Signs of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 3. (11/20/1893)

Signs of the Times

Nov 20, 1893

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1893

Religious Interest at the World’s Fair

This Religious Age.—But how religious? or what religion? is well worth asking.

The Chicago World’s Fair was well attended, immensely so when railroads reduced their fares; and it would have been immensely attended on Sundays if half of the exhibits had not been covered on that day. It is safe to say that Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show received its best patronage on Sunday. The Parliament of Religions, another great show, was well attended. One correspondent to the New York Observer, of October 19, and whom that paper pronounces accurate in statement and observation, said that the Buddhists, the Mahommedans, and the Theosophists attracted the greatest crowds, and, “with smooth, glib tongues, made their false religions appear to be on a level with Christianity.” And why not? Were they not called here as Buddhists, Theosophists, etc., to meet Christianity on a level, in the one common “brotherhood”?

On the other hand, when the Christian Alliance put forth its best men, they could not get a hearing. The same writer, a friend of the Alliance, said that the “Alliance meetings were lamentably small, two hundred or three hundred of an evening, and the sectional meetings abandoned, and others very small. One speaker had three and spoke well, another only one for an audience.” Certainly the people are not interested in devotional, practical Christianity, or that which approximates it most closely. Some noted men might draw, but it is the men, not the message. The great Congress of Religions, judged by such conditions as the above, present, as the Observer says, “a very sorry picture.”

But will not the Congress and Parliament have their effect?—Most certainly; they are a mighty step towards the last great confederacy of religions under the Sunday banner. And thus have the prophets presented it.

TWO PRINCIPLES.

TWO MANIFESTATIONS.

TWO RELIGIONS.

WE have considered in foregoing numbers the two great powers in the universe,—God and Satan,—actuated by, as well as personifying, two great principles,—love, or unselfishness, and hatred, or selfishness. These two principles have been set before us in the word of God in the personalities of Michael and Lucifer. In Michael, “the One like God,” we have manifested the principle of love, unselfishness, and self-denial for others’ sake; in Lucifer we have the opposite principle of hatred, selfishness, and self-exaltation. Love is the positive term, denoting pure affection for all, working for others’ good; unselfishness is the negative side of love, while self-denial for the sake of others is the carrying out of this principle. Selfishness is the positive term of the opposite principle; self-exaltation or profit is its object, while hatred is the other side of the principle, the side toward all opposed to self-exaltation. It is thus that the two principles are manifest in the two characters, as set forth in the Scriptures:—

LOVE AND SELF-DENIAL.

“Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being originally in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped 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 fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Wherefore also God highly exalted him.” Phil. 2:5-9, R. V., margin.

SELFISHNESS AND SELF-EXALTATION.

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer [margin; “daystar”], son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! for thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High, yet shalt thou be brought down to hell.” Isa. 14:12-15.

Michael, or Christ Jesus, the only being in the universe who had the right to aspire to be equal with God, did not think such exaltation a thing to be grasped or seized, but emptied himself of himself, that God might fill him with all the fullness of the Godhead (Col. 2:9; 1:19), and that thus he might manifest in the flesh God to the world (1 Tim. 1:16; John 1:14); and he could only do this as God was in him (2 Cor. 5:19; John 14:9-11). It is well known that the whole life of Christ was a life of self-denial for others’ good; but in this he was only declaring the love of God. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” John 1:18. See also John 6:46; Luke 10:22. And what Christ did declare was love, infinite love for all.

But not so with Satan. A being created of God, gifted with wondrous capabilities of God, clothed with beauty from God, filled with wisdom from God, none should have been more grateful, loyal, and devoted than he. And such would have been the case if he had been moved by the principle of love. But no; all the gifts, the beauty, the wisdom, the light and glory which God had bestowed upon him, he took to himself, as though they were his by his own creation and not gifts of God. So the prophet speaks of him under the figure of the King of Tyre:—

“Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.” Eze. 28:17.

And this selfishness—and that is the case with all selfishness—stops short of nothing, even to the destruction of the throne of the universe. For, looking upon his wisdom, and beauty, which were wholly from God, he took all as wholly from himself, and considered that his ability and wisdom entitled him to a higher place. And therefore he said: “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.” This is what Satan said. I, I, I, will do all these things. This meant the very destruction of the government of God; for there can be but one Most High; therefore, for Satan to be like the Most High meant that he would be sole ruler. This is selfishness; this is hatred of all that opposes self.

