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This little book is the outgrowth of a lecture which Dr. Woodallen Chapman gave to mothers of public school children in New York. It was attended with beneficial results there, and now has the added matter of the outgrowth of experience. The mother, we are rightly told, is or should be the character former of her children, and this little book is written to help the mothers. Dr. Chapman points out the awful increase of vice, the fearful results of ignorance on the part of mothers, and the prime necessity of a mother's having and holding the confidence of her child regarding sex questions, and so becoming able to lead the child in the right paths. Every mother of growing children ought to read the book.
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"Gospel Message for To-Day." The three angels' messages are printed in bold type on the cover page of this timely leaflet. Following that under the headings, "The Character of God's Gospel Messages," "How Given," and "The Danger of Rejection," we read:
"God's Messages Are Always Definite.—To Noah God said: 'I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh.'
"To Nineveh He said: 'Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown.' . . .
"God's Messages Are Always Merciful.—'The Lord being merciful unto' Lot and his family, sent them this startling message: 'Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; . . . lest thou be consumed.'
"God's Messages Are Given through Men.—Noah gave the message of the Deluge. Joseph proclaimed the famine message in Egypt. Moses bore the message of deliverance from Egypt. Nathan carried the Lord's reproof to King David; Himself sent Saul the persecutor to Ananias, a disciple in Damascus, that he might learn his duty as a convert. . . .
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This book is a series of clearly stated facts and illustrations (300 or more) showing the awful ravaging, demoralizing, destructive effects of intoxicants upon the children, the wives, the young, the old, the individual, society at large, physically, morally, spiritually, and also the better contrasts that are and may be even to the victims of drink who have not gone beyond hope.
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Compiled by Philip P. Jacobs, Ph.D., assistant secretary for the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Address, National Association, 105 East 22d Street, New York.
This directory is not that we may find tuberculosis; no directory is needed for that. The "great white plague" can be "caught" too easily. But the truly pretentious book of 332 pages gives a list of institutions, associations, and other agencies which deal with the dread disease in the United States and Canada. Besides its directory it contains much information regarding rules and laws concerning the disease.
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"500 Ways to Help Your Church;" or "The Minister's Social Helper." By Theresa Hunt Wolcott. Cloth, price, post-paid, $1.00 net. Sunday School Times Company, Philadelphia.
The object of the book is to suggest helpful ways of keeping the social life of the young people of the church affiliated with the church and its branches. There are some good suggestions, as for instance raising money by self-denial, interesting boys in missions, etc. But after all, most of these 500 ways are only substitutes for the old-fashioned religion and heart-service for Christ, now sadly out of fashion. It is or will be in many cases, we presume, substituting a better for a worse, but in most cases the suggestion is a substitute for the best.
"Light and Truth in the Art of Healing."
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By M. S. Jaffe, N.D., Sacramento, California. American Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio.
We are unable to discover what the "N. D." stands for, unless it is that the author is "no doctor," or is it "new doctor"? He tells a story of his life, and the benefits he has received in several cases of severe illness by resorting to some simple remedies of herbs. He gives the formulas of his remedies, and they all look harmless, and there is the possibility that they might do some one good. A commendable feature of the book is that the whole story is told — preface, introduction, and all — in eighty pages, and the print is large and readable.
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The title of this book, together with the title of the author, leads one to expect something worth while. But a perusal of its pages finds nothing more than a conglomerate "messing" of some of the doctrines of the hypnotist, with his notions of "suggestion;" the evolutionist with his notions of billions of years that man has been evolving; and the Christian Scientist's ideas of what may be done by "thoughts" and "ideas," together with a little intermixture of the so-called "new thought." The book is like a great many of the publications that are coming from the press in these times. It is groping in the dark for some great light that its author thinks he sees, while he is ignoring the only true source of light, life, and immortality. The Bible is still the only book that gives a perfectly satisfactory solution of the problem of immortality. A great many people who only know about the Bible, may not think so; but he who actually knows the Word of God, knows that it is so.
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN
By L. P.
