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Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 29.

In Christ

Review and Herald

Jul 22, 1909

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 22, 1909

In Christ

In Christ there is no East nor West, In Him no South nor North, But one great fellowship of Love Throughout the whole wide earth. In Him shall true hearts everywhere Their high communion find; His service is the golden cord Close binding all mankind.
*Note.— This hymn was sung at the great Missionary Exposition held in Agricultural Hall, London, last summer.*

The “Life and Health” Magazine for August Now Ready

By Editor

“I BELIEVE you will sell 100,000 copies of the August number,” said an officer of the General Conference to our circulating manager. And why not?
Doesn’t it seem good to see our entire edition of 80,000 copies of the July number sold by the fifteenth of the month? Orders are still coming in at the rate of 2,000 to 4,000 copies a day.
We are looking for a very large sale of the beautiful and useful August number. We never had so many, nor so good, agents for this national health magazine. Many new recruits are joining our large army of agents every week. Many scholarships have already been earned through the sale of the magazines.
A glance at the August cover design will convince you that we have improved even upon the beautiful July cover. The beautiful scene from nature appearing on the front of the cover, will help our agents to sell thousands of copies of this number.
How we would like to read you the many encouraging letters and sales reports received from our Life and Health agents. Their varied experiences and a recital of the good they have been able to accomplish, would make very interesting reading.
Brethren R. C. Spohr and Grover Fattic, of Indiana, report excellent sales by the young people in their two periodical scholarship companies. Five of the young ladies had sold their 1,000 copies each several days ago, and others were making good records. And these are but samples of the experience of hundreds of other agents.

Contents of August Number

ILLUSTRATIONS.—Over thirty full-page and smaller photo-reproductions help to make the articles attractive. A striking frontispiece, showing a city scene and a country scene, entitled “Which Do You Prefer on a Hot Day?”
GENERAL ARTICLES.—Food and Flies, by A. B. Olsen, M. D. — Garden Reveries (illustrated), by R. O. Eastman — Learning to Smoke (four illustrations), by the Boy Who Did It — How I Broke Myself of Using Tobacco (illustrated)— The Relation of Parental Alcoholism to Tuberculosis in Children (four statistical tables), by H. J. Achard — Tramping for Health (illustrated), by Wm. Randolph Hale — Help for Unfortunate Children (seven illustrations) — Facts and Problems for Parents.
HOME TREATMENT FOR COMMON DISEASES.—Treatment of Malaria Without Drugs, by H. F. Rand, M. D.
HEALTHFUL COOKERY.—Some Facts About Foods, by Geo. E. Cornforth.
HEALTHFUL DRESS.—Dress and Its Relation to Health — No. 2 (five illustrations), by Eva K. Cogshall.
THE HOME ACRE.—Planning the Grounds, by Mrs. Stella Ridgway.
CURRENT COMMENT.—Vacations for Health — The Autumnal Disease — Flies and Typhoid Fever — Physiology and the Dental Profession.
ABSTRACTS.—Unnecessary Blindness — Dental Disorders and Tuberculosis — The Important Element in the Overfeeding of Infants.
MEDICAL FORUM.—Testimony of Health Officers Against the Fly — Concerning the Use of Drugs — The Surgery of the Future Will Be More Conservative — Transmission of Tubercle Bacilli by Saliva.
THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY AT WORK.—The Work of the Medical Missionary, A. B. Olsen, M. D.—Europe and East Africa, by L. R. Conradi — Korea, by Riley Russell, M. D. — Among the Maoris, by Read Smith — Medical Missionary Work in Mexico.
EDITORIAL.—An Unclean Mouth and Tooth Decay as Related to General Health — Amebic Dysentery.
Book Reviews and News Notes complete its interesting contents.

