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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 52.

C. M. SNOW

Review and Herald

Dec 27, 1906

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 27, 1906

C. M. SNOW

By C. M. Snow

Consummation

C. M. SNOW

*Speed on Thy truth, eternal One, Thy holy law proclaim, Till every land beneath the sun Has heard Jehovah’s name. We own, O Lord, Thy sov’reign power, And bow before Thy throne To sing Thy glories in this hour, Immortal God alone.*
*Thy truth shall stand, unchanging God, Long as the ages roll, Though trampled oft where sin has trod, And error chained the soul. Arise and shine, ye chosen band, Ye people, scattered, few; No work so high, so deep, so grand, Has e’er been given you.*
*We near that hour of calm surcease From sorrow, death, and sin, That brings the weary one release And ushers heaven in. Awake, arise, arise and shine; Proclaim His truth abroad; It is thy Saviour’s work and thine, Thou messenger of God.*
*We sing Thy praise, eternal Lord, Thy glorious truth proclaim. Thy mandate is a shield and sword; Thy word a living flame. Long as the years of earth shall roll— Long as eternity— We’ll bow to Thy benign control, And worship only Thee.*
Takoma Park, D. C.

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The New Time in Mexico

By William A. Spicer

The workers and believers gathered in this Catholic land also bear witness to the fact that this is a time of new power and fruitage in the work of the advent message. What does it mean that this witness is borne just at this time in the most difficult fields? in such a land as Catholic Mexico, where the work has formerly seemed to go so very slowly?
It can mean nothing else than the fulfilment of the word that came to us by the spirit of prophecy about two yearsago, that the time for the enlargement and growth of God's people had come.
It has come in Mexico, and the hearts of workers and believers rejoice to see the day. During the last year thirty-five are reported as having accepted the truth in this land. It is not a large number, it is true. But it represents a growth among the Mexicans in this one year equal to that of all the twelve or thirteen years previous.
The literature scattered is bringing fruit. Workers are being raised up. Little groups of new believers are promise of similar fruitage elsewhere as the seed is sown and interests followed up. By the blessing of the Lord Mexico has swung into the ranks of Catholic fields able to report a growing and aggressive work.
The results have come by methods which have proved successful in every other land. These new interests spring generally from the circulation of literature. The Mexican paper, filled with the message, has been scattered and sold. As people have read it, their hearts have responded. In one place a little group of Mexicans were found already keeping the Sabbath, as the result of reading, before the living preacher reached them.
These things encourage our brethren to continue the colporteur and canvassing work in all parts of Mexico. Good work has been done the past year, though more colporteurs are needed. It has been demonstrated that subscriptions can be taken for the paper in all parts. One Mexican brother has taken about twelve hundred during the last year. We must help this mission to increase its staff of colporteurs as men able to do the work are found.
Only a few years ago our missionary geography of Mexico knew but the one word, Guadalajara. Then Mexico City was added. Now we must learn a new geography of the country. There are representatives of the truth also in Torreon and Gomez Palacio, in San Luis Potosi, Tampico, Monterey, Ameca, Ceylaya, Cuautla, and one or two other points.
Our conference is only opened in Mexico City, but it needs only a first Sabbath spent with these people and workers to recognize the true spirit of the message. There is a company of thirty in the city. They have a meeting-place in the very heart of this great capital, on one of the busiest streets. With delegates from other parts, we had fifty-six at the first Sabbath meeting. Others are coming later.
Of a truth the Lord is visiting our work in Mexico with the same refreshing from on high that is reviving hearts in other fields, and preparing honest souls to receive the truth.
This talk of a new time in this work is not mere talk to say something encouraging. The definite results of the work done and the new aspect of affairs in the darkest fields demonstrate that a divine power has laid hold of things, and that the time of harvest has come.
W. A. S.
Mexico City.

