It will be observed in another column that the General Conference Committee has advised that all the summer schools join forces and conduct one general summer school. This will have a tendency to unify the educational work in all our institutions. It is planned to hold an institute in connection with Union College a short time prior to the opening of the school in the fall. At that time we can hold our school of health and industrial institute.
The reduced rates on railroads, the free tuition, and free tent rent, and the combined teaching force of the General Conference, bring the General Conference Summer School within the reach of almost every one, and furnish to those who expect to engage immediately in teaching, just the help they need. Let all the teachers who can, attend.
L. A. Hoopes.
Mammon and Mars.
WEALTH and War, Gold and Greed, or the Worship of Mammon and Mars, will be the general topic of the special issue of the Signs of the Times soon to appear. The date will be July 24, but it will be ready about July 15.
There will be sixteen pages filled with pithy articles and good illustrations, all telling a plain story of the present condition of the world and the meaning of the heaping together of treasure by corporations and individuals, and the unwonted preparations for war by all nations. These things are ominous signs that we are in the last days. All who think on these themes, but do not know the scriptures concerning them, are filled with forebodings of what the future will reveal.
The cover will be illustrated with a splendid drawing, in the center of which will be found a masterpiece of poetry, of which the following is one stanza:—
“Majestic, sublime, ’round the great wheel of Time,
The earth through the ages roll on;
From shadow to light, from the star-sprinkled night
To the gold and the roses of dawn;
But the hordes of mankind to the spectacle blind,
With faces bowed down to the dust,
Creep on to their graves as the manacled slaves
Of selfishness, hatred, and lust.
They turn from the dream of the glories that gleam
In the deific light of the stars,
And cease to aspire as they kneel in the mire
At the altars of Mammon and Mars.”
The whole picture draws out vividly the sentiments of the poetry, and is regarded as the best illustration for Signs cover yet produced. It is striking, interesting, and instructive.
The price of the paper is five cents for a single copy; two dollars a hundred. Address Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal.
S. H. LANE
By S. H. Lane
At the request of the president of the Illinois Conference and the members of the Pittwood (Ill.) church, I will attend the dedication of the new church house at that place, Sabbath and First-day, July 13 and 14. I hope to see a general attendance on the part of all the surrounding churches.
