Our Bible Band by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Dec 16, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 20.

Our Bible Band.

By Editor

REMEMBER what was said last week. Our readings will continue. We shall read the Bible through again in 1909. We shall take more interest in it than we did before. Those of us who failed will try again. Surely we can afford to spend fifteen minutes to a half hour a day in becoming familiar with the word of the living God. We can not afford to do otherwise. It is by His word that we are cleansed, that we are kept, that we are warned, that we are saved. It is by lack of knowledge that we are destroyed. Let us become familiar with God's great arsenal-storehouse treasury.

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The Mail Liner "Asia" found the Pacific Ocean anything but true to its name on November 1. It passed through a terrific typhoon in longitude 166 west. Its life-boats were torn away, doors and screens broken, sails ripped from masts, and the upper works of the steamer were literally ruined. For hours she was virtually submerged in storm-lashed breakers, the passengers every moment expecting death.

"Poor, suffering India!" one feels to exclaim as he reads the statistics of the plague for the last ten years in that far-away land. It is said that the plague has claimed more than two million victims in the last decade. A few months ago, the daily death-rate in Bombay was three hundred persons. Poor India! burdened not only with the fearful bubonic plague and cholera, but still worse, by her fearful systems of religion. Were it not for the superstitions inherent in the religions, her physical condition would be greatly improved. The sanitary authorities meet these superstitions in every forward move, at every stage of progress which they make for the relief of the people.

The Alumni Association of the University of California, of whom Mr. George Edwards of the class of '83 is president, wishes us to state that the Alumni have had nothing to do with the effort to remove the state capital from Sacramento to Berkeley, nor have they any connection with any other political measure not officially authorized. They are working for the university's success and to make that institution as much of a benefit to the state as possible. They wish more done for the agricultural interests of the state, and desire that the president of the Alumni Association shall be on the Board of Regents.

Two little story booklets have been received by us from the author, Mrs. Myrta E. Steward, Sanitarium, Cal., entitled respectively, "Harry Spencer, Dyspeptic," and "The Destroyer (A Temperance Tale)." The latter is an interesting little sketch showing the relation of diet to drink; and the former of diet to health. It tells how a husband's mother was taught by his wife. Both are not only entertaining, but highly instructive. The price of the former is eight cents and of the latter ten cents, both post-free. Address the author.

The announcement of the commencement exercises of the Missionary Nurses' Training-School, of Portland Sanitarium, Portland, Ore., on Nov. 3, 1908, came duly to hand. It presents an excellent program of exercises; its graduating class numbers nine. The class motto is "Ministered unto, to minister," and its aim, "Onward and Upward." May God give each of them success in winning souls as well as helping bodies.