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LITERARY NOTICES.

“SELF-PRONOUNCING BIBLE DICTIONARY.” By James P. Boyd, A. M. A. J. Holman & Co., Philadelphia.

The above is a little gem. It is only 2¾ inches wide by 4½ long, and ⅜ of an inch thick, outside measurement. It can be carried in the vest pocket easily. It contains the proper names of the Bible, and many other words, syllabified and accented, sounds diacritically. May its mission be large.

“CHEERFUL TO-DAYS AND TRUSTFUL TO-MORROWS.” By Margaret E. Sangster. With portrait of the author and other cuts. Eaton and Mains, New York.

This is one of this well-known writer’s best books. The beauty of true Christianity glows in every chapter, of which there are thirty-two in the modest, neatly-printed little volume. We are sure that many a mother, worried with the cark and care of life, will find in it a helping hand to restfulness in Him. It will prove an inspiration in many a home-life. It has its theological errors, but they are few, and it has its abundance of Gospel sunshine.

“A REVOLUTION IN THE SCIENCE OF COSMOLOGY: THE KEYSTONE TO THE ARCH OF SCIENCE.” By George Campbell, Esq., Oswego, Kansas.

This unpretentious little work, of a little more than 150 pages, is a veritable charge of grape-shot and canister right in the face of the commonly-taught ideas concerning world formations. The author, a lawyer and judge, has studied and read widely upon the subject, and, as the “Introduction” tells us, the contents of the book include the latest data bearing upon the question, gathered, at great expense, from all parts of the world. The writer holds that the very latest and most emphatic developments show that the earth began in an aqueous condition, and will end in an igneous condition. It began, as the Bible declares, covered with water, and that the fusing with fire is in the future, when the elements shall “melt with fervent heat.” We believe that the book is worth reading by all scientists and teachers. There is one thing that Mr. Campbell has not taken into consideration, and no correct theory of the cosmogony of the universe can ignore it, and that is sin and its effect. It is also a pity that better work was not done by printer and proof-reader. The book can be obtained by addressing the author.

“FOR CHARLIE’S SAKE, AND OTHER LYRICS AND BALLADS.” By John Williamson Palmer. 12mo., cloth, deckle edges, gilt top. Price, $1.00, net. Postage, 7 cents. New York and London. Funk and Wagnalls Company.

This little book shows the author to be a true poet, the tone of the sixteen poems will live, except almost wholly in the hearts of the poet’s personal friends. The volume is beautifully printed.

“THE TRANSFIGURATION OF MISS PHILURA.” By Florence Morse Kingsley. 16mo., cloth; halftone frontispiece. Price, 60 cents, net. New York and London. Funk and Wagnalls Company.

This is a bright little story, hardly worth the neat printing, binding, and price, illustrating some of the phases of that sort of faith found in faith perversions.

“SPIRITUAL KNOWING, OR BIBLE SUNSHINE.” By Theodore T. Seward. Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York and London.

This book is a mixture of some precious truths of Christianity with the baleful errors of spiritual pantheism and Christian Science. It lacks the pure, unaberrated sunshine of God’s truth and love.

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HOMES IN OLD VIRGINIA.

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Worldly Methods versus Christian.

The world's method of work is centralization, financial, economical, and effective—for the present. Its object is gain, power. By it the controlling elements are in the hands of the few, the many composing parts of the great machine. This method develops the talents and increases the capacity of the few, suppresses the talents of the many; it develops the spirit of imperiousness on the part of the few, and creates and fosters suspicion, jealousy, unrest, and rebellion, on the part of the many.

The Christian method is to develop the individual. Its object is not the money, but the man. Its true purpose is to enlist the interest of every soul in the salvation and well being of his fellow-men. Thus enlisting the interest of every soul, giving every soul full opportunity to develop every talent he possesses, creates strong men, capable of bearing responsibilities, fruitful of resources, and more widely helpful than the centralizing method can be. Love is diffusion. It gives, and must continue to give, that it may live. Its beginning may seem to be slow, but in the ultimate it will prove to be the only thing which is eternally effective. One of the troubles in Christianity to-day is that it is endeavoring to do Christ’s work with worldly methods. The combination of the two proves death to one or the other, or both.

One of the great object-lessons of the mighty increase of wealth and the imperialistic influences manifest in its mighty combinations and in the labor unions, is before us in the great steel-workers’ strike against the great billion-dollar trust. At this writing 75,000 men are involved. If not settled soon, we are told that it will involve 130,000, and no one knows the end. It is said that Pennsylvania is on the eve of the biggest anthracite coal strike ever known. It is a strike of stationary firemen, and it may force into idleness 500,000 miners. And there are numerous other smaller strikes. In the steel-workers’ strike the trouble is not over wages, but the principle of unionism, which the trust ignores. The battle means much.

The Perfect Law

Read “The Perfect Law” on page 2.

Our Wealth and War Number

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Study the Republic-to-Monarchy Series

Study the article and those which precede and follow, “From Republic to Monarchy.” They are of intense interest and importance. The following article will be entitled, “From Degeneracy to Religious Despotism.”

Orders for Wealth and War Number

In the Pacific Press Publishing Company's Chapel service held last Sunday morning, the special Wealth and War number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES was spoken of. The result was that three of the employees went through the office later in the day and obtained orders for 2,345 copies.

Hoarded Wealth Amid Famine

“The London Mail,” tells us that in Bombay, a province of famine-stricken India, it is estimated that 12,000,000 English gold sovereigns are hoarded, doing no good, while people have been dying by millions for the want of what this money would have supplied. This is only an item of a far larger count in like lines.

