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The Yosemite Valley and Big Tree Groves

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Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace

Many people are striving hard to-day to lead us to believe that the world is entering upon a time of universal peace. But where is the evidence of it? There are no signs of peace. On the other hand, everything betokens wars that will soon involve the whole world. We need to be on our guard lest we come under the condemnation of the prophetic Word, which says: "The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the Word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them? Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them; for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord." Jer. 8:9-12.

STORM-TOSSED

By Editor

ON Monday night, June 12, a black funnel-shaped cloud descended upon the little town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and almost completely destroyed it. On Tuesday night, June 13, the little town of Herman, Nebraska, was almost annihilated and a hundred persons killed by the terrible tornado. Every day or two the reports reach us, telling of the fearful work that these storms are doing in various parts of the country.

Some are trying to console themselves by the thought that none of these storms have ever visited their part of the world and therefore they are out of the "tornado belt." But the Lord tells what the cyclone belt will be in these last days, in the following graphic language:—

"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger. For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end." Jer. 4:23-27.

"All the cities" are to be "broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger." And "thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate." "All the cities" and "the whole land" are to be broken down and desolated. This is the divine statement of what the "tornado belt," the "storm belt," and the "earthquake belt," is. The Lord has decreed it, and it will be so. And it is all because of the wickedness of this time. The warning has been clearly and fully given. We are in the very midst of the perils of the last days. Heed God's warnings and live. He has a shelter for all.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry.

His Gift, C. F. LADD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Voice of the Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 My Deliverer, H. G. THURSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

General.

The Only True Mediator, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Who Wears the Vail? W. N. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Temple of Knowledge, RUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Period of the Reformation, E. A. SUTHERLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Soul in the Old Testament, WM. PENNIMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 "Sacredness of the Sabbath," T. E. BOWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Editorial.

The Basis of all True Work for God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Some Things in the Last Bull of the Pope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Raging Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 "A Great Company of the Priests" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beautiful in Sentiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Outlook.—The Peace Conference—They Wanted Work (?) —The Golden Rule the Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Missions.—South America, F. H. WESTFALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11

The Home.—Joe, MIRIAM D. RUCKER—A Beautiful Custom —The Nature and Cure of Disease, M. E. OLSEN—" My Home Shall Be My Clubhouse"—Book Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13

News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 16

Notice of Omitted Serial Articles

By Editor

Our regular serial articles will be omitted in our next issue; but will be resumed in the issue of July 12.

Missionary Work Among Mohammedans

By Editor

In our issue of July 12 we give a most interesting account of the work of our missionary, Brother J. H. Krum, among the Mohammedans of Palestine. Surely the Lord is at work. All Christians will be interested in his report.

Photographs of New Richmond Cyclone

By Editor

Photographic views of the devastation of New Richmond, Wis., by the terrible cyclone of June 12, elsewhere noticed, will be given in our July 12 issue, together with the impressions of one who visited the scene. The photographs came just too late for this number.

The Independence Number

By Editor

Our Independence Number, which follows this issue in date, is already out. It should receive a large independent circulation. It contains vital important truth, applicable to this time and this nation. It shows that we are living in prophetic times. The prophecies which Inspiration gave eighteen and more centuries ago are now being written again in solemn every-day facts. Circulate the Independence Number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Price of single numbers, 5 cents; five copies or more, ordered by one individual, wrapped, and mailed singly to separate addresses, 2½ cents each; five to seventy-five copies 2 cents each; 100 copies or more, 1½ cents each. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

CIGARET FIENDS.

By T.

IN the National Conference of Charities recently held in Cincinnati, the Hon. Mr. Torrance, General Superintendent of the Illinois Reformatory, said:—

"On the first day of this month we had 278 boys between the ages of 10 and 15. Of 63 of this number, with the average age of 12, 58 were cigaret smokers; of 133 of them, with the average age of 14, 125 were cigaret smokers; 82 were 15 years of age, of whom 73 were cigaret smokers.

"This demonstrates that 92 per cent. of the whole number were in the habit of smoking cigarets at the time they committed the crimes for which they were sent to the Reformatory; but even more astonishing is the fact that 85 per cent. had become so addicted to their use as to be classed at the time as 'cigaret fiends.'

