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VITAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED

By Editor

The pamphlets described below ought to be read now. They will help you to understand better the significance of great world movements and events. See list of our depositories on page 15.

The Sure Word of Prophecy

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Can We Communicate with the Spirits of the Departed?

Great minds in the scientific and theological world are trying to answer this question. Read the pamphlet "The Spirit World and a Future Life," and see for yourself what the Bible plainly teaches on this important question. 10 cents.

3 NATIVE WORKERS MEETING IN SEOUL, KOREA, ON THE LEFT; AMERICAN WORKERS AT THE RIGHT

The Korean Mission in Annual Session

By C. L. Butterfield

Good Attendance of Both Native and Foreign Workers — A Year of Prosperity in the Work

By C. L. BUTTERFIELD Superintendent of Our Work in Korea

THE fifth annual meeting of the Korean Mission was held at Seoul, May 19 to 26. A total of 189 Koreans were in attendance, some having walked more than 200 miles. Most of those present were from the north-western part of Korea, where our work first started; but there were others present from the extreme south, east, and west, also one man from Manchuria, where many Koreans have located. It was the most representative meeting we have ever had.

The meetings were held in our new chapel at the headquarters of our work, outside the great east gate. It was the first time that many of those present had ever seen the capital city, but they did not do any sightseeing until after the meeting had closed. The attendance was the same at all the six sessions each day. All wanted to receive all of the instruction there was for them.

We were glad to have with us during the meeting Elder and Mrs. R. C. Porter and C. N. Woodward, of Shanghai, China, and Elder F. H. DeVinney, of Tokyo, Japan. The Bible studies given by these workers were timely, and greatly appreciated by all, as was also their counsel in the business and committee meetings. At the close of the meeting, they went on to Soonan, where our training-school is located; and from there to Shanghai, by way of Mukden, Peking, and Hankow.

A PROSPEROUS YEAR

Reports rendered at the meeting showed that 139 persons had been baptized and taken into church fellowship during the past year, and the Sabbath-school attendance had increased more than 400, now numbering a little over 1,100. The native receipts in tithes and offerings for 1913 were 1,787.83 yen, or $893.91. When we consider that only a small part of those giving this amount earn as much as $100 a year, we can understand better what it means for them to raise even that amount. However, the receipts for the first quarter of 1914 were only $20 less than for the first two quarters of 1913, and we believe that the receipts this year will far exceed those of last year.

The business session on the last day of the meeting was a missionary meeting. All were thankful for the blessings received during the meeting, and for the knowledge of a soon-coming Saviour. Literature had been prepared; and 18,100 tracts, or about 220,800 pages of truth-filled literature, were bought, paid for, and carried home to be used in "preaching the gospel to every creature." The printed page has been a strong factor in the work here; and we know that much good will result from the distribution of these tracts.

Ministerial licenses were given to thirteen native workers, and missionary credentials to twenty-one who are engaged in other lines of the work. We praise God for what has been accomplished, and ask your prayers that the work of winning souls for Christ may go forward in this field this year as never before.

Are You One of Them?

By Editor

Thousands of thoughtful men and women read the Signs of the Times Magazine regularly. Why?

1. Because it keeps abreast of the times.

2. Because, unlike most other periodicals, it tells the Bible meaning of recurring storms, social unrest, and wars.

3. Because of the variety of subjects treated — prophecy, religious liberty, temperance, etc.

The October number is one of the best ever issued. It makes clear that Armageddon is not yet. A reproduction of an autographic letter, in our possession, written by Cardinal Gibbons, appears, in which the writer reiterates the claim that the Sabbath was changed by the Catholic Church from Saturday to Sunday. "The Hazard of Sunday Laws" is the title of an article. "The Eastern Question and This War" is the title of another. But you must see it for yourself. Don't fail to do so.

FORECAST

The editor of the Signs Magazine announces that in November he will begin a series of articles to run for several months, in which he will consider those signs which immediately precede our Lord's second coming. Among them are increasing crime, disease, disasters, and the pouring out of the plagues.

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ALCOHOL NOT

By Frederick M. Rossiter, M.D.

