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Koreshanity

By Editor

“Koreshanity.”—Some one asks us to explain the principles and system of Koreshanity, with its peculiar cosmogony of a concave earth. But we can not do it. We are not here for this purpose. That is not our mission. We are set to preach the everlasting Gospel to this generation so far as in us lies. That embraces all good and all power to do good in Jesus Christ. It does not exalt or honor Dr. Teed, who poses as reincarnated “Koresh,” or Dr. Dowie, who poses as Elijah the prophet, and more; it exalts One only—Jesus Christ. It stands as the genuine, of which there are many counterfeits. To learn to distinguish the counterfeit, the expert must know the genuine. It matters not whether he has seen or studied the counterfeit or not. Of that he need not worry. He will meet them by legion, old and new, with ninety-nine points like the true, but with one different. He who would not be deceived need not trouble himself about the false; but let him know every essential of the true. The true exalts God and Jesus Christ; it exalts the Bible; it places man where he belongs, a poor, sick sinner who must be saved by grace through faith in an atoning Saviour; by that salvation righteous character is developed, and life and habit transformed. Does Koreshanity fail to bear these marks? Then cast it aside forever. It is of man, not of God; and will perish with men. Study, O, study, the true.

A Newspaper on Right Lines

By Editor

A Newspaper on Right Lines.—We have received a copy of the Chicago Daily Review, which some good people have started with the idea of giving to all those who desire it, a clean newspaper, “divested of the criminal, vicious, and sensational, and providing the intelligent reader with all the news worth remembering.” So says the editor, Ella Hamilton Durley. And further: “Nothing will be printed, either in the news or advertising columns, that may not be read aloud in the family circle, and fully explained to children. Neither liquor nor tobacco advertising will be accepted, nor will objectionable advertising of any kind.” The price is two cents a copy. By yearly subscription it is only $1.00. Such a paper deserves to succeed. The sample copy is a good one. But will it prove a success? We have been surprised, disappointed, and almost discouraged to see the eagerness and avidity with which professedly good Christians and reputedly clean people turn to the last sensational divorce or murder trial, and pass over the news of great importance. And yet there ought to be enough people in this country within reach of Chicago, to support a clean paper like the Chicago Daily Review, published at 1322 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Its publishers and editors have our best wishes along the lines they have indicated.

ARE THERE NOT MANY OTHERS?

By Editor

A GOOD sister in Minnesota, who had read our plea for a larger circulation, writes that even before she had read that, she had decided to send us $1.50

“to help circulate the best missionary paper I ever knew. I became a Sabbath-keeper over twelve years ago through reading its blessed pages, sent me by a faithful Christian worker; and I gladly give up my paper for one year to help bring some one into the light. I have always used my papers for mission-ary work, asking the blessing of God on my efforts; and I shall pray some good may come to some heart through my mite.

“Yours in sympathy, hope, and faith.”

Are there not many others?

True Humility

There is much mock humility in the world. Men often humble themselves more in appearance than in heart. They will acknowledge the sin in its general outline, but excuse themselves in detail sufficient, were such excuse of value, to justify all the evil. This is not true humility. An apostle says to those who have sinned, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord” (James 4:10); that is, just as we would were the Lord visibly present and we knew He were looking into our very heart. Man would not equivocate, nor condone, nor excuse sin then. He would humble himself with all his heart. And to such God extends mercy. Altho infinite in power, wisdom, and glory, He dwells with the contrite and humble spirit. And He does not dwell with them to abase, or degrade, or reproach, but “to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Isa. 57:15. “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up.”

God’s Love, Justice, and Mercy

God's love is manifested in a twofold way, namely, in mercy and justice. We have heard men set justice over against love, making love synonymous with mercy; but love includes justice as well as mercy. Love in the heart and plan of God works for the highest good of His creatures, and this highest good is all comprehended in love. But if justice were ignored in any plan, and mercy alone exercised, it would lead to license and lawlessness and anarchy. And if mercy were ignored, and justice alone exercised, there would be no hope for the sinner. God's infinite love, therefore, includes infinite justice and infinite mercy, so meeting and blending that the beauty of each magnifies the perfection of the other.

