The Peace and Safety Cry.—It really is man versus the Word. Some are giving one reason as to why we can have no more wars, and some another. Dr. David Starr Jordan believes that finances are against it. Civil wars, he tells us, in a talk to the students of the Murison school in the St. Francis Hotel February 20, will take care of themselves, but "international war is not possible, because every great nation is too heavily in debt. The scepter has passed from the hand of rulers of nations to the great unseen empire of finance. There is no possibility of a war between Germany and Great Britain, because each nation is ruled by the great organization of finance, and war positively can not be made to pay." The United States will not go to war, because of the great, tangled net of commerce, he tells us, and that no nation can possibly get along without our good will. But on the other hand, there are great men who believe that the United States must be prepared for war, because she is paying, according to Dr. Jordan, $10,000 a day for smokeless powder alone, and millions upon millions annually for building new battle-ships. He attributes this partly to vanity and partly to ignorance. Japan, he tells us, is one billion dollars poorer than before the Russo-Japanese War, and can not possibly raise funds to finance an expedition against any other nation. But he calmly tells us that we will have a few more imperial wars, of strong nations against weak ones, but not to any great extent, because they will not pay. But a great many things are done in this world that do not pay. Humanity has been doing them from earth's earliest dawn. It hardly paid Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit, but he did it; and it can be said of many of the nations of history ever since that it has not paid them to go to war, but they have had the wars, just the same. It did not pay America to have the Civil War, but she had it. Nor did it pay England to have the Boer War, but the Boer War was waged. Sometime it may be to the interest of the money power to have the nations go to war. It makes more buyers of bonds. But beyond and above all this, God's Word has declared that all the world will not only prepare for strife, but all the world will be in the great Armageddon at last; and the very cry of "peace and safety" is, after all, a sign of the culmination of all the preparation for strife which the nations are making.
Foreign Missions.—The Rt. Hon. James Bryce, British ambassador at Washington, has been writing in the International Review of Missions, published in Edinburgh, some good things on the influence of foreign missions. He feels that men from so-called Christian nations have had a very deleterious effect on the spread of Christianity. He says, as quoted in the Literary Digest:
"The work of bearing the white man's burden takes the form of filling the white man's pocket. It is no wonder that the behavior of men who are nominally Christians — Christians in profession if not in practise — has checked and still checks the progress of Christianity. Thoughtful men from non-Christian countries sometimes tell us that they and their fellow countrymen have, when drawn toward Christianity, been repelled when seeing what little influence it seems to have over the conduct of its nominal adherents. The missionary comes preaching the Gospel of peace and love; but when the natives see the rapacity and injustice of men professing the religion which the missionary preaches, the preachings lose their power."
And this is true; but another thing is true, also: that missionaries have carried too much of a spirit of patriotism of their own native country with them into foreign lands, too much of their own customs and manners among which they have been born and reared, and have forgotten that they were ambassadors of a heavenly land, with divine laws and divine power to lift men above all things gross and earthly. If they would but bring those before the natives of non-Christian lands, it would help them to get a different view of Christianity. The Jews had this wrong conception. The Gospel preached by the apostle told them that they were all on the same basis as the heathen Gentile. And so it is with the inhabitants of Christian lands (or those who are nominally Christian); they need the Gospel of salvation as truly as the blackest heathen in Africa. The missionaries to foreign lands do not go out as ambassadors of America, or England, or Germany, but as ambassadors of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Poisonous "Soft Drinks."
By Editor
A correspondent in Chicago has sent us a program of a meeting held in that city, entitled "The Chinese Christian Patriotic Meeting," and wishes us to give notice of the same. Now we think it is perfectly proper for Christians to thank God for the revolution which is taking place in China, because it is opening doors for the Gospel, and it looks in every way as if it would prove a real blessing to the millions of China; but why call it a Christian patriotic meeting? Why not let it be a simple Christian meeting, and praise God for His open doors? Christianity is a great deal broader than patriotism. Patriotism is love of one's own country, and love of that country against the world; but true Christianity has a heart to take in the whole world. John Wesley said, "The world is my parish;" and the apostle Paul recognized his debt to all men, not simply to the Jews, but also the Gentiles. So while the Christian would bid Godspeed to the new Chinese republic, would praise God for the greater freedom that will be given to His Gospel, and the hope that will be given to millions of hearts, he would do this solely because of his love for souls, and not for the particular establishment of any particular form of government.
