p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 4. (1/28/1913)

Places for Investment

By Editor

WE present in this department of our paper the funds which have been donated through the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and Our Little Friend during the last year. Part of these donations have been for objects outside of our regular mission funds,—that is, they have been just as needy as any of the objects to which the regular funds go, but which limited funds seemed to make unavailable for appropriations. The donors have the satisfaction of knowing that, like the gifts of God, they have given to needy fields, even as our Lord Himself came to the most needy place in all His universe; and these fields still call for large liberalities on the part of His children.

In the year to come the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has one special object to place before its readers, which lies outside of the appropriations for this year, but which is one of the most worthy objects.

China made marvelous history last year. In the space of a few months it changed from an old, traditionary empire to a republic. A new spirit swept over its people, awakening them to new life and new inquiry. It could almost be said that a new nation had been born in a day. Now is the time to work for the Chinese with the gospel of Jesus Christ as never before.

A Training-School

There are two things in the way, however, of foreigners doing this: the understanding of the language and the people, and the greater expense. But neither of these is in the way of the Chinese worker. He understands his own language; he knows his own people; he can live upon what a European or an American would starve on. Therefore the sensible policy of the men in that great, foreign field ought to be to educate the native worker,—to fit the devoted, earnest, soul-burdened Chinese with such an education as would enable him to give the gospel to his countrymen. Remarkable results have already followed efforts of this kind in China, but a training-school is needed,—not a training-school for a course of years of study, but a training-school which will prepare Chinese as rapidly as possible in a knowledge of the Word of God, to an assurance that they themselves understand the message, in order that they may be sent out in far greater numbers than white people could go, to the different parts of that great country.

We are glad, indeed, that so many, in the brief notice that has been given of this, have responded. The $435 listed in this issue should practically come within this year, but we received it before January 1. We have received a number of donations since that time, which will appear in our donations for January.

We hope that there may be many among the readers of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, who will not take from their donations to regular work, either local or foreign, but who will feel that they can do something toward providing a school in China for the training of workers. The great field, with its millions of unwarned, must appeal to the Christian; and when in so many places there are agonizing calls to our missionaries in that great field to “come over and help us,” tell us of Jesus, those of us who know Him ought to be anxious to do all in our power to give the blessed gospel of His kingdom, in the shortest time possible, to the millions in China. May God bless those who are engaged in this great work in that large land, and may He give large-heartedness to His children everywhere, that the work may be soon finished, that the Master may come.

Our special object in the year to come, therefore, will be the Chinese Training-school. Will not our readers help us to establish this needed institution?

From Africa

BROTHER DELMER BAKER, writing home from Wire Hill, Kisumu, Southeast Africa, under date of November 30, 1912, tells of an interesting language conference, at Gendia, held by the Protestant missionaries of that section, to come to an agreement as to how the language should be written, etc. Missionaries must form the written language themselves. Quite clear agreement was arrived at, and a reader and an arithmetic were planned for.

He writes that he and his fellow workers have secured from the government a new section, Karungu, for a new mission, with buildings erected, 100 orange and lime trees in full bearing, which will be a great help; and this will open up a large country for work. The cost was merely nominal.

There are now eight stations in German East Africa, four on the coast, and three where Brother Baker is, making fifteen in all. On the German side there are 1,000 natives in the schools, and on the English side 450.

They have a mission boat also, the “Kavirondo,” which has been running since August. It has already paid wages and one fifth of its cost.

We rejoice at the progress of the work of our brethren in the Dark Continent, and pray that God may give them a harvest of souls.

China Orders New Dress for Women

The new Republic of China has ordered an abandonment of the century-old costumes of the Orient; and women must discard their picturesque trousers, and wear skirts. Only three forms of dress are prescribed for her,—a loose-fitting dress for every-day wear, and the other two garments are for best wear, one a plaited skirt of extreme conventional lines, and the other a shirt-waist that follows strictly straight lines.

Dr. Bertha Selmon and Her Girls' School, Siang-chung, Hsien, Honan

Chinese Training-School

Mrs. M. Beglinger .......... $1.00 Mrs. Lucina Signor .......... 5.00 Mrs. S. M. Johns .......... 5.00 Gordon Holloway .......... 1.00 A. M. Brown .......... 2.00 Josie and Grace Towne .......... 1.00 Mrs. Anna Holmquist .......... 400.00 Mrs. C. H. W. .......... 5.00 Z. S. Hundley .......... 15.00

$435.00

Dried Fruit

Previously Reported $5.00 Mrs. R. A. Wilson .50 Mrs. Sarah Redman 2.00 Mrs. E. R. Snyder 1.00 Bertha McFadgen 2.00 Mrs. Emil Nelson 2.00 Mrs. Anna Washburn 1.00

