p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33. (8/16/1899)

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We Do Not Need It

By Editor

We Do Not Need It.—A friend sends us a clipping, illustrated, entitled "Don't Boil the Poor Lobster." And we won't. We have no desire to boil him, or eat him after he has been boiled. We have food that is better. The cut is entitled, "The Humane Way to Kill a Lobster," and shows where to place the knife, to kill it quickly—good advice, we should judge, for the lobster, to those who prepare him for food; for he is generally killed by boiling. But he who, for years, has lived upon a fare consisting of clean, wholesome fruits, grains, nuts, and milk, and vegetables, if desired (and we know it is good), no such advice is needed concerning lobsters, crabs, or any other crustacean, or living, animate existence of any kind. There is, reader, a real joy in living, when you know life has not been sacrificed nor pain inflicted to satisfy your appetite. And there is also satisfaction and health in knowing that your diet is wholesome, sufficient, and temperate in all its tendencies. He who, with a clear conscience, lives on such foods as the above, properly cooked, compounded and masticated, can go longer without food, has a better appetite, is satisfied with simple fare, and possesses a clearer mind and spiritual vision than his flesh-eating brother, other things, of course, being equal. Try it, and see.

Dissipation, Despair, Destruction

Every one knows that the gravest troubles and the direst calamities are hanging over this world by the brittlest threads. But do you know, personally, of the tender loving Saviour, who has provided a secure shelter from it all? And do you know that He has sent a personal invitation to you to come into His shelter and be saved from the bursting storm? If you are a sinner of the deepest dye He invites you just the same. For He has cleansing power that takes away every stain of sin as you come to Him.

Dissipation, Despair, Destruction.—A few days ago a young woman of San Francisco ended a day's carousal and hilarity by taking poison and killing herself. It was claimed that she had associated with the best of society men, and that her life had been one constant round of the luxurious and voluptuous pleasures that the world has to offer. Some of the circumstances seem to indicate that she became so intoxicated with wine and the excitements of dancing that she took her life merely as one part of the general dissipations of fun. What an awful condition of mind for one to be in when laying down this life! How terrible to awake from such scenes of revelry to stand in the presence of the Great Judge in that final day of reckoning that is right at hand! There is an abandon and recklessness coming into the sports and games and revelries of these times that forebodes the overhanging crash of doom. If our eyes are only open to the realities of the situation we can certainly see the fury of demons manifested in the follies of these days. They make men and women madly drunk with pleasures in order that they may drive them to deeds of despair, and then plunge them into the crater of self-destruction.

Lured to Death.

The San Francisco Examiner tells a sad story of a party of seventeen, who left Kotzebue Sound, in 1898, for a prospecting trip to the interior. Four stayed with the boat; thirteen started for the interior. They found simply "colors," but no gold. Several died of scurvy, were buried, and the others, sick and weak, pressed forward, hoping to find gold further on. As the sole survivor said, "Desire for gold overrode judgment." On they pressed, till all had died save one, a woman—Mrs. Bens, the wife of the leader of the party; who had left his home, in Michigan, staking all his hard earnings on this venture—and she was rescued, as she had fallen exhausted in her last step, after a nine-mile trip from her dead husband, left unburied. The men buried her husband, and nursed her back to life, and carried her to civilization, where she learned that the four left on board the vessel died of scurvy. For all these efforts there are graves in Arctic snows, widows and orphans. If such effort were put forth for eternal life, it would never be in vain. See Prov. 2:1-9.

The August Good Health

By Editor

The "Good Health" for August is an interesting number. It contains, among many other striking articles, the following: "The Progress of Medical Knowledge," "The Yava Supai Indians and Their Cataract Cañon Home," "The Effect of Alcohol upon the Functions and Structures of the Stomach," "Physical Culture in Infancy." It has the following well-sustained departments: Home School of Health, General Articles, Editorial, Answers to Correspondence, edited by J. H. Kellogg, M. D. Price ten cents; $1.00 a year; 64 pages of reading matter; Battle Creek, Mich.

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Lincoln’s Last Hours

In the August McClure's Miss Tarbell gives an account of the death of Lincoln, based on the unpublished recollections of persons who were with Lincoln in his last hours and were more or less eye-witnesses of his assassination. The article is illustrated with the last life portrait of Lincoln, a facsimile of the last bit of writing done by him, a picture of the scene at his death-bed, and other pictures. Price ten cents.

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Loss of Life in the Orient.

The oriental steamer, Victoria, arriving August 1, reports that in the terrible storms in the East between 300 and 400 lives had been lost in Japan and about 100 in China. Much damage has resulted to property.

