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Signs of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

Editorial
Earlier text: TRUE BLUE

HARD TIMES A TEST OF FAITH.

By W. N. G.

THE following clipping from the Christian Home is food for thought on the part of those who are doing the work of the Lord:—
God has promised that his grace shall be sufficient for our every hour of need, and he has ever been, and is now, faithful unto his promise. We know in whom we trust and rejoice moment by moment. No matter what financial complications may result from unwise legislation, no matter how many banks may fail, nor how many factories may close their doors, the work of the Lord will not suffer, if we have faith in him. He owns the gold and the silver of earth. He is over and above them both, and will not permit his work to suffer on account of fluctuations in the value of either, as measured by man. Let it be our joy and pride, dear fellow-laborers, to show to the world that in times of depression, as well as in times of prosperity, we are true to the cause of the Master. In no way could we preach a more powerful, practical sermon to a doubting world than by thus demonstrating our trust and faith in Him who is good and whose mercy endureth forever.
The message due to the world at the present time is represented as being given with a loud voice by flying messengers. Rev. 14:6–12. Must their speed stop and their loud voice become faint because of the fluctuations in the world's business? The theory is that the resources of heaven are pledged to the work of salvation in the earth. Shall we treat it as only theory, or shall we plant our faith on the fact that the bank of heaven cannot fail?
The hard times cry was once illustrated on the northern bank of the Sea of Galilee. There were "about five thousand men, beside women and children," out in "a desert place" with nothing to eat. The little church of God was also there, and while they saw the great need of the suffering multitude, they felt powerless to help, because their whole apparent supply was but five loaves of bread and two little fishes. But the Master said, "Give ye them to eat." In obedience to his command they engaged in the good work, and, lo! his blessing upon their little store made it more than enough.
Brethren, shall we slacken our efforts because the multitudes are suffering and money is scarce? The Master would say, This is the time to manifest the power of God. The more the people are in need, the greater the necessity for enlarging our plans. If we curtail our efforts because the people have no money, it will look as though it is the money we are after. Would it not be better to seek the blessing of God upon our little store, and go on dealing out to the suffering world in the faith of Him who never fails? Never mind the stinted crops, never mind the failing banks, never mind the closing mines, the hushed factories and mills. The people are hungry; "give ye them to eat." W. N. G.

FIELD NOTES.

By Editor

UNION COLLEGE, College View, Neb., was opened on the 13th inst.
ELDER G. F. WATSON reports an addition of seven to the church at West Union, Iowa.
THE Sun, of Denver, Colo., gives liberal reports of proceedings at the camp meeting held there August 30 to September 10.
BROTHER H. K. NELLIS and others report an attendance of 500 to 800 at tent meetings held at Moberly, Randolph County, Mo.
IN connection with the tent work at Olean, N. Y., Brethren S. Thurston and W. D. Emery report that ten have decided to obey the commandments of God.
BRETHREN H. V. ADAMS AND BURT FULLMER report the baptism of seven candidates and the organization of a Sabbath school of twenty members at Corning, Iowa.
EIGHT persons, seven of them heads of families, were recently baptized by Elder G. K. Owen, at Paradise, Butte County, Cal. When last heard from a church organization was in contemplation, as others were expected to come out on the Lord's side. THE tent meetings in St. Johns, N. B., conducted by Elders R. S. Webber and F. I. Richardson, are bearing fruit. The last report says "fourteen have embraced the truth, and the interest is steadily increasing."
THE brethren of Lansing, Mich., have secured a commodious hall in a convenient locality, and are greatly encouraged at being able to carry on regular services where the public can attend. Elder L. G. Moore is located there with his family.
AMONG those who accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith in Prattville, Mich., were the trustees of the Dunkard Church. They have now tendered the free use of the church to our brethren for Sabbath school and meeting purposes. Elder R. C. Horton had been holding tent meetings there.
IT was stated in this column in the Signs of August 21 that the Rev. Mr. Willard, of the Presbyterian Mission in Alaska, had accepted the Sabbath. We learn that this is not so, and regret that the statement was made. It was based on a misunderstanding by us, and we hasten to correct the mistake.
IN addition to the "Tahiti Items" sent by Brother Chapman, we have this from Sister Read: "Some natives came from Tubuai and told us that there was an interest awakened there by the native sister and her daughter who went from here, taking some literature with them. And now they want my husband and Brother Dean to visit them."
THE deep interest in the tent meetings at Johnstown, Pa., previously reported, still continues. The efforts of certain ministers to bring the work to naught has apparently worked for the good of our cause. A German Baptist minister was imported from Covington, Ohio, who was supposed to have some overwhelming arguments against the truth, but they proved to be simply some rusty armament that had proved useless in the hands of others, and were of little or no effect when reproduced.

