Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 27. (7/5/1906)

Review and Herald

Jul 5, 1906

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A Free Gift

By Editor

Editorial

A Free Gift

In one infinite, unmeasured, and immeasurable gift, all gifts, unnumbered and innumerable, were bestowed upon us. “Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.” “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” The daily blessings which come so constantly that they are called common, are the gifts of heaven provided in the one gift of Jesus for the salvation of humanity. The air which we breathe, the one thing upon which man has been unable to demand toll in some way, the water which we drink, and the food which we eat, are all gifts of God, even though we co-operate with him in the divine method of bestowing them. The forgiveness of sin, the righteousness of heaven, that life which measures with the life of God—all spiritual blessings are bound up in the one free gift of Christ. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.” “O, let us contemplate the amazing sacrifice that has been made for us! Let us try to appreciate the labor and energy that heaven is expending to reclaim the lost and bring them back to the Father’s house. Motives stronger, and agencies more powerful, could never be brought into operation,—the exceeding rewards of right-doing, the enjoyment of heaven, the society of the angels, the communion and love of God and his Son, the elevation and extension of all our powers throughout eternal ages,—are not these mighty incentives and encouragements to urge us to give the heart’s loving service to our Creator and Redeemer?” “My son, give me thine heart.”

“Lord, I give myself to thee, O take me as I am!”

The Divine Uplift

The same God who created man in his image in the beginning is seeking to restore that image in him. All the incentives to a higher life which infinite wisdom has devised, and all the power for such a life which heaven can provide, are employed to lift us up to higher ground and to prepare us for companionship, face to face, with the heavenly family. What a mistake it is to turn from these possibilities, and to devote all our time and strength to the sordid purpose of acquiring those possessions which at best we can retain but a short time. To be is better than to own. Likeness to Jesus is better than conformity to this world. “As we discern the perfection of our Saviour’s character, we shall desire to become wholly transformed, and renewed in the image of his purity. The more we know of God, the higher will be our ideal of character, and the more earnest will be our longing to reflect his likeness. A divine element combines with the human when the soul reaches out after God, and the longing heart can say, ‘My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.’” Listen to the call to be like Jesus, and receive the power for the divine uplift.

Human Versus Divine Authority

By Editor

THE calm assurance with which men who think highly of their own opinions will make assertions contrary to the declarations of the Word of God, and then expect their fellow mortals to believe them, would be ludicrous if such serious consequences were not involved. Some of these advanced thinkers will talk about the poetic myths of Genesis, will emphasize the alleged mistakes and discrepancies in the Bible, will impugn the reliability of the records given to us by the four evangelists, will stigmatize certain teachings of the Scriptures as being unsuited to the present age, and will thus refuse to recognize the divine authority of the inspired Word; but at the same time they will put forth statements on their own authority which either indirectly pervert or squarely contradict the teaching of the Scripture of truth, assuming that their opinions will be received with due deference, and that their authority will be recognized. How presumptuous is the modern critic!

As a sample of that kind of teaching which is diametrically opposed to the plain statements of the Bible, and which is nevertheless set forth with a positiveness and with a show of authority as if to brook no contradiction, we quote the following from an editorial on "Immortality" which recently appeared in a journal of wide circulation and influence:—

"God is spirit:" this is the first and fundamental faith of Christ. Man is God's child, God's offspring, coming from him, bearing his image, sharing his nature. Man, therefore, is also spirit. His body is the mere incident of his earlier development. . . .

Death and resurrection are the same. They are not merely simultaneous; they are the same phenomenon. Death is the dropping away of the body from the spirit. Resurrection is the upspringing of the spirit from the body. Life is continuous and unbroken. There is not this world and another world; there is one world. There is not time and eternity; it is all eternity. Immortality is not a future hope; it is a present possession.

Here is the most complete substitution of human philosophy for divine revelation. A quotation is first made from the Bible, as if to throw the mantle of Biblical authority over the whole teaching, and then in the face of other equally plain declarations of Scripture, assertions are made which utterly subvert the truth. And this, too, concerning a subject which is entirely beyond the bounds of human knowledge, a mystery which can be imparted to finite beings only through a revelation.

We are further told in this same editorial that "the doctrine of immortality as Jesus taught it has been corrupted by the pagan conceptions of life and death. . . . Paganism identifies man with his body. It can not, or at least does not,

conceive of man apart from his body. . . . This notion that death is a long and dreary sleep . . . is no longer credible. But we are told that there is no other resurrection of the body than its resurrection in grass and flowers."

