"Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22: 12. 
VOLUME 12. 
OA.KLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, MAY 13, 1886. 
NUMBER 18. 
the nations; which shall bear all these statutes, reverence to his Maker, as he should behold 
and say, Surely thiR great nation is a wise and the tangible proofs of his infinite wisdom and 
understanding people." 
goodness. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE 
Moses called their attention to the "dav that 
The Sabbath was placed in the decn.logue as 
International Tract and Missionary Society. thou stood est before the Lord thy Guod in the seal of the living God, pointing out the Law-
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THE COMiNG KING. 
[From a. hymn, "Waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ," written by Mrs. C. M. Pym, based on 1 Cor. 1: 7.] 
"CoMING ! " Oh, the bliss and gladness bound up in that 
blessed word. 
Coming! and our eyes shall see Him-Him our own be-
loved Lord. 
Coming! how our hearts leap upward, with a joy no 
words can say ! 
Horeb." "And the Lord spake unto you out giver, and making known his right to rule. It 
of the midst of the fire; ye hen.rd the voice of was a si?:n between God u.nd his people, a test 
the words, but saw no similitude; only ye hen.rd of their loyalty to him. 
Moses was commanded 
a voice. 
And he declared ·Unto you his cove-to say to them from the Lord: "Verily my 
nant, which he commanded you to perform, Sabbaths ye shall keep; for it is a sign between 
even ten commandments." 
And he challenged me and you throughout your generations; thnt 
the Hebrew host: "What nation is there so ye may know that I am the I1ord that doth 
great, who hath God so nigh unto them as the sanctify you." And when some of the people 
Lord our God is in all things that we call upon went out on the Sabbath to gather manna, the 
him for'? 
And what nation is there so great, Lord asked, "How long refuse ye to keep my 
that hath statutes and judgments so righteous commandments and mv laws?" 
as all this law, which I set before you this 
Particular directions were given in regard to 
day?" 
the manner of observing the Sabbn.tb. 
All un-
When Moses was about to relinquiRh the necessary work was strictly forbidden, and the 
posi Lion that be ha.d so long held as the visible day before the Sabbath was made a day of 
·leader of the hosts of Israel, be rehearsed in the preparation, that everything migb t be in readi-
Coming! then shall his dominion reach from distant sea hearing of the people the dealings of God with ness for its sacred hours. 
"This is that which 
to sea; 
them nnd the t•t!le:-; and regulations be bad the Lord bath said, To-morrow is the rest of 
Coming ! so we watch and wonder, hour by hour and day 
by day. 
From the river to earth's ending shall his glorious king· giver1 them. 
He elldc:wored to im1wess upon the holy Sab13ath unto the Lord. Bake that 
dom be; 
Then the foes of Christ be vanquished, truth and right-their minds the impot·tance of obeying the law which ye will bake to-day, and seethe that ye 
eousness shall reign 
of God, and urged them to make its sacred pre-
will seethe; and that w bicb remaineth over 
Over all the earth triumphant; joy shall follow in his train. cepts the rule of their daily life. 
As children lay up for you to be kept until the morning." 
Coming ! but to those that scorn him, those that now dis-
pute his right, 
What shall be their awful portion when he cometh in his 
might! 
Fire and sword, and flaming vengeance, showering on 
them from above. 
Oh, while yet that time remaineth, seek his face and plead 
his love. 
He is lingering yet a moment, that before it be too late 
You may find his pardoning mercy ere forever sealed your 
fate. 
Coming ! yes, it still is "coming," but how soon it may 
be "come"! 
Then the shout of "Christ triumphant ! " then the glorious 
'' vV elcome home ! " 
~rticltz. 
of God, they should be willing to suffer any in-
The Israelites w.ere not in any case to do 
convrn ionce. rather than to break one of his their own work on the Sabbath. The divine 
comma11dm~nts. Such a course would be more direction was, "Six days thou shalt work, but 
pleasing Lo him than mere professions of loyalty on the seventh day thou shalt rest. In earing 
or words of praise. 
time and in harvest thou shalt rest." 
In the 
Obedience to God would preserve harmony busiest seasons of the year, when their fruits 
between man and man and between man and and grains were to. be secured, they were not 
his Maker, and would cause Israel to be re-to trespass on holy time. They were to re-
garded as a wise and understanding people. member that their temporal blessings came 
And in the path of obedience alone was there from the bountiful band of their Creator. and 
safety for them either as individun.ls or as a he could increase or diminish them accor:ding 
nation; for nothing but obedience would secure to their faithfulness or unfaithfulness in his 
the divine favor, and insure to them happiness service. 
and prosperity in tbe ln.nd to which they were 
'l'he Lord places a high estimate upon his 
going. God bn.d plai11ly stated this to them. Sabbath. Through his prophet he has prom-
If they did not keep his commandments, he ised: "If thou turn away thy foot from the 
would not-be could not-fulfill the rich prom-Sabbath, from doing thy pleasnre on my holy 
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1 ises whiuh were given them on condition of day; and cnll the Sabbn.tb a delight, the holy 
obedience. 
of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, 
Israel and the Law. 
BY 1'lRS. E. G. WHITE. 
Israel was highly honored of God, and the not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine 
surrounding nations looked upon them with own pleasure, nor speaking thine own ·words; 
wonder and admiration. 
':rheir laws and disci-then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and 
THE IJord gn.ve the Isrn.clites evidences of pline, when compared with the laws of other I will cause thee to ride upon the high places 
his presence with them, that they might know nn.tions, seemed, even to their enemies, in every of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of 
that be wns leading them, and that. they might way superior to their own. And Moses, as Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord 
fear his name and obey his voice. 
Great and their visible leader and lawgiver, appears on bath spoken it." 
. 
radical changeR were to be wrought in the lives the page of history as superior in wisdom and 
God is merciful. 
His requirements are rea-
. of these demoralized people, upon whose char-integrity to all the sovereigns and statesmen of sonable, in accordance wit.h Lhe goodneRs and 
acton~, habits, and n.ppetitcs, servitude and the earth; yet Moses ever recognizes that be is the benevolence of his charaDter. 
He claims the 
idolatrous associations of Egypt bad left their servant of God, speaking and acting according Sabbath as his own, and will not let his blessing 
mark. 
God was lifting them to a higher moral to divine direction. He claims no credit for rest upon those who disregard his holy day; 
level by giving them a knowledge o~ himself himself, but points the people to God as the yet the Sabbath institution was desiglled as a 
through the manifeRtations of divine power source of power and wisdom. 
blesRing to mankind. 
.Man was not made to 
seen in his dealings with them, and an ac-
When the law ,¥as given to Israel, the Sab-fit the Sabbath; the Sabbath was made after 
quaintance with his will as expressed in the bath vvas made specially prominent. It bad his creation, to meet the necessities of his nat-
la;ws given for their goverpment. 
been instituted in Eden as a memorial of God's ure. The Sabbath should stand before the 
Moses, who under the divine direction was creative work. 
After be had wrought six days, people in its moeal power, answering its origi-
leading the children of Israel through to the God rested on the s~venth; and be blessed and nal design-to keep in remembrance the living 
promised land, upderstood the character and sanctified that day, s.etting it apart as a day of God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. 
value of the law of God. He-assured the peo-reRt and worship for mankind. And at Sinai But the Sn.bbatb has been treated with great 
ple that no other na_t.ion bad such wise, right-he commanded: "Remembe1· the Sabbn.th day, to disrespect. 
Men have dared to detract from its 
eous, and merciful rules as had been given to keep it holy." "In it thou shalt not do any dignity; they have ventured to remove the 
the Hebrews. "Behold," be says, "I have work." Man was to rest from his labor, and sanctity placP.d upon it by the Creator himself. 
taught you statutes and judgments, even as the as. be should look upon the earth beneath, and 
Temporal n.ffait·s must come under divine 
Lord my God commanded me, that ye should the be.aven·s above, his thoughts were to be restrictions. The Sabbath is not to be moulded 
do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. directed toward Him who brought all these to meet men's business arrangements, but busi-
Keep therefore and do tbem; for this is your I wonderful and beautiful things into existence; n'ess affairs are to be arranged to meet God's 
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of and his heart was to be filled with love anci great standard of righteousness. But the god 
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THE GIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 18. 
Orthodoxy not Faith. 
of this world hn,s confused the minds of many kingdoms-Naples,, Sicily~ Aragon, Pola.nd, and 
on this subject. They need to come. into the others-knowing that tl1ose to whom they hn,d 
ORTHODOXY in opinion is not faith. A debtor 
divine presence, and listen to the voiCe of the gifted them could pot~sess them only by fight-may hn.ve a pel'fecUy just view of his debt~, 
great I AM. 
. 
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in(F for them? History answers, rrhe popes. but his orthodox creed will not help the credi-
With God there IS no respect of persons. vVbo deposed sovereigns, and sanctioned. insm·-tor. 
'rhere must be an action corresponding 
Those who fear him and work righteousness rection and war between them and thmr sub-to the creed. The devils believe and tremble: 
are precious in his sio·bt· but he requires his jects? The popes. Who so often tem1:ted the They have very correet views of God and his . 
people to show their ~lleginnce by strict obedi-Swiss from their mountains to shed their bl?od will but they are nevertheless lost eternally. 
ence to all the precepts of tho mora,! law, the on the plains of Italy? 'rhe Bishop of Sw~, As there can be no true faith without active 
Sabbath commandment with the. rest. 
God is acting as the legate o~· th~ pope. 
V\i ho .was It ser.vice so of course, there can be no assurance 
jealous of his honor, and let men beware bow that, the better to mmntam the .1n~edommance of faith. 
1The Christian who lazily looks after 
they remove one jot or tittle of that law t~at of their own sway, kept It~ly ~IVI?e.d, at t~e nothinO' but his present earthly comfort will 
he spoke with his own voice and wrote w1th cost ofalmost.ceaseless mtesti~e feua.s and.wais, never look at fiery furnaces with composure. 
his own finger upon tables of stone, and that and the leavmg the gates of the countiy un-Nebuchadnezzar's threats will soon make him 
he has pronounced holy, just, and good. 
gua:ded, or purposel.Y open, for the entrance of renounce his Christianity, or what he thought 
Tbe Popes as Peacen1akers. 
foreign hordes? History answer~, The pop.es. was Christianity. It is in the actual serviue of 
Who was it that, having entered mto war With the Lord that the heart learns to trust in him, 
France threw aside the miter for the helmet, feels how sweet his divine attentions are, and 
THE evils which for so many years afflicted and, pa'ssing over a bridge on the Tibe1> is said can do all things through God strengthening it. 
Chi·istendom cannot but rn.ise the question in to have thrown the keys of St. Peter mto the Now the service of the I .. ord is the use of the 
every diRpassionate mind how far the popes river, seeing they. had served him so ill, a.nd divin~ means of grace for others. His grace 
have fulfilled the office assigned them as the called for the sword of St. Paul? Pope J ulms is work in 0' in our earth for his great ptu·pose of 
"Fathers of Christendom" and the peacc-mak-II. 
Who organized the successive campaigns salvation.band he chooses us to be his co-work-
ei·s of the world. 
l.Jeavin!!' out of view their wngod against the Hussites, and on two se-reral ers. 
Tb~ field is the human heart-our hearts 
adulators on the one side, and their iuerimina-occasions sent his legate-a-latere to lead the and the hearts of others. As servants of God 
tors on the other, let us put to history the ques-crusaders? History answers, 'rhe pope. 
we will take hold of this assigned work ear-
tion How many are the years of peace, and 
We stop at the era of the Reformation. We nestly. 
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how' many are the years of war, which have put no questions to history touching the wars 
For ourselves, we w1ll explore the Scr1ptures 
come out of the pn.pal chair, and lvbat propor-in Germany, the wars in France, the wars in with devout research and keep ever near 
tion does the one bear to the other': 
the Low Countries, the wars in Hungn.ry, and. the throne of grace, and by constant commun-
To put, then, a few plain qtH.JHLions touching in other lands; in which, too, the blood ot' the ion with holy things become holier om·s~iveR. 
matters of fact, let us ask, From whom came the Rcaffold was largely mingled with tho blood of. l<"or others, we will set the example of a nght-
crusades which for two centuries eontinued to the battle field. 
'"Ve restrict our examples to eous life and be alwavs ready to speak for God 
waste the treasnre and the blood of both Eu-those ages when Rome was not only a power, and his' truth. It is ~in this way onr faith will 
rope and Asia? History answers, From the but the power in Cbri!"'tendom. Kings were grow into the proportions of overcoming. power 
popes. 
l\{on ks preached the crusades, monks then her vassals, and she bad only to speak to that will fear no N ebuchadnozzar or his fiery 
enlisted soldiers to fight them, and when the be obeyed. 
Why then did she not summon furnace. 
Without such service we can express 
host was mn.rsha.led and all was ready, monks them to her bar, a,nd command them to sheathe uo such growth. Salvation is not from without 
placed therru:~elves at their head, and led. them their swords? Why did she not bind them in and by magic. It is by a life that has faith as 
onward their track marked by devastatiOn, to the chain of her excommullications, and. compel its motor. 
· 
the sho;·es of Syria, where their furious fanati-
them to be at peace till she had arbitrated in 
'rhese three young Hebrews were simply 
eism exploded in scenes of yet greater devasta-their quarrels, and so prevent this great effusi?n acting out their life of faith when they refused 
tion and horror. In these expeditions, the of human blood? Here are the pope's explmts to bow to the king's idol. It was no act of 
popes were always the ch_ief.q; the cross?d em-on the field of war. 
Why has history forgotten obstinacy or rebellion against 
~he king_, . or 
perors and kinO's were eniJsted under their ban-to chronicle his labors and sacrifices in the whimsical fanaticism, nor was It JsraeiJtJsb 
ner, and put b under the command of their blessed work of peace? True, we do find a few patriotism. It was the natural operation of a 
legates; at the popes' mandate i~ was that they outstandi11g im;tancos of the po"pos' enjoining godly life. 
1'h~.y served the. Lor?. That was 
went forth to slay and to be slam. 
l_n then?-
peace amon~ Christian princ~s .. We find the their soul's positiOn. 
They hved m accordance 
sence of these princes, the popes took mto their Council of Lyons (1245) ordammg a general with that service. And so when they were 
bands the government of their kingdoms; the cessation of arms among the Western sover-told to worship an idol, they had no need of 
persons and goods of all th~ crus_aders :were de-eigns, with power to prelates to proce~d by hesitation or of time to consider. They say, 
clared under their proteut10n; m then· behalf censures against those ·who refused to acqmes?e; "We are not careful to answer thee in this 
they caused every process, civil ~nd c~·im~nal: to but for what end? Even that the crusade whwb matter;" that is," We have not to make a eare-
be suspended; they made a lav1sh dJstnbut~on had been projected might be carried out with ful search into p1·os and cons and find out what 
of indtilgcnoes and dispcn.sations, to keep ahve greater unanimity and vigor. 
We find Gregory we shall do. 
'rhe thing is perfectly plain. 
fanatical fervor and sangUinary zeal; they s?me-X. sending his nuncio to c?mpel ob~~rvance of Our·whole lives direct ns. 
We shall not wor-
times enjoined as a command, and sometim~s t'his decree of the Council on Ph1hp III. of ~:~hip thine idol, and the burning fiery furnace 
as a penance, service i!l the crnsades; their France and the King of Castile, knowing that is no arO'ument." That is the way a soul in the 
nuncios and leo·ates recmved the alms and lega-these two sovereigns were about to decide a Lord's ~ervice will always reply to an invita-
eies bequoath~d for mai.ntaining th~se wars; certain difference by arms, because he needed tion to sin even when a threat accompanies it. 
and when, after two d1smal centuries, they their swords to fight his own battles. We find, Sometime~ the threat comes in the form of a 
came to an end, it was found that none sa_ve further, Boniface VIII. enjo!ning all sovereigns loss of position whence comes. bread, 
fo~· se~f 
the popes were the gainers thereby. 
While to terminate all wars and dtfferences at home, and family, but the godly soul IS not afraid; It 
the antbority of the Papa~ See was _vastly that they might be in circumstances to prose-sings right cheerfully:-
strengthcned, the Becular pnnce~ were 1.n the cute more viO'orously the holy wars of' th.e 
"Go, then, earthly fame and tre~snre; 
same proportion weakened nnd 1mpovenshed; church. 
