Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1904
The Lord’s Prayer
Then to the mercy-seat our souls do gather
To do our duty unto Thee “Our Father,
To whom all praise, all honors should be given, Who art in Heaven,
For thou art the great God
Thou, by thy wisdom, rulest the whole world’s fame, Hallowed be thy name.
Forever, therefore
Let nevermore delay divide us from
Thy glorious face, but let Thy kingdom come.
Let thy commands opposed be by none,
Let thy good pleasure and Thy will be done,
And let our promptness to obey be even
The very same In earth as ’tis in heaven.
Then for our souls, O Lord, we also pray
Thou wouldst be pleased to Give us on this day
The food of life, wherewith our souls are fed.
Sufficient raiment, and Our daily bread
With every needful thing do Thou relieve us,
And of thy mercy, pity and Forgive us
All our misdeeds, for Him whom thou didst please
To make an offering for Our trespasses.
And forasmuch, O Lord, as we believe
That thou wilt pardon us As we forgive,
Let that love teach wherewith Thou dost acquaint us,
To pardon all Who trespass against us.
And though sometimes thou findest we’ve forgot
This love for Thee, yet help, And lead us not,
Though souls or bodies want, to desperation,
Nor let earth’s gain drive us Into temptation,
Let not the soul of any true believer
Fall in the time of trial, But deliver,
Yea, save them from the malice of the devil,
And both in life and death keep Us from evil.
Thus pray we, Lord, for that of Thee from whom
This may be had, For Thine is the kingdom,
This world is of thy works, its wondrous story
To Thee belongs, The power and the glory,
And all thy wondrous works have ended never,
But will remain forever and Forever.
Thus we poor creatures would confess again
And thus would say eternally, Amen.”
This poem was found on a battlefield, and is supposed to have been written by a wounded soldier.
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Testimonies for the Church, Vol. VIII
If you are interested in the advancement of the third angel's message, and if you know why our headquarters are being moved to another place, you should also know the instruction given to our people with reference to this move. “Trees that are planted too thickly do not flourish,” says the Testimony. You will be interested in the remainder of this chapter addressed to the lay members.
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By Editor
SINCE the first edition of the special Signs number of the Southern Watchman was mailed, orders have been coming in so rapidly that in order to keep up with them and those for the Family Bible Teacher, it has been necessary to run our presses both night and day.
Those who were waiting to see a copy before ordering are now sending in their orders, many of which are for a large number, while others who have already ordered, are sending for more, and these orders are invariably accompanied with the statement, “This special number sells the best of anything I have yet tried.”
We are receiving many words of commendation, both as to its selling qualities and the matter it contains. The following letter from Elder L. G. Moore, of Ann Arbor, Mich., containing a post-office order for three dollars, is a sample of what people are writing about this number:—
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Brother A. F. Harrison, general canvassing agent for the Southern Union Conference, has ordered one thousand copies to sell himself, and writes of his first two days’ work as follows:—
“Monday morning I took the train and came to—. I arrived here at half-past eight, but it was nearly nine o’clock when I began work. That day I sold six more papers than I was able to sell in my best day’s work with the Special number of the Signs. Yesterday I did even better. This Watchman is a fine one. . . . If our State agents everywhere would only take an interest in this matter, and drill the workers and churches, this paper could be sold by the ton.”
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Editorial
Looking Unto Jesus
In the Christian race every weight is to be laid aside, the sin which doth so easily beset us is to be put away, and we are to run with steadfastness, “looking unto Jesus the Leader and Perfecter of our faith.” To ensure success in our Christian life it is absolutely necessary that we should keep our minds stayed upon the Lord, and that we should run the race “looking unto Jesus.” To look elsewhere is to forget Jesus. To look elsewhere is to invite defeat. To look elsewhere is to acknowledge that there is a greater than Jesus. Let us try to understand the fulness of meaning in the simple expression “looking unto Jesus.” Consider these words: “Looking, not to ourselves or our sins, but to him who hath put away sin forever. Not to ourselves or our faith, whether in its weakness or its strength, but to him whose presence is the life of our faith. Not to the world or its temptations, but to him who hath said, ‘Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.’ Not to Satan or his threats, but to him who hath brought him to naught. Not to men, or their fear or their favor, but to Jesus, the God-Man, Immanuel, God with us, our Brother and our King. Looking to Jesus, and Jesus alone. Looking to him always and in all. In trial and trouble, as in joy and prosperity; in solitude and repose, as in company and business; in religious worship, as in daily life,—always, only, looking to Jesus. Looking to him, to see what he is, to hear what he speaks, to do what he says, to follow where he leads, to trust for all he waits to give. Looking to him and his love, till my heart burns with that love. Looking to him, till his eye meets mine, and I know that he watches over me. Looking to him in the power of his love and Spirit, knowing that he himself is drawing me to himself, leading and perfecting my faith. Looking to him, to be changed into his likeness from glory to glory.” Ah, what blessing will be found in the experience of “looking unto Jesus”! “Look unto me, and be ye saved.”
