Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 4. (1/28/1909)

Review and Herald

Jan 28, 1909

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Editorial

By Editor

FAITHFULNESS in the little things is as pleasing to God as faithfulness in the great things. The former shows the spirit of faithfulness in the individual; the latter shows the fruit of that spirit. So the Saviour could say: “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.” The little things are easier to slight without that slight being revealed to others; the great things are more conspicuous, and thus furnish an incentive in themselves. Therefore, “whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men; . . . for ye serve the Lord Christ.”

A Personal Saviour

THE stanchest infidel believes in the forces of nature and in the legitimate rule of law. The devils believe in much that is true, much that some Christians, even, will not assent to. But it is more than belief in force and law, more than a mere belief of truth itself, that is required to save men. It is more than that that is needed to keep men, even those who have acknowledged allegiance to Christ. Men need a personal experience in the things of God. They need to know what it is to have their sins forgiven, to grasp the hand of Omnipotence when their own strength and courage have proved unequal to the tasks laid upon them. They need to feel the fellowship of the Elder Brother, the humanity of Jesus as well as his divinity, the clasp of his hand in the times of sorrow and trial. The theory of the best religion, with the personal-experience equation left out, will soon turn into a dead formalism that can not save. Men must know there is a Father's pitying heart in heaven and a Saviour's presence with them in the earth if they are to be truly saved and kept through the tribulations and persecutions that are coming on the world.

Misrepresenting Christianity in Heathen Lands

By Editor

THE current number of the Missionary Review of the World contains an article entitled “Missionary Responsibility for Government Legislation,” written by Dr. W. F. Crafts of this city, to whose name is appended the official designation, “Superintendent of the International Reform Bureau.” This article is one phase of the many-sided effort to educate the public mind and to prepare the people to assent to the demand now made in so many quarters for that sort of an alliance between the state and the church which will mean the furtherance of the aims of the church by political means.

It is well known in the mission fields, especially in the far East, that the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church have put forth the most strenuous efforts to seize upon the political machinery of the country, and by this means to gain special concessions and privileges in behalf of the organization under whose direction they labor. With this object-lesson constantly before them, missionaries of other denominations have been constrained to seek no alliance with the government, and to refrain from any attempt to advance their own interests under the pressure of their home government.

With a desire to bring about a change, Dr. Crafts writes:—

The hesitation to use in mission fields the powers that were ordained of God for Christian ends, is partly due to a reaction against such abuses as drove the Roman Catholics from Japan and prompted the slaughter of missionaries and converts by the Boxers in China. The sequence in China of missionary and consul and conquest and Catholic courts to shield criminals against civil powers, has naturally led Protestants to do less than is really legitimate in the civic field, which is a part of the everywhere where God is, and where religion, therefore, has a right—aye, a duty—to go.

The legitimate work of the missionary in any field is to preach the gospel of Christ to all classes, making the best use of his opportunities for this purpose.

When missionary effort is made the excuse for an interference with properly constituted government, and for wresting from a non-resisting people concessions of a purely political nature, then reproach is brought upon the Christian religion, and a prejudice is justly aroused, which may find vent in a violent uprising.

It is instructive, and we might perhaps say humiliating, to read the views of a non-Christian upon this subject. From an article in the Japan Times of Tokyo, we take the following paragraph:—

I think I may safely say that Japan has rarely been an open opponent of the Christian religion as such. But she knows all too well how that Western powers, under the pretext of “protecting” their missionaries in the East, have sought to advance their own political ends. It is mainly because Christ has been presented as backing a political power, as a warrior seeking conquest, that he has been opposed. No wonder that Eastern peoples find difficulty in reconciling the preaching of the missionary and the Christ whom he presents with the course of “Christian” nations. State religions, whether “Christian” or Mohammedan, are incompatible with the religion of the Prince of Peace. His teachings were spiritual, his ambitions were only to save men from sin. He came not as the champion of any country, not even his own; his religion was world-wide, not national. His followers were to submit to any government under which they might happen to be placed, obeying its rulers and complying with its laws; but they were to become the partizan supporters of none. For three hundred years the church as a whole followed this rule, and from the fourth century till now there have always been many who have done it; but being considered “heretics” by the state religions, their history has been obscured. That this is clearly the spirit of the pure religion as given by its Founder, admits of little question. That it is the only possible principle on which it can be made acceptable to all countries, and be a world-wide religion, is equally apparent.

