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Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 47.

The Greatest of These Is Charity

Review and Herald

Nov 25, 1902

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1902

The Greatest of These Is Charity

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Corinthians 13.

TESTIMONY VOL. SEVEN

By Editor

Testimony Volume Seven is now in press. Following are some of the subjects treated:
The Work of Soul Saving Work for Church Members Workers from the Ranks The Work in the Cities Delay No Longer Family Worship Responsibilities of Married Life Extent of Sanitarium Work A Message to Our Physicians Value of Outdoor Life Out of the Cities Medical Missionary Work in the Cities Our Restaurant Work Manufacture of Health Foods God’s Purpose in Our Publishing Work Our Denominational Literature The Canvasser Danger from Improper Reading Debt Ministers and Business Matters The Work of the Ministry Committee Meetings Church Discipline To the Teachers in Our Schools Aged Pioneer Workers
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A Hope Revived

By Editor

Editorial

A Hope Revived

DURING the last ten or fifteen years some hearts have grown weary in waiting for the consummation of their hopes in the second advent of our Lord, and some have been led to question whether they would see the end of this work, and be among those who would be translated. It is refreshing to know that the hope of some is being strongly revived as they see the indications that this people are really planning to send this message speedily to the nations of the earth. We know that some who have been long connected with this movement are thanking the Lord for the prospect of more rapid progress in the different fields. The solution of the whole problem will quickly be realized when each one who knows this truth will give the message to those just near him in whatever field he may be. In this way the work will be carried forward with rapid strides, the millions will learn the glad news of the soon-coming Saviour, and a people will be prepared to meet him. So let it be.

Genuine Justification

THERE is a great difference between the truth and the mere form of words in which the truth may be stated. Knowledge of the form of the statement is not necessarily knowledge of the truth. There are many texts in the Scripture in which the word “justification” is found, and there are many other texts which teach the truth of justification without using the word “justification.” The real essence of justification can be understood only through personal experience. It is sharing in the character of God. It is the restoration to man of that which was lost through sin. It is the repudiation of human nature, and the acceptance of the divine nature. It is learning the meekness of him who is “meek and lowly in heart.” This is clear from the Lord’s own statement through the prophet Habakkuk: “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just [righteous] shall live by his faith.” In the final analysis, all sin is a rebellion against God, an effort to cast God down from his own throne, and to put self in the place of God. It begins in the lifting up of the heart against God. This was the experience of Lucifer. “Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness.” All sin since that original one has been the continuance of that same sin, a lifting up of the heart against God. The experience of justification by faith reverses all this, and changes the defiant rebel into the humble servant. By it self is repudiated, humbled in the dust, and the true relationship between the creature and the Creator is re-established. And the only way to understand the doctrine of justification by faith is through this very experience, and it can be taught with the success which God desires to attend the teaching of his truth only after it has been known to the teacher through this experience. This way of learning truth does not always seem joyous while the lesson is being taught, but “it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” What a blessed Teacher we have! What precious lessons he teaches us! What possibilities of comfort are found in the promise, “They shall be all taught of God”! What a glorious privilege is offered to us in the invitation to humble ourselves to walk with God! Blessed is the man who does it.

