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Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 44.

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Nov 1, 1906

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The Modern Apostasy

The result of rejecting the gospel message for this generation is now plainly appearing among nearly all the denominations which have refused to voice the cry, “Behold, he cometh!” The logic which has been employed to set aside the teaching of this message has now borne fruit in the practical rejection of the Bible as the Word of God, and many professed leaders of religious thought are drifting upon the treacherous sea of human speculation and pagan philosophy. A false science takes the place of revelation. The thoughts of men are substituted for the thoughts of God. The Christ of modern thought is accepted instead of the Christ of the prophets, and a hopeless effort is being made to establish the kingdom of such a Christ by advocating sociological principles, rather than to prepare the way for the coming of the true Christ by preaching the gospel of his kingdom. Both Sinai and Calvary have been erased from the map of this modern Christianity. The law is Jewish, and the atonement is a myth. The divinity of humanity is presented instead of the divinity of Christ, and salvation comes from within rather than from without. How the prince of evil must rejoice to see his original doctrine, “Ye shall be as God,” so widely accepted and so faithfully taught in this last generation! But this modern apostasy calls for a more vigorous proclamation of the truth as it is in Jesus. God has not left himself without witness, and he has committed to those who have received his message a protest against this perversion of the gospel. “O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.” “In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.” This is the loud cry of the third angel’s message which should be heard in every land. This is the hope of a world which is fast losing the knowledge of the true God. Preach the word, and it will not return void.

Sunday Laws and “Full Liberty of Conscience”

THE real attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward religious liberty, and the inconsistency in which the English government will be involved if it yields to the present demand for a strict Sunday law in that country, are shown by a recent experience in Malta, and the official correspondence growing out of it. The situation is so well stated in an editorial in the Present Truth (London) that we quote the whole article:—
Last May a Protestant mission or conference was conducted in Malta by the Rev. J. McNeill, who secured for his meeting the use of the Theater Royal, a government building. The Roman Catholic archbishop in Malta protested loudly against the action of the governor in granting the use of the theater, and demanded that the permission be withdrawn. After some correspondence the governor yielded for the sake of peace, and the conference was prematurely discontinued.
The home government, however, has been considering the matter further, and on August 15, Lord Elgin wrote to the governor of Malta that their attention had been directed to the general question of the treatment of different religious denominations in Malta, and that “the only basis which His Majesty’s government can admit for the settlement of the question is that all denominations should be treated with perfect equality.”
In Malta until now, only the Catholics have been permitted to perform religious ceremonies in public, but as this restraint upon certain religious bodies is inconsistent with perfect liberty, in future all denominations will be alike free to hold public services, provided that “they are bona fide religious ceremonies, and not in the nature of demonstrations intended to give offense.”
Lord Elgin also announces that an addition to the present instructions for the governor of Malta will shortly be promulgated, in the following terms:— “It being our intention that all persons inhabiting our said island should have full liberty of conscience and the free exercise of their respective modes of religious worship, we do hereby require our said governor and commander-in-chief to permit all persons within our said island to have such liberty and to exercise their respective modes of religious worship, provided they be contented with a quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the same, not giving offense or scandal to the government.”
It is well that the government has thus placed upon record its position in the matter of religious liberty, because there are soon to be placed before it proposals for the abridgment of such liberty, and it may become necessary to remind the government that what is a “fundamental principle of religious liberty” in Malta, notwithstanding the demands of the Roman Catholics, is equally fundamental to liberty in England, notwithstanding the demands of Catholics and Protestants combined.
An agitation is now being worked up in behalf of a plea for Sunday legislation, and the government will be asked to say that all alike shall refrain from labor on Sunday, under heavy penalties. Such a law would be very acceptable to the majority of the religious denominations. But there are Christians who believe that God has not changed his commandment, and that the seventh day is still the Sabbath. They rest on the seventh day and labor on the first. Ought the government to show favor to one section of the religious community, at the expense of another? If it does so, it will not be adhering to the principle which it has laid down for its guidance in Malta, “that all persons . . . should have full liberty of conscience and the free exercise of their respective modes of religious worship.”
If a strict Sunday law is passed, the Sabbath-keeper will be hindered from working on the first day of the week, or will do it at the risk of punishment. In other words, the law will fine him one sixth of his weekly earnings for being a Sabbath-keeper. This would not be “perfect equality” for “all denominations.” The government can not enforce Sunday observance and remain true to the principles laid down in Lord Elgin’s letter.
The denominations that are calling for stricter Sunday legislation will say, of course, that they do not wish to oppress any, but are acting in the interests of the people at large. So said the Roman Catholic archbishop of Malta. It was the people that he was thinking of when he demanded the discontinuance of the Protestant services. He held that he alone, as the head of the church in Malta,was qualified to say what was harmful to his flock, and what was not. But the government has decided that even his zealous concern for the flock must give way to the common right to religious freedom. And the same answer is the only consistent one to give to those who clamor for Sunday legislation. The Jew is as much entitled as the Christian to religious liberty. The Seventh-day Adventist ought no more to be fined a sixth of his wages for being a Sabbath-keeper than the member of any other denomination who observes the Sunday ought to be fined. The observer of the seventh day should be free to do any honest work that he can find to do on the first day. No true follower of Christ will attempt to interfere with such right, for perfect religious equality is not less fundamental to Christianity than it is to British liberty.
The principles here enunciated apply everywhere. It is impossible for any government to pass Sunday laws or enact any religious legislation and still grant ‘full liberty of conscience’ to all in matters of belief. The only just course is for civil rulers to recognize the fact that their legitimate sphere of action lies wholly outside of the field of religion, as shown by the teaching of the Author of religious liberty: ‘Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.’ On this platform only is religious liberty assured.

