GOD writes all His word at least twice. He not only does not leave “Himself without witness” in the beneficent course of nature, but He leaves not His word without witness. That word is in general composed of historical, ethical, or moral, and prophetic writings.
The history records actual events which took place in connection with men and nations in their relations with God and with each other. They show the working out of principles of truth and the result of the rejection of those principles. They are prophecies of principles and of similar circumstances yet to rise. They show, and are designed to show, to those who follow that “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap;” that certain causes produce certain results; that he who transgresses God’s law, the law of life and being, must certainly reap the sure result, deterioration, utter ruin, and death; and that the Most High ruleth in the kingdoms of men and giveth them unto whomsoever He will.
The moral portion of God’s word, interwoven with every other part, is in words the expressed character of God. It is a declaration of what God requires of men, a promise and prophecy of what God will make all who will yield to Him. All His holy precepts and requirements were gloriously fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ, the true Witness of God’s character, and all will be rewritten in the true people of God thru Christ. Every true Christian is a witness to the truth of God’s word. He, his life, is a visible manifestation to the world of the power of Christ over sin and sinful flesh.
The prophetic portion of God’s word is the history of the world, of nations, of peoples, of cities, of individuals, in advance. It is God telling beforehand just what will be true. When the time comes for its fulfilment, God, in His overruling providence, writes it again in fulfilling events, that all who know His prophecy may read His word, may shun the dangers, and may find in Him salvation.
Do you wish to read God’s word in the strange providences around you, in the characters on every hand, in the history of the world at the present time?—Study first of all God’s word. Be filled with it, saturated thru and thru. And in the trying times before us we shall be able to read God’s word in the events of every-day life, in individuals, in nations. Written in the heart, it will keep us from falling, make us wise unto salvation, and preserve us unto His heavenly kingdom.
O Love Divine!
O LOVE DIVINE!—whose constant beam
Shines on the eyes that will not see,
And waits to bless us, while we dream
Thou leavest us because we turn from thee!
The Principles of Nihilism in India
By J. C. Little
By J. C. Little, Editor of the "Oriental Watchman"
HE world has been aware for some time that India had not been quietly resting under the excellent rule of the English government. For several years beneath the calm exterior has been a seething discontent which has from time to time shown itself in mutterings of unrest and dissatisfaction with the existing form of government. Until the last few months this has confined itself to occasional criticisms of those in authority, and harmless and sometimes helpful suggestions as to how vexed questions might better be solved than by the means used by the authorities; but recently a new aspect has come over the situation between rulers and ruled in the vast empire of India.
From occasional mutterings of unrest it has seemed but a step to an actual and open attitude of sedition toward the English government. One after another the editors of various vernacular publications and newspapers printed in English under native management have been summoned before courts and made to answer to the grave charge of printing violent and inflammatory articles calculated to foster a spirit of rebellion and anarchy, and to fill the minds of their readers with hatred toward the official representatives of the British government. It is true there has been a part of the Indian National movement known as the Moderates in distinction to the Extremists, but recent events have shown that the wild and reckless propaganda of the latter has not been without its results.
A harvest of murder and outrage has resulted from the seed-sowing of disrespect and antagonism to the existing government. The Moderate portion of India's agitators, not realizing the tendency and true drift of the Extremists, have sought at all hazards to promote unity; and in so doing have allowed a venomous nihilism to develop itself under the garb of respectability. The trials of the leaders in the Muzaffarpore tragedy, as yet but just begun, have developed the fact that more than crack-brained enthusiasts are having a part in the anarchist program; that the funds for the propaganda have been supplied by sympathizers who have belonged to the highly respectable portion of India's citizens. But once nihilism has fastened itself upon a people, it is equally as deadly in India as in Russia or any other part of the world.
Violence and Bloodshed at Muzaffarpore.
On Thursday evening, April 30, as two ladies were driving home from the local club at Muzaffarpore, a violent bomb explosion wrecked the carriage in which they were riding, killing one of them almost instantly and so injuring the other that she lived but a few hours after it. This revolting and ghastly outrage was perpetrated by two young Bengalis from Calcutta. It took place opposite the house of Mr. Kingsford, the Sessions Judge, and he escaped only because the carriage occupied by the ladies was mistaken for his which was similar in appearance. Mr. Kingsford had but a short time before moved from Calcutta, where he had made himself odious to the Extreme Nationalists by vigorously suppressing seditious newspapers, and sentencing a number of the editors and publishers to terms of imprisonment.
