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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 28.

The Likeness of Emmanuel

Review and Herald

Jul 11, 1907

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The Likeness of Emmanuel

By Worthie Harris Holden

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
How long, O Lord, how long till we shall see Thine image mirrored in our life? So fierce the conflict and the strife! With clouded brow our anxious day Has spent its force, and whiled away The ardent zeal that nurtures ministry.
We can not sense Thine excellent desire For Thine ambassadors, nor know The views Thy mount of glory show. Our sordid mind is full content On lowland plains 'mid clover scent; In vain Thy summons to our soul,—"Come higher!"
Forsooth, more riches brood o'er lowland plains; There, too, are luxury and ease,— Each vain desire we may please; But when God's mercy hath an end For dwellers on the plain, who then, Can snatch us from the peril it sustains?
O Lord, will trials make us all Thine own? Must all our works be burned as dross To lure us to our Saviour's cross? O purge our every fond desire, Whate'er the purifying fire, Until the likeness of the King be shown!

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II. CHRONICLES, 25.

25 And Joash slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burden that was laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 25.

1 Amaziah beginneth to reign well: 5 having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites, at the word of a prophet he dismisseth them, and loseth an hundred talents: 11 he overthroweth the Edomites: 17 he provoketh Joash to his overthrow.
1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.
11 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of Salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of
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Editorial Letter

By William W. Prescott

Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book

As I looked out of one of the front windows of the sanitarium at Gland the next morning after my arrival at that place, the words, “beautiful for situation,” came at once to my mind as most applicable to this institution. In the foreground is Lake Leman, of whose waters it may almost be said, “clear as crystal,” and which affords excellent facilities for bathing and boating. On the opposite shore are the foot-hills which soon grow into mountains, and in the background are the lofty snow-capped peaks of the Alps, with Mt. Blanc towering above all others, and always covered with its white mantle. Gland is certainly an ideal location for a health institution.
When it was decided that the General Conference should meet once in four years, it was understood that about the middle of this quadrennial period a council of the General Conference Committee would be held at which the general interests of the whole world-wide field would be represented, and this meeting at Gland was the first of these councils. Some of the members of the committee had already met with the union conference committees in England, Denmark, and Germany, and had extended an invitation to the workers in these fields to attend the general council. There was a ready response to this invitation, and good delegations were present from the whole European field.
Although this was not, properly speaking, a General Conference, and only such business was transacted as came within the province of the committee, yet in point of representative attendance and of importance in its relation to the world-wide field, this council was not second to the sessions of the General Conference twenty-two years ago, when I first became connected with this work. There were members of the General Conference Committee and other workers present from the whole American and European territory. Besides this, during the two years since the last session of the General Conference different members of the committee had visited South America, the West Indies, Mexico, Australia, South Africa, India, Japan, Korea, and China, and were prepared to give reports of the interests of the message in all these lands, and to press their needs upon the attention of the council. In the reports from all these lands a view of the progress of the message in the different parts of the world was presented, and the absolute needs of a growing work were made known. When the calls had been tabulated, it was found that fifty workers were asked for, not for the purpose of merely extending the work in a general way, but to meet actual demands in fields already entered. Such urgent calls produced a deep sense of the need of a great forward movement in our missionary efforts, and led to the adoption of plans to this end, which will doubtless be fully reported by others. Courage in the work, and confidence that the third angel’s message would triumph gloriously in this generation, seemed to fill all hearts, and some who had been longest connected with this movement led all the others in this experience. The Holy Spirit sealed this testimony upon the hearts of all the people, and our faith and hope were strengthened.