A Sign of the Times

By C. M. S.

In speaking of the approach of the great day of God, Paul said, “That day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” We see frequent illustrations of a falling away, which should be to us a herald of that day’s approach.
Statistics of the Presbyterian Church (North) record a decrease of ten per cent a year in the number of candidates for the ministry. In the Presbyterian Church (South) the decrease has been five per cent. A similar state of affairs is reported to exist among the Congregationalists. Statistics have not been published along this line by other denominations; but there is no reason to suppose that this is a feature of these two denominations only. It is more reasonable to look upon it as a symptom of the times, and indicative of the condition of things generally.
Various reasons are given for this condition, such as the increasing spirit of worldliness in the churches, commercialism, low state of vital piety, materialism, lust for luxury, and the worship of mammon. Some do not regard these as the cause, but declare unqualifiedly that the true cause lies in the tyranny of creed; that young men shun the pulpit because it is not a place of intellectual freedom; that the higher education brings with it a horror of credal bonds, and leads them to see a contradiction between the belief of the church and the more advanced “modern knowledge.”
To such as hold this view the remedy lies in permitting the younger ministers more freedom of teaching in the pulpit, bringing their religious teachings “into harmony with the facts known,” which have been learned “in library and laboratory,” and discarding “useless tradition.”
Certainly useless tradition has never been an essential of salvation, and such dogmas as are founded upon it are founded upon sand; and the sooner they are discarded, the better for all concerned. Every creed that has been formed has fettered and hindered the growth and progress of the truth of God. Creeds were not intended so to be by those who formulated them; but such they have proved to be. The creed thrown over the church is the bushel turned over the candle. So the church can well afford to let it go—it can not afford not to. Banish the creed, banish tradition, but let the church and the world have the pure Word, untrameled, unfettered, unhindered.
But what of “modern knowledge” and the “facts known,” which have been found out “in library and laboratory,” and with which the young preacher should seek to harmonize his religious teaching? This is but another way of stating that modern religious teaching must harmonize with evolution and the higher criticism, and that the churches must allow their ministers to teach this clerical infidelity, or see the pursuits of the world swallowing up the young men who started out to study for the ministry.
Higher criticism—an attempt to vivisect the living Word—and evolution—an attempt to dethrone the Creator of the heavens and the earth—have combined their forces to overthrow faith in God and his Word. These studies have been fostered in theological schools, and some who had started out to be ministers have been stranded on these rocks. Others are being stranded every day before they have left the academies by the apparently learned disquisitions of these philosophers, and so have gone into the great drift of unbelief.
Now comes the proposition that this “modern thought” shall have free course in the pulpit, to finish off in the congregation the damage which it began in the minister in the course of his theological training. This will be done under the plea that it will unhamper the minister, give him a more inviting field, and thus increase the number of candidates for that kind of ministry—give infidelity a freer sweep in the sacred desk. The result will be that these twin deceptions will perform the same undermining work in the congregation that they have done in the ministry, discrediting in one breath, as both of these evils do, both the Word and the Author of the Word.
We can not tell how rapidly these errors will work in undermining faith. They have been working rapidly in that direction; they are working more rapidly now. The great majority formerly looked upon them with distrust. Now, because they are advocated by those high in sacred office, the mass are more ready to accept, and so more easily deceived. The decrease of real Christian faith goes on as rapidly as this philosophy prevails, and the ratio increases as the philosophy gains adherents in the sacred desk.
There is no divine command that the minister of the gospel should be bound to a creed; but he is commanded to preach the Word, to be instant in season, out of season, ever ready to give a reason of the hope that is in him, to teach faith, and trust, and hope in God. Whatever work has a tendency to tear down, to undermine, to scatter, that he is to leave to the enemy of souls. Every man has a right to do as he pleases in the matter of teaching or listening to teachings of higher criticism and evolution, so far as human rights are concerned. But God did not include such work in the great commission to his servants. Theirs was to be the work of propagating faith and the knowledge of God—not the “science” of the evolution of man from the slime of the ocean bed. Theirs was to be a work of teaching faith in God’s own record of his work and the surety of his purpose concerning man—not a scheme of proving nature her own author, life a spontaneous phenomenon, and man an evolved bit of protoplasm, the product of a fortunate chance, whose end is shrouded in mystery unfathomable. Theirs was to be the work of preparing men to meet their Lord when he should return. Let them do that. The creed can not tell them what to teach; but the great Word and the Holy Spirit can. There is the true source of evangelical preparation, and of true evangelical success. That will mean freedom in the pulpit, freedom in the truth; but it does not mean freedom to preach faith-destroying, soul-destroying philosophies, while professing the name of Christ and the occupation of his servant. It is dishonoring to Christ to claim that such teachings are the message of Christ for these times. To attempt to remedy the falling away in the ranks of the clergy by teaching to the congregations these same philosophies of distrust and open unbelief, is only to increase the malady and make the situation more hopeless.
Every power of the enemy is now in full swing to give a negative answer to the question of Christ, “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” That faith-destroying force is gaining in power. Higher criticism is its right wing, evolution its left, and in the center the enemy of all good comes on with all the confederated elements of strife and discord and doubt. In such times it is the privilege of the true child of God to be so anchored to the Infinite that he shall not be moved by any of these things, nor ensnared in the great falling away. C. M. S.

