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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 48.

The December Number of Life and Health

Review and Herald

Nov 29, 1906

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 29, 1906

The December Number of Life and Health

By Editor

The December number of Life and Health will complete twelve excellent numbers for 1906, and we believe all will agree that it is the best of all. It is full of good things, among which we specify—
Suggestion a Factor in the Prevention or Production of Sleep—Why many persons, otherwise healthy, are unable to get a good night's rest, and how the difficulty may be obviated; Divine Healing—One of the best articles in this series; Eczema (tetter or salt-rheum)—Imparting a knowledge of what causes it will enable many to escape it, or if they have it, to get relief; Why Not Be Happy?—Especially good for all; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS—On topics in which the public is ever interested; EDITORIALS—On current topics and comments from the December medical magazines; Colds and Their Cure, “Subject to Colds,” The Weather Not to Blame, Consumption and Pneumonia, Tuberculosis in Schools, The Terror of a Word, The Great White Plague, The Harmfulness of Drugs, No Poison More Poisonous than Tobacco, Alcohol and Tobacco Destructive of Efficiency, Alcohol as an Internal Germicide; THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY AT WORK—Reports from Missions; HEALTHFUL COOKERY—Lunches for School Children, Recipes, Practical Suggestions; FOR THE MOTHER—Pitfalls for Our Boys, etc.
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Life and Health for 1907

By Editor

It is not our purpose to specify definitely what Life and Health shall contain during the year 1907, because we often find matter of such a nature that it is of the utmost importance at the time, and such as we can not produce beforehand. We can promise not to give “cut-and-dried” matter; everything will be fresh and up-to-date. Neither are we promising “special numbers” beyond our purpose to make every number better than those preceding it.
Among some general features in next year’s issues we might mention a continuation of Mrs. Bainbridge’s very practical and popular articles on “Divine Healing.” Those who have read her previous articles will not need any further introduction.
Dr. J. R. Leadsworth will conduct a department to be known as “The Consulting Room.” In this department will be given short, practical talks to patients, such as are actually given to those who come for advice.
The Questions and Answers department will continue under Dr. Hare’s management. This announcement is sufficient to guarantee that it will be most helpful and intensely practical. Both Dr. Leadsworth and Dr. Hare have in mind articles based on their recent observations in Europe.
The department of Current Comment, containing the pith of health articles from the different popular periodicals, is a feature that will be continued, and the best from all health journals will be reproduced in Life and Health during the year.
The Household Suggestions department will be more than ever devoted to the first principles of cooking and housekeeping. An effort will be made to meet the people where they are, and to help them where they most need help.
The department For the Mother is one of the most important departments in the journal, for upon the training of the children by the mother depends the character of the rising generation. The editor of this department realizes this, and she is determined to make this department more than ever a real help to mothers.
All the other departments will be carefully prepared with the good of the public constantly in mind.

Special Issue of the Watchman

By Editor

THE many distinct lines of prophecy outlining the chief events of this earth's history and the conditions existing in the world in the very last days clearly indicate that the time has come when “the heavens” and “the earth” have waxed “old like a garment” and “shall be changed.”
Some persons do not sense the terrific reality of this scene; others have not had their attention called to its magnificent, holy grandeur; people do not consider their eternal destinies soon to be forever settled; the nature and nearness of the event are not appreciated by many; these things, also the love of the Father to his children and the glorious tranquillity of the home of the saved, must be told far and near with trumpet voice!
In the special “End of the World” Watchman these matters are presented in an interesting and attractive way. Any mind susceptible of impression will surely see the clear, strong evidence showing that we have now reached the time of the last generation.
The “special” will consist of twenty beautifully illustrated pages printed in colors on a fine quality of paper. The numerous pointed articles have been written by competent Bible students, and deal with living, every-day issues. You will be pleased with it. Will you help place it in the hands of 250,000 other people?
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The Official Organ of the Religious Liberty Bureau

