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981 COPIES IN 122 HOURS

By Editor

On these figures hangs a story. It is the record of sales by a young lady up in North Dakota. If you don't know it then let us tell you these 981 copies represent a net profit of 6 cents a copy to this young lady, or a total profit of $58.86. Now then let us see how much this girl earned per hour. Keep in mind the fact she was doing clean, educational, independent work, requiring but little or no previous training. If she earned $58.86 in 122 hours her profit per hour was 48¼ cents. That's correct, isn't it?

Lots of agents make brilliant records for shorter periods of time. For example another young lady in the same state sold 100 copies in 2½ hours, thereby earning a net profit of $2.40 per hour. But the first mentioned record is given to show that agents can do well day in and day out.

Are you satisfied with your work? Are you enabled to do the good that these young ladies are doing? Are you earning as much? Is your work benefiting you physically, spiritually, and educationally?

If your answers to these questions are in the negative, why not write to us at once? We wish to start you with the October number of the

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Helping Orphan Children

By Editor

Brother D. T. Shireman, Hickory, North Carolina, writes thanking us for the mention of his work in building and making homes for orphan children. His debt on his last school, we take it,

is reduced to $420, with $75.00 promised yet to come in. He is doing a noble work in his old age. May God bless him.

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The Best Things Are Free

A lesson that is very apparent, and one by which we may all profit, is taught by an incident in the life of Oliver Cromwell. When he visited for the first time that grand old cathedral the York minster in England, he noted twelve silver statues placed high above the altar. He looked at them, then asked, "Who are those fellows up there?"

"Silver statues of the twelve apostles," he was told.

"Take them down, melt them into coin, and send them out to do good," said he, brusquely.

The best things—faith, peace, love, joy, contentment—can not be purchased. The best things are absolutely free. "Whosoever will" may have them.

The Living among the Dead

The Living God

ONE of our missionaries in China, Brother A. H. Bach, is located at Pakhoi in Kwangtung. He is there alone holding the station amid the ravages of the plague, which has become so extended and acute that all other missions have been abandoned for the time. Here is an extract from one of his letters:

"It is now eight A. M. I arose at six, and have already seen fourteen coffins pass my door. To hear the desperate howling of the two or three followers is something awful. Two houses from my home a young woman just died. Last night she was apparently well. Three houses in the other direction a man lies in the street in a delirious fever; he will soon die. My house is full of women and children, refugees. They dare not go to their own homes on account of plague. In my courtyard I have a band of boys. If we could start a school now, we would get plenty of pupils. These children have no father, no mother, their parents having died during the epidemic of the plague."

He then tells us that when it was rumored that the plague was in the town no one paid any attention to it, nor was there any attempt at isolation or disinfection, and thus it spread rapidly. Coffins wanting, bodies were at last wrapped in straw and carried out. Rats died by the thousands in the street. Superstitions of the people led by the town clerk with other representative men claimed that the carrying of two cloth lions through the street would drive the bad spirits away, and the people carried the two ugly lions through the streets. Every ten steps they knelt down and asked for protection; but the very next morning the town clerk was dead, and the disease had spread more than ever. Then they went to the idol temples to inquire, and the idol answered, through the priests, that the procession had been too small. He must have a bigger one. The mayor of the town and the gentry started out, collected over three thousand dollars, and an idol procession was arranged which went on for a whole day, and the next day not a man of the entire committee was left alive. Then the priest declared that the idol must have one thousand persons before it would stop. The dead were eagerly counted, yet when one thousand had died, twenty more were doomed to die. Then the people called the priests to curse the gods. A tower sixty feet high was built and some Taoist priests went on it to curse the gods for seven days, but the plague continued.

Brother Bach writes: "O, the sad sights that meet the eye. The fearful cries of the people in their last state! The dead, the half-dead, and an unspeakable horror lie over the whole place."

He tells of going to a place where the sick were gathered, to preach to them; but his chair-bearer contracted the disease and died and he had to stop going. While other missions have closed their stations, he believed that God sent him to Pakhoi and is able to keep him. Our God is a living God. Brother Bach believes that he will be protected.

