AT Selma, Cal., eight persons have been added to the church, largely thru the labors of Brother D. T. Fero.
IN Butte, Mont., five additions have been made in the church during the last month, three of them being by baptism.
THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS Herald reports that Brother J. J. Irwin baptized two new converts at Noble, Ill., April 28.
A FEW meetings held at Bache, Okla., by Brother W. F. Talburt, recently, have resulted in three additions to the church.
A GOOD interest has been manifest in meetings conducted by Brother N. T. Sutton at Kirwin, Kan., and five have accepted the truth.
APRIL 27, two young men were buried with their Lord in baptism at South Monterey, Mich., Brother J. W. Hofstra administering the ordinance.
Two adults and several children are rejoicing in the truth at Rutherford, W. Va., as the result of the labors of Brother and Sister P. W. Province.
BROTHER C. N. MARTIN, of Chico, Cal., tho much hindered by poor health, has been conducting meetings. He reports that so far twenty-two have been baptized.
BROTHER H. F. KETRING, Brother L. S. Wheeler, and Sister Anna Downs have just closed a series of meetings in Potter Hall, Boston, in which about twenty have taken their stand to keep the commandments.
FOREIGN MISSIONS have been helped to the amount of $20,000 and several other enterprises have received smaller sums to the amount of about $15,000 from the estate of Brother K. G. Smith, a faithful aged brother who recently died in Nebraska. The matter has been adjusted with little trouble, and the money paid over.
THE Hanford Journal of May 16 has a column on the closing exercises of the Central California Intermediate Church School, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Howe. The report shows that the school has made good progress, and also that church and religious schools are true places to train the young to be workers for God.
Union College Calendar.—The Union College Calendar is being entirely rewritten for 1907-1908 in order to harmonize with the recommendations made by the last General Conference Educational Convention, and to conform to the growth and progress of the school. It will be ready for mailing in a few weeks. Let any desiring the calendar address, at once, C. C. Lewis, College View, Neb.
Change of Address.—The permanent address of Elder L. D. Santee is now 749 West Fullerton Ave., Chicago.
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The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
Great Controversy between Christ and Satan, The.—By Mrs. E. G. White. This volume presents the most wonderful and intensely interesting history that has ever been written of the great conflict between Christianity and the powers of darkness as illustrated in the lives of Christian martyrs and reformers on the one hand, and wicked men and persecuting powers on the other. Beginning with our Lord's great prophecy, given while viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, this book outlines the history of the whole dispensation down to the time when "sin and sinners are no more, God's entire universe is clean, and the great controversy is forever ended." It contains 39 full-page illustrations nearly all of them new and specially engraved. It is printed on fine, tinted paper, beautifully and substantially bound, and contains 700 octavo pages. Over 200,000 copies already sold. English cloth embossed in jet and gold, marbled edges, $2.50.
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This volume of 436 pages from the pen of Mrs. White is an attractive grouping of the parable-teaching of Christ. The linking of divine truth with common things and incidents is a prominent characteristic of Him who "taught as never man taught;" and in this book the author has developed and illustrated in a beautiful way these teachings, making a volume full of gems of truth, and which will give to many readers a new meaning to the surroundings of every-day life. The publishers have taken great pains to make the setting worthy of the gem as to both mechanical work and illustrations. The latter are by talented New York artists and have been expressly designed for this book. Handsomely ornamented cloth cover, $1.25. By mail, 15c additional. Also in German, Danish, and Swedish, at same price.
Child Labor in America
"The Woman's Home Companion" has been doing noble work in the matter of child labor thru-out the nation. Its last number has an article on child labor in Pennsylvania in which it is shown that there were 6,329 violations of the child-labor law during the last year. There may be times and places where such labor is permissible and where it would work a hardship to enforce the law, but on the other hand there are thousands of children laboring under conditions and in circumstances which are horrible, and the Woman's Home Companion is doing a good work in agitating the matter.