THE GREAT REFINER.

"He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."
'Tis sweet to know that he who tries The silver, takes his seat Beside the fire that purifies, Lest too intense a heat, Raised to consume the base alloy, The precious metal, too, destroy.
'Tis good to think that well he knows The silver's power to bear The ordeal to which he goes, And that, with skill and care, He'll take it from the fire, when fit For his own hand to polish it.
'Tis blessedness to feel that he, The piece he has begun, Will not forsake 'ill he can see— To prove the work is done— An image, by its brightness shown, The perfect likeness of his own.
But, ah! how much of earthly mold, Dark relics of the mine, Purged from the ore, must he behold— How long must he refine Ere in the silver he can trace The first faint semblance to his face!
Thou Great Refiner, sit thou by, Thy promise to fulfill! Moved by thy hand, beneath thine eye, And melted at thy will, Oh! may thy work forever shine, Reflecting beauty pure as thine.
—Selected.

TAHITI ITEMS.

Brother L. C. Chapman, of Papeete, Tahiti, sends the following items of interest inclosed in a private letter:—
Sunday, July 30, Elder Read spoke to quite a large company of natives who had assembled at Arue to witness the laying of the corner stone of the first Seventh-day Adventist Church of Polynesia. Their attention was called to the fact that most of the world are building on foundations that are false, and that in building on Christ we have a hope that is sure and steadfast. A good interest was manifested, and the prospect is bright that soon we will have a comfortable house of worship. The natives sang, for one piece on this occasion, No. 1396 "Hymns and Tunes," which had previously been translated into the Tahitian.
Word comes to us through natives from Rurutu that the Pitcairn stopped there for eight days. The native pastor had been informed that Rom. 1:25 applied to us, and he was not at all glad to see the ship. Many of the natives were displeased to have the pastor act so, and of course there was a division among the people. We trust it will result in further study of the word of God to see if these things be so.
A new man has arrived in this field to take charge of the work of the Mormons in this place. He is of the division of that church called "Latter-day Saints," and has, among other titles on a card, the announcement that he is a high priest, and in a sermon he recently said that he had discovered that Christ did not come to save sinners.
Brother Henry Dean is now in Tahiti and is assisting in translating a number of Bible readings and other matter.

Unreached Peoples Await the Gospel

REV. A. B. SIMPSON writes from India and the Malay Peninsula that missionaries have not yet penetrated Thibet, though a few Thibetans have been reached outside the borders of their own land. And Thibet is a mighty nation, of millions of souls. He also says that the kingdom of Annam, comprising about twenty millions of people, has no missionaries of the cross, and that in fact none of the Malay races which speak the Malay language, have yet heard of the gospel of the Son of God. He mentions also some populous islands which are still without the good news of salvation.—Messiah's Advocate.

Missionary Statistics

"IN New York City are found over 3,000 physicians, to minister to 1,900,000 persons, while in the foreign field for 1,000,000,000 there are only about 350 medical missionaries, or one to 3,000,000—that is, one to the combined population of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City."
"OF the 1,670 persons received into Christian fellowship in the Swatow Mission of the Baptist Missionary Union nearly one-half were baptized after they were fifty years of age, and no less than 361 after they were sixty."

The Pope and Liberty

By California Christian Advocate

THE pope is now posing as a lover of liberty. Those who welcome this liberality in the Holy Father should not forget that at the same time the pope talks so earnestly of liberty, he keeps in prison in South America good subjects of the United States, merely because they express opinions offensive to Leo's priests. Doubtless the defenders of the Papacy will say that it is the government that imprisons, and not the pope. That excuse is threadbare; it has been used so many times in the case of the Inquisition and of many other iniquities that it deceives no one who understands history.

New Publications

ANGELS; THEIR NATURE AND MINISTRY. Contains also some hints on the origin, history, and destiny of Satan as gleaned from the Scriptures. Bible Students' Library, No. 92. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 140 pp.; 20 cents.
UNION BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS. Some prominent points showing the prospects of such a confederacy. 8 pp.; $1.00 per hundred. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal.
CHRIST AND THE SABBATH: Or Christ in the Old Testament and the Sabbath in the New, by Elder James White. Paper covers, fifty-six pages, sent post-paid for ten cents. Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

TO OUR PEOPLE.

