Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 53. (12/17/1914)

Review and Herald

Dec 17, 1914

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1914

The Power of Love

I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13, A. R. V.

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The Meaning of the European War

By Editor

The Sick Man of the East Committing Suicide

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Medical Missionary Work

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE

Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel, the door through which the truth for this time is to find entrance to many homes. God's people are to be genuine medical missionaries; for they are to learn to minister to the needs of both soul and body. The purest unselfishness is to be shown by our workers as, with the knowledge and experience gained by practical work, they go out to give treatments to the sick. As they go from house to house, they will find access to many hearts. Many will be reached who otherwise never would have heard the gospel message. A demonstration of the principles of health reform will do much toward removing prejudice against our evangelical work. The Great Physician, the originator of medical missionary work, will bless all who thus seek to impart the truth for this time.

Physical healing is bound up with the gospel commission. When Christ sent his disciples out on their first missionary journey, he bade them: “As ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” And when at the close of his earthly ministry he gave them their commission, he said, “These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

Of the disciples after Christ's ascension we read, “They went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.” Luke is called the “beloved physician.” He labored in connection with Paul in Philippi; and when Paul left that place, Luke stayed, doing double service as a physician and a gospel minister. He was indeed a medical missionary, and his medical skill opened the way for the gospel to reach many hearts.

The divine commission needs no reform. Christ's way of presenting truth cannot be improved upon. The Saviour

gave the disciples practical lessons, teaching them how to work in such a way as to make souls glad in the truth. He sympathized with the weary, the heavy-laden, the oppressed. He fed the hungry and healed the sick. Constantly he went about doing good. By the good he accomplished, by his loving words and kindly deeds, he interpreted the gospel to men.

Brief as was the period of his public ministry, he accomplished the work he came to do. How impressive were the truths he taught! How complete his life work! What spiritual food he daily imparted as he presented the bread of life to thousands of hungry souls! His life was a living ministry of the word. He promised nothing that he did not perform.

The words of life were presented in such simplicity that a child could understand them. Men, women, and children were so impressed with his manner of explaining the Scriptures that they would catch the very intonation of his voice, place the same emphasis on their words, and imitate his gestures. Youth caught his spirit of ministry, and sought to pattern after his gracious ways by seeking to assist those whom they saw needing help.

Just as we trace the pathway of a stream of water by the line of living green it produces, so Christ could be seen in the deeds of mercy that marked his pathway at every step. Wherever he went, health sprang up, and happiness followed wherever he passed. The blind and deaf rejoiced in his presence. His words to the ignorant opened to them a fountain of life. He dispensed his blessings abundantly and continuously. They were the garnered treasures of eternity, given in Christ, the Lord's rich gift to man.

Christ's work in behalf of man is not finished. It continues today. In like manner his ambassadors are to preach the gospel and to reveal his pitying love for lost and perishing souls. By an unselfish interest in those who need help they are to give a practical demonstration of the truth of the gospel. Much more than mere sermonizing is included in this work. The evangelization of the world is the work God has given to those who go forth in his name. They are to be colaborers with Christ, revealing to those ready to perish his tender, pitying love. God calls for thousands to work for him, not by preaching to those who know the truth for this time, but by warning those who have never heard the last message of mercy. Work with a heart filled with an earnest longing for souls. Do medical missionary work. Thus you will gain access to the hearts of people, and the way will be prepared for a more decided proclamation of the truth.

Who are laborers together with Christ in this blessed medical missionary work? Who have learned the lessons of the Master, and know how to deal skillfully with souls for whom Christ has died? We need, O so much! physicians for the soul who have been educated in the school of Christ and who can work in Christ's lines. Our work is to gain a knowledge of him who is the way, the truth, and the life. We are to interest the people in subjects that concern the health of the body as well as the health of the soul. Believers have a decided message to bear to prepare the way for the kingdom of God. The great questions of Bible truth are to enter into the very heart of society, to convert and reform men and women, bringing them to see the great need of preparing for the mansions that Christ declared he would prepare for all who love him. When the Holy Spirit shall do its office work, hearts of stone will become hearts of flesh, and Satan will not work through them to counteract the work that Christ came to earth to do.

