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Signs of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 4.

RIGHT MUST WIN

Signs of the Times

Jan 25, 1905

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 25, 1905

RIGHT MUST WIN

By Frederick William Faber

O, it is hard to work for God, To rise and take His part Upon this battlefield of earth, And not sometimes lose heart!
He hides Himself so wondrously, As tho there were no God; He is least seen when all the powers Of ill are most abroad.
Workmen of God! O lose not heart, But learn what God is like; And in the darkest battlefield Thou shalt know where to strike!
Thrice blest is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God is on the field when He Is most invisible.
Blest, too, is he who can divine Where truth and justice lie, And dares to take the side that seems Wrong to man's blinded eye.
Then learn to scorn the praise of men, And learn to lose with God; For Jesus won the world through shame And beckons thee His road.
God's glory is a wondrous thing, Most strange in all its ways; And, of all things on earth, least like What men agree to praise.
For right is right, since God is God; And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.
—F. W. Faber.

WHAT OUR FRIENDS ARE

By Editor

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WE have been telling from time to time of the attitude of our friends to the proposal to add ten thousand subscribers to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES list. Perhaps it would be well to give at this time a short account of what some of them are DOING in this direction.
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Signs of the Times.

"But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts."

The Manifestation of the Sons of God

By Editor

The citizenship of the Christian is not here. Here he is but a "pilgrim" and a "stranger." Says the apostle: "For our conversation ["citizenship," R. V.] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." Phil. 3:20. He is our King; His kingdom our commonwealth.
One evil principle cherished in the heart of man will pervert every principle of good; it will prove a traitor which will admit into the heart's citadel troops of evil. Pride cherished by Peter led to the denial of his Lord. Covetousness cherished by Judas led to the betrayal of his Master. What is considered "harmless" indulgence in appetite is the first step in the career of many a young man which leads to disgrace, dishonor, a drunkard's grave and a drunkard's hope. Shun all evil. Compromise with no evil principle whatsoever.
The spirit of the world is compromise, sometimes a small matter if no principle is involved, if it be a mere matter of dollars and cents. But no one can afford to compromise morality, righteousness, integrity. The least compromise of integrity is the yielding of righteousness. The standard is perverted. No longer has the soul a correct rule to measure conduct. He is left a prey, a sport, to the enemy of all evil. Or the enemy leaves him, as a hunter leaves a wounded, helpless bird, to be devoured or destroyed at will.
The Manifestation of the Sons of God.—The children of God are not now revealed in the fulness of their relationship. As was Christ in this world, so are they. When here He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. There was no beauty of splendor about Him that men desired; "He was despised and rejected of men." When He walked the earth, to all, except to those of faith, He was but a man—a very remarkable man, perhaps, but of earth, earthy. So His earth life is to men now, even to some who profess His name. And such also are His followers; foolish, deluded, fanatical, have they been called in every age and every land. Many have died as did the Master. But when Christ comes the second time, revealed in the glory of heaven, it will be the revelation of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. It will be the brightness of His coming, the shining forth of His presence, the glory of which will slay the wicked. 2 Thess. 2:8. But that glory which has been brought to the saints by faith now, will then be revealed. Rom. 8:18. The sons of God will then be manifested in their full relationship, a relationship and glory which all the world will acknowledge. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." 1 John 3:2.
The sinful, hopeless heart is never at rest. "The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it can not rest." The two-minded man is unstable like water. To all such Jesus gives the invitation: "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Blessed rest, the rest of peace, the rest of the heart. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Sinner, come to Christ. Lay down your arms, submit to His righteous will, trust Him, and all is peace and rest.

GOD'S GRACE IN PUNISHMENT.

THE punishment of the wicked is not merely a penalty pronounced upon them for their wickedness, thereby showing God's hatred of sin, but the punishment is also the inevitable result of sin. The following utterances of Holy Writ,—"In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die;" "the soul that sinneth, it shall die,"—do not indicate an arbitrary penalty alone, pronounced upon the transgressor of royal law; they indicate the logical, inevitable result of wrongdoing.
When man was created, he was a perfect physical being, in harmony with the law of his Creator, which was the law of his own being. Not to sin was to remain in accord with the law of God, to yield himself to follow its righteous requirements. It did not even imply so much as yielding; it was his spiritual nature to follow its precepts. He must resist that law, the normal law of his being, in order to sin. This he did when he yielded to the tempter.

Righteousness Is Life.

