Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 2. (1/10/1907)

Review and Herald

Jan 10, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

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Catholicism on Its Own Soil

An English view of conditions in Ireland is given in the Protestant Observer (London) for October, in an editorial with the title “The Religious Aspect of the Home Rule.” This article throws further light upon the degree of religious intolerance taught and practised in a country where the adherents of the Roman Catholic Church are in the majority. It shows that Rome’s idea of religious liberty is liberty to embrace and to hold her own doctrines, and that persecution for dissenters is the inevitable fruit of her teaching. We quote as follows:—

We would venture to press on the attention of those Protestant friends of home rule residing in the United Kingdom this thought. The Word of God is the only cure for Ireland’s woes. Where this is accepted, it will make tenants honest, and landlords just and generous. Is there a Protestant home ruler who dares to challenge this assertion? or who denies that it is our duty to make the written Word of God widely known throughout the length and breadth of Ireland? But let that Protestant home ruler who agrees with us in this respect try to practically carry out this theory in Ireland, either by personally trying to circulate the Bible in Roman Catholic villages or by teaching its doctrines by word of mouth in the streets of Irish towns, and he will soon find himself opposed by the whole forces of Rome, and to such an extent that if he escapes without broken bones, he may think himself fortunate. The priests and their lay dupes will use physical violence to prevent him from giving to Irishmen the only lasting cure for Ireland’s woes. Under these circumstances, what will the Protestant home ruler do? Will he submit to popish mob violence, and make no further effort to apply the remedy, leaving the people in darkness? If he be a truly Christian man, he will do nothing of the kind. On the contrary, as a true friend of civil and religious liberty, he will ask himself: “What right have these priests and their dupes to act in this way? They have a right to resist my efforts for the good of the country by fair arguments; but the law ought not to permit them to use physical violence against me, merely because I differ from them in religion.” And would not his next demand be that the government shall deprive those priests of the power which enables them to suppress by brute force every effort to propagate Protestantism in Ireland? For Protestants have just as great a right to make disciples and proselytize as has the Church of Rome herself. Rome enjoys full liberty in this respect; why, then, should Irish Protestants not be protected in the exercise of a similar right? The right to proselytize is an essential element in religious liberty. All this has a direct bearing on any new legislation which may have for its object the granting of an instalment of home rule to Ireland. It is very well known that the Roman Catholic priests dominate the political life of their people, and that they are the ministers of a church which has ever shown the spirit of intolerance to Protestantism. At Maynooth College, where most of them have been educated, they were taught that the Church of Rome has a right to call in the aid of the state to suppress by physical force all dissent from her faith, and even to inflict the punishment of death on heretics. Of those who leave the Church of Rome for another religion, the teaching of Maynooth College to-day is: “Such persons are to be compelled even by corporal means to fulfil what they have promised, and hold what they have once received.”

Several articles in the same issue of the Observer supply the evidence, if further evidence is needed, of the truthfulness of its statements concerning the attitude of Catholics toward the propagation of Protestant doctrines. And these same scenes are enacted in other countries where Catholics are in control. What a travesty upon the religion of Jesus Christ, who taught that we should love our neighbors as ourselves!

Revealed and Communicated

By Editor

Editorial

To educate the intellect of our children and fail to provide for their moral and religious training is but sharpening weapons of the enemy with which he will ultimately pierce our own souls. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

Revealed and Communicated

God is the God of truth, and as he was revealed to the world in Jesus, Jesus himself must be the truth; not simply speaking the truth, but being himself the truth. “I am . . . the truth.” God is the living God, and as Jesus Christ is the revelation to the world of this living God, he must himself be life. As the truth, he is God revealed to us; as the life, he is God communicated to us. “I am . . . the truth”—the God of truth revealed; “I am . . . the life”—the God of life communicated. The nearest definition we have in the Scriptures as to the substance of God, is in John 4:24, where Christ himself says, “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” In 1 John 4:16 we have the definition of God as to character: “God is love.” And as Jesus is God revealed, he must be love revealed; as he is God communicated, he must be the very love of God communicated to us.

