The sermon that Jeremiah, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, gave in the tenth chapter of his prophecy is a most wonderfully strong and clear presentation of the absurdity of idolatry. It is also quite as powerful a presentation of the claims of the true God. A portion of the chapter is as follows:—
“Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel; thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not; they must needs be borne, because they can not go. Be not afraid of them; for they can not do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto Thee, O Lord; Thou art great, and Thy name is great in might. Who would not fear Thee, O King of nations? for to Thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto Thee. But they are altogether brutish and foolish; the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of cunning men. But the Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and an everlasting King; at His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide His indignation. Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. When he uttereth His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures. Every man is brutish in his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of His inheritance: The Lord of hosts is His name.” Verses 1-16.
The Five Idols in the Holy of Holies in the Joss Temple of Lung Gong, Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal.
The reason and sense that the Creator has given to man ought to enable him to see the absurdity of idolatry. He ought to see the clear force of the words quoted from the prophet Jeremiah. But the force of mere words is not so powerful on the mind of the unenlightened as the actions that flow from a powerful life. Hence the Lord not only sent His Word into the world to enlighten men, but He sent His own Son, so that men might see the meaning of His living Word in real life.
A hundred years ago the missionary societies became much interested in sending missionaries to China, and the work still goes on. This work has resulted in breaking up the exclusiveness of the Chinese, and whole communities of her people have come to these shores, as well as to other parts of the globe, to engage in mercantile and industrial life. But it is a notable fact that they have brought their gods with them. The illustration on this page is a representation of some of the gods of the Chinese that are in one of their numerous temples in San Francisco. Why is it that a poor heathen right in the heart of a “Christian nation” can not see the inconsistency of fashioning gods with his own hands and worshiping them according to the superstitions of his benighted mind? Why is it that the inconsistencies and foolishness of the thing, so clearly pointed out in the words quoted from Jeremiah, do not strike him with such force that he will promptly abandon it?
The Chinaman comes to this country to better his condition, and he finds that the professing Christian is just as grasping in his deal, and just as unkind in his actions, as the heathen are. The Chinaman in his own land meets the merchants and others who go there from Christian lands for trade and traffic. He finds that he has to watch them quite as closely as he does his own countrymen that do not make so high a profession. Indeed, it is often the case that when the heathen trusts the professing Christian, he finds to his sorrow that his confidence is betrayed through crooked dealing or something of that sort.
Then is it not clear that the small results from mission work are largely due to the fact that so few who go among these heathen really possess the Christianity they profess? And should not these facts appeal to every lover of Christ to do all that is in his power, by his life as well as his words, to help these benighted souls? The Lord is loudly calling to-day for volunteers to represent Him in real life, not in profession merely. Who will respond?
CAN A RICH MAN ENTER HEAVEN?
By Robert S. Greaves
A SHORT time ago while reading a missionary paper my attention was drawn to a small picture, representing some of the famine-stricken people of India. There they lay in a long row on the ground, with thin, emaciated bodies stretched out, a most horrible and pitiful sight; underneath was written, “These are not dead, but starving.”
The thought which arose in my mind was, “Can a rich man enter heaven?” To me the question seemed forever solved, as I again scanned the picture and remembered that two cents a day would save each life.
Men who are rolling in wealth allow human beings to perish and their bones to bleach in the Indian sun rather than sacrifice even their wine or cigars to save fellow-mortals from death. How dwelleth the love of God in them? When these wealthy men have to stand before their Maker, words are inadequate to describe the terror that must seize on their lost souls as the fearful words are spoken, “Render an account of thy stewardship.”
Pause and consider whilst there is yet time; open out your purses; listen to the cries of the dying, and deal out bread to the hungry. Remember the words of our Saviour, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.” Who would refuse our Saviour bread?
Good work can still be done in India, and now when the people are suffering distress is the time to also distribute to them the bread of life. When will workers have such a favorable opportunity as exists at the present time? Means is greatly wanting, and there is yet time for the wealthy to obey the words of our Saviour, “Go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.” What a blessed exchange,—treasure in heaven for the tin of this world, which if13kept must shortly perish in the final conflagration!