There was a good attendance of local believers, in addition to those who came from a distance, and the congregations filled the fifty-foot tent in which the meetings were held. A goodly number of family tents had also been pitched on the sanitarium grounds, and the gathering was of the nature of a camp-meeting. The facilities of the sanitarium were rather severely taxed to provide meals for all, but it was done to the satisfaction of all, and hearty thanks were extended to those who had contributed to the success of this important feature of the meeting.
The spiritual interests of the council were not neglected. The Bible studies conducted daily by several different brethren, and the sermons on the three Sabbaths of the meeting by Elders Daniells, Irwin, and Thompson, were a means of much blessing, and on some of these occasions the presence of the Holy Spirit was manifest to an unusual degree. The whole company was moved to make a renewed consecration to the service of God for the hastening of his purpose that this message should be proclaimed in all lands. At the closing meeting on the last Sabbath four brethren were ordained to the gospel ministry.
In view of the fact that literature prepared by those opposed to the organized work of the denomination had been sent to many of the workers throughout Europe, it was deemed proper that the real issue involved in this controversy should be made clear to all, and that the facts and principles necessary to this end should be plainly stated. This was accordingly done. Testimonies were read, experiences were related, questions were asked and answered, and a clear light was thrown upon the whole situation. It was the first time that the brethren in Europe had had such an opportunity, and they appreciated it very much. They had remained loyal to this movement, although they had not been able to understand or explain some of the statements and charges made in the literature sent them. When the facts were presented, and when they saw what the success of this disintegrating movement would have meant to the third angel’s message, they were devoutly thankful that the Lord had delivered his people from it, and that the principles of the New Theology had not been permitted to triumph over the truth and to do forthis denomination what they have done for other religious bodies.
It became evident to all that there was urgent need of a movement which should be a powerful protest against such a perversion of the gospel, and should stand for the truth uncorrupted by a scientific and atheistic philosophy. As a result of the facts laid before the brethren at this time, the meaning and importance of the third angel’s message assumed new proportions in many minds. Some who had been confused in regard to the issues involved, and who had been led to consider the controversy as largely a personal warfare, saw matters in a different light, and took their stand squarely upon the platform of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. It is to be regretted that the situation demanded that the things should be said which were said, but the time had come to deal plainly with this opposition movement, and it was done. I hope the result will be such that it will not be necessary to go over this ground again with any who attended this council.
Much interest was shown in the reports from South Africa, India, and the Far East as given by Brethren Irwin, Thompson, and myself. These lands are brought nearer to the minds and hearts of our people by hearing directly from those who have been brought face to face with these hundreds of millions who sit in darkness, without “hope, and without God in the world.” Few seem to remember that one half the population of the world is found in three countries,—Africa, India, and China,—and that these peoples are entitled to hear the gospel message, and must hear it, before the Saviour will cease to plead his blood in behalf of fallen men, and put on the garments of vengeance. Our duty is clear. The whole earth is to be lightened with the glory of this message, and this must include “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” Let the messengers go quickly to those who are afar off as well as to those who are nigh. Only in this way can the work be quickly finished.
By the action of the General Conference Committee I was requested to remain in Europe this summer, and to attend the general meetings which are to be held here. In harmony with this request I left Gland at the close of the council, and came to Hamburg, where I spent the next Sabbath and spoke to a good congregation. I also met with the workers in the office, and talked with them of the one subject which is of interest to every genuine Seventh-day Adventist—the advancement of this message in all lands, and our personal relation to this great work. On the following Monday I left Hamburg for the meeting at Christiania, Norway.
W. W. P.

