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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 33.

The Way of Life

Review and Herald

Aug 18, 1910

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 18, 1910

The Way of Life

By Gertrude Rogers

WHEN on the early morning path The glowing sun is warm, When blossoms in their beauty rare Surround us with soft charm, The swelling music of the birds Fills us with ecstasy; Long is the trail of life before, Rich in joy’s panoply.
But when beneath noon’s ardent heat The fading flowers die, Hushed is the chorus of delight, To but a moaning cry; Gone are the morning’s rosy hopes, The rapture they bestow; Slowly upon the midday trail Our wandering footsteps go.
Father, when on the sunset way, Shadows are long and cold, And gathering twilight holds a threat That darkness will enfold; When chill upon our tired souls The murmuring night winds sigh— Keep us upon the homeward trail, That safely leads on high.
— Gertrude Rogers, in Northwestern Christian Advocate.

Get Ready for School

¶ Vacation days are almost over. Teachers and students are already counting the days which will intervene before the eventful first day of school. Now is the time for students to make their final decisions as to studies they will pursue during the coming year, the text-books they will require, and the helps which will be of greatest value. Teachers, too, have many plans to lay and decisions to make during the next few days. The following list of school-books and helps should receive careful attention. Keep it handy for reference between now and the opening of school.

Text-Books and Helps for Use in Grades One to Nine

Bible

Bibles
No. 03008, Size 5¾ x 3¾ ............ $1.00
No. 03028, Size 5⅛ x 3⅜; black type 1.10
No. 03028x, Size 5⅛ x 3⅜ x ⅝, thin 1.75
No. 03271, Size 7¼ x 5 ............ 1.50
Daniel and Revelation, cloth ........ 1.50
Desire of Ages, cloth ............... 1.50
Early Writings, paper ............... .35
Early Writings, cloth ............... .75
Gospel History, Kern ........... 1.00
Apostolic History, Kern, in preparation.
Seer of Patmos, half cloth .......... 1.25
Story of Daniel, half cloth ........ 1.50

Bible and Nature

Bible Nature Study ............. 1.00
Nature Study Note Book, No. 1 ... .40
Nature Study Note Book, No. 2 ... .40
Nature Study Note Book, No. 3 ... .40
Nature Study Note Book, complete ... .85
Bible Lessons, No. 1, McKibbin, nearly ready.
Bible Lessons, No. 2, McKibbin, in preparation.

Reading and Language

Animal Life (Bass) ................. .40
Bell's Language, No. 1 ............. .65
Bell's Language, No. 2 .......... .65
Bell's Language, No. 3 .......... .80
Bell's Language, No. 4 ........ 1.25
Denotes a text-book, all others are helps.
Buehler's Exercises in English ..... $0.50
Bible Reader, No. 1 ................ .35
Bible Reader, No. 2 ................ .40
Bible Reader, No. 3 ................ .50
Christ's Object Lessons ............ 1.25
True Education Reader, Book 1 .. .60
True Education Reader, Book 2 .. .60
True Education Reader, Book 3 .. .75
True Education Reader, Book 4, in preparation.
True Education Reader, Book 5 .. .90
True Education Reader, Book 6, in preparation.
True Education Reader, Book 7 . 1.00
Essentials of English .......... .75
First Book of Birds ............... .65
Hill's Foundation of Rhetoric ...... 1.00
Hooker's Child's Book of Nature, No. 1 ........ .50
Hooker's Child's Book of Nature, No. 2 ........ .50
House We Live In, cloth ........... 1.00
Our Little Folks Bible Nature, board .25
Plant Life ........................ .30
Uncle Ben's Cobblestones, board .... 1.00

Science

Bible Nature Series, No. 1, nearly ready.
Bible Nature Series, No. 2, in preparation.
Bible Nature Series, No. 3, in preparation.

Geography

Morton's Elementary (postage, 15c extra) .... .65
Morton's Advanced (postage 25c extra) ........ 1.25

Spelling

McGuffey's Speller ................ $0.30

Drawing and Penmanship

Augsburg's Drawing Manual, No. 1 ........ .75
Augsburg's Drawing Manual, No. 2 ........ .75
Augsburg's Drawing Tablet, No. 1 ......... .15
Augsburg's Drawing Tablet, No. 2 ......... .15
Spencerian System Penmanship.

