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The school income is, on an average, a little above a pound a week over all expenses. I wish that the financial part of all our church schools could be managed as easily as it is here. The tuition charge is two shillings per week, with no reduction where even three come from one family. No one speaks of the price as too high. The school-building was put up by a private loan which is now being paid back. Very soon we hope that the school will have paid for its building, and be bringing in funds to the conference to help where it is needed.

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About half of the school are half-castes, while the other half are about equal numbers of white children and Tongans. We use the English language wholly, as the Tongans are very anxious to learn to speak English, which to their minds is a great accomplishment; consequently, as a reward for their earnestness, they make rapid progress.

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MAKE CHILDHOOD SWEET.

WAIT not till the little hands are at rest Ere you fill them full of flowers; Wait not for the crowning tuberose To make sweet the last sad hours; But while in the busy household band, Your darlings still need your guiding hand; O, fill their lives with sweetness!

Wait not till the little hearts are still For the loving look or praise; But while you gently chide a fault, The good deed kindly praise. The word you would speak beside the bier Falls sweeter far on the living ear; O, fill young lives with sweetness!

Ah, what are kisses on cold, clay lips To the rosy mouth we press, When our wee one flies to her mother's arms For love's tenderest caress! Let never a worldly bauble keep Your heart from the joy each day should reap, Circling young lives with sweetness.

Give thanks each morn for the sturdy boys, Give thanks for the fairy girls; With a dower of wealth like this at home Would you rifle the earth of pearls? Wait not for death to gem Love's crown, But daily shower life's blessings down, And fill young hearts with sweetness.

Remember the homes where the light has fled, Where the rose has faded away; And the love that grows in youthful hearts, O, cherish it while you may! And make your home a garden of flowers, Where joy shall bloom through childhood's hours, And fill young hearts with sweetness. —Selected.

TRAINING FOR THE THRONE.

By Mrs. E. G. White

"Less, less of self each day, and more, my Lord, of Thee; O keep me in the path however rough it be. Leave naught within me of all that is my own, Strip me of self and so complete my training for the throne."

LIFE is disciplinary. While in the world, the Christian will meet with adverse influences. There will be provocations to test the temper; and it is by meeting these in a right spirit that the Christian graces are developed. If injuries and insults are meekly borne, if insulting words are responded to by gentle answers, and oppressive acts by kindness, this is evidence that the Spirit of Christ dwells in the heart.

The standard is high to which we must attain if we would be children of God, pure, holy, and undefiled. How could we reach this standard if there were no difficulties to meet, no obstacles to surmount, nothing to develop patience and endurance? Trials are not the smallest blessings that come to us.

They are designed to nerve us to determination to succeed. Instead of allowing them to hinder, oppress, or destroy us, we are to use them as God's means of enabling us to gain the victory over self.

In the daily life we often come in contact with those who are full of pettishness. In dealing with such ones, we are enjoined to "stand and rejoice." By obeying this injunction we shall be able always to gain the victory. When some one speaks fretfully, simply "stand and rejoice." Do not speak a word in reply to the provoking utterance. If the lips are open to speak in vindication of self, a volume of words will flow out. Keep silent. This is the easiest way to gain the victory.

Words spoken in reply to those who are angry usually act as a whip, lashing the temper into fury instead of soothing it. Great blessings are lost because of passionate words. Let us learn lessons of self-control. Feelings of anger, when met with silence, die out very quickly. Silence is eloquence, and puts to shame the one who is full of wrath. We can mortify Satan by keeping the tongue with all diligence.

Not only are we to rejoice, but "glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly." Wonderful love! "Scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."

The apostle Paul declares, "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Those who do not have this peace are liable to become irritable. He who manifests a fretful, scolding spirit may well ask himself the question, Am I a Christian? So long as he frets and scolds, he is not a Christian, and is exerting an influence that does great harm. Let us put on Christ; let us be Christ-like in every word and act; let us so live that others may see the difference between the disposition of a Christian and the disposition of one who makes no claim to be a follower of Jesus.

We are to realize that the divine Presence is constantly by our side. Christ has said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." He hears every unkind word, every harsh, cutting expression. Could we see Him standing by our side, would we speak such words? Words that create heart-burnings and disunion should never escape our lips. Let us guard carefully every word and act, walking in all lowliness of mind, cherishing a spirit of meekness and kindness.

