1 “When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into the which He entered, Himself and His disciples. 2 Now Judas also, which betrayed Him, knew the place; for Jesus oftimes resorted thither with His disciples. 3 Judas then, having received the band of soldiers, and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth, and saith unto them, Whom seek ye? 5 They answered Him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am He. And Judas also, which betrayed Him, was standing with them. 6 When therefore He said unto them, I am He, they went backward, and fell to the ground. 7 Again therefore He asked them, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. 8 Jesus answered, I told you that I am He; if therefore ye seek Me, let these go 9 their way; that the word might be fulfilled which He spake, Of those whom Thou hast given Me I lost not one. 10 Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant’s 11 name was Malchus. Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it?”
Golden Text: “The Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.” Matt. 26:45.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) After the celebration of His last Passover, where did Jesus and His disciples go? Verse 1. (2) What words of Jesus are referred to in this verse? Note 1. (3) Who besides the eleven disciples knew the place? Verse 2. (4) How did Judas know of the place? Same verse. Note 2. (5) What precaution was taken by those who sought to take Jesus? Verse 3. Note 3. (6) What indicates the true courage of the Saviour? Verse 4. (7) How did the mob answer His question? Verse 5. What reply did Jesus make? Same verse. (8) Who stood with the company? Same verse. (9) When Jesus made Himself known, what was the effect upon the mob? Verse 6. Note 4. (10) What question did Jesus repeat? Verse 7. (11) What was the reply? Same verse. (12) When He again identified Himself, what request did He make? Verse 8. Note 5. (13) What saying of His was fulfilled by this request? Verse 9. (14) Then what did Simon Peter do? Verse 10. Note 6. (15) What did Jesus say to Peter? Verse 11.
NOTES.
1. The words referred to in verse 1 of the lesson scripture are the words which Jesus spoke to His disciples after the supper, both in the upper room and on the way to the garden, including the prayer to the Father. The whole is included in chapters 13:31 to 17:26 of John’s Gospel.
2. Jesus often sought the solitary places for communion with His Father. And this communion was deemed of more importance than the sleep which others deemed essential. It was thru this frequent communion that He was enabled to overcome temptation and to endure the many and severe trials that came upon Him. And His need of such strength was no greater than ours. The Master’s example in this regard is one that no disciple can afford to ignore.
3. “With lanterns and torches.”—When we remember that the moon was full at the Passover season, the precaution of these extra lights would indicate a determination to search the most secluded nooks.
4. “They went backward, and fell.”—No human power could have taken Jesus against His will. He voluntarily surrendered Himself into the hands of His enemies. He “gave Himself a ransom for all.” 1 Tim. 2:6.
5. His care for His disciples.—In full view of the terrible ordeal thru which He was to pass during the next few hours, the Saviour did not forget His “little flock.” As for Himself He must drink the bitter cup to the very dregs, but they were to be spared for future work, and until their faith would be strong enough to meet martyrdom in the same courageous manner.
6. His last miracle.—The last miracle of our Lord before His death, was the healing of one who was seeking His life. And it was the healing of a wound made by a disciple whose rashness led him to use a carnal weapon in defense of the Gospel and the Gospel ministry. See Luke 22:50, 51. He then told that disciple to put up his sword, and the order never has been countermanded.
The U. S. Census Office after trying all Competitors adopts the Densmore exclusively
Since its origination about one year ago, the U. S. Census Office has had considerable experience with various typewriters. They are now, however, purchasing the Densmore exclusively, having bought over fifty during the past two months. Their choice should exert a strong influence with the individual purchaser, for the ball-bearing Densmore satisfies the exacting conditions of the Census Office, hence it is remarkable both for speed and durability.
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News from Around the World
THE natives of the island of Mindoro, Philippines, are reported to have risen against the insurgents, killed the insurgent governor, and given notice that henceforth they will assist the Americans against the armed Filipinos.
A DESPATCH from Egypt states that news has been received of a terrible battle in Abyssinia, in which 7,000 men were killed. A rebellion seems to have sprung up during the absence of King Menelek from his capital.
