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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 20.

CONTENTS

Review and Herald

May 16, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

CONTENTS

The Home

The Location; The Building Site; Suggestions on Building; Sewerage; Healthful Surroundings; Water-Supply; Furnishing the Home.

General Housekeeping

Cleanliness and Order; Sweeping and Dusting; Care of Floors; Living-Rooms; Sleeping-Rooms; Bath-Room and Toilet; Kitchen and Pantry; The Cellar; Care of Plumbing; Laundering; Removing Stains from Wash Goods; Clothes Cleaning; House Cleaning; Repairing Furniture; Fruit Canning; Pests; Miscellaneous Recipes; Don’ts for Housekeepers.

Diet

Good Food; Vegetarianism; Cooking; The Art of Dining; Condiments; Stimulants and Narcotics; Refreshing Drinks.

Care of the Body

Ventilation; Exercise; Rest; Bathing; Sunshine; Making the Toilet; Healthful Dress; Hygiene of the Voice and Teeth; Hygiene of the Eyes and Ears; Social Purity.

The Care and Training of Children

A Sacred Responsibility; The Baby; The Little Girl; The Little Boy; The Child’s Clothing; Exercise and Recreation; Children’s Work; Discipline; Education; True Courtesy; At Family Worship; General Suggestions; Don’ts for Parents.

The Home Treatment of Disease

Rational Remedies; Drugs; Care of the Sick; Disinfectants; Emergency Treatments; Treatment of Minor Diseases; General Index.
The primary object of “Home and Health” is to prevent rather than to cure disease, though it is often the case that the principles of healthful living which guard the body against disease are also the best and most rational agencies for restoration. This is not, however, a medical book; but it is in the truest sense a health book. It is not technical, but is practical. It contains more than two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the best means of practising the clean, wholesome principles of the gospel. It is dedicated “To the Home,” where it has a sacred mission of helpfulness.

Home and Health

A New Health Book

For more than ten years, our publishing houses, tract societies, and field workers have been asking for a book like “Home and Health,” in which the oft-repeated question would be answered, “How can we order the many details of our homes and care for our bodies in harmony with the laws of healthful living which God has revealed to us?” It is, therefore, with more than ordinary satisfaction that we introduce this very practical volume, the general scope of which is clearly set forth in the accompanying table of contents, which is given in full.

Agents Wanted

We want hundreds of agents for this excellent book; not those who are already employed in selling our other books successfully; but we do want a great army of recruits. We want hundreds of women who can most fitly and enthusiastically represent the principles taught in “Home and Health” to their sister housekeepers who need it very much. We want hundreds of men and women who have not yet had the courage to volunteer for the sale of other books,—men and women who will read the book and practise its teachings; and as a basis for all this, we want thousands of purchasers who will send to us for this book and introduce its teachings into their homes and neighborhoods.
“Home and Health” contains 592 pages, and is illuminated with over 250 original drawings made expressly for the book. The prices, post-paid, are as follows:—
Strong cloth, marbled edge, $2.50
Full law sheep, marbled edge, 3.50
Full leather, marbled edge, 4.50
Order through the State tract societies, or any of the publishing houses or their branches.

Review and Herald Publishing Assn.

Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Ten Reasons

Why a copy of Home and Health should be in every family

1. It contains the clean, strong principles of the gospel as it should be practised in our manner of living.
2. It teaches some of the most practical means by which we may make our homes visible types of the invisible home above.
3. It contains God’s message of health which is due just now in all the world.
4. It tells how to live a plain, simple life. The fashionable standard of living is becoming more and more complicated, expensive, and health-destroying. It is worth while to learn the way to health, strength, purity, and economy.
5. This book will render valuable assistance to those who are building homes, by giving up-to-date, economical methods of building, so as to make the home both attractive and sanitary.
6. It will lighten the labors of many an overburdened housekeeper, by giving choice recipes and helpful suggestions on all the practical features of housekeeping.
7. The chapters on the care of plumbing, removing stains from wash goods, clothes cleaning, repairing furniture, etc., will enable housekeepers to practise many little economies and save heavy bills of expense. From this view-point alone the book will be a good investment, worth many times its cost each year.
8. Sections three and four are devoted to the preservation of the riches of good health, which are worth more to us than gold.
9. The chapters under section five, on the care, education, and training of children, will assist parents in the discharge of their sacred responsibilities, so that “our sons may grow up as plants in their youth; that our daughters may be corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.”
10. The section on the home treatment of disease will assist people of ordinary intelligence in the use of many of nature’s effective remedies as they may be applied in a simple way in our home. It will enable parents to apply effectively home remedies in the treatment of the majority of the commoner diseases of children, such as colds, grip, whooping-cough, etc.

