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Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 52.

The Old Year and the New

Review and Herald

Dec 26, 1912

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1912

The Old Year and the New

By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN

WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
The Old Year passes. Were his sheaves All garnered for his God? The night-winds stir hope’s seared leaves That strew the path he trod. His form bent low by grief and toil Will rest in peace at last Where snowflakes veil the mounds of soil,— God’s Acre of the Past.
The New Year beckons. Joyfully He greets the radiant morn, And promise-buds abundantly His verdant gifts adorn. Where courage, faith, and love prevail, Of joy and fruitful cheer A royal harvest can not fail To crown the glad New Year!

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We've Always Been Provided For

“Good wife, what are you singing for? You know we've lost the hay, And what we'll do for horse and kine is more than I can say; While like as not, with storm and rain, we'll lose both corn and wheat.”
She looked up with a pleasant smile, and answered low and sweet, “There is a heart, there is a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
He turned around with sullen gloom. She said, “Love, be at rest; You've cut the grass, worked soon and late, you did your very best. That was your work; you've not at all to do with wind and rain, And do not doubt but that you will reap rich fields of golden grain; For there's a heart, and there's a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
“That's like a woman's reasoning,— we must, because we must.”
She softly said: “I reason not; I only work and trust. The harvest may redeem the day; keep heart, whate'er betide: When one door shuts, I've always seen another open wide. There is a heart, there is a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
He kissed the calm and trustful face; gone was his restless pain. She heard him with a cheerful step go whistling down the lane, And went about her household tasks full of a glad content, Singing to time her busy hands, as to and fro she went: “There is a heart, there is a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.”
Days came and went: 'twas Christmas-time, and the great fire burned clear. The farmer said: “Dear wife, it's been a good and happy year; The fruit was gain, the surplus corn has bought the hay, you know.”
She lifted then a smiling face, and said: “I told you so; For there's a heart, and there's a hand, we feel but can not see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always be.” —Selected.