Industrial

School Gardening ................... .10

Music

Smith's Practical Music Reader ... .35

Algebra, Arithmetic, Botany, Civil Government, History

Any standard text.
Church School Manual ............... .50
All prices include postage, unless otherwise indicated.
In addition to the above list, we offer:

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Admitted to be the most convenient of all school dictionaries. Most complete dictionary aside from the Unabridged. A convenient desk edition. Largely used by teachers, students, editors, etc. Over 1,000 pages. More than 1,100 illustrations.
In cloth .......................... $3.50
Full seal .......................... 5.00

Review and Herald Publishing Association

Washington, D. C.

God's Rest Day

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Sabbath was hallowed at the creation. As ordained for man, it had its origin when “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” Peace brooded over the world; for earth was in harmony with heaven. “God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good;” and he rested in the joy of his completed work.
Because he had rested upon the Sabbath, “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it,”—set it apart to a holy use. He gave it to Adam as a day of rest. It was a memorial of the work of creation, and thus a sign of God’s power and his love. The Scripture says, “He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered.” “The things that are made,” declare “the invisible things of him since the creation of the world,” “even his everlasting power and divinity.”
All things were created by the Son of God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. . . . All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” John 1:1-3. And since the Sabbath is a memorial of the work of creation, it is a token of the love and power of Christ.
The Sabbath calls our thoughts to nature, and brings us into communion with the Creator. In the song of the bird, the sighing of the trees, and the music of the sea, we still may hear his voice who talked with Adam in Eden in the cool of the day. And as we behold his power in nature, we find comfort, for the word that created all things is that which speaks life to the soul. He “who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
It was this thought that awoke the song,— “Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! And thy thoughts are very deep.”
And the Holy Spirit through the prophet Isaiah declares: “To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? . . . Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. . . . To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one falleth. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? . . . He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.” “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee: yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” This is the message written in nature, which the Sabbath is appointed to keep in memory. When the Lord bade Israel hallow his Sabbaths, he said, “They shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.”
The Sabbath was embodied in the law given from Sinai; but it was not then first made known as a day of rest. The people of Israel had a knowledge of it before they came to Sinai. On the way thither the Sabbath was kept. When some profaned it, the Lord reproved them, saying, “How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?”
The Sabbath was not for Israel merely, but for the world. It had been made known to man in Eden, and, like the other precepts of the decalogue, it is of imperishable obligation. Of that law of which the fourth commandment forms a part, Christ declares, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.” So long as the heavens and the earth endure, the Sabbath will continue as a sign of the Creator’s power. And when Eden shall bloom on earth again, God’s holy rest day will be honored by all beneath the sun. “From one Sabbath to another” the inhabitants of the glorified new earth shall “come to worship before me, saith the Lord.”

