Youth on yonder threshold standing,
Hand upon Life’s open door,
Footstep eager on the landing,
Heart a-leap with hope before;
O the tremor!
And the glamour!
Day doth dawn! Behold the morning!
Not a cloud in all the sky;
Dost thou know there's need of warning?
Danger lurketh by and by.
Watch thy way, O son of promise;
Guard thy going, day and night;
Foes would foil each holy purpose,
Snares are set thy bloom to blight;
O be watchful!
And be prayerful,
Keep thyself in Christ thy Saviour;
If thou wouldst the conflict win,
Battle bravely; falter never;
Know no compromise with sin.
Gird thyself with Truth’s own armor,—
Shield of faith and Gospel sword;
Smite with might, and thou shalt conquer,
Strong in Spirit through the Word.
Men may cavil,
Fear not evil;
Take the helmet of salvation,
Let thy feet be sandal shod;
So shalt thou o’ercome temptation,
Walk in paths of peace with God.
THAT “PLAIN-SPOKEN” PERSON.
Once in a while—not often, I am glad to say—we run across that thirsty sort of person who prides himself upon what he calls his frankness and honesty of speech and conduct.
“There’s nothing underhanded or deceitful about me. I’m not the one to ‘make a fuss’ over people. If I don’t like them, I let them know it,” he says with flashing eyes and a proud toss of his head.
But is this spirit one of real frankness and honesty? Is it not one of arrogant cruelty and envious temper, which heartlessly tramples upon the feelings of others because of some fancied slight or wrong? Have we ever a right to say just what we think unless our thoughts are kind and true? No one in the world can be a law unto himself, but every one is subject to all with whom he has to do.
After all, the “plain-spoken” person is the one who has the hardest time of it. His method reacts, hurting himself more than any one else. The blows which he deals strike him back with cruel force; the lashes he gives fly back with a sting. Enmity and dislike are aroused, and even little children shun him.
To bridle one’s tongue is one of our strongest obligations, and our example was set by Him who “pleased not Himself.”—Union Signal.
HEART OPERATIONS.
THE Philadelphia Medical Journal calls attention to a table of thirty-four cases of heart surgery which have been operated upon since 1896. During that year there were three operations; in 1897, two; in 1898, four; in 1899, eleven; in 1900, three; in 1901, nine. During the present year two cases have already been reported. The wounds in all but two of the cases were punctured or incised wounds. In thirty-two instances the ventricles were injured,—the left ventricle seventeen times and the right thirteen times. The right and left auricles were each injured once. But three of the operators employed catgut, and in most of the instances an uninterrupted suture was used. In seven instances the pericardium and pleura alone were drained. In most of the cases it is said that the wounds were closed without drainage, or the matter is not mentioned. Of the thirty-four cases reported five died on the operating table of hemorrhage, and ten died soon afterward from the effects of hemorrhage or from shock. Of the remaining cases thirteen recovered and six died.
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THOUGHTS ON FAITH FOR THE WEEK.
Suggested as Helpful Inspiration to the Needy Ones.
“May faith and hope and love abound,
Our sins and errors be forgiven;
And we, from day to day be found
Children of God and heirs of heaven.”
—Anon.
Thursday, February 5.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Rom. 5:1.
“That sacred stream, Thy holy Word,
Our grief allays, our fear controls;
Sweet peace thy promises afford,
And give new strength to fainting souls.”
—Isaac Watts.
Friday, February 6.
“Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Rom. 10:17.
“O, for a strong, a lasting faith,
To rest on what the Almighty saith!”
—Anon.
Sabbath, February 7.
“According to your faith be it unto you.”
Matt. 9:29.
“O for a faith that will not shrink,
Tho pressed by many a foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of poverty or woe.”
—W. H. Bathurst.
Sunday, February 8.
“Faith, if faith hath not works, is dead, being alone.”
James 2:17.
“’Tis faith that purifies the heart,
’Tis faith that works by love,
That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.”
—Anon.
“Faith is the polar star
That guides the Christian’s way,
Directs his wanderings from afar
To realms of endless day.”
—Anon.
Tuesday, February 10.
“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4.
“Faith lifts the veil before our eyes,
And bids us view a happier clime,
Where verdant fields in beauty rise,
Beyond the withering blasts of time;
And brings the blissful moment near,
When we in glory shall appear.”
—Anna R. Smith.
SELFISHNESS
By W. E. Shepherd
(W. E. Shepherd, in Pentecost Herald.)
