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THE WORTH OF REDEMPTION. This is the vital, all-absorbing truth on earth, His hands were outstretched in blessing which God would have men in all ages fix -their to His disciples. And whi1F they stood gazing BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. attention. He would have the death of His upward to catch the last glimpse of their as- [One of the founders of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.] Son the great center of attraction. When cending Lord, He was received into the rejoic- UR Saviour compared the blessing of re- Christ came forth from the tomb, He pro- ing throng of cherubim and seraphim. As deeming love to a pearl of great price. claimed over the rent sepulcher of Joseph, I these heavenly beings escorted their Lord to He illustrated this truth by the His home, they sang in triumph; "Sing parable of a merchantman seeking goodly unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; 0 pearls, " who, when he had found one sing praises unto the Lord; . . . to pearl of great price, went and sold all that Him that rideth upon the heavens of he had, and bought it." heavens." Christ is the Pearl of great price. He God desired to impress the minds of is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In the believers with the glorious reception Eden, before the heavenly universe, before accorded to His Son in the home He had the unfallen worlds, and before Satanic left. For the sake of sinful humanity, agencies, God declared that the eternal Christ had become poor, that through His Son was to be given as the ransom for a poverty man might be made rich. He fallen world. The Seed of the woman had now conquered the world, and His should bruise the serpent's head, and it ascension to heaven was made with great should bruise His heel. honor. Commander of the heavenly :lost, And " when the fulness of time was He returned to His own dominion, amid come, God sent forth His Son." God's joyful demonstrations. "The chariots of wrath against sin must be exhausted. God are twenty thousand, even thousands The punishment for sin must be borne. of angels." These escorted Him who was Having taken a survey of all that would the resurrection and the, life, together with be required of Him, Christ summed up a multitude of captives, raised from their the guilt to be canceled. He then gath- ,graves to join the armies of heaven. And ered the entire responsibility to His heart, before the heavenly universe He was and bent His whole being to the task. enthroned, a gracious High Priest and Yr I-te clothed His divinity with humanity, mighty Redeemer to all who call upon and as our Substitute and Surety, pre- Him in truth. pared Himself for the sword that was to Just before His crucifixion Christ said: smite Him. " For their sakes," He de- "I tell you the truth: It is expedient for clared, " I sanctify Myself," in fulfilment yOu that I go away; for if I go not away, of the covenant made before the founda- the. Comforter will not come unto you; but tions of the world were laid. " He was if I depart, I will send Him unto you. f wounded for our transgressions, He was And when He is come, He will reprove bruised for our iniquities ; the chastise- the world of sin, and of righteousness, and ment of our peace was upon Him ; and of judgment." "I will pray the,Father, and with His stripes we are healed." Christ He shall give you another Comforter, that p died that He might bring life and im- He may abide with you forever ; even the mortality to light. Thou, 0 Lamb of -Spirit of truth, whom the world can not God, didst come to offer Thyself as a receive, because it seeth Him not, neither living sacrifice, withdrawing Thyself from knoweth Him; but ye know Him; for He the heavenly universe, and setting Thy- dwelled' with you, and shall be in pou." self apart to make a complete offering! This is a wonderful announcement. "Therefore doth My Father love Me," Christ would thus accomplish the most He said, " because I lay down My life, important work by few and simple means. that I might take it agairt" The plan of redemption is comprehensive, The crucifixion of Christ took place at but its parts are few, each depending on the celebration of the Passover. At this the other, and all working together in time people from all parts of the world utmost simplicity and entire harmony. were assembled at Jerusalem. Represent- The I Ioly Spirit represents Christ. When atives from foreign courts, kings, noble- this Spirit is appreciated, and those con- 4 men, princes, men who_exerted a wide trolled -13y,theLSpirit communicate to others influence, witnessed the scenes of Christ's the energy with which they are imbued, an death. " Lo, the kings were assembled, invisible chord is touched which electrifies they passed by together. They saw it, and so am the resurrection and the life." This God the whole. " Verily, verily, I say unto you, they marveled ; they were troubled, and hasted had appointed. In His wisdom He was fulfil- He that believeth on Me, the works that I do away." It was then that - Jehovah struck a ing His plan of infinite magnitude, the unfold- shall he do also; and greater works than these blow that was felt to the remotest parts of the ing of which commenced at the fall. shall he do ; because I go unto My Father." earth. The tidings of Christ's death were After His resurrection Christ ascended to Would that we could all understand how carried by strangers to every part of the world. His appointed honor. As He rose from the boundless are the divine resources !

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the nineteenth, which represented the triumph of the national faith and the national cry of " Egypt for the Egyptians." The foreigners were driven out or )41 massacred, those who remained, like the Israelites in the land of Goshen, being reduced to the condi- r. s).9 WITNESSES tion of public slaves, and further decimated by the • e • destruction of their male offspring. IN STONE In Khu-n-Aten's record office a large collection of clay tablets was discovered, like those which have come from Babylonia and Assyria. They are all 4., inscribed with Babylonian and not Egyptian char- By the Rev. A. H. Sayce, LL.D., Author of "Ancient Empires of the East," ctc. acters, and with a few exceptions are written in the Babylonian language. They prove to have been the E have heard a good deal of late years about slowly but surely rebuilding what subjective criti- the " untrustworthiness " of Old Testament cism had attempted to destroy, and has restored foreign correspondence carried on with the Egyptian W history. " Criticism," it is said, has shown credit to those Old Testament narratives which the court, and to consist of letters from the kings of Bab- that the traditional views in regard to the authorship critic had declared to be the distorted myths and ylonia and Assyria, of Aram-Naharaim, of Cyprus, and historical credibility of the Hebrew Scriptures legends of a later clay. It has shown that the age of and of the Hittites, as well as from the governors are untenable; that the Pentateuch was written, not Moses, instead of being illiterate, was one in which and vassal princes of the Syrian and Canaanitish states. Canaan was by Moses, but by a variety of authors, some of whom the whole oriental world was engaged in writing and at the time an lived after the beginning of the Babylonish exile, and reading; and that Moses, therefore, not only could •M4T/4Trr. /RP= Ti ,t1Tr: I 4TI:fTf Egyptian province, that no belief is to he placed either in the historical have written the Pentateuch, but that if he was .00 eirz F,T 'ff..L.F.TA Tiff -MK:M.} 44:-T7*-....L.411TIrT.e.14,1 and the letters throw events it professes to record or in the miracles which trained in the " wisdom of the Egyptians," he was a welcome light it recounts. The history of the patriarchs and of hound to have done so. It has shown that the age, LE4 TWI'T z-1_^:"T 4 11T4*.r4. upon its condition. the wanderings in the wilderness is based, we are even of Abraham, was also literary, and that the 4'7 1-1-t7T:ET.EW<'1,7t7:-41W4714 But the most inter- told, on mere popular tradition and legends for government and culture of Babylonia extended over :11N-rATTTFAT-Tr-Vr.)::rg-'4747-r/'-- esting facts brought which no contemporaneous evidence ever existed; Syria and Canaan to the shores of the Mediterra- :-IP Ts.:3-•fiT4,:-"==/4=1(VT-.:72T* 3IXT-Przt<.,4•Vfigr,airtitheirgt..,T out by the discov- that a large part of the Levitical legislation is little nean Sea. It has shown, too, that this culture in- (4ffT:tf PaTtAirWritr-r4"FtraIdT11-TAPEirdgl_?4 ery are, firstly, that else than the fabrication of post-e::ilic writers; for volved the existence of libraries and archive cham- •OT ;SO! .47.4 1.4fx Z TT— t-d Ti (*Tr] the medium of lit- in the age of Moses the Israelites were but a horde bers, Where the records of the past were stored, and 0 Tf treWitlItieefFEZTI erary intercourse of illiterate barbarians, who could neither read nor the materials out of which trustworthy history is 4Wiet-2•1`erm.rfltirrT•r4-14114TT1. 1 throughout the write. compiled were preserved. Eastern world, in The results of this neg- It was in 1887 that one A fine specimen of cuneiform writ- the age of Moses, ative criticism have found of the most unexpected ing, from the annals of Sennacherih, was the Babylonian their way at second, or, and important archieo- king of Syria, about B.C. 700. It re- cords the siege of Jerusalem. language and script; more c o rn monly, third logical discoveries was ..9 and, secondly, that hand into much of • the made. At Tel el-Amarna, the whole of this Eastern world was highly educated popular literature of the - • in Upper Egypt, on the kif ? • and thoroughly acquainted with the art of reading day. Anonymous contrib- eastern bank of the Nile, ' and writing. utors to daily and weekly - and about midway be- Let us take the second point first. The letters, papers refer to them as of ) . (:':,..---, tween the towns of Minia i•--',11`1./ we find, were written by all classes of persons. unquestionable authority, .1 , and Siiit, there was.found Li ; N.). .1‘,- \' i Among the Pharaoh's correspondents were ladies forgetful or ignorant of , :t I91 .: r.1'`. ): 'ti ; • , the record office of a .-.-- ' . 1, - (-0 and Bed. in shahs ; and the varieties- of local the fact- that the criticism .__./,--., •. -_.) _-__'N:t -js,:-.; ir.._ \:..k:r• Pal .' Pharaoh who lived about ,.. spelling show that a knowledge of writing could not is of a purely subjective - _ a century before the Exo- 1-2 '• -5: ' have been confined to a special class of scribes. character, unchecked by 0 - - dus. This Pharaoh is gen- ,'.• IN ;.. r ''- The letterS, too, are often on the most trivial mat- external testimony, and ,.1.). - >>,• 't... erally known to the stu- ters,•and we gather from them that they were .con- that it has proved itself to IN..)1.Y1-4/. dents of Egyptian history .r.3 ;-). I :; :-"'---:- .‘ stantly passing to and fro along the highways which be almost as shifting and as the heretic 1; hig. Under 134 17 •3 • " traversed Western Asia. But, as has been already 0116 uncertain as a quicksand. • the tutelage of his mother, I said, they are written in a language which is not that The conclusions which who seems to have been of were announced as incon- Asiatic extraction, he en- -I. • e trovertible twenty years deavored to reform the an- ago are reven;e:1 to-day, cient religion of Egypt, A Hittite Inscription.—Says Ragozin in his "Story of and what the critic once Assyria," in referring to recent discoveries concerning the of which he was the offi- declared to be the oldest Hittites: "It is to Prof. A. H. Sayce, of Oxford—to his wonder- cial head; to replace the ful ingenuity, his untiring industry, and passionate pioneer- part of the Pentateuch is ing zeal in opening new fields of investigation—that we owe worship of the supreme now asserted with an a revelation which even now may be termed a revolution, so Theban god, Amon, by startling is the light it has unexpectedly thrown on a vast tract equal amount of assur- of ancient history hitherto obscure and utterly neglected." that of the solar disk, and ance to be the latest. • to substitute a sort of While subjective criticism has thus been endeavor- pantheistic monotheism for the polytheism of his ing to make bricks without straw, the excavator and subjects. For the first time in history a religious the decipherer of the monuments of antiquity have persecution broke out. The worship of Amon was been working patiently, and, as it were, in silence, proscribed, and the very name of the Egyptian deity recovering the buried history of the past from its erased from the monuments. The king changed his sleep of centuries, looking for facts instead of theo- own name from Amon-hotep to Khu-n-Aten, "the ries, and doing their best to reconstruct history, not glory of the solar disk," the visible symbol of the to destroy it. Instead of making their own theories god of the new faith. the test of truth, and rejecting a part if it does not Along with the introduction of the new religion square with their assumptions, they have loyally fol- went the introduction of a new art which aimed at lowed the facts whithersoever they might lead, and substituting an extreme realism for the conven- have given up their most cherished convictions as tionalities of Egyptian art, as well as an influx of soon as the progress of discovery has demanded it. foreigners from Asia, and more especially from But the results of oriental archaeology are not as Canaan, into the country and the government. The widely known as those which the negative criticism high offices of state were filled by Canaanites; even claims to have obtained. They are largely hidden the prime minister bore the Hebrew name of Dodo. away in a variety of learned periodicals which are Naturally the priests of Thebes objected to the read only by specialists, and the archeologists have religious innovations of the king, and the usurpa- been so busy in making and recording the discov- tion of political power by the foreigners; and in the A Clay Tablet (obverse side), from Tel el- Amarna. The inscription is a letter in cuneiform characters from Abi-milki, eries which have come crowding upon them that struggle which ensued between them and the Pha- ruler of Tyre, to the king of Egypt, about a.c. 1450. they seldom have had time to throw them into a raoh, they proved too strong for Khu-n-Aten. He systematic, much less into a popular, form. More- left Thebes, the capital of his fathers, and built of the majority of the writers, and must consequently over, the archaeologists have no theories to fight for, another capital for himself further north, where the have been learned by them, and in a system of no system to maintain, and consequently the popular ruins of Tel el-Amarna now stand. Here he sur- writing which is one of the most complicated and attention is not arrested by the voice of - controversy rounded himself with the adherents of the new creed difficult to learn that can possibly be conceived. or the spirit of propagandism. • We can not help and his Asiatic officials, before whom he delivered The acquisition of the Babylonian characters im- hearing about the " higher criticism " of the Bible, lectures, orrather sermons, morning after morning, plies of itself years. of patient labor at school. and its supposed results. Oriental archzeology ap- on the principles of his religious system. But his. Schools, in fact, must have existed all over the peals chiefly to the student of history, and the reign did not last long; and when he died, civil and civilized world, where the language and script of scholars who are making archaeological discoveries religious war-was already breaking out. His. tomb Babylonia .were, taught and studied. And tlai- have little leisure for discussing its bearings on the was violated, and his body hacked to pieces; the further. means that the ancient literature of Bab- Old Testament. city he had built, with its temple and palace, was ylo:lia was also ,studied. Indeed, among the Tel Nevertheless, archeological research has been leveled to the ground ; and a new dynasty arose, el-Amarna tablets fragments of some Babylonimi January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (3) 3

poems have been found which have been used as longer stands alone, to be dissected and disparaged salvation of Christ come to the soul, and thus are school exercises. But by the side of the school without fear of contradiction by the subjective critic; we brought into partnership with the great Author there was also the library, as in Babylonia, where it is becoming part of that ancient history of the and Dispenser of creative power. We are to believe the official letters which were received could be East which archaeology is unfolding to our view, we receive the blessing promised, before it is real- stored along with those clay books of which so many supplementing and being supplemented by the dis- ized. " What things soever ye desire, when ye have been disinterred from the ruined libraries of coveries of oriental research. Hardly had the critic pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall Babylonia and Assyria. Here the records and proved to his own satisfaction in a learned volume have them." Here is faith in its essential sim- history of the past were preserved on imperishable that the Israelites were " never in Egypt," when plicity. By believing, we receive; when the prom- clay, and the historian had at his disposal an abun- Prof. Flinders Petrie, two years ago, discovered a ised blessing is received and enjoyed, faith is swal- dance of materials for the earlier history of Canaan. stela among the ruins of Thebes, on which the name lowed up. Here, too, such Babylonian stories as that of the of " the Israelites " is spelled out in hieroglyphic Faith is simple. It dwells in a simple, obedient Deluge were to be found, which must have been well characters. The stela contains a hymn in praise of heart. It can not abide in a proud heart which known in the West long before the days of Moses. Meneptah, the son and successor of Rameses II., the boasts of its own works. The person who draws This brings us to the first fact which the Tel builder of Pithom, and the Pharaoh of .the oppres- nourishment from Christ, walking humbly with Him, el-Amarna tablets have made clear. The language sion; and the .author of the hymn refers to the is the one in whose heart faith thrives. Humility is and writing of the Babylonians were so firmly rooted Israelites as having been left " without seed." But the soil from which it springs. throughout Western Asia that when the Egyptians it would seem that they were no longer in Egypt; Faith is an active principle. " It works by love, founded their Asiatic empire, they were obliged to while the other people referred to by the poet have and purifies the heart." It transforms the character communicate in them to their Asiatic subjects and the determinative of locality attached to their names, into the likeness of Christ. It materializes hope. It neighbors. This means that the influence of Bab- the Israelites alone have no such indication of local marshals one into the army of God. It takes hold ylonian culture, of which the language and literature habitation. They must have already been lost to of God's promise. " If ye abide in Me, and My were an integral part, must have long since made sight in the wilderness, and the land of Goshen, words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it its way to the shores of the Mediterranean and have which they had inhabited, been left empty for others shall be done unto you." " Whatsoever we ask we obtained a profound hold on the people of Syria and to occupy. When the stela, which is now in the receive of Him, because we keep His command- Canaan. And discoveries recently made in Bab- museum of Cairo, was engraved, the Exodus must ments, and do those things that are pleasing in His ylonia itself show that such was the case. As far have just taken place. sight." back as B.c. 3800, Sargon, of Akkad, established a Faith does not depend upon circumstances; for it Babylonian empire which extended to the Mediter- em u. believes God, who controls circumstances. Neither ranean, and appointed a " governor" over " the Queen's College, Oxford. does it depend upon feelings, which are the out- land of the Amorites," as Palestine was then called. growth of circumstances; for it reaches to that Already at that remote period, Babylonian civiliza- within the vail, and rests upon the Word of God. tion was highly advanced. Art had already reached THE MARRIAGE OF THE SKIES. " Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the its perfection, and an organized postal system ex- Word of God." " This is the victory that over- isted, which carried public and private letters along BY AIRS. L. D. AVERY-SI t rrLE.. cometh the world, even our faith." the principal roads. 0, RING the bells of heaven high I There is nothing in the material world but that is The marriage feast has cone; From the time of Sargon of Akkad onward, the The glorious jubilee is nigh, subject to him who has faith in Christ. While faith Babylonians claimed supremacy in Canaan.. We The saints are going home. brings life and peace to the troubled soul, it has hear of campaigns made in the Lebanon by kings of The mighty pennons of the skies power to quiet the stormy billows. It has opened the dynasty of Ur, which immediately preceded that Are waving in the air, prison doors; it has quenched the violence of fire; it And o'er the gates of Zion rise under which Abraham lived; and Abraham's con- Her battlements so fair. has stopped the mouths of hungry lions. To Moses temporary, Khammurabi, or Ammurapi, the Amra- God said, "Go forward," and the Red Sea divided. phel of Gen. i4 : i, calls himself, in one of his in- The King is mustering His guests; In response to the faith of Joshua, the Jordan, with I see His glorious band ; scriptions, king of the land of the Amorites. The I see the shining habitants its overflowing banks, stayed its onward course migration of Abraham is thus shown to be no iso- Of far-off Beulah-land. until Israel had passed over. And when he had to lated and extraordinary event. On the contrary, in They come, they come on wings of light. meet the kings of the Amorites, the Lord said to moving to Canaan he was merely doing what hun- I hear the bugle blast ; Joslnia, " Fear them not; for I have delivered them I know the reign of sin's dark night dreds of other Babylonians—soldiers, civil function- Forevermore is past. into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand aries, and traders—were constantly doing; and in before thee." Joshua believed it; he saw no defeat, From cloud to cloud, from dome to dome,- Babylonia itself there were colonies of " Amorite " The myriad army cries: and when he perceived that the day would not be merchants. In Canaan he would find the same law, "The marriage of the Lamb has come— long enough to secure the full result of the victory, the same literature, and the same official language The marriage of the skies." he said, " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and as in the country of his birth; the deities of Bab- Come, bring the linen white and clean, thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun The wedding guests prepare. ylonia had been adopted by the Canaanites, and the Garments which gleam like silvery sheen,-- stood still, and the moon stayed." God was able Canaanitish princes paid tribute to Babylonia. The bridal robes so fair. to manifest His power through these men because What light all this throws on the campaign of The Bridegroom, too, methinks I see, of their constant faith in His power and loving Chedorlaomer and his allies ! " Criticism " had While myriad voices ring : intentions. declared that the campaign was imaginary, a mere " Chiefest among ten thousand He— It was this implicit faith in God that made Moses reflection of the campaigns of the Assyrian kings Immanuel, my King!" what he was. When God commanded Moses to go " Thrice blest are they who hear the call," into a distant and unknown part, and that even the A mighty angel cries, forward, he did it without stopping to consider what names of the Canaanitish princes were etymological " Haste to the supper of the Lamb— the consequences might be. He believed God had inventions. But the discoveries of archxology have The marriage of the skies." wisdom to know what He meant, and firmness of now shown that the political situation described in purpose to mean what He said ; therefore Moses the narrative is scrupulously exact, and that even acted as seeing the invisible. Here is an important the names of the invaders have come down to us FAITH; WHAT IS IT? • lesson. with but little change. It is no longer the Bible The simplicity of faith is often overlooked. Man only, but the inscriptions of Babylonia as well, which BY ELDER S., N. HASKELL. looks for some great display, and without this he is tell us that Kudur-Laghamar, or Chedor-laomer, OD Himself has answered this question in led to think that he has no faith. Many suppose the king of Elam, had made Babylonia subject to the words, " Faith is the substance of things that they have faith when enjoying much of the Holy him, and that while the native prince, Amraphel, G hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Spirit, and that they can not have faith unless they was allowed to remain at Babylon, an Elamite, Then follows the illustration, " Through faith we feel its presence. Such confound faith with the Eri-Aku, or Arioch, ruled at Larsa, the Ellasar of understand that the worlds were framed by the word blessing which comes through faith ; for faith is not Genesis, over Southern Babylonia. Tidal, king of of God, so that things which are seen were not joy, but it brings joy, rest, and peace. The time to " nations," proves to be the Tudkhula of the monu- made of things which do appear." How were the exercise faith is when we feel destitute of the Spirit. ments, who seems to have been sovereign of the worlds framed ?— By the word of God. Reason can When deep clouds envelop the mind, let living faith half-barbarous " hordes " of Kurdistan, and, like not explain the origin of things, but faith grasps the pierce the clouds and let in the sunshine of Christ's the princes of Babylonia, was subject to Chedor- truth of God's creative power in His word. righteousness. laomer. As lord of Babylon, Chedor-laomer was Faith, then, is simply taking God at His word, The secret of the power of faith is obedience to lord also of Canaan, over which the father of Arioch believing it, acting upon it, resting upon it. In God's requirements. Secret prayer, and meditation was appointed " judge." When Amraphel suc- faith is power—" casting down reasonings [margin], upon God's Word and the character of Christ, pre- ceeded at last in overthrowing the Elamites and and every high thing-that exalteth itself against the pare the heart to exercise faith. As the vine is to restoring independence to Babylonia, the empire in knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every the branches, which live by the nourishment passing the West passed to him along with the kingdom of thought to the obedience of Christ." up through the vine, so is Christ to the Christian. Babylonia, and the title of " king. of the land of the There is, however, a distinction which should be To exercise faith we must continually draw sap and Amorites" was accordingly assumed by him und his borne in mind. There is a belief that is wholly nourishment from the Living Vine ; for, separated successors. The Egyptian empire in Asia was built distinct from faith. The existence and power of from it, we have no life, no-strength. We should up on the ruins of that of Babylonia. God are facts that even Satan and his hosts can not dwell upon our unworthiness even; but the Such are a few samples of the way in which not at heart deny. The Bible says that the devils mind should dwell upon the worthiness of Christ, archaeological discovery is verifying the Old Testa- " believe and tremble; " but this is not faith. Faith His love, His merits, and His words. This will ment story. Each year, almost each month, brings is a personal application of the word of God to prevent Satan from taking away our shield of faith. new and unexpected confirmations of the Hebrew the soul. When that is removed, the heart is exposed to his Scriptures, or throws light on points that were mis- Faith is God's gift to every man; and this faith it fiery temptations, and clouds and darkness are the understood or obscure. .The Biblical narrative no is in our power to exercise. By it the grace . and result. 4 (4) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No. T

cified, . . . even in Him cloth this man stand here before you whale. . . . And in none other is there salvation; for neither is there any othername under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved." Acts 3 : 16; 4 :10-12, R.V. The man who was healed, made whole, was saved. He is presented as a specimen of Christ's salvation. Peter's statement was, " He stands here before you whole in the nahie of Jesus, and there is not whole- THE PERFECT ness in any other." *Jesus takes the man in whom there is "no soundness," and gives him "perfect soundness." He makes the man whom He saves 'S SALVATION "every whit whole." In the prayer of Solomon at the dedication of the By Dr. E. J. Waggoner, Editor of the "Present Truth," London, England. temple, this identity of sin and sickness is indicated: "Whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; AM not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; for it give ear to His commandments, And keep all His what prayer and supplication soever be made by any is the power of God unto salvation to every statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee man, or by all Thy people Israel, which shall know I one that believeth." Rom. 1 : 16. which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am every man the plague of his own heart, and spread " Power belongeth unto God." Ps. 62 : Ir. It is the Lord that healeth thee," or, literally, " I am the forth his hands toward this house; then hear Thou an attribute of Divinity, for " there is no power but Lord thy physician." Ex. 15 : 26. So when Jesus in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and forgive." 1 Kings • of God." Rom. 13 : 1. God is the Almighty-the was on earth, He " went about doing good, and 8 : 37-39. The plagues that come on the land are One who possesses all the power there is in the uni- healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God only the outward manifestation of the plague that is verse. "Wisdom and might are His." Dan. 2: 20. was with Him." Acts 10 : 38. • For be it known that in the hearts of men; and that is why it is said to " His way is perfect," and whatsoever He doeth, " it the Gospel does not stop with the mere saving of a those who make the Lord their refuge, "There shall shall be forever." Ps. 18: 3o; Eccl. 3: 14. There- man; it has for its object something far beyond no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come fore it follows that the salvation which is effected by that,-so far beyond that it leaves no room for any- nigh thy dwelling." Ps. 91 : Io. the power of God must be perfect, all-comprehensive, body to wonder if the Lord can save him;- it takes The limits of this article do not allow us to go into and eternal. " My salvation shall be forever," says a man from the very lowest state of degradation and any details. We can only look at the general facts the Lord. Isa. 51 : 6. makes him a salvation to. others. Isa. 49 : 6-g. So as stated in the Scripture. It must suffice now to This salvation is not a theoretical salvation from the well of water which 'springs up into everlasting say that this healing of the body, together with the some possible future evil, but a present salvation life to those who receive the words of the Lord, also forgiveness of sin, is not an arbitrary matter. It from a present and very real trouble. It is not flows out in rivers of living water to refresh others. comes from an intelligent faith in the Word of the merely salvation from some danger that threatens, When Jesus saw the poor paralytic lying at the Lord. That Word must be taken absolutely as one's but salvation from ills that have already well-nigh pool of Bethesda, He asked him, "Wilt thou be life, and must be brought into every act of life. overwhelmed us." " Behold, now is the day of sal- made whole?" John 5 : 6. When Peter found the When one lives wholly by the Word of the Lord, vation." It is true that the Gospel reaches out into man who had kept his bed for eight years, he said then it must necessarily follow that he will be every ,he future, but only because it saves now, and eter- to him, "./Eneas, Jesus .Christ maketh thee whole. whit whole. God contemplates nothing less than nity is only one continual now. " Godliness is prof- . . . And he arose immediately." Acts 9 : 34. this. itable unto all things, having promise of the life that This wholeness which comes through Jesus of This does not mean that the believer is immortal. now is, and of that which is to come." Nazareth is wholeness of body as well as of soul Immortality is a gift bestowed only at the coming of When the birth of Jesus was foretold, it was said, and spirit. This is shown by the fact that the body the Lot d. I Cor. 15 : 51-53. But it does mean that "Thou shalt call His name Jesus; for He -shall save was made whole; and the body was made whole in the perfect life of Christ shall be manifested in our His people from their sins." Matt. 1 : 21. Jesus order that men might see the completeness of the mortal flesh (2 Cor. 4 : 2), so that none of the weak- means Saviour. He saves people from sin. When salvation that is in the Gospel. So we read, " Bless nesses of the flesh shall hinder our perfect service to sin entered into the world, death entered (Rom. the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not all His benefits; God and humanity. Jesus Christ has " power over 5: 12); for sin carries death within it (James I :.15). who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all all flesh," so that even as He Himself conquered in "The sting of death is sin." I Cor. 15 : 56. Sin, thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruc- the flesh, He can deliver every one from the bondage • therefore is a mortal disease that is on all mankind. tion." Ps. 103: 2-4. The words of the Lord are of the flesh. Heb. 2 : 14, 15. And this life of Christ Unless men are saved from sin, they must die; and " life. unto those that• find them, and health to all dwelling in us is the assurance of immortality at His in being saved from sin, they find salvation from their flesh:" Prov. 4 : 20-22. This is no theoretical, coming in glory. death imaginary, or mystical salvation, but a real thing for Absolute Freedom. Death is simply the absence of life. If life be practical, every-day life. This deliverance is the absolute freedom which taken away, death results. The words of the Lord A Perfect Wholeness. are life and those who hear His words have life; Christ declares to the world. He proclaims " liberty even tho dead already, they receive life through the The words " whole " and " holy " have a common to the captives." Isa. 61 : 1-3. " For He bath looked Word. Isa 55 : 3; John 5 :24, 25. Death has come Saxon origin. They are, in fact, but one word. So down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven upon all men, because all have rejected the Word of to be made whole means to be made holy. Whole- did the Lord behold the earth; to hear the groaning the Lord, the source of life. Jesus Christ is the ness is holiness. Now a man is not made whole if of• the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to Word (John I : I), and He is the life (John ' 1 :4; something is lacking. There can be no real whole- death." Ps. 102: 19, 20. This freedom that the 14 : 6). So it is by giving men Himself that He saves ness of body without inward holiness. A' man may Lord gives, is His own freedom. It is freedom from them from sin and death. We are saved by His life. have eyes that are as good as any man has in every bond. The one who acknowledges that he is Rom. 5: 1o. His life is the power that conquers this world; but if he does not see God in His works, the Lord's servant by right, and that God has perfect death, and it conquers death because it is proof they are of no use to him. Ears are useless to a man right to him, soul, body, and spirit, can say, " Thou against sin, which is the cause of death. " There is who will not hear the Word of the Lord. If a man hast loosed my bonds." Ps. 116: 16. Nothing that no unrighteousness in Him." His name is Jesus, does not speak as the oracles of God, of what use pertains to this sin-cursed earth can bind the soul Saviour, because He is in Himself salvation. are a mouth and a tongue' to him ? If a man does that is absolutely yielded to God. A not think God's thoughts, he might as Well have no The soul that knows this perfect freedom which A Saviour from An Trouble. brain. In short, if our bodies do not move in re- the Gospel gives, will never, can never, appeal to -Any so-called salvation that should deliver a man sponse to the impulse of the Spirit of God, they are any lower power to deliver him from oppfession. from one trouble, only to leave him to be destroyed altogether corrupt and perverted, no matter how fair "The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment by another, would be no salvation at all. If a man and healthful an appearance they may present. for all that are oppressed." Ps. 103 : 6. " I know were condemned to death, the person who should " The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man look- that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, nurse him through an illness only that he might be eth on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh and the right of the poor." Ps. m : 12. Surely spared to be hanged, would not be entitled to the on the heart." God sees the sin in the heart; and the Lord will care for His own, and "bath not God condemned man's warmest gratitude. It is not in since death is the product of sin, and disease is the chosen the poor of this world rich in faith?" "Shall any such way as that that God saves us. The in- working of death, He looks at the body of the per- not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and spired prayer, which must be fulfilled in every be- son who is a sinner, and sees that " from the sole of night unto Him ?" " I tell you that He will avenge liever, is, " The very God of peace sanctify you the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in them speedily," said Jesus. wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul it." Isa. I : 5, 6. For that sin, if not removed, will " Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming and body be preserved blameless unto the coming at the last reveal itself as "a noisome and grievous of the Lord." James 5 : 7. " What! " exclaims one, of our Lord Jesus Christ." i Thess. 5 : 23. " Faith- sore." ReV. 16:2. " have we, after all, to wait. till some future time for ful is He that calleth you, who also will do it." Now, it is from every sin and every disease that deliverance?" • Be patient. The Lord has not prom- Jesus Christ saves us from sin-not merely from Jesus saves those who believe on Him. " Himself ised that tribulation shall cease before His coming. the punishment- of sins already committed, but from took our infirmities, and: bare our sicknesses." Matt. In fact, it is impossible that. it •should cease as long sinning-by giving us His own sinless life. This life 8: 17. When the lame man at the gate Beautiful as sin is in the world. Even the inanimate creation is eternal life. Now, the characteristic of eternal had been healed in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, suffers because of sin which man has committed; life is that it is ever new. It is eternal because each Peter said, " His name through faith in His name and so long as there are sinners there must needs moment it springs up fresh. Then it follows that hath made this man strong; . . . yea, the faith be trouble; but the Lord gives peace that is proof the renewing of the body is necessarily included in which is by Him hath given him this perfect sound- against tribulation. John 16 : 33. He promises the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God says, " If thou wilt ness in the presence of you all.", The next day, enough to sustain life to all those who trust Him. diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, being questioned about the matter, he said: " In Matt. 6 : 31-33; Ps. 37 : 3. And at His coming there and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye cru- is the surety of such complete deliverance from January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (5) 5