Editorial

By Editor

Editorial Letter

Jottings from the Editor’s Note-Book

As some notes on my trip from Peking to Sin-yang Cheo have already appeared in the REVIEW, I will not make further reference to that part of my journey, but will now come directly to the Honan conference, which was held at the latter place. It was our intention that all the workers in Central China should enjoy the privileges of this gathering, and when I learned that Brother and Sister Laird, who are stationed at Chang-sha, in Hunan, were not decided about attending, I telegraphed an invitation to them to be present, but the reply, “Impossible; no steamer,” showed that the water was so low in the river, as often in the winter, that they could not travel. We greatly regretted their enforced absence from the meeting.
Sin-yang Cheo is a walled city of some importance, formerly a division point on the Peking-Hankow railway line, in the southern part of Honan. We passed out of the great plain of northern China a few miles north of this place, and entered the rolling country and the foothills of a mountain range through which the line passes later on. The scenery around Sin-yang Cheo was therefore somewhat different from what we had already noted in China, and I rather enjoyed the change.
I found that Dr. Miller and his associates were occupying three sections of a compound which had formerly been used for Chinese hotels, the printing-office being located in a part of this space. With generous hospitality these friends received the workers, and all were entertained there, the meetings being held in the dining-room. The visitors brought their own bedding, and although it was impossible to give each one a separate room with steam heat and electric light, yet all greatly appreciated the entertainment provided. It was a constant source of wonder to me how Brother and Sister Allum, who had charge of household affairs, were able to care for so many with their meager facilities. Doubtless the general spirit of brotherly kindness manifested by all helped to solve the problem.
To come together for a conference in China means more than it does in America. I will mention some facts in illustration of this statement. We left Dr. Selmon’s station, about one hundred and fifty miles distant, for this meeting on Sunday noon, and arrived about ten o’clock Wednesday forenoon, and we traveled more than half of the distance on the train. Owing to the condition of the roads this was as quick as we could make the journey. It required two days for Brother Pilquist and family to come from their station at Lo-shan, about forty or fifty miles away. There are no cart roads and consequently no carts used in southern Honan, and the sedan-chair and the Chinese wheelbarrow are the only means of conveyance when one is off the railway line. What it means to travel in this way is best known to those who have tried it. My own opinion is that “the half has never yet been told.” I learned from Dr. Selmon that he worked hard all one night on one journey to make two miles, and I found that the workers knew what it was to wade through the water for miles at a time and to swim swollen streams when traveling in the rainy season. On a journey of this kind one of our sisters arrived at her station dripping wet to the waist. It will be easy to conclude from what I have written here and elsewhere that our missionaries in China are not carried from place to place “on flowery beds of ease.”
Our conference at Sin-yang Cheo was the first gathering of this kind ever attended by the workers in China, and was an occasion of much blessing to all of us. I need not write fully about it, as it was arranged for one of the brethren to prepare a report of it for the REVIEW. The work at the different stations was fully reported, a local organization for the supervision of the local work was effected, plans were laid for the future of the publishing work, but the most time and the best thought were given to an earnest study of the message itself, as outlined in the fourteenth chapter of Revelation, and the best way of presenting it to the Chinese. I have never known these truths to stand out with more clearness and simplicity, and all were greatly encouraged both in their personal experiences and in their hopes for the future of their work.
On Wednesday morning, February 6, we left Sin-yang Cheo for Shanghai, to attend the conference of all the workers in China, which had been appointed for that place. A cavalcade of eleven coolies loaded with our baggage formed a part of our procession as we went to the railway station. We arrived at Hankow, the terminus of the railway, about 5 P. M., where we took a steamer for the ride of six hundred miles down the Yang-tse-Kiang, or “broad river,” to Shanghai. The party occupied the whole of the Chinese first cabin, furnishing their own bedding and the most of their food, and reducing the cost of transportation to about one third that of European first class. As our party thus had full control of the room designated (not altogether appropriately) as the first-class Chinese saloon, we decided to continue our Bible studies en route, and we therefore met morning and afternoon for this purpose. Thus the time between the two conferences was well improved, and those who attended them both had three weeks of almost uninterrupted Bible study. On the way down the river we called at several ports, but the stops were short, and we had no opportunity to go on shore. The water was low, and once we came very near being grounded on a mud bank, but still the river was wide, and it often seemed more like one of the Great Lakes than a river. It has been well named “broad river.” We arrived in Shanghai the evening after the Sabbath, and after the usual confusion incident to securing coolies, wheelbarrows, and ’richashas, we reached our temporary home.
We have no work in Shanghai, and there was therefore no mission home where our workers could be entertained and our conference held. So it was necessary to provide a place. A large vacant house was rented, and a limited amount of furniture was secured, and we fitted out our rooms in somewhat primitive style. Arrangements had beenmade for us to take our meals at a Japanese restaurant, but our plans were somewhat disarranged by finding on the door of the place the second morning a sign “Closed for to-day,” and this became so chronic that we provided for ourselves or went elsewhere. I mention these little things so that the readers of the REVIEW may get an inkling of some of the experiences involved in doing what seems so easy to do in America. To hold a general meeting in China in a city where there is not a single believer in this message is quite a different matter from holding a similar meeting with one of our large churches in America. I realize this myself now better than I did before I went to China.
Nearly all the workers from Canton and Amoy joined us at the Shanghai meeting, and I was especially glad to greet here Elder E. H. Gates, the superintendent of the Polynesian Mission field, whose work had brought him near enough so that he was able to accept Brother Anderson’s invitation to attend this meeting. Brother Gates spoke at different times, and joined us in our consideration of plans for the future of the work in China. We all appreciated the help which he was able to render.
W. W. P.

