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Signs of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 38.

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Earlier text: Flood and Fatality

THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL AND LABOR

By Editor

From Every Standpoint

By glancing at list of contents of the October Signs Monthly you will be impressed with the thought that
The thinking person will be interested The curious will wish to investigate Attention of most careless will be arrested
The index is so arranged that a glance gives the scope of the paper.

Contents

_Frontispiece._—The Conflict Between Capital and Labor.
_Current Topics._—The Jubilee of Calvin; Aeroplane and Automobile; Income Tax; Misuse of Wealth; The Strike Near Pittsburg; Discovery of the North Pole; Two-Million-Dollar Home.

THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL AND LABOR

The Manufacturer and the Labor Movement, J. Kirby, Jr.; Hostility of the Manufacturers' Association, John Mitchell; Methods of the Manufacturers' Association, Samuel Gompers; Capitalism and Socialism, Eugene V. Debs.
_Christian and Prophetic_
Two Pictures, M. C. Wilcox; The Federation Age, George A. Snyder; The Struggle of the Ages, A. O. Tait; The Harvest of Creed (Bible-reading); The Reaping of Arthur Glendon (Story), Emma H. Adams; The Great Commission, Mrs. E. G. White; Divine Healing, D. H. Kress, M. D.; The Blessed Assurance (Poetry), Mrs. L. D. Avery-Suttle; The Sabbath Institution, H. W. Cottrell; Nations and Prophecy, Clarence Santee; Editor and Reader.
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Exercise and Diet

