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Signs of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 40.

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Earlier text: The Twenty-First International Eucharistic Congress of the Catholic Church

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Evolution and the Sabbath.

By George McCready Price. B. S. L., No. 198, price, one cent.
“At the end of this first week of time, God instituted the Sabbath as a reminder of the fact that He had made the world in six days of the same length and character as the seventh, or Sabbath.”
This statement is found at the very beginning of this important tract. The author goes on to give scientific reasons why he can not accept evolution, and why he does accept the six-literal-day creative period of the Scriptures. He makes it very clear that the Sabbath is a constant reminder of the facts that the Lord did create all things, and did it in six days, and that He has power to recreate or redeem us as well.
Evolution is really salvation by works. “For,” says one of its leading exponents, “the process of evolution is an advance toward true salvation.” “Hence,” says the author, “the Sabbath is doubly precious to us as moderns, not only as a protest against the papal form of the doctrine of salvation by works, but also as a protest against the doctrine of salvation by the development of evolution, as taught by modern apostate Protestantism.”
This is a tract which deserves careful study and a wide circulation. Address your tract society, or Pacific Press Publishing Assn., Mountain View, Cal.; Portland, Ore.; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Kansas City, Mo.

OUT

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“OUT-OF-DOORS, under the blue dome of heaven, where the sun shines and the fresh breezes blow, where the grass springs up under foot, and the silent stars look down by night—here amid life's great ‘primal sanities,’ with energy, gladsomeness, and health teeming on every side, man had his ancient home. Here he toiled, and here he also enjoyed the fruits of his labors, his wants being few and easily satisfied, his pleasures natural and wholesome.” So reads the first paragraph of this beautiful little volume by M. Ellsworth Olsen. Its chapters are as follows:
A Sedentary Race The Problem of the Children The Young Man’s Needs Beauty Culture Out-of-Doors More Fresh Air and Less Furniture “Too Much House” The Higher Ministry of Field and Wood Around the Camp-Fire “The Long Brown Path” Back to Nature and the Soil
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An illustrated, 48-page, quarterly magazine, published as an exponent and advocate of true religious liberty; defending Christianity and the rights of conscience; upholding the Bible as the infallible word of God; recognizing the church and state as ordained of Heaven for specific and distinct purposes, but vigorously protesting against the alliance of the church with the state in the attempt to advance religion and to promote the state. Price 25 cents per year. Liberal terms to agents.
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Gospel Stories

From "How Esther Read Her Bible"
From "How Esther Read Her Bible"

How Esther Read Her Bible

How Mrs. Leigh, the wife of a popular minister, is made to see new truths in the Bible through the aid of a little orphan Indian girl. Among the subjects which puzzled little Esther, and which she brought to Mrs. Leigh, were baptism, the state of the dead, and the millennium. Eight well-filled pages. Price, 50 cents a hundred, post-paid.

The Winning of Margaret

Margaret and Grandma, having become much exercised over conditions in the world, were led to study their meaning by the aid of the Bible. How they came to see these conditions as signs of the times is an intensely interesting story. Sixteen pages. One dollar a hundred post-paid.

Back to the “Old Paths”

An honest old farmer, Bartholomew Biggs, and his experience at a tent-meeting. A true experience. Sixteen pages. Price, one dollar a hundred, post-paid.
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Into All the World

By William A. Spicer

By W. A. Spicer

Geographical Progress and Missions

It was surely no accident that the dawn of the Reformation era in Europe was also the dawn of the era of geographical discovery.
The time had come when not only the truth of God was to be revealed again to men, but the way into all the world was to be prepared, for the final work of spreading the light of truth among all peoples.
The progress of geographical discovery fits closely in with the progress of the missionary idea. Down to the fifteenth century Europe knew little more of the world than was known in the early centuries. In fact, by the Moslem invasion Africa and Asia had been largely obscured to European vision. But at the very time when Reformation truth was preparing to spread its wings of light in Europe, some impelling force in providence moved the hearts of navigators to undertake the discovery of the world. The following is a brief schedule of the early voyages:
1492 — Columbus discovers the New World. 1493 — Columbus’s second voyage, discovering Jamaica. 1497 — Vasco de Gama rounds the southern cape of Africa. 1497-98 — The Cabots, of England, find the coast of North America. 1499 — Vespucci discovers South America. 1502 — Columbus on his fourth voyage reaches Honduras. 1519 — Cortez conquers Mexico. 1519 — Magellan sails, to pass through the Straits of Magellan and into the South Pacific, being slain in 1521 in the Philippine Islands. 1577-79 — Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe, touching the Pacific Coast of America, from San Francisco to the Columbia River.
Next followed the centuries of settlement in the New World, while all the time the forces were at work to continue the progress of reformation until these last days, when the final message of reform is to be carried to all the world.
The nineteenth century opened the age preeminently of modern missions. And if the era of the Reformation was an era of world-discovery, this century of modern missions has been the century of world-exploration.
The missionary movement was not concerned with mere coast lines. For three centuries the sails of the traders had swept the seas and touched at the trading ports. But under the great commission, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature,” the inland wildernesses were to be penetrated, and the message of life brought to tribes and tongues hitherto unknown.
Again it is surely no accident that just as the call of missions was meeting a response in the church, there came also into the hearts of men a desire to open up the countries of the world, and to lay bare the secrets of unknown lands. It was