ROBERT S. GREAVES.
Melton, Dauphin, Manitoba.
THE CONFLICT.
By J. W. Stein
None who will have truth and life
Can be conquered in the strife;
All who choose the right and good
Find sufficient help in God;
Angels, nature, earth, and sky,
Needed, to their rescue fly.
Tho all evil them withstand,
Naught can pluck them from God's hand.
Courage, brother! Dost thou choose
Life to gain and death to lose?
Then be strong; all wisdom, might,
Promise to defend the right.
Heav'n will vindicate thy name,
Shift thy poverty and shame,
Give thee love and life and rest
And all good—God knoweth best.
Onward, brother, toward the light,
In His wisdom, in His might.
Upward, then, and heaven prove.
Thou hast life, and thou hast love.
Battle Creek, Mich. J. W. STEIN.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
THE church-school at Lane, Tenn., opened on the 8th of January.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of fourteen members has been organized at Pleasant Ridge, Neb.
FIFTEEN members have been added to the church at Dubuque, Iowa, during the past year.
ELDER S. B. HORTON writes that he has recently organized several new churches in Louisiana.
THREE have recently taken their stand with the Lord, and expect soon to unite with the church at Santa Rosa, California.
A BROTHER in Nebraska who recently accepted the faith has made a generous donation of $1,000 to the foreign mission work.
THE church-school at Trezevant, Tenn., has outgrown its present quarters and the brethren are talking of enlarging their building.
TWO PERSONS have recently commenced the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath at Ashland, Wis., and united with the church at that place.
THE Southern Review reports that the sale of our books in its district has been the highest during the past year of all the years of the past except one.
BROTHER RAULEDER reports a good interest in the work at Los Angeles. Two received baptism and united with the church there on a recent Sabbath.
BROTHER E. O. CUMMINGS has been asked by the General Conference Committee to take charge of the canvassing work in district 4, which includes the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Manitoba.
THERE will be a general meeting at Fresno, Cal., March 5–10, and another, at Hanford, March 12–17. President Santee urges that all our brethren living in these localities attend one or the other of these important meetings.
DURING the year ending October 31, 1900, the Chicago Medical Mission served 591,860 penny lunches; gave lodging to 70,872; held 992 gospel meetings, the attendance aggregating 48,135, and 615 are reported as having professed conversion.
THE church at Boggstown, Indiana, has been doing aggressive work in the adjoining neighborhood of Pleasant View during the winter. As a result, twelve are keeping the Lord’s Sabbath, and rejoicing in the blessed hope of the soon-coming Saviour.
SINCE the founding of the San Francisco Helping Hand and Medical Mission, nearly three years ago, “over 500 persons have been furnished permanent positions, and more than 4,000 provided with temporary employment. More than 1,500,000 have been fed and sheltered.”
BROTHER JAY W. INGINGSON had the rather novel experience recently of being called upon to talk on the prophecies in a hotel office. He gave his discourse in the evening, and the interest was so great that they invited him to speak again on the same subject the next evening.
AT the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Conference, recently held, the report showed that six new churches had been added to the conference during the year, and that six new meeting-houses had been built. Thirteen new Sabbath-schools have been organized during the same time.
THE brethren at Neillsville, Wis., have organized a church-school, and will open it for work right away. May the Lord bless them in their efforts to save their children from the vices and evils of this time, by planting in their minds the true principles of Christianity as the most essential thing in their education.
THE Portland medical mission is crowded. They have sixty-five beds on which to care for the sick and helpless poor, and these are all filled. Fifteen or twenty more beds are needed right away. Any who desire to assist in this work should send their donation to W. J. Burden, 508 East Everett Street, Portland, Oregon.
TWO MINISTERS in Maine have recently seen and acknowledged the binding claims of God’s Sabbath, according to the commandment. Connected with us they will devote their lives to teaching the great truths for these times, prominent in which is the soul-satisfying fact that the Lord Jesus is about to come the second time. May the number of devoted workers of this class be rapidly increased. The world is in crying need of them.