By Ellen G. White

By Mrs. E. G. White
There are many suffering from ill health to-day because they do not pay attention to the laws of health. They do not exercise their reason in caring for the human machinery that God has entrusted to them, and thus they present to God a crippled offering. Many persons confine themselves in ill-ventilated rooms. In expiration we are constantly throwing off from the lungs impurities that defile the air, and there is positive necessity of having a constant supply of pure air. Many breathe air that is poisoned, and therefore the blood is not purified in the lungs, but passes into the body without being vitalized by a fresh current of air. The result is that such persons are troubled with giddiness, restlessness, confused thoughts, and gloomy spirits. The process of digestion is not properly carried forward, the brain is clouded, and the heart depressed. Such persons are suffering for want of exercise in the pure air. If they would have their organs perform their work properly, and be saved from the inroads of disease, they must change their course of action.
Schoolrooms are often death-traps, as also are ill-ventilated bedchambers. If buildings are constructed in such a way that they can not have a constant supply of fresh air, the health of the inmates will surely be impaired.
Ministers are often forced to pay a severe penalty for speaking in close, ill-ventilated buildings. The preacher marvels that he has not power to impress the people, when they, as well as himself, are suffering from lack of vitalizing air, and are thus rendered incapable of appreciating the subject upon which he is speaking. The want of the circulation of pure air in a church makes many a meeting of no effect; for labor is expended for naught, because the people can not keep awake.
There are many who imagine that they are health reformers, and that they are practising right habits in matters of diet. Many have wretched feelings, which they attribute to an insufficient amount of food, when these wretched feelings are due to a different cause altogether. Sometimes it is because the food is not of the right quality, or has not been properly prepared. Others who have indulged their appetite from childhood, think that it is essential for them to have food that tastes good, no matter how unhealthful may be its character. Thus they cultivate a perverted taste, and as a result have diseased stomachs. They abuse and overtax their digestive organs by eating that which they like, rather than that which is good for them.
On the other hand, many who think themselves patterns of strict propriety in matters of diet, are in reality not intelligent health reformers, and their example is not worthy of imitation. They have educated their tastes in the wrong direction, and will have to learn anew what constitutes health reform. Some who have professed to be health reformers, have said that they were furnished with rich food from their youth, and that their tastes were cultivated to enjoy this kind of a diet. But such should take a different course, and educate themselves to enjoy simple, nutritious food. They should study to prepare inexpensive dishes for the table. Those who profess to be health reformers should not mislead others by their own habits of eating. Neither by precept nor example should they give a false example in these matters. If we do not begin to practise economy now, we shall be compelled to practise economy in the near future. Time is money; it belongs to God. To use precious time in preparing a variety of dishes that will only result in dyspepsia, is certainly putting time to a wrong use. The cook should not be made a slave, or be required to cater to appetite. Let the diet be of such a character that she may prepare it, and yet have time for the reading of her Bible, for prayer, and for relaxation from labor. We should not cherish self-indulgence, nor teach others by our example to follow in a selfish course. We should understand what we are about, and consider what kind of impressions we are making upon the minds of those who look to us for guidance.
As applied to diet, true hygiene demands the intelligent selection of the most healthful articles of food, prepared in the simplest and most healthful manner. It is customary to provide a variety of vegetables and other articles of diet for the first course at dinner. Then fashion requires that dessert shall come on the table, in puddings, custards, or other kinds of sweets. To introduce such combinations into the stomach after partaking of vegetables and fruit is surely not wise. A large share of the endless mixtures called health-reform dishes is in reality anything but healthful. Grains and fruits, or vegetables with bread and accompaniments, are all that the system needs. It would be better not to tax the stomach with unhealthful desserts, and not to demand that the cook expend time and strength and ingenuity in preparing them. It would be much better to discard the sweet puddings, jams, and marmalade, which cause fermentation in the stomach. When these are banished from our tables, when we have sweeter stomachs, we shall have sweeter tempers, and be better enabled to live a Christian life.
There is real common sense in health reform. We can not all eat the same things. Some articles of food that are wholesome and palatable to one person may be hurtful and unpalatable to another. Some can not use milk, while others can subsist upon it. Some can use dried beans and peas, while others find them indigestible. Some, whose stomachs are sensitive, can not use the coarser kinds of graham flour. It is impossible to make an unvarying rule by which to regulate every one's dietetic habits. Do not indulge the idea that we are health reformers only as we use mush for breakfast. There are some who can not eat mush and have a healthy stomach.
But while we would recommend simplicity in diet, let it be understood that we do not recommend a meager diet. Let there be a plentiful supply of fruits and vegetables that are in a good condition. Overripe fruit or wilted vegetables ought not to be used. Vegetables and fruit should not be eaten at the same meal. At one meal use bread and fruit, at the next bread and vegetables. Thus we may have all the variety that we need desire; and if we must have puddings and custards, let bread and these articles form the meal.
In order to preserve health, we must practise temperance in all things,—temperance in labor, temperance in study, temperance in eating and drinking. Our heavenly Father sent light on health reform to guard against the evil that results from a debased appetite. He would have us know how to use with discretion the good things He has provided for us. By exercising temperance in our daily life, by loving purity and holiness, we may become sanctified through the truth.
Intemperance in eating and drinking, intemperance in labor, intemperance in almost everything, exists on every hand. Those who make great exertions to accomplish just so much work in a given time, and continue to labor when their judgment tells them that they ought to rest, are never gainers. They are living on borrowed capital. They are expending vital force which they will need at a future time. When the energy they have so recklessly used, is demanded, they fail for want of it. Physical strength is gone, and mental power unavailable. They realize that they have met with loss. Their time of need has come, and their physical resources are exhausted. Those who violate the laws of health, will sometime have to pay the penalty. God has provided us with constitutional force; and if we recklessly exhaust this force by continual overtaxation, our usefulness will be lessened, and our lives end prematurely.

Seneca Lake

By George E. Tack

ALONG the shore, Where o’er and o’er The ripples kiss the sleeping land; The shadows vast, Gloom sail and mast, And cover all the gleaming strand.
And far away, Reflections stray, O’er Seneca’s shining surface broad, Until I seem, As in a dream, To view the hallowed streets of God.
And through the air, The moonbeams fair Descend and spread their silver sheen; And golden light From out the night, Across the rippling lake is seen.
Across the lake, Great arrows break, And sink into the waters deep, While voices sweet, With laughter greet My ears as oft in dreamland sleep.
The radiant sky, Doth glorify The slopes, and waters far and near. The stars above Seem eyes of love, That beam with tender care, and cheer.
The echoes blend, And bell-like, send Their music like the laughing rills. And as they ring, Thy praise they sing, Sweet lake amid the giant hills.
And drifting far ’Neath moon and star, My soul dreams of life’s crystal sea, Where golden light, Outshines the night, In God’s fair realm—eternity.
GEORGE E. TACK.
Baltimore, Md.