Jesus the Truth

THE fact that Jesus is the truth, is shown under various figures. In the Revelation John says, “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” Jesus is the true witness. Standing before Pilate on the day of his trial, he was asked, “Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.” Jesus was the true witness, because his whole life bore witness to the truth. Jesus is the light. He was “the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” He said of himself, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” Jesus is the true bread. “Then said Jesus unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.” Christ was the true bread because he gave to the world that which was in itself life. He was the true vine, the real vine, because he had his root in the Father, and was thus a bearer of the very life of God to those who were joined to him as branches. Jesus Christ is the true witness, the true light, the true bread, and the true vine; and he is all of this because he is the truth.

The Fruit of Modern Teaching

By C. M. S.

One of the most deplorable features of modern times is the frivolous, unreal, and even skeptical conception of life so frequently met, especially on the part of those who have but recently come to the estate of manhood and womanhood—who have but recently been graduated from our higher schools. This unreal, air-castle conception of life is carried into the married life, when these young people have settled in homes of their own, and becomes a fomenter of all kinds of domestic discord. The husband or wife is not like the pen creation of the story-book, which the other had adopted as his or her ideal, and all dissimilar traits are marked and magnified, till separation comes in one way or another.

But the delusion does not end in the sundering of these sacred ties. It is not aimed at that alone. The transactions of every-day life, the purpose of life, the object in living, the conception of God, and the work of the gospel—all are colored, disarranged, metamorphosed, by this lens of unreality through which the young of to-day are taught to look. The mirage is taken for the real, and the real is shrouded in a mist of unreality designed by Satan to confuse, blind, and destroy.

One of the chief feeders of this dangerous stream is the fictitious literature which the pupils of our public schools are compelled to read and assimilate. Many thoughtful parents of all shades of religious belief, and some who have none, realize the grave danger in this modern method of giving pupils a “literary education.” Much of the sophistry, mythology, and carnal philosophy of the ancients is bundled into the curriculum of our schools, till the minds of the children, in this their most plastic period, are stuffed and clogged with these worse than useless husks, and their fermentation is breeding the bacilli of insanity, suicide, recklessness, domestic discord, skepticism, and the theorizing of theosophy and evolution. The tendency is recognized and deplored by many who feel their utter helplessness against it, knowing that this beneficent institution, the public school, is being turned away from its legitimate work, and is being made a source of real harm by the mass of fiction that is being crowded into the reading and study of the child.

But the encouragement of this harmful tendency is not confined to the school. A prominent religious journal recently advocated editorially, that each of the various periods in the child’s life should be provided with its appropriate grade of fiction. The editor advocated that upon parents rested the responsibility of seeing to it that their children were provided with these “classics.” Other prominent religious journals are running novels serially, and others give a whole issue to review notices and editorial commendation of the most notable fiction of the year. One journal, however, has felt it necessary to protest editorially against a certain serial story which has been running through the year in other journals—a story whose only virtue is its probable power to hold subscribers.

These conditions emphasize the wisdom of maintaining schools under the management of conscientious Christian teachers who know and deplore the tendency of the times in such matters as that above referred to, and who manifest the principles of the gospel, even the third angel’s message, in their daily lives. How few indeed will be the number of earnest Christian missionaries that will be recruited from the ranks of pupils nurtured in the fiction atmosphere of the public schools as conducted to-day! God designs that the children shall be brought up “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;” that they shall be taught the truths of the gospel and the love of God. It will be only natural that children so taught, and who yield to that teaching, will become soul winners for God. In view of the nearness of our Lord’s return, the needs of the mission fields, and the numerous schemes of the adversary to ensnare the souls of the youth, a most weighty responsibility rests upon Christian parents. In view of the great truth of the third angel’s message committed to us as a people, what a responsibility rests upon Seventh-day Adventist parents in this matter!

