HOW TO GET THE PLANS AND READINGS FOR THE CONVENTION
By Editor
There will be four readings for the first Convention, together with suggestions concerning the meeting itself. The readings will be as follows:—
"A CALL TO SERVICE," Mrs. E. G. White
"CONTINUANCE IN WELL DOING," A. G. Daniells
"BEST WAYS OF USING PERIODICALS AND TRACTS," Various Writers
"OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR PRIVILEGES AND RESPONSIBILITIES," M. E. Kern
These will all appear in the Review. In view of this, and the other valuable matter contained in this paper, it was also recommended that "Librarians, Church Elders and Conference Laborers seek to place it in the home of every Sabbath-keeper."
Is your Church ready for this Convention? The members of each Church should plan at once for this meeting, arrange for different readers and speakers, and encourage every one to take some part.
"A SPECIFIC PLACE IN THIS MOVEMENT"
If this mighty Missionary Campaign is to be what its name implies, every one of our people must have an opportunity of sharing in its responsibilities, hence the Recommendation, which has already been quoted, to the effect that a specific place in this movement be given to every man, woman and child among us. To give definite assistance in this direction, the following recommendation was passed concerning
MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN SUPPLIES
"That the periodicals to be given particular prominence be the Third Angel's Message Series of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the special signs number of the Southern Watchman and such special issues of Life and Health and our foreign papers as may be announced later."
THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE SERIES OF "THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES"
As noted above, the great Third Angel's Message Series of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, which was described last week, heads this list. In brief, this is a four-section special number of the SIGNS, each with cover, containing pointed articles on the Third Angel's Message. It will appear on the following dates,—November 2, 16, 23, and 30.
IN SETS ONLY
Each reader of this series should have the opportunity of studying each section, therefore, all orders must be for complete sets.
PRICE
From one to four sets of four papers each . . . . . . . . . . . 20 cents a set
Five or more sets to single addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 " " "
Five to twenty sets to one address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 " " "
Twenty-five or more sets to one address . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " " "
ONE OF THE FIRST ORDERS
In a letter just received from Geo. W. Pettit, Missionary Secretary of Western Oregon Conference, the following statement appears:—
"In our Conference Committee meeting, held last night, the following recommendation was passed:—
"That the Western Oregon Conference take five thousand (5,000) sets of the Third Angel's Message Series of the SIGNS."
WHAT OTHERS SAY
"I believe it is just the thing and just the right time of year. Think I can use a hundred sets."
W. H. LOOSE.
"I believe this series will be the best thing for missionary workers ever published. I can use fifty or more sets."
F. A. SLATE.
"Believe it is a good plan, and think I can use fifty sets."
J. K. FEATHER.
"The plan is all right. If there ever was a time when the Third Angel's Message should be sounded, it is now. Hope we can use a hundred sets."
TINA ADAMS.
"I believe the series of four special SIGNS will meet with universal favor."
ALBERT YAZELL.
"The plan is a practical one. Can use twenty-five sets."
SIMON STOELTING.
"Publications on the Third Angel's Message can not be too many or too often. Can use seventy-five sets."
CHAS. G. BERGLIN.
ADDRESS
By Editor
SIGNS of the TIMES
Mountain View, California
Help for the South.
By Editor
In our Missions department will be found a strong and eloquent plea, by President Butler of the Southern Union Conference, in behalf of the colored people of the South. This aged servant of God has a great burden for the whole Southern field, and is bearing great burdens for the field. He has, as also every true Christian Southerner, a burden for the colored race; not to exalt them in their own estimation, not to lead them politically or socially, but to lift them morally. He speaks strongly; he speaks for a needy field, a needy race. He asks for a definite thing. How many of our readers will respond to his call? How many will cheer his heart by helping him to bear this one burden among many. May God move upon the hearts of all to help in the uplifting of a race. Sabbath, November 5, the first offering will be taken.
