Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 38.
—1 Corinthians 13, American Standard Revised VersionPage 1
Earlier text: Publishers' PageTruth Found ................................... .15 Arguments on Tobacco .......................... .02 Bible Sabbath ................................ .04 Can We Know? .................................. .01 Christ and the Sabbath ........................ .02½ Christ in the Old Testament ................... .02 Coming of the Lord ............................ .01 Conversion .................................... .02 Defense of the Truth .......................... .02 Fate of the Wicked ............................ .01 Fifty Reasons ................................ .02 God's Memorial ................................ .02 Is It a Valid Answer? .......................... .05 Judgment, The ................................ .02 Law and the Gospel, The ....................... .02 Lord's Day, The .............................. .04 Millennium, The .............................. .02 Our Answer .................................... .01 Perpetuity of the Ten Commandments ............. .05 Prophecies, The .............................. .01 Question of Diet, The ........................ .04 Rome's Challenge .............................. .02 Sanctuary of the Bible ........................ .03 Second Advent ................................. .07 Seventh Part of Time, The ..................... .04 Sovereign Pontiff ............................ .07 Sufferings of Christ .......................... .08 Third Angel's Message ........................ .04 Two Laws, The ................................. .02 Two Thrones, The .............................. .04 Where are the Dead? ........................... .01 Captain of Our Salvation ....................... .15 Agony of Christ in the Garden, The ............. .0¼ Benefits of Bible Study ........................ .0½ Christ Our Righteousness ........................ .0½ Coming of the Lord ............................ .0¼ Gift of God to Men, The ........................ .0¼ Great Commandment, The ........................ .0¼ Is the End Near? .............................. .0½ Living by Faith ............................... .01 Price of Our Salvation, The .................... .0¼ Second Advent, The ............................ .02 Temptation, The ............................... .0¼ This Rock. 4 pp. ............................. .0½ What Must I Do to Be Saved? .................... .0½ Three Messages (pamphlet) ..................... .25 Appeal on Immortality ........................ .01 Can We Know? 8 pp. ........................... .01 First Message. 16 pp. ........................ .02 Immortality. 14 pp. with cover ................ .02 Millennium. 16 pp. ........................... .02 Sabbath of the Bible .......................... .04 Sabbath of the Lord. 32 pp. ................... .02 Sanctuary of the Bible. 16 pp. ................ .02 Sleep of the Dead ............................. .01 True Sabbath .................................. .04 Two Laws. 16 pp. .............................. .02 Blessed Hope. 8 pp. ........................... .01 Full Faith. 16 pp. (with cover) ............... .02 Children of the Light. 8 pp. .................. .01 Full Faith. 16 pp. with cover .................. .02 Bible Readings ................................ .01 Our Hope ....................................... .01 Bible Study ................................... .10 MANY hearts have been comforted by the words of that familiar hymn:— “What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!”
