¶ Where the charm of country life at a high-class health resort, with your comfort and perfect rest, is the aim of the management. Medical attention if desired. Rates, $15.00 per week.
LOMA LINDA SANITARIUM (Redlands) On main line Southern Pacific Railroad, near Redlands. Write for free booklet "A." Address, Loma Linda Sanitarium, Loma Linda, Redlands, Cal.
Reached by Southern Pacific Railroad from San Francisco or Oakland. Write for free booklet 16. Address, St. Helena Sanitarium, Sanitarium, Cal.
PARADISE VALLEY SANITARIUM. (San Diego) Reached by Santa Fe to San Diego or National City. Write for free booklet 23. Address, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal.
Take electric car at Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles. Write for free booklet "A." Address, Glendale Sanitarium, Glendale, Cal.
¶ Where the same methods are used as at the Boulder, Colo., Portland, Ore., Melrose, Mass., Battle Creek, Mich., and nearly a score of other successful sanitariums. Christian physicians and employees attend to the needs of each guest.
Open Every Day in the Year
ST. HELENA SANITARIUM TRAINING SCHOOL.
The next class for training missionary nurses begins April 1, 1907, and offers a very thoro course in this line of work, and extraordinary advantages in the way of practical experience. We shall be pleased to correspond with all interested persons who desire to devote their lives to this branch of the Master's work. For circulars and full information, address, St. Helena Sanitarium, or Dr. H. F. Rand, Sanitarium (Napa Co.), Cal.
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CALL AND RESPONSE.
By H. W. Cottrell
A CALL of far greater importance than that to an official position of trust, in conference, State, or nation, is the call of Jesus Christ to an ambassadorship in His work on earth, to which every true Christian is called. The heavenly King holds every ambassador responsible to properly represent Him and each of His interests on earth. "If riches increase, set not your heart upon them," but each soul should rather hold himself in readiness to distribute of the means the King of Heaven has made him steward over, as the interest of His work may require from time to time.
We are not our own, are we? We are "bought with a price." Our money is not our own, is it? Only stewards of the Lord's means for a time, and He is thereby testing each of us, as to the use we will make of it. The gold and the silver, and the cattle of the valleys and upon the many hills are His, but He permits us to gather from His earthly storehouse to hoard up, or to expend as we will. As stewards over His means, and as representatives of His work on earth, the Lord will require an impartial report of our expenditures, and of the varied interests of the ambassadorship.
Pacific Press Building, Closing the Last Gap in the Roof.
A Fund of $150,000.
There has never been a time when some department of our Father's cause did not need financial help. But just now it is in special need. At the recent council of the larger number of local conference presidents, union conference presidents, and General Conference Committee, together with many other leading men among us, held at Washington, D. C., it was decided to ask the people to contribute to the varied interests of the Lord's cause $150,000, as follows: To the Southern work, $50,000; Washington Sanitarium, $50,000; Review and Herald, $10,000; British school, $10,000; Academy in Nova Scotia, $2,000; Sanitarium in Denmark, $2,000; work in the West Indies, $4,000; Chilean printing-house and school, $2,000; and the Pacific Press, $20,000.
All the interests herein referred to are in actual need of help now. Those of us who are subscribers to the Review and Herald and the SIGNS OF THE TIMES are conversant with the straightened circumstances of these varied interests of the Lord's work at the present time. The work in the Southern States should have help at once. The Washington Sanitarium should have means to complete its structure already under process of erection, and to equip and furnish it. The Review and Herald Company lost heavily at the time of its fire in Battle Creek. The Pacific Press lost its entire plant, with all its stock of books and material for printing. It is also greatly in need of help.
The Pacific Press Nearly Completed.
Identifying His People with Himself.
Our God is a mighty Deliverer, and has thus proved Himself to be many times in the past. His plan for helping His work on earth is thru His people. His plan to help these interests in a financial way is to put it into the hearts of the people to give of the means He has placed in their hands. His Spirit, "the still, small voice," will speak to your heart to give for their relief, as He has prospered you, when you hear of the straightened circumstances of these institutions and departments in His work. "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it." "Quench not the Spirit."
The spirit of liberality will come upon God's people. One man living in California just sent five hundred dollars to the California Conference office to be applied on the one hundred and fifty thousand dollar fund. Both large and small amounts of money will be gladly received and greatly appreciated.
