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LIBERTY
By Editor
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BUREAU
AN illustrated, 48-page, quarterly magazine, published as an exponent and advocate of true religious liberty; defending Christianity and the rights of conscience; upholding the Bible as the infallible word of God; recognizing the church and state as ordained of Heaven for specific and distinct purposes, but vigorously protesting against the alliance of the church with the state in the attempt to advance religion and to promote the state.
Price 25 cents per year. Liberal terms to agents.
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Nature
By Ella King Sanders
OUR great world is one expression of the wonderful thoughts of God, and to study nature is to better understand these thoughts.
This new child's book gives simple graded lessons on Bible nature, beginning with Light, without which life would soon become extinct.
By easy steps the beginner is given an acquaintance with the wonderful works of God as seen in nature. An excellent book for the home training of children or as a help in the school.
One hundred and forty-four pages, illustrated with new drawings especially made for this book and with thirteen colored plates. Beautifully bound. Board covers, 25 cents; cloth, 50 cents.
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The Work in Spain
By Editor
THE following letter, which comes to us from an earnest missionary in Spain, we are sure will be of interest to our readers:
Dear Brother Wilcox:
That you may know something of the spirit that dominates in Catholic circles of Spain to-day, I will quote from a leaflet drawn up by the Catholic and Carlist Union of Berga, August 12, 1910.
By way of explanation, allow me to say that Carlos, the former leader of the Carlist party, who died about two years ago, was succeeded by his son James, which in Spanish is Jaime. The followers of Jaime, who aspires to the throne of Spain, are known as Jaimistas. This is one of the strongest Catholic parties in Spain.
The leaflet, which was circulated in all the region of Berga, was addressed "To Catholics and Jaimistas," and reads:
"Now is the hour, brethren, when we should all lend ourselves with strong courage to come to the defense of our holy religion and of our mother the church. Our breaking off with the cursed liberal government is accomplished. The persecutions against us, who with good will defend our religious beliefs, are increasing. When the governments, in order to wound, employ vile arms, it is necessary to resort with determination to the same modes of procedure. The licensed wrath of the Liberals committing all kinds of injustice against us, and running over us whenever they wish, we must not be so tame that in order to defend ourselves we may not employ every class of arms; all are good; the dagger, the 'Browning' [a certain make of gun, which represents all guns]. Let us employ them against all those who may have liberal ideas, for they are all heretics which corrupt the earth, and they must burn in hell.
"Catholics and Jaimistas, do not allow death to turn you back! God will receive you in the heavens with open arms and you will be rewarded throughout eternity for your sacrifice to the cause of religion. The pope will send you the blessing from Rome. Attack, persecute, molest the liberals; exterminate the burners of convents, and those who mistreat the nuns; destroy the impious governments. May God bless you."
The Roman Catholic Church is ever the same as far as principles are concerned. It is still the "little horn" with "eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things." Its policy is still that of persecuting, and it still endeavors to "wear out the saints of the Most High."
From where I am sitting, I can look upon a huge convent about one block away, whose interior was fairly gutted by the flame of vengeance which raged in Barcelona during the happenings of July, 1909.
The fires lighted at that time in the hearts of the liberty-loving element of Spain, have not been extinguished. Brighter and brighter have they shone; and to-day from one end to the other of this Iberian peninsula, the cry is ascending in favor of religious liberty and freedom from the tyrannous yoke of Romanism.
If Premier Canelejas continues the anticlerical policy launched by him, and the people permit him to continue as prime minister for two or three years, Spain stands a fair chance of enjoying a short period of rest from the domineering rule of Rome.
To-day the Gospel of Christ is entering the strongholds of Roman Catholicism throughout this country. The truths of God's Word are penetrating hearts so long beclouded by error and superstition. It can not be otherwise. The "time of the end," as foretold by Daniel the prophet, is upon us. And Jesus tells us, "And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
In the present month of August, I have had the privilege of visiting a number of persons who have become interested in the Gospel through reading literature sold them by our colporteurs. I visited several in the province of Murcia and in Alicante.