In marked contrast with this clear statement of right principles, is the recommendation of Dr. Crafts in the latter part of his article. To quote:—

There is an unusually fine opportunity just now to press upon the governments of Japan and China the full adoption of Sunday rest, now enforced by law in every other of the great civilized nations with which Japan and China claim to rank, France having recently adopted a Sunday law after two full trials of the no-Sunday plan. Japan

long since, and China recently, having gone so far as to make Sunday a dies non in public offices and schools, may logically be urged to adopt fully the weekly rest-day for all other workers, save as their work may be that of mercy or necessity. Other Christian institutions of Europe and America having been adopted by both Japan and China, why should they not take to heart that the nations which best observe the Sabbath are the strongest physically, mentally, morally, financially, politically? Let them be shown by a mighty array of facts and testimonies that the physical standard for soldiers, the literacy of the people, the morals, the weekly and annual wage, are all at the highest point where Sunday is protected by law against toil and traffic, including traffic in amusements.

Thus does this apostle of enforced Sunday observance seek to fasten upon non-Christian nations a state-enforced religious observance, for which no sanction can be found in that Book which missionaries present to the heathen as the basis of all authority for the Christian religion. The argument is this: “The nations which best observe the Sabbath are the strongest physically, mentally, morally, financially, politically;” therefore Sabbath-keeping (by which Dr. Crafts means Sunday-keeping) should be enforced by law, even upon those who do not acknowledge the claims of Christianity. It is astonishing that any one can employ seriously such reasoning as this as a ground for the conclusion that missionaries in heathen lands should endeavor to seek to establish Christian observances upon a legal basis. What has already been done in this direction has called out the well-deserved rebuke from a non-Christian which we have already quoted. It is a cause of profound regret that a professed representative of Christianity should urge the use of political means for forcing upon the people an observance which ought to grow out of a personal acknowledgment of God as the Creator and Ruler, and the personal acceptance of Christ as the Saviour. Such methods for the advance of Christianity are a reproach, whether they are adopted in a professedly Christian country or in a heathen land.

Not There

By William Ambrose Spicer

WHILE our sympathies were being deeply moved for the sufferers by the most disastrous earthquake of history, there was no anxiety lest any of our own people or workers were involved in it. So far as our records go, no representative of this message has ever entered Sicily or those regions of Southern Italy where thousands were suddenly plunged into death.

The papers say that multitudes of people in Italy, their hearts failing for fear, are persuaded that the end of the world is at hand. But we have never planted a standard in southernmost Italy.

When, a few years ago, the volcano of Mont Pelée, in the West Indies, overwhelmed thirty thousand people in a moment, we were conscious of the fact that no messenger of this truth had ever touched the French Catholic island of Martinique. It lay not far from our own shores, but we never reached it.

Is it not time resolutely to plan to place just the first leaven of truth by the printed page, or at least one witness, in every great division of the many portions of earth as yet unentered? We are strong enough now, surely, at least to blaze a trail of the message through these unentered regions, so that seekers after the truth may find their way to it.

There is much more to be done, it is true, in all the older fields. But as these judgments are breaking over the earth, sweeping away multitudes for whom we have never lifted a hand, the absolutely neglected fields spread their dark dimensions before us in solemn rebuke. W. A. S.

The Peace of God

By C. M. S.

MILLIONS of dollars are being spent every year in the effort to bring about a condition of peace. Austria has offered to pay more than ten million dollars to Turkey in one sum in order to preserve peace between the two nations. The United States paid Spain twenty million dollars in one sum to facilitate the securing and maintenance of peace after taking Cuba, Porto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines out from under Spain’s jurisdiction. China agreed to pay “the powers” of Europe and the government of the United States an aggregate of three hundred twenty million dollars to prevent dismemberment of the empire by those nations after the Boxer uprising had been quelled. A palace of peace is now being erected at The Hague, to cost one and one-half million dollars. An international peace congress has been established to bring about the tranquillity of the world. The inhabitants of Chile and Argentina have built a great statue of the Saviour on a peak of the Andes where the borders of the two nations touch, hoping thus forever to forestall war and insure tranquillity. The nations are making new treaties every year to compel themselves to keep the peace.

