p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11. (3/15/1910)

Earlier text: Why the Preparations to Fight?

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The Signs of the Times for 1910

By Editor

An Appeal to Our Readers

A NEW waymark is reached; for our special Home Bible Series is about ended. Only two more numbers and the series will close. For months the editors and those associated with them have been studying and planning for what is to follow. As the result of this study we present herewith a brief outline of some of the good things we have in store for our readers during the coming year. It will be noticed that the articles cover a wide range of subjects and that they will be of special interest to Bible students and those who wish to study the prophecies of God's Word. It is the strongest and most comprehensive outline yet presented.

A Verse by Verse Study of the Book of Revelation

What one book of the sixty-six books of the Bible could we least afford to lose? It must be that book which gives a summary of all the good things in the other books, and closes the marvelous canon of sacred Scripture. The name of that book in Greek is "The Apocalypse," The Revelation, The Disclosure of Jesus Christ.

Have you studied this divine drama of the ages? It has its stage, its scenery, its settings. It has its plan, its plots; it has its heroes, its heroines; it has its kings and warriors; it has its romance, its marriage, its glorious, eternal hereafter. We can not tell you its worth, its riches, its glories, in this limited space. But the editor is going to tell about it in the year to come. These articles alone will be worth far more than the price of the paper for the year. But this is not all.

"Shiloh: the Man of Sorrows"

Is the title of a story which will run from week to week throughout the year. It will tell the story of the greatest character that the world ever knew, just as truly as it can be told by one who lives in the twentieth century; tells it as tho we were living, moving, acting, in the very days of the Messiah Himself.

It is not a novel, altho the story is told in a new way; it is not a romance, yet there shines throughout the story a love that is stronger than human affection. Those who begin its reading will be held by it and be drawn nearer to the Master, we believe, clear through to the end.

For the Busy Business Man

Beginning soon and running continuously through the year, there will be a "Page for Busy Men by One of Them," covering in the briefest and most conclusive form the reasonableness, reliability, comprehensiveness, and the world's need, of the sacred Scriptures.

Even "he who runs may read," and have his confidence established in the Word. Business cares rob many persons of the needed time for Bible study, with the result that they are likely to be stripped of their shield of faith and become victims of the present-day theories and delusions of men. Shall we not improve this opportunity of learning "what saith the Lord"?

GENERAL ARTICLES

There will be an interesting series of articles on the Sanctuary Question which will meet the seductive theories of self-salvation so growingly prevalent; another on the Coming of the Blessed Master, showing what that coming means to this sin-sad world, and what our Lord wants it to mean to you; another on the great Sabbath Question in both its negative and positive phases, and its place in the great doctrine of religious liberty; another on the great reformation under Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and Zechariah; another on Man's Nature and Destiny which will effectually meet the mighty on-sweep of the dark wave of Spiritism, now engulfing the world.

SPECIAL ARTICLES

In addition to the foregoing, there will be special articles on the following subjects:

Life through Christ;
The Outpouring of God's Spirit;
Religious and Civil Liberty;
The Meaning of Higher Criticism;
The Signs of the Times in their Scriptural Setting.

Also articles showing how the great black hand of the father of lies is stretched out over the nations with its five restless, nervous, grasping digits of Popery, Apostasy (Religious Infidelity), Spiritism, War, and Greed, to gather in and crush the people of earth.

An Appeal to Our Readers—Continued

By Editor

300 Questions Answered

The editor will answer 300 or more questions on Bible and history. He will also conduct a happy, hopeful, instructive journey through the vales and over and among the mountains of the blessed Book. He will tell you of the great mission fields, of their needs, and the victories of the cross, and many other things.

50 Bible Readings

During the year fifty good, live, strong Bible readings on present truth will be given.

Mrs. E. G. White and others will tell of God's love in Jesus Christ.

Much more will be given as God helps. O will not you, brother, sister, friend, help us in giving it to the great multitude who wait in their darkness and need?

