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Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 11.

The Word of God
Earlier text: Conducted by Mrs. T. H. Evans, Takoma Park, Washington D. C

“My Counsel shall Stand, and I will Do All My Pleasure”

By Percy T. Magan

IN the writings given this denomination through the Spirit of prophecy the great movements are outlined that must be made in connection with the cause of God during the closing days of earth’s history. Many times the undertakings which were called for by the servant of the Lord have appeared to human sight so great and costly that men and women have staggered because of unbelief, and have felt that these could not be accomplished by a people so poor financially and so small numerically as ourselves.
But the teachings of the Bible clearly prove that God never asked his people to do anything impossible of successful fulfilment. Many times, to be sure, it has appeared upon the surface as if God’s plans and purposes could not be carried out, but God has always fulfilled his word whenever his people have trusted him.
To Joseph, sold as a bondman into Egypt, it must have seemed as if the dreams which God had given him relative to his future could never become reality. But the very thing which Satan designed for the ruin of the career of Joseph, God seized upon and turned into an instrument for the fulfilment of his purposes and his word. As the caravan journeyed toward the land of the Nile, Joseph wept bitterly, and his heart trembled as he looked forward to the future. He was alone and friendless, and he knew not what his lot would be in that strange land whither he was going. For a time uncontrollable grief and terror completely dominated him. Nevertheless, in the providence of God this experience was to be the beginning of the fulfilment of those dreams which God had given him indicating his future greatness. “He had learned in a few hours that which years might not have otherwise taught him.” That one day’s experience had been the turning point of his life. Its terrible calamity had wrought a mighty transformation in his character. God was at work, and the land which Satan had determined to make the tomb of Joseph as an unknown slave, God transformed into the theater for his operations as a mighty statesman.
Not only did God work marvelously for Joseph in Egypt, but he also set his hand for the redemption of Joseph’s brothers in Canaan. As the years rolled by, their characters became changed. Adversity purged and refined those once envious, turbulent, deceptive, and revengeful men. As time wore on, they became unselfish, true to one another, devoted to their father, and subject to his authority. And when at last famine’s hand bowed them in the presence of the “dreamer,” they remembered how they had labored to prevent the fulfilment of his dreams, which they were even then acting their part in fulfilling. God had given counsel concerning Joseph, and mightily he had fulfilled it.
To human vision, it seemed incredible that the Hebrew people should ever be able to go free out of the land of Egypt. But the promise of God to Abraham stood fast: “In the fourth generation they shall come hither again.” Against this all the power of Pharaoh was as nothing. Even as slaves, the children of Israel “were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.” And although the Egyptians made them “to serve with rigor,” and made “their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field,” nevertheless “the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.”
And then in a single night, without battle or fight, under the leadership of Moses, the meekest man who ever lived, the children of Israel marched forth to freedom, and the Egyptians were “urgent” to have them depart. From a human viewpoint, it looked impossible that they should ever go forth that way, but the word of God’s counsel had been spoken, and no power on earth could stop its fulfilment.
The gift of the spirit of prophecy has been one of the great distinguishing marks of the Seventh-day Adventist people. Faith that these writings are of God has from a very early day been taught in this church. All the counsel which God has given in this way “shall stand.” Again the words will be fulfilled: “I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.”
Concerning the acquisition of one piece of property, the Loma Linda Sanitarium, the following instruction was given by the Spirit of prophecy:—
“It was the Lord’s purpose that the Loma Linda Sanitarium should become the property of our people, and he brought it about at a time when the rivers of difficulty were full and overflowing their banks.”—Jehovah is Our King, p. 30.
And the rivers of difficulty undoubtedly were full and overflowing their banks at that time. Many thought that nothing could be done, and that we had taken upon ourselves an institution which we would be unable to man or to develop. But the counsel of God stood fast. He that purposed that our people should have that property brought it into our possession. Every place that God has ever brought into the hands of his people he designs shall be a blessing to them, and that there shall be harmony and unity concerning its use. In these matters another good word taken into our lives will be of untold value:—
“Our efforts should be to answer Christ’s prayer for his disciples, that they should be one.”—Testimonies, Series B, No. 4, p. 30.
In the year 1910 the following words came to us concerning the College of Medical Evangelists at Loma Linda:—
“The light given me is: We must provide that which is essential to qualify our youth who desire to be physicians, so that they may intelligently fit themselves to be able to stand the examinations required to prove their efficiency as physicians. . . . For the special preparation of those of our youth who have clear convictions of their duty to obtain a medical education that will enable them to pass the examinations required by law of all who practice as regularly qualified physicians, we are to supply whatever may be required so that these youth need not be compelled to go to medical schools conducted by men not of our faith. Thus we shall close a door that the enemy would be pleased to have left open; and our young men and women, whose spiritual interests the Lord desires us to safeguard, will not feel compelled to connect with unbelievers in order to obtain a thorough training along medical lines.”—Part of reply by Mrs. E. G. White to communication of Jan. 25, 1910, from Elders I. H. Evans, E. E. Andross, and H. W. Cottrell.
The carrying out of this counsel calls for the building of the hospital and dispensary in the city of Los Angeles, as outlined by Elder I. H. Evans in his article in the REVIEW of Jan. 13, 1916. To many it may again seem that this is being urged at a time when the rivers of difficulty are full and overflowing their banks. But it is at these times that God loves to manifest his power in behalf of his people.
“The Lord wants his people in these days to believe that he will do as great things for them as he did for the children of Israel in their journey from Egypt to Canaan. We are to have an educated faith that will not hesitate to follow his instructions in the most difficult experiences. ‘Go forward’ is the command of God to his people.”—Jehovah is Our King, p. 29.
The very fact that our leaders in the great mission fields of the Orient are calling as never before for consecrated medical missionaries is sufficient reason why we should furnish the necessary equipment for the training of these laborers. God has blessed us with many schools and colleges. These have proved a refuge and a haven for our youth, and hundreds upon hundreds within their walls have dedicated their lives to the service of God. But we have only one medical missionary training school, the one at Loma Linda. And as medical missionary work is to be the last work of mercy done by our people in the world, it is fitting that this school should be placed upon a sure and substantial footing. In this the Lord is calling upon us to “strengthen the hands of the builders.” PERCY T. MAGAN.