Editorial Letter

Jottings from the Editor's Note-Book on a Trip Around the World

It is my purpose to relate in a simple manner some of my experiences on this my second missionary journey around the world. The circumstances and reasons which have led to this trip have already been stated by Brother Daniells in a recent issue of the REVIEW, and therefore do not need to be repeated here.
It is just ten years this month since I arrived in America from my first round-the-world journey. Then I spent nearly all the time in the southern hemisphere,—in Australasia and South Africa,—but my visits this time will be confined wholly to the northern half of the globe. A brief statement of my proposed itinerary is as follows: about three weeks in Japan, a week in Korea, two months in China, calls at Manila and Singapore, a few days in Burma, and about two weeks in India. With between two and three months spent on shipboard to cover the long distances, these visits will occupy about six months. This is a very short time in which to become acquainted with the work in these important fields, but it seems necessary to reach Switzerland in time to attend the council of the General Conference Committee, which will be held there in May, in order that a report may be submitted at that time, and intelligent plans laid for the more rapid advancement of the message in the far East. The reason for the short stay in India will be clear when it is remembered that Brother G. B. Thompson is now on his way to that country with Brother J. L. Shaw and his party, where he will spend nearly all the time until the meeting of the council in May. As I must necessarily go to Europe via Colombo, it seemed better to journey through India rather than to sail by it, and thus to get at least a glimpse of that field.
The next day after leaving Washington I spent at Mount Vernon, Ohio. Here I met Brethren Miller and Gibson, whose sons, Dr. H. W. and Esta Miller and Orva Gibson, are now in China. It was a privilege to carry a breath of the home atmosphere to these young men in a far country, for however intense the missionary zeal may be, we ought never to forget the fathers and mothers who toil and pray in the home land, and thus sustain the workers at the front. In the afternoon a good audience gathered in the college chapel, and I spoke for an hour concerning the extension of our work in all lands. Mount Vernon is well represented in “the regions beyond,” and the brethren and sisters take a lively interest in the progress of the message throughout the world. They think of Brother and Sister Field in Japan, of the Brethren Miller and Gibson in China, of Brother Wakeham in England, and of others in other places as their personal representatives, and this stimulates their own zeal for the furtherance of the closing message both at home and abroad. A missionary meeting is a good place to such a church.
As a companion on the journey from St. Paul to Vancouver I had a missionary to China who is returning after a furlough. He is connected with what is known as the China Inland Mission,—the movement organized by Hudson Taylor,—which has about six hundred missionaries and nearly a thousand native workers scattered through fifteen provinces. This brother and I have been assigned to the same room on the ship to Japan, and I hope we may have a profitable time together. Two missionaries—friends of his—are also going on the same ship with us.
Sister Schaffenberg, of Wisconsin, who goes out as a Bible worker for Korea, and Sister Hattie Harriman, who goes to Japan as a nurse from the Boulder Sanitarium, have joined me at Vancouver, and so we shall have quite a band of Christian workers on the ship. I hope we may have opportunities to witness for the truth.
This letter is written on the morning of the day of sailing, and my next letter will be sent from Japan, as there is no port of call between this place and Yokohama. I invite all the readers of the REVIEW to pray for the work in the fields to which I go.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Dec. 5, 1906.

Some Beholds!

By Editor

Editorial

Some Beholds!

“BEHOLD your God! Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him.” “Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my Spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.” “Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.” “Behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.” “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.” “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.” “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” “Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” “And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” O that all might behold him in peace in that day!

Christ and the Law

By C. M. S.

