SIGNS OF THE TIMES FOR 1907
By Editor
LAST year we made sundry and various promises in connection with the SIGNS OF THE TIMES which were completely upset by the mighty temblor of April 18. In spite of that, we did our best to meet our promises. We are very grateful for the letters of sympathy and expressions of appreciation which have come to us from all over the field. This year we wish again to set before our readers what we have planned for them: Our large MISSIONS SPECIAL which we had planned for last year was of necessity carried over. Just at the time when we were about to print it our fire came and our large rotary press was disabled. Very much of our manuscript and illustrations were burned, and we were compelled to begin all over again. We have gotten together matter again for one of the best mission numbers that was ever issued by any journal on earth; that will be published some time during the year and will mark the centennial of modern missionary work. We hope to issue in the early part of the year a special number on SOCIALISM. This, also, we had planned for last year and had gathered much material for it, but we are willing to do this work all over again, setting before our readers and the Socialists of the country what these great movements mean in the light of prophecy. We are planning for twenty-six issues of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES—those which come in the middle of the year—a special series of studies on important topics of the Bible to be given in as short, concise articles as the subject will allow, and supplemented by Bible readings. These subjects are as follows: Oneness of the Scriptures and Their Inspiration. (a) Its Object and Scope.
(b) The Great Image of Daniel 2.
(c) The Four Beasts of Daniel 7.
(d) What His Coming Means to Those Who Reject Him. 3. The Coming of the Lord.
(a) Will He Actually Come Again?
(b) How Will He Come?
(c) What His Coming Means to the Righteous.
(d) What His coming Means to Those Who Reject Him.
(e) What His Coming Means to the Earth, Including the promised inheritance and the Everlasting Kingdom. 4. The Signs of the Times.
(a) Signs in the Sun, Moon, and Stars.
(b) Signs in the Physical Earth—Cyclones, Earthquakes, Tidal Waves, etc.
(c) Crop Failures, Destruction by Insects.
(d) Various False Isms Which Are Undermining Christian Faith.
(e) Capital and Labor.
(f) Socialism. 5. The Law and the Gospel.
(a) The Law—Its Scope, Character, and Perpetuity.
(b) The Gospel—What It Is and Its Purpose. 6. Our Sacrifice and Priest.
(a) The Lamb Slain from the Beginning.
(b) Our Sacrifice in Type and Shadow.
(c) The Ancient Sanctuary and Its Service.
(d) The Antitypical Sanctuary—Our Center of Worship.
(e) The Twenty-three Hundred Days Dan. 8:14.
(f) The Judgment and Its Message. (a) The Man Created and His Nature.
(b) The Entrance of Sin and Its Ripened Fruit—Death.
(c) Righteousness and Life.
(d) Christ Our Life.
(e) The Resurrection. 8. The Sabbath, the Test of the Ages.
(a) Its Origin, Nature, and Object.
(b) The Sabbath in the Old Testament.
(c) The Sabbath in the New Testament.
(d) The First Day of the Week.
(e) The Change of the Sabbath.
(f) The Restoration of the Sabbath. (a) What It Is.
(b) Relation of Church and State.
(c) Teaching of the Scriptures.
(d) Religious Liberty in America.
(e) The Prophecy of Revelation 13. (a) What They Are, Their Purpose, and Distribution.
(b) Restoration in the Church. 11. Election, Predestination, and Free Will.
12. The Great Threefold Message.
(a) The Condition of the World.
(b) God's Healing Message.
(c) Message Rejected, and Result.
(d) The Beast.
(e) The Image.
(f) The Mark.
(g) The Result of the Messages.
(h) God's Sealing Work. (a) What the Church Is.
(b) The Called-out Ones.
(c) The Apostate Church.
(d) The Two Witnesses. (a) The Temple of God—Eating, Drinking, Dressing, Exercise, and Breathing.
(b) True Sanctification. 15. The Outpouring of the Spirit.
(a) The World's Great Need.
(b) Baptized for Service.
