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Review and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 10.

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Mar 5, 1908

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Home and Health—A Household Manual

BETWEEN the covers of no other book that we have issued, can be found such an amount of varied and useful information. Open the book at any page, and you are sure to find some suggestions of interest and profit.
This book represents many years of arduous labor. The section on simple home treatments would fully repay any one who bought the book. Many serious maladies are avoided by the use of some of these remedies before complications set in.
The chapter on “Emergency Treatments” is most practical. How many times you have wished you knew just what to do for a burn, a cut, or a bruise. Here it is, right in this chapter—the most simple and effective treatment.
The complete book has 590 pages, divided into the following sections: Section 1, The House; Section 2, General Housekeeping; Section 3, Diet; Section 4, Care of the Body; Section 5, The Care and Training of Children; Section 6, The Home Treatment of Disease.
It is substantially bound in cloth, full law sheep, and morocco. Prices:—
Cloth, marbled .......... $3.00 Full law sheep .......... 4.00 Full morocco ............ 5.00
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Gospel Workers

ONE of the most practical books printed by the denomination for the general use of workers. It contains more practical advice on the different phases of our work than any other one small book printed. It outlines the qualifications to be possessed by ministers, Bible workers, canvassers, Sabbath-school teachers, and all others engaged in the work of winning souls for Christ. These outlines have been selected from the writings of Mrs. E. G. White. The book contains 480 pages, and sells for $1 a copy.
Orders for any of the foregoing publications may be sent to any conference tract society, or to Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C., New York City, or Battle Creek, Mich.

Life and Health

A PROGRESSIVE, practical, monthly health journal, teaching in simple language the application of the fundamental, hygienic principles which govern human life; demonstrating how to maintain health and prevent disease; containing instruction from some of the best and most successful practising physicians upon the treatment of common diseases; warning against some of the daily practises that pave the way for disease. Each number contains treatises on the nature of diseases, and prescriptions for home treatments. It is a health journal that will be equal to a home physician and a trained nurse. It brings to the home needed and appreciated information. It teaches obedience to natural laws, and revolutionizes the common manner of living, preparing the mind and heart for a higher life.
The journal is generally liked. The public is easily interested in it. Those who are handling it, selling single copies and soliciting for annual subscriptions, are having good success. Records of one hundred copies a day are being constantly made in different parts of the field.

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Single copy, 10 cents; 2 to 25 copies, 5 cents; 25 to 500 copies, 4 cents. Annual subscription price, 75 cents. Liberal discount on annual subscriptions given to agents. Send for sample copy and special rates on large quantities. Address, Life and Health, Takoma Park, D. C.

Colds: Their Cause, Prevention, and Cure

The hearty reception which this book has met everywhere has well established its popularity. The suggestions on prevention, if carefully followed, will keep any one free from this annoying ailment. The appendix, which is devoted to coughs, is one of the best chapters in the book. Attractively bound in leatherette, sent post-paid, for 25 cents.

A Friend in the Kitchen

This book has proved true to its title. Those who have availed themselves of its helpful recipes, are loud in their praises.
The author, a housewife of rare ability, has brought together in a small compass the best recipes. The book is not filled with unpractical combinations, but the different dishes suggested are tempting and appetizing, and are practical for every-day use.
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The New Health Tracts

PATENT MEDICINES,— Life and Health Leaflet No. 6, is written by Dr. W. A. George, and is a fearless review of the more important patent nostrums which are being daily offered to the public. An earnest appeal is made to all not to use these harmful preparations. Price, 75 cents a hundred; 9 cents a dozen.
SIMPLE TREATMENT OF A COLD,— Life and Health Leaflet No. 7, is by Dr. G. H. Heald. Every one will welcome this little tract. The simple remedies here prescribed by the author of that popular little book, “Colds,” will be found very helpful. The tract is just what you will want to give to your friends and neighbors, and will open the way for the introduction of more important questions. Price, 50 cents a hundred, post-paid; 6 cents a dozen.