Act upon It

By Editor

Editorial

Act upon It

Do you believe that this is the last generation? Act upon that belief. Do you believe that this advent movement is in the purpose of God, and his means for reaching the world with the final message of the gospel? Act upon that belief. Do you believe that this closing message ought to go quickly to the ends of the earth? Act upon that belief. Do you believe that you ought to consecrate yourself and your means to the work of hastening the coming of the Redeemer’s kingdom? Act upon that belief. Faith and action are inseparably connected.

The General Conference Committee Council at Gland, Switzerland

By W. A. Spicer

Sixth Report

One topic pressed repeatedly upon the consideration of the council was that of the selection and special preparation of missionaries to answer calls that come with ever-increasing force from the wide-open fields. Experience in our own work, as well as the experience of all missionary societies, emphasizes the need of care and deliberation in selecting and sending out workers. More attention given to the physical fitness of candidates may save breakdowns in the fields. Further, each call from the missions may have its own special requirements; and workers adapted to one situation and kind of work may not be so well adapted to another field and class of work.

Special Training for Missions

Nearly all societies planning for systematic work have special foreign training institutes, to supplement the work of the colleges, where candidates for the fields may receive special help in the particular line that will best fit them to lay hold strongly upon the work to which they are called. This special preliminary study and testing is looked to by mission boards to save many an expensive experiment in the fields. The council felt that this people must plan for determined and persevering effort to meet the calls coming now from the most populous but most trying and difficult portions of the earth.
This question came up in the councils in a way that impressed all hearts that the time had come to give it definite study. Accordingly a committee was appointed, representative of all the field, to make recommendation regarding provision for special instruction of volunteers for foreign missions, as such persons may be recommended by our training colleges or conferences. This committee brought in a report which was adopted, as follows:—
Your committee appointed to take under consideration the advisability of making the Washington Training College a foreign mission school in which to give special instruction to volunteers for foreign mission fields, respectfully submits the following:—
Whereas, The providence of God has signally and unmistakably opened nearly all the countries of the world to us for the proclamation of this message; and,—
Whereas, Our forces of workers now stationed in these fields are altogether inadequate for the work before them, and should be immediately strengthened by the addition of many workers; and,—
Whereas, It is highly necessary that missionaries receiving appointments to distant fields before sending them abroad, that they may know more of their spiritual, educational, and physical fitness for the difficult tasks before them; and,—
Whereas, The responsibility of finding and selecting persons who are prepared to go to these fields as ministers, teachers, physicians, nurses, and business managers, is continually becoming greater as the field enlarges; therefore,—
Resolved, 1. That it is our deep conviction that the hour has come for this people to enter upon a much larger and more thorough effort in behalf of foreign missions.
2. That a more systematic plan than we have yet followed should be adopted to secure and qualify the various classes of workers which the fields need.
3. That in order to accomplish these ends, we request the trustees of the Washington Training College to so change their courses of study and plans of operation as to make that institution a distinctively foreign mission training-school.
4. That the officers of the General Conference and the union and local conferences take immediate steps to select for this special instruction, training, and preparation a hundred volunteers for mission fields.
5. That the union and local conferences be invited to assist the General Conference officers in meeting the expense of such missionaries as shall receive appointment to other fields, while receiving this instruction at the Washington Foreign Mission College.
It was further recommended that Prof. H. R. Salisbury be requested to return to America to take charge of this school.
It was with regret that the council withdrew Professor Salisbury and wife from the appointment to the Levant, to which field they were planning to go after the council; but the committee believed that the cause of missions would be best served by making this change.
The departmental committees of the General Conference, appointed biennially, were made up by the council, as follows:—

General Departmental Committees

Educational Department: Chairman, Prof. Frederick Griggs; Secretary, Prof. C. C. Lewis; other members, L. A. Hoopes, C. W. Irwin, C. H. Hayton, R. H. Habenicht, H. C. Lacey, O. Luepke, O. A. Johnson, Jean Vuilleumier, M. E. Cady, H. R. Salisbury, B. F. Machlan, Mrs. Fannie Dickerson Chase, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, B. E. Huffman, O. J. Graf, C. Sorenson, E. A. Sutherland, J. E. Tenney, J. W. Lawhead, W. W. Prescott, W. A. Spicer, M. E. Kern, N. W. Kauble, C. B. Hughes, H. G. Lucas.
Publishing Department: Chairman, C. H. Jones; Secretary, E. R. Palmer; Assistant Secretary, H. H. Hall; other members, S. N. Curtiss, I. A. Ford, F. F. Byington, James Cochran, R. L. Pierce, D. W. Reavis, B. B. Noftseger, W. C. White, L. R. Conradi, W. D. Salisbury, W. C. Sisley, A. C. Christensen, H. Hartkop, J. Robert, E. Lind, N. Z. Town, D. E. Wellman, F. E. Painter, A. F. Harrison, J. B. Blosser, C. N. Woodward, Carl E. Weaks, I. H. Evans, W. A. Spicer, W. A. Ruble, F. Griggs, W. C.White; Secretary, E. R. Palmer; other members, G. A. Irwin, J. E. Froom, H. H. Hall.
Medical Missionary Council: Chairman, W. A. George; Secretary, W. A. Ruble. General Conference appointments: D. H. Kress, H. F. Rand, C. Prince, F. J. Otis, F. A. Washburn, G. H. Heald, F. M. Wilcox. (Union conference representatives to be added.)
Sabbath-school Department: Chairman, G. B. Thompson; Secretary, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer; other members, W. W. Prescott, M. C. Wilcox, Mrs. Fannie Dickerson Chase, M. E. Kern, T. E. Bowen, W. A. Spicer, C. M. Snow, H. R. Salisbury.
Young People's Department: Chairman, M. E. Kern; Secretary, Miss Matilda Erickson; other members, G. B. Thompson, H. R. Salisbury, F. Griggs, Mrs. Fannie Dickerson Chase, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, Meade MacGuire, C. L. Benson, and such other persons as may be selected after the young people's convention in Mount Vernon.
Religious Liberty Bureau: Chairman, K. C. Russell; Secretary, W. A. Colcord; other members, Allen Moon, L. A. Smith, G. B. Thompson, D. W. Reavis, J. S. Washburn, R. C. Porter, S. B. Horton, H. W. Reed, C. M. Snow, W. T. Bartlett, A. J. S. Bourdeau, W. Ising, W. A. Hennig.
North American Foreign Department: Chairman, G. A. Irwin; Secretary, I. H. Evans; other members, G. F. Haffner, O. E. Reinke, S. Mortenson, L. H. Christian, B. G. Wilkinson, L. W. Graham.
Transportation Agents: I. H. Evans, C. H. Jones, C. L. Kilgore, I. A. Ford, Wm. Covert, N. B. Emerson, C. M. Everest, James Cochran, Meade Mac Guire, C. N. Woodward, A. Bacon, George Fisher, A. G. Adams, W. Ising, N. Z. Town, J. M. Calvert, Secretary Cape Colony Conference.

