Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 7, 1904
Christ, the Restorer
"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden"
GOSPEL SERIES No. 4
PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY MOUNTAIN VIEW CALIFORNIA
A GROUP OF CHOICE STORIES
By Editor
SABBATH READINGS, VOL. I.
Exact Size
CONTAINS 384 pages filled with choice stories and poetical selections. The titles of some of these are as follows:
A Story of School Life
A Kind Word
A German Story
Angry Words
A Faithful Shepherd Boy
Bertha's Grandmother
Bert's Thanksgiving
Christ Our Refuge
Company Manners
Dick Harris
Effects of Disobedience
"Father, Don't Go"
Girls, Help Father
God Seen in All His Works
Giving Offense
Indecision
In the Twilight
"I Will Do It"
Jamie and His Teacher
Missionary Katy
My Mother's Voice
Making Fun of People
May and Might
Nothing Finished
Obedience or Sacrifice
Success the Reward of Perseverance
Susie's Prayer
Stand by the Ship
The Daughter of a King
The Little Sisters
The Young Musician
The Noble Revenge
The Orphans
The Beautiful Villa
The Boy and His Spare Moments
The Belle of the Ballroom
The Right Decision
The Two Clerks
Tom's Trial
The Premium
Taking a Situation
Taking Him in Hand
Telling Mother
The Record
The Indian's Revenge
The Little Weaver
The Use of Learning
The Garden of Peace
The Widow's Christmas
The Sign-board
Valuable Secret
Will Winslow
Why He Didn't Smoke
What One Lie Did
What Are Those Scars
Where the Gold Is
"With a Will, Joe"
What Ruined Him
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"But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts."
ETERNAL VICTORY.
By W. W. Prescott
VICTORY! Victory in the face of apparent defeat! Victory over the kingdom of this world and the god of this world! Victory over every opposing power and all opposing powers combined, just at the time when the wisdom of this world would prophesy certain defeat? Victory such as no world-power has gained during the long-continued struggle for supremacy and permanent possession of the earth! Victory through the power of righteousness revealed in humanity, "even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe;" that supreme gift of God to men which makes them "partakers of the divine nature" and "joint-heirs with Christ" to His throne of universal dominion! Victory which finds its best expression in the words of that eternal song: "Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? . . . . Thou in Thy mercy hast led forth the people which Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation. . . . Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which Thou hast made for Thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy hands have established. The Lord shall reign forever and ever." This is the Gospel outlook when the eye of faith is at the telescope.
A Definite Purpose.
The Gospel is not abstract, but concrete. It is not a verbal statement of truth which demands an intellectual assent, merely, but a revelation of truth in life, an experience of divine power which can only be known and appropriated by personal faith. The Gospel of Christ "is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; . . . for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith." And this is based upon the fundamental truth that "the just shall live by faith." The righteousness of God revealed, not in a definition, but in a person, to be appropriated as the life of the believer, fellowship with "that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested,"—this is the Gospel of Christ.
The eternal life was manifested in the flesh for a very definite purpose. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." "He was manifested to take away our sins." "He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him;" "to bring in everlasting righteousness;" to "restore again the kingdom of Israel." Thus the "mystery of godliness," He who "was manifested in the flesh," was revealed, and the union of the divine life with sinful flesh was accomplished, not simply in order to provide an all-sufficient sacrifice for sin, but to bring into humanity that power of righteousness which in it could defeat the devil, deliver from fear of death by saving from the dominion of sin, restore the image of God in the soul, and so restore the kingdom to the Israel of God. This great truth is the source and the substance of all real Gospel teaching, under whatsoever form it may be presented.
It is therefore clear that present deliverance from the power and dominion of sin through the "abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness" is the experience which is the pledge of the fulfilment of all promises for the future. Thus the sharing with the King in His kingly character involves all the outward results which flow from such a life, as revealed in Him. This is the key to the understanding of all those promises which set forth the final and glorious triumphs of the Gospel. They are not the arbitrary gifts of a capricious monarch which will be bestowed upon certain favorites, but the simple outworking of the eternal principles of the divine character as shown by the results when "that eternal life" was manifested in the flesh of Jesus of Nazareth.
Triumphant in Righteousness.
The kingdoms of earth, existing in the providence of God, as revealed in Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, Rome, and others, failing to recognize God as their all, and themselves as the servants of God, have utterly failed, either to establish righteousness or continuance.
And yet after all this repeated failure of earth's mightiest powers, a most glorious triumph is predicted in the declaration that "the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever." What the rulers of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome, with all the power of armies and navies at their bidding, could not do, is accomplished through the power of a righteous character in the weakest child of God. "God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." But the assurance of all this is found in the present cleansing from sin. "Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and [in so doing] hath made us kings." And of those it is said, "And they shall reign forever and ever."
Triumphant in Humility.