The Bible Year

Assignment for March 5 to 11

Questions to Answer

What is the Pentateuch? What does the word mean?
By whom were the books of this group written? What other names are applied to them?
Give the meanings of the names of the first five books of the Bible.
What striking illustration is given in Deuteronomy of the Saviour’s words in Matt. 20:16?
By what incident is the difference between faith and presumption clearly shown?
What beautiful example of submission to the will of God is recorded in this book?

Make the Bible Real

“Parents, I urge you to make the Bible the sweetest, the dearest book to your children; not by compelling them to read so many chapters each day, which will have the effect of making them hate the Bible, but by reading its pages with them, and by your tender parental love, so showing them the beauty of its wondrous incidents, from the story of Adam and Eve to the story of Bethlehem and Calvary, that no other book in the home will be so dear to your children as the Bible; and thus you will be strengthening their minds with the sublimest truths, storing their hearts with the purest love, and sinking deep in their souls solid principles of righteousness, whose divine stones no waves of temptation can ever move.”— A. E. Kittredge.

Joshua—the Book

The book of Joshua is the first of the twelve historical books, which record the history of the chosen people from their first occupation of the land of Canaan as a nation to the return from the captivity. The book is named for its leading character, by whom a part of it is supposed to have been written. “The whole tenor of the first twelve chapters,” says Fallows, “bespeaks an eyewitness who bore some part in the transactions; and the expression ‘we were passed over,’ in chapter 5:1, bears this out, as well as the circumstantial vividness of the narrative. . . . This section from chapters 13 to 22 inclusive, which contains an account of the distribution of the land, seems to be based upon written documents, in which the property was accurately described.”
The book covers a period of twenty-five years, and introduces the second division of the Old Testament, the historical books. It describes the conquest of Canaan, its division among the tribes, and makes mention of the typical rest in that land, which foreshadowed the complete rest of God’s people in heaven. Part of the book is “the spirited recital of heroic deeds,” part of it is given up to geographical records, and part contains earnest admonition and solemn warning.

