Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 32. (8/8/1912)

Review and Herald

Aug 8, 1912

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DWELL DEEP

By Ernest G. Wellesley-Wesley

Dwell deep, O my soul, in the love-depths divine; In the depths of God's love there is peace. Dwell deep, hour by hour, where God's fulness is thine; From all care, in the depths, is release.

Dwell deep, O my soul; in the depths there is rest, In that rest there is freedom from care. Dwell deep, and thy life mid all sorrow is blest, For the Lord all thy burden shall share.

Dwell deep, far below the wild rage of the gale, Far beneath the onrush of the wave. Dwell deep in the calm where no blast can assail; From all strife, in the depths, He doth save.

Dwell deep, O my soul; in the depths, deeper yet, Where with thee He communeth alone. Dwell deep; all thy pain and thy anguish forget In the love-rest He gives to "His own." — Selected.

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"Evening, and Morning, and at Noon"

By Worthie Harris Holden

"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." Ps. 55:17.

IN the gloaming, when the darkness Veils the labors of the day, Hush my soul to solemn silence, Steal its anxious care away. While I seek Thee in communion Speak, O Lord, a message sweet, Till my heart o'erflows in praises, Bowing at the Master's feet.

When the day awakes in gladness, And its toil makes urgent plea, Ope my eyes to see thy mercies Every morn renewed to me. Thou, who in the night ne'er slumbered, Art my guardian Shepherd kind, And thy right arm will uphold me Through the task thy love assigned.

When the sun invests the zenith Mid the noontide's fervid heat, Lure my soul to find refreshment 'Neath thy blessed prayer retreat. Here my languid spirit strengthen To pursue its onward way, Till I bind its sheaf of service With the vespers of the day.

Portland, Oregon.

A Faithful Under-Shepherd

By Ellen G. White

(Concluded) MRS. E. G. WHITE

Looking forward with prophetic vision to the perilous times into which the church of Christ was to enter, the apostle exhorted the believers to steadfastness in the face of trial and suffering. "Beloved," he wrote, "think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you."

Trial is part of the education given in the school of Christ, to purify God's children from the dross of earthliness. It is because God is leading his children, that trying experiences come to them. Trials and obstacles are his chosen methods of discipline, and his appointed conditions of success. He who reads the hearts of men knows their weaknesses better than they themselves can know them. He sees that some have qualifications which, if rightly directed, could be used in the advancement of his work. In his providence he brings these souls into different positions and varied circumstances, that they may discover the defects that are concealed from their own knowledge. He gives them opportunity to overcome these defects, and to fit themselves for service. Often he permits the fires of affliction to burn, that they may be purified.

God's care for his heritage is unceasing. He suffers no affliction to come upon his children but such as is essential for their present and eternal good. He will purify his church, even as Christ purified the temple during his ministry on earth. All that he brings upon his people in test and trial comes that they may gain deeper piety and greater strength to carry forward the triumphs of the cross.

There had been a time in Peter's experience when he was unwilling to see the cross in the work of Christ. When the Saviour made known to the disciples his impending sufferings and death, Peter exclaimed, "Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee." Self-pity, which shrank from fellowship with Christ in suffering, prompted Peter's remonstrance. It was to the disciple a bitter lesson, and one which he learned but slowly, that the path of Christ on earth lay through agony and humiliation. But in the heat of the furnace fire he was to learn its lesson. Now, when his once active form was bowed with the burden of years and labors, he could write, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."

Addressing the church elders regarding their responsibilities as under-shepherds of God's flock, the apostle wrote: "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."

Those who occupy the position of under-shepherds are to exercise a watchful diligence over the Lord's flock. This is not to be a dictatorial vigilance, but one that tends to encourage and strengthen and uplift. Ministry means more than sermonizing; it means earnest, personal labor. The church on earth is composed of erring men and women, who need patient, painstaking effort that they may be trained and disciplined to work with acceptance in this life, and in the future life to be crowned with glory and immortality. Pastors are needed—faithful shepherds—who will not flatter God's people, nor treat them harshly, but who will feed them with the bread of life,—men who in their lives feel daily the converting power of the Holy Spirit, and who cherish a strong, unselfish love toward those for whom they labor.

There is tactful work for the under-shepherd to do as he is called to meet alienation, bitterness, envy, and jealousy in the church, and he will need to labor in the spirit of Christ to set things in order. Faithful warnings are to be given, sins rebuked, wrongs made right, not only by the minister's work in the pulpit, but by personal labor. The wayward heart may take exception to the message, and the servant of God may be misjudged and criticized. Let him then remember that "the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."