A STIMULANT

An Irritant and Depressant — Its Action upon the Heart

By FREDERICK M. ROSSITER, M.D.

FOR thousands of years alcohol has deceived men and women into thinking it possessed great virtue, because it "braced them up," and made them feel better and stronger, put energy into their muscles and keenness into their brains. But, alas, what a deception! How terribly a man must be deceived to think that he has had a "boost" forward, when he has had a hard shove backward!

No SCIENTIST WILL AFFIRM IT

There is no scientist of any repute who would be willing to say that alcohol is a stimulant to any good thing or action. Alcohol is a drug, and conforms to certain rules governing the action of drugs. There are a number of drugs that are stimulants. We use the word "stimulant" in various ways. For instance, sunlight is a stimulant to all life. It stimulates all life-giving forces. It makes things grow. Oatmeal is a physiological stimulant. We say that a horse feels his oats. They put life into him.

IT BORROWS FROM THE FUTURE

A drug stimulant is different from this. It is a substance that enables the body to utilize more of its reserve energy in a given portion of time. In other words, it enables the body to borrow for to-day what it should use tomorrow. It imparts no energy to the body, but gets energy out of the body by its action of irritation rather than stimulation of the nerve cells. It makes the body do more actual work in a given time. In this sense strychnin is a stimulant. It stimulates the spinal cord, the heart, the lungs, but it has no effect upon the intellectual faculties.

When taken into the body, the most noticeable effects of alcohol are on the nervous system. It acts on the faculties of the brain in reverse order to their development. That is, it acts first on the faculties that come into action last. These are judgment, will-power, and self-control. Alcohol does not stimulate better judgment. It does not enable one to weigh questions better where right conclusions are necessary. It does not strengthen the reasoning powers. We are considering only the moderate use of alcohol. Even the liquor men are willing to admit that in excess it is a bad thing.

The will is the power to choose to do a thing or not to do it. It is mental inhibition. Alcohol removes the inhibitory powers of the will. More crime and immorality are committed when alcohol is used. Why?—Because inhibition is lost and self-control is diminished.

IT REDUCES EFFICIENCY

Professor Kraepelin, of the university of Munich, with an instrument that will register an error in time of one two-hundredth of a second, made tests on a group of men with and without wine, writing figures by hand and on the typewriter.

When a glass of Bordeaux wine was taken after meals, the test showed a decrease in mental processes to the extent of seven to fifteen per cent, and more mistakes were made. In one test continued daily for two weeks, at the end of that time the deficiency had increased up to fifteen and one fourth per cent.

Typesetters lost over nine per cent efficiency in one week after taking a "gentlemanly drink" after the noon meal.

He also demonstrated that under the mild action of alcohol the association of ideas is much slower. The ability to remember diminished rapidly under the influence of moderate drinking.

Alcohol quickly removes the power of the sight centers to recognize the color red. This makes it a real, positive danger to railroad engineers.

So after all the experiments have been summed up showing the action of alcohol on all the mental powers, it can be positively shown that it is always a narcotic and a depressant and never a stimulant to any mental quality.

ITS ACTION ON THE HEART

But says one, "Alcohol is a heart stimulant; for do not people give it when one becomes suddenly weak, after some shock?" People are still doing this to some extent, but it is because they do not know any better. To give one a drink of whisky or brandy under such circumstances is unscientific; and more than that, it is dangerous.

Alcohol weakens the heart action, and lowers the blood pressure, and makes the heart beat more rapidly but with less power. It does this by removing the control of the "governor" nerves to the heart. When the "governors" on a steam-engine fly off, the engine pounds itself to pieces.

Alcohol has about the same effect on the heart that grease or soap on the rails would have on an engine that was pulling a load. The wheels would go faster, but the entire train would slow up, and might even come to a "dead stop." Anything that weakens the heart action weakens the entire body and lessens the endurance.

IT DIMINISHES MUSCULAR POWER

It has been shown that the degree of the capacity and capability of a man for work is the weight he can continue to lift with the index finger of his right hand. This is measured by means of an instrument called the ergograph. Experiments with this instrument have been repeated in thousands of instances; and in every case, alcohol is shown to increase fatigue and diminish muscular work. The practical application of this fact is that men who drink alcoholic liquor during any kind of labor do less work and poor work. A laboring man shovels less dirt. A soldier marches fewer miles.

