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Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 32.

A New Book

Review and Herald

Aug 11, 1903

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 11, 1903

A New Book

By S. H. Lane

Our Paradise Home

By
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Contents

Page
Introduction ................................................ 7
I Sin Permitted ........................................... 10
II The Fall of Satan ..................................... 12
III The Purchased Kingdom ................................. 16
IV The Three Worlds ...................................... 25
V Redemption of the World Promised ........................ 37
VI The Two Kingdoms ...................................... 46
VII The Two Jerusalems ................................... 53
VIII The Three Heavens ................................... 63
IX Events Introducing the Restitution ..................... 66
X The Earnest of the Holy Spirit .......................... 71
XI A Glimpse of the Future Kingdom ......................... 75
XII The Rest That Remaineth ................................ 81
XIII The Events of the Millennium .......................... 86
XIV The Judgment ........................................... 95
XV The Two Resurrections .................................. 102
XVI Description of the Kingdom of Glory .................... 107
XVII The New Jerusalem .................................... 117

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In the Realm of Nature .................................... Frontispiece
Sin Permitted .............................................. 10
The Fall of Satan .......................................... 12
La Guayra, South America ................................... 15
The Purchased Kingdom ...................................... 16
The Call to Abraham ........................................ 20
The Three Worlds ........................................... 25
The Bow of Promise ......................................... 30
The World Before the Flood ................................ 31
The World Since the Flood .................................. 33
The New Earth .............................................. 35
Sugar Loaf Mountain, Hudson River .......................... 36
Redemption of the World Promised ............................ 37
The Two Kingdoms ........................................... 46
The Two Jerusalems ......................................... 53
Old Jerusalem .............................................. 56
The Three Heavens .......................................... 63
Events Introducing the Restitution .......................... 66
The Holy Spirit Accompanying the Preaching of the Gospel ..... 70
The Earnest of the Holy Spirit .............................. 71
A Glimpse of the Future Kingdom ............................. 75
The Transfiguration ........................................ 76
The Rest That Remaineth .................................... 81
At Rest ..................................................... 82
The Events of the Millennium ................................ 86
Diagram, The Events of the Millennium ........................ 94
The Judgment ................................................ 95
The Two Resurrections ...................................... 102
Description of the Kingdom of Glory ........................ 107
The New Jerusalem .......................................... 117
In the Adirondack Mountains ................................. 128
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No Compromise

By Editor

Editorial

No Compromise

The principles of the kingdom of heaven and the principles of the kingdom of this world are utterly at variance. They have nothing in common. To accept heavenly principles is to repudiate worldly principles. To follow worldly principles is to reject heavenly principles. “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” And there can be no compromise in this matter. “For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?” There must be an utter repudiation of all worldly principles and policies. There must be no halting, no wavering, no making of crooked paths. The conduct must be as open as the day. There must be no attempt to conceal wickedness under an appearance of good, or to make wrong appear right. The temptation to do evil that good may come, under the plea that the end justifies the means, must be steadfastly resisted, and we must be willing to suffer an apparent defeat rather than to purchase an apparent victory at the expense of right principles. These truths seem self-evident, and yet how often do we see them ignored in practice. There needs to be a new revelation to-day of what it means to be fully governed in the life by the principles of genuine Christianity, and this experience ought to be the result of a whole-hearted acceptance of the truths of this closing message. Beware of any attempt to compromise with the world. Beware of such an interpretation of this message as leaves you in doubt whether there is any definite message after all. “If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.” Be honest. Make no compromise.

The One Work

We have been called to a definite work. The message of the soon-coming Saviour and of the preparation necessary to meet him in peace must be heralded to all the world in this generation. The simple truths of the gospel which have either been overlooked or perverted must be presented to all the people. A standard of truth must be raised aloft, bearing the inscription, “The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” and there must be a mighty movement in the earth, calling people back to loyalty to God and to obedience to his holy law. This is the one work for which this people have been raised up, and our strength lies in an unswerving devotion to it. And this work must be carried forward after God’s order, and not in harmony with a worldly policy. Any attempt to gain favor and standing in the world by softening down this message, or by hiding the real issue and substituting another of our own invention, will bring weakness and defeat to us, while the real message will move forward and leave us. Every effort of the enemy is being made to confuse and mislead this people, in order that the one work of giving this message to the world may be weakened and delayed. The very circumstances of this time call upon every one who is loyal to this advent movement to devote all that he is and all that he has to its advancement, absolutely refusing to accept any teaching or any leadership which tends to weaken his faith in those simple truths which for more than half a century have constituted the foundation of this advent message. This is no time for a half-hearted faith or a faltering service. “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion.”

