A Movement within the Papal Church — Similar to Federating Protestantism — Its Parallel in the Fourth Century Was a Prelude to the Tyrannies of the Dark Ages
Several weeks ago Elder Porter had an article on Protestant federation and its meaning. We are also publishing some five articles by Elder Wilkinson on the same subject. They have shown how the federation of Protestantism is reaching across the chasm to clasp hands with the papacy. In his articles this week and next, Elder Porter calls attention to the federation of the various Catholic orders, and how they in turn are manifesting a disposition to combine with Protestants for the enforcement of “civic righteousness,” Sunday observance, etc. Yet, while willing to combine, the most outspoken of the Catholic orders make clear their intention that they should be at the head. The importance of these topics can not be overestimated, and the articles merit more than ordinary study.
Editor.
An American Federation of Catholic Societies was organized in Cincinnati, Ohio, in April, 1901. Its object was declared to be to bring in “civic righteousness.” Since that time, the society has made marvelous advancement.
Their Principles Reaffirmed
Its fifth annual convention was held in Convention Hall, Buffalo, New York, from July 29 to August 1, 1906. It was a representative gathering of Catholics, and its official utterances should receive attention from thinking people. Its officially expressed aims were at that convention reaffirmed, and were declared to be to establish “civic righteousness, God in the home, the school, and the nation.”
The Catholic Union and Times is authority for the statement that the fight against unlimited divorce, intemperance, and socialism, and for the regulation of capital and labor and the Sabbath, is a “patriotic undertaking in which Catholic and non-Catholic may join hands.”
Federation to Bring Righteousness
In an address before this convention, Bishop Canevin said: “Federation properly worked out would bring righteousness to the nation. . . . Against this unnecessary labor, this atheistic profanation of the Lord’s day, . . . this federation should resolutely use its power in civic as well as in social and private life. . . . To carry out the purpose of this association, every force of religious activity, pastors and people, bishops, priests, and laymen, must be solidly united with one voice and act with one will for God and our country.”
If Catholics and Protestants Should Unite
Bishop McFaul said: “I say to you that if Catholics and Protestants should unite to do something, there is no great wrong in this country that we can not right. . . . It has been an epoch-making congress. We feel now that we have got this federation on a basis that will eventually reach out to every Catholic in the United States.”
Eucharistic Congresses and What They Mean
The Eucharistic Congress held in Montreal, Canada, September 6, 1910, was another epoch-making congress. Its purpose was to exalt the eucharistic bread and the pope. This was set forth in the following excerpt taken from a letter of the pope appointing Cardinal Vannutelli papal legate to represent the pope in the congress: “By this public manifestation the eucharistic bread, unhampered by space and division, will bind together the land which the seas separate, stimulate distant nations to proclaim and vindicate the glory of God the Saviour, and to honor with due loyalty and submission the center of Christian unity, to wit, Christ’s vicar on earth.”
The legate made the exaltation of the eucharist and of the pope the key-note of his opening address.
“Europe extends her hand to America; and this continent, in her sublime favor, unites with the Old World to exalt together the greatest of the sacraments, under the supreme direction and with the encouragement of the supreme pastor of the church. . . . Then the universal pastor, taking under his charge these new and immense spiritual domains, will show to an astonished universe the Old and the New World realizing before the human race the universality of the church foreshadowed by our Saviour and His apostles. . . . It [the present congress] unites for the first time the Old and the New World in solemn praise of the eucharist.”
In the Catholic federation movement, we see a perfect counterpart of the Protestant federation movement, with the exception that the Catholic federation seeks, through the eucharist, to exalt the pope to his former position of universal authority.
Similarity to Fourth Century Movements
When one sees Protestantism extending her hand across the gulf that for more than three centuries has separated between Protestantism and Catholicism, one is inclined to query, “Have Protestants forgotten Rome’s history?” For more than a thousand years, Rome’s principles on individual liberty and enforced religion were written with the blood of martyrs.
These federation movements remind the student of history of the church councils of the fourth century. The church council in Carthage, A. D. 401, petitioned that shows might be transferred to some other day than Sunday, because “the theater was often vastly more frequented than the church.” The law was enacted, in response to church petitions, in 425 A. D.