In brief, alcohol stimulates an inordinate desire for itself, but does not stimulate the brain, the heart, or any vital process. Only when it is eradicated and exterminated can the nation begin to realize what a destroyer and deceiver it has been.

Facts That Will Please All Except the Liquor Trust

By Milton C. Wilcox

It May Be Interested — Liquor Business and Prosperity

Compiled by M. C. Wilcox, from United States Census Reports

Fifteen Leading Industries, Each of Which Consumes Over $150,000,000 Worth of Material, Compared with the Liquor Business	Amount paid for material	Per cent of value of products paid for material
Smelting and refining lead	$168,958,076	91.0
Sugar and molasses refining	244,752,802	88.5
Flour and grist-mill products	619,971,161	87.0
Smelting and refining copper	196,736,986	81.7
Iron and steel, blast-furnaces	178,941,918	77.2
Leather tanned, curried, and finished	191,175,073	75.8
Steel works and rolling-mills	441,204,432	65.6
Cotton goods	282,047,648	63.8
Boots and shoes	197,363,495	61.7
Slaughtering and meat packing, wholesale	706,230,069	52.5
Bread and other bakery products	155,999,318	52.5
Men's clothing	185,793,436	52.2
Steam railway cars and shop construction	151,140,250	48.8
Foundry and machine-shop products	278,074,203	40.5
Lumber and timber products	183,786,210	31.7
Liquors — distilled, malt, and vinous	129,851,855	27.0

Of all these great industries, the liquor business uses the least material, and pays the smallest percentage of products for materials. And its products are a curse and only a curse to any land.

Who Pays License Money?

By California Voice

JOHN DOE wants a license to run a saloon. For the consideration of $1,200 a year, a license is granted him. Nobody supposes that the saloon-keeper will add a penny of value to anything in the world. He will not

add anything of value to a man. No man would be a better doctor, or a better preacher, or a better merchant, or a better husband, because of the saloon. He will not add anything of value to the family. No boy would be a better boy because his father was a drinker, no wife a better wife because her husband was a drunkard. He creates no values. He simply takes money enough from those who do create values, to pay his tax of $1,200 and make money besides. The liquor business creates no values, but always drains its own prosperity from values created by others. — California Voice.

The Destroyer Must Be Destroyed

By Senator Richmond P. Hobson

THE great destroyer must be destroyed. If it is not, it will destroy us. Weighed in the balance of cold, hard facts, this historic curse, criminal of the ages, stands guilty of undermining the economic prosperity of the nation; guilty of blighting our liberties and free institutions; guilty of slaughtering, killing, and wounding our citizens; guilty of blighting the progeny of the nation, flooding the land with a horde of degenerates; guilty of striking deadly blows at the life of the nation itself, and at the life of the race; guilty of reversing the processes of evolution and the purposes of the Almighty. —Senator Richmond P. Hobson.