Following the normal law of his creation, obeying in all things his Creator, his life would have been forever perpetuated. "In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death." Prov. 12:28. "He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honor." Prov. 21:21. In fact, righteousness is life. In Jesus Christ was no sin, therefore the grave could not hold Him. See Acts 2:24. While, on the other hand, "Sin, when it is finished [full grown], bringeth forth death." James 1:15. Life is full-grown righteousness; death is full-grown sin. Righteousness keeps man in continual, unbroken connection with the great Source of life; sin breaks the connection, and man dies.
In all this we see the infinite wisdom of God. Righteousness in God's plan (and there is no other) perpetuates existence. Sin tends to its own destruction. God would neither have a dying saint nor an immortal sinner. True, saints die, but in God they live; their rest in the grave is but a night of unconscious sleep, whence they wake in the morning in His likeness. But he who is finally found a sinner "sleeps a perpetual sleep."
By man's transgression in the beginning, he lost his righteousness, and hence his life. But before that sentence was fully executed, God's love and mercy interposed. Christ gave Himself to save man from sin (Titus 2:14), "a ransom for all, to be testified in due time" (1 Tim. 2:6). He who knew no sin was made to be sin for us, "that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Cor. 5:21. And this righteousness and life of Christ, as abundantly shown by many scriptures, is bestowed upon us, if we only believe. Believing God, faith in God, is yielding to Him fully, to wait, to do, to suffer, whatever He has for us to do in all things. This places man in harmony with his Creator, and makes living connection with the great Source of life. The Spirit of God enters the mortal sinner, purges the sin, cleanses and renews the heart, and gives power to overcome sin. See Eze. 36:26-27; Rom. 5:17; 8:5, 13.
This faith lays hold on the great Fount of grace, which is open to him who yields to God, and grace changes the heart, moulds the life, and makes the sinner more like Christ (Rom. 5:1, 2; 1:16), and the faith upon faith lays hold of abounding grace (2 Cor. 9:8; Rom. 5:20), of "the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7), and in that grace (Eph. 1:6) is the glory of God, or His righteous character, revealed, and stamped upon him who looks by faith to the Lord Jesus (2 Cor. 3:18; 4:6). Thus from faith to faith is revealed from glory to glory of the character of Christ, till we stand in His likeness.

Acquainted with Him. A Different Outcome.

It is by this connection with God that we become acquainted with Him. When He comes in the clouds of heaven, He will not be a "stranger" to those upon whom His character has been stamped (Job 19:27, margin); they will behold Him, and say, "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us." Isa. 25:9. The change is already wrought in character; it is clothed with Christ's righteousness, and the only change is from the body of our humiliation to the body of Christ's glory (Phil. 3:21), a change from glory to glory.
But it will not be so with the wicked. They rejected God's grace or favor; they would have none of His glory. They chose sin, and, in choosing sin, they chose death. By not yielding to God, and by yielding to Satan, allconnection with the Source of life, light, grace, glory, or righteousness (for all are one and the same in the ultimate), was lost; and he who persists in his rebellion or stubbornness of heart identifies himself with sin, and becomes a very part of it, just as he who chooses God's will identifies himself with God, and becomes a part of the heavenly family. God's grace purges or cleanses away sin from the heart of the sinner. It is in the world for the purpose of destroying sin; for that is the very mission of Christ (1 John 3:5; Heb. 2:14), and therefore he who identifies himself with sin will be destroyed by the manifestation of the glory of that grace, when its Author appears, destroyed "with the brightness of His coming" (2 Thess. 2:8), the shining forth of His presence. It is God's choice that the sin shall be purged now by grace; it is the choice of the persistent, incorrigible sinner that he shall be destroyed by sin. He rebels now against God; he slights the grace of His glory, but that rebellion continued must one day face the glory of God's grace, shining from the face of Jesus Christ.
Then will the wicked say to the rocks and mountains: "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb." And yet it is but the shining forth of His glory, that glory which His people have already received (1 Peter 5:1), and which will then be revealed in them (Rom. 8:18). Now the Merciful One is saying, "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?"
Reader, is the glory of the Lord upon you, in your character now? If not, how will you hear the revelation of His glory when He comes?

THE SALT OF THE EARTH.