He tells of our Bible woman Wang Pat Sham, a true Christian who kept on visiting, but contracted the disease. One morning during prayers she collapsed, and they found that the plague had her. He tells that while praying for her a joy fell over him so that he could not stop thanking God for the help that He had already given to that woman. He read some texts of Scripture to comfort her. She said that she felt God's power in her to resist, and when she was a little better she offered a most touching prayer, commending herself to God's keeping. Two hard days and nights followed, then she was saved, but was very weak. Now she is at work again. She is the only person in the whole town who had the disease and survived. Truly God answers prayer. "We had an eight days' prayer-meeting, very well attended, and we quoted the Ninety-first Psalm, I believe, more than a thousand times. Not one of our inquirers has died or been taken. This is a wonder before our eyes, and in the eyes of the heathen as well. We glory in our Lord. Our mouth is full of praise, because His goodness endureth forever."

Surely such things as these through which our workers pass ought to appeal to the hearts of those in the home land.

Transport camel used in traffic between Peking and the plains of Manchuria and Mongolia

A Sabbath Reverie

By Pearl Waggoner

By Pearl Waggoner

'Tis summer in the woods. The sun-crowned trees, Erect as kings in native dignity, Yet gently sway, the while their branches shake From side to side, as if, with kind intent, The sun's rich gift they would not selfish keep To bless themselves alone; and so with grace And generous impulse open wide a path Till myriads of sunbeams dance and play Upon the shaded herbs and ground beneath.

'Tis Sabbath in the woods, and here is rest, Apart from city sounds, from sordid care. And here, in this God's church not made with hands, I wait in reverential mood, and hold a tryst With Him who did the leafy temples form. I hear a mighty chorus rise and swell, In which the woodland voices all unite, Acknowledging their great Creator's praise, Until my heart, too, overflows with song, In tune with nature, and with nature's God.

The Pride That Keeps Us from God

Many people are proud,—proud of their smartness, proud of their money, proud of their clothes, proud of their beauty, proud of their friends, proud of what they have done, too proud to do much that ought to be done. It is this pride that keeps many away from God, for "the wicked through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."

Too Busy to Pray

Martin Luther upon one occasion declared that he had so much to do, was so weighed down with responsibility, that he could not go through the day without spending two or three hours in prayer. It is a most extravagant waste of time to get too busy to pray. How often we hear the excuse, No time to study the Bible, no time to seek the Lord. Yet how utterly ineffective every effort is without "effectual, fervent prayer."

Thoughts That May Help

By Mrs. L. Flora Plummer

Not long ago I received a letter from one of our lady missionaries in a heathen land. The failure of crops had made the natives desperate, and it was perilous for a white person to travel through some of the provinces. In the midst of many dangers this missionary writes: "It is very sweet to read, 'His kingdom ruleth over all.'" Some of us who lead easy lives do not know what it is to appropriate such a promise, and risk life upon it. Such tests may come. If we do not now learn to lean upon the promises of the Lord, in the hour of need we may not know how.

Religious Bodies Census Report

By Editor

The 1910 Census of Religious Bodies.—From one of our valued correspondents in Washington there have come to us advanced notes on the report of religious bodies of the United States Bureau of the Census, just issued. The last report will be found to be the most complete and comprehensive of its kind ever issued by the United States Government.

The report shows that in 1906 there were 1,889 Seventh-day Adventist churches in the United States, with a membership of 62,211. It also gives the dates of the organization of the most of these churches. Prior to 1849 there were only three; in 1906 there were 1,889, as above stated; 1,620 of these conduct services in English only; 187 in foreign languages alone or in addition to English. There were 981 church buildings owned by this denomination; 968 of these are reported as having a seating capacity aggregating 169,540 and a valuation of $1,454,087. 121 of these reported an indebtedness of $77,984, 5.36 per cent of valuation, showing that they were very nearly free from incumbrance.

