During the Year 1905 by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 7, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 48.

During the Year 1905

By Editor

Publishers' Note You have just finished reading our "Gospel Series" of the SIGNS. The public interest in these papers was such that an edition of 400,000 copies was printed and sold. We thank you for your co-operation in making such a result possible. During the past six years we have issued special numbers as follows:

In 1898 The Quarter-Centennial Number . . . 425,000 copies. July, 1899, Independence Number . . . 85,000 copies. 1900, The World's Harvest Number . . . 258,000 copies. 1901, The World's Outlook Number . . . 247,000 copies. 1901, The War and Wealth Number . . . 100,000 copies. 1902, The Coronation Number . . . 85,000 copies. 1903, The Capital and Labor Number . . . 600,000 copies. 1904, The Gospel Series . . . 400,000 copies.

During the Year 1905

The Signs of the Times

You may look for a feast of good things in

Its fifty-two issues, in an entirely new and attractive dress, will be brimful of up-to-date articles written by its editors and talented contributors located in all parts of this great, teeming, throbbing world.

Our foreign correspondents will tell you of notable signs of our times as seen from Paris, France; London, England; Hamburg, Germany; Rome, Italy; Russia, Japan, India, Turkey, Egypt, Scandinavia, Canada. Australia, South Africa, The Fiji Islands, etc. Our home correspondents will discuss the signs apparent to observers in America.

Evolution and Geology

Their Bearings on Vital Religions. By Geo. McCready Price, Author of "Outlines of Modern Science and Modern Christianity."

Church and State

Religious Legislation in Europe. Creed Power and State Aid. What Is Religious Liberty? Religious Legislation in Australia. Is the United States a Christian Nation? Religious Legislation in Canada. The Principles of National Reformism. Religious Legislation in England. The Romeward Trend of Protestantism. The Oxford Movement in England—Its Meaning. Religious Legislation in the United States. Written by the following contributors: Alonzo T. Jones, Author of "Rights of the People," "The Two Republics," "Ecclesiastical Empires," "Christian Patriotism," "The National Sunday Law." Prof. W. A. Colcord, Washington, D. C. Pastor Chas. T. Everson, Rome, Italy. Prof. M. Ellsworth Olsen, London, England. Leon A. Smith, Washington, D. C., assistant editor Review and Herald. Pastor E. W. Farnsworth, of England. Pastor Geo. A. Irwin, Melbourne, Australia, President Australian Union Conference, S. D. A. Pastor Geo. B. Thompson, Washington, D. C. Pastor L. R. Conradi, President European Union Conference, S. D. A., Hamburg, Germany. Guy C. Dail, Hamburg, Germany. L. A. Phippeny. Pastor W. H. Thurston, President Canadian Union Conference, S. D. A., Montreal, Canada. A. J. Saxby Bourdeau, and other competent observers of present-day occurrences.

Thrilling, Present-Day Prophecies

Will be made plain and easy to understand. Stirring, scholarly articles will deal with the following themes: The Prophecies of Daniel. The Prophecies of Revelation. The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy. The Great Nations in Prophecy. The United States in Prophecy. By the Editor-in-chief, Milton C. Wilcox; Alonzo T. Jones, Author of "Empires of the Bible," "The Great Empires of Prophecy," etc.; also other competent writers.

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