The following inexpensive, attractive books of "The Young People's Library" will entertain you by the hour while adding greatly to your store of knowledge.
Native Life in India
This land is noted for its dense population. One of the most striking peculiarities of Hindu society is its division into castes—priests, military, merchants, bankers, traders, agriculturists, artisans, shepherds, etc. Of the manners, customs, dress, religions, and general characteristics of these millions of people, and of their attitude toward Christianity, Mr. Henry Rice, preacher and teacher, writes. This is most intensely interesting and educational.
The Tonga Islands
In this beautiful book of travel the reader voyages from the Golden Gate to the Samoan Islands, and thence 350 miles southwest to the historic Tonga group. During the trip Mrs. Adams, the author, reviews the century's struggles of these people from heathenish customs and ceremonies to their condition of civilization and Christian living to-day. From Tonga the reader is taken to islands and groups near-by and given a most interesting insight into the lives and activities of the peoples in the beautiful South Pacific.
John of Wycliffe
How few young people really know more of John of Wycliffe than that he was the "Morning Star of the Reformation"! His entire life was molded by his surroundings in youth, his leaving the monastic school and entering Oxford before the age of twenty, his seven years of study and contact with the Holy Scriptures there. Of all this, and later of his break with Rome and the mighty work he accomplished, this thrilling biographical sketch tells our young people.
Savonarola
A few years before the birth of Martin Luther, Italy was stirred by the preaching of Girolamo Savonarola. This sketch tells of his early education and his study of the works of Aquinas; of his piety, which led him to enter the monastery at Bologna; of later missions; and, finally, of his faith in the Word of God, and the revelations concerning what should befall Italy, and their fulfilment. His fearless proclamation of the truth brought on opposition and resulted in his being martyred in 1498.
Two Cannibal Archipelagoes
Traveling 600 miles westward from Fiji you would reach New Hebrides, inhabited by 250,000 people, made up of tribes, and ruled principally by chieftains. You approach Tanna, where, if it be night, you see the light of the great volcano Yasur. Of this island the captain tells you that more white men have here lost their lives than on any other island in the South Pacific. This book gives an interesting account of the New Hebrides, also of the Solomon Islands, and refers to the efforts to establish missions.
Two Cannibal Archipelagos
Life on the Congo
In this description of the great Congo River Basin—Africa—with its one million and fifty thousand square miles, and its six races of people, the reader will figuratively find himself lost to the world. A chapter on "Home Life" brings in the peculiar customs, the domestic activities, marriage, trading, dress, etc. "Religious Ideas," "Cannibalism," "Free Masonry and Charms," and "Missions" are other chapters of intense interest.
Left With a Trust
In this excellent story Mr. Grainger gathers his family around him in their London home before leaving for a year's work in Sydney, Australia. He leaves a "trust" with each one of the nine children concerning how they shall work with mother and lighten her cares during his long absence. How these trusts were carried out, the mistakes that were made, and the victories gained in the experience during the year, is most interesting. At the happy reunion around the fireside these are recounted to father, and thanks are given to the heavenly Father for His care returned. A beautiful family story.
Jack the Conqueror
Thousands of boys and girls and young men and women have been inspired, by the perseverance of Jack the conqueror, to work steadily forward undaunted by difficulties. An orphan boy, cared for by an ill-natured aunt, Jack didn't have much encouragement aside from his own purpose. He gathered willow twigs and made and sold baskets to pay his way to school; finally was graduated, and became an instructor. This story will fire you with ambition to overcome difficulties.
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Seed Thoughts
By J. W. Lowe
PROFESSED Christians ought to have sufficient faith in God to enable them to believe that He will bring to pass whatever is best for them and for His cause at large.
God, the Creator of the universe, has it in His power to shape the course of events as He pleases, and as He sees is best for this world and for the universe in general.
But God wants His children to have such an interest in eternal things pertaining to salvation, that they will seek Him in earnest prayer for their culmination.
When religious zealots put their trust in the arm of the State, or any other political organization, to carry out their wishes and schemes, they are actually ignoring and depreciating the power of God.
To ignore and depreciate the power of God, by putting their trust in some other power, is evidence that those who do this are not controlled by the Spirit of God. And when not controlled by the Spirit of God, men and women are certain to be led into many and grievous errors.
J. W. LOWE.
Kind Words at Home
SPEAK kindly in the morning; it lightens the cares of the day, and makes the household and all other affairs move along more smoothly.
Speak kindly at night; for it may be that before the dawn, some loved one may finish his or her space of life, and it will be too late to ask for forgiveness.
Speak kindly at all times; it encourages the downcast, cheers the sorrowing, and very likely awakens the erring to earnest resolves to do better, with strength to keep them.
Kind words are balm to the soul. They oil up the entire machinery of life, and keep it in good running order.—Anonymous.