In order that we may appreciate the better how far modern theology has departed from the truth as it is revealed in the Scriptures, it may be well to compare some of the statements in this editorial with the teaching of the Bible.

Human philosophy declares that "death and resurrection are the same," but revelation treats of them as two entirely distinct experiences: "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. . . . The last enemy that shall be abolished is death. . . . The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible." "They lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection."

Human philosophy says that "this notion that death is a long and dreary sleep . . . is no longer credible," but revelation, while it does not call it a dreary sleep, plainly speaks of death as a sleep: "Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death." "Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep." "David . . . fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption." "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." "We would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

Human philosophy says that "life is continuous and unbroken. There is not this world and another world; there is one world." Revelation speaks of "the life which now is, and of that which is to come." It also mentions "this present evil world," and "the world to come." It declares that when Christ was raised from the dead, he was exalted far above "every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come."

Human philosophy says that "immortality is not a future hope, it is a present possession;" but revelation refers to God as "the King, eternal, immortal," and declares that he "only hath immortality." The promise of immortality as a gift to believers is set forth in these words: "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."

It thus appears that the mere speculations of men have been substituted for revealed truth, and that the life and immortality which have been brought to light through the gospel of Christ, and which are promised to believers in Jesus, are claimed as the present possession of all men. And these false doctrines, these satanic sophistries, these fables of infidelity, are proclaimed with an assurance which demands that they shall be accepted in place of that which has been given "by inspiration of God." This is the climax of human assumption.

The doctrine of the natural immortality of man originated with Satan, and has been perpetuated in the teaching of paganism; and yet in this editorial it is distinctly intimated that the Biblical teaching that a body is an essential part of man is paganism. Thus in modern theology paganism is substituted for Christianity, and Christianity is stigmatized as paganism. How could there be a more complete perversion of revealed truth?

The explanation of this whole experience has been given through the spirit of prophecy: "Satan is constantly endeavoring to attract attention to man in the place of God. He leads the people to look to bishops, pastors, to professors of theology, as their guides, instead of searching the Scriptures to learn their duty for themselves. Then, by controlling the minds of these leaders, he can influence the multitudes according to his will." It is our duty to study the teachings of the Word of God for ourselves, and then to make known these teachings to others. The doctrines of the good old Book will stand to all eternity. Human authority is not a satisfactory substitute for divine authority. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

A Faith That Needs No Apology

By L. A. S.

We make no apology to the world for being Seventh-day Adventists. None is called for.

We make no apology for believing in and proclaiming the second advent of Christ. What doctrine occupies a more prominent place in the Scriptures than this? What event was prophesied of before this one? Who of the “holy men of old” through whom God spoke, prophesied before Enoch, “the seventh from Adam,” who spoke of the coming of Christ “with ten thousands of his saints,” and to execute judgment upon all,” as recorded in Jude 14, 15? So great, so important to all men is this event, that the shadow of its approach reached even to the days of Enoch. Hardly can the New Testament be opened without disclosing some scripture giving admonition, warning, comfort, or instruction with reference to this coming event. Why should we not, if we believe the Scriptures at all, believe and proclaim this great doctrine? Why are not all the Christian churches proclaiming it?

We make no apology for saying that the law of Jehovah has not been abolished nor changed. That is why we proclaim that the seventh day is the Sabbath. It is the Sabbath of God’s law. We hold to it because we hold to his law. Convince us that the law of God, that moral law which is the foundation of his government, has been changed, and we will abandon our ground. Let others cast upon us what stigma they please, or scoff at our position as they may, we point to the law of Jehovah in reply. We are not ashamed to be singled out from all the world as a people who honor that law and believe in its perfection and immutability. We stand for law, the highest law in existence, and we are willing all the world should know it.

We make no apology for believing that the Bible is God’s revelation to man, in which God said just what he intended to say, and that he means what he says. We make no apology for holding the only view of God’s Word that is creditable to its Author. Let people go into spiritualism, atheism, and other delusions if they will; when we are asked for the reason of our belief and hope, we point to the Word of God, and we are not ashamed of that as our authority. We are not afraid to compare it with any other authority upon which men base their views.

