p. 35 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 25, Nos. 48, 49. (11/29/1899)

THIS NUMBER CONTAINS.

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Poetry. Harvest, FRED T. ELKIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Humming of the Harvest, T. R. WILLIAMSON . . . . . . . . 15 Sin's Harvest, C. M. SNOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The River of Salvation, LLEWELLYN A. MORRISON . . . . . 22

Music.—O Who Will Go Forth? (words) EL NATHAN, (music) JAMES MCGRANAHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

General. The Seed Sowing of the Gospel, E. J. WAGGONER . . . . . . . . . 1 The Seed Sowing of Sin, E. A. SUTHERLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Harvest of Crime, PERCY T. MAGAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Harvest of Intemperance, MAHLON E. OLSEN . . . . . . . . . 4 The Harvest of Greed, JOHN CLARK RIDPATH . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Harvest of Disease, DAVID PAULSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The Harvest of War, URIAH SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Harvest of Church and State Union, L. A. SMITH . . . . . . 11 The Harvest of Imperialism, A. T. JONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 God's Divine Smelter, A. F. BALLENGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 The Harvest of Righteousness and Life, G. E. FIFIELD . . . . . 17 The Harvest of Earth, MILTON C. WILCOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Outlook European, H. P. HOLSER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Outlook Temporal, A. O. TAIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Seeking to Save the Lost, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Outlook Prophetic, J. O. CORLISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Coming of the Reaper, FRANCIS M. WILCOX . . . . . . . . 25

The Story.—The Harvest of Wilkie Kinnear for 188—, EMMA HILDRETH ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Home. The Building of a Home, J. R. MILLER, D.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Thanksgiving Dinner Menu for Six, J. E. PATERSON . . . . . . . 28

Missions.—A Great Crisis in the Work of Missions, A. T. PIERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Bible Readings.—Twelve in all, on various subjects.

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The Harvest of Imperialism

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It is but just to say that the title of Mr. Jones' paper as given by himself was "The Harvest of Imperialism." The heading was made by the artist as it is. The writer of the article does not, nor do we, object to expansion on right principles. In a just way no one objects to expansion, so far as we know. But what many call "expansion" is simply "Imperialism" with a big "I." With the politics of the matter we have naught to do; we simply present God's message of warning, and the inevitable result of its rejection.

A Time for Thanksgiving

THE autumn-tide is a time to call forth thanksgiving from hearts throughout earth's Northern zones; for it is at this time of the year that even the faithless

"See our Father's hand once more Reverse for us the plenteous horn Of autumn, filled and running o'er With fruit and flower and golden corn. "Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems of gold; Once more, with harvest song and shout, Is nature's bloodless triumph told. "O favors every year made new!, O gift with rain and sunshine sent! The bounty overruns our due, The fulness shames our discontent. "We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on; We murmur, but the corn-ears fill, We choose the shadow, but the sun That casts it shines behind us still."

And so with all God's blessings, spiritual as well as temporal. Jesus Christ pours out upon us all the fullness of His riches of grace and mercy; but blind, selfish man, blind because selfish, sees them not, nor appreciates that all come from God. He who truly renders thanks and praise to God at all times, will have an open channel between himself and Heaven. In sorrow and want he will praise God for sympathy and strength to endure. In plenty he will acknowledge God as the giver. All is of Him.

"And we, to-day, amidst our flowers And fruits, have come to own again The blessings of the summer hours, The early and the latter rain."

And to-day we may also praise God for the early and latter rain of His Gospel, which is fitting sheaves for His gathering. The Harvest is almost here. The Reaper soon will come.

The Sower of Sin

WHAT a blessed thing it is to know that there is coming a time when there will be no more sin; more, not only will sin be forever banished, but Satan, in whom sin originated, will be utterly destroyed! The Son of God became one of us and died, came to be nothing for our sakes, in order that He might for our sakes destroy forever Satan and sin. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." Heb. 2:14. And by the son of Buzi the Lord speaks: "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." Then will God's universe be free from the very root of evil.

The True Outlook

THE only true outlook of worldly things is from the watch-tower of God. He who looks from any of the towers erected by human wisdom sees but in part. His vision is absorbed in strong lights or deep shadows, and he loses even the outline of the important. The nearer objects of vision, oftentimes small and insignificant, obscure the great and essential. The near-by-way seems larger than the more distant traveled road. The little, sluggish, artificial canal seems more than the mighty stream of time on which empires are drifting to destruction. A mere partisan measure of to-day hides the eternal moral principle. A name of some exalted human hero shuts from our view the great God and our duty to Him. "We see dimly in the present what is small and what is great." The temporal, worldly view is always a present view; it is the view of the sensuous, the covetous; it is the view of the brute. But the outlook from the watch-tower of God takes in time past, present, and future. The observer sees the great Stadium of Time, and the nations passing in review before him. Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Judah, Persia, Greece, Rome, are fallen. The divided nations of earth are struggling for contest, for enlargement, for power, wealth, and glory. Just on before lie the tremendous issues of the judgment of God and the coming of the King of kings, in whose presence nations and kingdoms shrivel and perish. In human view Might often makes Right; de facto is de jure; but in God's plan and outlook there is one eternal standard of Right; and the end demonstrates that it is eternal Might. O friend, turn thee to the true light, the "more sure word of prophecy"!

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THIS is a solemn and serious number. We are living in solemn times. The great sinful world may laugh away the seriousness, may lightly jest over the things of eternal interest; nevertheless, they are serious still. Eternity, man's awful responsibility in deciding it for weal or wo, and the inevitable harvest of death or life, are serious questions. And yet the harvest-time may be joyful to every one; but, if so, we must take it seriously.

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