p. 399 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 25. (6/19/1900)

Earlier text: NEBRASKA

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK R’Y

E. W. Meddaugh and Henry B. Joy, Receivers.

CHICAGO & GRAND TRUNK R’Y.

Trains arrive and leave Battle Creek.

WEST-BOUND FROM BATTLE CREEK.

LEAVE.

No. 9, Mail and Express, to Chicago … 12.15 P. M.

No. 1, Chicago Express, to Chicago … 9.00 A. M.

No. 3, Lehigh Valley Express, to Chicago … 3.40 P. M.

No. 5, Pacific Express, to Chicago, with sleeper … 1.10 A. M.

No. 75, Mixed, to South Bend … 8.20 A. M.

Nos. 9 and 75, daily, except Sunday. No. 1, 3, and 5, daily.

EAST-BOUND FROM BATTLE CREEK.

No. 8, Mail & Exp., to Pt. Huron, East, and Detroit … 3.45 P. M.

No. 4, Lehigh Express, to Pt. Huron and East … 8.27 P. M.

No. 6, Atlantic Exp., to Pt. Huron, East, & Detroit … 2.25 A. M.

No. 2, Lehigh Express, to Saginaw, Bay City, Pt. Huron, and East … 6.50 A. M.

No. 74, Mixed, to Durand (starts at Nichols) … 7.15 A. M.

Nos. 8 and 74, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 4, 6, and 2, daily.

A. S. PARKER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek.

LIVING FOUNTAINS OR BROKEN CISTERNS, AN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM FOR PROTESTANTS.

By E. A. Sutherland

BY PROF. E. A. SUTHERLAND.

IN this volume is considered that greatest of all problems, the education of our children and youth. It contains the history of the two systems of education, Pagan and Christian.

The cause of the failure and apostasy of Israel, the early church, the Reformers, and modern Protestants, also the weakness of the remnant church, can be traced to no other source, and accounted for on no other grounds than the Pagan methods and wrong principles of education instilled into the minds and hearts of the children and youth of past ages and the present generation.

Would you know and understand the true principles of Christian Education for to-day? Secure at once a copy of “Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns, an Educational Problem for Protestants.” Read it, and ponder its teachings in your heart. It contains 427 pages, printed from new type, substantially bound in cloth. Price, $1.25.

Address your tract society, or the —

REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO., BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

Also the PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., Oakland, Cal.

BATTLE CREEK, MICH., May 29, 1900.

I have read the MS. of Prof. E. A. Sutherland's new book, “Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns, an Educational Problem for Protestants,” and I am convinced that it is the book for our churches and our schools. Everyone who reads the book must be convinced that there are now two systems of education—one Christian and the other Pagan; the one leading to the knowledge of God, and the other to doubt or infidelity.

L. A. HOOPES, Sec. Gen. Conf.

Powers Contend Over China Crisis and Peking Railroad

THE crisis in China still absorbs the attention of the managers of the world. Japan presses for the recognition of a “sphere of influence” for her, embracing three provinces; and has notified China of her intention to land twice as many troops as does Russia, if any Russian troops are sent to Peking; and four thousand Russian troops have been landed, and seventeen hundred with four cannon have started to Peking. The Chinese foreign office “has been packed with Boxer chiefs, who have replaced the former members.” The railroad between Peking and Tien-tsin was torn up, so that the powers, in sending troops to Peking, are obliged not only to fight their way, but to repair the railroad as they go, and to guard it after they have repaired it.

The New York Times says that “it is plain that the authorities at Washington are disturbed, and with reason, at the growing gravity of the Chinese situation. The program of ‘splendid isolation’ which we have laid down for ourselves is evidently impracticable. . . . The latest instructions continue to enjoin independent action, ‘as far as possible.’ Unfortunately, it is not possible to any extent whatever.”

Unordered Copies of the Review Sent by Friends

☞ If you receive copies of this paper without ordering them, please remember that they are sent to you by some friend. Persons thus receiving copies of the REVIEW will not be called upon to pay for them. If, after reading these copies, you do not care to keep them, please hand them to your friends to read.

Rome and Damascus: Which City Is Older

THIS year is the two thousand six hundred and fifty-third since the founding of Rome. Thus Rome is quite an old city. Yet Damascus is more than eleven hundred years older in authentic history, while nobody knows when it was founded.

New York Times on Foreign Seizure of Tien-tsin Railroad

THE New York Times calls attention to the fact that “the seizure by foreign forces of the railroad from Tien-tsin to Peking, for the purpose of keeping it open for traffic, is, of course, an invasion of the sovereignty of China. It is a denial to the Chinese government of the rights and powers of a government.”

Philippine Reports on Friars and Judge Taft

INFORMATION from the Philippines says that the “most of those who have talked with Judge Taft and his colleagues draw the inference that the commissioners are opposed to the reinstatement of the friars.” But that “Archbishop Chappelle has taken a strong stand in supporting the requests of the friars to be established in their old position.”

