And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1: 28.
2. How did man lose it?
And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. 3: 17-19.
3. Through whom is it restored?
For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Luke 19: 10.
4. What is predicted concerning it?
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Dan. 2: 44.
And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him. Dan. 7: 27.
5. Who shall then inherit the earth?
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Matt. 5: 5.
6. By what power and at what time will it be renewed?
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 2 Peter 3: 12, 13.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Isa. 65: 17.
7. What is said of that blessed new earth?
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him. Rev. 22: 3.
Progress in China
By F. E. Stafford
National Reform—Cue Cutting
To the student of affairs in the Far East, there is no other country today that presents so many interesting developments as the great Middle Kingdom. In fact the eyes of all nations are watching with various degrees of uneasiness and apprehension, to see what is the meaning of the recent awakening of this oldest of all nations, that for centuries has existed in a hermit-like state, self-satisfied, and not caring to take any part in the drama of the world.
The door is now swinging open to the influences of modern civilization, and refuses to be shut; the great sleeping giant is arising, shaking off the bonds of superstition, breaking the shackles of perverse customs that have held fast for ages, and is preparing to take his place with the great world powers.
It is conceded by all, that in the chapter of modern history which is now writing, and in the important chapters which are soon to be written, a new name has been added; a new kingdom has arisen which must be reckoned with by all the powers of earth. That nation, which can hardly be called a kingdom any more, on account of its proposed reform government, is no other than the great nation, 400,000,000 strong, of new and progressive China.
The opening of the first National Senate, which convened in Peking on Oct. 3, 1910, marked a new era in the affairs of State. This is the first time in the history of the nation that the people have had a voice in the government. It is true that the assembly was not altogether representative, as half of its members were appointed by the throne; and it is likewise true that the people are not entirely prepared to undertake the guiding of the ship of State, having had no experience in this line. But the fact remains that a start has been made; and the people, having once tasted popular government, are now impatiently urging the inauguration of a general parliament, which has been promised for 1913, and may possibly be called at an earlier date.
That these representatives of the people have a keen insight into the problems of vital importance to the national welfare, can be clearly seen from the nature of the subjects that were considered during the sessions of parliament, and that are now carefully studied by the greatest Chinese statesmen of the day. Among these of prime importance is the reform of the currency system, which has been repeatedly promised, but never carried out, being always blocked by officials who were more zealous of their own personal interest than of the good of the nation. Closely associated with this is the reorganization of the administrative government and changing the personnel of many of the provincial offices, as heretofore much of the public money has been misappropriated to private uses.
In Chang Su Ho's garden on the day of cue cutting. Note the fine carriages in which the rich merchants drive around the city.
This in turn calls for better educated men; hence the whole system of education will be reconstructed along modern lines, and government schools established that will enable the nation's bright young men to receive a proper training without going to foreign countries as is the practise at the present time.
The program laid down also calls for the organization of a modern army and navy, with equipment of the latest type, including a fleet of air-ships for purposes of war.
Hon. H. E. Wu Ting Fang, Ex-Minister to the United States, who had his cue cut Jan. 15, 1911
Attention is also directed to proper coast and frontier defenses.
A vigorous campaign is to be conducted against certain evil practises that have long sapped the vitality of the race. The habit of opium smoking is perhaps the worst of these, and the last few years have witnessed great advancement in the eradication of this evil. Anti-opium societies have been founded in all parts of the empire, and the raising of the poppy plant from which opium is made is now prohibited by law. An effective crusade has also been conducted for some time against the practise of foot binding among women, so that at the present time in most of the large cities one sees many women with normal feet.
The last thing to fall before the advance of modern ideas is the style of head-dress that for several centuries past has been peculiar to the Chinese people. Contrary to popular belief, the cue has not been co-existent with the Chinese race, but was adopted so recently as the year 1644.
Brother Stafford, who sends us all these photographs, cutting the cue of his zinc etcher. Five boys are now without a cue; and Mr. Bow, the manager of the big Commercial Press, has cut his.
