Your ShelfYour Projects

Signs of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

Editorial
Earlier text: The Sabbath School

Send Orders Early

By Editor

Send in your orders early.

OUR GENERAL AGENTS.

General Eastern Agency.—Pacific Press Pub. Co., 39 Bond St. N. Y. City, N. Y.
General Central Agency.—Pacific Press Pub. Co., 14-18 W. 5th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Argentine—Señor N. Z. Town, Casilla del Correa, 481 Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, S. A.
Arkansas Tract Society—Fayetteville, Ark.
Atlantic Tract Society—39 Bond St., New York City, N. Y.
Australia—Echo Publishing House, North Fitzroy, Victoria.
California Tract Society—1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.
Canada—Int. Tract Society, 268 Crawford St., Toronto, Ontario.
China—A. La Rue, 22 Queen's Road, East Hongkong, China.
Colorado Tract Society—1112 S. 11th St., Denver, Colo.
Dakota Tract Society—Vilas, S. Dakota.
England—International Tract Society, 59 Paternoster Row and 451 Holloway Road, London.
Florida Tract Society—Box 508, Orlando, Florida.
Germany—International Tract Soc., Grindelburg, 15a, Hamburg.
Illinois Tract Society—324 Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois.
Indiana Tract Society—175 Central Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.
International Tract Soc.—271 W. Main St., Battle Creek, Mi
Iowa Tract Society—603 East 12th St., Des Moines, Iowa.
Kansas Tract Society—821 West 5th St., Topeka, Kan.
Maine Tract Society—North Deering, Me.
Manitoba—W. H. Falconer, 287 Burrows Ave., Winnipeg, Manit.
Maritime Provinces Tract Society—Box 85, Moncton, N. B.
Michigan Tract Society—271 W. Main St., Battle Creek, Mich.
Minnesota Tract Society—Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn.
Missouri Tract Society—14 West Fifth St., Kansas City, Mo.
Montana Tract Society—307 N. Warren St., Helena, Mont.
Nebraska Tract Society—1505 E St., Lincoln, Neb.
Nevada—Cal. Tract Society, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.
New England Tract Society—South Lancaster, Mass.
New York Tract Society—317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
New Zealand Tract Society—57 Tory St., Wellington, N. Z.
North Pacific Tract Society—508 E. Everett St., Portland, Or.
Ohio Tract Society—Marion, Ohio.
Oklahoma Tract Society—318 4th St., Oklahoma City.
Ontario Tract Society—194 Brock Ave., Toronto, Ontario.
Pennsylvania Tract Society—Box 644, Williamsport, Penn.
Quebec Tract Society—Dixville, P. Q., Canada.
Scandinavian Tract Society—Ackersgaden 74, Christiania, Nor.
South Africa Int. Tract Soc.—28 a Roeland St., Cape Town.
Southern Tract Society—243 South Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga.
Switzerland—Imprimerie Polyglotte, 48 Weiherweg, Basel.
Tennessee River—324 Cleveland Ave., Nashville, Tenn.
Texas Tract Society—Keene, Johnson Co., Texas.
Upper Columbia Tract Society—College Place, Wash.
Utah Tract Society—Box 1058, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Vancouver Island—B. Robb, 231 Pandora St., Victoria, B. C.
Vermont Tract Society—190 N. Winooski Ave. Burlington, Vt.
Virginia Tract Society—501 N. 25th St., Richmond, Va.
West Virginia Tract Society—Newburg, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society—Milton Junction, Wis.

BIBLE STUDENTS' LIBRARY.

By Editor

Reduced Net Price List.