New Publications in Press

By Editor

“THE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALTH,” by Dr. F. M. Rossiter. This book is sure to meet a hearty reception, judging by the many letters we have received inquiring when it will be ready. We believe it will be appreciated, too, and that its contents will not disappoint those who secure it. Definite date of publication can not be given now, but the work is being hurried along as rapidly as consistent. Prospectus for canvassers’ use will be ready this month.
The following health publications are now in the printer’s hands, and will be ready soon. Each will contain 32 pages, with attractive cover, and the price will be five cents:—
“TOBACCO USING — A Dispassionate Discussion.”
“THE TOBACCO HABIT, as Related to Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Degeneracy.”
“CHRONIC CONSTIPATION: Its Causes and Rational Treatment.”

Literature in the Slavic Tongues

In the Review and Herald of January 30, in the report of the organization of the Russian Union Conference, it is stated that one way our American brethren can encourage our brethren in Russia is to circulate Russian, Lettonian, Esthonian, and Polish literature among their neighbors.
Below will be found a list of books and tracts which the Review and Herald carries in stock.

Esthonian Publications

Steps to Christ ....................$.50

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Steps to Christ ....................$.50 Bible Readings (pamphlet) ....... .05 Christ and His Righteousness (pamphlet) ................. .15 Is the End Near? .................. .01 Sabbath and Sunday ............... .01 The Bible, Its Origin ............. .02 Full Assurance of Faith .......... .02 Second Coming of Christ .......... .04 Millennium ........................ .02 Immortality Only in Christ ....... .04 Sabbath of the Lord .............. .02 Spiritualism ...................... .01 Righteousness of God ............. .01 Power of Forgiveness ............. .01 Importance of Prophecy ........... .01 Blessed Hope ...................... .01 Search the Scriptures ............. .01 Which Day and Why? ............... .01 Tobacco in the Light of the Bible .01

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Steps to Christ ....................$.50

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Is the End Near? .................. .01 Millennium ........................ .02 Second Coming of Christ .......... .04 Sinner's Fate ..................... .01 Sufferings of Christ .............. .06 World Clock ....................... .01 Seven Reasons ..................... .02

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Blessed Hope ...................... .01 Is the End Near? .................. .01 Second Coming of Christ .......... .04 Sufferings of Christ .............. .06 World Clock ....................... .01

Russian Publications

Bible Readings ....................$.10 Steps to Christ ................... .50 Bible References .................. .04 Blessed Hope ...................... .01 Full Assurance of Faith ........... .02 New Testament Sabbath ............ .02 Sufferings of Christ .............. .04 Which Day and Why? ............... .01 State of the Dead ................. .01
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Editorial