Another of Satan’s Counterfeits

By W. C. DUNSCOMBE

W. C. DUNSCOMBE, M. D.
THE Word of God tells us that in the last days there will arise false christs and false prophets. Satan is now working with great power to deceive all who are not rooted and grounded in God’s Word. One of his latest counterfeits is the “Bahai movement.” The teachings of the “Bahais” are of a nature to attract under their banner those who look for universal peace and the gradual ushering in of an earthly millennium.
This movement, in its origin and teachings, and in the persecutions which its followers have endured, bears many resemblances to Christian teachings, and to the events which immediately preceded and followed the manifestation of Christ in the flesh. Its origin was in Shiraz, Persia, May 23, 1844. In the same year that Christ entered into the most holy place in the heavenly sanctuary, there to make the final atonement, and when this glorious third angel’s message began to be proclaimed, there arose a young man, Ali Mohammed, who declared himself to be the Bab (Arabic word for door or gate), or forerunner, of him whom God should manifest,—a great teacher, who was soon to appear with manifest signs of divine power, and through whose teachings the religious unity of all peoples would be accomplished. This man proclaimed his mission zealously, and soon gathered many followers around him. His propaganda having stirred up the opposition of the Mohammedans, he was imprisoned, and later, in 1850, was put to death. Among those who espoused the cause of the Bab was Baha’o’llh, a young man of a noble family of Teheran. After the death of the Bab, he rallied the believers together, and later, in 1862, proclaimed himself to be the one whom the Bab had foretold,—“he whom God would manifest.” He was also imprisoned, and after being banished to various places, died in 1892. Before his death he commandedhis followers to set their faces toward his eldest son, Abbas Effendi, whom he had chosen as the expounder of his teachings, the one who would establish his cause in the world.
This son is now at liberty, and is actively promulgating his father’s teachings, which in many points resemble the teachings of Christ, and he is evidently a student of both the Old and New Testaments. However, the same lies which Satan has from the beginning sought to implant in the heart of man are deceptively taught in this new doctrine. The main theme is that this Bahai movement will unite all men, of whatever creed or nationality, in one fraternal bond; that this world will, in its present state, be brought under the guidance of God, and then the millennium will be ushered in. It teaches the immortality of the soul, and that heaven and hell are simply conditions, the soul which lives in God being in that state called heaven, and vice versa. It also teaches that warfare should be abolished and many other good principles. To quote from the writings of its adherents: “It is the establishment of God’s kingdom among men, and it is the nucleus from which will evolve the great, universal civilization.” This movement is spreading all over the world, and there are organized assemblies in most of the large cities of Europe, America, and Asia Minor. One of its earnest advocates made a tour through the East during the years 1908 and 1909, lecturing in many of the large cities. While in Tokyo, he lectured in the Y. M. C. A. to a large hall filled with Japanese students. To my mind this movement is but another evidence of the importance of the third angel’s message. Coincident with the proclamation of the true message, Satan brings forth his counterfeit message, and presents a false messiah, who cries, “Peace! Peace!” when there is no peace. Surely we need the Holy Spirit, that the true message may go forth with a loud cry, and that we may proclaim with power that the time is near at hand when “the Lord also shall roar out of Zion, . . . and the heavens and the earth shall shake.”
Tokyo, Japan.

Not One Thing Hath Failed

By T. E. BOWEN

T. E. BOWEN
IN a world of failures, where much that is spurious is passed for the genuine, where fair promises are made, only soon to be broken, it is comforting and refreshing to be able to turn to One against whom failure is never written concerning the thing promised or undertaken. God never undertakes a thing without accomplishing it. It may be a few years, a few centuries, or even a few thousand years; but when the time comes for the thing purposed to actually be fulfilled, it stands forth an accomplished fact.
Israel was told, before leaving Egypt, that God had a land awaiting them,—a “land flowing with milk and honey;” a land of vineyards; a land where it was not necessary to water the ground by the foot,—that is, laboriously drawing water from the river, and spreading it upon the ground,—but where showers came down in their season, and refreshed the earth. This was a good report. It presented a country greatly to be desired by a captive nation of slaves.
It was a long, tedious journey to reach this promised home. The way was beset by many difficulties; it was, in fact, made very much more difficult by their own unbelief; yet there stood God’s promise that he had given the land of the Hittites, the Gergusites, and a long list of other strong tribes, for an inheritance to Israel, to be their very own.
The long wilderness wandering served to dim in the minds of these people the luster of the promise. The goodly land seemed a long way off. The present environment, the every-day annoyances, served to eclipse the reality of the olive-yards, the fruitful fields and vineyards, promised to them. They murmured at God for the trials of the wilderness wandering—the result of their own iniquitous unbelief and rebellion at Kadesh-Barnea, when in heart they turned back to Egypt after spying out the land of Canaan.
There were two men in that company who never took their eyes from that promise of God, nor doubted its exact fulfilment. Caleb and Joshua, amid all the faithless murmuring surrounding them in the great camp of Israel, steadfastly believed the Lord. They knew that what he had promised, he was able to perform. They held on, never doubting; and God richly rewarded them for their unwavering confidence in him.
Joshua must have taken great delight in being used by the Lord in his ripe old age to divide by lot the promised land to the very children whose parents had charged Moses with bringing them into the wilderness to die. These same children had now lived to see the fulfilment of God’s promise, while their unbelieving fathers had been left behind in sorrow, buried in the wilderness.
Very forceful and appropriate are Joshua’s words to these people just before he was to die. “Ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you,” he said; “for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you. Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward. And the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you. . . . And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.” Joshua 23:3-5, 14.
Notice that Joshua is very particular to emphasize that “not one thing” of all the good things promised by the Lord had failed. And in all that vast assembly there was no voice heard denying Joshua’s solemn challenge as to God’s faithfulness. Israel knew, in their hearts and in their souls, that what Joshua said was so, what God had promised he had fulfilled.
All this means much to remnant Israel. The real promised land, of which the other was merely a type, is just before us. Christ’s everlasting kingdom is about to be set up. God’s sure promise is, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” “And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there: and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.” Rev. 3:21; 22:3-5.
By keeping the eye upon this promised city, eternal in the heavens, this home prepared for the redeemed ones, as Caleb and Joshua held to the promise of the Canaan of old, murmurings will cease, and ere long we, too, shall know that, of all the good things God has promised, not one has failed.
Takoma Park, D. C.

