Alabama Tract Society, 333 Hood Bldg., Birmingham, Ala.
Alberta Tract Society, Drawer U, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada.
Arizona Tract Society, 417 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Arkansas Tract Society, 37 E. South St., Fayetteville, Ark.
British Columbia Tract Society, 1708 Maple St., Vancouver, B. C., Canada.
California Bible House, 527 Twenty-fifth St., Oakland, Cal.
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Chesapeake Tract Society, 1611 Ellamont St., Baltimore, Md.
Colorado Tract Society, Eastern, 1112 Kalumath St., Denver, Colo.
Colorado Tract Society, Western, 122 S. Eighth St., Grand Junction, Colo.
Cumberland Tract Society (Eastern Tennessee), Graysville, Tenn.
District of Columbia Tract Society, 708 McLachlan Bldg., Washington, D. C.
Florida Tract Society, 19 W. Church St., Orlando, Fla.
Georgia Tract Society, 169 Bryan St., Atlanta, Ga.
Hawaiian Tract Society, 767 Kinau St., Honolulu, H. T.
Idaho Tract Society, Southern, Box 643, Nampa, Idaho.
Illinois Tract Society, Northern, 3645 Ogden Ave., Hawthorne Sta., Chicago, Ill.
Illinois Tract Society, Southern, 304 W. Allen St., Springfield, Ill.
Indiana Tract Society, 521 E. 23d St., Indianapolis, Ind.
Iowa Tract Society, Nevada, Iowa.
Kansas Tract Society, East, 821 W. Fifth St., Topeka, Kan.
Kansas Tract Society, West, 508 Fifth Ave. E., Hutchinson, Kan.
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Louisiana Tract Society, 810 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, La.
Maine Tract Society, 75 Grant St., Portland, Maine.
Manitoba Tract Society, 290 Bannerman Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Massachusetts Tract Society, South Lancaster, Mass.
Michigan Tract Society, East, 426 Trumbull Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Michigan Tract Society, North, 510 Petoskey St., Petoskey, Mich.
Michigan Tract Society, West, 1214 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Minnesota Tract Society, 336 East Lake St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Mississippi Tract Society, 932 Union St., Jackson, Miss.
Missouri Tract Society, Northern, Hamilton, Mo.
Missouri Tract Society, Southern, 520 W. Lynn St., Springfield, Mo.
Montana Tract Society, 411 S. Black Ave., Bozeman, Mont.
Nebraska Bible Supply House, 905 N. California Ave., Hastings, Neb.
Nevada (See California-Nevada Missionary Society).
New England Tract Society, Northern, 136 N. Main St., Concord, N. H.
New England Tract Society, Southern (Rhode Island and Connecticut), 51 Whitmore St., Hartford, Conn.
New Hampshire (See Northern New England).
New Jersey Tract Society, 200 Columbus Ave., Trenton, N. J.
New Mexico Tract Society, Box 286, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
New York Tract Society (Greater), Room 904, 32 Union Square, New York, N. Y.
New York Tract Society, 317 W. Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
New York Tract Society, Western, 8 E. Jefferson St., Salamanca, N. Y.
North Carolina Tract Society, 711 W. Lee St., Greensboro, N. C.
North Dakota Tract Society, Drawer N, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Ohio Tract Society, Box 187, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Oklahoma Tract Society, P. O. Box 644, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Oregon Missionary Society, Western, 508 E. Everett St., Portland, Ore.
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Pennsylvania Tract Society, Eastern, 4910 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Pennsylvania Tract Society, Western, 7155 Mt. Vernon St., Pittsburg, Pa.
Saskatchewan Tract Society, Box 244, Regina, Sask., Canada.
South Carolina Tract Society, 821 Fourth St., Columbia, S. C.
South Dakota Tract Society, Drawer R, Redfield, S. Dak.
Tennessee River Tract Society (Western Tennessee), 509 Cole Bldg., Nashville, Tenn.
Texas Tract Society, North, Box 15, Keene, Texas.
Texas Tract Society, South, Box 392, Austin, Texas.
Texas Tract Society, West, Box 16, Abilene, Texas.
Upper Columbia Tract Society, College Place, Wash.
Utah Tract and Bible Society, 776 E. Sixth So., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Vermont (See Northern New England).
Virginia Tract Society, 2705 W. Main St., Richmond, Va.
Washington Missionary Society, Western, Box Q, Auburn, Wash.
West Virginia Tract Society, 124 Marion St., Fairmont, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society, Box 57, Grand Rapids, Wis.
