Publication date
6/15/08
Volume
29
Number
12
The WatchTower
Views from the "Watch Tower"
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JUNE 
IS. 
1908 
ZION'S 
WATCH 
TOWER 
express 
my 
appreciation 
in 
words. 
While 
it 
caused 
some 
com­ 
ment 
and 
made 
me 
little 
conspicuous, 
it 
was 
on 
account 
of 
interest 
in 
the 
new 
invention, 
which 
met 
the 
approval 
of 
all 
who 
saw 
it. 
am 
so 
thankful, 
not 
only 
for 
myself 
but 
for 
many 
other 
sisters 
who 
find 
their 
strength 
insufficient 
to 
do 
the 
heavy 
part 
of 
the 
work, 
which 
now 
may 
be 
rolled 
along 
with 
any 
steady 
hand 
to 
guide 
it. 
We 
are 
anxiously 
awaWng 
the 
announcement 
that 
the 
Dawn-Mobiles 
are 
ready 
for 
our 
use. 
We 
hope 
that 
all 
needing 
such 
conveniance 
will 
avail 
themselves 
of 
it. 
We 
are 
all 
rejoicing 
that 
the 
Lord 
has 
seen 
fit 
to 
bring 
JOu 
back 
from 
the 
old 
country 
to 
Allegheny 
again. 
Our 
prayers 
are 
with 
you 
and 
"the 
family" 
daily 
that 
you 
all 
may 
have 
strength 
to 
keep 
the 
sacrifice 
so 
pleasing 
to 
him 
on 
the 
altar 
until 
soon 
entirely 
consumed. 
God 
bless 
you! 
am 
your 
sister 
by 
his 
grace, 
CHARLOTTE 
WHITE,-Iowa. 
THE 
DAWN-MOBILES 
READY 
For 
long 
time 
we 
have 
been 
on 
the 
lookout 
for 
some 
nevice 
which 
would 
aid 
our 
colporteur 
sisters 
in 
making 
de­ 
livery 
of 
their 
books. 
Fifty 
books 
weigh 
forty 
pounds 
and 
are 
too 
great 
strain 
on 
the 
delicate 
of 
either 
sex. 
Colporteur 
Brother 
Cole 
has 
solved 
the 
problem 
splendidly. 
He 
has 
contrived 
device 
having 
two 
wheels 
which 
may 
be 
attached 
to 
any 
ordinary 
"suit-case" 
in 
five 
minutes, 
and 
without 
injury 
to 
the 
latter 
except 
two 
holes. 
In 
use 
the 
wheels 
support 
the 
weight 
of 
the 
books 
and 
are 
easily 
guided 
by 
the 
hand 
on 
the 
suit-case 
handle. 
On 
car 
the 
wheels 
fold 
up 
against 
the 
side 
of 
the 
suit-case. 
The 
mechanism 
is 
of 
light 
weight. 
The 
device 
will 
be 
supplied 
at 
cost 
to 
any 
colporteur-$2.50 
plus 
express 
charges. 
GENEROUS 
PROPOSITION 
Knowing 
that 
few 
of 
the 
sisters 
can 
do 
better 
than 
meet 
their 
expenses 
at 
colporteuring, 
Brother 
Cole 
makes 
the 
fol­ 
lowing 
generous 
proposal: 
Through 
our 
Society's 
Colpor­ 
teur 
Department 
Brother 
Cole 
offers 
one 
of 
these 
attachments 
free 
to 
each 
Colporteur 
sister 
now 
working 
and 
who 
has 
worked 
on 
regular 
assignment 
of 
territory 
during 
the 
six 
months 
ending 
June 
1, 
1908, 
to 
the 
extent 
of 
sending 
in 
regular 
reo 
ports, 
and 
paying 
for 
not 
less 
than 
sixty 
dollars 
worth 
of 
books 
in 
that 
time. 
Orders 
may 
be 
sent 
in 
at 
once, 
naming 
your 
express 
company. 
Should 
these 
limitations 
barely 
bar 
out 
some 
struggling 
flisters, 
such 
may 
write 
us 
particulars 
and 
"e 
will 
see 
what, 
if 
anything, 
can 
be 
done 
for 
them. 
VOL. 
XXIX 
ALLEGHENY, 
PA., 
JULY 
1,1908 
No. 
