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Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 44.

A Book for Everybody

Review and Herald

Nov 5, 1903

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Nov 5, 1903

A Book for Everybody

THE new edition of the “Story of Daniel the Prophet” has three features not contained in the former edition:—
First, included in the one hundred additional pages are eleven original illustrations, prepared expressly for this book.
Second, there is a diagram of the sanctuary with Scriptural references and notes, showing that every gospel truth centers in the sanctuary.
Third, over twenty-two hundred questions have been arranged, covering the contents of every chapter in the book. These are not intricate questions, yet will require study. The simply reading of the book will answer every question.
There are hundreds of our people who desire to do something to interest their own families and their neighbors in the study of the Bible and present truth, and would, if they knew how. The “Story of Daniel the Prophet,” with the additional questions, furnishes a means of doing this without arousing controversy. Gather the family together, let one read the questions, and the others read the book, giving the answers to the questions from the book. If further investigation is desired, study the references given on the margin of the book. These references, 4,040 in number, are quoted from every book in the Bible except 2 John and the book of Jude. These marginal references contain one eighth of the entire Bible, and treat upon every subject of present truth. In this way families will become interested not only in the book of Daniel, but in a general knowledge of the Scriptures.
Neighbors may be invited in to join your family study, or the study may be held at their homes. Thus the book becomes a self-educator to the one who asks the questions, and gives him an experience in holding Bible readings.
Thousands who are so situated that they can not canvass, or even distribute tracts and papers, may in this way be the means not only of saving their families, but of placing the light of present truth before thousands this coming winter.
Here is a work where the questions are prepared, answers may be read, and with the marginal references a study may be developed, not on any one point in particular, but on every phase of present truth, as God has given it in his Word, without arousing controversy. Controversy is something which should in all cases be carefully avoided.
One who has been reading the book writes: “We have been reading the book with great satisfaction in the home. Its story form of expression is so much more readable, and so much less liable to arouse controversy. We are delighted with it, and believe its circulation will mark a new era in the spread of these gospel truths to the world.”
Every Seventh-day Adventist family should have the book, and begin a regular course of reading at once in their families or in their neighborhoods.
The “Story of Daniel the Prophet” type, is a subscription book; price $1. It can be secured from agents, from your Tract Society, or from S. N. Haskell, South Lancaster, Mass.

At the Door

A NEW, profusely illustrated booklet, containing 45 engravings, illustrating in consecutive order the fulfilment of every prophecy in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21.
Each picture is accompanied by the verse of Scripture which it illustrates. In this way the whole story of Christ's second coming is made very attractive in appearance, and impressive.
Even the busy man or woman will be attracted by this little booklet, and will spend sufficient time with it to get Christ's Outline History of the World; for the reader of this little work can not fail to grasp the main facts of the whole message of the second advent at a glance.
It is an attractive booklet, proclaiming the coming King of kings, in the words of the Saviour himself, and each prophecy uttered is illustrated as fulfilled.
It is printed in beautiful photo-brown ink, in attractive covers, the best style being heavy paper covers, with beautiful enameled designs, and bound with silk cord. Prices, 15 and 25 cents.

Among the Best

About ten years ago the Review and Herald Publishing Company compiled a very interesting office book of testimonials from those who had read “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.” All of these thousands of readers testify that this book is among the best and most profitable that they have ever read.
In this age Daniel and the Revelation are the most important books in the Bible. A careful study of these books usually results in favorably impressing the reader with the principles of the truths of the third angel’s message; and the book, “Daniel and the Revelation,” being a critical, verse-by-verse study of these books of the Bible, is of great value in the study of these important prophetic Scriptures.
Notwithstanding the fact that there have been several hundred thousand of this book sold, there is a great demand yet for it, and almost every mail brings us orders for it. It would be a blessing if every family in the country could have a copy of “Daniel and the Revelation” in their library.
The prices of this book range from $1 to $4.50, according to the binding.

Our Paradise Home

THE third edition of 10,000 each, is now ordered. The last edition is nearly all gone.
This little messenger is not quite three months old, yet there are many who are appreciating it, and who are selling it to their neighbors and friends. It is a book “full of gems of truth,” and its general topics cover many of the cardinal principles of the message for this time. These are made so plain and impressive that the readers can easily understand them.
The way the book is selling is a good testimonial for it. It contains 128 pages, and is nicely illustrated with new pictures made especially for the book. Cloth bound, 50 cents; board, 25 cents.

