged by the earnest plea the General Conference Committee is now making to those in charge of our schools for more missionaries. And they now propose to take hold of this great problem with a zeal never yet put into our educational work.
As far as possible the work of the schools will be adapted to meet the fullest and highest needs of those wishing to attend them. In recent Testimonies we have been admonished to do this. Here are a few statements:—
All our denominational colleges and training-schools should make provision to give their students the education essential for evangelists and for Christian business men. The youth and those more advanced in years who feel it their duty to fit themselves for work requiring the passing of certain legal tests should be able to secure at our union conference training-schools all that is essential.
God desires us all to be in a waiting, hopeful position. What he has promised, he will do; and if there are legal requirements making it necessary that medical students shall take a certain preparatory course of study, let our colleges teach the required additional studies in a manner consistent with Christian education. The Lord has signified his displeasure that so many of our people are drifting into Battle Creek; and since he does not want so many to go there, we should understand that he wants our schools in other places to have efficient teachers, and to do well the work that must be done. They should arrange to carry their students to the point of literary and scientific training that is necessary. Many of these requirements have been made because so much of the preparatory work done in ordinary schools is superficial. Let all our work be thorough, faithful, and true.
From the light that the Lord has given me, I know that our training-schools in various parts of the field should be placed in the most favorable position possible for qualifying our youth to meet the tests specified by State laws regarding medical students. To this end the very best teaching talent should be secured, that our schools may be brought up to the required standard.
Let me repeat: It is not necessary for so many of our youth to study medicine. But for those who should take medical studies our union conference training-schools should make ample provision in facilities for preparatory education. Thus the youth of each union conference can be trained nearer home.—Unpublished Testimony, entitled “The Work of Our Training-Schools,” dated 1903.
These quotations instruct those in charge of our colleges and training-schools to make every provision required to give our young people the education they need to do the work before us. As pointed out in the statement adopted at the educational convention, the work we are doing calls for able ministers, Bible workers, editors, translators, teachers, physicians, nurses, colporteurs, and Christian business men. Each student must be given the training in our schools required to qualify him for that phase of the work for which he is best suited by nature.
Those in charge of Union College are making earnest efforts to comply with this instruction. They have endeavored to secure a strong staff of teachers. They have made very favorable arrangements with the Nebraska University for such students as should take the medical course. Other union conference schools are endeavoring to do just the work required to fit our young people for the mission fields. There are indications that the coming year will no doubt witness the most earnest, successful efforts yet made in our schools for the development of whole-souled missionaries.
In view of these considerations we are intensely anxious as to who among our young people will join this movement. We know from various statistics we have gathered during the last year or two that there are hundreds of our young men and women who are not attending our colleges and academies. Many are attending the schools of the world. Many more are not attending any school. We can scarcely see how either those who are in other schools or those who do not go to school, can be led in large numbers to give their lives to the work of God.
This is a serious consideration; for the Lord’s cause has need of all these young people. I earnestly appeal to every young man and young woman who may chance to read these lines, to definitely join us in this educational missionary movement.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Note and Comment

In the July number of The Missionary Review of the World there is an interesting article upon Turkey and the work of the missionaries in that country. Some idea of the way in which governmental affairs are administered may be obtained from the following extract:—
The government is not one of “justice tempered with mercy,” but of injustice tempered with money. The sultan shuts himself up in his palace grounds, and apparently gives no thought to the welfare of his people. The fire regulations in Constantinople illustrate the character of this government, of the sultan, for the sultan, and by the sultan. When the flames are discovered by the watchman on the Galata Tower, the news is first telegraphed to the sultan, saying in what quarter the fire is, so that his majesty’s nerves may not be overtaxed. Then a crier runs through the city shouting that there is a conflagration in such and such a district. The primitive fire apparatus is caught up, and the volunteer fire company—with a mob bent on plunder—starts for the scene. Before any attempt is made to extinguish the flames, the owner of the property must sit down and make a bargain with the firemen as to the price of their services. Usually more damage is done by the mob and the piratical fire company than by the flames. It is little to be wondered at that most Constantinopolitans prefer to be at the mercy of the fire than in thehands of the firemen. But in any case the sultan is not annoyed!
This glimpse of life in the dominion of “the sick man of the East” is rather entertaining to contemplate at a distance, but the reality must be exceedingly trying to those who are compelled to endure it. Mohammedanism means barbarism.
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