p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 30. (7/27/1904)

“LAST-DAY TOKENS”—A Delay

THE large amount of particular work incident to the preparation and printing of the twenty-four color plates in “Last-day Tokens” has delayed its publication somewhat. At this writing the book is on the press, and orders will be filled very soon.

To those who may not be acquainted with this remarkable work we will say that the “Last-day Tokens” is a description of the many strange sights seen in the heavens during the past fifty years or more. It is written by Eld. J. N. Loughborough, who has been an eye-witness to many of the scenes he describes.

The book will contain more than 200 pages. Some of the plates will be printed in as many as six colors. The book will be bound in paper. The price is 25 cents, postpaid.

“UNCLE BEN’S COBBLESTONES”

Ready about August 15

TO THOSE of our readers who have Our Little Friend in their homes Uncle Ben and his Cobblestones need no introduction. Uncle Ben’s delightful way of talking about the common things, their origin and uses, have gained for his stories a wide circle of interested readers. These readers will be glad to know that all of the articles which have appeared in Our Little Friend, and many more pictures than were printed with them, are now being bound in a beautiful book.

The book will be called “Uncle Ben’s Cobblestones.” The cover of the book, the frontispiece, and the title page are all beautifully printed in colors. An excellent table of contents will enable the reader to at once turn to any one of the many “common things” described in its 222 pages. Some of these “common things” are as follows:—

Air and Water, Buried Forests, Indian Corn, Glass, Bread, Bread Fruit, Lucifer Matches, Magnifying Glass, Burning Glass, Old Rags, Bran and Middlings, Needles, Black Bottles, Paper, Cobblestones, Pitch, Candy Salt, Power of Coal, Clouds, Coal, Rock Salt, Pins and Needles, Diamonds, Rain-drops, Wax Candles, Flour, Stones, Flint and Tinder, Smoke, Fire, Salt, Gas, Tar, Garden Flowers, Sand, Graham Bread, Telescopes.

The price of this book is 75 cents. There will be a liberal discount to those who will sell it. We believe it is a book that children and young people will not only be delighted to read and study, but to circulate among their friends and neighbors.

“HOW A LITTLE GIRL WENT TO AFRICA”

Told by Herself

WE have just received a very unique child’s book with the above title. It is a ten-year-old child’s description of her trip to Africa. So accurately has she written of her experiences that an eminent author of geographies has recommended the work for all school libraries. The price is $1.00, postpaid.

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A “SIGN’S” REPRESENTATIVE.

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Three weeks ago we offered, through the columns of the Signs of the Times, to send ten copies of the paper one month, free, to those who would use the papers in soliciting subscriptions or in working up a route of house-to-house subscribers.

Here is an extract from a letter just received in response to this offer:—

To the Signs of the Times: I see that you offer to send ten copies of the Signs one month, free, to those who will secure subscribers, and sell the paper. I would like to secure subscribers for you. I take the Signs, and believe the message it contains, and would like to be the means of carrying this message to some one else.

Please send the Signs, and I will do my best for it. I believe the Lord wants me to be a Sign’s representative. Yours truly, Mrs. Alfred Hardy.

We would be glad to hear from others who have similar convictions.

A LETTER.

By J. E. Miner

TO THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES: I enjoy the Signs. It is the only paper that just suits me. It has kept me from giving up all hope. May God bless the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Yours truly, J. E. MINER. New London, Conn.

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Chautauqua Items

Chautauqua Items.—“Graft” has become such a prominent factor in political and commercial life, that one of our great educational institutions deems it necessary to consider it. Accordingly, in the 1904 program at Chautauqua, New York, one of the special weeks is set aside for the consideration of “Graft.” Four addresses upon it will be given: “Graft” in Education, in Labor, in Business, and in Politics. Inspector Hughes, of Toronto, will discuss the educational question; Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, of McClure’s Magazine, the labor side of the problem. Dr. J. M. Buckley will conduct his annual question box, and give three new lectures. This will make more than sixty he has prepared for Chautauqua. The SIGNS OF THE TIMES will be found at the Press Bureau on the Chautauqua grounds, during the special term of 1904.

