SECOND ISSUE READY by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

SECOND ISSUE READY.

By Editor

Our first Special-Message number is out. Those who have seen its illustrations and read its articles think it is fine. Besides the first full-page cover engraving on prophetic symbolism, there are ten other engravings prepared for this special number alone, besides three others of interest. There are three excellent original poems. There are eleven articles on the great Message. The Missions department and Home department are both excellent. Why not give it a large circulation?

By the time this paper reaches our readers the second number of the Specials will be on the press. The articles in that number are as follows:

The Gospel in Type, by Prof. J. A. L. Derby. The Sanctuary and Its Lessons, by Mrs. S. N. Haskell. The Priesthood in Type and Antitype, by E. J. Hibbard. Before the Supreme Court, by F. C. Gilbert, an article on the great day of atonement. A Wonderful Book, a study of the Seven Seals of Revelation 6 and 7. The Closing Work of Our High Priest, by W. N. Glenn. The Great Apostate Powers of Revelation 12 and 13, by Alonzo T. Jones. Signs in the Heavens, by Prof. G. W. Rine. A Message of Preparation, by L. A. Phippeny. The Only Power That Can Save, by Mrs. E. G. White.

This is even a better number than the first number, and the illustrations are equal in every respect to those in the first issue. Now is the time to order. Sell them in sets, or take subscriptions for them in sets. In single sets, price 20 cents. If you wish to sell them in quantity and do not find your information in this paper, write us.

Preaching of the Law.

He who truly preaches the Gospel must give the law its proper place. Dr. Adam Clark remarked, "He who preaches the Gospel without the law at the best but slightly heals the hurt of the daughter of My people."

Dr. A. Lincoln Moore, Baptist preacher of New York City, in a recent sermon from the text "Thou shalt not steal," said truly: "This age is one of new things. Old-fashioned honesty is becoming supplanted by a new-fashioned dishonesty, and untruth is becoming preferred to business probity. In speaking of crime and sin one must use plain speech. If we always called stealing stealing, and a thief a thief, there would be less stealing and fewer thieves. If an office boy should steal some hundreds of dollars from the corporation that employs him, he would be called a thief and sent to jail. If the president of that corporation takes some hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of its funds, he is likely to be called a Napoleon of Finance, and men will not be lacking as apologists for his actions." And then the preacher applies his remarks to one of the great insurance presidents so prominent before the nation just now. Occasionally we have outbursts of this kind from the pulpit, which are good; the trouble is that they are merely outbursts, provoked so to speak by some enormous wave of crime, and the words fall powerless because whenever ministers appeal to the law, frequently their practise is condemned by some of its precepts. They are "partial in the law." When asked concerning the Fourth Commandment, which is agitated world-wide, so many times we are told that that precept of God is not binding, and yet men of common sense or common logic will conclude that if one commandment of that law is obligatory as such, every other command is as truly so, so that he who persistently, continually, and knowingly transgresses the Fourth Commandment, becomes a partaker with those who transgress the sixth or the seventh, and even thus speaks inspiration: "What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, and that thou hast taken My covenant in thy mouth, seeing that thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee? When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. . . . These things hast thou done and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes." We are not by this accusing Dr. Moore of any of these things, for we do not know him at all. But we do know that there are thousands who are placing themselves in just such a position as that. What wonder that "the law is slacked," and that iniquity is increasing.