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"Signs of Times" Is Evangelist's Theme

Last night Rev. Charles E. Ross at the First Baptist church took for his
theme, "The Signs of the Times," and in a forcible manner said in part: 
The educated man understands the olden days, the wise man understands
his own.  We have weather bureaus but what would the bankers of Wall
street pay for a sure political forecaster?  So Jesus told the men of
His day you can read the face of the sky, but understand not this time.
  He had enumerated for them the specific signs to look for at the close
of the age which was inaugurated by the Sermon on the Mount and would
not close until He himself would come again to visit the creatures of
His own creation.  These signs are most fully enumerated in the 24th
chapter of Matthew, but are also found in the Old Testament prophecy and
in the lesser epistles.
  The cumulative evidence of the near approach of the close of our age
has for its outstanding features--the sudden calamity, wars,rumors of
wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, destructions such as fires,
tidal waves, cyclones, wide extent of knowledge, unexampled travel,
inventions, etc.--all foretold as heading up in unprecedented measure at
the end of our age.  Accumulated weatlth, spread of false doctrines,
apostacy of the Christan church, denial of Deity of our Lord, increase
of crime, return of Jews to Palestine.  The prophetic analogy for the
capture of Jerusalem in 1917 without the firing of a single gun.  Even
changes of climate foretold, and we see them fulfilled every day.  Rains
withheld from Palestine 1800 years, now falling, and the climate
becoming like Lower California.
  The testimony of a non-Christian Jew in an address on the Zionist
movement gives these facts.  The tremendous outpouring of spiritual
power beginning in the Welsh revival and spreading until in all the
earth today wehre Jesus is known, the Lord is working with a power
unknown to any age since the days of the apostles.
  Our own generation has witnessed electricity displacing steam,
telephoning supplementing the telegraph, aerial navigation brought from
the stage of dreamland to be the most rapid method of human transit,
excelling the birds.  We may soon expect to breakfast in London, lunch
in New York and dine in San Jose.
  "When you see all these things begin to come to pass, look up."  The
Son of Man is coming and this age will close.
  Evangelistic services will continue throughout the week.  Services
will be held at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.  Monday evening Rev. C. E. Ross will
bring the message on the subject "Backsliding from Healing."  Tuesday
evening Miss Mary F. Ayers will bring another of her travels,
"Adventures of faith of a Christian girl among the cannibals." 
Wednesday evening, Rev. Moon, formerly associate pastor with Paul Bader
in Chicago, will deliver the message.  Miss Evan Erickson, who delighted
the audience so preciously with her solos last week, will sing Monday
and Wednesday evenings.