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Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 44.

PRAY WITHOUT CEASING
Earlier text: THE THIRD ANGEL’S MESSAGE

THE UNDER-SHEPHERDS AND THE FLOCK.

By John Norton Loughborough

“BEHOLD, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” Matt. 10:16.
When our Saviour left the world, intrusting his people to the care of his ministers, they had the example of the great Shepherd before them; and with the aid of the Spirit promised for their guidance, he expected them to imitate their Master in tenderly caring for the flock. In his interview with the apostles, after his resurrection, he said to Peter, when repeating the inquiry, “Lovest thou me?” “Feed my sheep.” “Feed my lambs.”
The tender regard of the great Shepherd for his flock is expressed in these words: “Let us remember that Jesus knows us individually, and is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows the wants of each of his creatures, and reads the hidden, unspoken grief of every heart. If one of the little ones for whom he died is injured, he sees it, and calls the offender to account. Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He cares for his feeble, sickly, wandering sheep. He knows them all by name. The distress of every sheep and every lamb of his flock touches his heart of sympathizing love, and the cry for aid reaches his ear. One of the greatest sins of the shepherds of Israel is thus pointed out by the prophet: ‘The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd; and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill; yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.’ Jesus cares for each one as though there were not another individual on the face of the earth. As Deity, he exerts mighty power in our behalf, while as our Elder Brother he feels for all our woes.” — “Testimony for the Church,” No. 32, page 102.
The apostle Peter, in carrying out the instruction of the Master, gave the following counsel to his associate ministers: “The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.” 1 Peter 5:1–4.
Paul, in his farewell personal testimony to the elders of the Ephesian church, who met him at Miletus, said: “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.” Acts 20:28, 29. So confident was the apostle that his life and labors had been not of himself, but of Christ dwelling within him, that he could commend his life as a sample of labor, saying, “Be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.” Phil. 3:17.
The kind of ensample which Paul commended is quite fully set forth in his epistle to the church in Thessalonica: “And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: so that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to Godward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak of anything.” 1 Thess. 1:6–8. The manner in which they received the word from the lips of the apostle is also stated: “For,” said he, “when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” 1 Thess. 2:13.
Of the character of his example set for them, he says: “For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness: nor of man sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.” 1 Thess. 2:5–8.
Leaders of the same character he commended to the Philippian church, in the persons of Timotheus and Epaphroditus, of whom he says: “But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently, as soon as I shall see how it will go with me. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.” Phil. 2:19–30.
How the same tender care should be in the church is set before us in the following words: “The true brethren of Christ are those who guard the interests of their brethren and sisters. How inappropriate it is to condemn others, when every soul is to be saved, not on his own merits, but by the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour! We are all erring, finite creatures, accountable to God for our words, works, and influence. . . .
“Deal tenderly and graciously with every soul, and especially deal tenderly with those who are liable to err. They, of all others, need your help the most. Never take up a report against a brother or a neighbor, or harbor evil surmisings against him. Thou shalt not imagine evil in thy heart against thy brother. . . .
“Instead of looking for the faults of our brother, let us seek for every redeeming quality, obtain his confidence, come close to the one who needs his hands upheld, his feeble knees strengthened. Let us, brethren, make straight paths for our feet, lest the lame be turned out of the way. . . .
“As mature Christians we shall love more and more, not less and less. We need the warmth and glow of Christ in our cold, stony hearts. We want our hearts broken by the love of Christ, and then we shall defend the characters of those who are giving their lives to the service of him who has died for them.”—Mrs. E. G. White, in Review, Oct. 24, 1893.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

A CHANGE IN THE GRADING OF THE SABBATH-SCHOOL LESSONS.

