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THE LORD'S PRAYER AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
THINK of praying:
“Our Father who art in heaven,”
and then voting with tax and license parties to perpetuate the liquor traffic upon earth; thus aiding the powers of darkness; or,
“Hallowed be Thy name,”
then voting to legalize the liquor traffic by tax or license, which causes God's name to be continually blasphemed;
“Thy kingdom come,”
then voting that Satan's kingdom—the saloons—may continue if they will only pay the price which politicians have fixed upon them;
“Thy will be done,”
then voting with and for liquor sellers to keep on under tax or license laws, which is the greatest hindrance to having God's will done on earth;
“Give us this day our daily bread,”
and then voting to legalize that which takes the bread from thousands of starving mothers and helpless children;
“Lead us not into temptation,”
then voting that the allurements and destruction of the saloons may go on under some form of tax or license;
“Deliver us from evil,”
and then voting that the state and nation may continue the liquor evil, both at home and to heathen lands, providing they will only make the price of blood high enough in the form of tax or license.
Can you, dear brother, do all the above and then heartily say, “AMEN.”—Selected.
RECIPE FOR SCANDAL MONGER.
TAKE a grain of falsehood, a handful of runabout, a sprig of herb of backbite, a teaspoonful of don't you tell it, six drachms of malice, and a few drops of envy. Stir well and let simmer for an hour. Add a little discontent and jealousy, then strain through a bag of misconstruction. Cork it in a bottle of malevolence and hang it on a skein of street yarn. Shake it occasionally for a few days and it will be ready for use. Take a few drops before going out to walk, and you will succeed.—Selected.
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RUSSIA'S RELIGIOUS IDEALS.
The Influence of the Bible.
THE Greek Church can scarcely be called a Christian Church. The Russian common people have a religious nature, but no religious education. The Greek Church pastor is generally despised. The local political boss dictates what he should say. The common people look upon him as an obsequious, cringing agent of the government. As a moral teacher, he has little or no force in the community.
This much must be said, that in every case where the Russian common people have had any opportunity to get at the real meaning of Christianity, they have been converted and shown marvelous insight into the practical elements of the Christian system. The Stundists are fine examples of the truth of this statement. In contact with some of the Protestant Germans, and with an open Bible in their hands, they made wonderful progress.
Whatever Russia has in the way of Christian ideals she owes to the Stundists. No sooner had they "tasted of the good Word of God," and begun to rise into personal consciousness of duty, than a storm of persecution from the Greek Church broke upon them. They were driven out of that church for the simple reason that they insisted upon taking the Bible as their sufficient rule of faith and life. The Bible was introduced into Russia as early as 1857, and in the early sixties made a powerful impression. Not the Nihilists, not the terrorists, furnish the working basis of the ferment in Russia, but the Bible. The Bible even now is working, and is, in fact, the only hope of Russia.
Among the Protestant sects that have grown up from the independent study of the Bible are the Molokhans and the Dukhoborzis. These independent sects, for no other reason than their faith, were driven by the Holy (?) Synod into the wilds of Siberia. The fact remains that the Russian nature, savage and barbarous as it is in its wild estate, responds to higher spiritual conceptions of the Christian system.
An Object Lesson.
We are all familiar with the story of Colonel Pashkoff, a commander of the Imperial Guards, a man of great wealth and of a distinguished family. He was converted while on a visit to England in a Methodist meeting. He went back to St. Petersburg and began to preach the Gospel, and in a short time the poor and despised of the whole city knew him and followed him. His palace was open to the poor. He founded hospitals, he went down into the slums, and in a few years thousands of Russians blessed his name. The Holy Synod could not stand that sort of social reform. His fine estates were confiscated. He was banished, and died of a broken heart in Paris in 1902.
We cite these cases to show that all Russia needs to cure her terrorism, her Nihilism, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are not spinning a theory, but dealing with practical matters. Thousands of Russians are coming into this country, even into California, and settling upon the Pacific Coast. Our presiding elders and missionary authorities should lose no time in giving them the Bible and teaching them Protestant ideas of Christianity. It is estimated that Russia has at least two millions of Protestant Christians. These Christians are the hope, the only hope, of Russia. The Greek Church has exploited and miseducated the masses, until at last, in bitter, hopeless atheism, the wild Tartar in the Slav has turned upon his own land in a fit of desperation.