But he was not the first victim singled out to suffer the vengeance of the assassins, for attempted murders have been uncomfortably frequent during the past few weeks. The first was an attempt several months ago to wreck the train of Sir Andrew Fraser, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, and it only failed because for some unaccountable reason the bomb did not explode till after the train had passed. Shortly after this an attempt was made by means of the bomb to kill the mayor and mayoress of Chandernagore, a small French settlement near Calcutta. The latest is the above tragedy of Muzaffarpore. Aside from these leading anarchist plots, several attempts have been made with firearms upon the lives of various missionaries and officials.
A Society of Nihilists.
Heretofore no clue has been found to the perpetrators of these foul deeds. But the last outrage has been followed by a close investigation which has resulted in the discovery of a wide-spread criminal conspiracy. A secret society with headquarters at Calcutta and with a full outfit well-equipped for the manufacture of explosives, and fully supplied with arms and ammunition, possessing maps and outlines of future plans, are, in brief, what has been discovered by the detective force. Over thirty persons have been arrested as leaders or accomplices in the recent anarchist attempts. That these are not all is evident from the wide propaganda which has been inaugurated and the extensive plans of the society, which the members arrested were not themselves able financially to carry on.
England has guarded carefully her authority in India, and laws of the most drastic kind prevent the acquirement and use of firearms and explosives by the native, whether high or low. The propaganda of this society carried on for the last few months in spite of the vigilance of the authorities reveals a situation which at best is not at all reassuring. On the witness-stand one of the leaders stated that he made the confessions not alone for the purpose of shielding some who were innocent who might otherwise suffer, but also "that those who carry out this work might carry on the work with greater caution." Another, being asked why he was engaged in such work, replied, "Partly because we believed the people wanted it, and partly because we believed that this will teach the people to dare and die." One, on being asked where he got such revolutionary ideas, replied that it was partly from a study of Russian revolutionary history. From these statements it is evident that these young agitators are making a study of the methods of the Terrorists in Europe, and that their efforts have been seconded by others who have not yet been discovered but who will rise when these actors are off the stage to carry forward the work now begun. It is quite evident that the movement is more wide-spread than was at first realized, and will not be put down by the severe punishment of the few who have been captured in this discovery.
Undoubtedly the British government will deal firmly with these cases. For a time the torrent of violence and bloodshed will be stayed. The time has not yet come in India for the elements of strife to be turned loose. God has a great work yet to be accomplished in the warning of the millions who sit in darkness. But a preparation is now under way which will fit India to have a part with the rest of the world in the great final struggle which shall usher in the great day of the Lord of Hosts. This movement toward liberty and this agitation toward something higher and better than they possess will give a mighty impulse to the last warning message to the Indian peoples, but it will also pave the way for that time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, in which India shall have a part with the rest of the world, at the coming of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven.
Some Indian Congresses.
By Geo. F. Enoch
By Geo. F. Enoch.
INDIA is a country of many peoples and tongues. There is really no one thing that can unite them all, inspiring them with one common purpose. The Aryan and the Dravidian, the Hindu and the Mohammedan, besides a multitude of smaller subdivisions, which are still further estranged from each other by the caste system, present a very poor field for the preacher of unity. Nevertheless there are men in the field who have a dream of united India, tho that seems very chimerical to the ordinary observer.
The Indian National Congress.
One of the most prominent of these attempts in recent years is the so-called Indian National Congress. It is a Hindu organization, and has been in the field a number of years. For a time in its early experience it sailed in smooth waters. But the early efforts to gain what was wanted by constitutional methods not meeting with the success anticipated, there developed an influential party that was in favor of taking the most extreme measures to rid India of British rule.
In 1903 the first serious effort was made to swing the Congress into the attitude of an uncompromising foe of British control of India. But the Constitutionalists carried the day, and for a time the extreme party was heard of but little. But soon after this time, some of the acts of Lord Curzon placed material into the hands of these Extremists that they were not slow to make use of. This led the Bengal leaders of that wing of the Congress to a public declaration of a boycott of all foreign goods. The partition of Bengal by the British government added fuel to the flame, and the boycott cry made much progress. This has been taken up quite largely by agitators in all parts of India, and what is known as Swaraj, or universal boycott of all things foreign, has become quite a popular cry. If the work only stopped with the cry of the name it would not matter much. But as in all cases of boycott, those who willingly abstain from the use of things that are interdicted soon try to force others to join them. This leads to trouble and serious disorder.11
But there was a large representation of earnest thinkers connected with the congress who tried to save the situation. For a time they used every endeavor to pacify the most violent by compromise. But this was not satisfactory. So two factions rapidly developed, known as the Extremists and the Moderates. For several years now the annual sessions of the congress have degenerated into a wrangle between these two wings.
