giving another hearty laugh. I felt that
the Doctor was going mad.
"I'd have recognized it in a hundred.
Tough case it was, too."
Hastily grasping the bundle from his
hand, I found a small vial, and pasted
thereon was the following inscription:
"St. James Hospital. Operation J+15.
Patient, Walter Graehme. Surgeon, Dr.
James Worrington"
The owner, none less than our good
friend, Walt. Graehme, was at first in-
clined to be indignant, but after clue ex-
planations had been offered and the mys-
tery cleared, all had a good laugh.
We had taken the package containing
the vermiform appendix of our good friend
Walt. The Doctor had performed the
operation, ^nd I believe him when he said
he recognized an old friend in the bottle.
The package is now en route, after an
unintentional delay, to an uncle of Walt's
in Pennsylvania, who is much interested
in his speedy recovery.
Vllt. Their Sabbath and Jubilee
BY C. T. RUSSELL.
Pastor Brooklyn Tabernacle
THE KEEPING of the seventh
day in conjunction with the
right of circumcision specially
marked the Jew, and, in their
own estimation, separated them from all
other peoples; for to none other did God
give either of these institutions. The as-
sumption of Christians that the Sabbath
Day was given to them or an obligation to
keep it imposed upon them, is a mistake.
Nothing in the Word of God warrants it.
It is, however, evidently fitting that
Christians should observe a weekly day of
rest, and very properly custom so has it.
And the first day of the week is observed
appropriately instead of the seventh, the
Jewish Sabbath. The first day of the
week is The Lord's Day in the special
sense that
(1) It marks the new order of things
as beginning.
(2) As a memorial of the resurrection
of the Redeemer it symbolizes all the
Christian hopes founded upon the death
and resurrection of the Savior.
The Sabbath Day was commanded to
the Jew, while no command respecting a
day of rest has been given to the Chris-
tian. With the latter, the matter was left
open and optional, so as to prove a test
to their devotion and appreciation of their
privileges. The observance of the Sab-
bath Day on the part of the Jews was not
optional, but mandatory, because, like all
other features of their Law, it was a type
foreshadowing a great antitype. God de-
signed that the type should persist, at least
until the antitype arrived.
Jewish System of Sabbaths.
II has not been very generally observed
either by Christians or Jews, that Israel's
seventh dav Sabbath was onlv one feature
of a system of Sabbaths. Seven such Sab-
baths, representing forty-nine days,
brought them to the fiftieth day or Pente-
cost, an occasion of special sacredness and
blessing. Nor was this all. They had a
similar Sabbath system in years. Every
seventh year was commanded as a Sabbath
year. Following seven of these Sabbath
years -came the fiftieth year, otherwise
known as the Jubilee Year. The basic
thought connected with all of these Sab-
baths was rest abstension from labor, the
implication being that God would provide
an eternal rest. And the thought con-
nected with the Jubilee or Pentecost day
and the fiftieth or Jubilee year was that
the perfection of rest would be attained
therein- not by anything that the Sab-
bath-keeper himself would accomplish,,
but by Divine arrangement for his bless-
ing.
God's Chosen People have striven faith-
fully to observe their Sabbath Day and to
ignore the financial losses resulting. But
it has been a hard task for them, especi-
ally in view of the fact that the Christian
Sabbath is generally observed, and that
their faithfulness generally signifies the
loss of two-sevenths of their time from
money-making. Instead of twitting them
about their Sabbath, Christians should ad-
mire that loyalty to God's command which
prompts the orthodox Jew to keep his Sab-
bath obligations at financial loss. It re-
quires principle to do this, and principle
implies character. And loyalty to God
should be appreciated and commended
wherever it is found.
What a stretch of faith in God's provi-
dence was implied in the attempt of God's
Chosen People for a time to keep not only
the Sabbath Days, but also the Sabbath
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Years to allow the land to rest absolute-
ly every seventh year; also on the fiftieth
year. To have it lie idle two years in suc-
cession must have been a trial of patience,
as well as of faith. Faithfulness to that
command would surely have brought to
God's Chosen People a decrease of sel-
fishness and an increase of faith. The
lesson persisted in would undoubtedly
have had a moulding and transforming
influence upon the entire nation. But
they did not continue it. In a half-
hearted manner they pretended obedience
to this Law for 969 years nineteen Jubi-
lees and nineteen years beyond the last
one. Then God declared that their ob-
servance of the year Sabbaths and Jubi-
lee was unsatisfactory to him, and He
gave them all their Jubilee years at once.