The Impenitent Heart

The one thing which can resist God successfully is the impenitent heart. All the riches of God’s grace and mercy are revealed to it in vain. All the unmeasured love of heaven is lost upon it. All the creative power in the gospel does not change it. It rejects the long-suffering of God, and builds itself up in its resistance of the divine pleadings. But the impenitent heart finally reaps the fruit of its own doings in a hopeless separation from God, an unchangeable choice of eternal ruin. It is a terribly sad fate to contemplate, and it is almost overwhelming to think that it is overtaking some who have known this truth; but so it is. “Impenitence has taken hold upon some who once acted a prominent part in the work of God. There is on their part a settling down to a fatal hardness of heart, a confirmed resistance of the Spirit’s pleading. Should death overtake them as they are now, the dreadful words would be spoken, ‘Weighed in the balances and found wanting.’” It is possible for men to offer the Saviour outward homage, to be Christians in profession, to have a form of godliness, while the heart, whose loyalty he prizes above all else, is estranged from him. Such ones have a name to live, but are dead. To-day Christ is looking with sadness upon those whose characters he must at last refuse to acknowledge. Inflated with self-sufficiency, they have had all hope that it would be well with their soul. All at once the mirror of detection reveals to them the evil that their hearts have practiced, and at the same time shows them the impossibility of reform. Every effort was made to bring them to repentance; but they stormed out words of defiance, and refused to humble their hearts. Now the bitter lamentation is heard, ‘The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and my soul is not saved.’ Very solemn words are these. In this time of testing, decisions are being made for eternity. “Come, and let us return unto the Lord.”

A Turning Point

It is evident that we have come to a time of special significance in this work. Our present experiences have great meaning in them, and indicate a new order of things. The change which we are making in removing the headquarters of this denomination, under the direct and very specific guidance of the spirit of prophecy, and in establishing a new base of operations in so important a center of influence as Washington, D. C., is the preparation for that experience in this work for which we have long looked and prayed. If we conscientiouslyfollow the counsel of our Leader, the Captain of the Lord’s host, and adopt his plans for the campaign, we may confidently expect such co-operation on the part of the heavenly agencies as means the finishing of this work in a short time. This hope is clearly held out before us in the instruction which has come to us as our guide in this time of much perplexity. This is certainly the time of our visitation, the opportunity offered to us to unite with the divine purpose in stirring the world with the closing message. It is altogether probable that all this might have been accomplished without the experiences which have come upon us in Battle Creek, and without removing the denominational headquarters to another place, if there had been a heartfelt response to the warnings and entreaties which the Spirit of God has sent to us during these years, but that possibility is now out of the question. The developments of the last year constitute a turning point in the history of this movement. Changes are now imperatively demanded which might have been avoided, and we must act accordingly. Any attempt to hide these simple facts and to misinterpret the meaning of our present experiences will only lead to further disasters in this work. Let each one wait upon the Lord for individual guidance, and be sure that he does not make crooked paths for his feet.

The Hour and the Message

By W. A. S.

WHAT gave to Luther’s voice the power to ring through all Europe with the message of reform? It was not only that the message that he cried was true, but the time had come for the message to be heard. The hour of reform had struck. The Holy Spirit gave to the Reformer’s message a power to stir the pulse of mankind because the time was ripe for the Reformation.
It was the same as in the days of John the Baptist. When the Baptist cried his message in the wilderness, all Jerusalem and Judea and all the regions round about Jordan were stirred mightily. The “fullness of time” had come, and God’s purpose could no longer be deferred.
So, after the sixteenth-century Reformation, when Protestant Christendom had fallen into formalism and was ready to die, there came a message which rang again through the world with soul-awakening power. It was the great revival under Wesley, Whitefield, and their fellow workers. The time had come for a revival, and the fullness of the time gave power to the message born of the need of the hour.
It was because the hour so long foretold was come that the advent warning swept through the world with the speed of angel heralds in the ‘44 movement. And now, with the final signs of the great day of God breaking all about us, the hour has come for the final message of preparation for the coming of the Lord to speed through the world until every ear shall hear the call.
The time is at hand for the witness to be borne. God’s Spirit is poured out to give to the message the power to convict hearts. In the unentered portions of every field, hearts are being prepared to give heed to the cry. It is a new time. It is the last hour. Eternity is so near that every moment of time vibrates with the intensity of heaven. The hour, the most critical in all earth’s history, gives to the most solemn message an urgency and a power that must carry it quickly to the ends of the earth. It is a glorious hour and a glorious message. The very fullness of the time has come. Let the keynote of the message ring out.
W. A. S.

