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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 40.

COURAGE

Review and Herald

Oct 6, 1910

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 6, 1910

COURAGE

BECAUSE I hold it sinful to despond, And will not let the bitterness of life Blind me with burning tears, but look beyond Its tumults and its strife; Because I lift my head above the mist, Where the sun shines, and the broad breezes blow, By every ray and every rain-drop kissed, That God's love doth bestow;—
Think you I find no bitterness at all? No burden to be borne, like Christian's pack? Think you there are no ready tears to fall Because I keep them back?
Why should I hug life's ills with cold reserve To curse myself and all who love me? Nay! A thousand times more good than I deserve God gives me every day; And in each one of these rebellious tears, Kept bravely back, he makes a rainbow shine; Grateful I take his slightest gift; no fears Nor any doubts are mine.
Dark skies must clear, and when the clouds are past, One golden day redeems a weary year; Patient I listen, sure that sweet at last Will sound his voice of cheer.
— Selected.

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The Bible

By Eva M. Davis

EVA M. DAVIS
TAKE the “sword of the Spirit” to check every dart That is hurled by the enemy’s power,— A light on life’s pathway to cheer the faint heart When storm-clouds threateningly lower;
A rock in the tempest of doubt and of fear, A shade in a drear, weary land, A solace to wipe every sorrowful tear, And a staff in a trembling hand.
O, the Bible’s a treasure of wealth all untold! A reflection of heavenly love! A story of grace that will never grow old As we dwell in the bright realms above!
Mt. Vernon, Wash.

The Second Coming of Christ

By M. E. STEWARD

M. E. STEWARD
The second advent of our Saviour is an event the most transcendently glorious and blissful to the child of God; at the same time it will be full of horror and dark despair to the ungodly.
Will Christ come personally? John 14:3; Acts 1:11.
This subject may be appropriately considered under three divisions:—
1. For what purpose will Christ come?
—Our Saviour will come to save his people. Heb. 9:28. He will come to destroy the wicked. 2 Thess. 1:7-9.
2. How will he come? Three texts describe the manner of his coming: (a) “Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.” Rev. 1:7. (b) “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.” 1 Thess. 4:16. (c) “The Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him.” Matt. 25:31. The long, loud blast of the trump of God, reverberating through the world, will herald the approach of the King of kings, while the voice of the Coming One will “shake not the earth only, but also heaven,” as he calls his sleeping saints from their graves. Then a triumphant shout from all created intelligences, such as earth never heard before, will proclaim eternal victory over death and sin and sorrow.
3. When will Christ come? Three unimpeachable witnesses testify on this point: (a) Nature; (b) the condition of mankind, as predicted in the Bible; (c) the succession of empires and events, also foretold in “the sure word of prophecy.”
(a) Nature has three grand divisions,—the sky, the land, and the water. In accordance with Christ’s predictions in Matt. 24:29, signs of his coming have even been seen in the three heavenly bodies, the sun, the moon, and the stars. The sun and the moon were supernaturally darkened May 19, 1780, at the very time specified in Mark 13:24. The stars fell Nov. 13, 1833. The testimony of the land began with the “great earthquake” of Lisbon in 1755, in which ninety thousand persons perished. The land continues its warnings in cyclones, and in earthquakes unprecedentedly frequent, severe, and wide-spread; while fearful judgments and horrible disasters of various kinds seek to arrest the mad rush of the nations. Nature testifies by the water (Luke 21:25), while floods and tidal waves rush over the land, joining the voices of sky and land to arouse the world to the fact that universal destruction is coming.
(b) Three prominent characteristics in the condition of mankind answer precisely to those that are foretold for the last days: (1) “Evil men and seducers . . . wax worse and worse” (2 Tim. 3:1-5, 13); (2) rich men are heaping “treasure together for the last days” (James 5:3); (3) many “run to and fro,” and knowledge is increased. Dan. 12:4. Multitudes run in this fast age. They run in three directions,—in the sciences, discovering new truths and inventions; through the earth, in cars and on ships, carrying the truth with them, so that knowledge is increased; through the Bible, from beginning to end, collecting all the texts on a subject, and thus increasing a knowledge of Scriptural truth.
(c) The prophecies, which foretell the succession of empires and events in earth’s history, prove that Christ’s coming is near. There are three special series,—in Daniel; in the Revelation; and in our Lord’s great prophecy, recorded in three of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. There are three series of events recorded in the first part of Revelation,—the seven churches, the seven seals, and the seven trumpets,—all of which continue to the second coming of Christ. Farther on in the Revelation are three great beasts,—the great red dragon, the leopard beast, and the two-horned beast; these together span the gospel age. Revelation 12, 13. Then come the three angel’s messages, ending with the appearance of the Saviour on the white cloud.
When will our Lord come again?—In the mouth of many witnesses, we know that he is “near, even at the door.”
Sanitarium, Cal.