A BROTHER in Iowa writes: “As I was driving along the road a few days since, a man stopped me to pay for a copy of the Outlook SIGNS that he had purchased some time previous. In reply to my inquiry as to how he liked the paper, he said that he had read and reread it.” This shows the interest that is felt in this important issue of the SIGNS. Has every one done his full duty in circulating it? It is still live matter, and should be sold by the thousands.
EVERY available place in the students’ home connected with the Woodland, Wisconsin, Academy is now occupied, and some of the nonresident students are obliged to room outside the home. This kind of prosperity is very encouraging indeed. The brethren in charge of the school say to any who are thinking of attending: “Do not let this crowded condition keep any from coming who can do so. A place will be found for you, and you will be made comfortable and happy.”
BROTHER S. C. OSBORNE has been requested by the Pacific Press Publishing Co. to transfer his field of labor from General Conference district No. 5 to district 6, the home territory of the Pacific Press. Brother Osborne will make his headquarters at the Pacific Press, and, while he will be in the field most of the time, mail will reach him addressed in care of this office. He has already entered upon his work here, and we bespeak for him the hearty co-operation of the friends of the cause in this part of the field.
THE president of the conference in New South Wales, Pastor W. A. Colcord, writes us: “Our conference is young, but it is growing. Over 100 persons have been baptized in the conference during the last year; two new churches have been organized; five new Sabbath-schools have been added since last June, and the membership of our Sabbath-schools increased during the year 140. There are about 600 adult Sabbath-keepers in the conference, and the membership of our Sabbath-schools stands at 850.” May the good work go on.
THE CHINESE AND CHRISTIANITY.
An educated Christian Chinaman notes what he considers have been the obstacles in the way of the Gospel in China, and cites the following mistakes which have aborted the attempts to Christianize China. These are manifold, wearying to the Christian, and exasperating to the Chinese.
I. Assaults and robberies by so-called Christian nations.
2. The diplomacy and demands of European nations.
3. Trade iniquities, such as adulterations, falsification, forgery, false invoices, and bogus insurance, against which the Chinese merchants and government have frequently but vainly protested.
4. The sending out of comparatively uncultured missionaries to a race with whom culture is the chief fact in life.
5. The employment of missionaries, books, etc., using a corruption of Chinese that occasions ridicule and conveys few or no ideas.
6. The underpayment of missionaries in a land where a man's salary is universally considered the measure of his value.
7. The fanaticism and intolerance displayed by some of the sects of Christianity toward the others.
8. The ambition of the Roman and Greek Catholic Churches to acquire land for ecclesiastical purposes in a country where each particle of territory must be utilized to maintain life.
9. The immoral tone of the social conversation, and the profanity and drunkenness of many of the Anglo-Saxon race who visit China or live in China for business purposes.
10. The harsh treatment of the Chinese, especially in the United States.—Gospel in All Lands.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO CHURCH-SCHOOL TEACHERS IN UNION COLLEGE DISTRICT.
An institute for church-school teachers will be held at Union College during the entire spring term of twelve weeks, beginning March 7. This will be the greatest opportunity ever offered to the teachers of Union College district, and one that should be taken advantage of by every church-school teacher in the district, and by every one who plans to teach in these schools next year. There are hundreds of churches in the conferences connected with Union College. A large number of these are planning for schools next year, and we shall need many more teachers than are now available to supply these schools. Instruction will be given in all things needed by church-school teachers. We should consider it a favor if all who are coming will write us at their earliest convenience. Arrangements can be made for board either in the college or with private families. For any special information, address W. T. Bland, College View, Neb.
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Words of Note
The death of the queen of England has spread a pall over England and her colonies, and all are in mourning. The high esteem in which the queen was held by the whole world has been abundantly testified by the universal expressions of sympathy from all quarters of the globe. The Senate and House of Representatives passed resolutions of sympathy with the English people, and as a further mark of respect the House adjourned. The flags of all nations were half-masted, and the French Government has planned to be represented at the funeral by an extraordinary embassy. The Prince of Wales on January 23 was proclaimed King Edward VII., and declared his intention of being a constitutional sovereign in the fullest sense of the word. The German emperor’s presence at the bedside of the dying queen, and his determination to remain in England until after the funeral, on February 2, has created for him a feeling of warm friendship in the hearts of the English. King Edward has appointed the German emperor a field marshal in the British army, and has conferred upon the German crown prince, Frederick William, the Order of the Garter.
