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Marshaling of the Nations

Is an up-to-the-hour publication, treating of the great events now taking place in the Orient. It contains an excellent five-color map of the partitioning of the world among the five leading world-powers.

History, which is now being rapidly made, has long been foretold in the prophecies. The author applies this present-hour history in a clear, unmistakable, convincing manner.

“Marshaling of the Nations” will be read by everybody, because they are interested in the subject of which it treats. This is a most excellent opportunity to place the Third Angel's Message before the public.

Leading men, molders of public opinion, speak well of this pamphlet. Here are two sentences of what appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 1900, concerning “Marshaling of the Nations:—

“There is plenty of material to keep the thoughts in connection with the stirring events of the present day across the water, on which the wall built by Mr. Jones out of the Biblical prophecies has a distinct bearing. The Scriptures of yesterday and the acts of men to-day are linked over the years with an apparent prearrangement of purpose which gives the situation in China an added interest.”

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“THE GLAD TIDINGS,”

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By ELDER E. J. WAGGONER, Is a verse-by-verse study of the book of Galatians. If you are interested in Sabbath-school work, in any capacity, it will be “meat in due season.” Not only is it an excellent help, or aid, to the study of the present Sabbath-school lessons, but it will be a valuable addition to your library, and a standard book of reference.

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America’s Permanent Foreign Policy

The Independent confesses that for world-politics of the kind now occupying the United States with the other world-powers, “popular or representative governments are ill fitted. Questions of foreign policy can not be made the subjects of party controversies. When the administration has taken a stand, . . . the opposition can do nothing but support it. . . . An aristocracy or a despot may maintain a permanent foreign policy; but so long ago as when Thucydides wrote, it was understood that a democracy was incompetent to govern dependencies.” It is now fixed that the United States will have a permanent foreign policy. Since such can be maintained only by an aristocracy or a despotism, and since there is here no aristocracy, it remains inevitable that this permanent foreign policy can be maintained only by a despotism. That despotism has begun, and is growing as steadily as the clock ticks.

The late king of Italy, shortly before he was killed, said to the American ambassador, concerning the United States: “You will lead the world—you are leading it now materially.” Yes, the United States always has led the world. Up to 1898 she led the world forward in liberty and enlightenment. Now she is leading the world the other way.

Porto Rico Has Less Civil Liberty

A LEADING newspaper of Porto-Rico refused to celebrate the anniversary of the taking of that island by the United States, and gave as the reason that “Porto Rico has less civil liberty now than it had under Spanish rule.”

Battle Creek College Calendar

The Battle Creek College Calendar for the coming school year is really a symposium of the leading educators of the world, past and present, on the subject of true education. Everybody in the land ought to read it. Send for one.

Pope Appeals to Catholic Powers

THE pope has addressed a circular note to the Catholic powers, in which he appeals to them to relieve him from “an intolerable situation,” and declares that “the condition of the papacy under Italian rule is steadily growing worse.”

Rarama in the Fijian Language

We have received a copy of No. 4, Vol. I, of Rarama, a paper devoted to the spread of the Third Angel’s Message in the Fijian language. Thank the Lord for it. Rarama is printed and published by Elder J. E. Fulton, at Suva Vou, Fiji.

The English Executive and Imperialism

The Army and Navy Journal, Aug. 4, 1900, said:— “The English executive is an imperial executive. The British Parliament is an English legislature. To the same system we are coming by a decree of circumstances as inevitable as that of fate. If this be imperialism, make the most of it.”

Constitutional Monarchy in America

THE DES MOINES Weekly Globe openly advocates “a constitutional monarchy” for the government of the United States, and says that “everything is ripe for the change.” Things are indeed so ripe for the change that a monarchy is certain to come soon, though it is far more likely to be an unconstitutional than a constitutional monarchy.

The Spread of Lynch Law

THE Christian Advocate, with perfect truthfulness, makes the following startling statement: “If to-day it were proposed to lay the deepest and most philosophical plan to promote attacks upon person and property, to substitute lynch law and individual vengeance for the orderly processes of justice, little or no alteration would need to be made in many of the States in this country, and in most of the nations of Europe.” And it will be but a little while till all these facilities to violence will be employed to the full.

