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Immortality

By Editor

We would recommend as a brief help in study of the immortality question, “Is Man Immortal?” Apples of Gold Library, No. 86. Single copy, 2 cents, post-paid; $1.00 a hundred. This office.

Those who are making an investigation of the Bible teaching on immortality should secure the tract “Thoughts for the Candid,” Bible Students’ Library, 47. Single copy, post-paid, 2 cents; 50 cents a hundred. This office.

FOR SALE

A Desirable Home

In the best residence portion of Mountain View, a two-story, modern, 9-room house, with roomy basement, attic, commodious hall, large closets, bathroom, and pantry, toilet up-stairs and down, extensive porches, large windows, and beautiful outlook. The land consists of one acre, having a young family orchard of about 30 trees, nearly all of which are in bearing,—choice apple, peach, pear, apricot, nectarine, cherry, crab-apple, plum, prune, fig, quince, walnut, and almond,—besides a variety of choice small fruits, with plenty of land for gardening. The soil is excellent. There is a 3-room bungalow on the place, with bath, also a good well, tank house 30 feet high, 3,000 gallon tank, two horse-power gasoline engine, all in good condition. There are also two magnificent live-oaks in the right place, and other trees,—catalpa, eucalyptus, etc., etc.,—also chicken yards and houses. Reasons for selling: ill health and press of other duties. Will be sold at a reasonable price on reasonable terms. Address X, care editor SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, California.

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Publication Information

By Editor

(Entered Sept. 15, 1904, as second-class matter at the Mountain View, Cal., post-office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.)

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The Law

By Editor

An excellent tract to study in connection with the law of God is Bible Students' Library, No. 178, "The Perpetuity of the Law of God." Single copy, post-paid, 2 cents; $1.00 a hundred. This office.

A Calendar for Missionary Work

By Editor

The Missionary Calendar.—We have received from Mr. A. W. Roffe, 274 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the "Missionary Calendar and Wall Roll" for 1913. It certainly is a beautiful and inspiring calendar to those who are longing to help the needy of earth. On the front page are two half-tone pictures, of women workers in India, many of whom were famine waifs in 1900, and three Kongo teachers holding forth the Word of Life, with the mottos, "The Christians now living must take Christ to the non-Christians now living, if they are ever to hear of Him;" and "Missions are the outgo of the church; the church is the outcome of missions." Each month is given on one large sheet, with a center illustration around which are grouped stirring missionary items, as, for instance, January 29, "India has 500,000 blind persons, 391,000 child widows, 6,000,000 child wives, and 27,000,000 orphans." For February 11 we have: "No individual can remain the same after the Gift of God has come into his life. No community but what is changed once the Lamb of God is received." For March 15: "Every ten-cent piece represents ten units of opportunity and responsibility. It will buy a cigar, or preach the gospel for a whole day through native lips." The price of the calendar is low—sent by mail for 35 cents; in dozen lots, post-paid, for $2.64. Address as above.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

By Editor

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., NOVEMBER 5, 1912

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.

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Contained in this Issue

Question Corner	PAGE
3901 — Tell No Man; 3902 — Who Baptized John? 3903 — Their Worm Shall Not Die; 3904 — The Seventh Trumpet; 3905 — The Offerings of Solomon; 3906 — By the Catholic Bible	2
Our Bible Band	2
Editorial
The Time Is Fulfilled	3
The Bible Sabbath in the Christian Era	4
The Invisible Things of God	5
Notes	16
General
History of the Sanctuary	6
"Me an' Jesus"	7
The Will Must Be Surrendered	8
Rejoice	9
Our Bible Reading
The Second Coming of Christ	9
The Outlook
The Vices of Sodom	10
The Subdivided Factions of Reform	11
Roman Catholics and Civil Government	11
Home and Fireside
The Importance of the Home	12
Poetry
The Somewhere Land	1
When Thy Curfew Rings	2
As God Will	8
The Bible	12

The War in the Near East

By Editor

The War in the Near East.—At present it looks as if the four small boys of Southeastern Europe would soon drive their tormentor, the big bully Turkey, over the Dardanelles and into Asia Minor. There are some correspondents who contend, however, that the Turk has not yet begun to fight, and by the time the little kingdoms have exhausted themselves by their successful excesses, the Turk will be thoroly awakened, his armies mobilized and mad, and he will make short work of clearing his dominions of the belligerent small nations. Perhaps, and perhaps not. The game of war is uncertain. We would not be surprised if the Turk should be driven from Europe to his possessions in Asia. What would be his seat then? We do not know. We do not know as any one knows, even the Turk himself. If he is pursued hotly by a victorious enemy, he may not stop till he has reached the thrice sacred tomb of Mahomet at Mecca. If he is unmolested on the other side of the Dardanelles, he may make one of a half dozen ancient seats his royal capital. Wait.

They Do Not Believe It.—

By Editor

A clipping from the Denver Weekly Post, for week ending October 12, 1912, has an item from Delta, dated October 8, which says:

“E. A. Curtis, in a speech accepting the presidency of the Western Colorado Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, predicted the end of the world before 1915.”

The item is headed in red ink:

“Sees World’s End Before Year 1915.”

