p. 463 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 29. (7/17/1900)

Every Seventh-Day Adventist should possess a set of the “Testimonies for the Church”

and read them. They are a message from the Lord to the ancient men, to the middle aged, to the youth, and the children.

Through the Spirit of Prophecy it is the Lord’s good pleasure to give to his remnant people counsel, instruction, and warning in matters pertaining to doctrine; points of faith; what the Christian’s home should be; marriage; relation of husband and wife; duty of parents to their children, and children to parents; child training; how to overcome wrong habits formed in early years; church officers and their duties; advice to the General Conference, publishing houses, sanitariums, educational and other institutions; also concerning wills, legacies, and endowments.

Every church member should be familiar with the instruction contained in the Testimonies. In them is recounted the blessings of the Lord to the faithful of past ages, and setting forth the great loss to individuals of to-day who fail to heed his counsel, instruction, and warning which they contain. You should read them, and loan them to your neighbors and friends.

Nos. 1 to 33 are bound in five volumes, containing about 700 pages each. A copious index of subjects.

Substantially bound in muslin, per volume....$1.00

Bound in library, per volume....1.50

Complete set of five volumes, bound in cloth.... 5.00

Complete set of five volumes, bound in library.... 7.50

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Trains arrive and leave Battle Creek.

WEST-BOUND FROM BATTLE CREEK.

No. 9, Mail and Express, to Chicago — 12.15 P. M. No. 1, Chicago Express, to Chicago — 9.00 A. M. No. 3, Lehigh Valley Express, to Chicago — 3.40 A. M. No. 5, Pacific Express, to Chicago, with sleeper — 1.10 A. M. No. 75, Mixed, to South Bend — 8.20 A. M.

Nos. 9 and 75, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 1, 3, and 5, daily.

EAST-BOUND FROM BATTLE CREEK.

No. 8, Mail & Exp., to Pt. Huron, East, and Detroit — 3.45 P. M. No. 4, Lehigh Express, to Pt. Huron and East — 8.27 P. M. No. 6, Atlantic Exp., to Pt. Huron, East, & Detroit — 2.25 A. M. No. 2, Lehigh Express, to Saginaw, Bay City, Pt. Huron, and East — 8.50 A. M. No. 74, Mixed, to Durand (Starts at Nichols) — 7.15 A. M.

Nos. 8 and 74, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 4, 6, and 2, daily.

A. S. PARKER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek

Michigan Central

“The Niagara Falls Route.”

Corrected April 29, 1900.

EAST	3	12	6	10	14	20	36
	*Night Express.	Detroit Accom.	Mail & Express.	*N.Y. & Bos. Spl.	Eastern Express.	*Jackson Ac’m.	*Atl’ntic Express.
Chicago	pm 9.35		am 6.45	am 10.30	pm 3.00		pm 11.30
Michigan City	11.25		8.43	pm 12.08	4.40		am 1.20
Niles	am 12.40		10.15	1.00	5.37		2.30
Kalamazoo	2.10	am 7.30	pm 12.10	2.08	6.52	pm 6.00	4.10
Battle Creek	3.00	8.10	1.00	2.42	7.28	6.43	5.05
Marshall		8.38	1.30	3.09	7.51	7.10	5.30
Albion	4.00	9.00	1.50	3.90	8.11	7.30	5.52
Jackson	4.40	10.05	2.35	4.05	8.60	8.15	6.40
Ann Arbor	5.55	11.10	3.47	4.58	9.49	7.45	7.45
Detroit	7.15	pm 12.25	5.30	6.00	10.45		9.15
Falls View					am 5.02		pm 4.18
Susp. Bridge					5.17		4.33
Niagara Falls					5.30		4.40
Buffalo				am 12.20	6.14		5.50
Rochester				3.13	10.00		8.40
Syracuse				5.16	pm 12.15		10.45
Albany				9.05	4.50		am 2.50
New York				pm 1.30	8.45		7.00
Springfield				12.16	6.15		7.40
Boston				8.00	9.00		10.34

