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CHRIST OUR ADVOCATE
Its author Marvin H. Brown, Recording Secretary and Treasurer of the International Sabbath-School Association.
It contains several original illustrations showing the plan of the earthly Sanctuary, several diagrams illustrating the different periods of prophetic time related to the Sanctuary, and over one hundred pages of text.
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WORKING FOR CHILDREN.
[The following is sent us by the well-known evangelist, Edward Payson Hammond. It is a part of an address by Mr. Dwight L. Moody at a Sunday-school Union, in London, England, in the spring of 1867. Mr. Moody was then holding his first series of meetings in London, and Mr. Hammond was conducting meetings in Mr. Spurgeon's tabernacle and other parts of London, in the beginning of the Children's Special Service Mission. Mr. Moody's words will be of interest to our readers.]
I BELIEVE there is a great deal of infidelity in the Sunday-school as well as in our churches on this point, and that even many parents think their children can not come to Jesus early in life. I fear many teachers go to the Sunday-school and never think of urging upon their scholars the importance of immediately surrendering their hearts to Christ. I believe myself that if children are old enough to come to the Sunday-school they are old enough to come to Calvary.
I have been urging this for many years upon the teachers of America, and God has blessed the effort put forth. In a great many places in America there are in our churches 25, 50, and in some churches 75 and 100 children gathered in as members, and I believe at heart connected with God. A little girl came some time ago before the elders of one of the churches to be examined. After talking with her, they came to the conclusion that, tho she might be a Christian, she was too young, being only seven years old, to join the church, and that she had better wait. The little child, as she turned to go away, while the tears fell fast from her eyes, said, “Please tell me how old I must be before I love Jesus.”
That is the question for us to settle, friends. I believe if the Sunday-school teachers of England were only faithful in urging upon the children the duty of immediate consecration to Christ, you would have a very different report next year; and instead of having to tell of 7,000 added to the church, you would be able to rejoice over 100,000 gathered in.
I was urging this a little while ago in Michigan, when an old missionary who was present endorsed all that I said. His locks were gray; his pilgrimage was nearly ended. “Years ago,” he said, “my wife died in this county, and I was left with several motherless children. The next Sunday my little girl, seven years old, came to me and said, ‘Shall I not take the children into the bedroom, as mother used to do?’ I let her go, and she took her little brother and her sister, three years and a half old, by the hand, and retired to the chamber to pray beside the bed where they had been accustomed to kneel. When she came back, I noticed that she had been weeping, and I said, ‘Nellie, what are you weeping about?’ ‘O father,’ she said, ‘I could not help weeping! After I had prayed, just as mother taught us to do, little Susan got up to pray.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘what did she say?’ ‘She closed her eyes, and lifted up her face to heaven, and said, “O God, how could You take my dear mother, and leave me no mother to pray for me? I want You to make me good, for Jesus Christ’s sake.”’ Said the old missionary, “God heard that prayer, and that little girl gave evidence of a change of heart before she was four years old.”
Do you believe that children can come thus early to Christ? If so, carry them to Him; and if you have not believed it hitherto, let me urge you as a friend and a brother to go to your class next Sunday with your heart burdened with the care of their immediate salvation.
There is a father on the banks of the Mississippi River who would give all the wealth he possesses if he could call up his son from his last resting-place, and make one prayer for him. Some time ago the boy lay dying. “Father,” he said, “I wish you would pray for me. You have never prayed for me.” The father cried, and said he could not pray. For seventeen years that son had been given to him, and yet he had never breathed his name in prayer. O prayerless fathers and mothers, you who never pray with and for your children, do not suppose that is the way the world is going to be converted! And, O teachers, do not be satisfied with talking in a general way to your scholars, but take them by the hand and lead them to the Saviour!
A friend of mine was urging this some time ago upon a mixed audience of teachers, parents, and children, and he pressed upon the two former that they must not be satisfied with just telling the children about the Saviour, but must take them by the hand and lead them to Him. As he spoke, a little girl got down from her seat in the center aisle, and, stepping up to the speaker, the tears streaming down her cheeks, said, “Please, sir, will you lead me to Jesus?”
How many children in the dark lanes and alleys of this great city are now reaching out their hands to you Christian people—Sunday-school teachers—and crying, “Lead us to Jesus”!