every semblance of evil and oppression as the wild- tion of a few simple principles. In order to under- of her simple remedies. This brings the patient into est dreams of social reformers have never imagined. stand this fully,,we must recognize thatp:lysical and harmony with God, who works mightily in him, and Moreover, that deliverance is nearer than any re- spiritual laws are parallel; and a glance at the s:)hit- restores him physically, even as He does spiritually former has dared to set for a realization of his plans. ual -side of the question will help us to understand under similar conditions. Therefore, " trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the physical. There has been a tendency to treat physical symp- the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." " With Before Martin Luther's time every spiritual disease toms as the priests in the Dark Ages treated spirit- the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous had a separate remedy. If a man had stolen, he ual symptoms, and the same effort to keep from the redemption." would go to the priest to find out the remedy, and people the simplicity of getting well as there was he was told to do this or that as a penance. If he then to keep from them till) simplicity of spiritual had borne false witness against his neighbor, this restoration. But we are now in a time when there is required an altogether different treatment. Thus abroad in the land a physical reform, even as there there grew up a colossal system of spiritual thera- was then a spiritual reform. Recognizing that God I PARALLEL BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND SPIRIT- peutics, and none but-the spiritual doctors, who were works in disease as well as health, all we have to dd UAL DISEASE. called priests, were supposed to know what to do is to remove the obstacle that we have placed in the for the various cases of sin. The subject was so way, and unless the man has committed the physical BY DAVID PAULSON, M.D. complicated that the common people did not feel unpardonable sin, so to speak, he will recover, as HEY have healed also the hurt of the daughter that they could ever understand it. But in the ful- verily as he does spiritually when he comes into 1, of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; ness of time Martin Luther and other reformers moral harmony with God. T when there is no peace." This method of treatment, merely to heal slightly, is quite CHRISTIANITY A LIFE. popular in the world to-day. E commend the fol- • The effort to make people feel lowing from the great well when they are not well, W historian of the Refor- is manifest in the treatment mation, D'Aubigne (Book 14.) of physical as well as spirit- ual diseases. It produces an " The Reformation was ac- immediate effect, and that is complished in the name of a what many want. The man spiritual principle. It had who can preach something proclaimed for its teacher the that will ease the consciences Word of God; for salvation, of men, and allow them to do Faith; for king, Jesus Christ; things that are wrong, often for arms, the Holy Ghost; and becomes immensely popular. had by these very means re- The doctor who can pre- jected all worldly elements. scribe something that will Rome had been established instantly cure a headache, at by the law of a carnal com- the same time allowing the mandment; the Reformation, individual to continue indulg- by the power of an endless life. • ing the appetite in things " If there is any doctrine which produce it, is not the that distinguishes Christianity man that is likely to look in from every other religion, it is vain for business. In each its spirituality. A heavenly case it is simply saying, life brought down to man— " Peace, peace, when there such is its work; thus the op- is no peace." The hurt is position of the spirit of the healed but slightly. Gospel to the spirit of the • The promptings of con- world was the great fact which science are merely an indi- signalized the entrance of cator, showing that the man Christianity among the na- is sinning. Pain is the physi- tions. But what its Founder cal conscience, which tells a had separated, had soon come together again ; the church sr man that he is violating the physical law. Symptoms are had fallen into the arms of the merely indicators of the con- world; and this criminal union dition. To smother them ar- had reduced it to the deplor- bitrarily, without removing able condition in which it was their cause, is like removing found at the era of the Refor- the red signal-light that has mation. been put out to stop a pas- " Thus one of the greatest • senger train from plunging tasks of the sixteenth century into a terrible chasm. With- was to restore the spiritual out doubt the sight of such element to its rights. The a danger-signal would cause Gospel of the Reformers had considerable anxiety to both nothing to do with the world engineer and conductor and and with politics. While the 1 to such of the passengers as Roman hierarchy had become might see it; they would feel a matter of diplomacy and a court intrigue, the Reforma- much more comfortable if it CHRIST IN THE GARDEN—From Hoffman. were removed, but how woful tion was destined to exercise would be the consequences ! "Surely He halls borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows." "Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses." no other influence over princes It would certainly be much and people than that which easier to take down the lantern than it would be to arose, and stated that while there were hundreds of proceeds from the Gospel of peace. rebuild the bridge, but rebuilding the bridge is the ways of being spiritually sick, there were only a few " If the Reformation, having attained a certain only safe thing to do. So when a man has wrecked principles that were violated, and the principles un- point, became untrue to its nature, began to parley his health, and nature begins to hang out warnings derlying the cure were simple. Luther prescribed and temporize with the world, and ceased thus to and danger-signals in the form of aches and pains justification by faith in Christ, and suggested the follow up the spiritual principle that it had so loudly and sleepless nights, simply to smother these is as reading' of God's Word, prayer, doing good to proclaimed, it was faithless to God and to itself. absurd as to remove the lantern. The man must others, and meeting together to recount their expe- Henceforward its decline was at hand. It is impos- set to work to rebuild the wreck. This can not be riences. The priests ridiculed the simplicity of this sible for a society to prosper if it be unfaithful to the done by swallowing sundry pills and drops. The treatment, and tried to hold a vail of mystery before principles it lays down. Having abandoned what remedy must be more potent. God's plan for the forgiveness of sin; but God's sim- constituted its life, it can find naught but death. It is true that there is a multiplicity of diseases and plicity in treating spiritual diseases finally triumphed. " It was God's will that . . . a striking con- innumerable symptoms. If we were to deal with Exactly the same principle is applicable in physical trast was to make this truth stand gloriously forth. each one separately, it would indeed be a well-nigh disease. There are over sixteen hundred ways of One portion of the Reform was to seek the alliance hopeless task; but when we realize that there" are being sick, but only a few ways of becoming sick; it is of the world, and in this alliance find a destruction only a few ways of becoming sick, and that, if we will the violation of a few simple principles that brings on full of desolation. • Another portion, looking up to live strictly in accordance with • a few simple prin- this host of diseases, as lack of fresh air and exercise, God, was haughtily to reject the arm of flesh, ciples, health is an assured thing, the problem is improper dress and diet, impure water, worry, and and by this very act of faith secure a noble victory. much simplified. All that is necessary to cure any distrust of God. To effect a cure, we must bring " If three centuries have gone astray, it is because case that is curable at all is to bring' ourselves' into the patient back into harmony with the laws he has they were unableto comprehend so holy and solemn harmony with' the law that is violated, the applica- violated, by cooperating With nature and by the use a lesson." (6) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No.

THE DEMAND FOR A DEFINITE MESSAGE. But the enemy of all good has persistently opposed THE VISION. the growth of grace in the human heart., and has BY CLYDE SCOTT CHASE. BY ELDER J. 0. CORLISS. assiduously worked to stop its progress. This has By a grim, rugged mountain, in grandeur upreared, T sundry stages in earth's history, God has not been altogether by standing off and using A man lies asleep at the closing of day, given definite messages through Ilis minis- strong language against the requirements of God, And before him in vision the nations of earth A ters, all of which were well calculLed to hut in bringing into the sacred assembly of the Strive one with another for prestige and sway. At their feet, all unheeded, eternity's shore arouse moral sensibility, and institute an era of people—the church—such measures as would op- Yawns, silently. waiting their on-coming flight; moral reform. Each of these various messages has pose the progress of true Christianity. This is But the dark, pathless ocean, with fierce, warning roar, been a definite, unmistakable call to the people to really what is meant by the warning of the apostle Throws high the white breakers far into the night. separate themselves from some general overspread- when he said that the man of sin would so oppose And, lo! in the east a fair angel appears, The light of his glory bright gilding the wave, Mg evil, which threatened the existence of God's and exalt himself above all that is called God as to As swift on his mission our planet he nears, rule among men. sit in the temple of God (the human heart, or con- With the last Gospel message the nations to save. ' Beginning with the days of Noah, we learn that science, and the aggregate of such hearts, the To all kindreds and peoples his trumpet of gold the world had then become so corrupt that every church, i Cor. 3:16), and there reign as God. Proclaims the great message in warning aloud, While abhve him, dispelling the darkness untold, production of men's thoughts was toward evil. 2 Thess. 2 :4. The hand of the Master is seen in the cloud. Gen. 6: 5. The world was, in fact, so nearly sunken Beginning with the so-called conversion of the Columbia City, Wash. in evil that the days were numbered when it must go emperor Constantine in the early part of the fourth down, and its corruption be purged. One family century, the way was opened for the full develop- alone was found that had not succumbed to the ment of just such a work. Acknowledging Chris- THE LAST REFORMATION AS PREDICTED BY universal depravity. To the head of this house the tianity in words, but refusing to leave paganism PROPHET, APOSTLE, AND REFORMER. Lord gave commission to build an ark for the sav- behind, he laid the foundation for the Papacy, which ing of himself and house. Gen. 6 : 13 ; Heb. II : 7. in the sixth century was clothed with power to BY ELDER FRANCIS M. WILCOX. Through this man, during the 120 years in which correct heretics, even to their extermination. For [Chaplain of Boulder, Colorado, Sanitarium.] the ark was preparing for the reception and salva- more than a thousand years it pursued the humble CRISIS has been reached in the professed tion of those who believed the peculiar message of followers of • Christ with relentless hatred. The church of God. It is still in the Babylonian that - time, the Spirit of God proclaimed to the Word of God shared the same fate as the innocent A period of its history. Division in creed, antediluvians the one special, definite message of a worshiper in the sentences of pope, council, prelate, dogma, and method is everywhere manifest, and con- coming flood. I Peter 3 : 18-20. and religious magistrate, and the aulo da fe, the fusion [Babylon] is the result. Coldness, lethargy, Coining down a little farther in the stream of time, fagot, and the flame were called to the work of and indifference exist where should be found spirit- we find the " cities of the plain " situated in the their destruction. ual vigor and Christian enthusiasm. The several borders of the " pleasant land," which had already Thus things went on until it seemed impossible for branches have fossilized their beliefs and creeds, been assigned by the promise of God to a peculiar them to be worse. In the sixteenth century the and hedged about with bars of iron their theological people, given over to fornication and other terrible notoriously depraved. Leo X. was occupying the tenets, saying, "Thus far will we go and no farther." sins. Gen. 18 : 2o; Jude 7. The time of their extinc- papal chair. Indulgences for sin were freely hawked Instead of knowing a li ving, actual experience to-day, tion had come, and yet in the mercy of God, He about the streets, while the Bible and its adherents the church is trusting in its experience of yesterday. would not destroy them without first sending a were hunted to death. At this very juncture the Instead of looking forward with earnest, eager. antci- message of warning, by which they might escape stentorian notes of reform began to sound forth ipation to the victory of to-morrow, the professed impending doom. Lot, the nephew of Abraham, from the lips of an Augustine monk, Luther by warriors of King Immanuel are looking back upon heeded the warning and used all the time of proba- name. Thousands rallied to the support of the the gains of the past, and feel now that they can tion given the inhabitants of that and the cities of message so clearly sounded at that time, and the safely rest upon their laurels. the plain, in warning others of their destruction. great Reformation began. But most mercifully does God look upon the The message was definite and clear, one just suited Step by step it moved on, calling to its ranks, as condition of His professed children. With yearning to the needs of the people and the times, as God's necessity demanded, such men as Calvin, and the and pity is His great heart of love drawn out for special messages always are. Wesleys, with their co-workers, each one adding them in their weakness and necessity. It was just the same in the days of Elijah. All measures of reform to the swelling tide. All these The demand for a definite message to the church Israel had departed from the true service of God, did noble work in their day, but Satan has stood in its present Babylonian ( confused)• state is pain- and were following in the ways of the sun-god Baal. strongly against the tide of reform, lest it should fully evident. Will God meet this demand ? Will 1 Kings IS : 17-22. Baal's 45o prophets had so con- bring the professed church of Christ up to the high He, in the ministry of His grace, rise to meet this fused the people's minds that, although they seemed standard which He left for His disciples to follow. emergency, this crisis in the history of His work in desirous to be right, they were quite wedded to that Divisions exist in the professed church of Christ. the earth ? Has He new gems of truth to reveal to which was contrary to God's commandments. The Her creeds are as numerous as her costly towers. this generation? If He has not, if all that may be burden was therefore laid upon one lone tho faithful Confusion—Babylon—exists, which can only be known of God is known to-day, if all that may be man to proclaim a definite message of reform,—one annihilated by the unity of the faith of Jesus Christ found in this Word has been searched out, then which would, if heeded, radically change the customs in that work which in the beginning brought order out there can be no special truth for this time ; and God and worship of the people. The time had come for of confusion, cosmos out of chaos. But faith in the has exhausted His resources, and we can look for this distinct message, in order that Israel might be Word is weakened by " higher criticism " and infi- no dispensation of divine grace in awakening His saved from utter extinction as a part of God's delity in the churches. The religious establishments children to their divided and fallen condition and inheritance. have, therefore, as a result, become worldly, wealthy, saving His truth in the earth from rout and utter just before Christ appeared upon earth as the and popular, with a growing tendency to dominate ruin. But in God there are ,still inexhaustible Messiah, the professed people of God had again religious beliefs and practises. They have accord- resources ; there are still new rays of light, yea, become corrupt. So far had they descended, indeed, ingly united the interests of the civil power in their glorious streams of light, to break forth from the that simony stalked abroad in daylight. Even the behalf, exactly as did the Papacy in its development sacred Word. highpriesthood was put upon the market like meat to a persecuting power, and so the tide of true By prophet, by apostle, by reformer, by the great in the shambles, and sold to the highest bidder. reform to a higher life in the nominal church has and good of every age, by the leaders of Christian The moral sensibilities of men had become so been stayed, and a rapid decline has become faith in every church, this hope has been cherished; blunted that they even descended below the dumb noticeable. and if the great religious bodies of Christendom animals in failing to acknowledge the gifts of a The only remedy for this is another definite to-day had maintained the principles of their found- benefactor; for while an ox always knows his owner, message, which shall, as God's messages have ever ers, instead of circumscribing their faith within and the dull ass distinguishes his master's crib done, demand a separation of His people from every stereotyped creeds, they would - be reaching forth from all others, Israel did not know or consider unclean thing. 2 Cor. 6:15-18.This message with expectancy for new revelations of the light of that the Lord had nourished and brought them up. must be such as to separate men from every earthly God. Isa. I : 2-4. support, in order that their faith may be wholly in Well worthy of consideration are the remarks of At such a juncture it was necessary for the most the power of God. This will call forth such a John Robinson, one of the fathers of the Congrega- potent remedy to be applied in order to rescue God's reform in men as to present a positive contrast tional Church, in his farewell address to the Pilgrim people from the terrible depths to which they had between the practise of their lives and the lives of Fathers, at Leyden, 162o, as they were about to descended. At this time God came in the flesh, those who reject the message. depart from Holland for America:— revealing Himself to the human race, that His Besides this, the time has come for the gathering people especially might reform, and be brought into " Brethren, we are now quickly to part from one together of a people who shall be translated at the another, and whether I may live to see you face to conformity to His will. It matters not that His own soon coming of Christ. I Thess. 4: 15-17. The face on earth any more, the God of heaven only rejected Him and gave Him over to he crucified; signs of that coming are nearly all fulfilled. The knows; but whether the Lord hath appointed that that but proves that the time was ripe for a moral sun and moon have been darkened (178o); the pre- or not,. I charge you before God and His blessed reform to be wrought through just such a definite angels, that you follow me no farther than you have dicted meteoric shower occurred in 1833 (Rev. 6 : 13); seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God message as was given by the Son of God,—a mes- wars are on every hand; the sea and the waves roar, reveals anything to you by any other instrument, be sage, indeed, which contravened all the religious to the destruction of their traffic, aid men's hearts are as ready to receive it as you ever were to receive teaching of that time. everywhere troubled regarding what is to come on any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded, True, that message did not turn all the professed I am very confident, that the Lord hath more truth the earth (Luke 21 : 25-27). The time has surely yet to break forth out of His holy Word. For my people of God into the way of reform; but it did come, therefore, for a ripening message which shall part I can not sufficiently bewail the condition of the establish an apparently small beginning, which was prepare men for translation, so that when the Lord reformed churches, who are come to a period in designed, like leaven, to permeate all ranks, and comes, He may receive as His own those in whose religion, and will go at present no farther than the call out from the masses those who would hold mouth is no guile, and who are without fault before instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans can not be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw. aloft the standard of righteousness to the glory of the throne of God. Rev. 14 : 5. Whatever part of His will our God revealed to God. Battle Creek, Micli - • Calvin, they will rather die than embracc; and the January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (7) 7

Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left belief, a change of practise, a substitution of truth ceive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the by that great man of God, who yet saw not all for error; in short, it must embrace a reform upon same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, things. This is a misery much to be lamented; for, tho they were burning and shining lights in their every point, bringing the people of God into such a which is poured out without mixture into the cup of time, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel condition before Him that they will be able to stand His indignation." See Rev. 14 : 9-12. of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing in the day of trial which shall come upon the earth, The beast brought to view in the above scripture to embrace further light as that which they first and pass the grand review of the Great Judge at the is none other than old world earthly governments received. I beseech you, remember it is an article of your church covenant that you may be ready to last day. enforcing the dogmas of apostate Christianity. The receive whatever truth shall be made known to you In the scriptures already quoted, specific sins are image of the beast is the union of Church and from the written Word of God." condemned, and principles of truth are enjoined State, which will be formed in this country to en- Commenting on the above words, Wendell Phillips, upon God's children. force religious dogmas and doctrines upon mankind; in a lecture delivered in Boston, January, 1881, Isaiah 58 condemns the sin of oppressing the poor, and the mark of the beast is the special sign of makes the following quotations:— and calls upon the church of God to engage in a apostasy, for which the Papacy stands, and which it true fast by ministering to the sick, by relieving the holds out to the Protestant world as a mark of its " The Hon. Robert Boyle (168o) says: 'As the Bible was not written for any one particular time or widowed and the fatherless. It condemns, further, power and authority to change law and rule the people, . . . so there are many passages very in verse 13, the violation of the Sabbath of the Lord, conscience. This claim professed Protestants, in useful which will not be found so these many ages, and demands of the people of God that they practise if not in theory, admit, in the change of being possibly reserved by the prophetic Spirit that take their feet from off this holy ordinance of Sabbath observance from the seventh to the first inclined them . . . to quell some foreseen heresy, . . . or resolve some yet unformed doubts, or con- Jehovah, exalting the Sabbath to the place God day of the week. found some error that hath not yet a name.' . . . designed it to occupy, giving the gracious assurance To whom does the last great message of reform " The Interpreter (1862) says: 'A day is coming that if they will do this, God will feed them with the go, to the godless world alone, or to the professed when Scripture, long darkened by traditional teach- heritage of Jacob their father. ing, tua frequently treated as an exhausted mine, church ? The words of the Lord through Joel, al- will at length be recognized in its true character as a The same idea of allegiance to the law of God is ready quoted, indicate its field. The trumpet is first field rich in unexplored wealth, and consequently be enunciated in the prophecy of John. Special atten- to be blown in Zion. "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, searched afresh for its hidden treasures.' tion is called to the impending judgment hour, in and sound an alarm in My holy mountain." Joel "Vinet, in his lectures, says: `Even now, after eighteen centuries of Christianity, we may be in- view of which the people of the earth are called upon 2 : r. From Zion and the holy mountain the alarm is, volved in some tremendous error, of which the to fear God and glorify Him in their lives. The then, to go forth to all the inhabitants of the land. Christianity of the future will make us ashamed.' " standard of judgment (Eccl. 12: 13, 14; James 2 : 12) That the message is to go to the professed church In looking forward to the future, Luther himself is the law of God. As the cases of the judgment- is further indicated by reference to Revelation 14, declared: " I persuade myself verily, that the day of bound world are to be tried by this great gauge of from which we have already so largely quoted. In judgment will not be absent full three hundred character, the Lord in gracious mercy points out, connection with the judgment proclamation, and years. God will not, can not, suffer this wicked during probation's hour, the particular features with the warning against the worship of the beast w Aid much longer. The great day is drawing near wherein the world is not in harmony with its re- and his image, there sounds forth the cry: - " And in which the kingdom of abominations shall be over- quirements. When we turn to other portions of the there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is thrown." To the same intent spoke other reformers. Revelation, we find this same thought suggested. fallen, is falltm, that great city, because she made " Has not our Lord Jesus carried up our flesh In chapter 7 is brought to view a work of sealing, all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her into heaven ? " said Knox, the Scotch reformer, which just precedes the coming of the Lord. The fornication." Rev. 14 : 8. " and shall He not return ?—We know that He shall company who receive the seal are those who, when Babylon means " confusion." Confusion comes return, and that with expedition." Ridley and Jesus comes, will be translated without seeing death from departing from the truth of God's Gospel, and Latimer, who laid down their lives for the truth, (Rev. 14 : 1-4); consequently this sealing is likewise erecting a false standard. Babylon falls when she looked in faith for the Lord's coming. Ridley a last-day work, and must be connected with, and turns from her lawful Spouse, Christ Jesus, rejects wrote: "The world without doubt—this I do be- a part of, the last-day message. God's message of reproof, and, looking to earthly lieve, and therefore I say it—draws to an end. Let The seal of God, spoken of in the first verse of sources of help, unites with civil government, and us, with John, the servant of God, cry in our hearts the fourteenth chapter, is called the Father's name. thus commits fornication with the kings of earth. unto our Saviour, Christ, ' Come, Lord Jesus, The Father's name is an expression of His char- Preeminently and primarily, the mystical Babylon is come.' " " The thoughts of the coming of the acter. Ex. 34 : 6, 7. The Father's character is the Roman Church, which all through the Dark Lord," said Baxter, "are most sweet and joyful to expressed in His law. Of necessity the law of every Ages dominated the kings of earth, as set forth in me. It is the work of faith and character of His lawmaker is an expression of his character; hence Rev. 17 :1-8. But Babylon is said to be a mother,— saints to love His appearing, and to look for that the seal of God is connected with the law of God. "the mother of harlots and abominations of earth." blessed hope." Robert Hall, a Baptist preacher and This is further proved by Isa. 8 : 16: " Bind up the If she is a mother, she must have daughters, and author, says, " Everything in the condition of man- testimony, seal the law among My disciples." her daughters can be none other than those who are kind announces the approach of some great crisis." Further, the character of God is that of rest. This following in her footsteps, who, like herself, have In harmony with the exhortation and expectation is shown in the words of our Saviour: " Come unto committed fornication. Hence the daughters must of these reformers are the words of divine revelation. Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will be the great churches of Christendom who have Says Joel, " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn imbibed the doctrines of Romanism, and who, hav- sound an alarm in My holy mountain; let all the of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye ing left their lawful husband, Christ Jesus, are linking inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is with the nations of the earth, seeking to gain by legal Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." Joel 2 : 1. easy, and My burden is light." Matt. II : 28-30. enactment what, through lack of the Spirit and power Then there will be a message proclaimed just Therefore, as the seal of God is connected with of God, they are otherwise unable to accomplish. before the end of all things, and the burden of that His law, and as the law of God indicates the char- In conclusion, therefore, we have found that the message will be that the day of the Lord is at acter of God, and that character is a character of last great message of reform, as it goes to this world hand. The trumpet will be blown,,and the alarm rest, the seal of God, in a specific sense, must have lust preceding the coming of the Lord, has for its will be sounded; and as a result of this blowing ef to do with that part of the law which relates to rest, purpose the calling out from every nation, kindred, the trumpet and this sounding of the alarm, Zion which is none other than the fourth commandment and people, and from every church connection and will hear and the people of the land will tremble. of the Decalogue. We must therefore conclude that fellowship, a people who will be signalized by the Says the Lord, through His apostle, "And I saw the keeping of the Sabbath of the Lord in its true observance of the requirements of the Lord and by another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the sense constitutes the outward seal of God, indicating the purity of their faith in Christ Jesus. Rev. 14 : 12. everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell that the one observing this ordinance has had named Such a message is already going to the world. It on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and upon him the Father's name and possesses the is going by tongue and pen, by the living preacher tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear Father's character. and by the printed page. Such is the message being God, and give gloty to Him; for the hour of His The question naturally arises, What has brought borne in the fear of God by this journal and its co- judgment is come; and worship Him that made about this departure from the Sabbath of the Lord laborers in every part of the great harvest-field. heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of in the practise of the Christian church? It must be Based upon the Word of God, answering to the waters." Rev.14:6, 7. Here also is brought to that the glory which should have been rendered to prophecy of the Word in the time and manner view the same proclamation, and its extent and another, and that the honor which should have been of its rise, it is now going forth, not by the power power are plainly stated; it is proclaimed with bestowed upon the true Sabbath, have been given to or agency of man, but in the strength and by the power, and is preached to every nation, and kin- a rival. This, indeed, has been the case. A man- power of the living God, to accomplish in the earth dred, and tongue, and people. made ordinance, the first-day sabbath, for which the work appointed it,—the preparation of a people Says the prophet Isaiah: "Cry aloud, spare not, there is no divine foundation, has been exalted to for the reception of the soon-coming Saviour. lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people take the place of the one enjoined by the Scriptures Kind reader, this is the message of God for to-day, their transgression, and the house of Jacob their of truth. This counterfeit has been foisted upon the the present living truth for this day and generation. sins." Isa. 58 : 1. Here, again, is brought to view church of God and has come into general observ- How solemn, indeed, is this thought! To you and the message of God to backsliding Israel ; and the ance. It therefore could not be otherwise than that to me the message is sounding. We who are alive time of the application of this message, as shown by the same proclamation which exalts the true rest- to-day are to witness that transcendent event before the context, is in the age of the church just preceding day of Jehovah should utter a warning note against which all the glories of the universe shall pale,—the the coming of our Lord to judgment. the false and counterfeit, and this also the last great coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven. The inquiry naturally arises, Of what does this message of reform does. May God grant that the message of truth may so last-day message consist ? What are its component In the following terse, denunciatory warning does change our hearts and reform our lives, and its parts? Some of its features have already been the Spirit of God draw the covering of falsehood principles become so engrafted in our religious life specifically stated. It is to turn the people of God from the usurper, pointing out its character, and the and experience, that we shall welcome with joyful away from their transgressions, and bring them back destiny awaiting its emissaries : " And the third hearts and glad acclaim the coming of the Just One, to their allegiance to God and His eternal truths. angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If to receive whom a people is being called from all This work of reform naturally calls for a change of any man worship the beast and his image, and re- the nations of the earth. 8 (8) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES VOL 25, No. r .

,... A. ...:,..,,,, 7....,c7.7..2i ,5,.,3:ia...744:F ,,, • ., . -..:.t44:•• Photography has also been applied to spectro- .-- ...'" ,,/ ► ,,,,,,,,„:,,-.:*: , .•:•..,,,. , ;., 70:- .,, ... 44• ..' sc,.• s... , . A A1:. , • 4. P. flklitz.:•;..1:4, 'x,:.07 r. , miit, .,..„ scopic methods with extremely satisfactory -results. .1„, :mind..,. .x,• ...... • .4,•-.„,. w. ..1...... ,.,....,,,!:,::i..P:i:, ••.? . a-.4..:::,..o,: -.,,,,,,..,.,?7....,,:•• • .2e. . ...- .... A few minutes is sufficient to photograph the spec- trum of a star, the time required depending upon the brightness of the star selected; and the resulting 4A-• lines can then be studied at leisure; and not only irt can the spectrum be compared directly with known * • terrestrial substances, by which many of the sub- stances composing the star become known beyond a doubt, but the abnormal positions of the lines -ts give unquestioned evidence whether the star is it approaching or receding from our system. In the b\i'lX IN case of stars whose motion in the "line of sight" 4.2 (that is, toward or from us) amounts, say, to fifty ASTRONOMY miles per second, the rate of speed is determined 1,5***d4 with an exactness admitting an error of not more By Prof. Charles Burckhalter, F.R.A.S., Director of Chabot Observatory, Oakland, Cal. than one or two per cent.