“GREAT PEACE.”

By Editor

It is said by our opponents—some of whom have gone out from us, because they were not of us—that obedience to the commandments of God is a hard, comfortless legalism, which brings no peace or rest to the soul, a sort of exacting bondage, a yoke unable to bear.

Even so such “obedience” would be if one tried to obey God in his own strength, to do by works rather than to work by faith. But if Christ, the Personified Law, is in the heart, working out in the flesh of the believer what He worked out in the flesh of Jesus of Nazareth, no one knows the peace that such a commandment-keeper knows. Thus the psalmist has expressed it, “Great peace have they that love Thy law, and they shall have no stumbling-block.” Religion is to them a matter between God and their own soul. It matters not what others may do; they know God; they know His righteous law; they know Jesus Christ as Saviour from sin; why, then, should they turn from God and stumble over the misdoings of others, or the obstacles Satan places in their way?

John thus expresses the thought: “This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are NOT grievous.” “Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

We wish that the opponents of the law of God, which Moses and Samuel and all the prophets and David and Jesus the Perfect Man loved and obeyed, could read the letters which come to us from all over the great field from those who have turned their feet into the path of His commandments; they would learn that to many hearts there had come a peace which can not be found in the imperfect knowledge of God's law prevalent in the churches to-day. The language of the heart is, when God's law is written there by the Spirit of Christ: “O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” “And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.”

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

Poetry.

Enough for Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Our Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 God Chooses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Editorial.—Life, Its Giver; Its Laws—The Gospel in Gen. 3:15—Confession or Denial—“Above All Things”—Environment No Excuse for Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Question Corner.—Nos. 1628, 1629 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Outlook.—Sunday-law Enforcement—Nervous Children—A Presumptuous Claim—Signs of the Times—Russia and Her Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7

General.

The Successive Ages, Geo. McCready Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Wages of Unrighteousness, A. O. Tait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 John the Beloved, Mrs. E. G. White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Sabbath and Sunday, L. A. Phippeny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Jesus Locked Out, H. A. St. John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Daniel, F. D. Starr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

How They Became Convinced (A Sabbath Symposium). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Missions.—British West Indies, Trinidad and Grenada—Moravian Missions in Labrador—Meeting in Eastern Polynesia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13

The Home.—His Brother's Keeper—Choosing an Occupation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15

International Sunday-School Lesson.—Healing of the Man Born Blind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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By Editor

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Advertising Disclaimer

By Editor

We wish to say to our readers that the editors do not control the advertising department of this paper, therefore we do not wish to be held responsible for the advertisements which there appear. We presume our advertising committee are doing the best they can, but sometimes under a general contract there are specific things not at first seen. Most of the ads. are good, and in a commercial way all the advertisers, we suppose, are reliable, but the things advertised are not such always as we could recommend.

Sunday for Health.

By Editor

It is said by the advocates of Sunday laws that the Sabbath is needed for health's sake; but as men will not take this rest needed for their health, therefore a Sunday law is necessary. But if it is necessary for civil governments to make a law to compel men to rest one day in the week for health's sake, why not make a law regulating their sleep? There are many more people die, or become insane, or are wrecked in health, or form immoral or vicious habits, by loss of sleep, than there are from working on Sunday. Why not make a law to check the greater evil? Why not say that men shall spend so many hours in bed, or be in their houses so many hours with lights extinguished? Such a law would be in favor of working men and working women; and many hard-working editors would lose nothing by it. And when the government has gone thus far, ought it not to take a further step and say that men should eat only so many times a day, and just such kinds of food? The most intelligent and advanced physicians are generally agreed as to the necessity of such matters in order to the maintenance of health; ought not the government, for the good of working men, to pass a law regulating the food? And then some kinds of dress are much more healthful than others. Ought not this good, paternal government to regulate dress by law? Then we would have civil dress, civil meals, civil foods, civil drinks, and civil nights, as well as a “civil sabbath,” and one would be just as sensible as any of the others.