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Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 19.

Foreign Publications and Periodicals

Review and Herald

May 13, 1902

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1902

Foreign Publications and Periodicals

Foreign Publications and Periodicals Issued by the Review and Herald Publishing Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

German

Best Stories from the Best Book. $.25 - $.75
Bible Readings for the Home Circle 2.00 - 4.25
Biographical Sketches .75
Bound Volume of Tracts .75
Christ Our Saviour .50 .75
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene .40
Coming King 1.00 1.50
Early Writings .75
From Eden to Eden 1.00 1.50
Gospel Primer .25 .50
Great Controversy 2.25 - 4.50
Heralds of the Morning 1.25 1.50
His Glorious Appearing .25 .40
History of the Sabbath 1.50
Life of Christ 2.00 - 4.25
Patriarchs and Prophets 2.25 - 4.50
Prophecies of Jesus 1.75 - 3.75
Rise and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists 1.00
Steps to Christ .60
Sunshine at Home 1.00 1.25
Synopsis of Present Truth 1.00
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing .75
Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation 2.50 - 4.50
Two Republics 1.85 - 4.50

Holland

Bible Readings for the Home Circle 2.00 - 4.25
Christian Baptism .50
Here and Hereafter .60 1.00
Patriarchs and Prophets 2.25 - 4.50
Steps to Christ .60
Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation 2.50 - 4.50
Thoughts on Daniel 1.50 - 3.00
Thoughts on the Revelation 1.50 - 3.00

Portuguese

Steps to Christ .60

Swedish

Best Stories from the Best Book. $.25 - $.75
Bible Readings for the Home Circle 2.00 - 4.25
Bound Volume Tracts .75
Christ Our Saviour .50 .75
Coming King 1.00 1.50
Gospel Primer .25 .50
Great Controversy 2.25 - 4.50
His Glorious Appearing .25 .40
Life of Christ 1.50 - 3.00
Manual of Hygiene 1.00
Patriarchs and Prophets 2.25 - 4.50
Prophecies of Jesus 1.50 - 4.00
Spiritual Experiences 1.00 1.25
Steps to Christ .60
Sunshine at Home 1.00 1.25
Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation 2.50 - 4.50
United States in Prophecy .75

Spanish

Christ Our Saviour .50 .75
Gospel Primer .25 .50
Steps to Christ .60

Finnish

Christ and His Righteousness .15
Steps to Christ .75

Italian

Steps to Christ .75
Three Messages .25

Polish

Steps to Christ .75

Bohemian

Steps to Christ .75

Hungarian

Steps to Christ .75

Welsh

Steps to Christ .75

Danish

Best Stories from the Best Book. $.25 - $.75
Bible Lessons for Youth .30
Bible Readings for the Home Circle 2.00 - 4.25
Christ Our Saviour .50 .75
Coming King 1.00 1.50
Gospel Primer .25 .50
Great Controversy 2.25 - 4.50
His Glorious Appearing .25 .40
Life of Christ 1.50 - 3.00
Patriarchs and Prophets 2.25 - 4.50
Prophecies of Jesus 1.50 - 4.00
Spiritual Experiences 1.25
Steps to Christ .60
Sunshine at Home 1.00 1.25
Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation 2.50 - 4.50

Rumanian

Steps to Christ .75

French

Bible Readings for the Home Circle 2.00 - 4.25
From Eden to Eden 1.00 1.50
Great Controversy 2.25 - 4.50
Life of Christ 2.00 - 4.25
Steps to Christ .75
Testimony for the Church .80

Periodicals

Christlicher Hausfreund (German); weekly, eight pages; annual subscription, $1; Battle Creek, Mich.; Editor, T. Valentiner.
Der Deutsche Arbeiter; eight pages; monthly; 25 cents; Battle Creek, Mich.
Evangeliets Sendebud (Danish-Norwegian); weekly; sixteen pages; annual subscription, $1; Battle Creek, Mich.; Editor, C. A. Thorp.
Sions Vaktare (Swedish); weekly; sixteen pages; annual subscription, $1; Battle Creek, Mich.; Editor, A. Swedberg.