America’s Place Among the Powers

Harper’s Weekly, August 11, says that “the United States has reached a point where self-assertion . . . is required, and where the inexorable logic of events makes it essential for the republic to take its place among the Powers of the earth.” That word “self-assertion” very well expresses the thought.

The China Situation

ON the China situation as it is now, the Independent remarks: “We had hoped and expected that with the capture of Peking would have come clearer light on the situation; but such is not the case. We know nothing more than we did. . . . So the condition now is the blindest, the most utterly confusing and uncertain, that can be conceived.” And that is about all that can be intelligently said by anybody, on that question.

Against Shallow Education

The Chicago Times-Herald quotes from Professor Judson the following good words:—

It would be far better if our secondary schools required fewer subjects, and gave more time to each of them—better if our college graduates had fewer smatterings, and more solid knowledge.

Then from the shallow education given in the smatterings of the schools, the Times-Herald finds, as the direct resultant, the insatiable demand for the light and trashy reading of the baleful popular novel. “After such a flabby preparation for brain work of any kind, what wonder that we should turn instinctively in our reading to books which require no concentration of thought!” “All of this is true.

Circulating My Mother’s Life

By Editor

THE women are making good use of Mrs. Rossiter’s generous offer for the benefit of the Woman’s Gospel Work. We are glad of this: too much can not be done with it. For wherever the excellent book, “My Mother’s Life,” goes, it can do only good; and since every copy sold puts money into the Woman’s Gospel Work, that also is only good; so the plan works only double good wherever employed. Therefore we hope our sisters will circulate the book by the thousands. Why, even a man who received a copy of the book in the daytime, became so interested in it that he sat up till one o’clock in the morning to finish it, before he could lay it down; and a few days afterward that same man sent for six of the books: and that is right. Then what may be expected of the women? Be sure to give the girls everywhere an opportunity to read it.

World Gold Production in the Last Days

FROM 1492 to 1850—three hundred and fifty-nine years—the world’s production of gold was about three and one-eighth billions of dollars ($3,129,720,000). From 1851-99—forty-nine years—it was six and two-thirds billions of dollars ($6,665,631,000). In other words, in the last fifty years the world’s production of gold has been more than twice as much as it was in the preceding three hundred and fifty years. This shows how it is that the rich men can heap treasure together for the last days.

Rome and the Treaty of Paris

In the Treaty of Paris, which transferred the Philippine Islands and people to the sovereignty of the United States, this nation bound herself, by first allowing herself to be bound, “to observe the standing and rights accorded by custom to the religious corporation in the Philippines.” And now a representative of the Associated Press in the Philippines publishes, in the Independent of August 30, that “according to Archbishop Chapelle, these measures were indirectly introduced into the treaty by Chapelle himself.” Thus in that treaty the United States was bound by Rome to the interests of Rome, forever.

Cuban Constitutional Convention

IN the order issued by the United States for the Cuban Constitutional Convention, it is said that this convention shall “meet in the city of Havana, at twelve o’clock noon, on the first Monday of November, in the year 1900, to frame and adopt a constitution for the people of Cuba, and, as a part thereof, to provide for and agree with the government of the United States, upon the relations to exist between that government and the government of Cuba.” Note that this orders that the convention shall “adopt” the constitution as well as “frame” it, for the people of Cuba. And there are to be thirty-one delegates.

THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.

By P. T. Magan

At the Missouri camp-meeting God moved upon hearts to help our schools out of their present distressed financial condition. One brother, who was attending the meeting from the neighboring State of Kansas, surrendered a five-hundred-dollar note, which he held against Union College. We felt thankful for this kind gift. Over three hundred dollars was subscribed for the material fund. The exact number of copies of “Parables of Jesus, or Christ’s Object Lessons,” subscribed for, I did not learn before leaving the grounds. It was not as large, however, as we had hoped for. Nevertheless, this whole matter is in the hand of the Mighty One, who alone can bring about the payment of these debts. We were deeply thankful to see some of the youth, who in days past have been taught in our schools, make liberal contributions to free these institutions from debt.

P. T. MAGAN.