p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 12. (3/25/1903)

Earlier text: LESSON I.—APRIL 5.—PAUL'S FAREWELL TO EPHESUS

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Signs of Our Times

No. of Library Price

Without Excuse — B. S. L. 46 — ½

Great Day of the Lord — B. S. L. 65 — 5½

God’s Message for To-Day — B. S. L. 81 — ½

Truth for the Times — B. S. L. 143 — 1

America’s Crisis — B. S. L. 138 — 2

Eastern Question — B. S. L. 144 — 1

Wonders of the 19th Century — B. S. L. 155 — 2

Heralds of His Coming — A. G. L. 51 — 1¼

Winning of Margaret — A. G. L. 53 — 1

The Coming of Our Lord — A. G. L. 40 — ½

We Would See Jesus — B. S. L. 173 — 1

Signs of Our Times — B. S. L. 174 — 1

Gospel Remedy for Present-Day Isms — B. S. L. 175 — 1

What Do These Things Mean — B. S. L. 176 — 1

Nature of Man

Thoughts for the Candid — B. S. L. 47 — ½

Tormented Forever and Ever — B. S. L. 111 — 1

Rich Man and Lazarus — B. S. L. 146 — 1

Immortality of the Soul — B. S. L. 70 — 2

Is Man Immortal? — A. G. L. 51 — ½

Jesus and the Resurrection — A. G. L. 42 — ½

The Thief on the Cross — A. G. L. 8 — ¼

How Esther Read Her Bible — A. G. L. 7 — ½

Millennium

Great Day of the Lord — B. S. L. 65 — 2½

Temporal Millennium — B. S. L. 121 — 1½

The Millennial Age — B. S. L. 136 — 1

Winning of Margaret — A. G. L. 53 — 1

The Kingdom of Christ — B. S. L. 119 — 1

Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King — B. S. L. 127 — 1

Third Angel’s Message

God’s Message for To-day — B. S. L. 81 — ½

The Great Threefold Message — A. G. L. 47 — 1

The Sabbath

Elijah on the Sabbath — B. S. L. 42 — 1

Which Day Do You Keep — A. G. L. 75 — ½

From Sabbath to Sunday — B. S. L. 95 — ½

Who Changed the Sabbath — B. S. L. 107 — ½

Identical Seventh Day — B. S. L. 114 — 1

New Testament Sabbath — B. S. L. 137 — 1

Rome’s Arraignment — B. S. L. 150 — 1

Sunday in the Greek — B. S. L. 154 — ½

The Seventh or One-Seventh — A. G. L. 39 — ½

Historical Facts and Incidents — A. G. L. 45 — 2

Day of the Sabbath — A. G. L. 50 — 1

How the Sabbath Came to Me — W. T. L. 2 — 1½

Personal Questions and Answers — W. T. L. 7 — 1¾

The Three Sabbaths — A. G. L. 58 — ¼

What History Says Concerning the Change — A. G. L. 70 — ½

Is Sunday the Sabbath — A. G. L. 76 — ½

The True Seventh Day — A. G. L. 178 — 1½

Is Sunday the True Sabbath of God — B. S. L. 177 — 15

Gospel Invitation

Some One Cares for Your Soul — A. G. L. 69 — ½

Why Are You Not a Christian — A. G. L. 65 — ½

The Name — A. G. L. 72 — 1

What Must I Do to Be Saved — A. G. L. 17 — ¼

The Way to Christ — B. S. L. 105 — 1

Prayer

Prayer, by A. T. Pierson — A. G. L. 52 — 1

Privilege of Prayer — B. S. L. 127 — 1

Temperance

There Is Help in God — A. G. L. 56 — ½

The Name — A. G. L. 71 — 1

Some One Cares for Your Soul — A. G. L. 69 — ½

Food: Its Mental and Moral Value — A. G. L. 68 — ¼

Chat with My Tobacco-Loving Brother — A. G. L. 67 — ¾

The Law of God

Perfection of the Law of God — B. S. L. 122 — 1½

Under the Law, or Under Grace, Which — B. S. L. 163 — 1

The Relation of the Law to the Gospel — B. S. L. 166 — 1½

The Divine Law — A. G. L. 57 — ½

The Two Laws — B. S. L. 172 — 15

Two Questions Answered — A. G. L. 74 — ½

Faith and Righteousness

Living by Faith — B. S. L. 75 — 1

Justified by Faith — B. S. L. 104 — 1

The Full Assurance of Faith — B. S. L. 64 — 1

Righteousness: Where Is It To Be Found? How May It Be Obtained — B. S. L. 133 — 1½

The Christian’s Privilege — A. G. L. 2 — ¾

Have Faith in God — A. G. L. 22 — ½

Baptism

Baptism: Its Significance — B. S. L. 79 — 1

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Fallen at His Post.

