THE donation of $100,000 to the foreign mission cause by Mr. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame, and its acceptance by the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, has given rise to much discussion of the propriety, or impropriety, of accepting money for church purposes that was acquired by the questionable means generally imputed to Standard Oil Trust methods. According to the discussion it would seem that the whole subject hinges on the principle of Christianity's obligation to people who donate to its cause. Now this recognition of an obligation on the part of the church to any one who donates a large sum to the work is the root evil of the whole matter. And about every one who has publicly discussed the subject has recognized this obligation, the question being as to whom or to what class of givers the church can afford to be obliged.
Without exception, there is not a denomination of Christians, or a Christian association of any kind, that has not in some way lauded the big givers, thereby acknowledging an obligation. There is not a denomination that has not, in some way, at some time, held up the large donations of the well-to-do as incentives to the poor to give more. It has always been a rare exception when it was not aimed to head a subscription or pledge paper with the larger sums. It has ever been that the common people were urged to give, and to give more, as a matter of duty, without an intimation of obligation to the givers; but the moment a wealthy man adds a large sum, altho small in comparison, the "bouquets" are thrown. It is this very thing that often discourages poor people from giving what they can, yet every one knows that it is the aggregate of small donations by the poor, given in a spirit of self-denial, that swells the treasury of the Christian cause.
This voluntary recognition of obligation to large donors has encouraged rich men, and men seeking popular influence, to give largely to professedly Christian enterprises. The church has, altho unwittingly, encouraged the hope that money will buy Christian recognition and Christian support, and that it will also act as a bar to adverse criticism of methods. In other words, the idea has been encouraged that large donations would work out the practical indulgence of questionable ways. This has been especially demonstrated in the illicit intercourse of the liquor traffic with the church. The Rockefeller and kindred examples are simply the climax of acknowledging a false obligation to human donors to the church treasury.
If the cause is simply the cause of the church members, then they may acknowledge obligation to whomsoever is willing to help them; but if it be God's cause, He is not under obligation to any one. All that is given by rich or poor is but a return of His own; and we have no right to give the glory to any human being. Were it not for the folly of giving praise to men for their gifts toward religious work, there would be no Rockefeller incidents to discuss. If any class are to receive commendation for their donations, it is the "poor-widow" class, who, in their poverty, make real sacrifice. Christ has set us an example in this. G.
SUNDAY ENFORCEMENT NEWS AND COMMENT.
[From our correspondent at Washington, D. C.]
THREE of the field workers of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League spent Sunday, March 12, in Crawfordsville, Ind., evidently in the interests of Sunday-closing by law. At a mass-meeting in the afternoon one of them said that "unquestionably some young men from Christian homes were at that hour in saloons in Crawfordsville." The mayor was present, and, at the close of the meeting, he came forward and corrected the speaker. He said that the saloons were closed in Crawfordsville on Sunday, and at all hours that the law required. Further inquiry proved the truth of this claim. The mayor said that since September there had been only three arrests for Sunday-law violation. The mayor was elected with the understanding that the laws would be enforced, and he is keeping his word. Some one writing concerning this incident to the Indianapolis News, says that "a crusade of law enforcement [meaning, of course, Sunday-law enforcement] is the crying need of the state of Indiana at the present time."
A despatch from Lansing, Mich., under date of March 30, read: "Senator Baird's Sunday-closing bill passed the senate to-day. It is of special interest to grocers, butchers, and keepers of small stores generally. It provides that all shall close on Sundays, and a fine of $25, or ninety days' imprisonment, is carried. Senator Sheldon tried to get the bill amended so as to make cigar stores, pool-rooms, baseball grounds, and theaters subject to its provisions, but the senate refused to support his amendment. The bill was backed by the Retail Merchants' Association of the state." The passage of such a measure as this has been sought for some time by the organized butchers of the state, especially the journeymen. The principal object of the butchers was Sunday-closing in their line, but it seems that7they have united with the grocers, and the bill applies to grocery stores as well as meat shops.