WEST	7	17-21	3	5	28	18	37
	*Night Express.	*N.Y. Bos. & Chi. Spl.	†Mail & Express.	*News Express.	*Western Express.	†Kalam. Accom.	*Pacino Express.
Boston		pm 2.00			pm 3.30		pm 6.00
New York		4.00			6.00		am 12.10
Syracuse		11.30			am 2.00		pm 12.25
Rochester		am 1.20			4.05		pm 2.25
Buffalo		2.20			5.20		pm 3.50
Niagara Falls					6.02		4.32
Falls View					6.84		5.05
Detroit	pm 8.20	8.25	am 7.15		pm 12.40	4.85	11.25
Ann Arbor	9.43	9.23	8.40		1.38	5.45	am 12.30
Jackson	11.15	10.20	11.05	am 3.30	2.40	7.30	1.35
Battle Creek	am 12.40	11.94	pm 12.25	4.35	3.50	9.08	3.00
Kalamazoo	1.40	pm 12.10	1.20	5.15	4.28	10.00	3.35
Niles	3.15	1.22	3.10		6.05		5.05
Michigan City	4.26	2.20	4.30		7.05		6.01
Chicago	6.30	4.00	6.30		8.55		7.50

Daily. † Daily except Sunday.

Trains on Battle Creek Division depart at 8.05 a. m. and 4.10 p. m., and arrive at 12.40 p. m. and 6.15 p. m. daily except Sunday.

O. W. Ruggles, General Pass. & Ticket Agent, Chicago.

R. N. R. Wheeler, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek.

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“Open Letter to Christians of All Denominations, the Church of Rome Excepted,”

Are exhausted, and the third edition of 25,000 is going to press.

This little seed tract is doing a grand work. It has been the means of creating an interest in the minds of thousands to study and investigate the Bible for themselves concerning the Sabbath question.

Many letters have been received replying to the first “Open Letter,” to which Mr. Heady writes a reply in the columns of the REVIEW, entitled “Answer to Letters on the ‘Open Letter.’” This article, with the “Open Letter,” will be published in the library, Words of Truth Series, No. 26, and make a tract of 24 pages. Price, 60 cents per hundred. Price for quantities of less than 100, one cent each. Send your order at once to your tract society, or to the—

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Unordered Review Copies Sent by Friends

By Editor

☞ If you receive copies of this paper without ordering them, please remember that they are sent to you by some friend. Persons thus receiving copies of the REVIEW will not be called upon to pay for them. If, after reading these copies, you do not care to keep them, please hand them to your friends to read.

Elder E. E. Franke's New Post-Office Address

THE post-office address of Elder E. E. Franke is now 7127 Langley Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Chicago School Board Reduces Textbook Numbers

THE Chicago school board has greatly reduced the number of text books in the city schools.

Continued Demand for the Open Letter

ORDERS still come in for the “Open Letter,” by the thousands. Good. Keep it a-going; it is certain to wake up some anyhow.

German Emperor Bans Latin From Diplomas

Emperor William has forbidden the use of Latin in diplomas in Germany. This is only another instance in which the German emperor has shown his practical good sense.

Compulsory Patriotism and Flag Saluting in New Zealand

In New Zealand, compulsory patriotism,—“saluting the flag,” etc., “after the American fashion,”—says an Auckland paper, “is catching on, alike in city, suburbs, and country.”

Religious Liberty Number of Christlicher Hausfreund Sells Out

The ten thousand copies of the special Religious Liberty Number of the German paper Christlicher Hausfreund were all taken in a very short time, and the publishers were obliged to print another edition of five thousand; and thirty-five hundred of these are gone already. This is good. Let the truth be spread among the Germans.

Whether a State of War Exists Is Flexible

As to what constitutes a state of war nowadays is a very flexible thing. The Berlin foreign office has stated that “neither the firing by the Taku forts nor the returning of the fire by the Powers constitutes a cause of war.” There is “not a state of war” in China, though there has been daily fighting for two weeks or more. There is “not a state of war” in the Philippines, though there has been constant fighting for nearly two years. It seems that whether there is war or not depends altogether upon whether it is wanted or not.

Religious Press Urges American Aggression in China

THE Independent asserts that “the duty of America in China” is, in fellowship with the other Powers, “to occupy Peking; depose the empress dowager; restore Kwang-Hsu, or, if he is dead or dying, find some one of his type, and proclaim him emperor under an international protectorate.” It declares this to be “the immediate task of the Powers in China;” and that “such action is essential.” There is hardly any room for doubt that the religious press of the United States will be in the lead in urging the nation onward in a course of aggression and domination, and into war to accomplish it. They may be expected to look upon China as only another Turkey, and to deal with her accordingly.

