"Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matt. 3: 2. This was the cry of the great prophet John the Baptist. The cry is daily going out again, not only from one man, but from hundreds and thousands of men and women in every land, through publications printed in almost every tongue and distributed throughout the world. The cry is universal. Jews and Gentiles both are looking for the coming of the Messiah. The Jews of course are thinking this is the first advent, while Christians are waiting for His second coming, for the millennial day, the Sabbath of the Lord.
Just think, Jesus is really coming again, and soon! Are you looking for Him? Are you waiting for the Son of God to come and claim you as His own, to take you home above, free from all earthly care and worry, to be at rest? There we will meet our loved ones gone before us whose name is "found written in the Book of Life," and be with God our Father.
O, how sweet is the thought that our Saviour, our Redeemer, He who has bought us with the price of His blood, will soon come; and may we be found worthy, also ready, waiting for His coming, even as the five wise virgins were waiting, with lamps burning, and plenty of oil (faith and good deeds), for the Bridegroom.
This is the midnight cry: "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh!" The night is far spent, the morning cometh. Let us not slumber in vice and sin. Let us be sober, and look up; for our Redemption draweth nigh. "Surely I come quickly." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Rev. 22: 20.
Jesus is coming! The promise is true.
Who are the faithful, the waiting, the few
Watching and waiting, prepared for review?
Jesus is coming again!
Shout the glad tiding over mountain and plain,
"Jesus is coming again!"
MRS. D. W. MYERS.
Brownsboro, Oregon.
Patient Waiting
The Cost of Keeping Others Waiting
By Mathews
Whether a man steals from me a dollar or the half hour in which I can earn that sum, is to me a matter of indifference. The former crime may be the more demoralizing to the offender; but my loss is as great in one case as in the other. It has been justly said that there is as much injustice and cruelty in destroying a man's comfort during the five minutes you keep him waiting as in giving him an actual blow. But suppose ten or twenty men are kept waiting for one man. By an utterly inexcusable negligence he causes an utter perdition of capital and labor to that amount, more, perhaps, to say nothing of the vexation he has caused, unfitting twenty men for their duties for all the rest of the day.—Mathews.
"Away from Rome"
The movement in Austria known as the "Away from Rome," has a counterpart among the Roman Catholic Poles in the western provinces of Russia. Some 600,000 adherents are reported, and the movement is favored by the Russian government. A German correspondent of the Christian World writes as follows of the movement:
"While retaining some of the peculiar doctrines of the Romish Church, for example, the belief in purgatory and in the power of the Virgin Mary, they have thrown overboard everything which gives the priests any sacrificial or sacerdotal authority. The belief in the real presence they regard as idolatrous, and equally explicit is their negation of the dogma of papal infallibility. In a recent pastoral by their bishop, Johann Kovalski, the following remarkable passage occurs: 'The kingdom of Christ is a kingdom of light, of love and of peace, a kingdom which gives all men liberty and equality in Christ.' Another significant passage gives the attitude which the new church assumes toward the Bible. 'One of our principal duties,' says the bishop in another letter to his clergy, 'is the proclamation of the Gospel. Our lives shall be as a mirror to Christ's Gospel. The Gospel is our highest law, our light on the road of life. In every house the Gospel must find a place, and every member of the family must be versed in its contents. For it must always be remembered that our entire Christian life centers in Christ.'"
— Present Truth (London).
"Remember the Maine"
It is well sometimes to make haste slowly. When the battle-ship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, Feb. 15, 1898, it was directly charged to the Spanish government by a large number of newspapers. Excitement ran high, and there is but little doubt that President McKinley was forced into a war which he believed was avoidable. But the explosion in the Maine precipitated the war, and "Remember the Maine" became the "patriotic" slogan, the battle-cry of millions.
