February 2010 Signs of the Times Email Newsletter
The Signs of the Times newsletter is a collection of stories and quotes from
past issues of Signs and These Times.
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"My son," said a banker to his son, "I want to give you a lesson in
business. Here is a half-dollar. Now, if you can find any boy whom you can
trust, who will take this money and pay you interest on it, you may lend it to
him; and, if you invest this wisely, I'll increase your capital."
When night came the banker said: "My son, how did you invest your money
today?"
"Well, father," replied the little fellow, "I saw a boy on the street
without any shoes, and he had no dinner; so I gave him my fifty cents to buy
something to eat."
"You'll never make a business man in the world," said the banker;
"business is business. But I will try you once more. Now here is a dollar to
invest; see how well you can do it."
A loud peal of laughter from the boy followed this speech. It was thus
explained: "My teacher at church said giving to the poor was lending to the
Lord; and she said He would return to us double. But I did not think He would
do it quite so quick."-By James, J. White, Signs of the Times, November 25,
1903.
Quote: In the ancient Cathedral of Luebeck, in Germany, there is an old slab
with the following inscription:
"Thus speaketh Christ, our Lord, to us,
Ye call Me Master, and obey Me not;
Ye call Me Light, and see Me not;
Ye call Me the Way, and walk Me not;
Ye call Me Life, and desire Me not;
Ye call Me Wise, and follow Me not;
Ye call Me Fair, and love Me not;
Ye call Me Rich, and ask Me not;
Ye call Me Eternal, and seek Me not;
Ye call Me Gracious, and trust Me not;
Ye call Me Noble, and serve Me not;
Ye call Me Mighty, and honor Me not;
Ye call Me Just, and fear Me not;
If I condemn you, blame Me not."-Selected, Signs of the Times, June 15,
1904.
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A little boy was given a bulb to plant and was told if he put it in the
ground, it would grow and by and by he would have a beautiful flower. He
undertook the task with great delight and promised blossoms to all his friends.
But at the end of a week he came to his mother in sore disappointment. "The
bulb isn't good for anything!" he said. "They told me it would grow and have
pretty flowers, but it doesn't grow a bit, for I have dug it up every day to
see."
Just such impatient gardeners are most of us in the spiritual soil. We go
to our Father with the old complaining cry: "We have served God and kept His
ordinances, and what are we profited by it? The dishonest ones get ahead
faster, the careless ones are happier. Where are the promised rewards of
righteousness-the fruits of obedience?" But the harvests of God ripen slowly,
and the seed which is sown in the earth finds its perfection above the earth.
Sometime, somewhere, whatsoever we have sown we shall surely reap.-Selected,
Signs of the Times, June 17, 1903.
Quote: "That which constitutes the supreme worth of life is not wealth, nor
ease, nor fame-not even happiness-but service. Nothing at last counts but
service, and that always counts."-By Alfred W. Martin, Signs of the Times, May
16, 1939.
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It is said that a famous Scotch preacher-I believe it was Alexander
Whyte-awakened one night to find his wife sobbing by his side. He asked, "What
is it? What is the matter, Mary? Why do you cry?"
"Oh," she said, "I just can't stand it any longer. The other day some of
the folks said that we won't know each other in heaven. Aren't we going to know
each other, Aleck?"
"Darling," he said, "do you think we shall be bigger fools in heaven than
we are here?"
That was a good answer. Do you think God will take away love, friendship,
faith, memory? Yes, we shall know each other there. Our names are in the book
of life-not numbers, but NAMES.-By H. M. S. Richards, Our Times, February 1950.
Quote: "The City of Happiness is located in the State of Mind."-Unknown, Our
Times, February 1950.
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"I was visiting at my brother's home one time," says a lady, "when
Richard, his little boy, stopped suddenly in his play, and looked steadily at
me for a minute."
"What are you thinking about?" I asked.
"If you are a Christian, Auntie. Are you?"
"I hope so, dear."
"But you never speak of Jesus. If you loved him VERY MUCH, would you not
talk about Him sometimes?"
"We may love a person without speaking of Him," I replied.
"May we? I did not know that. You love to talk of your brothers and
sisters and your papa and mama, don't you, Auntie?"
"Yes."
"And then you speak of other people and things you like; but you speak no
word of Jesus. Don't you love Him, Auntie?"
"Yes."
"Then I should think you could not help speaking of Him
sometimes."-Selected, Signs of the Times, July 4, 1895.
Quote: "If one should give me a dish of sand and tell me there were particles
of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes and search for them with my
clumsy fingers and be unable to detect them. But let me take a magnet and sweep
through the sand, and how it would draw to itself the almost invisible
particles by the mere power of attraction! The unthankful heart, like my finger
in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the
day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some
heavenly blessings-only the iron in God's sand is gold!"-By Henry Ward Beecher,
Signs of the Times May 2, 1939.
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The famous astronomer Athanasius Kircher, having an acquaintance who
denied the existence of a supreme Being, took the following method to convince
him of his error, upon his own principles. Expecting him upon a visit, he
procured a handsome globe of the starry heavens, which he placed in a corner of
the room where it could not escape his friend's observation. The latter seized
the first occasion to ask where it came from and to whom it belonged.
"Not to me," said Kircher; "nor was it ever made by any person, but came
here by mere chance."
"That," replied his skeptical friend, "is impossible. You surely jest."
Kircher then took occasion to reason with his friend upon his atheistic
principles. "You will not," said he, "believe that this small body originated
by mere chance; yet you would contend that those heavenly bodies of which this
is only a faint and diminutive resemblance, came into existence without order
and design."
By this chain of reasoning, his friend was at first confounded, next
convinced, and ultimately he joined in "a cordial acknowledgment of the
absurdity of denying the existence of a God."
So eminent an astronomer as General Mitchel, who understood the voices in
which the heavens declare the glory of God, who read with delight the word of
God embodied in worlds, and who fed upon the written Word of God as his daily
bread, declared, "We find an aptness and propriety in all these astronomical
illustrations, which are not weakened, but amazingly strengthened, when viewed
in the clear light of our present knowledge."
Herschel says, "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose
of confirming more strongly the truths that come from on high and that are
contained in the Sacred Writings."
The common authorship of the worlds and the Word becomes a necessary
conclusion. Would that men sought more diligently in the Word for the
scientific truths there declared far in advance of their discovery!
"Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out
heaven with the span?" "Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,
and My right hand hath spanned the heavens."-By Ernest Lloyd, Signs of the
Times, November 12, 1918.
Quote: "The little things of life make character, and the great things of life
test it."-Unknown, Signs of the Times, April 11, 1939.
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