The sad news came to us by wire, and afterward by letter, that Pastor Uriah Smith, for many years—since July, 1854—editorially connected with the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, died the 6th instant, at 1:30 P. M. Uriah Smith was born in West Wilton, N. H., May 2, 1832. He graduated at Exeter Academy at the age of twenty, and began life as a public school-teacher. He gave himself to the Lord in early life, and his literary talent early brought him into close connection with the publishing work. He became a Sabbath-keeper in 1852. The first production printed from his pen in the Review and Herald began in its issue of March 15, 1853, a poem, entitled, “The Warning Voice of Time and Prophecy.” His name appears as editor in the issue of Nov. 16, 1855. He published, in book form, another poem, entitled, “The Sabbath.” Other works which he produced are “Here and Hereafter” (a revision of “Man’s Nature and Destiny”); “Looking Unto Jesus” (a revision of “The Sanctuary and 2300 Days”); “Daniel and the Revelation” (a combination and revision of two earlier volumes, “Thoughts on Daniel” and “Thoughts on the Revelation”); “The Marvel of Nations” (a revision of “The United States in Prophecy”), and a vast amount of smaller works, serial articles, tracts, and poems. For many years he was connected editorially with this paper, and has contributed many articles to its columns. He had rare facility in expressing his thoughts pleasantly, oftentimes eloquently and poetically, and always clearly. You could easily understand what he meant by what he said. Many have been brought to the truth by reading his works. The morning he died he expressed himself as feeling as well as he did twenty years ago; but crossing the street from the Review and Herald office to the tabernacle at 11:30 he was stricken with apoplexy, dying two hours later. The funeral services were held in the tabernacle March 8, conducted by Pastors A. G. Daniells, president of the General Conference, and W. W. Prescott, managing editor of the Review and Herald. The fruit of the union between himself and Miss Harriet N. Stevens, consummated by marriage June 7, 1857, were one daughter and four sons, all of whom are living, one of whom, Leon A. Smith, is on the editorial staff of the Review. With one of old we can say, “Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?” For fifty years, almost, he has done noble service for God, and he comes to his end still harnessed for the battle, full of years and labors. May the truth which God has spoken through him do its work for souls until the end. The following poem, written to his memory, comes to us from the pen of Mrs. L. D. A. Stuttle, a friend of years:—

REST.

Sleep, warrior, sleep, thy battles all are done; Rest, calmly rest, The strife is o’er, the victory is won,— Ah, thou art blest. No more for thee the burdens of the way, Thou hast forgot the toils of yesterday.

The mother grieves not when her infant sleeps, But calm and mild, With smiling face her mother-watch she keeps Above her child; Content to watch, content to wait awhile,— She knows her darling will awake and smile.

Sleep, warrior, sleep, while we, thy comrades, toil; God gives thee sleep. Forever done earth’s tempest and turmoil,— Why should we weep? For soon the voice of God death’s seal shall break, And when the morning dawns, thou shalt awake.

What Do These Things Mean? The Spirit of Combine

By Editor

“What Do These Things Mean?”—This is a question often repeated. Men and women in many parts of the earth have been asking it during the past year of old earth’s tremors, quakes, and pains. Many are asking it of the great trusts. Thousands are asking it of the great combines and confederations from nations to schoolboys. The spirit of combine breathes in the very air. Many men are rushing from one extreme to the other—for the trust against the labor-union, for the union against the trust, in blind, mad partisanship. Thoughtful men stand doubting. The great questions of the ages are involved. Is it national, party, or class ambition or character? Is it the man or the nation as the unit? Is it the great mass or the individual? Is it primitive Americanism or is it the opposite? The SIGNS wishes to contribute to the solution of this problem; it wishes to help its present readers and thousands of others to a right understanding of the principles involved. It will soon present three articles on “What Do These Things Mean? The Spirit of Combine,” by Alonzo T. Jones, author of “The Two Republics,” “The Rights of the People,” etc. These articles set forth principles, facts, history. The reader can see the working out of principles in the future by the past. The three numbers containing these should be circulated everywhere, among all who desire to know the true solution of the mighty problem.

