p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 18. (5/1/1907)

Earlier text: War Preparations Among the Nations

DARK DAYS FOR THE NATION.

By Editor

At a conference meeting in New York, April 6, in an address to the Methodist preachers, Bishop Berry declared that the ministers themselves would be startled if they knew how many young Methodists and boys and girls of the best families, too, were lost to the Methodist church. Of the country he said:

"There are dark days ahead of us. Organized capital is often organized greed, and organized labor is often organized tyranny. The only thing that will solve the problem is regeneration, for human selfishness is at the root of the whole matter. The world needs sorely to care for its social ills."

But the great trouble is that the country and the doctors of the country, all religious men, are endeavoring to cure the social ills thru the teaching or the transformation of the masses, when the only way by which it can be done is in reaching the individual man. To that old-fashioned Methodism, Presbyterianism, and all true evangelism looked. If they would look to that at the present time instead of politics and what may be called social methods far more would be accomplished. There are dark days ahead, but present methods will never cure the troubles of the country, for the troubles which afflict the body politic or the body social. In Jesus Christ as the Saviour—only Saviour—alone is there hope.

Editorial Notes.

If we accept the New Testament as authoritative, on the authority of that we ought to accept the Old. The New Testament abounds in quotations from the Old; and they are ever referred to as unquestionable authority; but this is never the case with the Apocrypha. Of our Old Testament when quoted by the New Testament writers it is said: "It is written," "as saith the Scriptures," "as the Holy Ghost saith," "the Holy Scriptures," and "the Scriptures can not be broken." What greater indorsement do we want of the Scripture canon in our Lord's day? Three times our Saviour meets the assault of the enemy by "It is written," and every time from the book of Deuteronomy. He, at least, had not been affected by the "higher critics." The New Testament is the complement of the Old. They teach the same salvation, hold the same standard of morality, present the same Gospel, all of which are more fully developed. They truly compose the one Book.

The Inspiration of the Bible, it needs scarcely be said, must pertain to the originals, rather than to the translations. The books of the Bible may be considered as so many letters of God to us, imparting instruction, comfort, warning, counsel, ofttimes thru lessons of the past. "Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that thru patience and thru comfort of the Scriptures we might have hope." Rom. 15:4. The translations are the efforts of devoted students to endeavor to place in the language of different people the original letters. We therefore ought to welcome them. They are often different, frequently express different shades of meaning, but they all confirm and make more beautiful our Father's instruction. Our English translations are most of them excellent, and the best of them all, to our mind, is the American Standard Revised Version.

Inspiration Is Not Illumination.—The men thru whom God gave His word may have been as educated and enlightened as Daniel or Paul, or as unlearned in the "schools" as the fisherman Peter. They may be able to comprehend what God reveals thru them; they may not understand their own prophecies, as was the case with Daniel. Dan. 12:8, 9. Yet each writing is equally the word of God. One person, like Peter, may have naturally held his "Jewish prejudices," nevertheless, the Spirit breathed thru him, "God is no respecter of persons." It may have been the educated priest, the son of Buzi, with his visions of glory, or the herdsman of Tekoa, but the word is equally the word of God.

Prophecy.—Mighty evidence of the divine stamp upon the Scripture canon is that furnished by the prophecies and their fulfilment. Read all the future history of the Hebrews, in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Note the fulfilment of the prophecies of our Lord given in Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, and of Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2. Among the most remarkable books of the Bible are Daniel and the Revelation. The former is considered by the critics as among one of the most questionable books of the Old Testament canon, the latter of the New; and yet in the remarkable prophecies of these books the pen of inspiration has traced the rise and fall of nations and the history of the church. He who desires may know this. Where the historical critics and carpers have found weakness, God Himself has put strength.

