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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 21.

SUNRISE

Review and Herald

May 26, 1910

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 26, 1910

SUNRISE

By Abram S. Isaacs

The somber skies a sudden brightness show, The clouds and mist reflect a golden glow, And far and near what tender glories flow As sunrise comes!
The spreading hills upraise themselves in song, The streams soft murmur as they move along; What hopes and yearnings rise in rapid throng When sunrise calls!
The slumbering city wakens from its sleep, The streets and homes no longer silence keep; O faithful heart! forget thy sorrows deep With sunrise near!
The night will pass, God’s dawn will come again, Your doubts and fears will vanish like the rain, And you will smile away the haunting pain— ’Tis sunrise now!
— Abram S. Isaacs.

School Will Soon Be Out

Get Started at Once Earning Your Scholarship for Next Year

Next week and week after, hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist students all over this country will begin an active summer’s work earning their scholarships for the next school year. Many will not stop there, but will lay by an ample sum for clothes and incidentals.
A sure way of earning a scholarship and school expenses has been developed by the circulation manager of our ten-cent magazines. Almost any one who has the ambition to earn a scholarship can easily do so under our plan, whether he has had previous experience or not. We want student periodical workers everywhere to sell Life and Health, the Temperance Instructor, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, and Christian Education.
Our State and union conference missionary secretaries, together with our circulation department, will gladly train inexperienced students and help them to become successful periodical workers.

The June “Life and Health”

In every respect the most handsome and practical publication ever issued from our presses, containing striking articles by well-known writers, and a cover design of sufficient beauty to almost sell the magazine without further persuasion. Life and Health is fast becoming a popular ten-cent publication. Some agents have averaged $6.00 and more a day selling it.

The Temperance “Instructor”

This issue of the Instructor is supplied and sold on the same terms as are the regular ten-cent monthlies and quarterlies. Over 150,000 have been sold since its issue, March 22. Prominent temperance workers have pronounced it the best temperance paper ever printed. It is certainly a tremendously effective issue, and one which workers may place before the people with confidence.

“Liberty” and the “Protestant”

These quarterlies have helped many students earn their scholarship. Some consider them not so popular in their nature as Life and Health and the Instructor, devoted as they are to the more pointed truths of the third angel’s message. Yet, it is surprising what success the workers with these quarterlies have. If it be true that the publications themselves lack popularity, then it is equally true that the Lord opens the way for sales, for the workers have rich experiences, and those who handle Liberty and the Protestant seem to do just about as well in the main as those who sell the other magazines.
The last issue of Liberty is especially valuable, containing, as it does, a full account of the hearing on the Johnston Sunday bill.
The issue of the Protestant now in preparation will contain striking and timely articles on the Vatican incident—former President Roosevelt’s encounter with the Pope—and on England’s new king’s attitude toward the Protestant oath. Selling these quarterlies is certainly live, active missionary work. Precious truth for this last generation is placed in the homes of the people. The worker himself will obtain a rich experience in labor for souls.
We have made arrangements to supply all papers to student workers through the State tract societies.