The Meeting Place
Very appropriately is the tabernacle in which the typical service was performed frequently called “the tent of meeting” in our Revised Version of the Scriptures. The people did not meet in the tabernacle for worship, as congregations now assemble in places of worship, but there God and man met over the broken law of God, and pardon and peace were assured to those who were willing to accept the divine provision in their behalf. This is one of the particulars in which the tabernacle was a type of the things which were afterward to be fully revealed. What was thus set forth in figure was realized in the person of Jesus, Son of God and Son of man. He clothed his divinity with humanity. “The Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.” Thus it was upon earth. And in heaven “the Lamb of God is represented before us as ‘in the midst of the throne’ of God. He is the great ordinance by which man and God are united and commune together. Thus men are represented as sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. This is the appointed place of meeting between God and humanity.” Such is the mystery of the incarnation. It is “in Christ Jesus” that we are made to sit in the heavenly places. It is “in Christ Jesus” that “the exceeding riches of his grace” is shown unto us. It is “in Christ Jesus” that we are created for good works. It is “in Christ Jesus” that those who “once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.” It is “in Christ” that the Father “hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing.” And it is only in him and through him that we are able to draw nigh unto God. Through no other channel has the Father made a revelation of himself for salvation. Do you desire to meet with God? Believe on Jesus. Do you desire to experience the union of divinity with humanity? Believe on Jesus. “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.” What a blessed meeting place!
Studies in the Prophecies
The Value of Prophecy
IN the voices of the prophets we may hear the voice of God speaking to us; for God hath spoken “in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners.” From Moses, of whom it is said that “there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face,” to Malachi, the last of the old-time prophets, and so on to John the revelator, “who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw,” we have many mouthpieces, but each one gave utterance to the words of the Lord. Here is found an all-sufficient reason for giving earnest heed to the prophecies. God has spoken through the prophets. When God speaks, we ought to give attention to the things which are spoken.
God has spoken through human instrumentalities in order that we may hear his words and live. When God spoke directly to the people at Sinai, “they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” Since that time God has spoken to men through human agencies, but it is no less the voice of God than at Sinai. Happy are those who thus regard the words of the prophets.
It is true that there have been false prophets who have prophesied false things, but the Lord himself has warned us against such impostors, and has himself established a test by which we may distinguish the true from the false. “If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known4and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams.” The Lord’s prophet leads men and women to faithful service of the true God, but the whole purpose of Satan’s emissaries is to lead away from God. “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
The value of prophecy, and the fact that it is God who speaks through the prophets, are both made clear in the following inspired words: “We have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.”
We find also many expressions connected with the fulfilment of particular prophecies which indicate plainly that it was not man but God by his Holy Spirit who had foretold that which had come to pass. Here are some examples of this: “It was needful that the scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of David concerning Judas.” “The things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.” “He spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old.” “Whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old.” “Behold,” said the Lord to Jeremiah, “I have put my words in thy mouth.”
The prophets themselves recognized that the words which they spoke were not their own, and they themselves sought to profit by what was revealed through them. Thus we read: “Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.” What stronger evidence could be brought forward to show that the Lord himself was speaking through a prophet, than the fact that the prophet himself earnestly studied to know the meaning of the message which was given through him? Through humanity the Lord speaks to humanity, and the prophet himself listens for the voice of God speaking through his own mouth. This is the mark of a true prophet.
It was the appeal to prophecy which established the claim of Jesus of Nazareth to be the true Messiah. This is a marked feature of the gospel by Matthew. Over and over again it is stated, with a little variation of the form of words, “That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet.” And it is indeed true that “we have the life of Christ in Moses and the prophets. The picture of the Messiah in its grand outlines was quite above the conception of Israel, and even of the prophets, at any time. Even after the fulfilment it was new to the people, different from their ideas, high above their thoughts and expectations. And as for the circumstantial fulfilment of the wonderful detail, who can explain it on natural principles?” The only explanation is found in the fact that the Lord foretold the experiences of his own Son. He who knows the end from the beginning foretold through human lips, often in the most particular way, the incarnation, the life of self-sacrifice, the cruel death, the resurrection, the ascension, and the exaltation at his own right hand. Those who desire to study this more fully will do well to read the following texts suggested by Dr. Adolph Saphir: Gen. 3:15; 9:26, 27; 12:3; 17:20, 21; 49:8-10; Isa. 7:14; 9:6; 11:1-10; 2 Samuel 7; Micah 5:2; Daniel 9; Hosea 11:1; Isaiah 40 and Malachi 3; Isaiah 42; 35; 61; 53; Zech. 11:13; 12:10; 13:7; Ps. 41:9; Ex. 12:46; Ps. 22; 16; 68:18; 110:1; 118:22, 23.