BY A YOUNG MAN
What Marriage Means to a Man
MY DEAR ROBERT,—
I have read with interest your reply to my last letter, in which I took exception to some remarks of yours regarding certain young women whose acquaintance you were then making. You may not now see as much in some of the things I tried to say to you, as I do; but you will understand it all later. No, I do not take a one-sided view of the sexes. I am well aware that women possess their full share of human frailty; but I am writing these letters, you will remember, to a young man, not to a young woman. I am anxious, in other words, that you should do your full part toward attaining a happy and useful marriage, and I am not immediately concerned with women only so far as to hope that you will find the right one. And to make this possible, I am desirous that you should think wisely of the sex as a whole, that you should understand in some measure why woman was created, and what at her best state she is able to do for man.
Woman was created, the Bible beautifully tells us, because it was not good for man to be alone. She was to be man's companion, and help meet for him; to stand by his side, and share his inner and outward life with him, with its joys and its griefs, its burdens, cares, and responsibilities. Obviously, if it was not good for man to be alone, neither was it good for woman, who was created to be his companion, to be alone. They were both, according to the divine plan, to find their joy and happiness, and full realization of their lives, in a union, and that a union of the most intimate kind, expressed in the significant words, "They twain shall be one flesh."
Perhaps I am old-fashioned; but it is my firm belief that the book that sets forth most clearly the peculiar dignity of woman, and the high and responsible place that she is called to fill in the home and in society, is the good old Bible. I know the so-called modern woman is of another mind, so much so that there has even been talk of preparing a new translation of the Scriptures in the special interests of women, with a view to remedying what they are pleased to consider the defects of the Authorized Version. But the modern woman, if we may be allowed the term, errs in two ways. First, she knows little of the Bible, either of its letter or of its spirit; and secondly, she knows little of the power of gentleness. The very large sphere occupied unobtrusively but fully by genuine women, is lost sight of if not despised, by the new woman, and a new field is sought, which, when found, will not be found as beautiful or as rich in service as the old one.
The Bible has a great deal to say about women; and to people of a Western land, some things will be liable to be misunderstood unless some pains be taken to understand Eastern customs. It is necessary also, in dealing with Eastern customs and usages, to know not merely the customs themselves, but the manner of their performance. I can not here go into all the minute regulations made for the safety and comfort of women in Old Testament times, nor can I give much of the good instruction to be found in the New Testament. It is possible only to touch on one or two passages; and as Paul is often considered to be rather averse to the higher development of women, I will take, to begin with, a portion of his epistle to the Ephesians. Some married men, I believe, are rather fond of quoting the verse, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." But it can not be understood properly without the accompanying verse, which reads, "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it;" and again: "So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."
Looking at the passage broadly, two thoughts stand out with considerable clearness. First, the husband is to love his wife, even as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it. Secondly, he is to love and cherish his wife even as his own body, and for her sake is to leave all. Let us consider the latter statement for a moment. Notice what a constant love is here set forth; for a man never ceases to have a deep concern for his body. Moreover, his love is not of the nature of a rapturous adoration of his body because of its beauty or attractiveness, but rather because it is his own, because its fate is intimately wrapped up with his, because it is himself indeed. So with the love of a true husband for his wife. It is not the wild passion of a moment; it is not mere admiration for beauty or sprightliness; it is not an inconstant, changeful humor; but it is a steadily burning flame of pure devotion kindled by divine love and fed by sacrifice.
And now the other conception: The man is to love his wife even as Christ loved the church. Is not this requiring much of a man? And yet this is the standard soberly set for him if he would qualify himself for the responsibility of taking a wife. The very first thought it suggests is that the husband's love should be a constant quantity. Some men think they do well to love their wives when the latter happen to be in such a lovable mood that one couldn't help loving them; but this is not the love that measures with Christ's love for His church. A happy marriage is brought about not when a man finds a woman that he is sure he can always love, but when he has laid in a store of that divine, pitying love that the Saviour has for a weak, often-erring church. Happy marriages are in very fact made in heaven, for they are based on heavenly principles, calling for the man, as the active agent, to have for his wife the love that Christ has for His church. All the modern talk about affinities may be well enough in its way, but it makes good material for the divorce courts. Commend me rather to the instruction laid down in the Bible. Yes, and to the plain common sense of an old man who was giving some good advice to a young man. The young man said he wanted to be sure to marry the woman he loved. "Yes," replied the old man, "that is well enough; but I will tell you something far more important: Be sure to love the woman you marry."
