Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 27. (7/4/1907)

Review and Herald

Jul 4, 1907

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The July Number of Life and Health

THE July number of Life and Health prescribes for those who are nervous, with confused thoughts, depressed heart, and gloomy spirits.

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Editorial Letter

By William W. Prescott

Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book

Rome, the city of the Cæsars, the city of paganism ancient and modern—this tells the story in a few words. Rome is a place of interest to even the casual reader of history, but for the student of history in the light of prophecy it has a peculiar fascination. Here he reads with a more real sense of their meaning those words of the prophets in which the rise and fall of the iron monarchy and the coming of the great apostasy are foretold.

One Sabbath afternoon I sat on the Pincio Hill overlooking St. Peter’s and the Vatican, the chiefest temple of this modern Babylon, and there I read once more the foreview of “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth,” as given by Daniel, Paul, and John. “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise; and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.” “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day [“the day of Christ”] shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” “And there was given unto him [the beast] a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” “If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.”

These and other words I read, and meditated upon their fulfilment. Some of these predictions were made nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, and yet no human writer could describe so accurately, with so few words, the history of the papacy, even with its history before him. And as I considered that only in the light of the third angel’s message can the papacy and its work be really understood, and that only by the power of this message can the soul-destroying teachings of the papacy be uprooted from the heart, I had a new realization of the meaning and importance of this message.

During my stay in Rome I spoke four times to our church. I was pleased to meet some who had been delivered from the snare of the papacy, and who were obeying the truth in the face of opposition and of inducements held out to them if they would return to the Church of Rome. I felt it to be a privilege at the very seat of the beast to preach the gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, and to show that we all have access to the Father through him, without the intervention of priest or pope. Such a gospel as that, though preached in the humblest surroundings, is of more value than all the pomp and ceremony of the Roman ritual in St. Peter’s.

There were two things which made a special impression on my mind at Rome. One was that in the Roman Church the paganism of the Roman state has been perpetuated. This is evident in the teachings and the forms of worship, but this fact is emphasized in the home of the ancient Cæsars by the way in which the papacy has baptized the temples and monuments to the uses of the church, and has made the pope the Pontifex Maximus of a paganized Christianity. The Pantheon is now a church, the old columns are now surmounted with statues of Peter and Mary, the images of the gods are simply exchanged for images of saints and apostles, and in the decorations of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, the Sybilline prophetesses alternate with the prophets of the Bible. This is all appropriate, and is in perfect accord with the facts.

The other striking thing was that modern Babylon emulates ancient Babylon as a builder. It is a well-known fact of history that Nebuchadnezzar made Babylon famous by the restoration of many cities and the erection of magnificent structures—wonderful specimens of the builder’s art. Babylon substituted this outward display of her own works for the building of character, and took pride in them. Said Nebuchadnezzar: “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?” Thus Babylon devoted her

efforts to building material structures, and was in this a type of righteousness by works, the works of the flesh. Modern Babylon has followed in the steps of ancient Babylon. Her magnificent cathedrals are in evidence everywhere, and the city of Rome seemed like a great aggregation of churches, its special pride being St. Peter’s, the greatest church building in the world. But this is again the outward sign of a religion of works, righteousness by works, and is the fulfilment of the ancient type.

But all the magnificence of ancient Babylon has been so completely obliterated that it is with difficulty that even her ruins can be located with certainty. The works of the flesh are not enduring. “The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” Only the works of faith will survive that time when all things earthly will be dissolved. The overthrow of modern Babylon is near at hand. “And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Then “the eternal city” will lose her claim to that title, and another city will take her place, “a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God,” and those who have built for eternity by hearing and doing the sayings of Jesus will be the dwellers in that city. Then the difference between building great material structures by the power of the flesh and building a righteous character by the power of the Holy Spirit will be made manifest, and the papacy will perish in the ruin of her great buildings. This message will bring that day.