Helps to Bible Study

THIS excellent book has just been revised and appropriately illustrated. It is a series of Bible readings, simple and easy, designed to be an aid to the personal study of the Scriptures, and adapted to the use of individuals or families. It would also be of valuable assistance to Bible workers. It contains about forty readings, prepared by practical Bible workers and teachers; and covers the most of the important subjects that pertain to the Scriptural welfare of mankind. Neatly bound in cloth, 50 cents; board covers, 25 cents.

Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation in Paper Covers

By Editor

THE edition of “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” in thin paper style, bound in paper covers, as Numbers 2 and 3 of the Berean Library, is now ready for delivery.
This edition is somewhat abridged, and is printed on thin paper, in small type, with illustrations. Yet the reading-matter is about the same as that of the regular subscription edition, and the postage is much less when it is sent by mail. It was printed and bound in this form to encourage a more general circulation. Price, 25 cents a volume, postpaid.

The Bible Text-Book

By O. A. Johnson

BY ELDER O. A. JOHNSON.
A COMPENDIUM of Bible subjects, bound in a neat and attractive form, and easy to carry in the vest or coat pocket.
The book contains forty-nine tersely written Bible readings on as many different subjects.
There are five charts, explaining difficult Scripture subjects; such as, “The Weekly and Yearly Sabbath,” “The Two Laws,” “The Week,” “The Seven Seals,” “The Seven Plagues,” and “The Millennium.”
Every minister, Bible worker, and church member should procure a copy at once. This book should have a wide circulation.
It contains 208 pages, table of contents, and general index of subjects; is bound in two styles of binding.
Price, in cloth, 30 cents; in leather, 50 cents.

What Others Say of the “Bible Text-Book”

By W. T. KNOX

OAKLAND, CAL.
Review and Herald Publishing Company,—
Bible students will find the new work, “Bible Text-Book,” a great help to them in the study of the vital topics of the Word of God. Although small in size, the work covers an extensive scope of Bible subjects, and develops present truth in a convincing manner.
W. T. KNOX.

Review and Herald Publishing Company,—

By I. H. EVANS

As a suggestive text-book for ministers, Bible workers, and Bible students, we know of none superior to “Bible Text-Book,” by O. A. Johnson. It covers a series of topics embracing nearly every doctrinal subject of the Word of God, as well as many practical lessons. It will be a great help to those who are either teaching or making a special investigation of Bible questions. Every seeker after truth should own one. I. H. EVANS.

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Helpless Humanity

By Editor

Editorial

Helpless Humanity

As a part of the message of comfort to Jerusalem, which is the message of final deliverance from Babylon, we are told that “all flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.” It is necessary to know this and to acknowledge this before we are ready to accept the abundant help which has been provided for the supply of our need. “They that are strong have no need of a physician, but they that are sick.” “When I am weak, then am I strong.” Our strength is only weakness, and our wisdom is only foolishness. We are “miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Helpless and undone, our only hope is in realizing our own wretchedness and our own inability to save ourselves or to overcome the foes within and without. There is hope for the weakest when he knows his weakness, and reaches out for strength. But vain is the help of man. “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah! . . . Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.” Our only hope is in God. “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” “Trust ye in Jehovah forever; for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.” Help has been laid upon One who is mighty, and helpless humanity will find deliverance in its helplessness by receiving him. “The Lord is the strength of my life.”

Days of Violence

THE condition of things on the earth just before it was destroyed by the flood in the days of Noah was referred to by our Lord as a prophecy of the condition of things just before the coming of the Son of man. “And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” In the days of Noah men thought first of themselves and the things of this world. “They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage.” “They sought only to gratify the desires of their own proud hearts, and reveled in scenes of pleasure and wickedness. Not desiring to retain God in their knowledge, they soon came to deny his existence. They adored nature in the place of the God of nature. They glorified human genius, worshiped the works of their own hands, and taught their children to bow down to graven images. . . . Whoever coveted the wives or the possessions of his neighbor, took them by force, and men exulted in their deeds of violence.” “The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” The daily record of the doings of men in our world now shows plainly that the days of Noah have returned. Pride and self-gratification are the ruling principles in many lives. Much more attention is given to outward display than to inward adornment. The “get-rich-quick” fever is destroying the old-time standards of the commercial world. The recent disclosures of the operations of some of the great trusts show how far leaders in financial affairs have departed from the paths of rectitude in their haste to pile up their millions. And with all the rest, the spirit of violence is increasing with alarming rapidity. Mobs “of the best citizens” take the law into their own hands, and wreak their vengeance upon other lawbreakers. Deeds of violence by the score are recorded in the daily press. Men are shot down with little provocation, and sometimes without any. Human life is held in light esteem. Love for God and man has little place in the hearts of many. It is plain that the perils of the last days are upon us, and the only deliverance is in “this gospel of the kingdom.” In these days of violence we should know and teach the gospel of the coming of the Prince of Peace. The coming of Jesus is the solution of the whole problem of sin.