Marvel of Nations

In the German, Danish, and Swedish Languages

These books were completed and ready for delivery on May 1st, according to promise. The Review and Herald turned away other work in order to bring these books out at the appointed time. The Editor of the Sions Väktare, the Swedish paper, says this is one of the finest books in the Swedish language, in both construction and contents. The German and Danish editions are also of a high grade, both in mechanical construction and in the translation. Our foreign laborers can be assured that these books rank high among American translations, and the subject matter, being of great importance, and providentially interwoven with the history of this country, renders these books interesting and attractive to our American people, and especially so to those who have recently come to this country, and who desire to know more of the history of the nation. These two important favorable qualities, excellence in construction and containing the message for this time, cause this book in all these languages to stand on an equality in importance with any book issued by this denomination.
The foreign people in America have never had the privilege of reading the prophetic history of this nation in their own languages, and as the Biblical future of this nation is associated with its early and present history, and as all people in this country are easily interested in the prosperity and growth of this nation, it is a very easy matter to solicit their attention to this message-bearing volume.
Strong, consecrated men are needed to solicit for these foreign books while they are new. Who will respond to this need?
The prospectus for each of these languages is composed of a full book in the English language, with sample leaves of the foreign languages tipped in. This prospectus sells for 60 cents, postpaid. The book retails at $1.25 and $1.50 in all the languages.
PLACE ALL ORDERS WITH THE STATE TRACT SOCIETY.

An Ancient Revival

By Editor

Editorial

An Ancient Revival

IN recounting the mercies which the Lord had shown toward his people at the time of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, Ezra the priest said: “For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, and to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.” It is instructive to observe what this reviving meant to God’s people. It meant a deliverance from bondage and a coming out of Babylon; and this deliverance from bondage and this coming out of Babylon were simply the preliminary experiences with reference to the work of setting up the house of God and repairing the desolations thereof. The Lord gives a reviving to his people in order that they may be delivered and strengthened for efficient service in establishing his kingdom in the earth.

A New Measure of Life

To revive a person means to impart to him a fresh supply of life if he is already alive, or to recall him to life in case he is dead. The evidence of a revival is found in growth and fruitfulness. To provide for such a revival the Lord has promised: “I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow [“blossom,” the margin] as the vine.” Under the influence of the sun’s warmth and abundant rains the corn (wheat) is now springing up in the fields, and the vines are putting out new leaves and blossoms. The evidences of the great annual revival greet our eyes on every hand, and every growing blade of wheat and every blossoming vine bear a message of encouragement to the people of the Lord. “They shall revive as the corn [wheat], and blossom as the vine.”

The Reviving Power

THERE is only one means of reviving persons or things. “It is only life that can beget life.” A revival calls for the outpouring of new life. Its results are seen in the manifestation of new life. And there is only one life. The same life which revives the wheat and the vine will revive God’s people. “So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.” Every bursting seed and growing blade is a manifestation of the presence and immediate working of the life of God. “It is not because of inherent power that year by year the earth continues her motion round the sun, and produces her bounties.” “It is God who brings the bud to bloom and the flower to fruit. It is by his power that the seed develops ‘first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.’” In these processes of nature we behold the manifestation of the indwelling life.

A Revival Now Needed

WE greatly need a revival just now. There is earnest work to be done in setting up the house of our God, and in repairing the desolations thereof. But first we must be delivered from the bondage of our sins, and there must be a complete coming out of Babylon, and this can be accomplished for us only through the power of the endless life manifested in us. We need to listen again to the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah: “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” It is the power of the indwelling presence which brings a reviving, “and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.” “The Spirit giveth life.” “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken [make alive, revive] your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” It is thus evident that our need of a revival can be met only by receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. “The Holy Spirit is his [Christ’s] representative, and it works to effect transformations so wonderful that angels look upon them with astonishment and joy.” “This promised blessing, if claimed by faith, would bring all other blessings in its train, and it is to be given liberally to the people of God. . . . The church has long been contented with little of the blessing of God; they have not felt the need of reaching up to the exalted privileges purchased for them at infinite cost. Their spiritual strength has been feeble, their experience of a dwarfed and crippled character, and they are disqualified for the work the Lord would have them do. They are not able to present the great and glorious truths of God’s holy Word, that would convict and convert souls through the agency of the Holy Spirit. The power of God awaits their demand and reception.” Let every one who desires the prosperity of Zion pray, “O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years,” and then listen for the message, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” So shall the promise be fulfilled unto us, “They shall revive as the corn, and blossom as the vine.”

