AND CARDINAL GIBBONS have said that no divine authority for changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday has ever been given. The exact words may be found in the fine "Sabbath" article in the December Signs of the Times Magazine.
For we have seen His star
Three of the leading secular periodicals of our country — Literary Digest, the Independent, and Current Opinion — recently recognized Seventh-day Adventists and their principles. The latter said:
“Whenever history is being made on a large scale, especially in the clash of mighty armies, it has been the custom of ardent students of prophecy to see in these events the fulfillment of prophecy and predictions of the Biblical seers. Naturally, the specialists in this method of Biblical interpretation are the Seventh-day Adventists.”
Did you know that the automobile and the locomotive were foretold in prophecy? The article "Prophecy and Progress" goes quite fully into this and other prophecies referring to our time. Some of the other leading articles are: "Perilous Times Predicted Instead of Peace;" "Strange Gods in Christendom;" "War, Peace, and Prophecy;" "Sunday Observance;" "New Testament Sabbath;" "The Star in the East;" "Repudiation of Christianity, and Cause Thereof."
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World's Temperance Sunday
By Editor
"THE National Temperance Union" is the name assumed by the temperance organization that has been formed by the Federal Council of Protestant Churches in America. They have furnished a program for the observance of November 14 as the World's Temperance Sunday. The plan announced by the Federal Council is to make its work an educative one. It will not enter into the political side of the question at all. We wish to do everything in our power to forward every kind of true temperance movement. We believe that the Lord is putting forth superhuman efforts to keep the world sober enough to weigh the evidence He is presenting which shows the speedy return to earth of His Son, our Saviour.
WORD has reached us that Elder J. T. Boettcher has been expelled from Russia because he is a German. Brother Boettcher, as those who are acquainted with him know, is an American of German parentage. He made himself proficient, however, in the German language, and for many years he has carried heavy responsibilities in connection with our work in Russia. We are sorry that the government there has seen fit to send him away from that field. His American citizenship, however, gave him the choice of returning to America rather than being deported to Siberia; and in this our brother as well as our work is to be congratulated.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from New York, a leading banker who recently returned from the Old World, says that the cost of the war in progress will be three hundred billion dollars if we include the property destruction as well as the expense of the war itself.
The Pope and the War
By Editor
EVERY day or two, the dispatches are telling us of something that the pope is doing to influence the leading participants in the European war. One day, we are told of his activities in protesting against the Armenian atrocities. Then again he will be interceding with some one of the crowned heads of Europe to get him to stay the execution of some one under sentence. And one of the most striking of his recent achievements was to get the warring nations to grant that their prisoners engaged in labor shall not be required to work on Sunday, that Sunday shall be given to them as a day of absolute repose and rest.
Some will ask, Are not such activities all right, and are they not wholly beneficial? A superficial view doubtless would call forth an affirmative reply.
We ask our readers not merely to consider the activities of the pope in the present struggle, but furthermore to consider the successes that are coming to him in those activities. The nations are more and more yielding to his influence; and while recognizing that this is true, we should also keep in mind the prophecy of the Bible which tells us that the deadly wound received in 1798 by the papal power is to be healed. The same prophecy also tells us that all the world will wonder after the beast.
The careful student of Bible prophecy will recognize in these successful activities of the papal power the rapid fulfillment of those remarkable prophecies. The Catholic and the Protestant, as well as those who have no particular creed whatever, should carefully study these things and meditate upon them. The world is not only making history very rapidly in these times, but it is also making history that is most strikingly fulfilling prophecy.
Commendable Correspondence Course
By Editor
THERE are many individuals who are not able to avail themselves of a regular course of training in a school or college; and while our system of schools and colleges reaches clear around the world, there are yet many who would like to be educated who cannot attend these places of learning. For the benefit of this class, our General Conference has established the "Fireside Correspondence School"; and Prof. C. C. Lewis, one of our most experienced and efficient educators, is in charge of it.
There are some thirty subjects within the scope of this worthy correspondence school. There are very many who testify of their great appreciation of the benefits derived from the courses. The school is not only helpful to those who are so situated that they cannot take a regular course of training in a school, but it is also a great help to those who desire to take further studies. There are many who have had the regular college training, who nevertheless would like to give special attention to some subject that they had to neglect when in school, or that the school they attended may not have had the best facilities for presenting.
The correspondence school will help this class, as well as those who are denied the privileges of attending school.
We are glad to have it reported to us by the principal of the school, Professor Lewis, that Bible doctrines is the subject that draws the largest number of correspondence students. We trust that many of our readers will become interested in this worthy enterprise, and will desire to join in receiving the training that the school affords.