What the nations are doing on so large a scale and so ineffectually, individuals are attempting on a scale proportionate to their ability. The god of wealth — or the demon of desire — holds before the multitude constantly the dream of happier and more peaceful days when income or possessions are sufficiently increased. They want peace, and to get it, clamber over the ruins of others’ hopes and homes, and still see that alluring, dangerous ignis fatuus just beyond their grasp.

Others, ignoring or forgetting the Word, and still seeking peace and soul rest, turn to those who promise both but can give neither. The world is seeking peace, but it wants it in its own way, in its own time, in its own measure, and through a source of its own discovery. They forget that God has never guaranteed peace to any save as a foretaste of heaven — an experience which can be partaken of by none save the children of God. He has not guaranteed even to them any peace save that kind which is able to endure in the very midst of tribulation. Jesus said: “In the world ye shall have tribulation.” But he added: “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33. He who is of good cheer in the midst of tribulation is enjoying peace. In spite of the tribulation which the Spirit knew would come, he admonishes us thus: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.” Col. 3:15. Here is illustrated the difference between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. To the soul anchored in Christ the billows of trouble are not dangerous. To the soul not so anchored every wave of trouble drives him toward soul ruin. Buffeted, but not cast down; tried, but not discouraged; persecuted, but triumphant through the persecution; threatened on every hand, but still resting in a peace that can not be taken away,—this is the experience of the soul surrendered to Christ and regenerated through the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Our Saviour spoke of a class of professed followers of the Word who would accept its teachings gladly, but “when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.” This is the “fair-weather” Christian, who serves God when the skies are clear, the fields green, the crops good, friends abundant, money plenty, and no trouble in sight. Such get no permanent good for themselves out of life’s experiences, and are like rotten timbers in a building. When the stress comes, they break, and endanger other portions of the structure.

The heart and purpose of the true Christian are laid bare in the following questions and answers indited by Inspiration: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in

Christ Jesus our Lord.” Rom. 8:35-39. It was immediately after Paul’s stoning at Lystra that he declared to the disciples, “Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.”

The experience of the Christian is a paradox to the man of the world. To be stoned, and feel no enmity; to be robbed, and take it joyfully; to be reviled, and revile not again; to be whipped and imprisoned, and yet praise God in song and prayer; to be crucified upon a cross, and yet pray for the murderers—these are beyond the comprehension of the unconverted man. He seeks to get peace by removing the things that worry him, or by fighting against those who oppress him. That is the human idea of peace, and the human means of working it out. But it only adds to the confusion of the world.

Our Lord has not permitted Satan to entirely control the affairs of the race. While the world is earnestly longing for peace, and while Satan is putting forth a spurious peace founded in selfishness, that is bringing the world more trouble in the effort to obtain it, our Saviour assures us that there is a true and satisfying peace that men may have even now. Said he: “Peace I leave with you; 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 fearful.” John 14:27. Christ had peace in a tossing boat, while his companions were racked with fears. They had not yet apprehended that peace “which passeth all understanding.” To them as yet peace could come only with the removal of the things that seemed against them. But when they had learned in the school of Christ what it means to have the peace of God, they could look for peace and expect peace without any regard to environment or circumstances. Then they could permit the thing that seemed against them to do its office work in shaping their characters, burning away the dross, polishing the jewel. The Spirit taught them, as it would teach us, that “tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” It is nothing but the possession of the peace of God that will enable us to bring such a glorious result out of the multitudinous tribulations and buffetings of this world. The way we relate ourselves to the experiences of each day is determining whether we are being fashioned in the likeness of the character of Christ, or whether we are seeking peace on the plan of the world, and courting the disappointment that must finally come to all worldly projects.

The Spirit’s admonition to us is that we should be “patient in tribulation.” Again: “Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” That is the condition that will be attained by those who are “accounted worthy to obtain that world.” It is no small thing to exercise the patience which true Christian living demands in the midst of all the troublesome tendencies and evil inclinations of this age. “Ye have need of patience,” says Inspiration, “that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” Heb. 10:36, 37. And “he that shall come” makes this encouraging promise to his faithful followers:—

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” Rev. 3:10.

That hour of this world’s great temptation is drawing near; the forces of evil that will bring it about are being mustered for the fray; but during all the time of its duration there will be a little band, perfected through tribulation, patient through suffering, kept by the omnipotent arm of the Prince of Peace. Of them he says: “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” They have not poured out wealth to bring peace; they have not confederated with organizations of men to compel peace; they have not disarmed nations to bring it about; but through all their trying experiences they have had the peace of God and exemplified the patience of Christ. It will be worth more than human mind can estimate to be counted a member of that little patient band in that day.

