p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 1. (1/13/1914)

Earlier text: THE PLAN OF GOD IN CREATION

Christ Our Advocate

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Faultfinding

DON'T get in the habit of it. It's the easiest thing to do and the hardest thing to stop in the wide, wide world. It ruins your temper, and spoils the shape of your mouth. Try to see the good rather than the disagreeable in the people and your surroundings. You would not go to a friend's house and find fault with what she does, and with what she has, and her ways of living. What right have you, then, to find fault with those who are more than friends to you—the people of your own blood?

If there is a grace that we are all stingy with, it is that of giving praise, and yet it is one with which we ought to be lavish. Why should you tell your friend that her bonnet is becoming, when you have never said this to your sister? Why should you go out to luncheon and praise your neighbor's muffins, when you have forgotten to tell mother how good hers were? Why should you announce how much Mr. Wilson over the way knows, when father is a great deal better-informed man, and it has never entered your little head to whisper quietly to him how much you appreciate his wisdom? You keep your ability to discover faults for the home, while the eye that should look for virtues is closed tightly until you go out.

Don't wait till some one is gone from you, to tell their virtues. Don't wait until your sister is far away in another land to tell her how helpful, how pretty, or how courteous she is. And don't wait until the weary hands are crossed and the long sleep comes, before you make mother know what a beautiful blue are her eyes, how tender her heart, and how dearly you love her. Tell it all now—now, when the walk through life is hard, and the sunshine of praise is yearned for to brighten it, and to warm and encourage the pilgrim by the wayside.—Ladies' Home Journal.

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"Tormented Forever and Ever"

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Cooperation Corner

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The Extravagance of the Rich

A SIGNIFICANT instance of the overgrown luxuries of this time is shown in a lawsuit that is now in progress, in which a woman is seeking to show that her income of $15,000 a year, allotted her by the court, from her husband's estate, for the maintenance of herself and children, is not enough. She is seeking to show that her necessities actually require $100,000 a year. The necessities of no woman and three children can reach such enormous figures. It is only when people have educated themselves in wantonness, extravagance, and luxury, that they feel the need of such expenditures. Did you ever read the fifth chapter of James, and the thrilling story that it presents of the wantonness that would be practised by the wealthy living in the last days? Such incidents have come to be very common; and in the focused light of both history and prophecy, they are most significant and portentous.

The Army of the Unemployed and the Growing Discontent

MANY sections are now grappling with the problem of their "armies of unemployed." In some places, as in Los Angeles, in Colorado, and in Oregon, there have been clashes that threaten more serious outbreaks and violence. As usual, men of differing political persuasions are seeking to lay the blame of these conditions at the door of the political party that is in power. Such a course may be very wise from the standpoint of the politicians who are seeking to create sentiment that will give them votes and enable them to regain their lost political power; but the man is a very superficial and short-sighted thinker who can not see that the conditions which are so rife in the United States, and which are seen also in quite as remarkable and portentous proportions in every other part of the whole wide world, are but the beginning of the reaping from the seed sowing that has been in progress for half a century.

Men of wealth have been combining and concentrating until a mere handful hold the control of the financial resources of the world. As this concentration of wealth has been going on, the Socialists and the leaders of organized labor have been discussing it. They have been decrying these "economic conditions" that are giving a few men a superabundance, while the great mass have but a small comparative portion of wealth, and millions upon millions of human beings are in the dire straits of poverty. It is said, on competent authority, that there are ten million people in the United States alone who are verging upon destitution, the vast majority of whom do not know where they are to get their next meal.

These conditions have been discussed on street corners in every part of the world. Lecture halls have been crowded with discontented men who have heard the story of the oppressions and the luxurious extravagance of the wealthy. Train loads of literature discussing it have been sent out. Some of the papers that have the widest circulation of any in the land are those that carry the socialistic sentiments.