Not Beef, but Fruit
By Editor
Not Beef, but Fruit.—It is not the scarcity of beef that brings suffering so much as the scarcity of fruit. This we know by a happy experience and wide observation of years. We are forcibly and pleasantly reminded of it by a little booklet which has come to our table, entitled "Eat California Fruit, by One of the Eaters." There are nine chapters in its thirty-two well-packed pages. It names not less than thirty-six fruits of the Golden State, many of which most of our readers never saw; it demonstrates that among the very cheapest and most nutritious foods is California fruit; not only is the fruit nutritious, but healthful and disease preventing. One of the cheapest, most healthful, and most nutritious of California fruits, and, when properly prepared, one of the most palatable, is the prune. And this little book tells you, in about fifty recipes, how to prepare fruits in all sorts of ways. Fourteen of these are prune preparations; sixteen raisin, and the rest other kinds of fruit, such as peaches, apples, plums, grapes, apricots, pears, figs, olives, dates, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, guavas. The strictly temperate hygienist would not care to use all these recipes, but there is abundance for all classes. Two of the fruits named are not one-tenth appreciated at their true worth, namely, prunes and raisins. Too often the experience of the Eastern consumer has been gained by inferior grades of both of these fruits shipped from Europe, and we opine many Californians hold to their old-time prejudices. The author tells his readers that if they had eaten a pound and a half of California fruit each day, they "would have saved money; California fruit is the cheapest food you can buy." The author continues: "You doubt this? Investigate. Ask your grocer for California cured fruits. Ask prices of oranges, prunes, raisins. Compare with other foods. If you think you have me cornered, send proof to Charles S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager, Southern Pacific, San Francisco, who will act as referee. If decision is against me, you will receive a sample box of California fruit free, and your market will be better stocked hereafter." The Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, Cal., has done the world a service in publishing this little booklet. Send for a copy. It will not only benefit Eastern people, but Californians as well.
CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.
By Editor
Poetry.
Aspirations, L. D. SANTEE........................... 3
Life's Little Acts, BENJAMIN KEECH................... 10
Service and Sacrifice................................ 12
General.
Palm-Tree Christians, MRS. E. G. WHITE............ 1
A Spark of Holy Fire, H. A. ST. JOHN.............. 2
The Gospel of Jesus Christ, T. L. WATERS.......... 2
A Few Facts from God's Word, WALTER E. GILLIS............................................. 3
That "Sign Sabbath," CLARENCE K. REDFIELD.......... 3
Christ and the Christian Sabbath, J. ERNEST BOND............................................. 4
Lessons from the Natural World, ARTHUR FOX........ 5
"Why Didn't You Tell Me?"........................... 5
Editorial.—One Mediator—Barnacles or Ballast, Which?—That False Cry of "Peace"—Souls or Sovereignty—A Great Victory of Faith—A Significant Fact.......................................... 6, 7
Question Corner.—Nos. 1579, 1580............... 7
Outlook.—International Pure-Food Congress—Increase of the Gambling Evil—Death Penalty for Violation of Sunday Laws—The Prevalence of Crime—What Makes a Tramp a Tramp—War in the Orient............................................ 8, 9
Home.—Temperance in the Home, MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE—Sincerity Between Husbands and Wives—"'Fraid of the Dark"—Nervous Prostration as a Fine Art.......................................... 10, 11
Missions.—What Is Being Done for the Colored People of the South, GEO. I. BUTLER—How God Can Overrule—The Glendale Sanitarium, J. A. BURDEN—Alberta, N. W. T., HENRY BLOCK—Mission Study at St. Louis................................ 12, 13
International Sunday-school Lesson.—Joash, the Boy King.......................................... 14
The next issue of the Signs of the Times will be the first of a series of four special numbers on God's great message for to-day, including its warnings, instruction, requirements, conditions, and promises.
No more important theme was ever discussed by mortal man, or written by pen of earth. God considers it of such importance that He represents its bearers to the children of men as mighty angels, flying through heaven, heralding its important, life-giving truth.
We all know what excitement, what fear, what consternation, would be caused by seeing mighty light-clad beings flying above the world, and bearing their thrilling message from God.
Be assured men would listen, and listen anxiously. But God would have man as anxious to hear and know His message, given in His Word, and heralded by the children of men.
These four special numbers will be devoted to this message. The chief articles which the first issue will contain are as follows:—
Are the Scriptures Inspired?