By Editor

Liberty

The Official Organ of the Religious Liberty Bureau

THE third number of Liberty, issued November 20, will be found to contain matter that will clearly reveal the meaning of religious legislation. Note the following outline of its contents: Survey of the Field—Portraying the present attitude of the leading nations upon the principles of religious liberty; Our Position—A brief statement of the position the Religious Liberty Bureau maintains upon the union of church and state; Why We Oppose Sunday Legislation—Not because Sabbath rest is not needed, but because the enforcement of it is outside the legitimate field of the civil government; The State Personality Doctrine—The assertions of the Christian Statesman, contrasted with the conclusive arguments of Lord Macaulay on state personality; A Dangerous Measure—The proposed Sunday law for the District of Columbia, its object to make Sunday the established Sabbath of the nation; Temperance and Liberty—Temperance regulations a cover to hide the promotion of religious tenets by legal enactments; How National Reformers Labor to Secure Sunday Legislation—Their methods, zeal, and persistency; A Practical Union of Church and State—Illustrated by the political domination of the Mormon Church in Utah; Christian Liberty—Citing instances of demonstrated Christian liberty, and contrasting its fruit with that of compulsory enactments—the two defined by examples in history; Reaping the Fruit of Her Own Sowing—The Catholic Church in France suffering the results of her own example in teaching the principles of union of church and state; Washington the Great Lobby-Camp of the World—The Reform Bureau boasts of being the first “Christian Lobby” established in the national capital; A Unique Snake Story—Sunday shooting interpreted to be worse than snake-biting; Religious Equality—Declared to be the fundamental principle of British liberty; The American Federation of Catholic Societies—An organization to direct and mobilize the efforts of the Catholics of America; Human Law Versus Divine Law—Civil government more often favorable to heterodoxy than orthodoxy; The Purpose of the Inter-Church Federation—The securing of the influence and power of the state in matters of religion; Christ’s Kingdom Not of this World—But the religious world is attempting to establish it as an earthly temporal kingdom; Religious Liberty Defended—Report of the New York Sabbath Association; News Notes—On the various phases of the Sunday law movement.
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Some Better Things

By Editor

Editorial

To the average man who reads the Bible as he reads any other book, to learn what it says, and not to make it fit a creed, its doctrines are simple and plain. The difficulty comes in trying to harmonize the Word of God with the traditions of men. It requires no argument, and no appeal to custom or church authority, but only the reading of the Bible, to show that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. All the trouble over the Sabbath question arises from professing to follow the teaching of the Scriptures while actually observing a day which rests upon no divine command. The attempted justification of this course leads to such jugglery with the Word of God as really destroys its authority. If men would be willing to accept the revelation of truth which has been made, and yield obedience to God's requirements, instead of amending and nullifying revelation by the aid of tradition and science, there would be unity of doctrine and practise. “What is written in the law? how readest thou?”

Some Better Things

As compared with the old, which was a covenant of the flesh, the new is “a better covenant, . . . established upon better promises.” The sanctuary in heaven is purified with “better sacrifices” than was the earthly temple. As compared with the earthly Canaan, there is “a better country, that is, an heavenly.” As compared with earthly possessions, the man of faith has “in heaven a better and an enduring substance.” The blood of sprinkling, which is the basis of forgiveness, “speaketh better things than that of Abel,” which demanded vengeance. In view of all these better things, we have “a better hope” than that which depends upon righteousness by works. Everything that the wisdom of a merciful Father could devise has been done for us that “we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.” How much better to accept “so great salvation” than to reject it!