The period covered by the last generation is the subject of many prophecies, and stands in special relation to several lines of prophecy which deal with the past as well as the present. In fact, in these closing years of the great controversy the whole field of prophecy invites most thoughtful study. The conclusions which are thus reached will serve to establish a well-grounded faith in the particular predictions which are yet to be fulfilled in this generation; for it will be found that this closing work of the gospel is all mapped out in the prophecies. “In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.” It is fitting, then, that we should give special attention to the study of the prophecies.
The Gospel of Salvation
WHATEVER our circumstances, whatever our experience, we all have this common need, that we should find salvation from sin; that we should know that power which gives us victory in time of temptation, which delivers us in time of fear, which enables us to conquer death, and which brings us safely into the eternal kingdom of God. In all our study of the gospel, we should never let any other truth overshadow this, because this is the essential thing in our experience.
Any teaching of the gospel of Christ which fails to emphasize this power of God unto salvation from sin, is not emphasizing for us the gospel as it should, because whatever may be our views as to the fulfilment of prophecy, whatever may be our views as to certain doctrines or rites or ceremonies, if we fail by personal faith to lay hold upon the gospel of Christ to save us from sin, then rites, ceremonies, doctrines, creeds of any kind, the most cordial assent to the plainest teachings of the prophecies of God’s Word, will not save us from sin apart from personal faith. “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 Lord’s constant invitation.
This gospel of salvation from sin never changes in its essential features. The original provision for salvation was for personal faith in the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world; that is, God’s righteousness should be imputed to us through the gift of Jesus, his Son, as our Saviour; that is, his taking the flesh and revealing divine power in humanity brought unto us salvation; he made that union between the divine and the human that brings to humanity power for salvation from sin. To believe this, to lay hold upon this, to apply this experience for our experience, is to be saved from sin.
But at various times in the development of the gospel truth in the earth there have been crises, as it were, when there was to be borne, with special clearness and with special application to the very time then present, such a message of the gospel of salvation from sin, such a teaching of the righteousness of God through personal faith in Christ, as would save from the special temptation upon the people at that time, would save from the special danger of the hour.
Such times are readily recalled in past history. Such a time was the time of the flood. Such a time was the time in the experience of Nineveh when Jonah was sent with his message of present salvation, a salvation that must come to them within forty days. Such a time was the first advent, when John the Baptist preached this same gospel of salvation from sin with special reference to the fact that according to prophecy the time was fulfilled; the kingdom of God was at hand, and he was the forerunner to preach that gospel in such a way that the way of the Lord might be prepared; to present in such a way the truth concerning Jesus and his salvation, that when Jesus should be revealed in the flesh, he should be recognized as the Messiah, and the people should receive him.
To-day we face the near advent of our Lord. According to the fulfilment of many prophecies, according to the plain teaching of God’s Word which5comes to us, we live to-day in the last generation, and we face, as the immediate imminent event, the second coming of our Lord in glory. There must be in this generation a teaching of the gospel of salvation from sin that shall save from sin in this generation; such a teaching of the gospel of salvation from sin as shall expose the false teaching of the gospel; as shall expose, in whatever form it may be presented to the people, that message which in many phrases has been taught and is being taught,—the gospel of salvation of man, instead of the gospel of the salvation of God.
There is only one true gospel. It is the power of God, and it is the power of God so applied as to bring salvation from sin. It is not simply abstract power, not simply the recognition of that power working in other ways, but the laying hold upon Christ working within the individual as the power of God to deliver him from the power of sin. This is the true gospel. It brings to the believer that righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ. It saves the believer from sin. It prepares the believer for that greatest of all events, now so near at hand, the coming of Jesus for his people. This is the experience which we need.
The Nature of Modern Theology
By L. A. S.
FROM a leading exponent of modern theology according to the higher criticism (Professor Lobstein, of the University of Strassburg), the Literary Digest quotes the following in answer to the question, “What does modern theology make of the Bible?”—
The new and modern method [of interpreting the Scriptures] is the strictly historical interpretation of the sacred Scriptures. . . . This historical method is based upon ideas that are in deadly hostility to the old theory of inspiration, or, in fact, to any divine inspiration. . . . The difference that has all along been thought to exist between Biblical and secular history now practically disappears.