Providence Overruling

the natural spirit of adventure. And to many an explorer and martyr to science and the extension of human knowledge might be applied the word spoken by the Lord to Cyrus: “I girded thee, tho thou hast not known Me: that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me.” Others have been conscious of the divine impulse upon them to press on and on into the regions beyond, blazing many a trail along which later the Gospel missionary passed.
There was Mungo Park, for instance, the Scottish surgeon in the service of the African Society, seeking the route to Timbuctoo for the benefit of trade. When at last he reached the upper Niger, flowing eastward, “broad as the Thames at Westminster,” he fell on his knees and “gave fervent thanks to God” who had granted him success in his perilous journeyings. And after two years he returned, in 1797, having collected, it is said, “more facts as to the geography, manners, and customs of the country than all preceding travelers.” And these were the facts that began to give West Africa a place in the thoughts of the church abroad.
While William Carey, apostle of India and pioneer of modern missions, received his inspiration from the Gospel of life and love alone, it was his study of the journals of Captain Cook’s voyages among the Pacific islands that helped to deepen the conviction that the time had come when not alone explorers, but missionaries of the cross of Christ, must be out in the wilds, telling the good news among the heathen peoples. Speaking of the later years of the eighteenth century, Jules Verne wrote:
“During the eighteenth century

Africa was Literally Besieged by Travelers

Explorers endeavored to penetrate into it from every side. More than one succeeded in reaching the interior, only to meet with repulse or death. This discovery of the secrets of this mysterious continent was reserved for our own age, when the unexpected fertility of its resources has astonished the civilized world.”
In our own time Livingstone was the prince of African missionaries, and his motive was wholly and solely the missionary motive; but he really spent a good share of his life in what would be regarded as purely geographical work. Notwithstanding the disapproval of the missionary society at home, he felt laid upon him the burden to seek to open up to the knowledge of the world the heart of the great Dark Continent. Where the geographical part ends, he said, the missionary problem begins. And the results abundantly justified his course.
The following paragraph from Mills’s International Geography shows how organized geographical work has been exactly timed by Providence to fit into the great plan of world-wide evangelization in these last days:
“The first [geographical society] was founded at Paris in 1821, the second at Berlin in 1828, and the third, which is now the largest and most influential, at London in 1830. There were in 1896 no less than 83 active geographical societies in Europe, 6 in Asia, 6 in North America, 4 in South America, 4 in Africa, and 4 in Australia; 107 altogether, with a total membership of 50,000 persons. There are also at least 153 different geographical journals or magazines published regularly in all parts of the world. It may safely be said that this argues a more wide-spread interest in geography than exists in any other science.”
As we study the up-to-date missionary map of a heathen land, we may little understand how many factors have entered into the making up of such a map. For instance, take the missionary atlas of China, just put out by the China Inland Mission, and drawn by Mr. Stanford, of London, the king’s geographer. In spite of the fact that the paragraph will look a very solid one, I want to give, as an interesting illustration of the point, the following account by the geographer of the recent surveys used in the preparation of this latest and best map of a region into which all the missionary societies are pushing their forces:
“For the Kukunor district, compilations at the Royal Geographical Society; for Southwest Mongolia, the Russian Frontier Survey. For regions in the northeast of Tibet, Carl Futterer’s route; for Southern Chili, the Topographical Section by the British War Office, also the China Field-Force Survey. For Inner Mongolia, Lieut.-Colonel Wingate’s Survey; and for Manchuria, the Topographical Section by the British War Office. For Shantung, Honan, Chekiang, and Szechwan, the Topographical Sections by the British War Office. For Eastern China, the German War Office map; and for Kiangsu, the map by the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster-General’s Department, Dehra Dun. For Anhwei, the Surveys of Lieut.-Colonel Wingate; and for the region of the Poyang Lake, charts by the Admiralty and by Consul W. J. Clennell. For the region of the Tungting Lake, the Admiralty Chart; for Yunnan, a map by Major Davies; for Western Kwangtung, maps by the Chambre de Commerce de Lyon; and for Hainan and Indo-China, the Carte de la Mission Pavie. For India and the adjacent countries, the maps compiled in the Burma Surveys Drawing Office.”

In These Last Days

the time has come when the message of the everlasting Gospel, as described by John in the fourteenth of Revelation, is to be carried to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. For such a time as this it was essential that every nation and people should be brought out of obscurity. This generation in which we live is the first generation in which it could be truly said that all the world is known. This, then, is the generation in which the last Gospel message long foretold is to be carried to the whole world. This is the explanation of the unparalleled missionary activity of our time.

Call to Serve

By John Francis Olmsted

By John Francis Olmsted
THE clarion call of warning sounds The Master's soon return To reap the harvest of the earth, And worthless dross to burn; So then while we the warning hear, Which from the Word is given, Let's heed the Master's call to live And share the gift of heaven.
How can we idly stand and gaze While signs are coming fast, Fulfilling what the Lord has said, That time will soon be past For us to change and better be, E'en tho we should desire? For when probation's door shall close We then no good aspire.
But while the Master lingers near, And leaves the door ajar, We can repent, and turn, and live, And not His purpose mar; For He desires that every soul Should heed the warning here, That we should leave all earthly sin, And hail His coming near.
Columbus, Ohio.

Our Mission Funds

  • (For August and September)*
We have not as good a showing during the last two months as we had the one month previous. That is, July brought us more than both August and September. The two principal funds both represent needy fields; and he who invests in them is doing work for God.
China Press Fund Tokyo Church
Previously Reported $517.72 $249.51
Mrs. Flora Campbell 1.00
Mrs. J. B. Carson 2.50 2.50
Bertha McFadgen 1.20
Mrs. C. Hawstad 5.00
Anna May Wareham .40
James Platt 15.00
Mrs. R. S. Zinn .50
Clifford Jennings 1.00
C. F. Jones .35
Mrs. Caroline Miller 2.00
D. J. and L. Curtis 1.50
Mrs. F. F. Hibbard 2.50
Melva Sevatson .75
J. S. Williams 1.00
Kate D. Connell 3.00
Robert Cowan 5.00
Lester Michael .30
Wm. Lewis 1.00
A. Irving 1.00
Mrs. C. Miller 1.00
Total $543.72 $272.01

India Mission

Tokyo Church
Previously Reported $109.45
Joy Gates 2.12
Wm. Lewis 1.00
Mrs. F. F. Hibbard 2.50
Total $115.07

The Lord’s Prayer and Ten Commandments

By W. H. WILD

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“Food and Cookery”

Its relation to health, lessons in practical work. Compiled by H. S. Anderson. College Press Print, Loma Linda, California.
The object of the little book is to set forth the values of various kinds of foods, their constituent elements, the best food values, how this food should be cooked, proper combinations, etc., etc. A large number of recipes are given, showing how to prepare the best foods in the best way. It is a neatly printed and helpful pamphlet to every housewife, in fact every one who eats. Can be obtained by addressing the publisher. Price 25 cents. Send postage stamps. Address College Press, Loma Linda, California.

Washing Is Easy

Take your clothes from cold water, put them in boiler to which has been added E-Z Washing Tablet and soap as directed; let boil twenty minutes. Rinse, blue, and washing is done WITHOUT RUBBING. All dirt disappears. Positively will not hurt the finest fabrics. Costs little. Nine washings 25c, post-paid. Alfred Mallett, 721 H St., Sacramento, Cal.

APPROXIMATE CHRONOLOGY, OR THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION

By John Norton Loughborough; John Oscar Corliss; E. J. Hibbard

Places in condensed form a few facts, from Scripture, history, and astronomy, that will enable the reader to understand the exact time of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, giving the year, the month, the day of the month, the time of the moon, the day of the week, and the day of the Jewish month. Price 25 cents. Address H. H. Perry, 67 19th St., San Diego, California.
Having read the “Time of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ,” we testify that to our minds it contains a clear and interesting statement of the facts in the case, fortified with good evidence for the positions taken.
J. N. Loughborough, J. O. Corliss, E. J. Hibbard.

Life and Health

A PRACTICAL health journal, published with a view of meeting hygienic needs in every home; teaching how to care for the health and how to preserve life; prescribing simple home treatments to assist nature in throwing off diseases rather than adding more poison by using drugs or unnatural stimulants as remedies: teaching how to avoid disease as far as possible, how to manage in the home when sickness does come, and how to combat the disease by simple remedies which nature provides.
Send for sample copy and special rates to agents. Price 10 cents per copy or $1.00 per year.
Address, LIFE & HEALTH, Takoma Park, D.C.

Study at Home

NOTHING is more desirable to the normal man than good health and long life. To be the happy possessor of these greatest of natural blessings, one must understand the structure of his body, the law of his being, and how to relate himself hygienically to all his environment.
These things are simply and clearly told in a set of forty lessons in Physiology and Hygiene, taught by correspondence. These lessons do not attempt to treat these subjects in a technical or exhaustive way, but cover systematically and thoroly the every-day essentials to life, health, and physical happiness, with sufficient simple experiments that every one can do, to demonstrate and impress principles. The work given is equivalent to a high school grade, and the credits received by the student may be applied on a residence course in other schools. Note these sample lesson topics: Mouth Digestion, Drinking Water, Drugs and Poisons, Air and Ventilation, Heat and Clothing, The Skin and Bathing, Influences Affecting the Mind, Repair of Injuries.
The lessons have been prepared by the editor of Life and Health, and for practical value scarcely have an equal. For information and terms, address Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

The German Magazine

Zeichen der Zeit for the fourth quarter 1910 is now ready. The thought of autumn and harvest-time is suggested by the beautiful three-color illustrations on the first and second pages of the cover, with promises of God's faithfulness in giving us the seasons, the grain, and all the blessings of life. The partial contents are as follows: The Harvest of the Earth, All the Scriptures, Daily Bible Study, The Sanctuary in Heaven, The 2,300 Days of Dan. 8:14, The Day of the Lord, The Millennium, The Spread of the Gospel and the End, The Modern Peace Movement, Is Universal Peace at Hand? All these articles with the exception of one are illustrated. Price, 10 cents a copy; 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents a copy; 50 or more copies, 4 cents a copy. Address your tract society, or International Publishing Association, College View, Neb.

International Prison Congress Addresses Crime

The annual cost of crime to the United States Government is a billion dollars a year. Noted European and American criminologists assembled as the eighth international prison congress at Washington, October 2 to 8. In discussing the question of minimizing criminal offenses, the following are some of the questions which came up: Is the death penalty longer advisable for capital crimes? Is a crime more serious when a group commits it than when one person commits it? What are the essential principles of a modern reformatory system? What are the effects of probation? How shall we deal best with the tramp and the vagrant? What can be done to assist prisoners' families? How can we deal best with inebriety? Should children be treated as criminals when they violate the law? What can be done about idle and vagrant children in large cities? etc. Chairman O. F. Lewis asked: “What can be done to make fewer criminals? That is the question, and the purpose of this international convention is to bring the best thought and experience of the world to bear on the great issue.”

Women and Cigarette Smoking

Ella Wheeler Wilcox tells us that at all fashionable dinners and smart functions in the dining-rooms and lobbies of almost all European hotels, especially in England, one sees the woman and her cigaret. In every modern play she is introduced. It is said that some American husbands encouraged it, but now are alarmed at the increasing power of the habit over their wives; and she truly says that no one who has a real understanding of womanly charm, of pure daintiness and fine ideals of life, can advocate cigaret-smoking for the sex. As expressed by one young Englishman of the better class: “I have never been able to see it [women smoking] without a feeling of repulsion. I never yet saw a woman smoke a cigaret who did not lose something of her charm and her womanliness in my eyes.” She further remarks: “It is not an unusual happening in these days to meet a delicate, refined looking, charmingly gowned woman who reminds you of an unfolding flower as she approaches you, only to have her exhale the odor of stale tobacco.” It is a curse mentally, physically, and morally.

The Great Burden Bearer

There are many doubting, troubled hearts among our readers. Let us say to them all: There is one great Burden Bearer. Let Him bear your troubles. Bring them all to Him. He is never “too busy” to grant you an audience. He is never so worried or care full that He will not consider your case. He is not so full of work that He can not help you. He will hear. He will consider. And the help He will give will be rendered according to His wisdom and your need. Only believe.

