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Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 20.

Nothing to Pay!

Review and Herald

May 19, 1910

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 19, 1910

Nothing to Pay!

By Frances Havergal

Nothing to pay! ah, nothing to pay! Never a word of excuse to say! Year after year thou hast filled the score, Owing thy Lord still more and more. Hear the voice of Jesus say, “Verily, thou hast nothing to pay!” Ruined, lost, art thou, and yet I forgave thee all that debt.”
Nothing to pay! the debt is so great, What will you do with the awful weight? How shall the way of escape be made? Nothing to pay! yet it must be paid. Hear the voice of Jesus say, “Verily, thou hast nothing to pay! All has been put to My account, I have paid the full amount.”
Nothing to pay! yes, nothing to pay! Jesus has cleared all the debt away,— Blotted it out with His bleeding hand,— Free and forgiven and loved, you stand. Hear the voice of Jesus say, “Verily thou hast nothing to pay! Paid is the debt, and the debtor free! Now I ask thee, lovest thou Me?”
— Frances Havergal.

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The Duty of Forgiveness

By Ellen G. White

MRS. E. G. WHITE
“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,” Christ taught us to pray. But it is most difficult even for those who claim to be followers of Jesus, to forgive as he forgave us. The true spirit of forgiveness is so little practised, and so many interpretations are placed upon Christ’s requirement, that its force and beauty are lost sight of. We have very uncertain views of the great mercy and loving-kindness of God. He is full of compassion and forgiveness, and freely pardons when we truly repent and confess our sins. But when the message of God’s pardoning love comes from a heart that has an experimental knowledge of it, to those who have not experienced it for themselves, it is like speaking in parables. We must bring into our characters the love and sympathy expressed in Christ’s life.
Peter, when brought to the test, sinned greatly. In denying the Master he had loved and served, he became a cowardly apostate. But his Lord did not cast him off; he freely forgave him. After the resurrection, an angel told the women who came to the tomb with spices, to carry the glad news of a risen Lord to the “disciples and Peter.” And when afterward Christ thrice repeated the question, “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?” Peter cast himself on the tender mercy of the Master he had so wronged, and said, “Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.” And when our Lord entrusted to him the care of his sheep and lambs, Peter knew that he was taken back into divine confidence and affection. To fulfil this charge, he would need to have the mind that was in Jesus Christ; he must copy the Pattern. Henceforth, remembering his own weakness and failures, he would be patient with his brethren in their mistakes and errors. Remembering the patient love of Christ, who had afforded him another opportunity, he would be more conciliatory toward erring ones.
If we have received the gift of God, and have a knowledge of Jesus Christ, we have a work to do for others. We must imitate the long-suffering of God toward us. The Lord requires of us the same treatment toward his followers that we receive of him. We are to exercise patience and to be kind, even though they do not meet our expectations. The Lord expects us to be pitiful and loving, to have sympathetic hearts. He desires us to show the fruits of the grace of God in our deportment one to another. Christ did not say, You may tolerate your neighbor, but, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” This means a great deal more than professing Christians carry out in their daily life.
When Christ was on earth, instead of removing from the commandments one jot or tittle of their force, he showed by precept and example how far-reaching their principles are, how much broader they are than the scribes and Pharisees thought. They thought that Christ was lowering the Old Testament standard, yet he was teaching the people practical godliness. Christ understood their feelings, and reproved these self-righteous rulers in these words to his disciples: “I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so; he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Christ proceeds to teach that the principles of God’s law reach even to the intents and purposes of the mind. And he plainly states that if we faithfully keep the ten precepts, we shall love our neighbor as ourselves. “Ye have heard,” he says, “that it hath been said. Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”
A consistent religious life, holy conversation, a godly example, true-hearted benevolence, mark the representative of Christ. He will labor to pluck sinners as brands from the burning; he will perform every duty faithfully. Thus he will become a beacon light.
Reader, we are nearing the Judgment. Talents have been lent us on trust. Let none of us be at last condemned as slothful servants. Send forth the words of life to those in darkness. Let the church be true to her trust. Her earnest, humble prayers will make the presentation of truth effectual, and Christ will be glorified.