The end of this is destruction; for the triumph of the law of selfishness inevitably leads to destruction. If Satan had been able to have become like the Most High and infuse in every responsible being in the universe the same spirit as in himself, his throne would have been in perpetual peril from others who, like himself, were ambitious to be first. The rule of selfishness is, ultimately, only as strong as the individual is strong to maintain it. And, therefore, the Lord pronounces the fate of Lucifer in the following words: “Yet shalt thou be brought down to hell.” “I will destroy thee, O covering cherub.”

TWO RELIGIONS.

Out of these two principles, manifest in their perfection in Christ and Lucifer, have developed among men two great religions. We do not mean by this that those religions have always existed in the same completeness as seen in their great prototypes and founders. The devotees of the true religion, which we may call the true church, have been unable to show forth the perfection of their great Example because they have not emptied themselves, as Christ emptied himself. Neither have the devotees of the religion of Satan, or the false church, fallen as low as the great apostate, because of the merciful interposition and restraining influence of the Spirit of God. And yet, in the great crises of the world, in the times of the formation of the various ages into which the history and development of God's truth and church are divided, the lines between the false and true have been drawn with clear distinction. At other periods it has been difficult to distinguish the false from the true. At such times the true church will be found among the scattered ones. In the times of great crises the two classes are separated. This will appear more evident as we progress in this study.

The principles upon which we are to decide between the true and the false, between the genuine and counterfeit, are the principles set forth in God's holy word, and manifest in the character and life of Christ. The principles may be summed up under one general head, namely,

ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION TO GOD.

This may be expressed by the simple term faith. It may be said to be faith and love. But genuine faith in God will develop love; for if we trust God, we cannot but love him. There is implied in this submission the following: (1) The acknowledgment of the rightness of God's authority, not in a general sense, but as revealed in his law; for he who professes to acknowledge the authority of a government and yet refuses to submit to its laws, is really as much in rebellion against the government as he who is openly against it all, and is a much more dangerous enemy. He shows that, as long as self is pleased or profited, so long as it is expedient, he obeys; but when it is not, he refuses to obey. His submission is submission to self, not to the government. Submission to God is obedience to his every requirement. (2) It implies faith in God's wisdom. He who submits to God implicitly says by that that he believes God knows more than he does in every respect, and that he wants God's guidance. He shows by that that he has meekness. And this is the very class that God will guide. Ps. 25:9; James 4:6. (3) It implies trust in God's power, and shows that the trusting one knows his own utter weakness, and that he trusts in God's might alone. He is humble, but it is the humble ones with whom God takes up his abode. Isa. 57:15. (4) Absolute submission to God implies love to God. We will not submit, voluntarily submit, to God (for the religion of Christ knows no other submission than voluntary submission) if we do not have simple, implicit trust, and we will not hold simple, implicit trust unless we have genuine love. And in love it is all summed up. So much for our relation God-ward.

This relation to God also implies certain relations with our fellow-men, for, as expressed by inspiration, “He who loveth God, loves his brother also.” 1 John 4:21. The same thought is expressed in the words of Christ in Matt. 22:37-40. Man's duty is to love God with all his heart, mind, soul, and strength, and his neighbor as himself.

Love to God is begotten by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5), and that spirit comes by faith (Gal. 3:14). This spirit is the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9), the spirit which actuated him to give his life for the world, to become poor that we might become rich, and the same spirit, or mind of unselfishness, or love, which we are exhorted to have in us (Phil. 2:5). The Spirit of God takes possession of us when we do as Christ did,—empty ourselves of ourselves. And, therefore, the very foundation of the Christian religion, in Christ and in us, is laid in self-denial, or love for others (Matt. 16:24).

By denying ourselves, or by absolute submission to God, by implicit faith in the sacrifice of Christ, our sins are forgiven (John 15:3), the righteousness of God is made ours (Rom. 4:5; 3:21, 22), and Christ by his Spirit takes up his abode in our hearts (Rom. 8:9; John 14:17, 23; 15:4), making us new creatures (2 Cor. 5:17), and enabling us to live and show forth a new life (Gal. 2:20). And, therefore, as Christ emptied himself and God filled him, so that Christ did not manifest himself to the world, but did manifest the Father in the fullness of his loveliness of character, even so also when we wholly submit to God, when we empty ourselves of ourselves, for Christ's sake, Christ makes us complete by his fullness (Col. 2:10), gives us his Spirit, so that we may manifest the Christ of God to the world (John 16:14; 17:10, 21-23). And therefore, also, they, having the same Spirit, would have the same love for precious souls which Christ had. For this Christ prayed (John 17:26); it was this which made Paul realize that he was a debtor to all, because Christ died for all (Rom. 1:14), and it was this mind, this spirit, this love, which constrained him to labor even unto death for all men (2 Cor. 5:14; Acts 20:24), even as did his divine Lord.

