p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 45. (11/15/1910)

Earlier text: Shiloh: the Man of Sorrows

The Blessed Hope

By Editor

Every believer in Christ's second coming should see to it that this magazine is placed in the hands of his neighbors if for no other reason than to get this article before them.

Narcotics and the Gospel

Dr. Kress gives dollars' worth of good sound advice under this title, and you are given opportunity of passing it on to others for but 10 cents a copy.

"Enclosed please find $16.00 for which send me 400 of the October SIGNS MONTHLY. I have sold half of my last order of 400 already. They sell well. I will be sorry when my strength fails so I can't sell the SIGNS. I love the work and the people treat me nicely with but a few exceptions."

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Donations for October

By Editor

OUR donations have been light for October, a month which ought to show increase. The returns of the year are beginning to come in. Generally God has blessed our land and our readers. Do not their hearts long to share some of this blessing with the needy of other lands, not so much needy physically, however great their poverty, as spiritually! They need a knowledge of Christ, and eternal righteousness and life through Him. We report receipts for three funds—a printing-press for China, a church for Tokyo, and general for India. Any mistakes we will be glad to correct.

	China	Tokyo	India
Previously Reported	$543.72	$272.01	$115.07
Mrs. M. L. Edwards		10.00
F. M. Bishop	.80
Mrs. K. C. Wendt	10.00
Mrs. Sid Macomber	.10
Lydia Larson	1.00
K. V. Walley	2.00	2.00
Sarepta Himes	10.00
J. P.	15.00
Miss Selina Patterson	4.00	1.00
B. R.	5.00	5.00
A. B. Terrill	.25
Andrew J. Thornson	.50
A. Sleigh	5.00	5.00	5.00
Alberta Manley	.20
Hattie Gifford		1.75
Bertha McFadgen		2.00
	$597.57	$298.76	$120.07

Publications Wanted

By Editor

THE following persons desire late, clean copies of our denominational periodicals for use in missionary work:

Charles F. Campbell, 4 Ellis St., Lynn, Mass.

Mrs. C. L. Burlingame, Northport, Neb.

J. Gregory, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, Cal.

Bible Links and Daily Supply

By Editor

This pamphlet of 56 large pages is really a Scripture Calendar, with a Bible quotation and a verse by the author, Mrs. S. B. Casterline, accompanying each text.

Beginning with Genesis, this beautiful chain extends clear through to Revelation,—a "Link" for a day, each one numbered to correspond with the days of the month. A very suitable holiday gift. Sent post-paid for 50 cents. Address this office.

Life and Health

By Editor

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.

LIBERTY

By Editor

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BUREAU

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.

Address, LIBERTY, Takoma Park, D. C.

DATE OF EXPIRATION

By Editor

(Entered Sept. 15, 1904, as second-class matter at the Mountain View, Cal., post-office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.)

Editor ................................ Milton C. Wilcox Associate Editor ........................ L. A. Reed

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Election Campaign — The Temporal and Permanent.

By Editor

The whole country nearly is in the agony of an election campaign. Millions are in doubt. The Success magazine, with its editorial board of 25,000 life subscribers, predicts a Congress nearly equally divided between the Republican and Democratic parties. But many of these Republicans are Insurgents who will have been placed there by Democratic votes. Many progressive Democrats will doubtless be elected by Insurgent Republican votes. And there are other possible combinations. No one can tell of a certainty what will be the result. Old party ties have been shattered as never before. When this reaches our readers, the contests will be over, and many will be disappointed, and none will be wholly satisfied save for a time. There is a government, a country, a commonwealth, in which we all may be citizens, which is sure to triumph whatever the opposition, and whose triumph every loyal subject shall share. Says the apostle Paul: "For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto Himself." Phil. 3:20, 21. Surely, it is a proud thing to be the follower of such a leader, the holder of such a citizenship. The lists are still open, and the invitation is to all.

Anarchy Prevalent.

By Editor

The whole country was startled October 1 by the awful and hellish crime of the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building and the murder of more than a score of men. Bombs were also placed for the evident purpose of wrecking the residences of Gen. H. G. Otis and Mr. Zeehandelar, the secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, but through some defect failed to explode. A shoe merchant in San Francisco has been threatened by a gang of eight with destruction by dynamite if he fails to pay a certain sum of money in blackmail. Six sticks of dynamite were found cached near the residence of a Portland (Oregon) capitalist after his receipt of several threatening letters. Where will it end? Whose home is safe from the desperate degenerate who delights in the horrible death of his fellows? Where lies the responsibility?—Primarily, we reply, in rebellion against God and His law. Men who have the fear of God before them, who reverence His law, will not plot destruction of property or lives of their fellow men. Men who will reject the Decalogue, can not be expected to have regard for human law which falls athwart their purpose. They defy their own ideas, and worship at the shrine of anarchy. But more than all, the men who, professing to be servants of God, fail to teach the sacredness of His law and the sure judgment that awaits the transgressor, are responsible, and more responsible than the ignorant anarchist who appears in the last act of the tragedy. "The law is slacked," and violence is in the land.