You Can Sell the August Number

As we said last month, you can do all that beginners can do, and perhaps more. Send twenty-five cents for five copies. If you are just beginning work, write for leaflet “How to Sell Our Magazines.” If you wish to earn a scholarship, ask for leaflet “How to Earn a Scholarship.” Read carefully the sales points outlined in the leaflet first mentioned. Don’t tell your customers too much, or they will not need to buy; besides, your time is too valuable for you to stop long with your prospect. The picture on the cover, and the mention of one or two striking articles, will usually sell the magazine. Mention Dr. Rand’s article on the “Treatment of Malaria Without Drugs,” for instance, or, “How I Broke Myself of Using Tobacco.” Pick out the strong features of this number that appeal to you, and talk about them as though you believed what you said. Don’t forget that many will buy this magazine for the sake of just one or two articles.

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THE WORK

By Editor

— AND — THE WORKERS
Better order your supply of the August Life and Health soon. That first edition of 75,000 copies will not last long.
The record of your State is found in the paragraph entitled “Where Liberty for the Second Quarter Went.” See Notices and Appointments department, page 23. Have you seen the new Liberty?
“Our little girl, eleven years old, sold 92 copies of Liberty this morning in one hour and thirty minutes,” writes Brother W. D. Fleming, of Wisconsin, “all in one large office building. . . . You may send 200 copies of Liberty to ——, Wis., and 1,500 to ——, Ill., also 300 Life and Health. ”
The Review and Herald Publishing Association has just made up a supply of leather slip covers for our agents’ guarantee books. These covers prevent the guarantee books getting worn and soiled, and at the same time convert an usually unsightly thing into one of beauty, and also impart in every way a better impression. The cover will be sent to our agents, post-paid, for 30 cents.
Large camp-meeting orders for Life and Health, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, and the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor are already being received from our conference presidents and tract society secretaries. These will be sold in connection with religious liberty and temperance meetings to be held and also to the church officers who will take them home after camp-meeting and sell them to their neighbors and friends.
“Camp-Meeting Sanitation — What to Do and What Not to Do,” is the title of a twelve-page tract just issued by the Review and Herald Publishing Association, upon the urgent request of the General Conference Committee. It contains, in every respect, the best sanitary advice that can be secured on the location of the camp, camp water-supply, camp-meeting food, camp-meeting kitchen, restaurant, store, the dishes, the garbage, danger from flies, the toilets, in fact, everything pertaining to the proper preparation of a camp-ground. Price, 75 cents a hundred, with usual tract society and publishing house discounts.
The bindery of the Review and Herald has been running overtime, and is compelled to continue to do so in order to supply our book workers with the stock they require to fill their orders. Case after case, weighing on an average 250 pounds, are being sent out daily. Though the weather is hot, our bindery employees cheerfully work hard all day and until nine and ten o’clock in the evening getting out waiting orders. In this they feel that they are having some voluntary part in the circulation of the books containing the message they love as devoutly as the canvasser. The books for which the greatest number of orders are made are “Great Controversy,” “Daniel and the Revelation,” “Desire of Ages,” “Bible Readings,” and “Coming King.”