But further consideration of these principles must be deferred to future numbers.

Sunday and the Laboring Classes

THIS is the advice which Archbishop Ireland gave to workingmen at the Labor Congress in Chicago; we quote from the New York Observer of October 19:—

Workingmen, hold fast to the observance of the Sunday; it is your day more than the day of men of other conditions of life. The Sunday effaced or diminished, you are in abject perpetual slavery, or rapidly moving thither. Heed not the specious pleas addressed to you in the name of your interests by men pagan in mind and barbarous in heart, who seek to win you over to the profanation of Sunday in order to be able to gratify their own lust of greed.

It was the same prelate who said, a few years ago, that “the violator of a Sunday law is the worst of criminals.” Protestants and Roman Catholics are together on the Sunday question. Protestantism, so called, is going over to Roman Catholicism. Sunday belongs to Rome.

SUNDAY WORK IN WISCONSIN.

The Christian Statesman says that "Sabbath Committees" have been organized at the following points in Wisconsin: "Appleton, Wausau, Green Bay, Stevens' Point, Tomah, Sparta, La Crosse, Racine, Janesville, Platteville, Beloit, followed by the State convention of the association at Milwaukee. These committees are federations of churches and include members of the W. C. T. U., Y. M. C. A., Y. P. S. C. E., Epworth League, etc., dividing into subcommittees, "the Young People's Societies circulating documents from door to door, the Y. M. C. A. securing voluntary closing agreement among clothing stores, the W. C. T. U., among provision and dry goods stores, while another committee provides half a column of Sabbath Reform matter per week for each local paper that will use it."

It needs only ordinary observation to be able to see that around Sunday these religious societies are mustering their hosts. And yet they know, or should know, for thus reads God's word, that "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Let not our readers be deceived. The only true Sabbath reform of this generation is that which is based on the word of God, on the Sabbath of the word of God, on the teachings and example of Christ.

Prediction, Fulfillment.—This is the way the Christian Statesman of November 4 congratulates itself over the World's Fair Sunday muddle:—

By Editor

Roman Catholic Love of America.—There are many expressions of this; we will consider but one, that of Monsignor Satolli, the papal ablegate, at the Catholic Congress in Chicago. He thus points out the duty of Roman Catholics:—

To-day it is the duty of Catholics to bring into the world the fullness of supernatural truth and supernatural life. This is especially the duty of a Catholic congress. There are nations who are never separated from the church, but which have neglected often to apply in full degree the lessons of the gospel. There are nations who have gone out from the church, bringing with them many of her treasures, and because of what they have brought yet show virgin light; but, cut off from the source, unless that source is brought into close contact with them, there is danger for them. Bring them in contact with those divine forces by your actions and by your teachings. Bring your fellow-countrymen back; bring your country into immediate connection with the great source of truth and light, and the blessed influence of Christ and Christ's church. And in this manner shall it come to pass that the words of the Psalmist shall be fulfilled, "Mercy and justice have you one with another; justice and peace prevail."

The best picture of "the fullness of supernatural truth and supernatural life" which the Roman Catholic Church has furnished is the long drama of death and persecution of the Dark Ages.

It is also well to note the progress of those nations which have never separated from Rome. Behold Austria and Italy and Spain. Compare them with Germany and England. Turn to the New World. Behold the loyal Roman Catholic South American States. Compare them with this country and nation. What has made the difference but the bondage to the Papacy and the rule of the priest? Yes, bring this country into "immediate connection with" the Church of Rome, and the Dark Ages are reproduced, and the peace will be the peace of the lamb within the lion, and the justice such as Rome has always meted out to "heretics." And to this end the steps of America are rapidly tending. Blind "Protestants" are being led to their own destruction, and they know it not.

In closing Satolli said:—

Go forward, in one hand bearing the book of Christian truth and in the other the Constitution of the United States.

This means—well, let the history of Roman domination throughout her career show what it means. Rome must put down what she deems heresy, if she has the power, whatever constitutions may exist. Intolerance is a logical sequence of her principles.

Prediction, Fulfillment.—This is the way the Christian Statesman of November 4 congratulates itself over the World's Fair Sunday muddle:—

Vexatious as are the serpentine twistings of the World's Fair management, we should not belittle our six great victories by forgetting that we have been defeated only in skirmishes on legal technicalities, which will be forgotten when, at the end of the nineteenth century, we recall as among its greatest moral triumphs that Congress passed the Sabbath-closing law by a three-fourths vote, and later killed the proposed repeal in committee; that the federal court, on the only occasion when the main question was before the courts, decided for the Sabbath; that "our friends, the enemy," gave us the greatest victory of all in the failure of Sunday opening through the covering of exhibits of the rich and the nonattendance of the poor; that the national commission and local directory at last were constrained by public sentiment to almost unanimous votes for the Sabbath. These six victories are vividly called up by the news that two of the five million half dollars are to go back to the mint to be recoined into common half dollars, because so few want any souvenir of the frauds associated with the government's gift to the Exposition.