By Editor

Announcement

For several years the editor of the REVIEW has been planning to prepare an exposition of the book of Daniel, but for various reasons he has not been able to carry out his purpose. He now wishes to announce that he proposes to undertake this work at an early date, and that the results of his study will appear in a series of articles in the REVIEW. These articles will not encroach upon the space assigned to the usual editorial matter, but will be printed in another department of the paper.
The importance of the instruction contained in the book of Daniel in its relation to this advent movement is a sufficient reason for a re-examination and a restatement of the wonderful truths therein set forth, and the additional light which has been revealed in recent years and the present fulfilment of prophecy furnish new material for study and presentation. The exposition will be on conservative lines, giving special prominence to practical gospel teaching, one objective point being to make it clear that this advent movement has a sure foundation in the utterances of the prophets.
As preliminary to the general study of Daniel’s prophecy there will be a series of articles under the title “The Priest and the Sanctuary,” in which the sanctuary in type, in prophecy, and in antitype, and the ministry of our great High Priest in the final work of atonement, will be considered. There seems to be a special demand for the presentation of the truth upon these weighty subjects just now, and for that reason this series of articles will precede the others, even though they may call for an examination of a portion of the book of Daniel. The first of these articles will appear about the first of May.
It is self-evident that all the present readers of the REVIEW and many others ought to have the benefit of these studies. An understanding of the teaching of the Scriptures concerning the sanctuary and its services is fundamental to a clear grasp of the third angel’s message. A failure to understand this great truth leads to uncertainty concerning this whole advent movement. It therefore seems especially fitting that at this time an earnest effort should be made to place the REVIEW within the reach of every Sabbath-keeping family in the United States, and that the attention of our people in all parts of the English-speaking world should be directed to this announcement. All who believe that we are now living in the time of the cleansing of the sanctuary ought to be grounded and settled in this doctrine, and may properly be put in remembrance of these things, even though they know them, and are established in the present truth.
Let every one note this announcement and watch for the promised articles. Let those who appreciate the importance of the matter to be presented make an effort to bring this announcement to the attention of any who are not regular readers of the paper and to secure their subscription. This is an opportune time for a special effort in behalf of the REVIEW. We ask for the co-operation of all the friends of the paper.
Further reference to this matter will be made from time to time in the columns of the REVIEW and in other ways.
In the face of the indifference and criticism and opposition this advent movement goes steadily forward. There is hardly a country of any importance on the face of the earth where this truth has not gained a foothold, and it has been planted in many obscure corners of the world. Additional workers are being sent forward to strengthen the hands of those already in the field or to push into some unentered field. In several countries where progress was impeded by oppressive laws, freedom of the press and of worship has been granted, and the work has taken a long step forward as the result. Any unprejudiced person who is willing to look the facts squarely in the face must be compelled to admit that this is more than a spasmodic flurry on the part of a few enthusiasts, and that the hand of God must be recognized in the evidences of growth and permanency which can not be ignored. But one who persists in standing in the smoke must not expect to get a clear view of his surroundings, and one who holds a copper coin close to his eye must not complain if he does not see the veins of rich gold which are visible to others. If we choose to prevent ourselves from seeing the plain evidences of God’s working in the giving of the closing message of the gospel, we ought not to hold God responsible for our own perversity. He who has eyes and ears, let him see and hear of the doings of the Lord which are marvelous in our eyes.

Simple and Wonderful

THE way of salvation is wonderfully simple and simply wonderful. The whole gospel is summarized in these words: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.” A person of ordinary intellectual capacity, even a child, can lay hold upon the provision set forth in this statement, but the greatest minds of the greatest men can be put to the utmost stretch in order to comprehend fully what is contained in this revelation of the love of God. We need not attempt by searching to find out God. No effort of the human mind can discover him, but it will require all the intellectual power which we can muster to receive the revelation already made. This revelation is simple in that it is stated in the plainest language for conveyance to finite minds; it is wonderful, in that it deals with the basic principles of the divine government, and lays bare before us the depths of divine wisdom. It makes known to us a God whom no scientific research can discover, and discloses the way of fellowship between the infinite and the finite. It points out to us the bridge which has been swung across the chasm created by sin, and shows us that the ladder which connects earth and heaven touches both earth and heaven. To those oppressed by the burden of sin it says, “Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!” Simple and wonderful! It thus renews hope to the hopeless, faith to the faithless, and love to the loveless. We should take great care lest we lose the simplicity of the gospel in the very effort to expound it. The old truths are both simple and wonderful.