The evidence seems to be accumulating that the outcome of China’s present troubles will be the apportionment of the empire among the European powers or the regulation of China’s affairs in such a way that they will be taken entirely out of China’s hands. There is fear, however, that when spring comes, the powers will find themselves confronted with a powerful Chinese army bent upon the extermination of everything foreign. Russia is collecting immense stores of provisions and munitions of war at the port of Vladivostock, and it is reported that already she has collected a large army there, but whether to assist in the subjugation of China or to assist China against the other powers is not known. The press reports indicate that Russia is negotiating with China for the cession of three eastern provinces, agreeing, in case her requests are granted, to assist China against the powers. The Russian admiral has protested against a British naval expedition to certain islands near Port Arthur, and England is sending two more battle-ships to China.
A report from the Philippines states that many of the Filipinos are taking the oath of allegiance to the United States, but small engagements continue to take place in various parts of the archipelago. A despatch from Manila states that after mature deliberation, 10,000 Catholic members of the Federal party have resolved to separate completely from the Vatican, believing the doctrines of Rome detrimental to the progress of the country. Those favoring a middle course proposed the formation of a Philippine synod, but the majority demanded complete emancipation from Rome. The Federals are working for a complete separation of Church and State and the expulsion of the friars. The leading Federalists seem to be resolved upon the complete elimination of the friars or the renunciation of the Church of Rome.
Eight men have just put thru an enterprise which brings under one management seven great railway and steamship systems operating continuously from Europe across the Atlantic, across the United States, and across the Pacific to the shores of Asia. The amount of capital involved is not far from a thousand million dollars, and millions of human beings are directly affected by the combination. These systems are not all owned by these men, but are brought under their control for the purpose of making them earn the greatest possible dividends. It is but another instance of gigantic combination for the production of wealth, another step in the work of piling up riches to burn with the world.
The holders of the bonds issued by Spain for the prosecution of the war in Cuba have a powerful lobby at Washington, seeking in some way to establish a claim against this government or Cuba whereby they can get back the money they loaned to Spain. They have also been working in Cuba with the Cuban Constitutional Convention, seeking to have some provision made in the new constitution for the payment of the war bonds. Having met with defeat there, they will try to prevent the acceptance of the Cuban constitution by the United States until provision is made for the payment. The bonds issued by Spain on account of the Cuban war amount to $450,000,000.
At the session of the Midcontinent Congress of Religions held in Chicago on January 24, Dr. R. A. White, of that city, took strong grounds against the subsidizing of American educational institutions by wealthy men. Institutions which have been so endowed, he declared, “are to lose their power of spreading education; are to become narrow and restricted; and, finally, are to suffer absolute disintegration.” He stated that recent events at certain colleges had caused a suspicion in the public mind that an autocratic influence had already been thrown over professors and students.
The bill which passed the Senate last session authorizing the laying of a cable from the Pacific Coast to Honolulu, Guam, and the Philippines will not, according to present plans, be taken up in the House during this session of Congress.
The London police report shows a most unfavorable condition during the past year in regard to drunkenness. The report showed an increase in the number of saloon-keepers proceeded against, and an increase of 50 per cent. in the number of persons convicted of drunkenness. A similar gloomy report was made at the Brewster Sessions of the county borough of Dudley. During the last nine years there had been a steady increase in intemperance, and a specially marked increase last year, which was attributed to the increased earnings of the people.
There has been great distress in the province of Shansi, China, on account of the famine, and thousands are said to have died. The Chinese court ordered rice to be given to the destitute; but native Christians were to be discriminated against and punished if they even begged for food. The foreign envoys in China laid the matter before Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang, and these officials at once ordered that Christians in these provinces be treated the same as others, under penalty of decapitation.
