p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 34. (8/27/1896)

Earlier text: JESUS, LIFEGIVER AND JUDGE

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The Tonga Islands

The history of many of the interesting island groups of the Pacific are comparatively unknown to ordinary readers except through the writings of missionaries. When international complications arise, as a year ago at Samoa, or, more lately, at Ponape, so little is known of the locality or the people that it is like showing pictures to the blind. This little volume gives something of the history of the Tongas, the Hervey group, and the Marquesas Islands, before they were visited by the missionaries, and indeed were hardly known to the first navigators of those seas. The habits of the people, their government, the vegetable wonders on shore, and the great wonders of the sea about them, are graphically told in a manner that cannot fail to entertain and instruct young readers.—The Christian Cynosure.

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Missionary Work in the Pacific Islands

Brother W. G. Buckner and wife, who have just spent two years on Pitcairn Island, arrived in San Francisco on the 22d inst. They came on the missionary ship Pitcairn to Tahiti, arriving at Papeete July 8. Thence they came home on the mail ship Galilee. Of the movements of missionaries, we learn that Brother and Sister Butz, Maria Young, and Thomas Christian are to locate on Raratonga. Brother and Sister Whately take charge of the school on Pitcairn Island. Brother and Sister Green remain at Tahiti, and Sisters Rosa Young and Hattie Andre are with the Pitcairn, expecting to come with her to America at the close of her voyage. Brother J. R. McCoy accompanies the ship as a missionary. Brother Buckner gives a good report of the condition and progress of the people on Pitcairn. He was enabled, by boring into the mountain side, to find a good supply of excellent water, of which the inhabitants were very much in need. This alone far more than paid for his two years’ sojourn on the island, as, previous to this achievement, the people were dependent upon stored-up rain water for a good part of the year. Altho well along toward the three-score-and-ten mark in life, Brother Buckner is still ready to be sent as a missionary of the cross. His address, till further notice, is Stockton, Cal.

Healdsburg College Fall Announcement

We have just received the “Fall Announcement” of Healdsburg College. The school commences September 23. In addition to the extraordinary facilities for attaining practical education, the very low terms is a matter of surprise. Any one who can pay a half year in advance, can have all the privileges and benefits of the home and college for an average cost of $14 per school month. By paying in advance for the full school year of nine months, this expense is further reduced to $13 per month. A limited amount of labor is furnished in part payment to candidates approved by the trustees. Young men who desire to prepare for the ministry should correspond with Prof. F. W. Howe, president of the faculty. The way will be opened for all who have this desire, to attend the college. Canvassing will be taught throughout the year. A special Bible course will also be conducted during part of the year, for those who can not take a regular school course. This will include, besides Bible study, a short course in history, grammar, physiology, and music. The faculty is nearly the same as last year, excepting that Elder Roderick S. Owen returns to the chair of Biblical History and Exegesis, which he formerly held for a number of years. There never was a time where there was more need of practical education, divested of superfluous so-called “accomplishments,” than the present, and such schools as Healdsburg are the place to get this advantage.

Christ’s Example in Contrast with Formalism

READ “Christ’s Example in Contrast with Formalism.” Such principles are worthy of regard in these days of increasing formalism.

Papal Influence Rising in Italy

The pope has greatly increased his popularity throughout Italy by his intercession with King Menelek, of Abyssinia, for the liberation of the Italians now in Abyssinian prisons. Italy’s power is waning, but the power of the Papacy is waxing.

Counterfeit and True

Counterfeit and True.— It does not change a counterfeit to call it a genuine. It does not change the genuine to call it counterfeit. The true is not made false by so calling it, nor is the false made true by the same means. Men may call Sunday the Sabbath of the Lord, or the Lord’s day, but this does not make it so. Men may call the Sabbath of the Lord “Jewish,” and load it with contempt, but it is the Sabbath of the Lord still. Men may change their minds, but that does not change God’s truth.

The Bible Sabbath

The Bible Sabbath.—The only authority for a holy Sabbath of rest which Christians have is the Bible. If this be not true, then it is not, according to Protestant Christianity, of any worth, and “not to be received as an article of faith.” But if the Bible is authority for any Sabbath at all, it is for the true Sabbath, and that is the seventh day. France in her infidelity set apart a tenth part of the time instead of the seventh. This the Christian world called blasphemy. The Roman Catholic Church by tradition changed the day from the seventh to the first. Now what is this? Is it not as much an evil to do the second as the first? Has mortal man any more right to change the day than the proportion of time? Jesus says of the Sabbath law, “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than one tittle of the law to fail.”

NOT A RACE MATTER ALONE.

