Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 43. (10/15/1914)

Review and Herald

Oct 15, 1914

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 15, 1914

The Temperance Cause

By Ellen G. White

No human pen can fully delineate the horrors of intemperance. How can Christian men and women tolerate this evil? There is a cause for the moral paralysis upon society. Our laws sustain an evil which is sapping their very foundations.

Many deplore the wrongs which they know exist, but consider themselves free from all responsibility in the matter. This cannot be. Every individual exerts an influence in society. In our favored land, every voter has some voice in determining what laws shall control the nation. Should not that influence and that vote be cast on the side of temperance and virtue?

We may call upon the friends of the temperance cause to rally to the conflict and seek to press back the tide of evil that is demoralizing the world; but of what avail are all our efforts while liquor selling is sustained by law? Must the curse of intemperance forever rest like a blight upon our land? Must it every year sweep like a devouring fire over thousands of happy homes? We talk of the results, tremble at the results, and wonder what we can do with the terrible results, while too often we tolerate and even sanction the cause.

The advocates of temperance fail to do their whole duty unless they exert their influence by precept and example—by voice and pen and vote—in favor of prohibition and total abstinence. We need not expect that God will work a miracle to bring about this reform, and thus remove the necessity for our exertion. We ourselves must grapple with this giant foe, our motto, No compromise and no cessation of our efforts till the victory is gained.

MRS. E. G. WHITE.

THE WORK AND THE WORKERS

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How Bob Was Weaned

By Harriet Langdon

Mrs. Harriet Langdon

What a wealth of information, or of misinformation, a young mother receives from her

until I had sweetened it. I continued to give him this nine-o'clock diluted and sweetened milk for about two weeks.

The Temperance Work

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE

In our earlier labors in the message, my husband and I always felt it our duty to demonstrate in every place where we held meetings, that we were fully in harmony with the workers in the temperance cause. We laid this question before the people in plain terms. And when invitations would come to us to speak in different places on the temperance question, I always accepted if it was possible. This has been my practice throughout my public ministry, not only in this country, but in Europe and in Australasia.

Of all who claim to be numbered among the friends of temperance, Seventh-day Adventists should stand in the front ranks. A flood of light concerning the principles of true reform has been shining on our pathway for many years, and we are accountable before God if we fail to let this light shine to others. Years ago we regarded the spread of temperance principles as one of our most important duties. It should be so today. Our schools and sanitariums are to reveal the power of the grace of Christ to transform the whole being,—body, soul, and spirit. Our sanitariums and other educational institutions should be centers of light and blessing in the cause of every Bible reform.

We need at this time to show a decided interest in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. None who claim to have a part in the work of God, should lose interest in the grand object of this organization in temperance lines. It would be a good thing if at our camp meetings we should invite the members of the W. C. T. U. to take part in our exercises. This would help them to become acquainted with the reasons of our faith, and open the way for us to unite with them in the temperance work. If we do this, we shall come to see that the temperance question means more than many of us have supposed. In some matters, the workers of the W. C. T. U. are far in advance of our leaders. The Lord has in that organization precious souls, who can be a great help to us in our efforts to advance the temperance movement. And the education our people have had in Bible truth and in a knowledge of the requirements of the law of Jehovah, will enable our sisters to impart to these noble temperance advocates that which will be for their spiritual welfare. Thus a union and sympathy will be created where in the past there has sometimes existed prejudice and misunderstanding.

I have been surprised as I have seen the indifference of some of our leaders to this organization. The Lord gave the best gift of heaven to the world that he might win men back to their allegiance to him. We should do all in our power to cooperate with heavenly agencies for the promulgation of truth and righteousness in the earth. We cannot do a better work than to unite, so far as we can do so without compromise, with the W. C. T. U. workers.

Concerning this matter I wrote to one of our sisters in 1898:—

‘The Lord, I fully believe, is leading you that you may keep the principles of temperance clear and distinct, in all their purity, in connection with the truth for these last days. They that do his will shall know of the doctrine. . . . The Lord does not bid you separate from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. They need all the light you can give them. Flash all the light possible into their pathway. You can agree with them on the ground of the pure, elevating principles that first brought into existence the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The Lord has given you capabilities and talents to be preserved uncorrupted in their simplicity. Through Jesus Christ you may do a good work. As souls shall be converted to the truth, have them unite with you in teaching those women who are willing to be taught, to live and labor intelligently and unitedly.’

