Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 40. (10/3/1907)

Review and Herald

Oct 3, 1907

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1907

—“Christ’s Object Lessons.”

Talents used are talents multiplied. Success is not the result of chance or of destiny; it is the outworking of God’s own providence, the reward of faith and discretion, of virtue and persevering effort. The Lord desires us to use every gift we have; and if we do this, we shall have greater gifts to use. He does not supernaturally endow us with the qualifications we lack; but while we use that which we have, He will work with us to increase and strengthen every faculty. By every whole-hearted, earnest sacrifice for the Master’s service, our powers will increase. While we yield ourselves as instruments for the Holy Spirit’s working, the grace of God works in us to deny old inclinations, to overcome powerful propensities, and to form new habits. As we cherish and obey the promptings of the Spirit, our hearts are enlarged to receive more and more of His power, and to do more and better work. Dormant energies are aroused, and palsied faculties receive new life.

—“Christ’s Object Lessons.”

LIFE AND HEALTH

By Editor

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A LOOK AHEAD

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The Old-New Gospel

The Headship of Christ

The relation which Christ, the eternal Son of God, sustains to the church as its living Head was not established by arbitrary appointment, but is the outworking of the fundamental principles of the divine government. In the very nature of his being, as the only begotten of the Father, is found the reason for the place which he occupied in the universe, which was brought into existence through him. “The Sovereign of the universe was not alone in his work of beneficence. He had an associate,—a coworker who could appreciate his purposes, and could share his joy in giving happiness to created beings. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.’ Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father,—one in nature, in character, in purpose,—the only being that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. ‘His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.’ His ‘goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.’ And the Son of God declares concerning himself: ‘The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting. . . . When he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him [as a master workman, R. V.]; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.’”

“The Father wrought by his Son in the creation of all heavenly beings. ‘By him were all things created, . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.’ Angels are God’s ministers, radiant with the light ever flowing from his presence, and speeding on rapid wing to execute his will. But the Son, the anointed of God, the ‘express image of his person,’ the ‘brightness of his glory,’ ‘upholding all things by the word of his power,’ holds supremacy over them all. ‘A glorious high throne from the beginning’ was the place of his sanctuary; ‘a scepter of righteousness,’ the scepter of his kingdom. ‘Honor and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.’ Mercy and truth go before his face.”

Thus it was that the eternal Son was the Head of the original creation. “All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.” “Whatever else we may concede to men of science, we must insist on retaining these [creative fiats] for God, and ascribing them to our Lord. And whenever God is said to speak, we must listen for the well-known accents of a voice we love. It was the voice of Jesus that said, ‘Let there be light,’ and the new ethereal substance spread like a haze of glory through space. It was the hand of Jesus that made the expanse between cloud and sea, in which the birds fly. It was the bidding of Jesus that drove the turbulent waters from the land into the ocean-bed which he had scooped. It was the thought of Jesus to splinter the mountain peaks; to thrust the frozen glacier down into the valley by inches; to pour forth the rivers; and to shake down over the hills the falling foam of the cataract. It was Jesus that carpeted the earth with flowers, and devised the innumerable sorts of plants, and planted the noble forest trees. It was Jesus that rolled the stars in their orbits, to tell forth the glory of God, and to keep time on nature’s dial. It was Jesus that made the fish to flash in the deep; the reptile to creep in the brake; the fire-fly to glance through the forest; the birds to sing in the woods; flocks to browse on the hills; and herds to traverse the prairies. . . .”

“The hand of Inspiration writes the name of Jesus where artists put theirs, beneath all things in heaven and on earth, visible or invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. “‘Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, Or stain, Of his unrivaled pencil.’”

So long as the position which belonged to the Son and which was inherent in the very nature of his being, was recognized, there was perfect harmony in the universe of God, and happiness reigned supreme. Love was not poisoned by jealousy or alloyed by unholy ambition. Law was spelled l-o-v-e, and love was spelled l-a-w. But when Lucifer began to sow seeds of disaffection and rebellion, it became necessary that the position of the Son and his relation to all created things and beings should be defined. “The King of the universe summoned the heavenly hosts before him, that in their presence he might set forth the true position of the Son, and show the relation he sustained to all created beings. The Son of God shared the Father’s throne, and the glory of the eternal, self-existent One encircled both. About the throne gathered the holy angels, a vast, unnumbered throng—‘ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,’ the most exalted angels, as ministers and subjects, rejoicing in the light that fell upon them from the presence of the Deity. Before the assembled inhabitants of heaven, the King declared that none but Christ, the only begotten of God, could fully enter into his purposes, and to him it was committed to execute the mighty counsels of his will. The Son of God had wrought the Father’s will in the creation of all the hosts of heaven; and to him, as well as to God, their homage and allegiance were due.”

