Earlier text: WESTERN TURKEY MISSION—The ameer of Afghanistan has taken a solemn oath to maintain friendly relations with Great Britain. —The queen regent of Spain, on August 20, conferred upon General Azcarraga, who is also minister of war, the premiership of Spain. —The poor of France are petitioning the government to reduce the import duty on breadstuff, as the sudden rise in wheat is working hardship among them. —The steamer Cheang Hy Etong foundered in a typhoon on August 20, while off the Malay peninsula, and twenty-one of her passengers and crew were drowned. —On account of the short wheat crop in most wheat-raising countries of the world, the Russian Government has prohibited the exportation of Russian wheat. —Professor Falb, of Vienna, has figured out the date of the destruction of the earth, and places it on November 13, 1899, when there is to be a collision between the earth and a comet. —The Brazilian fanatics have strongly entrenched themselves near Canudos, and have sent out well-armed forces into the States of San Paulo and Parana, raiding plantations and towns in their route. —M. Faure, president of France, is now visiting Czar Nicolas at St. Petersburg, and both Russia and France are congratulating themselves upon the strengthening of the ties of friendship between the two great nations. —The government at Vienna has suspended relations with Bulgaria because of the latter’s refusal to apologize for the remarks of her premier concerning the morality of the Austrian court. Austria has recalled her minister. —Serious fighting is reported from Brazil between the insurgents and government forces, in which the former were driven from their position with heavy loss. They have again entrenched themselves, and are awaiting a renewal of the attack. —The king of Benin, by whose orders an unarmed English expedition was massacred some months ago, and whose city was later captured by the British, has surrendered himself and followers to the English. His public submission was made on August 7. —On August 20 Constantinople was startled by another bomb explosion, and but for the prompt action of the police a massacre would have followed. The British and Italian guard-ships left their anchorage and entered the harbor of Constantinople. —A despatch from Madrid states that there will be concerted action by the governments of Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Russia to stamp out anarchism. It is stated that a penal colony will be established for the detention of dangerous anarchists. —A special despatch from Norway says that Captain Beade’s north polar expedition has returned safely from the icy sea, having been unable to proceed beyond latitude 80 degrees 40 minutes, on account of the great masses of ice which were encountered. —On August 18 a company of Kurds raided two Armenian villages on the border of Persia, and massacred 200 Armenians, Persians, and Mussulmans, indiscriminately. The Persian Government has decided to send more troops to the scene of the invasion. —For years there has been a dispute concerning the location of the remains of Martin Luther. It is now definitely settled that he and Melanchthon are resting side by side in the old castle church of Wittenberg, upon the door of which Luther nailed his ninety-five theses. —Advices from Santa Clara, Cuba, report that a severe battle was recently fought between the insurgents and the Spanish under General Lopez. The latter were defeated and left 100 dead men on the field. The Cuban leader, Flores, and twenty-four of his followers, were killed. —A meeting of 3,000 people was held at Athens on August 22, at which the peace negotiations between Turkey and Greece were denounced, and King George was urged to resume the war. The press of Greece and the majority of the population are opposed to the war agitation. —A city official of the City of Mexico has given out the information that a plot has been discovered for the assassination of President Diaz. An Italian anarchist who is now in the city is believed to be there for the purpose of carrying out the plot, and is therefore under close police surveillance. —Reports of new atrocities on the part of the Spanish in Cuba and new forms of torture for the captured insurgents and pacificos are continually coming from that war-wrecked island, until the senses become almost benumbed to an appreciation of the heart-rending suffering which is going on there. —General Chamberlain, one of the highest army officers in India, speaking of the cause for the Indian revolt, states that it is directly due to the provocative policy of the English Government toward the independent tribes, and in annexing Chitral after a solemn promise that its independence should be maintained. —Juan Idiarte Borda, president of the republic of Uruguay, was assassinated on August 25, as he passed out of a church door. Since his election in 1894 several attempts have been made on his life. The assassin