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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 30.

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Review and Herald

Jul 28, 1904

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Revised Version Information

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A Set of Histories

THE Bible, with history and prophecy, is a sword before which every word opposed to its teachings must fall. The Bible predicted events to happen in our past; history proves they occurred. This fact is conclusive proof that other prophecies, as yet unfulfilled, will come to pass.
It is well to make statements that such and such kings and kingdoms ruled during certain periods, and that certain things took place during their reign; but do you have a history to which you can turn and prove your assertions? It is this that carries conviction with your statements. If you have not, you should have a set of the histories written by Elder A. T. Jones.
Volume I, “Empires of the Bible,” is a history of the time from the fall of Babylon to the captivity. Research in Babylon and Egypt have brought to light many valuable historical records inscribed on stone. These records the author has connected with Bible statements, showing how they agree.
Volume II, “The Great Empires of Prophecy,” is a history of the times from Babylon to the fall of Rome, with particular attention to the prophecies of the book of Daniel, and the quotations from more than eighty standard histories bring the writings of these historians to your hand in one volume, so that you have their own language, and therefore a veritable cyclopedia of history.
Volume III, “The Ecclesiastical Empire,” contains an account of all the principal events that have affected civil government and tended to the establishment of ecclesiastical authority, from the time of the fall of Rome to the present day. It contains a good history of the Reformation and compendium of the principles of true Christianity, the reason for our National Apostasy, and a full treatise upon the Union of Church and State. 874 pages.
After reading the preceding, the advantages to be gained from possessing this set of histories is apparent. Every library should contain them, and especially every Seventh-day Adventist teacher, minister, and student should possess them.
Price, complete, postage or expressage prepaid to any address, $6.

For August

By Editor

THE August number of Life and Health is out this week, and contains articles on the following interesting and timely topics: Mosquitoes and Disease; Summer Cook Stove Slavery; Progress in Medicine and Allied Sciences; How to Keep the Baby Well in Hot Weather; Medical Missionary Work as a Church Work; “Suffer Little Children;” Summer Salads and Dressings; How to Can Vegetables; Hot Weather Diet; The Patent Medicine “Ad” in the Newspapers; Semicentennial of Sanatorium Work; Questions and Answers; Literary Notices, etc.
In this number are some most excellent and important articles, and many helps and suggestions are given, any one of which is worth the subscription price of the magazine; as, for example, in the Questions and Answers Department inquiry is made in regard to the prevention and cure of poison from poison oak and poison ivy, and the doctor names the best preventive he knows, and in addition gives a prescription which will afford relief when one has been poisoned. This is but one of the many practical, helpful suggestions and prescriptions which will be found in the journal.
Send in your subscription now. Price, 50 cents a year; 5 cents a copy. Address Life and Health, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book

New song-books come and go; and after each has had its day, recourse is to the old standard book which has been in use by the denomination for so many years. It is still “the hymn-book” in every home. Those who contemplate purchasing a copy of this book will please note the following styles and prices, in which there has been a slight change:—
Cloth, leather back ........ $1.50 Russia, marbled edges ........ 2.00 Turkey Morocco, gilt edges ... 2.25 Levant, flexible, round corners, gilt edges .................... 3.25

