Owing to the fact that so many are inquiring about my health, I take this opportunity of speaking to the praise of Him who is able to help in time of need. My health is quite good, and has been ever since the season of prayer two years ago at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. I had evidence before the prayer for my deliverance, that the Lord would help me at that time.
In less than two hours after the prayer service I felt quite well, and have continued to improve, until I am physically better than for fifteen years previously.
One cause of my break-down was overwork, with insufficient sleep and rest. Then I had quite an accident ten years ago, but after five and one-half months at the sanitarium, I was able to resume my work, although I suffered more or less nearly all the time. I continued to labor until new difficulties arose, which were very hard for me to bear. At that time I had the care of a large church and mission, and also conducted aggressive work, holding sixty meetings in one of the suburbs of the city.
After my health gave out, I dreamed that God in mercy would again relieve me, which he did at the time already referred to. I am glad to tell all who may read this that the dear Lord is well able to do all he has promised.
My labors have been blessed of God, and many souls are rejoicing in the message, since I have taken up labor again. Dear brethren and sisters, have faith in God. Mark 11:22. My courage is good in the Lord, and the message is clear to my soul.
E. J. VAN HORN.
Lake View, Ohio.
Proceedings of the National Reform Convention
By C. S. Longacre
In a pamphlet which was circulated at this convention are set forth the following significant statements: “The state, then, being a moral person, must act in the sphere of morals and from moral motives. . . . But morality and religion are inseparable. The state, in order to be practically moral, must be practically religious for itself; for there can be no real morality apart from the sanctions of religion. . . . Well, if this nation is to be religious for itself, the question arises, What shall be its religion? Shall it be Mohammedan, Confucian, pagan, or Christian? . . . Its religion is Christian, and Protestant Christian at that.”
The next step is obvious. They will not stop here, any more than the papacy did when it got intoxicated with power and sovereign authority to correct all heretics. The beast will have a complete image.
The pamphlet continues: “A recognition of Christianity in fundamental law should be provided for; first, because it is required as a religious duty.”
Rev. R. C. Wylie, D. D., made the following statements, and afterward circulated them in printed form: “Christianity without the sabbath [Sunday] is not Christianity.” “The nation, in order to remain a Christian nation, must of necessity recognize the Christian sabbath, or renounce Christianity and the title of a Christian nation. Sabbath laws are constitutional, since they infringe on the rights of none. The law of rest for all is the condition of rest for any. No one ever suffered persecution under the sabbath [Sunday] laws.”
When I informed the president of the association that our people were being persecuted under the existing Sunday laws, he replied that “there must be a uniform standard of morality, and a few objectors can not be allowed to stand in the way and veto the liberty of action of the great majority.”
The most interesting feature of the whole convention was the question-box service the last afternoon of the session. For fear my questions would be ignored, I sent them to the chairman, who was to answer all questions, or call on others to answer if he deemed advisable. My questions seemed to set the convention on fire, and it was interesting to see the different positions the reformers took in answering the questions, some of which they read, but did not attempt to answer according to what they must have known was the intent of the question.
The question that created the greatest stir was the following: “You say you are contending for the state to recognize the law of God, and yet you are asking the state to recognize the first day of the week as the Sabbath, or rest day. Where is a divine law or a God-given command in the Bible that has sanctified or enjoined the first day of the week as a rest day? Please quote the Bible for an answer.”
No attempt was made to read a commandment out of the Bible. Dr. R. C.20Wylie made the first attempt to answer the question. He said: “There is no law or commandment in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation that has enjoined the Christian or any one to keep the first day of the week, and I assert with the same emphasis that neither is there any law nor commandment in the Bible that has set apart the seventh day of the week to be kept. The fourth commandment simply says that we are to rest the seventh day after six days of labor. That seventh day is not a specific day, but is determined by the six days of toil whenever you begin and end them.”
Dr. Milligan shook his head at Dr. Wylie's argument, and rose up and said: “I have to differ with Dr. Wylie's position of an indefinite sabbath day, as my position goes to prove just the opposite. Our seventh-day Sabbatarians would do well if they studied a little Greek in regard to this matter of the change of the Sabbath. The original Greek of Matt. 28: 1, should have been translated, ‘And in the end of the old Jewish sabbath of the former dispensation as it began to dawn toward the new Christian sabbath of the Christian dispensation, they came to the sepulcher.’ Another point I wish our seventh-day Sabbatarians to consider is that if the government would sanction their day and make it more favorable to observe for them, they would heartily indorse these principles we are contending for; therefore they must accede us the same privileges and desires.”