Have We Two Saviours?

By C. M. S.

THE Catholic Church has been accused of teachings that would rob Christ of his rightful homage and put another in his place. The following, written by St. Bernard, is evidently considered good Catholic teaching to-day, as it was quoted in the Catholic journal The New World, of May 4, 1907:—
Following Mary, thou strayest not; thinking of her, thou errest not; asking of her, thou needest never despair; clinging to her, thou wilt never fail.
Christ's injunction to his followers is, “Follow thou me.” He says nothing about following Mary. The Catholic Church says, “Follow Mary.” Christ came here as our example as well as our sacrifice, and he has never admonished us to take any human being as our example. The more we think on human beings, with their frailties, the frailer and more erring we grow. The Bible nowhere sets forth Mary as the object of our thoughts, whose character is to shape our lives, and whose teachings are to keep us from the path of error. But the Catholic Church says, “Thinking on Mary, thou errest not.” Christ said to his followers, “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” John 15:16. “If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.” John 16:23. 24. No hint here of any authority for petitioning heaven in the name of Mary or any other but Christ. Nevertheless, “asking of her, thou needest never despair,” says the Catholic Church. Christ has promised to be a “very present help in time of trouble.” We are taught that he was “in all points tempted like as we are;” that he passed through this experience to enable him to be a “merciful and faithful high priest,” and “able to succor them that are tempted.” Nowhere has Inspiration admonished us to lean upon any one but the One who redeemed us. Nevertheless, St. Bernard says of Mary (and Catholic editors republish it to-day), “Clinging to her, thou wilt never fail.”
He who never strays, never sins. He who never sins wins heaven. If “following Mary” insures us against straying, it insures our winning heaven; and if we win heaven through “following Mary,” where and what is the office of Jesus Christ? What was the necessity of the life and teaching and sacrifice of Christ—what the necessity of following him? The idea of winning heaven by “following Mary,” is one of the “other ways” which our Saviour himself condemned—an arrangement conceived in the mind of man. Says Christ, “Every plant, which my Heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.” This is certainly one of them, and the time is not far distant now when the divine hand will reach down and pluck it up. “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
C. M. S.

The Two Minds

By W. A. S.

DANIEL tells us that just before Nebuchadnezzar was stricken and humbled, the proud king walked upon the terrace of his palace, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?”
He had already engraved similar sentiments upon the public records. One of his inscriptions on the royal tablets dug up in modern times at Babylon reads: “For the astonishment of men I built this house; awe of the power of my majesty encompasses its walls. . . . In Babylon alone I raised the seat of my dominion.”
Contrast with this vanity—the frailty of human minds—the spirit manifested by Christ as he came into this world. He had built the worlds. All power was his, and all things were the work of his hands; yet he said, “I can of mine own self do nothing.” “I came . . . not to do mine own will.” “I have glorified Thee on the earth.”
Nebuchadnezzar glorified himself as the builder of a great city now buried in the sands. Jesus, in whom all things consist, glorified God. “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who . . . emptied himself.” Phil. 2: 5-7. R. V. W. A. S.

