Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 14. (4/3/1913)

Review and Herald

Apr 3, 1913

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Apr 3, 1913

The Sabbath of the Lord

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. Gen. 2: 2, 3.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex. 20: 8-11.

If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Isa. 58: 13, 14.

Are We Ready for the Issue?

By Editor

KEEP YOUR EYE UPON THE

"SECOND WORLD'S CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE,"

Portland, Oregon, June 29 to July 6, 1913!

THE "Christian Citizenship," "Legislative," and "Inauguration" number of "LIBERTY MAGAZINE," just off the press, will tell you about this most significant movement on the part of the National Reform Association. The city of Portland donates $15,000 to the Conference, also the use of its new auditorium. The most eminent men and women in America and the Old World are among the speakers,—President Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, Former Vice-President Fairbanks, Charles Merle D'Aubigne (son of the noted historian), Hon. A. J. Balfour, London, Rev. Dr. Andrew Wallace Williamson, Edinburgh, Judge Ben Lindsey, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and many others.

TURNING TO CAESAR

"Your Sunday bills and all other forms of act-of-Parliament religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Cæsar. I should be afraid to borrow help from the government; it would look to me as if I rested on an arm of flesh, instead of depending on the living God."—SPURGEON.

This is what the National Reformers and others would do who are seeking a Religious Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Other Features of This Number

Frontispiece Cartoon: "Turning to Cæsar"
The World's Christian Citizenship Conference
Civil Citizenship and Christian Citizenship
Defeat of Sunday Legislation on Pacific Coast
Fifty-Three Sunday Bills in New York and New England
District of Columbia Sunday Ordinance Declared Void
Federal Council of Churches and President Wilson
Mayor Gaynor on the Sabbath
Religious Legislation in Disguise
Rome Now Back of Protestant Federation Sunday Laws
Religious Liberty Survey of the World
Pictures of President Wilson in Inaugural Procession, the Balkan-Turkish Peace Plenipotentiaries, the President and His Cabinet, the King and Queen of Greece, the King of Spain, etc.

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An Address to Young Men

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE

“Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded.” Young men are not to be lovers of pleasure, seekers for amusement, ready to squander time and money and influence in selfish gratification; but they are to cultivate sobriety and godliness. They should seek each day to realize that they are now in the sowing time, and that the harvest reaped will be according to the seed sown. Young men should form their plans of life with thoughtful deliberation, and subject their conduct to criticism, as they seek for integrity of heart and action that will stand the test of the judgment. They should be willing to receive counsel from those of experience, that they may be fortified to stand in the perils that will beset their pathway. They will be exposed to influences which will lead them away from fidelity to God, unless they ever keep a realization of their responsibilities.

God wants the youth to become men of earnest mind, to be prepared for action in his noble work, and fitted to bear responsibilities. God calls for young men with hearts uncorrupted, strong and brave, and determined to fight manfully in the struggle before them, that they may glorify God and bless humanity. If the youth would but make the Bible their study, would but calm their impetuous desires, and listen to the voice of their Creator and Redeemer, they would not only be at peace with God, but would find themselves ennobled and elevated. It will be for your eternal interest, my young friend, to give heed to the instructions in the Word of God, for they are of inestimable importance to you.

I entreat you to be wise, and consider what will be the result of leading a wild life, uncontrolled by the Spirit of God. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.” For your soul’s sake, for Christ’s sake, who gave himself to save you from ruin, pause on the threshold of your life, and weigh well your responsibilities, your opportunities, your possibilities. God has given you an opportunity to fill a high destiny. Your influence may tell for the truth of God; you may be a colaborer with God in the great work of human redemption.