When the czar comes to himself, shakes off the spell of probably the meanest and cruelest tyrant in all the world, Pobiedonosteff [head of the Russian Church], opens again the Bible, and withdraws the hand of persecution, then a decade will change the social and political status of all Russia.
—Christian Advocate.
WORDS OF CHEER FROM THE FIELD.
By Editor
(Continued.)
One of our contributors, Mr. S. H. Carnahan, writes to the SCIGNS:
'Dear Old Friend: Knowing you to be one of the stanchest advocates of truth and justice, I was made sad indeed when you had been made partaker with others in the sufferings from the great earthquake of April 18. In your more recent afflictions through fire we were also afflicted.'
Mr. Wilson S. Boone, of New Straitsville, Ohio, writes:
'The great loss which we have sustained in the destruction of the SIGNS office is not a local calamity; but should be felt and deplored more than can be expressed by each and every member of the denomination in the whole world.'
Mr. Edward Howard, St. Louis, Mo., writes:
'My sympathies are with you in your recent affliction, and I hope that in the providence of God the Pacific Press will soon be running again full-handed.'
Mr. John S. Wightman, Religious Liberty Secretary of New York, writes:
'No event occurring since I came into the truth, Jan. 29, 1895, has caused so much uneasiness and given such general sorrow in my mind as the loss of the SIGNS plant. May the pitying, gentle Shepherd give you help, spiritual and temporal, at this time, is my prayer. None will chide, no good man will find fault, all will hope for better, for grander things.'
Mr. W. B. Otwell, Editor of the Farm Boy, Carlinville, Ill., writes:
'Dear Friends, I am grieved at the great calamity that has overtaken you. I trust that you may rise greater and stronger than you have ever been before.'
Elder J. W. Boynton, of Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, writes:
It is needless to say that I was very much shocked and distressed to hear the sad news of the fire, for I count myself as one with you in this calamity, for 'all ye are brethren.' I am sure this is Satan's work, but for some good reason God has permitted it.'
Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, Secretary of the Sabbath-school Department of the General Conference, writes:
'Personally I was appalled to hear of the calamity to the Pacific Press. Certainly some of these things are past understanding. I want to assure you that the loss is personal with us all, and we do not feel that a calamity of this kind is local in its nature at all. I am glad that you were able to continue the publication of the papers. It would certainly be a very serious calamity were these to be discontinued even for a time.'
The Rev. T. B. Griffin, of Berkeley, Cal., writes:
'I am inexpressibly shocked, and earnestly pray that God may sustain you in this deep affliction.'
Mrs. Vesta J. Farnsworth, one of our valued missionaries and contributors to Our LITTLE FRIEND, writes:
'I can not tell or express the sympathy we feel in this great calamity that has come to the Pacific Press. Words are feeble in such a time as this to express the emotions of the soul. We feel that this great loss is our own, and yet we can not make it seem real. God knows the reason why such a thing should be permitted, and we wish to learn the lesson there is in it for us. We pray that our dear brethren there at Mountain View may learn the lesson there is in it for them. In some way even this will work for good, and His cause will go forward in spite of loss, and some day we shall know why it was permitted. Our13thoughts are with our institution in ashes, and our prayers go up in behalf of our brethren that they may have wisdom to deal with the situation, and that great good may result from this loss. Mr. Farnsworth joins with me in Christian love and sympathy to you and the brethren and sisters there.'
Mrs. Henrietta McAlexander, one of our old contributors, writes:
'We were all made very sad to hear of this temporary triumph of the enemy in hindering the work of God, yet God has permitted it for reasons we can not know, but we shall know hereafter. We know the enemy could do nothing at all except the Lord suffered him. We do not know what the accuser has said or how he has provoked the Lord to prove the faith and loyalty of His servants. Job 1:8-12. I did rejoice to see the faith and courage with which the SIGNS arose under the first blow and in the ruins of the office sent out a warning that had no 'uncertain sound' to the world. May God give you added grace to rise in the second blow, knowing that the Lord is able to multiply the means to carry on your appointed work.'
Another one of our contributors, Elder F. D. Starr, writes from Forest, Idaho:
'When I sent you my article on 1 Thessalonians I did not know that our beloved Publishing House was even then in ruins, as it seems was the case. I trust the Lord may abundantly bless and direct you in the matter of getting started again. I desire to extend to you my sympathy.'
