Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 20. (5/15/1913)

Review and Herald

May 15, 1913

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 15, 1913

Resting With Jesus

Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile, Weary, I know it, of the press and throng. Wipe from your brow the sweat and dust of toil, And in My quiet strength again be strong.

Come, tell Me all that ye have said and done, Your victories and failures, hopes and fears. I know how hardly souls are wooed and won: My choicest wreaths are always wet with tears.

Come and rest. The journey is too great, And ye will faint beside the way and sink: The bread of life is here for you to eat, And here for you the wine of love to drink.

Then fresh from converse with your Lord return, And work, till daylight softens into even: The brief hours are not lost in which ye learn More of your Master and His rest in heaven.

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Saving Faith

By Ellen G. White

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MRS. E. G. WHITE

WHEN Christ left the world, he gave to his disciples the work of carrying the gospel. The professed followers of Christ are held responsible for the warning of the world. How are we doing this solemn work committed to us? We must humble ourselves before God, and not follow the ideas of men. We must come before the world, speaking the words of God, that the world may know that God has sent us, and that heaven’s mold is upon the work. O, we must grow up into a glorious temple in the Lord! The enemy will come in, and try to draw our minds away from the important work to be done for this time. He will seek to keep us engaged on trivial matters, to make us think that it is our province to criticize and condemn others; but our work is to deal faithfully with our own souls. We must search our hearts and see if we are right in the sight of God. Peter said to Christ in regard to John, “Lord, and what shall this man do?” But the Lord answered him, “What is that to thee? follow thou me.” We each have a work to do for ourselves, and while we are criticizing others, we are neglecting the most important work of all.

The great crisis is before us, and every one is to act as if his own soul was at stake. The most important question of all is, How shall I save my soul, for which Christ died? How shall I be holy as he is holy? It is time to be seeking for the forgiveness of your sins, for the assurance that your names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Let every one realize that he is not his own, but has been bought with a price, even with the blood of the Son of God.

Live by the day for Christ. Seek to be a victor just for this one day; for you do not know that you have another day to live. Confess your sins to-day. You have the promises of pardon.

The Lord says, “Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.” God is in earnest with us. He has borne long and patiently with us, and the light that has shone upon us from the throne of his glory will not lessen our responsibility, but, if we fail to improve it, will leave us without excuse. God will not be trifled with. You may ask, What shall I do to advance the light of truth? I answer, Work humbly for God; do not exalt yourself, but remember that you are standing upon holy ground. We are living in the last days, and the great question is, How shall I stand before God? Every one is responsible for the light he has received. What have you done with the light of heaven? Have you put it under a bushel?

There is a great work to be done; for we are to reach the people with the divine light of truth, not in our own way, but through the power and Spirit of God. God will use us as instruments in his hand, if we will yield ourselves to him. O, that all may make the effort essential to win eternal life! Every soul is precious in the sight of God. He declares by the prophet, “I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.” This preciousness will be wrought in the soul that is connected with Christ; but our own ways must be abandoned, our own thoughts must be put away.

Grieving the Spirit

By G. B. THOMPSON

The Holy Spirit—No. 18

Grieving the Spirit

G. B. THOMPSON

SOME of the most solemn warnings in the Book of God are uttered against the sin of grieving the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, as we have seen, is not some mere influence or angel, but a person of the Godhead, the vicar of Christ in the church. He is not to be trifled with, and his holiness sinned against with impunity. Sapphira’s sin tempted the Holy Ghost, and because of the lies of Ananias and Sapphira he smote them with death on the spot, as a warning for all time to come of how God regards that sin.

Other instances might be given. The late A. T. Pierson cites the following, among others:—

“From time to time awe comes upon as many as hear God’s awful inflictions of penalty upon flagrant transgressors. Those who are familiar with the remarkable career of the Wesley brothers will recall more than one instance of supernatural visitations of judgment. For example, during Charles Wesley’s revival meetings at St. Just, in Cornwall, England, a country squire, Eustick by name, drove a pack of hounds among the congregation in order to break up the meeting and drive the attendants away—a mode of annoyance not infrequent in those days. On this occasion a number of the Lord’s people withdrew and took refuge in a spacious kitchen. The prayer-meeting held there was of such extraordinary power as to surpass any other that those who were present had known. As the service closed, Mr. Wesley, as if endowed with prophetic vision, arose and said, with an awful solemnity and deliberation, ‘The man who has this day troubled you shall trouble you no more forever.’ Shortly afterward Eustick passed to his last account, in a state of raving madness.”

