Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 47. (11/22/1906)

Review and Herald

Nov 22, 1906

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 22, 1906

Week of Prayer Number

A Simple Thanksgiving Dinner

By F. O. Raymond

Thanksgiving

“Freely ye have received, freely give.” Matt. 10:8.

For summer’s fruits all gathered, for granaries filled, and mows close-packed with hay, and vegetables stored for winter’s use, we now give thanks to him from whom all blessings flow, and gladly share with him who lacks.

“The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.” Ps. 145:15, 16.

A Simple Thanksgiving Dinner

Cream of Corn Soup with Zwieback Stuffed Potatoes Baked Beans Beet Salad Celery Bread Whole-Wheat Wafers Pumpkin Pie Baked Pears Cranberry Sauce Apples and Nuts

Cream of Corn Soup

Rub one can of sugar corn through a colander to remove hulls, and to the pulp add a quart of rich milk. Season with salt, and serve hot with broken zwieback.

Stuffed Potatoes

Select smooth medium-sized Irish potatoes; wash clean, and bake in a moderate oven. When well done, cut off an end, and with a spoon remove the contents hot, taking care not to break the skin. Mash the potato, seasoning with salt, a little grated onion, milk or cream, and perhaps a lump of butter; whip until light, and refill the skins, replacing the piece cut off. Place potatoes in the oven until slightly browned, wrap in fringed tissue-paper, and serve hot.

Baked Beans

Soak overnight one quart of white navy beans. In the morning remove to fresh water (warm or cold), place back upon the range, and gently boil until the beans begin to crack open; then add one-half can of tomatoes (strained), salt, and, if liked, a lump of butter the size of a walnut. Cover and place in the oven to bake for several hours, adding water from time to time as necessary. Toward the last remove the cover, and brown on top. The beans, when done, should be quite whole and moderately juicy.

At this season of the year baked beans will keep for several days, and are quite as good reheated as when freshly baked.

Beet Salad

3 blood beets (medium size), 2 eggs (hard boiled), 1 cup mayonnaise, ½ bunch parsley (minced), ½ teaspoonful salt, ½ lemon (juice).

Boil, remove skins, and chop the beets. Press the eggs through a wire sieve or mash with a fork. Fold ingredients together, and serve on lettuce, or otherwise garnish.

Mayonnaise

1 cup water, 3 tablespoonfuls salad oil, 3 lemons (juice), 1 tablespoonful corn-starch, 3 eggs (beaten), 1 teaspoonful salt, lump of butter one half the size of a small egg.

Into an agate basin put water, oil, and lemon-juice; bring to a boil, and thicken with the corn-starch, dissolved in a little water. Boil until clear, and pour over the beaten egg, stirring rapidly all the time. If the egg is insufficiently cooked, set into a pan of boiling water and stir until it thickens, but no longer. Remove from the fire, season with salt and butter (if desired), and set aside to cool. Mayonnaise thus made will keep a number of days, and may be used as needed.

Pumpkin Pie

Take one half of a large thick-meated pumpkin, cut it up, peel, and boil until tender; then mash through a colander, and turn into a large pan to bake in the oven until quite dry and brown. This will give from one to two quarts of pulp. For four large pies take—

1¼ quarts pumpkin, 2 quarts milk, 8 eggs (unseparated), 2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls vanilla, ½ tablespoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon, if liked. Stir well together and bake with under crusts only. F. O. RAYMOND.

Health Publications

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A Friend in the Kitchen

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THIS book contains about 400 very carefully prepared recipes for healthful, hygienic dishes suitable to every taste and every condition in life. It contains a chapter on “The Hygiene of Cooking,” explaining the various methods, such as boiling, steaming, stewing, baking, broiling, etc. It also contains a department giving the classification of foods; conveniently arranged; thoroughly indexed; 266 pages; cloth binding, 75 cents.

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Of Practical Importance

By Editor

To the many readers of the REVIEW who are desirous of following the principles of healthful living we shall present through its columns during the coming year matter that will be of the utmost importance. The subject of healthful living has been greatly neglected by our people through lack of appreciation of its importance, ignorance of its fundamental principles, or lack of instruction.