Amongst the children in a Sunday-school class in Illinois, was one girl, seven years of age, the daughter of a very ungodly man. The father was a young man, but he was one of the worst in the country, a drunkard, a blasphemer. The little girl was converted, and on the next Sunday she urged her father to go with her to the class. He went with her to the door, but he would not go in. He had never been in a place of worship or a school in his life. However, the superintendent came out, and persuaded him to attend the class. This resulted in his conversion, and since then he has established 1,180 Sunday-schools, and has gathered over 100,000 children into these schools. All this is the fruit of that teacher's leading the drunkard's little daughter to the Saviour, and then urging her to do something for Christ.
You do not know but that there may be a Whitfield, a Wesley, a John Knox, in some of the dark lanes and alleys of London, and if you should be the means of leading them to the Saviour, they, in their turns, may be the instruments of the conversion of thousands. O, remember time is short, and what we do for Christ we ought to do quickly! I heard, at the Bible Society meeting, an expression made use of by the sainted Martyn when in this country. “I am willing,” he said, “to be torn limb13from limb, if I could only hear one Hindu inquiring for Jesus.” O, that we all had that passion for souls which the sainted Martyn had, and that we all had our hearts burdened for their salvation!
One of the most faithful teachers I ever met was one who did not wake up to a sense of his responsibility till he was given up to die. He was a teacher in my school, and one morning as he came into our store I noticed that he was very pale. “Ah,” he said, “the doctors have given me up to-day! I have had bleeding of the lungs, and I am now going to settle up my business, and go back to die in New York State. I feel that all is right except one thing.” “What is that?” I inquired. “It is my Sunday-school class,” he said, “if they were converted, and I thought I should meet them with joy at the judgment day, what would I not give!” “Let us go and see them,” I said. “I have lost so much blood,” he replied, “that I can hardly walk.” “I will take you in a carriage,” I said. We went together from house to house, for he was a faithful teacher, and knew where all his scholars lived. He was so weak that when he left the carriage he could hardly cross the sidewalk. He spoke to all the children, and pleaded with them to give themselves to the Saviour. After thus urging them affectionately, he got down upon his knees, and asked Christ to change their hearts. For ten days he so labored, and at the end of that time every one of his scholars had been brought to the Saviour. “My work,” said he, “is now done, and I shall go home to die.” We all met him on the last night he remained in the city; it was a very sad and yet a very joyful meeting. We sang beautiful hymns together, and then prayed together, and then we bade him farewell. In the evening we thought we would go and see him off by the train. We met him on the platform, just as the sun was sinking into the West. One after another of his class pressed around him, once more bade him farewell, and then we joined in singing,—
“Here we meet to part again,
But when we meet on Canaan's shore
There'll be no parting there.”
As the car rolled away from the platform, he held up his thin hand, and, pointing to heaven, said, “I shall meet you all there.” He has gone from us, but his influence in Chicago is felt still, and will last as long as Chicago stands. Some of my best teachers were converted thru his last dying efforts. Be ye also faithful, and God will give you souls for your hire.
WILT THOU BE MADE WHOLE?
By E. F. Johnston
For thirty-eight years he had waited in vain
To be put in the health-giving pool.
With withered and lame, with the halt and the blind,
He had suffered in misery’s school.
The Saviour beheld this poor impotent man,
Who was tortured in body and soul,
And said to him then as He says to you now,
O my brother, “Wilt thou be made whole?”
The question thus asked was a promise as well,
“I will give,—will you take it?”—expressed.
He took up his bed and he walked, praise the Lord,
And he later the Saviour confessed.
O! rise up and walk, on the promise of God,
And your sin-bred disease will depart;
The life-giving Jesus is passing this way,
And His law He would write in your heart.
Wilt thou be made whole? O, wilt thou be made
whole?
Is the question addressed to each one
Who has traveled for years on the highway to death,
Or his journey has only begun;
A life-and-death question confronts you, dear friend,
Are you seeking for healing to-day?
You may be made whole in both body and soul,
For the Saviour is passing this way.
E. F. JOHNSTON.
How Rome Makes Mischief.
An English missionary, in a letter from China, throws an interesting light on the methods employed by the priests. He says: “The policy of the Roman mission is to defend their converts, try cases themselves, inflict punishments, demand the heads of assailants from the Chinese Government, ask for enormous compensation for damage to property in riots, and, whenever possible, have a French gunboat at hand. Our policy is to avoid interference as far as possible, and so we tell our men that if they get into rows, we shall not try to get them out. I am convinced that our system is right, but on account of the constant miscarriage of justice in the Chinese courts, it is very difficult.”—Selected.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
Under the labors of Brother A. R. Ogden at Ellsworth, Kansas, fifteen persons have accepted the truths presented from the Word.
