p. 14 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 45. (11/19/1912)

Good Books for the Holidays

HOW TO SELL THEM

“The main thing is to get out early, before others occupy the field. The books will sell themselves at sight with very little talking.”

The above illustration of the Home Workers’ Prospectus appears on the first page of the new instruction booklet prepared to assist the home missionary worker in the sale of the beautiful small books especially desired between now and the holidays. The prospectus used contains samples of the following:

New Testament Primer, Best Stories from the Best Book, House We Live In, Bible Child Life, Uncle Ben's Cobblestones, Elo the Eagle, Story of Pitcairn, Advance Guard of Missions, Making Home Happy, Making Home Peaceful, Steps to Christ, Mount of Blessing, Christ Our Saviour, Our Paradise Home, His Glorious Appearing.

The booklet explains the prospectus, tells you how to select and arrange samples for the books you wish to sell, how to make preparation for the work, and gives just the help needed in making introduction and entering upon canvases for the books. It also suggests as to reporting, ordering, and delivering, and gives interesting experiences others have had with these beautiful books before the holidays.

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Two Object-Lessons in Heredity

THERE has just been published a history of what is called the Kallikak family. The name, however, is fictitious. The father descended from a long line of good English ancestry. He at first had criminal intercourse with a feeble-minded girl. The result was a feeble-minded son. This son married a normal woman. They in turn produced five feeble-minded and two normal children. Practically all the descendants of these defectives have been traced, as well as those of the two normals. From both lines, normal and defective, has come a long line of defective stock, 480 in all. Of these, 36 were illegitimate, 24 confirmed alcoholics, 3 epileptics, 33 sexually immoral, 82 died in infancy, three were criminal, 8 kept houses of ill fame, and 143 were distinctly feeble-minded. Only 46 were found who were apparently normal. The rest are unknown or doubtful.

But the originator of this stock, after the Revolutionary War was over, married a Quaker girl of good ancestry, and settled down to live a respectable life. From this legal union with a normal woman, there have been 496 descendants. All of these except two have been of normal mentality, and these were cases of insanity, presumably inherited through marriage with an outside strain. In all the 496, there is not an instance of feeble-mindedness. The offspring have universally occupied positions in the upper walks of life. They have never been criminals or “ne’er-do-wells.” While, on the other hand, from the feeble-minded woman there has not been a single instance of exceptional ability. Most of them have failed to rise above the dead level of mediocrity, while most of them have fallen far below this minimum standard.

Impressed by Pageantry

By Editor

A CORRESPONDENT in Colorado tells us that he was present in Denver on the occasion of Cardinal Farley’s visit to that city recently. The ovation was very great indeed. The cardinal was taken over the city in a private car, and dined and feted like a great potentate. At the dedication of the new cathedral in Denver, at which our informer was present, seated only about ten steps from the balcony on which “his eminence” was seated, the cardinal was surrounded by a distinguished company, which included the governor of Colorado. 15,000 persons marched in the parade, accompanied by nearly all the bands in the city, each band of music preceded by the United States flag, which in nearly every instance was dipped as it passed “his eminence,” who was seated with his hat on. In the new cathedral, before the high altar the cardinal conducted mass; and at the elevation of the “host,” thousands knelt in the dust, and a large majority in the crowd removed their hats. The writer, who has witnessed many celebrated pageants in honor of European royalty, is free to confess that as far as reverent subserviency was shown, this one stands unique. But these very impressive pageants are what are molding the American mind toward Catholicism.

Justice Delayed in New York

Referring to the results of the Becker trial in New York, the Thrice-a-Week-World remarks that New York City alone pays the enormous sum of $6,000,000 a year for its administration of justice, chiefly because of the prolixity and procrastination of procedure, and it cites the Becker case as an instance of proper and rapid work, consuming, as it did, but seventeen days. And it closed 100 days after Rosenthal was shot. On the other hand, there has been in most cases unjustifiable delay. London promptly convicts eight murderers out of nine indicted. New York slowly convicts one out of nine. Greater London had in 1909, 19 murders and 27 cases of manslaughter, not including negligence killings. New York in 1911 had 198 murders and 13 executions; and in seventy of the largest American cities, in a list compiled recently for the World, only six murderers were executed within the calendar year. President Taft well calls this procrastination a “disgrace to our civilization.”

ELO THE EAGLE

By Floyd Bralliar

AND OTHER

STORIES

By FLOYD BRALLIAR

THIS new animal book for young folks is receiving an eager welcome by all nature lovers. ELO THE EAGLE is the first of a series of ten interesting stories of animals, wild and otherwise; being, with one exception, the life histories of boyhood friends of the author. Many strange and laughable anecdotes are related by Mr. Bralliar, all of which are strictly true and vouched for by reliable witnesses.