When treason bore its fruit, and there

was war in heaven, and the controversy was transferred to this earth, and man sinned and lost the glory and the dominion which were given to him through the work of the Son, then God the Father put into execution the plan devised in the counsels of eternity, even “the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,” and made known “the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth.” Sin means a refusal to be in harmony with the divine purpose that the eternal Son should have the supremacy over all things and all beings. It involves the loss of power to enthrone the Son as supreme in the heart. The gospel is the provision through which the mystery of the divine will “to reunite for himself under one head the all things in the Christ” is revealed and wrought out, and the allegiance of created beings is again secured. And so the original purpose of the Father concerning the headship of his Son is carried out.

As the result of the consideration of these fundamental truths, we may read in a clearer light and with a fuller sense of the meaning some statements concerning the relation which Christ the Son sustains to the church: “Having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the . . . exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.” He who was one with the Father, and to whom worship was due equally with the Father, “emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;” after he had died for our sins on the cross, and had been “raised from the dead through the glory of the Father,” he was again given a place at the right hand of the Majesty on high, “far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion,” and he who by original right was the Head of the old creation became by gift the Head of the new creation, “head over all things to the church.”

Again we read: “Giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.”

He through whom all things were first created is the one in whom all things consist, and in the very nature of things is the only one through whom the new creation, or redemption, could be accomplished. He therefore, and not by arbitrary appointment, “is the head of the body, the church,” and the divine purpose is fulfilled that “in all things he might have the pre-eminence,” even after he had in all things been made “like unto his brethren.”

It is clear, then, that the headship of Christ in the church is the necessary outgrowth of the principles of the divine government, based upon the eternity of the being of the only begotten Son and his relationship to the Father of all. By accepting him as our living Head we are restored in character, and become again the loyal subjects of the kingdom of God, “who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.”

The Character of Christ

By Editor

Editorial

The most valuable asset in the world is character. The noblest character in the universe is the character of Christ. The character of Christ is a possible possession for all in the gift of life and righteousness in Christ. “If you give yourself to him, and accept him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for his sake you are accounted righteous. Christ’s character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned.” This is the simple and wonderful truth of the gospel.

In Eight New Languages

By W. A. S.

It is estimated that the Bible, in whole or in part, has been translated into languages making the words of God accessible to ninety-five per cent of the people of the world. Now the remaining five per cent is being thought of and planned for in the operations of the Bible societies.

One of the secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society reports that this year eight new languages have been added to their list. These are as follows:—

Nagpuriya, spoken by half a million people in southwestern Bengal, India.
Dimasa, a hill tribe in Assam.
Hwa Miao, a people of southwestern China.
Bontoc-Igorot, spoken in central Luzon, one of the Philippines.
Tunisian Arabic, a vernacular peculiar to the regions of Tunis, North Africa.
Ila, spoken in northwestern Rhodesia, South Africa.
Tasariki, the language of the southwestern part of Espirito Santo, one of the New Hebrides Islands.
Paama, the language of a little land in the New Hebrides.

What a wonderful thing to put a portion of the Scriptures into a language that has never before spoken the life-giving thought of God! And there is something tenderly pathetic in hearing the voice of the Good Shepherd calling to the sheep that are straying in the uttermost and darkest corners of the earth. Those “other sheep” are upon the Shepherd’s heart, and in the last hours of time the Word of God is to sound the gathering cry to all the world.

“For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.”, Eze. 34: 11, 12.

Truly the Lord is preparing the world for the close of time. W. A. S.

The Day-Line and the Decalogue

By C. M. S.

Very frequently in print and in public we are confronted with the old “day-line” argument against the Sabbath question. An array of suppositious circumstances is paraded before the people to show how impossible it is to obey the command of Jehovah to keep the Sabbath designated in the decalogue.

It seems strange that men should think that God could not have a definite Sabbath on a round world. God made the world, and he made it round. God established the Sabbatic institution, and he commanded its observance. To teach that it is impossible to keep the Sabbath which God established on the world which he created, is to accuse God of requiring of man something he knew man could not perform.

God established the institution to commemorate the event, as the commandment itself declares. It would be a peculiar situation if he who made the world and established the Sabbath to commemorate the act should not have known of the day-line conflict (if there were one) between creation and creation’s memorial before he gave the command that was to make the two inseparable forever.