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A fine, ten-acre fruit-farm in the beautiful Santa Clara Valley of California. The main crop of fruit is cherries, apricots, and prunes, with a few trees each of various other kinds for family use. The place has a seven-roomed house, with bath, hot and cold water, and the usual modern conveniences; good well, tankhouse, tank, windmill, barn, chicken houses, 190 trays for drying fruit, 60 fruit boxes, etc., etc. The crop last year sold for $1,350, cash. This year's crop goes with the place. Will sell for $5,700; $3,500 cash down, the balance can be had on long time, if desired, interest at eight per cent., and the person holding mortgage pays the taxes. It is a very desirable place, in a good community. The owner has a large family of small boys, and desires to move to newer country where he can get a large tract of cheap or government land. Address, F, care Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.
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Pillars of Health
By William S. Sadler
By William S. Sadler, M. D.
The Digestion of Starch.
THE proper digestion of starch is very important, for it is the fermentation of starch that produces a large share of our digestive disturbances. Insufficiently cooked starches, such as the common mushes, are extremely liable to fermentation in the stomach, and in this way mush-eating directly paves the way for meat-eating, as the victims of acid fermentation soon discover that meat will not ferment. They do not so soon discover that it does putrefy later on in the intestinal canal, giving rise to those poisons which produce sick headache and other troublesome symptoms.
Starch is the body's fuel; together with sugar and fat it constitutes a great source of heat to keep the body warm and energy to move its many muscles. The slight cooking of starch, while it does not render the starch easy of digestion, does render it much more liable to fermentation. The products of fermentation are exceedingly damaging to the body. In many respects they have the same effects on the arteries, liver, and other internal organs as alcohol; in fact, alcohol itself may be produced in the human digestive tract during the process of fermentation.
The gases formed in the process of fermentation tend to produce dilatation and distention of the stomach, and just as it is possible to take a spiral spring and stretch it so far that it will not rebound, so if the stomach is stretched too much day after day its muscles lose the power to contract. The stomach is in one sense dislocated, and a dislocated stomach is a harder thing to remedy than a dislocated shoulder. Such a stomach invariably retains the food too long, during which fermentation takes place, as a result of which the man is constantly irritated—in fact, goes thru life alternately anesthetized and stimulated by these fermentation and putrefactive poisons.
Another word concerning the substitution of meat for those grains and other foods like potatoes which have a tendency to ferment if kept too long in the stomach: While the meat-eating gives immediate relief from the troublesome symptoms of gastric fermentation, it must be borne in mind that there are certain remote results of this excessive or exclusive meat diet which are bound to appear sooner or later. Cancer seems to be increasing in the exact proportion with our increased consumption of flesh foods. Bright's disease is another disease in the cause of which meat-eating plays an important factor, and even diabetes, a condition of general cell poisoning and perversion, may include the excessive consumption of flesh foods among its original causes.
What Can Be Done?
What can we do to help in the digestion of starch? And it must be remembered that starch forms about three-fourths of the food of all who are not heavy eaters of flesh or other proteids. The thing of first importance to the proper digestion of starch is its proper cooking, which we have previously considered; that is, it must be toasted, thoroly baked, dextrinized. Next it must be thoroly masticated. It must remain in the mouth long enough to be mixed with the saliva, and then when it is swallowed in the stomach, starch digestion continues for twenty to thirty minutes.
What are the hindrances to starch digestion—those things which favor souring of the stomach?—First, eating of insufficiently cooked starch. Second, hasty eating, insufficient mastication. Third, drinking of large quantities of liquids at meals. Fourth, partaking of certain acids. Experiments have shown that a teaspoonful of strong vinegar is enough to spoil the digestion of a whole dinner as far as starch is concerned. How absurd, then, it is to use pickles, a starchy vegetable saturated with vinegar, or to put vinegar upon our vegetables which contain starch. Some of the stronger acids natural to foods also interfere with starch digestion when taken in full strength, such as the oxalic acid of the rhubarb and the citric acid of the lemon.
