“AND there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.” Many and beautiful are the voices we hear as we pass through these lone earth ways, weary and sin-cursed tho they be — music that seems borrowed from a higher, holier sphere, voices of friendship and love that have caught an echo from the land of peace and joy and song; wild bird notes that throb and thrill with an ecstasy half divine. All these are sweet to hear, dulled tho the ears be to the higher harmonies that were the birthright of earth’s first sinless dwellers.
And yet — and yet — having known sorrows, having drunk deep at the fount of pain, there is a voice that is sweeter still — the voice of inspiration, the voice of infinite love that whispers of a land where there shall be no more pain.
Ah, to eyes that have looked their last on the faces of loved ones, to hands that have felt the last clasp, and hearts that have ached and been lonely, how sweet — how inexpressibly sweet — the message, “There shall be no more death”!
In the fearful loss of life sustained in the recent steamship disaster, how many hearts cry out against death — its terrible aloofness, its isolation, and the darkness that shuts the loved ones away forever from the yearning gaze of father, mother, or wife!
O, how the poor heart cries out for just one look into the dear, dead face, to visit the place where lie the last remains! But no; death has come, and the loved one has been snatched away; and never again, till the sea gives up its dead, shall such sight gladden the eye and the heart. Life will go on, and the world will forget. But these will not forget, for memory will ever recall those graves that lie so far beneath the smiling waters; and the pain will not die, nor the longing cease. But to such weary ones comes the blessed thought of a soon coming Saviour and the resurrection from the dead.
Life Boat Mission, Springfield, Missouri.
Daily Fellowship with God
By Andrew Murray
THE first and chief need of Christian life is fellowship with God.
The divine life within us comes from God, and is entirely dependent upon Him. As I need every moment afresh to breathe the air, as the sun every moment afresh sends down his light, so it is only in direct living communication with God that my soul can be strong.
The manna of one day was corrupt when the next day came. I must every day have fresh grace from heaven, and I obtain it only in direct waiting upon God Himself. Begin each day by tarrying before God, and letting Him touch you. Take time to meet God.
To this end, let your first act in your devotions be a setting yourself still before God. In prayer or worship, everything depends on God’s taking the chief place.—Andrew Murray.
Moses’ Proper Nurse
THE proper nurse for Moses is Moses’ mother.—Puritan saying.
Cleanliness and Character
"Who cares how clever a person is if he is soiled or unkempt? The greatest mind, if enclosed in a filthy body, must stand away back when a pure, clean man or woman enters the room."
Spiritualism and the Dead
The despatches are telling of a gentleman who claims to have had a communication through the spirits from hell. He says the place is not so bad as it has been pictured by the orthodox world. Among the curious things that he saw there were the spirits of Michel Ney and Napoleon Bonaparte, who appeared before him in the costume of Michelangelo. The communications that the spirits are pretending to send from “the great beyond” are becoming more and more persistent and more and more numerous. The world is becoming quite thoroly convinced that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, but such a notion is decidedly unscriptural, and men ought to be able to see that it is also unscientific and unreasonable. The only way that men can claim that the return of the11spirits of the dead is in harmony with science is for them to adopt that which is science falsely so-called. The Bible gives some of its most striking and vigorous warnings against the deceptions that will be worked by Satan in the closing hours of time; and among these deceptions, the manifestations of spirits such as are coming to the world now through Spiritualism stand in the forerank. With the clear warnings that the Word of God gives, why is it that men will reject the warning and be misled by the seducing spirits of devils, while thinking that they are communicating with their “departed friends”? If there ever was a time when the warnings of the good old Book were needed, and should be carefully heeded, that time is right now.
Significant Discussions
By Editor
ANY one who is noticing the discussions, through the press, of current topics, must be impressed with the many strong utterances that are made, and the vehement urgings of various reforms.
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We have investigations, by congressional committees, of corruptions and fraud in high places. As these matters are progressing, strong statements are made concerning the conditions — statements that are calculated to inflame the mind of the populace. We have investigations of fraud and vice and crime that are made in dozens of cities in various parts of this nation, as well as in the world at large; and strong, intemperate things are said in regard to these conditions. Our political campaign that is in progress this year, and that began unusually early because of the new plan of primaries, has been a campaign thus far in which strong, excitable, and inflammatory language has been one of the leading characteristics.
Frequent mention is made of the smoldering discontent because of the conditions; and certainly if there were no "discontent," such inflammatory utterances as are made would create dissatisfaction and unrest.
