Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 45. (10/29/1914)

Review and Herald

Oct 29, 1914

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1914

Pioneering in Northern India

The place of reversing on the railroad going up the western mountains from Bombay into the Punjab region, North India.

Into this great northern section of India, where many thousands are without God and without hope in the world, with no knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Saviour, two workers are pioneering.

“Do you ever come to the Master, To bring him your little store, And ask him that he will use it To send out one sower more? Do you ever think that it may be He will some day answer that prayer By sending you out, dear sower, To carry his message there?”

The THERAPEUTICS OF OPTIMISM

By H. M. Lome

H. M. LOME

In no phase of human experience does the power of mind over matter manifest itself more emphatically than in ill

careful examination of the patient, he ordered her to get out of bed and walk to the adjoining room. “What?” she gasped with wide-eyed

NERVES and WORRY

By A. B. Olsen

A. B. Olsen, M.D., D.P.H.

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THE WORK AND THE WORKERS

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War and war preparations are the result of national distrust and

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The Foreigners in America

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE

While plans are being carried out to warn the inhabitants of various nations in distant lands, much must be done in behalf of the foreigners who have come to the shores of our own land. The souls in China are no more precious than the souls within the shadow of our doors. God’s people are to labor faithfully in distant lands, as his providence may open the way; and they are also to fulfill their duty toward the foreigners of various nationalities in the cities and villages and country districts close by.

It is well that those in responsibility are now planning wisely to proclaim the third angel’s message to the hundreds of thousands of foreigners in America. God desires his servants to do their full duty toward the unwarned millions of the cities, and especially toward those who have come to these cities in our land from the nations of earth. Many of these foreigners are here in the providence of God, that they may have opportunity to hear the truth for this time.

Great benefits would come to the cause of God in the regions beyond if faithful effort were put forth in behalf of the foreigners in the cities of our homeland. Among these men and women are some who, upon accepting the truth, could soon be fitted to labor for their own people in this country and in other countries. Many might return to the places from which they came, in the hope of winning their friends to the truth. They could search out their kinsfolk and neighbors, and communicate to them a knowledge of the third angel’s message.

Had the work of warning the cities of America been carried forward in past years with an earnestness in harmony with the importance of this part of the harvest field, we might now be standing on vantage ground. In urging this matter upon the attention of our brethren in responsibility assembled in a union conference in 1909, I said:— “In New York City, in Chicago, and in other great centers of population, there is a large foreign element—multitudes of various nationalities, and all practically unwarned. Among Seventh-day Adventists there is a great zeal—and I am not saying there is any too much—to work in foreign countries; but it would be pleasing to God if a proportionate zeal were manifested to work the cities close by. His people need to move sensibly. They need to set about this work in the cities with serious earnestness. Men of consecration and talent are to be sent into these cities, and set at work. Many classes of laborers are to unite in conducting these efforts to warn the people.

“When God’s chosen messengers recognize their responsibility toward the cities, and in the spirit of the Master Worker labor untiringly for the conversion of precious souls, those who are enlightened will desire to give freely of their means to sustain the work done in their behalf. The newly converted believers will respond liberally to every call for help, and the Spirit of God will move upon their hearts to sustain not only the work being carried forward in the cities where they may be living, but in the regions beyond. Thus strength will come to the working forces at home and abroad, and the cause of God will be advanced in his appointed way.”

In “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VIII, counsel is given concerning this same matter. From pages 34-37 I quote:— “I must write something in regard to the way in which our cities in America have been passed by and neglected,—cities in which the truth has not been proclaimed. The message must be given to the thousands of foreigners living in these cities in the home field. . . . “Who feels heavily burdened to see the message proclaimed in Greater New York and in the many other cities as yet unworked? Not all the means that can be gathered up is to be sent from America to distant lands, while in the home field there exist such providential opportunities to present the truth to millions who have never heard it. Among these millions are the representatives of many nations, many of whom are prepared to receive the message. Much remains to be done within the shadow of our doors, —in the cities of California, New York, and many other States. . . .