The Golden Rule

By MINNIE HALE MORRISON

MINNIE HALE MORRISON
“THEREFORE all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets,” is the rule given by Jesus Christ himself, for people to follow in their dealings with one another. This makes it a simple and easy matter to decide what is right in any case. We need not go to men to find out our duty, but simply ask ourselves the question, How would I like to be treated?
Have you ever stopped to think what a pleasant place this world would be if this important command was obeyed? There would then be no unkind words nor criticisms; our motives would not be misjudged, nor our deeds misrepresented; for every one would guard another’s reputation as jealously as his own.
There would be no stealing, lying, nor cheating. Lost articles would be advertised, and the owner carefully sought, instead of their being thoughtlessly or selfishly appropriated to one’s own use. Property would be safe; for there would be no trespassing. Fields of grain would not be trampled by a neighbor’s cattle, nor choice flower beds ruined by his chickens.
There would be no watered stock, no diluted milk. Every measure would be pressed down and running over, and love and peace and good-will would be seen and felt on every hand. O, would not this be a happier world if this blessed golden rule were put into practise! Then would we indeed have a little foretaste here of heaven.

“Where’s Mother?”

BURSTING in from school or play, This is what the children say, Trooping, crowding, big and small, On the threshold, in the hall, Joining in the constant cry, Ever as the days go by, “Where’s mother?”
From the weary bed of pain This same question comes again; From the boy with sparkling eyes, Bearing home his earliest prize; From the bronzed and bearded son, Labors past and honors won, “Where’s mother?”
Burdened with a lonely task, One day we may vainly ask For the comfort of her face, For the rest of her embrace; Let us love her while we may; Well for us that we can say, “Where’s mother?”
Mother with untiring hands At the post of duty stands, Patient, seeking not her own, Anxious for the good alone Of the children as they cry, Ever as the days go by, “Where’s mother?”
— Selected.

Causes and Cure of Colds

By FRANKLIN RICHARDS, M. D.

FRANKLIN RICHARDS, M. D.
A cold is really a congestion which later becomes an inflammation affecting some portion of the lining of the upper air-passages. As these passages are lined with mucous membrane, fulness of blood produces an increased flow of mucus from the affected membrane. In the case of an ordinary cold this inflammation, with its accompanying discharge of mucus, lasts but a week or two, and is called an acute catarrhal inflammation, or acute catarrh. Should the inflammation persist for months or years, however, the condition is described as chronic catarrh. Frequently recurring colds, especially if neglected, are likely to result in chronic catarrh.
This brings us to discussion of the common causes of colds. These are best divided into predisposing and exciting causes. By predisposing causes are meant those which lower the health and weaken the body, so rendering one subject to colds. The ways in which the resistance of the body may be lowered are so many that it is impossible to mention them all, and only the most common can be commented on even briefly. Indoor living, overclothing, and failure to keep the blood pure and the skin active by means of exercise, water drinking, breathing, bathing, and rubbing, are among the most common predisposing causes of catarrh and colds. Indeed, only one class of causes is more common; namely, those relating to diet. Overeating, especially of flesh and other poison-producing foods, and the too free use of commercial sugar, or sweets prepared from it, such as jellies, jams, and preserves, also the excessive use of butter and other fats, and of pastry or other mixtures into which these enter quite largely,—these and other dietetic errors are by far the most wide-spread and common causes which predispose one to colds. On the other hand, an impoverished diet as surely renders one liable to colds. Other predisposing causes which may be mentioned are the use of alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa, meat extracts, and other substances more or less toxic in nature. Adenoids and post-nasal growths are also a common cause of colds, especially in children.
Once the way has been prepared for colds by these predisposing causes, very trivial things may suffice to set one sneezing. Thus the immediate exciting cause of a cold may be coldness of the feet, a draft, chill, or wetting. Such temperature changes cause congestive colds, which are due solely to circulatory disturbances. Far more frequently, however, the exciting cause of a cold is infection of the nose and throat with germs of one kind or another; and as there are many different kinds of germs, colds caused by them vary widely in their severity, symptoms, and duration.