As an illustration of some of the things that are said, mention might be made of the advertisement that is scattered broadcast everywhere of certain magazine articles that Thomas W. Lawson, of "frenzied finance fame," is purposing to write. Among the things Mr. Lawson’s publishers say concerning these articles are:
"He offers you a chance to win back low-cost living. In showing up the device which robs us, he presses home a volcanic indictment of the underworld of Wall Street. He crowds his pages with amazing tales as hard and as true as steel, as dazzling as the 'Arabian Nights.'"
In regard to the articles, Mr. Lawson himself says:
"These stories will be written, first to interest, and then to educate, and last, to raise all the latent hell in the American people.
"The American republic is going to destruction because
"It is in the clutches of an evil which
"Is not of the people’s own conscious making, and, consequently,
"It is beyond their power of curing, because
"They do not know what it is.
"This is, in fact, the trouble to-day, the cause of the mad unrest, the frenzied agitation, the reckless desperation, the nearly garroted hope. The people know that they are hurt and are being hurt unto death; but they do not know what is hurting them."
We do not quote the foregoing in order to endorse any such statements. We think that at least one of the statements (the one covering "latent hell") is decidedly rough to appear in what purports to be a dignified advertisement. But the statements do show that there is a condition in the public mind that makes such extreme utterances palatable, and the conditions which are creating such statements are growing worse and worse all the time.
The current news of the day is one prolonged cry of discontent and unrest, from one side of the world to the other. For instance, in Liverpool a few days ago one of the leaders of the unionists in England is said to have had a crowd of a hundred thousand men before him as he spoke to them. He was discussing the home rule measures for Ireland, and said he had the promise of "ships to carry ten thousand men from Liverpool to Belfast to help Ulster, if it came to a fight."
Then we have the despatches that tell of the mobilization of armies, because of the prospective outbreak in the Balkans. It looks at the present time as if the whole of Europe might be involved in a general war there.
The conditions in Lawrence, Massachusetts, are a clear indication of the pent-up feelings of the populace. For instance, a few days ago seven hundred people came from Boston to Lawrence to participate in a parade to the graves of two persons who were killed during the strike riots last January. Twenty thousand met this seven hundred at the railway station. They undertook to march through the streets of the city, were met by the police, and a general fight ensued. There is so much dissatisfaction among the people that violence and rioting will break forth almost spontaneously anywhere.
In describing the times just before His coming, the Master says:
"There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21: 25-28.
And through the apostle Paul the Master utters these inspired words:
"But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away." 2 Tim. 3:1-5, A.R.V.
There are men who are trusting to themselves and to their great powers of intellect and of influence, who think that these conditions can be stayed, and that a revolution may be averted; but let it be clearly understood by every one, that these conditions will continue to grow worse and worse. God, who declares the end from the beginning (Isa. 46:10), knew what would occur in these days, and has told us of it, and the events that are causing so much uneasiness and dread in the world at the present time have been clearly outlined in the Sacred Book. God is not compelling men to act as they are acting to-day, but He knew thousands of years ago just how they would act in this time, and has foretold it.
We should anchor to the good old Book, and through its shining light of prophecy see the meaning of what is before us in the world, take our stand with God, and be ready for the great climax that the inhabitants of the earth have almost reached. Men are getting conditions started in this world that their powers are altogether too finite to handle, and the only thing that will be able to cope with the situation will be the infinite power of Christ at His second coming. And that coming is very near at hand. T.
Current Events and Developments
By Editor
Despatches from Rome state that the pope intends to name two more American cardinals at the consistory in the month of November. News of this character helps to keep in mind how rapidly the power and influence of the Papacy is increasing in this country. And we should remember that the prophetic Word points out the fact that it is from this country that the pope will regain his power to rule the world. It is interesting to watch the developments that so clearly point in that direction.
Col. L. M. Maus, of the medical corps of the United States army, in an address before the convention of the Association of Military Surgeons in Baltimore on October 2 stated that repeated investigation had revealed the truth that there is not a single benefit to be derived from the use of alcohol. He said the use of alcoholic stimulants has no place in either the army or the navy either as a medicine or as a beverage, and recommended that their use be debarred by law.
An instrument called the “barocyclometer” has been invented that is said to be so delicate in its action that it will detect a hurricane five hundred miles away. It is stated that these instruments are being installed by the Navy Department with the hope that through their aid the vessels at sea will be able to steer clear of destructive storms.
