p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 36. (9/6/1905)

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

Poetry.

Go Onward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Wait and Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lean Hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Home Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Editorial.—A Crowning Miracle—Suggestive Propositions on the Priesthood of Christ—The Law and the Judgment—Choosing, and Choosing Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Question Corner.—Nos. 1712-1715 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Outlook.—Sunday Laws Against Religious Liberty, R. C. PORTER—The Sunday Law's Responsibility—God and Mammon—A World-Wide Sign—Two Kinds of Business—A Condition True in the West—Reform Work as a Graft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7

General.

Crime; or, the Reign of Lawlessness, GEO. W. RINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

He Shall Not Fail nor Be Discouraged, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . 9

How Jesus Kept Sunday, THORO HARRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Christ Our Rock Foundation, H. A. ST. JOHN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Distribution of Plants at Creation, B. E. CRAWFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mark, F. D. STARR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The Power of the Cross of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

They Were All Busy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Grieve Not the Spirit (Bible-reading) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Missions.—The Gospel in Tracts—The Would-Be Missionary—An Appeal for the Young—Korea as a Mission Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13

The Home.—Education in the Home, No. 17, MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE—How He Answered Infidelity—Two Practical Hints—Drunkenness among Women—A Cigar Scientifically Dissected—A Feminine Archeologist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15

International Sunday-School Lesson.—Daniel in Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Publishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Our Experience Meeting

By Editor

Remember our Monthly Experience Meeting, the first of which will be held in the SIGNS of October 11. What this department is for is to give all, especially the lonely ones, an opportunity to say a word of praise to God in behalf of His salvation in Christ, for a knowledge of His precious truth, for the sure promises of His Word. We want the department to be a mighty help to all who may not be able to meet with those of like precious faith in Christ Jesus.

Our International Sunday-School Lesson

By Editor

Our International Sunday-School Lesson.—These lessons were started at the solicitation of our workers and readers. We continued them at their request, when, in our judgment, their continuance seemed hardly worth the while. Unless we find a decided response to this note, we shall, after October 1, drop them from the SIGNS, and put a Mother's department, or some department equally profitable, in the place. Now, we ask our subscribers and readers who are interested to drop us a postal card at once, and answer the following questions: Shall we drop the International Sunday-School Lesson? Shall we use the space for a Parents', or Mothers' department? Please reply promptly.

Free and Equal

"Free and Equal."—Americans ought to know the charters of their liberty, and also essential truth, better than to quote its stirring words in this way: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created free and equal." Now God has created all equal in privilege; to each belong life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is God's part. Man may have been deprived of these rights by his own course or by the tyranny of others, but God has given these rights equally to all. The equality of rights is God-given; the freedom is of man's choice. The equality of God-given rights is man's whether he choose it or not; but he must choose to be free.

Sabbath Obedience and God's Commandment

By Editor

Last week we closed the series of "Fifty Reasons for Sabbath Observance." They were all good reasons, and might have been extended to another fifty; but after all is said that can be said in support of the seventh-day Sabbath, there is one reason that comprises all others, namely, it is the commandment of God. It is conviction on this point that must bring about faithful and lasting obedience. "Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man." Eccl. 12:13. To observe any other Sabbath than that appointed by the Lord, is to set the traditions of men before the Word of God. That is where the typical Israel failed. Mark 7:6-9. The true Israel (Phil. 3:3) will "obey God rather than men." Acts 5:29.

Increase of Satanic Delusions.

The almost incredible number of clairvoyants, palmists, and other Satanic agencies now flooding the country, is evidence of the abnormally corrupt condition of the world in this twentieth century. And their business is solely the deception of their credulous dupes. The city of Chicago alone is accredited with 800 of these deceivers, playing upon that class of people who are readily caught by any suggestion of a scheme for getting something for nothing. The chief of police of that city recently expressed the opinion that many of them are in collusion with the promoters of fake mining schemes, oil-investment concerns, and other get-rich-quick speculations, and that they get a commission on all the business that comes to these promoters through the victims of their fortune-telling. There is ground for these suspicions, as most of these fortune-tellers make a specialty of giving business advice, and many defaulters lay their defections and failures to having followed the counsel of these deceivers. But their number and their victims continue to increase. The natural love of money in the human heart renders men more susceptible to deception through a promise of easy gain than by any other means.