Revised Aug. 12, 1897.
No. Cents.
1 Bible Sanctification. 10
2 Abiding Sabbath 20
10 Scripture References. 2
14 The Sufferings of Christ 2
16 Christ in the Old Testament 1
24 Is Sunday the Sabbath? ½
25 The Sanctuary and the Judgment 1
26 The Sabbath and the New Testament 1
27 The Bible.—Its Inspiration and Importance 1
31 The Second Advent 2
34 God's Memorial 1
36 The Signs of the Times 1
42 Elihu on the Sabbath 1
43 The Ten Commandments Not Revised 1
46 Without Excuse ½
47 Thoughts for the Candid ½
48 Which Day Do You Keep and Why? ½
49 Can We Know? ½
50 Is the End Near? ½
51 Is Man Immortal? ½
52 Why Not Found Out Before? ½
53 The Sabbath and the Law 20
54 Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment. 10
55 Order of Events in the Judgment. 15
57 Tent-meeting Lessons on "The Life of Christ". 1
58 Matthew 24; or the Second Coming of Christ 10
60 Tent-meeting Lessons on "Prophecy" 1
61 Tent-meeting Lessons on "Sin and Righteousness" ½
63 The Sure Foundation and the Keys of the Kingdom 1
64 The Full Assurance of Faith 1
65 The Great Day of the Lord 2½
67 Bible Election 1½
68 The Old Testament in the New Dispensation 1½
69 "Jewish." Christians Are Israelites Indeed ½
70 Immortality of the Soul 2
71 Righteousness, Where It Is, and How Obtained. Also in Spanish and Portuguese ½
72 Christ and His Righteousness 15
73 Can We Keep the Sabbath? 1
74 The Counterfeit and the Genuine 1
75 Living by Faith. Also in Spanish 1
76 Bible Questions and Answers Concerning Man 1
77 The Talents 1
79 Baptism—Its Significance 1
80 Sunday—Origin of Its Observance in the Christian Church 15
81 God's Message for To-day ½
83 Angels: Their Nature and Ministry 20
85 Twofold Evidence of Acceptance with God ½
86 Justification, Regeneration, Sanctification, by M. C. Wilcox 1
90 The Bible Doctrine of the Trinity 1
93 Christian Science. Is It Science? Is It Christian? 15
95 From Sabbath to Sunday ½
97 The Sun of Righteousness 10
99 Prediction, Interpretation, Fulfilment 1
101 The Rest That Remains for the People of God ½
103 Should Christians be Members of Secret Societies? By Mrs. White 1½
104 Justified by Faith. By Mrs. E. G. White 1
105 The Way to Christ. By Mrs. E. G. White 1
107 Who Changed the Sabbath? (new) 1½
108 Life: Its Source and Purpose 10
110 Appeal to Methodists ½
111 Tormented Forever and Ever 1
112 Spiritualism: Its Source and Character 1
113 "The Christian Sabbath." (Those Catholic Mirror Articles) 2
114 The Identical Seventh Day 1
115 Waymarks to the Holy City 1
117 Prophetic Lights, Illustrated, 180 pp. 50
118 Christ Tempted as We Are 1
119 The Kingdom of Christ: Its Nature and Subjects 1
121 The Temporal Millennium 1½
122 Perfection of the Law of God 1½
124 Manner of Christ's Coming 1
125 The Privilege of Prayer 1
127 Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King 1
128 Christ, Our Advocate, Illustrated 10
130 The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast, Illustrated 2
131 The Sure Word of Prophecy, Illustrated 10
133 Righteousness 1
134 The Lord's Day the Test of the Ages, Illustrated 15
135 Honor Due to God 10
136 The Millennial Age 1
137 New Testament Sabbath, Illustrated 1
138 America's Crisis, Illustrated 2
140 The Saints' Inheritance 10
142 Is Sunday Called the Sabbath in the New Testament? ½
143 Truth for the Times 1
144 The Eastern Question. What Its Solution Means to All the World? 1
145 Will a Man Rob God? 10
146 Rich Man and Lazarus 1
147 Home Missionary Work 2
148 The Sabbath in Prophecy 2
149 From Glory to Glory, Illustrated 1½
150 Rome's Arraignment of Sabbath-breakers 1
The Bible Students' Library is published quarterly. Price, 25 cents per year. Address your State tract society.
A STANDING ORDER for a certain number of each new issue insures your getting new numbers as soon as printed. Would it not be well for you to give us such an order?
Pacific Press Pub. Co., Oakland, Cal. 39 Bond St., New York City. Kansas City, Mo.

SURE WORD OF PROPHECY. A study of the book of Daniel.