The Demand for a Definite Message.
Culminating Lines of Prophecy.
The Manner of Christ's Coming.
What the Watchman Saw.
Witnesses in the Heavens.
Our Future Home.
The Purpose of God's Law.
The Nature of Sinful Man. .
The Ascension and Coming Again.
What of the Night?
The Message for To-day.
with others beside; beautiful and striking poems; a story in parts, entitled "Heber, the First-born, a Story of Israel's Deliverance;" and other things of interest.
Some of these articles may bear a different title, but the thought has been given. Several of the articles are first numbers of series, which will be completed in the last of the series.
These special Signs will be sold in sets. For particulars, see previous page. There ought to be more than 250,000 sets sold.
Now is the time of the world's great need.
A Wonderful Field for Speculation.
Prof. E. L. Larkin tells us that it is now "settled" that uranium transforms itself into radium, "and the rate of change is fairly well determined, and the time is now known to be not less than one billion years." This is definite, but rather disappointing to the modern scientist who would try to verify it by actual observation.
Healdsburg College Calendar
By Editor
The Twenty-first Annual Calendar of Healdsburg College, Healdsburg, Cal., has come to our table just before we make up our forms. It is an excellent school. It combines industry with culture and religion, as part and parcel of the whole of an all-round Christian, manly, womanly, useful education. Are you interested? Send for a calendar. Address, Prof. W. E. Howell, Healdsburg, Cal.
Crime in Our Great Cities
Crime in Our Great Cities.—Take New York for example: From August 1 to September 19 there have been twenty-two murders and less than a half-dozen arrests in connection with them. There have been seventy-two "hold-ups;" fifty-four burglaries made public, besides all those kept secret by the victims and the police. And this is only a part. Surely, in harmony with the prediction of Scripture, the city is filled with violence. Even so it was in the days of Noah. Gen. 6: 11.
Very Satisfactory.
After Cardinal Satolli returned to Rome from his recent visit to the United States, the pope was very anxious to hear of his reception here, and of the condition of the church in this country. A Catholic organ says:—
Cardinal Satolli presented to the Pontiff the homage and devotion of the American bishops and clergy, and an expression of the affection of American Catholics for the pope, and told of the feeling of deference shown by the non-Catholic.
The Holy Father was greatly moved by what the cardinal told him, and expressed great satisfaction with the reception given His Eminence, which he considers as having been given to himself, adding: "It is a consolation at this moment, when others are causing so much grief."
In reply to a question by his holiness regarding the condition of Catholicity in America, the cardinal explained that the Catholic Church in America has not any official relations with the state but is in such a condition that it does not envy the position of the church in the countries where official relations exist.
The cardinal's idea that the relations between the Vatican and this government are so satisfactory, is probably based on the banquet tendered him in Washington by a member of the President's cabinet.
The Bible for the Quechua Indians
The Bible for the Quechua Indians.—Rev. Andrew M. Milne, the La Plata agent of the American Bible Society, whose work covers also the Pacific Coast countries of South America, has long been intensely interested in the Quechua Indians, and has longed to reach them with the Gospel. At last, by the generous help of a gifted Peruvian lady, Madame Turner, as translator, he has published for these people the Gospels of Mark, and Luke, and John, and the Acts of the Apostles. Already these Scriptures have brought light to individuals among these poor people, and readers are going out to minister these mercies to others who are not able, without help, to understand the printed Gospel. "The entrance of Thy Word giveth light," says the Psalmist, and these people ought to be impressed with the light concerning the coming of the Lord.
Printing the Signs on the Linotype
By Editor
This Issue of the "Signs" may present a strange appearance to many of our readers. The reason will be that it is set on the linotype and printed from line slugs, instead of being set in type from which electrotype plates are made. In order to get our first special out on time, and also leave one big rotary press free for the specials, we are setting this number on the linotype and printing it on a flat-bed press. Thus, also, may we do with our issue of November 9.
The Cause of the Tramp
The Cause of the Tramp.—A writer in the Pilgrim for September declares that the great cause of the existence of the hobo is "an early lack of home-training." And is he not right? Children are not trained with a definite purpose of righteous usefulness in vain.