It was an extremely difficult task to keep silent under such misrepresentations of facts and truths, but as long as they devoured each other's arguments, I held my peace. The men who translated the Bible were as able Greek scholars as the so-called “Reformers” ever produced, and their united testimony on this text is that Dr. Milligan is mistaken. Moreover, he is mistaken as to our position in regard to Sunday laws. We would oppose laws of the state that would force the true Sabbath upon people as vigorously as we would oppose those enforcing a false sabbath.
Rev. Wm. Parsons took still another position. He said: “I admit, too, that there is no written law that sets apart the first day of the week, but the Christian is not guided alone by the written letter of the Word; he is guided by the phenomena of Scripture as well as by the letter. While the first day is not set apart by the letter, yet we find good proof in the phenomena of the Bible.” This phenomena must be a sort of penumbra between truth and error, light and darkness, where Satan and the church meet in the haze to fix up their compromises. What error could not be supported from this standpoint?
Rev. T. P. Stevenson, D. D., had still another answer to this question. He said: “This Christian nation must decide as a moral being for itself which day it is to keep. The government must interpret which day of the week the law of God sets forth when once that law is adopted in the fundamental law of the land. The voice of the majority must settle this question. The minority must swing into line with the current of progress. They might as well try stopping the flow of a mighty river.”
Dr. Wylie further said: “The fourth commandment has not been repealed. Our courts have frequently declared it to be the basis of our sabbath laws. The sabbath [Sunday] more than any other institution, is the conservator of public morals. The foes of our sabbath [Sunday] are foes of our civilization and of our nation. The freest nations on earth are the nations with the strictest sabbath laws. We can not maintain our free government without our Christian civilization; our civilization can not be preserved without the Christian religion; the Christian religion can not be perpetuated without the Christian church; the Christian church goes down without the Christian sabbath [Sunday]; the Christian sabbath needs the protection of law; the law needs a clearly expressed constitutional basis on which to rest.”
From the foregoing statements we can clearly see that the Reform Association means to ride over the consciences of the minority, and whip them into subjection. To accomplish this end, they are bending every effort to flood the present Congress with petitions to acknowledge the Christian religion as the established religion; and shall we sleep while they work with all their zeal? Shall we allow them to bind our hands without a protest? God forbid! Let us rally around the standard of religious liberty.
C. S. LONGACRE.
Field Notes
Brother C. N. Sanders says in a report of meetings at Hanover, Mich.: “The Lord blessed the effort put forth, and as the result we left eight adults keeping the Sabbath, and organized a Sabbath-school of twenty-seven members.”
Elder N. M. Jorgensen says of the week-of-prayer meetings at Spring Valley, S. D.: “From the very first meeting we had an old-fashioned revival, which continued all through the week, at the end of which five or six signed the covenant; four united in church fellowship, some of these subject to baptism. There are still bright days ahead for the Spring Valley church.”
Good results have attended a series of meetings at Powell, Ohio, conducted by Brethren J. O. Miller and F. E. Gibson. The latter says: “As a result of the work so far, we have organized a church of thirteen members; eleven of these were baptized this fall. All are of good courage and are pressing on. Several are keeping the Sabbath, and attending the meetings regularly, and will unite with the church soon.”
Brother E. L. Carrey says in a week-of-prayer report from Herrin, Ill.: “The church at Herrin has been wonderfully blessed, and many victories have been gained. We met from house to house each evening, and as the reading was given, prayer and testimony offered, those not of our faith were constrained to ask our prayers.” A church building is nearly completed at this place, in which it is planned to begin a course of meetings some time in January.
“Remind Our People Often”
By K. C. Russell
THE following paragraphs are extracts from a Testimony concerning religious liberty work, under date of Jan. 16, 1905:—
“The time has come when the liberty of the church of Christ is endangered. Let it be a time also when true missionary work shall be done, in public ministry and in house-to-house labor. The oppression of Christ’s church should apparently be a great victory for the side of the transgressors of the Sabbath, and would cause rejoicing among evildoers. But nothing should discourage us. God has victory for his people. If the forces of the enemy gain the victory now, it will be because the churches have neglected their God-given work.