Editorial

By Editor

Girdling the Earth With Prayer

WHILE the General Conference was in session, special prayer was being offered, not only by the believers in this country, but in many lands. The home fields pray for the missions; the mission fields pray for the home conferences.
As a testimony to the unity of the work, we print brief words from some of those abroad who helped to form the world-wide prayer circle at Conference time, sundered far from one another as they were, but all meeting by faith “around one common mercy-seat:” —
Spain: “As this is the day for the opening of the Conference, we are praying that God’s richest blessings may rest upon those there assembled. We feel that the time has come when we must expect great things in the development of our work.”—Frank Bond.
Sierra Leone: “We are earnestly praying that God may in a special way bless this Conference. While our burdens here are heavy, we are willing to carry them as long as we can, so that the additional help given may be used to push forward into unentered fields.”—T. M. French.
India: The second Sabbath of the Conference was made a day of fasting and prayer in India. “Many will be the calls for workers and means,” reads their call to prayer. “Many will reconsecrate their lives to God and his work during the Conference. Let us earnestly ask God to send us men and women fully consecrated, and willing to stand by the work wherever they may be placed.”—W. W. Miller, in Eastern Tidings.
Egypt: “For myself, and in behalf of the people of the cause of God with whom I come in contact, I send Christian greetings, and seek God’s blessing and guidance and his good Spirit in every step that the Conference takes in promulgating the third angel’s message in all the wide world before the soon coming of our blessed Redeemer.”—A. A. Elshabeed, by ancient Thebes.
Peru: “If you are all looking for great blessings during this Conference, then I wish to say we are already receiving first showers of promise. Last week I made a trip into one of the mountain valleys that had never been visited by a Protestant missionary before. I found that the Señales [our Spanish paper] had found its way there, and as a result nearly thirty adults were keeping the Sabbath, and though ignorant of much, were rejoicing in their first love.”—A. N. Allen.
Bengal: “We are looking for great blessings during the Conference, by the time this letter reaches you. Myself and wife will join in prayer and supplication for this. From the day the Conference convenes till the end, we will meet with you all before the throne of grace. . . . Again I would put in our plea for the Bengalese of India. Come over to Bengal and help us.”—L. G. Mookerjee.
Hakka-land: “We shall pray much for you people at headquarters as you meet in council. May all experience rich blessings as you plan for the extension of the work.”—J. P. Anderson, China.
Burma: “You will get this just at the close of Conference. We will have been praying for you. We do that now, but from next Thursday we shall especially pray. We can hardly wait until the Bulletin begins to arrive. Does Burma get help?”—R. A. Beckner.
Turkey: “God be with you all. I pray that the Lord’s Spirit may rest upon you, and that all the decisions made at this Conference may be Christ’s decisions. I believe that you are thinking about Turkey also.”—Ilia Keanidis.
Korea: “Yesterday our two-days’ workers’ meeting closed. Two days were spent in study and prayer. I think I never enjoyed two days more. The meetings were marked from the first by the presence of the Spirit. As it was the last week of the General Conference, many prayers went up to God that he would especially bless his people there assembled. While we know you are receiving great blessings, we certainly have been having a taste of the same. All said it was the best workers’ meeting ever held in Korea. The Spirit of God ran from heart to heart, and the workers go out to the work with new hopes and determinations.”—C. L. Butterfield.
The Answer: More to the work than any flight of feeling, was the answer to prayer that laid upon the entire Conference the solemn conviction that the time had come for an advance move into the unentered fields,—the great cities and the dark regions where millions have never heard. The united action of the conferences in favor of regularly sharing a definite proportion of the tithe with the mission fields will mean the moving forward of the frontier picket-lines in all the world, and the hastening of the finishing of the work. The baptism of the Holy Spirit means an earnest, steady, courageous, businesslike laying hold of the work to be done. The power of God was with the Conference to this end.

Denying the Advent Doctrine

By W. W. P.