Discoveries. HE prdgress of astronomy during the last astronomer ") has been in an extremely unsatisfac- T twenty-five years is largely owing to two tory state, on account of the great error that was About ten years ago a very close double star was causes,—great advancement in the perfection known to exist; for, as the accepted distance was observed, showing that the two bodies were revolv- A and power of the instruments, to which many im- too small or too great, so was the distance of all ing around each other in the remarkably short period portant discoveries are entirely due, and the new bodies in space (where the distance has been meas-• of about eleven years, the shortest period then. p methods by which problems have been successfully ured) too small or too great, the sun's distance from known, but by the combined efforts of spectroscopy and easily solved, but which were entirely impos- the earth being the measuring-rod. The accepted, and photography, double stars have been found so sible of solution by any of the methods employed or, better, the assumed value, has been anywhere close together that no telescope ever made could a quarter of a century ago. Hard work along the from ninety to ninety-five millions of miles, within show their duplicity, and whose periods are to be beaten paths, with superior instruments, and ingen- the past twenty-five years, while the present value counted in days and hours instead of years, one ious methods by which old problems have been of 92,975,500 miles is probably correct within 5o,000 having a period of less than a hundred hours. To attacked from new standpoints, divide the honors in miles, or thirty times nearer the truth than the value properly appreciate this astounding result, it is only perfect harmony. . of 1874. The velocity of light is 186,330 miles per necessary to say that no astronomer would admit It may be said with much truth that we now have second, with a probable error of less than twenty-five that our present telescopic power can ever he two astronomies, the Old Astronomy, or the Astron- miles. doubled (on account of the disturbances cease- omy of Position, as it has been called, and the New Photography and Spectroscopy, lessly going on in our atmosphere), yet this result I Astronomy. In the first the great question was, In certain'lines of research, however, the greatest could not be obtained visually with a telescope "Where is it?" that is, In just what part of the sky advance has been made by the aid of photography; hundreds, and, perhaps, thousands of times more was the given object at a given instant ? And by the and this new, powerful, and wonderfully versatile powerful than any now existing. aid of these positions—more or less imperfect— agent has completely revolutionized many older The family of asteroids, those wee little worlds astronomers have been able to make their wonder- that have their place in the solar system between ful predictions and achieve results almost beyond ••, Mars and Jupiter, have been discovered by dozens A belief; while the leading question in the New As- and scores. While the first was not discovered tronomy seems to be, "What is it?" or, Of until the first day of this century, and 135 had what is it made? What is its physical con- been added to the known bodies of the dition ? And a world of questions and Sri •ri system by 1874, at present over 400 are problems are awaiting their turn to be known, and the 5oo mark may be investigated by the most ingenious reached by the end of the century; methods and instruments. and it should be remembered that Superior Instruments. their detection is constantly increas- le ing in difficulty, for the reason that The progress in telescopes has the larger- and consequently brighter been extremely gratifying. In 1862 ones were discovered firsf. the 18-inch lens for the Dearborn More important, however, than refractor was considered a triumph many asteroids, was the discovery by of optic art; but, in 1870, a 25-inch Hall, of Washington, in 1877, of the telescope was erected in England, and two satellites of Mars; and " moonless this has been exceeded since by no less Mars " is an obsolete expression. The than seven great telescopes in Europe from estimated diameters are only five and seven 26 to 32 inches, and five in America from miles—the smallest bodies, probably, known 26% to 4o inches, the 36-inch refractor of the in the solar system; and in September, 1892, a still Lick Observatory and the 4o-inch of the Yerkes more brilliant discovery made by Barnard, of the Observatory being the largest in the world. The LICK OBSERVATORY IN WINTER. Lick Observatory, added a fifth moon to Jupiter. great Lick telescope was put to work in 1888, and From a photograph by Professor E. E. Barnard. When it is considered that the four well-known the Yerkes during the past year. The latter, in satellites of Jupiter were the first bodies discovered the opinion of competent astronomers, has nearly methods; as, for illustration, a photographic plate by Galileo with the first telescope, and that all reached the limit of usefulness and fair returns for made in two hours, showed 2,200 stars in the Pleiades telescopes have since that time, now nearly three the vast cost; but the present state of our knowl- group, against the work of an astronomer occupy- hundred years ago, been turned upon the giant edge of optics and mechanics will readily respond ing about six years to correctly measure and chart planet, this splendid discovery is all the more cred- to the persuasive influence of a heavy purse. In six hundred (all he could see) in the same cluster. itable. reflectors the 5-foot mirror of Mr. Common is, at Photography in from two to four hours, with a 6-inch / present, at the head; but even larger ones have lens, revealed stars that are beyond the reach visually frequently reached the paper stage, and it would not of the giant refractor on Mount Hamilton. seem unreasonable to hear of some of them becom- This marvelous result has a double explanation. ing realities. First, the eye will see at once all it is capable of I present the following list of the thirteen largest seeing, and persistent effort only tires it and lessens LIST OF IMPORTANT ITEMS IN ASTRONOM- refractors, including the photographic corrector of its sensitiveness to light, while the photographic ICAL PROGRESS. the Lick Observatory:— plate is tireless, and receives the light and allows it THE first eclipse recorded occurred at Babylon, to pile up, or accumulate, so that an amount of light B.C. Aperture. Focal Observatories. Maker. Date March 19, 721 It was of the moon, and was length. that is not effective at once may be in minutes or recorded by Ptolemy. A tablet found at Nineveh 40.0 in. 62.o ft. Yerkes, Wisconsin.. . Alvan Clark (2 1897 hours, as the case may be, and the image of the star 36.00,E " 57.8 " Lick, California . . . . Alvan Clark (I 2888 is thought to contain a record of a solar eclipse 33. 49.2 Lick, California . . . . Alvan Clark (2 is seen upon the plate. Increased exposure never 32.5 " 53.0 National, Meudon . . Henry Bros. (2) 1891 which occurred June 15, 763 B.C. 31.1 " 39.4 " Astrophysical, Potsdam fails to add fainter and still fainter stars, until the The earliest- known works on astronomy were pre- 30.3 52.6" Bischoffsheim, Nice . . Henry Bros. (2) 1889 30.0 " 42.o Imperial, Poulkova . . Alvan Clark (3) 2882 whole heavens are ablaze with these distant suns. pared by Aristotle about 350 B. c. 28.o " National, Paris.. . . . Martin The other reason is that some stars are rich in actinic 28.9 " 28.0 " Royal, Greenwich . . . Sir H. Grubb(4) 2894 The mean motion of the sun and moon was deter- 27.0 " 34.0 Imperial, Vienna .. . . Sir H. Grubb • 1878 (photographic). rays, but weak in visual rays, or the mined by Hipparchus (who also discovered the 26.0 " 26.o " Royal, Greenwich . . . Sir H. Grubb_ ' 1897 26.o " 32.5 Naval Washingt'n D.C. Alvan Clark (I) 2871 rays -that affect the eye, and vice. versa. Thus precession of the equinoxes), 160-125 B.C. 26.o " 32.5 " Leander M'Cormick,Va Alvan Clark 1874 Aldebaran, while a brilliant red star rating as a The places and distances of the planets were dis- first magnitude, is, photographically, only a sixth- Methods. covered by Ptolemy, 139-161 A.D. , . magnitude star, showing no brighter on a photo- Astronomy was cultivated by the Arabs about 76o It is hardly possible to touch upon the subject of graphic plate than a white or blue star that is barely A:D., and introduced into Europe about 1200. methods in this brief article; but the velocity of light visible to the sharpest unaided eye. Altho photo- (Continued on page 31) and the constant of aberration methods have given, graphic methods have been known and practised for perhaps, the most satisfactorily the distance from fifty years, ninety-nine per cent. of the results have *Since this article was handed in to the SiuNs, an asteroid has been discovered whose orbit is between that of the Earth and the earth to the sun. This great fundamental value been obtained within the last eighteen years, or Mars, which is entirely unique. Very little is known concerning (for the sun's distance is the " yardstick of the since the dry plate has come into use. it as yet, but it is of unusual interest to astronomers. January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (9) i

SABBATH REFORM—TRUE AND FALSE. The scripture already quoted plainly states that it But God sees the oak in the acorn, and when men is the sign between God and His people of His per- submit to Him and allow Him to have His way in BY ELDER G. E. FIFIELD. petual or everlasting covenant with them. What the life, from that time He sees in them the perfect [Author of " God Is Love."] that covenant is is plainly told us in the book of righteousness which He is working out in them by N order that we may understand the difference Hebrews : " Now the God of peace, . . . through every after experience of their lives. between true and false Sabbath reform, we must the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you From all this we can clearly see that all true Sab- I first see clearly what the true Sabbath is, to perfect in every good work to do His will, working bath reform must ever be brought about by preach- whom it belongs, and what is its real significance. in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, ing to men the everlasting covenant, which alone In the most ancient record given to man (Gen. through Jesus Christ:" This covenant is personal can bring to their souls Christ-righteousness. When- 2 : 2-4) it is plainly revealed that the true Sabbath is and individual, and God holds it out lovingly and ever a man by his own free will ceases from his own the seventh day of the week, on which the Son of longingly to every soul, waiting but that soul's sub- futile efforts to realize his own poor ideals, and, sub- God rested after creating the heavens and the earth. mission to Him to seal this contract with him on His mitting himself to God, learns to pray, "Thy will, It is plainly stated that He blessed it, and sanctified divine word and oath. It is the covenant by which not mine, be done in my life," taking hold of God's He raised David from the sheep- everlasting covenant, and of God's Sabbath, which cote to be .conqueror of Goliath, is the sign of that covenant, there is one true Sabbath musician, poet, king, and type of reform. From that on, if that man continues to the King of kings. And God submit to God, he is an Israelite and a Sabbath- says: " Ho, every one that thirst- keeper, and God pledges His infallible Word, and eth, come ye to the waters, and even His infinite life, to work out His divine ideals he that hath no money; come ye. in that soul. . . . Incline your ear, and come It can now also be readily seen that true Sabbath- unto Me; hear, and your soul shall keeping can never be forced upon any person by V live; and I will make an everlast- any human power; for true Sabbath-keeping is not ing covenant with you, even the the slavish submission of the body to human ordi'. sure mercies of David." Isa. nances through fear of fines and penalties, but it is 55 1-3. the free submission of the sovereign will and of the Whenever a soul will cease repentant soul to God's own precepts, thus permit- from its own labors, and rest it- ting God to work His will in the life. Wherever, self - quietly, trustingly, in God's then, these principles are taught and adhered to, hands, agreeing to give Him the there, and there only, is true Sabbath reform. And, glory for all that is accomplished, thank God, He has a people who are preaching the God seals His covenant with that Gospel of the everlasting covenant to earth's remot- soul to work out His ideals in est bounds. All over the world men and women, in a that life, or, in other words, to spite of scorn and persecution, are laying hold of make that soul perfect " to do that covenant and of the righteousness which it only His will," working in him "that can bring. They accept the sign of that covenant, From a photograph by Prof. E. E. Barnard, of the Great Nebulm in Andromeda, taken which is well-pleasing in His which is God's blessed and hallowed seventh day, at Lick Observatory. Time of exposure, 4 hours 18 minutes. During the time of these sight." When God seals that cov- and, while absolutely refusing to submit the con- exposures the eye of the photographer is fixed upon some star, bisected by cross wires in the eye-piece of the telescope. In this small section of the sky but one star, we believe, enant with a soul, that person is science to the dictates of any earthly prince or poten- • is visible to the naked eye, but Professor Barnard estimates 64,00o visible to the camera. no longer a" Gentile sinner, but an tate, they rejoice in an obedience to the divine Israelite indeed, and of the house- precept which is but a submission of the heart's love it, or set it apart from the other days for a sacred hold of God." Eph. 2: 19, zo. to that Infinite Love which has won it, from wander- and holy use. That this Being who here created, Now the Sabbath is God's sign of this everlasting, ing in a far country, back to the Father's house. and then rested upon and blessed, the Sabbath, or or perpetual covenant. On God's part it is the sign But, tried by this same divine standard, how utterly rest-day, was the Son of God, is clearly shown by of His creative power, which alone can transform false and fraudulent is the popular, so-called sabbath such scriptures as Heb. I : 1-3; Col. I : 12-19, and the trusting, the sinful, soul into His divine ideals reform of the day ! In the first place, the sabbath (?) John I : of purity and righteousness. See Ex. 20 : 8-11; they seek to compel men to keep, is a false sabbath, To the authority of the record in Genesis is added 31 : 17. On the man's part, it is a sign of his resting and therefore no sabbath at all. It is not God's the words of the Son of God when He spoke the from His own labors and fruitless strugglings to blessed and sanctified seventh day, the sign of His law from Sinai, and the example of His whole life make himself better, and submitting his soul to creative power, and of the soul's submission to Him; while incarnate on this earth. All these unite to God, as clay in the hands of a potter, that God may but it is the first day of the week, the pagan sun prove that the seventh day of the week is the only work out His will in him." Heb. 4: 1o. festival, which came into the church only when, as true and hallowed Sabbath. Every man who keeps the Sabbath conscientiously, the historian Gavazzi says, " a pagan flood, flowing OP, This Sabbath, while belonging to all men before as he understands it, does so to acknowledge God's into the church, carried with it its customs, prac- sin entered the world, after the fall pertained espe- authority over him, and submits the soul to Him. tises, and idols." This institution has no scriptural cially to the Israel of God authority, and never was ob- " Speak thou also unto the chil- 7-77,7-vd served by Christ, the apostles, dren of Israel, saying, Verily . or the early Christians. It was My Sabbaths ye shall keep ; for brought in by what Paul calls it is a sign between Me and you the "mystery of iniquity," and it throughout your generations; stands in all ages as a sign of that ye may know that I am the apostasy. It marks the depar- Lord that doth sanctify you." ture of the church from the "Wherefore the children of Is- worship of the true God, the rael shall keep the Sabbath, to Creator, to the worship of the observe the Sabbath throughout sun, and is the sun's day, or, as their generations., for a perpetual _the North British Review so covenant. It is a sign between aptly calls it, " the wild solar Me and the children of Israel holiday of all pagan times." forever." Ex. 31 : 13, 16, 17. The meaning of this institu- Who this Israel here spoken tion is plainly stated by those of is, Paul plainly tells us. He who have brought it into the declares that it is not Israel church:— after the flesh, or the Jewish Question—Flow prove you that the nation merely, but the children church hath power to command feasts and holy days ? of faith, who, like Jacob, pre- Answer—By the very act of changing vail with God. These are the the Sabbath into Sunday, which Prot- true Israel, the spiritual seed estants allow of ; and therefore they of Abraham, the father of the fondly contradict themselves by keep- YERKES OBSERVATORY. ing Sunday strictly, and breaking most faithful. He asserts that the From a photograph by Prof. E. E. Barnard. Reproduced from Popular Astronomy. other feasts commanded by the same Gentiles by faith are grafted church.—Abridgment of Christian Doc- into this Israelitish tree, and that therefore all who Thns the Sabbath is a sign, on both sides, of this trine (Roman Catholic). are Christ's are Israelites, or the seed of Abraham. covenant, or agreement. As the Lord says, " It is a Q.—Have you any other way of proving that the church has I power to institute festivals of precept ? He positively declares that to this spiritual Israel sign between Me and you, . . . that ye may A.—Had she not such power, she could not have done that belong not only the Sabbath but the whole law, know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." in which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not and the glory, and the covenants, and all the prom- The only thing that prevents God from sealing have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the ises of God. See Rom. 9 : 4-8, II; Gal. 3: 29; Gen. this covenant with every soul, and working out His week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change Cate- 32 : 24-28. for which there is no scriptural authority."—Doctrinal ideals in every life, is that men will against God, chism (Roman Catholic). Now we have found thus far that the true Sabbath instead of submitting their wills to Him. God has is God's blessed and sanctified seventh day, and that made men of free will, that character might be pos- This language is unmistakable. It plainly sets forth it belongs to the spiritual Israel in all ages. Next, sible, and when men will not yield to Him, He can the Sunday sabbath as it really is, not as a sign of we must inquire what is the real meaning, or signifi- not against their will make them righteous, or sanc- the power and authority of God over the human cance; of this institution. tify them. heart, but as a sign of the blasphemous assumption

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by a human authority of the power to command the human conscience—the conscience, that sole last sovereignty in man, supreme above every human power, owing allegiance to God alone. Whenever God commands the consciences of men, He does it as a father, to set men free, and bring them to the DEVELOPMENT OF THE control of the inner principle of love alone. When- ever man blasphemously seeks to climb into • the O 0 CD 0 throne of God and assume the right to command the 0 0 consciences of mankind, it is always done by force 0 By Prof. Percy T. Magan, Dean of Battle Creek College, Mich. to enslave men, and bind them in the chains of 0 superstition and priestcraft. FEW years ago, while making a special study of 1889, Mr. T. G. Shearman gave good evidence This Sunday sabbath, true to its origin and mean- of the philosophical history of the great na- that out of this total population, 25,000 persons ing, seeks to gain obedience, not so much by teach- A tions of the world during the early part of the owned one-half of the national wealth. He further ing and preaching as by force. It is not the intellect present century, I was . somewhat amused by the estimated that 200,000 persons controlled 70 per cent. and heart that are appealed to, so much as the so- frequent references made by of the national wealth, and called civil power. In every civilized land professed many standard historians to that 250,000 persons con- Christian people are denying the very principles of the enormous wealth of this trolled from 75 to 8o per cent. Christianity, by petitioning for laws to compel men noble or that country gentle- of the whole. The figures to observe this day. This is a direct tho unwitting man, who reveled in luxury given by Mr. Shearman were confession of the absolute fraud and falsehood of the on fabulous incomes of from based upon official tax re- institution, and of all such so-called Sabbath reform. five to ten thousand pounds a turns, and in a number of For the institution is thus boldly put before the world, year. cases upon the inspection of not as a Christian institution, not as belonging to But the seemingly ridicu- the books of individual mil- the true Israel, not as the sign of the soul's free-will lous side of the statement lionaires. The concentration submission to God, but as the sign of the slavish soon gave place in my mind of such a vast amount of outward submission of all men, good and bad, to a to more serious reflections. wealth in the hands of a few human authority which assumes the power to com- Our ideas of the amount of led Mr. Shearman, in an ar- mand them. So far from this being any part of the money necessary to constitute ticle entitled " The Corning new or everlasting covenant through which the soul a man wealthy have under- Billionaire," which appeared secures righteousness by submission to God and gone a remarkable change. in the Forum of January, trusting in Him, it is a gigantic old-corvenant scheme. What our fathers rated as 1891, to inquire "how far this By it men seek to do collectively what they have great riches we consider " or- concentration of wealth may found impossible individually. They seek to compel dinary," or at most " com- go," and " whether the exist- themselves and others to be righteous, but it is only fortable circumstances." An ing hundred-millionaires fore- to be righteous after their own ideals. But neither income of $1,000,000 a year shadow the coming billion- collectively nor individually can man lift himself is to us much the same as aire." He then proceeded heavenward by the boot-straps of his own aspirations was a competence of $Io,000 to estimate that at the cur- or imaginings; and God's plain words to all such to our ancestors of a genera- rent rate of increase of these are, "Their webs shall not become garments, neither tion ago. monster fortunes, a fortune of shall they cover themselves with their works; their No longer can it truthfully $2oo,00o,000 would become a works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence be said that America is a billion dollars in less than is in their hands." country without pauperism forty years. Finally, all Sabbath reform which seeks to intro- and without great wealth. In 1838 the personal estates duce a false, man-made Sabbath is false reform, or, Things have changed since in England worth over L too,- rather, it is deform. All Sabbath reform which seeks the days when Tocqueville Wall Street, the center of money influence in 000 aggregated but one and to appeal to force or any other motive save that of wrote that in the United States America. Trinity Church spire in the distance, a half times as much wealth now insignificant, formerly a landmark. The large 4 the soul's loving submission to God, while it rests there was a jealousy of wealth building, a new one, just erected, the tallest on Wall as the estates of less than from its own labors,—all such reform, even tho it which compelled rich men, Street. The little low building with columns in front, Xx,000; in 1891 they aggre- at the rignt of the picture, is United States Sub- should seek to compel men to keep the true Sabbath, like the Jews of the Middle treasury building, and just this side the Government gated three and a half times would still be false and fraudulent. Ages, to abstain from all the Assay Office. as much. From this it is clear The Sabbath is for Israel, that is, for those who ostentation of luxury. that common observation has freely submit themselves to Not very long ago a proth- not exaggerated the relative gains of the richer 4 God and take hold of this inent New York daily, and classes. It is, further, a painful fact that more than everlasting covenant by faith. one which is most friendly to three-fourths of the people of the United Kingdom May God grant, dear reader, the financial classes of the of Great Britain and Ireland are without any regis- that we all he of that Israel. country, made a statement in tered property whatever. They have, to be sure, an editorial paragraph con- their household goods, but the total value of these 4. • cerning a noted money mag- can hardly exceed Lioo,000,000. Less than two per A Test of Faith.—If we nate: " His regular income is cent. of the families of the United Kingdom hold could always see and know r ' $20,000,000 a year. That about three time.: as much private property as all the 1 i.rk4Vti. .' the outcome of obedience to makes him the richest man remainder, and ninety-three per cent. of the people every command of God, no in the United States—perhaps hold less than eight per cent. of the accumulated faith would be required. ,•100 , !•i; 1 1:;til „t—rfiti the very richest in the world." wealth. Faith and loyalty are tested And this sum; incredible as it The Civil War of x861 was a rebellion of the richer may appear, is nearly three classes in the United States against the rule of the where we can not see. There , '.- tt I 11 ,trIp i are many things we ask of I ., • ,. s oi y times the amount of the divi- middle classes. The triumph of the latter, however, our children which we know yl 9i, dends paid in 1892 to all its and the utter overthrow of the old aristocracy of the J..t,.. are for their good, hut which 1 !; I e l " I 1 is stockholders by the Bank of South, did not bring with it the extinction of plu- become plain to them only II II ILI* , - England. The enormous ra- tocracy in America. On the contrary, the war itself l'-I ill II in the doing. Their duty is a 11 lifrr - pidity with which American created a new plutocracy. Toward the close of the i ii #.11%1 11 I I war, Lir coin himself is reported to have said: " I to trust and obey. Let our it t 0 il 1 I _ II 1_1 int fortunes are amassed may be understood to some extent see in the near future a crisis approaching that un- question be, " What has God 9 11 1 .11 1 . 11 I i 11l it 1 Brit commanded ?" The doing when we consider that the nerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of His command is always Bank of England has been of my country. As a result of the war, corporations for our best good. Do you for zoo years hard at work have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in wish further guidance? Ask, building up this earning high places will follow, and the money power of the "What did Jesus do? What power, whilst this American country will endeavor to prolong its reign by work- was His example? What has won thrice its dividend ing upon the prejudices of the people until all the •shall, I do living His life ? " capability in less than a gen- wealth is concentrated in the .hands of a few, and Decide the Sabbath question eration. Two years after the the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment by these tests. appearance of the editorial more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever Commercial Cable Built-flocs, n i Froad Street, referred to above, there was before, even in the midst of the war." between Wall Street and Custom House Place: x8 This prophecy has been only too thoroughly ful- •stories to the shoulder, 3 more above. Foundation published in another entirely IN every precept of God sunken to bed-rock. These buildings are themselves friendly paper, a statement filled. The plutocracy of the South has been de- is inclosed a promise which marvels. The square white building to the right is stroyed, but a much richer capitalist class at the the American Surety Building, 21 stories. high, the concerning the income of this is opened to him who wills to first of the tell ones to be built. same gentleman, to the effect North has been created. do the precept ; but he will that his income was more Some idea of the concentration of wealth may be never know the preciousness and pqwer of the than $3o,000,000 a year; and no denial of these fig- gathered from the Massachusetts tax returns of 1873. promise till he wills to do the precept. " If any ures has ever been made. These show that the number of persons paying taxes man willeth to do His will, he shall know." Every The total population of the United States is esti- upon property was nearly four-fifths of the whole command of God is an enabling act to willing, mated to be in the neighborhood of 70,000,000 number of families resident. Among those paying submissive faith. people. In an able paper in the November Forum such taxes, however, four-fifths held less than one- January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (ii) 11

fifth of the property, while one-fiftieth held nearly as been necessary to crush competition. The fact exists the famous Standard Oil Company. Its power is much property as nearly all the remainder. Twenty that it rests in the discretion of this company at any not confined to the United States alone, but now time to raise the price to an exorbitant degree. years later the assessing department of the city of . . . Indeed. it is doubtful if free government can encircles the earth. It is, as nearly as can be ascer- Boston made a return which showed that the whole long exist in a country where such enormous amounts tained, controlled by four men, and it controls niii2ty- number of property taxpayers was less than one- of money are allowed to be accumulated in the vaults five per cent. of the oil industry of the globe. It fifth the number of families residing in Boston. of corporations, to be used at discretion in controlling operates not only in the United States, but in Canada, the property and business of the country against the From the official figures for the year 1893 from the interest of the public and that of the people, for the Great Britain, Germany, and Russia. There is a city of New York there appear to have been about personal gain and aggrandizement of a few indi- statement, which has been published and circulated no,000 property-owning families. The whole num- viduals." widely, that one of the motives which prompted the ber of families. in the city was 330,000. In other Not all the concerns becoming part of a trust are Russian Government to promote the alliance be- words, in the year 1893, in the city of New York, in favor of it. Many times they are forced to join tween the .Russian and American oil-men, was that two-thirds of the families were, in the strict sense of through intimidation, and threats that if they do not Russia wanted "to secure the influence of the power- the word, propertyless. These not only possessed their business will be ruined. Still others are given ful members of the oil combination in favor of certain no savings-bank account, but no registered property the choice of having war waged against them till plans for which Russia needed co-operation in Amer- of any description. Dr. Spahr, after the most elab- their business is destroyed, or of taking a small sum ica." This cooperation was in the matter of the orate and unimpassioned use of every available rec- annually in payment for keeping their factories extradition treaty. The Russian Government had ord bearing upon the subject closed, in order that it may obtained this ratification, and obtained it in a way in hand, estimates that in the be made to appear to men which indicated that some carefully-concealed but United States seven-eighths who wish to start a similar irresistible American influence was behind it. And of the families hold but one- enterprise that it does not the New York World, in its editorial columns of eighth of the national wealth, pay. In this way a trust can May 25, 1894, made the suggestion " that the power while one per cent. of the fam- limit the output, discourage behind this treaty of shame was that of the oil trust, ilies hold more than the re- competition, and hold up earning from the czar the last link in its chain of maining ninety-nine per cent. prices. world monopoly." " Did the oil combination," it Not only is the wealth of The anthracite coal busi- asks, "succeed in bartering away the character of the grandees of the United ness is another line of com- this country as a political sanctuary for the monopoly States and of the world more merce which illustrates the of the world's markets?" enormous than the fortunes enormous power of wealth. It was Abraham Lincoln who asked and answered of the rich of any past age, During the past three dec- the great question: "At what point shall we expect but it has been accumulated ades, private individuals own- the approach of danger? By what means shall we more rapidly, and it is spent ing anthracite coal mines fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans- with more reckless prodigal- have been so far " run out" atlantic military giant to step across the ocean and ity. And, still worse, it is sad of the business that more crush us at a blow?—Never ! All the armies of to relate that many of these than ninety-five per cent. of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the large fortunes have been ob- the anthracite coal of Amer- treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their tained by what is little better ica, according to the report military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, than sheer robbery, and in of Congress in 1893, has could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or defiance of every just and passed into the hands of rail- make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thou- natural law. Democracy has road corporations controlling sand years. At what point, then, is the approach of turned into a corrupt plutoc- the highways to the coal danger to be expected ?—I answer, If it ever reaches racy, and as an inevitable re- fields. us, it must spring from amongst us; it can not come sult, both national decadence One way in which this ab- from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must our- and social revolution are sorption is accomplished is selves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free- being prepared. " When tri- this: A number of men, the men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." umphant robbery is found directors and leading lights Never have more truthful words been spoken. It among the rich, subversive The Waldorf-Astoria, Thirty-third Street and in a railroad company, will is from the evils of great wealth concentrated in the doctrines will grow among Fifth Avenue, New York. Probably the richest, buy up a number of coal hands of a few that the great civilizations of the past most expensive, and most luxurious hotel in the the poor." world, whose owner, it is said, talks of tearing it fields contiguous to their have one and all met their death. External military It may not be out of place down and building one partly of glass, costing line. When the time for de- influences have in truth had little to do with the ruin $20,000,000. to consider a few of the livery arrives, the railroad of the powers of past ages. Rome herself fell not by methods by means of which the enormous fortunes company, through its officials, will allege its inabil- the hand of the Germans, but because it was impos- of some of the richest men in the United States have ity to furnish cars to private mine owners. These sible for her longer to sustain the weight of her own been acquired. Principles only will be dealt with, have contracts to furnish local dealers in the cities wickedness. • • and therefore names will be withheld. Rich men and towns all over the country. Because they can are undoubtedly guilty of defrauding others, but that not get the cars, they can not keep their contracts. THE GREAT WAR BURDEN. furnishes no excuse for a Christian to attack them The dealers must supply their customers, and are ONE of the intolerable burdens resting upon the personally. The sole object of this article is to show obliged to cancel their contracts with the private civilized powers of earth is that caused by the that the condition of affairs in the world at the pres- mine owners who can immense war expenses. ent time proves that " the day when the Son of man not get cars, and deal Says the Saturday is revealed " is at hand. And, moreover, the sole with the railroad com- Evening Post:— object of showing this is that men may be warned— pany's second self, " By taking Austria- both rich and poor—of the wrath to come, and give which is furnished with Hungary, France, Ger- their hearts to God, that they may be saved through an abundance of cars. many, Great Britain, " Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in In this way the private Italy. and Russia as repreentatives of the His own blood." mine owners are really armed strength, o f The title of this paper is not simply the develop- compelled to sell to Europe, it is found that, ment of wealth, but " The Development of the Money their railroad compet- according to the latest Power." There exist at the present time not only itors at ruinous figures. official reports, their larger fortunes than ever before, but the power Another plan is for standing or peace armies comprise 132,- which the owners of these fortunes are enabled to the railroad company 800 officers and 2,734,- exert through them over everything in the land, to make a contract with 141 men, and, omitting from the national government down, is almost be- its second self, — the Great Britain, their yond comprehension. Of late years a new word railroad coal combine, navies number 6,172 has come into our language, or rather an old word —to furnish it with cars officers and 224,564 at a much lower rate m e n. Great Britain used in a new serise. I refer to the word " trust." this year has a total of Take, for example, the Match Trust, by whose con- than to other shippers, 100,054 officers, sea- or to give it a certain Journeying up Chilcoot Pass, for the Klondike, in the quest sent all the fires in the United States and Canada for gold. men, and marines, and are lighted. Thirty-one manufactories, practically per cent. of the freight the army strength given the total number in the country, either went into the receipts of the other shippers of coal. By this means is independent of India and the colonies. it is impossible for "outside shippers" to compete " For the maintenance of these national systems combine or were purchased, and all were closed ex- of defense of these six countries alone, during the cept about thirteen. One of the company, a man with the trust. " These high freight rates serve the fiscal year 1897-98, the respective budgets show the whose name has been prominently before the public double purpose of seeming to justify the high price enormous expenditure of $806,287,549, or more than as a candidate for the presidency of the United of coal, and of killing off year by year the independ- one-half of the total debt of the United States." States, witnessed on the stand that the price of ent coal producers." "This excess over just and Is there any wonder that the czar of Russia calls matches was " kept up to pay the large sums of reasonable rates of transportation constitutes an for peace? And yet the answer of Great Britain, the strongest military power in the world, to Russia is money expended to exclude others from the busi- available fund by which the railroads are enabled this, from Premier Salisbury:— ness, remove competition, buy up machinery and to crush out the independent coal producers." The " If Great Britain ever permits her self-defenses to patents, and purchase other factories." In the de- extortion in the price of coal, as fixed by the coal weaken, her whole empire will come clattering to cision of the court in the case where the above ,was railroads, was found by Congress in 1888 to be the ground. It is, therefore, impossible, in the given as testimony, the judge very forcibly argued:— " considerably more than a dollar a ton." That is, present state and temper of they world, to intermit from $39,000,000 to $4 ,000,000 is wrongfully taken our naval and military precautions." "Such a vast combination is a menace to the public. Men may say, " Peace, peace," but there is no It Is no argument to say that this company has reduced from the consumers yearly. the price of friction matches. That policy may have - Perhaps the most notable trust in all the world is peace without righteousness. 12 02) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No. 1.

and emphasized in parliaments • till important legis- lation has been secured. SIGNIFICANT LAND Most of the work of Europe being in factories, in proportion as the laboring man has been protected, IN EUROPEAN factories have been curbed. Prominent among the restrictions in factory laws, is the clause forbidding Sunday work. The first day is not observed as the HISTORY Sabbath by the masses of Europe. But prophecy has indicated that it will receive universal recogni: tion. The last twenty-five years have witnessed the literal fulfilment of this in factory and other Sunday By Pastor H. P. Holser, Basel, Switzerland. laws in nearly every nation of Europe. These Sunday laws partially result from the Sunday-law movement UROPE is the throbbing heart of the world. Russian Ascendency—Franco-Russian Alliance. in America. Agitators were sent from America to E Through her wealth, arts, sciences, univer- The Triple Alliance led other nations to seek Europe. This led to organizations to secure a better sities, industries, commerce, and political alliances. France, especially, was on the alert for observance of Sunday, and the multiplication of power, the thought of the world is molded, and the a powerful ally to enable her to recover Alsace- Sunday literature. Gladstone and the emperor of destinies of the nations controlled. The changes Lorraine and to avenge her lost honor and her Germany have taken an active interest in this Sun- which here take place are, in consequence, full of humiliation. Russia continued to increase in power, day crusade; and even Belgian postage-stamps have meaning for all peoples. and extended her empire eastward and southward a Sunday clause. Ascending Papal The Rise of the German Empire and Triple Power. Alliance. The past quarter cen- During no period of tury is of note in the his- equal length have so tory of the Papacy. At many changes of such the time of the Franco- varied import taken Prussian War, the dogma place in Europe as dur- of papal infallibility was ing the quarter century proclaimed. At this time now closing. Of the France, the mainstay of more significant, the con- the Papacy, was humbled solidation of the German by Prussia. Then the Empire ranks among the powerful German Em- first. A leading question pire, strongly Protestant for Europe has ever-been in sentiment, and exu- the holding of the bal- berant over its great vic- ance of power. At the tory, undertook to break beginning of the present the Papal power. Under century, France haught- the bold leadership of ily held this coveted po- Bismarck, the iron states- sition, filling all Europe man of the century, great with such terror as to progress was made in drive enemies together curbing the Catholic for self-preservation. power. The Pope's an- In the rising Prussian swer was the declaration monarchy, France saw of the supremacy of the the danger of being sup- church in ecclesiastical planted by a German matters, in education, federation. To prevent and in marriage. Bis- this was the chief object marck's reply was, "We of the war of 1870. The will not go to Canossa," result was the sudden STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.. and the noted May Laws. development and firm Strasburg is a noted city in many respects, not the least of which is, it is the capital of Alsace-Lorraine. the disputed territory Under these laws Jesuits between Germany and France. The picture above is that of the famous Cathedral, founded in the 11th century and finished in the welding together of the 15th. The beautiful traceried windows, its brilliant, gorgeous medieval glass, the open-work tower, finely-sculptured portals and were excluded, the State German Empire; since remarkable scientific clock, can not be here described. The tower is 468 feet high. ft was much damaged in the war of 1870 took charge of Catholic then Germany has moved seminaries, and required forward by leaps and bounds, till she is acknowl- till in the war of 1877 and 1878 she was about to priests to pass a State examination before ordina- edged to be the first military power of the earth. seize Constantinople, and thus hold the balance of tion. The Pope declared to the Emperor, " Every power in Europe. By the united action of the powers, this coveted position was denied her; but in the efforts of the powers to regulate Turkish affairs on the occasion of the recent Armenian massacres, Russia was tacitly accorded the first place among the powers. France, humbled by Prussia, and irritated by the English, who adroitly robbed her of the Suez Canal and the control of Egypt, saw her opportunity in an alliance with Russia; this must be secured at any price; when the alliance was finally effected, the nation was wild with enthusiasm. In the political world this step was of equal importance with the formation of the German Empire and the Triple Alliance. By these alliances the greatest military forces of the world were arrayed in two hostile camps. War Preparations—Labor Troubles—Sunday Laws. While making repeated efforts at peace congresses and disarmament, the last twenty-five years have witnessed unparalleled changes in the weapons of war. The marvelously-developed industries have been put under tribute to perfect the elements of destruction This feverish haste in the, perfection of the implements of destruction is a significant sign of the times. The increase of armies, and the frequent change of old arms for the improved, have imposed an un- bearable burden on the people. Chafing under the load, the toiling millions of Europe have sought Baron Nathaniel Mayer Roths hild, England. Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey. relief in social and political organizations. This has Since the formation of the Triple Alliance, Ger- resulted in the development of socialism and an- one who has been baptized belongs in some way or many, as the leading power of this coalition, has archy among the more desperate. The demands of other to the Pope." been watched with the closest scrutiny by the world. the laboring classes have been punctuated by strikes This controversy concerning the supremacy of the January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES 03) 13