John says: “I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” O that young men might appreciate the high destiny to which they are called! Ponder well the paths of your feet. Begin your work with high and holy purpose, and be determined that through the power of the grace of God you will not diverge from the path of rectitude. If you begin to go in a wrong direction, every step will be fraught with peril and disaster, and you will go on straying from the path of truth, safety, and success. You need your intellect strengthened, your moral energies quickened, by divine power. The cause of God demands the highest powers of the being, and there is urgent need in many fields for young men of literary qualifications. There is need of men who can be trusted to labor in extensive fields that are now white to the harvest. Young men of ordinary ability who give themselves wholly to God, who are uncorrupted by vice and impurity, will be successful, and will be enabled to do a great work for God. Let young men heed the admonition and be sober-minded.

How many youth have wasted their God-given strength in folly and dissipation! How many painful histories rise before me of youth who have become mere wrecks of humanity, mentally, morally, physically, because of indulgence in vicious habits! Their constitutions are ruined, their life usefulness greatly impaired, because of indulgence in unlawful pleasures. I entreat of you, careless, reckless youth of to-day, be converted and become laborers together with God. Let it be the study of your life to bless and save others. If you seek help from God, his power working in you will bring to naught all opposing powers, and you will become sanctified through the truth.

Sin is alarmingly prevalent among the youth of to-day, but let it be your purpose to do what you can to rescue souls from the power of Satan. Carry light wherever you go; show that you have strength of purpose, that you are not a person of indecision, easily swayed by the persuasions of evil associates. Do not yield a ready assent to the suggestions of those who dishonor God, but rather seek to reform, reclaim, and rescue souls from evil. Resort to prayer, persuade in meekness and lowliness of spirit those who oppose themselves. One soul saved from error and brought under the banner of Christ, will cause joy in heaven, and place a star in your crown of rejoicing. A soul saved will, through his godly influence, bring other souls to a knowledge of salvation, and thus the work will multiply, and only the revealings of the day of judgment will make manifest the extent of the work. Do not hesitate to work for the Lord because you think you can do but little. Do your little with fidelity, for God will work with your efforts. He will write your name in the book of life as one worthy to enter into the joy of the Lord. Let us earnestly entreat the Lord that laborers may be raised up, for the fields are white to the harvest; the harvest is great, and the laborers are few.

"Helping Together by Prayer"

By M. E. Olsen

M. E. OLSEN

“Ye also helping together by prayer.” 2 Cor. 1:11.

“I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers.” Rom. 15:30.

THERE is a kind of support that the institutions of this cause need even more than money, and that is the united prayers of God’s people. There is danger that the very magnitude which this

work has assumed under the prospering hand of God may prove a drawback to its continued spirituality. When our institutions were small and had to struggle under all manner of difficulties, they were the subjects of prayer at the family altar and in the closet, and there were not wanting earnest men and women who remembered them also in the night-seasons. Their progress as recorded in the weekly issues of the Review was watched with loving anxiety; and if one or the other was in financial straits, some faithful brother was ready, if need be, to part with a humble little home or a piece of land in order that the institution might continue its God-appointed work.

In those days of small beginnings there was an immediacy of contact between the people and institutions that helped greatly to emphasize the spiritual needs of the latter. Moreover, the weakness of the institutions was in itself an appeal for prayerful support. When all our denominational printing was done on a single power-press, and when our one sanitarium consisted of a made-over farmhouse with half-trained nurses and the most meager of treatment appliances, it was evident to all concerned that such humble instruments could accomplish nothing except in the hands of an almighty God. Accordingly, fervent prayers went up to heaven continually, and were gloriously answered in the growth and development of those feeble instrumentalities into mighty agencies for good, whose influence is felt to-day in remote corners of the world.

Yet, while we thank God for the growth, one thing we should remember: Our institutions of to-day, while comparatively numerous and in many cases well provided with modern facilities, are just as helpless as their humble predecessors, apart from the divine blessing. In themselves they can do nothing. Moreover, the demands made upon them have vastly increased. We face a situation to-day which is in many ways far more difficult than that of a generation ago. A subtle wave of skepticism has rolled over the whole earth; men have lost faith in the Bible; they have largely lost faith in the fundamental principles of morality and good government; so that in presenting the truth to-day one must build a foundation, where in former days he had one ready to hand. To-day men’s minds are so calloused by the daily reading of sensational newspapers and by frequenting popular places of amusement that they do not respond readily to the message of the printed page. Where formerly a single truth-filled paper or tract led a half-dozen persons to accept the truth, now the repeated visits of a paper, supplemented by tracts and books, and perhaps by a course of meetings or a stay at one of our institutions, may be necessary to effect the conversion of one.

