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The True Israel of God — Three articles
Not now a visible church in one body or in a combination of bodies.
A great spiritual body — invisible body known now only to God.
To be united under the call, “Come out of her, My people.”
The Gospel of the Kingdom to the World in This Generation — Eleven articles.
Signs of the End Studies — Six articles.
Capital and Labor, or the Industrial War — Six articles.
Federation of Churches — Three or four articles.
The Controversy Series — Twenty-five articles.
The Waldenses — Six articles.
The Nature of Man — Three articles.
The Nature of Man — From the View of the Objector — Five articles.
Coming of the Lord — Five articles.
The True Science of Christianity and Its Principles of Health Contrasted with Christian Science and So-Called Divine Healing — Several articles.
The Angels — Two articles.
The Resurrection — Two articles.
The Earth Made New — Two or three articles.
Prophetic Studies in Daniel — Four articles.
Prophetic Studies in Revelation — Three articles.
The Sanctuary — Three articles.
The Judgment — Two articles.
The Millennium — Eight articles.
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True Spiritual Gifts and Their Manifestations — Several articles.
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The Law — Five articles.
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The Kingdom of God — Twelve articles.
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“Can’t Hold Out”
JESSE PULLEN was a reformed and converted drunkard. One of his old drinking companions expressed a fear that he would not be able to hold out. To this Pullen said: “You know that I run a little steamer in the summer. I don’t wait until I get up enough steam to carry me across the sound before I start. It would blow the boat all to pieces. The boiler wouldn’t stand it. But when I get about twenty pounds of steam up, I sing out: ‘All right, captain! Go ahead!’ Down in the hold, I have plenty of coal; and as fast as we use up the steam, we make more; and so we go across the sound, tho we have never more than twenty or thirty pounds at any one time. Now the Lord Jesus, when He saves us, doesn’t start us off with enough grace for a lifetime. Poor human nature couldn’t stand it, I suppose. But He wipes out all our past sins with His mercy, and gives us just grace enough for one day’s duty. But, mind you, He provides plenty of fuel to make more grace, even the Bible and prayer and the Holy Spirit; and so, kept and sheltered in His arms of love, we have grace and help in time of need.” — Anon.
The Beauty of Work and Life
“WHEN we look into the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and be happy.”
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Those Bible Readings
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Man of Valor
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Story of Pitcairn
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Temperance Torchlights
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Out of Doors
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Truths; Talks with a Boy Concerning Himself
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What a Young Man Ought to Know
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Steps to Christ
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Under the Law or Under Grace?
That question of “Under the law? or under grace?” is a constantly recurring one. Bible Students’ Library tract No. 163 gives a careful answer from the Bible. Single copy, 2 cents; a hundred, $1.00. This office.
HARMONY BY CORRESPONDENCE
By C. C. Lewis
Now that is something like.
If harmony can be successfully taught by correspondence, by all means let everybody take a course, including conference committees and college faculties.
And I feel sure that a systematic presentation of the principles upon which men harmonize with one another could be successfully presented in a series of lessons, and could be profitably pursued to the uplifting of society; but that is neither here nor there. I am not talking about that kind of harmony.
The harmony which the Fireside Correspondence School proposes to teach through correspondence is music harmony, and we are sure it can be taught successfully in this way.
The first lessons of the series are just from the press, and are prepared by Miss Barbara M. Knox, daughter of Elder W. T. Knox, treasurer of the General Conference. Miss Knox is thoroly qualified for this work, having completed four years' study of the subject, one year with Prof. Wm. J. McCoy, of the University of the Pacific, San Jose, California, and three years with Prof. George Simmons and Howard Thatcher, at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Maryland.
Familiarity with the rudiments of music, and a certain skill in playing, such as will enable the pupil to play the exercises of the lessons on piano or organ, are necessary for the successful pursuit of these studies.
We have printed a few extra copies of the first lessons, which may be had free by those really interested who will first write for them, together with the Annual Announcement and full information in regard to terms, etc.
Address the Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
C. C. Lewis, Principal.
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Rescue of the Volturna’s Passengers
Friday, October 10, another terrible disaster occurred on the Atlantic. The steamer Volturna of the Uranian line was destroyed at sea, after having been on fire for twenty-four hours. There had been more or less trouble between the company and its employees, and the company makes the claim that the steamer was deliberately set on fire by the explosion of some dynamite bombs. What evidence they have for this the despatches do not say. The distressed steamer sent out wireless messages stating her condition. The Carmania was only seventy-eight miles away, and under forced draft she reached the Volturna in about four hours, but such a storm was raging that it was impossible to lower life-boats for rescuing any on board. Before morning nine other steamers, including one oil-tank steamer, were on the scene. The oil-tank steamer went to the windward and turned two two-inch streams of oil out on the turbulent waters, and this made a way for the life-boats to reach the stricken people and rescue them. 521 persons were taken off in safety. 136 are missing, and it is feared that none of them will ever be recovered, altho there are still hopes that some of them may be found floating on some life-boats that were put out early in the progress of the disaster.
Relief for Nome and Solomon
By Editor
Last week we noted a disaster in Nome, Alaska, occasioned by a heavy storm which wrecked hundreds of buildings, and which was followed by a fire. Later despatches say that the storm that swept over Nome completely took the town of Solomon off the map. Not a building of any sort in the settlement, which had a population of 300, remained standing. This little village was about forty miles distant from Nome. Already supplies are being hastened to the relief of the distressed section. A vessel is on the way from Seattle loaded to its full capacity with various kinds of provisions.
