p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 33. (8/26/1913)

Earlier text: War Preparations and Peace

Heralds of His 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.

An Exposition of Matthew 24

By Editor

As a brief work to assist in the study of any phase of Christ's prophecy relating to His second coming, we can recommend nothing more highly than the pamphlet "An Exposition of Matthew 24." You will appreciate its simple, thoro, direct manner of explanation. Contains 94 pages, and costs only ten cents, post-paid. This office.

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The Law

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Calamities

By Editor

Calamities.—The East is not through with its storms for this year, seemingly. It has not only had its fearful suffering from the heat, but this has been followed by severe storms in six states. We noted the fearful storm in Washington. Four were killed and fifteen persons injured in Philadelphia, and five persons were killed and a score injured in the vicinity of New York. Many have been killed, and there has been great loss of property also. Kansas is still suffering from heat conditions, the mercury ranging from 100 in Kansas City to 110 at Great Bend. Prayers for rain were offered in all the churches of Marshall, Missouri, Sunday, and many of the citizens knelt in the streets and prayed. Fires are continually occurring as the result of the drought. In auto accidents, three men were killed and one fatally injured near Wyandotte, Michigan, August 10, and four instantly killed and seven injured in automobile accidents in San Lorenzo, near Oakland. At the same time, we have great loss of life recorded as the result of a flood in India. Cable advices state that there has been an appalling loss of life through the Demodar River bursting its banks near Burdman. Only 200, it is said, out of 30,000 inhabitants, reached the railroad depot safely.

Names and Character

THERE is more or less discussion going on in the papers over the proposed change of name of the Protestant Episcopal Church. There are some that want it the "American Catholic Church," some want to drop out the term "Protestant," some deny the Protestant Episcopal Church's right to the name "Catholic," etc., etc. One writer in the Knickerbocker Press declares that the desire for the name "Catholic" is not a slap at Protestantism, nor does it imply that Catholicity is synonymous with ultramontanism, intellectual slavery, and political ambition. He says the chief reason churchmen do not wish to be Greek or Roman Catholics is that this is not Greece, nor Rome, nor Russia, nor Bulgaria, nor Armenia, all of which maintain their own national churches, but happens to be America, and they naturally prefer to belong to the American Catholic Church.

There is an ambition that is higher and better than this, and that is to belong to the living body of Christ Jesus our Lord. Human names signify but little; character is everything. To the character belongs a teaching, a message, and the message of Christ touching personal duty and personal truth is always distinctive.

Contained in This Issue

By Editor

Question Corner ................................. Page 2 4157—Genealogy of Jesus; 4158—Mohammedans and the Sunday; 4159—"The Elect Lady;" 4160—Striving for a Prize; 4161—Unclean of Itself; 4162—"Is Greater than He;" 4163—His Soul Within Him Mourneth

Our Bible Band ................................... Page 2

General ............................................. Pages 3-5 Watch and Pray Our Lord and Moses The Word of God Can Not Fail ............. Mrs. E. G. White The Seeking Saviour ............................ J. F. Tolson

Poetry ................................................ Page 5 I Will Sing of Thy Mercies ................ Llewellyn A. Morrison My Redeemer ................................ Mrs. Lillie Richardson The Deliverer Is Coming ................... Worthie Harris Holden We Love Because He Loves ................. Eleanor L. Burns Sabbath Day—Evening and Morning .... Violet Miriam Beck Angel Drovers ................................... Delwin Rees Buckner

Bible Studies of Vital Import ................. Pages 6, 7 Our Great High Priest Melchizedek and the Priesthood ............... A. F. Ferguson

The Outlook ........................................ Pages 8-11 Physiologic Signs of the Times ............ George Thomason, M.D. Long Beach Sunday Concerts and the Churches ... E. Hilliard The Militant Suffragettes Notes

The Home ........................................... Page 12 Criticism The Awful Slavery of Fashion

Missions ............................................. Page 14 Need of Qualified Workers in China ............. O. A. Hall Our Mission Funds From Hankow ....................................... Frederick Lee From Ying Shang .............................. Dr. Bertha Selmon

MILTON C. WILCOX

By Milton C. Wilcox

Personal.—My relationship with this journal as editor will close with the last issue in September, for several months' vacation. I mention this thus early that those who have been addressing communications to me but designed for the paper may send them to the proper parties. All moneys and subscriptions should be addressed to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES or the Pacific Press Publishing Association, with business and purpose distinctly stated. All designed for the editor should be addressed, "Editor SIGNS OF THE TIMES." Pastor A. O. Tait, the present associate editor, will be in charge of the journal. My personal address will be, for the present, Mountain View, California.

MILTON C. WILCOX

Missions Department

By Editor

Read our Missions department on page 14.

Two Important Outlook Articles

By Editor

We publish soon two articles of special importance in our Outlook department, "The Great Red Plague" and "Reform in the Calendar."

Pastor R. C. Porter En Route to China

By Editor

We had a few minutes' call from Pastor R. C. Porter August 13 on his way to China as the president of that mission field. He sailed from San Francisco August 16. May God go with him.

