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LESSON 13.—MARCH 28.—THE WISDOM OF THE RIGHTEOUS.

Lesson Scripture, Psalm 107: 33-43, A. R. V.

(33) “He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And water-springs into a thirsty ground; (34) A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein. (35) He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into water-springs. (36) And there He maketh the hungry to dwell, That they may prepare a city of habitation, (37) And sow fields, and plant vineyards, And get them fruits of increase. (38) He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And He suffereth not their cattle to decrease. (39) Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. (40) He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way. (41) Yet setteth He the needy on high from affliction, And maketh him families like a flock. (42) The upright shall see it, and be glad; And all iniquity shall stop her mouth. (43) Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah.”

QUESTIONS.

What change is God able to make in the flowing streams?
What change can He make in the springs?
Into what is He able to turn productive land?
What leads to such a reversal of the usual order of things?
What change can God make in the desert? In dry ground?
For whom is a dwelling-place thus provided?
What will they prepare?
What labor will they undertake? With what result?
What blessing is bestowed upon their homes?
What temporal blessing is also bestowed upon them?
What different experience is brought upon them? Through what means?
How is the vanity of human greatness made apparent?
How are men of high rank shown that their way is not in themselves?
What blessing is bestowed upon the needy?
What blessings come to them in their home life?
How will the righteous regard these experiences?
What effect will they have upon evil-disposed persons?
How will the wise treat these lessons?
What will they observe in these dealings of Jehovah with men?

NOTES.

1. WHILE verses 33 to 37 show God’s marvelous power to provide for His people, even in solitary places, an experience which awaits every faithful child of God before the final triumph of His work, there is no doubt that they also refer to the wondrous provision He has made for His people in the new earth, when the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. Isaiah 35; also 65: 17-25.

2. VERSES 38 to 42 are a wonderful commentary on that familiar verse, Rom. 8:28. Everything is in the hands of God. If there is prosperity, it comes from Him; if there are reverses, He permits them. God deals with man in the best way that will cause him to recognize his Creator. The righteous see these things, and rejoice now, and the time is coming when even the mouth of the wicked will be led to acknowledge the wisdom of God. Then it will be too late to accept His mercy, which is still offered. “To-day, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” “Behold, now is the day of salvation.” This Sabbath should be the time when we submit our all to God, if we have not done so before, accepting everything that He sends as from the hand of a loving heavenly Father. The result, verse 43. See also 1 Cor. 13:12.

LESSON 12.—MARCH 22.—PAUL'S MESSAGE TO THE EPHESIANS.

Lesson Scripture, Eph. 2: 1-10, A. R. V.

(1) “And you did He make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, (2) wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; (3) among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—(4) but God, being rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, (5) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), (6) and raised us up with Him, and made us to sit with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus: (7) that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: (8) for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: (9) not of works, that no man should glory. (10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.”

NOTE.—It is suggested that the whole book be studied in connection with the lesson. This epistle was written at Rome, addressed primarily to the church at Ephesus. Paul had visited this place on his second and third missionary journeys, the last time remaining nearly three years.

Golden Text.—“By grace are ye saved through faith.” Eph. 2: 8.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

(1) What does Paul say had been done for those to whom he wrote this epistle? What had been their condition? What had brought them into this condition? Verse 1. Note 1. (2) What is said of their former course? In doing this, what prince had they been serving? In whom does that spirit, or prince, work? To what spirit then does Paul refer? Verse 2. Note 2. (3) How many have taken part in that kind of service? In what is such service manifest? What does such a course of life do for one? Verse 3. (4) But what has God done for us? What moved Him to do this? In what is God rich? By what, then, have we been saved? Verses 4 and 5. Note 3. (5) How has the Christian been raised up? What has God, through Christ, enabled human beings to do? Verse 6. Note 4. (6) What will God do through the salvation of men? Through whom did He make manifest that kindness toward us? Verse 7. (7) By what and through what does man receive salvation? Whose deeds are not reckoned in the accomplishment of this work? What, then, is our salvation? Verse 8. (8) In what does it not consist? Why? Verse 9. Note 5. (9) What are we ourselves? In whom are we created? For what purpose? What has always been God's purpose concerning our course here? Verse 10.

NOTES.