God's Means for Diffusing Light

By Ellen G. White

(Concluded)
MRS. E. G. WHITE
VERY much has been lost to the cause of God because of inattention to the young. Ministers of the gospel should form a happy acquaintance with the youth of their congregations. There is great reluctance on the part of many to become acquainted with the youth, but it is accounted of Heaven a neglect of duty, a sin against souls for whom Christ died. The youth are objects of Satan's special attacks; and the manifestation of kindness, courtesy, tender sympathy, and love, will often work the salvation of those who are under the temptations of the evil one. The love of Jesus will win you an entrance into the hearts of the young; and when you have obtained the confidence of the youth, they will listen to your words and take your counsel. You should bind them to your heart by these cords of love, and then instruct them how to labor in the cause of God. The young may labor for their companions in a quiet, unpretending way. This branch of God's work must not be neglected. Our churches are not doing what they might do for the youth. There seems to be no burden for souls for whom Christ died. Why should this labor for the young in our borders not be thought the highest of missionary work? Why do the ministers leave the young without endeavoring to win them to Christ? Why do they not urge the young to give their hearts to God? This work will require the most delicate tact, the most thoughtful consideration, the most earnest prayer that heavenly wisdom may be imparted; for connected with the church are those who are not ignorant of our faith, yet whose hearts have never been touched by the power of divine grace. Can we who claim to love God pass on day after day and week after week indifferent to those who are out of Christ? If they should die in their sins, unwarned, their blood would be required at the unfaithful watchman's hands. Why is it that personal efforts are not put forth that they may be drawn to Christ by the strong cords of love? There is work for each and all to do, and will any one shrink from sacred responsibility? Shall souls be left to perish because of your unfaithfulness? Jesus has said, "Ye are the light of the world." "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Let your light shine in clear, steady rays, that you may represent Him who has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
The church has been appointed as the medium through which divine light is to shine into the moral darkness of this world, and the peace-giving beams of the Sun of Righteousness fall upon the hearts of men. Personal labor with individuals and with families constitutes a part of the work to be done in God's moral vineyard. The meekness, the patience, the forbearance, the love of Christ, must be revealed in the homes of the land. The church must arise and shine. Radiant with the spirit and power of the truth, the people of God must go forth to a world lying in darkness, to make manifest the light of the glory of God. God has given to men noble powers of mind to be employed to his honor; and in the missionary work these powers of mind are called into active exercise. Wise improvement and development of the gifts of God will be seen in his service. Day by day there will be growth in the knowledge of Christ. He who once spake as never man spake, who wore the garb of humanity, is still the Great Teacher. As you follow in his footsteps, seeking the lost, angels will draw near, and through the illumination of the Spirit of God, greater knowledge will be obtained as to the best ways and means for accomplishing the work committed to your hands. While Christ would lead his servantsout into the highways, into the homes of men, to seek and save the lost, Satan is employing his agents to lead souls to ruin. His most effective agents for this work are those whose names are on the church records but who fail of a record in “the Lamb's book of life.” There are many who are blind leaders of the blind, and leaders and those who are led will come to destruction at last. Satan is ever on the alert that he may lead men into idolatry, that those who profess to love Christ may bow down to rivals of the Lord of heaven. The success which Satan has achieved in leading the religious world into idolatry, has made him bold, and much of what the world calls “advanced thought” is simply progress into error and darkness.
In order that we may meet the ranks of the adversary with success, there is earnest work to be done. We must study the Word of God, we must pray in secret, we must assemble and agree as to the explicit things that we would have God do for us and for his cause. We must counsel together, and open every plan to those with whom we are connected, that every method may be critically examined, and the very best chosen. We should pray that God will direct in all our plans, that no mistake may be made. There should be a decided advance seen in our work; growing efficiency should be manifested in every department. We now see more doors open for usefulness than we can find laborers to enter; for many to whom God has entrusted ability do not employ the means within their reach for the improvement of their talents.
Those who should have been the light of the world have shed forth but feeble and sickly beams. What is light?—It is piety, goodness, truth, mercy, love; it is the revealing of the truth in the character and life. The gospel is dependent on the personal piety of its believers for its aggressive power, and God has made provision through the death of his beloved Son, that every soul may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work. Every soul is to be a bright and shining light, showing forth the praises of him who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. “We are laborers together with God,” yes, laborers; that means doing earnest service in the vineyard of the Lord. There are souls to be saved,—souls in our churches, in our Sabbath-schools, and in our neighborhoods.
We do not so much need the grand church edifice, the worshipers adorned in costly array to harmonize with the church; this will not move one soul toward the kingdom of heaven. Display will not awaken the tender sympathies whereby soul meets soul. We need faith, obedience, genuine love for God and for humanity. This alone will exert the heaven-born influence that will move the hearts of men. There are moral icebergs in our churches. There are plenty of formalists who can make an imposing display, but can not shine as lights in the world. God looks with pitying tenderness upon a church whose worshipers, although poor and ignorant, are sincere. They may be scorned and neglected by the world, but they are beloved of God. The glory of the church of God is in the piety of its members, for there is the hiding of Christ's power. The influence of the sincere children of God may be esteemed as of little worth, but it will be felt throughout time, and rightly revealed in the day of reward. The light of a true Christian, shining forth in steadfast piety, in unwavering faith, will prove to the world the power of a living Saviour. In his followers Christ will be revealed as a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. Although scarcely known to the world, they are acknowledged as God's peculiar people, his chosen vessels of salvation, his channels whereby light is to come to the world.