And in “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI, pages 110, 111, I have written:—

‘In our work more attention should be given to the temperance reform. Every duty that calls for reform, involves repentance, faith, and obedience. It means the uplifting of the soul to a new and nobler life. Thus every true reform has its place in the work of the third angel’s message. Especially does the temperance reform demand our attention and support. At our camp meetings we should call attention to this work, and make it a living issue. We should present to the people the principles of true temperance, and call for signers to the temperance pledge. Careful attention should be given to those who are enslaved by evil habits. We must lead them to the cross of Christ.

‘Our camp meetings should have the labors of medical men. These should be men of wisdom and sound judgment, men who respect the ministry of the word, and who are not victims of unbelief. These men are the guardians of the health of the people, and they are to be recognized and respected. They should give instruction to the people in regard to the dangers of intemperance. This evil must be more boldly met in the future than it has been in the past. Ministers and doctors should set forth the evils of intemperance. Both should work in the gospel with power to condemn sin and exalt righteousness. Those ministers or doctors who do not make personal appeals to the people are remiss in their duty. They fail of doing the work which God has appointed them.

‘In other churches there are Christians who are standing in defense of the principles of temperance. We should seek to come near to these workers, and make a way for them to stand shoulder to shoulder with us. We should call upon great and good men to second our efforts to save that which is lost.

‘If the work of temperance were carried forward by us as it was begun thirty years ago; if at our camp meetings we presented before the people the evils of intemperance in eating and drinking, and especially the evil of liquor drinking,—if these things were presented in connection with the evidences of Christ’s soon coming, there would be a shaking among the people. If we showed a zeal in proportion to the importance of the truths we are handling, we might be instrumental in rescuing hundreds, yea, thousands, from ruin.

‘Only eternity will reveal what has been accomplished by this kind of ministry,—how many souls, sick with doubt and tired of worldliness and unrest, have been brought to the Great Physician,

who longs to save to the uttermost all who come unto him. Christ is a risen Saviour, and there is healing in his wings.’

I am being aroused anew on this subject. We have a work to do along this line besides that of speaking in public. We must present our principles in pamphlets and in our papers. We must use every possible means of arousing our people to their duty to get into connection with those who know not the truth. The success we have had in missionary work has been fully proportionate to the self-denying, self-sacrificing efforts we have made. The Lord alone knows how much we might have accomplished if as a people we had humbled ourselves before him and proclaimed the temperance truth in clear, straight lines.

A large work of seed sowing is yet to be done. The light of truth has flashed upon many minds who have not yet fully taken their stand, and these souls are waiting to see what next. The Lord’s workers are to draw nigh to him, and he will give them keener perceptions and broader views of his purpose and of their individual duty.

We need to put away our narrowness of vision. We need to search the Scriptures, studying the works of Christ in his efforts to reach every class of people. Again and again Christ was charged with receiving sinners and eating with them. But he said, ‘I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’

Voting Against the License Law

While we are in no wise to become involved in political questions, yet it is our privilege to take our stand decidedly on all questions relating to temperance reform. Concerning this I have often borne a plain testimony. In an article published in the REVIEW of Nov. 8, 1881, I wrote:—

‘Our Creator has bestowed his bounties upon man with a liberal hand. Were all these gifts of Providence wisely and temperately employed, poverty, sickness and distress would be well-nigh banished from the earth. But, alas! we see on every hand the blessings of God changed to a curse by the wickedness of men.

‘There is no class guilty of greater perversion and abuse of his precious gifts than are those who employ the products of the soil in the manufacture of intoxicating liquors. The nutritive grains, the healthful, delicious fruits, are converted into beverages that pervert the senses and madden the brain. As a result of the use of these poisons, thousands of families are deprived of the comforts and even the necessities of life, acts of violence and crime are multiplied, and disease and death hurry myriads of victims to a drunkard’s grave.

‘This work of destruction is carried on under the protection of the laws of the land. For a paltry sum, men are licensed to deal out to their fellow men the potion that shall rob them of all that makes this life desirable and of all hope of the life to come. Neither the lawmaker nor the liquor seller is ignorant of the result of his work. At the hotel bar, in the beer garden, at the saloon, the slave of appetite expends his means for that which is destructive to reason, health, and happiness. The liquor seller fills his till with the money that should provide food and clothing for the family of the poor drunkard.