The Catholic Church and the Bible

At the Winona Lake Bible Conference, held last August at Winona Lake, Ind., Jeremiah J. Crowley, a Catholic priest who is working for a reformation in his own church, delivered an address upon “The Real Attitude of the Catholic Church toward the Bible.” From the verbatim report of this address, printed in The Bible Record, we take the following paragraphs:—
The Roman Catholic hierarchy does not want the Catholic laity to possess and to read the Holy Bible. Such possession and reading would lead to the exercise of the right of private judgment. The teaching supremacy of the church goes down before the exercise of private judgment. An open Bible in the hands of the Catholic laity means the annihilation of the autocratic power of the Catholic hierarchy. If the Catholic laity could be induced to study any one of the four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, they would be emancipated from clerical tyranny. . . .
The Roman Catholic hierarchy does not want Catholic priests to be students of the Holy Bible. The divine Word might be the leaven of a reformation in their private lives, and they might attempt reformations in the church at large, looking to the ending of the usurpations of the hierarchy. . . .
What about those papal deliverances which apparently favor the circulation of the Holy Bible among the Catholic people? . . . All such papal utterances must be read and interpreted in the light of the hierarchy’s uncompromising hatred of the exercise of the right of private judgment. How nonsensical it is to urge the laity to read the Bible, and at the same time to forbid them to exercise any right of judgment in interpreting it! Such a course is equivalent to giving a loaf to a starving man, and at the same time forbidding him to cut it! The Roman Catholic hierarchy well knows that it is an absolute impossibility for any man, who is not an idiot, to read the Holy Bible and not to indulge in the exercise of private judgment. . . .
The Holy Bible is full of things which bear on esoteric Catholicism, and a Bible-reading laity could not help interpreting them as being so many rebukes of the unchristlikeness of their priests and prelates, and as being so many anathemas against their hierarchy’s greed of gold, fever of ambition, and lust of power. . . .
The apparently liberal attitude of the hierarchy toward the circulation of the Holy Bible among the Catholic people is a position which it is forced to take by the mighty influence of the enlightened scholarship of this day of grace, and by the general spirit of progress which is in the very atmosphere of Christendom. At heart, however, the Catholic hierarchy cherishes the same hostility toward the diffusion of the knowledge of the Word of God which possessed it in the heyday of its power, when it persecuted unto death devoted readers and followers of the blessed Book. . . .
The Catholic people are in abject ignorance of the Holy Bible. If they own a copy of it, it is not that they may read and ponder it, but that they may have it as a sort of charm. Not five per cent of the Catholic people of America possess Bibles, and in benighted Catholic countries Bibles are like angels’ visits—few and far between. . . . I beg you never to forget that the real attitude of the Roman Catholic hierarchy toward the circulation of the Holy Bible among the Catholic people is one of studied duplicity.
In determining the truthfulness and reliability of this testimony concerning the Catholic Church and the Bible, it should be remembered that these statements are made by one who defines his position thus: “I am not ‘a deposed priest,’ I am not ‘an excommunicated priest,’ I am not ‘a former priest’—I am a Catholic priest. Whoever says that I am not a Catholic priest, in good standing, utters, in the same breath, a falsehood and a calumny.” These charges are therefore not made by a Protestant or by an ex-Catholic, but by a Catholic priest. Furthermore, they are in harmony with the history, the spirit, and the policy of the Roman Catholic Church, which places tradition above the Bible, and teaches its communicants to look to man instead of to God. Catholicism could not stand before an open Bible in the hands of the people, with the divine right of private judgment granted.

Destroyers of Faith

By C. M. S.