Since then they have made no pretense of
observing the Jubileyfe Years and their
cycles of 7x7 years.
The seventy years desolation of the land
of Israel, accomplished by Nebuchadnez-
zar, fulfilled the entire number of typical
Jubilee Years divinely foreordained. As
we read, "Therefore He (God) brought
upon them the king of the Chaldees, who
slew their young men with the sword in
the house of their sanctuary, and had no
compassion upon young man or maiden,
old man, or him that stooped for age ;
He gave them all into his hand. And all
the vessels of the house of God, great and
small, and the treasures of the house of
the Lord, and the treasures of the king
and of his princes, all these he brought
to Bab}don. And they burnt the house of
God, and brake down the wall of Jerusa-
lem, and burnt all the palaces thereof
, with fire, and destroyed all the goodly ves-
sels thereof. And them that had escaped
from the sword carried he away to Baby-
lon; * * * to fulfill the word of the Lord
by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land
had enjoyed her Sabbaths; for as long as
she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to ful-
fill three score and ten years/' 2 Chron.
36:17-21.
While Israel's Jubilee Year was a wise
arrangement which cancelled all debts
and restored all the people to their origi-
nal inheritance in the land, it would be a
mistake to suppose such a restitution, such
a release, to be the whole sum of God's
provision for the blessing of his people.
Wise, generous, beneficial as it was, it
was merely a type or foreshadowing of a
greater blessing. Its release from debt
foreshadowed the release of humanity
from the great debt of sin and its penalty
of death, respecting which we read that
Adam and ail of his race were "sold under
Sin." (Rom. 7:14) sold into slavery to
Sin and death. The antitypical cancella-
tion of death and release of debtors and
slaves signifies the deliverance of all who
will be God's people from all the imper-
fections inherited from Father Adam
back to full fellowship with God, full
liberty of the sons of God and the full en-
joyment of life eternal. If the type was
glorious and blessed, the antitype will be
a thousand times more so, and will bring
eternal release from all the weaknesses,
imperfections, slaveries to sin and appe-
tite which now hold mankind in bondage.
Each time, therefore, that God's Chosen
People observed a Jubilee Year they pic-
tured forth on a small scale the blessings
to come to them, and through them to all
people under the beneficent reign of right-
eousness of the great Messiah.
The Jubilee Type and Antitype.
We know where the counting of the
Sabbath cycles began, namely, when God's
Chosen People entered the land of Ca-
naan. The record is that their first year
was a Sabbath Year, during which the}''
neither sowed nor reaped, but "ate the old
corn of the land." In the above quotation
the Lord distinctly tells us that the entire
number of Jubilee Years they would have
had is seventy. So we can easily count
when and where the antitypical Jubilee
would be due to begin. Each cycle was
forty-nine ' years, and its Jubilee, the
fiftieth year. Seventy times this number
would be 3,500 years. And this period
measured from the time Israel entered
Canaan marks the year 1925 as the time
when the antitypical Jubilee will be due
to begin.
However, there is still another method
of reckoning the matter, which, we believe,
is the proper one, namely, to count nine-
teen cycles with their Jubilees partially
observed totaling 950 years, and then to
count the remaining fifty-one cycles as
forty-nine years each, because the Jubilees
were omitted. This would total 2499
GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
335
years plus 950 years with Jubilees total-
ing 3449 years. This period of 3449 years
reckoned from the entering of Canaan
ends October, 1874. Thus: Period from
entering Canaan to the, division of the
land, six years. Period of Judgep to
King Saul, 450 years. Period of the
kings, 513 years. Period of desolation
while the land kept Sabbath, 70 years.
Period from the restoration at the end of
the 70 years, by Cyrus, to our date known
as Anno Domini, 536 years. Total years
of A. D., to complete the above period of
3449 years, 1874 full years, which would
end, Jewish time, October, 1874. It was
about that time, 1875, that favor began
to return to God's Chosen People of
course then, as yet, only in a limited man-
ner and so differently from what many of
them had expected it that few of God's
Chosen People yet recognize that Divine
favor toward them is returning. It is our
understanding that the period of time
from 1875 to 1915, forty years, will wit-
ness the full return of Divine favor to
that people.