It was recently reported from Pittsburg, Pa., that "the Sabbatarian societies, which made so much trouble for the owners of parks last summer, have unmasked their plans, which are to close all the amusement parks on the first day of the week during the coming summer. Woe betide, they say, the manager who attempts any Sunday business this year. Every section of the code of blue laws passed by William Penn will be enforced to the letter, the church people say. Already they have the lid down on everything except the soda fountains and the parks." But, "in spite of the threats of the Sunday people," preparations are being made by its owner for the operation of Kennywood Park, which figured quite prominently in the Sunday-enforcement crusade of the Sunday Observance Association last summer, and which was finally closed up entirely on Sundays. But most of the park operators "are just holding back, awaiting developments."
In an address on "Sabbath Observance," before the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference, in session at Berwick recently, "Rev. T. T. Mutchler, of Philadelphia, declared that Pennsylvania Germans have an organization, with a voting population of 170,000, pledged to repeal every law upon the statute books safeguarding the sanctity of the Sabbath." More than 5,000,000 men, he stated, by their ordinary toil desecrate each sabbath as it comes around." If he is correct concerning the Pennsylvania Germans, they are, at least in one respect, doing their duty as American citizens; for it is the duty of every American citizen to do what he can for the repeal of "every law upon the statute books safeguarding the sanctity of the Sabbath." Every such law is in plain and flagrant violation of the essential and fundamental principles of Americanism, and in most states is in violation of the organic law of the commonwealth. It is high time that people were pledging themselves to the repeal of these un-American and unconstitutional statutes.
Recently, on the strength of the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting the validity of provincial Sunday observance legislation, a Sunday street-car service was inaugurated at Port Arthur. The Port Arthur street-car lines run also through the adjacent municipality of Fort William, and there arose some question as to whether the running of the cars on Sunday was agreeable to the people and municipality of Fort William. So on March 18, after one or two Sundays of the new order of things, a meeting of the Port Arthur railway board was held, and it was decided that it is not the wish of the corporation of Port Arthur to antagonize the sister municipality, and they therefore decided to discontinue the Sunday service, altho the board realized that the recent decision of the Supreme Court gave them the right to operate their cars on Sunday through Fort William, as well as in Port Arthur. "It was decided that, if the people of Fort William wanted the service, they would have to come to Port Arthur and request the board to operate the cars, otherwise the cars will run only to the boundary line." It is said that the operation of the cars through Fort William certainly proved of great benefit to the working classes, and it is not believed it will be long before the Fort William council will ask that the service be resumed.
The Pittsburg Leader says: "Special County Detective Robinson and his force of men will put a stop to sports, gambling, and carousing on Sundays in outlying districts this spring."
Replying to the recent request of Mayor McClellan, of New York, that he "endeavor to so systematize the work of his department as to do away with street cleaning on Sunday," which request was made in response to "protests from organizations and from the street-cleaners," Street Commissioner Woodbury says: "There are three Sundays in each week observed in this city. The Syrians observe Friday as their Sabbath, the Hebrews Saturday, and the Christians Sunday. We can not stop cleaning the streets three days in every seven. The sweepers and drivers in the department work only half a day every other Sunday. That much work is necessary in order to keep the streets clean." The street-cleaning commissioner recognizes that if the religious holy day of one class of citizens is to be recognized and observed, then in consistency and justice to other classes, the city must show an equal regard for their holy days.
It was reported from Elyria, Ohio, on April 4, that "the grand jury now in session will investigate the case of some young men who participated in a game of baseball last Sunday. In open defiance of Prosecutor Stroup's order, the young men played ball."
A Sunday-closing law went into effect March 26, at Grandview, Ind. Everything excepting restaurants was included in the town council's order.
The Standard, of Albert Lea, Minn., says that petitions are being circulated against golf-playing on Sunday, and against the sale of lemonade on the Chautauqua grounds on that day.
AN IMPRACTICABLE SUGGESTION.
By Editor
UNDER the heading "Adventists Might Keep Open Sunday," the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says:
A novel way of evading the Sunday-closing law is suggested by Senator Buel L. Matthews, of Clayton, who says all the saloon-keepers have to do is to join the Seventh-day Adventists, and close their places on Saturday. The supreme court has held that a man can not be punished for working on Sunday, if the observance of some other day in the week is a matter of religious belief with him.