Total $13.50

China Mission


Previously Reported	$346.07
Margaret Barrett	1.50
Miss Ellen Christiansen	.50
Lillian Guthrie	2.00
Mrs. A. E. Slater	.30
Through Our Little Friend	.50
	$350.87

India Mission

Previously Reported — $312.03 Mrs. C. M. Keates — .42 A Friend — .50 Margaret Barrett — 1.50 Ada Jenner — 4.00 Through Our Little Friend — 39.74 $358.19

Donations for Missions 1912

China Mission and Press ..... $350.87 China Training-School ..... 435.00 China Famine Fund ..... 123.76 India Mission ..... 358.19 Africa Mission ..... 6.00 Bolivia Mission ..... 10.00 Burma Mission ..... 5.00 Korea Mission ..... 26.00 Japan Mission ..... 26.85 Pitcairn ..... 80.22 Fruit for India ..... 13.50

$1,435.39

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A REQUEST FOR HEARERS

By K. C. Russell

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Co-operation Corner

By Editor

Helping Together

THERE are constantly coming to this office requests for this paper for (1) those who are poor and unable to take the paper; (2) for mission work among prisoners and others otherwise confined or secluded; (3) for public reading-rooms; (4) for general missionary work in foreign fields by our missionaries; (5) for general missionary work in various phases. Sometimes there are calls for tracts in foreign languages as well as English. It is not possible for the publishing house to meet all these requests. Publications are sometimes published at a loss to the house. We felt sure that many more of our readers would be glad to help us in this work. Thus may we bring together those who have no time or opportunity to do missionary work, but who are able to help others who have the time and opportunity, but not the means. Who will contribute to our Coöperation Fund?

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J. P. Morgan and the Nation’s Wealth

The Pujo Committee, the committee of Congress looking into the matter of trusts and wealth control, have brought out some interesting facts, we are told, concerning the financial panic of 1907. At that time, J. P. Morgan & Company came to the rescue of the country, and he was greatly praised for his patriotism. People supposed that he was using his own money; but the committee has brought to light the fact that President Roosevelt placed $39,000,000 of the government funds, without interest, at the direction and disposition of this company. Mr. Morgan merely furnished the money of the United States, and drew interest on it at six per cent. The investigations of this committee have also brought out the tremendous wealth of Mr. Morgan, and the wealth controlled by him. The amount of securities of interstate corporations marketed in the United States by J. P. Morgan & Company during the last eleven years, amounts to the vast sum of $1,914,226,000; and it is stated that November 1, 1912, he had on deposit in his New York and Philadelphia banking-houses more than $162,000,000 waiting investment, and in addition to this, at his command, the reserve resources of nearly seventy of the greatest railroads and industrial concerns in the United States. Surely such colossal wealth as that, controlled by one man, indicates an unhealthy condition of a country. It recalls the prophetic words of the poet,—

“Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay.”

An Enslaving Habit.

We wish to warn our readers one and all against the use of the drug heroin. It is derived from morphin, and is used in the treatment of various ailments. Says the Journal of the American Medical Association: “It is often prescribed for cough, the result of irritating conditions in the air passages, and physicians not infrequently tell their patients what drug they are prescribing, so that indirectly the patient comes to look on heroin as a harmless remedy for his cough. Even physicians are not sufficiently alive to the danger of habit from its use. In one instance a patient told a physician, who was called to treat him for an attack of laryngitis, not to give him anything that contained opium, because he had formerly been a slave to this drug. The physician replied: ‘I will give you some heroin; there is no danger of habit from that.’ This the patient took, with the result that he later had as much difficulty in breaking away from the heroin as from the opium habit.” It forms a part of certain remedies, and is called harmless. Dr. John Phillips, of Cleveland, says that it is used extensively in the tenderloin districts in large cities by “snuffing.” “The heroin habit is just as bad as the morphin habit,” says the Journal.

Bookmen’s Convention at Pacific Press

By Editor

A most interesting Bookmen’s Convention is now in progress in the Pacific Press. Men who are selling publications filled with the great gospel message, are here from all the western part of the United States and Canada. The General Conference Committee and many conference officials will join them in a few days. We heartily welcome them all. Of the meetings more later.

Peace Through Righteousness

The peace, the lasting peace, of the world is found only in individual relationship to God,—a relationship which through Christ brings righteousness; and in His righteousness there is both life and peace.