President John Craft, of the Alabama State oyster commission, protests against taking oysters right from the shell and eating them raw. He says they are still alive and full of feeling, and hence he draws a strong picture of the tortures and agonies they must suffer while being torn alive from the shell, salted, peppered, and treated with lemon-juice or vinegar, then stabbed with a fork, and slipped into the human stomach with but very little, if any, mastication. Altho a great lover of oysters himself, he threatens to bring the matter before the humane society, to see if he can not have the custom stopped of eating alive raw oysters. For ourselves, we think that the idea of swallowing a creature whole, entrails and all, is sufficiently repulsive to cause people to reject any kind of oyster, whether dead or alive, raw or cooked. Any one who will take the pains to examine carefully the oyster and its habits, will be able to see that the Almighty had a reason for placing it on the list of unclean creatures, in the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. It is a creature of the sea, and has neither fins nor scales, but it should have both in order to be classed as clean.
Poisonous "Soft Drinks."
Dr. Harvey Wiley, the Government expert, says: "The insidious soft drink has, perhaps, been given less attention than it deserves. Investigation at the United States bureau of chemistry, where we analyzed one hundred samples of the sirups used in the manufacture of these drinks, has convinced me that they contain a liberal percentage of caffein and marble dust, both highly injurious to the system. Caffein is a habit-forming drug. We have laws which compel manufacturers to state the formulae of their products. There should be suspended over every bar or soda-fountain where soft drinks are sold a sign bearing the inscription: 'These drinks contain caffein. Don't drink them unless you want to take poison into your system.'" He declared further: "The children should be taught to abstain entirely from these soft drinks. No parent should permit his child to drink the concoctions served at the soda-fountains. A rigid law should be made and enforced to prevent the sale of these drinks which contain caffein, and almost all of them do contain it. We are working for such a law, because our investigations and analyses have convinced us of its necessity."
These words should be heeded.
War Extravagance.
An Eastern paper sums up the expenditures of the war department of this peace Government between May 1, 1898, and July 1, 1911, aside from the expenditures of the Panama Canal, to the amount of $1,896,000,000. During the four years from 1892 to 1896, the total expenditures of the war department were only $206,000,000; but in the four years ending July 1, 1911, the total expenditures were over $585,000,000. The total enlisted strength of the army to-day is limited to 100,000; in 1896 it was only 25,000. And during this same thirteen year period from 1898 to 1911, the navy department spent over $1,250,000,000, increasing from $58,000,000 in 1898 to $119,000,000 in 1911. Army and navy together expended over $3,000,000,000. Add to this what has been paid for pensions from 1866 to July, 1911, $4,466,000,000, and the amount is simply staggering. It would seem as if common sense would dictate some other policy.
There seems to be a demand for arbitrary executives, whether legal or illegal. For instance, Newport, Rhode Island, has been known as a very open town; but the governor has taken hold of it and worked right over the heads of the mayor and chief-of-police, closing up big gambling joints, and continuing even to the penny slot-machines. Saloons have been closed on Sunday, and the town generally cleaned up. But unless there is a local spirit, a disposition to maintain these conditions, it may be safely said that there will be a reaction. One of the necessary things in the reform of an individual, of a community, or a town, is that there must be not simply a desire for reform, but a disposition and principle to maintain it.
A perpetual arc lamp has now been invented. There was one partially that before, in the mercury tube, but it was impossible to heat the mercury to a sufficient degree to overcome the green, ghastly light, because it was contained in glass tubes; but quartz is now used instead of the more easily melted glass, and the lamp, the Literary Digest tells us, is now available. It uses a continuous vapor arc. The Inventive Age says, "It keeps up indefinitely, condensing and vaporizing over and over again. The light is a beautiful whitish yellow, brilliant and powerful. With such a lamp, necessitating no renewals of the carbons and no cleaning of globes, the ideal arc seems at hand."
A beautiful addition is to be made to the State University grounds of California, through the gift of Miss Jane K. Sather, of Oakland. She has provided $200,000 for a lofty bell-tower 36 feet square, 300 feet high, of white granite. 250 feet from the ground will be hung a chime of bells, for which an additional provision has been made of $25,000. From the belfry, open to visitors, will be a fine view of San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate, Mt. Tamalpais, and the high range of hills in the rear.13
That about one in two hundred cases of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to bovine origin, is the statement of the Journal of the American Medical Association. One tenth of the fatal cases of tuberculosis are due to bovine infection. Parents ought to demand pure milk for their little ones.
