p. 255 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 16. (4/28/1914)

LAND of ABRAHAM'S BOYHOOD

By W. C. Ising

Reconnoitering for Advance Work — Old Babylon and the Prophetic Word — Theological Doctor and His Skepticism

By W. C. ISING

THE CARAVAN IN WHICH I TRAVELED FROM MOSUL TO ALEPPO

IT was the privilege of the writer to make a missionary itinerary from Beirut, Syria, through Mesopotamia, touching especially the cities of Bagdad and Mosul. The purpose of this trip was to inquire into the conditions of those regions, with a view to opening up missionary work and extending the gospel message of the soon coming of Christ. This work had already been started there by a faithful brother who, having graduated some years ago as a master of pharmacy, proceeded to Mosul, the site of the ancient city of Nineveh, and also to Bagdad, to engage in work as a pharmacist.

AN INTEREST AROUSED

This brother, being a firm believer in the great message of the soon coming of Christ and the truths connected with it, has been seeking to do faithful missionary work. As a result, there has sprung up among some of the people an interest to hear more of the doctrines he has been teaching.

At Port Said I took a freight steamer that was going directly to Basorah, in the Persian Gulf. Basorah, a city of some five thousand inhabitants, with only a few Christians, is the capital of a vilayet. It is the port of transshipment from river craft and caravan to ocean steamers, or vice versa, and has a large trade, especially in dates, of which there are annually shipped somewhere about eighty thousand tons to all parts of the world. A Turkish and English company runs two steamers a week between Basorah and Bagdad. The trip up-stream takes five days; and during the summer months, when the river is very shallow, it is not at all unusual to be delayed on a sand-bank. The banks of the Tigris are low, and now and then a village of mud huts may be seen.

NEBI YUNUS, OPPOSITE MOSUL, ANCIENT NINEVEH. THE MINARET MARKS THE SUPPOSED BURIAL PLACE OF THE PROPHET JONAH.

GERMAN ENTERPRISES IN OLD MESOPOTAMIA

I was glad to be met by our brother at Bagdad, and to find the medical work in which he was engaged in a prosperous condition. The Protestant community here is very small. The European community, however, is increasing of late, because of a number of new enterprises launched by the Germans. Among these enterprises is the building of the railway, which is now completed as far north as Samara, a distance of some eighty miles.

At the Hindia Barrage is a very interesting family of our people. One of the sons is preparing to attend soon our college at Watford, England.

RUINS OF BABYLON CONFIRMING THE WORD

At Babylon I had one of the most interesting experiences of my trip. Professor Koldewey, at the head of the German expedition, gave me a cordial invitation to visit the excavations they are conducting in the ruins of old Babylon. Between three hundred and four hundred men are employed here throughout the year. Aside from the scientific value of these researches, it is with much gratitude and profound interest that the student here finds many of the Bible narratives corroborated by the facts brought to light after many centuries.

One is struck with amazement as he finds himself confronted with the tremendous works done by King Nebuchadnezzar. Nearly all these monumental ruins refer to him as their builder. His name, which is found on every brick, has certainly made it the most prominently fixed in Babylonian history. Well might he, on viewing his achievements, in his selfish heart say, in the language which the Scripture puts in his mouth, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?" Dan. 4: 30.

ARABIAN WILL NOT PITCH TENT THERE

One is also reminded, while here, of the prophecies in Isaiah and Jeremiah concerning this place. No soul is living on the site of ancient Babylon; and whatever Arabs — chiefly helpers for the excavators — do live in that vicinity, have built their mud huts in the bed of the ancient river, which at the present time is shifted half a mile farther west.

God's word says: "Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged." Isa. 13: 19-22. This prophecy is most strikingly and most literally fulfilled in the ruins of old Babylon, even to the minute detail that the "Arabian" would not "pitch tent there."