Sozomen says that Sunday laws were urged in order “that the day might be devoted, with less interruption, to the purposes of devotion.” This was the “civic righteousness” federation movement of the fourth century. It was a “reform movement.” It was not only a “reform movement,” but a “world-wide reform movement.” It was as harmless in the statement of its purpose, and as zealous for the good of the people religiously, as are the great federation movements of to-day; but once started, there was no stopping place. All must obey the laws enacted by that federation, or suffer the penalties.
Constantine and His Various Sunday Laws
In A. D. 321 Constantine, as a sun-worshipper, enacted the first recorded Sunday law, requiring the observance of “the venerable day of the sun.” Two years later, he professed conversion to the Catholic faith, and afterward enforced the same day as a Christian institution.
Not Easy to Enforce
The early Christian church were keepers of the seventh-day Sabbath. To enforce upon men of deep Christian conviction the observance of religious rites borrowed from heathenism was not easy. But the issue was on. It must be met. The next step was legislation against Sabbath observance. That was Satan’s purpose in this whole federation movement. He must work up to it gradually, and under cover of civic reform, lest the people should discern his purpose and revolt at his audacious designs against the work and worship of God.
But in the great church council of Laodicea, A. D. 364, it was enacted that “Christians shall not Judaize, and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall specially honor.” (Can. 29, Hefele’s “History of the Church Councils.”)
The reign of terror that prevailed for centuries was the result of the fourth century church federation’s attempt to coerce the consciences of the early church into Sunday observance under the guise of civic reform. Martyrs to the apostolic faith fell by millions during the centuries of conflict between faith and federation.
The Author of Civic Righteousness
St. Augustine, a prominent churchman, introduced the “civic righteousness” reform theory in the fourth century federation movement as follows: “It is indeed better that men should be brought to serve God by instruction than by fear of punishment or by pain. But because427the former means are better, the latter must not therefore be neglected. . . . Many must often be brought back to their Lord like wicked servants by the rod of temporal suffering before they attain the highest grade of religious development.”—Schaff’s “Church History,” volume 2, section 27.
On this theory of conversion by coercion, Neander, one of the greatest of church historians, says, “It was by Augustine, then, that a theory was proposed and founded, which . . . contained the germ of that whole system of spiritual despotism, of intolerance and persecution, which ended in the tribunals of the Inquisition.”
Civic Righteousness and Persecution
The fourth century church federation, in its attempt to develop “civic righteousness,” determined that all must be converted. If they would become converted to all of the church federation dogmas without coercion, that was better; if not, they must suffer penalties until they accepted them. The rack, the thumbscrew, red-hot pincers, and all of the horrible tortures of the Inquisition followed.
Both the Protestant and the Catholic federation are now starting out to convert men by civil enactments, which later must be enforced by penalties, causing the revival of the Inquisition as certainly as like causes produce like results. The cheek of every true Protestant and patriot should blush with shame, as he sees his enlightened fellow Protestants and patriots following the trail of the old serpent into the false and fatal view of the kingdom of God which has repeatedly wrecked Christianity and blighted the finer sensibilities of statesmen.
Any one can see the truth of the statement of the twentieth United States Congress, whose Senate Committee, when reporting adversely on a proposed Sunday bill, said: “Extensive religious combinations to effect a political object are, in the opinion of the committee, always dangerous. . . . All religious despotism commences by combination and influence; and when that influence begins to operate upon the political institutions of the country, the civil power soon bends under it; and the catastrophe of other nations furnishes an awful warning of the consequences.” “Our Constitution recognizes no other power than that of persuasion for enforcing religious observance.”
The Papacy Still Intolerant
Protestants who are courting the papacy for the furtherance of the ends sought by their federation movement, are likely to think that Rome has greatly changed as the result of the work done by the Protestant Reformation; but in the 1906 Catholic Church Federation Council, the Rev. Mr. Kelly said: “If we were more intolerant, this would be a better country. We want intolerance of the right kind.” The intolerance of the papacy has always been regarded by her clergy as of the right kind.
In the year 1910, Pope Pius X issued a very strong encyclical against higher criticism. In it he took occasion to speak with great emphasis against Protestantism in general, and the Reformers in particular. Afterward, when much opposition had been aroused on the part of leading Protestant statesmen, the pope assumed an apologetic attitude, and sought to compromise with them temporarily by polite explanations of his statement.