There is a day-line; and God’s providence has so arranged that it is in the locality where it would cause the least inconvenience—in the midst of the Pacific Ocean. When the descendants of Noah migrated eastward and westward from their ancestral home, they continued to observe the days as the days came to them. These emigrants went to the eastern shore of Asia; they went to the western shore of Europe; and as they traveled backward and forward, they found no difficulty in observing the

seventh day or the first day, whichever conscience might direct. They observed the period of rest when it came to them.

Then men crossed the Atlantic Ocean. They observed the weekly cycle in crossing, and rested on the day they regarded as the Sabbath. When they reached America, they continued to do it. There was no change—none was required. They went to the Pacific Coast, and still no change. So to-day a man can travel from San Francisco to New York, to London, to St. Petersburg, to Yokohama—two thirds of the way around the world—and his reckoning of the days will agree with that of the people wherever he is. Or he may begin at Yokohama and go the other way, around to San Francisco, and the result will be the same.

But when he crosses the Pacific, he finds that he must make an alteration in his reckoning. Why is this?—Because, in going with the sun, his days are actually more than twenty-four hours long. By traveling toward the sunset, he keeps the sun above his horizon longer than usual. In going contrary to the course of the sun, his days are actually less than twenty-four hours long. If he were to travel westward each day one-twenty-fourth of the earth’s circumference, each of his days would be twenty-five hours long. Or in going with the same speed eastward, each day would be but twenty-three hours long. Thus, when he had traveled twenty-four days (made the circuit of the earth), his reckoning would be one day ahead or one day behind the local computation, according to which way he had been traveling.

Now Providence has established a kind of clearing-house in the Pacific where his reckoning may be adjusted to harmonize with God’s appointed divisions of time. That is the day-line. There is nothing in it to wreck the Sabbatic institution, nor to encourage the seventh-part-of-time theory. In fact, the seventh-part-of-time theory is shattered every time one holding it crosses the day-line; for in that weekly cycle, at least, his sabbath is based upon the sixth part of time or the eighth part of time, according to which way he is going. If God required the seventh part of time rather than the definite seventh day, the observer of that period would not be at liberty to drop or add a day in crossing the Pacific; and when arriving on its farther shore, he would find himself one day out in his reckoning, and he never could adjust the matter until he had gone around the world in the other direction.

The establishment of an actual, definite day-line establishes the definite week and the definite day; and if there was ever anything definitely pointed out and commanded in the Bible, it is the particular day of the week that should be observed as the Sabbath. It was designated first at the close of creation week, then in the decalogue, and then by a threefold miracle for forty years in the wilderness in the giving, withholding, and the preservation of the “angels’ food” which sustained his people in their wanderings.

Now, if it were impossible to keep the definite Sabbath of the commandment on this round world, it is evident that God would either have made a flat world, or he would have refrained from giving the command he did concerning the Sabbath.

Is it possible to have a definite day of the week, or month, or year to the whole human family? If it is possible, its observance is possible. If it is not possible, then all chronology is thrown into confusion by the ensuing indefiniteness of dates. For instance, if the cable tells us that a certain battle was fought in China on January 10, we do not record it here as having occurred on January 9.

One who is earnestly desirous of obeying God’s command will find little difficulty with the day-line; and for these reasons: The day-line never bothered him when he was keeping Sunday, no matter in what part of the world he might be living. Sunday was a definite day. It came just as frequently as did Saturday. It had to be added or dropped in crossing the day-line, just as Saturday or any other day. Any argument he could make against the seventh-day Sabbath on account of the day-line was equally valid against Sunday or any other day as a sabbath. He kept Sunday, as he believed, to commemorate the resurrection of Christ. He kept it in Russia, in England, in America. He had no difficulty in finding the day to commemorate the event, even in Australia, on the other side of the world. He began his observance there at twelve o’clock midnight; but the people of Palestine, in which country the resurrection of Jesus occurred, would not begin their observance of that event until nearly seven hours afterward. As this did not worry him when he was keeping Sunday to commemorate the resurrection, why should it when he began to keep the Sabbath of the decalogue to commemorate the completion of creation?

The idea that there is an impediment to the keeping of the seventh-day Sabbath because of the day-line is what a Christian Scientist would call “an error of mortal mind;” for the difficulty is wholly in the mind of the individual who does not wish to keep the Sabbath of the commandment. That is demonstrated by the fact that the day-line argument is used only against the seventh-day Sabbath.

God has set the sun to mark the beginning and the end of the day. He said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.” Gen. 1:14. To claim that in order to observe the definite seventh day, we must observe the identical hours as they are being struck off in Palestine, is to set aside utterly God’s method of marking the days. We can not have a Sabbath nor any other day all the way around the world at the same time. The people on the Pacific Coast of America do not consider that in order to observe the Fourth of July, they must begin its observance at nine o’clock on the night of the third of July, and cease their observance of it at 9 P. M., of the fourth, because the people on the eastern shore of the country are three hours ahead of them in time. They observe the day when it comes to them. So with the Sabbath; and so with Sunday.