How They Like It

By Editor

WE recognized some of the imperfections in the July issue of Life and Health, and have made some improvement in the August number, but we are not satisfied yet, and shall endeavor to make each succeeding number a little better, a little more helpful than any previous issue.
In order to carry out all our plans, we shall need to put more expense into the production of the journal, and our friends can help by securing subscriptions for Life and Health. We still continue the offer to send the magazine for one year to six new subscribers in the United States or Canada, for $2.50.
We are receiving most encouraging words concerning Life and Health, from those who have seen the July number.
A tract society secretary in one of our old conferences writes:—
“I have not been able to give the sample copy of our new health journal the attention I should be glad to, but in looking it over this morning, I was much pleased with it. . . . Be assured I shall be only too happy to lend what little influence I may have in favor of this good health journal.”
Another tract society secretary writes:—
“We start the list here with the principal of the academy, the treasurer of the conference, and the secretary. We assure you that you will have our co-operation.”
A State agent in a far away conference writes:—
“I am much pleased with the prospect of having a health journal that can be used with confidence and at a reasonable price. Life and Health has my interest and best wishes, and I would like to know your terms to agents.”
A tract society secretary asks that sample copies be sent to certain addresses, promising to try to secure some subscriptions, and says further:—
“Have just received the July number of Life and Health, and am very much pleased with it. . . . I think it should have a wide circulation, and we, in this office, will try to get as many as we can to subscribe for it.”
We are glad to say that subscriptions are coming in singly, by twos, by half dozens, and from one agent, orders have been received for more than fifty subscriptions, while those who wish to sell the journal are ordering 25, 50, and 100 copies at a time.
See our offer in the Youth’s Instructor of July 26. This will give a good opportunity for our young people to do something, and they will find that Life and Health will sell readily, and will open the way for other missionary effort.
We have not yet secured all of the one hundred persons whom we called for in the REVIEW of July 14, to sell one hundred or more copies a month. Let us hear from others. Address Life and Health, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

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CHURCH librarians will appreciate the new set of books which has been issued for their special use. Fifty-five cents will purchase the entire outfit, and the simplicity with which the records of their work can be kept will make “work a pleasure.”
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His Closing Work

AFTER long centuries of mediation in behalf of sin, our Saviour is now doing his closing work for sinners. The heavenly agencies are all astir with interest and activity, as they are called upon to co-operate with their divine Leader in carrying out his purposes. It is their delight to do his bidding, and they harken to the voice of his word. But with the closing work of Jesus in heaven is connected the work of Jesus on the earth, and there is a call for human instrumentalities as well as for heavenly beings to be his helping hand in carrying forward his work. It gives added solemnity and importance to this whole movement when we remember that we are united with Jesus in his closing work. This message is the last message of the gospel. Soon probation will close. “Behold, I come quickly,” is the watchword now. The urgent call to this people now is to rise up and finish their part in the closing work. “There shall be delay no longer.”

The Missionary Spirit

THOSE who take the time to consider seriously the meaning of the gospel message for this time will certainly be imbued with the missionary spirit. The spirit of the Great Missionary is the spirit which will actuate his followers. “The church of Christ on earth was organized for missionary purposes.” “Ministering angels will co-operate with every member of the church who will labor unselfishly for the Master.”

New and Old

AT the close of a series of parables relating to the kingdom of heaven Jesus said, “Every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.” Those who work the mine of truth diligently will have things new and old to present to their hearers, but the new things will not contradict the old, and it will not be necessary to throw away the old in order to receive the new. The old, old story is ever new, and the old truths may have the freshness which characterizes living things, but the fundamental truths of the gospel revelation do not need to be readjusted to meet the fickle demands of human philosophy or to harmonize with the latest scientific theories. We might as well settle it once for all that God is greater than man, and that divine revelation is a more reliable foundation than human reason, and that “the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” There is an appetite now for new things, and sensationalism in religion is at a premium among the modern Athenians who spend their time “in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.” Only recently a clergyman of some influence openly advocated sensationalism in the pulpit as being absolutely necessary in order to command and hold the attention of a modern congregation. The greatest and only sensation needed is that which is produced by the presence and working of the Holy Spirit, and it is the lack of this agency which leads men to attempt to substitute something else for it. Now is the time for the loyal disciples of the kingdom of heaven to present the old but ever new truths of salvation in that scripture setting which adapts them to the needs of the present hour,—the special message of warning and preparation for the last generation. The teachers of the third angel’s message will bring from the treasure-house of the Word things new and old, and the oldest will be ever new, and the newest will be ever old.

