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One More

By Editor

One more excellent tract has been added to the Apples of Gold Library. Its title is

Salvation in Jesus Christ

Its price is 50c per 100; its number 64.

Many will say on reading this cheering answer to the oft-repeated question, "What must I do to be saved?" that it is one of the best things Dr. Waggoner has ever written.

It is so simple that a child may grasp its every meaning, yet so complete as to cover the needs of the most hardened sinner.

It is divided into four parts as follows:— WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. OUR SINS PURCHASED. FREE INDEED.

Like its predecessor, No. 63, it will be especially good for mission work.

Following is a complete list of the titles contained in the Apples of Gold series.

1 Looking unto Jesus . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 2 The Christian's Privilege . . . . . . 50 . ½ 3 The Sure Promises of God . . . . . 50 . ½ 4 How to Get Knowledge . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 5 The Church and the World (poetry) . . 50 . ½ 6 The Elect of God . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 7 How Esther Read Her Bible . . . . 50 . ½ 8 The Thief on the Cross . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 9 The Eleventh Hour . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 10 Benefits of Bible Study . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 11 Righteousness—Where Is It to Be Found 50 . ½ 12 Power of Forgiveness . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 13 Responsibility of Parents . . . . . . 50 . ½ 14 Choose Ye This Day . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 15 The Cross of Christ . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 16 The New Birth . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 17 "What Must I Do to Be Saved?" . . 50 . ½ 18 The Literal Week . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 19 The Christian Life . . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 20 Your Life Work—Is It of Men or of God? 50 . ½ 21 Acceptable Service . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 22 Have Faith in God . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 23 The Riches of His Grace . . . . . . 50 . ½ 24 He Saves to the Utmost . . . . . . 100 . ½ 25 Bible Authority for Sunday Observance 50 . ½ 27 Religious Liberty . . . . . . . . . . 100 . ½ 28 Law of Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . 100 . ½ 29 Law of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 30 Knowing and Obeying the Lord . . 100 . ½ 31 Why the Earth Was Made . . . . . . 50 . ½ 32 Trine Immersion . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 33 Scriptural Answers to Worldly Objections . . 100 . ½ 34 Seventh-day Adventists and Their Work 25 . ½ 35 The Hope Set before Us . . . . . . 50 . ½ 36 The True Church . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 37 Letter and Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 38 Who Are the Saints . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 39 The Seventh, or One Seventh . . . 50 . ½ 40 Coming of the Lord . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 41 Foreknowledge and Foreordination 50 . ½ 42 Jesus and the Resurrection . . . . 50 . ½ 44 Back to the "Old Paths" . . . . . . 25 . ½ 45 Historical Facts and Incidents . . . 25 . ½ 46 True "Christian Citizenship" . . . . 50 . ½ 47 The Great Threefold Message . . . 25 . ½ 48 "Try the Spirits" . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 49 Kept by the Power of God . . . . 100 . ½ 50 Day of the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 51 Heralds of His Coming . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 52 Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 53 Winning of Margaret . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 54 Unaware—Ye Did It unto Me . . . 50 . ½ 55 Twelve Principles of Holy Living . . 50 . ½ 56 There Is Help in God . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 57 The Divine Law . . . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 58 The Three Sabbaths . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 59 The Earnest of Our Inheritance . . 50 . ½ 60 A Living Saviour . . . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½ 61 Gracious Invitation . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 62 Return of the Jews . . . . . . . . . 25 . ½ 63 Jesus Died for You . . . . . . . . . 50 . ½

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LESSON IV.—SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1900.

THE BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS.

Lesson Scripture, Matt. 3:13 to 4-11, R.V.

13 "THEN cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, 14 to be baptized of him. But John would have hindered Him, saying, I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou 15 to me? But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth Him. And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway from the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, 17 and coming upon Him; and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

1 "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to 2 be tempted of the devil. And when He had fasted forty days 3 and forty nights, He afterward hungered. And the tempter 4 came and said unto Him, If Thou art the Son of God, com- 5 mand that these stones become bread. But He answered and 6 said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by 5 every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then 6 the devil taketh Him into the holy city; and he set Him on the 6 pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto Him, If thou art the Son of God, cast Thy self down; for it is written,

He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee; And on their hands they shall bear Thee up, Lest haply Thou dash Thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not tempt 8 the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh Him unto an ex- 9 ceeding high mountain, and showeth Him all the kingdoms of 9 the world, and the glory of them; and he said unto Him, All 10 these things will I give Thee, if Thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan; 11 for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and 11 Him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth Him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto Him."

