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A CORRECTION
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In our recent announcement of "Forthcoming Publications," THE SEAL OF GOD AND ITS COUNTERFEIT was estimated to contain 24 pages.
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THE RESTORATION
From Eden to Eden
IN the twenty chapters into which this book is divided, the author discusses the unity of the divine plan and the continuity of God's purpose through all the ages, showing that in all dispensations the truths constantly impressed upon the minds of the people have tended to one end,—the elucidation of one central idea,
THE RESTORATION
of the dominion which was lost in Adam.
CHAPTER I is a brief discussion of the Creation of the World; Man's Dominion and How He Lost It; the Origin and Authorship of Sin, with the divine remedy for its consequences.
CHAPTER II treats of the "Promise of God to the Fathers," with all that it implied in heaven and on earth. In other chapters are discussed such subjects as "The Abrahamic Covenant;" "Righteousness through Faith;" "The Covenant with Israel," the reasons for it, and the universality of its application; "The Return of the Jews;" "The World's History in a Dream;" "The Setting Up of the Everlasting Kingdom;" "The Hour of Judgment;" "The Fall of Babylon;" "The Seal and the Mark;" "Signs of the Second Coming of Christ," and the responsibility of man in recognizing them; "The Resurrection of the Dead," and what the doctrine involves.
THE LAST CHAPTER is a GRAND COMPILATION of the Promises of God in regard to the "Restoration of the First Dominion," with a vivid portrayal of the earth's appearance and condition when clothed in the garb of Edenic purity and loveliness.
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Spiritual Gifts. By Elder J. N. Loughborough. B. S. Library, No. 156; 40 pages; price, $2.50 per 100.
Especially good for general distribution, as it deals with principles only. It explains what the Spirit of prophecy is and how it is manifested. It contrasts true and false manifestations, and tells how to distinguish them. It gives the meaning of "open visions" and "night visions;" it speaks of "women as prophets;" of "prophecy in the early church," and the reason for its discontinuance, etc., etc. The main object, however, is to show from the Scriptures that this gift will be prominently connected with the remnant church. It is the very best publication ever issued with which to introduce the Spirit of prophecy.
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Sunday Laws and Conscience
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Do our lawmakers and jurists appreciate the position into which they are driving themselves and the country by upholding Sunday laws, the fruit of the Dark Ages? Here is a word from a good source: "If minor punishments would not restrain the Jew, or the Sabbatarian, or the infidel, who believes Saturday to be the Sabbath, or disbelieves the whole, would not the same system require that we should resort to imprisonment, banishment, the rack, and the fagot, to force men to violate their own consciences, or compel them to listen to doctrines which they abhor?"—Report of House of Representatives, 1830. And we say this, not for the benefit of the persecuted, but the persecutor. He who seeks to compel men under fine and penalty to violate conscience is destroying himself; and the government which does it is doomed to destruction.
"The Missionary Magazine" for July touches upon various fields—the Chinese, Japanese, Greeks, Fijians, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico, etc.; copiously illustrated. Published monthly at 150 Nassau Street, New York. Price, 25 cents a year.
Subject to Roman Catholicism—Chaplains.
The Catholic Mirror of May 6 says that the first Catholic chaplain appointed for the navy was in 1888, "Father" Chidwick. The next appointment was in 1892. In speaking of a Sunday service on board ship, one of these chaplains gives us this significant item: "At the appointed time the church-bell tolls, and the church pennant is raised above the Stars and Stripes. The church pennant is a small triangular flag, bearing the symbol of the cross. It is the only flag ever placed above our country's, and the act is a beautiful acknowledgement from our country of her dependence on God, and is a sign to all right-thinking minds of the reason of her continued glory and prosperity. We feel that as long as she will lower her flag to that which is recognized as God's standard [rather, Roman Catholic] she will lower it to none other."
An excellent room is furnished, and communion is celebrated. The article says: "These occasions of holy communion are also opportunities for enrolling in the scapular, distributing beads and agnus deis. The sailor's faith in the scapular is remarkable. Even those who do not receive the blessed sacrament will not permit the priest to leave the ship without asking for a pair of scapulars."
And this is another straw which shows the direction of the religio-political winds of this country.
CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.
Poetry.
In Any Event, Work On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
For Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
"Cumbered about Much Serving." . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Wolf is at the Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
General.
Roger Williams—America's Luther. No. 2, PERCY T. MAGAN 1
"Be Ye Therefore Perfect." MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . 2
Baptism with the Holy Ghost, D. B. STROUSE. . . . . . . 3
The Lesson in the "Father of the Faithful," ALONZO T. JONES 4
Doctrine of Eternal Misery, WM. PENNIMAN. . . . . . . 4
"God's All-Powerful Word," STEMPLE WHITE . . . . . . 5
Outlook.—What Is Taught in a Catholic Summer School—Will Evil Destroy Itself? E. J. DRIVER—The Trusts—Then and Now—The Clamor for Reforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9
Missions.—South America, F. H. WESTPHAL—"Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters; for Thou Shalt Find It after Many Days," C. SORENSON—A "Heaven-Blest Recuperating Station.". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11
The Home.—Katie—He Only Ate It, as Many Others Do—Consumption in Dairy Cows, E. H. CURTIS—What a Boy Did in His Spare Moments—Home Statesmanship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13
There is power over sin, and that power is the righteousness of God received by faith in Jesus Christ. It is free to all who will yield up the sin and receive the righteousness.
