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Defeating California Race-Track Gambling

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On page 9 we have an important article on the subject of race-track gambling in California, by Pastor J. E. Squires, secretary for California of the International Reform Bureau. We have not been able to do very much work in common with this bureau in the past, for the reason that it has had itself so closely bound up with Sunday legislation that we could not conscientiously do it. But here is an issue on which we can heartily unite. It is to defeat a measure that is aiming to bring race gambling back into California.

So many of those who are working for laudable reforms and improvements seem persistent to mingle with these reforms some religious measures, like legislation compelling the observance of Sunday by civil law, that it is difficult to find anything on which we can unite. For while we would gladly work for the abolition of race-track gambling, and while we always do all in our power to eradicate the saloon, yet when it comes to working merely to close the saloon or to stop gambling on Sunday, we think that the plan is not only too narrow, but it is fundamentally wrong. We shall hope to keep this matter of the menace of the proposed race-track law before our readers, and we ask all to do all in their power to defeat it. Gambling that is "winked at" by the authorities and permitted to run contrary to law is certainly bad enough. But when it comes to having a law in California that will make certain forms of gambling a legal thing, it is so grossly wrong that every good man and woman should exert every influence at their command to defeat it.

In Our Next

By Editor

Among the articles of special interest that will be in the paper next week will be an article by Mrs. E. G. White entitled, "Try the Spirits." This article has some very helpful suggestions in dealing with skepticism and Spiritualism.

"Man's Condition in Death" is the theme of an article by Mrs. Stuttle. When man is dead, is he still conscious? This is always an interesting as well as important topic to study.

One of the editors will have an article on "Science and the Sabbath," and there will be another editorial on "The Sabbath and the Creator."

The New National Sunday Law

By Editor

ON page 10 will be found an exceedingly important article by our Washington correspondent, on the Sunday law that was rushed through the last Congress so quickly and so quietly that scarcely any one knew anything about it till the deed was done. The readers of this paper have been kept aware of the fact that one of the most striking prophecies of the Bible calls for a world-wide Sunday law right at the close of time, and this nation is to take the lead in creating the law. It is therefore with deep interest that we note everything of this kind as it comes up.

Many people regard the question of Sabbath observance as a matter of mere opinion. But God in His Word has taken the subject clear above the opinions of men. It is a question of His own specific law. His law says that the seventh day, commonly called Saturday, is the Sabbath, and nowhere in all His Word has He, or His Son, or any of His apostles or prophets, ever given the remotest hint that this Sabbath of divine appointment has ever been divinely changed.

But the Scriptures do plainly tell of the power that would think to change the times and laws of the most high God. And through this power we have the observance of Sunday brought into the world, and the great mass of the people have been led to believe that God and Christ authorized the change of the Sabbath. But such is not the case. God's holy Sabbath remains as the only day He has ever appointed, and the Sunday institution is its apostate rival. It may seem hard to believe this, but the study of the Bible will reveal that it is actually so.

Memory Text for the Week

John 8:10, 11

"And Jesus lifted up Himself, and said unto her, Woman, where are they? did no man condemn thee? And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn thee: go thy way; from henceforth sin no more."

Religious Liberty Issues and National Affairs

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We would continue to call attention to the advertisement, on page 15, of the six religious liberty special issues of this paper. We still have a number of them on hand, and while they last they will be furnished at the prices named, but we are not planning to print any more. As suggested last week, our readers will find them a splendid document for reference, and to lend among their neighbors, to place in reading-rooms, and the like.

The National Irrigation Congress is to convene this year in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30 to October 3. There is a wide-spread interest in the congress this year, because of the discussions that will take place on the subject of the water rights to the Rio Grande River. Texas is especially interested in this feature, and is preparing to send a whole train load of delegates. Colorado and other near-by states are also sending very large delegations.

The super-dreadnought battle-ship, the Pennsylvania, authorized by the last Congress, is to be the largest ever built. She is to cost $15,000,000, and to have 30,000 tons displacement. Her length is to be 630 feet, and her beam 95 feet 2 5-8 inches. This is just about three times the displacement of the greatest battle-ships of fifteen years ago; and when the improvements in fighting power are considered, good naval authorities warrant us in saying that it is not far from 1,500 times as powerful. This will serve to give something of an idea of the terrible progress the nations are making in preparing for the great battle-field of Armageddon.

