Review and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 8.
OUR FAITH AND HOPE; Or, Reasons Why We Believe as We DoPage 1
Earlier text: Thoughts on the Book of DanielExtracts from Correspondence.
A SISTER writes from Milwaukee, Wis., that when she and her family came to that place, they did not intend to stop there, but she was taken sick. Her daughter attended the Presbyterian church, and mentioned her mother's sickness. A benevolent lady went to visit the sick stranger, and learning that she was seeking light on the Advent doctrine, told her that she had a son in the place who was taking an Advent paper. This paper was the REVIEW; and in it this sister found what she had long been seeking—a harmonious interpretation of the word of God. She embraced the truth, and is now rejoicing in it. M. E. STILES, of Mercer Co., Ill., has never regretted starting in the cause of present truth; loves the holy Sabbath, and feels that it is a sacred day; believes that God is in the work. The truth never looked so precious to her as now. Asks the prayers of the church for her unconverted family. THOS. DEMMON, Richland Co., Wis., has taken the REVIEW nearly ten years, and wondered each year if the next would be as interesting as the past. He says: “But in my opinion there is a marked improvement. How the articles, ‘Our Faith and Hope,’ cheer the flagging spirit! How encouraging the ‘Reports’! How replete with the spirit of the message are the articles! And in every part of the paper there is something to reprove, instruct, encourage, admonish, exhort to faithfulness, and to labor in the Master's vineyard, and lay up treasures in Heaven by using the means in our hands, to advance the cause. By the grace of God, I mean to be of the number of those who have overcome their faults and done their work well.” E. O. UNDERHILL, Clinton Co., Mich., writes: There are so many avenues to the heart, so many feelings, emotions, and motives, of the presence of which we are scarcely aware, that at no moment can we safely lay down our watch. If the devil cannot overcome us in one way, he will try hard to do it in another. C. P. WILLIAMS, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., being deprived by deafness of the privilege of hearing the sound of any human voice, and the proclamation of the truth by the Lord's servants, thanks God for the light which comes to him every week through the REVIEW. EVERYTHING that has a name is either material or immaterial; either an entity, or a property of an entity; a personality, or an attribute of a personality. By entity, we mean a “real being or existence.” By property, we mean some peculiar quality of the entity, which exists because of the existence of the entity. By attribute, we mean the same thing, though perhaps more properly applied to living, intelligent beings. Property and attribute are used as synonymous terms. When we speak of an apple as being sweet or sour; of a body as soft or hard, heavy or light, dense or porous, tough or brittle; these are properties of the bodies named. Love, mercy, and justice, are attributes which can exist only in living, intelligent agents, entities, or personalities. These properties, or attributes, do not exist after the entity, or personality, is destroyed. Pain, sorrow, hatred, thought, life, desire, sympathy, etc., are properties of certain living entities; but when the personality is destroyed, these peculiar properties perish at the same time. No property can exist any longer than the material organism of which it is an attribute. Attraction, caloric, weight, elasticity, density, etc., are properties of bodies; but they never exist independently of material organisms. In other words, all properties or attributes of entities are immaterial, and never exist any longer than the bodies to which they belong. For instance, if a being feels pain, sorrow, or joy; love or hatred; all those attributes cease when that personality is no more. No attribute, or property, ever can exist by itself; any more than we can have a shadow without a substance, or a hole in a body after the body is entirely destroyed. No amount of immaterial properties, or attributes, can make a material, personal entity. Hence, love, thought, desire, life, patience, meekness, mercy, justice, etc., have no existence, but in name, without a real, personal entity. In the case of our Creator, mind and personality are co-eternal; as in man mind and personality are co-extensive. They begin together, and the mental properties never extend, or exist, beyond the life of the physical constitution. All personalities are organized bodies. All immaterial things are but properties of material