Thes~, and a few similar instances, 
Come, disaster, scorn, and pam; 
the sway of Rome was confirmed; fot· tho are all that we have on the one side to set over 
In thy service pain is pleasure, 
nf't1·0no,, broken and bowed down, suffet·ed a 
h 1 · 
11 f' 
1 
b 1 fa ts on the 
With thy favor loss is gain. 
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against t e ong ro o . me. anc 0 Y ~ c 
· 
I have called thee Abba, Father; 
yoke to be riveted upon their necks that could other. 
History's verdwt 1s, that WIth the as-
I have stayed my heart on thee; 
not be broken for ages. 
cent of the popes to supremacy, came not peace, 
Storms may howl and clouds may gather; 
We ask further, From whom came tht.~.con-but war to the nations of Christendom. 
The 
.Allmustworkforgoodtome." 
test between the miter and the empire-the noon of the papal power was_illnHtrated, not by It is in this spirit of faithful service that the 
war of investitures wbieb divided and ravage.d its calm splendors and its tranquil. joys, b~t by true Christian meets the :fiery furnace. It has 
Christendom for a full century and a half? tempest, and battle, and destructwn.-H~story no terrors for him. 
History answers, From the 1~ope, ~regory VII. of Protestantism. 
The reason why so many Christians yield ·is 
.From whom came the Alb1gensmn crusades, 
because they do not serve God. 
They wear 
which swept in suC'ccssivo tempests o_f fire and 
,1,HE religion of Christ is able to make its Christ's nnmc and serve self and the world. 
blood across the south of France? Htstory an-
h 
It sets thei·r ro"inb()' hearts 1'hoy have no courage because they have no 
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possessors 
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swers, From the pope, nnoce?t 
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.ence at rest· it enables them to dispense with the faith.-Howa1·d Crosby, D. 
., on 
an. 
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came those armtes of assas~ms, which times dissi )ations of the world; it sustains them un-
witbout number p~netrated mto .the \V~ld:m-: der }the trials of life and raises them above 
sian Valleys, carry1~g ~h~ torch mto d v. elhn~ the fears of death. 
':rhus they adorn the doc-
and sanctuary, and mfl_w.tmg on the 
1u.noff~nd trine of God their Saviour in all things.-Jay. 
ing inhabitants barbarities and crue ties o so 
horrible a nature that they never can ?e known, 
f b 
. 
because they never dare be told? 
Histo~·y an-
TAKE you hoed. 
To be near the li e-oat 1s 
swers, From the pope. 
Who made donatwns of different from being in it.-J. H. Evans. 
EvERY man can help on the world's work 
more than he knows of. 
What we want is the 
single eye, that we may see what our work is, 
the humility to accept it, however lowly, tho 
faith to do it for God, the perseverance to go 
on until death.-No-1·man McLeod. 
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AY 13, 1886. 
THE BIG NS OF T-HE TIMESo 
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Sin and Its Remedy. 
SIN is the transgression of God's law. 1 John 
3: 4. It is ungt·ateful, mean, base, rebellious. 
It is unmerciful, relentless, hard-hearted, stub-
born. It is cold, selfish, unreasonable, deceitful, 
cruel. It brings condemnation, degradation, 
sorrow, remorse, anguish of spirit, and pain. It 
destroys self-respect, creates distrust of our fel-
low-men, and separates us from God. It bas 
taken peace, joy, love, virtue, and goodness 
away from earth, and brought corruption and 
every vile, hateful thing in their stead. It bas 
made righteousness a stranger, and justice a 
wayfarer, on earth. It bas involved mankind 
in the most abject slavery, and robbed him of 
all the pleasures that would have . come as 
the result of innocence and purity. It blights 
every fair prospect, and blasts every precious 
earthly hop~. It bas filled earth with mourn-
ing and sadness, and turned the world into one 
vast charnel house. 
It is expensive. It costs a life-time of labor 
and .sorrow, and brings its victims down to 
death at last. It bas cost the sufferings and death 
Beware "lest any of you be hardened through 
the deceitfulness of sin." The way may look 
pleasant and prosperous, and may promise m ncb 
in the way of carnal gratification. 
You will not 
be tempted a.t first to commit a great sin: only 
just a little deviation from God's way, only a 
little self-gratification is demanded. 
If the 
heart yields then the hardening process begins. 
When self comes in before God, the first com-
mand is broken, and then the growth of sin is 
rapid unless arrested by some merciful provi-
dence of God. 
Sin is only selfishness gone to 
seed. H begins with having our own way in-
stead of God's way. It continues in following 
the carnal emotions and feelings instead of hav-
ing the word of God as an inward monitor. 
·Beware of the first approach of sin. 
Abhor it. 
Flee·from it as from a venomous reptile. Avoid 
the highways where sin travels, and shun her 
secret paths. There is evil and ruin lurking at 
every step, and "the end thereof are the ways 
of death." Prov. 16 : 25. 
G. D. BALLou. 
The Preacher's Theme. 
of the Son of God, and filled Heaven with weep-
"THE unsearchable riches of Christ." We 
ing for human woe. 
All the labor and perplex-are told that these words may mean one of two 
ity of this mortal stat~ are due to sin. 
rJ'be em-things-either riches w bich cannot be measured 
ployments of earth, before sin enLered, were or riches which cannot be exhausted. But are 
without sorrow or wearing care, and were of not both true in their relation to Jesus Christ? 
such a character as not to be expressed by the We know that in him dwelletb all the fullness 
terms such as we now use in speaking of labor. of the Godhead bodily. 
And that to Paul's 
There were joy and gladness in every action. mind he was not only the Uenter, around which 
Like the promised future state they could "run should gather the good of every age and clime, 
and not be weary, and walk and not faint." 
but that he was the Source of every blessing 
Sin is a most hideous monster, hateful alike which crowns our life; the one pcrcn nial Fount 
to God and all the reasonable creatures in his from which streams down to us all that makes 
universe to whom its true character bas been life glad and happy, and that we must exhaust 
revealed. It is to be despised, shunned, resisted, God himself before we can exhaust Jesus Christ 
cast out, and trampled under foot. 
He who and the fullness which abides in him. 
engages in the business of sin reaps a sure reo-
The. theme is vast in its dimensions. 
.For 
ompense; but it will be a bitter one, for "the who can gauge the far-reaching influence of 
wages of sin is death,"-tbe second deatb,-for the cross of Calvary? It not merely affects 
"whosoever was not found written in the book man in his sad and fallen condition, but reaches 
of life was cast into the lake of fire." "This is forth into wider cirdes, until the whole· universe 
the second death." 
Rev. 20 : 15, 14. 
feels its reconciling power. "For it pleased the 
There is but one way of escape ii.·om the con-Father that in him should all fullness dwell; 
demnation of the broken law here, and the and, having made peace through the blood of 
final future consequences; and that is through his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto 
the merits of Christ's work in our behalf. "If himself; by him, I say, whether they be things 
we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to in earth, or things in Heaven." Blessed be 
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all God! these riches are inexhaustible. 
Many 
unrighteousness." 
1 John 1:9. "lf we walk have drunk of the living waters, and the stream 
in the light, as be is in the light, we have fel-flows on as deep and full as ever. 
Many have 
lowship one with another, and the blood of taken of the bread of life, and the supply is not 
Jesus Christ his Son clean seth us from all sin." in the least exhausted. 
And many will yet 
1 John 1 : 7. 
"Repent ye therefore, and be stretch forth their hand to supply their heart-
converted, that your sins may be blotted out.'' felt needs.-Rev. R. Davies. 
Acts 3: 19. 
"Come now, and let us reason to-
gether, saith the J_;ord; though your sins be as 
Rca.rlet, they shall be as white as snow; though 
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." 
lsa. 1 : 18. lf we accept the conditions of the 
new covenant, God will write his law upon our 
hearts, and our sins and iniquities he will re-
member no more. Reb. 8: 12. 
Who does not purpose to be clear of sin and 
its dire consequences? Do not wait until some 
irresistible feeling impels you to flee from the 
bondage of sin, but go at the dictates of your 
better judgment, and with child-like faith in 
God ask him for J esus''s sake to forgive your sins 
and impart strength for the work of overcom-
ing. If you have failed in former efforts, block 
the wheels behind by confessing to your fellow-
men the wrongs done them, and then set out 
to labor earnestly for the spiritual welfare of 
perishing men. Lack of spiritual efforts for 
others is a sure means of spiritual suicide. 
The 
hope of tb,e glorious future should be bright in 
our minds in order that we may have strong 
faith and courage in the work. There is the 
"peace of God which passet.b all understand-
ing" in this life for the faithful child of God, 
and for the future a home in the everlasting 
kingJom of God beyond the reach of sin and 
all its fearful co·nsequences. 
A Dark Picture. 
MR. HENRY GEORGE, describing the growing 
demoralization of our cities~ says: "In theory, 
the law protects to-day the lowest as completely 
as the highest; yet a man who has enough 
money can go into one of our great centers of 
population, and murder whomsoever he plea~::~es, 
surrender himself to justice, with the chance 
as a hundred to one that he will suffer no greater 
penalty than a temporary imprisonment, and 
the loss of a sum proportioned partly to his 
own wealth and partly to the wealth and stand-
ing of the man be kills." His money will not, 
however, be paid to the family of his victim, 
nor to the State, but to the lawyers who are 
expert in securing delays, finding convenient 
witnesses, and corruptly procuring the disagree-
mentor juries. Again," If a man steal enough,'' 
says Mr. George, "he may be sure that his 
punishment will practically amount but to the 
loss of a part of the proceeds of his theft. And 
if he steal enough to get off with a fortune, he 
will be greeted by his acquaintances as a viking 
might have been greeted after a successful 
cruise. Even though he robbed those who 
trusted him; even though he robbed the widow 
and the fatherless, be ha~::~ only to get enough 
and be may safely flaunt his wefl,lth in the eyes 
of day." 
Mr. George in all this sees cumulative proof 
of the decay of civilization. 
The people are 
growing used to corruption, and ceasing to re-
sent it. 
r:rhere is even now a publi0. sentiment 
thai doubts the existence of an honest man in 
office, and looks rather contemptuously upon 
one who claims to be such. The people them-
selves are therefore becoming corrupted. If 
such corruption becomes chronic, public spirit 
will be lost, and Jaw brought into contempt. 
When the burdens become unbearable, strong 
and unscrupulous men will make themselves 
the exponents of popular desires and passions, 
and become leaders in demonstrations of brute 
force and destruction. 
Thenceforward the de-
scent to the modern form of barbarism tba t 
alternates between anarchy and temporary 
imperial despotism, is swift. The new barba-
rians, who shall destroy our modern civilization 
as the barbarians of old destroyed those of 
Greece and Rome, will not come from a dis-
tance. "Go through the squalid quarter of 
great cities," says Mr. George, "and you may 
see their gathering hordes."-Sel. 
The Power of a Living Bible. 
IN his father's house a young lady resided, 
who was a relative of the family. 
Her fretful 
temper made all arolmd her uncomiortable. 
She was sent to a boarding-school and was 
absent some time. 
While there she became a 
true and earnest Christian. 
On her return she 
was so changed that all who knew her won-
dered and rejoiced. 
She was patient and cheer-
ful, kind, unselfish and charitable. The lips 
that used to be always uttering cross and bitter 
words now spoke nothing but sweet, gentle, 
loving words. Her infidel cousin George was 
greatly surprised at this. He watched her 
closely for some time, till be was thoroughly 
satisfied that it was a real change that bad 
taken place in his young cousin. 
T.hen he 
asked her what had caused this great change. 
She told him it was the grace of God which 
bad made her a Christian and had changed her 
heart. 
He said to himself, "i don't believe that God 
baR anythinf! to do with it, though she thinks 
be had. 
But it is a wonderful change that has 
taken place in her, and I should like to be as 
good as she is. 
I will be so." Then be formed 
a set of good resolutions. 
He tried to control 
his tongue and temper, and kept a strict watch 
over himself. 
He was all the 6me doing and 
saying what he did not wish to do and say. 
And, as be failed time after time, he would turn 
and study b is good cousin's example. He 
would read the living Bible, and say to himself: 
"How does it happen that she, who bas not as 
much natural strength of character as I have, can 
do what I can't do? ·She must have some help 
that I don't know of. It must be, as she says, 
the help of God. 
I will seek that help." He 
went into his cb·am ber and prayed to that God 
whose very existence he had denied. 
He 
prayed earnestly. 
God beard him, helped him, 
and he became a Christian.-Young Men's 
Ch-ristian Magctzine. 
THE work you have to do in the counting-
house, in the shop, or wherever you may be, is 
that by which you are to serve God. 
Do it 
with a high regard, and then there is nothing 
mean in it; but there is everything mean in it 
if you are pretending to please people when 
you only look for your wages.-J:lacdonald. 
TrrE storm tries the building, and discovers 
which is built upon the rock and which upon 
the sands. 
rrhe storm tries the pilot. The 
touchstone tries the metal whether it be gold 
or copper. The furnace tries the gold w he.tber 
it be pure or dross. 
So afflictions and persecu-
tions try the Christian.-Francis Roberts. 
/ 
276 [4] 
THE. SIGNS OF TI-I:E T-IMES. 
·v oL. 12, No. 18. 
The Visigoths in the Western Empire. 
(Continued.) 
"THE proclamation of Alaric, when he forced 
his entrance mto a vanquished city, discovered, 
however, some regard for the laws of humanity 
and religion. He encouraged his troops boldly 
to seize the rewards of valor, and to enrich 
t.bemsel ves with the spoils of a wenl thy and 
effeminate people; but be exhorted them, at 
the same time, to spare the lives of the unre-
sisting citizens, and to respect the churches of 
the apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, us holy and 
inviolable sanctuaries. 
Amidst the horrort~ of 
a nocturnal tumult, several of the Christian 
Goths displayed the fervor of a recent conver-
sion; and some instances of their uncommon 
piety and moderation are related, and perhaps 
adomed, by the zeal of ecclesiastical writers. 
\Vhile the barbarians roamed through the city 
in quest of prey: the humble dvvelling of an 
aged virgin, who had devoted her life to the 
service of the alt:1r, was forced open by one 
of the powerful Goths. He immedintely de-
manded, thongh in civil language, all the gold 
and silver in her possession; nnd was nstonisbed 
at the readiness with which she conducted him 
to a splendid board of massy plate, of the rich-
est materials, anq the most curious workman-
ship. The barbarian viewed with wonder and 
delight this valuable acquisition, till be was 
interrupted by a serious admonition, addressed 
to him in the following words: 'rrbese,' said 
she, 'are the consecrated vessels belonging to 
St. Peter; if you presume to touch them, the 
sacrilegious deed will remain on your conscience. 
For my part, I dare not keep what I am unable 
to defend.' 
"The Gothic captain, struck with reverential 
awe, dispatched amessengor to inform the king 
of the treasure which be bad discovered; and 
received a peremptory order from Alaric, that 
all the consecrated plate and ornaments should 
be transported, .without damage or delay, to 
the church of the apostle.. From the extrem-
i Ly, perhapR, of tl;10 Quirinal hill, to the distant 
quarter of the Vatican, a numerous detachment 
of Got hl-<, mnrching in order of battle through 
the prinuipal streets, protected, with glittering 
arm~, the long train of thei t' devout companions, 
who bore aloft., on their beadR, the sacred vessels 
of gold and silver; and the marti[d shouts of 
the barbarians were mingled wiLh the sound 
of relip;ious psa.lmod_y. From a11 the adjacent 
bousef3, a crowd of Christians bnstened to join 
this edifYing 1n·ocoRsion; and a multitude of 
fugitives, without di::ltinction of age or rank, 
or even of sect, hnd the good fortune to escape 
to the secure and ~ospitable sanctuary of the 
Vatic:an. 
'l'he learned work, concerning the 
city of God, was professedly composed by St. 
AuguRtin, to justify the ways of Providence in 
the destruetion of the Roman greatness. He 
celebrates with pecq.lirtr Ratisfaction this memo-
rable triumph of Christ; and insults his adver-
saries by challenging them to produce some 
simila1· example oLa town taken by storm, in 
wbieb the fhbu1ous gods of antiquity had been 
able to proteet either themselves or their de-
luded votaries. 