Papacy is one of the most significant of the age under significant that in spiritualistic circles Napoleon has of the Turkish Empire. How naturally such a gath- question. Against Rome was the most powerful appeared and conversed with those present. ering will result from the present situation ! Hence empire, guided by one of the greatest statesmen of Another change worthy of note is the increase of this Zionist movement may be regarded as a factor the century. The power of the empire was concen- Anti-Semitism and the Zionist movement. Besides in bringing about what prophecy has long foretold trated to assert the supremacy of the State above preparing the world for war, the great deceiver as the last act of earth's history. the Papacy. Laws to this end were enacted and seduces the religious world. While Christians claim enforced. What was the result ?—From 1882 to 1885 to see dawning rays of the temporal millennium, and The Third Angel's Message. the May Laws were repealed, while the Iron Chan- cite the return of the Jews to Palestine as the first Finally, we note the arrival of the first preacher of, cellor was at the helm the last warning mes- and the empire in its sage in Europe, just vigor. Bismarck went twenty-five years ago. to Canossa. From this beginning, I The multiplied troub- the Lord's message of les arising from the or- warning has increased ganization of labor and till there are now in the capital against each leading nations of Eu- other, and the growing rope about 6,000 who are • discontent of the mass- in various ways calling es under the crushing attention to the signs of weight of increasing the times, and declaring lit armaments, have con- the truth concerning the tributed much to ag- coming of the Lord. grandize the power of Thus these changes in the Pope, and give Europe during the last weight to his claim of twenty-five years, — the being the arbiter of na- rise of the German Em- tions. In addition to pire, Triple Alliance, the repeal of the May Russian ascendency, Laws, we note that in Franco -Russian A l 1 i - the most Protestant ance, multiplied war countries,—Switzerland, preparations, labor or- Germany, England,— gan iz a ti on s, Sunday the membership and laws, ascending Papal a popularity of the Cath- power, colonial policy, olic Church are rapidly Spiritualism, Zionist increasing. movement, and the The recent troubles preaching of the advent in Italy further illustrate message,—when read in the rising power of the Papacy ; the civil power the light of prophecy show unmistakably that the A wrested from the Papacy the affairs of the State, great day is at hand. and undertook to manage them independent of the hierarchy ; but while its troubles are increasing, the Papacy gallantly unfurls its sails in these State- FOREIGN HISTORICAL EVENTS OF NOTE. rending storms, and sails on to victory. Thus in Europe Rev. 13: 3-8, and portions of chapters seven- 1874.—Fall of Gladstone government in England, teen and eighteen, are fulfilling. return of Disraeli to power.—Restoration of mon- archy in Spain under Alphonso XII. European Colonial Policy. • 1875.—Adoption of Constitution in France.—Re- Another significant change in Europe is the sud- volt of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Turkish den development of the colonial policy. The rapid rule. increase of factories has led to overproduction, and 1876.—Insurrection in Bulgaria suppressed by the made a larger market Turks with great cruelty. necessary. Labor-sav- 1877.—Defeat of Ser-: ing machines have via in war with Turks. driven many abroad to — Russo-Turkish war, secure work. First Af- siege of Plevna and Kars. rica was the object of —Title " Empress of In- general grabbing; and dia" assumed by Queen next in turn came Asia. Victoria. By this colonial policy 1878.—Second war of all the earth is being England in Afghanistan. brought under the more —End of Russo-Turkish direct control of a few . war.—Treaty of San Ste- leading powers, and fano superseded by Ber- these are forming alli- lin Congress and treaty. ances. The outcome is —Servia and Roumania I not hard to anticipate. independent.— Bosn i a Even the old, dormant transferred to Austria.— nations are seized and Bulgaria divided.—Leo shaken up from their XIII. elected. sleep of centuries, and 1879. — President Mc- drilled for the final Mahon resignSin France, struggle. M. Jules Grevy elected. —War in Afghanistan Spiritualism—the Zion- by English, Ameer de- ist Movement. posed, continued in The secret power work- I880.—English war with ing behind the screen Zulus. and bringing about the 1880.—Disraeli re- important changes which signs, Gladstone returns are preparing the world to power. for what is soon to take 1881.—Czar Alexan- place, is that of Satan. The Late W. B. Gladstone. The Late Prince Bismarck. der assassinated, March Pope Leo XIII. • Rev 16 : 13, 14. His Nicholas II., the Czar of Russia. Wilhelm II., Emperor of Germany. 13.—England's war with agencies, in religious Boers.—Arabs revolt in garb, under the various forms of Modern Spiritual- step in the fruition of their hopes, behold, a strong, Egypt against the government. ' ism, have manifested new activity 'and attained organized movement of the Jews for the very pur- 1882.—British . bombard Alexandria.—Death of greater popularity in Europe during recent years. pose of returning to Palestine! The Turks refuse to Gambetta in France.—Panama Canal begun. As in the Sunday-law movement, a 4vave of Modern let the Jews enter Palestine. The Jews expect that 1883.— Suppression of Arabs' rebellion, and Spiritualism swept over Europe from America. Christians will aid them in securing their native English occupation of Egypt.—War in Soudan, 1883. Some of the most remarkable manifestations have land. Prophecy shows that one of the last acts to 1884.—War of France in Tonquin with China.— been exhibitions of its power to control the minds prepare the way for the world-gathering in Palestine Turcomans conquered by Russia, who occupies Merv. of men distant from the operator. It is specially will be the drying up of the Euphrates, a symbol (Continued on page 3o.) 14 (I4) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No. I.

" I preach the new, the most glorious crusade Church and Age ! Unite them in the mind and heart, in the name of humanity, in the name of God. Church and Age ! . . . Rome is the Church; America is the Age." In September, 1894, by a papal rescript, the United States was "declared to he a Catholic coun- try," and " was elevated to the first rank as a Catholic nation." And in 1898 an official representative of the By Alonzo T. Jones, Author of " Two Republics," " Rights of the People," etc. Papacy was received by the United States Govern- ment at Washington, upon official credentials from WENTY-FIVE years' progress toward the the Government of the United States, the- union of the Secretary of State of the Papacy addressed to T union of Church and State in the United Church and State in the United States, would, on the Secretary of State of the United States. And, States! the face of it, be in open disregard of the principles having been so received by this government, inter- To many into whose hands this paper may fall it of Christianity and of the Reformation, it follows national matters between the United States and may be thought an exceedingly strange thing that plainly enough that no one who has any true regard Spain were conducted through this papal representa- there should be any progress at all, much less for Christianity or respect for the Reformation can tive, until all negotiations were broken off by the twenty-five years of it, toward a union of Church ever engage in any movement or combination to declaration of war. and State in the United States. secure governmental recognition of religion, or any Such, briefly sketched, is the twenty-five years of It is strange that such a thing should he so. .But union of Church and State in the United States. progress toward the union of Church and State in so it is. Yet we are publishing an article on " Twenty-five the United States, up to date. .And who can say but The Government of the United States was founded Years of Progress toward the Union of Church and that this progress has been such as to demand the upon the principle of total separation of religion State in the United States." Who, then, are they serious attention of every person in the land who and the State, as certainly as it was founded upon who are aiming at this, that there should be any has any regard for true Christianity, for true Prot- the principles of a republic. Indeed, the total such progress at all?—Strangely enough, all the estantism, or for true American principles? separation of religion and the State is inherent in leading and active workers and organizations to And still this vast combination of National Re- the principle of a republic; and logic and consist- this antichristian and anti-Protestant end, are loudly form, W. C. T. U., Prohibition, Sabbath Union, ency demand that in every republic there shall be professed Christians and just as loudly professed B. Y. P. U., Y. P. S. C. E., Christian Citizenship, such a separation. Protestants. and papal elements, is steadily pushing forward the Yet, true as this is, the makers of this American Twenty-five years ago there was but one organ- original design,—the union of Church and State in republic did not leave it to logic and consistency ization in the land definitely committed to this the United States. to effect this important thing; they positively and cause. This was an organization mostly of Re- " It is high time to awake out of sleep." continuously, in State papers and organic laws, de- formed Presbyterians, tho including prominent men clared it, from the time that the Declaration of of other denominations, under the name of the Independence was made to the time when the " National Reform Association," whose avowed National Constitution was finally established and purpose was to secure an amendment to the na- ordained. The total separation of religion and the tional Constitution " recognizing the being and State is a fundamental Christian principle, enunciated attributes of Almighty God, the divine authority of in the words of Holy Writ, " Behold, the people the Holy Scriptures, the law of God as the paramount AN OMINOUS CONTRAST. [Israel] shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned rule, and Jesus, the Messiah, the Saviour and Lord among the nations." " If any man hear My words of all," and " so placing all Christian laws, institu- BY ELDER W. N. GLENN. and believe not, I judge him not." " Render, tions, and usages upon an undeniable legal basis [Editor Our Little Friend.] therefore, unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; in the fundamental law of the land." ATTENTION is called to the following list of prom- and unto God the things which are God's." This organization slowly gained strength and inent events concerning religious legislation in this It was in positive recognition of this principle influence, until 1887, when it secured the alliance of last quarter of the nineteenth century :— as a Christian principle that it was made a funda- the W. C. T. U. and the Prohibition party. In 1888 n38t.—Spasmodic attempts in various parts of California to mental feature in the establishment of the American the American Sabbath Union, receiving its initiative enforce the Sunday law passed in 1861. republic. The men who made this nation said:— 1882.—People aroused, and repeal of the California Sunday law • in the Methodist General Conference held that year made a political issue in State election. Repeal carried " Almighty God hath created the mind free; all in New York, and including the leading denomina- by a majority of about 17,000. attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or tions of the country, was added to the combination. 1883.—California Sunday law repealed. burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to This combination had sufficient influence to secure, 1885.—Exemption clause of Arkansas Sunday law repealed. beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are 1887.—Exemption clause of Arkansas Sunday law re-enacted, a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our in that very year, 1888, the introduction into Con- after twenty-one cases had been tried, which demon- religion, who, being Lord of both body and mind gress of a joint resolution and a bill, recognizing strated to the people the intolerant nature of the prose- Sip yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, the Christian religion and establishing by law the cutions made possible under the law. as was in His mighty power to do. "—Rights of the observance of Sunday as the Christian sabbath. 1888.—Blair Sunday Rest Bill introduced in United States Senate, People, p. 90. Blair Educational Amendment to the Constitution, pro- And these points have been held before Congress "To judge for ourselves, and to engage in the viding for teaching the Christian religion in public schools, exercise of religion agreeably to the dictates of our ever since. introduced in United States Senate, own consciences, is an unalienable right, which, upon In 1889 this combination sought and gained the American Sabbath Union organized in Washington, the principles on which the Gospel was first propa- cooperation of the Catholic Church. D. C. Later an official of that organization stated that gate", and the Reformation from Popery carried on, " the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the In 1892 the judiciary department of the national can never be transferred to another.' —16., p. 89. Prohibition party have become so entirely National "It is impossible for the magistrate to adjudge government practically joined this combination, Reform organizations that the regular National Reform the right of preference among the various sects through a unanimous declaration of the Supreme organizations have ceased to organize local National professing the Christian faith, without erecting a Court that "the establishment of the Christian Reform clubs as such, but work through these to spread the National Reform ideas." claim to infallibility, which would lead us back to religion" is within the " meaning " of the Consti- the Church of Rome."—/b., p. 87. R. M. King arrested in Obion County, Tenn., for doing tution, and that consequently " this is a Christian ordinary work on Sunday. Sympathizers with the prose- Therefore the supreme law of the land was made nation." cution gathered in a mob on a Sunday night, and fired to declare that— shots into a schoolhouse where Elder William Covert In 1893 the legislative department of the National was preaching the doctrines held by the defendant. "No religious test shall ever be required as a Government followed the lead of the Supreme I889.—The King case tried, and defendant's conviction affirmed qualification to any office or public trust under the Court, and in legislating for the World's Fair at by State Supreme Court, and appeal taken to the United United States. "—Constitution. Chicago, officially recognized and established Sun- States District Court. " Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- Field Secretary of American Sabbath Union organized lishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise day as the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment; a branch in California, with a view to securing a State thereof .."—First Amendment. in which Congress did do the very thing which the Sunday law. "The Government of the United States is not in makers of the nation said it was impossible to do Blair Sunday Rest Bill, modified with exemptions, etc., any sense founded on the Christian religion."— without erecting a claim to infallibility,—Congress reintroduced in United States Senate. Treaty with Tripoli.* • 18go.—A bill to prevent Sunday labor in the District of Columbia did adjudge the right of preference between dif- introduced in the House of Representatives by Represen- Thus the constitutionally-declared principle of the ferent sects professing the Christian faith, adopted tative W. C. P. Breckenridge. total separation of religion and the State in the Sunday as the national sabbath, and in so doing did 1891.—Writ of habeas corpus in the case of R. M. King denied United States, is explicitly a Christian principle, as erect a claim to infallibility, which leads back to the by Judge Hammond of the United States District Court it is also " the logical consequence of either of the for Tennessee; thus the State Sunday law was sustained Church of Rome. by a Federal Court. two great distinguishing principles of the Reforma- At the same time the Executive Department of 1892.—Bill to prohibit the sale of ice in the District of Columbia tion—as well of justification by faith alone as of the the national government also joined the combina- 011 Sunday, introduced in the Senate by Senator McMillan, equa;ity of all believers."—Bancrqfl. tion, by the President's official approval of this and in the House by Representative Hemphill. Who only, then, could be expected to desire the Decision of United States Supreme Court in Louisiana religious act of Congress; and, further, in 1896, by Lottery Case making Congress a censor of the press, governmental recognition of religion, the union of the declaration that "this is a Christian nation, and —a blow to the first amendment to the Constitution. Church and State, in the United States?—Surely, they will have to face the music." The United States Supreme Court declared that "this is none who respect either the principles of Christian- As all this was the clear repudiation of the Chris- a Christian nation," the foundation of the claim being laid ity or of the Reformation. As the American prin- in documents of Ferdinand and Isabella, the founders and tian and Protestant principle, and the adoption of supporters of the Spanish Inquisition and other pre- ciple of the total separation of religion and the the papal principle, the Papacy immediately began republic religio-political actions. State is a true principle of Christianity and the to build upon the foundation that had thus been Congress passed the first law which virtually estab- Reformation; and as a recognition of religion by laid. In October, 1893, Archbishop Ireland, in a lished the principle of Church-and-State government in the United States, namely, the appropriation of money panegyric at the Jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons, ex- [*.According to the Constitution, all treaties are a part of the for the Chicago Exposition conditioned on the gates supreme law of the land.—ED. S. OF T.j claimed:— being closed on Sunday.

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x893.—Thirteen orderly Christian men, observers of the seventh- THE MONEY POWER IN THE LIGHT OF THE and that canst not look on perverseness [that is, to approve it], wherefore lookest Thou upon them day Sabbath, indicted in Henry County, Tennessee, for PROPHETIC WORD. doing ordinary work on Sunday. that deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace when Hettie Mansfield, who had kept the Sabbath " accord- HERE is no more startling development of the the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more ing to the commandment," was informed against by her last quarter century than that of the money righteous than he ; and makest men [God's chil- dren] as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping brother for the crime of sewing on Sunday, in Queen T power, and its hold upon the nations and the Anne County, Maryland. In the same county Chas. 0. things, that have no ruler over them ? He taketh Ford was arrested and convicted of doing Sunday labor, manhood of the nations. It has been truly said that up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them on complaint of his brothers. See Matt. xo: 21, 22, 36. the people of the various civilized nations of earth in his net, and gathereth them in his drag [wily A minister and a schoolteacher, in Gainesville, Georgia, are no longer under the governments of their re- schemes, by which men are controlled]; there- fore he rejoiceth and is glad. Therefore he sacri- who had arranged some desks in a schoolroom on Sunday, spective nations, but are ruled by " The Invisible preparatory to opening school on Monday, were convicted ficeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his of violation of the Sunday law. Empire," the money power. As the well-known drag [glorifies and exalts his schemes]; because oy It was demanded of the President that Sunday closing historian, Prof. John Clark Ridpath, LL.D., re- them his portion is fat, and his meat plenteous. of the Chicago Exposition be enforced by troops. marks (Arena for June):— Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to Y. P. S. C. E. State Convention of Ohio declared a boy- slay the nations continually ? " " Behold, his soul " Not a nation in the world is exempt from the is puffed up, it is not upright in bin]; . . . a cott of Chicago Exposition if opened on Sunday. dominion of the Universal Monarchy. The political 1894.—A bill to protect the first day of the week was introduced haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who en- autonomy of every one has been surrendered, openly largeth his desire as hell [sheol, the grave] , and he in the United States Senate by Senator Gallinger. It pro- or covertly, to the will of a ruler whom none have vided for a number of exceptions, amongst others the is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth seen, but before whom every State and principality, unto him all nations [witness the world trust of " work of those who religiously observe Saturday." every republic and kingdom and empire, bends a A bill was introduced in the House by Representative the Standard Oil Company, and other world-wide supple knee." confederations], and heapeth unto him all peoples. Johnson, designed " to secure to the whole people rest "More than twenty thousand millions of war debt from toil during the first day of the week, their mental Shall not all these take up a parable against him, resting upon the nationsof the world 1 . . . Twenty and moral culture, and the religious observance of the and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Wo to thousand millions of debt, and every dollar of it owned him that increaseth that which is not his ! how long? Sabbath day." by the Invisible Empire! The interest at four per A proposed amendment to the preamble of the Consti- and that ladeth himself with pledges [bonds, stocks, cent. amounts to eight hundred millions of dollars a deeds, mortgages] , Shall they not rise up suddenly tution for the purpose of formally acknowledging " the year. And it is intended the:: this principal and this authority of Almighty God " in that instrument, was that shall bile thee, and awake that shall vex thee, interest account shall run forever. While civilization and thou shalt be or booties unto them? Because introduced in the House by Representative Morse. continues—as long as mankind shall be organized into By a papal rescript, the United States was declared to be thou hast spoiled many hazions, all the remnant of nations—so long will this intolerable incubus rest day the peoples shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, a Catholic country. and night on the labor of the world. Under the horrid x895.—Barbers' Sunday law (practically a rule of the Barbers' and for the violence done tome land, to the city, and nightmare every workingman in every country under to all that dwell therein " Hab. I: -r3-17; R.V. Union) enacted by the California Legislature. On a test the sun becomes and remains a slave. It is needless to • case the law was subsequently declared unconstitutional. say that such a debt will absorb the entire property Blood is not shed by violence alone. The life cur- Prof. George D. Herron, of Grinnell, Iowa, College, pro- of the world. It will drink the ocean dry. It will rent may be tapped and its vitality diminished by claimed his " Applied Christianity " theory from Boston suck up, at the rate of eight hundred millions a year, to San Francisco, coming out boldly for Church and State other means. Insufficient food and drink, unsani- the whole wealth of mankind, and then demand an- tary surroundings, excess in labor, excess in charges Union, as no other man had in this country. other planet to satisfy the vacuum in its infernal About thirty Christians, observers of the seventh-day for the necessities of life, are all sapping the life- Sabbath, were indicted in Rhea County, Tennessee, for maw." laboring on Sunday. About one-third of these were ha- And this Invisible Empire is the Money Power. blood of millions. But what does wealth have to t prisoned for a time. The nations of earth owe the Money Power the vast do with these?—Simply this: Capitalists and wealthy A bill providing for the protection of Sunday as a " day of rest and worship," in the District of Columbia, was debt of twenty thousand millions. They pay—or corporations control these things. In the great introduced in the House by Representative Morse. the producers in the nations do—to the Money teeming cities the power of wealth controls dwell- 1896.—The United States Supreme Court confirmed the constitu- tionality of the Georgia Sunday law, altho, under certain Power, year by year, the annual poo,000,000 of in- ings, fuel, provision, and even affects the air we articles of the code, convicts under its penalties who terest, while in all the world there are but 660,457,E breathe. In the country the great railways often should conscientiously refuse to work on the Sabbath day in gold coin ! swallow up all profit from the produce of the land, O of the commandment, might be charged with "attempted insurrection," and suffer the penalty of death. Fines col- But we wish to call the attention of the reader to in excessive rates. lected for the violation of this Sunday law are dedicated other facts, namely, And yet the thought of the rich man is not to to the " promotion of Sabbath-schools in the country." South Carolina makes the first amendment of the That there is a power above that of the Invisible oppress; it is simply to advance his own interests. Federal Constitution a part of her Bill of Rights. Empire, the Ruler of the Universe; The oppression is not meant; it is incidental, not 1898.—Special effort to utilize the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor throughout the country in the cir- That He foresaw the intense selfishness and greed objective to his plan. He regards it with indiffer- culation of the literature of the Lord's Day Defense of men to enrich themselves at the expense of their ence, as something deplorable, but which can not be Committee. An official representative of the Papacy was received fellows; helped. But at Washington by the United States Government. (See That He foresaw the skill and craft which would " Hast Thou not said that what is done e. article in this paper entitled " Union of Church and be employed in the mad ambition to use men as Unto Thy least and humblest one State.") Is even done to Thee? " Two individuals were convicted of Sunday labor in Things, and so grasp the wealth of the world; Queen Anne County, Md., not as individuals, the prose- That He foresaw that this ambition would be, God regards it, and will remember His children and cuting attorney admitted, as representatives of a cer- the injustice done them. But here is yet another tain religious sect. Thus the denomination as a body humanly speaking, successful, and that riches would was condemned by the Maryland Sunday law. be "heaped together" "in the last days;" prediction:— That He foresaw that this disregard of the poor "And the songs of the palace [where the rich 411. This list might be greatly augmented by entering dwell] shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord more into detail, as well as by adding other events and lowly of earth would arouse their hatred of the God: the dead bodies shall be many; in every of less notoriety—all showing the tendency toward rich and lead to violence and crime; and, therefore, place shall they cast them forth with silence. Hear a union of Church and State in this government, and That He warns the rich of the evil which will come this, 0 ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail." See Amos 8: 1-12, R.V. the growing sentiment of the people favorable to the unless the power of wealth shall stay its hand and principles that underlie such a union. To this brief the rich man shall regard the poor as himself, and These are God's merciful forewarnings of coming showing it is pertinent to add that in ten States of minister to his needs; dangers and perils, that both rich and poor may be the Union there have been legal prosecutions of per- That He foresaw that this warning will not be saved. The duty and refuge of the rich are given in m/ sons who observe the seventh-day Sabbath, because heeded, and rapine and bloodshed will certainly fol- the following scripture:— low, and the rich be left desolate. "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they they exercised their God-given right to labor on the be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but first day of the week. In most of these States the And yet God does not sanction violence, but ap- in the 'iving God, who giveth us richly all things to prosecution was in violation of either the State Con- peals to His suffering and oppressed children to be enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good stitution or Bill of Rights, and all of them were in patient to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, who works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; will right all wrongs. laying up in store for themselves a good foundation violation of the spirit of the Federal Constitution. against the time to come, that they may lay hold All this and more is told by the " more sure Word In contrast•with this tendency.to subvert the civil on eternal life." I Tim. 6: 17-19. See also Luke and religious liberties of the people, attention is of Prophecy." We have space for only three quota- 12 : 15-21; Matt. 6 : 19-21. called to the struggle to establish these rights during tions, and shall be as brief as possible, commenting God's message for the poor, even tho oppressed the last quarter of the eighteenth century. There at times in brackets. The first prophecy is from the and afflicted, is, "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto were the Declaration of Independence and the seven Epistle of James:- the coming of the Lord." James 5 : 7. Do not yield years' Revolutionary War to sustain it. Then the "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your to the clamor of those who know not God. Neither miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches are six years of effort to put in operation a permanent corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your anarchy nor rebellion is the remedy of the Christian. government, based upon the principles of civil and gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall His hope is in God. The very condition of things religious liberty, culminating in the Federal Consti- be for a testimony against you [in the day of judg- as regards capital and labor, monopoly and indus- tution. Before the close of the century there were ment], and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up trial slavery, is a strong, clear evidence that we are in force eleven of the fifteen amendments to the [" heaped together," common version] your treasure in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who "in the last days," and that Christ's coming is near. • Constitution ; also the treaty with Tripoli, which mowed your fields [a class representing all laborers], The Christian knows that human or Satanic rule is declared that "'the Government of the United States which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out; and brief at best, and that God is just, loving, all-wise, of America is not in any sense founded on the Chris: the cries of them that reaped have entered into the eternal; and will leave his case in God's hands, tian religion." ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived deli- cately on the earth, and taken your pleasure;ye rather than resort to violent measures. The trend of events is indeed ominous, as showing have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter [of Reader, in what is your hope ? Is it in vain riches, • a widespread determination on the part of the people war, of misery, of want, on the part of many]. Ye which fly away, or which, at the longest, you must to cast aside in the closing years of the nineteenth have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one soon leave, even tho you heap them to the heavens ? [by oppressive laws, by force of circumstances]; he century the liberties established at so great sacrifice doth not resist you. Be patient therefore, brethren, Is it in anarchy, nihilism, violence, politics, to' over- by their fathers in the last quarter of the eighteenth until the coming of the Lord." James 5: 1-7, R.V. throw the power of wealth ? You may destroy men century. And we trust that this brief array of facts This is a striking prophecy, declaring that wo will or systems ; but you will not heal the wrong. may have the effect of opening the eyes of some to come upon the rich from those who are oppressed. Or, better, eternally, heaven-higher better, is your the dangers of seeking moral reforms through the Here is another from a more ancient prophet; it trust in the power and life arid light of the love of medium of human legislation. It is the sure road to voices the Spirit of God in humanity crying out Christ ? There you are safe; for those who put their civil and religious bondage, of which the history of against its oppressions:— trust in Him " shall not be ashamed nor confounded past ages is ample proof. " Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, world without end." X. 16 (16) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No. I.

different messages may be sent in opposite directions at the same time, on the same wire. Look also at the improvements in the steam-engine, sewing- machine, etc., etc. It might be appropriate at this point to call atten- tion to the fact that the electric light was invented in London, in 1874, the opening year of the quarter century now under consideration. What that has been in behalf of light in the natural world, such has the SIGNS OF THE TIMES been in the spiritual By Elder Uriah Smith, Author of " Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation."

HAT we are living in an age of wonders multi- 1798, an epoch marked by the ending of the two tt plying in number and growing in power, none great prophetic periods, the 1,290 and 1,260 days, of T will deny. So nothing that may here be said Dan. 7 : 25; 12:4, 7, is; Rev. II : 3; 12 : 6, 14; 13: 5. will be understood as offered to prove that fact. But A great prophetic era like this,—when the word of the thought intended to be emphasized is the signifi- prophecy takes such prominent notice of earthly cance of these events as fulfilments of the prophecies affairs, when from the book shut up by divine direc- of the Bible, and their efficiency ls a means to carry tion for over twenty-three hundred years the seal out the work the Lord has to do n ilk: last days, is lifted, and the time comes for knowledge to be together with their potency to accomplish great increased,—can not but denote the loosing of all the revolutions, which will give existence to those con- shackles from the human mind which had so long ditions so clearly set forth in the Scriptures as signs restrained it from the exercise of its highest powers, The De Witt Clinton, First Train on the New York Central and immediate precursors of the impending day of and the opening of an era of progress and achieve- Railway. the Lord. ment, when the mental and spiritual endowments of In view of the wonderful discoveries of the men should assume a greater dominion over the world. The experiments by which electric lighting present age, and the great achievements accom- lower and material forces of nature. has been brought to its present state of perfection plished by increased knowledge in the arts and God said to Job, " Canst thou send lightnings, and utility, were successfully accomplished by sciences, the question is often asked if these things that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are ? " Thomas A. Edison, in the years 1878-1880. do not show that the world The telephone has so is yet in its infancy, and increased in use the past just waking up to its pos- twenty-five years that, al- sibilities, and that the real though experimented with life and efficiency of the as early as 186o, it may be human race is yet before considered as belonging to us, and must occupy gen- this period. The princi- erations still to come. The ple was exhibited in Frank- answer to this question fort, by Johann Philip Reis, must be in the negative; doubtless the first and real for the wonderful things so inventor, in 1861. He died suddenly and surprisingly in 1874. But the idea was accomplished at the pres- worked out into more prac- ent time by chemical and tical shape by Professors mechanical discoveries, Elisha Gray, A. G. Bell, are not the indications of and, later, by Mr. Edison. infancy and childhood. Professor Bell was the first They are not the work of to perfect his patent; and puerile and uncultivated his articulating telephone 4 minds. They indicate was tested by experiments rather the result of mature at Salem and Boston, Feb. and cultivated powers. 12, 1877. Edison's carbon And this view of the sit- loud-speaking telephone uation is strengthened by was brought out in 1878. aro the fact that the prophe- Nineteen years elapsed, cies foretell just such an and the telephone statistics awakening of the human for 1897 show the follow- mind, and such manifesta- ing marvelous figures: tions of its powers, as one "Total miles of wire in of the peculiarities of the THE EMPIRE STATE EXPRESS. use, 536,845; number of in- last days. Let a few texts The Fastest Train in the World, New York Central Railway. struments in the hands of suffice in evidence: " But licensees, 772,627; number thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the Job 38: 35. Tho this may not be a direct prophecy of change connections for the year, 847,000,000; book, even to the time of the end;. many shall run of the electric telegraph, it is the seed thought of capital of the company, $23,65o,000."—World Al- to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." the scheme for transmitting thought to distant points, manac for 1898. Dan. 12 : 4. There are but two directions in which and receiving an intelligent reply, by means of The phonograph is an invention of a similar the application of this prophecy can be attempted. electricity, or the lightning, and a suggestion that nature. In this the vibrations of the diaphragm, One is, to take the running to and fro in its most such a thing might sometime he. Nearly five million under the impulse of the human voice, reproduce literal sense, and let it refer to the tide of travel, miles of wire now constitute the highway over which the voice, not by forming electric connections, send- which, as the result of modern inventions in the the nimble feet of the lightning speed to bear their ing the electric current to the other end of the wire, field of locomotion, is sweeping like a tidal wave messages from land to land. By steam propulsion and causing a like diaphragm to make the same over the world; and let the knowledge which was to on land and sea, defying time and distance, and the vibrations there, but by simply actuating a needle- " increase," refer to such knowledge as pertains to operation of the telegraph, the whole world has, as point attached to the diaphragm, beneath which discoveries and progress in the arts and sciences in it were, been condensed from a vast expanse of slowly revolves a cylinder coated with some soft sub- general. T h e Terra incognita, into a little hamlet of contiguous stance, upon which it other is to apply neighbors; and national relations and conditions impresses its indenta- the running to throughout the globe are thereby all changed. tions corresponding to and fro to the Still other scriptures speak of the manifestation of the vibrations of the study of the great signs and wonders to appear in the last days; diaphragm. Now when prophecies, and, though these pertain mostly to the spiritual the pointer is caused turning back world, nevertheless they could not appear except to pass through the and forth in under the very condition of civil and religious liberty same groove again, it the inspired which is the boast and characteristic of the present follows the same in- books, and so day. In the midst of the great tide of discovery dentations, and causes causing the and invention which has been rising so rapidly dur- the diaphragm to re- 4 knowledge of ing the last fifty years, it is difficult to single out any peat its vibrations, and --- the sacred portion of the time as preeminent over the re- so the voice is heard Horseless Carriage. Word to be in- mainder, as peculiarly a period of invention; and again. It was invented The Phonograph. creased. while the quarter century immediately past has been by Edison in 1877. But in whichever way we may apply it, we have marked by some notable inventions of its own, it The graphophone is simply a- modification of the before our eyes the most emphatic fulfilment of the has been perhaps as much distinguished by improve- phonograph, involving better material and more prediction The " time of the end," to which the ments in preceding inventions, and by carrying them skilful construction rather than any new principle. book was to be closed up and sealed, and when, forward to perfection, as for new ones. Witness It was invented by Mr. Chas. S. Tainter, who, in- consequently, it was to be opened, commenced in the multiplex system of telegraphy, by Which stead of tinfoil, which was less durable, used a mix- January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES 07) 17

