Notwithstanding the fact that the United States has not yet recognized the republic of China, and that the great nations of the world are endeavoring to despoil her, she is still making progress. About five years ago she decided that opium smoking had become the national vice of China, and must stop, and that within ten years. Of course people smiled. But five years have passed, and final success even now seems to be assured. The agreement of five years ago between China and Great Britain was that all opium traffic would cease at the end of ten years. Great Britain was to cut down her importations 10 per cent each year, until the traffic had ceased; while China was to diminish her own production in a corresponding way. Travelers report that it is no longer common to see men smoking opium at their own doors. Even two years after the edict, those who smoked did so in secret. The agricultural map of China shows an actual reduction of 50 per cent in the production of opium. The example of the heathen nation may prove illuminating to some of the more civilized.
A Cause of Hard Times
One of the items which the World’s Work puts down as a cause of hard times at the present time is the amount of speculation and investments there is in land bought purely for speculation instead of for useful purposes. It says: “Much of this activity is as much a game of chance as the buying of lottery tickets, for the buyers have never seen the property that they have invested in. Any man who buys land or an interest in land that he has never seen is (to use language of great self-restraint) a fool. Yet these purchases put prices high, and for a time keep them high, and add to the cost of living and of dying. It is a rise in apparent or temporary values that is not any real increase of wealth, but only a speculative increase.”
Iron Workers Elect Frank M. Ryan President
The International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, at its meeting in Indianapolis March 6, elected Frank M. Ryan of Chicago — one of the labor leaders convicted in the dynamite conspiracy — as president. In view of the seeming fairness of that trial and of Judge Anderson who presided, it would seem as tho the union which would elect a man found guilty as was Mr. Ryan is in itself essentially criminal.
Extra Session of Congress Called
President Wilson has issued a call for an extra session of Congress to convene on April 7. He has left it to Congress to decide what matters should be considered.
Michigan Prohibits Tipping
The Michigan Assembly on March 6 passed a bill making it unlawful to fee another for personal service. In other words, it is a prohibition of all tips.
“Inasmuch”
By May Crossett
IT was an unusually warm day in the middle of June, when a young girl of fifteen summers entered the door of a humble cottage in the pretty village of L, and with these words she greeted an elder sister who sat sewing by an open window, before which climbed in richest profusion a wild rose: “O Ida, I’m tired and sick of school! I never want to see another schoolbook! I fairly hate them, that I do!”
And with this outburst she threw the pile of books upon the table, and flung herself into a chair with a sigh.
Ida looked up in surprise into the face of her beautiful sister, to whom she must be mother as well as sister now, for the dear one had left her darlings only during the past winter.
And again that mother’s charge rang in her ears, “Be gentle and faithful with sister Bella.” She knew she possessed a warm, loving heart; but these fitful, restless moods had caused much anxiety to both mother and daughter.
There was a loving interest in the tone of the elder sister when she spoke: “Bella, dear, you are tired, and must have had an unusually hard time at school to-day. You do need a change, dear, and I am glad that vacation will soon be here. I was just planning as you entered the door a visit to Aunt Mary’s. Let me see, I believe I have never told you of the beauties of ‘Norwood Hall,’ and all about my visit there last autumn, and the impression it made upon me. So come, darling, draw up that low rocker by my side, where you can get the sweet breath of the roses, while I go over those days at Norwood. I so often wished while there that you could have been with me. It was all so lovely! How plainly I can see the beautiful long avenue of maples, through which I took many a promenade in the early morning! How fresh it all seems to me—the daily morning concert with which I was greeted! A perfect gush of melody poured forth from the throats of the happy songsters perched in the topmost branches of the thickly shaded trees. It was a treat I never missed during my stay there. And the broad, sloping, velvety lawns—how charming! The rustic summer-house just half way down to Willow Brook, where dear old Rover and I had many a frolic. But in the grand old house, do you know, its most delightful and comfortable place to me was its old, airy, English-built hall, with its quaint-fashioned furniture, and portraits of interesting faces looking down from the wall—faces of those that I knew had once passed up and down that same old stately corridor—it had a peculiar charm to me. My afternoons were usually spent there, or a good part of them. And when the tall clock in the corner would strike the hour of four, then, usually Aunt Mary’s voice would be heard calling from above: ‘Ida, would you like to go to the village, dear? We will start in about twenty minutes.’”
