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Looking unto Jesus

The Christian’s Privilege

The Sure Promises of God

How to Get Knowledge

The Church and the World

The Elect of God

How Esther Read Her Bible

The Thief on the Cross

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The Benefits of Bible Study

Righteousness—Where Found

Knowing and Obeying the Lord

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE

How can any one who is in fellowship with Christ’s sufferings, refuse to obey His will and do His work? Yet there are people who know the terms of salvation, which are plainly revealed in the word of God. They listen to the message which the Lord sends through His delegated servants, but, although they assent to the truth, they will not obey. They have not genuine faith to appropriate God’s promises to themselves. They do not recognize God as their personal Saviour, in whom they trust as a child trusts its loving parents. They do not regard God as a loving heavenly Father, who has provided for them a perfect Saviour, a never-failing Friend, an infallible Guide and Teacher.

The Law of Love

BY G. C. FIFIELD.

“God is love.” His law is the law of love. His government is not arbitrary, and maintained by force, as are all earthly governments. His government is the government of love. He did not say to our first parents, and to all mankind, “Do right and I will let you live, but do wrong and I will kill you.” There are certain principles which underlie all intelligent action. Obedience to these principles is happiness; disobedience to them is misery, pain, and death. God in infinite wisdom foreknew, and in infinite love foreordained these principles, saying to all, “This way, my child. Here is joy and peace. Do not go that way; there is only sorrow and death.” Every jot and tittle of this law is thus seen to be only love; and love, therefore, is its fulfillment. Jesus said: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy

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The Great Threefold Message

BY W. C. WILCOX.

God’s plan for saving sinful men has ever been the same. With Him is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Human nature has ever been the same, variable, inconsistent, weak.

God’s means of saving men is “the everlasting Gospel” of His grace. Whatever the condition of humanity, the Gospel of Christ has ever been sufficient to save. It ever has been, it is still, the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. Rom. 1:16. It was preached to Abel, to Noah, to Abraham, to Israel of old, as it has been preached since the first advent of our Lord. Heb. 4:2; 3:15; Heb. 4:1. Acceptance of that Gospel has always been manifest in repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:21. The fruit of this faith is obedience; it is, “the faith which worketh by love” (Gal. 5:6); the love which keeps all of God’s commandments (1 John 5:3). Types and shadows have changed, but the holy

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Responsibility of Parents

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Notwithstanding the boasted advancement that has been made in educational methods, the training of children at the present day is sadly defective. It is the home training that is neglected. Parents, and especially mothers, do not realize their responsibility. They have neither the patience to instruct, nor the wisdom to control, the little ones intrusted to their keeping.

It is too true that mothers are not standing at their post of duty, faithful to their motherhood. They are generally the willing servants of worldly men and fashion. Many, even among those who profess to have renounced the world, are influenced to a great degree by its customs and its spirit.

“Choose Ye This Day”

BY W. N. GLENN.

Choose what?—“Choose ye this day whom ye will serve,” is what the prophet said to-day—because “ye know not what a day may bring forth,” and the choice you make is a matter of life or death. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments. Deut. 30:15, 16. “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live, that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him; for He is thy life, and the length of thy days.” Verses 19, 20.

This choice is set before every person on the

The Seventh, or One-seventh

A Sabbath Query.

Suppose I call on a friend who is ill, and he says that on the shelf I will find seven bottles, numbered in order from one to seven, and ask me to give him half a dozen grains of quinine from the seventh bottle. He states particularly that it is the seventh bottle, and in order to make the matter sure, he repeats that it is the seventh bottle—the one with the number seven upon it. I go to the shelf, and pick up the first bottle, from which I give him half a dozen grains of quinine; and the rest of it is his.

Religious Liberty

Bible Authority for Sunday Observance

He Saves to the Uttermost

The Riches of His Grace

Have Faith in God

Acceptable Service

Your Life Work—Is It of Men or of God?

The Christian Life

“What Must I Do to Be Saved?”

