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Losing, and Why?

Recently the pastor of a Baptist Church in West Newton, Mass., gave up his pastorate and became a pastor of a Congregational Church. It is spoken of as “not a mere incident.” To some it indicates with other things a decided decline in the Baptist denomination. During the year 1906 to 1907 in Great Britain there was a falling off in the Baptist membership of 4,854. The returns for 1908 show a decrease of 5,869. In the Sunday-schools there was a falling off of 115 teachers and 8,815 scholars. At the center of the great “revival” in Wales the decrease was 1,835. What is the reason?—Baptists have ceased to stand for the word of God. As higher criticism and evolution have come in, soul regeneration and believers’ baptism have come to mean less; and there are those who consider the Scriptural ordinance of baptism of little worth. Baptists have more and more fellowshiped error. They have said in substance to their children, their young people, their converts: “The form, the ordinance, does not matter if the heart is right.” Then why did Jesus, the Wisdom of God, give the ordinance? We find Baptists observing “Easter,” and “Christmas,” and Sunday, days utterly unscriptural; and they are leaving the consistent, strong Baptist position to enforce the latter by civil law, at the same time the strong, clear testimony of the word concerning baptism is ignored. The result is weakness and loss. The only way for a church or individual to advance is to walk in the light. In these days that includes all of God’s downtrodden truth.

Victims taken from the ruins of the earthquake in Italy.

Copyright, 1908, Underwood & Underwood, New York.

A movement has started in Chicago to, if possible, place the Bible in the public schools of the State of Illinois. Their plea is voiced by the Rev. E. R. Worrell: “The family altar is being discarded and the young have no religious instruction in the public schools. Instead of improving on the example set by the Puritans, we are drifting away from it and I am frank to say that I believe that dark days are ahead for this country unless we can return to that ideal standard.” But if the Bible is not taught or reverenced in the home, what hope is there of getting help from it in the school? And who is to teach it? While in many of our churches and Sunday-schools the Bible is considered partly, if not almost wholly, mythical and figurative, while those who profess to be loyal to God are setting aside the great law around which the Bible centers, and the miracles upon which the very plan of salvation is based, what hope is there that we could have the Bible taught in the public schools? Out of that very teaching would grow more disrespect for the Bible than reverence. If the moral instruction is lacking in the home and in the church, there is little hope for the children. We can not look to the public schools to lift them above the moral influences manifest in these other circles.

A Minister Leaves His Pulpit for Business

By Editor

A minister in Chicago has given up his pulpit for the automobile business. He declares it is impossible to struggle along on a $2,500 salary. He will receive ten thousand dollars a year to manage a New England branch of an automobile concern. We wonder which one of the apostles would have thought of leaving his God-given work for any other kind of business. It can safely be said that neither any one nor all of the twelve together, with their adorable Head, received so much as that. A bright local paper of Mountain View remarks that there are some kinds of business that will pay even better than that; as, for instance, the saloon business.

A Hague Conference on Prohibition

There is a bill before the House of Representatives which provides for a Hague Conference upon universal prohibition. Its prospect is not spoken of flatteringly; and yet in it there is another straw which shows the tendency of movement toward international cooperation on all reform matters. The worst trouble is that many of the things creep in which are anything but reform. World-wide prohibition would be a blessing, but world-wide other things might prove to be an unmitigated curse, and yet some of these world-wide, other things are coming, one of which is a world-wide Sunday law; upon this the prophecy has spoken.

Mount Wilson Observatory Lens Fails

It is of interest in the scientific world to note that the great lens which was made for the solar observatory on Mount Wilson, Cal., has proved a failure. The working of the glass was nearly finished when it was learned that it contained flaws. It is an expensive matter of making a lens of that kind, and the makers are blamed because they did not ascertain its flaws before.

Magazine Poll Favors House Reform

In a vote taken by the Success Magazine on the question of reform in the House of Representatives, 440 believed that Joseph G. Cannon should be re-elected as the speaker of the House of Representatives; 8,600 were against it; 297 believed in leaving the rules of the House in the hands of the speaker, 8,853 were against it; 8,925 were in favor of placing the appointing of committees in the hands of a special committee elected by the members, and representing all sections of the country, 192 were against it. We wonder if the vote will have any effect upon the House of Representatives.

