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THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE

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CHUSHAN-RISHATHAIM’S CONQUEST OF ISRAEL.—We have learned from the Tel el-Amarna tablets that Palestine had been invaded by the forces of Aram-naharaim (A.V. “Mesopotamia”) more than once, long before the Exodus, and that at the time they were written, the king of Aram-naharaim was still intriguing in Canaan. It is mentioned among the countries which took part in the attack upon Egypt in the reign of Ramses III. (of the Twentieth Dynasty), but as its king is not one of the princes stated to have been conquered by the Pharaoh, it would seem that he did not actually enter Egypt. As the reign of Ramses III. corresponds with the Israelitish occupation of Canaan, it is probable that the Egyptian monuments refer to the oppression of the Israelites by Chushan-rishathaim. Canaan was still regarded as a province of Egypt, so that, in attacking it, Chushan-rishathaim would have been considered to be attacking Egypt.

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Inordinate Selfishness

To assume that all persons working in a certain line should be controlled by me or by some organization which I control, is the assumption of selfishness. And yet Satan makes men believe that only so can the work of God be kept from going to pieces. My way is successful, my way is therefore right, and therefore again men ought to be compelled, “peaceably if we may, forcibly if we must,” to work in my way, which, of course, means under my direction. Such ideas are born in selfishness and unbelief—selfishness in thinking that I am superior to others, that God has committed to me what he will not to them except through me, and unbelief in the wonderful, gracious, and all-comprehending wisdom and power of God by which he is able to direct and provide for his own work. The words of Jesus are, “One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.” The words of his apostle are, “The head of every man is Christ.” In organized work it is generally necessary for some one or more to exercise general direction, so as to unify undeveloped human efforts and assist the uninstructed; but that direction ought to be so general, the lines of boundary so suggestive and flexible, that the Spirit of God in the heart of every individual worker could exercise all its life-giving force and expansion. Give room for God to direct. We are small and limited; God must have many through which to manifest his manifold wisdom and grace.

EXTREME ADVENTISM.

By Editor

SOME one sends us a copy of the California Christian Advocate of February 17, 1897, containing as its leading article the above title, and requests us to notice it. But it really is not necessary. A student of God's Word will readily detect all its fallacies. It starts out with these words:—

“The ‘second coming’ doctrine is a serious stumbling-block. The underlying error is in the assumption that the whole plan of redemption is at present incomplete—Christ was a teacher and prophet while on earth; he is now a mediator in heaven, but that a second appearance is necessary in order to complete the idea of salvation. The essential transactions of the Christian religion are adjourned to some future time. Faith, according to this doctrine, does not grasp things, but the promise of things. The anxiety for the physical coming of the Lord arises from the craving of an incomplete faith.”

But the “second-coming” doctrine is a doctrine of the Word of God, taught by a multitude of such scriptures as Matt. 16:27; Luke 21:25–27; Matt. 25:31, 34; John 14:1–3; Acts 1:9–11; Heb. 9:28; 1 Thess. 4:13–17. The plan of redemption in its results is not complete till the last soul is redeemed and Christ the King comes. See Luke 21:28; Rom. 8:23. “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me,” prayed Jesus, “be with me where I am.” John 17:24. That prayer will be fulfilled; but not until he comes, raises the dead, changes the living, “and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess. 4:17. Faith is based on God's Word. Rom. 10:17. It believes for now all that Word commands or promises for now. More than this is not faith, but presumption. It hopes in all that God has promised for the future. But it lays hold of Christ now, and all is in him. Faith brings love; and love is satisfied only in the personal presence of the One loved. Again the Advocate says:—

“There is another old error which lurks about the platform of Advent doctrines. This incomplete faith fails to grasp eternal life. It does not hold firmly to the continuity of life. Christ has simply promised—not bestowed—eternal life. The faith that feels itself bound to insist on a second appearance of Christ has an abnormal fear that at death the soul falls into unconsciousness, or at best wanders about like a shadow without a substance. ‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life,’ and kindred scriptures, are not taken in a literal sense. Eternal life means future life, according to their type of belief.”

Here again the Advocate is mistaken, in part at least. The “Adventism” for which this paper is an exponent believes in a present eternal life to the believer. “He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life” is a blessed, present, literal truth. But it does not confound, as does our neighbor, eternal life and immortality. The one is the life of God, given to every believing soul,—to every soul in harmony with God,—by his Spirit. We live his eternal righteousness only by the power of his endless life. But if the believer dies, the life is hid with Christ in God, to be given again when he comes the second time. Col. 3:3, 4. Then he will bestow immortality upon his people, the seal of the incorruptible character they have developed here. 1 Cor. 15:51–54. Here are two other excerpts:—

“The power of spiritual inspection has been lost. The mysteries of materialism are transformed into ‘Christian Science,’ Spiritualism, and all kinds of occultism. The only real help for this condition of things is the true, spiritual conception of Christianity.”