Now the Government, after all these years, is attempting to raise the exploded battle-ship and the more than two hundred men who sank with it. It will cost probably $1,000,000 to do it. It has been reported that already it is found that the explosion which sank the Maine was from within, due perhaps to accident. This report has been unconfirmed. But the truth ought to be known. If found to be true, what an awful lesson it will be of hasty, inconsiderate judgment! If it had not been believed that Spanish authorities or influences sank the Maine, the probabilities are that war would not have broken out. Think then of the fearful fruit which followed the rash, mad judgment.
It is just such rashness and unholy desire for revenge that makes mobs, always bad in a community, however small, but a fearful thing when it involves a nation.
The just ought to demand a fair trial of the accused, whoever he may be. The Christian should be willing to commit all things to the higher court. The poet has well said,
The evil can not brook delay,
The good can well afford
to wait.
Church Advertising
By Editor
On March 4 the business men of Binghamton, New York, gave their advertising space to the churches, and the next day we are told the churches were filled, from which the newspapers draw the conclusion that it pays to advertise. The Portland (Oregon) Evening Telegram remarks:
Important Decisions
THE Supreme Court of the United States has recently rendered a decision calling forth much comment; namely, that corporations having a net income of over $5,000 a year shall pay a tax of one per cent to the Federal Government. This is held to be not a direct tax, but in the nature of a license for doing business. It is estimated that it will add not less than $27,000,000 to the Federal Government's income.
The Standard Oil Company's case now before it, upon the decision of which, says Harper's Weekly, "depends the legal standing of all the great businesses of the country," will soon be decided. That company has $110,000,000 of capital stock and $500,000,000 of assets. The companies that would be affected by a decision involving its destruction have capital to the amount of $11,000,000,000. Apart from the great United States Steel Corporation, the Standard Oil Company is the largest manufacturer in this country and the greatest merchant in the world. It employs 70,000 men; its pay-roll is $150,000 a day. It has never had a strike or a lockout. This we are told has been prevented by little better wages grade for grade than in similar businesses, advances and promotion to the deserving, and a pension for long service. The article in Harper's Weekly is wholly in its defense, doubtless a paid advertisement. The Supreme Court decision will be awaited with interest.
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
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The Effectual Preventive
In an article on "Lent" the "Western Watchman" of March 9 says:
The fasts imposed by the church in times past were far more severe than they are now. This does not imply that the mind of the church has undergone any change, or that such works of penance have been found any the less salutary; but rather that, men having grown older in piety and in the performance of works for God, the church, our spiritual mother, has dispensed with much that was formerly obligatory, lest she overburden the weak wills of her children.
In a sermon in the same issue by the editor we have this vigorous declaration:
People can not understand why in Catholic countries the church is persecuted. She is not assailed by heretics or Jews, but by degenerate Catholic debauchees. Vice rules in all the Latin countries to-day. Lust is enthroned and licentiousness reigns everywhere. All the clean Frenchmen are good Catholics. All infidel Spaniards are libertines. The decent men and women of Italy attend church and go to the sacraments. Why are we making so few converts in this country where there is so little opposition from Protestantism? We have to fight the unclean spirit incarnate in our people: the dumb, dirty devil of lust, who will not listen or dispute, but sins on with impunity.
To remedy these things our Catholic friends exalt confession and penance, the stated fast of Lent, etc. This is stated in the article from which our first quotation is taken, as follows:
The Lenten time is the Christian's burial of self with the crucified Lord, that they may rise after this period of penance, as He rose, to a brighter and more spiritual life.
But that is not the New Testament idea. Never do we have placed before us by our Lord or His apostles stated periods of fasting and penance by which the flesh is to be conquered. Nor can man by such means conquer lust. The heart must be renewed, not by a long process of evolution, but by re-creation, regeneration, that it may reign in a fleshly body, holding in permanent captivity the lusts of the flesh. It means self-denial, crucifixion of the flesh, mortification of the low, base lusts of the human, but it means all these all the time in Christ Jesus. Listen:11And He [Jesus] said to them all, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. Luke 9:23.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Rom. 8:12, 13.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Col. 3:5.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Col. 3:8.
