p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 28. (7/12/1905)

Earlier text: THE GREAT SECOND-ADVENT MOVEMENT

ALL OVER THE HOUSE.

A good cement for mending glass is made by boiling isinglass in spirits of wine.

A half-hour's sleep after dinner is, to many women, worth two-hours' sleep in the morning.

By covering the bottom of a bureau or chiffonier with a sheet of tin or zinc, protection from mice is secured.

Hold a piece of ice to a burned finger until the smarting ceases, and no blister will form on the skin.

A feather brush is preferable to a cloth for dusting gilt picture frames, as the cloth wears and deadens the gilt.

Once a week every pipe and drain in the house should be flushed with copperas solution to remove all odors and sediment.

A man suggests that a little lard or vaseline be applied on a door or window to the part which rubs, and prevents opening.

An old tin teakettle with the bottom cut out makes an excellent cover to place over irons heating on gas or gasoline stoves.—The Pilgrim.

DEFINITIONS OF HOME.

A PRIZE was offered some time ago by the London “Tit-Bits” for the best answer to the question, “What is Home?” Here are a few of the answers which were received:

“A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in.”

“Home is the blossom of which heaven is the fruit.”

“The golden setting, in which the brightest jewel is ‘mother.’”

“The father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world.”

“The center of our affections, around which our heart's best wishes twine.”

“The jewel-casket containing the most precious of all jewels, domestic happiness.”

“A little hollow scooped out of the windy hill of the world, where we can be shielded from its cares and annoyances.”—Selected.

BATHROOM ETIQUETTE.

WIPE the soap dry, and put it in the dish. Leave the bathtub clean. Wipe the marble around the face basin. Don't leave the mirror splashed and speckled. Hang up the towels. Strange as it may seem, there are otherwise decent people who seldom bother to observe these rules after using the bathroom.

ARE YOU SHINING?

By Thoro Harris

BY THORO HARRIS.

[Copyright, 1905, in "Gospel Carols."]

ARE you shining for Jesus, your Saviour? Are you shining each step of the way, So that others now lost in the darkness May be led to the Saviour to-day?

Do you trust Him for heavenly guidance? Are you looking to Jesus in prayer, So that all who are groping in blindness May behold your light burning and fair?

Keep your lamp trimmed and burnished, dear brother, Hold a torch o'er the boisterous wave; Throw the life-line to poor, ship-wrecked sailors, Lend a hand your lost comrades to save.

REFRAIN.— Shine on, shine on for Jesus Through life's long, darksome night; Shine on, shine on for Jesus Till dawns the morning light; Shine on, shine on for Jesus In this dark land of wo; Shine on for Christ your Saviour Where He bids you go.

INSTRUCTOR IN LAW.

AMONG the remarkable achievements of women during the past year was the appointment of Mrs. Mary Belle King Sherman as instructor of Parliamentary Law in the John Marshall Law School of Chicago. The position heretofore had been held by men of national reputation, and Mrs. Sherman succeeded no less a personage than ex-Senator William E. Mason. Having served as parliamentarian of the Chicago Woman's Club (of one thousand members), the Illinois Federation of Woman's Clubs, and the Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Sherman had convincingly demonstrated her ability to acceptably fill the position. She is recognized throughout the country as an authority on Parliamentary Law, and her book on the subject, used in a number of schools, is commended for the clearness and conciseness of its arrangement and expression. Mrs. Sherman's delightful personality and gentle voice win her many friends from the hundreds of pupils in her classes. —The Pilgrim for June.

AT YOUR OWN DOOR.

SOPHIA had been praying for twelve years to become a foreign missionary. One day she had so prayed, and the heavenly Father seemed to say:

"Sophia, stop; where were you born?"

"In Germany, Father."

"Where are you now?"

"In America, Father."

"Well, are you not a foreign missionary already?"

Then the Father said: "Who lives on the floor above you?"

"A family of Swedes."

"And who above them?"

"Why, some Switzers."

"Who in the rear?"

"Italians."

"And a block away?"

"Some Chinese."

"And you have never said a word to these people about My Son? Do you think I will send you thousands of miles to the foreigner and heathen, when you never care enough about them at your own door to speak with them about their souls?"—Selected.

MACBETH, on a lamp-chimney, stays there.

By Macbeth

My Index tells what chimney fits your lamp. If you use that chimney, you get perhaps twice as much light, and save a dollar or two a year of chimney-money.

I send it free; am glad to.

MACBETH, Pittsburgh.

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Wanted a Religion.