C. M. S.

Important Meetings in the Southern Field

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

A NUMBER of very important and encouraging meetings in the interests of the work in the Southern field have been held at Nashville, Tenn., during the month of January. The first of these to convene was the bookmen’s convention. This was attended by the leading workers in the publishing department in the Southern, Southeastern, and Southwestern union conferences. The reports presented by these workers were very encouraging. They showed that a larger amount of our literature has been distributed in the territory represented by these union conferences during the last year than in any previous year. They also show that at the present time there is by far the largest number of well-trained, capable workers engaged in this department of the work that these union conferences have ever had. During the convention, representatives of this work laid broad plans for its development in the future. All the State conventions are being held early in the year, that the large staff of canvassers may reach their fields at an early date, to press forward their work through the entire year. With the large number of well-trained, courageous workers in the field, the outlook for this branch of our work appears the most encouraging that it ever has in the South. This is the result of years of earnest, persistent effort put forth by the leading men in the field. We are glad to see their faithful services thus rewarded.

Following the bookmen’s convention, the Southern Publishing Association held its annual meeting. Our brethren and sisters who have kept a close watch of the development of this association will be greatly cheered to learn that the association was able to report a net gain of a little more than $10,000 for the year; $6,674.43 of this amount is the gain in the working operations of the association; $3,401.78 was donated by friends. During the first years of the history of this association, it sustained a very heavy loss in its operations. But four or five years ago affairs began to improve, and they have been growing better each year. The first gain in operation was for the year 1907, when the office showed a gain of $688.23. This was encouraging to those who were closely identified with the institution. While we all hoped that the affairs of the institution would still improve, no one expected such splendid results from the operations of the past year. And we are more thankful than words could express for this substantial and encouraging gain. The office is now well-equipped, and has a good, competent staff of workers. The field is well organized, and a large body of successful workers is engaged in the distribution of the literature. The prospects for the present year seem the brightest of any in the history of the association.

In connection with the meetings of the publishing association, there was held a general council of the Southern and Southeastern union conferences. Many important matters relating to the division of the territory and the development of the work in its various departments were considered; and broad, aggressive plans were laid for the progress of the work in the South. Elder G. A. Irwin, who, during the past year, has acted as president of the Southern Union Conference, and chairman of some of the institutional organizations, retired from the field, and Elder C. F. McVagh was chosen to take his place. Brother McVagh has been vice-president during the past year, and has become well acquainted with conditions throughout the South. The work is surely moving forward in that part of the field. A

number of good workers have been transferred from Northern conferences to different conferences in the South during the year 1908. The division of the field has provided more burden-bearers, thus increasing the number of workers. And yet more should be done by our Northern conferences for the South. There are many large cities ready for the message; but the conferences in which they are located have not the laborers necessary to enter these cities. The people in the South respond as readily to this message as do the people in any other part of the country. What is needed is a large number of capable men and women to give the message.

As one traces with care the development of the work in the South during the last eight years, he can but feel to rejoice over the progress that has been made. For years our dear Brother Butler, president of the Southern Union Conference, labored untiringly for the enlargement of the work. It was a long, hard pull, but each year recorded advancement, until now there is a steady and very perceptible progress, and the outlook is cheering. Elder McVagh, president of the Southern Union Conference, and Elder W. A. Westworth, president of the Southeastern Union Conference, are supported by loyal, earnest men, whose hearts are set to carry forward the work against all difficulties and obstacles. Our Northern conferences should continue to share their laborers and means with these conferences until there is a more equal distribution.

Good reports were presented by those in charge of the principal schools in the South. The attendance is good, and the students are taking a deep interest in their work. The Nashville Sanitarium has been passing through difficulties; but it is believed that these are being overcome, and that the institution will soon enjoy its share of prosperity.

For all these blessings we thank God, and take courage. Let us remember our work and workers at the throne of grace.