Address the State Tract Society in Whose Territory You Expect to Work

Thoughts of Heaven

By Ella M. Robinson

ELLA M. ROBINSON
(Republished by request)
Sweet seemed the vesper hour as we heard The minister read from the Holy Word Of the celestial city, bright and fair; And as we knelt in solemn, reverent prayer, We felt and knew the blessed Lord was there. We lingered there awhile, loath to depart:
The preacher spoke: “It hath not entered heart Of any man, the rapture and delight, The peace and joy, the glory and the light, Of our blest home; still let us tell tonight What we most long for in that home of love, Our best conceptions of the joys above.”
The artist rose: “Ah, this were heaven for me. To gaze upon the landscape ever free From taint of sin, and pure and good, the same As first from the Creator’s hand it came. I’d paint no drooping flower, no fading leaf, No sights of sickness, dying, sin, or grief. I’d watch the glowing sunsets stretch away With sevenfold the brightness of our day. But O, the rapture when my eyes behold The walls of jasper and the streets of gold! The crystal sea! the throne of dazzling light! The hosts of saints all robed in spotless white!”
The student spoke: “Through all eternity This boon alone were heaven enough for me: The power to study without weariness, The power to learn the mighty mysteries Of time and space, of suns and worlds untold, The mysteries millenniums unfold, The mysteries eternities still hold.”
A little child spoke next: “It seems to me To have a pair of wings would really be The very best of all: for then I’d fly, Just as the birds do, up into the sky. I’d learn to call each one of them by name: No one would harm them, and they’d be so tame. I’d lead the wolves and lions with my hand, They would not hurt me in that heavenly land.”
And next a woman, worn and pale and weak: Her voice was feeble, and she scarce could speak Above a whisper; but her radiant eyes Gave meaning to her words: “Ah, this my prize,— To feel no more of pain and sickness there, To grow each day more beautiful and fair, To feel the vigor of eternal youth— Ah, this were joy! yea, this were heaven in truth!”
Then spoke the youth whose voice led our praise: “I wonder often if the endless days A sweeter bliss will bring than joyful song, A rapture more profound than with the throng To join in David’s choir, with heart and voice— Of all the joys of heaven, this were my choice.”
The teacher rose: “O may it ever be My lot, my joy, through all eternity To tell the wondrous grace that ransomed me To sinless angels who have never known What it could mean to have a heart of stone,— What it could mean to feel the pangs of woe, Of doubt and sorrow, and of sin below. I’ll tell the grace, the love, the power divine, That melted even this hard heart of mine.”
There was a pause, the minister spoke low: “My children, one and all, pray would you know The joy that thrills my heart, that dims my eye, That fills my soul with sweetest ecstasy, With longing and desire, and yearnings sore, Each time I think of heaven’s blessed store Of joys? ’Tis this — nor wisdom’s mystery, Nor glory, beauty, sweetest rhapsody, Though every one a part of heaven’s bliss— One joy alone makes heaven for me; ’tis this,— To lean upon the blessed Saviour’s breast, Like that disciple whom he loved the best; To know and feel that he is ever near, To pour my heartfelt praises in his ear— A blest reward for life’s small sacrifice,— ’Tis this alone I ask for as my prize.”
Sanitarium, Cal.

“Prove Me Now Herewith”

By T. E. Bowen

T. E. BOWEN
The Lord invites his children to prove his promises. The invitation is made in connection with God’s asking that his part, the one tenth, shall be faithfully paid over to him. “Prove me now,” the Lord says, in every emergency when the temptation comes with such power to use God’s part. In this definite thing in hand here, just now, “prove me.” Have I ever failed you? Do I not know that you have need of food, of clothing, of shelter? But so have my missionaries. They must be fed. They need homes in unfriendly lands. They must be clothed. If you rob me of my portion, who will supply their need?
O, brother, sister! trust in God. Send on what belongs to the Lord, promptly, cheerfully. The rest will come out all right in God’s own time and way, if you trust and wait.
The following experience of a brother who has proved the Lord to his own satisfaction, in times of severe trial, may be an encouragement to some other soul. In a personal letter he writes:—
“I have had my ups and downs, and after passing through many sore trials and temptations, and especially in paying my tithe and getting myself into debt, the dear Lord has helped me to get such a good position that I can pay a good tithe and offerings, and am paying off all my debts. I hope that I can live to get them all paid off.
“Perhaps no Seventh-day Adventist ever passed through more sore trials and extreme poverty than I have; but I am now earning enough to pay every week in tithes and offerings as much as my total income was at one time, when I had my wife and four children to keep in —— [a large city]. Then when I came home on Friday night, and placed my tithe in the box, my dear wife verybitterly opposed my paying it, being influenced by her friends, and could see nothing ahead but starvation for her and the children. Even through the week she would come to me with tears in her eyes to tell me that she needed money, and ask me if I would not let her have some of the tithe money. But my answer was, ‘My dear, I can not rob God.’ My faith was sorely tried, but my dependence was upon Mal. 3:7-10. Now it is being answered. Truly he will not lie to his children. Bless his holy name! He is helping me now, just as he said he would.”
It pays to be honest. It pays to deal truly with one’s own conscience. God claims as his the first-fruits of our increase, one tenth of it all. He puts every man, woman, and child upon his own honor, and in a sense makes every one a treasurer, a carrier of “the bag.” But a reckoning day is coming. And if the part belonging to God has not been faithfully handed in to his treasury, some one will have to explain why.
Takoma Park, D. C.

