p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35. (9/10/1912)

Earlier text: Lessons from a Wine-Taster

Pure Milk Saves Infants

The value of pure food for infants is shown by the fact that of 17,362 babies in New York City fed on the pure milk furnished through the philanthropy of Mr. Nathan Straus, only one died during the hot summer season just now closing. Mr. Straus lost one of his own children through impure milk a number of years ago, and it led him to the determination that the suffering through which he and his wife had to pass should result in helping to keep other fathers and mothers from having the same sorrow. Impure and improper food lays the foundation for a large percentage of the suffering and disease of the human family, adults as well as babies.

Self-Government Proposed for European Turkey

Count Leopold von Berchthold, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, has proposed that self-government be gradually granted to all European provinces of Turkey. This proposition is said to have been made largely because of the sentiment that is rapidly gaining ground to the effect that the Young Turks, who gave such promise a few years ago when they seized the government, are not making good. This proposition of the count's is said to be spurring Turkey to great diligence in hastening the unofficial negotiations for peace with Italy which are in progress in Switzerland.

Trouble in Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua

Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua are conspiring in these times to give our diplomats plenty of hard work to do. The fear is expressed in many of the European papers that the conditions are such in Nicaragua that the United States will have to intervene and establish a protectorate, and there are those in this country who seem to think that some kind of intervention will have to take place in Mexico before peace is established there.

Heat Prostrations in Columbus

One hundred are reported to have been prostrated by the heat in Columbus, Ohio, on August 31. Children's exercises and flag drills were planned for the closing day of the Columbus centennial, but the prostrations among both children and adults became so numerous that the program had to be given up. Other prostrations from the heat are reported in many other sections of the East and South.

Deadly Storm in Three States

A big storm swept parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio on September 2. Twenty-two are reported to have been killed, and there is much loss of property. Transportation in several localities was practically paralyzed.

Memory Text for the Week

John 7:17

"If any man willeth to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself."

Contained in This Issue

By Editor

Question Corner 3846 — Will-Worship; 3847 — The Sabbath in the Greek; 3848 — Has God a Body? 3849 — Life in the Day of the Lord; 3850 — Eternal Life, and When Received; 3851 — Sorrow after Christ Comes; 3852 — Political Parties; 3853 — It Repented God, Gen. 6:6 — — — — — 2

Our Bible Band — — — 2

Editorial Prophecy, Reliable and Definite — — — 3 Loyalty to God — — — 4 The Workings of Power — — — 4 The Lord's Day — — — 5 Notes — — — 16

General Do Not Do It — — — 5 Failure of the Rich in Bearing the Test — — — 6 A Spiritual Autobiography — IV — — — 7 Our Saviour and Lord — — — 8 Success and Failure — — — 9

Our Bible Reading Institution of the Sabbath — — — 9

The Outlook American Federation of Catholic Societies — 10 The "Vice Trust" — — — 11

Home and Fireside Lessons from a Wine-Taster — — — 12

Our Work and Workers — — — 13

Book Notices — — — 14

Poetry The Touch of Power — — — 6 Monopoly — — — 7 "Persecuted, but Not Forsaken" — — — 8 The Grandest City Park — — — 12

Camp Meeting Reports

By Editor

Occasional letters from the editor, M. C. Wilcox, who is attending a large number of camp meetings in the Central and Eastern States, continue to give reports of excellent results. The meetings are well attended, and many individuals are giving their hearts to the Lord.

President Jones Travels for Meetings

By Editor

Our president and general manager, Mr. C. H. Jones, spent the latter part of last week in attendance at a meeting of the board of the Pacific Union College at St. Helena, California. Following this meeting he started for Washington, D. C., to attend the fall council of the General Conference Committee, which is preceded by the meeting of the managers of our publishing houses. He will have, in addition to the meeting with the General Conference Committee, important business to attend to for this office, in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. On his return trip, he, with the senior editor, M. C. Wilcox, who also is planning to attend the conference committee meeting, will stop at Kansas City, Missouri, for the dedication of our new branch office building in that place.

In Our Next

By Editor

A very interesting feature of our next issue will be our quarterly London Letter from Mr. Bartlett, editor of the "Present Truth." Mr. Bartlett reviews the situation throughout Europe in a way that makes reading-matter of such interest and value that you can not afford to miss it.

Mrs. White has a very helpful article on the "Ten Virgins."

In his "Spiritual Autobiography," Mr. Derby shows the relation of the law and the gospel.

Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle writes on man's creation. Was he created mortal or immortal? Those who are not familiar with what the Bible teaches on this subject will find some interesting matter here.

Aircraft and the Future of Warfare

In drills held at Newport on September 1, Aviator Magee, from a height of 1,000 feet, dropped two bags into the center of the torpedo station at that place. The officials in charge of the test say that if the bags had contained gelatin explosives instead of flour, they would have destroyed torpedoes and other ammunition worth millions of dollars. The air-ship is proving to be an awful success in the struggles to devise new engines of destruction in the field of war.

Limiting the Holy One of Israel

In describing the shortcomings of the Israelites in the wilderness, the statement is made that "they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel." Ps. 78:41. How striking is the thought that by our sins and by our waywardness we "limit" the infinite God, who is seeking with all His divine power to work mightily in and through us! We can not be channels for this mighty power while harboring known sins. Sin obstructs in us the channels of power through which God desires to work. By sin we limit the Holy One of Israel.