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CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Poetry. The Blessedness of Forgiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Holy Spirit, ELIZA H. MORTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Come, Winds of God! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A Sabbath Walk, MISS E. BATTERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Editorial.—"There is Nothing Too Hard for Thee"—The Forty Days' Fast—An Ominous Perplexity—Reply to Some Anti-Sabbath Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Outlook.—The Deep Shades and Shadows of Russian Life —Why Not on Monday Also?—Discrediting the Word—Sun- day Enforcement News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7 General. The Results of Repentance, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 How to Enjoy Your Bible, No. 3, W. S. SADLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The Watchtower, N. P. NEILSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Early and Latter Rain, T. E. BOWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Micah, F. D. STARR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Fifty Reasons for Sabbath Observance, D. T. BOURDEAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Tested and Tried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Lost and Redeemed (Bible Reading) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Missions.—An Interesting Letter—Letter from Canton, China, MRS. J. N. ANDERSON—From Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13 The Home.—Education in the Home, No. 7, MRS. L. D. Avery-Stuttle—Keeping the Furs—Why Pronounce In- correctly?—Rapid Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15 International Sunday-School Lesson.—Hezekiah's Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Publishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Christ Came to Save Sinners

"Into the World."—"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world." He left the supernal, transcendent glory of heaven to come into the world. He was "born of a woman," that He might come into this world and be a brotherman, a "kinsman," to redeem. When He came into the world, He mingled with all classes, rich and poor, formal Pharisee, skeptical Sadducee, plebeian publicans and sinners.

"To Save Sinners."—The coming into the world was a wonderful thing, but it was not and is not the thing. The great purpose is the wonderful thing, that which gives meaning to the coming, without which the coming would mean nothing to us. It is a "faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." That is why He came. That was His object in coming. To that one purpose He continually held. For it He taught, prayed, suffered, died. Did He attend the Passover feast?—He did it to save sinners. Did He accept the invitation to dine with the publican?—He did it to save sinners. In all His intercourse with men and women, He held to the one unswerving purpose.

Not of the World.—While Jesus came into this world, and was in the world, He was not of the world. While in the world, He was still in the bosom of His Father. He was the ladder which reached from earth to heaven, with the support from the heaven end. He knew neither the world nor its spirit. He was in harmony neither with its principles nor customs. He fellowshiped neither through fashions nor follies. While dining with a Pharisee, He was not of the Pharisees. They learned from Him, or had the privilege of so learning, but He learned naught from them save their great need. While at the feast of the publicans, where all the lower classes mingled, He was still not of the world. He went among them for the same purpose that He came into the world, to save publicans and sinners, but they, or at least the more part, heard Him gladly, and came where He was for the one purpose of hearing Him, but not with any thought of seducing Him to go with them. They felt their need, and believed that He could supply it.

THE followers of Christ Jesus are to be in this world as He was. He said, "As Thou didst send Me into the world, even so sent I them into the world." If true disciples, they are from another sphere. "Except a man be born from above, He can not see the kingdom of God." Therefore "they are not of the world, even as I [Jesus] am not of the world." And therefore He prayed again: "I pray not that Thou shouldest take them from the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil one." And here is set forth the whole sweeping injunction: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."

THUS shall God's children win every soul who desires more than this world can give. But those who will not know God, who desire only the world, will not, can not, understand the children of God. Nay more, the world will hate and persecute them, because they are not of the world, even as Christ was not of the world, and met their persecutions. But, blessed be God, in the final adjustment, nay, more, in the work of God here, His children shall lose naught; for yielding this world, they win eternal life, and "the world to come" with all its blessed fruitions of the ages, sinless, curseless, deathless, transcendently glorious. And God's children are in this world for the one sole purpose of living above the world in living not of the world, and that they may save sinners to the world to come, and so save themselves. No higher occupation soul ever knew or can know.

"SIGNS OF THE TIMES LEAFLETS."