In the cities of Cartagena and Murcia several have begun to walk in harmony with God's holy law, and there are others who are interested. Much of the province of Murcia is very productive. The beautiful river Segura, which flows through the heart of the city of Murcia, affords an abundance of water for irrigation.
The silk industry is important there. The bright mulberry-tree adds much to the natural charms of that semitropical land. Many varieties of delicious figs and numerous other fruits grow in abundance there. One of the most lucrative products of that region is cayenne pepper.
Were it properly governed, Spain would still be a land of immense resources. We firmly believe that many of her brave sons and fair daughters will yet accept the teaching of God's holy Word, and that "they shall come" and "sit down in the kingdom of God." Yours for service,
FRANK S. BOND.
Valencia, Spain.
Our Work and Workers
SEVEN have engaged in the rite of baptism at St. Elmo, Illinois.
A CHURCH of six was organized recently at Bisiatabu, New Guinea.
M. H. SERNS baptized six souls recently at Kenosha, Wisconsin.
FOUR souls were buried with their Lord in baptism, August 27, at Springfield, Ohio.
Two young ladies from the same family will soon leave their home in Illinois as missionaries to the Chinese.
INCIDENTALLY we read the following words from Murcia, Spain: "Three persons here are walking in the light of God's law."
THE new British Union College, at Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts., England, was dedicated a short time ago, free from debt.
IN response to a call for 120 foreign missionaries, the Kansas Conference has released ten of its workers, who will soon take up labor in other lands.
FIVE persons at Staples, Minnesota, have covenanted with the Lord through baptism to "keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
THREE souls have signified their intention to obey all the commandments of God, through the influence of C. V. Starr and coworkers at Garner, Iowa.
As the result of work done by four evangelical companies sent out by the Atlantic Union Conference, nearly fifty have decided to obey the Sabbath truth.
A ONE-MILLION-DOLLAR farm which has recently come into the possession of Ethan A. Brown, Marlboro, Massachusetts, will be used by him as an orphans' home.
AT a state assembly of believers at Marion, Ohio, twenty-one persons were baptized, and others of that convocation will receive the ordinance in their home churches.15
FOUR have united with the believers at Spartanburg, South Carolina.
SABBATH, August 27, three persons were baptized at Village Creek, Iowa.
A CHURCH of fifteen members was organized a short time ago at Barstow, Texas.
FOUR persons were united with their Lord in baptism at Mountain View, August 17.
AT a camp-meeting at Battle Creek, Michigan, recently, twenty-five persons were baptized.
THREE are awaiting baptism at Marion, Michigan, also three more at Ishpeming, in the same state.
FIVE were immersed in the waters of Storm Lake, Iowa, and arose to newness of life in Christ Jesus.
TWO have accepted the truth at Dover, New Hampshire, as the fruit of local colporteur work.
AS the result of a six-weeks effort of the tent company in Montgomery, Alabama, ten have been baptized.
A COMPANY have organized themselves for work and worship near Sebeka, Minnesota, known as the Wing River church.
A CARLOAD of books to the value of $45,000 has recently been shipped by our sister publishing house at Nashville, Tennessee.
AS a result of meetings held at McMinnville, Oregon, seven souls have received baptism, and a few others are keeping the Sabbath.
SIX persons are walking in the light of God's message for this time as the result of stereopticon lectures given by Dr. Menkel in India.
BROTHER R. T. BAER writes that two earnest souls followed their Lord in baptism at Wilmington, Delaware. Later, visiting the church at Rock Hall, Maryland, he baptized three more souls.
STUDENTS have been coming at the rate of five a week for more than a month at the main station of the Barotseland mission schools in South Africa. They number more than ninety at present.
IT took twenty years to make the first one thousand converts to God's last message in Europe, but in the last three months over one thousand persons were baptized into the faith in the same territory.
AS a result of evangelistic work at Florence, Ohio, one family of ten and parts of other families have accepted the message. A Sabbath-school of twenty to twenty-five members has already been organized.