Studies in the Prophecies

“Babylon the Great”—No. 1

INSPIRED history gives the following account of the origin of that remarkable city, Babylon: “And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”
The time was about a century after the flood. The place was “the land of Shinar,” “the ancient name of the great alluvial tract through which the Tigris and Euphrates pass before reaching the sea—the tract known in later times as Chaldea or Babylonia.” That which incited them to build the city was the fear lest they should be “scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” This attempt to keep a large number of people together in one place was directlycontrary to the purpose of God and the instruction which he had given to “multiply, and replenish the earth.” The purpose in building the city, and the tower “whose top may reach unto heaven,” was to seek to learn through human wisdom the cause of the flood, and to provide against the possibility of being destroyed by another flood. “The dwellers on the plain of Shinar disbelieved God’s covenant that he would not again bring a flood upon the earth. Many of them denied the existence of God, and attributed the flood to the operation of natural causes. . . . By carrying the structure [the tower] to a much greater height than was reached by the waters of the flood, they thought to place themselves beyond all possibility of danger. And as they would be able to ascend to the region of the clouds, they hoped to ascertain the cause of the flood. The whole undertaking was designed to exalt still further the pride of its projectors, and to turn the minds of future generations away from God, and lead them into idolatry.”
This flagrant manifestation of the spirit of rebellion against God, and this open attempt to counterwork his purpose, called for divine interposition. In mercy the God of heaven interfered with their plans in order that the rebellious spirit might not be strengthened in the hearts of men to such an extent that grace and forgiveness would be utterly spurned. The divine gift of speech was being perverted to persuade men into a united attempt to resist the purpose of God for the salvation of the world. The power to do this was therefore limited by introducing a variety of languages so that they could not understand one another’s speech. As the result of this confusion “they left off building the city.” The circumstances which attended the defeat of their purpose gave the permanent name to the city which they began to build. “Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth.” “The monument to their pride became the memorial of their folly.”
Thus the very foundations of Babylon were laid in rebellion against God. The city and the tower represented an organized movement to thwart the purposes of God, and the tower-builders were simply putting some of their own ideas into concrete form. They were giving expression to their feeling of independence of God, of their own ability to solve the problem of the divine government and to provide salvation for themselves. It was the climax of self-assertion. It was such a profession of man’s power to reach heaven by lifting himself through his own efforts as, if unrebuked, would greatly strengthen the pride of the human heart, and thus open the way for the prince of this world to bind men more strongly in his service. It was the creed of self-righteousness—righteousness by works—expressed in stone and mortar, and designed to appeal to generations yet unborn. But God did not permit their purpose to be accomplished. From heaven itself it was proclaimed, by a visitation of divine wrath, that there is no way of self-salvation, and that the connection between heaven and earth must be made by the ladder from heaven rather than by the tower from the earth. Righteousness by faith was the truth of the gospel then as now. Any perversion of this heaven-born provision for restoring man to the image of God and of establishing again the divine government in unity and peace would lead to confusion worse confounded.
“There are tower-builders in our time. Infidels construct their theories from the supposed deductions of science, and reject the revealed word of God. They presume to pass sentence upon God’s moral government; they despise his law, and boast of the sufficiency of human reason. . . . In the professedly Christian world, men turn away from the plain teachings of the Bible, and build up a creed from human speculations and pleasing fables; and they point to their tower as a way to climb up to heaven. Men hang with admiration upon the lips of eloquence while it teaches that the transgressor shall not die, that salvation may be secured without obedience to the law of God. If the professed followers of Christ would accept God’s standard, it would bring them into unity; but so long as human wisdom is exalted above his Holy Word, there will be divisions and dissensions. . . . The time of God’s investigation is at hand. The Most High will come down to see that which the children of men have builded. His sovereign power will be revealed; the works of human pride will be laid low.”

Editorial

By Editor

A Coming Saviour
WE may now think of our Saviour as making preparation to come for his people. Soon he will realize the fulfilment of that desire which he expressed just before his ascension: “Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me.” All the signs of the times indicate that the Saviour is soon coming. Are we ready to hail his coming with joy?

Church and State Education

By L. A. S.

