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Signs of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 14.

With Our Inquirers
Earlier text: Studies in the Book of Daniel

First Quarter's Issue for 1908.

This number comes out with a new cover design, rare illustrations, and thrilling contents. It contains the memorial which the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists presented to the 60th Congress, embodying a concise statement of the faith and teachings of the memorialists, historical records of the disastrous results of the union of church and state, and of the present organized effort to secure from Congress such legislation as will commit the national government to a violation of its principles of religious liberty and the enforcement of a religious institution. Of this memorial, congressmen have spoken very highly, and those who presented it in the House and Senate declared it to be a masterly production.
It also contains the Religious Liberty Bureau's protest against Sunday laws,—one of the most masterly documents upon religious legislation ever published.
In addition to these two principal documents, this number is full of the best material that can be secured upon the proper relation of church and state, including the present Sunday-law campaign; things said about reinstating the motto, "In God We Trust," upon the coins of the United States; the state religion advocated by some; the position some Baptists have taken on federation; the position of great Catholic leaders on the union of church and state; Sunday closing of saloons; the decision of Judge Wallace on Sunday laws; the theocratical theory of government; special religious features of the Oklahoma Constitution; the character of Sunday; the present Sunday-law agitation, and the Sunday bills now pending in Congress; the true principles of Christian liberty; exemption clauses in Sunday laws; the character of the American Constitution, and various temperance topics. It also contains some rare illustrations, including a full-page photo of three kings and five queens of the principal foreign countries, a full-page photo of the members of President Roosevelt's cabinet, and a full-page photo of the opening session of Congress, Dec. 2, 1907, showing the interior of the House, and Speaker Cannon taking the oath of office.
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Tuberculosis and Intemperance—the two principal death-dealing agencies of the present time—are the general topics of the March number.
In addition to exposing the ravages of intemperance thru the agencies of alcoholic drinks, a broad application of the principles of temperance is presented, and demonstrated to include the rejection of things hurtful and the proper use of the beneficial.
Dr. Knopf, the tuberculosis expert, and others, associate the treatment of tuberculosis with the principles of true temperance. The entire number is practical and of vital importance.
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Teach Me the Secret

By Charles H. Rominger

TEACH me, O Lord, the secret hid Within the lily's golden chalice. That I should grieve Thee, Lord, forbid, O! free Thy child from sinful malice. I lift the chalice of my heart To Thee alone, O Lord, confiding. O! let the lily's simple art Teach me the peace of love abiding. Thou knowest I am frail and weak, But teach me as the tender lily Thy purity alone to seek From earthly virons dank and chilly. I pray that in a sinful world My heart may choose the pure and holy, E'en the temptations glazed and pearled Entice me from the pathway lowly. —Charles H. Rominger.

Tobacco and Its Effects

By Kathrina Blossom Wilcox

[A Paper Read at the Mutual Edification Club, Feb. 8, 1908.]
IT is not the thieves who are discovered, arrested, and imprisoned, who are doing the harm to the world and to society, but those who are permitted to walk at large, undiscovered, unarrested, and unimprisoned. And is not this preeminently true of tobacco? Whoever heard of any one being ostracized from society because he smoked too much? No; he is welcome everywhere in society. Even young ladies encourage him. They like the smell of it, they say, and the evil being thus condoned has more opportunity to do its deadly, contaminating work. He goes on from year to year demoralizing every pure and noble impulse within himself, and victimizing every pure thing that lies within his pathway. Note the face of that young boy who is just beginning the use of the cigaret, and watch him deteriorate from year to year. He loses all trace of purity and manhood—and his face is a true index to his character.
And then again, May we not reasonably believe that the use of tobacco lays by far the larger part of the foundation for liquor-using? Scarcely will you find a man who is addicted to the use of liquor who has not first used tobacco in some form, and thus formed his taste for strong drink; for the very papers in which the cigarets are wrapped, it is said, are soaked in alcohol, in order to develop a taste for the drug worse than alcohol.
Because of this insidious seed-sowing in the youth, tobacco becomes more productive of evil than alcohol. The Hon. George Torrance, superintendent of the Illinois State Reformatory, declares: “The cigaret is doing more harm than the saloon.” I trust that you will note that it is the cigaret alone that is doing more harm than the saloon, and then, if we include the cigar, the pipe, chewing tobacco, and snuff, what an overwhelming evil we have in the weed!
Dr. Torrance continues: “At the Edinburg Reformatory of eighty boys, there was not one who had not been a smoker or a chewer, and most of them had been both. In the reformatory at Blakely, near Manchester, out of thirty boys who had been admitted, twelve had been smokers, eight chewers, and ten confessed to have stolen tobacco or money with which to buy it.”
Another writer says: “There is overwhelming evidence to show that juvenile smoking is an evil of the first magnitude—an evil which is sapping our boyhood's strength and undermining our national manhood.” Over one hundred million cigarets are sold weekly in the United Kingdom in penny packets alone, besides those made by the user.
One prominent physician, who has made an especial study of the question, declares: “Of all the traps the devil has set for our young people nothing pulls them down so quickly and surely as the cigaret. Alcohol does not begin to equal it. And this man's testimony could be supplemented by many others.
Think of the hundreds and thousands of boys in our fair land who use tobacco before they are old enough to use liquor, before liquor dealers are allowed to sell it to them, but who everywhere—on the street, in their homes, in high society, and even among clergymen and church pastors, have the example set before them.

