p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 28. (7/13/1904)

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Convinced of What?

A friend in Newburg Park, Cal., sends us a page article telling “the grounds of his conviction” “on the keeping of the Sunday.” He says that his “convictions are basted upon God’s Word.” He probably meant “based,” but he wrote more truly, “basted.” He argues thus:—

1. Jesus said that “the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:28. He had a right to control it.

2. Jesus arose on the first day of the week and sanctified it. Matt. 28:1. Therefore it is holy. He met His disciples that night.

3. “After eight days” (that is at the close of the next first day, which would be the eighth day), Jesus met them again. John 20:26. Thus by His example established its sacredness.

Now let us see: (1) Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. As Creator He made it, set it apart, gave it to man. John 1:1-3; Col. 1:16; Gen. 2:2, 3. He also gave its unchangeable law; for through Him spoke the Father. Ex. 20:8-11; Ps. 111:7, 8; Matt. 5:17-20. (2) He arose on the morning of the first day of the week, but that did not sanctify the day any more than did His crucifixion and ascension sanctify the days on which those events occurred. Nowhere does the Bible say it is sanctified or holy. The view that it is, is not based on, but “basted” on, the Bible (as our friend’s typewriter has it), and with very rotten thread, too. (3) Christ met with His disciples after the first day had passed. They had gathered together in the close of that day to their common abode (Acts 1:13), but the day was over when Jesus met with them. “After eight days” from that time would carry us over to the second or third day of the week. The Bible knows the eighth day of a feast, but never the eighth day of the week. The next time Jesus met with His disciples that “by His example” He might establish the “sacredness” (?) of the first day was on a fishing occasion. There is no holiness predicated or assumed of the first day in Acts 20:7 or 1 Cor. 16:1, 2. See article on page 5.

But here is the strange thing: After contending for a “holy” first day as the Sabbath, our correspondent, after quoting Rom. 14:4-6, declares: “So it is not the number of the day, but the manner in which it is kept, that makes it acceptable with God.” But God says: “If ye love Me, keep My commandments.” The traditions of men are not the commandments of God. Truly our friend’s mistake spoke loudly the truth: All first-day holiness and obligation is “basted,” not based, on the Bible. Why not build on the rock of God’s law and Christ’s example?

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

Poetry

A Prayer … 2

One Thing and Another, DANIEL W. SUMNER … 11

The Harvest of the Lord, C. M. SNOW … 13

General.

The Purpose of His Works … 1

The Infidel’s Wager … 2

The Love of God, MRS. E. G. WHITE … 2

Second Kings, F. D. STARR … 2

Did the Woman of Endor Raise Samuel? L. D. SANTEE … 3

The Reign of “Graft,” GEO. W. RINE … 4

First-Day Observance, F. C. GILBERT … 6

Seven Women and One Man, L. C. H. … 6

Editorial.—Prophecy, Its Purposes—The Misuse of Power—Individual Responsibility—The Kingdom and the Natural Seed of Abraham … 7, 8

Question Corner.—Nos. 1533-1538 … 7

Outlook.—Devouring Insects—The Papal “Legation” in Washington—A Confession that Means Much—The Roman Catholic Church in Politics … 9, 10

The Home.—Patience in the Home, MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE—Why Johnnie Didn’t Smoke—Appendicitis and the Riding Habit—Literary Notices … 11, 12

Missions.—Abyssinia … 13

International Sunday-school Lesson, Jehoshaphat’s Reform … 14

International Sabbath-school Lesson, The Victory of the Remnant … 14

Publishers … 15

Press Shipped to Mountain View

The first press was shipped from this office to Mountain View, July 1.

Monthly London Letters on European Affairs

By Editor

We are able to promise our readers a monthly London letter in the year to come, which will faithfully record the signs of the times in Europe, and faithfully reflect the feelings of the peoples. These letters will be written by a close student of current life, and he has the advantage of residing in the metropolis of the world.

A Condition

A Condition.—Peace is not a feeling, an emotion, but a condition. Settle this fact forever: God is not at enmity with us. Then, if we yield to Him in His way (there is no other way to yield), there is peace between us. Satan may tempt us; his minions may try to vex us, remembrances of past sins may return as a flood, but we have given all to God—there is peace. Rejoice in the peace, yea, rest in His love, poor soul, tossed upon sin’s billows, ever remembering that God loves, and that your arms of rebellion are surrendered. This is peace. Rest is its blessed antepast.

