23.
THE - SUNDAY OREGONIAX. j PORTLAND, OCTOBER 21, 1917.
M. A. MILLER GIVES
ITEMS OF WAR TAX
PHOTOGRAPH AND STATUE OF TEMPERANCE PIONEER WHOSE
MEMORY WILL BE HONORED FRIDAY.
THE COMING
OF THE LORD
Christ's Advent Near at
Hand.
Levy on Amusement Tickets
Becomes Effective Novem
ber 6, on Bonds Dec. 1.
My Two Upstairs
Favorites
FIFTEEN
and TWENTY
At the present time
these prices still in
sure you a GOOD
SUIT OR OVERCOAT IN MY
$sra 17
ONLY LUXURIES ON LIST
In Some Cases Departure Is Taken
Trom Old Methods of Stamping
and Companies Must Make
Sworn Reports Monthly.
Tn a statement concerning the new
war taxes, which go into feet within
the next few weeks, Milton A. Miller,
collector of internal revenue, for Port
land, makes clear the operation of the
act and discusses its various provi
sions. The tax on amusement tickets
becomes effective November 1, and the
stamp tax on bonds, deeds and other
documents becomes effective Decem
ber 1.
"Ira its effort to determine sources of
revenue," said Mr. Miller, "Congress
Itept ever in view the purpose of taxing
eo far as possible only such things as
are considered in the nature of lux
uries, lor example, the tax levied upon
admissions to places of amusement,
such as theaters, moving picture shows,
cabarets, etc.
Amusement Tai lO Per Cent.
"vVhile the tax to any one individual
will be relatively small, at the same
time it will mean many millions of dol
lars annually. A charge of 1 cent on
each 10 cents or fraction, thereof is to
be made, the additional amount to be
paid in. every case by the persons so
admitted. By this is meant that if your
ticket costs you 10 cents the tax will
be 1 cent; if it costs you 15 cents or 20
cents the tax will be 2 cents; 25 cents
or 30 cents, the tax will be 3 cents, and
io on up, according to the price of the
admission ticket, which means that the
man who takes his wife or sweetheart
to the theater and pays ?10 for two
box seats will pay 10 cents to the Gov
ernment for every dollar's worth of en
joyment he gets from the performance,
or a total tax of $1.
"The equity of this tax as in the
various other taxes lies in the fact that
every man contributes according to his
ability or means. A further justness is
emphasized by the fact that every per
son must contribute his share, whether
he be admitted by the purchase xof a
ticket or by free pass, the only ex
emption being bona fide employes, and
municipal officers on. official business.
Five-Cent Shons Exempt.
"Jn the case of persons having per
manent use of boxes or seats a tax
equivalent to 10 per cent of the amount
paid by others occupying similar seats
or boxes shall be imposed. No tax is
collected in the case of a place the
maximum charge for admission to
which is 5 cents, or in case of shows,
rides and other amusements with a
maximum charge of 10 cents, if within
outdoor amusement parks, nor in case
of admission to such parks. All the
above taxes become effective Novem
ber 1, 1917, and are to be collected by
the proprietors of the theaters, sworn
returns and payment thereof to be
made to the Collector of Internal
Kevenue each month.
"And now comes Mr. "War Tax Stamp,
bearing the insignia of Uncle Sam, and
offering himself as an adornment for
a bond or a deed to a $1,000,000 home.
Again Congress has shown itself
anxious to discard the antiquated and
burdensome methods of raising reve
nues by confining the stamp taxes
to sources it was impracticable
to reach in any other manner. The
stamp taxes upon transportation, in
surance policies, cosmetics and many
other things which heretofore have en
tailed a great amount of work for the
taxpayer, have been eliminated and the
taxes thereon are to be collected by
t he transportation companies and paid
to the Government monthly, accom
panied by a sworn statement of the
amount of business transacted. How
ever, in the case of bonds, notes, deeds
and many other documents it has been
found more practicable to have the tax
represented by the stamp.
Stamp! Are Prescribed.
