Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 43. (10/24/1907)

Review and Herald

Oct 24, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 24, 1907

Missionary Volunteers, Attention!

If you have not already enrolled in the Reading Course, do not put it off another day, but order your supplies at once.

We have just received a supply of the enlarged edition of—

PASTOR HSI

In this book “One of China’s Scholars” and “One of China’s Christians,” have been combined. The first part gives the conversion and early training of Pastor Hsi, including a stirring chapter on the opium curse and what it means to China.

The second part gives his work as both medical missionary and evangelist.

Every Seventh-day Adventist should read this book, for it pictures the results of that ideal combination—the physician and the evangelist, when the work is undertaken by a consecrated worker, whether he be Chinese or American.

The combined book contains 596 pages, bound in cloth, stamped in red and gold.

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Smaller edition, made up of only the matter contained in “One of China’s Christians:”—

Paper bound - - - - - $ .65

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NEW ACTS MAP

Shows the prevailing religions in the world at the present time. A glance at the map can not help but appeal to you for your co-operation in sending this message to all the world in this generation. Keep the needs of the field ever before you.

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EARLY WRITINGS

Should need no comment for Seventh-day Adventists. It contains the first visions given in behalf of our people, and these, with the great fundamental principles presented in this book, lay the foundation of our special message. Such chapters as “The Sealing,” “The Time of Trouble,” “The Little Flock,” “The Loud Cry,” and “The Shaking,” will be read many times with increasing interest, for the experiences are just upon us.

If this book is not in your home, you should procure it at once.

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INTO ALL THE WORLD

Is a brief summary of the work done by Protestant missionaries in foreign fields up to the present time. Brief biographies of one hundred and forty-two missionaries, including such as Carey, Duff, Hough, Pliny, Fisk, and Verbeck. This book is an excellent text-book to use with the map.

Paper bound - - - - - $ .35

Post-paid, 40 cents

Cloth bound - - - - .50

Post-paid, 57 cents

OUTLINE OF MISSIONS

This little pamphlet has been prepared by the General Conference to show the progress which our missions have made in the foreign fields. It is sent out free with orders for any of the other supplies.

COMPLETE OUTFIT: Including “Pastor Hsi,” enlarged edition, bound in cloth, $ 3.00, post-paid

The same (small edition of “Pastor Hsi”), paper bound, - - - 2.30, post-paid

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Editorial

By Editor

WHEN GOD created man, he created him in his own image, perfect in his being, well-balanced in his powers, in harmony with God. It was God's thought that man should thus continue in harmony with him, living the very life of divinity; but sin came in, and that likeness to God was marred, and through ages of sin, became well-nigh obliterated. It was the purpose of him who is the unseen, the invisible God, who hides himself in darkness, that before the universe there should be an image of himself, and so he made man, in his own image. This image being marred and well-nigh lost by sin, it was yet God's purpose that there should be in the world an image of himself, and in the carrying out of this plan, Jesus Christ came to the world as the second Adam, to be in himself the image of God for humanity. He is “the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.”

Christ Reveals God’s Life and Love

Christ was the life of God, in order that the life of God which was revealed in him, might be revealed in us; he was the love of God, in order that the love of God which was revealed in him, might be communicated to us. He was God manifested in the flesh, in order that we may reveal the character of God. Think not that this ideal is impossible. God requires impossibilities of no one. When he says, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,” he means that we should look to him for the power of perfection. God holds out to every one that ideal of manhood which was shown to the world in Christ, and calls upon us to believe that what he did for his Son in the flesh he stands ready to do for us in the flesh.

The Truth and the Life

WE may understand what God is by what he requires us to be in order to reveal his image. Whatever he requires of us, is simply a statement of what he, the Holy One, is. Learn of God by what he requires of us. “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” This is to be an actual result; for we read in the Revelation, “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” It is God's purpose to have a people who shall be unto him kings and priests; but to show what it is to be a king and a priest unto God, Jesus Christ came as both. He was indeed king, but his kingdom was not of this world. He was God manifest in the flesh, that we might see in him both God's image and our image; because in his divinity Jesus Christ was wholly God, and in his humanity he was wholly man. Both in his divinity and in his humanity he revealed to the universe what God intends that man shall be. In giving his Son to the world God set before humanity his ideal man. Would you know what true manhood is? See it in the life of Jesus Christ, the God-man. Would you know the character of God? See it as revealed to the world by his Son. Jesus Christ was the truth before man and before God, in order that man might be the truth before God and before his fellow men; that humanity might be restored to true manhood, in the exemplification of that truth which is holiness from God.

