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Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 6.

THE WORK

Review and Herald

Feb 5, 1914

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 5, 1914

THE WORK

By Editor

AND THE WORKERS
"RUSH 250 February Protestant to our address," wires the Louisiana Tract Society. Western Oregon Missionary Society also telegraphs for a supply.
SECOND large edition of the February or "Great Protestant Mass Meeting" number of the Protestant Magazine is NOW READY. Holding forms! Keep it up!
TWICE within a week the manager of the Washington, D. C., branch of the Associated Press has telephoned to Brother A. J. S. Bourdeau, manager of the Protestant Magazine, asking for advance information concerning the next or March number of the magazine.
Honorable Lloyd-George, British minister of the exchequer, recently had placed in his hands a copy of the January number of the Protestant Magazine. Our agent, a foreign missionary, writes: "It interested him greatly. I may see him on his return." By request we withhold the name of our agent, and also the place of this occurrence.
Elder G. A. Stevens sold 27 copies of the February Protestant Magazine on the two top floors of one office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C., January 20. Brother H. F. Brown, a student, sold 100 copies January 19, and 106 copies the next day. He sold 17 copies to one man, and 7 to another. It sells readily.
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Elder A. R. Sandborn, president of the New Jersey Conference, and Brother H. A. May, the tract society secretary, recently attended a meeting of the Mercer County Federation of Patriotic Fraternities. Brother May writes: "We were given a few minutes in which to present the Protestant Magazine. Elder Sandborn gave a short canvass, and then we started to pass the magazines. There were about 75 persons in the room, and we left 73 copies there. All seemed
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In the Washington, D. C., campaign, Mrs. M. V. Nowlin, a Bible worker, sold 41 copies of the February Protestant Magazine in one office building. Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Moon, students, sold 85 copies in one day; Miss B. M. Fleming, 56 copies. Brother C. V. Leach, the conference field missionary agent, reports 10 copies sold the first hour. Walter Nelson reports 47 sold; Mr. Harter, 46; another student, 60; another, 48;
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Great Protestant Mass Meeting Number

By Editor

The New National Theater, Washington, D. C., in Which the Great Protestant Mass Meeting Was Held
The New National Theater, Washington, D. C., in Which the Great Protestant Mass Meeting Was Held
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Thoughts for the New Year

By Mrs. C. O. Hall

MRS. C. O. HALL
"Leaving those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
If we are walking with God, the past, with its mistakes and failures, is placed under the blood, and today comes the promise to our hearts, "From this day will I bless you." Haggai 2:19. This is a promise that will extend through the year, for at all times we can hear his voice still saying, "From this day."
"For ye have not passed this way heretofore." Joshua 3:4. A veil hides the future from our eyes. What awaits us we know not; whether sickness or health, success or disappointment, life or death, is known only to him. But the promise rings out just the same, "From this day will I bless you."
"O, blissful lack of wisdom! 'Tis blessed not to know: He holds me with his own right hand, And will not let me go.
"So on I go—not knowing, I would not if I might: I'd rather walk in the dark with God Than go alone in the light."
But looking into the future, the cry goes out from our hearts, as it did from that of Moses: "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." Moses feared to proceed without divine guidance, and so ought we. How can we face the future, with all its snares and pitfalls, its sorrows and trials, without an arm of strength to lean upon? But, as God went with Moses through the wilderness, and supported and strengthened him, so he says to us, "As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." And again: "As thy days, so shalt thy strength be." O, blessed word of God! How it thrills our hearts as we remember that his promises are all for us.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground without our Father's notice, and we are of more value than many sparrows. So let us encourage our hearts in God this year. Be strong and very courageous. Face the devil with all his arts and wiles, knowing that our God is greater than all who can be arrayed against us. Arise, daughter of Zion! Shake off thy fears. Friends may fail; riches may take wings and fly away; reputation may be lost; churches may go; and our faith in mankind may be shaken; but God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Glory be to his precious name. He never leaves nor forsakes us, and if he is for us, who can be against us? Unless we choose to separate ourselves from him, nothing can sever us from the Saviour—"neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature." If we could see ourselves in the light of eternity, how we should praise God for all the testings and trials which we have had!
May we, on the threshold of this new year, leave the things that are behind, and press forward with stronger faith and purpose to live for him.
Providence, R. I.

Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE
Full of significance are the words of the prophet, "Like people, like priest." Hosea 4:9. The idolatrous priests were leaders in crime. "As troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent." Hosea 6:9. "Blood toucheth blood." Verse 2. God's message to the murderous priests was: "Hear ye this, O priests, . . . for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all." Hosea 5:1, 2. Everywhere violence and crime reigned supreme.
Such was the result that had followed the setting up of the "two calves of gold" (1 Kings 12:28) by Jeroboam. "This thing became a sin" (verse 30), and led to the introduction of grosser forms of idolatry, until nearly all the inhabitants of the land gave themselves up to the alluring practices of nature worship.
Forgetting their Maker, Israel "deeply corrupted themselves. . . . They went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved." Hosea 9:9, 10. "They sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images." Hosea 11:2. The idolatry that they practiced called for the abandonment of every uplifting and ennobling principle.
The prophets Hosea and Amos continued to lift their voices in solemn protest against evil. The transgressors were given many opportunities to repent. "I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger," the Lord promised, "I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee." Verse 9.
"Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy,"Hosea pleaded; "break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you." Hosea 10:12. "Turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually." Hosea 12:6. "O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity: . . . say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: . . . for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy." Hosea 14:1-3.
"Come, and let us return unto the Lord," the prophet entreated; "for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." Hosea 6:1-3.
"O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee?" Hosea 13:9, 10.
"I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
"Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein." Hosea 14:4-9.
Through Amos the message of the Lord to Israel was: "Seek ye me, and ye shall live: but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to naught. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live. . . . Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name." Amos 5:4-8.
"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph." Verses 14, 15.
But by far the greater number of those who heard these invitations, refused to profit by them. So contrary to the evil desires of the impenitent were the words of one of God's messengers, that the idolatrous priest at Bethel sent to the ruler in Israel, saying, "Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words." Amos 7:10. And through Hosea the Lord declared: "When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria." Hosea 7:1. "The pride of Israel testified to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this." Verse 10.
From generation to generation the Lord bore with his wayward children, until he could do no more for them. "O Ephraim," he cried, "what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away." Hosea 6:4.
The evils that had overspread the land and permeated all classes of society, had become incurable, and upon Israel was pronounced the dread sentence. "Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone." Hosea 4:17. "The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it." Hosea 9:7. "They shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney." Hosea 13:3.
"Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? for from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces." Hosea 8:5, 6. "The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Jareb." Hosea 10:5, 6.
Through Amos also the Lord clearly revealed his purpose to bring judgments upon his impenitent people: "Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" "The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?" Amos 3:1-6, 8.
"Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled." Verses 9-11.
"In the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord." Verses 14, 15.
"Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts." Amos 5:27.
"Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!" "Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein." "Behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness." Amos 6:1, 7, 8, 14.
"The Lord God of hosts is he that touched the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt." Amos 9:5.
"Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us." Verses 8-10.
"Because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel." Amos 4:12.
(To be concluded)

The Sluggard Soul

By F. Frederick Bliss

F. FREDERICK BLISS
AH, my soul, thy sluggard habits Shame the reason Heaven-given! Hear'st thou not the roll of chariots Glory-bent and angel-driven? Wake! and lift thine eyes once heaven- ward; See the gleaming portents there! Are not signs of Christ's returning Word-illuminated everywhere?
Ah, my soul, hast thou forgotten Pledges plighted erstwhile years— Now in ruin many lying, Mid thy penitential tears? Weep, ah, weep, till heart, clean broken, Pleads the Great Physician's touch; Till the work is wrought in fullness Thou art needing, O so much!
Ah, my soul, the heavenly Pleader Woos thee gently, nor in vain, For thou feelest now the rapture Of the wistful, heavenly strain; And the gleam of pearly portals Of the city, seen ajar, Fix thy gaze with eager longing On the bright and morning Star.

