., llehold l come tpaickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22: 1~. 
VOLUME 12. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, OCTOBER 7, 1886. 
NUMBER 39. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE 
its purpose to overcome great evils. It is melt-ceptive snares with their experionceR and pro-
ing and teansf'orrning in its influence, and will fessions, and thus w-onderfully advances his 
take bold of the lives of the sinful, and affect cause. 
their hearts when every ot.her means has proved 
Tho hypocritical Pharisees prayed and fasted, 
unsuccessful. 
Wherever the power of intellect, observed the forms of godliness, while conupt 
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not manifestly pref:lent, 1the affections and will his angels with insults, "I have them! I have 
of those whom we seek to reach, assume a de-tiJernl l IJave prepared my deceptio11S for them. 
fensive, repelling position, and increase their Your blood iH worthless here. Your interccs-
strengtb of resistance as they are met by an-sio11s and power and wonderful works may as 
other power than love. Jesus was the Prince well cease; I have them! 
They are mine! for 
THE SEURET AND TEST OF FAITH. 
11 
b · b' h 
r 
• 
b' 
f' Ch · t 
of Peace. 
He came into the world to bring re-a 
t eu· 
1g 
proiession as su ~ects o 
r1s , 
PSALM34:1. 
"I WILL bless the Lord at all times ! " 
'Tis difficult to say, 
When heavy clouds are overhead, 
And not one cheering ray. 
It is easier to bless him 
In bright and happy hours, 
When the sunshine is all golden, 
And paths are strewed with flowers. 
"I will bless the Lord at all times! " 
Bless him for everything; 
SomP. choicest gifts are wrapped in clouds, 
With a message from the King; 
There must be shadows here below, 
All sunshine would not do; 
For it could not make the landscape 
So beautiful and true. 
"I will bless the Lord at all time::;!" 
Oh, this indeed is rest; 
Here we find faith's deepest secret, 
Its surest, constant test, 
To prol'e that it is really strong, 
If it will bear the strain 
Of so1ne constant, weary pressure, 
Or sorrow, grief, and pain. 
''I will bless the Lord at all times ! '' 
Through every cloudy day, 
When earthly schemes are blown upon, 
And lonely seems the way. 
My Lord will never make mistakes, 
At all times he is right; 
It is my blessed privile,;e 
To " walk by faith" not sight. 
-B1·itish E-vangelist. 
®tntral ~rticltz. 
The Power of Love. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
sistance and authority into subjection to him-for a11 they once enjoyed the illuminations of 
self. 
Wisdom and strength be could command, his presence, I will secure them to myself in 
but the means be employed to overcome evil the very face of Heaven, which they are talk-
were wisdom and strength of love. ·Suffer nuth-ing about. It is such subjects as these tbaL I 
ing to divide your interest from your present can use to decoy others." Solomon says, "He 
work until God shall see fit to give you another that trusteth in his own heart is :.t fool;" and 
piccR of work in the same field. 
Seck not for there are htlndt·L·ds of such to be found among 
happ1noss for that is never to be found by seek-profet>sors of godliness. 
Says the apostle, "We 
ing for it. Go about your duty. .Let faithful-are not ignorant of his devices." 
Oh! what 
ness mark al,l yonr doings, and be clothed with art, what skill, what cunning, to lead to a U11ion 
hu1rilit.v. 
with the world, to seek for hnppiness in the 
" W buatsoever ye would that men should do to amusements of the \Vorld, under the delusive 
you, do ye even so to them." 
Blessed results idea that some good is to be gained! 
And thus 
would appear as the fruit of such a course. they walk right into the net, flattering them-
" With what measure ve mete it shall be meas-1 selves that there is no evil in the way. 
Tbe 
ured to you aO'ain." WHere a;e strong motives I affections and sympathies of such are wroug-ht 
which should boperate on minds to constrain upon, which lays a foundatio11 for their ill-built 
them to love one another with a pure heart, co11iidence that they are the children of God. 
fervently. Christ is our example. 
He went 'l'hey compare themselves with others, and set-
about doing good. 
He liYed to bless others. tie down satisfied that they are even better 
Love beautified and en no bled all his actions. We than many true Christians. But where is the 
are not commanded to do to OU'rselves what we deep love of Cl1rist shining forth in their lives, 
wish others to do unto us; we are to do unto its bright rays blesi-\ing others? 
Wbere is their 
other·s what we wish them to do to us under Bible? and how much is it studied? And where 
like circumi-	ancos. 'rhe measure we meLe is are their thoughts? upon Heaven and heavenly 
always measured to us again. Pure love is thi11gs? It is not naLural for their minds to go 
simple in its oporati6ns, and is distinct from any forth in tbnt direction. The study of God's 
other principle of action. 
The lo. ·of influence word is unintere~ting to them. It does not 
and the desire for the esteem or others may possess that which cxc:ites and feverR the mind, 
produce a well-ordered life, and, frequently, a and natm·al, unrenewed hearts will prefer some 
blameless c:onversation. 
Self-respect may lead other book to the study of Gud's ,-vord. 
Their 
us to avoid the appearance of vice. A selfish i attention is engrossed in self 
They have nu 
heart may pel'form generous actions, acknowl-
deep~ eamcst longings for the influence of the 
edge the present trnLb, and express bnmility and Spirit of God upon tbe mind and heart. 
God 
affection in the outward mannel', with the mo-ib not in aU their thoughts. 
How can I have 
tivo!:l deceptive and impure; and the cfforLs and it that most, of the youth in this age will come 
actions that flow from them may be destitute of short of ever:nsting life? 
Oh that their sound 
the savor of life and the fruits of true holiness, of inst.rnmental musiC may cease, and they no 
being destiwto of tho pri11ciples of pure love. i more while away RO much precious time· in 
Love, love, should be cultivated. It needs cher-
1 pleasing their own fancy! 
Oh that they would 
LovE is power; intellectual and moral strength ishing, for its influence is divine. 
devote less Lime to dress and vain conversation, 
are involved in this principle, and cannot be 
N otbing is more treacherous than the deceit. and send forth their agonizing prayers to God 
separated from it. 
The power of wealth has a fulness of sin. It is the god of this world that for a sound experience! 
There is a neeef:lsity 
tendency to corrupt and destroy; the power of deludes, and blinds, and leads to destruction. for close self-examination, and to ciosely inve~:~­
force is strong to do hurt; but the excellence Satan does not enter with hit> array of tempta-tigate in the light of God's word. Am I sound, 
and value of pure love consist in its efficiency tions at once. He disguises these temptations or am I rotten at. heart? Am l renewed in 
to do good, and to do nothing else but good. with a semblance of good. 
He mingles with Christ, or am I still carnal at hBart, with an 
vVhat~:;oever is done out of pure love, be it ever amnsements and folly some little improvements, outside, new dress put on? Rein yourself up 
so little or contemptible in the sight of men, and deceived souls make it an exeuse that great to the tribnnal of God, and see, as in the light 
is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with good is to be derived by engaging in them. of God, if there is any secret sin, any iniqui1y, 
how mtich love one worketb, than the amount ':ehis is only the deceptive part. It is Satan's any idol yon have not sacrificed. 
Pray, yeR, 
be doeth. 
Love is of God. 
The unconverted hellish arts masked. 
Beguiled souls take one pray as you have never prayed before, that you 
heart cannot originate nor produce this plant step, then are prepared for tho next. It is so may not be deluded by Satan's devices; that 
of heavenly growth, which lives alone, and much more plen.Rant to follow the inclinations you may not be given up to a heedless, carelef:ls, 
flourishes only where Christ reigns. 
Love can-of their own hearts than to stand on the defen-and vain epirit, and attend religious duties to 
noL live without action, and every act increases, sive, and resist the first inHinuation of the wily qutet your own conscience. It is inappropriate 
sLrengthens, and extends it. 
Love will prevail foe, and thus shut out his in-comings. 
Oh! bow for Christians in every age of the world to be 
and gain the victory when argument and an-
~1 Satan watches to see his bait taken so readily, lovers of pleasure, but how much more so now, 
tbority are powerless. 
Love works not for and to see souls walking in the very path he when the scenes of this earth's history are so 
profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that has prepared. 
He docs not want them to give soon to close. 
Surely the foundation of your 
great gain shall be the certain result of every l up praying nnd maintaining a form of religious hopes of everlastiHg life cannot be made too 
labor of love. It is diffusive in its nature, and duties; for l1 _:an thus make them more useful sure. The welfare of your soul and your eter-
quiet in its operation, yet strong and mighty in in his service. He unites his sophistry and de-nal happiness depend upon whether your foun~ 
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THE SIGNS OF TriE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
dation is built upon Christ. 
While others are 
panting afLer earthly enjoyment, be ye panting 
after the unmis-takable assurance of the love of 
God, enruee.tly, fel'vently crying, vVbo will show 
me how to make my calling and election sure? 
One of the sins that constitute one of the signs 
of the last days, is that professed Christians are 
lovers of pleasure more than lover!:! of God. 
Deal truly with your own souls. 
Sea.rc~b care-
fully. 
How few, after a faithful examination, 
can look up to Heaven and say~ I am not one of 
those thus described. 
I a.m not a lover of pleas-
ure more than a lover of God. 
How few can 
say, I am dead to the world; the life I now live 
is by faith on the Son of God. 
Uy life is hid 
with Chrir;t in God, and when he who is my lif'e 
shall appe~tr, th~n shall I also appeal' wit.h him 
in glory. 'fhe love and grace of God! 
Oh pre-
cious grace! more valuable than fine gold. It 
elevates and ennobles the spirit beyond all 
other principles. 
l t sets the heart and affee-
tions upon Heaven. 
While those around us 
may be engaged in worldly vanity, pleasure-
seeking, and folly, our conversation is in Heaven, 
whence we look for the Saviour; the aoul is 
reaching out after God for pardon and peace, 
for righteousness and true holiness. 
Converse 
with God, and contemplation of things above, 
trausform the soul into the likeness of Christ. 
Spiritualism-A Delusion of the Devil. 
IT is a significant fact that Spiritualists, as a 
class, deny the existence of a personal devil, 
while many of the more advanced tllld philo-
sophic among them deny the exiHLerwe of a 
personal God. 
'fbe existence of Spiritunlists as a class of 
deceivers is a fact of prophecy, -and therefore 
confirms the truth of the Bible. St. Paul says: 
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in 
the latter times some shall depart from the failh, 
giving heed to seducing spirits, and. doctrine~ 
of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy. 
.Foruidding to marry, and commanding to ab-
stain from meats." 1 Tim; 4: 1-3. This proph-
ecy is not only ful-filled in the rise and char-
acter of Spiritualism, but the philosophy of the 
del nsion is given; no one was ever carried away 
by it who did not fir~;t "depart from the faith." 
A desire for other evidence than God has been 
pleased to give, has been the entel'ing-wedge 
of many a heresy, and for such there r:;eems to 
be a proneness in our fallen, human nature. 
The npo~tate Jews required a sign of Christ 
while the very works of God were taught in 
their midst by b im. If the best measures fail; 
inferior ones are useless; since God has revealed 
himself, bis will and grace brillg life and im-
mortality to light in the gospel. 
For a man 
to turn from his word and Spirit, and seek 
tb r<;>ngh mediumistic 
~1.gencies to ascert.ain the 
truth of what he declares, is to insult his ve-
l'acity, wisdom, and love, grieve the Holy Spirit, 
and enter the dominion of the devil as the will-
ing dupe of his deceptive power. 
Now I have no failb in the devil, but I have 
a knowledge of his devices w hi(;h has cost me 
dearly, and gladly would I recover any one 
from his snares. 'fhe apparently ugly and un-
cha1·itable caption of this article is selected in 
all ki11dness. 
The truth is, I e11tered upon the 
investigation of Spiritualism, in Central Amer-
ica, in the summer of 1869, and continued my 
researches for several successive years in the 
cities or Washington, New York, SL. Louis, and 
elsewhere, for the put·pose of saving a beloved 
broLhor with wbom I was assoeiated, and who 
was anxious to believe it tt·ue. 
I was anxious, 
if it '~'ere true, to ascertaiu the fact, with a 
stro11g persuasion that it was a delusion of the 
devil~ from the fact that it an tagouized every 
vital principle of Oliristianity. 
1 prosecuted my investigations l>y ascertain-
ing the mental and moral processes by whicl1 
;l. belief iu the thcoi-y is rc:u.:hud, <lllcl 
i~~ effec:t 
on the moral character of those who embrace "If a man cannot believe the concurrent tes-
it. 
This was done by free personal contact timony of three of the five senses, what ean be 
and conversation with the most cultured and believe? 
I ·see her with my natural eyes, I 
advanced Spiritualists _I could find in my ex-hear her with my natural ears, I feel her hnnd 
tend~d travels; and my judgment is, that no in mine as sensibly as I ever:did, and this ~ur­
tree in the moral universe bears so uniformly ing several successive days. 
Don't talk to me 
such evil fruit as Spiritualism. It germintttes about delusion in sncb a case as this!" 'l1here 
in doubt of God's truth, and ripens the blank was no meeting such arguments; the tmth is I 
negations of atheism as its maturest fruit. 
It wa~; silenced and astounded, for he was a man 
is more to be deplored than atheism, if possible, of a stroug analytical mind, and "the very F:~onl 
from the fact that it so frequently lead~-:> to in-of honor," and I hnd never seen him appe~Lr 
sanity. Indeed, it has been decided by many more calm and rational then at this time. 
His 
physicians to boa species or insanity. 
interviews with his wife appeared to be con tin-
The faith faculty of the hnman soul, by whieh ued through several successive days, and to be 
alone spiritual truth can be ascertained, vvhen very gratifjring to him; of course I could do 
it turns from God and his word. and Reeks to nothing; 
but within about ten dnys 
ascertain spiritual things th rongh this diabol-
we received a letter from his wife, fl'om which 
ical agency, becomes perverted, a11d is open to we learned that she bau never rnnde the con-
the temptations of the devil, and there is no templated trip to San .Mareos, knew nothing 
I imit known to his seductive wiles. 
The mar-of her husband's sickness in New York, nor the 
velous gullibility of a soul in such a state is "philosophy of the spirit state." 
one of the most marked phenomena of all that 
Strange to say, my brother would not talk of 
accompanies this delusion. 
Hence the wide-this New York ball ncination, but sought other 
spread effects following the performances of "tests," as is u:-;ually the case. 
Whet11er he 
tricksters, who do not e.cruple to resort to any ever became convinced, I never knew, as he 
method that enables them to gull the people died in the city of Gnatemala a few years since, 
and drive their own business; and though their while I was stationed at Houston, 'fcxas. 
tricks have been detected and their fl'auds ex-
Of cou1·~::~e I would not draw on the privacy 
posed, still the people will believe "there must of family histo1·y, but for the hope of saving 
be something in it." 
Tbis desire to believe the some endanget'ed soul fi.·om the snare of the 
doctrine trne, in most eases arises from a de-devil. 
sire to ignore a sense of personal responsibility 
Now let us admit the doctl'ine of" total do-
to a just nnd holy God. 
This is instigated by pravity," and accept the truth of Scripture, that 
the devil," who was a murderer from the be-1nen "love darkness rather than light;" can 
gi1ming, and abode not in the truth," and bas any ma11 suppose that this insatiable hunger fo1· 
been murde1·ing and deceiving on to the present. anything but the bread of life; that this restless, 
A most remarkable illustration of the trntb impatient grasping for everything that is falae 
of this proposition c:tme under my own observa-1 in science, philosophy, and religion, can be ac-
tion, in the city of New York, in the winter of counted for on any other hypother;is than the 
1869. Uy brother C. V. L. had been ill for active agency of a personal, malignant devil, 
some dny~, when very quietly turning to me "the accuser of the brethren," and the deceiver 
he remarked," My wife is dead.'' 
1 asked bim of the world, who used to go about" as a roar-
why he thought sc>. "1 think nothing a,bout it," ing lion," but now genet·ally as a wolf in sheep's 
said he,'' I know it, for she is here with me, clothing, or a squat at pine tables, as Milton's 
and has been for several days." 
I reminded Load at the ear of Eve? I confess 1 cannot. I 
him that he was sick. He repliud, "1 know 1 think too much of our poor, and fallon nature, 
am somewhat ill, but I am in my right mind; bad as it is, to bold it capable of sueb gl'eed of 
test me in any way yon ple:tse. H 1 am not Relf-decepLion but for the influence of this rna-
as rational as I ever was in my lifo, I am very lignant foe. 
much mistaken;" and, indeed? be appeared to 
l1et any man take a seat, sit mum and un-
be so, as far as I could determme. 
known for half an hom· as I have done at some 
I tried to dispel ~he illusion from his t~ind, but headquarters of Spirit~a1ism, and listen to the 
could not. He smd, "I see he.r as P.lainly as I talk of :11, group of itinerant lecturers, mediums, 
~ee Y.ou; I have been c.on:yersing. ';1tl1 her as physical and spiritual, if he wishes to become 
mtelh~ently ~s I ever d.Id m my life, and t~en convinced that these a1·e the apostles of tho 
she has descl'lbed the cn·cui~lS~ttn.GeS at~enda:g prince of darkness. 
Or if one could set before 
hor death so I~atul'ally t~at It IS u.npossible f?r us the statistics of ruined fot·tunes, blighted 
me to be doce~ve_d: 
Bes1d~s, she gLves the ph1l-home.,, crazed brains, and lost virtue, trace~tble 
osopby ~f the spn·Lt sta.te m s~ch per~ect ac?or-to Spiritualif:!m alone, who could resist the con-
da~ce wtth my conception of Jt that I am fL:IIy viction that the enemy who bath sown these 
satisfied. 
She now looks upon you, and smdes tares among the wheat of the Lord's planting 
to see you so gross as not to be able .to appre-
is the devil? W bile the goou that Spiri tuali,m 
bend her presence. 
She has been ti-ytng to at-bas doue could be written in bold cuaracLers on 
tract your attention for some time; says you will the blank side of a por:;tage stump.-S. C. Lit-
become so developed as to be able to converse tlepage, D. D., in Wiifo1·d's .J.!i01·ocosm. 
with bet·. 
She tells me that she started from 
her mother's near AusLin, Texas, to visit out· 
former home in San l
arcos, but on entering 
IT is hardly to be doubto<.l that the moral 
tho San Marcos llivet·, the horses became fright-
tone of society would be f;w more healthful 
ened, upset the buggy, and she and two of our than it is were there less in ter!'erence, in the 
children were drowned. 
As soon as she entered name of mercy, with the comwquencos of vio-
the spirit state, she knew my condiLion, aud lnLed law. For a man to imagine that be may 
came immediately to my relief, and hns been lie OL' steal and escape tile evil con seq uouc~e, or 
with me ever since, except dm·ing a brief visit any part of it, is most immoral and danget·ous. 
made to her sisters in Guatemala, 0. A.; but It fosters this illusion whenever a weak good-
traveling almost with the velocity of tu~)ught, llature averts from a guilty back the scourge 
her absence was scarcely appreciable." 
of just consequence. 
Mercy does not seek fil'st. 
I tried to divert his attention from the sub-to make men comfortable, but to make thetn 
ject, a11d ui·ged the impot·tauce of his recove1·y, morally sound and strong in con~·ormity to right. 
whe11 he manifested some impatience aud re-Fot: this a strict ::lubjoction to the consequences 
plied, "rrhis will not interfere wit.b my recov-of conduct, whether in the Stttte or in tho fam-
ery. 
I cannot say that 1 regret her death; it is. ily, is indispensable. It is not in the way of 
all right. I shaH mis8 her in the flel:lb, of coLu·se, release from any pnl't of out· ju:-;t respOtlsiuilit ies 
if l get well, but she will be wiLh me in her that we muRt tbink of the mu1·c.:y of God. 
''Ev, 
spirit form all the while." 
Upon my suggest-et·y rnan si.Jall bear hi:::; own uunlua.''-Qlwi~ti~~ 
i11~ Llw pJssibiliLy of Lallttcill<tLion, he ropliud, Uuion. 