The Power of the Truth to Regenerate.

By Editor

A letter comes to us from a brother whose life for years has been spent in a large city, telling of the wonderful goodness of God to him. We have not space for the whole letter. Let this suffice to show what grace will do for the human soul if there is a longing for it. This man was brought up in what is known as the "bloody sixth ward" of New York City, right down in Five Points. Here he learned all of the iniquities of the wharf rat, drank, swore, stole, from the time that he was ten years old upward. Went to a great Western city, connected with one of its worst dives, became a bouncer for that dive, and there lived for years. His wife, in the meantime, attended a Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting. He laughed at her, ridiculed the religion, knowing nothing, of course, about it really. Finally he was persuaded to go there, and attended one or two afternoons, saw what the grace of God would do for men and women, saw how different they were from those with whom he was associating every day. When he went back to the dive, he wondered in his heart that God did not wipe out the whole thing. What was there there that was worth any existence at all? God's angel was moving upon his heart and helping him to see the sinfulness of sin, creating in him a longing for righteousness, altho he did not know it. He wondered what ailed him. Finally he attended meetings nights instead of staying at the dive. Not long after this he himself united with God's children, and found joy in serving Him. Yet this is not all the story. Under the strong stress of temptation and needed money, he yielded again, and went back to his old life, but without any joy or satisfaction in it. While there, he again came to himself and gave himself to God, and gave himself in so whole-hearted a way that the old life, with all its folly and sin and wickedness, has no hold upon him. In his own words:

"I find more pleasure in serving Him, and I love to do His will. You can have the world and all its pleasures, but give me the love of Christ in my heart, for this is the grandest life, serving the Lord. And to-day my feet are planted on the rock firmer than ever, and I ask you to pray, and others, that the Lord will give me more of His Spirit to do His will, remain true to Him, and never do anything to bring reproach on His name."

Let our readers pray for this brand plucked from the burning. May God help him, that his life may be so full of service for the Master that there shall be no room for the devil to enter.

Three Excellent Tracts.

By Editor

The Pacific Press has just issued three excellent tracts, worthy of a large circulation.

A Perfect Law

1. “A Perfect Law.” It is a lawyer’s testimony regarding the law of God, an excellent companion to Flora Warren’s “Law of Love” chart. This tract is Bible Students’ Library, No. 208. Price ½ cent.

Shall We Eat Meat?

2. "Shall We Eat Meat?" What a physician and an editor say about it; the knowledge of a medical man, and the experience and observations of a layman. It is worth reading, brother flesh eater, whosoever you are. Apples of Gold Library, No. 96. Price 1½ cents.

The Baptism of Jesus; Is His Example Worthy of Consideration?

By Editor

3. “The Baptism of Jesus; Is His Example Worthy of Consideration?” By the Rev. William P. Pearse, author of “The Lover’s Love; or John 3:16.” It appeals wonderfully to the reasonable Bible believer. Price ½ cent.

Tracts Worthy of Wide Distribution

The first tract has illustrated cover; the second has four illustrations. Worthy of use in large quantities. Address the Pacific Press Publishing Association, or your tract society.

Tobacco: An Unmitigated Curse

Ten billion (10,500,000,000) cigarets made in one year by three American firms, and we know not how many by others! Ten billion "coffin nails" in American manhood! Six manufacturers made 220,000,000 cigars apiece last year. Into these manufactured products went 335,700,000 pounds of tobacco, upon which revenue to the amount of $26,007,000 was paid. But at what a price! A fruitful source of disease, breeder of drunkards, a sapper of the finer instincts of body and mind, there is not one good thing to say of tobacco. It is an unmitigated curse. It would be cheaper for the nation if the money spent for the weed were burned and tobacco abolished.

In the Balkans

By Editor

In the Balkans.—Under date of August 10 a despatch from Bucharest says that peace at last reigns in the Balkans, the treaty between the belligerents having been signed at 10:30 o'clock this morning. Under the terms of the treaty, the Rumanian army must evacuate Bulgaria within fifteen days, and the Servian and Greek armies within three days. We are told nothing regarding the Turkish power. That may have not entered into the negotiations. Provision is made for arbitration in event of any disagreement from frontier lines, and Bulgaria begins to demobilize her army immediately.

Fireside Correspondence School Prosperity

By Editor

Prof. C. C. Lewis, principal of the Fireside Correspondence School, the headquarters of which is at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., sends us the financial standing of the school during the four years of its existence. We are glad to see that it is so good. It stands July 1, 1913, with a present worth of $1,242.62. It has met the salary of its teachers, general supplies, stamps, etc., during all this time, and has come out with a balance on the right side. We are glad of its prosperity.

A Request for Prayer

By Editor

Brother D. A. Corkham, of South Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia, is suffering greatly, intensely, constantly. Still he has faith in God, altho almost discouraged. He wishes that the praying ones of the SIGNS family will pray that God may help him to meet these troubles in just the way the Lord would have him,—healing if that be the Lord's will, strength to endure if God so orders.

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By Editor

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