claims to be alone responsible for his rash act, stating that it was due to his personal hatred for the man. It is thought that this will add fuel to the flame of the rebellion now in progress in that little republic. —The representatives of the powers in the peace negotiations between Turkey and Greece have notified their respective governments that it will be impossible for Greece to pay a larger indemnity than £3,000,000, and recommend that it be reduced to that amount. Turkey persists in her determination to hold Thessaly until the indemnity is paid, and Lord Salisbury insists upon Turkey’s withdrawal from that territory. —An important concession has been made by the government of Honduras to wealthy capitalists of the United States for the building of a railroad and branches in that country. The syndicate to which this concession is granted will have charge of the collection of customs, will establish banks and import white colonists. The American consul to Honduras states that this means absolute control of the trade of Honduras by the United States. —Advices from the seat of trouble in India state that the insurgents in the field actively operating against the British now number fully 40,000. They have captured Fort Maude, in the Khyber Pass, and burned it to the ground. It is also reported that the rebellious Afridis attacked the Sepoys near Fort Ali Musjid on August 23, and killed 300, capturing their rifles and ammunition. The English have 42,000 soldiers now in the field to deal with the natives. —“Occultism in most grotesque and monstrous forms has lately come to light in Paris and other French communities,” says the Literary Digest. This is particularly manifest in what is known as the Satanist Society, or “devil-worshipers,” whose chief center of influence is Paris. Belgium is said to be permeated with this form of occultism, and even in Great Britain, societies of this kind are established, where the rite of the “black mass” is celebrated. —Great efforts are being put forth to save Evangelina Cisneros, niece of the president of the Cuban republic, from a twenty-year term of imprisonment to which she was cruelly condemned by Spanish court-martial because she would not submit to dishonor at the hands of a Spanish official. Many petitions have been circulated in her behalf by prominent American women, and the pope of Rome was also induced to intercede for her. It is believed that she will be released. —A strike of 12,000 cloak-makers has been ordered in New York City. —Three young men who were rowing on the Niagara River were thrown into the water by the capsizing of their boat, and all three were swept over the falls. —It is reported that President McKinley is now sounding European governments to ascertain the extent of their neutrality in case the United States should intervene in Cuba. —At the recent commencement of Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, there were twenty-two graduates in the classical, philosophical, and scientific courses, no one of whom uses tobacco or intoxicants. —With 7,000,000 tons of ore in sight, the Treadwell Mine on Douglas Island, Alaska, is soon to have the largest stamp mill in the world for crushing ore. The number of stamps will be 300. This mine will produce $125,000 a month in gold. —A successful trial has been made of the compressed air engine upon the New York elevated Railroad. The motor carried a charge of compressed air of 2,500 pounds pressure to the square inch, and made two trips in much less than schedule time. —There are mutterings of trouble among the Cherokees of Indian Territory over the contemplated destruction of their tribal government. The citizens of that district are fearful lest the full-bloods shall take up arms to prevent any action toward that end. —A new use has been discovered for the cathode ray, that of beautifying the skin. It is claimed that the “bombardment of particles” when continued for a sufficient length of time will cause the old skin to fall off and a newer and purer tegument to take its place. —Prof. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, has returned from his trip to the sealing grounds of Alaska, having accomplished the work for which he was sent there by the U. S. Government, that is, the branding of female seals to prevent their destruction by pelagic sealers. —Lieutenant Squier, of Fortress Monroe, and Professor Crehore, of Dartmouth College, who have lately been experimenting in England with their newly patented apparatus for rapid telegraphy, have succeeded in sending messages 800 miles at the rate of 4,000 words per minute. They claim to be able to transmit the usual contents of a daily newspaper in one hour over any long telegraph circuit. —The coal-mine operators have decided to take action at once for opening their mines in the strike district, giving the strikers an opportunity to return to work, and employing new men if the strikers refuse. The committee of