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Christ Our Saviour.

By Mrs. E. G. White.

We have in this book the life of Christ our Saviour from His birth to ascension, given in simple and direct language. It is printed in large, clear type, and is finely illustrated by engravings made especially for it. The simplicity with which this “Old, Old Story” is told, the aptness of the illustrations, and the general appearance of the better-bound styles, will attract and hold the reader’s attention to the very close. 182 large octavo pages, and bound as follows: Fine English cloth, 75c; cloth back, board covers, in colors, 50c.

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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing.

An exposition of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. It has 218 pages and six chapters: On the Mountainside, The Beatitudes, The Spirituality of the Law, The True Motive in Service, The Lord’s Prayer, Not Judging but Doing. A new edition just printed on fine enameled paper, new type, and reillustrated with 27 beautiful half-tone engravings specially prepared for the book by eminent New York artists. It will be found full of comfort and blessing by all fortunate enough to obtain and read it. A beautiful gift book. In paper covers, 35 cents. Address this office.

Your Winter Trip

Avoid the snow, cold, and chilly blasts of the rainy season. No better or more comfortable way than the

Sunset Route

Between San Francisco and New Orleans

Through the orange groves of Southern California, the cotton and rice fields of the balmy South.

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Write for “Wayside Notes Along the Sunset Route.” Tells in detail of the attractions of the Southern Route.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC

A Great Cruise of Battle-ships.

The great fleet of battle-ships which left Hampton Roads, Va., Dec. 16, 1907, anchored in Hampton Roads, Feb. 22, 1909, after having skirted South America to San Francisco, to New Zealand, to Australia, to the Philippines, to Japan, to China, to India, through Suez Canal, to Gibraltar, and home, a total voyage of over 42,000 miles. It was a wonderful cruise. The fleet left amid “the shouting of the captains” and “the thunder of the guns.” It has been warmly, loudly, vociferously, strenuously greeted at the many places it has visited, and officers and men feted and feasted, till body and soul were sated. And the home-coming was “the greatest welcome in all history,” at least, so reads the chronicler. Our strenuous, out-going President was in his glory as he reviewed the fleet. Twenty-five vessels were in line, all “armed to the teeth,” and dressed for the occasion. Then, too, it was on Washington’s birthday. There have been no accidents worthy of note and but few deaths. How much of the sickness, which has been among the men, was due to high living at the expense of varied cities and peoples visited, is problematical. It was a great voyage, and the enthusiasm created by it will mean, doubtless, a much bigger navy, a great fleet for each coast. English authorities have already said that they do not include the United States among the nations in their two-to-one program.

Yet, after all, does it pay? Is it a message of peace? If I visit my neighbor who is bellicose of feeling over our line fence, with a Krag-Jorgensen and a brace of Colt’s, he might be loath to begin trouble and might welcome me quite profusely for the time, but would the feelings I would nurture in his heart be those of peace? About the first he would do after my visit, if he were able, would be to invest in the most approved and latest noiseless, smokeless firearms; and if this were not possible, he would try to make the strongest sort of alliance for defense and offense with my neighbor on the other side. Then, when they were ready and had nurtured that war spirit for months or years, would peace be the outcome? There are tramping to-day in fair California and elsewhere in this great land hundreds and thousands of men who are willing to work if they could get it to do. Many thousands are without work in our great cities. Would it not be a far greater blessing, a mightier lesson of peace, if the forty or fifty millions expended for four battle-ships were used, for instance, in building a great national highway, a superb roadway, from New York to San Francisco, paying a minimum scale of hard-times wages, an encouragement only for those out of work? When that was finished, build another, if necessary, and so encourage the arts of industry and peace. There is much more which might be said. Why do not some of our great statesmen take up the issue? It is not a new suggestion.

President Taft and Religious Questions

By Editor

Our next issue will have somewhat to say relative to our new President, Wm. H. Taft, and his position on religious questions, with portraits of President Taft and cabinet members.

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Luther Burbank Sells Rights to Plant Creations

The news comes that Mr. Luther Burbank has sold the sole right of handling all his wonderful productions and plant creations of the past, except a few varieties, as well as what may be produced in the future, to a trio of millionaires, Herbert E. Law, his brother, and Oscar E. Dinner, who will conduct business under the firm name, “The Luther Burbank’s Products, Incorporated.”

An Opportunity for You to Help.