Serious fighting is again reported from Venezuela between government troops and the rebels. The latest battles occurred on the mainland near Guiria and Carupano, resulting in final defeats for the government troops. The government forces are reported to have lost 250 men in the fight at Carupano. Trouble in the central States seems to be growing, and the Venezuelan Government is renewing its protests to Colombia against furnishing arms and ammunition to the rebels.
The Treasury Department has ordered the revenue cutter Grant to cruise along the North Pacific Coast in search of missing vessels and shipwrecked crews. Twenty-five vessels along this coast are missing, and the perilous work laid out for the Grant is expected to bring relief to many stranded mariners, as well as to ascertain the fate of the missing vessels.
It has been ascertained by the Pennsylvania peace officers that many women in male attire have joined the bands of tramps that infest that State. The tramp problem has become serious in that State during the last few months. At Bloomsburg working upon the streets with ball and chain is the punishment prescribed for tramps of both sexes.
A combination of gum and tobacco is being manufactured and sold by unscrupulous tobacco dealers for the purpose of luring children into the habit of using tobacco. The matter was brought to the attention of the superintendent of education of Chicago, on account of the illness of several pupils from chewing the concoction.
A Paris Socialist journal, the Petit Sou, recently announced that it was prepared to sell arms to all its subscribers at a moderate price, being convinced that the arming of the nation was essential to its welfare. The French Government watched the proceedings for one week, and then seized the entire lot of arms.
Cities and towns along the Ohio River have begun a crusade against undesirable negroes. The trouble began with the lynching of two negroes for the murder of a white barber. All strange negroes are to be arrested, and those who can not give satisfactory account of themselves will be made to break rock.
A beautiful fountain was completed in Hippodrome Square, Constantinople, on January 27, the gift of Emperor William to the sultan of Turkey. The sultan ordered two solid silver ewers filled with water from this fountain and sealed, one for the kaiser and one for himself.
A divorce was granted to a woman in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, recently, because her husband was an excessive cigaret smoker, the judge holding that continual indulgence in this habit was as debasing as inebriety, and therefore gave the woman statutory grounds for the divorce.
General Joseph Wheeler, who has spent some time in the Philippines, tells us, in an article in the Independent, that “the leading people in the Philippine Islands are an educated and intelligent people, and are far more fitted for Statehood than New Mexico was in 1848.”
The President has requested Congress to provide immediately a civil government for the Philippines. The islands are as yet entirely under the control of the War Department, the Philippine Commission reporting to that department instead of to the President direct.
A Cleveland inventor has been granted a patent for a novel hill-climbing device for automobiles, which automatically lowers the gear of the vehicle according to the steepness of the hill being climbed.
A disastrous fire occurred at Montreal on the night of January 23, causing a property loss of more than $2,000,000. The firemen were unable to check the conflagration until the following morning.
W. J. Bryan’s paper, the Commoner, published at Lincoln, Nebraska, made its first appearance January 23. It is a three-column, eight-page paper, slightly larger than the ordinary magazine.
The czar has so far recovered from his sickness as to be able to return to St. Petersburg, where, with the czarina, he was given an enthusiastic reception on January 27.
The viceroy of India reports to the British Government that a famine will be inevitable in a number of provinces of India during the coming year, owing to lack of rain.
Prominent senators at Washington are threatening to hold back the River and Harbor Bill, unless the Ship Subsidy Bill is passed at the present session of Congress.
Andrew Carnegie is reported to have secured control of the Pressed Steel Car Company, which is paying a dividend of over $2,000,000 a year.
BOOK NOTICES.
“THE ROYAL HOUSES OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH:” An Interwoven History with a Harmony of Parallel Passages. By George O. Little, D.D. 8vo, cloth, 351 pp. Price, $3.00. New York and London. Funk & Wagnalls Co.