A FEW facts concerning the recent developments in the religious world now stand out with much clearness. They may be briefly summarized thus:—
1. The principles of evolution have been accepted by many teachers of religion, and have been applied in Biblical exegesis. In the application of these principles the supernatural has been almost wholly eliminated from the teaching of the Scriptures.
2. The ultimate purpose of this whole system of teaching is to discredit the revelation of the Deity, the atoning sacrifice, the priestly mediation, and the literal second coming of Christ.
3. The acceptance of these principles of evolution, and their application to the interpretation of the Bible, make the second-advent message not simply unnecessary, but a materialistic error and the harbinger of a false hope.
It is within a comparatively short time that the last link in the chain of evidence necessary to establish these propositions has been forged. During the last year, however, several articles have appeared in influential publications explicitly denying the doctrine of the personal second advent, and interpreting the Scriptures which plainly teach this doctrine as being merely examples of Oriental imagery, or as having their fulfilment in the alleged pervading of society by the so-called spirit of Christ. A recent example of this kind is an article in the Methodist Review (quarterly) for April, 1909, entitled “The Second Coming,” which shows to what an extent the plainest statements of the Scripture have been discarded, and with what facility human philosophy may be substituted for divine revelation. The opening paragraph of this article reads:—
We hear much of the “second coming” of Christ, but we have no record that Jesus ever used the phrase. The word “second” is never employed by any of the Gospel writers in connection with any promises of our Lord concerning subsequent manifestations of himself.
We are forced to the conclusion that one who deliberately takes such a position as this must either be lamentably ignorant of what the Gospel writers do state, or he must be consciously quibbling over a word. Our reason is this: The writer of the fourth Gospel records the promised return of Jesus in these words: “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” It is true that Jesus does not use the word “second,” but can there be any other meaning to the promise, “I will come again,” than that he was referring to a second coming? In perfect harmony with this interpretation is the declaration of the Scripture, “Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time.”
This introductory paragraph is a fair sample of the exegetical principles adopted throughout this article. This is clearly illustrated in another paragraph:—
At a later state in their ministry they [the apostles] began to call to mind certain expressions which he used concerning the “coming of the Son of man in power;” and influenced by their three-years’ conviction of his greatness, and, at the same time, tinctured by their national conception of a Messiah, they came to look for his reappearance in bodily form during their lifetime. Upon the second coming he should do what he failed to do before. The apostle Paul spoke so confidently of his early return in visible form that some of the churches neglected their work and spent their time in watching for his reappearance. As time passed, and the coming was delayed, it became necessary for Paul to lengthen his calculation and to write correcting the impression he had made, as he does in the second epistle to the Thessalonians.
It is not necessary to look beneath the surface of such statements as these to perceive that the writer holds the most modern view concerning the inspiration of the Scriptures, and that therefore what the apostle Paul stated concerning the second advent has no more authority with him than the words of some prominent teacher of to-day. On this basis, the apostle Paul was a visionary Adventist, who was compelled to revise his calculations by the logic of facts. So destructive to Biblical authority is this modern criticism!
The facility with which this opposer of the literal advent of Christ can explain away the clear statements of the Scripture is little less than astounding. It is not worth while to quote his argument at length; some brief paragraphs will suffice:—
The “coming of the Son of man,” to the disciples who understood the task to which they were set, meant the realization of something of their eternal sonship. . . .
And so the “Son of man came,” for Holy Love was breaking down prejudice and hate and enthroning itself in the hearts of former enemies. . . .
Terrible as was this siege, complete as was the annihilation of Jerusalem, and utter as was the destruction of the Jewish nation, it furnished the details of the fulfilment of the promised “coming of the Son of man.” . . . Out of the grave of the dead hope of a temporal Messiah came the spirit of universal man. . . .
We thus see that the “coming of the Son of man” is a continuous and progressive fact. . . . He comes when the child at the mother’s knee is led to dedicate himself to the right and good; whenever a sinner turns from selfishness to love, from self to God. He comes in all human hearts of whatever nation, race, or color, when the spirit that animated Jesus leads men to love and serve the poor, the sick, the lonely, and the sinful. . . .
Christ will have come when all men everywhere turn themselves to their divine Father, and, having come to know him, know themselves also. The return to the earth of Jesus in visible form is neither reasonable nor desirable; but the coming of the Son of man, the Christ, the Spirit of God, till the divine incarnation becomes universal, is a “consummation devoutly to be wished.”
The declaration that “the return to the earth of Jesus in visible form is neither reasonable nor desirable,” is the outgrowth of a wrong idea, now widely held, concerning the kingdom of God. According to this view, which is strictly evolutionary in its character, the setting up of the kingdom of God will not be marked by any great catastrophe, such as is plainly indicated in prophecy by the stone smiting the image upon the feet and breaking it in pieces, but the kingdom will be set up by the gradual evolution of the good and “the survival of the fittest.” This teaching is just as much out of harmony with the true doctrine for this time as was the claim of the scribes and Pharisees that the Messiah would set up a temporal kingdom in their day; and the reason for this perversion of the truth is the same in both cases—an interpretation of the Scripture in harmony with personal desires and ambitions, and the exaltation of the human element in religion at the expense of the divine.
The second coming of Christ is the grand climax in the historical development of the plan of salvation. Prophets have foretold it; holy men of all ages have looked forward to it; the only Biblical solution of the great problem of sin and the final restoration is found in it; and the setting up of the everlasting kingdom of God can not be consummated apart from it. The present concerted attack upon this fundamental teaching of the Scriptures is another indication of the working of a master mind to deceive the people and to close their ears against the very truth which should be emphasized in this generation.
Varied are the means which have been employed by the enemy of truth to forestall and to discredit this advent message, but the whole evolutionary scheme, as applied in science and religion, has been the most efficient means of destroying the confidence of the people in the gospel of revelation, and in leading to the practical deification of humanity and the preaching of the gospel of self-salvation. Never was there greater need of proclaiming the genuine gospel of Christ to the world. W. W. P.

