p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 47. (11/22/1899)

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It Is the Best

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"It Is the Best."—An earnest worker in the Lord's vineyard in California, writes: "DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: I have just finished reading the World's Harvest issue of the Signs of the Times, and words fail to express its value and importance. I do not hesitate to say that it is the best to my knowledge that has ever been given to the world. Certainly truths of such importance on themes of such thrilling and universal interest ought to be circulated everywhere. The times warrant the placing of ten million copies in the hands of as many families. I am planning to do all I can in this [Butte] county."

December 13 will be the date of our next issue.

TO OUR FRIENDS.

By Editor

THERE are many thousands of people throughout the United States who believe in the precious truths of the Bible, heralded to the world by the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. To them we wish to appeal. We wish them to consider these self-evident truths.

1. The time.—We are living "in the last days," "the time of the end," "the day of His preparation." Jesus is soon coming. More than one dozen different lines of prophecy, beginning in different periods of the world's history, dealing with different events or nations, are rapidly bringing us to the very focal point of convergence, Christ's coming. For nearly fifteen hundred years God predicted in His Word various events—a score or more—that were immediately to precede Christ's coming and the end of probation. Within "this generation," this "time of the end," He has written and is writing all these signs again in startling events in the religious, social, political, and physical worlds, and in the heavens, that we may know, as He declared, "When ye shall see all these things, know that He is near, even at the doors." We see them; He is near.

2. The World's Need.—It is in darkness. "Darkness shall cover the earth; and gross darkness the people." How true now are the words of the prophet concerning the prophetic Word: "And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I can not; for it is sealed; and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned." And so the darkness grows deeper, men more perplexed, divided, confused. The world is sick, physically, spiritually, "desperately sick;" where healed at all it is but slightly. Men are seeking for the healing Balm of Gilead, the Water of Life, and are put off with evolutionary ointment and traditional nostrums. Nay, more, the world is dying, thousands upon thousands around you everywhere. What are you doing to save them? The great harvest of earth is here; the Reaper is coming. What will be their reaping? What will be yours?

3. The Remedy.—God has intrusted it to you, to us; not because we are better, but that we, in gratitude for a great salvation, may carry it to others. We have light for their darkness,—"the more sure word of prophecy, . . . as a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn." Give them the light of a present Gospel. Jesus is the Healer. Do you know Him? Tell the great sick world of the Balm in Gilead, of the Physician there. They are dying; point them to the Life-giver. They are sowing evil seed; tell them what the harvest will be. In the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and in that alone, is the remedy for all earth's ills.

4. The Opportunity.—Many will say: "I can not do this. I can not talk or preach." How do you know? Open the mouth for God; He has promised to fill it. But if you can not, or if you can speak, preach, or exhort, here is an opportunity—to some, doubtless, as giver and receiver, the opportunity—to give the light and healing and life; to some the light and healing and life may come for the last time. The opportunity to which we refer is the circulation of the World's Harvest number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Many of our regular subscribers have received and read it. Mechanically it is well printed for a perfecting press. Its illustrations are good. What it says is in good English. But, more than all these, it contains a whole volume of present, enlightening, saving, healing, life-giving, Gospel truth. You need it; the world needs it. Will you not, dear reader, help us in sowing the precious seed?

"Redeeming the time, because the days are evil," reads Eph. 5:16 in the common version. "Buying up the opportunity," reads the literal Greek. Will you not buy up this opportunity? It may cost ease, pleasure, a little time in business, a small outlay of money. Will you not sacrifice these in order to buy up the opportunity? Are not the days evil? Then do not the words now apply? God will abundantly bless every soul who heeds the Word.

We read in the political newspapers of men who go by rail and team through sun and rain, heat and cold, mud and slush, to speak on politics, while others travel in rain and mud and night for forty or fifty miles to meet and hear a two hours' speech. They think important principles are at stake, but the Gospel campaign is as much more important now and forever as heaven is higher than the earth, and eternity is more than time.

We wish we could publish the great edition free, but we are not able. The publishers have placed it as low as they consistently can, only four cents by wholesale. Hundreds of thousands, could they but be properly shown the paper, would buy it at 10 cents a copy. There they would get the contents of a dollar book, with a good piece of music besides.

"Behold, now is the accepted time [to work for God, to co-operate with Him]; behold, now is the day of salvation [for the world]."

Next Signs Issue Date

By Editor

Remember the date of the next “ Signs ” is December 13. The World's Harvest number includes November 29 and December 6.

S. S. Lessons

By Editor

S. S. Lessons.—There are two Sabbath-school and two Sunday-school lessons in this paper. The next lessons in course will be found in date of December 13.

Heresy in the Middle Ages

By Editor

We shall, the Lord willing, publish in our next an article printed in the Catholic Mirror, entitled "Heresy in the Middle Ages. The Church Has No Excuse to Offer for Suppressing It to Save Society."

