New Article Series and a Sad Calamity
By Editor
In this issue closes that excellent series of articles on the coming of the Lord by Mr. L. A. Phippeny. We hardly dare hope they have had the reading they deserve. That would have carried them beyond our large circle of readers. The Revelation.—Shortly, perhaps in our next issue, will begin a number of expository, practical, and spiritual articles on the most wonderful book of the Bible, the epitome of all the others, “The Revelation of Jesus Christ.” These will continue indefinitely. Of themselves we believe they will be worth the subscription price. Next week we begin a new series of articles (illustrated) on the Prophecy of Zechariah, by Mr. Roderick S. Owen. The title of the first article is, “God’s Purpose as Revealed in the Descendants of Jacob.” The book of Zechariah is to many a book of mystery, but we are sure that this series will give much light. These will continue a little more than three months; and forty cents will furnish you the Signs for that time. And this series is but one item of many. A Sad Calamity.—A press despatch brings the sad news that five young people—one man and four women—connected with the Battle Creek Sanitarium, four nurses and one stenographer, were drowned in Goguac Lake the night of August 26. They were coming to shore after a ride around the lake just as the steamer Welcome with an excursion party was leaving her dock. The steamer struck the small boat amidships, and all the occupants were thrown into the water. Only one of the party of six, a young woman, was rescued. This is much sadder news than that of the sanitarium fire of a few months ago. Human lives are more than brick, mortar, and lumber, however deftly combined and usefully fashioned. Money losses man can replace, but to call the dead to life he can not. From the sanitarium ashes will rise a better building; but these young lives, so far as this world is concerned, are snuffed out as a candle forever. Our sympathy is extended to the friends and relatives of those who sleep, and to our sister institution, for this heavy blow which has fallen upon her family. May we all learn the lesson which, even by such sad events, the loving Father would teach us.