"In the sack of Rome, some nn~e and extraor-
dinary examples of barbarian virtue have 
been deservedly applau9-ed. But tho holy pre-
cincts of the Vatican and the apostolic chnrchos, 
could receive a very small proportion of tho 
Roman people; many thousand warriors, more 
especially of the Huns, who served undet· the 
standard of.Alaric, wore strangers to the name, 
or at least to the faith, of Christ; and we may 
suspect, without any breach of charity or can-
dor, that in the hour of savage license, when 
every paRsion was infln:med, and every restraint 
was removed, tb~ precepts of t.he gospel seldom 
influenced the behavior of the Gothic Christians. 
The writers, the best disposed to exaggerate 
their clemency, have . .freely confessed that. a 
cruel slaughter was made of the Romans; and 
that the streets of the city were filled with wrath of Heaven supplied the imperfections of 
dead bodies, which remained without burial hostile rage; and that the proud forum of 
during the general consternation. The despair Rome, dec~orated with the statues of so many 
of the citizens was sometimes conve1·ted into gods and heroes, was leveled in the dust by 
fury; and whenever the barbarians were pro-the stroke of lightning. 
voked by opposition, they extended the promis-
"Whatever might be the numbers of equeR-
cuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and trian or plebeian rank, who perished in the 
the helpless. The private revenge of forty massacre of Rome, it is confidentlv affirmed 
thousand slaves was exercised without pity or that only one senator lost his life byv the sword 
remorse; and the ignominious lashes, which of the enemy. 
But it was not easy to compute 
they bad formerly r .... ceived, were washed away the multitudes, who, from an honorable station 
in the blood of the guilty, or obnoxious families. and a prosperous fortune, were suddenly re-
" The matrons and virgins of Rome were duced to the miserable condition of captives 
exposed to injuries more dreadful, in the appre-and exiles. 
As the barbarians had more occa-
hension of chastity, than death itself; and the sion for money than for slaves, they fixed aLa 
ecclesiastical historian has selected an example moderate price the redemption of their indigent 
of female virtne, for· the admiration of future prisoners; and the ransom was often paid by 
ages. 
A Roman lady, of singular beauty and the benevolence of their friends, or the charity 
orthodox faith, had excited the impatient de-of strangers. The captives, who were regularly 
sires of a young Goth, who, according to the sold, ei tber in open market, or by private con-
sagacious remark of Sozomen, was attached to tract, would hnve legally regained their native 
the Arian heresy. Exasperated by her obsti-freedom, whieh it was impossible for a citizeu 
nate resistance, he drew his sword, and with to lose, or to alienate. 
But as it was soon dis-
the anger of a lover, slightly wounded her covered that the vindication of their hberty 
neck. The bleeding heroine still continued to would endanger their lives; and that the Goths, 
brave his resentment, and to repel his love, till unless they were tempted to sell, might be 
the ravisher desisted from his unavailing efforts, provoked to murder their useless prisoners, 
respectfully conducted her to the sanctuary of the civil jurisprudence bad been already quali-
tbe Vatican: and ga\u00b7e six pieces of gold to the fied by a wise regulation, that they should be 
guards of the church, on condition that they obliged to serve the moderate term of five yean~, 
should restore her inviolate to the arms of her till they had discharged by their labor the price 
husband. 
Such instances of courage and gen-of their redemption. 
erosity were not extremely common. 
The 
"The nations who invaded the Roman Empire, 
brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites, had· driven before them, into Italy, whole troops 
without consulting either the inclination or the of hungry and affrighted provincials, less appre-
d.uties of their female captives." 
bensive of servitude than of famine. 
The ca-
" But avarice is an insatiate and universal ]amities of Rome and Italy dispersed the inbab-
passion, since the enjoyment of almost every itants to the most lonely, the most secure, \Pe 
object that can afford pleasure to the different most distant places of refuge. While the GoLhic 
tastes and tern pers of mankind may be procured cavalry spread terror and desolation· along the 
by the possession of wealth. In the pillage sea coast of Campania and Tuscany, the little 
of Rome, a just preference was given to gold island· oi' Igilium, sepnrated by a narrow chan-
and jewels, which contain the greatest value nel from the Argcntarian promontory, repulsed 
in the smallest compass arid weight; but after or eluded their hostile attempts; and at so 
these portable riches bad been removed by the small a distanc:e from Rome great numbers of 
more diligent robbers, the palaces of Rome citizens were securely concealed in the thick 
were rudely stripped of their splendid and woods of that sequestered spot. The ample 
costly furniture. The sideboards of massy patrimonies, which many senatorial families 
plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and possessed in Africa, invited them, if they had 
purple, were irregularly piled in tho wagons, time and prudence to escape from the ruin of 
that always followed the march of a Gothic their country, to embrace the shelter of that 
army. The most exquisite works of art were hospitable province. The most illust'rious of 
roughly handled, or wantonly destroyed; many these fugitives was the noble and pious Pr<:?ba, 
a sttttue was melted for Lhe sake of the precious the widow of the prefect Petronius. After the 
materials; and many a vase, in the division of death of her husbnnd, the most powel'ful sub-
the spoil, wa~ shivered into fragments by the ject of Rome, she bad remained at the bead of 
stroke of a battle-ax. 
r:ebo acquisition of the Anician family, and successively snpplied, 
riches served only' to stimulate the avarice of from her priv'ate fcn·tun~, the expense of the 
the rapaeious barbarians, who proceeded by uonsulships of her three sons. 
threats, by blows, and by tortnres, to force from 
" When the city was besieged and taken by 
their prisoners the confession of hidden treasure. the Goths, Proba supported, with Christian 
Visible splendor and expense were alleged as resignation, the loss of immense riches; em-
the proof of a plentiful fortune; the appearance barked in a smnll vessel, from whence she be-
of poverty w:as imputed to a parsimonious dis-held, at sea, the flames of her burning palace, 
position; and the obstinacy of some misers, and fled with her daughter Lreta, and her 
who endured the most cruel torments before granddaughter, the celebrated virgin Deme-
they would discover the secret object of their trias, to the coast of Africa. 
The. benevolen·t 
affection, was fatal to many unhappy wretches, profusion with which the matron distributed 
who expit·ed under the lash, for refusing to the fruits, ot· the price, of her estates, contribu-
reveal their imaginary treasures. 
ted to alleviate the misfortunes of exile and 
"The edifices of Rome, though the da,mage captivity. But even the family of Proba her-
bas been much exaggerated, received some in-self was not exempt from the rapacious oppres-
jury from the violence of the Goths. At their sion of Count Heraclian, who basely sold, in 
entrance through the Salarian gate, they fired matrimonial prostitution, the noblest maidens 
the adja.oout h.ouses to guide their march, a.nd of Rome to the lust or avarice of the Syrian 
to distract the attention of tho citizens; the mercban ts. The Italian fugitives were dispersed 
flames, which encountered no obstacle in the through the provinces, along the coast of Egypt 
disorder of the night, consumed many private and Asia, as far as Constantinople and Jerusa-
and public buildings; and the rnins of the pal-lem; and the village of Bethlehem, the solitary 
ace of Sallust remained, in the age of Justinian, residence of St. J erom and his female converts, 
a stately monument of the Gothic conflagration. was crowded with illustrious beggars of either 
Yet a contemporary historian has observed sex, and every age, who excited the public 
that fire could scarcely con.3ume the enormous compassion by the remembrance of their past 
beams of solid brass, and that the strength of fortune. 
man wa.s insufficient to subvert the foundations 
"This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the 
of a~cie.nt structures. Some truth may possibly astonished empire with grief and terror. So 
be conce:iled in his devout assertion, that the interesting a contrast of greatness and 1!uin, 
MAY_ 13, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[ 6] 277 
disposed the fond credulity of the people to 
deplore, and even to exaggerate, the a:ffiictions 
of the queen of cities. 
rrhe clergy, who ap-
plied to recent even Ls the lofty metaphors of 
Oriental prophecy,. were sometimes tempted to 
confound the destruction of the capital and the 
dissolution of the globe."-Decline and FaU, 
chap. 31, par. 22-24, 26. 
A. T. J. 
(To be contimted.) 
Under Grace. 
SoME object to the vie.w that being under the 
law (Rom. 6 : 14, 15) mt)~ths "under the condem-
nation of the law." They think that to claim 
this is adding something to the text. 
We be-
lieve that the reaso11ing powers which God bas 
given us were intended to be used in reading 
and understanding biR word; ·and that to use 
them adds nothing to, and takes nothing from 
that WOl'd. 
What is meant by the grace of God? It is 
simply his favor. How is this favor obtained? 
':Chrough the propitintory sacrifice of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 
He died for our sins. "Sin is 
the transgression of the law." 
1 John 3: 4. 
Show us a man that bas not sinned, and be is 
one that has no need of thi~ favor which comes 
only through Jesus Christ; but be is one who 
keeps, and ever bas kept, every precept of the 
law; otherwise be would be a sinner, a trans-
gressor of tho law. 
But when the sinner (as are all the human 
race) finds favor through Jesus Christ, be cer-
tainly passes out of a state of condemnntion 
in to a state of favor. He is not now under the 
condemnation of the law, because he bas found 
pardon and favor through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
He is now "delivered from the lavv, that being 
dead" which held him under its threntened 
penalty. And what was that? It was sin. 
The law has no demand against him ·who is 
not guilty of its violation, but keeps its every 
precept. 
Such a one is free. 
Said David, "I 
will walk at liberty." . vVhy? Not becam;e be 
was at liberty to transgress the precepts of the 
law, but, said he, "for I seek thy precepts." 
Ps. 119:45. 
Let us read the text which is offered as proof 
that the law of which it spen.ks hns been n.bol-
ished, being supei~Reded by the favor or grace 
of God. "For sin shall not have uominion over 
you; for yo 
:~.re not under the law, but under 
grace. 
What then? shall we sin, because we 
are not under the law, but under grace? 
God 
forbid!" 
_Rom. 6: 14, 15. 
This i8 quoted to prove that one precept, at 
least, of the law spoken of may be tr::msgreE'.sed 
with impunity. 
A11d but for that one precept, 
which is generally tran:-:gressed, the text never 
would have been quoteJ for such a purpose. 
But if it proves one precept of the Jaw abol-
ished, it proves the same of every one of them; 
for there is no distinction. Now if the law has 
been superseded, as they cln.im, no human being 
is bound to keep .. one of its precepts; because 
it bas ceased to be law. In that case it ean be 
truly said to all men," Ye are not under the 
Jaw." But all to whom the apostle spoke were 
under grace. 
As truly as they were not under 
the law, so truly they were under grace. 
Are 
all men now under grace? Do all e11joy the 
favor of God? If so, all are in a very happy 
condition. None are ac'counted sinners in the 
sight of God; for sin is evt-r condemned by 
him; the sinner cannot enjoy his favor. 
Are there now no servants of sin? Said the 
apostle to those who, be said, were under p:r,ace, 
''Know ye. not, that to whom ye yield your-
selves se1:vants to obey, his servants ye are to 
whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or 
of obedience unto righteousness?" Verse 16. 
"Sin is the transgression of the law"-tbis and 
only this; for this is a perfect definition. 
Sin 
is not the transgression of grace. 
Read the 
text with this inspired and therefore perfect 
definition in the place of the word defined. 
There can be no valid objection to this. 
Thus pounds, with a maximum muzzle velocity of 
we read: "For the transgression of the law 1,840 feet per second, and an approximate muz-
shall not have dominion o'Ver you; for ye n.re zle energy of 19,000 foot-tons. 
The pressure 
not under the law, but under grace. 
vVhnt per square inch of bore is about 15 tons, and 
then? Shall we transgres:::; tho law, bocnuse the penetration of iron plate 23 inches. 
Enor-
we are not under the law, but under grace? mous as is this weapon, the carriage with the 
God forbid!" 
gun can be mallenvered by one man in 30 see-
Our friends do not bold with Paul; for they onds. 
· 
claim the liberty to transgress the law, because 
A quarter of a century ago the most power-
they are not under t be Jaw, but nnder grace. fnl piece of ordnance any·w here constructed 
But let us read again from the apostle: "What was one weighing five tons, carrying a pro-
shall we say then? Shall '"e continue in the jectile of 78 pounds, with a velocity of 1,570 
transgression of the law that grace may abound? feet, and an energy of 1,100 foot-tons. A com-
God forbid. 
How shall we, thnt are dead to 1;arison of these figures with those of the 
the transgression of the Jaw, live any longer heavy bree<.:h-loading rifles just spoken of, will 
therein?" See verses 1 and 2. 
show the advance made in our country. But 
Now I submit it to the candid reader: Does in other lands this is very far surpassed by 
Paul teach those of whom be says, "Ye are high-powered modern steel guns. 
'l'be Arm-
not under the law," that they may transgreMs stror1g and Krupp monsters now in use dwarf 
that law? Does be not, Ol'l the contrary, teach even our 54-ton gun. 
Tbe Armstrong 100-ton 
obedience. to it, that they mn.y live no longer in gun throws a projectile weighing 2,000 pounds, 
sin? .Every candid mind, unwarped by preju-with a. muzzle veloc:ity of 1,841 feet, produced 
dice from the prevailing custom of transgress-by a charge of 772 pounds of powder, and de-
ing one of the p!·ecepts of the moral Jaw as veloping the enormous muzzle e11ergy of 47,037 
given by God himself at Sinai, must admit tbat foot-tons. 
Guns like these are actually mounted 
the apostle, in these very scriptures, teaehes in some of the Italian iron-clads. 
There is also 
obedience to that law whic:b is the subject of an Armstrong 11 0-ton gun in process qf manu-
his discourse. Then what does he mean by facture, and there are many 63-ton and 80-ton 
being delivered from the law, and not being Woolwich guns. Krupp is making for Italy 
under it, but under grace? Simply that by fonr 130-ton guns, 55 feet long, to carry pro-
the favor of God through .the saerifice of his jectiles weighing 2,330 pounds eaob, with a 
Son they bad been pardoned of tbeir past trans-
velocity of 1,825 feet per second. Such are 
gressions, and hence tbe Jaw bad no demand the prodigious weapons of other lands. 
against them in reference to its penalty, so long 
as they were dead to sin, living no longer in it. 
Justified by the lnw? 
No, indeed. 
The 
law bas no power, nor ever had, to justify its 
transgressor. 
The sinner can only be justified 
through faith in Jesus Christ. 
.Bnt being set 
free from sin, by the sacrifice and righteousness 
of Cbri~t, be obtains a righteous character, that 
is, tho character of a doer of the law; and in 
the day that God sklll judge the secrets of men, 
according to the gospel, "The doers of the law 
shall be justified." 
See Rom. 2 : 12-16. 
R. F. CoTTRELL. 
Casting· Great Guns. 
THE following from Harpe1·'s Weekly is not 
very highly &uggestive of the millennium. 
From this it does not look as though the time 
is at band when the nations shall not" learn 
war any more," as so "many people" are say-
ing. 
Does it not rather show the fulfillment of 
the proc:lamation in Joel 3 : 9-14, ''Prepare war," 
otc.?-
~Che production of a modern henvy gun is 
not only a. costly affai1·, but often one of no 
little risk, as it must be perfect for its work, 
aud able to p~tss the severe te:::;t imposed upon 
it. 
On the 5th of April the fourth attempt to 
cast the last of the great 12-inch cast-iron rifles 
for the Government was succo8sfully m::tde at 
Lbo South Boston Iron Works. 
The last pre-
vious effort had been made in October, and had 
proved a failure. On the present occasion the 
pit bad been very carefully prepnred, with an 
unusually stout core. 
Three large fun1::tuos 
wore filled -vvitb nn aggregate of 105 tons of 
ore. 
Tho fires were started, and in a little 
over fifteen Lours the iron was. ready to run. 
r:Che signal was given, and the troughs leading 
from the furnaces at once began to pour the 
metal into tho gun cradle in tbe center of the 
building. In twenty-two minutes the pit, dug 
forty feet into the ground, was full, and the 
g-reat rifle took its first rude form. }$arly in 
May the core will be removed, and the gun 
taken out. 