How Providence Helped Bohemia

By W. A. S.

It was a mistaken view of the truth for which Huss was burned at Constance that led the Bohemians who loved his memory to take up arms to defend the truth of God. Luther caught the true idea when, at the beginning of his work, he insisted that it was by the Word of God alone that error was to be met. But a hundred years before Luther the Bohemian people, who had barely tasted the precious fruit of civil and religious liberty, drew the sword to resist the armed crusades sent against them at the instigation of the pope.
As the Syrian army before Samaria fled in panic when the Lord “made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses,” so, more than once, the papal army in Bohemia was seized with panic unaccountable save on the grounds that an overruling Providence did not design to allow Bohemia to become wholly overwhelmed at that hour.

Panic of the Papal Army

Pope Martin had organized a great crusade, which entered Bohemia in June, 1427. Electors, princes, and counts led the invading host, with a special papal legate in charge. The little army of the Hussites, under Ziska, the “one-eyed,” went out to meet the invaders. Wylie says:—
They were now within sight of them, and the two armies were separated only by the river that flows past Meiss. The crusaders were in greatly superior force, but instead of dashing across the stream, and closing in battle with the Hussites whom they had come so far to meet, they stood gazing in silence. . . . It was only for a few moments that the invaders contemplated the Hussite ranks. A sudden panic fell upon them. They turned and fled in the utmost confusion. The legate was as one who awakens from a dream. His labors and hopes at the very moment when, as he thought, they were to be crowned with victory, suddenly vanished in a shameful rout.
Urged on still by the pope, a yet greater crusade was organized and entered Bohemia in 1431, “chanting triumph” as they marched. Wylie again says:—
The enemy were encamped near the town of Reisenberg. The Hussites were not yet in sight, but the sounds of their approach struck upon the ears of the Germans. The rumble of their wagons, and their war-hymn chanted by the whole army as it marched bravely forward to battle, were distinctly heard. Cardinal Cesarini and a companion climbed a little hill to view the impending conflict. Beneath them was the host which they expected soon to see engaged in victorious fight. It was an imposing spectacle, this great army of many nationalities, with its waving banners, its mail-clad knights, its helmeted cavalry, its long lines of wagons, and its numerous artillery. The cardinal and his friend had gazed only a few minutes when they were startled by a strange and sudden movement in the host. As if smitten by some invisible power, it appeared all at once to break up and scatter. The soldiers threw away their armor and fled, one this way, that; and the wagoners, emptying their vehicles of their load, set out upon the plain at full gallop.
Struck with consternation, the cardinal hurried to the field, and soon learned of the catastrophe. The army had been seized with a mysterious panic that extended to the officers as well as the soldiers. The Duke of Bavaria was one of the first to flee. He left behind him his carriage, in the hope that its spoil might tempt the enemy and delay their pursuit. Behind him, also in inglorious flight, came the Elector of Brandenburg; and following close on the elector were others of less note, chased from the field by this unseen terror. The army followed, if that could be styled an army which so lately had been a marshaled and bannered host, but was now only a rabble rout, fleeing when no man pursued.
The comment of the historian Wylie expresses the conviction that must come to every heart: “There is something more in the facts we have related than the courage inspired by the consciousness of a good cause, and the feebleness and cowardice engendered by the consciousness of a bad one. There is here the touch of a divine finger—the infusion of a preternatural terror.”
W. A. S.

Forces in Training

By C. M. S.

The Christian Endeavor Convention at St. Paul, Minn.