C. M. S.

A Modern Doctrine Denied

The original Protestants did not hold the modern doctrine of the millennium—the teaching that for a thousand years previous to the second advent peace and righteousness will prevail in this earth. On the contrary, the Augsburg confession condemns all idea “that, prior to the resurrection of the dead, the godly shall get the sovereignty in the world, and the wicked be brought under in every place.” In harmony with this position John Conrad Goebel, in his sermons on this confession of faith, says:—

The idea of a golden age in this world, before the resurrection of the dead, is a mere phantasm, not only contrary to the entire Holy Scripture, but especially contrary to the clear and lucid prophecies of the Lord Jesus Christ and his beloved apostles, where they speak of the times immediately preceding the day of judgment—Matt. 24:23; 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1; 2 Peter 3:3; and other places, where more may be seen upon the subject. Nothing is there said or predicted of a golden age, but only crosses and tribulations, which touch all the estates of the world. Concerning ecclesiastical affairs it was predicted that in the last times many false Christs and false prophets shall arise, and shall do great signs and wonders, and deceive, if it were possible, the very elect. Concerning hearers it was predicted that love should wax cold in the hearts of many, and faith wane to such a degree that Christ himself asks, “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Will that be a golden age? Concerning matters of state it was predicted that unrighteousness shall sway them, and there shall be wars and rumors of wars, nation rising against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Will that be a golden age? Concerning the family it was predicted that the son shall be against the father, the daughter against her mother, and that a man’s foes shall be those of his own house. Will that be a golden age? Concerning common life it was predicted that there shall be distress of people on the earth, and trembling, and fainting for fear, and for looking after the things that are to come upon the earth, and tribulation such as was not from the beginning and never shall be again. Will that be a golden age? And if we will only consider this matter a little in the fear of God, it will be seen that this fanatical notion contradicts all Scripture, as it is contrary to this article of our common Christianity.

If the author of this sermon were now living, he would see the fulfilment of the predictions to which he referred as applying to the last days. The developments of the last few years are far from suggesting a golden age.

Here and There in Mexico

By William Ambrose Spicer

AFTER the Mexican general meeting I visited a day with Dr. A. A. John and his family in Cuautla, five hours’ ride south of Mexico City. In this pretty valley the doctor is working up a practise, and his desire is to make the work one of breaking down barriers in an intensely Catholic community.

In this short trip one passes from wheat-fields, in the higher valleys, through a corn belt at a lower altitude, and then into sugar-cane fields. Mexico has a remarkable range of climate.

The latter part of the week of prayer I spent with the company at Guadalajara, where our work in Mexico began. There is a little band in this second city of Mexico which will earnestly work and pray for the extension of the truth in this district. Here is where the sanitarium work began, at first with hopeful prospects. But it has had an unfortunate history, and few workers have remained with it for any length of time. The institution belonged to the Medical Missionary Association, but just before that association went into liquidation, as most of our readers know, the Guadalajara real estate was taken over by the Michigan Sanitarium Association. The attorney of that corporation is now in Guadalajara disposing of the property. It is closed as a sanitarium, and a portion

of the property has already been sold.

The Mexican people in the community have come to understand that our denomination is not responsible for the management of affairs. This is a helpful feature, as plans are discussed for renewing evangelistic effort in Guadalajara, where much ought to be done with the circulation of literature and simple lines of gospel medical missionary work on the denominational basis. That is the work that counts for the building up of this cause everywhere.

On the portion of the sanitarium property that has been sold, was located small buildings in which the local company meet, and in which a medical mission was carried on. These buildings are now rented of the purchaser, though our people hope soon to secure a better location. The equipment of the medical mission was sold along with the property, but the Roman Catholic purchaser, when he learned the situation, kindly gave the outfit back to our people, so that the mission work might not stop. Dr. Myers is continuing the work, endeavoring to make it self-supporting.

Through these years in Guadalajara the influence of the work of the Drs. Swayze has been a strong missionary factor—she in the homes of the Mexican people as a physician, he in real estate business. They were among the earliest laborers who went to Mexico, and were for a time in the sanitarium work.

