Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 25. (6/23/1904)

Review and Herald

Jun 23, 1904

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 23, 1904

Love Never Faileth

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 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. 3 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.

4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 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. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11 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. 12 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. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

—1 Corinthians 13, American Standard Revised Version.

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The Chronic Compromiser

THE history of the children of Israel reveals the fact that it was their continual compromise with evil which brought upon them repeated experiences of chastening at the hands of the Lord. They desired to serve the Lord, but when they were brought face to face with some crisis, they often swerved from the straightforward course, attempting to take a middle ground which would not bring them into direct conflict with the opinions and practises of their heathen neighbors. Their “spirit was not steadfast with God.” It was to such a people that Elijah addressed his earnest appeal: “How long go ye limping between the two sides? If Jehovah be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The vivid expression—“limping between the two sides”—presents an accurate picture of the chronic compromiser. He does not walk with a firm step on either side, but sways in a hesitating manner from one position to the other. Being governed by fear or policy rather than by principle, he has nothing to hold him in the straight path of truth. Such a man is almost sure to be on the wrong side in a real crisis. His perceptions of truth become blunted by his continual parleying with error, and his experience ends in a positive alliance with wrong. The true Christian is positive, but not stubborn; uncompromising, but gentle, “steadfast, unmoveable,” “faithful unto death.” “He who is a true Christian combines great tenderness of feeling with great firmness of purpose, with unswerving fidelity to God; he will in no case become the betrayer of sacred trusts. He who is endowed with the Holy Spirit has great capacities of heart and intellect, with strength of will and purpose that is unconquerable.” The name of the chronic compromiser will be blotted out of the book of life, unless the Lord by his grace shall “stablish, strengthen, settle” him on the rock of eternal truth. “Beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness.”

Not in Vain

AFTER every prayer, faith says, “It is not in vain,” and the Holy Spirit, the Remembrancer, reminds the humble suppliant of the gracious assurance: “Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him; he also will hear their cry, and will save them.” After every effort to reveal the spirit of the Master in some kindly deed, faith says, “It is not in vain,” and the Remembrancer brings to the mind the words of Jesus, “Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward.” After every decision to give up the things of this life for the kingdom of heaven’s sake, faith says, “It is not in vain,” and again the Remembrancer repeats the words of the Nazarene, “Every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.” After every decision to walk in the light of the truth which is revealed as the path of duty, faith says, “It is not in vain,” and again the Remembrancer revives in the memory the promise of Jesus, “If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God.” “The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,” and it is the privilege of every humble believer to say with the apostle Paul, “By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.” How encouraging to the follower of Jesus is the repeated assurance of faith, “It is not in vain.”

Our Advocate

IN this hour of God’s judgment how thankful we ought to be that we are not left to plead our own cases, or to face the law of God depending upon any “works of righteousness which we have done.” “We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins.” “We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.” “For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.” “Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” It is now almost exactly three-score years since “the judgment was set, and the books were opened.” We each have a case pending in the heavenly court. Soon the verdict will be rendered, and the decree will go forth, “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” There need be no uncertainty concerning the nature of the verdict, and we may even have boldness in this time of judgment, if we only commit our cases fully into the hands of our Advocate, accepting without reserve the conditions upon which he is able to appear as our representative, and to plead his own perfect righteousness in our behalf. “The divine Intercessor presents the plea that all who have overcome through faith in his blood be forgiven their transgressions, that they be restored to their Eden home, and crowned as joint heirs with himself to the ‘first dominion.’ . . . He asks for his people not only pardon and justification, full and complete, but a share in his glory and a seat upon his throne.” This is what our Advocate undertakes to accomplish for us. And every angel would be sent from heaven to minister help, if the situation demanded it. O then, let no one delay to place his case in the hands of such an Advocate! He has never lost a case. It is safe to trust him.