“Those visits made a lasting impression upon me. O Bella! could you have heard and seen what I did—the hearty welcomes, the brightened eyes, the happy tears, and the earnest, ‘God bless you’s,’ that came as the result of Aunt Mary’s visits, it would have done your heart good.”
“One afternoon, the day before I was to return home, and as we were returning from our last visiting together, I told auntie of the pleasure and profit I had received from these visits with her, and added, how happy she must be to know she was bringing cheer and comfort to so many hearts, and, the best of all, she could feel she had the Master’s smile of approval, for inasmuch as she had done it unto the least of these—
“She then told me how the desire of her youth had been granted. It had been a longing desire of her heart to have the means to help others. Then she playfully told me how they had all declared at home that sister Mary was to be the ‘old maid’ of the house. That was a sure and settled thing. And as the years went by it did seem as tho the home prophecy was to be fulfilled; but in the thirty-ninth summer of her life a gentleman bearing the name of Norwood came to visit his old college chum—a near neighbor of theirs. And it soon became evident to all that Mr. Norwood—after a summer’s acquaintance—entertained more than a passing interest for the neighbor’s daughter. And with tears in her eyes she exclaimed, ‘O Ida! what joy welled up in my heart when he told me of his wealth, and how all should be mine to use as my heart prompted. He was a Christian man, and told me of his plans to help the poor of his village. Can you imagine my gratitude as I realized the long desire of this heart was to be granted? Yes, it has given me untold pleasure, dear, to be permitted to carry help to the poor and the suffering, and surely I have experienced that it is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
“But, Bella, dear, I have been thinking that you and I need not wait for the wealth that is Aunt Mary’s to be helpful to others. We can at least do our part, as it has been given us. It was only this morning that I heard from one of your schoolmates—who stopped on her way to school—that Aunt Amy is quite helpless now, and her sight almost gone, yet so cheerful withal. Wouldn’t you like to go, dear, and carry her a basket of our delicious strawberries? And be sure to sing to her, darling, one of your sweet songs. Your voice, you know, is a gift from the Master; and I can not help thinking of Miss Havergal’s words:”
“‘Sing at the cottage bedside;
They have no music there,
And the voice of praise is silent
After the voice of prayer.
Sing of the gentle Saviour
In the simplest hymns you know,
And the pain-dimmed eye will brighten
As the soothing verses flow. Better than loudest plaudits
The murmured thanks of such,
For the King will stoop to crown them
With His gracious “Inasmuch.”’”
“Anything for a change from those horrid books,” thought Bella, as she rose to comply with her sister’s request. Ere she had made half the distance to the cottage, she was humming a merry song, expressive of the already lightened heart. She found Aunt Amy’s door upon the latch, and as she slowly pushed it open, gave a gentle rap. And quickly came the response, “Come in, dearie; I thought it was one of you dear girls. It does me so much good to get sight of your fresh young faces. Thank God I can distinguish the faces of my friends yet; but my reading days are over, Bella, and you have come to be eyes for me a bit, haven’t you? Ellen makes poor work at reading, but she keeps it real tidy for me, so I have no fault to find.” “Yes, I will gladly read to you, auntie; but I have a request to make of you first. I want you to eat a dish of these fresh-picked strawberries that sister Ida has sent you.” The young girl chatted away while auntie was enjoying the fruit, and, after relieving her of the empty dish, she asked what part of the Bible she would like best to hear read. “I should like,” she replied, “to hear His greatest sermon once more.” “Why, what do you mean, auntie?” “Child, don’t you know? those precious words the Master spoke on the mountain top.” “O, you mean the sermon on the mount!” “Yes, child.” And Bella read, in her clear, sweet voice, all about the “blesseds.” But there was a tremor in the young girl’s voice as she finished, and with broken accents she said: “Aunt Amy, I would like to be of those who are called ‘blessed.’ Won’t you pray that I may be pure in heart, and gentle in spirit?” “Yes, child, we will ask Him now,” and an earnest prayer was forthwith put up by that aged saint in behalf of the young girl kneeling at her side. As she arose Bella ventured to ask if she would like her to sing something. “O, yes, dear, it would be such a treat.” With true heart feeling Bella sang:”
“When we reach our Father’s dwelling,
On the strong, eternal hills,
And our praise to Him is swelling
Who the vast creation fills;
Shall we then recall the sadness,
And the clouds that hung so dim,
When our hearts were turned from hardness,
And our feet from paths of sin?”