Holy Scripture

By Richard Wilton

I HAVE a garden fair, With heavenly breezes fanned, And every morning finds me there— It is the Lord's command To gather fruits and blossoms sweet Before the dusty world I meet.
I have a faithful Friend, Accustomed to advise, With whom each morn some time I spend, That I may be made wise To find and keep the only way Which issues in eternal day.
I have an armory bright, With shield and helm hung round, Where, duly as the morning light, The Spirit's sword is found, With which to overcome the foe Who harasses the way I go.
I have a mirror keen, Which shows me all I am; But, lo, behind me there is seen One like the dying Lamb; And, as I view his imaged face, My sins are lost in shining grace.
O, send thy Spirit, Lord, To make me wholly thine, That I may love thy blessed Word, And feel its power divine, And walk on calmly in its light Till faith is turned to glorious sight! —Richard Wilton.

Missionary Volunteer Department

M. E. KERN . . . . . Secretary MATILDA ERICKSON . . . . . Assistant Secretary MRS. I. H. EVANS . . . . . Office Secretary MEADE MACGUIRE C. L. BENSON J. F. SIMON . . . . . Field Secretaries

Medical Missionary Department

W. A. RUBLE, M. D. — General Secretary
H. A. HANSEN — Assistant Secretary
H. W. MILLER, M. D. — N. Am. Div. Secretary

Opportunities Improved and Neglected

By Charles S. Longacre

A MOST interesting account has been published in the daily newspapers concerning religious liberty work in Peru. The following interesting news item is taken from the Minneapolis (Minn.) Journal of Feb. 6, 1916:—
“The announcement to the world a short while ago that religious liberty had been granted in Peru, has just brought to light the fact that a native of Minnesota, who spent most of his life in Winona, was responsible for the decision of the legislative body of that country. Ferdinand A. Stahl, who has been a medical missionary in Bolivia and Peru since 1909, is the man who brought the change. Mr. Stahl is the son of Mrs. Therese Kraft Stahl, 789 West Fifth St., Winona, and he also has an aunt, Mrs. Bertha McElligott, who resides at the same address.
“Since engaging in missionary operations in Peru, Mr. Stahl has been laboring to Christianize the Indians in the vicinity of Lake Titicaca, the highest fresh-water lake in the world. His interest in working for religious liberty was aroused when several Indian followers of his religion had been placed in prison.
“Mr. Stahl appealed to the courts, on the grounds that the Indians had been placed in prison because their religious convictions differed from those of the state church, and the judge ordered their release. Together with some of these Indians, Mr. Stahl started agitation among the legislators, with the result that the inhabitants of Peru can now worship as they see fit.
“Mr. Stahl has done considerable work among the Indians along medical lines, having been graduated as a nurse, at a Battle Creek sanitarium. He is the superintendent of a Lake Titicaca mission.”
This shows what a wide-awake Seventh-day Adventist can do under God for the cause of religious liberty in the countries where religious intolerance has held sway for centuries. Sometimes we are prone to think that we are the creatures of circumstances, and we compromise lazily with our surroundings, when God intended that we should be masters of the situation.
MOSES wrote: “Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God.” This promise is for God’s people now as well as for those who kept his commandments anciently. If there is any place in the world where the principles of religious liberty should be brought to the attention of the lawmakers, it is in these priest-ridden countries. What God has done for Peru through the earnest efforts of Brother Stahl and others, he is anxious to do for other countries where religious oppression is hindering the free passage of the gospel message.
Over two hundred Sunday bills before State legislatures in the United States have been defeated during the past two years. In fact, every effort which has been made has been successful. All the drastic Sunday laws that are now upon the statute books in the different States were placed there because no voice was raised in protest against them at the time they were enacted. These experiences afford us striking illustrations of what can be accomplished under God if we improve our opportunities, and what terrible consequences follow if we neglect our opportunities to do good.
“We are not doing the will of God if we sit in quietude, doing nothing to preserve liberty of conscience. Fervent, effectual prayer should be ascending to heaven that this calamity may be deferred until we can accomplish the work which has so long been neglected. Let there be most earnest prayer; and then let us work in harmony with our prayers. It may appear that Satan is triumphant, and that truth is overborne with falsehood and error. . . . But God would have us recall his dealings with his people in the past, to save them from their enemies. He has always chosen extremities, when there seemed no possible chance for deliverance from Satan’s workings, for the manifestation of his power. Man’s necessity is God’s opportunity.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. V, p. 714.
C. S. LONGACRE.