Henceforth medical missionary work is to be carried forward with greater earnestness. Medical missions should be opened as pioneer agencies for the proclamation of the third angel's message. How great is the need of means to do this line of work! Gospel medical missions cannot be established without financial aid. Every such enterprise calls for our sympathy and for our means, that facilities may be provided to make the work successful.

A special work is to be done in places where people are constantly coming and going. Christ labored in Capernaum much of the time because this was a place through which travelers were constantly passing and where many often tarried.

Christ sought the people where they were, and placed before them the great truths in regard to his kingdom. As he went from place to place, he blessed and comforted the suffering and healed the sick. This is our work. Small companies are to go forth to do the work to which Christ appointed his disciples. While laboring as evangelists, they can visit the sick, praying with them, and if need be, treating them, not with medicines, but with the remedies provided in nature.

There are many places that need gospel medical missionary work, and there small plants should be established. God designs that our sanitariums shall be a means of reaching high and low, rich and poor. They are to be so conducted that by their work attention may be called to the message God has sent to the world.

May the Lord increase our faith, and help us to see that he desires us all to become acquainted with his ministry of healing and with the mercy seat. He desires the light of his grace to shine forth from many places. He who understands the necessities of the situation arranges that advantages shall be brought to the workers in various places to enable them more effectually to arouse the attention of the people to the truths that make for deliverance from both physical and spiritual ills.

The tender sympathies of our Saviour were aroused for fallen and suffering humanity. If you would be his follower, you must cultivate compassion and sympathy. Indifference to human woes must give place to lively interest in the sufferings of others. The widow, the orphan, the sick and dying, will always need help. Here is an opportunity to proclaim the gospel,—to hold up Jesus, the hope and consolation of all men. When the suffering body has been relieved, the heart is opened, and you can pour in the heavenly balm. If you are looking to Jesus, and drawing from him knowledge and strength and grace, you can impart his consolation to others, because the Comforter is with you.

You will meet with much prejudice, a great deal of false zeal and miscalled piety; but in both the home and the foreign field you will find more hearts that God has been preparing for the seed of truth than you imagine, and they will hail with joy the divine message when it is presented to them.

Many are suffering from maladies of the soul far more than from diseases of the body, and they will find no relief until they come to Christ, the wellspring of life. The burden of sin, with its unrest and unsatisfied desires, lies at the foundation of a large share of the maladies the sinner suffers. Christ is the mighty Healer of the sin-sick soul. These poor, afflicted ones need to have a clearer knowledge of him whom to know aright is life eternal. They need to be patiently and kindly yet earnestly taught how to throw open the windows of the soul and let the sunlight of God's love come in. Complaints of weariness, loneliness, and dissatisfaction will then cease. Satisfying joys will give vigor to the mind and health and vital energy to the body.

The Joy of the Lord

By O. MONTGOMERY

O. MONTGOMERY

In the parable of the talents, as recorded in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew, we learn that those who improve their talents and do faithful service in the Lord's vineyard, will have the blessed privilege of entering into his joy. They will be sharers with him in his glory. We are told in Heb. 12: 2 that it was “for the joy that was set before him” that Christ “endured the cross, despising the shame.” To taste of the joy of the Saviour and share in his glory will be the highest privilege that Heaven can bestow upon any of the created beings of the universe. What higher honor could be received, what more exalted privilege enjoyed, than to share with the Redeemer in the joy that will thrill his heart and the glory with which he will be clothed when all the universe will be gathered to witness the presentation of the redeemed to our Heavenly Father by our blessed Lord. Surely no joy could be more full.

But what is the joy that was set before him, to which he looked forward and for which he was willing to bear all the agonies of the cross,—that joy, a little of which he tasted even while here among men?—“It was the joy of Christ in his humiliation and pain that his disciples should be glorified with him. They were the fruit of his self-sacrifice. The outworking in them of his own character and spirit is his reward, and will be his joy throughout eternity.” As the words of the Master to the woman of Samaria at the well “aroused her conscience, Jesus rejoiced. He saw her drink of the water of life, and his own hunger and thirst were satisfied. To minister to the hungering and thirsting was more gratifying to him than eating or drinking. It was a comfort and a refreshing to him. “Benevolence was the life of his soul.” The Saviour's joy is in seeing in the kingdom of glory the souls that have been saved by his agony and humiliation. In Zeph. 3: 17 we read: “The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he

will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.” Undoubtedly it will be our blessed privilege to hear the Master himself sing the song of rejoicing over those who are saved in his kingdom.

