p. 703 | Signs of the Times, November 7, 1916 (11/7/1916)

Earlier text: Strange Survivals of a Bygone Age

For Sale—A Good Home

By Milton C. Wilcox

IN MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL.

It consists of the following: One acre of land, with family orchard of more than forty trees, of twelve different kinds of fruit, in good bearing; a two-story house of eleven rooms, besides two large halls, two bathrooms and toilets, two pantries, large attic and basement, large clothes closets, etc. Electric lighted throughout, and wired for electric cooking. Among the rooms is a large sun parlor, facing east and south. There are two large, noble live oak shade trees in the right places, eucalypti, palm, and orange, with plenty of ground for a good garden. Water piping well distributed. A bungalow of three rooms, besides large sleeping porch and bathroom and toilet. Modern plumbing and electric lighted. A good well 96 feet deep, water rising to 17 feet of the surface, responding faithfully to a centrifugal pump. Power plant for pumping. A good tank house 30 feet high, with 3,000-gallon tank, giving good pressure. Also a roomy, cool, dry garage. Both electrically lighted. Chicken house and yard. All in good condition, built from 1905 to 1916.

The situation is 39 miles from San Francisco, 5 miles from Stanford University, 13 miles from San Jose, 11 miles from College of the Pacific (Methodist), 7 minutes' walk from Pacific Press, a ten-grade church school, and S. D. A. church, 10 minutes' walk to a bank. Fourteen trains daily each way stop at the station; a good bus service every hour. Town "dry," two banks, five churches, etc. Climate the best in the world. A good community. Educational advantages excellent. Will send post-card views to persons interested. An excellent place for private sanitarium of an S. D. A. physician. Prefer cash, but will give terms on proper security. Address, Milton C. Wilcox, Mountain View, Cal.

Why Do God's Judgments Visit the Earth?

By Editor

You will find a satisfactory answer to this question in the November number of the Signs of the Times Magazine. It is known as a Capital and Labor number, because this seemingly unsolvable problem is featured both in articles and in cover.

Or, are you interested in these:

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
HARVEST OF HIGHER CRITICISM
WILL CHRIST RETURN?
THE GREAT SABBATH REFORM
HEAPING UP RICHES

Read this 48-page and cover magazine regularly. It stands almost alone as an exponent of the many prophecies which refer to the greater events and world conditions of our day.

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Must Sell My Home

By E. F. Counter

Called East

On account of being called to accept a position with the International Branch of the Pacific Press, at Brookfield, Illinois, I must sell my property in Mountain View as soon as possible. The property consists of a modern six-room house and two large lots — 100-foot front — with a family orchard of about thirty fruit trees, shade trees, nuts, berries, privet hedges, lawn, etc. Near church and intermediate church school; also exceptional public school advantages.

This place should sell for $2,500, but I am offering it now for $2,200. Terms if desired. For further particulars, address E. F. Counter, Mountain View, California.

A VERY HEALTHFUL COCOA SUBSTITUTE

Order 10 lbs. COTTOLATE 30c a lb.

A VERY HEALTHFUL COCOA SUBSTITUTE

far more nutritious, is ready to serve when brought to boiling point.

VEGETARIAN FOODS CO., ST. LOUIS, MO.

Home Workers' Books

$1.20 an hour for her spare time—

Not unusual by any means. It represents a woman's sales of those small, inexpensive books for children and adults known as

Home Workers' Books

One of them There are 15 others

What that woman did, you may be able to do. Try it. Former experience not necessary. A few of your afternoons or evenings spent in this way among neighbors, between now and Christmas, will return to you in cash. The experience will do you good in other ways, too.

Not trash; high-class, moral, educational, interest-compelling. The kind that particular people are looking for.

Costs but 50c to get started. That 50c pays for your cloth-covered, nickeled ring prospectus, which contains sample covers and pages of all the books.

Open to all. Write to our representative in your state to-day, or to PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL. Portland, Oregon Calgary, Alberta, Canada Kansas City, Missouri

SAN DIEGO

EXPOSITION

More Beautiful than Ever Many Foreign Exhibits and Additional Attractions Open All the Year Round Trip Excursion Daily from all points in California To San Diego

Frequent Trains Shortest Time

For Fares, Schedules, and Pullman Reservations Ask Southern Pacific Agent

Wanted for Missionary Work

By Editor

Elder T. Godfrey, 1520 East Fifth Street, Olympia, Washington, would like a continuous supply of clean papers for missionary work. Send him a package regularly. He will make good use of them.

Hygienic Cooking Oil

Dr. Godsmark's # HYGIENIC COOKING OIL

The shortening used by vegetarians. Shipped everywhere from Louisville, Ky.

Write for prices and descriptive circulars Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.

What Will Happen When Jesus Returns?

By Editor

By Carlyle B. Haynes

Planting the Crescent on St. Sophia's

By Jean Vuilleumier

Stemming the Tide of Unbelief

By Frederick Griggs

Three of Next Week's Features

The Facts Reversed

By F.

A GLARING reversal of fact is betrayed in the following sentences, which recently appeared in a widely read religious periodical: "When He [Jesus] comes, He will gather the church unto Himself in the clouds; then He and the church will come to earth to reign a thousand years. After the millennium, He will take the church with Him into heaven."

Such a statement is as far from the truth as heaven is from earth, for the millennium will open with the removal of every righteous person from the earth. The holy of all ages will be raised to life, and will ascend, together with the righteous living, to dwell in the mansions of the "Father's house" during that memorable thousand years. Furthermore, this earth — not heaven — after the renovating fires of the last day, will be the eternal abode of the saved.