Lure of wax and paraffine to coat the cylinder and power without involving too much weight. The rible machine-guns. By means of these, with a loss attached one or more trumpet-shaped tubes over the first ounce of liquid air produced is said to have of only a few hundred men on the part of the En- diaphragm to augment and project the voice. This cost an English laboratory $3,000. But Prof. Chas. glish, 18,000 of the enemy were slain, and 17,00c instrument is able to reproduce speeches, songs, E. Tripler, according to an illustrated article in the wounded, in the brief engagement. music of all kinds, even to a whole orchestra, and Cosmopolitan for June, 1898, has discovered a method But all the changes wrought are not in the line of every kind of sound, in the most natural and pleasing by which in fifteen minutes he can have a stream of death-dealing weapons. Improvements in surgical manner. Thus can be brought to the rooms of the it running from his apparatus into any proper recep- instruments and practise have been marvelous; also helpless and infirm, profitable addresses and all first- tacle, and can keep that process up all day, at improvements in food and sanitation, care of the class entertainments. comparatively little expense. It is spoken of as sick and wounded, and all the arts of industry and Another invention destined to modify largely ex- peace; and many of these have grown out of the isting social conditions is the " motor cycle," demands made upon the profession by the exi- " automobile," or " horseless carriage." gencies of war. This seems appropriate on • Bicycles have proved such an immense the ground that God often causes the success, the annual output having now wrath of man to praise Him. As an reached the astonishing number of illustration, weather bureaus an d three-quarters of a million, that in- signal-service, which have now ventors are greatly stimulated to come to occupy so prominent a • take the next logical step, which is to place, and are doing such a beneficent bring out a carriage capable of convey- service in behalf of property and life, ing two or more persons, self-propelling, arose out of an incident in the Crimean 1.0 and cheaply operated by electricity or gasoline. War. A terrible storm caused great damage This will change the whole. complexion of country to the English fleet. It was soon ascertained that and suburban travel over common roads, said roads " Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse," an "Atlantic liner." The a like storm had visited France but a few days largest and fastest steamship in the world. Length, 649 feet; being necessarily vastly improved for this purpose. beam, 66 feet; depth of hold, 43 feet; 14,000 tons; displacement before, and had traveled eastward. Tracing its In anticipation of the demand which will exist for 20,000 tons; horse-power, 30,000. Largest single day's run, 58o progress, it was found that it was the identical such vehicles, many manufacturing firms are prepar- knots, largest hourly average, 22.8o knots (26.6o miles). Own- storm; and, had it been reported, they in the Crimea ers, North German Lloyd Steamship Co. ing to embark in the business of their production. would have been forewarned, and had time to pre- When such conveyances come into general use, as "opening up immense possibilities," "the potential pare for it, and avoid the loss. The thought that they will when they can be furnished at moderate applications of which are simply revolutionary." It just such things were probably happening all over prices, they will crowd out from cities and the high is further declared that " it is probable that even the earth, and should be made a study and science ways the horse, which in many respects is con- electricity is not destined to be of greater service to for human protection, has led to official weather sidered a very "unneat and di...nice animal." This mankind." forecasts and weather bureaus, which are proving will greatly promote the sanitary condition and Still standing, as we are, within the lurid glare of such a safeguard against danger to life and property. pleasing appearance of our cit- But, alas ! the tendency in • ies, as is already beginning to human affairs is more to turn be done through the displace- good into evil than evil into ment of the horse by the good; and so from the inven- bicycle, motor cabs, motor de- tions and improved methods livery wagons, cable and electric for producing the necessities of cars, etc. The time may soon life in the direction of light, come when horses will be de- food, clothing, and transporta- manded only for some necessary tion, arise the great combina- work on the farm, and for fancy tions of capital, the monopo- turnouts, which the wealthy will lies, the trusts and syndicates, doubtless persist in maintaining. which, by crowding out in- In some places, already, the dividual workmen and small price of horses has gone down capitalists, are sowing such • to almost a nominal figure. seeds of discord between labor In the line of discoveries to and capital, and bringing dis- alleviate the sufferings of the trust and alarm in all the in- sick and wounded, as well as dustrial world. Who can not for other purposes, we have see that these causes are bring- two very important achieve- ing us right into that condition •-• ments. One is what is known of things which is to exist when as the Roentgen or " X " rays, "the Judge standeth before the • and the other is the production door." James 5: 1-8; Luke 21: THE C. B. COTTRELL WEB-PERFECTING BOOK PRESS 25-27. of liquid air in commercially In this office, which makes it possible for us to issue this 1,000,000-copy edition of the SIGNS. See fuller description available quantities. By the in article "Our Facilities," on editorial page. But, amid the coming " wreck " X " rays the bones of the of matter and the crush of human body can be seen through the flesh, and any the late war with Spain, it is unnecessary to speak of worlds," there will be hope and safety in God and foreign substance in the body, like needles bullets, the phenomenal armored ships of war, and the great His promises. Joel 3:16; Acts 2 : 21; Heb. 12:26-29. etc., can be discovered and located. The surgical guns. In the fierce iron duel, for years past, and operation necessary to remove them can thus be even still in progress, between defensive armor- greatly facilitated. The advantages of this discov- plates and piercing shot and shells, it is still unde- ery in alleviating human suffering and saving life cided which will win, the efforts to produce a steel can hardly be overestimated. Had this been known plate which it will be impossible for any shot to 0" in the clays of Garfield, the fatal bullet might doubt- pierce, or a shot which it will be impossible for any less have been extracted, and his life saved. plate to resist. So far the shot have come off vic- NOTED INVENTIONS. And now comes liquefied air, called "the newest torious. A thirteen-inch shell, that is, a shell thir- teen inches in diameter and several- feet in length, Q1/. ADRUPLEX telegraphy, invented by Thomas A. Edison, in wonder of science." Liquid air is air from which 1874 the heat has been so far extracted that the temper- weighing over 1,100 pounds, discharged with a force BeT rlhin, was constructed by Siemens & Halshe, of ature is reduced to 312° below zero. In this condi- that will propel it thirteen miles in a clear flight, is a e in 1874. tion it is a bluish semi-transparent fluid, and can be terrible weapon of destruction. Such weapons, and The " Ordinary " bicycle was invented in 1874. such discharging power, could not have been, or at The roller process in milling was poured from vessel to vessel. One cubic foot of it introduced in 1876. represents Boo cubic least were not, produced twenty-five years ago. It The Bell telephone was invent- feet of common air. would seem that no floating breastworks, nothing ed in 1876, and Edison's carbon When returning from short of solid land fortifications, could withstand the transmitter was introduced in impact of such a shot. But the field of invention is 1878. In 1893 there were more its liquid to its natural than 600,000 telephones in use in condition, it evolves still open, and stranger things than have yet been the United States. tremendous power, seen may come to pass. The cantilever pri nci pl e in which can be utilized The rapid-fire guns, carrying shot of from one to bridge building was first employed in 1876. for any purpose for six pounds, and the machine guns, automatically. The phonograph was invented which power is loading and discharging i,000 shots per minute, till by Edison in 1877. • wanted. Besides this, the movement can be compar,ed to nothing but a In 1879 the first electric railway it will be of untold stream of lead like a stream of water from a power- was operated in Berlin by Siemens. utility in cooling ful hydrant hose, can not be passed by. Before In 1879 Edison. produced the in- candescent electric light. Desk Telephone. rooms, preserving such a gun, an army of quivering flesh and blood In the decade from z886 to 1896 Electric Light. food, and arresting falls like grass before the scythe, or, to keep up the we have the graphophone; Pull- yellow fever, which can not live within the frost consistency of the figure, like grass before the sweep- man and Wagner cars, and vestibuled trains; Harveyized armor- line. It is thought that this discovery may even plates; artificial silk from pyroxylin; horseless carriages; the ing mowing-machines of the present day. Witness Zalinski dynamite gun; the Mergenthaler linotype machine; solve the problem of aerial navigation, as the the results in the late conflict in Africa between the the Welshach gas burner; the rprA .Jorgensenrifle; Langley's only desideratum now to be supplied to carry out forces of the Mandi and the English tinder General aerodrome (a steam flying-machine); acetylene gas from calcium that conception, is the production of sufficient Kitchener, the latter being provided with these ter- (Continued on page so.) 1. (i8) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES VOL 25, No. 1.

MILITARY AND NAVAL DEVELOPMENT FOR fashioned cannon; but the modern 8-inch gun can be of war rising and spreading like a hurricane in TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. fired four times in one minute; the 6-inch gun, seven these closing decades of the nineteenth century ? times a minute, and the 4-inch gun, fifteen times a A single passage of Scripture tells the story plainly. BY ELDER A. 0. TAIT. minute. It reads:— [Author of " Heralds of the Morning."] And, while the old smooth-bore gun of twenty-five " And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come HE inventions, the discoveries, and the general years ago could not pierce 4 inches of common iron, out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the T material progress of the nineteenth century the big 16-inch gun of to-day uses a charge of mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false have placed our day in as marked contrast 1,060 pounds of powder and throws a shell weighing prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working • with all past ages, as would be shown by the loftiest 2,370 pounds with such terrific force that the power miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and largest mountain rising in the midst of a per- exerted would lift 64 of the largest locomotives to and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle fectly level plain. And in no field is this great de- feet into the air; or it would hoist the great battle- of that great day of God Almighty." Rev. 16: 13, 14. velopment more remarkable than in the realm of ship Iowa from her dry dock 6 feet into the air. The This scripture is too plain to need comment. It military and naval activity. 12-inch gun uses a power in hurling her shell that clearly tells of the world-wide work of the evil In 1812 the great Napoleon had reached the zenith would lift such a ship as the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya spirits as they go to the kings of earth to gather of his military strength and fame. In that year he 4 feet into the air; or, to make another comparison, them to the battle of " that great day of God Al- organized an army of 475,000 men to march against the shell is shot out with a force equal to the driving mighty." There are other scriptures that tell with Moscow. He said to one of his generals that he power of a 6o-ton locomotive with a train of eight the same vivid clearness the meaning of these un- had never made such great preparations for a mili- cars running at fifty miles an hour. precedented preparations for war. Read them, and tary struggle. This French army was not only the Twenty-five years ago the smokeless high-power let the Father, who loves you and who seeks to save terror of Russia, against which it marched, but it and slow-burning powder was not invented; to-day you from the perils of this time, impress you by His spread dismay over all Europe combined. the powder is made in large blocks that burn from Spirit as to your needs and duties in this hour of Napoleon, however, planted some military ideas. the inside so that the gases are given off gradually peril He placed the whole of the male population of instead of with a bursting charge, and by this means, France subject to service in the army. This was a and through the agency of the long cannon, the THE DEVELOPMENT OF FALSE RELIGIONS new plan, but it was some time in developing. pressure behind the shell begins gradually and in- AND ISMS. Twenty-five years ago the French army, on a war creases all the time it is passing out of the barrel of footing, had only reached 757,727. Yet this was the gun, reaching its maximum force at the muzzle. BY L. A. PHIPPENY. nearly double what it was in Napoleon's time. His And twenty-five years ago the high explosives of O BE consistent, a Christian'must regard Chris- idea of organizing into immense armies all males to-day were hardly dreamed of. But to-day such T tianity as the only true religion, and base his who could carry arms was working, and in sixty powerful explosives are made that if a ton of them is estimate of other religions, or systems, on their atti- years it had produced noted results. discharged it will exert a pressure of 12,000 pounds tude towards it. Using a general term, they are false. But as the French army was increased under to the square inch, at a distance of 25o feet. Mr. It does not follow that they contain no truth, but it Napoleon's new idea, the rest of does follow that the Christianity Europe had to increase its armies which he holds as the standard must accordingly. Hence the combined be the Christianity of its Founder, armies and navies of the principal and the exponent of that religion, nations of Europe on a war footing the Holy Scriptures, in their sim- in 1874 numbered, according to the plicity, interpreted only by the Spirit Statesman's Year Book, 5,947,695. of the living God. Comprehended During the next eighteen years in its fulness, it contains all of truth, these armies were increased to 20,- and its actuating principle is a love 945,000, and in the following seven that casts out all fear. In its per- years they reached the amazing fection it is more than mere re- figure of 26,524,768. This shows ligion, it is a life. for the last twenty-five years an Modern Christianity. increase of the men tinder arms in Europe of 20,577,073, of which vast But it is well recognized that the increase 2,434,094 were added in the popular Christianity of the closing year 1897 alone. years of this nineteenth century is If any of the achievements of all far removed from the faith of its time deserve to be styled as: mar- Author. It lacks the life. This velous, this gigantic increase of the BATTLE-SHIP OREGON. condition is deplored by those who armies of Europe during the last Keel laid 1891; displacement tonnage, 10,288; speed, 16 knots; horse-power, 9.0o; cost $3,180,000; would be its friends, and exulted quarter century should stand in the built by Union Iron Works, San Francisco. Batteries: 4 13-inch breech-loading rifles; 20 6-pounder over by its enemies. There are many rapid-fire guns. front rank. And it has been our reasons for the deterioration, chief custom to speak only of military Europe; but the Hudson Maxim, who has done so much in the devel- of which is the waning of faith in the Bible as the year 1898 was destined to cast the great America opment of these high explosives, is hard at work only inspired revelation of God to man. The weight- into the whirlpool, and territorial expansion, and on a gun that will throw a shell charged with a ton iest factor in producing this condition is the attitude the increase of army and navy, is the topic of the of this giant explosive a distance of 5 miles. The of a large majority of the professed ministers of hour in the United States. Why all this mighty and best scientific and military authorities think that he Christ. In place of the Word, the teachings of a world-wide arousing of the passions for bloody strife? will succeed with this murderous weapon, and when changeable science are publicly advocated, with the Are not the demons of war madly driving the nations it is done, he can stand off 5 miles and by striking result, inculcation of doubt in the minds of millions of earth to Armageddon ? anywhere within 25o feet of it destroy the greatest prone to gauge their faith by that of their pastors. But if the increase of armies during the last twenty- battle-ship afloat. This is in harmony with the constant purpose of five years is a marvel, even in this age of marvels, If the things that are actual facts in the military Satan ever since the fall of man. As the centuries the development of arms and equipments in their world to-day had been imagined and described have rolled by, and the race has departed more and ingenuity of deadliness is still more appalling. twenty-five years ago, they would have been regarded more from God, its knowledge of Him and of His Twenty-five years ago the iron-clad man-of-war as more fictitiously visionary than the wildest stories love has been lost in the mazes of fables. And so was in its infancy; to-day great battle-ships, armored that an ignorant and superstitious nurse ever made it is that against the Scriptures of truth are brought with eighteen inches of steel—and a steel, too, that use of either to terrify or entertain her nursery charge. to bear, in these latter days, the most delusive soph- offers more resistance by far than anything that was Would it be outside the realm of literal fact to say istries, with disastrous effect. known then—are patrolling all the seas. that if all the invincible armies, commanded by all Evolution. Twenty-five years ago the muzzle-loading gun was their illustrious generals from the days of Nimrod In all ages, as men have lost sight of God as He just giving place to the breech-loading and magazine down to Grant and Lee and Sherman, were marched is and the true records of creation, numerous theories rifle. • upon a great battle-field, almost any one of the great have been invented concerning the origin of things. Twenty-five years ago the automatic machine-gun now could send out a force that nations of the Nearly all of these can be classed under the general had hardly materialized into a dream; to-day the could mow them down and hardly lose a man ? Sup- term Evolution, which teaches the gradual growth automatic gun can throw from boo to 2,000 posing that all this great host of former times would rifle bul- of the earth through millions of years, and the de- lets per minute, Soo one-pound shells per minute, have.the courage to continue to advance, a hailstorm velopment of all forms of life from lower to higher 150 six-pound shells a minute, and 6o nine-pound of monster shells would begin to meet them when orders. In our day a mighty impetus has been given shells a minute. they were ten or twelve miles away, and this storm to the spread of the belief by the contributions of a Twenty-five years ago the old cast-iron, smooth- would continue to increase as the distance was les- hypothetical science in its investigations along these bore, muzzle-loading cannon, with its spherical shell, sened, and these smaller guns that hurl out steel lines. Needless to say, science apparently disproves was just being side-tracked for the high-power, like a hard storm of hail were brought into action. the testimony of revelation, and thus it is that evo- breech-loading, steel ordnance, with its long cylin- Such is the merest outline of the appalling facts lutionists insist that the Bible opposes knowledge, drical projectile. These old cannon of twenty-five in regard to the military and naval developments of and hence that its records must stand aside, and years ago could not drive a shell through four inches the last twenty-five years. The long roll is sound- faith be placed somewhere else. of common iron; to-day one of the big guns hurls ing, and armies, not of thousands or of hundreds of its shell through forty-four feet of iron and oak and thousands, but of millions, are falling into line. And Higher Criticism. granite and concrete and brick, twenty-eight inches the weapons with which these men are armed strike Leading to practically the same conclusions as of which is compound plate and wrought iron. It terror even to the brave. Evolution, or, as it is preferably called, " revelations took from five to fifteen minutes to load those old- What does it all mean ? Why is this awful spirit of science," as concerns faith in the Bible, is the January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (19) 19

commonly called Higher Criticism. This scheme of lief is eagerly sought after. Christian Science pre- present president is Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., supposedly critical and learned analysis of the text sents an attractive name, and its promises draw large and its secretary, Richard Hodgson, LL.D., of of the Scriptures in the original languages and from numbers who are afflicted with disease. The system Boston, Mass. Among its vice-presidents are The ancient manuscripts, claims to discover flaws here is based on peculiar interpretations which give to Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., F.R.S., The Right and there, with evidence upsetting the accepted the teachings of Scripture a spiritualized meaning Rev. the Bishop of Ripon, Prof. William James, of authorship of certain books. Take these two sys- It holds that all sin and sickness are mental only, Harvard University, Prof. S. P. Langley, Smith- tems together, as developed in modern thought, and and that by following certain rules which it lays sonian Institution, Washington, D. C., and others. they are fitted to destroy effectually all faith in divine down, these ailments will be mentally banished. Be- The object of this society is the investigation by revelation in the Bible. But in the estimation of the yond question, marvelous cures are effected through scientific methods of super-normal manifestations individual who sees in the Word one great harmony this medium, but as we compare its teachings with through spiritistic mediums, as well as all other occult of design, and knows the power of the Author of the great Standard, we must unhesitatingly place it or hidden phenomena, such as telepathy, hypnotism, that Word in his life, no weight can possibly attach among systems of error. The Word reveals the dreams, etc., for the purpose of arriving, if possible, to revelations of science that contradict its records, existence of a power other than God, capable of at a knowledge of some of the mysterious forces nor to the learned derogatory criticisms of its text healing disease, and which will in these last days producing these various phenomena. And, in the by those who fail to discern the fulness of its teach- point to the signs attending its disciples as evidence end, it is desired to prove or disprove the theory of ings. In his view true science and the Bible har- that they are the true ministers of Christ. This the immortality of the soul, and the possibility and monize perfectly, for the principles of all true science plain testimony concerning another power, Christian conditions of life beyond the grave. originate with the Creator. Hence the interpreta- Science and like systems deny by' giving to it a Only the briefest reference can here be made to tions of nature by science will be guided by revela- spiritualized interpretation. But in the Word itself the results thus far obtained by the exhaustive and tion, and not vice versa. Here modern science errs is divine healing, full and complete, for soul and careful investigations of the society, which extend in supposing that conditions as now found in nature body, without interpretation or spiritualization of through a period of years. Suffice it to say that the are perfect conditions. The Word teaches far other- simple and plain language. Follow its directions. most rigid tests were arranged again and again for wise. There is power in the Lord. the supposed communicators from the spirit world, Note now some of the logical results of these and were so uniformly and successfully met that the Hypnotism. errors. As faith in the Scriptures fades away, the learned secretary of the society, who at the begin- trend of modern thought is towards man's estate in One of the most inexplicable forces that modern ning of the investigations was a pronounced disbe- this world, independent of revelation. Perhaps by science has to grapple with is that displayed in the liever in any future existence whatever, is fully con- very few is the Bible cast aside entirely, but its teach- remarkable phenomena of hypnotism. Here is a vinced that the soul does survive the death of the ings are interpreted conformably to the popular idea mysterious power, the use of which appeals strongly body, and can, under certain limitations, return and of progress, which is wofully unlike the simplicity of to vast numbers of minds, and whose possibilities communicate with friends still in the flesh. the Word. The principles underlying social condi- have only begun to be grasped. A distinct field is The society's published reports have produced a tions which it teaches are held to be universal in already opened for its use,by physicians in the treat- profound sensation and awakened widespread dis- nature, and the conception of God as the first cause ment of disease, and in this direction we discover a cussion. In the columns of the New York Independ- is retained, because human logic demands a first kinship with the operations of Christian Science. ent of September 29, r898, Prof. James H. Hyslop, cause. But the. incarnation and redemption are set But while it is thus used by some for the purpose of of Columbia College, New York, admits that the aside consistently with rejecting Genesis and the conferring good, the possibilities for evil are so im- facts prOduced by the society can not be " laughed record of creation and the fall. Christ is a wonder- mense that the laws of the land are taking cogni- out of court," and wonders if those who have hitherto ful man, but salvation now lies in the doctrine of zance of its operations. Surely it is not a hard thing doubted the demonstration of immortality by science good works, which teaches that the man best serves to locate the power behind the scenes. The Scrip- would not better cease resistance to Spiritualism. God who serves his country best, and contributes tures tell of one who is the "prince of the power of most to the popularly-estimated material and social the air," who works in the children of disobedience, The True Light. welfare of his fellow-men. Under the name of to deceive and ultimately to destroy. The earmarks From this night of moral darkness there is only Christianity a form of worship is maintained, which of this system show that it belongs among the one escape, and that is in following the light of in a double sense denies the power claimed for it by dangerous systems of error that are so plentifully God's Word. In this Word is given full information the Word from which it originates. developing in this latter day. concerning existence and conditions beyond the Spiritualism. grave, and there .is likewise furnished a logical and Buddhism and Theosophy. scientific explanation of the phenomena that are so Until recent years the claims for Spiritualism have A striking similarity is noticeable in the popular puzzling unbelievers in this latter age. Two general been regarded with more or less disfavor, especially thought and teaching as compared with many of the truths of revelation settle these questions effectually. by men of science. The conduct of certain classes teachings of Buddhism and Theosophy. This is to They are:— of its earlier adherents was such as to bring it into be expected in view of the rapid strides the prin- First, (a) that in the day of death the thoughts disrepute, while sleight-of-hand fakirs have contrib- ciples of these systems are making throughout Chris- perish (Ps. 146:4), and (6) that the dead know not uted to unpopularizing it by pretended duplication of tendom. It is a noteworthy fact, also, that a mis- anything (Eccl. 9 : 5); (c) that immortality will be the spirit manifestations. The attitude of its earlier sionary zeal has of late taken possession of the bestowed only on the just, and at the time of their teachings relative to the Scriptures also retarded its disciples of the religions of the far East. Especially resurrection from the grave (John 5 : 28, 29; Luke progress. But late years have witnessed a surprising is this observable since the holding of the Parliament 14 : 14; I Cor. 15 : 53); (d) the unjust receive the change of front in its professions. Gradually many of Religions at the World's Fair in 1893. From that reward of their wicked deeds later (Acts 24 : 15; of the coarser elements have been eliminated, until Parliament the representatives of the East returned Rev. 20 : 12-15, etc.). to-day it presents a well-defined organization, and to their homes proclaiming a virtual victory for Second, (a) there are about us, tho invisible to our stands knocking for admission into the lists of Chris- Buddha over the Christianity of the West. A Bud- eyes, good and evil angels, beings superior to man. tian religions by virtue of its acceptance of the Bible dhist movement is now on foot in this country. (b) Satan, the head of the evil angels, is called the in the light of modern silence and advanced criticism, But, clad in form more pleasing to the Western father of lies (John 8 : 44), and the deceiver of the and its millions of followers'aMong all creeds. mind, is Theosophy, altho more or less stigma has whole world (Rev. 12 : 9). His first lie on this planet Beyond controversy the central idea of this system attached to the name in recent years because of was the notable assertion that has formed the basis is the greatest delusion ever sprung upon the human divisions and wranglings among its leaders. Its of all false systems, and is the only text in existence announced mission is to reconcile and unify all be- race. This is the theory of the inherent immortality upholding the theory of the immortality of the soul. the soul, which is by no means limited to the one liefs, and to establish a universal brotherhood of of It is found in Gen. 3 : 4, and is, " Ye shall not surely system, but, almost without exception, is the basic man. In accordance with this idea, it does not seek die." The Word reveals the history of both these idea of every form of religion, faith, belief, creed, to make proselytes, but rather to impart knowledge. classes of beings, and the reasons for their presence It therefore requires of its adherents no change of or ism on the face of the globe, that does not accept here. That Ward of revelation is free to all who the plain teaching of Holy Writ on the subject. Un- denominational name. In this we discover one of wish to search its pages. the secrets of its quiet yet powerful influence. As consciously millions worship at this false shrine, and Knowing, therefore, the state of the dead, and hav- its name implies (Divine Wisdom), it professes a the way is now fast opening for the elaboration of ing information concerning the presence of wicked knowledge of the mysteries of nature, and attain- the most sinister designs upon mankind that the spirits possessed of superior powers, we know what ment to this knowledge along scientifically demon- master mind of a fallen angel can devise. This de- intelligence it is that is working thus near the surfa e, strable lines. It thus appeals in a subtle manner to parture from the Bible and its revelations of the tho with an air of profound mystery, in leading men the more thoughtfully inclined. In this system, also, future has set adrift vast multitudes upon an un- to a pretended communication with the souls of de- as well as in Buddhism, occur the finest expressions known sea. As a consequence no line of thought is parted human beings. Most certainly, marvelous of moral conduct; but, nevertheless, it is taught that more intently purse s.d to-day than that which per- things will be communicated, but it is a will-o'-the- all salvation from conditions of evil depends upon a tains to conditions beyond the grave. And it would wisp chase, for it is a deception, whose object, to- change in man's nature brought about by his own seem, also, that ro the blinding of men's minds con- gether with all other forms of error from the same theme, the arch-deceiver has given his self-denial and self-control. The Christ of Theosoph- cernin_ source, is the destruction of souls that might other- ical thought is to all intents the Christ of professed special attention. wise, through faith in God's revelation, know of His Christians who reject His divinity, unless it be that Psychical Research. love, and share in His high purposes for those who the Theosophical conception is more elevated. It is Probably the most significant movement in modern choose to be true to Him. essentially a religion of self-salvation, self-exaltation. times along this line, and one that promises greatest " And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto Christian Science. results from the human standpoint, is the work of them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards Involved in the .same thought of self-salvation, the Society for Psychical Research. This body, only that peep, and that mutter; should not a people which is becoming so prevalent nowadays, is the a few years c,ld, is already represented in all parts of seek unto their God ? for the living to the dead ? principle at the foundation of Christian Science. the world by a membership of about 1,3oo, among To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not The world is full of misery and sorrow because. of whom are men of the highest standing in scientific according to this Word, it is because there is no light sin and bodily sickness, and whatever promises re- and religious circles and in national affairs. Its in them:" Isa. 8 : 19, 20. 20 ( 20) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No. I.

The greatest need is for many more consecrated a. • ° men and women to come to their assistance, who ../Ka will be willing to give up home and country and 'INDIA -ci.iima•JAPant AFRICA friends, and devote their whole lives for the help of that people; for . ',I; • • '.I.4i4: ZPV:74• 4.4*- ... the chiefest influ- • ' iii• , , • i• e,?•••••....,,...i..,' THEOPEN DOOR FOR •• ....1 . ence one can have 1•1•Siiki,W41.V...i..".....,Z .44.4.,r ts• 7,...4.,''.i...e.110'• .4'itilf . Viiell - . among such a peo- ,1:.•wit.-.....cre:',.. - 44K04,40'.4%, :K. • ..I.V.• Iv, .• ' ple is a consistent, ,..•..*:-.....r.•.e.•••1,,g•• ORI5T5 All3A55ADOR5 true, earnest, every-day life. I speak what I do know of this mat- There is no lack of means in the hands of the t er . Those are church. If this was consecrated, the Gospel could wanted who will be given to the heathen quickly; but if held, even to not fear sickness AN APPEAL FOR MISSIONS. be devoted to the home field, on which so much or the trying cli- labor has been bestowed, the church certainly can mate, who have a BY ELDER ALLEN MOON. not expect God's approval. knowledge of the It is evident from such scriptures as Rev. r4 : 6 and [President Foreign Mission Board, Philadelphia.] laws of our physi- Matt. 24 : 14 that the heathen are to have the Gospel. cal being and obey HE Gospel " is the power of God unto salvation The Lord has waited for the church to use the means them as far as pos- to every one that believeth." To the church He has placed within its reach, and it has not as yet sible, and will T the Saviour said, " Go ye into all the world, accepted the blessing in store for the faithful. Will leave all the rest and preach the Gospel to every creature." "And, He continue to wait for me and for you? or will He to Him who car- find other agencies and means to accomplish His eth for such, and work ? It will be done. ourrmervir.rromIturirip rrivirrimirimiS will sustain and soma:41 *1 El I till al MI I I. r-isons guide in their la- EINENEENIMEREEMEENEEEMEEKEEEENNE •• bors. Above all, . ,11111,11,1417111:#1:111111 Bible teachers are CHINA-ITS NEEDS. Indian Water-Carrier. Kt- 1Mummonsammomm410 .131594.1:11;i1M msAmmumfM ka'NFIEUM needed, for it is 9ll umgptrgommmtiOssimgoZ4 the entrance of the BY LIZZIE NELSON FRYER. Word that giveth light, that giveth understanding [For many years a missionary teacher in China.] to the simple. OUR hundred millions of people living without • • hope and without God; taught from early child- NEEDY INDIA. F hood to pray to heathen deities represented by BY ELDER W. A. SPICER. ' ii a iii 411: ' I: hideous idols, and to look to them for aid and guid- ,__. f= i 4 ance; living for no object beyond the gratification of LARGE amount of consecrated missionary self ; their good deeds done only with the idea of effort has been given to India since Wm. NEM i—t—Hi 74+ IIILEA1116115 bettering their condition here and gaining merit A Carey's coming. Still it needs light, more light. UWE IMBELMEMEENNINEEEEE+ t in the other world ; bound down by a con- Said the Calcutta Indian Witness (Meth- untramsre ...91. . stant and heavy draft upon their' time odist) the other day :— mmanaassmou m ammulmor Emm en es• and means by their obligations to " When one sits down in sober thought mai mom mum II III III keep up the worship of their an- to consider the condition of affairs ...... 111..1.. II. cestors; enduring all manner of in India, it is utterly discouraging Emu tipmmummir Es mom • ...MEMEEME i -.ill I -I I NM 11111 privations in order to continue to find that after a century of MIEEMEIMMI El 1 mlr.:7.‘ Ilti Illi a EENNE111111E this tremendous expenditure, evangelical missionary work there nannalPill Urnpriour which affects nearly every is not a solitary self-governing, 'V I I ILIIII r,ik 1 %ENE OE family over the whole em- self-sustaining native mission, ...r....,./m.mow 4, 11 ii111 04 LTAArEMII imam 111111111111 1111111111 MIMMI pire,—this in part is a pic- conference, or community, in ture of the people of China. the whole land, and the pros- gral 1MMM 111111111121 Ns • EINEEEEN II ■ME SEEEMEREE Priest-ridden are they, with pect of having one in the near EIEMEEEEEEEEMIE EEEEMENEENEINEEE millions of Buddhists and future is by no means as bright E llINNEEMENEWEEEMEEEMMEMINEEEENO Taoists, who, like wolves, as one could wish." EIENIIIgigrunemmimmfinasdnaunimm =MEMn 111111ErniuMMUMMEENNEEN prey upon the people and No human organization of IENEIMMEENE IIMINIONNIMaisagmasailla rob them of their hard- EEENINEMINEEEININEEEMEEZIENEE M IN missionary effort can do the MEMEENEENEEEEMEEEE=EEEEEEEMI earned money because of work. There is need of the The attitude of the earth as regards Christianity. Each small boasted powers to ward off Word that builds tip and bears square represents a million; the black squares, those who are in evil and threatening influences. fruit and works effectually. the darkness of paganism; the two lone white squares, what The people are everywhere India needs more of the Word. has been done toward their conversion. In civilized lands 14o oppressed with a corrupt offi- If so desperate is the need of million nominal Christians, but how few real ones! cialdom and an iniquitous gov- evangelized India, what of the ernment; their women degraded millions of Hindu idolaters and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the and kept in ignorance, but little Mohammedans ? Hideous images world." The promise of His presence is on con- better than slaves. Among the high- express the cruel character of the dition that His people engage in the work of carry- er classes each official usually has two divinities worshiped. Small wonder ing out the commission. or more wives and several concubines, that human nature sinks always lower as So long as more than half the people of the world so that the lives of the women are it deifies its own iniquities. In have never heard the Gospel, the church can not be most neglected and unhappy, and Keeper at the Entrance of a Chi- more than one of the unholy places excused for inactivity. Nor can it expect to retain their dispositions trained to jeal nese Temple. of Hinduism, as in Babylon of old, the presence of Christ and spiritual power while it ousy and depression—" no cheer in the very precincts of the tem- goes on in neglect of the commission conferred on in this life, and no hope for the next " have I often ples, virtue and womanhood are systematically sacri- it by the Head of the church. Never before in the thought after talking with them. ficed as a part of the degraded religion. history of the world were conditions so favorable to Add to these things the curse of the opium habit, Not only native India, but Europeans and mixed the preaching of the Gospel to every creature as. which is increasing its power over men women, and classes as well, need the message for this time, tell- now. Turn almost where you will—to continent, children of all classes, deadening the voice of con- ing where we are in the world's history, and re- nation, or island—the gates are open, and the truth science within them, and the China of to-day reveals vealing the Gospel as actually the power of God for may be given to the millions of earth's inhabitants. a picture of an immense, downtrodden mass of hu- the life of righteousness. One of Kipling's soldiers It is little wonder that the church is shorn of its manity, which human help can never relieve or lift to talks of the regions— power, when under these circumstances nine-tenths a higher plane. " . . . east of Suez, of all the contributions for foreign missions are given What has been done for China? Where there ain't no Ten Commandments, and a by one-tenth of the It is now more than fifty years since a little band man can raise a thirst." church-membership, of noble Protestant men and women began their life- There are many and, further, the work in this empire. Now in many stations Chris- in all parts letting members of the tian Chinese are sending out laborers from their their light shine evangelical churches own numbers into the neighboring towns and cities, and waiting for in the United States bearing the whole burden of their support. In the more light , but contribute for the country may often be found churches wholly carried nominal religion conversion of a on by the native Christians. does not flourish thousand mill ion During the last five years a great change has come amid heathen heathen, less than over mission work in China. Where the people darkness, and hu- one penny a week were difficult of access, they are now crying out for man nature away each, and ninety- more help to be sent from the home lands. Schools from the restraints eight per cent. of all are crowded as never before. The Bible has been of . society proves the contributions of translated into the many different dialects and taught its innate pagan- the church for relig- in the schools of the various missions, and portions ism. And, strange ious purposes is of it scattered by native colporters, until the " Jesus to say, in the face spent at home, and doctrine " has been heard of in nearly all parts of of the lawlessness only two per cent. is the empire. of heathenism devoted to the for- The day of her long-talked-of and prayed-for there are pulpits eign-mission field " awakening " has, in the providence of God, ar- here ready to op- It is estimated rived. The burden of those who have her best pose the preaching that if evangelical interests at heart will no longer be in regard to her of the perfect law ch urch-members conservatism, but will be about the influence that of God's right- would devote a shall direct her progress as she enters into a freer eousness. Only tithe of their in- intercourse with the rest of the world. Just at this the other day a crease of wealth to time seems the hour for Christianity with a new leading Calcutta the work of foreign impetus to press its truer and purer religion upon pastor declared Samoan Island Dancer. missions, it would the people of this whole empire. While there is the Bible to be full Solomon Island Chief. amount to the sum special encouragement among the different workers of errors. Yes, in of $4,347,900 annually, whereas the contributions to in China, still the seventy thousand Christians scat the face of idolatry, and feebleness, and apostasy, foreign work amount to less than one-thirty-second tered here and there are only as a handful compared India to-day, as never before, needs the message of of one per cent. on the valuation of the property with those who have never been in the leaSt inflti2 more abundant life by the living Word. Who will held by them at the present time. enced by Christianity. have a part in the glorious work ? January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (20 21

