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Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 14.

SOME VALUABLE BOOKS

Review and Herald

Apr 8, 1902

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 8, 1902

SOME VALUABLE BOOKS

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Heralds of the Morning.

Takes up the marvelous record of the nineteenth century—the wonderful advances in science and art, and the development of natural resources; the prevalence of crime; the perfection of death-dealing instruments of war, and the pent-up anger of nations; together with the disturbed condition of the elements—and points out to the reader the fact that in this are signs that declare the coming of the Son of man. 280 pages, 109 illustrations.
Price....................$1.25 and $1.50.
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Marshaling of the Nations.

By ALONZO T. JONES.
This pamphlet briefly outlines the course of Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece; treats of the division of the Roman Empire into the ten kingdoms, and from these the gradual development of the great powers of to-day, and accounts for their strategical position on the map of the world, and their rôle in the Eastern Question, and the dismemberment of Turkey, and notices the rise of the United States as a prophetical nation. The part that each government is to act in the last great conflict is tersely considered, and the whole is calculated to give a general idea of the part each nation is to act in fulfilling prophecy.
44 Pages,........................$0.10
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Sound an Alarm.

Bible Student’s Library, No. 167.
This tract strikes at every root of the great labor question now being agitated by all classes of our country’s inhabitants, and shows that in the great state of restlessness which is permeating all society, are signs of our Lord’s return.
16 Pages, Illustrated...........1 cent.

Mothers’ and Teachers’ Manual.

Mothers and teachers should have a copy of the “Mothers’ and Teachers’ Manual,” written by Prof. O. C. Lewis, and especially designed to assist in the home and church schools. It contains valuable suggestions for mothers and teachers, and the prices are within the reach of all.
Paper cover, postpaid....... . . . . . . . . . . . $0.35 Cloth “ “ ........................50
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Manual for Canvassers.

We have a small vest-pocket book, nicely bound in leather, containing a compilation of the principal matter written by Mrs. E. G. White upon the canvassing work, gleaned from the Testimonies and the “Gospel Workers,” combined with unpublished manuscript compiled under the direction of the author, and arranged in convenient form for reference. It is indispensable to the canvasser, and good for all who are interested in one of the most potent factors in the dissemination of the third angel’s message.
Order of your State Tract Society.

Guide to Correct Language.

A Ready Reference Book.

By PROF. G. H. BELL.
A treatise convenient for the use of all people in all callings and professions, and especially helpful to printers, teachers, students, and those who write for the press. It contains facts that everybody wishes to know about the correct use of the English language, and these facts are so arranged that they can be instantly found.
Substantially bound in cloth. Size, 6 x 9¼ inches.
Price, postpaid................$1.00
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The Monitor of Health.

A plain, clear, and concise treatise of over three hundred common diseases and their remedies. The purpose of the book is to teach in a simple manner the nature and the cause of common diseases, and to prescribe for their cure and avoidance.
The former price of the book was $1.25, but in order to place it in the homes of many, the price is reduced to only 75 cents. It is illustrated with colored plates, and contains over 400 pages.
Order of your State Tract Society.

Temperance and Gospel Songs.

An excellent song book of one hundred pages, especially adapted for gospel and temperance meetings.
The former price of this book was 30 cents, but it is now reduced to 12 cents, postpaid, in order to close out the edition as soon as possible.
Order of Review and Herald Pub. Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

Healthful Living.

A compilation of many important facts selected from thousands of printed pages which have appeared in various forms from Mrs. White’s pen within the last thirty years, and a large amount of manuscript never before printed.
The purpose of this volume is to present in a clear and condensed form the revealed teachings pertaining to health and health reform.
It is neatly bound in cloth, 5 x 7 inches, and contains 330 pages.
Price, postpaid,....................$0.50
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The Story of Daniel the Prophet.

The life of Daniel the prophet as portrayed in the new book, “The Story of Daniel the Prophet,” is worthy of imitation; and as we become changed by beholding, we are doing a noble work when we place this excellent book in the homes of the people, where it will serve as a mirror, revealing a righteous life associated with a clear and forcible exposition of the prophecies.
Price, postpaid....................$0.75
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An Important Book.

