p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 2. (1/11/1899)

Earlier text: LESSON V.—SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1899

International

International.—Italy and Colombia are again on the verge of unpleasant incidents. A squadron is reported to have sailed from Rome for the purpose of enforcing the Cerruti claims upon the Government of Colombia, in accordance with President Cleveland's award, and the Italian admiral is instructed to demand satisfaction for the insults to Italy which occurred during the debates in the Colombian Chamber.....The expedition which was fitted out by the Swedish Government to search for Herr Andree has returned without finding any trace of the missing aeronaut.....England has adopted penny postage to all points of the British Empire, Australia and Cape Colony excepted.....The Russian Government has recently purchased of American firms 80,000 tons of steel rails for the roads which she is building in Eastern Russia and Manchuria.

.....There is a renewal of the trouble between the Austrian and Hungarian divisions of Austria, which threatens to throw Hungary into a state of anarchy. The clergy are preaching resistance to the government, which they have never forgiven for passing the law legalizing civil marriages.....Another disgraceful scene was witnessed on December 15 in the Austrian Reichsrath. The use of scandalous language was participated in by those engaged, and duelings are expected between the principals.

.....The recent anti-Anarchist conference held in Rome is expected to result in the establishment of an international bureau for the surveillance of Anarchists. The conference declined to recognize the crimes of Anarchists as of a political nature, thus making their extradition easier.....A report from Bolivia states that the rebels are stoutly opposing the government forces. The situation in that country is still serious.....A Chinese marauder with a band of 5,000 men is raiding the province of Szechuen, determined to rid China of all foreigners, and to stamp out the Christian religion. A large number of native Christians and missionaries have been murdered by these raiders, and the property destroyed by them is valued at 5,000,000 taels. The mandarins are unable to cope with the uprising, and have offered the leader 100,000 taels, his officers third rank in the army, and 1,000 of his men employment in the imperial army, in order to induce them to disband.....The representatives of Great Britain and the United States at Shanghai, China, have both entered official protest against the granting of certain demands made by the French Government in regard to extra territorial rights in the city of Shanghai. France is also demanding of China valuable concessions in the valley of the Yang-tse-Kiang which are equivalent to the cession of a portion of that valley to France. The viceroy of Nanking has refused to grant the demand; but the French are reported to have despatched an armed expedition up the river to Kwei-Chau, and one of her gunboats has already proceeded beyond Nanking.....For the present year France will vote $50,000,000 for the navy, to use in building cruisers, in equipping those already built, and in establishing coaling stations.

Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, has been sent to Constantinople for the purpose of strengthening the friendship of the two nations. Another significant move on the part of Russia is the building of a monastery in the immediate vicinity of the sultan's palace, fitted out as a veritable fort, and so situated as to command the palace itself. Russia is also establishing these armed monasteries throughout Armenia. Their inmates are believed to be soldiers instead of monks.....The Russian Government has entered into negotiations with the Rothschilds for the loan of $150,000,000, one-half of which will be used to reorganize and rearm the Russian artillery. Such a move would seem to have an important bearing upon the discussion of the proposed peace congress to be held at St. Petersburg next May. An attempt was made to secure this loan of American capitalists, but the attempt did not succeed. The czar is said to regret the partition of China, but is leaving nothing undone that will help to prepare Russia to take and hold a large portion of the empire.

The czar is preparing to submit to the different powers whose representatives he will invite to the peace congress at St. Petersburg, a definite plan of disarmament, in order to enable them to formulate proposals, modifications, or counter suggestions. The movement in favor of the czar's suggestions is taking practical shape in England, where a conference of the heads of all the religious denominations has been summoned. The queen and other members of the royal family are much interested in the peace conference.

Another acute public struggle between France and England is foreshadowed in the New Year's editions of the London papers, which are warning France not to press her claims in China, stating that if France does not heed the warning, England will enforce her own claims upon France, without regard to China. In line with this declaration is the renewed activity in the British army and navy. An unprecedented amount of war material is being sent out to Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, and India. This, with Russia's proposal to build four new battle-ships, six cruisers, and a host of torpedo-boats and destroyers, the recent French appropriation of 66,000,000 francs for new artillery and $60,000,000 for war ships and equipments, and the activity of the military branch of the Japanese Government, shows the true and ominous tendency of the times.

It is estimated that smoking has quadrupled during the present year among the women of England, many of whom are becoming addicted to the use of the sickening cigaret. The practise is helped along by the jewelers, who have prepared the daintiest of jeweled cigaret holders, to be used for Christmas presents.....Divorces are rapidly on the increase in France. At a single session of four hours in one of the Paris courts no fewer than 294 divorces were granted.....Vice in a new form has recently appeared in Paris. It is the intoxication produced by drinking petroleum. The taste grows upon the drinker until it becomes an uncontrollable passion, the intoxication itself being of a melancholy nature. This vice already has many votaries in the French capital.