Our inquirer asks, “Do Adventists in general believe that?” And we reply emphatically that Seventh-day Adventists do not. They do not set times or fix dates, they never have done so and never will. We do not believe that Mr. Curtis said this. It is a not purposely incorrect report of what he said. The views of Seventh-day Adventists prohibit time-setting.

Belief in No Hell

It used to be one of the great orthodox doctrines in leading Christian churches to teach an ever-burning hell, but the Detroit Times of July 20, 1912, quotes the Rev. T. W. Young, Baptist, as saying:

"The widely diffused ideas, in modern times, about the devil and the hell of fire and brimstone for the wicked, come from Dante and Milton, which is poetry, and not from the Bible. Some of the ancient church fathers—that fruitful source of heresy—also held fantastic views about the future torment of the wicked, but no great religious creed and no great religious denomination, as such, has ever advocated any such literal interpretation of the Bible. No present-day creed or church, as far as I know, believes in a hell of fire and brimstone. Some few straggling literalists may, but they have little or no following."

Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, as reported from the Christian Herald, says:

"I have come to believe myself in the probable annihilation of those who never respond to God's offer of forgiveness, those who never believe in Christ, and take Him as their Saviour. It seems probable that the Bible teaches that the word 'death,' as applied to the soul that always refuses to repent, means death of total extinction. . . . I can not interpret the use of a text such as we have to-day to mean anything less than that 'the wages of sin is death.'"

This certainly is hopeful.

David Eason, a minister in the Brookville Methodist Episcopal Church of Erie Conference, Pennsylvania, writes to the Brookville Republican, in its issue of July 18, 1912:

"I am not a believer in endless torture of any kind. I believe that sin will be punished according to the deeds done in the body, but it is not punitive simply, but on the contrary is remedial."

The Marietta Register-Leader of July 9, 1912, gives the opinion of several ministers from the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches, who repudiate the idea of the literal hell, or literal fire. Some of these ministers hold to conditional immortality, as does Charles Sheldon, and that is the Bible view. Others have adopted the unscriptural view of universal salvation.

When we come to it, there will be a literal fire and a literal burning, in which the old earth will be purified, but out of that will come the glorious new heavens and new earth, in which there will be no more sin, and hell will be forever banished from God's universe.

How the Sabbath Was Changed

By Editor

A subscriber writes us that it is better to say that the Sabbath was changed by apostasy from the seventh day to Sunday; because Sunday is not strictly the Bible first day of the week. The Bible day, and hence the Sabbath, begins and ends at sunset. Sunday begins and ends at midnight. And this is so.

Memory Text for the Week

John 12: 35, 36

"Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and He departed and hid Himself from them."

Increasing Intemperance

Increasing Intemperance.—Royall E. Cabell, commissioner of internal revenue, is quoted by the New York World as saying that "there is more whisky stored in Kentucky to-day than ever before, and that the consumption of cigarets has reached a total of about a billion a month, and is still increasing. He attributes the increased smoking of cigarets to judicious advertising, the increase of whisky he attributes largely to prohibition. He reasons thus,—that in prohibition territory those who sell illicit liquor use that that is of the smallest bulk in proportion to the alcoholic content, and that therefore whisky is more easily handled than beer, ale, or wine; a bottle of whisky contains many more drinks than a bottle of any of the others, and that the whisky distillers would like to see the whole country go dry, as that would give them a monopoly of the manufacture of intoxicating beverages." It is too bad that it is so. The great trouble is that it takes sympathetic and loyal men to enforce law, and this is usually wanting in prohibition territory.

The New Race

In a recent newspaper, Ella Wheeler Wilcox sings that "out of the wreck and chaos of the order that used to be, a strong new race shall take its place;" but the same journal tells us that under modern conditions, out of which Mrs. Wilcox's new race shall spring, only 27 per cent of college girls marry; only 61 per cent of high school girls; 85 per cent of the grammar school graduates; while "the paupers, the feeble-minded, and the immoral women bear by far the largest number of children in the United States, almost 95 per cent of these being mothers." The most enlightened mothers bear small families and of lowest vitality. Surely Mrs. Wilcox dreams.

The Perils of Aviation

Nearly every day the news brings us the account of one or more persons who have lost their lives by some accident with an air-ship. But still the work goes on, and there are more and more men, and women too for that matter, who are willing to be sacrificed in order that the science of flying may be developed. The principal call for the aviator is from the military and naval men. Each nation is seeking to build up a strong aerial navy, and they want experts at flying the air machines. And in view of this strong demand, men and women are willing and anxious to embark in a calling that is almost sure to result in their death sooner or later.

Overcrowded Institutions

Dr. John R. Haynes has just completed a tour of inspection of the institutions in California for the care of the insane and feeble-minded. He finds them all in a very overcrowded condition, and recommends that steps be taken at once to erect one or more additional institutions of this character.

Armageddon and the Lord’s Battle

We do not "stand at Armageddon," nor does mortal battling for the Lord come there. All the battling for the Lord by the humans of earth will be over when Armageddon dawns, and the men who battle there will be led by the spirits of demons.

Northern Mongolia’s Independence

On October 19 Russia recognized the independence of Northern Mongolia.