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    August 22, 1899

    “Editorial” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 76, 34, p. 540.

    “JUDGE not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” Judge not according to appearance; how then judge?—Righteous judgment. Is it not true that we have often judged according to appearance? When we quit judging according to appearance, we shall not do any judging at all; for in this world, all we have is appearances—is how things appear to us.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.1

    And is not that exactly what Jesus says. “Judge not”? What! not at all?—“Judge not.” “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.” And, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.2

    Our time to judge is not in this world; but in the world to come. And then it will be righteous judgment, and not at all according to appearance. Therefore it is written: “Judge NOTHING before the time.” And when is the time?—“Till the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts.” 1 Corinthians 4:6.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.3

    “Editorial” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 76, 34, p. 540.

    WHAT is Christian patriotism?ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.1

    Patriotism itself is love of country. And the country, the love of which is patriotism, is the country of one’s birth, or of one’s adoption by naturalization.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.2

    Christian patriotism then, being Christian love of country, can be nothing else than the love of the country of his Christian birth.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.3

    But the Christian birth is the new birth: it is the being “born again,” which is being “born from above.” And this “above,” the place from which the Christian is born, is heaven.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.4

    Heaven then is the Christian’s country. And even so with the Scripture: “If ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29. And to Abraham it was said, “Get thee out of thy country, ... into the land that I will show thee.” “He ... obeyed,” and thenceforth he and all his “confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.5

    “And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country; that is an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” Hebrews 11:18-16.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.6

    Patriotism, then, being love of one’s country, and the “heavenly country” being the Christian’s country, Christian patriotism is nothing else than love of the heavenly country.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.7

    True patriotism is the love of one’s country above all other countries: so much so that the true patriot willingly lays down his life for his country. Christian patriotism, then, is the love of the heavenly country above all other countries: so much so that the true Christian will willingly lay down his life for this his country.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.8

    True patriotism is “the spirit that originating in love of country, prompts to obedience to its laws; to the support and defense of its existence, rights, and institutions; and to the promotion of its welfare.” The Christian’s country, being only the heavenly country, Christian patriotism is nothing else than the spirit that prompts to obedience to its laws; to the support and defense of its existence, rights, and institutions; and to the promotion of its welfare.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.9

    The spirit that, as to the Christian, originates in the love of the Christian’s country, is none other than the Holy Spirit. For without being born again, there can be no Christian; and there being no Christian, there can be no love of the Christian’s country—no Christian patriotism. And being born again is to be born of the Spirit. Therefore without the Holy Spirit’s creating the new creature and the new life, there can be no Christian patriotism.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.10

    Are you a Christian patriot? Do you love the Christian’s country above all other countries? Have you the spirit that prompts obedience to the laws of that country, above all other laws? that supports and defends its existence, rights, and institutions above and against those of all other countries?ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.11

    But may not Christian patriotism, this support and defense of the rights and institutions of the Christian’s country, involve fighting?—It not only may, but it certainly does. Listen: “Fight the good fight of faith.” “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal,” yet they are “mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.12

    “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.13

    Are you a Christian patriot?ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.14

    “Studies in Galatians” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 76, 34, pp. 540, 541.

    “PAUL, an apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.1

    The first two chapters of the book of Galatians are an explanation and defense of Paul’s apostleship and of the gospel that be preached. This first verse is a defense of his apostleship. This is the cause of the words in parenthesis, saying that be was an apostle, “not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the thither. who raised him from the dead,’”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.2

    Another translation is, “Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor by the instrumentality of any man, but by Jesus Christ and God our Father who raised him from the dead.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.3

    Another is, “Paul, an apostle, not by man, nor through a man, but appointed by Jesus Christ and his Raiser from the dead, God the Father.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.4

    The Revised Version is, “Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him them the dead).”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.5

    This defense shows that his true apostleship was denied, and that he was opposed and denounced as being only an apostle of men, appointed and sent only by a man or by men.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.6

    Nor was this opposition sown only among the churches of Galatia. It was sown everywhere, especially in the churches that Paul had raised up. There were “false, skulking brethren,” who made it their business and their message, even to follow up Paul, and sow these seeds of distrust and of evil as the council at Jerusalem described it, “digging up from the foundations” the souls of those who believed his preaching.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.7

    These evil seeds were sown at Corinth. After Paul’s departure from there, these false brethren had told the brethren that he was not an apostle; and cited as proof that he had not seen Jesus; that he was only a tent-maker, who went about working for a living; and even that he was not an apostle because he had no wife!ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.8