Brethren G. A. Irwin and G. B. Thompson were with me during a part of my stay in Rome, and together we visited the school which is being conducted by Brother C. T. Everson and his associates in the work. This school does a praiseworthy work merely from an educational standpoint, but this would not be a sufficient reason for its existence were it not designed to be a means of reaching with this truth those whose acquaintance our workers might not be able to make in any other way. An experience of many years has seemed to demonstrate that one very effectual way of breaking through the wall which Rome has built around her members is by conducting schools, and thus coming in contact with those whose minds are turned toward light. I hope that this school at Rome will prove to be the open door through which many will enter into the full light of this third angel’s message.

From Rome I went to Gland, Suisse, to attend the council of the General Conference Committee which was planned before I left America, and toward which some of us had been journeying many thousands of miles. A report of this meeting has already appeared in the REVIEW, but I may be able to write some further notes of interest in a later letter. W. W. P.

A Short Work

By Editor

Editorial

A Short Work

Those things which seem impossible to man are easily accomplished by the Lord. It is faith in God’s power by which we are fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to perform. There is a great work to be done, and looking at it from the human standpoint, we might decide that it is impossible to complete it in this generation, but our confidence is in the Lord’s promises and in his power to fulfil them. “For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: ‘because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.’” It only needs the willing instruments through whom the Lord can reveal his mighty power in fulfilling his promise. “And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?”

The Approaching Crisis

By C. M. S.

THE Word teaches that every false system will be flourishing in the last days, in the time of the Lord’s preparation. The flourishing of these systems to-day, from Christian Science through the whole category to the resuscitated cause of Islam, is a striking fulfilment of the Word in this respect, and therefore an indication that we are in the last days.

Perhaps the one thing more than any other that has prepared soil and sowed seed for just such a work as the spread of these systems is the criticism of God’s Word that has been going on for the last few years in the pulpits supposed to have been dedicated to the teaching of that Word. This has weakened the faith of many, overthrown the hope of some, and led a great multitude to look to the lifeless systems of paganism to find what they might have found in the Word of God. Such undermining teachings have made the way easy for the exponents of those false systems to multiply the number of their adherents.

Is there not a design in bringing together these two things—the revival of heathen systems, and the attempted undermining of the Word of God, the latter opening the way for the progress of the former? Nothing is more certain than that it is the result of a long-planned and deep-laid scheme of that common enemy of God and man.

They who have maintained faith in God’s Word have looked for just such combinations as this; for that Word teaches us to expect them. They have come, and there are more to follow. Every deceptive device that Satan can invent, or has invented and can use now, will be seen in operation in these days. While “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,” their time will be occupied in deceiving one another and being deceived by one another. Never was there a time when so many false systems were being extolled as now, but we have not seen them all yet by any means. Satan has not yet emptied his quiver.

Islam is only one of the devices set for man’s undoing; but Islam has awakened like a sleeping giant, and a furious zeal is taking possession of its devotees. Shiek Abdul Hagh, of Bagdad, publishes the following, which he calls “the last word of Islam to Europe,” was in which he proclaims the unyielding hatred and contempt of Islam for Christians and all things Christian. This is how he looks upon the present situation:—

Are we blind enough not to see the prodigies of your progress? But know, Christian conquerors, that no calculation, no treasure, no miracle, can ever reconcile us to your impious rule. Know that the mere sight of your flag here is torture to Islam’s soul; your greatest benefits are so many spots sullying our conscience, and our most ardent hope and aspiration is to reach the happy day when we can efface the last vestiges of your accursed empire. Before the Christian peril we have effaced the quarrels of our sects. Islam’s unity is rising from one end of the world to the other.

