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Signs of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 42.

THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES
Earlier text: Did You Get One?

Our Representatives

UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Alabama Tract Society, Room 316, Lyric Building, Birmingham, Ala.
Alberta Tract Society, 502 17th Ave. West, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Arizona Tract Society, 417 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Arkansas Tract Society, Box 14, Little Rock, Ark.
British Columbia Tract Society, 1708 Maple St., Vancouver, B. C., Canada.
California Bible House, 537 25th St., Oakland, Cal.
California-Nevada Missionary Society, 341 E. Lodi Ave., Lodi, Cal.
California Tract Society, Northwestern, 537 25th St., Oakland, Cal.
California Tract Society, Southeastern, 417 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, Cal.
California Tract Society, Southern, 417 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Central California Bible House, Box 1304, Fresno, Cal.
Chesapeake Tract Society, 1611 10th St., Baltimore, Md.
Colorado Tract Society, Eastern, 1112 Kalamath St., Denver, Colo.
Colorado Tract Society, Western, 122 S. 8th St., Grand Junction, Colo.
Connecticut (See New England, Southern).
Cumberland Tract Society (Eastern Tennessee), 404 Tremont St., N. Chattanooga, Tenn.
District of Columbia Tract Society, 708 McLachlen Bldg., Washington, D. C.
Florida Tract Society, Room 11, Yowell-Duckworth Block, Orlando, Fla.
Georgia Tract Society, 169 Bryan St., Atlanta, Ga.
Greater New York Tract Society (See New York).
Hawaiian Tract Society, 767 Kinau St., Honolulu, H. T.
Idaho, Northern (See Upper Columbia Tract Society).
Idaho Tract Society, Southern, Room 327, Sonna Bldg., Boise, Idaho.
Illinois Tract Society, Northern, 3645 Ogden Ave., Hawthorne, Chicago, Ill.
Illinois Tract Society, Southern, 304 W. Allen St., Springfield, Ill.
Indiana Tract Society, 521 E. 23d St., Indianapolis, Ind.
Iowa Tract Society, Nevada, Iowa.
Kansas Tract Society, Room 615, Butts Bldg., cor. First St. and Lawrence Ave., Wichita, Kan.
Kentucky Tract Society, Box 398, Nicholasville, Ky.
Louisiana Tract Society, 810 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, La.
Maine Tract Society, 75 Grant St., Portland, Me.
Manitoba Tract Society, 418 Lansdowne Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Maritime Tract Society, Can. Pub. Assn., Oshawa, Ont., Canada.
Maryland (See Chesapeake Tract Society).
Massachusetts Tract Society, 607 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.
Michigan Tract Society, East, 426 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Michigan Tract Society, North, 510 Petoskey St., Petoskey, Mich.
Michigan Tract Society, West, 1214 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Minnesota Tract Society, 336 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Mississippi Tract Society, 932 Union St., Jackson, Miss.
Missouri Tract Society, 203 Franklin St., Clinton, Mo.
Montana Tract Society, 411 S. Black Ave., Bozeman, Mont.
Nebraska Bible Supply House, 905 N. California Ave., Hastings, Neb.
Nevada (See California-Nevada Missionary Society).
New England Tract Society, Northern, 136 N. Main St., Concord, N. H.
New England Tract Society, Southern (Rhode Island and Connecticut), 51 Whitmore St., Hartford, Conn.
Newfoundland Tract Society, Box 217, St. Johns, Newfoundland.
New Hampshire (See Northern New England).
New Jersey Tract Society, 200 Columbus Ave., Trenton, N. J.
New Mexico Tract Society, Box 727, Clovis, New Mexico.
New York Tract Society (Greater), Room 902, 32 Union Square, New York, N. Y.
New York Tract Society, Eastern, 317 W. Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
New York Tract Society, Western, 527 Garson Ave., Rochester, N. Y.
North Carolina Tract Society, 234 Summit Ave., Greensboro, N. C.
North Dakota Tract Society, Drawer N, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Ohio Tract Society, Box 8, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Oklahoma Tract Society, Box 644, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Ontario Tract Society, Box 308, Oshawa, Ont., Canada.
Oregon Missionary Society, Western, 508 E. Everett St., Portland, Ore.
Oregon Missionary Society, Southern, 1164 Military St., Roseburg, Ore.
Pennsylvania Tract Society, Eastern, 4910 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Pennsylvania Tract Society, Western, 7155 Mt. Vernon St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rhode Island (See New England, Southern).
Saskatchewan Tract Society, Room 103, Willoughby-Sumner Block, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada.
South Carolina Tract Society, 1208 Calhoun St., Columbia, S. C.
South Dakota Tract Society, Drawer 586, Watertown, S. Dak.
Tennessee, Eastern (See Cumberland Tract Society).
Tennessee River Tract Society (Western Tennessee), 509 Cole Bldg., Nashville, Tenn.
Texas Tract Society, North, Box 15, Keene, Texas.
Texas Tract Society, South, Box 755, San Antonio, Texas.
Texas Tract Society, West, Amarillo, Texas.
Upper Columbia Tract Society, College Place, Wash.
Utah Tract and Bible Society, 776 E. 6th South, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Vermont (See Northern New England).
Virginia Tract Society, 2705 W. Main St., Richmond, Va.
Washington Missionary Society, Western, 228 S. Brannan St., Auburn, Wash.
West Virginia Tract Society, 124 Marion St., Fairmont, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society, 305 Ruh Bldg., Fond du Lac, Wis.
Wyoming Tract Society, Crawford, Neb.
Above is a list of our authorized agencies and depositories, and we invite you to communicate with them if you wish to secure any books or periodicals advertised in this journal.
Our foreign tracts are put up in envelopes, price 25c each. They are obtainable in Arabic, Armenian, Bohemian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and many other languages. Address your Tract Society.