Family Prayer

We would like to ask what some church-members and professedly religious men, heads of families, with children growing up around them, are thinking about when they pass day after day, week after week, month after month, without family prayers? Do they think they are doing their duty—discharging their obligations and meeting their responsibilities? Do they expect that the divine Saviour, who looks upon their hearts and life, will approve their course and at last say, “Well done, good and faithful servant”? Do they think such neglect will be at all likely to impress the minds of their children with a sense of the importance of religion or a practical religious life? Or have they not reason to fear that some time or other in their history it may happen to them as it is said to have happened to a wealthy worldly man in North Carolina, whose only child, a lovely and loved daughter of some eighteen summers, was told by the physician, about midnight, that she could not live until daylight? “Call pa,” she exclaimed of her father, who, after long and anxious watching, was seeking a little rest. “Call pa.” It was done. He went to the bedside. “What is it, darling? What can I do for my child?” “O pa, the doctor says I can not live until morning, and you never taught me to pray. What shall I do? What shall I do?” She shrieked—and died.—St. Louis Christian Advocate.

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Capital and Labor

By Editor

Capital and Labor is a subject of interest always. This has been clearly demonstrated by two important events recently: the celebration of Labor Day, and the death of Edward H. Harriman, the railway king. We might add that the strikes in different parts of the world, notably in Pittsburg, have emphasized the difference which exists between these two great forces which ought to be together, but which are deadly enemies. There are various solutions offered; we would like to commend to our readers that presented by the Signs of the Times Monthly, in its October issue. It discusses the question from a different view-point than the ordinary. There are articles by J. Kirby, Jr., President of the Manufacturers’ Association, by John Mitchell, by Samuel Gompers, by Eugene V. Debs. Each of these discusses the question from his view-point. They are really antagonistic articles, which point out the faults and flaws on the other side. The Monthly covers more than this, however. It has articles on the Federation Age, the Struggle of the Ages as Foretold by Prophecy, a strong Bible reading on the Harvest of Greed, and an excellent story by Emma Hildreth Adams entitled “The Reaping of Arthur Glendon,” which suggests a practical solution of the labor trouble. There are two striking illustrations by Mr. Mente. The one emblematic of the strife which has existed between these two forces through the ages, in which strife thousands have perished, and the world little bettered; the other, the cover design, shows how Capital and Labor might come together under the guidance of the Master. The cover design is worth more than the price of the magazine, which is only ten cents. There are other articles of a general character besides these mentioned.

Harriman’s Railroad Policies to Continue

Mr. Harriman's policies will continue in the management of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and allied railroads. Judge Robert S. Lovett, E. H. Harriman's personal counselor and close friend, was elected September 13 to succeed Harriman at the head of the Union Pacific executive committee. Jacob H. Schiff and William Rockefeller were elected directors in the place of Harriman and the late H. H. Rogers, and these also were given places on the executive committee. The fact that there were to be no changes in the policy, raised the prices of Union Pacific stock, contrary to the expectation of many who thought it would suffer great depreciation because of Mr. Harriman's death.

California’s Prospective School at Angwin

The editor attended the camp-meeting at Oakland one day, the school day. The new site and the prospective school at Angwin’s were under consideration, and there was a refreshing and hearty unanimity which augurs well for the coming educational center in California. Prof. C. W. Irwin proposes to make it an ideal school. More next week.

What Are You Doing for Your Friends?