(c) The Power of Godliness. Among our contributors for the year to come we shall number Prof. J. A. L. Derby, of the Washington (D. C.) Training College; Dr. L. A. Reed and Prof. G. W. Rine, of the Pacific Union College, Healdsburg, Cal.; Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Phippeny and Frances E. Bolton, of Battle Creek, Mich.; Messrs. A. G.761Daniells, Geo. B. Thompson, W. A. Spicer, W. A. Colcord, K. C. Russell, C. M. Snow, John D. Bradley, of Washington D. C.; Mr. John S. Wightman, Rome, N. Y.; Mr. J. O. Corliss, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. S. Bourdeau, and Mr. Max Hill, of Mountain View, Cal.; Mrs. E. G. White, Lillie D. Avery-Stuttle, and Mr. H. A. St. John, of St. Helena, Cal.; Flora E. Yergin, of Rainbow, Cal.; W. S. Sadler, M. D., Chicago; G. H. Hare, M. D., Fresno, Cal.; Messrs. E. T. Russell and A. T. Robinson, of College View, Neb.; R. S. Porter, Topeka, Kan.; G. W. Reaser and R. S. Owen, of Los Angeles, Cal.; W. M Healy, San Diego, Cal.; Mr. Francis McL. Wilcox, of Boulder, Colo., and many others whose large experience and thorough study of the subjects they will handle preeminently fit them for teachers of the truth. IV. Foreign Correspondence.
We have three foreign correspondents in Europe who will keep the SIGNS readers apprised of the inwardness and meaning of the great movements which are taking place there,—Mr. Jean Vuillemeier, in Switzerland, the very center of European agitation; Mr. C. E. Milton, in Rome; Mr. M. E. Olsen, in London. The letters from these correspondents will fully discuss the great religio-political movements affecting the very life of the nations and the church. In our Home Department, Mrs. Stuttle will stay with us, and we have promise of some excellent, instructive stories from one of our old correspondents, Mrs. Elizabeth Patton. We shall take up again the division which we made in our Home Department last year, giving two weeks of the month to general miscellany, one week to parents, and one to the young people. We hope to make this interesting to all our young readers. In our Missions Department, we have some excellent articles already on hand from missionaries Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Anderson, in China; Prof. and Mrs. J. L. Shaw, in India; Mr. W. S. Hyatt, in Africa; and Mr. F. W. Field, on Korea; and we also expect articles from Mr. W. H. Wakeham, of Egypt; Messrs. Westphal and Steele, of South America. Our department of Questions and Answers, which is of growing interest to our readers, will still be kept full, we are sure, judging from the constant increase of questions which are continually reaching us. Our department of General Articles will discuss the whole great Gospel message. These articles will be supplemented by Bible readings, so that he who takes and reads the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for one year will get a greater knowledge of the scope and meaning of the Bible than many volumes would give him. The prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation, the progress that Spiritualism in its various forms is making, the meaning of the various isms of the present day, and the great forward movements of the Papacy, will all be discussed, not from the mere outlook of the world, but from the higher, clearer view-point of God's 'more sure word of prophecy.' The Hague Peace Conference.
In a short time comes the Hague Peace Conference. The world is looking for peace. What does it mean? We shall have special correspondents right on the ground at the time of the conference, which will lay before our readers the effort that earnest men are putting forth to secure peace, and just what it means. Our Outlook Department will cover the whole world in its great vital questions as they will be presented in no other journal published. It will not take time to deal with mere ephemeral matters,—matters that are but for a day. It will not spend time on the mere election of this man or that man, but it will deal with the great vital movements—those which affect the world and the church and human destiny. Our editorial force has sustained a loss in the death of Mr. William Newton Glenn; but Mr. Asa Oscar Tait, who has been nominally connected with the paper for some time, will now give his whole interest and attention to editorial work. These are a part of the things which we hope to lay before our readers in the year 1907. We appeal to them in view of this to help us to give the paper as wide a circulation as possible. We feel that it is worthy of a hundred thousand circulation within the coming year. We are sure if they will lift with us it can be brought to that, and by that means probably a million souls will be more fully enlightened in regard to the days in which we are living, and the tremendous issues which are before us.