Different from What He Meant—Better than He Knew.

It is so easy to hark back to Rome and Babylon when we are walking in their ways. For instance, when a noted orator recently (we are in no way alluding to the politics of the matter) was seconding an important nomination, and expatiating upon the glories of the Republic, he used the following from Eze. 17:3-5 as follows:—

“Thus saith the Lord God: A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar; he cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants. He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.”

The gentleman quoted the last sentence as saying “across great waters;” the scripture is as above quoted. This is his application:—

“How like unto our emblem of freedom he has cropped off the young twigs of our cedar of liberty and carried them across the ocean to the land of traffic, and set them in the city of merchants. The seed of our land is there among fruitful fields, beside great waters, and set as a willow tree.”

But note the Lord’s application in the chapter from which the above is taken. The eagle refers to Babylon, and the cropping of the cedar branches to the captivity and deportation of Israel. And further, thus saith the Lord concerning the branch: “Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.” In departing from the foundation principles which gave her existence, this country will find no prosperity either in the way of Babylon or Egypt.

The Lawless Ones.

—Prof. Edgar L. Larkin, of Mt. Lowe Observatory, Cal., in a recent article says—

As large as the visible universe may be, everything is seen to be ruled by vast laws except MAN. The writer, in many years of research, is unable to detect a trace of law ruling human beings, whether singly or collected into nations. The best man in a neighborhood—a philanthropist, a real benefit to the community, one whom the people find it almost impossible to dispense with—is more liable to die an untimely death than his near neighbor, who may be a moral leper, whose very presence is withering. Kings will order thousands of men into the very jaws of death without a twinge of conscience. To the writer it is an insoluble question why men obey. Why will the millions march to the cannon’s mouth on order of any blood-loving monarch?

He deplores the war spirit, the display of battles in moving pictures at theaters, before women and children. He points out what the effect of this must be upon the coming generation. He continues:—

In looking over the past ages of the evolution of human beings, nothing more horrible has appeared than moving war scenes in the theaters of the world. This horror is new and can not fail of having telling effect. Is it possible that the fighting instinct is rapidly increase? Is the race to retrograde, and is man to be a failure? One can not fail having pessimistic ideas, even tho a life-long optimist, when thinking of the horrors now spreading over the “civilized” world. And is there no hope for man? Has anything more dreadful than these real war scenes appeared?

If Professor Larkin would but read Joel 3:9-12 and Jeremiah 25 he would there find portrayed the very things he so deeply deplores. Divine Inspiration has revealed what is sure to come. Man has separated from the God of peace and righteousness; hence he is a creature of strife. If the professor would know the cause let him read of the demon spirits which are stirring to war and bloodshed the kings of earth whose hearts are not subject to the law of God; he will find it in Rev. 16:13, 14. Yet there is hope in Jesus Christ, the coming King of righteousness and peace. Before His presence all sin and all identified with sin will perish, and then the good of all ages will reign forever knowing no law save love.

Hard Times and Effects on Unionism.

In an instructive article, “Organized Capital Challenges Organized Labor,” in McClure’s Magazine for July, by Ray Stannard Baker, he quotes Thomas I. Kidd, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, as saying that with the return of hard times the number of unions forced out of existence would aggregate at least thirty per cent. But unionism would not suffer alone.

The Sanitarian Merged with Popular Science Monthly

“The Sanitarian,” established by Dr. A. N. Bell in 1873, has been merged with the Popular Science Monthly. The Sanitarian was the oldest journal in the English language devoted to sanitary science and public health, and one of the oldest journals for the popularization of science.

Articles in the July Cosmopolitan

Among the interesting articles in the Cosmopolitan for July is, “Creating New Fruits” (illustrated), by H. Gilson Gardner; “Perils of the High Peaks” (illustrated), by Mrs. Aubrey le Blond; “Cotton and Cotton Goods in the United States.”

The Menace of the Iceberg

“The Menace of the Iceberg” is an interesting, illustrated article in Leslie’s Monthly Magazine for July, by M. F. Bermingham. The illustrations of these floating ice-mountains, from photographs, are intensely vivid and striking.