The Fruits.—A great evidence of intrinsic authority of the book of God is the fruit which it has borne. The Bible has changed the face of the world. Altho in sixty-six parts, it is, after all, all one Book, one building. Brick by brick has the edifice risen, volume by volume has the Gospel of Jesus Christ grown; seemingly different purposes have been dominant in the minds of the writers, various qualities of tone have been heard from the instruments God used, yet nevertheless it is the product of the one Mind, the one Purpose, the one Musician; it is the one rule or canon. To all this its fruits—the great test of the prophets, false and true (Matt. 7:15, 16)—have ever borne witness. Light, hope, cleansing, righteousness, life, gladness, joy, have sprung up wherever its seed has been sown.

The Ultimate Test.—There is one test of the authority of the Book of God which every soul may demonstrate. Jesus thus states it: "If any man willeth to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God." John 7:17, A.R.V. This may be said to pertain to the matter and not to the books themselves, but we reply that the books and the matter are so bound together that we can not separate them. He, therefore, who will with submissive heart and teachable spirit come to God's word, that he may know and do the truth, will find light and life. The longing of his life will be met, his thirsty soul will be refreshed, his hungry heart will be fed, and he will rest satisfied in the love of God.

Pacific Union College holds a summer session June 4 to July 8. It will be largely a normal institute for all engaged in the teaching profession, or who have it in view, for Sabbath-school workers, officers of young people's societies, and all others who desire instruction. It has excellent aims in uplifting the teaching profession. For full particulars address Prof. E. D. Sharpe, Normal instructor, Healdsburg, Cal.

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THEIR POVERTY AND PROSPERITY.

By Mrs. J. N. Anderson

(Continued.)

Some Typical Dwellings.

THE space that can be made to accommodate a family is well illustrated by two instances. Next door to our house in Canton is a large wholesale live-fish market. Between these houses there was originally an opening of about four and one half feet in width at the front, tapering to a brick's length in width at the rear. After a few days of pounding, grating, and grinding noises, as we supposed incident to repairs on the market's tile roof, we were surprised to find that a dwelling of two stories had been constructed in this crack between

the walls, which were also made to do service for the new domicile. There is living-room and a kitchen below, with sleeping-room on the second floor. When the street door is shut, the only outside ventilation is supplied thru what we would call, were it supplied with glass, a window in the front of the upper story. This must be closed to keep out rain. One man, two women, and two boys live in this home and carry on a restaurant business, serving meals from 5 A. M. to 8 P.M. to the fish-men, on tables set in a hollow square on the street pavement in front of their door.

Another less pretentious dwelling was constructed for one of the employees of the market, about the same time, against a jog in the wall at the opposite side of the market building. A frame was extended around the two open sides of this niche, thin boards nailed on for walls, and a tile shanty roof extended from the brick wall of the market house. Inside a partition separates this tiny house into two rooms—one exactly the size of the family bed, the other, used for living, dining, and all general purposes, is not so large. All the light and air that enter come thru the door, which thru the sultry nights of a tropical summer must be shut and barred while the inmates sleep.

Women Working with Grain in Honan Province, China.

These are not slum tenements but the homes of men employed with a large and prosperous business concern.

The Wealth of China.

And yet it was stories of the wonderful wealth of the court of Kublai the Grand Kahn, as told by the celebrated Venetian on his return to Italy after a sojourn of more than twenty years in China, that quickened the world's commercial pulse and set sailing eastward an ever-increasing number of ships, until the question of "the open door" in China is one of the burning questions of the present hour.

As Marco Polo testified, the carved ivories, the polished stones, the beautiful wrought gold, rich creations of silk looms, exquisite embroideries, are all here, but the very people who produce them do so in squalor and poverty, employing still the same methods of hand labor which even in his day were traditional.

As one sees the silk weavers at work in their dingy, dark little homes festooned with dust-laden cobwebs overhead and spread with the grime of natural earth for floor beneath, while the reeling and spooling is carried on in the same room by women and children, whose garments and general appearance are in keeping with their surroundings, he wonders how it is possible for the man at the loom to preserve the fabric clean. Patiently he sits and throws the shuttle to and fro, each shift of the warp wearing deeper the hole made in the earth, as with steady step the treadles move up and down, while the beautifully designed brocade appears to form itself.