A Mistake About Papal Statutes

By Editor

We said in our last that of late the pope "had been sending imaginary statues of Jesus to the crowned heads of Europe." It should have read statues. However, for centuries the pope has been sending out false statutes or laws, said to be those of Christ. The mistake was not wholly an error.

Surpasses Our Expectations

By Editor

"Surpasses Our Expectations."—So the Minnesota Worker of the World's Harvest number of the SIGNS; and so others. Some who ordered early are now ordering larger numbers. Those who have read it appreciate its excellence. All from whom we have heard declare it the best SIGNS ever published.

Death of H. L. Hastings

By Editor

We just now learn of the death of Elder H. L. Hastings, the publisher and editor of the Christian, of Boston, and the author of many small books, pamphlets, and tracts, mostly against infidelity. He was an attractive speaker, an indefatigable worker, and has written some sweet hymns. In his publications he almost never touched upon controversial religious dogmas. He was a believer in the near coming of Christ and conditional immortality. He died October 21.

Cowardice and Courage

By Editor

Cowardice and Courage.—Governor Roosevelt, of New York, has just been telling the New York State Assembly of Mothers, in a speech, October 18:—

"A boy that won't fight is not worth his salt. He will be no use in life, and is a coward. Teach him to use his strength on the side of righteousness. Do not punish him if he fights if he is right. Teach him to be able to take care of himself and know how to act under all circumstances."

But Jesus of Nazareth did not fight. Was He not worth His salt? Was He a "coward"? He said to those whom He called "the salt of the earth," "I say unto you, That ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." The converted fighter among the twelve said, "If when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable to God." Who is right—the Lord and His apostle, or Governor Roosevelt? But this is enough. Read the extended excellent remarks of the American Sentinel of October 26.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry.

My Palace Home, THOMAS ROBERT WILLIAMSON . . . . . 2 Ripe for Her Reaping, C. M. SNOW . . . . . 3 Jesus, Thy Name I Love . . . . . 3 Go and Tell . . . . . 10 When Baby Prays . . . . . 12

General.

The Compassionate Son of God, M. H. BROWN . . . . . 1 The Sign of God's People, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . 2 Christian Science, CYRUS SIMMONS . . . . . 3 "They that Were Ready Went In," URIAH SMITH . . . . . 4 Knowledge by Faith in God . . . . . 5 The Sabbath, Fathers, and Reformation, G. E. FIFIELD . 6 Annihilation, WM. PENNIMAN . . . . . 7 The Rejected Man Is the Saviour . . . . . 7

Outlook.—What Does It Signify?—The Inconsistency of It—Wait till the Apostolic Delegate Reports—The Cable Breaks—Church Fairs . . . . . 8, 9

Missions.—Products, Industries, and Resources of the Philippines, EUGENE G. WOOD . . . . . 10, 11

The Home.—"I Kicks Ag'in It, Sah" . . . . . 12, 13

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . . . 13-15

Publishers . . . . . 15

The World's Harvest Number

By Editor

The World's Harvest number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES contains thirty-two pages besides cover; over thirty original illustrations; seventeen general articles on Seed Sowing and Harvest written for this number, some of them by writers of national repute; an excellent moral story; a soul-stirring article on Missions, by Dr. A. T. Pierson; a beautiful, upbuilding article on the Home, by J. R. Miller, D.D.; four sweet, earnest poems; a stirring song, with music by James McGranahan; twelve Bible readings; and over a page more. There are not less than 56,000 words, besides the music and illustrations. It is not so much mere verbiage. Every article is condensed. It is as worthy of preservation as many books. The whole is only ten cents a single copy; five to twenty copies, five cents each; twenty-five and upwards, four cents each. It will also be mailed, post-paid, in orders of five or more to single addresses in United States, Mexico, or Canada, for five cents a copy.

Tithing

By Editor

Tithing.—One international Sunday-school lesson printed in this week's SIGNS is entitled "Lessons in Giving." The scriptures to be studied in the book of Malachi deal with giving; but they do more than that, they deal with paying. No man gives the Lord the tithe; for the tithe is the Lord's already. Man owes it as a debt, and withholding it is robbery. And yet God does not ask it because He Himself needs it; He desires to make man a partner with Himself in acknowledging His just rule and ownership, in giving, in sacrificing, in the great glad rejoicing in the harvest home. Not only was tithing a duty in the days of the prophet, it is a duty now, in these days; for it is in these days the prophet's words apply.

Thy Son—My Son

"Thy Son"—"My Son."—Touching indeed in its pathos is Genesis 22, the record of Abraham's trial. God said, "Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac," and offer him. How the heart of the loving father was torn! The very words in which the command is couched made the deed harder. Note also with what touching tenderness the father speaks to the boy: "Here am I, my son;" "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb." And God did. "The Lord will provide."

None Too Early

By Editor

None too Early.—It is none too early just now to begin to earn a scholarship in one of the educational institutions with which we have completed arrangements. It is a rare offer for energetic young men and young women who desire to secure an education. Write to us for booklet giving full particulars. Address SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.