“In the year 1889 a company of twelve young men, meeting at a hotel table for a carousal, and observing their number to be that of the apostolic company at the first Lord’s Supper, actually celebrated a mock eucharist. Before midnight the leader was dead, and every other of the company hung in mortal agony on the verge of the grave!”

The admonition of the apostle is, “Quench not the Spirit.” 1 Thess. 5:19. The word quench suggests the thought of putting out fire. It is used in such texts as “smoking flax shall he not quench” (Matt. 12:20); “where . . . the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:48); “quenched the violence of fire” (Heb. 11:34). Quenching the Spirit, therefore, means putting out the fire of the Holy Spirit in the heart. And when the fire is out, only the ashes of sin remain. The body, made to be the dwelling-place of God, through rebellion may become the habitation of devils.

It is sin that puts out this fire in the soul. Every sin is a step in this direction. Are we conscious of anything in

the life which is inclined to put out the fire kindled in the heart by the Spirit? Do we keep quiet when we feel the promptings of the Spirit to speak to the honor and glory of God? Do we, through love for some evil thing, refuse to have it put out of the life? Do we decline to say yes when convicted of some duty we should perform? Do we decline to say no when tempted to do that which we are convinced is contrary to the mind of the Spirit? If so, we are quenching the Spirit,—putting out the fire; and if such course is continued, we may soon reach the place where only dead coals and ashes will remain in the life.

“Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Eph. 4:30. The word here translated “grieve” is the same that is translated “sorrowful,” when the Saviour in the garden said, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.” Matt. 26:38. This emphasizes what is meant by grieving the Spirit. The very agony and sorrow of Gethsemane is felt by the Holy Spirit, when grieved by sin. When we read concerning the anguish of that awful hour in the garden, our wonder is that, in his love, the Spirit suffers so long with our perverseness. In Noah’s time the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man.” Gen. 6:3. He was striving with them, with those so wicked they corrupted the earth; but the intimation is given that, unless they repented, he would, dove-like, retire, and give them over to destruction. We know of no reason why this may not be a warning to those living in the last days. Doing “despite unto the Spirit of grace” is a grievous sin, seeing it inflicts upon the Spirit the agony of Gethsemane.

“But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Heb. 3:13. Sin hardens the heart. Every time we quench the voice of conviction in the soul, the heart is a little harder than before. The fire burns dimmer. Conscience begins to sleep, and the voice of the Spirit is not heard so distinctly as before. We may turn a deaf ear to the warning of an alarm-clock, and finally fail to hear it at all. So we may persist in obstinacy and rebellion, until the heart becomes so hard the impressions of the Spirit can no longer be felt, and we can not be awakened. It is this class “who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” Eph. 4:19.

Some striking examples are given in the Bible of the sad results of a continual resistance of the Holy Spirit. Take the case of Saul. After he was chosen king, the prophet of God said to him, “And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.” “And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart.” 1 Sam. 10:6, 9. Saul experienced a change of heart, wrought by the power of the Holy Spirit. He was converted, and had he continued to yield to the influence of the Spirit, his obituary would have read very differently. But he hardened his heart, he rebelled against God, and disobeyed his commandments. His persistent disobedience quenched the fire of the Spirit in his soul. As a result, we read the awful words, “But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.” 1 Sam. 16:14. We see him later facing the Philistine hosts greatly perplexed. The prophet Samuel was dead. “And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.” 1 Sam. 28:6. Having by headstrong rebellion grieved the Spirit, and severed his connection with the throne of God, he turned into the darkness of satanic delusion, and died by his own hand on the field of battle. One can scarcely read this sad account without weeping. It is indeed an impressive example of hardening the heart against the pleadings of the Spirit.

Another case, among the saddest recorded in the Bible, is that of Samson. God had a work for him to do. He was a judge in Israel, and great opportunities were before him; but they were squandered on the altar of folly. At different times it is recorded of him that “the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him.” Judges 14:6, 19; 15:14. As a result of this he was not only spiritually but physically strong, and able to put to flight the enemies of the Lord, with no weapon, on one occasion, but the jaw-bone of an ass. He stands to this day a synonym for strength. “As strong as Samson” is a common expression. But later we see him seemingly deserted by the Lord, shorn of his strength, a captive, his eyes put out, bound in irons, made to grind in the prison-house, the sport of the Philistines. While on a visit to Copenhagen, I saw a painting of this scene by a famous artist. Looking upon the scene, I was greatly impressed with the vanity and foolishness of sin.

