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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 46.

The Last Message

Review and Herald

Nov 14, 1912

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The Last Message

The last message is sounding in the regions where the history of man began anew after the flood. Of Noah, who invested his all in the message for his day, the witness is borne: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.” Heb. 11: 7.

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The Week of Prayer

THE week of prayer this year should be a season of great refreshing to the people of God. Our needs as individuals and as a denomination were never so great as at the present time. We can not be content with the same measure of blessing that we enjoyed last year. To advance no farther in our experience than we did then is to retrograde. God’s providences are moving on before us. The demands of his work are increasing. The forces of error arrayed against us are stronger. To meet the demands of the situation to-day requires a deeper consecration, a brighter hope, a stronger faith.
The week of prayer will prove a blessing to the church in proportion as it proves a blessing to the individual members of the church. The church will never be baptized with the Spirit of power in a collective sense. The seal of God will be placed upon the foreheads “of the men that sigh and that cry” over the prevailing iniquity, and who by an application of the blood of Christ to their own hearts and lives cleanse themselves from every taint of the evil influences that surround them. Nor will the blessing be bestowed upon families as such. “Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it [the land], as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.”
Our relationship to Christ is an individual relationship. The Lord looks down from his high and holy habitation and recognizes every heart that is open to receive his blessing, every hand that is stretched out for aid. He will not pass by a single honest, earnest suppliant, no matter where he may live or what may be his name. On the other hand, neither position in the world, office in the church, wealth, education, influence, nor power will bring his blessing to the indifferent. God recognizes in the church no aristocracy, no exclusive classes, no race or color or condition. He “is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”
The promise, dear reader, is for you, whoever you may be, in whatever lot your life may be cast, however lowly your position. Even if you have wandered into paths of sin and find yourself to-day without God, like the prodigal son, it is your blessed privilege to return. The Father calls you. He comes to meet you with arms outstretched to welcome your return. Accept his loving invitation. Make this season of special prayer a time when you shall give yourself anew to God, and with firm and settled purpose and holy resolve dedicate your life to him for future service.
If you, dear reader, are enjoying to-day the freedom of deliverance from sin, then may Christ roll upon your heart a great longing burden for those who are still in bondage. Seek the outcasts, and reach out after the wandering sheep. Remember especially in your prayers and in your effort those who have once been connected with us as a people, but who have become ensnared, and have fallen into the net of discouragement and sin. Reach out for them and seek to reclaim them through God’s grace. You will find perhaps that the Spirit has preceded your effort in that it has gone before you and prepared these broken, discouraged, longing hearts for the reception of the seed which you may be privileged to sow.
Let all unite in making the coming season the best and most glorious, the most powerful and far reaching in effect, of any season we have ever enjoyed. Expect great things from God, attempt great things for him.

Making That Better Choice

By C. M. S.

If all men realized the extent of heaven’s interest in them, there would not be so many careless sinners in the world, nor so many lukewarm Christians.
God has a purpose in view for every soul that has ever come into the world. That purpose is the formation of a character with which he can trust the priceless gift of immortality. To confer that gift upon a promiscuous host of such persons as have inhabited the world during any epoch of its history, would be to invite the everlasting continuance of every sin with which that age was polluted. That God will not do that is shown by his declaration to John on the Isle of Patmos: “Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.” Rev. 22: 12. The verses following that quoted show how the division is made. Those who have washed their robes are given the right to enter the city of God and partake of the fruit of the tree of life; but the other class, the breakers of God’s law, whose robes are soiled and polluted with sin, are left out. Inside that city is the blessed presence of the eternal Father, the Creator and Redeemer; and those who are accounted worthy to obtain that world are such as are in harmony with his will, who have made the choice of righteousness and the unfading joys of the eternal world. Such will find a continual unfoldment of pleasure in the purity of heaven’s associations.
The other class, having chosen those things and lived for those things that are out of harmony with the will and purpose and character of God, would find no pleasure in such associations. Their chief sorrow will be in the knowledge of the fact that they are cut off from the pursuit of the things they love. The course of the libertine is ended, the worshiper of gold can glut his greed no more; the disciple of fashion must lay that all down forever; the devotee of “society” has reveled away his last night on earth. All, or nearly all, of these love life; but they love it for what they can get out of it—not for its opportunities for good, not for the gospel privilege, not for the hope it holds out of an everlasting inheritance in a kingdom of righteousness. Thus by pandering to their own purposes, they have literally unfitted themselves for the associations of heaven. The heaven which they would choose would be one in which they could pursue their selfish course unhindered by any of the restraints of law. God has no heaven for such. Envy, selfishness, hatred, jealousy, anger, evil-speaking, greed, profanity, falsehood, lust,—these can not inhabit the immaculate palaces of eternity.
That sin and its results are entirely outside the purposes of God is shown by the fact that God has made no provision for the continuance of the sinner. He has no permanent place in the universe. The sinner is to be “cut off from theearth.” Sin is to be burned up “root kind, and branch.” There are to be “new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Before sin entered the universe, there was nothing but righteousness in it. God’s purpose is the perpetuation of righteousness; therefore his purpose that man shall attain a righteous character. When the wicked are finally “cut off,” then will only righteousness, true and tried, abide forever. There is no pleasure to Jehovah in the destruction of the wicked. He declares on this point: “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope for your latter end.” Jer. 29: 11. Again: “I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth.”
How insignificant appears the short life in this world devoted to the pleasures of self and sense when compared with the purpose that God has in view for every soul upon the earth! We can fritter away our little day here, and then wither and lie down like a seared and crinkled autumn leaf, worthless and spent; or we can shape our lives, by his abundant help, in harmony with his purpose concerning us, and, with the accepted robe of Christ’s righteousness upon us, receive the crown of eternal life, the seal of an enduring righteous character. While mercy still lingers, let us make that better choice.
C. M. S.

