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Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 22.

A Lull in Life

Review and Herald

May 29, 1913

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 29, 1913

A Lull in Life

By Frances Ridley Havergal

FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL
Many a voice has echoed the cry for “a lull in life,” Fainting under the noontide, fainting under the strife. Is it the wisest longing? Is it the truest gain? Is not the Master withholding possible loss and pain?
Perhaps, if he sent the lull, we might fail of our heart’s desire!
Swift and sharp the concussion striking out living fire, Mighty and long the friction resulting in living glow, Heat that is forced of the Spirit, energy fruitful in flow.
What if the blast should falter, what if the fire be stilled, What if the molten metal cool ere the mold be filled? What if the hands hang down when a work is almost done? What if the sword be dropped when a battle is almost won?
Art thou patiently toiling, waiting the Master’s will For a rest that never seems nearer, a hush that is far off still? Does it seem that the noisy city never will let thee hear The sound of his gentle footsteps drawing, it may be, near?
Does it seem that the blinding dazzle of noonday glare and heat Is a fiery veil between thy heart and visions high and sweet? What though “a lull in life” may never be made for thee? Soon shall a better thing be thine, the Lull of Eternity!
— Selected.

“Vacation,” “Tobacco,” AND “Tuberculosis” Number

By Editor

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How a Vacation Paid for Itself Relief of Headache
Preventive Vaccination Against Tuberculosis How to Help Indigestion
History of Tobacco Using (Illustrated) Cartoon: “Baby in Hot Weather”
Echoes From “Child Labor” Conference Meat Eating and Appendicitis
The Baby’s Second Summer Questions and Answers Department
How the Body Repels Disease A New Department: “Recent Health Articles in Other Magazines.”
That “Dragged Down” Feeling Vegetarian Hot-Weather Salads
Misuse of the Refrigerator Fifty-three Other Articles and Items
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“A Mouth Speaking Great Things and Blasphemies”

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Full Proofs Justifying This Bible Definition of the Papacy Found in This “Papal Blasphemies” and “Convent Tragedy” Number! (See Rev. 13: 5)
Centuries ago, by divine inspiration, the prophet Daniel and the apostles Paul and John drew three clear-cut pen pictures of the Papacy (Dan. 8; 2 Thess. 2; Rev. 13). Note how the papal utterances in this number fulfil these Bible prophecies.
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A World Message

By Editor

How the work of God has grown in our comprehension! Repeatedly we have had to enlarge our vision and revise our plans and methods to meet the growing demands of the message of truth. When we realized years ago that the threefold message of Revelation 14 was meeting its fulfilment in this movement, we failed to comprehend the full significance of a message that was to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. Some of the old pioneers tell of the meager ideas that they had, and how the vision of a world-wide movement gradually unfolded to them.
But this Conference gathering, above any which has ever preceded it, bears witness to the fulfilment of the prophetic forecast. In the representatives of our world-wide work the ends of the earth are brought together. In the Conference assembly of three thousand people, are men and women from India, Korea, Burma, China, Japan, from the various sections of the African continent, from the great European field, from the West Indies, from Central America, Mexico, and the states of South America, from Australasia and the islands of the sea. And every missionary has a testimony of victory.
Difficulties are reported without number. Mountain-like obstacles have hedged up the way. Our workers have had to cope with unknown tongues, with strange social systems, with orders of castes, with pestilence, famine, and disease. Some of their associates have fallen in death, but they have closed up the ranks and pressed forward. A truly noble and heroic band of workers are the men and women who have gone out into the regions beyond to carry to those in darkness the glad news of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour. Surely they are deserving of our hearty support. Recreant would we be to our trust were they left without the necessary means to provide proper food and shelter and raiment for their temporal needs as they press the battle to the gate. We who are left to abide by the stuff must furnish the sinews of war whereby our representatives may go forth equipped for the battle.
The earnest appeals of our missionaries as contained in this number of the REVIEW and as printed in the Bulletin, should arouse us to renewed earnestness. We begin to see the revealings of God's power; we shall live to see, before the work closes, his great salvation extended to the ends of the earth. Let us be true to the trust committed to us.

Our Responsibility

By Editor

How Will We Respond?