THROUGH the spirit of prophecy we are instructed that the time will come “when Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power,” and “our country . . . shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions.” And when this occurs, “then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan, and that the end is near.”
It is chiefly through its educational system that the papacy propagates its falsehoods and delusions. It is this educational system that has made the existing friction between the papacy and France. If the papacy should secure governmental support for its educational system in the United States, provision would be made here for the propagation of Romish errors as the prediction specifies will be done.
This instruction gives added interest to the fact that in this country Rome has made strong and persistent efforts to accomplish just this thing. Rome understands the value of education. She understands the importance to her interests of getting control of the instruction of the young. She sees in the rising generation, the great recruiting ground for the future army of her adherents. She greatly regrets that the vast majority of the youth in this country now attend the public schools instead of the parochial schools.
It is the cherished plan of the papacy to Romanize the public school system, so that the vast power of that system shall be exercised to build up the Catholic Church. To this end Rome persistently denounces the public school system as a godless one, and argues for the necessity of religious instruction in the schools. But Rome does not desire that any instruction shall be given of which she does not approve.
The papacy aims to secure representation on public-school boards, and to have Romanizing teachers placed in the public schools, even going so far in some cases as to insist that nuns be allowed to teach in the schools, clothed in their distinctive religious garb. Another aim is to secure recognition of the parochial schools as being entitled to public support, by the appropriation of public funds for their maintenance.
The great Catholic federation which is now perfecting its organization in this country, has among its chief aims the promotion of an alliance between the state and the church in the matter of public education. Recently a convention of the federation of Catholic societies of Louisiana was held in New Orleans, at which the following resolution on “Christian education” was passed:—
Resolved, That we observe with deep satisfaction the gradual growth among our non-Catholic fellow citizens of the conviction that religious instruction of some sort in the school, is absolutely necessary for the welfare of our country. Witness the discussion of the National Educational Association and of the Religious Education Association, both of which fully justify the position maintained by us Catholics for the past half century.
To this was added a proposition to place parochial-school buildings at the disposal of the state, reserving the right to appoint teachers, who are to be paid out of the common school fund. If Rome were given the privilege of appointing the teachers in the public schools, but little more, if anything, would be needed to convert them into Catholic institutions.
A Catholic priest, “Father” ThomasA. Hendrick, was for some years a member of the board of regents of the University of the State of New York. When he was appointed to an ecclesiastical post in the Philippine islands, it was understood that his successor on the board of regents must be a man who would be a representative Catholic. About that time there was published in the New York Tribune, an account of an interview which Priest Hendrick had with Pope Leo, in August, 1902, in which the pope made reference to the priest’s connection with public education in the United States. The latter in his description of the interview says:—
He had heard that I was a regent of the University of the State of New York, and with that power of grasping the details of unfamiliar things, he showed that he understood what this meant. “The cause of education is of the greatest importance to the state,” Leo said, “and for this reason I bless every institution under your care. I am much pleased with the great and generous American people, who saw fit to elect you, a Roman Catholic priest, to such a position of trust. It shows they recognize the value of a Christian education; and because they have recognized such qualifications in you, I, too, am sure that by you the Christian education of young boys and girls will not be neglected.”
The account further states that the pope on this occasion “paid a high compliment to the American people, and also to the educational policy of the State of New York.” The reason of his compliment was not that this educational policy was an excellent one from an American standpoint, but that it was so largely in the interests of the papacy. It was opening the way for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions. It was an approach to the church and state system of education which is the papal ideal, as expressed in the official organ of the Vatican, the Osservatore Romano, which, in speaking of the educational system of the United States, said: “In those states, indeed, religious conditions suffer enormously on account of the unhappy principle of the separation of church and state, which in practise means a struggle against Christianity and Catholicism.”
This pro-papal educational policy in the leading State of the Union occasioned no small stir among those Protestants who discerned in it an effort to divert public funds to the upbuilding of Catholic schools; but we have not heard that the policy has undergone any modification.
The policy of religious teaching in state schools is a distinctively papal policy, to which true Protestantism is necessarily opposed. Christianity can not be taught by the agencies of the state. The Roman religion, however, requires only human agencies for its inculcation. It is a religion of externals, of outward forms and observances, and of dogmas based only on human authority. All these can be taught in the state schools and good Catholics can be made by a church-and-state system of education. But Christianity is a religion resting on superhuman authority and wisdom, and requiring for its promulgation superhuman agencies over whom the state can have no control. Its text-book is the Word of God, its teacher the Holy Spirit. It is the science of the knowledge of God, and no advancement at all can be made in it without that power of spiritual discernment which necessitates a change of heart. This removes it altogether from the province of state education, and when the state attempts to teach Christianity, the necessary result is to inculcate religious error under a Christian name. But the movement for religious teaching in the public schools is apparently gaining ground, and if Rome, through the Catholic federation and other influences under her command, shall succeed in setting up an educational system based on an alliance of the state with the church, it will then be true that “our country,” will have made “provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions,” and that the time for the final marvelous working of Satan has been reached. L. A. S.