bodies, and cease with them. The mind of man is not an entity, but a collection of attributes, or properties, peculiar to that wonderful organ called the brain; hence when that is deranged or destroyed, the mind is also deranged or destroyed. It is as impossible for man to think without an active brain, as to live without breathing. No attribute of an object is an entity; neither is it a component part of that with which it is connected. The weight of water is not water; the motion of a watch is not a watch; the soul of a man is not a man. In these cases, “weight,” “motion,” and “soul,” are only attributes of the bodies. When we speak of the soul of a man, we mean either his life, or a state of feeling; and both of these are immaterial properties, which exist no longer than his personal organism. When we say man is a soul, then the word soul stands for man as a personal entity. This is a common use of the word in the Scriptures. No property, or attribute, is organized, and, therefore, cannot be an entity. No entity can ever become a property. No collection of properties can make a personal entity; hence the mind, which is a collection of mental properties, such as memory, love, hatred, reason, desire, etc., resulting from the action of a material organ, can never make an entity, or a personal, intellectual, moral agent. No attribute has an independent, conscious existence.—World's Crisis. NEVER in any age was it more important to impress our youth with the value of this great essential principle than at the present time. “Time is money.” How important then is it to us all! Here is pure gold unalloyed, without which our time will be a “drug” upon the market, before entering the world's great banqueting-hall. Young man, stop a moment and think. What is life? It is a vapor—a dream when one awaketh. Yet life is more than mere mist—it is not a phantasm, but a reality. Yes, “Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”
And we are passing away. Whither are we drifting? Has it well been asked: “Young man, what is your life?” It is a precious boon. Now, then, in youth, lay the foundation of a good, manly character; let purity be the beau ideal of thy beautiful life; let thy thought be pure, then shall you go forth well equipped for thy warfare; for life, indeed, is often a struggle. Be prudent, thoughtful; “speak evil of no man.” Remember that charity suffereth long and is kind—beareth all things; endureth all things. “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” The fountain being pure, the stream will be pure. Remember this fact—“you are really what you are in secret.” When alone, your meditation, your reflection, will give shape to your conduct, and your character will thus be formed. You have admired the loveliness of the rose, the flower, and “the beautiful snow.” You have looked upon the plum and the apricot—did you notice the bloom and beauty of these? That soft, delicate flush overspreading the cheek is said to be more exquisite than the fruit itself. Now, if you strike your hand over it, it is at once gone forever; for it never grows but once. The flower that hangs in the morning impearled with dew, arrayed as no queenly woman ever was arrayed with jewels, once shake it so that the beads roll off, and you may sprinkle the water over it as you please, yet it can never be made again what it was when the dew fell silently upon it from heaven. On a frosty morning, you may see the panes of glass covered with landscapes, mountains, lakes, and trees, blended in beautiful fantastic pictures. Now, if you lay your hand on the glass, and by the scratch of the finger or the warmth of the palm, all the delicate tracery will be obliterated. So there is in youth a beauty and purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, will never be re-embroidered. A man who has spotted and soiled his garments in youth, though he may seek to make them white again, can never wholly do it, even though he wash them with his tears. When a young man leaves his father's house with the blessing of his mother's kiss still upon his forehead, if he lose that purity of character, it is a loss that he never can regain—never! Such is the fearful consequence of crime—the deep stain of sin: its effect cannot be eradicated—it can only be forgiven, and that forgiveness comes only from the God of all purity. “Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast,
Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,
Can wash the dismal stain away.
Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone,
Hath power sufficient to atone;
Thy blood can cleanse us white as snow—
No Jewish types can cleanse us so.”
The Cross of Christ.