MEXICO. origin, are enterprising, hospitable, brainy, patriotic, THE WEST INDIA FIELD. skilful, quick to learn and imitate. In religion they BY ELDER D. T. JONES. adhere to Shintoism and largely Buddhism, religions BY ELDER C. A. HALL. of self-salvation, the results of which are continually T HE first constitution adopted by Mexico is known HESE hundreds of islands lying off our southern in history as the Constitution of the Three Guar- before the people. coast have been brought into prominence by Christianity is needed, but not the Christianity T the events of the past few months. antees. One of these guaranteed that Roman of England, or Germany, or France, or America. Their history is a peculiar one, embracing, Catholicism should be the only There has been too much of such kind of Christianity as religion tolerated by the it does, discovery, wars, laid before the people of the East for their accept- conquest, and oppres- government. It was not ance. Missionaries are needed who will carry until 1867 that the laws sion in varied forms. and proclaim the religion of Christ, irrespec- the present time of reform which had tive of race or nation. For this religion At been enacted by they will not need to apologize or be their territory is divided Congress ten ashamed, whatever any nation may do. among five powers,— years before The power of God will go with such a Great Britain, France, went into ef- Gospel, proclaimed in the love of Jesus; Denmark, Holland, fect. The laws' and the shrines of ancient man-made and the United States, of reform abol- religions will crumble before its divine with the island of Haiti ished all mo- power. as an independent re- nastic orders, public. They contain confiscated all about 95,000 square roperty held THE DARK CONTINENT. miles, with a population py the church, of 5,000,000. Of this except that ac- THIOPIA shall soon stretch out her number, two-thirds are tually used for hands unto God." She is now do- black; and the remain- public worship, E ing it. Her very condition, her ing one-third consists made marriage a open doors to commerce, sin, and relig- of whites, Chinese, civil contract, placed ion, her breaking up, are appeals to the coolies, and the col- the cemeteries under servants of God to enter and proclaim the ored or mixed people. municipal control, for- Gospel. Cuba, with its one and bade religious processions' The area. of Africa is over 11,500,000 square a half millions, has one and other public demonstra- miles. Its population is 168,5oo,000. It is divided and a quarter millions tions, and conferred upon into nearly forty States, provinces, colonies, of blacks and colored, Typical Chilean Woman. every citizen and stranger A Street Scene in Guadalajara, and districts, a half dozen of which are inde- the others being of freedom and protection Mexico. pendent. Spanish descent. Haiti is credited with but few in his religious faith and It is the home of the black race, many of them whites, while Puerto Rico is about equally divided practise. The noble and patriotic men who have sunken in pagan ignorance and the grossest super- between the two races. In Barbadoes the whites given civil and religious liberty to their country stition; many of them Mohammedans; some of them, average one in eighty-five, while Jamaica is credited have also opened up before it an era of prosperity with three per cent. of whites in her population of such as has not been known before in its history. 700,000. A splendid system of public schools has been es- The moral condition of the masses is indicated in tablished, all the useful arts and sciences are fostered the fact that the official record of births in Jamaica 4r all benevolent and philanthropic enterprises cal- shows that over sixty per cent. ate illegitimate. culated to benefit society encouraged, and enterpris- The great need of a message that will change ing and experienced foreigners welcomed. men's hearts and lives, and of pastoral work that But Roman Catholicism is endeavoring to main- will bring preacher and people into closer relation- tain, through clerical influence, what it has lost at ship, is everywhere apparent. The message of a the hands of the civil power. Every effort is being soon-coming Saviour, and the call to obey all God's make to keep the people wholly under the influence commandments, altho much opposed by the clergy, of the Church of Rome. Protestantism is misrep- are well received by the people; and, tho they have resented and scandalized. But God has pre- been proclaimed here but a few years, yet many pared the way for His truth to go to all these are rejoicing in a new-found hope and a changed millions of Spanish-speaking people. They are life. And now, with wide-open doors, all these still in almost total darkness in reference to the islands demand at our hands the saving message love of God and of the saving power of faith that God has intrusted to us. through the Gospel. The Bible has been, and still is, almost unknown among the masses. But the way is open for the Bible to be placed in the hands of the people, and for the Gospel to be ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC. preached to them. God has done wonders in BY CAPTAIN I. E. GRAHAM. opening up the way. It now remains for His people to do the work the Lord has enjoined HE islands of Polynesia number thousands, and upon them. their inhabitants millions, of various races. Spanish is more extensively spoken than any other T Apart from the large groups and islands ad- modern language except the English. At a moder- jacent to Southeastern Asia, their inhabitants are ate estimate, 75,000,000 people speak Spanish, and estimated at 5,600,000. The Philippines, now open very few of all these speak any other language. to the Gospel, let us hope, add from 7,000,000 to More people speak Spanish to-day than spoke Eng- xo,000,000 more. Yet it is said that the population lish at the beginning of the century. Spanish- of Polynesia is much less since the vices brought by speaking nations encircle the globe. They may be the white man were introduced. summed up as follows: Spain, 17,000,000; Mexico, is A little over one hundred years ago the London 13,000,000; Central America, 3,000,000; South Amer- Missionary Society was organized, and the Duff, ica, 3o,000,000; West Indies, 3,000,000; the Philip- Native Egyptian Woman and Child. the first known missionary ship that ever plowed pines and other Pacific islands, 8,000,000; North the ocean, carried a company of missionaries from Africa, 1,000,000. as in South Africa and Abyssinia, nominally Chris- England to the South Sea islands. After sixteen tians, but with few real followers of Christ. years of toil and patient waiting, the first-fruits of the There are to be met fevers, pestilences, violence, Gospel seed appeared at Raiatea, one of the Society OPEN JAPAN. cannibalism, poisonous insects, death-dealing rep- Islands. Soon the mass of the people of the entire tiles, wicked, treacherous nations, and hearts as group renounced idolatry and professedly accepted HE "Sunrise Kingdom " needs light, the light hard as steel and dark as night. Missionaries are the Christian religion. From there the message of of the Gospel. demanded who are wholly conser,ated to God; who peace was carried to the Cook, Samoan, Tongan, T The Japanese Empire is not large, and that know how to care for the body as the temple of Fijis, and adjacent groups of islands. Much has is in its favor. Its 3,500 islands more or less, God; who have faith in God for physical as well as been done for the people, but much still remains to spiritual ills; who are full of the Word and Spirit, to be done. While many of the people have the win souls. outward form of the Christian religion, the heart retains its idols. Within the past two years a white WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA. trader was killed and eaten by the cannibals of the Northern BY ELDER G. H. BABER. New Hebrides. The Sol- HIS field consists of four republics, omon islanders still en- Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, gage in head-hunting. T thus extending from the equator When a new war to Cape Horn, four thousand miles canoe is launched, in a direct line, varying in width from it is christened with one hundred to eight hundred miles, the skulls taken containing one and a half million from the heads of square miles, and more than eight neighboringtribes- million people. Among all these men. millions true Christianity has done Two years ago, but little. But the larger part of the when I visited the people are Roman Catholics. Santa Cruz Islands, Over these millions is the Roman there were but two hierarchy, composed of four archbishops, white men there. One nineteen bishops, thousands of priests, monks, of the men, Mr. Forest, had and nuns, financially and otherwise sup- spent eight or ten years ported by the civil governments. Many Typical West India Natives. in the group, had acquired are sunken in worse than heathen darkness the language, reduced it With what but the power of God through His to writing, and had translated portions of the Scrip- preached.Word, can it be hoped to accomplish any- tures into the native tongue. Three mission schools thing against such a stronghold ? had been opened, and some of the people were Typical Japanese Laborers. In this field the people are taught that they are being taught to read their own language. Of the Christians, having been made such by unconsciously 6,000 inhabitants, seventy or eighty were professed cover an area of about 147,600 square miles. Its receiving baptism during infancy; hence it is rather adherents to the Christian faith. population is set at 40,072,000. Its largest island, a Gadarenian than a " Macedonian cry" we usually In New Guinea, the mass of the people still cling Nippon, embraces more than one-half the empire. hear. However, there are some genuine exceptions, to their idols and are sunken in heathenism. Its people, of Mongolian type, perhaps of Tartar and for these we thank God, and labor, and pray. Mission stations have been established on the

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southeastern and eastern shore of New Guinea, but MEDICAL MISSIONS IN THE LAST TWENTY- ized cooperation in medical missionary lines was the western end and the interior of that vast island FIVE YEARS. the organization of the Canton Medical Missionary have scarcely been touched by the missionary. There Society, in 1838, including both English and Ameri- are yet millions of heathen in these islands to hear BY MRS. E. H. WHITNEY. the Gospel. " The isles shall wait for His law." can medical missionaries, an organization which How long must they wait? [Editor of the Medical Missionary, Battle Creek, Mich.] has reached its sixtieth year of steadily-increasing HE world seems rushing on in these closing usefulness. T years of the century with rapidly-accelerating The Edinburg Society for the training of medical EUROPE. pace. Forces which have been slowly gather- missionaries was instituted through Dr. Parker's ing strength through preceding years seem suddenly efforts, and has exerted its influence since 1841. By W. T. BARTLETT, London, England. to have reached a climax of power, and the resultant Slowly, very slowly, to the shame of the church be ROM a religious standpoint, Europe falls into three great divisions, Protestant, Roman Cath- changes thrust themselves upon our attention with it said, the tide gathered strength, and the mid- F olic, and Greek. The Protestants, numbering almost bewildering rapidity. As Daniel saw in pro- century found only forty medical missionaries among some 88,000,000, are found principally in Germany, phetic vision, men are "running to and fro," and all the millions of heathen misery.. •Of these forty, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; knowledge is marvelously " increased." twenty-six were Americans. These physicians re- but the religious standard is generally low. In Ger- While this is especially true in lines of scientific many, with a total population of 53,000,000, there ceived no mention as such in general mission re- are nearly 18,000,000 Roman Catholics, and of the discovery and application, it is hardly less so in the ports,—they were only "lay workers." Even as Protestant portion. at least io,000,000 must be direction of religious thought and methods. Old late as ten years ago, one interested in medical without even a por- missions might have 'St tion of the Scriptures. The Lutheran pastors, searched the mission- in many instances, ary periodicals of the discourage the read- day almost in vain for ing of the Bible among information, so few their flocks, and So- cialism, associated and incomplete were almost invariably with the references as to avowed infidelity, the medical mission- makes rapid growth in numbers and influ- ary work done under ence. the auspices of the The principal Ro- respective boards. man Catholic coun- In large edifices tries are Austria, Bel- there is always a long gium, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. preparation of foun- The Church of Rome dation-laying bef ore has in Europe 170,- the superstructure ap- 000,000 adherents; pears. After three- but, notwithstanding I ecclesiastical tyranny quarters of a century and the poverty of of pioneer work, out people largely depend- of sight, the last quar- ent upon charities ad- ter shows how grandly ministered by priests, there is, in more the foundation was than one country, laid by the rapidity an evident break- with which medical ing away from Rome. missions are taking a While this too often develops into a violent front rank in the work hatred for all religion, of the kingdom. The the faithful and per- London Medical Mis- 6istent efforts to cir- sionary Association culate the Scriptures are, in many places, took definite form beginning to bear about 1878, with Med- 4 fruit. In Italy, Rome is ical. Missions at Home rapidly regaining her and Abroad as its ex- old influence over the populace, yet priests ponent to the public. and monks are leaving A movement was her ranks and preach- A MEDICAL MISSIONARY SANITARIUM. made in 1876 to estab- ••4 ing the Gospel to lish scholarships in large audiences. The A station of the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, in Samoa, South Pacific. same is true in France, New York for those where a number of the preparing for medical priests, desiring the purification of their church, faiths are being tested to their foundations, and old missionary work, followed in 1881 by the organ- have formed an Evangelical Reform Association, methods set aside; new thoughts pervade and new ization of the International Medical Missionary which publishes a paper of its own. In France, as in other countries, the secularist hatred for all forms methods enter into every line of Christian activity. Society in New York City, with Dr. G. D. of religion grows more and more bitter. One mis- In religious work the new methods that prove Dowkontt as director ; its organ, the Medical Mis- sionary says that nine-tenths of the so-called Liberals successful are really the old methods that Christ sionary Record, to which in more recent years is would cast out any member of their family who used. Christ was the perfect missionary, combining prefixed the name of the Double Cross. In 1855 would dare to read the Bible. There are 700 Prot- estant pastors in France, as against 43,000 Roman in Himself both the healer and the teacher, and He was organized, in Chicago, the American Medical Catholic officials. Nearly 8,000,000 of the popula- taught the sacredness and value of the human body. Missionary Society, with the Medical Missionary tion refuse to make any declaration of religious These methods, which fell into disuse in the apos- Journal as its organ. In 1893 was organized, in belief; yet the Gospel finds a footing. The McAll tasy of the church, are, in these latter days, taken Battle Creek, Michigan, what is now known as the Mission, now in its twenty-sixth year, has established eighty-two stations where the Word is preached. It cognizance of anew. International Medical Missionary and Benevolent also sends a floating mission hall, Le Bon Messager, Prominent among these revivals of the old ways Association, the organ of which is the Medical which will seat i6o persons, up and down the rivers is the recognition of late of work for the body as a Missionary. and canals of France. factor in missions. It has been asserted that medical All these associations have the three objects of In priest-ridden Spain various societies distribute nearly roo,000 copies of the Bible annually, and fruit missionary work is to the Gospel message what the training men and women for their work, in both occasionally appears. right arm is to the body. If this be so, we have had, medical and missionary lines, of establishing medical The Greek Church comprises the Slavonic races ever since the passing away of the apostolic church, missions, home and foreign, and of disseminating in Russia, Greece, and the Balkan Peninsula, and has the lamentable spectacle of a church grappling left- information concerning the progress of medical a following of 88,000,000. This church, tho show- ing little mercy to Dissenters, unlike the Roman handed with the problem of a world's evangeliza- missions. With each of them are connected a chain encourages the circulation of the Bible, and the tion, with its strong right hand bound helplessly to of dispensaries, 0.nd systematic visitation of the sick Russian Government offers many facilities to the its side by prejudice. Might not . this of itself ac- poor ; and growing out of these there are other societies engaged in this work, such as free passes count for the failure of the church of Christ to keep Christlike instrumentalities for the help of those over the railway for books and colporters. In view • of this friendly attitude toward the Bible, it is easy in vitalizing touch with the world lying in darkness whom misfortune or vice have thrust down to the to see how the Lord can turn to good account and misery, as compared with the success of the level of what are known as the " depressed classes," the rapid expansion of the Russian Empire over primitive church in proclaiming a risen Christ to such as day nurseries, work for mothers, homes for Northern Asia. " all the world " ? the friendless and fallen of both sexes, rescue mis- In Turkey there are, besides Greeks, about 6,000,- In order better to appreciate the progress of the sions, shelters, industrial training for the young, etc. 000 Mohammedans. These are mostly in deep pov- 4 erty and a continual state of revolution. If any last twenty-five years in this branch of the work, let Not that many of these means of help to the un- among them receive the Gospel, they are subjected us note a few points in the early history of medical fortunate did not exist before, or do not exist inde- to considerable persecution; but the seed is being missions, no farther back than the present century. pendently now, but in the steadily-increasing light sown. There are also about 7,000,000 Jews scattered Dr. John Scudder, the first medical missionary from upon the relation between the physical nature and throughout Europe, for whose conversion to Chris- America, went to India in 1819 and labored till 1855. the spiritual development, the medical-missionary tianity a number of societies are laboring, with very The next fifty years furnish a few notable examples, idea has grown to embrace all that can help in the small success. like Dr. Peter Parker, who went to China in 1834, development of the entire being. Europe is abundantly supplied with ecclesiastical organizations, but, considered as a missionary field, and instituted a work which has been all these years The five or six societies which have been men- its need is not less than that of any other dark like a mighty wedge, cleaving the rock of Chinese tioned are by no means the limit of organized med- continent. superstition and-prejudice. The first effort at organ- ical missionary work, but they are the parent stock,

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from the ramifications of which many others have mon occurrence. The statistics, too, are wonderful, important discoveries which have been made within sprung up in foreign lands, or in the cities of the to those who can read • between the lines. Dr. J. G. the last quarter of a century, neither would such a home land, and they have been, directly or indi- Kerr, of Canton, China, completed a half tentury of technical enumeration be of special profit. rectly, an inspiration to independent work in many medical service this year, most of it in the foreign Perhaps we should mention, as most important instances. field. His surgical cases, several years ago, reached of all the recent discoveries in medical science, those The youngest of the organizations mentioned has 40,00o; many of them would, in Western -lands, be which relate to the causation of disease. Twenty- had an almost phenomenal growth. Organized in called " brilliant" operations. Men and women of five years ago an epidemic of typhoid fever, of 1893, it has at present associated with it 16 sanita- thorough preparation and consecration, but other- cholera, of yellow fever, of the plague, was looked riums in this and other lands, 8 foreign medical wise of the ordinary people, have, because of medical upon by the majority, at least, as a sort of visita- missions, 8 training-schools, a medical college, just successes, been chosen as court physicians and con- tion of providence. It is nearly a score of years since entering its fourth year with over loo students, 65 fidential advisers to the chief ruler in several Eastern Dr. Parkes, the eminent English sanitarian, made the missionary physicians, of whom 15 are already in countries, and the way for the Gospel has thus been startling assertion, " When a man dies of typhoid rt the foreign field, and others connected with home opened in lands in which the evangelistic missionary fever; somebody ought to be banged." Modern • missions, 85 nurses in the home field, and 49 in the had for years besieged almost in vain. China, Korea, science has clearly pointed out the fact that catch- foreign, besides several hundred under training. Persia, Siam, and Afghanistan, are all illustrations of ing diseases, infectious maladies, and epidemic dis- About 3o city missions have sprung up in the United the power of medical missions to open a way to the orders, are all, without exception, due to the invasion States and elsewhere within the last two years as a hearts of the rulers. of the body by germs, organisms so minute as to be direct result of its influence, in all of which medical All this is but a return to the " old paths," the invisible to the naked eye, but capable of the direst or relief work, or both, are prominent features. One . paths which the model Missionary trod. We do not mischief when brought in contact with the body ▪ Special feature of this organization is that it makes ignore the noble work done by faithful evangelists under circumstances favorable for the development much not only of healing the sick, but of educating and teachers, work which God has accepted and of the disorders which accompany their growth. all men everywhere in the laws of life and health, most signally blessed. Many events in the develop- The number of these germs which has been dis- using the healing art not so much to make sinners ment of God's work have their set time in history, covered is already legion, and bacteriologists tell us willing to listen to the Gospel message, as to clear and are only made manifest when " the fulness of that we are only just upon the border-land of this minds darkened by physical infirmities so that they the time" has come. It may be so with this fuller great new branch of botany. Multitudes of new may comprehend the Gospel in its fulness. development of the Gospel,—the good news of sal- microbes are discovered yearly, and there is plenty As to the present status of medical missionary vation not only for the souls of men, but for their of new territory to explore and new worlds to dis- work, there are few large cities in the United States bodies also; their redemption not only from moral cover in this branch of investigation. that have not some form of medical missions estab- • sin, but from physical sins which hamper men in Incomplete as the research has been, however, we lished ; not simply free dispensaries, but places their strife for better things, and defile God's temple already find ourselves confronted with facts of the where ministrations to the sick are coupled with on earth, " which temple ye are." most startling character respecting the relation of earnest efforts to cure also the sin-sick soul. " Hark! the voice of Jesus calling,— these minute organisms to all the conditions of our Who will go and work to-day ? daily life. For example, we have found that the There are at present in the foreign field 487 mis- Fields are white, the harvest waiting, ir sionary physicians, men and women, working under Who will bear the sheaves away?" motes which dance in the sunbeams, as the poets the auspices of differ- tell us, are in large part ent boards. About living germs, which, one hundred of these when received into the were students of the body, are capable of International Medical almost endless mis- Missionary Society of chief. A German bac- New York. The in- teriologist found more crease for the last five than a dozen different years alone has been kinds of germs pres- 122, nearly one-fourth ent in the examina- of the whole number, tion of the contents of besides nurses and a basket of fruit left by hospital assistants, his grocer upon his whose number we doorstep. The dust can not give even of the street is no approximately. The longer to be regarded above figures do not as an inconvenience, include the native con- but as a great reser- verts who have pre- voir of malignant mi- pared themselves for crobes, ready to lay us medical work in the low when a favorable mission colleges or in opportunity offers. Western schools. Pulmonary consump- The American tion, one of the most Board now has med- deadly, and in civil- ical missionaries in ized countries one of • almost all of its twenty the most common, of missions. Of the mis- all humananaladies, is sionaries of the Pres- propagated a 1 m ost byterian Board, one wholly through the in- in twelve is a physi- halation of the dried cian, and the attitude sputum of persons of these two boards suffering from the dis- illustrates that of other ease, which contains societies toward this A GROUP OF MISSIONARIES, MEDICAL AND OTHERWISE, IN CALCUTTA, INDIA. the living organisms phase of the work. The gentleman at the back and left is Elder D. A. Robinson; at the back and right, Elder W. A. Spicer; in the center, in light- characteristic of this At present nearly colored clothes, Dr. 0. G. Place. Others are effective assistants, native converts, and servants. malady. Fully one- every missionary so- fourth to one-seventh ciety at work in China has established medical MEDICAL PROGRESS WITHIN THE LAST of all the people that die in this country fall victims Missions. Patients come a thousand miles in TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. to this one disease, which twenty-five years ago was some instances, and carry away seeds of Gospel supposed to be hereditary and unavoidable, but is truth. Some of these missions are. daily thronged BY J. H. KELLOGG, M.D. now known to be a catching malady, like measles, with patients. Nearly every missionary periodical ',Superintendent Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, whooping-cough, and similar disorders. of to-day contains more or less information concern- Battle Creek, Mich.] Why all persons do not suffer from tuberculosis, ing the medical work carried on under the auspices WENTY-FIVE years ago it was customary to typhoid fever, or other germ diseases, is a mystery of its board, and there are eight or ten monthly or speak of the art of medicine; to-day medicine hard to explain. ,Recent science, however, has come quarterly journals devoted to this branch of mission T is called a science. The science of medicine forward with a demonstration that germs are not the work, where ten years ago there were but two or is almost wholly the product of the researches and direct cause of disease, after all, but that the real • three. investigations of the last twenty-five years. The cause is a weakened body, deteriorated tissues, Missions to lepers, in India and -elsewhere, are discoveries which have been made through the which furnish favorable soil for the planting and necessarily classed with medical missions. They means of the chemical, bacteriological, and physi- growth of these malignant vegetable organisms. represent a courage on the part of the missionaries ological laboratories, in whiCh hundreds of devoted But while this discovery has brought forward in bold which places them in the front rank of heroism. In men have patiently labored during the last twenty- relief the fact that germs are, after all, not the cause the leper asylums of China, India, Burma, Japan, five years, have accomplished more for human of disease, it is clear that they are rather character- and Ceylon there are over one thousand poor, dying welfare in matters connected with the medical pro- istic factors in it. The real causes of disease are to creatures who have received the light of a new life. fession, than all the labors and all the discoveries be found in those habits of life which lessen the vital Experiences of most thrilling interest in connec- of five hundred years previous. In this brief article resistance and deteriorate the bodily functions. For tion with some of the medical missions are of corn- it is impossible to even enumerate all the various (Continued on page a.) 24 (24) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No.

That night, after all the house was quiet, Mrs. Hungerford still sat at her table in the sewing-room eiptz1V,P7 alcove. The lights of the city reflected in the river lay in long shafts of silver from shore to shore. She was writing; but occasionally, glancing up and THE WEIGHT Of A SOUL out, the beauty of the scene tempted her to turn the key at her hand by which the illuminating current By Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, Author of "Studies in Home Life," etc., etc. was cut off from the room, that she might have the friendly aid of darkness within by which to gather HE had come and gone like the door on its "O, no'm ! " up the tender beauty of the scene without. As she hinges. She had begun as a pretty little blue- " Very well, you ought to know; and if you are, sat with her elbow on the table, her chin on her S eyed seamstress, and kept on in the same you ought to know enough to pick up your things palm, thinking over the day's work for the W. F. M., room, at the same table, with the same pair of and go and stay till you get rested. That's another which had especially engaged her attention, suddenly shears, pin-ball, needle-book, emery strawberry, nice thing, Mrs. Northropp; Mary knows that she a strange, new, startling thought came to her, start- thimble, and tape-line, until now. can do just as she pleases with me. I never worry ling only, however, because it was new. She won- Now, no one would have recognized in her the about her. She comes and goes, does her part, and dered where it came from, and why just now, but pretty little seamstress. Her eyes were faded and I try to do mine, tho sometimes she does almost more why it had never come before. It would have red at the corners—sometimes red all over, but sew me out of house and home, so that I have to been a very little commonplace thought under almost those times she kept them bent down so that no take a day off for shopping." any other circumstances, but under these, in which one could see them. Her hair was thin and dry, "Well," sighed Mrs. Northropp, " if one's part it had dropped like a lightning flash out of a cloud- only when she slyly slipped over to the stationary was all done with the shopping—but, dear me—I less sky, it was so uncomnionplace as to bring her bowl and spatted the top of her head with the cold, am almost killed over the awfulness of responsibility instantly upright in her chair, her hands to the edge running water. She never did that when any one sometimes." of the table, as if to lift herself by them. She did was in. " That is a consideration," said Mrs. Hungerford, not arise, however, but sat looking fixedly toward The sewing-room was in a great, beautiful house— the long silvery bars a good home for those fortunate beings who had of light that banded been born into it. It was a beautiful room, and the two shores of the everybody thought Mary Graham was highly favored river together. But indeed to have secured and held such a place, with she had forgotten its comfortable little chair, its good light, its steady, them; she thought beautiful work, and, more than all, such a consid- only one thing, and erate mistress,—one who never forgot that her sew- that was, " I wonder ing-woman might be glad of her money when the if Mary is a Chris- week's work was done; who never allowed over- tian." hours; and, if the weather was very bad, gave her That was all there her car fare. was to it, but since There was also another advantage that Mary Mrs. Hungerford Graham had over many others of her class,—she really had a sincere had to become well informed about many things, heart, small as that for the large, pleasant sewing-room was practically " wonder" looks, it the morning-room for the whole family. Mrs. was enough to fill it Hungerford had her work-table in a little alcove for the time being. which overhung the garden, and looked westward "Whydon't I toward the beautiful river; and here she put many know?" was the finishing touches to the dainty garments for her next thought. " How children, wrote, read, and received her intimate is it that I have not morning callers, and the several committees of known? I can not which she was chairman. The affairs of the wait until morning Woman's Club, with its culture projects; of the to find out—and yet W. F. M., with its many plans for converting the I shall be ashamed heathen, and of the W. C. T. U., with its reforms, to ask her. How philanthropies, its educational and evangelistic can I ask her, after methods, were all discussed in open council in the all these years, and presence of the little seamstress, who seemed to have all that has gone on even a soft pedal to her sewing-machine, so quiet in this room in her and unobtrusive was she in all that she was and did. hearing? But of " Mrs. Hungerford, is your little seamstress deaf course she is one, as well as dumb ?" laughingly asked Mrs. Northropp and she knows that I one day. " Not that I have anything to say, you know it. I couldn't know, but she is so very quiet." help but know it; of Both ladies looked over Mary's way, but she did course not. She will not seem to hear, at least unless the slight coloring appreciate the fact of the rim of her white ear, and a sudden little that I have taken it splash of red on her neck, was a sign. for granted, have " Mary is a very quiet, busy little woman," said • / understood without Mrs. Hungerford, in a kind, appreciative tone. " She "Everybody thought Mary Graham was highly favored." wordsyes, indeed, never disturbs any one, and she does beautiful work. I shall find some See this"—and, lifting a pile of delicate little gar- " and it is a great comfort to me that my folks all perfectly natural way of introducing it so that she will ments, the two fell to examining them, and talking seem to know how to behave themselves, from Mary not suppose for a moment that I have only just now them over as women will. down to the children and Mr. Hungerford. They thought about it. That would be a dreadful thing " Well," said Mrs. Northropp, " I wish I could all keep straight, without any bother to me, and I for her to know. It is dreadful, and I will see that steal your Mary Graham, or find her double—tho thank the good Lord for it every time that I hear of it never happens again." that sort doesn't grow in pairs; and then it would the goings on all about us. I am left absolutely free, She sat on and on, her eyes fixed on the river, be of no use to steal her, unless I intended to lock without a worry, to give myself to the heathen." until the home lights had all been called in, and her in; for you have given her the best berth that Both ladies laughed quietly, and Mary worked the only those remained that were for public safety— any seamstress that I ever knew of, ever had. She's treadle of her noiseless machine with her back slender threads, few and far between, shot in through a fortunate girl. Let's see—how many years is it toward them, while the heart within her seemed the darkness of the night, only serving to make its that she has occupied that corner?" more stony than ever, and her lips curled in a scorn blackness more suggestive of dangerous depths. " Don't ask me," laughed Mrs. Hungerford, " for that was cruel for any face to be compelled to carry. After a while she arose, dropped on her knees, and, if I should go to reckoning those figures I should The look of scorn, however, soon changed to an- with her face buried in her hands, and an intol- make gray hairs grow in all our heads. My! 0, how guish, and in suppressing its cry, she bit into a erable burden on her heart, she groaned out the the years have flown ! It was when George was a needle which she was holding between her teeth, prayer for herself that she could not speak, while baby, and the year that I was elected president of and only by great effort prevented the pointed half tears trickled through her fingers until the handker- the Missionary Circle. We made our first mission- from slipping down her throat. chief which she had dropped in the seat was wet. ary plans, cut out the first missionary clothes, and "What's the matter, Mary?" asked Mrs. Hunger- The next morning when Mary entered the sewing- tried the first sewing-machine I ever owned on ford. " Did you swallow a pin again ? That is a room she was surprised to find Mrs. Hungerford them. You selected that machine, Mary; do you nasty habit you have of making a pin-holder of your before her. The expression in the face of her mis- remember ? " teeth. Did you get it out ?" tress was new. But Mary was alike indifferent to " Yes' m." " Yes'm." expressions new and old; so, with a civil reply to "There, Mrs. Northropp, you see she is neither " Well, I'm thankful. I expect to find you stran- the, " Good-morning, Mary," which greeted her, she dumb nor deaf," laughed Mrs. Hungerford. " But gled with a needle some day; then what would we turned to the closet to lay off her'wraps. your voice sounds tired, Mary; are you tired ?" do for clothes?" Mrs. Hungerford was, at the end of a long, sleep- I mo; -,---irsr-1/41.7r. ,15,1•••,,,RK.r,",