The Earnest of Our Inheritance

By Uriah Smith

PAUL, through the brethren at Ephesus, appeals to Christians concerning their blessed hope. “In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” Eph. 1: 13, 14. The text speaks of “our inheritance.” This is nothing else than heaven. But this is not something which is purchased by merit, or won by strength or by great attainments of talent or skill. It is ours by birthright, by way of inheritance. The Holy Spirit of promise is the earnest of this inheritance till the redemption of the purchased possession. This “earnest” is more than a pledge, and is of the same nature as the thing of which it is the earnest. A pledge is something which is returned; but an earnest is retained as a part of the thing promised. The possession of the Holy Spirit is the earnest, or foretaste, of the bliss into possession of which it is at last to bring us. When rightly understood, this is calculated to bring us great enjoyment. This Spirit is not the pledge, but the foretaste, of everlasting bliss. The entrance of this Spirit into the soul brings with it the atmosphere of everlasting life. The Spirit abiding in us consecrates us to the same purpose to which we shall be devoted throughout eternity; namely, the service of the Lord God. The Spirit working in us creates the same holiness which is essential to the enjoyment of heaven. The influence of the Spirit over us brings us into the same communion with God which we shall enjoy forever in heaven. The Spirit now being ours, is the same as heaven being ours; it is to our spirit the dawn of glory.
Paul speaks of us, in verse 11, as being God’s heritage; in verse 14, as anticipating an inheritance for ourselves. Our hopes are infinite. If by his Spirit God dwells in us now, it is the assurance that we shall dwell in God forever. His Spirit dwells in us here that he may redeem us completely from all sin and infirmity, and raise us up to the power and blessedness of his own divine kingdom. By the words, “the earnest of our inheritance,” the passage teaches that heaven is like the most select moments of devotion that a Christian enjoys on earth. If you wish to know most really and most truly what that rest is that remains for the people of God, think what is the fruit of God’s working in our hearts, then expand these into immortal features of loveliness and perfection. Heaven is the perfecting of the life which the Spirit begins here; and the loftiest attainment of that life here is but the beginning, the infantile movement, of beings not here made perfect. But from the passage we gather some ground with regard to the certainty that we shall ultimately possess the fullness of the inheritance. The true ground of certainty is this: that you have the Spirit in your heart molding and sealing you after its own stamp and image.
The Holy Spirit brings many things to us that are earnests, or foretastes, ofthe possessions we are to have hereafter. One of the leading features of heaven is “rest.” “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” Heb. 4:9. But we have this moment this rest in Jesus. How sweet, even in this imperfect state, is this rest! Then what will it be when that which is perfect is come, and that which is in part shall be done away? Here we have communion with saints. And if this is so pleasant now, what must be the joy of that state when we shall know as we are known, and see as we are seen? 1 Cor. 13:10, 13. But with these earnests of the heavenly inheritance, we have also premonitions of threatened loss. Rom. 2:5–10. Ungodly men may pretty clearly guess the outcome of sin, what it will be. Heb. 10:29.
There is a great resemblance between the indwelling of the Spirit and the graces which are thereby worked in us. The earnest is a part of the whole sum which is to be paid at the time appointed. So the Spirit and the graces of the Spirit are the beginning of the glorious beings we shall ultimately become, the same in substance, but differing only in degree. The earnest is but a little, as compared with the whole. Twenty shillings is an earnest sufficient to make sure of a hundred pounds. Thus all the grace we have is but a small thing in comparison with the fullness we look forward to, even as the first fruits were but little in comparison to the full harvest.
The commentator Paul Bayne says: “An earnest doth assure him that receiveth it of the honest meaning of him with whom he contracteth. So the Spirit and grace we receive from God assure us of his settled purpose of bringing us to his eternal glory.” U. S.

