The path of progress religiously is in following living, expanding truth. The path of stagnation and dead formalism is the path of human creeds. (See article on the Reformation Churches, page 9.)
The trial of four Seventh-day Adventists on the charge of picking strawberries on Sunday, the 2d day of May, took place in the court-house at Greenville, S. C., Tuesday, August 8, in the presence of two hundred people. It appears that some three years ago Mr. Sullivan Wareham, with his wife and four children, journeyed from the state of Montana to South Carolina, where they located on a few acres of land in a quiet and secluded place on the outskirts of the beautiful city of Greenville, which has an estimated population of 35,000 people. In a humble, quiet manner, and by frugal thrift and industry, they have succeeded in supporting themselves by what they have been able to produce from their little piece of land.
During these years they have won the confidence of all their neighbors, with the exception of one person. This man has seemed to be possessed with a spirit of religious bigotry and prejudice since the Warehams became his neighbors, because of their strict observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.
As a result of this prejudice, he has continually hounded the tracks of his innocent seventh-day observing neighbors by talking unkindly about them, spying about to catch them at work on Sunday, and repeatedly threatening them with arrest.
This venom of religious spite and enmity reached its climax recently when he had a warrant issued against Mr. Wareham and wife and their fourteen-year-old son, besides six other Seventh-day Adventists, consisting of three women, two men, and a fourteen-year-old girl, for the crime (?) of picking strawberries on Sunday, May 2, 1909. Two of the men against whom the warrant was issued were Seventh-day Adventist ministers who happened to be visiting at the home of the defendant upon this occasion. The warrant, however, was served upon only six of the nine persons against whom it was issued, owing to the fact that the other three had left the community before the warrant was served. The day of the trial was set for Tuesday, August 8, at 9:30 A. M. By the time the hour of the trial had been reached, the people were assembling, despite the inclemency of the weather which was prevailing on that morning.
A jury consisting of six Greenville business men was impaneled, and the trial was in charge of Magistrate Samuel Stradley, whose rulings were fair and impartial. There were no attorneys employed by either side. Elder T. H. Jeys and the writer, however, assisted the defendant in trying the case. Three witnesses for the prosecution, including the complainant, his son, and a neighbor, testified that they saw the defendants picking strawberries on the day named in the warrant. It was shown, however, that one of the parties whom they swore they saw picking berries at that time was one hundred and fifty miles away. Thus an alibi was easily established in this case. According to the law of South Carolina, children under fifteen years of age are exempted from the penalties of the law in performing Sunday labor. Two of the children against whom warrants were served were excused by the court.
In summing up the case, Elder Jeys showed the jury the weakness of the testimony of the witnesses who testified that they saw the defendant picking berries. It was proven that one of the witnesses who saw the berries picked was a quarter of a mile away, on the opposite side of the hill, and another witness was four or five hundred yards away. The magistrate took occasion to instruct those who were to make the pleas, not to discuss any religious or theological question in order to prove which day of the week was the Sabbath, and added that the law of the land had defined that Sunday was the day to be observed. It was very evident that this instruction was given for the benefit of Seventh-day Adventists. It had been decided that the writer was to make the plea in behalf of the defendants, but the reader can easily imagine the embarrassment under which we were placed under such instruction from the court, for the case before the court was one of a religious nature, and that only.
We assured the court that we had no disposition to disregard the instruction it had given, but in discussing the question it would observe that the warrant itself had specified that the charge against the defendants was that of Sabbath-breaking, and therefore it was a religious question; for the only authority for Sabbath observance is found in the Bible, which is wholly religious. We showed further that the application of Sunday laws upon those who observe the seventh day of the week is out of harmony with the fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution, which says:
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States.”
Sunday laws are also opposed to the Bill of Rights in the South Carolina Constitution, which says:
“Sec. 9. No person shall be deprived of the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience; provided, that the liberty of conscience hereby declared shall not justify practices inconsistent with the peace and moral safety of society.”
It was further shown that the enforcement of Sunday laws required the observers of the seventh day to rest upon the first day of the week, in addition to their conscientious observance of the seventh day, according to God’s command, and therefore they would only have five days to devote to labor, while those who observe Sunday would have six days. Hence, it will be seen that the equal rights of those who observe the seventh day of the week are abridged.