And all this self-denial, mortification, putting off, is not to be done for forty days in the year, or one day in the week, but every hour of every day. Under all trials and temptations of the flesh the Christian should keep before him the injunction, “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6: 11. Praise God, He gives us something better than the indulgence of the flesh; and he who knows Christ and His living presence may live above its power. Then he rejoices not in any work he or man may do to save him, but in the merits and power of Christ alone, who of God is made unto him “wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that . . . he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” 1 Cor. 1: 30, 31. Our Lord Jesus Christ “is able to save to the uttermost.”
Less Piety, More Politics
"The less piety, the more politics; the less love, the more legislation; the less faith, the more force."
Churches and Scientific Advertising
The advertising proposed, if honestly conducted, should lead to the reformation of some of the best of our churches, because it would disclose to the world their hollowness and lack of spirituality. So, too, there is reason to believe that the churches which have the real goods to show would make headway in estimation and usefulness by bringing to their aid the appeal which lies in up-to-date scientific advertising.
It would be worth while, perhaps, to test such advertising a few weeks till the novelty wears away. The people would find in many cases that the flamboyant and display advertising was the principal thing.
It is well for a church to announce its services in a dignified, proper way. The announcements ought always to state the truth. But the church can not stoop to the policies of the world or yield herself to its methods without loss of power. The mightiest advertisement a church can have is a minister who will from a full heart preach Christ and His truth without compromise, aided by a congregation whose lives are exponents of the Gospel. Lift Christ up; He will draw.
Dynamite Explosion at Pleasant Prairie
Three car-loads of dynamite exploded March 9, at Pleasant Prairie, six miles west of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The roar and glare of the explosion could be heard and seen for fifty miles, and the concussion broke windows more than a hundred miles away. Reports from the country ten miles distant say that houses that far away were torn down. At this writing the cause of the explosion is not known, and no estimates of the killed and wounded have been made.
The Camorra of Southern Italy
Italy is in a conflict which she hopes will be the death of the dread secret society, the Camorra. It started as a patriotic society three hundred years ago. Now it holds within its select membership, it is said, all the criminal classes of Southern Italy. We are told that it numbers 92,000 in Naples alone, and nearly fifty thousand in the provinces. Its members are bound by death-penalty oaths, and it passes death sentences as it will. It is averred that members of Parliament, judges, and police are in league with it. The object of its members seems to be to live in luxury without labor. It levies tribute on every industry of Naples. It collects fifty millions yearly. The government is trying to crush its power by trying its leaders for murder. Will it succeed?
Free Scholarships for Nurses
The Philadelphia School for Nurses, under the Red Cross supervision, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offers free scholarships to young women in all parts of the country, room, board, laundering, incidental expenses, special financial assistance, and railroad fare home on completion of the course. Length of course, two years; also a special short course and a home study course for those who must quickly prepare for self-support. The Philadelphia School for Nurses is a benevolent institution conducted without hope of gain or profit, in the interest of ambitious young women. Readers of this paper can get full information by writing the school at once.
The Open Shop at Panama
Palo Alto’s enterprising paper, the “Citizen,” points out that “now’s the time to settle the question of whether the [Panama] exposition shall be built without annoyance of labor trouble.” As the exposition enterprise is in the largest sense a public one in the financing of the project, “there can be,” the Citizen logically observes, “neither logic nor legality in a policy of discrimination in favor of one class of citizens as against other classes. It is a case in which the rule of the open shop is implied in the very nature of things.” It would seem that every fair-minded union man would agree with this logic.
A Traveling Cooking School
A Traveling Cooking School.—In the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen the government has started out to educate the people with three teachers, each of whom visits seven villages a year with portable stoves, etc., giving lessons to pupils at forty-eight cents a week, and allowing them to eat what they have cooked. The pupils have to figure the cost of the meal, fuel included, and to learn to get up a dinner for four—soup, meat, rice, and dessert—for twenty-four cents. This certainly is practical.