Mr. Bridges, the warden of Massachusetts State Prison, seems to have solved the matter of high prices in the feeding of his prisoners. He feeds them at a cost of about nine cents a day, gives them a fairly liberal menu, according to the reports of each day, and he says that "our guests thrive on what we give them."
It is said that the House Committee on Foreign Affairs have agreed that $100,000,000 would not be an excessive figure to award the United States of Colombia on account of the damage done by the United States in the Panama revolution, if the matter were submitted to the Hague tribunal—an after effect of Mr. Roosevelt’s administration.
The New York "World" calls the stealing of watermelons a "national crime." Men act as if the idea of private property in no way applied to watermelons. In other words, it is not wrong to steal that which so many long for. This idea of the habit of many justifying a crime might help out many other criminals. But it is just such things as these that are making a nation of criminals.
"The Michigan plan" for solving the drink problem, it seems to us, will foster it. The problem is thus stated by the Detroit Alliance News: "How shall drunkenness be reduced to its minimum and the greatest number of people be made temperate, sober, righteous, and godlike in their drinking, as well as in all other habits of life?" A total abstinence pledge is presented, in which the signer pledges to abstain totally from "drinking whisky; brandy; gin; rum; fortified, compounded, imitation, and other adulterated wines; cordials; liquors; bitters; cocktails; highballs; and all other beverages and nostrums whatsoever containing distilled alcohol or distilled spirits in any degree;" all of which is good; but this is not all; it goes further: "Promising and pledging myself further—should I use alcoholic drinks at all—that I will confine myself absolutely to a strictly temperate use of natural fermented beverages only—such as pure and simple wine, beer, and cider." It won’t work; it can’t.
The Endless Chain
(From the "Thrice-a-Week World," Feb. 9, 1912)
LARGER armaments on land and sea is the keynote of the kaiser's speech to the Reichstag. With the most formidable army in the world and the second strongest fleet, he still clamors for more regiments and more battle-ships.
It is an old story that every year grows longer. The endless chain of European militarism steadily dips deeper and deeper into the people's resources. Every Dreadnought that is built to "strengthen the defensive power of the German people" must not only be followed by another, but serves to incite England to build two, for which Germany somehow must provide an offset. Every increase in the German land forces excites France to fresh expenditures for its army.
On one hand and the other the senseless race of the powers toward excessive taxation and national bankruptcy continues. Only the industry and thrift of the people, combined with their patience under the kaiser's policy, avert disaster. But no nation, however prosperous, can forever endure the growing strain.
What Germany and France and Great Britain have done under their common pretext of acting in self-defense is to surrender the control of their own affairs and their own treasuries. Each, in its policy of overburdening the taxpayers and producers, is governed from a foreign capital. They are slowly bleeding themselves white in the delusion that they are strengthening themselves.
Our Work and Workers
By Editor
AT Huichahue, Chile, five believers have received baptism.
SEVENTEEN new converts are reported at Ashford, Alabama.
FIVE at Fruita, Colorado, have begun to obey the truth.
BAPTISM has been administered to five at Waldron, Indiana.
EIGHT persons at Keene, Texas, were baptized on Sabbath, February 10.
SABBATH, February 10, five young persons were baptized in Portland, Oregon.
SABBATH, February 3, baptism was administered to five at Nashville, Tennessee.
SIX or seven at Boggstown, Indiana, have surrendered their hearts to the Lord.
EIGHT souls at Turksville, Kansas, have accepted the message, and five at Kansas City.
ELEVEN at Viola, Idaho, went forward in the ordinance of baptism on a recent Sabbath.
Two mission stations have lately been established in Bengal, India, on property of their own.
THE baptism of thirteen candidates at Grande Riviere, Haiti, is reported, and two at Pignon.
NINETY-SEVEN persons were added to the membership of the Vistula Conference, East Germany, during 1911.
THE colored work in Chicago, Illinois, is making encouraging progress. Five new converts are now awaiting baptism.
ON Sabbath, February 10, six souls at Chico, California, were buried in baptism, and two others joined the church.