Perfection Is Coming

By Uriah Smith

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” 1 Cor. 13: 9, 10. We lift up a cheering standard before the weary and waiting hearts of humanity. Perfection is coming. That is the promise: “When that which is perfect is come.” That state is far from present now; not in time, but in degree. All is imperfect here, not by any failure on the part of the Lord, but by the failure on the part of men. Sin has ruined all. Death with all its attendant evils, entered into this fair domain of the beneficentcreation of God, and so “death passed upon all men.”
Therefore, instead of the perfect state, which God provided and intended for us, we have suffering, disease, disappointment, blighted hopes, and misery of every kind; and thus we are brought to face, in bitterness of heart, the question of the ancient patriarch, “If a man die, shall he live again?” No one can think such a state of things is perfection, or be satisfied therewith. But he who wrote the world’s inspired songs, tells us that a time of perfection and satisfaction is coming, and he indicates how it will be brought about: “I shall be satisfied,” he says, “when I awake with thy likeness.” Ps. 17: 15.
But though this is not the perfect state, we have something to encourage and comfort us even here; for we know in part. We may be thankful for this: that we know in part, know enough to perceive the way of truth, and the path of obedience. We know the way to reach salvation; and “we prophesy in part;” that is, we have power to read and understand the prophecies, though only in part. But Paul explains that when he says, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.”
Christ had already said to his disciples: “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. . . . and he will show you things to come.” John 16: 13. To receive this instruction is a part of our preliminary preparation for the heavenly world. How necessary, then, that we receive and cherish the Holy Spirit, and grieve it not away, nor the holy angels, nor any of the agencies through which God designs to instruct us in his service.
“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away,”—not ignored, nor thrown away; for that which is only for the present has its place to occupy, and its work to perform; and blessed will that man be who shall be found not to have obstructed nor interfered with its work.
The apostle likens our advancement in the Christian life to the growing up of a man to the maturity of life from the limitations of childhood. Then Paul says, “When I became a man, I put away these childish things.” It is always easier to be childish than to be childlike. When found ambition controls us, and the mind becomes absorbed in the dream of advancement to high stations, a big salary, influence, and power over others, giving up “the weightier matters which these things of the world crowd out, it then becomes childish. James and John had such a dream when they besought the Lord to give them a place on his right hand and on his left hand in his kingdom, and this, with their ambition, aroused the indignation of the ten against them. They were childish. Matt. 20: 20–24.
To be childlike is described in Matt. 18: 2–6 and Luke 18: 16, 17. A child of God has infinitely higher views to engross his mind. But those who have come to years of maturity and do not rise above the little puerile notions and childish conceptions of early youth, must be, in the sight of the angels, odious and unnatural creatures, and a mockery of Christianity.
Now we see through a glass darkly, but when that which is perfect is come, we shall see as we are seen, face to face, and know as we are known. We shall see and know God, know Christ, and an innumerable company of angels, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and recognize our departed friends; for we shall know as we are known. Without this, could we say that that which is “perfect” is come? But as Paul says of the ancient worthies that they “without us should not be made perfect,” so we may say of our friends, It will not be a perfect state to us unless we can know them all. U. S.

Prophecy Fulfilling

By L. A. S.

