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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 21.

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May 23, 1912

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Blessed Assurance

By Mrs. Geo. W. Barry

THERE'S a song on my lips, There's a song in my soul, Though the waves of distress Deeply round me may roll, For I know whom I trust. Though the way may be dim, I shall safely go home If I cling close to him.

CHORUS:

I will not be afraid when the dark grave I see, For my Saviour has died and has risen for me.
There's a light in my sky Since the breaking of day, When the veil rent in twain, And the stone rolled away. For an angel spoke peace To my spirit's alarm: "He is risen for thee, There is nothing to harm."
There is joy in my heart All the long, weary day, For the storm overpast And the clouds rolled away. There's a rose for each thorn, And a gain for each loss, Since my Saviour himself Gained a crown by the cross.

Young Men as Missionaries

By Mrs. E. G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE
I WAS shown that God will accomplish a great work through the truth if devoted, self-sacrificing men will give themselves unreservedly to the work of presenting it to those in darkness. Those who have a knowledge of the truth and are consecrated to God, should avail themselves of every opportunity to press in the truth. Angels of God are moving upon the hearts and consciences of the people of other nations, and honest souls are troubled as they witness the signs of the times in the unsettled state of the nations. The inquiry arises in their hearts, What will be the end of all these things?
But while God and angels are working to impress hearts, the servants of Christ seem to be asleep. Few are working in unison with the heavenly messengers. All who are Christians should be workers in the vineyard of the Lord. They should be wide awake, zealously laboring for the salvation of their fellow men, and should follow the example that the Saviour has given them in his life of self-denial, sacrifice, and earnest labor.
God has honored us by making us the depositaries of his law, and if ministers and people were sufficiently aroused, they would not rest in indifference. We have been entrusted with truths of vital importance, which are to test the world; and yet in our own country there are cities, villages, and towns that have never heard the warning message. Young men are aroused by the appeals that are made for help in the great work of God, and they make some advance moves, but the burden does not rest upon them with sufficient weight to lead them to accomplish what they might. They are willing to do a small work, which does not require special effort. Therefore they do not learn to place their whole dependence upon God, and by living faith draw from the great Fountain and Source of light and strength, in order that their efforts may prove wholly successful.
Young men should be qualifying themselves for service by becoming familiar with other languages, that God may use them as mediums through which to communicate his saving truth to those of other nations. These young men may obtain a knowledge of other languages even while engaged in laboring for sinners. If they are economical of their time, they can improve their minds, and qualify themselves for more extended usefulness.
It will make our young men strong to go into new fields and break up the fallow ground of men's hearts. This work will draw them nearer to God. It will help them to see that they of themselves are altogether inefficient. They must be wholly the Lord's. They must put away their self-esteem and self-importance, and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. When they do this, they will be willing to go without the camp, and bear the burden as good soldiers of the cross. They will gain efficiency and ability by mastering difficulties and overcoming obstacles. Men are wanted for responsible positions, but they must be men who have given full proof of their ministry, in willingness to wear the yoke of Christ.
Young men who desire to enter the field as ministers, colporteurs, or canvassers, should first receive a suitable degree of mental training, as well as a special preparation for their calling. Those who are uneducated, untrained, and unrefined are not prepared to enter a field in which the powerful influences of talent and education combat the truths of God's Word. Neither can they successfully meet the strange forms of error, religious and philosophical combined, to expose which requires a knowledge of scientific as well as Scriptural truth.
Those especially who have the ministry in view should feel the importance of the Scriptural method of ministerial training. They should enter heartily into the work, and while they study in the schools, they should learn of the Great Teacher the meekness and humility of Christ. A covenant-keeping God has promised that in answer to prayer his Spirit shall be poured out upon these learners in the school of Christ, that they may become ministers of righteousness.
It was as a means ordained of God to educate young men and women for the various departments of missionary labor, that colleges were established among us. It is God's will that they shall send forth not merely a few, but many laborers. There are many who would work if urged into service, and who would save their souls by thus working. The church should feel her great responsibility in shutting up the light of truth, and restraining the grace of God within her own narrow limits, when money and influence should be freely employed in sending competent workers into the missionary field.Hundreds of young men should have been preparing to act a part in scattering the seeds of truth beside all waters. We want men who will push the triumphs of the cross, men who will persevere under discouragements and privations, men who have the zeal and resolution and faith that are indispensable to the missionary field.
There should be many more laborers in the foreign mission field. There are among us those who, without the toil and delay of learning a foreign language, might qualify themselves to proclaim the truth to other nations. God's blessing will rest upon our efforts to qualify those who naturally possess a knowledge of foreign tongues, and who with proper encouragement would bear to their own countrymen the message of truth. We might have had more laborers in foreign mission fields had those who entered these fields availed themselves of the help of every talent within their reach.
The church may inquire whether young men can be trusted with the grave responsibilities involved in establishing and superintending a foreign mission. I answer, God designed that they should be so trained in our colleges and by association with men of experience, that they would be prepared for departments of usefulness in this cause. We must manifest confidence in our young men. They should be pioneers in every enterprise involving toil and sacrifice, while the overtaxed servants of Christ should be cherished as counselors, to encourage and bless those who strike the heaviest blows for God. Providence thrust these experienced fathers into trying, responsible positions at an early age, when neither physical nor intellectual powers were fully developed. The magnitude of the trust committed to them aroused their energies, and their active labor in the work aided both mental and physical development.
Young men are wanted. God calls them to missionary fields. Being comparatively free from care and responsibilities, they are more favorably situated to engage in the work than are those who must provide for the training and support of a large family. Furthermore, young men can more readily adapt themselves to new climates and new society, and can better endure inconveniences and hardships. By tact and perseverance, they can reach the people where they are.
Strength comes by exercise. All who put to use the ability that God has given them, will have increased ability to devote to his service. Those who do nothing in the cause of God will fail to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth. If a man should lie down and refuse to exercise his limbs, he would soon lose all power to use them. Thus the Christian who will not use his God-given powers, not only fails to grow up into Christ, but loses the strength which he already had; he becomes a spiritual paralytic. It is those who, with love for God and for their fellow men, are striving to help others, that become established, strengthened, settled in the truth. The true Christian works for God, not from impulse, but from principle; not for a day or a month, but during the entire life.
The Master calls for gospel workers. Who will respond? Not all who enter the army are to be generals, captains, sergeants, or even corporals. Not all have the care and responsibility of leaders. There is hard work of other kinds to be done. Some must dig trenches and build fortifications; some are to stand as sentinels, some to carry messages. While there are but few officers, it requires many soldiers to form the rank and file of the army; and yet its success depends upon the fidelity of every soldier. One man's cowardice or treachery may bring disaster upon the entire army.
He who has appointed "to every man his work," according to his ability, will never let the faithful performance of duty go unrewarded. Every act of loyalty and faith will be crowned with special tokens of God's favor and approbation. To every worker is given the promise, "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."