The Soil of China

even after these millenniums of cultivation is still extremely productive under the careful tillage of the most painstaking husbandmen. Where but in China would one see the farmer with two long-spouted buckets suspended from a yoke, watering his wheat fields after nightfall, or with the hoe carefully loosening the soil around the thrifty stools of springing grain, before the sun has risen to its heat? And where else would one see toil better repaid in golden grain than on the beautiful rolling plains of central China? And yet beyond what he himself

can use or can dispose of in his immediate vicinity, it profits the farmer but little, since without facilities for transportation the value of his produce is consumed in the effort to market it.

Cave Home on Yellow River, in Loess Deposit.

The same is true of the cotton crop in the slightly more southern belt. The farm hands, and that includes every member of the family old enough to pull weeds and not too old to carry a basket in which to gather every conceivable kind of fertilizer, toil thru the summer to secure the crop. All the early winter will be occupied with ginning, spinning, reeling, and weaving, all of which is done by hand; and after the New Year, the strong men of the family start out with wheelbarrow loads of the cloth to travel over roads not easily imagined and more hardly described, to dispose of the year's product in the village markets.

From village to village they travel, sometimes stopping at an inn waiting for market day, and again winding the serpentine path till at last they reach home with their barrows and a few needed articles taken in exchange for cloth. Above the payment of their traveling expenses, the venture is considered fairly successful. Should there be a few strings of cash with this lot, there will be real rejoicing in the mud-walled, thatch-roofed home of the thrifty toilers.

Peopled by such a nation, frugal, contented, industrious, patient beyond belief, intelligent and enterprising if allowed the least opportunity for advancement, any kingdom might consider itself wealthy. Aside from the wonderful resource in her people, China has untold wealth in her metalliferous deposits.

The province of Shansi is said to be one vast area of coal-beds of a very superior quality—enough, as one authority estimates it, to supply the whole world at its present rate of consumption for thousands of years. The population, who by dint of industry are but able to barely wrench a subsistence from the thin deposit of soil on the top, have no way of turning to account the untold wealth easily within reach were they but allowed modern methods of mining and transportation.

With coal and iron in abundance, gold, silver, copper, tin, mercury, and lead in paying quantities, it has been ventured that the mineral resources of China not improbably excel those of any country in the world.

Mrs. J. N. ANDERSON.

HIS PRESENCE.

By Rev. B. K. Kidder, Ph.D.

THE Master spake to me. I knew His voice. No personality Of human friend, by word or act, could be More surer known, as to the mind He gave Assurance of His love and power to save.

The Master walked with me. I knew His presence, tho I could not see His face, as when He walked in Galilee. The inner eye beheld Him; and the sight Filled all the earth and sky and mind with light.

"Yet not for self alone," He gently whispered, "are these mercies shown, But for the desolate who have not known The love I bear them, and who would not see Or know Me near, were I not seen in thee."

That He may live in me Henceforth, His life of blessed ministry Is all my prayer for self; then men may see The Christ of God once more in haunts of pain, And know that God is love, and trust again. —Rev. B. K. Kidder, Ph.D.

OUR WORK AND WORKERS.

FIVE young people were baptized at Grand Rapids, Mich., April 6.

ON Sabbath, March 23, Brother J. A. Burden baptized three candidates at Redlands, Cal.

BROTHER and Sister L. P. Syp report nine additions to the church at Darbyville, Iowa, all by baptism.

ONE sister has taken her stand for the truth at Iola, Kan., as a result of the efforts of Brother F. C. Clark.

AFTER presenting present truth for six weeks at Corpus Christi, Texas, Brother and Sister W. M. Cubley report that fourteen have accepted. They have also established a Sabbath-school of twenty-five members.

BROTHER J. R. BAGBY baptized six candidates for the heavenly kingdom, at Addington, Okla., on a recent Sabbath afternoon. Fifteen in all were added to the church there.

THE fifth annual session of the East Michigan Conference convened at Holly, Mich., March 29. The attendance was good, and plans for aggressive work were laid. Brother E. K. Slade was reelected president of the conference.