All that is included, however, in the Gospel outlook is not fully apprehended unless there is a clear understanding of all that was accomplished in the flesh of Jesus of Nazareth by the manifestation of that eternal life in Him. His experience is set forth as the experience of every one who is brought into life-union with Him through being born again. "Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion2as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross." And this was done with no greater inducement in view than that He might win back man for the earth and the earth for man, and that thus the original dominion might be restored. But the character which was revealed by the Son of God in thus becoming the Son of Man for man's sake, brought to Him, as the Son of Man, and to all who are in Him, all that He gave up as the Son of God when He emptied Himself. "Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and gave unto Him the name which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Reigning with Him.
Thus the man Christ Jesus was exalted to the throne of the universe, "far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion." And all this He shares with the humblest believer who really shares with Him in His character. Through the grace which is in Christ Jesus, man is so filled with the fulness of God through the wonderful provision of the Gospel, that he is thereby restored, not simply to the dominion which was forfeited through the loss of His kingly character, but to a seat upon the throne of the universe by the side of the King eternal, immortal, invisible." New heavens, new earth, New Jerusalem, new creatures in Christ Jesus! "Behold, I make all things new." "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son." "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. . . . We know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him." O glorious outlook of a glorious Gospel! "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." "Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
The Coming Jubilee
By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
CHRIST THE RESTORER
By MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE
I look o'er the earth with her burden of sin,
And I see naught but tempests without and within;
I see naught but sorrow and anguish and death—
A charnel-house, breathing its pestilent breath.
I see but her battle-fields heaped with the slain,
And I hear the low wails and the moanings of pain;
The poor, toiling millions are crying with grief,
And the sin-stricken earth can afford no relief.
The brier and thistle spring up from the sod,
For the children of men are at war with their God.
I know 'tis the marks of the curse that I see,
But I have heard there is coming a glad jubilee;
And I know the black trail where the serpent hath crept,
Where the minions of darkness have slumbered and slept,
Where the blood of earth's martyrs have crimsoned the sod,
Shall bloom like the rose in the gardens of God.
For Christ, the Restorer, is coming again—
O, shout the glad news to the children of men.
The armies of heaven shall fight with His foes,
And the desert shall blossom and bud like the rose.
Then say to the fearful of heart, "Be ye strong;"
And shout the glad strains of the jubilee song;
Soon the dead shall awake, and the lame as the hart
Shall leap and rejoice, and glad waters shall start
In the drear desert wastes, and the tongue of the dumb
Shall shout "Hallelujah!" when Shiloh shall come.
In the drear desert wastes, and the tongue of the dumb Shall shout "Hallelujah!" when Shiloh shall come.
By W. S. SADLER, M. D.
ITS FALSE PANACEAS.
THE thoughtful, observant person who considers the condition of our world to-day, from almost any standpoint, must surely discover that the human race is on the down grade mentally, morally, and physically. It is not pessimism to recognize plain facts, rather is it wisdom to discern the effects in the future of the acting causes of to-day. Let us take our Bibles and the present-day facts, and briefly examine them.
First, What deplorable condition is the old world in to-day? "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters; they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores; they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." Isa. 1:4-6.
This is the picture Inspiration presents of our world to-day, and the facts which are disclosed by impartial investigation entirely sustain the description.
Looking the Facts in the Face.
There are over 250,000 insane and imbeciles in the United States to-day.
Statistics show that insanity is increasing three hundred times faster than the population. At the present ratio of increase, even if it gets no worse (in reality it is getting worse each year), it will require but 290 years to produce the utter destruction of the mental endurance of the race.
One death in every seven is from tuberculosis. About one-fourth of all deaths of adults is due to tuberculosis. Recent statistics issued by the German government show that one-fourth of all people dying of diseases other than tuberculosis, have had consumption at some time in their life. It would thus appear that very nearly one-half of the grown-up people have had or now have tuberculosis in some form or other.
The deadly cancer is terribly on the increase, and a prominent surgeon, appointed by the state of New York to investigate this disease some time ago, said that if it continues to increase the next ten years as fast as it has in the last ten years, it would claim as many victims as tuberculosis.
On every side there is abundant evidence of the rapid increase in the numbers of deformed, defective, and degenerate human beings.
There were ten thousand suicides in the United States last year.
Nervous diseases and stomach troubles number their victims by millions, and very nearly three-fourths of the population are afflicted with one or other of these disorders.
It is an acknowledged fact that vice and crime are tremendously on the increase.
The rapidly-increasing army of dentists testifies to the fact that, as a race, we are tending toward toothlessness.
Causes of Increasing Degeneracy.
In the United States we spent $18.15 per capita for liquor last year. The use of this reason-destroying drug has doubled in this country since 1880.
In this country we are spending nine hundred millions of dollars a year for drink. Is it any wonder that the daily papers are a kaleidoscope of accidents, crime, poverty, and bloodshed?
There are one million morphine fiends in the United States, according to the Chicago Tribune. This means about one person in every eighty.
A prominent medical editor asserts that ten per cent. of all doctors are addicted to the use of morphine. It has been estimated that there are over fifty thousand cocaine and morphine fiends in Chicago alone. One New England prohibition state last year used three million doses of opium, independent of physicians' prescriptions.