She sang the hymn through, and as she stepped nearer to say “Good-by,” Aunt Amy grasped her hand, while, with tears of gratitude coursing down her cheeks, she thanked her over and again for the comfort and joy her visit had brought her. And her loving eyes, with a hearty, “God bless you, child,” followed her to the door.
As Bella opened the door of her home, she exclaimed: “O Ida, I am so glad I went. Aunt Mary is right. I think I understand something of the joy of which she told you.”
— May Crossett, in New York Observer.
Growth in Our Country
A VERY interesting article in the March World’s Work on presidential inaugurations explodes some of the stories of the past and shows the great growth of this country. For instance, we have been told again and again how Mr. Jefferson, on the 4th of March, 1801, mounted his horse, rode to the capitol, dismounted, and unassisted hitched his horse to the fence. But William Bayard Hale tells us that this was not the case, that Jefferson was already vice-president when he was elected president, that he lived in Washington not very many yards from the capitol, and that he walked over to the capitol instead of riding. The story probably came from this: when Jefferson was succeeded by Madison, the daughter of Jefferson’s grandson tells us that her father was a lad of seventeen years and was his grandfather’s (Jefferson’s) sole companion as he rode, in those days of republican simplicity, up Pennsylvania Avenue on horseback from the president’s house to the capitol, where grandson and grandfather dismounted, hitched their horses to the palings, and the latter went into the congressional hall to see the government pass from his hands to those of his friend. The whole inauguration ceremony was simplicity itself in those days. An invited guest asked permission to wish Jefferson, the new president, joy. Jefferson replied, “I would advise you to follow my example on nuptial occasions, when I always tell the bridegroom I will wait until the end of the year before offering my congratulations.”
It is said that in the autumn, when Mrs. Adams came to the capital, she lost her way while in the wilds between Baltimore and the new capital city.
In the president’s palace, as it was called, there was not a bell in the house, and there were no grates in which to burn coal. Between the unfinished White House and the beginnings of the capitol stretched a wide road, “straight as a gun-barrel,” as one visitor described it, but full of holes and abandoned sandpits.
Pennsylvania Avenue was described as “a deep morass, covered with alder bushes,” and the capital city of 1801 consisted of woods, gravel banks, brick kilns, and rude houses, many of them mere laborers’ shanties. Eight years later, even Frederick Jackson, the British minister, wrote home that Washington was more like Hampstead Heath than any spot he had ever seen, being a place of heath woods and yawning gravel-pits, and that he had started a covey of partridges three hundred yards from the house of Congress. The country has grown amazingly since those days.
The Working Man’s Money
IN one of our large cities a laboring man, leaving a large saloon, saw a costly carriage and pair standing in front, occupied by two ladies elegantly attired, conversing with the proprietor.
“Whose establishment is that?” he said to the saloon-keeper as the carriage rolled away.
“It is mine,” replied the dealer, proudly. “It cost thirty-five hundred dollars. My wife and daughter can not do without it.”
The mechanic bowed his head a moment in deep thought; then, looking up, said with the energy of a man suddenly aroused by some startling flash, “I see it! I see it!”
“See what?” queried the saloon-keeper.
“See where, for years, my wages have gone. I helped pay for that carriage, for those horses and gold-mounted harness, and for the silks and laces for your family. The money that I have earned, that should have given my wife and children a home of our own, and good clothing, I have spent at your bar. My wages, and the wages of others like me, have gone to support you and your family in luxury. Hereafter my wife shall have the benefit of my wages; and, by the help of God, I will never spend another dime for drink.”—Selected.
Where the Woman Fails
MISS IDA TARBELL, well known for gallant work in uncovering some of the wrongs in Big Business, now presents a book called “The Business of Being a Woman.” Here are passages that sharply arraign the new woman:
“The most essential obligation in a woman's business is establishing her household on a sound moral basis.
“If a child is anchored to basic principles, it is because his home is built on them. If he understands integrity as a man, it is usually because a woman has done her work well. If she has not done it well, it is probable that he will be a disturbance and a menace when he is turned over to society. Sending defective steel to a gun maker is no more certain to result in unsafe guns than turning out boys who are shifty and tricky is to result in a corrupt and unhappy community.
“Appalled by the seriousness of the task, or hurried from it by the joys of liberty and education, the woman has too generally shifted it to other shoulders which were waiting to help her work out the problem, but which could never be a substitute. She has turned over the child to the teacher, secular and religious, and fancied that he might be made a man of integrity by an elaborate system of teaching in a mass.
