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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 44.

November and December

Review and Herald

Nov 3, 1904

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Nov 3, 1904

November and December

By Editor

LIFE AND HEALTH

The November and December issues of Life and Health will be special numbers, in bright, attractive covers, and with the following inducements to new subscribers and agents.

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Some of the Good Things

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LIFE AND HEALTH

For November

A Last-Generation Religious and Food Reform—By a pioneer in this reform message—the necessity and significance of such a reform.
Letters from a Physician to His Son. No. 1. “The Importance of Having a Right Ideal”—By one who has done excellent work as physician, educator, missionary, and father. These heart-to-heart talks, though primarily intended for young men, may be read with profit by young women as well, or by those who are no longer young.
The Bread of Life—The series of illustrated articles from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, which are selections from the opening chapters of her forthcoming book, “Ministry of Healing,” is resumed with this number. Every one who is acquainted with Mrs. White's characteristic pictures of the Saviour's life will be glad to know that the series is to be continued.
The Medical Missionary at Work has the usual feast of good things from those who are working “in the regions beyond”—East Africa, India, and Japan being represented this time.
The Healthful Cookery Department contains a number of practical recipes for the use of the olive, a food that deserves to be better known in the East than it now is. The effort will probably be made this winter to supply olives at different points in the East, at rates within the reach of moderate incomes.
News Notes—A brief account of what is being done by health boards, and in other ways, for the improvement of the public health.
Prevention of Tuberculosis—“More than one hundred thousand human lives are sacrificed every year to the ignorant, inexcusable, not to say criminal, indifference of the public.” This article gives some of the plans on foot to prevent its spread and to educate people on this subject.
Health by Hunger—An account of Dr. Dewey's famous “Fasting Cure,” and his unselfish efforts in behalf of humanity.
The Home Practical—with helpful suggestions for “Home Dinners,” “Setting the Table,” etc.
Questions and Answers—Dr. Hare replies to questions about Pimples and Blackheads, Bad Teeth Cause of Bad Stomach, Dust and Consumption, and Red Nose.
What Shall I Eat?
Use and Abuse of Athletics.
Country Life Not Always Healthful.
Health Suggestions—a page of seasonable health notes.
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Daily Bread and Daily Work

By Editor

Editorial

Daily Bread and Daily Work

The prayer for daily bread includes both physical and spiritual food. We are equally dependent upon God for both. Both are given that we may have strength for service. Those who refuse to serve forfeit the right to receive these gifts. “If any will not work, neither let him eat.” The more earnest the service, the greater need there is of food. Those, therefore, who desire to receive the Living Bread in the fullest measure should seek most earnestly to impart spiritual blessing to others. Daily toil is the price of daily bread.

The Vacant Tomb

When, after resting on the Sabbath, “according to the commandment,” the women came to the sepulcher of Jesus, they were “perplexed” because they “found not the body of the Lord Jesus.” They were soon comforted, however, by the announcement made to them by the two beings “in dazzling apparel,” “He is not here, but is risen.” The fact that the tomb was vacant, a fact established beyond any reasonable doubt, is one of the corner-stones in the Christian belief, for “if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.” That vacant tomb means that every other tomb will be vacant. This will occur when he who has the power over death and the grave shall call the sleeping millions forth from their dusty beds. Here is our Lord’s own statement of his authority to do this: “I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and I have the keys of death and of Hades.” As we by faith look into the Saviour’s vacant tomb, we can see every other tomb vacant, and we may know of a surety that those whom we have loved and laid away will not always rest where we have placed them so tenderly.
“Why should we tremble to convey The Christian to the tomb? There once the flesh of Jesus lay, And left a long perfume.”
“Thence he arose, ascending high, And showed our feet the way: Up to the Lord we all shall fly At the great rising day.”
By such a hope as this we may be sustained in the darkest hour. “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