To return to the instruction of Paul, it must be manifest at the first glance that while to the man is conceded mainly the responsibility of directing the common path which the two are to walk, yet of him also the higher standard of conduct is required. While the standard set before the woman is that of the church, the standard set before the man is that of Christ Himself. If he would know what sort of treatment is expected of him toward the wife of his bosom, let him study the Saviour's love for an erring church, His tenderness, His forbearance, His long-suffering, His willingness to overlook faults, His unwillingness to condemn, His fondness for little children, His tenderness toward the sick and suffering, His utter self-forgetfulness. Christ rebuked, and that sharply, men who were hard-hearted, self-righteous, and cruel; but with what infinite pity He regarded women! Even when Martha so far forgot herself and the duty she owed her guest as to undertake to point out His duty to Him, He answered her in those tender words, "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful." And when the woman taken in adultery was brought before Him, with what infinite delicacy and tact He treated her! Some modern men of high Christian profession might think that He threw away a magnificent opportunity. How eloquently He could have discoursed to her of purity, in how stern a light He might have pictured the sin of adultery; but He only uttered those words of infinite tenderness, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." The Saviour understood women. He knew that they can be ruled by gentleness. He enjoyed everywhere the loving ministry of women, but it was His love and sympathy that commanded their service; He made no arbitrary requirements.
The husband is not in this passage urged to counsel and instruct his wife, but to nourish and cherish her. This strikes a vital chord. Woman, it has been said, is all heart. Certain it is that a woman is literally hungry for love, and starves without it. It is her life. And a man has no right to marry until he has a store of love and affection that will never run short, one that is replenished from above. Of course, it goes without saying that it must not be a love that is inspired merely by sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks; because the time is bound to come, and only too soon, when these helps to physical love will have departed. No; it must be a love that will go beneath the surface, that will take hold on character, which is the only thing that lasts; and even here, it must be a love which somehow fastens upon the best thing in the15character, and refuses to dwell on the things that are not so lovable.
There is one beautiful side to this experience of a man with his wife, that I have not touched upon, and can only just mention in passing. It is that while a man is thus seeking the good of his wife by observing these high principles in his treatment of her, he is at the same time working out his own salvation. I believe it was Thackeray who said that to love a pure, good woman is in itself a liberal education. There is nothing like marriage to draw out of a man all that is noblest and best in him.
I think I can not do better than close my letter with a quotation from Wordsworth's poem in honor of his life companion. After relating in vivid verse how she appeared to him at first as "a phantom of delight," "a lovely apparition sent to be a moment's ornament," he goes on in a deeper strain:
I saw her upon nearer view,
A spirit, yet a woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveler between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.
Well, you may be inclined to ask, What has all this to do with a young man not yet married, nor even engaged to be married? This much: If you fully understand the nature of the responsibility a young man incurs when he undertakes to marry, to live on intimate terms with one woman for the remainder of his life, it may help you to make a wise choice.
I am as ever, your friend,
L. P.
Story of Pitcairn Island
Told by a Native Daughter
THIS fascinating story begins with the mutiny on the sloop-of-war Bounty in 1789, when Captain Bligh was dragged from his bed and cast adrift in an open boat with eighteen unfortunate companions.
From murderous mutineers to peaceable Christians, faithfully observing the commandments of God, is the wonderful history of the settlement of Pitcairn Island by the Bounty's mutinous crew.
In simple but beautiful language the writer of this tale, Miss Rosa Young, a native daughter, unfolds the story of love and hate, crime and its punishment, and the development of a happy race of islanders.
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The friends of health and temperance will greatly appreciate this valuable number, and it affords a golden opportunity for every Christian to take an active part against this terrible drink curse. We appeal to our people in helping us to scatter Light over the Land among the Danes and Norwegians.
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Colored Tea Rejected by Treasury
By Editor
Millions of pounds of tea have been ordered back to the Orient, this by order from the Treasury Department, because the colored China tea was contrary to the new pure food law. It is what is known as colored black tea. It would be a blessing to the nerves of America if all the tea were sent back.