The First Place

THE place which the Son of God occupies in the administration of the divine government is thus stated: “He is before all things, and in him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.” This is not by arbitrary appointment, but the outgrowth of the very nature and being of the Son, and of his relationship to the eternal Father. As the Son was one with the Father, as he was the only begotten, and as he was thus able to enter into the counsels of his Father as no created being could possibly do, so he was necessarily the one through whom the Father made every revelation of himself. Christ was the beginning of his way, the mediator between the Father and all created things and all created beings. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.” As it was in creation, so it was in revelation. “All things have been delivered unto me of my Father,” said Jesus, “and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.”
It was in harmony with the plan of the divine government, and in harmony with the very constitution of things, that the eternal Son should be accorded this first place by all created intelligences, who would thus show themselves to be submissive to the will of God, loyal to the government of heaven. It was the unholy ambition of Lucifer, a “covering cherub,” to seek for and to demand for himself the place which belonged to, and could be filled only by, the Son; and it was this same unholy ambition for self-exaltation, which, transferred to this earth, brought sin and death and all the train of evils upon the human family. The root out of which every sin has grown, and the very essence of every sin, is the dethronement of the Son of God and the putting of the creature in the place of the Creator. Lucifer made no concealment of this purpose: “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; . . . I will make myself like the Most High.” The “man of sin,” the personified “mystery of iniquity,” “exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped,” and claims for himself the title, “the vicegerent of the Son of God.”
The same principle is wrought out in the experience of every one who does not yield to the claims which Christ has upon him, and become a Christian. He is denying to Christ the place which belongs to him. To accept Christ is to give to him the place of power in our lives, to crown him as King, and to yield obedience to his rule. The whole question centers in the kingship of Christ, and that not merely in outward things like an earthly ruler, but his spiritual rule in the heart through the submission of the whole being unto him. It is the “gospel of the kingdom” which is to be proclaimed in all the world for a witness. Now the King sits as a priest on his throne, but soon he will reveal himself as the King of those who reign as kings and the Lord of those who rule as lords. We must acknowledge his kingship now, although he is despised and rejected by many, if we desire him to acknowledge us as his subjects in “the crowning day.” Listen to the words of the King: “Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also shall be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” Who can refuse to give the first place to Jesus, the Son of man and the Son of God?

Contrasts and Counterfeits

By C. M. S.