Preparation of Manuscript

By W. S. CHAPMAN

Writing for the Press—No. 3

Preparation of Manuscript

W. S. CHAPMAN
Writing for publication is not the bugbear so many imagine it to be. Many who shrink from the task are capable, if they would but believe it, and would write out a matter just as they would talk it to a friend. All can not use elegant language; but any one, writing naturally, can write interestingly, and the interesting article is the only one an editor desires.
Flowery rhetoric and elegant diction count for very little, except with learned celebrities, and then only in magazine articles. So take heart, and if you have the burden for it, believe that you can write, and try. Put up what you have to say in the rough, then carry it to some friend and have it corrected. Have it typewritten, then send it on its way, asking God to bless. It may come back. If it does, no harm has been done. Try again.
A knowledge of certain office and other requirements is, of course, a necessity. This knowledge, used intelligently, removes most of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles before a beginner, and goes far toward the preparation of acceptable articles.
Neatness is a prime essential. Be as accurate as possible. Leave nothing undone that will make the task of reading your manuscript an easy one to theeditor, the typesetter, and the proof-reader. This is the golden rule to be observed in the preparation of manuscript.
Write on one side of the sheet only, and use paper all of one size, preferably large note or letter size, eight by ten inches. Let it be a thin, firm sheet, not tissue, but as near to that as you can obtain. The paper should have a smooth writing surface, and not be transparent.
Never roll manuscript. Fold it once lengthwise for note paper and twice across for letter size. Be sure to place sufficient postage on your letter. Nothing will more quickly offend an editor than having to pay postage on contributed matter. Some editors refuse to accept mail on which postage is due. If you desire your communication returned, if declined, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Some newspaper editors refuse to return rejected manuscript.
If it is possible to have your article written out on a typewriter, do not fail to have it so done. Never send in a written manuscript, especially one written with a pencil, when it is possible to avoid it. It is useless to send a written article to a magazine editor. Newspaper editors accept them because it is not always possible to have the services of a typewriter, and delay can not be tolerated; but remember that an editor looks with misgiving upon a manuscript coming to him from a new contributor, if it is not typewritten. He knows that an experienced writer will always use a typewriter when possible, and that the probability is that the copy before him is full of the blunders and errors of the beginner, and will need correcting and re-editing. To an editor the use of a pencil or pen often conveys the impression of inexperience.
Double space your lines (write on every other line), so as to leave plenty of room for the editors' notes and corrections. Let there be wide side margins to the pages, an inch or more at the left-hand side and not less than half an inch at the right. Leave a space of two lines at the foot of the page. Start the opening lines of the paragraphs well in from the marginal beginnings, so that the eye of the reader will readily perceive that these lines begin new paragraphs.
In the upper left-hand corner of the first page place your full name and post-office address. In the opposite corner the number of words your article contains. Dropping down several lines, place in the center of the page the title of your article and beneath it the name you wish to have used as the author—your own name or any assumed one, or title, thus:—
John H. Jones, —Words 9 Barrow Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