Studies in the Gospel Message

The subject of the Sabbath-school lesson for December 6 is The Continual Service.
That which distinguishes the temple of the living God from every other temple is the fact that the service of God is carried forward in it. In order to establish the claim that any so-called temple of God is the temple of God, there must be evidence to show that the service and worship of the true God are actually performed in that temple. It is important that this truth should be fully understood. And it is further important to understand that this service must find its center in Jesus Christ. This was true of the service of the tabernacle and the temple in ancient times. “The whole worship of ancient Israel was a promise, in figures and symbols, of Christ; and it was not merely a promise, but an actual provision, designed by God to aid millions of people by lifting their thoughts to him who was to manifest himself to our world.” It is also true of the heavenly sanctuary, where type has met antitype, that its service finds its center in Jesus Christ. This is the emphatic teaching of the whole book of Hebrews. “Now in the things which we are saying the chief point is this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.” Heb. 8:1, 2. R. V. “For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: nor yet that he should offer himself often; as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own; else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Heb. 9:24–26. It is also true of the individual Christian as the temple of God that his service must find its center in Jesus Christ. This is made clear by the words of the apostle Peter, “Unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
And this service which is thus carried forward in the temple of God, and which thus finds its center in Jesus Christ, must be a continual service. This is shown clearly in the study of the sanctuary and its service. The teaching which is emphasized in the typical service by the “continual burnt offering,” the “perpetual incense,” “the continual bread” upon the table, the breastplate of judgment upon the heart “for a memorial before the Lord continually,” and the provision made “to cause the lamps to burn continually,”—the teaching of all this is that that typical service is a continual service. And through the ministry of this typical service provision is made that the individual Christian may render a continual service unto God by the indwelling presence of the eternal Son of God, of whom it is said, “Thou continuest.” Thus when Christ dwells in the heart by faith, and man is in this way restored to the high privilege of being “the temple of the living God,” the continual service is carried forward in that temple.
The experience of Daniel, as recorded in the sixth chapter of the book of Daniel, is the concrete revelation of these principles. We should not fail to notice that the sixth chapter follows the eighth chapter when we deal with the events in chronological order. The vision of the eighth chapter was given in the third and last year of the reign of King Belshazzar and at the beginning of the reign of “Darius the Median.” This order of the events is emphasized in order that we may see the relation of the events. In the vision of the eighth chapter, Daniel saw that a power would rise which would take away the continual service. For a time the continual service would cease in the temple of God, the shekinah glory would depart, and the house would be desolate.
Obedience to the “royal statute” established by King Darius would bring an interruption in the worship which Daniel offered to God, and consequently an interruption in the continual service which he rendered to him, since worship and service are inseparable. “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” The result of disobedience to the “firm decree” would, to all human appearance, be a terrible death in the den of lions. But Daniel knew that obedience to the decree would also mean the interruption of his worship of God and the taking away of his continual service, and that the end of this would be eternal death. He therefore disregarded the decree, and refused to allow the continual worship and service to be interrupted. Here is the record: “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.” As a consequence of this disregard of the royal statute “the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions.” But the heathen king recognized the loyalty of Daniel to his God, and seemed to feel the assurance that it would not go unrewarded. And so he declared to Daniel when he was cast into the den, “Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.” And in the morning, “when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?” Through the continual service he was delivered from death. But if Daniel had obeyed the decree, and had thus permitted the continual worship to be interrupted, the continual service to be taken away, he would have miserably perished. The vision of the eighth chapter, however, had prepared him for this test. He did not permit the word of man to take away the continual service. He was faithful in his worship of God, and God delivered his faithful servant.
What is the explanation of all this? It is plainly stated in these words: “So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.” His was the faith which “stopped the mouths of lions.” But faith must be fixed upon “Jesus the author and finisher of our faith,” and through this faith we “receive the promise of the Spirit,” the indwelling presence of the risen and ascended Lord. In the power of this living Christ the continual service is maintained in the living temple. “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?” And that body which is in truth the temple of God is one which is a member of the body of Christ, one in which the continual service is maintained in the power of the eternal Spirit.