This date marked the downfall of the Ming Dynasty, and the inauguration of the Manchu Dynasty, which still controls the throne. The Manchus are descendants of the Northern Tartar races, and in order to show their superiority, they forced all the Chinese to shave the front of their heads and to adopt the cue as a badge of servitude. This practise, originally a method of humiliation, has grown to be quite the reverse; and for years the source of greatest pride to every loyal Celestial has been his long black braid. Next to life itself, he has prized this above all earthly possessions. It has been said that a Chinese man would part with all he had,—friends, riches, wife, and children, everything but his cue; and to be robbed of that meant everlasting disgrace, and banishment from the fellowship of his race.
That the cue is rapidly disappearing, and in a few years will be a matter of history, is an astonishment, and is one of the evidences of how deep the reform spirit and impartation of foreign ideas and customs have taken hold of this people. It has been my privilege to have a small part in this reform, and as it is considered very good luck to have a foreigner perform the ceremony, I have several times been asked to officiate. I was also present at the great public cue cutting which took place in Shanghai on Sunday afternoon, January 15. Previous to this a similar occasion had been celebrated in Hongkong at which nearly 5,000 cues fell in one day. Following this lead a cue cutting society was formed in Shanghai, and on the appointed day a large and curious crowd assembled in the spacious hall in Chang Su Ho's garden. Many prominent officials and well-to-do merchants were11present, and the first one to be shorn of his hirsute appendage was the Hon. H. E. Wu Ting Fang, ex-minister to the United States. Prolonged cheering then ensued as one after another of the crowd came forward to submit to the operation. About twenty-five barbers had stationed themselves in the wings of the hall, and they were kept busy putting on the finishing touches. Speeches were made, and at times the enthusiasm ran very high. One man, after submitting to the barber, mounted the platform, and after speaking earnestly a few moments, seized his severed cue by the end and waving it wildly round and round in the air, called on all his countrymen to come forward and initiate his example. This caused intense excitement, and precipitated a great rush toward the barbers' chairs. It was a day long to be remembered by all who were present; and let us earnestly hope that the reform spirit thus auspiciously inaugurated may continue to grow until many hearts will be opened to receive the true reform of the Gospel as it is preached now in this city.
Showing the crowd inside the hall at the cue cutting in Shanghai
F. E. STAFFORD.
Corruption, Opium, and Fasting
At a mass-meeting in Elgin, Illinois, attended by 1000 persons, Rev. Milton B. Williams, a prominent reform worker, said: "Before I came to this meeting I was called up on the telephone by an Elgin business man who has important connections with financiers of the first magnitude. He was unable to come here, but he asked me to make a statement for him. He said he knew for a fact that the enormous sum of $625,000 had been spent at a recent session of Congress to secure the acquittal of Senator Lorimer, and that this money had been put up by the Standard Oil Company and other big financial interests. Of this money, it was asserted, a prominent senator got $100,000."
The Chinese Anti-Opium Society says in their Atlas News Sheet: "We want to tell England that if we are free to prohibit opium, our national resources will develop quickly, so that England will get advantage from other forms of trade, and therefore there is no necessity to require compensation from us now. If England can generously give up the opium trade as a source of revenue, our country will be filled with thankfulness and sympathy towards yours." England ought to do all her part to put an end to the traffic forever.
Miss Ella Masterson of White Bear, Minnesota, who has fasted thirty-six days for a general nervous breakdown, says: "After the fourth day I had no desire for food, altho I sat at the table with the family and saw them eating. I lost thirty pounds, but did not become especially weak, and my mind was unusually clear, and in better working condition than before the fast began. I do not say that the fast absolutely restored me to vigorous health; but that I received great benefit from it, there is not the slightest doubt."
Protest has been made to President Taft by three large Jewish organizations of the United States against Russia's treatment of Jews who, as American citizens, have returned to Russia on business or to visit relatives. The President has assured the delegation who presented the protest that their complaint would be taken up with the Russian government, and that demand would be made that American Jews when in Russia be accorded the same treatment shown other citizens of the United States.