The despatches make it quite clear that a treaty of peace has been signed between Italy and Turkey. Turkey hastened to agree on terms of peace so as to be left free to handle the situation in the Balkans.
A hunger strike throughout Great Britain is proposed by the leader of the suffragist movement there unless parliament shall give satisfactory attention to their demands.
Sixty thousand tons of California canned and dried fruits are being shipped to Europe this year, a large part of it going to Germany.
The Balkan States and a European War
By Editor
ONE of the leading items in the despatches for the last few days has been the imminence of war between Turkey and the Balkan States. It is affirmed that Turkey is hastening to make peace with Italy so that she will be absolutely free to deal with this new situation that confronts her. She has summoned to her colors all her reserves in both Asiatic and European Turkey, and this brings into the field about 750,000 men. The Turkish press is clamoring for war, and the people are enthusiastically supporting it. And while Turkey is so anxious for the clash to come, the Balkan States are just as furiously pushing forward their preparations, and their whole populace is stirred to demand immediate action.
THE SATURNALIA OF GRAFT—THE SHAME OF AMERICAN CITIES
The press of Germany, France, England, and other European countries is a unit in saying that the situation is very grave; and while the “powers” are doing all they can to prevent war, yet they say that such headway has already been reached that they are afraid the crash will come before they can get anything done to stop it. They are hoping to take the fervor out of the war dogs by issuing a statement that the powers will not permit any changes in territorial boundaries, no matter what the outcome of the war may be. But the sentiment seems to be very general that there is just now the gravest menace to European peace that has been known for a long time.
The rapidity with which this thing has been stirred up is truly marvelous. It is almost beyond comprehension. It shows unmistakably that there is a smoldering volcano of discontent and war feeling that requires only the least conceivable agitation to cause it to burst forth. These Balkan States, with Turkey as the center of the situation, have been a disturbing element in Old World affairs for twenty-five years or more. The political disease that centers there has become incurably chronic, while at the same time it is possessed of the intense activities of the most violent of acute attacks.
Just now the Balkans are the leading figure that seems likely to involve all of Europe in war. Yesterday it was the trouble between France and Germany, and that trouble does not seem to be fully over. The day before, it was England and Germany that were at swords’ points. And thus the matter goes on. There is an indescribable pent up feeling in all the world that makes for strife and bloodshed, but still it seems to be held in check in spite of all indications that war will surely break out. In describing the scenes that would prevail on the earth in connection with the judgment-day the Lord’s Word says:
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ: and He shall reign forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshiped God, saying, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because Thou hast taken Thy great power, and didst reign. And the nations were wroth, and Thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear Thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.” Rev. 11: 15-18.
This outbreak of the war spirit in the Balkans is simply an illustration of what is coming to be more and more pronounced all over the world; and the foregoing is only one of the numerous texts that tell what the meaning of it all is. It shows that the judgment-day is imminent, and that the second coming of Christ is right at hand. Things are coming to such a pass in the world that human beings will soon be wholly unable to cope with them; the only one who can meet the needs of the situation is the Lord of Glory Himself.
But the war of Armageddon, the war of the great day of God is not yet reached. This trouble in the Balkans will in all probability blow over for the time being. War may actually break out, but it will not be likely to become world-wide. For we have the following prophetic declaration that the winds of war will be held until the sealing work of God is finished in the earth:
“After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree. And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” Rev. 7:1-3.
It is a well-established principle of interpretation that in these symbolic prophecies the winds represent commotion and strife among the nations. And the verses above are thrown in between the sixth and seventh seals, thus indicating that they apply at the time when the scenes of the second coming of Christ are pressing in upon the world, and besides, the whole tenor of the language shows that this prophecy applies right at the end of time. And it is clear in saying that these winds of strife are held by divine power until the Lord’s gospel work is finished. God always uses means to an end. In all probability He is using diplomatic statesmen and strong peace organizations to hold back the flames of war. But let no one be deceived into thinking that because all the threatened wars subside so quickly, therefore we are not to have any more wars. The greatest war of all the ages is just before the world. It is the great war of Armageddon.
Some men will continue to work for peace in their own way and in their own strength, and will take the credit to themselves that belongs to God for holding back these war storms. They will pursue this course until they will finally affirm that the world is in the permanent embraces of peace. They will say this right in the face of the contrary evidence. The Word of God which has foretold it, and that upon which we stand in making the assertion is the following:
“Concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief: for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.” 1 Thess. 5:1-6.