Golden Text: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Matt. 3:17.

NOTE.—The lesson section includes the account of Jesus' baptism and temptation, as recorded by both Matthew and Luke. Compare Luke 3:21, 22 and 4:1-13. Commit Matt. 3:16, 17. It is also recommended that the following texts be learned by heart: Matt. 4:1-11; Heb. 2:18; 1 Peter 1:7; 3:8; Rev. 2:7; 3:12.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

(1) Who came to the Jordan to be baptized by John? V. 13. (2) How did John feel about baptizing Jesus? What did John say of his unfitness for performing this rite? V. 14. (3) How did Jesus answer him? What reason did Jesus give why the baptism should take place? V. 15. Note 1. (4) When Jesus had gone up out of the water in which He had been baptized, what occurred? V. 16. (5) What else occurred at this time to confirm the Messiahship of Jesus? V. 17. Note 2. (6) What followed this manifestation? V. 1. Note 3. (7) How was His time spent in the wilderness? How long did the fast continue? What was His condition at its close? V. 2. Note 4. (8) Who came to Him? What did he say? V. 3. Note 5. (9) How did Christ answer him? V. 4. (10) Failing in this temptation, where did the devil take Jesus? Where did he place Him? V. 5. (11) How else did Satan suggest that Christ prove Himself the Son of God? What scripture did he quote to influence Jesus to do this? V. 6. (12) How did Jesus reply to him? V. 7. Note 6. (13) Where was Jesus next taken by the tempter? What was shown Him? V. 8. (14) What proposition did Satan make? V. 9. Note 7. (15) What command did Jesus then give the deceiver? To what scripture did He refer? V. 10. (16) What did Satan then do? Who came to Jesus? For what purpose? V. 11.

NOTES.

1. Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.—Jesus' baptism at the hands of John showed His acceptance of John's work, and of John himself. In this He set us and all His followers an example that we should do as He had done. The baptism was a symbol of Christ's death and resurrection—dead to sin, dead to the world and all its allurements, buried; rising from the water, rising to walk in newness of life, the beginning of a life wholly consecrated to God. In the rite of baptism we make public confession of our faith in the efficacy of Christ's atonement.

2. A voice out of the heavens.—God spoke the law in thunder tones from the clouds over Sinai; and God's voice is now, at the baptism of Christ, rolling down from heaven to testify of One in whose life that law found nothing to condemn. He came to live the life of a Saviour of the world, and with that life God was "well pleased." The fact that God was "well pleased" in Christ makes possible salvation through Christ. That meant a perfect Saviour, and only perfection would suffice. To Him also who has put on Christ these words of the Father are addressed.

3. To be tempted of the devil.—A temptation is a test. "In whatever form the temptations came, the battle was real. It was no mere form for example's sake. Satan was in earnest, and intended to prevent the coming of the kingdom of heaven with every force he could muster, and every scheme he could devise. And Jesus knew that He could choose good or evil, and that the result for Himself, for the human race, and for the kingdom of God, depended upon His choice. There was no foreordained certainty of victory."—Peloubet. How often it is that after the victory won at conversion there come the most trying tests! Notice that the word "devil," here used, is preceded by the definite article. It was Satan himself, the "destroyer," the "adversary," who in person tempted Jesus. "Devils" (plural) comes from a different word, "demons."

4. He afterward hungered.—In Paradise Adam and Eve yielded to temptation, in appetite, and were driven out of the garden of God into the wilderness; in the wilderness Christ overcame temptation in appetite, and made it possible for the gates of Paradise to be opened again to man.

5. If Thou be the Son of God.—Satan would create a doubt in the mind of Jesus that He was the Son of God, even tho he had heard the declaration from heaven, "This is My Son." So we may not expect that he will leave any scheme untried to create in our minds doubts of our acceptance with God. But in this thing Satan unvailed himself. The "if" told who the speaker was. For Christ to have performed a miracle to satisfy His hunger would have destroyed His power as a perfect Saviour. Adam failed as a man; Christ must win where Adam failed, and win as a man. Otherwise He would not have been "tempted like as we are."

6. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord.—Or make a presumptuous test.