Foregoing we have outlined the Jubilee
reckoning from the standpoint of pro-
phecy, telling how the matter really will
work out : a portion of the time with the
Jubilees added and a portion of the time
without them. Now let us take another
view from the standpoint of the Law.
The Law requires that where the typical
system ended, the antitypical counting
should begin. As the typical Jubilee was
reached by multiplying 7x7, so we should
count 50x50 to secure the date of the an-
titypical Jubilee, the dawn of the glorious
epoch. As only nineteen Jubilees were
observed even partially, it follows that the
cycle for the great Jubilee should begin
counting there. 50x50 years is 2500 years.
This number measured from the last typi-
cal Jubilee should bring us to the anti-
type. The last of the nineteen Jubilees
observed was the year 950 from the date
of Israel's entering Canaan. The anti-
typical Jubilee cycle, 2500 years, added
to 950 years gives us a total of 3450 years
and indicates the year 1875 as its culmi-
nation the place where the antitypical
Jubilee should begin exact harmony, it
will be observed, with the preceding testi-
mony on the subject from the standpoint
of prophecy. In other words, the Law
and the Prophets agree that 1875 A. D.
marks an important epoch in the history
of God's Chosen People a time when
some great restoration blessing towards
them was due to begin.
The Great Antitypical Jubilee.
Some one will say, perhaps, What evi-
dences have we that Israel's Antitypical
Jubilee has begun to be fulfilled? We
answer that the signs are all about us and
rapidly multiplying. The Jubilee is not
Israel's only, but the Jubilee of the whole
world of mankind God's Chosen People
will merely be the first fruits of the
nations to be blessed in that Jubilee period
of a thousand years, the spiritual reign of
Messiah. Whatever signs we see of gen-
eral restitution amongst mankind are
signs of the Jubilee. We are not to expect
anything to happen suddenly. Eather by
gradual processes will come to mankind
the "times of restitution of all things
spoken by the mouth of all the holy pro-
phets since the world began." Such res-
titution blessings are to be noted in the
wonderful inventions which are bringing
easement of the burdens of mankind a
measure of deliverance from the grind of
necessity. These blessings will continue
to bring to God's Chosen People and to
the world in conjunction with them bless-
ings of earthly perfection such as the
prophets describe, but suich as few of
humanity dared to believe.
Looking back at the type we remember
that the Jubilee year was announced by
the priests blowing the Silver Trumpets,
proclaiming liberty throughout all the
land. We remember that, following the
example of the priests, all the people blew
on ram's horns and with every other con-
ceivable kind of clarionet. The antitype
of this blowing upon the trumpets we
have. Ever since 1875 there has been
special promulgation of this very message
of the Jubilee blowing on the silver
trumpets of Truth, proclaiming the
Truth, making known the fact that the
time of God's blessing for Israel and for
the world is at hand that the great An-
titypical Jubilee period of a thousand
years has begun. The spirit of liberty is
blowing everywhere and being proclaimed
by every kind of couth and uncouth argu-
ment and trumpet, newspaper and maga-
zine, world-wide.
C. T. Russell, Pastor Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The people, the masses, are about to
come into possession of their own. Human
rights long ignored are rapidly coming
back to the masses. There is no more re-
markable manifestation of this than in
the recent revolutions in Russia and in
Turkey, and the gradual socialization of
Great Britain and Germany. Well would
it be for the world if thus gradually the
great antitypical Jubilee would usher in
a reign of righteousness and become gen-
erally recognized. But other Scriptures
show us that this will not be the case
that beyond a certain point the favored
classes will refuse to yield, and Beyond
a certain point the masses will be unrea-
sonable and hasty in their demands, and
that the result will be "a time of trouble
sucb as never was since there was a
nation." Dan. 12:1.
But even that period of trouble will
prove to be merely a part of the tribula-
tion incidental to the full inauguration of
the Jubilee. At that time, the Prophet de-
clares, Messiah will stand forth in power
and great glory for the deliverance of Is-
rael first, and subsequently of all the fam-
ilies of the earth from every vestige of
bondage, including eventually the bond-
asre of death.
