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| General | | | The Mystery of God | 3 | | The Testimony of Jesus | 4 | | Studies in Daniel—God the Vindicator | 5 | | The Perpetuity of God's Law | 8 | | Just with God | 9 |
| Our Bible Reading | | | Christ and the Sabbath | 7 |
| The Outlook | | | From the Troubled Land of Sinim | 10 | | Notes | 13, 16 |
| Home and Fireside | | | The Use of Drugs at the Family Table | 14 |
| Poetry | | | A Reverie | 5 | | Fig-Leaf Aprons | 8 | | Little Things | 14 |
The Proposed Department of Health
This is a soul-stirring, nerve-harrowing time; especially in the political world is everything at high tension. Every candidate for prominent office is afraid of every other candidate. Men are borrowing trouble over various measures before Congress and legislatures to a degree never before known. Just now there is a great deal of opposition to the “Owen Bill” which provides for a new department in the Government known as the “Department of Health,” which shall combine the Public Health Department and the Marine Hospital Service (now in the Treasury Department), the Bureau of Vital Statistics (now in the Department of Commerce and Labor), and the Bureau of Chemistry (now a branch of the Department of Agriculture). The League of Medical Freedom, the smaller medical schools, Christian Scientists, and many others are said to be strongly opposing the bill. Yet the Journal of the American Medical Association declares that no one can be injured except the medical frauds in patent medicines, adulterated drugs, etc.; that it will not interfere with any “healer” in any State. The bill does not add new laws, but puts three bureaus, now existing, under one department, making them much more effective.
Romantic History and Prophecy
Romantic history is one thing; prophecy is quite another.
The Use of Drugs at the Family Table
By Editor
Read "The Use of Drugs at the Family Table," and discontinue if you are using them. Dr. Paulson will have other articles for us from time to time.
Books Available for Order
By Editor
We can fill all orders for "All Past Time," and can fill a few orders for "Date of Creation" or "Historical Bible" with "All Past Time," for $1.15. We may not be able to get the last two named, but will try.
China’s Provisional Government
By Editor
Dr. Sun Yat Sen has been inaugurated provisional president of the Republic of China. The latest is that the emperor will abdicate and at the same time go through the farce of proclaiming a republic. May God overrule for the good of humanity.
Who Wrote It?
By Editor
A postal card comes to us from Marshfield, Oregon, dated January 4, asking for a copy of "All Past Time," but the card has been wet, and the box number, a portion of the message, and the name of the writer have been utterly obliterated. Who wrote it?
God’s Plans Overrule Human Dreams
The thoughtful reader of history will often note that the prophecies, schemes, plans, and dreams of great men are generally set aside by God's plans. Nebuchadnezzar planned for an eternal world empire; but at that very time the man was born who should sit upon the throne of conquered Babylon. So may all the dreams of Russia, Germany, the United States, and other powers come to naught.
Germany Aiding Turkey.
A despatch in the London Weekly Times of December 22, 1911, from its own correspondent, dated Sofia, December 19, says:
I learn from a trustworthy source that on the night of December 11-12 a special train conveying war material from Germany arrived at the Turco-Servian frontier station of Zibeftche, where it was met by an officer of superior rank despatched specially from Uskub. The utmost secrecy was observed, and the train, preceded by a pilot engine, left for Salonika and Constantinople, its progress being reported from various stations along the line. Another train, similarly laden, was expected to reach Zibeftche on the 16th inst., but information is not yet forthcoming with regard to its arrival.
According to the same source, the Turkish ambassador in Berlin has rendered the thanks of his government to the Emperor William for the convincing proof of German friendship furnished by the despatch of munitions of war to Turkey at this critical juncture.
The same correspondent declares that “war preparations are being rapidly pushed” in the European vilayets of Turkey, especially in the Albanian districts and near the Montenegrin frontier. “The situation in Macedonia daily grows worse.” When the great break comes, Germany or a German confederation may be in control of Turkey from the Danube to the Persian Gulf. But general war will not come till God’s work is ready. He is holding the winds of war. Rev. 7:1.
In Defense of General Otis
By Editor
We hold no brief for Gen. H. G. Otis of the Los Angeles Times. We do not agree with him in many things. We think his methods of verbal warfare are too militant, harsh, irritating; but all this does not justify the cauterizing abuse, the fiery falsehood, the base insinuations to which he has been subjected, whether from a candidate for the governor of the State or an irresponsible labor agitator. If he were the low-dyed villain he is said to be (see expressions of this quoted in Current Literature for January) it is strange indeed that he and his paper should receive the patronage given by the Southern California community composed of a class of people of more than average intelligence, and strongly American. General Otis, as stated in the Times for December 14, supports “the vital principle of liberty under law. . . . We are for ‘equality of opportunity,’ fair play, an even chance for all workers and employers in the domain of labor everywhere,—labor of every grade and kind. We believe that workmen should be allowed to join or refuse to join, labor unions, according to the personal choice of each. We hold they should not be subjected to coercion under any circumstances or from any source. We repeat that the Times has never assailed law-abiding organized labor as such, or merely because it was organized. But we have opposed lawless labor, whether organized or unorganized, whenever it has shown itself to be so, or has tolerated lawless persons in its ranks, or justified lawless acts done by its members, or persecuted independent workmen exercising their indefeasible right to work freely, according to their own individual choice, and to have the full protection of the law in the exercise of that right—a right constitutional, industrial, and personal in its very nature.” We would suggest that if our readers wish to learn the real attitude of the Times that they send for the issue of December 14, 1911, “Its Stand on Labor.” Surely we do not see what is wrong with these principles.
China
By Editor
China.—We give large place, in our Outlook department, to conditions in China, as reported by mail from our own correspondents. These reports, of course, are not up to date. As this number is about to go to press, the cable reports from China are that the Manchus are ready to abdicate, and have practically decided it, and have accepted the terms of the republicans, which are protection and respect such as would be accorded to a retired foreigner residing in China, allowing the royal family to retain the palace at Jehol, or another palace near Peking, for the use of the emperor. Other members of the imperial family to retain their personal wealth and property, and all Manchu pensions to continue for a fixed term; and the payment of a large annual pension to the court, said to be $6,500,000. The Manchu dynasty has been in need of funds, but the princes who hold so much wealth have not been free to contribute to what is clear to them as a dying cause. The empress dowager, it is said, feels that the government is powerless without foreign assistance, and has asked Yuan Shi Kai to conclude the best possible arrangement in connection with the retirement of the imperial family. What will be done with the government is not known. A limited monarchy has been suggested for the north of China, and a republic for the south, provisionally so, the two to unite afterward. But this is by some thought impracticable. Yuan Shi Kai feels that abdication is the only hope, but it is understood that he has referred this abdication to certain foreign powers, in which case the two weeks' extension of the armistice will be asked for. Sun Yat Sen is pleased with the results so far, and thinks that it is probable that Yuan Shi Kai might be the president of the new republic. He declares that he will resign when the Manchu government has been ousted, and peace completely restored. A barbarous thing is reported at Shanghai, January 14, of two imperialists going into a French hospital and murdering a prominent rebel, as he was lying in bed sick. Both of them escaped. This shows the desperate straits, as well as the disposition of the entire Manchu dynasty. It is to be hoped that peace will speedily be restored, and with peace order throughout the entire empire, under the new régime.
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