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Earlier text: Perspiration of an Acre of Cabbages

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The Beautiful Poem

By Editor

The beautiful poem by Mr. Llewellyn A. Morrison, on our first page, is well illustrated by the reproduction of Munkacsy's wonderfully realistic painting of the crucifixion. Mr. Morrison is the author of a volume of poems, entitled "Heart Bells." They are indeed songs of the heart, chaste in thought, poetic in imagery, beautiful in expression. All may not agree with the theology of some of these poems, which express belief in the inherent immortality of man. This we are sure is not the teaching of Scripture, but, apart from this, Mr. Morrison's volume of verse holds to the higher hope in Christ, and is indeed pleasing, helpful, hopeful, restful. The price of the volume is, cloth, $1.00; gilt edges, $2.00. The address of the author is Toronto, Canada. May the glad-cheering voices now singing for Christ, sing on until the Master comes. Some souls will hear their songs and take heart.

The Missionary’s True Purpose

It is a sad mistake for a missionary to go to any heathen land representing himself as "from England," or "from America," and labor to introduce the "Christian civilization" of these lands among the heathen. The next thing the native will see will be a ship-load of rum or muskets from the same "Christian nation." No missionary should seek or claim his credentials from any government on earth, however it may be named. His citizenship is in heaven. He is, if he be a true missionary, Christ's ambassador, sent forth to reconcile men to God, to bear God's message of reconciliation and life to men. He is sent for the purpose of saving men, not civilizing them. All that will come as a matter of course; but that is not the object, even secondarily, of the missionary. His business is to bring men to God, to implant within them the seed of the kingdom of God, to show to every lost soul that there is no hope in this world, but to any lost soul there is eternal hope in Jesus Christ. Then when "Christian England" sends forth her traffickers in opium, and "Christian America" sends forth her dealers in rum, the Christian missionary may declare to the perplexed natives that these men need Christ as truly as any pagan.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry.

"There They Crucified Him," LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON . . . 1 The Home of the Saved, MRS. E. R. LEWIS . . . 4 The Return of the Spring . . . 10 Our God, C. M. SNOW . . . 12

General.

"Changed into the Same Image," MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . 2 "The Time Is at Hand," G . . . 2 The Fall of Satan, H. C. GILES . . . 3 Should Christians Pay Tithes? CYRUS SIMMONS . . . 3 Redemption, J. LOUISA IRELAND . . . 4 The Dying Thief, J. O. CORLISS . . . 5 A Baptist and the Sabbath, X . . . 6 Spiritual Rest, E. E. ANDROSS . . . 7 Are They Coming Together? . . . 7

Outlook.—A Sign of the Times—News in the Bible—Is It Freedom of the Press?—Startling, if True, G. B. THOMPSON —Sweat Shops . . . 8, 9

The Home.—Impression and Expression, F. GRIGGS—A Chapter to Children, G. C. TENNEY—Flirting . . . 10, 11

Missions.—Present Truth in Fiji, J. E. FULTON—Taking His Mother in a Wheelbarrow—Reflex Influence of Mission- ary Work, DAVID PAULSON, M.D. . . . 12, 13

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . 14

Publishers . . . 15

Missionary News from Sumatra

By Editor

From far Sumatra comes a most interesting communication, which will appear in a near number of the SIGNS. It is from our first missionary in that great equatorial group of islands.

The Need of Physical Exercise

The New York Evening Journal gives full particulars of a boy of nine becoming insane from over-study. If he had had a proper amount of physical exercise, this would have never occurred. There should be preserved a proper balance between the physical needs and mental impulses. This is vital in children and needful in the older.

Doing God’s Will God’s Way

It makes a great difference as to how we wish to know and do God's will. Many say that they wish to know His will, but they wish to do it in their way. But this is not to know God's will at all; for it is as truly rebellion against God to refuse to do His will in His way as to refuse to do it at all. Doing God's will in our way is an impossibility. As soon as our way comes into the problem, God's will is perverted. The only way we can know God's will is to learn it by unquestioning submission.

Present Truth in Fiji

By Editor

Read the article in our Mission's department on "Present Truth in Fiji." We are a little late on our part in publishing it, but other matter on hand longer necessarily came before it. However, it is not the less interesting. If, after reading, you desire to help the good work carried on by Brother Fulton and his co-workers, donations for this purpose may be sent to the Foreign Mission Board, room 1906, 150 Nassau Street, New York City. Our prayer is that the Lord may bless hearts by moving upon them to thus invest in the bank of heaven.

The Rum Curse

The Rum Curse.—In talking with a Salvation Army man who had passed a year in Manila, he expressed himself as greatly "disgusted" with the condition of things there. He said when Americans entered Manila there were but three saloons on the main business street; now it is a mass of saloons from end to end. Then one almost never saw an intoxicated Spaniard and never a drunken Filipino; but now Americans may be seen reeling through the streets any time of day. He further said that the "officer" who had charge of the Salvation Army work in the Philippines had about concluded that it was almost impossible for Americans to reach the natives religiously after the native came in contact with "Christian" America's saloon influences. The Filipino estimates Americans and their religion by what he sees of it in the islands. This is indeed a sad picture, and one to arouse more than disgust; it should awaken deep sorrow and humiliation.