The uniting of the various sects of Islam to oppose Christianity is only one of the centripetal forces working in these times. Every other deceptive system is likewise arousing, as though it had been resting and recuperating for this last great effort. They who are not firmly rooted and grounded in the truth of God in these last days will be swamped in the great sea that is rolling in upon the doomed world. But we are not without hope even in such times as these upon which we are entering; for “the Lord knoweth them that are his;” and “he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” “It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” The many “winds of doctrine” are blowing; the many combinations designed to bind men to this world are increasing; the forces of evil are strengthening their holdings in every possible way; the “dogmas of doubt” are held constantly before the faces of the professed followers of the Lamb by shepherds false to their trust; the “peace and safety” cry is sounding through the world, while the great shops are building bigger battle-ships and stronger cannon and more of them than ever before; and the great religious world is trampling upon the Sabbath of Jehovah, and beginning its work of persecution upon those who honor it; and that at a time when the Lord is issuing his last invitation and his last warning to this generation. Everything indicates the close of the dispensation, and should stir our hearts to deeper piety and stronger zeal in the work to which we are called.

C. M. S.

The United Christian Party’s Impossible Platform

THE United Christian Party held its annual convention this year at Rock Island, Ill. The chief plank in its platform is the law of God, and it proposes to run this government by that law. As that law is the foundation of God's government, and his “government is not of this world,” no further argument is necessary to show that the “United Christian Party” is attempting the impossible.

The General Conference Committee Council at Gland, Switzerland

By W. A. Spicer

Fifth Report

The council was daily cheered by the evidences of the rapid spread of the message brought before us in the reports presented by laborers and by memorials from the fields. It was also deeply moved by the calls for enlargement in all the fields, the very success of the developing work making necessary a strong movement to reinforce the missionary ranks.

From this land and from that came the calls to fill a vacant post here, to replace a fallen worker there, and to supply further help to look after developing interests where the truth is spreading beyond the reach of the little band of workers available. More forcible than general talk about the needs was the specific list of calls which the fields spread before the council—definite pleas for immediate help. We give a summary of these herewith, a reprint of the same list which the council studied over and over, with the conviction that nearly every call ought to have favorable response without delay:—

Calls from the Mission Fields

China: Total, 11 Men

1. Man and wife to join the new mission established by P. J. Laird and wife at Chang-sha, Hunan.

2. Two men and wives for Fukien Province.

3. Man and wife for educational work at Canton.

4. Two men and wives to join an experienced worker already in China in locating in North China.

5. Man and wife for Shanghai city work.

6. Man and wife to join Elder Westrup at Shang-tsai, Hunan.

7. Man of experience to take general oversight of the China Mission.

8. Man and wife to work among Hakka-speaking people, South China.

9. An experienced secretary and treasurer to locate at Shanghai.

10. Appropriations:—

Printing-office building……$1,000

Equipment……………… 1,000

Funds for literature……… ....

Japan and Korea: Total, 8 Men, 1 Woman

1. Man and wife for Korea.

2. Doctor for Korea.

3. Man and wife for Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

4. Man and wife for northern island, Hokkaido.

5. Man and wife for northern part of Hondu, the main island of Japan.

6. Man and wife for southern part of Hondu.

7. Man and wife for southern island, Kiusiu.

8. Man and wife for island of Formosa.

9. Lady Bible worker to train Japanese Bible women.

10. Appropriations:—

Training-school in Japan, ..$1,200

Intermediate school, Korea… 100

On Tokyo church building… 500

For establishment of European and native sanitarium work, to unite both in one institution in the country..10,000

India: Total, 5 Men

1. Man and wife for Bombay side.

2. Man and wife for Ceylon.

3. Man and wife for Burma, to join Elder Votaw, the only minister among Burma’s eleven millions.

4. Man and wife for South India.

5. Printer for Karmatar printing-office.

South America: Total, 10 Men

1. Man and wife for Bolivia.

2. Man and wife for the educational work, Argentina.

3. Man and wife for Argentina.

4. Two men for North Brazil Mission, where Elder Spies is the only minister among seventeen millions.

5. Man and wife for State of Paraná, Brazil.

6. General book man for South American Union.

7. Two canvassers to lead out in the work.

8. Teacher for Brusque school, in Brazil.

9. Appropriations:—

Three thousand dollars or more for moving and equipping Brazilian printing plant.