“We repeat the prayer, ‘Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Matt. 6: 10. Are we doing our part to answer this prayer? We profess to believe that the commission which Christ gave to his disciples is given also to us. Are we fulfilling it? May God forgive our terrible neglect in not doing the work that as yet we have scarcely touched with the tips of our fingers. When will this work be done? It makes my heart sick and sore to see such blindness on the part of the people of God.”

“There are thousands in America perishing in ignorance and sin. And looking afar off to some distant field, those who know the truth are indifferently passing by the needy fields close to them. Christ says, ‘Go work today in my vineyard.’ ‘Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?’ behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes; and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.’ Matt. 21: 28; John 4: 35.

“Wake up, wake up, my brethren and sisters, and enter the fields in America that have never been worked. After you have given something for foreign fields, do not think your duty done. There is a work to be done in foreign fields, but there is a work to be done in America that is just as important. In the cities of America there are people of almost every language. These need the light that God has given to his church.

“The Lord lives and reigns. Soon he will arise in majesty to shake terribly the earth. A special message is now to be borne, a message that will pierce the spiritual darkness and convict and convert souls. ‘Haste thee, flee for thy life,’ is the call to be given to those dwelling in sin. We must now be terribly in earnest. . . .

“My heart is filled with anguish when I think of the tame messages borne by some of our ministers, when they have a message of life and death to bear. The ministers are asleep; the lay members are asleep; and a world is perishing in sin. May God help his people to arouse and walk and work as men and women on the borders of the eternal world. Soon an awful surprise is coming upon the inhabitants of the world. Suddenly, with power and great glory, Christ will come. Then there will be no time to prepare to meet him. Now is the time for us to give the warning message.”

Recently we were favored with a visit

from Elder O. A. Olsen, who has been appointed by the General Conference to have the general oversight of the work among foreigners in America. We were greatly cheered by the encouraging report he brought concerning the progress that has been made in a few places. He told us of the continued prosperity of the cause of present truth among the Scandinavians and the Germans in America, and of the plans for continuing the work among the French. We rejoice that the efforts put forth by the pioneer workers among foreign nationalities in the United States and Canada, have borne a rich harvest of souls; and we pray that our brethren and sisters who have sacrificed to establish schools for the training of their children in their own mother tongue, may continue steadfast in the faith. Their labor of love will not be in vain. The workers trained in these schools should be encouraged to find their places quickly in the Master’s vineyard, and to labor perseveringly in behalf of those who know not the truth for this time. God will go before them, and give them many souls for their hire.

Elder Olsen told us also of the encouraging beginnings among the Italians, Servians, Roumanians, Russians, and several other nationalities. We rejoiced with him in all that has been done, and yet our hearts were made sad by the knowledge that much that might have been done has been left undone because of lack of means. We hope that the special collection recently taken in all our churches in America, will enable our brethren having this department in charge, to do more aggressive work in the great cities of the land. Thus many may be won to our ranks, and from among these may be developed laborers who can proclaim the message to those of their own nationality in our own land and in the other nations of earth.

God would be pleased to see far more accomplished by his people in the presentation of the truth for this time to the foreigners in America than has been done in the past. Let us strengthen the hands of Elder Olsen and his associates in labor. Let us not permit them to struggle on, alone, with only a meager allowance for the prosecution of their great work. As I have testified for years, if we were quick in discerning the opening providences of God, we should be able to see in the multiplying opportunities to reach many foreigners in America a divinely appointed means of rapidly extending the third angel’s message into all the nations of earth. God in his providence has brought men to our very doors and thrust them, as it were, into our arms, that they might learn the truth, and be qualified to do a work we could not do in getting the light before men of other tongues.

There is a great work before us. The world is to be warned. The truth is to be translated into many languages, that all nations may enjoy its pure, life-giving influence. This work calls for the exercise of all the talents that God has intrusted to our keeping,—the pen, the press, the voice, the purse, and the sanctified affections of the soul. Christ has made us ambassadors to make known his salvation to the children of men; and if we are clothed with the righteousness of Christ and are filled with the joy of his indwelling Spirit, we shall not be able to hold our peace. The truth will be poured forth from hearts all aglow with the love of God. We shall long to present the attractions of Christ and the unseen realities of the world to come.

