Earlier text: ***Received on the $150,000 Fund up to May 26, 1908***Field Notes and Gleanings
From Leola, S. D., Brother Valentine Leer writes that on Sabbath, May 9, three young men who will, he hopes, be light-bearers for the truth, were baptized. On Sabbath, April 25, four persons were received into the church at Chanute, Kan. Three of these were new converts to the faith, the result of Bible work done by Sister Jennie Edwards. Brother E. A. Merrell reports visiting the churches in the southern part of Missouri. In Oxley he baptized three, and there are seven others who have just begun the observance of the Sabbath under the labors of Brethren H. E. Lysinger and A. F. French. At Poplar Bluff nine were baptized, and four others taken into the church, thirteen in all, on profession of faith. After speaking of the interest in meetings he is holding at Conrad, Mont., where the postmaster has resigned his position to obey the truth, he has learned at the meetings and in personal study, Brother W. H. Holden adds: “I have not yet preached on all points of our faith, but several others are keeping the Sabbath, and have accepted the truth as far as they have heard it.” At a recent meeting of the Southern California Conference Committee, the following distribution of laborers was voted: That Elder R. S. Owen and Brother A. Booth go to Santa Barbara; that Brethren E. H. Adams and H. J. Hoare hold a series of meetings at Glendale; that Elders C. E. Ford and A. G. Christiansen conduct a series of tent-meetings in Los Angeles; that Dr. Lillis Wood-Starr be invited to connect with the faculty at Fernando Academy; that Elder R. S. Owen connect with the Loma Linda College of Evangelists for the coming year; and that Elder E. J. Hibbard take charge of the Bible department of Fernando Academy for the coming school year; that Elder F. I. Richardson be associated with Elder W. M. Healey in work in San Diego; that Elder S. Thurston make Pomona and Ontario his field of labor for the present. Conducted under the auspices of the General Conference Publishing Department. |
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Who Is Having a Hard Time?
1. THE man who is not working. 2. The man who is working half time or less. 3. The man who is “waiting for something to turn up.” 4. The man who is building his hopes on some indefinite future, when he fancies that he can accomplish more with less hard work than he can just at the present time. 5. The man who reads the newspapers instead of the Word of God. 6. The man who trusts in local conditions in this world instead of trusting God who created all things, and who owns all the money, and all the cattle, and who holds the “times” in his own hands. 7. The conference which is failing to organize for the efficient and active distribution of our message-filled literature, just now, in the all-important present. One of the active leaders in the distribution of our literature said recently that in all the correspondence he had received this year, he had heard “hard times” mentioned just three times. First, by a man who said they were having quite a struggle this year on account of hard times; and yet, he confessed they were prospering better than last year. Hard times in this case was, evidently, purely a mental condition; and, indeed, hard times on the mind are the hardest times we have anywhere. The second instance was from the president of a conference who thought they could not afford to support a State agent during the hard times. And the third was from another section of the territory, where it is reported the times are hard, and that the present is hardly an opportune time for efficient organization. So it appears that the men who are working, the conferences which are organizing and pushing the work with all their ability, and the publishing houses which are enterprising, and forging ahead,—indeed, it appears that all who are trusting in God and working with all their might, are prospering, and know very little about hard times. But the men who are idle, the men who are leaning upon Egypt for help, and the conferences that are waiting for the times to improve before organizing and pushing their work, and, indeed, all who are thinking of hard times, and talking hard times, and opening the citadel of their lives to the entrance of hard times, are having a hard time. [The following remonstrance against religious legislation, with three hundred ninety signatures appended, was forwarded from Battle Creek, Mich., to the senior Senator from that State.—ED.] HONORABLE SIR: In view of the existing conditions at the national capital, we, the undersigned, can not do less than to forward to you this earnest protest. It appears that the halls of Congress have been, and are being, besieged by a class of religious enthusiasts, who, in their zeal, are clamoring for, and bringing every possible pressure to bear to induce the federal government to commit itself to, religious legislation. (See substitute for Senate Bill No. 3940.) The various Sunday bills now before Congress are but the thinly disguised entering point of the wedge; but if this be permitted to enter, the butt end will follow as surely as to-morrow follows to-day. The observance of Sunday is a religious observance; all history proves it such. But if physical rest were the object sought, one day would do as well as another. Nature, or the God of nature, has wisely set apart a portion of each day for physical rest. It would grieve the undersigned exceedingly to see our country, in response to the demands of these misguided, self-styled National Reformers, enter on a course entirely subversive of, and destructive to, those very principles which have hitherto been her pride and her glory and the source of her great prosperity. The eternal principle of right, which our revered forefathers incorporated into our Constitution, and on which they founded and