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"HERALDS OF THE MORNING"

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The appalling loss of life by murder and suicide, political and social troubles, dissatisfaction between employer and employee, strikes and fires, wars and rumors of wars—all these are of daily occurrence. What do they mean? and is there any significance to these things at this particular time? To the close observer, all these are evidences that there is a nearing social vortex into which all unsettled factions, and the world at large, will be plunged. When and how this will be brought about is revealed in "Heralds of the Morning." By appealing to the "sure word of prophecy," the author clearly shows that these conditions were to exist just before the Lord's return, and points out many other signs that the Scriptures tell us are certain heralds of the glad morning when strife shall cease, and peace and happiness reign forever. That the reader may understand these events, and be prepared for the final outcome, is our reason for calling attention to this valuable work. More than 150 illustrations vividly portray that upon which the subject-matter treats. A live book upon a live subject.

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There is no grander quality in the Christian than unswerving loyalty. He may be imperfect in his development of character, his knowledge may not be extensive, his education may be defective, his experience may be limited; but he may be loyal to his God, his King, and his Redeemer. Others may fail and desert the ranks, he will only gird the armor more closely and be unceasingly vigilant. Others will prove false when some great leader falls, but the loyal stands firmer to duty than ever. Others may follow the multitude, he remains loyal to the law of his Lord, tho he stands alone. O, for more zealous, loyal soldiers of God in these days of lukewarmness and treachery!

Peace Congress.

In our Outlook Department will be found a striking article on the peace question. This will be followed by reports direct from the great Peace Conference in New York. The Peace Conference in New York is a preliminary to The Hague. It has been thought by some that it will be of even greater importance than that of The Hague. Its discussions and actions will at least have a tremendous effect on The Hague Conference. Our readers will want to know what the great men of the country are saying, and the relation of all this to the prophetic word. Mr. John S. Wightman will send us exclusive reports, with photographs of the leading speakers, and other matters of interest. In connection with the Peace Conference it is well to note what some of the powers are saying. For instance, a cablegram from Paris, dated March 5, states that "while France is not opposed to joining Great Britain and the United States in a discussion of the limitation of armament at the approaching conference at The Hague, the Government nevertheless doubts the sincerity of England." A noted Dutch publicist, Professor J. M. W. Vander Poorten-Schwartz ("Maarten Maartens"), finds nothing in his investigations among the nations which looks toward armament limitations. Nothing, he thinks, will be accomplished in the cause of lasting peace.

Our New Cover Page.

Our new cover page is by the well-known artist, Mr. Chas. Mente, of New York. The design of the page is to cover in symbol to some extent the scope of the articles on prophecy which the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will contain for the next half year. Beginning on the left side of the page at the top under the title, we have the Tower of Babel, representing Babylon, "the beginning of kingdoms" in Biblical history. Next below is the winged, human-faced lion, the symbol of Assyria. After Assyria comes Egypt, represented by the sphinx and the pyramids, the camel and the desert. Then follow ruins of Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, and ruins of Tyre, the great merchant city of ancient times. The Propylaea of Athens where Paul spoke, the Arch of Constantine, representing Rome. All these ruins are symbols of the countries which they represent. They speak of human glory and its sad ending. On the right side of the picture we have the great symbolic image, the alphabet of all prophecies, Daniel 2, representing the rise and fall and deterioration of the kingdom of man until the time when the kingdoms of men will give place to the everlasting kingdom of Christ. At the foot of the picture we have a symbolic representation in various types of the great plan of salvation, laid in sacrifice: the ancient altar, the sanctuary with its surrounding tribes at the base of Mount Sinai, and the cross of Christ, from which flows the healing stream to the nations. Over the picture there is the suggestion of God's eternal city and kingdom of glory beyond. The picture will bear a vast amount of study and is suggestive of a great field of history and prophecy.

This issue is the first of the twenty-six special numbers covering the following subjects:

The Bible.
Prophecy.
The Coming of the Lord.
Our Sacrifice and Priest.
The Signs of the Times.
The Law and the Gospel.
Man and His Destiny.
Spiritual Gifts.
Election, Predestination, and Free Will.
The Great Threefold Message.
The Church.
Bible Temperance.
The Sabbath the Test of the Ages.
The Great Federation Movement.
Religious Liberty.
The Outpouring of the Spirit.