The “Facts for the Times” is a volume especially designed to furnish a compilation of important facts in a compact and convenient form for reference.
The book contains accounts of remarkable fulfillments of prophecy; interesting comments upon different texts of Scripture from the ablest critics, past and present; striking occurrences of natural phenomena; important facts in the development of our own country; statistics concerning population, intemperance, war, crime, and the present condition of the religious, political, and physical worlds; and many other important subjects—a compendium of important facts in a simple and easy form for ready reference. It contains 329 pages, nicely bound in cloth.
Price, postpaid................75 cents
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The Marvel of Nations.

Our Country, Its Past, Present, and Future, and What the Scriptures Say of It.
While the historical past and present of this nation are of great interest to the American people, and easily attract their attention, the principal object of this book is to call attention to the Scriptural future of this nation, and through it, to the final termination of all earthly governments and the setting up of the kingdom of God. This book contains the plain and simple third angel’s message, and ever leaves the reader desiring a further exposition of the prophecies. It creates a demand for “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.”
Cloth, plain edges................$1.25 Cloth, gilt edges..................1.50
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A Chart of the Week.

A splendid display in chart form showing the unchanged order of the days, and the true position of the Sabbath, as proved by the combined testimony of 139 ancient and modern languages.
This chart is substantially mounted on rollers, and is printed on paper on cloth, in the original languages. It is eighteen inches wide, and seven feet long. It is an excellent arrangement to have in presenting the Sabbath question. The regular original price of the chart is $1.25, but for a short time we will send it, postpaid, for 45 cents.
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The Great Controversy.

By MRS. E. G. WHITE.
A book that the people should have, especially at this time. In this book is represented the severe contest between truth and error, and the tenacity with which Satan holds to his claims. The warning this book contains, and the dangers pointed out, are what the people need now. It is published in the English, Danish, Swedish, German, and French languages. Price, $2.25 to $4.50, according to style of binding.
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Looking unto Jesus.

Christ in Type and Antitype. An exhaustive treatise on the subject of the sanctuary. A well-written and nicely illustrated book of over 300 pages, on the work of Christ as revealed in prophecy from the beginning, by Uriah Smith.
Prices: Plain Cloth, postpaid................$1.00 Presentation Edition, postpaid.......1.50
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A New Tract.

Revelation the fourteenth chapter and the eighth verse, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,” is the subject of the new tract entitled “The Fall of Babylon,” by Elder R. C. Porter. It is published in the Bible Students’ Library, No. 169, January, 1902. It has an appropriate illustrated cover, contains 22 pages, and sells for 1½ cents per copy, with usual discount to tract societies.
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Miraculous Powers.

The Scripture Testimony on the Perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts.
Berean Library, No. 9.
The belief that Spiritual Gifts still exist in the church is here supported by means of Scriptural evidence and a compilation of testimonies from the writings of eminent Fathers and the greatest religious writers of every portion of the Christian dispensation. Every Seventh-day Adventist needs to be thoroughly versed in regard to this great point of doctrine, and this volume will be a source of the greatest assistance in this respect.
128 pages, price................15 cents
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The Master’s Greatest

Monosyllables.

In commendation of the new book by Mrs. Pearce, entitled “The Master’s Greatest Monosyllables,” Elder W. E. Frederick says: “The writer, in a concise way, has developed thoughts that are especially applicable to us at this time. . . . Those who fail to read this book will lose a great blessing. If the chapter headed ‘Go’ were read and heeded by each one of us as workers, the gospel would soon be carried to all the world, and our blessed Lord would come. May the Lord wake up His people, that they may become intense workers.”
Price, postpaid..................50 cents
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Every State Tract Society is an agent for the Review and Herald Publishing Company, and will supply these publications at the prices indicated.

Go Forward

By Editor

Editorial

To

ISAIAH “heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” and his response was, “Here am I; send me.” Then came that blessed command, “Go.” Volunteers whose iniquity has been taken away, and whose sin has been purged, are promptly accepted for service.