According to the "Universalist Leader," a prominent organ of that denomination, the Universalist ministry is facing a crisis. During the year 1909 there were only eight ordinations, and it now says that "there are not more than thirty students in the three theological schools of the denomination." As to the outlook, the article says, "They represent a condition which means that unless the ministry can be heavily recruited within the next few years the denomination is doomed."
The Roosevelt dam and power plant of the Salt River Valley Irrigation Project in Arizona, was dedicated March 18, 1911, by former President Theodore Roosevelt. The dam is of the Rubble masonry arch gravity type, has a maximum height of 280 feet, and develops 7,500 horse-power, which is transmitted to Phœnix, 75 miles distant. The reservoir insures ample supply for irrigating 240,000 acres of land in Salt River Valley.
A Minnesota inventor has devised a cash register that announces the amount of sale in human voice, as well as registering the figures. When the keys are touched for, say, a sale of $1.65, certain phonographic reproducers are released, and the machine sings out, "One-sixty-five." Added to the announcement of the sale may be such expressions as, "Thank you," or "I think you will find these goods satisfactory."
The increasing size and draft of modern battle-ships and other large cruisers is necessitating the revision of ocean charts. The need has been emphasized by vessels recently running on rocks that have not been designated on existing charts. An international conference may convene for the purpose of organizing an international service of maritime charts.
Several women officers are on the police force in Kansas City. Occasionally they make an arrest, but their work usually is of a more modest character. Their effort is mostly to protect women and children. They attend public places of amusement to prevent improper conduct, assist girls to find work, and perform humanitarian work in general.
How the Chinese have their cues combed every morning. Their combs and razors are very crude, but they seem to do the work.
The Michelin Grand Prize of $20,000, the largest to be captured by aviators in France, was won by Eugene Renaux. In a Farman biplane and carrying a passenger, he flew from Paris 240 miles south, and landed on top of Puy-de-Dôme, a mountain 4,805 feet high. He was in actual flight five hours, so his average speed was 48 miles an hour.
A recent ordnance invention is the bomb gun. It is constructed to fire a hollow shell loaded with 160 pounds of poisonous chemicals, which when the bomb explodes engender deadly gases that destroy all life within a radius of 500 yards. When the experiment was tried on animals the fumes killed them and colored them green.
Hudson Maxim, who predicts that warfare of the future will be expensive, declares that enough aeroplanes could be built in a few months to transport 100,000 men into the enemy's territory. "We could land a formidable army of raiders on an enemy from the very skies, and quickly accomplish irreparable destruction."
The first Universal Races' Congress will be held in the University of London, July 26-29. Representatives of all the races in the world will meet as equals and in council to discuss how prejudices may be removed and friendlier relations established between the Western nations and other peoples of earth.
The attention of American scientists visiting in India was attracted to bugs which preyed on ordinary garden insects, resulting in a cargo's being shipped to this country, part of which will be sent to Florida, where it is thought the insects will make short work of the orange lice that have been devastating the groves in the South.
It is said a plan is under way to overturn the republic of Portugal and restore the throne to King Manuel. Several meetings have been held in Paris and London by adherents to the deposed King, and at two of the meetings, those present pledged themselves to support an attempt to restore the monarchy.
Surveys are being made at Esquimalt, British Columbia, to build one of the largest dry docks in the world and the largest on the Pacific Coast. The dock will be constructed of steel and reinforced concrete, and will be built with the aid of the dominion government at an estimated cost of $3,000,000.
An invention held by this Government is a new explosive which Mr. Maxim says "will prove a revelation in warfare. The value of the explosive lies in the fact that it will send a projectile through any armor, and the explosion will not take place until after this projectile has passed through the armor."
Paul C. Wentz, an engraver and jeweler of Sharon, Pennsylvania, has engraved the Lord's Prayer and his own name, a total of 336 characters, on the head of an ordinary pin. The prayer can easily be read with a magnifying glass. After all it is better to have it engraved on the heart.
The Washington State Board of Health is stirred by the presence of the bubonic plague in Spokane, where three deaths are attributed to it, and there are said to be sixteen cases. Houses in which deaths occurred have been burned, and extreme measures adopted to prevent its spread.