The weight of one of these cast-iron breech· 
loadir1g g-~ns is 54 tons; that of its Powlett 
pneumatic carriage, also made at the same 
works, 40 tons. The length of the gun is 30 
feet. Its projectile weighs 800 pounds, and is 
thrown by a charge of powder weighing 265 
• 
The Fresh Hour. 
EvERY day should be commenced with God. 
The busiest and the best man in Jernsnlem was 
wont to say, "In tbe morning will I direet my 
prayer unto thee, and will look up;" ''I will 
8ing aloud of thy mercy in the morning." 
Dnniel too saluted his God with prayer and 
praise at early dawn. 
We begin the day un-
wisely a11d at a great risk to ourselves if we 
leave our chamber without a secret conference 
with our Almighty l'~riond. 
Every Christian, 
when be puts on his clothes, should also put on 
his spiritu::tl armor. 
Before the day's march 
begins be should gather up a portion of heav-
enly manna to feed tho inner man. 
As the 
ori~n tal traveler sets out for the sui try journey 
over burlling sands by loading np hit:l camel 
nnclor tho palm tree's shade, and fills his water 
flagons from tho erystal fountai11 which spark-
les at its roots, ~o does Christ's pilgrim draw 
his morning supplies from his exhaustless spring. 
Morning is the golden hout· for prayer and 
prnise. 
The mind is fresh; the mercies of the 
night, and the new resurrection of the dawn 
both prompt a devout· soul to thankfulness. 
'rhe buoyant heart takes its earliest flight, like 
the lark, towards tbe gate of Heaven. 
One of 
the finest touches in .Bunyan's immortal allegory 
is his description of Christian in the Chamber 
of Peace, who :c awoke and sang," while his 
window looked out to the. sun-rising_ 
H even 
the stony statue of old heathen Memnon made 
music when the first rnys of the dawn kindled 
on its flir1ty brow, surely no Christian heart 
should be dumb when God causes the outgoings 
of the moming to rejoice.-T. L. Cuyler, D. D. 
THE" secret faults," from which David prayed 
to be delivered, may refee to those hidden in-
firmities, propcnsi ties, and desires which so. 
often suggest temptation, furnish the weak 
place for its assnult, and lead to sins of memory; 
sins of imagination, sins of the affections, and 
sins of the passions and appetites. 
vV ere man 
cleansed from "seeret faults," the fountain head 
of sin would be dried up, and tho love of sin 
would be taken away.-Sel. 
You have turned from your evil ways. That 
is well, but it is not enough; you must go for-
ward in the right way. A negative religion is 
not sufficient . 
278 [6) 
THE SIG NB OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 18. 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
E. J. WAGGONER,} 
ALONZO '1'. JONES, 
CoRRESPONDING EDITORS. 
EDITORS. 
J. H. WAGGONER, 
S. N. HASKELL; 
URIAH SMITH, 
GEo. I. BuTLER. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, MAY 13, 1886. 
Logical Autinomianism. 
sive persons, and kill them without any warning. 
He was so adroit withal, that the officers of the law 
had never been able to detect him in these acts. 
Under the Law. 
THE next text which we shall notice is Gal. 5:18. 
He had never read the Bible, nor heard of the ten "But if ye be led of tl1e Spirit, ye are not under 
commandments. He was finally arrested for a petty the law." Antinomians very rarely quote this verse, 
crime, and while lying in jail he was visited by a doubtless because it is so very evident from the' 
clergyman, who read the Bible to him. For the first connection that the law is recognized as being in 
time in his life he heard the obsolete command-active existence .. Let us give it our attention for a 
ment, Thou shalt not kill. When he learned that little while, that we may see what beautiful bar-
this was spoken by the great Jehovah, amid the mony there is in the Bible on the subject of the 
thunderR of Sinai, he was struck with terror and law. 
remorse. With trembling lips he confessed all his 
Since those who are led by the Spirit are not 
· past course, and was assured by the minister that under the law, it follows that those who m·e not led 
God would pardon. Accordingly, as soon as he was by the Spirit m·e under the law. Again, the pre-
A WRITER for a professedly Adventist paper in the released, he applied for admission to the church; ceding verses read as follows: "This I say then, 
East, in an article against ~abbath-keeping, says of but he was told that he had now fallen from grace, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not f~lfill the lust 
the ten commandments: "Paul tells those who keep -that the ten commandments are abolished; that. of the flesh. 
Foi· the flesh lustetb against the 
this law that they are 'fallen from grace,' which is no man who professed a desire to keep them could Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these 
equivalent to saying that there·is no salvation in become a member of the church of Belial. After a are contrary the one to ·the other." Gal. 5:16,17. 
keeping the ten commandments." We never yet short talk with the committee, be seemed to see the These verses state in the plainest terms that the 
came across any such statement in any of Paul's matter clearly. Drawing a revolver, be shot the flesh and the Spirit are contrary to each other; 
writings, but we know that there are many people chairman through the heart, and with a club he that walking in the flesh and walking in the Spirit 
who, in their hatred of the Sabbath, teach just such knocked down two of the deacons, all the time are directly opposite conditions. Then since those 
stuff. There are people organized into churches, using the most violent oaths. Upon this clear evi-
who are led by the Spirit are not under the law, 
whose chief article of faith is that the law of God is dence of his fitness for church membership, he was and those who are not led by the Spirit m·e under 
abolished, although it is seldom that one is found at once received into full fellowship. 
the law, it follows that those who are under the law 
bold enough to declare that all who keep the law of 
"Brother D was tumed out of the church in dis-are those wl1o are fulfilling the lusts of the. flesh. 
God are worthy of death. But this is the inevitable grace. Cause: A rigid observance of the old sev-
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which 
conclusion; for if God's law has been abolished, enth commnndment. At the same time, Mr. F and are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, las-
then it must now be sin to follow the injunctions of Mrs. G, on profession of having lived in open adul-civiousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, 
that law. 
tery for a year, were admitted into the church." 
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envy-
Let us suppose that we have the records of a 
And thus we might read on for pages. 
Does it ings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such 
church whose foundation (r) is the belief that God's se·em irreverent to write in such a strain? It is like; of the which I tell yo~ before, as I have also 
law bas been abolished, and iu which discipline is only what would actually be done if no-law people told you in time past, that they which do such 
rigidly enforced. We should read something like always lived up to their profession. People have tllings shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Gal. 
this: "Brother A was charged with the crime of actually been turned out of churches simply because 5:19-21. 
not having taken the name of God in vain for three they kept the fourth commandment; and if people 
The fruit of the Spirit is, of course, the very 
months. A committee was appointed to labor with are disfellowshiped for keeping the fourth command-opposite, being "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, 
him, but he acknowledged the truth of the charge, rnent, why not for keeping any other? And when gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.'' 
and stubbornly refused to change his course, stnting men say that it is sin to keep the ten command-Verses 22, 23. 
Referring to these fruits of the 
that he was determined always to hold the 11ame of ments, who shall say what abominable things they Spirit, the apostle ·says: "Against such there is no 
his Creator in reverence. Accordingly he was dis-do not do in secret? or that they would not do law.'' Verse 23. 
That is, those who are led· by the 
fellowshiped as one irrecoverably fallen from grace. them openly if fear of their fellow-men did not re-Spirit, and who yield its fruits, are in harmony 
"Deacon B had in early life been well known as strain them? 
with the law; while the law is against the works of 
a horse jockey. After he joined the church his 
Why is it that professed Christians speak with the flesh; and those who do the works of the flesh 
natural ability was exerted with tenfold diligence such contempt of the law of God? Because they are condemned by the law, or are under it. Here 
for the edifying of the body of Christ. So skillful hate the fourth commandment, which enjoins the we arrive at the same conclusion as in regard to 
had he become by long practice in chicanery, that observance of the Sabbath. 
Primarily, however, Rom. 6:14, that "under the law" simply represents 
no man could by any means get even with him in it is because of hatred of all law and restraint. a state of antagoni~m to, and violation of, the lnw; 
a bargain. He could cheat and lie with unblushing N_o doubt they would repudiate the picture whicb and of course no one could be in such a state if the 
countenance. In short, he was an ornament to the we have. portrayed. They would profess abhorrence law were not in full force. 
Now since all sinners 
church. But in an evil day he fell in with a trav-of murder, adultery, and theft. But if it is a sin to are by the law condemned to death (Rom. 3: 19; 6: 
eling preacher, who persuaded him that the law of keep the fourth commandment, it is also wrong to 23), it follows again that "under the law" means 
God is binding upon Christians, and from that time keep the sixth, seventh, and eight. If they teach condemned by the law-under the sentence of 
be became a difrerent man. He began at once to that the law of God is not in force, that those who death. 
restore to those whom he had defrauded. This keep it have fallen from grace, they necessarily 
Turning backward, we find the expression "under 
-Caused suspicion in the minds of his brethren. teach that it is no sin to swear, lie, steal, kill, and the law" used twice in Gal. 4:4, 5: "But when the 
Finally suspicion became certainty, when Brother commit adultery l Nay, more, they actually teach fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his 
X overheard him tell the truth in regard to an old people that they must do those things in order to Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to 
horse which he was selling to one who was no jnrlge secure the favor of God! A more horrible doctrine redeem them that were under the law, that we 
of animals. By this unwarranted act, he actually could not be imagined. To teachers of such doc-might receive the adoption of sons." 
lost the opportunity of eheating the poor man out trines we commend a careful considgration of the 
In the third verse the apostle says that when 
of fifty dollars! 
In another instance, he could following texts, the application of which is obvi-
we were children we were "in bondage under the 
easily have extorted one hundred per cent. interest ous:-
elemP.nts of the world." But (that marks a change) 
from a brother who was forced to borrow a sum of 
"Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot God sent forth his Son to redeem "them that were 
money for three months. Instead of doing so, how-profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, under the law." We would naturally expect the 
ever, he loaned the brother the money without and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and redemption to be from that under which we were 
interest. Patient labor was bestowed upon him, walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come in bondage, which was "the elements of the world." 
but to all entreaties he turned a deaf ear, perversely and stand before me in this house, which is called In the fifth verse the redemption is said to be from 
repeating the words, Thou shalt not steal, and say-by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all "under the law," thus showing that "in bondage 
ing that henceforth he should abide by that rule. these abominations?" Jer. 7:8-10. 
under the elements of the world," and "under the 
He even expressed extreme sorrow that he had ever 
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good law," are equivalent teTms. 
violated it. He was decided to be an incorrigible evil; that put darkness for light, and light for dark-
Let us trace further this matter of bondage. In 
observer of the old ten-commandment law, and was ness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bit-verse 9 Paul says to the Galatians: "But now, after 
accordingly disfellowshiped by unanimous vote. 
ter I" "Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, that ye have kuown God, or rather are known of 
"Mr. Chad gained a wide notoriety as a 'bruiser' and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly 
and cut-throat. He had 'killed his man' many shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bond-
times, and was. so expert with the pistol that h~s I as dust; because they ha:e cast away the law of the age?" Here it is implied that they were in danger 
bullet never failed to reach the heart. It was his Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy of returning to a condition in which they had 
delight to lie in wait for unsuspecting and inoffen-One of Israel." Isa. 5:20,24. 
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previously been. And what condition was that? 
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MAY 13, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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Read verse 8: "Howbeit then, when ye knew not 
God, ye did service unto them which by nature are 
no gods." That is, they were heathen. So being 
in bondage to the elements of the worlcl,-the 
"weak and beggarly elemen ts,"-is equivalent to 
being in a state of heathenbm. Tltose who do not 
kHow God are termed heathen. But no man can 
know God without being a follower of Christ, as the 
Saviour said," No man cometh unto the Father, but 
by me." John 14:6. In the strict Bible sense, 
therefore, all who are not in Christ are heathen. 
And therefore although Paul addressed his epistle 
to those who had been idolaters in the commonly 
accepted sense, the argument is of universal appli-
cation. 
We conclude, then, that the "elements of the 
world" are simply the various forms of sin. This 
is still further shown by Eph. 2 : 1-3: "And you 
hath he q~nickened, who were dead in trespasses and 
sim;; wherein in time past ye walked acco1·ding to 
the cou1·se of this wrwld, according to the prince of 
the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh 
in the children of disobedience; among whom also 
we all had our conversaUon [manner of life] in 
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the 
desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were 
by nature the children of wrath, even as others." 
Nothing but sin is meant by "the course of this 
world," the "weak and beggarly elements," and 
"the elements of the world." 
And to be "in bond-
age under the elements of the world," is to be 
"under the law," in a state of condemnation. 
Christ came in the fullness of time (see Mark 1: 
14, 15; Dan. 9 : 25) "to redeem them that were under 
the law." But in order to do this, he himself had 
to be "made under the law." This is in harmony 
with Heb. 2:17, which says: "Wherefore in all 
things it behooved him to be made like unto his 
brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful 
high priest in things pertaining to God, to make 
reconciliation for the sins of the people." 
The 
people whom Christ came to redeem were "under 
the law," therefore he was made like them, "under 
the law." 
Now if there is any lingering doubt as to the 
meaning of "under the law," compare with the 
above and Gal. 4:4, 5, Paul's words in 2 Cor. 5:21: 
"For he [God] hath made him [Christ] to be sin for 
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the 
righteousness of God in him." Christ was sinless; 
he "did no sin, neither was guile found in his 
mouth" (1 Peter 2: 22); the Law of God was iri his 
heart (Ps. 40 : 8), and his whole life was an exem-
plification of the law. Yet knowing no sin, he was 
made to be sin for us. As the prophet said: "He 
was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised 
for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace 
was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid 
on him the iniquity of us all." Isa. 53:5, 6. 
We 
were in bondage to sin, "under the law," and he 
took upon himself the same bonds, aud was made 
under the law. Moreover, since those "under the 
law" are condemned, under sentence of death, he, 
"being found in fashion as a man," having volun-
tarily placed himself in the same condemnation, 
"became obedient unto death, even the death of 
the cross." Phil. 2 : 7, 8. 
And so the innocent suffered for the guilty. Man 
had been overcome by sin, and by it brought iuto 
bondage (2 Peter 2 : 19), and iu order to redeem him 
from this corruption, and the death that must· nec-
essarily follow (James 1: 15),. the spotless Son of 
God took upon himself the form of a servant of sin, 
and consented to be covered with the same degra-
dation into which man had plunged himself. What 
for? "That we might be made the righteousness 
of God in him." 2 Cor. 5: 21. 
In order that we 
might be made without "spot, or wrinkle, or any 
such thing" (Eph. 5: 27),-perfectly conformable to 
the holy Law of God; and that thus being enabled, 
in Christ, to keep the commandments, we might 
through him have eternal life. Matt. 19:17. 
Before leaving this text in Galatians, there is one 
more point which we wish to place before the reader. 
We read that Christ was "made under the law, to 
life, and that shows that probation ends when the 
work of cleansing the sanctuary is cc;>mpleted. 
But 
the gospel still reaclws the hearts of sinners; there-
fore probation is not ended, and the work of cleansing 
the sanctuary is still going on. When this work 
will be finished, no man can tell. We can only 
know that it will be soon. To the close of this 
redeem them that were under the law." It was work the following words apply: "Be ye therefore 
nece~sary for Christ to assume the condition of ready also; for the Son of mau cometh at an hour 
those whom he would redeem. This being the case, when ye think not." 
we may know that Christ redeems none who occupy 
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a position differeut from that which he took. This Some One-rrhousand-Dollar Reasons for 
is plainly stated in the Scripture. "For verily he 
Keeping Sunday. 
took not on him the nature of angels; but he took 
on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all 
things it behooved him to be made like unto his 
brethren," etc. He b. 2:16, 17. Those whom be 
was made like, he can redeem; others he cannot. 
We read also that Christ "died for all." 2 Cor. 
5: 15. What, then, is the necessary conclusion? 