It is when they are actually saying, Peace and safety, that sudden destruction is hovering over them. Men to-day are saying that we are to have no more wars, and that, too, in the face of the most overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Is it because they refuse to stand in the light that Paul says is provided? Is it because they have shut out the light of God’s Word, which is the only thing that enables men to see things as they are in this crooked world? T.
Joe's "Burning Heart"
By Frances B. Callaway
FROM his father, Joe Berwick inherited a blacksmith shop, his trade, and a love for drink. The smithy, a weather-beaten old brick building, with bleared, cobwebby windows and crumbling foundations, stood in an open lot near the center of the village. This lot was covered with a bed of black cinders, the accumulation of twenty years, and on top of the cinders all manner of rusty wheels, tires, plows, farm implements, and broken-down carts which had been collecting there for about the same length of time.
Joe, a great swarthy, stalwart fellow, was a splendid workman; and when the ring of his hammer made the sparks fly cheerily from the anvil, how his mother in that little cottage next to the smithy listened to the music of it! and all the neighbors could tell you how she used to sing. But the days and days when Joe was off on a drunk, and the old smithy was dark and silent — only the Lord knew how his mother used to pray!
Joe had been away to a Keeley cure for months, and when he returned he was cured, as they all hoped. But poor Joe! he no sooner entered the smithy than the old temptation, which seemed still lurking about the smoky walls and the blear-eyed windows, all leaped upon him whichever way he turned, and no man ever began a braver fight with the powers of darkness than did Joe Berwick that day.
Just a month Joe had been home, and the old thirst was on him that morning with something like madness. To resist it was like trying to stand in the way of a lightning express-train. Joe found himself trembling and giving way. He threw down his hammer and went to the open window, feeling faint and sick. The strip of doorway by his mother's cottage lay fresh and green in the April sunshine, and a robin lighting on an apple bough bursting with buds, was whistling joyously. Joe's mother in her sunbonnet, with her skirts carefully pinned back, was weeding out her bed of grass-pinks in the garden. Joe could hear her singing:
'The prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene,
The pastures of the blessed
Are decked in glorious sheen.'
Joe loved flowers and sunshine; he loved this peaceful little home; more than all, he loved his mother. He leaned his face heavily on his hands — O, how the battle was raging! There was a strange look in his eyes when a few moments later he put on his hat in a shamed way and walked out of the shop.
"I'm afeared Joe's goin' to give in," muttered the foreman, with a troubled look on his face.
"Goin' to give in?" laughed the customer who chanced to be waiting. "Nobody ever expected him to hold out more'n a week."
The old foreman turned back to his work with something like a groan. He had known and loved Joe since he was a little lad. Through the open window still came the mother's voice, clear, almost shrill, in its sweetness:
'The prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene,
The pastures of the blessed
Are decked in glorious sheen.'
The customer had paid for his work and gone away before Joe's familiar step was heard returning, and then he went straight past the shop into his mother's flower garden. He had something in a pot which he was carrying; and the foreman, glancing out of the window, heaved a sigh of relief, for he knew that Joe was all right when he heard the lad say in his hearty voice:
"I brought you a posy, mother. It's a primrose."
"Why, Joe! whatever made you do it?" cried the little mother, putting down her trowel with such a look of surprise and delight, and her hands trembled so she almost let the pot fall as Joe handed it to her.
From time to time all summer, Joe kept bringing home flowers, until the tiny garden spot was crammed full, the borders of the walks were filled, and even the porch was overflowing with them. Mrs. Berwick, no longer surprised or delighted, began to think that her son had gone out of his senses.
"Never mind," she said, soberly, as she put up the last hanging-basket; "he'll get over it when cold weather comes."
But cold weather came, and Joe still kept up his mania for buying flowers. One night when he came in with a great burly chrysanthemum, his mother lost all patience.
"Why, Joe, this house is so cluttered up with plants now I can hardly find room to set my foot down, and the windows are so filled up we can't see out of 'em — and what do you keep on buying more for?"
"Mother!" said Joe, taken aback, for she was a woman who never scolded, "I hadn't noticed the house was filled up so, and I thought you liked flowers — and the truth is, when the old cravin' came back drivin' me most mad, I just took to spendin' that money for flowers I might have spent in drink, and the Lord knows how it helped me. Do you mind now, mother?"