‘This is the worst kind of robbery. Yet men in high position in society and in the church lend their influence in favor of license laws. . . . Thus society is corrupted, workhouses and prisons are crowded with paupers and criminals, and the gallows is supplied with victims. The evil ends not with the drunkard and his unhappy family. The burdens of taxation are increased, the morals of the young are imperiled, the property, and even the life, of every member of society is endangered. But the picture may be presented never so vividly, and yet it falls short of the reality. No human pen or pencil can fully delineate the horrors of intemperance. . . .

‘How can Christian men and women tolerate this evil? . . . There is a cause for the moral paralysis upon society. Our laws sustain an evil which is sapping their very foundations. Many deplore the wrongs which they know exist, but consider themselves free from all responsibility in the matter. This cannot be. Every individual exerts an influence in society. In our favored land, every voter has some voice in determining what laws shall control the nation. Should not that influence and that vote be cast on the side of temperance and virtue? . . .

‘We may call upon the friends of the temperance cause to rally to the conflict and seek to press back the tide of evil that is demoralizing the world; but of what avail are all our efforts while liquor selling is sustained by law? Must the curse of intemperance forever rest like a blight upon our land? Must it every year sweep like a devouring fire over thousands of happy homes? We talk of the results, tremble at the results, and wonder what we can do with the terrible results, while too often we tolerate and even sanction the cause. The advocates of temperance fail to do their whole duty unless they exert their influence by precept and example—by voice and pen and vote—in favor of prohibition and total abstinence. We need not expect that God will work a miracle to bring about this reform, and thus remove the necessity for our exertion. We ourselves must grapple with this giant foe, our motto, No compromise and no cessation of our efforts till the victory is gained. . . .

‘What can be done to press back the inflowing tide of evil? Let laws be enacted and rigidly enforced prohibiting the sale and the use of ardent spirits as a beverage. Let every effort be made to encourage the inebriate’s return to temperance and virtue. But even more than this is needed to banish the curse of inebriety from our land. Let the appetite for intoxicating liquors be removed, and their use and sale are at an end. This work must to a great degree devolve upon parents. Let them, by observing strict temperance themselves, give the right stamp of character to their children, and then educate and train these children, in the fear of God, to habits of self-denial and self-control. Youth who have been thus trained will have moral stamina to resist temptation, and to control appetite and passion. They will stand unmoved by the folly and dissipation that are corrupting society.

‘The prosperity of a nation is dependent upon the virtue and intelligence of its citizens. To secure these blessings, habits of strict temperance are indispensable. The history of ancient kingdoms is replete with lessons of warning for us. Luxury, self-indulgence, and dissipation prepare the way for their downfall. It remains to be seen whether our own republic will be admonished by their example and avoid their fate.’

The Position of the Health Principles in the Message for This Time

By O. A. Olsen

The Fullness of the Gospel — No. 2

The Position of the Health Principles in the Message for This Time

O. A. OLSEN

We invite the reader to a careful study of the truths and principles set forth in the following quotations from the spirit of prophecy. We are in the time of the finishing of the mystery of God in the earth, the time when the seal of perfection is to be fixed on the people of God. And is there not danger that in the rush and hurry some of this instruction, so important, so pertinent to just this time and situation, be lost sight of? For if this instruction means anything, it means very much to us individually and collectively; and the attitude we take, and the manner in which we relate ourselves to the instruction from the Lord’s servant, will certainly have a bearing on our eternal destiny.

“The health reform, I was shown, is a part of the third angel’s message, and is just as closely connected with it as are the arm and hand with the human body. I saw that we as a people must make an advance move in this great work. Ministers and people must act in concert. God’s people are not prepared for the loud cry of the third angel. They have a work to do for themselves which they should not leave for God to do for them. He has left this work for them to do. It is an individual work; one cannot do it for another. ‘Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.’ Gluttony is the prevailing sin of this age. Lustful appetite makes slaves of men and women, and beclouds their intellects and stupefies their moral sensibilities to such a degree that the sacred, elevated truths of God’s Word are not appreciated. The lower propensities have ruled men and women.

“In order to be fitted for translation, the people of God must know themselves. They must understand in regard to their own physical frames, that they may be able with the psalmist to exclaim, ‘I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’ They should ever have the appetite in subjection to the moral and intellectual organs. The body should be servant to the mind, and not the mind to the body.”—Testimonies for the Church, Vol. I, page 486.