God’s Strange Work in the Earth

By Eliza H. Morton

ELIZA H. MORTON

“For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.” Isa. 28:21.

The following from Talmage is a graphic description of what he saw from the summit of a high mountain. It has its lesson:—

“On the top of the mountain was a crown of flashing gold, while all beneath was rolling, writhing, contorting cloud. But after a while the arrows of light shot from heaven began to make the glooms of the valley strike tent. The fogs were lifted and dashed and hurled. The mists went scurrying up and down like horsemen in wild retreat. Then the whole valley became one grand illumination; and there were horses of fire and thrones of fire and chariots of fire and the flapping wings of angels of fire. Gradually, without sound of trumpet or roll of wheel, they moved off.”

This pen picture well represents the going forth of the agencies God uses in his last work for fallen man. Great moral darkness and dense fogs of skepticism and wickedness hang over this earth. The armies of heaven are astir while Satan is marshaling his unseen host for battle. Above all and through all, the light of the everlasting gospel is shining, and soon there will be great changes. The clouds will lift, the heavens will depart, the graves will be opened, and shining beings will be caught up to meet shining beings in the air, and together they will rise and march through a gleaming corridor of glory straight up to the throne of God.

“And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.” Rev. 15:2.

Portland, Maine.

The Fullness of the Gospel

By Ole Andres Olsen

— No. 4

It Should Be Revealed in Every Institution Connected With This Closing Work

O. A. OLSEN

“We are nearing the end of this earth’s history, and God calls upon all to lift the standard bearing the inscription, ‘Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.’ He calls upon his people to work in perfect harmony. He calls upon those engaged in our medical work to unite with the ministry; he calls upon the ministry to cooperate with the medical missionary workers; and he calls upon the church to take up their appointed duty, holding up the standard of true reform in their own territory, leaving the trained and experienced workers to press on into new fields. No word is to be spoken to discourage any, for this grieves the heart of Christ and greatly pleases the adversary. All need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit; all should refrain from censuring and disparaging remarks, and draw near to Christ, that they may appreciate the heavy responsibilities which the coworkers with him are carrying. ‘Press together; press together,’ are the words of our divine Instructor. Unity is strength; disunion is weakness and defeat.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI, page 292.

“God’s purpose for his institutions today may also be read in the purpose which he sought to accomplish through the Jewish nation. Through Israel it was his design to impart rich blessings to all people. Through them the way was to be prepared for the diffusion of his light to the whole world. The nations of the world, through following corrupt practices, had lost a knowledge of God. Yet in his mercy God did not blot them out of existence. He purposed to give them opportunity for becoming acquainted with him through his church. He designed that the principles revealed through his people should be the means of restoring in man the moral image of God.

“Christ was their instructor. As he was with them in the wilderness, so after their establishment in the Promised Land he was still their teacher and guide. In the tabernacle and the temple his glory dwelt in the holy Shekinah above the mercy seat. In their behalf he constantly manifested the riches of his love and patience.

“God desired to make of his people Israel a praise and a glory. Every spiritual advantage was given them. God withheld from them nothing favorable to the formation of character that would make them representatives of himself.

“Their obedience to the laws of God would make them marvels of prosperity before the nations of the world. He who could give them wisdom and skill in all

cunning work would continue to be as their teacher, and would ennoble and elevate them through obedience to his laws. If obedient, they would be preserved from the diseases that afflicted other nations, and would be blessed with vigor of intellect. The glory of God, his majesty and power, were to be revealed in all their prosperity. They were to be a kingdom of priests and princes. God furnished them with every facility for becoming the greatest nation on the earth.”—Id., pages 221, 222.