A Revolution Imminent

By F. M. W.

The World's Unrest—No. 4

A Revolution Imminent

We have fallen upon evil times in this world's history. Religiously, politically, and commercially, sweeping and far-reaching changes are being effected. We have presented some of the elements at work in this transformation. We give in this number the portent which attaches to the working of these revolutionary forces as viewed by some of the leaders of public thought:—
Says Canon George William Douglas, in the New York Times of Sept. 15, 1912:—
Few Americans, except politicians and settlement workers like Jane Addams, know how great the danger in this country is of a real revolt of labor. On Labor day there comes to us on every side a discordant, exasperated cry whose substance is, Give us the rewards of labor! We have not a fair share! It is the discontent of the poor; and for this we, in no small measure, are ourselves to blame, if blame there can be; for we, the better educated, have given to the poor—nay, forced on them—the microbe of education. We have sent them to school, and thereby we have taught them to expect more of life, more even than a living wage. And when they behold (for we are not backward to disclose it) our luxury, displayed before their eyes more generally and conspicuously than ever in the history of mankind, the poor want to share it and feel what it is. Nevertheless, their expectations are suffering a severe and immense disappointment.
In a speech of similar import, Prof. Frederick Harrison, of England, says:—
I have studied these labor troubles too long and too closely to dream of any legislation, or conference, or agreement whatever doing more than patching up a truce for the moment; and I hold the necessary reorganization of society to be far too deep, and wide, and complex to be brought about by any panacea, or in any one revolution of industrial life. One who for all these fifty years has watched this growing unrest, and has been in close touch with the best labor leaders and the most enlightened chiefs of industry, could not give way to optimism to-day. I see long and arduous struggles before both workmen and managers in our anarchic industrial world. And I know what menacing obstacles face both, whether political, economic, or social.
H. G. Wells, a prominent writer of Great Britain, in the New York Times of Aug. 11, 1912, sounds this note of warning with reference to the conditions that threaten Great Britain, and for that matter the whole world:—
Our country is in a dangerous state of social disturbance. The discontent of the laboring mass of the community is deep and increasing. It may be that we are in the opening phase of a real and irreparable class war. Whither are these forces taking us? What can still be done and what has to be done to avoid the phase of social destruction to which we seem to be drifting? . . . The thing our society has most to fear from labor is not organized resistance, not victorious strikes and raised condition, but the black resentment that follows defeat. Meet labor half-way, and you will find a new cooperation in government; stick to your legal rights, draw the net of repressive legislation tighter; then you will presently have to deal with labor enraged. If the anger burns free, that means revolution; if you crush out the hope of that, then sabotage and a sullen general sympathy for anarchistic crime.
We shall conclude quotations of this character by one from Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, of New York City, as reported in the New York Evening Journal of May 6, 1912:—
Certainly to the observant eye the signs of tempest are already in the air; and to one who looks across the world with a glance that takes in the whole collective scene, it is not easy and it is not reasonable to maintain one's self in perfect serenity of mind. . . . The more serious thing to consider is that what we listen to here is but a few notes of the general concert of discontent that prevails on both sides of the sea, and that that discontent is everywhere declaring itself in tones that are increasingly confident and bold. And, so far as appears, nothing essential is being done to stay the forward march of dissatisfaction. We had civil war half a century ago, and the mutterings of another civil war of an economic kind are distinctly audible.
Many similar statements from other thinking men might be quoted did space permit. It is left alone to the student of the prophetic word to estimate the portent of the great conflict, and even he, because finite, can do it but imperfectly. The apostle James, speaking with direct reference to these times, says:—
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist thee.” James 5: 1-6.
These conditions he sets forth as those that should obtain in the world immediately preceding the coming of the Lord. While palliative measures may be adopted which for a time will bring relief, while arbitration committees and governmental influence may patch up temporary peace pacts, we know that the conflict will deepen and grow more bitter. Christendom is confronted to-day by a great menace in the aggressions of Romanism, but another and greater danger, so far as the world's social relationships are concerned, is found in the growing menace of industrial war with which we are surrounded. The one only hope of relief in one case as well as in the other is in the reign of the Lord Jesus, who will put down the rule of anarchy, banish sin from the universe, and establish his own blessed rule of peace and righteousness. For this glad day our hearts devoutly yearn.