Casualties and Calamities.—Starvation is rampant in the Bemini Islands, the western division of the Bahama group. These islands have recently been swept by severe storms, and the people are said to be in a pitiable condition.....Several hundred Montenegrin soldiers were recently overtaken by a snow-storm in the Lara Pass, and frozen to death. An expedition was sent to rescue them, but the snow-drifts were so heavy it was impossible to accomplish anything.....A French lieutenant and fifteen men are said to have been killed recently by natives of the New Hebrides.....An avalanche destroyed a portion of the village of Airolo, Switzerland, on December 28, the débris of the avalanche covering an area of one square mile. Property valued at $200,000 was destroyed, and several persons were injured.....Advices from Upper Kongo, Africa, state that a company of Belgian traders with an escort of thirty soldiers were recently killed and eaten by natives of Upper Ubanghi. Another detachment of forty soldiers which went to their assistance was also massacred.....A report from the Caroline Islands states that the Spanish garrison on the island of Puynipa was massacred recently by natives, who have set up an educated native chief as governor.

The Philippines.—The city of Iloilo, on the island of Panay, was recently surrendered to the native insurgents by the Spaniards there. The natives are now in possession, and a detachment of American troops has been sent to the island to assume control. It is expected that the insurgents will resist the American demand for possession of the city, and that a fight will occur between the Americans and natives. Aguinaldo has asked from the so-called Philippine Government authority to declare war. His request was met by considerable opposition from the Philippine Congress. Aguinaldo has disappeared, and considerable uneasiness is felt by the American officials, as it is feared that he may be inciting the natives of the interior to oppose the Americans.....The Navy Department is preparing to connect the different islands by cable.....Reports from General Otis state that quiet prevails in the city, and that business is increasing.....Lieutenant Hobson has sailed for Manila, to assist in raising and reconstructing the Spanish vessels sunk in the harbor.

Cuba.—The formal transfer of the island of Cuba from the Spanish to the American flag was accomplished at noon January 1, when the emblems of the sovereignty of the two nations changed places on all the government buildings, and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired from the vessels in the harbor and the forts on shore. Cuba is now under the military command of General Brooke, and Spain's rule of four hundred years is closed. The Cuban army did not participate in the celebration, tho its representative officers were present during the ceremony.....Three transports carrying troops for Cuba left Charleston, S. C., on December 30, and others departed from other ports.....American money has been made the standard of exchange throughout the island.....Arrangements are being made for the distribution of food among the destitute and starving inhabitants of the island.

Porto Rico.—Gen. Guy V. Henry, military governor of Porto Rico, has reduced the budget for the present year from 4,000,000 pesos, as under the Spanish régime, to 1,700,000 pesos. He intimates that the suffrage will not be restricted to those who can read and write, as only fourteen per cent. of the inhabitants could qualify under such a rule. Various reforms are proposed, such as the employment of American school-teachers and a few American policemen, and the prohibiting of imprisonment without specific charges, or holding persons in prison without trial.

Domestic.—The largest railway station in the world, the South Union Station of Boston, was opened to the public on January 1. The station cost $14,000,000, and can accommodate 4,000 trains daily....The government is making extensive preparations for the distribution of nearly half a million tons of coal at coast ports and among the various islands recently acquired, for the use of war ships in times of emergency. Armed colliers are to be kept loaded in constant readiness for immediate service.....The gunboat Bennington has been ordered to take possession of Wake Island, in the Western Pacific, and this speck of land will be made a landing-place for a Pacific Ocean cable between this country, the Philippines, and China and Japan.....The American peace commissioners have returned to this country, and the treaty is now in the hands of the President.

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Religious Liberty and Theosophy

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Reliable information comes to us that George McLafferty, of Aberdeen, Wash., has been fined $50 for contempt of court in refusing to do jury duty on the Sabbath, which he keeps on the day that Christ kept. He will not acknowledge the justice of the fine by paying it, and is therefore serving his sentence in jail. It is a strange disposition in a man supposed to represent and dispense justice, that will fine and imprison a fellow for doing conscientiously his duty, or refusing to do that which would violate his conscience. Men are excused from jury duty for various reasons; surely a religious conscientiousness should be sufficient reason for excuse to a just judge who believes in religious liberty. Truly said the “preacher:” “And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there. . . . I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.” Blessed is the man who will suffer unjust judgment rather than do wrong.