SELFISHNESS is one of the meanest traits in depraved nature. It is through and through a seeker of its own. Selfishness rushes pell-mell into the street-car when the crowd is waiting to enter, for fear it will not get a good seat. On the trains it will keep a valise alongside of itself when others are looking for a seat, not offering the place to another. It will pour the cream off of the milk and leave the rest of the folks the skimmed milk. It looks for the best piece of steak on the plate, hunts for the easiest chair in the room, takes the largest orange on the table, and always looks out for number one. Selfishness will take a trip to the summer resort and let the wife stay at home with the children and wear her life away in work. When the baby cries with the colic, selfishness always expects the mother to get up and rock the sufferer, and even make a fire during cold nights. Sometimes it will get mad because the baby is interfering with its sweet rest, and grumbles out its fury for being disturbed. Selfishness takes meals at the restaurant when wife and children scarcely have a crust at home. If possible it will have a good suit of clothes if the rest of the family go in rags.
LITERARY NOTICES.
“A QUIVER OF ARROWS.” Sermons of David James Burrell, D.D., LL.D., selected and epitomized by Thomas Douglas, Ph.D. Cloth, 5½ x 8 inches, 380 pp., $1.20, net; by mail, $1.34. New York and London. Funk & Wagnalls Company.
It is the epitome of seventy sermons by one who believes the Bible, who speaks with feeling, who has a facile pen and clear expression. They have been delivered in a period of years in the marble collegiate church of New York City. We do not see how it could be otherwise than helpful to young Gospel workers. As a reference book it is greatly helped by a topical index wherein every subject treated is entered under the threefold division of theme, proposition, and illustration. One may not agree with all of its doctrines, of which there is but little said, but he will admire the practical application to righteous living and the loyalty to the Word of God. The arrows are well and strongly directed.
“LETTERS FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SON.” Twenty letters, 312 pages, neatly bound in cloth with back-and-side-stamp. Illustrated with character drawings. By George Horace Lorimer. Boston. Small, Maynard & Co.
The title page bears the following: “Being the letters written by John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known as ‘Change as Old Gorgon Graham, to his son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as ‘Piggy.’” These letters are sparkling with bright, common-sense advice. The book is not in anywise religious, does not touch upon the higher life, but sets forth some excellent business principles which are good to apply in the religious life.
“THE NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION, THE PRESENT STEP.” By I. R. Funk, D.D., LL.D. 12 mo., neatly bound in cloth. 50 cents, net. New York and London. Funk & Wagnalls Company.
This little book is an expansion of the introduction to Croly’s “Salathiel,” renamed “Tarry Thou Till I Come.” The book is as truly a perversion of the Bible by evolution as Mrs. Eddy perverts it by “Christian Science.” It is, in fact, a book on evolution throughout. The second coming of Christ is thus stated: “Christ came the first time into men’s visions by coming on the plane of their senses; He comes the second time into men’s vision by lifting them up to His plane of spiritual comprehension.” Christ Himself is only a step in development from the mineral up through the vegetable, the animal, the man. It is prettily printed and bound; it says many good things; but it uses the livery of heaven to better serve the cause of error, and make of none effect the Bible. All the things which Dr. Funk predicates of Christ’s second coming are wrought between His comings by His Spirit. His second coming is as truly personal and visible as His first coming, tho infinitely more glorious.
“THE FALSE AND THE TRUE; A Psychic Phantasmagoria of the Resurrection in Epic Verse, with Sub-headings, Illustrations, and Comments.” By John Ulrick Öberg, M.D., author and publisher, Berkeley, Cal.
This book is written in the form of poetry, but it is not poetry. It is neither decent verse nor decent prose, but a conglomeration of silly, grotesque, bad English. Its theology is as bad. It makes of God “the chemical intelligence.” We feel sorry for Berkeley.
“LIFE OF CHARLES G. FINNEY.” By A. M. Hills. Paper covers; 240 pages. Price 20 cents. Office of God’s Revivalist, Mount of Blessings, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a brief story of this remarkable man from the “holiness” view point. Some of the same power he possessed is needed now.
“LA VERITÉ SUR LA LOI DU DIMANCHE” (The Truth of the Law of the Sunday). By John Vuilleumier. 80 pages. Price 15 cents. Librairie Polyglotte, Bâle, Suisse. It discusses in lucid, forcible style, in good French, one of the great problems facing the world at the present time, especially from the European point of view. It shows the true origin of Sabbath law, how the Sunday laws came in, their relation to civil and religious liberty, their character, and their inevitable consequences in various ways. It should be read by French-speaking people everywhere.
Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly for February contains an interesting article on the “Donkhobor Crusade,” by John Ridington, illustrated from photographs taken for the purpose. It shows to what extent mistaken credulity will carry people. Another article of interest is the “Chinaman in the United States.” Price 10 cents.
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KAVA DRINKING IN TONGA.
THIS is the picture of a party of natives preparing and drinking kava. Kava is a very suitable companion for tobacco, and is drunk quite as universally as tobacco is smoked by the natives. It is a species of pepper (micropiper methysticum) indigenous to Polynesia. The natives cultivate it for the roots, of which they make the drink, also called kava. As shown in the picture, the root is beaten to a pulp with a stone (formerly it was chewed up by maidens and expectorated into the bowl), thrown into the kava bowl, water added, forming an aqueous solution, which is strained into the cup,—half a coconut shell scraped and polished,—and drank in fabulous quantities, with great ceremony. On all occasions and at all times kava is used. The nights are spent largely at kava parties.
When you call on a native, etiquette demands that you take him a piece of kava, and he expects it. On entering a house you are expected to drink kava and smoke tobacco rolled up in a banana leaf by a maiden. It is regarded as disrespectful to refuse to drink and smoke with your host, and you dishonor your guest if you do not serve kava.
A little kava is a passport that admits one anywhere and secures any amount of favor. On one occasion I wanted to hire the privilege of pasturing my horse on land belonging to a native. Not being able to speak the language, I had a white man to interpret for me, but we could get no satisfaction, tho I offered to pay him all it was worth. My interpreter said to me, “I’ll see that it is all right.” They went away together and he secured what was wanted. I learned afterward that he took the chief (the native was a high chief and prominent member of the leading church) to his house, and treated him and drank kava with him. This was what the chief wanted, and he would not rent the pasturage till he got it. My interpreter knew this. He knew also that I did not know it, and that had he told me, I would not have given kava nor drank it; and, being kindly disposed towards us, he took it upon himself to comply with this universal custom without my knowledge, thus accomplishing the desired end.
The effect of kava is similar to that of opium. A bit of the root chewed up leaves a numbness like cocaine. I have been told that the habit is more difficult to overcome than that of liquor. Nearly all the white men who come here to live take to the habit. They claim certain medicinal properties for it; but I have seen no good results from it. I have in mind a man—and I understand there are others—who must have this kava bowl by his bedside, in order to satisfy his cravings for it when he wakes through the night. The eyes become dull and sunken, and the skin becomes dry and hard, and is shed off in scales. The drink has a paralyzing effect on mind and body.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
By J. S. Washburn
ALL the readers of this paper must surely see right before us the tremendous crisis that confronts the nation, the result of which must be world-wide in extent and eternal in its effects. The Lord is shaping matters here very rapidly to prepare a people to meet the great issues which must be met here at the head of the nation. We earnestly appeal to every reader of the SIGNS to help us in the work here now, when so much is at stake.
Interior of the Second S. D. A. Church of Washington.
The great issue of religious legislation is constantly to be met here. It is even now impending in the District of Columbia, where no man has a vote, but where the laws once made by Congress must be accepted by all. The great labor question, the question of combinations of money and unions of labor, under which the very central government of the nation is even now swaying and bending, in its desperate endeavor to stay the tide of a revolution infinitely worse than that of France 110 years ago,—the question of the foreign policy of this country,—all these living, burning questions must be met here.
Are not the readers of this valuable paper,—believers in the nearness of the coming of Christ,—are you not all interested in seeing the work established here on a strong, a sure foundation? The Lord has given us many indications that He is leading us on more rapidly than we dared to hope. Shall we not, then, with a ringing shout of men rallying to the last charge, unite to place the banner of the coming King here in a position where it can have the opportunity to represent the great truth which the SIGNS OF THE TIMES stands for—here—here in Washington, where all these great issues which decide the fate of the nation and the destiny of the world must be met?
Among the present needs of the friends of the cause of truth and liberty is a suitable house of worship, a place free from debt, where can be proclaimed the Gospel of liberty without fear, “not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.” God has, in His goodness, opened the way for this.
Satan knows the value of this local influence on the national life. Here in this city the Roman Church is mighty, everywhere, influential in the government itself, in the departments and in the press—has her marble churches, her colleges and her universities. Here Spiritualism is surprisingly strong, aggressive, and bold. Washington is honeycombed with Romanism, Spiritualism, and other delusions more modern, and, if possible, more dangerous. The enemy is here before us, strongly entrenched. Here, as in no other city, those who stand for the whole truth of God need a respectable, comfortable house of worship, so situated that we can reach the men that make Washington what it is.
