p. 15 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 46. (11/22/1910)

Earlier text: Shiloh: the Man of Sorrows

LIBERTY

By Editor

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BUREAU

AN illustrated, 48-page, quarterly magazine, published as an exponent and advocate of true religious liberty; defending Christianity and the rights of conscience; upholding the Bible as the infallible word of God; recognizing the church and state as ordained of Heaven for specific and distinct purposes, but vigorously protesting against the alliance of the church with the state in the attempt to advance religion and to promote the state.

Price 25 cents per year. Liberal terms to agents.

Address, LIBERTY, Takoma Park, D. C.

Special Book Notice

By Editor

We are in possession of a few copies of the original wide margin edition of that grand book "Desire of Ages" bound in full law sheep which sold at $5.00. While they last we offer them at $2.75 post-paid.

A Book Bargain

By Editor

We have a few copies of the "Ladies' Guide" and "Man the Masterpiece." These are all perfect copies. To close them out the following post-paid prices will apply:

"Ladies' Guide"

Half-buffing binding, regular $3.75, now $1.90. Library binding, regular $4.00, now $2.00.

"Man the Masterpiece"

Cloth binding, regular $3.50, now $1.75. Library binding, regular $4.00, now $2.00.

Science in the Bible

By Editor

"Science in the Bible," the A B C of teaching the Bible in Nature and Nature in the Bible. In this little book the Scripture references are alphabetically arranged so that the student of nature may readily find any text bearing on true science as founded in the Word of God. 113 pages. Cloth bound. Price, post-paid, 30 cents. Address this office.

The Ten Commandments

By Editor

The Ten Commandments.—We have a beautiful four-page folder, tastily printed in blue and gold on tinted cardboard, giving the Commandments as found in the Authorized Version. This attractive little folder makes a very desirable gift for birthday or Sabbath-school class. Price, postpaid, 5 cents. Address this office.

Our Little Friend

By Editor

An Illustrated Paper for the Smaller Men and Women, for the Children and Little Ones

Instructive and entertaining, clean, wholesome, sensible. It is a character builder, a helper to father and mother. Our Little Friend would plant seed in the joyous life of the children in the Present, that it may bear blessed fruitage in the Harvest of the Future. Respect your child's individuality. Take the paper for him or her. Only 60 cents a year.

Address, OUR LITTLE FRIEND Mountain View, Cal.

Publication Information

By Editor

(Entered Sept. 15, 1904, as second-class matter at the Mountain View, Cal., post-office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.)

Editor ................................ Milton C. Wilcox Associate Editor ........................ L. A. Reed

Manuscripts should be addressed to the editor. Address all business and make all money-orders, etc., payable to the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.

N. B. We send no papers from this office to individuals without pay in advance. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon to pay for them. Please read the papers you may receive, and hand them to your friends to read.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES

By Editor

Three months ..............................................................$0.50 Six months ......................................................................... .90 One year (50 numbers) ..................................................... 1.75

One new yearly subscription and one renewal, or two new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $3.00.
Two new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or three new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $4.00.
Three new yearly subscriptions and one renewal, or four new yearly subscriptions, sent at one time, $5.00.

Sample copies sent on application. Weekly and Monthly SIGNS one year, combined, $2.25.

DATE OF EXPIRATION

By C. H. Jones, Circulation Manager

The SIGNS wrapper bears date of last issue due on your subscription. Unless renewed in advance, paper stops with expiration date.

If herewith is an order-blank, you will know you have overlooked sending renewal. You will not wish to miss a single issue. Back numbers often can not be furnished.

C. H. Jones, Circulation Manager.

Making Home Happy

Pictures before the reader in interesting story form the relations that should exist and the lines of influence that should be guarded and cultivated in every home. (200 pp.)

Making Home Peaceful

Is the sequel to the above, and every one reading the first book will want to learn more about "Deacon Beardsley's" family, and how an unhappy home was made peaceful. (227 pp.)

Those Bible Readings

While especially suited to the needs of the young, there is an attractiveness in the arrangement and presentation of these readings that will hold the interest of all, old and young. (206 pp.)

