p. 368 | Review and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 23. (6/5/1900)

Earlier text: CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1900

Steps ...to... Christ

BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.

THE title clearly indicates the character of the book. Its pages are freighted with lessons drawn from the Scriptures, also from the long and fruitful Christian experience of the author's life.

Steps to Christ contains a wealth of counsel, comfort, joy, and hope, to those encountering the difficulties which beset a growing experience.

It is just the book for pastors to place in the hands of young converts. In its pages are recounted the Test of Discipleship, Growing up into Christ, The Work and Life, The Privilege of Prayer, and What to Do with Doubt.

A good book to put into the hands of an unconverted friend, as well as into the hands of a doubting church member.

A pastor after reading and realizing the helpfulness of Steps to Christ, purchased 300 copies of it to place in the hands of the members of his congregation in need of special help.

New enlarged edition 163 pages, bound in cloth, with cover design embossed in aluminum.

Price reduced to ............................... $0.50

Presentation edition, fancy covers and full gilt edges ... .85

Paper covers ........................................ .25

Can be had also in Danish, Swedish, German, Holland, Spanish, and Portuguese languages at 60 cents per copy, postpaid.

Also French, Finnish, Bohemian, Polish, Italian, Rumanian, Welsh, and Hungarian, at 75 cents per copy, postpaid.

Address—

REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO.,

BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

Soldiers' Discharge in Time of War

By Editor

According to a law of the United States any United States soldier may purchase his discharge from the army in time of peace, but not in time of war. About forty applications to purchase discharge are now before the War Department. But here is a dilemma for the government. For political purposes the government has been proceeding upon the theory that the nation is not at war. If now this theory be followed in the issue presented as to discharge of soldiers in time of peace, it must be accompanied with “contingencies that can not be contemplated without apprehension;” whereas “there are equally dangerous complications lurking in the other proposition, namely, that the country is in a state of war.” The administration does not know what to do; and “officials regret that a decision should be required at this time.”

For a trifle less than three cents a week, we will send the REVIEW to your friend — only $1.50 for one year, or for fifty-two weeks, one issue each week. Can you not afford to donate less than three cents a week to some one of your friends, who ought to be reading the REVIEW? Think it over; then send us his subscription for at least two months, at twenty-five cents, or four months, at fifty cents.

Notice to Readers of Unordered Review Copies

By Editor

☞ If you receive copies of this paper without ordering them, please remember that they are sent to you by some friend. Persons thus receiving copies of the REVIEW will not be called upon to pay for them. If, after reading these copies, you do not care to keep them, please hand them to your friends to read.

Elder E. W. Webster's Post Office Address

THE post office address of Elder E. W. Webster and his wife, who have been in Trinidad, West Indies, is now Battle Creek, Mich.

United States Presses Turkey for Indemnity Payment

THE United States has sent another “urgent note” to Turkey, calling for the payment of that one hundred thousand dollars. And the nations are amused.

Expected War Between Japan and Russia

IT is expected that there will be war between Japan and Russia, as soon as the South African war is fully ended. And since the British are practically in possession of the Transvaal capital, and of the whole country, that war is clearly in its very last days.

Foreign Troops Enter Beijing to Protect Embassies

May 31 the “powers” in China entered the capital of China, to protect their respective embassies, with troops as follows, and “five quick-firing guns:” —

	Officers.	Men.
Americans	7	56
British	3	72
Italians	3	39
French	3	72
Russian	4	71
Japanese	2	24

British View of American Influence in Asia

A BRITISH writer, concerning the United States says: “The United States, in the government of their dependencies, will represent the political conscience of the nineteenth century. I hail their advent in the East as a new power for good, not alone for the island races that come under their care, but also in that great settlement of European spheres of influence in Asia, which, if we could see aright, forms a world problem of our day.” (Italics by the author.)

Postal Frauds by Officials in Cuba

TOUCHING the postal frauds by government officials in Cuba, the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, May 18, says: “Competent and conscientious officials of great experience shudder to think of the facilities afforded for grave irregularities of all kinds in the disorganized islands across the Pacific. None can shut their eyes to the fact that the opportunities afforded for rascality under the new system of government adopted in Cuba were tempting in the extreme, and that what is true in this respect in Cuba, is doubly and trebly true in the Philippines.”