C. M. S.

The October Offering

By S. N. Haskell

COULD our people see the importance of this offering at this particular time, gifts would be made sufficient to carry the work through to the kingdom. There are times in the cause of God when a move counts a hundredfold more than at any other time. It is in the time of a crisis. There have ever been times when those in touch with heaven took decided action, and God responded by a lasting blessing, so that for generations God regarded the descendants of the men who risked all for the honor of God at those times. Phinehas, the son of Eleasar, the son of Aaron, rose up on a certain occasion, and jealous for God, smote the son of a prince in Israel, of the chief house of one of the tribes; and because of this God said, “Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace.” It was in a time of crisis when God’s honor was at stake. Num. 25: 1-15.

If we ever do anything for the South, it must be done quickly. Not a month passes but in some portions of the South the work is passing into a condition where no effort from the North can reach the colored people. This has been the case for several years. We can not do at the present time what could have been done a short time ago. A crisis is here. Whoever steps into this crisis will find he is on the Lord’s side as verily as was Phineas, and many others spoken of in the Bible.

While we were attending the institute for colored teachers in Huntsville, Ala., and they were being shown how they could help build their own schoolhouses and warn their own people, their eyes lighted up, and in a few minutes’ time they took over six thousand copies of the

Bible Training School to sell among their own people. Thus the truth will be placed in at least six thousand families in the South. A great and good work has been done by the Southern Missionary Society, and now the colored people themselves are rising up and placing the truth before their own people. To us it is a providence of God. It says in no uncertain tone that “the last call” is being carried to the colored race.

As surely as the signs of the times spoken by the Lord point out this time; as certainly as the spirit of prophecy has marked the time of great light and power coming to God’s people, in connection with the work in the South; so surely we are in a crisis immediately preceding the closing of probation. Who will not want now, just now, to step in and bear some part in this crisis? These times are fraught with tremendous results. Large donations will be very acceptable now, and shall we not make them? Soon no one will have an opportunity to give for the work among the colored people in the South. This October offering should be the largest by far that has ever been made. We as a people should redeem the past failures and do our duty. Much has been said and much more might be said to show that now is the time to help this part of the field. It is the foreign field at our own doors. My heart was stirred at the Huntsville meeting, and I felt that I would not leave a stone unturned as far as it lay in my power to help this people, pitied and loved by the Lord. May the Lord God of Israel help each and every Seventh-day Adventist to step in now and have a part in this branch of the fast-closing work.

S. N. HASKELL.

Tract and Missionary Work in Behalf of Foreign Missions

By E. R. Palmer

Our pioneer missionary papers have had no inconsiderable part in opening up the mission fields which we now occupy. One of the most interesting items in the work of the International Tract Society was to secure names and addresses from foreign lands, and send out the Signs of the Times and other periodicals, accompanied by correspondence. These missionary efforts, conducted by our brethren and sisters in the churches, under the direction of the International Tract Society, awakened interests; and, as people began to accept the truth, calls were sent to America for missionaries. This method of work is just as effective today as it was in past years.

An interesting missionary effort of this kind has recently come to our notice. When the managers of the Signs of the Times decided to issue a gospel series of twenty-six numbers, in which present truth would be presented in its natural, connected order, the Tract and Missionary Society at South Lancaster, Mass., suggested to the officers of the Atlantic Union Conference that a club of this series be sent to our missionaries in the Philippine Islands for distribution among the district-school teachers, many of whom are Americans. It seems very natural that such an enterprising suggestion should come from that church, where the first tract and missionary society was organized, and from which so many thousands of papers have been sent to foreign lands. There are still in that church some of the old members who have seen the blessed fruits of past efforts, and are quick to discern future possibilities. Finally, the General Conference, and the Atlantic and Pacific Union Conferences united in supplying to the missionaries in the Philippines a club of five hundred copies of the special series of the Signs.

The following paragraphs from a letter dated July 14, 1907, from Elder McElhany, who has charge of the work in the Philippines, and addressed to the manager of the Pacific Press, will explain how they have appreciated the papers, and how they have been used:—

Your very much appreciated letter was received in due time, and was read and reread with the deepest interest and thankfulness. I also had received correspondence from Elder Farnsworth, telling me of the action that had been taken to help forward the work in this needy field. I might say that since we have been in this field, nothing that has been done to help onward the work has brought so much courage and thankfulness to us as this splendid gift. This club of five hundred Signs increases our efficiency more than five hundred per cent. We are deeply grateful to all who have helped. We had long been praying that the Lord would provide us with increased facilities, and these papers came as an answer to our prayers.