Latin Union Reports

The reports from these dark Catholic fields were continued in an afternoon session. Very differently is the field presented now as compared with a few years ago. French Switzerland has about five hundred believers; France, two hundred (fourteen recently baptized in Paris); Italy, nearly fifty; Spain, twenty-four; Portugal, twenty-two; French Belgium, thirty; and Algeria, four.
Brother J. Vuilleumier spoke of the need of the training-school for this field started last September under the trees at Gland, as the schoolroom was not ready. They had a beautiful landscape all about, and could even have a school without buildings; but the greatest need was students. The youth from the Catholic fields must be helped to get a training. Earnestly he appealed for fifty students next year.
C. T. Everson reported an encouraging year in Italy. Our work there began in Torre Pellice, where the oldest Seventh-day Adventist in Europe still lives, a sister who began to keep the Sabbath in 1866. She still walks frequently to Sabbath meetings, her home being two or three miles from the place of meeting. Brother Fant has had good experiences in Turin and Monasteralla, and a number in these places await baptism. A man at Turin, hearing preaching on the prophecies, accepted the light with joy, saying, “This is what I have been searching for for years.” In Monasteralla the priest rang the alarm bell, as in time of pestilence, to warn the people against our teaching.
J. Curdy reported for French Belgium, where there are only ten thousand Protestants among seven millions of people. They have more priests and monks than any other country, the number having doubled since the expulsion of the orders from France four years ago. There is much intemperance. Babies often cry for the tobacco pipe, and their mothers soothe them with it. Brother Curdy has been able to do much temperance work. One man who was a confirmed drunkard was persuaded to seek for help. He has been a sober man for three years. He learned to read and write, and the first thing he read was the New Testament. The Crown Prince, or heir to the throne of Belgium, is president of a temperance society. He asked this man, whose case was notorious, to give a testimony for a large meeting in Brussels. The man told how Elder Curdy and the Bible had found and helped him. Now he says he is anxious to walk with us in all the light.
The people who embrace this truth love it. They are careful to bring their tithes and offerings. One may hear it said as they bring in tithe on their little store, “There is a half-centime more [a tenth of a cent], but I will bring it next week.” They are careful to render the full portion belonging to the Lord.
E. Schwantes, who last year joined Brother Rentfro in Portugal, reported progress in this newly entered field. Strangely were some led to the truth. For instance, in Lisbon a Protestant preacher warned his people that our workers were agents of the devil. One man’s curiosity was awakened, as he wondered how such agents would look. He stole into the meeting place, looking half-fearfully about. He listened until he was won to the simplicity of the truth. In Oporto, the second city of Portugal, there were hard experiences in getting the attention of the people. At last a breaking down of barriers came, when one hundred and fifty would attend Sabbath meetings, and as many as three hundred on Sundays. Many wept at the preaching. Attempts were made to get the magistrate to prohibit the meetings. But as the preacher stood inside the meeting room, though the congregation was largely outside the doors and windows, no prohibition could issue. Interest spread to villages round about. On Easter Sunday people from three villages gathered, three hundred of them, leaning upon their mountain sticks, urging the preacher to go on and on and tell them more. Once Brother Schwantes was stoned by the sons of priests. A colporteur sent to a village was assaulted, and would apparently have been killed had not some merchants passed by and rescued our brother. Eight have been baptized in this district, and seven others await baptism. In Lisbon, also, where Elder Rentfro is laboring, several await the ordinance. The leading newspaper and the leading illustrated journal of Lisbon have given publicity to our work in Portugal, and other papers have copied the notices. The message is onward in this long-neglected land, to which we sent Brother Rentfro only two years ago.
Brother Jespersson had cheering words to speak of Algiers, where some are keeping the Sabbath.
As the evidence was presented showing that the time of harvest has come in these fields where so little has been done, the council was greatly stirred with the conviction that more means and more workers must be devoted to the work in the darkest corners of Europe.
W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