IT FOLLOWED HIM MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS

At Mosul I met an old man, a weaver, who is the son of a Jacobite priest. Something over thirty years ago, this man came across an article concerning Seventh-day Adventists which appeared in an Arabic magazine published in Beirut, Syria. This was his first acquaintance with the Sabbath question. Six years ago he made a journey to Aleppo, and when going to church on Sunday, his attention was called to the place of worship of the Sabbath-keepers. Four years later he was again in Aleppo. This time he engaged in conversation a boy who was shining his boots. The boy told him he was a "Sabti," that is, a Sabbath-keeper. From this boy he secured a few Arabic tracts, such as "Which Day Do You Keep, and Why?" "Sunday Not the Sabbath," and a few others in the same line. He took these back to Mosul, where he and others studied them carefully. He told me that he had taken ink and paper four or five times to refute the arguments of the tracts; but when he compared his writings with the tracts, he was convinced, every time, that he had better give it up, for his arguments could not stand the test of the Scriptures.

Land of Abraham's Boyhood

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CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES

In Mosul the Catholic Dominicans are putting forth strong efforts, through their schools and otherwise, to win the non-Catholic Christians over to their church. During the last century, they have had remarkable success among the Jacobites, and especially among the Nestorians. It is said that some one hundred thousand Nestorians and Jacobites have been converted to Catholicism.

In the mountains a few days' journey from Mosul, the English High Church, in connection with the Presbyterians, who are laboring in Urumiah and that district, are endeavoring to stem the Catholic propaganda. They have several schools in operation, and their work seems to be favored by the community.

THE TOMB OF JONAH

On the other side of the river may be seen the little village Nebi Yunus, under the mosque of which is said to be located the grave of the prophet Jonah.

I remained in Mosul for some two months, and found many people there who were deeply interested in our work.

I proceeded by wagons to Aleppo, in northern Syria, a distance of four hundred miles. On the day of my departure, the first automobile entered Mosul from Bagdad, and it was certainly a great sight for the people. It only used eighteen hours, against the nine days of my journey.

THE SKEPTICAL THEOLOGIAN

On my return to Beirut, a student from one of the theological schools visited me, stating that he was greatly troubled over the positions their theological professor was taking concerning the Bible. The text, "And greater works than these shall he do" (John 14: 12), was interpreted by the doctor as meaning that the Christian church has a right to add to the Scriptures just as modern research and development of science may prove necessary, thus leading to the conclusion that the Bible is not reliable, and is out of harmony with the so-called facts of science. In one of the studies before the whole class, when the doctor again advocated his claims, this young student openly opposed him. A long controversy ensued, in the which the majority of the students took the part of their fellow student.

This young man is a descendant of the Jacobites, but has not yet taken his stand as a Christian. He said to me, "I know that your teachings are fully in harmony with the Bible." And he said also that of late he had passed through experiences that made him tremble. He said he knew he was not a Christian, but that he must follow the whole Bible. He said he desired to follow the Lord, for he could not remain in his present condition.

It is one of the sad commentaries on these times, that the Bible should have to be defended by non-Christian students against the doctors of divinity who are working to overthrow it while pretending to teach it.

TURKISH AVIATOR IN BEIRUT, SYRIA — THE FIRST AEROPLANE TO BE SEEN IN THESE PARTS

DANGERS FROM DUST

By Mary Alice Hare Loper, M. S.

Common Sense and Helpful Suggestions — Preventive Measures Invaluable

By MARY ALICE HARE LOPER, M. S.

MILTON beautifully describes the Galaxy — Milky Way — as "a broad and ample road whose dust is gold and pavement stars." But there is certainly little in the average dusty highway of earth to appeal to the poetic fancy of the muse. It is one of those decidedly real visions that must be encountered at times, although not enjoyed, and that must be taken as a part of the experience of life.

Climates where rain may be reasonably expected at any season of the year do not present such a barrier to health and happiness in the way of dust as do climates where the rainfall is confined usually to a certain portion of the year.

A COMMON MEDIUM OF DISEASE

We read that in the world to come, "dust shall be the serpent's meat." But surely dust is not physically beneficial to human beings in this world. It is a common medium whereby all sorts of disease germs may be taken easily into the physical system. It would render many localities unfit for human habitation, did not the powerful rays of the sun serve to destroy disease germs that contaminate it.