Our Relation to the Situation

But what lessons should we as a people learn from the present situation? How should we relate ourselves to these conditions? Permit a few suggestions:—
1. We should recognize in the great industrial conflict a significant sign of the last day, a precursor of the rapidly approaching end of all things.
2. While recognizing the dangers that confront us, the elements of evil that are at work, and the fact that both parties to the conflict are governed by wrong principles, we should keep from our hearts all partizanship. Free from prejudice, we should labor for the men on both sides of the controversy, striving to lead them to find rest in God, and to recognize the times in which we live. We should be careful, even when dealing with these conditions as signs of thelast days, not to arouse a spirit of partizanship by what we may say or write. Great discretion will be needed in dealing with these questions.
3. As has already been suggested, the conditions are continually growing worse. We have reached the evil times of the last days. Our cities, the great centers of population, are the chief scenes of conflict. Soon residence in these cities will become unsafe. Soon it will be difficult to proclaim freely the truth of God and obtain from the public an impartial hearing. Now, as has been emphasized by the spirit of prophecy, is the time to work the cities. This is God's time, our time, the most favorable time that we shall have, for the accomplishment of this work.
4. While the cost of living has greatly increased, due in a large measure to increased price of life's commodities, and due also in part to increased extravagances and a departure from simplicity, a higher price is paid in the commercial market for every article of barter or trade. The members of this church, a large majority of whom are farmers and producers, can obtain a high price for their products. This year affords most generous fruitage; the harvest has been a large one. This is the time above all others when we should encourage liberal contributions to the cause of God. We believe the time is here when our people should respond to the exhortation to “sell that ye have, and give alms,” and that our brethren and sisters, instead of adding farm to farm and house to house, should recognize this as God's time in which they can dispose of the properties which have been entrusted to them, at a high market value, and invest their means in the cause of God.
5. This is the most favorable time we shall ever have in the history of this work to rid our denomination of institutional indebtedness. We can not tell how soon another great financial crisis may sweep over the land. This is the time for us to place our institutions in such a condition, by the refusal to incur further indebtedness and by an earnest effort to liquidate present indebtedness, that they will stand unmoved through the stress and storm of the future. It is probably safe to say that the present affords the greatest material prosperity which this world will ever see. Peaceful conditions will not long continue. The crises of the future will afford small opportunity for the adjustment of financial obligations. The present is the time for action. As individuals and as stewards of our Lord's goods, we should set our houses in order in this period of prosperity and opportunity.
6. In order that these results may be accomplished for our work, in order that the burden of debt may be lifted, and that our people may have means whereby they may give liberally to the extension of the work, the doctrine of simplicity of living should be taught and practised. In common with the world, we have partaken of the extravagance of the age. The luxuries of a few years ago appeal to us as present-day necessities. We must come back as a people to the old-time simplicity of faith and of life which once characterized our church. We must bind about our supposed wants. We must recognize the cause of God and its needs as the paramount interest in our lives, as the object for which we should labor.
7. We are in the perplexities and trials of the last days. The mutterings of the coming storm are plainly discernible. The world's wild unrest will soon meet its culmination in the last great battle of Armageddon. The nations are angry. Pent-up passion will soon find vent in the fearful conflict of the last days. But this is the day of our opportunity. In the midst of the gathering darkness, the church of God is to unfurl the banner of light and truth. Recreant will the church be if she is not prepared to play her part as the representative of the Prince of Peace in the closing scenes of earth's drama.
With the perplexing problems before us, with the obstacles confronting us, with the powers of evil arrayed against us, the church faces the greatest crisis in its history. The employment of no human means or agencies will fit the church for the work before it. It can not trust to human genius or devising. It can not rely upon diplomacy or numbers or knowledge. Plans and resolutions and church machinery will not afford it motive power. The power which the church needs to-day is the power of the Holy Spirit. The need of the church of God to-day is for men and women who know what Israel ought to do. Hence, above every other blessing, we should seek for the outpouring and the infilling of the Holy Spirit. The King's highway should be cleared, the stones of stumbling removed, the idols cast down from every heart, and the Spirit of God, which will bring every other blessing in its train, received as a most welcome guest.
With the possession of a spirit of consecration that will place all upon God's altar; with the simplicity of faith and childlike confidence that will take him at his word and believe his promises, together with a simplicity of living that will enable us to discard the pleasures and luxuries of the world, devoting to God our lives, our property, our all, we may be enabled to bring to our work such earnestness of purpose and such devotion of heart that God will be pleased to let his face shine upon us, and let his Spirit descend in copious showers upon his people. For this personal and individual experience in God let us earnestly live and labor.
F. M. W.

