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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 48.

Words From Far Fields

Review and Herald

Nov 28, 1912

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 28, 1912

Words From Far Fields

By J. L. Shaw; Anol Grundset

India's Greeting

In ten different tongues the gospel of Jesus and his soon coming is being told in India and Burma, and some are hearing the voice of God and turning unto him. The output of our literature will this year more than double that of last year, and our mission schools are about as many again. Now is the time of seed-sowing in India, and we confidently expect a larger harvest in the future; yet for this we need the Holy Spirit. We ask you to pray definitely during the coming week of prayer that our Indian, American, and English workers may have a greater passion for winning souls for Christ, and be energized by God's Spirit for a greater work in the year to come. Our hearts are with you in this time of prayer. The message of the third angel is rising into a louder cry in the East. The ultimate triumph of the gospel in heathen lands is assured. King Jesus is coming, and will claim his children in every land and take them home. J. L. Shaw.
Lucknow.

Children of God's Book

Over three thousand years ago, God with an outstretched hand led Israel, pursued by their enemies, through the Red Sea. The Word assures us, “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it can not save; neither his ear heavy, that it can not hear.” Our experience must prove that the same power intercedes for his people to-day; this is my testimony from the Hamasen plateau, eighty miles from the Red Sea. One inquiring what we believed, added that he had heard we were “Doeki Moetshaf Oegsiabeher” (children of God's Book). God help us, whether at home or abroad, that our lives daily may witness as “children of God's Book.” The “everlasting gospel” is due to be preached “in all the world for a witness unto all nations.” Dear brethren and sisters in the faith of a triumphant cause, let each share to the fullest extent possible by our prayers, our strength, our example, and our entrusted means, in hastening on the coming kingdom and the saints' inheritance. Anol Grundset.
Abyssinian Border, East Africa.

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ALEX. MARTIN
I AM thinking to-day of that beautiful land We shall reach when the harvest is past, And the songs of the angels will ring through the air As we lay down our sickles at last.
When the Lord of the harvest will come in his might, He will lead that great band from above; They will gather the reapers and carry them home, There to dwell in the smiles of his love.
When we get to the end of our journey at last, We shall enter the city of gold, With its walls all of jasper, its twelve gates of pearl, And with glories that can not be told.
In the midst of the street is the river of life, Clear as crystal its pure water flows 'Neath the arch that is formed by the life-giving tree On whose branches the fruit of life grows.
In the leaves of the tree there is healing and balm, Of its fruit every month we shall eat; While our thirst shall be quenched by the stream from the throne, As we drink of its waters so sweet.
There will be for its light neither candle nor sun, For the Lamb is its light evermore; And around the white throne of our Sa- viour and King Will be heard songs of praise o'er and o'er.
Now the end is at hand, and our work must be done, For the harvest is ripening fast; Let us gather some wheat from the tares of the world To present to the Master at last.
Let us work with our might all the morn, noon, and night, Till the Lord of the harvest shall come; And with him we'll arise to the man- sions of rest, There to share in the glad harvest home.
Los Angeles, Cal.

“The Invisible Spiritual Officers of the Government”

By A. J. S. BOURDEAU

Rome’s Latest Claim in Behalf of Her Clergy

A. J. S. BOURDEAU
THE essential principle of Roman Catholicism, Mohammedanism, and all other systems of false religion, is the worship of man. And it is against this natural tendency of the unregenerate heart that the great threefold message of Revelation 14 is directed. The very first words of the mighty angel flying in the midst of heaven, and “having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,” are: “Fear God, and give glory to him; . . . and worship him.” Verses 6, 7.
The triumphal tours of the three “American” cardinals afford many opportunities for spectacular display, processions, false claims of nobility and rank, and the worship of man—all so clearly repudiated by the Master, whose servants these claim to be.
On several occasions it has been the writer’s privilege to study at first-hand, along with other newspaper reporters, these spectacular pageants in honor of one or another of the cardinals. The idolatrous nature of them all is clearly seen, for instance, in the triumphal entry of John Cardinal Farley into New York, Jan. 16, 1912. Witness the following “welcome” song, printed in cardinal red, and passed out to the vast throng assembled in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on that occasion:—
“Welcome, welcome, welcome, All that we love and revere; But first let the song of our welcome ascend To greet thee, our Cardinal, our Father, and friend; Anointed of God, and our guide for above, We greet thee, we greet thee, with gladness and love. “As the flowers of the forest unfold to the sun, So our young hearts rejoice as in kindness you come; As they brighten to beauty beneath its warm ray, Let your smiles and applause give us courage to-day.”
Sitting on his scarlet throne before the altar, the cardinal consented to receive the worship of the Catholic clergy of New York as on bended knee they bowed to kiss his ring. A few nights later we witnessed the same process in the great Hippodrome, when both the clergy and the speakers of the evening (among them United States Senators and Congressmen), of Catholic persuasion, knelt before his throne and kissed his extended hand.