“The health reform is closely connected with the work of the third message, yet it is not the message. Our preachers should teach the health reform, yet they should not make this the leading theme in the place of the message. Its place is among those subjects which set forth the preparatory work to meet the events brought to view by the message; among these it is prominent.”

“In the preparation of a people for the Lord’s second coming, a great work is to be accomplished through the promulgation of health principles. The people are to be instructed in regard to the needs of the physical organism, and the value of healthful living as taught in the Scriptures, that the bodies which God has created may be presented to him a living sacrifice, fitted to render him acceptable service. There is a great work to be done for suffering humanity in relieving their sufferings by the use of the natural agencies that God has provided, and in teaching them how to prevent sickness by the regulation of the appetites and passions. The people should be taught that transgression of the laws of nature is transgression of the laws of God.”

“Our sanitariums are an educating power to teach the people in these lines. Those who are taught can in turn impart to others a knowledge of health-restoring and health-preserving principles. Thus our sanitariums are to be an instrumentality for reaching the people, an agency for showing them the evil of disregarding the laws of life and health, and for teaching them how to preserve the body in the best condition. Sanitariums are to be established in different countries that are entered by our missionaries, and are to be centers from which a work of healing, restoring, and educating shall be carried on.”

“We are to labor both for the health of the body and for the saving of the soul. Our mission is the same as that of our Master, of whom it is written that he went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by Satan. Acts 10:38. Of his own work he says: ‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.’ ‘He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.’ Isa. 61:1; Luke 4:18. As we follow Christ’s example of labor for the good of others, we shall awaken their interest in the God whom we love and serve.

“Our sanitariums in all their departments should be memorials for God, his instrumentalities for sowing the seeds of truth in human hearts. This they will be if rightly conducted.”—Id., Vol. VI, pages 224, 225.

These quotations set before us the purpose of the Lord in the work of health reform. These things being so, “one important part of the work of the ministry is to faithfully present to the people the health reform, as it stands connected with the third angel’s message as a part and parcel of the same work. They should not fail to adopt it themselves, and should urge it upon all who profess to believe the truth.”—Id., Vol. I, pages 469, 470.

In the following paragraphs we are most earnestly admonished to do our full duty in teaching and practicing these important principles that by both precept and example we may lead the people to the fullness of the blessings God has in store for them:—

“It means much to be true to God. He has claims upon all who are engaged in his service. He desires that mind and body be preserved in the best condition of health, every power and endowment under the divine control, and as vigorous as careful, strictly temperate habits can make them. We are under obligation to God to make an unreserved consecration of ourselves to him, body and soul, with all the faculties appreciated as his intrusted gifts, to be employed in his service. All our energies and capabilities are to be constantly strengthened and improved during this probationary period. Only those who appreciate these principles, and have been trained to care for their bodies intelligently and in the fear of God, should be chosen to take responsibilities in this work. Those who have been long in the truth, yet who cannot distinguish between the pure principles of righteousness and the principles of evil, whose understanding in regard to justice, mercy, and the love of God is clouded, should be relieved of responsibilities. Every church needs a clear, sharp testimony, giving the trumpet a certain sound.

“If we can arouse the moral sensibilities of our people on the subject of temperance, a great victory will be gained. Temperance in all things of this life is to be taught and practiced. Temperance in eating, drinking, sleeping, and dressing is one of the grand principles of the religious life. Truth brought into the sanctuary of the soul will guide in the treatment of the body. Nothing that concerns the health of the human agent is to be regarded with indifference. Our eternal welfare depends upon the use we make during this life of our time, strength, and influence.”—Id., Vol. VI, page 375.

“The light that the Lord has given on this subject in his Word is plain, and men will be tested and tried in many ways to see if they will heed it. Every church, every family, needs to be instructed in regard to Christian temperance. All should know how to eat and drink in order to preserve health. We are amid the closing scenes of this world’s history; and there should be harmonious action in the ranks of Sabbath keepers. Those who stand aloof from the great work of instructing the people upon this question do not follow where the Great Physician leads the way. ‘If any man will come after me,’ Christ said, ‘let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.’ Matt. 16:24.”—Id., page 378.

