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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 46.

Thou Knowest, Lord

Review and Herald

Nov 14, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 14, 1907

Thou Knowest, Lord

By Jane Borthwick

THOU knowest, Lord, the weariness and sorrow Of the sad heart that comes to Thee for rest; Cares of to-day, and burdens for to-morrow, Blessings implored, and sins to be confessed; We come before Thee at Thy gracious word, And lay them at Thy feet: Thou knowest, Lord.
THOU knowest all the past: how long and blindly On the dark mountains the lost wand'rer strayed; How the Good Shepherd followed, and how kindly He bore it home, upon His shoulders laid; And healed the bleeding wounds, and soothed the pain, And brought back life, and hope, and strength again.
THOU knowest, not alone as God, all-knowing; As Man, our mortal weakness Thou hast proved: On earth, with purest sympathies o'erflowing, O Saviour, Thou hast wept, and Thou hast loved; And love and sorrow still to Thee may come, And find a hiding-place, a rest, a home.
THEREFORE we come, Thy gentle call obeying, And lay our sins and sorrows at Thy feet; On everlasting strength our weakness staying, Clothed in Thy robe of righteousness complete; Then rising and refreshed, we leave Thy throne, Then follow on to know as we are known.
— Jane Borthwick.

“Life and Health”

By Editor

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WHY WORRY?

There are, perhaps, more human wrecks made to-day through the habit of worrying than from any other one cause. With many, worry has become a fixed habit, we might say a disease of the mind, which seriously affects the body. It can be cured. The November number tells you how to do it.
It reveals the intimate relation of mind and body, demonstrates the power of the mind over the body, directing in their rational, hygienic, and spiritual development.
It illustrates the mutual influence of sleep and worry, and prescribes for good sleeping and effectual worry-curing.
It clearly points out the difference between mental and physical sickness.
It prescribes treatment for the growing tendency to apprehend sickness, and to worry over the same, which is, in fact, a form of mind-sickness.
It advocates nature’s cure in a large number of common diseases.
It gives current comments from other periodicals pertaining to this worry habit, and kindred topics under such headings as, Nature Cures; Unnecessary Troubles; Work as a Medicine; What is Fear? Telling Patients the Truth; Humbugged Back to Health; Self-Martyrdom; How We May Avoid Dreams; Benefit of Fresh Air; etc.
It gives a good lesson in home making, illustrating the value of the patient, peaceful mother.
It brings to our care-worn, anxious mothers a refreshing message of peace, revealing to them a better way than through the common atmosphere of perpetual care and worry.
It shows the futility of the worry habit, and makes us thankful that it can be broken.
It does not lose sight of the Great Physician, who has “all power,” with “healing in his wings.” He can renew the tired, worn-out nerves, and impart his peace as effectually as he calmed the stormy waves of Galilee.
This number gives two pages of questions by individuals, and their answers, from one of the editors of Life and Health; two pages of foreign medical missionary reports; three pages of practical suggestions; and three pages of well-selected news notes. In real value and practical benefit this November number of Life and Health is beyond money computation, yet the price is only ten cents a copy.

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Toward Sodom

By Editor

Editorial

“Toward Sodom”

When Lot was given the opportunity to select the place where he would dwell, he “chose him all the plain of Jordan” because “it was well watered everywhere,” and “Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.” And this he did in spite of the fact that “the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.” The prospect of worldly advantage overbalanced any other consideration in the mind of Lot in selecting his home. “The most fertile region in all Palestine was the Jordan valley, reminding the beholders of the lost paradise, and equaling the beauty and productiveness of the Nile-enriched plains they had so lately left. There were cities also, wealthy and beautiful, inviting to profitable traffic in their crowded marts. Dazzled with visions of worldly gain, Lot overlooked the moral and spiritual evils that would be encountered there.” “When Lot entered Sodom, he fully intended to keep himself free from iniquity, and to command his household after him. But he signally failed. The corrupting influences about him had an effect upon his own faith, and his children’s connection with the inhabitants of Sodom bound up his interest in a measure with theirs. The result is before us.” In our own day many are pitching “toward Sodom,” being moved by the same considerations which influenced Lot in his decision. “We may be placed in trying positions, for many can not have their surroundings what they would; and wherever duty calls us, God will enable us to stand uncorrupted if we watch and pray, trusting in the grace of Christ. But we should not needlessly expose ourselves to influences that are unfavorable to the formation of Christian character. When we voluntarily place ourselves in an atmosphere of worldliness and unbelief, we displease God, and drive holy angels from our homes.” This matter is of special importance now, when so many of our cities have become like Sodom in their wickedness. No one can afford to pitch his tent “toward Sodom” in view of probable worldly advantages. “What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” There is nothing so valuable as character.