The fact was also emphasized that Sunday legislation was placing a spurious, man-made sabbath in the place of God’s sanctified day of rest. We also brought to the attention of the court and jury the fact that the state can only rightfully have to do with civil things, and not with those which are religious. It was shown that the picking of strawberries was not an uncivil act, but a proper and legitimate one, therefore the state can not rightfully prohibit such work on any day of the week if it keeps within its proper sphere. We acquainted the jury with the fact, which was established by the witnesses, that the defendants were good neigh- bors and upright citizens. The following statements in reference to Seventh-day Adventists were read to the jury, which show that they are a moral, upright, and law-abiding class of citizens:
“No other sect can show a better citizenship. They are industrious, frugal, and peaceable. If all other men were no more prone to evil than they, the grand jury would have little to do, and courts, civil as well as criminal, would take a vacation on at least six days of the week and have little to do the seventh.”
“It is a fact that nobody who knows them will attempt to controvert that the members of the religious sect that is designated as Seventh-day Adventists, make up a good citizenship. Their cardinal idea is to harm no man, and as a class, they are honest, sober, diligent, and frugal. . . . The persecution of the Adventist people . . . is a reminder of barbaric ages when fanaticism ruled in councils of state, and set up the gibbet and the stake at every crossroad to vindicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ through tyranny, pain, malice, and murder.”—Editorials11from “Washington Post,” Feb. 11, 1908, and May 27, 1909.
A prominent United States Senator, in speaking of the Adventists, says:
“It has been my privilege to live among Seventh-day Adventists, and I can truthfully say they are a very honorable, intelligent, upright class of people. They are patriotic and loyal citizens of the government.”
In the plea we placed great emphasis on the dangers of Sunday laws, because they can be used as weapons by persons who are actuated by a religious prejudice to vent their spite upon God-fearing and devoted Christian people, who may, perchance conscientiously, observe another day of the week as the Sabbath, other than the day they observe. It was shown how the defendants had been pursued for years by the complainant in a most unchristian, uncivil, and vicious manner, simply because they observed another day of the week in harmony with the Scriptures. Attention was called to the fact that these godly women and children had been compelled to come to the court that morning through the mud and rain as common criminals because a neighbor, filled with religious prejudice, could take advantage of the Sunday law to manifest his hatred and contempt for those who do not agree with him religiously concerning the day which should be observed as the Sabbath.
After the plea was finished, the magistrate read a short charge to the jury, and they retired. The jury, after being out for half an hour, returned a verdict of “NOT GUILTY.” This verdict was received with almost universal satisfaction and approval by those present. We feel certain that the prosecuting witness in this case is not a representative citizen of Greenville County, S. C. This case, however, should be a warning to all who are seeking to secure Sunday laws, of the wicked nature of such laws, which should not be permitted to stain the statute-books of any state in the Union. K. C. Russell.
Britain’s Overcrowded Tenements
Three hundred thousand Londoners live in one-room tenements with three or more occupants. The death-rate of the London districts in which a million people are housed not so well as horses, is four times higher than normal. But London is not the only plague spot of England. In seven other cities the number of preventable and unnecessary deaths reaches a yearly total of 20,000, a black list of those slain by vile living conditions and overcrowding that equals the losses of the British in South Africa from wounds and disease. In Scotland twenty-three per cent of the families live in one-room tenements, and in Glasgow one-third of the families have no more than one room to huddle in. Conditions are no better in the smaller cities of Scotland. Kilmarnock has only 28,000 population, yet 35 per cent of its families dwell in single-room tenements. One eighth of the total population of Scotland do not know the decency of a two-room home. Eight million people of the United Kingdom have an average family income of no more than $5.00 a week, and in the cities they must pay at least a fourth of this for rent of pigsties miscalled tenements.— Providence Journal.
The Curse of Immorality
A recent periodical very truly and graphically says: “All the wars of the last five hundred years, with their total of mental and physical agony, with their privation and hardship, with all their expenditure of blood and treasure, are insignificant compared to the suffering and financial loss caused by immorality. When wars are finished, their dead are only dead. After years of famine and the sweep of the pestilence, come other years of plenty and of health. The curse of immorality, however, lives on and on for years, blighting the lives of innocent people, and forever creating sorrow and wrecking the health of the race as it passes along. Its effects are felt long after he who caused and transmitted them has been forgotten. As a source of moral and physical deterioration, it has no parallel in the history of the world.” And therefore the very first thing that any man can do for himself, for his family, for his race, for the good of the world in which he lives, and for those who are to be here when he is gone, is to lead a clean moral life. What a black tragedy it makes of life to pass through the world smirching everything one touches with a curse more low and defiling than the rottenness of leprosy!