Surely, under these circumstances, we must all be devoutly thankful that the institutions which are such mighty agencies for both the training of workers and the winning of souls, have literally lengthened their cords and strengthened their stakes, even with the result in many instances of incurring a heavier load of debt. Of course, we wish that this progress could have been made without incurring increased financial obligations and thus threatening the usefulness of the institutions; but when we consider the excellent work which has been going on in these various schools and sanitariums, and when we further consider how urgent have been the reasons, in many cases at least, for the enlargement, we can not but acknowledge that growth under such circumstances is a far more hopeful sign than stagnation.

Perhaps if we looked more closely into the situation, we should come to the conclusion that what our institutions chiefly lack is the earnest, united prayers of God’s people. They have seemed to us so well fitted out with modern appliances, so well organized as to boards of control, etc., that we have not carried for them the burden of prayer that we should have carried. We have not watched over them with the tender solicitude with which a parent watches the development of his child. We have not realized that they are in the fullest sense of the word spiritual agencies, and as such stand continuously in need of the support that comes from prayer and the intelligent co-operation of the whole family of believers.

It is well to remember, too, that while our obligations have increased, our resources have also greatly increased. The debt on our schools, which has been incurred largely because we have tried to do the impossible by expecting an educational institution to pay its own way, may foot up to something over half a million, and yet that large sum averages hardly more than fifteen dollars to each family of Seventh-day Adventists in this country. And are there many families who could not, by earnest self-denial and rigid economy, save up in a year’s time fifteen dollars in addition to what they are already doing for our home and foreign work? It might require severe effort of some, but others, by merely cutting off luxuries which are really not appropriate to the character of a people awaiting the near return of their Lord, could save double or treble the amount, and in so doing receive a rich spiritual blessing. It is safe to say that if for the space of a single year we could as a people practise the daily self-denial that was practised by the pioneers in this message, we should thereby save enough money to pay off the entire indebtedness on our schools, and have something left with which to provide some of them with better facilities. Moreover, the experience would, apart from its financial results, be a blessed one to this people. To deny ourselves for the sake of the institutions which are giving a Christian training to our boys and girls, and which have already put into the field hundreds of efficient workers, would be one of the best possible ways in which to lay up treasure in heaven. Such an experience would in itself be an education in practical godliness the value of which can not be estimated.

But while we sacrifice in order to give, let us not forget to pray. God’s institutions are a part of his cause, and they literally live upon the prayers of his people. It is his desire to bless and prosper them, but it is also his desire to do this at our request and with our co-operation.

A. G. DANIELLS

By Arthur G. Daniells

Does the History of Turkey and Egypt Since 1798 Fulfill the Prophecy of Dan. 11:40-44? — No. 11

A. G. DANIELLS

El Arish, Gaza, and Jaffa were easily taken by the French troops as they marched from Egypt into the Syrian territory of the Turkish Empire. From these successes, it certainly looked as if the triumphs of the French in Egypt were to be repeated in Syria, and possibly throughout the empire of Turkey.

The next town in the line of march was Saint Jean d’Acre, the old Accho of that part of Palestine assigned to the tribe of Asher. Joshua 19:24-31; Judges 1:31. Its present name, Saint Jean d’Acre, was given to it from the Knights of St. John, who held the city upward of one hundred years.

“Bonaparte had now ascertained that the pasha of Syria, Achmet-Djezzar, was at Saint Jean d’Acre (so renowned in the history of the crusades), and determined to defend that place to extremity, with the forces which had already been assembled for the invasion of Egypt.”—“Life of the Emperor Napoleon,” page 91, by J. G. Lockhart.