A concise study of this important prophetic portion of the Bible. Fully illustrated. Paper covers. 96 pages. Bible Students' Library No. 131. Price, 10 cents.

Address.

PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO.

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

Kansas City, Mo. New York City, N. Y.

Terms of Subscription.

By Editor

Per Year (50 numbers) post-paid . . . . . . $1.00. Six Months, 50 cts. Three Months, 25 cts. To Foreign Countries, per year, $1.50.

SPECIAL TERMS.

By Editor

a. One new yearly subscription and one renewal, or two new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $1.75.
b. Two new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or three new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $2.50.
c. Three new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or four new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $3.00.
d. Any person ordering under sections a, b, or c may thereafter send us new yearly subscriptions at 75 cents each, and new six months' subscriptions at 40 cents each.
Sample copies sent on application.
All orders sent direct to the publishers, either for single subscriptions or for clubs, must be accompanied by cash. If credit is required, please order through your State Tract Society. Club rates and terms to agents sent on application.

Signs of the Times,

Oakland, Cal.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES CLUBBING LIST.

By Editor

WE have made arrangements with the publishers of the following journals whereby we can furnish the publications named, with the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, at the exceedingly low figures given in the last col-umn, when all orders are sent direct to SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES (to new or old subscrib-ers) and:— Regular price of the two papers. Our club-bing price.
Review and Herald (new subscribers only) 1 yr. $2 50 $2 00
American Sentinel " " " " 2 00 1 50
Good Health " " " " 2 00 1 50
Youth's Instructor " " " " 1 75 1 50
Our Little Friend " " " " 1 50 1 25
Pacific Health Journal " " " " 1 50 1 25
Review of Reviews " " " " 3 50 3 00
Missionary Review " " " " 3 50 2 90
The Literary Digest " " " " 4 00 3 40
The New York Voice " " " " 2 50 2 20
(Prohibition)
N. B.—All communications concerning our offer as above, and all orders, must be sent direct to SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

VALUABLE TRACTS AND PAMPHLETS.

By Mrs. E. G. White.

Bible Sanctification.—A contrast between true and false theories of Bible holiness; 82 pages. Price, 10 cents.
Experience and Views.—Designed to cheer and encourage those who look for the soon coming of Christ; 111 pages. Price, 25 cents.
Benefits of Bible Study.—The design of this excellent tract is to awaken people to the importance of Bible study, and show the great benefits to be derived therefrom. Price, ½ cent.
Christ Tempted As We Are.—Full of instruction and encouragement to the tempted and tried. Price, 1 cent.
Christians' Privilege.—This number will inspire hope and courage to many a struggling and way-worn traveler to Zion. Price, ½ cent.
Elect of God.—Shows who are the elect, how and when they were elected. Price, ½ cent.
Home Missionary Work.—A compilation of inspired appeals in behalf of home missionary efforts. Every one should read and carry out its instructions. Price, 2 cents.
Justified by Faith.—The kind of faith necessary to justification, and how it accomplishes that end, are the principal thoughts in this most valuable tract. Price, 1 cent.
Privilege of Prayer.—Precious privilege, indeed! A privilege that few of us realize in its fulness! Yet we may. To enable all to become more intelligent upon this vital point, this tract is presented. Price, 1 cent.
Should Christians Be Members of Secret Societies?—This question is attracting world-wide attention. We have it answered in this tract from a Bible standpoint. Price, 1½ cents.
Sufferings of Christ.—This is an excellent number for the prejudiced and unconverted. Christ's fearful agony in the garden is depicted in a vivid manner. The true reason for this terrible suffering is also given. Price, 2 cents.
Way to Christ.—What is this way? Can it be found? Practical instruction is given along these lines. Price, 1 cent.

PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO

By Editor

ADDRESS,

PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO

Kansas City, Mo. OAKLAND, CAL. New York City

FAMILY BIBLES.

The Pacific Press Publishing Company carries full and varied lines of family Bibles. Descriptive catalog free.

Instructions for Ordering.