To Others than Users.

You already know how tobacco blunts the moral sensibilities and deadens the keen, quick powers of perception. Then can you not see how its extensive use is doing untold evil to millions of people, not only to the users of the poison themselves, but to all who come within the reach of their influence? It is working stealthily and surely, undermining health, morals, and society, and subtly eating its way into everything good in the nation and in the character.
Oftentimes wives are poisoned by close contact with the effluvia of tobacco-sodden husbands. Many are the children and babies who have died from nicotin poisoning caused by breathing the atmosphere contaminated by tobacco-using parents—for women are not exempt from this evil. For years some of them have used it in England and in this country; English girls are taking it up and smoking with their young men. And now we read of society women in our own near city of San Francisco, sitting in the public cafes, puffing at a cigar or a cigaret.
Think of it all! What a train of evils follows in the wake of this filthy habitat—physical degeneracy of every sort, insanity, for I could cite you to cases where the brain has been literally burned up, eaten away, and could tell you of instances where boys have smoked as many as fifty cigarets a day.
The head nurse of the Minnesota insane asylum said: “It is astonishing the number of women who come to us who have become insane by smoking cigarets.” And this in the great Northwest where the vice has not secured as firm a foothold as in many other places! What of our crowded cities the world over?
Cancer is increasing to an alarming extent, much of it due to smoking. And right here I might mention that one of our greatest generals, U. S. Grant, was a victim to this awful disease, but he is only one in many.
Blindness, immorality, and scores of other evils may all be traced to the corrupting, contaminating, debilitating, demoralizing, devitalizing effects of this baneful, poisonous, narcotizing, filthy weed, this deteriorating, contemptible, despicable habit which leaves only the mere outline of a man or a woman. KATHRINA BLOSSOM WILCOX.

On the Inside.

The editor of the Woman's Home Companion, discussing the important subject of clean groceries in the February issue, takes the readers right into the factory itself:
"Here is one of the greatest food factories in the world. All told, it covers twenty-three acres of floor space.
"Here in the cellar, you will find the flour, sacks piled upon sacks, seventy-two thousand of them, before your eyes, and all that flour intended for the manufacture of just one brand of crackers made by this firm.
"Flour in a cellar! 'Ah,' you say, 'it may mold.'
"It can't. That cellar would put your kitchen floor to shame. It shines. It is dry as a bone. And for the further protection of that flour, it is not allowed to rest on the cement floor, but is piled on great trays or shelves raised several inches from the flooring, with a current of air between.
"Now they are ready to mix cracker dough, and the great sacks of flour are carried by elevators to the upper floor, where sack after sack is turned into what looks like a huge iron bath tub on rollers. When the required quantity of flour is in this 'tub,' really a great mixing pan, it is rolled under the most wonderful spigots, thru which flow three sorts of filtered water—boiling hot, ice cold, and the precise temperature of the city water. These are blended by an equally wonderful thermometer and barometer until they are at exactly the right temperature. Then, measured by meter, the water is turned into the flour. The sponge tub is rolled over to a mighty mixer, worked by machinery, and here, for the first time, a human hand touches it. When the head baker thinks this sponge is about rightly mixed, he touches it. Like your grandmother and mine, he says he can judge its texture best by actual touch. And his hands are as clean as his uniform which is saying more than can be said for the average housewife in the average kitchen."
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Education

Education.—The object of true education and how it may be realized by the youth, the parent, the teacher, the writer, the tiller of the soil, and the business man, is the great theme of this book.
Its first chapter is devoted to First Principles; following that are illustrations taken from the history of Israel. Master Teacher, Nature Teaching, the Bible as an Educator, Physical Culture, Character Building, the Under Teacher, and the Higher Course, are titles of other chapters. 321 pages. Cloth, $1.25. Address this office.