By M. H. Brown

For some time we have felt that the grading of our Sabbath-school lessons could be improved. This conviction has never taken shape until recently. After mature deliberation and counsel with the publishers of the Youth's Instructor, the executive board of the International Sabbath-school Association has decided to make the following changes in our lessons, to take effect Jan. 1, 1901:—
1. To have a series of lessons for the Instructor, graded a little lower than the present junior lessons, to be known as lessons for youth. It is certainly appropriate to have lessons for youth in a youth's paper. The junior lessons will then be discontinued, and the more advanced in the junior division will study the senior lessons, and use the Lesson Quarterly.
2. To discontinue the intermediate lessons now being published in Our Little Friend, and put in a kindergarten department in its place. Most of the youth who now study the intermediate lessons would then study the lessons for youth, which will be published in the Instructor. Many of these feel that Our Little Friend is too much of a child's paper for them, and they are anxious to have the Instructor, which has reading adapted for them; but they can not have it because they do not study the Sabbath-school lesson published in it.
Our readers will notice that this plan will probably affect the circulation of the Instructor favorably and of Our Little Friend unfavorably. But it is believed that the proposed grading of the lessons will be a real improvement, and will best serve the interests of our Sabbath-schools. And it is thought that if this plan is best for the cause at large, Our Little Friend will not permanently suffer by its adoption.
After Jan. 1, 1901, therefore, our Sabbath-school lessons will be graded as follows:—
1. Senior lessons, which will be published in the Lesson Quarterly.
2. Youth's lessons, which will be published in the Youth's Instructor. These will be adapted for those who are eleven years old and upward, leaving each school free to decide when members shall pass to the senior division.
3. Primary lessons, which will be published in Our Little Friend. These will be adapted for those between the ages of seven and eleven years.
4. Kindergarten lessons, to be published in Our Little Friend. These are designed to aid parents in the home and teachers in the school in teaching the little ones that are under seven years of age.
It will be noticed that these changes in our lessons are not radical nor sweeping. They are slight, and yet we believe that our schools will regard them as material improvements, which are worthy of adoption. They will certainly make our lesson grades more consistent and natural, and will place the Youth's Instructor and Our Little Friend in a more harmonious relation to our schools in the matter of the lessons they publish and the class that reads them.
We give notice of this change at this time so all our schools can plan for it, and be ready to adopt it the first of next year. The officers of each school should study the plan that is herein set forth; and if there are any features of it that are not well understood, inquiry should be made of the secretary of the State association. Sabbath-school officers should also carefully consider the needs of their respective schools, so they can order the requisite supplies for each division in due time. There may be no material change in the relative number of papers needed; but the wants of the school should be ascertained beforehand, so that there will be no disappointment on account of lack of proper supplies. M. H. BROWN.

THE DEMAND CREATED.

By A. O. T.

ALMOST every mail brings us letters from some of our brethren, who say that the situation in the world to-day has created a demand for just such a number of the Signs of the Times as is contemplated in the World's Outlook issue. Scores and scores say that they are earnestly longing for it to be printed, so that they can begin to place it in the hands of the people. Many are ordering one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred copies at a time, and we hope that by the time the paper is ready for circulation, we shall have many thousand orders.
Now is the time to send in your orders. Let the terrible condition of things in the world to-day, appeal to you to send out the light that God has for the world; so that those of whom the Lord has said that their hearts would be failing them for fear, and for looking after those things that are coming upon the earth, may have the true meaning of these things before them. These are wonderful times, and wonderful opportunities for service are now being presented. Soon these opportunities will be forever past. But while the harvest is being gathered, and the word of the Master is, “Go ye into my vineyard,” let us go, and he will bless us.
All orders for the World's Outlook Number of the Signs of the Times, and all correspondence in regard to the paper, should be addressed to the Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal.
A. O. T.

THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.

By P. T. Magan

Loyal Colorado.

I HAD A very interesting time at the camp-meeting in Colorado. On the closing Sunday, at the morning service the cause of the RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS was presented. The Lord blessed, and the liberal hearts of the brethren and sisters were stirred. Our brethren gave because they believed it was the Lord’s will that they should; there were men there who were willing to sacrifice for the Master’s sake, and with many the gifts meant great sacrifice. I believe that God and the angels were pleased with the spirit shown, and I earnestly pray that the Master will bless those who have thus publicly witnessed to the heart devotion which they have for his cause.
It is impossible for me to state the exact amount pledged, as many of the gifts were contingent upon the sale of property. Brother J. W. Voris said that he would give half the proceeds of his interest in a mine. Some time ago ten thousand dollars was offered for this mine. In the appended list, I have rated the gift at only fifteen hundred dollars, but Brother Voris said that it would probably amount to a great deal more than this. Brother A. W. Farnsworth’s pledge for five hundred dollars is also contingent on the sale of a mine.
We are thankful to God for these gifts, and trust that the day will soon come when we shall sing the jubilee song of freedom, and be entirely out of debt.
Name Amount Name Amount
Ella Anglebarger $ 5 Mrs. Jane Carter $ 5
A friend 2 Jas. N. Mock 25
O. B. Shaw 100 Wm. J. Keele 5
W. B. Conklin 25 J. O. Johnston 25
Ellen Peterson 50 W. J., Ada J., and Edith Barnes 25
R. C. Clary 25 L. L. McCamley 50
A. J. Conway 25 Ellen M. Towne 25
Mrs. L. F. Collie (on settlement of property) 500 Mrs. E. Frankenberry 25
E. K. Cassell 50 N. S. West 500
J. W. Voris, ½ proceeds mine, about 1,500 E. W. Whitney and wife 25
Mrs. W. H. Proudfit 25 Mrs. M. E. Wegand 25
A. W. Farnsworth (on the sale of a mine) 500 Effie Wilson 10
W. W. Voris 100 Mrs. A. A. Rickabaugh 10
C. H. Bates 5 N. B. Smith 25
Mrs. W. I. Covert 10 J. Young 25
Hannah Mock 5
Mrs. M. J. Hamer 5
F. M. and Mary E. Hills will give one half the proceeds from the sale of eighty acres of land in Costilla County, Colo., as soon as same has been sold.
P. T. MAGAN.

