p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 42. (10/21/1902)

GRAND TRUNK R’Y SYSTEM.

EAST

Station	8	4	6	2	10	76
Chicago	AM 11.05	PM 3.08	PM 8.15		AM 10.09
Valparaiso	PM 12.42	4.41	10.10		11.25
South Bend	PM 1.58	5.00	11.40		PM 1.05	AM 7.50
Battle Creek	4.00	8.00	AM 8.03	AM 7.00	3.40	PM 5.30
Lansing	5.20	9.21	8.31	8.30	5.29
Durand	6.00	10.06	4.25	9.30	6.30
Saginaw	8.10			11.50	8.10
Bay City	8.40			11.40	8.40
Detroit	8.00		7.15	11.50	9.20
Flint		10.30	4.56	10.21	9.38
Port Huron	9.30	AM 12.30	7.00	PM 12.20	9.30
London
Hamilton
Suspension Bridge	AM 3.40	7.05	PM 1.55	PM 8.35	AM 3.40
Buffalo		8.20	3.05	9.50
Philadelphia	PM 3.47	PM 7.24	7.28	PM 8.56	PM 3.47
New York	4.35	8.23	6.23	8.33	4.33
Toronto		7.40		PM 7.40
Montreal		PM 6.00		7.00
Boston		AM 8.10	PM 6.05	PM 7.05
Portland		6.40		5.45

WEST

Station	3	5	7	9	11	75
Portland	^†AM 8.15	PM 8.30	PM 8.30
Boston	^†AM 11.30	PM 10.30
Montreal	PM 10.40	AM 9.00	AM 9.00
Toronto	AM 7.35	PM 5.50	PM 11.20
New York	PM 5.45	AM 8.00	AM 8.00
Philadelphia	6.30	8.45
Buffalo	5.35	10.00	PM 10.05
Suspension Bridge	7.00	2.00	11.15
Hamilton
London
Port Huron	PM 12.00	9.00	AM 4.05	PM 6.50	PM 3.50
Flint	PM 1.25	11.47	5.31	6.54
Bay City	AM 1.45
Saginaw	PM 2.15	9.30
Detroit	AM 11.30	10.00	7.00		4.00
Durand	PM 1.52	AM 12.05	6.00	9.30	5.20
Lansing	2.33	12.54	6.44	10.42	7.53
Battle Creek	3.55	2.18	8.10	12.20	9.30	^†AM 8.10
South Bend	5.40	4.19	10.00	2.35		PM 5.30
Valparaiso	7.00	5.20	11.12	4.00
Chicago	8.45	7.20	PM 12.50	6.18

Nos. 2-4-6-8—Daily Nos. 10-76—Daily ex’t Sunday Nos. 3-5-7-9—Daily Nos. 9-11-75—Daily ex’t Sunday

G. W. W., Daily except Sunday. A. G. P. & T. A., Chicago. W. D. CUNLIFFE, Agent, Battle Creek.

Coal Strike Submitted to Arbitration

THE great coal strike has, it now appears, been settled by an agreement of both sides to submit the questions at issue to the arbitration of a committee appointed by President Roosevelt. The latter has named as the members of this committee Gen. John M. Wilson, former chief of the United States Engineer Corps; Bishop Spalding, of Peoria; Edgar E. Clark, grand chief of the Railway Conductors; George Gray, United States judge at Wilmington, Del.; Thos. H. Watkins, formerly an operator at Scranton, Pa.; Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the statistician; and Edward W. Parker, of the United States Geological Survey. Leaders of the strike will urge the miners to accept the arbitration of this body, and at once return to work. The president is generally praised by the press in this country and in parts of Europe as entitled to the credit of having terminated the distressing conflict. The result will tend strongly toward the centralization of power in the government, and the investiture of government officials with authority not warranted by the principles of real republican government.

The New Missionary College

By W. A. S.

BETWEEN eighty and one hundred students, I estimated, gathered in the new buildings of Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, on the opening morning, October 15. Three of the buildings are up, plain, useful structures of wood, built by the students themselves. Faculty and students alike shared the joy of being identified with the beginning of this enterprise. Those who have wrought their own experiences and loving thoughts into buildings and farm feel that they have earned a special right to be happy and energetic students. With the work still to be done in completing the plant, I hope the pioneer days in the school may be lengthened out sufficiently to give many others the privilege of helping to build a school from the ground up.