The Light of Life

JESUS did not impart light to the world as something separate from himself. He himself, in his life among men, was the light. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” To those who were willing to follow him and to receive the gift, he freely gave himself to be their light. “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.” This light is not merely an intellectual keenness of perception, and it may shine even in those who do not possess great mental endowments. It is the light of life, and it is imparted as life, and it reveals itself in the life. This light must be lived, or it will be extinguished. We do not obtain it or retain it by a mere intellectual study of the Bible, although all ought certainly to study the Bible. There is no certainty that we have this light to-day simply because we had it at some time in the past, or because we occupy the positions of those who ought to have light. The one way and the only certainty of having light is to receive it as our life, and to let it shine in our experience with God and man. Willful sin will make the light dim, and finally extinguish it altogether. The faculties of the mind may remain just as strong as ever, but the ability to distinguish truth from error, and the power to move upon rebellious hearts to submit to God and to walk in the light, may all be lost by leading an unholy life. The light of life can not be handled as a commodity apart from ourselves and our own experiences. In order to be able to recognize new truth, we need to live the truth already revealed to us. In order to be saved from the errors unknown to us, we must shut out of our lives the errors already pointed out to us. Before we can say to others with authority, “Thou art the man,” we must have responded in ourlives to the voice which has said to each one of us, ‘Thou art the man.’ When we have failed to recognize the clear light of truth, or have been unable to detect gross error, we should turn the search-light upon our lives as well as upon the Bible. ‘If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!’ ‘While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light.’ ‘The Lord is my light.’

Brief Outline of the Sabbath Question

By W. A. S.