News and Notes

—The gas war in Chicago has ended, and the price has been advanced. Of course!
—The Tiffany strikers in New York City have returned to work, some losing their jobs.
—It is said that “the American share of the loot secured at Tientsin, China, aggregates over $300,000.”
—Andrew Carnegie has presented the town of Hawick, Scotland, with $50,000 for a public library.
—As the United States battleship “Oregon” is in need of extensive repairs, it will return to this country.
—Princeton University has conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Mr. Hay, United States secretary of state.
—The government of Holland has ordered 12,000 tons of steel rails from the Carnegie Steel Company.
—A massacre of Armenians is reported from Diarbekir, Turkey, Mussulmans, having destroyed eight villages.
—Germany has leased the Island Urcan, in the Red Sea, for a period of thirty years. It will be used as a German coaling station.
—Postmaster Albert Barnes, of Kearsarge, N. H., is believed to be the only man now living whose father fought at Bunker Hill. He is eighty-three years of age.
—Twenty patients at the New York State hospital for the criminal insane assailed their keepers, and escaped to the woods, October 23. All but seven were caught.
—It is the Réaumur thermometer scale which is and has been used in all German government offices, and which is to be supplanted by the Centigrade scale after Jan. 1, 1901.
—John Sherman, ex-secretary of state, and for forty years prominent in affairs of the administration of the United States, died in Washington, D. C., Monday, October 22.
—The Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, will build thirty freight locomotives for the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, and thirty-two for the Union Pacific.
—An exchange says that “the natives of Hawaii, be they ever so poor, never steal nor beg. These offenses are confined almost exclusively to the Portuguese residents of the island.”
—Henry Youtsey, stenographer to Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, and the third man found guilty in connection with the Goebel shooting, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
—The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway will soon build a steel elevator in Buffalo, N. Y., with a capacity of 750,000 bushels. Niagara Falls will supply the power for running the machinery.
—Charles Dudley Warner, a literary man of note, died at his home in Hartford, Conn., Saturday, October 20. He is said to have been, in many ways, “the literary successor of Irving,” whose biography he wrote.
—Bourke Cockran has a sufficient income from his New York law practice to enable him to make his political tour of the country in a private car, the expense of which, over $100 a day, he meets personally.
—President Kruger is to be given an ovation in Paris, by the president of France, and is to be treated by the French people with all the honors due to the head of a state, England’s desire to the contrary notwithstanding.
—Baroness von Ketteler, widow of the German minister murdered in Peking, and daughter of President Ledyard of the Michigan Central Railroad, arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, October 16. She is to reside with her father in Detroit, Mich.
—Booker T. Washington announces that the German government has closed a contract with his school at Tuskegee, Ala., to furnish students to introduce cotton raising in Germany’s West African colony. A party of students will sail for that purpose, November 3.
—Cornelius Vanderbilt has rented the furnished residence of the late Collis B. Huntington, at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street, New York City, paying a rental of $50,000 a year therefor. It cost nearly $2,000,000 to build the dwelling, and Mr. Huntington had filled it with art treasures gathered from all over the world.
—In Nome City coal sells for $125 a ton.
—Mr. Paul Kruger will hereafter reside in Brussels, Belgium.
—An English inventor purposes to build a boat that will cross the Atlantic in two days.
—One company alone is shipping an average of five car-loads of apples out of Walla Walla, Wash., each day.
—The British War Office has issued orders that the bulk of the militia regiments called out for service during the South African War are to be disbanded. This will affect about 50,000 men.
—The recent trial trip of the United States battleship “Wisconsin,” off Lower California, proved it to be the finest and swiftest vessel of her class in the world. The speed register indicated 17.25 knots an hour.
—The International Peace Congress recently issued “an appeal to the nations, urging the conclusion of treaties making arbitration permanent and obligatory.” But the question is, Who will make it “obligatory” upon the nations, the majority of whom are opposed to arbitration?
—Trinity College, Washington, D. C., which was opened October 1, is “the first Catholic college in the world for the higher education of women,” and will be able to accommodate “fifty students besides the sisters and teachers.” November 6 the institution will be dedicated by Cardinal Gibbons.