The work of the gospel minister is "to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God." If one entering upon this work chooses the least self-sacrificing part, contenting himself with preaching, and leaving the work of personal ministry for some one else, his labors will not be acceptable to God. Souls for whom Christ died are perishing for want of well-directed, personal

labor; and he has mistaken his calling who, entering upon the ministry, is unwilling to do the personal work that the care of the flock demands.

The spirit of the true shepherd is one of self-forgetfulness. He loses sight of self in order that he may work the works of God. By preaching of the word and by personal ministry in the homes of the people, he learns their needs, their sorrows, their trials; and, cooperating with the great Burden-bearer, he shares their afflictions, comforts their distresses, relieves their soul-hunger, and wins their hearts to God. In this work the minister is attended by the angels of heaven, and he himself is instructed and enlightened in the truth that maketh wise unto salvation.

In connection with his instruction to those in positions of trust in the church, the apostle outlined some general principles that were to be followed by all who were associated in church fellowship. The younger members of the flock were urged to follow the example of their elders in the practise of Christlike humility. "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith."

Thus Peter wrote to the believers at a time of peculiar trial to the church. Many had already become partakers of Christ's sufferings, and soon the church was to undergo a period of terrible persecution. Within a few brief years many of those who had stood as teachers and leaders in the church were to lay down their lives for the gospel. Soon grievous wolves were to enter in, not sparing the flock. But none of these things were to bring discouragement to those believers whose hopes were centered in Christ. With words of encouragement and good cheer Peter directed the minds of the believers from present trials and future scenes of suffering "to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away." "The God of all grace," he fervently prayed, "who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."

"An Almond-Tree"

By Ernest Lloyd

ERNEST LLOYD

BECAUSE of its blossoming the earliest of any of the trees, and before it is in leaf, the almond has its Hebrew name shaked, from a verb signifying to make haste, to watch, to wake early. Thus when the prophet (Jer. 1:11) is shown the "rod of an almond-tree" (awaking rod), God means to indicate to him by it that, as this tree makes haste to bud, so he would hasten his judgment on the people.

'There is here,' says Blayney, 'at once an allusion to the property of the almond-tree, and in the original a paronomasia, which makes it more striking there than it can be in a translation. It was a practise in early times to place an object for an idea, having the same sound. Thus, in the Pentateuch the word for unleavened bread is a noun signifying a going forth, or out of, derived from the verb to go forth. In like manner, when Solomon, speaking of an old man (Eccl. 12:5), says the almond-tree shall flourish, he intends to express it by the quickness with which old age surprises us; while the snow-white blossoms upon the bare boughs of the tree aptly illustrate the hoary head and the defenseless state of old age.'

The almond was regarded by the Jews as a welcome harbinger of spring, reminding them that the winter was passing away, that the flowers would soon appear on the earth, that the time of the singing of birds was come, and the voice of the turtle would soon be heard in the land. Cant. 2:11, 12. The word shaked, therefore, was a beautiful and fitting synonym for the almond-tree which 'hastened' to put forth its blossoms. The knowledge of this interesting fact will explain this otherwise unintelligible passage in Jeremiah. Aaron's rod that so miraculously budded, yielded almonds; and the Jews now carry boughs of flowering almond to the synagogues, on great feast-days, just as the Jews of old used to present palm branches in the temple. The almond was also the model of the ornaments of the candlestick in the tabernacle, suggesting the 'quickening' influence of the Holy Spirit.

'I will hasten [shaked] my word to perform it.' The Lord desires to encourage us as he did Jeremiah, with his unfailing promise of speedy assistance in carrying a 'heavy message' to the people—'touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.' We live in 'a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy.' 'The foundations of the earth are out of course,' and 'if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?'—They can remember that 'the Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven;' that 'the Lord trieth the righteous;' and they cry to him from whom cometh all help: 'Help, Lord, . . . for the faithful fail from among the children of men.' He is the unfailing Friend of his people. His name is 'a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.' 'I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.' 'The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.'

'Once more the King of kings, and Lord of lords, may be looking down upon his beleaguered church, and saying, 'Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat;' and once more may every 'good soldier of Jesus Christ' hear that comforting, assuring, courage-giving word from the 'Captain of our salvation,' 'I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.' Though the church be sifted 'like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.'' 'The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth [shaked] greatly.' 'And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.' 'God shall help, . . . and that right early' (shaked). Praise ye the Lord.

Pasadena, Cal.

What Brother Jones Did

By C. H. Bliss

C. H. BLISS

It was spring-time. The weather had become warm, and I began to look around for a good locality in which to pitch my tent for a series of tent-meetings.