"Joe, my lad!" and the tears were streaming down his mother's cheeks, "you can buy flowers until we have to move out on the sidewalk if you'll only keep sober and steady. Of course I don't mind," and then Joe's mother was fast in Joe's arms, and they were crying together.
While Joe slept that night, Joe's mother was praying — praying as no mother ever prayed for a son on a battle-field before — that her son might not give in.
After this, Joe gave his mother a little purse to keep, and whenever he felt the old passion coming back, he put in it the money he would have spent for drink. The purse was filled over and over, and his mother saved it all until such a time as it could be spent for "Joe's flowers."
The garden being full, another summer the waste ground around the smithy was cleared up, soil was put there in place of cinders, and all neatly sodded, with a great heart of flowers in the center. This heart Joe kept filled with blazing red flowers; and the old foreman, who knew the story now, could not help telling the neighbors, he was so proud of Joe. The neighbors, who were all fond of Joe, could not help speaking of it to one another as they passed and repassed many times a day, and so it came that even the children knew every one of these flowers meant a battle and a victory, and they used to speak of this bed reverently as "Joe's burning heart."
The old smithy hardly knows itself any more, since its foundations have been rebuilt so square and true, its windows cleaned and brightened, and its weather-worn walls covered with shining ivies. On the south side, facing the cottage, a greenhouse has been built; and here Joe spends every spare moment, busying himself in the care of his flowers, or reading and studying about them, for it is his ambition to become not only a florist, but a botanist.
Nor does Joe forget his old comrades; and when he meets one in the street, out of work it may be, or downhearted, or bound for the saloon to have it all out in a spree, Joe will ask him into the greenhouse to see the flowers, or to offer him some odd bit of work, or just to give him some little potted plant to take home to the children. And what with Joe's kindness and friendliness, and the sweetness and the brightness of the flowers, and the encouragement of it all, the poor fellow will be tided over that hard place and saved from the spree.
"An' that's the way Joe works it," says the old foreman to a neighboring gossip. "That's the way he lends a helpin' hand. An' the boys are willin' to take a word of advice from Joe — they know what he's been through."
It was one summer morning that I first saw Joe's flower garden, and this story was told to me. Fine blush roses and tall madonna lilies were filling all the June air with fragrance; and as Joe's mother walked between them, she was singing softly but with confidence:13"The prince is ever in them, The daylight is serene."
It was a busy morning, with the sound of Joe's anvil ringing out lustily and cheerily; and as I stood looking and listening, it seemed to me I had never heard such eloquent preachers of temperance as these lovely, innocent flowers opening in the sunshine — "Joe's flowers."
Send Them Happy to Their Dreaming
By Flora Kirkland
Send them happy to their dreaming,
Bless the little ones at night;
Grieve them not as sleep o'ertakes them,
Let not tears their slumber blight.
Let the latest thoughts be happy,
As the rest-time draweth nigh.
Love and joy should hover o'er them,
Underneath the evening sky.
Send them happy to their dreaming,
As their sleepy eyelids close;
Think of One whose love for children
Ever warm and tender glows.
Grant their little, earnest wishes,
Answer questions, join in play;
Send them happy to their dreaming,
'Tis the wisest, kindest way.
— Flora Kirkland.
Good Books for the Holidays
HOW TO SELL THEM
The New Home Workers’ Prospectus
"The main thing is to get out early, before others occupy the field. The books will sell themselves at sight with very little talking."
The above illustration of the Home Workers’ Prospectus appears on the first page of the new instruction booklet prepared to assist the home missionary worker in the sale of the beautiful small books especially desired between now and the holidays. The prospectus used contains samples of the following:
New Testament Primer,
Best Stories from the Best Book,
House We Live In,
Bible Child Life,
Uncle Ben’s Cobblestones,
Elo the Eagle,
Story of Pitcairn,
Advance Guard of Missions,
Making Home Happy,
Making Home Peaceful,
Steps to Christ,
Mount of Blessing,
Christ Our Saviour,
Our Paradise Home,
His Glorious Appearing.
The booklet explains the prospectus, tells you how to select and arrange samples for the books you wish to sell, how to make preparation for the work, and gives just the help needed in making introduction and entering upon canvasses for the books. It also suggests as to reporting, ordering, and delivering, and gives interesting experiences others have had with these beautiful books before the holidays.