It is indeed a blessed privilege to go to our loving Father, laying at his feet burdens which are too heavy for us to bear, and to receive in our fellowship with him renewed assurance of his tender care for us, and that he will watch over us for good. One chief cause of discouragement and failure in our Christian experience is that we do not continually breathe the vital breath of spiritual communion by being instant in prayer. It is especially necessary to our success in the Christian warfare at this time that we wait upon God much in earnest prayer. The times are perilous. The enemy is making a masterly effort to deceive even those who have received the light of this message. Many voices are sounding. In daily and constant communion with the Majesty of heaven we must learn to recognize the voice of the good Shepherd who gives his life for the sheep. Nothing can take the place of this personal communion. THE Master himself has urged upon us the necessity of watching in that period just before his return to this earth. “Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.” We must watch for the openings of his providence, that we may be able to work in harmony with his purpose for us. We must watch for opportunities for service, that we may show forth the praises of him who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. We must watch for the devices of the enemy, lest we be taken captive by him at his will. We must watch the signs of the times, lest we become confused as to our position and work. We must watch the movements of our Leader in order that we may keep step with him in the forward march. “Take ye heed, watch and pray.” It is sometimes a most difficult thing to wait for the working out of God’s providences. We get anxious for the right to triumph speedily. We chafe at the apparent success of evil principles. The spirit takes hold of us which would call down fire upon those who set themselves against the progress of the kingdom of God in the earth. It is just possible that a careful examination into our motives and a just analysis of our purposes might show that there was mingled with our zeal for the house of God a desire for a triumph of persons rather than principles; for “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” We often need to remember that the Lord is long-suffering, “not willing that any should perish.” He waits long before he cuts off any from salvation by requiring a final decision. “The long-suffering of our Lord is salvation.” But in our time of waiting we may be sure that the right will triumph in the end. There will be no defeat and no compromise. Although “the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed,” yet, after all the power of divine love has been brought to bear upon rebellious hearts, and has been rejected, the eternal purpose will prevail, and Jesus Christ will be declared Lord “to the glory of God the Father.” “For evil doers shall be cut off; but those that wait upon [and wait for] the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.” WHILE we pray, and watch, and wait, it is also essential that we should believe. By believing we come into fellowship with the divine purpose. By believing we lay hold upon divine power, and bring divine resources into operation for the accomplishment of the divine will through human instrumentalities. Thus by believing we open the way for the triumph of the gospel, and the establishment of the kingdom of God in the earth. And these principles should find a practical application in our daily life. It is in the settlement of the daily problems which confront us that we test the actual value of the Christianity which we profess. We are not really teachers of the gospel truth, although we may talk much about God and prayer and faith, unless our own lives will bear the test of the genuine principles of the divine character. “The truth of God is to regulate the life. But this it can not do if left in the outer court. An occasional Christianity, an occasional generosity, an occasional doing of good deeds, is not the Christianity that will accomplish the work for which God calls. Truth planted in the heart brings man into harmony with God.” Our personal experience is the test of the value of our efforts in behalf of the kingdom of Christ in the earth. We may wear ourselves out in the vain endeavor to push forward the work of the Lord, if our own hearts are not right with God. One might as well attempt to extinguish a fire by pouring on water with one hand and oil with the other, as to hope to build up the interests of the kingdom of God by a fleshly zeal in behalf of principles which he does not himself reveal in his daily life. It is time for us to weigh these things carefully, and to be sure that we are not4 counterworking our own verbal teaching. “They say, and do not,” was the charge against the scribes and Pharisees. The faith which works can achieve much for truth and righteousness in the earth. “Continue in prayer.” “And what I say unto you I say unto all, watch.” “It is good that a man should . . . quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.” “All things are possible to him that believeth.” Pray, watch, wait, believe. THE eye of God is ever upon his children. They are never out of his sight. To those who love God and recognize him as the rightful King in their lives, these assurances are most comforting. “The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.” “He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous.” “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.” Amid the confusion which reigns in this world, and with a sense of our own inability to keep ourselves from the devices of the enemy, what a privilege it is to know that the Father’s eye is upon us, and that the Father’s heart is touched with the appeal of our helplessness even before we lift up our cry unto him. If the veil which separates us from the unseen could be lifted, we should behold a multitude of the angelic host who have been “sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.” “The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.” Realizing the constant presence of the Lord, we should daily perform our service for him as in his sight. Loyalty to principle, earnestness in work, and faithfulness to duty distinguish those who serve as in his sight. Such was Moses, who was “faithful in all his house,” and who “endured, as seeing him who is invisible.” Such was Joseph, who said, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” Such should we all be who are waiting for the soon-coming day when we shall see him face to face. As we cultivate more and more the experience of living as in his sight, our fellowship with him will be more close and more blessed, our thought of him will be more sweet, and we shall be the better prepared to greet with a confiding joy him whom, having not seen, we have loved. “Let all your lamps be bright,
And trim the golden flame;
Gird up your loins as in his sight;
His coming thus proclaim,”
A New Industrial Combination
By L. A. S.