IN THE REALM OF BOOKLAND
An admirable and particularly timelj
novel is "The Broken Wheel/' by that ex-
cellent writer, Florence Land May. It is
timely in that it sets forth in attractive
style the real situation in San Francisco
just after the great fire of 1906, when the
corrupt municipal Government was hold-
ing up every citizen and corporation that
could be bled. The tale is based upon the
so-called graft prosecution in San Fran-
cisco, and the principals are not at all
disguised. Isaac Levy, "the curly boss;"
Bloomquest, the musical Mayor ; Cromwell
Crosbv-, the sturdy, courageous, honorable
gentleman-born President of the "Con-
solidated Railroads ;" Cliquot, the Govern-
ment sleuth employed by the private
prosecution ; John Scott, the special prose-
cutor all these are easily recognizable.
So, likewise, is Donald Doolittle, who de-
sired certain street railroad franchises for
himself, but was turned down by the
"boss," whereupon he vowed revenge upon
the city Government and particularly up-
on his successful rival, Crosby. The story
is strong throughout, with love features
interwoven, and many lesser characters
and incidents, which combine to make the
work a remarkable one. It may be read
with pleasure and profit, not only by San
Franciscans, but by Americans generally,
who desire to get light upon the real mo-
tives underlying the noted "graft trials"
of San Francisco.
The C. M. Clark Publishing Co., Bos-
ton, New York and Chicago.
The book reviewer of the Overland
Monthly has for many years read with ex-
ceptional interest the works on the Ameri-
can Indians that have appeared from time
to time on this subject, from the pens of
more or less able authorities, but he has
yet to find one so thoroughly satisfactory
as "Trails Through Western Woods," by
Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, who for a long
time has made a special study of the In-
dians, particularly those of the Northwest.
The book is a delightful description of the
region that the aborigines inhabited before
the coming of the white man; it gives a
graphic picture of the early conditions, of
the beauties of the country where the buf-
falo roamed and the red men lived their
lives of freedom and happiness. It is
rich in Indian folk-lore and contains
numerous facts and histories and tradi-
tions unknown to the great mass of
Americans; many, indeed, have never be-
fore appeared in print.
Written in Mrs. Sanders' attractive
style, the book is one that every American
should read.
The Alice Harriman Co., New York
and Seattle.
A stirring tale of the old Scottish days,
when Highlander and Lowlander were as
bitterly arrayed against one another as
Northerner against Southerner in our
own country forty-five years ago, is told in
"When Love Calls Men to Arms," by Ste-
phen Chalmers. The jealousies and enmi-
ties of the clans, the strange customs and
principles of the Scots, are vividly and
well described, and action lies in almost
every line. The story is based upon the
arrival in Kilellan of a Spanish Don, one
of the survivors of a Spanish man-of-war,
which, seeking to escape from the English
after the defeat of the Armada, was
wrecked upon the Scottish coast. Don
John, as he is named, finds refuge among
his foes, marries the daughter of one of
them, and their offspring, a beautiful girl
called Mariposa, is the heroine. The hero
is a Lowlander, one of the Campbells, des-
pised by her mother's Highland people.
The story is intensely dramatic, and holds
the interest from start to finish. Not the
least interesting feature of it is its eluci-
dation of the relations of the Macdonalds,
the Campbells, the Duncans, the Macleans
and other leading Scottish clans in the
olden days.
The book is well illustrated by Howard
Chandler Christy.
Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.
Its title, "A Text Book on the Thera-
peutic Action of Light," concisely de-
scribes the nature of an admirable work
by Gorydon Eugene Eogers, M. D., for-
merly Demonstrator of Anatomy in the
University of New York City. That light
has a marked therapeutic value has long
338
OVERLAID MONTHLY.
been known; indeed, as Dr. Bogers points
out,, its value was known not only to the
natives of Central and South America
centuries ago, but to the Orientals even
farther back. AVhile essentially technical,
it is not wholly so, and layman as well as
physician may read it with interest and
profit. It includes discussions of the
"rho" rays, solar and violet rays, electric
arc light and the light cabinet, and is well
illustrated in colors.
It is published by the author.
To John Adams Thayer the reading
public is deeply indebted for having shed
light, and brilliant light at that, upon a
sphere of activity which has thus far never
been illuminated. In "Astir, a Pub-
lisher's Life Storjr," Mr. Thayer brings
out a rich mass of hitherto unwritten his-
tory of the inside workings of some of the
greatest American publishing houses,
with most of which he has himself been
associated in high station, such as The
Ladies' Home Journal, Everybody's, and
the like. His style is delightful, the chap-
ters being more like light conversations in
the drawing room or around the club fire-
place than written narrative. It was the
original purpose of Mr. Thayer to have
posthumous publication of his autobio-
graphy, but friends to whom he showed
the manuscript appreciated it so highly
that they prevailed upon him to secure
immediate production. Their judgment
was excellent, for seldom has so interest-
ing a book of its kind appeared. Genuine
names are given in every case, and the
pages abound in anecdote. Matters are
in no place minced, and there is a decided
aptness in the title, "Astir." The book
will surely stir things up in certain direc-
tions.
Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.
"Why Doctor Dobson Became a
Quack" is a graphic description of the
conditions and a scathing arraignment of
the grafters responsible for the country-
wide prevalence of that curse to popular
health and wealth, quackery, which the
author, P. J. Noyes, rightly defines as
"the distinguishing disgrace of this coun-
try and age." His medical and pharma-
ceutical experiences qualify him to write
on his subject, and startling indeed are
some of his revelations of the way the
quacks impose upon their myriads of
dupes. The book should be carefully read,
not only by hypochondriacs, but by all.
Cochrane Publishing Co., New York.
The beauties and grandeur of loft y
Mount Rainier, or Tacoma, as the Indians
call it, are admirably set forth in "The
Mountain that was 'God/ " by John H.
Williams. It is copiously illustrated in
half-tone, from excellent photographs, and
abounds in information concerning the
imposing mountain itself, its approaches,
and the National Park. It may be re-
garded as the standard authority on this
feature of our country, and to read it
inspires one with the wish to visit the
mountain.
Published by the author, in Tacoma.
"Don'ts in Bridge" is a handy little vol-
ume, pocket-size, by Bell Bowman Emery,
and to follow its advice is to pla} 7 " good
bridge. It contains, in addition to a quan-
tity of sage advice, the latest rules and
penalties, simplified and condensed.
William R. Jenkins Co., New York.
"Democracy" and "Moral Education"
are two little books by A. G. Flack, whose
ideas appeal to one more from their ab-
stract excellence than from their practi-
cability. Still, the theories of visionaries
sometimes come about, and the theories ad-
vanced in these two booklets are too good
to be wholly impossible in the future, how-
ever distant. They are inapplicable to-
day.
Cochrane Publishing Co., New York.
For those who like Welsh rarebits made
with milk instead of beer; for those whose
tastes run to cookies, ginger wafers, angel
cake, pineapple tapioca, and other lady-
like preparations, "Mrs. Marvin's Cook
Book" will make interesting and instruct
tive reading.
Cochrane Publishing Co., New York.
"Bonbons" is the not inappropriate
title of a book of choice poems by F. P.
Savinien, whose verses are above the aver-
age even of those whose names are familiar
to us all.
Broadway Publishing Co., New York.
THE LITERATURE OF MEXICO
MEXICO HAS HAD little or
no time to devote to the arts,
but little as it has had, it has
developed in a wonderful de-
gree. The native Indian is a poet natural-
ly, and the cultivated Mexican, be he of
whatever extraction, has in his nature the
germ of poetry that must come to any one
who studies Mexico, its tribulations and
its people, or who is a lover of nature. Mex-
ico is so rich in tradition, its scenery is so
grandly beautiful, so stupendous in some
of it aspects, that it is little wonder that
its effect is inspiring to the Mexican
nature. Mexico is already rich in litera-
ture of native production. Art of the
brush or of the chisel comes first in estab-
lishing the national ideals, and Mexico has
produced many celebrated artists and
sculptors. The national taste is toward the
beautiful in stone or bronze and in paint-
ing.
It is difficult to say whether in the evo-
lution of the world the painting of emo-
tions by words preceded that of hiero-
glyphs, whether the parchment is older
than the stone to depict in lasting style
the feelings of a narrator. I have but a
limited knowledge of the Spanish language
and I have an abiding appreciation of its
beauties. Haphazardly I have picked up
a newspaper, "La Semana Illustrada." In
it T find a gem. Have you ever reflected
how rare it is that you find a gem in any
American newspaper of the present day?
I do not mean to infer for one moment
that everything you find in the Mexican
newspaper is above reproach. Far be it.
I have at times found items that were sup-
posed to be jokes that called loudly for the
scavenger or the health board disinfecting
corps. The wit at times is rather Euro-
pean, and that means that it is cheap and
nasty. The vulgarity of it is such as to
suggest that the author is a graduate from
an institution for the advancement of por-
nography.
The gem I call to mind is a prose poem