The Extremists have apparently been headed by some Bengali Babus who have been very outspoken in all their statements. Certain vernacular newspapers have exhausted their vocabulary in vilifying the British representatives and all who have opposed them. One of the most prominent, Mr. Bepin Chandra Pal, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for sedition. But in the recent developments it appears that the Bengalis were only the ones that were beating the drum, making the most noise. The real power, intellectually, of the Extreme movement has come from the west of India. The Poona Brahmins, the subtlest brains of India, were the power behind the movement. These are headed by one M. Tilak.
In the sessions of the congress the Moderates have succeeded in holding things fairly well in their own hand. But at the session called at Nagpur in September of last year, M. Tilak had things so organized that there were some disgraceful scenes enacted on the floor of the open session resulting in a transfer of the session to another place to meet this spring.
When the congress met in Surat this spring, the Moderates had great hopes of carrying everything their way, and turning everything for the good of their propaganda. But M. Tilak and the other Extremists were there in force; and when the Moderates carried by vote their side of the controversy, M. Tilak appeared on the platform, and the confusion that ensued was the signal for a general uproar that soon developed into a free fight. Sticks, chairs, and even shoes were used in the melee. So ended the Indian National Congress.
What the future of the movement will be no one can tell. The Moderates are rejoicing that they are rid of the violent apostles of disorder, but still hardly know what move to make next. In the meantime the Extremists have carried on a propaganda that is rapidly debauching the minds of the youth of the land, and preparing them to take their part in the violent scenes that will close this world's history. This instruction has already resulted in violent measures. One promising young man went to Paris to learn from the anarchists the secrets of bomb-making. Upon his return he organized a school in which the nefarious business was taught. Nothing was known of this until two English ladies, mother and daughter, and the native syce, were killed by the bomb that was intended for the magistrate who had been sentencing some of the agitators for sedition. So this struggle in the ranks of the Indian National Congress is but the struggle between the forces of anarchy and constitutionalism. We shall watch the outcome with interest.
The All-India Muslim League.
Another congress along similar lines, but apparently avoiding the anarchical teachings of some in the congress mentioned previously, is the All-India Muslim League. Karachi, a rising city at the mouth of the Indus River, was chosen as the place for the assembling of 300 delegates from the remotest parts of India. This large gathering of Mohammedans was for the purpose of devising means and ways for the promotion of the educational and political interests of that large community. In some ways it is fortunate for England that the two communities represented by these two congresses are here in India. They are avowed enemies, and it is easier to hold the balance of power under such circumstances. So much is this felt that the Hindus recently have made very loud protests, saying that the Mohammedans are now the favorites of the government. Considering the past attitude of the Mohammedans, both politically and educationally, this congress is a remarkable step. One of the most remarkable actions was a resolution passed, unanimously, asking the English government to tax the Sindhi Mohammedan three pies in the rupee (one fourth of a cent in thirty-one cents) to be spent on their education.
There were not any stormy scenes at this one, but the meeting of the political section was held in camera, packed by the strongest of the two factions represented.
The National Missionary Society of India.
It is a pleasure to turn from these two congresses, which are evidently an outcome of the unrest of the times, in which some timid people see the gaunt specter of another mutiny, to a congress organized solely by natives of India for India's spiritual good.
The National Missionary Society of India was organized on Christmas day, 1905, at Serampore, by a conference of native Christians, called together at the invitation of Rajah Sir Harnam Sing and other Christian native gentlemen. It has two objects:
"1. It seeks to lay on Indian Christians the burden of responsibility for the evangelization of India, so as to awaken far and wide in the Indian church a growing missionary spirit, which will lead to lives of deep spirituality, fearless witness, and aggressive activity on behalf of the Lord.
"2. It organizes evangelical work in such parts of India that are not yet occupied by foreign mission societies. It conducts its work with Indian men, Indian money, under Indian management. Thus it affords an opportunity to all Indian Christians and churches to take a real and direct share in the evangelization of their own country."