Dust itself is irritating to the mucous membrane of nose, throat, and lungs; and when charged with disease germs, it becomes a serious menace to health. Some persons suffer of eye trouble as the result of dust. Before the completion of the first transcontinental railway, blindness was sometimes occasioned by encountering dust in crossing the plains in the old-fashioned way.

PREDISPOSED TO THESE DISEASES

Persons who are predisposed to nasal, throat, or lung trouble should studiously avoid dust. They should as conscientiously shun disease from this source, as the dyspeptic should shun suffering from articles of food that he knows will, if he indulges in them, give him trouble.

There are those who seem to be so immune against harm from dust that they can act in the capacity of janitors of large public school buildings, year after year, and apparently suffer no permanent inconvenience as the result; while others would risk their lives if they performed the duties incumbent upon such a position.

THE CAUSE OF MANY A COLD

Many a so-called "cold," accompanied, perhaps, with temporary loss of voice, may simply be the result of coming into contact with dust, and taking no precautions against results. It is hazardous for any person to repeat frequently this experience.

Dust at best is an unpleasant feature of the summer vacation trip, especially in the mountains; and for one accustomed to suffer in health as a result of such exposure, a yearly outing amid nature's most majestic scenery is robbed of much of its pleasure.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

There is no way whereby one can travel on land, and be free from this unpleasant accompaniment. In many localities, during dry seasons, the air is contaminated with dust and disease germs. The air of the average railway coach, during all seasons, is constantly charged with dust, in which various disease germs are likely to be present, unless the coach is frequently fumigated. It is well for all to consider precautionary measures against disease as among the important duties of life.

But surely persons who are sensitive to dust, should not wait until disease symptoms develop, before using measures to prevent difficulty. It is wise, when traveling, to cleanse thoroughly the nose, the mouth, and the throat every day, with some good disinfectant solution. One half teaspoonful each of listerine and peroxid of hydrogen to three tablespoonfuls of water will answer the purpose. One should practise breathing through the nose, and not through the mouth.

HOW TO MINIMIZE THE DUST NUISANCE

In the daily routine of housekeeping, sweeping and dusting are included in the list of indispensable tasks. Rugs are much more sanitary than carpets, in that they can be easily cleaned frequently, and floors can be kept much freer from dust. Vacuum sweepers and oiled mops fill a long-felt want in household economy, and are hailed with joy by many who have become weary of the old-fashioned broom, carpet-sweeper, and duster. They surely are life-preservers in a broad sense, and their wide-spread use should be encouraged.

Bric-a-brac is an unnecessary dust accumulator that should be banished from the home of every busy housewife. It is always unsightly if covered with dust, and to keep it presentable requires time that could be put to better use.

PROTECTION WHILE SWEEPING

Many do not realize the danger to which they subject themselves in ordinary sweeping and dusting, and during so-called "house-cleaning" seasons. Covering the nostrils with several thicknesses of gauze dampened with the foregoing disinfectant solution, affords a measure of relief from the ill effects of encountering dust, but is likely not to be a sufficient precaution. Multitudes suffering of nasal catarrh, habitually aggravate the trouble through the medium of dust. Children should be guarded on this point, and should not be permitted to lay the foundation for disease when it might be easily avoided.

PREVENTION THE IMPORTANT THING

The sweeping and dusting should be delegated, if possible, to some one who can perform that task without injury. "To every man his work." One may be able to retain health while performing a work that might mean illness and death to another. Wisdom in little things is well worthy of cultivation. When one who is not rugged encounters the dust problem, he should use good judgment in its solution, remembering that in all the realm of therapeutics, there is no remedy so satisfactory as prevention.

NOT BEING AFRAID IS NO BARRIER

To be forewarned should mean to be forearmed. It is not safe for delicate persons to ignore the dust problem. Not being afraid is not sufficient barrier against serious results. On the other hand, it does not pay to worry over the fact that near relatives, perhaps, have died of tuberculosis. There is no sufficient reason why one should die of any certain malady simply because some of his ancestors did so. One should be wise to take precautionary measures, the best that he can secure, and then not worry.