mine operators has adjourned sine die, without coming to any agreement with the strikers, and it is believed that serious results will follow the attempt to work the mines with new laborers. —The annual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic is now taking place at Buffalo, New York, with President McKinley in attendance. The encampment opened on the morning of August 24 with a grand parade, and was followed in the evening with camp-fires for the old soldiers, receptions, and musical entertainments for the ladies. It is stated that a larger number are in attendance this year than for several years in the past. —Prince Louis of Savoy and his party of Italian mountain climbers have returned from their ascent of Mount St. Elias, in southern Alaska. They were fifty-one days in reaching the summit, and were the first white men to scale this lofty peak. Two questions have been settled by the expedition,—the height of the mountain, which is 18,100 feet, and the fact that it was never a volcano. The party of Americans who are making the ascent have not yet accomplished the feat. —J. H. Carpenter, founder of the Carpenter Steel Works, of Reading, Penn., has offered to furnish steel armor for government war ships at $150 per ton, or one-half less than the price at which several armor-plate manufacturers declined to furnish it. Congress recently authorized the Secretary of the Navy to contract for armor at $300 per ton; but no bids were received from the companies which had been previously manufacturing armor for war vessels. Mr. Carpenter’s process is entirely new, and electricity is one of the principal features in its production. —There has been great excitement throughout the country during the past week over the rapid rise of wheat. The shortage in nearly every country in the world has caused large demands upon the wheat of the American producer, and the scenes in the wheat pits of the large cities have been beyond description. Manipulators of the market have added hundreds of thousands of dollars to their bank accounts in a single day. Wall Street brokers have estimated that the world’s demand for American wheat will bring into this country during the year over $750,000,000. American farmers are happy, while the poor of foreign cities look with dread to the coming winter. PUBLICATIONS ON THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
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1 Bible Sanctification — 10
2 Abiding Sabbath — 20
10 Scripture References — 2
14 The Sufferings of Christ — 2
16 Christ in the Old Testament — 1
24 Is Sunday the Sabbath? — ½
25 The Sanctuary and the Judgment — 1
26 The Sabbath and the New Testament — 1
27 The Bible.—Its Inspiration and Importance — 1
31 The Second Advent — 2
34 God's Memorial — 1
36 The Signs of the Times — 1
42 Elihu on the Sabbath — 1
43 The Ten Commandments Not Revised — 1
46 Without Excuse — ½
47 Thoughts for the Candid — ½
48 Which Day Do You Keep and Why? — ½
49 Can We Know? — ½
50 Is the End Near? — ½
51 Is Man Immortal? — ½
52 Why Not Found Out Before? — ½
53 The Sabbath and the Law — 20
54 Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment. — 10
55 Order of Events in the Judgment. — 15
57 Tent-meeting Lessons on “The Life of Christ” — 1
58 Matthew 24; or the Second Coming of Christ — 10
60 Tent-meeting Lessons on “Prophecy” — 1
61 Tent-meeting Lessons on “Sin and Righteousness” — ½
63 The Sure Foundation and the Keys of the Kingdom — 1
64 The Full Assurance of Faith — 1
65 The Great Day of the Lord — 2½
67 Bible Election — 1½
68 The Old Testament in the New Dispensation — 1½
69 “Jewish.” Christians Are Israelites Indeed — ½
70 Immortality of the Soul. — 2
71 Righteousness, What It Is, and How Obtained. Also in Spanish and Portuguese — ½
72 Christ and His Righteousness — 15
73 Can We Keep the Sabbath? — 1
74 The Counterfeit and the Genuine. — 1
75 Living by Faith. Also in Spanish. — 1
76 Bible Questions and Answers Concerning Man. — 1
77 The Talents — 1
79 Baptism—Its Significance — 1
80 Sunday—Origin of Its Observance in the Christian Church. — 15
81 God's Message for To-day — ½
83 Angels: Their Nature and Ministry — 20
85 Twofold Evidence of Acceptance with God — ½
86 Justification, Regeneration, Sanctification, by M. C. Wilcox — 1
90 The Bible Doctrine of the Trinity — 1
93 Christian Science. Is It Science? Is It Christian? — 15
95 From Sabbath to Sunday — ½
97 The Sun of Righteousness — 10
99 Prediction, Interpretation, Fulfilment. — 1
101 The Rest That Remains for the People of God — ½
103 Should Christians be Members of Secret Societies? By Mrs. White. — 1½
104 Justified by Faith. By Mrs. E. G. White — 1
105 The Way to Christ. By Mrs. E. G. White — 1
107 Who Changed the Sabbath? (new). — 1½
108 Life: Its Source and Purpose — 10
110 Appeal to Methodists — ½
111 Tormented Forever and Ever — 1
112 Spiritualism: Its Source and Character — 1
113 “The Christian Sabbath.” (Those Catholic Mirror Articles) — 2