Get Ready for School

By Editor

Text-Books and Helps for Use in Grades One to Nine

Scripture Study

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Bible and Nature

Bible Nature Series, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.20 Bible Nature Series, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.35 Bible Nature Series, No. 3, in preparation Bible Nature Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 McKibbin's Bible Lessons, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 McKibbin's Bible Lessons, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 McKibbin's Bible Lessons, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.20 McKibbin's Bible Lessons, No. 4, in preparation Nature Study Note Book, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Nature Study Note Book, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Nature Study Note Book, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Nature Study Note Book, complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

Reading and Language

Bell's Language, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Bell's Language, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Bell's Language, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 Bell's Language, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 Christ's Object Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 Elo the Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Essentials of English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 House We Live In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Our Little Folks' Bible Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 True Education Reader, Book 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 True Education Reader, Book 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 True Education Reader, Book 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 True Education Reader, Book 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 True Education Reader, Book 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 True Education Reader, Book 6, in preparation True Education Reader, Book 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Uncle Ben's Cobblestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00

Science

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Spelling

McGuffey's Speller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Geography

Bible Nature Series, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.20 Bible Nature Series, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.35 Bible Nature Series, No. 3, in preparation Morton's Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.50 CHURCH SCHOOL MANUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

School Speaker

Selections for Our Little Folks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

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Seventh-Day Adventists and Foreign Missions

THE United States census report shows that the Seventh-day Adventist denomination is operating 126 stations in 45 foreign countries; the denomination reporting the next highest number of countries is the Methodist Episcopal Church, operating in 28 countries with 172 stations. The highest number of stations operated in foreign countries by any denomination reported is the Protestant Episcopal Church, with 387 stations in 7 countries. The next in point of stations, after the Methodist Episcopal, is the Presbyterian Church, with 136 stations in 15 countries.

The per capita contributions for home and foreign missions by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States for 1906 were $6.88; an average higher than that of any other of the 92 denominations reporting contributions for conducting evangelistic, educational, or philanthropic work at home and abroad. In the language of the census report we read: “The highest averages for distinctively mission work both home and foreign are $6.88 for the Seventh-day Adventists; $5.30 for the United Presbyterian Church of North America; $2.88 for the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; $2.60 for the Congregationalists; $2.50 for the Northern Baptist Convention; and $2.22 for the evangelical bodies.” Quoted from Part 1, page 135.

The average per capita for all denominations reporting was $1.08; 64 cents for home, and 44 cents for foreign work per year per member. The total amount of contributions for home and foreign missions reported by denominations for 1906 was $21,506,898, of which $12,762,271 (59.34 per cent) was for home missions, and $8,744,627 (40.66 per cent) was for foreign missions.

There are 217 denominations in the United States; 111 conduct evangelistic, educational, or philanthropic work outside the United States, and 92 made a specific report as to contributions. The census report shows that the average amount contributed for foreign missions by all members of the religious bodies in the United States for 1906 was 44 cents. Total amount contributed to missions during 1909 by the 65,122 communicants of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination was $381,147.38, a per capita of $5.85, or an amount more than thirteen times greater than the average per capita of the members of all the other religious bodies in this country. And yet who will say for one moment that these gifts are more than they ought to be? Or who, because of this, will be satisfied to compare himself with others and think that his deed is well done? God asks all, and His message demands all the powers of our being. The responsibility of the saved soul does not come between the soul and his church, or his church and any other church, but is a direct relationship between that soul and his Master, and that responsibility should be discharged in the wisest way so as to reach as many souls as possible for whom the Master died.

Our Cooperation Corner

By Editor

There are many great public libraries in the United States which contain many useful books, and also plenty of books and periodicals teaching error and effecting the ruin of moral fiber. There is room in these libraries for antidotes, and one of the most effective is the "Signs of the Times," fresh every week with its messages of light and truth and salvation. We want help: (1) From those who would like to contribute to such a fund; and (2) For addresses of libraries which will keep the paper on file. Let us hear from you. Editor "Signs of the Times," Mountain View, California.