Governor Charles S. Osborn of Michigan made the statement, endorsed by nearly 1,000 men, that Wm. J. Bryan is greater to-day as a preacher than he ever was as a politician. He says, "If Mr. Bryan followed false gods in politics, he is to-day following after the true God in religion."
And now Higher Criticism has touched the Mormon camp. At least there are charges against an instructor in the Mormon university at Provo for "unorthodox teaching." According to the professor's explanation he is a moderate Higher Critic, believing in creation by evolution.
While others fled, twenty Mexican rebels in Chihuahua were killed by rapid-fire guns pointed from an armored railroad car which had been converted into a portable fort by the government. These cars are coupled in mixed freight-trains to conceal their identity.
Over 500 students in Chinese Christian colleges have pledged their lives to the ministry during the past two years, signing a declaration card with the watchword, "The Evangelization of Our Mother Country and of the World in This Generation."
Living expenses in Italy are advancing. House rents and price of food are said to have doubled in ten years. A German tourist in this country says that in Europe Americans are held accountable for the increased cost of living.
A Catholic newspaper, "Unione," of Milan, has published what is said to be a revelation of a plot organized by an international group of Freemasons in Paris to deprive the Vatican of diplomatic representatives accredited to the pope.
One thousand cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Erie, Pennsylvania, and surrounding region. Altho the source of infection has not been determined, it is suspected that the lake water has been contaminated with sewage.
The rebels in Peru recently held up a train and robbed it of $5,000,000.
Self-Reliance
By Dr. L. F. Barker
TRUE kindness will teach the child to rely more upon self-help. The sensitive nervous system, if overprotected in the early years, suffers keenly when later on the principle of protection has perforce to give way to the principle of exertion. How to manage a child in a fit of temper has been much discussed. When possible it is desirable to cut it short at the beginning. Some parents rejoice to see their children reveal a violent temper, and are glad that they can fly into a passion, turn red as a beet, clench the fists, and attack the individual with whom they are angry. Such attacks, if frequently repeated, are very deleterious to the nervous system.
All children are easily frightened; but the child predisposed to nervousness, more easily than the healthy child, becomes the victim of abnormal fears of timidity. The mother, the nurse, the maid, and the servants still frighten the child with tales of the bogy-man, of goblins or ogres, of wizards and witches. How often is a child frightened to tears, its disposition spoiled, and its life made a burden, by tales, threats of tortures, which make it timid and shrinking! Sometimes fears are thus started that last through life. One must learn how to deal with the fear of being alone, the fear of the dark, and the fear of thunder and lightning. Certain fears common to childhood are easily overcome, especially through the example of courage set by the parent, the nurse, or the teacher.—Dr. L. F. Barker.
What Should a Man Be?
By Lilla Warren
By Lilla Warren
WHAT should a man be?
Why, honest and pure,
Just like a woman
Or girl, to be sure.
But most people say
A woman should be
A model of grace
And sweet purity.
And I say the same;
And if you're a man,
I think you'd do well
To follow that plan.
For how can you ask
That a woman be true,
Unless she can find
The same thing in you?
Cherish the Home-Life
CHERISH the home-life, the home-heart. Holy home influences last when all others perish.
The true home-life is the life of mutual helpfulness, when each does his or her part. In some families all the burdens rest upon the mother. The husband loves her, the children love her; but they do not love her enough to share her burdens, lighten her load, extend her leisure, keep from her the thousand and one petty things that the members ought to settle and bear themselves. Sometimes the overburdened is some other member.
The home-heart is not looking to be served, but to serve others. It finds its sweetest joy, its highest pleasure, in doing for others, in making others glad. How many times such service is unappreciated by selfish sons and daughters, who receive, but never give! If all the members of a family had the home-heart, no one would be doubly burdened. Each would be served and blessed by all; all would be served and blessed by each in turn. What better service could be asked?
This, we grant, is the ideal condition; but it is the condition to work for. Let us begin to-day by making it practical in ourselves without waiting for others.