Go Forward

WHEN the children of Israel were face to face with the Red Sea, with mountains on each side of their camp, and Pharaoh’s host “overtook them encamping by the sea,” the Lord’s instruction to Moses was, “Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.” The Captain of the Lord’s host never sounds a retreat. No obstacle can prevent the Lord’s people from advancing when they are walking in the way of the Lord. The attack of the enemy will only serve as a stimulus to prevent us from settling down in camp, and the difficulties in the way will bring greater glory to our Leader, when they are met in his name.

Go into the Vineyard

THE laborers were hired, and sent into the vineyard. They were not hired to sit in the market place. At the third hour, the sixth hour, the ninth hour, and the eleventh hour the householder’s instruction to those whom he had hired was, “Go ye also into the vineyard.” It is evident that the service rendered did not fix the rate of wages, as all received the same amount, but the going into the vineyard was a necessary step in the way of receiving the recompense which the householder gave to all the laborers alike. The real motive of service can be shown just as well in one hour as in ten hours. It is not the length of time that one loves, but the fact that he loves, that is of importance. But the love that is real shows itself in service. “Do you value more highly the opportunity of serving him than the ability to make him serve you?”
“Toiling for Jesus, joyfully we go; Toiling for Jesus, in his vineyard here below.”

Go into All the World

EVERY wandering child of God is to hear the Father’s invitation, “Come home.” The Lord will not come in judgment to any soul who has not first heard the call of mercy. This gospel of the kingdom must be preached in all the world. How long will it be before we realize that the Lord has made us the depositaries of light which is to enlighten the world, and that it has been given to us for that very purpose? There is the definite work before us of carrying this message to “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” We must pray, we must study; but real prayer and real study cannot be separated from the experience of service. When we pray, “Thy kingdom come,” our prayer means that we offer ourselves as instrumentalities to be used in the work of hastening the coming of the kingdom. There is no genuine worship of God which does not include in it the element of service for God. Just now is a testing time among God’s people, and he is offering them once more, and perhaps for the last time, the privilege of being used in the closing work. Those who show themselves “faithful over a few things” will be granted the opportunity of undertaking great things for God. Some who are to go to the ends of the earth with this message are to-day living in quiet retirement, with their powers for service undeveloped, and they themselves unconscious of the ability which God has given them. The visit to a neighbor to sell a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons” may prove to be the first step toward some distant and unentered field. Listen for the voice saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”

A Missionary People

THE gospel which was preached beforehand to Abraham was found in that wonderful prophecy and promise, “In thee shall all nations be blessed.” Abraham and his descendants were to constitute the channel through which the blessing from God was to flow to all the world. This was their high privilege. “What advantage then hath the Jew? . . . Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.” These living oracles, the word of life, they received directly from God in their fellowship with him, that they might impart the gift to the whole world. Their own salvation as a nation and as individuals depended upon the faithful fulfillment of their trust. It was only as they fulfilled God’s purpose for them that they could maintain their position as the chosen people. These things have been written for our learning. As soon as God’s people lose their missionary zeal, they lose their right to the blessings promised to Abraham. The very essence of these blessings consists in being able to minister light and life and salvation to all the people of the earth. This is sharing in the character of God, and rightly representing that character to the world. “Ye are the light of the world. . . . Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”

The One Purpose

IT is time for this people to unite heart and soul in the one purpose to give “the advent message to the world in this generation.” Never was a greater privilege bestowed upon God’s people in any age than is offered to us just now. Such a revelation of the power and glory of the coming of the Lord is to be made to the world in this generation as will prepare the way of the Lord in the hearts of all who will receive the glorious message, and so the Lord himself will come in power and great glory to take his people to himself. This time of a general religious decline is just the opportunity for the glory of the Lord to be revealed, that all flesh may see it together. We are in the last hours of the closing day. Soon the night will come. Now is the time to carry the truth to those who have not heard it. The Lord expects great things of his people just at this time. Shall he be disappointed? Our attitude toward the call of God means much in this critical time. May the Lord arouse his people to a sense of their duty and privilege.