I 
j 
OCTOBER 7, 
1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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Be Fervent. 
fere with that. What we claim is that there 
This should be exemption in favor of those who keep 
"FERVENT in spirit, serving the Lord." 
the seventh day. 
'l,hen the matter is all ad-
is an apostolic injunction. 
r:rhe I.ord's service justed, and none have ground for complaint. 
demands fervor. 
We should enter upon it and 
Recognizing the justice of this principle, many 
continue in it with all the energy and zeal of States have exemption clauses iu their Sundav 
our souls. If we are cold and lukewarm about 
J 
statutes. But we have yet to see the first in-
anything, let it be about something of little im-timation on the part of those who are clamor-
portance, and not the salvation of our souls. ing for a universal Sunday law, that they would 
Th.ere. are many profesRing Chri~tians who can recognize the rights of any such class, or favor 
e~ter mtO the plea,~ures and pursuit~ ofth_e world any such feature of the law.-1'ern· e1·ance Out-
With great enthusw.sm, and sometime . .,; wdulge l k 
p 
in the greatest hilarity and demonstrations of 00 
• 
interest, but who condemn anything like feeling 
or exhibitions of warmth and earnestness in the 
service of God. 
They think the Lord must be 
served very quietly and sedately, and if there 
is a SlJark of zeal in the Houl, it must· be sup-
pressed, and the Lord must be wort'hiped in a 
stoical manner. Such persons would have been 
very ill at ease bad they been present on the 
day of Pentecost, when the Spirit was poured 
out upon the people, and they spake in differ· 
ent tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 
They would have eonsidered the jailer at PlJ ii-
ippi very rude when he r-;prang in and iuq uired 
of the apostles, ''What must I do to be saved?" 
If a man is arrested by the Holy Spirit, and 
made to feel that the wrath of God abi deth 
upon him, and that, like the psalmist, the pains 
of hell have got hold of him, and that unless be 
obtains mercy he mu~t perish forever, wily not 
take it coolly? Why make a fnss about such a 
little thing as that? It only involves the sal-
vation of his soul and his eternal happiness! 
Why not act with becoming propriety? Or if 
God saves bis soul from the guilt a11d condem-
nation of his sins, and gives him the assurance 
of his favor, and makes him an heir of Heaven, 
what is there in that to make his heart over-
flow with joy, and to fill his mouth with praise? 
The ungodly, and mere nominal Christians, 
who have never felt the bitterness of repent-
ance and the joy of pardon, cannot understand 
why such an experience should excite the deep-
est emotion, and sometimes work men up to the 
highest pituh of excitement. 'fbere is joy in 
Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, and why 
should there not be joy on earth? Men are 
differently constituted, and manifest their in-
terest in things in different ways, but where 
they are deeply interested, they will be sure to 
manifest that i nteresL in some way, and to a 
corresponding extent. 
If there is any one 
thing on earth in which we should feel more in-
terest and mnuifest more zeal and fervor than 
another, i.t is the service of God and the salva-
tion of our souls.-Sel. 
Equal Rig-hts Demanded. 
THIS journal is emphatically opposed to the 
enforcement of religious rights and privileges 
by law, as such a condition canlloL do otherwise 
than work serious injustice to many honest, 
conscientious souls. It is well known that the 
"National Reform Associa~ion" seeks sueh tm 
amendment to the Constitution of the Un.ited 
States as shall ''place all the Christian laws, 
institutions, and usages of our Government on 
an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental 
law of the land." 
One institution which they desire and design 
to enforce by Jaw,. is the first day of the week 
as the American or Christian Sabbath. This, 
we claim, would be an abridgment of .Christian 
liberty; for many who conscientiously desire to 
obey God, knowing that the first day is not the 
Christian Sabbath, keep another day, which the 
word of God enjoins. Must they Jose one-sixth 
of their time in homage to an llJSLiLution which 
they know has no founda,Lion in either reason 
or I·oligion ? 
But if the majority regard the first day as 
the Sabbath, is it not their privilege to be pro-
tected in its observance? Certainly; and no 
observer of the seventh day proposes to inter-
Christ's Care for His Disciples. 
THE most beautiful commentary possible on 
John 10 : 11, 12, is Christ's solicitude for the 
safety of his little band of disciples. The power 
and majesty which could make t~Je armed men, 
sent to arrest him, go backward and fall to the 
gr.ound is not used for himself; it was never 
used for himself. He even undoes the effect of 
Peter's rash act, which might have otherwise 
involved him in the same danger. And the 
qnestion naturally rises, Is he less soliciLous 
now? If under all that cloud of anguish and 
dread his first thought is for them, can there 
be any difference in his feelings now that he is 
exalted above all principalities and powers? 
To this question the Scriptures answer, ''Jesus 
Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for-
ever." -C ynosu're. 
BE TRUE. 
THou must unto thyself be trut, 
If thou the truth would teach; 
Thy soul must overflow, if thou 
Another's soul would reach; 
It needs the overflow of heart 
To give the lips full speech. 
Think tl'uly, a.nd thy every thought 
>::lhall the world's famine feed; 
Speak truly, and each word of thine 
~hall be a fruitful seed; 
Live truly, and thy life shall be 
A great and noble creed. -1-Ioratius Bonar. 
The Terror of the Lorcl. 
"GoD is love," says the apostle John. "For 
God so loved the world," says Christ, " that he 
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever 
believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life. 
For God sent not his Son into 
the world to condemn the world, but that the 
world through him might be saved." The goR-
pcl of J esm:l Christ, whiuh it> entitled "the glo-
rious gospel of the blessed God" and also ''the 
power of God unto salvation to every one that 
believeth," is, beyond all question, the gospel of 
Jove, and, as such, the best acquisition earth 
ever gained from Heaven. 
God, considered 
simply in his benevolence and mercy as thus 
manifested, lays the foundation for all our hopes. 
There is, however, another view of God found 
in the same Bible, equally t1;ue, and not at all 
inconsistent with his love and mercy. 
God is 
said to be "angry with the wicked every day." 
Isaiah says: "Woe unto the wicked! it shall be 
ill with him; for the rewar'd of his hands shall 
be given him." 
Christ says: "He that believ-
eth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath 
of God abideth on him." "Indignation and 
wrath, tribulation and anguish" constitute the 
Bible picture of what God will render" to thorn 
that are contentious, and do not obey the 
truth, but obey unrigh teommess." "It is a 
fearful thing," says Paul, "to fall into the 
hands of the living God." "For our God is a 
consuming fi're." 
The same apostle tells us 
that "the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
Heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire 
taking vengeance on them that know not God, 
and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ; who shall be pu11ished with everlasting 
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and 
from the glory of his power." Peter speaks of 
"the day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly 
men." 
Christ, when judging the world in 
righteousness, is represented as saying to the 
wicked: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into 
everlasting fire prepared for the dovil and his 
angels." 
Of the wicked it is said that they 
shall "go away into everlasting punishment." 
These and like passages, found in the same 
Bible, that speaks so fully and emphatically of 
the love and mercy of God, reveal "the terror 
of the Lord." The God of the Bible is not so 
benevolent or merciful that he ceases to be 
holy and just. 
rl'he severities of his justice are 
not malevolent iu tbe evil sense. It is not 
mot·e certain that. he is benevolent and graeious 
than it is that he "will render to every man 
according to his deed::~," and that" whatsoever 
a mau soweth, that shall be also reap."-lnde-
pendent. 
It Is Easy. 
IT is easy to have faith when everything is 
clear to the eye; but then that isu't faith; it is 
sight. 
It is easy to be patient when everything is 
going just as we want it to; but then that isn't 
patience. 
lt if:l eaf:ly to love those who are lovely; but 
then that isn't any test of love; do you love 
the unlovely'? That is the question. 
It is easy to be iuterested in those who are 
interestmg; but it isn't mueb credit; we shall 
never get to Heaven on that; but to be inter-
ested in those who are not interesti tl£!;, who are 
dull and reoulsive, that counts. 
It is easv to be brave when there is no dan-
ger; but tLat is not bravery. 
It is easy to 
resi~L tern ptation, when the 
temptation is to something that we don't care 
for; but this is not a temptation; and that is 
not resistance. 
It is easy to sacrifice what we do not value; 
but that is not sanifi<.;e. 
It is easy to det1y to other people what will 
give them pleaBut·e; but that is not self-denial; 
it is the denial of other people's selves. 
It is easy to give away what we cannot keep 
any longer; but that is not generosity. 
lt is easy to be resigned to the losses of other 
people; but tha,t is uot ret-ignation. 
lt is easy to go with the few-when the other 
side is still fewer. 
It is ea:'\y to stand for the truth-when there 
are a few millious to stand with you. 
It is ea~y to say to the man who is on the 
hot gridi1·ou, "Do not gl'oa.n so; you disturb 
me," when you are sitLing in an easy chair and 
are neither too bot nor too cold. 
It is easy to say to a man or woman, "Now, 
you are just the per;:;on to do this laborious tt11d 
expen::;ive duLy, to enliRt in Lhu war, to be a 
mi~:-;ionary, to forego plca:-;urc, \·e~tlLIJ, eomfol't, 
to beal' cold and heat, poverty and dan:,!;er; you 
are just the per::;on to do it; you are so mutb 
engaged, so zealous, so devoted;" while you 
enjoy your luxurious home, and heap up riches. 
It is easy to steal a railroad, or a city, or a 
State, and then give ten thou:mud dollars to a 
hospiLal.-Nutiuual Bap~'ist. 
THERE is" one thing" which stands in the way 
of many a one's salvaLion, and that is Jack of ear· 
nestness in their suaruh for Christ. 
God was 
very much in earne::;t when he gave his Son to 
be the Savioul', and Christ 'vas very much in 
earnest when be died on tbe cro~s; aud the eal'-
nest Saviour a11d sinner will vurv !:lOOn meet. We 
are very earnest when seeking a fortune, and 
when we must work to save our Jives; when we 
seek salvation in such a way, it will soon be 
found. 
For it is said: "Ye shall seek me, and 
find me, when ye shall seareh for me with all 
your heart."-Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. 
" THY word is true from the beginning.'' 
Gl2 [41 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
The Ten 1\Jngcloms. 
nrsiiOP NEWTON, in his "Dissertations on the 
J>ropbucios,·· pp. 209, 210, has given us three 
diKtillCL lists beAides his own, viz., one by M:ede, 
011e by Sir Isaac .Newton, one by Bishop Chan-
' .lul' indor~ed by Bishop LloyJ. 
Mede's list is 
as follows:-
" Mr. Mede, whom a certain writer esteemed 
us a man divinely inspired for the interpretation 
of the prophecies, reckons up the ten kingdoms 
thus in the year A. D. 456, the year after Rome 
was Racked by GenAeric, king of tbe v~tndals: 
(1) Tho 11ritOJlRi (2) the Saxons in Br·itain; (3) 
the Franks; (4) the Burgundians i.n France; (5) 
1he ViNi_goths in t.ho f'Outb of' France and part of 
Spain; (6) the Sne,·es and Alans in Gallieia and 
Portugal; (7) the Vandals in Al'ric; (8) Lhe Ale· 
manes in Germany; (9) the OstrogothN, whom 
the I.Jongohardl':l succeeded, in Pannonin, and 
afLerwm·ds in Italy; (10) the Greeks in the resi-
dne of the empire." 
rrhere are two points in this list that are 
manifestly Wl'Ong: F'irst, in naming the Brit-
ons.· These could perhaps propedy be named 
in A. D. 456, the date at which Mr. M.ede makes 
his list, because then the SaxonR had only been 
seven years on British soil. But in the end the 
Saxons utterly swept a way not only the power 
of the Britons but the Britons themselves. 
Of 
the conquest of Britain, Green says:-
" With the victory of Dcoen m [A. D. 577] the 
conquef:lt of the bulk of Britain was complete. 
.. Britain bad in the main beeome England . 
And witbin this now En,rland a Teutonic soci-
ety was sett.led on the w;ock of Rome. 
So far 
as the conquest had yet rrone it was com pl!~te. 
Not a B-riton remained as f:lnbject or slave on 
English ground. 
It is this that distin-
guisheR the conquest of Britain from that of 
the other provinceR of Rome. 
'rhe conq11esL of 
Gaul by the Franks, or thtlt of Italy l>y the 
LombardR, proved little more than a forcible 
settlement of' the one Ol' tile other among trib-
nt:Lt'Y subjects who were destined in the long 
course of n_gt>s to absorb their conquerors. . . 
Bnt the Et1gliHh conqaeAt of Britain up to the 
point which we have reaehcd was (t sheer dis-
possess·ion of the people whom the Et1gliRh 
conquered. 
So far as the English sword 
in these earlier days had reached, Britain had 
become :En~land, a land, that is, not of Bl'itons 
but of Englit>hmon. 
:Evon if a few of the van-
quished people lingered as slaves I'Onnd the 
homesteaus of their English conqnerors, or a. 
few of their household words mingled with the 
English tongue, doubtful exceptions Rnch aR 
these leave the main facts untouched. 'rho 
Jcey-note of the conquest was firmly struck. 
\,Y hen the English invasion was stayed for 
awhile by the civil wars of the invaders, the 
Br·iton had disappeared from the gr-eater par·t of 
ti~ll land which had been his own; and the tongne, 
the religion, the laws of his English conqueroi'R 
reigned without a b1·eak from Essex to Staffoed-
sbire, and the British Channel to the Firth of 
For·th." -1-Hstory of the English People, chap. 2, 
pa1·. 1-5. 
"Their conqnest was not the Rettlement of 
armed conquerol's ~tmidst a. subject people, but 
the grctduat expttlsion-it might almost seem 
the total extirpation-of the British and tbo 
Roman British in habi tan tR. 
Oh ristia.n i ty re-
ceded with the conqnered Bl'itons into the 
mountains of Wale::;, or towards the borders of' 
Scotland, or took refnge among the peaceful 
and floul'ishing monaRteries of ll'eland. On the 
one hand, the ejection, more or less complete, of 
the native race, Rhows that the contest wa~ 
fierce and long; the reoccupation of the island 
by paganism is a strong confirmation of the 
complete expulsion of the Britons."-Milman's 
L((,tin Christianity, Book IV., chap. 3, pa1·. 4,. 
It is evident, therefo1·e, that for this reason, 
if for no other, the Britons cannot be counted 
as one of the ten kingdoms. But there is an-
other import~nt consideration that forbids it. 
The Britons were themselves a part of the j Britons, but it iR mol:lt likely that be useR tba t 
body of the Roman Empire, which was con-name !"or that of the SaxonR, aR England is 
querod and broken up by the new peopleR who even now called Britain, and the English some-
came in. And if in Britain it be proper to times Britons. His mention of the ''Alan!:' in 
count as a kingdom the conquered equally with Gallia [Gaul]'' as one of the ten kingdoms is, 
the eonquerors, then we may do so also in all we think, rather }llOro than they deserve, and 
the other parts of the empire, and, as Mr. Green more than their history will justi(y. It is true 
shows, with more propriety. If we count the that of the Alani that crossed the Rhine in A. 
Britont~ and the Saxons in Britain, we may I D. 406, with tho Blll·gundians, the Suevi, and 
with equal propriety count the Gauls and the the VandalR, a pol'tiun settled near Valence 
Frfl.nki:l in France, the SpaniRh and the Suevi and Orleans in Gaul, while the body of the 
in Spain, the Africans and the Vandals in Africa, nation weut on into Spain; but soon after the 
and so on through the liRt, which would give battle of Chalonf', "their separate national 
us twenty kingdoms instead of ten! 
Plainly, exiRLence in Gaul was merged in that of the Vis-
Mr . .Mede's insertion of the Briton~:~ is erroneous. igoths '' (Eneyc. Brit., art. ''Alani"); and when, 
This latter consideration too, demonstrates the in A. D. 508, the Visigoths were, by the FrankR, 
impropriety of counting any part, of the old dt·ivetl from their Gallic posRessions into Spain 
empire o~· Rome, as one among the ten which (Gibbon, chap. 38, par. 13, 29)., this body of the 
were to arise. 
The prophetic word is marking Alani were lost to hi::;tory, if not to the world. 
tue rise and fall of diRtinct nations; and when Th0 Huns likewise eannot propel'ly be nnm-
Home baA ri8en, run her course, and i::; brought bered aR one of the ten kingdoms, but as they 
to ruin by Lhe rise of ten other ki tlgdom::;, it are named in other lists we shall defer the 
were unroaNOtlable to count a part of that notice of them till later. 
which is .ftdLen, as one of those which wer·e to 
BiRhop Newton makes up his list in the 
arise. 
No, Rome bad run her course, as had "eighth century," whieb is more than two hun-
the empires bel'ore her, and in the ten kingdoms dr·ed year·s too late~ and that of itself destroys 
God raised up new peoples by whom he would its value as a correct list. 
NeverthelesR we 
fulfill his pttrpo:-;os. 
t>hall insert his list as well as the others; of 
0econdly, Ml'. Mode's list is defective in an-course it is not altogether wrong, as it would 
other place. 
He c0unts aR his tenth kingdom, be scat·cely possible to name ten kingdoms at 
"rrbe Greeks in the residue of the empire." any time after the middle of the fifth century 
We have shown, and thit> agrees with Bishop without including some of the right ones. He 
Newton exactly, that the Len kingdoms must names them as follows:-
arit>e within the bounds of the West.em Empire. 
"(1) Of the senate of Rome, who revolted 
.But Mr. Mede fills the Western Empire with from the Greek emperot~s, and claimed and 
nine nations and lumps up all the rest of the exerted the privilege of choosing a new West-
empire in one. But in A. D. 456 there were em emperor; (2) of the Greeks in Ravenna; (3) 
divisions in the Eastern, or Greek, Empire as of the Lombards in I.Jombardy; (4) of the Huns 
well as in the vVestertt, and we cannot see by in Hungary; (5) of the Alemanes in Germany; 
what right they can be 8Ummed up in one, any (6) of tbe Franks in Franco; (7) of the Bnrgun-
more than could tho8e in the Westet·n Empire,' dianA in Burgundy; (8) of the G-oths in Spain; 
for the empire at tlntL time still exi~::~ted in the (9) of the Britons; (10) of the Saxons in Brit-
West as well as it did in the East. 
In short, uin." 
two thing:-; are certain, either of which excludes 
rrhis list, being drawn in the eighth century, 
Mr. Mede's tenth kit1guom; (a) we cannot is after the establishment of the Papacy, and, 
rtghtly go outside of the limits of the Western consequently, if:! after the rooting up of the 
Empire to count the ten kingdoms; and (b) il' three that were displaced that it might be set 
we do go bl~yotHl those limits, we caunot rightly up. And as the prophecy plainly says that 
l1tmp together as one kingdom all that were in "three of the fiest horns "-three of the ten-
the boutlUf:l of the Eastern Empit'e, and that should be "plucked up by the roots" it is cer-
would give again considembly more than ten. tainly a vain effort to try to find ten after three 
The others that are named in this list are in of them have been taken entirely away. 
~rhere­
the main corre<:t; one minor point we would fore so far is the Bishop's list from being of any 
mention, i. e., "the Alemanes in Germany." real value as tba,t of ten kingdomt>, it is worth-
Simply to prevent miRapprehension, we would less as such, because it is made at a time when 
l'ernnrk that if Mr. MeLle meant, as be probably the prophecy allows bnt seven beside the Fa-
did, the Alemanni in what is now Germany, he pacy. As f'or these seven however his list con-
i8 correct, for the Alemanni weee the root of tains them all but one-the Suevi. 
Of the 
tho present nation of Germany. 
rrhat part of seven, he gives us the Lombards, the Alemanni, 
the present Gel'lnany which lies south of the the Franks, the Visigoths, the Burgundians, 
rivet· Main and the Moselle, including about and the Saxons. 
J. 
hair' of Bavaria, is the country taken from the 
(To be continued.) 