13 
VIEWS 
FROM 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
SEES 
THINGS 
COMING 
the 
West 
End, 
but 
most 
of 
those 
who 
ran 
away 
have 
re- 
"GIGANTIC 
STRUGGLE 
BETWEEN 
LABOR 
AND 
CAPITAL" 
turned 
or 
are 
returning-bolder 
and 
more 
mysterious 
than 
Secretary 
Taft 
made 
an 
address 
before 
the 
Order 
of 
ever. 
Railway 
Conductors 
in 
which 
he 
said:- 
"It 
is 
declared 
on 
good 
authority 
that 
dabblers 
in 
the 
"Men 
who 
control 
capital,. 
as 
well 
as 
men 
who 
work 
for 
occult 
among 
fashionable 
society 
are 
numerically 
greater 
wages, 
must 
eombine," 
said 
Secretary 
Taft 
to 
the 
conduc- 
than 
ever 
before, 
and 
this 
statement 
is 
borne 
out 
by 
the 
tors. 
"Combinations 
of 
capital 
'vithin 
the 
bounds 
of 
the 
rushing 
business 
being 
done 
by 
the 
men 
and 
women 
of 
law 
are 
necessary 
for 
business 
expediency 
and 
for 
cost 
mystery. 
In 
Oxford 
Circus 
and 
Piccadilly 
are 
daily 
to 
be 
reduction. 
And 
because 
of 
these 
combinations 
among 
em- 
seen 
sandwich 
men 
in 
large 
numbers 
bearing 
advertise- 
ployrrs, 
the 
laboring 
men 
must 
combine 
also 
in 
order 
to 
ment 
boards 
telling 
of 
the 
wonderfully 
accurate 
predictions 
abtain 
that 
independence 
to 
which 
they 
are 
entitled. 
made 
by 
Mme. 
X., 
and 
how 
Mme. 
Z., 
by 
timely 
warning 
to 
LOOKS 
FOR 
GIANTS' 
STRUGGLE 
lady 
of 
high 
title, 
prevented 
dreadful 
domestic 
catastro- 
"Every 
man 
who 
understands 
welcomes 
the 
lawful 
com- 
bination 
of 
capital 
and 
the 
combinations 
of 
the 
laboring 
e;, 
Quite 
separate 
division 
of 
the 
futurity-reading 
in- 
men. 
Yet 
there 
is 
no 
denying 
the 
fact 
that 
we 
must 
look 
dustry 
if' 
that 
of 
the 
sporting' 
prophets,' 
who 
are 
doing 
so 
forward 
to 
gigantic 
controversy 
between 
labor 
and 
cap- 
well 
financially 
that 
they 
are 
able 
to 
spend 
large 
sums 
for 
ital 
hoping 
and 
trusting 
that 
it 
will 
be 
settled 
peaceably. 
advcrhseme'nts 
in 
the 
newspapers. 
special 
crusade 
against 
Thdt 
controversy, 
when 
it 
come.s, 
will 
decide 
once 
for 
all 
this 
form 
of 
clairvoyance 
has 
been 
started 
by 
the 
Bishop 
how 
capital 
and 
labor 
shall 
share 
the 
joint-profits 
which 
they 
of 
Hereford. 
He 
has 
used 
his 
influence 
to 
have 
commit- 
create. 
tee 
of 
the 
Upper 
House 
of 
the 
Convocation 
of 
Canterbury 
"For 
the 
past 
three 
years 
we 
have 
been 
doing 
some 
appointed 
to 
deal 
with 
the 
,subject, 
and 
wholesale 
prosecu- 
housecleaning. 
We 
needed 
it. 
President 
Roosevelt 
was 
the 
tions, 
both 
of 
newspapers 
printing 
the 
advertisements 
and 
chief 
of 
those 
who 
called 
halt 
and 
convinced 
the 
people 
of 
those 
placing 
them, 
are 
threatened." 
that 
no 
one 
in 
this 
country 
is 
above 
the 
law. 
do 
not 
say 
METHODISTS 
WANT 
CREED 
RESTATED 
that 
aU 
rich 
men 
are 
wicked. 
We 
take 
pride 
in 
those 
who 
Presbyterians 
are 
having 
great 
comfort 
from 
their 
re- 
by 
energy, 
intelligence, 
and 
honesty 
have 
accumulated 
statement 
of 
their 
Faith 
far 
the 
public. 