Modern Heathenism

ONE of the most comforting assurances in the Scriptures is the fact that the Lord is “a very present help in trouble,” or “a help in trouble very accessible.” It was to his nearness to his people that Moses appealed as proof of the superiority of Israel’s God over any god of the heathen. “For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is whensoever we call upon him?” Any teaching about God and the Bible which tends to overthrow this idea of his nearness is a step toward making our God the same as the gods of the heathen. But this is just what the Higher Criticism is doing. In summing up the results of the Higher Criticism, a writer in The Outlook says: “In all these ways God is made to seem further from us, less personal, and less directly interested in us.” This simple statement is sufficient to condemn the whole thing, and to show that it tends directly toward heathenism. “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

A Prophetic People

A PEOPLE connected with prophecy has hold of the citadel of strength. A movement connected with prophecy, the triumph of which the prophecy foretells, holds within its hand the hiding of power. Such is the movement called the third angel's message, to which, as it is a current message, allusion cannot be too often made. When the time for the conclusion of the first stage of the first message was drawing to a close, and confusion and discouragement encompassed believers in the blessed hope of the soon coming of Christ, the breaking forth of new light on the subject of the sanctuary marked the opening of a new era in the progress of the advent cause. By this light, advent believers were begotten to a new hope and courage in their work. One of the first facilities brought to the attention of those who were called to this work, and of which they availed themselves, was the press, for the purpose of scattering the printed page in the furtherance of their work. We need not go into the particulars of the first limited sheet issued, called The Present Truth, nor the earnestness and devotion with which it was dedicated to its work. The old believers in the cause are acquainted with this, either by personal experience or by the records that have been so long and freely scattered among us on this point; nor need we dwell upon its later enlargement into THE ADVENT REVIEW, nor its subsequent publication in Topsham, Me., Saratoga and Rochester, N. Y., and finally its removal to its present location, Battle Creek, Mich., in the autumn of 1855.
This branch of the work has encountered almost every phase of opposition that ordinarily falls to the lot of an unpopular doctrine, including many of those mentioned by Paul, in his experience in 2 Cor. 11: 26: “In journeyings often, . . . in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, . . . in perils among false brethren.” To these may be added the schemes of ambitious and designing men arrayed in opposition against it; financial difficulties; besides the opposition to be encountered by opposers to an unpopular truth, in the midst of a wicked and perverse generation. But through all these the good hand of the Lord has been upon us, and has brought us through, in every instance with advancement and prosperity. A varied experience has attended the work thus far all the journey through. If any would like to read further concerning these experiences, we would refer them to the “Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists,” by Elder J. N. Loughborough.
So we might trace the work outside of the periodicals, from the small beginnings of tracts and pamphlets, till the volume of the book business from the central office alone, to say nothing of the branch offices, and associated sources of publications, sometimes has been more than half a million dollars' worth a year. In every enterprise, placing a new heading upon the paper, opening a new department, and enlarging the scope of the paper, there has been advancement all along the line. We believe it will be so still, till the work is brought to its conclusion in its foretold triumph. But much as has been done, the greatest advancement is to be made in the future. For this movement is to ripen the harvest of the earth for the sickle of the reaper in the great day; and the earth is, before the end, to be lightened with God's glory. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24: 14. But it will take a great movement, a great effort, to do this for all the world. The world is a large place; and can it be done? and that, too, in this generation? The prophecy, if we understand it, says it is to be done; and if we are right in our application, it must surely come to pass. Great and extensive as the heaven and the earth are, they shall pass away before the word of the Lord shall fail. The word of the Lord cannot fail. We, as a prophetic people, may come short, and suffer some of the work in our hands, so far as we are concerned, to be delayed.
It was natural for the ten spies in the days of Joshua to stand aghast at the cities walled up to heaven, and before the giants in whose eyes they were but as grasshoppers. But they failed in not letting their faith grasp the fact that there is a God in heaven as much stronger than the cities they had to meet as the heavens are higher than the earth,—a God so much more mighty than the giants that the giants were in his eyes more like grasshoppers than the Israelites seemed to be in the comparison which they conjured up for themselves. So with us. Where is our faith? We can go up, and possess the land. We are able, because God is able; and he has promised his strength to his people. Paul means something when he says, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. . . . Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Eph. 6: 10–13.
But we must expel the darkness from our minds before we can see, and bask in the rays of the great white throne. We must pay the price before we can possess the pearl of eternal riches. And it is not a losing game we are given the opportunity to invest in. For—
“The harvest brings us joy for pain; And they shall reap, who sow in tears, Rich gladness through eternal years.” U. S.