Roman Empire by the Alemanni. 
Of the Ro-
man Empire it formed the province of H.hmtia, 
and a part of Gaul. 
Of what was then G-er-
many, none lay south of the Main or of the 
Danube. 
The Emperor William of Germany is 
directly descended from a peince of the Ale-
manni. 
The next. is Sir Isaac Newton's list, thus:-
" (1) The kingdom of the Vandals and Alans 
in Spain and Africtt; (2) the kingdom of the 
Suevans in Spain; (3) tho kingdom of the Visi-
goths; (4) the kingdom of the Alans in Gallia; 
(5) the kingdom of tbe Burgundians; (6) the 
ki ngdorn of the Fran kR; (7) the kingdom of the 
Britons; (8) the killgdom of the Hum;; (9) the 
kingdom of the Lombards; (10) the kingdom of 
Ravenna." 
THAT Christianity appeals to an authority 
superior to merely human commands waR ex-
emplified in St. Peter's appeal against the pro-
hibition to follow conscience and God in preach-
ing Christ: "But that it spread no further 
among the people, let us straitly threaten them, 
that they speak henceforth to no man in this 
name. 
And they called them, and commanded 
them not to speak at all nor tea~h in the name 
of J e~ms. But Peter and John answered and 
said unto them, Whether i.t be right 1:n the si91i.t 
of God to hearken unto you mo1·e tlwn unto 
God, judge ye." 
Acts 4: 17-19. This was tt.e 
recognition of the principle of final appeal on 
moral duty.-Sel. 
We know not at what dat;e Sir Isaac found I 
these, only that, as he names "the kingdom 
AT the outset fierce and bitter persecution· 
[exarcbate] of H.avenna," iL must have been assailed Christianity; but every drop of mar-
somewhere between A. D. 554 and 752, for that tyr-blood shed for its sake blossomed in some 
is the time of the existence of the exarchate of new flower of Heaven's own planting. Its 
Ravenna. But that comes into history too late purest trium pbs, its most hopeful growths, 
to be counted as one of the ten. They must were under the _very 
agen~~E}§ employed to 
all be seen before A. D. 493. He too names the crush it out of bemg.-SI3~ 
\ 
I 
) 
OcToBER 7, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
(5] 613 
Unbelief. 
"And he did not many mighty works there because of 
their unbelief." Matt 13: 58. 
THE same hindrance which prevented the 
Saviour from performing many mighty w~rks 
in Nazareth and its vicinity, has still a wide-
~:~pread existence, and binders those remarkable 
demonstrations of J osus's power now to save 
even to the uttormof't Lhe ehief of sinners. 
"Ac-
cording to yout· faith be it unto you" (Matt. 
9: 29): seems to be the measure which indicates 
the extent of the blef:lsings bestowed by the 
giver of "every good and ped'ect gif~." How 
Htrange that He" who went about do1ng good, 
healir~o· all manner of diseases,'' and even rais-
ing th~ dead; who~e teaching was o~· that ele-
vaLino· aud ennoblmg chara(~!er wbwb trans-
formet:>d into hiA own glorious image those who 
roeeivcd it into good and honest hearts, should 
be so unpopular a.s not to have a hearing in any 
community! 
And that those mighty works, so 
merciful to the poor and suffering, should be 
reRtrained by the stubborn unbelief of tho~::~e 
favored with such grand opportunities! 
But 
stran o·e as it seems viewed in the light of truth, 
and Z£· the wondrous possibilities which the 
gos1Jel offers full and free for man's ac~eptance, 
it stands for a lamentation to-day, not m a nar-
row and circumscribed loc:ality, but in the wide 
world and in every nation where the gospel is 
now being preached, that this same Captain of 
sn.lvation cannot do many mighty works be-
cause of the general unbelief. 
How ve1·y dark the picture when we contem-
plate '"bat is actually accornpl~shed b~ all the 
operations of so-called evangehcal Cl~n.stendom 
combined· when the incn:aHe of populatiOn even 
within tb~ palu of the different denominatious 
so nearly equals the inerease of membership 
that the rapidly swelling millions of the non-
professing world, aud the heathen, mak_e the 
millennia! theory of modern theology simply 
an absurdity ! 
But what shall we say of the fai Lh being dis-
semillated; of the system of salvation offere~ to 
a perishing worlcl? 
Is it a pure God-h~110r1ng 
and soul-suvi ng faith which agrees vVtLh the 
prophecies and~-is truly exponential of present 
truth, or the Third Angel\:; Message? Ab, no! 
'l'he teachings of the Scriptures with refct·ence 
to these last days is not believed, its perfect 
harmony with divine revelation as a whole is 
repudiated: hence barrenness and 
leannes~ are 
characteristics of all the clmrcbcs whose creeds 
are not in harmony with present t.rnth. 
The lines 0f dntn:lll<ation wl1tC:b. in years 
goue by, div1deJ tLe eLurch from the world, are 
mo8l1y obliterated; and dlltreh records, and 
not the lives of prof'ossort~ of reltgion, have to 
be consulted in oi·dor to ascertain who bas any 
COilllection with the nominal Christian churches; 
while festivall::l, soeiables, anci numerous worldly 
practices of the lottet·.~ and g_ra?-~ag ?hnracLor 
have oblitot·ated the ltnes of dtsl1net1on (once 
so saered) between the church ar~d the ~od~l. 
'l'ruly the churches as a whole tmgbt umte m 
the melancholy stanza,-
" vVhat peaceful hours we once enjoyed; 
How sweet their memory still; 
But they have left a dreary void 
The world can never fill." 
Why this sad state of affairs amongst the 
churches? It is because of unbelief. 
The Lord 
by bis prophets, holy men of old who "spake as 
they were moved by the Hol_y Ghost," gave full 
instructions as to bow men In all ages should 
live to secure the divine blessing, and eujoy the 
]icrht of God·s countenance; but men do not 
b~lieve t.he words of the Lord. They disregard 
the faithful instrnctions, and trample und(3r foot 
bis laws 
They will not "ask for the old paths,'' 
"the good way," nor walk therein, and the 
Lord does not do "mighty works" amongst 
them, because of their unbelief. 
Unbelief makes the heavens as brass and tho 
earth as iron to all those who have a name to 
live whilst they are dead in tres~asses a.nd in 
sins. 
Unbelief closes the eyes of the m1_ghty 
multitudes, that they see not the truth for Lllese 
times, and closes their ears, that they bear noL 
the loud call of the Third Angel's Message as 
it is being sounded forth from na~io:1 to n~tion, 
and from island to island. 
Uu belief puts far off 
the coming of the Lord to giv~ ~o every ma.n 
as his work shall be. 
Unbelief laughs deri-
sively nt the little flock, who .lift np th.eir 
beads with joy, knowing that tbetr red~m pt10n 
draweLh nigh. Unbelief is even caus1ng the 
chariot wb~els of tLose who profess to "keerJ 
the commandments of God, and the faitiJ or 
Jesus" to drag heavily, and the triumpbt~ of 
present truth to be I i 111 i Led iu ext.en~ and. power, 
while extensive regiom; al'e pel'lshmg for lack 
of vision. 
May the Lord deliver all who are .favot·ed 
with the knowledge of preHent truth from the 
blio·Lting influence of that unbelief, wLicb prac-
tic~lly says to the Saviour," Depart from us, for 
we desire not a knowledge of thy ways." 
S. P. BoLLMAN. 
A 
PRAYER. 
LoRD, speak to me, that I may speak 
In living echoes of thy tone; 
As thou hast sought, so let me seek 
1'hy erring ehildren, lost and lone. 
0 lead me, Lord, that I may lead 
The wandering and the wavering feet; 
0 feed me, Lord, that I may feed 
1'hy hungering ones with manna sweet. 
0 strengthen me, that while I s~and 
Firm on the rock and strong m thee, 
I may st.retch out a. loving hand 
To wrestlers with the troubled sea. 
-Oh?-iotian at Work. 
The Teacher of the Bible. 
THIS is the Holy Ghost. John 14: 26; 1 John 
2: 27; 1 Cor. 2 : 13. 
He who wrote tbe wor.d 
is most competent to teaeb it. 
The mere acqut-
sition of scriptural knowledge does not denote 
growth in the wisdom of God. . We m~y learn 
tbc creo<rral)by and chronology of the Btble, and 
b 
b 
. 
' 
may have its bistol'leal. parts on ?~r Long11e s 
end, and yet be wholly 1guorant of Its underly-
incr spiritual prir.ciples. 
Mau can teach much 
tb~t is on the surface, but only the Holy Gho::;t 
can teach the Jeep hidden things of God. .An_d 
this Ll1e (rreat 'l'eacbor will help us to do, for 1t 
is hi8 Ri~ocial province," to search all 
tbing~, 
yea Lbu duep Lhit1g::; or 8-o~.'' 
The Uuly t3pll'lt 
enables us to search these 1mportant truths and 
to di<Yest the stron<r meat of the word. 
Whether 
we I~ok into the:e pages for ourselves or tor 
our sehol:trs, let us invoke the aid of the divi~e 
spirit in it:-l interpretation, ~nd cry out as dtd 
tLe Psalmit>t, cOpen thou mme eyes that I may 
behold wondrou;-; tbings out of thy law." 
"Holy Ghost, with light divine 
Shiue into this lwart of mine." 
In conclnsion-let us, students and teachers, 
"read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" these 
sacred oracles, that every page may beuome "a 
lamp unto our feet and a l1~ht unto our· path." 
It is a woude:·ful book. It 1s an eternal book. 
As we look around us we see deeay, dest~·uc­
tion, ruin, and death stamped upon evoryLhmg. 
These beautiful flowers will fade; these grasses 
will wiLber· this lovely eat·th which we delight 
to inhabit ~vill soon;, molt with fervent beat" 
and" tho heavens shall be rolled togellter as a 
scroll," bnt the word of God, as he gave it, will 
endure forever. 
Yes, heaven and earth shall 
pass away, but thy word, 0 God, will never 
pass away.-Rev. William Walton Clade. 
THE true Christian is like the sun, which pur-
sues his noiseless track, and everywhere loaves 
the effect of his beams in a blessing upon the 
world around bim.-Luther. 
Obeying God. 
THERE is no salvation, no Heaven without it. 
'l'bere cannot be any real trust nor faith wi~h­
out obedience to God. It is easy to exerCise 
faith if we obev. 
Perfect faith and perfect 
obedience are in;eparnble. 
A weak and waver-
ing faith is the result of ?esitn.Ling to obey. 
Fai tb is not the result of ~nvol'untary, but vol-
unta?'Y obedience; for the latter is alone a~cept­
able to God. Entire and pcrf'ect obedtence, 
implies perfect submis:Yion 
i~ all respects to 
anthoritv. 
Therelore, 1t reqmr·es constant and 
complete obedience to do what is implied.in. t~e 
words, ''Thy will be done in earth, as It IS m 
H('aven." 
They that obey God know God, because ~od 
reveals himself specially to those that fear h 1m. 
"'l'be secret of the J_jord is with them that fear 
him." 
The crlorious fact is revealed to tbem 
that God, in the per~:~on of his Son, is their pres-
ent Saviour. 
.For "God, who is the Saviour of 
all men " is "s:pec'ialfy of them that believe." 
' 
' 
L d 
. 
"If 
They til at obey shall know oft e octrtne. 
any man will do hii:! will [obey the Lord], he s.halL 
know the doctt·ine." For," as ma11Y as received 
him to them crave he power to become the sons 
lb 
. 
h' 
" 
of God even to them that believe on 
IS name. 
That 
i~, "as many" as receive Christ, with all 
the commandments and 0bey them fully, they 
' 
" .. 
and they only have the witnesB of the :-:;p1:r1t. 
John Rbows the connection between obeytng 
God aud knowing him. 
"And het·eby_ we do 
know that we know him, if we keep b1s com-
mandments." 
"H& thn.t saith, I know him 
[i.e., 1 am a CbrisLi:u1], a11d L.h.:peth n?L bis 
commandments, is a liar, and. the truLh IS not 
in him." 
Dear reader, do you obey the f ;ord by keep-
ino· his commandments? Pause, :c.0~:: ti·e gt·ound 
o~~r carefully, !'or tho comm.n.ndJ~eu ts of God. 
stand oppDsed to all sin-
t>tn. of. <.ho·.ght, of 
motive, and of action. 
Tbere IS Jllt!t one way, 
and only one way, Lo keep tbem; but tb<-n-e are 
a thousand ways in which they may be broken. 
Lot us call your at ten Lion to two or three of 
Lbem. 
And, 
First-
Do you keep the Sabbath day holy? 
Do you viHit, or allow visitors at yout· house, on 
the Lord's day? 
Do you not call u1~on your. 
11:iondf:l OJ' "kinfolks," just for a pasL1me? lt 
you call upon the sick, to 
mini::;te~· to their 
wants, that will be right. 
But Lbo CIL'Cumstan-
ces arc very few who rein one is ~~cusable on 
any other eonRideration.. Do yon v1.-nt at. church, 
bef(H·e or afLet· service, 111 the ball, vest1bule, or 
pew? Perhaps yon have boon thinking, dul'ing 
tho week, I want to see such purt:>ont~; I have 
sometbincr to tell thorn; l rmnt be sure to see 
Lhem-ifi do not, 1 shall have to go to their 
bouse durincr the week-Lbns making the Sab-
bath and it: ordinances an occasion of advant-
age. 
This is not keeping the Snbbatb boly. 
L'ot us all "remember Lb o t>abba.Lb d.ay to keep 
it holy." 
. 
_ 
Second-Do yo'u obey God by lceeptng tlu~ mnth 
cornrncmdrnent, which is, "Thou t>hal t not bear 
false witnesH"? This not only prohibits per-
jury, but all whispering, tale-bearing, slander, 
and calnmny. It forbi~s all that. mt~y be t,old 
that has a tendency, d1 rectly or mdirectly, to 
injure anothee in his goods, person,. or cbar-
actor,-suppressing the trut?, by whiCh a pe~·­
son may be defranded o~ .h ts. propet:ty ?~· .h1s 
good name, or lie under InJIHies or disab!ltties, 
which a discovery of the truth would 
~ave 
pl'evented. 
This is certainly a great :mme. 
Reader, dost thou speak evil of any one~ 'l'hen 
thou art in danger of hell. 
rrhe ~ommand­
mont is, "Speak evil of no man" _M.ay were-
member that" Death and lifo are lil the power 
of the t~n o·ue." 
Mav our prayer evei' b~; ·'0 
!Jorcl set t~ watch be,fore my mouth, keep the 
door 'of my lips." Jesus says," If ye love me., 
keep [all] my 
command.m~nts."-Rev. G. W. 
.1!!a7'Cell1,LS, in Earnest Ch'nst~an~ 
614 l6] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
E. J. wAGGONER,} 
ALONZO T. JONES, 
EDI'l'ORS. 
CoRRESPONDING EDITORS. 
J. H. wAGGONER, 
s. N. HASKELL, 
URIAH SMITH, 
GEo. I. BuTLER. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, OCTOBER 7, 1886. 
American Romanisin. 
THE Catholic 1Jfi1·ro1· of September 18 contains a 
letter from Cardinal Gibbons, in which he announces 
.to the clergy that Pope Leo XIII. has formulated 
certain prayers which are henceforth to be "said" 
after every Low Mass, instead of those now in use. 
These prayers are to be "said kneeling in all the 
churches of the world after the celebration of Low 
Mass." Such is the order of the Pope. We do not 
know the nature of the prayers that are now de-
clared to be out of date, nor why it is that they have 
lost their efficacy; but we have the text of the 
prayers which are now declared to be official, and 
we will favor our readers with them. The first iB 
as follows:-
" 0 God, our refuge and our strength, graciously 
look upon thy people who cry to thee; and through 
the intercession of the glorious and Immaculate 
Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Blessed Joseph, her 
Spouse, and of thy holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, 
and all the saints, in thy mercy and kindness hear 
the prayers which we pour forth for the conversion 
of sinners, and for the freedom and exaltation of 
Holy Mother the Church. Through Christ our Lord. 
Amen." 
The reader will notice that in this prayer Christ 
is not altogether ignored. 
After "the faithful" 
have implored the intercession of Mary, Joseph, 
Peter and Paul, "and all the saints," they are 
permitted to close with a reference to the name of 
Christ. It requires no great discernment to see that 
among Catholics the name of Christ is not considered 
to be "above every name." 
The second prayer is as follows:-
" Holy Michael, the Archangel, defend us in the 
battle; be our protection against the wickedness 
and snareR of the devil. Reuuke him, 0 God, we 
suppliantly beseech thee; and do thou, 0 Prince of 
the heavenly host, by the divine power drive into 
heJI Satan and the other evil spirits who wander 
through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen." 
Among the "other evil spirits" who are thus 
charitably consigned to hell are, of course, all those 
who oppose the Catholic Church; for "the church" 
regards all soa.ls as ruined, who reject her dogmas 
and ceremonies. The two prayers, taken together, 
coming as they do from the Pope himself, afford a 
fair view of Catholicism at its best. But this is not 
all. The Cardinal closes with the following an-
nouncement:-
" His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. grants to all who 
recite these pr.ayers, as aforesaid, 300 days' in-
dulgence." 
Here we have the veritable antichrist itself re-
vealed. The granting of indulgences fitly accompa-
nies the rejection of Christ as sole Mediator. Here 
we find the Pope promulgating, as a matter of course, 
the very things which aroused the holy zeal of 
Luther, and against which the Reformation was 
directed; yet to-day not one Protestant in ten thou-
sand will give the matter a second thought. Pro-
fessed Protestants now regard Catholicism as a 
••branch" or grand division of the Christian Church, 
and the National Reformers urge the necessity 
of courting its favor, and even of submitting to 
repeated rebuffs if in the end they can but secure 
the alliance of tl1e Catholic Church. When we con-
sider the increased civilized population of the world 
in the last four hundred years, we cannot shut our 
eyes to the fact that Rome has already more than 
regained that which she lost by the Reformation. 
We think we are warranted in drawing the follow-
ing conclusions:-
1. The Roman Catholic Church is the same to-day 
that it was four hundred years ago. The general 
diffusion of knowledge has caused her to change 
her tactics, but she still works for the same ends as 
then, and secures them. What she accomplished 
then by force, she now gains by flattery. But her 
doctrines and principles have not changed in the 
least, and she is just as ready to use force now, 
when she can, as she was then. 
2. Protestantism is now little more than a name. 
"Protestants" as a class have ceased to "protest." 
They are content with the knowledge of the fact 
that they are the descendants of those who did 
protest, and they view with indifference the rapid-
ity with which the Church of Rome is extending its 
conquests over the world. 
3. This indifference must arise from the fact that 
"Protestantism" so-called, has degenerated until it 
is very like Catholicism. If men were actuated by 
the spirit of the Reformers, they would as strongly 
protest against the evils of "the church" to-day, as 
those noble men did. The Reformation has been 
deformed, and that which the Reformers regarded 
as the enemy of the truth, their children are ready 
to embrace as the conservator of truth. 
Since 
"Rome never changes," Protestantism must have 
changed, in order to bring about this state of things. 
4. "National Reform" is Roman ism under a dif-
ferent title. The Reformers withdrew from Rome,' 
because Rome and they were antagonistic. If there. 
had been oneness of thought and purpose, instead 
of antagonism, they would not have separated from 
Rome. But National Ref'ormers are JJOW seeking 
an alliance with Rome, and so anxious are they for 
this alliance, that they are determined to press 
their suit even though they may be repeatedly re-
jected. If the separation of the true Reformers 
from Rome indicated their antagonism to her, cer-
t.ainly the desired union of the National Reform-
ers indicates their likeness to her. 