A Voice for Religious Liberty
By Editor
The Amory (Miss.) "Argus" is not afraid to speak for the principles of religious liberty, nor unwilling that others should speak through its columns. See its issue of July 7. Surely there is need that every brave voice at this time should be raised against the revival of medieval superstitions and present-day religious bigotry. O, if men would only heed the Golden Rule; that would settle every difficulty!
The True Source of Life
And now a Chicago scientist thinks he has discovered the secret of longevity, by which he can prolong life so that man will live to be one thousand years old. He will do this by careful hygiene and the destruction of germs. But, like all other attempts, this will be a failure. There is but one Source of Life, Jesus Christ. With Him "is the fountain of life." That life comes through faith. This does not mean that hygiene will be ignored, but that it will be the very best and wisest, not built up on the destruction of lower organisms, but on the very food and life of God, given of God for that purpose.
"THE MOVEMENT TOWARD ROME."
By Editor
THIS was the subject of a sermon by Cardinal Vaughan, of England, in a London church, June 18. This high Roman Catholic prelate said, according to the Catholic Mirror of July 8:—
"In England to-day there is going forward a movement outside the Catholic Church without parallel in any other part of the world. We see a large, a cultured, a strong and sincere, body of clergy and laity in the Anglican establishment. In this establishment at the present day we see a very important and growing number of men, a party seeking after Catholic truth, and trying to popularize once more in this land of ours those Catholic doctrines and religious practises which were known in England during a period of a thousand years, and unhappily were all suppressed at the period of the so-called Reformation. These men, at the present day, have received a call from God, and by God's grace and leading, are trying to bring back those various Catholic doctrines and religious practises with which we are familiar, because they form our religious life. They all say and declare that they can not accept the principle that the church of God is subject to the control and government in doctrinal and disciplinary matters, of the State; that the church of God is not a slave, and subject to the temporal power."
He also noted the "singular fact presented to us, that, tho other countries of Christendom, under the pressure of kings and princes, apostatized from the Catholic faith in the sixteenth century, there was not one amongst them that showed signs of returning to this Catholic faith such as the people of England had done."
This the cardinal attributed to prayer. He further said that "it had been asserted that Catholicism was standing still, if not retrogressing. This was not the fact, as their congregations were increasing, fresh churches were being built, their clergymen were multiplying, and their converts numbered 8,000 a year."
All of which is in fulfilment of Scripture. The reason of this drift toward Rome in nominal Protestantism is a failure to follow the Word of God. It is good that the Ritualists in England refuse to be subject to State control. Roman Catholics agree with this. What is equally important is that the church should not attempt to control the State. But wo to England when the church gains this control!
Cancer and Its Causes
The fearful malady, cancer, is becoming a fair rival to "the great white plague," tuberculosis. Of the 50,509 deaths in Paris, in 1896, 2,828 were caused by cancer, about 1 to 17. It ranks fifth among diseases as the cause of death. In the statistics of the city of Liverpool from 1840 to 1893, Dr. Roger Williams shows that there has been a gradual increase, the ratio ever diminishing from 1 in 5,646 of the population in 1840, or 1 in 129 deaths, to 1 in 1,407 of the population in 1893, or 1 in 27 deaths. It is said that a cancer is indeed rare among Jews. One of its great causes, we are persuaded, is the use of flesh as food, especially the use of pork or bacon.
National Educational Association Gathering
By Editor
The National Educational Association, comprising in its delegation the strength of the teaching force in the United States as regards principles and methods, has just closed an annual gathering at Los Angeles. It is estimated that 15,000 were in attendance. We shall have more to say upon this at an early date, which will be of interest and profit.
Conversions Reported in the Work
By Editor
In our Work and Workers notes there are more than one hundred and thirty baptisms and conversions noted, in a very limited report. Not nearly all are reported in our columns. All could not be. All success is due to the Lord alone. In Him we rejoice.
The Republic and Its First Principles
By Editor
It would seem that a congressman, who writes on so important a subject as "How Is It with the Republic?" ought not to misquote, in an important particular, the great charter of the republic. Yet this is what Congressman R. R. Hitt, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, does in an article in the Independent of July 6. He says: "The man who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that 'all men are born free and equal' owned his family of slaves." No man ever wrote this in the Declaration of Independence. The nearest to the above in that noble document is "that all men are created equal." Every signer of the Declaration knew that all were not created (or born) free. Many are born in slavery. But, and here is the very pivot or germ of the Declaration, the essential fact of its existence: "all men are born equal" in the matter of inalienable rights, which belong to all alike, however or wherever born, among which are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." That many were deprived of these rights did not affect the truth; rather, that fact emphasized it. And the Declaration was made because England was depriving the people of the colonies of some of these rights. This government is now wandering from the great charter, and is about as far afield as she is in time from its adoption. The church needs to return to the Word; the nation to its first principles.
Worthy of Honor
By Editor
Worthy of Honor.—We neglected to chronicle at the time the death of the great English surgeon, Robert Lawson Tait, June 13, at his country residence Llandudno, Wales. He took little stock in much-lauded antiseptics, but insisted on absolute cleanliness. But of his surgical skill we do not need to speak. What we do wish to mention, however, is his opposition to vivisection. He did not believe that vivisection of animals was necessary or useful to medical science. He wished placed over his tomb as an epitaph the following: "He labored to divest his profession of the blundering which resulted from the performance of experiments on the subhuman groups of animal life, in the hope that they would shed light on the aberrant physiology of the human groups." He said further: "Such experiments never have succeeded, and never can; and they have, as in the cases of Koch, Pasteur, and Lister, not only hindered true progress, but they have covered our profession with ridicule." Some of the medical journals sneer at this, but the haters of cruelty will honor his memory.