The Apostolic Church

In his Gospel, Luke gave an account “of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,” and in the Acts of the Apostles the same writer gave an account of what Jesus continued to do and to teach. In the former record we learn what Jesus did while here upon earth in his own individual body; in the latter record we learn what he did here upon earth in his body which is the church. And the experience of the church in the time of the apostles was never intended to be an exceptional one. It is the natural and normal experience of the church of Christ when he is given his true place as the head of the church. The giving witness with great power to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the healing of the sick, the ministry of angels to deliver from the wrath of man, the rapid growth of the number of the believers,—all these experiences are but so many evidences of the presence of Jesus with his people, working in them both to will and to do.
It was because some arose who were not content to win disciples to Jesus, but sought rather “to draw away disciples after them,” that there came “a falling away,” and the experiences of the apostolic church gradually ceased. It is the work of the gospel message now to remove the cause of the falling-away, to restore the pure gospel of Jesus, the indwelling Saviour, and thus to openthe way for the same experiences as of old. That church in which these experiences are genuinely renewed will thereby prove to the world that it has the true apostolic succession. It is not a question of an unbroken line of human descent and ordination to the ministry of the gospel, but it is the simple question of divine empowerment and ordination by the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Of the church in its experiences when the gospel of Christ was taught in its purity, John wrote as follows: “And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” The power of the church to win victories for the truth does not depend upon having costly places of worship, or in following an elaborate ritual which appeals chiefly to the senses, but upon the simple power of the truth as it is in Jesus, when the word is preached “with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.” The world needs just such a gospel as this preached in just this way. Weary hearts need to be strengthened, tempted souls need to be delivered, those in the bondage of evil habits need to be set at liberty. All this can be accomplished to the glory of God and the advancement of his kingdom in the earth when his people are willing to cease their dependence upon the flesh, cease copying the example of those who brought about the falling-away, cease trying to supply the lack of the inward power by multiplying the outward forms, and be willing to let the Lord work in his own simple way to his own glory. May the Lord hasten the day when we shall see more evidence among us of the true apostolic succession.

More Life

By L. A. S.