A Study of the Lord’s Prayer

By R. A. UNDERWOOD

Prayer — No. 6

A Study of the Lord’s Prayer

R. A. UNDERWOOD
“FORGIVE us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” One has said, “This is a dangerous petition.” Whether we pray this prayer or not, God will act upon this principle in the judgment. Christ says, “When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.” Mark 11: 25, 26.
This is the law, “With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful.” Ps. 18: 25. It is a cheerless and sad state of mind that will permit one to go through life holding a grudge; for anger poisons the soul and embitters the life. It closes the audience-chamber of the Almighty against every person that holds hatred in his heart against any. It breeds suffering, crime, and death. No one can have peace of mind who does not forgive, no matter what the provocation has been. In many cases the grievance is greatly magnified. How often we misjudge! If the offended would exercise that charity that “thinketh no evil,” there would be no place for roots of bitterness to grow. God does not hear the prayer of, nor can he forgive, the soul who does not forgive.
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” Matt. 7: 1. Satan is ever ready to use with skill his magnifying-glass. This instrument is so manipulated that when it is turned upon a brother we can see his faults greatly magnified, and all his goodness appears like a fading flower. But when used to look upon our own life, much to our gratification we see only our virtues greatly magnified, while our faults are so minimized that we consider them more to be commended than to be condemned. A recipe for all this virus of sin is the Lord’s prayer, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” or “Forgive, if ye have aught against any.” All who pray this prayer in sincerity do forgive, and thereby Satan with his cruel instrument of misrepresentations is rendered powerless.
“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” This life is a period of probation, and a school of tests to decide man’s fitness for eternity. “Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you.” David said, “I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart.” Selfishness unfits man to enjoy life, therefore God has wisely decreed that only those who prove to be capable of enjoying life can live through eternity. Luke 20: 35.
To test the children of Israel the Lord said, “I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.” Judges 2: 21, 22. God does not remove the objects of temptation, but he offers to man conquering power to meet the tempter, and to overcome him. Rev. 12: 10, 11. “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.” “Abandon us not, in trial, but deliver us from the evil,” is one translation of the text. In this we hand back to God the promise, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Heb. 13: 5.
“For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.” This, the greatest of all prayers, closes with the supreme crowning acknowledgment that all belongs to God,—the kingdom, its power, its glory, its riches, its subjects, are all God’s by creation and by redemption.
When Adam had sold himself and his kingdom for naught, Christ gave himself to redeem the lost. Isa. 52: 3. Christ stepped into Adam’s place, with all of man’s liabilities and disabilities resting upon him. In doing this Christ jeopardized the universe which he upholds. Heb. 1: 8. Man and his lost kingdom have been purchased with a price that can be estimated only by the infinite value of the life and existence of the Son of God and all he upheld; for had the second Adam failed, Christ and all the worlds he upheld would have gone down in the wreckage of failure and death.
Every one that prays, in the spirit as well as in the word, this prayer, will not knowingly withhold from God one iota of what he demands of his holy Sabbath day. Ex. 20: 8-11. Nor will he quibble over returning to God a tithe of his income as a token of his acknowledgment that Christ has paid an infinite price to redeem him and his lost possessions. 1 Cor. 6: 20; Lev. 27: 30; Mal. 3: 6-10. His life and all his talents will be at the service of Christ.
The power and glory all belong to God. David could say, “Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty:for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; . . . and thou art exalted as head above all.” 1 Chron. 29: 11.
There is nothing that mankind so universally covets as power. Man’s insane thirst and passion for power has led him to sacrifice time, money, and honor, and to commit every sin known in the decalogue, as well as every crime known to man, in the vain pursuit of power. In all this, man forgets that there is no power but of God. Christ says, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”
The sons of God are set for the work of revealing God’s power. “Thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.” Ps. 145: 10-12.
Power to subdue sin, power to keep the soul pure, power to vanquish the fear of man, is the power of an endless life, and is awaiting the demand of the remnant church. Acts 1: 8; Luke 10: 19. Wealth can not purchase it; royalty can not inherit it; intellectual culture and position can not secure it. The Holy Spirit alone can bestow the precious gift upon the trusty and trusting sons of God, who will take no glory to themselves.
“Thine is the glory.” This prayer gives no place for egotism, which is the rock that has wrecked the faith of millions. Self-glorification is supreme selfishness gone to seed. It is impossible for the man who worships himself or accepts the worship of others to have faith in God. “How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?” “He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.”
Let man join the loyal angels and the unfallen worlds in acclaiming, “Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.”
Mesopotamia, Ohio.