Discrediting Miracles

THERE are two ways of discrediting miracles. One way is to deny them altogether. This is usually done on the ground that it is easier to believe that the testimony by which they are established is false, than to believe that anything so contrary to the course of nature could ever take place. In this case the appeal is to nature and to what are called the fixed laws of nature as being so unalterably opposed to the possibility of miracles as to prove unreliable the testimony of the Scriptures and the evidence recorded therein. This is the least dangerous form of opposition to miracles, as it defines the issue squarely, and makes an open warfare upon the truth. The truth can cope most easily with an enemy who wears the uniform of an enemy, and fights in the open.
Another way of discrediting miracles is to claim that every operation in nature where divine power is revealed is a miracle. On this basis we have in physiology the miracle of the heart beat, the miracle of digestion, etc., and in agriculture we have the miracle of the corn field, etc. At first thought this view of the subject might seem to strengthen the case for miracles, and to make it easy for all to believe in them, but a more careful examination of the fruits of this teaching will show that its tendency is to weaken faith in the possibility of any really miraculous working at the present time, and that the logical result of it is that we need not ask for or expect any such thing now.
Here is a recent illustration of this kind of teaching: “The Bible record of the creation of man out of dust is confirmed by the teaching of true science, especially the science of biology. We constantly behold the miracle of creation wrought out before our eyes in the growing of a human being from infancy to adult age, and the maintenance of individual identity from year to year.” In other words the growth of every man is just as much a miracle as the creation of Adam in the first place. The same would, of course, be true of the grass, the shrubs, and the trees, and in fact of everything where life is found. Let us note, then, what is really involved in this kind of scientific confirmation of miracles. According to the present operations of nature, all growth depends upon the assimilation of some existing materials. Unless a man supplies food of some kind, gaseous, liquid, or solid, to his organism, his growth ceases, and life soon becomes extinct. This so-called present-day miracle of the creation of man is therefore dependent upon the action of the man himself, and may be hindered or brought to an end by his unwillingness or his inability to supply the requisite materials to his body. But it was not so in the creation of Adam. “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . . And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” By a special creative fiat man was called into existence where there was no man before. There was no human agency co-operating with the divine power, and man could neither help nor hinder the process. Furthermore the work was an instantaneous one. The first man did not grow from a cell or a combination of cells, but he became a man by a special act of creation. This was the miracle of the creation of man, an act which has not been repeated since that time.
The attempt to make the birth and growth of all men at the present time the same miracle of creation as in the case of Adam will end in the claim that the case of Adam was no different from what we see at this day,—a case of development and growth from previously existingmaterials. But this is evolution. Evolution claims an orderly development in nature without any special act on the part of a Creator. The claim that there are no miracles and the claim that all the operations of nature are miracles are both in harmony with the theory of evolution. The essential thing in evolution is that all acts in nature shall be of the same kind. It makes little difference what name is applied to them so long as they are all put into the same class. The claim, therefore, that all the operations of nature are miracles, just as much as the original creation, is simply evolution in disguise.
It may be worth the while to follow up this matter in its relation to the gifts in the church, and especially the gift of healing. The natural consequence of this view about miracles is the claim that the recovery of a sick person to health through the use of rational remedies is just as much a miracle as when Peter’s wife’s mother was restored. The next step in logic and in experience is that the only miracles of healing which we may expect to see in these days are those which are wrought through the use of rational remedies. The consequence is that there is left no place for the gift of healing in the church. We believe in the use of rational remedies and we believe that it is only the power of God which restores the sick to health, even when these remedies are used, but we also believe in the gift of healing as one of the gifts which ought to be found in the church, and that in the exercise of this gift the sick are restored without the use of remedies rational or irrational. It is right to give to God all the credit for healing disease even when remedies are used, but it is not necessary to do this in a way to weaken faith in his ability and willingness to heal instantaneously and without the use of remedies, when such working would be to his glory.
The claim that every case of recovery from sickness to health is a miracle has the appearance of giving special honor to God, but a little examination will show that it really leads to dishonoring God. The atheist or the infidel may become an expert in the application of rational remedies, and the sick may recover under his treatment. If this is a miracle, then God must hold himself in readiness to work miracles at the bidding even of those who deny his existence. This seems parallel with the claim of the Roman Catholic Church that even though the priest may be of vile character and intoxicated at the time of the eucharist, yet at his command ‘what still appears to be bread and wine is no longer bread and wine, but the body and blood of Jesus Christ.’ Such teaching belittles God and exalts self.
What then is the truth in this matter? The so-called laws of nature and of being describe God’s habitual way of working, so that the same results can always be predicated of the same causes. In the plan of the divine government created beings are permitted within certain limits prescribed by their scale of being to co-operate with God in the ordering of these causes. Thus the application of heat and cold, of the electric current, and of other natural agencies to the human organism may produce stimulating or depressing effects, according to the method of application, and the use of powerful stimulants may keep life in the body for some time after the vital powers of the body have really been exhausted. These results may be obtained even by those who refuse to recognize the fact that they are co-operating with a divine power. There is a vast difference however between this experience and that unusual and immediate working of God in answer to that appeal for special help which he has encouraged us to make to him. In this case his working is not unnatural but supernatural, not in disregard of an established order, but in a realm distinct from the natural and subject to the higher law of faith. In this field of work only believers can co-operate with God in the ordering of those causes which will bring results impossible to unbelievers. In this field may appear genuine miracles, subject to the divinely ordained law, ‘According to your faith be it done unto you,’ and to that perfect submission to the divine will which is expressed in the prayer of the Saviour, ‘Not as I will, but as thou wilt.’ Such was the experience of the apostles who did not control the miracle-working power, but through whom it was revealed when God would be glorified thereby. Such is the experience of the church when the gifts of the Spirit are manifested in it.
In the attempt to correct error, and especially one which appears to exalt the power of God, there is always the danger of causing a reaction which will really dishonor God. It may therefore be proper to emphasize the fact that we believe that rational remedies are divinely ordained agencies for the relief of sickness and suffering, and that their use is not incompatible with the prayer of faith, but we think it is a confusion of correct principles to call the results thus obtained miracles. We also believe that genuine miracles will be wrought, in response to the faith of God’s people, as a testimony to the truth in this closing message. “Servants of God, with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place to place to proclaim the message from heaven. By thousands of voices, all over the earth, the warning will be given. “Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and signs and wonders will follow the believers.”—Great Controversy, page 612. May God increase the faith of his people, that the day may be hastened when these results will be seen in fuller measure than at present. So shall we the sooner sit down with our blessed Redeemer in his kingdom.