“It is not too much to say that the revelations of corruption in our American cities, the use of town councils, state legislatures, and even of the federal government in the interests of private business, have discredited the democratic system throughout the world. It has given more material for those other lands who despise democracy to sneer at us than anything else that has yet happened in this land.
“And this has come about under the régime of the emancipated woman. Is she in no way responsible for it? If she had kept the early ideals of the woman's part in democracy as clearly before her eyes as she has kept some of her personal wants and needs, could there have been so disastrous a condition? Would she be the uneasy woman that she is if she had kept faith with the ideals that forced her emancipation?—if she had not substituted for them dreams of personal ambition, happiness, and freedom!
“If our uneasy woman could grasp the full meaning of her place in this democracy, a place so essential that democracy must be overthrown unless she rises to it—a part which man is not equipped to play, and which he ought not to be asked to play—would she not cease to apologize for herself; cease to look with envy on man's occupations?
“Learning, business careers, political and industrial activities—none of these things is more than incidental in the national task of woman. Her great task is to prepare the citizen. The citizen is not prepared by a training in practical politics. Something more fundamental is required. The meaning of honor and of the sanctity of one's word, the understanding of the principles of democracy and of the society in which we live, the love of humanity, and the desire to serve,—these are what make a good citizen.”—Edwin Markham.
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California’s Disguised Sunday Law
Those who are working to secure a Sunday law in the California Legislature have practically given up the thought of securing the passage of the bill at first introduced; but they are introducing a new bill that is so framed that it seems to be meeting with quite universal favor. It is disguised under the cloak of greatly helping the laboring man who has to work in foundries and other factories where work is required seven days in the week. To oppose such a bill seems to put one where he is not in sympathy with the toiler. But the large corporations that would be affected have abundantly demonstrated their ability to evade all such laws that were not to their liking; and nothing would be gained except to strengthen the precedent for religious legislation. For, disguise it as you may, it is religious dogma that is at the bottom of all such laws. A few Sunday laws will not change the oppressive and controlling course of the big money power of this world. Attempting to regulate this power on Sunday will not correct conditions that are radically wrong from the foundation up.
Coming India Letter
By Editor
Our next issue has some strong things of interest in “Our India Letter,” especially regarding the feelings of Moslems and other conditions there.
All Fools’ Day
“All Fools’ Day.”—This paper is dated on what the world calls, “All Fools’ Day,” or “April Fool.” The day has been said to refer to the mockery of Jesus, or to the uncertainty of the weather; but neither of these is reasonable. The Hindus play fool tricks on people at their Huli festival, March 31. Some have thought that, as the new year once began on March 25, the festival ended April 1. No origin or custom will excuse the folly, often followed by very serious consequences, of practical joking which fools seem to feel they are licensed to indulge in on that day. Blinded eyes, injured spines, and even death have followed in the fool footsteps of the practical joker. Henry Ward Beecher, it is said, received a letter in which was written the one term, “April Fool.” The great preacher remarked that he had often heard of persons writing letters and forgetting to sign their names, but he never before knew of a case in which the writer signed his name and forgot to write the letter. Here is a good text for the jokers to consider: “As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?” Prov. 26:18. We may pity the “fools,” sometimes we may smile at them; but there is no need of becoming one of them.
Tag Them
That is, tag a man as you would a dog. Virtually that is what Mr. Tufts, the Sunday-law man proposes. He would permit Jews and Seventh-day Adventists, if they could prove they were such, to open a saloon or store on Sunday, but only such would be allowed to buy as received certificates showing the beliefs of those who wished to buy or drink. No one but a Jew could buy food or drink of a Jew and no one but an Adventist could buy at an Adventist grocery or purchase drink at a Seventh-day Adventist saloon (no one ever heard of such a thing). Think of it! and this is free America. California ought to repudiate such a thing forever. Man is accountable alone to God for what he believes, and wo worth the day when some man or men or organization is recognized as God's agent to label him.
The Nations and the Vatican.