“As we near the close of time, we must rise higher and still higher upon the question of health reform and Christian temperance, presenting it in a more positive and decided manner. We must strive continually to educate the people, not only by our words but by our practice. Precept and practice combined have a telling influence.”—Id., page 112.

The proclamation of the gospel to all the world as outlined in the threefold message of Revelation 14, is now in process of fulfillment. In the accomplishment of this work many agencies will be employed, and the fullness of its power is to be revealed. Much will be accomplished through the circulation of literature, but the first and foremost is the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom, and with that the medical missionary work is most closely connected. Christ is our example, and of him we are to learn.

“Christ, the Great Medical Missionary, is our example. Of him it is written that he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. He healed the sick and preached the gospel. In his service, healing and teaching were linked closely together. Today they are not to be separated.”

“The gospel minister should preach the health principles, for these have been given of God as among the means needed to prepare a people perfect in character. Therefore health principles have been given to us that as a people we might be prepared in both mind and body to receive the fullness of God’s blessing. The medical missionary work has its place and part in this closing gospel work.”

“The Christian physician has a high calling. With his fuller knowledge of the human system and its laws, he is in a position to preach the gospel of salvation with much efficiency and power.

“The first and chief object of the gospel and all that pertains to it is to seek to save that which is lost. The ministry of the gospel, whether by the minister or the physician, is to reach out to man a helping hand wherever it is needed. It is to minister to the sick and suffering physically as well as to the sin-sick soul.

“Here the gospel minister and the Christian physician unite, and the Bible worker in her visit from house to house as well.”

“The nurses who are trained in our institutions are to be fitted up to go out as medical missionary evangelists, uniting the ministry of the word with that of physical healing.”

“The purpose of our health institutions is not first and foremost to be that of hospitals. The health institutions connected with the closing work of the gospel in the earth stand for the great principles of the gospel in all its fullness. Christ is the one to be revealed in all the institutions connected with the closing work, but none of them can do it so fully as the health institution where the sick and suffering come for relief and deliverance from both physical and spiritual ailment. Many of these need, like the paralytic of old, the forgiveness of sin the first thing, and they need to learn how to ‘go, and sin no more.’

“If a sanitarium connected with this closing message fails to lift up Christ, and the principles of the gospel as developed in the third angel’s message, it fails in its most important feature, and contradicts the very object of its existence.

“At the same time our health institutions are also to be training centers for preparing and training workers.” “There should be companies organized and educated most thoroughly to work as nurses, as evangelists, as ministers, as canvassers, as gospel students, to perfect a character after the divine similitude. To prepare to receive the higher education in the school above, is now to be our purpose.”—Mrs. E. G. White, MS.

From this study it would appear, first, that the great work to be done for the world is the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom; second, that every line of work, such as medical missionary, health reform, publishing, the circulation of literature, schools, city missions for the training of workers, and all and every agency that will contribute to the saving of the lost and the building up of God’s kingdom in the world, is comprehended in the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom.

Chicago, Ill.

The Old Story

By Katherine Hankey

I KNOW that whatever of sorrow Or pain or temptation befall, The infinite Master has suffered, And knoweth and pitieth all. So tell me the sweet old story, That falls on each wound like a balm, And my heart that was bruised and broken Shall grow patient and strong and calm.

— Katherine Hankey.

Comment on Isa. 53:9

By James Edson White

J. E. WHITE

“And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”

In the earlier editions of “Coming King” this text was treated in the following manner:—

“Seven hundred years before the crucifixion, Isaiah testified that the Saviour would make his grave ‘with the rich in his death.’”

“To make ‘his grave with the wicked,’ would have been to cast him out without burial, with criminals. But they [the Jews] were foiled in this design by one of their wealthy rulers, Joseph of Arimathea, who, in this darkest hour for the followers of Christ, stepped out boldly and took his stand for the crucified Saviour.”

“Joseph had great influence with Pilate, and begged from him permission to take the body from the cross to give it honorable burial. Pilate, who was conscience-stricken because of the weak and wicked part he had acted, readily gave Joseph the desired permission.

