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Review and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 48.

Loving Words

Review and Herald

Nov 30, 1905

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1905

Loving Words

By L. D. SANTEE

L. D. SANTEE
THERE'S a peace, if we will but discern it, That comes from the Father above; There's a joy, if our lips will but learn it, In speaking the language of love; The fragrance of kindness and pity Is found where love's banners are furled; They came from the jasper-walled city, To lighten the heart of the world.
When we yield to the flashing of temper, And our cruel words cut like a knife, We darken the wearisome hours Of this troubled and pitiful life; And heads that are gray with life's ashes, And feet that are palsied and slow, Are carrying heavier burdens, That we, in our anger, bestow.
Too late—when the tired hands are folded, And the life-giving spirit has fled; No use to bring violets and roses To garland the forms of the dead. The chance to retrace cometh never, Though our faces with tear-drops are wet; The old life has vanished forever, And leaves unavailing regret.
Let us bathe, with the balm of contrition, The wounds that our anger has made; Let love fill the heart with its sunshine, While yet the keen sickle is stayed; Let our flowers fill the hands of the living, And their fragrance, the bosoms that yearn; And the joy that we felt in the giving, Our Father to us will return.
Moline, Ill.

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Reviving Power

WHILE praying for a revival of God’s work it is encouraging to meditate upon the power which has been provided for the quickening of all believers. We are not to attempt the impossible by seeking to revive ourselves. We can not impart life to ourselves, nor to any one else. With God is the fountain of life. He is able to make alive that which is dead. His reviving power is shown in the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and this is cited as the measure of the power which all believers may know. For “the faithful in Christ Jesus” the apostle Paul recorded the inspired prayer, that they might know “the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand.” That power which raised Christ from the dead will revive believers. That power which will raise the dead at the last day is pledged to quicken those who are now dead in trespasses and sins. We do not pray to a god that can not save. “Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.” “As for me, I will call upon God; and Jehovah will hear me.” With confidence we may all pray, “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?”
“We humbly beseech thee, Lord Jesus, we pray, With love and the Spirit Baptize us to-day.”

Honoring Satan

An infidel in a Western city has erected a monument to Satan to show his contempt for religion. On the base of the monument is an inscription in Latin which, when translated, reads: “Man is not created, but is developed; God did not make man, but man did make the gods.” It is reported that “church-going people are particularly scandalized,” that “murmurings of indignation are freely voiced, and corrective measures are being discussed.” A later report says that it was necessary to detail policemen to guard the monument to protect it from injury. When honor is thus openly paid by an infidel to “the god of this world,” the people are startled, and their indignation is aroused, but when professed Christians do the same thing in smooth flowing sentences under the cover of “higher criticism” or “liberal theology,” it is applauded as the evidence of ripe scholarship and independent thinking. Scientists declare that “man is not created, but is developed,” and professed Christians reject the Biblical account of creation in order to be in harmony with a science which dishonors God and prepares the way for satanic sophistries. The infidel who erected this monument to Satan said in an interview that the Bible “is a pack of lies from beginning to end,” and “church-going people are particularly scandalized” thereby, and with good reason. On the other hand, because the bishops of the Methodist Church declined to confirm the election of a theological professor who had made what seemed to them “unwarranted and objectionable” statements concerning the historical character of the early chapters of the book of Genesis, on the ground that such statements had “a tendency to invalidate the authority of other portions of the Scripture,” these bishops are held up to ridicule by a professed Christian journal, which ironically declares that “a church has a perfect right to decide that in the schools it sustains and controls the pupils shall be informed that the earth is flat, and that any teacher who declares that the earth is round must be dismissed.” From our point of view, the infidel who erects his monument to Satan and openly assails the Bible as “a pack of lies” does the cause of true religion less harm than the professed believers in Christianity who ridicule those who really believe the Bible to be true, or those liberal thinkers who urge that people should read “the Old Testament stories as the folk-lore of a very ancient time.” The same master mind inspires all this dishonor to God and his Word. Our message is, “Fear God, and give glory to him.” “Worship God.”