The Circulation of Lies
The London "Times" of February 3, after summing up the case of the "libel on the King," which was clearly proved to be baseless, concludes, "Of one thing all who know anything of their majesties are certain—that a more blameless pair, or a pair more happily mated, never occupied the position of king and queen of this realm."
It takes neither a great nor shrewd man to start a lie which will travel around the world.
Candy Manufacturers Violate Pure Food Law
Several candy manufacturers and retailers of San Francisco were brought before the board of health to answer to alleged violations of the pure food law. One confessed to using coloring matter of the nature of which he knew nothing, but which he found unlabeled when he purchased the factory. Another had been using paraffin in his candy. All of them pleaded ignorance or accidental violation of the ordinance.
Natural Parasite of the Codling Moth
E. P. Taylor, a horticulturist in Grand Valley, Colorado, reports the discovery of a natural parasite for the codling moth, the worst enemy of the apple-tree in that section. The parasite is called Trichagamma pretosa, and produces a progeny of 3,031,721,260,073,800,781,250 in a single season, which spells the obvious death of the codling moth wherever encountered.
Centenarian’s Remarkable Temperance and Vigor
O’Dillon Brown, at Taylorville, Illinois, a centenarian, who is thought to be the oldest man in the State, has never taken intoxicating liquor, never worn glasses, never used a cane, and retired as an active coal miner at ninety years of age.
Papago Indian Executed for Witchcraft
The body of a Papago Indian tied to the tail of a wild horse has been found by army officers near Yuma, Arizona. The murder of the Indian it is believed can be traced to his fellow tribesmen, five of whom have been arrested. Evidence is strong that the victim was accused of witchcraft by his fellows and this strange mode was taken by them for his execution.
Italian Jubilee and the Pope
Tho the festivity of the jubilee celebration of the independence of Italy may be endangered by the papal attitude, yet European rulers have announced, or it is expected, that they will visit Rome tho the papal palace be closed. A Catholic paper intimates that the Pope's attacks of gout may be more frequent than usual.
Russian Baptist Prisoners Preach the Gospel
One third of the Russian Baptist delegates who met in conference at St. Petersburg recently, had suffered imprisonment or exile. One of them, a man of fifty-six years, has been imprisoned fifty-two times and has been sent to Siberia twice. But wherever they have been they say they have found opportunity to preach the Gospel.
Reorganization of San Francisco Customs Inspectors
The entire force of eighty customs inspectors in San Francisco is to be reorganized by order of the treasury department. They will be promoted, lowered, or dismissed, according to merit. It is hoped that under the new organization opium smuggling and kindred traffic may receive a more effective if not fatal blow.
United States Troops Mobilized on Mexican Border
The country has been moved to a pitch of great excitement over the mobilization of 30,000 United States troops on the Mexican border. European powers, fearing for their interests in Mexico, are asking that the United States, if it holds to the Monroe Doctrine, shall protect European interests should a crisis demand.
Curtiss Aero-Hydroplane Trial Flight
Glenn H. Curtiss’s newly devised aero-hydroplane proved successful in a trial flight near San Francisco. The machine arose from the water and flew to the side of a ship, alighted on the water, and was hauled on board the cruiser. Later it was lowered to the water again, and he flew back to the starting-point.
Avalanches Bury Three California Camps
Meager reports state that the three mining-camps of Lundy, Mono, and Jordan, California, have been buried by avalanches, traveling in each instance as much as two miles, gathering momentum and bulk as they thundered down the mountainsides. Rescue parties have started for the camps on snow-shoes.
Floods Ravage Santa Clara Valley
A heavy rainfall resulting in floods in the Santa Clara Valley, California, has done much damage to property and livestock, especially in the city of San Jose. A large part of the residential district has been under water, and a hundred families have been compelled to vacate their homes.
Visiting-Cards for Paris Dogs
The latest social eccentricity of Paris is visiting-cards for dogs. They have “two sets of cards which are duly left with other dogs at the houses where they visit. One card gives the dog’s real name and pedigree, and the other its pet name joined to the family name of its owner.”