Wyoming Tract Society, Crawford, Neb.
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Closed Its Career in a Deluge of Blood
At midnight on June 3, West Virginia entered the ranks of prohibition states, through a law that was endorsed by a majority of 91,886 in the November election of 1912. The last day of the licensed sale of intoxicants in the state was marked by five deaths due to alcohol. One man was murdered, and robbed of ninety cents. An officer of the law was killed while attempting to arrest a drunken man. In the shooting, the drunken fellow himself was killed, presumably by another officer, who was assisting. And two miners were cremated while lying in their cabin in a drunken stupor.
But notwithstanding these deaths that were directly due to the last day of the reign of liquor in West Virginia, there is complaint that the measure put some three thousand men out of employment, and takes a million dollars out of the revenues of the counties, the towns, and the state.
But are not the lives of men worth anything? If one of these men that were killed had happened to be your son, your husband, or your father, would you be willing to take a million dollars for him?
One of the worst things in connection with the whole whisky traffic is its insistent effort to balance dollars against men. It would like to have us blinded to the murders, to the robberies, to the violations of chastity and virtue, and all its unspeakable crimes, while it dangles before our eyes just dollars — nothing but dollars.
There is no question but that there are many men so depraved that a dollar looks bigger to them than a man. Possibly one of these murderers in West Virginia did not know what he would get from the man he killed. Possibly he was too drunk to think that closely. But he only got ninety cents. The value that some men place on their fellow beings when their own selfish interests are at stake is represented, in many instances, by just ninety cents.
The moral sentiment of this nation needs to be aroused to the fact that men and women are of more value than money or property. The great Man of Nazareth, who manifested His appreciation of humanity in the supreme tragedy of Calvary, asks the question in the strongest tones, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
The Anarchist and His Plots
By Editor
FOLLOWING the murder of Archduke Ferdinand, of Austria, and his wife, on July 28, there seems to have been a regular epidemic of similar plots.
Among the cases mentioned in the despatches is the attempt, on July 2, to wreck the home of and kill E. M. Herr, president of the Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company. This is supposed to be an outgrowth of the strike at the three Westinghouse plants in East Pittsburg. The plot was frustrated by a passer-by. He chanced to find the bomb, and it was removed before it had an opportunity to do its deadly work.
On July 3, women with revolvers secreted on their persons were arrested in the palace of King George, of England.
On July 4, a large quantity of dynamite was exploded in a tenement-house in New York City, wrecking the building, and killing several persons. Investigations by the police indicate that this bomb was intended to destroy John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and had exploded in the process of its preparation.
On July 8, the police in Berlin arrested a number of persons who were in a plot to assassinate the emperor of Germany.
On the same date, two Russians were arrested in France who had designs on the life of President Poincaré.
Also on July 8, an attempt was made in Scotland, by the "arson squad" of the militant suffragettes, to destroy the cottage of Robert Burns, the celebrated Scottish poet.
SUCH ANARCHY IS PREVALENT
These are nothing more than illustrations of the anarchy that is prevailing in the minds of men. There are many people who like to dream that there are only a few who would engage in such desperate deeds of lawlessness; but if we will stop to think, we must recognize that the intemperate descriptions of conditions of this time, which are now common, are calculated so to work upon nervous or unstable characters that they are ready to organize themselves not only into "arson squads" but into every form of violent and destructive alliances.
Such facts as those mentioned herein, and similar facts that are presented by Elder Bartlett on another page of this issue, show that the very foundations of law and order have been undermined, and the whole social structure is going to pieces. We are confronted with the wildest portents of rioting and revolution.
In saying such things as this, we are not raising an alarm over nothing, but are stating sober facts regarding the existing conditions. It is time for us to be aroused when a great nation like England, one of the oldest and one of the most stable that has ever existed, finds herself confronted with opposing revolutionary armies that have actually been organized and armed within her borders; and when she is threatened with still more portentous armies of laboring men that suggest arming themselves to enforce their demands.
SOME PROPHETIC UTTERANCES
One of the prophetic utterances of the Master was, that the times immediately preceding His coming would be as were the days of Noah. And of the days of Noah the record specifically says, "The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." Gen. 6:11.
Men who are harping on the idea that this world is getting better, and that we are standing in the presence of a glorious and golden age, are under the influence of some kind of mental intoxication that beclouds their senses so that they do not know what they are talking about. God's word has specifically told us that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, and in numerous passages of Scripture prophecy are we forewarned that the "last days" will be a time of extreme peril.