Fallibility and Infallibility

By L. A. S.

A GREAT event is stirring the interest of the religious world, especially that portion of it which draws its inspiration from Rome. A new “successor to St. Peter” is being chosen. With much solemn ceremony, behind carefully closed and guarded doors, an election is being held, out of which will come a new head of the papal world, to be hailed as the “vicar of Christ,” the spiritual guide of the followers of the cross; one who can lead the church with unerring accuracy in the way of truth.
Only the most extraordinary endowments of character could be in keeping with a position of such eminence and responsibility. Indeed, any possibility of error on the part of the “vicar of Christ” could not be admitted. As well might it be admitted that Christ himself could err, as that he whom Christ has constituted his vicar, to be the visible head of the church in Christ’s absence, and “hold the regency of God over on earth,” as the late Pope Leo declared, could lead the church astray. The papacy perceives this fact, and has dealt with it logically by proclaiming the dogma of papal infallibility.
No man, however, is infallible. No candidate for the papal throne is infallible. He must therefore, in the papal view, be invested with infallibility at his election. But to suppose this requires also that the choice which placed him on the papal throne be also an infallible one. In other words, the two-thirds vote of the conclave of cardinals which elects a new pope must always be beyond the possibility of error.
But no one of the assembled cardinals is infallible; all are fallible men. The sum of their fallibility is still fallibility, and not infallibility. There is no infallibility anywhere in the conclave before the election, yet there is infallibility there as soon as the election takes place; for the new pope, when speaking ex cathedra, can not err. Whence does this infallibility come?
Obviously, it must come from nothing, for it existed nowhere previous to the choice of the pope. But who can bring something out of nothing?—No man, no assembly of men, but only the Creator, can do this. Creative power is the sign of the true God. It is claimed, of course, that the election of a pope is really the act of God, that the choice is directed by the Holy Spirit. But this is only a claim, for which there is no proof. The words of men, the acts of men, can never be of themselves infallibly right.
God alone is infallible. His word alone is infallibly true. Only as any man speaks that word can he speak with infallibility; and this is as much the prerogative of one individual as another. In the gospel, authority and power are in the truth, no matter from whose lips it may come. In the papacy the authority pertains to the office, and the word is counted infallible because spoken by the person in that office. It is our work in the proclamation of the everlasting gospel to-day, to point the people away from that which is merely human, to the Word of God, as being the only word that is infallible, the only sure ground of faith, and the only source from whence can come salvation. L. A. S.

Delivered From an Armed Host

By W. A. S.