The Cleansing of the Leper

By Stephen N. Haskell

S. N. HASKELL
Of all the diseases to which mankind is heir there is none more loathsome than leprosy. The individual lives for years with this dread disease slowly eating away portions of the body, until he longs for death as a release.
Leprosy is a very fitting type of the loathsome spiritual disease of sin, which destroys the soul of the individual that violates his conscience again and again until he loses all power to resist, and becomes wholly surrendered to evil. From earliest times, leprosy has been a type of sin. When Miriam became jealous of her sister-in-law, and she and Aaron murmured against Moses, "the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; . . . and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow." After God had taught the lesson that the sins of jealousy, murmuring, and faultfinding are to the spiritual life what leprosy is to the physical being, then in answer to Moses' prayer she was healed. Num. 12:9-15.
When Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, coveted the treasures of Naaman, and told a falsehood and dissembled to obtain them, the decree came to him from the Lord, "The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee." 2 Kings 5:20-27. It is not strange that with the recorded experiences of Miriam and Gehazi before them, the Jews should look upon leprosy as a judgment from the Lord. The leper was not allowed to mingle with the people. There was no exception, from the king on the throne to the lowliest bond-servant. The command of the Lord was, "The leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. . . . He shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." Lev. 13:45, 46. The priest was the one who examined the leper and pronounced him unclean, and he alone could pronounce him clean.
As leprosy was a type of the worst sins, the ceremony for the cleansing of the leper embraced more than any other offering. The priest went outside the camp and examined the leper, and if the leprosy was healed, then the healed man was to bring "two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop" unto the priest. One of the birds was killed in an earthen vessel held over running water; the living bird, the scarlet, and the cedar were then all dipped into the blood. The priest sprinkled the blood seven times upon the one who was to be cleansed, and pronounced him clean.
Leprosy is an infectious disease, and everything the leper touches is contaminated. Sin also is a dreadful disease, and the earth, air, and water are all cursed by the sins of humanity, and must be cleansed by the same blood that cleanses man. Therefore, after the leper was pronounced clean, the live bird, with its feathers scarlet with the blood, was let loose to fly through the air. The blood was sprinkled on the person who had been unclean, and was carried through the air that was laden with germs of disease and sin, in type of the blood of Christ, which will give a new heaven, a new atmosphere, to this sin-cursed earth. Before man sinned, there was no decaying vegetation; the beautiful trees were not destroyed by insect pests, but all was free from the curse. Nothing but the blood of Christ can restore vegetation to its Eden beauty. In type of this wonderful power a piece of cedar, the giant of the forest, and of hyssop, the small plant which "springeth out of the wall," were dipped in the blood. These were chosen to represent the two extremes in vegetation, thus embracing all. 1 Kings 4:33.
The animal life is cursed by sin, but through the redeeming power of the blood of Christ the time will come when the wolf "shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." Isa. 11:6. The scarlet wool dipped in the blood in type represented the animal kingdom. Heb. 9:19. The blood of the bird was placed in an earthen dish held over running water. In the type of the cleansing of the leper we see that the blood came in direct contact not only with the leper, but with all else cursed by sin,—with the earth, air, water, vegetation, and the animal kingdom.
These wonderful types were but compact prophecies of the far more wonderful Antitype. When Christ knelt in agony upon the cold ground of the garden of Gethsemane, the great drops of blood fell down from his face to theground. Luke 22:44. Four thousand years before, when Cain slew his brother, the earth had first felt the touch of human blood, which fell as a withering curse, blighting the fruitfulness of the land. Many times since has the bosom of the earth not only been spotted with the blood of man, but rivers of blood have deluged the ground as armed hosts of human beings, led on by Satan, have slaughtered one another. Every drop of this blood has added to the curse. But how different the effect of the blood of the blessed Saviour! In it was healing, cleansing power. Num. 35:33.
The curse of sin rests heavily upon the atmosphere, which is so laden with disease germs that "death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets." Jer. 9:21. In the type, the blood of the offering dripped from the bird as it flew through the air. From the great antitypical Offering, as he hung on Calvary, the precious, healing blood dripped from his wounded hands and feet through the air, and fell upon the rocks beneath. The types of the old Levitical service were not a meaningless ceremony, but a prophecy of the wonderful Antitype.