established this nation, have been lost sight of or repudiated, by those men who are now clamoring for religious legislation. Those principles and that foundation have been the secret and source of our national prosperity. It is not extravagant—it is but the sober truth—to say that human liberty and the perpetuity and safety of this nation are in graver peril to-day at the hands of these mistaken religious zealots than ever they were by the armies of the Southern Confederacy, and time will vindicate this statement. That was open warfare; this is insidious but deadly poison. We should never forget that we are making history. When the legislative acts of to-day shall have borne their fruits, and time has revealed to all the character of those fruits, in what light then will the legislators appear? The crying need of the hour is for staunch patriots in the national Congress; men who at any and all cost to themselves, will take their unyielding stand for the right in opposition to any and every move or step in the direction of a union of church and state.21 We therefore solemnly protest against this whole scheme of religious legislation, and call on you, and all other patriotic and right-minded senators to oppose it to the very last. We respectfully subscribe ourselves, honorable sir, as interested citizens of this great commonwealth. Hard Times Are Conquered
By R. L. PIERCE
WE thank God that there is one power in this world which is greater than “Wall Street” or any of the panics which are there produced. The gold and silver are the Lord’s, and no financiers of this world can tie it up so closely that it will not still be his. The god of mammon, with merciless greed may place his grip upon the currency of our land, and the old god “Pan” may, as he was reputed from of old, start a panic; and yet all these schemes of the gods of this world will come to naught because the gold and silver are the Lord’s, and Jehovah is God above all gods; and he still reigns in the realm of dollars and cents. This is the only reason we can give why our general agents write from every union conference in North America stating that canvassers since the beginning of 1908 have averaged to sell more books a week than they did during 1907. The following item from Elder W. W. Eastman, general agent of the Southwestern Union, is similar to many others:— “We are at last out of winter quarters, and have gone at it again, and I think you will see this union during May go a long way ahead of its April report. We are now receiving some of the largest reports we have ever received from a canvasser in one week. Our report for April is over two thousand dollars more than it was for the same month last year. That does not look very ‘panicky’ does it?” Therefore, fellow workers, when the work goes hard, do not become discouraged or disheartened. Seek God the more earnestly and work the harder, knowing that he will open a way of escape that will lead to victory in overcoming difficulties and discouragements. Everything indicates that the time has come for this work to be speedily finished; but it is only those who have been proved who will have a part in its closing hours. Let us be faithful, and not rest satisfied unless we are gaining new victories from day to day. Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau K. C. RUSSELL, - - - - - Chairman W. A. COLCORD, - - - - - Secretary — Four persons were killed, five fatally hurt, and forty-five more or less seriously injured in a collision of street-cars on a steep grade in Philadelphia on May 24. — The fishing schooner “Fame” was cut in two by the steamer “Boston” on Chaspes Bank, N. S., May 27, during a fog, and seventeen of the schooner’s crew were drowned. — A series of tornadoes visited Alfalfa County, Okla., on May 27, killing ten persons, injuring twelve, killing hundreds of domestic animals, wrecking many buildings, and destroying a large acreage of crops. — It is definitely reported that Secretary of War Taft will leave the cabinet on July 1, this course being necessitated by his candidacy for the presidency. The name of his successor has not been given to the public. — The street-car strike situation at Chester, Pa., seems not to have improved. On May 25 riot followed riot. A mob of several thousand strikers and strike sympathizers attacked a squad of policemen on a street-car, and a dozen strike-breakers were severely handled by the mob. — The amount of appropriations made by the present Congress reaches the great total of one billion eight million dollars. In $20 gold pieces, this would weigh 1,850 tons. — A report from Reno, Nev., states that a plague of black mice is devastating a portion of the State. The mice are said to have ruined fields of potatoes and alfalfa, and even stripped shade-trees of their leaves. — Enemies of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway have wrecked with dynamite the million dollar pipe-line which conveys water from Bonita Mountains, N. M., to Carrizozo, N. M., to supply all the engines of the system. — The worst storm of the year broke over north Texas on the night of May 23. Fifteen persons lost their lives in the floods following the storm. There has also been wide-spread destruction of crops. Four thousand have been made homeless in Texas and Oklahoma by floods along the Trinity River. — While three bank employees were carrying a large sum of money through one of the crowded streets of New York in broad daylight, on May 25, they were attacked by three desperate robbers, and severely beaten and cut with knives while resisting the attempt of the robbers to secure the money. Only one of the robbers was captured. — China is reported to be sending a detachment of five thousand foreign-drilled troops to the Korean border to hold a certain portion of frontier territory which has been claimed by the Japanese as belonging to Korea. It is reported that the Japanese