The news of the disaster had hardly reached San Francisco before they had despatched $2,500, and other funds were being raised. San Francisco remembers with gratitude the help that she received when passing through a similar experience. When our fellow citizens are in such distress, they need our assistance, and they need it promptly. Any bank in the country would receive funds for the relief of this distress and forward it to the proper authorities. The Red Cross Society, among other organizations, always receives funds for such purposes.
A New Series Begins November 11
By Editor
There will be no issue of this paper next week. The next issue will be the first of our new series, and will be dated November 11. A number of our leading men have agreed to assist us as special editorial contributors. Their names and some articles from some of them will appear in that issue. A large number of others of our leading men, in addition to our editorial contributors, have promised us important articles on the great themes of our message. Some of these articles are already in hand. The assistance that has been so generously and so heartily granted us enables us to make the promise that the next six-month series of our paper will be fully up to the high standard that we have ever kept before us.
Yuan Shih Kai’s Inauguration
We noted last week that on October 6 Yuan Shih Kai was elected president of the new Chinese republic. On October 7, Gen. Li Yuen Heng, the provisional vice-president, was duly elected as vice-president by the new Chinese congress. On October 10 Yuan Shih Kai was inducted into office, and delivered his inaugural address. It was discovered, during the progress of the inauguration, that the rebels had bribed the chief of the Peking mounted police to assassinate the new president. This officer was arrested, confessed the plot, and the bombs arranged for the infamous work were found on his premises.
The Situation in Mexico
PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT HUERTA of Mexico has dissolved both branches of the Mexican congress, and has arrested and placed in prison all members of the Chamber of Deputies except those allied with the Catholic party. He has thus established himself as absolute dictator. He has refused to release any of the imprisoned deputies, and says that they will have to be tried for the various offenses of which they are accused. In view of this acute situation, our administration at Washington holds that the election set for October 26 will not be constitutional, since there is no civil law in the land, but a military dictatorship instead. It is understood that the president has sent word to Huerta that the United States would look with displeasure on any injury to the 10 Mexican congressmen that are now in prison. The United States will refuse to recognize any man elected president of Mexico under existing conditions, and diplomatic relation between the two countries has practically closed. It is still hoped, however, to avert a war.
Some of the Old World powers that had recognized Huerta’s government are now considering the matter of repudiating that recognition and standing with the United States in the position that she has taken. Germany is talking of sending a war-ship into Mexican waters.
The British Militant Suffragettes
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst quietly slipped into a meeting in the east part of London a few days ago and began to address the audience in her usual fiery style. She was out of prison on parole, and was not supposed to be engaged in that kind of work. When the audience really discovered who it was that was to address them, it went wild with enthusiasm. The police promptly arrested Miss Pankhurst, when a riot started, and the congregation, using chairs and other similar weapons, began to club the police. Miss Pankhurst was taken away from the officers, and got away.
It is also reported that the suffragettes of England have laid their plans to invade the wedding ceremony of Prince Arthur and the Duchess of Fife “for the good of the cause.”
These recent outbreaks have caused scores of protests to be sent to Washington against the admission of Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst into the United States. So it has been arranged that when she arrives on Ellis Island she will be detained there until the question is decided by the authorities as to whether or not she is a proper person to admit into the country.
China Training-School Buildings Under Way
Our readers will be glad to learn that work on the China training-school buildings has begun. It has been delayed somewhat on account of conditions that prevented the stamping of deeds. However, these conditions have been overcome, and a note from Brother O. A. Hall in the Asiatic News-Letter states that the contract has been let for five buildings: “(1) A school building 40 x 60 feet, two stories high, having on the first floor four class rooms, a laboratory, and two offices; on the second floor a chapel and library and book room. (2) A building 25 x 96 feet, to be used as a boys’ dormitory, living-rooms for Chinese teachers, and boys’ dining-room. This building will accommodate sixty boys. (3) A building to accommodate thirty-six girls, with their teacher, also rooms for dining, and morning and evening worship. Besides these, there will be two houses for foreign teachers. A large amount of material is already on the ground, and the work of excavating and laying of foundations is under way. The contract calls for all work to be completed by October 31, and it is hoped that we may be able to open school about the middle of November.”
Mission Work in Mexico
A letter recently received from Elder G. W. Caviness, the superintendent of our work in Mexico, tells us that all our workers in that field are of good courage, and “are all safe and sound.” All through this time of war and stress, they have been having good success in all lines of the work. He baptized six in the city of Mexico recently, and will have another baptism in a few weeks. In other parts of the country, similar success is attending the work. He says that their meeting rooms will hardly hold the people who want to come. For over half a century, many persons have been listening, some half derisively, to the arguments that we have been presenting in regard to the soon coming of Christ. We have shown from the Bible that the prophets are clear in predicting His coming for the near future. As lawlessness, violence, war, wickedness, and all kinds of calamities continue to increase, there are thousands who will see that we have been right in these things. These will, just as Elder Caviness states is their experience in Mexico, become earnest inquirers, and students of the Bible prophecy, because of the continued intensities of these unsettled and perilous times.
Resolution on Rumania’s Treatment of Jews
On October 10 a resolution was introduced into the House of Representatives calling upon the powers that are a party to the Berlin treaty to compel Rumania to observe the stipulations of that treaty in the matter of her treatment of the Jews.
Waters Joined Across the Panama Canal
At 3:43 P.M. October 11 the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific were joined across the Isthmus of Panama. An uninterrupted channel of water has now been established through the entire canal. The average depth is twenty-five feet.
Aviators Fly from Albany to New York
A few days ago, Beckwith Havens, the aviator, and Mr. Verplanck, flew from Albany to New York in a Curtiss “flying boat,” covering the distance of 170 miles in 165 minutes of actual flying time.