Three young people were recently baptized at Blair, Neb., by Brother Luther Warren. The baptistry of the Christian Church was secured for the occasion.
The organization of a church at Bishop, Nev., in January, is reported by Brother H. F. Courter in the California Missionary. The number of members is not given.
A missionary in Alaska writes: “God bless you all in the good work you are doing for Him in printing the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. It is helping me wonderfully in my religious work.”
That a new chapel has been erected and dedicated at Trezevant, Tenn., is evidence that the effort to stamp out the truth in that region, a few years ago, by Sunday-law persecutions, was a failure.
A brother in Massachusetts, who works nine hours a day at his trade, takes the time in going to and from work, the noon hour, and evenings, to canvass for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and in two weeks has taken thirty orders.
Of the cause at McCook, Neb., Brother W. H. White notes that ten had accepted the truth, and one more was debating whether to give up $50 a month salary, or the chance of a place in the kingdom of God.
We learn from the Watchman that a new school building has been erected at Bowling Green, Ky., and the school is in progress. A good church-school is a pretty good indication of a live, progressive church.
In the Worker of February 27 the secretary of the Kansas Tract Society says: “We have shipped out over three thousand copies of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ and the orders are still coming in at a good rate.” This book is now being translated into the German, and will soon be issued in that language.
Six converts to the truth at Memphis, Tenn., are reported in the Watchman by Sister M. A. Cornwell. In the same city Brother Wales reports that he sold a large number of the last special issue of the SIGNS, and has taken scores of subscriptions for Good Health. A chapel has been erected in that city.
A letter from Brother E. E. Andross, of Birmingham, England, states that more than forty persons have yielded to the truth in that city. Also that they are about building a chapel, 28x45 feet, with annex 12x28 feet for a church-school. A man not of our faith had offered to loan £200 at 2½ per cent. interest, without security. He was getting 4 per cent. for the money, but would withdraw it to help build the church.
The new house of worship recently built by the church in Alameda, Cal., was formally dedicated on the 2d inst. Brother C. M. Gardner gave a history of the work and his connection with it; Brother M. H. Brown, the present pastor, preached the sermon, and Brother W. T. Knox offered the dedicatory prayer. The cost of the building and furnishing was $2,050. This evidence of the prosperity of the Alameda church, and of the blessing of God upon their work, calls for hearty congratulations.
On the evening of February 27 the Helping Hand Mission, San Francisco, celebrated its third anniversary. The chapel was handsomely decorated with evergreens, and the beautiful Scripture mottoes on the walls looked as fresh as when first placed there. Addresses were delivered by Brethren J. O. Corliss, pastor of the San Francisco church, B. F. Richards, the first chaplain and manager of the mission, J. A. Dobson, the present manager, and J. W. McCord, the present chaplain. An interesting report was read by Brother E. E. Parlin, secretary of the California Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, under whose auspices the mission is now conducted. The report was very encouraging. We have not exact figures at hand, but the total cost of the mission for the three years was about $30,000, yet less than $700 had been donated, and the present deficit is not over $400. In addition to this, the mission has given free beds, free lunches, free baths, and free medical treatment and nursing to an amount of more than half its cost. But the most important of all was the hundreds of men who have been reclaimed from drunkenness and other bad habits, and temporarily unfortunate persons who have been helped onto their feet and into permanent employment. There were a number of testimonials given by persons present who had received needed help and encouragement at the mission. During the three years a large number have professed conversion to Christ, and as these have gone out into the world many letters come back testifying to the good work the mission did for them. We do not say it boastingly, but it is a matter of great satisfaction to us that the mission was inaugurated under the auspices of the publishers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and was given over to the M. M. and B. Association because it was organized expressly to carry on such work.
THE FAMINE IN INDIA STILL.
By T.
The America-India Famine Relief Committee has just sent out a circular in regard to the conditions in the famine district of India, and the fact is stated that in many sections the famine will continue until the rainy season in June. In some sections of the famine district the rains of last year were late; but they began well, and hundreds of thousands of those who were being cared for by the government and the various charities went home to put in crops. But the late rains failed, so that they have only about one-fourth crop.
