Got Past That Long Ago
By Editor
"Got Past That Long Ago."—A story is told under various forms, of which this is one of its simplest versions, of a man and boy who were crossing a large lake in a sailboat. The boy, as he grew weary, fell asleep, the man steering the boat on the way. After several hours the father grew sleepy, and, waking the boy, he said to him, "Boy, you steer while I take a little nap." Then pointing to the north star, he called the boy's attention to it, and told him to "steer by that star." "All right," answered the boy; but after a short time of watching he fell asleep, and the boat swung around with the loosened rudder. The flapping of the sail roused the man. "Here, boy," he shouted, "what are you doing? Didn't I tell you to steer by that star?" "O, yes," hazily replied the boy, "but we got past that long ago." The incident in anecdote is well illustrated by our cartoon on our first page. Read the article on page 7, "Following the Wrong Lead." The church of Jesus Christ seems to have lost her bearing of the simple north-star Gospel doctrine, Gospel light, Gospel power, and is following a nearer, brighter light, which will soon die out and leave the church adrift on a dark, stormy sea, or a wreck on the shoals of state-and-church absolutism. God's light still constant shines. "Man turns from God, not God from man." Our new Special, or, rather, our special number on New York conditions, next week. Many of them will be used in New York City. The conference there has subscribed for a large number. We have already received some subscriptions from others for use in the great metropolis of the country. Yet once more we ask, Who desires to pay for from five to one hundred or 1,000 copies to be used in that great city by the Greater New York Conference, the most populous in the United States, and the hardest to work? They will cost at the rate of $2.00 a hundred. Send money direct to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, Cal. Designate it "For New York Specials." Send by Draft, Check, Post-office, or Express Money-order, or by Registered Letter. All the others are preferable to the latter. Small sums may be sent in stamps, but wrap them so they will not stick. Here is a splendid opportunity to deny ourselves something we do not need and invest it in that which will save souls. But act promptly.