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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 40.

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Bubonic Plague

Bubonic Plague.—The black or bubonic plague has appeared in the Russian province of Astrakhan in a new and alarming form.
The bubonic plague has spread over into Africa. An official despatch states that forty-two cases have resulted in death at Magude, near Lorenzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay. This place is very near the borders of the Transvaal.
The bubonic plague has also spread to Paraguay. It seems to be rapidly making the tour of the world. Upon the authority of the Word of God, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has been telling for years that our whole world would soon be smitten by plague, and storm, and famine, and disasters in general. We can see how rapidly they are coming, and they all show that the end of all things is very near. If you are prepared to meet your God, you are rejoicing day by day at the thought of being delivered from every form of the curse that sin has brought into our world.
THE burghers of the Orange Free State have voted to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Transvaal Republic in case of war with Great Britain.
THE Boers have their artillery forces already on the borders of their country ready to meet the invading British as soon as they arrive. It seems now that the war in the Transvaal is inevitable.
THE Transvaal Republic has refused to yield to the demands of the British, and it is now considered that a war is inevitable. There is great excitement over the matter in England, and many men are enlisting in the army. The Britons seem to realize that they have a stubborn fight on their hands, and are preparing to send from 50,000 to 70,000 men to the field. These are days of war and not of peace; and the general battle of the “great day of God” can not be very far away. We can see that the material for it is being rapidly prepared. Let us not be found idly dreaming of peace when the most angry furies of war are about to hurl the world to destruction. When war breaks out nowadays no one can tell where it will end.
A young preacher in Indiana, it is said, is seeking to solve the problem of how to get the masses to attend his church. When the Saviour was here upon earth great crowds followed Him everywhere He went. He was not under the necessity of seeking for an audience. And He left with His followers the secret of it all: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” If our preaching is an exhibition of self, it is not apt to draw the masses. But He who lifts up the Son of God, will find that there is a drawing power in Him. O, that we might always hide behind Jesus and let Him draw the masses to Himself!
THE papers still report threatened revolutions in France. The monarchist party is very active in its efforts to overthrow the republic and establish a king. It is perfectly evident that there is a great deal of combustible material in France, but just what the outcome will be can not be determined. But we can see this one thing clearly: France is fully ready to act her part in that great time of rioting and bloodshed that will make these last days the greatest time of trouble the world has ever seen.
THE city prosecutor of Chicago, in welcoming the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, said, “Over 82,000 arrests were made in Chicago last year, and 75 per cent. of them were due to drink.” Such facts as these should serve to break the delusive spell that holds men under the enchantment that the world is about to be converted. The world is soon to be destroyed because of its wickedness, and every one will have the privilege of knowing the exact truth.
THE Aurora Branch of the Theosophical Society in America (located in this city) has received notice from Katherine A. Tingley, president of the Universal Brotherhood, that all Theosophists who have drifted away from the central body, of which she is the head, will come to a tragic end. In proof of the correctness of her prophecy she cites a number of deaths and calamities that have befallen those who would not bend to her will.
GERMANY has started a campaign against the Standard Oil Company. Reports of the various branches of the Standard Company that are operating in Germany, show that a profit of upwards of sixty per cent. is being made. The Germans are unwilling that this shall continue, and so are making marked discriminations in the way of freight rates, etc., in favor of the Russian oil.
THE proposed building of electric railways in Yokohama, Japan, is causing much dissatisfaction. Three hundred representatives of the man-strength carriage assembled at the doors of the Yokohama City Council when the subject was under consideration, and as the counselors left the building they were set upon furiously, and several of them barely escaped death.
A LEATHER trust has completed its organization, and its capital stock is $35,000,000. A bicycle trust has been formed, with a capital of $40,000,000. And the Japanese Government thinks it has a corner on the camphor product, and it is going to hold the output from the island of Formosa for six months or so, until a suitably high price is reached.
THE embezzling of public funds is not confined to this country by any means. A recent despatch says that it is beginning to leak out that funds appropriated to build the Siberian Railway have been taken by private individuals in such large sums that the scandal is about equal to that of the Panama Canal.
A WINDOW-GLASS trust has been finally effected. It takes in fifty of the largest concerns in the country, and is capitalized at $17,000,000.
It is estimated that 100,000 Americans have visited Europe this year.
CHARLES A. PILLSBURY, the great flour king, died at his home in Minneapolis September 17.
TEN thousand carpenters have struck in New York City. They want more pay and a Saturday half holiday.
ON September 7 there was $324,717,661 in gold coin and bullion in the United States Treasury. This is the largest amount that was ever in the treasury at one time.
HEAVY rains in the region of the Danube are causing the river to overflow its banks, and much damage and loss of life are the result, in both Germany and Austria.
SEPTEMBER 5 was the first day of the Jewish new year, and was quite generally observed as a holiday by the Jews on this coast. They claim that it is the first day of the year 5,660.
THE pope is alarmed at the condition of things in France, and has asked the leader of the French Jesuits to use his influence to have his followers moderate their attitude toward Dreyfus.
THERE were twenty-three new cases of yellow fever at Key West on September 10, and thirty on September 8, and the disease is still making headway in various places along the coast of several of the Southern States.
AT the big G. A. R. parade in Philadelphia, on September 5, there were more than 1,000 prostrations from heat. The prostrations were partly in the ranks of the parading soldiers and partly among those who were looking on.
A RECENT meeting of the Presbyterian Union of San Francisco had under consideration the subject of Christian Science. Numerous ministers spoke upon the subject, and all regard it as one of the most serious delusions of the age.
M. HENRI MONOD, Director of Public Assistance in France, says that there are about 130,000 children in that country that are dependent on the charities of the State. From whatever standpoint the view is taken, the outlook for France is not very promising.
TO CUT through the ice of her northern ports, Russia has had a great ice-breaking ship prepared. In her trial in the polar regions she cut through fourteen feet of ice, traveling at the rate of half a mile an hour. This is certainly a most wonderful achievement.
AN English paper reports that a disease hitherto unknown in the district, has attacked the wheat crop in Alford, the granary of Hungary, as it is called. The ears and stalks turn white and then wither. It is supposed that the abnormally mild winter has caused the disease to appear.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, head of the Vanderbilt family, and one among the wealthiest men in the world, died suddenly, September 13, of cerebral hemorrhage. He was only fifty-six years of age, and up to within a few moments of his death, he was apparently in his usual health.
THE German mission at Shantung, China, is reported to have been destroyed by the Chinese. The telegrams to the German Government from that place are held back by the Chinamen, and railroad communication, under a strong military escort, is the only thing that is possible.
AT the request of the New York World, Doctor Sarah A. F. Battey has made quite an extensive study of the infantile paralysis that has been making such inroads on the babies in Poughkeepsie. She reports that the disease is epidemic with every child in Poughkeepsie that is liable to its attack. No treatment has been discovered as yet that seems to give any relief to the dreadful malady. Dr. Battey reports that in most cases the paralysis leaves the children permanently deformed, usually with club-feet, shriveled limbs, or the like. None of the doctors who have dealt with the malady have discovered any fact that enables them to even guess at the cause of it. It is certainly a very lamentable condition of things. But all should know that Satan is doing his most malignant work in these last days, and such things, yes, and very much worse things, will be more and more common from now on till the end of time.