Our Next Issue by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 10, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 28.

Our Next Issue.

By Editor

THE next paper will be the concluding number on the subject of Religious Liberty. It is often stated that history is continually repeating itself. But whatever we may think about the truth of this statement, we know from the prophecies that are to be fulfilled in these last days that the great principles of religious liberty that have been the bulwark of this nation and a blessing in all the world during the past century, are to be strongly attacked. The attack may not always be open, but it may come in the more insidious ways of indifference, and when the indifference is once established, then it is easy with the public in such a frame of mind to make the open attack. Hence the principles of true freedom should be kept alive in every Christian or patriotic heart. The themes for next week will be:

Inalienable Rights.

The Injustice of Sunday Laws. Sunday Laws Unchristian. Our Country—Its Dangers. The Powers That Be and Our Duty to Them.

The three issues of our paper on the subject of "Religious Liberty" are a valuable and quite comprehensive presentation of the principles of freedom. While any one of these three issues is complete in itself and may be studied to profit, yet a much broader and better view may be obtained by the study of the whole set.

In another column will be found an advertisement of the Wellington typewriter. Having used them in our office for nearly a year, for various sorts of work in connection with "standard," high-priced machines, we freely say that they have done splendid work with less expense. They have not been out of commission at all, and are in every respect what they are advertised to be. The advertisers are thoroly reliable.

Every Sabbath-school teacher ought to take and study the Sabbath-School Worker. It is especially helpful in suggestions for teaching the youth and children. It is edited by competent Sabbath-school workers, and it has many experienced and skilled contributors. Monthly, single copy, 35 cents a year; two or more copies to one address, 25 cents a year. Address the Sabbath-School Worker, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

Trial by Technicality.

Any one who follows closely the procedure in the courts of this time will not fail to note that technicalities and mere quibbling of words take up much of the time. Questions of right and equity are not considered nearly so much as questions of precedent. It is not an effort on the part of jurists and lawyers to seek to secure justice, but it is rather a game between the lawyers on the opposing sides with the one thought of winning in the game regardless of justice. This perversion of justice and juggling with the law is one of the most crying evils of this time.

Much is being said at the present time on the "New Theology." Our readers may set it down as the old infidelity in a new dress. Of course loyalty to the Bible is claimed, but that means the Bible as measured by man. In the New Theology, as in "New Thought," man is his own deity. The origin and the originator of it is shown in Gen. 3:4, 5: "Ye shall be as God." And the Voice said, "Cry. And one said, What shall I cry?" And the Voice answered: "All flesh is as grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever." Isa. 40: 6-8. "And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter 1:25.

It Ought to Be Studied.

These three numbers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES on Religious Liberty present to the reader some of the fundamental principles of the great subject; but there is much more to be said. There are evidences many to show that this great republic is drifting back to the Dark Ages; say, more than drifting back; she is trimming her sails and stirring her fires to help her on her way. The question needs to be studied in the light of its fundamental principles, as the SIGNS has presented them, and in view of the downward drift of which we shall have somewhat to say continually. But this is not enough, therefore we commend to our readers a journal wholly devoted to this subject, which every American citizen ought to read, and read constantly. It is a quarterly, and costs only 25 cents a year. Address Liberty, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

Words and Meditations.

In the nineteenth Psalm, the first verses dwell upon the glory of God as manifested in the planetary heavens. Then the psalmist speaks of the law of God and its mighty converting power, and of the cleansing produced by the fear of the Lord, and by giving heed to the judgments of Jehovah. He concludes this wonderful Psalm with the earnest prayer, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my Redeemer." He who sets a watch over both his words and the meditations of his heart so as to make them acceptable to the perfect Father in heaven is following in the only safe course. When the meditations are allowed to wander, then it is that we are drifting under the power of temptation and the task of breaking loose from the tentacles of sin becomes so indescribably hard and unpleasant. But right words, and right thoughts, and right meditations, keep us drinking all the time at the very fountain-head of God's power so that we may walk in the ways of right doing with strength.