A Limited Supply of Antitoxin

By David Paulson

DAVID PAULSON, M. D.
It is estimated that cancer is now responsible for one out of every eight deaths that occur in women after the age of thirty-five years, yet up to the present time the efforts of our greatest physicians to stay its progress have been just as useless as the simple remedies administered by well-meaning but ignorant neighbors.
But during the last few months light has begun to burst in. A New York woman was afflicted with cancer. The growth was removed by a surgeon, but it returned in various other parts of the body, including the liver. Then she began to be dropsical, and her abdomen filled with fluid. It was then observed that the cancerous growths began to disappear. Her physician assumed that this dropsical fluid contained an antitoxin made by her own body which was curing her cancer. The dropsy continued to increase, until it was necessary to withdraw the fluid, and this process has had to be repeated every few weeks.
Her doctor, who is one of New York's most eminent physicians, was bright enough to conceive the idea that if there was something in this fluid that was able to cure the woman herself of cancer, it might also cure others; so after trying it first on mice which had cancer, and finding that it promptly cured them, he began to inject it into the cancerous tumors of other patients, until forty-seven different patients had been treated with it. The result has been most surprising. In some cases the cancers have disappeared entirely, and most of the others have been remarkably benefited.
Among the various accounts of this remarkable experiment is an article in the May McClure's, by Burton J. Hendrick. After describing some of these things in detail, he writes concerning this doctor:—
“At present the amount of his curative serum is limited,—its continued supply depends upon a single human life, now in the advanced stages of a mortal disease. When this fluid, which for cancerous patients seems a veritable elixir of life, is exhausted, where will it be possible to obtain more? . . . In many ways, his present position is an extremely difficult and pathetic one. He has in his possession tremendous power to dissolve cancer tissue. Whether, after the present supply is exhausted, he will ever be able to get any more, he does not positively know.
“Naturally he is overwhelmed with requests from every side for even small quantities of this precious medicament. His daily mail is large and heart-rending. It seems as if every victim sick with the disease, every man and woman with stricken friends or relatives, every doctor with afflicted patients,—all are begging, imploring Dr. Hodenpyl for his fluid. If he acceded to even a small proportion of these requests, he would soon exhaust the supply. Of course he has to ignore them all.”
It is this last feature that especially impressed me. Here is a terrible disease, and it seems almost certain that the dropsical fluid of this one woman, herself on the verge of the grave, contains enough of a curative principle to go around to forty-seven patients. Others who are equally afflicted are clamoring, but have to be refused.
This reminds one of that terrible affliction that broke out among the children of Israel,—not cancer, but the sting of those fiery serpents; and when Moses prayed for the people, the Lord told him to make a serpent of brass and set it up on a pole. “And it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he [any one, not merely forty-seven sufferers] beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.” Num. 21:9.
Fortunately, only a few of those who will read this article are afflicted with cancer. But every one of us has at some time or other been bitten by “that old serpent, which is the devil.” Rev. 20:2. And that infection of sin planted in our systems is a more real, and a more terrible, and, from any human standpoint, a more incurable disease than cancer.
We may even be so benumbed by its toxins that we actually do not appreciate what a terrible thing it is, but in that case we are in even greater need of treatment than those patients who appreciate their great need of it; and forfortunately this treatment is not limited to forty-seven sufferers, and there is no danger of the source of supply being cut off as long as there are any who will avail themselves of it. For, “as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:14, 15.
The Word of God to-day accepted into the soul in humility and with prayer is the “sure-cure” antitoxin for a more horrible disease than cancer,—that is, sin. “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63. “Thy word have I hid in mine heart [not upon the shelf], that I might not sin against thee.” Ps. 119:11.
Are you satisfied with a mere form of the truth, or are you hungering and thirsting to have this antitoxin in your very soul? If you come like a hungry child, beseeching God to be fed at his table, he will satisfy your desire, sin will be killed at its very roots, and you will gain an everlasting victory over sin and its bewitching snares.
Chicago, Ill.

