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General Books for the Home
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In the two preceding numbers of the "Signs of the Times" we have listed books suitable for the children and young people. The following is a list of some choice selections from our stock that appeal to fathers and mothers, as well as to other of the older members of the home. These make beautiful books for gifts.
The Acts of the Apostles
The apostle Paul is one of the leading persons whose life and work is presented in this excellent volume. In a most interesting way a large amount of information and history concerning the experiences of the early church is given. Many lessons are drawn from those experiences to assist in the Christian's life and work to-day. The book contains fifty-eight chapters, some of which are:
God's Purpose for His Church
Pentecost
The Gift of the Spirit
From Persecutor to Disciple
Preaching Among the Heathen
The Thessalonian Letters
Paul's Last Journey to Jerusalem
It has 630 pages. Bound in red flexible leather, price $2.00; durable cloth binding, $1.50.
The Desire of Ages
Slightly heavier than "The Acts of the Apostles" is the new thin "Desire of Ages," with all the matter found in the 860-page subscription edition, excepting the full page illustrations. "The Desire of Ages" is appreciated by all classes of people as a masterpiece on the life of our Saviour. This light, thin edition, weighing only 28 ounces, is heartily welcomed by teachers, students, missionaries, and members of the home. It is bound in beautiful red limp leather, at only $2.00; in handsome red cloth, $1.50.
Ministry of Healing
Truly, as expressed in the publishers' preface, this book "has brought within the reach of every intelligent father and mother, every man and woman, lay and professional, a vast fund of information on life and its laws, on health and its requisites, on disease and its remedies. It is written in clear, simple, beautiful language, instructive to the learner, hopeful to the despondent, cheering to the sick, and restful to the weary." It has forty-three chapters especially adapted to the home, and teaches, as stated above, the principles underlying health and a life of happiness and freedom from sin. Cloth binding, $1.50.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing
This literary gem has been termed the book for "the quiet hour." Its six chapters apply the principles given in Christ's wonderful Sermon on the Mount to the experiences of the individual in everyday life. "Throughout all time the words that Christ spoke from the mount of beatitudes will retain their power. Every sentence is a jewel from the treasure-house of truth." (Preface.) Its chapters are:
On the Mountainside
The Beatitudes
The Spirituality of the Law
The True Motive in Service
The Lord's Prayer
Not Judging but Doing
218 pages, handsomely bound and illustrated, price 75 cents.
Our Paradise Home
This beautiful book of 128 pages clearly outlines the plan of salvation, covers interestingly the early history of the world, and then in the closing chapters, points the reader to the promised home for the saved. These are: "A Glimpse of the Future Kingdom," "The Rest That Remainth," "The Events of the Millennium," "The Judgment," "The Two Resurrections," "Description of the Kingdom of Glory," "The New Jerusalem."
Presentation edition, cloth, gilt edges, 75 cents.
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Larger Works for the Home Library
"Desire of Ages," subscription edition, by Mrs. E. G. White. A masterpiece on the life of Christ. Contains 860 pages and 224 illustrations.
"Patriarchs and Prophets," by Mrs. E. G. White. A work which covers Bible history from creation through the time of David. It contains wonderful lessons, telling in a simple, interesting way the story of sin's entrance into the world, the great plan of salvation, the Flood, and of the Lord's dealings with His people. Contains 793 pages and many illustrations.
"The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan" gives a history of the great conflict between Christianity and the powers of darkness, from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem to the time when that conflict shall culminate at Christ's second coming. Contains 718 pages and 94 engravings.
"Daniel and the Revelation," a verse-by-verse exposition of these two great prophetic books of the Bible, 800 pages.
"Practical Guide to Health," a thoro family health book which explains in simple language the hygiene and care of each organ of the body. Teaches the most effective methods of home treatment of common ailments and general diseases. Gives the practical help needed in every home. 635 pages.
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"The Beautiful"
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A snow scene for the cover of the December Signs Magazine. An appreciative scene to many, and attractive and interesting to the unacquainted. The sun hangs low in the sky, and the clouds are so heavy that the orb shines yellow and red through the heavy bank that will soon precipitate the frozen flakes. The beech-trees and the firs cast their bluish purple shadows, and one almost feels the cold. It is a very pleasing cover for this month of the year, and will prove a strong selling feature to the magazine.
The Contents
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"A New Phase of Spiritualism" takes up the announcement of Miss Stead that she has had a communication from her dead father, who was lost with the wreck of the Titanic. She makes some very startling statements; and the editor, in writing the article, draws some very contrasting statements on the authority of the Word of God. This article should have a wide circulation.
