Earlier text: AN UNEXPECTED PRIZETHE missionary society at Tampa, Florida, numbers thirty-two active workers, who are engaged in an effort to visit every house in the city. FROM a private letter from one not of our faith we learn that our brethren in Ellicottville, N. Y., recently dedicated the handsomest church building in the place. THE church and mission house at 249 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was dedicated November 4. The same day Brother C. L. Taylor, a teacher in Mt. Vernon (Ohio) Academy, was ordained to the ministry. BROTHER T. D. WALLAR reports fourteen Sabbath keepers in Santa Cruz, Cal., with a very determined opposition on the part of the ministers of the city. Elder D. C. Hunter, who labored for a time in that place, has located at Gilroy. OF the work in Butte, Mont., Elder J. W. Watt writes to the Bivouac that the meeting hall is sometimes too small to accommodate those who desire to attend. November 11 eight were baptized, one of whom was a man 82 years old. Two were infidels when the meetings were commenced. A BAPTIST pastor in Athens, N. Y., says of "Bible Readings for the Home Circle:" "I would cheerfully commend this book. It is packed full of Bible learning, and is far better for common use than most commentaries." A Methodist minister at Vestal, N. Y., says: "It makes plain many subjects that are obscure to the general reader, and unfolds the prophetic portion so that all can arrive at an understanding of the 'sure word of prophecy.'"77 ELDER D. T. BOURDEAU reports the organization of a French church of twenty-three members at McDonald, Pa. He also reports the conversion of a half dozen heads of families among the Scotch miners in the same vicinity, and the organization of a Sabbath school of twenty-eight members. AT South Bolton, Quebec, November 11, an elder and deacon were ordained and two united with the church. Other additions have been made to the faith in Boynton, and other interested ones are reported by Elder J. B. Goodrich, who has charge of the work in that province. Elder H. E. Rickard notes the baptism of six at Cantley, five of whom united with the church at Buckingham. A GENERAL meeting is now in progress in New Zealand, the appointment having been set for November 23 to December 12. The Australian general meeting is appointed for December 29 to January 12. A change in the time of the Australian meeting was necessitated on account of the plans of Elder Olsen, president of the General Conference, who designs to spend the month of December in New Zealand and the month of January in Australia, returning from Melbourne to London direct. Once only shall I have to pass this way—
Only this once.
I may not come again another day,
May not recall the unkind words I say;
Let kindness, then, my words and actions sway,
That I may labor even as I pray,
"Thy kingdom come." Once only shall I have to pass this way—
And only this.
I may not choose myself another road;
Another may not bear for me my load;
I may not turn aside the chastening rod;
I cry, while casting all my care on God,
"Thy will be done." Once only shall I have to pass this way—
And only I.
And none may do the work I leave undone;
And none may run the race I should have run;
In me the battle must be lost or won;
Then finish, Lord, the work thou hast begun;
Thine be the praise. Fruitland, Oregon, Aug. 11, 1893. CHURCH SERVICES.
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"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."
—Neh. 8:8 LESSON XII.—SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1893.
# THE GLORIFIED SAVIOUR.
[NOTE.—The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text printed is that of the Revised Version, not because it is especially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.] 9. I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet saying,
11. What thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12. And I turned to see the voice which spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13. And in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.
14. And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15. And his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
16. And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword; and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the Living One;
18. And I was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of hades.
19. Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter;
20. The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.
Golden Text: "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name." Phil. 2:9. 1. What relation did John sustain to all to whom his epistle was addressed? Verse 9.
2. Where was he when he wrote the Revelation?
3. What reason does he give for being on this lonely isle?
4. When was he in the Spirit? Verse 10.
5. What day is the Lord's day?
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20:8-11.
"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." Isa. 58:13.
"Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Mark 2:28.