Just this: Since he was made" under the law," and 
was made like those whom he came to redeem, and 
he came to redeem all men, then all men were '' un-
der the law." Further, the text indicates that hP 
came for the sole purpose of redeeming them that 
were under the law; their being under the law made 
necessary some act for their redemption. If they 
had not been under the law, they would have needed 
no redemption. Now when we recall Paul's words 
to the effect tl1at Christ "gave himself for us, that 
he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify 
uu to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good 
works" (Titus 2 : 14), the conclusion is unavoidable 
that "under the law" indicates the state of sin 
which characterizes every human being, and from 
which none can be rescued but by Christ. 
But notice the dilemma in which they place them-
selves, who claim that Gentiles are not "under the 
law," and that the law was only for the Jews. If 
that position were true, it would necessarily follow 
that since Christ came to redeem only those who 
are under the law, he came to redeem only the 
Jews I For certain it is, that no person who is not 
in the position which Christ took upon himself when 
he came to redeem man, can have any part in that 
redemption. We think that none, when they con-
sider this point, will place themselves outside of 
God's scheme of redemption, by refusing to admit 
that they are by nature and by practice "under the 
law." 
Let us rather acknowledge our guilt, that it may 
be washed away in the blood of the Lamb. "He 
that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso 
cqnfesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." 
Prov. 28:13. 
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Cleansing of the Sanctuary. 
QUESTION.-" Was the cleansing of the sanctuary 
finished at the end of the twenty-three hundred 
days? or is the work of cleansing still going on r 
If it is still going on, when will it be finished r 
"W.L.K." 
ANSWER.-It is very evident from the reading of 
Dan. 8: 13, 14 that at the end of the twenty-three 
hundred days (years), the cleansing of the sanctuary 
was begun, and not then finished. The angel's 
words, "Unto two thousand and three hundred 
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed," were 
in reply to the following questions: "How long 
shall be the vision concerning the daily, and the 
transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctu-
ary and the host to be trodden u~der foot?" The 
reply showed that the sanctuary and the host were 
to be trodden under foot "unto two thousand and 
three hundred days;" consequently the cleansing 
began at the close of the days. 
The cleansing of the sanctuary is the blotting 
out of the sins of God's people. When that work is 
finished, the names of those who have not overcome 
will have been blotted out of the Lamb's book of 
HAVING shown that the Sabbath was given "at 
the beginning of human history," "for the whole 
human race, and should be observed by every hu-
man being;" having shown that the law of the 
Sabbath not only has never been abrogated, but 
that it "can never be abrogated," Mr. Waffie pro-
ceeds thus:---
"Accepting the conclusion that the Fourth Com-
mandment is still in force, it may very properly be 
asked, 'Why, then, do not Christians obey it by 
keeping holy the seventh day of the week, as it 
directs? By what right is this plain precept disre-
garded and the first day of the week observed?' 
This question is a natural one, and unless a satis-
factory answer can be given, the Christian world 
p1ust stand convicted of error."-P. 184. 
Here are some important acknowledgments. It 
is acknowledged (1) that the Fourth Commandment 
" directs" that "the seventh day of the week" 
shall be kept holy. This is important in this con-
nection in view oi the claim so often made nowa-
days by Sunday-keepers that the Fourth Command-
ment does not refer to any particular day. And 
(2) it is acknowledged that this "plain precept" is 
"disregarded" by Christians. We think he does 
well to state that "unless a satisfactory answer can 
be given" to the question as to why this is, the 
Christian world must stand convicted of error. We 
are perfectly satisfied that the Christian world must 
stand convicted of error on this question. And to 
prove that this is so, we need nothing better than 
Mr. Waffie's one-thousand-dollar-prize essay; and 
that is the use that wepropose to make of it on this 
occasion. 
The Fourth Commandment, which Mr. Waffle 
here admits "directs" tba~ "the seventh day of the 
week" shall be kept holy, is the law of the Sabbath. 
Says Mr. Waffie, "The law of the Sabbath can 
never be abrogated."-P. 157. Now as the law of 
the Sabbath directs that the seventh day of the 
week shall be kept holy, and as that law can never 
be abrogated, it is plainly proven that the "Chris-
tian world," in disregarding "this plain precept," 
must stand convicted of error. 
Again Mr. Waffle says:-
" Unless it can be shown that the law of the Sab-
bath, given at creation, has been repealed by a 
new legislative act of God, it is still binding upon 
all men who learn of it."-P. 136. 
And:-
"Up to the tim.e of Christ's death no change had 
been made in the day." "The authority must be 
sought in the words or in the example of the in-
spired apostles."-P. 186. 
'!'ben be quotes Matt. 16: 19 and John 20:23 
and says:--: 
"It is generally understood that these words gave 
to the apostles supreme authority in legislating for 
the church. . . • So far as the record shows, 
they did not, however, give any explicit command 
enjoining the abandonment of the seventh-day 
Sabbath, and its observance on the first day of the 
week."-P. 187. 
Now as "the law of the Sabbath" "is still bind-
ing upon all men w bo learn of it" "unless it has 
been repealed by a new legislative act of God;" as 
that law "directs" the observance of "the seventh 
clay of the week;" as "up to the time of Christ's 
death, no change had been made in the day;" as 
"the author~ ty [for the change] must be sought in the 
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VoL. 12, No. 18. 
words or in the example of the inspired apostles" to 
whom, admitting Mr. Waffle's claim, was given "su-
preme authority in legislating for the church;" nnd 
as in the exercise of that legisl%ltive authority," they 
did not give any explicit command enjoin'ing the 
abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and its 
observance on the first clay of the week;" as, there-
fon•, there has been no new legislative act of God, 
by Mr. \Va:ffie's own words it stands proven to a 
demonstration that the law of the Sabbath which 
enjoins the observance of "the seventh day of the 
week" is still binding upon all men, and that in 
disregarding "this plain precept" "the Christian 
world must stand convicted of error." 
Again we read:-
"If the law of the Sabbath, as it appeared in the 
ten commandments, has been abolished, it must 
have been done by some decree of Jehovah. 
Where 
have we the record of any such decreer Through 
what prophet or apostle was it spoken? . 
We can find no words of Christ derogatory to this 
illst.itution as it was originally established, or as it 
was intended to be observed. 
. . . There is 
nothing in the writings of the apostles wl,ieJ,, when 
fairly interpreted, implies the abrogation of the 
Sabbath."-Pp. 160, 165, 183. 
The law of the Sabbath "as it appeared in the 
ten commandments," is the fourth commn ndment. 
And that commandment, by Mr. Waffle's own inter-
pretation, "directs" that "the seventh day of the 
week" shall be kept holy. Now as the abolition of 
that commandment would require some decree of 
Jehova.h; and as no such decree has ever been re-
corded, nor spoken, neither by prophet nor by apos-
tle, the obligation of the fourth commandment still 
remains upon all men to keep holy "the seventh 
day of the week." Therefore, in disregarding this 
"plain precept," "the Christian world must stand 
convicted of error." 
We must recur to a sentence before quoted. It is 
thiR:--
'' The authority [for the change from the seventh 
to the first day of the week] must be sought in the 
words or in the example of the inspired apostles." 
Now with that please read this:-
"A law can be repealed only by the same author-
ity that enacted it. It certainly cannot be done 
away by those who are subject to it."-P. 160. 
Was the law of the Sabbath enacted by the au-
thority of the words or the example of the inspired 
apostles'r 
Was it ena.cteq by the authority of in-
spired men at all, be they who they might? 
No. 
The very idea is preposterous. Then it can never 
be repealed by the authority of inspired men, be 
they apostles or what not. That law was enacted by 
the living God in person. 
And it can never be re-
pealed except by the personal act of the Lord him-
self. 
Any attempt of an inspir~d man to nullify 
any porLion of the moral law wourd vitiate his 
inspi1·ai'ion. "To the law and to the testimony; if 
they speak not nccording to Lhis word, it is because 
there is no light in them.'' Isa. 8:20. This is al~o 
conveyed in Mr. Waffle's argument: "It certainly 
cannot be clone away by those who are subject to 
it." The inspired apostles were subject to the law 
of the Sabbath, as well as to all the rest of the law 
of God. 
And to charge to their words or to their 
ex:llnple, the change of the Sabbath from the sev-
enth to the first day of the week, is to deny their 
inspiration, to declare thnt there is no light in them. 
and to place them beyond the pnle of being men of 
God. This, too, is even admitted in Mr. Wa:ffie's 
argument. He says:-
" There is nothing in the example of the apostles 
to oblige the most tender conscience to abstain from 
secular employment on the first day of the week, if 
there is no other authority for observing a weekly 
Sabbath."-P. 160. 
Please bear in mind (1) that the aim of this one-
thousand-dollar prize essay is to prove that the 
first day of the week is the true, genuine, and only 
weekly Sabbath; (2) that the author of the essay 
admits that the fourth commandment "directs" 
that "the seventh day of the week" i~:; to be kept chemists who were "employed exclusively in facto-
holy; (3) and that he likewise declares that the ries in that city" whose duties consisted in "flavor-
apostles, as supreme legislntors for the church, "did ing of fillings and iu developing and heightening 
not give any explicit command enjoining the aban-the narcotic powers of the wet·d, and thus making 
donrnent of the seventh-day Sabbath, and its observ-it marketable at higher prices." He declared that 
an~e on the first day of the week." Then it is plain by the use of vanilla and valerian "the dullest and 
that all that remains to which he can appeal, and weakest stems may be flavored up into a fair article 
in fact the only thing to wldch he does appeal as of tobacco." 
Vanilla, valerian, aud cascarilla bark, 
authority for keeping the first day of the week, is all three, enter into the compo ition of cigarette to-
the example of the apostles. Then when even this bacco. 
The vanilla "flavor" is used "in the form 
he sweeps away with the declaration that "there of an alcoholic tincture;" while another formula is 
is nothing in the example of the apostles to oblige composed of a combination of vanilla, valerian, and 
the most tender conscience to abstain from secular New England rum. It can be very readily seen that 
employment on the first day of the week," his the direct and inevitable tendency of the use of 
argument leaves not a vestige of authority upon manufactured tobacco in any form is to create an 
which to rest the observance of the first day of the appetite for the strongest kind of intoxicating 
week. Thus again, he proves to a demonstration drinks. 
;.. 
that ·in disregarding the "plain precept" of the 
A great point is made ngainst the Chinese in that 
fourth commandment, which "directs" the "keep-they spread the opium curse in this _·country. 
ing holy the seventh day of the week," and whicll Whereas the Chinese would be comparatively pow-
is "still in force,"" the Christian world mu/st stand erless in this, were it not for the opium and its 
convicted of error." 
kindred drugs iu the cigars and other forms of to-
That is exactly what we have believed for years. bacco, by which are sown the seeds of the curse. It 
It is just what we nre constantly endeavoring to set is opium in the "best" Havana cigars, that makes 
before the "Christian world," as well as before the them the "best." It is the opium in the fine Ha-
world in general. And we are. thankful that the van a, that has such a soothing effect upon the 
American Sunday-School Union, by its one-thou-smoker, and enslaves him more than does the to-
sand-dollar prize, has enabled us to lay before our bacco. 
readers such a masterly demonstration of it. We 
The use of tobacco alone, or of strong drink alone, 
are not prepared to say but what the Union has is destructive enough to satisfy anything or any-
done a good work in awarding the one-thousand-
body, unless it should be the devil; but the two 
dollar prize to the essay of Mr. A. E. Waffie, M.A., combined, ns the manufacturers of tobacco now com-
Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, etc., bine them, certainly can leave nothing more destruc-
etc.; for we cannot see how it would be possible to tive to body and soul, to be desired even by the 
put together an argument for the first day of the devil himRelf. And this introduces a grave question 
week which could more positively convict the as to how much longer Prohibitionists, and temper-
Christian world of error in disregarding the plain ance reformers generally, can leave out of their 
precept to keep the seventh day. 
J. 
work the unqualified condemnation of the use of 
One of the Devil's Devices. 
PAUL, in referring to Satan, on a certain occasion, 
said, "\Vearenot ignorantof his devices." Agood 
many people nre ignorant of his devices. In many 
cases, however, this is no fault of his, for he makes 
no effort at all to conceal them; but rather makes 
exertions to openly advertise them to all. 
One or 
his latest and most mischievous devices is now freely 
advertised by his agents in flaring posters in the 
most public places. This poster reads as follows:-
" Lorillard's Cognac Cocktails: A Chew That 
Bents a Drink." 
Which, being interpreted, means that Mr. Loril-
l:l·tl. the tobacco king, now furnishes a brand of to-
bacco so saturated with French brandy, and so doc--
tored up with the stuff of which "codctails" are 
made, that to take a chew of it is better than to 
take a drink of liquor. And thus the appetite for 
strong drink is directly created and fastened upon 
those who use the tobncco. It has been hitherto 
denied that the use of tobacco does tend to create 
the desire for strong drink. But that can be denied 
no longer, when the fact is publicly and widely ad-
vertised that now a chew of "Lorillard's Cognac 
Cocktail Tobacco" really beats a ·•Cognac Cock-
tnil" drink. 
Nor is it to be supposed for a moment 
tl~at this particular brand of tobacco is the only 
one that is so prepared. In the case of this brand 
the fact is boldly avowed, and that is all the differ-
ence; unless perhaps this is somewhat more heavily 
dosed than other brands. 
Nor yet is this confined to chewing tobacco. 
Smoking tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes, are all laden 
with nervines, such as vanilla, valerian, cascarilla 
bark, New England rum, and even opium; and 
cigarette tobacco is the most highly "flavored" of 
all, with chewing tobacco next. This is as stated 
by a. manufncturerof the stuff itself. In April, 1882, 
it was stnted by a large tobacco manufacturer in 
New York City, that he personally knew fifteen 
tobacco in any form? To leaH' jt out is to do but 
half their work, if they do even as much as half. 
With tobacco in its various forms constantly creat-
ing and fastening upon its victims by the thousand~ 
the appetite for strbng drink, prohibition seems :1 
long way off, while it confines its efforts to the effect, 
instead of striking at the cause as well. We are 
happy to say that Sevent.h-day Adventists are, and 
have ever been, uncompromisingly opposed to the 
use of either tobacco or strong drink; for in a 
measure at least, we are not ignorant of Satnu's 
devices. 
J. 
"A Part of God." 
Is GoD divisible? May he be separated into parts, 
and these parts become subject to the frailties, the 
vices, and the sufferings of fallen creatures? 
These queries were suggested to my mind by the 
following incident. Spettkiug of the destiny of the 
wicked, I had quoted Rev. 20 :9; 2 Thess.l: 9, and 
2 Peter 3:7-10, to show that the lake of fire in to 
which they will be cast is this earth in its melted 
state, and the fire coming down from God out of 
Heaven is the element or means of their everlasting 
destruction. 
A gentleman approached me at the 
close of my remarks, and inquired:-
" What part of man do you think will be de-
stroyed?" 
"I think the man will be destroyed," was the 
reply. 
"But what will become of the soul?" he inquired. 
"If the soul is any part of man it will be de-
stroyed also." 
"What, do you think God will destroy a part of 
himself?" was the next question. 
"By no means. But what has that to do with 
this subject?" 
"It is generally conceded," said he, "that the soul 
is a part of God, and cannot be destroyed, for God 
cannot destroy a part of himself." 
Then followed the queries in turn, is the soul a. 
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part of God? Is ·God divisible? 
Can a part of 
God sin? And will God punish a part of himself 
f9r evil doing? Such monstrous conclusions ought 
to suppress the utterance of such au idea. 
Yet this 
was an educated man; he could draw a eonclusion. 
And this shows how tlloughtlessly men will take an 
absurd position to sustain a popular error. 
A view more generally advocated than that here 
advanced is this: The soul is an independent crea-
tion; or, each soul of mankind emanates directly 
from God. This doctrine is supposed to be free from 
the defect which is so apparent in the other. 
Though this does not lead to the same conclusion as 
the other, it leads to one which is very erroneous, 
and, like the other, makes God directly responsible 
for all the sin which exists in the world. This de-
fect has been discovered, and the doctrine itself 
combatted on that account, by some who are con-
sidered orthodox in regard to the nature and destiny 
of the soul. The Ladies' Reposito1·y, a well-known 
Methodist journal, of February, 1859, said:-
"The general opinion held seems to be that the 
soul is created, and does not come by transmission 
from parents, as the body does. The Roman church 
has steadily received and taught it. 