The Imprisonment of Editor Warren
By Editor
The Socialist paper, “Appeal to Reason,” seems to have been considerably injured in its circulation by the conviction and imprisonment of its managing editor, Mr. Fred D. Warren. From all the study that we have been able to give the question, it certainly looks like a persistent, petty persecution on the part of the government. There is no question at all but that Mr. Warren has made rash statements enough, but he certainly was entitled to a fair and judicial trial. He was tried and imprisoned on the charge of offering a reward for the kidnapping of Governor Taylor, of Kentucky. The principal witness against Mr. Warren was Taylor, who testified, under oath, that he was not under indictment at the time that Warren made his offer; while evidence seems clearly to show that he had been under indictment for seven years. In the scales of justice, as well as of governmental proceedings, for the last few years, we see no reason why Editor Warren should have been thrown into prison. One of the real necessities of a free republic is a free press. It may say some things that are not so; it may draw altogether too radical conclusions; and, on the other hand, it may say some things which will drive to cover or desperation some men occupying high places; but the safety of a free nation depends on a free press, and the imprisonment of Warren and the prosecution of the New York World are a denial of the principle.
The Tolerance of Orthodoxy
A ROMAN CATHOLIC priest of Minsk, Russia, has been condemned to imprisonment for six months and to be deprived of his parish, for having baptized a child of a Catholic father and an orthodox mother, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The father of the child was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Of course that seems hard to Roman Catholicism, but the Christian Advocate remarks that “a few hundred years ago, and in some parts of the world within one hundred years, greater punishments than this were inflicted in the name of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.” True Christianity is always not only tolerant, but would demand the same rights for others which it would for itself.
The Tobacco Habit
How rarely is a voice lifted against the once widely reprobated tobacco habit. It may not be described as universal, but surely there are few habits more nearly so among men. Is there to be no check to its triumphal march? If but half what is reported about it be true, the habit in one of its forms, the smoking of cigarets, is making rapid progress among women.
It is reported that the smokers of the United States in the year 1907 consumed eight and one-half billions of cigars, to say nothing of the millions of pounds of the weed consumed in pipes and cigarets, and chewed. In seven years the consumption of cigarets more than doubled, the amount of those used last year being 5,300,000,000.
In 1896 the value of the tobacco raised in this country as it came from the farms was $24,258,000. Seven years later it was $76,234,000. In pounds, the product of the country each year amounts to nearly 850,000,000. Our own fields do not produce sufficient to satisfy the demand of our citizens. The value of the tobacco imported in 1907 in various forms was nearly $35,000,000, covering 40,000,000 pounds.
The tobacco industry of the country, it is figured, is providing an average of 100 cigars, 60 cigarets, and unguessable quantities of chewing, snuffing, and pipe-filling tobacco for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Their voices are not heard, but there is yet a remnant who have not offered up the smoke incense or polluted their mouths with the product of the nicotian goddess. It would be a most salutary, and to many a most welcome, movement which would influence men widely to set themselves against the tobacco habit.—The United Presbyterian.
Reading the Bible.
The Western Watchman (Roman Catholic), of August 5, has this note: “From all the Protestant colleges comes the doleful announcement that the Bible is not read any more by the students. The public press reechoes the statement, and asks: ‘Who reads the Bible now?’ And doubtless this is all true in many institutions of learning; but there are many still who read the Bible, who are loyal to the Old Book; who have tried it, proved it, know it to be the deepest, purest, sweetest, most responsive fountain of knowledge in the world. No, Watchman, there are Bible readers still. Let it not be forgotten.”
Eliot’s Predicted New Religion
Dr. Charles W. Eliot, ex-president of Harvard, who has predicted a new religion, is himself a Unitarian; and the religion which he predicts, Unitarianism. It is along the lines of the present trend in religious thought, a religion of evolution. He declared: “The new religion will not teach that character can be changed quickly;” “God will be so immanent that no intermediary will be needed,” both of which expressions clearly show that the Lord Jesus Christ is left out of the question, as are also conversion, the new birth, regeneration, and recreation. Thank God the old religion in all its power still abides.