The Eastern Question Revived

So many matters of national and international interest have claimed attention of late, that not much has been said about current developments in the dominions of the sultan of Turkey, but just now the eyes of the world are once more being directed toward that quarter. The great powers of Europe, which have maintained a sort of guardianship over the Turkish government for many years, have now joined hands to compel the sultan to accept a scheme of financial reforms in practically the whole of European Turkey. The press dispatches state that the sultan regards these demands as a direct infringement of his sovereignty; in effect, as a notice to quit Europe, and that he will not yield to them.
The changes which have come in recent years, the new elements of strength which are depended upon by the Turkish government, and the possibilities of the situation in case the powers insist upon their demands, are thus set forth by a London correspondent:—
His [the sultan's] position has been fundamentally altered since he was coerced by Europe after the Russo-Turkish War, and more recently by being compelled to relinquish Crete. He has since attained the object of his thirty years' ambition. Thanks chiefly to the Armenian massacres, which were allowed to go unpunished by Europe, and his victory over the Greeks, he has gained control over all Islam, and has been recognized as the calipha of Mohammedans in the entire globe.
The recent wonderful renaissance of pan-Islamism has for its object a holy war against infidels, and the mass of its followers believe that this is at hand. Abdul Hamid, as the head of this immense force, can not yield a fraction more of his sovereignty without resistance, and without summoning all of his faith to his assistance.
This, then, is the appalling danger which the powers will incur if they resort to force in imposing their demands. A holy war would bleed Great Britain in India, and Egypt and France in Algiers and Morocco, besides bringing about a wholesale massacre of Christians in Constantinople, which has so long been threatened.
Additional interest in the whole situation is created by the news that England is changing her traditional attitude in the matter of the preservation of the integrity of Turkey. This is the subject of a dispatch from London to the Citizen of Columbus, Ohio, published Oct. 28, 1905. This appeared under the startling heading, prominently displayed, “Turks to be Driven from Europe,” and reads as follows:—
Abdul Hamid's days as a European monarch are believed to be numbered. An agitation is now being conducted in Great Britain in favor of the withdrawal of what up to now has been the keystone of England's foreign policy—the veto against the advance of the Russian empire to Constantinople. The Spectator, the great British political weekly, has joined the agitation, and it has come to be almost a rule in British politics that measures supported by the Spectator are bound sooner or later to become accomplished facts.
For generations Great Britain has upheld the integrity of Turkey through a fear that if any European power seized the sultan's country, England's sea route to India via the Suez Canal would be endangered in time of war. The integrity of Turkey has been to the government of India what the Monroe doctrine is to the United States, and the sultan has relied on the necessity of England to support his throne as his only strong hold on his European possessions.
Now, however, the new Anglo-Japanese alliance is a guarantee of the safety of India, and Englishmen are preparing to give up their objection to Russian occupation of Turkey. England realizes that Russia within the next few years must have warm water seaports, and if these are not obtained in Turkey, they will be on the Persian Gulf, which is too uncomfortably near India, even with the Anglo-Japanese alliance in being, for England's complete tranquillity.
Another reason for the startling change in England's near Eastern policy is the fear of a strong alliance between Russia and Germany. The dearest desire of Englishmen at present is to weaken Germany, and to destroy the growing intimacy between the czar and the kaiser. Germany is now the predominant power in Constantinople, and the kaiser is very ambitious to maintain his influence in the Turkish capital, for German capital is heavily invested in Asia Minor, and Germans have come to regard Asia Minor as the place for their next colonial venture. If England withdraws her objection to the Russian flag floating over Constantinople, the only bar to the slow march on Turkey would be German ambition, and an apple of discord would thus be thrown between the czar and kaiser, which would lead to the severance of the strong ties of friendship that now bind the two monarchs together.
Abdul Hamid is helpless, and can do nothing to stop the inevitable Muscovite advance into Turkey, once England's support of his rule vanishes. When that occurs, the sick man will be moved back into Asia, and Europe no more will know a prophet of Mahomet.
While these two correspondents deal with different phases of the question, and do not fully agree in their views of the details of the situation, they arrive at the same conclusion—the probability that the Turk will be driven from Europe in the near future. Those who have been looking for this outcome of the Eastern question as the fulfilment of prophecy and a sign of the near coming of our Lord will watch with great interest the further development of these latest phases of this ever interesting subject.
Whichever way we turn, we find the evidences multiplying on every hand to show that the great day of the Lord is near. All these considerations urge us to zeal in fulfilling our part in proclaiming the warning message quickly in every land.