ONE more experience may well be quoted from the story of John G. Paton’s life in the New Hebrides. By faith, men of God in olden times were able to turn “to flight the armies of the aliens.” While enemies plotted against the helpless servants of God, prayer reached the throne of the universe, and angels were sent to turn back the hosts of evil. Still the same angels watch over the people of God. In the following paragraphs, Mr. Paton sketches an experience that came to him near the close of his first years on Tanna. The time had evidently come to flee, as Christ had commanded. The savage people, save in one friendly village, were bent on taking the lives of the teacher and his converts. The missionary says of his flight:—
On reaching Nowar’s village unobserved, we found the people terror-stricken, crying, rushing about in despair at such a host of armed savages approaching. I urged them to ply their axes, cut down trees, and blockade the path. For a little they wrought vigorously at this; but when, so far as the eye could reach, they saw the shore covered with armed men rushing on toward their village, they were overwhelmed with fear; they threw away their axes and weapons of war, they cast themselves headlong on the ground, andknocked themselves against the trees as if to court death before it came. They cried,—
“Missi, it’s of no use. We shall all be killed and eaten to-day. See what a host are coming against us.”
Mothers snatched up little children and ran to hide in the bush. Others waded as far as they could in the sea with them, holding their heads above the water. The whole village collapsed in a condition of indescribable terror. Nowar, lame with his wounded knee, got a canoe turned upside down and sat upon it, where he could see the whole approaching multitude. He said:—
“Missi, sit down beside me, and pray to our Jehovah God; for if he does not send deliverance now, we are all dead men. They will kill us all on your account, and that quickly. Pray, and I will watch.”
We prayed as one can only pray when in the jaws of death and on the brink of eternity. We felt that God was near, and omnipotent to do what seemed best in his sight. When the savages were about three hundred yards off, at the foot of a hill leading up to the village, Nowar touched my knee, saying, “Missi, Jehovah is hearing! They are all standing still.”
Had they come on, they would have met no opposition; for the people were scattered in terror. On gazing shoreward, and round the harbor, as far as we could see was a dense host of warriors, but all were standing still, and apparently absolute silence prevailed. We saw a messenger, or herald, running along the approaching multitude, delivering some tidings as he passed, and then disappearing in the bush. To our amazement, the host began to turn, and slowly marched back in great silence, and entered the remote bush at the head of the harbor. Nowar and his people were in ecstasies, crying out, “Jehovah has heard Missi’s prayer! Jehovah has protected us, and turned them away back.”
We were on that day his trusting and defenseless children; would you not, had you been one of our circle, have joined with us in praising the Lord God for deliverance from the jaws of death? I know not why they turned back; but I have no doubt it was the doing of God to save our lives.
This was not so many years ago. A little later the missionaries returned to Tanna, and the gospel triumphed over savage hearts. So God has been preparing many a field for the last message, while the great advent movement has been rising and gathering strength. Now, with the commission to carry the warning quickly through every land, we are to press forward in full assurance that God and the angels are in the waiting fields to give power to the truth. No weapon that is formed against it shall prosper. W. A. S.