A School for Volunteers for Foreign Mission Fields

By A. G. Daniells

FROM this week's instalment of the report of the Gland council, our people will learn of a very important decision reached by the General Conference Committee with reference to providing and maintaining a school especially designed for giving instruction to volunteers for foreign mission fields.
At this council the committee was brought face to face probably as never before with the meaning of the responsibility resting upon us as a people to give the third angel's message to all the world in this generation. There seemed to come to us a new and fuller realization of the vastness of the great fields to be worked, and what it will require adequately to give this message to their teeming millions.
We were brought to this realization by a new combination of circumstances, facts, and influences. We were then in the heart of Europe, with its dense population extending hundreds of miles in all directions. On our way to the council some had visited the British, Scandinavian, and German Union Conferences, and others had visited Africa, Japan, Korea, China, India, and the Latin Union field. In these visits we had studied the conditions and needs of these fields, and had reached a definite understanding with the laborers who are locatedin them as to what help should, without fail, be sent into those fields at once.
When we came together in council, all these demands were presented, with clear, definite, and convincing reasons. The very least that it was felt would meet the present, pressing requirements of all these fields was so great that it fairly staggered us. And yet this was a mere trifle compared with what will be required to finish this work.
The efforts of our missionaries now at work in all parts of the world to advance the cause are continually creating new openings for service, and this leads them to call for more laborers and means from the home land. As the field of our operations enlarges, and these calls multiply, it becomes more and more difficult to find suitable persons to send abroad.
As we stood face to face with the situation as it presented itself at the Gland council, we were perplexed and troubled beyond expression. But while wrestling with this great problem, light came to us, which we believe will help to solve it. We became fully convinced that the time had come for us to set on foot a larger, more systematic, and better organized movement for selecting and preparing workers to send into the foreign fields.
We have thousands of young men and women in our cause. Hundreds of them have finished their regular school work. They love this message, and would like to devote their lives to its proclamation. But they do not know just where to go nor what to do. Many, possessing splendid talents for service, would gladly go to foreign fields, but they realize that they are hardly prepared, and know not how to get just the preparation they need. And as time passes, they gradually drift into various kinds of employment, and are lost sight of in the masses.
To meet this whole situation, the General Conference Committee decided that we must now establish a foreign mission training-school, for the one great purpose of giving suitable instruction to volunteers for mission fields. And they recommended the trustees of the Washington Training College to turn that institution into such a school. This has been agreed to by the trustees, and the necessary changes in the plans and courses of study are now being made. What will be known as the Washington Foreign Mission College will open this fall. A prospectus is being prepared, and will be sent free to all who will write for it. Prof. Homer R. Salisbury has been engaged to take charge of this school. He has just arrived in Washington from England, where he has had charge of our school work during the last six years.
We now want to hear from hundreds of our young people who would like to volunteer for mission fields. In writing, give full particulars of age, nationality, educational acquirements, choice of field, financial condition, etc. We would also like references to conference officers and ministers. All correspondence should be addressed to Prof. H. R. Salisbury, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
Much more will be said regarding this school in succeeding numbers of the REVIEW. We shall be glad to hear from our conference officers, ministers, and brethren generally as to how they look upon this move. The General Conference Committee feel that this was one of the most important decisions of the Gland council. The proposal has been placed fully before Sister White, and she gives it most hearty approval as being in harmony with the real purpose for which a school was to be established at our headquarters. We solicit the prayers and co-operation of all our people in behalf of this movement.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Note and Comment