The Tithe

By Mrs. G. E. Kelly

MRS. G. E. KELLY
The more I consider the system that God has provided for the support of the ministers in his work, and compare it with the methods used by other churches for paying their ministry, the more beauty I see in the tithing system.
For instance: other denominations often send a minister to a sparsely settled district. The first thing after the opening services, he must make a plea for money, and then right after the benediction he must again urge the people to give. Consequently a damper is put on his work, for no matter how sincere he may be in his labor for souls, many feel that he comes only to beg. Many do not care to contribute toward his support. Others who are not able to pay are timid about going to the meetings. How very different would be the experience of these ministers if the denomination which they represent would follow God's plan!
So far as I know, Seventh-day Adventists are the only people who pay their ministers wholly from the tithe, and I have never yet seen one of our ministers obliged to appear in as shabby a garb as some from other churches. These workers find it far harder to keep a family than do our ministers. I refer, of course, to those who are willing to work in sparsely settled districts, leaving the luxurious city churches because of their love for souls. There are some such ones.
Sometimes it seems hard for us to pay our tithe, but by personal experience I have proved God in this matter. Two of my loved ones were stricken with an incurable disease. The burden of support fell upon my shoulders. Sometimes I did not see how I could spare my tithe, but when I paid it, the Lord usually gave me its equivalent. When faithful in giving the Lord his own, I got along very well. The blessing may not always come in dollars and cents, nor should we pay our tithe for that purpose; but it will come in some form, because God's word can not fail. Let us be faithful in this part of God's work.
Silcott, Wash.

“No More Sacrifice for Sins”

By JOHN N. QUINN

“A Certain Fearful Looking for of Judgment”

JOHN N. QUINN
Growing weary of the restraints imposed upon him by the worship of Jehovah, and allured by the service of Baal, in which the passions of the flesh may be fully gratified, a Hebrew decides that he no longer will bring his sacrifice for sin to God’s altar at Jerusalem. Turning away from God and his promises, and joining himself to the idolatrous worship of the sun, he experiences a sense of relief from restraint, and finds enjoyment in practises abhorrent to a God of purity.
Daily the sacrifices continue to be offered at the temple of Jehovah, and sin-burdened hearts find relief as they by faith behold in the sacrifice a type of the Lamb of God one day to be offered, and by which offering God will forever put an end to sin. Yet he who has joined himself to Baal has no part in these sacrifices; for him there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. When in sober moments he thinks of God and his holiness, there comes to him the conviction that he is a child of wrath, and a “fearful looking for of judgment” overwhelms his soul. He is an adversary of God, an enemy of righteousness. The burden of sin increases as the days go by, and, disappointed and dissatisfied with his experience, he returns to his native land. Providing himself a lamb without spot or blemish, he presents himself at the altar of brass, to which he may come with boldness. Laying his hands upon the innocent offering, he confesses his wanderings and his sins. As the slain lamb is offered, a personal sacrifice for him, God’s peace flows into his life. Sin’s burden and bitterness are gone. For him, the restored one, there remaineth a sacrifice for sin. He shares in the blessing of every offering, and he rejoices that he has passed from judgment to the certainty of eternal existence. The flesh is conquered; no longer does he chafe under the restraint of righteousness, but delights in the law of God after the inner man, the righteousness of the law being revealed in him by the Spirit of God.
To the person who despises the sacrifice of Calvary that sacrifice is unavailing; the future has for him nothing but wrath. If he continues to regard the blood of the Son of God as an unclean thing, and does despite unto the Spirit of grace, he will find it to be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
One of the most equitable laws of the Mosaic economy was that which established cities of refuge in various parts of the land of Palestine. The person who accidentally took the life of his fellow man, in order to escape the vengeance of the dead man’s relatives must run with all speed to one of these cities, and once inside the gates he was safe. To him there was no wrath so long as he remained in the city; and inside the city he must remain until the death of the high priest, when he was at liberty to return to his former manner of life. Should he despise the law governing the cities, and take his departure immediately, he was doomed. Go where he would, he was in fear and dread, not knowing when judgment would be inflicted upon him. To him there was indeed a fearful looking for of judgment, and this because he despised the law governing his safety.
Christ is the believer’s city of refuge; in him we are safe. The person who departs from Christ and remains away from him is doomed to everlasting destruction. Out of Christ, the future presents only terror, wrath, judgment. To continue to despise Jesus Christ and count his precious blood an unclean thing, is to perish eternally. You who read this, are you in Christ or are you out of Christ? In Christ, you are free from wrath; out of him, you are lost. Just now, ask God for the Holy Spirit, and then receive God’s gift, through which you can enter into Jesus Christ, who only can deliver you from the wrath to come.