The Roman correspondent of the Western Watchman says that it is “with pleasure that one finds France aspiring to negotiations with the Holy See, Spain affirming and reaffirming her recognition of the pope as sovereign, Austria treating with the holy father on her rights in the East, and Germany declaring by the mouth of William II her satisfaction at the cordial relations of church and state. . . . Somebody said recently that every nation in Europe feels itself called upon to go to war. He might have added most of them are anxious to come to terms with the Holy See regarding the Catholic protectorate. Austria casts longing eyes at the protectorate of Servian Catholics, while Servia, to escape a shadow of vassalage, would make a concordat with Rome. Albania, Turkey, France and probably Germany, will have a word to say on the same question.” The same correspondent also says that “not since the times of Leo XIII has Rome seen a display of more universal sympathy than has been evoked by the death of the eldest sister of Pius X. Crowned heads, presidents of republics, cardinals, bishops, societies, and private persons have sent wires of condolence to the august brother.” We note this, not as a mark of sympathy in particular, for sympathy is always good, but showing the feeling toward the Papacy manifest throughout the world.
Reaping the Whirlwind
“Reaping the Whirlwind.”—Under this heading, the Thrice-a-Week World says: “For the first time in its history, the German Empire has failed to float a government loan. The failure is almost complete. Of a total proposed issue of $100,000,000 4 per cent treasury notes, but $42,500,000 were subscribed. Even of these offered funds, only $15,000,000 take up new notes. The remaining $27,500,000 are for renewals of old notes—and not nearly enough for the purpose. Ten millions more must be provided before this old issue falls due on April 1. The failure of the issue is frankly ascribed to the purpose of the government to increase the military establishment. The new war policy will put 168,000 more men under arms; will erect costly fortifications toward Russia; will add $50,000,000 a year to the regular war budget; will levy a forced contribution of $250,000,000 upon the well-to-do—a thing sane nations do not do except in dire necessity.” The old earth’s peoples are getting sick of war, but the war-mad nations, led by the apocalyptic demons, go on in the preparations for the tragedy of Armageddon. See Rev. 16:13, 14, 16.
Why Is Wall Street Different?
The “World’s Work” asks a very important question, and echoes many minds in doing it, that if Mr. Wilson, however wise or otherwise his words may have been, when he spoke of Wall Street and its work, should cause stocks to fall, what does it mean? It remarks that a man,—even the president of the United States—might talk ever so much and even ever so foolishly about the book market, or shoe market, or lumber market, or clothing market; and yet the bookmen and the shoe men and the lumbermen would not become frightened and sell their property; nor would they “answer back” by “throwing a fit.” What is there in the stock-and-bond market that makes it different from other markets? Why must these men be so delicately dealt with, or always left alone? Is their business in some way sacred? Does its success depend on silence? If the many interests of the country were on a square, honest basis, would any speech or any number of speeches be likely to affect them?
Three Standard-Bearers Fallen.—
By Editor
We note the recent death of three tried standard-bearers in the message,—Gardner Kellogg Owen, who died in India October 18, 1912, at Lucknow, at the age of seventy-four; Horace W. Lawrence of West Bangor, New York, who died January 25, 1913, at the age of eighty-four; and George W. Amadon (under whom the editor of the SIGNS learned typesetting), who died February 24, 1913, at St. Joseph, Michigan, at the age of eighty. These three brethren fell in the harness—devoted, earnest, respected, faithful to the end. We can only hope that others equally true may take their place.
Sunday Law Defeated in Congress
The “Review and Herald” of March 13 tells us that there was no Sunday law for the District of Columbia passed. Congress adjourned without enacting such a measure. The three bills which were pending — the Johnston bill in the Senate, the Heflin bill and the Howard bill in the House — died with the close of Congress. The stirring and steady stream of remonstrances in letters and petitions evidently had its effect.
Parasite Found for Mediterranean Fly
The Hawaiian Board of Agriculture gave Dr. Sylvestri, an entomologist, the commission to hunt for a parasite to destroy the fruit pest, in the islands, known as the Mediterranean fly. He cabled from Cape Town, South Africa, March 6, that he had found it in the West African jungle, and that he would bring it back via Australia.
Photograph Credits
By Editor
We regret that in our last issue we neglected to give credit to the companies who furnished us the photographs. The pictures on pages 3, 10, 11, and the upper one on page 12, were from Clinedinst Studios, Washington, while the one below on page 12 was from Underwood & Underwood, New York.
Clergymen Reject Sunday Baseball Proposal
Professor Dr. C. Linn Seller proposed to several clergymen that Sunday baseball should be allowed and the game opened by prayer, and said it “would help a great deal in the way of building up character.” But the clergymen would not have it so.
David Livingstone’s Centenary
The centenary of David Livingstone was celebrated by many of the religious papers, some with very full accounts of the great missionary's life. He was a worthy man, and did great work for God.
