p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 47. (11/24/1910)

Earlier text: How the Workers View the Work

A Live Number

By Editor

ALTHOUGH the December number of the Signs of the Times Monthly is known as a Christmas number, still but a single article and only a few references are devoted to this festal day. The greater part of this issue is given to an exposition of other questions, far more important. A few of them follow:—

“Catholicism and Protestantism.” Has Catholicism grown strong? Has Protestantism degenerated? These questions are live, vital. Much depends on the facts. The editor writes interestingly and convincingly on this topic.

“The Pleiades and Orion” is the title of the December article of the Astronomy and the Bible series. A score or more commendatory letters regarding this series have been received.

“The Blessed Hope.” Every believer in Christ’s second coming should see to it that this magazine is placed in the hands of his neighbors, if for no other reason than to get this article before them.

“Narcotics and the Gospel.” Dr. D. H. Kress gives dollars’ worth of good, sound advice under this title, and you are given an opportunity to pass it on to others.

“Christ the End of the Law.” What was his attitude toward it? Strange though it is, many do not know. Let us enlighten such.

There are numerous other good articles. Some of them are: “Inspiration of the Bible;” “Missions and the Nations;” “Divinity of Christ;” “Luther and the Diet of Worms;” “Prophecies of the Christ.”

Here is what one of our agents has to say about her work with the Signs Monthly:—

“Enclosed find $16, for which send me 400 copies of the October Signs Monthly. I have sold half of my last order of 400 already. They sell well. I shall be sorry when my strength fails so I can’t sell the Signs.”

Order to-day of your tract society. Five to 40 copies, 5 cents a copy; 50 or more, 4 cents a copy. The November and December numbers free with all yearly subscriptions at $1.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Mountain View, Cal.

An Inspiring Book Free

By Editor

To those who apply immediately, we will send absolutely free the thrilling missionary book, “A Retrospect,” containing the marvelous experiences of answers to prayer by Dr. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, if at the same time fifty cents is enclosed for a year’s subscription to the Life Boat, which has been enlarged and greatly improved, and is now a regular ten-cent magazine, filled from cover to cover with live, interesting experiences and truths concerning city missionary work,—the great problem now before all our people. Address Dr. David Paulson, editor of the Life Boat, Hinsdale, Ill.

Brother Robert Nelson Sails for Argentina

LAST week Brother Robert Nelson, a nurse, of the Loma Linda College of Evangelists, sailed from New York, responding to a call from the South American Union sanitarium in Argentina.

Protestant Magazine for the Fourth Quarter

The Protestant Magazine for the fourth quarter is out. Again it presents a store of valuable matter and documents on the papal question. The historical extracts printed during this year have been particularly valuable.

California Conference Paper Distribution

WE learn that by the co-operation of the churches, the California Conference is planning to send about five thousand copies of the Present Truth Series of the Signs to specially selected lists round the circle of the Bay cities. This will mean a total distribution of one hundred twenty-five thousand papers during the next six months.

General Conference Committee Council

BEFORE this paper reaches its readers, the General Conference Committee Council will be in session. As we go to press, we can announce the arrival of Brethren G. A. Irwin, W. C. White, J. O. Corliss, and C. H. Jones, from the Pacific Coast; of Allen Moon, from the Lake Union; and of Charles Thompson, from the Southeastern Union. The latter has just returned from a visit to the Bahama Islands, a part of the Southeastern Union mission territory.

Week of Prayer Issue Copies

By Editor

COPIES of the week-of-prayer issue are being sent to church elders and conference laborers. Extra copies are also being sent to the local conference offices, so that any company not receiving the readings may apply to the local conference.

World’s Christian Citizenship Conference

Last week there opened in Philadelphia the “World’s Christian Citizenship Conference,” Brethren K. C. Russell, C. M. Snow, J. O. Corliss, and Charles Thompson have been in attendance from Washington, just prior to the opening of the Committee Council.

Corliss to Address Sunday-Law Issues

It is planned that Elder J. O. Corliss will spend some time this winter in Washington and the East, joining the officers of the General Conference Religious Liberty Department in meeting some of the issues that are being pressed by organizations working for special Sunday-law legislation.

College View Gazette

Thursday, November 10, was the natal day of the College View Gazette, an eight-page weekly paper, published by the Gazette Publishing Company, College View, Neb. It disclaims all political aspirations, and will be devoted to the material and social interests of the community. Price, $1 a year.

Workers Arrive on the Pacific Coast

WE hear through Brother Charles W. Peters, our San Francisco ship missionary, of the arrival of Brethren John and Fred Paap and their families, of Australia. They come to engage in the work on the Pacific Coast. Miss Nellie Sisley, of the Tonga Island mission school, arrived with them, to spend some time in this country in regaining her health.

Paul Curtis Resigns Missionary Position

OWING to failing health, Elder Paul Curtis, missionary secretary of the Central Union Conference, has been obliged to resign his position. His present address is Box 77, Carpenter, Wyo. He says: “I am doing all that one can to rid myself of the dreaded disease [tuberculosis], and believe I am to be the conqueror yet.” It is to be hoped that he may speedily recover, and once more connect with our organized work.

Remember Missionaries at Year's End

The suggestion is made in the November number of Christian Education, that every one who has friends, relatives, or acquaintances serving as missionaries in foreign countries, take special pains to remember them with a word of greeting or some token of loving sympathy, as the old year closes and the new year comes.

Pray for Workers in Tropical Lands

We need continually to remember in prayer the workers in the field, both at home and abroad, but especially in the unhealthful tropical lands. The workers in China have been having a particularly trying summer. The last mail brought word that Brother Otis J. Fisher, who went out from Southern California early in the year, is returning on account of his health.

Ordering Supplies

By W. T. Knox

In ordering supplies carried by the General Conference, such as “Tithe and Offering” envelopes, tracts, maps, birthday cards, etc., department secretaries and churches or individual members so ordering are requested to remember that their orders should reach the General Conference through their conference-tract society, and should not be sent to the General Conference direct.

Tract societies are requested to place their orders for these supplies with the General Conference treasurer, and not with the department secretaries, as all accounts are carried in the General Conference treasury.

W. T. Knox, Treasurer.

The True Supreme Authority

Speaking of the efforts being made in various quarters for a closer union of Christian effort, and the sacrifice which must be made of vital differences before this can be accomplished, the Baptist Standard speaks as follows:—

“A vapid, doctrineless, compromising church is worse than worthless. It will cumber the ground, misrepresent Christ, and die for the want of life. In the present situation, so full of possible good or of evil, what is the duty of every thoughtful Christian? The answer is easy: Seek the right ways of the Lord, and walk in them. A religion without authority is no religion. The world confronts two propositions touching authority in religion. One is the Catholic contention that supreme authority is in the Pope. The other is that supreme authority, undelegated, is in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Scriptures are the law of his kingdom. All who would get together must accept one or the other of these propositions. The constitution of Christianity is in the great commission. The message for this generation is a faithful preaching of the Word, and the highest service we can possibly render the world is to stand by the form of sound doctrine in the spirit of Him whose we are, and whom we serve.”

Training for Foreign Mission Workers

With the great demand for workers in foreign lands and the special need of evangelists and Bible workers in our great centers of population, many should respond to the calls, and take advantage of the offers, made in the article by the president of the Foreign Mission Seminary. Young married people who have devoted themselves to God's work will find special advantages here. The school is giving excellent intellectual, spiritual, and practical training to those who attend.