They 
claim 
that 
it 
wealth. 
But 
there 
are 
men 
in 
this 
country 
who 
by 
means 
is 
just 
the 
same 
in 
meaning 
as 
their 
Westminster 
Confes- 
neviolls 
and 
contrary 
to 
law 
have 
become 
multi-millionaires. 
sion. 
The 
new 
creed 
states 
so 
little 
and 
so 
vaguely 
that 
These 
must 
be 
made 
to 
know 
that 
their 
lawless 
methods 
it 
mates 
well 
with 
the 
"new 
theology," 
which 
denies 
the 
cannot 
be 
successful 
in 
the 
future." 
Atonement, 
the 
pre-existence 
of 
Jesus, 
etc. 
But 
now 
Metho- 
How 
evidently 
our 
Lord's 
teachings 
and 
those 
of 
his 
dists 
are 
feeling 
their 
need 
of 
similarly 
colorless 
creed, 
apostles 
were 
not 
to 
the 
world, 
but 
to 
"the 
ealled 
accord- 
as 
is 
shown 
by 
the 
following 
from 
the 
Portland 
Evening 
jng 
to 
his 
purpose." 
To 
those 
he 
said, 
"Ye 
are 
not 
of 
the 
Telegram: 
worln 
for 
have 
chosen 
yon 
out 
of 
the 
world." 
At 
the 
meeting 
af 
the 
Methodist 
Episcopal 
ministers 
to- 
The 
purpose 
of 
their 
call 
is 
also 
made 
clear: 
That 
they 
day 
at 
Taylor 
Street 
church, 
Rev. 
C. 
E. 
Cline 
read 
paper 
should 
be 
holy, 
and, 
as 
his 
consecrated 
"little 
fl?ck," 
learn 
on" 
Restating 
the 
Articles 
of 
Our 
Religion," 
which 
was 
important 
lessons 
ann 
be 
developed 
to 
the 
fuB 
love 
and 
in 
line 
with 
the 
general 
movement 
of 
that 
church 
to 
re- 
loyalty 
to 
Gad 
anJ 
to 
each 
other 
and 
to 
aU 
the 
principles 
state 
the 
present 
articles, 
which 
were 
originally 
taken 
from 
of 
righteousness 
to 
the 
intent 
that 
being 
thus 
quali~ed 
for 
the 
Episcopal 
creed. 
service 
they 
may 
he 
made 
members 
of 
the 
royal 
famIly, 
the 
Rev. 
Clarence 
True 
Wilson, 
D. 
D., 
said 
he 
found 
the 
kingdom 
class, 
which 
shall 
rule 
the 
nations 
with 
rod 
of 
articles 
needed 
restating, 
as 
he 
had 
often 
been 
embarrassed 
iron, 
wielded 
by 
hann 
of 
love, 
during 
the 
Millennium. 
by 
the 
inadequacy 
of 
the 
present 
Discipline. 
Surely 
no 
other 
explanation 
fits 
the 
facts 
of 
history 
and 
"Why, 
the 
other 
day," 
he 
said, 
"a 
Unitarian 
wrote 
me 
the' 
records 
of 
the 
Bible. 
Blessell 
are 
the 
eyes 
of 
all 
who 
for 
information 
about 
our 
belief, 
and 
do 
you 
think 
couIn 
see 
these 
things 
and 
still 
more 
blessed 
are 
those 
whose 
send 
our 
Discipline' 
No, 
indeen 
not. 
Had 
Jone 
so 
every 
hearts 
respond 
fully 
and 
who 
thus 
by 
the 
Lord's 
assisting 
minister 
present 
today 
would 
have 
criticised 
me. 
hap- 
grace 
make 
their 
calling 
and 
election 
sure 
to 
place 
in 
pened 
to 
meet 
Presbyterian 
minister 
who 
was 
in 
receipt 
that 
kingdom. 
of 
letter 
from 
this 
same 
Unitarian 
and 
a.sked 
him 
what 
LONDON 
GONE 
MAD 
OVER 
OCCULTISM 
he 
was 
going 
to 
do 
about 
it. 
'Why, 
send 
him 
our 
Articles,' 
The 
London 
correspondent 
of 
the 
Toronto 
Globe 
says: 
said 
he. 
then 
said, 
'Sign 
my 
name 
to 
it, 
too.' 