There is no denying the fact that the wealthy men have furnished a big text from which the Socialist and the labor organizer could preach. Sympathetic congregations have listened to their doctrines. Men may wax very indignant in condemning the Socialist. They may organize to overthrow the labor movements. But after they have done their best, still these conditions remain. And we have advanced to the place where there is a far larger problem before the world than the mere discussions of the right and the wrong of the parties to the two sides of this great international question that has produced a world problem. We have had the seed sowing, and the harvest is here, and the reaping of results is about to begin.

The strongest of men believe that we are facing a world revolution. If you have not studied these conditions in the light of the prophetic Word of God, you are in the dark; but if you have studied them under the guidance of the inspired prophets, you know just what they mean and where they will end. The wise man in this time will throw his theories to the winds, confront the facts of the actual conditions, and take his stand with the only One in all the universe who was able to point out years ago that these conditions were coming, and to tell us what they portend.

"Stormy Wind Fulfilling His Word"

THE despatches say that all England is "in the grip of a blizzard," and the snow is said to be five feet deep. There have been several deaths from exposure. There would be nothing especially remarkable in this, were it the only occurrence of the kind worthy of note in recent months. But despatches of the same date told of the tornado that visited the Gulf of Mexico, doing much damage to shipping and other properties; and if we follow the year 1913 through, we will find that it has been a remarkable period for great storms. There was the tornado in the early spring that swept up from the Gulf states almost to New York. This was followed a few days later by another destructive tornado in a near-by region. A little while later came the great tornado that worked so much destruction through the state of Nebraska, whole villages being almost completely swept away. These early tornadoes were some of the most remarkable of the year, but there were many other disastrous storms in many parts of the world. Among the worst in the tornado class was the one that visited Wales.

Scientific men would seek to quiet our fears by telling us their theories in regard to these constantly increasing storms, but the Master has described in His word the conditions that would prevail in the world just before His coming. He has told of what would be occurring in society; He has told of the amassing of wealth, and the despairing cries of the laborers who have been defrauded; He has told of the prevailing iniquities; in a word, He has given many lines of unmistakable evidence by which we are to know when His coming is right at hand. Among these evidences, He tells of the earthquakes in divers places, and of the famines and pestilences, and of the fearful sights and great signs that shall be from heaven. Luke 21 : 11. He tells further of the signs that will appear in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and amidst the distress of nations, with their perplexities, there will be the roaring of the sea and the waves, which will cause men's hearts to fail them for fear while they are looking for those things that are coming on the earth. Verses 25, 26.

The Old Testament prophets, as well as the New, have spoken of the stormy conditions that would prevail in the physical world; and according to these prophetic declarations, we may expect that hurricane and flood, earthquake and tornado, will increase more and more, both in frequency and in intensity, as we are drawing closer and closer to the great day of the second coming of Christ.

If we know these prophecies, and if our hearts are at rest through the salvation offered by the soon coming Christ, the conditions of this time, in the place of bringing fear, gloom, and perplexity, cause the heart to palpitate with indescribable joys; for He who is coming, has promised His almighty power for the protection of those who will stand under His sheltering hand amid these portentous surroundings. No problem in mathematics, nor any of the deductions of true science, are any more accurate in their operations than are the fulfilments of the prophecies of the divine Word. We should know the meaning of the conditions of this time, and be prepared for the great event they portend.

Harvest Ingathering Circulation

By Editor

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Liquor’s Revenue of Misery

The city of Chicago has a Court of Domestic Relations, and its report of its last year's work states that drunkenness is responsible for forty-six per cent of the cases of domestic unhappiness. And regardless of records of this kind, there are many people who would try to have us believe that the liquor business is a necessity, in order that we may be benefited by its revenue. Its revenue of misery is an immense mountain by the side of its little mole-hill revenue of dollars and cents.

Wireless at Sea

The great ocean liner Olympic had her wireless outfit temporarily out of commission a few days ago, and her passengers who knew of it were disposed to be in almost as panicky a frame of mind as if the ship were on fire. This wonderful invention has come to be a chief necessity for the men who live on the high seas.

Vedrines’ Flight from Paris to Cairo

The French aviator Vedrines successfully completed his flight from Paris to Cairo, Egypt, a distance of 3,000 miles.

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