BROTHER W. S. HYATT writes from South Africa: "We left twelve keeping the Sabbath at Amatola. Two of these are young men who expect to attend our school and become better acquainted with the truth of the Bible."
TWELVE persons were baptized during a camp-meeting held recently at Everett, Washington. At Elma, in the same state, five adults, all over fifty years of age, have accepted the faith. A church of sixteen was also organized at Walnut Grove, near Vancouver.
TEN persons were baptized at the West Side church in Chicago, Illinois, September 3. Funds are being raised for the purpose of erecting a church building for the colored people in this vicinity. Three colored candidates are waiting for baptism, and five for church-membership.
THE Broadview Swedish Seminary recently located in Chicago will begin its first term the 28th of this month. The growth of the Swedish work has demanded its separation as a department at Union College, College View, Nebraska, and it now has a seminary in this country dedicated exclusively to its own work.
Living by Faith
By Pearl Waggoner
By Pearl Waggoner
THIS life is like a checkered path, with hidden snares beset,
Where thorns and flowers together grow, and varied scenes are met;
The sunshine scattered in the way is intermixed with rain,
And all the truest joys we meet have birth in hours of pain.
But when my heart is aching sore, and when mine eyes are dim,
Yet in it all, and through it all, there comes the thought of Him,—
Of Him who feels the load I bear, whose love surrounds me still,
Whose presence e'en the longest night or darkest day can fill.
And so, tho trials overwhelm, yet can I not despair,
Because a Father's love I know, and own my Father's care.
On it I lean, in it I trust, on it my heart is stayed,
And well I know my faith therein shall never be betrayed.
Full often do the clouds arise until His face they hide,
Yet still I know His changeless love will keep Him at my side.
I see Him not, I feel Him not, I know, and therefore rest,
Believing that His Word is true and all is for the best.
The Harvest Number
By Editor
THE Harvest (October) number of the Signs of the Times Monthly is not a record of achievement nor a compilation of facts regarding the farm, as some might think, but in a number of articles tells of the world's harvest of war, of greed, of crime, of health and disease. To offset, in a measure, the dark picture thus held before the reader, are other articles, brighter, more cheerful, telling of the harvest of righteousness, etc.
If space permitted we would quote some of the paragraphs found in this most excellent number. Some are helpful, others are interesting and helpful, and still others are startling, interesting, and helpful.
One may think he is well posted on present-day conditions in the social, political, religious, and industrial world, but the chances are he would find much in this number that is altogether new to him. Friends, the things dealt with in this October number of the Signs Monthly are significant. The world should be informed of the Bible meaning of these things.
Get a copy at once; read it yourself, then get a supply by ordering through your tract society, and sell or give them to your neighbors. The appearance of the magazine makes it very acceptable to unbelievers, who are almost sure to read it and be benefited thereby.
More workers are wanted. Some of those now doing regular work are doing very well indeed. One lady has sold 35,617 copies since starting. Another sold 981 copies in 122 hours, and thereby earned, clear of all expenses, 48¼ cents per hour. Here then is a chance to do well-paying missionary work.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
By Editor
Mountain View, Cal.
THE Fireside Correspondence School have the following additional academic studies to offer this year: Second Year New Testament Greek, First Year Latin, Algebra, Stenography, Typewriting and Office Routine, and Penmanship. Competent instructors have been chosen for the coming year, and the prospect bids fair for a large enrolment. Calendars sent on request. Address Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
APPROXIMATE CHRONOLOGY, OR THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION
Places in condensed form a few facts, from Scripture, history, and astronomy, that will enable the reader to understand the exact time of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, giving the year, the month, the day of the month, the time of the moon, the day of the week, and the day of the Jewish month. Price 25 cents. Address H. H. Perry, 67 19th St., San Diego, California.
Having read the "Time of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ," we testify that to our minds it contains a clear and interesting statement of the facts in the case, fortified with good evidence for the positions taken.
J. N. Loughborough, J. O. Corliss, E. J. Hibbard.
"Food and Cookery"
Its relation to health, lessons in practical work. Compiled by H. S. Anderson. College Press Print, Loma Linda, California.