6 Religious Liberty Numbers
By Editor
Of the Signs of the Times Weekly
Covering all phases of this vital and timely question. Bringing out the great fundamental principles of liberty. Commencing with the date of May 21, 1912, and continuing for six issues. All true-hearted, fair-minded men love liberty.
THE "SIGNS" ADVOCATES LIBERTY, IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD
Note carefully this partial list of contents
No. 1, May 21, 1912
AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Two Great Charters. This article to give a rapid review of attempts to secure and establish religious liberty in the Old World, making its strong points the Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence.
THE BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
The Individual—His God-Given Rights. The precept is addressed to the individual; faith is individual; choosing is individual; God no respecter of persons; and the individual's God-given rights.
AN INQUIRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What Liberty Is—individual liberty, personal liberty, political liberty, religious liberty, limitations of liberty.
CALIFORNIA AND LIBERTY
Spirit of Liberty; Early Days—California to the East as America was to other lands.
THE HOME
Love and Tenderness in the Home—serving each other.
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Power and Influence of the Gospel of Christ.
SINGLE ARTICLE
The Reformation and Liberty.
No. 2, May 28, 1912
AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
A New Order of Things—showing the reasons why the Pilgrims fled to America, Roger Williams and his work, the "fathers of the republic" as manifest in the "Virginia Bill of Rights" and other documents, and the position of the Presbytery of Hanover, and the Baptists.
THE BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
God and Cæsar—relation of Church and State; sin and crime.
AN INQUIRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Man's Duty to God; Man's Duty to His Fellows—equal rights with his fellows, no lordship over his fellows.
CALIFORNIA AND LIBERTY
California Under Sunday Law—court decisions.
THE HOME
The Father; His Burdens, His Rights.
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Power and Influence of the Gospel of Christ.
SINGLE ARTICLE
This Nation and Prophecy.
No. 3, June 4, 1912
AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
The Constitution and Its Guarantees of Religious Liberty—the emphasis that was laid on that Constitution by the principles set forth by R. M. Johnson in 1829-1831.
THE BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Christ Came Not to Judge, but to Save. His ministers must do the same.
AN INQUIRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Civil and Moral Law—crime and sin.
CALIFORNIA AND LIBERTY
The Repeal of Sunday Law.
THE HOME
The Mother; Her Burdens, Her Rights.
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Power and Influence of the Gospel of Christ.
SINGLE ARTICLE
Results of Sunday Laws.
No. 4, June 11, 1912
AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
The Beginning of the National Reform Movement—ever looked upon at first; later developments, and results of the baleful seed-sowing.
THE BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
The Golden Rule versus Religious Legislation.
AN INQUIRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Scope of Human Rule—must not usurp the place of conscience or God. Illustrations in Daniel 3, Daniel 6, and Acts 4 and 5.
CALIFORNIA AND LIBERTY
Futile Attempts to Secure a Sunday Law.
THE HOME
Parents' Duties and Attitude Toward Their Children.
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Power and Influence of the Gospel of Christ.
SINGLE ARTICLE
Ministers of the Gospel Not Ministers of Law.
No. 5, June 18, 1912
AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Organizations Swinging into Line—such as the National Sabbath Organization, W. C. T. U., Christian Citizenship Movement, Y. P. S. C. E.
THE BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Christ's Kingdom Not of This World—teaching of Jesus and apostles.
AN INQUIRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Teachings of Christ and Apostles Regarding Liberty of Conscience—with illustrations as found in Luke 9; John 12:47; 18:36; 2 Cor. 5:11; etc.
CALIFORNIA AND LIBERTY
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall Wrongly Used a Potent Force for Evil.
THE HOME
Children's Duty and Attitude Toward Parents.
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Power and Influence of the Gospel of Christ.
SINGLE ARTICLE
Evil Principles Rather than Evil Men.
No. 6, June 25, 1912
AMERICA AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Union of Roman Catholics and Protestants over Sunday Laws.
THE BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
An Appeal to Christians.
AN INQUIRY INTO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Results of Liberty, and the Consequences of Departing from God's Word.
CALIFORNIA AND LIBERTY
An Appeal to Californians.
THE HOME
A Christian Home a Light in the World.
MRS. E. G. WHITE
The Power and Influence of the Gospel of Christ.
SINGLE ARTICLE
Not for Ourselves.
¶ This issue means much to everybody—the business and the professional man, the laboring man, and the man of leisure, and most of all the Christian. It has meant much to, and still has much to do in, other countries; it is meaning much to other States, and means much to our own country and State. Every liberty-loving man and woman should understand the underlying principles; they are found in the Word of God.
¶ You are invited and urged to study the question with us for a few weeks. Some of your acquaintances would doubtless like to follow the studies with you. Why not include a list of them with your own name?
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