I had heard of an aged Brother Jones who lived in a small village about fifty miles south of me, and who was anxious for one of our ministers to visit his town. Thinking I might find a good opening there for our work, I decided to pay him a visit. The next Monday morning I started on my journey. Being a stranger to this brother, I decided to know something of him before going to his home. On arriving at the place, I entered a store and inquired of the proprietor if he knew a man in town by the name of Jones. "You mean that Seventh-day Advent, I presume?" "Yes," I said. "Well," said he, "you'll find him at the west end of Ball Street, in a small white cottage." "Thank you. Now pardon me," I said, "but would you kindly tell me what kind of man he is?" "Sure," he said, "he's all right. He's a poor man, but you can depend on what he says. I'd trust him as quick as I would our banker." As I left the store, I overheard the clerk remark, "I'll bet that fellow has an 'ax to grind.'" Indeed I had, but not of the kind he thought. A week later our tent was pitched, and the word went out that "Jones's preacher has come."

The first week of our meeting the attendance was small. However, a little later, our tent was well filled every evening with an interested audience. After about eight weeks of earnest labor, a company of twenty-five or thirty had accepted our faith. This company was later organized into a church, and Brother Jones was elected elder; for he had "a good report of them which are without."

Years ago this good old brother was laid to rest, but his works still follow him. This church has ever been a live, growing one, and each year witnesses some addition to its membership.

Now a report of this meeting was sent to our church paper, and many of our brethren said, "See what Brother Bliss has done!" But God said, "See what Brother Jones did!"

Peoria, Ill.

Editorial

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Distress of Nations With Perplexity

THERE have been but few if any periods of earth's history when there have not existed in some degree distressing and perplexing conditions. The Scriptures of truth indicate, however, that as we near the close of time, this distress and perplexity will become greatly intensified; men will look with grim foreboding into the future, not knowing the outcome of the situation confronting them, and with but little hope of better days. The careful student of human events and of present-day conditions must feel impressed that this time in the history of mankind has been reached. We see to-day as never before, and in an intensified degree, distress of nations with perplexity. Luke 21:25-27.

This distress and perplexity arises from two sources, external causes and internal conditions. Notwithstanding the international treaties that have been formed, the international peace congresses held, and the arbitration boards and commissions to which are referred many questions of dispute, it can not be denied that the great political international situation is an extremely critical one. As never before, the nations of men are jealously vying with one another in their effort at territorial expansion, and in their race for commercial advantage.

The leading nations of earth are no longer isolated. They exist as world powers in that their shipping traverses every sea, and their operations extend to every land. Each is fearful that its neighbor will obtain some advantage not enjoyed by it. In consequence, for the protection of its interests, each nation feels that it must maintain a large standing army, or an army reserve, and an aggressive and efficient navy. The very pursuits of peace, as they are conducted to-day, tend to political entanglements and national rivalries and jealousies. A glance at the political situation existing at the present time is sufficient to indicate the sensitive relations which now exist. The spirit of revolution in Mexico is still far from suppressed. The political upheaval has resulted in many complications, and much suffering to thousands of the inhabitants. The same spirit of uprising has been manifested in Cuba. In the Old World, crisis succeeds crisis in international affairs of the European states. Great Britain has but just emerged from a great industrial conflict, and at the present time there is but little feeling of security in the continuance of the adjustment that has been made. With the plottings of the monarchy against the new government of Portugal, its stability can hardly be regarded as assured.

There continues to be much war talk in the two countries regarding the probability of conflict between Great Britain and Germany. The same is true regarding the relations existing between Japan and the United States. Rumor will have it that Japan is seeking the acquisition of territory in the New World with sinister motives. The recent death of the Japanese emperor, with the coming to the throne of a new and comparatively young and untried ruler, injects into the political situation a new element of danger in the preservation of the world's peace balance.

In France and Spain the mutterings of discontent, which indicate the smoldering fires under the surface, are everywhere apparent. The war between Italy and Turkey still drags wearily on with but little advantage thus far to either contestant, a continual menace to the peace and safety of all Europe, as is recognized by every European court. Poor China, suffering the horrors of revolution, the tortures of famine, and the devastation of plague, is still struggling for greater civil liberty, and for a stable form of government. Thus we might continue throughout the sisterhood of nations. The political atmosphere is charged with intensity, and no statesman can determine what readjustment of present political conditions will result in the fearful clash of armies and in the terrible conflict which every one feels in his own heart is inevitable, even though by diplomatic statesmanship it may be averted for the present.

The same spirit is seen in the more domestic phases of national life. The mad rush for wealth, for political power, for social position, has engendered in every nation the same elements of discontent. Labor, instead of being the handmaid of capital, has become in many instances its sworn enemy. The secret gilds of society are doing their deadly work in undermining the social and political fabric. Burdensome taxation, the high cost of living, the corruption existing in municipal, state, and national affairs,—these and kindred ills have served to foment the spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction.