Later years will supply more complete facilities; but these pioneer experiences are bound to be the most fruitful. The vast mission fields are waiting for men and women who know how to do things without all modern conveniences made ready to their hands. May this school, now well started on its own premises, continue to be an inspiration in the educational movement, and a blessing to the mission fields. Our schools are prepared to keep a growing army of missionaries marching toward the front. The loving enterprise of the brethren and sisters in the churches must help to provide the sinews of war for this campaign. Even now, for lack of funds, the Mission Board is delaying workers ready to go.

W. A. S.

A Good Plan

ANOTHER church elder writes: “The plan of using the weekly offering envelopes is certainly a good one, as the two months' use of them in the church here has increased our offerings very much.” If in every church this custom were systematically followed, and the offerings gathered regularly each week, in a short time the funds for mission work would be very largely increased; and few would feel that giving to this cause had been a burden. Indeed, on the other hand, it would bring life and power into the churches; for “the home-missionary work will be further advanced in every way when a more liberal, self-denying, self-sacrificing spirit is manifested for the prosperity of foreign missions.”

Ancient and Modern Idolatry

Few writers have understood more clearly or have set forth more plainly the true character of popery than Rev. J. A. Wylie, the author of “The History of Protestantism.” The following paragraph from his writings will be of special interest in connection with the study of the prophecies in the seventh chapter of Daniel. It may be regarded as a supplemental note to this week’s study in the gospel message found in the Editorial department:—

All idolatries, in whatever age or country they have existed, are to be viewed but as successive developments of the one grand apostasy. That apostasy was commenced in Eden, and consummated at Rome. It had its rise in the plucking of the forbidden fruit; and it attained its acme in the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome,—Christ’s vicar on earth. The thought that he would “be as God” led man to commit the first sin; and that sin was perfected when the pope “exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” Popery is but the natural development of this great original transgression. It is just the early idolatries ripened and perfected. It is manifestly an enormous expansion of the same intensely malignant and fearfully destructive principle which these idolatries contained. The ancient Chaldean worshiping the sun, the Greek deifying the powers of nature, and the Roman exalting the race of primeval men into gods, are but varied manifestations of the same evil principle, namely, the utter alienation of the heart from God,—its proneness to hide itself amid the darkness of its own corrupt imaginations, and to become a god unto itself. That principle received the most fearful development which appears possible on earth, in the mystery of iniquity which came to be seated on the seven hills; for therein man deified himself, became God, nay, arrogated powers which lifted him high above God. Popery is the last, the most matured, the most subtle, the most skillfully contrived, and the most essentially diabolical form of idolatry which the world ever saw, or which, there is reason to believe, it ever will see.

The evil principle which underlies the whole system of popery is common to unregenerated human nature; and the acme of Satan’s deceptive art is manifested in so covering this principle under a pretense of loyalty to the principles of the kingdom of God that popery, either as manifested in the system known as the papacy or in the experience of any individual, shall pass muster as genuine Christianity. We need to-day to consider the inspired inquiry, “What agreement hath the temple of God with idols?” and to heed the earnest injunction, “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”

Educational Convention Proceedings

In the October number of The Advocate of Christian Education a synopsis is given of the proceedings of the Educational Convention which was held at Berrien Springs, August 10-18. This issue is enlarged to forty pages in order to have space for the extra matter. It is a good number to circulate widely.

American Prohibition Year Book

By Editor

WE have received a copy of the “American Prohibition Year Book for 1902” published by the United Prohibition Press of Chicago. It is a pamphlet of ninety-six pages filled with facts and statistics concerning the drink evil, and is a valuable source of information on this subject. Price, fifteen cents. Address 92 La Salle St., Chicago.

The Pope Praises the American Government

THE pope has again been praising the American government, says a dispatch in the Chicago Record-Herald of October 11. It is not a new thing for the pope to praise the United States, but we note in this instance an expression which the astute pontiff has not used with reference to this government before. The dispatch says:—

On reading the agreements arrived at with General Wood as military governor of Cuba, the pontiff exclaimed: “Washington is the most loyal and generous government the church ever had to do with.”

In 1893 Pope Leo issued a rescript in which he pronounced the United States to be “a Catholic country,” and “elevated” it to “the first rank as a Catholic nation.” Now he says that the United States is a “most loyal government.” A remarkable expression is this, and there is a meaning and a purpose in it. The web of papal diplomacy is being steadily woven about the American republic. Protestants, are you taking note of these things?