Water has been affected by the curse of sin from the earliest times. Ex. 15:22. The bird killed over the running water was a type of the death of Christ, which would remove the curse of sin forever from the waters of the earth. The blood of Christ came in direct contact with water; when the soldier thrust the cruel spear into the side of the Saviour, "forthwith came there out blood and water" (John 19:34), not a mixture of blood and water, but blood and water, two copious streams.
Portland, Maine.
(To be concluded)

An Important Communication

By C. E. Holmes

C. E. HOLMES
IN 1895 our ambassador to Russia, Mr. Clifton R. Breckinridge, was asked by Baron Osten-Sacken of Russia to "give him the language of our organic law in regard to religious liberty." The following communication is the answer to this request:—
"LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, St. Petersburg, June 25, 1895.
"YOUR EXCELLENCY: Referring to our recent conversation upon the subject of the exercise of consular or foreign jurisdiction within the limits of the United States upon matters respecting a religious establishment or belief, I now comply with your request for a statement of the language of our Constitution with reference to the power of the United States government itself to exercise such jurisdiction.
"I will just call your attention to the peculiar character of our Constitutional requirements.
"The States existed separately and independently before the general government existed. They created the general government. It is true that many new States have been admitted into the Union since the original States created the government, but this has been out of territory originally ceded to the general government by the States — land which at that time lay beyond the settled zone — or out of land since acquired by the general government by purchase or conquest, and in a way originally provided for.
"So when the States created the general government, they 'granted' and 'delegated' certain powers to it, as enumerated in the Constitution, and they retained all the other powers themselves. Our government has very great powers. It is supreme within the limits of those powers, but the point is that it can lawfully do nothing unless the power to do so has been granted to it.
"It is a very serious matter to us, then, when our government is desired to conform to a policy, if the power to do so has not been delegated to it. It can not assume the power or get it in any other way except by a change of the Constitution granting the government that power.
"The very great difficulty of effecting a change in the Constitution will be readily seen when it is stated that it takes two thirds of both branches of Congress or two thirds of the States to propose an amendment; and after it is proposed, it requires a majority vote in three fourths of the States to adopt it. Such is the difficulty that no changes have been made except at two periods of our history. The first was the period, just after the formation of our government, ending in 1804. Then there was no change until 1865, at the close of the civil war, when certain changes were made as the result of that great war.
"Although Congress has not been granted any power in regard to religious matters, so great was the fear of the States and the people that Congress might upon pretext attempt such legislation that the first of all the amendments, Article I, says, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'
"Thus you will see, my government is prohibited in the most positive manner by the very law of its existence from even attempting to put any form of limitation upon any of its citizens by reason of his religious belief."
In another letter the following month (July 8), directed to Prince Lobanow, Mr. Breckinridge endeavors to explain more fully the relation of our government to religion:—
"Our Constitution does not say that Congress shall not make a law simply prohibiting or authorizing a religious exercise or belief, as your excellency seems to understand; it says, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Certainly if the law deprives any people or person of a certain faith, because of that faith, of all or of any part of the rights, privileges, and immunities enjoyed by other citizens or class of citizens, it is made 'respecting' that religion, and it militates against 'the free exercise thereof,' as much as if the sect had been mentioned in the title of the act, and the consequences had been named as pains and penalties for the conscientious belief and observances entertained and practised."
Mr. Breckinridge was well qualified to give this interpretation of the attitude of our federal government to religious matters. As a representative of the United States he was familiar with our fundamental law and our history; and, on the other hand, he was then sojourning in a land where there is a union of religion and the state. Before his eyes persons were being persecuted because of their religious belief. It was to avoid such a condition in America that the founders of our government sought to prohibit forever the meddling of our lawmakers with the religion of any citizen.
This information to the Russian baron is an interesting and important contribution to the cause of religious liberty, and if those principles are faithfully followed by our statesmen, our government will be preserved from treating any of its citizens as some of them are now being treated by Russia.
Takoma Park, D. C.