By Editor

  1. REMIT by Bank Draft, P. O. Money Order, or Express Order.
  2. If paper money is sent, register the letter.
  3. Drafts should be made payable to the PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO., on New York, Chicago, or San Francisco banks.
Postage-stamps.—Please do not send postage-stamps, as they often stick together in the mails, and are useless in this condition, and we already have all we can use. Canadian and other foreign moneys can not be used by us.
Receipt.—No formal receipt is sent unless by special request. Your receiving the paper itself will be sufficient to indicate that the order has been properly entered. If you order renewal, the continuance of the paper will indicate receipt of order. In case of non-receipt of papers, or any other irregularity, please notify us immediately.
Expiration of Subscription.—All papers are discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Notification will be sent you several weeks before date of expiration, thus enabling you to renew in ample time to secure unbroken files. Please be prompt, as we can not always furnish back numbers.
Change of Address.—Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please give both the old and the new address, in their communication.
Please Do Not Mix Business.—When ordering or renewing the SIGNS, if you wish to order some other paper, or books, tracts, or lesson pamphlets, or to ask questions of the editor, please write such orders or questions on separate sheets of paper. All can be sent in one envelope, and the money all sent in one order but it will save us much trouble if each kind of business is written on a separate sheet. In this way each order can be handed to the proper clerk and filled at once.

He Is Mistaken.

By Editor

A reader writes us from “Lindsly,” but does not give the State, in reference to what the SIGNS has said concerning Sunday laws and the stopping of baseball on that day. He refers us to Heb. 8:2, which he permits us to read for our instruction, “and not criticise God’s people for worshiping on the Lord Jesus Christ’s own day, and not the Jews.” Now Heb. 8:2 is good, as is every other text of Holy Writ, but it has little bearing on this question. We are not criticising a single soul for worshiping on the Lord’s day, or any day. He who loves God will worship—serve—him on all days. What we say is this: Let every man worship God according to the dictates of conscience, so long as he does not contravene the equal rights of all. The Sunday-keeper has no more right even to attempt to prevent the Sabbath-keeper from working or recreating on Sunday than has the Sabbath-keeper to prevent the Sunday-keeper from working on the Sabbath. As to what is the Lord’s own day his Word tells us. See Ex. 20:10; Isa. 58:13; Mark 2:28.

Sunday Laws and Religious Persecution

By Editor

What May Be Expected.—In our Outlook department will be found a short article from the Winters (Cal.) Express. The Sacramento Bee of September 7 gives a report of an interview with the justice, Peace Preston Berry, who sentenced Mr. Armstrong. Here is a part of what he said:—
"In 1730, that's over 150 years ago, the Legislature of this State [Pennsylvania] passed a law forbidding any person or persons from moving on the first day of the week, which is known as the Lord's day, that is, the sabbath, commonly called Sunday. The law mentions these Seventh-day Adventists and was intended for them. You know they say Sunday isn't the Sabbath, that Saturday is, but the Constitution, and the statutes, and the laws of this State, say that the first day of the week, known as the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, is the sabbath. That has been the law for over 150 years, and is the law yet."
"He wanted a jury trial, but he could not have one under the law. He can't appeal either. My decision was final in this case. He had to pay up or go to jail, and that was the end of it. . . . Let him preach his doctrines in jail if he wants to. When they were taking him over, he said to me, 'I'm going to jail for Christ's sake.' 'And I'm sending you there for Christ's sake,' I told him."
It is not worth while to point out the errors in simple fact in the justice's statement. We merely print what he said, that all may know what is likely to happen under a Sunday-law régime anywhere in these United States, for the Peace Preston Berrys are many. He did probably the best he could, and spoke conscientiously in his last sentence. The Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania, a "Christian" commonwealth in this "Christian" nation, are more to him than the law of God or the rights of man. Of course he did it for "Christ's sake"! Jesus truly said to his followers, "Whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."

CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.