Criticism of Philippine Officials
A brief filed with the House Committee on Insular Affairs contains the following excerpt: “Many of the most prominent American officials in the Philippine Islands have demonstrated such intellectual unfitness and moral obtuseness that they should be summarily removed.”
Moving-Picture Fire in St. Petersburg
Ninety spectators, many of whom were children, were burned to death and forty others injured by a fire in a moving-picture show in St. Petersburg, Russia. The fire was caused by the explosion of films.
Radium Experiments on Horses
Radium injected into horses produces a rejuvenating effect and lasting radio-activity of the whole organism. A theory based on these experiments is to utilize through the blood a radioactive serum.
Ohio Bill Legalizes Sunday Baseball
The Ohio House of Representatives has passed a bill to make Sunday baseball legal.
Doing What We Would Not
A YOUNG girl one day exclaimed, “I love to make myself do what I don’t want to do.” In that paradox there is a world of wisdom. There are many duties that we have to perform that are distasteful. We can sulk when we do them, and groan because they are so unpleasant; or we can do as that young girl did, loving to make ourselves go through with them, and so get some real good and enjoyment out of them. It would be vastly better if we all loved to make ourselves take up the tasks that we are inclined to shirk. Of that girl, now a young woman, people frequently say, “Isn’t she a splendid young lady?” Her fine character is due largely to resolutely going at the things needing to be done from which she naturally shrank, and doing them with a song instead of a sigh.—Wellspring.
Family Prayer
By Canon Liddon
THERE is one mark of a household in which God is known and loved which is too often wanting in our day. I mean the practise of family prayer. Depend upon it, the worth of a practise of that kind can be measured only by its effects during a long period of time; and family prayers, tho occupying only a few minutes each day, make a great difference to any household at the end of the year. How, indeed, can it be otherwise, when each morning, and perhaps each evening, too, all the members of the family, the old and the young, the parents and the children, the master and the servants, meet on a footing of perfect equality before the Eternal, in whose presence each is as nothing or less than nothing, yet to whom each is so infinitely dear that He has redeemed by His blood every one of them? How must the bad spirits, that are the enemies of pure and bright family life, flee away — the spirits of envy, pride, untruthfulness, and sloth, and the whole tribe of evil thoughts — and make way for His gracious presence in the hearts of old and young alike, who, as He brings us one by one nearer to the true end of our existence, so does He, and He alone, make us to be “of one mind in a house” here within the narrow presence of each home circle, and hereafter in that countless family of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, which shall dwell with Him, the universal Parent to all eternity! — Canon Liddon.
Church Etiquette
By Editor
THE following rules on church etiquette are worth repeating. If every one who enters the house of God would put them into practise, there would be far less confusion than often exists.
1. If possible, be in time. You need ten minutes to get your breath, get warm or cool, compose your body and mind, and whisper a prayer before the first notes of the organ are heard.
2. Never pass up the aisle during prayer or Scripture reading. If you do your presence will distract the minds of the entire audience.
3. Be devout in every attitude; find the hymn given out, and share the book with your neighbor. Sing if you can.
4. If the sermon has begun, take a seat near the door, no matter if you are at your home church.
5. Take the inside end of the pew, if you are the first to enter, and leave the vacant space at the aisle end.
6. Don’t rush for the door after the benediction is pronounced, but linger a moment. We should be loath to depart from the sacred temple.
7. There should be no loud talking or jesting after the service is concluded.—Selected.
The Spring of Eloquence
By Dr. J. W. Alexander
THE great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, but be in earnest, or he can not be effective. We have smooth and graceful, we have splendid and elaborate preaching, but very little that is in earnest.
One man who so feels for the souls of his hearers as to be ready to weep over them will assuredly make himself felt. This is what makes him effective; he really feels what he says. This especially was the charm of Summerfield, above all men I ever heard. We must aim, therefore, at high degrees of warmth in our religious exercises if we would produce an impression upon the public mind. Without an increase of our numbers, the very men we now have, if actuated with burning zeal for God, might work a mighty reformation in our country. — Dr. J. W. Alexander.