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less night, weighted with a burden so heavy that she opened the door, from which the voice still came, Down the great skies that open from the throne, tender, sweet, heart-breaking, with its burden• of un- The choirs of heaven will march with harps a-ring, could think of nothing but how to get rid of it. And fair Emmanuel, come to claim His own Every consideration of carefulness or tact had been speakable love and pain. She was unnoticed, so Front a usurping and despotic king. lost hours ago; she only waited for a chance to she stood and took in the scene. The hosts of ill will wither at his eyes; speak. The room was very small. A lamp, shaded on one His brow by crown within a crown be starred ; , " Mary," she began, and her tone was so strange, side by a piece of newspaper, stood on the table. On His voice will bid the captive hosts arise; with the pressure of pent-up feeling, that Mary the pillow of a little bed, over which this shadow fell The tomb will yield the ransomed of the Lord. really was moved to look at her in almost alarm, gratefully, was a pinched face, distorted by pain, Then principalities and powers will fail, " Mary—I—I have a question to ask you; you— while cry after cry came from the drawn lips. The And prostrate fall before the King of kings. you—are a Christian girl, aren't you; Mary?" head was thrown back, the eyes were dilating with The ransomed of the Lord, now sad and frail, Just a moment Mary stood, her face hardening that expression of surprise which acute and sudden Will rise triumphant as on angels' wings. From continent and isle and ocean cave, every second as she slowly took in these words; stabs of pain will produce, and which is so pitiful to Like doves that fly the golden sky toward, and began partly to comprehend what was back of behold. In another corner, on a lounge, slept a The church of God that Christ has died to save, them. Then she laughed a shrill, horrible laugh, man, whose heavy breathing, laden with sickening Will rise to Him, the ransomed of the Lord. fumes, told its part of the story. Mary was sitting . which distorted her face, and left it paler than be- 0, ho-w ye'll sing, ye angels, how ye'll sing ! fore; then she seemed to grow tall, and taller, her on the edge of the narrow bed, from which she had And how our voices, too, will swell the strain eyes became cold as steel, and in a low, sarcastic evidently suddenly arisen, and was bending low And how the heavenly worlds above will ring, tone she answered:— over the poor little face, with a Madonna look which That we, the captives, wear no more a chain " I think it is time you asked me that question." made her beautiful, while with her hands she was Ye'll hail us conq'rors in the city fair, " 0 Mary !" and Mrs. Hungerford sprang toward supporting the suffering body. Where never more shall sin or pain retard. Mrs. Hungerford waited but a moment, then, Will ye not whisper to each other there, her as if to throw her arms about her; but Mary And say. " How fair the ransomed of the Lord " ? had slipped beyond them, and stood like an avenger slipping softly back into the hall and closing the beside her sewing-machine. door, she stood and thought; then carefully she felt Through world on. world, with Christ our King above, her way back to the street, and with a reassuring We'll pass, reflecting His divine, sweet grace. " 0 Mary, you are right ! It is time—long, long And how ye unfallen powers will look and love, past time! "• she cried. "You don't know what word to John, stopped under the street lamp, and, And marvel at the glory of each face, I have suffered all this night. Listen.! " • taking a note-book and pencil out of the bag on Once earthly, sensual, now sweet beauty given,— " Listen? No, I must get to my work. Suffered, her arm, she wrote two, three, four, of the small The image fair of Christ, untouched, unmarred ! did you say? Well, suffering that can be measured pages full, folded, pinned them together, and stole 0 angels, 'twill be joy enough for heaven by a night will not spoil your beauty." noiselessly back, slipped them under the door, To contemplate this mystery of the Lord I knocked softly, and returned to the carriage. " Mary !" • • " Yes, ma'am. Did you get the cambric yet for " No, not yet," she whispered, as John opened the door, but stood with her eyes on the window. Miss Dorothea's slips, and the lace to edge Master CHRIST IS COMING. Guy's ruffles ?" On the thin curtain she saw first the silhouette of " Mary, 0 Mary ! " a woman reading, then of an erect statue, then of a BY CHARLES MILES SNOW. No answer. bowed form, its face in its hands; then, after a long ALL the elements are telling it; the sky is full of signs; " Mary ! " time, the curtain was parted, and the lamp was There's an ominous awakening foreboding God's designs. " Yes, ma'am." moved close to the window, so that the silhouette E'en the timorous are telling what the mighty fear to speak, " 0 Mary, don't look so hard at me! Will you was blotted out. And the powerful are cringing with the wicked and the 'weak. "Thank God 0, I do thank Thee, Father ! " It is God's expostulation with the wretched and the rich, not listen to me ?" With the princes in their palaces, the drunkards in the ditch. " Of course I'll have to listen to you, or "— and with a sob of gladness, Mrs. Hungerford started Christ is coming, Christ is coming, all the prophecies proclaim, "Or what ?" quickly toward the light. But, stopping a moment, With the mighty hosts of heaven, in His chariot of flame. "Why, lose my place, maybe ! " she whispered, " John, where are we?—what part of He is coming, He is coming, it is written in the sky; " You know better. 0, how unjust! But no, I de- the city ?" Earth is rip'ning for the harvest, and the harvest-time is nigh. serve it. Say what you please, my poor girl; you"— " Well, not so very far from home now, ma'am, He has heard the cry of millions in the slavery of sin; " Mrs. Hungerford, please, whatever you do, don't just off the avenue, on Gray Street. That, where He has listened to the pleading of the ones He died to win; call me girl again. I'm a woman. I—was a girl the light is, is Lost Court." He is gathering His armies for our liberation day; once, but that was ages ago." " Well, then, you drive quickly home, _tell Mr. And that great emancipation human hands can not delay. He is whispering in the whirlwind, He is speaking in the flood, " What do you mean ? Are you married ? " Hungerford where I am, then come back. I will see you, and come down to tell you what to do." In the perfume-lademzephyr, in the bursting of the bud. " 0, yes, I'm married ! " All the stars are singing praises to the glory of His name, " And—and children ?" She went up, and in a moment had Mary sobbing While the reeling earth is groaning 'mid a load of sin and shame. " Now you stop. 0 ! " in her arms. " 0, did you really mean it enough for this ? Then Vice parades her gaudy trappings 'mid the pleasure-Seeking And before Mrs. Hungerford could anticipate her throng, purpose, she had seized her hat and shawl, was I believe—I do believe; I will come back to the God Tinging with enticing glamor every separate way of wrong. down "the stairway, and off like a wounded roe, of my childhood. I had made up my mind there Homes once happy are in ruins through the gay deceiver's wiles; plunging through the open spaces toward the river. was no God," she whispered, " for, you see—you While the throng are singing praises to the drama that beguiles. The morning and the afternoon passed, but she see him—and, 0, my baby, my baby ! I began to There's a luring fascination for the slinking libertine did not return. Several committees came to meet sew for you for her sake, for he hurt her, and I had In the comedy of passion, for a glimpse behind the scene. her in the hospital until they gave her up, years Soon his blandishments are followed by the wrecking of a life, Mrs. Hungerford, but she excused them. She spent And the bonds are snapped asunder 'tween a husband and a wife. the early part of the day looking among old papers ago; and, 0, I thought nobody cared only for— There's a plaintive cry ascending in a long, unceasing moan for an address. She had once known where Mary you know" — From the law-made orphan children to the great Judge on His Graham lived, but, never having occasion to look " Yes, I know; you had reason to think we only throne. her up, she had lost the address. She humbled her- considered you as a sewing-machine; but God laid You may listen but a moment to the mutterings of wo self to inquire of the servants, but not one of them your soul upon me last night; I have found out That are gathering all around you as the seasons conic and. go ; could enlighten her. The late afternoon found her how much it weighs, and if you had not lifted it off But the words you hear are laden with a draught of bitter dregs— under a pressure of anxiety that could not be longer by beginning to believe, I think it would have There's a great, gaunt army growing, and the ragged waif who crushed the life out of me. 0, I never want to begs endured; and, calling the carriage, she started out At the doorstep of your dwelling is a thorough-drilled recruit upon the almost impossible task of finding Mary feel that sort of a burden again ! , But now we will In that massive, marching legion moving down destruction's Graham among the thousands of unregistered poor see, dear heart, what can be done for yours." route. of a great city; for by this time she had, as she Justice heeds the cry but seldom of the innocent oppressed ; supposed, at least classified her. She was also by Where the glittering bribe is lacking, many a wrong is unre- this time too determined to stop with half-way dressed. Wealth is marshaling its forces; 'labor's legions are astir; methods, but went directly to police headquarters, Anarchy, the wild, red-handed, has in this its dowager. from which, after a half hour, she emerged with a list of " Mary Graham's," only one of which could • 0 All the nations are a-quiver with the threatenings of strife, Pouring out a golden river for new means of taking life ; be hers, and, giving the first order to her driver, she THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD. They are furrowing the ocean with a myriad ships of mail,' started on a search which, before it was ended, Ballasted like clouds of fury with a load of iron hail. brought her face to face with things that gave point BY FRANCES EUGENIA BOLTON. On the hill the beacon's lighted, every torch is trimmed anew, to all the work which she had been doing at long And the ranks of moving millions gather where the harvest grew. 0 ANGELS who have looked upon our wo, There's a force unseen impelling all earth's factions to the fray ; range; and the fire which began to burn in her And read in earth sin's dire malignity, 'Tis the warrior host of Satan, hastening Armageddon's day. breast no " reports " could ever have kindled. And read in men how it can plunge us low, It was long after midnight. She had gone through And read God's love in Christ on Calvary, You have seen the stars of heaven falling as the King foretold ; her list of " Mary Graham's," and sundry experi- To-day I think with thrilling heart that soon Seen the moon with bloody visage; seen the sun his light withhold. ences which she would never forget. She had taken Ye'll see love's consummation and reward,— You have marked the march of knowledge with its swift increas- The church of Christ made fairer than the moon, ing stride, John, the old coachman, into confidence some hours The ransomed-, the redeemed ones of the Lord. And the progress of invention, like an irrepressive tide. before, and he stood with one hand holding the You have seen the preparation of the armies of the world, veins, and the other on the open door of the car- Ye've seen the lepers spotted in the glooms, Waiting now the order only like swift meteors to be hurled iage, waiting. At last, suddenly a sharp cry rang Ye've seen the paralytic, helpless, mute, To the seething sea of turmoil, 'gainst the city and the plain, from a partly open upper window near by in the Ye've marked the madmen raving 'mid the tombs, Belching death in iron hailstorm, strewing all the land with slain. court, and then a tender woman's voice was heard— And seen the world-wide bearing of sin's fruit. God is holding still the bridle of the prancing warrior steed, Ye've seen how innocence is burnt from brows, While there yet is hope in heaven and a Priest to intercede. .:eico which sent a thrill through the heart of the Seen lovely eyes with hate grow wild and hard, When redemption's work is finished in this sin-polluted-land, startled listener in the carriage. And sorrowed gentle ones; but now hope glows; " Let me out, quick, John; that is• ' • Ye soon shall see the ransomed of the Lord. And the seal of God is given to His humble, faithful band, "Are you sure, ma'am ? Be careful; this is a bad Angel hands will stay no longer earth's impatient armed horde, And the trodden plains will redden 'neath the threshing of the part, ma'am." Ye've seen the mighty bear away his prey sword. To death's foul prisons of decay and gloom,— But she was out, and hastening by the light of a Sad will be the billows' burden where the flaming fleets go down. Nations swept down as harvests of a day, dim street lamp toward the crooning voice which With the bright-eyed sailor laddie, and the captain of renown. still fell from the partly open window. How she To feed the world-wide gaping of the tomb. Ye've seen the broken•heart, the mourner's tear, Then the form of the Redeemer l the heavens will be seen, found the way she could not have told—up the The God-like glory lost, the image marred ; Seated on a cloud of .glory, in His hand a sickle keen. shaky stairway, and along the dark halls—but at But.,,O, the great Deliverer's army's near, By the hand that bled for sinners will the harvesting be done; last, without even a premonitory tap, she softly Ye soon'shall seethe ransomed of the Lord ! For salvation's work is finished, and the race of sin is run. 26 (26) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Vol. 25, No. I.

now equipped with eight first-class flat-bed presses, Him N1 ill) is light, shall remain in darkness and un- and all except one built by the Cottrell Company. certainty ?—P. is not. " Surely the Lord God will We found, however, that our ever-increasing sub- do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His scription list demanded more than the fastest flat-bed servants the prophets." " We have also a more presses could supply, and, after thorough investiga- sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye OAKLAND, CAL., JANUARY 5, 1899. tion of the merits and demerits, the advantages and take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark disadvantages, of perfecting presses for book work, place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise MILTON C. WILCOX EDITOR. we placed the order with the firm of C. B. Cottrell & in your hearts." "The wise shall understand." A. 0. TAIT - ASSISTANT EDITOR. Sons Co., of New York. This press was built on " Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even All Manuscript Should be Addressed to the Editor. special order, to fulfil special and exacting conditions. they shall understand the loving-kindness of the 4 A cut of this press appears on page 17, and well Lord." " The secret of the Lord is with them that RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT. illustrates the advancement made in the printing art fear Him; and He will show them His covenant." THE PAST. during the last two decades. As will be seen from God has in the earth, and ever has had, His serv- HE first issue Of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES was the illustration, the paper printed is fed continuously ants who know Him, who know His mercy, who T published in the year 1874, by Elder James from a roll at the rear. It is then printed on both know the power of Christ's resurrection, who know White. It was given to the world by those sides, folded, pasted, and trimmed, and delivered the knowledge of His will, and who know the mes- who knew that God had given them a message for all complete at the rate of io,000 per hour, the grade sage for the time. They.are men who have " under- the people of this generation. of work and fineness of illustrations determining the standing of the times, to know what Israel ought to Its beginning was small, and in its earlier career it rate of speed. Curved electrotype plates are used, do;" they are watchmen who can tell when the night passed through many changes. It was issued at and special machinery not shown in the engraving of sin is about to close, and when " the morning first as a weekly, at $2.00 a year, but during the first was built for making these plates. This is not a cometh;" they are householders who will give to year—from June to December inclusive—only twelve newspaper press, but was built for doing finer grades those in need their " portion of meat in due season;" numbers were printed. Scarcity of funds and lack of book and periodical work. It is provided with they are faithful men who will "cry aloud and spare of subscribers were the chief hindrances. It was Cottrell's patent "shifting tympan," a unique device not;" they are faithful ambassadors, lifting up the then an eight-page folio, size of reading page toM. x tor the purpOse of preventing "offset." This "shift- Lord Jesus Christ, the Crucified and Coming One, as 153,} inches. Its paid circulation was limited to a ing tympan " is so arranged that a clean sheet can the world's only hope. few hundred copies. From that time to the year be made to cover the cylinder at the will of the "And this will we do,if God permit," in THE SIGNS 1895 its circulation ranged from 5,000 to 15,000, operator, while the press is in !notion. The ma- OF THE TIMES. We will, in the strength and wisdom reaching at one time for a little while, on short-term chine is 18 feet 8/ inches long, II feet 7 3/g inches given of Christ, be true to our motto: "As we were subscriptions, an issue of 20,000 copies. wide, 7 feet 7!/. inches high, and weighs 36,000 allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even In 1895 more diligent efforts were put forth for the pounds, including the auxiliary machinery. It is the so we speak ; not as pleasing men, but God, which paper on the part of its publishers and friends. The only press of the kind on the Pacific Coast. Presses trieth our hearts;" because the only way by which circulation immediately began to increase, till for the similar to this are used on which to print some of the the world of humanity can be truly benefited is the last two years in the neighborhood of 40,000 copies great illustrated journals and magazines of the East. way which is pleasing to God. That way is the were circulated each week; the regular circulation This press has also an attachment for folding tracts way of the Gospel, " the power of God unto salva- of the .paper stands at present little above the last- and book signatures in 16-page forms. A sample of tion to every one that believeth," the sole remedy named figure; but as the paper is sold in many of the work of the press is shown in this million-copy for all earth's ills. our largest cities, these editions are frequently ex- edition Of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. As God in Jesus Christ is Creator and Saviour hausted, and a new edition is printed. Our Thanks- of all, THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Will preach the THE FUTURE. giving number reached 6o,000 copies, with orders for Gospel to all, whether rich or poor, high or low, of 2,000 still unfilled. The past, with its conflicts, its failures, and its whatever race, or nation, or religion, or creed. We confidently hope that this issue, which marks successes, we leave with God. The question which That Gospel is able to convert and save the sinner the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of its publica- most concerns us now is the future as unrolled in the to the uttermost, and to comfort and build up the tion, will exceed i,000,000 copies, the largest number, ever-living present. child of God. It is a complete Gospel, which takes we believe, ever issued by any wholly religious One writer has well said that " intensity is taking cognizance of the body as well as the soul, the newspaper ever published. To God give we all the possession of every earthly element." Old contro- physical and mental needs as well as the moral and glory. versies are being revived. New controversies are spiritual necessities; which sets men free in Christ OUR FACILITIES. springing up. In this generation is being waged Jesus from every corm of bondage and slavery. It The first copies of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES were anew the conflicts of all past ages. is able to restore in the lowest the lost image of God. printed in an outside office. The second year of its Uncertainty is a manifest factor everywhere,—in Amid the uncertainties in politics and society, in publication an office was built in the form of a Greek politics, in science, in the great social questions State and Church, in science and religion, THE cross, three stories in height, including attic, with a agitating the world; and nowhere else as in relig- SIGNS OF THE TIMES will give, as God gives wis- floor space of about 4,000 square feet. That build- ion. An unbelieving and inconsistent hypothetical dom, the certain sound of the divine message to the ing is now devoted to two clerical offices, the most "science" boasts that it has overthrown and under- world. It will show from that Word where we are of it for packing and storage rooms. In 1887 a new mined the Bible. Ancient heathen cults rear their in the great stream of time; what mean the wonder- building was erected, of four stories, including base- heads aloft, demanding attention. Men who have ful developments in every phase of life, the deep ment, with a floor space of 4o,000 square feet. The seemed to be pillars in Christianity have patroniz- intensity taking possession of every earthly element, Pacific Press Publishing Company, the publisher of ingly bent the knee to the advocates of these ancient the perplexing conditions among all the nations of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, now possesses the most religions, and have drawn before their Christian earth, the increasing perils in the moral, ecclesias- complete printing plant west of the Rocky Moun- hearers beautiful pictures of moral theories, which tical, spiritual, and physical worlds. tains for all first-class periodical and book work. are as destitute of life as painted canvas or chiseled But the SIGNS will not be sensational. While it It includes typesetting, electrotyping and stereo- marble. To the blurred vision of many the founda= believes that we are rapidly nearing the end of the typing departments, press-room, job-room, bock- tions of Christianity seem to be shaking. Professed Gospel age, we are not " time-setters." In faithful- bindery, folding-room, art and editorial depart- believers are reeling in their faith. The trumpets of ness to God's Word we can never be. But we do ments, a complete counter check-book plant, with many of the professed watchmen give an uncertain know and will demonstrate from a multitude of all necessary business departments requisite to large sound. The cry arises from many an anxious heart, predicted omens and the living facts before the eyes publishing houses. It has branch offices in Kansas "Watchman, what of the night?" The answer, if of all, that the coming of our King draweth nig' City, Mo., and New York City. Its present force answer at all, is incoherent; and the questioner Certainly, if this be true, it is a matter, not of nit .; sensation, but of the profoundest thought. consists of 150 employees, and its monthly pay-roll stumbles on in darkness or sinks in despair. maturest deliberation, and the wisest decisiur 40 averages over $5,000. The church at large is partaking of the spirit of the the part of every soul. The first press upon which THE SIGNS OF THE world. More than this, she is appealing to the weak, There is world-wide agitation over the Sabbath TIMES was printed in its own home was a four- vacillating, ineffective arm of civil power to assist question in both Church and State, which will not roller drum cylinder, Cottrell & Babcock. It was her in religious matters, forgetting that the Egypt or down." The true Christian will desire above all disposed of the other day as a fairly good machine Assyria of earth will, as a staff to Jerusalem, ever things to know God's mind with reference to the still, but insufficient for our needs. As new presses prove a broken reed which will pierce her heart with question; and this we shall endeavor to present in have been demanded, we have ever aimed to secure fatal wound. all its varied phases, as related to the State, the the press doing the best service, and our office is Is it God's plan that His church, the children of church, the individual. January 5, 1899. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (27) 27

In brief, THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES will stand for fact that the church to-day in most of its aggressive not only continued but growing worse. The com- every true reform embodied in the Gospel of Jesus work is looking to men instead of God. Many mission held seventy sittings, and the report of their Christ. It will be a true religious home paper for thousands, especially of the youth, are often largely inquiry filled five volumes of 1, ioo pages each. all classes. It will endeavor to bridge the chasm controlled by one man, and this not in Roman Ca- In this report the commission affirms that almost betWeen men by uniting them at the Cross. tholicism, where we look for such things, but in every form of crime and vice is under political and In all these reforms, in spreading the Gospel of modern Protestantism. How many times in the police protection. And the helpless, the widow, the Jesus Christ, in lifting by the power of the Cross religious press is this man or that man lauded to the uninfluential,—the keepers of small fruit stands and fallen men to the throne of God, in driving away skies, while the Maker of man and the Redeemer of cigar and tobacco shops and the like,—are made the moral darkness by the beautiful light of truth, in men is barely mentioned ! objects of extortion and blackmail. The police are making souls everywhere stronger, better, happier, God uses men; but He would use them in His appointed by the politicians, and so lucrative is the in the only way by which true happiness ever comes, church " as good stewards of the manifold grace of policeman's position 'Considered that they are re- we ask, kind reader, your cooperation. May we not God; " " not as being lords over God's heritage, quired to pay the political ring $30o for their ap- count you our co-laborer in Christ Jesus? but being ensamples to the flock." But for the pointment, and when promoted to the post of ser- good of all, He Himself should have the glory. geant the price is $1,500, while a police captain has Therefore in the very message for this time, the last to pay $15,000 for his appointment. BOSSISM IN STATE AND CHURCH. great threefold message to a dying world (see Rev. Among the sources of revenue of these corrupt 14 : 6-14), that thought is emphasized right in its officials they collect from $50 to boo a month from NE of the prevalent and lamentable tendencies very beginning. The message implies the very con- pool-rooms ; $20 to $25 a month from policy shops ; in Political life in America during the last quar- ditions we see. But it calls to the condition which $2.0o a month from liquor dealers ; $io to $5o a month O ter century is boss rule in politics. Twenty- every true Christian should occupy. Listen: "Fear from houses of ill-fame ; and when a new house of five years ago it was manifest only in New York. God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judg- prostitution is opened, an initiation fee of from $50o to Boss Tweed was a unique figure, condemned by all ment is come; and worship Him that made heaven, $2,000 is charged, in addition to the regular monthly parties and papers outside of those under his imme- and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." fee thereafter. diate control. Now we have bosses in national poli- This is man's duty, to fear God, to look to God, to The foregoing figures are not surmises, but are tics, bosses in State politics, bosses in municipal poli- worship God. " Ye were bought with a price; be- facts given under oath before the Lexow commission. tics, and oftentimes bosses in ward politics. It is no come not bond-servants of men." If it shocks us to hear of a professional highwayman longer in New York only, but in nearly every town " God give us men I a time like this demands " holding up " a person and demanding his money, down to 4,000 inhabitants and lower. So every- Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; how much more shocking is it to know that city where present is the Boss, with a big " B," that even Men whom the lust of lucre does not kill; officials accomplish the same thing under the garb decent men feel they must reckon with him if they Men whom the spoils of office can not buy ; of the guardians of the very laws that they are are to achieve success. Men bow to men, and the Men who possess opinions and a will ; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; trampling underfoot. evil is increasing. Not merit but money and the Men who can stand before a demagog, Twenty-five years ago this form of criminality was boss win elections now. And in this we are not dis- And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; being broken up in New York, as it was supposed, criminating between parties nor referring to recent Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog and it was firmly believed that our Christian civiliza- local elections. We refer to the boss in politics, In public duty and in private thinking; For while the rabble with their thumb-worn creeds, tion would not allow it to break out elsewhere. irrespective of party, as one of the excrescences of Their large profession and their little deeds, But we see that the criminality and evil of twenty- the body politic, showing its innate corruption. Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps, five years ago has not only augmented in the It is not personal knowledge of bosses or politics Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps." metropolis, but has spread to other cities. which we present. We know no boss control, and The Illinois Senate caused an investigation to be 4 are not politicians. We present the testimony of made in Chicago during January, 1898, and they found one of the "bosses." One of the most successful CRIMINALITY AS A BUSINESS. the same evils there that the Lexow commission and respectable of this class in the Union is Colonel N 1854 Fernando Wood, a ward politician who found in New York City. Indeed, the Chicago chief Dan Burns, of California, who does mining in Mexico of police was driven to such straits by the investiga- I acknowledged that he had cheated his business for a business, and politics in California as a pastime. partner by falsifying the figures in their accounts, tion that, according to the press reports, " he apolo- What we quote from Mr. Burns was written about was elected mayor of New York. Mr. Godkin speaks gized for the thugs and toughs, who had been ap- two years ago in a signed article shortly after elec- of his administration as " the organization of New pointed as members of the police force since he was tion; we clip from the San Francisco Examiner:— York politics on a criminal basis." William M. made chief." And at the sable time when this in- " When the delegates selected by the one-man Tweed succeeded Wood as New York's mayor, but vestigation was going on in Chicago, a committee of power go to the convention, do they express their far outstripped his predecessor in his daring crimi- citizens was making a like investigation in Philadel- own wills ?—Why, no; they await orders from the phia, and found the same evils there. boss, and obey his bidding. Take the municipal nality. Indeed, Judge Noah Davis said of Tweed convention of two years ago (1894), which I con- that he " saw fit to pervert the powers with which he Language is feeble to express the appalling crimi- trolled. I never heard of a candidate going among _ was clothed, in a manner more infamous, more out- nality of this time. For it is not the skulking high- the delegates and soliciting their support. They rageous, than any instance of a like character which wayman alone that is to be , dreaded. But men knew better. 'They came to me or sent their friends chosen to execute the laws, or robed with the judicial to me to obtain my consent to their nomination. the history of the civilized world afforded." They knew they could do nothing unless the master The thugs of the city, nicknamed " Tweed's ermine, have prostituted their high positions of trust hand was on their side. That hand was the hand of lambs," were organized by the " Tweed ring " and responsibility to rascality of the most infamous the boss. into a part of the political machine; and by the depths. And with our large cities a veritable "These methods are un-Republican; they are un- cesspool of crime, what is there to hope for ? Democratic; they are un-American. If the people corrupting influences of money and the control of do not wipe them' out, they will see this great govern- the ignorant and immigrant element, together with This nation is rapidly rushing down the same ment wane as I have seen it wane. Our, institutions all the other dark ways known to the unscrupulous, decline that Rome traveled when she was crumbling will disappear from the earth, and another form of Tweed and his " ring " kept themselves in power, to destruction. And hers was only a heathen civil- government will be established. Trifles that at the ization. But what will be' the terrible end of a outset seem matters of but little moment often de- while they plundered the people. Mr. E. Benjamin termine the fate of nations. Throughout the country Andrews, in his book, " The Last Quarter Century nation that so terribly degrades herself in the pres- political power is being centralized. In all trusts, in the United States," says: " The ring's operations ence of the light of the pure doctrine of Christ? pools, or combinations of whatever nature, the power cheatdd the city's taxpayers, first and last, out of no And when Rome fell there were other nations—even finally rests in the hands of one man. He is the tho they were called barbarous—that had not de- boss. less than $16o,000,000, ' or four times the fine levied r- on Paris by the German army.' . . . In 1871 graded themselves with vice and aristocratic crimi- Summing up the one-man power in politics, Mr. he boasted of being worth $2o,000,000, and vowed nality, that came in to absorb Rome's civilization, Burns thus forecasts the future:— soon to be as rich as Vanderbilt. . . . He used reject her vices, and thus found new empires. But " The United States will become another Europe, gleefully to show his friends the safe where he kept where is there a nation to-day that is not in even a with all the class distinctions of the older coun- worse condition than the United States ? There are tries. Before that time comes, tho, blood will again money for bribing legislators." have drenched the land. The horrors of war will We have not the space here to picture the shock- no peoples now to overturn this evil and establish once more devastate the country. Even now the ing and many-sided corruptions that were boldly, enduring governments. murmurings of a dissatisfied people may be heard yes, brazenly, practised . in New York under the . The prophet describes this condition of evil most from sea to sea. Soon these murmurs will increase minutely. He says:— to a roar of protest against existing conditions.* management and protection of the " Tweed ring." Then the money barons will say: ' We can no longer But twenty-five years ago Tweed himself was under- " For our transgressions are multiplied before bear the ravings of these rascals. We will suppress going his prolonged trial, and the whole country, Thee, and our sins testify against us; for our trans- them.' The result may be foreseen. Money usually outside of his friends and accomplices in New York, gressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we wins in a war or in any hitter contest, because it can know them. . . . And judgment is turned away last longer. Money will be king and the people was horrified by the revelation of the dark deeds backward, anti justice standeth afar off ; for truth is serfs." that had been committed by Tweed and his pals. fallen in the street, and equity can not enter. Yea, It was believed that the exposure of these official truth faileth; and he that departed-. from evil maketh Mr. Burns, as boss in his party, engineered it again himself a prey; and the Lord saw it, and it displeased to success in 1898. Verily there is need for a new crimes, and the revolution against them, would make Him that there was no judgment." Isa. S9: 12-15. a. Declaration of Independence. the repetition of such deeds an impossibility in the future politics of New York. But these high hopes When men refuse to relieve the oppressed and to In the Church. were destined teobe dashed to the ground. execute justice in the earth, the only thing left them While in His church 'God designed that there In 1878, seven years after his arrest, and with his is for the just Judge Himself to execute the judg-• should be but one Head, that head is not to be err- trial uncompleted, Tweed died in Ludlow Street jail. ment of the great and final day. And before that tri- ing humanity. "One is your Master, even Christ; But the seeds of political corruption did not die with bunal where neither bribery nor any other fraud can • and all ye are brethren." " For the head of every him. For in the years 1894-95 the Lexow commis- enter, the whole world will soon be summoned. man is Christ." And yet, despite these and many sion,- appointed by the New. York Senate to investi- God's Spirit is impressing this solemn truth upon other similar declarations,of Holy Writ, it is a patent gate the frauds and corruptions of that second city of your heart. Do not reject the divine admonition. T. * See articles elsewhere in this issue on the Money Power. . the world, found that the evils of Tweed's. time were 28 (28) THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES Cpl. 25, No. r.