Religious Liberty Department

By C. S. Longacre

C. S. LONGACRE   –   N. Am. Div. Secretary

Missionary Work of the Highest Order

By W. W. Eastman

A Blessed Experience

“THE canvassing work, properly conducted, is missionary work of the highest order, and it is as good and successful a method as can be employed for placing before the people the important truths for this time.”
“As canvassers go forth into the field with humble hearts, full of earnest activity, they will find many opportunities to speak a word in season to souls ready to die in discouragement. . . . God will give a most wonderful experience to those who will say, ‘I believe thy promise; I will not fail nor be discouraged.’”
The following is a portion of a letter written by a brother who recently went out to sell our books in California, and it so beautifully illustrates the fulfilment of the preceding words that we pass it on, believing it will prove an encouragement and inspiration to all who read it:—
“I have had a very blessed experience canvassing for ‘The Great Controversy.’ I traveled altogether about sixty or seventy-five miles on foot. I took the home workers’ prospectus, also Missions Signs, temperance papers, Signs of the Times Magazine, tracts, and some copies of ‘The Shadow of the Bottle’ and of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons.’”
“Oh, surely angels of God accompanied me on that trip! I obtained an order for ‘The Great Controversy’ at every third or fourth house the greater part of the way. Where I should spend Christmas Eve and that Sabbath, I knew not; but the angel of the Lord certainly led me, for I spent that Friday evening at a nice, cultured German family’s home,—new homesteaders here in America (could not speak and read English perfectly yet). This family of four were hungering for companionable association with others of Christian belief who would encourage them in their custom of having daily family prayer, and in their desire to live upright, Christian lives in the community.”
“Needless to say, I considered that house worthy to let my peace rest upon, as I understand Jesus’ instructions, and I accepted their very cordial invitation to spend the Sabbath with them. They were Sunday keepers, and had not learned of the truth about God’s Sabbath.”
“I never had a more enjoyable visit in an entirely strange family. They had not had a Bible in the house for quite a long time—since their house, with all it contained, burned to the ground, in Washington, some years ago. However, they had a Testament, I believe. They were of steadfast faith in God, and daily went to him in private prayer, and I believe God is guiding them to his kingdom. They have not a relative in America, but have many relatives in the army of the fatherland, and any mail may bring word of the death of one or more.”
“I took the Bible from my grip, and for hours we studied the precious promises and prophecies of God’s Word. How they did enjoy it, especially the father and the younger of the two bright boys. The father said to me, ‘I want to tell you just how that appears to my mind.’ Then he told, in his whole-souled, honest way, how his mother, years ago, when he was young, had been shown in a revival meeting, in a direct way (like a vision), that before the end of the world young people, young men especially, who had had no special schooling (ministerial training, etc.), would go everywhere, teaching the Scriptures with a clearness and a simple, convincing power never before known. ‘Now,’ he said, ‘you are fulfilling that prediction exactly as my mother said there in the gospel meeting.’”
“Our hearts rejoiced as we felt the holy love and fellowship of heaven abiding with us. Next day, they all kept the Sabbath with me, and we had a blessed time together. I could scarcely get away by Sunday noon. As for books, they wanted first a good German Bible, German ‘Great Controversy,’ and then almost everything else I mentioned,—‘Early Writings,’ Signs of the Times, etc.,—but I felt they could afford only the Bible and ‘The Great Controversy’ then. I trust we shall meet them in heaven; also a Swedish old lady, a true Christian, whom I found on this trip.”
Surely this is “missionary work of the highest order,” and brings “a blessed experience” to those who engage in it.
W. W. EASTMAN.