THERE is only one final authority in the universe, and that is God. There is only one Saviour of men, and that is Christ. There is only one standard of Christianity, and that is the Word of God, the Word made flesh.
Christ is frequently and persistently accused of abolishing the law, and removing it as a yoke of bondage from our necks. It is certainly worth while to consider what his attitude was, and what would have been the result of his doing what he is accused of doing.
He who is “the Word made flesh” declares of himself: “Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.” Ps. 40: 7, 8. He further declares, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me.” John 4: 34. Of his teachings he said, “My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.” John 7: 16. Of the words which he spoke he declared: “The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.” John 14: 24. The works which he did he declared to be the works of the one who sent him. His whole ministry was the ministry of reconciliation—not to reconcile God to man, but that man might be reconciled to God. Had it been necessary to remove the law to make a reconciliation possible, it would have been an admission on the part of God that God himself was responsible for man’s not being reconciled to him; and that when God removed his barrier, the reconciliation was speedily accomplished.
Christ’s work of bringing about the reconciliation of men to God necessitated a perfect oneness between the Sender and the One sent. It necessitated also that the One sent should not set up his own way and will, nor institute laws and ordinances in opposition to the laws and ordinances of him who sent him. Otherwise the One sent would also need to be reconciled to the eternal One, and he would have nullified his own mission, and made the breach between God and man wider than it was before.
In heaven one who had greater faith in his own greatness than in God’s goodness and wisdom sought to abolish the law of God and set up laws of his own; and the load of sin under which the world—nay, the universe—groans to-day is the result of that work of the one-time covering cherub who sought to rule for himself, and make laws of his own, without regard to God—in spite of God.
Notwithstanding that fact, and in the plain light of the consequences of that act, our Lord Jesus Christ is continually accused—and by those who profess to honor him—of doing the same thing, of setting up a law of his own, and thus supplanting the law which God had written with his own finger upon the hearts of men. And that accusation is made in spite of our Saviour’s own emphatic declaration recorded in Matt. 5: 18: “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled;” or as expressed in Luke 16: 17, “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.”
That was the uncompromising position which Christ himself took. It was the only position he could take and be man’s Redeemer. He set up no law of his own in opposition to the law of the Father; he set up no will but the will of him that sent him; he wrought no works for his own glory, but rather emptied himself, and became obedient unto death, that he might show forth the justice and the mercy and the undying love of God. He himself came under the law, and with his own life paid the penalty of man’s transgression of the law, that the righteousness of the law might be made manifest unto men, and its perpetuity be recognized. The very law which many professed Christians are to-day accusing him of having abolished he declares through the psalmist is settled forever in the heavens.
Nothing could have suited Satan better than for Christ to come to this earth with the purpose of abolishing the law of God. Christ declares that he did not come for that purpose. He could not have been man’s Saviour if he had attempted to carry out such a work. He could not have been the Mediator between God and man if he had attempted to abolish the law of God, whose transgression by man had made mediation necessary.
The ground of man’s hope in Christ is in the fact that he was a law-keeper rather than a law-breaker. If a law-breaker could save us, we might reasonably look to Lucifer for salvation. Christ was our great example of loyalty to God; he could not supplant his law; he made our redemption sure because he did not try to do it. Harken to this declaration of Holy Writ, and never again be troubled over the possibility that God’s holy law was a transient affair, a temporary expedient: “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God doeth it, thatmen should fear before him.” Eccl. 3: 14. The law of God certainly is included in whatsoever God doeth; therefore it is among those things that shall be forever. Christ loyally adhered to and magnified his Father’s law; and they that are his will do as he did.
C. M. S.

How Our Property May Be Made a Help in Our Salvation

By George I. Butler

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses [R. V., Amer. Standard] which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights be burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Luke 12: 32-36.
This language unmistakably applies to the last days, to those giving the divine message which closes human probation. God’s people will then be a “little flock” compared with the great mass of religious professors of various sects, or of the world as a whole. One hundred and forty-four thousand will comprise the number of the sealed ones. The words quoted above can not apply to the true believers living before the time of the end; for they can not be said to be waiting “for their lord, when he will return from the wedding.”
What is it to wait?—“To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.”—Webster.
Expectancy of a person or an event is the leading thought of waiting till the return from the wedding. None can be doing this until the last generation of Christians, who will be looking for the Lord. The wedding is the eternal union between the Son of God and the bride the Lamb’s wife. This event takes place just before he comes to take his people up to the city of God.
This experience of “the little flock” is different from that of all other Christian believers. Their place in probationary time is different from that of all others. They are to be alive when the Lord comes. They are waiting, watching, expecting the Master’s return. They have the right to be thus in expectancy, because they believe the prophecies which foretell his coming near.
They are counseled, “Fear not.” They are to believe God will keep his word. They are warned to have their “treasure” laid up in heaven, where they are to go to enjoy it. As sensible men, when moving to a distant country, get their property converted into drafts, that they may safely carry its equivalent with them, so “the little flock” are to send their property on before them to be accessible to them when they move from this world to a better world where the curse has never come.
How are they to do this? They are to “sell” their property and do good with it, thus putting it in purses which will never grow old or decay. It will be laid up eternally in the heavens above. The little flock are carefully warned against laying up their treasure in this world. They are told plainly, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” One’s treasure is something very highly valued. In short, it is a thing that one loves more than anything else. If we love this world more than heaven, then we shall be burned up with the world in the last day. What is the matter with most professed Christians? They seem to think they can love this world as much as they please, and then go to another and better world. But the Scriptures say, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” 1 John 2: 15-17.
Every soul is deciding his eternal destiny day by day. The present life is a probation. As we use this life, so will our future life be. If we labor merely for the present world, we shall share its doom. If we use our means in the Master’s cause, we are thus transferring our treasure to the world to come. We are demonstrating before the world and all the heavenly intelligences where our true interest is.
Again: if we send on our means beforehand and lay up our treasure in the bank of heaven, we are placing it where it will be continually drawing us heavenward. When worldly men place their money in earthly banks, with what intense interest do they watch to see whether that bank is sound or not. If there is a raid made on that bank, how anxiously do they rush to get their money out. If they have it in some strong bank in New York City, they are little moved at the calamities of some near-by country bank. Their money is safe. So with the devoted Christian whose money is laid up in the bank of heaven. Such are waiting for the Lord to come to take them to the better world, where their treasure is stored up. They are continually drawn heavenward.
It is a wonderful blessing to our people to have the needs of God’s cause brought forcibly to their minds, as in the $150,000 fund. Such occasions offer us opportunities to know the real condition of our hearts. Do we love the cause of God more than the riches of this world? If we do, we shall surely sell our property, if necessary, and put it into the needy cause of God. Let Seventh-day Adventists beware of having a great amount of property burned up by the fires of the last day. Where our treasure is, there our hearts are; and where our hearts are, we shall surely go.
As an aged fellow laborer in this most blessed of all causes, I entreat you, my brethren and sisters, to embrace this opportunity of transferring your earthly treasure to the bank of heaven. That will be a constant drawing power, a moral force, a blessed helper to save you at last. The cause of God greatly needs your help just now. You need the opportunity to give that help. It is a matter of the greatest importance that we transfer our affections and our means to the bank of heaven. That will never fail. It is the only safe course.
GEO. I. BUTLER.