Under Pressure

By W. A. S.

THERE is a current in God's providences running so strongly toward mission fields that it keeps the home field under pressure all the time to respond to the calls. But wherever representatives of the home fields gather, they give testimony that it is a blessed pressure.
This forward impulse is manifested on all occasions. The recent council in Washington was called for the purpose of giving representatives of the conferences opportunity to study special institutional calls, and to plan for the raising of the $150,000 fund. But it was really a missionary council. The teachers gathered at College View last summer for an educational convention. They had it, and a good one; but after all, it was a missionary convention. The end and aim of every effort in this cause is the hastening of the message to all the world.
During the recent Washington council of the General Conference Committee and conference presidents, seventeen married couples and seven single persons were invited to fields outside of the United States.
Few as these will seem, spread out through the world, it means no small addition to our missionary force to be appointed at one sitting of a council called for another special work.
It means a large addition to our financial responsibilities also, and one which every church-member ought to bear upon his heart between now and the week-of-prayer offering in December, on which so much depends in the support of missions.
The fields to which these new recruits are invited are Canada, Japan, Egypt, Turkey, India, Jamaica, Trinidad, Central America, Danish West Indies, St. Andrews Island (Colombia), Hayti, South Africa, Syria, and Latin Europe.
As delegates testified, it is a blessed pressure that drives us outward toward the needy fields. But it is a pressure that gives no one rest who is really a part of this cause. The intensity that fills heaven in these closing hours is now throbbing through every fiber of the living church. That is the way it is to be, according to Isaiah's prophecy of the closing work:—
“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” Isa. 62: 6, 7.
It is a restful restlessness, however. No one who hears the trumpet call or sees the sword coming can find rest save in ceaseless, prayerful activity in the work of the Lord. W. A. S.