"This section of the law becomes ef
fective December 1, 1917, and every In
strument as listed below bearing that
or a subsequent date must be stamped
at the rate prescribed. Of course, in
the case of renewals or transfers made
on or after the above date, the stamps
would be necessary, regardless of the
date of the original instrument. Stamps
to be used in carrying out the pro- i
visions of this section may be pro
cured at the office of the Collector of
Internal Revenue in your district, or
those having on hand any stamps of
the series of 1914 will be permitted to
use the supply they have on hand.
"Provision is also made whereby the
Postmaster-General may supply the
various postmasters throughout the
country with the stamps for distribu
tion and sale."
The following Is a schedule of the
documents which will be required to
be stamped:
Bonds, debentures or certificates, each
HH $ .02
"Indemnity and surety bonds .......... .DO
tame bond it premium is charged, for
each $1 or fraction 01
Capital stock, original issue, lor each
$IH. faiv vain- 05
Capital stock, transfer, for each $10O
face value 02
Pale or HRreemont on exchange, tor
ar-h $H0 or faction ." 02
Urafts or checks. payable otherwise
than at sijrht. lor each $100 or frac
tion thereof 02
Kach renewal thereof, for every lO0 or
tract ion 02
reed. tf consideration in excess of $100
and not in excews of $ioo 50
Df-e1. for each $o00 or fraction thereof
additional 50
Kntry of goods value not exceeding flOO ,i'o
Entry of Roods value exceeding $100
and not exceeding $.VO .SO
Kntry of goods value exceeding jrvoo. . Iu0
Kntry for withdrawal of goods from
bonded warehouse 50
Passage ticket to foreign port costing
not over $:to 1.00
Passage ticket to foreign port cos tins
more than $30-tin 3.00
Faesase ticket to foreign port costing
over rtO 5.00
Proxy for voting at election of officers. .10
I'ower of attorney 1:5
Playing cars, per pack 05
Parcel poM. w ith postage, of 25 cents
for each. 25 centa or fraction .01
Schoolboys AVill Pick Apples.
LKW1STON. Idaho. Oct. 20. (Special.)
When H. Powers, of the Lew Intern
Orchards Association, made an appeal
to the lewiston fommercial Club for
assistance this week, and Chairman P.
11. Quilliam. of the industrial commit
tee, failed, after canvassing the city,
to find apple pickers. Superintendent
Simmoiids of the High School was called
-upon, and after a conference with the
faculty it was arranged for 60 to 60
boy to go to the Lewlston Orchards on
Saturdays, while 10 to 15 boys will be
released throughout the coming week,
these boys to work in two-day relays.
Phone your want ada to Tho Ore&ro
ni&n. -U&la 7070, A 6095.
FRIDAY rriHvl h 1
WILLARD DAY
Schools to Honor Memory of
W. C. T. U. Founder.
PROGRAMMES ARE ISSUED
Fourth Friday in October Named by
Legislature for Celebration.
Superintendent Churchill
Prepares Pamphlet.
Plans are now being made In every
school in Portland, as well as those
throughout the state, for the observ
ance of "Frances E. Willard day" Fri
day afternoon.
Frances E. Willard grave nearly SO
years of her life to the advancement
of the cause of prohibition, and her
work each year, is memorialized by
prohibition advocates throughout the
country.
In Oregon the fourth Friday of Octo
ber has been designated as "Frances
E. Willard day" by legislative enact
ment, and every public school in the
state is required to commemorate the
day under the school laws of 1917.
J. A. Churchill, Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction, has just issued a pam
phlet to guide the schools in prepar
ing for the school programmes. These
exercises Friday will be patriotic in
character.
Miss "Willard Born In 1839.
Born of poor parents at Churchville,
NT. Y., September 28, 1839. Miss Willard,
by her own efforts, secured an educa
tion in the schools and colleges of her
native state. For several years she
taught school, first at Pittsburg Fe
male College, then as preceptress of
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and later
became dean of Northwestern Lniver
sity. It was in 1879 that she first arose
to National recognition in the cause of
temperance, when she was elected presi
dent of the National V omen s Christian
Temperance I'nion. which office she
held until 1898. In 1883. she founded
the World's Christian ' Temperance
Union and was its president from 1891
to 1898. She died in February, 1898.