American Bible Society Work in China

THE American Bible Society is doing a great work in China: its circulation of the Scriptures there during the last year “is larger than ever before, reaching in round numbers one-half million copies. Translations or revisions of the Scriptures are being conducted under its auspices in several of the languages of the Chinese Empire.” Surely the Lord is preparing for a yet mightier work in China by the Third Angel’s Message. But who is preparing to give this message in China? There should be scores of young men and women, even now ready.

Massachusetts Sunday Tobacco Sales Case Decided

IN Massachusetts the tobacco stores were prohibited from selling cigars or tobacco on Sunday. The drug stores being allowed to be open, continued to sell cigars on Sunday. Then the tobacco dealers prosecuted the drug dealers for selling cigars on Sunday. The question was carried to the Supreme Court. The court sustained the contention of the tobacco dealers, with the loophole, however, that “it may be that, with or without a prescription from a physician, one may lawfully purchase tobacco or cigars as medicine at a drug store on the Lord’s day.”

THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.

By P. T. Magan

A few weeks ago, Elder Irwin, in an article which appeared in this paper, stated that a fund was needed to pay for the making of the plates and for the paper and binding material of the new book “Christ’s Parables and Object Lessons,” the proceeds of which are to go to help our schools everywhere out of their debts. And now we formally open the relief column, and call upon all good men and women to help us “roll back the reproach which has come upon our schools all over the land.” We want those whom God has blessed with money to lend a helping hand and make substantial gifts for this purpose. We therefore ask for gifts of fifty dollars and upward. Week by week we shall print in the REVIEW AND HERALD the list of those donating to this fund. Those who can not give fifty dollars or more can help by buying the book, but in the meantime let the wealthier ones come up to the help of the Lord, and roll back this reproach.

This is the busiest and best movement which has come to our ranks for many a long day. We know that God is in it, because he has inaugurated it himself at the mouth of his servant. When the debts of the schools have been lifted, the debts of all our other institutions can also be lifted. Very soon the tide of popular feeling in the world will turn against us. Seventh-day Adventists will then be called before the legislatures and courts of justice, and keen and critical questions will be put to us as we stand there. These questions will be vital in their nature. The financial standing and the financial transactions of all our institutions and enterprises will be thoroughly, searchingly, and sweepingly inquired into. So when God calls for his people to free the schools from debt, he is simply calling on all the people everywhere to arise and get his cause in the earth ready for investigation by the powers of the earth; for God is determined that when that investigation is made, there shall be the finest, cleanest, noblest, and best financial records laid before the world that have ever been seen since those of Daniel.

So, then, come along brethren of means, one and all, and give to this fund, that we may get out Sister White’s book, and pay off every farthing that is owed by our schools. Send your contributions to A. G. Adams, care of Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. The money will be fairly divided among all the schools according to the number of books which they sell.

The following persons have already pledged or paid the amounts set opposite their names:—

W. O. Palmer ........................................ $1,000 00 G. A. Irwin .......................................... 100 00 Russell Hart ......................................... 100 00 Frederick Griggs ..................................... 50 00 H. W. Cottrell ........................................ 50 00 J. N. Loughborough .................................... 50 00 J. L. Locke ........................................... 20 00

P. T. MAGAN, In behalf of the Committee.

UNION COLLEGE YEAR BOOK.

A HANDSOME, illustrated Year Book of seventy-two pages, the official document of Union College, is now ready for circulation. All who are interested in higher education, and who are planning to attend college next year, should examine a copy of this book at once. It tells all about expenses, courses of study, and gives much general information that our young people will need who desire a practical education. Sent free to those interested in education. Address the president, W. T. Bland, College View, Neb.

Sowing for Physical and Spiritual Health

By Editor

“WHATSOEVER a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” That is the promise of God. In obtaining a crop of anything that is good, whether it be of wheat, of health, or of righteousness, he who sows must know how to sow. Now that series of articles that we have for two weeks promised to begin next week, will be entitled, “Sowing for Physical and Spiritual Health.” Whosoever will candidly study these articles, will know how to sow for physical and spiritual health; and as certainly as he sows correctly, he will reap the inevitable fruit, which is holiness. Of all things, no subscriber of the REVIEW can afford now to allow his subscription to expire, and no person can afford to be without the REVIEW.