Some of the neighboring regions will have good crops, and that will help to make food cheaper where the famine is still on. But it will be impossible for many of these unfortunates to get any money with which to buy, and so our help will still be needed. Any of those who have means that they would like to have used in that way, may still send it to this office, and we will see that it is promptly forwarded to the proper persons in India, so that it may be distributed judiciously among the sufferers.
The relief committee desires to have special attention called to the fact that there are 25,000 famine children collected in 100 homes, who have no one to care for them except those who, out of love and pity, have given them shelter, food, and care. It will cost a large sum to care for these alone, and certainly there is no more commendable work. This is the chance for Christianity to do its real work. Every one who has taken upon himself the name of Christ should feel this responsibility. T.
SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR.
By Allen Sangree
[Allen Sangree, in Ainslee’s.]
AND yet the anti-slavery societies cry wildly that slavery must be eradicated at Zanzibar, and the civilized world, between wars, re-echoes the cry, so the British consul and his officers work industriously to that end. It is not an easy task, either, with the number of cruisers supplied. The territory to be watched is so wide that the consul could make use of a small fleet, instead of which he usually has one ship. When I was there last summer, the Barossa had the station, but two days after she sailed north to Mombassa, a courier rushed into the consulate to report that two dhows with twenty girls had slipped away to Arabia under cover of a moonless night, and there was no ship to make pursuit.
It is this sea-borne traffic that is most difficult to suppress. Just now (in December), when the south-west monsoon sweeps the Indian Ocean, it is active. The lean dhows from Muscat steal along the coast, and, concealed in many a creek and river mouth, wait for their agents inland to bring them a cargo. Then, seizing a moment when the war ship is engaged elsewhere, they slip out and dart eastward. The favorite girls are those captured from the Masai and the Boran Gallas, whose charms appeal to Arabian Moslems somewhat as those of the Circassian women do to the Turks. The Borans are particularly renowned for their beauty, and a slave thief will risk his life to obtain one. This tribe, which occupies the northernmost district of the protectorate, is altogether swathed in romance. White men have never reached its capital, where the stockade of the royal palace is said to be of pure ivory. The Boran warriors are the only ones in Africa who fight on horseback, and such is their valor that they have time and again repulsed the fierce Somalis from the border.
The Masai girls are considered the equals of their Boran sisters in attractiveness, but not in refinement; the latter, rumor has it, practise the rites of Abyssinian Christianity and the lost arts of centuries past. The Masai girls are easier to capture, and are, therefore, more common. The tribe was formerly celebrated for its vast flocks and herds, but a devastating famine some years ago left it almost destitute. The warriors thereupon began a system of raiding on all sides, and another fierce tribe, the Wakikuyu, took advantage of their absence to descend on the Masai, kill off the old men, and steal all the women and girls. These are now being disposed of at comparatively low rates to local Arab or Swahili middlemen, who retail them at a big profit.
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13 “Your words have been stout against Me, saith the Lord. 14 Yet ye say, Wherein have we spoken against Thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully 15 before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt 16 God, and are delivered. Then they that feared the Lord spake one with another; and the Lord hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him, for them 17 that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. And they shall be Mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not. 1 “For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do make, saith the Lord of hosts. 4 “Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before 6 the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What charge does the Lord again bring against His people? What do they respond? Verse 13. (2) What things does He enumerate? Verse 14. Note 1. (3) What do they say of the proud? What of the wicked? What of those who tempt God? Verse 15. (4) What do those do who truly fear God? How does God regard them? What does He cause to be done? Verse 16. (5) What promise does He make concerning them? When will this be manifest? How will He spare them? Verse 17. Note 1. (6) What will the faithful know in the great day of God? Verse 18. (7) What will be the character of that day in this world? What will the proud and the wicked then be? What will become of the stubble? Verse 1. (8) What shall rise to those who fear God? What will be its influence upon them? Verse 2. Note 2. (9) What then will be their relation to the wicked? What will the wicked then be? Verse 3. Note 3. (10) In view of all this, what are we enjoined to remember? Verse 4. Note 4. (11) Whom will God send before that day comes? Verse 5. Note 5. (12) What will He do? What will be the result of rejecting his message? What will be the result of accepting the message? Verse 6.
NOTES.
1. It is vain.—This is the sight of the fleshly eye, the worldly view, the darkness of unbelief. David said that he was envious when he saw the prosperity of the wicked, until he went into the sanctuary of God, where he looked at them as the Lord saw them; then he saw their latter end. “Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and prolong his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God; ... but it shall not be well with the wicked.” Righteousness is always gain, even tho it seems to end in defeat. It is not yet revealed what the children of God shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him. They are here now, but they are not revealed. What they suffer makes it seem as tho they were counted as sheep for the slaughter; but in all these things they are more than conquerors thru the love of Christ.