The Purpose of Organization

IN the growth of this second advent movement organization has come as a necessity. In the early days of this work, when there were few laborers and fewer institutions, there was little demand for any outward form of organization, but as believers multiplied, and the real extent of this movement as a world-wide message was more fully realized, order and system became necessary in order that the interests of all might be safeguarded, and that the efforts put forth might yield the best returns.
Here is the explanation of our whole system of organization: a great work is to be done; all kinds of talent must be employed in developing and carrying forward the different lines of effort, such as evangelical work, medical work, educational work, publishing work, and all the allied methods of labor for the spread of this gospel message. Every worker must have his place and his work, and there must be a systematic extension of effort until the whole field—the world—is worked. It must also be possible to marshal all the believers in united movements against the enemy of truth to accomplish such results as are impossible to individual effort. It is true that every believer and every worker is to sustain personal union with the great Head of the church, but this will not prevent him from being in harmonious relation with every other believer in a divinely approved organization for the upbuilding of the kingdom of God in the earth.
Those who are acquainted with the practical workings of our plans of organization know that these are the simple facts. In local conferences, in union conferences, and in the General Conference the one purpose of any form of organization is to facilitate the work, to make the combined efforts of all the workers count for the most in the spread of the truth. Those who see something else in our system of organization must be possessed of the faculty of seeing what they wish to see,—a faculty which is easily acquired,—just as the woman “saw that the tree was good for food;” but an evil eye simply distorts things to the vision of its possessor, and does not change things in reality. Our organization will survive all such criticism.

The Doctrine of Christ

THE doctrine of Christ is that system of teaching which makes the personal Jesus, the Son of the living God, the center and the substance of all gospel truth. In this way the gospel is the personality of an ever-living, ever-present Saviour, rather than a collection of abstract statements concerning religion. The difference between the two is very great. In the one case we deal with a person; in the other case with a proposition. In the one case we accept a life; in the other we assent to a statement. In the one case we serve; in the other we judge.
We do not depreciate the value of sound doctrine, but we must have a living truth, not a mere theoretical proposition. Let us illustrate: it is one thing to present in the form of a lesson what the Bible says about the forgiveness of sin, and it is quite another thing to proclaim forgiveness of sin to distressed and troubled souls; it is one thing to accept the teaching that forgiveness of sin is made possible through the sacrifice of Christ, and it is quite another thing to accept Christ as our sacrifice “in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” The teaching of the Book, in order to become of saving value to us, must become vitalized in the Person.
There are many portions of the Scriptures which present the person of Jesus as the center of all Christian experience: “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.”
Again the experience of the disciples of Christ is in marked contrast with that of the Gentiles, who are “alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them;” “but ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind: and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
And still again, the promises made by Jesus to his disciples just before his death relate to the manifestation of his own presence with all future believers: “Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” The conditions for the fulfilment of these promises are loving him and keeping his commandments, but the fulness of the blessing is found in his personal presence.
We need to believe in, and to teach, the doctrine of Christ. There are many believers in creeds, but comparatively few real believers in Christ. There are many preachers of doctrine, but comparatively few preachers of Christ. The teachers of this threefold message, which is to prepare the way for the visible manifestation of the personal Christ, should above all things proclaim the truth as it is in Jesus—the doctrine of Christ.

Master or Servant

By C. M. S.