A Brief Account of Its History in the Development of the Cause of the Third Angel's Message

By A. G. DANIELLS

Organization—No. 15

A Brief Account of Its History in the Development of the Cause of the Third Angel's Message

The pioneers of this cause upon whom rested the responsibility of developing a system of organization that would meet the requirements of this many-sided, world-wide movement, felt the weight and gravity of such a responsibility. They gave the subject the most careful and prolonged study; they searched the Scriptures privately and together for light; they prayed and counseled together with deep solicitude; and they accepted the counsel that came through the spirit of prophecy. Thus with great care they worked out a plan of organization for churches, conferences, and institutions which they believed was in harmony with the principles of gospel order and organization set forth in the Scriptures.
We have now been testing the efficiency of this system for nearly half a century, and we have found that it has fully met the needs of a growing, expanding work. During the same time we have been giving its fundamental features a rigid comparison with the details of church organization outlined in the Scriptures. This comparison reveals such a close resemblance in all essential features, that we are fully convinced that our predecessors built this organization upon sound gospel principles.
The Scriptures and Testimonies of the spirit of prophecy give us valuable information regarding the character of the organization provided by the Lord for the direction and government of the church in both the Old and New Testament times. By divine instruction the children of Israel at Sinai, who constituted the “church in the wilderness,” were placed under the most perfect organization applicable to human society. Regarding this the spirit of prophecy says:—
Here their worship had taken more definite form, the laws had been given for the government of the nation, and a more efficient organization had been effected preparatory to their entrance into the land of Canaan. The government of Israel was characterized by the most thorough organization, wonderful alike for its completeness and its simplicity. The order so strikingly displayed in the perfection and arrangement of all God's created works was manifest in the Hebrew economy.
God was the center of authority and government, the sovereign of Israel. Moses stood as their visible leader, by God's appointment, to administer the laws in his name. From the elders ofthe tribes a council of seventy was afterward chosen to assist Moses in the general affairs of the nation. Next came the priests, who consulted the Lord in the sanctuary. Chiefs, or princes, ruled over the tribes. Under these were “captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens;” and, lastly, officers who might be employed for special duties.—“Patriarchs and Prophets,” page 374.
The facts set forth in the quotation above will not be discovered from a hasty reading of the Old Testament, but they will be clearly seen by a careful study of the following passages: Ex. 18: 13-26; Deut. 1: 9-18; 16: 17-20; 17: 2-13; Num. 11: 16, 17.
A summary of the details recorded in these scriptures would be something as follows:—
First, there were chosen from among the people able men, such as feared God, men of truth, hating covetousness, to take the management of the affairs of the church. Ex. 18: 21; Deut. 16: 18.
Second, these men were “rulers,” “captains,” “heads,” and “officers” among the people. Ex. 18: 21; Deut. 1: 15.
Third, to these men, placed in official positions, were assigned responsibilities of varying degrees—officers over thousands, and hundreds, and fifties, and tens. Ex. 18: 21; Deut. 1: 15.
Fourth, as rulers or officers of these large and small companies they were located in all parts of the land among the people, to associate with them, study their conditions, needs, and interests, and to counsel and guide them in all that pertained to their spiritual welfare. Ex. 18: 22; Deut. 1: 16; 16: 18, 19.
Fifth, among the many men appointed rulers and officers to lead and guide the church, “seventy men of the elders of Israel,” “elders of the people, and officers over them,” were chosen by the Lord's direction to stand with Moses and help him to bear the heavy burden that rested upon him. Num. 11: 16, 17.
Sixth, each one of these various officers among the people was to look after matters pertaining to the company over which he presided. He was to see to those interests nearest to him; “within thy gates” is the exact expression. Deut. 17: 2, 8.
Seventh, when an officer, in the administration of his affairs, found a problem or difficulty too great for him to adjust, he was to refer it to a higher body for final settlement. Deut. 17: 8-13. Certain matters too difficult for any of the rulers were carried to Moses and his advisers, the seventy elders. Deut. 1: 17.
Eighth, by this system of organization, the people of all the tribes scattered throughout Palestine were bound together in one body. The tribes, the families, and the people gathered in various cities were not separate, disconnected fragments. They were one people, living under one general system of organization, which applied in its working to every individual.
The general plan of the organization adopted by Seventh-day Adventists is very similar to that outlined above. It contributes to the welfare of every member of the body throughout the whole world.
First, the little company of believers who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus select a leader—an officer of ten.
Second, in due time this company organizes into a church, and elects its officers—an elder, a deacon, a treasurer, and a clerk. It maintains departments of service, such as the Sabbath-school, the missionary society, the Young People's Society, etc., and appoints leaders of these departments.
Third, the single, separate church does not stand alone and isolated from its sister churches. A number of churches in a given territory, great or small, as the conditions may suggest, unite together in an association of churches, called a conference. They see the same good reason for associating churches together for mutual co-operation and concert of action that leads individuals to unite in church relationship.
Fourth, these churches select men and women from their number to meet together for counsel regarding their mutual interests, the needs of the cause of God, and to choose the men and women from their number who shall be made officers and ministers of the conference. These officers may be called rulers of fifties.
Fifth, the plan of organization does not end here. A number of these local conferences associate together in the formation of a larger conference—a union conference. The union is organized, its officers elected, and its general plans decided upon by men chosen from the various local conferences composing the union. The officers of union conferences may be said to be rulers of hundreds.
Sixth, and finally, all the union conferences and mission fields throughout the world are united and associated together in one General Conference. When in session, this General Conference is composed of men and women appointed by union and local conferences. Everything pertaining to the general welfare of the cause is laid before these representatives. They form the general plans of administration, elect the general committee, the officers, etc. The members of this committee may be said to be rulers of thousands.
By this arrangement all the people of this cause are associated together as one people, very much as Israel was. The leaders of tens, fifties, hundreds, and thousands have their specific responsibilities within their gates. The problems that are too hard for one are referred to a higher body. Those that are too difficult for the General Committee are laid before the Lord's prophet.
This comparison might be carried still further, but what has been pointed out will prove sufficient to make it plain that there is a very close resemblance between that simple, complete, and efficient system of organization provided for the church established by Moses, and the organization worked out for the remnant church called out by the threefold message of Rev. 14: 6-14.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Note and Comment