For several years we have had a small church building in Northeast Washington, practically out of the reach of the Washington that is Washington—that is the northwest part of the city. But a church13was needed nearer the center. The old one, the First S. D. A. Church, is still in existence, and is going forward, we trust, in prosperity. But a larger and more representative church was needed in central Washington. A new organization was formed, and the church shown on the first page of this paper, the interior on this page, was purchased. It was once offered for sale at $30,000, but was purchased for $12,000. Surely, it seemed the direct providence of God. The young and not large, but growing, congregation there, which occupies that church, will do all they can; but, on account of the importance of the work, they feel free to most earnestly appeal to every friend of the cause to send from 25 cents upward to help in this enterprise. Rather, to put it the other way, we ask if there are not those who will contribute at once from $1,000 down. If you are interested in this matter, help now. All who so desire, may send their funds to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, which will duly receipt for all sums received, and forward them to the board of trustees. The treasurer of the church is Carl Olsen. The chairman of the board of trustees is J. H. Neall, M. D. The address is 1728 Fourteenth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. J. S. WASHBURN, Pastor.
SPEAK IT OUT.
By J. A. Edgerton
[J. A. Edgerton, in Denver News.]
If you've anything to offer that will aid the cause of right,
Speak it out.
If you've any truth within you that will lend the world a light,
Speak it out.
If the fire is in your spirit and the passion to create,
You will feel it, you will know it. Then to labor; do not wait.
Go about it with a purpose that will conquer time and fate.
Speak it out.
Should your heart contain a message, make it terse and make it clear.
Speak it out.
If it's new and if it's true, the world will listen, do not fear.
Speak it out.
In the realms of soul, expression is the dominating need,
Tell your thought by art or music, by a word or by a deed,
If there's light, or love, or beauty in the product, men will heed.
Speak it out.
Character Revealed by Reading
“A MAN is known,” it is truthfully said, “by the company he keeps.” It is equally true that a man’s character may be, to a great extent, ascertained by knowing what books he reads.—Philadelphia Methodist.
Many Ways to Lose, One Way to Profit
“PROFITS can be made in only one way; losses may creep into business in a thousand ways.”
Protestant Progress in Madagascar.
By S.
After the trying times through which evangelical mission work has passed in Madagascar, and after the bitter persecutions from which native Christians there have suffered, it is refreshing to learn that there is greater freedom there now both for the missionary and the convert. The following spoken at the recent London Missionary Society’s anniversary services will give some idea of the changed conditions:—
“Then had the churches rest . . . and were edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied;” in some such terms might the peaceful progress of the Malagasy churches of to-day be described. The period of mistrust and suspicion with which those associated with this society were regarded has ended, and the French republic recognizes the loyalty of Protestant native churches, and frankly accepts the labors of British missionaries as contributing to the progress and enlightenment of their new possession. No word of complaint now reaches us. For the relief thus secured we can hardly be too thankful. Looking back over the past year, the event which more than all others strikes the onlooker is the resumption of the charge of the elementary schools in L. M. S. districts. The friendly arrangement made with the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, having served its immediate purpose, was terminated by mutual consent, and each mission is now responsible for the schools in its own districts.
The Methodist Times in speaking of the same matter, says:—
“One of the prominent figures in France at the present moment, is General Gallieni, the returned governor-general of Madagascar. His pacification of that island has been marked by harsh and repressive measures which it is impossible to overlook. But we are glad to note, on the testimony of Mr. Henry Clarke, the Quaker missionary in Madagascar, that General Gallieni’s tenure of office has established peace, security of life and property, and liberty of worship for all creeds. As soon as the governor-general fully understood that English Protestant missionaries, unlike their Jesuit rivals, were laboring conscientiously for the uplifting of the natives, he promptly put a stop to the open persecution of Protestants, which the malice and false charges of the Jesuits had provoked. In a public speech delivered a few days before his departure from Antananarivo, General Gallieni laid down the principle of full and perfect religious liberty. All this is exceedingly gratifying, and is one more link in the chain of evidence that France, even in her distant colonies, is at last awakening to the true inwardness of the mischievous domination exercised by the ring of Italian Jesuits at the Vatican, whose wicked political ambitions are working evil in every part of the world which is infatuated enough to submit to them.”
Other quotations might be given to the same effect; but these are sufficient to show how the Lord is going before His workers and preparing the way for the knowledge of the Gospel to reach the people in the darkened corners of the world.