5. If professed Protestants are so nearly like the 
Catholics that they cannot see any menace to the 
liberty of our country in the insidious advances of 
the P<tpacy; and if a degenerate Protestantism is 
anxious to ally itself with Catholicism, that both 
"uranches" of "the church" may be thereby 
strengthened,-then when this degenerate Protest-
antism, under the name of" National H.eform," shall 
have succeeded in its purposes, it will certainly adapt 
the tactics, as it already has the p1'inciples, of 
Rome, and will not scruple to persecute those who 
cannot be won to its support by milder measures. 
Iudeed, the National Reformers themselves concede 
this point, for Mr. Sommerville, in the Christian 
Nation, says that it is most certainly right "to take 
public money to teach principles, enforce laws, and 
introduce customs to which many members of the 
community are conscientiously opposed." 
Papal 
Rome, in her highest period of exaltation, never 
did more than this. When a Government or power 
of any kind enforces laws and customs against the 
conscientious convictions of upright citizens, it is 
persecution for conscience' Rake. The National Re-
formers make no secret of their adherence to princi-
ples like this. 
Therefore we say that when National Reform-
ers shall have succeeded in their dei!igns, they will 
have nothing other than an exact image of the 
Papacy. Scripture is not silent upon this point. The 
leopard beast of Rev .13: 1-8 is quite generally admit-
ted to represent the Papacy; if any doubt this, their 
doubts may easily be silenced by the most convinc-
ing proof. 
The power brought to view in th'l verses 
following is said to "make an image" to this papal 
beast, and that image we now see in process of con-
struction. Once men predicted from this prophecy 
just such an image to the Papacy, in this country; 
now they do not need to refer to the prophecy to be 
aware of the fact. It certainly is time for all who 
value civil and religious liberty to sound the alarm. 
And the urgent . necessity of warning the people 
against . the adoption of papal principles, whether 
under the name of Romanism or National Reform, 
is made still more evident by the following announce-
ment of divine wrath upon all who take any part 
in such iniquitous alliances:-
"If any man worship the beast and his image, 
and recejve his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 
the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of 
God, which is poured out without mixture into the 
cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented 
with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy 
angels, and in the presence of the Lamb; and the 
smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and 
ever; and they have no rest day nor night, who 
worship the beast and his image, and whosoever re-
ceiveth the mark of his name." 
Rev. 14:9-11. 
w. 
The Faith of Jesus. 
IN the matter of the duty of keeping the com-
mandments of God and the faith of Jesus, it is not 
to be understood that the two can for a moment be 
separated. The commandments cannot be kept ac-
ceptably to God except by faith in Jesus Christ; 
and faith in Christ amounts to nothing-is dead-
unless it is supported, made perfect, hy good works, 
and these good works consist in keeping the com-
mandments of God. 
Christ kept the command-
ments of God: "I have kept my Father's command-
ments, and abide in his love." John 15:10. By his 
obfldience it is that many must be made righteous. 
"For as by one man's [Adam's] disobedience many 
were made sinuers, so by the obedience of one 
[Christ] shall many be made righteous." 
Rom. 
5: 19. 
But these are made righteous only by faith 
in him, thus having "the righteousness of God 
which is by faith of .Jesus Christ unto all and upon 
all them that believe; for there is no difference; for 
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." 
Rom. 3 : 22, 23. 
All have sinned, and" sin is the transgression of 
the Jaw." 
As all have thus transgressed the law, 
this is why it is that none can attain to righteous-
ness by the law: There is righteousness in the law 
of God; in fact the word says, "All thy command-
ments are righteousness," but there is no righLeous-
ness there fo1' ,the t1·ansgTessor. When any one 
has transgressed the law, then if righteousness 
ever comes to that person, it must come from some 
other source besides the law. And as all in all the 
world have transgressed the law, to whomsoever, 
therefore, in all the world, righteousness shall come, 
it must be from another source than from the law, 
and that source is Christ Jesus the Lord. This is 
the great argument of Rom. 3: 19-3l. "Now we 
know that what things soever the law saith, it saith 
to them who are under the law; that every mouth 
may be stopped, and all the world may become 
guilty befor·e God. Therefore by the deeds of the 
law the1·e shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by 
the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the right-
eousness of God without the law is manijr;sted, be-
ing witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the 
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus 
Ch1·ist unto all and upon all them that believe; for 
there is no difference; for all have sinned, and come 
short of the glory of God." 
Then the question comes in, "Do we then make 
void the law through faith? 
God forbid; yea, we 
establish the law." Notice, he had already said 
that, although this righteousness of God is without 
the law, and by faith in Christ, yet it is "witnessed 
by the law and the prophets." It is a righteousness 
that accords with the law; it is a righteousness to 
which the law can bear witness; it is a righteous· 
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OcToBER 7, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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ness with which the law in its perfect righteousness that the new birth, the birth of the Spirit, is not 
can find no fault. And that is the righteousness of until the resurrection, and that then we enter the 
Christ which he wrought out for us by hh~ perfect kingdom of God. But such a view is altogether 
obedience to the commandments of God, and of wrong. Except a man be born of the Spirit he 
which we become partakers by faith in him, for" by must still remain in the flesh, but the Scripture 
the obedience of One shall many be made righteous." says," They that are in the flesh cannot please God," 
Thus we become the children of God by faith in and the man who does not please God will never 
Christ; by faith in him the righteousness of the law see the kingdom of God, whether it be the kingdom 
6 : 12], • . I have kept the faith." "And this is 
the victory that overcometh the world, even our 
faith/' 2 Tim. 4 :7; 1 John 5:4. 
We thank God for the message which calls upon 
all men to" keep the comrnandmen ts of God, and the 
faithofJesus.'' 
J. 
Our Messag·e. 
is met in us, and we do not make void, but we 
~f grace or of glory. "Manrel not that I said unto 
IN Rev. 10: 6, 7, an angel swears to the ending of 
establish the law of God, by faith in Christ. 
thee, Ye must be born again." "Verily, verily, I the time, prophetic time, co11tained in the little book 
· This is further shown by Rom. 8:3-10: "For say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can-
which was opened, in his hand. This was fulfilled by 
what the law could not do, in that it was weak I not see the kingdom of God." The kingdom of God, the First Angel's Message ofRev.14: 6, 7, proclaiming 
t~roug-h the ~esh, God sending h~s own Son in t~e the ~in~dom of grace, is" !}ghteousness, nnd peace, "the hour of his Judgment is come." 
The Judgment 
hkeness of stnful flesh, and for sm, condemned sm and JOY 111 the Holy Ghost. 
Rom.14: 17. Except of investigation and of decision of character iH identi-
in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might a man be born again he cannot see nor enter into cal with the cleansing of the sanctuary; a work to 
be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but the righteousness of God; he cannot see nor enter take place at the end of the prophetic period of two 
after the Spirit." What wr.s it th~~t the law could into the peace of God, which passeth all understand-thousand and three hundred days. 'Dan. 8:14. Rev. 
not do r 1. The law was ordained to life (Rom. i ng; and except he be born of the Spirit of God, 10 closes with these words: "Thou must prophesy 
7: 10) but it could not give life because all had how can he see or enter into that" joy in the Holy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, 
sinned-transgressed the law-and the wages of sin Ghost"? Except a man be born again-born of and kings." 
is death. 2. The law was ordained to justification the Spirit-before he dies, he will never see the 
Without a full understanding of the fact that the 
(Rom. 2: 13), but it will justify only the doe1·s of the resurrection unto life. This is shown in Rom. 8:11. time referred to in the oath of the angel is prophetic 
law, and of all the children of Adam there have "If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the time, it would be natural to conclude that th'ts oath 
been no doers of the law; all have sinned and come dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from announced the coming ofOhri~t, and the end of the 
short of the glory of God. 3. The Jaw was or-the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by dispensation. And this was the view of those who 
dained to righteousness (Rom. 10: 5), but it can his Spirit that dwelleth in you." It is certain, gave the first message. They did not unders~and 
count as righteous only the obedient, and all the tlH'refore, that except the Spirit of Christ dwell in that the Judgment was to sit, and the sanctuary 
world is guilty of disobedience before God. There-
us we cannot be raised from the dead. But except be cleansecl, before the coming of the Lord. They 
fore because of man's failure, becanse of his wrong his Spirit dwell in us, we are yet in the flesh. 
And fully believed that they were giving the First Angel's 
doings, the law could not give him life, it could not if we are in the flesh, we cannot please God. And Message, and that, with the close of that message, 
justify him, it could not accept him as righteous. if we do not please God herf', we can never see the time should be no longer. 
But "their eyes were 
.So far· as man was concerned, the purpose of the kingdom of God, neither here nor hereafter. 
hidden," that they did not see that two mess:tges 
law was entirely fru!'ltrated. 
Again, it is by birth that we are children of the were to follow the one they were giving, and that the: 
But mark, what the law could not do in that it first Adam; and ifwe shall ever be children of the coming of the Lord is after the three are all given. 
was weak through the sinful flesh, God sent his Son I second Adam, it must be by a ne birth. The firt>t The words of Rev. 10:11 are a prophecy of the Third 
to do in the likeness of sinful flesh. 
What the law AC!am was natural, and we are his children by natu-Angel's Message, and by this we learn that it is to go 
could not do, Chrii:it does. The Jaw could not give ral birth; the second Adam is HpiriLual, and if we be-to" many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and 
life, because by transgression all had incurred its I come his children it must be by i:ipiritual birth. The kings.'' 
penalty of death; the law could not give justifica-first Adam was of the earth, earthy, and we are his 
Rev. 14:9 says the third angPJ prochimed his 
tion, because by failure to do it all had brought children by an earthly birth; the second Adam is rnf'ssage "with a loud voice.'' Thus in these texts 
themselves under its condemnation; the law could the Lord from Heaven, from above, and if we are to we learn two interesting and important truths: 1. 
not give righteousness, because all had sinned. But be his children it must be by a heavenly birth, a This message is to go to t.he nations of the earth. 
2. 
instead of this death, Christ gives life; instead of birth from above. For" as is the earthy, such are It is to go with a loud voice, or in mighty power. 
this condemnation, Oh rist gives justification; instead they also that are earthy.'' 
The earthy is" natural" 
God's purposes of grace are worked out by i nstru-
of this sin, Christ gives righteousness. And for of the flesh," but the natural man receiveth not the mentalities. He has committed to man the work of 
what? that henceforth the law might be despised things of the Spirit ofGocl;" "because they are spirit-
proclaiming the gospel to his fellow-man. 
The re-
by us? Nay, verily! But" that the righteousness ually discerned," and "they that are in the fles·h sponsibility of this mess:tge is upon us. Not as a 
of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not cannot please God.'' Such is the birth right, and all burden, grievous Lo be borne, b11t as a privilege 
after the flesh, but af'ter the Spirit." "Think not the birthright that we receive from the first Adam. granted to us by infinite mercy, that we may be 
that I am come to destroy the Jaw or the proph-But" as is the heavenly such are they also that are "workers together with God," the highest honor that 
ets; I am not come to destroy, but tofuljill," said the heavenly." The heavenly is spiritual, He is "a life-
weak mortals can enjoy. Thismessagemustincrease 
ltoly Son of God. And so "Christ is the end [pur-
giving Spirit," and the spiritual man receives the in extent and power. 
God'~ word has spoken it, and 
pose] of the law for 1'ighteousnes.~ to every one that things of the Spirit of God, because they are spiritu-it cannot fail. But to fulfill this, those who proclaim 
believeth.'' Rom.10: 4. For of God, Christ Jf'sns ally discerned; he can please God because he is not it, who send it forth to the nations, must be clothed 
"is made un;o us wisdom, and righteousness, and in the flesh but in the Spirit, for the Spirit of God with power from on high. It is their privilege to" be 
sa·nctification, ~llld redempLion; that, according as it dwells in him; he is, and can be, subject to the law strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.'' 
is writLen, He that glorieth, Jet him glory in the of God, because the carnal mind is destroyed and he As the message rises in power, God will clothe his 
Lonl." 1 Cur. 1:30, 31. 
has the mind of Christ, the heavenly. Such is the servants with strength and power to rise with it. 
Again, says the Scriptures," The Jaw is spiritual," birthright of the second Adam, the one from above. He will be" the health of our countenance," if we 
and "The carnal mind [the natural mind, the And all the privileges, the blessings, and the joys of put our trust in him. 
minding of the flesh] is enmity against God; for it this birthright shall be onrsif we be born from above. 
When Israel went out of Egypt they came to a 
is not subject to the law or God, neither indeed "Marvel not that I said unto thee, .Ye must be born point where they were hemmed in by the sea, the 
can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot from above." "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex-mountains, and the host of the Egyptians. 
At this 
please God.'' Rom. 7: 14; 8:7, 8. How then shall cept a man be born from above, he cannot see the point, with every avenue closed before them, the 
we please God? How shall we become subject to kingdom of. God." With the argument of this para-voice of the Lord is heard, saying, "Speak unto the 
the law of God? The Saviour says," That which graph, please study 1 Cor. 15: 45-48; John 3: 3-8; children of Israel that they go forward.'' 
is bom of the flesh is flesh," and we have just read 1 Cor. 3: 11-16; Rom. 8:5-10. 
'l'hese things" were written for our learning." Let 
in Romans that it is" sinful flesh," this is why they 
Thus in briefest outline we have drawn a sketch us rise up and go forward. 
The sea, so dark and for-
that are in the flesh cannot please God. But the of the faith of Jesus which must be kept, and by bidding before us, will divide as we approach it, and 
Saviour says, further, "That which is born of the means of which alone the commandments of God can soon we will sing the song of victory ou the other 
Spirit is spirit.'' Therefore it is certain that ex-
be kept. He who keeps this will live the life of the shore. 
J, H. w. 
cept we be born of the Spirit we cannot please God, just, as it is written, "The just ~hnH live by faith." 
1 
we cannot be subject to the law of God, which is Then can he say with the great apostle, "I am cni-
NEXT year the one hundredth anniversary of the 
spiritual, and demands spiritual service. This is cified with Christ, nevertheles~ I live; yet not J, but! adoption of the Constitution of the United States, 
precisely what tlte Saviour Ray;;;, "Verily, verily, I Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live i will be held in Philadelphia. The Clu·istian States-
say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, man is calling for a National Reform Convention, 
of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of who loved me, and gave himself for me.'' Gal. 2:20. to be held at the s;.~me time, and consider means for 
God." 
And when his course is :finished, he can say with both altering that charter of American liberty, so as to 
vVe know that some will say, that the kingdom of the great apostle and the beloved disciple, "I have overthrow all that was done by the revolutionary 
God here referred to is the kin~dom of glory, and 
foL.~ht a good :fight [it is the fight of faith, 1 Tim. fathers • 
• 
616 [S' 
r:I-,HE SIGNS OF TE--IE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
Signs of the End. 
To THOSE who are looking for that event, there 
are evidE>nces of the soon coming of the Lord, which 
are not evidences to those who do not believe the 
truth. It is now as it was in the day when Israel 
came out of Egypt. The pillar of the cloud lit up 
the pathway of the Israelites that they might see 
clearly where to go, but the other side of the cloud 
was darkness to the Egyptians, and left them to 
pursue a course that brought them into confusion 
and final destruction. The Scriptures clearly give 
us the hislory of the world, showing that we have 
reached the last days. This can be understood by 
all; and having reached the last days, near the 
second coming of Christ, there are many things 
spoken of which those who are looking for that event 
see fulfilled, that to them are evidences that proba-
tion is about to end. The earthquake which has 
recently shaken Charleston, South Caroliua, and 
affected the larger portion of this co 111try, is only a 
precursor of what will be seen, sooner or iater, not 
only ir:t this country, but in other parts of the 
world. Such events as are now taking place in 
America are not peculiar to this country. Like 
events happen in Europe; and in the Pacific Ocean, 
some islands sink while others rise. 
The Saviour teaches us in Luke 21 :25, that upon 
the earth there will be "distress of nations, with 
perplexity," the "sea and the waves roaring." There 
will be disturbances in the earth and among the 
nations. These disturbanees of nature will aff0ct 
the sea, and men's hearts will fail them for fear for 
looking after those things which are corning upon 
the earth. The heaving of the mighty deep, causing 
tidal waves, is something to be feared. 
At the time 
of the great day of wrath there will be such disturb-
ances in nature that every mountain and island will 
be moved out of their places, and so terrible will be 
the day of the Lord that the kings of the earth, and 
the great men, and the rich men, and the chief cap-
tains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and 
evl'ry freeman will hide themselves in the dens and 
in the rocks of _the mountains, and call for the 
mountains and the rocks to fall on them and hide 
them from the 
fa~e of him that sitteth upon the 
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. 
But previous to this the "gospel of the kingdom," 
will be preached unto all nations. It will have 
found its way to every kindred, nation, tongue, and 
peoJJle, and i 11 the clo~i ng of the work, persecution 
also will come upon the people of God. 
"And he 
causeth all, both small and gn~at, rich and poor, free 
anrl bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in 
their foreheads; and that no man might buy or sell, 
save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, 
or the number of his name." This will be among 
the last acts in the experience of the people of God 
in this world. As we approach this time, we shall 
see scenes taking place around us that will clearly 
indicate that the end is approaching. The persecu-
tions, that will come on the people of God even in 
this en I igh tened land, for not observing the first day 
of the week, are already approaching. Many of our 
brethren have been indicted, their goods taken from 
them to pay fines, or they have been sent to prison. 
The Russians are taking their part in imprisoning 
those who are preaching the truths of the Third 
Angel's Message. Brother Conradi, missionary from 
America, was lately confined in a Russian jail for 
the truth's sake. 
The truth has nearly encircled the world. Al-
though there are nations where the living preacher 
has not gone, yet by publications the message has 
found its way to almost every nation, and God has, 
through this instrumentality, raised up advocates 
of the truth, so that calls for laborers come in from 
every part of the civilized world. 
We have not the 
men nor the means to fill these calls, but it would 
be a disgrace to say that God has not means among 
his people to carry forward a work which he has I conn trieR were diReovered. 
He returned home 
undertaken to do. 
But this means needs to be with three hundred wagons which gro:1110d un-
transferred from the people lo the Lord's treasury, der the >V(\ight of the immense booty which he 
that it may be used to carry forward the work that carried back to Bohemia. 
God would have us perform, and if we rel'ust• to act 
. This move has b~en c.ensured by rna~y bisto-
in this matter, God will raise u 
others wlto will do' mtns; but ProC•)piLlS felt that tbe t.Ime had 
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come when they should do sometl-nng that 
th 1s, for the sd ver and the gold are lus, and the 
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enemy wonld not accept pence on reasonable 
Do we need grE>ate~ ev1dences that _the ro~m of Lerms, willingly, they Nbould be forced to do so. 
the Lord draweth mgh than these facts wh1ch we It, however, turned the sympathies in favor of 
see existing all over the world. Destructive earth-the papal party and the Germ:tn nn,tion. It. 
quahs have been rare in this country, but they are was not men clad in metal that Home dreaded[ 
now becoming common. 
The Spirit of God hRs the most; but it was mo11 clothed in the armor· 
borne testimony to tltese things. The events for of truth, \u00b7vielding not the sword, but the\ 
which we have looked for the past forty years are Scriptures, before w!Jom that apo:-;late body 
taking place in our midst. Shall we not then stir tr~rn bled. 
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ourselves n.s never before to throw in the scale of 
The Pope and empe10r agam took eonn-
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t1uth the Influence whiCh we po:-;sess? 
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ne ref:lu , an army o one 
who w11l be saved wlten the Lord comes. He calls hundred and thirty thousand men was raisedr 
upon his people everywhere to co-operate with his and on the fir8t of August, 1431, they crossf;dl 
providence and work to warn the world of the im-the Bohemian fro•tLier, penetrating thnmgh the 
pending judgments. Those who cannot be stirred great fore::;ts whieh covered the country on the 
by these events to put forth extra efforts to send the Bavarian side. 
'l'his erusade resnlted as the 
solemn warning to all parts of the earth show too one before it bad done. 
The army became 
clearly that they are lacking that interest which is panic-stricken and fled from the field. 
