p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 44. (11/3/1898)

Notice About Unordered Papers

By Editor

☞ We send no papers from this office to individuals without pay in advance.

☞ When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the “Signs” are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon to pay for them. Please read the papers you may receive, and hand them to your friends to read.

Christ the All-Compassionate Saviour

Jesus Christ is the perfect and all-compassionate Saviour. He saves “to the uttermost,” and He saves all that come unto God by Him. He declares, “Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no-wise cast out.”

We Are Encouraged

By Editor

We are encouraged at the responses we are receiving from all parts of the country, and, for the matter of that, from beyond the seas, over our soon-coming quarter-centennial, million-copy issue of Jan. 5, 1899. For this we thank God. It is all of Him.

Did God have prophets in the past? Why not now?

Is there not as much need now as ever the past knew? And is not God, just as able to use human instruments now as He was then? There are counterfeits, it is true; but that is one of the strongest evidences of the genuine.

Studies on Galatians

By Editor

In our issue of November 24, the Lord willing, will be printed the first instalment of “Studies on Galatians,” by Dr. E. J. Waggoner. These studies alone are worth the price of the paper for a year, but they are only about a tithe of what the reader of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES will get in the course of the year.

A Dangerous Mission to Spain

“A Dangerous Mission to Spain” is the leading article in the Cosmopolitan for November, written by a government secret-service man, whose name is just now concealed for reasons of State. Autobiography of Napoleon Bonaparte continues. Joseph Leiter writes of “Wheat and Its Distribution.” He ought to know somewhat about it. Price, 10 cents. For sale by all news dealers.

The One Changeless Condition of Salvation

By Editor

“The One Changeless Condition of Salvation” is the title of an article on page 4. We are glad that it was placed before the readers of the paper from which it was taken. We are glad to give it a larger circulation in THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. We earnestly hope that the writer, and all for whom it was written, will follow its inevitable logic to the end. The writer says truly: “First of all, dear souls, get saved by a living faith in the Crucified One, and there will be no difficulty in keeping the requirements of God—you will love to do so.” It is true. God’s law is not a yoke of bondage to a converted heart. It is the carnal mind that is enmity against God. Read Rom. 8:1-7.

The Medical Council

“The Medical Council” (Philadelphia) for September contains a timely article by E. L. Paulding, M.D., of Arroyo Grande, Cal., entitled, “Are We Doing Right in Drugging so Much?” It is a pertinent question, and Dr. Paulding presses it home upon his professional brethren with force and conviction. May it do good.

OUR THANKSGIVING NUMBER.

By Editor

Our Thanksgiving Number, of date November 17, will be published with a beautifully illustrated, tinted cover, with a fine engraving by Mr. Mente, of New York City. The paper will contain the following special articles, besides a good variety of other matter: History of Thanksgiving Days, For What to Give Thanks, When to Give Thanks, God’s Care for His People, The Awakening at Newton- (an original Thanksgiving story for this number), An Original Poem. It should receive a large special circulation.

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES SENT FREE.

By Editor

Persons subscribing to THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES in November or December, sending direct to the Publishers the full subscription price—$1.00—will receive the paper Free from the time the subscription reaches this office until Jan. 1, 1899, in addition to a full year from this date. This will also include our valuable Double Number Quarto-Centennial Edition of Jan. 5, 1899.

Apathy and Coldness

It argues strongly for coldness among professed Christians when we read in The Examiner the sad lament of the Baptist Missionary Union, the missionaries of which have done such noble work. It adopts this year a schedule of appropriations aggregating $408,899.18, which is $50,000 less than a proper administration of Baptist mission fields demands. Yet this “is $17,238 less than last year’s schedule. It is $37,878 less than the schedule for 1896, and $49,982 less than that for 1895. The committee desires to know if the churches wish this reduction to go on. It can go no further without the abandonment of some of our missions and the neglect of our property in foreign countries, valued at $714,000.” This ought not to be. These stirring times ought to arouse Christians everywhere to consecration of themselves and their means to Christ and His cause. Truly the words of our Saviour are appropriate: “And because iniquity shall abound [abounds], the love of the many shall wax [has waxed] cold.”

“Applied Christianity.”

This phrase has become almost a “household word” in some religious circles. One of our religious exchanges has a department entitled “Applied Christianity.” Inasmuch as that department comprises a comparatively small portion of the paper, which bears the title of Christian, it would be interesting to know what kind of Christianity the editors would assume for the remaining portion. The Word of God, which is the Christian’s text-book, recognizes no person as Christian by whom Christianity is not practically applied to the daily life. “I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away.” John 15:1, 2. “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” Verse 8. In Christ we have a perfect example of “applied Christianity,” and anything short of His Spirit, manifested in the life, is not Christianity at all.

Cost of War Correspondents.

—Robert B. Cramer, special war correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, says: “The newspapers did not send cheap men on the trip. I know of one in Santiago now who receives a salary of $20,000 a year, and of two others whose annual pay is $12,000. Lack of actual experience found no editorial staff equipped with a war correspondent, and the papers could not judge of the availability of their men by any past work in the field. But they took the best they had, and turned them loose with a liberality as to expense which nobody outside of the business offices will ever appreciate.” Henry Brown, of the New York Herald, paid $6,400 in gold for sending his story of the destruction of Cervera’s fleet. Col. Charles Diehl, Associated Press correspondent, kept five boats in constant employment, no one of which cost less than $200 a day.