By Editor

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No. 1—"The Sure Word of Prophecy." No. 2—"Prophetic History of the World." No. 3—"Second Coming of Christ." No. 4—"Signs of Our Times." No. 5—"The Sanctuary." No. 6—"The 2,300 Days." No. 7—"The Law of God." No. 8—"The Sabbath of the Bible." No. 9—"The First Day in the Bible." No. 10—"Who Changed the Sabbath?" No. 11—"The Great Threefold Message." No. 12—"The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast." No. 13—"Church and State." No. 14—"Life and Immortality." No. 15—"The Great Judgment Day." No. 16—"The Home of the Saved."

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Liberty Number

By Editor

Our next issue will be a Liberty number.—Its date will be July 4. It will have some striking articles and clear evidences as to where we are in relation to the principles on which this government was founded. You will want to read it; your neighbors ought to read it. We hope to get it out a day or two in advance so that our readers will have time to use it before the Fourth.

The Voice of the People and God

By Editor

We are asked by one of our exchanges, which is working in the interests of government ownership of public utilities, to make an extended notice of the matter, publish a list of questions, and ask our subscribers to vote for or against the proposition. As that is entirely outside of our mission in the world, we respectfully decline the invitation; but there is one point in connection therewith which we notice. The editor of our exchange says: "Here is an excellent opportunity for every editor who believes in the saying, 'Vox populi, vox Dei' (the voice of the people, the voice of God), to prove his faith by his works." Now, we are not of the class that believes that pagan saying to be the truth.

More than that, we are absolutely certain that that ancient slogan is not true. Many a ruler has found to his sorrow that the "vox populi" was a very capricious, fickle thing; but on the other hand, we know that the "vox Dei" is "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The "vox populi" in the time of Moses clamored for a golden calf, by whose worship they dishonored God—and that, too, at the very time when there was being engraved upon the tables of stone the "vox Dei" which declared, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. . . . Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them." In the time of Daniel the "vox populi" clamored for his life because he obeyed the "vox Dei" with all his heart; and when the voice of the people had induced the king to permit Daniel to be cast into the lion's den, then the voice of God commanded an angel to come down and shut the lion's mouths, that they should not harm that man of God. In the days of Christ the voice of the people, the "vox populi," clamored for the death of Him who was Himself the "Vox Dei," the Voice of God—and clamored so insistently, so thunderously, that the representative of the greatest power in the earth yielded to the "vox populi" and took the life of the very "Vox Dei" Himself. No, we do not believe the pagan maxim. The voice of the people is the voice of God, only when individual men and women are commissioned by Him to speak His will.

The "civilization" of the older and more exclusive section of our Republic recently received a sharp rebuke at the hands of General F. D. Grant, who has been in command of the Department of the East. In a recent speech he is quoted as saying: "You hear a great deal about the force necessary to keep those degenerate people [the Filipinos] in subjection. There are 12,000 soldiers out there. My department in the East maintains 14,000 men to keep you citizens of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other places in the straight and narrow path." It is a great mistake to suppose that the building of great cities is a sign of true civilization. Their slum districts, their criminal hatcheries, and their great police forces are arguments to the contrary, to say nothing of political corruption and the debaucheries in aristocratic society circles.

The enforcement of the strong drink curse upon the world is producing its blight as effectually and far more widely than the opium scourge in the Orient, of which we hear so much complaint. With all the heroic work of temperance workers in the United States, bringing many localities and some quite large areas under the good influence of prohibition, it seems there is but little, if any, decrease in the aggregate consumption and effect. The victims and increase of the dire effects of alcoholism seem to increase so fast in privileged territory that the aggregate output of the traffic holds its own—and a little more—despite the good work of prohibition in some parts. If it were not for the salutary effects of loyal temperance work through various lines, the flood of intoxicants would soon overwhelm and, morally, if not physically, destroy the populace in the so-called "civilized" and "Christian" nations.