Let us observe now in what special way it was that Jesus Christ was the truth, how he revealed truth by being truth to the world. He was truth to the world, because he was God manifest in the flesh, because he was the manifestation in life of the very law of God, which is the truth. He revealed truth to the world because he was the revelation of God, who is himself truth. John tells us that “the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” The law was given, grace and truth came. What was it that came by Jesus Christ, that did not come in the law as given by Moses? “Behold,” said Paul, “thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.” The law as given by Moses, which law is holy, just, and true, outside of Christ is simply the dead form of the truth; but in Christ it becomes the living law, the reality. What the law says, that Christ was. Every one who takes the law outside of Christ, although it is holy, just, and good, and attempts to conform his life to it, is simply a formalist. That is what the Pharisees were. They had lost sight of the spiritual character of the law, and seeing only the form of the truth, set themselves to work to conform themselves to that form, and they succeeded just as well as any one ever can succeed,—they simply made themselves formalists. But when we see the law in Christ, who is himself the truth of which that law is the form, it is our privilege to receive the very life of the character of God in him, and to reflect that character as revealed by Christ.

Had there not been need that man should have something besides the form of the truth, there would have been no need for the gospel; for the gospel is God's plan by which the truth of which Jesus is the embodiment, shall be revealed in humanity. It is the plan of God to call us from darkness into his marvelous light. And so Christ came to be the revelation of the truth of God, both as a means of telling the world what the truth is and of bringing to humanity that truth.

Thus in the revelation of the image of God in Christ we learn what God is, and what he expects us to be; and through Christ, the power of God, we are enabled to show forth his praises. This is the substance and the purpose of the gospel of Christ.

The Assurance of Our Victory

By C. M. S.

THERE is perhaps nothing that brings greater comfort to the Christian than the assurance of God’s purpose to bring the sin and sorrow and suffering in this world to an end, and establish again in this world a kingdom of righteousness.

Because God’s character is a righteous character, his purpose is a righteous purpose. It is unthinkable that in a kingdom of righteousness the righteous purpose of the righteous King should be thwarted and defeated.

God’s purpose concerning this world was such a purpose. It must not be thwarted, else another purpose, a purpose at war with righteousness, would be warring triumphantly against the King of righteousness in his own realm.

While it was God’s purpose that the earth he created should not be a waste, but should be inhabited (Isa. 45:18), it was also his purpose that the beings who inhabited it should be loyal to him, obedient to his laws. The fact that death came into the world through “one man’s disobedience,” shows that life was conditioned upon obedience. “This do, and thou shalt live,” said the Saviour. The same thought is expressed in this language: “I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deut. 30:19, 20. The psalmist voices the same purpose of the Creator in these words: “The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever.” Ps. 37:29. That purpose is carried over into the New Testament. We read in Rev. 21:27 concerning the city of God, after the redemptive work is complete: “There shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie; but only they that are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” The completeness of the renovation is shown in these words: “But according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” 2 Peter 3:13.

Then, in place of death, which reigned for a time, there will be righteousness reigning for an eternity. And righteousness reigns in the universe because it reigns in the hearts of all the happy subjects of that kingdom. “For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.” Rom. 5:17.

That righteousness does finally reign there, and that translated human beings will be there, is because of the provision which God made, through Jesus Christ, and because he proved faithful to the trust reposed in him. “I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.” Isa. 61:10. In place of the “filthy rags” of our own righteousness will be seen the spotless garment of the righteousness of the one whose life and sacrifice purchased back the forfeited possession and unbolted the door of our prison-house.

How certain is it that this purpose of God will be carried out?—As certain as that God lives. He has said it himself in these words referring to the One chosen to fulfil that purpose: “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. . . . He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law. . . . I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.” Isa. 42:1-7.

With that assurance of God’s determination to accomplish his righteous purpose, with that assurance that the Lord will not become discouraged while it remains undone, what reason have we for discouragement, knowing that our redemption is a part of that purpose?