The persecution of the Armenians by the Turks is not alone a race or national hatred; the matter of business and commercial supremacy, as well as religion, is also involved. And these European nations have not at all helped. Says H. Allen Tupper, Jr., D.D., in the New York (Baptist) Examiner of July 2:

“Nor let it be supposed that the Turks as such hate the Armenians as such. The Armenians have been for centuries the most submissive and profitable subjects, and they would still be most loyal if, instead of the increasingly oppressive policy of Sultan Abdul Hamid, their lives and honor and property had been even tolerably protected. All this many Turks know very well, and regret the cruel and utterly impolitic course of the present sovereign. The Turk as a man has many excellent qualities; it is his religion which, at certain times, makes a devil of him. It is the very essence of Mohammedanism that the Giaour has no right to live save in subjection. While assured of their power, the Turks treated the Armenians and their other Christian subjects, not with equality, but with a measure of toleration.

“It is Europe insisting on reforms for the Armenians that has enraged the Turks against the Armenians. The Turks know that in a fair and equal race the Armenians will outstrip them in every department of business and industry, and they see in any fair scheme of reform the handwriting on the wall for themselves. Save for this fear, the Turks would be content to tax and fleece the Armenians for an unlimited period, as they have done for the last 500 years. If the scheme of reforms had had in view the sections of the country where the Greeks predominate, the Turks would have killed and robbed the Greeks as readily as they have killed and robbed the Armenians. It is not a race fight at all; for the Mohammedan Turks cordially affiliate with the Mohammedan Slavs (formerly Christian) and with Kurds and Circassians and Lazes. It is a religious contention, and the Mohammedan Turks are resolved to keep their Christian subjects, of whatever nationality, underfoot; and in case attempts of any kind are made to give the Christians real equality and participation in government, the Turks will kill them one by one, or, occasionally, in open massacre, unless the powers who intervene for the relief of the Christians do it with armed force.”

But in all these things our readers will see that it is essential selfishness which leads to persecution, and the schemes and plans of men do not help matters any. It is only the Spirit of Christ that can take away persecution.

Increasing Persecution

Increasing Persecution.—In 1878 began the arrest and imprisonment of Sabbath-keepers in Arkansas. In 1893 there were eleven cases of arrest and imprisonment; in 1894, twenty-three cases; in 1895, forty-seven cases; and since 1878, one hundred and twenty-six cases. The number of days spent in confinement by these one hundred and twenty-six persons is 1,438, of which 810 were spent in the chain-gang. The year 1896 has, in its first half, added to the above, thirteen arrests and 300 days’ imprisonment. The work will not cease, but, according to the prophecy of God’s word, will go on and increase till liberty is at an end in this country, and religious tyranny has bound the government hand and foot. These facts we gather from a circular letter received from the International Religious Liberty Association, 39 Bond Street, New York City. This organization is endeavoring to help the persecuted and enlighten the ignorant with reference to right principles. They need, and can use to good advantage, funds. Send direct to them, or to us for them.

The Weapons and Power of the Church Spiritual.—

The cause of Christ is spiritual. God is a Spirit, and those who truly worship or serve him must do so in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24.) It is by the Spirit of God that his children are born into the new life. (John 3:3-5.) By that same Spirit we are baptized into the one spiritual body of Christ, his church. (1 Cor. 12:12, 13; Eph. 1:22, 23.) God’s “law is spiritual.” (Rom. 7:14.) And only those who have the Spirit of Christ can keep the spiritual law (Rom. 8:4); for “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his” (verse 9). It is, therefore, not by carnal weapons that the institutions and cause of Christ are promoted or preserved. It is the spiritual panoply of God alone,—the shield of faith, the girdle of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the helmet of salvation, the greaves of peace, the sword of the Spirit, the word of God,—that is effectual in breaking down the strongholds of the enemy. (Eph. 6:12-16; 2 Cor. 10:3-5.) When the church forsakes the means which Christ has bestowed upon her, and accepts of the counterfeits and substitutes of the world in her stead, she is offering strange fire instead of that ordained of God. She is saying that her wisdom is greater than God’s wisdom, and thus with the man of sin exalts herself above God.

Unspeakable.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

Many who have recognized the goodness and preciousness of the Lord feel a diffidence about testifying to others, because they can not express in words what they see and know. But if it could be fully expressed, it would not be a true Christian experience. The apostle says, “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.” If it were not more than can be expressed in human language, it would not be more than we could think. But the Lord gives us more than we can ask or think. And the Spirit of the Lord reveals it to us. And just so the Spirit of the Lord takes the feeble expressions of one in whom that Spirit dwells, and conveys to the hearer all that is in the heart of the speaker, but which his words are inadequate to express. Christ spoke in the language of the common people; his words were very simple; but the power of the life behind his words, clothed them with authority, so that those who heard him said, “Never man spake like this man.” E. J. W.