p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51. (12/19/1900)

The House We Live In

This is the story of the body-house, the house we live in. It is told for the children, by Vesta J. Farnsworth, but many an older child will follow with peculiar interest, somehow sustained from cover to cover, the questions and remarks and conversations of Helen and Amy and Percy and their mother. The house, with its frame, and doors, and windows, and halls, and its several rooms, and its various appurtenances, finds a counterpart in our wonderful house of flesh and blood and bones. Physiology and its scientific names are tabooed words in this book. But every page contains little and big bits of items that everybody ought to know, but which a great many do not know, about the body, how it is made, what injures it, and how to care for it. And in a perfectly natural way, without labored effort, the book keeps the Master Builder in the foreground, and thus the narrative is permeated with a high moral tone.

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LESSON XIII.—SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1900.

REVIEW.

[Christmas Lesson.]

Golden Text: "Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness." Ps. 65:11.

NOTE.—The teacher can make this lesson a lesson on the life of Christ by giving a general view of the life of our Lord as a whole, using His teachings and the record of His acts to impress upon the pupils the meaning of Christ's work on this earth.

LESSON I.—Jesus Dining with a Pharisee. Luke 14:1-14. Golden Text: "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Luke 14:11.

LESSON II.—Parable of the Great Supper. Luke 14:15-24. Golden Text: "Come; for all things are now ready." Luke 14:17.

LESSON III.—The Lost Sheep, and Lost Coin. Luke 15:1-10. Golden Text: "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." Luke 15:10.

LESSON IV.—The Prodigal Son. Luke 15:11-24. Golden Text: "I will arise and go to my father." Luke 15:18.

LESSON V.—The Unjust Steward. Luke 16:1-13. Golden Text: "Ye can not serve God and mammon." Luke 16:13.

LESSON VI.—The Rich Man and Lazarus. Luke 16:19-31. Golden Text: "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." Matt. 6:20.

LESSON VII.—The Ten Lepers Cleansed. Luke 17:11-19. Golden Text: "Be ye thankful." Col. 3:15.

LESSON VIII.—Sober Living. Titus 2:1-15. Golden Text: "We should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world." Titus 2:12.

LESSON IX.—The Rich Young Ruler. Matt. 19:16-26. Golden Text: "Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!" Mark 10:24.

LESSON X.—Bartimeus Healed. Mark 10:46-52. Golden Text: "Lord, that I might receive my sight." Mark 10:51.

LESSON XI.—Zaccheus the Publican. Luke 19:1-10. Golden Text: "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10.

LESSON XII.—Parable of the Pounds. Luke 19:11-27. Golden Text: "Every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Rom. 14:12.

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To Parents—For Your Children.

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When children are learning to read, why should they not at the same time be learning something else? There is no object in reading except to learn facts or thoughts through the printed page. The lessons that a child must go over and over in learning to read will be so indelibly fixed upon his mind that he never can forget them. Every one can remember till the time of his death what he went over in his reading-books when he was a child. How important it is, then, that the child read that which is of worth! A great deal of that which is presented for the juvenile mind in many of the primary readers is simple nonsense. It means nothing whatever; and if a child could remember volume upon volume of it, he would not have anything at all that would be of use to him. The parents should see that their children learn from readers that will present good thoughts, thoughts that will be a blessing to children all their lives; readers from which they can just as well garner a good store of precious thoughts while they are learning to read, as to wait until after they can read before they gather them. To furnish parents just such a book as this, Prof. E. A. Sutherland, of Battle Creek College, has prepared a juvenile book. The simple facts in the Bible are gone over in a way that the youthful mind can readily comprehend. This book presents something that is the most interesting to a child of anywhere in the line of juvenile readers.

Christian parents have here a great help in teaching their children to read right in their own homes; and, while these children are learning to read, they at the same time are storing their minds with useful knowledge, that will be valuable to them all through their lives. This very knowledge may be the means of saving many a child from making a wreck of his life, through anchoring him to correct principles. The price of the book is 35 cents. It may be had from either the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich., or the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

Christian Powers and Barbarous Nations

By Editor

Next week we shall present some of the evidences of what "Christian" powers are doing in the civilizing of barbarous nations.

Remember the Foreign Missionary Work

Remember the foreign missionary work in your day offerings. Give freely, gladly, generously, God has given unto you. The great world's greatest need is Christ. Millions are starving for the Bread of Life, and do not know it.

Freedom From Sin and the Law

The man who is free from sin is free from transgressing the law; "for sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. Now if after being made free he again transgresses the law, he builds again the things he destroyed, he again becomes a transgressor; and Christ's righteousness will never cover wilful, knowing transgression of God's law.

Menelek Bans Intoxicants and Tobacco

There is a refreshing common sense about Menelek, emperor of Abyssinia, in some respects at least. He has issued, says the Christian Advocate, "an order strictly forbidding the importation of absinthe and spirituous liquors into his dominions. He also forbids his subjects to use tobacco, under pain of heavy penalties. He also informs the representatives of foreign powers that he expects the support of friendly nations in these efforts to save his people from the influence of intoxicants and narcotics." Good! here is light from the Dark Continent.

The Ballot and Moral Questions

Rebecca Harding Davis, in an article in a recent Independent, with fine irony sets off the ridiculousness of deciding great and even moral questions by vote. She says: "Of course, the old augurs were ridiculous enough as they anxiously watched chickens feeding or dogs running to find some hint of the divine Will; but are we any less absurd when we find truth at the bottom of the ballot-box, and the divine Will out of the matter altogether?"