“The Cities Are Great and Walled Up to Heaven”

By R. D. Quinn

R. D. QUINN
THE building of cities and temples is the result of apostasy from God. To this Hosea referred when he wrote, “Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities.” Hosea 8:14. This departure from God’s original plan began with Nimrod, whose very name signifies rebellion. From the time of the building of those first great cities in the plain of Shinar, notable among which were Babylon and Nineveh, until our own unparalleled age of centralization and city building, the devil has entrenched himself within these strongholds.
It was the cities that were great and walled up to heaven, and the giants living in them, that staggered Israel’s faith by Kadesh-Barnea, and indirectly delayed their entrance into the promised land for nearly forty years. The whole land of Canaan was Israel’s by deed of gift, but notwithstanding this, every square mile of it had to be claimed from the hand of the people who possessed it. “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given you, as I said unto Moses.” The country was theirs, but it had to be possessed. They must put their feet down upon it, and claim it for God. This they had known for forty years; but those great and walled cities, lying directly in their path, had to be entered and taken before they could come into their inheritance; for the people were to pass “over right against Jericho.”
“And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes.” Behind him was the swollen Jordan; before him were the towering walls of Jericho. As he withdrew from the encampment to meditate and commune with God, he could not forget that, forty years before, the former generation had cried out for bondage in Egypt, or graves in the desert, rather than to face the terrors of those walled cities. The record states that Joshua lifted up his eyes. It is well that he looked up. The outlook at times may be very dark, but the uplook is always light. It was while Joshua was engaged in earnest prayer, that the Captain of the Lord’s hosts appeared, and gave him directions for the taking of the city.
It is not difficult for us to understand these things; for, spiritually, we occupy a similar position. Standing on the very confines of heaven all these years, we are still confronted with the great cities of our land, which have long been neglected, and have stood in the way of our onward march. We are face to face with these strongholds, these modern Hebrons and Jerichos. Our only way to the promised land leads directly through them. They must be warned. It seems that these great and wicked cities have been left to the last of the unworked and unconquered territory for God. But they must be entered, and the honest gathered out, before the end shall come. In the past, God has demonstrated that as long as there is one soul, even as Rahab in Jericho, seeking after light, he will send his messengers to such a one. If there is but one righteous man in Sodom, God will withhold his judgments until his messengers have brought him out. For us the nearest way to the promised land is by the way of the cities. Let us be of good courage, having the assurance that we are well able to go up and possess the land; for it is written, “The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.”
New York City, N. Y.

Dark Days and Their Uses

By CHAS. P. WHITFORD

CHAS. P. WHITFORD
I do not refer to dark days caused by climatic conditions, but dark days that come into our religious experience,—days when it seems as if every friend has forsaken us, and God has hidden himself from us,—days when discouragement and trials press upon our hearts until we are almost persuaded to believe that Jesus, that Friend above every other friend, has forsaken us. At such times it is well to remember the words recorded in 2 Cor. 4:17: “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
We may be comforted with the thought that every dark day in our experience, if recognized as an affliction, is only a “light affliction.” In comparison with the dark days through which Jesus passed while upon earth, the dark days that come to us are comparatively free from darkness and trial. These “light afflictions” of ours are “but for a moment.” Even our lives of forty or sixty years in this world, as compared with the endless life which the saved will enjoy in the world to come, is only a moment.
But why does our Heavenly Father, who says, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love,” permit dark days to come to us? Why not permit us to live in perpetual sunshine, and never have a heartache, sorrow, or disappointment? If he loves us as he says, why should he take from us our loved ones, and thus deprive us of their society, and the happiness we might enjoy with them? Has God a grudge against us? He says, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” That means that he will never cease to love us; for “God is not a man, that he should lie.” He himself tells us that these “light afflictions,” which are but for a moment, will work for us “a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
We may not be able to understand, before the trial, just the lesson the Lord wishes us to learn; but we may be assured that he takes no more pleasure in allowing dark days to come into our experience than a loving mother would enjoy in punishing her child. A mother whose heart is filled with love for her child would never cause him a shade of sadness or sorrow, save for his best good. In like manner the Lord, who loves us with an everlasting love, and who knows just what is best for us, permits darkness to come into our experience only for the development of Christian character. Perhaps he desires to bring us where we can realize more fully that this world is not our home, that we have no abiding city here; and to set our hopes upon the better world beyond us, and the better life to come. So he would detach us from the things of this poor, unfriendly world, and bring us into closer relationship with himself.
The great apostle Paul said, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Rom. 8:28. There was no uncertainty in the mind of Paul about the matter. He did not say: “I guess,” or “I think,” but, I know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Did Paul have some sad experiences? Read his own words: “Five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.” 2 Cor. 11:24-27. Notwithstanding these dark days in the life of Paul, he did not become discouraged, and forsake his Lord. Instead, he sought God for comfort, and as a result he heard a voice saying: “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9. Surely Paul had some dark days, but they were properly endured; as a result every trial and every affliction was working out for him, as the text says, an “eternal weight of glory.” And if my sad experiences and yours are properly endured, they will work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Just how some of the experiences that come into our lives can work together for our good is a mystery that we can not understand; but since God says it is true, and since he can not lie, we may be comforted with the thought that by and by we shall be better off than if we had not passed through these trials.
In 2 Cor. 4:18 the apostle presents another comforting thought to the child of God: “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” These words follow the thought expressed in verse 17,—that trials are for our good. They work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; we should not look at the things we see all around us, to find consolation when these “light afflictions” come; but by the eye of faith we should look beyond, to the things which we can not behold with our natural eyes. These things which are visible to the natural eye are temporal; they are passing away; but the things which we can not see are eternal. Temporal things can afford us comfort only while they continue. Eternal things will afford us comfort eternally.
Miami, Fla.

