p. 16 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 24. (6/12/1900)

LIVING FOUNTAINS OR BROKEN CISTERNS

By Prof. E. A. Sutherland

AN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM FOR PROTESTANTS.

BY PROF. E. A. SUTHERLAND.

In this volume is considered that greatest of all problems, the education of our children and youth. It contains the history of the two systems of education, Pagan and Christian.

The cause of the failure and apostasy of Israel, the early church, the Reformers, and modern Protestants, also the weakness of the remnant church, can be traced to no other source, and accounted for on no other grounds than the Pagan methods and wrong principles of education instilled into the minds and hearts of the children and youth of past ages and the present generation.

Would you know and understand the true principles of Christian Education for to-day? Secure at once a copy of “Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns, an Educational Problem for Protestants.” Read it, and ponder its teachings in your heart. It contains about 380 pages, printed from new type, substantially bound in cloth. Price, $1.25.

Address your tract society, or the—

REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO.,

Also the PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., Oakland, Cal. BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH., May 29, 1905.

I have read the MS. of Prof. E. A. Sutherland’s new book, “Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns, an Educational Problem for Protestants,” and I am convinced that it is the book for our churches and our schools. Everyone who reads the book must be convinced that there are now two systems of education: one Christian and the other Pagan; the one leading to the knowledge of God, and the other to doubt or infidelity.

L. A. HOOPER, Sec. Gen. Conf.

Church Elders, Librarians, also Sabbath-School Superintendents and Teachers.

Would you have a growing church and an interesting Sabbath-School? You should watch the columns of the 15th page of the REVIEW AND HERALD, our church paper, and see that your members and students are supplied with all our books, pamphlets, tracts, and Sabbath-School helps,

A QUESTION

For the Consideration of Sabbath-School Superintendents, Officers, and Teachers.

Is your school supplied with No. 162 of the Bible Students’ Library, entitled “The Glad Tidings,” by Elder E. J. Waggoner?

It is a verse-by-verse treatise of the book of Galatians, and will be used as a help, or aid, in the study of the Sabbath-School Lessons on the book of Galatians, beginning July 1, 1900, and continuing eight months. You should place your order early with your tract society, or with the—

REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO., Battle Creek, Mich., or THE PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., OAKLAND, Cal.

America’s Policy Dilemma in China

It is admitted in Washington that “if breach of the peace comes through unexpected Russian aggression, or if the dismemberment of the Chinese Empire becomes imminent, the United States will be placed in a most serious and embarrassing dilemma. On the one side will be our traditional policy of non-interference; on the other, the fact that the United States is now the greatest power bordering on the Pacific Ocean, an Asiatic power, too, through sovereignty over the Philippines, and in the ‘open-door’ pledges” exacted by this nation. Already “there is some disappointment among the diplomats representing European powers here, because the United States has so far declined to join the tacit alliance” of Britain, Japan, and Germany. And “the friends of the American missionaries in the disturbed zone in China are becoming alarmed, and the State Department is beginning to feel the pressure of their efforts to adopt an aggressive policy.”

LATER.—The latest word before going to press is that the United States minister in China was instructed by the State Department at Washington, last Friday, “to act concurrently with the diplomatic representatives of the other powers to-morrow and thereafter;” but it is also “intimated to him that the traditional policy of the American government to act independently must be observed wherever it is practicable.” Just how it may be practicable for the United States thus to play fast and loose without getting overwhelmingly entangled, is not yet explained. However, time will explain all that.

Affairs in China

AFFAIRS in China are in a very critical condition; and it is held that Russia is at the bottom of the whole trouble.

Russia Seeks the Lead in China

Russia is so anxious to get the lead in China that her representative there has actually asked China to ask Russia to help her.

The Army Reduction Debate

THE Oregonian, an administration paper, says: “All talk about reducing the army to the old dimensions is arrant nonsense; and everybody who voted for the Army bill a year ago knew it then as well as he does now.”

Japan Prevents Russia’s Landing at Taku

RUSSIA was about to land a large force at Taku; but Japan objected, and the project was not carried out. It is of immense advantage to Britain and Germany to have Japan so close to the pivot of action in the East.

Russia in China

AGAINST Russia in China, stand united Japan, Germany, and Britain. “Against the naval and military forces of these powers, Russia can not contend in the far East,” and it is supposed that she will not yet dare to go to the length of an actual break.

Sowing for Physical and Spiritual Health

By Editor

The series promised to begin in Home and Health department this week—“Sowing for Physical and Spiritual Health”—will be found on the page preceding the Home and Health department. All things considered, this arrangement was finally decided to be the best.