—No. 1

The controversy and the conflict between the kingdoms of light and darkness are as real as any that have ever taken place between earthly powers. The lines of attack and defense have been most carefully laid out by the two opposing forces. Their interests clash at every turn. It is light against darkness, truth against falsehood, righteousness against sin, life against death.
In this controversy compromise is impossible, and the controversy must end in the cessation of one of these kingdoms. The ruler of the darkness of this world has taken himself beyond the borders of reconciliation; and for heaven to yield to his disloyal demands in any particular would be to leaven the whole universe of God with the leaven of iniquity, and make the throne of God the abode of unrighteousness. Instead of healing the breach which Satan’s disaffection caused, such an act would spell the ruin of the universe. That would not perpetuate harmony in heaven, nor bring peace even to the disaffected ones.
For this reason the campaign of the gospel is a declaration of war against the originator of sin. The gospel will not be triumphant in fact until the originator of sin and the fruit of his wicked conspiracy are sepulchered together where he planted the seed of his evil purpose. Toward that great event, which means so much to the child of God, we are speeding with swift footsteps.
In the controversy thus nearing its culmination we need not be surprised to see every device of deception and fraud and compulsion at work in the effort to destroy souls who might occupy in heaven the place left vacant by the expulsion of Satan and his followers. Is the power of God promised to his faithful children? Satan will simulate that power, and clothe the children of his choice with his counterfeit. He will even go so far as to “lead astray, if possible, even the elect,” and seek to cause them to attribute to God the power which he himself has brought with him up out of the pit. Has God sent down fire as a witness to the truth? He will bring down fire himself, and make it bear witness to a lie, that souls may be deceived and flock to his banner. Has God a last message for the world, to ripen the wheat of the last harvest? Satan will prepare one also, and see that it is given. Has God a seal, or mark, with which to seal for eternity those who will stand unflinchingly for him in the last conflict? Satan will prepare one also, and he will not leave it to individual choice, either, as to whether it shall be received. Does God give a warning for the last days against the reception of the mark, or seal, of that kingdom of darkness, and attach thereto the penalty of death for refusal to heed? Satan will issue a warning of his own against allegiance to the kingdom of light. Each kingdom, then, has a death penalty attached to its decrees of warning against allegiance to the other power. It is a trying place for the inhabitant of earth; but he must choose. If he chooses wisely, it will be well with him, even though he suffers death; for the power that utters the threat of death against the wise choosing is “not able to kill the soul.”
We see at the present time the conflict rapidly approaching that culmination. Because the end is near and certain, the utter destruction of those who follow the great deceiver is also certain. The very certainty of that destruction inspires with malignant zeal the great adversary of souls. He sees the near approach of the great day of final decisions, when the dominion he won by fraud will be taken from him, and given to those who have been liberated from his rule. He sees the terrible proximity of the day when all who have yielded to his sophistries will go down in everlasting death in the very presence of the heavenly hosts and the tried and triumphant saints. He sees the earth that is now strewn with thorns, thistles, sorrow, and sin because of him, created anew and blossoming again like the Eden Adam knew. He sees the great wound which he made in the universe of God closed and healed forever, while he who caused the wound is forgotten with the fruit of his terrible work. Heaven and earth kiss each other in eternal reconciliation, and Satan is no more.
Knowing the character of Satan, we do not wonder that the contemplation of the result of the conflict fills him with bitter hatred, and with a determination to carry with him into eternal oblivion every son and daughter of Adam whom he can bring under his malignant influence. So he proceeds with parallels, contradictions, contrasts, and counterfeits to confuse and to deceive. No branch of God’s work, no institution he has planted, will escape attack. He has had no mission in the earth but to oppose God and bring his plans to naught. The history of every iniquitous act committed in the earth runs back to the first thought of sin planted here by the author of sin.
Let us look at some of these devices that have been used and are being used of Satan to oppose the work of God in the earth.
When Adam and Eve were established in their Eden home, there was love, communion, trust, and confidence between man and his Maker. All that infinite love could do for their happiness was done. The warning, by heeding which they would demonstrate their loyalty, had been given. The consequence of disobedience was made known. “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” But Satan was on hand with a contradiction and a contrast—a contradiction of God’s declaration, and a contrast of what they now were with what they might be if they would only disobey God’s injunction. “Ye shall not surely die,” he said; and “ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Out of that contradiction and contrast have grown two of the
mightiest evils now extant in the religious world. These and other methods of Satan’s opposition and what has grown out of them will be considered in succeeding articles.
C. M. S.