M. E. STEWARD

By M. E. Steward

Bible Studies—No. 1

M. E. STEWARD

The Bible

WITHOUT the Bible we should know nothing about the early history of the world, the fall of man, or the flood; nothing of the one true God, of redemption, or eternal life in a world to come. “Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” Ps. 138:2.
Three witnesses, entirely separate from, and independent of, the Sacred Volume, substantiate it:—
1. The Week.—The week has been known by all nations from the beginning. Its origin can not be found except in the creation week. The fact of its existence proves the first chapter of Genesis a literal record. The Bible so regards it. Ex. 20:11.
2. The Dates of the Years.—Before the birth of Christ, the basis of reckoning was A. U. C.—Anno Urbis Conditæ—in the year of the building of the city of Rome. All historians the world over have written B. C. and A. D. since the birth of Christ. This confirms the Biblical claim that there was such a person as Jesus Christ.
3. The Monuments.—No one could read the hieroglyphics on the Egyptian monuments. When the time came that God had set to vindicate the Bible, 1798, a stone was discovered at Rosetta, near the mouth of the Nile, bearing an inscription in three languages,—Greek, common Egyptian, and the sacred language of Egypt. By comparing this writing with the hieroglyphics, they were read, and lo! they corroborated Scripture narrative. The clay tablets of Assyria do the same.
Three internal evidences that the Bible is genuine:—
1. Its Ideas of Perfection.—“The law of the Lord is perfect.” Ps. 19:7. Worldly legislators concur in this statement. The character of Christ is also perfect. Heb. 7:26. The human mind can not form a conception of anything that is absolutely perfect. Consequently, man could not have originated the Bible.
2. The Harmony of the Bible.—It was written during a period of fifteen hundred years, in different places,—amid the pomp of royalty, in lonely exile, and from a Roman prison,—by learned and unlearned men and those of different temperaments. All agree in sentiment, in simple dignity, in pure, humble reverence and wisdom.
3. Prophecy, the Ability to Know the Future. Isa. 41:23.—Not a prophecy relating to the past or present has failed of exact fulfilment. None but a divine Being can know the future.
Three conclusive statements are given in 2 Tim. 3:16, 17:—
1. The Origin of the Bible.—“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.”
2. Its Office Work.—“Is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
3. The Effects of That Work.—“That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” That the Bible is a power for good in men's lives is demonstrated in the lives of those who reject, as well as in the lives of all who receive and obey, its teachings. Mark the changes in the whole character of a man who gives up the Bible, and in a degraded being who accepts and obeys it. “The tree is known by his fruit.”
“Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” Ps. 138:2. “Holy and reverend is his name.” Ps. 111:9. With what profound reverence, then, should the Word of God, the Bible, be regarded!

A Warning

It is said that a man was lost in the woods. Later he was found dead. He had a compass with him, but had tried to make it point toward what he supposed was north. Had he obeyed its directions, instead of tampering with it, he would have reached home safely. Had God intended his Word to be understood differently from other books, he would have given rules for its interpretation.
Sanitarium, Cal.

Lifting Up the Standard

By H. B. Keniston

H. B. KENISTON
RECENTLY, as the writer was engaged in a mental survey of present economical, political, social, and spiritual conditions, the following divine declaration flashed into his mind: “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” No argument is needed to convince one whose eyes have been anointed, that the flood is already sweeping over the earth, and has engulfed millions. How stealthily its waters creep in, while the unsuspecting victims are quietly sleeping, lifts their house from its foundation, and carries them and it away to the onrushing current, which threatens to bear them to destruction. No prophetic vision is required to see the trend of affairs in these times. So plain is the writing, that he who runs may read. An acquaintance with the Word of God will explain its meaning — the end is near. While all this is true, how glad we are that our God is making good his promise. The standard is being held aloft by Spirit-inspired servants of God. Now is the time to sow our publications broadcast throughout the land.
Minneapolis, Minn.

