p. 160 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 10. (3/17/1914)

Earlier text: ALL OF CREATION GROANS AND TRAVAILS

Helps for Further Study

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Coming of Christ—New Earth

A chapter-by-chapter outline of the book of Daniel. It explains "the time of the end."

Connects conditions of to-day with a verse-by-verse study of Christ's prophecy.

Beautifully describes the home of the saved, and how it may be gained.

Sanctuary—Sabbath—Prophecy

Explains the whole sanctuary question, the 2300-day period, and the judgment.

Traces the Sabbath through the Patriarchal, the Levitical, and the Christian dispensation, and into the new earth.

Shows how prophecy has been present with the Church in every age. Explains Eph. 4:8-11.

Popular Doctrines—Health

Meets various forms of Spiritualism with the Scripture.

Places "Science and Health" by the side of the Bible.

Contains valuable suggestions on dress and health for women.

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Trust in God

By Clara Edna Rosencrans

By CLARA EDNA ROSENCRANS

I WILL trust Thee, dear Lord, with the weary load, With the pain and sorrow and care. I will trust Thee, dear Lord, and Thy Spirit within Will make my spirit fair.

I will try to be patient and sweet and kind, Through the trials small or great. I will try to be still, remembering They serve who stand and wait.

I will try to lift the heavy load From some other burdened soul. I will strive to lead some erring one From Satan's strong control.

Casting my burden all on Thee, Who art so calm and strong, I will trust Thee, dear Lord, to the journey's end, Be the journey short or long.

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Rulers and War Bogies

KING GUSTAF of Sweden is urging his people to build a stronger navy and to provide greater armaments. Thirty thousand country folk came to Stockholm recently to support the king in urging a greater navy. The Socialists immediately organized a demonstration against the king's plan. The king of Sweden is in the same frame of mind in which we find practically all the rest of the rulers of the world. They seem to be possessed with the mania that there is some foreboding disaster that will doom them to destruction unless they have immense armies and navies.

A few lines that were written by a venerable gentleman on a little island in the Mediterranean Sea nearly two thousand years ago, are very much to the point. He said: "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." Rev. 16: 13, 14. He had a view of the battle of that great day of God Almighty. He speaks of it in the sixteenth verse of this chapter as Armageddon, and he saw the unclean spirits going to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to stir them for that conflict. We are in the time to which all the prophecies have pointed as the last generation; and true to the prediction, we find the kings of earth stirred by some inhuman craze to prepare for war against they know not what.

The Gospel and Eugenics

ONE of the big churches of New York City is conducting an extensive educational campaign for its congregation in the subject of eugenics. But even so important a matter as eugenics can not take the place of the gospel. Men who understand the Bible and have an experience in its divine teaching, know that it contains a paramount remedy for every one of the social evils that distress society. Men may seek by all of their human methods to devise ways for minimizing sin and regulating evil, and to provide some kind of "natural" methods for improving the human race. But the gospel, which will create men anew in Christ Jesus, is the only real remedy. The trouble with men and women in this time is that they need to be born again, born from above, created anew in Christ Jesus; and the trouble with many of the ministers is that they do not know how to present this living message from the divine Word. If they did know how to present it, they would find their time so fully occupied in giving the message from above that they could not stop to devote themselves to any of these merely human expedients. What this world needs is the pure gospel preached with the demonstrations of the Spirit and with power; and eugenics, or any other kind of modern fads, can never take the place of it.

ONE of the greatest meetings of recent times in connection with the temperance cause was that of the Anti-Saloon League held in Columbus, Ohio, November 10-13, 1913. The most prominent temperance workers of the time were present, and many addresses were made that represent the very best things that can be said upon this vital issue. These addresses will soon appear in permanent book form. As the liquor question will be voted on in so many states this fall, and as it is an issue in every part of the nation, the matter contained in these addresses will be a very valuable aid to those who are called upon to speak or write upon the subject. The addresses, bound in paper, 25c; cloth, 50c. Address American Issue Publishing Co., Westerville, Ohio.

THE United Fruit Company has something like 65,000 employees in Central and South America and Cuba. This company has inaugurated sanitary and health measures very similar to those used in the Panama Canal Zone, and with results that are fully as striking. The death-rate from infectious and contagious diseases has been reduced to a minimum. The value of sanitation and preventive measures is very strongly emphasized by the experiences in these hitherto death-laden districts. It was supposed that it was practically impossible for a white man to live in those regions, until the doctors, with their sanitary measures, did their work. If correct sanitation will work such wonders in those unhealthy regions, the same attention to sanitary law in what are considered more healthy climates will produce like results in prolonging life and rendering people immune from disease.

THE old-time theory has been that an open winter is prolific of ill health; but up to the last of January the weather in Chicago and vicinity had been unusually mild, yet the Bulletin of the Chicago Department of Health discloses the fact that cases of pneumonia, influenza, and other diseases of that sort, have been very much less than usual. The Bulletin thinks this is due to the fact that the mild weather has encouraged more out-of-door life and better ventilation. Pure air is a great preventive of disease, as well as one of the most vitalizing healing agencies.