For some years past there has been an increasing tendency in the great universities and in some of the theological seminaries to drift toward infidelity. In the universities it is called liberal-mindedness; in the theological seminaries it is called higher criticism. In both cases it is a work entirely opposed to real Christianity and the Bible as the word of God. In both cases evolution is taught in place of the genesis of the Bible, and the law of God, when referred to at all, is given a human origin.
Recently one of the faculty of the great Chicago University declared that “if Mr. Rockefeller knew what blasphemous things are taught in that university, he would be horrified.” He went so far as to declare that if the university retained the present corps of professors, its name ought to be changed to “The Infidel University.”
The writer was surprised a few years ago to learn that there was in one of the Pacific Coast States a university which was openly and avowedly an infidel institution. For a long time its founder struggled to put it on its feet, but without success. Had its founders known what the young men and women who pass through the great universities know, they could have saved themselves their struggle and their worry. They need but have patronized and contributed to the support of some of the great universities already established, yea, even some of the large theological seminaries, paradoxical as it may seem. Such institutions are not merely making infidels; they are making infidel makers, teachers and preachers who will stand in the pulpits and hold up to ridicule the very Book whose teachings have given them a cloak for the naked ugliness of the real character of their doctrine. The work of the wolf in sheep’s clothing is not a circumstance to the work that is being done in every instance where the pulpit of a house dedicated to the service of God is usurped by one whose message is to criticize the Word of God rather than to show men their sins and their Saviour.
From week to week men and women assemble in houses of worship to listen to addresses which treat as a created being Him whom alone men have the right to worship; and the Sunday-schools are now to be taught, and are now being taught largely, that what their fathers believed true of the Word of God are fables, allegories, myths, and traditions. Such teachings seek to make of the true foundation of faith and religious practise a heap of sand, for the winds of one’s inherent doubtings to play with and scatter to the ends of the earth.
Another fact having a bearing upon this matter is that in academies, high schools, and even the common schools, a foundation is laid for the infidelity of the universities and theological seminaries. In most cases the only reference they hear to the Word of God is in unfavorable criticism; and when the only religious instruction they receive on Sunday is so largely tinctured with infidelity, it can easily be seen what a hold the adversary of souls has secured upon the destinies of the young.
With the universities turning out infidels; with the theological seminaries turning out their particular brand of infidels; with the Sunday-schools teaching the theology manufactured in the university and the theological seminaries; with the public schools furnishing fit soil for the reception of such sowings — is it any wonder that Jesus Christ looked down through the centuries and asked: “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
In view of these things what a fearful responsibility rests upon Christian parents to-day in the education of their children!
C. M. S.

The Rising Note of Inquiry

By W. A. S.

BORN of the special outpouring of the Spirit of God, there is a rising note of inquiry in all the world. Week by week the correspondence from the field bears witness to this. It is the time for thoughtful people to inquire, and for those who know the way to respond.
The prophetic description of this time represents the call of inquiry coming out of Seir, from beyond the borders of Israel. It is the cry from the regions beyond. The Revised Version puts the call and the answer thus:—
“One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.” Isa. 21: 11, 12.
It is the definite exhortation to people in this day and generation to make inquiry concerning the things of God, and the times in which we live. Here are some words from the fields showing how this rising note of inquiry is all abroad.
Brother L. F. Hansen, of Rangoon, Burma, says: “The interest in our work is steadily increasing. In fact, at this time there is truly a great stir in the borders of the camp.”
From the West Indies, Brother J. A. Strickland writes: “In busy offices and marts of trade we find busy men and women stopping to exchange a word, and asking questions about Adventism.” “There is an awakening throughout all our territory.”
From Amoy, China, Brother W. C. Hankins writes: “Thus with almost no effort on our part, the Spirit of the Lord is causing this work to spread much after the manner of a prairie fire.”
Word comes from the Australasian Union Conference: “Calls are coming from various places, and all the State conferences are offering to the union any of their laborers.”
What do these calls mean?—They mean that the time has come when those who will inquire the way are now to raise the cry, “Watchman, what of the night?” It means also that every watchman is to be wide awake, crying out, “The morning cometh, and also the night.” Never was there such a time. To sleep now and to fail now, when the calls come to throw every resource into service, means eternal failure. But it is a glad time, for the final answer to the world's cry of need and inquiry for the way of truth will be the coming of the Lord Jesus.
W. A. S.