Table showing the per cent. of starch found in various food substances:
LEGUMES.
Peas, small .....52.6
" African ......57.8
" Green, shelled .57.7
Beans, field ....48.3
" French or Kidney .55.6
" White .......48.8
" Lima ........60.6
Lentils .........53.
Household Repairs.
By M. H.
A GOOD way to completely transform a bedroom when the furniture has become old and shabby, is to give every piece of furniture several coats of paint. The first thing to do is to sandpaper it smooth, and while this is tedious, it is very necessary. Then give each piece a coat of white lead paint, and when this is dry it must be followed by a second coat, and the third coat must be an enamel finish, and, if the work is carefully done, a lovely polish may be obtained as effectually as if the most expensive workmen were employed.
Curtain shades that are worn at the bottom can sometimes be made to look like new by taking the roller off the top and turning them upside down, but one must be very careful in tacking the curtain in place again.
The best renovation for carpets is ox-gall, as it brightens the colors, and one pint of ox-gall to three gallons of boiling water will clean a large carpet or rug. A large Brussels rug that was worn and faded was first thoroly cleaned and neatly darned, then it was gone over with olive green diamond dye for wool, which was put on with a brush and rubbed well into the carpet with clean, soft cloths; and some small rugs that were faded were colored a rich dark blue as they were to be used in a bedroom furnished in blue.
The brass top of a lamp can be fastened to the bowl by applying melted alum. Melt the alum, and while it is hot cover the inside of the brass top, put it in position, and your lamp will be as good as new. If the brass part of the lamp has become dull or discolored, get some bronze at the drug-store, and put it on your lamp as you would bronze any article. A white lamp globe can be cleaned and brightened by washing with kerosene oil and then with hot suds and polishing with soft, dry cloths. M. H.
Cutting Trees by Electricity.
It is reported in the German press that successful experiments have been made in various forests of France in cutting trees by means of electricity. A platinum wire is heated to a white heat by an electric current and used like a saw. In this manner the tree is felled much easier and quicker than in the old way, no sawdust is produced, and the slight carbonization caused by the hot wire acts as a preservative of the wood. The new method is said to require only one-eighth of the time consumed by the old sawing process.—Northwestern Christian Advocate.
For Every Day.
[Frank Walcott Hutt, in The Housekeeper.]
A CHEERFUL song for every day,
And not for glad days only;
A song to clear a misty way,
And soothe a heart that's lonely;
A song that's not too late to bring
Joy unto one that may not sing.
A song whose mission 'tis to find
And cheer the place of sorrow,
And have its message glad and kind,
Fulfilled before to-morrow—
Whether the skies be blue or gray,
A cheerful song for every day.
Charity and a Pepsin Tablet
"Some people's idea of charity is to give a starving man a pepsin tablet."
The First Time
While the special purpose of True Education Readers Nos. One, Two, and Three is to put the child in possession of a complete key to English reading, they also familiarize him with the most important Bible truths. Three times over they tell of God's plan for the earth in the beginning, the successive steps in the work of Creation, something about each of these steps, a sketch of certain selected Bible child biographies, including the life of the perfect Child, Jesus, His work, His sacrifice, the plan of salvation finished, and the new earth.
The First Time
In simple language, by attractive pictures and the best methods of teaching reading, True Education Reader No. 1 fixes upon the child's mind in his first school year an outline of the beautiful Gospel story from Creation to Redemption.
The Second Time
Enriched by many illustrations, enlarged by additional topics, made more interesting by sketches from the lives of insects, birds, and animals, the incidents of the Gospel story are given the second time in True Education Reader No. 2.
The Third Time
True Education Reader No. 3 tells it again, and in connection with it brings in a variety of other matter, such as poems, biographical sketches, Bible selections, our Saviour's parables, simple lessons on physiology, geography, and botany, and adapts it all to the growing intelligence of the child in his third school year for whose use it is intended.