Biography Eulogizes Leader.
The following brief sketch is quoted
from one of her biographers:
"Coming to this task with no mem
ories of her and little knowledge of
her life work, I was inclined -to think
that the glowing accounts of her re
markable life were exaggerated, but,
after studying her life, poring over
her old letters and dairies and read
ing and rereading her' books and
speeches, I came to share the enthusi
asm as to the greatness and import
ance of this wonderful woman.
"Here was a woman without aocial
position, without fortune, born a farm
er's daughter, her girlhood passed on
a Western prairie before entering the
profession of teaching, giving up the
greatest prospect of a brillian career
to enter her real life work in an un
popular cause, to be honored after
years of toil and sacrifice in which
she verily became the property of hu
manity, and in recognition of her great
work Illinois presented to the United
States the beautiful marble statue of
her which graces Statuary Hall in the
Capitol at Washington, D. C
"Miss Willard laid stress on the fact
that it is character that is the test of
scholarship, and her genius for or
ganization is written upon every page
of W. C. T. V. history. No brief sketch
can do justice to so great a subject.
s9-zz as -m s-s- yryirs'f
FOrRTEKSf-TEAR-OLD GIRL
WHO IS BIRD I KCI I RtR
AMD PHOTOGRAPHER,
iY f i I
Cwj"1"" x S t
1
Mary Estelle Raker.
In Mary Estelle Raker, 14 years
old, of 14S4 East Sherman street,
Portland has a remarkable bird
lecturer and photographer. Miss
Raker, who is a sophomore at
Franklin High School, lectured
last night at the Central Library
before the Audubon Club mem
ber. In addition to telling in an
entertaining way the special hab
its, characteristics and worth of
60 different kinds of birds found
In Eastern Oregon, she exhibited
colored elides, the photographs
for which she had taken with her
own camera.
Miss Raker, In spite of her
youth, has been a bird student
for years. Her home on East
Bhernmn street is well supplied
with blrdhouaes and she spends
much of her time studying tha
characteristics of tha birda in
tu Willametta Valley, .
It is hard, indeed, to estimate the good
she has done; her Influence spread
over so vast a territory; the great so
ciety she founded, reaching out to
every land its power and Influence.
cannot be measured, but we do know
the Nation is a better and safer place
for our children because of her de
votion and work."
Good Tthngs
In The Market
XTOW that the frost is - on the
i'l 'punkin" and the fodder in the
shock, it almost comes as a surprise
to light on ripe bright strawberries.
But there they are. from Hillsdale. 20
-cms a. uasKet; small, 15 cents more
tempting than ever, because wo know
they cannot be with, us very much
longer.
Blackberries, from Astoria, S cents a
DOX "last of the season," as a speeder.
Huckleberries, 15 and 20 cents; cran
berries, 20 centa a pound.
Damson plums, 10 cents; silver
prunes, 5 cents a pound.
Italian prunes. 75 cents a box.
White fresh figs, 25 centa a dozen.
Alligator pears, large, 60 cents each.
Pomegranates, a cents each.
.
Tha newest arrival among grapes
is the Morocco. 60 centa a basket.
Concord, 15 to 30 cents a basket, 5
and 10 cents a .pound. Cornichon are
the same price.
Delaware, Flaming Tokay and Lady
Finger are each 15 cents a pound, and
some stocks half that price. Including
Malaga and Oregon Sweet Water.
Grapes are very abundant this week.
Ground cherries, 15 to 25 cents a
pound.
Pears are coming . more freely as
Autumn advances.
Oregon Bartlett. 30 cents a dozen.
Bosc and Fall Butters are mostly 25
cents a dozen.
Winter Nellis. 20 cents; Buerre
d'Anjou. 15 cents a dozen.
Peaches are retiring gracefully for
the season.
From Salem come good Salways.
freestone. 75 and 85 cents a box; 15
and -25 cents a dozen.