By Editor

CHRISTIANS are the salt of the earth, and the earth was never in so great need of that preservative as it is at the present time. The plea of Dharmapala, a Buddhist priest, for Americans to come to India and help to uplift that idol-stricken people, is one of the very strongest evidences that India is decaying for lack of the salt of Christianity. But even Dharmapala, who knows India's condition and her lack as few others, does not know the nature of the salt which she requires. He is not asking for Christian missionaries; but he desires the personal services of those who are willing to work along "ethical, philanthropic, educational, and scientific lines for the most helpless, illiterate, degraded, and superstitious people on earth." These are the words of Dharmapala himself.
It is a sad thing to know that such a condition does exist; it is sadder to know that the system that is responsible for that condition has blinded the eyes of even those who are making the appeal for help, till they appeal to the bare rocks of ethics and science to save them from what their ethical philosophizing has brought upon them. The salt of Christianity would elevate them; but they turn from it to the 333,000,000 gods which that system has invented, and so flounder to their death in the mire of superstition and immorality.
Such men as Dharmapala see the more hopeful condition of the people in Christian lands, but they fail to realize that those blessings are due to the influence of Christianity. They see the results of the Christian preservative, and then strive to secure those same results with a system which has in it none of the life elements of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
India's pitiable condition is the result of sin, the transgression of God's law. That system of idolatry has taught men to regard themselves as a part of Deity; and so, with self deified, and themselves in the service of self, they have carried a form of religion into the lowest possible depths. They have allowed their system of religion to grind them down into immorality, degradation, and ruin. There is nothing but the salt of Christianity that can save them from the certain ruin of such a course. India needs the Gospel of Christ, whether she realizes it or not, and she needs it now. There is no other salvation for her. And in this matter India is but the type of the great world that is still outside of Christ, serving the goddess of self. The great world needs the Gospel, and needs it now, and must have it now, or never know the blessings of its saving, uplifting power. We have the Gospel. Can we withhold it from the world, and still have it? The world needs the light. They who have the Gospel, have the light. Can we keep it to ourselves, and still have it?—Clearly, no.
The duty of the followers of Christ to the idol-stricken world is plainly set forth in the Gospel message itself. That Gospel is a pure, living, flowing stream. Stagnant water is never pure. If we accept the Gospel, and then seek to hold it to ourselves, it is no longer the water of life, and we who so hold it, make of ourselves stagnant pools, instead of living fountains. The condition of the world to-day is appealing to the Christian, stronger than any words can do, for that help which can come to it only through the Gospel. The salt that willnot do its allotted work will very soon lose its savor, soon be worthless. While the world is appealing for the Gospel, they who have it must give it, or its possession will soon mean to them nothing but an empty form, a lifeless husk.

SOME REASONS CONCERNING SUNDAY LAWS.

Will You Consider Them?

IF Sunday were a divine institution, and its observance were a duty which man owed to God, there are two reasons against compelling its observance by civil law.
1. While not so intended, it is an insult to God. It virtually declares that the Lord's ways are not sufficient to meet the requirements of the case without man's supplementation or interference. And yet man's efforts, at the very best, fall infinitely short of what God demands; for the only service acceptable to God must be loving heart-work, free service freely given, with the source of all good motives—a pure heart—behind the deeds. Anything less than this is not acceptable to Him, and law and penalties can never compel love. The most that human law could do in such a case is to compel a man to act as tho the heart were behind his act; in other words, enforce hypocrisy.
All of God's institutions which He commands man to observe are able to stand in their own native strength and divine purity. They may be trampled upon by man; they may seemingly be destroyed; but—
"Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again, The eternal years of God are hers."
Macaulay truly says that the ark of God was never taken captive till it was surrounded by the arms of its earthly defenders; and that in captivity its sanctity was sufficient to protect it from insult and ignominy. The greatest weakness and reproach comes to God's cause when a spiritually-weak, backslidden people appeal to earthly powers to enforce a divine institution. Therefore, if Sunday be divine, she needs no human help.
2. Sunday enforcement is oppressive to those who may not agree with the law-makers, tho, in every other respect, both parties are equal before the law. The violator or opposer of a Sunday law may be just as conscientious, just as good a father, husband, brother, friend, neighbor, citizen, as the Sunday-law supporter. In passing a law which discriminates between men in every other respect equal, the distinction is purely arbitrary, drawn by the arbitrary will of a majority, who fall back on the brute maxim that "might makes right." The maker of religious law puts himself in the place of God by dictating to men religious duty. He says to others, "You must show regard for this church dogma, because I think you ought to do it."
Unrestrained selfishness in political matters always means tyranny. In the first place, it is putting man in the place of God, arrogating to himself powers and responsibilities which belong only to God. In the second place, it is a transgression of the Golden Rule—"Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." No Christian would have an infidel seek to compel him to be an infidel. Why should the professed Christian seek to compel the infidel to observe a religious institution repugnant to his conscience, or condemn him if he did not? Jesus Christ said: "If any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world." John 12:47. Surely, it would be well for Christians to learn this lesson, "The servant is not greater than his Lord."
3. If Sunday is not a divine institution, it is equally unjust to enforce it. Under the Golden Rule man has no right to compel his brother to observe any religious institution which he would not be willing his brother should compel him to observe, if circumstances and positions were reversed.
4. In the case of an observer of the seventh day, a Sunday law demands of him a tax of sixteen and two-thirds per cent. of his income in pure deference to the first-day man's religion. To illustrate: A is a Sabbath-keeper, and does no work on the seventh day. B observes Sunday, as he has a perfect right to do, so far as man is concerned. Both stand equal. Each man gives one-seventh of his time for religion's sake. Now B demands that A shall observe another day in deference to his—B's—religion, or deduct from his working time one-sixth, from his income sixteen and two-thirds per cent.
Christian brother, of whatsoever name, in the light of these reasons, are Sunday laws scriptural, honorable, equitable, just? Are they American? Are they Christian? Ought they not to be repudiated forever by Christian people?