THE responsibilities of Seventh-day Adventists will be greatly increased as the result of this General Conference. In a vivid and striking manner have the representatives of the church been brought face to face with the conditions confronting us in giving to every nation the everlasting gospel. The crying needs of our great cities, of the heathen world, and of Catholic countries particularly, have been brought before the delegates and the large congregation in forcible appeals. The call for consecrated men and women to give themselves to the finishing of the work, the call for further means to supply the necessary equipment, has been sounded. And even above this call for men and means has come the call of Heaven, through those who have ministered in word and doctrine, to a new consecration.
What response will be made to these appeals? The response in the way of missionary offerings and of consecrated workers will be largely contingent upon the response made by the call for a new consecration, and this, after all, is the greatest need. In fact, the response to this call will carry with it the response to every other call in the cause of God. It is willing service that God can abundantly bless.
Read on another page in this number with the striking words of Elder I. H. Evans, the vice-president of the Asiatic Division of the General Conference, under the heading “Zeal for God in Finishing His Work.” Well does Elder Evans ask, How can this work ever be finished in this world and we go home to glory unless this church arouses itself, and we have a mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God upon us to fit us for service? If the time has not come now in the history of this work to place all upon the altar of God, when will that time ever come? How many years can we continue to increase our bank-accounts, to add farm to farm, to spend all the means we can obtain in erecting fine houses and providing ourselves with creature comforts?
We believe indeed, with all our hearts, that the time has been reached in God's providence when a mighty wave of consecration should sweep over this people and take possession of every heart. The first love needs to be revived in many souls, the former simplicity of living which once characterized this people should be resumed. The old-time simplicity of faith and zeal in personal missionary labor for souls, should possess every heart.
Some lives have lost the spirit of the message. They hold it only in form; their hearts are turning back into Egypt and after the things of the world. The resources of heaven await our demand and reception; the heavenly intelligences stand ready to cooperate with us. Let us relate ourselves to God by the surrender of self, the forsaking of sin, and the consecration of all upon the altar of service. Then he can work through us, and use us in the accomplishment of his design and purpose in our lives.

Our Assurance

By C. M. S.

THERE are many encouraging developments in connection with the progress of this work throughout the world. But nothing that we are today seeing with our own eyes is more encouraging to us than the assurance from God himself that this work will triumph.
It is not an uncommon thing for men to undertake a work of whose success they cannot possibly be certain. Not so with this. As truly as God is, the message committed to this people will be proclaimed to all tongues and tribes and nations; and when that is done, the reign of sin will be brought to a close, and the eternal kingdom of righteousness will be set up in the earth.
It is a great privilege to be connected with a work whose success is made certain by the fiat of God, and whose successbrings with it the fruition of the Christian's hope. As Elder O. A. Olsen said, “This message is stronger and firmer than ever in the past. It has weathered every storm that has beaten upon it, and will continue to do so till the end.”
C. M. S.

Abiding by the Stuff

THERE are thousands of devoted Seventh-day Adventists who for various reasons have been prevented from attending the representative gathering of the church at the General Conference. They were compelled to stay by the stuff, to be the keepers at home and of home and local interests. Their hearts, however, are with their brethren in the Conference, and many times do they direct prayers to the great Father above, asking him to give divine wisdom in the important problems that shall be considered. Eagerly do they welcome the reports of the meetings which come to them through the Bulletin and the REVIEW.
It was a law in Israel in the days of David that the ones who abode by the stuff should share equally with the ones who went forth to war. This is a heaven-born principle, and we believe that God recognizes its application at the present time. The faithful mother and housewife who must abide at home will share equally with her husband who goes forth to labor for others. The faithful conference worker who must remain to look after local interests will share with the more favored one who is chosen to represent his field as a delegate. The lonely worker in the mission field who must remain to look after the interests of the work will be remembered by the Lord of the harvest equally with the one who is favored in being permitted to visit the home land.
Let all remember this, and let every soul remember also that the blessing of God is not confined to the General Conference. God is as near his people today in Africa, in Asia, in South America, in Australia, in the remote islands of the sea, as he is to the representatives of the church assembled in Conference. There are no geographical centers of divine influence. Every one, without reference to place or circumstance, will be given of God freely that for which he seeks. Hence, from all parts of the world let there arise a general chorus of prayer and praise and supplication. Our blessed Lord by his Holy Spirit is near wherever we are. We have only to invite his blessed presence in order to enjoy his companionship.

Encouraging Discomfiture

THIS is the term by which the editor of the Word and Way of April 17 denominates the situation prompting an editorial in a recent number of the Brewers' Review:—
The challenge has been sounded. The death-grapple has begun. Is the brewing trade going to allow itself to be strangled to death? That is the question before the trade. The passage of the Webb bill by Congress has demonstrated that the last great stage of the fight of one-half century has been entered upon. The small but well-defined army of the enemies of happiness, liberty, health, and morality, terrorizes our public men to that degree that Congress voted 240 against 60—100 not voting—to outlaw the drink traffic in interstate commerce. . . . The greatest blow has been struck, and struck successfully. It has been demonstrated that the enemy is in possession of the citadel of the nation. . . . Prohibition is no longer a local issue. The last stage has been reached. Prohibition is a national danger. . . . The enemy has shown that he is the controlling power in Washington. . . . The enemy is not resting on his laurels. He is already marching forward to the next battle, and he knows what the next step is.
The editor of this liquor journal is evidently deeply concerned over the situation of the liquor traffic. Let us hope and pray that his greatest fears with respect to this unholy traffic will be fully realized.