have been taxing the residents of the town, which China claims as belonging to her. — Seven Episcopal clergymen renounced their church affiliation at Philadelphia on May 27, and were taken into the Catholic Church. On the following day these clerical converts to Catholicism received their first “holy communion” at the hands of Archbishop Ryan, after which the “sacrament of confirmation” was administered. This is said to be the largest number of Episcopal clergymen ever taken into the Catholic Church at one time. — The president of France is now visiting King Edward, and has been given a flattering reception by the people of England. The press of the two nations are now talking of an alliance between their respective countries. The French seem especially enthusiastic over the prospect of such an alliance, but declare that one of its prerequisites would be such a reorganization of the British army as would make it an effective aid to them in a war on the Continent. — During the first session of the Sixtieth Congress thirty-seven treaties have been ratified with other governments. This is said to be a larger number of treaties than had been ratified during the previous twenty years. Twelve nations, including Japan, signed treaties of arbitration with the United States. General arbitration treaties have been signed between this country and Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. The remainder of the treaties were agreements on special subjects. This is regarded as a great victory for American diplomacy, and one writer declares that “the world has now been established on the plane of arbitration.” — The first American battle-ship of the “all-big-gun” type was launched at Camden, N. J., on May 26. This is the battle-ship “Michigan,” which carries as her main battery eight twelve-inch guns. Besides these she carries twenty-four three-inch guns, and a number of smaller caliber for repelling torpedo-boat attacks. — On May 25 the Prohibitionists of North Carolina won a decisive victory over the saloon element. The temperance ticket carried seventy-eight of the ninety-eight counties, and the estimated majority against the continuance of the liquor trade in that State is 40,000. Some are claiming that it will reach nearly 50,000. One peculiarity of the campaign was that in several cases where cities voted against the saloon, the surrounding country district voted for its continuance. — At ten minutes before twelve on the night of May 30 the first session of the Sixtieth Congress of the United States came to a close after passing the long-debated currency measure and the general deficiency bill. The passage of the currency measure was accomplished by Senator Aldrich’s dissolution of the filibuster, which the opponents of the bill had organized against it. The appropriations for this session are the largest ever made, exceeding those of last year by $88,206,750. — The attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward the use of liquor and tobacco is indicated by the character of the advertisements admitted to the columns of Catholic publications. As an illustration, we note that the official calendar for May, of the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Jesuits) of New Orleans, La., contains four separate advertisements of wines and liquors of all kinds, tobacco and cigars, not to mention some other things which in the minds of some persons are nearly as objectionable. In this calendar the things of the flesh and the things of the spirit seem to be mixed up in a promiscuous manner. — At Old Point Comfort, Va., on May 27, the monitor “Florida” was made a target for the guns of the monitor “Arkansas” for the purpose of testing the resisting power of the “Florida’s” eleven-inch armor, the ability of the turret to continue in operation, and the effect of gun fire upon the new style of military mast. A twelve-inch projectile, propelled by the strongest charge of powder used, was fired at the “Florida’s” turret from a distance of only three hundred forty-two yards. The shot cracked the armor, but failed to penetrate, or to interfere with the operation of, the turret or the working of the finely-adjusted apparatus within. Five shots were sent through the military mast without bringing it down, although its top had been loaded with a weight of four tons. The next experiment by the naval board will be a torpedo attack upon the same vessel. The naval authorities expect to learn much from the experiment, which they can use in the construction of other war vessels. THE journal of the Louisiana Senate of May 20, contains a memorial, introduced by Elder S. B. Horton, on the question of religious liberty, the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and other reforms. Brother M. E. Ellis, Secretary of the Nebraska Conference, recently expressed the hope that the time will soon come when there is a religious liberty secretary in every conference, giving his entire time to this work. Elder J. S. Wightman, the religious liberty secretary of the Central Union Conference, is meeting with success in securing the publication of excellent articles in the public press of Kansas City on the question of Sunday legislation. The May number of The Bulletin, published bimonthly by the Seventh-day Adventist Young Men's Literary Society of Takoma Park, is devoted to the subject of religious liberty. It contains many gems of truth pertaining to that important theme. Justice Chute, of the Ontario Bench, has rendered a decision on the question of Sunday observance to the effect that a restaurant-keeper violates the Lord's Day Act if he sells any article of food on Sunday to be carried off his premises. It may be added, however, that the Lord's Day Act is not enforceable in any province unless the attorney-general of that province consents. As this school year for our institutions in the northern portion of the world is closing, our