JAPAN is one of the youngest of mission fields. The growth of the Christian church and of its influence in the country has been almost a miracle. The deep-rooted prejudice toward Christianity which prevailed among the people for centuries has died its natural death. It was some thirty years ago that a Japanese was arrested and finally suffered the first and, perhaps, the last martyrdom of the Protestant Christianity for the simple fact that he was reported to have had a Bible with him. A few months ago the Minister of Education said, in a magazine in reference to reading matter for school children, that the Bible is the most unique of all books and a copy of it should be kept in every library, public or private.
Doors are open everywhere for Christian workers, but the opportunity is greatest among students; and it is among them that Christianity has many advantages other faiths have not. The exclusion of religious instruction from the government school, which the authorities so rigorously carried on for many years, has seen its best days. The ever-growing desire of students for a religion better than those they have been taught at home, no longer tolerates the restriction. In Tokyo, a mecca of the Japanese student, where the student population is estimated to be about 50,000, the best selling books are religious.
On his way home from India last spring, President C. C. Hull, of New York, as a Haskell lecturer of the University of Chicago, lectured on Christianity in principal cities of Japan. Everywhere he was greeted by an overflowing audience composed of educators, students, and citizens. Mott, Torrey, and Pentecost did each very much for the cause of Christ in Japan, but none left such a deep impression on the minds of the thinking class of people as he did.
His was not "the imperialistic assertion of the supremacy of Christianity, but a bearing of witness on the relation of belief to personal experience." Such a message was timely; and, moreover, he left behind him a strong personal impression. A native paper said of him, "A perfect specimen of Christian gentleman."
For many years the Japanese Government employed a large number of the American and English men as English teachers in high schools. Many of them proved to be "soldiers of fortune,"—as they were often called—unqualified for the task, and discouraged the authorities from employing more English teachers. An increasing demand for English teachers, however, compelled them to seek another source for the supply. Secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. in Tokyo were asked to secure half a dozen men for such positions. These men were sent from two American universities, and their service was so satisfactory that the authorities are now depending upon this new source for the supply of the English teachers. Applications for such positions are received by representatives of the Y. M. C. A. in New York, so that they can send a man at once upon the receipt of cable from Japan. Nothing less than the spirit of a missionary induces them to enter into this field of teaching; they pay their own traveling expenses and live on seventy-five dollars a month. They are mostly members of the volunteer movement.
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I quote from a report of the annual gathering for these teachers, which was organized last year in connection with the Japanese Y. M. C. A. summer school, "Perhaps the most impressive group was the band of university graduates who have come to Japan to represent Christ as teachers in the government schools. Fourteen of these men have been brought out under the Association. Several Christian teachers from England were also present. The reports of what these men are doing in the Bible classes and personal work among pupils and fellow-teachers were an inspiration to all who listened. Being under government pay and daily standing before students in an official relation, they have access to many circles which it is hard for missionaries and others to reach." They are the best commentaries on Christianity, not only in the school, but also in the community in which they live. Some of these men became so impressed with the importance and value of Christian work in Japan that they returned to America to take up theological courses, or to fit themselves for higher positions as English teachers in colleges and universities.
This unique movement promises to be a powerful, self-supporting agency for the propagation of Christianity among the rising generation of Japan; it is a mighty reinforcement to the religious activity in schools, where there are already fifty-two organized Christian students' associations, with over eleven hundred members enrolled for systematic Bible study. The international convention of the World Christian Students' Federation for 1904 is to be held in Japan, and it will be one of the most significant gatherings ever held in Japan.
The social and philanthropical sides of Christian activities are by no means neglected. One-fourth of the organized benevolent institutions are carried on by Christians. Their good works are recognized and appreciated by every unprejudiced man. Count Okuma, an ex-premier and a father of modern Japan, recently said in course of his lecture: "Efforts Christians are making to supply to the country a high standard of conduct are welcomed by all right-thinking people. As you read your Bible you may think it is antiquated and out of date; but the noble life it holds up to admiration is something that will never be out of date, however much the world may progress. Live and preach this life, and you will supply to the nation just what it needs at the present time."