Our Joy

But what will be our joy and rejoicing? Paul tells us in 1 Thess. 2:19: “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy.” If we are ever so unspeakably fortunate as to enter the courts of glory, it will undoubtedly be because we have gained an experience here in winning souls to him, which will enable us to taste of his joy. “The redeemed will be sharers in this joy as they behold among the blessed those who have been won to Christ through their prayers, their labors and loving sacrifice. As they gather about the great white throne, gladness unspeakable will fill their hearts when they behold those whom they have won for Christ, and see that each has gained others, and they still others; all brought into the haven of rest, there to lay their crowns at Jesus' feet and praise him throughout the endless cycles of eternity.”

This joy of the Lord, which they share with him as the fruit of their labor and sacrifice, is seen in other hearts and lives. They are workers together with Christ, and the Father will honor them as he honors his Son. The joy of seeing souls eternally saved is the reward of all that put their feet in the footprints of him who said, “Follow me.” They will enter into the joy of the Lord as they see in his kingdom those who have been redeemed through their instrumentality. They are privileged to have a part in his work there because they have gained a fitness for it by having a part in his work here. In heaven we shall be the same in character and holy service as we now are. The Lord Jesus said of himself, “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” Thus his work on earth is his work in heaven, and our reward for working with Christ in this world is a greater power and a wider privilege of working with him in the world to come.

The home missionary campaign just started will afford the best kind of opportunity for all to gain an experience in soul saving that will enable them to enter into the joy of the Lord when he comes.

Christmas and Its Evils

By I. A. CRANE

I. A. CRANE

The festival celebrated on December 25 is not what it purports to be. It comes to us claiming to be the birthday of our Saviour, and that its office is to add to the honor of his name. It, however, has no authority to substantiate such a claim. The most favorable authorities leave the matter in grave doubt as to whether the Lord was born at this time of year, while others declare plainly that it absolutely could not be the time. This being the height of the cold, rainy season, precludes the idea that shepherds would abide by night in the field with their flocks, as was the case at the birth of Christ. See Luke 2: 8.

God does not require the observance of Christ's birthday, else he would have fixed the time beyond conjecture. The very indefiniteness of the Scriptures on this subject shows that without doubt the omission of anything giving a clue as to the exact time has been intentional.

Why attempt to commemorate what God has left unrecorded? Strange perversity which impels people to observe what God has not required, and to ignore that which he has plainly commanded! Christmas masquerades under an assumed

name; and true to its deceptive name, its observance, purporting to be for the honor of Christ, is in reality calculated to obscure his name and mission by mingling it with ancient heathen customs. The pomp and glare and pleasure of its observance captivate the innocent mind of the child. From his first Christmas, when the lowly birth in Bethlehem is suggested, the child's mind is immediately filled with Christmas festivities and thoughts of Santa Claus.

At this season of the year many children receive their first lesson in deception from those whose truthfulness they have never before questioned. And because papa and mamma have told them things about Christmas and Santa Claus which are not true, their ideas of truth become confused and modified. Later, when they hear more of the Bible story of the fall, the cross, and the world to come, they are unprepared to believe that the Bible means what it says.

How dare you, Christian parent, run the risk of lessening your child's tendency to believe the simple Bible truth? It was without doubt the pomp and pleasantry of heathen festivals that proved Satan's most powerful agent in seducing Israel into sin. It is none the less true that when modern Israel make Sunday and Christmas days of visiting and cessation of ordinary labor, they expose themselves and their families to continued temptation from which God would gladly shield them. Christmas is in reality nothing less than the ancient Saturnalia or Yule feast, masquerading under a Christian name. It was then the great annual festival for sun worship, as was Sunday the weekly. Can we receive good from respecting it? In answer please read Lev. 18: 30; 20: 23.

Waurika, Okla.

H. M. KELLEY

By H. M. Kelley

The Faith of Jesus—No. 1

H. M. KELLEY

THEOLOGIANS claim there are four kinds of faith,—historical, temporary, active, and passive. Each one of these classical divisions is a subject in itself, but taken collectively they form what we may properly term “saving faith.” As the blending together of the seven colors produces a transparent whiteness, the effulgent rays of sunshine devoid of any tint, so the harmony of the four kinds of faith produces the light of the gospel message, which, when focused upon the world’s Redeemer, gives a living hope to the Christian. It is the key to the storehouse of knowledge, and a living principle without which no one can be saved.