7. All these things will I give Thee, etc.—"We find this temptation in the attempts of the church to fulfil its mission by worldly power and pomp, by dictating to governments, by secularizing the church, by statecraft and wars and persecutions. The result has always been a spiritual failure."—Peloubet.

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Growing Old

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Growing Old.—A New York paper gives the following good advice to a woman who has "a most dreadful fear of old age," and wrinkles. Among other things the editor says: "Do not avoid your wrinkles. Do not try to prevent gray hair. Do not endeavor to defeat the march of time. Such things are foolish and vain. There are women who paint out their wrinkles, look in their mirrors and flatter themselves that they are thoroughly hidden from old age. They are ostriches. They deceive nobody but themselves. Any man of intelligence can look straight through powder and paint to the foolish intent beneath. There is nothing so absurd as an aging woman who insists upon being young. The secret of matronly attractiveness is to grow old gracefully. Wear a matron's clothes. Act like a matron. Let your age be an attraction and not a nightmare." And we would add that the way to make it an attraction is to let Christ live in the soul. That person in whom Christ Jesus lives, who is making progress in the Christian life, may be growing old physically, but the heart keeps young; and a young heart will best hide all wrinkles, and glorify gray hair.

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The Sanctuary Series Concluded

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The article in this issue closes the series on the Sanctuary. It is long, but it should be read.

So much time men spend over the mediums through which God reveals His truth, and so little time over the truth!

Elsie Gates Drowned in Australia

A letter from Australia brings the sad news that one of our old faithful Bible workers, Elsie Gates, was drowned near Cooranbong, N. S. W., about a month ago. Particulars have not come to hand.

Articles for the Educational Number

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Here are the titles of some of the articles which will appear in our Educational number: "Should Protestants Educate Their Own Children?" "The Position and Responsibility of a True Educator," "Christian Education," "Wanted—An Education That Will Truly Educate;" and there will be others. More next week.

Faith and Funds.

By Editor

The Chicago Record tells us that Mr. John Alexander Dowie, who came to Chicago practically penniless, is now on the assessment books of the city as follows: Personal property, $28,300; real estate, $223,600; total, $251,900. This "list does not include a farm in Michigan, for which he paid $10,000 cash some time ago, nor the horses, carriages, automobiles, and the liveries of the two ebony coachmen with which he occasionally dazzles Michigan boulevard." These funds are gathered in two ways, from tithes paid by believers in him, and from the people healed. There is a better One in whom to believe—even in Christ Jesus.

The Dance of Hell

One of the New Dances originated by a noted American queen in Terpsichorean art is called "the dance of hell." That is what old dances have proved to many a soul.

Dr. Barnardo’s Mission Field

Many missionaries complain of bad fields. That above all is the field of the missionary. Dr. Barnardo for thirty-one years has chosen as his field and neighbors London slums, and the helpless, hopeless children living there. During this period he had rescued, taught, and trained, including those now in his "homes," 37,000 children.

Put Not Your Trust in Princes

"Put Not Your Trust in Princes."—While some scientists like Professors Hodgson, James, and Hyslop are finding scientific evidence for immortality in Modern Spiritism, Dr. Ernst Haeckel, in the San Francisco Examiner of December 31, declares: "The belief in the immortality of the human soul is a dogma in utter contradiction to the facts which investigation has proved to be true. . . . If, as science proves, mind, soul consciousness, are only properties of soul plasm, the cell itself, when that cell dies thought must cease, save as it has passed on to others." And this is all great Science can offer. It speaks truly; man is not immortal. But God, in Jesus Christ, gives life to His children here, and immortality at His second coming and the resurrection. This is the hope, the only sure hope, of immortality.

NOT "GOD-WITH-US."

This is a Roman Catholic statement of the doctrine of the "Incarnation of Christ," as given by Archbishop Riordan, of San Francisco, as reported in the daily press some time ago:—

"God, who came to save, did not incorporate Himself into our human nature capable of sin, the human nature that does all base and ignoble things and sometimes sinks to the lowest degradation. No; He was born of a sacred woman, and this is the Immaculate Conception. He assumed human nature as it was before the fall. He was the High Priest of the new law without shame and without sin."

Is this so? What does the Word of God say? Christ was made "in the likeness of sinful flesh." Rom. 8:3.

He was "made of the seed of David according to the flesh." Rom. 1:3. Everybody knows what sins David, his ancestry, and his posterity were guilty of. Jesus took their flesh with all its heritage.