Mind, Brain, and the Word of God

In the Century for July, page 375, Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate, says that “from the point of view of science, the mind can not be considered apart from the brain.” Very good. And why should it be so considered from any other point of view, since the word of God says that in the “very day” that a man dies “his thoughts perish”?

Sixto Lopez on Declaration of Independence and Philippine War

A prominent Filipino, Sixto Lopez, wrote from London, June 22, a letter to the Springfield Republican, in which he says:—

If the President [of the United States] will proclaim that the principles of the Declaration of Independence will be made applicable in spirit and in letter to the Filipinos, the war will not last another five minutes.

All the world knows that to be the truth; and that, if tested, the event would prove its truth. Yet also all the world knows that no such proclamation will be made. And what more conclusive proof of national repudiation of the principles of the Declaration could be given to the world than is given in the fact that when a proclamation of those principles would in five minutes stop what may be an endless war, such proclamation will not be made?

The World's Tense State: Signs of the Times

THE following sketch of the world, by Harper’s Weekly of June 16, is worth reprinting for all to read who know that in the last days perilous times shall come, and who are watching the signs of the times:—

A state of war exists in every clime. Nations and individuals alike who should be at peace with each other, are snarling and snapping at each other’s face. Opportunities for the demonstration of high and honorable motives are being prostituted to ignoble uses. Persons high in power, either in statecraft or in industry, are blind and arrogant. Masses of toilers are restless and impassible, and in many instances verging upon riot. Mob violence prevails in many communities, and is met with a lethargic indifference by the guardians of the public peace that is appalling. In short, the whole world is in that tense state which gives promise of some fearful social convulsion, which must soon eventuate, unless there is quickly discovered some remedy by which disaster may be averted.

These are the times of the “distress of nations, with perplexity,” and of “men’s hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” And these things are tokens of the end. The Lord is coming. He is even at the doors. Tell it everywhere.

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Upcoming Review and Herald Studies on the Nations

By Editor

JULY 31, 1900,

We expect to begin in the REVIEW AND HERALD a series of studies on that part of the Third Angel's Message that notes the place of all the nations. These studies will be based upon the line of prophecy of the Seven Trumpets. No one can afford to let his subscription expire now. You can not afford to miss these studies on the place of the nations. And have you not a friend or a neighbor whom you can persuade to invest, or in whose interest you can invest, twenty-five cents for a two-months’ subscription, so that he can have the benefit of these studies and of all the other good matter that will be found in the REVIEW for two months?

THE WORLD-PROBLEM

continues to grow more complex in its involving of the Powers. It is found that the Chinese have lately imported great quantities of the most modern arms and ammunition; and that since the war with Japan, under the training of European officers the Chinese army has attained a high grade of efficiency. This is making the task of “the allied Powers” much more difficult than any of them expected. It seems to be another Boer situation, only greatly enlarged. There is yet no certain word as to the fate of the embassies, except that of Russia. The latest word is that the Russian minister and his wife were savagely massacred. The other Powers have scarcely any hope that their envoys and legations have met any other fate. With all communications from China shut off, and the way to Peking blocked by mighty armies, all that the Powers can do is to anxiously wait while they hurry forward large bodies of troops, and more battle-ships. How much further will the things have to go this way, before the world shall have entered upon the time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation? The end cometh. “Get ready, get ready, get ready.”

Marshalling of the Nations: Tract Promoted Amid China Crisis

“THE Marshalling of the nations” is going forth in a steady stream. The mails have brought orders at the rate of from twenty-six to sixty a day for about a month. It will always be present truth; but the China crisis makes it especially so just now. Therefore this opportunity, while all minds are thinking of the China entanglement, should be made to tell to the utmost for the spreading of this truth concerning the great Powers of to-day. It sells almost at sight. Therefore tent companies, camp-meetings, and individuals everywhere should give the people an opportunity to buy. It has four single-page plain maps, and one double-page five-color map, of the places of the nations of the world. The price is only ten cents. Order of the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or of the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.