Phillip, cling, 11.25; Crawford, 1 a
box.
Splendid . Winter Banana apples,
large. $2.75 a box; other stock, $2.25;
25. 40 and 50 rents a dozen.
Kings, from Hood River. $2 a box;
30 cents a dozen; Ortley. $2.50 a box.
Jonathans, $1.90 a box; 25 cents a
dozen.
Gravenstein. fine. 40 cents a dozen.
Siberian crabapples, 10 cents a
pound.
Apples, for Jelly-making, four pounds
25 cents.
Bananas, 25 cents a dozen.
Quinces. tVs cents a pound.
Grapefruit, from Cuba, two for 25
cents.
Oranges, 30 to 60 cents a dozen.
Lemons. 20. 35 and 40 cents a dozen.
Citron, 4 cents a pound.
Casabas. 2 and 3 cents a pound.
Imported Malaga raisins, 40 cents a
pound.
In the vegetable market: The new
comer Is asparagus, 30 cents a bunch.
Burbank potatoes, $1.50 to $2.25 a
sack; smaller tubers, $1 a sack.
Some green corn can still be found,
both Evergreen and Yellow Bantam
35 to 15 cents a dozen.
Beans Lima. Kentucky Wonder,
Burpee strlngless, wax and butter, 5
cents a pound.
Sweet potatoes, 5 cents a pound.
Savoy or curly cabbage, 5 cents each,
three for 10 cents.
Red cabbage, 5 cents a pound: green.
3Vi cents; small. 1 cents a pound.
Endive. 6 cents a head; Spinach, 5
cents a pound.
Artichokes, 10 cents each.
Dried onions and small garlic, 5
cents a pound.
Egg plant. 10 and 15 cents each, 10
cents a pound.
Tomatoes. 5 to 10 cents a pound:
60 cents a. box; green, four pounds. 10
cents.
Red and yellow little pear tomatoes,
10 cents a pound. 30 cents a basket.
Cucumbers, two for 5 cents and up;
small, pickling, 85 cents a box.
Cauliflower ranges in size from three
small ones for 10 cents to handsome
heads at 25 cents each.
Milk cabbage, 5 cents a head good.
Cherry peppers, 20 cents; long hot,
15 cents a pound.
Sweet bell peppers, 10 cents a pound,
three pounds for a quarter.
Horseradish root. 15 cents a pound.
Celery hearts, 60 cents a bunch,
stalks, 6. 8 and 10 cents each.
Lettuce heads, 5 and 10 cents each.
Hubbard squash, 15 cents; pumpkins,
10 cents each.
Mustard greens, three bunches. 10
cents.
In the fish market: Chinook salmon,
of bright color, 20 cents a pound.
SUverslde salmon, IS cents; other
stock, 16 centa whole or half -fish;
center cuts, 17 cents a pound.
Salmon trout and baby salmon, 25
cents a pound, whole fish, from 1H
to S pounds weight.
Northern halibut, 20 and 23 centa a
pound.
Croppies, a rarity no well guarded
that a permit to offer them for sale
is required from the fish warden. As
the price is S3 centa a pound, a permit
to pur thane them may alao be reuulrea
.UPSTAIRS STORE.
une noor up elevator or
stairs and you are immediately
in touch with favorites FIF
TEEN and TWENTY.
Men's and Young Men's $
SUITS and OVERCOATS
Men's and Young Men's $
SUITS and OVERCOATS
HATS, did you say? See my two favorites at. . . . . S2 and S3
TRADE UPSTAIRS AND SAVE YOUR DOLLARS
20
UPSTAIRS asSS3M
ER5 BUILDING
&roac?yrcty
My Store Now Closes on Saturdays
at 8 o'Clock
from the head of the domestic ways
and means committee.
From California come fresh mackerel,
white fish and tuna, each 20 cents a
pound; catfish and sand-dabs, 15 cents.
Columbia River sturgeon, 22 cents a
pound.
Black and tomcod, 15 cents a pound.
Silver smelt, flounders and soles,
124 cents a pound: other stock of each,
and ling cod, 10 cents.