To Rich Seventh-day Adventists

By George I. Butler

“WOE unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.” Luke 6: 24. To be rich is to have an abundance of earth’s blessings, so as to want nothing of the comforts of this life; to be fully supplied with all the good things of this world, so that every temporal want is met.
We are well aware that in our time the word “rich” is used in quite a different sense. In these days of mammoth fortunes, people are not called “rich” unless they are possessed of property to the amount of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. The real meaning of the word “rich” is an abundance, yes, a superfluity, of the good things of this world, when applied to people. Perhaps a scripture will make the meaning of “rich” plain: “And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
“And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and will build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12: 15-20.
In this “rich” man’s case, as set before us by the Saviour as an illustration of the rich man and his dangers, we beholdmerely a farmer with an abundance of land from which to raise grain in large quantities. His productive fields bring forth far more than he and his family can consume. Instead of having a beneficent disposition to alleviate distress and bring comfort and joy to others with his superabundance, he selfishly hoards it, in order that he may live high and be merry.
Here is a description of the vast multitudes of well-to-do people in this land of wealth. Their obligations to God are forgotten and disregarded. The sufferings of the poor and needy appeal not to their selfish motives. God’s requirements are not considered. The salvation of souls has no charms for them. Having a “good time” in this world, eating, drinking, making merry, ignoring eternity and the judgment day,—this is the kind of life that multitudes choose to live in this world.
There are large numbers of professed Seventh-day Adventists in these United States living in much the same way. They are not the most pious, most devoted, most self-sacrificing believers of our faith. They are rather the most worldly minded, the sharpest traders; they are specially interested in good bargains, joining farm to farm, loaning money with big interest, keeping their eye steadily fixed on the “main chance,” that is, to get a little more money or property together. What for?—To be consumed in the final conflagration just ahead.
Says one, Is it not proper for me to be prudent, industrious, saving, trying to get some means ahead? Should I not make provision for the future? Are not such efforts to be commended? Are they not good evidences of sound judgment? Let the Saviour answer this question: “But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall these things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
That is God’s reply to this kind of worldly wisdom. This statement shows how God regards much of the worldly wisdom now so common among Seventh-day Adventists. The only possible hope for our worldly wise church-members is for them to follow the directions Jesus gave in a parallel Scripture in the same connection: “Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not. Truly wise men, when the moving time comes, always place their property where they can transfer it to the place to which they expect to move. These “bags which wax not old” represent agencies which God gives us in which to deposit our treasure in the bank of heaven. We transfer it by “giving alms” to good and noble causes. Every whit of that treasure is laid up in heaven. Angels keep an account of it, and it is transferred to our future home. We save it by doing good with it. We lose it by covetously hoarding it here. Where our treasure is, there our hearts necessarily are. Where our hearts are, there shall we go at last. If our hearts are here in this world, our affections centered upon the things of this life, there we shall be at last. When the world is melted and burned in the great day, all our hoarded property and we ourselves will burn up together.
Dear brethren and sisters, this most important $150,000 fund so greatly needed in this time of pressing calls, demands your aid. Here is a gracious opportunity for you to transfer some of your means to the better land. This should be considered a great privilege and blessing to every person acting as God’s steward. May he help you to see the importance of so considering it, and of making a liberal transfer at the present time.
GEO. I. BUTLER.

Note and Comment

SOME men who have not been officially appointed as watchmen on the walls of Zion are able to see the sword coming, and are sounding a note of warning. If the eyes of others were not blinded by a creed which requires them to believe that the world is growing better, they would have no difficulty in seeing the real situation. The peril and the need of the present hour in this country are clearly stated in the following extract from an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, a leading financial paper of New York City:—
What America needs more than railway extension, and Western irrigation, and a low tariff, and a bigger wheat crop, and a merchant marine, and a new navy, is a revival of piety, the kind mother and father used to have—piety that counted it good business to stop for daily family prayer before breakfast, right in the middle of harvest; that quit field work a half-hour earlier Thursday night, so as to get the chores done and go to prayer-meeting; that borrowed money to pay the preacher's salary, and prayed fervently in secret for the salvation of the rich man who looked with scorn on such unbusinesslike behavior. That's what we need now to clean this country of the filth; of graft, and of greed, petty and big; of worship of fine houses and big lands and high office and grand social functions. What is this thing which we are worshiping but a vain repetition of what decayed nations fell down and worshiped just before their light went out? Read the history of Rome in decay, and you'll find luxury there that could lay a big dollar over our little doughnut that looks so large to us. Great wealth never made a nation substantial nor honorable. There is nothing on earth that looks good that is so dangerous for a man or a nation to handle as quick, easy, big money. If you do resist its deadly influence, the chances are that it will get your son. It takes greater and finer heroism to dare to be poor in America than to charge an earthworks in Manchuria.
The spirit of the gospel is the spirit of sacrifice. Luxury and sacrifice do not agree together. Easy money means self-indulgence, and luxury and self-indulgence bring a long train of evils. A revival or ruin are the two alternatives which face this country.