Studies in the Prophecies

“This Generation”

The simple but glorious truth of the personal, visible second coming of Christ in glory is taught in many places in the Scripture. “To God’s pilgrim people, so long left to sojourn in ‘the region and shadow of death,’ a precious, joy-inspiring hope is given in the promise of his appearing, who is ‘the resurrection and the life,’ to ‘bring home again his banished.’ The doctrine of the second advent is the very keynote of the sacred Scriptures. From the day when the first pair turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have waited the coming of the promised One to break the destroyer’s power and bring them again to the lost paradise. Holy men of old looked forward to the advent of the Messiah in glory, as the consummation of their hope.”

After Jesus had been manifested in the flesh, fulfilling minutely all things “which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms” concerning him, and when he was about to return to the Father, he said to his disciples, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

After his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, when he was taken up “and a cloud received him out of their sight,” the two men in white apparel said to the astonished disciples, “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”

The Holy Spirit, speaking through the mouth of the great apostle to the Gentiles, has assured us that “the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Through the same apostle we are also taught to look “for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”

And the closing words of the book of inspiration point us to the same great hope of the church in this statement and petition: “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”

Not only is the fact of the second advent emphasized thus in the Scriptures, but there are various lines of prophecy and many detached prophecies which mark the course of earthly history, and enable us to determine with much definiteness and assurance when the coming of the Master is near. Such a line of prophecy is the one recorded in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, the thirteenth chapter of Mark, and the twenty-first chapter of Luke, and sometimes called our Lord’s great prophecy. In this prophecy, as recorded in substantially the same language by each one of the evangelists, after giving certain signs Jesus said, “When ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.” It is the purpose of this study to point out with as much clearness as possible the application of the expression “this generation,” dealing more especially with the record as given by Matthew.

Just previous to his departure from the temple Jesus had uttered a sevenfold woe upon the scribes and Pharisees, closing with this terrible warning of impending disaster: “Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.”

Continuing the same prophecy of the overthrow of Jerusalem in the generation in which he was speaking, as he passed out of the temple and “his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple,” Jesus said, “Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Afterward “the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”

It should be observed that the disciples asked about two separate things. They inquired, “When shall these things be?” referring to those experiences in the immediate future of Jerusalem’s history of which Jesus had said, “All these things shall come upon this generation.” They also asked, “What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” Jesus answered both of these questions, and it will greatly help us to understand clearly his answer if we mark the parallel between the experience of the generation which rejected him at his first coming and the generation which rejects him at his second coming. The experience of the generation which heard the message of the first advent is so similar in many respects to the experience of the generation which hears the message of the second advent that the former might almost be considered as a type of the latter.

When the Jews rejected the true Messiah, they opened the way for such an incoming tide of deception and brought upon themselves such troubles as ended in the downfall of Jerusalem and the nation before the generation had passed away which heard the preaching of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus. All this came upon them because they knew not the time of their visitation. And in tracing the downward course to the end in that generation the Master told his disciples of false Messiahs, of political troubles, of famines and earthquakes and persecutions and the deceptive work of false teachers, and the abounding iniquity which would cause the love of many to wax cold. But he further declared that the gospel message, the good news of the heavenly kingdom brought near in the Word becoming flesh, should be preached throughout all the world, and then the end would come. The history of that generation met all the specifications of the prophecy, and the disciples were witnesses to the true Messiah “both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth,” as is shown by the testimony of the apostle Paul in his epistle to the Colossians, written A. D. 64. Col. 1:4, 5, 23. Then they saw “the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place,” which was, as is declared by Luke, “Jerusalem compassed with armies,” then those who believed the words of the Lord fled to the mountains to escape the general destruction, and then according to the very words of Jesus the enemies of Jerusalem cast a bank about her, and kept her in on every side, and dashed her to the ground, and her children within her. Thus were fulfilled the very words of the Master, “All these things shall come upon this generation.”

But in the experience of Jerusalem in that generation may be seen a picture of the church in this generation; and in foretelling the events which would lead up to the end of that nation, Jesus also foretold the events which would lead up to the end of all the nations and his coming. And as in that generation the gospel message, the testimony to the true Messiah, was preached in all the

world, so in this generation the advent message must be preached in all the world, and then the end will come. But of this we will speak more fully in our next study.

