A man who can be said to have created a country is without doubt worthy of a place among the successful men of the world. Such a man was Peter the Great of Russia, and his greatest works and reforms were planned and entered upon while he was yet a young man. When but nine years old, he was crowned czar, together with his older but weak-minded brother, their sister Sophia being regent. From his earliest years Peter was restless and ambitious, running wild on the streets, fighting with the depraved youth he found there, organizing them into companies as soldiers, and with them engaging in real battles on the streets of Moscow, battles resulting often in the death of some of the contestants.
In 1689 he demanded the throne of Sophia, and with the help of the foreigners in the Russian service, he was able to overthrow his sister and take his place at the head of the Russian government at the age of seventeen. Tho so young, and with very little education, save in rough, crude lines, he had a grasp of affairs that soon brought him to prominence. His association with the Russians had shown him their conditions, and the many different nationalities with which he had come in contact in the capital had taught him that the western nations were far in advance of his own country. Really the first to grasp the true situation, he determined to better conditions.
In the days of his unrestrained childhood he had learned to navigate a boat, an accomplishment little known among the Russians at that time, having access to the sea only on the Arctic, ice-bound half the year, and now when he came into authority, his first thought was to create a navy, modeling it after the Western navies. Realizing the need of seaports for such a scheme, Archangel on the White Sea being the only one Russia could then boast, Peter sought an outlet through the Black Sea, and in 1696 he wrested Azov from the Turks. Engineers, architects, artisans of all kinds were welcomed in Peter's realm, to build ships, establish and organize armies, and teach his people the Western civilization.
So filled was he with the idea that as soon as he could leave the affairs of state, he went himself to Holland and England, where in disguise he worked as a laborer in order to learn first-hand ship-building and kindred trades and pursuits. He planned to examine the Austrian army at Vienna, but news came of a revolt at home, and he hastened back to quell the uprising. But as a result of his visit, printing and a system of education, with many lines of manufacturing and other industries, were introduced.
The internal difficulties were settled with much bloodshed, heartless cruelty characterizing the punishment of the partisans of the rebellious leaders. Once settled, the czar looked toward the Baltic where he had designed for years to found a seaport. Sweden owned the territory, but with a policy characteristic of the Russians, he proceeded to take it. For many years the Swedes repelled the invasions, but, as Peter realized from the first, the Russians learned much from these defeats, and in 1721 Sweden made peace by which Russia gained the territory bordering on the Baltic Sea, giving him the much-desired access to the sea. In the meantime, Azov had been lost, but Peter now turned all his attentions to the new port, which was named St. Petersburg, built at great cost of money and life at the mouth of the Neva, a swampy, unhealthful place, where the winters are long and severe, but in a position to serve the purpose of the ambitious founder.
The later years of his life were devoted to improving and beautifying St. Petersburg, working to advance his kingdom in every way. As a young man, Peter I. was wilful and quick-tempered, as a ruler, partial and cruel perhaps, but his untiring zeal for the betterment of his people, his devotion to home interests, and his grasp of governmental affairs, and the radical and effective reforms that resulted, entitle him without question to the name "the Great."
MAX HILL
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QUESTIONS FOR IDLE MOMENTS.
"To understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their riddles." Prov. 1:6, A. R. V., margin.
WORD SQUARE.
My first was unfaithful in hour of great need,
My second is choice, it is French if you please,
My third was admonished sound doctrine to heed,
My fourth helps the fingers to play with more ease,
My fifth is to set again. Now have a care,
My whole will then make you a perfect word square.
A BIBLE DIAMOND,
of which the middle name has seven letters.
1. A sibilant; 2. One against whom God directed His prophet to prophesy; 3. One of the eleven mountain cities that fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah (See Joshua 15); 4. A man who esteemed wisdom more than riches and yet received both; 5. One of the nations God would use to punish the land of Magog; 6. The place where died the brother of Moses; 7. A consonant.
BIBLE QUESTIONS.
(Give References)
1. By what servant of His did the Lord multiply food?
2. Where is the record of iron being made to swim?
3. Whose face was illumined, and he did not know it?
4. How did the rivers of the antediluvian world differ from the rivers now?
BIBLE ENIGMA.
I am composed of 34 letters.
My 18, 29, 25, 21, 13, 3, 12 is one of the first five books of the Bible.
" 10, 14, 20, 3 is a tribe in Israel.
" 33, 24, 12, 23, 2, 19 is a woman mentioned in the book of Esther.
" 30, 23, 28, 6, 25, 1, 30, 10, 8, 13 is a book of the Bible composed of two parts.
" 15, 31, 9, 27, 7, 24, 23 is a woman ruler mentioned in the Bible.
" 24, 9, 34, 10 is the first martyr.
" 4, 32, 5, 17, 25 is one of Christ's disciples.
" 22, 32, 26, 16, 10, 11 is what Christ said should in nowise pass from the law till all should be fulfilled.
My whole is a beautiful saying of our Lord, which it is well to practise.
RULAND BOWEN.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IN THE SIGNS OF JUNE 13.
Bible Enigma: Herod, Esau; water, Bani, Sidon, Festus, Quartus, Ir, Isui. "He was bruised for our iniquities."
