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LESSON VIII.—THE JUDGMENT.

(Study for Sabbath, February 20.)

QUESTIONS.

1. REPEAT Acts 17:31. What does this text say has been appointed?

2. In the days of the apostles was this event past, present, or future? Acts 24:25.

3. What work have we found to be synonymous with the judgment?—The cleansing of the sanctuary.

4. Repeat Dan. 8:14. When did the angel tell Daniel that event would begin?

5. When did the 2,300 days end?

6. Since A. D. 1844, then, what has been the message of "present truth"? Rev. 14:7. See also Dan. 7:9, 10.

7. Repeat Ps. 9:7, 8. For what has God prepared His throne? Whom does this text say will be judged?

8. To whom has the Father committed the work of judgment? John 5:22. Why? Verse 27.

9. Repeat 2 Cor. 5:10. How many of us will be brought into the judgment? What reward will each one receive?

10. Repeat Rom. 14:10-13. What questions does the apostle ask? What reason is given why we should not judge one another? To whom must every knee bow, and tongue confess? Of whom will each one be called to give account? In view of this, what should we not do any more?

11. Study 2 Peter 2:4, 9. Who besides men are reserved to judgment? See also Jude 6.

12. Repeat Eccl. 3:17. Will the judgment occupy time?

13. Repeat 1 Cor. 4:5. What are those doing who judge one another now? When will be the time for judgment? Note. What will then be brought to light? What will every man then have?

14. Repeat 2 Tim. 4:1. When does this text say the living and the dead will be judged?

15. Repeat Rev. 11:18. How many events are here associated with the judgment?

16. What did Christ command His followers to preach unto the people? Acts 10:41, 42.

17. According to what will men be judged? Rom. 2:16.

18. Repeat Eccl. 12:13, 14. What is the conclusion of the whole matter? What is declared to be the whole duty of man? What will God bring into judgment?

NOTE.

God "hath committed all judgment unto the Son." He has also "appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained." Therefore he who judges another has climbed up into the seat of God, thus saying that he is God. That is nothing short of the Papacy, the man of sin. He not only assumes the prerogatives of God, but is meting out judgment before the time. "Let us not therefore judge one another any more."

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A HELP

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To Sunday-School Students

You will find helpful suggestions in almost every lesson for the next six months in the

"Desire of Ages"

The following is a selection from its comments on the lesson text for February 21:—

"The spies dared not answer Christ in the presence of the multitude, for fear of involving themselves in difficulty. They knew that He had spoken the truth. Rather than violate their traditions they would leave a man to suffer, while they would relieve a brute, because of the loss to the owner if it were neglected. Thus greater care was shown for a dumb animal than for man, who is made in the image of God. This illustrates the workings of all false religions. They originate in man's desire to exalt himself above God, but they result in degrading man below the brute. Every religion that wars against the sovereignty of God defrauds man of the glory which was his at the creation, and which is to be restored to him in Christ. Every false religion teaches its adherents to be careless of human needs, sufferings, and rights. The gospel places a high value upon humanity as the purchase of the blood of Christ, and it teaches a tender regard for the wants and woes of man. The Lord says, 'I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.'"

"When Jesus turned upon the Pharisees with the question whether it was lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill, He confronted them with their own wicked purposes. They were hunting His life with bitter hatred, while He was saving life, and bringing happiness to multitudes. Was it better to slay upon the Sabbath, as they were planning to do, than to heal the afflicted, as He had done? Was it more righteous to have murder in the heart upon God's holy day, than love to all men, which finds expression in deeds of mercy?"

"In the healing of the withered hand, Jesus condemned the custom of the Jews, and left the fourth commandment standing as God had given it. 'It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days,' He declared. By sweeping away the senseless restrictions of the Jews, Christ honored the Sabbath, while those who complained of Him were dishonoring God's holy day."

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MODERN MYSTERIES

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Their Moral Aspect

We have just published a booklet with the above title. "The purpose of this booklet is to note some of the moral bearings of the modern occult," says the author in his opening sentence.

He then speaks of the rights of curiosity, and gives the standard by which these rights should be limited.

The second chapter takes up Hypnotism, discusses the principles involved, and to what they inevitably lead. It is a striking and original chapter.

The title of the third chapter is Natural Law Versus Satanic Control.

Chapter four treats on Clairvoyance, and gives the characteristics of the true and false manifestations of supernatural sight.

