p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 9. (3/4/1889)

HISTORY OF THE SABBATH

By John Nevins Andrews

AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.

By Eld. J. N. Andrews.

THIS WORK CONTAINS A MINE OF INFORMATION.

THE Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history concerning it, the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the work of restoration, are given in detail.

Every text of Scripture concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the complete Testimony of the Fathers in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian.

Should be read by everybody. 548 pp. Price, $2.00. Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

TEMPERANCE PACKAGES.

By Editor

WE have put up in neat packages, with printed wrappers, three different assortments of our health and temperance works, which we will furnish, post-paid, at the prices named.

TEN CENT PACKAGE.

By Editor

This package contains 100 pages in twenty-five tracts, as follows:—

The Code of Health—How to Live a Century—Pure Air—How to Ventilate a House—A Back Yard Examined—Inventory of a Cellar—What's in the Well—Cayenne and Its Congeners—A Live Hog Examined—A Peep into a Packing House—The Contents of a Tea-Pot—Tea Tasters—Tea Drinking and Nervousness—Tea Topers—Tea and Tippling—Tobacco Poisoning—A Relic of Barbarism—Tobacco Blindness—Science vs. Tobacco-Using—The Smoke Nuisance—The Rum Family—A Drunkard's Stomach—Gin Livers—A Rum Blossom—Alcoholism.

Of the twenty-five tracts, ten are devoted to general hygiene, five to the subject of temperance, five to alcoholic drinks, and five to tea and coffee. Twelve packages, post-paid, for $1.00.

FORTY CENT PACKAGE.

The second package, costing forty cents, post-paid, contains the following tracts and pamphlets:—

True Temperance—Alcohol, What Is It?—Our Nation's Curse—Cause and Cure of Intemperance—Effects of Intemperance—The Drunkard's Arguments Answered—Alcoholic Medication—Alcoholic Poison—Tobacco Poisoning—Tobacco-Using a Cause of Disease—Tobacco-Using a Relic of Barbarism—Evil Effects of Tea and Coffee—Ten Arguments on Tea and Coffee—Pork, the Dangers of Its Use—Diphtheria, its Causes, Prevention, and Proper Treatment. By J. H. Kellogg, M. D. This book should be in every household.

ONE DOLLAR PACKAGE.

By Editor

The third package, costing $1.00, post-paid, contains in addition to the forty cent package the following pamphlets:— Proper Diet for Man, price 15c.—The Uses of Water, price 25c.— Dyspepsia, Its Cause and Cure, price 25c.

The object of Arranging these Packages is to get them in a convenient form for sale and for selection.

Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

BIBLE SANCTIFICATION:

By Editor

A CONTRAST OF TRUE AND FALSE THEORIES.

By Mrs. E. G. White.

This is a pamphlet of only 84 pages, but its value is not to be judged by its size. It is just what its title indicates: a faithful presentation of Bible truth on this important subject, and an exposure of the false theories prevailing in regard to it. Every believer in Bible truth should read it. Buy it, read it, and lend it to your neighbor. Price, 10 cents.

Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

THE ATONEMENT.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

AN EXAMINATION OF

A REMEDIAL SYSTEM, IN THE LIGHT OF

NATURE AND OF REVELATION.

BY ELD. J. H. WAGGONER.

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED.

THIS work is a critical and exhaustive treatise on the plan of salvation as revealed in the Scriptures, showing its harmony with the principles of justice and mercy, its consistency with reason, and its final results as affecting the destiny of the human race. 368 pp.; cloth, $1.00.

Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

NEW SABBATH-SCHOOL SONG BOOK, JOYFUL GREETING.

By Editor

THIS book contains 216 pages, or over 40 pages more than the ordinary Sabbath-school song book. It is

The Largest Book Ever Sold for the Money.

The book is neatly gotten up, printed on good paper, and substantially bound.

Notwithstanding the fact that this book is so much larger than other popular Sabbath-school song books, it will be furnished at the usual prices—35 cents per copy, post-paid; $3.60 per dozen, by freight or express. If to be sent by mail at dozen rates add five cents per copy for postage.

Address all orders west of the Rocky Mountains to PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. General Agents for Pacific States and Territories.

GOLDEN GRAINS,

A SERIES OF

TEN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.

EACH LITTLE BOOK, OR PAMPHLET, CONTAINS THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF CAREFULLY SELECTED STORIES.