Word Square:
A B I A H
B A S S A
I S C A H
A S A N A
H A H A M
Correct answers to Bible Enigma from Celia C. Tichenor, Ruland Bowen.
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AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR THE WEST INDIES.
By Geo. F. Enoch
As the first rays of the Third Angel's Message penetrated to the West Indies through the pages of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, it seems fitting to make an appeal through those same pages for assistance in launching our industrial school enterprise.
It was nearly nineteen years ago that that first bundle of SIGNS was thrown on a Demerara dock by a sea captain, from the reading of which the first West Indian Sabbath-keepers were raised up. In the years that have slipped so rapidly by, great progress has been seen, until to-day more than three thousand believers are found in the West Indian field. Two conferences have been organized; a small but complete publishing plant is now in operation, turning out thousands of pages of printed matter on "present truth;" the sanitarium work has been successfully begun; and now an industrial school is about to be started. Surely the Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.
Among these three thousand believers are hundreds of bright, earnest young people, and hundreds of happy faced little children not numbered among the communicant members. The brethren and sisters feel that the time has come for definite steps to be taken toward caring for these young people and the lambs of the flock.
The writer is now on a trip throughout the field in behalf of the publishing and educational work, just having concluded a five weeks' tour of Jamaica. Fifteen churches in Jamaica were visited, to which centers came delegates from more than forty churches and companies. The meetings were all enthusiastic and Spirit-filled, and not a dissenting voice was heard. Over £300 ($1,500) was raised in cash and pledges. When it is considered that the day's wage in the West Indies ranges from twenty to fifty cents, it will be seen that this is an excellent donation. No one was able to give a large amount, but everybody gave something.
S. D. A. Church Building at Port Antonio, Jamaica.
Central America and the East Caribbean Conference are yet to be visited. But when all the believers in the West Indies have done all they can, we will still lack $5,000 of having sufficient money to launch the school enterprise.
What we want is enough money to buy reasonably good land, as level as possible, and so near to some good market that we can turn produce into cash. Jamaica is one of the most rugged islands in the West Indies. It is almost all up one side of the hill and down the other. There is but little good land unoccupied that can be tilled according to modern methods.
At the present time two small properties only twenty-two miles from Kingston, the metropolis and chief market, are offered us for $2,700. The smaller property of forty-one acres is fertile land, on the main road, and the other of sixty-six acres, adjoining it on the back, with quite a good house worth about $600, with splendid elevations, high and dry, for building sites. We have searched the entire island, and these are the only available properties suitable for our purpose. But they are on the market, and may be sold at any time if we do not secure them.
It is impossible for us to express on paper our feelings as we face a situation of this kind. For the want of a few dollars shall we see this opportunity slip away from us?
It seems to us that in the light of such a calamity as has recently overtaken San Francisco, our people ought to be able to view the things of this world with a better perspective. We know that such things shall increase, and in the last day, fast hastening on, will become general; then of what value will be our real estate? or what benefit to us will be the dollars invested in brick and mortar? I do not doubt that there were Adventists in San Francisco who, having lost their property, will be able to appreciate the force of this argument.
Consider a moment for what we are asking. Only for money enough to buy good land, and to furnish material for buildings and tools. The students will then work out their own education. On account of the general poverty prevailing in the West Indies, very few of our young people will be able to give a cash equivalent for their education. But just give them a chance, and they will work it out.
It is proposed that this school shall be an industrial school in the strictest sense of the word. Book knowledge alone is not sufficient. But the practical things of every-day life will also find a place in its curriculum.
From it we hope to send students very soon to tropical Africa and the Southern States, fully equipped to do their part in the finishing of the work. Already more than a score of native West Indian young people are on our conference pay roll, doing acceptable work in responsible positions. With a training school, many more can be trained to go out into the harvest field and bear their burden in the closing up of this work.
We are doing all we can, but we are still short, and so we appeal to the believers in the home land to help us make up the lack, in order that the finishing of this work may be hastened, and Jesus come to take us all home to glory.
GEO. F. ENOCH.
THE COMING ONE.
By Joseph N. Dolph
O MY Father, Thou who reignest
O'er the lives and hearts of men,
Grant the day when Thou returnest
Soon will gladden earth again.
Let the dawn of Thy appearing
Spread o'er all the eastern sky,
Where the clouds of evil clearing
Show the heavenly home on high.
For we know that Thou art waiting
To receive the hearts of men!
Who, since our first parent's sinning,
Ne'er can Eden's joys regain,
But, through Thy own dear Son's coming
And His death on Calvary's tree,
Gave for each lost soul a ransom,
Shed His blood to set us free.
O my Father, heavenly Parent!
Thou didst love Thy child of sin,
And Thy home of many mansions
Opened wide to let me in.
We may have a place beside Him,
For His love surrounds us still,
And receive His benediction
If we only do His will.
JOSEPH N. DOLPH.
The Gospel Commission
"GO YE into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; bu the that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:15, 16.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
A camp-meeting is to be held at Pana, Ill., August 2–12.
The Kansas general camp-meeting is to be held at Salina, August 9–19.