A People Aroused

By W. A. S.

MISDIRECTED though it was, the zeal of the old Crusaders may teach us a lesson. They were a people aroused. And that is what we must be in these closing days of the message.
Peter the Hermit and others had preached that the glory of the cross demanded that the tomb of Christ should be wrested from Moslem hands. It was an argument that appealed to men in that age of superstition and chivalry.
With the cry, “God willeth it,” the people of Europe began to equip and send armies to the rescue of the so-called holy places. One writer says:—
No nation so remote, no people so retired, but, gaining the intelligence by common rumor, commenced preparations for the mighty enterprise.
The Welshman forsook his hunting, the Scot his native mountains; the Dane forgot his wassail-bowl; the Norwegian left his fishing-tackle on the sand. Whatever was stored in granaries or hoarded in chambers was bartered for military equipments.
It increased by contagion; it grew by communion; it spread from house to house and from bosom to bosom; it became a universal desire—an enthusiasm, a passion.
Princes labored like peasants at the forge or in the armory. High-born dames abandoned their embroidery, and employed their delicate fingers in fabricating garments for the retainers of their lords.
There was no lack of volunteers to go. “Europe,” says the historian, “appeared to be a land of exile which every one was eager to quit.” “Nor have all the centuries since the close of the Crusades,” says Myers, “witnessed another such universal and profound movement among the peoples of that continent.”
We have on hand a very practical missionary crusade. There is nothing of the fanciful or sentimental about the cause that has made us a people. Carnal weapons and carnal energies will not avail. But the issue fairly faced must stir us profoundly. A warning message is to be carried through every land.
There never was so soul-stirring a cry raised in the earth as this call to men to prepare to meet the hour of God’s judgment.
No one can believe what Seventh-day Adventists profess without acknowledging that the cause of the third angel’s message demands the whole-hearted devotion, and enthusiasm, and burning zeal of the people who represent it. We are not only to sing,—
“Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my life, my soul, my all,”
but we must now actually devote life, soul, and all to the finishing of the work.
Seventy-five thousand Seventh-day Adventists, distributed over every continent and on the islands of the sea, and moved by one common impulse to finish the work, and to finish it now, could quickly do it by the grace of Christ.
When a whole people are found willing, it shall be the day of God’s power. For this impulse from heaven let us earnestly pray. The cry of the mission fields calls for it. In the gifts for missions this week of prayer there must be solemn and enthusiastic devotion of means to the missionary advance.
“O for Jerusalem’s trumpet now, To blow a blast of shattering power To wake the sleepers high and low, And rouse them to the urgent hour.”
And the voice of God’s providence is indeed sounding the trumpet of alarm in Zion to rouse us to go forward. Ministers and public laborers must yield themselves to go anywhere at God’s bidding. Every business—in the shop, on the farm, everywhere—must be conducted as a help to this one great purpose of our existence. Christ is coming. The world must hear the message. Pray God to send laborers now. Pray God to send means at this week of prayer season. There can be no turning back; yet the mission fields suffer for lack of means and of workers. The arousing impulse from Heaven is what we need. We shall receive it as we receive the Holy Spirit for service. W. A. S.