International Congress for Peace

By Editor

THE International Peace Congress that met in San Francisco October 10-13 was perhaps one of the most influential and earnest assemblages of the kind that ever convened. Some of the most widely known men in the world were leaders in this congress.
The central theme was, to obliterate war from our planet by the organization of a world court that would settle all difficulties before judicial tribunals.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, the widely known president emeritus of Leland Stanford Junior University; Dr. James A. McDonald, editor of the Toronto Globe; and Edward J. Hanna, archbishop of San Francisco, were among the noted speakers in the first day's program of the congress.

GREATEST STRUGGLE SINCE THE REFORMATION

Dr. Jordan recognized that “at the end of the war [in Europe], we shall have, without doubt, the greatest intellectual and political struggle since the Reformation.” And in recognition of this struggle, he said:
“Some thirty separate plans for the organization of Europe in the interest of law and order have been put forth by societies of standing and authority, and still others equally important by individual men.”
Speaking of the gigantic war debts, the doctor said:
“The amount expended on armaments before the war, upwards of $10,000,000 a day, will be altogether beyond the resources of the people who do the paying.
“The war debt of Europe, about $28,000,000,-00, which was already monstrous, has nearly doubled within the year, and on top of it has come the expenditure of the war, including the waste of cities and property, which already has reached the stupendous figure of more than forty thousand millions of dollars [$40,000,000,000], a sum [$96,000,000,000 in all] apparently greater than the entire farm values of all the United States.
“The impoverishment in money and in young men has carried Europe back towards the condition of utter collapse produced by the religious wars succeeding the Reformation.”
“It is certain that the treaty of peace will not settle all of the problems which the war has raised and emphasized. It may not settle any of them. In any event, the young men of Europe and America have resting on their shoulders the most important duty of many centuries—the duty of bringing freedom to the suppressed people of a continent, and of bringing lasting security to a crippled world.”

LOSSES IN MEN AND TREASURES

The doctor has given utterance to some very striking statements in the foregoing paragraphs. No one has ever charged him with extremes in presenting facts and figures. He is disposed, by natural temperament as well as by his training, to speak conservatively when presenting figures of this character. Adjectives fail one in speaking of the awful waste already produced by this European war. According to Dr. Jordan, it is in the neighborhood of sixty-eight billions of dollars; and that says nothing about the values in human lives, which cannot be computed in dollars and cents.

INTERNATIONALISM THE KEYNOTE

Dr. McDonald emphasized, in his address, that “internationalism will be the keynote of the world of to-morrow.” In other words, a great international plan must be worked out, that will make the world one.

