VOLUME XV.
DENVER, COLO., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905.
NUMBER 11.
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God Chooses.
,
He chose this path for thee;
No feeble chance, or hard, relentless fate,
But love, his love, hath placed thy footstes
here.
He knew the way was desolate,
Knew how thy heart would often sink with
fear;
Yet tenderly he whispered, Child I see
This path is best fcr thee.”
He chose this path for thee;
What needst thou more? This sweeter truth to
know }
That all along these strange, bewildering
ways,
O'er rocky steeps and where dark rivers flow,
His loving arms will bear thee ‘‘all the days.”
A few steps more, and {hou thyself shalt
see
This path is best for thee.
—Selected.
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GENERAL ARTICLES.
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Before Kings.
Tt seemed very appropriate to the re-
cent General Conference, held in Wash-
ington, that some representation of our
work as a denomination, and the prin-
ciples of truth we hold as a people,
should be called to the attention of the.
President of this country. It will be only
a little while now before Seventh-day
Adventists will be counted as law break-
ers because they cannot give their alle-
giance to the religious institutions and
doctrines which will be forced upon the
people by civil law. It seemed most
fitting, therefore, that before that time
comes we should place ourselves in the
right position before the people of this
country and the entire world, making it
distinctly known that we are not anarch-
ists, but that we do believe in civil gov-
ernment in its rightful exercise. They
should also understand the necessity
‘which will prompt us in the future to re-
fuse obedience to the laws of the land’
when. the government oversteps. the
bounds set for it by the divine decree.
These considerations prompted the
choosing of a delegation of about forty
representative brethren to present to the
President of the United States the fol-
lowing memorial:
“GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-
DAY ADVENTISTS.
Washington, D. C,, May 22, 1903.
To His Excellency President Roosevelt:
The world’s Conference of Seventh-
day Adventists’ is now in session at Ta-
koma Park, in this city. From this body
we have the honor of being a deputation
chosen to extend to you the greetings of
our people.
While our Saviour is the King of kings
and Lord of lords, still, as Christians we
recognize that civil government is of di-
vine ordinance; and, while in accordance
with his command, we render to God
the things that are God's, we also, accord-
ing to the same command, cheerfully.
“render unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's.” As protestants, we believe in
the American idea of civil government.
The principles upon which this national
government was founded are our prin-
ciples. We therefore honor the names
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lin-
coln and others of your predecessors
who stood for the great principles of
civil and religious liberty, and approve
your own position on the side of the
rights of the people.
We wish you long life, and success in
all that makes for the glory of God and
for the peace and prosperity of this
nation and of the world.”
This address was written upon parch-
ment paper, neatly tied with silk ribbon
of red, white and blue, and was handed
to the President by Elder Daniels, who
headed the delegation. The President
received the delegation mest cordially;
took time to unroll the document, spread
it out upon a side table and read the
same. He then extended to the delega-
tion his very hearty appreciation of the
sentiments expressed. The Washington
papers the next morning gave a report
of the reception of the delegation by the
_ President and printed the memorial as
given here.
We trust that the influence of this
work may be potent for good, and far-
reaching in its effects.
During the Conference, the Turkish
minister was likewise visited by a simi-
lar delegation from the Conference. The
occasion was this: Brother Baharian
and two other of our brethren are lan-
guishing in Turkish prisons at the pres-
ent time for teaching and practicing the
truth that we hold dear. The Turkish
government recognizes prostestant mis-
sionaries, but some of the so-called prot-
estant missionaries had represented to:
the government that our missionaries
did not belong to this class,—that our
denomination was not a protestant de-
nomination. In consequence, our work-
ers have not been accorded equal rights
and privileges granted to other mission-
aries laboring in the Turkish Empire.
Through letters of introduction from Sec-