114 The Identical Seventh Day — 1
115 Waymarks to the Holy City — 1
117 Prophetic Lights, Illustrated, 180 pp. — 50
118 Christ Tempted as We Are — 1
119 The Kingdom of Christ: Its Nature and Subjects — 1
121 The Temporal Millennium — 1½
122 Perfection of the Law of God — 1½
124 Manner of Christ's Coming — 1
125 The Privilege of Prayer. — 1
127 Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King — 1
128 Christ, Our Advocate, Illustrated — 10
130 The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, Illustrated — 2
131 The Sure Word of Prophecy, Illustrated — 10
132 Righteousness — 1
134 The Lord's Day the Test of the Ages, Illustrated — 15
135 Honor Due to God. — 10
136 The Millennial Age — 1
137 New Testament Sabbath, Illustrated — 1
138 America's Crisis, Illustrated — 2
140 The Saints' Inheritance. — 10
142 Is Sunday Called the Sabbath in the New Testament? — ½
143 Truth for the Times — 1
144 The Eastern Question. What Its Solution Means to All the World? — 1
145 Will a Man Rob God? — 10
146 Rich Man and Lazarus. — 1
147 Home Missionary Work — 2
148 The Sabbath in Prophecy — 2
149 From Glory to Glory, Illustrated. — 1½
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39 Bond St., New York City. Kansas City, Mo. This small volume presents a series of pictures of life in the Fijian and Samoan Islands of the South Pacific. They are most interesting and graphic, and convey a large amount of information respecting these islands—their history, their geography and scenery, their products, the character and customs of the people, their evangelization by missionaries, and many other things. During the past year the attention of the world has been attracted toward Samoa by the political troubles there between its rival kings; and this pleasant volume will meet the public interest thus created, with its vivid and entertaining sketches. It is attractively illustrated.—The Lutheran Observer. “Jottings from the Pacific, Fiji and Samoa,” by Emma H. Adams, is included among the volumes of a Young People's Library series; but we do not see any reason why the parents of young people may not join in a careful perusal of this special issue. It contains a pleasing record of observations and incidents in the Fijian and Samoan Islands; and one enjoys what is written all the more because of the simplicity and directness of the author-narrator's style. It occurs to us that a missionary society meeting could be made doubly interesting by the reading aloud of many passages from this book.—The Interior. This book is one volume of the Young People's Library series. It contains 160 pages, is fully illustrated, and will be sent postpaid for 60 cents. Send for circular giving complete list of books published in the Library, with press notices and description of each book. Address, PACIFIC PRESS PUB. CO., OAKLAND, CAL., OR 43 BOND ST., N. Y. This is a healthful, cheerful English story, telling of the difficulties about the path of a poor boy, and how, one by one, he overcame them, until he became an illustrious and useful man. The book is tastefully illustrated, and contains excellent lessons for boys who would rise into a useful life, as well as for older people, who may do a great work for God by a little help given in Christ’s name and with good sense.—The Christian Cynosure. “Resolve well, and persevere” is the excellent motto of the book, and is strikingly exemplified by the hero of the story. Jack so completely conquers one difficulty after another as to rise from a ragged, useless boy to an honored educator in cap and gown. The narrative is an incitement to nobler living, and it is pleasant, safe, and easy reading for boys.—The Golden Rule. This book is one volume of the Young People’s Library series. It contains 160 pages, is fully illustrated and will be sent postpaid for 60 cents. Send for circular giving complete list of books published in the Library, with press notices and description of each book. Address, Pacific Press Pub. Co.,
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This little book contains very interesting sketches of the Arctic expeditions of England and America in the nineteenth century, and is full of instruction. It is a book which will fascinate young folks, and add very materially to their stock of knowledge. It is written in a pleasant style, full of handsome illustrations, and attractively bound.—Christian at Work. Such books as this are very valuable not only for young people who would not read the larger ones, but for busy men and women who for the want of time cannot peruse them. The book is cheap, contains a number of picture illustrations, is written in a pleasing style, and is just the kind of reading to give to our young people.—The Illustrated Christian Weekly. This book is one volume of the Young People's Library series. It contains 160 pages, is fully illustrated and will be sent postpaid for 60 cents. Send for circular giving complete list of books published in the Library, with press notices and description of each book. Address, Pacific Press Pub. Co.,