Some, no doubt, feel that they have injured their stomachs in trying to live “hygienically,” or have found the preparation of healthful menus too laborious. Those who have failed in their efforts at dietetic reform will have an opportunity to learn the fundamental principles of healthful living. The REVIEW will publish a series of lessons prepared by Brother F. O. Raymond, of the Washington Branch Santarium, in which this whole subject will be taken up in a simple, practical, and thorough manner.

In these lessons will appear a series of typical menus, which can be simplified or elaborated according to the need. Recipes will be given for those dishes which may be unfamiliar to the ordinary housewife, and the principles of hygienic cooking involved in their preparation will be fully discussed. In many of the lessons full directions will be given for the making of some one kind of prepared health food.

An important feature of these lessons will be the illustration of how hygienic meals can be prepared from the common foods in households that can not afford the manufactured articles.

The recipes will be those only that have been thoroughly tested. The menus will illustrate the choosing of foods which together supply the various food elements required by the body. The lessons will be similar to those given to the nurses and patients of the Washington Branch Sanitarium.

We hope that a representative of every family of REVIEW readers will study and put into practise these lessons; that our young people also will master the subject for practical use. It would be well if every church would have its cooking class, that the principles of healthful living might be more generally adopted.

A Prayer

By Editor

Editorial

A Prayer

JEHOVAH, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine indignation toward us to cease. Wilt thou be angry with us forever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may rejoice in thee? Show us thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, And grant us thy salvation.

A Concert of Prayer

THE annual call has been made for the week of prayer. Again this people will unite their prayers in behalf of the interests of the work of God in the earth and for the hastening of the coming of his kingdom. In the closet, the home, and the church the united voice of praise and supplication will be heard. Such a concert of prayer will quicken the spiritual life of those who heartily engage in it, and will bring blessing upon the work and the workers. What a sight to make angels rejoice — sixty thousand believers in this closing message as suppliants at the throne of grace with the common purpose of hastening the progress of the work of preparation for the coming of their Lord! What an inspiration to the workers in the field, and especially to those at the front, to know that so many hearts are waiting upon God in their behalf! What blessing will come upon those who can not go, but who, “helping together by prayer,” share the burdens of those who have the privilege of lifting the banner in new territory! Prayer unites the workers on earth with the workers in heaven. Prayer opens the channel for the inflow of the Holy Spirit. Prayer makes the weak strong. Prayer turns threatened defeat into glorious success, and snatches victory from an exulting foe. “Blessed assurance that God is a Father who hears the prayers of his children, who gives because they ask. Blessed condescension of the Eternal, that he will live with us, the children of time, and answer us day by day. . . . Prayer is as much a power or cause as any other law which God has established in nature or history.” Let the week of prayer be a further illustration of this fact to all this people.

Prayer and Praise

SPECIAL seasons of prayer are most valuable occasions, but they can not take the place of daily and constant communion with God. “If we would but think of God as often as we have evidence of his care for us, we should keep him ever in our thoughts, and should delight to talk of him and to praise him. . . . The rich gifts he has bestowed upon us were not intended to absorb our thoughts and love so much that we should have nothing to give to God; they are constantly to remind us of him, and to bind us in bonds of love and gratitude to our heavenly Benefactor. We dwell too near the lowlands of earth. Let us raise our eyes to the open door of the sanctuary above, where the light of the glory of God shines in the face of Christ, who ‘is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.’ We need to praise God more ‘for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.’ Our devotional exercises should not consist wholly in asking and receiving. Let us not be always thinking of our wants, and never of the benefits we receive. We do not pray any too much, but we are too sparing of giving thanks. We are the constant recipients of God’s mercies, and yet how little gratitude we express, how little we praise him for what he has done for us. . . . God would not have his children, for whom so great salvation has been provided, act as if he were a hard, exacting taskmaster. He is their best friend; and when they worship him, he expects to be with them, to bless and comfort them, filling their hearts with joy and love. The Lord desires his children to take comfort in his service, and to find more pleasure than hardship in his work. He desires that those who come to worship him shall carry away with them precious thoughts of his care and love, that they may be cheered in all the employments of daily life, that they may have grace to deal honestly and faithfully in all things. . . . God is worshiped with song and music in the courts above, and as we express our gratitude, we are approximating to the worship of the heavenly hosts.” In this appointed season of prayer let us mingle praise with our petitions.

