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Recent Publications and Avondale Health Retreat

The Signs of the Times has received a pamphlet of thirty-two pages entitled “Letter from Grateful ‘India to Her American Benefactors.” It is sent out by the Americo-India Famine Relief committee in India, of which Hon. William T. Fee, U. S. consul, is chairman, and Rev. R. A. Hume, D.D., American Marathi Mission, Executive Secretary. The other members of the committee are prominent gentlemen in India. The funds received have been used to furnish food to the starving, seed to the farmers for sowing their fields, construction of wells, clothing, kitchens for providing cooked food, purchase of cattle, support of famine children, industrial education of famine children. The letter contains many expressions of gratitude from the viceroy of India, governors of provinces, missionaries, and others.

“Science and Faith” is the name of a little journal published by Dr. L. A. Reed, Jacksonville, Ill. Its aim is to show that true science is not inimical to faith in God and His Word, but is an aid to it. The number before us discusses “The Transfer of Energy,” “The Composition of Matter,” “The Power of Little Things,” and other subjects of interest. Price, 75 cents a year; single copy, 10 cents.

A neat little souvenir comes to us of the “Avondale Health Retreat,” established near Cooranbong, New South Wales, seventy-five miles from Sydney. The illustrations of the buildings and surroundings show the institution to be pleasantly located. With Mr. and Mrs. Doctors Kress as the medical heads to the institution, assisted by a good corps of workers, we are sure that this institution will indeed prove to many a health retreat, a place where health may be recovered and benefited by those who have lost this desirable thing.

“Helping Hand Series,” Vol. 3, No. 3, published at 40 King Street, Worcester, Mass., is on the subject of orphanage work among the Armenians. It contains illustrations of children, with much interesting matter showing the work done.

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Heralds of His Coming

Is the end near? May we know the time? are important questions deserving of the most serious consideration. These, together with many others bearing on Christ’s second advent, are fully answered in this tract.

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BAPTISM: Its Significance, Its Nature, and the Necessity for It.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

By E. J. Waggoner. Bible Students' Library, No. 79. Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 16 pp.; 2 cents.

Modern Industry

Modern industry is a marvel, and by many considered a wonderful blessing in its multiplication of labor-saving machinery. It would be a blessing if rightly used, but in its abuse it is separating the people of the world into permanent classes, taking away largely all stimulus to advancement and independence, and sowing baleful seeds of contempt, hatred, and strife between capital and labor, between employer and employed, between trust magnate and union workingmen, between the classes and the masses. A Japanese, Baron Hisaya Iwasaki, one of the wealthiest of the Mikado’s subjects, recently sailed from New York. He was asked if they had any poor in his country. He replied: “We have, ‘and they are continually increasing in numbers. ‘The rich are growing richer and the poor poorer, ‘altho the change is gradual. It is due to the introduction of the new industrial system.” He liked the system, but deplored its results. So it always will be as men depart from the simple, natural methods. Happiness has no affinity with the artificial and false.

Strikes and Injunctions

There have been several judicial declarations, during the last half of July, regarding the rights of strikers, which may have important bearings on the question in the future. Judge Stewart of York County, Pa., declared that “workmen have the right to contract with and work for whom they please, upon such terms and conditions, and for such pay, as they may be willing to accept;” and he also added that “any person who undertakes by force, menaces, or threats, direct or indirect, tho cloaked in the softest language, to violate or interrupt them, is guilty of a wrong, and such conduct will be and must be restrained by the courts.” On the same day Judge C. D. Clark, of the United States District Court at Cincinnati, declared “picketing” to be “immoral and wrong.” The Superior Court of Ansonia, Ct., enjoined two hundred men by name from “picketing, boycotting, threatening, or in any way molesting any one now in the employ of the company, or who may hereafter be employed.” Picketing is said by the court to be “intercepting men while going to or from the factory—anywhere, even miles away—by one man, or more than one, and an interference with ingress and egress of workmen.” And in the West, Superior Judge M. C. Sloss of San Francisco issued an injunction, July 26, restraining the striking restaurant employes from using the word “unfair,” from persuading or inducing persons in the employ of a restaurant to leave that employ, and from intimidating any person from entering into its employ, or from dealing with or patronizing him. Court decisions ought to help in settling matters, but under present conditions they will have little effect.

Upcoming Reports and Prophecy Studies

By Editor

We publish next week a very interesting report of faith experiences from Dr. J. V. and Mrs. Willson, Kimberly, South Africa. Our readers will be inspired by its story.

Read by all means “The Monarchical Principle Established,” by Alonzo T. Jones, on page 5. Every American ought to read it. It is of vital consideration. The last of the series will be published next week.

In the “Signs” of August 28 will begin a series of studies on prophecy in general, and the Book of Daniel in particular. New phases of the wonderful book will be considered, which we are sure will be of interest to all our readers.

Mr. Dowie's Claims

The article on Mr. Dowie's claims, on page 6, is the second in a series. Circulate them; their Biblical truth may help to lighten some minds now in darkness. The principles are as applicable in the case of other erroneous views as in this. These papers should be used by thousands in Chicago.