"The Heaven-Opposing Powers of Earth" is another article in the series presented in the magazine from a well-known writer, Mr. Charles L. Taylor. Altho embracing history nearly three thousand years old, some important applications are drawn bearing directly upon momentous questions of the present day.
"The Second Coming of Jesus," by George W. Rine, receives continued prominence in the magazine. This is a very important series of articles, and we can recommend them to our readers.
"The Government and the Trusts," an article showing how ineffectual the famous lawsuit of the government dissolving the Standard Oil Company has turned out to be. Since this gigantic trust has been dissolved by the United States government, it has increased in value about five times. Not much of a dissolution! You will want to read the whole article, and the prophetic application that is made at the close.
Mrs. E. G. White contributes an article on the times of William Miller. It explains the work of this great man so much misunderstood by the people of to-day.
"The Freedom of the Will," an illustrated article which shows the real trend of religious laws, or laws uniting church and state, or any measures that tend toward religious persecution.
"Increase of Metals as a Sign of the Times," by Frank S. Weston. It is something new, and will be of considerable interest to a large number of our readers, on account of its statistics.
The Bible reading is also an interesting feature of the magazine, and as usual will have a very comprehensive study on some phase of Bible doctrine.
The Home Department has a very excellent contribution from the pen of Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle, the author of "Making Home Happy" and "Making Home Peaceful." She is a well-known writer, and this is an added attraction to our magazine.
Among many important "Current Topics," those dealing with the revelations of Thomas Lawson are of more than usual interest. He gives, in most graphic language, conditions of to-day, and points out the remedy. Some consideration is given this work, in the light of the Bible.
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A small work which you will appreciate as a help in the study of the prophetic Word is "The Sure Word of Prophecy," by Pastor M. H. Brown. Primarily it deals with the prophecies of the book of Daniel and their fulfilment, shedding forth the light that this book contains upon present-day movements and conditions. Price, 10 cents. This office.
Train Robbery and Life Insurance
On October 8 the west-bound Rock Island train was held up and robbed near Howe, Oklahoma. Train hold-ups have been quite numerous during recent months, and it shows that we are cursed with a class of criminals that are not only perpetuating but increasing themselves.
Until recently life-insurance was confined almost exclusively to the men, but at the present there are about six million women in America who are wage-earners. Many of these have families dependent upon them, the same as men, and hence the life-insurance companies are writing policies for a great many of these women. In their investigations, the insurance companies consider these working women really better risks than men, while the same companies are very wary of the so-called society women, with their high life, and their continual rounds of feastings, in which a great many indigestible foods and drinks are consumed. The life-insurance companies are in no sense sentimental. They deal in cold facts from a business standpoint; and incidentally, this shows that it isn't hard work and faithful labor that shortens life so much as dissipation and debauchery.
"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who hath given them unto Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one."
An Apostle's View of Evolution
IN his second letter, the apostle Peter says:
"Knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they wilfuly forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God." 2 Peter 3:3-5.
The above text not only tells us that men will scoff, in the last days, when the doctrine of the second coming of Christ is preached, but it also tells us that the ones who will do this scoffing have willingly forgotten that the heavens and earth were from of old created "by the word of God." God's Word plainly tells how creation was accomplished. The record is, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." And it tells how He created them, in these words: "God said, Let there be light: and there was light." And again, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so." And still again it is stated: "And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so." Thus plainly does God affirm that He created this earth by the mighty power of His word.
The psalmist has, in the beautiful rhythm of Hebrew poetry, expressed the matter thus:
"Let all the earth fear Jehovah:
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
For He spake, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast." Ps. 33:8, 9.
And after the same tenor the author of the Hebrew letter says,
"By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear." Heb. 11:3.
The foregoing texts make it clear that the Bible teaches that the mighty God has created all things by His intelligent power, through His word. It is clear that space, and time, and many other things that might be mentioned, are absolutely infinite. There is no end to these things anywhere. The orderly arrangement of the universe shows that there is a God who is just as infinite in His power and all the rest of His attributes as the space He inhabits. In the inspired and inspiring words of the psalmist, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork." And it is far easier for the mind that has not been blinded by "science falsely so called" to grasp the fact that this majestically infinite Being has created these worlds by His power, than to go through the unnatural process of trying to persuade one's self that they evolved into their orderly relations to each other from some unaccountable whirling cloud of dust — this dust having been found drifting in space from nobody knows where or how.