ELO THE EAGLE

By Floyd Bralliar

AND OTHER STORIES

BY FLOYD BRALLIAR

THIS new animal book for young folks is receiving an eager welcome by all nature lovers. ELO THE EAGLE is the first of a series of ten interesting stories of animals, wild and otherwise; being, with one exception, the life histories of boyhood friends of the author. Many strange and laughable anecdotes are related by Mr. Bralliar, all of which are strictly true and vouched for by reliable witnesses.

The book is lavishly illustrated by special drawings, with a full-page half-tone design printed in Luxotype at the beginning of each chapter. Two hundred pages, printed on egg-shell paper, beautifully bound in red cloth. Price, post-paid, $1.00.

Easily sold by young people. Agents wanted.

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Health and Aviation News

A note in "Good Health" for September states that in a prize offered in Germany to the winner of a forced march of thirty miles, fifty pounds of luggage being carried, the contest was won by Herr Emerich Rath, an abstainer from both flesh and alcohol. One hundred and sixty persons entered the contest, many of them soldiers, who had been trained in forced marches. Rath was a merchant, and not a pedestrian. This is the eighth international test he has won.

Rear Admiral R. D. Evans declares that "for naval purposes no type of flying machine has as yet shown its usefulness." He goes on to show that air-ship and aviator would be riddled with shot before they could get near enough to a battleship to do any damage. It may be useful for observation purposes.

News from the Other Side

By Editor

News from the Other Side.—Prof. William James of Harvard University died August 26. He was a noted Spiritualist, altho he probably would not have called himself by that name. However, he held all the essentials of modern Spiritualism, and believed in a life beyond the grave, and made preparations before his death to demonstrate it after he died. He left letters, for instance, containing profound secrets in his own life, known only to himself. These letters are not to be opened until one year after his death. The test will be made through Mrs. Leonora Piper, November next, in London. She will tell through the spirit of Professor James what is in those letters, and later the letters will be opened to confirm it. One friend, Rev. Dr. Wiggins of Brookline, Massachusetts, contends that he has already felt the personality of Professor James at different times, but has as yet been unable to communicate with him.

There will be no question in our mind but that something alleged to be the spirit of Professor James will communicate with the psychists. We shall not at all be surprised if the contents of the letters will be revealed before the letters are opened; but we are just as certain that the spirit which claims to be Professor James is a demon, or an angel of the bottomless pit, and that the letters will be divulged through the same channel, as we are that Professor James himself is dead. The Word of God declares that the dead know not anything, and the same Word also reveals that the evil spirits, or demons, come back in the guise of the spirits of the dead.

Battleships and Their Obsolescence

By Editor

Both of the battle-ship illustrations on page 11 are taken from that most excellent of all journals in its line, the Scientific American. In an analysis of the two ships, that journal shows that the American ships are all around superior with the exception of coal-carrying capacity, which would permit the Brazilian vessels to steam farther without recoaling. Both types are monsters to destroy. How long will it be before they will be made obsolete by newer types?

War News and Armageddon

By Editor

The little article by a contributor on page 11 has been held a little while, and it is almost behind. The war-mad race leaves behind all news records nearly, except the dailies. The race will sometime end in Armageddon. Read the prophetic forecast given 800 years before Christ in Joel 3:9-14.

Burbank’s New Plum Varieties

In connection with a recent letter to Prof. E. J. Wickson, Mr. Burbank sends sixty-six varieties of new plums, all seedlings "of the tough little bush plum Maritima, which is about the size of a large garden pea." Some of these weigh nearly one fourth of a pound. The original bush grows about three feet high; the new varieties, fifteen or twenty feet. They are as certain to produce fruit annually, he tells us, as they are leaves or buds. They are untroubled by insects, fungus, or anything else, and all with one exception ripen between August 15 and November 15; the exception being a plum which weighs about one fourth of a pound each, which ripens from June 15 to September. All of them bloom after other plums are through blooming, thus escaping all spring frosts and vicissitudes of climate. In a postscript Mr. Burbank says, "Those samples are a few which I happen to have on hand to-day; have sixteen hundred more varieties of the same."

Deadly Self-Salvation.