“By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.” Rom. 5:12. In this present world life is everywhere attended by the shadow of death. The seeds of death are lodged within every living structure. In the day that Adam fell, he became subject to the process of decay. Death came into the place of life, and gradually supplanted life until the latter became wholly extinct. The same process took place in the animal and vegetable forms around him. He saw his children growing old, the partakers of his own mortality.
Man has a physical, a mental, and a moral being. It was the Creator’s design that each of these should be filled with abundant, unfailing life. But when death entered into the world, it began its work of extinguishing all the life that man possessed. And nowhere was the touch of death more ruinously imprinted than upon man’s moral nature. The moral being lost its life much more quickly than did the physical or the mental being. Love to God and to man, the manifestation of the life given by him who is love, gave place to selfishness, the token of death. The first descendant of Adam was a murderer. He loved not his brother, and abode in death; he was morally dead; one third of his being—the highest and most important part—had been extinguished. He was followed by many others like himself. Moral life was less and less seen in the human family, until at length the whole world, with the exception of the family of Noah, became dead in trespasses and sins.
But God sent his Son into the world that men might have life, “and that they might have it more abundantly.” He came to restore that which was lost, to bring back the life that had been lost by sin. By him all men live, for without the sacrifice on the cross this world would have been altogether the prey of death from the beginning. But he came also to impart to men new life, to give them life in its fullness, to bring back to perfect health every part of man’s being upon which sin had placed the touch of death. He came to remove all sin, and thus to destroy every avenue through which death finds access to its victims. He came that men might have life “more abundantly.” He is the healer of body, soul, and spirit.
God would have man now, as was Adam at his creation, full of life in every part of his being. He would have the moral nature as full of life, as active in the things with which it is concerned, as is the physical or the intellectual nature. With the great majority of people, Seventh-day Adventists not excepted, this condition is far from the reality. God would have those who are dead—morally dead—hear the voice of his Son, and live. He would have them possess more life. He would have them know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Deprived of the word of God, an essential part of man’s being loses its life. He becomes actually and literally deprived of a large portion of the life he should rightfully possess, and that the highest and most essential portion of all.
How many there are who need to have life given them “more abundantly.” And why will any person refuse life, and cling to death as though it were a desirable thing?—It can only be because of moral blindness. We all want life, more life, all the life that we can possibly obtain. We speak of and seek after the “blessings of life,” but the real blessing of life is life itself; not life so linked with death as to make existence miserable, but life that can grasp and appropriate every gift of God, life untrammeled by disease or disability. Mere existence ought to be a pleasure, and the more life an individual possesses, the more enjoyable must existence become. In God’s presence is fullness of joy; let us obtain it by opening our hearts to him and the more abundant life.
L. A. S.

Studies in the Gospel Message

The subject of the lesson for Sabbath, April 19, is “The Great Controversy Transferred to the Earth.”
The rebellion against the government of God began in heaven. And it all grew out of envy. “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” Another translation of this verse reads, “For wherever jealousy and rivalry are, there are anarchy and every foul deed.” Here is the original source of all anarchy. It had its root in jealousy, and it blossomed out in “every foul deed.”
From the description given of Lucifer, under the name of “the king of Tyrus,” in the twenty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel, it is evident that he was created high in the scale of being. “Full of wisdom,” “perfect in beauty,” “perfect in thy ways,” are the expressions used by the prophet. It is thus evident that he was created like God, but he was not God, and therefore he could not occupy the same position as the only begotten Son, who was one with the Father. For this reason envy filled the heart of Lucifer, because he could not be what he was not made to be. While he professed a purpose to be “like the Most High,” his real purpose was to exalt himself above the Most High, and to be ruler in his place. And so the mystery of evil was first revealed “upon the holy mountain of God,” in the immediate presence of the King of righteousness.
The character of God as revealed in the love which he has shown to us, forbids us to think otherwise than that pardon and cleansing were offered to Lucifer, just as they have been to us; but pride ruled his will, envy was cherished, love was refused, and the inevitable result followed. “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
By filling the minds of men with the same thoughts which he himself entertained about God, he has carried forward through man and upon the earth the same warfare against the government of God which he began in heaven. He who sought to put himself above God inspired in man the same desire, filled him with the same spirit of pride, and under the pretense of securing for him greater liberty, led him in the revolt against rightful authority. And this is sin. “We can thus, in some measure at least, understand that the original sin, the primary root of all sin, the defiantact of him who, whatever his rank in the scale of created life (and it may conceivably have been the highest), was the first leader of rebellion against the sovereign supremacy of God, was pride. It was the lust of independence at whatever cost, the longing for a separate kingdom of his own, the assertion of self and self-sufficiency, the dethronement, the annihilation of God, the deification of self.”
The question to be settled in heaven was, Who is God? Shall God rule in his kingdom, or shall Lucifer be allowed to take the throne? Lucifer could not rule the universe. To allow the attempt would be simply to permit him to draw the whole kingdom down to ruin with himself. God is love, and his love is shown in his care for the subjects of his kingdom. He would not permit them to be dragged down to irretrievable ruin by the self-assertion of Lucifer. With love as the only weapon, and his Son as the one through whom that love was revealed, Lucifer was overthrown in heaven, and was cast out of heaven. With the same weapon, wielded by the same person, Lucifer, now Satan, is to be overcome, and cast out of the earth. God gave his Son as the price which he paid for the blotting out of sin from his kingdom. Love could do no more. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us.”
By yielding to the temptation to sin, man admitted Satan into his own heart. So far as he was concerned, he gave up to Satan the place in the kingdom of God within his heart which belonged to God, and in doing so he lost the power to conquer Satan, and expel him from the dominion which he had usurped through deception. Satan became the prince of this world, and man would have been his helpless slave if it had not been for the deliverance provided through the gospel. This provision required that the Son of God should become the Son of man, uniting his divinity with humanity; that by taking up his abode in the heart of fallen humanity, he might by this act of self-sacrificing love conquer and drive out Satan. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
And this is the gospel of the kingdom. This is “the gospel of God, . . . concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.” This is the gospel of “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Christ dwelling in the heart by faith is to conquer Satan, and cast him out of the heart of man, just as he conquered Satan, and cast him out of heaven. The King of righteousness is to have his rightful place as ruler. The question as to who is God is to be settled on earth, just as it was in heaven. And each one of us has a responsibility in this matter, and each one of us is deciding the question, so far as we are concerned, by the decisions which we are making day by day. The day of final decision is near at hand, and soon we shall hear the voices saying, “The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ.” Take your place on the right side of this controversy at once. “The Lord, he is the God; The Lord, he is the God.”