"If the body only is derived by transmission from 
Adam, while each separate soul is a direct work of 
creation, then original or hereditary depravity, so 
far as the soul is concerned, is a thing impossible. 
If each soul is created by God as it comes into ex-
istence, then it must be holy, or God must be 
charged with making it unholy, and thus being the 
author of evil." 
This is sound reasoning, to which no exception 
can be taken. But the product cannot rise above 
the producer. If the whole being or person (the 
soul and the body) is transmitted from the parents, 
then the whole being, sonl and bocly, is subject to 
the conditions of the parents. That whi.ch is be-
gotten, or produced by natural generation, is mortal, 
subject to death. 
God is dishonored by this doctrine of the inherent 
immortality of the soul, whether the soul be im-
piously called "a part of God," or whether it be 
considered a direct creation of God. In either case 
God is made the direct producer of a sinful being; 
the sin of the soul is traced to God as its originator. 
And if the soul is transmitted from its parents, or 
begotten, then it can be immortal or held in exist-
ence by the direct power of God. "In him we live, 
and move, and have our being." If he withdraw 
his power we cease to exist. 
And hence, if a sinful 
being lives forever it is because God perpetuates the 
sin. But "every plant, which my heavenly Father 
hath not plan ted, shall be rooted up." Let every 
soul respond, Arne~, "true and righteous are thy 
judgments." 
J. H. W. 
Christ's Pron1ise. 
• 
WILL Christ come again? Hear wha.t he says: 
"I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and 
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and re-
ceive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye 
may be also." John· 14:2, 3. Well, will his com-
ing be in any private manner? "Behold, he com-
eth with clouds; and every eye shall 
~:;ee him, and 
they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of 
the earth shall wail because of him." Rev. 1:7. 
"For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and 
with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ 
shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain 
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, 
t0 meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be 
with the Lord." 
1 Thess. 4 : 16, 17. 
When he 
comes everybody will know it; "For as the light-
ning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto 
the west; so shall aho the coming of the Son of man 
be." Ma.tt. 24:27. 
Brodhead, Wisconsin. 
I HAVE given thirty Bible-rendingsin this place, 
sixteen of which were given in the Baptist church. 
'J.lbese readings awakened an interest all over 
the city to hear more. 
Some have made ap-
pointments for me at their houses and have in-
vited in their neio·hbors. I have appointed oth-
ers by the wish a~d consent of the bends of fami-
lies, in different parts of the tow11. 
l bold from 
one to two readings almost every day with com-
panies offrom ten to twenty. 
There has been no debating nor any distract-
ing spirit come in to any of these meetings; 
but rather, a solemn spirit of inquiry has pre-
vailed. 
One has already commenced the ob-
servance of the Sabbath as the fruit of ~he work 
here thus far. 
The 'Sabbath-keepers here (five in number) 
are greaUy encouraged. I have laid before the 
brethren some of the steps to be taken, and the 
course to pnrsue toward those without, that tbe 
Lord can work here with us to the salvation of 
many honest souls. 
_ 
. 
'J'be Presbyterian, Congregational, and Meth-
odist ministers have all attended from one to 
five of my readings. I invited them to occupy 
the church with me, every other evening to give 
a reading or sermon on any subject they desired; 
but there was to be no discussions nor debateR. 
The plan I have ad'opted and which I proposed 
to them was to allow any of the congregation 
to ask any question in writing and band it in, 
which would, if answerable, be noticed the next 
evening. 
I believe quite a number yet will embrace the 
truth as the result of the seed sown among the 
people. I expect to hold on by the help of the 
[J0rd, while the interest is good to hear. 
G. s. HONEYWELL. 
Switzerland. 
WE have at Geneva several warm friends 
who meet with us at our house since the meet-
ings closed at the ball. 
God is blessing tbe 
work for French and Germans at Lausanue. 
It was a good thing to call in Brother Conradi 
and other laborers, and I am enjoying this pre-
cious sea~-'on wiLh these workerR. Last Sabbath 
five of those w bo have attended our Prencb 
meetings from the firAt kept God's holy day 
with us. We look for fu11y as many of the 
Germans, who are even more. interested than 
the ]'reneb. This is largely due to their having 
lef'L tbeil' native land, thus being less bound by 
the influence of relatives, friends, and borne 
customs. Qur dear Brother Ertzenberger bas 
been sick for a number of weeks, but we expect 
he will soon be in a condition to join us in the 
work. 
Last week while returning to Geneva to hold 
an evening meeting, I fell in company with a 
Swiss missionary who was retnr11ing to Algiers, 
Africa. from a visit to his relatives. He snid 
be wn's having some success jn that country, 
with Jews who seemed to be better disposed 
toward the gospel than the Jews on the conti-
nent. 
I then asked him if be did not believe 
be would have still more success among that 
people if he kept the seventh-day Sabbath. 
He replied: "Yes, I do. 
vYe find that a great 
obstacle in the way." He then told me that 
he h&.d read our _French paper, and that his 
first helper in his mission had decided to keep 
the Sabbath. I then gave him some printed 
sermons which we had used at Lausanne. He 
promised to read them on the ship, and to band 
them to his friend anti to Jews in Africa. As 
we parted we covenanted to pray for each other. 
This man and his friend had been led to 
desire to see me by a malicious article written 
against me which had appeared in a Swiss re-
ligious paper. Said the missionary to me: "My 
friend urged me to call and see you. 
He will 
be so glad that we have met. I will tell him 
all about it." 
There a.re 200,000 French and 
100,000 Spaniards where be is going. I regard 
this as a good field. 
~Chis missionary also en-
couraged me to go to his birthplace in Frenc:h 
Switzerland, where he has many re~atives and 
friends. 
D. 'l'. BouRDEAU. 
Malvern, Ark. 
WHEN I moved here a little more than a 
year ago I brought quite a number of my old 
SrGNs with mr, and l have been scattering them 
over the country considerably. Last fall there 
was a Baptist lady here one day and as she 
started aay we gave her a copy of the SIGNS; 
she read one article and decided before she got 
borne to keep the Sabbath. 
She is well in-
formed and is quite a 
Yvorker. 
Her church 
feels the loss it bas sustained. 
I have held 
quite a number of meetings at bet· bouse, and 
two oLbers have deeided to obey God in the 
face of our strict Suuday law, and sLill others 
are convinced and say we are right. 
As a 
natural result the wrath of the dragon is terribly 
stirred up. 
But the Third Angel's Message will accom-
plish that whereunto it is sent. 
To the Lord 
be all the praise. 
J. L. SHocKEY. 
New Orleans Mission. 
SLOWLY but surely the truth is gaining a foot-
hold in this city. 
Thus far fourteen have de-
cided to obey t~e truth. 
Others are deeply in-
terested and w6 hope will soon be added to the 
number. 
Some that have taken bold are tran-
sient persons and have gone :,o carry the truth 
to other fields. 
Our company numbers only five-Brotbren 
Thompson and Stoll, who have charge of the 
ship and 
railro~d work; my wif'e and I, who 
have charge of tho Bible-readings; and Bl'otber 
Peter Clark, of Missitlsippi, who hns jnst arrived 
to assist us in our \VOrk. 
Brother D. A. Owen, 
who has been canvassing during tLe winter, 
has returned to his home in Michigan. 
Crmvassing in the city is slow, tedious work, 
but tho numerous vessels here present a good 
field for se11ing our publieations. 
Boat crews 
are seldom canvass~d .by agents, hence are tbe 
more ready to buy. Brother TLompson takes 
from five to ten orders for "Marvel of Nations," 
in connection wiLI1 his other work, nearly every 
day. It is truly cheering to see our publications 
so readily taken. 
Our Bible-reading work is brisk; we n.re kept 
quite bu,y <til the time, so much so that we 
cannot fill all lhe openings. 
0Lu Sabbath meet-
ings are good 
~nd well attended. 
Brother 
\Vrigbt, who did so nobly i11 starting the work 
here a few mon tbs ago, favored us with a call a 
short time ago. We were glad to see him and 
have his counsel. 
The health of all is good 
now, bnt some of our company have been quite 
sick. 
We all feel that it is good to work for 
tbe Master. 
T. H. GIBBS. 
Upper Colurnbia T. and M. Society. 
REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1886. 
No. of members.......................... . . . . . 
167 
" 
" 
dismissed ................. _.. . .. 
4 
added.......................... 
13 
'' 
reports returned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
98 
" 
missionary visits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
200 
'' 
letters written......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
101 
'' 
pages of tracts and pamphlets distributed .. 4-2,484 
" 
periodicals distributed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 288 
" 
SIGNS taken in clubs... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
53 
Gospel Siclck taken in clubs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
10 
new subscribers obtained (Review, 6; SIGNS, 
6; Instructor, 34; Health Journal, 1; other 
periodicals, 13)..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
50 
Received on donations and memberships ........ $30 39 
" 
sales................ . . . . . . . . .. . . 
12 60 
'' 
periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 50 
Total ........................... ·. . . . . . . . . . $87 49 
Echo Society did not report. 
CARRIE E. MILLS, 
Sec1·etary. 
282 [lO] 
'1-.,HE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 18. 
Meeting of Healdsburg College Stock· 
holders. 
PuRSUANT to the call of the trustees, the 
four! h annual session of the stockholders of 
Healdsburg College Corporation convened at 
the South Building of Healdsburg College, 
Monday, April 19, 1886, at 10 A. M., to elect 
trustees for the ensuing year, and for the 
transaction of other College business. 
'l'he 
prcRident of the Board, Elder J. H. Waggoner, 
presided. 
The minutes of the session of 1885 were 
then read and approved, after which the finan-
cial report was read and accepted. The report 
of the general workings of the College for the 
year just past was, by request of the secretary, 
deferred until the afternoon meeting. 
The chairman appointed the following com-
mittees: On nominations, \Vm. Ings, J. F. 
McCutcheon, and Speer McElhaney; on resolu-
tions, Elders J. N. Loughborough, Geo. I But-
ler, and A. T. Jones. 
After some consultation, the Committee on 
Nominations recommended the following per-
sons for election to serve as trustees the en-
suing year: S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, J. N. 
Loughborough, S. Brownsberger, John Morri-
son, Joseph Leininger, and Fred. V. Harmon. 
1'hese were elected, and meeting adjourned. 
SECOND MEETING, 2: 30 P.M. 
Prayer was offered by W m. Ings. The re·-
port of the workings of the College was given 
by the secretary. 
He stated that the past 
year, all things considered, was a successful one 
for the College. Notwithstanding the results 
of much of the effort put forth by teachers 
and managers are invisible. and slow in their 
progress, yet those that have been man ifost are 
truly gratifying. There have been in the past 
year no cases of misdemeanor among Lhe stu-
dents that have called for severe discipline. In 
this respect it has surpassed any previous year 
of our school work. 
Our student family was 
uniformly large, and consisted of an excellent 
class of students. In this family tbe !Jest of 
harmony and union prevailed throughout. the 
year. A larger number of these than usual is 
from Oregon and vVashington Territory. 
One 
is from the far distant island of the sea, .New 
Zealand, and one is from Honolulu. 
Quite a number, perhaps larger than in 
former years, go from the College to enter the 
service of the Master. 'fhe work in the Bib-
lical Department has been highly satisfactory, 
and has produced excellent results. 
'fbe his-
torical work introduced in this department by 
Elder A. 'r. Jones has supplied a long-felt need. 
Tbe different departments of industrial labor 
have progressed admirably. 
The tent <:om-
pailY bas filled a large order for the California 
Conference for 10x12 heavy drilling tents. The 
printing company has issnod a 50-page cata-
"logue for the Collogo, which is a credit to the 
institution, besides doing several jobs for the 
business men of Healdsburg. 
Our students' 
printing office has established a reputation in 
this community as a first-class job office. The 
carpenters, under the leadership of John Don-
aldson, have accomplished more than in any 
preceding year. 
1 n brief, all our industrial 
work has proved a suecess. 
In finances there has been this year, as in 
former years, a falling behind, the income not 
being sufficient to meet the accruing annual 
interest, which amounts to $1,264. 
"Hard 
times'' have been unon us and have had the 
. effect to lessen our attendance somewhat. This 
decrease is mostly in our day students. 
Tho Committee on Resolutions then reported 
the following:-
Resolved, That our earnest gratitude is due to 
God for tokens of good which he has shown to our 
College the past year, and it is with heart-felt 
thanks to him that we see fully twenty young peo-
ple go forth from this institution this term to active 
;~~~c n the cause which God has commi 	ed to our I 
((!!; h ~ <!f tl m mint a r Jl. 
Elders J. N. Lough borough, A. T. Jones, and ===================================== 
Geo. 1. Butler, and Professor Grainger spoke 
in favor of the resolution. 
Elder Butler said 
that he was particulaely enthusiastic in behalf 
of our edncational institutions. He showed, by 
reference to the great number of workers they 
have sent forth into the "field," the vast 
amount of good they have accomplished. 
We 
look to them to prepare laborers for the cause. 
All the other sources combined do not contrib-
ute half so much as our Colleges. All over the 
field we see the results of our educational 
institutions. Young men who have received 
their training at the Colleges are raising up 
churches all over the land. 
He encouraged 
the stockholders and other friends of the Col-
lege to cherish this work in their hearts, and 
to giYe it their most hearty support. 
Elder 'J. H. Waggoner followed with en-
com·aging remarks on the past success of this 
College. 
He believed, as Elder Butler bad 
remarked, that as a people we do not half 
prize the benefits of our College to the cause 
here on the Pacific Coast. lt is also the safe-
guard of our youth while pursuing their studies. 
Tho influence at the Students' Home is of such 
a character as to be worthy of the highest 
appreeiation. He ·stated that one person who 
bad had a son in attendance, remarked to him 
that if his son had not looked at a book while 
in attendance at the College, he would, even 
then, ha·ve been well paid for the time he spent 
here, and for the expense incurred. 
The habits 
of industry which he had cultivated at the 
Homo, and the moral stamina and spiritual 
strength he had acquired, could not be esti-
mated in dollars and cents. 
This resolntion was adopted, and the follow-
ing pres on ted:-
Resolved, That we reaffirm the resolution of last 
year pertaining to finances, reading as follows:-
Resolved, That. we earnestly request those who 
have made pledges which are unpaid, to pay them 
as soon as possible, alld others to take stock in the 
Educational Association, that the College may be 
relieved of the burden of paying interest, which 
unavoidably adds to .the cares and perplexities of 
those who manage it, and cripples their efforts in its 
behalf. 
Elder Loughborough and others spoke on 
this resolution, after which it was adopted. 
At the sug6estion of W. C. Grainger tbaL 
new pledges tor College stock should be so-
licited, and old pledges paid, twenty-six Rhares 
were pledged and two paid. 
The meeting then adjourned to ca11 of chair. 
J. H. WAGGONER, PTesident. 
S. BROWNSBERGER, SecTetaTy. 
God's Estimate of Sin~ 
IF we would have a just sense of the awful 
reality of the government of God, his wrath 
against sin, a11d the true character of his holi-
ness, we must gaze at the cross; we must 
hearken to that bitter cry that issued from the 
heart of the Son of God and broke through the 
dark shadows of Calvary, "My God, my God, 
why hast thou forsaken me?" 
Never had such a 'qUestion been asked before; 
never has such n question been asked since, 
and never shall-never can such a question be 
asked again. 
Whether we consider tbe One 
who asked it, the One of whom it was asked, or 
the answer, we must see that the question 
stands absolutely alone in the annals of eternity. 
Tho cross is the measure of God'~ hatred of sin, 
as it is the measure of his love to the sinner. 
It is the imperishable foundation of the throne 
of grace, the divinely r1ghteous ground on 
which God can pardon our sins and consti-
tute us perfectly righteous in a risen and glori-
fied Christ.-0. H. Macintosh. 
"LE'r lsrael hope in t.he Lord." Ps. 131: 3. 
Jesus at Bethesda. 
"AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews; 
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is 
at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which 
i~ called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, hav-
ing five porches. In these lay a great multi-
tude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, 
waiting for the moving of the water. For an 
angel went down at a certain season into the 
pool, and troubled the water; whosoever then 
first after the troubling of the water stepped 
in was made whole of whatsoever disease he 
had." 