By Editor

Very frequently an appeal comes to the editor to send the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to some one too poor to subscribe for it, or so situated as to control no money to pay for it, or the paper is asked by some public library or reading-room. Just as far as we are able we are helping such. The writer is taking a club of twenty-five yearly for such purposes. Who wishes to help us in this matter? Those who do, send funds direct to the editor.

The Twofold Witness of Truth

The hope of the world is in the religion of Jesus Christ. The revelation of that religion is, first of all, in the word of God, the Bible; and, secondly, in the individual life in harmony with the written revelation. This is a twofold witness to the soul upon which it can rest. To place the evidence of truth in man's conviction alone is to leave him to the sport of every vagary and whim. But there is where the higher critics of our time are leaving the world.

President Taft’s Cabinet

President Taft's Cabinet is composed of the following: Secretary of State, Philander C. Knox, of Pennsylvania; Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, Illinois; Secretary of War, Jacob M. Dickinson, Tennessee; Attorney-General, George W. Wickersham, New York; Postmaster-General, Frank H. Hitchcock, Massachusetts; Secretary of the Navy, George Von Meyer, Massachusetts, Secretary of the Interior, Richard A. Ballinger, Washington; Secretary of Agriculture, James S. Wilson, Iowa; Secretary of Commerce and Labor, James Nagel, Missouri. Of these we shall have more to say next week.

Of World-Wide Interest

By Editor

Among all classes is the subject of Spiritualism. Psychic phenomena the scientists call it, and many are investigating under most rigid tests. Many thousands of dollars are expended every year in its study. Our higher institutions of learning are delving deeper into its phenomena under the study of psychology. Millions who have lost friends are inquiring earnestly if they are able to communicate from beyond the veil. Many are in doubt; some are waiting for more scientific evidence; others, for signs and wonders, both of which have been and will be forthcoming to prove at least intelligences beyond the human.

A series of articles upon this subject has been prepared by Prof. G. W. Rine, of San Francisco, for this journal. These articles will appear under the general heading:

“The Spirit World and a Future Life.”

The subdivisions are:

“Life the Instinctive Hope of Humanity.”
“How and When Life After Death Can Be Realized.”
“Development of Modern Spiritualism, and Its Diverse Modes of Manifestation.”
“Marvelous Supernormal Phenomena Notwithstanding the Most Rigorous Test Conditions (Prevalence of Fraud).”
“Materialization and Spirit Messages.”
“Spiritualistic Revelations; Method and Matter; Automatic Writing and Speaking.”
“Evidence of a Sinister Order of Spiritualistic Phenomena.”
“The Powers of Evil.”
“Prophetic Forecasts of Latter-Day Delusions in Process of Fulfilment.”
“Spiritualism in France,” from our own correspondent, will appear in the same issue as No. 9.

These articles will begin with the first number in the second quarter of the year, April 7, and continue until they close. A subject of wonderful importance, the papers containing the series ought to have a hundred thousand circulation. April 7 is a good time to begin your subscription. It is a good time to secure the subscription of your friend and neighbor.

Supreme Court Upholds Three Anti-Trust Decisions

The Federal Supreme Court on February 23 handed down three anti-trust decisions: (1) The court sustained the decision fining the New York Central Railway $108,000 for granting rebates to the American Sugar Company. A similar decision was rendered in an Ohio case, in which the fine was $26,000. (2) It sustained the state of Arkansas in its fine of $10,000 against the Hammond Packing Company for failure to observe the law. (3) The state of Louisiana was sustained in fixing the long-distance rates of the Cumberland Telephone Company.

Britain’s Two-Keel Naval Standard

Wm. T. Stead tells us that he has it on the best authority that the King of England will not propose any scheme for the mutual arrest of competition in naval armaments, and declares that until Germany makes some very clear and definite propositions, the old British program of two keels to one will continue in force; and that two-ships-to-one standard of the British navy will probably not be interpreted to refer to the United States, as the United States is not regarded as a foreign power; and it is said, that to regard America as a possible enemy at sea, is absurd while the British frontier of Canada is left wholly undefended.

Lake Michigan Water Supply Crib Disaster

On January 19, fifty-three persons were killed by fire, surrounded by water, in Lake Michigan. They were working on the water supply crib, and were marooned by a terrific explosion which cut off all hope of escape. Forty-seven injured ones escaped.

Cave-In Kills Eleven at Seattle Exposition

Eleven men were killed by a cave-in on the Alaska-Yukon Exposition grounds at Seattle, February 23. They were digging a large tunnel for a sewer.