A Neglected Subject

By L. A. S.

The New York Christian Advocate notes that “several clergymen, some of considerable ability, are predicting at this time that the world will come to an end in the year 1906, and that the new heaven and new earth of which St. John speaks will then come. This,” says the Advocate, “is the extreme of rashness, and only those can be convinced by them who are constitutionally credulous or utterly unacquainted with the history of the world and with the teachings of the New Testament.” In proof the Advocate cites the words of Christ, “Of that day and hour knoweth no man.” It is very true that no man can tell the day nor the hour, nor even the year, of Christ’s coming, and that it is folly, in the face of this express declaration of the Saviour, for any man to presume to do so. But what about Christ’s words pointing out the signs which were to herald the approach of that day, so that it might be known that it was “near, even at the doors”? What about the solemn admonition of Christ to his followers, repeated over and over, to “watch” for his return? The Advocate is always ready to point out the folly of those who set times for Christ’s return, or for events which are to occur in connection with the end of the world, but it never has anything to say about the Saviour’s plain statements which show that the proximity of his coming would be known and must be known to such as would not be overtaken unawares by the day of God. Why is it thus silent on so important a topic?
The attitude of the Christian world toward the subject of the second coming of Christ is such as would suggest that he had simply declared that no one could know the time when he would return, and therefore it is useless to proclaim his coming or to try to know anything about it. They treat it as though it were a mystery to be revealed only by the act of God at some future time, nobody can say when. They act as though the Scripture read, “Of that day and hour knoweth no man,” therefore it is of no use to concern yourselves about it or take any thought concerning it. But Christ said that the fact that no man could know the day nor the hour is the very reason why men are to “watch” for his coming. “Watchtherefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” Matt. 25:13. We could not watch for him if we did know the day and hour of his coming, and such knowledge on our part might lead us to neglect the preparation needful to meet him; nor, on the other hand, could we watch for him unless we knew that the time for his appearing was near, as shown by the appearance of the signs which he described as being the heralds of his approach. Those signs have nearly all been fulfilled, and those who are standing to-day in the full light of the words Christ has spoken on this momentous subject are not in ignorance of the nature of the times our world has reached. The world now needs, above all other things, the proclamation of the message which bids men “watch” for the return of the coming One. L. A. S.