Inordinate Affections
By Caribbean Watchman
THE moment a man gives way to inordinate desire, disquietude and torment take possession of his heart. The proud and the covetous are never at rest; but the humble and poor in spirit possess their souls in the plenitude of peace.
He that is not perfectly dead to himself, is soon tempted and easily subdued, even in the most ordinary occurrences of life. The weak in spirit who is yet carnal, and inclined to the pleasures of sense, finds great difficulty in withdrawing himself from earthly desires. He feels regret and sorrow, as often as this abstraction is attempted; and every opposition to the indulgence of his ruling passion kindles his indignation and resentment. If he succeeds in the gratification of inordinate desire, he is immediately stung with remorse; for he has not only contracted the guilt of sin, but is wholly disappointed of the peace which he sought. It is, therefore, not by indulging, but by resisting our passions, that true peace of heart is to be found. It can not be the portion of him that is carnal, nor of him that is devoted to a worldly life; it dwells only with the humble and the spiritual.—Caribbean Watchman.
The Home Helper
By Ellen G. White
Our Saviour, who understands our heart struggles, and knows the weakness of our natures, pities our infirmities, forgives our errors, and bestows upon us the graces which we earnestly desire. Joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, faith, and charity are the elements of the Christian character. These precious graces are the fruit of the Spirit, and the Christian's crown and shield. Where these graces reign in the home, the sons are "as plants grown up in their youth," and the daughters "as corner-stones polished after the similitude of a palace." These heavenly attainments are not dependent upon circumstances, nor the will or imperfect judgment of man. Nothing can give more perfect contentment and satisfaction than the cultivation of a Christian character; the most exalted aspirations can aim at nothing higher.—Mrs. E. G. White.
Wireless Stops Train
Drawing a train of twelve cars and rushing over the rails at a speed of forty-five miles an hour on a stretch of track near the city of Toronto, a powerful engine of the Canadian Pacific railroad service was brought to a quick standstill, with the throttle wide open and the engineer standing in his cab, a mere spectator, like those present with him, to view the wonder. The brakes had been applied on the big locomotive and train of cars by a wireless wave of electricity. The engineer's hand had nothing whatever to do with the stoppage of the train at this high speed, and to those in the cab of the engine there was something absolutely uncanny in the demonstration. It seemed to them that some giant hand had seized the equipment while in mid career and held it with ease.
Experiments with a wireless train-control system have been conducted by the Canadian Pacific railroad company since last May, and this recent demonstration was the culmination of a long series of successful tests. This automatic train-control system is the invention of a Toronto man, Frank W. Prentice. Thirteen years ago there was a head-on collision between a stock-train and a passenger-train on the line in which a friend of Prentice was involved. The latter worried about it a good deal, and that night he had a dream about placing a wireless generator on the forward car to prevent such accidents. Awakening with the idea in his head, he commenced working on it, and has been at it ever since. For a long time he was unsuccessful, but one day while he was passing a soda-fountain he noticed a little ball which was kept bounding in the air by the force of the water. This little incident supplied him with the missing idea, and the late demonstration was the result. —Selected.
Give Us More Like Jim
By C. H. Meiers
By C. H. Meiers, of the Pasadena "Daily News"
JIM PORTER is a quiet chap.
Folks do not like him very well
At first, because he doesn't talk
Unless he has something to tell;
But when they've known him for a while,
They like his way, because they know
That when he does say anything,
He speaks the truth for weal or wo.
He is not hasty to decide
Against his fallen fellow men;
And when he sees one try to rise,
Jim does not kick him down again,
But lends a helping hand, and gives
A word of cheer, to make the climb
A little smoother; and, somehow,
It helps the climber every time.
Jim hasn't climbed up very high,
So far as fame or fortune goes;
He's just climbed to the trust and love
Of everybody that he knows.
Still, he is glad that he has not
Climbed up too high to understand
His duty to his fellow men,
Or how to lend a helping hand.
The Protestant Magazine
By Editor
First Quarter for 1911
THE first issue of the Protestant Magazine for 1911 comes forth with a powerful appeal for a revival of true Protestantism. This issue of the Protestant is of itself a weighty testimony in favor of the Christianity of our forefathers and their constant fidelity to principle. It contains a convincing exposure of the claims of the Papacy, and the special shipwreck of modern Protestantism.
