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THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., FEBRUARY 12, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
Poetry. PAGE
Compensation vuveevecsrsessissrteessssssssssssnanas 99
Enough ...iiiieiiiieiiiieiiansssennsssesaesscssses 102
The Price of a LICENSE. .cvvvsiierreanionressavancnns 103
General Articles.
Faithful and Slothful Servants, Mrs E G WHITE... 99
Israel: the Return of the Jews.-No. 7, ] S WASHBURN 100
““ Moses Wro.e of Me,” PHILIP GIDDINGS..coveceeens 101
The Home. — The Golden Wedding — Retreshing
Sleep — Boys, Cigarettes, Doctors...cevevuvane 102, 103
Bditorial., — Organization — No.1, GIB — An lIm-
portant Question Answered, s N H — Why Did
Christ Die ? 1. A s — The Canvassing Work and the
Council, GEO Il BUTLER ciivvieverinrsaneenansns 104-106
BAitorial Notes »eoceerrrenecriitiersssssssscsnscsensos 107
The $150,000 Fund. — The Widow's Offering, | S
WASHBURN — The Pacific Press, GENERAL CON-
FERENCE COMMITTEE Cites eiesssaesreiaseraeraasans 107
From the Field. — Notes of Progress—How to Conduct
a Review, C F DakT — The First Session of the
West Indian Conference, G F ENOCH....ovvnven 108-110
Things Here and There. — Life in a Submarine....... 110
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Our people in California have been prom-
ised a hearing on the Sunday-law bill, which
has been brought before the legislature of that
state.
JEHOVAH says: ‘“ Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy; six days shalt thou labor and
do all thy work; but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt
not do any work” Seventh-day Adventists
rest on the seventh day as God has com-
manded, and work the remaining six days as
God has directed; and for doing this they
are brought before the courts as criminals.
The only trouble is that men have enacted
Sunday laws, laws which interfere with con-
science and the law of God. Such laws
cannot be constitutional under any just gov-
ernment.
THE question, What is right? is always a
more important one than, What is the law?
In other words, what God says is always of
more importance than what man says.
THE WATCHMAN
Wt have received the sad news of the death
of Elder A. G. Bodwell, who was well known
to many of our readers, having been for some
years state canvassing agent in Texas, after
which he went to Mexico, and later to Colo-
rado, in which fields he rendered efficient
service. Brother Bodwell was recently elected
president of the Arizona Conference, and while
on a journey in that territory, was drowned in
attempting to cross a river, February 1. He
was well versed in the Spanish language, and
by his death the cause loses a most useful la-
borer. The sympathy of all who knew
Brother Bodwell will go out to the bereaved
wife, upon whom this heavy blow has so sud-
denly fallen.
AN English paper says: “A wave of earth-
quakes is sweeping the world. Within the
last six weeks thirteen separate and severe
earthquakes have been recorded. The area of
disturbance has ranged from Italy to Australia,
from Sweden to Ceylon.” We are told fur-
ther by those taking scientific note of these
occurrences, that the delicate instruments
which have been devised to record slight shocks
that would not be noticeable to the senses,
show that the whole earth is now in almost
continuous vibration. Decidedly, something
must be wrong with this old earth when it
has reached such a condition as this.
“ DUrRING the past year five governments —
France, Russia, China, Belgium, and Canada
— all passed laws in behalf of Sunday observ-
ance,” says an ILnglish exchange. “Reports
from several other countries,” it adds, “show
that the same tidings may be expected from
them also before long. It is beginning to be
noted by observers of the times that an aston-
ishing movement is in progress everywhere on
behalf of the Sunday institution.” This move-
ment, it may also be said, is very prominent
just now in the United States. The decay
of morality and the loss of faith in the Bible
do not at all hinder it, but on the contrary
appear to stimulate it.
A coop many people are living in this coun-
try to-day who are of the generation that saw,
in the darkening of the sun and moon and the
falling of the stars, signs of the approach of
the day of God, and proclaimed them as such
to the world. Very many of this generation
have passed away, but that many yet remain
is evidenced by statistics which show that
there are even a goodly number of centen-
arians still alive and comparatively vigorous.
Here is one of which the Springfield Repub-
lican makes note: —
“There is a venerable mother in Israel in
Portland, Ore., Mrs. Mary Ramsey L. Wood,
who will pass her 120th birthday May 20.
Her age is well accounted for, as she was born
in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1787. She removed to
Oregon in 1854. Mrs. Wood's philosophy is
of the soundest sort. ‘I always try to keep
from worrying about little things,’ she re-
cently said. ‘I always attended to my own
business, and knew that if I did my work the
Almighty would see that I was well looked
after, Mrs. Wood has just subscribed to a
magazine for five years, and says she expects
to read the last issue.”
Tuar Bible prophecy is being fulfilled by
the events of these days, is noted by other
people than Seventh-day Adventists. For ex-
ample, under the title, “A Prophecy Fulfilled:
Nahum 2:3, 4,” Collier's Weekly recently de-
voted a full page to three illustrations show-
ing, (1) a number of automobiles of different
varieties speeding along the public highway,
answering to the words of the prophecy, “The
chariots shall rage in the streets; ” (2) a num-
ber of automobiles jostling against each other,
some in actual collision, as might naturally
happen where many were gathered together,
fulfilling the words, “They shall jostle one
against another in the broad ways;” and (3)
the scene presented by a number of these ma-
chines on the street after nightfall, with their
brilliant lights illuminating the highway, an-
swering to the words, “The chariots shall be
with flaming torches in the day of his [Gods]
preparation.” That this language of Nahum’s
prophecy is strikingly fulfilled in this latest
method of fast locomotion, is evident to peo-
ple who do not believe that we are living in
the day of God's preparation. This prophecy
is usually applied to the railway trains, but
it seems to be fulfilled even more to the letter
by these modern chariots which run almost
“like the lightnings” through the streets of
our modern cities.
AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH
Tur Saviour said it would be here as it
was then. The ark was built. The work
for the world was done; the last soul
warned. The beasts went into the ark. Noah
and his family went in, and the angel came
down and shut to the door. The world was
shut out, and Noah was shut in. The world
mocked on. For seven days their doom was
forever sealed before the preaching of that
man of God was verified. The flood took
them all away. Every one was destroyed.
So shall the coming of the Son of man be.
The righteous and the wicked will be here
in their mortal state. At that time there will
be two in one bed, two in the field together,
and one will be seized with the plagues and
the other left. Men will be planting and
building, eating and drinking, all unconscious
that the final and irrevocable sentence has
been passed. ‘The sentence is passed, the
censer is thrown down, the high priest lays
off his priestly attire, and puts on the gar-
ments of vengeance. Reader, with what
party will you belong? Ss. N. H.
Hoip fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor
to your liberties. Write its precepts in your
hearts, and practice them in your lives. To
the influence of this book we are indebted for
all the progress made in true civilization, and
to this we must look as our guide in the
future.— Ulysses S. Grant.