San Francisco Rejects Class Government
By Editor
The San Francisco primary election of September 26 resulted in the decided defeat of present mayor P. H. McCarthy, and the election of James Rolph, Jr., for mayor for the next four years, and during the Panama exposition. Mr. McCarthy and other candidates stood for class; Mr. Rolph for all the people. The other candidates elected are, generally speaking, in sympathy with the mayor elect. It is felt generally that this primary election is a triumph of progress and decency, and congratulations are coming in from all over the country and from over seas. Mr. McCarthy's administration is another demonstration that class government is always evil, whatever the class, whoever the governor.
Contained in This Issue
By Editor
Question Corner
3578—Did They Have a "Chance" for Eternal Life? 3579—Dancing; 3580—Do the Dead Sleep? 3581—What Shall She Do? 3582—Judas and Destiny . . . . . . . 2
General
Walk in the Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Sabbath Reform Predicted for the Last Days . . . . . 4
Kicking Against the Pricks . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Studies in Revelation—The City Which Hath Foundations . . 6, 7
Child Wives in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A Gathering and a Supper—No. 2 . . . . . . . . . 8
Soul-Winning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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He Will Come Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Home Department
Letters to a Young Man . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Outlook
Among the Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Paying the Bills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A Dream of Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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The 1911 Bible; God's Two Books; The Bible and Modern Life; Character—A Moral Text-Book; The Minister's Companion; The Moral Problem of the Children; "As Ye Sow;" A Tuberculosis Directory; 500 Ways to Help Your Church; Light and Truth in the Art of Healing; The Philosophy of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13
A kindly solicitous letter comes to us from Denver, Colorado, by a writer who tells us, "I have investigated your sect and papers thoroly, and have arrived at the absolute certainty that you are under serious delusions," and yet he addresses us as "Advents." We are Adventists. Surely he has not been very observing or discriminating. The paper of wisdom which he sends out declares that "the plank" "in the Constitution of the United States that all shall have liberty to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience" is "ridiculous." He does not believe this. The Constitution does not say it. It declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." In the light of the ages it is hardly ridiculous.
Radium's Medical Promise and Research
The scientific medical world, at least, is still exercised over radium and its powers. Recently the radium institute was opened in London, and it was literally besieged by patients awaiting treatment. There are so few who really understand the use of radium that it is impossible to treat those who come, and consequently applicants are placed under very close restrictions. Foundations have been laid in Paris for a great radium palace, and Madam Curie will have general charge. She will carry on the researches there which she began with her late husband, and which have never been interrupted since his death. The building will be lined throughout with a thick layer of lead, impenetrable to radium rays. Its weight will be enormous, and therefore its walls are laid exceptionally deep. It will be the heaviest building for its size in the world, and will be made to look, by its outside decoration, to be one of the lightest.
Drought Damages English Crops
England has had three drought periods during the year—April 10-24, June 30 to July 23, and August 2-18. These drought periods would be normal conditions in California; but they have severely affected crops in England, bringing great loss to the farmers.
Germany’s New Explosive Bomb
German military authorities are experimenting with a new bomb, round in shape, and of great diameter, loaded with a very powerful explosive mixture, being greater than the bore of the gun which throws it. It is provided with a long stick-like tail which is loaded into the barrel of the gun; its lower end of a piston-like form, resting on the gun charge. On being fired this tail serves to keep the bomb in its proper direction for some distance, when it falls away, leaving the bomb to pursue its course.
A False Messiah Predicted
By Editor
H. L. Burnett and John Taylor, of Zion City, built by the late Mr. Dowie, are filing in the various county courts of the United States a document declaring that the Messiah will appear upon this earth before the close of the year 1912. He will appear first in material form to eight men—one a high priest, who will be ordained for the occasion, and seven men to whom will have been committed the preliminary work necessary to the restoration of Israel and Judah. Forty-five days later He will be declared unto all the world, and revealed in the city of Zion. All of which, in the light of Scripture, is nonsense; and yet we presume many will be deceived thereby; for men will provide the false messiah.