thoughts naturally turn, not only to the year just passing, but also to another year’s work. It is now time to lay plans broad and deep for successful schools. We have every reason to believe that, on the whole, prosperity has attended our work during the year now closing. In the southern hemisphere, our schools are now in the midst of their year’s work. Reports from them indicate a substantial growth. We are indeed profoundly grateful for this. Our church-schools are no longer experiments. The question, however, of financing them is yet a perplexing one, and it may always be. The boards of these schools may well begin at once to plan for teachers, equipment, and financial support for the next year. During this vacation, it will be greatly to the advantage of the schools to have a fund constantly accumulating with which to conduct the work of next year. There is a feeling of confidence which lasts throughout the whole year when the work of the school is entered upon only after reasonable plans have been perfected. The instances are not rare of the failure of our schools because of a lack of definite planning. Money can be secured, teachers employed, and all arrangements made weeks before the school is to open, with much better effect than where these matters are delayed, and have to be attended to with undue haste. The education of our children is surely a sacred responsibility, and we need to exercise much thought and care and perseverance in it. WELL-CONDUCTED parents' meetings are of inestimable value in our churches. Where principles and methods of dealing with children are considered from an impartial point of view, without reference to some one's else children, great good results. In the churches where we have schools established, if parents were to meet two or three times during this vacation for prayer and reading of the Testimonies and for dispassionate study, the effect of these meetings would be seen in a very marked way, in every phase of the work of the schools during the coming year. We live in a time when every wind of doctrine is blowing with reference to the education of children. God has given to us a sure guide—the word of his testimony. It should be studied prayerfully and intelligently, that we may know our whole duty. Meetings for this purpose are now too little appreciated by us. Here is room for improvement. The Educational Missionary Movement
By Ellen G. White
In carrying forward the Lord’s work at home and abroad, those in positions of responsibility must plan wisely so as to make the best possible use of men and of means. The burden of sustaining the work in many of the foreign fields must be largely borne by our conferences in the home land. These conferences should have means with which to assist in opening new fields, where the testing truths of the third angel’s message have never yet penetrated. Within the past few years, doors have been thrown open as if by magic, and men and women are needed to enter these doors, and begin earnest work for the salvation of souls. Our educational institutions can do much toward meeting the demand for trained workers for these mission fields. Wise plans should be laid to strengthen the work done in our training-centers. Study should be given to the best methods for fitting consecrated young men and young women to bear responsibility, and to win souls for Christ. They should be taught how to meet the people, and how to present the third angel’s message in an attractive manner. And in the management of financial matters, they should be taught lessons that will help them when they are sent to isolated fields where they must suffer many privations, and practise the strictest economy. The Lord has instituted a plan whereby many of the students in our schools can learn practical lessons needful to success in after-life. He has given us the privilege of handling precious books that have been dedicated to the advancement of our educational and sanitarium work. In the very handling of these books, the youth will meet with many experiences that will teach them how to cope with problems that await them in the regions beyond. During their school life, as they handle these books, many learn how to approach people courteously, and how to exercise tact in conversing with them on different points of present truth. As they meet with a degree of success financially, some23 will learn lessons of thrift and economy, which will be of great advantage to them when they are sent out as missionaries. The student who takes up the work of selling “Christ’s Object Lessons” and “Ministry of Healing” will need to study the book they expect to sell. As they familiarize their minds with the subject-matter of the book in hand, and endeavor to practise its teachings, they will develop in knowledge and spiritual power. The messages in these books are the light that God has revealed to me to give to the world. The teachers in our schools should encourage the students to make a careful study of every chapter. They should teach these truths to their students, and seek to inspire the youth with a love for the precious thoughts the Lord has entrusted to us to communicate to the world. Thus the preparation for handling these books, and the daily experiences gained while bringing them to the attention of the people, will prove an invaluable schooling to those who take part in this line of effort. Under the blessing of God, the youth will obtain a fitting up for service in the Lord’s vineyard. There is a special work to be done for our young people by those bearing responsibility in local churches throughout the conferences. When the church officers see promising youth, who are desirous of fitting themselves for usefulness in the Lord’s service, but whose parents are unable to send them to school, they have a duty to perform in studying how to give help and encouragement. They should take counsel with