An Advance Move in the Levant Mission Field

By Arthur G. Daniells

WHAT we once designated the Oriental or Mediterranean Mission field, has now been named, by the General Conference Committee, the “Levant Mission field.” In defining the “Levant,” Webster says: “The eastern Mediterranean and the coasts of Syria, Asia Minor, and Egypt. The regions between Italy and the Euphrates. The lands of the Levant are properly those that lie upon and stretch away from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the lands of the sunrise, but these comprise territories so important and historic that the word ‘Levant’ has come to be applied to the whole East.”
The territory of the Levant Mission field as arranged by the General Conference embraces Turkey, both in Europe and in Asia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Greece. By referring to the map, it will be seen that this takes in all the countries lying around the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea.
We have been working in this territory a number of years. Elder H. P. Holser gave this field much study and attention while in charge of the work in central Europe. For a number of years before his death, he served as superintendent of this mission. When his health failed, so that he could no longer remain at his post, Elder Conradi was asked to look after the field in addition to his European work, until a superintendent could be found. After some delay, Elder W. H. Wakeham was requested to make Egypt his field of labor, and to take the general oversight of thework in the Levant. Sufficient help was never provided Brother Wakeham for the successful carrying out of this plan. Owing to the serious illness of his companion, Brother Wakeham felt obliged to leave for a time, but, as we know, his faithful wife was not able to reach England, whither they were going with the hope of benefiting her health.
In the meantime, some of our strongest workers in Syria had been obliged to leave the field on account of failing health, and the mission seemed badly demoralized. After much study, the General Conference Committee decided to reorganize the mission thoroughly, and send to the field a stronger force of workers. Elder Jay Nethery has been selected for Egypt, and is already in the field. Elder C. D. McMoody was requested to join Dr. George in Turkey, and has now reached his destination. Prof. Warren Howell was requested to make Greece his field of labor. The way has not yet seemed to open for him to go. Prof. H. R. Salisbury, of England, has been appointed superintendent of the Levant Mission field, with the suggestion that he make Beirut, Syria, his headquarters. We have received word from Professor and Mrs. Salisbury, telling us that they gladly accept this appointment. When they were asked to return to the States to aid in the general educational work, they did not feel clear to respond, but when asked to go farther East to devote their lives to one of the most difficult mission fields we have yet entered, they feel clear that this is in the line of duty.
Professor Salisbury has already given the Arabic language much study, and since his appointment to that field, has placed himself under a good instructor in London. He is making the most thorough preparation possible to master the language, so that he will be able not only to speak the Arabic, but also to aid in producing literature for the people.
We are more pleased than words can express that we are able to secure young, consecrated workers for that difficult field. Palestine, Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor are lands that have witnessed the most marvelous manifestations of God's dealings with his people and other nations that the world has ever seen. Those lands that have been so highly favored have become the strongholds of false religions, and are now exceedingly difficult fields for missionary operations. But our experiences have shown us that there are honest souls there who long for the light of present truth, and who gladly accept it, and stand loyally by it when it shines into their hearts. We believe that from the Levant there will be gathered a splendid company to join the loyal believers who shall be translated at the coming of our Master.
As Professor Salisbury and his associates take up the work with new energy and zeal, they should have the earnest prayers of God's people. Brother Salisbury will not be able to leave England until after the General Conference Council, to be held in Switzerland next May. It is understood that he will go to his new field immediately after the council. More help must be sent to that field. We need young men and women who have had good educational advantages, who are strong physically, and who are willing to sacrifice everything in this life for the advancement of the work in such a field. We look forward with deep interest to the development of the work in the Levant. Let us all pray that the special blessing of the Lord shall rest upon the workers there.
A. G. DANIELLS.