Jesus did not hold himself aloof from the poor, 
the suffering, and sinful. 
His great heart of 
love went out in yearning tenderness for 
wretched objects who needed his help. He 
was acquainted with the sufferers who had 
learned to look forward to the period when it 
was thought that the waters were agitated by 
a supernatural power. Many suffering from 
different maladies visited the pool; but so great 
was the crowd at the appointed time, that they 
rushed forward, trampling under foot men, 
women, and children, weaker than themselves. 
Hundreds were pressed back and could not 
get near the water. Many disappointed suffer-
ers, who had, by great pains and effort, suc-
ceeded in reaching the pool, died upon its brink 
without boi ng able to make the first plunge 
into its depths. 
Shelters had been erected 
about the place that the sick might be protected 
from the scorohing rays of the sun and the 
chilliness of the night. Some wretched sufferers 
spent their nights in the porches, and would 
drag their diseased bodies to the favored spot 
day after clay in the vain hope of obtaining 
relief. 
One man had been afflicted by an incurable 
disease for thirty-eight years, and he had re-
peatedly visited the pool. 
'rhose who pitied 
his helplessn·ess would bear him to and .fro at 
the time when the waters were supposed to be 
troubled. 
But those stronger than himself 
would rush in before him and seize the oppor-
tunity that he coveted. 
Thus the poor, palsied 
sufferer waited by the pool day and night, hop-
ing that the favored moment would at length 
come when be could plunge into the water and 
be healed. 
His persistent efforts toward this 
object, and the doubt and anxiety of his mind, 
were htst wearing away the poor remnant of 
his strength. 
Jesus visited this retreat of misery, and his 
eye rested upon this helpless invalid. The poor 
creature was weak and despairing, but as the 
looked-for moment arrived, ·he gathered his 
feeble energies in a last effort to reach the 
water, but, just as he had almost gained his 
object, another stepped in· before him. He 
crept back to his pallet to die. 
But a pitying 
face bends over him, saying, "Wilt thou be 
m[.tde.wh~le? '.' The desponding man looked up, 
thmkmg 1t m1ght be some one who had come 
to assist him into the pool; but the faint glow 
of encouragement faded out· of his heart when 
he remembered that it was too late, his oppor-
tunity for that time was gone, and, in his state 
of sickness and exposure, he could scarcely hope 
that be might live to see another. 
He turned away wearily, saying, ''Sir, I 
have no man, when the water is troubled, to 
put me into the pool; but while I am coming, 
another steppeth down before me." Poor man ! 
how could he hope to contend successfully with 
the selfish, scrambling crowd! Jesus did not 
ask this ·wretched sufferer to exercise faith in 
him; but with a voice of command said, "Rise, 
take up thy bed, and walk.'' A sudden vigor 
was communicated to the paralyzed cripple. 
His whole being was stirred with a healing 
, power; now blood and strength leaped into 
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lllJ 283 
every limb and member. He bounded to his of the Sabbath. He showed them that God's 
''And he gave unto Mot=~es, when be had made 
feet in obedience to the Saviour's command, work never ceases. It is even groater upon an end of communing with him upon Mount 
and stooped to tftke up his bed, which was only the Sabbath than upon ordinary occasions, for Sinai, two tables Df testimony, tables of stone, 
a simple rug and blanket. 
As be straigb tened at that time his people leave their usual em-written with the :finger of G-od." 
Ex. 31 : 18. 
himself again, with a sense of delight at stand-ployments and spend the time in prayerful 
"And he wrote on the tables, according to 
ing upon his feet after so many years of help-meditation and worship. Tbey aRk more fa-the :first writing, the ten commandments, which 
less infirmity, he looked around for his deliverer, vors of him upon the Sabbath than upon tho Lord spake unto you in the mount, ont of 
but he was nowhere to be seen. Jesus was other days; they demand his special attention; the midst of the :fire, in the day of the assem-
lost in the crowd, and the restored paralytic they crave his choicest blessings; they offer bly; and the Lord gave them unto me. 
And l 
feared that he might not know him again if he importunate prayers for special favors. 
God turned myself and came down from the mount, 
should sec him. 
He was disappoi11ted, for he does not wait for the Sa.bbath to pass before be and put the tables in the ark which I had made; 
longed to pour forth his gratitude to the stran-grants those requests, but he deals to the peti-and there they be, as the Lord commanded me." 
ger. As be hurried on toward Jerusalem, with tioners, with judicious wisdom, whatever is best Deut. 10: 4, 5. 
fir·m, free stop, praising God as he went, and for them to have. 
8. Of what was this earthly tabernacle a 
t·ejoicing in his new-found strength, be met the 
Heaven's work never ceases for a moment, pattern? 
Pharisees, and immediately related to them the and men should never rest from doing good. 
"The HoJy Ghost this signi(ying, that tho 
wonderful uure be had experienced. He was Tho Sabbath law forbids labor on the sanctified way into the holiest of all was not yet made 
Rurprised at the coolness with which they lis-rest-day of the Lord. 
rrhe toil that gains a manifest, while a~ tho fi1·st tabernacle was yet 
tened to hie. story. 
livelihood must cease; no labor for worldly standing; which was a figure for the time then 
Presently they interrupted him by asking pleasure or profit is lawful upon the Lord's day; present, in which wore offered both gifts and 
why be was carrying that bed 011 the Sabbath but the work of Christ in beali11g the sick did sacrifices, that could not make him that did tho 
day. 
They sternly reminded him that it was honor to the holy Sabbath. Jesus claimed service perfect, as pertaining to the con-
not lawful for him to bear burdens upon the equal rights with God in doing a work equally science." "It was therefore necessary that the 
I,oJ'(!'s day. In his joy the man hnd forgotten sacred and of the same character with that. pittterns of things in the. heavens should be 
that it was the Sabbath; yet be felt no condem-which engaged his Father in Heaven. But purified with those; but the heavenly things 
nation for obeying the commnnd of One who the Pharisees were still more incensed, because themselves with better s~i('rificcs thn.n these. 
had power from God to perform so wonderful a he had not only broken the law, accurding to For Christ is not entered into tho holy places 
mintele. 
He answered boldly, "He that made their understanding, but added to this offense made with bands, which nee the figures of the 
me ·whole, the same Rnid unto me; Take up thy the heinous sin of declaring himself equal with true; hut into He:wen itself, now to appear in 
bed, and walk." The Pharisees were not de-God. 
Nothing but the interference of the peo-
tho presence of God for us." 
Reb. 9: 8, 9, 23, 
lighted at the cure which bad been effected pie prevented the Jewish authorities from slay-24. 
upon .this poor invalid of thirty-eight years. ing him on the spot. 
" rrhen answered Jesus 
9. \Vas the furniture of the tabernacle, as 
rl'hey overlooked the object of the wondrom; and suid unto them, Vel'ily, verily, I say unto well as the taberrwc:le itself, made according to 
miracle, and, with their characteristic bigotry, you, t'be Son ean do noLbing of himself, but Lhis heavenly pattern? 
seized upon tbe act as a violation of the Sab-what be seetb tbe Father do; tor what things 
"Accurding to all that I show thee; after the 
bath law. 
. 
soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son like-pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of 
JesuR rlid not come into the world to lesson vvise. 
For the Father lovetb the Son, and ·all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye 
the dignity of the law, but to exalt it. 1'he sbowetb him all things that himself doetb; and make it.'' ''And look that thou make them 
Jews bad perverted it by their traditions and he will show him greater works than these, after their pattern, which was showed thee in 
misconceptions. 
They had made it a yoke of that ye may marveL For as the Father raiseLb the mount." 
Ex. 25: 9, 40. 
bondage. Their meaningless exaction::> andre-up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the 
10. Is there a real tornple in Heaven? 
quirements had become a by-word among· a.ll f3on quickeneth whom he will." 
"Now of the things which we have spoken 
other nations. 
:Especially was the Sabbath 
Here Jesus elevated bimselfto his trne station this is the sum: We have such a high priest, 
hedged in by all manner of senseless restriction A before the Jews, and declared himself to be tho who is set on the right hand of the th rono of 
which made that holy day almost unendurable. Son of God. 
He then, in mild and dignified the Majesty in the Heavens; a minit=~Ler of the 
A Jew was not allowed to kindle a fire upon language, instructed them regarding the Sab-sanctuary, and of the trHo tabernacle, which 
the Sabbath, nor even to light a candle on that bath. He told them that the re1:1t-day which tbe Lord pitched, and not man." Reb. 8: 1, 2. 
day. The views of the people were so narrow Jehovah had sanctified and set apart for a 
11. What article of furniture is specially 
that they bad become slaves to their own use-special purpose, after he had completed the noted as having been seen in it? 
less regulationR. 
As a consequence, they were work of creation, was not intended to be n 
"And the temple of God was opened in 
dependent upon the Gentiles to do many serv-period of usele.ss inactivity. As God ceased his Heaven, and there was seen in his temple the 
ices which their rules forbade them to do for labor of creating, and rested upon that day and ark of his testament; and there were lightnings, 
themselves. 
. 
. 
But a just God has given blessed it, so man was to leave the occupation and voices, and tbunderings, and an earth-
no commandment which cannot be consistently of his daily life, and devote those sacred hours quake, and great bail." 
Rev. 11: 19. 
kept by all. 
His laws sanction no meaningless to healthful rest, to worship, and to holy deeds. 
12. Since the ark was called the "ark of the 
usages nor elnmRy restriutions. 
-Great Oontrove1·sy, Vol. 2, pp. 156-165. 
testimony" because it contained the tables of 
In the temple, soon after, Jo~us met the man 
the law, what must be in Lbe ark in the real 
be had healed. He had come to bring a tres-
temple in Heaven? 
, 
pass offering, a sin offering, and a thank offer-
THE LAW 0 F G 0 D · 
In Ex. 31 : 18 we read that the Lord "gave 
ing for the great mercy he bad received. 
unto Moses, when be had made an end of com-
Jesus, :finding him among the worshipers, made 
Extent of the Law's Jurisdiction. 
muning with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables 
himself known to him. 
The great Physician 
of testimony, tables of stone, wTi Lton with the 
addressed him with a timely warning, "Be-
(Continued.) 
:finger of God." In Deut. 5: 22 we leftrn that 
hold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest 
(Lesson a.-sabbath, May 29.) 
it was the ten eommandments that were writ-
a worse thing come unto thee." He who bad 
1. Dm the law exist before it was spoken ten on the two tables of stone; and from Dent. 
suffered for thirty-eight years, as a result, in from Sinai? 
Give proof. 
10: 4, 5 we learn that the tables were placed 
part, of his own dissipation, waR thus plainly 
2. Can you prove that its claims are binding in the ark. 
Therefore we know that Lho ten 
warned to avoid the sins that bad caused him on Gentiles as well as Jews'? 
commandments are the" testimony;" and when 
such suffering. 
3. Ovei· what part of the earth bas the law John says (Rev. 11 : 19) that in the temple of 
The healed man was ove1joyed to behold his jurisdiction? Proof. 
God in Heaven be saw the "ark of his testa-
deliverer, and, ignorant of the malice wbicb 
4. How many apartments were in the taber-ment," we must conclude that the ten com-
the Jews held against Jesus, informed the nacle built by Moses? 
mandments are in that ark. And, further, since 
Ph~Lrisees, who had before questioned him, 
"And thou shalt hang up the vail under the earthly tabernacle and its furniture were 
that this was he who had wrought the won-the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither ''patterns of things in the Heavens" (Ex. 25 : 9, 
drous cure. 
The Jewish dignitaries bad only within the vail the ark of the testimony; and 40; Heb. 9:23, 24), we must also conclude that 
waited for proof that it was Jesus; from the :first the vail shall divide unto you between the holy the ten commandments which were on the 
they bad been confident that it could be no place and the most holy." 
Ex. 26 : 33. 
tables of stone in the tabernacle which Moses 
other. Now, a gren.t uproar ensued in the 
· 5. What article of furniture was in the most built, were but a copy of the ten commandments 
court of the temple; for they sought to slay holy place? 
in the temple in Heaven. 
Jesus, but were prevented by tbe people, many 
"And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the 
13. Then what relation did the tables which 
of whom recognized in him a friend wbo had ark of the testimony in the most holy place." Moses placed in the ark bear to those in the 
healed them from their infirmities and relieved Ex. 26: 34. 
temple in Heaven? See above. 
their sorrows. 
6. Why was it called "the ark of the testi-
14. Where is the Lord's throne? 
A controversy now took place in regard to mony "? 
''The Lord is in liis holy temple, the Lord's 
the true claims of the Sabbath law. 
"And thou shalt put into the ark the testi-
throne is in Heaven; his eyes behold, his eye-· 
Jesus sought to impress upon the narrow minds mony which I shall give thee." 
Ex. 25: 16. 
lids try, the children of men." 
Ps. 11:4. 
of the Jews a sense of the folly of their view 
7. What was this "testimony"? 
(Continued un page 286.) 
284 [l2] 
'J~HE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 18. 
~irrlt. 
"'WAIT A "WHILE. 
IF thy heart is lone and weary, 
And the world seems sad and dreary, 
Wait awhile; 
Sorrow cannot last forever; 
Tears and sighs will heal it never, 
Life and joy we cannot sever; 
Wait awhile. 
When temptations fierce assail thee, 
And thy strength and courage fail thee, 
Wait awhile; 
Do not yield the fight a minute; 
Think what issues may be in it; 
God will give thee strength to win it; 
Wait awhile. 
When the prayers thy lips have pleaded 
Seem forgotten and unheeded, 
Wait awhile; 
God perchance thy faith is testing, 
Thus thy soul with strength investing; 
On his changeless goodness resting, 
Wait awhile. 
Life's great problems may perplex thee, 
Sin and pain and.sorrow vex thee, 
Wait awhile; 
In that brighter world elysian 
Thou shalt see with clearer vision; 
Seek to learn and work thy mission; 
Wait awhile. 
Wait awhile! thy feet may falter, 
But God's truth can never alter; 
Wait awhile; 
If thy soul his yoke hath taken, 
Thou canst never he forsaken, 
But in perfect light shall waken; 
Wait awhile. 
-Robe1·t Whitaker. 
Four Brave Boys. 
ONcE when the army of the king of .Babylon 
came up against the city of Jerusalem, they 
carried aay with them something more pre-
cious than the vessels of sih·er and gold. 
Tuey 
chose out the best and most beautiful and the 
wiseRt among the children from the Icing's 
bouse, and carried them away to Babylon. 
rrbey were not to be poor slaves and servants, 
but they were to be very carefully taught for 
three year!", till they cou1d speak the language 
of the people, and had learned all that the 
wisest men could teach them, and then they 
were to serve the king in his palace·-to be uis 
counselors, and to attend to all his business. 
This does not seem like a very bard thing; but 
would you be willing to be taken away from 
your father and motber, and all your friends, 
to live in a strange country among peol)le who 
worship idols, and never see one of your dear 
ones again, even if yon were to live in a splen-
did palace? Perhaps some of these boys liked 
it, and thought it a good chance to get rich 
and become famous. Perhaps some of them 
said: "Now we aro so far away from home, 
among people who know nothing nbout God, it 
is of no use for ~1s to try to serve him. 
·vve 
may as well do just as the people here do, and 
then the king will be pleased with us, and we 
shall bo given the best place in biR palace." 
But there were four of these boys who re-
membered tuat God was just as near them in 
Babylon as in Jerusalem, a11d determined to 
serve and obey him wherever tbey might be. 
The only thing they were afraid of was doing 
wrong. 
These boys may not have been related to 
each other, but it is very likely they might 
have been cousins. The names they called them 
by in Babylon were not the same as the names 
they had at home. 
Three of them 'were called 
Shadracb, Meshach, and Abed-nego. The leader 
had another name also, but we will only re-
member the one his mother gave him, and the 
one we know beRt: his name was Daniel. He 
was the one who si)oke for the others, and was 
their leader always. 
. 
The king wanted these boys to be strong and 
beautiful and manly when they grew up, so be 
told the officers who bad charge of them to 
give them for food the meat and. wine and 
dainty dishes that wero prepared for the king's 
own table. 
