p. 592 | A Stupefied World by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 22, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 37.

A Stupefied World

By Editor

SPEAKING of the European war, the Springfield Republican says:

"Writers who can tell a stupefied world what this fearful portent means, who can throw light on the great fundamental problems of the race, and give some hint as to its destiny, will have an attentive and even anxious hearing."

The "writers" who can tell satisfactorily what lies before us in the future must have more than mortal vision, and therefore the only source to which we can look is the inspired Bible. Men may conjecture, and predict, and speculate; but God knows, and not merely predicts, but actually foretells.

In the language of His own word, "No prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit." The men who were moved by the Holy Spirit to speak from God are those "who can tell a stupefied world what this fearful portent means."

The prophecies of the Bible that foretell the fearful war conditions in this time shine out in the inspired Word as clearly as the sun shining in its strength in a cloudless sky at high noon. If men will divest themselves of human speculations and human theories, and take the Bible just as it reads, they will find its plain words so clear that even children may understand them, and know for themselves that we are standing in the presence of the greatest revolutions and strifes and wars that this world has ever known anything about.

We are seeking to call attention, through our columns, in these times of stress and war, to these plain Scriptures. During recent weeks, special articles have presented them, and this will be continued; but nothing that a human being can write is anywhere near as plain upon the subject as what the Bible itself says. Take these Scriptures, and study them for yourself, and know the meaning of the conditions that are perplexing men and filling them with dread and fear.

THE National Geographic Magazine for August has just come to hand, and one of its unique features is a beautiful "map of Europe with new Balkan boundaries." It gives the territory in which the European war is now raging, and as is usual with everything published by the National Geographic Society, it is not only authentic, but the workmanship is of the very best. In addition to this map, the reader is taken, with a long series of fine photographs, through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. There is also an instructive story concerning the opening of the Cape Cod Canal, together with a map and photographs. This issue of the magazine, with maps, may be secured for 50 cents by addressing the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.

MR. H. F. STOLL, secretary of the "Grape Protective Association," and the commissioner of the Viticultural Commission, says that the wine industry of California "was introduced by the church." Granted; but so was the thumbscrew, the auto da fé, the Inquisition, with all that it stood for, brought into the fair fields of Christianity by the church. It was the church that brought the Christ to the cross. But the apostolic church and the remnant church know none of these things. The Bible repudiates them all.

IN a very little time the holiday season will be upon us again. People everywhere will meet that perplexing question, "What shall I give him for Christmas?" Those unsurpassed books for children and young people, known as the home workers' books, would be a good answer to such questions. Persons wishing to sell them should communicate with our depositories or with us without delay.

It is interesting to look through the popular scientific reviews, and see the many discoveries and inventions that have rewarded the study and patience of investigators in the past few months, and then compare these achievements, so quietly made, with those of the last few weeks on the fields of battle.

Our shipping department, in these times, presents an animated scene. For instance, in one week we have sent out some fifteen tons of books and tracts.