A CHURCH of sixteen members was organized on Sabbath, January 13, at Elwell, Michigan. Others will join later by letter.
TWENTY-FOUR persons in Boston, Massachusetts, have been buried in baptism. Three of these came out of the Catholic Church.
EIGHT at Ladoga, Iowa, have taken their stand to keep the commandments, as the result of meetings conducted at that place.
IN Kalnemoise, of the Baltic Conference, six persons have been baptized, and a company of seven members has been organized.
SIX persons were recently added to the Provincial church, Saskatchewan, Canada. Eight at Nanaimo, British Columbia, are obeying the message.
WITH only ten workers in the field, the efforts put forth in the East Prussian Conference have yielded a harvest of 185 converts during the past year.
FROM Georgetown, British Guiana, comes the report of the baptism of ten earnest souls, and several others are desirous of being baptized in the near future.
SUBSEQUENT to a series of meetings at New London, Ohio, two men, with their wives and families, stepped out on the side of truth. Others are in the valley of decision.
BROTHER CHARLES DEGERING and his wife, of Walla Walla, Washington, sailed February 3 from New Orleans, for Colon, Canal Zone, where they go to take charge of the West Caribbean Conference office.
WORK recently started in Empire, Canal Zone, has thus far resulted in the conversion of five persons, and a number of others are interested. A church of seventeen members has been organized at Ancon.
AT the close of the sixth annual session of the Silesian Conference, held in Brieg, January 3-7, a number were baptized. During the year 1911, 169 were added to their membership, with twelve laborers in the field.
DURING the biennial term closing with December, 1911, 417 members were added to the Southeastern Union Conference. Eleven new church buildings have been added to the number owned at the close of the previous year.
A SPECIAL week of Bible study at Lonavla, India, resulted in the baptism of four sisters, the first-fruits of the week in that part of India. Still others are interested. At Tinnevelli, South India, the rite was administered to nine souls.
THE last week in January Elder T. M. French and his wife sailed from New York on the Olympic, for their field in West Africa. They plan to stop over one boat at the Canary Islands, to assist in locating a new mission home at that place.
THREE have been baptized, and four added to the church, at Port Townsend, Washington. Two at Ellensburg have received baptism, and two at Aberdeen. Three churches were admitted to the sisterhood of the Upper Columbia Conference, at their recent session.
A CHURCH of eleven members was recently organized at Washburn, Wisconsin. Seven of these are new converts. Five others, not yet baptized, are obeying the truth, and still others who hold their membership at other places will join when they have received their letters.
A CHURCH of eleven members was organized at Elm Grove, West Virginia, early in January. Four members of this organization connected with the denomination for the first time; and six others are observing all of the commandments, who it is believed will soon be ready for church fellowship.
AS A result of a tent effort at Binger, Oklahoma, a church of sixteen members has been organized, and at least ten more are obeying the truth who were unable to be present when the organization was effected, and some are waiting, on account of ill health, for a more favorable time to be baptized.
A CHIEF and another candidate went forward in baptism in Basutoland, South Africa, in the latter part of 1911, and ten others were preparing to take the same step at the time of the report. There are now three mission stations in Basutoland, with prospect that two others will be opened in the near future.
DURING a prolonged series of meetings in Brighton, England, fifty-five have taken their stand for the truth, and still others have expressed their intention of obeying. During the last two and a half years, twenty-nine have been added to the Southampton church. Recently seven went forward in baptism in Gillingham, Kent.
THE conversion of twenty-eight is reported at Wewoka, Oklahoma. These were taken into the church subject to baptism, which was necessarily postponed until milder weather, some of the creeks being frozen nearly solid. Some who were anxious for immediate baptism were baptized through the ice in one of the creeks near-by.
THIRTEEN at Buenos Aires, Argentina, have received baptism, and about six others are almost ready to go forward in this ordinance. During the last five or six weeks of 1911 thirty-two were baptized in that conference. The membership in Argentina now numbers ninety-three, having more than trebled during the past two and one half years.
AT Grand Rapids, Michigan, fifteen candidates were recently baptized. One of these was a young woman in the last stages of consumption, who was not able to speak above a whisper at the time of her baptism, but she was much stronger afterward. Eight of these united with the Bauer church, one with the Carlton Center, and six with the church at Grand Rapids.