The 
neees~ary to prepare them for the coming storm. Duke of Bavaria was one of the first to flee. 
We say to our brethren and friends, Have courage It is said that the only man who did not lose 
in God; it is the Lord who is shaking this earth; his head that dny was the legate Cesarini. It. 
and he will care for those who link their interests would be ex peeLed that t.h 0 Bohemians, wi I h 
their inferior numbers, would have been the ones 
with his truth and thus pr,·pare to meet him. 
to flee; but that the Germans should flee 
8· N.H. 
is inexplicable, unless on account of the moral 
========================================= state of the eo mba tan ts. 
H shows that a good 
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conscience is the be~t equipment for evm1 an 
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army, and that it will do m ucb to secure tho 
victorv. There is here seen the touch of a di-
vine flnger,-Lhe infusion of a supernatural 
A, New Line of Policy of the Bol1emians. terror. 
'J'heir enemies were so frightened, it is 
rrHE Bohemians had decided that the gulf 
between them and the emperor was impassable, 
made so by the death of Huss and Jerome; 
but Procopius was unwilling to fol'ego the hope 
of peace so greatly needed by a stricken and 
bleeding country. He was ready to die for 
them on the battle-field; but be longed, if it 
were possible, to make peace on just terms, and 
so to close their fearful wars. 
Accordingly a 
Diet was assembled at Prague, and be was sent 
to lay before the emperor the terms upon which 
they would accept peace. 
This he did by pre-
senting the following four cardinal points: 'l'he 
free preaching of the gospel, comumnion in both 
kinds, satisfactory arrangement of the ecciesi-
astical property. and the execution of the laws 
against crimes, by whomsoever committed. 
Sigismund would not agree to these terms. 
Procopius returned to his people with the sat-
isfaction that be had held out the olive branch 
of peace, and that if the sword must be un-
sheathed, the blood which would flow would lie 
at the door of thoRe who bad spurned the 
overtures of a just and a reasonable settle-
ment. 
Up to thiA time the Hussites bad only as-
sumed th'e defensive; after they had proposed 
to make peace with the emperor, and their 
propositions were rejected, they decided to 
follow another policy,-to enter Germany and 
see what could be accomplished by carrying the 
war upon the emperor's own borders. 
Accord-
ingly Procopius entered Germany in 1429, and 
during the campaign that followed, the whole 
of Western Germany felt the weight of his 
sword. 
One hundred towns and castles he 
converted into. ruins, and he exacted heavy 
ransoms from wealthy cities. 
The barons and 
bishops he made pay equally large sums as the 
price or~ their escape from captivity or death. 
Some of the most prominent towns, and such 
magnates as the Blector of Brandenuurg, and 
the Bishop of Salzburg, he rate.d at ten thou-
sand ducats [$20,000]. 
This was an enormous 
sum at this time, before the gold-yielding 
said, that some of them really lost their way 
and wandered back into the ranks of the Bo-
hemians, others, fleeing to their own cities, began 
to beg for lodging as t.bough they were stran-
gers, and had no acquaintance with the coun-
try. 
S. N.H. 
Experiences on a Stock Range in Idaho. 
IT is about thirteen months since I com-
menced to keep the Sabbath, and 1 had kept it 
only about a month when we moved to Luis 
ranch sixty miles from BoiRe City. 
Since then 
I have not seen a Sabbath-keeper. 
I have 
bought and disLribuled about ten dollars' worth 
of books and papers. 
I am sony to say I do 
not know of any one who has obeyed the truth 
through the reading I have given them. 
But 
that does not discourage me for the Saviour is 
now waiting-to give all an opportunity to choose 
between God's laws and the laws of men. lf 
his glorious truth is placed in people's bands 
and they will not heed it they will be without 
excuse in that groat and terrible day when 
"every eye shall see Him.'' 
I gave a Bible to one family who, tbongb 
members of a. prominent Protestant cbureh, 
were bringing up their four children without a 
Bible in their house! 
They complain that the 
one I gave them is an "Advent Bible;" and 
they say the "Advent people have changed the 
Bible, especially the fourth commandment." 
Think of their inexcusable ignorance; for they 
are Americans who have for many years been 
professed Christians without a Bible in their 
house, and do not recognize the common version 
when it is given to them! lt is not necessary 
in some instances to go far from home to find 
heathen. 
1 am filled with wonder·ing joy when I read 
of the rapid fulfilling of the words that foretell 
the coming of the dear Lord. 
'rhe joyful cer-
tainty that he is coming makes all burdens 
light to bear. 
MRs. W. HuBBELL SMITH. 
Payette, Idaho. 
I 
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· OcT:oBER 7, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF TriE TIMES. 
[9] 617 
Letters fr·om Soutll America. 
A BROTHER, a native of British Guiana, writes 
as follows from Ulverstone:-
" I have no~ been at Rose Hall Village for 
several s~ccess~ve Sund~ys, distribnting papers 
and boldmg B1ble-readmg8. 
There is a gL·eat 
call there for reading matter. As a result of 
the Bible readings, there are some who believe 
and admit that the seventh day is the Sabbath. 
I am encouraged. to spend the -most of my time 
there. The field IS large and Lhere is much need 
of laborers. 
I am sorry to see Lime wast.ed by 
somu who make no eit'ort to spread the truth· 
they seem to be afraid of the taunts of men; 
and are forgetful of ~the words of the Saviour: 
' TLe servant is not greater than his J..~ord.' 
''I aRk your prayers that God may bless my 
feeble efforts to spread his truth." 
Another brother writing-from Berbice says:--
" In N ovembcr and Doc· ember 188-1 'r re-
ceived a few copies of the SIGNS fr~m a brother 
in New Amsterdam. 
'J1bey were cast aside, 
however, and not much attention paid to the 
truths which they contained till some months 
later, when I met the one from whom I bad 
recei.ved the p~pers. 
He then placed more 
readmg matter 1n my hands, and after a careful 
examination of the subject I, determined to 
observe the Sabbath of the Lord. 
"From this small begmning there bas been 
a company of Sabbath· keepers raised up on the 
coast. Tbe brother fi·om whom I received the 
tr.utb visits .us regularly, traveling a distance 
of twenty miles to do so. 
He bas organized a 
Tr:-tct and Missionary Society here and is truly 
devote~ to the work. May God help him in his 
~£forts 1s my prayer. I would 11 rge that a min-
Ister be sent to help us, and we tru::;t soon to 
welcome one." 
Fra nee. 
NIMES:-We have oow given about sixty dis-
courses m the tent at Nimes, and twelve or 
fifteen persons are obeying. 
A Sabbath-school 
bas been started. Bible-readings are taking 
ev~n bet~er than preaching meetings. 
We still 
e~.JOY qm~t~ and have thus far received no spe-
Cial opp~s1t10n on the part of religionists. Three 
weeks Amce, by special invitation of a pastor, 
! spoke to his congregation one Sunday morn-
mg. 
God gave moL·e than ordinary freedom as 
I dwelt on the cross of Christ. 
· 
VERGEZE.-\Ve have a few interested bearers 
at this place. 
The last time I was there, I 
visited a cave where PL·otustants u8ed to hide 
from their persecutors hundred8 of years ago, 
and spoke from a fig tree fl'om which Jean 
C~valier used to cheer his men, at the entrance 
of the cave. 
Next Sabbath I celebrate the thirtieth anni-
verR~ry of m?. Sabbath-keeping, the greatest 
day m my rehgwus experience, and the observ-
ance of _wbic~ brings more and more solid joy 
and sat1sfact10n to my soul. 
When I com-
menced keeping the Sabbath, some said: "In 
ten years you will be sorry," but the close of 
each decade has found me more joyful in the 
path of obedience 
My post-office address is, Rue Freres Mineurs 
5, Nimes, France. 
D. T. BouRDEAU. 
Septembe'r 7. 
Calistoga, Napa County, California. 
WE closed our tent-meeting here last night. 
We have thirty-one names on the covenant. 
The Sabbath-school has forty-seven members. 
There are others here that we expect to see 
take a stand for the truth. We have baptized 
ten adults. 
ThP coming camp-meeting has 
caused us to close the meeting a little sooner 
than we otherwise should have done, and we 
trust that further labor may be bestowed on 
this field in the near future. w. M. HEALEY. 
September 27, 1886. 
H. A. ST.JOHN. 
California and Nevada. 
8INCE my last report I have labored in Hum-
boldt and Merced Counties, California, and in 
the towns of Winnemucca and Unionville, Ne-
vada. 
I have also visited most of our brethren 
in the latter State. 
In Humboldt County, Oal., twenty-five signed 
the covenant and ten were baptized. In Merced 
County, fourteen signed the covenant and nine 
were baptized. 
A comfortable meeting-house 
bas been built. and paid for in this county. 
After labor1 ng about two weeks witb the lit-
tle companies inN evada, I assisted Brother Col-
cord with the tent-meeting in ·winnemucca, 
where ten promised to obey the truth. For the 
~ast t~o m~:mtbs I have been holding meetings 
1n Umonvdle, where eighteen Lave signed the 
covenant, including the school teacher and his 
wife. 
Still others are keeping the Sabbath. 
A Sabbath-school of thirty-one members, and 
also a.Tract and Missionary Society hav,e been 
orgamzed. 
FRANK LAMB. 
Unionville, Sept. 24. 
Nebraska Camp-Meeting. 
THIS meeting was held at Lincoln the capi-
tal of the State, September 15-21. 
The camp 
was located on a vacant block in the eastern 
part of the city, bandy to the street cars and 
~th~r conveniences. 
There were about sixty 
family tents on the ground, besides the pnblic 
tents. 
These were all crowded to their nl most 
capaeity. There were probably four or five 
hundred persons encamped on the ground. 
Quite a number of these were not Sabbath-
keepers, but neighbors and friends who came 
with the brethren. 
Evidently these brethren 
bad made special efforts to get them out, in 
some cases paying part of their expenses. The 
attendance from the city was also excellent. 
The camp-meeting was held here last year, and 
t?ere bas been a mission in the city since that 
t1me, also a tent-meeting through the summer, 
conducted by _Elder Cudney. 
About forty new 
Sabbath-keepers have embraced the truth dur-
ing the year. 
There is evidently a good feel-
ing in Lincoln toward our people. 
Elder Haskell and myself arrived on the 
ground Thursday noon, and labored to the best 
of our ability in the various branches of the 
work. 
Generally there was good freedom in 
t?e meetings. 
On the Sabbath day the exer-
Clses were specially interesting. At the close 
of the forenoon sermon, forty or fifty came for-
ward, manifesting vePy deep feeling. In the 
afternoon, at the close of Elder Haskell's ser-
mon, the work was taken up and carried for-
ward still further, and quite a large number 
more made a start. Nearly all who came for-
ward did so tor the first time; but some were 
tho~e w.h? bad wholly backslidden, and were 
agam g1v1ng themselves to the Lord. 
Quite a 
number here took their stand publicly to keep 
the .sabbath, and many very touching testi-
m_omes ~ere borne. It was as good a meeting 
of the kmd as I have witnessed this season. 
Monday forenoon was the best of the whole 
meeting. 
Elder Haskell laid before them 
the wants of the cause. 
Money and pledges 
w~re then called for, and we spent an hour in 
~his work. The good Spirit of the Lord came 
~n, and nearly every one gave something, and 
rt seemed to do them good to do so. 
The Con-
ference was in debt about $1,400. 
This amount 
was readily raised, besides about $800 for the 
general fund, and city mission. 
During the 
rear two good. companies have been brought 
mto .the t~utb sn~ply by brethren giving Bible-
readmgs m the1r own neighborhoods. This 
shows what can be done in this way, and it 
also shows that Nebraska is a good field for 
labor. 
The brethren here set a good example for 
other Conferences to follow in the matter of ob-
taining names for the daily papers containing 
reports of the meeting. 
Over 500 subscribers 
were gathered up throughout the Conference 
to each of whom six numbers of a daily pape~ 
were sent during the meeting. 
GeneraMy 
those receiving the papers paid for them them-
selves,-:fifteen cents for six numbers of the 
papers,-and they were mailed directly from the 
office of publication. 
'_1_1bus the trutb will be 
read all over the State, and largely paid for by 
those who read it. 
The brethren report that 
they bad no difficulty in getting large lists of 
Aubscribers for th~ paper ~mong their neigh-
bors. Let others follow tb1s example. 
J. P. Gardner was elected President of the 
Conference, with A. J. Cudney and L. A. 
Hoopes on the Executive Committee. A. J. 
Cudney was elected President of the Tract So-
ciet.y, and 0. A. J obnson Prer-;ident of the Sab-
bath-school Association. 
Monday afternoon 
about forty were baptized. 
On the whole, we 
feel ~hat we have 
l~ad a very encouraging 
meetmg, and that w1tb nroper management 
this will soon be a strong Conference. 'rbey 
need to improve in the ar•rangement and ac-
commodation for their camp-meeting. We feel 
sure that they will do this another year. 
D. M. OANRIGHT. 
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 2.J. 
~lint ntentar ~. 
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. 
Jesus Delivere<l to be Crucified. 
(October 17.-John 10: 1-16.) 
PILATE had declared that Jesus was innocent 
of the .m.'imes of which be was accused, yet be 
~as wdlmg. t~ ma.ke a partial sacrifice of jus-
twe and prmc1ple m order to ~om promise wi tb 
~n unfeeling mob; he was willing to suffer an 
mnocent man to be scourged, that their inh u-
man wrath might be appeased. But the fact 
that he proposed to make terms with them 
placed Pilate at a disadvantage with the ungov-
ern~?le crowd, who now presumed upon his in-
demswn, and clamored the more for the life of 
the prisoner. Pilate turned to the people, and 
represented to them that the priests and elders 
had not snb~tantiated in any degree the charges 
brou~bt ag~mst Jesus. 
He hoped by this means 
to raise the1r sympathy for him, so they would 
be willing to release him. 
The governor was forced to action; he turned 
to the crowd and spoke with great earnel':ltnoss: 
"Whom will ye that. I release unto you? Ba-
rabbas, or, Jesus who IS called Christ?" It was 
customary at this feast for the governor to re-
l~ase one prisoner, .whomsoever~ the people de-
Sired to be set at hberty. Pilate seized this as 
an opport~nity to save Jesus; and by giving 
them a chowe between the innocent Saviour and 
the notable robber and murderet·, Barabba::;, 
he hoped to rou~e the~ to a sense of justice. 
~ut grea~ was .h1s astomsbment when the cry, 
·Away w1th th1s man, and release unto us Ba-
rabbas!" was started by the priests, and taken 
up by the mob, resounding through the hall 
like the hoarse cry of demons. 
~ilate was dumb with. surprise and disap-
P?mt.ment; but br appealing to the peoplfl, and 
ywldmg h1s own JUdgment be had compromised 
his dignity, and lost contr~l of the crowd. · The 
priests saw that though he was convinced of the 
innocence of Jesus, he .could be intimidated by 
them, and ~hey .dete;mmed to carry their point. 
So when P1late mqmred, "What shall I do then 
with Jesus who is called Christ'? " they with 
one accord cried out, "Let him be crucified!" 
Here Pilate again revealed his weakness in 
submitting the sentence of Jesus to a lawiess 
and infuriated mob. 
The governor's cheek 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
paled as_ be beard the terrible cry: "Oruci(y 
biml" He bad not thought it would come to 
that--a man whom be bad repeatedly pro-
hounced innocent, to be consigned to the most 
dreaded of deaths. He now saw what a terri-
ble thing he bad done in placing the life of a 
jtist tnan in the balance agn.inst the decision of 
those, who, from envy and malice, bad delivered 
him up to trial. Pilate had taken step after 
stop in the violation of his conscience, and in 
excusing himself feom judging with equity and 
fairness, as his position demanded he should do, 
until now he found himself almost helpless in 
the hands of the Jews. 
Pilate, in the vain hope of exciting their pity, 
that they might decide this was sufficient pun-
ishment, now caused Jesus to be scourged in 
the presence of the multitude. 
The pale suf-
ferer, with a crown of thorns upon his bead, and 
stripped to the waist, revealing the long, cruel 
11tripes, from which the blood flowed freely, was 
then placed side by side with Barabbas. Al-
though the face of Jesus was stained with blood, 
and bore marks of exhaustion and pn.in, yet his 
noble character could not be hidden, but stood 
out in madced contrast with thn.t of the robber 
chief, whose every feature proclaimed him to be 
a debased and hardened desperado. 
Pilate was filled with sympn.thy nnd amaze-
ment as he beheld the uncomplaining patienee 
of Jesus. 
Gentleness and resignation were ex-
pressed in every feature; there was no cowardly 
weakness in his manner, but the strength and 
dignity of long-suffet·i ng. 
Pilate did not doubt 
thnt the sight of this man, who bad borne insult 
and abuse in sncb a mn.nner, when contrasted 
with tho repulsive criminal by his side, would 
move the people to sympathy, and they would 
decide that Jesus had alren.dy suffered enough. 
But he did not understn.nd the fana,tica.l hn.tred 
of the priests foe Ch l'ist, who, as the Light of 
the world, had maue ap[HLI'ent their dadmess 
and error. 
Pilate, pointing to the Saviour, in a voiee of 
solemn entreaty Raid to pri<~sts, rulet·~. and peo-
ple, u Beboid the ma,n." 
"I bring him forth to 
you that ye may know that [ finrl. no l'ault in 
him." 
But the priests h;td moved the mob to 
mad fnry; anu, instead of pit.yiug Je~ns in his 
suffering and forbearance, they cried, '· Crncify 
him, crucify him!" and tbeit· hoarse ,-oiees were 
like the roaring of wild ben.sts. 
Pil:tte, losin.g 
all patience with their nnren.Boning crnelty, cried 
out despairingly, "'rake ye him and cr·ue;il)' 
him; for I find no fault in him." 
The Roman governor, familiarized with cruel 
scene!'\, educated amid the din of battle, wn,s 
moved with symp~tthy fot· the suffering prisoner, 
who, cot1ternned and P.C<Htrged, with bleeding 
brow and lacerateu b:wk, still bad more the 
bearing or a king upon his throne than that of 
u condemned criminal. But the bettl'ts of his 
own people were h:u·Jene<.l n.gainst him. 
The 
pri~sts declat'od, "We have a bw, and by our 
law be ou•~h t to die. becaut� he made himself 
the Son ofG·od." 
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"When Pilate therefore heard that saying, 
he was the more afraid; anJ went again into 
tho judgment hall, n11d saitb unto Jesus, vVbence 
art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer." 
Jesus had already told Pilate that he was the 
.M.esRiab, thn.t his kingdom was not of this world; 
and be had no farther words for a man who so 
abused the high office of judge as to yield his 
principles and anthority to tbe demands of a 
bloocl-Lhirsty rabble. Pilate waR vexed at the 
silenee of J esns, and Laughtily addressed him:-
" Spen.kest thou not unto me'? knowest thou 
not that I have power to crucifY thee, and have 
power to release thee? Jesus answered, rl'hou 
eouldest have no power at all againRt TPe, except 
it were given tbee from above; therefore he 
f 
that delivered me unto thee hath the greater mutilated remains were ordered to be buried at 
sin." Jesus here laid the heaviest burden of once, and the crowd paRsed on; but there was 
guilt upon the J ewisb judges, who had received leRs noiRy mockery, and many a pale face re-
unmistakable evidence of the divinity of Him vealed the fearful thoughts within. Rctribu-
whom they had condemned to death, both from tion seemed already to be visiting those who 
the prophecies and his own teachings and mir-were guilty of the blood of Jesus. 
acles. What a scene was this to hand down to 
the world through all time! 
The pitying Sa\u00b7-
iour, in the midst of his intense suffering and 
grief, exeuses as far as possible the act of Pi-
late, who might have released him from the 
power of his enemies. 
Pilate was now more convinced than before, 
of the superiority of the man before him, and 
tried again and again to save him. "But the 
Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, 
thou art not Cresar's friend; whosoever maketb 
himself a king speaketh against Uresar." 