"He [God] hath made Him [Christ] to be sin for us." 2 Cor. 5:21.

"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same." Heb. 2:14.

"Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren." Heb. 2:17.

He "was in all points tempted like as we are." Heb. 4:15.

Yes, praise God, He was one with us. But He conquered all for us; and His victory enables us to conquer all in Him.

RELIGION IN FRANCE FROM A CATHOLIC OUTLOOK.

By Editor

FRANCOIS COPPEE, in the Catholic News, declares that "the spirit of persecution" is manifest against the Catholic Church, especially some of her organizations; that—

"there is one organization, however, which is not only recognized but patronized by the governments. Freemasonry, which, according to French law, is not only illegal, but also a secret one, is treated with monstrous favor. It must be conceded that Freemasonry constitutes an occult mighty power, which has succeeded in gaining control over a vast majority of the legislators and the members of the government. This order has an all-powerful sway over the internal and external affairs of France, and its orders are executed with marvelous fidelity;"

that—

"the sectarians of the present ministry, who, strange to say, display a remarkable tolerance toward the synagogue and the Protestant temples, have determined to wage a relentless war against the Catholic Church, and to reopen an era of persecution of the priests and monks;"

that—

"we are on the eve of witnessing a repetition of the odious scenes during the reign of Jules Ferry. They will pick the locks of the convent portals; they will storm the asylums of peace and prayer; and they will order their henchmen to throw holy maidens and pious old men out on the street;"

that there is now to be seen, instead of the glorious future predicted—

"a people blood-red in vice, dying in misery and unbelief. The threshold of the promised golden era teems with corruption and wretchedness. And this golden era is to be preceded by a stupid attack on innocent monks and pure religious souls!"

We have no other remark to make than this, which we pen in sadness. All this is but the ripened fruit of the Papacy, or the horrible revolt of ignorance against that system.

A Tinsel Age.

In writing on "The Evolution of Dress of a Hundred Years," Lillian Ferguson, a bright and observant writer, remarks:—

" 'Tis a tinsel age that we live in, an era of cheap finery, vulgar display, and manufactured pretense. The looms are weaving lies in the shape of imitation goods. No article of beauty in gem or fabric form passes the port of commerce but a rank outsider in cleverly copied duplicate seeks admittance with it. Not alone is our gingerbread gilt—we are gold-foiled and tin-foiled at every turn, until we almost begin to wonder if the stars themselves are not paste diamonds in a heavenly tiara, and the blue canopy above us merely a breadth of dyed cotton that will fade in the next winter's wash."

And it is true, in religion as everywhere else. It is an age of counterfeits, and if a woman of the world sees it, how much more ought Christians! There is so much of seeming in the world that is not real that people are led to doubt that which is true and genuine. Faith wavers because of abounding falsehood. Love grows cold because of abounding lawlessness. And yet all the tawdry tinsel of the world proves the existence of the true. And the true is found in Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Hilprecht’s Babylonian Expedition

Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht, of the editorial staff of the Sunday School Times, is on his way to Babylonia, as the scientific director of the Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, and in the interest of the Sunday School Times. Special effort will be put forth in the much-buried city of Nippur, supposed to be identical with Calneh (Gen. 10:10), and the chief place to which Jewish captives were carried by Nebuchadnezzar, the place where Ezekiel had his vision "by the river Chebar." He will also devote some time to other parts of Assyria. His researches will be given exclusively in the Sunday School Times.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry. We Would See Jesus, MRS. ADA MILLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Precious Rain-drops, ISAAC DEELEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Sunset, HART HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

General. A Sermon to One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Before Annas and Caiaphas, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Blood of God's Everlasting Covenant, S. N. HASKELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Gospel of Force Is of Men Not of God, W. E. HUBBARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Necessity of Being "Born Again," W. N. GLENN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 "Sabbath in Jerusalem" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Sanctuary—Concluding Summary, URIAH SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Everlasting Punishment Is Everlasting Destruction, WM. PENNIMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Outlook.—The Drink Curse at Princeton—The Dark Side of a Dark City, DAVID PAULSON, M.D.—Is the World at Peace?—Insane from a Joke—He Hoed His Corn on Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9

Missions.—Interesting Developments in South America, J. VUILLEUMIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11

The Home.—The Story of a Pink Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15

Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

The article in this issue closes the series on the Sanctuary. It is long, but it should be read.