Turkey in the Light of Prophecy

By Arthur G. Daniells

From the press reports and editorials in the newspapers and magazines it is evident that the terrible conflict of the last fortnight between Turkey and the Balkan allies is commanding the serious attention of the civilized world.
Our people are especially interested in this struggle because of its bearing on the future of Turkey and the further development of the Eastern question.
The interest that is felt and the inquiries that are being raised seem to call for a restatement of the views we have held for more than a half-century regarding the future of Turkey and what will follow her loss of empire in Europe.
Turkey as a nation occupies a prominent place with other nations in the prophecies of the Scriptures. Its rise and marvelous triumphs as a world power are clearly foretold in the ninth chapter of the book of Revelation. Its character and its methods of procedure are also outlined. And in that great chain of prophecy recorded in the eleventh chapter of Daniel, which gives an outline of the world's history from the Medo-Persian empire to the end of time, Turkey holds an important place. This prophecy foretells the overthrow of Persia by Grecia. It tells of the division of Greece into four parts at first, and later of the two kings, which are described as the king of the north and the king of the south. The kingdom of the south was that of Ptolemy in Egypt, south of Palestine. The kingdom of the north was that of Seleucus, extending from Persia in the east, through Asia Minor, to Greece and Macedonia, north and west of Palestine.
As far as we are able to understand the specifications of this great line of prophecy, it appears that to the close of the prophecy the king of the north and the king of the south must be those nations which in the course of the time covered by the prophecy may at any time occupy these territories north and south of Palestine.
After years of wars, revolutions, and changes, the Turks came into possession of nearly all that territory originally occupied by the king of the north, and thus became the king of the north. It was during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that the Ottoman Turks extended their conquests over Asia Minor and eastern Europe. At the close of the fifteenth century Turkey ruled from Persia to Austria, and from the Black Sea to Upper Egypt, and as far west as Algeria, with a territorial area of twomillion square miles, and a population of fifty millions of people.
It is at or near the zenith of its power and glory that Turkey comes into the prophecy of Daniel as the king of the north. The prophecy of Revelation foretells the rise and development of the Turkish empire, and the prophecy of Daniel its downfall and extinction.
The king of the north and the king of the south are both reintroduced in Daniel's prophecy at the close of the French Revolution. They are said to be in conflict with that power which represents France, and by the help of other powers they are both represented as holding their ground. After this the king of the south is not mentioned, but of the king of the north it is said: “And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.” Dan. 11:45.
This foretells the fall and extinction of the king of the north. At the time this specification of the prophecy has its application, the king of the north is Turkey. According to this, what have we to look for in the career of Turkey after the revolution that occurred in France a little more than one hundred years ago?—Her disintegration and fall.
The history of Turkey shows that she began to lose her power, prestige, and possessions about the time of the French Revolution. As early as 1783 Russia took from Turkey the Crimea and all the country eastward to the Caspian Sea. In 1787 Turkey took up arms against Russia to recover this territory, but failed. Speaking of this event, the Standard Encyclopedia says:—
The Eastern question, as far as concerns Turkey, was now fairly begun.
From that time on to the present Turkey has been steadily losing her possessions. Greece was lost by the establishment of her independence in 1828. Algeria, with her 5,000,000 people, was taken by France in 1830. Egypt, with 6,000,000 became independent in 1867. In the same year Servia and Bosnia, with a population of 3,500,000, were lost. In 1878 the treaty of Berlin recognized the independence of Bulgaria and Roumelia, with 3,000,000; Roumania, with 5,000,000; Montenegro, with 250,000; and only one year ago Tripoli, with 2,000,000, was taken by Italy.
And now the reports come to us that Albania and Macedonia, with a population of about 6,000,000, have been wrested from Turkey in the fearful struggle that is still going on.