Carp, 5 cents a pound.
Olympla oysters, 65 cents a pint;
solid pack, 75 cents.
Eastern oysters, 40 and 45 cents a
pint.
Shrimp meat, 50 cents; shrimps, 20
cents a pound.
Crabs, 20, 25 and 35 cents each.
Hard-shell clams, 5 cents a pound.'
Salmon eggs, 15 to 20 cents a string.
One fish market displays this notice
'Tf it swims, we have it."
In the poultry market: Hens. 24,
25 and 27 cents; Spring chickens, 28
cents a pound.
Friers, broilers and roasters, 28 to
35 cents a pound. .
Turkeys. 35 cents a pound.
Ouineafowl, $1: squabs, 50 cents each.
Butter, 50 and 55 cents a pound, $1.05
a roll.
Eggs, 60, 65 and 70 cents a dozen;
guaranteed, 45 and 55 cents.
Baking eggs, 35 cents a dozen, also
guaranteed.
F. N. KOLLOGK, 72, DEAD
1VELL-KXOWN RAILROAD MAX EX
PIRES SUDDENLY.
Bnalnea Life Passed In Service of M1I
ravltee and Pennvylvanla Rail
way Systems,
F. N. Kollock. for many years dis
trict freight and passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines in this city, died
suddenly on Friday at the residence of
E. C. tSreen. his brother-in-law. In
Milwaukee, Wis. With Mrs. Kollock
and in apparently good health, he left
home Monday for an extended visit
ft W
- - .'It
-
P. T. Kolloelt. Wtll-Known Rail.
aay Man, Who Died Friday In
Milwaukee.
with his son, F. N. Pollock. Jr., at
Springfield, Mass.. and with other rel
atives. Mr. Kollock was born April 26, 1845.
at Elizabeth, Jtf. J., the youngest son
of Rev. Shepard Kollock and Sarah
Harris Kollock. In 1862 he enlisted in
the Union Army and served through
out the war. During most of his busi
ness life he was in the railroad serv
ice, first in the auditor's office of Mil
waukee road and from 1883 to the date
of his retirement at 70 years of age
with the Pennsylvania lines.
In 1893 he came to the Coast and
opened his office here. He is sur
vived by his widow and three sons.
John K- and L. R. Kollock. of this city,
and F. N. Kollock, Jr., of the New Eng
land Westinghouse Company. Spring
field, Mass. Arrangements for the fu
neral have not been completed.
President's Conference to Meet.
Ua mrauv luncawa ana meeting Sat
urday at 12 o'clock at Hotel Portland,
with Mrs. George Loewenson, vice
president of the Council of Jewish
Women, presiding. Women who for
the past several months have been in
charge of the Red Cross work shops,
will give short talks. A representative
of the home service department will
speak and later the meeting will be
thrown open for questions and general
discussion. For reservations, telephone
not later than Friday to Mrs. Loewen
son. Main 6970, or Miss Winner, Main
7173 or A 6051.
PHILOMATH CLASSES ELECT
Sophomores
Tirst
Succeed in Holding
Social of Tear.
PHILOMATH, Or.. Oct. 20. (Special.)
The different classes of Philomath
college have just held their elections.
The president of the senior class is
Ethel A. Grove, of Huntingdon, W. Va.;
of the junior class, Edgar A. Griffith,
Spokane, Wash.; of the sophomore class.
Ina Naomi Wiley, Vancouver, Wash.,
and of the freshman class, Raymond
C. Whittlesey. Philomath.
The first class to hold a social was
the sophomore class. At 6:30 P. M.
Thursday they went out about a mile
and a half in the country and had a
"wienie roast." returning at 8:30. be
fore the other classes found out their
plans.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union gave a reception last night in
the college assembly room to the fac
ulty of the college and the teachers of
the public school. There were readings,
music and addresses by Rev. T. W.
Ringland and President L. L. Epley.
WORK ON FACTORY STARTS
Oregon City Grants Permission to
Erect Furniture Plant.