    In his letter to the Corinthians he makes answer thus (we use Conybeare and Howson’s translation, as this, with our common version, makes the matter plain): “Is it denied that I am an apostle? Is it denied that I am free from man’s authority? Is it denied that I have seen Jesus our Lord? Is it denied that you are the fruits of my labor in the Lord? that you are the fruits of my labor in the Lord? If to others I am no apostle, yet at least I am such to you; for you are yourselves the seal which stamps the reality of my apostleship, in the Lord; this is my answer to those who question my authority. Do they deny my right to be maintained [by my converts]? Do they deny my right to carry a believing wife with me on my journeys, like the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? Or do they think that I and Barnabas alone have no right to be maintained, except by the labor of our own hands? ... If I have sown for you the seed of spiritual gifts, would it be much if I were to reap some harvest from your carnal gifts? If others share this right over you, how much more should i? Yet I have not used my right, but forgo every claim, lest I should by any means hinder the course of Christ’s Glad-tidings.... The Lord commanded those who publish the Glad-tidings, to be maintained thereby. But I have not exercised any of these rights, nor do I write this that it may be practiced in my own case. For I had rather die than suffer any man to make void my boasting.” 1 Corinthians 9:1-15.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 540.9

    They circulated also the slanderous report, and really themselves affirmed, that Paul had held and taught the pernicious doctrine, “Let us do evil, that good may come.” Romans 3:8.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.1

    These are only some of the “perils among false brethren,” which Paul cites with the many other perils among which he so constantly moved that his Christian life has been not inaptly termed a “long martyrdom.” And it was false brethren such as these who, as at other places, had crept in among the churches of Galatia, and were perverting the gospel, which they had received, dragging them from liberty to bondage, from the Spirit to the flesh, from justification by faith to justification by works, and on “digging up from the foundation” their very souls’ salvation.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.2

    Of Paul it has also been truly said: “It was throughout life, Paul’s unhappy fate to kindle the most virulent animosities; because, though conciliatory and courteous by temperament, he yet carried into his arguments that intensity and forthrightness which awaken dormant opposition. A languid controversialist will always meet with a languid tolerance. But any controversialist whose honest belief in his doctrines makes him terribly in earnest, may count on a life embittered by the anger of those on whom he has forced the disagreeable task of reconsidering their own assumptions. No one likes to be suddenly awakened. The Jews were indignant with one who disturbed the deep slumber of decided opinions. Their accredited teachers did not like to be deposed from the papacy of infallible ignorance... If arguments are such as can not be refuted, and yet if those who hear them will not yield to them, they inevitably excite a bitter rage.”ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.3

    Thus it was, not only with the Jews who did not believe, but also with those “Pharisees which believed,“—those Jews who, not knowing true faith, thought to bind Christianity in the hard bands of their ceremonialism. And thus it is ever with those who insist that all new wine must be put into old bottles. But Christianity demands always that the old bottles shall be made altogether new, that they may receive and hold the new wine.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.4

    “Editorial Note” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 76, 34, p. 541.

    BISHOP MCCABE is urging the Methodists to accept God’s principle of tithes and offerings in the support of the cause of God in their charge. He is having some success; but he meets much opposition. Every Seventh-day Adventist should pray that he may succeed altogether. In a letter to the editor of the Western Christian Advocate he writes the following excellent words, which are just as good for Seventh-day Adventists as they are for Methodists; and as good for all other Christians as for these:—ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.1

    Nothing of Judaism is abrogated except the types and shadows that found their fulfilment in the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ. The ten commandments stand, the Sabbath stands, the tithe stands, and these are eternally binding upon the conscience of every believer. There is not want of harmony between Malachi and Paul. The offerings spoken of by Malachi cover the collections spoken of by Paul. The tithe is for the support of the kingdom.... We need action now, not controversy. Let us accept the challenge of the third chapter of Malachi, and see what will happen.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.2

    Oh, for ten men in each conference like J. W. Magruder and Gervais Roughton, of Cincinnati Conference, who will cease talking, and just do it. By God’s help I will get them into it as fast as I can. Charles G. Finney used to say, in his prayers: “I hope thou dost not think that I can be denied.” Somehow all the tithers get to praying that way, and the God who said, “Put me in remembrance,” hears and answers with open windows and showers of blessing.... Let us begin to obey, with unquestioning faith. Malachi 3:10. Other means may succeed; this can not fail.ARSH August 22, 1899, page 541.3

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