The object of the little book is to set forth the values of various kinds of foods, their constituent elements, the best food values, how this food should be cooked, proper combinations, etc., etc. A large number of recipes are given, showing how to prepare the best foods in the best way. It is a neatly printed and helpful pamphlet to every housewife, in fact every one who eats. Can be obtained by addressing the publisher. Price 25 cents. Send postage stamps. Address College Press, Loma Linda, California.
Washing Is Easy
By Alfred Mallett
Take your clothes from cold water, put them in boiler to which has been added E-Z Washing Tablet and soap as directed; let boil twenty minutes. Rinse, blue, and washing is done WITHOUT RUBBING. All dirt disappears. Positively will not hurt the finest fabrics. Costs little. Nine washings 25c, post-paid. Alfred Mallett, 721 H St., Sacramento, Cal.
Publications Wanted
SIGNS, Watchman, Life Boat, Instructor, Little Friend, and other of our periodicals for house-to-house distribution in San Diego, California. J. Gregory, Paradise Valley Sanitarium, National City, California.
ALBERT MAY, 542 Wood St., Saginaw, W. S., Michigan, desires publications for missionary work.
COPIES of the SIGNS, Watchman, Life and Health, and other similar publications wanted for missionary purposes, by Mrs. James F. Woods, Warsaw, Indiana.
Life and Health
By Editor
A PRACTICAL health journal, published with a view of meeting hygienic needs in every home; teaching how to care for the health and how to preserve life; prescribing simple home treatments to assist nature in throwing off diseases rather than adding more poison by using drugs or unnatural stimulants as remedies: teaching how to avoid disease as far as possible, how to manage in the home when sickness does come, and how to combat the disease by simple remedies which nature provides.
Send for sample copy and special rates to agents. Price 10 cents per copy or $1.00 per year.
Address, LIFE & HEALTH, Takoma Park, D.C.
Religion and State Aid
By Editor
Religion and State Aid.—Roman Catholic papers will tell us on one page how much they prize the blessings of liberty and the separation of church and state in this country. On the next page, or the next week, they will fiercely tell of the rank injustice of France in withdrawing state aid. Now the Western Watchman tells us:
“Time has finally silenced the religious pessimists of Paris. The twenty-odd new parishes that have been erected in that city since the law of separation are all flourishing. They are in the faubourgs, but receive their support from the rich parishes of the interior. They are composed chiefly of working people, the number of whom has increased enormously of late years, and they have parish schools attached.”
Separation from outside aid demands sacrifice on the part of those who compose the religious body, and sacrifice is a law of growth even in worldly things. In the light of the lesson of France why should the church seek to hold Spain?
The “Health Magazine” tells a strange story of an episode in the life of Atlanta, Georgia. It seems that a company of ministers, lawyers, doctors, and other representative people met to form an anti-vaccination society, as they had a perfect right to do. In the midst of their meeting burst an M.D., the city health officer, with eight policemen, who told the meeting that he did not approve of their work and demanded to know whether all had been vaccinated. He did not vaccinate any one that night, but threatened them with arrest if they did not submit. Later one of the gentlemen was followed and arrested, thrown into jail, brought into court, and set free, as no charge could be held against him. The arrested man had no redress. We yet believe in proper vaccination, but this is a shame; and yet this action lies right along the same lines of the religious legislation clamored for before every parliament of the people, state and national. The sad fact is that such things as this of to-day will be forgotten by the people in the rush of to-morrow, while in the future they will be used as precedents by the promoters of religious and paternal legislation.
Ministers' Salaries
By Editor
Ministers' Salaries.—A daily paper tries to make it appear that ministers as a class are well paid. For instance in cities of 300,000 or over the average preacher's salary is in the Baptist Church $1,793; Congregational, $1,938; Methodist, $1,632; Presbyterian, $2,450; Episcopal, $1,873; Jewish, $1,491; Catholic, $684. But we all know that in the cities are the large-salaried men. What must the averages be in the smaller towns and villages? Many indeed are below $500. If, for instance, the average is $2,500 a year, and the highest salary is $5,000, which we are told many receive, what must the lowest be? Some receive $15,000 and some $12,000. What of the man below the average?