But observe that Peter, in the first text quoted, specifies that the scoffers in the last days will be willingly ignorant of the fact that the worlds were created by the word of God. In other words, these last-day scoffers will be evolutionists; they will say that the worlds made themselves by evolution; they will affirm that no Creator is needed.
Now since Peter boldly affirmed, over 1,800 years ago, that the last days would produce those who would scoff at the doctrine of the second coming of Christ; and since he further shows that they will be evolutionists, because they refuse to be informed that God created the worlds by His word; and since the times in which we live are fulfilling all these predictions, ought we not to be led to have faith in the prophetic utterances of the divine Book?
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3889 — Tithe Paying; 3890 — The Genealogy of Jesus; 3891 — Breaking of Bread; 3892 — Ten Men and a Jew; 3893 — Voice and Sound; 3894 — After the Flesh
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Our Bible Band
2
Editorial
The Baptism of the Man
3
The Lord's Day and the Lord of the Sabbath
4
On the Wing
5
Notes
11, 16
General
Consider the Moral Code
6
The Punishment of the Impenitent
7
Our Bible Reading
The Change of the Sabbath
8
Home and Fireside
Idle Words
9
Not My Business
9
The Outlook
Our India Letter
10
Missions
Our Work and Workers
12
Poetry
With Vision of the Holy
6
Jacob's Great Grief
7
There Is No End
9
A New Kansas City Branch Office
By Editor
We would call attention to the cut of our new Kansas City Branch Office and the descriptive paragraphs connected with it, found on page 12. We have lived in rented quarters there for all the years that we have had a branch in that place, and are now glad to have such a good property of our own. This makes the third branch office we have dedicated during recent months, and it now places all our branches in quarters of our own.
Peace, War, and Armageddon
The despatches have announced that Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford University, will soon retire from his position, and devote the remainder of his life to working in the interest of international peace. God proclaims through His prophetic Word that He has commissioned four angels to stand on the four quarters of the earth, to hold the winds of strife and war until His sealing message is completed. This sealing message is to prepare a people to stand before God at the second coming of His Son. God always uses individuals in His work in the earth, and in all probability many of these strong and influential men will be instruments in the hands of the angels of God in holding back the strife and war that is so rampant everywhere. But the war spirit will not be held in check indefinitely. Armageddon lies just beyond; and when the divine Father bids the angels that are holding these strifes to step aside, the pent up furies of war will break forth in ways that are beyond description. The Armageddon war will be the first one that has ever occurred on the earth in which God has not exercised a restraining hand. But when the time for that war is reached, all divine restraints of mercy will be withdrawn, and the universe will be permitted to witness the spectacle of what Satan will do when he has nothing to hinder him. It is to be earnestly hoped that every true messenger of peace in this time will be found standing with God in that great and awful day.
The Balkan-Turkish War.
By Editor
War has actually broken out between the Balkan States and Turkey. On October 12, the Montenegrin forces had already been fighting along the frontiers for four days, and all the rest of the Balkan countries are rushing their troops to the front as rapidly as they can. The subjects of the several Balkan States who are residing in this country are rushing home by the thousands to join the armies.
Within the last few days, Austria has been taking a leading hand in the affair. She is hastily preparing her forces, because she fears that there will be a general war throughout Eastern Europe. What the outcome of the whole matter will be, it is impossible to predict at this writing. But it is perfectly evident that there are great smoldering embers of war all through Europe, and only the slightest breath from the war-gods will cause them to break forth into flame. There are jealousies among the leading nations, and they are watching each other with critical and vengeful eyes. Valuable territory, from the military and naval standpoint, is in the hands of the Turk, and no one of the nations is willing that the other shall seize it. But let a war get under way, and then there is no telling what will come out of it, with the conditions as they exist.
At first we were assured, by the despatches, that the "powers" had the matter in hand. They had several devices that they were working, that would keep the Balkan peoples from making war on the Turk. But all of a sudden the war actually broke out, and now the despatches say that the Balkan powers had fully determined on war, and are going ahead, no matter what the larger and more powerful nations of Europe may say. The Turk has become so insufferable that they can no longer endure him.
But looking at the subject from the standpoint of an advancing message that is to warn all the world of the soon coming of Christ, the subject becomes intensely interesting. For all the wars of any consequence in recent years have been of very short duration, compared with the wars of former years; and then when the recent wars were over, there has been invariably a greater freedom for the advancement of the gospel work in the nations involved. Now there is no territory in the world where there has been greater despotism manifested against the gospel than in the countries involved in this Balkan conflict. It will be interesting to watch for the outcome, in case the war is not snuffed out quickly, as so many others have been. T.