Fishers of Men

By Edith M. Graham

“JESUS said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.” Mark 1:17. The original word which is translated fishers is one that means a fisherman by trade, one whose business it is to catch fish as a regular, daily occupation, not one who fishes occasionally as a sport or pastime. This gives special significance to the Lord’s words, for they say to us, If you will follow me, I will so change you that your chief burden will come to be the winning of other souls for me. If we do our part in the following, he will do his part in giving us that love for perishing souls that will lead us continually and persistently to do all we can to save them.
If, therefore, we have no desire or willingness to do anything to give the last warning message to those within our reach, it is evident we are not really following Christ. His promise is sure, and cannot fail. The only possible failure is in us. If we have not become what he says he will make us to become if we follow him, this is sure evidence that we are not following him.
It is true that there may be some who seem to be zealous in good works who are not followers of Christ. They do many things to help others, but they have not surrendered themselves nor forsaken sin. Their motive in this service is not love for Christ, and to them he says, “I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matt. 7:23.
While there may be workers who are not followers, there can be no followers who are not laborers together with God for the salvation of souls. Jesus himself has coupled together the following and the fishing for men, and they cannot be separated.
All will not fish in the same way. All fish are not caught by the same bait. Neither are all men and women won to Christ by the same method. Some are won by personal talk, more this way than any other. Many are won through letters, another effective method. Others are reached through literature, some through assistance given in time of need. Every follower of Christ will find some method by which he can fish for souls.
EDITH M. GRAHAM.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
—Major R. R. Moton, of Hampton Institute, has been elected to succeed Dr. Booker T. Washington as head of Tuskegee Institute. He is a full-blooded Negro. His ability as an educator, an orator, and an executive fits him for the responsible labors of his new position.
—Chicago is to have a Booker T. Washington memorial in the form of a social center and industrial training school for Negro children.
—Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain, publisher of the Boston American, and one of the foremost newspaper men of the world, died in San Francisco on January 25, of heart failure. He was born in Walworth, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1851.
—Minneapolis, Minn., reports a record sale of flour for the past three months—a total of 6,400,000 barrels shipped, more than a million barrels more than at any other similar period. Figured out, this means a production of over two barrels every second of a working day.
—St. Louis has for the time being taken the place of London as the fur market of the world. At the recent auction sale there the United States government sold $60,000 worth of fox skins from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Hitherto the government has sent its furs to the London market.
—The wax figures of the Eden Musée, which for a generation have delighted or horrified young New Yorkers, were recently sold at auction, the old-fashioned amusement place having succumbed to the photo play and the uptown movement. Most of the figures brought about $10 each; a group, however, of “rulers of the world” brought $600.
—The latest and certainly the strangest dictionary of any branch of the human race is that of the American Gypsy, just compiled by George F. Black, Ph. D., for the New York public library, the first institution in the United States to possess such a vocabulary. The work will be of inestimable assistance to students of Gypsy lore and languages.
—There is not a Waldensian above six years of age that is illiterate. The little Church of the Valleys, with but 13,000 members and 16 pastors, has over 270 organized churches, and mission stations in Italy, Sicily, and Egypt. Twelve Waldensian missionaries preach the gospel in South Africa. In Uruguay and Argentina there are seven churches among Waldensian colonists.
—Great Britain recently announced its willingness to permit exportation from Germany of sufficient dyestuffs to supply the immediate needs of American industries. Negotiations with Germany, based upon this assurance, have been begun by the State Department with a view of persuading the imperial government to permit the exportation of dyestuffs without receiving concessions, which it heretofore has demanded, of foodstuffs or cotton from the United States.
—The first military correspondence school to be established in this country is now in operation with a body of nearly 1,500 students, among them many widely known and successful citizens. The headquarters of this big school is on Governor's Island, N. Y., and the two men who are directing it are Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, the commanding general of the Eastern Department of the army, and Capt. Halstead Dorey, who was the commanding officer of the Business and Professional Men's Training Camp at Plattsburg last summer. More than 5,000 men are eligible for the course, and there is every reason to believe that next year the enrolment will reach at least 3,000.
—Twenty-five persons were drowned and a wide stretch of country devastated near San Diego, Cal., when a dam in the Otay Valley, south of the city, broke under the strain of flood waters caused by heavy storms. Those who lost their lives were Japanese men, women, and children. It is stated that an area fifteen miles wide and two miles long was under water.