IT is given out that Thomas A. Edison and his wife have each lived for the past two years on less than ten ounces of food a day, and it is stated that Mrs. Edison has actually grown stout on this limited diet. Edison celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday on February 11. There is not much question but that most of us eat a great deal more food than our systems can properly care for, and we thereby impair our highest efficiency for work as well as ruin our health.

DR. GAY, of the University of California, has been conducting some very successful experiments with anti-typhoid serum. He has produced a "sensitized vaccine" which does away with the headache and nausea that sometimes resulted from the earlier method. The university will be glad to communicate the doctor's method, and supply the serum, to those who are interested, not only in California, but elsewhere.

VISALIA, California, at its recent election, reaffirmed its prohibitory ordinance, this time by quite a large majority. This is the fifth time that this matter has come up, in one way and another, for consideration in that city within the past three years. We trust that this action of Visalia is a prophecy of what the whole state will do when the question of prohibition is voted on at the election this fall.

LEADING rabbis and other scholars of the Jewish nation are just completing an English translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. This translation, they say, is to be "free from sectarianism and Jewish bias," and in making it, the leaders say, "We shall now have a Jewish Bible printed in a language which our children can read."

THE state health commissioner of Pennsylvania makes the statement that half the ill temper of the world is the result of poor ventilation. There is doubtless much truth to what the doctor says, and we might add that a great deal of the sickness in the world is due to the same cause — a lack of pure air.

IT is said that an aeroplane is being constructed in the neighborhood of New York City, and equipped with an 800-horse-power engine, in which one of the promoters expects to fly across the Atlantic Ocean next July in fourteen hours.

Pacific Union Conference — Biennial Session

By E. E. Andross

THE Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, embracing the territory of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, and including six organized conferences and one mission field, will meet in biennial session at Oakland, Tuesday, March 10, and continue till March 22. The conference will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, 537 Twenty-fifth Street, near Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, California. Delegates will be in attendance from all parts of the field, representing a constituency of about ten thousand.

Pastor I. H. Evans, president of the North American Division Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and vice-president of the General Conference; Pastor W. A. Spicer, secretary of the General Conference; Pastor W. T. Knox, treasurer of the General Conference and of the North American Division Conference; and Pastor G. B. Thompson, secretary of the North American Division Conference, will be in attendance at the conference from the beginning. Others prominent in the denomination in this country may be in attendance. Pastor J. N. Loughborough, one of the pioneers of the denomination, being one of the first to be ordained to the ministry, and having served in that capacity over sixty years, will be present if his health will permit.

A ministerial institute will be held in connection with the conference, beginning Sabbath, March 14, and continuing to the close of the conference. A large number of ministers and other missionary workers besides the regular delegates will be in attendance.

Matters of considerable importance to the work in this field in general, and especially to the educational work, will receive attention. Officers for the ensuing biennial period will be elected.

Following this conference, the annual meeting of the St. Helena Sanitarium will be held, March 23, at the sanitarium; and March 25 to 29 the College of Medical Evangelists, of Loma Linda, California, will hold its annual meeting at Loma Linda, near Redlands. In connection with this latter meeting, the spring council of the General Conference Committee and the North American Division Conference Committee will be held. The presidents of the various union conferences of North America are expected to attend.

On account of having been under a continual heavy pressure for so long a time, it seems necessary for Pastor A. G. Daniells, president of the General Conference, to take a period of rest; hence he will not be present at any of the above mentioned meetings. We request all friends of this world-wide movement which is to prepare a people to meet the soon-coming Saviour, to pray for the descent of the Holy Spirit upon His servants as they plan for the extension of His kingdom.

E. E. Andross, President Pacific Union Conference.

ANTI-WAR RIOTS IN JAPAN

The Socialists in Sweden, who represent the burden-bearing laborers, are opposing the enormous wastes occasioned by war preparations; and passing over to Japan, we find rioting because of the attitude of the government in insisting upon war preparations. The Japanese naval budget was cut down $38,000,000; but even after the estimate has been thus reduced, it is still an increase of the heavy burden that is now borne by the sturdy Japanese people.

The government of Japan is resorting to all sorts of tax measures in order to raise money to build super-Dreadnoughts; and in connection with this demand for war appropriations, there are persistent rumors of "grafting" that involve not only Japanese citizens, but some of the European nationalities as well. Between the fear of the rulers and the opportunities for grafting, it would seem that this war craze will swamp the world; but if we know the meaning of these things, they need not perplex us. The Being who was able to foretell such complex conditions is also able to fulfil every one of His promises to protect those who place their trust in Him in these perilous times.

The Theater and Morals

DR. RICHARD BURTON, head of the department of English at the University of Minnesota, in an address recently before the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, said: "The playhouse is the people's church; but instead of uplifting them and making them better men and women, it demoralizes and degrades them. The theater as it now exists is a half-way house to hell. Unless we take care of the unoccupied hours of our men and women, we shall have the same problem as did France at the end of the eighteenth century."

There are a great many people who are very urgently commending the theater, because of various interests that they may have in it, often-times of a financial character; but the careful thinkers of the nation can not fail to see that the theater has become an agency of the most awful demoralization.