The Spirit of the Christian

By O. B. Kuhn

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God," much less enter in. The disciples of the Lord in their early ministry, in an unconverted condition, did not see the principles of the kingdom. James and John saw one casting out devils in the name of Jesus, and forbade him because he was not identified with them in their teaching. "He followeth not with us." While they thought they had the Lord's honor in mind, they were actually guarding their own reputation and honor.
Because some were rude, discourteous, and inhospitable to their Saviour, James and John said to him, "Wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?" His answer, "Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of," shows that the disposition of the disciples to hurt and destroy was evidence that they possessed the spirit of Satan. "For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."
Peter endeavored to defend the Lord and himself with the sword. This act revealed an assertive but not a truly courageous character. A little later he denied the Lord in a cowardly manner.
Such a spirit manifested in the lives of the disciples indicated the aggressiveness of the human heart, but not the progressiveness of the regenerated life.
The Saviour's ministry to the afflicted and the spiritual interpretation of his work given in his discourses revealed the principles of his kingdom,—love, mercy, forgiveness, humility, faith, sympathy, etc. The decision of the judgment will be based upon these. Isa. 58: 3-14; Matt. 25: 31-46.
Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium.

Date of Christ's Crucifixion

By O. A. Johnson

Annual Feasts and Annual Sabbaths—No. 4

Date of Christ's Crucifixion

O. A. JOHNSON
IN the last article it was briefly shown that Thursday of the Passion Week was the day on which the paschal lamb "must be killed." Further evidence will now be given to prove that this lamb was killed and all leaven was put out of the houses on this Thursday, and that this very day was the fourteenth day of Abib.
"Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover?" The disciples followed his directions, "and they made ready the Passover. Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve." Matt. 26: 17, 20, 21. Mark's testimony reads as follows: "And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover?" "And in the evening he cometh with the twelve," and they "did eat." Mark 14: 12, 17, 18. Luke's testimony reads thus: "Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed." "And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." Luke 22: 7, 14, 15.
The three evangelists just quoted agree that this day on which the Passover lamb was killed, was the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, or of the Passover. It has also been proved that this particular day fell in this year on Thursday. (See previous article.)
Now the Scriptures teach definitely that "fourteenth day" of the "first month" is the Passover of the Lord" (Num. 28: 16); and that "the children of Israel . . . kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho." Joshua 5: 10. All leaven was put out of their houses on this same day; for we read, "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even." Ex. 12: 18.
Concerning the killing of the Passover lamb we read as follows: "Ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening ['between the two evenings,' margin]." Ex. 12: 6. In the time of Christ the lamb was slain between the ninth and the eleventh hour, or between three and five o'clock in the afternoon. See Josephus's "Wars," book 6, chap. 9, sec. 3; "The Temple," by Edersheim, pages 211, 222, 223; "Practical Lessons," by Gilbert, page 234.
Some claim that Christ "held the paschal supper a day in advance of that observed by the rest of the Jewish world—a supposition not only inconsistent with the plain language of the synoptics [the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke], but impossible, since the paschal lamb could not have been offered in the temple, and, therefore, no paschal supper held, out of regular time."—"Life and Times of Jesus," by Edersheim, Vol. II, page 482. The following on this subject is to the point:—
"On the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, the very day and month on which, for fifteen long centuries, the Passover lamb had been slain, Christ, having eaten the Passover with his disciples, instituted the feast which was to commemorate his own death."—"Great Controversy," page 399.
From the above testimony it is evident that the first day of the feast, when the Passover lamb was slain, in the year of Christ's crucifixion fell on

Thursday, the Fourteenth Day

of the first month, Abib, or Nisan.
After the lamb had been slain, flayed, etc., it was to be roasted with fire, and thereafter eaten in the "night." Ex. 12: 6-8. "The Pascha is not eaten but during the night, nor yet later than the middle of the night."—"Life and Times of Jesus," Vol. II, page 482. We read that in "the same night in which he was betrayed," Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper, after having eaten the Passover; and this proves that Jesus ate his last Passover with his disciples on the night following the day, Thursday, on which the lamb was slain. Luke 22: 7, 14-20; 1 Cor. 11: 23. See also "Spirit of Prophecy," Vol. III, page 89.
But since day begins and ends in the evening, at sunset, according to the Bible (Lev. 23: 32; Deut. 16: 6) the Passover lamb must have been eaten on the night preceding the fifteenth, hence really on the fifteenth day of this month; for the fourteenth day ended at sunset. Now since Christ was crucified on the day following the night in which he ate the Passover, and since that night was the first part of the fifteenth day of Abib, therefore Christ was crucified on the fifteenth day of the first month. "He himself was the true paschal lamb, and on the day the Passover was eaten, he was to be sacrificed."—"Desire of Ages," page 642.
No other conclusion can be drawn from the above than that Jesus was crucified on

