husbands, to love their children, to
be discreet, chaste.” There is a prop-
er place for the display of affection,
and that is in the home, and within
the family relationship. Display of
affection in public is always consid-
ered in poor taste; while the woman
or girl who lays familiar hands upon
men is giving evidence of her ignor-
ance of good manners, or, what is
still worse, of an evil heart.
The BEARING, particularly the ex-
pression of the face, tells us much
about those we meet. One woman had
“an impudent face”; the other car-
ried herself with “shamefacedness and
sobriety.” We might put that into
common speech: “modesty and so-
‘briety.” Boldness, flippancy, slang
and unguarded speech are typical of
our times, True modesty, graceful
speech and a kind thoughtfulness for
the feelings of others are surely re-
freshing.
INDUSTRY is another sure index
of character. In warning the young
man against strange women, Solomon
says to beware lest “strangers be filled
with thy wealth; and thy labors be in
the house of a stranger” (Prov. 5:10)
and “by means of a whorish woman a
man is brought to a piece of bread”
(Prov. 6:26). But the true woman
“eateth not the bread of idleness.” In-
dustry is a great protection from evil
habits. Idle women are a great curse
and particularly so in the church.
Timothy tells us that idleness breeds
gossip, and brings great reproach up-
on the gospel message.
The contrast is strong when we con-
sider the INFLUENCE of the two
types of women. The stranger has a
deadly influence. “She hath cast down
many wounded: yea, many strong
men have been slain by her. Her
house is the way to bell, going down
to the chambers of death.” But the
influence of the godly woman tends
to life. “She will do him good and
not evil all the days of her life.” The
third chapter of First Peter pictures
for us the unconverted husband being
won to the gospel by the Christlike
behaviour of a believing wife.
Girls, which do you think is the
more admirable character? “Favour
is deceitful, and beauty is vain (how
often in more than one sense); but a
woman that feareth the Lord, she
shall be praised. . . . . for her price
is far above rubies.” Every girl must
make the choice as to which side she
will throw her influence. If it ig not
to be a saving influence, it cannot
escape the other extreme, for we have
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no less than the authority of our
Master himself to witness that “he
that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad.”
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UNION NEWS NOTES
Elder Harrison spent Friday in the
office and left Sunday morning for San
Antonio. -
All report a very spiritual meeting at
Little Reck and the largest camp meet-
ing ever held in the Arkansas Confer-
ence in recent years.
Elder Eichman spent last Wednesday
in the office on his way from Little
Rock camp meeting to San Antonio
camp meeting.
" Elder Pohle returned from Little Rock
Thursday and left Sunday morning for
San Antonio. = He and his son, Kenneth,
are driving through in their car.
Elder Van Kirk attended a board
meeting of Broadview College July 17,
from which place he went direct to Little
Rock to attend the Arkansas camp meet-
ing. He spent last Wednesday in the
office on his way to San Antonio to at-
tend the camp meeting there.
Elder C. H. Castle; our newly elected
treasurer and auditor, upon hig arrival
in our field, spent a few days in Keene
with Brother Claude Conard, assistant
treasurer of the General Conference,
in going over plans pertaining to the
work of the treasury department. He
1s now on an auditing tour among the
local conferences and expects to be pre-
sent over the first Sabbath at each of
the camp meetings.
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AN IMPORTANT TELEGRAM
Last week after the RECORD had gone
‘to press, wereceived the following tele-
gram from Mountain View, California;-
“Tell your readers Signs of the Times
is preparing Prohibition Special number. -
Score of nations leaders such as Ford
Babson, Irving Fisher, McAdoo, Doctors
Harvey Wiley and Howard Kelley, Cap-
tain Hobson and others forcefully pre-
sent physical, moral, economic benefits
of prohibition. This number will be a
mighty educator in this crisis to true
temperance without political propa-
ganda. Seventeen fifty per thousand.
Signed Pacific Press Publishing Asso-
ciation. ”’
A great crisis is before us. The lead.
ers of one of the great political parties
avow their opposition to prohibitien.
Here isan opportunity without ourselves
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mixing with politics, todo great service
for prohibition and true temperance by
educating the people on this great sub-
ject. When such men as are quoted
above furnish us the arguments against
the liquor traffic, surely we can distri-
bute them everywhere.
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JUST AT THE RIGHT TIME
In the experience of every individual
there are times when the heart and
mind is drawn out toward God, when
perhaps as at no ordinary time a kindly
word or a printed message of hope
will bring just the help that is needed.
The following letter received by the
Signs office early in July from a lady in
Fremont, Michigan, illustrates how the
Lord's spirit is working, and how the
Signs at just the right time as in this
case proved a great source of comfort
and encouragement.
Dear Sirs:
“I have been receiving your paper
Signs of the Times for some time, and
since the first few papers came Ihave
felt a very deep interest in the articles
contained. Now, I look forward to its
coming each week never feeling satis-
fied until I bave absorsed everything
from cover to cover.
Already I feel that I have grown
considerably spiritually and been drawn
nearer to the Great God through its
influence.
IT am not an Adventist and do not
know who has sacrificed that I may en-
joy the riches of your paper for a year,
but IT hope I will not have to be with-
out it at the expiration of that year.
May God reward all the sacrifices made
that it may reach others.
I ama young widow, my busband
being called to the Great Beyond a
short time ago, after a short year of
companionship. Somehow it seems that
the door has been opened to me for
greater religious service and your paper
will be'no small factor in helping me. -
Gratefully
MRS. P. W.
Some paper you are sending, even
without your knowledge of it, may be
making a similar impression at a time
when the Lord's spirit can speak to the
heart. Or you may have friends to
whom you should send the Signs with
prospects of its proving the blessing
this subscription has.
J. R. FERREN
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KEENE NEWS NOTES
Last Wednesday telegrams from -Lit-