One of our prized contributors, Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle, whose excellent and interesting book, "Making Home Peaceful" was burned, writes:
"We in this city have been inexpressibly pained to hear of your additional disaster. It is sorrow upon sorrow. Don't you think maybe Job 2:3 applies? I can not help thinking that God has something good in store for you and all of us. 'And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.'"
THE BUGLE CALL OF MISSIONS.
Geo. McCready Price, editor the Modern Heretic.
I.
O'er the ocean comes the wailing of the millions in the East,
Burdened with the heathen's dreary, blank despair;
Can we hear these brothers calling,
Can we see their sad tears falling,
And delay the saving message that we bear?
Chorus—
Let us take the message to them as they die in heathen lands,
Let us tell them that the Lord is at the gate,
Tell them with the Spirit's power
That we're in the judgment hour,
For their blood will be upon us if we wait.
II.
Hark! a nation now is waking from the lethal sleep of years,
Waking her four hundred million hopeless souls;
They must hear the wondrous story
Ere our Saviour comes in glory,
They must know the promise which our heart consoles.
III.
Afric's swarthy tribes are waiting for the Gospel's sweet release,
From the burden of long centuries of sin;
Sick, with hopeless days of sorrow,
Blind, but dreaming of no morrow,
Knowing not eternity will soon begin.
IV.
And the church-and-state dominions, which for centuries have crushed
Like a mountain on the mind and soul of man,
Now are losing fast their power,
And to Freedom one brief hour
Now is granted to proclaim the Gospel plan.
V.
We alone among the people who profess the Saviour's name
Have a saving message for the world to-day,
And to every tribe and nation,
Every rank and every station,
We must take it, lest His coming we delay.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
IN a report to the Reaper, Brother H. Steen notes one convert at Bath, four at Rushford, two at Minneapolis, and one at Gilchrist, Minn.
AT one early morning meeting of the camp-meeting at Hastings, Mich., fifteen of the young people testified to their faith in Christ for the first time.
WRITING to the Southern Illinois Herald, Brethren P. G. Stanley and M. B. Butterfield report ten converts to the faith from their tent labors at Urbana.
AN `encouraging meeting'' at Zanesville, Ohio, is reported in the Visitor by Brother B. L. House and his co-laborers. A dozen had started to `keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.''
PERSONS desiring to address the Ohio Conference or Tract Society, or individuals formerly addressed at Academia, Ohio, are informed that such addresses are changed to Mount Vernon, the post-office at Academia having been discontinued.
A TRAINING class for missionary nurses will be opened at Kansas Sanitarium, Wichita, October 1. The time to be covered in this course is two years, and the instruction will be such as will fit young men and women for the business of practical nursing. For particulars, address L. C. Christoferson, Wichita, Kansas.
THE Washington (D. C.) Training College is planning to conduct a special course of instruction for laborers who feel the need of a further preparation, and for others who want to inform themselves fully in regard to the denominational work. The course will commence October 24 and continue till December 19. Address Prof. J. W. Lawhead, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
THE brethren at Merrill, Wis., are erecting a church-school building.
THE Canadian Union Messenger notes the baptism of three candidates at Palmerston, Ont.
THE annual session of the Maritime Conference will be held in Williamsdale Academy, September 13-23.
AT the last quarterly meeting of the church at Woodward, Texas, three persons followed their Lord in baptism.
THE churches of Seger and Salem, O. T., have decided to build a church at Cordell and have a church school there this winter.
NOTING the result of meetings held at Capital Hill, O. T., Brother E. L. Maxwell says that ``six new Sabbath-keepers have been developed.''
WE are informed by Brother W. T. Knox, president of the Northern California Conference, that the recent camp-meeting at Eureka was quite a success. About one hundred seventy-five of our people were in attendance, and twenty-two candidates were baptized.
IN the Wisconsin Reporter Brother C. McReynolds notes the baptism of eight candidates at Rhinelander, July 27. Later a church was organized and others added until the membership reached eighteen. This result was due to labors by Brethren J. B. Locken and S. Swinson, assisted by some sisters as Bible-workers.
A HANDSOME illustrated calendar of Cedar Lake (Mich.) Academy for 1906-1907 has come to hand. It is replete with such information as is desirable for those who desire to take advantage of the educational facilities of the school. First term of eighteen weeks will commence September 25. Address, Prof. S. M. Butler, Cedar Lake, Mich.