THE moderate drinker says, “I can drink, or I can let it alone.” He goes on drinking, and when outraged nature compels him to own that he is ruining himself, and he tries to “let it alone,” he finds entwined with every fiber of his being invisible cords that are stronger than steel. It is not his hands, his limbs, his feet that are bound about by the unseen net; but every quivering fiber is caught in the cruel meshes, till the feet are forced to run at the behest of the appetite, and the hand is forced to lift the crime-breeding liquor to the lips. Desire is his master, and even his mind is not his own. His thoughts revolve around the one idea, gratification of his uncontrollable appetite. He imagined himself free until he attempted to prove his freedom. Then he found that the soft words of his own desire had trapped and caged his manhood, and made him a slave.
Just so it is with all sin and sinful pleasure. Men dally with it, and think it is their servant. They play with it as a fish nibbles at a tempting bait; but when they have swallowed the hook, they find that the barb is fastened in their soul. The servant has become the master, and the master takes the place of servant; and to break away from the cord that binds them, from the hook that holds them, requires a power that they do not possess, a power which they have hitherto spurned; and too often it is the case that they have no desire for release, no desire to know and utilize the only power that can set them free and keep them so.
Tarry not at the wine; have no fellowship with the pleasures of sin. Are you free? Then may God keep you so, for he alone can. Are you struggling to be free? Then reach up, and by faith lay hold of the arm of God; for he alone can free you. Are the pleasures of sin sweet to you? Then know this, that when the great net of sin has fully encircled you, there will be a bitterness and disappointment in store for you which only a look into the abyss of eternal death can make you realize. Tarry not; turn from it; pass not by it; set your face “as a flint Zionward;” speed for the goal—speed and slumber not.
C. M. S.

Almost Fulfilled

By W. A. S.

In a report from Turkey some time ago was a point of the deepest significance to us who are watching for the fulfilment of the closing verses of Daniel 11. Brother C. D. McMoody wrote from Constantinople:—
Within the past few months quite a company of people from the Transcaucasus district have come to Ismidt,—old Nicomedia,—bringing all they possess with them. Some of them possess considerable wealth. When asked if they were going to settle in Ismidt, they replied that they would settle nowhere at present permanently. They stated that they had come to be prepared to go with their leader when he left Constantinople to go to Jerusalem.
We know by the sure word of prophecy what is involved in such a move as the Moslem people themselves are apprehending. When they begin to get their possessions in shape for the crisis, it is surely high time for us to put into missionary service that which the Lord has given us.
Just before us is the week of prayer, the season of special prayer for the work of God and of special giving for missions. The spreading out of the work in the great fields keep the Mission treasury in continual need of being replenished. The calls come for help here, a worker is to be added yonder, a forward step is to be taken there; and every week the Mission Board has to return answers to the fields based upon the fact that present operations consume present income. We may therefore depend upon it that there is a world-wide prayer circle asking the Lord to greatly enlarge the gifts for missions at this coming week-of-prayer season.
Let us get our possessions ready for the crisis that we also know is at hand.
In one of the week-of-prayer readings, three years ago, was the following paragraph by Sister White:—
The judgments of God are in the land. The wars and rumors of wars, the destruction by fire and flood, say clearly that the time of trouble, which is to increase until the end, is very near at hand. We have no time to lose. The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecies of the eleventh chapter of Daniel have almost reached their final fulfilment.
In these three years we have seen multiplied evidences that the world is hastening on to the final crisis. The situation calls for a determined consecration of effort and of means to the closing work. W. A. S.

A Weighty Responsibility

By C. M. S.