A SUCCESSFUL workers' institute is in progress in Japan during the winter. About twenty-five young persons, giving promise of developing into workers, are in attendance. It is hoped that arrangements may soon be made for the establishment of headquarters in buildings of our own, where the publishing and educational interests may be carried on to better advantage.
A LETTER from Mr. F. G. Ashbaugh, who sailed the last of the year for the Philippines, states that the Sabbath previous to the date of writing, sixteen new members were received into the Manila church, and fourteen more applied for membership. Since the organization of their church on March 11, 1911, its membership has increased from eighteen to seventy-five.
ABOUT the middle of January Pastor G. W. Pettit and his wife, of Portland, Oregon, and Pastor J. M. Comer and his family, from the same State, sailed from New York on the Oceanic, for India. Miss Rachel Jones, a former student of the Foreign Mission Seminary at Washington, D. C., and W. S. Mead and his wife, also students at the Foreign Mission Seminary, accompanied them.
FROM the Nyasaland Mission comes the good word that permission has been granted to enter Portuguese territory. A communication has been received from the office of the high commissioner of Portuguese East Africa, the purport of which is that the request for permission to traverse the region of Angoni, in the district of Tete, in the work of mental, spiritual, and moral propaganda, had been granted. This work will be started as early as possible.14
AS A result of tent work carried on in Los Angeles, California, during the last eighteen months, one hundred new converts have been baptized and added to the church. In addition to these, there are a number yet to be baptized. This brought about the organization of the eighth church in Los Angeles, with a present membership of 115. It has just completed a neat church building in which to worship. Four more have united with the church at Sacramento, and four at Chico, and a new church has been dedicated, free from debt, at Turlock, California.
THE latter part of December, 1911, baptism was administered to twenty-four persons in Riga, Russia. Among these was an old lady ninety-one years of age. Others were held back because they had not obtained their official dismissal from their former church, without which they are not allowed by the State to unite with another church. Since January 1 a third church has been organized in Riga, the total membership in that city being over three hundred. At Harbin four Russians, a professional singer, and a Chinaman have been baptized. This is in the Little Russian Conference.
FROM Singapore comes the report of the baptism of seventeen, and seven or eight others who it is hoped will soon be ready for baptism. One of those baptized was eighty-three years of age. She had been a pagan, and had persistently opposed Christianity, but she could not longer resist the pleadings of the Spirit, and finally surrendered herself to Christ. Two others, twins, and daughters of the first native convert of the Straits Settlements, were sixty-three years of age. Recently at an auction in that city there was some lively bidding over a book. It started at fifty cents. Several wealthy merchants carefully examined the book. It was faded and old and seemed of very little value, but the bidding continued, rising hotly at the rate of fifty cents bid, and the book was knocked down finally on the sixteenth bid to one of Singapore's wealthiest young merchants. The book was "Daniel and the Revelation," in cloth binding.
IN two issues of the Lincoln Evening News (January 31 and February 1), published at Lincoln, Nebraska, very favorable accounts of the joint biennial session of the Central and Northern Union Conferences, which convened in College View January 16-27, are given, together with a list of officers elected at that session, and other workers, and actions taken. In connection with the notice given in the issue of January 31, are three large photographs of the delegates to the conference. More than three columns are given in the Sunday State Journal of Lincoln, to a syllabus of the points of our faith, including a brief history of the rise and progress of this denomination. The executive committee of the Central Union Conference, as given in the Evening News, is as follows: president, E. T. Russell, of College View; C. R. Kite, of Denver, Colorado; L. W. Terry, of Springfield, Missouri; N. T. Sutton, of Hutchinson, Kansas; J. W. Christian, of Hastings, Nebraska; A. E. Ogden, of Utica, Missouri; D. U. Hale, of Crawford, Nebraska; W. F. Kennedy, Topeka, Kansas; E. A. Curtis, Grand Junction, Colorado; W. J. Huffman, College View, Nebraska; H. A. Green, Boulder, Colorado; Frederick Griggs, College View, Nebraska; Meade MacGuire, Loveland, Colorado; C. G. Bellah, Kansas City, Missouri; F. F. Byington, College View, Nebraska; G. A. Grauer, Clinton, Missouri. The newly elected executive committee of the Northern Union Conference is as follows: president, Charles Thompson, of Graysville, Tennessee; C. A. Pedicord, Nevada, Iowa; M. N. Campbell, Nevada, Iowa; S. E. Jackson, Minneapolis, Minnesota; C. J. Buhalts, Harvey, North Dakota; C. M. Babcock, Redfield, South Dakota; W. W. Ruble, Alexandria, Minnesota; F. E. Painter, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Dr. C. W. Heald, Nevada, Iowa.