An Old-fashioned Woman

An Old-fashioned Woman.—The keeper of the Santa Barbara lighthouse, Mrs. Julia F. Williams, is seventy-three years of age; yet for the last thirty-five years she has climbed forty steps, from her living rooms to the light, six times in the twenty-four hours, one of which is at midnight. Ten of these steps are the rungs of an iron ladder, which lead through a trap-door to the light tower. She has raised her family of six children, done her own sewing by hand, because she likes it better than machine sewing, found time to read, and never has been consumed by longing for the great vain world. She says that she has "never had time to grow old." Her constancy and faithfulness is an example for Christians to "keep the lower lights a burning." May the Lord light her pathway to that world where there will be no lights needed to warn of possible danger.

OUR WORLD'S HARVEST NUMBER.

By Editor

(November 30, 1899.)

WILL contain not less than sixteen striking Gospel articles on the Seed-sowing of Righteousness and Sin, and their respective harvests.

2. The writers of these articles will be such men as Alonzo T. Jones, author of "The Two Republics," "The Great Empires of Prophecy," etc.; Uriah Smith, author of "Daniel and the Revelation," etc.; John Clark Ridpath, America's great historian; L. A. Smith, editor American Sentinel, Prof. E. A. Sutherland, president Battle Creek College; Mrs. E. G. White, author of "Great Controversy," "Steps to Christ," etc.; and others whom we will mention later.

3. These articles will be beautifully and Biblically illustrated with special drawings made expressly for this number by well-known New York and San Francisco artists, under the supervision of Mr. W. A. Reaser. It is designed that these pictures shall teach the truth.

4. It will contain both a good moral story and a beautiful, practical article for the home life.

5. A piece of original music will be contributed by Prof. E. O. Excell, the well-known singer, with words written for this number.

6. Some beautiful poems on the great theme of the paper, illustrated, will appear.

7. Short and to-the-point Bible readings will lighten the heavier articles.

This issue will be a double number, with a beautiful cover design.

No other issue of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES ever published will contain so much Gospel, will be so worthy of a wide circulation, or so easy to circulate.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry.

Forgetting the Things That Are Behind, FRANCES E. BOLTON. 5 War and Murder. 6 Our Rescuer, C. F. LADD. 7 And I? 10 Now 12

General.

The Tempter and the Tempted 1 Roger Williams—America's Luther, No. 4, PERCY T. MAGAN 2 Satan's Forces Combining, E. W. CAREY. 3 Out of Egypt, ALONZO T. JONES. 4 The Growth of Trusts, A. O. TAIT. 4 A Crucified and Risen Saviour, MRS. E. G. WHITE. 5 "Is It Peace?" 6 "He That Believeth," T. E. BOWEN. 7 Shame and Everlasting Contempt, WM. PENNIMAN. 7

Outlook.—Christian Science—Some Notes from the Peace Conference—The New Isham Shell—"Not Ready to Disarm." 8, 9

Missions.—From Fiji, J. E. FULTON—That Mississippi Criminal, R. S. OWEN. 10, 11

The Home.—The Harvest of Health, DAVID PAULSON, M.D.—Vegetable Dinner Menu and Recipes, J. E. PATERSON. 12, 13

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons. 14

Publishers. 15

Hague Peace Conference Adjourns

The Peace Conference that has been in session at The Hague since May 18, adjourned on July 29.

A Beautiful Song and Chorus

By Editor

We print in this issue a beautiful song and chorus, by Arthur E. Morton, of San Jose, Cal. Extra copies of the paper may be obtained. Its power and feeling have been tested. We have other good songs to follow.

Professor Magan’s Fourth Article

By Editor

The fourth article by Professor Magan was omitted from last week's issue. It appears in this, illustrated with a half-tone plate of a house in Roger Williams' Park, Providence, R. I. A descendant of the old apostle of liberty occupies it. Next week will be the last of the series, illustrated by a monument of Williams in the above-mentioned park.

Out of Egypt

By Editor

Read the article, "Out of Egypt," under the general heading, "Separation of Religion and the State." It is well in these days for all Christians candidly to take their bearings. We are living striking types over again. It is worth while to question as to whether we are in Egypt or on our way to Canaan, with hearts and faces set as a flint Zionward. God says, "Out of Egypt have I called My Son." Are you God's son? Have you heard His call? Have you responded? How?

Brave, True Men.

By Editor

In our Missions department will be found an article of interest entitled "That Mississippi Criminal," to whom we alluded in our Independence Number. The there mentioned juries were composed of brave, grand men, and we believe the South contains many more. These men are Americans; and all of them probably Sunday observers. So far as any man or men may be concerned or affected they have a right thus to do; they alone are responsible to God. And they had the grand, simple ideas of justice that they believed, according to the Constitution of Mississippi, that others had the same right. Hence the righteous verdict.

The Pope among the "Powers."

By Editor

A despatch from Rome, under date of July 29, reads: "The Vatican is considering whether the pope cannot accede to the findings of the Peace Conference, and so enroll himself among the powers." What else should we expect? Think, however, of the apostle Peter doing this!