Japan wants a new religion, a religion which meets the need. This is voiced in a new book, written by Japanese experts, one of the writers of which is thus quoted:

"Buddhism has lost its earnest strivings, busying itself with petty trifles among its small sects. The light of Confucius and Mencius has paled before the more taking, if more variegated, light of later philosophers. Christianity has wandered far from the teachings of its Divine Founder, and, as too often preached, is a farce and a caricature of the original."

But God is restoring His own religion, and calling back His people to the everlasting Gospel; and by such expressions as these from far Japan is He calling those knowing the message for this time to give its saving truths to those in need.

Another Catholic Priest on the Sunday

Another Catholic Priest on the Sunday.—From a letter to the Utica Daily Press, of June 9, in which "Father" Tierman, of Camden, N. Y., answers a Protestant minister who demands a Sunday law stopping baseball games, we take the following:

To the Rev. Morien Mon Hughes, I will say that there is not on the statute books of the United States a single law concerning Sabbath, or Saturday, observance as a day of rest and worship. The Jews or Seventh-day Adventists or Baptists have never got a law passed for the observance of Saturday, the Sabbath of the old law.

The Rev. Mon Hughes, with all the followers of the "Reformation" who profess to follow the Bible as "the sole rule of faith," can not show a single passage in which occurs "Thus saith the Lord" regarding Sunday, or the first day of the week, as a day of rest and worship. I have before me an appeal to the clergy of the United States, which is being sent broadcast over the country and signed by fourteen resident Seventh-day Adventist ministers of Washington, D. C., that the Sunday observance laws are all wrong and against the express letter and command of the Bible.

Do the ministers ever think of how they themselves desecrate the Lord's Day by keeping people from mass and setting up their rival churches to preach diversity, contradiction, and confusion on the Lord's Day? Can they blame the young fellow, who, through the prejudice wrought in him, never thinks of entering a Catholic church to bend his knees in adoration of his Saviour, and who is tired with all that is done in the name of the Holy Spirit from Luther, Calvin, down to Mrs. Eddy, Dowie, and the Holy Rollers; can they blame him if he seeks a game of ball on Sunday for pleasure or something tangible and consistent. Go back to the old church, which made Sunday, gentlemen, and learn of her what the rest was for on the Lord's Day, and you will find that the day can be sanctified not by the rest from servile labor alone, but by attendance at the sacrifice [the mass] of the new law.

And that is the logical thing for the Sunday-law man to do—go back to the Roman Catholic Church and the mass. Sunday sacredness has the same authority as the mass, and no other.

CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

Poetry.

Consolation, FRANCES E. BOLTON . . . . . 11

Our Furlough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

My Mission, MRS. CARRIE K. BUTCHER . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Are You Shining? THORO HARRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Editorial.—The Power of Forgiveness—Equality in Rights—Spain as Our Example—A Dangerous Responsibility—Anarchy and Its Only Cure . . . . . 3-5

Question Corner.—Nos. 1683-1687 . . . . . 5

Outlook.—Religion in the Public Schools, BRYN MAWR—The Corrupted Press—What We May Expect—Disestablishment in France—The Nations Are Preparing . . . . . 6, 7

General.

The Lap of Penury Versus the Lap of Luxury, GEO. W. RINE . . . . . 8, 9

Taught of God, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . 9

How to Enjoy Your Bible, W. S. SADLER . . . . . 10

The Greatest Mystery, H. A. ST. JOHN . . . . . 11

Two Sacred Reservations (Bible Reading) . . . . . 11

Missions.

"The Great Second-Advent Movement" . . . . . 12

God's Chosen Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Home.—Education in the Home, No. 9, MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE . . . . . 14

The Girl in the Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15

International Sunday-School Lesson.—The Gracious Invitation . . . . . 13

Publishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

France and the Papacy

By Editor

In our next issue we present an article in our Outlook department, by our own correspondent, on "France and the Papacy." This is a live world-question just now.

Politics and the Aglipayan Church

A writer in the Catholic Mirror contends that the revolt in the Philippines, the Aglipayan Church, is due to politics, not religion. But in this these Filipinos are only following their good Catholic leaders. For since when has politics failed to be an important element in the work of the Roman Church?

Poor Russia

Poor Russia!—What a harvest of the seed-sowing of centuries she is reaping! Army after army defeated and slaughtered, her people in revolt in many places, her navy broken and sunk, her remaining first-class battleship in the hands of a mutinous crew, flying the red flag,—surely she ought to humble herself before God and those whom she has wronged, and do the right with vigor. Only in this is her hope.