—Rev. Charles Merle d’Aubigné, son of J. H. Merle d’Aubigné the distinguished historian of the Reformation, and himself a man of high rank among the Huguenots of France, is expected to arrive in this country early in next month. He will spend about three months advocating the evangelizing of France.
—On October 9 the steamer “S. J. Murphy” sailed from South Chicago with 270,000 bushels of corn, the largest cargo ever shipped from Chicago. It was equal to 7,500 net tons. Last season the steamer “Superior City,” of the American Steel and Wire fleet, sailed with a cargo of 7,400 tons, from the same port.
—The Canadian government is to offer for sale all its claims in the Klondike, including “all the alternate claims which were reserved by the government during the big rush, and all the claims that have reverted to the crown from various causes. It is estimated that there are between 8,000 and 10,000 such claims.”
—The cured fruit business of the Pacific Northwest is growing to enormous proportions, says the Pacific Homestead. The evaporated fruit that will go out of the three States,—Oregon, Washington, and Idaho,—of this year’s crop, will amount approximately to a thousand car-loads. It will be mostly prunes. There is acreage sufficient to make the cured fruit product of the three States 1,500 car-loads annually, and the orchard acreage is increasing rapidly.
—October 17 the Bible was barred from the public schools of Chicago by the board of education, by a vote of thirteen to six. It was voted to “keep out of the public schools the work of Scriptural selections published by Mrs. Elizabeth Blanchard Cook, president of the Chicago Woman’s Educational Institute. The quotations were chosen by a committee composed of Cardinal Gibbons, Professor Swing, and a number of other distinguished prelates. The book has been adopted by the school boards of a number of leading cities.”
—“A recent caution from the United States consul at Mainz, Germany,” says the Evening Post, “relates to the danger in using certain silver-mounted glasses and porcelain wares. In manufacturing, the silver on each article is applied by means of a process which requires the use of potassium cyanide, and the hair-like cracks existing in the porcelain glaze receive and retain a dangerous amount of this deadly poison. To use or even to handle these cups, glasses, jars, vases, or whatever the vessel may be, is attended with great risk. The consul reports a severe case of poisoning resulting from the use of the ware, which is chiefly exported to this country from Frankfort, Berlin, and Stuttgart.”
—Statistics show that “at the opening of the century French was spoken by about 31,000,000 persons; German by 30,000,000; Russian by 30,000,000; Spanish by 27,000,000; Italian by 16,000,000; English by 21,000,000.” To-day, however, English is “the language of about 130,000,000 persons; French of 45,000,000; German of 70,000,000; Russian of 75,000,000; Spanish of 45,000,000; Italian of 35,000,000. In other words, during the present century English has risen not only from the fifth place to the first among the languages named, but has gained enormously in relative magnitude, expanding from thirteen per cent of the total to over thirty-two per cent, from one eighth to nearly one third.”
—It is stated that “the closing competition in the exhibition balloon matches at Paris, October 12, will live long in the history of aeronautics. One, at least, of the competitors has far outdistanced any previous officially recorded aerial voyage. The balloon “Centaure” reached Kief, Russia, making the voyage of 1,304 miles in thirty-six hours.” Steven and Joseph Montgolfier, sons of Peter Montgolfier, a large and celebrated paper maker at Annonay, a town about forty miles from Lyons, France, were the original discoverers of the balloon, their first public experiment being made June 5, 1783. The French people still call hot-air balloons Montgolfières. In the month of August of the same year, another Frenchman, M. Charles, discovered the hydrogen-gas balloon, which is styled by French writers Charlières.
—The following letter will explain itself, correct an error, and give other information:—
“To the Editor of the Review and Herald.
“DEAR SIR: On page 668 of your issue of October 16, you have quoted, under the heading of News and Notes, that ‘in India 30,000 students receive the degree of B. A. each year, and that there are in that country about 3,000,000 college graduates occupying various positions of responsibility.’ For the benefit of your numerous readers I wish to say that the statement is erroneous. The Indian universities and colleges are of recent growth, the universities of Bombay and Calcutta having been founded in 1859. About 2,500 students receive the degree of B. A. each year, and about 50,000 college graduates in arts, medicine, and engineering occupy various positions of responsibility. Education is still in a backward state in my poor country, but, thanks to British rule in India, we are making fair progress of late. India now is not so mentally and morally dark as it was half a century ago, under native rulers.
“Yours truly, “NASARVANJI M. COOPER.”
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