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YE DID IT UNTO ME
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YE DID IT UNTO ME
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A Healthful Thanksgiving Dinner
By Editor
Roast turkey, and plum pudding, and cranberry pie, and many other such indigestible articles of food, are not necessary on “Thanksgiving day” in order to be thankful. Very frequently the eating of “Thanksgiving” dinners makes people grumblers for several days or weeks after. A simple diet is to be preferred, and there is much more blessing in it. We present in another column a Thanksgiving dinner menu, with some accompanying recipes. It is not elaborate, but it is good. Of course it could be varied with many simple, healthful, home dishes. The good old-time pumpkin could take the place of the less abundant lemon, in the pie. We hope that many of our readers will test this menu and give the poor turkey a chance not to be eaten. Save the money he would cost for a feast for some poor family on food equally good and much less expensive.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW?
By Editor
Would you like to know what archæological discoveries have done in the last twenty-five years in confirming the truth of Scripture?—Read the article by Dr. A. H. Sayce, the leading scholar in the world in that line, in the quarter-centennial issue of this paper, dated Jan. 5, 1899.
Would you know of the progress made in the astronomical world for twenty-five years?—Read the article in the same issue by Prof. Charles Burckhalter, astronomer-in-chief in Chabot Observatory, and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society for merit, one of the leading experts in sidereal photography.
Would you know what the last quarter century has produced in striking inventions?
What twenty-five years has seen in the development of Church-and-State union in this land of the free?
What marked progress has been made in war preparations?
What great strides the money power has made?
What changes have taken place in European history?
What progress has been made in medical science?
What medical missions are doing?
What God is doing and longs to do in the world, and the open doors for His ambassadors?
These and many other things are told in the quarter-centennial issue of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES for Jan. 5, 1899.
The paper itself will be a sample of what science and art are doing in the printing business.
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Give Thanks to the Lord
“O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever.”
Worth the Price.
There will be many single contributions in the special quarter-centennial issue of this paper which alone will be worth the price of the paper.
Worth More Than the Paper Costs
By Editor
Worth More Than the Paper Costs.—Our quarter-centennial issue will contain a beautiful sacred song and music—both original—finely printed, and worthy to be sung in any church and by any choir in the land. This production is well adapted for revival service. The title is “Wondrous Love.”
Sharing Truth with the Spiritually Needy
Among the needy of earth are the spiritually needy, the millions without hope because without God in the world. We have received light and truth, not to hoard as the miser his money, but to give to them. If we can not go, but have means or money, we should send or help to send others. If we can do neither of these, we can pray.
Thankworthy with God
It is good to give thanks unto the Lord. It is better to be thanked by God. Says the apostle Peter: “For this is thankworthy [margin “thank”], if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable [thank, or thankworthy] with God.” Let us so give thanks that God may thank us.
The Chief Fiddler.
The New York Journal of October 19 describes an organization of a dancing-school by an “orthodox” clergyman of Jersey City, in which the clergyman acted as floor manager. There are many and devious dances, dances of death, not so called, however, at which the devil is chief fiddler, and into which he blindly leads the half-hearted disciple of Christ. Think of it—a world in sin, souls dying all around, and a church of Christ dancing; its pastor, floor manager! Behind it all is the devil, chief fiddler and manager-in-chief.
Galatians
By Editor
Galatians.—The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians is a wonderful part of Scripture; it is also a mine full of deposits of the precious metals, which the diligent and persistent miner will uncover. There are splendid lodes, large veins of gold, deep nugget-filled pockets, rich placer diggings, all through the book. We will begin next week a series of uncoverings of the precious wealth, by one of the most successful of miners, Dr. E. J. Waggoner. How good to know that however much men may get from the mine of the Word, there is just as much left for every other true seeker!
True Thanksgiving
It is a good thing to give thanks to any one whose benefits we receive. Praise glorifies God. It is good to offer substantial thanksgiving. God bestows upon us blessings that we may pass them on and do others good. You are blessed that you may be a blessing. You are thankful to God for wheat and corn, for vegetables and fruit. Your poor neighbor has none of these things. Are you grateful enough to bestow of your blessings upon your neighbor? This is true thanksgiving.