Some years ago, while Senator Matthews was prosecuting attorney of Gasconade County, Mo., some of the church people there had a number of Seventh-day Adventists arrested for working on the Sabbath. It was shown that they observed Saturday by resting, and the supreme court decided that they could not be punished.
While some of the saloon-keepers would hate to give up Saturday's trade, they could more than make up the difference on Sunday, if their competitors were forced to remain closed.
This was probably intended as a joke, yet it is so connected with actual occurrence that some people might think it really possible. The logic of the suggestion is self-stultifying. The advice is to saloon-keepers in general. And, if all in the city were to adopt it, there would be no "competitors forced to close." There are forty reasons why the suggestion to saloon-keepers to join the Seventh-day Adventist Church, for the purpose stated, is impracticable; the first reason, however, will cover the ground in the main. Reason No. 1 is, that no saloon-keeper could join the Seventh-day Adventist Church without giving evidence of conversion, and giving up the business altogether.
The senator who gave the aforementioned counsel is no doubt aware that men in that nefarious business do hold membership in some of the Sunday-keeping churches, and, from this fact, was probably under the impression that they could also become members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. We have taken this much notice of the foregoing news item in order to disabuse any minds so misled.
Foreign, Labor, and Railroad News
Premier Balfour, of England, made a significant speech in the House of Commons on May 11, in which he dwelt upon the possibility of a clash between England and Russia on the Indian frontier. He stated that Great Britain’s efforts to prevent, by diplomacy, the expansion of Russia toward the Indian frontier had met with failure, and that Russia’s continued advancement in that direction was cause for alarm. In view of this, England must be prepared to defend the Indian frontier. He further stated that the changes in the sea power of other nations necessitated a redistribution of the army and navy to provide for colonial defense.
President Roosevelt’s position on the matter of the Chicago strike was a surprise to the strike leaders. In a conference with them, he told the leaders plainly that the strikers must obey the law, and that in every effort of the city’s mayor to maintain order he (the mayor) would have his hearty support. The union men then petitioned the mayor to prevent the police riding on the wagons with the non-union teamsters. This the mayor refused to do. It is now believed that the strike is broken, altho individual acts of violence against non-union men are still reported.
A disastrous collision between a passenger and express train occurred in the southern part of Harrisburg, Pa., on May 11. A car of dynamite was set off by the collision, and added greatly to the numbers of the dead and injured. Railroad officials state that 19 were killed outright, and that more than 100 were injured. The wreckage caught fire, and some of the injured were burned to death before they could be rescued.
A recent speech of the German emperor is said to have aroused much resentment in both Japan and Russia. He is reported to have stated to his officers that the cause for the defeat of the Russians at Mukden was the immorality and drunkenness of the Russians. He further stated that German soldiers might soon be called upon to check the extension of the Japanese power.
A terrific tornado, on the night of May 11, visited the town of Snyder, Okla., and completely demolished the town, which has a population of 1,000. The number of the killed exceed 100, and 150 persons were injured, 40 seriously. Wreckage of homes was carried 17 miles, and the site of the village presented the appearance of plowed ground.
The treaty between China and the United States, by the provisions of which Chinese laborers were excluded from this country having expired some time ago, the Chinese minister is preparing to bring action against the United States to recover damages in the cases of those who have been excluded since the expiration of the treaty.
The rebellion in Arabia against the authority of the Sultan of Turkey is beyond the control of the Turkish forces in Yemen Province. The city of Sanaa has been captured by them, with 30 cannons, 20,000 rifles, and much ammunition. Re-enforcements of Albanians are being hurried to the disaffected province.
California has been practically free from cyclones; but on April 20 a genuine cyclone, or tornado, swept through the country in the vicinity of Visalia, Cal., doing considerable damage to property. Persons living in that vicinity succeeded in getting out of the path of the storm, and so escaped with their lives.
A tornado swept through the residence portion of Marquette, Kan., on the night of May 8, killing 29 persons, and injuring 44. In several cases entire families were killed.
Fifty persons are reported to have been buried by a landslide at Bender Abbas, Persia, as a result of an earthquake shock which split off the side of a mountain.
