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Approximate Chronology

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Second Coming

By Editor

“Heralds of His Coming,” Apples of Gold Library, No. 85, gives an outline of the unmistakable signs of the nearness of Christ’s coming. Increase of riches, of crime, of knowledge; last-day scoffers; signs in sun, moon, and stars; peace and safety cry; preparation for war; great spiritual declension,—are some of these evidences. This popular tract, a copy, 3 cents, post-paid; a hundred, $1.50. This office.

The Law

By Editor

That question of “Under the law or under grace?” is a constantly recurring one. Bible Students’ Library tract No. 163 gives a careful answer from the Bible. Single copy, 2 cents; a hundred, $1.00. This office.

Sabbath

By Editor

The day of the Sabbath confuses many honest inquirers. What day is it? or is it any particular day? These questions are carefully answered in “The Day of the Sabbath,” Apples of Gold Library, No. 50. A copy of this little help, post-paid, 2 cents; $1.00 a hundred. This office.

The Law

By Editor

An excellent tract to study in connection with the law of God is Bible Students’ Library, No. 178, “The Perpetuity of the Law of God.” Single copy, post-paid, 2 cents; $1.00 a hundred. This office.

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Co-operation Corner

Who Will Help?

THERE are many of our readers who prize greatly the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and the blessed truth which it contains. Some of them are not so situated as to do any missionary work whatever. Some are not so circumstanced financially that they are able to take clubs of the SIGNS. There are others who are able and who would be willing, we are sure, to subscribe for clubs of the SIGNS, if they knew they would be used in a good way in helping to save souls who do not know the Lord Jesus and His message. For instance, there is before us a letter regarding a lady who lives so far away from other habitations, out upon the prairie, where one has said it “would take a good spy-glass to see anything but the sky.” She would be glad to use these papers, and to send them to those who are poor and needy, and who are interested; and she is a sample of many others. Who will contribute to this fund for enlarging the circulation of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in a way in which definite, individual missionary work shall be done? We shall be glad to give credit in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to all those who will contribute for this purpose. If there are those who do not desire that their names shall be published, we will credit the amount which they send to any designation which they may desire.

Immortality

We would recommend as a brief help in study of the immortality question, “Is Man Immortal?” Apples of Gold Library, No. 86. Single copy, 2 cents, post-paid; $1.00 a hundred. This office. Those who are making an investigation of the Bible teaching on immortality should secure the tract “Thoughts for the Candid,” Bible Students’ Library, 47. Single copy, post-paid, 2 cents; 50 cents a hundred. This office.

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An Encouraging Report

By Editor

We wonder if our readers went over all the items in "Our Work and Workers" department in our last issue. If they did, they read there of 483 different persons who had accepted the truth of the message which the SIGNS OF THE TIMES bears to the world, and were added to the church. There are besides these, 889 who are reported as being baptized. These do not include the number above,—a total of 1,372 reported. Note that this has reference only to those reported. In our gathering together these facts from our various state conference papers, we have not noted the many smaller reports of one and two; nor are all reported in these papers, by any means. For instance, we have attended four camp-meetings ourselves, but we have failed to find any report of these camp-meetings during this year thus far. It will also be noted that three churches have been erected and dedicated, and that eight churches have been organized. Certainly this is an encouraging report, but this is only one of many.

Right or Success.

The present political struggle through which the United States is passing has a great influence in the development of character. There are some who desire to be right. They may be wrong in their conclusions through various reasons,—misinformation and otherwise; but they have a desire to be right, and what they do, to do it because it is right. There are others that desire success. The spirit that seems to govern them is that expressed by a politician in days gone by, in a toast, "My country, may she always be right; but right or wrong, my country." The same principle leads many to say, "My party, may it always be right; but right or wrong, my party."

It recalls an expression of Lord Melbourne, in a cabinet meeting in the early days of Queen Victoria. Melbourne was then prime minister. The meeting threatened to break up in confusion. He put his back to the door, and in a cynical way said: "Gentlemen, we can tell the House the truth, or we can tell it a lie. I don't care which. All I insist on is that we shall all tell the same lie, and that you shall not leave the room until it is settled what it is to be." And so it is with many political conventions; it is not the essential thing in the minds of many whether the convention is right, or whether it is wrong, but that everybody shall know what it is and observe it. There is one thing that is above all this, and that is to be right, to have a conscience void of offense, to submit all political parties and all political programs, and for that matter all religious parties and programs, to the matter of eternal right, and stand with the right; for he that stands with the right stands with God, and is bound to triumph in God's time.

California Race-Track Gambling Law

By Editor

The proposed race-track gambling law now before the people of California, to be submitted November 5, has not, it is stated, one newspaper in California in favor of it, or at least that has expressed itself in favor of the proposed law. No political party has endorsed it, and "legitimate sportsmen" and their publications are repudiating it, while various organizations are forming for its defeat. There is a great deal of exhortation to people to arise and defeat it, but it really would seem as if it were defeated in advance. Certainly it ought to be.

The Sanctuary and Its Meaning

By Editor

We begin, in this issue, a series of articles on the sanctuary and its meaning, by Mrs. S. N. Haskell. We are sure many of our readers will peruse them with great interest. These will take the place of the articles on the priesthood advertised, which were to be furnished by the editor. His trip East prevented his writing them in time for this closing volume. This we regret, but the articles from Mrs. Haskell will compensate.