S.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
By John Norton Loughborough
At New Hope, Texas, five members were added to the church during the week of prayer.
The address of Brother E. W. Webster has been changed to No. 26 Ohio Street, Phoenix, A. T.
Meetings held in a private house near Huntsdale, Mo., by Brother W. T. Millman, have resulted in the baptism of four candidates.
The new house of worship in Springfield, Mo., was dedicated January 25. The services were conducted by Brother J. M. Rees, president of the conference.
A letter from Brother A. R. Bell, who is laboring in New Jersey, mentions the addition of eight to our ranks—seven by baptism and one by profession of faith. Five others were awaiting baptism at the time of writing.
February 7 has been set apart for a collection to assist the brethren in England to purchase a sanitarium building. Just as they were casting about for a location to build, they (providentially, it seems) were offered a good place already fitted up, for about half what it would have cost to build such an institution. But cash is needed at once. It is a worthy object, and will be a great help to the cause in Great Britain; but the brethren there are not able to make the purchase without aid.
“Lifting makes the burden lighter,
Lift, brother, lift.”
According to a report of Brother J. M. Hyatt in the Minnesota Worker, the work in the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul among the colored people is progressing well. But, sad to say, as it is with many white folks, there are some who will acknowledge the truth yet claim that they can not obey. As if God required impossibilities! God’s commands are all-enabling acts to him who wills and leans on the everlasting Arm. A branch Sabbath-school in St. Paul, conducted by Sister Nellie Patterson for colored children has an attendance of twenty to twenty-five.
An instance of the effect of the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons” is told by Brother H. R. Johnson, of Wisconsin. “A groceryman in one of the cities in that State became interested in the book to such an extent that he procured a number of copies that he might have them to loan to his neighbors. Among many others a certain unconverted man got hold of the book, and his interest became so intense that he sought the Lord for relief from his sins and was converted. He then turned a room, which had before been used for card-playing, into a place for Bible study and prayer. He has now taken fifty copies of the Life Boat, and expressed a desire to engage in the sale of ‘Object Lessons.’ He thinks it is the most wonderful production he has ever found. A number of other persons have also been converted, and several of them are keeping the Sabbath as a result of this interest which grew out of the circulation of this book.”
Of the work of the church recently organized at Hull, England, Brother Joseph Brandt writes to the Wisconsin Reporter: “The Hull church circulates monthly between three and four thousand copies each of Present Truth and the Good Health. The Present Truth, our church paper, is a sixteen-page weekly; and the Good Health a thirty-two page monthly.
“In the short time we have been here, we observe that this nation is fast following in the paths of Romanism. Here the Church of England has about as many members as all other denominations combined. Some belong to the ritualistic, or high church, and others to the low church. In the high church they have their time for confessions, mass, candle burning, the crucifix to which they bow, prayers for the dead, and many other Catholic traditions. The Educational Bill, which has been one of the great governmental questions for the last six months, means to have all these traditions taught in the schools of England by teachers of their faith. Children from five to fourteen years are compelled to attend these schools. So we can make a practical application of our Sabbath-school lessons, which are very timely. May God grant that this people, who are watchmen on the walls of Zion, may be found giving meat in due season to the world when the Master of the house cometh.”
[The Educational Bill mentioned above is now a law, and will work a great injustice on all who are not adherents of the State Church.]
Brother W. G. Myers, who embraced the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists in Athens, Mich., in the spring of 1874, died in Oakland, Cal., Jan. 13, 1903, aged 75 years, 3 months, and 14 days. For many months he suffered from heart disease and other bodily infirmities but withal was happy in the assurance of acceptance with the Lord, and of his reward at Christ’s appearing. It was the blessed privilege of the writer to visit Brother Myers daily during the last week of his life, and to share in the rich blessing of God manifest in power in that sick room. He passed quietly away with a smile upon his lips.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
LOCATION AND SIZE OF THE WASHINGTON, D. C. CHURCH.
It is one square from the highest point in the city, in its chief business section, Northwest Washington, one block from 11th Street car line and two blocks from 14th Street car line. The ground is 57x80 feet, and is valued without the building at $2.50 a square foot. The church building is 70x33⅓ feet, built of brick, brown stone front, with a seating capacity of 300. It is heated by two good furnaces. Has a good schoolroom below; it has besides a library room, kitchen, living rooms, and a three-story brick annex containing living rooms. It was built 14 years ago at a cost of $14,000 building, $1,500 furnishings, besides the land. It was purchased by our brethren for $12,900; $500 cash, $2,500 ninety days from date. Who wishes to help the little church pay for it?
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