“As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.” The Christian will have sorrow. No heart will be so sensitive to the sins which crucified Christ Jesus as the heart renewed by grace. Never can such a one look upon sin without sorrow of heart. No heart is so sensitive of others’ sorrows, and woes, and miseries as the heart that has been regenerated by Christ. Such a one will “weep with those who weep.” No heart is so grieved over the downward course of the sinner, over the backsliding course of the cold professor, as the heart in harmony with God, who GRIEVES over the sinning of His children.
The Lord appreciates such sorrow; for He places His mark of eternal security upon those “that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.” So Jesus, filled with the Spirit of God, having perfect faith in the loving Father, was the “Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He wept at the grave of Lazarus; He wept over Jerusalem; He pleaded with God often with “strong crying and tears.” So Christ’s followers will be sorrowFUL, full of sorrow, because of the sad things in this poor, sick, dying world.
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“Yet alway rejoicing.” Yes, there is rejoicing; for knowing Christ Jesus, dwelling in Christ Jesus, is a fount of deepest, sweetest joy. That rejoicing is in the Lord. He is mighty—able to save. He is wise—knowing how to save. He is loving—willing, anxious to save. In Him we have salvation. He is our all and in all. Great are the “riches of His grace,” great “the power of His might,” great the “comfort of His love.” In13all things we are enriched in Him. Why should not the Christian rejoice, ever rejoice,—even the “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing”?
Truth Never Dies
TRUTH never dies. The ages come and go;
The mountains wear away; the seas retire;
Destruction lays earth's mighty cities low;
And empires, states, and dynasties expire;
But caught and handed onward by the wise,
Truth never dies.
Tho unreceived and scoffed at through the years;
Tho made the butt of ridicule and jest;
Tho held aloft for mockery and jeers,
Denied by those of transient power possessed,
Insulted by the insolence of lies,
Truth never dies.
Truth answers not; it does not take offense;
But with a mighty silence bides its time,
As some great cliff that braves the elements,
And lifts through all the storms its head sublime,
So truth, unmoved, its puny foes defies,
And never dies.
The lips of ridicule dissolve in dust;
The sophist's arguments, the jibes, are still;
God, working through the all-compelling Must,
Has broken those who dared combat His will;
New systems, born in wild unrest, arise;
Truth never dies.
— Selected.
Our Work and Workers
THE following items are taken from various conference papers which came to us during the last month. They do not at all cover the field. There is much work done which is not reported.
SIX were baptized at Woodburn, Iowa, September 12.
THREE baptisms are reported from Port Huron, Michigan.
THE Montana Bivouac reports the baptism of 6 at Chouteau, Montana.
FOUR were baptized two weeks ago in the church at Mountain View, California.
FOLLOWING the Fonda, New York, camp-meeting, 24 were baptized into Christ.
AT a recent camp-meeting in Arkansas 5 souls followed their Lord in baptism.
THREE baptisms occurred at Pensacola, Florida, and 16 more are waiting baptism.
THE Pacific Union Recorder reports a church of 18 organized at Haywards, California.
THREE were baptized by Brother George H. Skinner at North Hatley, Quebec, recently.
THE Columbia Union Visitor reports the conversion of 6 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
THE Canadian Union Messenger reports the baptism of 27 at their recent camp-meeting.
THE Northern Illinois Recorder tells us that 8 souls in Elgin have decided to obey God.
MR. AND MRS. E. W. WOLFE, Mason City, Minn., report 13 conversions from recent labors.
J. M. CAMPBELL reports from St. Joseph, Missouri, the baptism of 5, with several more to be baptized.
A NICE little company not yet organized into a church is reported from Leonard, North Dakota, by A. V. Rhoads.
FROM the Wisconsin Reporter we gather that 7 were added to the church at Deerfield, and 3 were baptized at Polar.
THE Lake Union Herald says that 4 were baptized at Linton, Indiana, recently, and 4 at East Alton, Southern Illinois.
THERE were 26 baptized at the East Michigan camp-meeting in Jackson, and others presented themselves who were recommended to their home churches.
E. B. HOPKINS reports from Roswell, Texas, the conversion of 6 at Roswell who are keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; W. R. French, of 3 at Prairie Hill.
R. M. KILGORE follows the interest awakened by the camp-meeting at Dickinson, Tennessee, and reports an addition of those who were converted there, 3 new ones who have taken a noble stand for the truth.
AT the North Michigan camp-meeting, 30 were baptized, many of them young people who are giving themselves to the work of the message. North Michigan also reports 9 as the fruit of a series of meetings at Ishpeming, reported by E. F. Peterson.