OREGON CITT, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) The street committee of the City
Council has granted a permit to Frank
Busch to erect a two-story building on
Twelfth and Water streets, to be used
In the manufacture of furniture. Work
has already been started ori the struc
ture. It will be located at the end of
the tracks of the Willamette Valley
Southern. The owner has made appli
cation to the Federal Government for
use of the river bank to low water,
where a wharf can be built, thus giv
ing water transportation.
Mr. Busch expects to have the fac
tory in operation in about four weeks,
but not at capacity. He will ship some
of the machinery from his factory at
Colton to the mill here.
M
1
E
OUR STORE HAS BEEN
LEASED
TO OTHER PARTIES, WHICH MEANS
THAT WE MUST
VAC AT
AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE
We have no time to lose in hurrying; out this
stock you have no time to lose in taking ad
vantage of the astounding BARGAINS offered
here in high-grade
FURNITURE
These few items hurriedly gathered at random
throughout our stock:
TERMS
CASH
No
Exceptions
ALL
FIXTURES
FOR
SALE
$72.50 Period ARM CHAIR
in old Ivory and old COC
gold, now
$14.50 Jacobean Oak Drop
Leaf BREAKFAST C Q 7 C
TABLE now. OOil 3
$43.50 Large Overstuffed
EASY ARM CHAIR COC
now.. VJ
$57.50 Large Colonial ARM
CHAIR, upholstered, with
fine mahoganyMP Cft
frame, now ODiSU
$65 Solid Mahogany CHAIR.
William and Alary design,
u p h olstered seat, 00 Cfl
now at vUi3U
$67.50
$110 Solid Mahortny
r u r v r. Aaam i
design, now..
$45 Mahogany Overstuffed
ARM CHAIR, tap- op 7J
estry covering, now Oil 3
$22.50 Solid Mahogany ARM
CHAIR, tapestry eeat I fj
and back, now vIO
$360 Four-Piece BEDROOM
SUITE in antique07 rn
mahogany. now..VfctliUU
$95 O v e r s t u ffed English
DAVENPORT, our C7 CO
own make, now v9l iUU
$30 J a c o b e an Oak ARM
ROCKER, cane seat 0 Cf
and back, now wlOiSU
J.CMack&Co,
68-70 FIFTH STREET
Between Oak and Pine
A Step or Two North of Oak
THE CONSUMMATION OF
THE AGES.
. By DR. JAMES K. TAtMtGK,
Of the Council of the Twelve, nqrrh oC
Jeaua ChrUt of Later-Day Saints.
Salt Lake City, Vtah.
XVe believe . . . that Chrl-t will
(Articles of Kaith, .No. lo.
"Ye men of Galilee, whv stand ve
gazing up into heaven? This same
Jesus, which Is taken up from you Into
neaven. shall so come In like manner
as ye have seen him go into heaven"
tActs i:ll). So spake the write-robed
angels to the apostles as the resur
rected Christ ascended from their midst
on Mount Olivet. The assertion Is defi
nite, unambiguous, easy to comprehend.
Jesus the Christ Is to return to earth
In like manner" as he went, there
fore, as a material Being, a livinsr
Personage, having tangible immortal
ized body of flesh and bones.
The actuality of the Lord's future
advent is attested by the utterances
of boly prophets both before and since
the brief period of his ministry in the
flesh and by his own unequivocal avow
al. Consider the following:
"for the Son of Man ahall come In
the slory of hi Father with hla id-K-It
and then he ahall reward every
man according; to aia works" (Matt.
xvi:27 ).
Kor whosoever Khali be ashamed of
me and of my words, of him shall the
Son of Man be ashamed, when he shall
come In his own slory and In his Kath
"nd of the holy nnaels" (Luke
ix:26; compare Mark viii:38).
The Master had so effectively in
structed the apostles concerning his
assured death and his later return to
earth In power and glory that they ea
gerly Inquired as to the time and signs
of his coming (see Matt. Chap. 24).
Though they failed to comprehend the
full import of his reply, he told them
that many great developments would
intervene between his departure and
return; but as to the certainty of his
advent as Judge and Lord and King.