Yellow fever has broken out in the Panama Canal zone, and a considerable number of the clerical force of the canal constructors are leaving.
A conflict is said to have occurred on the Persian frontier between Persian and Russian soldiers, in which 100 of the latter were killed.
Eight battle-ships and 20 fast cruisers are to be built for the Russian Government by American ship-builders.
WOULD RESTORE THE INQUISITION.
By Uriah Smith
WHAT we might expect at the hands of Rome, were she in power to-day, is plainly stated in the following excerpt from the Libre Parole, a Jesuit and anti-Jewish journal of Paris:
The anti-Semites do not blame the Inquisition. . . . They are convinced it assured the grandeur and independence of Spain; and their first care, if they were in power, would be to establish a tribunal which would be, it is true, exclusively laic [carried on by the laity], but which would much resemble the Spanish Inquisition.
Which is to say, they would have an Inquisition carried on by the laity, in order to relieve the church of the charge of burning and torturing heretics. At the same time, that organization would be founded on papal principles, and would be doing the bidding of the church. It is upon this very ground that the Catholic Church disavows responsibility for the death of the millions of Christians who sealed their faith with their blood during the Dark Ages. In the light of such facts as these, the todying of professed Protestants to that institution is unexplainable. Rome’s purpose, expressed by the pope himself, is to do for the United States what he has done for the countries over which the Catholic Church has held sway—Spain, South America, Central America, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. These names are synonymous with stagnation in almost all lines of material or real spiritual progress; and in such countries religious liberty is hardly known. The present attitude of professed Protestantism in this matter portends a steady growth of Catholic power and influence in these United States. It indicates an apathy as dangerous as it is deceptive, and portends a melting away of barriers which will eventually throw the formal churches of Protestantism into the arms of Rome. This is not the dream of an alarmist. It is what is coming—coming with a swift and powerful current, and coming soon.
S.
LITERARY NOTICES.
By Editor
“The Joy Bells of Canaan: Burning Bush Songs No. 2.” Muslin or manila covers; 127 pp; price 20 and 15 cents. Published by The Burning Bush, 999 Park Ave., Chicago, Ill.
This collection of hymns contains a number of the ringing Gospel melodies of the day and a few of the old familiar tunes that are never worn out; but many of the others are poor. The poetry of those that have been altered to harmonize with a certain belief has been badly handled in the rearrangement. Some of the more familiar tunes have been “arranged,” and not helped in the “arrangement.” The book also contains a considerable number of new songs. In these, while the music is passable, the verses are far below the standard in poetical merit. What reason or poetry or worship is there in such as this:
“Each saint is a priest and has bells about his feet;
Rich fruit intermingles and makes their ring most sweet.
The holy and the holiest are open now to all,
But we still need the bells, and the fruit prevents a fall.”
Or compare the following couplet with one of the psalms of David:
“One night I went to meeting to hear them sing and shout,
And there I got salvation and found the secret out.”
Or think of singing such nonsense as the following and calling it one of the Joy Bells of Canaan, offering it as a hymn of praise to our Lord:
“Then this prophet forth was sent, that old Nineveh might repent;
But instead of that to Tarshish he set sail.
O, the winds began to blow; overboard did Jonah go,
And he found a mercy-seat inside the whale.”
We protest that God is not honored in any such composition as the above, nor are hungry souls fed or drawn to Christ. If writers of music were as choice of the words they set to music as they are of complying with the laws of musical composition, the Lord would be more honored in the songs heard in the house of worship.
REMITTING AND RETAINING SINS.
By Mrs. E. G. White
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.
"WHOSE soever sins ye remit," said Christ, "they are remitted; . . . and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." Christ here gives no liberty for any man to pass judgment upon others. In the Sermon on the Mount He forbade this. It is the prerogative of God. But on the church, in its organized capacity, He places a responsibility for the individual members. Toward those who fall into sin, the church has a duty, to warn, to instruct, and, if possible, to restore.