By L. E. Millne
LIKE Paul, we may glory in the cross of Christ. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. How I love to run in the way of his commandments. All hail the cross of Christ this glad New Year! Its light burdens are wafting me along to the beautiful land! Already the breezes from the “shining shore” fan my weary brow, and chase away my tears and sorrows. Soon, oh! soon, if we are faithful, we shall enter the “Eden of love.” If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him. Transporting thought! Let us walk up the King’s highway of holiness, all radiant with heavenly light. The pathway of the just is as a shining light that shineth brighter and brighter even unto the perfect day. Can we not, then, glory in tribulation, and take joyfully the spoiling of our goods here, because in “a little while,” we are expecting to remove to a fairer clime where “’tis one bright summer, always bland, and storms do never come”? L. E. MILLNE. “GIVE me,” said one, “the money that has been spent in rum, and I will purchase every foot of land on the globe. I will clothe every man, woman, and child, in an attire that kings and queens might be proud of. I will build a school-house upon every hill-side, and in every valley over the whole earth. I will supply that school-house with a competent teacher. I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every State, and fill it with able professors. I will crown every hill with a church consecrated to the gospel of peace, and support in its pulpit an able teacher of righteousness; so that on every Sabbath morning, the chime on one hill shall answer to the chime of another around the earth’s circumference, and the voice of prayer, and the song of praise, shall ascend as one universal offering to Heaven.” This is no voice of enthusiasm, but simple utterance of what is literally true and practicable, as any one else can see who will consult facts and history. Pass it around, then, ye lovers of temperance, and let the people see where the money goes to, that might feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and give to all the nations the bread of eternal life. Pass it around, and let all see that temperance wastes more by untold millions than ambition grasps, or avarice covets; and they that find fault with our benevolence, or our social organization, let them learn that the social disorganizations, crimes, and miseries, which intemperance produces are a thousand-fold more expensive, and grievous to be borne.—Nat. Temp. Advocate. WITHOUT trials you cannot ‘guess at your own strength. Men do not learn to swim on a table. They must go into deep water, and buffet the surges. If you wish to understand their true character—if you would know their strength—of what they are capable—throw them overboard. Over with them, and if they are worth saving, they will swim ashore themselves. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. DIED, in Hammondsport, Steuben Co., N. Y., Dec. 15, 1870, of consumption, Emma Shults, only daughter of E. S. Decker, in the 22d year of her age. We visited sister Emma several times during her sickness, and each time found her free in the Lord, and sweetly resigned to his will. At times she enjoyed seasons of holy triumph. This was especially cheering to her mother. In her removal she sees the providence of God, and rejoices that she has at least one child whom she hopes to meet in the morn of Zion's triumphant glory; and they with Jesus ever live. And may this not be all. May God bless to the salvation of the remaining friends, her dying entreaties in their behalf. DIED, in Keene, Essex Co., N. Y., Dec. 28, 1870, Aaron S. Beedy, aged 75 years. Bro. B. made a profession of religion and united with the Free-will Baptist church at about the age of twenty; but in an evil hour he was overcome, and undoubtedly the language of Christ in Matt. 12:45, was true in his case. But last winter and spring, during my labors in this place, he gave attention to the present truth; and although unable, from lameness, to attend meeting much, he became interested in the study of the Bible, and soon commenced the observance of the Sabbath; and during his last illness, he gave good evidence of having repented of, and having been forgiven, the error of his ways. Discourse at the funeral to a large and attentive audience, from Isa. 38:1, last clause; a text of his own choosing. We laid him away in hope. DIED, in Greenwood Prairie, Minn., Jan. 17, 1871, of scrofulous tumors, my dear companion, aged 38 years, 2 months, and 28 days. She embraced present truth about six years ago, and has ever since tried to live it out. She leaves five children to mourn her loss. I would express my thanks for the sympathy and assistance of relatives and friends during her sickness. CHRISTIANS might avoid much unhappiness if they would but believe that God is able to make them happy without anything else. God has been depriving me of one blessing after another; but as every one was removed, he has come in, and filled up its place, and now when I am a cripple, and not able to move, I am happier than ever I was in my life before, or ever expected to be; and if I had believed this twenty years ago, I might have been spared much anxiety. “Been Baptized, Massa.”