Two Great Languages

By William Ambrose Spicer

THE message of Revelation 14 is to go swiftly, as by an angel flying in the midst of heaven, to every nation and in every tongue.
Divine providence so ordered that this message proclaiming the hour of God's judgment should rise in the English-speaking world.
By this tongue the largest number of people in Christendom may be reached. It is distributed over the earth more widely than any other.
The expansion of English-speaking peoples is one of the remarkable facts of modern history.
In the year 1500, for instance, just as the era of exploration and discovery was being ushered in, the English language was spoken by four millions of people. And these people were huddled together in the British Isles.
Now, about one hundred and twenty-five million speak the language, and the English speech girdles the whole earth.
The English tongue has been the vehicle of the widest dissemination of the Word of God. While all nations in Christendom have been the scene of the missionary awakening, the great movements in modern missions have sprung from the English-speaking peoples.
Another tongue, widely distributed among the peoples of earth, is the Arabic. It has been the vehicle by which the great Mohammedan missionary movement has been carried forward. A speaker at the London World's Missionary Congress said:—
Have you any idea of the extent of the Arabic language? When the morning sun rises from the Pacific Ocean, eager eyes are straining from the minarets of China to catch the first beams of that sun; and as they rise out of the Pacific Ocean, the song goes up, “There is no God but God;” and that song is caught up and carried from minaret to minaret, across the whole breadth of China. It resounds in the valleys of the Himalayas; its echo is heard all over the plains of India. It sounds out in the islands of the Indian Ocean. It is caught up and echoed back across Persia, far along from peak to peak, among the mountains of Persia and Armenia and Nestoria and Lebanon. It is carried down into the great Arabian peninsula, and then it is taken up in the valley of the Nile. It is carried to the head waters of the Nile, the great lake region, and it sweeps across the Sudan and the Sahara, and not until the sun has set in the Atlantic are its last echoes overcome by the roar of the surf of that western sea. It is a language more extended over the face of the earth, and which has had more to do with the destiny of mankind, than any other, except English.
As yet, we have made little use of this language in sending forth the final message.
Yet the peoples touched by it, need the very same warning and the same gospel that we need in these Western lands. The mysticism of Babylon of old—which lies geographically within the circle of Moslem influence—is flourishing in Eastern lands. The third angel's message, clear, definite, and uplifting, must be carried through the Moslem world. The Arabic tongue must ring out the message far and wide.
We have a good foothold in Egypt. The work in Syria also shows progress. During the General Conference Council, a few days ago, two additional workers, evangelist physicians, were recommended to go to Egypt or Syria as might be determined, to forward the message.
We must hasten on from land to land and with tongue after tongue, with the definite message of the coming of Christ in glory to gather his people. Then will come that glorious scene around God's throne in heaven, of which the prophet said: “I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.”
Now is the time to gather out from the world the precious souls who will then behold God's face and praise him for the gospel of his salvation. God has given us the message to give to these waiting souls. W. A. S.

Christian Simplicity

By L. A. S.

SUBTLETY is characteristic of error. Simplicity, on the other hand, is characteristic of truth.
This thought was expressed by the apostle Paul to the Corinthians. “I fear,” he wrote to them, “lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Cor. 11:3.
Lucifer himself, though “full of wisdom” and exalted next to God, was deceived by the subtlety of unrighteousness. At the beginning of his rebellion against God he was not “acquainted with the real nature of his feelings. . . . He did not see whither he was drifting.”—“Patriarchs and Prophets,” page 39. The angels who joined with him were deceived likewise. Id., page 38.
When Satan sought to deceive the human pair in Eden, he chose the serpent as the proper instrument of his purpose. Why?—Because “the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field.” Gen. 3:1. Through the serpent he worked upon the mind of Eve, and made her “see” things that were not so; and she ate of the forbidden fruit.
This deceitful subtlety has characterized the work of the “serpent” in all ages. He soon led the inhabitants of the world away from the simple worship of Jehovah into idolatry and the mysteries of pagan worship. This pagan system embodied a devious, dark philosophy, which led the mind into the realm of mystery under the pretense that only there could saving truth be found. It had its priests and its oracles,—men who professed to be in touch with the mysteries of the higher world, and through whom alone could the common people obtain knowledge from the gods. The worship of Egypt and of Babylon revealed this feature in a marked degree.
This mysticism is interwoven with every pagan system, and this it was that poisoned the stream of Christianity soon after the latter went forth in the conquering power that marked its progress in the days of the apostles. An advancing wave of worldliness overtook and mingled with the pure stream of Christian doctrine sent forth by the early disciples, and there grew up a system of “interpretation” of the Word of God, which, under the pretense of discovering the truth, perverted the truth of God until its light was altogether obscured. The “mystery of iniquity” was at work, and erelong there was built up the system of the papacy, in which pagan doctrines and philosophy were masked beneath Christian forms. The people were shut away from the light of the gospel of God, and were turned to the fables and speculations of men who posed as being the oracles of divine knowledge. The word and the wisdom of man were substituted in the place of the word and wisdom of God.
Outside of Christianity, we find religion to-day full of mystical doctrines which have a subtle power to lead the mind away from truth into endless mazes of philosophical speculation. We find every false system leading us into the realm of the occult, and taking us along darkened pathways where the sunlight of divine revelation has never shone. The Christian missionary to Asia encounters it in the heathen systems of that country. It is exemplified in Spiritualism, with its dark seances and mysterious phenomena, and its doctrines concerning the present and the hereafter. Behold also Christian Science, with its mystical philosophy of healing. It claims to be Scriptural, yet it has a subtlety that is not of divine truth. You cannot corner it with argument. It will retreat into the shadows whence it came, where it will defy all attempts to draw it forth. Expose its errors, and the Christian Scientist will say to you, O, you entirely misrepresent Christian Science; you do not understand what it teaches.
Beware of this false philosophy. Beware of the doctrine that clothes itself with subtlety. Seek rather the simplicity that is in Christ. Thank the Lord that one does not have to depart from simplicity to gain the saving knowledge of his truth.
L. A. S.