Medical Progress within the Last Twenty-five Years. to be so great in magnitude that numerous immense greater readiness on the part of the physician to (Continued from Page 23.) establishments are devoted exclusively to this line communicate medical facts to his patrons. The public are to-day vastly more intelligent respecting example, the stomach is capable of destroying any of business. It is safe to say that at the present matters of this sort than twenty-five years ago. The germ which may find its way into it. It destroys time several hundred thousand people in the United necessity for the medical education of the people has cholera germs very quickly, also the germs of typhoid States habitually use cereal coffee instead of Mocha, come to be recognized, and eminent physicians are fever. Hence, man can not contract either cholera Java, and the various other brands of coffee and tea taking their stand in behalf of the enlightenment of or typhoid fever so long as he has a perfectly sound which they formerly used. The principal headquar- the public upon all medical questions which can be stomach. If he happens to swallow the germs of ters for the manufacture of these foods in the United popularized and brought within the comprehension these diseases, he simply digests them as he digests States are found at St. Helena, Cal., Boulder, Colo., of the ordinarily intelligent layman. potatoes, cereals, and other vegetables which he may College View, Neb., and Battle Creek, Mich. swallow. But the man whose digestive vigor is im- One of the most characteristic features of the new The results of the educational work of this sort paired is constantly exposed to infection, not only medical science to which the present century, and which has already been done are being shown in the decline of the patent-medicine industry, which de- by typhoid fever, yellow fever, or cholera germs, particularly the last half of it, has given birth, is the if he happens to come in contact with them, but, idea that health-getting is not a matter of magic or pends entirely for its success upon the ignorance and superstition of the people. A very successful the blood and tissues being impaired, the defenses of pill-swallowing, but instead, in the .majority of patent-medicine manufacturer said to the writer not of the body are all weakened, and germ diseases, as cases, at least, a matter of education and training. many months ago, " I am going to sell out my busi- well as other disorders of every sort, are imminent. The chronic invalid is ill because he or she has ness as soon as I can; the patent-medicine business It is thus apparent that the discoveries which have violated the laws of health. Rational medicine is doomed." The public are without question im- been made in relation to the nature of germs, their regards disease as the result of the operation of posed upon to a more monstrous degree in matters method of development, etc., have naturally led fo nature's laws, and not a consequence of chance or pertaining to the treatment of disease an exhaustive study of the habits of life and their of supernatural agencies. It would seem self-evident than in any bearing upon human health and, longevity. that the tissue changes, the functional disturbances, other way. The quack, the nostrum vender, find in In this line of research careful study has been the pathological processes, which result from the the chronic invalid a ready dupe; but modern med- made of foods and of their relation to stomach health long-continued violation of nature's laws, are not ical science stands ready to educate the ignorant and general vigor. A vast array of most useful facts to be remedied by the most ingeniously-managed respecting the great principles of rational living, and in relation to foods, their nature, nutritive values, medicinal antidoting any more than by the mum- the rational treatment of the sick, and emphasizes a principle which sounds the death-knell of quackery digestibility, etc., have been brought forward, and meries of the mind-curist. Nevertheless, it is a sad are gradually finding their way from the medical fact that a large proportion of the public have failed and medical humbuggery of all sorts, viz., that in text-books to the public prints, from the laboratory to recognize that in its onward march of progress, dealing with the sick it is not the malady, but the to the kitchen. Twenty-five years ago a man who true medical science has left behind the specifics and sick man, that is to be treated and cured. ate graham bread was looked upon as a crank or a panaceas of the old regime, along with the astrology In conclusion, a word may be said respecting the fanatic. Cracked wheat, oatmeal, and similar whole- and alchemy of an earlier age, and are still engaged marvelous achievements of surgery within the last grain products, were just beginning to receive atten- in combating disease on the basis of an effete quarter of a century, through the discovery of germs tion. Now graham bread, oatmeal, cracked wheat, and false philosophy, or else blindly following an and the relation of suppuration and aseptic proper- and other whole-grain preparations, appear regularly unphilosophical and ever-changing empiricism. ties which were formerly known as blood poisoning, upon the bills of fare of every well-ordered hotel in The rational physician keeps ever in mind the fact gangrene, etc. A quarter of a century ago amputa- the country. Other equally-important dietetic re- that the real curative force resides, not in his medi- tion of the leg at or near the hip joint was one of the forms have been made. Mustard, pepper, pepper- cine case, but in the constitution of the patient. gravest and most deadly operations in surgery sauce, and vinegar, have been critically examined by Nature is the real curative agent. The physician Amputations of all sorts were most serious. The the physiologist and found to be not only detrimental really assists .his patient toward recovery only when surgeon expected suppuration to occur in the great to the digestive processes, but directly injurious to he studies the purpose of nature in her efforts, and majority of cases, and talked about laudable pus, the stomach, and productive of gastric catarrh and supplies conditions which will aid nature in her work. healthy pus, etc. The abdominal cavity was in- other grave and obstinate maladies. The relation of A little more than a quarter of a century ago the vaded only by a few bold operators, who expected fats to the digestion of starch and other food elements principles of rational medicine were so little recog- to lose twenty-five per 'cent. of their cases. The has likewise been studied, so that we are able to nized in the world that the"physician who undertook brain, the lungs, the heart, and the abdominal viscera comprehend the reasctn why boiled rice digests in an to practise medicine in harmony with these principles were considered practically beyond the region of hour, while the digestion of Saratoga chips compares was looked upon as a fanatic, and was compelled to human surgery. Yet to-day, thanks to asepsis and favorably only with that of pebbles or sole leather. depend for a living upon some other resource than thorough cleanliness, amputations of all sorts are Sir William Roberts and other English physi- the practise of medicine. regarded as scarcely more than minor surgery. The ologists have extended their researches to inquiries The sanitarium, a place where all physiological abdominal. cavity is opened with comparatively respecting the nature of tea, coffee, alcohol, and and rational measures of treatment are gathered little risk, under favorable conditions, and enormous other beverages, and their effects upon human diges- together ready for application to any given case, tumors and other diseased structures are removed. tion, with the result- that facts have been elicited was unknown. A scientific sanitarium represents The spleen, one kidney, a portion of the liver, and, which condemn these articles as utterly unwhole- rational medicine in its most advanced state, and is if necessary, several feet of intestine, are removed some, pernicious, and of no possible service to the at least one of the greatest and most beneficent of with comparative safety when occasion requires. human body. all the gifts of modern medical science to humanity. Even the entire stomach has been removed, and the Within the last few years the study of dietetics As the result of the scientific study of disease stomach is frequently opened for the removal of has led to an investigation of the question of the which is made possible by the intimate ;relations of foreign bodies which have been swallowed. In a wholesomeness or unwholesomeness of a flesh the physician in properly-conducted sanitarium, recent case more than a pound of hardware was dietary. The results have been the declaration by many most valuable advancements have been made taken out of the stomach of a man who had for Dr. Haig, one of the most eminent physicians and in the use of water, electricity, exercise, and other several years been exhibiting in a dime museum as physiologists of Great Britain, that flesh-eating is physiological agents. " a human ostrich." The list of things removed without doubt the cause of rheumatism and gout, as The exact study of disease and sick people has from his stomach included more than a hundred well as neurasthenia and various other maladies, made necessary the development of .laboratories, in staples, cartridges, nails, etc. Portions of lung have and that there is a veritable and clearly-defined dis- which skilled chemists, bacteriologists, and other sometimes been removed, and slight surgical opera- ease, which may properly be termed "meat-eaters' experts are employed to aid the physician in getting tions have been performed upon the heart. The disorder," which, in a great number of instances, is at the exact morbid conditions which are present in brain cavity is frequently opened for the removal of only the forerunner of Bright's disease, paralysis, every individual case. This precise study of con- tumors and other diseased structures. neurasthenia, sick-headache, and a great variety of ditions has led to a revision of remedial agencies, The surgeon no longer talks about healthy pus, other chronic and all but incurable maladies. and to a more accurate adaptation of the measures but undertakes to maintain such cleanliness and Another result of the scientific study of diet within approved to conditions of disease, temperament, etc. asepsis as will secure immediate union of the wounds the last twenty-five years is' the development .of a Thus a new medical science has been born, and at which he makes, without suppuration. By a com- class of special food preparations known as health the present time a great number of maladies once bination of the most skilful surgical measures with foods, particularly designed for crippled stomachs regarded as absolutely hopeless are found to be a pure dietary, it has been found possible to save whose energies have been largely exhausted in actually curable, and scores of so-called incurables alive a much larger number of desperate surgical wrestling with the dietetic abominations which ap- are constantly being restored to health. cases than is possible under less favorable conditions. Certainly in medical matters the world moves, and pear upon the -average table. The fundamental Another feature of medical progress which ought, at thes present moment, progress is so rapid that it is principle in these preparations (at least those which perhaps, to be mentioned, is the change of attitude next to impossible for a busy practitioner to keep are meritorious, for there are numerous worthless on the part of the medical profession toward impor- pace with the progress which is made in various lines imitations) is the preparation of cereal and other tant questions bearing upon the public welfare. One of research which are being carried forward in vari- foods in such a manner as to lighten the burden of of the most important of these is the question of the ous parts of the world; and, to be thoroughly success- the digestive organs, a large part of the work of education of the laity in medical matters. The time ful in his work, the physician must call to his aid -the digestion being performed by the preliminary proc- existed when the doctor thought it necessary, in chemist and the bacteriologist to assist in his research esses to which these foods are subjected in the order to maintain his influence with his patients, to into the exact condition of each organ and each func- course of manufacture. Twenty-five years ago health keep them in absolute ignorance4tf what he was tion of the human body. Medicine is no longer an foods were just coming into existence, but they have doing or aiming to do in the administration of reme- empirical art; it has become a grand and noble gradually won their way into the public confidence, dies. The adoption of rational measures has changed science, and each day adds something to the luster or, rather, the public have gradually come to appre- the attitude of the physician. Being engagecl in the of its glory and to the efficiency of its service to the ciate their value and importance. practise of rational -medicine, he is able to give a human race. The public has become so well aware of the evil reason for his diagnosis of the patient's condition, effects of the ordinary dietary of tea and coffee that and for the various directions which he may give the demand for cereal substitutes for coffee has come respecting the patient's care; and thus there is a

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• "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." John 3:16. • • • • 0— 1. There is par don for the wan - d'rer In the depths of sin and shame, 2. Heard I Him at last, and look - ing, Saw the Man ac - quaint with grief,.. 3. Ah! the joy of that home com ing Fad - eth not with flight of time;.. • P. __a a- • 11°- 4 0L . ._ • 9-0 9: ;—4 4.. --• - ,/ I Wi

N .1 1 111- -11-11;1-0• • a • Sweet for - give - ness for the sin ner, At the sound of Je - sus' name. Lis - tened to His ten - der plead ing, Found in Him such sweet re lief, Days of dark ▪ ness oft re - turn ing Can not hide the theme sub - lime, • -OP* 111 ir •

• • is 1' ev---410 4107-0-4d7— 10=-- • Far I wan - dered from • the , por - tal, Though the door stood o - pen wide, Won - drous love so free • ly sent me In that sum - mons, "Child, come home," Won - drous, lift - ing love e - ter - nal, Say - ing, keep - ing pow'r di - vine, p p • • • • •-

' --1 . 1 I dp______•.5 di! 1 a a . _ al . o- 4 I I• • . • ii• E----0. • Sa - viour Bade me en - ter pur - Knew not then that Christ my fied. Fal - t'ring steps could not pre vent me, Trem - bling lips said, "Lord, I come." Match - less gift of God to mor tal— Praise the Lord, His love is mine! • P• a • s---9 • 01, •— ri • 1.--1.* I idl

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• kinetoscope; the web perfeCting press; the modern bicycle; trans- erfcet: NW: ARM mission of pictures by telegraph; the cash register; a fluorescent Cereal light bulb, produced by both Edison and Tesla, giving light Coffee without heat; welding of metals by electricity; development Mint PriNting Inks and improvement in typewriters; artificial diamonds produced MANUFACTURED BY 0; from pure carbon compressed by the shrinking of heated metal; Ito and the eophone, for detecting the direction of sounds during a Cof4arin I The Fred'k H. Levey Co. ,ma . fog or storm. •"11 NEW YORK t In 1898 Prof. Henry A. Rowland, of Johns Hopkins University, Pure 4'4 invented a device for sending eight messages over the same Healthful ti'1 Western Silents Reed 4 600dman Its telegraph wire at the same time, four in each direction. In the Delicious 2,4 51 3 SACRAMENTO ST., San Francisco. same year Prof. S. W. 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A description of these en- abled Galileo, in the following year, to construct an improved The Cof-fario Co. instrument, with which, in 161o, he discovered Jupiter's satellites. three Ethics a Meek 121 Call local& St. Kepler's laws of planetary motion were announced in 1609 and San En...atone. Cal. 1618. e.m.MorrI5on,M•nnyar In 1654 Huyghens discovered Saturn's rings. 'fastest Regular train Ever RIM In 1655 Iluyghens discovered Titan, the largest of Saturn's Across the continent . satellites. Four more of Saturn's satellites were discovered by Cassius 1300K8 OF TRAVEI, tit 1.f,1.4*_•-•.••_ttikle•t•••• • • • from 1671 to 1684. Wm. Herschel discovered two in 1788; and AMONG THE NORTHERN Bond, the last, in 1848. Solid Vestibuled Train of Palace Sleeping The reflecting telescope was invented by Gregory in 1663. ICEBERGS Cars, Dining Car, and Observation Car The first charts of the moon were constructed in 167o. An account of the expe- In 1675 Romer discovered the velocity of light by observation ditions sent in search of Electric Lighted Throughout o9 .14 of Jupiter's satellites. the North Pole by the ITSs:“Y..4-Vrirt • s•• Newton's system was taught and demonstrated in 1687. United States and Eng- In 1705 Halley made the first successful prediction of the return land. It is written in nar- of a certain comet. (This comet, known as Halley's, will return rative style, and is in- most Elegant Service Ever Offered again in 191o.) tensely interesting. Its il- the traveling Public . . . . Uranus was discovered in 1781, and two of his satellites, in lustrations are of northern 1787, by Herschel; the other two, by Lassell and Struve in 1847. scenes and, incidents, and • Neptune was found by Dr. Galle, of Berlin, on September 23, are very good. Cloth, 60c; 1846, who had been told by Leverier where the planet would be paper, 25c found. In the following month its satellite was discovered by Folders and Descriptive Books on Application to Any LIFE ON THE KONGO Mr. Lassell. Santa Fe Agent A comprehensive history The art of producing pictures by the action of sunlight upon a of that portion of Africa ••••1011.1.11.0 •••••••1•1. sensitized plate (now so extensively used in connection with • drained by the Kongo and astronomical work) was discovered by Wedgewood and Davy, of its tributaries, together GEO. N. NICHOLSON JNO. J. BYRNE London, in 18os. M. Daguerre improved upon their work, and with numerous missionary in 1839 produced Daguerreotype plates. The first photograph of incidents and experiences. Passenger Traffic Manager Gen'I Passenger Agent the moon was made by Draper, of New York City, in 1840; but CHICAGO, ILL. LOS ANGELES, CAL. The author, Rev. Holman it was not till 185o and 185s that good work in this line began to Bentley, writes front per- appear. The first picture of the sun was taken in 1845; but suc- sonal observation, and NEED cessful views of the corona were not secured until 187o. The gives much interesting in- TH EY first photograph of a star was taken in 185o; of a nebula, in 1880; formation concerning this • THE CHILDREN A P APER and of a comet, in 1881. much - talked - of country. Spectrum analysis was applied to astronomy in 1861. Illustrated, cloth, 60c; In 1877 the two satellites of Mars were discovered by Hall, of There are lots of children's papers, and you can not • paper, 25c take them all, but you must have ONE, if you have Washington. children. The great Lick Observatory was completed in 1888, and the LETTERS FROM THE Before you select, look around for THE BEST. The Yerkes Observatory in 1897. HOLY LAND most INSTRUCTIVE, not the most AMUSING, is In 1892 the fifth moots of Jupiter was discovered by Prof. E. E. the best. Barnard, at the Lick Observatory. A series of illustrated Don't decide which one to take until you have seen In 1895 Prof. James E. Keeler demonstrated that the rings of letters from Mr. Henry A. Saturn consist of countless satellites revolving about the planet Harper, while in Palestine, "OUR LITTLE FRIEND ft in the same or parallel planes, those at the inner edge moving to his children at home. faster than those at the outer edge. During the same year Pro- (ILLUSTRATED) These letters describe such fessor Barnard discovered a vast nebula in the constellation It has eight pages 7x10 inches; published weekly. scenes as, "rod and staff," Scorpio. " fisherman of Galilee," TERMS: Per year, single subscription, post-paid - 50c • • In clubs of 5 to 9, to one address, each - 45c " camel and the needle's In clubs of 10 or more, to one address, each 40c eye," "the good shepherd." Sample Copies Free EVENTS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. yr and connect some actual Address, OUR LITTLE FRIEND, Box 548, Oakland, Cal. occurrence with each. FEilauaity 15, 1898, the battle-ship Maine blown up in Havana Cloth, 60c; paper, 2.5c Harbor ; 266 lives lost. March 8 House of Representatives votes $5o,00o,00o for na- lbistories . . . • • • tional defense, at the President's disposal. NATIVE LIFE IN INDIA April so President McKinley sends an ultimatum to Spain to By ALONZO TREVIER JONES withdraw her land and naval forces from Cuba before noon of The author, Rev. Henry April 23. The Spanish minister receives his passport's. Rice, spent eighteen years fmpires of the 16tble April 21 U. S. Minister Woodford dismissed by Spanish Gov- in India, and has written From the confusion of tongues to the Babylonian ernment before he can deliver the ultimatum. a most interesting de- captivity. An epitome of the best historical writ- April 23 President McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers. scription of the social and ings concerning the empires of the Bible. April 2l Spain declares a state of war exists with United States. religious characteristics of 410 pages. 21 maps, cloth, $1.50. April 25 the U. S. Congress declares war exists with Spain. the Hindus. The book is April 27 Admiral Sampson's squadron bombards Matanzas, illustrated with twelve na- Cuba. tive drawings. E he great May I Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila Cloth, 60c; paper, 25c I lit. harbor. Spanish loss about boo killed. Americans, 6. PRESS PUBLISHING CO., empires of May 23 first regiment of volunteers sail from San Francisco for PACIFIC GREAT EMPIRES Oakland, Cal. OF PROPHECY Propilecp the Philippines. May 25 President McKinley calls for 75,000 more volunteers. T From Babylon to the May 29 Commodore Schley shuts the Spanish fleet under AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY fall of Rome. A com- Cervera in Santiago harbor. Among the various and numerous manufacturing industries June 3 Lieut. R. P. Hobson and a volunteer crew of seven men on the Pacific Coast, there is a very important one of which very parison of the prophecies little is heard by the average citizen. This is the manufacture of the Bible concerning run the collier Merrimac into the mouth or channel of Santiago of printing and lithographic inks, upon which much depends. Babylon, 1VIedo - Persia, harbor and sink it. All captured. Prior to four years ago, almost every pound of printing ink June 21 landing of American troops in Cuba near Santiago. used on the Pacific Coast was manufactured in the Eastern Grecia, and Rome, with States and shipped here at great expense, and in such limited the profane history of June 24 first battle, near Sevilla, Cuba. Sixteen Americans quantities and variety that it was exceedingly difficult for the these countries. killed. local printers to obtain the effects that are readily obtained by d July 3 the squadrons of Sampson and Schley sink Cervera's their Eastern competitors. To-day we have a factory operat- 696 pages, 22 maps, ing in San Francisco that is the fifth largest in the United Cloth, $2.00. fleet as it attempts to leave Santiago. American loss, I killed States and equal in size to all factories combined west of Cin- and 2 wounded. Great loss of life to Spain. cinnati. They are to-day manufacturing fully seventy-five per July 17 the city of Santiago formally surrenders to American cent. of all the printing ink used on the Pacific Coast, and the two 1Republia furnishing the markets of Australia, Hawaii, Central and South General Shafter. America, and Mexico, as well as China and Japan, with a large A comparative history of Rome and the United July 27 to August 12 American victories in Porto Rico. proportion of all the inks used in tile above-named countries. States. August 12 a protocol, suspending hostilities between the coun- It is quite an interesting sight to witness the grinding of these various colors, and the CALIFORNIA INK COMPANY, of 896 octavo pages, 67 full-page' illustrations, cloth, tries, signed at Washington. No. 413-415 Commercial St., San Francisco, extend a cordial marbled edges, $2.50. August 13 American forces under Admiral Dewey and General invitation to any one to visit their works and inspect their Merritt capture Manila. American loss, so men; navy, no loss. plant, as they have no secrets and do not make any effort to PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. mystify the public regardingthe manufacture of printing ink, as 18 West 5th St. November 28. To date Spain has relinquished Ci:ha and had formerly been done by all manufacturers in their effort to 39 Bond St.:et OAKLAND, CAL. New York City Kansas City, Mo. ceded Porto Rico, Guam, and for $20,000,000 the Philippines. extort fabulous prices for an article that does not warrant it,

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censure for any; each did the best he could, we are The striking parallels between the republics of bound to believe, as we are sure we desired to do. Rome and the United States. Nearly 90o royal • •-• octavo pages, illustrated. Price, cloth, $2.50 and Our Typography.—We designed to print the greater $3.00; half morocco, $4.00; full morocco; $4.75; a number of the important articles in this issue in cheaper edition, $1.85. • larger type—to-point instead of 8-point. But we "AMERICAN STATE PAPERS." By W. A. Blakely, OAKLAND, CAL., JANUARY 5, 1899. could not do this without omitting more articles or Esq. A rare collection of valuable documents and materially abbreviating some of them, which we did facts bearing on religious legislation and union of Entered at the Post-office in Oakland, Cal., as Second-class Matter. not feel justified in doing except when absolutely Church and State from the foundation of this gov- ernment to 1891. It prints the Sunday laws of the This office sends out no papers without pay in ad- demanded. vance. If any person receives papers which he has not States to that date. A valuable book. Price, $1.25. ordered, he will not be called upon to pay for them. The illustrations in this issue were with few minor " THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE." By A. T. exceptions made expressly for this paper. The half- Jones. A marvel of information as to the princi- tone color design for the cover was furnished by our ples on which this government was based and its CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. New York artists. The photographs from which departure frOm them. Price, cloth, $1.00; pam- Editorial. Retrospect and Prospect—the Past, Our Facilities, The were reproduced the pictures on pages 12 and 13 phlet, 40 cents. Future 26 were secured in London, England, the only place -The American Sentinel, a weekly paper devoted Bossism in Church and State 27 where they were obtainable. They well represent the to the defense of liberty of conscience for all, and Criminality as a Business, T . 27 men of influence in Europe for the quarter century. uncompromisingly opposed to anything tending General Articles. • toward a union of Church and State either in The Worth of Redemption, MRS. E. G. WHITE Articles Omitted.—We regret exceedingly that we name or principle. Send for asample copy. Pub- Witnesses in Stone, REV. A. H. SAYCF., LL 0 2

Faith.. 'What Is It? s. N. HASKELL were compelled to omit important articles which lished at 39 Bond Street, New York City. Price, 3 Tlie Perfect Salvation, DR. E. J. WAGGONER 4 we had solicited for this issue, and which had been $1.0o a year. Parallel bet. Physical and Spiritual Disease, D. PAULSON, M.D. 5 promised our readers ; but lack of space and exi- The Sabbath. Christianity a Life 5 " HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY OF The Demand for a Definite Message, 3. o. cosuss 6 gency of make-up demanded it. One of these is The Last RefOrmation a,s Predicted by Prophet, Apostle, a brief but striking review of the progress of the THE WEEK." By John Nevins Andrews. The result and Reformer, F. M. WILCOX 6 people who publish this paper, by Elder G. A. of ten years' hard work. It covers the history of the Advancement in Astronomy, CHAS. BURCKHALTER, F.R.A.S. 8 Irwin, president of the General Conference of two days from the dawn of history to the present Sabbath Reform—True and False, G. E. FIFIELD 9 time. Every passage of Scripture bearing on the Development of the Money Power, P. T. MAGAN 20 Seventh-day Adventists. Another, an article on edu- The Great War Burden 11 cation, by Prof. W. W. Prescott. A third, a page con- subject is examined. The complete " testimony of Significant Events in European History, H. P. HOLSER . 12 taining photoengravings of the managing editors of the fathers" for the first three centuries of the Union of Church and State, A. T. JONES x4 the SIGNS to the present, and a reduced facsimile of Christian era concerning both days is given. Co- An Ominous Contrast, w. N. GLENN 14 The Money Power in the Light of the Prophetic Word . 25 the first page of the first paper. A poem by Uriah pious indexes. A mine of information. 548 pages; The Age of Inventions, URIAH SMITH 16 Smith is omitted, and several editorials. We omitted price, $2.50. Pamphlet, three parts, 75 cents. Military and Naval Development, A. o. TAIT 28 those which pertained more to the hurnan side of the Send for a catalog to Pacific Press Publishing Development of False Religions and Isms, L. A. PHIPPENY 18 work. However, we, expect to publish four other Company, Oakland, Cal. The above may also be Medical Progress within the Last Twenty-five Years, obtained from the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, J. H. KELLOGG, M.D. 23, 28 special issues in the year to come, and these special Mich.; Pacific Press, 18 West Fifth Street, Kansas Poetry. articles and illustrations will then appear—perhaps The Marriage of the Skies, MRS. L. D. A. sruTTLE in our " Midsummer number." City, Mo., or 39 Bond Street, New York City. The Vision, CLYDE SCOTT CHASE 6 The Ransomed of the Lord, FRANCES EUGENIA BOLTON . 25 In this age wherein there are so many snares to Christ Is Coming, CHARX.ECS MILES SNOW 25 entrap the feet of young people, it is important that IMPORTANT ITEMS IN ARCILEOLOGY. Missionary: THE Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799, at Rosetta City, An Appeal for Missions—China, Its Needs—Needy India— they should be supplied with the best of reading matter. For what our youth read, as much as any near the mouth of the Nile. It contained three inscriptions of a Mexico—Open Japan—The Dark Continent—Western decree appointing a yearly festival in honor of the king's statue, South America—The West India Field—Islands of the other one thing, is either elevating or degrading the first in hieroglyphics, the writing of the priests; the secoild, Pacific—Europe • 20-22 them. Among all the young people's papers with in Demotic, the writing of the people; and the third in Greek. Medical Mission* In the Last Twenty-five Years, MRS. E. H. A comparison of the different elements in the proper names men- WHITNEY 22 which we are acquainted. there is none that is equal to the Youth's Instructor, published at Battle Creek, tioned in each of the three inscriptions gave a clue to the Egyp- Our Story. tian alphabets,—the key which rendered possible the deciphering The Weight of a Soul, MRS. S. M. I. HENRY Mich. Its columns are always clean, interesting, of inscriptions on Egyptian tombs and monuments. These Music. and instructive, The publishers will be glad to send alphabets were not completed until 2822. Wondrous Love (words and music), U. H. WINSLOW . 29 sample copies on application. In 2868 there was discovered in the land of Moab what is Specialties. known as the Moabite stone, containing a description by Mesha, king of Moab, of his wars against Israel. An account of a battle Important Items in Astronomical Progress . 8, 31 DO you WISH TO READ FURTHER ? Foreign Historical Events of Note 13, 3o between Mesha, king of Moab, and Israel is given in 2 Kings Noted Inventions for Quarter Century 27, 3o ARE you interested in the Biblical articles found 3 4-27.

Principal Fvents in Spanish-American War 31 in this paper ? Do you wish to read further con- The translations of a number of tablets and monuments by the Important Items in Archaeology 32 cerning the teachings of the Word of God on Rev. A. H. Sayce, bearing on the history of the Hittite nation, prove beyond question the power and extent of this great nation Salvation in Christ, the Coming of the Lord, the so often referred to in the sacred narrative. The International S. S. Lessons will be published Fulfilment of Prophecy, Union of Church and State, The mummy and coffin of Rameses II (B.c. I330), the king of as usual in future issues. or the Sabbath Question ? These are all vitally im- Egypt, and the Pharaoh who oppressed the Jews, was found near portant subjects, and we could not feel justified in Thebes in 2872. Our regular issues contain 16 pages. See pro- closing the paper without calling attention to at least The Tel el-Atnarna tablets, giving undeniable proof of the ex- a few publications upon these great and- important tension of literary culture anong the ancients, were discovered spectus on third page of cover. in 1887. See article by Dr. Sayce, page 4. • • themes. Salvation in Christ. The Black Obelisk, which was engraved about 86o-825 11.c., Students in astronomy will be pleased to get ,the was discovered in 1845 on the site of ancient Nimrnd, nineteen " STEPS TO CHRIST." This little work presents miles south of Nineveh. It describes the payment of tribute by article on page 8, by Professor Burckhalter. It is an in the most beautiful Simplicity the way of salvation. Jehu, who was anointed king of Israel in 884 a.c., to Shal- excellent review of what twenty-five years have done It has passed through numerous editions, and is maneser, king of Assyria, also the defeat of "Ahab of Israel " in in one of the grandest of sciences. printed• in Danish, Swedish, German, Holland, conjunction with certain tribes of Syria. The cylinder of Sargon, king of Assyria (722-705 B.c.) was French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Bound in neat discovered in the library of Assur-bani-pal at Kuyundjik (Nin- It is impossible to note all the articles of interest cloth ; price, 5o cents. eveh) in 1873, and describes the siege and capture of Ashdod, in in this issue. There is something for all, and all 'are The Coming of the Lord. the land of the Philistines, when Hezekiah was king of Judah. important. God always speaks twice at least,—once " MATTHEW 24, OR THE SECOND COMING OF A confirmation of the account is found in Isa. 20 : 1. in His Word, once to confirm that Word in earthly CHRIST" (No. 58 Bible Students' Library). Price, The six-sided cylinder of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, written B.C. 705-681, was discovered in 1873 in the library of Assur•bani- witnesses. In this issue of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES to cents. " Manner of Christ's Coming". (No. 124 both voices may be heard abundantly, the Bible and pal, at Nineveh, and gives an account of the invasion of Palestine Bible Students' Library). See cover, page 2. and the siege of Jerusalem. A confirmatory account is found ill its fulfilment. • • Fulfilment of Prophecy. 2 Kings, chapters 28 and 19. Sennacherib does not record the loss of 285,000 of his men, but does mention the fact that a mis- "THE GREAT EMPIRES OF PROPHECY." For the We are glad to be able to present before our read- fortune visited his camp. The Egyptians had a tradition that -a ers the striking article from Dr. A. H. Sayce (page 4), student, the very best Work published to date. For field mice entered the camp of the Assyrians and destroyed their written especially and only for this number. It pre- description, see page 31. war implements. sents striking results from Dr. Sayce's own work at " LOOKING UNTO JESUS." By Elder Uriah Smith. The cylinder of Esar-haddon, found in the same library as An unfolding of the plan of salvation in its types, those mentioned above, and dating from 682-668 B.C., describes Tel el-Amarna, and shows how God in His provi- the campaigns of this king, and mentions Manasseh, king of dence is confirming His Word. See also the last shadows, and reality, and an exposition of the Judah, as his vassal. In 2 Chron. 33:11 is found the confirma- article on this page. marvelous prophecy found in the eighth and ninth tion of the inscription. chapters of Daniel. Cloth, thirty-three chapters, An Assyrian account of the creation was also found in the Some of our articles which we print were late in illustrated. Price, $r.00. remarkable library at Nineveh. arriving, especially so of Dr. Kellogg's, and from " THE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY " (pamphlet), The same library contained an Assyrian account of the Deluge, illustrated. By M. H. Brown. Price, to cents. which was translated by George Smith. It has a remarkable some of the great mission fields we did not hear at similarity to the Biblical account of that event, and contains all. Could we have had all our articles in time, it " The Great Threefold Message " (No. 47 Apples of internal evidence of the fact that the Bible account is the origi- would have materially aided in the arrangement, Gold Library). Price, I cent. nal, as the Assyrian account speaks of the ark as a great ship, Union of Church and State. which was launched. and put in charge of a pilot. The builders which, we think, could under other circumstances oi the ::rk knew n'othing about ships, and the original word for have been bettered. But we have no words of " Two REPUBLICS." By Alonzo Trevier Jones. "ark " in the Piblical narrative meansa great box, or chest.

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