Barcelona’s Revolutionary Unrest
Barcelona, where the revolution in Spain broke out, has a long-time reputation of revolutions. It has been the headquarters for various societies; among these is the Internationale. Too, Barcelona has enjoyed special privileges beyond the ordinary cities of Spain. Many of the people are against war. The start of the fight seems to have been the declaration of war with Morocco. A city in which Socialism and Anarchism exist in the most advanced forms, may be expected to break out with almost anything. After all, it is but the fruitage of the hundreds of years of Roman Catholicism.
The Imperial Defense Conference
“The Imperial Defense Conference” opened in London, July 28. We have not yet heard its conclusions. Its special business will be for the defense of the British Empire at home and abroad. It will doubtless bring into stronger, more sympathetic union Great Britain and her colonies. The events of the past few months have led the English Parliament to vote very freely what the ministry had already decided upon; that is, the adding of four Dreadnoughts to this year’s program, no longer to be “contingent” ships, but absolute. They are all to be laid down immediately and ready for sea without fail by March, 1912.
The Religion of Freedom
The “Western Watchman,” (Roman Catholic), declares that the religion that is wanted by the Modernists in the Roman Catholic Church and the Liberals in the Protestant Church, is the same, and declares that “human reason can not escape from the orbit of the supernatural, try how it may. This religion of freedom will soon turn out to be the worship of devils.”
Familiar Spirit Leads Millionaire to Ruin
A millionaire in Chicago, on the advice of a “familiar spirit,” invested $400,000 in coal mines, and the investment is a failure, and the millionaire loses his money. The ultimate of the devil’s plans always spells ruin.
Syrian-Egyptian Mission—Continued
By W. C. Ising
Our Needs
Worshiping on a Great Church Day in Jerusalem
Seeing encouraging openings of new fields before us, one of our great needs is that additional helpers be sent to the Syrian-Egyptian Mission, locating in some of the larger cities, some of which as yet remain entirely untouched. Our nine laborers are at present distributed in Beirut, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem in Syria, and at Cairo and Luxor in Egypt. The very near future must see a number of missionaries enter all these great cities and the many smaller places, granting them sufficient time to master the languages, to become acclimated, and to get accustomed to prevailing conditions. Missionaries responding to this call must come with the definite determination of consecrating their lives to permanent labor among these benighted peoples, willing to assimilate themselves to the situation just as it is, making this country their home as long as there is need of spreading this message. This will be one of the guaranties, under the blessing of God, for a successful work in this field.
Medical Needs
Another urgent need in our field is the wider extension of the medical work. The prevailing prejudice created by the misrepresentation of Christianity against Bible faith on the one hand, and the extreme fanaticism of Mohammedanism on the other, calls for a special development of medical missionary work. Even other mission societies are more and more advocating this work, as education alone will never prove sufficiently effective to reach Mohammedans.
Thirty Protestant hospitals prove the activity in introducing the medical mission. All our lay members in Syria have accepted the truth as a result of our medical work. No doubt there would have been much other fruit could this work have been operated on a larger scale. At present this part of our work is very encouraging, being nearly self-supporting. There is a strong tendency in favor of hydrotherapy, especially in Palestine.
Considering the important part that Syria has played in the history of God’s people, and is to play in the close of this work, and furthermore, seeing that it commands the entrance to Persia, and will be the center of communication when the railroads connecting Bagdad and Europe are completed, it seems that a special effort should be made to push the work in this field in preparation for the great missionary efforts yet before us in the Levant. This necessity is furthermore impressed upon my mind as the Arabic language is of such vast importance to the Mohammedan world in the East; the fact that this is the leading language does not put us to such linguistic difficulties as we must meet in other countries. Besides, as Christianity is so strongly developed in Syria, this part of the field seems to guarantee the greatest security for the establishment of a missionary center in the East.