On the homeward journey I stopped off for a look at San Luis Potosi, where there is an encouraging work coming up. Brother Julius Paulson has developed a good bakery business there, and now, as colporteur and Bible work has been done, a little company of Mexicans has begun to keep the Sabbath. At the Mexico general meeting Dr. U. C. Fattebert and his wife were counseled to remove from Celaya to San Luis Potosi, where it seemed there were more favorable prospects for developing a strong and vigorous work. He has secured a very good place for his work, near the central plaza and but a few doors from the government house.

We long to see these leading and growing centers of population and business in Mexico, training centers in our work. We must join the believers and workers in Mexico in praying for this and in helping in every way possible. It is a hard field, as all intensely Catholic fields are hard. But there is the promise of the more grace the greater the need. Already there is evidence that we shall have fruitage in Mexico as the message is carried to the people.

It will be a help to Mexico if those in the United States who have Spanish-speaking communities within their reach will send for and circulate the Mexican paper. The problem of publishing in these mission fields is a difficult one, and every effort to unite in giving the literature published as wide a circulation as possible helps decidedly. The Mexican paper can be sent into the States at pound rates, so that the way is open to make use of it as a missionary journal for Spanish people in this country.

W. A. S.

An Anomaly in Legislation

By C. M. S.

WHEN the British House of Lords amended the Education bill to death, its members knew they were opposing the will of the majority of the English people. That they feared the result of their own action and desired the favor of a certain class of the people is shown by the action taken later upon the Trades Disputes bill. This bill annuls the historic Taff-Vale decision which made trades unions liable for the damages caused by strikes, and it puts labor organizations into a class by themselves. Such a bill creates a condition of things which is truly anomalous. Railroads are held liable for the acts of their employees which cause damage or loss of life; but a labor organization may excite its members (indirectly) to deeds of violence, becoming in a sense particeps criminis, and yet such escape punishment, as an organization, for the commission of crimes by its members for which it was jointly responsible. For instance, during the great teamsters’ strike in Chicago, officials of the labor organization gave orders to certain members to prevent teams from entering certain places. Those officials knew that their agents had no lawful way of doing what they were told to do. Those men accomplished what they were set to do by throwing egg-shells filled with acid against the sides of the horses. The fiery acid burned the horses in a most cruel manner, and caused them to run away, endangering the lives of the teamsters and pedestrians, and injuring property. For such acts the labor organization was responsible equally with the hired perpetrator of the crime. In Chicago, on January 2 of this year, striking employees of a bakery threw poisonous acids upon loads of bread ready for distribution among the people. The police are holding the poisoned bread as evidence against the perpetrators of the crime.

It stands to reason that the organization should be held responsible for the damages inflicted by its agents. But in this bill which the leader of the House of Lords recommends, no damage could be recovered from the organization. This is another of the anomalies of a church-and-state régime. A law which is manifestly unfair is recommended for passage, while a proposed law that would remedy an unfair condition is buried alive in amendments. The church-and-state idea seems to blind the minds of men to the most common and fundamental principles of justice and equality.

C. M. S.

The Passing of the Home

The family and the home were established in Eden. They are divine institutions—a part of the eternal plan for the happiness of the human race. It was evidently the original purpose of the Creator that each family should possess a piece of land, greater or smaller, and that each home should be a little community in itself. But from the earliest days of history there has been a counterworking influence to break down the divine plan, and to induce men to crowd together under conditions which encourage corruption and crime. A marked change for the worse is noticeable within the present generation. All over the world the people seem to be flocking to the cities, and discarding the natural and simple methods of living for those which are artificial and injurious. This change has been discussed in an editorial in Harper’s Weekly under the heading, “The Passing of the Home.” From this article we quote one paragraph:—

The passing of the home began when from false economy, or necessity, or whatever cause, people ceased to have a little land around their homes, a little ground where they could have the ineffable joy of sticking something into the ground and seeing it grow. The passing of the home continued when married people began to live in second-rate hotels and boarding-houses, and to create a leisure class of the wives of poor men. The passing of the home went on as people built smaller and smaller and less solid houses, with fewer sitting-rooms, doing away with the day nursery, the library, the business man’s den, the sewing room, the big, roomy linen closets,

where the housewife could sit down and count her embroidered napkins, and shake out the lavender bags in her hemstitched linen sheets. The passing of the home was announced when people began to build in blocks, leaving half the rooms in the house damp and dark, and when apartment houses went up all over our cities and towns. It meant that people were going to have sleeping dormitories, and possibly a place to eat together, but it meant that the home, the old-fashioned family life, the privacy, the dignity, the close and sacred relations, were loosening, and that people were more and more living in the world and less in the family.