Grave Perils Foreseen

By F.

REFERRING to the opportunities for social discontent and disturbance when the war is over, one of the presidential candidates recently declared:

“It requires no great degree of prophecy to discern troublous times in the future.”

Discerning statesmen of all political creeds voice the same note of concern. There seems to be a unanimity of opinion that an era of grave peril is approaching. But we are not limited to human sagacity for foreknowledge of the future. The Son of the living God Himself declared:

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” Luke 21: 25-28.

Times of national perplexity confront us—times that will cause the stoutest hearts to quail. Unprecedented problems and crises will arise in the social, industrial, political, financial, and religious worlds, for which the lessons of the past offer no solution.

© American Press Association Austrians ready to turn liquid fire upon the advancing Russian troops

Yet there is hope. There is rest for every burdened soul, peace for every troubled heart. The Christian fears not as others fear. Out from under the dark clouds of despair shines the rainbow of promise. Jesus is coming again. His coming will put an end to these distressing conditions. It will banish forever all anxiety. From then on, the Christian will be ever in the presence of Jesus, and “in Thy presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.” F.

To Conceal, Not to Expose

According to the Omaha Bee, Frank Alvah Parsons, of New York, in a lecture before the Woman's Club in Omaha, stated that "present-day styles are in a condition of mad riot and anarchy." "Clothes were originally made to conceal, not to expose."

Can the sober, reflective mind avoid the conclusion that there must be an unmistakable connection between the morals of the time and the dress of the time? The historian, as well as the student of Bible prophecy, knows that when morals take such a turn that luxury and gayety, to say nothing of indecency, become the order of the day, the people are doomed who insist in participating.

A Succession of Calamities

By Editor

RECENT dispatches tell of the hurricane that swept the Gulf States on October 18. The wind blew 99 miles an hour in some sections, while in others it is said to have reached a velocity of 114 miles. There was much destruction of property and some loss of life in the wake of this great storm.

On the twenty-third of October, a storm swept over the Great Lakes. Four steamers are reported as having gone down, and more than 50 lives were lost.

Word comes from India of a sharp earthquake shock felt all over the United Provinces. This shock was especially severe in the mountains.

But more serious than the earthquake in India were the floods that have spread destruction along the Jumna and Ganges rivers. These floods are declared to be the worst in the last 30 years.

We have also read in the dispatches, during recent days, of the earthquake that shook a large part of the South. There was also recently a severe earthquake on the southern portion of the Pacific Coast.

In the report of one of the storms, mention is made of an individual who died from fright. The Master has told us, concerning the last days, that we would finally reach the condition where men's hearts would be failing them for fear while they are looking on those things that are coming upon the earth. See Luke 21: 26. With all the turmoil that there is in the world, occasioned by the violence of strikes and the blood-red carnage of war, with storm and pestilence so manifest, it is not surprising that men should be filled with fear.

But this need not be our condition. If we understand the meaning of these things, and our hearts are stayed upon God, we will be calm in the very midst of stress and storm, tempest and pestilence. "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof." Ps. 46: 1-3.

Rumblings of the Social Volcano

By F.

PITCHED battles between police reserves and strike sympathizers characterized the strike of the three thousand Standard Oil employees at Bayonne, New Jersey. One woman was killed, three men seriously wounded, and more than twenty suffered minor wounds in one of the frays.

On October 2, 800 window washers in New York City went on a strike. They have been working fifty-one hours a week, at an average wage of sixteen dollars. They demand eighteen dollars for forty-eight hours' labor.

Twelve hundred miners are out on strike and lockout in the Sutter Creek and Amador City, California, districts.

The strike started by the colored workers on the Panama Canal spread until 500 street car employees have gone out, completely tying up the system. There were many fights, but no fatalities.

Twelve hundred barbers went out on a strike at Brooklyn, New York, in their endeavor to enforce certain agreements which they allege have been violated.

The strike in the plant of Thomas A. Edison has spread until 600 men are now idle.

Such are some of the rumblings and mutterings of the social volcano. These intensifying conditions will produce in part the "perilous times" foretold by the apostle Paul. 2 Tim. 3: 1. But according to the divine Word, we may expect such things to continue and increase until Christ returns. Then, and not until then, will end the world's industrial strife. Then will wickedness be overthrown. Then will justice, equity, and truth be established eternally. F.

Prayer Meetings Abandoned for Movies

By F.

According to Leslie's, "a Long Island (New York) preacher declares that prayer meeting will have to be abandoned shortly, because of the lack of attendance, probably due to the movies." "This know also, that in the last days . . . men shall be . . . lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." 2 Tim. 3: 1-5. F.

Air-Line Service Between Berlin and Constantinople

By F.

According to press reports, plans are on foot for the establishment of an air-line service between Berlin and Constantinople. It is said that several prominent financiers are behind the project. The report does not state whether Zeppelins or aëroplanes would be employed if the plans were carried out. The sentiment seems universal that there is a tremendous future for the airship. F.

Universal Military Training Movement

By F.

FIFTY Chicago men met on October 13 to form a branch of the national organization having for its object the passage by Congress of legislation making military training and military service universal among the youth of the country. According to press reports, $30,000 was raised "in one minute" for a fund for spreading the propaganda. F.

Increasing Cigarette Production

We are informed that "the number of cigarettes manufactured in the United States during the past fiscal year was about two billion a month, and the production is increasing at the rate of over forty per cent a year."

A Record Number of Divorces

According to the secretary of the Interstate Committee on Marriage and Divorce, the United States has broken all previous records for a single nation by granting over 125,000 divorce decrees in a single year.