Our Preparation for His Work

By C. M. S.

The greater the work we essay to do, the greater the preparation necessary to do it aright.

With the greatest work upon our hands that has ever been committed to mortals, we need the most perfect preparation that has ever been given to mortals for any work.

As this work is a finishing work, the preparation for it must be a finished preparation. As it is God's work, the preparation for it must be wholly of him. Every element of the human will be an element of weakness and a precursor of defeat; and defeat in this work means a loss that is an eternal one.

Jesus set the example in this matter. He began his work with a long-continued season of prayer. Though bound into the human family, with the weaknesses and desires of human flesh in his being, he was able to carry out his Father's purpose to perfection, and finally to open the very tomb itself, that they who followed him “should not perish, but have everlasting life.” In the wilderness with the wild beasts and tempted of the devil; in the market-place and the synagogue where men thirsted for his blood; in the quiet mountain

retreat after a day of exhausting toil; in the garden of Gethsemane after his betrayal to his foes; and finally on Calvary's cross buying our salvation with his blood, our Saviour found his strength, his comfort, and his guidance in prayer.

This was not the outgrowth of emotion, but the following of a settled purpose, with a definite aim in view, and was his design concerning his followers as well as himself. So we hear him speaking a certain “parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.” It is the prayerless Christian that falters and faints and fails in the day of adversity. When the Christian's heart grows faint, it is a certain indication that the soul is withering for lack of prayer.

Earnest prayer is a sure remedy for that kind of fainting. It is an essential if we would reap the reward of the righteous. The apostle Paul says: “Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Failing in prayer, we have nothing to keep us from fainting; and if we faint, we have no assurance of the reward. Now there is One “who is able to keep us from falling;” but even he can not accomplish that for us if we sever our connection with him by neglect of prayer.

To do the work God requires of us we need wisdom that is more than mortal, strength that is more than human, and courage springing from a heart wholly consecrated to his service. Think of it! God is bringing to a close his great work for the human race. For thousands of years that work has been going on, with all the power and cunning of demons and deceived men against it—and we are seeing its climax. No soul will be won out of this world without a fierce battle with the adversary of souls. With our sin-blurred eyes we can not hope to see our way out of the maze of Babylonish confusion. We can not hope to stand in our own strength against the power of the kingdom of darkness. We can not meet and overthrow the sophistries of Satan with only the wisdom of the human. Never did mankind need to utilize the privilege of prayer as now. We have a wily foe. He knows how to trap us whenever we are trusting in ourselves. But we have also a strong defender, one tempted as we are tempted, one who knows our frame from having lived himself in human form, one who will not turn us empty away.

Whenever God's people have come to him in times of crisis, he has heard and answered. Israel was threatened with utter destruction at the hands of Sennacherib. The king sought God earnestly, and the Assyrians were turned again into their own country. Daniel sought God in behalf of his exiled people, and the history of the world and the coming of the Messiah were opened up before him. In answer to prayer the gates flew open for imprisoned Peter.

The crisis of the world is upon us. Heaven's last appeal to this world is now going into every part of the earth to witness to God's faithfulness in seeking the lost. That we may give that message, and that we ourselves may stand while giving it, we need a complete riddance of self, and a complete consecration to God, and a fervent continuance in effectual prayer. Through a people thus prepared individually God can do a mighty work and a quick work in spreading the knowledge of this saving truth.

C. M. S.

The Platform of Protestantism

A CLERGYMAN in Rochester, N. Y., recently gave his reasons for being a Protestant, being led to do so by the fact that a Catholic priest was delivering lectures to non-Catholics in the same city. From the Rochester Herald we take the following abstract of the clergyman's sermon:—

Believing as I do in the apostolic duty of readiness to give a reason for our faith, I submit these reasons: First, I believe in the doctrine of justification by faith. Luther saw how the notion of salvation by penance, by compliance with human ordinance, by obedience to human commandments, by conformity with human ceremonial, had possessed practically the whole church, and over against it he placed the word of an inspired apostle: “The just shall live by faith.”

The Reformers said: “We shall appeal to the Bible as our supreme authority; and that all men may think aright, let us give the Bible to them in their own tongue, and let them see whether salvation is by faith or works.” This Rome refused to do, affirming the supreme authority of the church rather than of the Bible. I am a Protestant because I believe in the supreme authority of the Holy Scriptures. “Thus saith God” is more conclusive than “Thus saith the church.” The Roman Church puts side by side with the Bible oral traditions, and honors them as an authoritative revelation of God.