How the Mind Is Prepared for This Thrice-Told Story
The oral Bible lessons which follow the same outline as the readers are given by the teacher or parent before (perhaps one or two weeks) the child comes to the subject in his reading, so when he does come to the lesson in his reading, he recognizes it and reads with greater interest and understanding.
And Then the Story Is Reviewed
The regular text-book for Bible study which is now being prepared for grades or school-years four, five, and six, is developed from this same outline. Hence, the child's fourth, fifth, and sixth year's work in Bible will be in the nature of a review of the lessons, the general features of which he has been made familiar with during the preceding three years.
An Illustration
Suppose a child with his parents takes a trip across the continent. Before he reaches each point of special interest, he is told a story concerning it by his parents. When the point is reached he has developed an interest in it and is likely to remember something about it.
The next year the trip is taken again. The same method is followed by the parents. More points are visited and much more is learned about those seen the first time.
The succeeding year he takes the same journey but with various side trips and spends more time at each point. Old memories are revived and strengthened, new facts concerning familiar places are learned, and all is vividly impressed upon his mind by the thrice-told story to which he has listened and the threefold view he has enjoyed.
The Application
This is the kind of trip and the method of instruction enjoyed by the child who learns to read by use of the True Education Reader Series, books One, Two, and Three.
The Harmony of This Plan
So you see the True Education Reader Series harmonizes with the plans and methods adopted by the Educational Department of the General Conference in behalf of our church schools
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Bible Lessons for the First Three School Years
This is the list of Bible Lessons or talks outlined by the General Conference Educational Department to be presented during each of the first three school years.
The reading lessons in True Education Reader Series Nos. One, Two, and Three run parallel to these talks—each book covering the entire course. These readers contain the memory verse designed to accompany each talk; also the story upon which the talk itself is based.
With these readers the parent or teacher will find the task of interesting the child in Bible stories and of teaching him to read an easy one.
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Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. When the Common ("King James" or "Authorized") Version, or the American Standard Revised Version is used, quotations will not be designated in reference. Any Bible quotation in this paper, therefore, differing from the Common Version, unless otherwise indicated, will be almost invariably from the American Standard Revised Version (Thomas Nelson & Sons, Publishers).
Are you not glad that Christ is coming? He is your best Friend if you will let Him be. Far beyond your own conception He will help and bless you. But He can not accept a divided heart. Why not enlist under the banner of the soon-coming, all-conquering King?
Preparing for War.—It is a suggestive thought on the times in which we live that our little neighbor republic of Mexico is preparing to fortify both ends of the Tehauntepec railroad. Really, as there are no powers outside of the United States that would want to attack Mexico, it would look as tho Mexico is fortifying against the United States. That, however, would not be Mexico's weakest point. It would seem as tho she wants to keep in the world's fashion. The prophet, looking forward to this day, speaking of how all the world would arm, says, "Let the weak say, I am strong." That is just what we are hearing on the part of these smaller nations who are arming to the teeth. They wish to let the world know that they have money to spend for fortifying also.
Our Outlook Department.—The readers of the SIGNS have reason to congratulate themselves in the fair, clear presentation of the present situation in France. Mr. Vuilleumier has laid before us two most excellent articles: one a brief survey of history, the other the present condition of things. We are sure that our readers can depend upon the statements therein given as facts. Next week we will give in our Outlook Department a report of the World's Student Federation Convention, held in Japan, April 3-7, reported by a Japanese missionary on the ground. Following this will come another London letter discussing various things of interest in the United Kingdom. This will not exhaust by any means the interesting things; we have too many things to mention which are piling up all the time concerning the great field, the world—things in which our readers will be interested and ought to be interested, and of which Christians especially ought to be cognizant. Some of them are God's great milestones to mark off the pathway of this old world to its doom; rather let us say the great highway of prophecy which leads to God's eternal kingdom. It is a great deal better to look to the glorious kingdom which lies before than the certain doom which is soon to overtake the world, and our great wish is that our readers shall look to the bright side, the dawn of the everlasting morning rather than the entering in of sin's everlasting night.