A Distinction Without a Difference

It frequently happens that when men can not reach a certain point by a direct route, they take a circuitous one and arrive at the same destination. This is frequently illustrated at the present time in the declarations of those who are seeking the enforcement of their religious convictions upon other people. The National Reform leaders “deprecate” a union of church and state, but are working with utmost energy for a combination of religion and the state, by which union they hope to accomplish the enactment of religious laws which will bring oppression upon dissenting Christians. It is but a change of words for the accomplishment of the same end. The Kansas City Star, of November 14, published a statement by Thomas K. Beecher which had in it the same peculiar piece of reasoning. It reads:—
We have no right to ask a man to conform to the dictates of our consciences; but we have a right to require him to live up to the laws of the land, which are the embodied consciences of the community.
This is another case of a distinction without a difference. An individual has no right to compel another to adopt his religious practises; but several individuals may get together and compel the man to do that very thing. All the company of individuals have to do is to agree upon what the “consciences of the community” shall embody in the law, and then compel any and all to comply with that embodiment. For one to do it would be wrong; for several to do it would be right. It is simply a matter of putting our conscientious convictions into the law, and then enforcing the law. That rids us of the opprobrium of interfering with the religious rights of men.

Crime and Saloons in San Francisco

By Editor

In a recent interview the governor of California said: “There seems to be a carnival of crime, and the most violent crime at that, in San Francisco.” Under the heading “Crimson Record of Two Months of Unchecked Crime in San Francisco,” the San Francisco Chronicle prints a list of fifty-five cases of robbery, assault, and murder. In an editorial in the same paper, which deals with the question of suppressing this outbreak of crime, we read:—
But nothing will be done so long as those who have the authority to give and enforce orders are men of low character, in habitual friendly intercourse with law-breakers, who shut their eyes to the villainies going on in the low class of saloons, and who freely grant liquor licenses to men known to seek the patronage of the criminal classes and believed to habitually share their gains.
In a sermon reported in the San Francisco Examiner dealing with the same conditions, a Methodist pastor said:—
During the months following directly after the fire when the saloons were closed, the reports of criminal acts were few and far between. Since the saloon traffic has resumed, not a day passes without its record of some act of violence. The police records speak for themselves. They show how great has been the increase in crime since the saloons opened.
It seems to be generally conceded by those who have written or spoken upon the matter, that San Francisco is under the control of a dangerous, crime-fostering element; and the recent indictments of officials there indicate that those distressing conditions are permitted in the interests of “graft.”
With these facts in mind, let our readers reread Sister White’s article in our issue of October 25, page 8, and observe the direct application of the principles there enunciated. Would it not seem that the continuance of such things invites a further visitation of judgment?

Note and Comment

At the close of a long letter on the present failure of Protestantism, a correspondent of the New York Sun writes thus:—
What is needed at the present time is some great apostle, a Christian socialist in fact, who will be utterly indifferent to the claims of wealth, and preach a Christianity such as was taught by its Founder and is revealed in the New Testament. Now the Protestant churches seem to be nothing but social clubs. They are certainly not preaching institutions. And yet we were told that it pleased God to save the world through “the foolishness of preaching.” Until some change takes place, I feel justified in holding that Protestantism is on its trial.
The world needs the simple gospel message preached “in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power,” as in the days of the apostles. The Lord has provided such a message for this generation. Preach the message.
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