THE REV. Dr. Josiah Strong, a leading Congregational clergyman and president of the League for Social Service, has published a book entitled, “The Next Great Awakening.” He has reference to a spiritual awakening, which he believes is not far distant in this country. He approaches the subject by referring to the religious awakenings of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, “great movements,” he says, “which lifted nations and civilization to a higher plane.” He then describes the breakdown of the elaborately planned attempts in this country and England to produce another such awakening at the beginning of the twentieth century. The reason why these attempts were failures, he says, is that the leaders failed to perceive that each of these past revivals “came in connection with the preaching of a neglected Scriptural truth which was precisely adapted to the peculiar needs of the times;” and he adds that without such an impulse no like revival is possible again.
But what, according to Dr. Strong, is this “neglected Scriptural truth,” which he so correctly judges to be the necessary foundation of any new religious awakening? Here his perception is sadly at fault. He tells us that it is a “rediscovery of Christ,” or, as he explains, “the social ideal of Jesus,” by means of which the kingdom of God is to be established on earth, in the shape of “an organization in which there is perfect obedience to all the laws of life, physical, intellectual, spiritual, social,”—a “perfected world society,” a “community which embraces every other true community of men, which contains and controls the home, the state, the economic system, the fellowships of science, letters, art.” Following out the “social teachings of Jesus,” he says, we shall “save men rather than souls.” We shall “educate the new social conscience, and afford a radical remedy for social disorders.”
This is the ideal for which Dr. Strong, with his League for Social Service, is striving; and not only this organization, but others of greater note, such, for example, as the Christian Endeavor Society. Even the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union is committed to this purpose by the declaration of its venerated leader, Miss Willard, that the one absorbing aim and “undying enthusiasm” of the organization is “that Christ shall be this world’s king,” by a sort of social and political regeneration. “The kingdom of Christ,” she said, “is to enter the realm of law through the gateway of politics.” These organizations, Christian though they claim to be, are not looking for the setting up of God’s kingdom through the second coming of Christ, in the manner so frequently alluded to in the New Testament; and having rejected the idea that Christ is to come and sweep away all earthly kingdoms, they are left to the belief that earthly kingdoms must in some way be gradually merged into the kingdom of Christ, by the regeneration of society. They would have been saved from this fearful delusion if the churches had received the message that went to the world in 1840–44, proclaiming that the hour of God’s judgment was come.
This idea of an earthly kingdom of Christ—earthly not merely in its location, but in the elements composing it—is fast spreading through the religious world. The energies of those who should be working to evangelize the world are very largely engrossed in the attempted realization of this false ideal, as impossible as it is unscriptural, which substitutes the civic for the individual conscience, and seeks the salvation of society rather than the regeneration of the heart. This sensual, carnal conception of the kingdom of Christ, which would build up that kingdom upon the foundation of earthly governments, will assuredly make use of state legislation as one of its principal agencies, and will enforce its false conceptions of duty in the place of the religion of Christ.
For all this we have been looking, and in this new book by Dr. Strong, we recognize a sign of the times, admonishing us that the fulfillment of the prophetic word is hastening, and that but a brief span of time remains in which to finish the work God would have us accomplish in the earth. L. A. S.

“In the Day of His Preparation”

By W. A. S.

WE are living in the day of God's preparation. All prophecy, fulfilled and fulfilling, shows that the last hour of that day has struck. No wonder that intensity fills all heaven, and that there is not an idle angel. Every one of the heavenly host is engaged in hurrying forward this glorious truth which is to save a people prepared for the Lord.
The intensity of the time is felt among the nations. It is the day of preparation for the world. East and west, north and south, the call is ringing through the earth, “Prepare war, wake up the mighty men.” It costs treasure, it calls for the laying down of life. But it is the time of earth's preparation for the great Armageddon; and for the glory of the fleshly arm, and of country, the children of this world are ready to pay the price.
The intensity of these times is stirring the hearts of the children of God. That is the most thrilling sign of all. It is a day of preparation among believers. The Spirit of God calls for a forward march into the great field, and the same gracious Spirit is preparing the hearts of this people to go forward.
With feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, swift to respond to every call of our Leader, an army of workers is gathering. I have lately had the privilege of spending a few weeks at Emmanuel Missionary College, and a few days at Union College. It is inspiring indeed to notice how the Spirit of God is laying upon our youth the burden of the mission fields. God has wonderfully opened the way among all peoples in our own day, and now he is equipping and qualifying the workers.
The same word comes from all our training schools. We have discovered a world to be saved. With eyes uplifted, brethren and sisters see the waving fields, white already unto the harvest. The call is, “Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people.” So, out through the gateways of the home land, out along earth's highways and byways, we are to hasten on to the finishing of the work. Again, as always in the history of God's work, the call of the hour is answered by the coming of the man. Some who are able to do so are going at their own charges. There is a sound of going in the ranks to-day that gives promise of speedy triumph.
The call of the hour that brings the men ready to go must also bring forward the man ready to give in order that the worker may be sent to the ends of the earth. This work is the one thing that interests heaven. Heaven has invested its all in it. What else is there for anybody to live for or work for? God is helping us to see this as never before. Yet, how much more might we do if only awake more fully to the times!
Even now, this very day, we are holding back workers ready to go, from fields urgently calling for help, because the mission treasury is depleted. But the call of the hour must be answered. God must be preparing his stewards somewhere to supply the means. It is the day of preparation for great things. Let us take the motto by which Carey opened the great era of modern missions, based on Isa. 54:2: “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.”
W. A. S.