In Four Parts

No. 2—Sunday not the Sabbath

WHAT God says, not what men say, is to be received. A child who believes is wiser than the great man who does not believe. But here are a few statements, selected from many, showing that eminent scholars have freely admitted that there is no instruction in the Bible to keep Sunday, the first day. In some of these quotations the writers wrongly call Sunday the Lord's day. But remember that Jesus says he is Lord of the Sabbath day, the seventh day, and God calls that day, “My holy day.” So that not Sunday, but the Sabbath is the Lord's day:—
Archdeacon Farrar says:—
The Sabbath is Saturday, the seventh day of the week.
The late Dr. R. W. Dale, of England, the most eminent Congregationalist theologian of this day, said:—
It is quite clear that however rigidly or devoutly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath. There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.
Dr. Lyman Abbott, the leading Congregationalist of America, says:—
The current notion that Christ and his apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament.
Dr. Eyton, canon of Westminster (Church of England) says:—
There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands on exactly the same footing as the observance of Sunday.
The leading Methodist paper, New York Christian Advocate, says:—
Without doubt there is no text commanding the christening of babies, nor is there any commanding the substitution of the Lord's day for the Sabbath.
Principal Donaldson, LL. D., of Scotland, a leading Presbyterian, says in the Contemporary Review:—
There is no command in the New Testament to keep the Sunday.
Pastor E. T. Hiscox, D. D., author of the “Baptist Manual,” said before a Baptist ministerial meeting in New York:—
There is no Scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week. I wish to say that this Sabbath question, in this aspect of it, is in my judgment the gravest and most perplexing question connected with Christian institutions which at present claims attention from Christian people.
Cassell's “Bible Dictionary” (London) says:—
A very large class of persons, including a very considerable portion of English writers, as well as a great majority of German, agree in considering the first day's rest to be an ecclesiastical institution, and not a divine ordinance.
The famous Bishop Jeremy Taylor said:—
The primitive Christians did all manner of work upon the Lord's day [meaning Sunday], even in the times of persecution, when they are the strictest observers of all the divine commandments; but in this they knew there were none.
The Lord's day did not succeed in the place of the Sabbath . . . and the Lord's day was merely an ecclesiastical institution. It was not introduced by virtue of the fourth commandment, because they for almost three hundred years together kept that day which was in that commandment [Saturday].
Professor Brerewood, long ago professor in Gresham College, London, said:—
It is commonly believed that the Jewish sabbath was changed into the Lord's day by Christian emperors, and they know little who do not know that the ancient Sabbath did remain, and was observed by the Eastern churches three hundred years after our Saviour's passion.
It was not the “Jewish” sabbath. God calls it, “The Sabbath of the Lord thy God,” “My holy day,” and he asks us also to call the Sabbath “the holy of the Lord.” Isa. 58:13.
One of the leading organs of the Church of England, the Church Times, says:—
The Sabbath, “Dies Sabbati” (as still in Acts of Parliament), never meant anything but Saturday. Till the sixteenth century no Christian ever called “Sunday” the Sabbath. The great Lightfoot, a Puritan, says, “I have diligently searched the Fathers to find ‘Sabbath’ used in the sense of Sunday; would that I could so find it!”
The Church of England journal, Fireside News (London), quoting with comments, from the “Encyclopædic Dictionary,” says:—
“In the Middle Ages, Sabbath meant only Saturday. According to the elder Disraeli, it was first used in England for Sunday in 1554.” The Sabbatarians, or those who still keep the Christian Sabbath on Saturday, were not such a small sect as seems to be inferred, in the seventeenth century; and in the United States the sect have even now very many adherents.
Cardinal Gibbons (Roman Catholic) says:—
There is but one Protestant denomination in our country that lives up to our Protestant Bible, and that is the Seventh-day Adventist people. You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday.
The London Daily Telegraph (to quote one secular newspaper) says in a leading article:—
For the day of rest as a useful institution we have every respect. It can not be considered a divine ordinance, unless by the small sect of English Christians who observe Saturday. They and the Jews are the only people who obey the fourth commandment; all others deliberately violate it when they work on Saturday.
It is not that men who have investigated the matter do not know, but that, knowing there is no Scriptural authority for Sunday observance, they choose the easy pathway of custom and tradition. But Christ said: “In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. . . . Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.” Matt. 15:9, 13.
Now comes the message preparing the way of the Lord, that is to lay bare the true foundation. The standard of the Christ-life is to be lifted up before all the world:—
“Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” Isa. 62:10, 11.
In a word, there is no divine authority for keeping Sunday. The Lord our God made the seventh day his own holy Sabbath, or rest day. Men have set up a rival day. Now the Lord challenges Christians to decide whether his way or man's way shall be supreme in their lives. There is blessedness now and forever in the way of obedience in which Jesus walked as our example. Let us follow him.       W. A. S.

Elijah the Restorer

By L. A. S.

The spectacular crusade now being conducted in New York City by John Alexander Dowie, who assumes the title of Elijah II, affords striking testimony to the credulity and ignorance of the Scriptures which are characteristic of these times. Although the Bible was never so extensively circulated, and churches were never so numerous in the land, the prophetic statement is true that darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people. The human has been everywhere put in the place of the divine. Man’s word, man’s authority, has been substituted for the word and authority of God. Human interpretersof God’s Word have put themselves in the place of the divine Interpreter, the Holy Spirit. Thus the Word of God, while printed and circulated everywhere, is almost as effectually shut away from the people as it was during the Dark Ages.
Mr. Dowie claims to be the Elijah of the prophecy of Malachi. He comes to New York, assuming to be Elijah the restorer. But any one acquainted with this prophecy, and with the scriptures relating to its fulfilment, can not but note that these are in wide contrast with what is presented by Dowie and his crusade.
What a contrast between the personality of him whose work was in fulfilment of the prophecy in question, and that of him who now claims such honor for himself. John the Baptist was a man about whom there was no pomp and show whatever. As regards worldly possessions he had nothing. Dowie rolls in wealth. John the Baptist dwelt in the wilderness. Dowie finds a large city essential to the success of his enterprise. When the Pharisees came to John, and inquired, “Art thou Elias?” John answered, “I am not;” yet his work was a fulfilment of the prophecy of the coming of Elias to restore all things. Matt. 11:14; 17:10, 11. Dowie, unasked, points to himself and says, I am the Elias of the prophecy. There was nothing about John the Baptist to call attention to himself. He was not a great man from the world’s standpoint, nor a wealthy man, nor a politician, nor a financier, nor a promoter of business enterprises. Every circumstance about him testified that in his work his human personality counted for nothing. There was nothing to give him any glory or appearance of outward greatness. Remove the personality of Dowie from his work, on the other hand, take away from the movement which he heads the personal magnetism which brings people under its spell, take away the able leadership, the talent for organizing and financiering, the general executive ability displayed by “Zion’s” head, the picturesque figure which occupies the stage before his audiences, and his movement would at once shrink to insignificant proportions.
John the Baptist said of himself, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.” John the man was nothing; he took no title, accepted no honor, but simply set himself forth as being a voice crying in the wilderness. And in this he testified that the coming of Elijah to prepare the way of the Lord was not to be through any person who could point to himself and say, I am he, or who would even accept the title if men should be willing to grant it, but simply through the proclamation of the word of the Lord. The voice crying in the wilderness in John’s day was the word of the Lord which had been spoken through the prophet Esaias. The power of John’s preaching was not in John, but in the word, and there was all the more power in his preaching because he put into it nothing of himself, and did nothing to attract attention to himself. His message was the word of the Lord, and that alone. The human element was put wholly out of sight. Only the word of God alone, which is the mightiest thing in the world, could do the work necessary in John’s day to prepare the way of the Lord, and only that word alone can do such a work as will prepare the way of the Lord in this solemn hour when the end of all things is at hand. This is not a time for the exaltation of man; it is not a time when the work of God is to be carried forward in the wisdom and power of man. The voice crying in the wilderness, in fulfilment of the prophecy of the coming of Elijah to restore all things, said: “All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth; . . . but the word of our God shall stand forever. . . . O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!” Isa. 40:3-9.
The prophecy of the coming of Elijah the restorer will not be fulfilled in the person of any man; it will be fulfilled in the sounding forth of a message, the beginning of which was given by John the Baptist. It will be a message calling attention to no man, but saying to the people, “Behold your God.” The tendency of the times is to exalt man into the place of God; but God’s message for the times is, “Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come.” The Word of God to this generation calls upon men to return to the worship of God, and contains a solemn warning against the worship of the beast and his image. This is the work necessary to prepare the way of the Lord in this day. This is the message which is to restore all things in the church, and make ready a people prepared to meet their Lord. This is the message which is to fulfil the prophecy of the sending of Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of the Lord. L. A. S.