Uncle Ben's Cobblestones

Uncle Ben's Cobblestones. Familiar talks with boys and girls about the common articles of everyday use, such as air, water, sunshine, fire, smoke, glass, coal, salt, paper, matches, etc. Uncle Ben has a very pleasing way of telling about the origin and use of these various things. There is a ray of sunshine streaming thruout the whole book, and yet it does not touch the fickle so prevalent in books for children. The purpose of the book, aside from the useful information given, seems to be soul-culture, for we observe on every page a moral fragrance that will impress young minds in the right way. Uncle Ben tells about more than one hundred different things in all, and intersperses with happy thoughts that bring good cheer to young and old. 221 pages, price, $1.00. Address this office.

Here and Hereafter

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Here and Hereafter, or Man's Nature and Destiny. By Uriah Smith. This work is a thorough canvass of the great questions of a future existence, and the nature of man in the present life. Every text in the Bible which has any possible bearing upon these points is taken up and carefully explained. Cloth, 444 pp., $1.00. Address this office.

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My Garden Neighbors

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Garden Neighbors, My.—By L. A. Reed. A new nature-study book just fresh from the press. All will be interested in the true story of the sparrows who learned to imitate the bluebirds, of the cat that went wild, of the cowbird that imposed on a sparrow, and all the others in this instructive and entertaining book. It contains 256 pages with over fifty illustrations, several of them colored. Bound in cloth, $1.00. Address this office.

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If herewith is an order-blank, you will know you have overlooked sending renewal. You will not wish to miss a single issue. Back numbers often can not be furnished.

Our Bible Band.

Schedule for Week Ending April 11, 1908.
Sunday April 5 Judges 3, 4 Psalm 98 Monday ` 6 5, 6 ` 99 Tuesday ` 7 7, 8 ` 100 Wednesday ` 8 9, 10 ` 101 Thursday ` 9 11, 12 ` 102 Friday ` 10 13, 14 ` 103 Sabbath ` 11 15-17 ` 104
Judges 3 to 17 is one composite record of backsliding from God, of consequent suffering, oppression, captivity, servitude, or returning to God, of forgiveness and deliverance. We wonder at the perversity and the unbelief of the people. We marvel at the long-suffering and goodness of God. We often fail to take into account the awful moral surroundings of Israel, and the demoralizing influences of the tribes which they permitted to remain in the land of promise. We wonder sometimes how God could use such men as Samson, but He always uses the best He has, the ones willing to be used. Notwithstanding Samson's grossness and simplicity, he believed in God and in the mission of Israel, and was willing to give his life at last to avenge the foes of his people.
Note how easy it is to build up a false object of worship, as in the case of Gideon and the ephod he made. The selfish desire to memorialize his victory over Midian became a snare to him and his home.
In the case of Jephthah's daughter, let our readers beware of the usual interpretation that Jephthah slew his daughter. (1) Because human sacrifices were contrary to the law; (2) Because the text does not necessarily imply that he slew her. Some render Judges 11:31 as follows: `Then it shall be that whatsoever cometh forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be Jehovah's, and I will offer to Him a burnt offering.'' Therefore he dedicated his daughter, his hope for the perpetuation of his family in Israel, to the Lord, to perpetual virginity, or celibacy. Her coming out to meet him brought him very low, brought extinction to his family, because she would never marry. Read verses 37 to 40 with the margin of 40. She bewailed not her death, but her virginity. She could never be a mother. Therefore the daughters of Israel went four days every year to talk with the daughter of Jephthah, and `she knew no man.'' Verse 39.
Beautiful and helpful are the psalms for this week, inviting to meditation, devotion, and praise.

The Drink Question at Stanford University.

We have previously mentioned the difficulty that the Stanford University has been having with the drink question among the students. There is a number of students that seem to think that to drink and carouse is one of their privileges and that this privilege must not be curtailed. But the evil had been carried so far that the faculty felt called upon to take a very decided stand against it, and to have drinking places driven away from the vicinity of the institution. When this stand was taken with a good, strong hand, a procession of students marched thru the university grounds, then to some of the professors' houses outside, and made a very clamorous protest against having their drink cut off. The country has had its eyes on Professor Jordan to see how stiffly he would stand against this drunken rowdyism. And while the students have tried to get up all sorts of scares, even threatening to have the whole school go on a strike and leave the institution without scholars, yet has he stood firm, and at the present writing it looks as tho the law-abiding element of the student body together with the faculty of the school would carry the day for good discipline. Personally Professor Jordan is a strong believer in the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and he should have the support in this crisis of all who know the benefits of temperance in building up strong manhood.