An Outside View

By Editor

While some former members of this denomination, and a few who do not themselves seem to know where they stand, are seeking to create the impression that Seventh-day Adventists are now disunited, and that it is only a question of time when this whole movement will go to pieces, it is interesting to note how the situation is viewed by one who has never been connected with this body, and who looks at things from an unprejudiced standpoint. We therefore quote the following paragraph from an article in The Sabbath Recorder (Seventh-day Baptist), written by a correspondent who had been severely criticized in that paper for stating, in substance, that the Seventh-day Adventists were really doing more for Sabbath reform than the Seventh-day Baptists, and that it was out of place for a Seventh-day Baptist writer (referring to Dr. A. H. Lewis' article from which quotations were made in a recent REVIEW) to talk about the dissension and the disintegration among this people. In reply this correspondent said, in part:—
However, I am only one of a great many who are standing off and looking on, and we see the Seventh-day Adventists going forward with zeal with the message they claim they have to give to the world, with special emphasis on the Sabbath truth; we see them with more members, with more schools, more sanitariums, more missionaries, and more money than they ever had before in their history, and in perfect harmony, with the exception of a very, very few dissenters at Battle.Creek.
This correspondent of the Recorder has stated the simple facts in few words. There is no disunion among the Seventh-day Adventists. There are a very few who have departed from the truth, and have therefore been disfellowshipped; and there are some others who are uncertain of their own position, but are really tending in the same direction. On the other hand, our reliable statistics prove that there has been a steady and rapid advancement in all features of our work during the very time while these difficulties were being met, and visits to nearly all parts of the world-wide field of our operations make it clear to us that the disunion and disintegration are found only in the minds of “a very, very few dissenters.” Our local and union conferences at home and abroad are occupied in hearing the reports of progress, and in the consideration of aggressive plans for hastening the work in all fields. The domination of the much-advertized hierarchy, the exercise of spiritual tyranny, the reckless expenditure of money so constantly insinuated in some quarters, and the predicted disintegration which are the favorite themes of the very, very few, do not appear to be even thought of in these assemblies. The one desire is to learn more concerning this great message both as a doctrine and as an experience, and to unite all our forces in the one work of proclaiming “the everlasting gospel” to all the world in this generation. Our recent troubles are almost forgotten, swallowed up in the absorbing zeal for the advancement of the truth.
There are doubtless individual exceptions to this general statement. There may be a president of a conference who is betraying his trust, and is therefore widely advertised anonymously as a leading member of the denomination, or a man of great influence, etc., etc., but this whole effort to discredit the denomination and its leaders is a case of much smoke and little fire.
We know full well that an increase in membership and institutions and money and missionaries is not a demonstration of the truthfulness of a doctrine or the justification of any certain administration, but these things ought to be in evidence if the work is of God. Perhaps we feel more keenly even than the very, very few over the fact that this message does not advance even more rapidly, and perhaps we labor just as earnestly for the hastening of this work, but we certainly do not derive any inspiration in that direction from those prophets of evil who are constantly looking for evidences of the fulfilment of their distorted visions.
Let the facts be known exactly as they are, and we have no fear of the result. Let the people insist upon knowing the exact facts, instead of believing insinuations and innuendoes, and they will find their confidence in this advent movement steadily increasing.

The Korean Outlook

By W. A. S.

