Earlier text: Pandita Ramabai—A Heroine of the HindusPandita Ramabai and Christian Science
By Editor
In his article on Christian Science on page four of this paper, it will be observed that G. D. Ballou concludes with a very striking and important quotation from Pandita Ramabai. We are glad to be able in our Missions department on page 12 to give a good description of this remarkable woman and her work for the "child-widows" of India. Both of these articles are of unusual interest and they will be read with great profit. An article on Daniel, "God the Ruler," was crowded out this week. It will be published next week. Self-Denial Builds Character
It is good to know that there are so many young men in the United States who are willing to deny themselves for the sake of something better. It is said that out of 12,366 students in the four largest colleges there are 3,123 who are working their way thru school while they study; more than one-third of the students at Harvard, and the same proportion at Yale and Pennsylvania, and more than one-fourth at Princeton work their way thru college. Such young men will amount to something. The young man who depends on the efforts of others, spends money, and is unwilling to deny himself, can in the very nature of the case never make the strong character of one who is willing to sacrifice the better for the best. It may be stated as axiomatic that there is no true character building apart from self-denial. It is such items as this which stir up the feeling in the hearts of many of the poor: They read that it is fashionable in France to put gold bracelets set with jewels on the forelegs of poodles, when a common thing is a collar costing $100, and jeweled collars running up to $500, while the bracelets cost from $10.00 to $70.00 each. It recalls the question of the Master, "How much then is a man better than a sheep?" and we might substitute beast and take in the whole animal creation. The Third Angel’s Message
Our Bible-reading next week will be the third part of the great message of Rev. 14: 6-14. What a warning it is! Surely God did not give it to us and leave us in ignorance of what it means. What is the "beast"? What is its image? What is the meaning of its worship? Schedule for Week Ending Feb. 15, 1908.
Sunday February 9 Lev. 1, 2 Psalm 40
Monday " 10 " 3, 4 " 41
Tuesday " 11 " 5, 6 " 42
Wednesday " 12 " 7, 8 " 43
Thursday " 13 " 9, 10 " 44
Friday " 14 " 11, 12 " 45
Sabbath " 15 " 13-15 " 46 Lessons from Leviticus and Psalms
Chapters 1 to 7 inclusive contain instructions regarding the various offerings, sacrifices, oblations, and the laws regulating them. We have not space here to enter into detailed explanation of these services. We may not be able to understand in these times all the lessons they were designed to teach; but we may understand that sin was hateful in the sight of God; that those sacrifices and offerings were object-lessons to show this, and to reveal how it might be put away. Of course, the blood of these offerings could not take away sin; but they all pointed to the Lamb of God and His work in various phases by which the souls could be justified and God remain just. Chapters 8 and 9 are the record of the consecration of the priests. Chapter 10 contains a striking object-lesson as to the difference between the holy and the common, and the necessity of God's servants being clear-headed, temperate men. God is as particular now as then. Chapter 11 presents to us instruction regarding clean and unclean animals. This rests on no arbitrary decision. God pronounces unclean those in the nature of things unclean, and vice versa. But even the clean beasts were not the best of food. God's preferred food for Israel was the manna. Chapters 12 to 15 contain laws regulating uncleanness and leprosy, a horrible disease, a fitting type of sin. Psalms 40 to 46 speak or sing themselves into the experience of every soul. Forty is especially prophetic of Christ, who stood in our behalf, and is therefore for us. Psalm 45 is prophetic of the church; and the last psalm of the week looks forward to the time when the present regime of earth is over, beyond earth's shaking and trouble, to the better land.