Not long ago a prominent New England minister, speaking before a men’s club, asked the question, “Is life worth living?” and frankly admitted that he did not know.
Now, it is the privilege of every one who has named the name of Christ to know not only whether or not life is worth living, but to know profoundly and triumphantly that life is worth living. He who is out of Christ may question. He who is in Christ has no occasion for question—he knows.
Unbelief whispers all manner of questionings, and when asked to give a reason for the hope that is within, has none to give, for it has no hope. The honest questioner comes to the doubting professor, receives a doubting answer, and becomes a doubting questioner. The melancholy questioner comes to the doubting minister for hope and consolation, and the doubting answer doubles his gloom. How many such questioners there are only heaven knows; but they number a mighty host. How disloyal to God to give a doubting answer to men, when we might set their feet upon the solid Rock. Of course, he who doubts can not do that; but the Christian has no business to doubt; he has no reason to doubt. He is set in the world for a light to the feet of the lost, the straying; not for a mesh to entrap them in their bewilderment; not for afog to enshroud them on the precipice of ruin.
It is the Christian’s glorious privilege to “bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.” But how can we do it if we answer the questioner’s question with a doubt? A doubting Christian may be the devil’s prime minister in the flesh. There is no need to doubt. The Word of God is verified by evidence both internal and external; and they who are Christians have the witness of the Spirit, which no shadow of darkness can ever effectually hide.
The words of Peter are to the point, and they apply here: “Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
The language of a great army of suicides is, “I am going to end it all. I don’t believe life is worth living.” It is the Christian’s privilege to be able to answer, first, that this rash act does not “end it all;” and second, that the hope set before us is worth more than the greatest sacrifice ever made by any man living on the earth. The glorious hope contained in the declaration, “I go to prepare a place for you,” outweighs the severest trials that man has ever been called upon to pass through. Then, for the sake of him who died for you, do not allow yourself to add to the numbers of that melancholy army by not knowing whether life is worth living. In other words, do not be doing the devil’s work while professing to follow Christ.
C. M. S.

“The Blessed Hope”

In the Quarterly Journal of Prophecy (London, 1851) we find an excellent article with this title, from which we take the following:—
When Christ comes, there will be “a revelation of God.” It will be “a morning without clouds,” a day of resplendent glory. Then the understanding will be clear, the memory retentive; the eye will then be satisfied with seeing and the ear with hearing. Increase of knowledge will not increase sorrow then; but every new discovery in heavenly science will bring new tides of joy into the soul. The believer desires perfect purity. This is secured to him by God’s promise, and will be realized at the coming of Jesus. “When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” This hope of being perfectly holy is a lively hope; it stirs up the soul now to purify itself even as Christ is pure. Perfect happiness is also anticipated by the believer. To desire to be happy is natural to fallen man; but, alas! in what foolish ways does he seek to gratify his desires, and to realize his hopes! If we ask the worldly man in what happiness consists, he will talk of health, wealth, honor, and worldly estates, and tell us that if he could have all these, have plenty of them, and that forever, he would be happy. But this cannot be. Time and death sternly forbid it; and even if it could, the soul of man could not be satisfied with them. But let these words be considered as referring to spiritual things, and let these have the impress of eternity upon them, and we have indeed all the elements of happiness. When the Lord Jesus comes to gather his people to himself, he will give to both soul and body perfect and perpetual health; he will enrich them with the treasures of eternity; raise them up to the highest honors; introduce them to the whole family in heaven, not one of whom shall ever die; and, above all, he will make them heirs of God and joint heirs with himself forever. . . .
If, at the second coming of the Saviour, all that the saints expect and desire will be fully realized, it follows that they should constantly look for him. “Looking for that blessed hope” should be descriptive of every saint of God. It should be the habit of their minds. They should ever realize a settled conviction that Christ will come again, and that he may come soon. This was evidently the habitual frame of the primitive saints, and it is a very important inquiry, how saints may now attain to a similar habit of mind, or state of thought and feeling. Let there be a diligent study of his own Word, without testing the same by human systems—a simple dependence on his merits, ever cherishing the thought that he gave himself for us. Connected with these, there should be delight in his person and offices; and if the good Spirit work in us this disposition to meditate on truth, to repose under the cross, and to delight in the Saviour, we shall then desire his company, desire to see him as he is. We shall not look with suspicion and dread upon the doctrine of his coming, but with the deepest interest and the liveliest hope. We shall see God’s highest glory and man’s deliverance bound up with his coming, and shall not wish it delayed. . . .
This looking will be a most powerful antidote, as well as a profitable employment. If our eyes are employed in looking on proper subjects, we shall be preserved from seeing evil. The baits of sin, the shadows of earth, will have no attraction for those who are conversant with the glories of the Coming One. For all distracting and discouraging, as well as decoying things, looking unto and looking for Jesus is an antidote. There are three things which sometimes dismay,—looking within on our own hearts, round upon our enemies, and forward to what is coming upon the world. Look in, and if your sin and guilt dismay, look back upon the cross. Look round, and when oppressed by the sight, look up to the throne of the Mediator. Look forward to the coming storm, and then look beyond it. Yes, beyond the great image (Daniel 2) is the everlasting kingdom. Beyond the reign of the beasts and the crushing tyranny of the little horn, is the reign of the Son of man and his saints. Daniel 7. Beyond the troublous ocean of time, lies the continent of eternal glory, all bright with God’s own light. Beyond the reign of sorrow, trial, and conflict, rise the turrets of the New Jerusalem, where there shall be no more sorrow, tears, nor death. O believer, bind to thy heart the glorious fact, the Blessed One is coming to abolish evil and introduce blessing. Hope, then, evermore in him.