Our Missions Department.—This interesting portion of our paper has been filled to overflowing, and we have greatly regretted that we did not have more space for it. Because of this we have had to divide articles which would have been stronger in interest if we could have published them entire. They have been most excellent, however, tho they have been divided. Next week we publish the last of the excellent series of articles on China, one of the great, dark, needy fields of the world. We sincerely hope that our readers will study this series of articles, and, especially these closing articles, and that it will stir up some of those who are able to give of the means which God has entrusted to their stewardship to the great needy field of China. The SIGNS will be only too glad to forward any such means to that field. Following the articles on China, there will be an article on our India Mission which will set before our readers the results of the donations which have been given for the great Indian field. A home for workers has been purchased there and we will present a letter from Brother Shaw giving us an account of this purchase, and also a picture of the home away up in the foothills of the Himalayas. This we know will be of interest to the hundreds who have given to this field. Following this will be a short article on the Jewish Mission in Boston. We have some laborers who are putting forth special efforts to bring the logical development of the truth which God committed to the Jews to their descendants, to help them to see that the promise made of God unto the fathers is fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the only hope, and true hope, there is for Israel centers in Him.
Unbelief and Sin
Unbelief.—Unbelief is not of itself sin. “Sin is the transgression of the law.” Belief, or faith, will save from sin. God gave His Son, that “whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. “He that believeth on Him is not condemned.” Verse 18. Why?—Because “the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7. It is sin, transgression of God’s law, which condemns; for “he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.” John 3:18. Unbelief leaves him in sin, and sin condemns.
Relation of Unbelief to Sin.—But is not unbelief properly called sin?—Yes; for in a sense it is the greatest of sins; nay, it includes all sin. He who in the face of light will not believe, cherishes sin, loves sin. The Jews could not believe, because they thought more of their own honor than of the honor that came from God. See John 5:43, 44. Sin intervenes between the soul and God, and blinds to the light of His Gospel. But he who cherishes one sin, cherishes the very nature of sin, and thus unbelief shows that he prefers sin to holiness, transgression to righteousness. When, therefore, we find ourselves doubting God’s word, we may know that sin reigns in the heart. Unbelief is an infallible indication of cherished sin, and so it is taken as standing for cherished sin. Many of the tribes of Israel did not enter the promised land because of unbelief; but this simply meant that they cherished and loved their own sinful ways instead of God’s ways, and this is demonstrated by their history. Let it not be demonstrated in ours.
Our Next Issue.
By Editor
THE next of our special issues in its General Department will deal exclusively with the great subject of the Law and the Gospel. What Is the Law? The Sinner's Relation to the Law, The Breadth, Extent, Holiness, Perpetuity, and the Immutability of the Law, and the Design of the Gospel in Connection with the Law, the Relation of the Two to Each Other, will be the phases of the subject considered. Surely if there ever was a time when men should know the one immutable law in this world of change and transformation, it is now. Human laws are imperfect at best, and are therefore subject to criticism and constant change. Human judgments are purchasable and venal. Human sentences are partial and incomplete. Certainly, it is good to know, if it can be found, that there is a law that is unchanging, a government which is absolutely impartial, a judgment, the sentence of which is irrevocable, because given in perfect justice. These are some of the questions upon which light will be shed in our next issue.
In our next issue will also close the admirable series of articles on China. There will also be given in our Outlook Department a report of the World's Student Federation Conference at its sixth session, held this year in Tokio, Japan, April 3-7, reported by our own correspondent under special instructions to give us the most salient features of the meeting. This will also be of interest to mission workers. This is No. 7 of our special numbers. The others which are to follow will be even better than those which have gone before. Remember that the price for the six months, including the whole twenty-six numbers, covering the great important doctrines of God's word is but 75 cents.