As for this special series of the Signs, I must say that I believe it is the very strongest factor in spreading the message that has ever been undertaken with our literature. Every number is splendid. The circulation of these papers appeals to me as the very best means of preaching the truth to thousands.

I must tell you something of the circumstances under which we sent out these papers. We received the first lot of papers just before the summer vacation drew to a close. Many of the teachers had resigned and gone home to the States; most of those remaining had been transferred to new stations, and many new teachers were arriving. We had a directory of the teachers, but of course all these changes rendered that directory out of date. As there was nothing else to do, I took it and gathered out names enough to make up a list. To make up the full number it was necessary to use some Filipino names, as there were not American teachers enough on this list to fill out the number. You will notice some very interesting letters from some of these Filipino teachers.

The following are letters received from teachers in the Philippine Islands in response to the first papers and letters sent to them by Brother McElhany:—

DEAR SIR: I want to thank you for a copy of my old friend, the Signs of the Times. Years ago it visited my father's home, and in my manhood it has occasionally come into my home to bring consolation and to inspire me. I promise to read carefully the copies you send, and trust to profit thereby. Sincerely, JNO. H. MANNING BUTLER, Supervising Teacher.

DEAR SIR: I received your letter and one copy of the Signs of the Times, and I read many interesting things in this copy, especially the Japanese question, The Hague Conference of Peace, too. Your plan to send me this paper is giving me great pleasure because in this paper there are many important things to be read, like the Bible and its teachings; besides that, you are not compelling me to pay for the subscription of it, so I can't express my thanks to you, but I hope that God will bless your enterprise as educator of the people. Very respectfully, FRANCISCO ROSARIO.

DEAR SIR: I have received yours and two of the numbers of the Signs of the Times, and feel very much interested to receive them. I have passed them already to my friends who can read English. Truly yours, ANASTACIO ABAD.

DEAR FRIEND: I received a copy of the Signs of the Times which you sent me on the seventeenth of this month. I was very pleased to receive this good paper; therefore I give you my many thanks for it. I am very much interested in reading it, and so are my friends to whom I have given it. Respectfully, CRESCENCIANA CASTENEDA.

DEAR FRIEND: Your letter of June 7 with Series No. 1 and 2 of the Signs of the Times came to hand on the last mail, June 30, so I am answering you on the next going mail. I have read the first issue, and the matters discussed therein are to me of real interest, and I shall be pleased to pass it on to my friends. This paper, especially in its Bible department, meets one of our needs—the reading and study of the Bible, of which we were deprived for the last three hundred years. It might be a further indication of my interest in your paper to say that an association is being organized by the teachers of the province, and one of the features to be pursued by it is the reading of magazines for the purpose of cultivating the habit of reading among its members. Your paper will be given place in our reading club. I very much thank you for your liberal offer and kindness, and awaiting for the succeeding numbers of the Signs of the Times, I remain, Faithfully yours, INOCENCIO ELAYDA.

DEAR SIR: Just a line to acknowledge yours of the 17th inst., and to thank you for the paper, which arrived duly. I have known of the paper for some years, as my home formerly was at Palo Alto, Cal., but have always thought it a little wild in its speculations and prophecies. However, the principal writers show a great deal of Biblical scholarship, for which I respect them, while holding

views somewhat contrary to theirs, perhaps. We are indeed in a great history-making epoch, and perhaps those skilled in interpretation can plainly read the “signs of the times.” I shall be glad to avail myself for a time of your kind offer to send the paper. Yours very cordially, H. C. THEODALD.

Thus a grand work has been begun for the teachers in the Philippines. Our missionaries there are anxious that this work shall be continued so that these teachers may have the next series, containing the “Bible Studies for Winter Evenings.”

If we were to send this special series, including the great Missions number, it would cost ten dollars a week for five hundred copies, or two hundred and fifty dollars for the club of five hundred for six months. Then there are many other mission fields where clubs of twenty-five, fifty, or a hundred might be sent at small expense. Here is a great opportunity for missionary work this winter.

We would suggest that our conferences and missionary societies make special note of this opportunity, and lay liberal plans for sending our pioneer periodicals out into foreign lands. Such efforts as these are wonderfully inspiring and helpful to students in our training-schools, and to our young people in their societies. Any person or society interested in sending papers to our foreign missions should correspond with the managers of the Signs of the Times, or with the writer, at Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C., and information will be given, and an opportunity made for clubs of any size to be sent to foreign fields where they will be greatly appreciated.

E. R. PALMER.

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