Contagious Colds

The usual symptoms of a cold are sneezing, watering of the eyes, and nasal obstruction; and, if the throat is affected, cough, soreness or slight pain on swallowing, hoarseness, and even loss of voice. The constitutional symptoms may be slight or very severe, depending on the kind of germ one has caught. In severe infections the rapidly multiplying germs in the nose and throat may produce poisons which make the sufferer very ill with fever, headache, pain in the back and limbs, etc. Such severe symptoms usually denote what is called an influenza cold. Such a cold is infectious; and unless the person suffering from it is isolated, the other members of the family generally contract the disease, and fall ill one after another.

Preventive Measures

From what has already been stated, it will be seen that the avoidance of colds consists in regulating the diet and caring for the general health. The skin must be kept in an active and healthy condition by means of exercise, warm cleansing, cool tonic baths, and friction. Chills should be avoided by the taking of regular exercise and the wearing of suitable clothing. Pure air should be breathed both day and night, and plain, easily-digested food should be taken in moderation.

Rational Treatment

The rational treatment of a cold consists of both local and general measures. The general measures aim at the restoration of circulatory equilibrium, and consist of such hydropathic treatments as the hot leg-bath, the hot immersion bath, the hot-blanket pack, the Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor-bath, electric-light bath, etc. Such baths are most useful in the very early stages of a cold. The hot leg-bath is best suited for home use. It should be preceded by a cleansing enema, and accompanied by free water drinking, and carried to the stage of free perspiration, the head being kept cool by means of the cooling compress. Following the bath a quick cold friction serves to fix the blood in the skin, so relieving the internal congestion, or “cold.” In bed between blankets is the best place to maintain skin activity and warmth, and so prolong the good effects of the bath. Indeed, a simple way to cure a cold consists of keeping warm in bed for two nights and a day, little or no food being eaten, but water and fruit being taken freely instead. This plan may prevent bronchitis or other serious complications of colds in the case of children.

Local Treatment

Before passing to the local treatment of the nose and throat required in the case of infectious colds, mention must be made of a quick and easy method of equalizing circulation at the beginning of an ordinary simple congestive cold, such as is often caused by sitting until chilled in a cold room. This quickly-applied remedy is exercise, with deep nasal breathing. Brisk walking and running are suitable forms of outdoor exercise.
Local treatment of the nose and throat consists in cleansing and soothing these parts. The cleansing may be accomplished with salt and water, the water being boiled after salt has been added in the proportion of a level teaspoonful to the pint. To this solution may be added a few drops of cinnamon or peppermint water or a little mild disinfectant fluid. Use in an atomizer, or draw through the nose into the throat, permitting the fluid to flow out through the mouth. After cleansing, the irritated parts should be soothed with a protective coating of vaselin. Liquid vaselin or albolene may be sprayed freely into the nose and throat with an atomizer. The albolene may be medicated with a little oil of cinnamon, peppermint, eucalyptus, thymol, camphor gum, etc. Small quantities of such substances should be added, or the oily mixture will irritate instead of soothe. Medicated steam, prepared by dropping the above and similar volatile substances into boiling water, if inhaled for ten or fifteen minutes every few hours, tends to check the growth of germs in the nose and throat, and soothes the inflamed lining of these parts.
Wahroonga, New South Wales.

Amoy, China

By B. L. ANDERSON

B. L. ANDERSON
WE praise the Lord for his mercy and love manifested toward us in delivering us out of a great affliction. Our lives, we believe, have been spared in answer to prayer and by the Lord’s special protection. It is needless to go into the details of an experience that is past, especially when that experience makes one’s blood run cold. Mrs. Anderson’s was the first case of smallpox I had ever seen, and I hope it may be the last.
It is very easy to become infected with smallpox in these parts, as the Chinese take no precaution against the spread of the disease; and as a result thousands die of this malady every year. An especially large number have died of the black pox the past winter and spring.
Mrs. Anderson evidently became infected over in the Amoy girls’ school, where the disease had claimed a victim. Of course she may have taken it going to and from the school. This could very easily be done, as the Chinese often go into the streets before the scabs are all off the face and body. She is now quite strong again, and we hope she will get through the summer without further trouble.
It seems a pity that we can not have a doctor for this part of China, where there are such opportunities for service. In such critical times as this a doctor could lend a hand, and we would be saved the embarrassment of calling in a physician from another mission, prejudiced against our work.
The doctor who cared for Mrs. Anderson is now dead of the plague. He was a classmate of Drs. W. H. Riley and D. H. Kress. While not believing as we do, he has aided our work in defending us against misrepresentations. He has always been very friendly toward us personally, and also kindly disposed toward our mission. In his death we feel that we have lost a good Christian physician, and a friend and helper in time of need.
The plague is now raging in these parts, and is taking away a host of people. Just the other day a teacher in one of the Amoy schools told me that within ten days seven persons had died of the plague in one firm. Some of the schools have been suspended. Many foreigners are being inoculated for the plague, but we are still in doubt about the matter, as some inoculations prove fatal. We have just discovered that in going to the Amoy girls’ school we have been passing through a plague-infected part of the city.
The girls’ school in Amoy has been doing splendidly this year. The teaching is having its effect upon the girls, and the gospel influence is also entering their homes. Many of the parents seem willing to hear, and often come to the chapel meetings. The attendance is good, thirty-six being enrolled, and the prospects for the future are bright.
The boys’ school on the Kulangsu side has also been doing good work. Although the number in attendance has not been larger, yet we have all the boys we are able to accommodate with the present facilities. We have been obliged to turn away some who have applied for admission. This ought not to be. While the school is primarily for our own people, yet at the same time provision should be made for others desiring to attend.
We are still waiting for means to develop the proposition out in the To-Kong district. I am still of the opinion that we must have a chapel and school out there that we can call our own. In China schools and chapels are counterparts, and of the two I firmly believe that the schools are of the greater importance in mission work.
Kulangsu.

