p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 32. (8/6/1902)

Earlier text: INDIVIDUAL WORK FOR INDIVIDUALS

The Slavery of It.

A popular writer, Max O'Rell, says:—

I know a man who is so afraid of annoying a wife whom he loves and who objects to smoking, that his smokeroom is at the bottom of the garden. I know another still more anxious that no tobacco smoke shall be smelt in his house, that, when he takes a cigar, lies flat on his stomach on the carpet and sends the smoke up the chimney. A man who enjoys his smoke will submit to anything except giving up smoking. And as smoking is worth tons of medicine to keep a man in good temper and good humor, no married woman should insist on her husband dropping the habit, if not carried to excess.

Think of the slavery implied in all this. That man is not a free man who can not keep in good temper without a drug stimulant or sedative. He is a slave to the habit. The man should quit the habit himself for the sake of himself and everybody else. There is nothing but blessing in being quit. There is curse in continuance. Are you too weak to do it?—Christ will set you free; and whom Christ makes free, “shall be free indeed.”

Knowledge

Knowledge.—A daily paper discussing what we know and what we do not know, says, "We know that heat, light, electricity, and motion are one and the same." But do we know it? A writer in the Electrician, London, declares that electricity is a substance which can be manufactured, measured, weighed. The same paper says, "We know that we KNOW NOTHING, and that knowledge is the greatest proof of our progress." If this knowledge of man's ignorance were genuine, then man would at least be willing to learn from God, not only to learn from God, but to learn to know God. For, to all who believe, Jesus Christ is "of God made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." So knowing the nothing of ourselves, we may know Him; and tho knowing Him not as we ought to know, we may rejoice in that knowledge, and "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

Studies on the Revelation

By Editor

The Book of the Revelation is one of the most interesting books of the Bible. In fact, it is the summing up of all the others. All are found in it in epitome. But it contains more than this. It is a great prophetic lighthouse set up at the beginning of the Christian age, gathering all the light rays of the past, and intensifies and multiplies them for all the future. It is an open door to God's great storehouse of truth. The Lord willing we shall soon begin a series of studies on the Apocalypse, or the Revelation, and continue them to the close. They will be illustrated wherever the text can be made plainer or clearer thereby. The entire series of studies will furnish the reader with a volume of truth worth much more than the price of the SIGNS. Will you not help us, dear reader, to extend the circulation of the paper?

Personal Connection With Christ

It is not form; it is not position; it is not ritual which makes our work effectual for God; it is personal life-connection with Jesus Christ our Lord which lifts men above sin and makes them strong to help others.

The Present Application of Prophecy

By Editor

Some time men will not relegate all of God's prophetic utterances to a forgotten past, or refer them to a far future. They will see, we hope not too late, a present application.

Christ, the Fountain of Life

It is life that man needs, and Christ is the only Fountain of life. And life comes simply by believing, truly believing, in Jesus Christ unto righteousness.

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