These articles will be well and appropriately illustrated with fine half-tone and line engravings.

We appeal to you to come and join the SIGNS family, if you have not already done so; and do it now, in order that you may receive the full benefit of these good things.

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By Editor

"29,400," answered the shipping clerk in reply to the question, "How many copies of the February 'Signs Monthly' were sold?"

FROM THE MAGAZINE PRIMER

Q. What is meant by Signs Monthly? A. It is a magazine of 48 pages and colored cover, issued monthly and known as the Signs of the Times Monthly.

Q. What is its character? A. It is religious; its Bible, Religious Liberty, Temperance, Home, and Current Topics departments give it variety and make it of very great interest.

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Cooperation Corner

By Editor

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DATE OF EXPIRATION

By Editor

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Is God Less Wise than Men?

By Editor

Not long since we listened to a sermon on the Sabbath question in which the preacher took eminently scriptural grounds for the origin and perpetuity of the Sabbath, and cited many facts and quoted many authors as to its physical necessity. But he contended that the divine law of the Sabbath demanded no definite day, any day after six of work was all that God commanded; but strange to say, the same gentleman contended that there ought to be a Sunday law to establish a definite day in order to save from confusion! That is, God did wisely and well in appointing a sabbath for man; but He made a great mistake in not appointing a definite day; therefore the men of the twentieth century should supplement God's wisdom and make the day definite. Put in another way: God made the day neither definite nor holy; human wisdom will supply both defects. Is man wiser than God? "Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."

The last news from Philadelphia is that there is no compromise or arbitration on foot in the strike; both are refused; 125,000 in various trades unions join in the strike; merchants are begging for settlement; 8,000 employees are laid off by them, and it is said $2,000,000 has been lost since the trouble started. The city itself is in chaos.

Stovaine, the New Anesthetic

Stovaine, the new anesthetic, is receiving much attention in medical circles just now. It is used largely as a spinal anesthetic. Cocain was once so used. The method was devised by Dr. J. L. Corning, an American; but it fell into disuse, as it was found that the powerful poison brought into direct contact with so delicate an organism as the spinal cord left bad after results. Dr. Jonnesco, a Rumanian surgeon, now in America, is using the new compound drug stovaine in the same way. He tells us that in 1,015 cases stovaine has been used as a spinal anesthetic "without a death and without any serious complication either during anesthesia or afterward;" that these operations have been performed on the skull, the throat, the neck, the breast, as well as the lower parts of the person; that it has been used on all classes, from the infant of a year old to a woman of threescore and ten years. The use of the drug does not destroy consciousness, while it eliminates all pain. American surgeons, however, do not yet accept all that is claimed for the wonderful drug, especially its use in the upper part of the body when the heart and lungs are likely to be affected. It will prove a great blessing if the later after effects are not serious. But there is still the if. See article in McClure's Magazine for March.

The Protestant Magazine

By Editor

"The Protestant Magazine" for the first quarter of 1910 has come to hand. Some of the principal articles are as follows: The Essential Truths of Religion, Casting the Papal Net for Government Officials, Protestant Principles Repudiated, The Dictates of Hildebrand, The Higher Critic under Fire, Churches of the Reformation versus the Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Justification, The Papacy in Politics, The Episcopal Oath of Allegiance to the Pope, Modification of Old Testament Criticism, and other articles of importance.

Price, 10 cents a number or 25 cents a year. Address The Protestant Magazine, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

Religious Institutions and Human Law

A sabbath which depends on human, civil law for its preservation is not worth preserving; and so with every other religious institution.

Captain Scott’s South Pole Expedition

Captain Scott, in charge of the English South Pole expedition, hopes to reach that point Dec. 22, 1912. He will take twenty-five men with him.

Laymen’s Missionary Convention

The laymen's missionary convention held in St. Louis, Mo., closed with a large banquet, February 23, at which more than 1,800 persons were seated at the tables. The primary object of the convention is to educate the laymen in actual conditions of religious work abroad, and so enlist their sympathy.

