ONE large city after another is taking up the question of dealing with vice. Kansas City is one among the latest, and all that have taken up this work are telling us “horrible stories of juvenile excesses.” These excesses are regarded as more deplorable among the wealthy and the so-called higher classes than among the underpaid lower classes that were recently so much discussed in their relations to vice.
Organizations by the dozen are formed to fight these conditions of immorality. Almost every mail brings us matter from some of these organizations that are being formed, requesting that we publish it and help the good cause along. Evidently there are a great many people who regard the situation as becoming very desperate. Concerning this class of “reform” work the San Francisco Argonaut recently expressed its convictions in some paragraphs that are well worthy of consideration and study. They are in part:
“There will be no disposition anywhere to treat a terrible evil with levity or even with indifference. And it is a terrible evil. San Francisco has had her own experiences, and it is quite easy to believe that other cities are similarly situated. But unfortunately there is a disposition to resort to soap remedies and to treat the results rather than the causes. Nothing is so fatally easy as to pass a law. There is no more popular narcotic for an uneasy public conscience. But narcotics are not cures, and Kansas City will be likely to find that police control is the worst possible substitute for parental influences, and that even a curfew law can not take the place of those elementary duties that can be performed in the home, and nowhere but the home.
“But the neglect of parental duties is by no means the only cause for the apparent extinction of the moral barriers that were once so effective. The barriers of morality and convention are by no means so distinct as we like to suppose. Usually they supplement each other. During the last few years, we have seen the almost complete destruction of those reticences upon sex matters that doubtless had their own attendant evils, but that did actually prevent far more evils than they caused. What we call plain speaking became a vogue and a fashion. Literature and the drama combined in what was said to be a moral crusade, but that was actually a financial crusade. And now the churches have followed suit. Nothing is too private for public discussion, no audience too young for admission and participation, no vital fact too explosive for reckless handling. Upon every side we see gross familiarity at its deadly work. Here in San Francisco we are about to have what its promoters call a Purity Sunday. Countless sermons will be preached to audiences of young men and young women, and with their own sex relationships as a topic. Does any one with a sane knowledge of human nature suppose that even the most exquisite delicacy can neutralize the inevitable poison of those sermons? Is it not well known to even the tyro in such matters that here at least the most fatal and irresistible of all forces is that of suggestion, and that reason and prudence struggle in vain against it? The cure for this sort of evil is reticence and not publicity, mystery and not familiarity, the home and not the pulpit, the mother and not the school-teacher. To err in such a matter as this is to poison the rising generation.
“Therefore it is time that we called a halt to the sex fanatics. They have been at their work for some years past, and now the air is becoming unbreathable. Every field of publicity has been invaded. They have almost persuaded us that sex is the one thing worth thinking about and worth talking about. The results are sufficiently evil upon matured minds that have learned to govern themselves. Upon immature minds, to whom self-government has hardly occurred, it has been little short of disastrous. Every sacred mystery of life has been cheapened, coarsened, profaned.
S. A. Probst, Anti-Saloon League district president. He is making himself famous by his movement to close all the saloons in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sundays.
“Let us hope that we are nearly at the end of this particular epoch, lest some worse thing befall us. It is bad enough that for years past our young people should have been forced to live in an atmosphere of public discussion comparable only with that of an open sewer.”
The Argonaut recognizes that these vice conditions are “a terrible evil,” and it well remarks that “nothing is so fatally easy as to pass a law. There is no more popular narcotic for an uneasy public conscience.” There are a great many people who are possessed with the mania that if we can only get certain laws passed, then the evil is cured. But these persons fail to recognize what the Argonaut points out so clearly, that “during the last few years, we have seen the almost complete destruction of those reticences upon sex matters that doubtless had their own attendant evils, but that did actually prevent far more evils than they caused.”
But now we have launched out upon an era of discussion that is spreading the evil. Not that all of this discussion is harmful, but it has become popular to discuss these matters in the open, and that has made it possible for injudicious speakers and writers to say things in public that never ought to be said except in the guarded intimacies of father and son or mother and daughter.