Thus during the last century Turkey has lost all her possessions in Africa and Europe, save Constantinople, the capital. This has reduced both territory and population to only one third of what they were when Turkey came into the prophecy of Daniel as the king of the north. The prophecy foretold her decline and fall. The century has fulfilled much of the prophecy.
And now what next? “He shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain.” This we understand means the transfer of the capital of the empire. And what else could be looked for? The capital is in Europe. But all her former territory and subjects in Europe, save the capital, are gone. All in Africa is gone. What remains is in Asia. The natural thing to do would be to transfer the capital to a safer and more suitable place within the empire.
This we understand the prophecy declares will be done, and it points to the place to which it will eventually be transferred—“between the seas in the glorious holy mountain.” That we understand is Mount Zion, where Jerusalem, the city of David, was built. Palestine belongs to Turkey. It is not at all incredible that under the conditions in which Turkey now finds herself she should make Jerusalem her headquarters. If we rightly understand the prophecy, this will be done. How soon this step may be taken no one can tell. It looks as if that must be the next move.
But “he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.” The prophet saw not only the disintegration that has taken place, but the extinction of the empire. “He shall come to his end.” This will be fulfilled as surely as every line of the prophecy up to this hour has been fulfilled.
One of the reasons given by the prophet why he shall come to his end is because “none shall help him.” All kingdoms that have risen have had more or less support from others. This has been true of Turkey. During the century that she has been going down she has been receiving help all along from the different powers of Europe. At different times England, France, Austria, and Russia have stood by her. Had it not been for this, she would have come to her end long ago. But the time will come when this help will be withdrawn. “None shall help him.” Then he will come to his end.
In the fierce struggle now going on, no help has thus far been given Turkey to stand against her victorious foes. She has appealed to the European powers for help, but up to the present none has been given.
But the most important feature of the prophecy relating to the fall of the kingdom of the north is that great event which is to take place in close connection with it. Daniel says:—
“And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.” Dan. 11:45; 12:1-3.
Here the standing up of Michael, the time of trouble, the resurrection of the dead, and the rewarding of the righteous are all closely connected with the coming to his end of the king of the north. It is this that gives such great meaning to the disintegration and final ruin of the king of the north. Michael is Christ. His standing up is the beginning of his reign. That will be the greatest event in the history of the world. It will bring the battle of Armageddon. It will close human history, and bring to an end the long, cruel reign of sin.
Viewed from the standpoint of the world, the events that have been taking place in the Turkish empire during the last century are full of interest and serious import to the nations. But in the light of the Scriptures the meaning of these events is greatly magnified. The fulfilment of the Word of God is the most important matter in the world. All through the ages events have been transpiring that have fulfilled the inspired prophecies of the Bible. And it is even so to-day. Of prophecies now being fulfilled before us, we may say, as did the Saviour to the people of his day, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Luke 4:21.
A. G. DANIELLS.

The Law and the Gospel

EMPHASIZING the necessity of “going to the bottom of the matter” in instructing the church in the principles of righteousness, the Advance of Sept. 19, 1912, says this of the importance of proclaiming the law and the gospel:—
One of the Chicago pastors interviewed in last week’s Advance, said, “What the world needs is the ten commandments.” Another said, “The chief business of the minister is now, ever has been, and always will be to proclaim the everlasting gospel of the Son of God.” Both are right. The world needs the law and the gospel; the two are one. The law reveals and condemns sin, and the gospel is the remedy for sin. This is the bottom of the matter, and there can be no successful treatment of the ills of the world by the ministry unless this is felt. All reforms will be superficial unless the pulpit gets down to this root matter of sin.
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