A Great Need

By C. M. S.

ONE of the greatest needs of this people at this time is greater zeal for the accomplishment of the work. Elder I. H. Evans said, in his first sermon at the General Conference: “If we had the zeal that God wants us to have, we could accomplish a mighty work in the world in a very little while. The cause of God needs men who are wholly given to God, whose hearts are on fire with the message. When the church as a body has that experience, then God can use each individual member as a living instrumentality to carry on his great closing work. It is now the night of time; the Lord is coming soon; and yet many of our people are not willing to give themselves and their children to God for service. Every son and daughter ought to be on the altar ready to go where God calls.”
When that time is reached, we shall not have to wait long for the consummation of our hope. Our slowness in reaching that point is delaying the work of God; while millions are dropping into their graves without a hope in Christ.
C. M. S.

Note and Comment

The Story of Adam and Eve Discounted

AND now comes the Pacific Christian Advocate, the representative of Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast, through its contributor Rev. George H. Bennett, throwing its influence in favor of that subtle infidelity known as the higher criticism, which discounts the Bible record of creation. Says Dr. Bennett: “The story of Adam and Eve is a beautiful allegory, as also is the story of Santa Claus which we relate to our children.”
It is to be regretted that Christian journals and Christian ministers should lend their influence to the propagation of a belief which in fact as truly sets at naught the Scriptures of Truth as do the open avowals of professed skeptics.

Wealthy Men in the United States

The Washington Post of April 8 copied from the New York World the following list of wealthy men in the United States, giving their estimated wealth and annual incomes:—
CAPITAL INCOME
John D. Rockefeller $500,000,000 $50,000,000
Andrew Carnegie 300,000,000 15,000,000
William Rockefeller 200,000,000 20,000,000
Estate of Marshall Field 120,000,000 6,000,000
George F. Baker 100,000,000 5,000,000
Henry Phipps 100,000,000 5,000,000
Henry C. Frick 100,000,000 5,000,000
William A. Clark 80,000,000 4,000,000
Estate of J. P. Morgan 75,000,000 7,500,000
Estate of E. H. Harriman 68,000,000 3,400,000
Estate of Russell Sage 64,000,000 3,200,000
W. K. Vanderbilt 50,000,000 2,500,000
Estate of John S. Kennedy 65,000,000 3,250,000
Estate of John J. Astor 70,000,000 3,500,000
W. W. Astor 70,000,000 3,600,000
J. J. Hill 70,000,000 3,500,000
Isaac Stephenson 74,000,000 3,700,000
Jay Gould estate 70,000,000 3,500,000
Mrs. Hetty Green 60,000,000 3,000,000
Estate of Cornelius Vanderbilt 50,000,000 2,500,000
Estate of William Weightman 50,000,000 2,500,000
Estate of Ogden Goelet 60,000,000 3,000,000
W. H. Moore 50,000,000 2,500,000
Arthur C. James 50,000,000 2,500,000
Estate of Robert Goelet 60,000,000 3,000,000
Guggenheim estate 50,000,000 2,500,000
Thomas F. Ryan 50,000,000 2,500,000
Edward Morris 45,000,000 2,250,000
J. O. Armour 45,000,000 2,250,000
The name of Frederick Weyerhauser, of St. Paul, the “lumber king,” does not appear in the above list. He is regarded as one of the wealthiest men in the country. He owns, it is said, 60,000 square miles of standing trees, and it has often been stated in print that he is “richer than Rockefeller.”
In the $25,000,000 to $35,000,000 class, yielding incomes of $1,250,000 to $1,750,000, are James Stillman, J. H. Schiff, Charles M. Pratt, J. H. Flagler, Quincy A. Shaw, E. T. Bedford, E. T. Stotesbury, John Claflin, Henry Walters, E. C. Converse, Clarence H. Mackay, Nathaniel Thayer, W. H. Moore, and the estates of H. H. Rogers, Robert Winsor, George Smith, W. B. Leeds, W. Scully, John Arbuckle, J. Crosby Brown, John F. Dryden, W. L. Elkins, and O. H. Payne.
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