“Tender, loving hands took the Saviour from the cruel cross, and bore his body to the new tomb, which had never before been used, and there he was laid, thus literally fulfilling the statement of the prophet. Although poor while in life, in death his body was laid in the new, rock-hewn tomb of the wealthy ruler of Israel. No greater honor could have been shown to the dead than was accorded to Jesus by Joseph and Nicodemus.”

The foregoing comment has been questioned by some, as it does not seem to accord with the reading of the text. But in Clarke’s Commentary, edition of 1837, is quoted the translation of the verse by Bishop Lowth, which he considers “very satisfactory,” and which accords with the treatment in “Coming King:” —

“And his grave was appointed with the wicked; But with the rich man was his tomb.”

Jesus was crucified with thieves. All such criminals were refused burial, and were burned in the Valley of Hinnom. The enemies of Jesus intended that his body should receive this ignominious treatment, but the Father protected carefully the sacred body of his Son. The designs of the murderers of Jesus were frustrated by the prompt action of the wealthy rulers of Israel, Joseph and Nicodemus.

The most careful protection of the body of Jesus was foretold in prophecy. David wrote, “Thou wilt not . . . suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” Ps. 16:10. And John testifies regarding the thrust of the spear, “For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.” John 19:36. See Ps. 34:20.

Says Paul, “Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” 1 Cor. 5:7. The Passover lamb was the type of Christ, and it is significant that in preparing the lamb for the Passover celebration, the Hebrews were carefully instructed that not a bone of it should be broken. See Ex. 12:46; Num. 9:12.

Habit Breaking

A STORY is told of an English minister who offered a prize to the boy who would write the best composition in five minutes on “How to Overcome a Habit.”

At the expiration of five minutes the composition was read. The prize went to a lad of nine years. The following is his essay:—

“Well, sir, habit is hard to overcome. If you take off the first letter, it does not change ‘a bit.’ If you take off another, you still have a ‘bit’ left. If you take off another, the whole of ‘it’ remains. If you take off another, it is wholly used up. All of this goes to show that if you want to get rid of habit you must throw it off altogether.”—Selected.

EDITORIALS

By Editor

No More War

THE terrible war now in progress in the Old World has shocked the sensibilities of the people of all lands. So great is the feeling of horror over the fearful price the nations are paying that many are declaring there will never be another great war; that the people will force their governments to arbitrate their international differences, and thus preclude the possibility of another such murderous holocaust.

Up to the time of the outbreak of the present war it was being freely declared that a thorough preparation for war was the surest preventive of war. The European struggle now on has proved such a declaration a false prophecy, which has entailed the most tremendous and disastrous consequences. It was also declared that the terribly destructive weapons of war now in the hands of the military forces of the nations were a guaranty against war, because men would not face such deadly inventions. And this prophecy has been proved as false and deceptive as the other. The acute and complete preparation for war made the war inevitable.

There is no guaranty against war in this present world, because there is no assurance that the gospel of Christ and the mind of Christ will ever be accepted by the great bulk of the people; and where these are not accepted, there lingers still the living germ of war. The Bible teaches that wars spring from the lust of the human heart, and nothing but the power of God can uproot that.

Nevertheless, this terrible war is paving the way for a greater false prophecy and a greater deception than those that are now causing the world to bleed. Prophets of peace are proclaiming to the war-harried nations that this will be the last great war—the last parade of legalized destruction this world will ever see. It is flung to despairing humanity as a substantial hope to cling to in their deluge of sorrow and misery. But it is a false hope, and more cruel because of the disappointment and despair that will follow its unmasking in the torn and bleeding countries of the world.

A writer in the Christian Advocate of October 8, speaking of his visit to the Peace Palace at The Hague, and deploring the fact that Europe had not sought to settle her disputes in an arbitration council there, makes the following observations and prophecy:—

Dust gathers upon the desks in the Hall of Justice, light filters through rich cathedral glass and falls upon empty chairs; and because dust gathers, and because chairs are empty, the world suffers, and men who were hopeful hide their faces.