At the Wharfside

By F. B. Meyer

SOME people are always telegraphing to heaven for God to send a cargo of blessing to them, but they are not at the wharfside to unload the vessel when it comes. How many of God’s richest blessings, for which you have been praying for years, have come right close to you, but you have not known how to lay hold of and use them? — F. B. Meyer.

G. B. STARR

By G. B. Starr

“By Faith”

G. B. STARR

THAT no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
The just, or righteous, begin their experience by faith, and live all the way by faith, and finish by faith. Righteousness is a state, or condition, attained not by works, but by faith. A righteous person can and does observe a righteous law, not in order to attain righteousness, but because he has attained it through faith, and his obedience is proof of his attainment.
Because sinners can not keep a righteous law is not against the law, but against the sinner. Therefore the law which would have witnessed to righteousness had man never sinned, now witnesses that all men have sinned. Rom. 3:19.
But this same law witnesses to the righteousness obtained through faith in Jesus Christ. But this it could not do and would not do were it not that the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who believe in Jesus Christ. Rom. 8: 3, 4.
This righteousness obtained by faith in Christ is witnessed by the law, even as the mirror witnesses to the changes wrought that the reflection showed ought to be wrought. James 2:23-25.
Righteousness is the very life and obedience of Christ working in the life of the believer. It works by love and purifies the heart.

Not by Feeling

The just live by faith, not by feeling. “We are not to make our feelings a test by which to discern whether we are in or out of favor with God.” As soon as one begins to contemplate his feelings, he is on dangerous ground. He is looking at himself and contemplating self, instead of looking away from self to Jesus. “We must educate the soul to trust in God’s Word with unswerving faith and confidence, and cease to hurt the heart of Christ by doubting his love.”
“Faith is the gift of God, but the power to exercise it is ours. If faith lies dormant, it is of no advantage to us; but in exercise, it holds all blessings in its grasp. It is the hand by which the soul takes hold of the strength of the Infinite. It is the medium by which human hearts, renewed by the grace of Christ, are made to beat in harmony with the great heart of love. Faith plants itself on the promises of God, and claims them as surety that he will do just as he said he would. Jesus comes to the sinful, helpless, needy souls, and says: ‘What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.’ Believe; claim the promises, and praise God that ye do receive the things ye have asked of him, and when your need is greatest, you will experience his blessing and receive special help and blessing, they look to themselves to see if their prayer is answered; and if they have a happy flight of feeling, they are satisfied. This is not faith, but unbelief. We should trust God, whether we experience any change of feeling or not. . . . Feeling is an unsafe guide, and those who depend upon it are in danger of imbibing heresy.”
The just do not live by feeling, but by faith, which triumphs over feelings and conquers in spite of them.
“As a faithful physician, the world’s Redeemer has his finger upon the pulse of the soul. He marks every beat; he takes note of every throb; not an emotion thrills it, not a sorrow shades it, not a sin stains it, not a thought nor a purpose passes through it, with which he is not acquainted. Man was purchased at an infinite cost, and is loved with a devotion exceeding that which a father feels for his child. The prayer that comes from a sincere heart will ever find a response in heaven.”

