p. 16 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 20. (5/15/1900)

Equality Without Honorary Titles

IN the Methodist General Conference the editor of the Christian Advocate offered a resolution that in the report of the proceedings, in mentioning the names of members, all degrees and honorary titles be omitted. And in speaking to the resolution, he made the following sound and sensible remarks: “As for the degrees, they don’t mean anything. They are not at any time proper objects of distinction, and to put them in is wrong. No man here is colonel. No man here is governor. No man here is a doctor of laws. No man here is judge. Every man here, from the highest to the lowest in stature, and every other way—every man is a natural equal of every other man. Why, therefore, should we stick in these abominable tinsels that made us so contemptible when we went to England in 1891? I absolutely trembled with shame when I saw that those noble men of the Wesleyan body had no degrees, and there was scarcely a man from the United States, whatever his age, history, previous condition of servitude, or anything else, that hadn’t at least a D. D., and a large number had LL. D.” The resolution was adopted.

ON the subject of the United States collecting by force the $88,000 from Turkey, the London correspondent of the New York Times, April 22, remarks: “My advice to you would be to try to keep your hands out of that hornet’s nest as long as you can. . . . In trying to get money out of him [the sultan] all the nests of wasps and scorpions in southeastern Europe may be stirred up, with consequences dire.”

Copies Sent Without Ordering

By Editor

If you receive copies of this paper without ordering them, please remember that they are sent to you by some friend. Persons thus receiving copies of the REVIEW will not be called upon to pay for them. If, after reading these copies, you do not care to keep them, please hand them to your friends to read.

Egypt’s Revenue and Surplus

THE annual report of the governor of Egypt shows that the revenue last year was fifty-five million dollars, and the expenditures left a surplus of two million dollars.

Holy Thursday Procession in Manila

THE Christian Advocate, April 24, says that in Manila “On Holy Thursday ten thousand persons marched in procession and fought for the privilege of carrying images of the saints;” and that the semi-barbarous condition of some of the people was shown in several remarkable scenes of humiliation and self-torture.”

Cuba and Independence

THE New York Tribune says that “the United States may possibly find it necessary at no distant day to make public declaration that the question of independence [of Cuba] can not be considered for some years to come.” Whether any such declaration shall ever be made or not, everybody can know now just as well as ever that Cuba will never see independence.

The London Outlook

THE LONDON Outlook, touching the Monroe doctrine and the new attitude of the United States, speaks thus plainly: “The sole ground upon which the United States can successfully maintain their exclusive influence on the American continent is that they shall not interfere on other continents. The rule applies to men and nations alike, that in requiring others to attend to their own affairs, you must define your own business and stick to it.”

Training School Advocate

By Editor

The May number of the Training School Advocate should be read by all lovers of Christian education. The leading features this month are the selections from the writings of Sister White on the “Duty of Parents to Their Children,” showing that the greatest missionary work for Seventh-day Adventists to-day is properly to educate their children. “The Sons of Zion and the Sons of Greece” is the beginning of an address in which is shown how the educational question separates men into two opposing classes designated in Scripture as “the sons of Zion” and “the sons of Greece.” Professor Haughey has the fourth of his series of articles on mathematics. The selections from the article by Mrs. Lew Wallace on the evils of the modern school system, with parallel thoughts from the Spirit of Prophecy, should receive a careful reading. Other departments are equally as interesting. Send for copy to Training School Advocate, College, Battle Creek, Mich.

CORRECTION.

IN the article which appeared in the REVIEW AND HERALD of May 1, by G. A. Irwin, entitled “Help for Our Schools,” occurred a technical error. It was stated in this article that the typesetting and plate making on Sister White’s new book “Christ’s Parables and Object Lessons,” which is to be given to the schools, would cost about four thousand dollars. The figures should have read, about twenty-five hundred dollars. It can not be estimated exactly until the work is further along than it is at the present.

While only about twenty-five hundred dollars will be needed to pay for the illustrating, typesetting, and plate-making, a large amount will be needed for the paper and material entering into the composition of the book.

The publishing houses have agreed to do the work free of cost on three hundred thousand books.

It was also stated that gifts as small as twenty dollars would be received for this fund. It should have read fifty dollars. The committee having charge of the work do not despise small gifts, but we feel that our brethren and sisters who can afford to make only comparatively small gifts, can help us more by taking the book and circulating it, while those whom God has blessed with an abundance can help us also on this fund requiring larger amounts. Hence the lowest sum called for on the typesetting, plate-making, and material fund is fifty dollars in a single gift.

The Marshaling of the Nations

WHOEVER gets a copy of that new pamphlet, “The Marshaling of the Nations” will not only have the splendid five-color map of the partitioning of the world among the five world-powers — Russia, Britain, United States, Germany, and France — as they are just now; but in this will also have the field so clearly defined, that he will be able himself to trace and to mark on the map of the world’s face, whatever further partitioning may be made. It is a ready and easy means of keeping informed as to the events that chiefly concern the world and ourselves. The pamphlet has five maps, in addition to the reading: and any one of the maps gives information that is worth more than the cost of the whole pamphlet, reading and all. Then why should anybody lose all this, when only ten cents will get it all? Address Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.

NEXT WEEK

By Editor

in the studies on the Third Angel’s Message, will be begun the account of Sunday legislation in the making of the Beast. And from that it will be easy enough to see the place of Sunday legislation in the present making of the Image of the Beast. Therefore, of all times, just now is the time when any one can least afford to be without the REVIEW AND HERALD. Do not let your subscription expire now; and do not let your neighbor be without it when only twenty-five cents will secure it to him for the whole time covered by these studies on Sunday Legislation in the making of the Beast and his image.