Scientific Paganism

By Editor

THE place of religious instruction in education is being discussed in many periodicals just now, and some of the daily papers are giving much space to letters upon this subject, accompanying them with editorials of various shades of opinion. A letter from a Catholic priest, published in the New York Sun, in which the writer opposes the division of the public money in the interest of the Catholic school system, has called out many other letters upon the same subject.
In an editorial dealing with the public school question and the position of those who oppose the teaching of religion in the schools, as urged by the Catholic Church, the Sun says:—
The only opponents of its view of duty who are consistent are the men who deny that Christianity is of supernatural origin and authority.
These people are pantheists. They may profess to admire Christianity, but actually for them it has no other foundation than pure superstition. They may talk about God, but it is not a personal God. It is force; it is Kosmos. If they were as honest with themselves as are Catholics, and as brave, they would say flatly that they are atheists, at least in a Christian sense, and that for them Christianity has no more authority than have the mythologies of paganism; that both are entitled to consideration only on the intrinsic and comparative merits of their moral philosophies.
Mr. Huxley coined the term agnostic in a spirit not creditable to him, for by it he sought to distinguish himself in the English Philistine mind from unfashionable infidelity, though he knew very well that the two terms mean substantially the same thing, express the same state of mind toward religion and supernaturalism. He was afraid to appear in his true colors, and resorted to a disguise of terminology easily penetrated by an educated mind. Of course, Don't Know is the very antithesis of faith in things unknown and unknowable, unseen and unseeable.
While we may not agree with the Sun in its position upon the matter of teaching religion in the schools, unless it has reference to those schools which are supported by private funds, and are not under State control, we do think that it has correctly set forth the real attitude of many scientists toward genuine Christianity. These men have evolved their own conception of God from their scientific investigations, instead of accepting the revelation which God has made of himself in the Bible, and this scientific idea of (to them) unknown power they designate as God, but it is not the personal God who is the author of Christianity. They are in reality little, if any, nearer the right conception of the true and living God than were the pagans who deified every different manifestation of power, and who therefore had “gods many, and lords many.” But the tendency of the modern advocates of Christianity to lean upon the opinions and influence of the world's great men instead of depending upon the power of the simple truth to make its own way in the hearts of the people, has finally led them to put science falsely so called above the Bible, and to give more weight to the interpretation of Christianity by atheistic scientists than to the revelation of Christianity by its Author. And the baleful influence of the higher criticism, as it has permeated and poisoned verymuch of the teaching of the Scripture, has prepared the way for all this. The higher critics are the miners and sappers for the scientific infidels who deceive the unwary by using the vocabulary of Christianity with which to inculcate their pagan notions. The time has now come when we must call things by their right names, and must remove the mask under which scientific infidelity is masquerading as the new light of the world, the messenger of an improved Christianity.
Satan has prepared his snare for these last days. The time has come when he is working “with all deceivableness of unrighteousness.” His final effort will be “to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.” Just now we should buy the eye-salve with which to anoint our eyes that we may see. With the clear light which is now shining, we ought not to be ignorant of Satan's devices. The principles of the third angel's message are the divine provision for detecting and exposing the most subtle forms of “doctrines of devils.” Hold to the message. Study the message. Teach the message.