Note and Comment

THE latest effort to direct national legislation has taken form in the organization of what is designated as the People's Lobby, consisting of a representative body of men who stand for reform in government. The purpose of this movement is thus defined by one of its originators:—
The people's lobby has been organized for the definite purpose of enlightening constituents of congressmen upon the acts of such congressmen in connection with national legislation. In no sense is the lobby to be considered as a “muck-raker” or a faultfinder. Its purpose is to tabulate in such concrete form, as to be easily understood by all who read, the stand taken by congressmen upon all issues.
The work of the governing committee, which will be the executive committee of the lobby, is stated as follows:—
The work of these committeemen is simple and plain. It is not their office to play into the hands of this party or that. It is their office to see that Congress comes out of its subterranean channels, its tortuous passages, its hidden closets, and works in the light, where every voter in this land can see what is going on, all the time. The committee will not take sides on debatable questions. It will throw its white light into the dark corners. It will assume that all measures which shrink from that light are bad measures, and will drag them out for your inspection. . . . Hereafter the responsibility for every congressional action or inaction will be fixed on individuals. Senators and congressmen will no longer be able to dodge the responsibility that is theirs.
It thus appears that there will be a self-constituted body of men to represent the people in watching and reporting the actions of the legally elected representatives of the people. Whether this will result in any permanent improvement in the conditions which prevail in Congress will appear later. In the meantime the very existence of such a lobby indicates that those who are seeking to reform methods of government regard senators and congressmen as representing their own interests rather than the interests of the people. This is one more testimony to the decay of integrity in public life. It is a sign of the breaking down of the present order of things. The restoration of righteousness will come with the new earth.

Protestantism and Catholicism Compared

It is not often that the fundamental difference between Protestantism and Catholicism is fairly stated by a Roman Catholic. One such instance, however, has come to our notice. In an editorial in a recent issue of a Catholic weekly we find the following paragraph:—
Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, said that the Catholic religion tried to interpose the priest between the individual and God, and that this was wrong because Christ, and Christ alone, is the mediator. The position of Protestantism was alluring and flattering. Beyond question it is alluring and encouraging to be convinced that at any moment we may approach Christ and be reconciled with him at a moment’s notice. But how is it if Christ has wished it otherwise? Let us suppose that he has promised to forgive sin always on condition that we approach him through his earthly vicegerents. Naturally the human soul yearns for priestly ministration. The power of sacrifice implied in the priestly office and consecration for that holy purpose in the Christian ministry, responds to a natural need in the human soul.
Protestantism encourages a sinner to come directly to Christ and obtain the pardon of his sins. Catholicism interposes the pope and the priest between the sinner and Christ. Protestantism places it beyond the power of any man or combination of men to make merchandise of salvation. Catholicism, in the very nature of its fundamental principle, tempts men to put themselves in the place of God, and to extort some sort of consideration in return for bestowing the consolations of salvation. The whole history of the papacy shows how successfully priests and prelates have exploited this possibility of financial gain for the benefit of the church. The explanation of the success of the papacy is found in these words: “It is prepared for two classes of mankind, embracing nearly the whole world,—those who would be saved by their merits, and those who would be saved in their sins. Here is the secret of her power.” “To him who loves self-indulgence, it is more pleasing to confess to a fellow mortal than to open the soul to God. It is more palatable to human nature to do penance than to renounce sin; it is easier to mortify the flesh by sackcloth and nettles and galling chains than to crucify fleshly lusts.” Catholicism is the religion of human nature, the counterfeit of Christianity. True Christianity has no place for “earthly vicegerents” of Christ.

The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By Arthur G. Daniells

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

How an Apparently Large Task Can be Performed

At first thought, the proposal to raise a fund of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars appears like a tremendous task which it will take years to finish; but a little study and planning will show that there is a way by which this undertaking can be carried out easily and quickly without placing a hardship upon any one.
Our statistical report for 1905 shows that there are 59,260 members of our church in the United States and Canada. If each one of these would contribute $2.53 toward this fund, we should have $150,000. If each member would lay aside ten cents a day for twenty-six days, we should have the whole amount required, and we should have it all raised in the short space of one month.
On the point of membership, it is plain that the raising of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is not a really serious undertaking.
But how about the resources of these members? Are they able to spare ten cents a day from their incomes for twenty-six days? Are not some of these members aged and penniless? Are not some of them widows with very slender resources to support their children? Are not some of them children who earn little or nothing?
Yes, there are a few of all these classes numbered among our members. Some of these would not be able to contribute anything to speak of; but on the other hand, there are thousands of our members who are enjoying great prosperity. They have excellent health, splendid wages, fine crops, and high prices. To such ten cents a day for twenty-six days would be so small that they would scarcely take time to give it a second thought. Hundreds of these would say, as one brother has said, “Yes, I will pay for twenty-five members who can not pay.” Another has given one hundred dollars, a sum which will pay for forty persons who can give nothing.
Thus it is plain, that, taking our membership and resources into account, the raising of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is not an unreasonable undertaking. It need not work hardship on any, and it need not take long to raise the sum. Then let us all rally and show what can be quietly, quickly, and fully accomplished.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Now Is the Time