CATHOLIC CHURCH A DETERMINING FACTOR

In this connection, very significant are some of the utterances of Archbishop Edward J. Hanna, of the Catholic Church. His theme was, “The Catholic Church and Peace.” From his significant utterances we select the following:
“In the momentous crisis through which the world is passing, in the final decision of the war which is devastating the earth, the attitude of the Catholic Church must necessarily be largely a determining factor. For in the struggle, her children number millions. In the councils for peace, they must have large representation, and her guidance will be sought in the adjustment of a cause where justice and mercy and right ought to prevail.”
Referring to the pope, the archbishop said:
“He is higher than kings and princes, by reason of his priestly office. His rule is vaster than that of all the kings of the earth, and his cause more sacred. . . . The kings and warring princes of the earth listen to his voice; and he has been able, where others have failed, to mitigate the awfulness of the present struggle, to obtain an exchange of prisoners, to protect the aged, to give comfort to the wounded and to the dying, to solace the last hours of the fallen, to accentuate the greater brotherhood of mankind in spite of war's opposition.”
There is a mighty craze now sweeping over the world for what is termed “internationalism.”
Men, great men, doubtless many of them well-meaning and good men, believe that they can make permanent peace by some of these plans; and it is noticeable, in the discussions of the day, that they are expecting the power of the church to be a mighty factor in the working out of their designs. Or possibly, to state it more correctly, the leaders in the church are expecting to make themselves felt more strongly than ever.

TURNING TO RELIGION

In a time of great calamity, men seem to turn instinctively to religion. They seek the church; but often they are seeking religion because only of the fear of some overwhelming calamity. True and abiding reforms are not brought about under such conditions. But the times will lend themselves to some of these mighty international movements. And we wish to keep it before our readers that the prophecies clearly point out that one of the most conspicuous things at the close of this world's history will be a great world-wide and apparently triumphant religious despotism. The scriptures that disclose it have been frequently presented through our columns, and we can see how things are shaping in the world to that end. Men are terrified before the conditions that confront us; and in their haste to establish order and organization, they will work upon wrong principles, and will worse than repeat the history of the tyrannies of the Middle Ages.
Intercommunication between all parts of the world has made it possible to have things that could not have existed centuries ago; and consequently the tyranny and the despotism that will come out of the developing anarchy of this world will be the worst that have been seen.
The Master says of the times just before his coming, that they will be as they were in the days of Noah; and the record states that in Noah's time, “the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” And, furthermore, “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen. 6:11, 5.

WHOSE ESTIMATE SHALL BE TAKEN?

The estimate that man places upon himself is likely to deceive him. Men had placed the estimate upon themselves, previous to the outbreak of this European war, that they were so civilized that we would have continual and universal peace; but the European war has broken the delusion. Yet the break is only temporary. Men are still certain that the human race is so good there will never be any more war. But God's estimate of humanity is the only safe one to follow. The estimate God has placed upon the human race, as presented through the prophets, shows us that at the close of time, we are to have the worst wars in all history.
This European conflagration shows that God's estimate was true, and that men's theories have been shattered. It is well, in these times, to follow the leadings of the divine Book; for the Book most strikingly tells us that “when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” 1 Thes. 5: 3.
In these dark hours, as never before in the world's history, men should study their Bible, to know what God teaches; and they should beware of the speculations and theories of men.

Mutual Understanding in War

SPEAKING of a certain kind of makeshift trenches, a soldier writing in Harper's Weekly says: “They could easily be knocked to pieces by artillery. But if one side did it, the other could do the same; so both refrain. That is the absurd part of this war, it is carried on as much by mutual understanding as by mutual antagonism.”

Why They Are Justified

In his interesting book, “The Appeal of Medical Missions,” R. Fletcher Moorshead, M. B., F. R. C. S., uses the following pithy subheads to one of his chapters:
  1. “Medical missions are justified because they establish a return to the Christ type.”
  2. “Medical missions are justified because they present to men a full-orbed gospel.”
  3. “Medical missions are justified by reason of their harmony with the supreme Christian ethic.”
  4. “Medical missions are justified by virtue of the obligation of Christian stewardship.”
  5. “Medical missions are justified because of the necessities of the race.”
  6. “Medical missions are justified by the dictates of reason.”
  7. “Medical missions are justified by their results.”

Campaign Under Splendid Momentum

By James Cochran

The interest in the Harvest Ingathering campaign for missions is growing rapidly. Reports from various parts of the United States and Canada show splendid results are coming from the efforts thus far put forth. Some reports show an increase in offerings, compared with last year, of more than one hundred per cent.
The total orders received to date for the Ingathering SIGNS amount to 657,422 copies. Twenty-eight of the sixty-four conferences in the United States and Canada have ordered more papers than last year. We are now printing the third edition, making the total printing order eight hundred thousand copies. The way orders are coming in, we feel reasonably sure we will have to print at least another one hundred thousand to supply the demand. Many of the readers of this paper are taking more than ordinary interest in this worthy campaign, for which we are very grateful.
JAMES COCHRAN, Circulation Manager.
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Signs of the Times · Oct 26, 1915