6. What did John hear?
7. What was this voice saying? Verse 11.
8. What command was given to the apostle?
9. To whom was he to send his writing? Note.
10. As John turned to see the speaker, what did he behold? Verse 12.
11. What are the seven stars and the seven candlesticks explained to be? Verse 20.
12. Whom did he see in the midst of the candlesticks? Verse 13.
13. How is the Son of Man described? Verses 13-16.
14. What effect did the glorious appearance of Christ have upon John? Verse 17.
15. How was the apostle comforted?
16. Who did Christ say he was? Verse 18.
17. What did he say of himself now?
18. What command was then repeated? Verse 19. The seven churches.—Not the particular seven named, but prophetic of the whole Christian church. It is not reasonable that John should send to those seven alone, for (1) the message implies the whole book, and the book is for all time; (2) the names of these seven churches are symbolic of the seven different stages of the Christian church; (3) the number seven denotes completeness, fullness, the seven symbolizing the entire church in the Christian dispensation. See Newton, Vitringa, and others, or "Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation." LESSON XI.—SABBATH, DECEMBER 16, 1893.
1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2. Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments.
3. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4. For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.
5. And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6. This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.
7. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. - Who is begotten of God?
- Can one love the Father and not love the children of God?
- How is it known that one loves the children of God?
- What is the love of God?
- What is the nature of his commandments?
- Who overcomes the world?
- What is the victory?
- On what point must faith be exercised in order to overcome the world?
- How did Christ come?
- What bears witness?
- For what reason?
1. VERSES 1-3.—The new birth is the condition of entrance to the kingdom (John 3:3), and it is a spiritual birth (verse 5). Man "must have a new life from above. This change is the new birth." To thus become children of God is granted to believers (John 1:12, 13) in Christ (Gal. 3:26). Such are children of promise (Gal. 4:28), being born of the word (James 1:18). Love to the brethren is a proof of conversion (1 John 3:14), and obedience to God is proof of love to the brethren, hence obedience is proof of conversion. There can be no true love apart from obedience (John 14:23), which is the highest form of worship. "If our hearts are renewed in the likeness of God, if the divine love is implanted in the soul, will not the law of God be carried out in the life? When the principle of love is implanted in the heart, when man is renewed after the image of Him that created him, the new covenant promise is fulfilled, 'I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.' Heb. 10:16. And if the law is written in the heart, will it not shape the life?" "If we abide in Christ, if the love of God dwells in us, our purposes, our actions will be in harmony with the will of God as expressed in the precepts of his holy law." God is love, and his law, "being an expression of the mind and will of God," "the transcript of the character of God," is founded upon love (Matt. 22:40) and fulfilled in love (Rom. 13:10). His commandments "are not burdensome" (Matt. 11:30) to those who have been set free from the bondage of sin (John 8:34-36), but rather a delight (Ps. 1:2). "The truth a bondage?—Yes, in one sense; it binds the willing souls in captivity to Jesus Christ." 2. VERSES 4, 5.—The greatest victories of the world have been gained through faith (Heb. 11:32-34) in Christ (1 Cor. 15:57), who was an overcomer (John 16:33), and "has given us the advantage of his victory, that we may be able to resist the temptations of the evil one." "We gain the victory through faith in Christ's power to save us." "This is the victory that hath overcome the world," is the reading of the Revised Version, thus making the victory an accomplished fact. "The Lord Jesus is making experiments on human hearts through the exhibition of his mercy and abundant grace. He is effecting transformations so amazing that Satan, with all his triumphant boasting, with all his confederacy of evil united against God and the laws of his government, stands viewing them as a fortress impregnable to his sophistries and delusions. They are to him an incomprehensible mystery. The angels of God, seraphim and cherubim, the powers commissioned to coöperate with human agencies, look on with astonishment and joy that fallen men, once children of wrath, are, through the training of Christ, developing characters after the divine similitude, to be sons and daughters of God, to act an important part in the pleasures and occupations of heaven." Only in him who "believeth that Jesus is the Son of God" can such a work as this be wrought. 3. VERSE 6.—Jesus came by water and by blood (John 19:34). "In the shed blood we see the sacrificed life of Christ, and in the water we see the Word and the Spirit of Christ. In the blood we see expiation made of sin, and through the blood we get remission of sins. Then comes the water to sanctify and cleanse us."—Rodgers. Blood and water were both used in the typical service (Lev. 14:6, 8) as symbols of cleansing. So we are cleansed by the blood (1 John 1:7), and by water, which is explained to be the word (Eph. 5:26, compare with John 15:3). SUBSCRIBE FOR THE "MEDICAL MISSIONARY."