By I. H. Evans

It has already been decided that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be raised, as soon as possible, to be distributed to various countries for institutional work. Taken as a whole, this is a large sum of money; but when apportioned among sixty thousand people, it is but a small sum for each.
A united people is a strong people. That is why an army is stronger than the same men disorganized. In unity the strength of each is accentuated by the strength of all the rest.
In the Christian church we have great battles to fight, and every soldier of the cross needs to be ready for action. All can not fill the same place. Some must be in the rank and file with weapons of warfare ready for service; some must be lieutenants, others captains, and so on to the general ordering the campaign. The general, with all his staff of officers, could not win the battle alone. The infantry and cavalry are absolute essentials for success. Nor can the soldiery alone win the battle. There must be those to direct, and those who gladly respond to directions.
Much depends on time in all great events. It is said that Napoleon lost Waterloo because he hesitated opening the battle on account of a big storm. Many a battle has been won with a small force because the attacking party moved with great rapidity, throwing the enemy into confusion. The wise man says, “There is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Eccl. 3:1.
When the council in Washington decided to raise the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, much time was given to the consideration of the time when we should begin the effort to raise this money. The consensus of opinion was that we should begin now. Some suggested waiting till after the holidays; but the council, after giving due consideration to all that was said both pro and con, agreed to begin the raising of this money at the earliest possible moment.
Looking at it from a human standpoint, we may ask, When can there be a more opportune time than now for this great work? Prosperity is on every hand. Crops are generally good beyond comparison; wages are high; labor is in good demand. Perhaps since the Civil War there has never been such a wonderful, widespread prosperity as now. With this almost universal prosperity, is it not opportune to undertake to do something definite and great for the cause of God?
Each union conference as well as each State conference will be free to set itself to work on this fund in such a way and at such time as the committee may elect.
We believe now is as good a time as we can hope to find for most of our people to contribute to this fund. Let each Seventh-day Adventist do his share, and do it now. One does not need to wait for a large meeting in which to give, but let each one of us do his duty.
I. H. EVANS.

Voices in the Conferences

ELDER C. McREYNOLDS speaks in the Wisconsin Reporter of his impressions of the recent Washington council, which was called to decide as to this special fund:—
Greater plans were laid for the prosecution of the work in all parts of the world than have ever been made before in the history of the work of this people. Missionaries are being sent in every direction.
The raising of the $150,000 fund means the driving of strong stakes for the lengthening of the cords in every direction. The speedy raising of this fund will quicken the forward pace of this movement in all the earth.
By the Indiana Reporter we see that the churches there have already devoted a Sabbath service to the special call. Elder W. J. Stone says:—
Will not every church officer in Indiana, without urging, take up this matter at once and push it to a finish? I am glad to know that some are already doing this, and some of our lay brethren are in advance of the leaders. Let us all unitedly take up this duty, and make it a quick work.
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The appeal is launched in the Atlantic Union Gleaner. Elders E. W. Farnsworth and W. A. Westworth are appointed to lead out in the union effort. After calling attention to the evidence of rapid growth and the strengthening of the organization shown in the recent statistical report, Elder Westworth says:—
Brethren and sisters, we have been blessed with an era of prosperity in the country; an abundant harvest is at hand; and with the many responsibilities that rest upon us, we need to rally in all our might and raise this money at once, so that the way may be cleared for greater victories and more glorious triumphs in the Lord. We believe this whole matter can be gotten out of the way in a few short months, if there is a united action and a prayerful seeking of God to open up the way and enable us to accomplish that whereunto he has called us.
If these brethren voice the sentiment throughout the field, and we believe they do, this work will be quickly done.

He Knoweth Your Need

By S. B. McManus

I WOULD NOT WORRY, IF I WERE YOU; The days will come, and the days will go, And anon the sky will be gray or blue, And the earth be covered with flowers or snow; The sun will shine, or the rain will fall, But God stands over and under all.
Some days will be dark, with scarcely a sign That God ever gave you a loving thought; And his face will be hid with his love benign, And your soul lie prone with a fight ill fought; And life will seem empty of every joy — A worthless bauble, a broken toy.
But I would not worry, if I were you, It will all come right, pretty soon, de- pend; The rain will cease, and the sky grow blue, And God to your heart will kindly send His message of love — and by and by You will wonder why you should be sad and cry.
Bide close to the Father, let come what may, Reach out for his hand in rain or shine; He will turn your night into sweetest day, And share his bounty of love divine. He never forgets for a single day — Why need then to fret and worry alway?
— S. B. McManus.
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