Our Bible Band

By Editor

Our Bible Band.—We are glad of the many responses we are receiving to our questions from our Bible Band readers. We have a mixture of replies, while some prefer leaving it to the editor. Some of our readers express their appreciation of the Bible Band, and tell us how much good the Band has been to them during the last three years.

A Step Backward

By Editor

A Step Backward.—It is stated that Turkey has decided that no alien teachers will be permitted in religious schools in the future within the domain of Turkey, and that all teachers, regardless of race or creed, must be Turkish subjects. In case of trouble, missionary societies would not be able to call upon outside governments. It might be for the best; they would then call more upon God. We are sorry that Turkey takes such a position, however.

Trouble in Spain

By Editor

Trouble in Spain.—At the time of the closing of our forms it is rumored in London, the despatch coming by way of Paris, that Madrid is in the throes of a revolution. The same news came by way of Lisbon. Religiously, a revolution may mean an entirely different thing in Spain from what it means in Portugal. In the latter country it seems clearly to mean religious liberty. In Spain the present ministry under Canalejas is disposed to liberty, and the clerical forces are as likely to be at the bottom of a revolution as are the socialistic element. Out of all the revolutions that are permitted, God will bring good to His own cause and work. The wrath of man shall praise Him.

Our Next Issue

By Editor

Is our Thanksgiving number, with an entirely new cover page.

It will contain, besides, an excellent article by Mrs. White, entitled "Christian Homes."

Mr. Taylor, in his series on "The Master's Coming," will consider the question as to whether that coming has been retarded.

The article in the Revelation series will cover Rev. 1:9-20, "The Triumphant Son of God."

Our Outlook will present an article on Higher Criticism in Mission Fields.

Other articles not named are equally good.

Church and State in Portugal.

By Editor

It is of interest in connection with the article by Mr. Rentfro in our Outlook department to note that what he predicted would soon come has already been decreed by the provisional government; namely, the separation of church and state. It was announced October 28, and another decree declares the freedom of the press. The government declined to attend a memorial mass, basing their declination on the ground that the government desires to remain neutral in religious matters. The press of the country, we are told, favors a president and cabinet like the United States.

Moral Character and Sunday Law.

By Editor

A pamphlet comes to our table entitled, "Lawyers, Morals, and Masons," said to be "moral guides adopted by The Chicago Bar Association on June 29, 1910." These "moral guides" are, generally speaking, most excellent, and if followed would greatly exalt the legal profession. The prohibitions they contain, however, indicate clearly the necessity of this action. The last part of the little pamphlet deals with moral character, especially involving the Sunday law, in which it is contended that a person "has not behaved as a man of good moral character and one well disposed to the good order of this country if he has habitually, knowingly, and wilfully violated the Sunday closing law." Now in the first place it is well to remember that neither courts nor legislatures can make standards of morality. That lies outside of their domain. They may legislate on civil things, prohibit incivility, enforce civility, or what is right between man and man, and man and the state; but man's duty to God, man's duty regarding moral questions, lies between himself and God. So Daniel, prime minister of Babylon and of Persia, regarded it. So also did the apostles. In every case where the test came they acted contrary to civil law. Morality demanded it. It may demand disregard of a Sunday law.

Higher Climbing by the Bird-Men

Higher Climbing by the Bird-Men.—Dec. 18, 1908, Wilbur Wright, at Avours, France, 360 feet; Sept. 17, 1909, Orville Wright, at Berlin, 565 feet; Oct. 4, 1909, Orville Wright, at Berlin, 1,600 feet; Jan. 12, 1910, Louis Paulhan, at Los Angeles, 5,000 feet; July 9, 1910, Walter Brookins, at Atlantic City, 6,175 feet; Oct. 24, 1910, J. A. Drexel, at Belmont Park, 7,105 feet; the last and greatest is Ralph Johnstone, at Belmont Park, Oct. 31, 1910, 9,714 feet. There have been a number of intermediate heights, but the above show the marvelously rapid progress in aviation.

Labor Troubles

By Editor

Labor Troubles.—Strikes are on in both New York and Chicago at this writing. In New York it is the express companies' employees, and there are ominous threats that it may affect all transportation traffic. Conditions there have been attended with much violence. In Chicago it is the garment workers, largely women. The police made many arrests of supposed garment working women, but later found that some of those arrested were wealthy society women who were in sympathy with the strikers. Most of the women of prominence were garbed as working girls.

Federated Evangelistic Committee

By Editor

A National Federated Evangelistic Committee.—Steps were recently taken at Winona, Indiana, to form such a committee, the aim of which is to secure the hearty cooperation of all denominations in evangelizing America. It is hailed with delight in some quarters. But will it devote itself to purely Gospel work? Will it, in order to secure union, compromise truth? Will it make the unexpurgated Old Book the basis of their work? These are vital questions.

Christian Citizenship Conference

By Editor

World's Christian Citizenship Conference.

It will not be long now before this great gathering will convene in Philadelphia. We expect to apprise our readers of its doings and what it means.

Our Subscription List

By Editor

Our Subscription List.—There were added to our list last week 2,168 subscriptions. We expect more next week, and more still the week to come. Let the good work go on.