But deep down at the bottom of this whole difficulty is the fact that the moral backbone has been deliberately dissected away from society. We have much of the conventionalities left that present a kind of veneer of respectability. “The sex novel,” “the sex drama,” and things of that character, have been winked at by the churches. There is no more degenerate influence at the present time than the novels that are being printed, many of which are acted out upon the stage. Indecencies are paraded and applauded. The church as a whole doesn’t raise the warning voice against these things, but passes them by with indifference. A generation has been educated to laugh at the rugged piety of our grandfathers. A generation has been educated to believe that the Bible may possibly be studied as literature, but that it has no other place of importance. This generation has gone science- and pleasure-mad and money-mad, and we are reaping the results; and the divine Book has foretold, through its prophets, that just such conditions as these would prevail at the close of time. There is nothing clearer than that the social and moral status of society in this time is such that it is going to pieces under its own rapid decay. And while all of this is transpiring, men are vehement, not to say insulting, in decrying those who insist upon recognizing the facts.
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More than Conquerors
I AM going to have a little chat this morning with my nervous, tired, discouraged sisters—and with them alone. So if none of these adjectives apply to you, my happy, prosperous friend, please do not interrupt us. Perhaps you and I may talk together at another time.
I see I have quite an audience already. Ah, there are so many of you—or “of us” perhaps I might better say! What can I do to cheer and to comfort, to brighten and to bless your lives?—Nothing, absolutely nothing!
Why?—Because, in the first place, I am unable to reach you, on account of distance; and even were I near you, I have such a host of cares and discouragements of my own, that I could offer you but little comfort or consolation.
“Well, then, what are you talking about?” So question a host of weary, dim-eyed little women. “Why do you allow us to build false hopes, and encourage us to believe that help is at hand?”
Wait. Suppose we were all in mid-ocean together, struggling to keep afloat. Would you ask or expect me to help you?—Hardly.
But what if I see a ship in the near distance, and better still, suppose I discover a strong rope in the hands of the captain, and that he is throwing it toward us with all his might. I grasp the rope myself, and test its great strength. I find it sufficient to bear the entire weight of all my sinking companions.
What in reason would you expect me to do? Suppose I began to cry out, “Just see how strong I am, how skilfully I swim, how beautifully I keep afloat!”
Would that be of any help to you?—You would only look upon me with sad, despairing, envious eyes.
But suppose I cry: “Quick, sisters! Look! Do you see the rope? The ship is at hand. The captain is strong. He is sending us help. Hurry! Let go of everything else, and grasp the rope!”
Now, then, we are afloat on the sea of life—all of us together. Some of us are actually sinking. To such I can only cry, “Take hold of the rope!” The rope is God’s blessed word,—His never-failing promises. Shall we turn to it? Shall we take hold of it—you and I?
Let’s find the promise which says, “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” “In all these things”—what things?—“Tribulation,” “distress,” “persecution,” “famine,” “nakedness,” “peril,” “sword.”
The eighth of Romans is one of the most glorious chapters in the Book. Its promises are dazzling. If there were none others in the entire catalogue, these are enough to put courage into the most faint-hearted among us.
Have any of us known tribulation? Have we felt the sharp pangs of distress? Have the cruel fingers of gaunt famine and nakedness clutched at our vitals? Well, then, “in all these things we are more than conquerors.” How?—“Through Him that loved us.” Blessed thought! If it depended upon our love for Him, we might well tremble; for how faint is that love! How often, amid the busy cares of life, we forget Him quite! How many times is He left entirely out of our reckoning! How few times is He the important factor in our busy plans!
But “through Him that loved us,” “we are more than conquerors”—not “shall be,” but “are”—actually are.
“Well,” some one protests, “this sounds fair enough and good enough. But I tell you, I felt like anything but a conqueror this morning when the bread soured, and the fire would not burn, and the children came home for dinner in a hurry, and grandpa had a bad attack of rheumatism. I forgot all about my good resolutions, and sat right down and cried.” Yes; but these things need not separate you from the love of Christ. Through it all, did you lose your faith in Him? If not, if you do not let go the rope, you are still conqueror, and more than conqueror.
“O,” cries another dear little woman, whose eyes are red and swollen with weeping. “O, I could endure those things—indeed, they seem very small to me! But if I only could have kept my babe, my sweet babe! How I long to press the little form close, close to my hungry heart as I used to do! And when I realize that she has gone, gone forever, my aching heart almost rebels against Providence.”