WHILE the whole Seventh-day Adventist denomination is a Christian endeavor organization in the real meaning of the words, it may be asked, “What have Seventh-day Adventists to do with this particular Christian Endeavor Society and convention?” We have the greatest message in the world, as well as the latest one; and it is impossible that our work could be carried on in this generation without our coming into touch with such organizations as this which is now convened in the capital city of Minnesota. Our business is not in making war upon organizations or individuals, but in making known to the utmost of our ability the warning and saving message committed to us, setting forth the principles of the kingdom of Christ, urging their acceptance in the spirit of Christ, and leaving with each individual the determining of his attitude toward those principles.
In the conduct of that business we shall meet many earnest, consecrated souls, banded together into societies, for the accomplishment of what they sincerely believe Jesus himself would individually support if on earth, and does sanction and bless from his dwelling on high. There are many thousands of just such earnest, loyal, Christian men and women in the world to-day, doing the very best they know how to do, and yet knowing nothing of the message due this generation now, or of the people to whom it has been committed. It is our duty to bring this message to such people. We are not to regard them as enemies to the cause of Christ because they have not accepted the third angel’s message, nor even because they have joined themselves to societies whose constitutions voice principles that can not blend with the glorious truths made known to us. They may be even “breathing out threatenings and slaughter” against us, as Saul did against the disciples of the Lord, and yet have waiting for them—some of them—in this very cause so dear to us places of responsibility and great influence before the work is done.
“Educate, educate, educate,” that is our business, and the world is our field in spite of the fact that the very organizations whose members most need the education will set up the strongest bars against us. We are to expect that; but in every organization whose published purpose is to serve the cause and kingdom of Christ will be found the very jewels of God, waiting one more test of consecration, and that test the principles of the third angel’s message will furnish. They have joined such organizations because they saw in the published purpose of the organizations principles whose outworking they considered advantageous to the cause of Christ. They joined the organization because they loved Christ and wanted to work for him. Every such choice the Master approves, and he will lead such into the fuller light of the everlasting gospel if they will continue to be led. There are thousands who join such organizations who have no such objects. It is not of them we are speaking.
But because these things are so, we are concerned with, and we are bound to be brought into touch with, every organization in the world purporting to be Christian. They may not like the concern we feel—the probabilities are that they will not; but the One who has set us our task has not made its performance contingent upon the likes or dislikes of those to whom the message is due.
In the Christian Endeavor Convention, which opened its twenty-fourth session in this city on July 7, are some of the brightest minds and the most earnest Christian hearts with which we have ever come in contact. They are bound to make themselves felt in whatever movement they attempt to foster or to oppose. In looking upon the thousands of faces, the writer could but think, “What a power for good, if always rightly directed; and what a power for evil if they should commit themselves to any course out of harmony with the principles of Christ’s kingdom!”
The Christian Endeavorers now number over three and a half millions, and have set their stakes for another full million members by the time of the holding of the next convention in 1911. They have definitely outlined work for the more than seventy thousand separate organizations, which the leaders believe will bring about that result within the time specified. These organizations are found in every country in the world, and nearly every country in the world has its representatives at this convention.
On entering the great Auditorium in which the principal meetings of the convention are held, one notices first the great flag of England in the place of honor, stretched high above the speaker’s stand, flanked on either side by two immense American flags. The hall is profusely decorated with flags of all sizes and kinds, and with the red-and-white “colors” of the society draped and festooned wherever space can be found. Upon the walls of the hall, at regular intervals, hang the shields of the following countries: India, Turkey, Germany, France, Africa, Jamaica, Sweden, Spain, Wales, Mexico, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, and Australia.
At the close of the opening devotional exercises President Francis E. Clarke introduced Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, who welcomed the Endeavor hosts in the name of the State. He said, in part:—
We welcome you because of the thing that you stand for. The Christian church and religion have been the greatest factors in civilization, and the church and auxiliary institutions are responsible for the present condition of men; and you, having dedicated yourselves to the work before you, are making your great contribution to the civilization of this age, and are going to leave your impress upon the affairs of the world. I believe we are making the same progress in ethical lines that we are making in commercial and industrial lines. I believe the world is better than it ever was before. Everywhere there is a quickened conscience. When we read of the great exposures of wrong in the cities, it does not mean degeneration, but regeneration. We have some duties besides mere spiritual duties. There are ethical duties in the matter of public affairs as well. I am sure that out of this and kindred organizations there will come better citizenship and better organizations.