The “Western Watchman” Stands for Intolerance
Concerning this controversy, the Western Watchman, St. Louis, Missouri, one of the foremost Catholic journals in the United States, spoke in its issue of July 7, 1910, as follows: “She [the Roman Catholic Church] has never changed her opinion of the Reformers. She said four hundred years ago that they were bad, unprincipled, and immoral men; she proscribed their lives as vicious and their doctrines as of hell. She denounced Luther and his partners in heresy as the corrupt disseminators of a corrupt doctrine, and the methods they employed to overthrow the Catholic religion as blasphemous and satanic. She said so four hundred years ago; she has not changed her opinion since. The late encyclical was a mild reaffirmation of the encyclicals of all the popes since the council of Trent.
“Many years ago we stated that the greatest iconoclasm in history would be the demolition of all the statues raised to the heroes of Protestantism and their consignment to the dump heap of history; and we declared that the event was nearer than people suspected. . . . No one now regards Cranmer and Ridley and the other English Reformers as anything but blasphemous scoundrels, for whom hanging and burning were too good. . . . “Protestants need not expect that the judgment of Catholics upon Reformers and their work is going to undergo any mitigation. Time has only added confirmation and irrefutability to the original estimates. The process of religious peace will be on the lines of truth and loyalty to the church’s heroic past. . . . “The promoters of heresy are children of perdition. She has always maintained this as a theory; she is prepared to demonstrate its truth in the lies of her detractors. It has been a long time; but the original Protestant sin has found its authors out. Get ready the ropes; the bloated authors of the Reformation will soon be toppled from their place of pride and cast in the dunghill of the world’s scorn.”
Intolerance Reaffirmed
That this was not an exaggerated statement, which was ill considered and afterward recalled, is apparent from the following statement, which appeared in the October 12 issue of the same paper and of the same year: “Protestants think that it is possible for an honest man to change his religion. Catholics believe so also, provided that the change is from one Protestant sect to another, or from a Protestant sect to the Catholic Church. But Catholics not only believe, but know, with a knowledge as firm as the rock of Gibraltar, that the man who apostatizes from the Catholic Church is an unmitigated scoundrel, a renegade to every honest and honorable principle. People may call that bigotry. It matters not what it is called, there is not a Catholic in this world who would not prefer to see his mother or sister dead than turned Protestant.”
It Must Be on Catholic Ground
How, then, can Catholics and Protestants confederate? It is thus made plain that there can be no confederation except upon Catholic principles. How can Catholics, who would rather die than change their faith, enforce conversion to their federation creed upon those who differ from them, and still fulfil the Golden Rule laid down by Christ, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets”?
This intolerant view is not new in the Catholic faith. It has always been one of the fundamental doctrines of the Catholic Church. In his “Plain Talk about the Protestantism of To-Day,” Monsignor Segur boldly declares: “The church is certainly intolerant in matters of doctrine. True, and we glory in it! . . . And what is more logical? The Catholic Church alone, in the midst of so many different sects, avers the possession of absolute truth, out of which there can not be true Christianity. She alone has the right to be, she alone must be, intolerant. She alone will and must say, as she has said in all ages in her councils, ‘If any one saith or believeth contrary to what I teach, which is truth, let him be anathema.’”
It is very apparent that Rome stands ready to unite with Protestantism in a confederation of churches, if that confederation will renounce Protestant principles, and use its good offices to reinstate the Roman see in her former position of supremacy over the nations. This is the prediction of prophecy, and it is the road that led to her supremacy in the fourth century.
R. C. P.
ONE DAY’S REST IN SEVEN
SENTIMENT is growing rapidly in favor of one day’s rest in seven. Ex-President Roosevelt expressed himself very strongly on this point when he was a candidate two years ago on the Progressive ticket. The idea of favoring one day’s rest in seven was in their party platform. Leading men in both church and state are endorsing the principle and urging it. Labor organizations in many places are calling for it.
The Bible is certainly very specific in commanding men to observe the Sabbath day; but while God gives the command, He leaves the individual to choose for himself whether or not he will obey. If he obeys, God has a reward for him. If he refuses to obey, he must meet the consequences of his disobedience. So there is no denying the fact that there is a moral obligation resting upon individuals to observe the Sabbath day; but when this moral obligation is shifted so as to give the impression that one day in seven is all that is required, the very plain terms of the Sabbath commandment are subverted.