DURING the organization of a branch of the Lord’s Day Alliance at Knowlton, Quebec, April 29, Judge Foster, chairman of the meeting, declared that the most beautiful thing about the purpose of the Lord’s Day Alliance was that “all denominations were united in it, both Roman Catholics and Protestants meeting on common ground.” The Roman Catholic has never been willing to unite with the Protestant on any but Catholic ground. It is only reasonable that Protestants knowing this should look with suspicion upon a movement wherein Catholics are willing to join hands with Protestants. Rome never changes. She supports the Sunday law and encourages those who are working for it because the Sunday institution is hers by virtue of creation and appointment. She made it, and she smilingly approves of all efforts by Protestants to bind it upon the people. Speaking for the great mass of Christendom, it is true that “all denominations are united in it;” and yet there stands a “remnant” in the earth, so small that it is generally overlooked just as Judge Foster overlooked it,—a remnant that ‘can not join with Rome nor with that kind of Protestantism, because to do so it must turn its back upon the requirements of the Almighty. That remnant will be a thorn in the side of the movement for a universal Sunday observance, exasperating it to the end of the chapter. In the language of Luther it will say, “Here I stand; I can not do otherwise; God help me.” And God will hear and help. The “beautiful” combination between Protestantism and Romanism will condemn that remnant to death (Rev. 13: 14-17); but the revelator sees the members of that company on the sea of glass, with harps in their hands, singing the great chorus of final victory. There is no true beauty in a combination of men set against the purpose of God. It is better to be in the smallest minority withhim than to stand supported by the whole world against his design, and in violation of his law.

