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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 35.

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Signs of the Times

By Editor

Home Bible Study Series

25-Special Numbers-25
Beginning Oct. 6, 1909
Covering Every Phase of the Gospel Message
The Sermon on the Mount
The Sermon on the Mount
On the Way to Emmaus
On the Way to Emmaus
As in Egypt of old, there is “a great cry” going up from the world. It is a cry of fear, of despair, of soul-misery, of dying men, of suffering women, of starving children, of agonized, almost hopeless, workers for souls.
These are times of peace, yet nations are staggering to their death under war expenditures and debts.
These are times of much religious pretension and profession, yet vice and crime are rampant.
These are times when millions are pleasure-mad over multiplying tragedies. Many a hilarious laugh hides a sad and hopeless heart.
Rogues, to whom justice is never meted, fatten in luxury while God’s poor starve in squalor. Calamity follows calamity in the lands of earth. In religion the ancient landmarks are removed or questioned. Earnest yet doubting souls question, Does God live and reign? Is the Bible the word of God? Does the Bible belong alone to a dead past, or is it a living word to-day?
Is there no response from God to the great cry of the needy, unsatisfied world, longing for rest, for life, yet seeking it ever in channels that are as dry as the hills of Gilboa?
Yes, God lives and reigns. His mighty hand is still upon the levers of the world. He will, as through all the ages, make the wrath of man to praise Him; the remainder He still restrains.
His word is a living word, filled with power to the believer. He has a message of hope for the world’s lost souls in this time. He has clear light for those in the darkness of doubt. He has great soul-strengthening help for all the world’s helplessness. He has a great, “everlasting Gospel” and “eternal good tidings” for the world now, for its perplexities, its problems, its passion-blind madness; for its sickness, its sorrow, its sin-enthralled souls; for its darkness, its despair, its death.
That message does not minimize the ill; it exalts the remedy. It does not spare in probe or statement the diagnosis of the world’s wound, but it brings the healing balm. The great Surgeon and Physician never loses a case entrusted to Him. He does not condone the sin, but His nail-pierced hand removes the burden, breaks the chain, and sends the soul away clean and free.
This message the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will give in clear epitome and forceful detail as described below. We invite our readers to study with us once more.

God’s Message for All Time, and for This Our Time

For more than a third of a century, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, set for this very purpose, has been giving these truths to the world. From time to time it has made a specialty of combining, correlating, connecting these truths into one great, symmetrical, doctrinal whole.
This is what the editors propose to do again in a series of

Bible Studies for the Home Circle

Read them; circulate them. Let your neighbors, your friends, hear for once or once more God’s great, clear message of truth and salvation. Thus doing, you will be a co-worker with Christ in saving others.

Brief Outline of Subjects to Be Considered

The following subjects will be treated, beginning with the issue of Oct. 6, 1909, and continuing for six months.

I. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

1. The Scriptures — Their Importance Now.
2. Prophetic, Doctrinal, Practical — Their Inspiration.
3. Centered in Christ, the Incarnate Word.

II. PROPHECIES IN DANIEL.

1. Daniel 2 and 3 — What Prophecy Says Concerning the Kingdoms of Man and of God.
2. Daniel 7 — Antagonistic Powers to the Kingdom of God.
3. Daniel 8 — The Great Controversy Between Good and Evil.
4. The Kingdom Which Abides Forever.

III. PRESENT-DAY CONDITIONS MINUTELY FORETOLD; THE BIBLE AN UP-TO-DATE BOOK.

1. Conditions in the Ecclesiastical or Religious World, a Subject of Prophecy.
2. Some Things Foretold in the Political World.
3. Conditions in the Social World Divinely Predicted.
4. What Is Told in the Bible Regarding Physical Calamities.

IV. THE “BLESSED HOPE” OF THE AGES.

1. What Is Involved in Christ’s Coming.
2. The Counterfeits of the Deceiver and His Efforts to Hide Its Importance.
3. The Manner of Christ’s Coming.

V. MAN, THE MASTERPIECE OF GOD.

1. Man as Created — A Candidate for Immortality, His Home and Opportunity.
2. Man’s Fall, and What It Involved.
3. A Saviour from Sin.

VI. MAN IN DEATH.

1. The Consequence of Sin in Man.
2. Man’s Condition in Death. Is He Conscious?
3. The Resurrection of Man, When Does It Take Place?

VII. SIN: ITS FRUIT; ITS FUTURE.

1. Is Man Mortal or Immortal?
2. What Are “the Wages of Sin”?
3. The Ultimate of Sin and Death.

VIII. THE EARTH MAN’S HOME.

1. For What Was the Earth Prepared?
2. The Earth Under the Curse.
3. What the Earth’s Future Will Be.

IX. MODERN SPIRITISM.

1. Is Modern Spiritism New?
2. Are Its Claims True? Can the Dead Talk with Us?
3. What Should Be Our Attitude Toward Spiritism?
4. Modern Spiritism Foretold in the Bible.

X. THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS.

1. Angels — What They Are Not and What They Are.
2. Messengers of God to the Righteous.
3. Cooperating with Man.