Pause, reader, and consider that we spend as much money every year for tobacco as for bread.
It is reported that one company is able to manufacture seven million cigarettes daily; and last year the boys of this fair land consumed three billions of them. It is universally admitted that smoking is on the increase among women. A medical lecturer recently stated that the cigarets smoked in the United States last year if laid end to end, would reach around the world twice, and then from New York to San Francisco and back again.
A single patent medicine firm uses five hundred barrels of whisky a week in making its remedies; and a patent medicine which in some places has reached the enormous sale of one bottle for every four persons in the community, contains twenty-three per cent. of alcohol. Two hundred million dollars worth of patent medicines were sold in this country last year.
Last year Americans used more tea and coffee than ever before. In the United States a bag of coffee (180 lbs.) is consumed every four seconds, or a billion pounds a year.
With this endless chain of mental, moral, and physical transgression, we can expect to realize nothing better than the fulfillment of the prophecy concerning the last days, as found in 2 Tim. 3:1-5.
The Remedy That Heals.
Second, Is there any hope of health and healing for our sin-sick, suffering world?—3 John 2. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." See also Isa. 53:4-6. Yes, thank God, there is a Hand of mercy reached out to help us in our pitiable condition.
Third, Is the world warranted in instituting a search for true health and healing?—"I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord." Jer. 30:17. "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." Ps. 103:3.
Fourth, Who alone has power to heal disease and minister health?—"The power of the Lord was present to heal them." Luke 5:17. "He sent His Word, and healed them." Ps. 107:20. In these days of almost universal deception, Christian men and women ought to examine very carefully the claims of all so-called divine healers.
It is the Word of God, divine truth, received and lived out, that becomes the channel of health and healing to the sincere Christian.
Fifth, Through what channels, and by what means, is the sin-sick world to expect healing and relief? "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Thy Word." Ps. 119:9. See Joel 3:21 and John 15:3.
The world will not find healing in its false pleasures: theaters, race-tracks, dancing-halls, card-playing, etc., neither in the idle seeking of health at pleasure resorts, nor at the seaside. Good physical work, mental activity, and spiritual peace, will do more to strengthen mind, soul, and body, than all the unnatural and deceptive agencies and instrumentalities the devil has ever invented.
Remedies That Can Not Help.
Sixth, Can man—human agents—heal disease? "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound?" Hosea 5:13.
Seventh, Are there counterfeit healings, or deceptive remedies abroad in the world? "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: But they said, We will not walk therein." "We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!" "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" Jer. 6:14-16, 22; 8:15, 22.
True, God has given to this world the Great Physician, the Healer of mind, soul, and body, the One who can re-create us anew in Himself.
Likewise there is a divinely-implanted instinct within the human breast which leads it to seek for health and healing when in distress and disease. It is also true that our great enemy has taken advantage of this arrangement, and has provided a vast and cunning array of deceptive and bewildering schemes and delusions calculated to deceive "even the very elect" if that were possible.
Divine healing which is genuine is flavored with the spirit of truth, and accompanied by sincere obedience to the known commands of God.
As Jeremiah points out, there is a healing that does not heal, even at best, but "slightly." It neither recognizes nor removes causes, and therefore its apparent relief is but the devil’s deception. This is very clearly seen in the way morphine or opium will relieve pain without curing the disease, in the way in which alcohol will lighten the heart of its devotee, without removing the sin which was the cause of his sadness.
These are but illustrations of the deception of that healing which is false, whether it be offered as a panacea for diseased bodies, failing minds, or burdened souls.
For the sin-sick soul the devil has likewise provided an endless variety of isms, deceptions, and delusions. We do not care to discuss them, and will only name them, and warn the Christian to avoid their polluted pools: Pantheism, Buddhism, the revival of sun worship, Christian Science, New Thought, Theosophy, Spiritualism, worldly-pleasure-loving-professed-Christianity, etc.
Our Only Hope.
Our only hope, dear reader, is in placing absolute faith in God’s Word, looking steadfastly to Jesus, walking conscientiously in the light of heaven, and depending absolutely upon God, as the Healer for mind, soul, and body; co-operating with Him intelligently; with reference to our bodies, employing the beneficent agencies of air, water, food, exercise; concerning our mind, to "let this mind be in" us "which was also in Christ Jesus;" with reference to our soul, to depend upon Him wholly as the One to forgive us, to cleanse us from all sin, to uphold us by the word of His power, and, in the end, to present us "faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy."
Personal Safety in Prophecy
By Dr. Cumming
No DISCUSSION on the fulfilment of prophecy must ever divert, but, on the contrary, should draw our minds to the consideration of our personal safety in the sight of God. Are we hiding ourselves within the everlasting arms—and when the last storm shall come, and the last thunder shall roar, and the last fire shall blaze, are we conscious that we shall be found resting on the Rock that shall never fail?—Dr. Cumming.