Keith’s Magazine on Home Building

Keith’s Magazine on Home Building for June, opens with “A California Country House,” illustrated, showing the peculiar development and possibilities of the situation. “The Shut-in Garden” is discussed and illustrated with various views of various times and countries. “Typical American Homes” has two illustrations with elevations and floor plans. “Our First Home,” by Stanley J. Williams, gives an interesting account of what was done within certain limitations. The other usual departments of the magazine are, “Decorating and Furnishing,” “Answers to Questions,” “Household Economics,” “Table Chat,” “Splinters and Savings,” “Notes and Hints,” “Architect’s Corner,” “Glimpses of Books,” etc. These are filled with information and valuable hints, and the number closes with elevations, plans, specifications and estimating of a dozen dwellings of various designs and capacities. A useful and interesting number. The magazine is a help to builder, architect, or to one wishing to build a home. The Keith Publishing Co., Minneapolis, Minn., $1.00 per year.

Publication and Bible Quotation Policies

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We send no papers from this office to individuals without pay in advance. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the “Signs” are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon to pay for them. Please read the papers you may receive, and hand them to your friends to read.

Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. When the Common (King James) Version, the Revised 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 from one of the two revised versions, usually the American Standard.

The Church

By Editor

We call attention to the article on the Church in our editorial columns, and ask our readers to follow the study in subsequent numbers.

Census Volumes Received

We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the volumes on “Occupations” and “Employers and Employed,” findings of the Twelfth Census of the United States, from the Department of Commerce and Labor, of which Hon. S. N. D. North is director.

Order of Pastor Starr’s Bible Series

By Editor

We exceedingly regret the blunders which have been made with Pastor Starr's Bible series. These were written and received in order, but through some mistake Deuteronomy preceded Numbers, and First and Second Kings have appeared before the books of Samuel. As each article is largely independent, the reader will not lose in his reading, but it would have been much better to have preserved the regular order, especially in the historical books of Samuel and the Kings.

Let the Work Go On

Let the Work Go On.—The Catholic Mirror says that “the pope has ordered the destruction of the vineyards of the Vatican because the wine is worthless, and he considers it beneath the papal dignity to speculate in the produce of the apostolic gardens.” Good. Now let him destroy the vine by which “the wine of Babylon” is produced, and which has made drunken all nations.

The New Saying of Jesus

We have considerable said on “the New Saying of Jesus,” as if they would or should in any way be the New Testament. Simply because the old manuscript copy declares, “Jesus saith,” is no evidence whatever that the sayings are His exact words. In fact, if they are genuine at all, they are evidently quoted from memory, and, according to the Gospels, not accurately. It would be worth while if we would give more attention to what is known as Christ’s sayings.

Worthy Beneficence.

We learn from Our Dumb Animals that at the May meeting of the directors of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and The American Humane Education Society, held May 18th, it was voted that in memory of the generous gift of the late Arioch Wentworth, the Massachusetts Society hereby offers the selectmen of each of the over three hundred Massachusetts country towns twenty dollars to aid in establishing watering-troughs or fountains for animals, attached to which should be an iron cup for the use of human beings, and on or near which shall be inscribed or painted the words, “Blessed are the merciful.”

Keeping the State Out of God’s Way

Lord Shaftsbury is accredited with the remark that true statesmanship lies in finding out the direction in which God is moving, and then getting out of His way. The so-called Christian Citizenship movement would have the people recognize the way of the National Reformers as God’s way, and have the state put the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution and the doctrines of Protestantism in religion and Republicanism in politics all out of the way for a full sweep of church and state union in the United States. So long as the state keeps in its allotted place as a protector of the natural rights of men, the Gospel ship will have fairly smooth sailing, as the devil’s most effective work ever has been through the medium of the state’s getting in the way with its man-made religion enforcing the traditions and dogmas of human origin. That is indeed true statesmanship that will keep the state out of the way of the Lord’s work for the salvation of souls.