Out of respect for oral tradition has come many of the fallacious teachings and practises of the Latin Church, such as the multiplication of the sacraments, confession to priests, praying to the saints, etc. We believe that such teachings are against the spirit of the Scriptures, and if argument ensues, we say: Let every man search the Scriptures and judge for himself. Here we part company with the Roman Church for a third time, for that it will not allow—the right of private judgment in the interpretation of the Bible.

I am a Protestant because I believe in the sacred privilege and duty of every man to interpret for himself the written Word of God. What about confession? “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.” Who is faithful and just to forgive—the priest? There is nothing in the Bible enjoining us to confess to men. James bids us confess our faults one to the other, but that does not support the practise of the Catholic Church known as auricular confession.

Here, then, are the chief reasons why I am a Protestant: I believe in the doctrine of justification by faith, in the supreme authority of the Holy Scriptures, and the right of private judgment. Numerous other reasons exist, but I have not time to elaborate.

If professed Protestants would be true to this confession of faith, and would follow the principles of the Reformation, the effort now being made to restore a pure gospel as it was taught in apostolic days would meet with no opposition. This third angel's message is the logical outgrowth of Protestant principles. It brings every man face to face with the Bible.

A Good Combination

By W. A. S.

A BIBLE worker in Bangalore, south India, reports an interesting mode of working:—

Mrs. Ottman is blind, and I can't speak Tamil, so we combine our forces. I am eyes to her, and she is tongue to me. I read the Scripture in English, she explains in Tamil.

The Bible worker is Miss Anna Orr, who went out from Kansas four years ago. W. A. S.

France’s Church-State Separation Crisis

THAT the present condition of things in France, growing out of the movement to separate church and state, is serious, even when viewed by Roman Catholics themselves, there can be no doubt. This is clearly indicated by what is printed in Roman Catholic publications. As an illustration of this we may refer to a paragraph which appeared in a recent issue of the New World (Catholic), with the heading “A Darkening Situation,” which we quote in full:—

The events of the last week have thrown a lurid light on the situation in France, and shown at the same time the wisdom of the holy see in rejecting the associations cultuelles. Two such associations have been organized by suspended priests, and officially recognized by the French law. How many other of these schismatic organizations will be established next week it is impossible to say, but this much is clear:

all priests who take part in the operations of such societies will be suspended. Then, again, the new Hussites have declared, through their leader Des Roux, that the pope “abuses the name of Christ,” and that in the whole of the New Testament it is not possible to find a word in favor of the constitution of “a church resembling in the smallest degree the Vatican church.” Finally, the Temps announces semiofficially that the Separation Law will be brought before Parliament again in order to have its provisions made more hostile to the church; in fact, to decree its immediate and definite dissolution in France.

The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By Arthur G. Daniells

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

To Ministers, Church Officers, and People

SINCE the final decision at the recent Washington Council to raise $150,000 for the advancement of our cause in home and foreign fields, many conference presidents have expressed a desire to have the campaign started soon, and, as far as conditions permit, to have it started all along the line at the same time.

Some have suggested that Thanksgiving day would be a good date to inaugurate the general movement. The officers of the General Conference Committee and a number of conference presidents have accepted this, and are making every preparation for it. This date is agreed upon because there is a desire to start the campaign now, before the holidays, and Thanksgiving day makes a good general starting-point. We do not observe days religiously simply because they are set apart by the nation for religious purposes. But we do make appointments ourselves for religious services on days which the Lord permits us to devote to secular pursuits. Gratitude, thanksgiving, and praise to our kind Father in heaven for all his mercies and blessings to us may flow from our hearts on any day of the week, month, or year. Some of the dearest memories of my childhood days are connected with the meetings held by our little church on the fourth of July. While the masses were celebrating the day in festivity, our church-members repaired to some pleasant, retired place in the woods for quiet recreation and earnest religious services.

As a people we have a great deal to be grateful for in this year of our Lord 1906. This has been a year of signal providences. The world has been visited with marvelous favors, and with terrible judgments. Whether we deserve it or not, welcome, cheering, uplifting blessings have come to us. The world over, our people have, to a large degree, been shielded from the perils and appalling disasters that have been the portion of millions of our fellow men.