The Program of the Papacy

A NATION'S extremity is the papacy's opportunity. So it was in those terrible times which witnessed the fall of the Roman empire. “Most marvelous and astonishing it truly was,” says Dr. J. A. Wylie, “that at a time when Rome was placed in most imminent jeopardy, and society itself was perishing around her, she [the papacy] should lay the foundations of her power, and by her prompt interposition save herself and the world from the dissolution to which both appeared to be tending.”
In the present troublous times in this country the same papacy evidently recognizes another great opportunity to build herself up by playing the role of the preserver of the peace.We have expected this as the direct fulfilment of prophecy, and now the Catholic program is beginning to be announced. As indicating what this program is, we quote the following paragraphs from an editorial in the New World (Roman Catholic) of October 21:—
There has never been a period in American history when the church's opportunity has been so close to her. To a great extent the antagonisms have died. Protestantism is disintegrating before our eyes. There are millions seeking light, unknowing where to turn. There are tens of thousands shelterless, waiting the Shepherd's voice. The great Catholic races of Europe are pouring down upon us, and these must be housed and fed with the Bread of life. The unshielded non-Catholic poor are beginning to look toward the church for justice. The vast property interests of the country, alarmed at the growth of the various cults of destruction, at last are beginning to see that she is the one supreme force that makes for social order—the last hope of existing civilization. All eyes are now upon her, and even ancient enemies to-day are praying that she may not fail.
The moment is ripe to build a Catholic America, broader and stronger, and nobler and truer, than any empire the world has yet seen, and strong men are now laying the foundations. To-morrow you may see the walls rising; look forward a hundred years, and you will see the vast edifice complete, extending from the first rays of the morning sun to the twilight splendor of the evening star. Those who lay the corner-stones may not live to behold their work stand finished, but unborn generations will bless them for the courage they had, and for the holy purpose with which they toiled.
With this view of the papacy's opportunity as presented by this Roman Catholic writer in A. D. 1905 compare the foreview presented by John the revelator in A. D. 96. Of this prophetic vision he writes:—
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.
In this connection it will also be profitable to read the following testimony borne through the spirit of prophecy:—
The Protestant churches are in great darkness, or they would discern the signs of the times. The Roman Church is far-reaching in her plans and modes of operation. She is employing every device to extend her influence and increase her power in preparation for a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done.
Catholic America! This is the hope of the papacy. And we do not wonder that from the Catholic standpoint the moment seems ripe for the realization of this hope. The principles of Protestantism and republicanism are fast being set aside, and the way is being prepared for the papacy to assert her old-time claims to both civil and ecclesiastical dominion. What does all this mean to us? We ought to recognize in these developments a trumpet call to hasten the work of giving the message against the beast and his image. The way of the papacy is being prepared; the way of the Lord must also be prepared.

One Hundred to One

By L. A. S.

THIS ratio of increase represents a success which few enterprises attain. It is certainly a thing worth knowing and worth acting upon, that the greatest enterprise in the world, the one in which we are most interested, and which most concerns the welfare of mankind, may attain even this degree of success. It is within our power to accomplish this great result. Here is the authority for this statement:—
If we would humble ourselves before God, and be kind and courteous and tender-hearted and pitiful,—if we would do this, brethren, there would be one hundred conversions to the truth where now there is only one.—Review and Herald, Nov. 16, 1905, page 18.
It seems strange indeed that with the high profession we make we should be so lacking in humility, kindness, and charity that ninety-nine out of every hundred persons that we might reach are turned away from the message God sends to them. What is the trouble? This statement tells:—
Though professing to be converted, we carry around with us a bundle of self that we regard as altogether too precious to be given up.—Id.
“A bundle of self”—that is what does all this tremendous damage. What a deceitful thing is self! “The heart is deceitful above all things.” The one who is carrying this bundle deceives himself, but he does not deceive others. Such is the deceitfulness of self, that the one who is ruled by self is not aware of it; but other people are. They see the bundle of self very plainly. They see a spirit manifested which repels them. The spirit of self is never an attractive spirit. But the spirit of unselfishness is like a fragrance that attracts all who come within its reach. Christians ought to manifest a spirit that attracts people of every belief and class in the world. Such is the spirit of Christ. When he is lifted up, all men are drawn unto him.
Without paying out great sums of money, without establishing great institutions, there is a chance to make the work of this message a hundredfold more efficient than it now is, simply by dropping this bundle of self, and becoming kind and courteous, tender-hearted and pitiful. Is this worth considering? “It is our privilege to lay this burden at the feet of Christ, and in its place take the character and similitude of Christ. The Saviour is waiting for us to do this.” L. A. S.