Emperor Kwang-Hsu Proposes Foreign Protectorate Over China

THE party of the Emperor Kwang-Hsu, of China, including three viceroys, issued, June 11, “a message to the peoples of the West,” of which the following is the part most laden with meaning:—

The government of China being virtually nonexistent, the emperor proposes that the foreign powers whose troops dominate the capital shall remove his imperial person from the palace, in which his Majesty is confined as a prisoner; shall declare Empress Hsi-Tsi and her present ministers to be usurpers, and shall bring Emperor Kwang-Hsu to Nanking, Wuchang, or Shanghai, whichever the said foreign powers deem to be the most suitable situation for the new capital of the Chinese Empire under the new conditions.

It is proposed by his Majesty and his advisers that the foreign powers should declare a joint protectorate, and undertake the task of governing the country through his Majesty.

Cultured Prisoner Holds Aloof From Fellow Convicts

A PRESS dispatch telling of a certain noted man of culture and high standing who has been sent to Leavenworth prison, says, with perfect naïveté: “He holds himself aloof from all the other prisoners, and does not show the slightest disposition to make a companion of any of them, although there are a number of professional men and ex-bankers among the convicts.” Why, yes, since it is mentioned, it is somewhat remarkable that “society” should not be recognized and continued among “society folks” in United States prisons, when so many of them are there.

THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.

By P. T. Magan

“The Borrower Is Servant to the Lender.”

LET us relieve the schools of the denomination. Almost all of them are deeply in debt. But they all belong to God. The most of these debts are held by our own Seventh-day Adventist brethren. In the spirit of the text already quoted, the Lord is a servant of these. Do we wish it so?—Of course not! Then let us hasten and set the schools free. Money is needed right now to pay for the type-setting and plate-making on Sister White’s new book, “Christ’s Parables and Object Lessons.” Sister White has given her work on the manuscript; and adds, “I hope this movement on my part will provoke others to self-denial and to benevolence and mercy.”

The Spirit of God is surely moving upon hearts somewhere, provoking them to deeds of self-denial and of benevolence and mercy in this matter. To all such we appeal for help. The debts of these schools aggregate, in rough figures, three hundred thousand dollars.

In the past, God’s institutions have borrowed from Christ’s brethren; and Christ’s brethren have loaned to his institutions. We will not criticise this; but there is a deeper, better, and richer experience. Here it is:—

“And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest.”

To lend to one of God’s institutions may help it for the time being; but to give to these institutions is to reap the richest blessing.

By next week let us have more names of contributors or pledge-makers to this fund to add to those affixed to this appeal.

W. O. Palmer........................................ $1,000 00 G. A. Irwin............................................... 100 00 Russell Hart.............................................. 100 00 Frederick Griggs......................................... 50 00 H. W. Cottrell............................................ 50 00 J. N. Loughborough....................................... 50 00 J. L. Locke................................................ 20 00 J. L. Whitney.............................................. 50 00 Lloyd Manful.............................................. 50 00

P. T. MAGAN, in behalf of the Committee.

JUNE 20,

at nine o'clock, Wednesday morning, the Teachers' Conference and Summer School opens. Are you coming?

Do you wonder why your attention is so often called to the training of teachers? The words of a great educator explain: “If the First Cause has doomed our enterprise, I give it up; but until I know that, I hold on.” God has not condemned, but encouraged; therefore we hold on.

There is no question of greater interest to parents than the education of their children. This Conference and Summer School is to train teachers for church schools. Some of the States in the district are holding small institutes for teachers. This is well, but these local institutes can not take the place of the central Conference and Summer School for teachers, called at Battle Creek, from June 20 to July 11. All teachers should come. Let parents come too.

“LIVING FOUNTAINS OR BROKEN CISTERNS”

is a new book just issued by the Review and Herald Publishing Company. It was written by Prof. E. A. Sutherland, president of Battle Creek College, and is a history of education, and especially of Christian education, from creation to the present day. It is just what has long been needed. It is needed not only by Seventh-day Adventists, but by all other people, especially teachers. It is especially needed by all who profess Christianity, and more especially by teachers who profess Christianity. A copy of the book should be in each family where there is a Seventh-day Adventist, to be read by him and loaned to his neighbors. It has 427 pages of large, clear print; and costs $1.25 a copy. Address Review and Herald Pub. Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

THERE ARE FIVE TUESDAYS

By Editor

in July, this year; and we find, by examining our REVIEW mailing list, that subscriptions will expire on every Tuesday of the month. Here are the names of five subscribers (taken at random from the list) whose subscriptions expire on the 3d, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st of July, respectively:—

Mary Whisler — 3d, 1900 Moses Downing — 10th, 1900 Mary Parker — 17th, 1900 Jas H Lowrey — 24th, 1900 Mrs E Batton — 31st, 1900

If your subscription to the REVIEW expires in July, 1900, the yellow label, on your latest paper received, will show you on which Tuesday it expires. And at the same time that you renew your own subscription, could you not also send us one or two new subscriptions for the paper, even though it be for only two months, at 25 cents, or four months, at 50 cents? Try to do so.

REVIEW AND HERALD.