p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 46. (11/18/1903)

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Deceiving and Being Deceived.

A correspondent sends us a copy of the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom, and asks us if the people who issue it are sincere or crazy. Doubtless they are both. Certainly, the leader is deluded. The principal part of the paper is a sermon by Mr. Sanford, a rival Elijah to Mr. Dowie. In this sermon he sets forth the everlasting kingdom of Daniel as already established and proclaimed, himself is “David their king” of the latter days, the one shepherd, the rider on the white horse, the “branch of righteousness,” the king who shall rule over Israel forever, and will hold the kingdom till Christ comes. So, in addition to his headquarters in Maine, Mr. Sanford has established headquarters in Jerusalem. And he will deceive thousands who will follow him into the wilderness of error to perish. God’s last message to warn the world of Christ’s coming will go forth and close in the Spirit and power of Elijah; but no one of those who bear it will ever set himself forth as Elijah, or his reincarnation, any more than did John the Baptist. When men asked him, “Art thou Elijah?” he replied, “I am not.” Yet Jesus said, “If ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, that is to come.” Matt. 11:14; 17:10-12. The boasting of God’s true prophets is not in themselves, but Christ.

The Unchanging Standard of Morality

Morality, from the standpoint of God's moral law, never changes. The principles of true morality are eternal. These principles flow out from the character of Him “with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” Variable, unstable human beings can not set the standard of morality, because they set up too many codes. That which is shocking in one age, or tabooed by one people or class, is admissible at a later date or deemed highly proper by other nationalities. On this point Thomas Fuller says:—

Think not that morality is changeable; that vices in one age are not vices in another; or that virtues, which are under the everlasting seal of right reason, may be stamped by opinion. Tho vicious times invert the opinions of things, and set up new theories against virtue, yet hold thou unto “old morality.” And rather than follow a multitude to do evil, stand, like Pompey's Pillar, conspicuous by thyself, and single in thine integrity.

God's people are to be “a peculiar people,” separate from the world in their ideals of right and wrong—so conspicuously different that the world will notice it, and the honest in heart will be attracted by it. And God's great law of morality is to be the conspicuous mark of difference. Of His eternal moral law of Ten Commandments, He says to Israel: “Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” To those who are inclined to depart from these eternal principles, and to seek new standards more congenial to fickle human nature, He says: “Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.”

The One Law of Humanity

“There is no other way but God’s way,” runs a modern religious song. Another writer thus expresses it: “The God who gave the law to man to be man, who made man to be subject to the law of manhood, has also proved that law to be the one and only possibility under which humanity, to be humanity, may exist.”

From an Aged Pilgrim

By C. O. Taylor

One of our aged ministers, upon whose brow has fallen about eighty-five winters, writes as follows, by his own hand:—

“My dear brother: I would be very glad to read what you send me, but my reading days are gone by. My sight is very dim. I am confined to the house, and mostly to my chair. But I love all this true message, which brings very near the soon coming of my blessed Lord; and, in this hope, I remain as ever, your brother. C. O. TAYLOR.”

OUR CAPITAL AND LABOR NUMBER.

By Editor

WILL soon be ready. Let us tell our readers some of the things it will contain.

Illustrations.

A fine cartoon on the first page of the cover by a well-known New York artist, Mr. Charles Mente, illustrating the tremendous strife between Capital and Labor, under the symbols of two gigantic figures driving in Roman chariots through a mass of people, with the night scene of a great city's sky scrapers in the background, while over all divine prophecy is shedding its clear light.

A double-page illustration of labor parades of September 7 in New York, Paterson, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco.

Five special drawings representing Biblical types of workmen: Carpenter, Shepherd, Farmer, Tentmaker, Fisherman.

Five portraits with brief biographies, representing persons who made good use of wealth.

Articles.

“The Problem of Capital and Labor,” under which are articles from Mr. D. M. Parry, Samuel Gompers, and a General view by General Harrison Gray Otis;

“Wealth and Oppression in the Light of History,” by Prof. G. W. Rine;

“Wealth and Oppression in the Light of Prophecy,” by Milton C. Wilcox;

“God’s Love for the Individual,” by Mrs. E. G. White;

“God’s Twofold Warning to His People;”

“How Came this Great Conflict?” by William N. Glenn;

“Christian Union versus Human Unions,” by Charles Miles Snow;

Editorial articles as follows:—

“Prosperity and Poverty,”

“The Great Strife for Power and the Christian’s True Attitude,”

“Trades-unionism and Church Unionism Coming Together,”

“Union Labor Dangers,”

“Combinations of Labor and Capital,”

Many notes and Items of Interest;

Opinions on the Principles Involved from prominent men and authorities, among whom are President Roosevelt, Senator Hanna, John Mitchell, and a score of others.

Six Stirring Poems: “Hear, Hear, O Earth;” “The Crisis;” “True Love of Right;” “The Laborer;” “The Blessed Hope;” “The Men Needed.”

This magnificent issue is furnished in quantities of 25 and upward at 3 cents each; ten to twenty copies, 4 cents each.

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The Southern Negroes

The Southern Negroes, after all their causes of complaint, have been pretty well helped since their emancipation. And, considering their ignorance, poverty, inexperience, and the opposition they have met, they have made as good use of their help as many another class of men would have made under like circumstances. Beginning with nothing forty years ago, statistics show, according to Christian Work, that there are now 13,000,000 farms owned by negroes, valued at $350,000,000; 150,000 homes outside the farm ownership valued at $265,000,000, and personal property valued at $165,000,000. So, starting from nothing, here is an accumulation of nearly $800,000,000. When the work began, not one per cent of the negro adults of the South could read or write. To-day 40 per cent can do so. Fifty per cent of the children are attending school, and with more facilities more would attend. There are 800 colored physicians in practise, and 300 lawyers and 30,000 school-teachers. There are 300,000 books in the homes of colored people, and they own and publish 450 newspapers and magazines.

How True It Is

The following recent pulpit utterance contains great truth as regards God's law: “Has Sinai's ideal been attained? If it had, there would be no tears to wipe away on earth, and no lips to moisten that are burning with fever. If Sinai's law were the law of the world, and if the martyred prophets of Israel were to-day understood and their words applied, no sweat-shops would groan, and no hovels would burst with the flood of misery which these inventions of modern industrialism and ancient vice combined have created. Humanity would be a brotherhood.”

A Vain Help

A Vain Help.—Says a Protestant religious magazine: “A faith in a good mother now in heaven is one of the most effective conservators of all that is manly and true.” But that is sheer Roman Catholicism,—faith in a dead woman. Only “to him that is joined to the living there is hope.” Thus saith the Lord: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.” “It is well to have faith in the God of a faithful mother; but a faith which does not center in God will come short of His glory.”

True Faith Is Obedient and Submissive

True faith is obedient, submissive. That person who, with vivid imagination, fixes upon his own desires as God's will and then demands an answer to his prayer for what he desires, mistakes presumption for faith, and lays himself open to the delusions of the deceiver of souls. The chief petition in the prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane's trying hour was not, "Let this cup pass," but "not My will, but Thine be done." And so it ever will be the prayer of true faith.

The Dowie Crusade in New York

Noting the Dowie crusade in New York City, the Brooklyn Eagle says that a great organization is powerless without a man and a message behind it. And it is true that there is no power for good excepting the power of God, and God never sends a man without a message. The sordid aim to gather in a large amount of money is no part of the Gospel.