"Reprove, rebuke, exhort," the Lord says, "with all long-suffering and doctrine." 2 Tim. 4:2. Deal faithfully with wrong-doing. Warn every soul that is in danger. Leave none to deceive themselves. Call sin by its right name. Declare what God has said in regard to lying, Sabbath-breaking, stealing, idolatry, and every other evil. "They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Gal. 5:21.
If they persist in sin, the judgment you have declared from God's Word, is pronounced upon them in heaven. In choosing to sin, they disown Christ; the church must show that she does not sanction their deeds, or she herself dishonors her Lord. She must say about sin what God says about it. She must deal with it as God directs, and her action is ratified in heaven. He who despises the authority of the church, despises the authority of Christ Himself.
But there is a brighter side to the picture. "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted." Let this thought be kept uppermost. In labor for the erring, let every eye be directed to Christ. Let the shepherds have a tender care for the flock of the Lord's pasture. Let them speak to the erring of the forgiving mercy of the Saviour. Let them encourage the sinner to repent, and believe in Him who can pardon. Let them declare, on the authority of God's Word, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9. All who repent have the assurance, "He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." Micah 7:19.
Let the repentance of the sinner be accepted by the church with grateful hearts. Let the repenting one be led out from the darkness of unbelief, into the light of faith and righteousness. Let his trembling hand be placed in the loving hand of Jesus. Such a remission is ratified in heaven.
Only in this sense has the church power to absolve the sinner. Remission of sins can be obtained only through the merits of Christ. To no man, to no body of men, is given power to free the soul from guilt. Christ charged His disciples to preach the remission of sins in His name among all nations; but they themselves were not empowered to remove one stain of sin. The name of Jesus is the only "name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12.
—The Desire of Ages, pp. 805, 806.
LESSONS FROM ELIJAH'S EXPERIENCE.
By H. A. St. John
BY H. A. ST. JOHN.
AFTER the wonderful triumph of truth on Mount Carmel, Jezebel refused faith, became angry, and threatened the life of the prophet, Elijah ran in the opposite direction from Carmel, the scene of his late triumph. Elijah was evidently very much afraid. A son of Jehoshaphat, the good king of Judea, had married a daughter of Jezebel, hence Elijah did not feel altogether secure in Judea, and so, still fearing for his life, Elijah passed on to the south.
He lay down under a juniper tree, and prayed that he might die. This was the man whose prayers shut heaven, that it rained not for three years and six months. And at the end of that time he prayed, and the heavens gave rain. But the Lord did not answer his prayer under the juniper tree. He had something in store for His servant far better than death. No doubt a feeling of failure came over the prophet. See 1 Kings 19:10. And he had too much thought about himself. It was a case of increasing fear, instead of increasing faith. And then there was the reaction from a great strain—bodily fatigue, hunger, thirst, and loneliness.
Now, behold God's treatment of His servant: First, He lets the tired prophet sleep; sends him a ministering angel; provides refreshment; then lets him have further rest. Then God provides for his future emergencies for a period of forty days. He was furnished with peculiar opportunity for communing with God. See verse 8. By the wind, earthquake, fire, and still, small voice, Elijah might learn lessons as to the true method of service, and the purpose of his Maker.
Then God sent him back to duty. He provided the prophet with special help and comradeship. See verses 19-21. So he was brought to cherish large, true thoughts of his loving, providing, and patient heavenly Father. And this prophet, the grandest and most remarkable character that Israel ever produced, is the prototype of the remnant church in the last days. Elijah's rare, sudden, and brief appearances, his undaunted courage, and fiery zeal, the brilliancy of his triumphs, the pathos of his despondency, and the glory of his departure, with the calm beauty of his reappearance on the Mount of Transfiguration, throw such a halo of brightness around him and the record of his life as is equaled by none of his compeers in sacred history.
JONAH.
By F. D. Starr
BY F. D. STARR.
