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THE WATCHMAN
NASHVILLE, TENN., JANUARY 29, 1907
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
Poetry.
PAGE
At Ease in Zion, E H MORTON vveaessnsnsecssesss 07
It Pays ..ooovenniiinnns venerns I 4
His Lamps......ouu.e.. Cereeenenieen Cetereenerrinas 76
Gomeral Articles.
The Church of God, Mrs E G WHITE ..... eeesnen 67
Israel: the.Return of the Jews.-No. 5, J S WASHBURN 68
Present Truth, JOHN R MITCHELL s4evsecesnceensss 69
The Home. — Tobacco Poisoning — Were the Prayers
Wasted ?eueeeernennenes eenerenes J eeenreeanns 71
Bditorlal, — The Council at Graysville, Tenn ,G 1B —
The Spartanburg Trial, L A s — The Sabbath Tree,
$s N H — History and Prophecy, U SMITH. ....... 72-74
Bditorial Notes «...covnvnnennn. Cerenenees OR 2
The $150,000 Fund. — Resources of the South, J S
WASHBURN — What Can I Do? E E Mires — The
Door Closed Forever, J] S WAsHBURN — What Can
the Children Do? Mrs V J] FARNSWORTH ........ 75, 76
From the Field. — An Encouraging Letter, J] S Wasu-
BURN — Three Indictments for Working on Sunday,
RT Nasu—Better than a Camp-meeting, C F DART
— Florida, Notice, L H CrisLer — A Year's Work
in the Canvassing Field of South Carolina, Mrs E Y
Cerrassesiaeniaens 76, 77
Things Here and There. — The Colossus of Telescopes
—An International Tunnel—An Example of Turkish
Justice — The Bower Bird ....ccvveivenn. FN
THE BEGINNING AND CLOSE OF THE SABBATH
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“THE religion that was good enough for my
father and mother is good enough for me,”
say many people of this generation when asked
to accept the Sabbath of the fourth command-
ment. They offer this as a convenient excuse
for not accepting new light from God's word
which would require them to stand on the
unpopular side in religion. They do not stop
to consider that their godly parents lived up
to the light which they had, and would will-
ingly have accepted further light if it had
been brought to them. The question of be-
ing accepted with God is not merely a ques-
tion of believing certain doctrines and ob-
serving certain practices believed and observed
by Christian people, but a question of willing-
ness to obey God in all things. “To obey is
better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the
fat of rams.” ‘The religion of the parent will
not save the child who has not the parent's
love for God and willingness to walk in the
way of his commandments.
THE WATCHMAN
Turrg is a difference between keeping the
seventh-day Sabbath and merely keeping Sat-
urday. Which do you do?
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“Ir you would be discouraged, look within;
if you would be distracted, look around; if
you would be strengthened, look up.”
Tur Kingston earthquake did very little
damage outside of Kingston. The Valpa-
raiso earthquake of last August did little dam-
age at any great distance from that city. The
San Francisco earthquake of last April was
more extended in its effects, but it centered
around that metropolis. Thus there have
been, within less than a year, three great earth-
quakes, destroying three large cities, which
could not have been more directly aimed at
those cities than they were.
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A UNION conference council of workers in
the West Indies and Central America was in
session in Kingston at the time of the earth-
quake, at which also Elders E. W. Farnsworth,
I. H. Evans, Luther Warren, U. Bender, and
Prof. C. B. Hughes from the United States
were in attendance. Naturally when reports
of the severity of the earthquake reached this
country, much anxiety was felt for the safety
of our workers gathered in the stricken city.
A cablegram containing the one word,
“Tivans” was received at Washington soon
after the disaster, which is interpreted as being
designed to reassure us on this point.
—_— .—
THE precise reason why Elder R. T'. Nash
and his companions in trial at Spartanburg,
S. C.. were brought before the court and fined
is stated by the editor of the Spartanburg
Journal, who cares nothing for the seventh-
day Sabbath, but speaks from a knowledge of
the situation in Spartanburg. In his paper he
says i—
“Think of how many hundreds of people
right here in Spartanburg do more work ev-
ery Sunday than Mr. Nash ever does, and do
not defend it- on religious grounds. They are
not prosecuted, and nobody wants them pros-
ecuted. The street cars run, the railroad
trains run, both {freight and passenger, the
ice men, the liverymen, the refreshment men,
the newsdealers, and many others work more
or less every Sunday, and nobody objects to
it, and properly so. Why, then, jump on
Mr. Nash and his people for doing the same
thing or less? The reason is that Mr. Nash
and the Seventh-day Adventists defend their
acts on religious grounds, and the others do
not.”
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Ir not another calamity should happen dur-
ing the remainder of 1907, the year would still
be memorable for its disasters, though not the
first month of it has yet elapsed. Kingston
destroyed, a thousand or more lives lost, and
$15,000,000 damage sustained by property own-
ers, is alone a memorable calamity. But be-
sides this there are the great flood in the Ohio
River valley, which has made nearly 30,000
people homeless for a time at least, and de-
stroyed millions of dollars worth of property,
and the great storm on Lake Erie which dam-
aged Buffalo to the extent of nearly $2,000,000;
also the engulfing of the island of Simalu, in
the Dutch East Indies, by a tidal wave, re-
ported in dispatches of the 22d inst., with 1,500
lives lost; not to mention the starving con-
dition of millions of people in the flooded dis-
trict of China, which is bequeathed to 1907
by its calamitous predecessor. Will the dis-
asters of 1g9o7 all come in the first month? —
Not very likely; we shall know more about
this at the end of the year. But is there not
enough in the frequency of these great dis-
asters to cause people to do some sober, seri-
ous thinking, and some thinking about some-
thing clse besides money and what money will
get for its possessor? God has taken pains
to tell people about a better world than this
where he would have people live, a world in
which there will be perfect safety for all, and
where no calamities will come. But people
have slighted his word and forgotten its teach-
ings, and since they have done this, it is not
strange that God should be now ever and anon
reminding people of the uncertainty of life in
this present world.
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Tur Christian is to be a benefit to others.
Thus he himself is benefited. ““ He that water-
eth shall be watered also himself.” Prov. 11:
25. This is a law of the divine administration,
a law by which God designs that the streams
of beneficence shall be kept, like the waters of
the great deep, in constant circulation, perpet-
ually returning to their source. In the ful-
falling of this law is the power of Christian
missions.—Mrs. I. G. Vite.
WHY BO I OBSERVE THE SEVENTH-DAY
SABBATH
1. Brcause my blessed Lord and Master kept
it (Luke 4:16), leaving me an example that
I should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21.
2. My heavenly Father has commanded me
to “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it
holy,” and told me that “the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the Lord” Ex. 20:8-11.
3. The holy women, who were instructed by
Jesus himself, “rested the Sabbath day, ac-
cording to the commandment.” Luke 23:
54-56.
4. Apostolic example shows that the dis-
ciples kept the seventh-day Sabbath. There
is a record of Paul preaching on eighty-four
Sabbath days (Acts 13:42, 44; 16:13; 17:2;
18:4, 11); but the New Testament contains
the record of only one sermon ever being
preached on Sunday, the first day of the week,
and that was an evening service. Acts 20:
7-12.
5. The Saviour bade his disciples pray that
they would not break the Sabbath. Matt.
24: 20.
6. The Sabbath will be observed in the new
earth, and I want to begin in this life so that
I will be in harmony with the principles of my
future home. Isa. 66:22, 23. Ss. N. H.