"Mayfair's 
great 
army 
of 
clairvuyants, 
soothsayers, 
table- 
"We 
don't 
believe 
in 
the 
idea 
of 
Christ's 
atonement, 
rappers 
ann 
seventh-day 
sisters 
have 
been 
greatly 
encour- 
yet 
we 
have 
it 
in 
our 
Discipline, 
and 
several 
other 
things, 
aged 
by 
Sir 
Oliver 
Lodge's 
declarations 
concerning 
com- 
such 
as 
Original 
Sin 
being 
inherited. 
There 
can 
be 
no 
such 
l1lunications 
recE'iveJ 
from 
beyond 
the 
grave 
by 
the 
Psychi- 
thing, 
and 
no 
minister 
of 
our 
churrh 
believes 
there 
is." 
cal 
Research 
Society. 
The 
police 
prosecutions 
of 
few 
years 
CANDID 
CONFESSION 
TRULY, 
FROM 
PROMINENT 
MAN 
ago 
caused 
Ii 
genuine 
stampede 
from 
the 
luxuriously-ap- 
The 
Rev. 
Dr. 
Day, 
Chancellor 
of 
the 
Syracuse 
University, 
pointed 
temples 
of 
mystery 
in 
the 
fashionable 
streets 
of 
recently, 
in 
an 
address 
to 
the 
Y. 
M. 
C. 
A., 
is 
reported 
by 
[4195] 
JUNE 15, 1908 express my appreciation in words. While it caused some comment and made me a little conspicuous, it was on account of interest in the new invention, which met the approval of all who saw it. I am so thankful, not only for myself but for many other sisters who find their strength insufficient to do the heavy part of the work, which now may be rolled along with any steady hand to guide it. We are anxiously awaiting the announcement that the Dawn-Mobiles are ready for our use. We hope that all needing such a convenience will avail themselves of it. We are all rejoicing that the Lord has seen fit to bring you back from the old country to Allegheny again. Our prayers are with you and ‘‘the family’’ daily that you all may have strength to keep the sacrifice so pleasing to him on the altar until soon entirely consumed. God bless you! I am your sister by his grace, CHARLOTTE WHITE,—Iowa. THE DAWN-MOBILES READY For a long time we have been on the lookout for some device which would aid our colporteur sisters in making delivery of their books. Fifty books weigh forty pounds and are too great a strain on the delicate of either sex. Vou. XXTX ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, PA., JULY 1, 1908 (191-196) Colporteur Brother Cole has solved the problem splendidly. He has contrived a device having two wheels which may be attached to any ordinary ‘‘suit-case’’ in five minutes, and without injury to the latter except two holes. In use the wheels support the weight of the books and are easily guided by the hand on the suit-ease handle. On a car the wheels fold up against the side of the suit-case. The mechanism is of light weight. The device will be supplied at cost to any colporteur—$2.50 plus express charges. A GENEROUS PROPOSITION Knowing that few of the sisters can do better than meet their expenses at colporteuring, Brother Cole makes the following generous proposal: Through our Society’s Colporteur Department Brother Cole offers one of these attachments free to each Colporteur sister now working and who has worked on a regular assignment of territory during the six months ending June 1, 1908, to the extent of sending in regular reports, and paying for not less than sixty dollars worth of books in that time. Orders may be sent in at once, naming your express company. Should these limitations barely bar out some struggling sisters, such may write us particulars and we will see what, if anything, can be done for them. No. 18 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER SEES THINGS COMING ‘*GIGANTIC STRUGGLE BETWEEN LABOR AND CAPITAL’? Secretary Taft made an address before the Order of Railway Conductors in which he said:— ‘*Men who control capital, as well as men who work for wages, must combine,’’ said Secretary Taft to the conduetors. ‘‘Combinations of capital within the bounds of the law are necessary for business expediency and for cost reduction. And because of these combinations among employers, the laboring men must combine also in order to obtain that independence to which they are entitled. LOOKS FOR GIANTS’ STRUGGLE ‘‘Every man who understands welcomes the lawful combination of capital and the combinations of the laboring men. Yet there is no denying the fact that we must look forward to a gigantic controversy between labor and capital, hoping and trusting that it will be settled peaceably. That controversy, when it comes, will decide once for all how eapital and labor shall share the joint-profits which they create. ‘“‘For the past three years we have been doing some housecleaning. We needed it. President Roosevelt was the chief of those who called a halt and convinced the people that no one in this country is above the law. I do not say that all rich men are wicked. We take pride in those who by energy, intelligence, and honesty have accumulated wealth. But there are men in this country who by means devious and contrary to law have become multi-millionaires. These must be made to know that their lawless methods cannot be successful in the future.’’ How evidently our Lord’s teachings and those of his apostles were not to the world, but to ‘‘the called according to his purpose.’’ To those he said, ‘‘Ye are not of the world, for I have chosen yon out of the world.’’ The purpose of their call is also made clear: That they should be holy, and, as his consecrated ‘‘little flock,’’ learn important lessons and be developed to the full in love and loyalty to God and to each other and to all the principles of righteousness to the intent that being thus qualified for service they may be made members of the royal family, the kingdom class, which shall rule the nations with a rod of iron, wielded by a hand of love, during the Millennium. Surely no other explanation fits the facts of history and the records of the Bible. Blessed are the eyes of all who see these things and still more blessed are those whose hearts respond fully and who thus by the Lord’s assisting grace make their calling and election sure to a place in that kingdom. LONDON GONE MAD OVER OCCULTISM The London correspondent of the Toronto Globe says: ‘‘Mayfair’s great army of clairvoyants, soothsayers, tablerappers and seventh-dav sisters have been greatly encouraged by Sir Oliver Lodge’s declarations concerning communications received from beyond the grave by the Psychieal Research Society. The police prosecutions of a few years ago caused a genuine stampede from the luxuriously-appointed temples of mystery in the fashionable streets of the West End, but most of those who ran away have returned or are returning—bolder and more mysterious than ever, “*Tt is declared on good authority that dabblers in the occult among fashionable society are numerically greater than ever before, and this statement is borne out by the rushing business being done by the men and women of mystery. In Oxford Circus and Piccadilly are daily to be seen sandwich men in large numbers bearing advertisement boards telling of the wonderfully accurate predictions made by Mme. X., and how Mme. Z., by timely warning to a lady of high title, prevented a dreadful domestic catastrophe. ‘*Quite a separate division of the futurity-reading industry is that of the sporting ‘prophets,’ who are doing so well financially that they are able to spend large sums for advertisements in the newspapers. A special crusade against this form of clairvoyance has been started by the Bishop of Hereford. He has used his influence to have a committee of the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury appointed to deal with the subject, and wholesale prosecutions, both of newspapers printing the advertisements and of those placing them, are threatened.’’ METHODISTS WANT CREED RESTATED Presbyterians are having great comfort from their restatement of their Faith for the public. They claim that it is just the same in meaning as their Westminster Confession. The new creed states so little and so vaguely that it mates well with the ‘‘new theology,’’ which denies the Atonement, the pre-existence of Jesus, etc. But now Methodists are feeling their need of a similarly colorless creed, as is shown by the following from the Portland Evening Telegram: At the meeting of the Methodist Episcopal ministers today at Taylor Street church, Rev, C. E, Cline read a paper on ‘‘Restating the Articles of Our Religion,’’ which was in line with the general movement of that church to restate the present articles, which were originally taken from the Episcopal ereed. Rev. Clarence True Wilson, D. D., said he found the articles needed restating, as he had often been embarrassed by the inadequacy of the present Discipline. ‘¢Why, the other day,’’ he said, ‘‘a Unitarian wrote me for information about our belief, and do you think I could send our Discipline? No, indeed not. Had I done so every minister present today would have criticised me. I happened to meet a Presbyterian minister who was in receipt of a letter from this same Unitarian and I asked him what he was going to do about it. ‘Why, send him our Articles,’ said he. I then said, ‘Sign my name to it, too.’ “‘We don’t believe in the idea of Christ’s atonement, yet we have it in our Discipline, and several other things, such as Original Sin being inherited. There ean be no such thing, and no minister of our church believes there is.’’ A CANDID CONFESSION TRULY, FROM A PROMINENT MAN The Rev. Dr. Day, Chancellor of the Syracuse University, recently, in an address to the Y. M. C. A., is reported by [4195]

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