This 
was touching Pilate in a weak point. He had 
been looked upon with some suspicion by the 
Government; and he knew that a report of un-
faithfulness on his pn.rt would be likely to cost 
him his position. He knew that if the Jews 
became his enemies he could hope for no mercy 
at their hands; for he had before him an ex" 
ample of the perseverance with which they 
sought to destroy one whom they hated with-
out. reason. 
The implied threat in the declaration of the 
priests regarding his allegiance to Cresar, intim-
idated Pilate, so that he yielded to tho demands 
of the mob, and delivered Jesus up to the cruci-
fixion rather than risk losing his position. But 
the very thing he dreaded came upon him after-
ward in spite of his precautions. His honors 
were stripped from him; be was cast down from 
his high office; and, stung by remorse and 
wounded pride, he committed suicide not long 
after the cru0ifixion. 
"When Pilate FJnw thn.t be could prevail noth-
ing, but that rather a tumult was made, be took 
water, and washed his hands before the multi-
tude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this 
just person; see yo to it." 
Oain.phas answered 
defin.ntly, "His blood be on us, and on onr chil-
dren;" and his words were echoed by the 
priests and rulers, and tnken up by the crowd 
in an inhuman roar of voices. "Then answered 
n.ll the people and said, His blood be on us, anu 
on our cbildren." 
Only a short time before, the governor had 
declared to his p1·iF>oner that be had power to 
Jesus had scarcely passed the gn.te of Pilato~s 
house when the cross which had been prepared 
for Barabbas was bronght out and laid upon his 
bruised and bleeding shoulders. Crosses were 
also placed upon the companions of BarabbnR, 
who were to snff'er death at the same time wiLh 
Jesus. 
The Saviour had borne his burden uut 
a few rods, when, from loss of blood and exces-
sive weariness and pain, be fell fainting to the 
ground. As be lay benen.th the heavy bm·den 
of the cross, how the heart of the molber of 
Christ longed to place a supporting band be-
neath his wounded bend, and bathe that brow 
that bad once been pillowed upon her bosom. 
But, alas, that mournful privilege was denied her. 
When Jesus revived, the cross was again 
plnced upon his shoulders and he was forced 
forward. 
He staggered on for a few steps, bear-
ing his heavy load, then fell as one lifeless to 
the ground. 
He was at first pronounced to be 
dead, but finally he again revived. 
The priests 
and rulers felt no com passion for their snfl'eri ng 
victim; but they saw that it was imposf:lible for 
him to carry the instrument of torture farther. 
rl'l!ey were puzzled to find any one who would 
hnmiliate himself to bear the cross to the place 
of execution. 
The Jews could not do it because 
of defilement, and their consequent inability to 
keep the coming pn.ssover festival. 
While they were considering what to do, Si-
mon, a Cyrenin.n, coming from an opposite di-
rection, met the crowd, was seized at the insti-
gation of the priests, and compelled to carry 
the cross of Christ. 
'l'be sons of Simon were 
disciples of Jesus, but he himself had never 
been connected with him. 
This oceasion wn.s 
a profitable one for him. The cross he was 
forced to bear became the means of his conver-
sion. 
His sympathies were deeply stirred in 
favor of Jesus; and the events of Calvary, and 
the words uttered by Jesus, caused him to 
acknowledge that be was the Son of God. Si-
mon ever after felt grateful to God fot· the sin-
gular providence which placed him in a. position 
to receive evidence for himself that Jesus was .'_ 
the world's Redeemer. 
n~lease or to condemn him; but he now thonght 
A great multitude followed tbe Saviour to 
that he could not s::1.ve him, and also his own Calvary, mn.ny mocking and deriding; but some 
position and honor; anu he preferred to sacri· were weeping and reeonnting his praise. 'rhuse 
fice an innocent life rather than his ovvn worldly whom be had healed of variouR infirmities, and 
power. Had he acted promptly and firmly at those whom he had raised frvm the dead, de-
the first, carrying out his convictions of right, clared hiR marvelous works with earnest voice, 
his will would not have been overborne by the and demanded to know what Jesus bad dcn1e 
mob; they would not have presumed to dictn.te that be should be treated as a malefactor. 
Only 
to him. 
His wavering and indecision proved a few days before, they had attended him 
his irredeemable ruin. 
How many, like Pilate, with joyful hosannns, and the waving of palm-
sacrifice principle and integrity, in O!'dct· to bmncbes, as he rode triumphantly to Jerusalem. 
shun disagreeable consequenceR. 
Con::;cience But many who had then shunted his praisy, be-
and dnty point one way, a11d self-interest points· cause it was popular to do so, now swelled the 
another; and the current, setting strongly in cry of" Crucify him! Crncify him!" 
the wrong direction, sweeps away into the thick 
darkness of guilt him who compromises with 
evil.-Spi1·it of P1·ophecy, Yol. 3. 
Jesus Crucified. 
(Octol.ler 24.-John 19: 17-SO.) 
fHEY hutTied .'..;~us away with loud shontR of' 
trinmph; but their noise ceased for a time when 
they pa:-;sed a retired place, and saw at the foot 
of a lifeless tree tlte dead body of Judas, who 
bad betrayed Cb 1·ist. lt was a most revolting 
spectacle; his weight had broken the cord by 
which be bad bung him::;elf' to the tree, and, in 
falling, his body hn.d become honibly mangled, 
and was then being devoured by dogs. 
The 
After Jesus was nailed to the cross, it was 
lifted by several powerful men, and thrust with 
great violence into the place prepared for it, 
cansing the most excmciating agony LO the Son 
·of God. 
Pilate then wrote an inscriptio11 in 
three diiferent lang11nges and placed it upon the 
eros~, above the head of Jesus. It ran thus: 
"This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.'' 
This in-
scription placed so conspicuously upon the cross, 
il'rita.ted the Jews. 
In Pilate's cout·t they had 
cried, Oruci~y him! We have no king but Cresarl 
They declared that whoever claimed other thn.n 
Cmsru· for a king was a traitor. But they had 
over roached themselves in disclaiming any de-
sire to have a king of their own natiou. Pilate, 
OCTOBER 7, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
(ll] 619 
in his inscription, wrote out the sentiments which 
they had expressed. It was a virtual declara-
tion, and so understood by all, that the Jews ac-
knowledged that on account of tbeir allegiance 
to the .Roman power, any man who aspired to 
be king of the Jews, however innocent in other 
respects, should be judged by them worthy of 
death. 
There was no other offense named in 
the inscription; it simply stated that Jesus was 
the king of the Jews. 
The J ewR saw thiA, and asked Pilate to change 
the inscription. 
Said the chief priests, "Write 
not, The King of the Jews; but that be said, I 
am King of the Jews." But Pilate, angry with 
himself because of his former weakness, and 
thoroughly despising the jealous and artful 
priests and rulers, coldly replied, "What I have 
W11itten I have written. 
The enemies of Jesus now awaited his death 
with impatient hope. 
That event they imag-
ined would forever hush the rumors of his di-
vine power, and the wonders of his miracles. 
~rhey flattered themselves that they should then 
110 longer tremble because of his influence. 
The 
unfeeling soldiers who bad stretched the body 
or Jesus upon the cross, divided his clothing 
among themselves, contending over one gar-
ment, which was woven without seam. 
They 
finally decided the matter by casting lots for it. 
The pen of inspiration had accurately described 
this scene hundreds of years before it took 
place: ".For dogs have compassed me; the as-
sembly of the wicked have inclosed me; they 
pierced my bands and ·my feet." "'fhey parted 
my raiment among them, and for my vesture 
t!Jey did cast lots." 
The eyes of Jesus wandered over the multi-
tude that bad collected together to witness b is 
death, nnd be saw at the foot of the cross John 
supporting :M:ary, the mother of Christ. 
She 
had returned to the terrible scene, not being 
able to longer remain a,way from her son. 
The 
last lesson of Jesus was one of filial love. He 
looked upon the grief-stricken face of his mother 
and then upon John; said he, addressing the for-
mer: "Woman, behold thy son." 
'_rhen, to the 
disciple: "Behold, thy mother." John well un-
derstood the words of Jesus, and the sacred 
trul:lt which was committed to him. He imme-
diately removed the mother of Christ from the 
fearful scene of Calvary. 
l~rom that hour he 
cared for her as would a dutifnl son, taking her 
to his own home. 
0 pitiful, loving Saviour! 
Amid all his physical pain, and mental anguil:lh, 
he had a tender, thoughtful care for the mother 
who bad. bome him. 
He bnd no money to leave 
her, by which to insure her future comfort, but 
he was enshrined in the heart of John, and be 
gave his mother unto the beloved disciple as a 
sacred legacy. 
This trust was to prove a great 
uJel':lsing to J obn, a constant reminder of his be-
loved Master. 
In silence the people watch for the end of 
this fearful scene. Again the sun shines forth; 
but the cross is enveloped in darkness. 
Priests 
tmd rnlers look tow:lrd J erusnlem; and lo, the 
denBo cloud bas settled upon tLe city, and over 
Judah's plains, and the fierce lightnings of God's 
wrath are directed agairlt:it tbe fated city. 
Sud-
denly the gloom is lifted fi·om the cross, and 
in clear trumpet tones, that seem to rel:lound 
throng bout creation, Jesus cries, "It is fin-
ished;" "Fathet, into thy bands I commend 
my spirit." A ligh l eucircled the cross, and 
the face of the Saviour shone with a glQry like 
unto the sun. He then bowed his head upon 
his breast, and died. 
------
All the spectators stood paralyzed, and with 
bated breath gnzed upon the Saviour. Again 
darkness settled upon the face of the earth, and 
a hoarse rumbling like heavy thunder was heard. 
This was accompanied by a violent trembling 
of the earth. The multitude were shaken to-
gether in heaps, and the wildest confusion 
and consternation ensued. In the surrounding 
mountains, rocks burst asunder with loud crash-
ing, and many of them came tumbling down 
the heights to the plains below. 
The sepul-
chcrl:'! were broken open, and the dead were 
cast out of their tombs. 
Creation seemed to 
be shivering to atoms. Priests, rulers, soldiers, 
and execu Lioners were mute with terror, and 
prostrate upon the ground. 
The darkness was again lifted from Calvary, 
and hung like a pall over Jerusalem. 
At the 
moment in which Cbrist died, there were priests 
miuistering in the temple before the vail which 
separated the holy fi.·om the most holy place. 
Suddenly they felt the earth tremble beneath 
them, and the vail of the temple, a strong, rich 
drapery that bad been renewed yearly, was 
rent in twain from top to bottom by the same 
bloodless band that wrote the words of doom 
upon the walls of Bel~"<hazzar's palace. The 
most holy place, that had been sacredly entered 
by human feet only once a year, was revealed 
to the common gaze. 
God had ever before pro-
tected his temple in a wonderful manner; but 
now its sacred mysteries were exposed to curi-
ous eyes. No longer would tLe presence of God 
overshadow the earthly mercy-seat. No longer 
would the ligb t of his glory flash forth upon, nor 
the cloud of his disapproval shadow, the precious 
stones in the breast-plate of the high priest. 
When Christ died upon the cross of Calvary, 
a new and living way was opened to both Jew 
and Gentile. The Saviour was henceforth to 
officiate as Priest and Advocate in the Heaven 
of heavens. 
From henceforth the blood of 
beasts offered for sin was valueless; for the 
Lamb of God had died for the sins of the world. 
The darkness upon the face of nature expressed 
her sympathy with Christ in his expiring ag-
ony. It evideneed to humanity that tho Sun 
of Righteousness, the Light of the world, was 
withdrawing his beams from the once favored 
city of JerusaJem and from the ·wodd. It was 
a miraculous testimony given of God, that the 
faith of after generations might be confirmed. 
Jesus did not yield up his life till he bad ac-
complished the work which he came to do; and 
he exclaimed with bis parting breath, "It is 
finished!" 
Angels rejoiced as the words were 
uttered; for the great plan of red01nption was 
being triumphantly carried out. 
':l_1bere was 
joy in Heaven that the sons of Adam could now, 
through a life of obedience, be exalted finally 
to the presence of God. 
Satan was defeated 
and knew that his kingdom was lost. 
When the Christian fully comprehends the 
magnitude of the great sacrifice made by the 
Majesty of Heaven, then will the plan of salva-
tion be magnified before him, and to meditate 
upon Calvary will awaken the deepest and most 
sacred emotions of his heart. Contemplation 
of the Saviour's matchless love should absorb 
the mind, touch and melt the heart, refine and 
elevate the affections, and completely transform 
the whole character. 
The language of the 
apostle is, "I determined not to know anything 
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him cruci-
fied." 
And we may look toward Calvary and 
exclaim, "God forbid that I should glory, save 
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom 
the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the 
world."-M,rs. E. G. White in Gr·ectt Controversy. 
WE. are now in danger of a sentimental and 
simpering faith. Charity without principle to 
guide it may distribute its gifts very indiscrim-
inately and injuriously. 
More evil may arise 
from lawle-ss love, which is faseinaLing, than from 
hatred, which is repulsive.-Dr. McCosh. 
THE PARABLES OF JESUS. 
Lesson IV.-The Good San1aritan. 
(Sabbath, October 23.) 
1. ·wHo was it that on a certain occasion 
stood up and tempted Jesus? 
"And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and 
tempted him, saying, MaRter, what shall I do 
to inherit eternal life?" Luke 10 : 25. 
2. Who -were called lawyers in those days? 
3. What question did the lawyer ask? See 
above. 
4. What way did Jesus take to answer him? 
-He asked him a question in return. 
5. Hepeat the question. 
"He said u11to him, What is written in the 
law? how readest thou?" Verse 26. 
6. How did the In.wyer answer the Saviour? 
"And he answering said, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all 
thy soul, and with all thy strength, find with 
all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself." 
Verse 27. 
· 
7. What encouragement did Jesus give him? 
''And he said unto him, Thou hast answered 
right; this do, and thou shalt live." 
Verse. 28. 
8. What spirit did the lawyer manifest? 
"But be, willing to justify himself, said unto 
JeRns, And who is my neighbor?" Verse 29; 
9. ·what did he say? Same verse. 
10. How did Jesus answer the question ?-By 
giving a parable. 
11. In this parable, what befell the man who 
was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho? 
"And Jesus answering said, A certain man 
went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell 
among thieves, which stripped him of his rai-
ment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving 
him half dead." 
Verse 30. 
12. How did the thieves treat him? Same 
verse. 
13. Who first chanced to come that way? 
"And by chance there came down a certain 
priest that way; and wl1en be saw him, he 
passed by on tLe other side.'' 
Verse 31. 
14. How did the priest treat the suffering 
traveler? Same vert~e. 
15. What course was taken by a Levite who 
happened that way? 
"And likewise a Levite, when he was at the 
place, came and looked on him; and passed by 
on the other side." 
Verse 32. 
16. Give a brief account of the offices and 
duties of the JH·iests. 
17. What were the chief duties of the Le~ 
vites? 
18. What would be expected of men in such 
holy offices? 
19. What other traveler was journeying from 
J erusnlem to Jericho that day? 
·. 
. 
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed,,, 
came where be was; and when he saw him, h~ 
had compassion on him." Verse 33. 
20. How was be affected at the wounded 
sufferer? Same verse. 
21. How did he manifest his compassion? 
"And went to him, fmd bound up his wounds, 
pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his. own 
beast, and brought him, to an inn, and took care 
of him.'' Verse 34. 
22. How much did the Samaritan pay the 
host when he went away next morning? 
"And on the morrow when be departed, he 
took out two pence, and gave them to the host, 
and said unto him, Take care of him; and what-
soever thou spendest more, when I come again, 
I will repay thee.'' Verse 35. 
23. How did the good Samaritan show thaL 
his kindness was a settled principle rather.thall 
a sudden impulse? 
Last part of the same verse. 
( Ctmcluded on page 6~1.) 
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I 
'l-,HE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
IN THE 
SHADO"W". 
I WALK through darkened paths, yet know 
My Father marks the way I go; 
I cannot see his tender smile, 
But feel his clasping hand the while; 
And since he heeds the sparrow's fall, 
I trust his love, in spite of all. 
Borne through the dark by loving arms, 
I sometimes shrink with vague alarms, 
Yet closer cling that I may hear 
The voice that whispers in mine ear. 
"Oh, trernhling soul," it says to me, 
"Rest in the love that clings to thee." 
I cannot tell if long the way 
By which I go through night to da.y; 
But, soon or late, I know my feet 
Will walk in sunshine, broad and sweet; 
And, soon or late, before mine eyes 
The radiant hills of peace uprise. 
-Bel. 
In the Desert of Sinai. 
WE began the march soon after the sun had 
risen) turning the eastern sky into tbe aspect 
of a conflagration. 
The beaveus above were" as 
brass,'' and the earth beneath '' as iron." 
I 
breakfasted on raisins and half a cup of stir-a-
bout made with some stale water which bad 
been begged the night before from the scanty 
stock of some nomads. 
These folded their tents 
and passed away Oil that search for. water which 
is the life-long occupation of the dweller~ in the 
desert. They left not a trace behind. 
Soon af-
ter they went out of sight I walked. on alone, as 
is my usual practice, in advance of the camels, 
but soon sank on a stone from exhaustion and 
suffering. Hassan had pebbles in hisown mouth, 
and gave me some to put in mine, but he Hpoke 
thickly, ~bough doubtless be had. taken more wa-
ter than he gave to me. 
We marched for four 
hours-a burning, weary, silent march-and 
halted at nooD. in the sharp, deep shadow of a 
high rock, where the mercut;y fell to 111 degrees. 
The glare on the sand beyond the shadow was 
blinding. 
The lower strata of the air were sim-
mering with heat. It was terrible to emerge 
from the shadow of that great rock into the fur-
nace glare and plod on once more under the fiery 
sun. 
I usually soaked a towel, several times folded 
in ~ater, and laid it on my bead under my hat: 
lettmg the end bang over the back of my neek · 
and bein~ unable to get any water, I sufforud 
severely from the snn. 
As the afternoon went 
on, I became dizzy and distracted; I felt that I 
should soon be delirious. 1 tried to speak to 
Hassan, but my tongue only rattled in my mouth. 
1 felt that if any one were carrying water and 
~ould not give it to me that I would take it by 
fo:ce-that I could even commit a desperate 
cr1me to get one cupful. 
And still we marched 
on silently under the blazing skies, through the 
heated, simmering air. 
I felt my reason go-
ing,_ and tied a handkerchief ov.er my eyes; then 
lassttude came on, and the longing for water 
turned into a longing for death, and the fancied 
murmur of the "dark river" in my ears was a 
pleasant sound. 
. 
Then there were voices, and Hassan speak-
ing thick, uttered the one word "Wdter." I 
took the ?andage from my eyes, and saw that 
we were m a valley. In front palms waved, 
and there was a greenness on the earth. I 
thought I was being again mocked by the mir-
age, but the blessed reality was confirmed the 
next moment, when I saw in the distance the 
Sheykh Barak running toward me with a pitcher 
of water in his band. 
I seized it, and in unrea-
soning haste drank an enormous quantity, when 
Hassan, poor fellow, forced the cooler from me 
and drank the remainder. The thirst still raged, 
but there was hope, for in the long valley which 
we bad entered, I recognized the Wady Feiran, 
the great oasis of the Sinai tic Desert. 
The Ar-
abs lifted me very gently from my camel and 
laid me on a blanket under a palm tree. 
Has-
sail brought me a cup of goat's milk, warm 
and healing, and putting a water-cooler beside 
me, warned me to take the water only by sips. 
It wa8 pure and ice-cold; it was abundant; a11d 
reason having returned, l d1·ank it rationally. 
'rhree Lllousand fruit-bearing palm8, and per-
haps two thousand young oner-;, grow in that 
gr:~nd oar-;is. 
Barley was springing, flocks were 
nibbling herbage, which, though scanty, was 
green; there was a murmur of water, and 1 fell 
a::;leep.-JJ!frs. Isabella Bi1·d Bishop. 