parents and youth, and unite in planning wisely. Some youth may be best fitted to engage in home missionary work. There is a wide field of usefulness in the distribution of our literature, and in bringing the third angel’s message to the attention of friends and neighbors. Other youth should be encouraged to enter the canvassing work, to sell our larger books. Some may have qualifications that would make them valuable helpers in our institutions. In many instances, if promising youth were wisely encouraged and properly directed, they could be led to earn their own schooling by taking up the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” or “Ministry of Healing.” In selling these books, the youth would be acting as missionaries; for they would be bringing precious light to the notice of the people of the world. At the same time, they would be earning money to enable them to attend school, where they could continue their preparation for wider usefulness in the Lord’s cause. In the school, they would receive encouragement and inspiration from teachers and students to continue their work of selling books; and when the time came for them to leave school, they would have received a practical training fitting them for hard, earnest, self-sacrificing labor that has to be done in many foreign fields, where the third angel’s message must be carried under difficult and trying circumstances. How much better is this plan, than for students to go through school without obtaining a practical education in field work, and, at the end of the course, leave under a burden of debt, with but little realization of the difficulties they will have to meet in new and untried fields! How hard it will be for them to meet the financial problems that are connected with the pioneer work in foreign lands! What a burden some one will have to carry until the debts incurred by students have been paid! On the other hand, how much more might be gained, if the self-supporting plans were followed! The student would often be enabled to leave the educational institution, nearly or wholly free from personal indebtedness; the finances of the school would be in a more prosperous condition; and the lessons learned by the student while passing through these experiences in the home field would be of untold value to him in foreign fields. Let wise plans now be laid to help worthy students to earn their own schooling by handling these books, if they so desire. Those who earn sufficient means in this way to pay their way through a course at one of our training-schools, will gain a most valuable practical experience that will help fit them for pioneer missionary work in other fields. A great work is to be done in our world in a short time, and we must study to understand and appreciate, more than we have in past years, the providence of God in placing in our hands the precious volumes, “Christ’s Object Lessons” and “Ministry of Healing,” as a means of helping worthy students to meet their expenses while in training, as well as a means of liquidating the indebtedness on our educational and medical institutions. Great blessings are in store for us, as we wisely handle these precious books given us for the advancement of the cause of present truth. As we labor in accordance with the Lord’s plan, we shall find that many consecrated youth will be fitted to enter the regions beyond as practical missionaries; and, at the same time, the conferences in the home field will have means with which to contribute liberally to the support of the work that shall be undertaken in new territory. MRS. E. G. WHITE. Without Me Ye Can Do Nothing
“WITHOUT me ye can do nothing.” We must train ourselves to feel constantly the truth of these words of our Master. It is very easy to lean upon our own strength and to our own understanding. True wisdom is found in God alone. Real strength is always received from his arm of might. The grace which he gives, and the power which he bestows, are sent most freely. Why, then, need we ever fail to trust him? Christian Teachers as Under-Shepherds
CHRISTIAN teachers are under-shepherds. As such they may have the enjoyment of the Chief Shepherd in seeing peace and happiness brought into the lives of their pupils. As did he, so will they, live a life of self-sacrifice and self-denial, gladly turning from every earthly enticement, choosing rather a life of weary labor and toil if possible, that thereby they may help some to gain life eternal. Such under-shepherds will certainly hear the “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” from the lips of the Chief Shepherd, and from him they will receive the crown of everlasting life, and with him they may behold the eternal joy of those for whom they have labored. MANY dollars can be brought into the treasury of the Lord to be used in spreading this gospel to foreign lands, if our children are given, and properly cared for, missionary gardens. Many of our church-schools have given attention to this point, and have encouraged the children in preparing and caring for these gardens in connection with their school work. This is, however, a matter to which parents may well lend substantial encouragement and direction. The children not only get the benefit from the work and education of properly raising the products from the garden; but better than this, they are, in a practical way, taught to see the true object of the labor and gain; namely, the giving of truth to hungry souls, and seeking for their welfare. Getting Results
By J. O. Johnston