Listening to a Sermon

By Wm. Covert

WM. COVERT
ONE of the finest services in the Lord's cause is that of listening well to a sermon. Those who attend a preaching service owe it to themselves, to the congregation, and to the cause of truth, to use the allotted time in earnest listening to the things which may be said. Even if the speaker's thoughts should seem in range below those of greater men, his presence still should prove a source of help for all the fold.
The people who listen to a sermon can help to make that sermon good. Earnest attention with the eye and the assent of the countenance are excellent promptings to a speaker. To feel that what is said is well received is to the speaker's soul like gentle dew upon the thirsty grass. Then, since it costs nothing but pleasant effort to keep the mind alert to the beauty of God's Word while the minister arranges the lesson in order, why not give him the sympathetic attention that will bless both hearer and speaker?
The leading members of a church, if they are kindly disposed and capable, can usually make the minister's labors a real blessing to the whole congregation. This is a matter generally understood by public speakers, and their advice to the congregation relating to questions of seating and order in the house of the Lord should be heeded. Every one may be very sure that the minister will not encourage long-distance audiences, or seating arranged behind him. The audience should sit facing the speaker, and as near to him as the pews will allow. The speaker also should remember that audiences do not like long sermons.
Not all are naturally good listeners; but all can do their best, and seek to improve, remembering that thoughtful attention and earnest, spirited preaching make a good meeting. They belong together, and one can seldom be had without the other; but the minister can not do both parts at the same time. If one permits his mind to wander during a sermon, he loses the hour, and perhaps misses an opportunity to gain something of priceless value.
An open Bible in the hand enables the listener to follow the speaker closely, and to get a better outline of the subject. If this practise is followed, something of lasting value is obtained for the time invested; and if it is adhered to faithfully, it becomes a habit of everlasting benefit to the listener, and a helpful influence to others.
Chicago, Ill.

Just One Condition

By M. Leslie Rice

M. LESLIE RICE
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” 1 Cor. 2:9. There is only one condition under which this text may be true to us as individuals,—we must love God. And what a blessed promise it is to those who really do love him! The question arises in many minds, “What is it to love God?” The answer is found in the words of the Lord Jesus, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.” In order for the text given above to be true in our case, we must keep the ten commandments. We may say we keep them, we may think we keep them; but let us examine a few of the commandments, and see if we really do keep them.
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Ex. 20:3. To have anything before God is to give that thing the place God should occupy in the heart. The things we think about most, the things we live for, the things we do most often,—these things become our god. We are told by one that the devil will tempt the children of God upon at least one of four things: (1) the so-called pleasures of this world; (2) the cares of this world; (3) the faults of others; (4) their own past mistakes. With how many is this first temptation their god? If you are thinking about the so-called pleasures of this world, living for them, indulging in them, they are your god.
Let us notice the second commandment. Do we bow down to images? It may be true that we do not bow down to the image of the Virgin Mary, or of Peter, or of other so-called saints; but do we bow down to the silver dollar? We find on this coin the inscription, “In God we trust,” but with how many should it read, “In this we trust.”
One test will show us whether or not we keep the third commandment. “But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.” James 5:12. How often we hear such expressions as, “O Gee!” “You bet your neck!” “My goodness!” etc. All these and many others are a violation of the principle of the third commandment.
To keep the fourth commandment means more than refraining from work upon the Sabbath. We must be so closely yoked to Jesus that even our thoughts will be upon heavenly things. How many really keep the Sabbath?
“Honor thy father and thy mother.” Do young people always do this? I have noticed around colleges that father and mother are not always made welcome by their own children. Why is this?—Father and mother are common people. Perhaps they had no one to sacrifice for them to go to college, so their education is limited, and the boy or girl for whom they are perhaps making a very great sacrifice would just a little rather they would not come to the school, where their teachers and friends will see them. How much more worthy of respect and honor are those who, with Abraham Lincoln, are willing to say, “All that I am I owe to my mother.”
So we might go on through the list, and examine each commandment. If we really keep them all, which is to love God, then for us the glorious promise is true, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
San Bernardino, Cal.