Princes of the Church

Cardinal Farley is now completing the first half of his triumphal tour from New York to the Pacific Coast and back. En route he has stopped at Denver, Salt Lake City, and Santa Clara, Cal. In harmony with his claim to be a “Prince of the Church,” he travels in a private car furnished by the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, having a special guide, Mr. F. A. Wadleigh, the general passenger agent. In the Denver Catholic Register of November 7, this private car is described as “the finest in the West,” the same being the property of Mr. Charles A. Slack, first vice-president of the Western Pacific Railroad Company. He is accompanied by a retinue of servants and minor clergy.
In harmony also with Roman Catholic belief in a union of the church with the state (the church being over the state), his entry into Salt Lake City, Thursday evening, October 31, was notable in that his “escort of honor” through the principal streets of the city to the hotel Utah, was composed of “the Twentieth United States Infantry, the Knights of Columbus, and members of the Young Women’s Sodality of St. Mary’s Cathedral.”
At the hotel he occupied the suite of rooms reserved for the President of the United States, and at the banquet in his honor, there were present, in addition to the clergy, Mayor Samuel C. Park; Chief JusticeJ. E. Frick; Pres. J. T. Kingsbury, of the University of Utah; Col. James A. Irons, commander of the Twentieth United States Infantry; Capt. John England, United States Army; and scores of other lesser luminaries.
As indicative of the unchristlike pomp of this function, we quote the following from a lengthy official description of the event as recorded in the Inter-Mountain Catholic (Salt Lake City) of November 2:— > “He was escorted to the east banquet-room, where he received dignitaries of state and city prominence. Cardinal Farley was attired in the crimson robes of his high office, a crimson biretta adorned his head, and on his finger sparkled a gorgeous ruby. To a sign from the cardinal the dignitaries assembled in the banquet-room bowed their heads. The cardinal blessed them, and to another sign they seated themselves about the banquet-board.”

Rome’s Reply to Protestant Protests

To their credit be it said, a few of the Protestant clergymen of Salt Lake City protested against the use of United States troops as an escort to the cardinal. In defense of this mingling of church and state, the Inter-Mountain Catholic of November 9 devotes its first and lengthy editorial, from which we take the following:— > “Cardinal Farley came to Salt Lake as the representative of a sovereign whose spiritual sway extends over upwards of three hundred millions of people; a sovereign whose dominions are not defined by the lines of any one country, but are limited only by the broad canopy that encircles the earth. > > “His elevation to the cardinalate was a signal honor to the country of which he was a citizen. > > “At the request and in behalf of a large portion of the population of the State, Senator Smoot secured permission from the proper authorities for a detachment of the United States troops stationed at Fort Douglas to participate in a parade in honor of the visit of the distinguished American citizen and prelate.”

Invite Protestants to Do Likewise

In reply to the question, “Would the same honor be paid a common clergyman of the Methodist faith, or the Baptist faith, or of other faiths?” the editorial continues:— > “The answer naturally would be, If such person had earned for himself such a distinction, and had rendered such services to the government, and had brought such honor to the nation as Cardinal Farley, by all means the same honor should be paid him. . . . The voice of no Catholic clergyman would be heard in protest, criticism, or objection.” > > “Cardinal Farley had rendered important service to the government by counseling and advising those under his spiritual direction to be stanch supporters of the government, to obey its laws, to respect its authority.” > > “Any representative, therefore, of an organization that is continually advocating such high ideals . . . is continually lending powerful aid to the government and its rulers, and such representatives are entitled to the gratitude and honor that a republic such as we boast of is always glad to extend.”