Jesus left no excuse for dubiety in
their minds. Throughout the apostolic
period the Lord's coming was preached
with the emphasis of inspired and con
victing testimony.
Book of Mormon prophecies concern
ing the great event are no whit less ex
plicit. To the Nephites the resurrected
Christ preached the govpel of salva
tion: "and he did expound all things,
even from the beginning until the time
that he should come In his irlory"
(Book of Mormon, HI Nephl xxvi:3).
Questions of supreme Import to every
one of us are these: (1) When will
Christ come? (2) What shall be the
purpose and attendant conditions of
his coming?
The date of the Lord's advent has
never been revealed to man. nor shall
It be. Prior to his resurrection . Jesus
himself did not know It, as witness his
words: "But of that day and that hour
knoweth no man, no, not the angels
which are In heaven, neither the Son,
but the Father" (Mark xiii:32).
In the present age the Father hath
declared: "And they have done unto the
Son of Man even as they listed: and he
has taken his power on the right hand
of his glory and now reigneth in the
heavens and will reign till he descends
on the earth to put all enemies under
his feet, which time is nigh at hand.
I, the Lord God, have spoken it, but the
hour and the day no man knoweth.
neither the angels in heaven, nor shall
they know until he comes" (Doctrine
and Covenants xlix:S-7).
In the light of such scriptural affir
mations we may dismiss as empty con
jecture all alleged determinations as to
the precise time of the Lord's appear
ing. Nevertheless, the specified signs
and conditions by which is shown the
imminence of the event are definite,
and from these we know that the great
day of the Lord Is very near. To the
church today Jesus Christ has said:
"For the honr Is alKh. and that irktck
was spoken by mine apostles most fern
fulfilled) for as they spoke so shall it
come to passg for I will reveal myself
from heaven with power and great
glory, with all the hosts thereof, and
dwell In righteousness with men on
earth a thousand years, and the wicked
shall not stand' (Doctrine and Cove
nants xxix:10-ll).
So near Is the consummation that tha
intervening period is called "today,"
and on the morrow mankind shall re
joice or tremble at the presence of the
Lord (see Doctrine and Covenants
lxiv:23-25.
Bible, Book of Mormon and the vol
ume of modern revelations, known as
the Doctrine and Covenants, together
with the utterances of prophets yet in
the flesh, are one in the portentous
proclamation that the signs of the
Lord's return are maturing with im
pressive rapidity. To the righteous the
day shall be one of blessing and rec
ompense: to the wilfully wicked it por
tends judgment according to the meas
ure of their iniquity.
Christ's advent shall be made with
the accompaniment of power and great
glory. While in suddenness and unex
pectedness to the unobserving It shall
be comparable to the coming of a thief
in the night (II Peter ill:10); it shall
be a manifestation of surpassing glory
to all the world: "For as the llarhtnlnff
Cometh out of the east and shlneth even
unto the west, so shall also the eomlns;
of the Son of Man be" (Matt. xxiv:2T).
With the Lord's appearing a general
resurrection of the righteous dead shall
be effected, and many then in the flesh
shall be changed from the mortal to
the immortal state without the inter
vening experience of prolonged disem
bodiment or the sleep of the grave
(see I Thess. iv:14-17). .
"And the face of the Lard shall hn
nnvclledt and the saints that are upon
the earth, who are alive, ahall be
quickened and be caught up to meet
him. And they who have slept la their
graves shall come fortht for their
fcraves shall be opened, and titer also
shall be caught up to meet htm In the
midst of the pillar of heaven" (Doctrine
and Covenants lxxxvlll:95-97).
Then shall be established the era of
peace, the predicted millennium, in
which Christ shall dwell with men and
shall rule in the earth as Lord and
King.
For the Book of Mormon. Doctrlna
and Covenants and a comprehensive
work on "Jesus the Christ." as well
as other literature of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, ap
ply to any of the missions, among
which are: Northwestern States Mis
sion, 810 East Madison street. Port
land, Or., and Bureau of Information,
Salt Lake City, Utah. Adv.
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