THIS prophet is doubtless the most widely-known of any of the Old Testament prophets. Even those who are very ignorant concerning Scripture history in general, seem to know about Jonah and his strange experience; and usually their knowledge is of a negative character—that is, they say they do not believe the story. People speak of the account of Jonah and the whale as being an Old Testament myth, too absurd to believe while at the same time, they profess to believe New Testament records. They seem to suppose that they can believe the one, and disbelieve the other. It will be well for us to listen to the words of our Saviour on that point, for He makes reference to the prophet Jonah: "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." Did Jesus pass through the three days' experience to which He refers? —All admit that He did; the plan of salvation rests upon that important event. If Jesus did not suffer and die and rise again the third day, there is no salvation for a soul of us. But His experience was no more real than was Jonah's. He says, "Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly." So the event itself is confirmed by our Lord's statement. And, moreover, He says that His own experience was equally true with that of Jonah, and vice versa. Jonah's was equally true with His. The one is as the other. So if Jonah was not in the whale's belly, then Christ did not pass through the three days' experience attributed to Him, and in that case the plan of salvation would be a failure. It is a serious matter to meddle with the pillars of the faith once delivered to the saints, by way of questioning their veracity. "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3.
It will be seen by the marginal dates, that the book of Jonah is the oldest of any of the prophetic books. Jonah's experience is set down for the year B. C. 862, so it seems it must have been contemporary with the latter part of Elisha's life. It is very beneficial to study the dates of the lives and productions of the prophets, as well as of other Scripture writers. Their chronological order does not always correspond with the order of succession in which we find them in the printed copies of the Bible. For instance, the book of Daniel, tho coming before the book of Jonah, was written three centuries after the book of Jonah. Daniel was in the lion's den, 325 years after Jonah was in the whale's belly. As an illustration of the mistakes that might be made by lack of information as to dates, we will cite an instance that occurred a few years ago: A popular clergyman presented the case of Jonah as being9interviewed, both before and after his miraculous experience, concerning his belief in certain supernatural events, such as the Flood, the dividing of the Red Sea, etc., and among these was the account of Daniel in the lion's den. Before his own miraculous deliverance, Jonah expressed doubts as to the truthfulness of these accounts of the Flood, etc.; he did not know whether Daniel was ever in the lion's den or not. But after being in the whale's belly, Jonah had all his doubts removed. He knew that these accounts were all true. He had no doubt whatever that Daniel came forth unharmed from the lion's den. The point in the sermon, that one's own personal experience confirms his belief in like experiences that have come to others, was a good point, but it will be seen that his discourse was quite faulty in the matter of dates, as Daniel was not in the lion's den till some three centuries after Jonah's time, so the preacher's suppositions could never have been matters of fact, in that case. None of the readers of this article would wish to make similar mistakes, and, to avoid doing so, we must necessarily become acquainted with Scripture chronology.
The most astonishing thing in the life of Jonah seems to be his displeasure at the sparing of the city of Nineveh from destruction. This comes nearer being an incredible thing than his living three days in the whale's belly. But, strange as it was, it is a correct account of depraved human nature, and our own dispositions may not be so utterly unlike his as we may think they are. It becomes us to examine ourselves to see if we have the true missionary spirit that he lacked. We hope Jonah was more thoroughly converted after this sad demonstration of selfishness. Many of us need to be more thoroughly converted to the missionary work, too.
Reference is made to the prophet Jonah in 2 Kings 14:25, by which we see that he is recognized by another sacred historian.
Jonah knew the true character of God better than many of God's representatives seem to know Him now. He says: "I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil." Have we learned that by our own experience? Let us not pass by this book without learning this lesson.
THE TRUTH.
By Eliza H. Morton
BY ELIZA H. MORTON.
We hold to-day some glittering toy
For which we've toiled,
And see it tarnish in our hands,
Its beauty spoiled.
We blow bright bubbles in the air
To disappear;
The things we prize may be all gone
Another year.
We gather gold like shining shells—
And what avail?
The thieves may snatch the treasure bright,
The banks may fail.
We clasp in close and fond embrace
The true and brave,
And lavish love on forms that drop
Into the grave.
Earth-lights are but as tapers dim
That gleam to fade,
A time will come when friendly hands
Can give no aid.
O life so transitory, short,
So fleeting, vain,
We seek to know the mystery
Beyond thy pain.
And we may know, for 'tis revealed,
A purpose grand,—
Salvation for the souls that will
In all the land.
Despite the dreamer and his dream,
Some hearts are stirred,
And find the truth for which they yearn
In God's own Word.