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He mentions three things to which the American people are much attached and with which Leo is in accord: (1) The principles of self-government; (2) the honor and rights of labor; (3) a thirst for knowledge. Again the cardinal says: "I know that the great mass of the people have respect for the church, with its religious services and a moral code capable of gratifying every need of the human heart." Yet he is conscious that in the mind of some there is a "lurking suspicion" that they have some profound secret that will sometime be sprung unawares. He implores his brethren to "help to tear off this mask of suspicion." —A Mrs. Williams, a noted Christian Scientist of Portland, Oregon, is teaching that in order to be saved everyone must "go through the wilderness" by fasting forty days. On the 25th inst. a family of her dupes were taken into court. The husband and wife stated that they had lived on crackers and wine for thirty-one days, and for six days had taken nothing. The three children, aged 7, 5, and 3 years, had been for thirty-one days on crackers and water. The father had formerly earned $80 per month, but when he embraced the Williams faith some months ago he quit work. The court gave the children to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society, but the superintendent returned the youngest to the parents, with the understanding that it should receive proper nourishment. —The Harbinger, of San Francisco, states, "on what seems to be good authority," that the Catholics "have been organizing their young men into military companies, until it is said that they now have in this country a trained army of 700,000 men. All this they have been doing while Protestants have been calmly sleeping and trusting in some good providence to protect them." Now what would the Harbinger have the Protestants do, arm themselves also, and stop "trusting in some good providence"? If they are really trusting in a good providence, they do well. But the trouble is, they have trusted so long to the influence of this "Christian nation" to convert Catholicism, that they themselves have been drawn into making a Church and State image to the papal structure. —The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) is assailing the Cleveland Administration because of a lack of consideration of the Catholic Indian schools. Under Mr. Cleveland's former administration the matter of government assistance to sectarian Indian schools received unprecedented encouragement, but the Catholics received considerably more money than all other denominations. This aroused the ire of the Protestants, and they suddenly discovered that the principle was wrong, decided to cease asking for government help, and to oppose further appropriations to the Catholics. The Harrison administration attempted to carry out the new idea, but was not altogether successful, and this attempt is openly alleged to have been an effective cause of Mr. Harrison's defeat. Now, however, the Catholics seem to be dissatisfied because they do not receive what they deem their full share of the spoils. Although the assistant commissioner and the chief clerk of the Indian Bureau are Catholics, the Journal is complaining that Catholics are not receiving fair play. It is the old story of the camel with its head in the tent trying to force in its whole body. —Six Anarchists have been arrested at Buenos Ayres for plotting against the lives of public officials. —A great fire occurred in Hannibal, Mo., on the 25th inst., sweeping several blocks. The estimated loss is $350,000. —Three Anarchists were arrested near Grenada, Spain, for exploding a petard against the house of a government official. —A Boise, Idaho, dispatch says that the general of the army has recommended that the barracks at that place be abandoned. —A point near Nanaimo, B. 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M., states that the Mexican revolutionists and government troops have had another battle, between Ascencion and Palomas, resulting in the defeat of the government forces with heavy loss. —A late Guthrie, Oklahoma, dispatch says that the chief of the Osage Indians has issued an edict ordering all negroes to leave the reservation, stating that after thirty days any of that race found within his jurisdiction will be given fifty lashes. —Judge Pritchard, of Los Angeles, Cal., in a recent decision of a libel case, held that a newspaper may denounce a candidate for election in most unmeasured terms, provided the denunciation is accompanied by reasonable proof of its truth. —The Italian minister of foreign affairs is said to have advised that there be no further emigration to the United States on account of the economic conditions prevailing here. This advice is based on reports of Italian consuls at San Francisco and New York. —The new premier of Austria has announced the intention of the government to bring about extensive electoral reforms, conferring the franchise upon classes hitherto deprived of it, especially upon working men. A similar move was inaugurated by the cabinet that recently retired. —The police of Algiers recently raided a number of houses in the European quarter, and