—The directors of the Eastman Kodak Company have declared a wage dividend of nearly $1,000,000, payable to all employees who have worked for them a year or more. Payment is to be made on the basis of three and one-half per cent of a year's salary, multiplied by the number of years, not exceeding five, the employee has been with the company. The distribution will be made July 1, 1916.
—C. L. Freer, of Detroit, Mich., has given $1,000,000 to the Smithsonian Institution to house the collection of paintings, engravings, bronzes, porcelains, etc., which he has given to the institution from time to time, and which embraces treasures of art from all parts of the world, some of them dating from a period antedating the Christian era. Work on the new building will begin next spring.
—The American International Corporation, the new foreign trade organization formed with $50,000,000 of capital to strengthen the position of the United States in world trade, is going into the shipping business. Charles A. Stone, president of the company, has announced the purchase of ships still remaining under the flag of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which is undergoing liquidation.
—Among the many kinds of schools and opportunities for general and special training the latest is the announcement of a school for grocers. Among the subjects to be embraced in the curriculum, and for which experts will be employed and demonstrations given, are salesmanship, bookkeeping, window trimming, card writing, store and show cases, how and when to buy, bargains, competition, fixtures, store arrangements.
—Thomas A. Edison, chairman of the Naval Consulting Board, described at a recent meeting of the board his plan for a physical laboratory for making naval experiments. It calls for the purchase of 100 acres of land at tidewater, and a plant to cost about $1,400,000. It is believed the Naval Consulting Board will recommend in a report to the Secretary of the Navy the acquisition of this land on New York tidewater, within easy distance of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, so that experiments in naval architecture and machinery can be made on water as well as on land.
—Reports on the dyestuff situation in the United States, recently laid before the National Association of Clothing Manufacturers at a special meeting in New York City, indicated that a crisis for the garment trade is near at hand. Representatives of more than $75,000,000 of capital invested in the manufacture of men's garments heard the reports that attempts to relieve the situation by importations of logwood dye had been a failure, as all the logwood dye in Jamaica, if available, would be inadequate. It was declared that more than 1,000 textile mills, employing upward of 100,000 persons, are now either idle or running on part time because of the shortage of dyes.
—There are 13,000,000 persons under twenty-one years of age engaged in gainful occupations in the United States. Attention to this fact was drawn by Ernst Hermann, director of physical education in Somerville, Mass., at a recent meeting of the State Child Labor Committee held in Fall River. Sedentary and semiphysical work, especially if this work is uninteresting, means for children stunted growth of body, mind, and soul, added Mr. Hermann. He pleaded for opportunity for recreation and all-round physical activities for the adolescent worker.
—The United States has gradually acquired more than one fourth of the world's supply of gold money. If Europe finally has to sell to America the $5,000,000,000 worth of American securities which she still holds, the United States will have gone a long way toward establishing a dollar exchange. These facts were outlined recently by Robert W. Woolley, director of the mint. On December 1, including coin in circulation and bullion and coin in the Treasury, there was $2,260,687,547 in the country, an increase of $370,009,243 over July 1, 1914, before the war began.
—Nearly all geographies and reference books still give London as the most populous city on the globe, but for some time New York has occupied that place, and a new police census of that city which has just been taken confirms this. By this census the population of Greater New York is 5,257,885. This is a gain of about 245,000 over the figures shown by the last State census, and of about 490,000 over the last federal census of 1910. The Statesman's Year Book, a British publication, gives the population of parliamentary London in 1911 as 4,521,685. The World Almanac, an American authority, gives it as 4,542,618.
—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the British suffragist leader, after having been detained by New York immigration authorities for several days at Ellis Island, has been ordered admitted to the United States unconditionally. In overruling the action of a special board of inquiry at New York excluding Mrs. Pankhurst, the Department of Labor held that any offenses of which Mrs. Pankhurst might have been convicted in England were political. The law excludes only persons convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. Mrs. Pankhurst, here in the interest of Serbian relief, may remain in the United States as long as she wishes.
—Another remarkable triumph of science has been or is about to be achieved in linking the United States and its foreign possessions by a great chain of wireless stations. Secretary Daniels, of the Navy Department, made arrangements recently for the equipment of radio stations now under construction at San Diego, Cal.; Cavite, P. I.; and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. When this work is completed sometime next year, Washington will be in instant wireless touch with all the American islands. Plans are also being prepared to increase the power of the existing equipment at Tutuila and Guam, making them a part of the great world chain. The new stations at Pearl Harbor and Cavite will be the most powerful in the world, equipped with apparatus capable of sending messages over an area of approximately 4,700 miles.