Superannuated at Birth. 
FoRTUNE does not often favor those who are 
born much in advance of their age, nuither is 
::;he likely to show herself indulgent towards 
such as are behind time. It is rare, indeod, 
that under any government, however paternal 
it may be, a child begins life as a penHionet· for 
recognizeu merit in the postal servic.:e. 
One in-
stance of the kind is reported from England. 
The lady of a cabinet minister bad promised 
to stand godmother to an infant, and calling on 
the parents a day or two previous to the chris-
toning, expressed her regret that her hut:lband, 
Lord --, bad nothing left at his dispo::;al of 
any importanee, and that the only thing be 
could do for her godson was to put his wtme 
on the pension-list as a superannuated general 
postman. 
The offer was accepted. 
rrhe pension was 
regularly paid to t.he parents dnring the minor-
ity of their son, and to him afterwards as long 
as he lived. He thrived in the world, became 
au alderman, and attained a considerable age, 
often declaring that he bad more pleasure in 
pocketing the few pounds he drew half-yearly 
from this source than he derived from the re-
ceipt of any other portion of his income. 
He died a few days after one paymellt was 
due, and one of his executors came to town to 
announee his decease and receive the money. 
On asking the clerk who paid him if it wa::< 
necessary to produee a certificate of the death, 
be wns answered:-
" Oh no, not in the leaRt; I will take your 
word for it. 
My father paid his pellsion as 
long as he lived, and I have paid it myself for 
the last thirty years. I'm quite sure Mr. --
must be dead by this time." 
He bad been a superannuated general post-
man for upwards of eighty years!-Youth's 
Companion. 
Antiquity of Wheat and Rye. 
IN an article in the Century President Charles 
Barnard say~:~, that the wheat plant is one of the 
oldest in cultivation. The Chinese recorded its 
culture as early as 2,700 B. c., and it is one of the 
(>rehistoric plants, remains of wheat seeds be-
ing found in the ruins of the houses of the lake 
dwellers. while there are several races of wheat 
and while these have been crossed, producing 
hybrids, it has retained its true character, and 
been entirely independent of other plants since 
its culture began. 
Compared with wheat, rye is a modern plant. 
It is not figured on any Egyptian monuments, 
an·d seems to have been first cultivated in the 
Roman Empire about the beginning of the Chris-
tian era, though it may have been known some-
what earlier in Russia and 'rartary. While 
these two commercial plants have been culti-
vated side by side for centuries, the first plants 
appearing to be true hybrids between them bore 
seeds this year in this country. Wheat and rye 
may have been crossed before, yet there is no 
record of anything like the results here obtained. 
-Scientific American. 
How EskiJno Dogs A1·e Trained. 
As THE Eskimos must sometimes be babies, so 
the dogs must at sometime be puppiec;, and the 
puppies are allowed inside the igloo on the bod, 
where they are the favorite playthings of the 
young heir. His mother makes him a number 
of doll dog-harnesses for the puppies, fixes him 
up a dog-whip, almost like his father's, and 
then be amuseH bimRelf harnessing them, bitch-
ing them to a hatc.:hot, the water-bucket, or any 
object that is at hand, and driving them around 
in the ~~gloo and storm igloo, or out-of-doors 
when the weather is very pleasant. 
As soon as the puppies get a little bigger, the 
larger boys take them in hand, and, by the time 
they are old enough to be used for work in the 
t:lledges, they are almost well-trained dogs. 
And so with the little Eskimo himself; when 
he is a young man he is a good dog-driver, and 
knows how to manage a sledge under all cir-
cumstanees. 
This is the hardest thing that an 
Eskimo bas to learn. 
I have known white 
men to equal them in rowing in their little seal-
skin canoes; I have seen white men build good 
·igloos; but I have never seen a white man who 
was a good dog-driver: and the Eskimos told 
me that they bad never seen such an one, either. 
When they drive their dogs, it is in the shnpe of 
the letter V, the foremost dog being at the c.:on-
verging point, and the harness-traces rnn11i1lg 
back in Y-::;hapes to the sledge. 
The forward 
dog is called the "leader," or "chief,'' and in 
trading dogs, a "loader" is worth two good 
followers, or ordinary workers. 
The Eskimo 
dog-driver manages the leader wholly by the 
voice, making him stop, go ahead, to the ri!.!;ht 
or to tbe left, as he may speak to him; and as 
he acts, so do the otbers, who soon learn to 
watch him elosely, and, strangest or all, to obey 
him even after they are unharnessed, althoug·b 
the "leader" may not be one of the largest 
and strongest dogs in the tenm.-St. NichoLas. 
The Suez Canal. 
THE present vast scheme of cutting a canal 
acros~ the isthmus of Panama makes, at this 
time, a few facts relative to the Suez On,nal of 
particular interest. It was commenced toward 
the close of 1860, and vvork on it steadily pro-
gressed until 1862, when there was a kink 
among the authorities, and had it not been for 
the enterprise and libernlity of Napoleon Ill., of 
France, then reigning, who advanced $19,000,-
000 to tho Viceroy to bo paid to the company, 
it iR doubtful whether the p;jg:t~~tie undertaking 
would ever have been finished. 
The water be-
gan to flow from tbe Mediterranean in Febru-
ary, 1869, and from the Red Sea in July, ana 
by the middle of October navigation was fully 
open. 
The whole length of the canal is 88 miles; of 
this 66 are actual canal, formed by cutLing; 14 
are dredged through the lake8, aod 8 required 
no work, the natural depth being equal to that 
of the canal, which throughout iH 26 feet, for a 
width of 72 feet at the bot,tom and 325 feet at 
the surface. 
The actual width does not permit 
of two vessels pabsing or crossing each other in 
the canal itself. but there are numerous sidings 
at which vessels are enabled to "cross" one a'n-
other, by which the passage is greatly quick-
ened. 
The largest vessel that ever passed 
through the canal measured 430 feet in length, 
with a draught of 25 feet 9 inches. The eost 
oftbe whole undertaking was very nearly $88,-
000,000, exclusive of nearly $7,000,000 raised to 
pay for coupons on shares in arrears during the 
period of construetion. 
About 30,000 laborers 
were employed, 80,000,000 cubic yards of earth 
were excavated, and, one time, 60 dredgin,_,. ma-
chines were at work.-Southern Sun. 
0 
No lessons are so impressive as those our 
mistakes teach us.-Dr. T. D. Woolsey. 
\ 
OcrroBER 7, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[lS) 621 
One 'l'hing at a Time. 
No ONE element of perRonal power is greater 
and more potent th:1 n singleness of power, or 
tl1ar1 the power ofHinglene~s. 
No man can be so 
tnllcb of a man, in any one direction, as when 
he if:! a whole man in that direction. 
He who 
can concentrate his whole being, all his energies 
and all his capabiliLieR, for the compassing of 
the one thing on which his mind is fixed for 
the time bein~.r, is obviously more potent, in be-
bn,it" of that ouject of his endeavor, than would 
be possible were his energies divided, and were 
only a portion of himself given up to that for 
w!Jich be is striving. 
And this power of con-
cent ration it is that makes the man of nre-em-
irletl L 11ractical efficiency in any and every sphere 
?f hum~n endeavor-mnterial, mental, and spir-
ltual-:-from the lowest plane to the highest. 
~ t 1~ when the eye is "single "-capable of 
fixmg 1 tself on one object of vision to the exclu-
si?n ?f all otbers-tl;at the whole body is full 
of hgbt. 
Donbleness of vision-seeing two 
things at a time instead of one-is as fatal to 
the eyesight as it is to mental action; and a 
"do11ble-minded" man is unstable in all his ways. 
Tht~ marr w.ho can do one thing bet-tnr than any-· 
body else, 1s snre io be the man who looks upon 
that one thing-as every way worthy of his rlo-
ing:, and who can say with all his heart, This 
one thing I do-though everything eiRe be left 
unattended to. 
This itiR that conRtit.nteR "rlevo-
tion "-the state of being given up wholly to 
tbe specific object of' in I orest,-whether that de-
votion be to pleasure, to self-interest, to business, 
to nrt, to science, to hnman affection, or to the 
hig·hest service of God. 
Devotion is singleness, 
is concentration, is abHorption, in the direction 
of the one Flnpreme and exelnsive object of in-
terest in the s-phere of that devotion. 
He who 
h10ks in the power of devotedness, lacks in the 
power of pr:wtical effh·iency in the spher·e in 
which he is c:tlled to live and to labor. 
It was said of l;ord Brongham, that his de-
voter1neRR to the one object of his striving was 
uhvays Rneh that he seemed to live exclusively 
for wh:"tt he was living for; 1hat if, indeed, he 
bad been only a hootblnck he would never have 
been satiRfiod short nf being the best bootblack 
in the 1}nited Kingdom. 
And it iR that sort of 
devotedness, that 'sort of singleness of power, 
that is nlways a diRtinguishing element of Q"reat-
ness of cbaraeter. If you know the peculiarities 
of any man of marked pre-eminence,-as a 
statesman, as a soldie1·, aR a financier, as a rail-
road manager, as a manuf:1Cture1·, as a business 
man in any spbere,-you know that that man 
has the power in an exceptional degree, of giv-
ing himself to one thing at a time-to the 
Hpparen t exclusion of every other subject of 
thought for the time being. 
However many 
things there are which demand his attention 
his undivided tbonght is for the moment give~ 
to the one thing that for the moment re-
quires his attention. 
Even his ability to tnrn 
rapidly from one subject to another·, is his abil-
ity rapidly to chango the objects of his concen-
trated thought; not his ability to attend to 
more than one thing at one and the same time. 
It is said that J ulins Oresar was capable of dic-
tating letters to six different amanuenses simul-
taneously; but that is only another way of say-
ing that he was able to turn so rapidly from one 
thing to another, without allowing the one to 
inteefere with the othe1·, that be could keep six 
men at work, noting the results of hi::~ sixfold 
singleness. 
One thing we know, that unless 
Uresar kept the other five letters out of his 
thought for the instant, the one letLer which 
he wtts then dictating would lack the impress of 
his undivided personality, and so would have 
been a failure as a letter from Oresar. It is 
this power of letting other things alone for the 
moment, that enters into the power of giving 
one's self wholly to the thing which demands 
attention for the moment. .And this is single· 
pess of mind.-Sunday School Times. 
. 
~ealth anti 
Pork as Food. 
THE following, from the National Live-Stock 
Journal, contains some wholesome truths which 
may open the eyes of some. 
The points which 
that Jou1·nal presents show that objections to 
eating pork and lard rest upon a basis of sound 
science and common sense, rather than upon 
"prejudice." The Scripture makes no mistake 
when it pronounces the swine unclean and not 
fit to be oaLen. 
"The prejudice against the flesh of swine as 
human food is as old as history. lf it has any 
foundation in nature, besidus the filthy ma.nner 
in w bieh the hog is generally kept, it is becau::~e 
the hog is more subject to diseaRe, or at least 
to a certain class of diseases, th:,,n other domes-
tic animals. Its omniverous appetite makes it 
liable Lo certain diseases from which the ex-
clusively vegetable-eating animals are compar-
atively, if not entirely, exempt. 
,, rrhe two evils mo~t complained of are tape-
worm and trichina-both paru.sitic. 
Both of 
these are developed in the animal tissues, and 
it is very doubtful if they ever affiict animals 
Lbat do not eat animal food, or in Rome way 
get animal products into their stomachs and 
intestinal canals. 
"The tape-worm, when incysted in the tissues 
of the bog, bas the name of mea~:-~les-tbough 
wholly unlike measles in the human species. 
rfhe pork containing these encysLed worms is 
known as 'measly pork.' 
When taken into 
the human stomach, they are liable to develop 
there in the form of the loathsome creature 
known as tape-worm. 
This is not necessarily 
fatal, but very annoying. In modern timei"', it 
is successfully removed by the skillful physician 
withont pain or injury to the patient. 
"r:rricl1i11a is a parasite much more to be 
dreaded even than the tape-worm. It is liable 
to infect the human sy~tem in such number,.; as 
not only to be very painful, but fatal; and we 
believe tbtll'e is no known remedy. It is en-
cysted in the flesh of the animal, in a dormant 
Rtate, like tho tape-worm. 
\Yben the t•·ichina 
enterR the human stomach, it attaches itself to 
the mucous membrane and there awakens to 
all the activity of breeding thousand~:~, if not 
million:;;, of its kind. 
These young trichina at 
once Htart out to find a place in which to e11cyst 
themselves for a dormant rest and await a res-
urreetion by having the flesh in which they 
are imbedded eaten by some animal, brute or 
human, when they will repeat the role of their 
progenitors. 
"It is when passing from the stomaeb and in-
testineR to the muscles that the triehina give 
such pain, and frequently cause death. Push-
ing their way through the tissues, they cause 
great irritation and inflammation, resulting in 
don.th when the effects become unendurable. 
While in this active state of migration, seeking 
a home, they are as liable to be found in one 
class of tissues as in another. 
Hence, lard that 
bas not been exposed to a heat of at least 212 
degrees, Fahrenheit, is just as likely to contain 
them, if the animal was killed when the tri-
china were in a state of activity, as in any 
other part or product of the hog." 
A WRITER in the British J.:ferlical Journal, 
after referring to the disagreement among sur-
geons as to whether smoking may be an imme-
diate cause of cancer, remarks that there is a 
condition of the tongue which in many cases is 
the precursor of epithelioma, and this disease is 
more generally considered to be caused by smok-
ing. 
The fact is pointed out that among sev-
enty-five reoo:rded cases all but five were smok-
ers.-New-fgr~ 9es~rrrr~ 
"-· ··· 
'l'obacco and Corpulency. 
lT turns out that the popular notion that the 
use of tobacco will prevent corpulency is a de-
eeption, except when it interferes with healthy 
nutrition. 
On tho COlltrary, Dr. Child says that· 
a very gentle effect of its use is fatty degenera-
tion of the muscles, especially those of the heart. 
Persons whose systems are saturated with to-
bacco are very slow in recovering from sprains 
or bruises of the mnscles, nor do they bear sur-
gical operations well. 
But the most serious ef-
fect is "tobacco heart," which is a rupture of 
Lbis organ from the depoHit of fat cells in the 
fibres of the muscles, which destroy their in-
tegrity, and is immediately fatal. lt occurs 
moRtly in young persons. .Another effect of to-
bacco is a tendency to produce cancerous a~ 
fections. 
_B., at is Lhe lowest healthy tissue; its 
uses being to stol'e up the means of nourish-
ment. 
.As for tbe effects of tobacco on human 
endurance it is well known to athletes, who are 
never allowed to use Lhe weed or alcohol when 
under training, and in confirmation of the wis-
dom of this precaution, Edward Hanlan, the 
champion seuller of the world, says: "In my 
o,,inion the best physical performances can only 
be beetlred tbrongh the a,bsolute abstinence from 
the use of alcohol and oobacco. 
I believe that 
the use of liquor and tobacco has a most injuri-
ous effect upon the system of an atblete by ini-
tating the vitals and consequently weakening 
the system."-Ch,rist·ian at Work. 
Labor and Drink. 
GEN. SwiFT addressed the Young Men's Union 
of Boston on the wage question. 
He said that 
$37~000:000 was spent in MassacltUsett.s last 
year for intoxicating drinks. 
.A majority of 
thiR enormous sum en.me out of the indnstrial 
class. 
He also said that the saloon can live only 
as it lives on the wages of the community; that 
the saloon is opposed to everything for which 
we organize government, and tbat while in 
every other busi 11 ess in this conn try the la,borer 
averag(,:ls twenty per cont., in the sale of liquor 
he gets only two per cent. 
His conclusions, 
like that of all thinking men, was that when 
labor wakes up to the real facts, it will find the 
saloon to be its greatest enemy, and will declare 
that the saloon must go. If wage-earners were 
truly wise, their first great fight would be 
agamst the saloon. In fact, already one great 
labor organization 
allow~'\ no liquor-dealer to 
join it. 
All the rest would do well to follow 
this example.-
Work at Home. 
Milk As a Stim.ulant. 
"MILK heated to much above 100 degrees Fah-
renheit loses for a time a degree of its Rweetness 
and density. No one who, fatigued by over ex-
ertion of body and mind, bas ever experienced 
the reviving influence of a tumbler of this bev-
erage, heated as hot as it can be sipped, will 
willingly forego a resort to it because ofits being 
rendered somewhat less acceptable to the pal· 
ate. 
The promptness with which its cordial in-
fluence is felt is indeed surprising. Some portion 
of it seems to be digested and appropriated al· 
most immediately, and many who now fancy 
they need alcoholic stimulants when exhausted 
by fatigue will find in this ample dranght an 
equivalent that will be abundantly satisfjring and 
far more enduring in its effects.-Medical Rflco'rd. 
A FOOLISH rich man, who died lately, disin-
herited his drunken son. In that same will he 
bequeathed his "wine cellar" to certain heirs. 
That father most insanely tempted his own son 
to drink, and then on his dying bed gave the 
boy a last kick into open disgrace ! The most 
effectual of all home protection is to guard our 
own home. 
From such temperance homes will 
come the power to close up the public drinking 
qeP,s.-Rev. T. L. Cuyler. 
' 
. 
622 [141 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 39. 
(Continued from page 619.) 
24. When Jesus had finished the parable, 
what question did he ask the lawyer? 
"Which now of these three, thinkest thou, 
"·ns neighbor unto him that fell among tho 
thieves?" Verse 36. 
25. What answer did the lawyer give? 
c:And be said, He that showed mercy on him. 
Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou like-
wise." 
Verse 37. 
26. What instruction did Jesus then give him? 
Snme verse. 
27. vVhat relation existed between the Jews 
and the Samaritans ?-rrhey were bitter ene-
mies. 
28. How then could this Samaritan regard 
the importunate Jew as his neighbor, and treat 
him so kindly? 
29. What beautiful lesson may we learn from 
this parable? 
30. How does the Saviour impart the same 
lesson by direct precept'? 
"Y e have board that it bath been said, Thou 
shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. 
But 1 say unto you, Love your enemies, bless 
them that curse yon, do good to them that Late 
you, and pray for theJ:i which despiterully u&e 
you, and persecute you; that ye may be the 
children of your .B\LLber which is in Heaven; 
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on 
the good, and sendetb rain on the just and on 
the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, 
what reward have ye? do not even the publi-
cans the same? And if ye salute your breth-
ren only, what do ye more than others? do not 
even the pubHcans so?" Ma.tt. 5: 43-47. 
RELIGIOUS. 
-The New York Obse1'Ver says: "The Jesuits 
can do a great service to any country in which they 
. may have planted themselves, by quitting it entirely. 
This is the sole service they can render." 
-The Ch-ristian at lV01·k is sure that the" conser-
vation of the Sabbath [Sunday] is to be found in mak-
ing a safety-valve of Saturday." Of course, one sin 
can never be persisted in without the commission of 
another. 
. -Ritualism has got. ten so far on its return road to 
Rome that a '' servicl•" for the repose of the soul of 
the late vicar of Frome parish church has been held. 
It was attended by nearly a hundred of Lhe clergy 
as well as by leading laity. And yet it is the "Re-
formed" Church of England! 
-November 16 to 20 there will ben Premillennial 
Conference in Chicago. It will be attended by prom-
inent men from the Baptist, Metl1odist, Presbyterian, 
Congregational, and Reformed Episcopal Churches; 
as in these churches there are many who believe in 
the soon coming of Christ. 
-Says the Advance: "We see that the interlude 
by the organ is going into disuse throughout England 
and many of the older parts of this country. It was 
ahvays an offense, it was always against good taste. 
We believe in good music, we believe in a choir; but 
the question why a whole congregation should be al-
lowed to stand and stare and look silly, while some 
man fools with the organ, has never be~n answered." 