But why this change? Why was this giant in Israel, who had delivered them at different times, now unable to deliver himself? Why should this man, whom the Spirit of God had used mightily, be now shorn of his power? The secret of his downfall is that by an unconsecrated life he had grieved the Spirit, and thus cut himself off from divine power.

From his childhood the vow of a Nazarite was upon Samson. Those who took this vow upon them separated themselves unto the Lord; they drank no strong drink; no razor came upon their heads; and they were to abstain from every unclean thing “because the consecration of his God is upon his head.” See Num. 6:1-8. God recognized this consecration, and from his childhood “the Spirit of the Lord began to move him.” And as long as his consecration remained, his power remained. But there came a change. Bad associates corrupted him. Samson made the mistake others have since made of finding a wife among the fashionable, unconsecrated people of the world, instead of among the daughters of the brethren. God bore long with him, and continued to bless him, even when his life was far from what it should have been. But finally the secret of his strength was wrung from him by the treachery of a woman. He said to her, “I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.” And when his locks were cut off, “he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord had departed from him.” See Judges 16:16-20.

His strength gone, and he knew it not! What a sad picture! His strength was not in the length of his hair, but in the depth of his consecration. His unshaven locks stood as an outward sign of his consecration and loyalty to God, and when his consecration was gone, and he had lost even the outward sign of it, his strength was gone also.

How clearly this teaches us that power and consecration go together! How many shorn Samsons there are to-day, once strong Christians, but backslidden and weak now. Some besetting sin has been cherished, and spiritual stagnation and decay are the result. As has been well said, “Like Judas, men for a while cast out devils and then fall by a devil themselves.” The decline of spiritual power is not an accident. There may be no outward sign, but uncover the privacy of the life and the reason will be seen.

Repentance precedes forgiveness. Through grieving the Spirit, the heart becomes hard and callous, and finally “past feeling.” The desire to repent is gone; we sin without caring or repenting, and the sin is, therefore, unpardonable. Darkness instead of light fills the soul, and the very work of the Spirit is attributed to Satan. “In rejecting Christ, the Jewish people committed the unpardonable sin; and by refusing the invitation of mercy, we may commit the same error.”—“Desire of Ages.”

O, that we might be impressed with the dangers of grieving the Spirit of God! Our moral disintegration is not all at once. It is gradual; we die piecemeal. We lose our spiritual sensibility, somewhat as the paralytic suffers a progressive loss of feeling and strength. A little indulgence here and a little there, and ere we are aware we have crossed the dead-line, and we awaken to the fact that although we once could carry off the gates of Gaza, posts and all, we find ourselves captives and grinding in some Philistine mill. There is no sadder thing that can befall us on earth than, after having enjoyed the blessing and power of God, to be laid aside because through moral decay we have become spiritually incompetent.

Testing Your Work

By C. M. S.

“ALL is not gold that glitters.” Neither is all Christianity that calls itself by that name. “Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.” 1 Cor. 3: 11-13.

Our Saviour himself speaks of this matter in these words: “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” John 15:6. We are familiar with the declaration of our Saviour: “Every plant, which my Heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.” Matt. 15:13.

The principle of this declaration has its application to individuals as well as to ordinances or institutions. God can not tolerate in his universe that which is out of harmony with his purposes. To set up an ordinance or establish an institution that is in antagonism to God’s purpose is to attempt to perpetuate the intolerable conditions that now exist in the universe, and keep sin forever with us. So God will uproot them all in the day when he makes a full end of the tragedy of sin.

But the individual who is out of harmony with God’s purpose, if admitted into the kingdom of God, would have always in his heart the malignant germs of another rebellion. So God tests men, that their own works may demonstrate their loyalty or disloyalty toward the government of heaven.

God will have love and peace and harmony in his universe. To accomplish that purpose, he must eliminate every element that tends to breed hatred, strife, and discord. It is necessary therefore to destroy sin and the seeds of sin. God could uproot institutions and ordinances and fling them out of his universe; but the seeds of sin are in the human heart. So it is the heart of the individual that must have the close attention of heaven. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” The works of the hands, the words that are spoken, and the thoughts the mind chooses to dwell upon, demonstrate to the heavenly watchers what is the condition of the heart. Therefore we can see the necessity of true heart conversion, of complete surrender to the will of God, of having that mind “which was also in Christ Jesus.” Having experienced that conversion, having made that surrender, having accepted that mind in place of our own will, and having, as a result of that surrender and consecration, borne the “fruits of the Spirit,” we may know that we are his and he is ours, and eternal life is assured.