All for Service

By W. A. S.

A Lesson for Our July Missionary Offering

WHEN the war broke out in the far East, the people of Japan felt that they were fighting for their very existence as a nation. It was to be a life or death struggle, in their estimation. As the strong and disciplined youth and men of Japan sprang to arms, ready to go to the battle front, those who remained at home prepared to stand by their comrades in arms in a very practical way.

As the calls came for funds with which to press the campaign, the rich and the poor joined in gifts to the nation's treasury. They knew that thus they, as actually as the soldiers on the firing line, were striking blows for their own and their country's cause. Thus it has come about as a Portland (Ore.) paper says:—

It is now accounted a disgrace for any Japanese of any class to retain any articles of gold. All has been sent to the treasury to be converted into coin for the emperor.

It is all so very real to these people. A real conflict is on. They read the dispatches from the front. Loved ones, friends, comrades, are falling on the field. It is their cause, and it is to decide their place among the nations, and influence their prospects in life. Not an idle asset must be held to. Every resource must be turned to account. While comrades and loved ones are risking life and all in facing the enemy, it is little enough that they can do to turn every resource at their command to account in making up the war fund. They expect the demands to increase, the further their forces press the battle.

Just as really have we a conflict on our hands. The issue of the conflict we know must be victory, but none the less it is a life or death struggle for every soul of us. Our work, our existence as a people of God to bear the last warning to the world, our own eternal destiny, are being decided upon the missionary battle-field to-day. Every soul has his place, either in the mission field at home or abroad, or as one to stay by the stuff and send the resources to the field. Those Japanese have made of their country's cause a religion. They lay down life for it; they convert into coin every unnecessary treasure they may have. There surely is a lesson for us in the devotion of the children of this world to the cause that represents to them the heart's highest interests. When men and women so do in the service of earthly king and country, what ought not the children of light to be doing for their King and the heavenly country?

Depend upon it, the one who doesn't like to hear calls for missions would not like to be in the thick of the battle. And he who is not heart and soul in the holy conflict to-day has lost something out of his life that must be quickly found again if he would share in the victory so near at hand. W. A. S.

Last-Day Snares

We learn from a recent issue of the Cincinnati Post that a new religious society has been formed in Ohio with “universal love” as one of its principal tenets. In the application of this most excellent principle the founder of this new sect tries to improve upon the Bible system, or we may perhaps better say that under this profession of “universal love” he attempts to cover the worst tendencies of human nature.

Carrying out his theory of “universal love,” the founder of this sect teaches that “there is no such thing as evil in this world.” He teaches that “marriage is not a necessity.” He does “not believe that a man should love one woman more than all others, nor . . . that a parent should love his or her children more than the children of other people.” He claims that he and his followers “have arrived at the state of mind where we are obedient to law without restraint.” This law he defines as “the law of nature.”

A commentary upon the actual experience of this kind of teaching may be found in the fact that the same paper which reports the principles of the new society gives an account of the visit of the sheriff and an angry father to the home of the society to recover the latter’s young daughter who had become infatuated with “the principles.”

This outbreak of “universal love” and this professed obedience to “the law of nature” is simply the extreme development of some of the principles which lie hidden under smooth words and apparently beautiful sentiments. “We are living in an age of great light; but much that is called light is opening the way for the wisdom and arts of Satan. Many things will be presented that appear to be true, and yet they need to be carefully considered with much prayer; for they may be specious devices of the enemy. The path of error often appears to lie close to the path of truth. It is hardly distinguishable from the path that leads to holiness and heaven. But the mind enlightened by the Holy Spirit may discern that it is diverging from the right way. After a while the two are seen to be widely separated.”

“The sophistries regarding God and nature that are flooding the world with skepticism are the inspiration of the fallen foe. . . . I have seen the results of these fanciful views of God, in apostasy, spiritualism, and free-lovism. The free-love tendency of these teachings was so concealed that at first it was difficult to make plain its real character. Until the Lord presented it to me, I knew not what to call it, but I was instructed to call it unholy spiritual love.” — “The Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VIII, pages 290, 292.