found a large quantity of Anarchist pamphlets and documents, which revealed a plot to blow up the French Law Court and the new mosque. A quantity of bombs and other explosives were also seized. —At Springfield, Mass., on the night of the 21st inst., fire destroyed property to the value of $800,000. The same night, at St. Louis, a fire on North Main Street caused a loss of $150,000. At the same time $50,000 worth of property was burned in Newbern, Tenn., and in this disaster three men were burned to death. —Thirty unemployed men were arrested on the 24th inst., at Cajon, San Bernardino County, Cal., while endeavoring to compel the trainmen of a freight train to carry them free. They had beaten their way from Los Angeles to Colton, walked to San Bernardino, failed to get on a freight train there, and walked on to Cajon. They were endeavoring to get into Arizona, where they expected to get work on the Prescott and Santa Fe Railroad. —The Red Cross Society has undertaken the task of supplying the necessities of the inhabitants of the islands adjacent to Port Royal, S. C., who were left destitute by the great storm a few weeks past. There are about 20,000 of these people whose houses and crops were utterly destroyed, and they must be assisted until another crop can be raised. Congress, at the late special session, was asked for an appropriation to aid in the work, but no action was taken. —A party of hunters, composed of the son of General Carlin, U. S. A., and three others, who have been hemmed in by snow in the Bitter Root Mountains, Mont., for two months, were found last week by a rescue party, in a most forlorn condition. They were 150 miles from any habitation, and almost crazed with cold and hunger. They were without horses, and almost barefoot. One of the party had given out and was supposed to be dead, as all the others would have been in another day or two at most. —The police of Barcelona, Spain, have at last discovered the headquarters of the Anarchists in that city, from which all the movements of that element in the country have been directed. Large quantities of chemicals used in making bombs, besides loaded and unloaded bombs, firearms, and Anarchistic literature, were secured, also documents incriminating persons in Spain, France, and Italy. A dispatch of the 22d inst. says over 200 hundred arrests have been made, and many other implicated parties are endeavoring to flee from the country. —It has been denied that the Brazilian rebels contemplate the restoration of the monarchy. The latest reports are that fighting continues between the insurgent fleet and the bay forts which guard the harbor of Rio Janeiro, and that one of the best ships in the rebel service had been sunk. The remaining two that are at all formidable are separated, one being outside and the other inside the harbor forts. It is expected that when the government's new fleet, recently fitted out at New York, arrives at Rio, the rebellion will be soon ended. —Henry S. Cochran, late chief weigher at the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, has been convicted of the theft of $158,000 worth of gold bullion. He had been a trusted employe for forty-three years, and when a shortage was discovered in a lot of bullion which had not been molested for many years, he displayed so much zeal in the investigation that he drew suspicion to himself. When he saw that he was suspected, he confessed. His peculations had covered a period of about eight years, but about $100,000 worth had been taken within a few days of the discovery, in September last, and was all recovered. The tendency of the religion of to-day is toward self and self-glorification. For instance, in a paragraph in one of our most spiritual monthlies is the following sentence regarding the saints in their eternal home:— All are glorified, and each one will rejoice in his own particular glory without envying another's, but the glory of all cannot be alike. 1 Cor. 15: 41.
Now the fact is that not one soul saved will rejoice in his own particular glory. He has none except what has come to him through Christ. Christ is all glorious, and the varied glory of the saints will be Christ's glory in them. There will be no rejoicing over personal attainments, no boasting over personal glory, no envy in all that throng, solely because each and all will ascribe all glory and praise to Christ, and each will rejoice in all others. "THE IDENTICAL SEVENTH DAY."
By Editor
THE above heading is the title of No. 114 of the Bible Students' Library. Its object is to show that the present seventh day of the week is identical with the seventh day of creation week. The subjects considered in the tract are: The Sabbath from Creation to Moses, The Sabbath from Moses to Christ, The Sabbath Since Christ, The Round World, The Day Definite, The Seventh Part of Time. The whole subject covers in one tract of 16 pages what was formerly treated in three tracts aggregating 64 pages. Lost time, the seventh part of time, and the round world objections are, we believe, all met in this tract to every candid mind. It has before been advertised for three cents, but it is only two cents. Address Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.