THE CHRISTIAN’S ATTITUDE TOWARD WORLDLY STRIFE.

By G.

A LABOR writer of some note truthfully says that “greed is the most active evil of all agencies in the strife between labor and capital.” And this truth is further emphasized in the declaration that greed “is the parent body from which almost every sin of humanity has being and development.” Greed is but another name for selfishness, or selfish ambition, which is the root of rebellion against the law of God, and therefore against all right principle. Sin originated, and gained access to this world, through the desire of Lucifer for self-aggrandizement. Hence, sin is the fruit of the spirit of self-serving. The scripture says that “when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin;” and lust is simply the desire to gratify selfish purposes. The writer, to whose utterances we have alluded, further and truthfully says:
The lust of greed, when once its poison begins to circulate in the human heart, perverts every sentiment of pity, generosity, and justice. It poisons the even current of domestic felicity and generates hate and envy among brothers and sisters of the same household; it creates strife in neighborhoods; it renders politics odious, and law a travesty on justice; it creeps into municipalities, and a long-suffering public must bear the result; city and government officials produce their annual crop of boodlers. Through the baneful influence of greed, religion has its Judases and the church its traitors. Greed is everywhere.
But the key to all worldly conflicts lies in the next sentence: “Then it is not unnatural that strife and resentment should result.” Of course it is not “unnatural;” it is perfectly natural; for sin—the fruit of selfishness—having entered the world, and all having sinned (Rom. 3:23), the natural resentment is of the same spirit as the original oppression. This is to be expected, because “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God,” 1 Cor. 2:14. Therefore the natural “strife and resentment” against evil is not of the Spirit of God. The apostle Paul, writing by inspiration of that Spirit, says that “we [Christians] wrestle not against flesh and blood;” therefore “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.” We can not carry on a natural “strife and resentment,” because our Leader has commanded us to follow Him, and He did not resent injury. When He was reviled, He reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; and in this He left us an example.” See 1 Peter 2:21-23.
The Christian’s warfare is against “spiritual wickedness;” it is against the primary cause of the outward evils we see in this world; for that is the controversy in which the Master, in whose service we are, is engaged. We are not to war against the poor victims of Satan’s baleful influence, who are naturally possessed of his selfish spirit. Our Master’s great sacrifice was made in order to save them; and Christians, being once of that same class, should have charity for them, and exercise the Spirit of Him whose followers we profess to be. He died for His enemies, who are also the Christian’s enemies, that they might be saved from their wickedness; so, if we would be His true disciples, we must exercise a like spirit toward them. We never can save men by retaliating upon them after the manner of their misdoings toward us. Theoretically the civil law is to protect all classes from injustice; but when it fails—as it often will, being human and in the hands of human executives—the Christian’s appeal is to the Christian’s God. Then if we suffer, we suffer with Him, are “made partakers of His sufferings.” And “if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him.”
But if we undertake to defend ourselves in our own way, or in the world’s way by uniting our forces with the world’s organizations for “strife and resentment,” we ignore the promises and providences of God, taking ourselves out of the pale of His special protection, and foregoing the reward of faithfulness to the principles that He has set for our guidance. The Word of God is the Christian’s sole weapon of offense and defense in this world, and any scheme for the furtherance of human interests that can not be sustained by appeal to that Word is not Christian, and therefore can not be used by the Christian. We can not enter into any association that has in it the elements of “strife and resentment,” for any purpose whatever.

