p. 16 (80) | Signs of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 5. (1/30/1901)

Earlier text: THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE SOUTHERN FIELD

Genuine Waltham Movements

By Editor

The Waltham is too well known to need any recommendation. In the above offer the publishers sincerely believe is a rare chance to obtain a good watch. We have examined them personally, and can recommend them as being just such watches as we would be inclined to purchase. These watches would usually retail for at least $15.00 and $20.00 for the gentlemen's and ladies' respectively.

Gentlemen's Watch

The works are solid nickel. It contains fifteen jewels, compensated balance, patent breguet hair-spring. The case is solid silver, either open face or hunting. It is handsome, but not showy; valuable, but suggests no extravagance; a neat, attractive, and very serviceable watch. Stem winding and setting.

One of the above described watches given free to every one sending us 15 new yearly subscriptions to the “Signs of the Times” at $1.50 each

Ladies' Watch

Also has solid nickel works, seven jewels, patent breguet hair-spring, solid silver case, very neatly engraved, beautiful hunting, or open face if preferred. Stem wind and set.

This is given free to every one sending us 10 new yearly subscriptions to the “Signs of the Times” at $1.50 each

This offer is made as liberal as possible because the object is not to make a profit on the premiums, but simply to encourage readers and friends to aid in increasing the circulation of the SIGNS.

N. B. If preferred, you can have the Elgin movement instead of the Waltham

If interested in the offer, write us, addressing

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THE PACIFIC HEALTH JOURNAL

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES by acknowledged authorities on subjects of general interest and importance.

A COOKING DEPARTMENT, in which are to be found valuable dietetic suggestions, and simple instructions for the preparation, combination, and use of all wholesome foods, including the Health Foods. (This department is more than worth the price of the Journal.)

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Under the Law

By Editor

“Under the Law.”—Some of our questioners who wish an explanation of the above expression will find an article on that subject in another column.

Read the article “The Law and the Gospel,” in another column. This is written by a professional lawyer, who knows the distinction between human and divine laws.

Here is the title of an article which will interest our lady readers, old and young: “Internal Disease from External Ornamentation.” It is written by a lady physician, Mamie A. Paulson, M.D., who exemplifies in her own life the instruction she gives. It will appear in a few weeks.

How many of our readers have read “An Astronomer's View of Our Father's House,” by “Gamma Beta,” first published in the SIGNS, then as a number of the Apples of Gold Library? Well, Gamma Beta contributes to the SIGNS another article of great interest, entitled “God's Thoroughness.” It does not tell how far the east is from the west, but it makes most readers think farther than ever before. It will appear in a week or so.

Modern Martyrs.—The Congregationalist notes among the native martyrs in China for Christ's sake the following: “‘I believe in Jesus with all my heart and trust Him for the salvation of my soul,’ said an educated Chinese woman, whose life would have been spared but for that avowal. A native Presbyterian pastor and his entire family of nine persons were massacred at a temple outside the wall of Peking. A native teacher was given her choice to give up her faith or die. She answered, ‘I can never deny my precious Saviour,’ and her body was cut into pieces and thrown into a well. Many have been buried alive, others beaten to death with clubs, and others saturated with oil and set on fire.” But it is worth while to remember that much of the suffering by these noble souls, if not all, would have been avoided if it had not been for the course pursued by an unchristian political Christendom. Many of those who suffered in China are victims indirectly tho not less truly of the injustice and oppression and overreaching of so-called Christian powers.

Good Health Magazine Subscription

The best health publication in this great broad country for the general reader, for the home, is Good Health, edited by J. H. Kellogg, M.D. Send for a sample copy, the issue for January, for instance. It is only ten cents. Answers to correspondents alone, one of a dozen different good things, is worth the dime. Subscription price, $1.00 a year. Address, Good Health, Battle Creek, Mich.

Bible Study.

By Editor

We are glad to chronicle every advance in Bible study. Among the latest we notice is a new course by the American Institute of Sacred Literature. It takes in worship, its constituent elements, its history in early Israel, from Jeremiah to Ezra, priestly legislation, priestly history, priestly poetry, and the purpose of worship, and its contribution to Christianity. The study covers the Pentateuch, the Psalms, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. No materials are required except the Bible and the institute direction sheets. The fee for enrolment is fifty cents, as in each of the other institute courses. Any of our readers who may desire to examine this matter further, or to take up this unique and interesting course, should address Institute of Sacred Literature, Hyde Park, Chicago, Ill.

WORTH THE PRICE OF THE PAPER.