Judge Archbald Removed from Office

Judge Robert W. Archbald, of Scranton, Pa., for twenty-nine years occupying judicial positions upon the Pennsylvania State bench, on the Federal District bench and the United States Commerce Court, was on January 12, by the United States Senate, adjudged guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” stripped of office, and disqualified forever from holding and enjoying “office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States;” sixty-eight voting for conviction, five against, and twenty-one absent or not voting. The charge was that he had used his office corruptly to further the interests of himself and friends in acquiring coal properties in Pennsylvania. He was found guilty on five of the thirteen charges preferred.

Balkan War Negotiations Near Breaking Point

The latest on the Balkan question is that the ambassadors of the powers, through Sir Edward Grey, have warned both Dr. Daneff, head of the Bulgarian delegation, and Rechad Pasha, chief emissary of Turkey, “that should Europe again be plunged into war through the obstinacy of either side, the party at fault would incur a heavy weight of disapproval.” The demands upon which the powers are agreed, will be presented to the belligerent powers at once. It is thought that Turkey must make the decision, as the allies will not consent to Turkey’s retention of Adrianople. War still continues between the Turks and Greeks in Epirus and Janina. Later: The allies threaten to open war within a week. Turkey is threatened with anarchy in her own dominions.

Our Constitution

The Constitution of the United States, which so many of our National Reformers are endeavouring to tinker, and so many of them condemn as utterly out of date, is not so considered by some of the great men of earth. For instance, the Hon. James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States for so long, author of “The American Commonwealth,” “The Holy Roman Empire,” and other noted works, said on December 14 in New York:

“The Constitution was the work of an extraordinary group of men, such as has seldom been seen living at the same time in any country, and such as had never been brought together in any other country, to undertake the immensely difficult task of framing a fundamental instrument of government for a nation. The nation was then a small one; and it is one of the most striking tributes to the genius and foresight of the men who designed that form of government for 3,000,000 people, that it should have proved fitting to serve the needs of 93,000,000.”

“The whole of your history since 1789 is a record of the services which the Constitution has rendered to you.”

“It [the Constitution] taught you to recognize that a free government must be founded upon a sense of right, upon the respect of every man and community for the rights of every other man and community, to the exclusion of all violence.”

But our religious reformers would change all this, discriminate between classes, and would make the fundamental law of the land an agent in oppression. Instead of the Constitution being “a vitalizing force in the world,” as Mr. Bryce phrases it, it would be a veritable instrument of tyranny. God overruled in those days which tried men’s souls. That ought to be seen now.

A Greek Church View.

A clipping comes to us from Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, giving the view of the Greek on Dan. 7:25. It is contended that the little horn of Daniel 7 is Turkey; that the “time, times, and a half,” represent so many years of prophetic days, making with the year 365 days long, 1,277 years; that these began in 636, when Mohammedans captured the Holy City, and will end in 1913; so they are sure that the Mohammedan power will fall this present year. He declares, “The foundation of the Greek nation is laid on these prophecies, and as Christians we know they will be fulfilled.” Our readers will remember that the little horn was to subdue three kings, or three were to be plucked up before it, and we presume it would not be difficult to find three different powers that had been overthrown by Turkey; but there are many other specifications in the prophecy which it does not meet, but which the Papacy does. Still, that Greek view of that prophecy is as worthy of confidence as many other prophetic views.

Principle Over Expediency

In making decisions, no Christian should ever ask, What is expedient? but, What is right? Which is more like the divine Model? How would Christ have done? Expediency is one of the respectable doors by which the devil enters the plans of many good men. It is the foundation of policy; but right is the foundation of principle. To him who hopes to win by expediency, his gain will prove a curse; but to him who with faith in God sacrifices for principle, God will more than make up his loss; his loss will prove a gain. Expediency led Peter to deny his Lord, but principle led him to death by the cross. But who says that the latter was not to be infinitely preferred for Christ’s sake?

Encouragement for Bible Band Study

One old brother writes of the pleasure which the paper brings him. One of the first things that he looks at, he tells us, is the “Question Corner,” then the “Bible Band” schedule, and then the last page. He writes: “I am seventy-eight years old, and my wife in her seventy-seventh year. We have been married over fifty-six years;” and he feels he is growing in grace through the help which he receives from the “Bible, Signs, Review, Gospel Herald, Watchman, our conference paper, and the Bible Band study.” He closes by saying, “Don’t give up the Bible Band study.”

Oldest Bell in the United States Found

The oldest bell in the United States has been found in a Newport, Rhode Island, church. It is dated 1702, and bears an inscription showing it to have been presented by Queen Anne of England to the Trinity church, under the stage of the guild of which it was found. It stands three feet high, and is made of copper and silver.

Child Marriage and Parental Duty

The Atlantic “Constitution” tells recently a pitiful story of a marriage license being granted to a man twenty-three years old and a girl of eleven, and this, too, with the consent of her parents. What a low conception it is of parental duty and to what belongs to child life for years!