Educative, Helpful, and Healing.

A score or more years ago we were at Ballston Spa, Saratoga Co., N. Y. It has many natural advantages in climate and surroundings, in the foot-hills of the Adirondacks. The mineral springs were then the chief attraction. But whatever virtue there may have been in the waters of nature’s compounding, was nullified by the unhygienic living of the hotels. We are now glad to note that a modern, Christian health institution has started at Ballston Spa. It is known as the Gordonhurst Farm Sanitarium. It is situated in a beautiful country, with healthful surroundings. It has a skilful resident physician and conscientiously trained nurses. It will furnish a quiet home retreat, away from the noise of the cities, to those who need rest, recuperation, and treatment. Ballston Spa is connected by electric-cars with Saratoga Springs, eight miles; Schenectady, twelve miles; Albany and Troy, thirty-five miles. Dr. Ruth Bryant Leake, physician in charge, L. C. Leake, secretary. Ballston Spa, N. Y.

An Aged Brother’s Escape

From an aged and beloved brother in New York, well beyond fourscore, comes a letter saying that his horse was frightened at a merry-go-round, his buggy was utterly wrecked, but in God's goodness both himself and wife escaped serious injury. From his lips we first heard the truth of God's last message to the world, attracted in part by curiosity to hear on the prophecies partly by the name, the same as our own. We thank God that his life is still spared. May he gather still more fruit for the Master.

For Our Little Ones.

Our Little Friend readers who read “Uncle Ben’s Cobblestones” in the Little Friend will be glad to know that it is in book form, revised, some new illustrations added; and it makes a beautiful, instructive book on common things for children, to which they will turn again and again. It is nicely printed, and well bound in board paper covers with cloth back. On the front of the cover is a colored picture of pleasant old Uncle Ben with hoe in hand, talking with Tom about a tremendous great squirrel sitting on the cobblestone wall. The price of the book is 75 cents post-paid. Address, The Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal.

“Not Discouraged.”

We recently received a letter from a fellow-worker in the South who had just lost three buildings by fire, upon only one of which there was small insurance. Nearly all the property he had in the world was burned, including nearly all of his household goods; his wife, who was ill, barely escaping with her life. “Notwithstanding this great calamity,” he writes, “I am not discouraged.” This letter was not written for help; it was in response to a letter written to him on another matter. There may be those who have an abundance who would be glad to contribute a little to the help of this brother. We will see that it reaches its destination.

As They Had in Elijah’s Time

“As They Had in Elijah’s Time.”—A brother, whose Christianity we do not doubt, in speaking of a community torn by faction and trouble, concludes, “I have prayed for a test by fire, as they had in Elijah’s day. May it soon come.” Our brother will pray in vain. God does not work in that way. He chooses His own tests, fitted to the occasion. The Baal worshipers were sun worshipers. Fire was an element in their worship. It was characteristic of their god. It was that which he was all the time pouring forth. Therefore that test at that time. There is one test which all have now, the Word of God. An answer by a display of fire would for the time convince the superstitious and credulous, would terrorize the timid, and all through fear might “yield feigned obedience” to God, while the heart remained unregenerate. God’s Word is a hammer to break, and a fire to melt, the flinty rock. Jer. 23: 29. That Word, sooner or later, with its radium rays will pierce and lay bare the innermost recesses of the darkest life. Heb. 4:12. Those who have kept and cherished it, God will keep. Rev. 3:10. Those who turn from it will be deceived. 2 Thess. 2:10-12. It is well to wait God’s time.

Moody Calls for Preaching God’s Word

Mr. W. R. Moody, in making an earnest call for the Northfield (Mass.) General Conference of Christian Workers, to be held July 29 to August 14, makes an especial appeal for the Bible and God’s truth in contradistinction to “philosophic speculation.” He says, “If the waning power of the Christian ministry is to be stayed, it is only as His messengers speak with authority and definiteness of conviction from His revealed Word.” And Mr. Moody speaks truly.