Any such interested ones should correspond with C. C. Lewis, Principal of Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Would Prepare Tremendously
THOMAS A. EDISON, while visiting the Pacific coast, said to a newspaper reporter that the military preparedness of the United States is "zero." Furthermore, he stated:
"To be properly prepared for war, the United States should have powder and guns sufficient to equip a trench reaching from Florida to Maine. The bay of San Francisco should be made impregnable, and heavy fortifications should be set up along the entire length of both the Atlantic and the Pacific coast."
Mr. Edison further said: "We want to fight with machinery, not men. We hope to save the men. In order to be properly prepared, we must have machinery capable of equipping us, within forty-eight hours' notice, with twice as much powder and ammunition as the warring nations of Europe possess."
Mr. Edison is chairman of the board of experts employed by the Navy Department to make suggestions for the defense of the United States against foreign invasion. The foregoing statements from the great inventor are but a part of what he said upon the subject, but they show that his active mind is busy with the great problems of war. And while Mr. Edison is making these statements, the dispatches are telling us of the great activity of the war and navy men of our nation. They tell of the program that it is proposed to submit to Congress for the building of a navy and the erecting of fortifications and the equipping of an army—and all with the great purpose in view of striking terror to the other portions of the world that would ever have any thought of invading this nation.
But as we ought to expect, these feverish activities on the part of the United States are already stirring the powers of Europe, so the dispatches say, to the determination to build still larger navies, and equip themselves still more powerfully, so as to cope with this enormous equipment proposed for the United States.
There is an awful spirit of war in this world. Powerful interests are cultivating it. There is big money in it for the money power. But the student of prophecy knows that the divine Father has not only foretold the angry condition of the nations when the Judgment is pending, but He has also foretold that the last days would be made perilous through the love of self and the love of money. Self-love and money love in this time have not only blinded men, but have driven them insanely mad, and they do not seem to have any realizing sense of the destructive vortex around which they are whirling. The same prophecies that have foretold these things, have also presented the door of hope that opens into the eternal domains of the Prince of Peace.
Whence the Supply of Gas, Oil, and Coal?
THE natural gas produced in the United States during the year 1914, according to the United States Geological Survey, amounted to 591,866,733,000 cubic feet, and was valued at $94,115,524. These figures represent an excess of 10,000,000 cubic feet over the record of 1913.
Scientific men have many theories in regard to the origin of this gas, as well as for that of the oil and coal that are found so abundantly in various parts of the earth. But we submit for the reflection of the candid thinker, that the Bible story of the Flood presents a clear foundation on which to build a scientific demonstration of the sources from which these supplies of oil, coal, and gas come. The immense quantities of animal and vegetable matter that were destroyed at the time of the Flood, and that were covered up near the surface by the water and the storm that God caused to sweep over the earth at that time, have, in the course of the centuries, been transformed into these materials; because all are agreed that these minerals result from animal and vegetable matter.
There are some great scientists who, like the profound head of the department of geology in Oberlin College, consider that the only ground upon which we can account for the conditions over the surface of the earth at the present time, is the theory of a universal flood, as taught by the Bible.
The Turk and His Book of Prophecy
A DISPATCH from Mytilene says that "one of the contributory causes in the confidence of victory that has unquestionably animated the Turks has been the circulation of a book of prophecies, purporting to have been uttered by some Arabic seer about three years ago, and distributed broadcast throughout the empire by the zeal of the Young Turk committee.
"In this publication, the disastrous issue of the first Balkan war was foretold, but the resuscitation of Turkey and the restoration of her ancient glories were to follow closely on the heels of this preliminary catastrophe."
Then the prophecy goes on to tell of another war in which Turkey would become involved, and says:
"The Turks would, in the early part of this second war, be sorely pressed by their foes; but the result of the war thus undertaken would be the annihilation of the latter, the reconquest by Turkey of all her lost dominions, and the creation of a Mussulman world empire under the suzerainty of the Ottoman caliph."
Since the great Mohammedan world figures largely in the closing drama of history, all such things are interesting to the careful student of prophecy.
Forty Thousand More than Last Year
By James Cochran
WE have never before seen such an interest and such a strong determination displayed on the part of the friends of missions as is manifest in the present Harvest Ingathering campaign. The workers in our publishing houses, schools, sanitariums, and other denominational institutions, as well as general workers and ministers, are setting the pace this year. This has had an electrifying influence throughout the field.
The entire ministerial force of Chicago placed $50 as a minimum to be raised by each. Thousands throughout the country have placed a high mark to attain, some as much as $100. Reports indicate that many are not only reaching the goal, but have already gone far beyond.
Forty conferences and six union conferences have now called for more Ingathering Papers than they used all told last season. 724,342 copies have been ordered to date. This is 41,279 more than were used in the campaign last season.
We have received another carload of paper, and are in a position to supply Ingathering SIGNS to the amount of 1,000,000 copies or more if called for. JAMES COCHRAN, Circulation Manager.
