There is no better time than the present to sell them. They sell readily everywhere, and agents are making good wages. An inspiration to higher living in every home. Nearly 75 styles of mottoes in English, and two each in German, Danish and Swedish. Ten dozen beauties, $7.00. Sell for $25.00. Five dozen, $3.75. Sixteen samples, all different, $1.00. All prepaid. Safe delivery guaranteed. Particulars free.
Address, Home Art Co., Box 114, College View, Neb.
Here and Hereafter, or Man's Nature and Destiny. By Uriah Smith. This work is a thorough canvass of the great questions of a future existence, and the nature of man in the present life. Every text in the Bible which has any possible bearing upon these points is taken up and carefully explained. Cloth, 444 pp., $1.00. Address,
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They are selling everywhere. Three agents ordered 5,000 each. One agent has taken, in less than eight months, 6,783 mottoes. If you send us a good recommendation from the elder of your church we will mail you one dozen on thirty days' time.
Address, Hampton Art Company, Hampton, Iowa.
Just as we are closing up this issue of the paper, we are cheered by the smiling countenance of the senior editor beaming in upon us. His looks make it apparent that he is glad to get back home after his long trip thru the East. On page nine will be found the first instalment of his "Notes by the Way;" these and those that follow in succeeding numbers will give the salient points of interest connected with his journeyings.
"Loss of Confidence," Not Helpful Words.—A short time since, Mr. John D. Rockefeller was an optimist, talking continued prosperity. Now the course of law has reached him, and his company is assessed in court to the enormous extent of over twenty-nine million dollars; and yet not very large considering the offenses and the profits of the company. The extra profits during the last year in Standard Oil products, over and above fair profits, will meet the fine, which the company does not propose to pay unless compelled by the highest court so to do.
Is it revenge that changes Mr. Rockefeller's tone to that of a pessimist, in declaring that confidence in "the administration" is gone, "the country is beginning to drift toward the rocks of financial depression." He continues:
"Confidence is gone, and confidence is the basis of all prosperity. With confidence established there can be no stopping of the wheels of progress. Without it all is at a standstill. The investor, great and small, locks up his money and refuses to venture forth.
"I do not need your stock market reports, your editorials, your predictions and forebodings to prove to myself the truth of my words. I have another way of knowing absolutely—a way that has never failed me in the long years of my business career. That is the way I am judging the financial situation—from the attitude of the financial world toward myself." But utterances from a few men in the financial world like that of Mr. Rockefeller are very likely to cause loss of confidence and precipitate a panic which will bring thousands to ruin. If he loves justice and equity, now is a good time to take his medicine and stand by the administration.
We would not be doing justice to our readers did we not appeal to them to invest their means where they know it to be safe. God's cause is ever sure.
Our India Mountain Mission Home.
Since our last report, we have received on our India Mountain Mission Home $292.05. The names of the donors will be given in a later issue. This sum makes a total of $720.37 toward the $1,000 still needed to complete the buildings and make the place suitable for a refuge for our workers in the disease-laden portions of that country.
Our readers will remember that the plan is to have this Home in the cool, bracing climate of the mountains so that the worn or sick workers in the enervating, hot climate of the lowlands may go there for a short rest. Having this Home in the mountains will enable the missionaries when worn out to take a rest, rather than to remain where they are laboring to go down into their graves, or else return home. And every one knows that it is very hard for the true missionary to set his face homeward. He is much more likely to remain in the field till he succumbs to disease and goes down in death. But with the Home in the mountains, which he can reach with but little expense, and with people in that district for whom he can labor while resting, he can readily be persuaded to come apart to the retreat and recuperate.
It is desired to dedicate the building free from debt in October. And with the small sum needed which is still to be raised, we hope that those interested will come forward quickly and help raise this amount. Send your donations to the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.