The Drug Habit and Medical Treatment

One million “morphine fiends” in the United States! Such is the startling announcement made by the interdenominational committee for the suppression of drug addiction, in a report which they have just issued. Speaking of this report, the Chicago Tribune says:—
It is asserted that there are more than one million morphine “fiends” in the United States, and that one person in every hundred is addicted to drugs. The vice is most prevalent among the wealthy classes and among physicians. Many of the latter who have become victims of drugs, have become outcasts. Numbers of them have been reclaimed by the committee, and put on their feet again.
And what is the cause of this alarming condition of things? “Doctors,” says the Tribune, “are blamed for the spread of the drug habit for prescribing drugs to alleviate pain, their victims often becoming ‘fiends.’”
What a fearful indictment is this of the drug system of treating disease, which is so generally followed by the medical fraternity! A method of treating disease which tends to make the patient a slave to the craving for a deadly drug and to plunge him into physical, mental, and moral ruin, must in the very nature of things be wrong. On the face of it, it is apparent that it was never instituted by the Creator. His work is to save men, not to spread the influences that lead them downward.
Such terrible results help us to understand how greatly the world was and is now in need of that part of the message of present truth relating to healthful living and the treatment of the sick by hydrotherapy. Not only does the use of drugs impose upon the patient’s system an additional burden, in the shape of a poison which must be thrown off, thus robbing the patient of the strength needed to combat the disease from which he is suffering, working him far more injury than good, and often being the real cause of death, but as this report announces, it leads its victims unawares into the gulf of the deepest slavery, from which there is but little hope of escape. One million victims of the morphine habit, or the cocaine habit, all because of the use of these insidious, deadly drugs as “medicine”! Verily, it is time to proclaim in trumpet tones the warning against the system which gives such opportunity to this foe of human welfare, and the truth which shows the better system of treating disease upon rational hygienic principles. “Christian Science” and “faith healing” would flourish far less than they do if it were not for a widespread distrust of the use of drugs.

Vatican Diplomacy and the Philippines

By Editor

THE Northwestern Christian Advocate calls attention to the following recent cablegram from London:—
A dispatch to the Telegraph from Rome says that the Philippine question continues to occupy a prominent place in the Vatican policy. Archbishop Guido, the apostolic delegate to the Philippines, who is now en route to Manila, was instructed prior to his departure to do everything possible to draw closer the relations between the Vatican and the United States.
The idea of the Vatican is to have the negotiations between Archbishop Guido and Governor Taft for a settlement of the Philippine church question reach a point that will make it advisable for the United States to have a representative in Rome accredited, if not officially, at least, privately, to the Vatican, this being the first step toward the establishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. If this plan fails, the pope, it is believed, hopes that when the negotiations at Manila are concluded, the United States will send to Rome to ratify the arrangement a personage bearing credentials as envoy extraordinary.
Upon this the Advocate comments:—
It has been apparent almost from the time that Governor Taft arrived in Rome for the purpose of adjusting, on a business basis, the friar question in the Philippines, that the authorities at the Vatican were determined to take advantage of the occasion to secure the recognition of the temporal sovereignty of the pope, and, if possible, secure the appointment of a permanent embassy at the Vatican. Every step in the negotiations of the friar question has clearly indicated that those negotiations were being prolonged with this object in view. We may expect before long to see the apostolic delegate in Washington endeavoring to secure recognition from the secretary of state as the accredited nuncio of the pope. The American people will awaken to this fact. The president should make it clear to the Vatican that such recommendation is contrary to the Constitution of the United States, and thus relieve his administration and the country of possible future embarrassment.
We hope “the American people will awaken,” as the Advocate predicts; but the awakening should have taken place long ago. The trouble is that the people have been drifting away from gospel principles in both religious and civil affairs, and the movement has brought and is bringing them continually nearer to Rome.

