Earlier text: The Sabbath SchoolRegional Tract Society Addresses Directory
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—Fulford, P. Q., Canada. Scandinavian Tract Society—Ackersgade 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. SAMPLE CHAPTER HEADING FROM
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It is not more human organizations that God needs in his work to-day, but human consecration. There is much work done for the Lord by faithful souls in most if not all of the great Christian organizations in the field; and many honest persons are prone to ascribe the credit of the work to the organization, and to believe that because such work has been done by its members the organization must therefore be of God. But in many cases the Lord has wrought in spite of the organization and not because of it. The W. C. T. U., the Y. P. S. C. E., the Y. M. C. A., the King's Daughters, have in their membership many loyal, self-sacrificing souls who have nobly co-operated with God for the salvation of their fellow-men. But shall we therefore worship these organizations to which these workers belong?—Not at all; to God be all praise. He worked with those who were successful because they were consecrated to him and those for whom they wrought were needy. When some of these organizations were formed, those who did the work were moving in the best light they had, and the Lord accepted the work because of the consecrated heart; but this acceptance was not by any means a seal upon the organization under which the work was wrought. Many a soul has doubtless been brought from the slums to a life of respectability by W. C. T. U. women, by Salvation Army workers, by Christian Endeavorers, by the King's Daughters, by Sisters of Charity, the latter of whom have given many shining examples of devotion to irksome, toilsome, fearsome, perilous duty, on the battle field, in fever hospitals, in plague-stricken cities. But we do not believe that God wrought through these devoted workers because of the organizations, societies, unions, leagues, or guilds to which they belonged. He wrought in disregard of them, often in spite of them, and yet in the eyes of the great majority, the organization, not the Lord, received the praise. There are many other precious souls who are working for others. No one knows the sums of money they give by self-sacrifice, the souls they help, the sinners they bear with the same vicarious spirit of our Lord upon their heart. There is no society organ to blare abroad their name or take glory to the human because of their work. Yet all their work is written in heaven. We do not decry organization, but it does seem to us that the church of the living God, with all its offices and gifts of the mighty Spirit of God,—apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, miracles, gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues, wisdom, knowledge, ministry, elders, deacons, deaconesses, etc., etc.,—with Jesus Christ as its Head, Witness, Leader, Commander, is all that is needed to carry forward his work in the earth. Carried forward by his organization, all the glory will redound to him and shed abroad the luster of his name, the power of his Word, and the uplifting influence of his life. Let there be organized work on the broadest and freest lines, but let it be within the control of Jesus Christ through his church. The Babel of human hands and hearts and minds and creeds may promise much; people may say as of old, “Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest”—but instead of proving Babel the gate of God, it will end in confusion, which every new attempt will increase. God's call is to come out from all things not of his founding, to come back to his Word and his own divine plans set forth therein. “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the Word of the Lord endureth forever.” And also, “He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” What the infinite Heart of Heaven longs for is consecrated individual hearts. Early Apostasy.—God gave the Word of his truth as a sanctifier and perfecter of character through Jesus Christ. John 17:17; 2 Tim. 3:15, 16. He bids men come direct to him through that Word (Eph. 2:20, 21; John 17:23); “for the head of every man is Christ” (1 Cor. 11:3). It was the work of Satan to hide from man, by intervening men and demons, the love and sympathy and presence of Jesus Christ. Against this the apostle Paul faithfully warns the elders in the church:— “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers [elders or bishops], to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. [Not feed them with tradition, but the Word of God. 1 Peter 2:2.] For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after THEM. . . . And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” Acts 20:28–30, 32.
This would be the beginning of the apostasy which would result in the development of the man of sin, and the utter subversion of the church as it came from its Head. Heathen philosophers in the garb of profession entered among the flock. Apostates arose who exalted man instead of God; and the professed church of Jesus Christ turned from him to the world, and the result was spiritual death, the union of Church and State with its progeny, the persecution of the Dark Ages. THE habitual church critic is always a Pharisee. His assumption is that he is above fault, while even the pastor comes in for a public rebuke once in a while. This self-constituted judge, or rather “accuser,” of the brethren thinks it a mark of great moral courage to declare that he has said so and so in a criticising manner, and says so still. When others are disposed to confess such presumption as a fault, our critical brother or sister boasts of it as a virtue. The special gift of such a member is to discern and point out the failings of others, especially of those who are called to bear the heavier burdens of the church. Of course by bearing down upon the faults of others, his own virtues are borne up into prominence. “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” Phil. 2: 3. Not Consoling to Milk and Beef Eaters.
—“A strange disease among cows is prevailing in some localities of St. Lawrence County. The animals are apparently well at night, affording the usual flow of milk, and in the morning will be found dead. Veterinary physicians fail to determine the character of the disease.” —Gouverneur (St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.) Tribune. God's Warnings Flow From Love
God does not threaten arbitrarily; in love he tells us what is the inevitable result of sin, that we may be warned. And then he tells us if we will come to him and walk in his ways, he will eternally save us. He does all he can do. —Says a Secularist paper: “If the devil took Jesus up on the mountain and showed him the kingdoms of the whole earth, why didn’t we know about America before 1492?” Well, in the first place, many people did know it was here, and lived here. The devil knew of it, and showed it to our Lord. Our Lord knew of it, and revealed its future greatness, as well as its work of persecution, just beginning, and portrayed it in Rev. 13:13-17. But “we,” the writer of that note or this generation, whichever he meant, did not know of America even in 1492. Our gleam of knowledge came much later. The Signs of the Times Circulation Goal
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Men prefer medicine rather than to comply with the rules of health. And medicines multiply, and disease increases. So in the spiritual world. Men prefer penances, “sacrifices, human laws, theories, and the false hopes of quackery rather than to obey the laws of spiritual life. And spiritual nostrums and panaceas multiply, and sin increases. The Lord says: “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.” Come unto Me.—Says our blessed Lord, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He would have us come direct to him. Heaven separates us from our Saviour by no cordon of priestly guards, by no church council, by no creed, by no intermediary saints, by no so-called “church.” The grace of Jesus Christ is abundant to each solicitor. All who come are admitted unto his council chamber; for “him that cometh unto Me I will in nowise cast out.” The healing stream of life and blessing flows full and free to weary, thirsty souls who will drink. The rainbow about the throne is God’s token to every lowly heart of the hope in him, of the unbreakable covenant in Jesus Christ. O soul, burdened with sin and care, come to Jesus.