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Cyclone Washer

Elder G. C. Tenney, editor of the Review and Herald, says: “The Cyclone Washer is sold on its merits. It is not claimed for it that it will do a washing while the operator sits in the parlor, nor that if she will push a button, the machine will do the rest. It asks for a good liberal supply of hot water and soap, and for co-operation. Then it promises to turn out a good job of washing at a large saving of hard labor. It will do it too. My wife was so suspicious of the claims usually made for washing machines that she would none of them. When the Cyclone came along, merely claiming to be a help, she bought one, and now rejoices in the fact. The machine is a good thing. It will save many a weary day’s work. It is a Cyclone that will blow into oblivion the steam, fog, slops, sweat, and stew of ‘blue Monday.’”

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Too Much Legislation

ONE of the prevalent evils of the present day is too much legislation. There is a quite common impression among men that whatever is deemed to be a good idea ought to be made law. Again, in the multitude of legislators throughout the country, nearly every one has the ambition to be the originator of some law. This mania is so prevalent that hardly one-tenth of the measures introduced in Congress or in the various State Legislatures ever find place in the statute books. The Oakland Enquirer touched the point in referring to a bill requiring certain precautions in operating mines, when it said: “The Assembly has passed a bill which shows to what extent legislation is coming to be relied on to supply people with common sense and ordinary prudence, such as ought to be everybody’s birthright by nature.” Another item which shows to what a fine point legislation is tending, is a bill to regulate the width of wagon tires. All this tendency to parentalism in government is fast sapping away the independence of the people, and preparing them for that condition of supposed imbecility wherein it will be deemed necessary to prescribe their education and their religion by law.

California Delegates Depart for General Conference

Most of the delegates from California to the General Conference will leave Oakland at 6:30 Sunday evening, February 14.

News from the Mission Field

By Editor

READ our Missions department this week. It contains articles of interest from the extreme east and west, from Australasia and Europe.

Why Regulate Sunday by Civil Law?

If it is only a civil Sabbath law or Sunday law that is desired, what prominence has Sunday as a civil day over Monday? If Sunday as a civil day should be regulated by civil law, why not a law for Monday and Tuesday, and every other day in the week.

The Mission of Signs of the Times

By Editor

OUR aim is that every number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES shall contain enough of the Gospel to bring a soul to Jesus. Our prayer is that each number may fulfil its mission. May we not have the prayers of our patrons and readers that this paper and those to follow may awaken sinners, point them to Christ, pour balm into wounded hearts, and instruct and strengthen believers in the way of life?

A Revolving Calendar

We have received a pretty little calendar for table or stand, with revolving disks for the name of the month and day, and day of the month, with double-scale thermometer, and marble tablet and pencil for memoranda, from the well-known and reliable dry goods firm of Murphy, Grant & Co., of San Francisco.

Corresponding School Term Begins March 1

PROF. E. A. SUTHERLAND, of Walla Walla College, gives notice that “the new term of the Corresponding School will commence the 1st of March, 1897. Those wishing information in regard to the school may obtain it by addressing it at College Place, Wash.” He further says, “We have about two hundred students who are taking the work, and from the work sent in and the letters that are received, we are confident that good is being done.”

“PREPARE WAR.”

THIS IS WHAT THE WORD OF GOD indicates the nations will do just before Christ comes. Look at the following figures of the annual cost of war preparations in Europe, and note the increase:—

ANNUAL COST OF THE ARMIES AND NAVIES OF EUROPE.

1869 1896 $580,000,000 $1,150,000,000

NATIONAL DEBTS OF EUROPE.

1872 1896 $23,400,000,000 $30,000,000,000

OUR NAVAL ESTIMATES.

1881 1896 $52,500,000 $109,000,000

The London Chronicle says: “As the Peace Society points out, all the nations concerned in this reckless race of armaments are relatively in the same position as they were before it began.”

PITY THE POOR.

THE pathos of Hood’s “Song of the Shirt” may be heard in the following figures of prices paid seamstresses in New York City:—

Cambric dresses, with lined waists and some trimming, are being made at $1.20 a dozen.

Nightgowns, with tucked yokes (thread furnished by the maker) and insertion (cut out by the maker), are being made at $1.00 a dozen.

Silk waists are being made at 98 cents a dozen.

Women’s wrappers are being made at 49 cents a dozen.

Coats are being “finished” at 36 cents a dozen.

Shirts are being made at 30 cents a dozen.

Aprons are being made at 22 cents a dozen.