Satan’s Last Stand

By W. A. S.

The hour has come for God’s work in the earth to be finished. The special effort of Satan to frustrate the forward movement called for at this time furnishes cheering, though in another sense, saddening evidence that the time can no longer be delayed.
The enemy can see as well as any down the shining advent pathway to the gates of the city of God. He can see that it is only a little way now; and there falls upon our ears the warning cry from heaven: “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
There are two advents before us, the coming of Satan in his final and crowning work of deception, and the coming of Christ in power and glory that shall literally consume the evil one’s counterfeit display. There are two gospels in the world, the gospel of preparation for the coming of the Lord, and the false gospel of preparation for the coming of Satan.
We need not expect that Satan will rightly label his wares. When he comes to deceive if possible the very elect, he will not come in his true colors. He is to come, in the name of philanthropy and religion, as the great humanitarian and healer and medical missionary, in a guise to win the hearts of all who have forgotten the waymarks to the city of God. And the gospel of Satan’s coming is preceding him, just as surely as the gospel of Christ’s coming is preparing the way of the Lord. The enemy’s gospel is sweeping over the world to-day, in religio-scientific phrase, preparing multitudes to hail him at last as the Christ of God. Truly it matters much which gospel a man is preaching, and under which standard we are marching.
It is startling to be brought face to face with a realization of the fact that the time has come when Satan is definitely preparing for his final act in the awful tragedy of deception and sin. We must not remain ignorant of his devices now; for he is knocking at our own doors. We have heard his gospel in our own public assemblies. He is the same who once in heaven dragged a third of the angels from the very throne of God down to destruction. By the same methods he is at work to-day.
But the shield of the faith of Jesus can quench every fiery dart. The clean heart gives the clear vision, with no admixture of the proud self-confidence that brings the snare. The simple advent message that has made us a people, and built up all there is in this great movement, will finish the work which our fathers began. The effort of the enemy to hold back this movement just now, and to throw the advancing ranks into confusion, is an added evidence that the set time has come to enter into the land.
With the Macedonian cry sounding from all the wide world, and a loyal people waking up and ready to respond in the greatest missionary campaign we have ever undertaken, we may ring out the good old advent hymn with a new inspiration,—
“The path to glory now is bright, The Bridegroom soon will come.”
W. A. S.

Who Will Respond at Once?

By Arthur G. Daniells

In last week's REVIEW the manager of the Southern Publishing Association at Nashville placed before our brethren and sisters the pressing needs of that institution for immediate financial help. That printing house was established in the South for the purpose of supplying that large, peculiar field with the special literature required to proclaim this message effectually in that part of the Lord’s vineyard.
The machinery and equipment mentioned in the manager’s article last week are necessary to carry out the purpose for which the office has been built. This expense was foreseen by the management months ago, and at the Oakland General Conference it was voted to assist our brethren in the South to get the means.
The purpose of this note is to speak a word in behalf of this enterprise. Shall we not help our brethren in that difficult field at once? Are there not brethren in the North who for years have been greatly prospered by the Lord, whose hearts are moved to share their blessings with our brethren in the South? The time has come for this message to go to the world, and for the work to be finished. Everything about us indicates that our work must soon close. This is especially true of the situation in the South. Within a few days I have received letters from two conference presidents in the Southern field, who state that they have witnessed things that show that a slight turn in affairs in the South could soon close our work there unless the Lord should work for them in a signal manner. O let us throw our all into this cause, and quickly finish the work God has given us! Let us do this without any more delay.
Donations may be sent to either the treasurer of the General Conference, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C., or the Southern Publishing Association, 1023 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn.
A prompt and liberal response will bring financial relief, courage to those struggling with the load, and more than all else, quicken the pace of this movement.
A. G. DANIELLS.
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