A Most Astounding and Bald Statement

As if to clinch his argument in defense of the use of United States troops in the parade, the Catholic editor frankly discloses the purpose of Rome with reference to the government of the United States and all other civil governments. Mark carefully his words:— > “The clergy of the Catholic Church are the invisible spiritual officers of the government, and entitled to rank high in the nation’s roll of honor. Cardinal Farley is no exception to this class.”
In this statement is wrapped up the very kernel of the Spanish Inquisition and of all other religious persecutions of the past. It is the old sickening story of a persecuting church in control of the civil power. It brings to mind the dreaded Torquemada, confessor to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who, as an “invisible spiritual officer of the government” of Spain, led the king and queen to exterminate the heretics within their realm. It is a justification of the inhuman persecution of the Huguenots of France, the Protestants of Holland, and of Dissenters in England, whether Protestant or Catholic.

Rome’s Principle Foretold in the Scriptures

In the book of Revelation the pen of inspiration clearly points out Romanism as the great apostate church, or woman, “that sitteth upon many waters” (Rev. 17:1), or “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” This apostate church the prophet describes as “a woman,” sitting “upon a scarlet-colored beast.” In prophetic language a beast always typifies civil government. Mark that the woman controls and guides the beast.
As if in fulfilment of this Bible prediction concerning the belief of Rome in the union of church and state, we read the following questions and answers in the “Manual of Christian Doctrine,” a text-book used by Brothers of the Christian Schools, ninth edition, published by John J. McVey, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1909, under the heading “Union of Church and State,” pages 132, 133:— > “Question 120.—Has the state the right and the duty to proscribe schism or heresy? > > “Answer.—Yes; it has the right and the duty to do so, both for the good of the nation and for that of the faithful themselves; for religious unity is the principal foundation of social unity. . . . > > “Quest. 122.—May the state separate itself from the church? > > “Ans.—No: because it may not withdraw from the supreme rule of Christ. > > “Quest. 123.—What name is given to the doctrine that the state has neither the right nor the duty to be united to the church to protect it? > > “Ans.—This doctrine is called Liberalism. It is founded principally on the fact that modern society rests on liberty of conscience and of worship, on liberty of speech and of the press. > > “Quest. 124.—Why is Liberalism to be condemned? > > “Ans.—(1) Because it denies all subordination of the state to the church; (2) because it confounds liberty with right; (3) because it despises the social kingship of Christ, and rejects the benefits derived therefrom.”

“To Mold American Public Opinion”

In a speech at the quarterly convention of the Middlesex County branch of the Catholic Federation of the archdiocese of Boston, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Ambrose F. Roche, pastor of St. Patrick’s parish of Watertown, Mass., made the following significant speech showing Rome’s determination to unite church and state in America:—
“We must do our part, both as individuals and as an organization, to mold American public opinion into the habit of making correct, and, therefore, favorable judgments with regard to the beneficent influence upon this nation of the Catholic Church. . . . “Our Catholic men must show this nation that the one plague-spot of modern society is the cesspool of corruption formed by the cutting off of the clean waters of Christianity from legislative, executive, and judicial fields of action.

“True Basis for Politics”

> “They must convince this republic that the commandments of God form the only true basis for politics—that any attempt at just and satisfactory government will fail if it severs political rule from the principles of morality, and if it dares to assert the freedom of political power from moral, and therefore religious, restraint. . . . > > “To nations as well as to individuals are Christ’s words addressed, ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all things else shall be given to you.’”—The Pilot (Boston), Aug. 3, 1912.

Cardinal Manning Affirms Right of Church to Meddle in Politics

The following utterances on Rome’s desire to unite the church with the state are well worth noting:— > “There is a divine obligation binding the church to enter into the most intricate relations with the natural society or commonwealth of men, or, in other words, with peoples, states, and civil powers. > > “The church has in every age striven to direct, not the life of individual men only, but the collective life of nations in their organized forms of republics, monarchies, and empires. > > “As soon as the society of the empire became Christian, the church penetrated all its legislative and executive action. > > “The church never withdraws from the state as such, which would be to abandon the natural society of man to its own maladies and mortalities.”— > > “Facing the Twentieth Century,” by Rev. James M. King, page 189.