C. M. S.

Unconscious Agents

By W. A. S.

SOMEWHAT more than a hundred years ago, Captain Cook was voyaging in the new world of the South Pacific. His accounts brought to Europe the first knowledge of peoples and customs in Polynesia. Discussing the possibility of teaching Christianity to the natives, he wrote:—

“But it is very unlikely that any measure of this kind [that is, missionary effort] should ever be seriously thought of, as it can neither serve the purpose of public ambition nor private avarice, and without such inducements I may pronounce that it will never be undertaken.”

Little did the explorer understand that the time was at hand when the highest, strongest motive of all, the love of Christ, would send forth missionary after missionary, not only into the South Pacific, but into all the world.

As a matter of fact, it was Captain Cook’s story of discoveries in the South Pacific that stirred up William Carey to begin the definite agitation which grew into the great movement of modern missions.

Captain Cook, who was slain by the wild savages of the South Seas, was moved by commercial and worldly impulses. But there was an overruling Providence using him as an unconscious agent for the furtherance of the great work of missions. Since his day thousands of explorers, inventors, merchants, and students have been influenced to give their lives to the work which now we can see was in the direct providence of God to prepare the way for the gospel message to go quickly to all the world in our time.

What the Lord said of Cyrus might be said of many another: “I girded thee, though thou hast not known me.” Cyrus, a heathen king, was nevertheless the instrument in God’s hand for the accomplishment of his great purposes. It is this ability of the Lord to lay under contribution every force on earth for the carrying forward of his work that gives courage in the face of the great work before us and the little time in which to do it. The Lord commissions his followers to go forth, with the message, under the assurance that all power in heaven and in earth is his. W. A. S.

The Peace of God

By I. H. Evans

THE peace of God is a gift to his children. It is not a commodity that can be bought and sold; it can not be won by mental attainments, by the will of man, or by any human effort separated from God. Christ said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”

The peace that God gives is not like the peace that the world gives; nor does the Lord give his peace in the way that the world gives its peace. “Not as the world giveth,” says the Master. “give I unto you.” The world has a sort of peace which it gives to those who seek its pleasures, its riches, its honors. To the lovers of pleasure it offers nights of revelry and days of dissipation; it promises to those who attend its halls of pleasure that it will give peace that will satisfy. But those who have drunk from its cup know that the peace which the world can give in the pleasures it offers, is not satisfying to the soul.

To those who seek riches, it offers the peace (if such there can be) which comes with large possessions, in stocks and bonds, in lands and real estate, in commerce and manufacturing industries.

But with great accumulation of wealth there comes a tremendous responsibility accompanied with constant fear and perplexity. The possession of wealth does not give soul satisfaction or rest. It is probable that there are but few rich people in this world who know what real peace or real happiness is. The other

day there appeared a note in one of America's leading dailies, with this headline: “$7,000,000 for One Happy Hour.—Ludwig Wolfe,” and these words are quoted from his lips: “Gladly would I give up my millions, this home, which is barren despite its splendors; my business, everything, for peace, for an hour of ease from my cares and worries. I have lost so many who are dear to me, I have suffered so much, that every hope is dead. Only in the grave do I expect to find rest from my woes.”

What a contrast is this lamentable cry from the heart of this multimillionaire to the song the Christian sings amid his poverty and suffering:—

“I am resting to-night in this wonderful peace, Resting sweetly in Jesus’ control; I am kept from all danger by night and by day, And his glory is flooding my soul. “Peace, peace, wonderful peace, Coming down from the Father above; Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray, In fathomless billows of love.”

Earthly honors can never give the peace that satisfies the heart. They may gratify the ambitions for an hour or a day, but there are other honors just beyond our grasp, and we are rarely long satisfied with what we have. The honors of earth are themselves a burden hard to bear. “Too much honor! O, ’tis a burden!—’tis a burden too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.”

But the peace which Christ promises to his followers is a gift from heaven, and is not dependent on others for a full enjoyment. The peace of heaven is a condition of soul-relationship with God, over which the joys and sorrows, the hopes and fears, the riches and poverty of earth have little influence.