Rome’s Unchanging Attitude

THAT Protestants, who imagine the Roman Church to be mellowing toward the rest of Christendom, and who are therefore coming to look with great allowance on her past record and with great leniency on her present purposes, may see the real attitude and feeling which she manifests, we quote a portion of an editorial utterance which appeared in The New World (Catholic) of November 2:—
What is there that a Fiji islander could consider ideal in the history of the state Church of England, or of any of its offshoots? That church, to adapt the words of a Protestant English historian, was founded by Henry VIII, murderer of his wives, and carried on by Elizabeth, the murderess of her relative and guest. It has been stained by rapine and sacrilege in every land and in every age; it has no claim to sanctity, even in the most attenuated signification of the term,as one of its notes or characteristics. To-day, as in the days of its infancy, the Episcopalian Church lives and thrives by the patronage of those who sit in the seats of the mighty; of men who have become rich by exploiting the poor; of persons of both sexes, who, chaffing under the restraints of Christ’s moral laws, which the Catholic Church has proclaimed in season and out of season without abating one jot or tittle of their rigor, love to belong to an ecclesiastical institution which will serve to lull their consciences by the opium of sonorous hymns, compromising sermons, and exalted examples of libertinism and impiety.
There is nothing in the above that breathes love or even toleration for the organization specially attacked, or for the “offshoots” included in its denunciation,—nothing there to indicate that the Roman Church of to-day has changed in any degree from the Roman Church that through the Dark Ages made the exercise of individual religion a matter of life and death.

Note and Comment

Changes in China

From an article on “The Hour of Opportunity in China,” in the Home Herald of November 6, we quote:
The decay of belief in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in China, as one result of the awakening throughout the empire, has prepared the Chinese as never before for the gospel. In various places in the empire, writes Frank A. Smith, may be seen the abandoned examination halls. Through the gates great companies of scholars once trooped to take the government examinations, win the coveted degree if they might, and secure official position. But as we saw the halls of Peking, the walls were crumbling, the roofs battered in, the cells where the candidates worked were filled with rubbish, and the whole place was abandoned to decay. For by a stroke of the pen the Confucian classics were tumbled from their throne of a thousand years or more, and the new Western learning given supremacy. . . . The hour has struck for Christianity. The door stands open as never before. What is done must be done quickly. Changes are coming with such amazing rapidity that none may venture to predict what may happen in a year, or even in a month. And unless we are quick to seize the opportunity, it may be gone. The sanest piece of missionary policy we could pursue would be to concentrate our efforts on China for the next ten years. We must work the works of Him who sent us while it is day.
Those who have understanding of the time can not doubt that these changes and openings in China have a special significance in their relation to the finishing of the gospel work in ‘this generation. Our representatives in China are praying that the Lord will open the way for fifty additional workers to come to that field at once. The situation really demands that number, and we should be glad to see them start for the field at once.