Much has already been said in reference to the financial need of the various interests involved in the $150,000 call, so I will not dwell upon them in this article, only to say that the Pacific Press people are still confined to the enlarged bicycle shed for their factory; which is, to say the least, very unsuitable and unsatisfactory during the rainy weather for the past several weeks. However, the new building is now enclosed. It is in its appearance and reality an ideal, modest factory. There is not, to my mind, the least semblance of show. It was planned and constructed with the one thought only in mind—service for God in extending to all the world His last generation message. I am sure you would be pleased with its simplicity if you could see it.
The press is a great factor in the hand of God for disseminating light and truth. Let each one help all he can, and the work of God will soon triumph gloriously.
If you have a preference, state plainly where you desire your gift to apply, and it will be so placed, otherwise, it will be divided pro rata among the various interests mentioned in the $150,000 call.
H. W. COTTRELL.
A VISIT TO MOUNTAIN VIEW.
By Stephen Nelson Haskell
THURSDAY, Jan. 10, 1907, we visited Mountain View. This was the first time we had seen the new publishing house. Elders Cottrell and Wilcox conducted us all about the building, and we were pleased to meet some of our old friends from Battle Creek, and some whom we first met in Switzerland thirty years ago.
We were pleased with the new publishing house, and with the spirit of sacrifice of the workers in the building of it. Some who might obtain five dollars a day in other13places on the coast are working for one dollar a day and their board. The work is progressing nicely. The building is covered with corrugated iron and the walls are of the same material, only of a different pattern. The building is one story high, and the simplicity of the structure, and the architectural design will commend itself to every believer in the third angel's message. Not one cent is expended for show. The whole arrangement is both practical and useful.
So all institutions in God's work should be erected with the work they have to do in view. His people will rally to sustain them. We could but think this was one reason why such sacrificing labor was performed by the workmen. It seemed like old times when such men as Elders James White, Uriah Smith, Joseph Bates, and others felt they were amply sustained on seven dollars a week.
There was power in the message then that touched hearts. The leading thought then was, How can we best scatter the truth to the best advantage? We long for the same power again to revive the hearts of this people.
Let none of our brethren feel there is extra expense in the erection of the present building, for that is not the case as far as we could see. We are sure all of the friends of the cause will contribute for this work, even if it be at a sacrifice on their part.
We understand that the tithe of the church at this place, notwithstanding losses from the earthquake and fire, was over $5,000 last year, and their donations were in proportion.
Happy are such a people, whose God is the Lord! If those who are connected with the work of publishing the truth have the same self-sacrificing spirit as is now manifested in the erection of the building, it will beget in the hearts of the people the same spirit, and the influence of the brethren and sisters on this coast will be felt, as in former times, thruout the world. S. N. HASKELL.
MY SONNET.
By Charles E. Martin
DEAR Lord, in grief I gaze upon Thy face
Writhed in agony, yet divinely fair.
I hear Thy cry upon the dark'ning air!
And 'neath Thy crown of thorns, sweet love I trace.
Thou Son of God! Thou Saviour of the race!
What son of man hath heart to breathe Thy prayer?
Can mortal love with that of Thine compare?
Thou Christ, revealer of redeeming grace.
Teach me to understand my ransom price,
Let my sad heart bleed till its cost I learn.
Teach me the worth of blood-bought paradise.
Give me, O Christ, the wisdom to discern
The true import of Thy great sacrifice;
For this, dear Lord, make me forever yearn.
—Charles E. Martin.
FOREIGN MISSION WORK AT HOME.
By H. Shultz
THE last message to all people is the Threefold Message of Rev. 14: 6-15, with its kindred truth. To say that the time has come for these truths to be given to the world is true, but this would hardly express the facts as they are. As we examine the prophecies we are forced to the conclusion that these messages must be given to this generation now living upon the earth, and by a more careful study of the word we find ourselves a long way down in the generation to which these messages are due, and that but a short time remains to finish up the work.
This being true, we know that the time has come for every Seventh-day Adventist to be working somewhere in the Master's vineyard. Let us not begin to make excuse and say, I am not fit to preach. It is true God has not called every man and woman to be a preacher by word of mouth, and yet none are excused from doing their part in carrying the Lord's last message. All the world is to be warned, every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. The world in their blindness do not seek after salvation; it must be brought to them.
So if we can not go forth and preach the word, get a good supply of papers, books, pamphlets, and tracts, and scatter them among the people like the autumn leaves after the frost has nipped them. They will do the preaching for you in a quiet way, and if any one gets angry at what they preach and throws them down, they will take the abuse without retaliating, and when they are picked up again, in a quiet way they will preach the same thing over again; and so men and women will be brought to a knowledge of the truth for this generation.