“When all our ministers and physicians come into line, taking their stand under the blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel, we shall see an army of men and women going forth to work for Christ, speaking the word with holy boldness and power.
“Remind our people often of the work that may be done by the sale of our books and the distribution of tracts. Encourage them to sell the periodicals containing the message for this time. Our large books can be sold in Washington and other cities in the East, if the canvassers will take up the work courageously.
“Instruction has been given me that the important books containing the light that God has given regarding Satan’s apostasy in heaven should be given a wide circulation just now; for through them the truth will reach many minds. ‘Patriarchs and Prophets,’ ‘Daniel and the Revelation,’ and ‘Great Controversy’ are needed now as never before. They should be widely circulated because the truths they emphasize will open many blind eyes.
“When ‘Patriarchs and Prophets’ was first issued, it was neglected for a book easy to sell and more profitable to the publishers. Many of our people have been blind to the importance of the very books that were most needed. Had tact and skill then been shown in the sale of these books, the Sunday-law movement would not be where it is today.”
Let our canvassers and others take note of what is said in this Testimony concerning the importance of circulating those books setting forth the outcome of the great apostasy from religious liberty principles, and do it now. There should be delay no longer.
K. C. RUSSELL.
Religious Liberty Notes
By K. C. Russell
“THE CONFEDERACY FORMING” is the title of an article which appeared in the Kansas Worker, under date of December 20, by C. F. Parmele, in which he writes: “In communications recently received from those who attended the federation of churches in New York they report that ‘this present federation movement makes the old National Reformers look like the mere embryo of what we see to-day.’ And while but little has been done in the way of business21and noise, there has been an undercurrent stealthily at work marshaling the churches into line for the rapid forming of the image of the beast. Many an honest person is being deceived by the lamblike appearance of the movement who would gladly take his stand for the right if it were only shown him.”
In the Washington Times of December 26 appears the following: “Rome, December 26.—Pius X has just declared his intention to send a wedding present to Miss Alice Roosevelt, the American president’s daughter, on the occasion of her wedding in February. The gift will probably be a beautiful piece of mosaic work from the Vatican factory, probably a copy of one of the most valuable paintings from the Vatican collection. It has not been determined whether Mgr. Falconio, the apostolic delegate in the United States, shall present the gift on behalf of the pope, or a special messenger shall be sent from the Vatican for the purpose. The latter course will probably be followed if the pope is given assurance that a papal representative at the wedding would be acceptable to the American president’s family.”
The Evening Journal, of Ottawa, Canada, under date of Dec. 13, 1905, contains an article with the title in large head-lines spread over the top of three columns, “Protestant and Catholic Want a Sunday Observance Bill.” The article proceeds to show that a deputation waited upon the premier and minister of justice, and stated the judicial view that the Dominion must legislate on a Sunday observance bill at its coming session.
K. C. RUSSELL.
A Report From Indiana
By W. A. Colcord
In a private communication dated December 21, Elder Allen Moon, one of our old religious liberty workers, writes as follows:—
“I note that the REVIEW AND HERALD is to have a department of the religious liberty work. I believe this is a move in the right direction.
“Recently we had a member of the American Sabbath Union, from New York City, in Indianapolis, laboring in the interests of the union. I did not know until after he had taken his departure that he was here. They were very careful not to advertise in the papers, so I did not see the appointment; but I understand they had quite a largely attended meeting, and that quite an interest was taken by the members of the churches in the work of the Sabbath Union. Of course, we have no legislature this present winter; but they are getting ready for next year; but I trust we shall be ready to meet them when they are ready for business.
“Indiana is coming to be quite a reform State, and Governor Hanley is making a very great stir, as you have perhaps noticed in the public print, and has caused, as the expression is used in the daily papers, a good many cities to ‘close down the lid’ on Sunday. There are some rebellious cities, however, and Indianapolis is one of them. South Bend has been giving the governor quite a good deal of trouble; and I understand that now there is talk of indicting the mayor. And so the battle goes on. I suppose by the time the next legislature meets, they will be ready for a lot of reform legislation.