I still believe that this building is Mr. Carnegie’s noblest gift. It is a constant plea and invocation for peace, a strong reminder and a fervent invitation for bloodless international settlements. It is an incarnate prayer for a warless world.

It will be used hereafter. When Europe has been drained to despairing weakness; when women have only the memory of husbands, and children forget that there are fathers; when earth and air are loathsome from the sowing of ball and shell; when ten million cups of sorrow have been drained, and living men stagger out deliriously from the mad fury of it all,—then the palace of peace will not be empty. And those who live and behold their country spoiled and stricken by the jealous folly of the war lords and masters, will take the scepter from their wicked hands and with it crown the people. And when the pall lifts and men see for themselves what war has done, they will come from the east and west and north and south to register the solemn judgment and decision that in all the world to the end of time this shall be the last war.—Carl Gregg Doney, Ph. D.

But the fire of the nations’ anger will not be quenched by this deluge of human blood. Animosity, hatred, and distrust brought on the war; and if ever it could be said that nations went into battle in the white heat of anger, it could certainly be said of those who have flung themselves at each other in this bitter contest. Witness monarchs, who had been decorated by each other, stripping off their decorations and flinging them to the ground, in token of their feelings toward those who had bestowed the decorations. Hear the declarations of soldiers: “May God have mercy on our enemies; for they will receive none from us.”

Wars do not dissolve distrust, alleviate animosities, dissipate discord, remove the lust for revenge, nor transmute hatred into love. As the surgeon’s knife often scatters new nuclei of cancer through the system, so do these periods of international bloodletting scatter new nuclei of war infection throughout the world. War always leaves other “scores to settle,” and other debts of vengeance to be paid. War can never wipe out the cause of war any more than indulgence in opium smoking will remove the desire for the drug. Yet such is the delusive hope held before the world today, when the eagles of war are sinking their talons deeper than ever into the vitals of the world. The cry of peace and safety will be heard with greater vehemence than ever before, because the horrors of war will be brought home to earth’s inhabitants with more vivid realism than ever before, and the desire for peace will be the strongest desire in the hearts of many millions. “Peace, peace,” is the cry of many a modern prophet; but the only true peace there will be in this world till time shall end is the peace that reigns in the heart of the individual who is fully surrendered to God; and the world should know that when the cry of “peace and safety” is lulling the people to sleep, the great day of earth’s doom is drawing nigh. C. M. S.

A Missionary Clock

By W. A. S.

So far as we know, it was a little church of believers in Delaware who originated the missionary clock plan of recording and stimulating giving for missions in the Sabbath schools. Elder F. H. Seeney, who is leading in the colored work in Delaware, reported at the recent meeting of the Chesapeake Conference that the original clock is still running and keeping splendid time. For the benefit of Sabbath schools and churches that have adopted the clock plan, and for those who have not yet secured one of these paper clock devices that are now available for all, we quote the following from Elder Seeney’s annual report of his work in the Chesapeake Conference:—

In collecting our money for missions we have adopted the missionary clock plan, and we believe it is the only system which will succeed in the faithful collection of mission funds. We never close our Sabbath school until our quota of fifteen cents is fully made up, and the old hand on the clock goes on as usual. We have been running this old clock for nearly two years, and it has never failed to be on time. It registers fifteen cents for each church member every Sabbath, and has not failed in two years. Every Sabbath we look at the old clock, and

we see that beautiful motto on its face in large letters, and it is always an inspiration to us to see the money made up for missions.

At the close of the quarter, on the thirteenth Sabbath, we collect the other five cents, making our total of twenty cents for each member for the quarter. The close of the quarter just passed, finds the Second Seventh-day Adventist Church of Wilmington up with its mission funds of twenty cents a week for each member.

There are many good features about the old clock. It tells us each Sabbath how much has been given to missions up to date, it always faithfully registers how many members we have in our church, and there are many more good things which will be added later.

We believe the Columbia Union Conference is supplying the little clock device to all its churches for use in keeping time for systematic missionary giving.

W. A. S.

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