There is nothing purer than the righteousness of Christ exemplified in the creation of man. Man came from the hand of God pure and undefiled. But his innocency, the whiteness of his soul, was stained by sin, and as a result his posterity bears the emblem of adulteration. Anything that will remove the stain of sin has a redeeming quality. The only thing bearing this mark is the blood of Christ.

It is by the grace of God apportioned to us, and through faith in the efficacy of the blood of Christ, that we are saved. The acknowledgment of grace received, the expression of faith, is our part of the transaction. Grace is said to be unmerited favor. No one merits favors from God, and yet all receive them. All, then, are under grace. But grace is a saving factor to one class, to another it is not. Why?—Because one class receives favors from God as a gift made possible by the blood of Christ. The other class receives the good things of God as theirs by right without any acknowledgment of love. They do not acknowledge the love of God because they do not believe in the power of Jesus’ blood.

Definition of Faith

“Saving faith is a transaction by which those who receive Christ join themselves in covenant relation with God.”—“Ministry of Healing,” page 62.

But perhaps the most significant definition of faith ever given is that recorded in Heb. 11: 1: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Substratum or subsoil is a synonym for substance. In certain portions of Florida there is quicksand underneath the subsoil. Here the subsoil serves a good purpose, for it holds fertilizer when it is put into the soil; otherwise it would sink into the quicksand, and the soil would lose the strengthening qualities given to it. But faith is not only “the substance of things hoped for,” it is also the “evidence of things not seen.” Evidence, according to Webster, is “ground of belief.” Ground is that into which seeds are cast. It follows, then, that the man who has no faith has no soil or subsoil upon which to build a Christian character, but is a barren pit of quicksand. Speaking of a house builded upon the sand, the Saviour said, “It fell: and great was the fall of it.” It matters not what kind of resolutions one may put into his character building, if he has no faith it will never stand the test.

Herrin, Ill.

God's Work Closing

By W. H. BRANSON

W. H. BRANSON

For years we have preached that the end would come in the present generation; and yet as the generation spoken of has been passing away into the tomb, some have begun to lose faith and to feel that the time would be prolonged. Many of our people who in the past have been very ardent and zealous in the work of God have settled down and are laying their plans for more comfortable homes for themselves and their children. Some are adding acre to acre and dollar to dollar, and seem to have forgotten that we have for years been standing on the very threshold of the eternal world.

What a clarion call to Seventh-day Adventists is the present war which now involves all Europe! We have long preached that the European powers would be thrown into great conflict, and that the Turkish Empire would be dried up as a result. If the present war continues, it will in all human probability result in the expulsion of the Turk from Europe and the destruction of his government. But this event will be a sign to this people that their work is over. Then Michael will stand up, and the door of mercy will be closed forever. The rest of the nations will be drawn into the struggle to fight the last great battle.

Do these things mean anything to you? For years the Lord through his servant has been appealing to this people to sell their property, all they can possibly do without, and put the money into the work of God. Yet we still cling to it. I fear that many will wait a week or a month too long, and will find after it is too late that it is impossible to sell. How could our brethren in Europe sell their property today? If we wait till this country is also drawn into the struggle, how shall we sell then? There is no sale for property in times of war; and when once this nation is drawn into the struggle, we need not look for peace here again. Now we have the only favorable time we shall ever have to sell what we have and give alms, and thereby lay up treasures in heaven. Notice some of the stirring statements made recently by the servant of the Lord to this people:—

“And now, instead of seeking expensive dwellings here, we should be preparing to move to a better country, even a heavenly. . . . Our missions must be sustained. New missions must be opened. To carry forward this work successfully will require no small outlay. . . . Let not your property be tied up in worldly enterprises so that this work shall be hindered. Get your means where you can handle them for the benefit of the cause of Christ. Send your treasures before you into heaven. The members of the church should individually hold themselves and all their possessions upon the altar of God. Now, as never before, the Saviour’s admonition is applicable; ‘Sell that ye have, and give alms.’ Those who are fastening their means in large houses, in lands, in worldly enterprises, are saying by their actions, ‘God cannot have it; I want it for myself.’ They have bound up their one talent in a napkin, and hid it in the earth. There is cause for such to be alarmed. Brethren, God has not intrusted means to you to lie idle, nor to be covetously retained or hid away, but to be used to advance his cause, to save the souls of the perishing. It is not the time now to bind up the Lord’s money in your expensive buildings and your large enterprises, while his cause is crippled and left to beg its way, the treasury half supplied. The Lord is not in this way of working. Remember the day is fast approaching when it will be said, ‘Give an account of thy stewardship.’ Can you not discern the signs of the times?’”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. V, page 465.

