THE management of the Garden City Sanitarium of San Jose, California, has now a thoroughly equipped bakery for health foods, and offers them at greatly reduced prices. Crackers from 7 and 8 cents up wholesale, in quantities from one pound and up; all other foods correspondingly low. Nothing but pure nut shortening used, and the choicest cereals, nuts, fruits, etc., are selected. The foods are first-class in every particular. Everyone should be an agent. Every church should form a club and have an agent to buy and sell. For price-list and full particulars address the
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This "earnest" is shown to be the Holy Spirit, and its reception absolutely essential to spiritual life and progress. The case of a young man, heir to a large property which he will receive at a future time, is used to illustrate the principle involved, and it does it so clearly that even the children will understand it.
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The words of the angel to the women at the tomb, "He is not here. . . . He goeth before you into Galilee," are used to draw men's attention away from dead forms and creeds and direct them to Christ, their only help. The latter portion of the scripture quoted, "He goeth before you," is shown to apply to the present time—that He would have us follow Him just now into the haunts of sin in the search for souls. It is indeed a precious number.
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PART 1—50 Pages of the Best Primary Songs ever written
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Jesus Loves Even Me
When He Cometh
Bring Them In
The Lilies (Flower Song)
Tell It Again
He Loves Me, Too (Sparrow Song)
Yield Not to Temptation
How I Wish I Knew
’Tis Love That Makes Us Happy
Hear the Pennies Dropping
Daughters of the King
Room in Thine Arms
Anywhere with Jesus
Help Just a Little
Little Feet, Be Careful
Heaven is Not Far Away
Suffer the Children
Singing As We Journey
Step by Step
This Week for Jesus
Bearing Fruit (Fruit Song)
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Dare to Do Right
Give Me the Bible
We Come, Come Again
God Bless Our School
Try to Bring One
Open Now Thine Arms for Me
Listen to the Songs
’Tis I, Be Not Afraid
Jesus, Come and Bless Us
I Love to Tell the Story
Keep Your Covenant with Jesus
God Be With You
No More Good-Byes
Kind Words Can Never Die
He Shall Feed His Flock
Walking in the Light
The Beautiful Shore
He Is Knocking at the Door
Vale of Beulah
Tarry by the Living Waters
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Draw Me Closer
Glory to His Name
Wilderness in God’s Mercy
Put on the Beautiful Garments
This Is Why I Love My Jesus
A Child of the King
Love Is King
Ask Not to Be Excused
Workers in the Master’s Vineyard
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Is My Name Written There
Everlasting Life
Able to Save
One Sweetly Solemn Thought
Sweet Be Thy Rest
Memories of Galilee
Till Prohibition’s Day (Male Quartet)
For the Right
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Safe in Glory Land
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Christian Citizenship and Sunday Observance
"Oakland has a large flagpole, and we are glad to see it. All citizens should honor their flag; but that this pole should have been raised and painted on Sunday is a crime against Christian citizenship that we can not overlook. Our laws are so lax here, and rules of society so easily overrun, that we get in the habit of seeing the Lord's day broken by bicycle races, Sunday picnics, etc., and consequently they do not arouse our feelings as they should. Our consciences get seared on this subject. . . . Not against any individual do we speak these words, because this is not a personal affair; but we speak against the practise of not observing the Lord's day as it should be observed, and we believe if the Endeavorers use their influence toward a better keeping of the Sabbath, men in positions of responsibility, as these men were, would not dare to trample under foot the custom and rule that has, more than any other one thing, made our country what it is to-day.
Just now "Christian citizenship" is greatly jubilant over the victories of Manila and Santiago, of Dewey and Schley and Sampson; but these were won on Sunday. If Sunday is a good day for war, why isn't it a good day to prepare to celebrate the results of war?
There are other points in Mr. Lyon's protest which it may be well to refer to, as they express a very common sentiment among Endeavorers. Crime is transgression of civil law; but what civil law of California is transgressed in doing legitimate labor on Sunday? What authority has "Christian citizenship" in this matter above citizenship which may not call itself "Christian," but which may be as truly so?
Why should a "Christian" conscience become seared by surrounding evil? Christ lived in an evil age uncontaminated. So did Enoch and Noah, Joseph and Moses and Elijah, and many others of the children of God. But, brother, there can be no "good conscience," no true Christian conscience, without the Word back of it. It must be founded on the Rock. But Sunday observance is not of Christ or the Bible. Sunday is not the Lord's day nor the Sabbath. For proof of this you have but to read Ex. 20:8-11; Isa 58:13; Mark 2:28. The only true observance of the Sabbath, or Lord's day, is to observe it when Christ observed it and as He observed it. In other words, it is to let Him observe it in us as He did in Jesus of Nazareth nineteen and a half centuries ago. Keep the fear of God before men, and men will fear God. If men can substitute a day God has not set apart for one that He has, why may not other men ignore their substitute?
CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.
By Editor
Poetry.
Could We but See as the Holiest Sees, HOPE ONSLOW . . . . . 2
Do not neglect to study the articles on the "Separation of Religion and the State," which begin in this issue. Important, vital principles are involved, and are in operation in both Church and State to-day. Forewarned is forearmed
Two Beautiful Songs
Two Beautiful Songs.—We are in receipt of two beautiful songs in sheet form, entitled, "The Broken Pane," words and music arranged by D. E. Scoles, and "The Dream of the Judgment," arranged by J. W. Scoles. These are excellent songs. Price, 30 cents. Address the publisher, D. E. Scoles, Washburn, Mo.
A Beautiful Publication
Our thanks are due Mr. E. L. Lomax, of the Union Pacific Company, Omaha, Neb., for a beautiful publication,
Burlington’s Record Passenger Locomotives
The heaviest locomotives ever built for passenger service are now on the Burlington Railway. They weigh 127 tons each, and the drive wheels are over seven feet high. The Baldwin Company, which built them, guarantees their ability to maintain seventy-two miles an hour. This is an example of our rushing age. The same road has appropriated no less than $6,000,000 for improvements.
A Great Field, Few Laborers
A Great Field, Few Laborers.—As illustrating the Saviour's words, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few," take the following summary from an article in the Union Gospel News, of Cleveland: "The earth's population is 1,500,000,000, of which more than 1,000,000,000 are yet non-Christian, say 800,000,000 heathen, and 200,000,000 Mohammedan; 200,000,000 are Roman Catholic, and 150,000,000 are Protestant. For the world's redemption Protestants are giving annually about $15,000,000 to sustain a missionary force of 14,200, of whom 4,300 are ordained, and 3,380 are unmarried women; associated with them are 4,200 ordained natives; about 80,000 toilers in all. The stations and out-stations occupied exceed 25,000; the communicants are upwards of 1,300,000, and increase at the rate of 75,000 annually; the adherents are estimated at 3,500,000, while almost 1,000,000 children and youth are being educated in the more than 20,000 schools."
Marking Children for Identification
A New York physician, in view of recent kidnapping of children, suggests that they be permanently marked on the skin in some way for identification. He suggests a thermo-cautery, which burns in the initials or some characteristic design without pain.
Christian Citizenship and Sunday Observance
"Oakland has a large flagpole, and we are glad to see it. All citizens should honor their flag; but that this pole should have been raised and painted on Sunday is a crime against Christian citizenship that we can not overlook. Our laws are so lax here, and rules of society so easily overrun, that we get in the habit of seeing the Lord's day broken by bicycle races, Sunday picnic[s, etc., and consequently they do not arouse our feelings as they should. Our consciences get seared on this subject. . . . Not against any individual do we speak these words, because this is not a personal affair; but we speak against the practise of not observing the Lord's day as it should be observed, and we believe if the Endeavorers use their influence toward a better keeping of the Sabbath, men in positions of responsibility, as these men were, would not dare to trample under foot the custom and rule that has, more than any other one thing, made our country what it is to-day.
Just now "Christian citizenship" is greatly jubilant over the victories of Manila and Santiago, of Dewey and Schley and Sampson; but these were won on Sunday. If Sunday is a good day for war, why isn't it a good day to prepare to celebrate the results of war?
There are other points in Mr. Lyon's protest which it may be well to refer to, as they express a very common sentiment among Endeavorers. Crime is transgression of civil law; but what civil law of California is transgressed in doing legitimate labor on Sunday? What authority has "Christian citizenship" in this matter above citizenship which may not call itself "Christian," but which may be as truly so?
Why should a "Christian" conscience become seared by surrounding evil? Christ lived in an evil age uncontaminated. So did Enoch and Noah, Joseph and Moses and Elijah, and many others of the
The Atmosphere Reserved unto Fire
Among the latest discoveries and inventions claimed for Tesla are artificial electric-light diffusing, like sunlight, “produced with an economy greater than is now known, and with lamps that never consume,” and the transmission of electric power to any distance without wires. In speaking of the powerful current he has produced, he says: “So energetic are these actions, and so strangely do such powerful discharges behave, that I have often experienced a fear that the atmosphere might be ignited—a terrible possibility. Who knows but such a calamity is possible?” Men heed this because Tesla and Sir William Crookes believe it, but God by His Spirit eighteen centuries ago said: “And the heaven [atmospheric] departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” Rev. 6: 14. “But the heavens [atmospheric] and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” 2 Peter 3: 7. Not only is such a calamity possible; it is sure to come. God has written it.