Fathers and mothers, whether you are in your home or elsewhere, it is never right for you to speak one disrespectful word to each other. If you are harassed, say firmly to yourself, "This is from Satan. He wants me to echo his words, to communicate his spirit; but this I will not do." Determine to speak in love; to cultivate patience, kindness, long-suffering, courtesy, and delicacy in dealing with one another. Why?—Because you are Christians; because you are preparing for the society of the heavenly angels, for a home in the kingdom of glory, where no harsh, unkind, impatient words are ever spoken. Remember that it is Satan who prompts men and women to speak unkindly. Sanctify your talent of speech. Words are a precious gift, capable of doing much good, of accomplishing a great work for the Master. Every thought, every word, is recorded in the books of heaven. Guard well your thoughts and words, that in the judgment you may not be ashamed to meet your record.

As Satan failed utterly in his attempt to cause Christ to sin, so he will fail of overcoming us, if we act sensibly. Let us firmly resolve that when the enemy tempts us to speak hastily, feeling that we are treated unjustly or are misunderstood, we will not open our lips. If we should speak even one word in reply, the enemy would be almost sure to gain the victory. We must learn the lesson of silence. With tongues bridled, we may be victorious in every trial of patience through which we are called to pass. Let us here resolve that we will not sin against God with our lips, that we will never speak in a light and trifling manner, that we will never murmur or complain of the providence of God, and that we will not become accusers of our brethren. We can not always hinder the thoughts that come as temptations, but we can resist the enemy so that we shall not utter them. The adversary of souls is not permitted to read the thoughts of men, but he is a keen observer, and he marks the words and actions, and skilfully adapts his temptations accordingly. If all would labor to repress sinful thoughts and feelings, giving them no expression in words or acts, Satan would be defeated; for he would not know how to prepare his specious temptations to meet their cases. We want to form the habit of talking of heaven, beautiful heaven. Talk of that life which will continue as long as God shall live, and then you will forget your little trials and difficulties.—Mrs. E. G. White.

"LIKE as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards to contend."

PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPING.

By Mrs. B. R. Nordyke

ALL mothers the world over should be interested in practical, systematic housekeeping.

We find demanding our attention such home duties as housekeeping, the preparation of wholesome meals, making home neat and attractive, and maintaining a cheerful face and conversation. Then there are social duties, charitable work of various kinds, and self culture, moral and intellectual, for the sake of our families as well as for ourselves. And if the children are still young, first, last, and middle, the care of them.

All of these duties are laid before us, and every day and all day long we are trying to assign to each its share of time and attention.

We are living in a fast age. We are driven and hurried with work, often feel overpowered with the crowd of little engagements, little duties, little cares, with most of all the feeling that there is nothing to show for all the labor, that we have not done what we meant to do, that so much has been aimless and unprofitable. Is this the ideal life we want to live? Is there not some serener, nobler way? some way that perhaps we think a dear friend has attained, or whose steady, well-ordered course we look to with longing.

Whatever our work may be, it demands our best efforts. Order is Heaven's first law. Order brings its own reward, as a labor-saving machine. So we must have system and order for our foundation in housekeeping. First of all, let us ask wisdom from on high to guide us in these duties, that all may be done to the glory of God.

Importance of Arrangement.

I will suggest some remedies, some ways of making time. My first is that there should be an endeavor after system and method in arrangement. That the day's work should be planned beforehand, the day mapped out, as it were. The plan, of course, is of little value if not adhered to. Let this plan include a time for rest, for reading, for outdoor exercise, be the moments ever so few. And, if only for the sake of order and method, keep as nearly as possible to your plans. If disturbed, and things seem to turn topsy turvy, let us yield gracefully to the inevitable, but, like the stream, wind around the obstacle and again pursue our course.

My second remedy is to keep our standards within the limits of a reasonable possibility. Don't try to give all of your energies to your housekeeping, that your dwelling may be the choicest, best arranged, your cooking the most delicate and varied, your hospitality abundant, your calls all duly made, keeping up with the news of the day, and rubbing bright the intellectual powers with the friction of fresh reading and study. Don't think to do all of this and yet keep out of the retreat for the nervously prostrated. Rather leave a margin of time between, leave spaces for rest, cut off some of the unnecessary calls, the formal acquaintances, and keep your plans well within the bounds of possibility. Face the facts and arrange your affairs accordingly.

The Wearisome Usual Way.

We must not allow our occupations to be at the mercy of other people. We are so hurried and worried the day does not seem half long enough for us to accomplish the work we have undertaken. I suppose that many a day's record would read like this: A hasty bit of housekeeping, a little sweeping and dusting, a trip to town for shopping, some friend drops in, or you receive a formal caller. Little things fill the brief spaces between, and lo, the day is gone. The hour for the good man to arrive has come. The children are to be fed and put to bed. You seem to have done little, and yet feel tired. "Tired to death!" we often say. A crowd of undone things looms up before us, and the only relief is found in closing our eyes until another morning brings a repetition of the story.