Studies in the Gospel Message

THE subject of the Sabbath-school lesson for May 24, the eighth in the present series, is The Tent of Meeting and the True Temple.
The tabernacle, regarded simply as a structure, and apart from its furniture and its services, was setting forth in this concrete form the lesson of the incarnation of the Son of God. Outwardly it was simply a tent covered with the skins of animals, and it was not especially attractive in its appearance, but within it was all glory and beauty. It was the dwelling place of God, where an illustration of his glory was manifested. Ordinarily this glory was not observed by those without, but only by those who ministered within the tabernacle, being shut off from those without by means of “the veil of the covering.” Sometimes the glory would break through the veil, and appear “before all the children of Israel.” Thus was shadowed forth the manifestation of the glory of God in the person of his Son. “And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.” This was divinity veiled in humanity. There was nothing striking in his outward appearance. “He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” Because he walked about as a man among men without the outward marks of distinction, some failed to recognize the manifested glory. The people said, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.” The Jews on another occasion said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?”
On rare occasions the glory broke through the veil of his humanity, and his divinity flashed forth upon the people. It must have been so when “Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.” There was a divine authority, the authority of manifested divinity, which his adversaries could not resist.
And so it was again when he was on the mount of transfiguration, “and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.” “For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” “Divinity from within flashes through humanity, and meets the glory coming from above.” And thus was the glory manifested. This was the reality which was foreshadowed in “the tent of meeting.”
But while in outward appearance Jesus was simply a man among men, yet he was in fact much more than this. He was “the last Adam,” and “the Lord from heaven.” The Word did not become simply an individual man, but “the Word became flesh.” Divinity was united with humanity. This was the lesson of the tabernacle and the temple. “That temple, erected for the abode of the divine presence, was designed to be an object lesson for Israel and for the world. From eternal ages it was God’s purpose that every created being, from the bright and holy seraph to man, should be a temple for the indwelling of the Creator. Because of sin, humanity ceased to be a temple for God. Darkened and defiled by evil, the heart of man no longer revealed the glory of the divine One. But by the incarnation of the Son of God, the purpose of heaven is fulfilled. God dwells in humanity, and through saving grace the heart of man becomes again his temple. God designed that the temple at Jerusalem should be a continual witness to the high destiny open to every soul.”
When divinity was united with humanity in the person of Jesus, the divine purpose was being accomplished to “gather together in one all things in Christ.” And so he “gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body.” The man Christ Jesus stood for humanity. As humanity he lived a life of obedience to the law of God, as humanity he suffered on the cross and paid humanity’s debt, as humanity he was raised from the dead, and as humanity he ascended into heaven. In him as humanity we have passed through these experiences, and this constitutes the reality of our salvation. “God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved); and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”
Thus the purpose of God in the incarnation of Christ extended beyond themaking of one man to be a partaker of the divine nature, and included the making of all men to be partakers of the divine nature, “in him.” It was thus that humanity was again to become the temple of God.
And so the true temple of the living God is the body of Christ, the church. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” “Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.”
All this was involved in the original promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. Humanity gains the victory over sin and Satan through God’s gift of his Son, in whom divinity and humanity were united, and in whom humanity is restored to become again the temple of the living God.
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