A PRIME FACTOR OF LONG LIFE

A popular writer has tritely said: "I have made it a practise to put all of my worries down in the bottom of my heart, then set on the lid, and smile." "Can't none of us help what traits we start out in life with, but we kin help what we end up with." If one is naturally inclined to worry, let him cultivate a cheerful disposition, which is a prime factor of longevity.

Discouragement and Its Baneful Results

By Mabel Corinne Craker

We Must Rise above It if We Would Be Victorious—A Pathway of Success Provided

By MABEL CORINNE CRAKER

DISCOURAGEMENT! The very word causes one’s head to droop, his heart to beat more slowly, his steps to lag.

Deprived entirely of courage, our ambition would cease, and suicide would be the inevitable result. Such a state is contrary to nature.

Every living creature is imbued with courage sufficient for its own happiness and for the benefit of its kind. The tiny bird timidly utters his first faint notes of song. He is evidently not entirely satisfied with his achievement, but he does not despair. Keeping his courage paramount to his environments, he acquires greater skill with each new effort.

The Christian’s life may not be perfectly attuned to Heaven, consequently discords may result from his effort to imitate the divine pattern; but so long as his eyes are heavenward and he strives on to perfection,

his life will constantly become more and more in harmony with that of his Maker.

DISCOURAGEMENT WAS UNKNOWN

Discouragement was unknown at creation. It is one of the greatest evils that undermine our spiritual constitutions. We fail to find record of an instance in which the people of God accomplished any victory while suffering from this terrible curse.

There was nothing to indicate the leveling of the massive wall of Jericho, one moment previous to the sound of the trumpet and the shout of victory by the children of Israel. The wall remained intact. It could not well be razed by human power. God supplied the need; and through faith in Him and obedience to His commands, they were able to take the city.

Had the children of Israel become discouraged at the end of the sixth day's march, this victory of theirs would never have been recorded.

DISCOURAGEMENT AND UNBELIEF

Discouragement is akin to unbelief. It is Satan-born, and appears to man in its most forceful manner when some sin committed rebounds upon the committer.

Satan is ever ready to cause us to commit sin. If he succeeds, he harassingly reminds us of it at every step of the way.

How differently God deals with us! He uses every available means to show us the snares Satan sets for our feet; yet if we are overcome, commit sin, and, seeing our condition, repent, how willing He is not only to impart full and free forgiveness, but to bestow the power to keep us from again falling into the same pit!

NOT TO REMAIN WEAKLINGS

He does not want us to remain spiritual weaklings, easily led astray. He desires us to become men and women of sterling quality. True, the standard is high. Humanity of itself is powerless to conform to its requirements. Only by completely surrendering our wills to God and grasping His promises can we hope to attain to that perfection of character which He so desires to behold in His children.

To-day we are building for eternity. We should never be satisfied with cheap, light, trashy material for our character building. Our eternal destiny is dependent upon our selection of material to use for the erection of this structure. In this we need divine guidance. We being willing, the Master Architect and Builder will strengthen every weak part of the edifice.

This process may mean the removal of some of the timbers we have thought valuable. It may mean the severing from our lives of some cherished worldly enjoyment, some plan we have devised independent of the direction of God; but let us not falter. Strength will be supplied by God to enable us to obey all His commands.

THE CABLE THAT ANCHORS

Prayer is the cable that anchors our souls to Heaven. There may be times when our petitions seem unanswered. The prophet Isaiah describes such a period in our experience. We read: "Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God." Isa. 50:10.

Notice that the scripture speaks to those who obey God and yet walk in darkness and have no light. Perhaps some huge obstacle has confronted us in our Christian experience. We are in doubt which way to go. Consequently we flee to God and implore His help. We arise and go about our duties; still darkness seems to unshroud us. There is no light. Despair appears imminent.

THE ONE WHO DIED WILL SAVE

Shall we lose courage in the One who died for us, think there is no help from Him, become despondent, and enlist under the banner of the tempter, whose forces are ever ready to lead us to defeat?

What are we to do in such a time? The scripture reads, "Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God."

God can not be better honored than by having His children trust implicitly in Him when their pathway seems blocked and no way of escape is in view.