“It does not matter how many criminals the saloon people make during the week, nor how much liquor they sell Saturday night to be drunk over Sunday if they only ‘close down the lid’ on Sunday, all it well. Truly we are living in peculiar times, and they will become more interesting as time goes on.”
W. A. COLCORD.
Actions of the Atlantic Union Conference Upon Educational Matters
By F. G.
It may be of interest to our union conferences throughout the world to note the actions taken by the Atlantic Union Conference, recently held at South Lancaster, Mass., concerning the matter of education. The resolutions passed at this conference are as follows:—
“Whereas, There is not as effective work being done by the Educational Department of the Atlantic Union Conference as there should be; therefore,—
“Resolved, That the department be reorganized and made to consist of fifteen members, with a chairman and secretary, and that this committee be appointed by the executive committee of the Atlantic Union Conference, and be under its control and direction.
“Resolved, That we urge each of the conferences comprising the union to establish and maintain a department of education.
“Whereas, The subject of Christian education is of vital importance to our people in preparing young men and women to be workers in the cause of present truth, and in the salvation of our children; therefore,—
“Resolved, That the Educational Department of the Atlantic Union Conference be hereby instructed to prepare two educational programs to be presented each year in the churches throughout the union.
“Resolved, That we urge upon our people the necessity of a prayerful study of the instruction given us by the spirit of prophecy regarding the establishment and maintenance of schools of all grades for our children and youth.
“Whereas, There are throughout the conferences of the union many young men and women of promise, who are unable to obtain the education necessary to properly qualify them to be workers in the cause of present truth, and,—
“Whereas, There is at present no permanent fund established for the purpose of assisting such proper and worthy young persons in attending our accredited training-schools; therefore,—
“Resolved, That steps be taken at once to establish such a fund in each conference of the union, said fund to be maintained by contributions and other laudable means, and to be under the joint management of the executive committees of the conferences and the local departments of education, and further,—
“Resolved, That twenty per cent of such funds be appropriated to the like fund of the board of management of our union conference academy, and further,—
“Resolved, That to assist in building up such funds we accept of the kind offer of Elder S. N. Haskell to print a special issue of the Bible Training School.
“Resolved, That the special issue of the Training School be twenty thousand copies, and be issued during January, 1906.
“Resolved, That we urge our conferences that have not already done so to prosecute most vigorously the matter of closing out their quota of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons.’
“Whereas, The South Lancaster Academy Corporation has appealed to the union conference to set apart two weeks to be devoted by all our people to the closing-out sale of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ therefore,—
“Resolved, That the date for the special campaign in behalf of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons’ be April 14-27, 1906.
“Resolved, That conference executive committees be requested to arrange for holding conventions in all of the churches on Sabbath, April 7, to arrange for local work, and that there be published in the Gleaner a suggestive program suitable for use in these conventions.
“Whereas, There are many of our brethren and sisters who would be pleased to purchase books to be sold by others; therefore,—
“Resolved, (a) That we encourage those so disposed to do so; (b) that we encourage young people to take these copies of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons’ and sell them; and any person attending the academy or desiring to attend it shall have the full retail price of all books sold placed to his credit, to be used in defraying his expenses in attending the academy.”
F. G.
Bethel (Wis.) Academy
By A. W. HALLOCK
WHILE so many reports of school openings are being published in our papers, we thought it well to write a few words about a school which closes its consecutive school work at this time.
At Bethel Academy three terms of the school year are in the past, and while we have reached no place for stopping or relaxing our energies, we are able to report to the readers of the REVIEW a year of progress.
When the school opened last April, all seemed welcomed by the multitudes of our opening wild flowers and the waiting gardens, as well as by the well-lighted class rooms. The literary work offered in the Calendar was to be done thoroughly; fifty-five acres of land, quite well dotted with hardwood stumps, were to be worked; improvements and repairs were to be made in the buildings; the apiary was to be looked after, and made as much a part of the school as possible; and a store with a three-thousand-dollar stock of goods was to be managed.
All the students were willing, of course, to enter into the first task, while the others—the industrial problems—fell to the teachers and the home students chiefly. But the zeal and kind spirit manifested on the part of the students, and the unity among the teachers, made all tasks pleasant, and now, as we look back over the months with their results, we are led to say, “God has done all he promised to do.”