Faith and Courage

By E. K. SLADE

E. K. SLADE
Perhaps no other elements of character are more needed by the people of God than faith and courage, and the two usually go together. A tremendous work lies before us. Not one of God's workers in these days escapes the frequent experience of looking upon a seemingly impossible task, and of having before him a work so gigantic in its proportions that he is made to feel that the task is altogether too great. We are facing that situation in our work on every hand. The financial responsibilities resting upon this denomination are of such a character. The great unworked fields of the world present a task far too great for human strength or for human accomplishment.
The cities in which we have done so little present a field of work that would require many years for us to perform at our present progress. As we view the fields and consider the great things to be done in connection with the work of God, we are made to realize more and more our need of divine aid. It is so easy for us to forget that we are to be the helping hands of One who is mighty in wisdom and strength, and who possesses abundant resources for the accomplishment of his will. One who is limping along, faintly realizing this, without exercising living, definite faith in the presence and power of God, is not living up to his opportunities. He is sure to become a discouraged man; and what can a discouraged man accomplish at anything?
The Lord “made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.” He has also placed on record a sufficient account of his ways and acts to make his children in these days intelligent in regard to his attitude toward his people and his work in their temporal, every-day experiences. Israel was favored by many remarkable deliverances and God's special protection and care. The experiences they passed through are typical of much that will be experienced in the spiritual career of Israel in the last days. As their successful march from Egypt to Canaan depended upon their faith and trust in a mighty leader, so will our successful journeyings in these days depend upon our leaning upon divine aid. The advance of God's work is not to be retarded by hard times, unfavorable conditions, or the difficulties to be encountered. It depends upon the faith and courage of his chosen instrumentalities. The heavenly resources are limitless, and the only restriction is our failure and our faithlessness. Never was there a time in which the children of God needed more to pray than in this time.
Faith is a characteristic that will be especially prominent in the church of God in these days. Let us not repeat the sin that Israel committed at one time when it is recorded of them that “they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.” Ps. 78:41. This they did when they faced that journey in a desert land which led them to fear that they would die of starvation. In regard to this experience it is recorded of them, “Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” God is not to be limited in his willingness to provide all that is needful for those who faithfully take up the task committed to them, and this should be understood thoroughly by his people in these days. Such an understanding, with a living faith in such a God, will inspire the courage that we all need.
Holly, Mich.

Covering Another’s Faults

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and to excuse the failings of another; to draw a curtain before his stains, and to display his perfections; to bury his weaknesses in silence, but to proclaim his virtues upon the housetop. — South.

The Scriptures as a Matchless Temple

I USE the Scriptures, not as an arsenal, to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.—Boyle.
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