The Life in the Flesh

By L. A. Hansen

L. A. HANSEN
“THE life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.” These words not only admit of a literal application in Christian living, but they demand it. They indicate that the life of faith is a material one. It does not consist merely in creed or doctrine. It is more than a profession; it is an actual experience in the real things of life. One finds it comparatively easy to be spiritual-minded when at devotional exercises, and to maintain there a suitable and proper bearing. It is not so difficult to express faith in the company of those who are like-minded, or while contemplating the promises of God. The way does not appear so hard when viewed from the standpoint of the Sabbath sermon. But when we go out from the sanctuary of God or the company of fellow Christians, we find things different.
In the home life, in the workshop, and in the outside world, we find things of an earthly nature. The spiritual atmosphere seems wanting. People are not all saints; things are not altogether congenial. We meet with annoyances; we come in contact with folks who worry and try us. We are made to realize that we are still “in the flesh,” and that this life in the flesh is a very material one.
To be “in the flesh” does not necessarily mean of the flesh, any more than being “in the world” means to be of the world. So it need be with no discouragement that we recognize the real state of our existence. On the contrary we can the better know what we have to meet, and be the better prepared to meet it.
The real test of our religion is in the every-day life. It is generally acknowledged that faith is essential to the proper performance of spiritual duties. This is no less true in the affairs of daily living. It is well that we feel our need of Christ in the preaching of the sermon, the teaching of the class, ministering to the sick, or distributing the printed page. Just so should we feel our need of him in meeting the day’s demand of physical toil, home instruction, social visiting, or business transaction.
It may not be out of place for one to cherish the desire to occupy a place of large usefulness or to do big things in life. But it is not every one who will be called to the place of highest responsibilities. All will not be asked to do great tasks. Few will constantly occupy the field of heroic deeds. But every one has a daily life to live, all the time; and some of us have it to live under conditions that give little promise of apparent greatness. It is here, in this daily life, that most of us need help, and probably the most help.
“Life is chiefly made up, not of great sacrifices and wonderful achievements, but of little things. It is oftenest through the little things which seem so unworthy of notice, that great good or evil is brought into our lives. It is through our failure to endure tests that come to us in little things, that the habits are molded, the character misshaped; and when the greater tests come, they find us unready. Only by acting upon principle in the tests of daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful in the most dangerous and the most difficult positions.”—“Ministry of Healing,” page 490.
Takoma Park, D. C.

FREEDOM IN CHRIST

By John H. Jones

John H. Jones
Write in with a pen the name you wish used and the number of words.
After the article is typewritten, count the number of words in the first five lines, counting each fractional word as one. Divide the sum by the number of lines taken, five, and the result will be the average number of words to a line. Next count the number of lines in the manuscript, and multiply by the average number of words to the line; the result will be the total number of words. Write this number at the top of the first page. Make no effort to be exact, simply fairly accurate. It is not expected that you count up the actual number of words.
A manuscript prepared according to these simple directions needs no accompanying letter. Do not attempt to explain your article, or call attention to its value. The editor will not be influenced by what you write, but, possibly, may be prejudiced. He will judge the article on its merits, without any reference to its source. It may have intrinsic value, and be a profitable article for some other publication, yet be valueless to the editor to whom it is submitted. He alone is the judge; you can not influence him. Don't irritate him by suggesting reasons for his acceptance of your matter.
Communications, or letters, are another class of contributions to newspapers. In these do not give prominent headings on the first page of your article, but use a side-head, generally continuous with the first line of the running matter, your signature to follow at the end of the communication. To such the editor generally places a heading of his own; thus,—

MR. JONES EXPLAINS

EDITOR OF THE Independent: In yesterday's issue I noticed a communication from Mr. Henry Spencer, etc., etc.
Respectfully,
John H. Jones.
Each news office has its own style in setting up headings. A few set up these side-heads in italics. Other editors will cut out the side-head and closing signature, and use the article as a semi-editorial. Study the style of the paper you write for, and prepare your matter so that it can be rearranged by the editor, if used, with the least possible labor and loss of time.

Books as Teachers

Books are masters who instruct us to be without rods or ferules. . . . If you approach them, they are not asleep; if, investigating, you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they can not laugh at you.—Richard de Burg.

Enough

By Frances Ridley Havergal

I am so weak, dear Lord, I can not stand One moment without thee; But O, the tenderness of thine enfolding! And O, the faithfulness of thine upholding! And O, the strength of thy right hand! That strength is enough for me.
I am so needy, Lord, and yet I know All fulness dwells in thee; And hour by hour that never-failing treasure Supplies and fills in overflowing measure My least, my greatest need. And so Thy grace is enough for me.
— Frances Ridley Havergal.
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