It should not be conjectured that Japan as a nation adopted Christianity as a religion; this she has not yet done. Nor will the cause of Christ in future be an easy, unopposed march to victory. But her laws and institutions are becoming more and more Christian. Her influence is reaching out in every direction,13and, if made Christian, she might yet prove to be, as John Mott puts it, a key to the Christian conquest of the Orient.
BROUGHT OUT.
By M. Taylor
"He brought us out from thence that He might bring us in." Deut. 6:23.
Out of my poverty into His wealth,
Out of my sickness, into pure health;
Out of the false, and into the true,
Out of the old man, into the new;
Out of what measures the full depth of "Lost!"
Out of it all, and at infinite cost.
Into what must with that cost correspond,
Into that place where I hail the beyond;
Into that union which nothing can part,
Into what satisfies His and my heart!
Into the deepest of joys ever had—
Into the gladness of making God glad!
Wonderful Person, whose face I'll behold!
Wonderful story, then all to be told!
Wonderful all the dread way that He trod!
Wonderful end, He has brought me to God!
—M. Taylor.
SOME GRAVE MISSIONARY PROBLEMS.
By Rev. A. T. Pierson
[Rev. A. T. Pierson in Missionary Review of the World.]
(Continued.)
Obstacles at Home.
(1) THE calculating or mathematical spirit, that coolly calculates whether or not missions pay financially. It puts in one scale the money annually spent and in the other scale the number of converts annually gathered, and weighs one over against the other. Such a method applied to a work commanded by God is itself close akin to blasphemy. Money it is possible to weigh, but who can weigh a soul? On the triple doorways of the Cathedral of Milan are graven three inscriptions. On one side, with all the emblems of plenty and pleasure: "All that pleases us is but for a moment." Opposite, with all the symbols of pain and anguish: "All that afflicts us is but for a moment." In the middle, over the fadeless crown: "That only is important which is eternal." All temporal good, however desirable, is still temporal. The earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up, while he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
The story of missions is a sufficient answer to such financial arguments. Take one example—Livingstone's body-guard, Susi and Chuma. When they found him dead on his knees in that grass hut at Ilala, they took out his heart and buried it under the moula tree, as the inalienable property of Africa; then rudely embalming the body, wrapped it in bark and canvass and lashed it to a pole, and undertook that greatest funeral march on record, running all manner of risks for forty weeks by day and night. They had to pass through hostile tribes nearly every fifty miles, involving new risk. That journey of fifteen hundred miles demanded all the patience of indomitable love and the sagacity of the most competent generalship. Yet, depending on God, the deed was done, and so the remains of the great missionary general, statesman, and explorer were laid to rest in England's grand Abbey. Do missions pay? That black man, Susi, whose hand was upon the pall, was fully the equal in nobility of any of the noblemen that helped bear that sacred load; yet Susi was the fruit of missions; and had all the life-blood and treasure spent on African soil wrought no other result than to give such a hero birth, it would be a full compensation.
(2) The Caste Spirit.—This as really exists in such countries as Great Britain and the United States of America, as in India; it may not be as rigid, but in some cases it is as unquestionable and insurmountable. The cellular structure of society is such that cells do not interpenetrate.
Two great facts which are both obvious and conspicuous are sufficient to prove this. The intense race prejudice and hatred, which exists toward the colored inhabitants of our country and toward the Chinese emigrants on the one hand, and class separation and antagonism as between poor and rich, capitalists and laborers, everywhere exemplified in society—these are sufficient illustrations both to vindicate and illustrate the affirmation that the spirit of caste is by no means confined to the East Indies or Isles of the Sea. We have our "tabu" system as certainly as the Cannibal Islands of the Pacific. One of the most startling proofs of the malignity of this spirit is found in the amazing growth of lynching and similar acts of violence, especially among the people of the South, in this great republic.