TWO CAR-LOADS of the bones of dead Chinamen were recently disinterred from the San Jose, California, cemetery and started on their long journey across the Pacific, to be buried again in China.
THE Socialist colony which established itself in Georgia three years ago, has disbanded. Failures followed their enterprise, because, it is said, one-fifth of the members were drones.
THE United States Government has finally given its formal adherence to the Brussels treaty for the prevention of the sale of intoxicating liquors in certain regions of Africa.
Bids have been opened at the Navy Department for three new cruisers of the latest approved pattern and highest speed.
Hypnotism and Psychic Healing
By Editor
Next week we shall print, the Lord willing, an important, very important, article on “Hypnotism and Psychic Healing.” It should have a large circulation.
God’s Thoro-ness
Read in this issue the article entitled “God’s Thoro-ness.” So God would remove your transgressions from you. Will you let Him?
Admissions from the Ranks of Its Enemies
“Admissions in favor of truth, from the ranks of its enemies,” says President Asa Mahan, “constitute the highest kind of evidence.” In the light of this, read the admission of a Catholic in the article on page 6, “Why Are Catholics Unmolested There?”
Co-operation with God
In order that God may do His work in us He demands our co-operation. We may not remain indifferently passive; nor is it possible to know His power by being selfishly active. Read the article on “Co-operation with God,” on page 2. It will help in the Christian life.
What History Says Concerning the Change of the Sabbath
The latest number of the Apples of Gold Library to come to our table is by W. A. Colcord, former editor of the Bible Echo, Melbourne, Australia, and now president of the New South Wales Conference. It is entitled, “What History Says Concerning the Change of the Sabbath,” contains 8 pages, and sells for 50 cents a hundred. It is convenient of size, cheap in price, and valuable in matter. Address the Pacific Press Publishing Co., or any of the branch offices or tract societies.
Suicide
Suicide.—The New York Monthly World records the number of suicides of 1900 as 6,755, of which the cause in 3,147 is given as despondency; in 2,284 as unknown; other causes, insanity, ill health, domestic infelicity, liquor, disappointed love, business losses. And after all, save the insane, could be written “despondency.” The increase over 1890 is given at 25 per cent., and the same percentage of increase is given in the number of murders, while the population increased but 20 per cent. There were 115 lynchings in the United States the past year, 107 colored and 8 white, and 119 legal executions. The record is an appalling one.
The Mission of the Signs of the Times
By Editor
“The Signs of the Times” is not published as a money-making scheme. It has a message to give to the world. Even tho’ it meet with loss, it can not fail to be faithful to its mission. We may not always please our subscribers, but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men; but God, which trieth our hearts.” I Thess. 1:4. To that motto we hope to be faithful. Success is with God. Without Him is failure. There may be seeming triumph without Him; there may be seeming defeat with Him; but they are only seeming. The Crucifixion was not a failure. The sealing of the sepulcher by Rome was not a triumph. The only “true gain is the long gain.” We are not saying this because we apprehend that the SIGNS is going to fail, but to say that the principles of the living Word of God must be upheld in its publication, even tho it should fail. It
A Long Way Off.
The San Francisco Call has a most imaginative, or misinformed, reporter in Vancouver, B. C., judging from a despatch from that city to the Call of the 7th inst. It tells us that there is in that city a new sect of 200 members, “first formed as a branch of the Seventh-day Adventists,” “the feature of whose singular beliefs is based upon the eating of peanuts as their principal article of food;” that they believe that “Christ will appear on earth within a few months, and perhaps within only a few weeks;” and that “they therefore wish to be prepared [by a peanut diet], in order that they may ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ without difficulty;” that nuts “constitute almost the entire means of sustenance of the 200 persons in Vancouver who belong to this queer sect.” It is said by some that nuts are more digestible eaten with salt; the above referred-to despatch needs an abundant dose. Fifty per cent. is fervid imagination. It can be safely said that no such sect, having a belief in salvation thru peanuts, exists. Nut foods are made, good, bad, and indifferent, some of them excellent. But no people, as described in the Call despatch, make nuts even their main food. It has been well suggested that the Call reporter must have gotten this news by wireless telegraphy from the lost air ship.