Holidays of Babylon

By A. SMITH

A. SMITH
THE popular so-called Protestant churches of modern times are more and more coming to resemble in features the mother church of Rome. As the light on the Sabbath divinely instituted in Eden is pressed upon their attention, these churches resist its force, and contemptuously trample it under their feet, at the same time exalting days and institutions of heathen mythology and papal adoption.
Besides the Sunday sabbath, one of the most popular holy days of human ordination is Easter. Although the word appears in Acts 12:4 of the Authorized Version, Dr. Adam Clarke says of it: “Perhaps there never was a more unhappy, not to say absurd, translation, than that in our text. . . . Every view we can take of this subject shows the great impropriety of retaining a name every way exceptionable, and palpably absurd.” With this view agree the “Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge” and “Smith’s Bible Dictionary.” The Revised Version uses the word passover in its translation of this text, from the original paske, or pascha, instead of Easter, as in the Authorized Version, from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre.
Not only is the observance of Easter and other holy days instituted by the Roman Church an offense in itself, but they are exalted above the seventh-day Sabbath of divine institution. Says the apostle, writing to the Galatians: “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.” Gal. 4:10, 11. The observance, therefore, of such days was not approved by the apostle Paul; neither should the ministers of Christ now approve and indorse them.
But of all the holy days of human institution none is more offensive in the sight of Heaven than Sunday, the great heathen holiday, and the adopted sabbath of the Papacy. In many lands, on the approach of this false sabbath, the wheels of manufacture and the industries of commerce and common labor, whether controlled or operated by papal or Protestant capital or hands, almost wholly cease to move or act. Thus the pall of the Roman hierarchy is more and more overshadowing human industries, and rapidly fulfilling the prophetic declaration, “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Rev. 13:8.
Dancing parties and gatherings even of a low order break up when the midnight hour marks the ushering in of the Sunday sabbath. But unorganized pleasure-seeking, the discussion of business, and informal bargains are tolerated and indulged in, while honest, quiet, bread-winning toil is frowned upon. If the offender be an observer of the Bible Sabbath, he is often denounced as an enemy of social order, and sometimes persecuted with the lash of unjust civil law.
As the result of all this, Great Babylon “is become . . . the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” Rev. 18:2. But in her communion are a few true people of God, who deplore her fall and corruption. To such the call of Heaven is, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4.
Benton Harbor, Mich.

_The Call to Be a Missionary_

FOR my part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own best reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the thought in such a view, and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say, rather, it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver and the soul to sink, but let this be for only a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left his Father's throne on high to give himself for us: “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”—David Livingstone.

One Wave at a Time

“If a ship could think and should imagine herself submerged by all the waves to be encountered on the voyage, surely she would dread to leave her moorings. But the ship must meet but one wave at a time. So, too, with us, as we pursue our journey on the sea of life.”