By S. H. Carnahan

COLLEGE PLACE, Wash., Aug. 13, 1893.
MANY of you no doubt heard Brother P. J. D. Wessels at the California and other camp meetings talk in regard to the advancement of God's work in South Africa, also of the steps to be taken next February or March to plant a mission in a new field in South Africa, which is being thrown open for white settlers.
The land is spoken of as a good land, and the inhabitants hail with joy the advent of the whites.
What a wonderful opening this is for consecrated persons and families with means to go and settle and live and teach the truth to the poor untutored African, for the company that has opened this land for settlement will give to persons going and settling for this purpose such tracts of land as will enable such a colony to be self-supporting and sustain a good mission.
Brother Wessels feels quite urgent over the question, and would like to see a colony of good families from among our people make use of this opportunity, and he wished me to place the matter before the people here, and correspond with those that would be willing to contemplate such a move, and he would correspond with me, and we could all work in harmony and move together, while it would be very hard for him to correspond with each family separately.
All must realize that such an undertaking would require great sacrifice, and that only those that truly have Christ within ought to make such a move.
Brother Wessels will probably soon have an article published in the SIGNS about Mashonaland. All who feel an earnest desire and expectation to go to this new field next spring should correspond with me soon, so all arrangements can be completed some time before time for starting.
Yours in the work, S. H. CARNAHAN. College Place, Wash.

The Talents

By M. C. Wilcox

THE TALENTS. By M. C. Wilcox. A brief essay on "The Parable of the Talents," showing that the talents represent the various gifts of the Spirit which God bestows as he will upon those who are consecrated to him, with the duties and blessed privileges involved therein. Bible Students' Library, No. 77; 16 pp., price 2 cents.

CAMP MEETINGS FOR 1893.

By Editor

DISTRICT NUMBER THREE.

Illinois (southern), Olney...................Sept. 13-19 Michigan (State), Lansing........Sept. 21 to Oct. 1

DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR.

Wisconsin, Glenwood.......................Sept. 12-19 Wisconsin (northeastern), New London........................................Sept. 25 to Oct. 2 Iowa, Sigourney...............................Oct. 3-10 Minnesota, Wadena........................Sept. 19-25 Minnesota, Owatonna......................Oct. 3-10

DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE.

Colorado (western), Delta......Sept. 27 to Oct. 2 Missouri, Sedalia............................Sept. 13-24 Oklahoma, Oklahoma City......Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

DISTRICT NUMBER SIX.

California (southern), Santa Ana., Sept. 21 to Oct. 1 GEN. CONF. COM.

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LESSON I.—SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1893.

THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL.

[NOTE.—The questions which follow are merely suggestive for the student on the leading points of the lesson; it is presumed that the thorough student will think of many more as he studies the subject. References, where verses alone are given, always refer to the lesson scripture printed above. All other references are given in book, chapter, and verse. The text printed is that of the Revised Version, not because it is especially preferred, but because it is not found in every family, as is the common version.]

Lesson Scripture, Rom. 1: 8-17.

8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. 9. For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, 10. Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you. 11. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established: 12. That is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine. 13. And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles. 14. I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15. So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome. 16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17. For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith. Golden Text: "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth." Rom. 1: 16.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

1. By whom and to whom was this scripture written? 2. For what did Paul thank God? Verse 8. 3. Of whom did Paul make mention in his prayers, and what did he request? Verses 9, 10. 4. How often did he do this? 5. Whom does he call to witness to this? 6. How did Paul serve God? 7. Why did Paul long to see his brethren? Verse 11. 8. What was this gift designed to do for the church? 9. What mental benefit did Paul hope would be derived from his expected visit? Verse 12. 10. What motive prompted his desire to go to them? Verse 13. 11. To whom did Paul consider himself a debtor? Verse 14. 12. What did a sense of this indebtedness lead Paul to desire? Verse 15. 13. How did Paul regard the gospel? Verse 16. 14. Of whose power is the gospel a manifestation? 15. To whom is it the power of God unto salvation? 16. How does the gospel reveal God's power? See note. 17. To the accomplishment of what is it powerful? 18. What does the gospel reveal? Verse 17. 19. How does it reveal righteousness? 20. How shall only the just or righteous live?

NOTE.