THE Atlantic Union Gleaner reports the following conversions to the truth of the everlasting Gospel: 6 at Rumford, Maine; 12 at Boston, Massachusetts; 13 in Portland, Maine; 6 at Rumford Falls, Maine; 22, September 12, at the New England camp-meeting.
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October Life Boat Features Earthquake Horrors
The October “Life Boat” has for its leading article “The Horrors of the Recent Earthquake,” by Pastor C. T. Everson, who had experience in it. The rest of the magazine has to do with health and reform matters, with some excellent articles by Dr. and Mrs. Dr. Paulson; also an article from missionary J. V. Willson in South Africa. Published at Hinsdale, Ill., 50 cents a year, and 5 cents a copy.
Anti-Mormon Literature.—
We have received from the publisher, Mr. R. B. Neal, of Pikeville, Kentucky, a number of publications entitled “The Sword of Laban” leaflets. These publications are anti-Mormon. No. 8 is entitled “The ‘Book of Commandments’ versus the ‘Book of Doctrine and Covenants;’ ” No. 9, “Are the American Indians of Jewish Descent?” No. 10, “The Character and Reputation of the Mormon Prophet;” another, “Was Joseph Smith a Polygamist?” These publications do not in any wise mince matters, nor stop for a choice of gentle words. They strike, however, some tremendously hard blows, and we certainly hope that they will result in opening the eyes of many to the Mormon delusion which is based not on the Bible, but on the erring human.
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Clean copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Watchman, and Review and Herald, late numbers, for missionary work, sent post-paid to Mrs. Jane E. Harris, 521 Senate Street, Columbia, S. C.
The Federation Age
By Editor
“Men seem to feel, somehow, that the responsibility for corporate transactions is so widely distributed that no one individual carries any definite burden except in the matter of sharing the spoils.”
“What the world needs to-day is not more unions, but more unity; not more brotherhoods, but more brotherhood.”
“Every effort in the way of multiplying federations and unions, without divine uplifting power applied to the heart of each individual, only makes matters worse.”
“The prophet Isaiah long ago struck the key-note of the situation thus: . . . Isa. 8:12, 13.
“The prophet Habakkuk outlines the only possible outcome of godless federation. He first addresses the money power thus: ‘Who enlargeth his desire . . .
“Of the labor power he adds: ‘Shall not all these take up a parable against him?’ . . . Hab. 2:5-7.”
“Yes, the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. . . . 2 Thess. 1:7, 8.
“To all those whose lives are in complete union with Christ He will come as a deliverer when all the combinations of wealth and power are staggering on to destruction in the last great strenuous struggle.”
These paragraphs taken from a SINGLE ARTICLE in the October number of the SIGNS MONTHLY suggest something of the clear message it is bearing to those who receive it.
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Establishing the Health of the Child
By Maria L. Edwards
III. Cleanliness Essential
By Maria L. Edwards, M.D.
Too much importance can not be attached to the absolute cleanliness that should be observed in the care of the child.
Many mothers are very particular that the young baby shall have his morning bath; but as he grows older, it is dropped, the mother not realizing that the daily bath will add tone and vigor to a child at two years as much as at two months.
I recall an unusually robust, rosy-cheeked little maiden whose mother was thus reaping the results of hygienic carefulness. Instead of dropping the practise of daily bathing her, as mothers often do, she gradually lowered the temperature of the water used, until the little thing was getting a brisk, short, cold bath every morning. She loved it, and began calling for it as soon as she awoke, and was able to take it herself by the time she could dress herself. I wish every child might have the benefit of so vigorous a beginning of the day—not occasionally, but every morning.
If in addition to the daily cold bath, the child has a warm soap bath once or twice a week, the skin will be kept in a healthy condition and can do its part of eliminating poisons; and further, the tendency to take frequent colds is almost entirely overcome. Isn’t it worth our while?
Rest for the Infant
If a child is normal and well, the first month or two is spent almost entirely in sleep; and that sleep should be undisturbed except for feeding, necessary care, and change of position.
The displaying of the “new little darling” to fond relatives and curious neighbors is not nearly so essential as that its sleep be undisturbed. In many households the baby is the toy with which the different members of the family in turn amuse and entertain themselves. They rock it or toss it about or tickle it to display its dimples, until the poor little thing hardly knows what real rest for body and nerves means. When the habit of so much rocking and carrying is once formed, like other bad habits it is easier learned than unlearned.
The Mother and the Child
On the other hand, if the babe is fed when it should be, kept clean, warm, and comfortable, and its position occasionally changed, and then it be allowed to lie undisturbed on the bed or in its crib, it is less nervous and far less troublesome. In fact it will not care to be rocked to sleep any more than you and I care to be tossed about when our sleepy time arrives.