Of course, as regards the morality of the question, it has none. The very spirit of the mystery of iniquity is in the whole of this Sunday legislation. A victory, a great victory, has indeed been won by the Sunday-law people, if that can be called a victory which commits the government to religious legislation, and, what is sure to follow, religious tyranny and persecution. As to the exhibit of the American Sunday the whole thing was true to the letter. But what we were about to remark was that every "victory" that has been won for Sunday, we have predicted many times. And yet we take no credit to ourselves for farsightedness. God's word has predicted it, and Rome has demonstrated in her history the end of the repetition of that history down here. But why, oh, why will not the followers of Christ see this?

THE GOOD SHEPHERD'S ESTIMATE OF A LOST SHEEP.

By Ellen G. White

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.

"THEN drew near unto Him all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This Man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And He spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."

The mission and work of Christ did not harmonize with the work of the Pharisees. They were full of self-conceit, and they saw that Christ did not approve of their works. He gave them no flattering words to nourish their pride. They were disappointed that Jesus, who manifested to the world so lofty a character, did not mingle with them, and practice their manner of teaching, rather than go about in so unpretending a manner, working among all classes of people. They saw among the people who listened with rapt attention those who did not belong to the Jewish nation, and who had never manifested the least interest in their teaching.

When the Pharisees expressed their discontent because of the class of people with whom he mingled, Jesus set the matter before them in the parable of the lost sheep. But their understanding was darkened; for Satan had power over their minds, and they arrayed themselves in opposition to Jesus. The Pharisees said that if Jesus were a true prophet, he would harmonize with them, and voice their precepts and maxims, and treat the wretched publicans and sinners as they treated them. In giving his Son to die for the sins of the world, the Lord God made manifest what was the estimate he placed upon men; for in giving Jesus to the world, he gave heaven's best gift. For this costly sacrifice the most profound gratitude is demanded from every soul. Whatever may be the nation, kindred, or tongue, whether a man is white or black, he still bears the image of God, and "the proper study of mankind is man," viewed from the fact that he is the purchase of the blood of Christ. To show contempt for, to manifest hatred toward any nation, is to reveal the characteristic of Satan. God has placed his estimate upon man in giving Jesus to a life of humiliation, poverty, and self-sacrifice, to contempt, rejection, and death, in order that man, his lost sheep, might be saved. Is it then a remarkable thing that all heaven is interested in the ransom of man? Is it a wonderful fact that ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands of angels are employed in ascending and descending on the mystic ladder to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation? Angels do not come to the earth to denounce and to destroy, to rule and to exact homage, but are messengers of mercy to coöperate with the Captain of the Lord's host, to coöperate with the human agents who shall go forth to seek and to save the lost sheep. Angels are commanded to encamp round about those who fear and love God.

The sympathy of all heaven is enlisted on behalf of the sheep that is wandering far from the fold. If the Pharisees had been working in harmony with God, in place of uniting with the adversary of God and man, they would not have been found despising the purchase of the blood of Christ. As the delusions of Satan are broken from human minds, as the sinner looks to Calvary, and sees the costly offering that has been given to save an apostate and ruined race, he contemplates and is deeply moved by the love of God, and becomes repentant. "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us." Oh, that we might comprehend the love of God and even to a faint degree take in the compassion that has been manifested toward fallen man! How would we look and live! By beholding Christ man becomes changed and transformed in character from glory to

glory. The conflict between light and darkness is entered upon. Look, poor sinner, represented by the lost sheep after whom the shepherd is seeking, look to the cross! The Pharisees may hold in contempt the very one whom the Lord is anxious to save. In the poor blind man restored to sight by the compassionate Shepherd, was one whom the self-righteous Pharisees thought worthy only of sneers and hatred.

Jesus, the Son of the Highest, is combating the powers of Satan, who is laying every possible device whereby he may counteract the work of God. The prize for which the powers of light and darkness are contending, is the soul of man. The Good Shepherd is seeking his sheep, and what self-denial, what hardships, what privations he endures! The under-shepherds know something of the stern conflict, but little in comparison to what is endured by the Shepherd of the sheep. With what compassion, what sorrow, what persistence, he seeks the lost! How few realize what desperate efforts are put forth by Satan to defeat the Shepherd's purpose. When the Shepherd at last finds his lost sheep, he gathers it in his arms with rejoicing, and bears it back to the fold on his shoulders. And the harps of heaven are touched, and an anthem of rejoicing is sung over the ransom of the wandering and lost sheep. "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance."