By Editor

Most of our readers believe the great truths taught by the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. They believe these because they believe the Bible, and believe that the teachings of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES are in harmony with the Word. To thousands this journal has brought the blessed truth of the Gospel. It has gladdened hearts and homes and given many souls brighter, clearer hope than this world can possibly give. It has put new meaning into this life, making it worth the living. It has given new meaning and reality to the life to come.
For the next six months the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will take up some of the definite doctrines for these days. Possibly the better term would be, some different phases of the one doctrine; for the doctrine of the Bible is one. It has, however, its many phases, leading out into all the various complex fields of human life and duty.
Beginning with our next number these great phases of Bible teaching will be fairly covered during the next six months. These will include articles on the Bible; the sacrifice and work of our Lord Jesus Christ; the close of His priestly work at His coming; the prophecies of His Word, and especially those which pertain to our day; man's nature and destiny; modern Spiritualism; religious liberty; the true church of God; the Spirit of God and its gifts; the ministry of angels, etc., etc.
We ask the help of our readers far and near to make this series of articles tell for the salvation of precious souls. Each of our readers has friends, relatives, neighbors, in whose salvation he is interested. How could you do better than to ask them to receive from you for six months the SIGNS OF THE TIMES containing this precious truth, and ask them, even tho they may not believe it, to read it candidly for that time?
We have said little regarding our Home Department, yet we hope to make the Home Department better than ever. We are not prepared at this time to state just what it will contain all the way through the six months; but for immediate numbers, it will have several striking articles on health by a clear-headed practical physician, Dr. Maria L. Edwards, of St. Helena. The price of the series will be as follows:
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Loss and Gain

By Editor

(This note should have been printed last week.)
It is easier to bear a loss if some friend is the gainer thereby. We are passing through this experience just now in the Pacific Press. We lose this week three men from whom we greatly regret to part; namely, Pastor Asa Oscar Tait, the editor of the Signs of the Times Monthly, and associate editor of this journal; Mr. Max Hill, assistant editor of this journal; and Mr. J. L. Stansbury.
The first takes a position on the local board and faculty of the new Pacific College at Angwin's, this state, where his long and varied experience will be a great blessing, and where his own health will be built up. Personally, our associations have been very pleasant, and he will still contribute to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. We shall greatly miss him in our councils, our daily prayer seasons, and our evangelical meetings.
Mr. Hill goes from us to take charge of a flourishing parochial school at Sanitarium, Cal. Tho rendering us excellent service, the call of the school—for he was a teacher before he came among us—was too strong to hold him. He will be missed in the office, in church, and among the young people and at missionary meeting.
Prof. L. A. Reed will take the editorship of the Signs Monthly. The editorial burden on both journals will fall heavily upon the present incumbents, who will feel the loss of these brethren and co-workers. We need the prayers of our readers.
Mr. and Mrs. Stansbury went from us last year to teach in Alberta, but returned in vacation. He is now called to take the principalship of Williamsdale Academy, in East Nova Scotia. Mrs. Stansbury, who is also an excellent teacher, will connect with the academy.
May God's blessing abundantly rest upon these dear souls who are one with us still.

Harriman’s Plain Funeral

Mr. Harriman was buried like a plain citizen. Seven conveyances followed the hearse to the rock-hewn grave in the little country churchyard in the Ramapo Hills in Orange County, New York. Most of the people who attended the funeral were his neighbors and former employees. The plain wooden pews of the church were crowded with people of the country, who sat with millionaires from New York City. At 3:30 New York time, and 12:30 San Francisco time, for one minute, every locomotive on the entire Harriman system, every ferryboat, and every water craft was brought to a stop, with the suspension of all labor in the railway offices and shops, as a tribute to their dead leader.

Galveston’s Remarkable Commercial Progress

“The Galveston Daily News” of September 1, containing forty-four pages, is largely filled with notes of the progress made by the great city on the bay since its rebuilding and the reorganization of its government. It now leads the world in export cotton, and is the second city in the United States in the value of its foreign commerce; an increase of 882 per cent of commerce in 20 years. The bank clearings of the year amounted to more than $689,000,000; an increase over the previous year of $31,000,000. From all that we can learn there has been real progress and reform in the growing southern city.

Forest Fires Destroying Millions in Wealth

Forest fires are reported from various parts of the country, and these fires are eating up millions upon millions of wealth in forests. In various parts of California, in the Sierras, and in the Rocky Mountain regions, and in various parts of Canada, these fires have been raging for weeks. It would seem as tho there ought to be more intelligent state and government supervision. A few thousands spent in the employment of faithful men to patrol these regions would probably save millions of dollars in property.

Temperance Instruction in British Schools

Great Britain now furnishes temperance instruction in her schools.

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Signs of the Times · Sep 29, 1909