Japan Welcomes the Battleship Fleet

It is announced from Washington that the government of Japan has extended a most cordial invitation to this government to have the battleship fleet call in Japanese waters on its return to the Atlantic Coast. They say that they want to have the privilege of giving the fleet the greatest welcome and show of friendship that it has received anywhere. The government has accepted the invitation and it is said that the fleet will call at a leading Japanese port as requested. Japan says that she hopes in this way to still further cement the traditional friendship between the two countries.

The Seal of God

The Seal of God.—There are those who hold from Eph. 4:30 that the seal of God is the Holy Spirit, "whereby ye are sealed." God's Sabbath is the seal of His law; the Spirit impresses that seal upon the heart. There is a difference between the seal and the sealer, tho both are necessary to the doing of the work.

St. Helena Sanitarium

St. Helena Sanitarium.—It is a pleasure to see a worthy person or worthy institution, after a hard and seemingly unsuccessful career for years, turn the corner to the path of prosperity, and begin a winning conflict with adverse circumstances. Such was the experience of the writer at the report of the annual meeting March 11, at the Sanitarium, near St. Helena, Cal.
For years the institution struggled hopelessly in debt, or so it seemed to many of its friends. But the managers, doctors, nurses, helpers, toiled self-sacrificingly, constantly, till it turned the corner and started up-grade.
The last two years have been the most prosperous in the history of the sanitarium; not alone financially has it prospered, but it has done much good in carrying the blessing of the Gospel of health and life to thousands.
It has built a well-equipped hospital costing $12,000. Its net profits amounted to more than $38,500. In two more prosperous years the institution will be free of all indebtedness. May God bless it abundantly in its constantly enlarging plans.

Biblically Baseless

Biblically Baseless.—This is what a well-known writer declares: "I know I am an immortal soul. I know I have always lived, and will always live, passing on from sphere to sphere, from cycle to cycle—passing at great periods of time to "contemplate" God in Nirvana—and yet again going forth as His expression. But this faith, this knowledge, fills me full of joy." All this is superlative nonsense. The writer does not know she is immortal. "Who only hath immortality" is Inspiration's declaration concerning God. Strange isn't it? that so many of these who have lived for ages know nothing about their experience in former cycles, and profit nothing from it either! Sometime the false claim of immortality will pale before the revealed presence of the Christ of God; then will those who are clothed with His righteousness and incorruptibility of character be made immortal and glorified forever; while those who have trusted in themselves shall perish.

Character Rests With Us and God

Settle this, and settle it forever, that no man on earth can permanently injure our character. He may for a time destroy our reputation, but our character rests with us and God. We ourselves in order to form right character may have to do as did the Son of God, make ourselves "of no reputation;" but let us see to it that the foundations of character are laid in the eternal verities of God, and that the materials which are entering into the superstructure are gathered from the store-house of the riches of His grace, from the gold and silver and precious stones of His living word. Then we shall not worry as regards ourselves or our work; our burden will be for the salvation of other souls.

A Beautiful and Suggestive Bookmark

A Beautiful and Suggestive Book-Mark.—Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Hartshorn, 85 Broad Street, Boston, Mass., secretaries of the International Sunday-School Association, send out a beautiful book-mark. On one side of the golden ribbon are the lesson subjects for the year with the scripture reference to the lesson text and the Golden Text. On the other are splendid historical events and present statistics relative to Sunday-school work worth remembering. We have not much to do with Sunday-schools. We do not look upon Sunday as a holy day; but we are glad that the Bible is studied on that day, and we bid Godspeed to all true Bible study on whatever day it is conducted.

The Collegian Memorial Number

"The Collegian," of Healdsburg, has a special issue for March, a "Memorial Number." It contains reports of the revival recently held in the Pacific Union College by Elder Luther Warren. Its aim has been to gather out thru every student the good, helpful, inspiring gems of that refreshing season and pass them on to others. It will contain forty pages; the price, mailed to any address, is six cents. Address "The Collegian," Pacific Union College, Healdsburg, Cal.
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Contained in This Issue.

With Our Inquirers
Questions Nos. 2442 to 2450 - - - Page 2
General
Christ the Teacher and Healer - - - 3 The Breadth of the Law - - - 4 The Land of Promise - - - 4 Spiritualization - - - 5
Home Bible Studies
The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast 6 Our Bible Band - - - 16
Editorial
Studies in Romans - - - 8 Studies in the Book of Daniel (An Unnatural Kingdom) - - - 8 These Two Commandments - - - 10
The Outlook
A Mistaken Idea - - - 10 The Danger of the Boycott - - - 10 Restoring the Coin Superscription - - - 10 Putting Down Graft - - - 11 Liquor-Sale Restrictions in England - - - 11
The Home
Tobacco and Its Effects - - - 14
Poetry
Give - - - 4 Man's Weakness; God's Strength - - - 5 Teach Me the Secret - - - 14
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