A Mighty Movement

By Mary A. Steward

MARY A. STEWARD
THE religious and even the secular papers have long been ringing with the reports of great deeds done, great meetings held, great numbers of converts made, in the religious world. Thousands, it is claimed, have sometimes been "converted" in a single night or at one meeting. We have read of the efforts of the traveling evangelists; of the society that has put a Bible into every room of large hotels; of the interest awakened in many lands in the study of the Scriptures. These have undoubtedly accomplished a great amount of good.
And now comes the Men and Religion Forward Movement, a force so vast and so potent that it bids fair to sweep the world in its path. It seems significant that this is a movement by men and for men. Usually the men consider themselves too busy to attend to the demands of religion, and turn over the responsibility in that line to their wives and daughters.
A late number of the Christian Herald deplores the coming of heathenism to our shores, — Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, Vedantism, Bahaism. The converts to these cults are reported to be numerous, and nearly all women! Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle are among the large cities wherein temples to heathen deities have been erected.
Surely "intensity is taking possession of every earthly element." It is not by faith but by sight that we behold the intensity that has taken hold of the powers of the seen and the unseen world.
Mighty movements are under way, great organizations are effected, and are doing their work in the world,—a work that will make more and more difficult the giving of the message that God has sent us for the world. "We have no time to lose. . . . The passage from place to place will soon be hedged with dangers on the right hand and on the left. Everything will be placed to obstruct the way of the Lord's messengers, so that they will not be able to do that which it is possible for them to do now. . . . Soon it will be more difficult than we can imagine."
Satan is surely mustering his forces to hold the world in his grasp. And we are asleep! No wonder Isaiah called to us in thunder tones, as he saw the picture of this time, "Ho!" "Awake, awake!" "Arise, shine!" Our light has come, but we heed it not. Our eyes are heavy with slumber. Hearing the commotion around us, we open them a little, and try to rise, but Satan breathes over us a whiff of his opiate, and we sink back into apathy again.
As yet the forces of Seventh-day Adventists are too feeble to attract the attention of the world; but when we shall at last awake to our obligations, and begin to give the warning in its fulness, we shall soon feel the hand of oppression laid heavily upon us.
Because these dangers do not yet touch us personally, we are content to sit by our cheerful fireside, idly dreaming the hours away — precious hours of probation. In vain do the warnings fall upon our ears; in vain does the Lord plead with us to proclaim this gospel of the near advent in the cities and towns. And meanwhile Satan is taking the world under our very eyes. His army is already in the field, and is planting his banner on many a high place where we should have been long ago.
O that God would send the impetus of a mighty belief of his word for this time into the hearts of his people! Why do we not heed the ringing calls to go into the cities, and go now, before they are all bound up in the meshes of Satan's nets? Where are the men who, like the prophet of old, shall feel the fire of God shut up in their bones, and who can not keep from crying the woes that are surely coming?
Great organizations already committed to definite religious movements are working with all their power to accomplish results which they believe to be for the betterment of the world, but which we know are the devices of Satan to fasten men and women in his snares, and prevent them from listening to the message when it shall come to their ears.
O why is the message so tardy? Why wait the wheels of His chariot? Why linger the feet of those who must carry the news of this salvation to "every nation, kindred, tongue, and people"?
Send forth thy light, O Lord; let the fire be kindled in the midst of thy modern Israel, that shall cause them to throw off the effect of Satan's opiates, and rouse to action.
"Pray that the mighty energies of the Holy Spirit, with all their quickening, recuperative, transforming power, may fall like an electric shock on the palsy-stricken soul, causing every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring the whole man from his dead, earthly, sensual state to spiritual soundness."
Sanitarium, Cal.