Said a writer some fifty years ago: “It is remarkable that the brilliant star of Arabic literature, originally rising on the Arabian horizon, spreading from there such an illumination over the foreign nations of the East and West, has left Arabia in such a state of darkness.” This is true indeed. Considering, further, that this is the country whence the blessings of the Gospel have emanated, we, as Seventh-day Adventists, should feel a special responsibility to give the last Gospel message to those who sit in ignorance and darkness in this great field.
W. C. ISING.
Our Work and Workers
By Frederick Griggs
The New Magazine, “Christian Education”
The General Conference Department of Education will conduct a magazine devoted exclusively to the interests of our educational work, called Christian Education. It will be very practical in its teachings; not only practical, but we also hope to present such a clear exposition of the principles underlying our educational system as to make it desirable and attractive to those not of our faith. We also intend to make this magazine of special value to the home life. This magazine should be to the educational work what Life and Health is to the health work. All subscriptions to Christian Education should be sent to the Review and Herald, or to the state tract society. The price is fifty cents a year; or in clubs of five, to separate addresses if desired, the price is, for the present, thirty-five cents. Subscribe now.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
Loma Linda College Calendar
ANOTHER very attractive calendar is that of the Loma Linda College of Evangelists. This school gives especial attention to the work of preparing medical missionaries, evangelistic nurses, and Gospel workers. The institution has a strong faculty, and is preparing many to labor for the salvation of souls. Full information can be had by addressing the College of Evangelists, Loma Linda, Cal.
How the Signs Led Three Families to the Sabbath
SEVERAL years ago there were two families living in the eastern part of Canada, on friendly terms of acquaintance. One of the families moved to Middletown. A lady of Boston, with her little girl, visited the mother of this family in Middletown.13The little girl made the acquaintance of a little Seventh-day Adventist girl, and the two little girls had a talk over the question of the Sabbath. The first little girl reported this to her mother, the woman from Boston. This led to acquaintance with two members of the Seventh-day Adventist church and the reading of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and other literature. It resulted in their accepting the Sabbath. Afterward the other Canadian family moved to Middletown, just across the street from their old acquaintances; and through their renewed friendship and the reading of the SIGNS and other literature, the mother has also accepted the Sabbath. Thus in a short time these members of three families have come into this truth. And throughout it all the SIGNS has been of large influence in giving the knowledge of the Sabbath.
My Prayer
By Hannah A. Foster
I wonder if there may not be
Somewhere in God's eternity
A work-day season, long and bright,
For souls belated, whom the night
Surprises ere their tasks are done;
Who grieve o'er golden threads unspun
Because of weariness and set of sun.
I know not, yet it seems more blest,
More blissful were the soul's sweet rest
That sometime, somewhere, shall have wrought
Entire life's purpose,— deed or thought—
And so I pray, O, if there be
A place in God's immensity
Where life's work may be
Rounded, give it me!
— Hannah A. Foster.
Laurelwood Academy Calendar
A VERY neat and attractive school announcement is the calendar of the Laurelwood Academy, Gaston, Ore. This school provides work through the twelfth grade, and is an institution of the Western Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Until September 15, applicants should address F. A. Detamore, 61 N. Park Street, Portland, Ore.
Correspondence School
By W. E. Howell
IN harmony with an action taken at its recent session, the General Conference has enlarged the work of its Educational Department by the organization of a correspondence school. For the sake of effectiveness and economy, this school will make use of the machinery already set in operation by the Educational and Young People’s Departments, and will therefore be located in Washington, D. C.
The purpose of the school is to aid two classes of people; first, those who for any reason are detained at their homes and are not actively engaged in denominational work. This class the Correspondence School will carry until they may be able to enter one of our regular schools. The second class includes those who are already in the harness, but desire to become more competent in their special calling or to improve their general education.
The general policy will be that of cooperation and not of competition with the other schools of our educational system. On one hand, the Correspondence School will act as a feeder to our colleges, academies, and intermediate schools; on the other, it will do a work of extension or of supplementing what a student has already done in the usual way. Credits given by the Correspondence School will be accepted by our regular schools.
The cost of tuition for lessons by correspondence will range from $10 to $15 for work equivalent to one study for nine months in our resident schools, the student paying the postage both ways. The work will be on a basis of forty lessons a course, and the preparation and recitation of one lesson a week. The school will furnish recitation paper and return envelopes. Work will be begun October 1.
For the first year, the Board has decided to offer the following subjects:
Bible—
Academic Bible Doctrines.