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has unanimously decided that Theosophy is not religion. Theosophy, however, has a better claim to the right to be called a religion than Sunday has to be called the Sabbath, or the Christian Sabbath, or the Lord’s day.

Christian Science Prosecutions

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We do not believe in so-called 'Christian Science.' According to God's Word, it is not Christian, and according to common human reason it is not science. But why its devotees should be called criminals, frauds, murderers, manslaughterers, etc., etc., because they failed to cure some one who put himself under their treatment, is more than we can see. What if they do lose patients? Do not scientific physicians the same? Do not the physicians lose about as many as the 'faith-curists' in proportion to the number treated? In common justice, then, why should the latter be prosecuted? Would it not be better for the scientific physician to let people have their own way as respects remedies? Will not 'the fittest' survive? And, then, compulsion and coercion will not convince.

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CONTAINED IN THIS NUMBER.

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Poetry. The New for the Old, FRANCES E. BOLTON . . . . . 3 The Close of 1898, Sir Lewis Morris . . . . . 4 The Laborers Are Few . . . . . 9 Three Gates . . . . . 12

General. Columbus' Wise and Worthy Example, A. T. JONES . . . . . 1 The Sure Foundation, EUGENE LELAND . . . . . 2 The Importance of the Word, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . 3 The Decalogue (The Seventh Commandment), J. W. WATT . . . . . 4 The Love of God, E. HILLIARD . . . . . 4 Faith, W. M. HEALEY . . . . . 5

Editorial. Do You Know Him? . . . . . 6 A Lesson of History for To-day . . . . . 6 To the W. C. T. U. of California . . . . . 7

Question Corner.—Nos. 899, 900 . . . . . 7

Outlook.—Rome Wants Indian Education Contracts, W. N. G.—Suicide among Children—Notes . . . . . 8

Missions.—Porto Rico . . . . . 9

International Sabbath-school and Sunday-school Lessons . . . . . 10, 11

The Home.—Air, H. F. RAND, M.D.—Be Careful about Pork—Use Your Eyes . . . . . 12, 13

News and Notes . . . . . 14

Galatians Studies Continued

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The studies on Galatians will be continued next week.

Four Sabbath and Sunday School Lessons

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We give four lessons in this issue, two of the Sabbath-school and two of the Sunday-school. These will run regularly from now on.

A Call to Arise

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Read the first article in this issue and ponder the important things there set forth. Is it not time to arouse?

Our Quarter-Centennial Issue.

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Cheering reports are coming to us from all over the field in reference to our special issue. Many agents are enthusiastic in circulating it; and just now is the time. The matter in it is good for months, but the date is not. Circulate it now. It is worth many times the price. It is worthy of preservation indefinitely because of the information it contains. He who thoroughly reads it will wish others to have it. Push it along.

The Papacy and Christian Liberty

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The articles relating to the work of the Papacy in this issue are inspired with no animosity toward Roman Catholics. We protest against the things that they do, because the things are evil, and the principles underlying them subversive of Christianity and liberty. And this is true whether behind these principles are Roman Catholics or Protestants. Our desire is that all our readers may turn from all their transgressions of evil and accept the pure Gospel of Christ, which has no union with the State.

The Prison Missionary’s Worthy Work

And then he tells us that he does not propose to increase his stock till his subscriptions warrant, or help comes from some other source. He asks the prayers of God's people that he may succeed. He is certainly doing a worthy work, which also bespeaks a spirit of tolerance and freedom on the part of prison officials not always seen. They are willing that the prisoner should express his religious views untrammeled, but to refrain from comment on the prison management, either good or bad. This is well. The object of the Prison Missionary should be that of the great Missionary—to save men as individuals. All other good things follow this salvation as legitimate fruit. May God bless the Prison Missionary.

The Prison Missionary

By Editor

The Prison Missionary is a most creditable sheet, typographically and otherwise, considering the circumstances under which it is issued. It is edited and printed by a prisoner, L. J. Sprague, No. 2409, cell 138, Oregon Penitentiary, Salem, Or., quarterly, at 25 cents a year. Its religious tone is good. The editor says in his issue of Dec. 16, 1898:—

"We wish to state to our patrons that we have no press to print this paper on, but must get down on our knees on the cell floor, and use the floor for a bed to place our form on. We then ink the type, lay the paper over the inked form, place a wet rag over the paper, and roll a convex block over the rag, putting on pressure enough to make the paper take the impression of the type. Another difficulty is we have not type enough to set up two pages, therefore we must print off one page at a time. We are obliged to use a wooden composing stick, chase, quads, and leads until we are able to do better."