-A country clergyman who spent a Sunday in 
the city, attending some of the fashionable churches, 
comes to the following common-sense conclusion: 
"I have returned to my rural parish in a quite con-
ten ted frame of mind, disposed more than ever to 
think that the success of the gospel does not depend 
upon the attractions with which !t is surrounded,-
that its strength is in itself." "What is only added 
to the gospel hinders its advance." 
-It is said that the Pope has taken steps to pay 
off the debt of $4,000,000 of the late Arch bishop 
Purcell. By courtesy, the Archbishop's deficiency 
is called" a debt;" if he had been a ba:1k cashier, it 
would be called embezzlement; its true name is steal-
·ing (and that from the poor), to which the Catholic 
Church has been a party all these years. The Pope 
has been forced to take action by the indignation of 
the poor Catholics who were robbed. 
SECULAR. 
-General Booth of the Salvation Army is now in 
America. 
-Martin Irons is penniless, in jail and deserted 
by his friends. 
-Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, is to be strongly 
fortified by the British. 
-An epidemic of small-pox prevails in South-
western Sonora, Mexico. 
-Light earthquake shocks are still of frequent 
occurrence at Charleston. 
-A thunder-storm did considerable damage in 
Michigan on the 25th inst. 
-OVER $18,000,000 has been expended on manu-
men ts in Massachusetts since 1861. 
-An attempt was made to blow up ali very stable 
at St. Louis, Mo., one day last week. 
-A ship which left Boston for the Congo country, 
the other day, carried 100,000 gallons of rum. 
-The unveiling of ~ statue was the occasion of 
quite a serious riot in Paris a few days since. 
-Of 140 missionaries of the American Board, 122 
were children of Christian fathers and mothers. 
-There· have been seventy-three deaths from 
cholera at Vladivostock, Siberia, siuce September 1. 
-The chief of police of Saratoga, N. Y., was ar-
rested a few days since on a charge of attempting to 
exto,·t money. 
--The Vatican_ Library contains 24,000 manu-
scripts, of which 2,164 are· Oriental, 3,052 Greek, 
and 17,059 Latin. 
-The supply of natural gas in the vicinity ofPitt~:;­
burg is said to have materially diminished since tlw 
recent earthquakes. 
-The New York fund for the relief of Charleston 
now amounts to about $30,000. 
Boston has con-
tributed over $60,000. 
-The conductor and engineer of the excursion 
train recently wrecked near Silver Creek, N.Y., have 
both been indicted for manslaughter. 
-A:ffidavi ts in support of the motion for a new trial 
for the seven conden1ned Anarchists, were fi}P.d by 
their attorneys in the Chicago court, on the 28th ult. 
-General Miles' report to the War Department 
reveals the fact that Geronimo and his band surren-
dered on condition that their lives should be spared . 
-A recent cable dispatch from London states that 
Prince Bismarck is trying to induce France to drive 
the British out of Egypt, and Reize the Suez Canal. 
-The Legislature of the State of Sonora, Mexico, 
has exempted from all municipal taxation any ice 
factories that are or may be established within the 
State. 
-Two boys a~ed thirteen and fourteen years, re-
spectively, have been arrested in Texas charged with 
murdering a herder and killing sixty sheep, "just 
for fun." 
-Two members and two clerks of the Board of 
Public Works of Cincinnati, have been arrested for 
the embezzlement of sums ranging from $10,000 to 
$15,000. 
-It is stated that the White Island Volcano, New 
Zealand, is in a state of active eruption and that a 
volume of flame and smoke 100 feet in diameter 
issues from the crater. 
-The severity of the Charleston earthquake is in-
dicated by the fact that the Government engineers 
report a damage of $2,000,000 sustained by the 600 
buildings already inspected. 
-Violent earthquake shocks have occurred re-
cently throughout Central Germany. 
-Another riot occurred in Belfast on the 26th ult. 
One man was killed and several were seriously 
wounded. 
-Clark Richards, a farmer living near Roseburg, 
Or., while hunting on the 26th ult., was shot and 
killed by his son, who mistook his father for a deer. 
It was only last week that we recorded two similar 
cases. One on the Coast, and the other in Colorado. 
-September 30, a terrific explosion occurred at 
the Ditmar Powder Works, Baychester, N. Y. Four 
men were killed. Considerable damage was done to 
property in the immediate vicinity, and the shock 
was distinctly felt at Bridgeport, Conn., forty-five 
miles distant. 
-October 2, news was received at San Francisco 
of the loss, July 15, of the British ship Dunnottar · 
Castle, in the South Pacific Ocean. The vessel was 
laden with coal and was bound for Wilmington, Cal., 
from Sidney, New South '\Vales. The crew, twenty-
eight men, was saved, after being afloat fifty-two 
days in an open boat. The vessel was a total loss. 
-September 21 to 23, Southern Texas was the 
scene of a very heavy rain and wind-storm. Con-
siderable damage was done especially in the region 
about the mouth of the Rio Grande. Twenty-six 
j nches of rain fell, and the wind reached a velocity 
of nearly 100 miles per hour. At Brownsville o\u00b7er 
200 houses were blown down. Other towns also 
suffered severely. 
-The contract to erect the two spires on St. Pat-
rick's Cathedral in New York has been awarded to 
a Baltimore :firm for $200,000. The height of each 
spire, above the present towe1·s, is to be 190 feet. 
The point of each spire will be 330 feet above the 
sidewalk. It is estimated that with twelve men 
constantly at work it will take two years at least to 
complete the undertaking. 
-It is stated that Russia is prepared to enforce 
her will in Bulgaria. The Czar's action looks like 
defianee of all Europe, but in the face of the divis-
ions and mutual distress of Russia's different enemies, 
he probably counts on having his own way. In this 
the Czar is probably correct though Austria shows 
some signs of resenting what she justly regards as 
insolence on the part of Russia. 
-Capt. John McCafferty of Alaska, now in San 
Francisco, says, "The proposition to give a full Terri-
torial Government to Alaska is the proposition of a 
whisky ring, of which the United States officials in 
the Territory are members. Although the importa-
tion and sale of intoxicating liquors are prohibited, 
yet there are thirty-five places where they are openly 
sold, through the collusion and the pecuniary ben-
efits of those officials." 
-By joint agreement of Chili and the Argentine 
Confederation the region formally known as Pati-
O'Onia has been divided between these two countries. 
To Chili has been assigned all the western slope of 
the Cordilleras to the southern extreme of the con-
tinent, to the Straits of Magellan, and all the islands 
off that coast. The eastern slope of the range and 
the vast pampas extending to the Atlantic are now 
the property of the Argentine Confederation. The 
Strait of Magellan is declared neutral and free to 
all nations. The chief island of Terra del Fuego is 
parted equally between the two nations, Chili tak-
ing all the other islands, including that of Cape 
Horn. 
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE. 
A POPULAR EDUCATIONAL INS'PITUTION, 
-In Leipsic, September 28, the police attempted to 
ESTABLISHED IN 1882. 
capture the red flags carried by a procession of 400 
Socialists. This led to a fight in which many per-
FOUR YEARS OF GREAT PROSPERITY. 
sons were seriously wounded. 
FOUNDED AND MANAGED UPON SOUND PRINCIPLES. 
-The volcano of Colima, Mexico, is again in a THOROUGH INSTRUCTION IN THE ELEMENTS OF LEARNING 
state Of eruption. 
A huge white cloud overhangs 
IN ALL THE GRADES AND THROUGH THE 
the summit, causing great terror among the inhabit-
CLASSICAL couRSE. 
ants of the neighboring villages. 
-It is now stated that every vestige of the Mex-
ican revvlution led by El Coyote has been com-
pletely wiped out, and the robbers and murderers 
are being executed as fast as they are captured. 
-An ex-student of Harvard College is suing that 
institution to 1·ecover $50,000 damages for injuries 
received by the explosion of a retort in the 0hemical 
laboratory. 'l'he accident is alleged to have re-
sulted from the en rr1c,;sness of the profes,;or who 
was directing an expl!riment. 
FACULTY CONSISTS OF FIFTEEN INSTRUCTORS OF BXPBRIENCJL 
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES. 
1. Instruction in the va.rious trades, with two hours per day 
spent in active work with tools. 
2. Methods in the Class Room are such as to secure the best 
kind of mental discipline. 
3. A rigid parental discipline to cultivate high mora.! chara.ct.er. 
4. Expenses within the reach of all. Twenty dollars per mollth 
coYcrs all expense of tuition, board, lodging, washing, lights, fuel, etc. 
'rhe Fa.ll 'l'crm bega.u August 2, 1886, term closes December 23. 
Spring Term beg-ius Monday, Janu:~ry 3, 1887. 
S. BROWNSBERGER, A. M., Presidem, 
Healdsburg. Ca.l. 
OcToBER 7, 1886. 
THJ~ SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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puintnt~ntz. 
0AKLAND.-House of worship, northeast corner of 
Clay a1:.d Thirteenth Streets. 
~abbath-school every Sab-
bath at 9 : 30 A. M. 
Preachiug at 11. 
Pr"yer and 
missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7 : 30. 
:Seats free. 
SAN FRANCJsco.-House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, 
1between McAllister and Tyler. 
Sabbath-school every 
Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching at ll A. M.; also preach-
'ng every Sunday evening at 7 : ~iO. 
Classes in the En-
glish, German, and Scandinavian languages. 
Prayer and 
missionary meeting every W ednesclay evening at 7: 45. 
Mission lteacling-rooms at the church. 
EAST PoRTLAND (Or. )-House of worship on G Street, 
between Tenth and Eleventh. 
Sabbath-school e
ery Sab-
bath (Saturday), followed by services. 
.Preaching or Bi-
ble-reading Sunday evening. 
Prayer-meeting Wednesday 
evening. 
The public is cordially invited. 
Free public 
·eading-room, corner of Land Fifth Streets. 
@hituarJl. 
BICE.-Died, at Healdsburg, California, August 
29, 1886, of pulmonary difficulties, S<1muel C. Bice, 
n the 32d year of his age. 
Brother Bice had been 
a believer in the Third Angel's Message some three 
or four years. 
His life gave evidence tl1at he loved 
the truth and his fellow-men. 
About two years be-
fore his death he nrrangerl his temporal affairs, and 
attended school wiLh the special dt"sign of entering 
upon the missionary work in Australia, or some 
other field, as the way might open. 
His confine-
ml.'nt in the school-room seems to have increased 
his complaint, to which tl1ere was a hereditary 
tendency. For several months he bore his wasting 
sickness with patience and Christian fortitude. 
A 
wife, one child, a mother, aud several brothers and 
sist-ers, besides a large circle of relatives, mourn his 
loss, and the Healdsburg church a faithful and 
loved mern ber. 
On the occasion of l1is funeral, from his own 
choice of texts. the writer addressed n laro-e con-
gregation, from Rev. 14:13. 
E. R. J~NES. 
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"Joyful Greeting·." 
THIS is the title of a new Sabbath-school song book, 
lately issued by the J. E. White Publishing Co. It con-
tains a good supply of new pieces, as well as many old 
favorites. 
Several features are introduced which never 
before appeared in any Sa.bbath-school song book. 
~1a,ny of the best word and song writers in this country 
have contributed to the work, among whom we mention 
the names of L. 0. Emerson, W. A. Ogden, J. H. Tenny, 
H. P. Danks, A. J. Showalter, F. E. Belden, and Frank 
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THE SIGNS OF T:E-IE TIMES. 
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·VoL. 12, No. 89. 
0AKL.AND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, OCTOBER 7, 1886. 
~We send no papers from this office without pay in 
advance, unless by special arrangement. When persons 
receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other 
parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. 
Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted 
to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please 
read the papers and hand them to your friends to read. 
IN order to allow the employes of the SIGNS OF 
THE TIMES to attend the Woodland camp-meeting, 
there will be no paper issued next week. The next 
number of the SIGNS (No. 40) will bear date of 
October 21. 
THERE being no paper next week we have in-
se~·ted two sets of notes on the Intemationnl Lessou 
for the two days, 00tober 17 and 24. The notes 
will be found very full and valuable. 
On this ac-
count our editorial matter is somewhat le:;,; than 
usual, but, as the case stands, we are sure our read-
ers will not complain. 
IT is said that the mayor of Chicag-o thinks that 
it will be a mistake if the condemned Anarchists are 
hanged. He thinks that" tl1ey should be degraded, 
not made martyrs." Very fine; but how could sucl1 
men be degraded? They have accomplished that 
for themselves. 
BY the steamer Alameda, which arrived October 
2, we received a letter dated September 7, from Sis-
ter E. J. Bnrnham, who went from this office to la-
bor in connection with the B'ible Bcho, at Melbourne. 
She reports a rather rough voyage, but has fully 
recovered from the effects of it, ami is full of zeal 
for the work there. of which she reports favorably. 
By the same steamer, brethren L. A. Scott and A. 
La Rue came fr m Honolulu to attend the camp-
meeting in Woodland. 
SAYS Rev. Henry A. Stimson, in the Independent 
of September 2: "When a teacher of morals or re-
ligion has a plain 'Thus saith the Lord' to adduce, 
his course is clear, and his task comparatively easy. 
He can leave it to his antagonists to remove possi-
ble difficulties, or can safely defer dealing with 
them himself until his duly authenticated message 
has been delivered. One not thus furnished has 
a very different duty." Any one who is acquainted 
with the controversy over the Sabbath can vouch 
for the truth of this statement. 
THE Sunday School Times must be given the 
palm of aptness in illustration. Speaking of the 
names of ecclesiastical bodies it says: "Denomina-
tional designations mean much or little according 
to the personal views of the one who uses them, or 
who notes their use. There are high-sounding claims 
in the titles of denominations of very modest num-
bers. Thus there is 'The Church of God.' There 
are 'Christians' and 'Bible Christians,' and 'The 
Catholic Apostolic Church.'" And then to show 
that in using these ti ties we do not necessarily imply 
that we think them descriptive of the people who 
wear them, it relates the following anecdote:-
" The story is told of a colored man crying, 'Hot 
mutton pies' in the streets of Boston on a winter 
morning. A countryman, longing for a hot morsel, 
bought one of those pies; but on putting his teeth 
into it, he found it as cold as ice. Calling the sable 
vender to account for his misrepresentation, he was 
met by the cheering response: 'Why, boss, dat's de 
name ob 'cm-dat's all! Hot mutton pies, dat's de 
name ob 'em.'" 
No one can fail to see the point ill this~ 
Infallible Rome In America. 
A GOOD many of the leading papers of the country, 
both religious and secular, have been considerably 
exercised over the two contradictory decisions made 
hv Cardinal Gibbons of the United States, and Car-
din!ll Taschereau of Canada, upon the way in which 
the Church of Rome views the organization known 
as the Knights of Labor. 
Cardinal Gibbons pro-
nouncing the decree of Rome says, they are all 
right; Cardinal Taschereau, pronouncing the decree 
of Rome says, they are all wrong. The query with 
the papers is, How can both be right? The answer 
is easy. They are both right, for is not Rome infal-
lible? Is not all the history of the Popes a whole 
bundle of just such contradictions·~ and have they 
not been declared, by a world's Council, to be infal-
lible? This is only an instance of Papal infallibil-
ity, brought to the doors of the American people. 
The matter needs no explanation; Rome has spoken, 
and the quest.ion is settled. But the large discus-
sion of the queRtion, by the prominent papers of the 
country, and the efforts made by them to find some 
consistent explanation of the contradiction, shows 
what a respectable influence Rome is gaining in 
Protestant circle:; in this country. It shows how 
completely the eyes of Protestantism are being closed 
to all that Rome hns been and is. For what Rome 
has been, that Rome is. And has she not been de-
clared infallible? 
Protective Calamities. 
THERE are certain diseases which physicians de-
nominate" protective" diseases. Among them are 
small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, etc. They are 
called "protective," because once having them is a 
protection against any future attack of them. It 
would Reem that the journals of this country are de-
termined to claRs destructive cn.rthqnakes as a" pro-
tective" calamity. They nearly all, the religious 
journals especially, agree that now that Cl1arleston 
and vicinity has suffered," it will doubtless be cent-
uries before another serious earthquake will occur.'' 
But the history of the past demonstrates the fact 
that earthquakes are not "protective" in any sense· 
They protect nothing when they occur, nor is the 
occurrence of one an assurance that another may not 
soon follow. The persistence with which the papers 
exclaim, "We shall have no more earthquakes," 
savors very much of the boy who whistles to keep 
his courage up as he goes through the graveyard 
on a dark night. Their assertions may quiet their 
own apprehensions, but they cannot keep the earth 
from shaking. 
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A "Practical " Proposition. 
THE Independent of September 9 contains the 
following note:-
" We have sometimes said that one way of settling 
practically the difference between those who keep 
Saturday and those whp keep Sunday as their rest 
day, would be for the adherents of the seventh day 
of the week to begin their week on Monday, which 
would bring Sunday to be the seventh day. That 
this would not be imprncticable we can learn from 
the Sunday School Times, which has already 
adopted the week as beginning on Monday. It has 
a series of' Daily Home Readings' of Scripture, to be 
read in connection with the Sunday-school lesson. 
The days and readings are arranged to put Monday 
as the first day, and Sunday as the seventh in tile 
week. In the Sunday-school calendar Sunday is 
then the seventh day of the week. Here is an 
example that might well be followed for the great 
Christian end of unity." 
a leg?" The unwary person would answer, "Five,"' 
when the questioner would reply." No; he has just: 
four; calling a calf's tail a leg doesn't make it one,''' 
and any child could see the truth of this. But the: 
wise Independent, in its zeal for Sunday, has fallen 
below the wisdom of childhood; for calling Sunrla.y-
the seventh day of the week doesn't make it so. 
Sunday is the first day of the week; the day com-
monly called Saturday is the seventh day of the 
week; and no man can make them any other by 
calling them by other numbers, any more than he 
can make the moon green cheese by simply calling 
it green cheese. This being a fact, we must fall back 
on those words that were thundered from Sinai: 
"The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy 
God; in IT thou ~halt not do any· work." 
Here is a point for the serious consideration of 
those who incline to the opinion that there is pos-
sibly some divine authority for Sunday-keeping. If 
the Bible gave any countenance whatever to the 
claims of Sunday as a sabbath, would learned men 
resort to such transparent puerilities in support of 
Sunday? 
Santa Ana Camp-Meeting. 
LET all who wish tents for the Santa Ana camp-
meeting write to Elder J. N. Loughborough, Pacific 
Prel;;S, Oakland, Cal. The rent of tents will be as 
follows: 10x12, $4.00; 12x16, $6.00. If any have 
tents of their own to pitch, write also, stating the 
size of your tents. We wish to know these things 
so as to plan our camp, and to know beforehand l10w 
manv, and what teuts to ship to Santa Ana. Let 
~11 ,;ho are going to the Santa Ana meeting make a 
note of this and report as aLove immediately. Re-
member the date of the meeting,-October 28 to 
November 8. 
FoLLOWING are the various styles and prices of 
the new Hymn and Tune Book:-
Cloth sides with leather back, 
$1.50 
Library style, bound in sheep, 
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Turkey morocco, gilt, 
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Some may think these prices high, 
but when they see the book and compare its size 
and quality with those of the books now in use, 
they will find that in comparison it is much cheaper. 
Besides the above there is a srpaller book, con-
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THERE is more suffering in Augusta among the 
laboring people on account of the strike than there 
is in Charleston on account of the earthquake.-
Atlanta Constitution. 
Yes, but there is vastly more sympathy for Charles-
ton, for hers is the suffering of adversity, while the 
sufferings of the strikers are for the most part those 
of perversity.-New York Observer. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, 
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International Traet and Missionary Society. 
We did not suppose that it was possible for the 
editor of the Independent to make so silly a propo-
sition. Just as though the Sabbath question could 
be settled by simply calling Sunday the seventh day 
of the week. We are rem:.~Jed of a catch question 
that ueed to be popular among children. One would 
ask? "~9'Y rp.an1legs has a calf, if you call his tail 
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