SO EASILY ENTRAPPED.

By G.

MAN was originally so much higher in intelligence than other earthly creatures, that he was given dominion over them all. But by his disobedience of the One who had dominion over him, he demonstrated that he was no longer competent to be a superintendent of a department of the universe. One who will not yield allegiance to his superior is not competent to command inferiors—especially in a realm where obedience is the principal requisite of competence.
Since man lost the dominion of the earth, and became subservient even to sin—disobedience of the law of his Creator—he has had many reminders of his inferiority to even the insignificant things over which he was designed to have control. One familiar injunction is, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.” Another proverb is, “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.” And the Lord, by His prophet Isaiah, says, “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.”
The bird is not caught by the net that it sees you set for it, and in that it shows its superior acumen; for Satan’s snares are being continually set in the sight of men, and they deliberately walk into them with their eyes wide open. Not only so, but they diligently seek out the hidden snares, in order to indulge in the tempting baits that they know tend to degrade and to kill.
Not long ago the temperance people in a certain university town succeeded in driving the saloons out of the place, by refusing to license them. The main purpose was to protect the students from the baleful influence of these nets, which had been spread for them by the enemy of souls. The good people of the town deemed it a solemn duty to remove these dens of vice from the daily haunts of the young men who were in a measure under the care of the municipality, and who were not possessed of the instinct or wisdom of the birds, that leads them to avoid the traps which they see are being set for them.
But the nearest railroad station to this now prohibition village is not so highly favored. In its vicinity the deadly saloon still has recognition. It has long been a place of resort for convivial purposes, and is well supplied with the requirements of such a place. So it is said that many of the young men from the prohibition dormitories take the evening trains for a short ride, and to pass a jovial hour or two in the gilded snares so openly set for their entertainment in the neighboring “park.”
To these the voice of the Lord of mercy is calling: “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at My reproof; behold, I will pour out My spirit unto you, I will make known My words unto you.” G.

Question Corner

By Editor

1603.—Genealogy of Jesus.

Can you explain the differences in the genealogies of Christ, as given by Matthew and Luke?
In Matt. 1:6, Solomon is given as the ancestor, in place of Nathan as given by Luke (chapter 3:31).
The one, Matthew, gives the lineage of the mother, the other, Luke, through the lineage of the legal father, Joseph, tho both mention Joseph at the last, because genealogy is reckoned legally through the father.

1604.—A Jealous God. Ex. 20:5.

By Editor

Would you please explain Exodus 20:5. How is God a jealous God? T. O. S.
Jealous in the sense that the best and truest service of man belongs to Him, and for man’s own sake God is anxious that it should be rendered to Him. Just as a true husband or wife may be said to be jealous of the affections of the other. Vigilant in guarding, watchful. It can not be likened to foolish jealousy of the human, resting on distrust and suspicion.

1605.—Cases of Tithing.

By Editor

1. A Christian woman owned a $1,000 equity in a little home, which she deeded to an unbelieving daughter, that the daughter might try to own a home after the death of the mother. There is a mortgage of $1,300 on the property. The place is rented for $21.50 per month. After paying interest on the mortgage and a water bill there remains $13.00 toward lessening the mortgage. Should this sister in the Lord pay a tithe from the $13.00?
2. Another sister has an unbelieving husband and children. They find it very hard to make a living, lacking many of the necessaries of life. They rent a house large enough for the wife and mother to let rooms. The income from these pay a part of their rent. The husband earns about the amount that his wife makes from rooms. Would it be according to the Scripture for this sister to pay tithes, either from an unbelieving husband's earnings, or from the amount she makes from rooms in a landlord's house?
1. The tithe is paid on the income. The income of the house amounts to $21.50 a month; but prior claims upon the house hold $8.50 of that, which does not belong to the Christian woman. Her tithe is on the balance, the $13.00, or $1.30 a month.
2. The wife has no right to tithe her husband's earnings without his permission. If any part of the rent belongs to her, as it doubtless does because of her labor, she has the right to tithe that. We can not believe that it makes any one any poorer by rendering to the Lord His own. He can make the nine-tenths go farther than ten-tenths would with His curse upon our robbery. Responding with all our heart to this test of our loyalty to Him will bring us His blessing, and give us peace which can come in no other way.
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