Chicago, Ill.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

By John Norton Loughborough

The Second Advent Movement — No. 12

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

The Adventists, by their study of the sanctuary, not only found out the error of the popular idea that the earth was the sanctuary, but learned much in regard to the judgment. They found that instead of the judgment of the righteous following the second advent, it came prior to that event, in harmony with the statement, “They which shall be accounted worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection from the dead,” etc. Luke 20:35. The accounting worthy must be done before they are raised. When the temple containing the ark should be opened, voices in heaven would be heard saying, It is “the time of the dead, that they should be judged.” Rev. 11:18. They found that the day of atonement—the cleansing of the sanctuary—was regarded by the Jews in their typical service as the day of judgment. This idea is clearly stated in Canon Farrar’s “Early Days of Christianity,” in these words: “So awful was the day of atonement that, as we are told in a Jewish book of ritual, the angels run to and fro in fear and trembling, saying, ‘Lo, the day of judgment has come.’”

In the Jewish Talmud it is stated: “On New Year’s Day [first day of the seventh month] three books were opened,—that of life, for those whose works had been good; another of death, for those who had been thoroughly evil; and a third (intermediate) for those cases to be decided on the day of atonement [ten days after New Year’s], the delay being granted for repentance or otherwise, after which their names would finally be entered in the book of life or in that of death.”—“The Temple,” page 295.

As to how the Jews now regard the day of atonement may be gained from the statements of their rabbis in announcing the day. In the Jewish Exponent, San Francisco, September, 1892, the day was thus announced: “The month of Elul [sixth month] is here, and the monitory sounds of the shophar are to be heard [on the opening of the seventh month] every morning in the orthodox synagogues, announcing preparation for the day of memorial and the final judgment of Yom Kippur.” Yom is day, and Kippur is atonement.

In 1902, Isidore Meyer, rabbi of a large congregation in San Francisco, thus announced the day of atonement: “While crossing the threshold of time from one year to another, the Israelite is forcibly reminded of the creation and of the universal sovereignty of the Creator, and is called upon to celebrate with blast of trumpet the anniversary, so to speak, of the birth of time and the coronation of the great King. He is also summoned by the same trumpet, or shophar, to scrutinize retrospectively his actions of the past year while he stands tremblingly before the all-seeing eye of Eternal Justice, sitting on the throne of judgment.”

As our brethren turned to the Scriptures on the subject of the judgment of God’s people, they found it placed before Christ’s actual coming, as in the case of Peter’s testimony, where he says: “Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. . . . But the end of all things is at hand.” 1 Peter 4: 5-7. And to those still on earth, in trial, he says: “If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf, for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” Verses 16-18.

Our people said: “Surely the decision of the cases of the righteous must be before the coming of Christ; for when the trumpet sounds, the righteous dead, with the righteous living, in the twinkling of an eye, are changed from mortal to immortality. 1 Cor. 15: 52. Their cases must be decided before they are raised. The work of examining the record of every case, and the blotting out of their sins in the cleansing of the sanctuary, must be the investigative judgment. So when we preached that the judgment would come at the end of the 2300 days, we preached the truth, although the event has come in a different manner from what we expected.”

After the tenth day of the seventh month Elder Joseph Bates’s attention was more especially drawn to the fact that in the advent proclamation of Revelation 14 there are three messages to be given. They had given the first and second, and there was a third to be given. In the third message, after warning against false worship, it was announced, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14: 12. This, to his mind, was the best of evidence that the message must be calling attention to some lack by the masses in obeying God’s commandments. As to the matter of false worship, the Bible commentators at that time were stating: “When a civil or an ecclesiastical enactment conflicts with the requirements of Jehovah, that power is worshiped whose commandments we obey in preference to the other. ‘To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey.’”

Brother Bates found that the papal church, which most commentators called the beast of Revelation, claimed that it was by them that the first day of the week had come to be observed in place of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. This showed plainly that the vital point in the message was the vindication of the Lord’s holy Sabbath. As he saw, by faith, the law of ten commandments in the ark in heaven, he zealously pressed on from place to place, wherever he could find those who had been in the former messages, showing them that this message was to follow in line with the other two, or as one translation reads, “The third angel went with them;” that is, with the other two. So here was a threefold warning. In giving the message, Brother Bates rehearsed past experiences and the present development of truth, showing a solid platform on which the disappointed ones might rally with the utmost confidence. So the message, like every other great work of God in the earth, small in its beginning, would surely triumph, and accomplish the Lord’s purpose respecting it.

Lodi, Cal.

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