But, dear sister, the thirty-eighth verse of this same precious chapter assures us that even death is not able to separate us from the love of God. O, let this blessed thought comfort and cheer us: Even when we almost forget Him, the love of the Eternal for His children never changes nor weakens for a moment; and just as a mother cherishes the weakest of her children most tenderly, even so the loving Father regards His afflicted sons and daughters.
Conquerors?—Yes, more than conquerors.
Here is another promise—and do not forget that the promises of the Almighty are as sure as His eternal throne. They span the gulf between heaven and earth like mighty cables of love. You and I need not fear to rest our whole weight upon them. Here is the promise:
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
Are we distressed with poverty? Never mind, my sister; there is glory coming. It is on the way. The threadbare garments are going to be exchanged, one of these days, for a robe of dazzling splendor, and gems which outvie those of Golconda.
Are we suffering with disease? “He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.” “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.” Yes, thank God, there will not be one left when the immortal body shall be given us.
Are our best-beloved snatched from our side by the grim messenger? Even in this also we are more than conquerors. And even through tear-dimmed eyes we may look up into the face of the kind Father who assures us that “He doth not afflict willingly,” and cry victoriously:
“Neither life nor death shall be able to separate me from the love of God.” “Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors.”
Courage, courage, my sister! Soon the glory land will burst before our enraptured vision. Then—
“Brighter than the tintOf sunset’s gleam and glint,Shall shine the glorious tapestry of heaven.”
Control Your Thoughts
By Anon.
STOP that thought. It was in your mind all day yesterday, and it made you perfectly miserable. Over and over again you passed through all the unpleasant scenes, heard all the cruel words that were spoken, suffered again all the painful feelings, and succeeded in spoiling the day, unfitting yourself for your work and destroying all happiness out of your heart. Are you going to continue it all day to-day, and by so doing waste more of your life in the foolish if not insane habit of tormenting yourself because687some one or something made you unhappy in the past?
That thought has no right in your mind. You may think you can not stop it, but you can, as it is only a bad habit you have fallen into, and you must break it or it will break you. You must get the mastery of your own mind, and the control of your own thoughts; and while it will be the hardest battle you will ever have to fight, it will be the most glorious victory you will ever win.
To be a slave to unpleasant thoughts is the worst kind of bondage, and sometimes leads to insanity; but to be able to think on any subject you please, places your happiness in your own hands, and gives you a sense of power and independence which is not only delightful to realize, but which enables you to develop your character and shape your life according to your own choice. When you begin this work, . . . do some work that demands close attention, and whenever the hateful, tormenting thought presents itself, turn your back on it, and your attention to something else, till you can say to it, “Not at home.”— Anon.
Romans Eight
By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
TUNE, "Nellie Gray"
ARE you sick, my weary sister,
With the roughness of the way?
Are you trembling ’neath the cruel hand of fate?
Then take the blessed lamp of God,
And dry your tears, I pray,
While you read the precious words of Romans eight.
CHORUS
O, the blessed, blessed words, sweeter than the song of birds,
“Neither height nor depth shall separate my soul”!
He redeems me for His own. I shall sit upon His throne,
While the endless, bright, eternal years shall roll.
O, the height and depth and vastness
Of the promises of God!
They are brighter than the starry hosts above.
They will give us hope and courage
As we pass beneath the rod;
They will fill the soul with gratitude and love.
’Tis a wondrous panacea
For the many ills of life.
It will soothe when weary, faint, and desolate;
It will help you climb the mountain,
It will calm the winds of strife,
When you read the wondrous words of Romans eight.
Read it, heed it, brother, sister,
Make its promises your own.
Till you gain an entrance through the pearly gate,
Till you see our blest Redeemer,
And sit down upon His throne,
Read the sweet, inspiring words of Romans eight.
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“A Mad World”
Not many weeks ago Mr. Lloyd-George, in the House of Commons, made a strong speech in regard to the serious problem that had arisen through the expenditure of so much money for armaments. The London Daily Mail had a short editorial comment on his speech, in which were these significant sentences:
“Mr. Lloyd-George’s diatribe against armaments is one more reminder, if any were needed, that in the world of to-day force rules as brutally and nakedly as in the world of Charlemagne. The six leading powers of Europe are between them spending some $1,750,000,000 a year on naval and military preparations. And there is no prospect of this sum diminishing, but every prospect of its being increased.”