The nap in the daytime should be insisted upon just as long as the child can be induced to take it, and after that a midday rest or relaxation with the little body in a perfectly horizontal position will do much to strengthen the developing nervous system.
The evening retiring hour is a matter of much importance, and never should be interfered with except upon the rarest occasions and under very unusual circumstances.
Perhaps under normal conditions this schedule of retiring hours might be adopted:
Children under 6 years, 6:30-7:00
“ “ 12 “ 7:30-8:00
“ “ 16 “ 8:30-9:00
If these hours are strictly adhered to, the little children will spend the evening in bed sweetly sleeping, and will never learn the sweets (!) of playing on the streets after dark with other neglected children; and the mother will have a free, restful time for reading.
It often requires a great deal of perseverance to interrupt the evening frolic and fun and insist on the observance of bedtime rules; but it is certainly worth the while for the child to get its ten or twelve hours of undisturbed sleep, and awake refreshed and ready to breakfast with the family, a complete circle at the morning meal; and also worth the while to form the lifelong habit of “early to bed and early to rise.”
If allowed to retire whenever fancy dictates and to arise when the late napping is over, some one, perhaps the tired mother, is put to the inconvenience of serving an extra breakfast; and thus is begun the habit of being waited upon. The earlier a child is taught not only to avoid making extra work, but to bear its little share of the family burdens, the more responsible and valuable man or woman it will make in after life.
[The fourth article on the Health of the Child—“Clothing”—will appear in two weeks, our issue of November 10.]
How the Book Was Spared
TWENTY years after Adoniram Judson reached Burma, the New Testament was translated into the Burmese tongue. In 1824, when war was waged between England and Burma, Mr. Judson was thrown into prison, and Mrs. Judson buried the precious manuscript, just ready for the printer, in the earth beneath their house. But as mold was gathering upon it, on account of the dampness caused by heavy rains, with a woman’s ready wit, she sewed the treasure inside a roll of cotton, put on a cover, and took it to the jail to be used by Mr. Judson as a pillow.
In nine months he was transferred to the inner prison, where five pairs of fetters were put upon his ankles, and it was announced that he, with a hundred others, fastened to a bamboo pole, were to be killed before morning15. During this terrible night, much prayer ascended for the precious pillow. It had fallen to the share of the keeper of the prison, but Mrs. Judson, producing a better one, induced him to exchange.
Mr. Judson was not killed, but hurried away to another place, and again the pillow was his companion. But one of the jailers untied the mat that served as its cover and threw the roll of cotton into the yard as worthless. Here a native Christian, ignorant of its value, found and preserved it as a relic of his beloved master, and with him months afterward its contents were discovered intact. After the close of the war, this New Testament was printed, and in 1834 the whole Bible was translated into the Burmese language—a language peculiarly difficult on account of its construction and curious combinations.—Stories of Bible Translations.
Evil of Sin
By John Bunyan
SIN is the living worm, the lasting fire;
Hell soon would lose its heat, could sin expire.
Better sinless in hell, than to be where
Heaven is, and to be found a sinner there.
One sinless with infernals might do well,
But sin would make of heaven a very hell.
Look to thyself then, keep it out-of-door,
Lest it get in and never leave thee more.
Fools make a mock of sin, will not believe
It carries such a dagger in its sleeve:
“How can it be,” say they, “that such a thing,
So full of sweetness, e’er should wear a sting?”
They know not that it is the very spell
Of sin, to make men laugh themselves to hell.
Look to thyself then, deal with sin no more.
Lest He that saves, against thee shuts the door.
—John Bunyan.
Beautiful Table Customs
QUITE recently I visited a German widow living in a delightful country seat, with a little son of eight years and a daughter of five. As we sat down to a well-spread table, the little boy, folding his hands and closing his eyes, thanked our Father in heaven for the food before us, and asked Him to bless it. Then the little girl, in childish accents, repeated, “Lord Jesus, be our guest. Come, and this table bless, and do us good.” The little ones were taught by their pious mother to think whom they were addressing.
At several places where we visited in Scotland, the youngest child at the table asked the blessing; and the memory of those sweet, low, reverential, childish voices haunts us yet, as the echo of some rich carol.
In some families there prevails the beautiful custom of joining in the Lord’s prayer at breakfast; and in one that we visited often last summer, this was sometimes omitted, and in its place the twenty-third psalm recited.
In other families the silent blessing is the custom; and very touching it is, too, for it seems to make us realize that God is indeed near, when we can give Him thanks tho our lips move not.—Anon.
Age of Animals
By Alonzo Rice
(Farm Journal, February, 1909)
One of the Smithsonian scientists calls attention to the fact that the duration of the lives of the lower animals differs from that of men's lives in being far more uniform.