A Fresh Stroke for Missions

By W. A. Spicer

The Missionary Magazine to be Merged into the Review
WHEN God quickened the pulse of Christendom a century and more ago, by the Methodist revival, and hearts let in the all-consuming love of Jesus, John Wesley cried out, “The world is my parish!” Who that knows the love of Christ can help loving the world which he loved, and for which he died? To-day we cry out, The world is our parish!
The only object of our existence as a people is to carry a message from God to all men. Others may regard the cause of missions as, to a greater or less degree, an appendage to the program of organized work at home. With us, the object of the home organization is to push the frontiers of our work ever outward to the uttermost parts of the earth.
It is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one field—the world that God loves. Why, then, should not the REVIEW AND HERALD voice the call of our Leader, from the regions beyond as well as the call from the home field? It stands ready to do so. And now that, more than ever before, we have been led of God definitely to take up the work of carrying this message with swift feet through every land, all the conferences and churches and people cheering the workers forward, the brethren of the General Conference and others with whom we have had opportunity to counsel, have favored the idea of merging the Missionary Magazine into the REVIEW.
It is a forward step, we believe. The fields and their needs will be set before a large number of our brethren by this change. The expense and labor of continuing another paper will be saved to the funds of the Mission Board. Our people will get the same matter. The trumpet call to press the battle to the outermost gates of the people will ring out the more loudly. Our people will rally more largely as a unit to sustain the missionary interests.
Some, we know, will regret to see the familiar face of the Missionary Magazine disappear; but if only it hastens the time when His blessed face shall appear to gather the world-wide harvest, all of us will thank God for the advance step, and rally to put the REVIEW into every Sabbath-keeping household. We want no unnecessary machinery. We do not wish to put energy and time into pushing any publication that is not absolutely demanded by the needs of the work.
The mission cause is the greatest issue that faces us to-day. When the witness has been borne abroad, the work may be finished at home in short order. The reflex influence of a missionary crusade that shall sweep the world, will of itself prepare believers to rise and finish the work in this country. So easily can God cut short the work in righteousness. It is a grand thing to be alive and in God's work in these thrilling times.
After the May number of the Missionary Magazine, please note, its publication as a separate journal will be discontinued. All subscribers will be given credit on the REVIEW list for the unexpired term. All will get the same matter—and more. The Mission Board will continue gathering reports and articles from the workers abroad, passing them on through the REVIEW, so that the moving panorama of the closing work of God may pass before the eyes of our brethren week by week. And blessed are the eyes that see what we look upon to-day. W. A. SPICER.
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