The book is lavishly illustrated by special drawings, with a full-page half-tone design printed in Luxotype at the beginning of each chapter. Two hundred pages, printed on egg-shell paper, beautifully bound in red cloth. Price, post-paid, $1.00.

Easily sold by young people. Agents wanted.

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Religious Liberty Series

By Editor

Of the "Signs of the Times" Can Now Be Secured in Bound Form

THESE six special numbers are stitched and bound in substantial manila. Striking front cover with statements of Religious Liberty in principle and in history. Second and third pages of cover contain analysis of the proposed Sunday law for California, claimed by its proponents to be the "model Sunday law," and the basis for future Sunday legislation; also strong, pointed utterances of the secular press. Fourth page of cover contains the text of this proposed law.

This cover added to the six special numbers, bound and trimmed, makes it an important volume, and one that is highly prized by those who have secured copies. A complete volume of Religious Liberty matter that would be difficult to equal.

The subject-matter is such as is well worth preserving by every American citizen, and is especially valuable to lend to friends and neighbors.

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Sanctuary

By Editor

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Increasing Homicide

Increasing Homicide.—The New York Sun says homicide, from deliberate murder down to manslaughter, is entirely too common in the United States. According to the American Prisons Association's committee on criminal procedure, homicidal crime in the United States has increased 450 per cent since 1889, and the ratio of convictions is less than ten per cent, while in Germany the ratio of convictions is ninety-five per cent. Homicidal crime in the United States, according to the same authority, exceeds the total of that of any ten civilized nations outside of Russia. Nearly thirty persons are murdered every day in the United States, not including Alaska and the island dependencies, while not one out of four murderers is brought to trial; and out of twenty-five brought to trial, only one receives the death sentence. Ten thousand homicide crimes are committed in the United States each year. In Chicago, in 1909, 118 homicide crimes were committed; and for the same time in London, 20; in New York last year, 119. Surely these figures are appalling.

The President-elect of the United States, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, now Governor of New Jersey

Born December 28, 1856; son of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jeanette Woodrow Wilson; 1865, entered private school, one of his classmates being Joseph Lamar of the United States Supreme Court; 1873, matriculated at Davidson College, North Carolina; 1875, entered Princeton with 133 other young men; distinguished by his ability in debate; 1879, graduated from Princeton; 1879-1880, studied law in University of Virginia; 1880-1881, opened a law office in Atlanta; 1883, advanced course in history under Richard T. Ely at Johns Hopkins University; 1885, graduated from Johns Hopkins; published his first book on congressional government; 1885, married Miss Ellen Louise Axton, of Atlanta, Georgia; 1885-1888, professor of history and political economy at Bryn Mawr; 1888-1890, taught the same subjects at Wesleyan University; 1890, accepted chair of jurisprudence and politics at Princeton; 1902, elected president of Princeton University, extending elective courses and increasing number of instructors; 1907, urged democracy in student life, and opposed control of college social system by exclusive clubs; 1910, September 15, nominated for governor of New Jersey; September 22, retired as president of Princeton University; November 8, elected governor of New Jersey; 1912, November 5, elected president of the United States, the first Democratic president since Cleveland.

Mr. Wilson tells us that he comes into the presidential chair under obligations to no men or interests whatsoever. Previous presidents have yielded more or less to religious influences, notably that of the Roman Catholic Church. If President-elect Wilson holds to the following principles set forth by him in Denver, Colorado, April, 1911, the country need have no fear in that respect:

"Up to the time of the translation of the Bible into English, it was a book for long ages withheld from the perusal of the peoples of other languages and of other tongues, and not a little of THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY lies in the circumstance that the moving sentences of this book were made familiar to the ears and the understanding of those peoples who have led mankind in exhibiting the forms of government and the impulses of reform which have MADE FOR FREEDOM AND FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT among mankind.

"For this is a book which reveals men unto themselves, not as creatures in bondage, not as men under human authority, not as those bidden to take counsel and command of any human source. It reveals EVERY MAN TO HIMSELF AS A DISTINCT MORAL AGENT, responsible not to men, not even to those men whom he has put over him in authority, but RESPONSIBLE THROUGH HIS OWN CONSCIENCE TO HIS LORD AND MAKER. Whenever a man sees this vision he STANDS UP A FREE MAN, whatever may be the government under which he lives."

Dances That Kill.