Our Great Responsibilities

By Arthur G. Daniells

TREMENDOUS responsibilities have rested upon Seventh-day Adventists from the very beginning of their history. The first believers in the third angel’s message understood from the reading of the message and the scriptures relating to it that the message would have to be preached in all the world.
To a few believers, without visible facilities of any kind, and without money or associates to provide the facilities, this was certainly a tremendous responsibility. It rested upon the pioneers with great weight, and they labored untiringly to rightly discharge their duty.
Although loyal men and women have labored faithfully, given liberally, and sacrificed continually, and the cause has prospered, the responsibility has never been removed nor lessened. It rests upon this people to-day. And while the resources for doing the work seem more substantial, yet the consummation of the work seems as great, and the responsibility as grave, as ever in our history.
It is true that our numbers have increased to nearly one hundred thousand. It is true that we now have printing-houses to produce literature, and schools to educate and train workers. It is true that we have missions permanently established in nearly every country on the globe. But it is also true that these have created conditions that appeal to us to-day with a force that we have never felt before. They have opened doors to us in all lands. They have raised calls for help in all directions.
The pioneers learned their responsibilities from the Scriptures. We to-day, while reading the same scriptures, have the responsibilities pressed home upon us by a situation that has been created by the toil and sacrifice of the pioneers and their successors. Every missionary who has gone abroad is overwhelmed with work, and sends an urgent plea for at least one more to come to his assistance. Every mission that is established means either the opening of an adjacent field or the subdivision of the one entered. This means constant addition to our force of workers, and the continual call for larger giving of our means.
As an illustration of this, take Japan. Our first effort for that people was to interest some Japanese youth in California in the message. This was followed by persuading those who accepted the truth to go to Healdsburg College. The next step was to send Professor Granger, the principal of the college, to Japan. He soon called for others. Among the converts to the truth in Japan were two Koreans. They returned to their native land, and began to tell their people the wonderful message they found in Japan. Such a great interest was awakened, that they sent a most urgent call to the workers in Japan for help. A laborer was sent to them. Soon a large number accepted the truth. Then the superintendent of the mission was sent for. He went to Korea to see for himself. He writes of the baptism of over seventy believers, and urges the General Conference to immediately send a missionary to take charge of the work in Korea. And so we begin at once to look for laborers, and to call for means for Korea. Can we do otherwise?
Now, this is an illustration of the whole trend of this movement. And the further we go on with it, the more visible, pressing, and acute the situation becomes. I do not say it grows more difficult; for it does not. The difficulties are not nearly so great for this people to-day as they were for our pioneers. We have entered into their labors. We have the facilities, in the way of splendid literature, printing establishments, schools, and medical institutions, that our pioneers had to create. We have a host of believers that they raised up. We have the benefits of their long, trying experience.
And while the responsibility is equally great and grave, and while the demands of a world-wide work in operation are more pressing and imperative to-day than ever before, the Lord has prepared everything for it. We are well able in the name of the Lord to speedily finish this work in all the world. As soon as this is done, the end will come.
The situation that exists to-day in this cause is a trumpet call to this denomination to action. It calls upon us to engage in personal effort of some kind—to sell, loan, and give our papers, tracts, and books to our neighbors; to leave our homes to proclaim the message in all lands; and to give our means to meet the expense required to carry forward to a speedy and glorious consummation this great world-wide work. Who will obey this call? A. G. DANIELLS.