Telepathy, or Mind Reading, is the title of another chapter, in which the question is asked and answered, "Can an evil spirit tell what is in the mind?"

Theosophy, or Aristocratic Spiritism, is the title of the seventh chapter; and the New Thought, of the eighth.

Chapter nine treats on Pantheism, giving its root meaning and the principles upon which is founded.

Taken as a whole, this is one of the most important works on the great subject of the supernatural ever published. It will richly repay the most careful reading.

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Not Study or Work Which Kills

Not Study or Work Which Kills.—President Schurman, of Cornell University, recently said that eleven hours of daily study are about right for the student. Some there are who disagree with this; but the great medical authority, Dr. Geo. F. Shrady, declares that there is "no such thing as overstudy." Worry, hysteria, physical ailment, improper conditions, intemperance, tobacco-using, indulgence of the lower man, are probably almost wholly responsible for results charged to overstudy. All argue that set study hours should be short for children; but the little child with eager mind puts in usually more than eleven hours of work. The real secret of enduring hard work is enjoying hard work. Laziness kills more than work. That well-known scholar, the late Max Muller, tells us that when he was a student, says the New York World, "he went without sleep one night, took three hours the next, slept as long as he could the third, and on the fourth night began over again with a vigil. He long retained his mental freshness because he enjoyed the work. The extreme age to which statesmen, artists, and authors of the highest rank have often attained would seem to show that very hard and long-continued work which one enjoys is not injurious, but the reverse. Men, like steel tools, rust out quicker than they wear out."

Prosperous Times

By Editor

Prosperous Times.—According to investigations by Hon. Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, the average cost of the average family living was 16.1 per cent higher in 1902 than in 1896. The average income for an average family of 5.31 persons was $827.19, while the average expenditure was $768.54, of which $326.90 went for food. This is $61.59 each a year, or a daily average of 17 cents to a person, surely not a sumptuous living. The average wage has not correspondingly increased.

Our thanks are due Congressman Walter P. Brownlow, of Tennessee, for a copy of his bill and other documents, for the improvement of county roads. As the National Government has appropriated money for river and harbor improvement, for pensions, for irrigation purposes, for public buildings in cities, Congressman Brownlow proposes that the Federal Congress shall appropriate $24,000,000 as national aid for the building of wagon roads, to be divided according to the population of the various States, no State to receive less than $250,000. It is claimed, and the claim seems true, that the distribution of this sum would be much more equitable than the $32,500,000 a year under the Rivers and Harbors Bill. Certainly the wise use of such a sum would greatly help the farmer, and facilitate the free rural delivery of mail. It is designed to stimulate State effort; for each State receiving is to add an equal amount. It is certainly a good thing. Under the proposed act California would receive $380,000; New York, $2,108,000. The latter is now expending over $4,000,000 a year.

A NEW SERIES OF ARTICLES ON CAPITAL AND LABOR.

By Editor

FROM the pen of Prof. G. W. Rine, who has for years been a student of the subject, we shall soon present the following articles under the general heading:—

THE INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN THE LIGHT OF REVELATION.

I. Work a Duty and a Blessing; II. Wealth and the Obligations It Imposes; III. The Demon of Avarice; IV. Monopoly, Its Nature and History; V. Present-Day Monopoly; VI. Phenomenal Increase of Wealth in the End of the Age; VII. Congestion of Wealth versus Diffusion of Knowledge; VIII. Prevalence and Duration of Poverty; IX. "Lovers of Pleasures;" X. Lawlessness of Labor; XI. What Will the Harvest Be? XII. How the Problem Will Be Solved; XIII. "They Shall Not Build and Another Inhabit."

The above are not to be considered as exact titles, but as indicating the general scope of the subject.

We know that these will be intensely interesting. The paper for this period of time ought to receive a large number of short term subscriptions. We shall endeavor to announce when the series will begin in our next.

The Spirit of God and His Son

If all men have the Spirit of God, how is it that to believers has God "sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts"?

Face to Face With God

Sometimes men commit sins, do dishonest acts, cheat their fellow-men, and it is not found out. Such a course may be followed for a lifetime, and man may not discover it. But sometime, in the judgment, the sinning, dishonest soul will stand face to face with God. Every act, the sinner will consciously know, stands out clear before His discerning eye. Identified with sin the sinner will then be; and it is then forever too late to remedy one defect. O, the time to correct each act, to put away each sin, is to stand face to face with God now, yield the sin, and let the blood of Christ wash it all away.