By The Reaper
“WELL, Cato, what ground have you for believing yourself a true Christian?” said a minister one day to an old colored man whose life was not so much in harmony with his profession as it ought to be. “Been baptized, massa,” replied Cato, placing marked emphasis on the word baptized. The minister vainly tried to convince Cato that more baptism could not make him a Christian. Cato was stubborn on this point; for he thought that the water in baptism cleansed the heart of its sinfulness. The poor fellow knew nothing of the work of the Holy Spirit on the heart. Just then a happy thought struck the minister’s mind. He led Cato into his study, took an empty ink bottle from the shelf, and holding it up, said: “Cato, do you suppose I can clean this bottle by washing the outside with water?” “No, massa; you must wash de inside, too, if you would have him clean,” said Cato with a grin of self-approval. “Very good, Cato,” rejoined the minister. “Now do you suppose that water applied to the outside of the body of a man can cleanse sin from his heart which is within him?” “I see it now, massa, I see it,” said Cato, placing his hand on his brow. “My heart be like de inside of dat bottle. Baptism no cleanse de inside. I will seek de power of de Holy Spirit to make my heart clean inside.” Thus by means of an old ink bottle, did the minister overthrow Cato’s faith in baptismal regeneration, and led him to see the inward washing, of which baptism is only the symbol. Reader, are you like an ink bottle washed on the outside only? Have you, like Cato, substituted the form for the spirit of religion? If so, I commend you to the prayerful study of the true way of salvation, as described long ago in the following apostolic words:— “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”—The Reaper. The Two Warnings.
By E. M. Warren
When Noah built his ponderous ark upon the solid
land,
Do you not think the people laughed, and cried, “That
foolish man”?
No doubt but some at first believed the message Noah
brought:
But as the years rolled slowly by, their faith all came
to naught. “Who, Noah, of our wisest men, thinks that it will be
so?
Who is there, now, of all the world? But very few
you know.”
“Are you so wise that you know more than all the
world beside?
Or good, that true light comes to you, to all the rest
denied?” Perhaps their great men reasoned thus, “The world
is thriving fast,
The arts and sciences progress, and genius does its
best;
God meant these things should all unfold, else they
had not been planned,
As yet there lies, all unimproved, a great extent of
land.” “Now what if Noah has a dream, shall all men faint
and fear?
That monsters’ boat shall never float, decay shall
waste it there.”
But, reader, did good Noah cease for argument or
scorn?
No, God had said, “I bring a flood,” he must not fail
to warn. So on he hammered, planned, and preached, and thus
condemned the world.
It showed his faith in God’s sure word, though bitter
lips were curled.
And did it come—that dreadful flood—to which so few
gave heed?
Ah! yes; they could not stay the wrath against their
sins decreed. But Noah and his family, through all that dreadful
storm,
Triumphant rode upon the waves, within the ark’s
huge form,
“God shut them in;” he held them safe, though heav-
ing billows tossed,
Though all else died upon the earth, not one of them
was lost. Again the Lord Jehovah speaks, “The elements shall
melt,”
“Also the earth;” and even now the pent-up fires are
felt.
They shake the earth and rend it oft, and dart forth
tongues of flame,
Which in their hissing, frightful voice, the coming
doom proclaim. When Christ’s disciples asked of him, the signs that
should appear,
He said the darkened sun and moon, should show the
end was near.
The falling stars, too, should attest it “even at the
door,”
“This generation shall not pass,” till all these things
are o’er. These signs have all appeared, we know, and strange
enough that some
Should tell us that the end may be a thousand years
to come.
And many look for happiness and universal peace,
Though earth is filled with violence, and sin and crime
increase. But all this Jesus did foresee; he told us long before,
That when he came, the days would be, as were “the
days of Noah.”
And in the days before the flood, feasting and mirth
held sway,
“They knew not till the waters came, and swept them
all away. So now for pleasure reaching forth, the multitudes we
see;
The dance, the picnic, festival; eat, drink, and merry
be.
But oh! the few who sigh and cry, for crimes that
now abound,
Believe God’s sure prophetic word, and haste the alarm
to sound, Shall, when the rioters all fall, in that soon-coming
day,
Be carried up by angel hands to God’s blest home on
high?
Lord, speed the message, and increase the all-prevail-
ing power
Of thine own chosen little flock, in this eventful hour. Reader, are you and I among those who believe the
Lord?
Whose spotless lives and earnest calls lead others to
his word?