We make no apology for believing in a new earth, which is to take the place of “this present evil world,” and that the dark reign of sin and sorrow is almost ended. What view could be brighter and less “pessimistic” than this? What will so quickly and so effectually put an end to all that makes creation groan and sigh, as the advent of her long-awaited Sovereign?

“Joy to the world, the Lord will come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing.”

We make no apology for being in a position where we can look up and lift up our heads, because our redemption draweth nigh; where we can gather comfort from events that would otherwise cause fear and failing of heart; where we can anticipate but a little way in the future the touch of immortality upon our poor mortal bodies, and the reality

of the “blessed hope,” the reunion with “them that are asleep,” beyond the reach of death. We offer no apology for honoring Christ by the belief that eternal life comes to man only through him.

Why should not all persons who believe the Bible rejoice in the same hope, and share with us the enthusiasm of proclaiming such a message to the world?

L. A. S.

South America Takes Up the Cry

By William A. Spicer

THERE is more than sentiment in this cry of the finishing of the work. There is a solemn conviction spread of the Spirit in believing hearts through all the world that the time has come for the finishing of God’s work in the earth. Everywhere loyal hearts respond to the Lord’s call to come into line.

This conviction is guiding in the laying of plans for the more rapid and systematic prosecution of the work. Truly, as the spirit of prophecy has said, the plan of organizing our world-wide work on the basis of district union conferences was of God.

Again and again in the reorganization of the work in South America we, as workers, have thanked God for the way in which the union plan of organization fitted the need of this vast and diversified territory. While localizing responsibility, at the same time it binds all parts of the field together in one harmonious whole. The division of the field into smaller and more manageable conferences and missions, with responsible local management in charge, and the general union oversight directing all and keeping all together, has given a new inspiration to believers and laborers.

The circle of this organized work now stretches from Ecuador right round the continent to Brazil. And in Brazil the work is to be pushed from State to State in the north, where as yet little or nothing has been done. Already the State of San Paulo is set apart as a mission field, with a director, Elder Hoelzle, in charge, and it is hoped soon to open Minas Geraes, and so to have work going forward in the two most populous and prosperous States of Brazil. The South American Union means to press into every part of its unworked territory, and to surround its field with its slender band of laborers.

This newest of the union conferences brings the great South American continent into line with the world-wide plan of union organization. These unions now embrace the territories of Europe, North America, Africa, Australasia, and South America. The whole world is being so divided up that the frontiers of our work may be evenly and systematically pressed forward to annex the regions remaining still beyond.

We are no longer waiting to get a foothold in the great over-sea continents. We have an established foothold. The message has created for itself a base of operation in all these fields, and in response to the Lord’s own call the believers east and west, north and south, are coming into line to aim definitely at the full evangelization of the regions allotted to them. And when this gospel of the kingdom has been preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, “then shall the end come.”

We stand just where Israel stood in the days of Joshua. The land had been divided, each tribe had been allotted its inheritance, and it only remained for each to go in and subdue the land and take possession.

Now in our time the land is divided. It is for each division to go in and take possession. The stronger divisions are to help the weaker. And quickly, according to the Lord’s promise of a short work in the closing days, the message will be carried to the ends of the earth, and that means the coming of the Lord and the everlasting inheritance.

In the practical review of our field and work the longed-for consummation does not seem far off any longer. God is giving his people courage for the final conflict. The cry of a finished work meets a response everywhere in willing hearts. So is it in this newest of the unions, the South American. This union has a vast field, and a Catholic field; but the believers are strong-hearted, and confident that they shall be able to go in and possess their inheritance in the name of the Lord.

W. A. S.

Stajahy, Santa Catharina.

“In This Generation”

By L. A. S.

UPON the banners of two great armies of the Lord are inscribed these words, significant of the aim toward which the energy and enthusiasm of each is directed. Upon the banner of one of these armies is the motto, “The evangelization of the world in this generation.” Upon that of the other is the inscription, “The end of the world in this generation.” Both aim to accomplish their work “in this generation.” And in the end it will be found that they have been working together, both aiming at the same result. For only the evangelization of the world—the proclamation of “this gospel of the kingdom” to all the world—in this generation is needed to bring the end of the world in the same period of time.

