Mammon and Mars | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1901

Mammon and Mars.

WEALTH and War, Gold and Greed, or the Worship of Mammon and Mars, will be the general topic of the special issue of the Signs of the Times soon to appear. The date will be July 24, but it will be ready about July 15.

There will be sixteen pages filled with pithy articles and good illustrations, all telling a plain story of the present condition of the world and the meaning of the heaping together of treasure by corporations and individuals, and the unwonted preparations for war by all nations. These things are ominous signs that we are in the last days. All who think on these themes, but do not know the scriptures concerning them, are filled with forebodings of what the future will reveal.

The cover will be illustrated with a splendid drawing, in the center of which will be found a masterpiece of poetry, of which the following is one stanza:—

“Majestic, sublime, ’round the great wheel of Time, The earth through the ages roll on; From shadow to light, from the star-sprinkled night To the gold and the roses of dawn; But the hordes of mankind to the spectacle blind, With faces bowed down to the dust, Creep on to their graves as the manacled slaves Of selfishness, hatred, and lust. They turn from the dream of the glories that gleam In the deific light of the stars, And cease to aspire as they kneel in the mire At the altars of Mammon and Mars.”

The whole picture draws out vividly the sentiments of the poetry, and is regarded as the best illustration for Signs cover yet produced. It is striking, interesting, and instructive.

The price of the paper is five cents for a single copy; two dollars a hundred. Address Signs of the Times, Oakland, Cal.