“Always prompt to strike at the heart, the commander-in-chief determined to march straight on to Acre, where that notorious Turkish pasha sat entrenched behind weak walls and the ramparts of terror which his calculating ferocity had reared around him.”—“The Life of Napoleon I,” page 188, by John Holland Rose, M. A., Cambridge, England.

“On the fourteenth of March [1799] the army advanced to Saint Jean d’Acre, carrying with it the infection of the plague, which had been caught at Jaffa. It was here that the terrible Djezzar resided, whose unrelenting cruelties, as his name indicated, had rendered him as formidable to Syrians as to Europeans. Here he had collected his treasures, his best troops, and immense military stores.”—“History of Napoleon,” Vol. I, chap. 11, page 292, by Lanfrey.

“The French army swept around the promontory of Mt. Carmel, and after defeating a large body of horse, under the command of Abdallah Pasha, on the mountains of Naplouse, appeared before Acre on the sixteenth of March.”—“History of Europe,” page 203, by Sir Archibald Alison.

“On the morning of the eighteenth of March, Bonaparte stood on the mount

examining the ramparts with his glass; and, after mature consideration, gave orders to drive into the town the force that still occupied the gardens, which was promptly done. The Turks being now all within the walls of Acre, preparations were made for the siege of the place.”—“History of the Egyptian Revolution,” Vol. I, chap. 20, pages 257, 258, by A. A. Paton.

“Napoleon now pressed the siege of Acre. It was the only fortress in Syria which could stop him. Its subjugation would make him the undisputed master of Syria. Napoleon had already formed an alliance with the Druses and other Christian tribes, who had taken refuge from the extortions of the Turks among the mountains of Lebanon, and they only awaited the capture of Acre to join his standard in a body, and to throw off the intolerable yoke of Moslem despotism.”—“The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,” Vol. I, chap. 12, page 217, by John S. C. Abbott.

“On the twenty-eighth of March, at daybreak, the breaching battery commenced its fire, which was directed toward the tower situated at the corner of the rampart, which carried guns of much greater caliber than those of the besiegers; but they were soon dismounted by the good French practise, and the crumbling of the walls seemed to open the way to success.”—“History of the Egyptian Revolution,” Vol. I, chap. 21, page 264, by A. A. Paton.

“The grenadiers instantly advanced to the assault, and, running rapidly forward, arrived at the edge of the counterscarp. They were there arrested by a ditch, fifteen feet deep, which was only half filled up with the ruins of the wall. Their ardor, however, speedily overcame this obstacle; they descended into the fosse, and, mounting the breach, effected a lodgment in the tower.”—“History of Europe,” page 205, by Sir Archibald Alison.

“The garrison defended the town with a vigor which astonished our troops, who had not been accustomed to meet with strong resistance from the Turks, and the greater part of our soldiers who penetrated into the town were slain.”—“The History of Napoleon,” Vol. I, chap. 11, page 293, by Lanfrey.

The French Threatened by a Great Turkish Army

While the garrison of Acre was offering such stubborn and successful resistance, a great Turkish army was marching to their relief.

“The Turks were not idle. By vast exertions they had roused the whole Mussulman population to march, in the name of the prophet, for the destruction of the ‘Christian dogs.’ An enormous army was marshaled, and was on its way for the relief of the beleaguered city. Damascus had furnished its thousands. The scattered remnants of the fierce Mamelukes, and the mounted Bedouins of the desert had congregated to rush, with resistless numbers, upon their bold antagonist.”—“The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,” Vol. I, chap. 12, page 217, by John S. C. Abbott.

“By vast exertions they had succeeded in rousing the Mohammedan population of all the surrounding provinces; the remains of the Mamelukes of Ibrahim Bey, the janizaries of Aleppo and of Damascus, joined to an innumerable horde of irregular cavalry, formed a vast army, which had already pushed its advanced posts beyond the Jordan, and threatened soon to envelop the besieging force.”—“History of Europe,” Vol. IV, chap. 26, page 205, by Sir Archibald Alison.