In a letter to the Springfield Republican the eminent Harvard psychologist, Prof. William James, described the lynching spirit as a profound social disease that is so rapidly spreading that "we shall have negro burning in a very few years on Cambridge Common and in the Boston Public Garden." Professor James' letter was hardly published before the report of the lynching in Danville, Ill., afforded a lurid verification of his prophecy in a northern town—the home of the man who has been selected by the Republicans as the speaker of the House of Representatives, a town that has hitherto been regarded as a center of light and leading for the eastern part of central Illinois.
No doubt, at the bottom of this lynching there is much latent race hatred, as most of the victims were blacks. But in connection with this is undoubtedly a still more dangerous defiance and contempt of law. The old triangular contest is upon us; infidelity and irreligion at the opposite angles of the base, and the common apex in which each naturally culminates—disregard of both human and divine law. The evil is deep-rooted, and the appetite for cruelty in connection with these acts of violence grows, like the tiger's taste of blood, into a maddening fury.
Mary Cowden Clarke, in her book, "The Iron Cousin," represents her heroine as retiring from Christian work among the slums because she "can not stand the poor smell." Mrs. Rhea, formerly of Persia, has graphically told how, when she first went into those Persian huts and sat down on the earth floor among those filthy and ragged women, she was thankful for the almost naked condition of the children, because the less clothing the less room for vermin to hide. . . . She tells how she went home, threw herself down on the floor of her room, and said: "O my God, I never can work among these women without a new baptism of love for them." Thousands of people are kept from Christian work at home by the repulsion which they feel toward the ignorant and degraded, the poor and the unclean. More than this, in at least two cities where the writer has lived he has known Christian people of intelligence and culture, who have been so influenced by what may be called ideas of aristocratic locality that they would not pass the line of certain streets, even to engage in Christian work, or attend a missionary meeting. Vain is it for us to remonstrate against the caste spirit abroad, while such narrowness and meanness exists at home, often under the guise of piety. If we are going to carry on world-wide missions we must learn more sympathy with the immaculate Christ, who was the most "perfect gentleman" who ever trod the earth, and in comparison with whose refinement and delicacy our finest tastes are coarse; yet, who, nevertheless, passed His human life in the closest contact with the poorest and lowest and filthiest classes of Palestine, yet who never once betrayed any repulsion, save from hypocrites and formalists.
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THE brethren at Tagola, O. T., are building a new house of worship.
THE church at Houston, Texas, has recently been enlarged by eight new members.
THE Southern Union Conference will be held at Keene, Texas, February 24 to March 2.
BROTHER M. MACKINTOSH reports six recent converts to the faith in San Louis Valley, Col.
THREE converts are reported at Bushnell, Mich., as a result of labors by Brother W. C. Heber.
DURING the past quarter the church at Elkhorn, Iowa, reports the addition of nine new members.
OPENING services were held in the new house of worship in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning the 22d inst. and closing the 25th.
A RECENT series of tent-meetings at Gas City, Ind., resulted in ten converts to the faith and a mission Sabbath-school.
FROM Echoes from the Field we learn that Brother M. A. Altman, who went to England from Colorado, has gone on to South Africa.
FIVE persons have begun the observance of the Lord's Sabbath, in connection with meetings held at Marathon, Iowa, by Brethren W. J. Johnson and C. W. Hollingsworth.
NINE candidates were baptized at Doxie, O. T., December 22, by Brother A. E. Field. Four others are keeping the Sabbath. This is the fruit of meetings held by Brother Wm. Braley.
THE message we are proclaiming to the world is represented in the Transcausus, near the Persian line, by Dr. V. Pampaian and his wife and Brother C. Pampaian, a nurse. They are engaged in medical missionary work.