In education as in everything else it is results which count. No matter what the hindering cause may be, no matter how many obstacles may confront, if a man gets no results in his undertakings, he is a failure. He will be judged by only one standard—results. The history of the men who have made a success in life reveals that kind of courage which never says “can't.” The young man who feels that he has no opportunity to gain an education is mistaken. He is looking at life from the wrong view-point. “Poverty, humble origin, and unfavorable surroundings need not prevent the cultivation of the mind.” He needs to see that circumstances are largely under his own control, and that by invincible determination he can make circumstances his servant. “Search, study, and pray; face every difficulty manfully and vigorously; call the power of will and the grace of patience to your aid, and then dig more earnestly till the gem of truth lies before you, plain and beautiful, all the more precious because of the difficulties involved in finding it.” Such is the only instruction given by the Spirit of God, and it should fire every young man with an inspiration which would carry him on to victory and success. With many the difficulties of obtaining an education lie in the direction of financial embarrassment. The young man who goes to school, and takes with him a well-filled trunk of clothes, with the assurance from his parents that his bills will be settled each month, knows very little of the real struggles of those youth who, having reached the age of eighteen or twenty years, are told by their parents that they may go to school if they can find a place where they will be permitted to work for their board and tuition. They start out with no money, no books, and a very limited supply of clothing, and the attempt is made to gain an education. Now comes the real test. Will the young man's courage stand the ordeal of several years' struggle? Too often it fails before the goal is reached; and it is right here where many of our young people need a helping hand. A few words of encouragement, and a little financial help, will often save the day, change the whole life current, and out of discouragement and failure bring grand results. J. O. JOHNSTON. Principles and Methods
By E. K. SLADE
Character the Foundation of True Education
THE proper training of mind and muscle constitutes an important part of true education in which a symmetrical development of the man is required. For convenience we have formed the practise of using the terms moral, mental, and manual, in referring to the threefold man, making such an application of these terms as to include all that pertains to the work of renewing for which true education stands. For ages in the past the intellectual side of the triangle has received the major part of attention in the work of education. In recent years there has been quite an awakening to the importance of giving attention to the training and developing of the physical man. A worldly educational system will not be able to provide for the proper development of the moral man, which is by far the most important side of the triangle,—really that which is the foundation of true education. A sound mind in a sound body may pass very well when only a career in this world and success for this life are under consideration; but in the system of education involving a fitting up for the Lord’s work in this world, and for eternal life in the world to come, the highest possible development of only the mental and manual part of man will be of no avail whatever. There are many giants of intellect, and many men of prodigious stature and physical strength, who may be skilful as well as strong, whose training will be only eternal failure when it comes to the consideration of fitness for enduring life. The evolutionary idea in education is that a constant development for better is going on, which may seem to harmonize with this development of the mental and physical faculties in compliance with the laws of nature. Such a development favors the idea that it is only a reform that is required, but true24 education is more than a reformation. It is a re-creation. The restoration of the image of God in the soul calls for the renewing of character that has been lost through sin. Through Inspiration the apostle Paul speaks of this matter in the following words: “Knowledge puffeth up, charity edifieth.” There is a similarity between the words edification and education in meaning as well as in sound. True education is a building up; such a building up as is indicated by the text comes through the placing of the love of God or the divine nature within the heart. The natural result of the mere acquirement of knowledge and of physical strength is to “puff up,” or inflate. This will be the sure fruit of such training if it is unaccompanied by the grace of humility and meekness, which only God can give. While it is possible for the mind and body to be highly developed and well trained without the spiritual development, it is also true that the fulness of development in these lines is attained only by the restoration of the divine nature which was given to Adam when it was said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” It is possible to have schools conducted under the name of Christian schools, purporting to stand for true Christian education, and conducted in our own buildings, under our own management, which will at the same time fail in this great essential,—the proper development of the moral man. The success of our educational work depends upon our bringing into our school work that faith and adherence to the facts of faith that will bring into the school and into the lives of the teachers and students the divine attributes that can come only through creative power. While it is not the purpose of God that it should be thus, one of but little mental and muscular strength and training may be a power in the earth, and fit for eternal life by spiritual renewing. On the contrary, the highest possible training of the intellectual and physical parts of man may only serve to make him a stronger enemy to God’s work in the earth, and a more fit subject for the punishment due to evil-doers, if the foundation of all true education is omitted.