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TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS.

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WE thank you all for your interest in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. We wish we could use all the contributions sent us. We wish that we could even examine them as fast as they come, so as not to keep the writers in suspense. We have on hand the manuscript of not less than eighty articles and poems yet unexamined, and every day brings more. We can not use them all. Some are written by those inexperienced in writing, and need much editing. Had we fewer contributions, we would endeavor to use many of these, but in view of what we have on hand, many of these will be returned or destroyed. To the writers we would say, Try again, if that is the work God has given you to do. Write briefly, and to the point. All other things being equal, the short article is the soonest accepted, the oftenest read, and the longest remembered.

Much is sent us that is called poetry that is not even passable verse, containing neither rhyme nor rhythm. Some that we get rhymes, but it either has no rhythm or is mere doggerel. Much of what we publish is only passable verse, but it contains a good lesson in a pleasing form. But we want good poetry and short poems.

We also need short articles, not exceeding a column's length, containing from 500 to 700 words, on the various phases of the precious truth of God for our time as it is in Jesus. Do not attempt to write exhaustively, which sometimes means exhaustingly, but leave more to be said in the future. Make one point. Wing one arrow of truth with the love of Christ. Short articles are the soonest accepted, the oftenest read, and the longest remembered. While the editor wishes to encourage all, his first endeavor must be to make the SIGNS OF THE TIMES preach the Gospel of Christ with the best material at hand.

A word further. Write plainly, on one side of the paper only, with more space between the lines than in ordinary letter-writing. Leave plenty of room for the heading, and a little space in the margin. Quote Scripture correctly, and in general give the reference. These things will help editors, proof-readers, and compositors, and contributors, the former classes in receiving, and the latter in the greater blessing of giving.

Riches Beyond Gold

Gold, gold, gold, gold, is the world's cry. Men blister under torrid suns, freeze in frigid zones, die of starvation and thirst, suffocate in foul dens, associate with the vilest men, soil and sell reputation and character, all for gold. And how many disappointed ones there are! To how many will the Klondike bring everlasting shame or ruin or both! How many hearts will sink into despair and death during the long Arctic night to come, God only knows. We hope there will be true representatives of Christ in that inhospitable region to minister to poverty-stricken souls, even among those who may have “struck it rich” in the sordid dust of earth.

But, readers, friends, we know of mines of untold worth, open to all. No inclement clime shuts out the seeker; it is a pleasant and goodly land, open to all classes. No customs officer bars the way, tho many have tried so to do, and are trying. The King of the country has set before all true seekers an “open door, and no man can shut it,” and he says, Come. The gold you get in the mines of earth has promise of the life only that now is; the mines of which we are telling you have promise not only of the life that now is, but of that which is to come. Will you not seek these riches?

Where are they found?—In the Word of God through Jesus Christ. They are the “exceeding riches of his grace,” “the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” The blessings of earth—all that are needed—and all the blessings of heaven, come with the glory of the grace of God by believing in Jesus Christ. Myriads have tested this inexhaustible mine and have found it to be more than they could ask or think. O soul, seeking for riches, why not seek for the true riches in Jesus Christ?

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An Appeal for Foreign Missions

A most earnest appeal is made in the August number of the Home Missionary. One paragraph reads: “The Lord is greatly blessing the dear ones who have gone from us to follow the example of the Saviour in a life of sacrifice. Many of those that sit in darkness are calling for the Word of life. Calls are coming from the east, the west, the north, and the south, wherever our workers have gone, for more laborers of all classes, and if these are sent, they must be sustained by the funds of the Foreign Mission Board alone. Shall we send them?” What will our readers reply to this simple query, based on these plain facts? Millions are dying in darkness, and their debtors we are. Jesus Christ bought them from sin and death as well as we, and he asks our cooperation in passing on the Gospel that redeemed our souls to others. Do not hesitate because you can not give large sums. Remember the poor widow. The address of the treasurer of the Foreign Mission Board is W. H. Edwards, 1730 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Well Sung

Well Sung.—A wonderful and what ought to be a well-remembered truth is expressed in Rudyard Kipling's poem written after the queen's jubilee:—

“The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

“Far-called our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire; Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

Men's boasting to-day is like that of Nebuchadnezzar of old, in the very face of God's prophecy, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built?” Dan. 4:30. But the prophet of God said, “Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” Isa. 13:19. The same prophecy holds good concerning all the modern Babylons of to-day. It is well that Kipling has recalled the important lesson.

THE ONE ALL-SUFFICIENT FRIEND.

By Editor

An article of most excellent advice appears in the American Pen (a paper edited by Mr. J. H. Dismukes, colored, of Americus, Ga.) of July 24, on the lynchings among Negroes. The editor evidently believes that many of those lynched are innocent, but he speaks in no spirit of retaliation. Of the conditions in the south the writer has no personal knowledge, and the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is not in politics on the race question, nor on any other question. It is established to preach the Gospel to all men of the “one blood,” bond or free, yellow or brown, black or white, intra American or extra American. The editor of the Pen gives this commendable counsel to his people:

“We say to the Negro, Obey the law and attend to each his own business. This will not save or protect you from race prejudice and hatred; but do it. God will in his own time and opportunity vindicate your innocence.”

He points his people to the right source for comfort, and warns the enemies of his race in these words:—

“We warn our white friends the Negro has one friend, and that is God. He is wise and just. Not one Negro wrongfully convicted in your courts, robbed and punished, but has a just Advocate at the bar of heaven and a powerful Executive. He will review and pass upon all your earthly decisions. The Negro citizen and the Negro man shall have justice done him. The Judge of all the earth will do right.”

And all this is true, and we believe that every Christian, north or south, will heartily respond to the sentiment; for we can hardly believe, as the Pen says, “The Negro has no friends in America or anywhere on the globe.” We know Christ to be his friend, and we know that every one in whose heart reigns the Spirit of Christ is also his friend. And surely there must be many such in all parts of this broad land. Yet, while all human friends are weak, God is strong and able and willing. He has given an example of trust in Jesus Christ. Follow him, and commit thy cause to Him that judgeth righteously. 1 Peter 2 : 23, margin.

Not Needed.

In speaking of the “New Sayings” of Jesus, the New York Observer of August 12 says: “The average student will find in the Logia just about what he brings to them. Some will say that the true things in them are not new and the new things are not true. Others will try to buttress up their asceticism, their Judaistic Seventh-dayism, or their vague pantheism, by a reference to one or another of these sayings.” How it may be with the ascetics or pantheists we do not know; but this we do know, that no well-informed Bible Christian will seek to buttress up Seventh-dayism by an appeal to these sayings, because, granting their genuineness, no such appeal is needed. Seventh-day observers have the Word of the eternal God and the example of Jesus Christ. What more do they need? And true Sabbath-keeping, altho respecting the seventh day, is not Judaistic, but Christian. But what if this saying referred to Sunday? Of course it would be eagerly seized. It would be the last but forlorn hope of a dying cause.

It has never been true that God's prophets have been welcomed by the age in which they lived. After ages have praised them, adored them, worshiped them, built monuments to their praise, and likened their theological favorites to them, but the prophets in the present that are like God's prophets of old are unpopular. The prophet did not call the attention of the people to himself, but to God; and the true disciples magnified the Word of the Lord. It is true that at times men would have worshiped them, but the same ones afterward stoned them. Every true message and messenger to the church of Jesus Christ will exalt Jesus Christ, and every one who receives the message will not glorify the man, but God. When men preach themselves, it is well to receive them with suspicion.