All the work done is harmless, even good. So let us not weary in well-doing. Some one has well said that the kitchen is the heart of the home, and certain it is that no home can be perfectly comfortable in which the kitchen is not agreeably adjusted to its work.

The Importance of Cooking.

In cooking, the food should be prepared in a simple and healthful manner, so that it will be found more palatable as well as more wholesome because of its simplicity.

Cooking is no mean science, and it is one of the most essential in practical life. Some like the employment, while to others it is a painful drudgery. Let us not be discouraged in this work. We may not be able to realize that perfection in the performance of woman's duties as housewife as soon as we expected, for it can only be obtained by a long process of education. We can not expect to plant seeds to-day and reap fruit to-morrow. Let us carry to that effort the steady underlying determination to do this work as an angel of God might do it, and as Herbert says, "the meanest work becomes divine."

Let us regulate our lives in such a way as not to lose all of the sweetness of the present, while we strive after that which is beyond.

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS.

The Nobel prizes, founded with his vast fortune by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, to reward each year those who have most aided humanity by scientific or medical research, by idealistic literature, and by the promotion of peace, have been assigned this year to—

Philip Lesnard, Kiel University, for researches into cathode rays; Adolph von Baeyer, Munich University, for researches in organic chemistry; Professor Koch, of Berlin, for researches designed to promote the prevention and cure of tuberculosis; Henryk Sienkiewicz, whose trilogy of Polish historical novels is a lesson in patriotism. Baroness Berthe von Suttner, of Vienna, for labors and writings in the cause of international peace.

The World here adds the names of all who have received the Noble prizes since their foundation until the present year:

1901—Roentgen, X-rays; Van't Hoff, physicist; Von Behring, developer of antitoxin for diphtheria; Sully-Prudhomme, poet; Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross; Frederik Passy, writer on peace. 1902—Lorenz and Zeeman, physicists; Fischer, investigator of uric acid; Major Ross, malarial investigator; Mommsen, historian; Professor de Martens, who visited this country, with the Russian peace envoys. 1903—Becquerel, of the Becquerel rays; M. and Mme. Curie finders of radium; Arrhenius, Swedish chemist; Finsen, discoverer of Finsen rays; Bjornsen, poet; W. H. Cremer, M.P., of the London Arbitrator. 1904—Baron Rayleigh, British Royal Institution; Sir William Ramsey; Professor Payloff, St. Petersburg Military Academy of Medicine; Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet, and Jose Echegaray, Spanish dramatist.

Already the lengthening list is becoming an international Upper House of the truly great men of Europe—the men whose achievements dwarf the deeds of warriors and the petty contrivances of ordinary statesmanship.

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THE VALUE OF CALCIMINE.

By Isabel McDougall

[Isabel McDougall, in The Pilgrim for November.]

If you are unfortunate to live amid walls papered in a way that is thoroughly distasteful to you, calcimine is your best friend.

Many considerations enter into the choice of colors: the size of the room, its woodwork, its outlook, etc. Blue is the most difficult color to use. There are some beautiful shades of grayish blue and greenish blue, but calcimine apparently can not master them. On the contrary, green is nearly always successful, but it darkens a room, and is best for one with a sunny exposure. Yellow lightens a room; it takes the place of sunshine. Every house should have at least one yellow room in it. There are innumerable shades playing between yellow, brown, and red that are admirable but hard to describe. Indian red, rust color, terra cotta, tawny, russet, wood brown, convey no very clear idea.

Got Past That Long Ago

By Editor

"Got Past That Long Ago."—A story is told under various forms, of which this is one of its simplest versions, of a man and boy who were crossing a large lake in a sailboat. The boy, as he grew weary, fell asleep, the man steering the boat on the way. After several hours the father grew sleepy, and, waking the boy, he said to him, "Boy, you steer while I take a little nap." Then pointing to the north star, he called the boy's attention to it, and told him to "steer by that star." "All right," answered the boy; but after a short time of watching he fell asleep, and the boat swung around with the loosened rudder. The flapping of the sail roused the man. "Here, boy," he shouted, "what are you doing? Didn't I tell you to steer by that star?" "O, yes," hazily replied the boy, "but we got past that long ago." The incident in anecdote is well illustrated by our cartoon on our first page. Read the article on page 7, "Following the Wrong Lead." The church of Jesus Christ seems to have lost her bearing of the simple north-star Gospel doctrine, Gospel light, Gospel power, and is following a nearer, brighter light, which will soon die out and leave the church adrift on a dark, stormy sea, or a wreck on the shoals of state-and-church absolutism. God's light still constant shines. "Man turns from God, not God from man."