By Editor

THAT is what the articles on health are, which in a few weeks we shall begin to lay before our readers. These articles, if carried into practise, are worth many times the price of the paper to many people in a saving of doctor bills and in increased efficiency for service. These articles are from the pen of David Paulson, M.D., of the American Medical Missionary College, Chicago. The titles are as follows:—

Do We Catch Health or Disease?

A False Standard of Health,

Physical Transformation the Hope of the Chronic Invalid,

The Process of Putting On the “New Man” Physically (3 articles),

The Prospects before the Chronic Invalid,

Physical Preparation for “the Plagues,”

Shall We Impart to Others the Truths Respecting Physical Salvation?

These articles are instructive, hopeful, helpful. They will begin about the first issue in March and continue till closed. You need them; your neighbor needs them. The sick lady over the way needs them. And the SIGNS will publish them. The lesson is obvious, isn't it?

OUR HOME DEPARTMENT.

By Editor

READ the article in the Home on “The Mother and Her Children,” written by a mother who has had experience. Are not its plain, practical truths priceless? We know that they will be proved to be of infinite worth to every mother who will, in the fear of God, put them in practise. There is yet in this series the following:—

“The Mother As a Companion to Her Children,”

“The Boy As a Son,”

“The Boy As a Brother,”

“The Girl As a Daughter,”

“The Girl As a Sister.”

These articles are worthy of reading and wide circulation. Place them before your neighbors and friends.

Give, and It Shall Be Given

“Give, and it shall be given.”—Mr. Geo. T. Angell, editor and publisher of Our Dumb Animals, has given away in the past ten years more than five million copies of humane publications. When asked where he got his money to enable him to do this, he said, “We get our money by generous giving.” The wise man says, “The liberal soul shall be made fat;” and Jesus teaches us, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”

Why Men Hate the Law.

We do not hate that which is a part of us, that which we make a part of our heart’s affection. The reason which the apostle gives for hating God’s law is this, “Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be; and they that are in the flesh can not please God.” Rom. 8:7, 8, R.V. “We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal [of the flesh], sold under sin.” Chap. 7:14. Men therefore hate God’s law because they are “under the law,” under its condemnation. The man who longs for holiness will yield to what condemns him, and forsake the sin. But the man who loves the sin will hate what condemns him. One man will seek to break the divine mirror which shows him his defects, his filth; the other will wash away the filth in the blood, the life, the righteousness, of Jesus Christ, and in the strength of Christ walk in what is to the justified one “the perfect law of liberty,” the precepts of which in the Gospel light are promises.

Remembering the Poor Beyond Christmas

Giving Christmas dinners to the poor is good so far as it goes, but that is not nearly enough. There is great danger that we may think we have done our duty to the poor when we have simply made them happy by remembering them on Christmas, or at Thanksgiving, or at some other time when it is fashionable for us to be charitably disposed. A good Christmas dinner may make a poor family happy for a few moments, but when it is over, it may also serve to make their misery all the harder, because of the thought of what they might enjoy if they only had means at their command. And now that Christmas is over, and the hard, cold winter is still here, shall we not continue to “remember the poor”? It is not always best to be giving something to the poor in order to remember them, but they should be helped into self-respecting ways of helping themselves to get along, so that they may not only care for themselves but that they also may be a blessing to others.

Pacific Health Journal Begins the New Century

The “Pacific Health Journal,” begins the new century with a neat cover page and a good bill of hygienic mental fare. Here is a list of the articles: Public Education in Hygiene; How to Use Water So As to Ease Pain; The Decline of Medical Superstitions; The Health of Our School-children; Pneumonia; Tuberculosis; Scarlatina; Winter Clothing; Colds; La Grippe—Influenza; Tea and Coffee As a Food; Some of the Effects of Exercise; The Growl of a Pessimist, etc. The names of the dread diseases above do not mean that the Pacific Health Journal is affected by them; no, it tells us how to recognize, avoid, and treat these enemies, and the articles are written mostly by physicians of experience. The publishing department is well filled; and all this for 5 cents. The Journal for a year is only 50 cents. It is the best health journal at that price published.

Self-explanatory

Self-explanatory.—The following is just received from a subscriber to whom one of the SIGNS' premium watches was sent:—

“MIDDLETOWN, Ind., Jan. 2, 1901.

“SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.: I wish to thank you for your kindness and promptness in filling the orders for the SIGNS and also in sending the watch. The watch is a beauty, and far beyond my expectations.

“The parties have received their first papers, and those whom I have seen are very well pleased; and I trust it will be the means of bringing some precious souls to the dear Saviour.”

Others are equally pleased with the watch. We hope many more will avail themselves of the offer,—not with the sole object of getting a good watch, but with an interest in the work of extending the circulation of the SIGNS. Note the offer, on page 15.

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By Editor

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