We call special attention to the announcement of the circulation manager, Mr. Jones, on the preceding page of this issue. It is important.
One of the great questions which faces us as editors is how to find space to lay before our readers the unfolding events of prophecy, the developments of great world-movements, and the crystallizing of principles of eternal import into national and international action.
Suicide Statistics.—According to statistics recently published by the Swiss government, there have committed suicide during the last thirty-five years 16,640 persons in Switzerland, 323,600 persons in Germany, and 274,000 persons in France. German official figures put the number of suicides in Europe yearly at 70,000. Cases in the German empire itself have risen from 10,510 in 1895 to 12,730 in 1905. In America the number is estimated at about 3,000 annually, and is increasing.—Medical Record.
He who slumbers in God's work now is in danger of sleeping till all opportunities are past. If ever God's message should ring in the ears of His children, "Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light," it is in these days when everything is vibrant with the intensity of living principles. Never was there such a struggle in all the ages as now between the principles of right and wrong. Never were Satan's means of deception so clothed with robes of light, "to deceive, if possible, the very elect." There is but one sure safeguard, that is the rock of God's truth, which is open as a refuge for all; and the sure promise comes to us, "Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which is come upon all the world to try them that dwell on the earth." Rev. 3:10. But to keep the word of God's patience, it is necessary that we, like the psalmist, shall hide His word in our heart that we might not sin against Him. Ps. 119:11.
Grover Cleveland, twice President of the United States, for many years prominent in political life, died at his home at Princeton, N. J., June 24, of heart failure complicated with pulmonary difficulties of long standing. The funeral was a quiet one, there being little ceremony as the ex-President was laid to rest by the side of his daughter Ruth in a little cemetery in Princeton, June 26. Mr. Cleveland is well known in the United States, and in other lands as well, as a statesman of unusual ability, having worked his way from law student to President, and the words of condolence from President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft, Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie, and scores of others prominent in public life, attest the real feeling of sorrow at his death. Mrs. Cleveland and four children constitute the immediate family of the deceased. They have the deepest sympathy of the American people everywhere in their bereavement.