Our new Special, or, rather, our special number on New York conditions, next week. Many of them will be used in New York City. The conference there has subscribed for a large number. We have already received some subscriptions from others for use in the great metropolis of the country. Yet once more we ask, Who desires to pay for from five to one hundred or 1,000 copies to be used in that great city by the Greater New York Conference, the most populous in the United States, and the hardest to work? They will cost at the rate of $2.00 a hundred. Send money direct to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, Cal. Designate it "For New York Specials." Send by Draft, Check, Post-office, or Express Money-order, or by Registered Letter. All the others are preferable to the latter. Small sums may be sent in stamps, but wrap them so they will not stick. Here is a splendid opportunity to deny ourselves something we do not need and invest it in that which will save souls. But act promptly.

MELCHIZEDEK AND EGYPT.

THERE was published in the Chicago Times of Feb. 7, 1892, among the wonderfully-sensational things the Sunday journals serve to the public, the following, which has been lately resurrected and used as an evidence that Melchizedek was a veritable king in Jerusalem:

Professor Sayer of Oxford, England, has written a history in which he gives an account of the discovery on the banks of the Nile of a royal library which dates back to 1430 B.C. Such a discovery was sufficiently important in itself, but what lends to it an uncommon degree of interest is the fact that it contains sundry letters written by Melchizedek himself. In these letters he speaks of himself as king of Salem, or Shalem, and sometimes as king of Urusalem. The identity of this latter name with Jerusalem can hardly be successfully disputed. This is certainly a remarkable confirmation of the historical integrity of the Pentateuch. . . . It shows, too, that Palestine had libraries and historical documents at a much earlier period than has been generally believed. Finding the letters of Melchizedek on cuneiform tablets on the banks of the Nile is certainly a most important and unexpected discovery.

The Professor Sayer mentioned is evidently Prof. A. H. Sayce of Oxford, no one, so far as we know, has ever heard of any Professor Sayer of Oxford who has gained celebrity in archeological discovery, but Prof. A. H. Sayce is known the wide world over as one of the greatest. I enclosed a copy of this clipping to Professor Sayce of Oxford, and received from him the following, dated "Istar, Egypt, Dec. 18, 1905."

As you have guessed, the newspapers tatement is an echo, and a very faint one, of the discovery of the Tel El-Amarna tablets in 1887, and of what I wrote about them in my 'Higher Criticism' etc., in 1893. As you know, a king of Jerusalem does appear in the correspondence, but his name was Ebedtobor Ebed-kheba.

The statement in the Chicago Times was published before Professor Sayce's book was written, and the writer finding reference to a king of Jerusalem seems to have jumped to the conclusion that it must have been Melchizedek, inasmuch as Melchizedek is a title instead of a name, as is the case with so many of the ancient names which have come down to us; as for instance Pharaoh and Agag, titles instead of names.

More and more he who attempts to analyze newspaper reports will find that they are not to be depended upon at all. For instance, one comes to us in the Chicago American giving three pictures of persons every one of which is faked, and a story a little over half a column long in which there are no less than sixteen absolute misstatements, some of them without any sort of foundation at all; and that, as we have learned at different times, is a characteristic of the statements in papers of a sensational character. This, with the three false portraits published, make, it is safe to say, a score of false statements in the one little report.

What makes it clearly evident that the mistake is made in the name of "Sayer" for "Sayce" is the misspelling of the word "cuneiform."

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

Poetry. Thee Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Supreme Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Make Childhood Sweet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Editorial.—The Prayer of Human Need—A Great Literal Prophecy—Individual Rights and Self-Denial—The Minor and the Major—A Broad Confession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Question Corner.—Nos. 1769, 1770 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Outlook.—Which Is True?—How a Prominent Baptist Views the Situation—Unpopular Doctrines—"Hypnotism a Peril"—Nevertheless Absolute Secrecy Is Impossible—Some Sunday-law Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7

General.

The Will of God, W. A. SWEANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Polygamy, J. A. L. DERBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Federation of Churches, ALONZO T. JONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Is It a Religious Duty to Fast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Working for God, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 "Is This a Christian Nation?" U. G. ADKINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Missions.—Destruction of Our Printing-Plant and Tract-Society Office in Valparaiso, F. H. WESTPHAL—A Bogus Saint, C. E. MILTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13

The Home.—Training for the Throne—Practical Housekeeping, MRS. B. R. NORDYKE—Nobel Prize-Winners—The Value of Calcimine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15

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