What a wonderful light the historical method has cast upon the real meaning of many of the books of the Bible! Now more than one book, the significance of which was not and could not be understood on the basis of the old inspiration hypothesis, appears in a wonderfully clear religious light, among these such enigmas as the book of Jonah, to which former generations demanded only a blind obedience, but which, understood as a work of fiction, is full of religious instruction. Again, the Apocalypse of St. John, interpreted in the light of the events at the close of the first Christian century, by the processes of historical exegesis, is now for the first time understood in its real purpose and character.
Examples to show how this method affects specific problems are readily furnished. It is now seen that the claim that Jesus was born of a virgin has no right to be regarded as one of the fundamentals of Christian faith. The latter is independent of the statements recorded in the Gospels. The same is true of the different views which have been developed in the New Testament on the basis of the tradition concerning the resurrection of Jesus.
From another authority on this subject (Professor Bousset) we have the following:—
The proclamation of the gospel can no longer begin with the thought of the utter corruption of man and the sinfulness of all actions. The old contrast between sin and grace is not the foundation of theology. Again, we can speak of the divinity of Christ only in a modified sense, and the Pauline doctrine of atonement does not represent the original faith of Christianity.
Such quotations very clearly show what modern theology makes of the Bible. It removes from it entirely the whole foundation of the faith once delivered unto the saints, leaving it a book of no value whatever save of a merely literary and historical nature. Either this modern theology is false or the old Christianity is false. But the divinity of the old Christianity is abundantly proved by its fruits.
L. A. S.
The Main Part of the Soldier’s Life
By W. A. S.
THE most famous painter of battle scenes in our day, the Russian artist, Verestchagin, lost his life when the battle-ship “Petropavlovsk” went down in the Port Arthur roadstead. He counted himself a servant of peace, for he painted, not to glorify war, but to show its sordid and sad side. He did not choose the dramatic scenes of war, but held that the real campaign was made up of common hardship and misery, without the excitement and carnal inspiration of the shock of the battle-field. He said:—
Weeks are spent in marching in blazing suns, in clouds of dust, or in toiling through mud while the rains drench you to the skin. War means hunger, thirst, sickness, the pain of wounds, privations of all kinds,—a reversion to the conditions of savage existence. All these things last for days, for weeks, for months, while the time that is passed in actual fighting is but a few hours. Why, then, should we, in painting war, devote our attention exclusively to these moments of excitement, and ignore the dull, grim realities that make up the life of a soldier on campaign?
There is a lesson for the missionary soldier in this view. Many a youth who enlists in an army is fascinated by the thought of bright uniforms, the waving of banners, the chance to do gallant service and win applause and renown. And he finds that he little understood the real hardness of the service and the commonplace duties that make up the life of the average trooper. Now we are called to endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ; and we, too, shall find that this means a vast amount of what might be called commonplace, hard, heavy work.
After all, character is not tested more in meeting great crises than in bearing the brunt of this every-day wear and tear of life. The strength for the crisis is but the sum of the victories gained in the common experiences.
The test for the missionary work is not more in the courage that meets sudden emergencies or dangers than in the plodding constancy that counts for every-day faithfulness when there are no great battles to be won nor stirring events to be encountered. Many a man who could nerve himself to meet a sudden shock of danger finds himself weak when the service calls for steady devotion to uninspiring details.
Our hearts are stirred as we think of Moffat, with bared breast, facing the Bechuana spears, of Paton, holding the muzzles of the cannibal islanders’ guns and praying God to keep him, or of Ann Haseltine Judson, week after week facing that wicked Burmese court, pleading for Judson’s life. But these are not the items that make up the triumph of missions. These experiences but bring into relief the trust and devotion and self-abandonment born of days and months and years of unwavering toil among unappreciative people, with no one looking on,—no one but God and angels,—no one cheering, no trumpets blowing, no flags waving.
God’s work calls for those who can endure hardness in meeting commonplace experiences, and who will be as true in little things as in the great. It is easier ofttimes to be courageous when the stiff battle is on than to hold encouragingly on when the situation calls for waiting only upon God. When the work moves with a rush and a stir, it is easier to be strong in faith than in the time of patient waiting. It is good to know how to run and not be weary; but most often, perhaps, do we need to learn how to walk and not faint. It is often harder to plod along at a walking pace than to run forward. But those that wait upon the Lord shall learn it. Isa. 40:31.