1. “You did He quicken.”—“Sin is the transgression of the law”—of God's law. The fact, then, that God still recognizes the existence of sin proves that He has not abrogated or changed His law, as the world is being taught to-day; but He is “the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.” The transgression of that law brings upon the transgressor the sentence of death. As “all have sinned” (Rom. 3:23), so all have passed under that death sentence. But in Christ all who will may escape the execution of that sentence. That is how the repentant sinner is quickened, made alive. Christ has paid that penalty for such; and because He has, eternal life is theirs.

2. “The prince of the power of the air.”—Who is he? We are told in this same verse. The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience is the father of disobedience himself, the one who began his disobedience by opposing the government of God in heaven and is now seeking to do that same work in the earth. It is Satan, the personal spirit of evil. “Satan exists, and is to be feared; but the humblest Christian may conquer him in Christ's strength.”—Peloubet.

3. “God, being rich in mercy.”—It is because of that richness of God that man is alive to-day with the hope and possibility held out before him of everlasting life. He has an infinite love that will cover and blot out all our sins if we will but yield ourselves to Him. “There's a wideness in God's mercy like the wideness of the sea.”

4. “Raised us up with Him.”—Here is the crowning proof of God's love to man, in that after our sins had slain His Son, He raised us with Christ from the dead (spiritually now, and bodily hereafter), and has given us the privilege of sitting with Him in heaven itself, giving us the companionship of Christ in place of the companionship of Satan which we, previously, had chosen.

5. “Not of works.”—“Salvation is not to be obtained in the Pharisee's way; by prayers in the market place, ostentatious gifts to the poor, and similar parade of good deeds. The good deeds are to be done, but with humility; and our hope of heaven must rest, not on them, but on Christ.”—Peloubet.

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In another column will be found a facsimile appeal, somewhat reduced to adapt to our space, of the Dennett Restaurant people of this city. The matter is a local one, but the principles involved are world-wide and eternal. Upon their acceptance or rejection in this and a myriad other cases rests the weal or woe, the continuance or ruin of the republic. Surely, no unprejudiced person can find fault with Mr. Dennett’s appeal. It is American in the best sense of the word. It pleads for equal liberty to all and special privileges to none. It asks nothing which it is not willing to grant. It concedes to all the right and privilege of joining whatever organizations they may desire, but it pleads for the exercise of the equal right and privilege of refraining from joining any. That the restaurant company is not prejudiced is shown in the fact that its circular which it presents to the public is printed in a union printing office, and bears two union labels. The principles set forth in the circular to the public are Christian. Jesus Christ said, “If any man hear My words, and believe not, I judge him not; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” In other words, it is no principle of Christianity which condemns a man for pursuing a different course from what we believe to be right. The true Christian believes in letting his enemies, even, go on in the same path of liberty as himself. Against the opposite of this the circular in question pleads. We do not know Mr. Dennett, or any of his company or employees. We do not know his religious belief or to what denomination he belongs. We do not know as we could endorse his business principles, and we know nothing about the manner or appointments of his restaurant; but we do know that, under the Golden Rule uttered by Jesus Christ, he is entitled to the same liberty from the unions, from us, and from all classes, that the unions, ourselves, and all classes, would ask, if circumstances were reversed. Surely, are there not enough fair-minded men and women in the waiters’ union to see this? and is there not enough of true nobility of soul to grant it? If there are not, we truly hope that there are enough American men and women in Oakland who patronize restaurants to make Mr. Dennett’s business a success. And may God give him power to stand by his principles. Better to go to defeat with Truth, than to seem to win with Error.

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The Lord’s Day, the Test of the Ages

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Enabling Acts

“Enabling Acts.”—To those who have never been delivered from the bondage of Egypt, from the galling yoke of sin, God’s law seems a yoke of bondage, and their heart rebels against its “Thou shalt not.” But to him who knows the liberty of Christ Jesus, the command of God becomes in Him an enabling act, expressing what he does in Christ, not what he ought to do. Thus Young’s translation of the Tenth Commandment, for instance, expresses the Christian thought: “Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbor, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbor, or his manservant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which is thy neighbor’s.” Surely, this is a good law, isn’t it?

The True Seventh Day Tract

Get the tract entitled “The True Seventh Day,” and circulate it wherever the delusive, beclouding theories of Mr. Gamble or his disciples are extant. It will dissipate the fog in short order. It is Apples of Gold Library No. 78, and it, with Bishop Fowler, demonstrates that there is “nothing” against the good old Scriptural view that the seventh day is the Sabbath. The price is five for five cents. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

THE KING'S COMMAND.