This is a change for the worse. Remember Sodom.

Note and Comment

It would seem that the work of Protestant missionaries in Spain is sufficiently difficult already; but it appears that there is a movement on foot to make it all but impossible to carry on evangelistic work in that country. The following clipping from an exchange will show what is proposed:—

In Spain, the legislation designed to relieve the country from some of the pressure of the papal yoke threatens to make Protestant work difficult, if not impossible. Two of its provisions are that educational work must not be carried on by religious bodies, and that foreigners must not engage in religious propaganda. Let us pray that these clauses may be modified before the bill, excellent in intention and in many of its provisions, becomes law.

The Rapid Demolition of the Day of Rest

The January number of the Missionary Review contains an editorial entitled “The Rapid Demolition of the Day of Rest.” Never have we seen more decided ground taken for the perpetuity of the law of God than is taken in this article, and we feel constrained to quote quite largely therefrom. The editor says:—

Another form of modern laxity which works disaster to the whole life of family, church, and state is the growing disregard of all sabbatic law, this being used as a convenient term for the weekly day of rest. One of the worst features of the whole matter is that some Christian disciples lend this their sanction by practical antinomianism. On the plea that they are no longer “under the law,” they treat not only ceremonial, but moral law, as abrogated. The ten commandments, being graven on stone tablets by the finger of God, forever stand out and apart from all other regulations of the code, which were temporary and transient. The principle which abrogates the fourth of the “ten words” might as legitimately be applied to the other nine!

In Isa. 58:13, 14—curiously about midway between Moses and Christ, in connection with blessings pronounced upon the “repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in,” permanent ways of living—we find the following significant words: ‘If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.’

But curiously enough, after taking such a strong stand upon the law of God, the editor smoothly transfers all the sacredness and all the obligation and all the blessing over to the counterfeit institution which has done more than anything else to place the foot of man upon the Sabbath of the Lord. It is indisputable that the Sabbath to which the Lord refers in the Scripture quotation is the Sabbath of the decalogue, the seventh day of the week. The editor’s rebuke to those who would abolish the law is a deserving one; but the mistake which he makes in attempting to read Sunday into the fourth commandment is as inexcusable and presumptuous as that which he condemns in his antinomian brethren.

Senator Burrows on the Smoot Case

THE discussion of the Senator Smoot case was resumed in the Senate last week by Senator Julius C. Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections. Senator Burrows argued for the dismissal of Senator Smoot, not because polygamy had been proved against him, but because as a Mormon apostle he had taken vows inimical to the government of the United States. In a carefully prepared speech of about thirty thousand words, Senator Burrows set forth that Senator Smoot was a senator not so much by the votes of the people as by the appointment of the rulers of his church. We quote the following paragraphs from Senator Burrows' speech because there is that in them which applies to other movements which are progressing in this country at the present time. He claimed that Senator Smoot was disqualified for the following reasons:—

First, That at the time of his election Utah was under the complete domination of the Mormon hierarchy, of which he is a member, and that such hierarchy so far interfered with the functions of the state as to secure the election of one of its own members and an apostle, and that his certificate of election by the legislature was only the recorded edict of the hierarchy in defiance of the constitutional inhibition that no church shall dominate the state nor interfere with its functions.

Second, That this Mormon hierarchy, of which the senator is a conspicuous member, inculcates and encourages belief in and the practise of polygamy and polygamous cohabitation in violation of the laws of the State prohibiting the same, and in disregard of pledges made for its suppression; and—

Third, That the senator in connection with and as a member of such organization has taken an oath of hostility to the government of the United States, incompatible with his obligation as a senator.