The Death of Joseph W. Collie

By Editor

We regret to chronicle the death of Joseph W. Collie, a one-time worker in this office, and a good, true friend always of this journal, and, at the time of his death, a special correspondent of the SIGNS in the Rocky Mountain field. He was ever an active, energetic worker, all life and action. A year ago he was president of Ontario Conference, but was forced to leave that field of labor, and went to Colorado, hoping to obtain help. There seemed at first improvement, and it pained and surprised us to learn of his death. We are doubly sad in the loss of a brother and friend, and in the greater loss to the cause of God. Following upon the death of Brethren N. H. Druillard, at Berrien Springs, Mich., and J. H. Watson, in South Africa, the blow falls all the more keenly. “God buries His workmen, but carries on His work.” And so we close ranks, and press forward with renewed courage and zeal.

The "Moral" Theater

The "Moral" Theater.—A secular paper, in referring to a recent play in which a burglar acts a prominent part, caustically and ironically remarks: "The theater is a great moral engine, even when it pulverizes the sixth and seventh commandments; but might it not be well for it to leave us at least the eighth? There have been some doubts about the elevating influence of a burglar hero, even in cold type; but as a matinee girl's ideal on the stage there would seem to be no room for doubt at all." There is probably no agency, unless it be the higher critic's pulpit, which is so demoralizing the moral sense of the people to-day as is the theater. What wonder that the Word of God is considered antiquated, the Sabbath law a dead letter, marriage a mere matter of pleasure, and business honor a matter of policy!

Tobacco

By Editor

Tobacco.—Dr. N. S. Davis, the father of the "American Medical Association," makes a strong plea against tobacco-using, and presses it home with strong reasons, in the Life Boat for February. He tells us that from $800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 worth of tobacco is used yearly in this country, which means an average of from $10 to $12.50 a year for every man, woman, and child. Think of it, a million times worse than wasted; a billion-dollar conflagration, with nerves and blood and heart and health and consciences consumed, and all a total loss. The fire in the Iroquois Theater, terrible as it was, is hardly a circumstance compared with the awful tobacco fire constantly going on. Dr. Davis did not say all this, but he said much else of worth. This entire number of the Life Boat is on tobacco, and is excellent. Price 5 cents. Address, 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, Ill.

Sunday in History

By Editor

'Sunday in History.'—When attention is called to the fact that there is no authority in the Word of God for observing Sunday as the Sabbath, the question naturally arises, How did the practise originate? or, By what authority is Sunday observed as a Sabbath instead of the Lord's day—the day designated in the commandment of God? For a brief but comprehensive answer to these queries, we commend the reader to a pamphlet entitled 'Sunday in History,' by C. H. Edwards. It gives just the information that the earnest seeker after truth naturally desires, being a compilation of important historical facts. As there is no Bible authority for the alleged change of the Sabbath, the causes leading to the change of practise must be learned from history. Send for a copy of this valuable work. For sale at this office; 232 pages; price, 30 cents.

The City of Philanthropy

By Editor

The City of Philanthropy.—A letter comes to us from A. G. Lee, Denton, Texas, stating that "an association of philanthropists from different parts of the world is being formed for the purpose of buying a town site covering the geographical center of the United States of America (in Kansas), name the place Philanthropy, and found two world philanthropic institutions (the International Political Specialists' School and the World's Diasthetic Institute) there." Now all the good which can come from this we shall rejoice in, but the center of the United States will be no more help to an enterprise of this kind than the center of the earth, and the particular spot would help no more than a place in Timbuctoo. Why not try Chicago or New York? There is opportunity for practise in those places.

The Law and a Prophetic Chart.

By Editor

We have received from the Southern Missionary Society, Nashville, Tenn., copies of "The Law of God" and a "Prophetic Chart." The law is neatly printed in large type, on a sheet about 18x24 inches, with a border in green and red, and various scriptures setting forth its perpetuity and glory, are printed in the margin. We are sorry that Ex. 20:2 is omitted. It is a part of the law. The prophetic chart is 11½ x 19½ inches, containing various prophetic symbols in Daniel and the Revelation, with explanations in the margin. They can be obtained as above.

Faith, Life, and Trial

“Faith makes the Christian. Life proves the Christian. Trial tests the Christian.”

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