Discontent and Its Cure.

A Socialist paper says that “the nation is a seething ferment of industrial discontent;” and it is, and that paper is doing all it can to increase it. If it had an effective cure, its doctrines of discontent could be endured; but it has only a political panacea for the cure of all ills. It is thus leading thousands to greater disappointment. There is but one cure for the ills of life, and that is the good old Gospel of Jesus Christ, individually applied by faith. Thus it can reach every man, benefit every man, bless every man, and save a nation which shall be blessed forever above the most utopian dreams of political reformers.

Was St. Patrick a Baptist?

A Baptist clergyman in Bergen, N. J., recently preached a sermon in support of a claim that St. Patrick was a Baptist. He avers that all the claim the Catholics have on Ireland's patron saint is that Rome canonized him. If this new idea should gain acceptance among Protestants to any considerable degree, a new and extended impetus would arise in the celebration of St. Patrick's Day—inasmuch as the holiday idea is becoming more and more popular.

Straws

Straws.—Just a few casual things—things pertaining to the representative elements of society—mark the exceeding worldliness of this Christian nation. Among the curious items paid for by the Federal Government for the use of senators, according to the secretary’s report, are 12 packs of playing cards, 3 packages of dominoes, 12 quarts of hair tonic, 162 pocketbooks, 9,100 grains of quinine, 5 pounds of snuff, besides bags for ladies, manicure sets, pocket-knives, etc., etc. In the assembly of the California Legislature a bill for local-option elections in municipalities was defeated; and the same day, in the Senate, the evening session had to be postponed, because so many members wanted leave of absence, the papers said, to attend a prize-fight in San Francisco. The newspapers, especially the great dailies, pose as the chief exponents of public sentiment, and those that pander most to the popular taste for entertainment give more space to prize-fights and gambling sports in general than to any other class of “news.” The prize-fight that lasts the longest and exhibits the most ferocity and brutality, receives the loudest applause and the highest praise from the crowds who patronize it and from the secular press.

Fasting in Lent

Fasting in Lent.—In speaking of Roman Catholic lenten diet, Dr. Buckley, of the Christian Advocate, remarks: “If people would live for the rest of their lives according to the rules laid down by the Roman Catholic authority of this city, unless sick and needing a special diet, the average duration of human life would be greatly lengthened, and the public health much improved. . . . We long since discovered that, apart from the effects on the mind and the morals, more evils are produced by gluttony, hasty eating, eating between meals, and having the times of meals too near together, than by the use of ardent spirits in any degree compatible with the continuance of life. No human being needs more than one square meal a day. People may be healthy therewith, unless doing a vast amount of hard manual labor. But fasting in Lent as distinguished from other periods is a yoke imposed by man, obligatory only on those who believe that the persons who impose it have a commission from God.” And he speaks truly: we have proved it.

“Sympathy Water.”

A court in New York has just fined a clairvoyant fifty dollars for practising medicine without a license. There is no question as to the unfitness of the woman to practise medicine, but we do not believe the law had the right to fine her. She testified that she gave a harmless preparation which she called “sympathy water,” and she tells us she has saved a great many people in that way. Medical men do frequently the same thing. They do not give “sympathy water,” but a placebo, a harmless mixture, as slightly bitter water, to persons who believe themselves sick.—The Christian Advocate sensibly remarks: “Hasten the day when people would rather pay for hygienic advice, sensible warnings, and the least possible medicine adequate to the case, than for large doses, inert compounds, magic powders, or ‘sympathy waters!’ Sunshine, fresh air, hygienic food, plenty of exercise, and forgetfulness of self in labor for others, is more potent than the strongest drugs, the mildest placebo, or “sympathy water.”

New Religious Education Association

A new organization in the religious field was launched at the recent great convention at Chicago for religious and moral education. That organization is called, “The Religious Education Association,” with Dean Frank K. Sanders, of Yale Divinity School, as president, and Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, as vice-president. The constitution of the National Education Association was adopted with such changes as adapt it to the specific purposes of the new organization. The purpose is the correlation and stimulation of all forces in the field engaged in the moral and religious training of the young. It is receiving commendation and criticism. In it is the spirit of the combine.

God’s Design for Human Character

God desires to make men—characters. It is Satan's effort to thwart God's idea, to make men parts of one machine, impelled by some human over-lord. Which way do you prefer?

Remember the General Conference

Remember our General Conference, March 27 to April 12. Pray for God's blessing upon it. See notice to those coming, on page 11.