Parent and Child

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE
PARENTS should live more for their children, and less for society. Study health subjects, and put your knowledge to a practical use. Teach your children to reason from cause to effect. Teach them that if they desire health and happiness, they must obey the laws of nature. Though you may not see as rapid improvement as you desire, be not discouraged, but patiently and perseveringly continue your work.
Teach your children from the cradle to practise self-denial and self-control. Teach them to enjoy the beauties of nature, and in useful employments to exercise systematically all the powers of body and mind. Bring them up to have sound constitutions and good morals, to have sunny dispositions and sweet tempers. Impress upon their tender minds the truth that God does not design that we should live for present gratification merely, but for our ultimate good. Teach them that to yield to temptation is weak and wicked; to resist, noble and manly.
These lessons will be as seeds sown in good soil, and they will bear fruit that will make your hearts glad.
Above all things else, let parents surround their children with an atmosphere of cheerfulness, courtesy, and love. A home where love dwells, and where it is expressed in looks, in words, and in acts, is a place where angels delight to manifest their presence.
Parents, let the sunshine of love, cheerfulness, and happy contentment enter your own hearts, and let its sweet, cheering influence pervade your home. Manifest a kindly, forbearing spirit; and encourage the same in your children, cultivating all the graces that will brighten the home-life. The atmosphere thus created will be to the children what air and sunshine are to the vegetable world, promoting health and vigor of mind and body.
The home should be to the children the most attractive place in the world, and the mother's presence should be its greatest attraction. Children have sensitive, loving natures. They are easily pleased, and easily made unhappy. By gentle discipline, in loving words and acts, mothers may bind their children to their hearts.
Young children love companionship, and can seldom enjoy themselves alone. They yearn for sympathy and tenderness. That which they enjoy, they think will please mother also; and it is natural for them to go to her with their little joys and sorrows. The mother should not wound their sensitive hearts by treating with indifference matters that, though trifling to her, are of great importance to them. Her sympathy and approval are precious. An approving glance, a word of encouragement or commendation, will be like sunshine in their hearts, often making the whole day happy.
Instead of sending her children from her, that she may not be annoyed by their noise or troubled by their little wants, let the mother plan amusement or light work to employ the active hands and minds.
By entering into their feelings, and directing their amusements and employments, the mother will gain the confidence of her children, and she can the more effectually correct wrong habits, or check the manifestations of selfishness or passion. A word of caution or reproof spoken at the right time will be of great value. By patient, watchful love, she can turn the minds of the children in the right direction, cultivating in them beautiful and attractive traits of character.
Mothers should guard against training their children to be dependent and self-absorbed. Never lead them to think that they are the center, and that everything must revolve around them. Some parents give much time and attention to amusing their children, but children should be trained to amuse themselves, to exercise their own ingenuity and skill. Thus they will learn to be content with very simple pleasures. They should be taught to bear bravely their little disappointments and trials. Instead of calling attention to every trifling pain or hurt, divert their minds, teach them to pass lightly over the little annoyances or discomforts. Study to suggest ways by which the children may learn to be thoughtful for others.
But let not the children be neglected. Burdened with many cares, mothers sometimes feel that they can not take time patiently to instruct their little ones, and give them love and sympathy. But they should remember that if the children do not find in their parents and in their home that which will satisfy their desire for sympathy and companionship, they will look to other sources, where both mind and character may be endangered. Give some of your leisure hours to your children; become acquainted with them; associate with them in their work and in their sports, and win their confidence. Cultivate friendship with them. In this way you will be a strong influence for good.

He Wipes the Tear From Every Eye

By Robert Hare

ROBERT HARE
WHEN sore afflictions crush the soul, And riven is every earthly tie, The heart must cling to God alone; He wipes the tear from every eye.
Through wakeful nights, when racked with pain, “On bed of languishing” you lie, Remember still your God is near, To wipe the tear from every eye.
A few short years, and all is o’er, Your sorrow, pain, will soon pass by; Then lean in faith on God’s dear Son, He’ll wipe the tear from every eye.
O never be your soul cast down, Nor let your heart desponding sigh; Assured the God whose name is Love Will wipe the tear from every eye.
Soon, soon beyond earth’s changing night, Beyond the gloom of wintry sky, We’ll rest where angel faces smile, And tears are wiped from every eye.
Then never be my soul dismayed; Jehovah leads, his love is nigh. Toil on, the home land waits beyond, Where tears are wiped from every eye.
Cooranbong, Australia.

Dietetic Suggestions

EAT your bread with gladness.
Do not eat a morsel between meals.
Make simple foods your first choice.
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.”
Talk courage, and you will soon feel courageous.
Food must be well relished in order to be well digested.
A low-proteid diet is the least likely to cause autointoxication.
Use cane-sugar in moderation. Sweet fruits and honey are natural sweets.
Give preference to the dry, toasted foods. The less fluid taken at meal-time, the better.
When possible, endeavor to eat some raw foods daily in the form of fruits, nuts, or salads.
Worry kills. Hope inspires. God, who made us, is willing to take care of us. Cheer up.
One well-prepared dish, eaten with bread and some fruit or vegetable, is ordinarily sufficient.
Drink a glass of water on rising and retiring, an hour before each meal, and one to three hours after eating.
Deep breathing improves the digestion. Practise it frequently during the day.
More die of air starvation than of food starvation.
It is better to eat only two meals a day. If supper is taken, let it consist chiefly of fruit or rice or some of the cereal flakes.
Use salt sparingly. Condiments should be wholly discarded, because they irritate the stomach, tending to produce gastric and intestinal catarrh.
Fletcherize. Chew your food as long as it will remain in your mouth. “If you taste your food before you swallow it, you will not have to taste it afterward.”—Life Boat.
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