By Editor

An article appears in one of the Sunday magazines entitled, "The Doom of the Dances That Kill," in which one of the dancing artists tells us that new forms of dances will be devised. She says of the old that "I have watched a roomful of young people executing these strange, vulgar gyrations, and I have felt that the hand of death was on the dancers. Their faces are drawn and haggard and old. Every dancer looks like a consumptive. These are dances that kill. They are exhausting." And this writer thinks that because they are so exhausting, they will give place to others that are not. But that never has been the case with this old world. It has indulged in the passions that kill from the very beginning. It has among the devotees of pleasure been one great, long dance of death, exhausting, consuming, destroying those who have yielded themselves to its mad whirl. Reform must come from something else than a mere form of pleasure. It must have deeper hold.

Contained in This Issue

Question Corner	PAGE
3913—Six Days of Genesis 1; 3914—The Passover Supper, or a New Supper; 3915—The Head of the Church Then; 3916—The Catholic Bible; 3917—Shall Never Die	2

| Our Bible Band | 2 |

Editorial
A Sabbath Day in the Synagog at Caper-naum	3
Power Is Eternal	4
"Wooden Swearing"	5

General
The Candlestick and the Table	6
Conditions of the Religious World To-Day	7
A Perpetual Memorial	8

Our Bible Reading
Five Noted Events at Our Lord's Coming	9

The Outlook
The Balkan War	10
Notes	11, 14, 16

Home and Fireside
The Children in the Home	12
Kisses on Interest	13
At the Table	13

Poetry
Prayer	9
Plenty of Time	12

Bible Versions and Subscriptions

By Editor

Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. When the Common ("King James" or "Authorized") Version or the American Standard Revised Version is used, the version will not generally be designated in reference. Any Bible quotation in this paper, therefore, differing from the Common Version, unless otherwise indicated, will be almost invariably from the American Standard edition of the Revised Bible, copyright 1910, by Thomas Nelson & Sons.

For further particulars, subscription rates, etc., see page 15.

Alone With God

In your solitary hours, get up into the mount with God,—let His glory shine into your heart, and when you go down to the people, your very face will tell of His glory, your presence will win souls to the Master. Let us take more time to be alone in His company.

The Latest

By Editor

The Latest.—As we go to press, the Balkan situation has expanded to a European. Saloniki—ancient Thessalonica—has fallen before the victorious army of Greece, and 25,000 Turkish troops are prisoners. The Bulgarians have some of the outward defenses of Adrianople, and the fall of that Turkish stronghold is imminent. Another victorious Bulgarian division is pressing the defeated Turks to the very gates of Constantinople. It looks as tho the cruel, remorseless reign of the Turk in Europe is over. But now Austria demands a good part of the territory the allies have won; and Germany, Italy, and Rumania are said to be backing her, while Russia, England, and France stand with the allies. The allies do not propose to yield. A day may bring peace, it may involve the world in war. Let Christians wait and pray.

Armageddon Beyond Politics

"We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord," may have a different meaning to some politicians since election. But the real Armageddon will be an altogether different thing, and battling for the Lord then will not be through politics of any sort.

Good Times Predicted

By Editor

Good Times Predicted.—The World’s Work for November prints a symposium on “How’s Business?” from eight leaders in the commercial and business life of the United States, and they “are unanimous in the belief that the country is entering an era of exceptional prosperity.” The entire magazine is a “Good Times” number. Let us hope the prophecy may be true.

A Safety-Valve

A Safety-Valve.—In a recent conversation between Mr. Dooley and Mr. Hennessy on the origin of man, after discussing it for some time as to its teaching, Mr. Hennessy concludes, "These men are inimies iv religion;" and Mr. Dooley replies: "P'r'aps; but they'll niver be dangerous ontil some wan comes along an' thranslates their lectures into English. An' I don't think there's a chance that cud be done."

Cheese Poisoning

Dr. W. B. Evans, of Aberdeen, Scotland, declares that there is great danger from cheese poisoning, especially in what is called "ripe" cheese, or cheese which has begun to decay, and mentions seven different cases of poisoning which had come under his observation. These seven cases all seem to have come from eating the same cheese. He examined the cheese itself, which smelled rather strong, and had a somewhat crumbly appearance, but was not discolored or offensive, and declared that there was nothing about it to warn purveyor or purchaser that it was poison. The London Lancet suggests that the ptomain of the cheese, or tyrotoxicon, is the poison that produced the troubles. Care should be taken in the use of such food. There are some kinds and forms of cheese that are not fit to eat under any circumstances, and by this we do not mean Limburger, which many will not eat, but which however is much more wholesome than some other kinds of cheese.

Memory Text for the Week

John 13 : 34

"A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; EVEN AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YE ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER."