On that best home-book for women and girls, “MY MOTHER’S LIFE,”
a number of our sisters find that the time of Mrs. Rossiter’s offer, to December 1, expired too soon. Therefore Mrs. Rossiter has renewed her offer for another three months, to April 1, as follows:—
For the benefit of those who were not able to avail themselves of the former opportunity to secure a copy of “My Mother’s Life” the following offer is made: To any one sending three orders for the book at the retail price, $1.50, she will give either one copy of the book or one year’s subscription to the REVIEW AND HERALD. She can not do this and prepay the express or postage, but will send the books either by express or by mail as requested. If you wish them sent by mail, then forward twelve cents each for postage, or forty-eight cents for the four books: if by express, you pay carriage on receiving the books.
Though this offer will be good for three months, the sooner you accept it, the better it will be; for by not acting promptly some let the time go entirely by before, and were sorry when it was too late. Besides this, the sooner you act, the more fully you will be repaid; for the book is a delight to all who read it, and makes friends everywhere. The offer to give forty per cent discount to agents is a standing offer. Many of the sisters have done well at this, taking from ten to one hundred orders.
The School of Life
THERE has been started in Chicago what is called the “School of Life.” Its object, as stated by its originator, is as follows:—
The human mind was never so split up into factions as it is now. The School of Life will aim to show people the real truth. There is some spark of truth in every belief, or they wouldn’t be here. We will try to find that truth, whether it be in, Christian science, Spiritualism, or what not, and show it to all earnest seekers.
And that is exactly what Ammonius Saccas aimed at in Egypt, sixteen hundred years ago. The result of this thing then in its degree was the Beast. The result of it now in its degree will be the Image of the Beast.
The Future of Denominational Colleges
IN an address at a Baptist convention, Dr. Harper, president of the Chicago University, “said the denominational college was losing ground. The time would come when a denominational educational institution would be a thing of the past; and its place would be taken by the non-sectarian State and other universities.” If such a time as that ever does come, then the denominations will have abandoned all definite Christianity, and the State will have taken up the teaching of the indefinite “general Christianity” that will have been substituted for the true.
Knowing the Holy Ghost by Faith and Experience
The following questions were addressed to the author of that excellent book on the subject of the Holy Spirit, “Power for Witnessing:”—
“When one has received the Holy Ghost, does he know it by experience, or does he know it by faith only?”
“When one has received the Holy Ghost, is it possible for him to know the definite time when it was received, so that he can point back and say, ‘*Then and there, by a mighty manifestation of power, I received the Holy Ghost’?”
These questions and many more are fully answered in the book. The first of these two questions suggests the destructive error that a person can know a thing by faith and yet not know it by experience. This good book—“Power for Witnessing,”—will teach the questioner better than that: it will teach him the blessed Christian truth that the person who really has faith, has experience; that faith gives experience—experience is in the faith. Be sure to get the book. Price 75 cents. Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.; or Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.
Russian Criticism of the China Terms
On the finally agreed terms of the Powers to China, the leading Russian paper says: “Rulers sometimes betray their own country, but treason toward foreign Powers is a new conception. The statement in the ultimatum that the troops will not be withdrawn before the conditions are accepted can not mean Russia, whose troops have already vacated Chihli, whereas Manchurian affairs do not concern the Powers. The note will not bring peace. The Powers possibly repent not having imitated Russia’s example.”
Missionaries and the French-Chinese Treaty
A Catholic priest, who was employed as an interpreter, fraudulently introduced into the treaty between France and China a clause permitting French missionaries to buy land in China, and the Chinese government did not discover his forgery until too late. We are very sorry that Protestant missionaries availed themselves of this Catholic duplicity to buy land, claiming the right under the most favored nation clause in the treaties.—Western Recorder.
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