Rat Plague Abated in San Francisco

The rat plague in San Francisco seems to be abated as a result of an extensive campaign for the destruction of these disease-spreading pests. During one month 8,561 rats were caught, and the amount of bait used was 321 pounds of bacon, 104 pounds of cheese, and 620 loaves of bread.

Presidential Review of State Constitutions

The law authorizing Arizona and New Mexico to become states gives the President a veto on the constitutions they adopt. He will bring all his legal judgment and experience to bear in insuring for the new states forms of government they will not be ashamed of later.

Christianity's Spread in the Far East

The spread of Christianity in the Far East is shown by the annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which says that over 1,000,000 copies of the Bible have gone to China, while thousands of evangelical books have been circulated.

The Spread of Mohammedanism

A clipping is sent us concerning the remarkable spread of Mohammedanism, but on reading the clipping it has to do wholly with only a few tribes down near Lake Nyassa in Africa.

Frank B. Kellogg and the Sugar Trust

Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, who has been prosecuting the Sugar Trust, will conduct the case through all the tribunals to the United States Supreme Court for its dissolution.

The International Eucharistic Congress.—

In our Outlook department will be found an extended report by one well qualified to report and review the proceedings. Of the main thing in that great gathering, a Catholic paper, the Western Watchman, says:
“The Eucharistic procession in Montreal was the greatest triumph our Eucharistic Lord has ever achieved. ‘He came to his own and his own received him.’”
“That Eucharistic procession in Montreal was the greatest event of the last four hundred years. It was the answer of the thinking twentieth century to the mad orgies of the decadent Protestant world.”
And the London Times correspondent said:
“With over 100,000 Roman Catholics in a procession of the Host through the streets of Montreal this afternoon the Eucharistic Congress came officially to an end. Altho the march began at Notre Dame Cathedral before 2 o’clock this afternoon, Cardinal Vannutelli, bearing the Holy Sacrament, did not reach the base of Mount Royal until shortly before 7 o’clock this evening. There, in a great open space, his eminence celebrated mass while 200,000 people lined the slopes of the hill. The procession was representative of every office of church and state, among those who took part in it being Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the premier of Quebec, Sir Lomer Gouin.”
These items will emphasize the article by Mr. Snow. They also show again the Roman Catholic view of Protestantism.

Another View

By Editor

BEGINNING with the first issue in November the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for the next six months will present the following, and much more:
1. Twenty-five Bible Readings on important Scripture topics. They will present God’s answer to many important queries rising in the human heart.
2. Eleven articles on the Lord’s Coming. What does the Bible say concerning the manner and time of Christ’s second advent?
3. Eight serial articles on the vitally important question of the Sabbath. In November a great World’s Christian Citizenship Conference will advise the governments of the world to establish a day of rest and worship by civil enactment. Do you not wish to know, and your neighbors to know, what the Author of the Sabbath has to say? What His teaching is, is vital to the question. If we ignore it now, we can not in the judgment.
4. The Bible teaching concerning Man in Life and Death will be developed. Is Spiritism true? Has the spirit or soul of the late Professor James communicated with friends, as averred?
5. A series of timely articles on the great principles of Religious Liberty as taught in the Scriptures of truth. Needed now as never before.
6. A series of studies on the greatest book of the Bible, the Revelation, will run throughout the six months, the purpose of which will be the development of the first line of the wonderful book, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” our Lord in all His work for man.
7. Twenty-five articles by Mrs. White on important Bible themes and practical godliness.
8. Our Editorial and Outlook departments will treat on vital godliness, Bible doctrine, and living, current topics, vital to the race. The meaning of the events of to-day will be disclosed in the white light of revelation.
9. Our Bible Band will still pursue their pleasant, profitable journeyings among the mountains and valleys, the plains and cities, of the Holy Land and its Sacred Writings.
10. Our Question Corner, our Home department, our Missions pages, will be filled with information, instruction, helpfulness, and profit. Our correspondents upon the ground will inform us as to the truth of national and international events in all parts of the world.
We say it without boasting or egotism that no other journal published in the world will give us so much Bible truth in the same time at the same price. Some of the great religious quarterlies and reviews ask nearly as much for one copy of a magazine as we do for the series.
Looking at it in another way, we would pay for the same amount of no better matter in book form from three to five dollars.
We furnish the series (six months) for 90 cents.
Five or more copies to one address, each, 62½ cents.
Five or more copies mailed from this office to different addresses, each, 65 cents.
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