A camp-meeting at South Bend, Ind., is announced for July 25 to August 2.
It has been arranged to have five tent companies at work in South Dakota this season.
Three converts to the faith at Chanute, Kansas, is the sum of a report in the Worker by Sister Jennie Edwards.
Writing from Boise, Idaho, Brother W. H. Saxby reports the baptism of eight candidates, June 23, in the Boise river.
In connection with the recent camp-meeting and conference at Woonsocket, S. D., forty-three candidates were baptized in the lake.
June 16, three persons were baptized in the river at Indianapolis by Brother O. S. Hadley. The service was in connection with the Westside church.
In the Indiana Reporter, Brother F. M. Roberts notes the addition of seven members to the church at Princeton, and the baptism of one candidate at Northfield.
The baptism of four persons at Decatur, Ill., by Brother M. G. Huffman, is reported in the Herald. The baptistry of the Christian Tabernacle was secured for the occasion.
In connection with Scandinavian tent-meetings in Omaha, Neb., Brethren Carl Svensen and August Anderson report that five have accepted the faith, with continued good attendance.
In the Wisconsin Reporter, Brother C. McReynolds notes the baptism of three persons near Mill Creek, by Brother J. C. Mikkelsen, and five at Clintonville, by Brother F. F. Petersen.
The Iowa Conference has donated $5,000 toward establishing the work in Uganda, Africa. This is a field in which it is said that no missionary work by any denomination has ever been attempted.
Through Bible-readings from house to house, and the distribution of literature, at Ferris, Texas, Sister U. V. Shaw reports that five persons have taken their stand to keep the commandments of God, and others are deeply interested.
Reporting to the Southwestern Union Record from Alpana Pass, Ark., Brother M. H. Gregory says: “My meetings still continue with good interest. We have a Sabbath-school of thirty members. There are fourteen, old and middle-aged, who have taken their stand for the truth.”
At Terre Haute, Ind., Brother J. M. Rees recently baptized five candidates, the fruit of home missionary work by the church. He also reports the addition of four to the church at Farmersburg, after a short series of meetings, and two to the Twenty-third Street church, Indianapolis.
A very attractive advertisement and invitation card has been issued by Brother Wm. Ward Simpson, announcing a series of meetings at Santa Ana, Cal., beginning July 8 and continuing every evening until the end of August. Brother Simpson is a successful advertiser, as well as preacher.
The publishers of our Australian Signs of the Times have also announced a series of Earthquake Specials, which we hope will have an extended circulation. The time to call attention to the Lord’s closing work in the earth is when men are forcibly reminded that His Word concerning the last days is being fulfilled, and that so vividly that they feel constrained to pause a moment and consider what these things mean.
In the Welcome Visitor we find this note from Brother C. A. Pedicord: “Sabbath, June 23, was a good day for the Cincinnati church. After the Sabbath-school we repaired to the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, and buried eight dear souls in baptism. Five of these were small boys, but we believe they fully realized the importance of the memorial, and that they have given their hearts to the Lord. There will be four more adults to baptize soon.”
Concerning our last Special, the Southwestern Union Record says: “We have received a copy of the third or Souvenir Edition of the Special Signs, and can truly say that it is the best of all. It has much new matter which the first editions do not have, also many new illustrations which add greatly to the attractiveness of the paper. We can see no reason why this number ought not to sell readily over the ground where the first editions have been sold.”
SAD indeed is the report that comes to us from our branch office in Portland, Oregon, of the death of our young brother, Gordon Allen, who had but recently joined us in the work. A company of our people were enjoying an outing on the Fourth, and Brother Allen, with others, was bathing in the Willamette River, when he suddenly threw up his hands and sank in the water. His body was soon recovered, but he was beyond resuscitation. His family reside near Los Angeles where he was taken for interment. Altho but a short time in the office, he had endeared himself to his fellow workers. The family have our sympathies and prayers in their sorrowful affliction.
CUBA.
CUBA is a large and needy field, and knows little of the true Gospel. Its population is about two million. The people are generally in poverty, and the public schools are very poor, with no normal school for training teachers. There are six provinces, in a way corresponding to our states. Seven thousand Americans, it is said, have deeds to land in the island.
A Schoolhouse Brother Clarke is offered for use temporarily.
As yet we have no school there. Brother Joseph Clarke, whose post-office address is Cebollas, wishes to start an industrial school at that place. He feels that it is a great missionary opening, and pleads for any who have funds which they can spare to send them to him. If there are any who have jewelry they are not wearing or would like to sacrifice for missions, he asks that this be sent to E. W. Coates, 525 W. 110th St., New York City, who will sell the jewelry and send the money to him for the work.
Hotel Plaza at Cebollas, Cuba.
His object is not to build expensive buildings or purchase much land. He needs oxen to help till the land. Well-trained teachers, he tells us, can be secured. Only a little help is needed to start a self-supporting work. His letter encloses seven photographs of buildings in and around Cebollas. We have space, however, for but two, one of which is a schoolhouse which has been offered to him free, temporarily. The place has a modern electric ice plant, hotel, etc. Certainly the cause is a worthy one, and the need is great.
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