Our India Mountain Mission Home.
Since our last report, we have received on our India Mountain Mission Home $292.05. The names of the donors will be given in a later issue. This sum makes a total of $720.37 toward the $1,000 still needed to complete the buildings and make the place suitable for a refuge for our workers in the disease-laden portions of that country. Our readers will remember that the plan is to have this Home in the cool, bracing climate of the mountains so that the worn or sick workers in the enervating, hot climate of the lowlands may go there for a short rest. Having this Home in the mountains will enable the missionaries when worn out to take a rest, rather than to remain where they are laboring to go down into their graves, or else return home. And every one knows that it is very hard for the true missionary to set his face homeward. He is much more likely to remain in the field till he succumbs to disease and goes down in death. But with the Home in the mountains, which he can reach with but little expense, and with people in that district for whom he can labor while resting, he can readily be persuaded to come apart to the retreat and recuperate. It is desired to dedicate the building free from debt in October. And with the small sum needed which is still to be raised, we hope that those interested will come forward quickly and help raise this amount. Send your donations to the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal. Unstable Conditions.—This country has been enjoying a period of almost unparalleled prosperity. The outlook has been most bright and cheering for the last few years from the standpoint of the opportunity to make money. The earthquake and fire that destroyed all the great business section of San Francisco paralyzed this prosperity only momentarily, and then it took on new life and times seemed to be destined to be more prosperous than ever. But labor difficulties arose in Oakland and San Francisco that have kept business in this section almost at a standstill for the past two months, and more recently the dispute has widened thru the telegraphers and it looks now as tho the whole country would become involved. For more than a quarter of a century this paper has been showing from the prophecies of the Bible that the people of these last days would become more and more excitable, violent, and revolutionary in their actions and sentiments. And at the same time society as a whole will be making the highest professions of the kind and tender feelings of brotherly love. And the situation will continue to grow worse till it will be brought to an end in the second coming of Christ. The only bright hope before the world to-day is the Lord's coming. But this is indeed a cheering and glorious hope. Have you studied the evidence so that you may know of a certainty that the event is near? The evidence is insurmountably clear. It is to your eternal interest to look into it.