THE following are the titles: Robin's Judgment Book, Annie's Savings-Box, Always the Bible, The Sister's Lesson, The Hard Way, The Schoolboy's Dinner, Seven Times, The Wicket Gate, The Sensitive Plant, The Two Gardens. The whole set of ten books, over 300 pages, will be sent post-paid for 50 cents.

Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

The Signs of the Times.

By Editor

OAKLAND, CAL., SECOND-DAY, MARCH 4, 1889.

We send no papers from this office without pay in advance unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the Signs are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and hand them to your friends to read.

THE income of the four great missionary societies of Great Britain and of the British and Foreign Bible Society is in amount equal to the money spent on drink in England for sixty days. If the 30,000,000 Protestant church-members of the world would give one cent each day of the year, over $100,000,000 would be in the mission treasuries.

THE Boston Pilot (Catholic) says: "Hoffman's Directory gives the total of American Catholics at 8,157,676, but says in every diocese there are parishes that fail to report. We believe that the estimate made recently by a careful Catholic writer in the New York Sun, and which reckons the Catholics of the United States at a scant 12,000,000, touches the true figure more nearly than the other estimate given above."

IF some of our diseased meat dealers were treated as they were in England in the sixteenth century, we would have less trouble perhaps, in that direction. It is related that a butcher who had sold diseased meat was forced to ride about London with "his face toward the horse's tail, with half a lamb before and another behind, and veal and calf borne before him upon a pole, raw." Men who sold decaying fish were put into the pillory with the decaying fish around their necks. Who will say that the punishment was too severe for men who literally poisoned their customers for gain. There would be some long processions of butchers nowadays, though, in some of our large cities, if San Francisco is a type and the Daily Examiner's reports are anywhere near correct.

BROTHER LARUE writes from Hongkong under date of January 15, as follows:—

"The work here is very encouraging at present; those that were the most bitter at first show a different spirit now. One of the old missionaries who has been here in the work seven years, now sees that he must keep God's law. He is going up to the Island of Formosa to be gone till June, and then he goes to our college at Healdsburg to spend at least six months. He wants to know what time the summer vacation commences. Please write me so that I can write to him about it, as he wants to take that time in going. A soldier has also, I believe, been truly converted. He leaves here for London next month. He says he will take the good news to his mother. A captain from Australia, has likewise embraced the truth. This is a migrating people, and we will never know in this life what good has been done."

IN an article which Dr. T. L. Cuyler has in a recent number of the N. Y. Evangelist, it is stated that Brooklyn, the so-called "city of churches," is anything but a Christian or church-going city. Of a population of 800,000, 280,000 are Roman Catholics, of which seven-eighths attend church. About 100,000 attend the Protestant services more or less regularly. Making a fair estimate of little children, invalids, mothers kept at home by little ones, sailors and travelers, there are on any given Sunday, "at least 110,000 who cannot attend any place of worship. After making these deductions, there would remain 280,000 'outsiders' who are brought under no direct religious influence. This is a fearfully large number." But the Doctor solaces himself in the fact that Brooklyn is not as bad as New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or San Francisco. It will be a long time to the millennium at this rate.

THE Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette says: "Progress often seems slow to contemporaries, but even in the case of the great dominion of India, at the present rate of evangelization, the entire Empire will be Christianized within one hundred and fifty years." And asks: "How many centuries did it take to Christianize Europe?" That is rather a difficult question. It took but little more than five centuries to Papalize Europe, but, as it has never yet been Christianized, in any proper sense of the term, and as the existence of the Papacy seems, at least, to forbid the idea that it ever will be, the difficulties of the question are insurmountable to uninspired minds.

THE Nashville Christian Advocate well says that "when a professed Christian prefers the Christ of a Unitarian novelist to the Christ of St. John, it will be well for him to take a rest in novel reading and begin a fresh course in the gospels." Indeed the Advocate might have suggested with propriety, that it is well for a Christian under any circumstances to touch novel-reading very lightly, and spend much time in the study of the Scriptures. "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world," is a piece of advice as good to-day as when given by the apostle more than eighteen hundred years ago, and it leaves little room for the novels over which "society" goes wild.

WE have received from Hon. F. G. Adams, secretary, the sixth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Historical Society, covering the period from January 18, 1887, to November 19, 1888. During this time, over 12,000 volumes have been added. The whole number in the library at this time is 48,305. The published statistics of the libraries of the country show that the library of the Kansas Historical Society is the largest historical library west of the Mississippi River, and the largest but one west of the Alleghany mountains. The class of books is chiefly the history of the early struggles of that enterprising State.

