p. 32 | Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 2. (1/14/1902)

The Big Fund for the Relief of Schools.

By Editor

EVERYWHERE throughout the wide, wide world Seventh-day Adventists have responded nobly as one man to the call for the Relief of the Schools. Thousands upon thousands of copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons” have been sold, and we have a definite record of a large number of people who have, through reading this book, been led to accept the faith, so dear to us all, of the soon coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The figures published from week to week in the REVIEW show that over $35,000 has been paid into the treasury of the Relief of the Schools fund, and this money is being faithfully devoted to the purchase of material for the manufacture of “Christ’s Object Lessons.”

During the next month we shall have heavy bills to meet for material used in the manufacture of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” If any good brother or any good sister who has made a pledge to the material fund for “Christ’s Object Lessons” can pay the same within the next few weeks, the money will be gratefully received. Let us do what we started to do, and pay off every dollar of debt the denomination is owing on schools, and thus hasten the glad day of jubilee.

Remit by bank draft, express or post-office orders to Percy T. Magan, Berrien Springs, Mich.

To Office Correspondents.

The old plea concerning underpaid postage for foreign letters is thus restated in a letter to the Mission Board:— “I inclose an envelope which will tell its own story [postage due, stamps affixed]. This is only one of its kind. Our publishing houses send printed circulars sealed with a two-cent stamp, and we pay twenty cents on them. Nearly every letter from our offices has been just this way. I wish you would put a notice, and that a good one, in our papers so that this kind of mail may not trouble our missionaries.”

The Pope’s Biblical Study Commission

The pope, it is announced, has appointed a commission for the consideration of all questions connected with Biblical study. The work of the commission will be, it is stated, “to ascertain the limits of freedom to be allowed to the Catholic exegetist in regard to Biblical questions—to point out definitely what must be maintained and what rejected in the interests of orthodoxy, and what can be left to the individual conscience.”

Christianity leaves everything to the individual conscience; conscience always to be guided, however, by the written Word, and enlightened by the Holy Spirit. Christianity makes the Holy Spirit the teacher; the papacy makes the priest, the pope, and the church council the teacher or teachers; thus putting the human in the place of the divine, and human salvation (which is no salvation) in the place of that which is from God.