These books are beautifully bound and may be obtained singly at 75 cents each, or the entire set of three for $2.00.

Pacific Press Publishing Assn. Mountain View, California Portland, Ore. Calgary, Alberta Kansas City, Mo.

Causes of the Republican Defeat

By Editor

One Cause.—One great contributing cause of the defeat is the constantly rising high prices, in which the high tariffs, for which the Republican party has stood, have been a factor, and many have felt that the great party did not keep its pre-election pledges; hence the Insurgent movement, hence the landslide to Democracy in so many states. California elected an Insurgent governor, Hiram W. Johnson, altho his opponent, Theodore A. Bell, stood for strongly progressive principles. Mr. Johnson's anti-Southern Pacific slogan caught the hearts of the people. In many cases the present tariff favors California. But in the East the trend was strongly Democratic.

Another Cause.—Mr. Roosevelt's "new nationalism" also seemed to have a tremendous influence in a direction not anticipated by its energetic sponsor. Good men in his party did not believe that the principles of the advocated régime were safe, nor was the man who stood for them; that in power he was a menace to the safety of the republic, and his aggressiveness, to use a mild term, was resented. This is shown in New York, his own state, in the convention and campaign of which he took personal direction; and Mr. Stimson, his candidate, went down to utter defeat. Mr. Hughes's plurality of 70,000 was turned to one on the other side at last report of 66,000. Many felt that Mr. Roosevelt's career was altogether too undignified, and smacked too strongly of the common stump politician. The results in New York were certainly a rebuke to his ambitions; and it is stated that in the very districts where he spoke in Ohio, Mr. Harmon received an increased vote. Mr. Beveridge's loss to the Senate of the United States will be sincerely regretted. Would his political chances have been better if he had not received Mr. Roosevelt's support? Many think so.

What Do These Things Mean?—We wish our readers to note that we are not in politics. These notes but chronicle results, and state conceded causes. We wish also to exhort our readers to be ready for disappointment. An unsettled condition may result in good. If in the people the great principles of equity, justice, liberty, probity, are dominant, if the people were thoughtfully intelligent regarding men and measures, such conditions as we now see might work out for stability in government, and justice and economy in its administration. But if it is expected that these political revolutions will bring the millennium, we shall be sadly disappointed. A mere change of name and men will not transform greed into generosity, bossism into wise leadership, corruption into cleanness, or policy into principle. Such changes may stay the evil harvest for a time; but the grace of God only can change hearts.

If men look to the change alone for favorable results they will be disappointed, and will change again. They will begin to look for a Moses to lead them out of the Egypt of graft and greed and dissatisfaction, while in the early desert wanderings they will be as willing to set him aside as they have set aside Mr. Roosevelt, and will choose a worse demagog, or political "boss." And the end?—The sure end of an unthinking, irresolute people, looking largely for loaves and fishes, is the loss of self-government, and a king. This is what J. Pease Norton, Professor of Economics in Yale University, looks for in about 1950. We will quote next week what he says. But things move rapidly now, and 1950 may be 1920.

The Lesson.—There is one great all-important lesson, which ought, to thinking men, to be all-dominant, and that is to know the will of God and do it, to place one's "citizenship in heaven," where Christ reigns, who will sometime come thence to this world, when His reign of righteousness will forever be maintained undisturbed by political cabals, parties, conspiracies, revolutions. Submission to His will, righteousness in Him, makes for peace, quietness, godliness now, and assures eternal life and blessedness to come.

Making Your Calling Sure

In civil and worldly elections there are many disappointments. In God's election by grace to eternal life there need be no disappointment to a single soul, if each one will give diligence to make his "calling and election sure." Read 2 Peter 1:1-10.

Coming Features

By Editor

In our next issue we begin in the Revelation series the study of the letters to the seven churches. Mrs. White has an excellent article on "Bible Temperance." "Christ's Coming to His Own" is the topic in the series by Mr. Taylor. Our Bible Reading is on the Sabbath and the Law.