DR. T. J. BARNARDO, of London, sends out a circular letter, appealing for help to support his "Homes" for outcast children. For twenty-two years, Dr. Barnardo has been engaged in this work—a work of love and faith to him. He has rescued from the vice, filth, and slums of London many little waifs, which have been trained for usefulness, and bid fair to become useful men and women. For most of these, homes have been found in America, chiefly in Canada. Most of the little ones thus rescued were taken literally from the streets and slums, having neither father or mother to care for them. The "Homes" are supported by contribution from those in sympathy with Dr. Barnardo's work. The little ones now under his charge number 3,000. It is a noble work. May God bless the doctor in his efforts.

THE SENTINEL LIBRARY.

By Editor

THE above is the title of a semi-monthly publication issued by the Pacific Press Publishing Co., and treating upon the various phases of the National Reform Movement, the Union of Church and State, and Civil and Religious Liberty. The Sentinel Library, will be regularly entered at the post-office as second-class matter, so that news agents can re-mail it at the regular pound rates. Each number will contain a telling treatise upon some branch or phase of the work. The Library will be uniform in size (page about 5x7½ inches), each number containing from 8 to 56 pages or more. Subscription price, 25 numbers, 75 cents per year, post-paid. Single numbers at the rate of one cent for each 8 pages, post-paid.

The first four numbers are now ready. No. 1, entitled "The National Reform Constitution," gives a view of our Constitution as it will appear when amended to conform to the views of National Reformers; 24 pages, price three cents, post-paid. No. 2, entitled "Religious Liberty," contains Senator Robert H. Crockett's famous speech before the Arkansas Legislature, 8 pages, price one cent, post-paid.

No. 3 is entitled, "The Evils of Religious Legislation," 8 pages, price one cent, post-paid. No. 4 contains "The Blair Sunday-Rest Bill," as noticed above, 56 pages, price seven cents, post-paid. No. 5 will contain "The Blair Educational Amendment Bill," with comments, showing the tendency which the passage of this bill will have toward the establishment of a national religion. Orders for single numbers, or subscriptions for the year, should be addressed to Pacific Press Publishing Co., 12th and Castro Streets, Oakland, Cal., or 43 Bond Street, New York City.

THE ATONEMENT.

By Editor

AMONG other vital doctrines of the Bible which have to do battle for their existence in the cultured and religious world of to-day, none is more important than that of the Atonement. How God can be "just and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus," is what many candid, intelligent, reasoning minds cannot comprehend, especially in the light of what is represented as the atonement by many theologians of to-day. Logical minds demand consistency, and the loose theories of the present are utterly inconsistent. Some follow a theory to its conclusion and become Universalists. Other theories force men to become ultra Calvinists or to reject the atonement entirely; and they generally reject the atonement. The true theory leads to no such conclusion. As the atonement is the great central doctrine, or rather that which comprehends all doctrines of the Bible, a proper understanding of it is necessary in order that the many winds of doctrine in these last days do not unsettle faith in the word of God.

Among the many works written on this subject, no one sets it forth more clearly than "The Atonement in the Light of Nature and the Revelation," by J. H. Waggoner. The arguments made are so clear and logical that all may comprehend them; at the same time, they stimulate thought, and lead the mind into unexplored fields not less fruitful than delightful, as the plan of man's redemption—the bringing of man into at-one-ment with God—is developed by the author. Some of its chapter headings are as follows (Part I.): Comparison of Nature and Morality, The Moral System, Requirements of the Moral System (Part II.), Principles of the Divine Government, Sin and Its Penalty, Justification and Obedience, What the Atonement Is, The Judgment, Redemption. Added to these sixteen chapters are two appendices, illustrating and amplifying Justification by Grace, and comparing, or contrasting, the teachings of Confucius and Mahomet with the gospel of Christ. It is a book which every minister, and which everyone who wishes to become intelligent in the Scriptures, ought to have. The positions taken in Part I. on the atonement in the light of nature, have been commended by eminent jurists who have examined them. This work can be procured at this office, or at the office of Pacific Press, 43 Bond Street, N. Y. Price $1.00.

A CARD OF THANKS.

By D. J. Manchester

EDITOR SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Please allow me through your public-spirited paper to thank Mrs. Louisa B. Fields, Ottawa, Kansas, for sending me a copy of the same, especially as she sends it without money or price, and she too a stranger to me. I wish the good lady success in placing so valuable a sheet in the hands of many people, as it should be read and understood by all Americans.

D. J. MANCHESTER.

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