"My statement that the cigaret is working much more injury to the young than intoxicating liquors may be challenged, but I repeat it, feeling confident of its correctness. To emphasize it, I will say tenfold more injury. If the application were made to the adult, or the young man over 15, it would not be true, but I am speaking of the young boy—the boy under 15—not yet a vagrant or criminal. But a small per cent. of the boys under 15 have yet used intoxicating liquors; not 15 per cent. of those we get, to the extent that it has worked them serious harm. The use of intoxicating liquor is to be condemned; it destroys manhood, destroys homes, beggars wives and children and fills jails, penitentiaries and reformatories, but not to one-tenth the extent of the cigaret does it start the boy from 10 to 15 on the way to become a criminal. Stealthily but persistently this habit of cigaret-smoking is entering many homes and sapping the vitality and manhood of the pride of a father and mother, while they, unconscious of it, are thanking God that their son does not loiter around the saloon."

Tobacco-using has come to be an almost universal habit. And, as Mr. Torrance suggests, it is one of the most potent influences in starting young men in the way of strong drink. The combined influence of these nerve-destroying and soul-destroying evils are working sad havoc with the rising generation. And how can any Christian aid in destroying our boys and girls by setting before them the evil example of tobacco-using? O, may we not put the question still stronger, Can any one be a Christian and use tobacco? Certainly the streets of the New Jerusalem will never be defiled by either the smoke or the expectorated juice of the filthy weed.

A Press Censor for Santiago

The Appointment of a press censor for Santiago de Cuba is one of the strange things that are happening nowadays. Those who have been taught that freedom of speech and of the press is one of the cornerstones of liberty will be slow to receive this new mode of doing things. This may appear as a small matter to some, but it marks an unmistakable tendency of these times in this glorious republic. America is forsaking her principles, and will lead the world to ruin. This is not a matter of human speculation, but the sure word of prophecy reveals it. The truest patriotism now is to stand by the cross of Christ, and hold the blazing torch of Inspiration high, so that all men may see the meaning of these thrilling times.

CHANGING THE TIPPLE BUT NOT THE TIPPLING.

By New York World

Two PIECES of news published yesterday bear queer and interesting and important relations each to the other.

One of them set forth the Church Army's plan of apostleship for tea—telling how tea bars are to be established, with sumptuous fittings, for the sale of the Chinese beverage, hot or cold, "with or without" sugar, lemon, cream and other accustomed accessories; how experts are to teach men and women to drink the decoction, and missionaries are to go about enticing them even in their own homes - all this not as a means of promoting the tea trade, but as a "temperance" crusade to provide a substitute for beer drinking.

The other news article told of a maniac then lying in Bellevue Hospital who was driven mad and has since died as a consequence of overindulgence in tea.

Cases of insanity from tea tippling are rare in this city, as rare as cases of insanity from opium-smoking. But if you go where tea drinking is the popular vice, the proportions of tea drunkards and tea lunatics to the tea-drinking population are about the same as are the proportions of alcoholic drunkards and sufferers from delirium tremens to our drinking population. And the physicians in every hospital out-patient department are familiar with cases of what they call tea intoxication.

Is there not grave danger that in persuading men to change their tipple these Church Army people may be luring them to a still deadlier tippling?—New York World.

INSANITY.

THE large number who are going insane these days is a cause of alarm, and should lead to careful reflection. Some one has said that if things go on at the present rate, the whole world will be insane in fifty years from now.

The excitable manner in which so many people live in these days is certainly accountable for much of this insanity. Men with all eagerness and with every nerve put to the highest tension are driving business. Others are even more strongly bent on hilarious and self-destroying pleasures.

Under these conditions exhaustion comes to them, of course. But they are not willing to reform and allow their systems to be built up by rest and proper treatment. So they resort to such stimulants as whisky, wine, beer, coffee, tea, tobacco, etc. And when these more common stimulants fail, then various "nerve tonic" drugs are sought.

One might as well think of stepping over the edge of a precipice without falling, as to think of using these narcotics and stimulants without breaking down his nervous force. And when the nerves are broken down one of the common calamities that follow is insanity.

The wise man tells us "the curse causeless shall not come." This is a solid Gospel truth. Then the thing to do is to avoid the cause, and we may be sure that the curse will never come. T.

Diseased Flesh as Food

A gentleman, prominently connected with the meat business in Chicago, recently remarked that if none but healthy animals were used for food the price of meat would be one dollar a pound. This is an indication of the vast amount of diseased flesh that is being eaten, and furnishes material for meat-eaters to reflect upon. Why eat the diseased flesh of animals when God has provided an abundance of food that is so much better?