A NEW phase of the problem of capital and labor has had its appearance, one of much significance, and which seems destined to be permanent. Capital and labor have at last come together, there is peace between them, but the result is far different from that which had been anticipated from the long-sought union. Capital and labor, organized, have come together on the basis of a mutual agreement to support each other in advancing their own interests at the expense of the unorganized public. There is peace, but it is the peace of a new and deeper conspiracy and a more powerful combine to enforce their arbitrary demands, a peace which is more ruinous to the public than was the previous open warfare. This new phase of the labor problem has not yet become universal, but we are assured that it is rapidly becoming so, and that every prominent city in the land will soon show the conditions which have become established in one or two. Chicago is the city in which this new state of things in the industrial sphere has first grown up. The story of its development there, and of the crushing despotism it now exercises over the residents of that city, is told by Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, in the September issue of McClure's Magazine. The following quotations from Mr. Stannard's articles state the leading features of the situation which has resulted from this new union. First, Mr. Baker speaks of the coal-delivery business, in which there were two unions chiefly concerned—the Coal Teamsters' Union, composed of men who drove the teams, and the Coal Team Owners' Association, composed of men who owned the teams, and sometimes the coal which they carried. He says:— Not so long ago the teamsters and the coal team owners were busily cracking each other's heads. The teamsters wanted more wages, the owners wanted more profits, and Chicago got its coal delivered promptly, at reasonable prices. . . . Some genius—he must have been a genius or he would never have thought of anything so simple—suggested one day that the teamsters and their employers stop shedding each other's blood, and unite. And this is exactly what they did. The two organizations came together and formed a close compact, offensive and defensive—a sort of monopoly new to American life. Instead of fighting each other, to the profit and peace of the on-looking public, they now turned, united, and attacked that public. The teamster salved his sores with a large increase in wages, the coal dealers and the team owners fattened their bank accounts with a large increase in profits, and the defenseless organized public paid the bill; is paying it with groanings to-day. Between these two unions a secret agreement was signed, of an exclusive character. It read:— Party of the first part (the Coal Team Owners' Association) agrees to employ none but members of the Coal Teamsters' Union, Local No. 4, in good standing, and carrying the regular working card of the organization. We (the Coal Teamsters' Union) further agree that we will not work for any firm that does not belong to the Coal Team Owners' Association. Fear of being prosecuted for conspiracy led the parties to change the last clause of this agreement, substituting the following, which means the same thing:— We agree that we will use our best endeavors to have all employers of coal teamsters become members of the Coal Team Owners' Association. Harmless as these words appear, they amount virtually to an exclusive agreement which is the very essence of the new monopolistic combinations. This is what it means: The coal team owners agree to employ none but union men; result—the independent workman, the so-called “scab,” is instantly driven out of existence, and competition on the side of labor is killed. The coal teamsters agree to work for none but members of the Coal Team Owners' Association; result—the independent employer is driven out of existence, and competition on the side of capital is killed. Total result—an absolute monopoly of the industry. Let any man not a member of the union try to drive a coal wagon in Chicago, and see how quickly his head would be broken. Similarly, let any important employer concern, come into Chicago and try to go into the coal business without first making peace with or joining the Coal Team Owners' Association, and see how long it would remain unmashed. As a result the price of coal cartage in Chicago was raised from $1.40 to $2.00 a load, and “no citizen could draw his own coal with his own wagon to his own cellar. The Salvation Army was compelled last winter to get special permission to draw a few loads of coal for the suffering poor.” I asked one of the teamster leaders what was the next step in this campaign of the combination. “We're going to stop delivering coal in bags,” he said. “It's too hard work for the men; the dirty water runs down the back of their necks.” To the suggestion that the public might not like to hire a member of the “coal hustlers” union to do the work formerly done free by the teamsters, the reply of the teamster leader was, “They'll have to like it.” “Under such conditions as these,” says Mr. Stannard, “the public of Chicago gets its coal to-day.” But the coal combination is only one among many. The Milk Dealers' Association—employers—and the Milk Wagon Drivers' Union got together and decided5 that one delivery of milk during the day was sufficient for the people of Chicago, without even thinking of consulting the milk buyers. In most districts two deliveries had been the custom for years, but all Chicago was instantly compelled to come down to one delivery a day. On June 5 Dr. Arthur R. Reynolds, commissioner of health, wrote a letter to the Milk Shippers' Union, the Milk Dealers' Association, and the Milk Drivers' Union, the three organizations which control, absolutely, the milk business of Chicago, protesting that a single delivery of milk, in the poorer districts of the city, threatened an increased mortality among the little children. “If the present conditions of supply and delivery continue during the warm weather,” he wrote, “they will have a most serious effect on the child life of the city.” No attention whatever was paid to this letter, and just a month later the weekly bulletin of the Chicago Board of Health had this to say:— “In the last week of June the deaths among infants and young children were 123; this week 172 such deaths were reported, an increase of 40 per cent; and deaths from ‘convulsions’ and the intestinal diseases of children increased 90 per cent over those of the previous week. The ‘one-daily delivery’ of milk has begun to reap its harvest. Even in well-to-do families this thirty-six to sixty hours' old milk can not be kept from souring from one delivery to the next. Herod was more merciful in the method he used in his ‘slaughter of the innocents.’” Some examples are given by Mr. Stannard of the methods by which the combine deals with independent operators. A shipment of eggs having arrived for one Samuel Gates, a commission merchant, and delivery of the same being impossible because the teamsters were striking in sympathy with the freight handlers, Mr. Gates borrowed a wagon and drove over himself to the freight house to get his goods, fearing that they would spoil if left to wait the end of the strike. He was met by Abram Covert, a union teamster, who ordered him away. “You have no business here,” shouted Covert. Gates replied that he was coming in his own wagon to get his own goods that were spoiling. Covert struck him in the jaw and killed him. In the trial which followed, Assistant States Attorney Crowe said:— “Covert as a union man accused Gates of violating union principles, tried him, found him guilty, and executed him, all within a few minutes.” Covert was finally convicted of manslaughter. Builders are held up and robbed by the combine in the following manner:— The bidders on the job meet together, talk over the job, and decide three things in regard to it: first, what it would actually cost, say $40,000; second, what it is worth, that is, what a contractor can do it for and make a fair profit, say $50,000; third, they discuss the character of the architect and of the general contractor and of the owner, whether they are “easy” or not, or careless, or driven by necessity, or whether any of them can be “touched,” deciding finally how much the job would “stand” without raising suspicion, say $70,000; in other words, $20,000 more than the job was “worth.” They then decide which of their number shall actually do the work, a point, be it observed, of minor consequence, and he puts in a bid of $70,000, all the others going higher, up to $100,000 or more. Of course the lowest bidder gets the job. The pool of $20,000 over and above the real value of the work, is divided equally among the members of the ring. The problem of these monopolies is exactly the problem of the American democracy. Here we have a close monopoly in which all health-giving competition is completely shut out. This combination falls into the hands of a dishonest machine, exactly comparable to the machine so dearly familiar to the American political party, with the result that corruption follows, and the public pays the bill. . . . We now have with us the “industrial boss.” He is personified in the walking delegate, in the secretary or manager of the employers' association; for good or for evil, his hand is upon the industry of the nation. The ancient antagonism between labor and capital—what may be called the horizontal division of society—is apparently giving place to a very different—a vertical—division of our industrial life, in which each industry, close-knit, combining both employer and employee, may stand solid against the world. Imagine such a close future combination in some indispensable necessary of life, like bread or brick or coal (the combination in coal is already within view of completeness, and the public has felt the effect of it), what is to prevent that combination from raising prices to a very high point, immensely adding to its own wealth, and taking it out of the public? We have been sighing for labor and capital to get together; we have been telling them that