Remember, also, that America is a country made up of all nations. There are in the United States alone nearly 31,000,000 people speaking foreign tongues, and nearly half of these can not speak the English language. They must hear it in their own tongue, and as our brethren and sisters speaking a foreign language are anxious to have their American neighbors hear the glad message of a soon-coming Saviour, and provide them with English reading-matter, will not our American brethren and sisters everywhere look about them and see if they have not neighbors speaking other languages, learn of what nationality they are, and provide them with such publications as they are able to read? But you may ask, Where can we get literature in different tongues? Get it from your tract societies. State plainly in what language you desire the books or other reading-matter, and if your tract societies do not have them, send direct to the International Publishing Association, College View, Neb. Tell them what you want and it will be sent you at once.
The joy of our Lord is to see many souls saved in the kingdom of God thru His labors and sufferings, and if we would enter into His joy (Matt. 25:21-23), we must do something for others, to win them to the kingdom of our God. Then shall we enter into the same joy that fills the Master's heart.
H. SHULTZ.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
By Editor
A NEW church has just been dedicated at Ute, Iowa.
BROTHER W. E. BIDWELL baptized four at Camden, Ohio, recently.
ELDER R. C. PORTER has been elected president of the Southwestern Union Conference.
FOUR have been lately baptized into the truth in Chicago, two Americans and two Swedes.
IN Minneapolis, Brother H. Steen reports the baptism of two who have accepted present truth.
BROTHER SCOLES recently organized a church of twenty-five members and baptized five at Washburn, Ark.
BROTHER CLAUDE MCDONALD reports one baptism and two additions to the church at North McAllister, I. T.
BROTHER E. R. WILLIAMS and wife have been conducting meetings at Englewood, Ill., in which four have accepted the truths presented.
FOLLOWING the week of prayer readings at Healdsburg, Cal., sixteen, thirteen of them from the church school, went forward in baptism.
TWO PERSONS, a mother and a grown daughter, have accepted the truth at Birmingham, Ala., thru the labors of Brother and Sister C. C. Webster.
FOLLOWING a stirring sermon by Prof. Frederick Griggs at South Lancaster, Mass., recently, nine students of the academy were buried with their Lord in baptism.
EIGHT besides children are keeping the Sabbath at Alazan, Texas, where a Sabbath-school of nineteen members has been organized. Brother J. I. Taylor gives the report.
BROTHER CHAS. F. ULRICH's labors in East Wakefield, N. H., have resulted in bringing a man and his wife into the truth. A Sabbath-school of eleven members has been organized.
THE people of India are hearing the truth. Six are keeping the Sabbath in Colombo, Ceylon, having been taught the truth by Brother Owen. The interest is good in many other places.
AT the close of a tent-meeting at Pana, Ill., Brother J. B. Locken organized a Sabbath-school of fourteen members, which has increased to thirty-one. A number have accepted the truth.
EASTERN TIDINGS, a little paper published in Calcutta, tells of the baptism of four at Simultala by Brother W. W. Miller. These are Santals and have been taught the truth by Brother W. A. Barlow.
AN eight-page paper has been started in the Tahitian language. It is called Te Maramarama, meaning "The Light," and gives articles on present truth, besides the Sabbath-school lesson for the natives.
BROTHER C. J. KUNKEL writes in the Northern Union Reaper: "Our tent effort in Winnipeg has been an experience long to be remembered. The Lord has blessed us with the fruit of ten souls who rejoice in the present truth."
BROTHER G. W. CAVINESS, after several years of labor in Mexico City, is beginning to see the fruits of his efforts. At the close of their conference just held in that city, seven were baptized by Brother Caviness, several of them converts from Catholicism.
ONE man converted and others much interested, is the result of placing our papers in a mail-box on a public road. A neat sign was placed on the box, "Religious Literature—Free," and soon the brethren had to call on others to help supply papers to fill it.
RELIGIOUS liberty is a live issue in New York. Brother and Sister John S. Wightman have conducted a series of meetings along these lines at Elmira, N. Y., and early in January another series of lectures was begun in the city hall, Watertown, granted to them free, heated and lighted.
WORD comes that the main building of the Bethel Academy, at Bethel, Wis., was burned January 1, with a loss of $13,000. There was an insurance of $4,500. No lives were lost and practically everything was saved from the building. The school work will continue. Our friends there have our sympathy.
