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THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., NOV. 12, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER
POETRY. PAGE
He Cometh, Selected.................. 723
A Little Thing, Francis M WiLcox.... 727
GENERAL ARTICLES.
By What Authority? Mrs E G WHITE. . 723
The Sabbath, C SANTEE............... 724
Preaching
THE HOME.—Taking Cold, 1. A. s—
Yesterday: Forget It, M H Tuxrorp
—Simple Remedies for Insomnia.. 726, 727
EDITORIAL .—The Resurrection and the
Future Life, ¢. 1. B.—“ Godless Educa-
tion "— The Sunday-law Crusade in
Missouri, L. A. s.—Laying up Treasures,
L. A. s.—The Downfall of the Papal
Empire, p. 1. Mm.— The Biennial Union
Conference Meeting, Geo I BUTLER 728 - 731
EDITORIAL NOTES ................. 731
THE MISSION FIELD. — The North
Brazil Mission, FF W Spies—The Weap-
ons of Our Warfare, J I, McELHANY
—The Educational Situation in China,
J N ANDERSON............c.o.... 732-734
OUR SCRAP BOOK.—'The Papacy as
a Persecuting Power — “He” and
“Them” in Rev. 16:16............... 731
THINGS HERE AND THERE —A
Marvelous New Metal—Finger-prints.. 734
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THE WATCHMAN
Ir the seventh-day Sabbath was ever neces-
sary as a memorial of creation, why is it not
equally necessary to-day? And if the seventh
day became the Sabbath of the Lord by his act
of resting upon it and blessing it, how could
that day ever cease to be the Sabbath? And
if the Sabbath was set apart from all other
days of the week, how could more than one
weekly Sabbath ever come into existence?
IF you walk in the narrow way of Chris-
tianity, it is quite probable that some people
will charge you with narrowness, and if you
go in the broad way that leads to destruc-
tion, you will no doubt be credited by many
with breadth of mind; but there is a kind of
narrowness which we must have and a kind
of breadth which we must shun. The Chris-
tian’s narrow way is the way of God's com-
mandments, and his commandments “are ex-
ceeding broad.”
Do Arn roads lead to heaven? So many
people say, but Jesus Christ left but one path
on the earth, and in that path we must walk
if we would be followers of him. “If any
man come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow me.” It
was a path of self-denial and affliction, and
many other paths would have been pleasanter,
but they did not lead in the right direction.
There are many paths to perdition, but only
one to the kingdom.
THERE is only one standard of righteousness
in the Bible, and that is “the righteousness of
the law.” “All unrighteousness is sin,” says
the apostle John, and “sin is the transgression
of the law.” 1 John 3:4. The keeping of
the law is righteousness. Fallen man could
not of himself keep the law, because the
carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be.” Rom. 8:7. What Christ did for
mankind was to provide for a new birth, a
new creation, and thus make it possible for the
righteousness of the law to be again fulfilled
in us (v. 4), as it was fulfilled in Adam be-
fore his fall. Nothing could be more erro-
neous than the idea that God’s law has been
changed or abolished, and a new standard of
righteousness set up under the gospel dispen-
sation.
Bier prophecy 1s history in advance, and
history shows that the prophecies of God’s
word have heen fulfilled. In the explanation
of such prophecies it is necessary to quote
frequently from history, and if such quota-
tions do not suit some of our readers, the re-
sult should not be charged up against this pa-
per. We are not responsible for the facts of
history. What we want is the truth; and if
views do not harmonize with what is
found to be the truth, then it is time to
change our views. This paper has no con-
troversy with any person .or denomination.
It aims only to turn on the light of gospel
truth, and as President Roosevelt said in a
our
recent speech, it is not responsible for what
the light reveals, We are all of us bound
for the judgment bar of God and have a heaven
to gain or lose, and we cannot afford to trifle
with our souls by being indifferent to the
truth or being satisfied with the opinions of
men. An earnest, prayerful searching of the
Scriptures and a willingness to accept their
teaching, however contrary to our precon-
ceived ideas of truth and duty, is the only
wise course for any individual to follow.
It is a fact that history plainly attests the
truthfulness of Bible prophecy, by showing that
prophecies have been accurately fulfilled. It
is a still more important fact that the great
lines of Bible prophecy predicting events in
successive order from the remote past down
to the second coming of Christ, are shown by
history to have been fulfilled down to the pe-
riod of time in which human probation is to
close and Christ is to come in the clouds of
heaven. All the great lines of prophecy ter-
minate with that event; they come to a com-
mon focus in the last generation which is to
live before Christ comes, and history shows
that nothing more is left in these lines of
prophecy to be fulfilled beyond the present
time save those events which belong to the day
of God, in which the offer of salvation will
be past. And by this we know that we are
now in the time of the last generation, that
generation which Christ said should ‘not pass,
till all these things be fulfilled.” Matt. 24:
34. Reader, can you think of a more im-
portant or solemn truth than this? For a de-
tailed account of the fulfilment of these great
lines of inspired prophecy down to the present
day, see the book “ Daniel and the Revelation,”
published at this office.
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ginning December 17 and ending January 13.
It will be an important meeting, and all who
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literature where now there is one. ‘There is
nothing else that is so greatly needed in the
world to-day. Just now a currency famine is
being felt in this country, and it is causing
much inconvenience, but a terrible and un-
looked-for famine is impending over the world,
described in Amos 8:11,— “Not a famine of
bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing
the words of the Lord; and they shall wander
from sea to sea, and from the north even to
the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the
word of the Lord, and shall not find it.” Our
literature is now selling well, and those en-
gaged in this work are conferring a blessing
upon the people and gaining a special bless-
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