Foreign Troops and China’s Awakening

According to reports, Pekin, China, is practically held by foreign troops, and it is not at all pleasing to the Chinese Government. For instance, there are belonging to the governments of Japan, England, France, Russia, Germany, United States, Italy, Austria, Belgium, and Holland, 303 officers and 5,698 men stationed in Pekin. This has been the case since the boxer rebellion in 1900. One of the great questions is how China can cast off this incubus of disciplined foreigners who hold her by the throat. A Japanese paper published in China intimates that no one knows how soon a revolution may break out. It declares: “The winter of the reaction seems to be nearing an end, but the summer of reform is not yet at hand. To-day we are enjoying peace, and yet no one knows what may happen to-morrow;” so great is the apprehension of the foreign population in China whose memory of the terrible massacre of 1900 is still fresh in their minds; but China is awakening. There probably will be no more Boxer revolutions, but the revolution going on will sweep in the whole of the Celestial Empire, and China will take command of her own.

Princess Beatrice and the King of Portugal

A Catholic paper remarks that there may be a prospect of Princess Beatrice of England uniting in marriage with the young king of Portugal. The paper remarks that the difficulty of difference in religion has been removed, the daughters and nieces of English kings take to Catholicity like ducks to water. The Orangemen are becoming alarmed, but the average Briton is saying: “Who cares?” And that is about the way it is.

Germany’s Naval Program and War Burden

A despatch from Germany declares that Germany is on the eve of a serious internal crisis. The new naval program is demanding a vast outlay, and there is an additional imperial revenue to the amount of $115,000,000 called for. It has been thought that it might result in the rejection of the entire government scheme. The great war burden is crushing the nations. England, in ordinary language, is in about the same boat. Some of the British ministry are for six new “Dreadnaughts,” while others feel that they must be cut down to four, even tho Germany lays down the keels for as many as does England. It was expected that Germany was laying down but three, but the news is that she has laid down four new “Dreadnaughts.”

The President of the World's Sunday School Association

The President of the World's Sunday School Association, Rev. F. B. Meyer of London, and the secretaries Wm. N. Hartshorn of Boston, and Rev. Carey Bonner of London, have sent out an official call for the world's sixth Sunday-school convention at Washington, D. C., 1910, May 19 to 24, inclusive, inviting all who are interested in the work and progress of the Sunday-school to be present. The world's convention in 1904 was held in Jerusalem; in 1907 in Rome. The committee believes that the Holy Spirit directed in the selection of the two places just named, and also believes that the “same unerring hand has led” to the selection of the city of Washington. One almost questions whether it is a prophecy, from Jerusalem to Rome, from Rome to Washington.

Russell Sage Extends Bible Society Offer

The American Bible Society wishes to announce to its friends that Mrs. Russell Sage has kindly agreed to extend for one year the time during which subscriptions may be received to make up the half million dollars necessary to meet her offer of another half million for a perpetual endowment for the society. Mrs. Sage’s offer was to give $500,000 if an equal amount could be collected. Certainly the Bible society has been doing an excellent work. Any one who loves the Book will certainly be glad to see its publishers given every encouragement possible.

German Sect Rejects Clothing

From London comes the news of a new sect in Germany, the carnal law of which is the complete abstention from the wearing of clothing of any kind. It is said that the rule is both for “sanitary and moral purposes.” Both may be questioned, and the latter especially so. It is declared, however, that the rigors of a Prussian winter have not had the slightest effect on them. The authorities are paying no attention to them as long as they keep within a limited area.

Libel on the Government

Referring to the libel case which President Roosevelt brought against the New York World and the Indianapolis News, the Springfield Republican asks the question: “What is the government?” And it reminds us that the executive is but one branch of this government; that the legislative and judicial are coordinate branches, and that the doctrine of “libel on the government” is antagonistic to both the form and the spirit of American institutions.

Long-Distance Races Injurious

High medical authorities in England declare that the long distance races in which so many young men and boys are engaging at the present time are decidedly injurious. The mischief done in many cases is irreparable. He declares the races exceeding one mile in distance are wholly unsuited to boys under the age of nineteen.

Congress Debates the President’s Salary

The Senate voted to raise the President’s salary to $100,000. The House refused to accept it; defeated it by a vote of 168 to 141. An amendment was then made to raise it to $75,000, and this was carried by a vote of 163 to 149. What will come out of it we do not know.