A very distinct earthquake shock was felt here and throughout Northern California on the morning of September 12. It is interesting and also a little curious to note how real estate men and others interested in various local affairs will try to keep accounts of storms and earthquakes out of the papers. But each section of the country is now coming to have its full share of disasters of some sort, and hence no locality has whereof to boast over another. And we will see that storms, earthquakes, and other violent phenomena of nature will continue to increase and to become more and more violent. And as we see these things coming on, we should not become terrified about it, but seek to know the meaning of it, and be ready for the event it portends.

Mexican rebels have been very active along the United States border during the last few days, and some American property has been destroyed and a number of Americans have lost their lives. A Southern Pacific passenger-train was destroyed in Mexico, and one bridge burned up, and a general threat was made that if the railroad company did not cease carrying supplies for the Madero government the rebels would destroy all the rest of their bridges and their property generally. A popular tumult in Mexico City stormed the Mexican Congress on September 14, shouting, "Death to Madero!" and "Long live Porfirio Diaz!" The demand was very urgent that Madero be dragged from his position, and that the aged Diaz be recalled from his retreat in Europe. Because of the conditions, which grow more and more threatening, the United States is under the necessity of concentrating large numbers of troops on the borders, ready for any emergency.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., SEPTEMBER 24, 1912

Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. When the Common ("King James" or "Authorized") Version or the American Standard Revised Version is used, the version will not generally be designated in reference. Any Bible quotation in this paper, therefore, differing from the Common Version, unless otherwise indicated, will be almost invariably from the American Standard edition of the Revised Bible, copyright 1910, by Thomas Nelson & Sons.

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Contained in This Issue

Question Corner	PAGE
3860—The Tithe and the Promise; 3861—In the Bosom of the Father; 3862—Some Questions from a Catholic; 3863—The Prohibition Platform; 3864—Service in the Heavenly Tabernacle; 3865—Supremacy of Turkey; 3866—Different Names	2
Our Bible Band	2
Editorial
He Is Knocking at Your Door	3
Life Is Short, and Much to Do	4
The Bible and Agnosticism	4
General
A Solemn Lesson	6
A Spiritual Autobiography—VI	7
Sin, and What Man Lost by It	8
Toleration Versus Liberty	8
Race Gambling Legalized Again in California	9
Our Bible Reading
Christ and the Sabbath	9
The Outlook
The Long Record Broken	10
Home and Fireside
Gossip	12
The Influence of a Torn Tract	13
Poetry
Night	6
Railway to Heaven	7
A Mother to Her Son	12

Pastor Wilcox’s Eastern Meetings

By Editor

Pastor M. C. Wilcox, our senior editor, is still in the East, attending general meetings. He has attended camp-meetings at Kokomo, Indiana; Bay City, Michigan; Washington, Pennsylvania; and Utica, New York; also meeting with various churches in other parts of the latter state. He writes that many good meetings have been held. He has had charge of as many as five services a day, which has been quite wearing physically, but the Lord has greatly blessed. Many requests for prayer have been made, and God heard and answered. At the various revival services, many went forward and obtained a blessing. On several occasions nearly the whole congregation and the choir as a body pressed forward, and many victories were gained. At Utica the rain promised to break up the Sabbath meeting. An experience was related in which the Lord stayed the wind in answer to prayer at a distant camp-meeting; and the situation was laid upon Him whose "Peace, be still," is as efficacious as ever. The rain held off, and a blessed Sabbath day, rich with God's blessing, was experienced. In visiting the scenes of his former labors, he also writes that he meets some old friends, but misses many familiar faces, which makes him feel almost like "the last leaf on the tree in the spring." "But," he adds, "we will look to Him who is able to give more abundant life. 'They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.'"

The Nogis’ Heroic Suicide

As an act of heroism, and to show his loyal affection for the late emperor of Japan, the leading Japanese general and his wife, Count and Countess Nogi, committed suicide together on September 13. It is a great thing to have a religion and to live amid surroundings that deliver one from such destructive superstitions.