AT the close of the week of prayer two adults were baptized at Paul's Valley, I. T., by Brother S. P. Adams, and the next week two youths followed their example. The brethren are planning to build a new house of worship.
A NEW church building was dedicated at Sanger, Texas, December 26, by Brother N. P. Nelson, president of the Southwestern Union Conference, and Brother Lorenz. The report in the Record says the church was packed to its utmost capacity by people residing in the neighborhood.
SAYS the Missionary Worker of London: "The Balkan Mission is composed of Rumania, Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro. Tho we have done no work in Servia and Montenegro, we have an organized church in Bucharest, the capital of Rumania. We also have churches among the colonists on the Black Sea."
THE West Michigan Herald says that "in compliance with the appeal made by the Battle Creek church, the Conference Committee has assigned Elder M. B. Miller to the pastorate of that church for the year 1904. The committee also voted to retain Elder Henry Nicola in the services of the Battle Creek church for the following year."
ON the 16th inst. two candidates were baptized by Brother G. W. Rine, and added to the church in Alameda, Cal. On the same day seven were baptized in the Oakland church by Brother J. D. Rice, and added to the church at Berkeley. On the previous Wednesday evening, three were baptized in the Laguna Street church, San Francisco, by Brother B. F. Richards.
IN the Workers' Bulletin, Brother F. M. Corbaley reports that Rev. S. H. Noel, and wife, son, and two daughters have just united with the church at Davenport, Iowa. They come from the Presbyterian Church, of which Brother Noel has been a successful minister for nearly eighteen years. These, with one other candidate, were baptized on the 3d inst., the Christian church being used for the occasion. The entire family are preparing for active work in the cause, Brother Noel being elected elder of the Davenport church.
A PRESBYTERIAN lady writes this interesting letter to Brother W. C. McCuais: "I have been receiving sample copies of the Indiana Reporter, and enclose 25 cents to pay as you see proper. I am a Presbyterian; nevertheless I have long believed in the near advent of the Lord. For several years I have taken the Review and Herald, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Sentinel of Christian Liberty, and the Southern Watchman since it began; and I mail every paper regularly, after reading it myself." There are many others who might profit by this example, besides doing much good missionary work.
A FORMER laborer in Colorado, Brother Oscar Einarson, writes to Echoes from the Field from Bergen, Norway: "For some time, here in my native city, I have been busy with the work in the Young Peoples' Society. We are now taking a club of fifty of the Gospel Messenger, and the young people are doing well selling them, and will soon increase their club. On account of the great strike here, which lasted six months, times are very dull, but I have been canvassing for some of our tracts and the Lord is blessing me in the work, and the truth is being sown which will sometime bear fruit. I am also giving Bible-readings, and one of my readers, a young man about twenty-five years old, was recently baptized."
IN the Canadian Union Messenger we find the following report from Brother G. B. Thompson, president of Ontario Conference: "Sabbath and Sunday, December 5 and 6, in company with Elder Spear, I visited the two churches of Sabbath-keepers in the Indian Reserve, near Brantford. This was my first visit to these churches, and I enjoyed it very much. Two substantial churches have been erected, which stand as memorials for the truth, and as much earnest zeal and love is manifested by the brethren and sisters here as among any other nationality. If they maintain the unity of the Spirit, God will continue to bless them, and add others to their numbers. They are planning to open a church school which is very much needed, and will prove a great blessing if successfully carried on. May the Lord richly bless His people here is my prayer. Several subscriptions for the Review and Messenger were taken."
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(21) "AND they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the Sabbath day He entered into the synagogue and taught. (22) And they were astonished at His teaching: for He taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. (23) And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, (24) saying, What have we to do with Thee, Jesus Thou Nazarene? art Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God. (25) And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. (26) And the unclean spirit, tearing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. (27) And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What is this? a new teaching! with authority He commandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him. (28) And the report of Him went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee round about.