The tallest chimney

in the world has just been completed at a smelter in Great Falls, Mont. It is 506 feet high. It has a capacity of four million cubic feet of gases per minute, at a temperature of 600 Fahrenheit.

Turkey May Renounce Claims Against Bulgaria

The London “Times” reports that Turkey is prepared to renounce all claims against Bulgaria provided that Russia in return is prepared to regard the war indemnity as fully liquidated, and this is believed to be assured. But matters in the near East are not yet settled.

Hebrew Studies in Palestine

The “Zionists” in Palestine are studying anew the old Hebrew language. There are more than a dozen Hebrew language societies.

Satara, India, and Its Native Library.

By George F. Enoch

SATARA is the ancient capital of the old Marathi Empire. It has a native population of about 23,000, and is cozily nestled in the mountains known here as the Western Ghauts. The descendant of the ancient rajas, or kings, of Maharashtra still lives here, receiving a pension from the British Government. He has little of royalty about him now, excepting the splendid old royal elephant, the largest that the writer has ever seen.

The city of Satara itself is the center of a large agricultural community, there being more than 700 villages surrounding it, and in what is known as the Satara District. It is also something of an educational center on a small scale, there being a number of good native schools. There are many Brahmans here, the descendants of the old-time leaders of the country, and still the proudest and most exclusive as well as the most intelligent and best educated of the entire community.

The writer with his family is located here for the time being, diligently engaged in the study of the Marathi language. In this work we have been brought into contact with some whom one could scarcely hope to meet in any other way. The problem of giving the Gospel message to these people is a most perplexing one. The Congregationalists have had a mission here for many years, and the Salvation Army is also working, but aside from the children received in the time of famine, some years since, progress has been very slow. In a territory having a population of 500,000, there are but 122 Christian communicants. We do not know what will be our plans for future labor, for now there is a tremendous barrier between us and the people—the Marathi language, but we have had one need pressed in upon us that seems most worthy, and we pass it on to the SIGNS readers.

In the center of the native city stands the Satara Native Library. This is the daily gathering-place of the educated and best informed in the community. It would be a surprise to some of the people in Christian lands, from the standpoint of their idea of a “heathen,” to step some evening into this library, meet these Indian gentlemen, and see the evidences of education and culture. Here they meet and eagerly read the news of the world, both foreign and Indian. The tables of the library have a large selection of native vernacular papers, also papers issued in English by Indian natives, as well as those edited by Europeans, and a small but select number of magazines from across the seas.

Then as you turn to the book-shelves you find several thousand volumes, some in Marathi, some in Sanskrit, and a large number in English, the most of them bearing marks of being much read. In a number of books dealing with Indian history and Indian questions which I have read, I have noticed all through them words underlined showing that the readers have been diligently improving their English vocabulary in this way. In fact, there is a most eager desire among educated natives to learn all they can of the English language and literature.

I am sorry to have to report that such works as Ingersoll’s, Tom Paine’s, and Haeckel’s are very popular here. Now it has occurred to me that here is a splendid opportunity for us to do some real good missionary work. Why can not we put in the native libraries all over India a good selection of our books. Such books as “Desire of Ages,” “Great Controversy,” “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Object Lessons,” “Ministry of Healing,” and many others would find an acceptable place on these shelves, and would gain a large circle of interested readers. The purity of their diction, to say nothing of the sublimity of the truths found therein, would doubtless be manna to many hungry souls. It is sad to think that the Christianity with which most of these readers have a very limited acquaintance, is tainted with such errors as eternal punishment of the wicked in a never-ending hell, and weakened by the obscure notions prevailing about the origin of evil and the future state. Shall we allow Robert Ingersoll and Tom Paine to occupy undisputed these bookshelves where the hungry Indian soul is seeking for light?

I have consulted the authorities in charge of this library, and they assure me that they will be most happy to receive any donation of books that we will be willing to present to them. I pass on this plea to you and trust that it will meet with some substantial response. If more means comes in than necessary to furnish a few of our books to this library, there are scores of such libraries all over this great land, whose hungry shelves are waiting for such books, and will be as glad to accept them as the library here in Satara.

GEO. F. ENOCH.

Satara, India.