Lazarus at the rich man’s gate, begging the crumbs from the table of Dives, with only the dogs to nurse his wounds, could have the peace of God in his soul.

The peace of God, to be enjoyed, is not dependent on even good health, or the absence of physical pain. Who has not seen those whose bodies were distorted, and whose nerves were racked with constant suffering, happy and full of the peace of God?

A year ago I met a poor sufferer at a meeting in one of the Western States. She no sooner saw me, than, with a cheering smile, she greeted me in the name of the Lord. Twelve long years before I had met her lying in the same condition in the same wheel-chair. Since then she had not seen a well day. She had not walked a step, she had not fed herself a mouthful of food, nor helped herself to a single cup of water, yet she praised God for his love and goodness, and spread sunshine and happiness all about her.

One of the most happy Christians I ever knew was a man who had been stricken with paralysis in the very prime of life. In his presence the sick and suffering found comfort and hope, and in spite of great physical suffering the peace of God flooded his soul.

I remember a dear old lady past eighty years of age, alone, destitute, living on charity, yet so full of the sweet peace of God that all who knew her loved to visit her. I used to go to her humble little cottage Sabbath mornings, to get my own heart watered, and my own courage strengthened for the day’s labor.

‘In dungeon cells, behind prison bars, in hunger and thirst, in heat and cold, in sickness and penury, in death and loneliness, the hearts of men and women have been filled with the unspeakable peace of God.

This peace often comes to us in its flood-tide in life’s darkest hour,—when death has stricken down the dearest idol of the heart,—when misfortune has swept away our confidence in earthly treasures,—when some great temptation or sin has long held us prisoner in the castle of Despair, and by faith we break its bars, and in the fulness of our repentant hearts, we find forgiveness in Jesus’ name.

This peace is for every one of God’s children. Those who desire it can find it when they find Jesus. “My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

I. H. EVANS.

Missionary Work for the Young People

By E. R. Palmer

A LETTER just received from Mountain View, Cal., gives an inspiring account of plans being laid by the Young People's Society of the church in that place in behalf of the circulation of the Missions number of the Signs of the Times. As the employees in the Pacific Press Office worked on this number of the paper, their hearts were stirred to do something very definite themselves. Accordingly, one evening they called a council meeting of the young people in the vestry of the church. If space would permit, we would gladly report the details of that interesting meeting. The members present, thirty-one in all, decided to do more than circulate the Missions number. They subscribed for 2,350 copies of the Missions number of the Signs, and agreed that they would donate the proceeds received from the sale to the cause of foreign missions. These papers cost at wholesale four cents a copy, the price charged for clubs of five hundred or more. The revenue, therefore, will be six cents a copy, or a total of one hundred forty-one dollars on the club.

This plan appeals to us as being a very happy one, which might properly be passed on to all the Young People's Societies in the United States.

This is a double effort. It will prove a blessing to the people in the Santa Clara Valley who receive the paper, and the donation will be a help to the ever-present and very precious cause of foreign missions.

It is a double donation—first a donation of time in selling the papers, and second, a consecration of the profits to the Master's work in foreign fields. This initial effort in Mountain View affords an example which may well be followed by our whole army of young people.

E. R. PALMER.

“Where Does the Second Sabbath Missionary Offering Go?”

By T. E. Bowen

Of late several letters have been received at the Mission Board office in which the above question has been asked. We are glad to reply with a personal letter to every such inquiry; for it shows that the writer has an interest in missions, and also that the church to which the inquirer belongs makes an offering each second Sabbath, when the readings prepared for that day are read.

There are three regular offerings which serve to form a continuous revenue for the support of our missions, besides the annual offering taken up at the close of the week-of-prayer services, and the weekly Sabbath-school offering. These are “First-day offering,” “Ten-cent-a-week offering,” and the “Second Sabbath offering.” The First-day offering and the Ten-cent-a-week offering may be one and the same. That is, an individual may be paying ten cents a week and laying that aside each First-day morning. Others may be continuing the First-day offering, but putting in more than ten cents a week. This is so much the better; for no one can be doing better service for God, or supplementing his prayers for the success of God’s closing work in the earth in a more practical and acceptable way, than by laying aside each First-day as God has prospered him, an offering for missions.