Among the topics treated in this issue of the Protestant are:
"A Vigorous Protest,"—a plain statement of the real meaning and tendency of Higher Criticism, and an appeal from it to the old-fashioned faith; "Modern Philosophy,"—a remarkable contribution to the discussion of the present condition of the religious world, by a New York attorney. His searching analysis of the teaching of religious philosophies, and a startling warning of the inevitable results, must be read to be appreciated at its true value; "'Lying for the Glory of God,'"—an answer to the charge made by a Catholic editor that lying is considered a legitimate weapon of defense in Protestant polemics. With this article are associated two other articles, "Immoral Moral Theology," and "The Development of the Papacy," all of which makes very interesting and instructive reading.
Sample copies of the Protestant will be sent on application. Address Protestant Magazine, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
The Youth's Instructor
By Editor
Special Temperance Number for 1911
THE publishers of the Youth's Instructor have just issued a very strong Temperance number, beautiful in appearance and strong in contents. Many of its articles have been written especially for the Instructor by some of the strongest and most popular temperance workers and authors. In addition to these masterly presentations of great temperance themes, the editor has compiled many of the best things printed on temperance, in the form of statistics, reports, experiences, and stories, nearly all being illustrated with drawings or attractive pictures. Taken all together, this Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor comprises the most effective collection of temperance matter ever printed, in an attractive form, suitable for general circulation. It will be a strong factor in a successful warfare against the great national curse of liquor.
Among the contributors to this special Temperance number are George T. Donehoo, David Starr Jordan, Rosa M. Barrett, A. A. Hopkins, W. T. Grenfell, Lewis E. Simes, William DeLacy, Dr. L. Bremer, Ex-Governor R. B. Glenn, John G. Woolley. Their contributions to the 1911 Temperance Instructor are very strong and practical. Send for sample copies and special rates to agents.
Youth's Instructor, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Life and Health
By Editor
A PRACTICAL health journal for the home, adapted to the needs of individuals, teaching how to care for and how to preserve the health, giving simple home treatments that aid nature in throwing off diseases rather than adding more poisons by using drugs or unnatural stimulants as remedies. It helps the people to avoid disease as far as possible, and teaches how to manage the home in case of sickness, and how to combat disease by simple remedies nature provides. It is an all-around home necessity in matters pertaining to health. Issued in the special interest of the rank and file of the people. Yearly subscription price one dollar; six months' subscription 50 cents.
Address Life and Health, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
LIBERTY
By Editor
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BUREAU
AN illustrated, 48-page, quarterly magazine, published as an exponent and advocate of true religious liberty; defending Christianity and the rights of conscience; upholding the Bible as the infallible word of God; recognizing the church and state as ordained of Heaven for specific and distinct purposes, but vigorously protesting against the alliance of the church with the state in the attempt to advance religion and to promote the state.
Price 25 cents per year. Liberal terms to agents.
Address, LIBERTY, Takoma Park, D. C.
Approximate Chronology
"Type and Antitype"—a booklet giving the Scriptural and historical facts, physical and climatic conditions, and astronomical calculations, that enable us to establish in our own modern calendar time the exact date of the Passover, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus. Price 25 cents. Address H. H. Perry, 67 19th St., San Diego, California, or your tract society secretary.
TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH
By Editor
Volumes 1 to 9, printed on thin paper and bound in limp leather. Volumes 1 to 6, $1.50 each; volumes 7 to 9, $1.25 each.
As an experiment we printed a few hundred Testimonies No. 6 on thin paper and bound them in limp leather for workers. These so pleased our people generally that 2,000 each of volumes 7 to 9 were printed and bound in this style. These gave such general satisfaction that we have decided to print thin editions of the first five volumes as well.
We are now able to supply complete sets of Testimonies 1 to 9 in limp leather at the prices quoted above. The library style has been discontinued. The cloth volumes, 1 to 6 at $1.00, and 7 to 9 at 75 cents, are still obtainable.
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