How much would be saved, if people would but follow the King's command. This thought comes to us as we read an article on “The Sabbath,” in a magazine called the “King's Command,” sent us by a friend. The editor starts in “to tell how we get the Sabbath.” But where does he go? Naturally it would be to the law of the King who gave the Sabbath; but not so. He never even refers to it; it would teach too much. He has heard from Mr. Gamble, or some of his prototypes, that somehow the week, during the Levitical dispensation, was a movable one, always beginning on the first day of the month Abib, and he quotes Ex. 12: 2 to prove this. But while that text does assert that the month and year begin then, it says absolutely nothing concerning the week. Hence all this is man's assertion, not the King's command. The great days of the Passover feast, or any other feast, had nothing whatever to do with the fixing or changing of the Sabbath of the Lord, the weekly Sabbath.

Again, this editor quotes Ex. 12: 40, 41 as proof that the children of Israel were in Egypt 430 years, when this time includes the sojourn of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the land of Canaan. The Samaritan and Septuagint versions make this clear, and agree with Gal. 3: 17. The moon did have to do with the regulating of the Passover, but absolutely nothing to do with the matter of the week.

Once again: No Christian Sabbath-keeper observes Saturday in any way. The Sabbath is not identical in time with the old Roman Saturday. The latter begins and ends at midnight. The Sabbath begins and ends at sunset. This is sufficient notice. The King's command concerning the Sabbath is as follows in Young's translation:—

Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it; six days thou dost labor and hast done all thy work, and the seventh day is the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates,—for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and doth sanctify it. Ex. 20: 8-11.

This is the day kept by the good of all Biblical ages, patriarch, priest, prophet, apostle, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Who wants a better law? Who desires better company? Why not follow the King's command?

The Rust of Life.

—Such is the term applied to a disease which must come to all who reach old age, and may come when man should yet be in his prime. Arteriosclerosis is the name physicians give it, which means the physical decay of the arterial system, and through that the decay of the most vital and delicate organs. This disease, as one of the causes which prevent longevity, is now receiving considerable attention from studious physicians. The disease leads to a loss of activity in the arteries, diminishing their size, and obliterating some of their ramifications. Up to recent times no remedy has been known with which arteriosclerosis could be successfully treated. During the past few months, however, Dr. C. Trunecek, of Prague, has announced the discovery of a method by which it is claimed the progress of this malady can be stopped at least. The malady is said to be due to an insufficiency of the chloride of sodium and an overabundance of calcareous salts in the blood. The remedy consists in restoring the equilibrium, which will prevent the depositing of calcareous salts in the walls of the arteries. It sounds easy, this new method of obliterating the rust of life, and putting a stop to the process of decay; and the hopes of many may be raised to a high pitch through the promise thus held out. But men will continue to die, and the rust of age will continue to accumulate. But there is a hope of life held out in which we can place implicit trust, and that not for a few short years of time, but for endless ages. In that the rust of life will not appear, decay will not be known. It is better to trust our all in that hope. The hope is sure, and the life promised is eternal life.

The Law of God and Human Laws

In a recent speech, Mr. Bryan said, “Jefferson did not invent the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence; he merely stated them in language so apt that the words will always linger in the memory of man.” The same is true of all true principles. Right principles are not of human origin. They are handed down from Him who is the Fountain of all truth, and men who appreciate them take hold of them, and reiterate them. All true principle is embodied in the law of God. A conscientious adherence to this Golden Rule on the part of all would not only settle every difficulty now extant, but it would put a barrier in the way of all difficulty in the future as long as such a condition should continue. There would not arise any antagonism between man and his Creator, or between man and his fellow creatures. “The law of the Lord is perfect;” therefore let it be accepted by all, and no other law is needed. It is only because it is not accepted that compulsory laws become necessary, so that at least some degree of order may prevail. “The precepts of the Lord are right;” “the commandment of the Lord is pure;” “the judgments of the Lord are right;” “in keeping of them there is great reward.” Then what more do people need who accept these principles? It is looking to man as the originator of principles that keeps the world in turmoil and perplexity.

Beware of the Flatterer.

When a man begins to sympathize with you, to tell you how you are being “kept down” and abused, and what high positions you might occupy, if it were not for the grasping selfishness of some in authority, then make up your mind at once that Satan is talking to you through him. Don’t listen to him. Says Paul: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Cor. 11: 3.