There is a chronic disease now among us. We only used the ballot at first to decide when we threw off the yoke of kings, but now we appeal to it to settle every question, from that of predestination to the fate of unbaptized infants, and to the government of a church.

Religious Liberty Library Publications

By Editor

The last two numbers of the Religious Liberty Library, published by the International Religious Liberty Association, 770 Monon Building, Chicago, are before us. No. 11 is entitled "The Light of Freedom," a poem by M. C. Wilcox, with an introduction by the editor of the Library, C. P. Bollman; No. 12 bears the title of "The Civil Sabbath," and shows the fallacy of the claim that is made concerning it. Price of each, 1 cent.

Widespreading Hypnotism

By Editor

Widespreading Hypnotism.—A gentleman of San Francisco, who formerly conducted successfully a mercantile business, applies for divorce, and declares that for years he was under the hypnotic influence of the woman now his wife. When distant from her, the influence would be broken, he would resolve to be a man, but as soon as he met her again, he was completely brought under her control. Sir Robert Hart, in writing of the siege of Pekin, states that a strange and strong hypnotic influence accompanied the "Boxer" movement in China. And there is much more. Read the article in our editorial department on Hypnotism.

TO STUDENTS OF S. S. LESSONS.

By Editor

In the Signs of the Times 1901 there will be no Sabbath-school or Sunday-school lessons printed. While they may be studied in this paper by a goodly number, yet, as they occupy valuable space, after careful consideration it has been thought best to omit them in the year to come. Those who study the Sabbath-school lessons can obtain through this office, or our branch, district, or State offices, or from the International Sabbath School Association, the Lesson Quarterly for 5 cents a quarter. Sunday-school lesson studies may be obtained almost anywhere. We may from time to time print notes upon the latter if of special interest.

THE WORLD'S OUTLOOK NUMBER

By Editor

Is just as good now as it was the day it was issued. It will be just as good the last day of December as it was the first day. This is the kindly word that the editor of Zion's Vaktare, Battle Creek, Mich., voluntarily has to say about it:—

"PUBLISHERS OF SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.—Brethren: We have just had the opportunity to glance at your Outlook Number, and we must say it surpasses anything of the kind ever issued, and even goes beyond what we ever dreamed of. The style and typography and embellishment are simply unapproachable; but what is best of all is the full array of timely and truth-filled subject matter, written in a pleasing, captivating, and convincing spirit. We hope the circulation of this most excellent number may reach a million copies. We wish it had been issued simultaneously in Swedish, Danish, and German, so you could sweep the whole population with it."

The Friar Question.

By Editor

The long drawn-out struggle of the Filipinos was a protest against Spanish misrule. And included in this misrule was the politico-ecclesiastical power of the Roman Catholic Church. In the uprisings against Spain the friars have been either killed or driven from their stations. But now Archbishop Chapelle is trying to re-instate them, with the hope that the American Government will protect them. Against their re-establishment is naturally loud protest from the natives, and before fixing a precedent, Judge Taft, of the American commission, is taking a mass of testimony from the Filipinos regarding the question. This testimony is unanimous in condemnation of the conduct of the friars, who had limitless political and religious powers. It now remains to be seen just how far the governmental principle of protection for its subjects will be carried in forcing upon a people religious masters that are not wanted.

How to Distinguish.

When Satan's power shall be manifest, as it is even now coming to be, in psychology, spiritism, hypnotism, Christian Science, and kindred cults, and he shall work with "all deceivableness of unrighteousness," then those who are deluded by him will think that his "deceivableness of unrighteousness" is righteousness, and that his mighty miracles and signs are wrought by the promised Spirit of God. Then will the people say of Satan's agent, as they said of old of the influence of Simon the sorcerer, "This man is the great power of God." Only those filled by the Spirit of God will be able to resist Satan's power. There will be wrought miracles and counter miracles, the one for God's glory, the other for human. How may we know the true?—The true will be in harmony with God's law. God's Spirit will speak as His oracles speak. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8: 20.

What Christ's Forgiveness Means.

Jesus said to the repentant, sinful woman, "Thy sins are forgiven." When those who sat by questioned, He said unto the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace." Divine forgiveness is saving power. It cleansed the woman from all that dragged her down; it saved her from sin; and if the faith is exercised, it keeps from sin. How complete this is, is shown by another miracle. When the woman with an issue of blood touched Christ's garment, Jesus told her, "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole [margin, "saved thee"]; go in peace." What was true of the one physically was true of the other spiritually. Christ's saving forgiveness is full and free, and is for every one who needs to be forgiven.

Brains Repaired

By Editor

Brains Repaired.—A certain food-vender advertises to sharpen, polish, and repair brains by means of one of the commonest sort of foods, with a name indicative of almost nothing which the food contains. Of course any decent food which will help to repair any part, will help to repair the brain. But the sharpening and polishing will be learned by what the purchaser suffers in pocket-book and the value of added experience. The moral is that we can not deem worthy of credence all that we see advertise.

Sir Robert Hart on the Siege of Peking

By Editor

Sir Robert Hart, who knows China as almost no one else, has written for the December Cosmopolitan an article on the "Siege of Peking." This will be read with great interest by all who are interested in the far Eastern question.

A Constant Revival Season

One denomination makes the last half of 1901 a revival season. But Christian work should be a revival season all the time.