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Signs of the Times Magazine
By Editor
For April
Readers of this journal will be interested in this issue of the "Signs."
The Cover Design — El Capitan, the mighty rock 3,300 feet high, overlooking one of the most scenic valleys in the world — the Yosemite. In colors.
THE CONTENTS
Fletcherism, by Dr. David Paulson, medical superintendent of Hinsdale (Illinois) Sanitarium. To those who need its counsel or who are desirous of attaining a good, sound digestion, an article of practical and priceless worth.
Reading the Future — The futile efforts of humanity; the surety of the prophetic Word, in which the important events of the future have been outlined.
Four Universal Empires of Time, by Charles L. Taylor. One example from sacred history in sympathy with the preceding article.
Justice Turned Backward — A prophetic setting given to the present depressing conditions. Strikingly clear.
Too Much Governed — Our efforts to prevent lawlessness by enacting more laws, an acknowledgment of our inability to govern ourselves. What is the cause? Read this article.
Devil-Worship, by Frank S. Weston. Another great sign of the times. What does it mean?
Our Lord's Own Signs of His Coming, by Prof. George W. Rine. Former articles continued. A wonderful story, showing the times in which we live.
Glimpses of China — and a number of others, all good.
Current Topics — timely and interesting. Well illustrated.
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Do any of our readers know a John Elliott, who left Ireland for America over twenty years ago, and who perhaps became a Presbyterian minister? Would any one knowing the above gentleman's or his family's address, do Mrs. J. Cunningham, Blue House, Ballyclare, Ireland, the favor of sending it to her?
To Stem the Tide
By Editor
At this season of the year the health message contained in Prof. M. E. Olsen's recent book, "Out of Doors," should go far and wide.
"The sedentary tendencies of the age," he says, "are without doubt a chief cause of the physical deterioration which is so much discussed in these days. Diseases multiply among us because men's bodies are too feeble to resist them."
"The country needs a hardier and more virile type of manhood. . . . How much easier the perplexing problems of business and of everyday life can be solved when, after vigorous exercise, the blood tingles in every organ of the body, and the whole man is alive to his fingertips! . . . The outdoor man, too, has staying powers. . . . Physical bankruptcy comes not to such a man, for he works with a good reserve on hand. He is the 'man of cheerful yesterdays and calm to-morrows.'"
"As you thus cultivate a healthy outdoor spirit, and seek to encourage it in others, you will be doing something to stem the tide of physical deterioration, and to build up a nation pure, strong, and virile, loving freedom, powerful in defense of the right, and beautiful in its manhood and womanhood."
The invigorating, health-imparting style of this book is suggested by these paragraphs. Its chapters addressed to the young man, the young woman, the fathers and the mothers, are intensely interesting and practical. Unconsciously you get an inspiration to cultivate health by enjoying a more liberal amount of fresh air and communion with nature in God's great out-of-doors. This volume contains about a hundred pages, and is bound in handsome green cloth. Price sixty cents. Address your tract society, or if address is unknown, this office.
Recently there appeared in the Signs of the Times Magazine a series of articles on the Sabbath question, by Elder H. W. Cottrell. These went so thoroly into the subject from all standpoints, and were so logical in their presentation of Scriptural, historical, and prophetic data concerning the Sabbath, that a tract embodying the studies was really demanded. This tract has been published, and is entitled "The Christian Sabbath," Bible Students' Library, No. 205. Briefly, the outline of study is as follows:
1. Scriptural, Historical, and Prophetical View of the Definite Seventh Day.
a. Made When, and by Whom, and for Whom.
b. Christ and the Sabbath.
c. Christ Its Lord.
d. The Day and Purpose of the Sabbath.
e. Paul's Faith and Practise.
f. No Loss of Time on a Round World.
2. The First Day of the Week.
a. Each Instance Mentioned in the Bible.
3. The Attempt to Change the Sabbath.
a. Who Made It?
b. Did Christ Change the Sabbath?
c. If Not the Father nor the Son, Who?
4. The Restoration of the Bible Sabbath.
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