(29) "And straightway, when they were come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. (30) Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever; and straightway they tell Him of her: (31) and He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up; and the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
(32) "And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto Him all that were sick, and them that were possessed with demons. (33) And all the city was gathered together at the door. (34) And He healed many that were sick with divers diseases, and cast out many demons, and He suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew Him."
Golden Text.—"He laid His hands on every one of them, and healed them." Luke 4:40.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) After calling four of His disciples by the Sea of Galilee, where did Jesus and His companions go? What did He do on the Sabbath day? Verse 21. Note 1. (2) How were the people affected by His teaching? Why? Verse 22. Note 2. (3) What peculiar individual was in the synagogue? What did he do? Verse 23. (4) What did the unclean spirit cause the man to say? Verse 24. Note 3. (5) What then did Jesus do? Verse 25. Note 4. (6) How did the unclean spirit manifest his rage? Verse 26. Note 5. (7) How were the people affected by this scene? What did they say? Verse 27. Note 6. (8) What was the result of this wonderful miracle? Verse 28. (9) When the meeting was closed, where did Jesus and His companions go? Verse 29. (10) On entering the house, what was told to Jesus? Verse 30. (11) How did Jesus manifest His interest in the case? What was the immediate result? Verse 31. Note 7. (12) What occurred when the Sabbath was over? Verse 32. Note 8. (13) What showed a general interest throughout the city? Verse 33. How did Jesus respond to this general appeal? What special restriction did He place upon the devils that were cast out? Verse 34. Note 9.
NOTES.
1. Into Capernaum.—It was after the circumstance of the miraculous draught of fishes, mentioned in the previous lesson, that Jesus and His newly-called co-laborers went into the city. He honored both the day and the church, and thus set His seal on the custom of church service on the Sabbath day—on the seventh day of the week. We have no record of His conducting a regular Sabbath service on any other day of the week, altho He taught the people on all days.
2. The astonishment of the people was not because Jesus assumed authority, but because there was a power in His words that betokened an authority greater than that of any other to whom they had listened. Jesus did not deny the authority of the scribes as the teachers of the people; He conceded that (Matt. 23:1-3). But they assumed an authority over the people which was not warranted (Verses 4-7), and which weakened the force of their teaching on the minds of the people. The real power of the Word is in the Spirit that lies behind its humble delivery, rather than in the assumption of authority by the one who presents it.
3. An unclean spirit is a spirit controlled by Satanic influence; for the Spirit of Christ always cleanses the mind. The purpose of the enemy was to disturb the services, and render void the teaching of Christ. By possessing the mind of a man, and making the man speak as one of a race whose time of destruction was already fixed, the adversary would set forth the idea that there could be no salvation, and that Christ had come only to destroy. To acknowledge the "Holy One of God" and attribute to Him the position of a destroyer, was to skip over the first advent altogether, with its work of mercy, and assume that the second advent was at hand, with the final execution of judgment.
4. The rebuke of Jesus, and His power to unseat the unclean spirit was a victory that demonstrated His ability to overcome every obstacle that Satan might cast in the way of salvation.
5. The anger of Satan at his signal defeat (which is the first personal conflict on record after the temptation in the wilderness) is manifest in his fierce struggle, tearing his victim in the effort to destroy him. By so doing he hoped at least to thwart the purpose of Christ in so far as this one man was concerned. As the lion roars after the prey that escapes it, so the devil "cried with a loud voice" because of his failure to destroy his victim. See 1 Peter 5:8.
6. To cast out an unclean spirit was evidently a thing unknown in that region. So the amazement that a man should have the "authority" (power and right) to achieve such a victory.
7. The immediate healing of a violent fever, so that the patient should at once arise and go about her regular work, was an additional cause of amazement to the already aroused community.