THE gospel is wrapped up in Jesus Christ. In the great plan of salvation, he stands as the chief and central figure. His death paid the penalty of man's transgression (Isa. 53: 5); "he became sin for us" (2 Cor. 5: 21). Thus believers "have redemption through his blood." Col. 1: 14. This redemption includes "the forgiveness of sins" (Col. 1: 14), the cleansing from "all unrighteousness" (1 John 1: 9). The being is thus constituted a "new creature in Christ Jesus" (2 Cor. 5: 17), and becomes God's workmanship, "created in Christ Jesus unto good works" (Eph. 2: 10.) The work of redemption, then, is nothing more or less than a work of creation—the recreating of fallen man, restoring him to his Edenic holiness and purity. And this work of recreating is accomplished by the same power and in the same way as was the original creation. God "spake," and the worlds came into existence. Ps. 33: 6-9. By this same word of power was the leper made clean (Matt. 8: 1-3), the tempest stilled (Matt. 8: 23-27), and the dead raised (John 11: 43). That it is this same word of power which is manifest in the forgiveness of sins is shown by the words of Christ in John 15: 3: "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." See also Matt. 9: 2-6. Thus do we find that redemption is but the re-assertion of God's power as Creator. The memorial of creation is the Sabbath of the Creator. Gen. 2: 2, 3; Ex. 20: 8-11. Those who observe that ordinance show that they recognize the source of their existence and the authority of their Creator. But redemption is also creation, and therefore has as its memorial the same Sabbath of the Creator. Hence, those who are redeemed or sanctified from sin and are created anew, having God's law written in their hearts (Heb. 8: 10), will keep the memorial of creative power, the Sabbath of Jehovah. It will thus become the great distinguishing sign or mark of all those who recognize the Lord as their Creator and Redeemer. Eze. 20: 12; Ex. 31: 17.

LESSON XIV.—SABBATH, SEPTEMBER 30, 1893.

A TEMPERANCE LESSON.

Memory Verse.—"Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10: 31.
1. For what was man created? "For I have created him for my glory." Isa. 43: 7.
2. What is this glory elsewhere called? "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power." Rev. 4: 11.
3. What kind of pleasure is the pleasure of God? "According to the good pleasure of his will." Eph. 1: 5.
4. Did man continue to live for God's glory? "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Rom. 3: 23.
5. Is it the pleasure of the Lord that man should be afflicted and die prematurely? "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men." Lam. 3: 33.
6. What have been the moral results of intemperance? "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw good." Eze. 16: 49, 50.
7. What is the certain fate of the drunken and intemperate? "They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Gal. 5: 21.
8. Who is classed with the drunkard? "Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh; for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty." Prov. 23: 20, 21.
9. To whom do we belong? Ans.—To God. "Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men." 1 Cor. 7: 23; see also Gal. 3: 13.
10. What is the price which has been paid for us? "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, . . . but with the precious blood of Christ." 1 Peter 1: 18, 19.
11. What does God design our bodies to be? "What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?" 1 Cor. 6: 19.
12. How should we use them? "Therefore glorify God in your body." 1 Cor. 6: 20.
13. What does God desire as regards health of body? "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 2.
14. For what purpose should we eat and drink? "Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!" Eccl. 10: 17.
15. How are the mind and conscience sure to be affected by intemperance? "And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses." Lev. 10: 8-11.
16. How did a disregard of this affect Aaron's sons? "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord." Verses 1, 2; see also Isa. 56: 9-12; Eze. 22: 26.
17. What is one of the fruits of the Spirit of God? "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." Gal. 5: 22, 23; see also 2 Peter 1: 5-8.
18. How should we regard these lusts of appetite and passion? "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." 1 Peter 2: 11; see also Col. 3: 5.
19. What warning and admonition are given us for the last days? "Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying." Rom. 13: 13; see also Luke 21: 34, 35.
20. What should we do? "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." Rom. 13: 14; see also 1 Cor. 9: 24-27.
21. Are those free men and women who are bound by useless or hurtful habits of any kind? "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Rom. 6: 16.
22. How should those who know the truth live? "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation." 1 Thess. 5: 4-8.
23. Against what are we exhorted? "Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Rom. 14: 13.
24. What is ever a safe rule? "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10: 31.

NOTE.

INTEMPERANCE is by no means to be confined to indulgence in alcoholic or fermented liquors. Whatever it is to which man stoops in blind submission, upon which he wastes his powers of mind or body uselessly, is a master, and he is a slave, and the repeated act of indulgence is intemperance, fraught with the same direful consequences, bondage of soul and body, and at last irretrievable ruin. Thus tobacco in its various forms holds millions in its power. Tea and coffee hold millions more in bondage. Of course the last two are not as bad as the use of alcohol, opium, absinthe, and tobacco, but, though milder, they do no good, they enslave the mind, blunt the finer sensibilities of the soul, and so unfit it to appreciate the glorious truths of God. Freedom in Christ is freedom from every enthralling habit.

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