The Removal to Washington

During the last twenty-five years, the Lord has been speaking very plainly to us through the spirit of prophecy, warning us against colonizing, and pointing out the evils that would result from centering so much responsibility in Battle Creek. The clearest and most direct instruction has been given, and many times repeated, declaring that we were doing wrong in enlarging our Battle Creek institutions to such proportions. Seventeen years ago the following warning was given:—
“The evils of centering so many responsibilities in Battle Creek have not been small. The dangers are great. There are unconsecrated elements that only wait for circumstances to put all their influence on the side of wrong. I can never feel exactly safe in regard to Battle Creek.”
Similar warnings have been sent over and over again. About ten years ago the following stirring words were addressed to this people:—
“Years ago the large responsibility that is centered in Battle Creek should have been distributed. The people are encouraged to center in Battle Creek, and they pay their tithe and give their influence to the building up of a modern Jerusalem that is not after God’s order. In this work other places are cut off from facilities which they should have. Enlarge ye, spread, yes; but not in one place. Go out and establish centers of influence in places where nothing, or next to nothing, has been done. Break up your consolidated mass; diffuse the saving beams of light, and shed light into the darkened corners of the earth. A work needs to be done something like that which is described as an eagle stirring up her nest. ‘Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.’ This is true of many Christians who are coming into Battle Creek. Many have a spasmodic zeal, but it is like a meteor that flashes across the heavens, and goes out.”
“Why have not the men and women who have so frequently gathered to the large assemblies in Battle Creek put into practice the truth which they have heard? . . . The work that has been done for them has not been prized as it should have been, or they would have gone forth into the darkened places of the earth, and shed abroad the light which God has shed upon them. . . . Many have gone into the grave in error, simply because those who professed the truth have failed to communicate the precious knowledge they have received. If the light that has shone in superabundance in Battle Creek had been diffused, we would have seen many raised up to become laborers together with God.”
“God expects practical work in getting out of Battle Creek. Too many are there now, and too many interests are being piled up in Battle Creek. Were those interests divided and located in other cities, where the light and knowledge might bless other localities, it would be in God’s order. The Lord does not want a second Jerusalem in Battle Creek. There will have to be strong reformations and transformations and transferring of facilities and institutions if the will of God is done. Short-sighted mortals can not discern that crowding so much into Battle Creek is taking away from other localities opportunities and privileges which they so much need, and which God designs they should have.”
This instruction has been received, and acknowledged as true. At times feeble efforts have been made to change the order of things, but the real situation has not been remedied. It has continued to grow worse until the judgments of God have begun to fall upon our institutions located in Battle Creek. This has caused many to think seriously. It has aroused our people everywhere, and for months there has been a general feeling that there must be an exodus from Battle Creek. When the Review and Herald factory was destroyed by fire, Sister White wrote as follows:—
“In one year, two of our largest institutions have been destroyed by fire. . . . When the Battle Creek Sanitarium was destroyed, Christ gave himself to defend the lives of men and women. In this destruction God was appealing to his people to return to him. And in the destruction of the Review and Herald Office, and the saving of life, he makes a second appeal to them. He desires them to see that the miracle-working power of the Infinite has been exercised to save life, that every worker may have opportunity to repent and be converted. God says, ‘If they turn to me, I will restore to them the joy of my salvation. But if they continue to walk in their own way, I will come still closer; and affliction shall come upon the families who claim to believe the truth, but who do not practice the truth, who do not make the Lord God of Israel their fear and their dread.’”
At the late General Conference at Oakland, when the question of removing from Battle Creek was under consideration, Sister White said:—
“For years the warning has been given to our people, Get out of Battle Creek. But because of the many interests established there, it was convenient to remain, and men could not see why they should move.”
“Will those who have collected in Battle Creek hear the voice speaking to them, and understand that they are to scatter out into different places, where they can spread abroad a knowledge of the truth, and where they can gain an experience different from the experience that they have been gaining?”
“In reply to the question that has been asked in regard to settling somewhere else, I answer, Yes. Let the General Conference offices and the publishing work be moved from Battle Creek. I know not where the place will be, whether on the Atlantic Coast or elsewhere. But this I will say, Never lay a stone or a brick in Battle Creek to rebuild the Review Office there. God has a better place for it. He wants you to work with a different influence, and connected with altogether different associations from what you have had of late in Battle Creek.”
In view of such instruction as is quoted above, the General Conference at Oakland voted —
“That the General Conference offices be removed from Battle Creek, Mich., to some place on the Atlantic Coast.”
In the Council of the General Conference Committee that followed, the committee took the following action:—
“Voted, That we favor locating the headquarters of the General Conference in the vicinity of New York City. “Voted, That A. G. Daniells, W. W. Prescott, I. H. Evans, S. N. Haskell, H. W. Cottrell, S. N. Curtiss, J. E. Jayne, W. A. Spicer, and such union conference presidents in the United States as are not named in this list, act as a committee to select the location, and remove the headquarters.”
Before proceeding to search for a location, the committee wrote to Sister White, explaining their plans, and earnestly requested her to communicate to them any definite light she might have regarding the exact place of location. The letters that have come to the locating committee have been so good that I take the liberty to quote from them at length. Here is the first:—
“I have no special light, except what you have already received, in reference to New York and the other large cities that have not been worked. Decided efforts should be made in Washington, D. C. It is a sad thing that the record stands as it does, showing so little accomplished there. It will be best to consider what can be done for this city, and see what ways of working will be the best.