Contained in this Issue

By Editor

Question Corner	PAGE
3895 — Faith to Thyself; 3896 — A Pillar; 3897 — Cruelty of David; 3898 — The Law in the Heart; 3899 — How Supported? 3900 — The Leaven	2

| Our Bible Band | 2 |

| Editorial | | | The Temptation of Jesus | 3 | | The Sabbath in Apostolic Times | 4 | | Knew Not Jesus | 5 | | The Balkans and the Turk | 5 | | Notes | 11, 14, 16 |

| General | | | The Commandments Are to Be Obeyed | 6 | | The Reward of the Saints | 7 | | Light in the Darkness | 8 | | Seventh Day Easy to Keep | 9 |

| Home and Fireside | | | The Mother as a Companion to Her Children | 12 | | The Art of Living Together | 12 | | Cats Are Dangerous | 12 | | "Didn't Mean Like That" | 12 |

| Our Work and Workers | 13 |

| Poetry | | | Broken Fetters | 6 | | Thanksgiving and Praises | 7 | | Moment by Moment | 8 | | Under His Wing | 12 |

Note.—Read our "Coöperation Corner" on the previous page.

J. E. H

By Editor

Valuable Paper.—The following kind note comes to us from one in Southern California who has been reading along religious liberty lines in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES:

"The SIGNS OF THE TIMES is a very valuable paper. An utterance of 1776 of the Presbytery of Hanover, Virginia, and the Baptists and Quakers to the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776, is not asking more than a God-given right. I am seventy-nine years old, and a Methodist and a Socialist. We do not want to go back to the Dark Ages. I have not yet found one comrade that wants church and state united, and I have talked with many since getting your valuable paper. God bless you and prosper you and your paper. I am

"Yours for equal rights for all,

J. E. H

His Coming Is Near.

By Editor

The Kansas City Star of October 4, this present year, in a despatch from Denver, declares that twelve different clergymen, representing the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Congregational denominations, unitedly declare that Christ will return to earth in this generation, and that His coming may be expected at any moment or hour, as prophesied in the Scriptures, and that October 6 these clergymen were to preach upon that subject. It is declared that sin is rampant in the world, vice is increasing, the world is becoming more wicked instead of better. That the prophecies of Christ's second advent mentioned in the Bible have come to pass is ascribed as the cause of the approaching return of Christ. Now according to this report, it seems that the good brethren are looking upon some things in an exaggerated light. There are certain things that must yet come to pass before the Lord comes, but they are right in declaring that the coming of the Lord is near. This is what the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has been declaring for more than thirty years, and it is abundantly sustained by the Word of God, and by the fulfilment of that Word in numerous signs and omens.

Catholic Defense League

By Editor

Catholic Defense League.—The "London Letter" of the Western Watchman, in its issue of October 10, declares that an energetic priest, Father Dowling, is engineering a Catholic Defense League. "He draws attention to the fact that there is a section in Italy who are quite prepared to seize the Vatican and all it contains when next the papal chair becomes vacant, on pretense that the Vatican and St. Peters belong, like the rest of church property, to the Italian government, and are only loaned to the church for the purposes of religion. And there is a large following of modern Italians ready to make the expenses of the war an excuse for this fresh act of sacrilege. Father Dowling's argument is that if church property were vested in an international association, with due safeguards against encroachments by the laity, it would be impossible for a single government to sequestrate the goods of the church, because the association could appeal to the ambassadors of its various members' nationalities."

We would just remark that it would seem as if with such a large anti-Catholic mass of Italians as this seems to indicate, Roman Catholics ought to be willing that Methodists and other Protestants should do the best they could to convert them.

Felix Diaz Leads Mexican Rebellion

A new complication has been thrown into the rebellion in Mexico by Felix Diaz, nephew of the deposed president Porfirio Diaz, suddenly coming to the front as a leader. He has seized several important posts, the city of Vera Cruz being among them. A messenger is on the way to France to confer with his distinguished uncle, who is to be his adviser. Five thousand federal troops that were drawn up to help overthrow the new Diaz all mutinied. It would seem at present that the name of Diaz, even tho it be worn by the nephew of the deposed but very successful old president, is one of the most formidable things that the Madero government has to encounter.

Typhoon and the World’s Disasters

By Editor

On October 16 a typhoon swept the Philippines, extending over a very wide area. It is estimated that the damage will reach some $25,000,000. The army and navy have joined the local government in measures of relief. This great storm follows very quickly the similar one that spread so much destruction in Japan a few weeks ago. And while such storms are incident to that part of the world, yet it is a noticeable fact that destructive storms and great disasters are becoming more and more frequent and appalling in all parts of the world. These things should make men think. There is a clear cause for it all. The Lord says, in His Word, that He has a controversy with the people because of their iniquities. This old earth is struggling in her death throes beneath the weight of her degradation in her career of sin. The end is not far away.

The Shooting of Colonel Roosevelt

The shooting of Colonel Roosevelt is one of the numerous happenings which show the class of cranks that will be developed more and more by the heated discussions of the age. Judging from the speeches and the publications of the time, it is clear that nearly everybody is convinced that there is much that is very wrong. And in view of this, there are many defamatory as well as inflammatory utterances. There are certain unbalanced minds that take these things very seriously, and there is no forecasting what course their mania will lead them to take. This man Schrank who shot Mr. Roosevelt was under the delusion that the "spirits" were driving him to do the deed. Men who are not under the popular delusion concerning the immortality of the soul and the conscious state of the dead, are immune from the deceptions of such deceiving "spirits."

Memory Text for the Week

John 11:25

"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth on Me, tho he die, yet shall he live."