Friday, the Fifteenth Day of Abib

For fear of "an uproar among the people" on the feast day, the Jews postponed the arrest of Christ until night, and proceeded immediately to try him; and before the multitude was aware of it, they had secured his condemnation. He was crucified about nine o'clock Friday morning, and died about three o'clock in the afternoon, at the time of the evening sacrifice. Matt. 26: 5, 46-48, 57-59; 27: 1, 2, 24-26; Mark 15: 34-37.
"When the loud cry, 'It is finished,' came from the lips of Christ, the priests were officiating in the temple. It was the hour of the evening sacrifice. The lamb representing Christ had been brought to be slain. . . . With intense interest the people were looking on. But the earth trembles and quakes; for the Lord himself draws near. With a rending noise the inner veil of the temple is torn from top to bottom by an unseen hand, throwing open to the gaze of the multitude a place once filled with the presence of God. In this place the Shekinah had dwelt. . . . All is terror and confusion. The priest is about to slay the victim; but the knife drops from his nerveless hand, and the lamb escapes. Type has met antitype in the death of God's Son."—Id., page 736.
This lamb, which escaped, was to have been offered at the regular daily evening sacrifice; but it was not the paschal lamb, for that had been killed on the previous afternoon. Num. 28: 23. Each "Israelite," not the priest, "slew for himself" his own paschal lamb. See Ex. 12: 6; "The Temple," page 223.
From certain expressions in the Gospel according to John, some have thought that Jesus ate his last paschal lamb one day before the time, that is, on the thirteenth instead of the fourteenth of Abib. But there is no real ground for such a theory. On this point Edersheim remarks as follows: "At the outset we may dismiss as unworthy of serious discussion the theory, either that our Lord had observed the paschal supper at another than the regular time for it, or that St. John meant to intimate that he had partaken of it on the thirteenth instead of the fourteenth of Nisan. To such violent hypotheses, which are wholly uncalled for, there is this one conclusive answer, that, except on the evening of the fourteenth of Nisan, no paschal lamb could have been offered in the temple, and therefore no paschal supper celebrated in Jerusalem."—"The Temple," page 245.
In John 18: 28 we read that those who brought Jesus "early" Friday morning "unto the hall of judgment" "went not into the judgment hall lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover." Some claim that "the Passover" here mentioned must mean the Passover lamb. But this cannot refer to the eating of the Passover lamb; for it had been eaten on the night previous. Again, the defilement here spoken of would not have prevented them from eating the Passover lamb on the night following, Friday; for that uncleanness would end at sunset. Lev. 22: 6, 7.
From Num. 28: 16-23 we learn that there were special offerings to be presented on the fifteenth day of Nisan after the Passover had been eaten on the previous night. See also Deut. 16: 2. Compare 2 Chron. 30: 24; 35: 8, 9.
There was a special "festive offering" called Chagigah, and this "Chagigah for the fifteenth of Nisan was obligatory;" but it "might not be offered by any person who had contracted Levitical defilement. It was on this ground that, when the Jews led 'Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment,' they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might 'eat the Passover,' Chagigah."—Id., pages 218, 219, 252. For a full discussion on this subject, read the Appendix to "The Temple," by Edersheim, pages 395-399.
The feast of the Passover lasted seven days. The first day of this feast fell on the fifteenth day of the first month, and it was a day for "an holy convocation," on which no "servile work" might be done. Lev. 23: 5-7. Nevertheless that "which every man must eat, that only may be done." Ex. 12: 16. "It was permitted to prepare the necessary articles of food on the fifteenth of Nisan."—"The Temple," page 226. So while this Passover sabbath fell on Friday, yet that day could be called the preparation before the weekly Sabbath. Luke 23: 54-56.
From the fact that the Sabbath that followed the crucifixion of Christ is called "an high day" (John 19: 31), it has been thought by some that it must have been so called because the first Passover sabbath and the weekly Sabbath came together. But while the weekly Sabbath might be called "an high day" for that reason, yet it was evidently in this case called "an high day" because of the offering of the special wave sheaf on the day following the first Passover sabbath. The wave sheaf was always offered on the sixteenth of Nisan, which fell in this year on the weekly Sabbath. "The Sabbath about to open was a 'high day'—it was both a Sabbath and the second paschal day, which was regarded as in every respect equally sacred with the first,—nay, more so, since the so-called wave sheaf was then offered to the Lord."—"Life and Times of Jesus," Vol. II, page 613.
Adam Clarke, in his comment on John 19: 31, says: "That Sabbath day was an high day" "because that was the day onwhich the sheaf of the first fruits was offered according to the command." See Lev. 23: 10, 11.
Now no other conclusion can be drawn from the evidence thus far presented than that Christ was crucified on