THE fifth annual session of the West Michigan Conference was held during the holiday season at Cedar Lake, Mich. An interesting and profitable session is reported. One hundred delegates attended the conferences, representing forty churches. A. G. Haughey was elected president; S. M. Butler, vice-president; secretary and treasurer, E. A. Merriman.
THE Manitoba Conference was held at Winnipeg the last week in December instead of in June as heretofore. Brother A. G. Daniells was present from Washington, D. C. It was a very successful conference, and was well reported by the local press. The following officers were chosen: president, W. M. Adams; vice-president, C. J. Kunkel; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. J. L. Adams.
AT the beginning of the year, Prof. Frederick Griggs resigned the principalship of South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy, which he had held for seven years, to give his whole time to the Department of Education of the General Conference. Prof. Benjamin F. Machlan, who for some years has been principal of the Beechwood (Ind.) Academy, has assumed the position as principal of the South Lancaster Academy.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CALIFORNIA-NEVADA CONFERENCE.
THE thirty-sixth annual meeting of the California-Nevada Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at San Jose, Cal., January 25, 2:30 P.M., at their church near the corner of Colfax and Delmas Ave., continuing until January 29, 1907.
Each church should at once elect their delegates at the ratio of one delegate for the church and an additional one for every twenty members.
A full delegation at this session is earnestly desired.
W. T. KNOX, President,
E. A. CHAPMAN, Secretary.
1890 and 1906 Compared
By C. S. Longacre
THE PRICE OF THE WORLD'S PEACE—$1,389,859,374.
THE most expensive blessing that the world enjoys is peace, armed peace. "No person knows what the various nations of the earth, constantly eyeing each other in watchful suspicion, like bulldogs in leash, pay for the maintenance of peace thru the preparedness of war." There are sources of great expenditure that are secreted and never publicly known. But for their armies and navies alone, eight of the principal powers spent last year the enormous total of $1,389,859,374.
It is difficult to grasp the immensity of such gigantic figures. Diverted to the channels of commerce, one year's cost of peace would build the Panama Canal five times over, with enough left to operate the waterway nearly seventy years. For the education of their children and the development of agriculture,—the greatest safeguards of future peace,—seven of these eight nations spend in the aggregate something more than one-third the cost of armies and navies, or $532,163,049.
Staggering under the enormous load, the world is continually adding to it. Each year witnesses a greater demand for the armament of nations. In 1890, only sixteen years ago, the total was $786,888,350. To-day it is nearly twice that sum. At the present rate of increase, Europe alone, ten years from now, it is estimated, will be spending $10,000,000,000 to preserve its peace and insure seeming good-will among men.
Should not these figures alone disclose the fallacy of the doctrine of the spiritual peace dreamers that the nations are about ready to beat their swords into plowshares and to learn war no more, and that the world is getting better—just entering the dawn of a millennium of peace and flowery beds of ease? If this were the case, should there not be some signs of the disarmament of these so-called civilized nations? Yet, to the contrary, the most civilized nations are making the greatest preparations for war.
In 1903 the United States had arisen to be the greatest exporting nation on the globe. It sold to foreign buyers products of its fields, mines, and factories to the value of $1,392,231,000. Yet all this industry of its farmers, miners, mechanics, and artisans resulted in but little more than enough to keep the armies of the world ready to fly at each other's throats, the navies manned and afloat. Such is the cost of armed peace. Neither is it a stationary cost; it is on the continual increase.
1890 and 1906 Compared.
France, Great Britain, Austria, United States, Germany, Russia, and Italy in 1890 spent upon their land and naval arms the grand total of $786,888,350. By 1898 these figures had grown to $1,028,644,150, and this year to $1,358,153,689. (Figures for Japan are not included, as they are not available for the earlier periods, altho they are included in the grand total for eight nations this year.) The increased cost, then, during the first eight-year period was $241,755,700, or an average of $30,219,450 a year. For the second eight-year period the increase was $329,509,719, an average of $41,188,614 a year. Think of the enormous total aggregate for this sixteen-year period alone, and then the added expense of several great wars during this same period, and you have the grand total of $17,732,401,732 for army and navy expenditures alone, without the immense war expenses of the war between Russia and Japan, England and the Boers, and the United States and Spain.
For What Purpose?