What began some years ago as the “Student Volunteer” movement, and is now known as the “Student Christian Federation,” is a mighty power working for the world’s evangelization. More than one hundred thousand students and professors are numbered in this movement. Of the evangelizing work accomplished by this Christian army the Bombay Guardian (India) says:—

The foreign missionary cause owes to this movement a debt it can never pay; A band of students who “volunteered” for work in the mission field, gave it its name, and true to its origin, it has sent out thousands of “student volunteers” into that harvest-field which is so plenteous, while the laborers are so few. . . . It is not too much to say that this movement has been the most powerful agency in missions, not merely for recruiting the forces in the field, but more especially in changing the mission cause from “a mere wrecking expedition” to “a war of conquest.” The early prayer of the church was that the heathen lands might be opened to the missionary. The later prayer was that men might be found to go. Both these prayers have been answered. . . .

The decade just closed has been a most notable period in evangelistic work and results among students. . . . Nothing has characterized the decade more than the unprecedented advance made in Bible study. In 1895 there were not more than eleven thousand students in all nations engaged in voluntary Bible study in connection with student Christian societies. During the past year over fifty-eight thousand students were enrolled in the regular Bible classes of the various student movements. . . .

Prior to 1895 about nine hundred and sixty student volunteers had gone out to the foreign mission fields under the regular missionary societies, and most of these had gone from the United States. Since that time the number of sailed volunteers from North America and Europe has increased to thirty-five hundred. Equally encouraging is the fact that an even greater number of students who are not volunteers and who are planning to spend their lives in Christian countries, have been led by the student movements to feel a like burden of responsibility for promoting the success of the foreign missionary movement.

Of the various fields to which these student volunteers have gone, it is stated that over eight hundred have gone to China, six hundred to India, Burma, and Ceylon, three hundred to Africa, and nearly three hundred to Japan.

When this movement first began, President McCosh of Princeton University was greatly impressed by it, and said:—

The deepest feeling which I have is that of wonder as to what this work may grow to. Has any such offering of young men and young women been presented in our age, in our country, in any age or in any country, since the day of Pentecost?

It is indeed a significant movement, belonging to a time when God’s work is to go in the world as it has not gone since Pentecost. And why has this student army set itself to accomplish its work “in this generation”? There is

surely a significance in this which these students themselves may not perceive, but which is plain to the student of prophecy. The work of God must all be accomplished in this generation. In this generation the “mystery of God” is to be finished, as his prophets have declared. He is about to “finish the work and cut it short in righteousness.” We are nearly at the end of “this generation.” L. A. S.

Encouraging and Significant

By Arthur G. Daniells

I WONDER if the readers of the REVIEW, and our people generally, are taking account of the deep interest that is being manifested at this time by our union and local conferences in the great mission fields of this denomination. To me the course being taken is very encouraging and significant.

Not long ago the great majority of all our conferences were expending all their tithe, except a tenth sent to the General Conference, within their own boundaries. When our people began to open missions in foreign fields, a call was made for donations for their support. The donations were uncertain; they fluctuated according to the frequency and fervency of the calls. They were nearly always insufficient. This made the work of opening and enlarging missionary enterprises slow and perplexing.

The donation basis for the support of missionary enterprises is very different from the tithe basis for the support of organized conferences. It is uncertain and insufficient, and therefore unsatisfactory. It is not the Bible plan for the support of gospel workers in either home or foreign fields.

Our conferences are fast coming to recognize this, and are expressing this recognition by sharing their tithes with mission fields. In looking over the records since the Atlantic Union Conference made its splendid gift of two thousand dollars at its last session, a little more than six months ago, we find that over twenty-six thousand dollars in cash has been appropriated by union and local conferences to the General Conference for missions. Here is a list of these appropriations:—

Atlantic Union Conference ..$ 2,000.00 Iowa Conference .......... 6,000.00 Maine Conference .......... 300.00 West Michigan Conference . 3,350.00 Northern Union Conference.. 1,500.00 Central Union Conference ... 2,000.00 Pacific Union Conference .... 2,000.00 California-Nevada Conference 1,000.00 Lake Union Conference .... 1,767.11 Southern California Conf.... 398.36 Upper Columbia Conference. 3,000.00 Western Washington Conf. .. 1,200.00 Minnesota Conference ....... 500.00 South Dakota Conference .... 500.00 Western Oregon Conference . 1,000.00 Total .................$26,515.47

These gifts are in addition to the many laborers these and other conferences are supporting in mission fields from their tithes. The reports show that during 1905 our home conferences expended $78,957.79 of their tithes for the support of ministers and Bible workers in mission fields. Adding to this the amount of cash appropriated to the General Conference since last November, we have a sum totaling $105,473.26 from conference tithe being expended in mission fields. As there are many large, strong conferences yet to hold their annual camp-meetings and conference sessions this year, it will not be surprising if another twenty-five thousand dollars shall be added to the above.