A Clear Line Between Church and State

By Editor

THE editor of Missions, the Baptist organ for foreign missions, speaks out plainly as to the attitude all Protestants should assume toward the encroachments of the Roman Catholic Church upon the liberties assured by American principles of separation of church and state. Under the title of "A Time to Speak Out," in the April number, he says:—
"As our readers know, we are not in the habit of making attacks upon the religious faith of people. When we have anything to say against the Roman Catholic Church, it is because that organization is political as well as religious. When it appears in politics, and introduces church into state in any form, it deserves to be treated like any other assailant of human liberty. This is the perilous and insidious side of a great ecclesiastical system, which is not content to enjoy American liberty and leave our free institutions alone.
"The case in point which calls for a strong expression of opinion on the part of the people is that of our government Indian schools. In some of these schools, which were taken over by the government from the Roman Catholics, nuns and sisters teach, and have been teaching, in their religious garb, which is in direct conflict with the laws of the United States. The Indian Commissioner, in view of this infraction of the law, issued an order forbidding the wearing of any religious garb or insignia in the schools after a given date, stating that if any teachers could not conscientiously forego the garb, their service for the government would terminate with the school year. President Taft revoked this order, after he had heard from the Roman ecclesiastical authorities in protest, and without granting a hearing to the Indian Committee of the Home Missions Council, which represents the twenty millions of Protestant church-members.
"At present, therefore, in disobedience to the laws of the country, Catholic nuns and sisters teach in Indian schools and wear their churchly garb. They also teach religion outside of school hours, which is legally permissible. To all intents and purposes, this makes a Roman Catholic school for which the government is paying. The Indians are helpless, although some of the parents protest against having their children thus taught. And the Roman Catholic influence at the national capital is powerful enough to overrule a government officer who endeavors to maintain the law.
"Such incidents are greatly to be regretted. They do not make for harmonious feeling of good citizenship. Church and state have been kept apart in this country, and they are going to be, at all hazards. Public-school moneys will not be appropriated to support sectarian schools. Such attempts as this in the Indian schools will prove disastrous boomerangs to all who undertake them. The American people can not long be deceived in matters of this kind. We can easily tolerate church princes and all kinds of boasting and display, but when it comes to the dearly bought religious liberties of the people and the fundamental principle of absolute separation of church and state, there is no doubt about the issue. We are deeply sorry that a President who is a strenuous upholder of law should take a position so out of harmony with his usual ideals and practise of justice."

Morsels

By Philip Giddings

THE motto of the fanatical bigot is, I will put you off the earth, if you don't travel my way to heaven. But no bigot has conscience big enough to supply himself and any other.
The gateway, unless passed through in time, will become a gate in the way for eternity. "When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door," the opening is forever closed.
The key-note of a piece is identical with the last note in the last measure of the bass. He whose life is keyed in Christ, through whatever changes in positions, in notes and tones, will have Christ as his base whereon he sweetly rests at the close of Time's song. "All things work together for good to them that love God." "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
Some would wish the essay was spelled easy; but true ease comes after essay, as rest follows wrestle.
Your trials are the stony base of Bethel's ladder, whose top reaches to marble pillars and precious stones. "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God." Rev. 3:12. Jacob's all-night wrestling at Peniel broke the day with Israel—prince of God.
Where wicked men, demons, or conspiracy of circumstances hit hardest at you, that you may falter, fail, and fall, there by divine grace lies the sublime occasion for your masterpiece, since the measure of the best is the contest.
The base of deepest trials is only foundation for highest joy. Sad Gethsemane is only foot of glad Mt. Olivet. This spot that saw the bloody sweat at the bottom of the mount witnessed the triumphant ascent at its top. And of all places on this earth, on Christ's returning descent Mt. Olivet will be honored first. "His feet shall stand that day upon the Mount of Olives."
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