Our Marching Orders—“Into all the World”

By W. A. S.

OVER and over again the Lord has emphasized, for our special benefit in these last days, the great commission in which he gave the church its marching orders: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
In order that we in these very last days should know that the order is still for us, he added: “And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
After the passing of the time in 1844, as the advent believers caught the fulness of the gospel truth in the third angel’s message, the commission was repeated: “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
Not only have we the command, “Go ye into all the world,” but the prophet John was shown the remnant church actually going with the message: “I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come.”
This is the work we are engaged in, and thus repeatedly and continually the Lord Jesus urges us on into the regions beyond, across the world-wide field. Never for a moment can we rest until the warning message rings out in every tongue. Then will come the end of the work, and the gathering of the fruit. “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.”
These souls are waiting for the message now. God has given us the honor of carrying it to them. How the angels who do his will in heaven, swift to obey every command, must long to see us respond with a mighty onward movement to the command of their Captain and ours as he repeats to us now the commission: “Go ye into all the world,” “And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
W. A. S.

Prospective Sunday Legislation

By L. A. S.

An agitation is in progress for the cessation of Sunday work in the District of Columbia. Foremost among those who call for its prohibition are members of the Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society of a suburban Presbyterian church who, in a communication to the District Commissioners say:—
We learn with sorrow and deep concern that the Sabbath is broken each week in the building of the new union depot, also the new reservoir, and most respectfully submit to the Board of Commissioners that this violation of God’s command is wicked and dangerous to the community and all its citizens.
A number of local clergymen have joined in the agitation, and the opinion is expressed that “if Sunday labor is permitted at the capital of the nation, it will spread throughout the land. We can not afford to desecrate the Sabbath.”
The objection to Sunday work expressed by these individuals rests upon an assumption. It is assumed that Sunday is the Christian sabbath, and that Sunday work is a “violation of God’s command.” No revelation from God has informed us that Sunday work is “wicked.” Nowhere is any divine command to be found prohibiting such work. The foundation of the Sunday sabbath is one of tradition and popular custom only.
A protest which is based on an assumption is of no moral force. It is no part of the business of the District commissioners to decide whether Sunday work is or is not wicked and in violation of God’s command. Any rightful action on their part in the matter must be based strictly on known facts. Religious controversies must be settled in the sphere of religious, and not of civil, affairs. This protest, coming from religioussources and based on religious grounds, is not entitled to consideration by a secular tribunal.
Much is being said about the demoralizing effect of Sunday labor in the District, but such talk rests likewise upon a basis of assumption. Idleness is far more demoralizing to a community than honest labor can be. A day of idleness for mankind has no part in the purposes of an all-wise Creator. The Sabbath he gave to men was not a day for idleness, but a day for religious uses,—a day for religious, instead of secular occupations. This religious use of the day designed by its Author depends entirely on the conscience and will of the individual, and as the state can not control conscience nor regulate individual preferences, proper Sabbath observance is a matter wholly outside the sphere of state legislation. The state can enforce idleness, but this, as before stated, is a source of demoralization in a community, rather than honest work.
The Washington Post does not think the demoralization of the city is threatened by the existing Sunday work. It says:—
“We think that every fair-minded person will agree that there is no city in the United States where Sunday is so carefully and strictly observed as in Washington. The streets are as quiet as a graveyard. The churches are well attended, and a religiously educated sentiment forbids public amusements of any character. There is no reason, therefore, to believe that the community is on the high road to perdition because public work is prosecuted on Sunday.”
This statement by the Post is in harmony with the facts, as any resident of the national capital knows. And there is a point in it deserving the attention of those interested in the movement for Sunday legislation. Places of business here are not required by law to be closed on Sunday, nor is secular work forbidden; yet there is a better observance of Sunday here than in any other large city in the country. All places of business are regularly closed, and during the summer months there is not even the customary opening of grocery stores on Sunday morning,—a fact which shows how little real ground there was for the effort made at the last session of Congress to secure a law forbidding Sunday opening of grocery and meat stores in this city. There is nothing that we know of to interfere with the Sunday closing of grocery and other stores at any time by voluntary agreement, as is now the case.
The present agitation, however, which is based on Sunday work on the new railway station, the Pennsylvania tunnel, and the filtration plant—projects which will require a long time for their completion—is quite certain to lend force to a new effort for Sunday legislation at the next session of Congress.
L. A. S.