The work of God in the earth is a work of restoration to the divine pattern. Wherever the observance of God’s ordinances has been neglected, or wherever his institutions have been trodden underfoot, there is the need of a restoration. And wherever self has upreared itself in the human heart; wherever the private interests of the individual have been allowed to crowd out or overtop the interests of God’s cause, there is need of a restoration.

There is no Christianity outside of Christ; there is nothing Christian that is unlike Christ. There is but one true foundation, and the fires of God’s great testing day will consume all that is not built thereon. So he who is following and teaching others to follow human ceremonies and human institutions is not perfectly abiding in Christ, is not building a perfect structure upon the true foundation; and his work, instead of abiding to eternity in the paradise of God, will be uprooted and consumed with all things that displease and dishonor him. The heart that is unregenerate, that prompts the tongue to speak harsh and cruel and cutting words, that prompts the mind to feed upon the husks of fiction and gossip, that causes the individual to be liberal with his means in those things that pander to his own pleasure while he begrudges what he gives to the cause of God,—that heart is leading straight on toward perdition; for the all-wise Father could not give to an individual with such a heart a passport to glory, and at the same time guarantee to his faithful children that “affliction shall not rise up the second time.”

This being a fact, how important it is that we each experience that true heart conversion and surrender of will to Christ which will bring us into harmony with God’s purpose. The Holy Spirit is in the world to-day to help us to gain that experience and to bring us into harmony with the purpose of God. He awaits our demand and reception, and is ever ready to enlist in our behalf. The most solemn question that any human being can ask of himself is this: What will the great test reveal concerning me? It is a question that every one of us should ask; and having asked it, it is our privilege to call upon all the powers Heaven has promised that we may be able to pass that test with the approval of Heaven. C. M. S.

The Lord's Return—No. 5

By F. M. W.

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” Heb. 10: 35-39.

THE people connected with this movement have reached the greatest time of danger in their entire history. The danger is not from the persecution or opposition which the cause of truth may meet, nor from those natural obstacles which dispute its advancement into every part of the world. The danger is that the multiplied signs of the coming of the Lord which exist on every hand, that the fulfilling prophecies which are so plain in their meaning and portent, shall become common in our estimation, and fail to make that appeal to our hearts and lives which God designs they should.

Many readers of this paper expected that earth’s history would close long before this. Failing to comprehend the work that was to be done in the world, they expected that years ago the coming of the Lord would take place. This delay has come to every heart as a great test, a test of patience and of faith. The Scriptures recognize this danger, and repeatedly is the warning sounded to the church of this period. In the scripture at the head of this article earnest admonition is expressed: “Cast not away therefore your confidence, . . . for ye have need of patience.” This indicates that some will be tempted to cast away their confidence in this work; that some will be inclined to grow impatient at the long delay.

Our Saviour in his great prophetic discourse

as recorded in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, sounds the same warning. “Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.” Some are represented as saying in their hearts, “My Lord delayeth his coming,” and losing out of their lives the power of the truth, they begin to eat and to drink with the drunken. This does not indicate a spirit of opposition against the message on the part of worldlings, but rather a condition that would exist in the church itself. Those who say this evidently profess outward faith in the Lord, but in their hearts are questioning the certainties of the message, and their lives show that their hope has become dimmed.

In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” the pilgrims, in journeying to the celestial city, are represented as passing through the enchanted land just before they reached the end of the way. Here everything conspires to deaden the sensibilities, to produce indifference and apathy. It was only by the most heroic efforts that the spirit of drowsiness could be banished, and the pilgrims prevent themselves from falling into the sleep of carnal security and forever losing their sense of eternal things.

We are passing through the enchanted land to-day. The things of time and sense around us are seeking to draw us away from God. The world is bidding high for the souls of men and women connected with this movement, and here and there we see one after another yielding to the voice of the tempter. In the heart of one the love of gain supplants the love of Christ; the spirit of commercialism and of money making occupies the mind to the exclusion of God and the eternal riches of heaven. Some of our young men and young women are drowned in the vortex of the world’s pleasures. Some form alliances with worldlings, and in this worldly union lose that close, vital connection with heaven which they have heretofore enjoyed.