One of the great moral issues that is yet to be fought out in428this world is that of God’s Sabbath on the one hand and the counterfeit sabbath on the other. There is absolutely no divine authority for the observance of Sunday; but the great leader in the rebellion against God has brought this counterfeit sabbath into the world, and has led men well-nigh universally throughout Christendom to observe it. Very many of these people honestly believe they are following the requirements of God in doing thus, but such is not the case. We may know this for ourselves if we will read the Bible upon the subject.
But as a result of this one-day-in-seven theory that is promulgated, there will arise a popular demand for a rest day; and after the popular demand is created, the day that will be chosen will be Sunday. Then the effort will be made, through Sunday laws that are now on the statute-books of most of the states, and also of the so-called Christian nations of the world, to enforce upon every individual the observance of that one particular day, regardless of his conscientious convictions. We have exemption clauses now; but these exemption clauses will be finally repealed, because an ecclesiastical despotism can never admit any exceptions to its rules.
The reasons for reaching these conclusions have been pointed out again and again in the columns of this journal during the forty years of its existence. This is a matter of specific Bible prophecy. The seventh-day Sabbath is to be thrown into intense conflict with the counterfeit sabbath that the greater part of the world observes, and the one-day-in-seven-rest theory is one of the very innocent appearing plans through which the counterfeit is brought to the front and urged upon the conscience of men. All kinds of sentiment will be worked into the discussion. Among other things, appeal will be made in the name of the oppressed and downtrodden. And certainly there is enough in that field to make the strongest kind of appeals. But sentiment that does not carry with it absolute loyalty to God and to His expressed law, is built upon an insecure foundation.
Question Corner
WE can not answer repeatedly in the same volume questions upon the same scripture. The name and address must accompany question. It is well always to enclose stamp for reply.
4325 — WHAT WAS DONE AWAY
It seems from verses 7 and 11 of 2 Corinthians 3 that that which was “written and engraven in stones” was done away. Also please note verses 13-17.
D. T. S.
Study these scriptures closely, and you will see that the apostle is not talking about the Ten Commandments, which were written on stone, as having been done away, but he is discussing ministrations—“the ministration of death” and “the ministration of the Spirit.”
He speaks of the ministration of death (verse 7) as “written and engraven in stones,” and says that it was glorious, and that “the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away,” or, as in the Revised Version, “which glory was passing away.”
Reference is here made to the glory that shone forth from Moses’ countenance after he had been in the presence of God on Mount Sinai for forty days while he was receiving the Ten Commandment law. Read the record in Exodus 34. The language of the text confines this glory that was passing away to the glory that shone in the face of Moses. But after speaking of the ministration of death and its glory, he calls attention to the ministration of the Spirit (verse 8), which is “rather glorious.” And then again (verse 9), “If the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”
Of this ministration of the Spirit under the new covenant relation, the letter to the Hebrews states, “This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.” In both the old dispensation and the new, there have ever been those who never got any farther in their Christian experience than to know the law of God as written upon the tables of stone; but in the new covenant relation, God’s divine law is written upon the heart.
To show that this heart work was what the apostle was talking about in the third chapter of 2 Corinthians, under consideration, note these words as recorded in the third verse: “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.”
It is God’s power that thus writes upon the human heart the principles of righteousness that are expressed in His divine law, and so the apostle says (verse 5), “Our sufficiency is of God.”
The apostle who wrote this letter to the Corinthians, says in his letter to the Romans, “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.” Rom. 3:31. And again he says: “Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Rom. 7:7. In this verse, Paul shows that he still recognizes the binding claims of the law against covetousness. Then again he says: “I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.” Verses 9-14. And again in verse 22, he says, “I delight in the law of God after the inward man.”
Since the commandment was “ordained to life,” and since “the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good,” and since “the law is spiritual,” and since Paul found “delight” in this same law, we can not follow the teaching of God’s word if we say that that law was abolished.
The whole tenor of God’s sacred word shows that the Ten Commandments are of eternal duration. And the leading Protestant churches have ever taught that the Ten Commandments are God’s law, and binding. You will find it in their catechisms. You will find it in their teachings everywhere.