Elder H. P. Holser Reaches Battle Creek

ELDER H. P. HOLSER and family reached Battle Creek, Friday, June 1. Though very weak when he started from Egypt, he gained strength every day of the eighteen days he was on the sea. He has gone to Colorado, and there is good ground for hope, and surely we all do hope, that he will so regain his health as to be spared to the work an indefinite time yet. The address of Elder Holser and his family is Boulder, Colo.

Russian Plot in China

WASHINGTON correspondence says that the Russian plot in China “was to stir up the anti-foreign elements of the population, and under cover of disorder, to land Russian troops, which should forever remain in the Chinese capital;” and from this “gradually to extend her suzerainty over the empire” through the connivance of the empress dowager, who is “under the thumb of Russia,” and “bitterly hates the Germans and the English.” But it is this plot failed to work as planned, because the “Boxers” went far beyond the bounds planned, which required that troops of all the powers should be landed.

The Peace of the World

It is worthy of note that just as the weight of Britain’s task in South Africa ended, the outbreak in China calls for the attention of all the powers. And it is now seen that “at this very moment the good understanding effected last year between Berlin and London is serving as a guarantee of the peace of the world.”

Russian Influence in China

ONE of the most reliable of the Washington correspondents says that though it is hardly expected that the crisis in China will result in war just now, “there is general fear that Russian influence is securing such a foothold at Peking that in the future the patience and firmness of the powers must needs be exerted to the utmost if the Russianization of China is to be averted. Virtual dismemberment of the empire, with Russia in a position to demand and probably secure the lion’s share of the spoils, is feared by every student of the far Eastern situation.”

Archbishop Kain and Vice-Presidential Prospects

In the Detroit News-Tribune, Sunday, May 27, the Washington staff correspondent of that paper, reporting vice-presidential prospects of the coming campaign, under date of “May 26,” says: “Senator Hanna, General Grosvenor, R. C. Kerens, the national committeeman from Missouri, and Archbishop Kain, had a conference at length, in the vice-president’s room this afternoon.” This Mr. R. C. Kerens is the same one through whom Archbishop Ireland dictated terms to the National Convention at St. Louis in 1896. It appears that this time the will of the archbishops is to be ascertained beforehand. This will save the trouble of revising during convention.

The London Times on China

THE London Times, discussing the situation in China, says: “It is our duty to take the lead in any action that ‘may be needed;’ and we should rejoice to do so in company with our American kinsfolk.”

Missionaries and the Use of Force

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Times, referring to the movement made by the United States government to collect by force, and the urgent demand of the missionaries and churches that the government shall collect by force, the $88,000 damages for ill treatment of the missionaries in Turkey, very pointedly remarks: “I wonder if those missionaries who favor the use of force, in the event of the sultan’s refusing to pay, have ever read the Biblical injunction, ‘And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other’?”

The Marshaling of the Nations

If you have a copy of “The Marshaling of the Nations,” with its fine double-page colored map of the dominions of the great powers, you have the means to a good understanding of the far Eastern question as it stands just now, hourly threatening to involve the world in war. That pamphlet was written, and that map was made, for just this time; and for just these things that are occurring, and those things that will occur, in that region, until the end. Would you be informed, and be intelligent upon this “world-problem”? Then be sure to get at once “The Marshaling of the Nations.” It costs but ten cents. Address Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.

Christlicher Hausfreund Religious Liberty Special

By Editor

THE Christlicher Hausfreund has issued a “special number” on religious liberty. It is filled with present truth that will be especially appreciated by Germans everywhere. We hope our English-speaking brethren, as well as the German, will take an interest in distributing it. Many of our English-speaking brethren have German neighbors who have not had an opportunity to receive the Third Angel’s Message in their own tongue. Here is an excellent opportunity to do them good. Please see that they have a copy of the Christlicher Hausfreund—Extra. It has sixteen pages. Single copy, 5 cents; less, according to quantity. Address your tract society, or Christlicher Hausfreund, Battle Creek, Mich.

Order Midsummer Good Health

WHERE is your order for Midsummer Good Health? Won’t you send it the coming week? You should not fail to buy it for yourself, and sell at least twenty-five to your neighbors. It will contain a long article by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, entitled “Hydrotherapeutic Measures Appropriate to Summer.” Sixty-four pages of solid reading-matter, twenty-nine illustrations. Single copies, ten cents; five or more, five cents each. Order through your tract society, or from Good Health Publishing Company.

NOTICE!

By Editor

ARRANGEMENTS have been made with Brother Benton Colver thoroughly to canvass Battle Creek and vicinity for the Training School Advocate and other educational literature which should be in the possession of every Seventh-day Adventist. We trust he may receive a cordial reception, and that consideration will be given to the work he is doing.