How does the contrast appear between the scowling scribes and Pharisees and the Christ they condemned, misinterpreting his mission; and putting upon his words the worst possible construction? The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost. A lost sheep never finds its way back to the fold of itself. If it is not sought for and saved by the watchful shepherd, it wanders until it perishes. What a representation of the Saviour is this! Unless Jesus, the Good Shepherd, had come to seek and to save the wandering, we should have perished. The Pharisees had taught that none but the Jewish nation would be saved, and they treated all other nationalities with contempt. But Jesus attracted the attention of those that the Pharisees despised, and he treated them with consideration and courtesy. Because he did this, the Pharisees sought to bring a charge against him, and destroy his influence.

"God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This love on behalf of man, expressed in the gift of his only-begotten Son, called forth from Satan the most intense hatred, both toward the Giver and toward the priceless Gift. Satan had represented the Father to the world in a false light, and by this great Gift his representations were proved untrue, for here was love without a parallel, proving that man was to be redeemed by an inconceivable cost. Satan had tried to obliterate the image of God in man in order that as God looked upon him in his wretchedness, in his perverseness, in his degradation, he might be induced to give him up as hopelessly lost. But the Lord gave his only-begotten Son in order that the most sinful, the most degraded, need not perish, but, by believing on Jesus Christ, may be reclaimed, regenerated, and restored to the image of God, and thus have eternal life.

Congregationalists and Future Probation

By Editor

At the recent meeting of the American (Congregational) Board at Worcester, Mass., Dr. R. R. Meredith, in his speech October 12, made the following statement regarding the views of the Congregationalists touching the future probation theory (see Independent of October 19):—

“Do you want to tell me that this board represents the Congregational Churches of the United States in the idea that the untold millions of the heathen are going down from the darkness and degradations and irresponsibility of their awful condition on earth to eternal, conscious misery? We do not believe that doctrine. [Loud applause.] To my mind, and to the minds of the people to whom I have preached, it is as far beyond the bounds of rational belief as its intrinsic atrocity is beyond the bounds of exaggeration. [Applause.] We believe that they, as all men, are in the hands of the Divine Father, and he has not been pleased to tell us what he is going to do with them; and it is a libel on God to represent them as going out of their darkness and irresponsibility into eternal conscious perdition. We do not believe anything of the kind in the Congregational Churches.”

While we agree with Dr. Meredith's protest against endless misery, we do not believe that God has left us in ignorance concerning the fate of those who reject the spiritual light which comes to them. "The wages of sin is death," is the language of the Scriptures. "As many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law." "They shall be as though they had not been." They chose death, and God gave them their choice.

"WHOM THE LORD LOVETH."

By Fannie Bolton

BY FANNIE BOLTON.

"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten." "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Lord." "For a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations; that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ; whom having not seen, ye love."

Whom the Lord loveth, think we of this When sorrow moveth its shadow on bliss? When sorrow broodeth, and pain is keen, Is the jewel of promise clearly seen?

No; when the sorrow shadows us so, And the light of the morrow is tinged with woe, Oh, the fact of the chastening looms above The truth of the Father's tender love!

Yet think of the beauty of this light, And the hard-set duty will all grow bright. Say not, "He scourgeth with chastening rod," But say, "The Lord loveth." Think this of God.

Have you seen a mother her child reprove? Was her love all over, her tender love, When her love, like a weapon of pain, flashed bright To cut the evil that grieved her sight?

Oh, but her bosom felt every dart, And she longed to gather close to her heart The child she chastened, to soothe his woe, And lead his steps where his feet should go!

So doth our Father chasten, reprove; He longs to gather the child of his love Close to his bosom, his love to prove; Think not of the chastening, think of his love.

And, oh, how tender his hand will be! And, oh, how quickly the wrong you'll see! And, oh, how lovely the right will prove! Think not of the chastening, think of his love.

Oh, in the Father's love believe, And hard it will be that heart to grieve! Let the Spirit brood like a gentle dove, And God's chastening all will be filled with love.

Then how the stubborn heart will break! And low as a child your place you'll take, Close to the Father's bosom, and pray, "I bless thee, Lord, for thy rod to-day.

"Oh, keep my feet in the path of right! Guide me and lead me through day and night. Save me from self; let me learn of thee; Great is thy tender love to me."

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