Good class work has been maintained every day, and the industries, except the store work, have all been managed by teachers and students, no others being employed. The farm brought forth its abundance, and will supply the Home with most of its fruit and vegetables for a year, and the stock with all the hay and root crops, and part of the grain, necessary for the winter. A fair crop of honey was produced; stumps were removed from more than three acres of land; the buildings and premises were made more attractive. And most of the students became so interested in making the school what the spirit of prophecy has said the Lord desires our schools to be, that they worked much over time every day without extra pay, and almost made us forget the common remarks, “Got in my two hours' work to-day,” and, “How much shall I get an hour?”
These were the visible results, but the lessons learned and the characters formed give us the greatest cause for gratitude. Students have learned to enjoy real problems of life and bear responsibility, and teachers have learned that the industries furnish the best opportunities for developing in students the one thing needed to make education a blessing—character.
The highest enrolment for any term was one hundred and twenty-six, and the daily attendance at the close of school one hundred and sixteen. In their studies and work we have endeavored to keep before all the aim of giving the message in this generation, instead of “getting an education so as not to have to work so hard,” or “to be able to earn more money,” or “to be thought to be somebody.” These selfish aims represented by ease, wealth, and honor, are hard to get rid of in school work, but some gratifying results have been seen, and the “noblest” aim has demonstrated its superiority.22
Now we wish to suggest to our fellow teachers that the summer season is an excellent school period; that the industries in a school can help to make teachers happy, and that it might be very well to have a few schools at least where all students who attend would be living in the school homes and associating with their teachers in all the duties of the day.
A. W. HALLOCK.
Resistance of Temptation and Performance of Duty
God designs that each one of us shall be almighty, so far as concerns resistance of temptation and performance of duty.
Christian Education
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
FREDERICK GRIGGS, Chairman,
C. C. LEWIS, Secretary.
Current Mention
— The revolution in Santo Domingo is ended, but another one is in progress in Ecuador. The revolutionists in the latter country are reported to be in control of two provinces, and martial law has been proclaimed by President Garcia.
— The present disturbances in China have progressed to a point where an outbreak of war is imminent, and American troops are held in readiness in the Philippines to be sent to any point where needed to protect American interests.
— Germany is still having much trouble in her efforts at colonization in Africa. A recent Berlin dispatch says: “It is now known that the rising against the Germans in the South Cameroons is serious. Nine important tribes, numbering 10,000 warriors, are devastating a district as large as Saxony, and the lives of the German settlers are in imminent danger.”
— The high price of pork abroad has created a great demand for pork from this country, which is always subjected to microscopic examination before shipment to other countries, this being required by the import laws of those countries. The Department of Agriculture has accordingly called on the Treasury Department for an appropriation of $135,000 to defray the expense of such examination. The important feature about this for Americans is the reminder it gives of the fact that American pork for home consumption is not inspected at all.
— The revolution in Russia has been crushed at Moscow and Riga, but continues in other places, though without any great prospect of ultimate success. Count Witte still retains his position as premier. Conflicting reports are received regarding the loss of life in the recent fighting, and no news agency seems to have access to reliable information. The revolutionary movement in Poland appears to have failed. A report from St. Petersburg states that a plot to murder the czar has been discovered there, involving as principals many army officers of high rank.
— A financial panic is threatened in this country, according to the testimony of a man prominent in banking affairs in New York City. A press dispatch says: “Unless there is currency reform, a panic, beside which former panics will seem insignificant, was predicted by Jacob H. Schiff, head of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, in a speech before the New York Chamber of Commerce to-day. Mr. Schiff said he did not regard such a panic as imminent, but believed it will come unless something is done to remedy the lack of elasticity of the present currency system.”
— Utterances of British statesmen and the British press indicate that Great Britain will support France against Germany in the coming conference over Morocco, on January 16. Reports from London claiming to be based on official information from Berlin state that Germany will ask more at the coming conference on Morocco than France is willing to yield, and the outlook is regarded as grave. It is reported that Germany has expended a vast sum in recent military preparations, while France likewise has been sending troops to the frontier. The pope has asked Austria to present at the conference a proposition to secure religious liberty in Morocco, that is, liberty for the inhabitants to renounce Mohammedanism and become Catholics.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By W. B. WHITE
Notice!