Oh! think of the unending life, of love, and joy, and
song,
They may enjoy with all the good, eternal ages long. The great Conference of which so much was expected, has thus far proved a farce. There has been nothing accomplished, and each representative present appears to be afraid to move first in any of the matters which were to be settled by their votes. On the 25th ult. it adjourned until January 31, when it was expected that a representative from the French government would be present, and thus render any excuse for further delay impossible. It appears that Gen. Grant's determined position on the Canada Fishery Question will not be without result. The Anglo-American Committee, composed of eminent political, legal, and military men, will shortly publish an exhaustive report on the fishery question and other points of difference between the United States and Canada. It is said that the conclusions of the report are generally somewhat unfavorable to the Americans, but nevertheless take the ground that the Canadian pretensions on the question of headlands are unfounded.—Interior. Annexation of San Domingo.
The San Domingo expedition is now on its way. All parties agree that the President has dealt fairly and honorably with the annexation question in the appointment of the Commissioners, and in all the minor arrangements. There is little doubt of the ultimate result. Many are in favor of obtaining the island, who opposed the particular method adopted to annex Dominica. In all probability the voice of the country will be for taking the offered territory. The American soul lusts for territory, and will cry for more, until the North American continent and the islands are under our flag. If Dominica is obtained, it may be regarded as marking the beginning of a new policy and a new era. It will at once add largely to the Catholic influence, for if Dominica and Hayti are brought in separately, as proposed, four Senators of that Church will be long in their seats, the representatives of a foreign population, a foreign priesthood, and a different race from ours. In its most important aspect, this is a religious question of the gravest character. The new policy, as it is worked out, will also demand a rapid increase of the army and navy, and consequently of the power and patronage of the central government. What will the Protestant church do with the populations of the islands and Mexico? Will the dream of Louis Napoleon be realized, and will the prestige of the Latin Church and race be re-established on this continent? Can our increasing masses of such material be controlled by less than Imperial power? By this influx of foreign material, shall we become like the toes of the image seen by Daniel, part of clay, and part of iron, and therefore having neither strength nor cohesion? If the tide of our population and institutions could roll on by the force of natural growth, and overflow these regions, then through the whole might beat the strong pulses of a true American life, but the annexing them as they now are, and permitting them to share equally in the government of the Republic is altogether another affair. It will bring the country face to face with a new class of dangers which the Christian Church alone is capable of meeting.—Correspondence of the Interior. The Health Reformer.
By James White
This journal has an important mission to perform, a great work to do. The world is full of men and women who need reforming in their habits of life. And the present time, in some respects, is favorable to this work. As great changes in medical practice take place, the people lose confidence in drugs, the old-school practice goes down, and many of our public journals, which are circulated everywhere, speak of proper diet, bathing, exercise, and air, as the real reliances for health. Thus the superstitious confidence of the people in doctors' doses is being shaken, the ice is broken, and the way prepared to spread abroad the true philosophy of health, life, and happiness. Here is the mission and work of the Reformer. The Reformer proposes to reach the people, with all their prejudices, and their ignorance of the laws of life, where they are. Said the eccentric Lorenzo Dow, “Prejudice is like a cork in a bottle. It will neither let anything out nor in.” If you wish to help a man, see that you do not excite his prejudices. If you do, you will find it harder to take errors out of him, and in their place, plant the truth within him. And on no subject are the people more sensitive than on that which involves the appetite. Eve fell, through appetite. The crimes of men and women for nearly six thousand years, have come in consequence of the clamorings of their appetites and passions. And, in our day, when every other means fails to move men to works of benevolence for the cause of humanity and Christianity, one sure means remains, through which appeals may be made with assurances of success; namely, the appetite. Hence the church festivals of our day, where everything tempting to the appetite is offered to the crowd in the name of Christianity. It is of no use to deny the fact that the moral and intellectual are so far enslaved to the appetites and passions of men, that the most successful channel through which to reach their feelings of benevolence, is that of gluttony. Take care, then, how you approach men on subjects which concern the appetites. Reformers should be right in theory, right in practice, and right in spirit toward those they would reform. The Health Reformer will labor to disarm the people of their prejudices, and, in the spirit of love and good-will, appeal to the people, and entreat them to turn and live. Its circulation must and will be extended. We call on all the friends of reform to help us in this work. The highest premium we have to offer you is the consciousness you may enjoy of having done your duty in this direction as a philanthropist. Send us new subscribers. Induce all you can to take the Reformer. We now design to add eight pages to this journal, and do only our own advertising, which will give each number thirty-two pages of reading matter, instead of twenty. And we offer to all new subscribers the remaining numbers of the present volume, free; that is, on receipt of $1.00, we will send the Reformer to new subscribers until July, 1872, in all, sixteen numbers. We have on hand about two hundred copies of the last four numbers of the Reformer, containing an article on the rise and progress of health reform among Seventh-day Adventists. Those who order the Reformer, and wish these numbers, can have them without price, if they send their orders immediately. In this case, we shall furnish twenty copies of the Reformer for $1.00. We shall leave no means untried to improve the Reformer, and we ask all those readers of the REVIEW who are the friends of health reform, to assist us in extending the circulation of the Reformer. This you can do by sending us the names and addresses of new subscribers. We hope our preachers, officers of our churches, and our brethren generally, will take a lively interest in the circulation of the Reformer. Definite Seventh Day; Or, God's Measurement of Time on the Round World.