Rome and the United States Constitution

Rome’s protestation of loyalty to the United States government and its Constitution and free institutions must always be interpreted in the light of her official utterances. In speaking of the Constitution, Dr. Brownson, the renowned pervert from Protestantism, a recognized Catholic authority, uttered the following sentiment as recorded in the Catholic World for September, 1871, Vol. XIII, page 736:— > “Interpreted by the Protestant principle, so widely diffused among us, . . . We do not accept it, or hold it to be any government at all, or as capable of performing any of the proper functions of government. . . . > > “If the American republic is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the principle of the Reformation [church and state separation and republicanism], and the acceptance of the Catholic principle by the American people.” (See “The Papacy and the Civil Power,” pages 172, 173.)

A Timely Warning

In view of Rome’s declared purpose, “What the church has done in the past for others, she will now do for the United States” (New York Sun, July 11, 1892), is it not high time for students of divine prophecy and Americans everywhere to give heed to the following timely warning voiced by Hon. R. W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of United States Navy, in the year 1876?—
“It has seemed to me, for a long time, that it was the duty of the people of the United States to make themselves familiar with the history of the Papacy, its relations to the civil power, and its attempted encroachments upon the rights of existing governments.”—Preface to “The Papacy and the Civil Power,” Harper & Brothers.
Let us turn the searchlight of God’s prophetic Word upon Rome and her subtle arguments and schemes. In no other way can we obtain the victory over this gigantic system of error and oppression.
Takoma Park, D. C.

R. A. UNDERWOOD

By R. A. Underwood

Prayer—No. 2

R. A. UNDERWOOD

There are many families among professed Christians who know nothing of the blessings of the family altar. Some thirty-four years ago Elder E. H. Gates and the writer held a series of meetings in the town of Bedford, Ohio. I was invited to spend the night at the home of one of the deacons of the largest church in the community. In the morning I spoke of the importance of family prayer, and told how I was converted when but a child at my father’s family altar. The good deacon said, “O, yes; I suppose we ought to pray, but I pay our minister to do the most of my praying.” While it is good to pray one for another, proxy praying does not acquaint our souls with God, and will not satisfy in the day of need.
There was another deacon in that same church who, with his good wife, had attended our meetings from the first. His name was Franklin Wells. He and his wife accepted the message brought to them, and soon erected a family altar in their home. I shall never forget the joy that was expressed by Sister Wells the day her husband set up that family altar of prayer. She met me in the evening, and said: “O Elder Underwood, I have good news to tell you. This morning for the first time in my life I heard my husband’s voice in prayer. He has been a deacon in the — church for years, but it took the third angel’s message, with the assurance of Christ’s soon coming, to establish the family altar in our home. Thank God for the light.” Recently I wrote to Elder George Wells, president of the Minnesota Conference, who then was a small boy in this home, asking him if he remembered the time his father erected the family altar, and what its influence had been upon his life. By permission I quote a part of his letter in reply, as follows:—
“Your welcome letter was read with deepest interest, especially the portion regarding the family altar and when it was erected in our home. I was a small boy, it is true, but it is fresh in my mind to-day. I remember the first morning my dear father called us children together, and read a chapter from the Bible, and we all knelt down to pray. It was not so much what father said, but it made a deep impression on our minds,and the blessed Holy Spirit was present, and every heart was touched. The times spent around the family altar during my childhood days are most sweet memories to me. I can truly say that the family worship we had in our home was the means of seed thoughts being placed in my heart; it was there I was taught to pray, and was daily reminded of my Saviour’s love; and there I received an inspiration to work for him. I believe I am in the ministry to-day largely as a result of father’s and mother’s prayers (you know mother never failed to take up her duty in maintaining the family altar when father was absent). I know God heard them pray, and sweet joy often filled my heart as we bowed before our God.
“I was about thirteen years old when you baptized me. I feel sure that the family worship was a great strength to me in my young Christian experience, and held me in the path of duty while others of my age drifted away from God because their parents neglected duty, and did not maintain the family altar, and therefore lost a great blessing. I feel certain that many parents fail to appreciate the blessing that comes into the home by kneeling before the blessed Master with their children, and in the arms of faith presenting them to God for care and deliverance from the evil in the world. I do not know where I should have drifted if my dear parents had failed to call upon God in my presence for help. It would be difficult for me to find language to express the importance of the blessed hour of prayer in the home.
“I can now almost see mother’s dear face shine with holy joy as she spoke, on the day father erected our altar of prayer, those words you have quoted from her. Bless her dear memory! I surely expect to see her, and father, too, in the kingdom if it is my blessed privilege to be there.”
I have quoted quite at length from this letter because it shows the importance of family prayer, and its blessed fruits. Brother Franklin Wells and his dear wife have both fallen asleep in Jesus, but their works do follow them.
I was reminded a few days ago that there are many aching hearts that would be comforted and greatly encouraged in many homes if they could hear regularly the voice of prayer. I was invited to the home of an old neighbor in Ohio, who was sick. Before leaving, I offered a short prayer. As I took the woman by the hand to bid her good-by, tears coursed down her face as she said, “I haven’t heard a human voice in prayer since you prayed with me here three years ago.” The head of this family is a member and an officer of the church, as well as superintendent of the Sunday-school, but no family altar exists in that home.
In family worship the entire family should be equally interested, and all should participate in the worship of God; then it is family worship, and its influence has more to do in molding the characters of the children than any other religious duties the parents may observe.