Southern California Meetings.—

By Editor

We regret that notices from the Southern California Conference came too late even for the regular place in this issue. But we are closing up this paper ahead of time, because of moving. However, the Conference will be held with the camp-meeting in Los Angeles, September 1 to 10 on Forty-ninth Street and Central Avenue. The first conference meeting will be held Friday, September 2, 9 o’clock A.M. The Los Angeles M. M. & B. Association will also hold its second annual meeting at the same time and place. Its first meeting will be held 9 A.M., Tuesday, September 6. We are sorry that our columns closed so early as not to admit the regular notices of President Clarence Santee.

The Recognition of a Right Principle.

By Editor

It may deal hardship; the question ought to have been settled before; and the principle may not wholly apply now; but the house of Lords has so decided it, and, as they are the last court of resort, so the decision must stand. We refer to the decision regarding the Scottish Presbyterian Church. In 1900 a fusion was effected between the Free Church of Scotland and the United Presbyterian Church, under the name of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. But out of about eleven hundred ministers twenty-four Free Church ministers in remote parts of the highlands and in the islands off the coast refused their assent to the union. They contended that the union was not in accord with the tenets of the ancient Free Church, and further that the fusionist church had no legal control over the trust funds of the Free Church. The case has passed through all the courts to that of the House of Lords. The judges held that nothing could exempt the Free Church from the rule that “funds given for one purpose could not be diverted to another.” Therefore the Free Church property remained in trust with the twenty-four ministers who dissented from the fusion. This means that a sum of thirty millions of dollars is in the absolute control of twenty-four men. How generous they will be and under what conditions, it will be interesting to note.

Change of Mailing Address

By Editor

All mail for the Pacific Press Publishing Company, “Signs of the Times,” or “Our Little Friend,” up to September 1 should be addressed to Oakland, Cal., as heretofore; after September 1, to Mountain View, Santa Clara County, Cal.

Busy Days at Signs and Little Friend

By Editor

If our readers could look in upon the SIGNS and LITTLE FRIEND force of workers during the last days of August they would conclude that the days were busy, the times strenuous. But all have done, and are doing, nobly. Some of us are torn up in our households, stopping wherever we can, working long hours, but all are hopeful, cheerful, helpful, patient. Thank God for them all; thank God for the patience and sweetness of His grace under stress and trial.

International Sabbath-School Lessons Discontinued

N. B.—“The Signs of the Times” will discontinue the publication of the International Sabbath-school Lessons at the close of this present series. As there are but few who use the paper for the lessons, space is too valuable. The lesson for the next quarter may be obtained in pamphlet form, worthy and easy for preservation, and much better for review of past lessons, for 5 cents, by addressing Pacific Press Publishing Co., Oakland, Cal. Do not send orders for Lesson Quarterly to Mountain View, unless notified. The Sunday-school Lessons will be continued.

A Sad Thing.

We refer to the dedicatory address of Bishop H. C. Potter of New York, at the opening of the “Subway Tavern” in that city, August 2. This saloon aims to be a “moral” one; it will sell only the best grade of intoxicants; it will not sell a man too (?) much; it will have a room for dispensing soda water and beer alone, with no stronger liquors in sight; it will give food with the liquor; in short, it will aim to be a workingman’s club. It will do all this for the same reason every man keeps a saloon—to make money. Bishop Potter approved of this “model” saloon, and the exercises closed with the “Doxology.” We are glad to see the protests from ministers all over the land, and especially that from the secular press. One class,—not universally,—is singing Dr. Potter’s praise, namely the liquor men; and why should they not? Well, we ought not to say that. Why should they? They know the misery, the wretchedness, the filth, the squalor, the crime, engendered by the saloon, and surely they must demand some sort of consistency in a Christian minister. This act of compromise on the part of the bishop will greatly help the cause of intemperance and cause the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme. Already one man is reported as getting drunk at the “Subway” as the result of the bishop’s talk. As a minister of Christ, how could Dr. Potter do this?

NO PAPER NEXT WEEK.

By Editor

FORMERLY the SIGNS OF THE TIMES issued only fifty numbers a year; but for the last four or five years it has furnished fifty-two numbers a year, and fifty-three when its publishing day occurred fifty-three times.