This is encouraging; for it means to wonderfully lighten the strain on the Mission Board treasury, and to greatly increase the force of workers in the great harvest-field that is already white for the harvest. It is significant; for it affords evidence that great resources are soon to be at the back of our missionary enterprises. The tithes received by our conferences amount to nearly one million dollars a year. Our annual offerings to missions are growing larger each year. These are being wonderfully augmented by the Sabbath-school offerings appropriated to missions, which now amount to nearly one thousand dollars for each Sabbath that passes, or fifty-two thousand dollars for the year.

And while the appropriations are thus increasing, the older missions are being organized into self-supporting conferences, thus allowing the gifts they once required, to be passed on to other fields. While this is continually narrowing the circle of our field of missionary operations, yet it is increasing our activities, our force of workers, and the amount of expenditures. We have never looked into so many wide-open doors in our history as we do to-day. We have never listened to so many pressing calls for help as we hear just now. Every door we open seems to touch a spring that opens several others, and every call we answer brings many fresh appeals. Thus the great work we have undertaken grows more strenuous every day, and the demands for workers and means continually increase. All this shows plainly that our work is being finished, and that the end is near. For this we thank God and take courage.

A. G. DANIELLS.

A Source of Anarchy

How much longer can men of wealth and power who depend for their prosperity upon the popular respect for law in this country, continue to themselves show disrespect and defiance of law, before reaping the harvest of their seed sowing? That something must be done to prevent such an example from bearing its legitimate fruit, seems to be realized by some statesmen of the day, and they are giving the men who run the law-breaking corporations some words of admonition and warning. The N. Y. Times relates the following, bearing on this point:—

A conversation at the Waldorf-Astoria, in which Senator Bailey, of Texas, participated a few evenings ago, has created a great deal of comment among the persons involved and those to whom they related it, and leaked out yesterday.

Mr. Bailey, who had made a flying trip to New York, was seated at a table at the Waldorf-Astoria with some friends, when several persons prominent in corporation affairs came up. Some of them were officials of the Standard Oil Company. . . .

They sat down, and the conversation naturally turned on the recent events at Washington, the determination evident there to make things unpleasant for corporations, and in particular the passage of the railway-rate bill, with the stringent amendments added in the Senate.

Mr. Bailey did not say much at this stage of the conversation. He listened to the Standard Oil men, who gradually became stronger in their expressions.

They complained bitterly at the disposition evident in Washington to make things unpleasant for them, and sharply attacked the railway-rate bill and the Senate amendments. Presently Mr. Bailey, who had been listening patiently, struck into the conversation in an emphatic and menacing tone.

“You gentlemen who run these corporations,” said he, “must obey the law. If you had obeyed it in the first place, you would not have this new legislation to complain of. All your properties are held by virtue of the popular respect for law, and yet you are the very men who are doing most by your acts to break down this respect for law.

“Every time Congress passes a law, you violate it. You have violated every law we have given you. We gave you the Interstate Commerce act; you violated that. We gave you the Sherman anti-trust law; you violated that. Then we gave you the Elkins law, and you violated that. Now we give you a new one. If you violate that, we will give you another that will have iron teeth.”

A pause ensued after this declaration of Senator Bailey's. After a while one of the corporation officials present asked, “What do you mean, Senator, by a law with iron teeth?”

“I mean a law that will send every one of you to the penitentiary.”

After this, very little was said by the others present about the unfairness of Congress' attitude toward corporations. The conversation, however, continued along the same subject for a while, and presently Mr. Bailey said:—

“The ownership of competing corporations by the same hands can not go on. This Pennsylvania Railroad combination is one that will have to be broken up, and will be.”

Afterward, in speaking of the same subject to others, Senator Bailey said:—

“These corporation officials who violate the law, who break every law that Congress enacts, are doing more to create anarchists and socialists than all the propaganda that those people can put into operation from now till doom's day.”

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