Praying at the Time of Incense

By comparing Ex. 30: 7, 8, with Luke 1: 9, 10, it will be seen that all the families of Israel were engaged in prayer “at the time of incense,” both morning and evening.
We may well inquire of the significance of this daily service, and why all the people were praying at the hour of its being offered by the officiating priest. The incense was a symbol of the sufferings and the sacrifice of the Son of God in man’s behalf, and is represented as being presented afresh morning and evening before the throne of God. Ex. 30: 7, 8; Rev. 8: 3, 4. John from Patmos beheld the antitypical service in heaven, and described it in these words: “And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.” Rev. 8: 3, 4.
Commenting upon this text, Mrs. E. G. White says: “The angels who offer the smoke of the fragrant incense are ministering for the praying saints. Then let the evening prayers in every family arise steadily to heaven in the sunset hour while these divine ministers are speaking before God in our behalf, of the merits of the blood of a crucified and risen Saviour. . . . Morning and evening the heavenly universe beholds every household that prays, and the angel with the incense, representing the blood of the atonement, finds access to God.” What a joy to know that angels of God present our petitions with the sufferings of the risen Redeemer, morning and evening, before God. But how disappointing to the ministering angels that in many homes there are no morning and evening prayers to ascend from the altar of prayer.
Reader, is this the condition of your home? If so, resolve that henceforth your home shall be “the house of God,” from which your petitions with thanksgiving and praise shall ascend morning and evening, to be presented by the angels’ hands as they offer anew the blood and sacrifice of Christ in your behalf.
Mesopotamia, Ohio.