Out of the 300,000,000 people of India, only 3,000,000 have come to the knowledge of the Gospel, and we get these figures by counting everybody of all creeds. Two thirds of these are in South India. It is further stated that it is estimated that there are 100,000,000 people in India who have not yet heard of the existence of the Christian religion. There are about 130,000,000 outcastes and inferior Sudras, the lowest of all the castes, whose condition spiritually and morally is the very worst. It is to these that this native society, organized from among the members of all the different Protestant organizations, desires to carry the Gospel. It is surely a large field. It is also encouraging to see that the questions that have divided the Protestant world in the Occident do not meet with favor in the native Christian community. I have had intelligent men from among the Christians deplore the divided state of Protestants, and say that it is almost impossible for them to see the reason for such divisions.
This native Christian Society publishes regularly one monthly periodical in English and two in Urdu.
Satara, India.
THE OUTLOOK
Watchman, What of the Night?
"Watchman, what of the night?"
News and Notes
By Editor
Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute are terms which have come to be almost synonymous with negro education. Nearly two thousand students attend this school each year from all parts of the United States, the West Indies, and even from Africa. The students pay the institution about $25,000 in cash and over $100,000 in labor a year. At the June commencement, eighty-eight received diplomas from the Normal Department, and eighty-seven received certificates for the completion of some trade.
Many Koreans are said to have left the Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands for their own land the past two months. All go armed, and it is thought they go to strike a blow for Korea's freedom from Japan. Chinese favor the movement, and are supposed by some to be assisting the home-going Koreans.
Smoking in the dining salon and the music room of a Pacific Steamer may seem perfectly proper to titled ladies from Austria and other lands—our own land as well—but it is not allowed on the "Mongolia," of the Pacific Mail Company's line. These "ladies" think it strange that such privileges are not granted; we think it strange that self-respecting women would think of doing such things at all.
Four hundred fifty thousand dollars has just come into the hands of the trustees of Yale, the legacy of an Englishman, Archibald Henry Blout, an eccentric miser who has stinted and saved for years that this sum might be given to the American university. No reason for the gift is known by his friends and relatives.
The American Piano Company, with an authorized capital of $12,000,000, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., June 10. The purpose of the trust is to consolidate the Knabe Piano Company, of Baltimore; Chickering & Co., of Boston; and the Foster-Armstrong Piano Company, of Rochester, N. Y.
A new air-ship made by Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, of Germany, made a successful trip of several miles over Lake Constance, June 20. The inventor was able to manage the craft easily. The speed attained was estimated to be thirty-one miles an hour.
The fastest battle-ship of the United States navy is the "Georgia," which reached and maintained for four hours a speed of 19.5 knots an hour on a recent trial trip from the Bremerton Navy Yards, Wash., to San Francisco. The entire trip was made in three days.
The entire Maryland-Delaware-Virginia peninsula is now "dry," the last county having recently voted out the liquor traffic.
June 14 was the one hundred thirty-first anniversary of the adoption of the flag of the United States.
East Orange, N. J., has enacted a stringent Sunday-law ordinance, and is enforcing it vigorously.
The estate of the late Mr. Dowie, of religious fame, footed up, it is said, only twelve hundred dollars.
International Sunday-Rest Federation.
By T.
This is the time of great federation movements. And among the federations that are working in these days is the International Federation of the Sunday-Rest Association of America. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, is president of this federation, and the executive committee of the organization has just held a meeting in Toronto. One of the most important and significant actions taken was the appointment of a committee to call a convention to organize a United States Lord's Day Alliance for the purpose of combining in one all the organizations in the United States that have for their object to promote Sunday rest.
Sunday-law agitation is rising up everywhere. There seems to be a veritable craze taking hold of men to secure and enforce Sunday legislation. Have you studied into the real meaning of it? It is one of the most significant movements of this or any other age. A universal Sunday law stands in the early records of the apostasy that plunged the world into the Dark Ages. A universal Sunday law, according to the prophecy, will mark the climax of the modern apostasies that will make it necessary for Christ to come in person to put an end to all the evil that belongs to the world's course in sin.
God's prophecies point to the facts as they will appear; it is intensely interesting to watch them develop.
T.
Agitate, Agitate, Enlighten.
By John S. Wightman
THE most hopeful feature of our modern civilization—public education, the spreading of knowledge as a function of government—was in Washington's mind when he said:
"Promote them as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as a structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."
A mighty good text for every public speaker there. Public opinion is finally crystallized into public laws. Public laws govern. Therefore, it is necessary to reach the public mind!
JOHN S. WIGHTMAN.
The Work in Lisbon, Portugal.