Eastern Steelworkers’ Strike

The great strike in the East, of the steel-workers, bade fair to be over just before we went to press, but at the last moment its settlement seems doubtful. The union men do not wish to admit in the unionized mills non-union men, or what are called, “strike-breakers.” The latest terms proposed are indicated in our Outlook department.

The Spread of Modern Spiritism

Some of the editors of religious papers are rejoicing over the idea that Spiritism is on the wane. They think it is dying out. This may be true, to some extent, of Spiritism in the particular form in which it appeared half a century ago. The doctrines of Spiritism are much more diversified than they were. They cover a much wider area, adapting themselves more fully to the varied fancies of different individuals. It is in this broader field of varied forms of mysticism that we are to look for Spiritism to-day; and if we look there, we find it spreading with alarming rapidity.

MODERN “SPIRITUALISM.”

By Editor

BETTER, “Spiritism,” for it has objectively to do with spirits and only incidentally with things spiritual. But do you wish to know about the movement called “Modern Spiritualism”? If you do, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will tell you in a series of brief, pointed, clear articles from the pen of Pastor W. A. Colcord of Australia. These articles, nine in number, are as follows:—

Its Origin and Manifestations,

The Source of Its Power,

Character of Its Teachings,

Extent of the Belief,

Taught from Many Pulpits,

Dangers of Meddling with It,

Its Relation to Christ’s Second Coming,

Its Final Deception,

The Scriptures Our Only Safeguard.

This series on Modern Spiritism will, the Lord willing, begin in the SIGNS of September 4, and continue till closed. Besides these articles there will be many others equally important. Now is a good time to subscribe.

Christian Character and Environments.

By Editor

In a recent sermon, speaking on the strike question, Dr. C. R. Brown of this city said:—

You can not make a Christian of a man until the conditions of his employment are such as to make his work a means of grace. If he labors under such conditions that he is becoming dull, sullen, and despairing, then you can not hope that he will win Christian character by occasional excursions aside into the realm of sacrament and ceremony.

We do not know who Dr. Brown means by “you;” it is probably Christians generally to whom he was talking. But let it be known that no man or men can make Christians by any sort of conditions. Jesus Christ makes Christians, and He can make Christians of men who will let Him, despite any conditions, even to slavery, prison walls, torture, or death. To the man who loves God, who yields all to Him, “God worketh all things with him for ‘good.’” Christian character is not the result of environments or conditions, but of personal relations with Jesus Christ. “That ye may be blameless ‘and harmless, the children of God, without blemish ‘in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, ‘among whom ye are seen as lights in the world.’”

American Revised Bible

It is not known by all that when the late revision of the Bible took place, there was not the most perfect agreement between the American and English revisers. These differences are not all indicated by any means in the prefaces of the Revised Version. But the American Standard Revision of the Bible is to be printed at last. By special and exclusive arrangement with the publishers of the new Bible, and in co-operation with the American Revision Committee itself, the Sunday-School Times (Philadelphia) gives, in its issue of July 27, a selected list of passages from the new Bible, showing some of its most striking and characteristic changes as compared with the English revision of 1885. Facsimile reproductions of pages of the American Bible are also given. As a most appropriate setting for the whole, an interesting article appears in the same issue by the learned Howard Osgood, of the Old Testament Company of the American Revision Committee, on the salient features of the new Bible. The price of the paper is five cents. We hope, however, that it will not be termed “An American Bible for Americans.” That will surely be the acme of bad taste and egotism.

Practical Jokes

It does not take a large or an acute mind to get some one to snub their nose against a finger as they turn the head when spoken to; the removal of a chair from some one about to sit down does not require a stupendous intellect. One of very small brains may accomplish such feats; turn the nose on somebody; hit a glass when some person is drinking, or do a thousand and one foolish things, which many times bring pain, distress, or disaster to others. For instance, a girl in Southern California, the other day, attempted to fill a gasoline tank while the stove was burning. This was a very unsafe thing to do; but she probably would have escaped injury had not a foolish boy turned a garden hose toward her. She jumped, spilled some gasoline, an explosion took place, and she was terribly burned, the injury resulting in death shortly afterward. Three young people were drowned at Spanaway Lake, near Tacoma, July 28, because, it is said, some of the party thought it would be nice to rock the boat and frighten the girls. “Folly is joy to him ‘that is destitute of understanding.’”

Wealth and Place by Any Means

How many, many, there are saying by their actions the words of Pope:—

“Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.”

Finding Rest in Work and Faith

Rest is not idleness, except to those physically incapacitated. Rest does not come by dawdling during a week or so of vacation, nor by violent and unnatural exercise. Rest is often accomplished by change of occupation. Rest is as often accomplished by coming into harmony and sympathy with one’s work.

“Rest is not quitting life’s busy career; Rest is the fitting of self to one’s sphere.”

That will take away the worry, and it is worry that kills more than work. Learn above all to “roll thy ‘burden upon the Lord.’” There is always rest in His service rightly served. “Take My yoke upon ‘you,’ says the Mighty One, “and learn of Me; . . . and ye shall find rest.”