This unique and timely work, which meets a want long felt among Bible students, preachers, and others, embraces the first successful attempt of a complete harmony of the important history of Israel and Judah. The book contains an interwoven history of the royal houses of Israel and Judah, beginning with the Israelites’ demand for a king, and ending with the return of the exiles from captivity. The treatment is divided into four parts, consisting of the foundation of the monarchy, the united kingdom, the divided kingdom, and the surviving southern kingdom. Facts and side lights are given on the national existence, civil life, political revolutions, etc., of Israel. An important feature of the book is a harmony of parallel passages in columns, line for line, showing at a glance the omissions, agreements, or disagreements of the two narratives. The interwoven history corresponds with it, line for line, so that the history is explained and verified by the harmony, and the harmony is verified and put into readable and valuable form by the history. The volume is supplied with tables of all the Scripture passages that appear in the interwoven history or those quoted in the foot-notes. These tables show in what part, or section, or on what page the passage is found. There is also a table of parallel passages. By the use of these one can readily find and examine any chapter or verse in the book. It is thus admirably adapted for ready reference for busy clergymen, Sabbath-school teachers, or Bible students. No word is used in this interwoven history that is not found in one of the scriptures, and if any are omitted the reason is indicated. The basis is the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, with many quotations from other books. It is a valuable help.
“CONSTRUCTIVE STUDIES IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.” By Ernest D. Burton and Shailer Matthews, professors in Chicago University. 302 pp. Price, $1.00. The University of Chicago Press.
This, the first of a series of constructive studies to be published by the University of Chicago Press, takes up the great central figure of the Scriptures. The book is divided into nine parts, as follows: The Thirty Years of Private Life; The Opening Events of Christ’s Ministry; The Early Judean Ministry; First Period of the Galilean Ministry; Second Period of the Galilean Ministry; Third Period of the Galilean Ministry; The Perean Ministry; The Passion Week; The Forty Days. It is a book for ministers, designed for teachers and for all Bible students. Its study demands first of all a thorough acquaintance with the facts of the Bible narrative; secondly, an understanding as far as may be of the facts as narrated, so that the student shall construct for himself in his own mind the history of the life of our Lord. To assist to this end questions and suggestions for study are appended to each chapter. The book has no denominational bias, aiming only to treat the history. It is a helpful work to the diligent student.
“THE TREND OF THE AGES.” By John H. Boyet, D.D. 112 pp. Price, 55 cents, post-paid. Baptist Book Concern, Louisville, Ky.
The chief aim of the book seems to be to set forth the author’s view of dispensational times or ages, and a historic idea of predestination so as to harmonize it with the doctrine of free will. The book is neatly printed, the style easy and bright, tho we believe it would be better if simpler Anglo-Saxon were many times used. We do not see how God could, consistent with free will, choose certain men arbitrarily, and arbitrarily infuse into them (p. 21) the very nature of the government of heaven. The harmony between predestination and free will, will be found when men seek it from the view-point of the predestination of character. Dr. Boyet’s book will awaken thought, and for that we are glad. Address the author, 2118 Third Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky.
“WHITHER? A STUDY OF IMMORTALITY.” By Hon. W. E. Simonds, A.M., counselor-at-law. Cloth, 12mo, 114 pp., price $1.00. John B. Alden, New York.
The author endeavors to reason out from “common facts,” from man’s desires, hopes, etc., the immortality of man. He assumes that life is force, evidently because man can not grasp it by some of his senses. The book is interesting in its discussion of the properties of matter, in its showing the utter worthlessness of Buddhism, but it is after all only the cry of the soul after that which is assured only in Christ Jesus,—immortality. But in Christ it is determined, not by desire, not by hope, but by character. Righteousness is life. Sin is death. Immortality is God’s stamp upon an incorruptible character. The resurrection is not at death; it is when Christ comes. One can learn more of immortality in the fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians than in the whole volume.
“THE PROSPECTS OF THE SMALL COLLEGE,” by William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, is a pamphlet of 46 pages with cover, containing an address of President Harper’s on the above subject. The address has been misrepresented by some of the press in representing it to be against the small college. The address shows otherwise. It may be obtained of the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. Price, 25 cents.
“MARVELS IN METAPHOR” is the title of a 64-page pamphlet by Rev. T. H. Nelson. It aims to point out the prophetic significance of certain events and characters in Scripture hitherto generally unnoticed, such as the marred vessel reformed, Barak and Deborah, instances in life of Christ, etc. 64 pages. Price, 10 cents. Pentecost Band Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