By Editor
SOMETIME ago there came to us from Brother Rentfro, who is working in Portugal, a report of his work. This report was mislaid at the time of our moving. It has recently come to light. We have not space for all of it; we will, however, present the substance of the message which we are sure will be of interest to our readers, altho it is some months old.
It was in 1904 that work was begun in Portugal, but for sometime it seemed to make little progress; but recently souls have become interested in the truth, and quite a number have taken their stand to obey. At that time over fifteen had been baptized in Lisbon. The way the interest was awakened was quite remarkable. At first there was strenuous opposition. Not long ago his co-laborer, Elder Schwantes, sent his colporteur in company with another brother to a province in north Portugal to visit some Protestants who had been abandoned on account of the distance. This colporteur sold a Bible, some papers, tracts, and before a good-sized company on several occasions read the Bible and gave short talks. A few days after, Elder Schwantes went to this place to hold some meetings. Many came to hear him, until three hundred persons were in and around the house. The priest of the community was greatly stirred, altho he himself was a disreputable character, having two wives and nine children. Some of the children, who were young men, have the same hatred as the father against the heretics, and demanded their arrest, but the magistrate would not arrest the preacher nor his followers. They then endeavored to kill the man in whose house the meetings were held, when he was away from home catching his horse. One stone struck him below the eye and nearly ruined his sight.
As the result of these meetings there are eight or nine who will accept the truth, and there would be more still were it not for the fear of the priests. A short time after that the colporteur visited the place again. When it came evening, he endeavored to find a place to stay all night, but none dared to give him shelter. He found it, however, at the railway station where a place to sleep and covering from the cold were given him.
Newspaper reporters began to visit Elder Rentfro, and one quite prominent illustrated paper photographed him and the charts which he used, publishing two pages of it, which have been sent to us, but we have not space to reproduce them in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. These articles were written up in a style which was designed to ridicule; in fact, the writer seemed to have but little religious sentiment of any kind; designated Brother Rentfro's work as a new religion. The paper declares: "It is the United States that exported to Portugal the Adventist creed, together with its wheat and other things." "It has," the paper declares, "prevailed already to obtain an incomplete dozen of adepts." Of the religion it declares: "It is not a very complicated thing. It is unnecessary to explain that the Adventist temple does not contain images, seeing that already we have said that this new sect has branched from the evangelical church. Its declaration is simple; painted charts are used to explain the symbolical signification of the Old Testament."
While this account was written simply to arouse interest in the paper which published it, it had also the effect of bringing many to the meetings. One interesting case of which Brother Rentfro speaks is of finding a man in the country who, having read his Bible, had come to the same conclusions in his own personal study as taught by the message. So God is bringing out His chosen ones. Portugal has been, and is still, a dark land, and we are glad of all the success which has attended the work there.
Nine O'clock.
By Dr. Chapman
A CLOCK in an Edinburgh church steeple was striking nine when three young men passed on their way to a place of sin. Suddenly one of them stopped and said, "I can not go with you." And when they pressed him for a reason, he said, "When I left my home in the hill country, my old mother said, 'My son, you are going into a wicked city, but your old father and I will pray for you every night, and at nine o'clock we will be on our knees.' They are praying for me now, and I can not go."
He turned about, sought his room, cried out to God for mercy, and was saved. He is to-day one of the leading merchants in Edinburgh. Decision of character was the means of his salvation.
Our Work and Workers.
By Editor
BROTHER W. R. FOGGIN baptized six at Walker, W. Va., June 6.
FOUR were recently baptized by Brother W. E. Bidwell at Laura, Ohio.
BROTHER R. W. PARMELE baptized four at Sulphur Springs, Tampa, Fla., June 21.
WORD from Brother J. N. Loughborough states that he will sail for Australia July 13. We have not learned his mission.
FIFTEEN banded together at Brushy Creek, S. C., recently in church organization. Three were baptized by Brother R. T. Nash.
JUNE 12 to 14 a church of eighteen members was organized at Axtell, Kan., by Brethren Charles Thompson and L. F. Trubey, thirteen being received by baptism.
A CHURCH of twelve members was recently organized at Chippewa Falls, Wis., by Brethren C. McReynolds and P. M. Hanson. Five were baptized June 20.
THE brethren at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, dedicated a new church building May 31. This church was first organized forty-six years ago, and has given to the cause nineteen workers, among them Brethren Geo. I. Butler and J. N. Andrews.13BROTHER AND SISTER GEORGE L. STERLING sailed from San Francisco, July 1, to the Society Islands, where they will engage in school work. Both graduated from Mount Vernon College (Ohio) in May, and both have had experience in teaching.