Circulate “Life and Health”

By Arthur G. Daniells

DURING July, 1904, the initial number of Life and Health made its appearance from the office of publication in Washington, D. C. As may already be well known by many of our people, this paper is a continuation of the Pacific Health Journal, formerly published in Oakland, Cal. In transferring its office of publication, the present publishers, the Review and Herald Publishing Association, added some new features, and also increased the size of the journal.
It contains matter relating to the best methods of hygienic reform, the care of the sick, and the prevention and cure of disease. A department is devoted to the experiences of our medical missionaries engaged in active work in various countries of the world, and these are indeed very cheering and encouraging. Another department gives seasonable suggestions regarding healthful cookery, and there is also a department for the answering of questions regarding various matters which only an experienced physician can intelligently answer.
The editor of the journal is Dr. G. H. Heald, with Dr. G. A. Hare as associate. Both these men have spent years in different lines of the medical profession, and are thoroughly competent to speak upon the matters concerning which they write. In addition to these writers, however, the journal also receives contributions from physicians connected with our medical institutions. In this way a very wide range of subject-matter is presented through its columns. This matter is beneficial not only to our own people, but to those not of our faith.
Now what is needed is the co-operation of our people in helping to circulate this journal. No pains have been spared to provide good matter, printed in attractive form, and at a low price. What is now necessary is that our people shall place this journal in the hands of people who are now unacquainted with its merits. It sells readily. This has already been demonstrated. The subscription list has rapidly increased from the time the first number was issued in Washington. But very much more should be done, and our people should take hold energetically, and work faithfully in helping to circulate this paper. Send for copies of the journal, place them in the hands of your friends, and take their subscriptions. The price, fifty cents a year, is certainly within the reach of all. By taking up this work you will be doing the subscriber a great favor, and be the means of calling attention to the principles of health reform, which may prove an “entering wedge” for the presentation of other principles of our message.
I pray that each one who reads theselines will consider this a call to him to do what he can to aid in the circulation of this important journal.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Another Decision Upholding Sunday Laws

ANOTHER decision upholding Sunday laws has come from a State supreme court. An exchange says:—
Justice Davy, of the Supreme Court, at Rochester [N. Y.], October 3, handed down a decision in the case of the People versus M. J. Zimmerman, upon a writ of habeas corpus, in which it is held that the Sunday law of New York State is constitutional because the “Christian sabbath is one of the civil institutions of the State, and that the legislature has authority to regulate its observance and prevent its desecration by any appropriate legislation, is unquestioned.”
If the Christian sabbath were a civil institution, then it would follow that its observance should be regulated by the civil power. But we find that God himself has regulated the observance of the Sabbath, which he calls “my holy day.” He has expressly and plainly directed just how it is to be observed (see Ex. 20: 8-11; Isa. 58: 13, 14), and no man has any right to depart from his instructions in the matter, nor can any legislature alter what God has spoken, nor absolve any person from a single jot or tittle of his obligation to obey the divine commands. What business, therefore, can the legislature properly have with the regulation of Sabbath observance? God has left nothing unsaid in respect to its proper observance, and has left no room for any human regulations concerning it; and he has done this because the Sabbath is his day, and its observance a matter between him and the observer or non-observer alone. And this takes the Sabbath wholly out of the realm of man-made regulations, and conclusively shows that the Christian sabbath is not a civil institution, any opinions of man to the contrary notwithstanding.

A CHAMPION

to defend King Leopold, of Belgium, against the charges made against his administration of affairs in the Congo State of Africa, has come forward in the person of Cardinal Gibbons, who recently addressed a letter to the International Peace Congress, assembled at Boston, defending the policy of the Belgian government in that part of Africa. The papers have published an acknowledgment from King Leopold to the cardinal, thanking him for the service rendered, and a reply from the cardinal in which he says, “It was a duty which I performed with lively satisfaction, as it was done in behalf of a sovereign who has done so much in the cause of Christianity and civilization, and who is the ruler of a nation conspicuous not only for Catholic faith, but also for the noble qualities which exalt a nation.” Photographs which have appeared in the papers show natives with bodies shockingly mutilated and deformed, this being the result of punishments inflicted on them by their European taskmasters who are in charge of the leading industries in that country. Whatever may be said of Belgium as a conspicuously Christian nation, the whole history of the European’s dealings with the people of the Dark Continent is such as to afford every presumption of the truthfulness of the charges which have stirred to action humanitarians in this and other countries of the civilized world.