Unstable Conditions.—This country has been enjoying a period of almost unparalleled prosperity. The outlook has been most bright and cheering for the last few years from the standpoint of the opportunity to make money. The earthquake and fire that destroyed all the great business section of San Francisco paralyzed this prosperity only momentarily, and then it took on new life and times seemed to be destined to be more prosperous than ever. But labor difficulties arose in Oakland and San Francisco that have kept business in this section almost at a standstill for the past two months, and more recently the dispute has widened thru the telegraphers and it looks now as tho the whole country would become involved. For more than a quarter of a century this paper has been showing from the prophecies of the Bible that the people of these last days would become more and more excitable, violent, and revolutionary in their actions and sentiments. And at the same time society as a whole will be making the highest professions of the kind and tender feelings of brotherly love. And the situation will continue to grow worse till it will be brought to an end in the second coming of Christ. The only bright hope before the world to-day is the Lord's coming. But this is indeed a cheering and glorious hope. Have you studied the evidence so that you may know of a certainty that the event is near? The evidence is insurmountably clear. It is to your eternal interest to look into it.
For Next Week.
By Editor
The paper this week deals with the question of what Babylon is, as presented in the Bible, and further that Babylon is to meet with a moral fall. The prominence that the Bible gives to this subject makes it essential for us to carefully study what the sacred Book teaches about it. We trust that our readers this week will be interested in the important articles that are given, and that this will lead them to look forward to the articles in the
Next Paper,
which will tell the result of Babylon's fall and present God's last great protest against the work that leads to this fall. This protest is the most solemn message of warning in all the Bible, and the fact that the events of the time show that this warning is now due should cause the careful consideration of the subject by all. The fulfilments of prophecy and the additional Bible truth connected therewith that the Lord has caused to be written in His word for the people in the last days to especially consider, form a subject that can not receive too much attention. We are encouraged by the faithfulness with which our patrons are circulating these papers, and we know that the importance of the work demands our continued and most energetic efforts.
Life and Health.
Life and Health is the very appropriate title of our health journal, published at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. The September issue is ready and is devoted exclusively to the subject of temperance. Among the useful and interesting topics considered are the following:
Alcohol and Crime; Alcohol and Consumption; Alcohol and Insanity; Alcohol and Natural Selection; Alcohol as a Destroyer of the Unfit; Alcohol as a Remedy for Disease; Alcohol—The Sanction for Its Use (comment on recent book); Alcoholism and History; Alarm of the Liquor Dealers (at the progress of local option, etc.); Physicians and Alcohol; Absurdity of Moral Suasion and License; Cause of Alcoholism; Beer Ashamed of its Company; Drink and Degradation; Fermented Communion Wine; God's Power to Save from the Drink Habit; Food Value of Alcohol; Dangers of Wood-Alcohol; Home Temperance; Temperance Beverages; Milk and Alcohol in Medicine; Patent Medicines as
Booze,
Where Chronic Drunks Come From; Uncle Sam a Partner in Crime; Why Alcohol in Patent Medicine Is Dangerous.
The friends and advocates of temperance will find in this number of Life and Health a most useful document, not only to read, but to circulate extensively. The retail price of this issue is ten cents a copy; to agents two to ten copies, one address, one order, five cents a copy; ten to twenty-four copies, four cents; twenty-five or more copies, three cents—all post-paid. Address, Life and Health, Takoma Park Sta., Washington, D. C.
Union College Calendar Ready.—The Union College Calendar is now being mailed. There was some delay in getting it out on account of its size. It makes a book of two hundred and thirty pages and is the most complete description of the work of Union College ever published. It has been almost entirely rewritten. The historical sketch contains new and valuable information. Full descriptions with courses of study are given of the departments of the college, the academy, the ministerial course, the preparatory medical course, the business course, the shorthand course, the German department, the Swedish department, the Danish-Norwegian department, the normal school, the school of music. All who are interested in these departments and desire a copy of the calendar, address at once the president, C. C. Lewis, College View, Neb.
The Sabbath of the Lord can not be destroyed by men any more than can Christ, its Author. It may be ridiculed, rejected, trampled upon, crucified between two thieves, and the devil and his allies may rejoice as it seemingly perishes and is buried under the rubbish of tradition, locked in its creed-bound tomb with papal keys; but it has in it
the power of an endless life.
It does not need human laws to revive it, guard it, or keep it from desecration. It is above man's power. Its foundation is God's eternal throne.
O come, let us sing unto the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
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Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. When the Common ("King James" or "Authorised") Version, or the American Standard Revised Version is used, quotations will not be designated in reference. Any Bible quotation in this paper, therefore, differing from the Common Version, unless otherwise indicated, will be almost invariably from the American Standard edition of the Revised Bible, copyright 1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons.