Note and Comment

Mr. W. T. Stead, the well-known English writer, gives in an article contributed to the Independent (New York) the explanation of the serious controversy which has arisen in England over the educational question. The opportunity of the clerical party to secure control of the public-school system, he says, comes through the alliance of the Irish Nationalist vote on this point with the Conservative ministry, which is now in power. The Irish Nationalist party controls eighty votes, which are usually cast in opposition to the government; but this educational measure being of a distinctly papal character and favored by Rome, and the Irish Nationalist party being under Rome’s control, its vote is cast solidly with the government in support of the educational bill. The Irish party in Parliament becomes for the occasion the Catholic party, like the “Center” party in the German Reichstag, which has so often secured concessions to the papacy from Germany. Thus the hand of Rome is laid upon the nations of Europe, and they are forced to do her bidding; and doubtless she hopes to secure a similar hold upon the Congress of the United States.

The Wages of Working Women

The Director of Charities in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Harrison Cooley, has been making an investigation of the condition of Cleveland's working women. In a report which he has prepared, he states that he is grievously surprised at the result. He found that the average cost of living for a woman of this class is $5.24 a week, while the average weekly wage is but $4.83. Of thirty-eight working women whom he questioned, twelve were earning three dollars, and six but two dollars, a week. He affirms that this is a fair representation of the general conditions.
“To those who are permitted to see it,” says Mr. Cooley, “the tragedy of our modern industrial and social system is appalling. The cruel and unjust conditions really cause a ruin and degradation of life a hundredfold more than the things reformers are most prone to attack.”
The reform which is most needed is not that which changes the law, but that which changes the heart, putting the love of God and of mankind in the place of the love of money and of power. Every crying evil in the world proclaims the world's need of Christianity, which alone can reach the source of every difficulty, and cleanse the fountain head of every impure stream.

Socialist Sunday Schools in Britain

A SOCIALIST Sunday-school movement is a phenomenon which has for several years past been developing in Great Britain, says the Boston Congregationalist. The headquarters of the movement is at Glasgow. “In that city,” it is stated, “there are eight schools, and a half-penny magazine called The Young Socialist is issued. Socialist Sunday schools also exist in London, Liverpool, Bradford, and other cities. A little text-book of sixteen pages has recently been published, presenting socialist doctrines in language suited to the minds of children. By these publications the children are taught to hate clericalism and capitalism,” and to strive against “the ‘evil giants’ of oppression and exploitation.”

Jesus Will Come

“I WILL come again.” John 14:3.
“This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner.” Acts 1:11.
“The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.” 1 Thess. 4:16.
How bright that blessed hope! Jesus will come! Let us our heads lift up, Jesus will come! Morning so bright and clear, Mansions of God appear, Sin shall not enter there. Jesus will come!
Him every eye shall see, Jesus will come! Bright will the glory be, Jesus will come! Soon shall the trumpet speak, Each sleeping saint awake, And the glad morning break. Jesus will come!
Raised unto glory we, Jesus will come! Joyous our song shall be, Jesus will come! Gathered around to him, All learn the heavenly hymn; Jesus, our joyful theme, Jesus will come!
Full of this blessed hope, Jesus will come! Let us the cross take up, Jesus will come! Happy, reproach to bear, Shame, for his sake, to share, Since we our crown shall wear, Jesus will come!
—Songs of Pilgrimage.
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