L. A. S

By L. A. S.

THE following resolutions are regarded as chief in importance among those adopted at the late session of the International Peace Congress in Boston:—
Resolved, That the congress address to the emperors of Russia and Japan an earnest appeal, entreating them, either by direct negotiations or by having recourse to the friendly offices of some neutral power or powers, to put an end to the awful slaughter of their subjects now going on, and urging the plea that, since terms of peace must sooner or later be discussed and settled, it is far better that this shall be done promptly, so as to avert the further sacrifice of precious lives and valuable property.
That the congress forward an address to each of the signatory powers of The Hague convention, other than Russia and Japan, reminding them of Article XXVII of the convention, and urging them, in accordance therewith, to press upon the governments of Russia and Japan the importance of putting an end without further delay to a war which afflicts humanity, hinders legitimate commerce, and impedes the progress of the world in the pathway of civilization and peace.
So far as Japan is concerned, an end to the awful slaughter of human beings now going on in Manchuria can no doubt be secured as soon as Japan is assured that her national existence, for which she believes herself to be fighting, is secure. It is entirely useless to appeal to Japan to consent to a peace which, in her view, would involve the loss of her national life.
Russia, on the other hand, believes herself divinely commissioned to spread over and absorb into her government the peoples of Asia, and to be stopped in her “glacial movement” eastward and southward would be directly contrary to her long and sacredly cherished ambitions. Both commercial and religious motives urge Russia forward to a position which threatens the integrity of Japan. Shut out in Europe from any seaport that is not ice bound during a large portion of the year, Russia seeks such a port in Asia; while the Greek Church, which is the real ruling power in the empire, cherishes the dream of the religious conquest of the world. And with Russia, religious and political conquest always go together.
It is useless to appeal to Russia to forsake this program, and turn back from her cherished traditional policy. Only the intervention of the powers of Europe, together with the United States, is likely to move Russia to an early suspension of hostilities.

L. A. S

Note and Comment

The late postmaster-general, Henry C. Payne, was a stumbling-block in the path of those who are seeking to commit the government to a union of church and state by the enforcement of Sunday observance in its various departments. Postmaster-General Payne gave no countenance to “reform” work of such a character in his department. The new postmaster-general, Robert J. Wynne, is a Catholic, and it remains to be seen whether or not he will adhere to the policy of his predecessor in this respect.

Temperance Progress in Ohio

Speaking of the progress of temperance in Ohio under the local option law of that State, the president of the Ohio W. C. T. U. says in the Union Signal:—
We have three dry cities, Cambridge, Xenia, and Mt. Vernon. Of our 693 villages, 473 are dry; of our 1,371 townships fully 1,000 are dry. Under the District Local Option law, passed last winter, 265 saloons have been expelled in the larger cities. Seventy per cent of the area of the State is now dry; twelve of our county seats are dry; the following counties are entirely dry: Knox, Geauga, Guernsey, Harrison, Noble.

New Thought and Modern Spiritualism

As showing an affinity between what is called the New Thought, and modern Spiritualism, it is significant that the National Spiritualists’ Association, which convened in its twelfth annual session at St. Louis, Mo., October 18, appointed a committee to carry an invitation to Ella Wheeler Wilcox to take part in the sessions of the convention. Mrs. Wilcox is one of the most prominent figures in the New Thought movement. Rev. Thomas Grimshaw, of St. Louis, who presided at the first business session of the convention, made an address in which he said that “while the ministers of other churches are stealing our thunder, and are being complimented for their excellent sermons, we remain weak in numbers.” With this he coupled a plea for earnest work to secure an increase in membership. It is true that the number of those who take the name “Spiritualist” has not of late been greatly on the increase; but vast numbers are being gathered in by latter-day movements, which, while different in name, are closely allied with Spiritualism in character and purpose. Of such movements New Thought is a prominent example.
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