A Good Guess

By Editor

A Good Guess.—In its issue of November 5 Harper's Weekly, an old-time Republican paper, made a guess in substance as follows: That John A. Dix, the Democratic nominee for governor, would carry New York State by 100,000; that Prof. Woodrow Wilson would be elected governor of New Jersey by 40,000; that Judge Baldwin would carry Connecticut by 5,000; that Judson Harmon would be elected in Ohio by 25,000; that Eugene Foss (Democrat) might carry Massachusetts; and Mr. Bass, New Hampshire; that Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, would be beaten; and that there would be a Democratic majority in Congress of 40. It was a remarkably good guess. Dix's plurality in New York is placed at this writing at 66,000; Wilson's, at 46,000; Baldwin's, at 3,500; Harmon's, at 60,000; Foss carries Massachusetts by 33,000; and Bass loses in New Hampshire. North Dakota and Oklahoma and Colorado and Oregon also are in the landslide. The Democratic majority in Congress seems to be 62 with a strong minority in the Senate.

A Thanksgiving Prayer

For home and friends, for sun and rain, For all of good, for all of gain, For harvests from responsive soil, For strength and power to plan and toil, For earth's reward; For light and blessing from above, For deepest, tenderest, truest love, For life right here, which, well begun, Shall last as lasts the shining sun, We thank Thee, Lord.

The Palestine Race Riot

By Editor

Some time ago we noticed a disturbance which broke out in Palestine, Texas, on July 30. The reports in the daily papers both South and North call it a race war brought about by a Negro's killing a white man who had gone to collect from him a debt which he owed. Later investigation, according to the Southern papers themselves, places the blame wholly upon some hot-headed white people. It is said that the sheriff himself, after full investigation, felt that the Negroes were not to blame for the troubles which occurred, and that those killed were innocent. The board of trade in Palestine, Texas, issued a statement that the whole affair was greatly exaggerated. Some white people had heard that the Negroes had laid a plot to raid the homes of the white people and kill the members,—rumors that were neither confirmed nor disproved,—and to prevent this some ten Negroes were killed. It was a community affair, beginning and ending as such, and was squelched as soon as the officers could take it in hand. The later presence of the state militia was for the sole purpose of keeping order. The blame seemed to have centered about eleven white men who were brought to town and locked up on the charge of murder. We designed to make this statement earlier, but among other matters it has been overlooked.

New Cardinals

By Editor

New Cardinals.— The Western Watchman is our authority for saying that the papal consistory will be opened in Rome November 22, at which time a number of new red hats will be distributed. The Anglo-Saxon Catholics in Germany, England, and America would like to see a little larger sprinkling of cardinals outside of the Latin countries. American Catholics expect a new cardinal or two. Will the coveted honor fall on Archbishop Ireland, or Archbishop Farley, or both, or some new men? The Watchman's correspondent says: “The coming consistory is to be ‘one of surprises,’ and ‘the dark horse is going to win.’ Never, perhaps, in the history of the Papacy have the secrets of the Vatican been so well kept.” And Pius X, we may add, is afraid of the men who have had all their training in Protestant lands.

Revolution in Portugal

By Editor

Revolution in Portugal.—A copy of Illustrated Portugal, of Lisbon, bearing date Oct. 17, 1910, is sent us by our correspondent. It is filled with pictures of the revolution and the taking of Lisbon by the republicans. It was a formidable affair. Portugal's one gunboat is not a terrible instrument of warfare, nor did it do great execution. Reference to page 14 of this issue shows some of the damages done, the most serious of which was the burning of a large building, set fire by shells. Their hastily erected barricade, shown in one of the pictures, is indeed laughable. One shot from a modern six-inch gun would utterly demolish it. Note how clean are the holes in the lamp-post. The extravagant government of Portugal did not spend much money on the navy.

Los Angeles Population Doubles

Los Angeles has a little more than doubled its population in the last ten years. According to the United States official census report it is now 319,198.

Delagua Coal Mine Disaster

In the recent Delagua (Colo.) coal mine disaster fifty-one are reported dead; eighteen have been rescued. It is hoped others will be found alive.