In speaking of the peace societies and the general conditions in the world, the Mail asks:
“What results have they produced? They influence all governments more or less, but they have not yet succeeded in converting one; and their effect on opinion at large is at present inappreciable.
“So we jog along, heading carelessly for something like bankruptcy, with discontent growing everywhere more pronounced and more bitter, and the masses more conscious of their disabilities and less acquiescent in their fate, and the pent-up unrest releasing itself from time to time in floods of popular disorder which are no sooner driven back than statesmanship takes up once more its Sisyphian task. A mad world, my masters!”
These are not the hysterical utterances of some one who would like to make out conditions as bad as possible, regardless of fact. The editor of the Mail would be glad to have us think that conditions are not so bad as they are; but when he sees the enormous war budgets that are piling higher and higher every year, the facts compel him, as they should compel every one, to say that the world is mad with the spirit of war. Some men may try to minimize it, some may try to make light of it; but there stand the stupendous facts, and they can not be put down.”
And right alongside these stupendous facts, let the clear prophetic utterance also stand out which tells us when the judgment-day is impending and the second coming of Christ is right at hand, that—
“The nations were wroth, and Thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear Thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.”
This is only one of the many prophecies that foretell these conditions. But observe that the prophecy says that “the nations were wroth.” And leading editors, who would gladly speak in a different vein, are forced by the conditions to say, almost in the very words of the prophet, “A mad world, my masters!”
And this statement by the editor of the Mail is not an isolated utterance of this character; for Sir Edward Grey, England’s great statesman, in addressing the House something over a year ago, on the subject of “the relations of Great Britain and Germany,” said:
“It is really as if, in the atmosphere of the world, there were some mischievous influence at work which troubles and excites every part of it. We are passing, this year, through a period of great excitement; it is so still. Some countries are in revolution, others are at war; and in several countries which are neither in revolution nor at war, there are people who seem to delight in discussing how near they have been, or are, or are likely to be, either to revolution or to war in the past, the present, or the future. Really it is as if the world were indulging in a fit of political alcoholism, and the best that can be done by those of us who are in positions of responsibility is to keep cool and sober.”
Sir Edward feels the pressure of the war spirit so strongly that it seems to him “as if, in the atmosphere of the world, there were some mischievous influence at work which troubles and excites every part of it.” Place by the side of the statesman’s utterance the words of the great prophet of Patmos, written nearly two thousand years ago, as recorded in the twelfth to the fourteenth verses of the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. The prophet foresaw “the spirits of devils, working signs, and going to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to stir them to the war of the great day of God the almighty.”
The evidence is overwhelming. The great day is approaching with intense rapidity. Joys that are indescribable fill the soul of any one who knows the Master, and who knows that the events of this time are all pointing with unmistakable clearness to the great day of His second advent.
Disaster Following Disaster
By Editor
WE have made mention of the tornado that visited Nome, Alaska, on October 6, destroying more than 500 buildings, and completely destroying the little town of Solomon.
Friday, October 10, occurred the burning of the Volturno, and something like 136 lives were lost.
A violent wind-storm, in the form of a small tornado, visited the southern part of Wisconsin on October 11. There was heavy property damage, and a number of deaths. The town of Tomah was practically wiped out.
On October 14 came the great explosion in a mine at Cardiff, Wales. Shortly after the explosion, the mine took fire. Heroic efforts were put forth to extinguish the flames, and at latest reports 49 bodies had been recovered, and 368 miners were still entombed.
On October 17 a tornado was seen at sea something like 300 miles east of Sandy Hook. No damage has yet been reported from this storm.
On October 17 the German military department were making some important experiments with the largest and newest of the Zeppelin air-ships. The huge structure was some 700 feet long, and it carried 28 men, practically all of whom were important personages in connection with the army, or in the operation of the dirigible air-ships. When about 900 feet high, the great gas-bag exploded, and every individual was killed.
On October 19 there was a wreck of a train loaded with soldiers, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, in Mississippi, in which 90 soldiers were injured, 17 of whom have died.
On October 22 there was an explosion in the Stag Canyon mine, near Dawson, New Mexico. The government rescue experts say that the explosion, in point of violence, was the greatest in the history of the country, and it ranks third in its appalling loss of life. 140 bodies have been recovered of the 263 that were entombed by the catastrophe.