Brother Enoch adds this note: “Since coming here the above need has pressed itself home to my heart and seems to me to be a very great one. No one can measure the amount of good that will come through putting these books on these shelves. Many a reader whom the rules of caste and prejudice shut away from us as absolutely as tho we were in two different worlds, may thus be reached. If you think it wise to put such an appeal in the SIGNS, do so.”

We gladly pass it on, and ask our readers who may wish to donate to this worthy cause to send the money to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Indian Libraries.—EDITOR.

The Gift of Tongues.

THERE has been much said for the last two years about the manifestation of the gift of tongues as evidence of the gift and sanctification of the Holy Spirit. Below is a testimony from one who supposed she had received the gift. It is quoted from the Evangelical Messenger, of Cleveland, Ohio. We do not use names, tho they are given in the quotation, as we do not wish to bring any one into unpleasant publicity. The lesson is the danger of receiving

half truths, which are often the worst of errors:

“We had the gift of tongues, and went out to teach the rest of the world the real Christ. We decided to sail to London. We escaped a great shipwreck, but they would not receive us there. Then six of us got the call to go to India. We went from London and reached Calcutta in July. Mr. ——, who led us, thought we could do great things in India.

“Besides me, there were three girls from New York and two from Philadelphia. We nearly starved in Calcutta, and went to the north. We reached Benares a month later. There two of our girls disappeared. They were very pretty, and there were some Indians we met who liked them very much. We were destitute, and the girls—well, they just vanished. We didn’t complain to the authorities, because we knew pretty well where they had gone. They are now in harems, and I can’t blame them much. We did not have the real gift, and life was far more terrible than I can tell you.

“Again we went north to Lucknow. Another girl, ——, of New York, was taken from us one night after we had camped for the night. There were some wild hillmen who rode down and stopped at our camp. Next morning all were gone. There were only three of us left, Mr. —— and ——, and I, and we went back to Calcutta. From there we sailed to Buenos Aires to join the others. We had even harder times in Argentina than in India. Then my parents succeeded in getting me home. Our gift of tongues was not from God. It was from some devil.”

Serving.

By F. R. Havergal

For Thou hast met our longings With words of golden tone, That we shall serve forever Thyself, Thyself alone. Shall serve Thee, and forever— O, hope most sure, most fair; The perfect love outpouring In perfect service there. — F. R. Havergal.

Our Work and Workers.

At Iola, Kan., five were recently converted and baptized by Brother B. W. Brown.

The District of Columbia has been organized into a conference, and Prof. B. G. Wilkinson has been elected as its president.

The last Sabbath in January, Brother C. J. Buhalts organized a church of fifteen members at Fort Wayne, Ind., where Brother and Sister J. H. Niehaus had been laboring for some time.

There are six Seventh-day Adventist churches in the Society group of islands. We have also a paper published in the Tahitian language, which practically all the natives are able to read.

Korea has been organized into a separate mission. The working force consists of eight foreign and six native workers. There are twelve million inhabitants to be taught of the soon-coming Saviour.

Sabbath and Sunday, February 27 and 28, Brother A. T. Robinson, assisted by Brother and Sister G. W. White and O. A. Hall, conducted the dedicatory services of a new church building at Bartley, Nebr.

Brother T. B. Westbrook and wife have been laboring at Hornell, N. Y. He writes, “After just fifteen meetings, I asked those who would be true to God to please stand up, and sixteen precious souls took their stand for the blessed truth that we love.”

Work has been started in India in seven languages aside from English; namely, Bengali, Hindi, Burmese, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, and Santhali. This is only a beginning, however, as there are a hundred and fifty languages spoken in India, most of them very difficult to learn.

During the past three years a number of Hindustani men and women have received the message of present truth and have been baptized. Some of these have gone into the work, and are proving earnest and faithful. A church has been organized among the Hindustani people.

A note from Loma Linda (Cal.) College of Evangelists speaks of the school as in a flourishing condition with a total attendance of 107 students of which fifteen are medical. In the regular courses there are sixty-nine, forty-two of which are in the nurses’ course.

Is It I?

“Laborers wanted. The ripening grain Waits to welcome the reapers’ cry. The Lord of the harvest calls again; Who among us shall first reply, ‘Who is wanted, Lord,— is it I?’ The Master calls, but the servants wait. Fields gleam white ’neath a cloudless sky, Will none seize the sickle before, too late, Winds of winter come sweeping by? ‘Who is delaying, Lord,— is it I?’ ”

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A Mother's Love.