“In the past, decided testimony has been borne in regard to the need of making decided efforts to bring the truth before the people of Washington. I shall find what I have written on this point, if I can, and send it to you.”
“May the Lord help us to move understandingly and prayerfully. I am sure that he is willing that we should know, and that right early, where we should locate our publishing house. I am satisfied that our only safe course is to be ready to move just when the cloud moves. Let us pray that he will direct us. He has signified, by his providence, that he would have us leave Battle Creek. In the large Tabernacle there, many meetings, many ministerial institutes have been held. Light and power have been centered there when they should have been scattered far and near, in the many cities yet unworked. Small centers should have been made in many places, to represent the truth. Thus much good would have been accomplished. New members would have been added to the ranks of believers. With an increase of numbers would have come an increase of tithe, providing means to carry the message to other places.
“New York needs to be worked, but whether our publishing house should be established there, I can not say. I should not regard the light I have received as definite enough to favor the movement.”
“Let us all lift our hearts to God in prayer, having faith that he will guide us. What more can we do? Let him indicate the place where the publishing house should be established. We are to have no will of our own, but are to seek the Lord, and follow where he leads the way.”
The Locating Committee met in New York City, May 18. There were present H. W. Cottrell, S. N. Haskell, J. E. Jayne, I. H. Evans, S. N. Curtiss, C. D. Rhodes, D. W. Reavis, and A. G. Daniells.
We formed our plans and organized our movement the best we knew how, and began a thorough search for a suitable place in the vicinity of New York City. We inspected places on Long Island, along the Hudson River, and in New Jersey. We went north along the coast as far as Rhode Island. After looking about for several days, we failed to find a place that seemed really suitable. Only one or two places were found that appeared at all possible, but these were so unfit that we began to despair of finding what was required.
While pursuing our search, though not until two or three members had returned to Battle Creek, a second letter came from Sister White. It was dated May 30, and was addressed to the General Conference Committee. The portion that speaks definitely regarding a location reads as follows:—
“During the past night many things have been presented to me regarding our present dangers, and some things about our publishing work have been brought most distinctly to my mind.
“As our brethren search for a location for the Review and Herald Publishing House, they are earnestly to seek the Lord. They are to move with great caution, watchfulness, and prayer, and with a constant sense of their own weakness. We must not depend upon human judgment. We must seek for the wisdom that God gives.
“God understands our situation. He alone knows where the Review and Herald Publishing House should be established. ‘The meek will he guide in judgment; and the meek will he teach his way.’”
“In regard to establishing the institution in New York, I must say, Be guarded. I am not in favor of it being near New York. I can not give all my reasons, but I am sure that any place within thirty miles of that city would be too near. Study the surroundings of other places. I am sure that the advantages of Washington, D. C., should be closely investigated.”
“The workers connected with the publishing house must be closely guarded. Our young men and young women must not be placed where they will be in danger of being ensnared by Satan.”
“We should not establish this institution in a city, nor in the suburbs of a city. It should be established in a rural district, where it can be surrounded by land. In the arrangements made for its establishment, the climate must be considered. The institution should be placed where the atmosphere is most conducive to health. This point should be given an important place in our considerations; for wherever the office of publication is established, preparation must also be made to fit up a small sanitarium and to establish a small agricultural school.”
“My brethren, open up the work intelligently. Let every point be carefully and prayerfully considered. After much prayer and frequent consultation together, act in accordance with the best judgment of all. Let each worker sustain the other. Do not fail or become discouraged. Keep your perceptive faculties keen and clear by learning constantly of Christ, the Teacher who can not err. Avoid all that would endanger your eternal interests. The foe, keen and wary, stands ready to take the helm if he is given opportunity. He watches his chance to seduce souls to their ruin.
“I have seen heavenly angels watching with intense interest the movements of the people of God. I have seen Satan presenting false securities, while a hand was stretched out, pointing the other way. One reckless movement, one imprudent step, and the surging waves of some strong temptation would have to be met.”
This communication, as all can see, is more definite than the first. In the first are these expressions:—
“He has signified, by his providence, that he would have us leave Battle Creek.”
“I have no special light, except what you have already received, in reference to New York and other large cities that have not been worked.”
“Decided efforts should be made in Washington, D. C.”
“New York needs to be worked, but whether our publishing house should be established there, I can not say. I should not regard the light I have received as definite enough to favor the movement.”
In the second letter written eleven days later, are these statements:—
“During the past night many things have been presented to me regarding our present dangers, and some things about our publishing work have been brought most distinctly to my mind.”
“God understands our situation. He alone knows where the Review and Herald Publishing House should be established.”
“In regard to establishing the institution in New York, I must say, Be guarded. I am not in favor of it being near New York. I can not give all my reasons, but I am sure that any place within thirty miles of that city would be too near. Study the surroundings of other places. I am sure that the advantages of Washington, D. C., should be closely investigated.”
“We should not establish this institution in a city nor in the suburbs of a city. It should be established in a rural district, where it can be surrounded by land.”
“Wherever the office of publication is established, preparations must also be made to fit up a small sanitarium and to establish a small agricultural school. We must, therefore, find a place that has sufficient land for these purposes. We must not settle in a congested center.”
(To be concluded)

The Service of Christ

The service of Christ is the business of my life.
The will of Christ is the law of my life.
The presence of Christ is the joy of my life.
The glory of Christ is the crown of my life.—Selected.

The Works of Nature Speak of God

THE works of man remind man of himself, and cause him to glory in himself; but the works of nature speak to man of God.
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