Peril of Neglecting Salvation

By Ellen G. White

(Concluded)
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The only way in which salvation could be provided for man was through the union of divinity with humanity. Christ in human flesh alone could bridge the gulf that sin had made. With his humanity he was prepared to touch humanity. The greatness, the breadth, of the plan of salvation invests it with incomparable grandeur; but it can only be spiritually discerned, and it increases in greatness as we contemplate it. Looking to Jesus dying upon the cross, and knowing that it was our sin that placed the innocent Sufferer there, we are bowed down before him in wonder and love. The greatness of this salvation proves the peril of its neglect.
Satan constantly seeks to make of none effect the great work of redemption. What importance, what magnitude, it gives to the theme of redemption, that he who has undertaken the salvation of man was the brightness of the Father’s glory, the express image of his person! How, then, can Heaven regard those who neglect so great a salvation, wrought out for man at such infinite cost? To neglect to lay hold on the rich blessings of heaven is to refuse, to set at naught, him who was equal with the Father, the only one who could save fallen man. O, shall we through neglect of Christ throw away our one chance for eternal life? Shall we scorn divine mercy, and trample underfoot the Son of God, and count the blood of the covenant an unholy thing?
The divine Author of salvation left nothing incomplete in the plan; every phase of it is perfect. The sin of the whole world was laid upon Jesus, and divinity gave its highest value to the suffering of humanity in Jesus, that the whole world might be pardoned through faith in the Substitute. The most guilty need have no fear that God will not pardon, for because of the efficacy of the divine sacrifice the penalty of the law will be remitted. Through Christ the sinner may return to allegiance to God. How wonderful is the plan of redemption in its simplicity and fulness! It not only provides for the full pardon of the sinner, but also for the restoration of the transgressor, making a way whereby he may be accepted as a son of God. Through obedience he may be the possessor of love and peace and joy. His faith may unite him in his weakness to Christ, the source of divine strength; and through the merits of Christ he may find the approval of God, because Christ has satisfied the demands of the law, and he imputes his righteousness to the penitent, believing soul. The spotless robe woven in the loom of heaven covers the contrite one, and he wills to be obedient, taking the yoke of Christ, suffering as Christ suffered when he walked a man among men.
What love, what wonderful love, was displayed by the Son of God! The death we deserved was suffered to come upon him, that immortality might be given to us, who could never merit such a reward. Is not salvation great in its simplicity, and wonderful in its comprehensiveness? Christ takes the sinner from the lowest degradation, and purifies, refines, and ennobles him. By beholding Jesus as he is, the sinner is transformed, and elevated to the very summit of dignity, even to a seat with Christ upon his throne. Contemplating the fulness of the provision that God has made whereby every son and daughter of Adam may be saved, we are led to exclaim with John, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” The angels are amazed at the manifestation of divine love for the fallen race. The fact that angels look with wonder upon the marvelous display of love on the part of God for man, shows how terrible a thing it is to neglect the salvation he has provided. The plan of redemption provides for every emergency, and for every want of the soul. If it were deficient in any way, the sinner might find some excuse to plead for neglect of its terms; but the infinite God had a knowledge of every human necessity, and ample provision has been made to supply every need. Thereby our sin can be pardoned, and eternal life secured; for the righteousness of Christ may be imputed unto us, to bear the test and meet the approval of a holy God. What, then, can the sinner say in the great day of final judgment, as to why he refused to give attention, the most thorough and earnest, to the salvation proffered him?

The Power of Prayer

By MRS. R. A. STONER

MRS. R. A. STONER
“Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. . . . So we fasted and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us.” Ezra 8:21, 23.
It is not surprising that many boys and girls of Seventh-day Adventist families grow careless and indifferent in regard to the truth of the third angel’s message, when parents live as if they do not realize that we are living in the last days of this generation. The few remaining prophecies will soon be fulfilled, and then Jesus will come. Fathers, mothers, do you believe this? If you saw your child in danger physically, would not every effort be put forth to rescue him? What are you doing for his spiritual danger? Do you afflict yourselves before God to seek for a right way for yourselves and your children? Are you often found in secret prayer pleading with God for your child that has wandered far from the “gates of gold,” that the tender Shepherd may bring him back again into the fold of God?
I know a mother who has an appointment with her Heavenly Father at a certain hour of each day to talk with him about her children. Often she kneels before the Lord overwhelmed with the responsibilities of motherhood, but after pleading with him, as only a mother pleads, that her children may be ready to meet Jesus when he comes and share with her the joys of the Eden home, she realizes, as did Hezekiah of old, that the Lord has heard her prayer and has seen her tears. We have many instances from the Word of God, where prayer has brought deliverance from heaven.
Where to-day are the grandmother Loises and the mother Eunices to teach our children the Bible, that from their earliest years they may know the Scriptures? Where are the Hannahs and the Marys and the Elizabeths to dedicate their children to God and his service?
We are told that “it is the duty of Christian parents, morning and evening, by earnest prayer and persevering faith to make a hedge about their children, and by faith to bind them upon the altar, entreating for them the care of the Lord. Ministering angels will guard children who are thus dedicated to God.” To see our children saved by the power of God’s mighty working through prevailing prayer will be ample reward for any sacrifice on our part as parents.
Danbury, Tex.

Thoughts Shape Your Life

By James Allen

You will realize the vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both; for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.—James Allen.

Using Faculties for Sacred Purposes

“If I use my embroidery scissors to cut rope with, I render them useless for embroidery; quite as truly, if we use the faculties of our mind, such as thought, memory, and imagination, for coarse and unbeautiful purposes, we render them—it must be so—useless for sacred and beautiful purposes.”
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