2. Healing in His wings.—From the time of Adam the race has deteriorated, and God's people have gone down in death thru wasting disease, starvation, and in every conceivable ill way; but when Christ comes, He will heal all these defects and restore man to his normal size and beauty.
3. Leave them neither root nor branch.—God gives to all existence and life, that He may be glorified. His glory is always for His creatures’ best good. If man will not use God’s life aright, he will revert to his original elements, the dust of the earth. They who have triumphed over and oppressed the good have perished with the sin they have chosen; sin can not exist in the unveiled presence of God when He comes into His own, and they perish in the burning glory of His presence. Satan, the root of all, and the wicked, the branches, perish forever in what they have chosen.
4. Remember ye.—The law of Moses for all Israel, with the statutes, would include all typical offerings, all the truths connected with the sanctuary, and the significance of the ceremonies, as well as the nature of the moral precepts. Remembering this would lead to the development of all the truth of the great threefold message of Revelation 14. It would show the service of the Levitical priesthood to be no meaningless service, but replete with Gospel truth, a service unto the shadow and example of heavenly things.
5. I will send you Elijah.—“But did not God send Elijah in John the Baptist?”—Yes, in a sense. Matt. 11:14; 17:10-12. But John declares that he was not Elijah. John 1:21. What, then, are we to understand?—Simply this: Elijah in his work of reform was a type of John, who went before Christ “in the spirit and power of Elias.” Luke 1:17. But the “great and terrible day of the Lord” did not then come, save to that one people as a nation. All these were types of the great and terrible day of the Lord upon the world. We have in Elijah’s time the apostasy of Israel thru the influence of Jezebel, a sun-worshiping Zidonian. We have the antitypical Jezebel in the great apostate church. We have the union of that church with the State, even as Jezebel with Ahab. There is demanded the spirit and power of Elijah to reprove of sin, preach again God’s down-trodden truth, be very zealous for His law, and reprove the sun-worshipers of Baal. These will be manifest, not thru one person, to one country, but thru all God’s true people to the world.
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35 “And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also scoffed at Him, saying, He saved others; let Him save Himself, if this is the Christ of God, His chosen. And the soldiers 36 also mocked Him, coming to Him, offering Him vinegar, and 37 saying, If Thou art the King of the Jews, save Thyself. And 38 there was also a superscription over Him, This is the King of the Jews.”
39 “And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on Him, saying, Art not Thou the Christ? save Thyself and us. 40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of 42 our deeds; but this Man hath done nothing amiss. And he said, Jesus, remember me when Thou comest in Thy kingdom. 43 And He said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.”
44 “And it was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came 45 over the whole land until the ninth hour, the sun’s light failing; 46 and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit; and having said this, He 47 gave up the ghost. And when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous 48 man. And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting 49 their breasts. And all His acquaintance, and the women that followed with Him from Galilee, stood afar off, seeing these things.”
50 “And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor, a 51 good man and a righteous (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), a man of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews, 52 who was looking for the kingdom of God; this man went to 53 Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. And he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb that was hewn in stone, where never man had yet lain.”
Golden Text: “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.” 1 Cor. 15: 3.
(1) As Jesus hung upon the cross, what was the attitude of the people? Verse 35. (2) What did the rulers say? Same verse. (3) What did the soldiers do? Verse 36. (4) What did they say to Him? Verse 37. (5) What notice of His crime was placed over Jesus? Verse 38. (6) What did one of the malefactors say? Verse 39. (7) How did the other malefactor reply to him? Verses 40, 41. (8) What request did this man make of Jesus? Verse 42. (9) How did Jesus answer this request? Verse 43. (10) What remarkable phenomenon appeared about the sixth hour? and how long did it continue? Verse 44. (11) What occurred in the temple? Verse 45. (12) With what expression of resignation did Jesus give up His life? Verse 46. (13) How was the commander of the soldiers affected by the scene? Verse 47. (14) How did the people show their feelings? Verse 48. (15) Where were the acquaintances of Jesus? Verse 49. (16) What noted man now comes to the front? Verse 50. (17) What was his character, and his attitude toward Jesus? Verses 50, 51. (18) What request did Joseph make of the governor? Verse 52. (19) What then did he do with the body? Verse 53.
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