“It does not fully believe the Gospel. It takes naturally to all mechanical conceptions of the truth. Saturday is the only day to be observed as a day of worship. It clings to externalism and legalism.”

Of the first paragraph we simply note the fact that it is not from the ranks of Adventists that the hosts of Christian Scientists and Spiritualists are recruiting, but from those who are taught by just such teaching as this we are receiving, that the express promises and words of Holy Writ are “a serious stumbling-block.”

Of the last quotation suffice it to say that Seventh-day Adventists believe the whole Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, believe that it is “the power of God unto salvation,” that it is the creative power of God, of which his Sabbath is a sign and pledge (Eze. 20:12, 20); that that Sabbath is the seventh day, the day just before the first day of the week, the day observed by Jesus Christ; that God is able to care for that Sabbath by the power of his Gospel without appealing to civil law; and that all his laws and his Word and his ordinances to be effectual must be written, not on statute-books, but in the hearts of men, by the Spirit of the living God. Now, neighbor Advocate, is not all this in harmony with the Word of God? If not, where not?

An Article on the Gospel Delayed

By Editor

THE exigency of our make-up forced us to leave over an excellent article on the Gospel by Mrs. Henry. But it will keep, and be just as good next week.

The Life of Love

THE article, “The Life of Love,” by Brother Alway, is a continuation of his article of last week, “The Divine Sovereignty of God.” It is a study which will repay reading.

“A Mild Civil Sabbath Law.”

By Editor

—Hon. W. S. Melich, representative to the California Legislature, and editor of the Pasadena Daily News, pleads for “a mild civil sabbath law,” and counts those who oppose it as intolerant. We will tell in our next issue what “a mild civil sabbath law” means.

Christ’s Mission to Save

“If any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” These are the words of Jesus. His mission was to save. It still is to save. This should be the mission of his professed servants, to save in his way, not by force, but by love.

A Precious Assurance

Rom. 8:28 is a most precious assurance to him who has wholly yielded himself and his cause to God: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” The margin of the Revised Version makes the thought still more precious, for it brings in not simply a fortuitous combination of circumstances, but reveals God’s hand: “And we know that to them that love God, God worketh all things with them for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.” It is God that controls. He “worketh all things after the counsel of his own will” (Eph. 1:11); “he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” Who would not trust such a God? Who would not yield to his holy purpose?

A New Organization

By Editor

A New Organization.—The Christian Citizen of Chicago has, under new management, entered upon a new crusade, namely, the organization of a tremendous society, called “The National Christian Citizenship League,” for the purpose of the “purification of politics, the dethronement of evil, and the enthronement of the principles of Jesus Christ in these United States;” and the Citizen “calls for a million volunteers to enlist for the war.” As a reason for organizing another society, they say: “What! another society? Yes, and that, for one reason, because there are now so many societies. The Christian Citizenship League might be called a society for the consolidation of all reform societies.” But we shall have more to say on this next week.

What Would the Authorities Do?

What Would the Authorities Do?—In various parts of the United States and Canada men have been prosecuted, generally at the instigation of professed Christians, for working on Sunday and observing the Sabbath of the Lord. When Jesus Christ was upon the earth, he did the same thing. He rested the seventh day; he wrought the first day. If he were here now, he would do the same. What would the authorities do?—Logically, they would be forced to prosecute him. But are they not doing that very thing now when they prosecute even the least disciple who follows him? These are important questions. “Inasmuch,” he says, “as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

An Excellent Number

An Excellent Number.—The American Sentinel of September 2 is an excellent number. Some of its more striking articles are Science with the Bible and without the Bible, War and the Duel, Romanism in the United States Navy, and “I Sit as a Queen,”—“Christ Has Come.” The departments News, Notes, and Comment, and Religious Liberty for Young People, are well filled and should be appreciated. The Sentinel list is growing, and ought to grow. It stands, as it ever has, for the religious and civil rights of all men. Price, $1.00 a year. Send for sample copy to 39 Bond Street, New York City.

What Is Cured and What Cures.

A medical journal asks the question, “Do doctors cure disease?” and replies that “the office of the physician is, in our estimation, not to cure the disease, but to cure the patient.” But to our mind, this is hardly a correct idea of the functions of a physician. Nature must cure or heal after all, and the office of the physician is to assist the patient to come within the scope and operation of nature’s healing, or, rather, God through nature.