The Sunday School Times says: "A thoughtful missionary in India who has sought to take up the most sympathetic attitude toward the religious ideas of India has recently written of his entire despair of men when once the idea of salvation by merit has possessed them. It is an idea absolutely deadly. The peculiar doctrine which has passed into Europe under Luther's name, said J. A. Froude, is known as Justification by Faith. . . . As originally proclaimed by Luther it contained the deepest of moral truths. It expressed what was, and is, and must be, in one language or another, to the end of time, the conviction of every generous-minded man. It must be so because only love so great as to be utterly undeserved can save us, doing in us the work of purification, of humiliation, of new creation and ennoblement, of invigoration and development which is Christian salvation."

The only power which can save is that of the Gospel of God in Christ Jesus.

An Item of Extravagance

An Item of Extravagance.—According to a table compiled by automobile firms California stands the second state in the United States in the number of its machines. New York State has 60,000; California second with 35,000. In Minneapolis it is said that one automobile firm holds mortgages on 1,500 homes; and the mortgages placed on homes and other properties for the purchase of automobiles in that state is said to be $4,000,000; while Nebraska has $9,000,000 in mortgages based on automobile purchases. In Kansas the estimate is $4,000,000 in the last three years. Money scarceness in Iowa is charged to the same condition, which shows to what the era of extravagance is leading, and there is certainly coming a harvest-time.

The Theater Reforming the Church

By Editor

The Theater Reforming the Church.—And now Charles Frohman, the great theater manager, in common with prominent social workers, "feels that the church is not successfully coping with moral problems," and he wants New York's laws so changed that the theater can give dramatic productions on Sunday. Mr. Frohman may be right in his feeling, but he will not better the moral problem. What is wanted is the life, the power, the Spirit of God. The church needs more of it, much of it, sadly needs it; the theater does not have it at all. It is not emotion, feeling, sentiment that is needed; it is life.

A New Pigmy Race in New Guinea

A British expedition in New Guinea has discovered a new pigmy race. Four men were caught. One was 4 feet 4 inches, one 4 feet 1 inch high, and two were each 4 feet 6 inches high. They could not be induced to smoke, and in this were wiser than their captors.

Leaning Tower of Pisa

That the leaning tower of Pisa is 12 inches more out of the perpendicular than it was 18 years ago is the verdict of a commission appointed to examine it. It now leans 16½ feet.

Sunday-Law Men

OUR correspondent in Portland, Oregon, writes of an interview which he had with Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts in Portland of that state on August 28, as follows:

"The Rev. G. L. Tufts, who was formerly the Pacific Coast representative of the International Reform Bureau, has been discharged by Dr. Crafts because he failed to send ten per cent of all the money he received to Dr. Crafts at Washington, D. C. Mr. Tufts was formerly located in Portland, but Dr. Crafts said he was now in Berkeley."

He further reports that Dr. Crafts intends to divide the Pacific Coast district into two or three parts. California and Nevada will have a representative, Oregon and Washington another, and Idaho probably another. The man for the California and Nevada district is already engaged, and is said to be a prominent Methodist minister. He will begin his work about October 1. A committee of eighteen or twenty members will be organized at important points like San Francisco and Portland, with committees of three or four in each of the other towns of the state of importance. This has been done in California, and will be done in Portland, Oregon.

There may have been a reason for Mr. Tufts's withholding the ten per cent. It is a matter of question whether he received very munificent donations in his work here. His own expenses may have demanded all he received.

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Question Corner

Questions Nos. 3244-3249 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

General

The Mother a Missionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Man's Sin and Saviour.—XI. The Sanctuary Cleansed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Let Aged People Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

"Out of Babylon to Zion."—XXIV. The Closing Work—The True Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Editorial

Revelation through Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Voluntary Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Look Out for the Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Abounding Lawlessness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Tobacco-Using Habit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Our Bible Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Outlook

Affairs in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The British Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The Story

Shiloh: the Man of Sorrows.—Chapter XXIX. The Lifegiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Missions

Thoughts That May Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Living among the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Poetry

Our Friend in Affliction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Choose Ye This Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

A Sabbath Reverie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14