The Church and Politics

WE heard the remark at a religious gathering last summer that “it is right for the church to enter politics; but when politics undertake to enter the church, we will attend to the politics.” The remark was called to mind by the following news item dated at Beaver Falls, Pa., November 5:—
For the first time in Pennsylvania, a large church was used for a polling place at the invitation of the pastor. In the Third Ward the voters have been compelled to cast their ballots in a woodshed in a back alley.
The Rev. C. F. Swift, of the Methodist Protestant Church, recently said in a sermon that the church-members should take an active part in the election, and he hoped to see the day when churches could be turned into polling places.
This morning, when the election board organized, the Rev. Mr. Swift visited the Sunday-school room, where the election was held, offered a blessing on the day’s proceedings, and requested the board not to permit swearing, smoking, tobacco chewing, or drinking in the sacred precincts. This was promised by the election board.
When it is remembered that the sacred edifice is set apart as a meeting-place between God and his people, and that in the history of his dealings with his people in the past we have the record of his sore displeasure when the sacred and the common have been mingled, we can be certain that a move of this kind is not in the order of the Lord. In the first place, the church has its own definite, sacred work to do. In the second place, the custodians of the sacred edifice have no divine permission to turn the house of prayer into a polling place. This inability to distinguish between the holy and the profane, the sacred and the common, grows out of the efforts being put forth in this country to unite religion and the state; and it will end, as all such efforts have ended, in the corruption of both institutions. The church that enters politics must lay aside her armor, and must then contend with the great adversary unprotected and in her own strength.

Facts Turned to Fiction

THE teaching of mythology and fiction to the young is being recognized by sound thinkers as a class of instruction that is both unnecessary and injurious. It goes on, however, from the public school kindergarten to the college. There is another method of instruction that is but little if any better, and that is the teaching of nature subjects in a setting of fiction. Concerning this, Mrs. P. L. MacClintock, of the University of Chicago, says:—
They (the teachers) endow a little dandelion seed with a papa and a mama, with a cradle, with a vocabulary, with a system of morals (there are even “naughty” dandelion seeds), and with many feelings. They tell about his “home,” his infancy, his training, his departure, his setting in a new home— all the while with the intention of teaching children facts, but all the while covering them up under a trivial and unnecessary myth.
In thus endowing the plants and flowers with personality and human emotions, Mrs. MacClintock holds that the teachers “err grossly.” The impression given the child is wholly misleading. True teaching deals with facts; but when impossible fiction is substituted for fact, and the child learns with increasing years that he was misled in what he then learned, he is apt to clothe all he learns in a garb of fiction, and will come to look at even the principles of divine truth through a nebulous haze of doubt.

Pius X on Church and State

The position of the Roman Church on the question of the relation of church and state is set forth authoritatively in the recent encyclical of Pope Pius X on Modernism. He mentions the following as one of the “modern” ideas that has been creeping into the church:—
As faith and science are strangers to each other by reason of the diversity of their objects, church and state are strangers by reason of the diversity of their ends, that of the church being spiritual, while that of the state is temporal.
Concerning this the pope says:—
The principles from which these doctrines spring have been solemnly condemned by our predecessor Pius VI in his constitution “Auctorem fidei.”
He further says upon the same point:—
But it is not enough for the Modernist school that the state should be separated from the church. For as faith is to be subordinated to science, as far as phenomenal elements are concerned, so too in temporal matters the church must be subjected to the state. They do not say this openly as yet—but they will say it when they wish to be logical on this head.
The principle of the separation of church and state, solemnly condemned by Pius VI, is also as solemnly condemned by Pius X. There should no longer be any question in the minds of any as to where the Roman Church stands on the question of the separation of church and state. And Pius VI and Pius X can count as their allies, in fact, if not in declaration, those in this country who are seeking so energetically the union of religion and the state. The same principles are involved, and the same results will be achieved.