"HE THAT HATH THE SON."

JOHN tells us, in his first letter (1 John 5:12), "He that hath the Son hath life." And, that we may be sure that there is no life outside of Christ, the apostle immediately adds, " He that hath not the Son of God hath not life."

Man, at his best and in his healthiest condition, is rapidly hurrying to the tomb; he is in a dying condition all the time. And when in the resurrection he is awakened, unless " he hath the Son," it is only to a mortal life, that he and all his companions in sin may together receive their sentence and be forever destroyed in the " second death." The Scripture proof of these statements is both clear and abundant.

But " he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." John 3:36. He " believeth on the Son;" and when Jesus comes, " though he were dead, yet shall he live." And at the Master's coming the word is, " Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." John 11:25, 26.

A Drunken Christmas in San Francisco

"Merry Christmas" was celebrated by the police of San Francisco by pulling in 127 drunks. And the receiving hospital of that city had to patch up the broken legs, arms, noses, jaws, ribs, skulls, scalps, and various other cut, bruised, mangled, lacerated, and contused places. How many other legions of drunks and bruises there were, no one knows. One man was shot who will probably die from the wound. The city of Oakland was content with the booking of 26 drunks.

Protestantism and Political Preferment

Roman Catholicism in its working to secure political preferment and State aid is true to her past. In thus doing she is consistent. But what shall be said of Protestantism when it is doing the same thing? The only past to which the Christian has the right to be true is that of Jesus Christ; but even that living faith must make present.

What the Future Might See

What the Future Might See.—In the event of the talked-of "open-door" alliance, including Great Britain, the United States, and Japan, it is pretty certain that a counter alliance would be formed by Italy, France, Germany, and Russia. The former could put in battle array, according to the New York World, 81 battle-ships, 36 armored cruisers, 184 protected and other cruisers, 313 torpedo-boats, destroyers, and similar craft, and 38 coast-defense vessels. The other powers—Germany, France, Italy, and Russia, could meet them with 93 battle-ships, 40 armored cruisers, 122 protected and other cruisers, 723 torpedo-boats, destroyers, etc., and 41 coast-defense vessels. And the navies of all the powers are growing. It is not peace awaiting this age, it is Armageddon.

Proportion of Insanity

Proportion of Insanity.—The New York Medical Record of December 24 notes that, "according to the Indiana State Board of Charities, the number of insane in that State is approximately forty-four hundred, or one in six hundred seventy-five of the present population. The proportion of insane in Indiana is less than in the States of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. In some of the New England States, however, it is only about half what it is in Indiana." It also refers to three in one family becoming insane within a few hours, no signs of aberration of mind having been known in the family previous to this. Insanity is rapidly on the increase.

The Review and Herald Calendar

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We are in receipt of a beautiful little calendar from the Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. Besides the practical Scripture lessons inculcated in Bible texts and arrangement, it gives interesting data concerning the history of this important and blessed religious journal, whose weekly visits we greatly prize, now in its fiftieth year. In 1849 it was a monthly of uncertain issue, yet with a certain message, which it has borne ever since. It has now the best-equipped printing plant in the State of Michigan. May its gracious influence never grow less.

The Catholic Mirror’s New Management

By Editor

"The Catholic Mirror" has changed editorial and publishing management. The new editor, M. O'Keefe, wields a trenchant pen, which unbiblical "Protestants" may well wish were quiet. He tells us in his "Salutatory" that it will be "incumbent" upon him "to uphold, without compromise, these doctrines [of Roman Catholicism] against all gainsayers, and in the most charitable manner, as a rule." From which we infer that he will sometimes be uncharitable.

Where Did He Get Them?

Where Did He Get Them?—A recent official Roman Catholic publication, says the Christian Standard, gives the full title to the pope, as follows: "Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Head of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the Occident, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Church Province, Bishop of Rome, Sovereign of the secular possessions of the Holy Roman Church." Where did he get these? Where is the Bible authority?

The Sabbath Recorder’s Reform Number

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"The Sabbath Recorder" of December 12, printed at Plainfield, N. J., is a special Sabbath Reform number. It contains several excellent articles on the Sabbath and Sunday questions, in which differences among Christians are candidly discussed, with loyal adherence to the Word of God. May the paper be a blessing, and bring precious souls to the Sabbath truth.

Division Among the Irvingites

The "Irvingite" sect, we are told, is rent in twain. The original twelve apostles are all dead, and one party insists on electing successors. Six have been ordained at Hamburg, and two at Amsterdam. The other party is opposed to electing a second series of apostles, hence the division.