The perils of the last days are here. The snares of Satan are on every side. An effort will be made to deceive even the elect. Our only safety is in the simplicity of the original gospel of Christ, without the additions or the interpretations of a false science. “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Government by Military Power

By L. A. S.

It is an unusual spectacle which the industrial conflict in Colorado is furnishing to the country at this time in the deportation of miners beyond the borders of the State as a punishment for their unionism; but so accustomed has the country become to unusual spectacles—spectacles out of keeping with the laws and institutions of republican government—that probably no great stir will be made over the anti-republican character of the proceeding. A number of union miners from the strike district—about seventy, it is stated—were put on a train under guard of a company of militia, taken eastward to the Kansas border, and when about half a mile beyond this line, were put off the train, without money or food, in a sparsely settled district, ordered not to return to Colorado, and then left to take care of themselves, the train with the soldiers returning whence it came. Many of these men left property, wives, and children behind them in Colorado. Some at least, it is stated, had not been guilty of any lawlessness, their offense being solely that they were members of the obnoxious unions.

The men started eastward to reach some habitations where they might find food and shelter, but they had not proceeded far before they were met by the sheriff of the county, who forbade them to go farther into Kansas, and ordered them back to Colorado. There was nothing to do but obey his order and start back to the State whence they had just been deported.

Manifestly, civil government does not exist in this country for the purpose of providing such incongruous spectacles. It does not exist for the purpose of telling men to get off the earth, or to do impossible things. Such acts are not done in the name of law, for there is no law

for them. There is nothing in the constitution or statutes of Colorado, which provides such a punishment for any crime, and nothing in either constitution or statutes which makes membership in a labor union a crime. The Constitution of the United States, after which those of the States are modeled, provides that “cruel and unusual punishments” shall not be inflicted on any person for crime. There are constitutional, legal methods of dealing with all crimes,—with assault, arson, riot, murder, or whatever other crime the miners are charged with,—and recourse should be had to these methods unless it is to be conceded that civil government in Colorado is a failure. The spectacle of men being ordered by regularly constituted officials in this republic, on the one hand to go out of a State, and on the other hand at the same time not to come out of it, is one that does not enhance the dignity of civil government in that section. There is in it rather a seeming confession of weakness—a confession that republican government, expressed by the calm, judicial exercise of legal authority and power, is not adequate in all cases for the preservation of law and order within the State.

If republican government is indeed weak,—if something else than this has to be resorted to under conditions that may arise (and have in places already arisen),—what will it be? Are we yet to see in this country a government by arbitrary, dictatorial power, a monarchy, or a military despotism? We have come to a time when such questions are not far-fetched.

The miners’ union has been lawless, it is true. It is to a certain degree at least responsible for the desperate crimes which have marked the contest between union members and mine owners in Colorado. But does this fact justify the deportation of union miners out of the State, their banishment from their homes, without the sanction of the State constitution and laws? Two wrongs do not make right; and no wrong is permanently remedied until it is remedied by right. Quiet has been restored in Colorado, but the cost remains to be counted.

L. A. S.

Now Is the Time

By W. A. S.

It is not only that the work we have failed to do in times of peace will have to be done amid war, but we must expect to find difficulties of many kinds increasing as the nations throw off the restraint of the Spirit of God.

All must have noticed in recent reports from the fields that the Sunday-law movement is springing into new life in foreign parts as well as in this land. One master evil mind is working among all the nations to make it increasingly difficult for us to spread the message, and for people to obey it. The Lord will show honest hearts how to triumph over all this; but we shall yet realize to the full the fact that we often have lost precious time, and shall have to bear many a hard experience that might have been saved.

The Portland Oregonian calls attention to the progress of the Sunday-law movement in Spain, and says:—

The Spanish government has published a law making Sunday a day of rest. It will be enforced in six months.

The elements are gathering for conflict with the testing truth of God’s holy Sabbath. Now is the time to press into these lands, ere doors now open swing to.

W. A. S.

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