LAST week the Mission Board regretfully cabled to Japan, advising the return of Elder J. E. Shultz and wife to this country, to regain their health. To none will this step bring deeper regret than to these workers themselves, who have held on long in the endeavor to take up the work in Korea to which they were assigned. However, medical advice was very decided that to persist in the plan of going forward in pioneer mission work would result in complete disablement.
Soon after landing in Japan last autumn, an assault upon Brother and Sister Shultz was made by an American youth, an acquaintance, evidently of unbalanced mind. All familiar with the circumstances felt that it was only by the distinct mercies of the Lord that they were not fatally injured. Under the best of surgical care and nursing at our Kobe Sanitarium, they have endeavored to get ready to go on to Korea, to which field Brother Shultz had paid but a brief visit, but it has been found necessary to advise them to return to this country, to more favorable conditions for making a recovery.
The Mission Board has extended an invitation to an experienced worker in the West, who it is hoped will respond and go forward soon to join the workers in Korea. Elder W. R. Smith and wife, with Sister Scharffenberg, a Bible worker, as their only associate, have long been left alone in a field where the conditions demand a larger staff of helpers. With many coming quickly into the Sabbath truth with but an imperfect idea of general Bible teaching, the need is indeed most urgent.
We know that prayers will ascend for Korea and for the workers there, and for Brother and Sister Shultz, who are forced like wounded soldiers to return for a time at least. In a letter written January 10, when he was still hopeful of going forward to Korea, Brother Shultz wrote as follows, and his letter constitutes an earnest and stirring appeal for Korea's need:—
Mrs. Shultz is very nervous, and will be for some time to come; but after our narrow escape, we can feel that had it not been for a loving Heavenly Father, we would not be here to-day.
I am now taking two lessons in Korean daily, and am making some progress. My teacher is one of the workers whom we brought from Korea. We have had an opportunity to study our points of truth together, as he speaks some English, and it has been a great help to him, for you will remember that little work has been done for them, and they do not know this message as well as some who have been reared in it. As soon as he obtains all the texts on a given subject, he immediately sends them to the other workers in Korea. One splendid quality about the Koreans is that as soon as they hear the message, “they find their brother,” who has perhaps prayed under the fig-tree for many days for the very truth we have to give.
Word has just reached us that two young men who were educated in the normal school at Pyong Yang, who were members of the Pyong Yang church, having been sent far into the interior to teach government schools, have been sowing seeds of truth. One writes that a well-educated Chinaman, who teaches in the same school with him, has begun the observance of the Sabbath, and asks that a minister be sent to further instruct him. The other writes that he has been teaching a school composed of sixty young men whom he has interested in the truth, some of whom are now observing the Sabbath.
Thus may be seen the opening providences of God in the land of the “Morning Calm.” I feel that there is great need of strenuous effort in this field while the Koreans are stretching forth their hands unto God. Truly their dire need pleads as eloquently as did the Macedonians of old.
I am told by those who were working in Japan twenty years ago, that the same interest was shown in Christianity here at that time, but now Japan has grown to be a mighty factor in the world, and she says, as did ancient Babylon, “I sit a queen, and am no widow;” therefore her people feel that they have need of naught, save of education.
The Presbyterian Mission Board has voted vast sums for the advancement of the work in Korea. They recognize that now is the opportune moment to work for her benighted millions. The Koreans have lost nearly everything earthly, and are more inclined to listen concerning things not transitory.
Well, I decided that I would not trouble you with our dire needs when I began this letter, but the burden of the situation rests heavily upon me. When I see the difficulties with which the workers in Japan labor in bringing people to the truth, and the eagerness with which the Koreans embrace it, it appeals to me that there are times when the arm of the Omnipotent is extended to assist those who feel their need, just as in the days of Israel's calamities.
I praise God that I have a part in giving this message to those who are eager for it, who are praying for it. Years ago it was a custom in Korea to kindle signal fires from the northern border of the land to the southern extremity, as an evidence to the emperor that his kingdom was at peace with neighboring lands. Those lights have now gone out, but the Lord has not left the land in utter darkness, for the light of righteousness has been kindled at the extreme northern city of Weju, and all through the land down to distant Fusan in the south are little lights springing up, telling the people that there are those even in a land of tumult and sedition who are at peace with the King of the universe. May we not pray that God's providences may be discerned in “Chosen's Land”?
W. A. S.

Note and Comment

A Convincing Admission

THE United States Brewers’ Association issued, on January 27, an official statement to the members of the organization, which is the strongest and most striking statement we have ever seen relative to the success of the prohibition movement. This statement is signed by the organization, and should forever lay at rest the threadbare fabrication that more liquor is sold in prohibition territory than in high license territory, and that “prohibition does not prohibit.” The statement referred to occurs in a document prepared and circulated by the organization for the purpose of causing the members to see the necessity of organization of some kind to oppose the prohibition movement. It reads:—
GENTLEMEN: Realizing that the prohibition movement, which is rapidly spreading over the United States, is serious enough to wipe out the entire industry unless energetic measures are taken to stem the tide, which has been largely created by the Anti-Saloon League through a manufactured and false sentiment, organization is necessary.
The remainder of the document deals with the details of the organization. It should be a matter of great encouragement to temperance workers everywhere that the success of their efforts has been sufficiently great not only to attract the attention of such organizations, but actually to cause them to tremble for the future of their business. It will be noted that this organization does not fear high license as a curtailer of the drunkard-making enterprise. It is the prohibition movement, and that alone, that “is serious enough to wipe out the entire industry.” The liquor interests have tried to ridicule prohibition out of court. They have carried on a campaign of misrepresentation against it until they have caused even clergymen to join them in opposing it and advocating high license. But the business is being smitten in a vital part, and smitten hard, and smitten by prohibition—and admits it. And now let the good work go on. When the enemy cries out on the battle-field against the use of a certain weapon, it is certain evidence to the attacking party that the weapon is accomplishing results. Prohibition prohibits, or it would not hurt the liquor interests.
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