But aside from these offerings, all can join, at the close of the second Sabbath missionary service, in making up a church offering for missions. Our hearts at that time are warmed and cheered by the good reports from our faithful missionaries out on the frontier struggling with the problems and difficulties confronting them in their work for God; and how fitting it is that we manifest our love and devotion to the cause of Christ by giving of our means as a tribute of thanksgiving and loyalty at this time.

All the offerings above mentioned—the First-day, the Ten-cent-a-week, and the Second Sabbath church offering—go into the general mission treasury. They are accounted for in separate funds

by our treasurers, but are all drawn upon from the general treasury, in support of the large list of mission fields being supported by missionary funds donated by this people.

We trust a lively interest will be kept up by the officers in all our churches in this second Sabbath missionary service, and also in the offering that follows. Let not these funds be diverted from the mission treasury, nor other demands press this offering aside. We have no greater or more important work before us as a people than the finishing of this work in the dark lands afar-off. The need of these down-trodden peoples appeals to Heaven, and surely must appeal to every true child of God. Let us be faithful to our trust as stewards of the grace of Christ. If we are Christ’s, if we have in a special sense given ourselves to him, then we are indebted to the least of his creatures. And, more, Christ has given us to these very people in a special sense. Carefully study the following words of the spirit of prophecy just received:—

“You who claim to have given yourselves to me, I give you to the world, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. He who came as the light of the world that he might bring many souls to the Father, now sends you forth as the light of the world.”

Let the young people also join in making the second Sabbath missionary service an interesting one; also join in making the offering for that day a liberal one. The Lord will certainly bless all who thus seek to honor him by helping to bring the light to those sitting in darkness. T. E. BOWEN.

Note and Comment

THE great bodies of professed Protestants are being drawn by almost imperceptible stages closer and closer to the Church of Rome. There are many who feel that the Roman Church is changing in her nature, manifesting a greater spirit of liberty and breathing a kindlier feeling toward those outside her fold; and they are allowing this mistaken belief to lead them to look with more allowance upon her past history, and with greater approval upon her present purposes. That mistaken belief is an ignus fatuus that is leading them closer and closer to the fold of the Roman Church. The address by the new pastor of the Linwood Avenue Christian Church of Kansas City, Mo., on September 14, was characteristic in this regard of many that are now heard in large and aristocratic churches. He said:—

You will never hear me speak slightingly of any church which preaches the gospel of Christ. The Catholic Church is the greatest organization in the world, and following it are the Church of England, the Lutherans of Germany, and other denominations of both the Old World and the New. I know the crimes and sins of the church. They are many, and the blots are often as black as the Inquisition, but nowhere in the world is there such an organization for righteousness as the one great organization of Christians.

It is not necessary to speak slightingly of any organization that we do not approve. Neither is it necessary, in order to be Christians, that we laud an organization with such a history as that organization has, even though it profess to be the very embodiment of the principles of Christ. There is coming a time when the great bulk of the organized Christian world will be under the direction of the papal power. Such panegyrics as that above quoted are leading the Christian world steadily toward that goal.

The Pagan Origin of Sunday Laws

THE Portland Oregonian not long since gave nearly a full column of its editorial space to an attempt to justify Sunday laws. It prefaced its apology for such laws with a very frank statement of the origin of the Sunday institution. Speaking of the reason advanced by certain citizens against the enforcement of Sunday laws, the editor says:—

It is only a theoretical view, springing, naturally perhaps, out of a study of the union of church and state under Constantine, and opposition to its historical consequences. That was a tyranny, to be sure. It led to the extremest despotism, continuing many centuries, ever known among men. Sunday was the day of pagan observance, in the Roman world. Constantine identified and united it with the day of Christian worship, based in its turn on the legend of the resurrection of Jesus. By a strange but perfectly intelligible process the command of the Jewish law, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” was transferred from the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday and converted in the consciousness and practise of the Christian world into an additional sanction of Sunday as the holy day.