Feet Washing and the Authority of Scripture

Can those who stand in defense of the seventh-day Sabbath consistently set aside the ordinance of feet washing on the ground that it has not been “a common custom in the history of the church”? Can not the advocates of Sunday observance rightly claim that it has been “a common custom in the history of the church”? If we rest our authority for Christian observances upon “common custom,” we shall find the same authority for feet washing as for the supper. Concerning the latter Jesus said, “This do in remembrance of me,” and of the former, “If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you. . . . If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.” If we could find such explicit instruction as this in the New Testament for keeping Sunday, would we not be compelled to yield the argument on the Sabbath question? How then can Sabbath-keepers who call others to obedience to the teaching of the Word regardless of custom bring forward the statement that feet washing has not been “a common custom in the history of the church” as a reason for not observing this ordinance? Is not this appealing to the same argument which is employed against the seventh-day Sabbath? We can not concede any weight to the argument from custom either against feet washing or the Sabbath of the Lord. Both rest upon the plain teaching of the Scriptures.

The Boycott as an Un-Christian Weapon

WHEN Catholics threaten to boycott Protestants because they do not freely grant all the demands in behalf of the Church of Rome, objection is made by the Protestants, as is done by the Northwestern Christian Advocate; but when Protestants threaten to boycott those who do not agree with them, the matter seems to be viewed in a different light. The boycott is an illegal and an un-Christian weapon whether it is used by trade-unions or by any professed church.