An Adventist in the German Army

THE following was considered of sufficient interest to the reading public to be cablegraphed from Berlin, Germany, to the press of this country. It was copyrighted by the New York Times Company, and we clip it from the Washington Post:—
BERLIN, May 4.—An Adventist has a rough time in the German army. For the third time Private Mugge, of the Fifteenth Infantry, stationed at Altona, has been condemned to imprisonment for refusing to perform military service on Friday night and on Saturday.
Mugge declares such service to be against the will of God and a violation of his conscience. When condemned before for the same offense, he was sentenced to two weeks in jail, and later to two months. Last night when he refused to clean his clothes, he said: “I can not do it. One should obey God rather than man.”
In vain the president of the court told Mugge that the Adventist preacher had declared that a member of the church could do as he pleased while in the army. Mugge remained unconvinced, and was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment, which was finally reduced to three months and one day.
Private Mugge knew that no Adventist minister would advise him to disobey the law of God. Of course he could “do as he pleased;” God does not force obedience; but it pleased him to obey God; and he knew that no minister could answer for him. He must be obedient for himself, and he chose that obedience even in the face of certain affliction. It is not impossible that through his loyalty to the divine law, God will bring the knowledge of his saving truth to those who otherwise would never have had it made known to them.

Predictions of the World’s Fate

THE declaration of our Saviour to the effect that in the time of the end men’s hearts would be failing them for fear and looking after those things that are coming upon the world, finds a partial fulfilment, at least, in the predictions of some eminent scientists. We quote from the Detroit News Tribune:—
Many and varied are the fates which have been forecasted for the world by those who have achieved fame in the realm of science and discovery.
Lord Kelvin believes that in three hundred and thirty-four years all human beings remaining in the world will be suffocated by the lack of oxygen to breathe. The great scientist bases his assertion on the grounds that, as every ton of fuel burned consumes three tons of oxygen, the world’s supply of the latter must give out in the years mentioned.
A far worse fate is that augured by the famous American scientist, Nikola Tesla. It is, of course, a well-known fact that the earth is surrounded with vast currents of electricity, and the experiments made by balloonists above the clouds prove that these currents are of a density impossible for human beings to fathom. Mr. Tesla therefore believes that at some future age this electricity will suddenly burst into flame, and so terrific will be the heat that in the space of a few seconds the earth and those who inhabit it will crumble away in dust.
M. Flammarion, the great French astronomer, has calculated that in the twenty-fifth century the earth will be wiped out by a collision with the comet Biela, the proximity of which to the earth a few years ago caused so much uneasiness. The size of the comet in question is such that it could in collision destroy a world several times the size of ours without much damage to itself.
An even more fearful fate is that prophesied by the Spanish scientist, Senor Rigletto. Fifty-six years from the present time he believes that the world will meet with a tragic fate by collision with two combined heavenly bodies, such a combination, in fact, as was noticed early in March of this year. The effect of these planets being so close to the earth would be to destroy the gases which sustain human life, and, although millions would be killed in the space of a few hours, he augurs that the remainder will live for a short time longer in a state of madness caused by the rupture of the earth from its orbit.
The food scare has been more or less a topic of universal comment for some years past, and Sir William Crookes believes that it will be responsible for the end of the human race within thirty years from the present time. During the past thirty-one years the number of the world’s bread-eaters has exactly doubled, and if a proportionate increase may be expected during ensuing years, some clever people believe that Sir William Crookes’s augury may come true. In thirty years he calculates that the amount of bread required will be greater than the world can supply, even supposing that it is almost entirely under cultivation. The moral of this would seem to be that we must find a new food—and that quickly.
Two famous novelists who have become well known for their scientific works, have foretold gruesome fates for the world. One of these, the late Mr. Grant Allen, believed that within four centuries the weight upon the earth’s crust would become so great that the world would be no longer able to support it. The result would be that the molten lava, of which the interior of the globe is composed, would break through where the crust is weakest, and, forming in enormous lakes, slowly spread over the earth, destroying all life.
H. G. Wells’s prediction of the world’s end is no less terrifying, for in his opinion not many centuries will pass before the earth becomes a solid sheet of ice. The reason for this opinion he finds in the fact that, whereas millions of tons of water freeze every year, a lesser quantity thaws with the advent of summer. At both ends of the world this process of freezing is going on, and every year the regions of ice become greater.
The Word of God has plainly foretold the instrument of the earth’s destruction, and the other wonderful events that will take place at that time. While these events are certain, they present no hopeless and terrible prospect to the child of God. The hearts that are fainting for those things that are coming upon this world are the hearts that have not learned to believe and trust in the Word of God. “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

Persecution and the Absence of Christianity

That was a stinging remark made editorially in a recent issue of the Chicago Israelite. We quote:—
It is one of the anachronisms of the twentieth century that religious persecutions have practically died out the world over, and exist to-day only in countries professing to be most Christian.
It is fitting to remark, however, that this anachronism is not due to Christianity, but to its absence in those professing it. It is due to the amount of paganism which professed Christians have brought with them out of the Dark Ages. In proportion as that dark heritage is disposed of, the desire to persecute ceases. Persecution is opposed to the most fundamental principle and all the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. “If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink,” said the Saviour; but nowhere does it read, “If thy friend or thine enemy disbelieve thy doctrines, scourge him, fine him, and cast him into prison.” It is a libel on Christianity to claim to be following Christ while persecuting men for their belief.