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The Pacific Christian Endeavorer of August 1 says:— “California has covered herself with glory by winning the banner presented by the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts for the greatest amount of work done by a State union in defense of the Christian Sabbath. It now remains for the Endeavorers of California to make this success a permanent one, by continuing the work of the Lord’s Day Committee so enthusiastically begun, and retaining the banner next year in the face of the immense competition we will meet from many other States.” The only glory a Christian should seek is God’s glory. “Fear God, and give glory to him,” is the demand of “the everlasting Gospel,” and coupled with it is, “and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Rev. 14:6, 7. We give glory to God by rendering to him that which is his due. “Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” His glory is his goodness, his character. And the glory and beauty of the Lord can only be upon us as we receive by faith in Jesus Christ of God’s glory. That is the meaning of God’s glory and name to us. Ex. 33:18, 19; Ps. 90:16, 17; John 17:22, 26. Now as Sunday-sacredness or Sunday-keeping is no part of God’s character or law, it can be no part of his glory or holiness or beauty; neither can it be of ours; for he bestows upon us what is in him. It is therefore not a part of God’s worship, but of our will worship. Hence when man does thus, he takes glory to himself. But this glory is not what God has bestowed; it is that which has usurped the place of God’s glory, the place of those things which were manifested in the beauty and glory of Christ’s character. Now, if we glory in that which hides God’s glory, do we not glory in our “shame” and mind “earthly things”? See Phil. 3:19. To work for the observance of the first day of the week in the face of God’s commandment and Christ’s example is to render to God the shame which belongs to men, and not the glory due unto his name. “Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” says Jesus. Christian brother or sister, consider these things. The Golden Rule and Sunday-Law Enforcement
The Golden Rule believes in Sunday-law enforcement. Is this in harmony with the Golden Rule as given by Jesus? He said, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Would the Golden Rule have these men whom they would force to keep Sunday force the Golden Rule people to break Sunday? The Golden Rule of Christ works both ways. It takes the other side as well as ours. Honest Employment for All
Were it not for selfishness, there is plenty of honest employment for every one in this world. There is also plenty for every one to eat and to wear, if all were honestly and unselfishly employed. Our Dumb Animals suggests that there is plenty of needed work for every able-bodied man in this country to do,—on our river levees, in making roads what they ought to be, in building canals, reclaiming waste lands, irrigating deserts, and various other public improvements. To this suggestion the editor adds: “There is plenty of money to do it with if our legislators will only give us a proper system of taxation, and stop throwing away millions of dollars in attempting to outdo all the nations of Europe in the construction of great battle-ships which we never will need if we will simply attend to our own business.” Sometimes terms used by writers on religious subjects are objected to, because they are not found in the Bible. “Millennium” is one of these words. Nevertheless, it is a perfectly legitimate word to use in Bible teaching, if rightly used. It is properly applied to the 1,000 years of Rev. 20:1-5. The English Bible uses the term “thousand years.” But the Greek expression is chilia etē. “Millennium” comes from two Latin words, mille, thousand, and annus, year. It is therefore just as proper to translate chilia etē “millennium” as it is “thousand years.” Satan was bound “a millennium,” so “that he should deceive the nations no more till the millennium should be fulfilled.” Verses 2, 3. At this same time the saints “lived and reigned with Christ a millennium, but the rest of the dead [the wicked] lived not again until the millennium was finished.” Verses 4, 5. Again we are told that the children of the first resurrection “shall reign with him a millennium. And when the millennium is expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.” Verses 6, 7. This is a proper use of the word. The word has obtained a secondary, theological, and erroneous use, by some supposing that this thousand years here mentioned refers to Christ’s reign of peace on this earth, when the world will be converted, and from that millennium has come to mean a converted world. But used in this sense, it has no place in the theology of the Bible.