Send request at once to your tract society for this booklet. It is free. If unacquainted with the location of your tract society, address
Pacific Press Publishing Association
Mountain View, California
Kansas City, Mo. Calgary, Alberta, Canada Portland, Ore.
Our Work and Workers
By Editor
PASTOR D. ISAAK writes from Sebastopol, Crimea, of the progress of the work since its inception there years ago. At present they have a good Russian church of seventy-two members, and fifteen others have requested baptism. The work continues to grow, and he anticipates that soon they will have a hundred members.
WE learn that by a slight change in name and in the manner of carrying on its work, the tract society at Riga, Russia, may continue its work undisturbed. The former association was dissolved and a private firm formed, which arrangement is agreeable to the Russian authorities. This is another evidence of God's special care over the work in that difficult field.
L. O. MACHLAM, of South Lancaster Academy, Massachusetts, sailed from New York September 14 for the Bermuda Islands, where he will engage in educational work. On the 19th, Brother G. A. Hamilton and family, of California, sailed from New York for India. After attending the annual meeting of the India Mission in Calcutta, they will proceed to Burma, where they will work among the Karens. Mrs. A. Ruoff, also of California, sailed the 7th for Calcutta, India, whence she will go to Burma, to engage in self-supporting mission work. Another party, consisting of Pastor M. D. Wood and family and Brother and Sister V. E. Peugh, also sailed early in the month for India. Brother and Sister Wood have been in India before, and are now returning to their chosen field of labor. Brother and Sister Peugh go in response to an urgent call for help among the Tamils of South India. Prof. H. U. Stevens and wife, of College View, Nebraska, sailed the latter part of August for Argentina, South America, Professor Stevens answering a call for a principal for the River Plate Academy at Diamante, Entre Rios, the training school for South America. Brother and Sister B. P. Hoffman, of Kent, Washington, sailed from San Francisco early in August for Japan, to enter evangelistic work.
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Will You Aid?
By C. L. Taylor
How glad we ought to be that we may do just a little to enable our workers in the tropics to keep their health! We may do it, and do it easily. How?
Within a few months, we may send to our workers in far-away India a shipment of Pacific Coast dried fruits — acid fruits, for which our distant loved ones have a great longing. And when we have such an abundance as this year has brought, we surely must not deny our brethren and sisters in India a small portion.
I am appealing to you to aid in securing the fruit. Apricots, prunes, peaches, plums, cherries, berries, apples, will greatly aid the workers to maintain their health, and thus will be a direct agency for hastening forward our mission work. I am confident that you will wish to have a part in this good enterprise.
If you have not the fruit yourself, you might possibly solicit it from others, or you might give in money the equivalent of what you would gladly donate in the way of fruit. But please help!
All fruit should be shipped (charges prepaid) to me at St. Helena, California. All money should be forwarded by post-office order payable to me at Sanitarium, California. Sanitarium is a money-order office. Any who choose, may send money to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, California.
Please do not forget this. Act upon the matter at once. God will bless you. Remember Acts 20:35.
Your brother,
C. L. TAYLOR,
Chaplain St. Helena Sanitarium.
BOOK NOTICES
"Illustrations on the Beatitudes," by Sadie Eastwood. The Sunday School Times Co., Philadelphia. Cloth, illustrated. Price 60 cents.
The illustrations in this splendid little volume help to tell the story, rather than merely to decorate its pages. The book is packed full of helpful incidents of how children and others have gained victory over bad temper and other evil traits of character. And then the lesson is made to turn to one of the beautiful texts of Scripture, expressive of some great lesson that was taught by the Christ Himself. It is just the kind of book that would be helpful to the Sabbath-school or Bible teacher. And in addition to that, it is just the kind of book you would like to give to your boy or girl to read. You will find that they will be interested in its illustrative stories, and that they will be helped by them, even tho the book bears the marks of having been prepared especially for the teacher.
A Guide to Western Automobile Roads
Auto Road Maps for California and Nevada, 1912 edition. Published by the Monarch Oil Refining Co., 60 California St., San Francisco, Cal. Paper cover. Price 50 cents.
This is the second edition of this very desirable automobile road guide. It gives quite complete maps of all the automobile roads in the two states of California and Nevada, and a full index enables one to find readily the best routes to take in going to any given place. In the back part is a section devoted to the description of the various roads, so that any one may know what grades and other difficulties he may have to encounter. Taken all together, it is a very complete pocket guide to the autoist.