—For the first time in the history of the country, the National Prohibition party has a representative in Congress, Charles H. Randall, of Los Angeles, Cal., having taken his seat in the lower house with the opening of the present session. Congressman Randall lost no time in getting into action, introducing three bills on the liquor question within a very few hours of the opening of Congress. The first is a measure to abolish interstate traffic in alcoholic liquors. It is worded so as to leave no loopholes nor any possibilities whereby the law may be legally evaded. The second is intended to protect the parcel post system by applying to the shipping of liquor through the post office the same drastic law that prevents the mailing of lottery tickets. The third would bar all liquor sellers from all United States government property and territory.
—A “memorial to a movement” is Gutzon Borglum’s own name for the biggest sculptural undertaking in the history of the world. It requires a granite mountain, across the face of which Mr. Borglum will carve a frieze 2,000 feet long and 50 feet wide and five stories high. The work will consume most of the sculptor’s thought and energies during the next eight years. Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., is to be transformed by him into the “Great Confederate Memorial,” at a cost of $2,000,000—a memorial to the South of ’64, built by the South of today. The great characters of those days are to be reconstructed out of the side of this mountain. They will be carved in high and full relief, in action, mounted and on foot. Following the mountain’s contour, they will be moving across the face of it naturally toward the east in the arrangement of two wings of an army. Because they will be in scale with the mountain, which is 700 feet high (the Singer Building is 612 feet), the figures will be colossal, reaching, including the horses, 35 to 50 feet in height, or about five times the size of the Lion of Lucerne.
—The Canadian Parliament building at Ottawa, which cost more than $6,000,000, was destroyed by fire on the night of February 3. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a bomb. Wm. S. Loggie, member of Parliament from New Brunswick, is reported missing. Several persons who were burned or otherwise hurt in fleeing through the corridors before the swift rush of the flames or in escaping from the windows, are in the hospitals. The loss to the building is estimated at about $5,000,000, with no insurance, while the contents were such as to make any financial estimate inadequate. The Parliament building was rated as one of the finest Gothic structures on this continent. It covered four acres on Parliament Hill. The building included a central building, with two wings, in all 470 feet in length, with a tower 220 feet high, and a library building in the rear. Many valuable sculptures, paintings, and decorations adorned its rooms and corridors. It was erected in 1865, of cream-colored sandstone, on a bluff rising 150 feet above the Ottawa River. A large part of the immense library was saved. A rigid investigation to determine the cause of the fire has already been undertaken by the Dominion authorities.
—President Wilson recently concluded a trip through the Middle West in the interests of preparedness. He spoke in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Des Moines, Topeka, Kansas City, and St. Louis, being received everywhere by enthusiastic audiences. He urged that party lines be wiped away, and that plans for the adequate defense of the nation be made without more delay. He said: “We live in a world we did not make, which we cannot alter. While America is a great nation, while America contains all the elements of fine force and accomplishment, America is not the major portion of the world. If we are drawn into the maelstrom that swirls even the western regions of the world, we shall not be permitted to do the high things we intend to do. We ought to have in this country a great system of industrial and vocational education under federal guidance and with federal aid, in which a very large percentage of the youth of this country will be given training in the skilful use and application of the principles of science in maneuver and business. And it will be perfectly feasible and highly desirable to add to that and combine with it such a training in the mechanism, use, and care of arms, in the sanitation of camp, in the simpler forms of maneuver and organization, as will make these men industrially efficient and individually serviceable for national defense. All the time things are getting more and more difficult to handle. As your responsible servant, I must tell you that the dangers are grave and constant.”

Home Missionary Department

By E. M. Graham; F. W. Paap

E. M. GRAHAM · · · General Secretary
F. W. PAAP · · · N. Am. Div. Secretary

Publishing Department

By N. Z. Town; W. W. Eastman

N. Z. TOWN - - - General Secretary
W. W. EASTMAN - N. Am. Div. Secretary

A Serious Matter

By Editor

SHALL WE HAVE A NEW BIBLE?
SHALL WE HAVE A NEW BIBLE?
A GROWING sentiment favoring the elimination of certain portions of the Bible is observable of late. Foremost among the advocates are influential theologians, and professors in some of the seminaries. If these “divines” have their way about it, the grand old Book will be scarcely recognizable when they finish their work of revision.
It rests with those who object to the elimination of even a jot or tittle, to restore and create confidence in the Word. With this sole idea in mind, the publishers of the Signs Magazine are giving the main part of the April number to this very important subject.
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