Remarkable Oddity

By Editor

"Remarkable Oddity."—Judge Robert B. Frazier, of Detroit, Mich., recently declined to take advantage of legal technicalities in a judicial recount of votes. The recount showed a small majority against the judge, but legal technicalities would have given him the office had he chosen to take advantage of them. But he chose to regard the intent of the voters, and a leading journal of that city calls this "his remarkable oddity." When a man is said to be odd, the inference is that he is unlike the generality of men; so, according to this journal, most men would be expected to take undue advantage of the people in order to secure public office. And we are not saying that the thought is a mistake, but it is certainly an ominous sign of the times when we are confronted with a condition of society when an honest judge is publicly marked by the press as a "remarkable oddity."

Our Recent California Conference.

By Editor

It was thought by many that it would be impossible to get together a good delegation at the California Conference held at Oakland, June 15 to 18, because held apart from a camp-meeting. It was a business meeting for the Lord pure and simple, what some have been urging for years, but which was truly held for the first time. But they came, an excellent delegation, came to do the Lord's business. It was a spiritual meeting, too, from the very beginning. In fact, the testimony of all was that it was the best conference meeting ever attended. The officers elected are given in Our Work and Workers column. G. A. Irwin, American vice-president of the General Conference, W. B. White, Pacific Union Conference president, besides the California ministers, were present. It was harmonious and uplifting from beginning to end. Thirty-six resolutions pertaining to future work were adopted. We have not time to print them here. A year-book will be prepared giving details.

San Jose Camp-Meeting

Following the conference meeting a local camp-meeting was held in San Jose, the first of five to be held in the Conference. Brethren Irwin, W. C. White; and E. R. Palmer, were present, also Sister White; of California laborers, W. T. Knox, J. O. Corliss, M. C. Wilcox, D. T. Fero, G. W. Rine, E. J. Hibbard, M. H. Brown, C. L. Taylor, B. L. Howe, and others, were present, besides various physicians and the leading educational men of the State. It was a good meeting from the beginning, and the outside attendance was quite good, both afternoons and evenings. Following the camp-meeting will be a teachers' institute.

Tithes and Offerings

The tithe is a test of common honesty concerning property that belongs to God, and of obedience in the use of what He entrusts to one's care. Offerings to the Lord's cause are a test of one's gratitude for what the Lord has done for him through the Gospel. The faithful payment of the tithe is simply returning to the Lord His own, in obedience to His commandment. The giving of offerings is the expression of appreciation of benefits received. Honesty administers a trust according to the direction of the one who reposes the trust. Gratitude and appreciation will respond according to fulness of spirit and opportunity. "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts." Mal. 3:10. "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts." Ps. 96:8.

The City Evil

By Editor

The President is credited with the saying "Back of the city is the state, and back of the state is the nation." If this be true, it is bad for the state and for the nation. If the state and the nation are the backing of the concentrated corruption that exists in all the larger cities, then the logic of the situation is that the cities are the exponents—the fruits—of the sowing of the state and of the nation; in other words, the outgrowth of our state and national policy. It would seem that a nation ought to produce better conditions than are seen in the great cities. If it were a "Christian nation," as is popularly claimed, there would be better fruit. And there has been better fruit in the past; there is some better fruit now. But the city evil is becoming so conspicuous, so powerful in the manipulation of state and national affairs, and its baleful influence in political and financial affairs is so permeating as to render necessary a strong reassertion of first principles in both state and nation.

The Moral and Ceremonial Laws

The distinction between the moral law of God and the code of ceremonials and civil regulations of the Mosaic dispensation was marked very distinctly. The one was written on tables of stone by the finger of God (Ex. 24: 12; 32: 15, 16; 34: 1; Deut. 10: 1-4). The other, altho dictated by the Lord, was written in a book by Moses (Deut. 31: 9, 24). The moral law is perpetual (Matt. 5: 17, 18; Luke 16: 17; Rom. 3: 31), being the only true indicator of sin (Rom. 7: 7; 1 John 3: 4), while typical ordinances contained in the civil, or ceremonial, law naturally came to an end when the Antitype came and fulfilled His earthly mission. See Eph. 2: 15; Col. 2: 13-17. This distinction is so plainly set forth in the Scriptures that only a desire to evade the force of obligation to the moral law of the Ten Commandments could possibly blind any student of the Word to the obvious point.

Death of John Hay

John Hay, Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, died at his summer home, Newbury, N. H., on the morning of July 1. He had been in poor health for some time, but was regarded as on the road to recovery when the announcement of his death was received. Secretary Hay was one of the most widely known and most favorably known diplomats of the world, and a most exemplary man. The feeling is universal in American Protestant circles that in the death of John Hay America has suffered an incalculable loss.