Friday, the Fifteenth Day of the First Month, Abib, or Nisan

and that this Friday was the first sabbath in the feast of the Passover.
When we consider the time and the manner in which Christ was tried, condemned, and crucified, it can truly be said that "the Sanhedrin violated not only the law of God, but grossly outraged every ordinance of their own traditions."—"The Temple," page 254.
Since the above proves positively that Christ was crucified on Friday, the hypothesis, held by some, that he was crucified on Wednesday or on Thursday, must be forever dismissed from our minds as untenable.
Walla Walla (Wash.) College.

Some Personal Experiences—

By A. T. Robinson

No. 4

A. T. ROBINSON
While laboring in Australia, there came a time when the manager of the Echo Publishing Company was notified by the police department that a complaint had been filed by some people against us for running the factory on Sunday, and that we should have to comply with the city ordinance in the matter.
A meeting of the board of managers was called. The writer, who was a member of the board, took the position that while we have a God-given right to work on Sunday, that right carries with it the Christian principle of compromising certain individual rights, in the interest of peace and for the good of our neighbors; that if we stood out against the authorities in this matter, it would result in raising prejudice against us in the minds of honest persons, and would cut off the ears of the very ones for whom we desired to labor. When the matter came to a test, five of the seven members of the board held to the position that to close the factory on Sunday would compromise the principles of the message touching our views concerning the "mark of the beast."
The board, by majority vote, having decided to meet the issue and abide by the consequences, the factory ran as usual on the following Sunday. The manager was again notified, and another board meeting was called, which resulted as did the one before. This program was repeated, the third and final notice being served on the manager. The officer stated that the persons who first entered complaint were threatening to prosecute him for nonenforcement of the law, and said that if our factory was run again on Sunday, he would be compelled, against his personal wishes, to take action. Our board was again called together, and spent several hours in earnest prayer to God for guidance in this trying time. That meeting lasted till a late hour at night, with the decision of the board still to meet the issue that was being forced upon us.
At that time Sister White and her attendants were staying in our family, in one of the suburbs of Melbourne. The hour being late when I returned home, the family had retired. I shall give in some detail a conversation which took place at the breakfast table the following morning. Sister White remarked to me, "You were out late last night?" "Yes," I replied. Later she asked, "Did you have a meeting last night?" "Yes," I said, " we had a meeting of the Echo board." A little later she asked, "What was your meeting about?" I then related to her, at some length, the situation which we were facing. She replied, "I am not surprised at these things. This matter has been opened to me, and I have written upon it." I then asked her if she would be willing to meet with our board and give us the benefit of her counsel. She expressed her willingness so to do, and I arranged for such a meeting. The matter was again discussed by the members of the board, Sister White sitting and listening in silence. Finally she was asked if she had any counsel for us, and to our distress she replied that she did not. A little later she said, "I feel perplexed in reference to this matter. I have had light upon it, and have written upon it, but my writing is in Cooranbong, New South Wales." Cooranbong is five hundred and fifty miles from where we were. Sister White sent a telegram to Miss Sarah Peck, who had charge of her manuscripts, and in a few days she received a copy of what she had written months before on the question at issue.
This Testimony, which she read to the board, instructed us that we should not compel the authorities to force this issue upon us, and thus prevent the very work that we were commissioned to do for the people. We were counseled to steal a march on the enemy, who was seeking to hinder and destroy our work, by yielding to the demands of the authorities, and to let the office employees give that day to missionary work in scattering our literature among the people. This counsel was followed by the board of managers, with results which brought joy and gladness to all our hearts.
At our morning family worship hour we were then reading by course in the book of Jeremiah, and on the morning following the meeting at which Sister White read the Testimony, the chapter read was the twenty-ninth. As the seventh verse was read, Sister White remarked, "Brother Robinson, do you see it in that verse?" I read the verse again and said, "Yes, Sister White, I see it clearly in that verse." The verse reads as follows: "And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace."

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