New Testament (Life of Christ).
History—
United States.
General.
Church.
English—
Applied Grammar (Use of words, common faults of speech, pronunciation).
Foundations of Rhetoric (Sentence-building, punctuation, short themes, figures of speech).
Advanced Rhetoric and Journalism.
Greek—
New Testament (Elements, use, and interpretation of words and phrases, selected readings).
Mathematics—
Complete Arithmetic.
Elementary Bookkeeping.
Pedagogy—
School Management and Methods.
Science—
Physiology and Hygiene.
Will all who are interested please write the Principal a postal card at once, indicating which of the foregoing subjects they desire to take up, that we may gain some idea of which are in most urgent demand, and make our preparations accordingly. If any subject not on this list is specially desired, please indicate that also on the little postal card, and it will be taken into consideration. Look for future announcements in the Review and elsewhere. Address, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
W. E. Howell, Principal.
California General Camp-Meeting
The general camp-meeting for the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Oakland, Cal., Sept. 9 to 19, 1909.
The Missionary Idea
By Mrs. A. E. Ellis
BY MRS. A. E. ELLIS
THIS little volume aims to be a suggestive help to every missionary worker whose heart has been touched with a sense of the world's need.
Part One is designed to stimulate a healthy interest in missionary work, both “Home” and “Foreign.” Each of the 16 subjects is arranged in the form of a “Lesson” with carefully prepared questions.
Part Two consists of contributed, selected, and arranged matter which, besides its inspiring character, will suggest to the thoughtful reader ways in which missionary information may constantly be gathered and missionary sentiment encouraged.
Part Three gives an outline of the work done in mission fields since 1874, with a brief history of each mission and outline map of the more important.
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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing.—An exposition of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. It has 218 pages and six chapters: On the Mountainside, The Beatitudes, The Spirituality of the Law, The True Motive in Service, The Lord’s Prayer, Not Judging but Doing. A new edition just printed on fine enameled paper, new type, and reillustrated with 27 beautiful half-tone engravings specially prepared for the book by eminent New York artists. It will be found full of comfort and blessing by all fortunate enough to obtain and read it. A beautiful gift book. In paper covers, 35 cents. Address this office.
THE BOY PUZZLE
By Joseph F. Flint
A Picture Book for Mothers
By Rev. Joseph F. Flint
BUT this book is not written alone for mothers. Every father, in fact all who have an interest in the welfare of the boys of this nation will find a wealth of help and encouragement in this presentation of the boy question. The author goes to the bottom of things and shows very clearly where the trouble lies if your boy or your neighbor's boy goes wrong.
As the hope of this Republic lies in our boys a careful reading of “The Boy Puzzle” will do much to help solve the difficulties that confront us.
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Ready for you
By Editor
September Signs
Monthly
YOU will be delighted with the SIGNS MONTHLY for September. The cover page, a two-color photograph of Yosemite Falls, is simply refreshing. You can almost smell the pines, and hear the roar of the falls. This beautiful reproduction, in natural colors, most appropriately introduces the subject of true temperance in its relation to the present and the future, which is given special prominence in this issue. Over 13,000 copies were ordered before the magazine appeared in print.
“The purity of nature rebukes the impurity of man.”
Partial Table of Contents
General Under the heading, “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” appears a Wall Street Journal Editorial which is a splendid selling feature with business and thinking people.
Bible “Our Reasonable Service,” by Mrs. E. G. White, setting forth the reasonableness of a well-ordered and temperate life; “The Sabbath to Be Restored,” by Eld. C. L. Taylor.
Temperance and Health “Tendency of Highly Seasoned and Other Improper Foods to Produce Intemperance,” by D. H. Kress, M.D.; “The Effects of Alcohol on the System from the Standpoint of the Scientist,” by H. F. Rand, M.D.; Effects of Tobacco on the System, and How It Strengthens the Drink Habit,” by A. J. Sanderson, M.D.; “The Heritage of Intemperance,” by L. A. Reed; “How May We Gain the Victory?” by the Editor.
Home Story, and illustrations in harmony.
Twenty-five copies cost $1.00; they sell for $2.50. 100 cost $4.00. You sell them for $10.00. Order of your Tract Society. Ask for the SIGNS WORKER which contains selling points and suggestive canvasses.