they are brethren, that the interest of one is the interest of the other. Here they are together; are we any better off? And now that capital and labor have “come together” in this unlooked-for and unwelcome way, it is evident that there is no remedy for industrial disturbances in the agreement between the two, as had been supposed. It is evident that the real and only remedy for industrial troubles, the one thing that can bring peace and establish justice, is not any change that can be effected in outward forms, not any mechanical transformation that can be brought about in the industrial world, but only the inward change that is wrought in the heart by Christianity, and the working out of its principles in the individual life. Now, as ever, Christianity is found to be the world's great need, the one thing that will remedy the evils in any of its spheres of life, industrial or social. “Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.” L. A. S. An Important Council
By Arthur G. Daniells
The fall council of the General Conference Committee will be held in Washington, D. C., October 7-21. This arrangement has been made with members of the Committee, after as mature counsel as conditions have permitted. On account of the expense, loss of time from active work in the field, and numerous inconveniences involved in holding such a council, we have hesitated to meet this fall. But the questions requiring the immediate study and decision of the whole Committee are so many, so important, and so imperative that we believe the cause will suffer if we fail to come together at an early date. That our people may understand in some measure the important, far-reaching questions with which the Committee will have to deal, I will here mention some of those already on the list:— 1. The Approaching Union Conference Sessions.—When and where shall they be held? How shall they be conducted so as to secure the largest results possible? What general help shall be furnished each? What can be done to perfect the organization of each? 2. Work With “Christ’s Object Lessons.”—Shall this work now be dropped? Shall it be left to drift? Shall the plans for conducting this work be reorganized? If so, what general arrangement can be made that will give promise of good returns? 3. The Week of Prayer.—Preparation of readings. What can be done to secure a general observance and larger results? Shall the old plans be followed? 4. Home Missionary Work.—Should not a great forward movement, or winter missionary campaign, be set on foot at an early date this fall? If so, what shall be the general plan? Who can be selected to take charge of the plan, and push it vigorously in all parts of the home field? Shall this plan embrace efforts— (a) To place every minister who can possibly be spared for that purpose, in a new field; well supplied with literature, to carry on an earnest effort to lead people to accept the truth? (b) To place at work in our cities capable Bible workers, to hold Bible readings and distribute literature?6 (c) To largely increase our staff of regular canvassers? (d) To enlist the rank and file of our people in America in an earnest and continuous effort to place our papers and tracts in the hands of all their neighbors? What special literature should be prepared for such a missionary effort? and who should be selected to prepare it? 5. Finances.—What can be done during the coming winter to raise sufficient means to meet the appropriations voted by the Committee last spring in the general council at Battle Creek, for both the evangelical work and the establishment and equipment of institutions? Furthermore, what can be done to dispose of the General Conference overdraft of thirty-four thousand dollars, the accumulation of deficits covering a number of years? And still further, what steps should be taken to close out the assets and liabilities of the General Conference Association? These assets and liabilities are about even, and amount to two hundred thousand dollars. Instead of the General Conference Association being able to render the cause valuable service, it is in its present condition really a burden. Can not its affairs be wound up, and a new and better arrangement be made? 6. Camp-Meetings.—Do they pay as now conducted? How can they be made more profitable to the cause? What steps can now be taken thoroughly to reorganize and revitalize this plan of gathering and teaching and reviving our people? 7. Washington Enterprises.