While human beings die at all ages between infancy and senility, among the lower animals, on the contrary, all individuals of the same species live to very nearly the same age, unless killed by violence.
A bear rarely exceeds twenty years; a dog lives twenty years; a fox, fourteen or sixteen; lions are long-lived — Pompey lived to the age of seventy. The average age of cats is fifteen years; a squirrel and hare, seven or eight years; rabbits live to be about seven. Elephants have been known to live to the great age of 400 years.
When Alexander the Great had conquered one Porus, king of India, he took a great elephant, which had fought very valiantly for the king, named him Ajax, dedicated him to the sun, and then let him go with this inscription: “Alexander, the son of Jupiter, hath dedicated Ajax to the sun.” Three hundred and fifty years after, this elephant was found with this inscription.
Pigs have been known to live to the age of thirty years; the rhinoceros, to twenty. A horse has been known to live to the age of sixty-two, but averages twenty-five or thirty; camels sometimes live to the age of 100; stags are long-lived; sheep seldom exceed the age of ten; cows live about fifteen years.
The dolphin and porpoise attain the age of thirty. Cuvier considers it probable that whales live 1,000 years. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of 104 years; ravens frequently reach the age of 100 years; swans live 300 years; a tortoise has been known to live 107 years.—Alonzo Rice.
The Gospel Commission Belongs to the Church
“THE office of teaching and preaching the Gospel belongs to men, not to a book; to the church emphatically, tho not to the clergy only, but to every member of it, for a dispensation of the Gospel is committed to every Christian, and wo unto him if he preach not the Gospel.”
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Autumn Days.
Once again the days of autumn are upon us. Somber, sober days some call them. The poet writes,
“The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year.”
Yet so it does not seem to us as we look out upon nature on this balmy October day, not here in California alone, but as well in the Eastern and Middle States, as the old geographers named them. True, there have been some soaking rains, some heavy frosts perhaps, many of the deciduous trees are becoming leafless, the fields of grain have given place to stretches of unsightly stubble. These are among the losses which autumn brings us; but they are not serious. Never shall we see, till autumn visits us again, such beautiful slumberous haze softening into peculiar beauty the light which falls upon landscape and water scene. There is stubble in the field, but the barns and granaries are filled with golden, blessed harvest. The earth has yielded her store of roots; the trees with open, extended hands have reached out their fragrant fruit, oftentimes ungratefully received by the poor mortals who grasp it. Cellar and cask and jar are filled with the store which autumn has brought so bounteously. The dry pastures turn to greener hue, the empty brook-beds again babble in song, and even the frost and the sun enter into copartnership for a time to clothe the forests in oftentimes barbaric splendor; brown and gold and crimson, with banks and islands of living evergreen. Autumn is not sad. Why should it be? If we sowed good seed in good soil, we have reaped abundant harvest. Let life be such that our moral sowing shall be so sure in Jesus Christ that the harvest-days shall be the gladdest days of all; of triumph of a life filled with bounteous good.
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Home Again.—
By Editor
The general manager of the Pacific Press, Mr. C. H. Jones, and the manager of our Book Department, Mr. H. H. Hall, just returned from an important general meeting and General Conference council at College View, near Lincoln, Nebraska. Some important decisions were reached regarding prices of publication. The decisions which may affect this paper we will announce as soon as possible.
America's Danger
By Editor
In Harper's Weekly of September 18 General Homer Lea begins a series of articles entitled “The Valor of Ignorance, the Vulnerability of the United States to Armed Invasion.” This is the first of a series of articles dealing with the military occupation of the Pacific Coast by the forces of Japan. We have not space at this time to even review this article. We shall lay some of the conclusions before our readers in future numbers.
New Journals
New Journals.—A new paper comes to us, which we gladly welcome. Another Signs of the Times, published in the Bengali language, India. We can not read a word of it, yet the type is very clear, and it is neatly printed. It has twelve pages with cover. Between the terms “Signs” and “Times” is a sketch of the world upon which is an open Bible, while intertwined among the letters are olive-branches and lilies of the valley. May God make the little journal a great blessing to the Bengali people. We certainly rejoice with Brother Muckerjee, the editor, that he has been able to present so creditable a sheet filled with the precious truth to his needy people.
Signs of the Times in China
By Editor
truth to his needy people.
By the same mail there comes to us another paper from China. It also bears the title Signs of the Times. Its front page, however, is at the back, differing from the Aryan Bengali language; but we are assured that it is filled with precious Bible truth. May the Lord make it a blessing to the millions in China. One of these days we will present to our readers a combination picture of the various journals bearing the title Signs of the Times, published in different parts of the world.