Cost of Fashion

KNOWING the rapidly growing multitude of the wealthy in this country, it may be of interest to learn what it costs the wife of one wealthy man to dress in harmony with her set for one year. This is told in the following words in the November number of Everybody's Magazine:—
A woman who wishes the name of being well dressed, as fashion knows the term, must have at least five or six imported costumes; also an equal number of domestic afternoon and evening dresses and of tailor-made gowns. There must be an appropriate hat for every out-of-door gown; and these cost anywhere from $50 to $100 or $200 apiece. In summer, a fashionable woman must have forty or fifty lingerie gowns, ranging from the cobweb of lace to the simple mull, costing not more than $150. She must have morning gowns—she will pay $125 for a simple muslin with perhaps two yards of inexpensive lace on it. Half a dozen evening coats for winter, and an equal number of lace or silk for summer, are a matter of course. When the Irish lace crochet coats first became popular, one shop here sold 450 in a month, no one of them priced less than $200. And the accessories are in proportionate extravagance; for lingerie, handkerchiefs, scarfs, and fans $5,000 or $6,000 a year is a conservative estimate.
A pair of gloves is worn but once; and delicate shoes, made of imported leather to match the tint of a fabric, suffer a similar eclipse after a debut in a ballroom; for many women pride themselves on never wearing a cleaned garment. After two wearings they will send an imported gown to a second-hand dealer, receiving a $100 bill for the creation that may have cost $800. The dealer sells it to an actress starting on her tour, to the society leader of a small town, or to a member of the demimonde.
On the other hand, the woman who patronizes the cleaning establishments spends there from $1,500 to $1,800 a year. For when one pays $20 to have a lace gown cleaned after a single wearing; when gloves by the hundred and blouses fifty at a time are sent to be renovated, it does not take long to reach a sum that parallels the salary on which many a man supports a family.
And this scheme of dress costs one woman $100,000 a year.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

The True Spirit of Giving

COULD our people read the letters accompanying the remittances to the Mission Board, for work in other lands, it would be a revelation to many, of the real spirit that characterizes those who believe in the third angel’s message.
To illustrate, we quote from a letter received November 4, as follows:—
“I am enclosing a post-office order for five dollars, to be sent to the brethren in Kingston, Jamaica, to assist in building their new church building that they are struggling so hard to complete by the first of the new year.
“You will be interested to know where this money came from. We have been called to lay away one of our little twin boys, and this money was given by the students and teachers of the academy for flowers. They were disappointed in getting them, and they asked me what should be done with the money. I immediately said, ‘We will send it to Kingston if all are willing.’ So we gladly send it, knowing it will bear fruit to all eternity, and flowers would soon fade.”

A Word from the Field

By WM. GUTHRIE

None but those who are to receive direct help from the $150,000 fund can tell with what joy we watch the growth as reported in the REVIEW each week.
Located, as many are, in fields where the believers are few and funds scarce, and struggling to make our small enterprises a success, we hail with exceeding joy each onward bound of this fund, because it means some help to us from each dollar that is raised. Only the dear Lord knows how much good may come from the two thousand dollars of this large fund that is allotted to Williamsdale Academy. You will be interested to hear a good word from this school, I am sure.
It is located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, “the land of the north.” The buildings are situated on the south slope of the mountains, in a very healthful part of the country. At this time we have thirty students, who would cheer your hearts could you make a visit to this school. These young people are just as precious in the sight of the Lord as any of your own dear ones, and many of them make good workers in the cause. They are not blessed with as much of this world's goods as some are, and it is necessary for the cost of an education to be brought within their reach. We undertake to furnish room, board, instruction, and plain washing at the rate of seven dollars a month (cash) for each student. With this low rate we have no money to waste, and there is no surplus with which to pay the cost of construction or of improvements. We are quite content when our income meets our running expense. You will readily understand what a great help this fund will be to us under these circumstances. Each dollar will be used to the very best advantage.
The cold of winter is just now settling down upon us, and we shall surely hail with joy the news that the fund is finished, for it means help to us, and to many others who are in like situation. Our country will be robed in white from this till April. May our souls be as pure and clean as the robe our country wears. May the Lord bless you in sending us help very soon.
WM. GUTHRIE, President Maritime Conference.
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