Fine French nightgowns are being pressed in the living rooms of tenement houses at 5 cents a dozen.

Neckties are being made at $1.25 a gross.

Can we wonder that there is discontent among the poor? Can we wonder that ready-made goods rip? Can we wonder that God has said over and over again, “Wo unto them that oppress the hireling in his wages”? And his word is true.

The Youth’s Instructor

By Editor

THE Youth’s Instructor is a most excellent paper, and it seems to us that it is just such a paper as all Christian young people would wish to take and read, just such a paper as their parents would like them to read. It is only $1.00 a year. Among the good articles in the current number are Worldly Amusements, Little Losses and Great Gains, A Jamaica Garden, About Marblehead, Empty Homes (Science Stories), Bathing, etc. Address, Youth’s Instructor, Battle Creek, Mich.

The College Reporter Launches

The College Reporter, a neat, unpretentious, but we believe a useful little craft, just launched on the uncertain Journalistic Sea, hails us from Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash. It is well officered by the College Faculty, makes monthly trips, and will call at all places desired for the exceeding low sum of 15 cents a year. May it sail on and prosper.

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No. 146, October, 1896, is entitled “The Rich Man and Lazarus.” It is an original exposition of the parable of Luke 16: 19-31, by Wolcott H. Littlejohn. Price, 2 cents.

No. 147, December (Extra), “Home Missionary Work,” by Mrs. E. G. White. Price, 4 cents.

No. 148, “The Sabbath in Prophecy,” a consideration of seven inspired predictions of a Sabbath reform movement to take place in our day. This is also by W. H. Littlejohn. It is worthy of a wide circulation. Price, 4 cents. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or any of our branch offices or tract societies.

Church and State Agitation

By Editor

We are glad to see the agitation over the Church and State question, now so frequently discussed; and we are also glad to note that it is not all on one side. The Nashville (Tenn.) Sunday Journal of January 17 has an article on “God and Cæsar” of three columns, which takes true and strong ground. Here is a good paragraph, which shows that God can not set up his kingdom through civil law:—

“It is in the thoughts that God sets up his kingdom; he rules the outward conduct through the mind. If a man hates another he is a murderer, but if civil government should attempt to punish murder that exists only in the mind there would be hanging on every tree. God rules through the very thoughts of men; he demands that they think correctly, for if they think right, they will do right deeds.”

And the same day comes the Sacramento Record-Union of January 23, with a telling article on “The Sunday Law,” showing its true object and animus. Let the matter be agitated. The honest in heart will see the light.

Catholic Claims on the Arbitration Treaty

IN commenting on the Arbitration Treaty between this country, at this writing not ratified by the Senate, the Catholic Mirror takes to the Catholic Church the credit in the following: “We may fairly claim that the Catholic Church was among the very first to suggest this mode of coming to an understanding. On Easter Sunday of last year the three distinguished cardinals, Gibbons, Vaughan and Logue, united in” an appeal for “permanent tribunal of arbitration.” The appeal is given, and the Mirror remarks: “The letter of the cardinals was published everywhere and widely commented upon. There was, so far as we know, not a voice in dissent; and now that appeal has borne fruit.” This treaty is not quite what the cardinals appealed for, but it is a step toward such a court, with the pope at the head.

He Has Not Done So

He Has Not Done So.—Says a writer who endeavors to prove Sunday to be the original seventh day, “Would a God who delights in the unity of his children as our God does, so fail in definitely designating the day as to justify division regarding that day?” No, he would not so fail, and has not so failed. He has made it as plain as words could make it that the seventh day is the Sabbath (Ex. 20:8–11), and that this is the day just before the first day of the week (Mark 16:2). We know of no attempted Biblical Sunday defense which is held by even a majority of Sunday-keepers. God’s command and Christ’s example are sufficient for those who keep the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day.

Excessive Labor and Premature Death

Mr. James R. Randall, in the Catholic Mirror, in speaking of the suicide of Mr. McCullogh, late editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, says that “it is evident that he, as his doctor stated, ruined his mind and body by excessive labor, want of exercise, and profligate use of tobacco. I have no doubt that many men who die violently or otherwise, prematurely, bring on kidney troubles, brain disease, and so-called heart failure in the same way. Some men become possessed ambitiously with a kind of demon of labor, and resort to stimulation in middle age. Nature is revenged upon them at last.” All of which is no doubt true. Men drive their brain to insanity or their heart to death.

Are They Both Christians?

Roman Catholic Spaniards are fighting Roman Catholic Cubans. Are they both Christians? Would Christ have done this?