We wonder whether the clerical advocates of the Sunday law will welcome such support as the Oregonian is giving, if it must be coupled with so plain and unvarnished a setting forth of the origin of the institution they are seeking to protect. The introduction of that acknowledged pagan institution into the church, through the influence and direction of a half-pagan emperor, was very largely responsible for that extreme despotism which marked the Dark Ages. The introduction of that institution into the church by force of legal enactments was the beginning of that union of a pagan state with a professed Christian church which brought in the torture chambers and the autos da fé — that work against which the Reformation was a revolt. It is proper and justifiable that the people should be suspicious of the legal enforcement of an institution with such a parentage. The declaration that it is done as a police regulation merely, and not because of the religious idea in the matter, may deceive some, but it is too flimsy a proposition to bear any earnest scrutiny.

The editor of the Oregonian says:—

Sunday is named for the rest day because . . . the government can more easily secure and protect a day already popularly designated, than establish a new one; not, however, because the law undertakes to enforce a divine command. Protection of individual liberty is the real object.

But history has demonstrated that when governments have taken it upon themselves to “protect” days, customs, rites, and ceremonies, they have invariably trampled upon individual liberty rather than protected it. They have protected the rites, ceremonies, and days many times at the cost of human life. And all this was invariably done also as a mere matter of “police regulation.” The church of the Dark Ages indignantly denies responsibility for the death of the martyrs — the state did it. So now when Christian men are arrested and imprisoned for quietly laboring on Sunday, the clerical Sunday law advocate denies responsibility for the cruel result — the state does it; it is a mere matter of police regulation. Nevertheless it serves the purpose of enforcing a religious institution, and perpetuates the tyranny of a united church and state upon whomsoever may elect to worship God according to the dictates of conscience.

Justice for the Filipinos

Bishop Chas. H. Brent, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, speaking at the general convention at Richmond, Va., October 8, in reference to conditions in the Philippines, made an impassioned appeal for a change of policy on the part of this government toward the Filipino people. He said:—

I demand justice—only common justice—for the Filipinos; and I appeal, in the name of humanity, for fair treatment for these poor, oppressed people. Great corporate interests in the country, in order to secure gain for themselves, are making the Filipinos pay the most extravagant prices for everything, and the people, in consequence, are in the depths of poverty and despair. It is time to stop. Petition the people who sit in Congress. Christian people and Christian churches should demand that Congress give the Filipinos common justice. I demand that you will make an attempt to remedy the injustice that has been done by the country to the people of the Philippine Islands.

This is not a matter of politics, but of corporate greed, and the conditions against which he pleads are a striking sign of our times.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By Arthur G. Daniells

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

An Encouraging Prospect

From the earnest efforts now being made by our North American Conferences there is every reason to believe that the $150,000 will be entirely raised before this year closes. Nearly all the union and local conference presidents believe that this should be done, and they are making definite, well-directed efforts for its accomplishment. One union conference president writes that nearly every dollar of the amount to be raised in his union has been pledged, and that the local conference officers are rapidly collecting these pledges. He hopes to have the full amount of his union in early in December.

Many local conference presidents write very cheerfully and encouragingly of this endeavor. One says that his conference has cleared off each specific obligation that has been allotted to it, that they hope to be out by December 31 on this large fund, and then they will be ready for the next thing when the new year opens.

This is the spirit and tone in which nearly every conference officer writes. We are profoundly grateful that there is little, if any, criticism among our people because of these continuous calls for funds. Some feared that the call for $150,000 in one fund so soon after closing the effort to raise $100,000 would raise a great deal of criticism. But this fear proved to be groundless. Our people know that the time has come to finish the Master's work here below; they know that this will call for continual effort and giving until it is finished; they have settled that matter fully, and thousands of them welcome the call for more laborers and means. The Lord is blessing his people as they move forward, and is helping them to do truly marvelous things for him.

Now the hour has come to close this large fund. It must be done, and we earnestly request conference officers, ministers, church officers, and all the people to take hold of this splendid effort with enthusiasm. Why should we not be really enthusiastic for our Lord's work? The people of the world grow enthusiastic and zealous in politics, commerce, and social matters. Why should we not show greater zeal for the affairs of the kingdom of God than any one does for the transient things of this world? It was so with the Master. Of him it was said, “The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up,” and of his immediate disciples it was written, “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?” Let us who to-day are the recipients of so many favors from God pray for holy zeal, for heavenly enthusiasm for the cause of God. And let us show this by doing great things for him.

A. G. DANIELLS.

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