THE frequent sight of children eagerly poring over the colored supplement of a Sunday newspaper is enough to stir one's heart in pity for them. But how parents who have any appreciation of the effect early impressions have on the child's mind, can encourage or permit such grossly false ideals to be thus fixed in mind is truly astonishing. Therefore we cheerfully pass along these words of warning found in an editorial in the Independent of June 27:—
Almost needless to say the benefit to be derived from the picture supplements of the Sunday papers is more than dubious, while the positive disadvantages seem easy to appreciate at once. These crude pictures, badly drawn, luridly colored, with little or no meaning to them at best, and often meanings that are not good for children at worst, can not help but vitiate taste and deprave intelligence. It does not seem quite the proper thing that children should be shown the humor of playing tricks on anybody and everybody, parents and friends, relatives and servants, sometimes the old, often those who are helpless, and almost be taught to laugh at the predicaments they place them in, as if this were the right thing to do.
The editor then points out the special evils to the nervous system which by this means result from the cultivation of the imagination to a high degree, and concludes with words well worth pondering:—
The unconscious factors of education in our modern life, the newspaper, and the conversations that subjects made much of are likely to suggest, and that find their way into the large ears of these little pitchers; the theater, with its connotations in the same way; the summer books that are read—all these are quite as important as the more formal factors of education. This seems to be an excellent time, then, to call attention to the dangers that lurk behind the apparently harmless, though it would scarcely be called innocent, amusement that is afforded to children by the vicious colored supplement.

The Proper Observance of Sunday

THE Sunday School Advocate, in an editorial on the proper observance of Sunday, says:— All children who have attended Sunday-school long enough to have learned the commandments know that one of these commandments begins with the word “remember.” And yet how far only too many of them are from remembering its teachings may be judged by the way they spend the greater part of the day that should be kept holy. It is true that Carrie says it is a shame for Tom to play marbles on the street or sit on the front steps, reading the colored supplement of the Sunday newspaper after he comes home from church, but some of Carrie’s acquaintances are of the opinion that she has no right to preach to her brother so long as she spends Sunday afternoon in trying to arrange her hair so as to make her look like a grown-up lady, or in lying on the sofa, reading fairy tales. It was breaking the fourth commandment for Tom to go fishing one Sunday when the family were in the country, but as Carrie spent the time while he was gone in ripping the old ribbon off her hat and pinning on new, she had the grace not to lecture him for it.
This is another instance showing the necessity of getting the beam out of one’s own eye before seeking to extract the mote from another’s eye. The “beam” in the eye of the writer of the above extract has made it impossible for him to see what is in the command beginning with the word “remember,” and has made something appear to be in that command which never was there, and never will be. “Tom” and “Carrie” are to “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy,” but they are to “remember” also, when they read the command through, to substitute the word “Sunday” for the words “seventh day of the week.” Otherwise they will be remembering the day which God commanded them to remember, and working on the day which God gave to man as a working day, and this, according to the Sunday School Advocate, would mean the violation of the fourth commandment. It would be a serious matter if the child should remember the command of Jehovah just as he gave it, and act accordingly; for, according to such teaching, to keep the command is to break it, and in breaking it we keep it. Wonderful logic! Such teachers have need that one teach them the first principles of obedience.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By Ellen G. White

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

The Widow's Mites

Jesus said of the poor widow, She “hath cast in more than they all.” The rich had bestowed from their abundance, many of them to be seen and honored by men. Their large donations had deprived them of no comfort, or even luxury; they had required no sacrifice, and could not be compared in value with the widow’s mites.
It is the motive that gives character to our acts, stamping them with ignominy or with high moral worth. Not the great things which every eye sees and every tongue praises does God account most precious. The little duties cheerfully done, the little gifts which make no show, and which to human eyes may appear worthless, often stand highest in his sight. A heart of faith and love is dearer to God than the most costly gift. The poor widow gave her living to do the little that she did. She deprived herself of food in order to give those two mites to the cause she loved. And she did it in faith, believing that her Heavenly Father would not overlook her great need. It was this unselfish spirit and childlike faith that won the Saviour’s commendation.
When Jesus said of the widow, She “hath cast in more than they all,” his words were true, not only in motive, but of the results of her gift. The “two mites, which make a farthing,” have brought to God’s treasury an amount of money far greater than the contributions of those rich Jews. The influence of that little gift has been like a stream, small in its beginning, widening and deepening as it flowed down through the ages. In a thousand ways it has contributed to the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel. Her example of self-sacrifice has acted and reacted upon thousands of hearts in every land and in every age. It has appealed to both rich and poor, and their offerings have swelled the value of her gift. God’s blessing upon the widow’s mites has made it the source of great results. So with every gift bestowed and every act performed with a sincere desire for God’s glory. It is linked with the purposes of Omnipotence. Its results for good no man can measure.—Mrs. E. G. White.
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