In view of the glorious light of the third angel's message which God has given us, of the protection from disasters which he has afforded us, and the prosperity with which he has favored us, it would surely be pleasing to God and beneficial to us and our fellow men if all our people would lay aside their work and meet together on Thursday, November 29, for a service of thanksgiving and thank-offerings to the Lord.

There will be some, of course, who can not very well meet with the brethren on that day. All such can make it a day of special prayer at home, and can definitely set apart an offering for the $150,000 fund, and take it to the church officers the first time they meet.

If all our people would enter heartily into this arrangement for worship and giving, a large share of the fund would be contributed that day. Then, following that day, every believer should set apart something each day until the entire sum is raised.

How we wish all our people could see clearly and quickly the tremendous possibilities in this arrangement for united, general, continuous giving for one short month. We would learn the secret of doing great things for God.

We appeal to all — conference officers, ministers; church officers, and people — to take hold of this blessed work with enthusiasm. Why should not this people be truly enthusiastic for the cause of God? It has been said recently that men show enthusiasm for everything under heaven except the religion of Jesus. In religious matters men and women are cool, formal, and half-hearted. It was not so with Jesus and his followers. Of him it was written, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." The disciples said, "Did not our hearts burn within us?" O, let us pray for holy zeal, for heavenly enthusiasm for the cause of our God!

A reasonable donation on Thanksgiving day and a daily offering during the month of December by every church-member will raise every dollar of the $150,000 fund before the first day of January, 1907. Then let it be done.

A. G. DANIELLS.

What One Conference Has Planned

By R. T. Dowsett

WHILE the Wisconsin Conference laborers and other brethren and sisters were in council at Bethel, October 26-30, a recommendation of great importance was adopted after earnest prayer and careful thought, as follows:—

Whereas, The Lord is calling us to a greater work than ever before, and,—

Whereas, The General Conference Committee, in counsel with the presidents of the conferences, has been led to make a general call for $150,000 to place a large number of institutions outside our borders on vantage-ground, and with a desire to assist in the various fields specified, and believing our people throughout the State will esteem it a privilege to assist in the effort,—

We, therefore, the laborers of the conference, with the lay brethren and sisters in council assembled in Bethel, do hereby request the conference committee to arrange for a general donation throughout Wisconsin in harmony with the following plan:—

That beginning with Thanksgiving day, November 29, each and every Seventh-day Adventist in the State be importuned to make a thank-offering in appreciation for the blessings received from God; that on each succeeding day from November 29 to December 24 each person be asked to add to his thank-offering a daily donation as large as consistent; that on December 24 the full amount thus laid aside be consecrated to the $150,000 fund, and on that day be turned over to the church treasurer, or sent direct to the conference treasurer.

This fund is not to take the place of the annual offering in any sense.

We kindly urge all our people to study carefully the recommendation, and then after earnest prayer not only to adopt the same, but to enter actively into the plan.

The $150,000 means much to the enterprises for which it is intended. The sooner the full amount is raised, the greater will be the blessings, and it is most sincerely hoped by the conference committee that Wisconsin’s portion of this grand offering be forthcoming in this one united effort. Some can deposit their hundreds of dollars in this fund, while others can sacrifice only their dimes. Let every one have a will to do, and God will lead in the amount to be contributed.

R. T. DOWSETT.

Our Present Plan

By E. W. Farnsworth

We recommend that all our churches [in the Atlantic Union Conference] meet in their places of worship on Thanksgiving day and hold a thanksgiving service; that as far as possible arrangements be made at once for conducting such a service; and that thank-offerings, both large and small, be brought at that time. There will be many who can not attend this meeting, we know; but they can bring their offering the Sabbath following; and if there are isolated persons who can not meet in public worship at all, let them send their offerings to the librarian or to the State secretary of the tract society. Let us make this a universal offering, in which every one may have a part. Those to whom God has given much should give much. Those who have but little may, in “the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty,” abound “unto the riches of their liberality.”

Will not every one who loves God and present truth make this an occasion to bring a heart offering of gratitude to him? “Every man according as he purposeeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” E. W. FARNSWORTH.

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