An Illustrated Paper for the Smaller Men and Women, for the Children and Little Ones
Instructive and entertaining, clean, wholesome, sensible. It is a character builder, a helper to father and mother. Our Little Friend would plant seed in the joyous life of the children in the Present, that it may bear blessed fruitage in the Harvest of the Future. Respect your child's individuality. Take the paper for him or her. Only 50 cents a year.
Address, OUR LITTLE FRIENDMountain View, Cal.
A Time for Thanksgiving
The autumn-tide is atune to call forth thanksgiving from hearts throughout earth's northern zones; for it is at this season of the year that even the faithless
“See our Father's hand once more
Reverse for us the plenteous horn
Of autumn, filled and running o'er
With fruit and flower and golden corn.
“Once more the liberal year laughs out
O'er richer stores than gems of gold;
Once more, with harvest song and shout,
Is nature's bloodless triumph told.
“O favors every year made new!
O gift with rain and sunshine sent!
The bounty overruns our due,
The fulness shames our discontent!
“We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on;
We murmur, but the corn-ears fill;
We choose the shadow, but the sun
That casts it shines behind us still.”
And so it is with all God's blessings, spiritual as well as temporal. God through Christ pours upon us all the fulness of His riches in grace and mercy; but blind, selfish man, blind because selfish, sees them not, nor appreciates God's bounties. He who truly renders thanks and praise to God at all times, keeps open channel between himself and Heaven. In sorrow and want he will praise God for sympathy and help to endure. In plenty he will acknowledge God as the Giver. All is of Him. And while we thank Him for temporal blessings, we may also praise Him for the early and latter rain which is fitting sheaves for His gathering. The harvest is almost here. The Reaper soon will come.
What About the Children?
The parents are very few indeed who do not wish their children to have good, interesting reading. How could the father or the mother do better than to subscribe for such a paper as Our Little Friend for a year in the child's name, or the children's names? What more appropriate present could there be for the year to come—a present which would face the children every week of their life, telling them something they did not know before, and always making them the better for the reading? Coming in their own names, they would feel that it is their paper, a friend indeed. Its reading will help both parents and children. That which is good, always does. It is only 50 cents a year if subscribed for before January 1, 1910.
Signs of the Times Subscription Rates
By Editor
FROM THIS ISSUE TO THE LAST OF 1910 THE “SIGNS OF THE TIMES” WILL BE SENT FOR $1.50; AFTER JANUARY 1, 1910, THE PRICE WILL BE $1.75. SUBSCRIBE NOW, EVEN THO YOUR SUBSCRIPTION DOES NOT EXPIRE FOR MONTHS YET; RENEW AND EXTEND IT A YEAR OR TWO OR THREE AT THE $1.50 RATE. FOR FIVE YEARS, $6.50.
The Change of the Sabbath as Proved by History
By Editor
We had hoped to publish this week the next article in the Sabbath series, but will be compelled to hold it over. It is entitled, “The Change of the Sabbath As Proved by History.”
Multiplied Evidences of Christ’s Soon Coming
By Editor
There is crowded out of this issue an article on the “Signs of the Times,” the “Multiplied Evidences of Christ’s Soon Coming.” It will, however, be equally timely next week.
How Can We Answer?
A correspondent writes us, evidently desiring an answer, but how can we give it, when he signs himself only “Yours truly, Rev. 13:18, 666”? And he does not say what his post-office is.
Cotton and Coin
It is a sad thing when conditions are such and always are such as to permit two commodities as much needed as cotton and wheat, to be at the mercy of unprincipled speculators. For instance, it is stated that Patten, who made last May about five million dollars in wheat, pocketed, in one day, about four million dollars in cotton. The cotton was forced up from nine cents a pound to fourteen, and it is stated that it may reach sixteen cents.
Are All the Children In?
By Editor
Wanted.—The poem entitled “Are All the Children In?” If any of our readers can send us a copy of this we will publish it in response to request which has come to us, and return copy to them or send the paper containing the reprint.
Our Bible Band for 1910
By Editor
THE books of the Bible are not always in chronological order. For instance, Ezra and Nehemiah were written between B.C. 500 and 400; while Jonah and Joel, coming long after, were written about B.C. 800. There are many cases similar.
Our Bible Band next year will read the Bible in Chronological Order as far as convenient. The arrangement will be much better than that of this year. Entirely new schedules have been prepared. These will be furnished for ten cents each. This will not pay for the trouble all told, but we very much want our readers to know the Bible better.
Now who wishes to join? Let us hear from you soon.
In This Issue
By Editor
We have in brief passed over the ground covered in our first seven numbers of our special Bible Series. The numbers epitomized in this are exhausted. Hereafter all subscriptions for the series will begin with this issue, November 24.
Our Next Issue
By Editor
Will be upon the very interesting subject of “ANGELS.” What are these angels? What is their relationship to man? Can they communicate with men? Are they all good? These and other questions will be answered in our next number.
Is It Not Worth While?
By Editor
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES gives in the course of a year 800 pages, of which 700 pages at least are instructive, edifying, uplifting, beneficial to any individual or family. These 700 pages are equal to at least 2,800 pages of an ordinary book, equal to seven volumes of 400 pages each. These volumes would cost, from one dollar to two dollars each, and contain no better matter than the paper contains. Yet for all this the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, coming fresh every week, costs but $1.50. Is it not worth while, and can not our subscribers and friends help their neighbors to see that it is worth while, to subscribe for a paper which gives so much information at so low a price? There are but few families comparatively that take religious papers. There are but few of the many that do not take religious papers, that would not subscribe for one or read one if the need were properly presented. That paper coming fresh every week, telling the family of God's goodness and kindness and mercy, pointing out the better way of righteousness, giving suggestions in the home life, telling of the developments in far-off mission fields, might prove the salvation of the family, both physically and spiritually. What are you doing to help your neighbors? They may be anxious to obtain such a paper as that if you would present it before them.
Cigarets
Cigarets.—We have received from the State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, “Home Training Bulletin No. 1” on the cigaret-smoking boy, by Prof. Wm. A. McKeever. This little tract of twelve pages contains very many things which should be of interest to parents and teachers; all, in fact, engaged in the bringing up of boys. The writer of the Bulletin has made a study of 2,500 cigaret-smoking schoolboys, and he gives diagrams to show how weak their hearts are, and other data indicating the mental, moral, and physical debility of such boys. Other bulletins along the same line are issued by the above college. These bulletins may be secured at one cent a copy. They certainly contain information which should be widely distributed.
Mrs. Wightman’s Religious Liberty Lectures
The Glenwood Springs (Colo.) “Daily Avalanche” of October 4, speaks in high praise of three lectures by Mrs. Lulu Wightman on religious liberty, delivered in that town October 2, 3, 4. We are glad that Mrs. Wightman is able to do so much in spreading the light on religious liberty. The above from Glenwood Springs is but an echo from many other places in Nebraska, Missouri, and Colorado, where Elder and Mrs. Wightman have been.
Reforming Boys Through Better Training
The “Sunday School Times” has a good suggestive article from Judge Ben. B. Lindsey of Denver regarding the dealing with boys who need reforming. Some of the difficulties in the training of boys he charges home to parents. He thinks that probably ninety-five out of every hundred incorrigibles could be saved if right plans were used—an estimate probably too high, but certainly the thought is worthy of consideration.
A New Explosive.—
An Englishman has invented a new explosive, much more powerful and cheaper than dynamite and less dangerous. Ordinary detonators, blows from a sledge-hammer, rifle shots, or living flame can not affect it. It requires a special detonator. Twenty tons have been ordered for the Isthmus of Panama for experiment on the canal.