What the outcome will be no human sage or philosopher is able to predict. The Scriptures of truth, however, indicate that these conditions are signs of the times in which we are living. These conditions are recognized by many, and efforts are being made to remedy them. However futile such efforts prove, they may serve to delay for the present the inevitable outcome, and such efforts we should aid as far as consistent and possible. But above all, we should be advised by these conditions which surround us, of what is coming upon the earth. Their language has but one meaning, but one import. They betoken the ineffectiveness and the breaking up of human systems of government, the passing away of this world and all that pertains to it. They proclaim the inability of man to become his own savior, the weakness of human legislation in coping with degenerate human nature; and above all, they indicate that the long dark reign of sin is about to end, and that a better day, a day of righteousness and peace, will be ushered in.

F. M. W.

A Test of Loyalty

By C. M. S.

It is a fact that there is no divine command for the keeping of Sunday as a sabbath. It is a fact that there is no divine command for the keeping of any day as a sabbath, save only the seventh day of the week. Candid Christians are now admitting these facts, while still they cling to the Sunday institution, hoping that their careful observance of this other day will be accepted by the Giver of the Sabbath in place of the day which he appointed and blessed for that purpose.

When God established the Sabbatical institution, he had a purpose in view. That purpose is well stated in the record of the establishment of the institution. "And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made." Gen. 2:2, 3.

Americans have set apart the fourth day of July as Independence day, because on that day independence was declared. No man has yet arisen with sufficient temerity or self-assertiveness to advise that we celebrate independence on the fourth day of any other month, or on any other day of that month.

Some of the States have set apart certain days which they designate as admission

day, commemorating the accomplished fact of their admission into the Union. No one thinks of changing the celebration to some other day.

Once in every year a day rolls around which each person looks upon as the anniversary of his birth; and very frequently his friends remember it with him and help him celebrate it. We never heard of any one celebrating his birth on any other day than the actual anniversary of that occasion.

The reason that no attempt is ever made to change these celebrations is that they commemorate accomplished facts. The facts can not be changed; therefore no one ever thinks of trying to alter the day of their celebration. Now let us look again at God's own reason for the establishment of a Sabbath. "On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made."

There is an accomplished fact, accomplished by Jehovah himself; and there is the particular day which he set apart to commemorate that event. He not only set it apart for that purpose, but he "hallowed" it, he "blessed the seventh day," "because that in it he rested." Now man, who will not presume to change even the commemorative days of merely human accomplishments, has dared to attempt to change the Sabbatical institution from the day that commemorates God's rest and a completed creation to a day which commemorates nothing of the kind. Man has sought to change the celebration from the day which was blessed, hallowed, sanctified, by Jehovah himself, to a day upon which no blessing of Jehovah has ever rested.

The blessing which God pronounced upon the seventh day has never been withdrawn by the One who only could withdraw it. The command to keep that day has never been repealed by the One who alone has the authority to repeal it. The law of which that command is a part has been declared by Jehovah himself to be a perpetual law; and being a perpetual law, every precept of it must be perpetual. Not only that, but God has never appointed any other day to take the place of the true Sabbath, or to take a place alongside it to divide Sabbatical honors with it.

God pronounced a blessing not only upon the Sabbath, but also upon those who would keep it. Isa. 58:13, 14. Christ enjoyed that blessing; for he kept that day and taught his followers the unchanging obligation of the Sabbath of the decalogue in these words: "It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16:17. Heaven and earth have not yet passed away; therefore the law of God still stands. In the midst of that law stands the Sabbath—and it still stands.

It is useless to seek to ease our conscience while disobeying that command, and claim to be obeying the command in spirit while keeping another day. We do not thus play fast and loose with mere human institutions. And surely God's commands and institutions are not of such insignificant importance that we can put our own desires and inclinations in the place of them with the assurance that God will accept them at our hands in the place of obedience. If we choose that course rather than the course which he has set for us, we may know of a surety that one day God will ask of us the embarrassing question, "Who hath required this at your hand?" That question was asked of old of one who had forsaken the law of God (Isa. 1:10-20). The people had set up institutions of their own, and made sacrifices while walking in disobedience to the commands of God; and he tells them in the most straightforward language that all these substitutions are as nothing in his sight; that obedience to his requirements is the essential thing. God's test, as there expressed, is, "If ye be willing and obedient."

We can not substitute human institutions for God's institutions, and have that substitution approved by him. Christ says, "Every plant which my Heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up." Matt. 15:13. No one can rightly claim that God or Jesus Christ established the Sunday sabbath. It will be rooted up by the Father himself. How much better to be yielding allegiance to God in the observance of his requirements than to be placing our trust in a human institution, knowing, as we must if we believe his Word, that such a course can not have his approval. Only by obedience can we prove our allegiance.

C. M. S.

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