The Cause of Cyclones.
By Editor
The Marshalltown (Iowa) Reflector of June 24, takes the clergy to task for attributing to God the terrible tornado as a "dispensation of Providence." A correspondent asks what we think about it. He may learn by an article in the editorial department, entitled, "Stormy Wind Fulfilling His Word." One pastor, at least, Rev. Joseph Moran, of Eau Claire, Wis., came near to the truth when he said that "it was the devilish work of an unknown power, and not the act of God." Why he could not have said that it was the work of the devil, we do not know. The Bible says it.
The Missionary Magazine’s Brazil Number
"The Missionary Magazine" for June is a Brazil number. It has not less than eleven articles on the great South American republic. It also contains articles on Bengal, our missionary ship Pitcairn, with other articles of deep interest. It contains more than a dozen illustrations of places and missionaries. Surely such a magazine ought to have a large circulation. Monthly, 25 cents a year; 50 cents to foreign countries. Address, The Missionary Magazine, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
Why Not Sunday?
Why not Sunday?—The Christian Endeavorers of Alameda County, through their president, Mr. C. E. Lyon, protests because Oakland's Fourth of July flagpole, 185 feet high, was painted on Sunday. The C. E. president says:—
Hypnotism
By Editor
A despatch from Buffalo, under date of June 20, tells us that a man by the name of Joseph McAuley has been sent to the penitentiary for twenty days, for hypnotizing a woman, a total stranger, on the street. The policeman noticed the woman, with fixed gaze, following the man about the streets. He spoke to her, and she returned no answer. He took hold of her, and this seemed to rouse her as from some mysterious spell. She gasped, looked wildly around, and then, catching sight of the policeman's uniform, she begged him to protect her and save her from the evil power which the man exercised over her. Only a few days before another woman had made a similar complaint against the same man. When questioned the man had nothing to say. Certainly such a power or influence is evil. It is God's plan that the human mind and will should be free, consciously free. It is the object of the devil to make man a slave. Even tho hypnotism is used, as alleged, for a good purpose, its influence is evil. That man who wholly yields his will to another has weakened the resisting power of the will. Yield to no will but God's will; that alone is the normal, eternal law of your being.
Demonism
Demonism.—A New York paper of June 20 tells a story which vividly recalls the demoniac of Mark 5: 1–5. It is that of a five-year-old child who does her best to kill her brothers and sisters and injure herself. "The neighbors call her the 'devil child,'" says the report, "and indeed she acted like one. She would fly at children and grown persons, biting with such fury that it required unusual strength to subdue her. Then she would refuse food, and chew and swallow old rags, paper, and weeds." As truly as in the days of Christ, there are now persons possessed, or controlled, by demons, angels of Satan. The Master relieved them through the power of God by faith. Men call them insane; and so they are; but the cause is often more than physical. This does not mean, however, that men should sit upon these cases and punish the afflicted; nor endeavor to lay their condition at other people's doors, as they did in the early days of Salem, Mass. Humanity should do all in its power to ameliorate their condition, science to cure them, and Christianity to help or free them by every Gospel remedy.
It Is Wholly Bad
It Is Wholly Bad.—A religious—professedly Christian—paper concludes a half apologetic article on tobacco with the following:—
"Tobacco is a bad thing, and its habit usually disgusting, but all that any man does with the weed, so far as it affects others, can readily be duplicated with sauerkraut or limburger cheese. The best thing is to teach that it is evil throughout. The coming man will not use tobacco. He will know better."
Yes, tobacco is bad; it is altogether bad; not alone in its unpleasant odor, in its befouling of mouths and garments, in its many "disgusting" features, but it is poisonous. It weakens the heart seriously, and brings on various diseases; it weakens the eyes; it poisons the blood; it benumbs soul and mind in their finer sensibilities so that God can not impress them with the sublime truths of His Word. So much, and even more, for the user. It can be paralleled by "sauerkraut" and "limburger" in one thing only—offensiveness of odor. And as to the coming man's not using tobacco, the multitude of cigaret smokers among boys and the growing practise among women belie the prediction.
The Second Coming of Christ—the Evidence
"The Second Coming of Christ—the Evidence," from a lawyer's standpoint, is worthy of perusal by those who do not understand the subject. It presents in its fourteen pages much Scripture testimony. Its price we know not. Address G. W. Demarce, Christiansburg, Ky. We are glad of everything which keeps this great subject before the world.