ARTICLES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.

By Editor

We are presenting no more important series of articles in this volume than the following from the pen of Evangelist A. F. Ballenger. The mighty power of God to His people is His Spirit. The dynamite of the Gospel is the Holy Ghost. "Ye shall receive power [Greek, "dunamis"], after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." It is by the "gifts of the Holy Ghost" that God's servants are fitted for work; it is by gifts of that same Spirit of light that all God's miracles are wrought. What wonder, then, that Satan should seek to make indifferent God's people, to blind and delude all seekers for power! And what more important than that the Christian should know these gifts, know how to obtain them, and how to stand undeceived in the maze of doubt and delusion? The articles in this series will help you. They are:—

The Fruits before the Gifts, How to Seek Spiritual Gifts, Miracles of Healing, The Gifts of the Spirit, Gifts of the Spirit, Confirming Signs, "Why Marvel Ye at This?" Salvation for the Body, Lying Wonders, Deceiving and Being Deceived.

These will soon begin in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. You want to read them. You need them. The world needs them. Christians of every denomination need them, and thousands will appreciate them if placed in their hands. Will not our friends help us to extend the circulation of the SIGNS? And yet these are not a tithe of the vitally-important matter which this paper will contain in this volume. Now is our time for work.

Seeking God’s Will

We can never learn God's will through curiosity-seeking. Knowledge of the holy does not come in that way. The pure can only be found by seeking it purely. Righteousness can only be found when we seek it righteously. Seeking in any other way, we shall miss the mark. In fact, seeking with wrong motives blinds us to the good, the true, the pure. Only as we seek, in order that we may be what we seek, do we truly seek. All other seeking is vain. "If any man willeth to do His will, he shall know of the teaching."

Easter

By Editor

"Easter."—Why do we make nothing of "Easter"?—First, we do not believe in the glorification of the old pagan vernal festival of nature-worship, for which "Easter" stands. The word itself is the name of the old Saxon goddess Eostre, worshiped by the pagan ancestors. The eggs and yule log and flowers are all remains of the abominable nature worship. Christianity needs none of them. In the second place, if by the term is meant a festival in commemoration of Christ's resurrection, then we ask, Why celebrate a day for such an event? If we ought to observe Sunday weekly in honor of that event, why a day once a year? Why a day at all? The Bible gives no authority for such a custom. And, then, how much better the truth is! The resurrection was the divine proof of Christ's Sonship, the crowning evidence of His entire life of righteousness. The evidence of Christ's resurrection in His children is the power of God manifest in a godly every-day life. Baptism is the beginning of that life, not its end. It is the marriage ceremony of the union of the believer to Christ; but the sweetness and power of the married life come not once a year, but every day. If the church of God would witness for Christ every day, there would be no need of yearly celebrations to show to the world what the resurrection of Christ meant. The newness of life, the walking above the world and sin, would show that Jesus was risen indeed.

"THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN."

By Editor

OUR CHILDREN! What more important subject presses upon the heart of the parent than the welfare of his offspring—the best and highest good of the children God has given him? Stocks and bonds and lands and mortgages sink into insignificance compared to the true parent's interest in his children. Yet how often are they forgotten, or, rather, not truly remembered!

We will inquire: What is the best food for a colt? What is the best way to train him? Under what circumstances will he best develop? Yet, as regards our children, we give these matters little thought. We are content to follow custom; and our children sicken and die. Oftentimes we feed the body and let the mind and heart hunger. We pamper the physical and starve the mental and spiritual, leaving these to the teachers, public libraries, and chance books—nearly always hurtful works of fiction. Sometimes we do not know what books to get for our children.

There are many good ones, but we feel that we do parents of small children a benefit when we recommend another—helpful to the physical, mental, and moral child. Its title is "THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN," by Vesta J. Farnsworth, of Australia, formerly on the staff of Our Little Friend.

By the old-fashioned, Biblical, beautiful illustration of the house, the wonders, uses, functions, etc., of the human body, in all its various parts, are interestingly and instructively set forth. The plan of the book is conversational—a mother talking with her children. It is a book for home reading, for the "children's hour," and will prove of great assistance to mothers in teaching children how to care for themselves physically and to avoid the evil effects of narcotics and stimulants. Its 26 chapters are nicely illustrated with nearly 150 pen drawings. Neat cloth cover, printed in blue and red; 218 pages. Price, 75 cents. Address Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

The Medical Brief

"The Medical Brief," of St. Louis, Mo., edited by J. J. Lawrence, A.M., M.D., believes in religious liberty; and that is not the only good thing about the Brief, by any means.