The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By Arthur G. Daniells

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Voices From the Conferences

It is very gratifying indeed to note the response that is being made on the part of conference officers and others, to the suggestion to devote Thanksgiving day to a strong effort for the raising of the $150,000 fund, and to continue this effort steadily until the entire amount is raised. Attention was called to this suggestion in a recent number of the REVIEW, and the plan is being heartily indorsed by the presidents of the various conferences, as is indicated by the following encouraging expressions.
Elder A. G. Haughey, president of the West Michigan Conference, writes regarding this plan as follows:—
I think the plan is ideal and workable, and I will at once enter upon its execution. At our late council at Cedar Lake we divided the conference into districts, giving to each laborer from three to six churches, so that we are in good shape for executing the plan. It will be possible for each one to visit as many as three churches on Thanksgiving day. With this arrangement we can reach nearly all our churches in one day, and thus give assistance and encouragement in giving to this fund.
Elder Morris Lukens, president of the Chesapeake Conference, writes thus regarding this plan:—
I will write a letter to the churches, and will do all I can in our conference to keep the ball rolling until it is all raised.
The president of the North Pacific Union Conference, Elder W. B. White, writes encouragingly regarding this plan, as follows:—
I have counseled with Elder Langdon, president of Upper Columbia Conference, and we have decided to take hold of the plan with all our might. He will write to all his churches and laborers to-morrow, and I will get into connection with the conference presidents in this union at once; will also put articles in the Gleaner, and do all we can to make it a success. We like the idea. It is all right, and North Pacific will be in line.
Elder R. D. Hottel, president of the Virginia Conference, writes:—
We are planning to work the matter up in our conference so as to start the ball rolling Thanksgiving day. We believe our people will take hold and make a good donation toward this fund.
Elder S. G. Huntington, president of the Utah Conference, has the following to say regarding this plan:—
It is a move in the right direction, and I am heartily in favor of it. Every sober-minded believer among us must concede that our work has reached that point in its development where it is either to prove itself true or false within a very short time. That it is a spurious message that we are giving, none of us are willing to admit. To those who have carefully studied its progress it offers the most convincing evidence of its genuineness and sure triumph. With this confidence and assurance in the message, why should we not undertake, and accomplish too, great things for God in the short time that still remains to us? It is the only consistent and logical thing to do. Hence I shall most heartily co-operate with you in this plan, and do all I can in this conference to reach the desired end.
Elder H. M. Stewart, president of the Missouri Conference, indorses this plan in the following words:—
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I will place the matter before all our churches at once, and will urge them to arrange for as liberal a donation as they can possibly make. If all will adopt the plan of giving from five to ten or fifteen cents a day—and many of our people can give twenty-five cents a day—for thirty days, the entire fund could be easily raised in thirty days. Missouri will do what she can. I think the plan feasible and reasonable. If all our people realized where we are in the history of this message, the entire amount could be raised at once.
Elder C. McReynolds, president of the Wisconsin Conference, writes favorably of this plan, in the following words:—
I am sure there is light in this plan. Our churches seem very much pleased with the plan, and will take hold of it. We are explaining to our people that the plan will include a Thanksgiving offering and a Christmas offering, with a daily offering intervening. We have provided for some one to visit every church in the conference during the present month. Thus by personal contact, as well as through our conference paper and by letters, we expect to make a mighty effort to raise the amount.
These are certainly encouraging words from our conference presidents from one end of this country to the other, and they lead us to believe that our people will be encouraged in their desire to assist the enterprises to which this fund is to be devoted. Great possibilities for the accomplishment of much good in the cause of God are involved in this plan. If these are only fully realized, we know that our people everywhere would take hold of the plan heartily, and the entire amount would soon be raised. Then let us take a right view of these possibilities, and do our whole duty in view of what is involved. A. G. DANIELLS.

What Can Be Done

By E. W. Farnsworth

Two years ago the Echo Publishing Company in Australia planned to move their printing plant from the city of Melbourne into the country. They asked our brethren and sisters in Australia and New Zealand to give five dollars per capita to build the new factory required, and to pay the expense of moving.
The total membership in Australasia at that time was 2,500. The brethren responded promptly to the appeal made to them, and have actually paid in cash five dollars each, and have still $5,000 in pledges yet to be paid, and which are constantly being met.
If the Sabbath-keepers in the United States should respond to the present call for $150,000 in the same way that our brethren did in Australasia when they were asked to raise $12,000, we should have, not $150,000, but $300,000, with an overflow in pledges of $120,000 to follow.
Can not we, with our abundant resources and wealth, do as well as our poorer brethren over the sea?
E. W. FARNSWORTH.

Since God Converted Me

By F. D. STARK

F. D. STARK
“WHAT think you, parson, is there hope For such a wretch abhorred? Or must he in the darkness grope, Rejected of the Lord?”
“Think you the vilest of the vile (There’s none more vile than he) Can ever share the Saviour’s smile, Or heaven’s beauty see?”
The parson, with reflective pause And with a kindling eye, A lesson from experience draws, And thus he makes reply:
“I surely can not doubt the power Of Christ to set men free, Since that eventful, happy hour When God converted me.
“Of poor lost sinners I was chief, Sunk in the depths profound, Conversion brought my soul relief, Grace did much more abound.”
“Since God converted me.” Ah, yes; An epoch here begins Of everlasting righteousness, Forgiveness of my sins.
This epoch is the boundary line Since which doubt can not be; The skeptic’s creed can not be mine Since God converted me.
When Satan’s darts come thick and fast, And would o’erpower my soul, Faith’s retrospective glance I cast, And Jesus makes me whole.
Forest, Idaho.
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