The Bible or Tradition

By Editor

There has been much call for the tract entitled "The Bible or Tradition," a review of Dr. Torrey's position on the Sabbath question, by C. H. Edwards. This little work has been out of print for some time; but it has been thoroly revised by the author, and can now be obtained from this office. The price is 2 cents. Taking the ground that Dr. Torrey himself starts out with, his various positions have been thoroly answered all the way through. It certainly is worthy of a wide circulation.

Sunday-Law Agitation in California

By Editor

The Sunday-law agitators are pushing things in California, and are, we are informed, pledging candidates for the legislature, demanding of each one that he shall support a Sunday law in order to receive the support of the churches. We earnestly hope that candidates for the legislature, to whatever party they may belong, may have independence of mind enough to ignore utterly these requests. Religion or a religious dogma that must be supported by law in order to be able to stand is unworthy of any support.

California School Census

By Editor

The Honorable Edward Hyatt, Superintendent of Public Instruction in California, requests us to note that the taking of the school census of this state will begin on the 15th day of April by census marshalls appointed by the Boards of School Trustees on or before April 1. But the census itself must be taken as it is on the 15th day of April. The census marshalls must visit every home, and ask questions called for on the official census blank. On this basis of enumerating the children of school age, certain funds are apportioned to the various school districts. And as accurate a census as is possible is desired. Parents can greatly assist in this by giving correct answers.

America’s Biggest Battleship

According to the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Meyer, the United States will soon have the biggest battle-ship on the sea. Its displacement will be 34,000 tons. It will carry 12 14-inch guns, and 35 5-inch guns. The 14-inch gun can hurl a broadside of shells each weighing 1,400 pounds, for a distance of 6½ miles. 23 knots an hour is the speed. The cost is estimated at $18,000,000. The only two war-ships approaching it in size are two Japan is now building, each having a displacement of 32,000 tons. It will be provided with a new design of torpedo defense battery, and it will have 6 turrets protected by 11-inch armor. The amount of powder it requires to fire the 1,400-pound shell is 400 pounds.

Census Questions Are Confidential

By Editor

The Census Bureau of the Federal Government have requested us to say to our readers that there need be no fear whatever in answering the questions which will be asked by those officially appointed to take the census of the United States. These questions are for purely statistical purposes, and the answers will not be used in any way in the matter of assessments, taxes, or in fact by any other person or persons. The matter is wholly confidential, so that none need be afraid of answering in the fullest, frankest possible way the questions that will be propounded by the census taker.

Our Next Issue

By Editor

Will carry a great twofold message to its readers; namely,

A RISEN CHRIST

and

THE SEALING WORK OF GOD

Rev. 7:1-3

Both of these subjects should be of great interest to all Christians, and in fact all others; for both are vital subjects.

Avalanches Bury Idaho and Washington Towns

An awful calamity occurred near Wallace, Idaho, February 27, in the burying of four towns under a fearful avalanche. The towns of Mace, Burke, Mullan, and Dorsey were buried in the awful snowslide, in some instances to a depth of seventy-five feet. Thirty-one are reported dead, but it is not known how much this number will be increased. Not until the melting of the snow will the full extent of the damage be known. Another avalanche buried the little town of Wellington on the Great Northern Railway as it emerges from the Cascade range on the west. A passenger train was also overwhelmed. Between 80 and 90 persons are presumably killed. The track is buried deeply for many miles from the scene of the calamity. Severe storms and great floods are reported from various parts of the country.

Announcement of Good Things to Come

By Editor

Be sure to read our announcement of good things to come, on pages 14 and 15. We told our readers about them two weeks ago, but the publishing department have said it in a much prettier way in this issue. Be sure to read what they have to say, then act quickly, please.

Renew Your Subscription

By Editor

Now is the time for many of our subscribers to renew their subscription for next year. Read pages 14 and 15.