Mayor Daniel W. Lawler, of St. Paul, next spoke on behalf of the city he represents.
The addresses of welcome were followed by the report of the general secretary of the organization, Mr. William Shaw. He said:—
The theme of this great convention, “Thy kingdom come,” is the key-note of our Christian Endeavor. Threescore and ten thousand societies and three and a half million members have been praying to that end. Still we find we have not yet taken possession of all the land. Our societies number 71,493, with a membership of 3,551,100. Practically all the evangelical denominations are represented in this organization. When Christian Endeavor has done its perfect work, there will be fewer denominations and subdivisions of denominations, but their power and influence will be mightily increased.
His report showed a great increase in the active, energetic work of the various local organizations, especially in the holding of meetings, and in the work of “civic righteousness” and “Sabbath observance.” The report ended with these words:—
The future of this movement is in the hands of God. We believe in it; we pledge ourselves to its advancement; we seek the sympathetic co-operation of every pastor and Christian worker, that our object may be realized, that his kingdom may come and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
The Hawaiian delegates sang a beautiful hymn in their own language at the close of the secretary’s report, and at the close of the treasurer’s report the exposition chorus rendered the Brazilian national hymn in Portuguese words.
Mr. Makeeno, a native Japanese pastor, was introduced at the close of the Brazilian hymn, and in Japanese and English spoke the words of greeting sent to the convention by the Japanese Endeavorers. The substance of the greeting was an exhortation to “righteousness toward God, love of the brethren, and peace among the nations.”
At this juncture Dr. Clarke, the president, was eloquently introduced by the secretary of the organization, and was given a most enthusiastic greeting. His address was an earnest plea for the complete consecration of the members of the society to the accomplishment of the objects which it has in view.
A resolution was brought in pledging the organization to work for the objects specified in the president’s address; that is, the addition of ten thousand new societies and one million new members before 1911. The resolution was passed unanimously and enthusiastically.
By every speaker thus far the members of this mighty organization have been urged to take hold of the questions of “civic righteousness,” or “Christian citizenship,” or “Sabbath observance.” Here is where lies the danger to the members of the organization. Here is the dangerous tangent away from the true line of right Christian operation—that mingling of the sacred and secular, which, persisted in, must lead to results opposed to the cause of Christ. The purpose of the organization in this regard has been epitomized by its founder in his work, “The Christian Endeavor Manual.” In the chapter on “Efforts for Christian Citizenship,” he says:—
It was entirely natural, if not inevitable, that the millions of young people enrolled in the Christian Endeavor ranks should sooner or later begin to feel their responsibility as citizens and patriots. . . . The idea, too, that patriotism is a part of true religion, that love for country must go hand in hand with love for God, has most happily been gaining ground in all religious circles of late. . . . In many ways has this great idea since been fostered and promoted. In the smaller conventions of State and local unions; through the numerous publications of the Society in many lands, especially through the Christian Endeavor World; and particularly by creating a sentiment in Christian Endeavor ranks that Christianity and patriotism go together, that love of country and love of God can not be divorced, has this great idea been fostered. It has come to be understood that the party caucus may be of as much importance as the church prayer-meeting, and that one can be excused from neither unless for a reason which he can “conscientiously give to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
From this “Manual” we learn of the organization of “Civic Clubs” within the organization, whose purpose is to promote “good citizenship” through studying and mingling in politics. The key-note of the organization now is, “Thy kingdom come.” Through political activity it is proposed to bring in the kingdom of Christ. Seventh-day Adventists know that it can not come by such means. Upon this point we must focus our educational campaign in our work for the honest-hearted members of all such organizations.
C. M. S.
St. Paul, Minn.

For the Sake of the Cause

By W. A. S.

We are frequently reminded of the fact that our missionary money goes a long way further in the field work than the funds of the great missionary societies. It is because our laborers work for the bare living wage, denying themselves of desirable comforts and conveniences, in order that the message may be hastened on.
Thus, along with the call for two missionaries for a certain field, an organ of one of the missionary societies asks special provision for the added expense, as follows:—
For outfit, expenses to that field, and first year's salary for these two families, $4,260.
In planning to send two missionaries to that same field our own Board would add about $2,260 to its estimates, for sending and supporting the first year.
W. A. S.
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