THE third biennial session of the Pacific Union Conference will convene in the East Portland (Ore.) church, at 9 A. M., Thursday, Feb. 15, 1906, for the election of officers for the ensuing term of two years, and for the transaction of all other necessary business.
W. B. WHITE,
Pres. Pacific Union Conf.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Southwestern Union Conference
By C. N. Woodward
THE third biennial session of the Southwestern Union Conference (second under its present organization) will be held at Keene, Tex., Feb. 1–11, 1906, for the election of officers, trustees of its legal association, and the Keene Academy Board, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it.
C. N. WOODWARD.
Secretary and Acting President.
Notice!
It will be remembered that some time ago Chief G. W. Hill, an Indian doctor, sent out to several conferences sheets of music to be sold for the benefit of Indians. Will all conferences that received music kindly report at once to Brother Hill, stating whether or not the music has been sold. If the music has not been sold, the conferences are requested to return it at once. The Indians are greatly in need of money from the music or of donations for their church, school, and school supplies. Fifty copies of music were sent to each conference. Send music or contributions to Chief G. W. Hill, Box 44, Brantford, Ontario.
Southwestern Union Conference, Notice!
By C. N. Woodward
Quite full notices of the plan to organize nurses' bureaus in the different union conferences have recently appeared in the REVIEW. There are a good many trained nurses in the Southwestern Union Conference who would probably be glad to affiliate with such a movement when a permanent organization is perfected. So little time remains before our union conference meeting, that it will not be best to attempt even a temporary organization before that time. We wish, however, to prepare for a permanent organization at that time, and with that in view, Dr. D. C. Ross, of the Keene Sanitarium, has been asked to act as temporary corresponding secretary, and all nurses in our field who would like to enter such an organization are requested to send their names and addresses to Dr. D. C. Ross, Keene, Tex.
We would also like to see as many nurses as can leave their work, attend our union conference meeting from February 1 to 11, and assist in the formation of the nurses' bureau.
C. N. WOODWARD,
President S. W. U. Conf.
Addresses
THE address of Elder A. J. Howard is Colton, Cal.
The address of Elder P. F. Bicknell is 227 Farson St., Philadelphia, Pa.
The address of Elder C. H. Keslake is Box 217, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
Notes
A good increase in attendance is reported at the opening of the winter term at Union College, College View, Neb.
Elder W. A. Spicer spent a portion of the week of prayer with the students in Union College. The week of prayer is reported to have been a very profitable season, and the labors of Elder Spicer were very effective and much appreciated.
Is temperance taught as fully in our schools as it should be? The physicians of Great Britain have issued a course of study for the schools that come under their jurisdiction upon temperance. Our schools should be behind those of no nation or people in the teaching of this important subject.
The use of the rod sometimes seems necessary. For some time, naughty boys in New York City have not stood in particular fear of correction by this means. Recently though, a decision from a court in New York City has ruled that when an unruly boy has been placed by the courts in the hand of the teacher, corporal punishment may be employed. One thing is certain, and that is that whenever corporal punishment is used, it should be used as a last resort.
The text-book committee appointed by the Educational Department is calling through all our papers for text-books, either in manuscript or in printed form, which any of our teachers may wish its members to examine. We trust that all our teachers are interested in having before us the very best suggestions with reference to the text-books, and that they are sufficiently interested to forward any manuscripts or text-books upon which they may wish the committee to report.
From reports it would appear that Keene Academy, of Keene, Tex., has entered upon a period of material prosperity. They report increased facilities in their laboratory; the putting in of a heating plant; six new sinks for the kitchen; a wood-shed for the kitchen range; the broom shop to be ceiled and partitioned; a number of the classes have become so large that it has become necessary to divide them. “Every Wednesday night division prayer-meetings are held by the students in the Home. Friday night at the going down of the sun, the entire family assemble in the parlor. A prayer and social meeting is held, or some instruction is given; then the Sabbath-school lesson is studied. Then some time is spent in singing, and the meeting closes with a reading from some missionary biography.”
Understanding Through Keeping God’s Precepts
“I HAVE more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.”