THE GODS OF TO-DAY.

[The following beautiful poem forms a part of our cover engraving in our Wealth and War issue of last week:—]

Majestic, sublime, round the great wheel of time, The earth through the ages rolls on; From shadow to light, from the star-sprinkled night To the gold and the roses of dawn; But the hordes of mankind to the spectacle blind, With faces bowed down to the dust, Creep on to their graves as the manacled slaves Of selfishness, hatred, and lust. They turn from the dream of the glories that gleam In the deific light of the stars, And cease to aspire, as they kneel in the mire At the altars of Mammon and Mars.

The miracles wrought in the kingdom of thought, The wealth of the empire of art, The magical spell of the passions that dwell In the innermost realms of the heart, The beauties that beam over forest and stream, The grandeur of mountain and sea, The path of the soul to an immortal goal, The vision of glories to be, The music, the light, and the dream infinite— Our greed and our hatred are bars That shut them all out, while we turn us about To the worship of Mammon and Mars.

In liberty’s morn was our century born, Foretelling an era of right; We’re straying away from the light of that day To the gloom of the old feudal night. Our fathers began at the freedom of man, But we have forgotten it all; We seek our recourse in the doctrine of force, The gospel of powder and ball; In newly-blown pride we are pushing aside The Christ with His wounds and His scars, We turn from the cross to the worship of dross At the altars of Mammon and Mars.

J. A. EDGERTON.

PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE ARE ETERNAL.

The following from J. B. E., Chicago, Ill., to the Christian Herald, is what that paper calls a timely letter:—

Enclosed please find check for famine sufferers of China. Israel sinned, and God permitted the famine to come; China sins, and the famine comes. What shall occur to the professing church of to-day, which is largely following the teaching and doctrines of men, instead of following the Word of God?

And God has given in Rev. 14:6-12, and elsewhere, the very message which would heal the church if she would but heed it. “Fear God and give glory ‘to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come; ‘and worship Him, that made heaven, and earth, ‘and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” In other words, turn from man and his traditions to the Word of God.

It is not the attitude of prayer that counts; it is the condition of heart with which we come to God. Let the disposition, the need, the environments, guide in the attitude; let not the attitude control or direct the petition. We have kneeling, standing, prostrating, postures all recognized in Scripture. The great essentials of prayer are a sense of our need and simple faith in God’s all-wisdom, power, and goodness.

“BE SOBER.”

In the SIGNS of June 5, in the appointment of a meeting, the figures of the year became transposed so that it read 9101, instead of 1901. A subscriber writes:—

With the progression of the age, the military spirit, the heaping together of wealth, and the spiritual declension, what an awful thing to think of what that day would be! Well may we follow the instruction of 1 Peter 1:13.

That text reads: “Wherefore girding up the loins “of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly ‘on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the ‘revelation of Jesus Christ.” R. V. The margin reads “that is being brought.” God is giving His grace that His people, among whom He will receive any one, may stand free, clear strong, and true. The world is drunken with wine, and pleasure, and wealth, and war. God’s children should come up into the mountain-top with Him. They can look down upon all these things, and rightly estimate them in the light of the cross, and of eternal life. “Be sober, be vigilant.”

Churches and the Mammonistic Spirit

“The Homiletic Review” for June tells us, in reply to the question, “How far is the church responsible for the prevalence of the mammonistic spirit?” that “many preachers bravely fight the prevalent mammonism and inquire the way to a more successful warfare; but some have yielded to the contagion and are leavening others with the same leaven. The mammonistic spirit is positively promoted by churches when the expensive pews, the dress, the entire atmosphere, make it evident that there is neither room nor welcome for the poorer members of society.” A pastor is quoted as saying: “What the Protestant churches want is rich men. The more rich men they get, the better they succeed. Their ideal is a rich social organization. The progress of the world is toward democracy; the trend of the Protestant churches is to an aristocracy.” We are glad this is not universal. May God open the eyes money has blinded.

What Money Will Purchase.

—Money will purchase fine clothes, beautiful houses, luxuriant surroundings, dainty food, expensive dinners, costly wines, rare jewels, painting and bric-a-brac, elegant yachts, private cars, fast and fine horses, servility and mock homage, and more money to purchase more things. But money can not purchase sweet sleep, good digestion, happy homes, clear consciences, true affection, the favor of God, or life eternal. And yet all these things are open and free in Christ Jesus to all who will follow His way: “If any man will come after Me,” says the Master, “let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

Tenements and Vice.

The Tenement House Commission in New York City reports that there are 2,372,079 persons, or more than two-thirds of the population of the entire city, dwelling in 82,652 tenement houses. All the conditions of this deplorable system make for disease and unrighteousness. Old and young, immoral and criminal, of both sexes, are often herded with the well-disposed. The last census showed that in one block there were over 30,000. What a field is here opened for the millions of some of the great capitalists of that city!

Deal Fairly with Employees

Deal openly, squarely, fairly with men. Have you a young man in your employ whom you do not need?—Tell him so frankly, and give him the reason. Is he unfitted for the place?—Tell him so kindly. Are his defects remediable? Let him know what in your opinion they are, and how to correct them. It is the manly Christian way to deal, and its after effects will be far better than the way such things are often done.

Confessing and Forsaking Sin

The confession of sin that involves separation from sin, places the soul on the side of God, and in antagonism to sin. He is where he can realize God’s precious promise, “He that covereth his sins shall ‘not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh ‘them shall find mercy.”