All that you have that is of any worth to you, reader, came from God through Christ. Every blessing is blood-bought. He gave all, that gratitude in you might respond to His goodness. Are you grateful?—Then reveal it in consecrated service.
Infant Mortality in New York City
Official figures given out concerning the infant mortality in New York City are appalling. The Bureau of Municipal Research announces that in the first week of June, twenty per cent more infants under one year of age died than in the same week last year, the figures being 225 in 1909, 272 in 1910. The excess has increasingly persisted during every week since. During the last week the comparison in the number of deaths over the same week last year was over forty-two per cent — 399 in 1909 to 568 in 1910. Physicians seem to be at a loss to understand this surprising increase.
God's Prophecy of this Time
(See "The War-Mad Nations")
"Proclaim ye this among the nations; Prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah. Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the wine-press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision." Joel 3: 9-14.
Church and State
By Editor
Church and State.—The Catholic Church still believes in the temporal power and likes to be recognized as one to whom it belongs. For instance, when the papal legate reached Quebec, on his way to the Eucharistic Congress in Montreal, the Western Watchman of September 8 declares: "Cardinal Vannutelli, the papal legate, reached Quebec this afternoon and was received with all the honors accorded to a prince of the church and an ambassador of a reigning power. Representatives of the federal and provincial governments and representatives of the various executive functions, greeted him and bade him welcome to the dominion. The sabers of Canadian troops flashed in welcome. . . . He was received a welcome visitor." But why should the government welcome the papal representative any more than it should the representative of the archbishop of Canterbury, or a delegate of the M. E. Church?
Tuberculosis Congress in Rome
The next international congress for the study and prevention of tuberculosis will be held in Rome, Italy, September 24 to 30, next year.
Saturday Is the Bible Sabbath
A Baptist minister in Portland, Maine, recently told his congregation that Saturday is the only Bible Sabbath there is, and that he wished the whole religious world would keep it.
Be Yourself
Be yourself. God respects your individuality. Do not permit other men to think for you. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself the questions involving your relationship with God. He grants you that privilege; let no one take it from you.
Flooding of the Sumida River
In Japan 385 lives have been lost as a result of the overflowing of Sumida River. Last accounts state 500 persons are still missing. In lower portions of Tokyo 30,000 houses were submerged.
New York Garment Workers’ Strike Ends
The strike of the garment workers in New York has ended, and ten thousand workmen will resume work after being out nine weeks. The loss in wages alone is estimated at $10,000,000. One feature of the settlement, important not only to the strikers but to the nation at large, is the abolition of all contract work at home.
Japan’s Administration in Korea
The new Japanese administration in Korea will advance $8,500,000 to encourage industry and education, hospitals and the relief of paupers. Japan promises employment to thousands of her new subjects on public works. The new colony is assured of its religious freedom, but that political or sectarian intrigues under the cover of religion will not be tolerated.
God’s Unchanging Law
What a puerile thing it is for puny man to talk of changing God's law or assuming to interpret it as meaning something entirely different from what it says. That eternal law declares, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Why should man declare the Sabbath to be the first day? The original of God's law is written in heaven. We may break the stone tables, tear up the parchment, burn the Bibles, but safe within the throne of the eternal rests the original, which shall judge us in the last day.
The Threat of Infantile Paralysis
At a joint meeting of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, and the American Orthopedic and American Pediatric societies, held in Washington in May of this year, a resolution declared that infantile spinal paralysis, which has been epidemic in several sections recently, 'is an infectious, communicable disease with a mortality of from five to twenty per cent, and that seventy-five per cent or more of the patients surviving are permanently crippled.' Health authorities are asked to investigate more thoroly the disease, with a view to its control and limitation. Surely this is the worst of all which threatens our babies, except sin.