The Spirit by Faith

Many who recognize clearly that forgiveness of sin, and righteousness imputed and imparted, are obtained solely by faith without feeling, stumble at feeling when it comes to the gift of the Holy Spirit.
We believe we are forgiven because God has said, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
But when it comes to receiving the Holy Spirit, the very means God uses for cleansing from all unrighteousness and purifying the heart-springs and impulses, we hesitate. We consult our feelings instead of resting upon the promise that he is more willing to give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him than earthly parents are to give good gifts to their children; and instead of believing that he does it, we ask in unbelief, “If God is willing, why does he not give it to me, when I cry so earnestly for it?” For the very manifest reason that God can not and does not respond to unbelief. Instead of having implicit faith in the promise, and holding it fast by faith, and thus making it possible for God to give us his Spirit, we begin to think of tongues of fire, and various extraordinary emotions, and so examine our feelings, and take counsel with ourselves instead of resting upon the unchanging Word, and looking into the face of its Author, and opening the heart by faith to his working.
Christ died in order to make it possible for us to receive the Spirit by faith. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us . . . that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” Gal. 3: 13, 14.
“This promised blessing, claimed by faith, brings all other blessings in its train.” Shall we not, then, cease to look to our feelings, and as children of God claim by faith this much-needed blessing, and so open the long-closed avenues of heart and mind to the working of God’s Spirit in and through us?
Melrose, Mass.

Wax Worse and Worse

By G. B. THOMPSON

G. B. THOMPSON
Under the heading, “World at Its Worst To-Day,” the Washington Post of Dec. 2, 1912, prints the following:—
“‘Rome, in her worst days, never harbored such conditions of vice as are prevalent in our highest social circles at the present time,’ declared Bishop A. W. Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in a sermon here to-day.
“‘Never at any period of the world’s history,’ added Bishop Wilson, ‘have the moral strata been so thin or so low. The world is beset to-day with more insane theories and philosophies, more hypocritical creeds, than ever before.
“‘The advance of science and philosophy in the study of the infinite subjects connected with the creation of the earth is imperiling the religious welfare of the world. Scientific process will never disclose the hidden secrets of the universe. The mystery which passeth the understanding will not be unfolded by the hand of man through the application of philosophy.’”
On the same date the Washington Times, in reporting an address to the Young Women’s Christian Association by Dr. Howard A. Kelly, the famous surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., credits the doctor with the following:—
“‘The social evil is more wide-spread, more menacing to-day than it has ever been before. It claims its victims by the countless thousands. A terrible toll of innocent children is being taken yearly in our cities, Washington as well as elsewhere, for purposes that I should not dare even to hint to you.’”
“‘Dr. Kelly declared that under the surface the conditions are too horrible to portray, and conditions are continually becoming worse.’”
The statements quoted are not pleasant pictures to look at; but with gunmen, boodlers, municipal, State, and national corruption in legislative halls and courts; with deeds of violence, of the most revolting nature of almost daily occurrence, we are forced, most regretfully, to admit that the picture is literally true to life.
“‘Evil men and seducers’ are indeed waxing ‘worse and worse.’ While in hygiene and sanitary science, in humane and philanthropic enterprises, and many things in the line of ethical culture, the world has made great advancement, none of these things can check the ravage of sin in the human heart, and sin is what is troubling the world.
The only remedy is the final blotting out of sin at the coming of the Lord. And we rejoice that this event hastens greatly.
Takoma Park, D. C.
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