Throughout his speech Senator Burrows made frequent reference to the separation of church and state in this country as one of the fundamental principles of this government, and pleaded for the dismissal of Mr. Smoot because the organization which he represents is a union of church and state of a pronounced type; also because the Mormon hierarchy had as its purpose the bringing of the whole national government back to the principles of a union of church and state, subverting the national government to the domination of the hierarchy. There is another hierarchy which has the same purpose in view for this nation, and that is the hierarchy of Rome; and there is another organization in this country which has a similar purpose in view, the National Reform organization. That, too, is seeking to have all the functions of the government directed by the church. The leaders in that movement designate it by the phrase “a union of religion and the state;” but the purpose is the same, and will work out the same result. Senator Burrows' remarks are not without striking application to these organizations also.

The Nation’s Money Madness

A Governor of one of our States, in a recent address, gave the following truthful and forceful setting forth of this country's commercial peril:—

This nation has gone money mad. For ten years this land has enjoyed material wealth and prosperity such as the world has never before seen, and during that time this madness has come upon us in full force. We have forgotten the commandment “Thou shalt not steal,” and we are taking the position that it does not matter how money is obtained so long as it is got. We can not continue in this road indefinitely, and secure the continuance of free institutions. The dangers of peace will destroy this country at the present rate, just as certainly as might a disastrous war.

We see no indication of a favorable change in the desires of the people for wealth. Money madness is extending into all avenues of public life. Many of our “free institutions” are already in the tightening grasp of the money power. The danger which the governor sees is real, and the condition which he portrays is a sign of the soon coming of our Lord.

Catholic Opposition to Protestant Missions

THE real attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward the foreign missionary work conducted by Protestants in Catholic countries is made clear by the utterances of one of its own papers. Of a Methodist missionary who is declared to be “preaching the gospel of pharisaism and divorce to the benighted Catholics of Porto Rico,” the New World (Catholic) says:—

If Rev. Mr. George Milton Fowles and other globe-trotting advance agents of divorce would stay at home, and thereby confine somewhat the moral disease which follows infallibly in the wake of Protestantism just as trade follows the flag, or, better still, if they would follow some decent trade, one which would not demand more than the minimum of education, they would be at least contributing each one his share toward the up-building of “spiritual standards” and the “advancement of the race.”

This is the gospel of bitterness and sarcasm boiled down, and then preached in a spirit of extreme intolerance. And yet there are some who advocate a federation of the Protestant and Catholic churches. The spirit of Catholicism is the same now as in the sixteenth century, and wherever circumstances permit, it will be revealed in the same way.

Notes of Good Cheer

By W. A. S.

A Glad Work

THE note of joy that is sounded by many correspondents in speaking of the special fund is cheering. When any great enterprise is on, everybody who believes in it is anxious to have a part.

An Unexpected Way

A sister in Warner Lake, Ore., sends ten dollars with the word: “I wanted to make a donation to the $150,000 fund, but did not see the means to do it. However, there came to me quite unexpectedly this ten dollars; so I feel that it belongs to the Lord’s cause.”

How It Came

A sister in Takoma Park brought in four dollars, the amount of her pledge to the fund, her father having just sent her a check for five dollars as a Christmas present.

From Over Sea

A brother and his wife in Croydon, London, send a postal order for seventeen shillings ($4.14), saying: “We could not let this opportunity pass without sending our ‘mite’ for the $150,000 fund. We know the Lord will soon come, and when he does, we want to meet him with joy.”

From Manitoba

Brother Kirkland, of Manitoba, writes of the way the call strikes him across the Canadian border: “The Lord is again honoring us by giving us another opportunity as workers with him in spreading abroad the gospel of his kingdom. He is surely answering our prayers, bless his holy name. There is not a true Seventh-day Adventist who fails in this, and in the full belief that he will bless this new effort in the cause. There is still much to be done, but we know he will do a short work in the earth. Let us do our part, and the sum will be made up quickly, and we shall see greater things yet.”

W. A. S.

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