We see the war cloud bursting over the whole world. Our work is closing. Let us take the warning and give our all to God.

God Cares for His Children

By F. M. W.

EVERY age in the history of the church furnishes abundant evidence of God's tender care for his trusting children. The Scriptures of Truth abound with many instances of this character. A notable one is found in the experience of the prophet Elijah. Compelled to flee to a solitary region in order to escape the wrath of Ahab, who was seeking his life, Elijah was fed daily by the ravens. When the brook from which he drank dried up, the Lord sent him to Zarephath, near Zidon, to the house of a poor widow, for sustenance, the last place where he would naturally go for assistance in time of distress. Here for a full year the Lord daily replenished the oil and the meal for the support of the prophet and the widow and her son.

The later history of the church of God abounds with incidents similar to this, and even in our own day we find God still reaching out his hand to answer in truly miraculous manner the needs of his trusting children. One of our sisters writes of the way in which the Lord has especially supplied her needs. She says:—

I was in feeble health, and my flour was gone, and there was no money to buy more. So I went to the Lord in prayer, and asked him to open the way for me and to supply my need. The Lord gave me the assurance that he would do this. When I went to the flour sack, which was nearly exhausted, to get some flour to make my bread, my mind was very deeply impressed with the Scripture account of the manner in which the Lord supplied Elijah and the widow. I could not understand why this scripture was impressed on my mind; but when I returned to the sack again to prepare more food, I found the same amount of flour that was in the sack before I had taken any out, and again my mind was impressed with the same scripture. It was all of two weeks that the flour lasted, until there was money to buy more; so I know that the Lord will provide.

God would have us trust him in the little things of life. The greatness of his power and of his love is shown not so much in that he takes account of the great things in his universe. We naturally expect the great God of heaven to do this. But when we realize that our Father in heaven is so great and so loving and so thoughtful that he stoops to take account of his children individually, and of the little details of their experience, surely we can see the exceeding breadth and depth of his great love for us. God would do more for us if we trusted him more. It is our privilege to seek his help in all the little affairs of life, and to realize that all that concerns us concerns him, for he loves us and cares for us. “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”

F. M. W.

Letting the People Know

By W. A. S.

FROM all parts of the world we receive the word that many who have heard about Seventh-day Adventist teaching in the past, and perhaps did not give serious thought to it, are turning to our people to make inquiry concerning Bible truth. We learn of people searching in towns to find where Seventh-day Adventists hold their meetings, in one or two instances to be evidently guided most providentially to our brethren.

Does not this situation emphasize anew the importance of advertising the place of meetings on leaflets and periodicals that may be scattered freely in any town where public services are held? If such literature is stamped neatly with a small rubber stamp, giving the place and hour of the meeting, it will surely be the best kind of advertising for the public service. Many are doing this with good results in connection with campaigns for placing periodical extras or leaflets in the homes of the people.

Sometimes we find even a church building with no notice board indicating that it is a Seventh-day Adventist Church. Is not this a mistake in such times as these, when the spirit of inquiry is abroad? We have rejoiced at the splendid progress of our work in Korea.

We were led into that field by two Koreans, who, while passing along a street in a Japanese city, stopped to study out the notice board on a little chapel announcing Seventh-day Adventist services. A beckoning hand at the door motioned for them to come in, and soon thereafter the first Korean converts were baptized by lantern light. On their return to Korea our work for that field was begun, and soon the message was spreading, as Professor Field wrote us at the time of his first visit, “like a prairie fire.”

These are earnest days, the spirit of inquiry is all abroad in the land. To Seventh-day Adventists God has committed the message for the hour; let us help the people to come in contact with it. W. A. S.

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