AT the recent session of the Kansas Conference, officers were chosen as follows: President, R. C. Porter; Vice-President, A. R. Ogden; Secretary and Treasurer, J. M. Fletcher; Corresponding Secretary Sabbath-school work, Minnie Fletcher; Superintendent of Education and Young People's Work, H. M. Hiatt; Superintendent of Scandinavian Work, J. Emil Anderson; Executive Committee, R. C. Porter, A. R. Ogden, L. J. Truby, Jacob Riffel, B. W. Brown, N. T. Sutton, H. Osterloh.
OUR people should beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. If any one comes to you assuming large proportions, and claiming to be a minister in good standing from Missouri or some other place, etc., etc., ask him to show his commission. An unknown worker has no right to travel without his credentials; and if he does not produce them, do not allow your sympathies to be aroused. Then, too, you ought always to send your donations through the tract society, and when a slick stranger comes along and puts up a smooth tale, you can inform him that his cause will be assisted, but that the money will have to go through the regular channel. Whatever you do, don't intrust a stranger with money—and many of our people have sincerely regretted having given or loaned money to men whom they thought they knew.—Workers' Bulletin.
A LETTER from Brother J. D. Baker, who, with his wife, has been connected with the sanitarium at Leicester, England, for some time, gives an encouraging word for the work on that side of the Atlantic. He says: ``All our people in Europe are becoming fired with the missionary spirit. The brethren of Germany are supporting three stations in German East Africa. We have one young man on the way to British East Africa, and a sister is soon to start for the same place. Scandinavia is sending Brother and Sister Jensen (Danish) to Abyssinia. This makes almost a complete chain of missions on the northeastern and southern coast of Africa.'' These results come of increased faithfulness in the systematic payment of tithes and offerings. Faithfulness in restoring to the Lord that which is due in tithes and offerings, are His conditions of pouring out blessing. See Mal. 3:7-12.
JULY 15, a church of fifteen members was organized at Wheelock, N. D.
RECENT labor at Richville, N. D., has resulted in the baptism of twelve converts to the faith.
THE name of the industrial school at Harvey, N. D., has been changed to Sheyenne River Academy.
AUGUST 6, three children were baptized in Muskoka Lake, Ont., by Brother A. O. Burrill, president of the provincial conference.
REPORTING to the Herald concerning the progress of tent-meetings at Niles, Mich., Brethren H. C. Pitton and W. E. Videto say that ``six are awaiting baptism.''
THE Union Conference Record says that Brother R. A. Caldwell, having completed his canvassing work in Hong Kong, China, has gone to Yokohama, Japan.
THE Sabbath-school donations of the Australasian Union Conference for the present quarter go to the support of the work in New Guinea. This note has an encouraging sound.
A SISTER who has labored in Australia, but who has removed to Berkshire, England, tells of her tract work near home. She says: ``Many thanked me for my trouble, as they called it. But to me it is not trouble, but pleasure, as it is the happiest time of my life when I am out with tracts. I praise the dear Lord for the strength He gives me for His work.'' When this sentiment becomes more general, the message will soon go to the world, and no Seventh-day Adventist press will have to run on common work in order to pay expenses.
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“Studies in Gospel History,” by M. E. Kern, is a series of forty-five lessons on the life of Christ, the second edition of that part of the author’s “New Testament History Lessons” dealing with this subject. The questions are arranged for written answers, and the work is constructive throughout. These lessons were adopted by the recent educational convention for use in the ninth grade. They can be used, however, in grades below that by omitting some of the more difficult general questions. It is also a valuable work for students who desire to study exhaustively. Effort is being made to get the book completed before the opening of the schools, but advance sheets will be furnished to those ordering, provided the entire work is not completed. Order of the Union College Press, College View, Neb., or through our publishing houses or tract societies. Price, seventy-five cents.
"LIFE AND HEALTH."
By Editor
THE September number of Life and Health comes to the public with the leading article on the "Common Disorders of Children," with suggestions for treatment. This number of the journal will be especially interesting and profitable to mothers. It will contain much that will be of value to them in the care of their children. In this number of the journal is a masterly article upon the subject of "Vegetarianism"—its relation to health. The meat question is thoroughly treated by quotations from other publications. The Culinary Department in this number of Life and Health will be very interesting and profitable to housekeepers, as it contains many suggestions on the preparation of special foods. The editorials contain very instructive matter upon pure food legislation and the new pure food laws. Questions and Answers Department will be especially helpful.
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