“Napoleon had been engaged for ten days in an almost incessant assault upon the works of Acre when the approach of the great Turkish army was announced. It consisted of about thirty thousand troops, twelve thousand of whom were the fiercest and best-trained horsemen in the world. Napoleon had but eight thousand effective men with whom to encounter the well-trained army of Europeans and Turks within the walls of Acre, and the numerous host rushing to its rescue. . . .

“Kleber was sent forward with an advance guard of three thousand men. Napoleon followed soon after with three thousand more.

“As Kleber, with his little band, defiled from a narrow valley at the foot of Mt. Tabor, he entered upon an extended plain. It was early in the morning of the sixteenth of April. The unclouded sun was just rising over the hills of Palestine, and revealed to his view the whole embattled Turkish host spread out before him. The eye was dazzled with the magnificent spectacle, as proud banners and plumes, and gaudy turbans and glittering steel, and all the barbaric martial pomp of the East were reflected by the rays of the brilliant morning. Twelve thousand horsemen, decorated with the most gorgeous trappings of military show, and mounted on the fleetest Arabian chariots, were prancing and curveting in all directions. A loud and exultant shout of vengeance and joy, rising like the roar of the ocean, burst from the Turkish ranks as soon as they perceived their victims enter the plain. The French, too proud and self-confident to retreat before any superiority in numbers, had barely time to form themselves into one of Napoleon’s impregnable squares, when the whole cavalcade of horsemen, with gleaming sabers and hideous yells, and like the sweep of the wind, came rushing down upon them. Every man in the French squares knew that his life depended upon his immobility, and each one stood, shoulder to shoulder with his comrades, like a rock. . . .

“As the immense mass came thundering down upon the square, it was received by volcanic bursts of fire from the French veterans, and horse and rider rolled together in the dust. . . . For six long hours this little band sustained the dreadful and unequal conflict. The artillery of the enemy plowed their ranks in vain. In vain the horsemen made reiterated charges on every side. The French, by the tremendous fire incessantly pouring from their ranks, soon formed around them a rampart of dead men and horses.

“Behind this horrible abatis, they bade stern defiance to the utmost fury of their enemies. Seven long hours passed away, while the battle raged with unabated ferocity. The midday sun was now blazing upon the exhausted band. Their ammunition was nearly expended. Notwithstanding the enormous slaughter they had made, their foes seemed undiminished in number. A conflict so unequal could not much longer continue. The French were calling to their aid a notable despair, expecting there to perish, but resolved, to a man, to sell their lives most dearly.

“Matters were in this state when, at one o’clock, Napoleon, with three thousand men, arrived on the heights which overlooked the field of battle. The field was covered with a countless multitude, swaying to and fro in the most horrible clamor and confusion. . . . With that instinctive judgment which enabled him, with the rapidity of lightning, to adopt the most important decisions, Napoleon instantly took his resolution. He formed his little band into two squares, and advanced in such a manner as to compose, with the square of Kleber, a triangle, enclosing the Turks. Thus, with unparalleled audacity, with six thousand men he undertook to surround thirty thousand of as fierce and desperate soldiers as the world has ever seen. . . .

“The Turks were assailed by a murderous fire instantaneously discharged from the three points of this triangle. Discouraged by the indomitable resolution with which they had been repulsed, and bewildered by the triple assault, they broke and fled.”—“The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,” Vol. I, chap. 12, pages 217-219, by John S. C. Abbott.

“The defeat had been complete; the Turkish camp, with all their baggage and ammunition, fell into the hands of the conquerors; the army which the people of the country called ‘innumerable as the sands of the sea or the stars of heaven,’ had dispersed, never again to reassemble.”—“History of Europe,” Vol. IV, chap. 26, page 206, by Sir Archibald Alison.

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