Christ is our Captain. He knows no defeat. The final victory will be won by Him and His forces, but we must cooperate with Him for the saving of our own souls. The battle can not be won in our behalf while we sit idly in our tents, neither will the crown of laurels be placed upon the head of him who has not learned to trust his Captain. To the courageous belongs the victor's crown.

The Cheerful Habits of Singing Birds

By William Covert

THE lark is cheerful, yet his nest is low and his feathers are plain. He meets the day with a song, and seems content with little.

Would that man would be in cheerfulness like the lark, and as ready to manifest contentedness when favors are small; or that he would be in faith as this cheerful bird is in fact, mounting with the dawning day high up into the heavens, out of the sight of man on earth, to get an advanced view of and say "Good morning" to the rising sun; or as the woodcock, which climbs the air with his wings, as if he were ascending a perpendicular shaft twice the altitude of Eiffel Tower, whistling as upward he goes, until the sound of his voice is no more audible to men,—this that he may bid "Good night" to the receding day!

In his return to the earth he alights upon the very spot whence he ascended, and looks delighted with all that surrounds him. His evening farewell is preceded by the beautiful lay of the robin redbreast, that sings from the tallest tree top his latest expression of thankfulness for the favors which have come to him during the day.

In the morning a thousand voices sing the Maker's praises, and in the evening as many of the feathered tribe close their work with a grateful benediction. In the beginning of the day, after the meadow-lark has said her "Good morning" to the sun, a number of vigorous redheads, with their bills for drumsticks and protruding shingles or hollow limbs for drums, sound the reveille for their tribes. Then in their peculiar way the tribal roll is called before they enter upon their regular work for the day.

Indeed, there are many humble little creatures made to live in our midst that set an example of patience and good will for man to imitate, and many of these lessons come to us from the singing birds. Some of these make their homes where the light of the day is longest. They build and perch where the morning comes early and the evening lingers late.

Let men do their best to abide in the light and to maintain confidence and courage in the Lord. WILLIAM COVERT.

Why Does the Lord Not Answer My Prayers?

By David Paulson

THAT is a practical question, which deserves a practical answer; and to find the answer in the Bible is safer than merely to depend on human experience. "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed." James 5:16. Have you ever observed that confession of faults is just as rare these days as definite answer to prayer?

God has linked those two experiences together; and no matter how inconvenient and crucifying confession of faults is, those who propose to omit it will find that God is omitting answers to their prayers. "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper." Prov. 28:13. He may try to prosper, he may try to get answers to his prayers, but he is overlooking the necessary conditions for answered prayer.

"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." Ps. 66:18. It does not say, "If I make mistakes," nor, "If I falter and fall," but, "If I regard"—cling to—some pet sin, because it is agreeable and convenient, that will break the connection between prayer and its answer. The only appropriate prayer for such a one is, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Ps. 51:10.

DAVID PAULSON.

The Reversed Life

IT is a great blessing to be stopped when we are heading in the wrong direction. For oftentimes we can not stop ourselves — if, for example, the power of some bad habit relentlessly drives us away from that which we know is right. It is then that we need the experience of the reversed life. As the engineer in the cab of a locomotive moves a lever and reverses the whole action of that locomotive, so that it stops and runs in exactly the opposite direction from that in which it had been moving, so our Lord Jesus Christ is ready to reverse every natural inclination and tendency of our consciously sinful nature, and do it the instant such a tendency is felt, if we will let Him. If we have a feeling of unlove in our heart, let us just remember that the Lord Jesus is here within us to reverse that; and as, in complete surrender, we quietly trust Him to do so, He will replace the feeling of unlove with a supernatural, Christ-consisting love. So of every other conscious temptation to wrongdoing that we may ever know — Christ is here to reverse it, instantly, omnipotently, triumphantly, making us always more than conquerors. For us sinners to accept the reversed life is to dare to receive from God His promise that "as He is, even so are we in this world." — Sunday School Times.

Keeping God’s Commandments

By Solomon

My son, forget not My law; but let thine heart keep My commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.— Solomon.

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