Our Depositories

By Editor

Alabama Tract Society, 333 Hood Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. Alberta Tract Society, Drawer U, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. Arizona Tract Society, 417 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, Cal. Arkansas Tract Society, 37 E. South St., Fayetteville, Ark. British Columbia Tract Society, 1708 Maple St., Vancouver, B. C., Canada. California Bible House, 537 Twenty-fifth St., Oakland, Cal. California-Nevada Tract Society, 341 E. Lodi Ave., Lodi, Cal. California Tract Society, Southern, 417 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, Cal. Canadian Publishing Association (Eastern Canada), Box 308, Oshawa, Ont., Canada. Central California Bible House, Box 1304, Fresno, Cal. Chesapeake Tract Society, 1611 Ellamont St., Baltimore, Md. Colorado Tract Society, Eastern, 1112 Kalamath St., Denver, Colo. Colorado Tract Society, Western, 122 S. Eighth St., Grand Junction, Colo. Cumberland Tract Society (Eastern Tennessee), Graysville, Tenn. District of Columbia Tract Society, 708 McLachlen Bldg., Washington, D. C. Florida Tract Society, 19 W. Church St., Orlando, Fla. Georgia Tract Society, 169 Bryan St., Atlanta, Ga. Hawaiian Tract Society, 767 Kinau St., Honolulu, H. T. Idaho Tract Society, Southern, Box 643, Nampa, Idaho. Illinois Tract Society, Northern, 3645 Ogden Ave., Hawthorne Sta., Chicago, Ill. Illinois Tract Society, Southern, 304 W. Allen St., Springfield, Ill. Indiana Tract Society, 521 E. 23d St., Indianapolis, Ind. Iowa Tract Society, Nevada, Iowa. Kansas Tract Society, East, 821 W. Fifth St., Topeka, Kan. Kansas Tract Society, West, 508 Fifth Ave. E., Hutchinson, Kan. Kentucky Tract Society, Nicholasville, Ky. Louisiana Tract Society, 810 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, La. Maine Tract Society, 75 Grant St., Portland, Maine. Manitoba Tract Society, 290 Bannerman Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Massachusetts Tract Society, South Lancaster, Mass. Michigan Tract Society, East, 426 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, Mich. Michigan Tract Society, North, 510 Petoskey St., Petoskey, Mich. Michigan Tract Society, West, 1214 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. Minnesota Tract Society, 336 East Lake St., Minneapolis, Minn. Mississippi Tract Society, 932 Union St., Jackson, Miss. Missouri Tract Society, Northern, Hamilton, Mo. Missouri Tract Society, Southern, 520 W. Lynn St., Springfield, Mo. Montana Tract Society, 411 S. Black Ave., Bozeman, Mont. Nebraska Bible Supply House, 905 N. California Ave., Hastings, Neb. Nevada (See California-Nevada Missionary Society). New England Tract Society, Northern, 136 N. Main St., Concord, N. H. New England Tract Society, Southern (Rhode Island and Connecticut), 51 Whitmore St., Hartford, Conn. New Hampshire (See Northern New England). New Jersey Tract Society, 200 Columbus Ave., Trenton, N. J. New Mexico Tract Society, Box 286, Albuquerque, New Mexico. New York Tract Society (Greater), Room 904, 32 Union Square, New York, N. Y. New York Tract Society, 317 W. Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y. New York Tract Society, Western, 8 E. Jefferson St., Salamanca, N. Y. North Carolina Tract Society, 711 W. Lee St., Greensboro, N. C. North Dakota Tract Society, Drawer N, Jamestown, N. Dak. Ohio Tract Society, Box 187, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Oklahoma Tract Society, P. O. Box 644, Oklahoma City, Okla. Oregon Missionary Society, Western, 508 E. Everett St., Portland, Ore. Oregon Tract Society, Southern, 1164 Military St., Roseburg, Ore. Pennsylvania Tract Society, Eastern, 4910 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pennsylvania Tract Society, Western, 7155 Mt. Vernon St., Pittsburg, Pa. Saskatchewan Tract Society, Box 244, Regina, Sask., Canada. South Carolina Tract Society, 821 Fourth St., Columbia, S. C. South Dakota Tract Society, Drawer R, Redfield, S. Dak. Tennessee River Tract Society (Western Tennessee), 509 Cole Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. Texas Tract Society, North, Box 15, Keene, Texas. Texas Tract Society, South, Box 392, Austin, Texas. Texas Tract Society, West, Box 16, Abilene, Texas. Upper Columbia Tract Society, College Place, Wash. Utah Tract and Bible Society, 776 E. Sixth So., Salt Lake City, Utah. Vermont (See Northern New England). Virginia Tract Society, 2705 W. Main St., Richmond, Va. Washington Missionary Society, Western, Box Q, Auburn, Wash. West Virginia Tract Society, 124 Marion St., Fairmont, W. Va. Wisconsin Tract Society, Box 57, Grand Rapids, Wis. Wyoming Tract Society, Crawford, Neb.

Above is a list of our authorized agencies and depositories, and we invite you to communicate with them if you wish to secure any books or periodicals advertised in this journal.

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