We see this spirit of departure in some of our homes to-day. There is not that old-time careful regard for the Sabbath of the Lord that was once seen among this people. Some have lost their conscientiousness in rendering to God the means that he has sacredly reserved for the extension of his work in the earth. Some are departing from gospel simplicity in dress and general living. The extravagance of the age possesses their hearts.

On the other hand, while we see these tendencies working in the lives of some, it is cause for rejoicing that so many of the people of God, with new consecration, are pressing forward earnestly and faithfully.

The question as to where we stand in this time is a question of individual responsibility and personal concern. Dear reader, where do you stand? Are you growing indifferent to the things of God? Are the truths of this message becoming to you as idle tales? Do the fulfilling signs appeal to you in the light of the Scriptures of Truth, or do they come now as mere matters of course, making but little impression on your heart? Are you maintaining in your Christian experience that simplicity which once marked your life? Is your hope growing brighter, your faith stronger, and your experience clearer as the days go by, or are you little by little allowing your hope in this message and in God to become dimmed by the influences that surround you? If so, we earnestly urge you to return to your first love.

Soon “he that shall come will come, and will not tarry;” soon faith will be lost in sight, and the one for whom we have waited these many years, the hope of our hearts and the desire of our eyes, will appear in the clouds of heaven. O, what a blessed day that will be! The darkness of our night is past, the warfare is ended, and with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the redeemed of every age, we are gathered home to go out no more forever,—no longer orphans; no longer strangers and pilgrims; no longer suffering from cold or heat, from hunger or thirst, from trial or persecution, from bodily pain or physical discomfort, from nervousness or anxiety or mental worry. With unabating vigor of eternal youth, with pleasures at God’s right hand forevermore, we shall come to Zion with songs and with everlasting joy upon our heads, and sorrow and sighing shall forever flee away.

All this lies just a little way in the future, and it all may be ours, unworthy as we are, through the merits and mercies of the Lord Jesus Christ, if we will but prove true to him. Let us give ourselves to God with a new consecration, to go anywhere, to do anything, to become in his province and purpose whatever he may desire and design. It is this consecration that will bring into our lives the sweet assurance of the Holy Spirit, which will clothe our labors with power, and give us a place among the redeemed.

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.”

F. M. W.

The Survey

The Suffrage War

SERIOUS rioting continues in England over the suffrage question. The government has taken vigorous repressive measures against the militant suffragettes. Their headquarters has been captured, and their leaders jailed. The government has searched the homes of the leaders arrested, for the purpose of finding incriminating evidence against them. The suffragettes declare, however, that no amount of coercion, imprisonment of their members, or torture by forcible feeding will make them abandon the fight until victory has been won. They declare that it is real war now. There was wild rioting on May 4 at Trafalgar Square, when members of the free-speech defense committee attempted to plead their cause in spite of police interference. A bomb composed of nitroglycerin, and believed to have been prepared by the suffragettes, was found in one of the principal London post-offices on May 5. It contained a sufficient quantity of the explosive to wreck the entire building and kill all the employees.

Labor Riots

At Burlington, N. J., on May 1 there was serious rioting when 150 American working men, under police guard, forced their way through a crowd of striking foreigners who tried to prevent them from entering the works of the East Burlington Iron Mills. The foreigners had placed women with babes in arms in front of them to prevent the American working men from breaking through their ranks. The police were compelled to use their clubs freely to protect from attack by the striking foreigners those who wished to work. In the same city another great iron-manufacturing concern was badly crippled by the strike of seven hundred employees. Seven hundred striking laborers on the Long Island Railroad in the borough of Queens, attacked their fellow laborers who wished to continue working, and also attacked the police who sought to preserve order. In Buffalo, N. Y., recently there was a strike of clerks. One large department store was closed on account of the strike, and a number of other business places were more or less seriously affected. There is a tie-up in the building trades in Auburn, N. Y. The builders had refused a demand for a forty-four-hour week and a minimum wage of forty-five cents an hour. The section men of the New York Central Railway in the vicinity of Auburn are also out on strike. At Rochester, N. Y., the members of the

United Brotherhood of Carpenters are on strike for a minimum wage of three dollars a day on a two-year guaranty. These are but a few of the strikes now in progress, some having been going on for a number of weeks. The conditions in the industrial world indicate that the world is no nearer to a mutually satisfactory settlement of such controversies than at any time in the past.

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