West German Union Conference

By GUY DAIL

GUY DAIL
THREE years ago, when the German Union Conference met, it brought delegates from Russia, as well as Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other parts. Since that time the growth of our work has led to the dividing up of the territory then represented in the German Union; yet even now the West German Union Conference represents a population of over sixty millions, with a membership of five thousand.
From the beginning to the close of the summer conference at Friedensau, there was a deep spiritual interest on the part of the thousand campers. The courage of all was strengthened by the influence of the Spirit of God in the meetings, and by reports from the workers. The brethren were glad to greet Brother B. Ohme and family, from East Africa, whose report of work in the Pare Mission territory was most interesting. On the closing Sabbath afternoon a company of recruits for Africa were commended to God in a service that deeply touched all hearts. In addition to Brother and Sister Ohme, who will return from furlough, there were Brethren F. Winter and O. Wallath, who have been taking a course in the Colonial Institute at Hamburg; Sisters Johanna Mertke and Anna Liedtke, nurses; Sister H. Walz, a Bible worker recently of Vienna, Austria,—all to go to German East Africa,—and Brother Emery Lorntz, of Christiania, Norway, who is to join our missionaries in the Abyssinian Mission. Without exception, these have all been students at the Friedensau school. We hope that the company for East Africa may sail in October.
The business of the conference was completed in seven sessions. The report of the president, J. H. Schilling, showed an increase of about four thousand dollars in the tithe, while 1,058 new members had been received.
It was reported that in Mecklenburg, where earnest prayers have been offered to God to open the way for our brethren to meet quietly together without fear of molestation from the civil authorities, partial liberty has now been granted us. One of the officials told our brethren that we really ought to thank God for the championship accorded our work by the grand duke himself, who entered the arena in our behalf against his own clergy. There are still other lands in the union where we are much hampered, but every inch of success gives us courage to hope for still greater things at the hand of God, if we only continue steadfast in prayer, and grow in faith.
The generosity of the people was appealed to in behalf of the material fund for “Ministry of Healing,” which had a deficit. Over a thousand dollars was raised in cash and pledges. Thus far we have disposed of 10,608 copies of the work, 453 copies of which have gone to North America. We realize that there is a great blessing in distributing this book, and are glad that the special German relief edition for America is just off the press, and the Danish and Swedish editions are well under way.
The institutions in Friedensau had a good report. The sanitarium is full of patients, the school has about two hundred students, and the old people's home contains twenty-seven inmates.
The output of the Hamburg Publishing House during the twelve months ending July 1, 1910, was 62,500,000 pages, or about five million more pages than for the preceding year. There is within the territory of the Hamburg Publishing House, with its two branches, at Riga and at Constantinople, a population of three hundred twenty millions to be supplied with literature.
Elder J. H. Schilling was re-elected president of the West German Union; R. Rall, secretary; and N. Schlatterer, treasurer. By an amendment to the constitution, the vice-presidency was discontinued.
All who attended this good meeting return to their homes to take up anew, and more vigorously than ever, the duties which God has placed upon us by the truths he has committed to his church for these days. There are still hundreds of square miles in our territory where there never has been a Seventh-day Adventist, and where our name is unknown.
Friedensau.

The Value of the Human Soul

“THERE is nothing of value in this world except the human soul.”
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