By Editor

Editorial.
Having God's Life (notes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Asking and Receiving, E. J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Man vs. God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Individual Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Poetry.
Consolation, HATTIE C. KELLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Trial, a Touchstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
A Missionary Sermon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
General Articles.
At the Feast of Tabernacles, MRS. E. G. WHITE . . . . . 4
The Gospel, MRS. S. M. I. HENRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Apostles and the Law of God, W. L. ILES . . . . . 7
Lessons from the Account of Creation, MRS. JULIA LOOMIS . 7
Not Alone for Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Bible Readings.
Christ Is Coming; May We Know When He Is Near? . . 8
The Outlook.—The Stimulation of a League—What Year Is This? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9
The Fireside.—The Rum Family, J. H. KELLOGG, M.D.—The Merchant's Wife—What an Astronomer Says . . . . . 9, 10
Missions.—Sketches from the Orient, H. P. H.—Our Work and Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12
International Sabbath-School Lesson.—The Gospel Sent to Ethiopia (Sabbath, Lesson 2, October 9, 1897) . . . 12
International Sunday-School Lesson.—Paul a Prisoner at Jerusalem (Sunday, Lesson 2, October 10, 1897) . . . 12
News and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15
See our great Bible offer on page 14.

Bible Readings Department

By Editor

Note our new department, "Bible Readings." Send us a short contribution.

Knowing God Through Sympathy

We know only those persons with whose inner lives we come into sympathetic touch, when our motives and purposes are in harmony with theirs. So God would have us know him.

Holser’s Mission Travels

By Editor

Parts of the article from Brother Holser in our Missions department read like the travels of the apostle Paul. It is good to know that those lands will again hear the ring of the everlasting Gospel.

In Harmony with God

By Editor

Our first-page notes are a little more extensive than usual; but we hope they will be fully read. There is much in being in harmony with God, in knowing him. In fact, it means everything to the success of the Christian.

A New Department.

By Editor

We open this week a new department, entitled "Bible Readings." We hope it may be of great profit to our readers. We ask for contributions for this department from our friends. But these must be short, and to the point. If you feel that more must be said, say it next time. Make them short, developing simply one point or phase of a topic. Introduce the scriptures by either simple proposition or question. An occasional note may be included. But write briefly, from five to ten propositions or questions, and never to exceed a column. Shall we not receive many responses?

A Noble Warfare.

The friends of religious liberty in Australia are waging a noble warfare for the rights of men, especially in the matter of the organic law of the probable federation of the Australian colonies. This warfare is with bloodless weapons, in the realm of thought and reason. The weapons of those of whom we speak are the barbed arrows of truth and the darts of ideas and the sword of the Spirit. Some of the leading newspapers have open columns for the conflict, but the two chief organs have been the Australian Sentinel and the Bible Echo. May the Lord give the needed courage and strength for the warfare. Seemingly in the minority, there are more with them than against them; for the Lord of hosts, with his armies, is on the side of right, truth, and liberty.

"SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT."

THE Milwaukee Christian Endeavor, May, 1897, in reply to the statement, "The first day is not called the Sabbath in the New Testament," says:—
"Probably not, tho the Greek for first day is always literally 'one of the sabbaths,' and first-day sabbath is nearer the literal than the first day of the week. But as 'sabbath' sometimes means 'week,' perhaps our translation is substantially correct. If one uses a word in a new, unknown meaning, he will be misunderstood unless he constantly explains it. So our seventh-day friends in a new community must call their Sabbath 'Seventh day or Seventh-day Sabbath.' So the early Christians called their worship day 'one of the sabbaths' or 'the Lord's day.' But that does not prove that it was not their special day for Christian worship."
Now if the translation "the first day of the week" is "substantially correct," it is certain that "one of the sabbaths," or "first-day sabbath," is not correct; and that it is not correct is shown by all the eminent translators of the New Testament and the Greek lexicons. The early Christians never spoke of the first day of the week as Sabbath, as a sacred or worship day. Six of the eight times of its mention refer to one particular day, that on which Jesus rose from the dead; the seventh time to another particular day, on which a notable miracle was wrought; and the eighth instance refers to a secular duty to be done on the first day of the week. The Lord's day is the day he has set apart. Ex. 20:10; Mark 2:28. The first day of the week was never called the Lord's day till A.D. 200, when the apostasy was well on. Surely, all Bible Christians should allow the Lord the right of saying what day was his day.
Continue reading: Suggested Falsehood