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This paper assumes that this word is true and is believed by the majority of its readers. It also believes that there are thousands of others who are questioning whether it is true, but who are longing to find the truth upon which they may rest their souls. These articles in themselves demonstrate the truth of the word of God. This present issue is upon the word of God, the Bible. Our second issue is upon Prophecy. The field of prophecy will be covered in general. The object of prophecy, the fulness of prophecy as set forth in the great alphabetical lines of prophecy in Daniel and Revelation. Following that will come two issues discussing the various evidences of the Lord's coming. We shall try to make every issue better than the one previous. The price of the twenty-six issues is seventy-five cents, covering six months of the year. Do not put off your subscription, but subscribe now so you can get the whole set. Mrs. Stuttle's stories on the Christ-life begin in this issue. You do not want to miss a single number.

The Word Inspired, Not the Man.

The inspiration of the Bible is not of the man, but is of the word; it is not of the writer, but the writing. It is nowhere said that the man is inspired. We speak of "inspired" men in an accommodated sense, meaning those by whom God has spoken, but it is not a Bible expression. The word is inspired—God-breathed; the men are moved upon by the Holy Spirit. In the world the men are exalted, in the Scriptures it is the word which God breathed thru them. "The Spirit of Jehovah spake by me, and His word was upon my tongue." 2 Sam. 23:2. No, it was not David, but as we read in Acts 1:16, of a quotation from the Psalms, the words "which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake." The Spirit of Christ spoke thru the prophets. 1 Peter 1:11. The word is God-breathed.

Difference in Style.

"But if the word is all equally the word of God, what makes the difference in style of composition among the different writers?" is often asked. But we may ask, Why should the Spirit of God always use one style? Many of our most prolific writers do not write the same at different times of life, or even in the same periods. We have the grave, the gay, the solemn, the pathetic, the argumentative, the hortatory, the lively, the poetic, the prosaic, the long, loose sentence, the well-rounded period; yet it is the same mind speaking in each style or kind of writing. Here is a master musician. He plays readily the violin, the piano, the harp, the guitar, the organ, the cornet, the bagpipe, the fife, the jew's-harp. We find evidences of the superior mind and skill in them all. One instrument is loud and harsh, another is soft and sweet, but the touch of the trained hand, the soul of the artist, is revealed in each and all. So God has used all classes of men that He may reach men in every walk of life. These men have submitted oftentimes unconsciously, perhaps, their whole personality to God, and the Lord has used them to reach other personalities. The melody of heaven is heard in each and all. God's word is made flesh. Praise Him for His manifold truth, revealed in His manifold way.

"Under the Law."

Many indeed are the questions which are coming to us over such texts as Rom. 6:14, 15; Gal. 3:23, and others containing the expression "under the law." The thought is carried by many who desire to evade the obligations of God's law that it is not duty to keep the law because we are under grace. Perhaps there is no test brought forward more frequently than this in order to evade simple duty. To those who are in anywise troubled by the question, or who know of others who are, we commend the tract "Under the Law or Under Grace? Which?" It is No. 163 of the Bible Students' Library. Price of single tract by mail, two cents. Send to the Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.

Have our readers ever considered the wonderful message found in Rev. 14:9-12, called the third angel's message? Have they noted the term, "mark of the beast," there found, and contrasted that with the "seal of God," mentioned in Rev. 7:1-3? Do they wish an explanation of these terms? If so, let them send for tract "Seal of God and Mark of the Beast," No. 130, Bible Students' Library. It is a good one to circulate in quantities. Price two cents each. Five cents will secure two copies of the tract by mail.

There are some laws worth perpetuating, and among them is the great law of God's universe. One of the best things said upon that was in a sermon by the late C. H. Spurgeon, now published in tract form by the Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal. Send two cents postage stamps and obtain the tract and read it. If you wish to let your neighbors and friends read it, obtain a large quantity at a much less proportional price.