But now, when moving to Mountain View, we omit the paper for September 14. We are sure our subscribers and friends will generously permit this without finding fault.

If it were the mere moving of the paper, the subscription list, and editorial force and paraphernalia, we would omit no number; but heavy presses have to be taken down here, shipped, transported, unloaded, and set up there; and one week is too short a time. Therefore we omit the issue of September 14. The next issue after this, the Lord willing, will bear the following date:—

Mountain View, Cal., September 21, 1904.

Our machinery will then be ready, we expect, but our editorial offices will not be ready for weeks. But we, by the grace of our Master, hope to get along and get out our paper on time.

These are days of intensity; we hope to be remembered in the prayers of our readers.

Unsurpassed

“Unsurpassed.”—Prof. W. R. Harper, in a recent address, rich with telling points, speaks thus of the Psalms: “As a manual of prayer and praise the old Hebrew Psalter still stands unsurpassed. It is the highest and purest expression known to man of the soul's communion with God. It has for nearly twenty-five centuries served as the mouth-piece of untold millions of God's saints, and is destined, so far as we can see, to continue thus to serve humanity for all time.”

“Morality” by Law.

Morality by law is as the old proverb says of beauty, but “skin deep.” It is all put on or forced on, and as soon as the restraint is effectually off, morality flies away. It was thought by the Sunday-law advocates that a great victory had been gained when the St. Louis Exposition was closed on Sunday, but we are told again and again that many of the great crowds of strangers in St. Louis on Sunday throng the questionable places within reach; fill the resorts, and frequent the saloons and brothels. The most moral place where the people would go is closed against them. And all this is done, as the Portland Oregonian remarks: “under the mistaken notion that the masses of the people can be driven or forced to spend the Sunday as a minority, doubtless of good intention, but of mistaken judgment, insist they shall.” The leader in all this Sunday-closing work is Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts. National Reformism and the Dark Ages is potent within the whole scheme. Its advocates may not know this, tho they have been told it frequently. They do not see the working out of principles. They seem to think that the same principles which in earnest, mistaken men produced the Dark Ages would work out better with them. But “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Minding the Flesh.

Unconsciously the world—the unbelieving world—testifies constantly to the truth of God's Book. An apostle, in speaking of the two kinds of characters in the world, says: “They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.” Rom. 8:5. The following confession from a leading daily paper recently is to the point:—

Fellow citizens, millions of us try to keep the upper end of our bodies from getting bald, much more earnestly than we ever try to develop ourselves spiritually. The best tailor can make ten times more money than the best teacher. The brewer is richer than the writer, or even the publisher of books. Let a man come along with a new idea—the nearer he gets to the soul, the nearer he gets to the poorhouse. He must talk to the body directly, if he would interest the sluggish spirit that inhabits it.

But there is another class, and the fruit is the test of the tree. The apostle continues, “But they that are after the Spirit [do mind] the things of the Spirit. For the minding of the flesh is death; but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.” Rom. 8:5, 6, margin.

Making the Saloon Respectable.

Dr. Dille, of this city, in a recent talk on Bishop Potter and his saloon address, said:—

No, the last thing we want to do is to make the liquor traffic respectable. The only thing that prevents it from spreading over our whole land like a rotting, blighting mildew, and devastating every town and village and school district and home is that the church has put the brand of infamy upon it, and taught that it was a frightful evil—that it is a sin to put the cup to your neighbor's lips, and a burning disgrace for a man to sell liquor or to get drunk anywhere.

Good. But that is just the effect of Sunday-closing laws. They say in substance that liquor-selling is a great evil on Sunday, but all right six days in the week, and the respectable saloon closes on Sunday. All such arguments are childish sophistry.

Topical Studies on the Great Threefold Gospel Message

By Editor

“Topical Studies on the Great Threefold Gospel Message” is the general subject of the next Sabbath-school Quarterly. These will be of great interest to all our readers, and we especially urge all those who are studying the Sabbath-school lessons in this paper to obtain this quarterly, as the SIGNS will not print the Sabbath-school lessons next quarter. The price of the October number is only 5 cents. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.