But there is a growing tendency to clutch at a few texts like these under consideration in 2 Corinthians 3, and by wresting them from their connection and throwing them out of harmony with other plain scriptures, the effort is made to show that the law of the great Jehovah has been abolished. A greater absurdity could never have entered the minds of men.
The Ten Commandments are the only part of the Bible that was spoken upon earth directly by the voice of God. The Ten Commandments are the only part of the Bible that was written by the hand of God Himself. The Ten Commandments are the only part of the Bible that when given were engraved upon the enduring tablets of stone. All other portions of the Scripture were given by inspiration through the prophets, and were written by the hand of man. They were written upon parchments. Now does it not seem passing strange that men should have thought to suggest the doctrine that the only portion of the Scripture that Jehovah Himself had spoken and written in person, should be the part that would be done away? Let us be admonished by the words of James, “So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.” James 2:12.
Please explain Rev. 19:4. What are the four beasts spoken of in this verse?
This word “beasts” should read “living creatures.” It is so translated in the Revised Version. These living creatures were undoubtedly companies of angels who assumed the form of these various animals—the lion, symbolical of great power and majesty; the ox, of patience and perseverance; the man, of intelligence and reason; and the eagle, of swiftness and glory.
These represent the standards under which the twelve tribes were ranged,—the lion, the standard of Judah; the ox, the standard of Ephraim; the eagle, the standard of Dan; and the man, the standard of Reuben. These living creatures were engaged in continually singing praises to God, ever ascribing to Him glory and honor and power for His love and majesty and righteousness.
G. B. T
By G. B. T.
IN speaking of the Lord’s uniting with the twelve to celebrate the Passover, the simple record is, “In the evening He cometh with the twelve.” There is no ostentation, no show. “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation.” But no council of war, no ecclesiastical conclave ever held on earth, can begin to compare in importance with this gathering. In a lowly place, behind the closed doors of this guest-chamber, a work was in progress which eventually will restore a ruined, sinful race to God, and blot sin eternally from the universe.
G. B. T
SYSTEMATIC BIBLE STUDY
THE last chapter in James, which is part of our reading for this week, is worthy of our particular attention. It contains the prophecy of the heaping together of treasure in the last days, and tells of the cry of the laborers because of oppression. The climax to this prophetic portion of the chapter is the second coming of Christ. Continue to enjoy to the full the great prophecies and promises that you are now reading in the wonderful book of Isaiah.
Read three chapters each week-day, and five on the Sabbath.
Glimpses of the World-Wide Work
By W. H. S.
ENCOURAGING PROGRESS—A FEW THINGS HERE AND THERE TO TELL OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MESSAGE
SOLUSI MISSION, MATABELELAND, SOUTH AFRICA
In some places, under the blessing of the Lord, the message seems to find its way almost spontaneously. News comes frequently of how a little quotation from the Word, or a little tract, has guided some earnest soul in coming a step nearer to the kingdom.
Providence is opening the way among the vast islands of Malaysia. Brother R. P. Montgomery, who was recently sent to Borneo in response to the call of an interest there, reports the baptism of seven Chinese at Sandakan. These brethren have to make great business sacrifices in order to keep the Sabbath, yet several others are desirous of taking their stand as soon as they possibly can.
A series of open-air meetings in the market-place at Batavia, Java, has been conducted by Miss P. Tunheim. She writes that several persons are ready for baptism. Four baptisms and six candidates are reported from Surabaya, Java.
In the great Dutch island of Celebes, an enthusiastic colporteur is now preparing the way of the message. He was himself converted by reading our literature. Last year’s tent meetings in Singapore have so far resulted in bringing in fifteen converts.
Down in Brazil, interests are springing up faster than the workers can attend to them.
A tract, bought from one of our colporteurs, convinced a woman of the obligations of the Sabbath, so she observed it for two years before hearing of us.
A candidate for baptism called the attention of a man from another town to the fourth commandment. This man and his family found ground sufficient, in that, to begin observing the Sabbath; and now many of his neighbors are interested, and wait in hopes of receiving further instruction.
When the attention of a Protestant minister in that country had been called to the Sabbath, he said, “You have taken from my heart a burden that rested there for three years.” He is now with us.