By Washington Irving

THE love of a true mother is never exhausted, it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back upon his own child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands, but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth, and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.— Washington Irving.

Example and Instruction of Parents

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle.

Who can estimate the value of the example of a kind, loving, Christian father and mother? Children are close imitators, and the parents, being the first and the natural guardians and instructors of the little ones, are generally the accepted models. Father, are you anxious that your little son should grow up to be courteous and chivalrous? Then you must stop that habit of speaking rudely, even to Peter, the hired man. You would be quite shocked and indignant if he should forget himself and speak to you in the same manner. But your little son watches your every action; he notes the inflection of your voice; and he can not understand why your tones are so much softer and gentler when you are talking to Mr. Jones, the wealthy merchant, or to Mrs. Blank, the popular society woman, than they are when you speak to mama. He can not understand you, but he imitates you, for all that.

Mother, be guarded and careful in your daily conduct before your little daughter. Relax not your vigilance for an hour. She sees and notices the unhappy expression on your face and the pucker on your brow, because things don’t go right. Can you not learn to discipline yourself for your child’s sake if not for your own? O, the effect of the parental example over the children, for good or for evil, is untold.

If we would have our boys and girls truthful, we must never deceive them. If we would like to see them cultivating habits of neatness and order, we must not go about our work all the morning slovenly and unkempt and in careless attire. Of course we should not dress in dainty, inappropriate garments while doing the hard work of the day, but we may at least be clean, and our clothes, even if cheap and coarse, may be whole.

If we would teach the boys and girls true refinement and gentleness, we must not speak either to them or to each other in a harsh, ungentle voice.

I think the voice a very good delineator of character. It is apt to be weak and peevish, whining, and unmusical, coarse or painfully shrill, or gentle, soft, and musical,—according to the disposition of its owner. There are some people whose voices are so harsh and disagreeable that it is a great trial to the nerves of sensitive people to listen to them.

O the music and the beauty Of a soft and gentle voice; How it thrills the soul like sunshine, How it makes the heart rejoice! O, ’tis sweeter than the music Of earth’s famous organs grand,— Than the tintinnabulation Of the bells of fairy land.

Can you possibly imagine cruel, unkind, discourteous words spoken in a soft, musical voice?

It is a trite saying, “As is the mother, so is the daughter; and as is the father, so is the son.” Of course this rule is not without exception. But it is quite apt to be true. But the law of heredity is not the only reason for this. It is almost as much the result of example as of heredity.

“What will you have to drink, my little man?” The guests were many about the luxurious table, and the wine flowed freely.

The little fellow hesitated only a moment. His father sat by his side, and was just about to raise his wine-glass to his lips, when his boy replied quietly:

“You will please give me just what you have given my papa. I will drink what he drinks.”

The father shuddered; strange he had never thought of it in that light before. A swift vision of the past rose before him. He was a child again, and stood beside his father’s coffin,—his poor father! strong drink had been his ruin,—and now he himself was following closely in his father’s steps; and already his little son—a noble lad—was imitating him.

The wine-glass dropped from his trembling hand, “Waiter, you may give my son a glass of water; I will take the same.” His good angel had won the victory.

Father, mother, be careful; the little ones are —

Stepping In Your Steps.

Climbing the mountain wild and high; Bold was the glance of his eagle eye; Proud was the spirit that knew no fear, Reckless the tread of the mountaineer: Up and up through the fields of snow, Down and down o’er the rocks below. On and on o’er the pathway steep,— On o’er the chasms wide and deep.

Hark! o’er the mountains bleak and wild Echoed the voice of a little child: “Papa, look out! I am coming, too, Stepping in your steps, just like you! Papa, O papa! just see me! Walking like papa—don’t you see?”

Pale was the cheek of the mountaineer,— Pale with the thrill of an awful fear; Paused he quick, and with eager face Clasped the child in his strong embrace; Backward glanced with his eye so dim,— Back o’er the path she had followed him.

Father, pause in the path of life, Rough with the chasms of sin and strife; When you walk with a step so free ’Mong the rocks where the dangers be, List to the voice that is sounding sweet,— List! they are coming—the little feet. Walk with care, they are coming, too, Stepping in your steps, just like you.

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