8. The two miracles already mentioned were of such a nature as to convince the people that Jesus was master of "all the ills that flesh is heir to." However they waited till the Sabbath was past, and the cool of the evening would permit the removal of the sick, before bringing them to Jesus. Thus their faith in Him as a healer was implicit; therefore their expectations were fulfilled. Jesus says to all, "According to your faith be it unto you." So every one receives just what his faith calls for—no more, no less. But it is not according to a mere profession of faith, but a faith made perfect by works. See James 2:19-22.
9. "All the experience of modern missionaries in the East goes to show the wisdom of the method employed by Jesus Christ and His apostles in giving attention to diseased bodies as a means of access to diseased souls."—Isabella Bird Bishop. Jesus manifested His power over evil spirits by forcing them to keep silent. This was "because they knew Him," and would use their influence to hinder His work and thus destroy souls.
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...borne from the sanctuary, in the person of the high priest, what did he do with them? What was then done with the live goat? What was the principal difference between the death of these two goats? Note .
11. What is the difference between the death of Christ and the death that Satan will experience?
12. Repeat Phil. 3:10. What did the apostle desire to be made "conformable" unto? What choice is left for you and me to make? Note .
NOTES.
1. This text states that at the end of the 2,300 days, "then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." When the believers in the great advent message found that those days were to end in 1844, A. D., they reasoned that the earth was the sanctuary; that its cleansing would be by fire, at the second coming of Christ; therefore Christ must come on the tenth day of the seventh month in that year. They overlooked the fact that nowhere in the Bible is the earth spoken of, or referred to, as the sanctuary. They overlooked the fact, also, that the only sanctuary in existence in A. D. 1844 was the one in heaven, where our Great High Priest ministers.
2. By a careful study of the yearly rounds of service in that sanctuary built by Moses, with its two holy places, which were "figures of the true," the great truth is revealed that the sins of all who repent and turn to God are transferred to the heavenly sanctuary, and that the cleansing of that sanctuary will be the removal of those sins, when the blotting-out time comes. See Acts 3:19, 20.
3. The slaying of the Lord's goat represented a voluntary death TO sin. The goat for Azazel, that was sent away to "bear upon him all the iniquity of the children of Israel," represented an involuntary death IN sin.
4. The same choice that was left to Christ, after He had "taken man's place, with all of its risks and liabilities," to die a voluntary death to sin, or suffer an involuntary death in sin, is also left for us to make. "The wages of sin is death." The old man must die. Either he will be "crucified with Christ," or perish in the lake of fire with Azazel.
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LESSON VI.—THE SANCTUARY AND ITS CLEANSING—IN TYPE.
(Study for Sabbath, February 6.)
QUESTIONS.
1. Repeat Dan. 8:14. What line of reasoning upon this text led to the conclusion that the second coming of Christ would take place in the autumn of A. D. 1844? Note 1.
2. What does Dan. 8:14 say would take place at the end of the 2,300 days?
3. Repeat Heb. 8:1, 2, also 9:24. What literal sanctuary was in existence in A. D. 1844?
4. Repeat Heb. 9:23. Could a sanctuary in heaven need cleansing? Note 2.
5. Study Lev. 16:2. What instruction was given to Aaron concerning his entering the most holy place of the typical sanctuary?
6. Repeat Heb. 9:6, 7. By whom alone, and how often, was the most holy place to be entered?
7. Study carefully Lev. 16:5, 7-10. What was to be taken from the congregation of the children of Israel? Where, and before whom, were these two goats presented? How was a selection made between these two goats? For whom were these goats thus severally set apart? What was done with the great goat upon which the lot fell to the Lord's? For what purpose was the scapegoat reserved?
8. Study verses 15, 16. What was then done with the Lord's goat? Where was the blood brought? Upon what was the blood sprinkled? What was thus made on behalf of Israel?
9. Repeat verse 19. What was thus done to the sanctuary? From what was it cleansed? Was this cleansing of the sanctuary, then, from physical or from moral uncleanness? How had the sins of Israel been transferred to the sanctuary, and how were they removed once every year by this ceremony?
10. Repeat verses 21, 22. After the sins of Israel had been
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