By James White
The above is the title of a tract recently written by J. N. Andrews, in which he most successfully treats the subject. His argument will appear in next week's Review. We send 100 copies to California by to-day's (Feb. 6) mail. J. W. CALUMNY is like the brands flying from a large fire, which quickly go out if you do not blow them. A cheerful word of sympathy
May scatter clouds away;
One little act performed in life,
Turns darkness into day. The melancholy tragedy is ended. The curtain drops upon the closing scene of the play which ends in the humiliation of a once proud and great nation. With the wide territory of France as the stage, the civilized world as sad spectators, and the two most powerful nations of Europe as the uncompromising actors, one of the most stupendous tragedies of modern history has been acted out. In the fall of Paris, France has fallen, and now lies prostrate at the feet of her great German conqueror. With no power to assert her independence, no authority to demand her rights, and no government to defend her interests, France is without hope for the future, except that which may be found in the clemency of her victor, the protection of her rivals, or the courage and devotion of her citizens. From the former, she has little to expect; from the latter, the past leads us to expect but little. The question which she has to answer now and at once is, What shall be the form of government under which we shall re-organize? This will involve many difficult problems, and cannot be answered until some recognized authority shall be established, which can speak for the whole people. France may regain much by her diplomacy, that she has lost by her sword, and in the complications which will arise in adjusting the relations which are to exist in the future between her government and that of her rivals and contemporaries, lies her only opportunity. Whether her diplomats will succeed any better with Bismarck than her generals have with Von Moltke, is to be doubted, for in securing two such men, Emperor William has succeeded most admirably in eking out the lion’s skin with the fox’s hide. What Von Moltke’s courage has won for Prussia, Bismarck’s shrewdness will undoubtedly hold for united Germany. But leaving the question of the future to be decided by that logic of events by which God reasons out his great conclusions, we can better trace the history of the past, than prophesy what may happen in the future. After nearly four months of hardships that would have broken the spirit of any less proud and patriotic people, Paris, on the 29th day of January, surrendered to Emperor William, who announced the fact to the world by the following telegram to the Empress:— VERSAILLES, 2 P.M., Sunday.—Last night an armistice for three weeks was signed. The regulars and Mobiles are to be kept in Paris as prisoners of war. The National Guard will undertake the maintenance of order. We occupy all the forts. Paris remains invested, but will be allowed to victual as soon as the armies are surrendered. The National Assembly is to be assembled to meet at Bordeaux in a fortnight. All the armies in the field will retain their respective positions, the ground between the opposing lines to be neutral. This is the reward of patriotism, heroism, and great sacrifices! Thank God for this fresh mercy! May peace soon follow. WILHELM. Although the surrender is slightly masked under the forms of an armistice, the armistice is accompanied with the most humiliating conditions—the occupation of the whole line of forts by the Germans, and the holding of the army of Paris as prisoners of war within the city, thus making it a virtual surrender of the city. It is true that the forms of surrender, the delivery of the sword, and the mortifying public parade of the soldiers are not insisted on, but now that a capitulation of the forts has followed parley, absolute surrender must follow capitulation.—Interior. Appointments.
By J. B. T. Nichols
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