South Africa: 6 Men

1. General man for union conference.

2. Experienced minister for Cape Conference.

3. School man for Claremont College, so that Brother Hayton and wife may take up native training-school work.

4. Man and wife for Barotseland, to join Brother Anderson, and allow extension of work.

5. Man and wife for Somabula Mission, Elder Armitage and family requiring a change to the Cape Colony field.

6. Man and wife for Kolo Mission, Basutoland.

7. Man and wife for Solusi Mission, so that Elder Sturdevant and wife may in time open a new station farther in the interior.

West Africa: 1 Man

1. A teacher for a training-school.

Great Britain: 2 Men

1. President for South England Conference.

2. Laborer for North England Conference.

New York City: 1 Man

1. Polyglot secretary for the Review and Herald foreign depository.

Australasian Union: 4 Men

1. Dutch worker for Java.

2. Man and wife for Philippines.

3. Man and wife for New Guinea.

4. Doctor for Avondale Retreat.

West Indian Union: 4 Men

1. Printer for Port of Spain publishing house.

2. Male nurse for Trinidad treatment rooms, in place of Charles Enoch, deceased.

3. Man and wife for Central American Mission.

4. Man and wife for Panama and South Central America.

Mexico: 1 Man

1. A general book man to take charge of circulation of literature.

This meant a definite call for over eighty laborers, including wives of missionaries, to enter the fields white unto harvest. In a few cases it was recommended that changes within the fields be made to supply the immediate need. But the council could only say that these calls must be responded to in some way. To fill every one would but place a laborer here and there among millions. Vast territories ought not, it was felt, to be left with no laborer, or with only one missionary and his wife to represent our growing work in the whole region.

But the council had to deal with the fact that enlarged plans could be carried out only by enlarged gifts for missions this year. The council adopted the following resolutions:—

Whereas, The calls from the mission fields are many and urgent, there being definite and well-founded requests for fifty men presented at this meeting of the General Conference Committee; and,—

Whereas, We are unable to fill the large portion of these calls for lack of suitable workers and sufficient means; and,—

Whereas, We confidently believe that the opening providences of God indicate that the time has fully come for extending this message more rapidly than ever before; therefore,—

Resolved, That we should plan in the most intelligent manner for a great missionary campaign at our camp-meetings in America during the remainder of the present season; and further,—

Resolved, That we urge all our general laborers to join in this campaign by informing themselves in a definite way (1) concerning the fields which are calling for help, (2) concerning the calls made and the reasons therefor, and (3) concerning our mission work already established in these fields. And that we further urge these laborers to present the missionary problem to our people gathered at these meetings, with a view to definite action in providing workers and funds with which to meet the demands pressing upon us.

The council took action in some cases requesting conferences to release and send to the fields certain laborers, continuing their support. Naturally, these actions will not be printed here, nor until consideration is given them by the persons and conferences concerned.

Each evening of the council, during this second week, was devoted to reports from the laborers representing different portions of the field, mainly of Europe. Reference to these reports may be possible later.

The weather, which had been so pleasant at the opening, became cold and wet for several days, but the interest and attendance of the people and delegates were unflagging. As the reports came in from the different groups of workers, no one felt that he could safely miss the blessings of any service. The interchange of experiences among these laborers from the different countries of Europe, many of whom are called upon to meet very similar conditions as regards legal restrictions, military laws, and Catholic influence, was a means of great encouragement and strength to the workers.

In the Latin Union meeting, Elder L. P. Tieche, former president of the

French-Swiss Conference, was elected president of the Latin Union mission field.

During the meeting, Professor W. E. Howell and family arrived at Gland, on their way to open work in Greece. Dr. V. Pampaian was also present from the far Caucasus, representing work being done at the foot of Mount Ararat, where so long ago the ark rested, and the earth began again to be occupied by the sons of men. Literally every quarter of the earth was pressing its needs before the council, and all felt that the only thing to do was solemnly to appeal to every resource in this denomination to respond to the calls of Providence to go forth to all peoples with the third angel’s message.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

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