On October 25 there was a wreck on the New Haven Railroad near Westerly, Rhode Island, in which 25 persons were injured.
October 27 a storm swept southern Wales. Two are reported to have been killed, and “hundreds injured.” Churches were razed and many houses demolished. In several villages, whole streets were practically destroyed, houses were unroofed, and the walls carried away.
In this list, we are only mentioning some of the greatest disasters that occurred within three weeks. What do they signify? Can they all be attributed to mere accident?
Those Who Live the Longest
THE Journal of the American Medical Association has made a very interesting summary of the statistics published by Dr. Jacques Bertillon, formerly chief of the Paris Department of Statistics. From this summary we learn that the most healthful vocations are those which are carried on in the open air, provided they permit of movement, while those restricting freedom of movement, even though carried on in the open air, are harmful. Trades exposing the workmen to alcohol and to lead-poisoning are the most dangerous.
Referring to suicides, the summary shows that clergymen, officers, railway, mail, and telegraph employees, ship-builders, sawyers, employees in gas works, and booksellers very rarely commit suicide. They head the list for being free from this increasing modern disease. The highest suicide rate is found among saloon-keepers, the servants of retail storekeepers, chimney-sweeps, butchers, fruiterers, and musicians. These facts are interesting to study.
To Secure Sunday Laws
By Editor
On other pages in this issue, mention is made of the efforts to secure and enforce Sunday closing in Cincinnati, to enact Sunday laws in each village and city in California, and the suggestions of the desire for such laws in the District of Columbia. The federated bodies of the churches are quite united in working to produce sentiment that will secure and enforce Sunday legislation, not only in every part of this nation, but throughout the world. Without any difficulty, we should be able to see that this is ecclesiastical legislation. The Sunday institution is purely a church regulation. To be sure, there are many who would like to have a Sunday holiday, but the church will never be satisfied with that. When this controversy over the Sunday institution comes to its climax, the demand will be for each individual to observe Sunday as a religious institution, and the effort will be made, regardless of faith and belief to the contrary, to compel every individual to bow before this institution of the church.
We have often presented the prophecies of the book of Revelation that make this question clear. A world-wide ecclesiastical despotism is being formed right before our eyes. In the place of seeing the menace that it presents, the majority of individuals are looking to it as one of the bright stars of hope. Ecclesiastical despotisms never have been and never will be a source of help to this world, and the one that is now forming will produce a climax that men do not realize, and that they are not looking for.
Missionaries Sail for Foreign Fields
The church at Mountain View was favored by a visit from Elder R. A. Beckner on October 25 and 26. Elder Beckner and wife, who attended our General Conference in May, and who have been enjoying a short furlough since, sailed on the Korea October 29 for their field in Burma. This makes thirty-six of our missionaries who have sailed to foreign fields from San Francisco during the last two months. A few of these were returning to their fields, but most of them were going for the first time. It is very encouraging to see the large number of recruits that are being added to our forces in foreign fields. It gives strong promise that the great gospel of the soon coming of Christ will quickly be heralded to all parts of the world.
President Wilson’s Christian Gentlemanliness
The despatches have told, of late, of President Wilson's accidentally hitting a messenger boy with his automobile. The president saw that the boy was placed in one of the best hospitals, and then called on him afterward to see that he was getting along all right. When the lad was dismissed in perfect condition, the president made good his promise to furnish him a new bicycle. Things of this character show the Christian gentlemanliness of our chief executive.
Seeking Relatives of F. B. Kellogg
If any of our readers know the whereabouts of the relatives of Mr. F. B. Kellogg, of 22 East Thirty-ninth Street, Bayonne, New Jersey, will they kindly communicate with Mrs. F. B. Kellogg at the above address? He formerly lived at Battle Creek, but is now in a hospital in a critical condition, and his wife wishes to get in touch with members of his family and his friends.
Arkansas Prohibition Law Sustained
A DECISION of the Supreme Court of Arkansas sustains the validity of their new prohibition law. After January 1, according to this law, it will require a petition containing the names of a majority of white adults of any community under local option before the county judge may grant a liquor license.
Prince William Frederick Accepts Albanian Throne
PRINCE WILLIAM FREDERICK, who is the head of the princely house of Wied, Germany, has accepted the nomination to the throne of the independent state of Albania. This was decided upon after an interview with King Charles of Rumania.