A. G. DANIELLS.

Note and Comment

By Editor

Forecasting Union

IN an editorial on the Federal Council of Churches, the Independent speaks hopefully of a probable union between Protestants and Catholics. We quote:—

To be sure, Protestants are by themselves, and the Catholics by themselves, but the breach between the two is surely not so wide as it was fifty years ago, and a truce is already in sight. We saw it when the Presbyterian Church dropped from its confession of faith its denunciation of the Roman Church as Antichrist; and in a multitude of places the two bodies work together for reforms. What is called in New Jersey been the Bishops' law was drawn up by a Catholic and a Protestant bishop to restrain the liquor nuisance. Only a few of the Catholic journals speak sneeringly of the meeting in Philadelphia. On both sides it is becoming clearer that the believers in the Christ must not waste the strength in fighting one another which ought to be spent in advancing the kingdom of God.

That which only a few years ago was regarded as altogether improbable, if not altogether impossible, is now viewed as “already in sight.” Believers in this advent movement have foreseen this as a fulfilment of prophecy, and the evidence is now constantly becoming clearer that their interpretation of the prophecy is correct.

A Hint From Rome

A SIGNIFICANT hint was thrown out recently in Rome, whose evident intent was to involve President-Elect Taft in dealings with the head of the Catholic Church. There has been an agitation in this country for some time, the purpose of which was to influence the pope to appoint Archbishop Ireland as the second American cardinal. It was this agitation, or what grew out of it, that resulted some time ago in the recall of United States Ambassador Storey, and the appointment of another to take his place, while the papers were filled with the published correspondence of President Roosevelt and the ambassador. Concerning the matter a Rome correspondent of the New York Herald cables his paper as follows:—

The Herald correspondent is in a position to say that never before were the chances of Archbishop Ireland’s becoming the second American cardinal so strong as they are to-day. The president-elect is a warm personal friend of the archbishop, and this fact is now urged by the admirers of Mgr. Ireland as an additional reason for giving him a seat in the senate of the church, and if the president-elect will express a desire to have this honor bestowed on the archbishop of St. Paul, the appointment is as good as certain.

The question naturally arises, What has President-Elect Taft, or any other American official, to do with the pope’s appointment of a cardinal in the United States or anywhere else? Why should the friendship of the president-elect for a Catholic archbishop be used as a lever of influence with the Vatican unless it be the purpose of those using it to give the Catholic Church greater influence with the chief executive of the nation? And why should the pope yield to a non-Catholic “request,” while refusing to yield to similar requests from influential members of his own church, unless out of that yielding he expected an advantage which could not otherwise be obtained? It is the age-old scheme of entangling state officials with the operations of the church, that the influence of such officials may be made much of in other plans. There is no intimation that Mr. Taft will act upon the suggestion, but the way is open, the invitation to do so is extended, and some day it will be done. Were a Catholic in the presidential chair, however, instead of his being invited to make suggestions to the Vatican, suggestions would be made by the Vatican to him, and he would be expected to carry them out.

A Voice From Peru

The attention of the public is now being called in an emphatic way to the subject of religious liberty. President Roosevelt's letter on this subject, and the replies which have been made thereto, have awakened widespread interest, and have called out a varied discussion in representative publications. Some leading Roman Catholics have taken occasion to declare the devotion of their church to the principles of religious liberty, and to claim the credit for much of what has been done in defending these principles. It therefore seems proper to refer to some current history upon this subject. As indicating the degree of religious liberty which prevails in countries where Roman Catholics are in control, and which would doubtless prevail in any country where they could gain control, we quote a paragraph from a recent article by a missionary in Peru. He thus speaks from actual experience:—

At first, our very presence aroused a storm of indignation among the priests, but they thought they had only to draw the attention of the authorities to the fact, and to quote Article 4, in order to have us immediately expelled. This actually happened in Cuzco in 1895. The bishop quoted the law to the prefect, said our presence was a menace to the Catholic Church, and called upon him to protect it by expelling us. The prefect complied, although having no precedent in the history of Peru to act upon. Later, the supreme court of Lima decided that, as no public propaganda had been proved, the expulsion was illegal. An indemnity was paid, and we returned to Cuzco. Then came the question of Bible-selling, and the announcement of our meetings by hand-bills, posters, and in newspapers. This surely was public propaganda, and in some cases it was prohibited by the local authorities. However, the press took up the matter, and the highest legal authorities declared that, having permitted the Bible to come into the country, its circulation could not be hindered in any way. As regards the advertising of the meetings, they were not necessarily for worship, and only public worship was prohibited by the law.

That liberty which the Roman Catholic Church enjoys in Protestant America it refuses to grant to Protestants in Catholic countries. This demonstrates the insincerity of its claim that it is a conserver of religious liberty.

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