The Fabre Marine Aeroplane starting from the water. It is the first heavier-than-air machine to make successful flights in starting from and alighting upon the water. In the place of wheels it rests upon three hydroplane floats. The plane of the float also acts as an auxiliary supporting surface in the air. There is but little resistance in water even tho the floats may be submerged by waves. It has a depth of about 6 feet, and an area of 280 square feet. It uses a 50 horse-power engine, has an 8½ foot, two-bladed propeller, driven at 1,100 revolutions to the minute. Its total weight is 950 pounds. It certainly seems safer than the ordinary flying-machines. (Courtesy of the “Scientific American,” Dec. 17, 1910.)
The Song on Shipboard
IT WAS Sunday evening on board an ocean steamer, and the passengers had met in the cabin to sing hymns. One gentleman hearing a very rich and beautiful voice behind him, and having his memory stirred by it, turned round suddenly and asked the singer if he had been in the Civil War.
“Yes,” was the answer, “I was a Confederate soldier.” “Were you at — on a certain night?” “Yes, and a curious thing happened that night. The hymn recalls it to my mind. I was posted near the edge of a wood on sentry duty. It was dark and cold, and about midnight, when everything was still, I found myself homesick, tired, and afraid. To comfort myself I began to sing this hymn:
“All my trust on Thee is stayed,
All my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenseless head
With the shadow of Thy wing.”
“It brought me into a better frame of mind. Peace came down upon me, and all the rest of the night I felt no fear.”
“Now,” said the other man, “listen to my story. I was a Union soldier, and I was in the woods with a party of scouts. I saw you. My men had their rifles focused upon you. They were waiting the word to fire. When you sang
“Cover my defenseless head
With the shadow of Thy wing,”
I said, ‘Boys, lower your rifles; we’ll go home.’” —Selected.
Patience, the Soul’s Ballast
“PATIENCE is the ballast of the soul. Without it any passing storm will set the ship tossing and straining. With it the vessel can keep steady, and go forward, or, at the worst, lie safely in the biggest tempest that can blow over the seas of life.”
The Soul and God Stand Sure
“All that is outward changes and passes; thy soul and God stand sure.”
Fulfilling Our Mission
By Editor
The Message for To-Day
It was 37 years ago that the Signs of the Times first began silently, fearlessly, and convincingly to herald the Message for To-Day. Passing, significant events,—great way-marks,—have strengthened its confidence in the Lord's soon coming, and added power has attended its circulation. Its success, if measured in dollars and cents, would be unmarked; but as a soul-winner to God's truth, it has made a notable record. Hundreds, yes, thousands of earnest seekers after light on God's Word have found this journal a great help to them in their study of the prophecies and the other Bible questions which perplex so many. Our friends and patrons have shown such a keen interest in the Present Truth Series, which ends April 24, that we have decided to issue another special series commencing with the issue of May 9, 1911, to be known as the
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Twenty-Five Features for Bible Readers
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25 Articles on the "MYSTERY OF GOD" IN CHRIST JESUS.—Spiritual, Deep, Inspiring, and Helpful. By Mrs. E. G. White.
25 Bible Readings on Great and Important Subjects Vital to Every Soul. Their value can not be overestimated.
25 Articles on Great Bible Doctrines of Vital Import. The Gospel in Type and Antitype, The Coming of Christ, The Sabbath, Man in Life and Death.
25 Studies on the Revelation of Jesus Christ, including chapters 12-22, covering God's Great Threefold Message. Instructive and Convincing.
25 Articles on the Great Present Mighty World Movements. Correspondents in the Great Orient, India, European Continent, and England.
25 Reports and Stories from the Great Foreign Mission Fields where the Soldiers of God are fighting the Mighty Battles of the Prince of Peace.
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25 Times that interesting Department to many — The Question Corner — will answer questions on all sorts of Biblical and Historical Subjects.
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