The Sunday Institution Condemned

A SUNDAY-LAW advocate, in denouncing those firms which permitted Sunday work, gives expression to the following truth which condemns the whole Sunday institution. He says:—
Any institution which can be maintained only by the violation of divine law does not deserve to live.
Apply that to the Sunday institution. It exists in defiance of divine law, and Sunday-law advocates seek to compel men to violate divine law in order to keep that institution alive. For instance, the divine law says, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,” and commands that it be kept. The Sunday institution usurps the place of the day appointed by divine law, commands the keeping of that pseudo-sabbath, and arraigns, condemns, and imprisons the one who has obeyed the divine law, if he presumes to exercise the right given him by divine law, the right of laboring on Sunday. As the Sunday institution can not exist without violating the divine law, it, therefore, according to the logic of the Sunday-law advocate above quoted, “does not deserve to live.” The statement is true, it is logical, but instead of helping the Sunday institution, it pronounces the death sentence of that institution. Given rope enough, error will hang itself. It has done so here.

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By J. S. Washburn

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Do You Agree?

A QUESTION I would like to ask of every one who reads this article is, Do you harmonize with the statement recently made by one of the officers of a leading conference in the United States? While some are saying that the calls are becoming so frequent that the people are becoming discouraged, and look upon the raising of the $150,000 fund as a great burden, we are thankful to see that many are writing somewhat in the vein of this brother. The following is a quotation from his letter to the writer:—
“I trust the $150,000 fund will soon be raised, and another one started for $200,000, when that is off our hands. We know that if a few such amounts are raised, the work will close, and our Saviour will come and bring deliverance to his people; and that is what we are longing for. May the Lord hasten that glad day.”
This has the true ring. This is the right spirit. These calls for large sums of money to build up our denominational institutional work, to set in prominent position and in dark places of the earth the light-houses of saving truth, are a strong indication that the work will soon be finished. Are your knees feeble? Does your courage fail? A short, sharp, mighty conflict,—the last,—and all is over. O let us be faithful in being, in saying, in doing, in giving!
J. S. WASHBURN.

Love for the Cause? or Sentiment?

By T. E. BOWEN

WHEN the council was in progress last fall at the Washington Training College, and the question of raising $150,000 was being carefully considered by the large number of leading brethren present, some urged quite strongly that the names of the donors be published in the REVIEW each week, as was done when the $100,000 was being raised. It was urged that there was a stimulus attending such a list that could not be obtained in any other way.
But a different plan was being formed, and it was found it would simply be an impossibility to publish the names, and distribute the responsibility of raising the funds to union and local conferences. No one objected particularly to the publishing of the names; but the list of names must accompany the funds, and if the funds were to be sent the union treasuries, and only the totals published in the REVIEW, the names could not be printed. If union conferences desired to publish the names in their papers, that would be proper, possible, and all right. But so far we have seen no name lists printed.
It will be remembered that when the $100,000 fund was in raising, many instances occurred where some brother's name headed the weekly list with $1,000. Others appeared opposite $500, many stood for $100, and still many more for $25.
Week before last the total of our $150,000 fund stood at $47,029.75. Last week it was $47,073.35, or an increase of only $43.60. No doubt this is the lull before a storm, when something will be done suddenly, but somehow we could not refrain from thinking some thoughts suggested by the heading to this article.
We believe the noble gifts made by our brethren with whom God has so graciously endowed the talent of means were prompted by a love for his cause, when our former fund was coming in; and possibly many of them have already given liberally in the raising of the present fund. But, really, if the list of names were published now, how would it compare with the old list? And would each who gave then be pleased to have his name placed opposite his present gift?
Let us give this point more than a passing thought, and not forget we are now nearer the end than then, and as we near the great antitypical year of jubilee, our property grows less and less valuable, as God, and those who truly love his closing message, view it.
T. E. BOWEN.
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