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The California delegates to the General Conference expect to leave Oakland, in company with Mrs. E. G. White and party, on or about March 17, 1901. If we can secure twenty passengers we are promised the exclusive use of a tourist sleeper, Oakland to Chicago, and possibly on to Battle Creek, without change. Several persons have already expressed a desire to join this party, and it is hoped that the number can be made up. Those who have had any experience in traveling will appreciate the advantage to be gained by having the exclusive control of a car.
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Hero Worship
“If a Catholic were asked, What is the most hopeful sign of the times from a religious standpoint? he might well answer, ‘The increasing regard with which Protestants are coming to view the heroes of Catholicism, the saints.’”—Catholic Mirror, Jan. 26, 1901. And in proportion as Protestants, or any other body of people, have trusted to hero worship or veneration, to that extent have they lost sight of Him who is the Chiefest among the myriads and “the One altogether lovely.” The Jews had a very high regard for Moses and the prophets when they crucified Him whose creatures and servants they were.
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Why Are Catholics Unmolested There?
Read the article “Why Are Catholics Unmolested There?” on page 6. It reveals a secret that most religionists do not know.
The Work and Message of the Signs
By Editor
will, however, be published until its work is done. Its circulation will greatly increase over what it now is. We know that there are thousands of hearts who do not see in all things the truth it publishes, yet who believe in loyalty to God and His Word. We thank them for their support. We still solicit it, and also that of the thousands more who believe heartily in what the SIGNS teaches. But we ask all to compare its teachings with the Word; for it is not the SIGNS which will save, but the living message of God which it bears.
A Testimony on the Sabbath Question.
The late D. T. Taylor, for many years one of the prominent ministers in the Life and Advent Union, was at one time very much agitated over the Sabbath question. Being himself an observer of Sunday, and a firm believer in its sacredness, “he thought to write a history in its favor,” writes his aged brother, himself a minister. “In order to do so he gathered all the works, far and near, in this country and England, that he could hear of, on the Sabbath, the first-day sabbath, Lord’s day, etc. He got together in all 412 different works of various authors. After he had gotten them all together, and studied them in order to write his book, he could find no evidence for the Sunday-sabbath, and gave the whole matter up. A few years after, when Elder Preble thought to write a history on the same subject, he came to my brother to get his help; but my brother told Mr. Preble that he could not help him, there was no help for him.” Mr. Taylor afterward took the position of “no Sabbath.”
The Fish Investigation Committee
The Fish Investigation Committee, appointed by the State Legislature, at this writing operating in San Francisco, is unfolding an extraordinary condition of things. Right in the heart of a great city the most nefarious system of slavery is existent, carried on, if not with the connivance of the police, certainly with their indifference. In African slavery, sometimes, frequently the lot of the slave was bettered physically, but innocent Chinese girls are sold into slavery solely for immoral purposes. Three of these rescued girls told their story before the committee. One was sold for $1,780, another for $2,200, the third for $2,800. And all this, with a good profit, must be gotten back by the buyer at the price of female virtue and all that true women hold dear. Chinese female infants are purchased at prices varying from $100 to $150. The condition is beyond adjectives. The facts speak louder. Certainly the civilization that will permit such a condition of things is not Christian; it is not even human.
Eat Ye That Which Is Good.
Many of our friends and readers are frequently in San Francisco on business, which often detains them over one or two meals, and sometimes for a day or two. Oftentimes they are at a loss to know where to get refreshments, lunch, dinner, etc. They do not like common restaurant fare, and not a few are fruitarians and vegetarians. To all such, yea, to all, we commend the Vegetarian Restaurant, 755 Market Street, south side, between Third and Fourth Streets. There you will get what is good, if you can find room; for it is well patronized. Its name is “Vegetarian Restaurant;” that is, it does not furnish flesh foods, but it does furnish all sorts and varieties of well-cooked, neatly and tastefully and conscientiously prepared dishes of fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables at a very reasonable rate. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Fulton are in charge, with an excellent corps of helpers, who will make all welcome. Try it when you are in San Francisco.