At the close of a series of meetings recently held by Elder Lipke in Amaro, Brazil, thirty persons signified their decision to keep the Bible Sabbath.
Our Chinese namesake, the Signs of the Times, is doing good work. Two men came thirty-five miles to attend the week of prayer meetings at one of our central China missions, and stated that twenty-five in their home village had decided on the truth of the message they found in its pages. The paper sells at two cents, and now has a monthly circulation of fifty-five thousand copies.
An intermediate training-school for native workers, in Honan province, has been opened free from debt, and with a full attendance. New missionary residences have been completed in Hankow, Yencheng, and Canton; and near the latter city, a girls’ school has just been completed.
Near Swatow, a heathen temple has been offered us for use in holding meetings.
Two baptisms are reported from Pakhoi. “A sound of going” is heard in the Dark Continent. Brother H. Steiner, of the mission in Asmara, Eritrea, on the borders of Abyssinia, tells of their first baptisms. Three Abyssinians were the participants in the rite.
About two score students in an out-school of the Maranatha Mission, South Africa, recently professed conversion. Four baptisms of Europeans are reported from Cape Colony, and three from the Transvaal. Several candidates are preparing for the step. Twenty-five members were added to the church at Kickham, on the Gold Coast, last year. Appropriations have been made for establishing new stations in the hinterland of the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone.
The work among English residents of India is prospering. As a result of a five months’ series of semi-weekly meetings in Bombay, Elder George F. Enoch, just before departing on furlough, had the privilege of baptizing five. Ten others are preparing for the ordinance. Seven residents of Simla, the summer capital, have recently been baptized, while others are about to be. The government has granted the Sabbath free to those of the brethren employed in its offices. Our school at Mussoorie, another Himalaya resort, has doubled in attendance, and a number of the children have received baptism, as also three adults in the town.
The churches in south India and Ceylon have a harvest-home service each spring. Brother V. E. Peugh writes from Nazareth, “When the meeting opened, the front veranda was almost covered with paddy (unhulled rice), chickens, eggs, green coconuts, garments, fruits, bread, buttons, pins, and numerous other things, as well as the earthen pots in which each family had dropped its daily offerings during the year.” After the service, the produce is auctioned off. The offering for this year amounted to $130, which, considering the poverty of the people in that part of the world, shows a Christian spirit of liberality.
In Gueron, an isolated town in Armenia, a passing visit by Brother Tousdjian awakened an interest, which was later stimulated by the work of the colporteur. Two have stepped out from the Armenian section of the traditional church, to walk in the light of the Word, and others are interested in hearing the message. Persecution by their former coreligionists has to be endured by these brethren, and would be a serious menace but for the restraint of the government.
Cheering news comes from the Philippines. At Malolos the first of our church buildings in the islands has been dedicated. The headquarters residence at Manila is nearly finished. Tracts in Ilocano and Tagalog are in preparation for the press. More than twenty new Sabbath-keepers, at last report, are the result of a series of tent meetings in Santa Rosa, conducted by Philippine brethren. The meetings in Manila continue to be well attended.
The first Protestant evangelical mission in the island of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, has been started by our Brother Philip Giddings, who, with his family, has located in the capital. A population of 210,000 in that island awaits the message.
A new twenty-six foot launch, designed for the use of the New Hebrides Mission, has been completed, and paid for by the Sabbath-school contributions in the Australian churches. It is built for hard weather, has a five horse-power engine, and will fill a real need in the field.
A new mission station has been opened at the interior village of Myaingalay, Burma. Brother A. H. Williams reports the outlook encouraging on his arrival.
Reports received during the last seven weeks, give 606 as the number of accessions to the ranks of Adventist Sabbath-keepers in the United States and Canada. Of these, 454 were baptized.
In the decade 1903-1913, the aggregate of believers in the advent message increased 54%. In the same time, the contributions for the support of the work increased more than 220%.
Over thirty in Mexico are waiting for the time when our workers can safely return and baptize them.
In the European Division, 1,092 persons were baptized during the last quarter of 1913.
Baptism was administered recently to eight persons at Jagadishpur, in the Santal Mission, Bengal.
Fourteen Portuguese in Massachusetts are keeping the Sabbath.
W. H. S.
Sending Missionary Funds
By Editor
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