England’s Benefits to India
There has been much criticism against Great Britain for her administration of India, much of which is based on a misunderstanding of the benefit England has been to India. For instance, in railways England has invested $1,420,000,000 in construction and equipment, with a mileage of nearly 32,500. First-class fare is only a penny a mile, with no extra charge for sleeping accommodations; while second-class accommodation is not much inferior, and the fare is a halfpenny a mile; third class passengers are carried for the fare of one farthing a mile. These railways have paid only about four and one half per cent of the investment. The postal department is another excellent thing in India. A letter can be carried from one end of the vast territory, half as large as Europe, to the other end, for one cent, and a post-card for one half cent, the last of which includes the card itself. These great railway lines have done much to ameliorate famine conditions.
La Liberte Explosion at Toulon
The recent explosion on the French battleship La Liberte was responsible, later advices declare, for the death of 204 men and the wounding of 136. Two were found alive, but so pinned by the wreckage that efforts to liberate them have proved unavailing. Every war-ship in the harbor of Toulon was more or less injured. Thirteen were killed on the Republique; fifty are missing from the Renan; ten on the Suffern were killed.
Warships Damaged by Friendly Collision
The explosion on the French battle-ship La Liberte, with its awful consequences, and the ramming, September 20, of the great White Star liner Olympic by the British protected cruiser the Hawke, designed for ramming, yet suffering more than the Olympic, indicates that in the excitement of battle a fleet might sustain greater damages from its own ships than it would inflict upon the enemy. In the latter accident not one of the 2,000 persons in passengers and crews were injured, and the water-tight compartments kept the Olympic afloat.
Italy Threatens to Invade Tripoli
Italy is ready to move upon Tripoli in case Turkey does not accede to her demands, which is a practical protectorate over Tripoli, and satisfaction for certain incidents. At home Italy is torn with internal troubles and Socialist riots in protest against war with Turkey. In case of attack upon Tripoli it is feared that there will be a general massacre of foreigners.
America’s Powerful Sixteen-Inch Gun
The last big gun built by the United States is a 16-inch rifle, and throws an explosive contact shell weighing 2,400 pounds a distance of 22 miles. One shot would put the greatest Dreadnought in the world out of action. By means of aeroplanes and wireless a half dozen such guns would disable an entire fleet before her masts were visible above the horizon.
Reciprocity with Canada Defeated
By Editor
The pet measure of Mr. Taft, and one which many longed should be effected—reciprocity with Canada—has been defeated by the Canadian election, and in this election Premier Laurier has gone down. He will probably not take part in active politics again. He has developed as one of the great men of the English provinces.
Canadian Reciprocity Defeated
The pet measure of Mr. Taft, and one which many longed should be effected — reciprocity with Canada — has been defeated by the Canadian election, and in this election Premier Laurier has gone down. He will probably not take part in active politics again. He has developed as one of the great men of the English provinces.
Hookworm Investigation in California
The State Board of Health of California has asked the Government to send Dr. Charles W. Stiles to this State to investigate the hookworm situation in California. It is known that many Hindus, Porto Ricans, and Japanese in this State are afflicted with that disease.
Four Pacific Coast Trusts Indicted
It is stated that the Federal Government will soon issue indictment against four gigantic trusts on the Pacific Coast, but we are left in doubt as to what trusts these are, and of course there is more or less anxiety among men connected with them.
Non-Union Men to Give Evidence
In the Railway Inquiry Commission in England, appointed for the purpose of inquiring into differences between the unions and the railways, the non-union men will be permitted to give evidence as to how they view the question.
Giant Timber Merger Proposed
And now the newspapers are telling us of a giant timber merger under way, with a capital of one hundred million dollars. They are asking for the approval of the Federal Government.
Which Way Did Maine Go?
By Editor
Which way did Maine go? Up to our present writing Maine is claimed by both Prohibitionists and the liquor element. We have seen no official statement as yet regarding the vote.
Reciprocity Offered to Other Nations
Inasmuch as reciprocity with Canada, was defeated, some public men are suggesting that reciprocity be offered to some other nations, like France and Argentine Republic.
513,854 Persons on Government Payroll
On the pay-roll of the United States are 513,854 persons, 384,088 of which are employed in the executive branches of the Federal Government.
A Girl Bandit
It is an awful thing to read of a girl bandit only eighteen years old, with fifteen hold-ups as her record. Yet such Pittsburg developed.
Hay-Rack Party Train Accident
A train in Neenah, Wisconsin, September 24, struck a hay-rack party, killing thirteen — a result of carelessness in pleasure.