PROF. G. W. CAVINESS, editor of our Mexican paper, has been in California for several weeks translating books and tracts into Spanish. He is now returning to Mexico, taking with him a company of workers, among them Brother L. E. Borle from the Pacific Press. He will have charge of the printing there. Brother J. A. P. Green, a student of Fernando College, goes to take charge of the canvassing work, and with him are four or five strong young men to enter the canvassing field with Spanish literature. The party leaves Los Angeles July 13.
Forgotten Workers.
THEY lived, and they were useful; this we know,
And naught beside;
No record of their names is left, to show
How soon they died;
They did their work, and then they passed away,
An unknown band;
But they shall live in endless day, in the
Fair shining land.
And were they young, or were they growing old?
Or ill, or well?
Or lived in poverty, or had they wealth of gold?
No one can tell;
Only one thing is known of them, they faithful
Were, and true
Disciples of the Lord, and strong thru prayer
To save and do.
But what avails the gift of empty fame?
They lived to God;
They loved the sweetness of another Name,
And gladly trod
The rugged ways of earth, that they might be
Helper, or friend,
And in the joy of this their ministry,
Be spent, and spend.
No glory clusters round their names on earth;
But in God's heaven
Is kept a book of names of greatest worth,
And there is given
A place for all who did the Master please,
Tho here unknown;
And there lost names shine forth in brightest rays
Before the throne.
O, take who will the boon of fading fame!
But give to me
A place among the workers, tho my name
Forgotten be;
And if within the book of life is found
My lowly place,
Honor and glory unto God redound
For all His grace!
—Christian Worker.
Don't Believe in Missions.
By M. T. Morrill
The unchristian man.
The selfish Christian.
The half-converted man.
The unspiritual Christian.
The short-sighted Christian.
The man who has not read Christian history.
The Christian who has not read his Bible much.
The Christian whose money is not consecrated.
The man who is ignorant of what missions really mean.
The man who is not acquainted with missionary literature.
The man who is prejudiced and will not believe in missions.
The man who doesn't care whether the church grows or not.
The man who has the wrong view of the mission of Christianity.
The man who hasn't the New Testament definition of "neighbor."
The man who has no clear idea how the world is to be evangelized.
The church-member who loves his money better than he does his Lord.
The man who listens to and repeats the stock of lies about missionaries and mission boards.
Such men need to be dealt with intelligently, kindly, persistently, and otherwise.
—M. T. Morrill.
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A Rare Pamphlet.
Only a few copies left. Defends American Protestant principles. Gives the inside history of Rome's Modern Literary Inquisition—her boycott of that interesting book of travels in Spain, "Castilian Days," written by the late John Hay, U. S. Secretary of State. Tells of its exclusion from numerous public libraries, thru the American Federation of Catholic Societies. Contains what Mr. Hay said concerning the influence of the secret confessional, corrupt priests, and Catholicism in general, upon Spanish society—his impressions while connected with the U. S. legation at Madrid.
This pamphlet also contains other articles—Rome's Plans to Capture Protestant England (Cardinal Manning's own words), How the Pope Can of Wrong Make Right (Catholic quotations), Rome's Promise to America—"What the church has done in the past for others, she will now do for the United States," etc.
The Citizen (Boston) of May 16, 1908, prints the following unsolicited commendation on its front page: "Attractive and very lively. Contains a biographical sketch of the late Secretary John Hay. This sketch alone is worth the price of the — for one year (50c). There are other good articles in the number."
Just the thing for Protestant ministers and Bible workers, to show the fulfilment of Bible prophecies concerning the imminent supremacy of the Papacy in these last days. A San Francisco clergyman sells it regularly after his evening lectures on "The Papacy in Prophecy." An Oakland minister recently sold over 100 copies after his forenoon's discourse.
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The American Standard Edition.
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No. 173—Bound in thin leather with overlapping edges, leather-lined, round corners, gold edges ...........................................................$2.75
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Steps to Christ
By Editor
Steps to Christ. This little work, by Mrs. E. G. White, presents in a simple and attractive manner the steps by which the sinner may be made complete in Christ. While the book is an excellent guide for inquirers and young converts, it also contains a wealth of counsel and encouragement for those who are laboring with the difficulties that beset a growing experience. Paper covers, 25 cents; cloth, plain edges, 50 cents; cloth, gilt edges, 85 cents. Address this office.