The last days are reached. A chorus of voices from the pages of God's inspired word announces it.
The conditions of the time are in perfect harmony with the divine predictions. There should be no mistake made in reaching the correct conclusion. The second coming of Christ is right at our doors. Everything shows it, and we should get ready for it.
If we are prepared for that great day, our hearts are thrilled with the supremest joy; and the tokens of His coming, instead of causing us any dread, will fill our souls with indescribable delights.
Secret Tests of New Explosive
It is said that secret tests are in progress with a new high explosive for torpedoes. If successful it will revolutionize the torpedo work of the navy.
For these experiments to succeed would not be at all surprising. The past quarter of a century has seen a succession of improvements in war equipment, that are continually rendering obsolete everything of the past. Single super-Dreadnoughts of to-day could successfully meet whole navies of twenty-five years ago; and the submarine boat, which has been for the most part developed during the last decade, may yet show that even the super-Dreadnoughts are powerless before this little device that can travel so successfully and for such a long period under the surface of the sea.
Items of Current Interest
By Editor
THE British government has recently compiled an exhaustive census of India. A staff of about two million persons was employed so as to take the census very quickly. The volume embodying the summary shows that the total population of India, including the native states, is 315,156,396, as against 294,361,056 ten years previously. Of the total population, there are 217,586,892 Hindus, 66,647,299 Mussulmans, 10,721,453 Buddhists, and 3,876,203 professed Christians.
THE "bomb industry" in New York began to be a serious menace ten years ago. Only thirteen cases of bomb setting had to be dealt with in 1908. In 1912 the number was fifty-two, and in 1913 it was 145.
POPE PIUS has issued a decree forbidding priests to join labor associations. He does this on the ground that these bodies promote class hatred and consequent divisions among Roman Catholics themselves.
IT is announced that Mr. Henry Ford, the head of the Ford motor-car company, will devote part of his great fortune to searching for a cure for cancer.
FOR a trifling opportunity that "will never come again," it does not pay to sacrifice some great opportunity that is ever present.
All Shall Worship Him
MGR. BONAVENTURA CORRETTI, new auditor of the "apostolic delegation" at Washington, D. C., has been appointed by the pope to be the first papal apostolic delegate to Australia. The Vatican has just established a delegation there similar to the one in America. It is stated that Rome's influence has grown to such an extent in Australia that this step was necessary in order to bind the papal churches there more closely to Rome. The new delegate's authority is to extend over Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand.
As these occurrences continue, showing the activity of the papacy, it is well to keep in mind the prophecies of the Bible that tell of the final world triumph of the papal power, just before the second coming of Christ. It is finally to reach a position where all the world will bow before it.
Some of the words of the prophecy are, "All the world wondered after the beast," and again, "All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
In the brief hour of the triumph of the spiritual Babylon of the last days, the prophet says of her: "She saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow." But her supreme triumph marks the last link in the great chain of prophecy. Her world-wide exaltation does not denote the victory of Christianity, but the elevation of apostasy and ecclesiastical despotism. This will be met by the culminating event of the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven.
All this is not mere theological dissertation, but these things are matters of Bible prophecy, met by definite facts that are marking their fulfilment. Whether we be Protestants or Catholics, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, it behooves us to make no mistake in this important matter. God's word is clear and plain, and His divine Spirit will impress the sublime truths of the sacred Book upon our hearts, if we will but open our minds to receive and obey the inspired utterances. Let us make no mistake in any of these matters. The great crisis of the world is just before us.
The War-Ship Program
PRESIDENT WILSON'S signature affixed to the naval appropriation bill authorizes the construction of two super-Dreadnoughts and fourteen auxiliary war-ships. Congress has also authorized the sale of the battle-ships Idaho and Mississippi, and the proceeds will go to the building of a third super-Dreadnought.
The navy department will sell these out-of-date battle-ships to a private firm; and this firm, it is understood, will resell them to the Greek government. The building of both the Idaho and the Mississippi was authorized by Congress in 1903, and at that time they were rated as "first-class battle-ships," and are of thirteen thousand tons displacement. But they would not stand any chance at all now with the great super-Dreadnoughts.
These "first-class battle-ships" of eleven years ago had a speed of seventeen knots an hour; but the up-to-date battle-ship is not only of more than twice the displacement, but it must have a speed of at least twenty-five knots.
Facts of this character are among the little incidents that show the terrific intensity with which the demons of war are driving the world forward in its preparations for the great day of Armageddon.