TRUE THANKSGIVING.
By Thomas Gibbons
When Jesus dwelt in mortal clay,
What were His works, from day to day,
But miracles of power and grace
That spread salvation through our race?
Teach us, O Lord, to keep in view
Thy pattern, and Thy steps pursue;
Let alms bestowed, let kindness done,
Be witnessed by each rolling sun.
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives,
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation’s blot, creation’s blank.
But he who marks, from day to day,
In generous acts his radiant way,
Treads the same path his Saviour trod,
The path to glory and to God.
—Thomas Gibbons.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
By Editor
The holiday season is just before us, and, ere we are aware, will be upon us. As usual, the season will be marked by the giving and receiving of gifts among relatives and friends. At such times there are always perplexities as to what the gift shall be. The thoughtful, loving father or mother or friend will wish to make a gift lasting, beneficial, and beautiful.
What could better meet these requisites and be more acceptable than a good book?
We say “good book,” for there are many bad books; and many, many persons are as truly diseased in imagination and mind and soul from the poison of their mental pabulum as are the thousands physically diseased from unwholesome foods, intoxicating drinks, and the use of narcotic poisons.
“But,” you ask, “what shall we select for our friends, for our children?”
We will help you all we can. We have made a careful selection of books and booklets—religious, descriptive, historical, biographical, poetical—books of beauty and worth. Descriptions of these will be found on the second and third pages of our cover. Look them over and make your selections. Cultivate a taste for good reading in your children by presenting them for their own library some of these valuable books.
The One Essential.
We were glad to read the following words in the leading editorial of the Union Signal in its issue of November 3:—
“There is very little of the W. C. T. U. except its spiritual life. If that goes out, it is a corpse, and nothing remains to be done but to send for the undertaker, and notify the relatives. Like Briareus, it has a hundred hands; but what are they good for if the soul is gone? It has done a deal to unify the women of the nation for their enfranchisement and uplifting; but that is not its specific work. It has shown what women can do in managing a large organization, holding great conventions, building pyramids of facts and figures to set forth feminine activity and achievement; but this is not what it came into being to do. What, then, is its raison d’être?—It is the suppression of that sum of all iniquities, the liquor traffic, and that by Christian means, pure and simple. It must keep itself up to that mark, if it would turn a straight furrow, or run a winning race.”
The one essential of all Christian work is the Spirit of Christ. This always stands for principle, truth, righteousness, integrity. But that Spirit will not tarry when politics are dominant, when compromise is in control. Let the W. C. T. U. abide in the spiritual life, stay fast by the Fountain, the Word, and forever cut loose from politics, and God will yet use it mightily.
This Country to Become Catholic.
—The Thrice-a-week World of October 28 has the following despatch, dated Washington, October 26: “The Rev. Father D. J. Stafford, rector of St. Patrick Church in this city, and one of the most prominent Catholics in America, whose name is known to almost every member of the Catholic Church in this country, and who recently declined an offer of $40,000 for forty lectures, made a remarkable statement yesterday before the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Catholic Young Men’s National Union, in session here. His statement was as follows: ‘There is something lacking in you young men. Your lack of ambition should give place to energy, loyalty, and interest in church work. I venture to say that if the young men of our church will work energetically, and with the same ambition as their sisters, this country will be ours inside of fifty years.’” But at the rate of the last quadrennial this country will be Catholic in less than ten years.
OUR QUARTO-CENTENNIAL NUMBER.
By Editor
ON the last page of the cover of this issue will be found a brief description of the special number of the SIGNS, to be issued Jan. 5, 1899.
In view of the wonderful developments of the last quarter of a century, it seems very fitting that the SIGNS should briefly review these important events, and give a summing up of the world's progress during that time.
This number will be of special interest to all classes of society, and no doubt many of our readers would like to avail themselves of the privilege of sending copies to their relatives and friends. For the convenience of our readers, and in order to save handling, single copies will be mailed direct from this office when five or more are ordered at one time, and accompanied by the cash, at the rate of 5 cents per copy.
