p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 11. (3/16/1904)

A NEW SERIES OF ARTICLES ON CAPITAL AND LABOR.

By Editor

FROM the pen of Prof. G. W. Rine, who has for years been a student of the subject, we shall soon present the following articles under the general heading:—

THE INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN THE LIGHT OF REVELATION.

I. Work a Duty and a Blessing; II. Wealth and the Obligations It Imposes; III. The Demon of Avarice; IV. Monopoly, Its Nature and History; V. Present-Day Monopoly; VI. Phenomenal Increase of Wealth in the End of the Age; VII. Congestion of Wealth versus Diffusion of Knowledge; VIII. Prevalence and Duration of Poverty; IX. "Lovers of Pleasures;" X. Lawlessness of Labor; XI. What Will the Harvest Be? XII. How the Problem Will Be Solved; XIII. "They Shall Not Build and Another Inhabit."

The above are not to be considered as exact titles, but as indicating the general scope of the subject.

We know that these will be intensely interesting. The paper for this period of time ought to receive a large number of short term subscriptions. We shall endeavor to announce when the series will begin in our next.

History of Government Concludes Next Week

By Editor

The articles on "History of Government" close with next week's issue.

Sanitarium Food Company Meeting Notice

By Editor

Notice of Sanitarium Food Company meeting at Sanitarium, Cal., March 10, came too late for insertion.

Home Department Readings

By Editor

Do not fail to read in our Home department the little poem, "Kisses That Came Too Late," and "Bed-time Talks with the Children." Truth is of no benefit unless it is made practical.

Mormon and Catholic Allegiance

It is worthy of note that while the United States Government is doing all that it can to unseat a Mormon senator because he has taken oath to support a church antagonistic to this government, it for years has been advising with prominent officials in the Catholic Church, who have taken solemn vows of allegiance to that church,—a church which holds that to its head—the pope—belongs temporal power, the power to establish kingdoms and unseat rulers. What is the difference in principle between the two?

The Reality of Heaven

Some souls may be deceived by the metaphysical delusions of "immaterial souls," "subliminal selfs," and other "transcendental" notions of certain schools of philosophy regarding man's nature and a future state, but most people, like the old man who had listened to a talk upon this subject for a time, will say, "I want to be somebody and go somewhere, and be somebody when I get somewhere, instead of being nobody and go nowhere, and be nobody when I get nowhere." God is real, heaven is real, and so will His people be when made immortal. It is no fiction that we "have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." Heb. 10: 34.

To Many Inquirers

By Editor

To Many Inquirers.—We are receiving many inquiries from carpenters and others in different parts of the West, and even from the East, as to Mountain View, where the Pacific Press expects soon to move. We are asked, What are the prospects of employment in carpenter work, about the printing establishment, etc.? We would like to state: (1) There are more local carpenters, those living within a few miles, than can be employed; (2) the printing and publishing business will not use any more employees at Mountain View than it uses at Oakland, if as many; (3) the only outlook for employment will be such as can be found in a small country village and for a brief season in the year in the country around in the fruit harvest; (4) all things considered, the locality is a favorable one for the office and a limited number of employees, but it offers a poor prospect, in the judgment of the writer, to any one who is dependent on day labor for support, and no permanent work. There are other openings in California, Oregon, and Washington, which offer much better opportunities to the poor in this world's goods, or those of limited capital. To all we would say, Be sure you are needed and wanted before you come.

Loyalty, Manliness, Principle

Loyalty, Manliness, Principle.—Jeremiah reproved his people of their disloyalty by holding before them the loyalty of the Rechabites to the principles of their father. Even so Christians may learn a good lesson from the Japanese. Mr. Clough, a newspaper correspondent of note, tells us that in China one can buy the profoundest State secret for a hundred taels; in Europe and America such secrets can be gotten by other means; but in Japan a monarch's ransom would not corrupt the meanest coolie to betray in any way his country's secret or honor. It is a noble trait of character. So Christians ought to regard the interests of God's cause. Again: it is a notorious fact that among soldiers, as a rule, are found many drunken, boisterous men, and this is especially manifest in invasions of foreign countries. But not so Japan. This is what Jack London, an American, says of the Japanese soldiers in Seoul, Korea:—

I doubt if there be more peaceable, orderly soldiers in the world than the Japanese. Our own soldiers, long ere this, would have painted Seoul red with their sky-larking and good-natured boisterousness, but the Japanese are not boisterous. They are deadly serious.

Yet no one of the civilian population is afraid of them. The women are safe; the money is safe; the goods are safe. The Japanese established a reputation in 1894 for paying for whatever they took, and they are living up to that reputation.

"But if they were the Russians"—say the Koreans, and the European and American residents ominously shake their heads. I have yet to see one drunken Japanese soldier. Not one disorderly or even boisterous one have I seen—and they are soldiers.

All honor to them for their loyalty, their manliness, their unswerving adherence to those principles. We wish they were Christians. How noble indeed would be these principles sanctified.

Prophetic

By Editor

Prophetic.—The late Parke Godwin, editor, lawyer, orator, for many years editor of the New York Evening Post, in the beginning of his career held these views:—

I regarded all forms of protection a departure from the true American idea of government, a pernicious violation of the liberty of the individual, and an incipient socialism which would end by introducing into our legislation schemes of interference and patronage that would be fatal to the stability of our institutions.

Earthquakes in Peru and New Mexico

A heavy earthquake occurred at Lima, Peru, on March 4. Great damage was done to buildings, but no lives are reported lost. The shock was the most severe felt there in thirty years. Twenty-eight earthquakes since the first of January have occurred in the vicinity of Socorro, N. M. The latest disturbances there have caused the river to overflow the lower portion of the city, resulting in considerable property loss.

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