p. 16 | Revival That Revives by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 15.

Revival That Revives

By Editor

THE readers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES should not overlook the fact that in our general department an article appears each week from the pen of Pastor J. O. Corliss that will be helpful to all who study the Sabbath-school lessons. And in our editorial department there is an article from week to week written by “G.” that will help those who study the Sunday-school lessons.

Revival That Revives.

The newspapers of the country are filled with predictions made by clergymen to the effect that there is to be a great revival of religion at the beginning of the twentieth century. An organized effort is to be made on this line. An excellent plan, but we also need a revival that will apply the principles of religion to every-day life. The Chinese heathen can not obtain a very high idea of religion when he sees that that religion does not operate upon our army and does not protect the heathen from the looting process. We also need at home a revival that will prevent highway robbery by monopolies and wars for the purchase of trade.

What a little thing thwarts the mightiest efforts of men! The great flour trust has been closing mills in Wisconsin, aiming greatly to enrich the interested ones by the staples of life; but now even the trust is menaced. The dreaded Mediterranean moth is said to have established itself in the flour mills of Wisconsin, being discovered first in a mill at Superior. It multiplies at a prodigious rate, seeming to feed on flour dust. Some of the chutes were literally choked with them. They are carried from mill to mill by interchange of sacks and bags. It is a fitting partner to the gypsy moth. Man may propose great things, but providence by a little insect ruins all his projects.

RUMORS of war have been the burden of the press for several days. England and Russia have been standing, as it were, with weapons in their hands. Upon the recommendation of the German field marshall, both the Russian and English troops have withdrawn from the disputed territory near Tientsin; but the Russians returned and planted their flags over the disputed railway siding. Russia has shown that she did not intend to let Manchuria slip out of her grasp, and as a consequence Japan has assumed a menacing attitude, some of her representatives declaring that she must soon fight Russia. China has again appealed to the powers for assistance in resisting Russia’s demands; but so far none have given assurances of assistance. Japan has also sounded the other governments to see what moral support she could depend upon in the event of a conflict with Russia. She seems to have received little encouragement of support; and still the Japanese, as a nation, are clamoring for war. Japan has protested against Russia’s policy in Manchuria, and the United States is said to have protested against Russia’s policy in Korea; but America’s desire for trade relations with Eastern Russia will prevent her doing anything that Russia would regard as unfriendly. Thus is the skein of the nations becoming a hopeless tangle; the hatred of the nations is preparing them for that great battle which will end the affairs of this troubled earth.