The Transfer of the Publishing Interests to Washington

By Arthur G. Daniells

ANOTHER very important step has been taken in the removal of our publishing work from Battle Creek, Mich., to Washington, D. C. As announced in last week’s REVIEW, the court of Michigan has taken the affairs of our old publishing association out of the hands of the board of directors, and placed them in the hands of a receiver. This legal step was necessary in order to transfer the business from the State.
The law requires that four months’ notice shall be given for a hearing of the claims of all creditors before the property can be disposed of, and settlement made with any creditor. At the close of this period, a full settlement can be made with all the creditors as soon as the property can be sold. If any surplus is left after the creditors are paid, it will be divided among the shareholders according to the amount of stock they hold.
We are grateful to our God for delivering us from the complications that might have obstructed the progress of this business. From the first, we have been determined to take an open, straightforward course in every step required to make the changes that seemed best. We first sought the counsel of the General Conference at the session held in Oakland in 1903. We next obtained an expression of the wishes of the stockholders at a regular annual meeting held in Battle Creek. From that day to the present we have gone forward with the business in perfect harmony with the counsel of the General Conference, the vote of the stockholders, and the legal requirements of the State of Michigan. We propose to continue along this line until the business is entirely finished. We appreciate the friendly co-operation we have received from so many of our people, and from business men of the world with whom we have been brought in contact.
Now there are two ways by which our brethren and sisters can help us very much in finishing this task: First, in assigning the stock they still hold; and second, in transferring the notes they hold against the old corporation at Battle Creek to the Review and Herald Association of Washington, D. C. Every share of stock that is now assigned to the Washington association will simplify the situation, assist the new enterprise, and give the one who assigns it a membership in the new association. But all this must be done before Dec. 31, 1904. It should be done without delay by every one who is friendly to our plan.
The transfer of notes from the old corporation that has been dissolved, to the new corporation of Washington, D. C., and accepting the notes of the new corporation in their place, will simplify the work of the receiver in winding up the business, and will not imperil the interests of the creditors. We expect to pay each creditor every dollar due him, and we counsel the creditors to take the steps that will aid in carrying out these plans.
The officers of the General Conference have been kept well informed regarding the plans and progress of this business, and so far as they understand the situation, heartily approve of the course thus far pursued, and of the suggestions for the future.
We sincerely hope that our brethren and sisters will not delay to take any steps possible to aid in the speedy closing up of this business. It should be understood that as long as it drags along, it causes more or less loss. How grateful we should all be for the excellent progress that has been made in one short year, and for the great economy that has attended the management thus far. Under ordinary circumstances we would have had a very different record.
Let all now take prompt steps to close up these affairs during the next few months. Write to either the Review and Herald of Battle Creek, Mich., or the Review and Herald Publishing Association of 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C., for any information you may desire. A. G. DANIELLS.

Russian Naval Trickery Threatens International War

EVENTS due to Russian trickery in connection with the war in the far East threaten serious international complications and a possible extension of the war to European territory. Two Russian cruisers, disguised as merchantmen, recently passed through the Dardanelles, through which by international treaty Russia is prohibited from sending ships of war. These cruisers after arriving in the Mediterranean, were restored to their true character as ships of the Russian navy, and without serving notice or touching at any port, proceeded to patrol the Red Sea and intercept ships of neutral powers. Mail was taken from a German ship, and the British steamship “Malacca” of the Peninsular and Oriental line was seized and held as a prize of war. The British government on receipt of this news promptly ordered a naval force to Port Said for the supposed purpose of intercepting the Russian ships returning with their prize, and both England and Germany sent protests to St. Petersburg. Such incidents show how easily England might be drawn into the far Eastern contest, in which case a number of other nations, and possibly all Europe and the United States, would become involved.
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