The Atlantic Union Conference

By Arthur G. Daniells

THE third session of the Atlantic Union Conference was held at South Lancaster, Mass., November 1-9. The weather was beautiful, the delegates were of good courage, and the conference passed off very harmoniously. Each local conference was represented by delegates, but the delegation and the general attendance did not seem so large as at the former sessions of this conference. The general laborers present were Brethren G. A. Irwin and E. W. Farnsworth, and the writer.
One excellent feature of this meeting was the time given to spiritual interests. There were Bible studies and preaching daily at 6 and 11 A. M., and at 7:30 P. M. A prayer and praise service was held at 5 P. M. The business meetings of the session were held from 9 to 10:30 A. M., and from 2 to 4 P. M.
The early morning hour was occupied by Brother Irwin in a course of Bible studies on the spirit of prophecy as manifested in the church from the earliest times. This candid, thorough study of the Scriptures on this subject was a great blessing to many. It was clearly established that this gift has been manifested in the church in every age when the church has been obedient to the law of God.
It was also made very clear that the age of the instrument upon whom this gift is bestowed does not impair the gift in the slightest degree. John must have been nearly one hundred years old when he wrote the wonderful prophecies of Revelation. Daniel was well advanced in years when there was revealed to him some of the great prophetic outlines of the book of Daniel. Simeon and Anna, too, although of great age, could see and understand things relating to the first advent, to which the high priest, the rabbis, and priests were utterly blind, although in the very prime of life. The spirit of prophecy does not grow old, nor in any way lose its power, authority, and value to the church, as the instrument through whom it is manifested advances in years.
Although Elder Haskell was not in the best of health during the meeting, hegave a few excellent talks regarding the importance of having a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. The evenings were occupied by the ministers from different conferences.
It was my privilege to address the students of South Lancaster Academy at the chapel exercises each morning during the conference. It was cheering to meet these young people. The attendance is good this year. Many of these young people should soon be strong, active workers in the great fields now calling so earnestly for consecrated men and women.
The business proceedings will doubtless be reported by the officers of the conference. The treasurer reported all bills paid up to date, and a surplus of two thousand five hundred dollars in the treasury. In his biennial address, the president recommended that two thousand dollars of this surplus be appropriated to the General Conference for the mission fields. This was heartily supported by the most of the delegates. This will rejoice the hearts of some of our missionaries who are earnestly pleading for another worker or two to help them.
After serving the cause in the Atlantic States for twelve or thirteen years without interruption, Brother and Sister Cottrell are leaving this part of the field for the Pacific Coast. They do this in response to a call from the Pacific Union Conference Committee. Elder and Mrs. Cottrell go to the Pacific Coast, with the confidence, best wishes, and earnest prayers of their collaborators and many friends on the Atlantic Coast. They have labored untiringly, and God has accepted and blessed their service. Elder E. W. Farnsworth takes Brother Cottrell's place as president of the Atlantic Union.
A. G. DANIELLS.

How Shall We Observe the Week of Prayer?

By R. A. Underwood

DECEMBER 9-16 has been set apart by the General Conference to be observed by all our people as a special season of prayer and consecration.
Anciently God called his people at special seasons to seek him earnestly by self-examination and prayer. The day of atonement was an occasion of this character. All who failed to humbly seek the Lord by confession of sin on these occasions were cut off from among the people.
We are living in the antitypical day of atonement, or the investigative judgment. We are admonished of the Lord, “Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.” Zeph. 2:3. The Lord says of this people, “They that escape . . . shall every one be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.” Eze. 7:16.
Shall these days of prayer be so improved as to mark signal victories in the lives of all our people? Many can not say with assurance, “It is well with my soul.” Christ’s invitation to such is, “Come unto me, . . . and I will give you rest.”
Trifling things should not hinder us from assembling each day at the place appointed for prayer. God has blessed us with a bountiful harvest of temporal things. These will all perish, but we must have enduring riches. Our sins must be covered. We must have power to witness for God. Our children and families must go with us to the kingdom. Our thank-offerings should be in keeping with the blessings and mercies of our God toward us. “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” “Bring an offering, and come into his courts.” Let all the people say Amen.
R. A. UNDERWOOD.
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