And now stop and think! For what purpose did these nations expend over seventeen billions of dollars during the last sixteen years? President Roosevelt answers this question in his last message to Congress by saying that the condition among the great nations was such to-day that this way of conducting affairs was the only avenue left to us in saving the nation from being wrecked and devoured by the other great military powers. Thus it is plain that, instead of securing peace, they have created a condition of fear, insecurity, and incapacity among themselves, in the discharge of national and international affairs, that there is now "upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity," and "men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming upon the earth."
The Genius of War Summoning the Nations to Arms. See Joel 3: 9-12.
All Europe Is a Vast Military Camp
staggering under its fearful load of soldiers and sailors, of fighting ships and modern guns, the maintenance of which is drying up its resources and sapping the very vitals of its subjects beyond endurance. "In 1865," states a French authority, "the military budget of Europe was represented by $55,000,000; in 1886 it was $700,000,000; in 1905 it was nearly $1,500,000,000. Should it continue to increase at the present rate, in 1915 it will be $2,000,000,000, and in 1945 [should time last] it will amount to $3,500,000,000 which will mean national annihilation for Europe, as the resources of the people will not increase in proportion."
This striving to keep its head above water as a principal power of the earth is responsible for the terrific debt of France, amounting to nearly $6,000,000,000. The immensity of this sum is difficult to grasp. The authority quoted above states that if it were converted into 100 sou pieces—a sou is about one cent—there would have to be to carry it 62,000 heavily laden carts, drawn by three horses each. But as other nations are constantly adding to their navies and the efficiency of their armies, France must do likewise. Her greatest strain has been in maintaining her place as the second naval power. In 1890 she spent $39,207,560 upon marine protection; eight years later this drain on her purse had grown to $57,391,389, and the present year witnessed a demand for $65,507,445. Germany has been even more lavish in her orders for new vessels and equipments and in maintaining the navy. In 1890 her naval budget was $3,658,720; in 1898 it jumped to $29,293,092, and last year to $60,216,916.
National Pride.
"The influence of navies on the fate of nations has been growing year by year," states a recent annual of the United States Navy. "Now, no nation, whatever has been its military power or its geographical position, can fight as a great world-nation unless it be strong upon the sea. For some, of course, this strength is more important than for others. To England it is life. But no matter what the country, if it falls behind in the race for naval supremacy, it falls behind in the race for greatness." This explains why seven of the great nations, which spent $181,833,015 on their navies in 1890, had increased this to $313,650,416 in 1898, and to $503,194,510 this year.
One would imagine that such enormously increased expenditures for warfare alone would arouse the people of the various countries to strenuous protest and abject humility. Yet the people of the world-powers take great pride in the efficiency of their navies and armies to destroy human life and property, and are constantly clamoring for greater preparedness of death-dealing missiles to use in the bloody race for national greatness and military supremacy. It appears as if the very demons of destruction have gone forth to the rulers and councils of all nations, inspiring their deliberations thru their satanic deceptions, making them believe that peace can be maintained thru superiority of carnal weapons, when eventually it will mean the utter overthrow of these great military powers.
Every nation in Europe has many enthusiastic workers employed in an effort to work up a fighting spirit among the people. To insure peace, for example, the German Navy League has forty men employed in the Berlin office headquarters alone, distributing literature, furnishing information, and working to increase the sentiment for greater naval growth. England persists in the belief that15in order to protect herself and her possessions she must be equal in naval strength to any other two nations. Her navy alone in 1890 cost $63,180,000; in 1898, $104,250,000; and in the past year it jumped to $175,390,935.
Japan proposes to spend $135,000,000 during the next eight years for naval expansion alone, in addition to the regular annual cost of maintenance. They propose to build eight battle-ships of the "Dreadnaughts" type, two armored cruiser squadrons of eight ships each, and three fast cruiser squadrons of four ships each.
But the United States
has opened the eyes of the world by her gigantic naval strides during the last sixteen years. Congress appropriated to the navy alone for 1890, $25,881,180; for 1898, $58,823,958; and for 1906, $118,000,000. And now the United States proposes to build three "Dreadnaughts," even larger than any yet proposed, in a single year, each of which is to cost about $7,000,000. These mighty, modern moving-fortresses of the sea are the costliest "doves of peace," and yet within a moment's time these mighty and costly battle-ships may be reduced, thru the submarine destroyers, to a worth much less than so much junk.
C. S. LONGACRE.
The writer is indebted to the editor of the Pittsburg Dispatch for several of the comparisons and statistics in this article.
[The remainder of this striking article will be found in our next week's issue. It deals with "The Meaning" of these war preparations, to the nations and to the world.—ED.]