—When shall definite steps be taken to develop the work in Washington in harmony with the instruction from the spirit of prophecy? (a) Shall vigorous efforts be made this winter to preach the third angel’s message in the city of Washington, and to carry on a strong Bible-reading and house-visitation work? Shall special efforts be made while Congress is in session to carry on religious-liberty work? Who can be secured for all these lines of work? and how can they be supported? (b) Shall good, creditable treatment rooms for medical missionary work be opened in Washington before Congress convenes? If so, who shall take the work in charge? (c) Shall steps be taken this fall to begin the erection and the equipment of a printing plant at Takoma Park? (d) Shall the work of clearing the ground and erecting the school be started this fall on the tract of land purchased in Takoma Park? (e) What plans shall be laid for the erection of a sanitarium on the same tract of land? (f) How shall all the plans affecting the development of the work in Washington be arranged? Who shall be secured to carry them forward? and from what source shall means be raised for the work? 8. Should Arrangements be made at an early date by which members of the General Conference Committee can visit the European and other foreign fields during the year 1904? 9. The Education and Work of our young men and young women. (a) By what means can we place in our training-schools for Christian workers the thousands of our young people who are attending worldly schools? (b) What plans can be laid to set to work in the field the young people who attend our schools? These are some of the general questions affecting the development of our work at home and abroad, that should receive earnest, extended, and prayerful study of the members of the General Conference Committee. They are problems that are daily facing the officers of the Committee. We are unable to settle them; it is not our place to do so; they rest with the whole Committee, and but little progress can be made in the solution of these problems until the entire Committee shall meet and deal with them. Owing to the great scope of the work to be done at the coming council, and the intelligent, strong co-operation we must have from the State conferences, we have invited the State conference presidents who can consistently do so, to join us. We shall need their counsel very much, and they will need the information that can be secured only by being present. This is especially true of that part of our work that relates to the development of the publishing interests in the East. The territory of the new Review and Herald Publishing Association that has been incorporated in Washington is composed of the Atlantic, Canadian, Lake, and Northern Union Conferences, and all the members of these union conference committees, with the General Conference Committee, have the responsibility of shaping the policy of this corporation. They have not had an opportunity to meet since the new corporation has been formed. Broad, progressive plans should at once be laid for the development of this work. This will be a most opportune time to do this. Much more might be said regarding the work the Committee will have to do, but I believe that the brief outline given above will help our brethren and sisters to appreciate the fact that our task is great, and, further, that it will help you to pray for us during the council. A Remarkable Oath
By L. A. S.
The oath taken by members of the Typographical Union, as quoted and vouched for by The Independent of September 10, is this:— I hereby solemnly swear that my fidelity to the Typographical Union and my duty to the members thereof, shall in no sense be interfered with by any allegiance that I may now or hereafter owe to any other organization, social, political, or religious. Circumstances having called public attention to the nature of this oath, much comment has been evoked from those who appreciate the relationship sustained by members of the union to the state and to the church. Bishop Scannel, the head of the Catholic church in Omaha, Neb., is quoted as saying that the maintenance of such an oath would set aside all government, both civil and ecclesiastical, and nullify all courts of law. He is reported as having commanded priests in his diocese to refuse absolution to Catholic members of the union. The union, on the other hand, seems determined to adhere to its oath regardless of its antagonism to any other organization, whether church or state. “We can not believe,” comments The Independent, “that the members of the Typographical Union, who are among the most responsible, and we should have supposed, intelligent, of any craft, can have appreciated the meaning of that oath. It puts fidelity to their labor union before fidelity to the country or to the Christian church. It must have been composed by some absolute unbeliever, if not an anarchist.” The truth seems to be, however, that those who made and who take this oath do appreciate its meaning, and that it was so worded from a belief that only by placing the obligation to the union above fidelity to state or church could the union accomplish the purposes for which it was created. Indeed, is it not in the very nature of the case that a labor union must hold the allegiance of its members against the claims of every other organization upon them in order to succeed in its purpose of forcing employers and the general public to come to its terms? We think it will be more and more evident, as events unfold themselves, that labor unions are antagonistic in purpose to both the state and the church, and necessarily so, while the latter are constituted in their present form.