This was not proper food for boys 
lishmen t possesses a grand chemical laboratory, 
a photographic and 
lithographic atel-ier, a 
printing office with three Rteam and six band 
presses, and a book-binding room. 
The estab-
lishment even runs a hotel in Essen.-New 
to eat; but that was not the worst of it. It Yo,,-
iun. 
had all been offered to idols. Just as we thank 
our Father for our food, and ask him to bless 
it to our use, so the king thanked his idols and 
Tbe Lick Telescope. 
asked them to bless his meat and wine. 
So 
IN the basement of an unpretentious brick 
these boys knew that if they ate it they would building on Henry Street, Cambridgeport, is 
be worshiping the idols also. 
But what could probably the most costly table in the country. 
they do? Most of the children did not try to Its top is a circular disk of glass just a yard in 
do anything, but these four boys made up diameter, and of the kind commercially known 
their minds very quickly. 
as crown glass. 
To the ordinary observer it 
Daniel was the leader, and spoke for the preseJ?tS the appearance of only a circle of plain 
others, but they were just as determined as he glass, such as might be cut from hundreds of 
was. 
rrhey did not know what would happen shop windows in this city, with the edges 
to them, but they purposed to do right, and so ground down. But this transparent table cov-
Daniel went to the man who bad charge of ering is worth $25,000, and its mate of flint 
them, and asked him to let them have some glass in an adjoining room is worth $25,000 
other food. 
"Now God. bad brought Daniel more. 
If by any accident these two pieces of 
into favor and tender love with the prince of glass should be destroyed, $25,000,000 could 
the eunuchs." He was very willing to please not duplicate them within the next six months. 
Daniel; but he was afraid that it might dis-Together they are to form the lens ·of the 
please the king. 
He was afraid, if they ate great J.Jick telescope, which when finished 
only plain, simple food, and drank water instead will be the largest refracting telescope in the 
of vvine, they would not be so fair and strong as world. 
the other children, and then the king would be 
In the manufacture of this instrument for the 
angry, and kill him. 
Lick Observatory the makers have no rivals to 
Daniel was very gentle and polite, but he did excel, the telescope they have but rocen tly 
not give up. 
He. begged the officer to try them completed for the Russian Government already 
just ten days, and see which kind of food was being the largest finished instrument in the 
the best. 
The officer said he v,rould try tbem world. 
This has a lens thirty inches in diam-
for ten days, and he gave these four boys bread eter, six inches less than the one on which they 
and rice and simple food to eat, and water to are now employed. Before this there were 
drink, while the rest of the children bad the two twenty-seven-inch in Europe, one of which 
meat and the wine from the king's table. 
is in Vienna, once the largest known. 
The two 
Can you not guess bow it ca-me out? God largest in thiR country are twenty-six-inch-
took care that his faith fnl servants should not one at the Naval Observatory, Washington, 
be disappointed. At the end of the ten days and the other in the McCormick Observatory, 
they were fairer and fatter in flesh than any of connected with the University of Virginia at 
tbe children that ate the king's meat, so that Charlottesville, both of which weTe made by 
no one tried again to compel them to eat the the Messrs. Clark. 
food offered to idols. 
The discH for the Lick telescope were cast at 
See what God did for tbesa brave children an establi"dnnellt in Paris, the only place in the 
who sot their hearts upon serving him. God world, witb the exceptio11 of Birmingham, En-
gtwe them knowledge and skill In all learning gbud, where work of ibis mag11iLnde is at-
and wisdom, and Daniel bad UIIderst.anding in tempted. 
The order for the ca::;Ling was gi,:o11 
all visions and dreams. And when the three I five years ago, but FlO 11 nmerous were Lue fail-
years were past, and the king sellt for all the ures that it was 110L .until last S?pternber t.bnt 
boys, that had gt·own now to be young men, the blocks were I:e<.;etved here. Smce that time 
and tal ked with them, and questioned them, M:r. Clark and h1s sons have been COIIstantly 
he found these four friends ton times better engaged in the task of cutting them down to 
than all the wise men of his kingdom, and so the proper curvature, and they do not expect 
he chose them to serve him in his palace, and to complete the work much bofo1·e tho latter 
be amono-his counselors. 'l'hov bticl a house part of next fall, and indeed arc not ready to 
where they lived together, an~l where they say positively that it will be done then. 
could pt'aiso God and pray to bim even in that 
Some idea of th.e amotm t of careful Jabor in-
great wicked city. 
TLey bad the word of God volved may be gamed from the statement made 
stored up in their betats, nnd it was like a by one of these gentle~cn, Lhat although the 
lamp to show them always the right way to go. 
gla~ses came hero partl<tlly ground down and 
'fhey did not ask what other people did, or pohsbed, they bav.e alro:tdy ta~cen fro.m both 
whether any one would ever know what they over 100 poun~s ~n wmght of mater1a~. 
At 
did; they only asked what God bad commanded, fi1·st a rough grmcling was done by machmery, 
and then w;ilked exactly in that way; that is but for months past only the hand has been 
what is meant by taking hoed unto your way used, and they ilave n~w rea~bed that stage 
according to God's word.-Emily 1-funtington where the removal of a. few gnu.ns more or le~s 
Mille?·. in Gh1·istian Uniun. 
from the wrong place would nun them. It 1s 
· 
only by constantly testing with the trained eye 
The J(rupp Works. 
, and carefnl manipulation with tho skilled hand 
of the operator that tbe work is now cnrriod 
slowly on. The only iJIHtrumont used is the 
band smeared with rouge-a polishing' sub-
stance finer than tbe finest omerv. 
ALFRED KRUPP owns probably the largest 
business in the world dependent on one indi-
vidual. The works within the town of Essen 
occupy more than 500 acres, half of which are 
under cover. 
According to a census taken in 
September, 1881, the number of hands em-
ployed by Mr. Krupp was 19,605, the members 
of their families; 45,776, making 65,381 persons 
supported by his works. 
Mr. Krupp· owns 547 
iron mines in Germany. He owns four sea 
steamers, and there are connected with his Es-
sen works 42 
m~les of rail way, employing 28 
locomotiyes and 883 cars, 69 horses with 191 
wagpnsr and 40 miles of ,telcgi~aph wir,es, with 35 
stations and 55 Morse apparatuses. The est.ab· 
Possibly some of our readers.'may ask why 
two qualities of glass are necessary for one 
lens, but probably a large portion of them are 
aware that double, or what are known as ach-
romatic, lenses are necessary even in the cheap-
est of photographic instruments. 
In these and 
the smaller telescopes the two glasses are ce-
mented together, generally with Canada bal-
sam, but in this new instrument, and indeed in 
others made at Mest:lrs. Clark's establishment, 
the two halves of the lens are set six inches 
apart in their iron frame. This having con-
MAY 13, 1886. 
TI-IE SIGNS OF TI-IE TI~~ES. 
[131 ·)s=--
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venien t openings on its outer rim allows of 
the glasses being properly cleaned on each 
side, and does away with some disadvantages 
resulting from atmospheric ch:wges. 
The two 
glasses with their metal frame weigh some-
thing over 700 pounds. 
W ben mounted in its loftv dome this tele-
scope will be one of the WOJl"ders of the world, 
and, doubtless, for the next few years it will 
be the Mecca toward which devout astrono-
ll1ers of all countries will mn.ke pilgrimages. 
Some idea of the po,ver of this instrument 
may be gained fi·om the statement recently 
made by an astronomer, that, .gazing at the 
moon through this mighty annihilator of space, 
the orb of night, really about 240,000 miles 
away, would be brought to within less than a 
hundred miles of the eye of the beholder. 
Mount Hamilton, whC're the telescope is to be 
placed, is in Santa Clara, County, California. The 
mountain bas three peaks, the eastern one be-
ing 4,4-10 feet high, the middle peak 4,350, and 
the third or Observatory Pen.k originally 4,276. 
Mr. l1ick devoted $700,000 to the construction 
of the buildings and for a "telescope superior 
to and more powerful than any telescope yet 
made," with the proviso tha,t Santa Clara Uounty 
should construct a carriage road to the top of 
the mountain. 
This was accomplished in 1876 
at a eost of $78,000, and is a marvel of engineer-
ing skill. 
The buildings and instruments now 
completed and in posi lion are the obflervers' 
bouse, the transit honse, the photo-heliograph 
and photograph house, the north dome a,nd the 
twelve-inch equatorial refractor, the meridian 
circle house and the six-and-one-half-inch me-
ridian circle, many auxiliary instruments, such 
as chronometer, Ridereal cloc:ks, etc., and a, 
number of portnble telescovos. 
The dome 
which is to cover the great telescope will prob-
ably be constructed of steel plates, will be 
about seventy-five feet in diameter, and will 
weigh about ninety-three tons.-Boston Tran-
script. 
Served Him Rig·bt. 
ON a Fort Wayne train a,pproacbing Chicago, 
there was a short-statured, sLraigh t-haired, cop-
per-colored Indian, going back to the reserva-
tion after a trip to t.he Indian school at Carlyle, 
Pa. He 1vore n. nice suit of elothes, which fitted 
him ba,dly, and a paper collar: without any neck-
tie. 
.He attended strictly to his own bnsiill'SS 
:wd was unmolested until a young follow cam~ 
into the smoki11g-car from the sleeper. "A11 
Indian, I guess," said the young man, as he 
lighted a cigarette. And then approaching the 
SOil ol' the plainR, bo attracted general atton Lion 
by shouting, with strange gestures," U gb, bea,p 
big Injun ! Omaha! Sionx! Pawnee! See gl'eat 
father! Have drink fire-water? 
"'\r arm In-
jull 'H blood!" 
The ~opper-colored savage gazed 
at Lhe young man a moment wi t.h an ill-con-
cealed expression on his face, :-tnd then be 
said, with good pronunri:-tLion, "You must 
Lave been reading dime no\u00b7els, sir; 1 m going 
b:-tck to my people ·in Montana, after spending 
three years in tho J~a,st at school. 
I advise you 
to do the same thing. 
No, I do not drink 
whisky. 
Where I live gentlemen do not carry 
whisky flasks in tboir pockets." 
'l'he cigarette 
was not smoked ont, nnd ami_d a general laugh, 
a much crest-fallen young man ret.ired to the 
sleeping coacb.-Youth's Companion. 
The Pecan Tree .• 
THE pecan tree, in the United States, grows 
chiefly in Louisinna, Texas, and l ndian Terri-
tory. The nuts grown in l.Jouisiana rank the 
first in quality. 
These 11 uts are shipped to all 
parLR of the United States, a,nd into Ca.nada. 
There is no .European market for them. 
The 
trees grow from,sixt.y to seventy feet in height, 
sometimes higher. 
They yield a heavy and 
durable wood. 
~ealth ann CIDtntpernnre. 
Mad Dog·s and Mad Men. 
WHERE one person in tb is country dies of 
hydrophobia, a hundred or more die by to-
bacco poison-in the use of cigar~, cigarettes, 
or the pipe. In smoki.ng, death· dool:'l not oc-
cur as speedily as in tho case of hydrophobia,. 
The bite of a mad dog does not always resnl t 
in death; neither docs indulgence in smoking 
or chewing. 
But, in both cn.seR, there 
i~ 
damage to health and dnngor of lifo. 
To-
bacco smoking is undoubtedly a poisonouR. n.nd 
therefore, a dangerous prnctice, and like, in its 
results, to the use of intoxicating drinks, which 
are also poisonous. 
Some constitutions ·can 
bear more tobacco poison or alcoholic poison 
than others. 
We admit tb at, in some cases, poisonous 
liquids, drugs, and minerals may be properly 
used as a medicine, but in ninety-nine cases out 
of a hundred, no one can safety indulge in the 
use of cigars or of intoxicati11g drinks. 
All are 
more or less harmful, and if immoderately used 
will surely result in an early death. lf moder-
ately used the damage will be sure but less 
apparent. 
The bite of a mad dog is a frightful 
matter anywhere, and there are probably a 
hundred deaths caused thereby, yearly, in this 
country. If one man dies of hydrophobia, a 
vvhole community is greatly excited and scared. 
"Run for yout·life !" 
"Load your gun!" 
"Kill 
all the dogs!" is then the loud and immediate 
cry in all directions. 
But not a ripple is made, 
nor hardly a word is uttered, if ton thousa,n d 
men and women die in a year of delirium 
tremens, or a thousand die of tobacco poison. 
It is fashionable to drink and to smoke; and 
hence, thousands of young men begin very early 
to indulge in those practices, wi Lh scarcely a 
thought of the risks a,nd dangers of Ruch indul-
gence. Pale f'a,ces, yellow skins, bloated bodies, 
restless nigbts, Joss of appetiJ;,o, heart disoa~e, 
and poot· health generally, do not seem to 
frighten them in the least. 
They will send for 
medi(:ine and the doctor, but will not stop 
tampering with poi8on. They will drink and 
smoke, smoke a,nd drink, day a,nd night, year in 
and year out. That is the frtshion, and that is 
law, no matter what tho consequences are. "I'll 
Lake the risks," is the answer to a,ll entreaties of 
friends to stop. lf you should see a mad dog 
in tho street you would run for your life, as we 
bave betore said, to geL out of his way. If you 
see a mn.n drnnk in the gutter, you simply say: 
"Poor fellow! I pity him. 
His friends ought Lo 
take care of him," etc. If you hear of the 
death of a man by cancer, which was caused 
by smoking, you arc at first startled, but never 
sLop a day yourself the beastly practice of 
smoking. 
A hundred thousand deaths, at least, are 
caused every year by indulgence in drinking 
and smoking; and those who are t1·ying to 
stay its dreadful results are ca,lled bigots and 
other· worse names. 
While we flee from mad 
dogs, malaria, small-pox, and typhoid fever, let 
us wake up and ban ish forever such senseless 
and dangerous indulgences as liquor drinking 
and smoking. People are beginning to wake 
up on this subject. 
Congress is talking about 
temperance, and physicians are spea,king pla.inly 
about smoking. 
Tobacco is more dangerous 
in its direct and indirect effects on human life 
than would be the letting loose of all the mad 
dogs in the nation. 
Alcoholic drinks destroy more lives yearly 
than do hydrophobia, SJnall-pox, and all sorts of 
fevers combi11od. ·These dangerous and deathly 
practices should be stopped everywhere if possi-
ble. Life-saving on the ocean is now regarded 
as a proper theme for discussion in Congress and 
elsewhere. Why should not life:saving on land 
be also considered? As to the shameful drinking 
and smoking practices in the hnllf4 of' COJlgl'c:~:-:, it 
is high time that both wul'o by law RIIJ>]'~"O":-:ud. 
f1et tlS have pure ail', cleat· heads, and a huall h-
fnl example in tho OapiLol and at the Wbito 
Honse. 
While we do well to ;utond to mad 
do.c:s and pro von t infections diseases, let 
n~ 
not forget or fail to check the immense, the un-
told loss of life cansed bv n. WOI':'\O madness in 
the shamef'ul indulgence'!:> we have nnmed.-
N. Y. Independent. 
How to Use Hot \Vater. 
ONE of the simplest and most e-ffectual means 
of relieving pain is by the use of bot water, 
cxt.erna11y and internally, the temperature vary-
ing according to the feelings of the patient. 
For bruises, sprains, and simi!ar accidental 
b urts, it should be applied immediately, as bot 
as can be borne, by means of a cloth dipped in 
the water and laid on the wounded part., or by 
immersion if convenient, and the treatment 
kept up till relief is obtained. If applied nt 
once, the use of the bot water will generally 
prevent the bruised flesh from turning black. 
For pains resulting from indigestion, and 
knovvn as wind colic, etc., a cup of hot water 
taken in sips will often relieve at orice. 
When. 
that is insufficient a flannel folded in several 
thicknesses, large enough to fully cover the pain-
ful place, should be wrung out of hot vmter and 
laid over tbe seat of the pain. It should be as 
hot as the skin can bear without injury, and be 
renewed eyery ten minutes, or oftener if it feels 
cool, till the pain is gone. 
rrhe remedy is simple, efficient, harmless, and 
within the reach of every one, and Rhould be 
more generally used than it is. If used along 
with common sense it might save many a 
doctor's bill and many a course of drug treat-
ment as weli.-Sel. 
Incalculable Loss. 
IN the performance of our duty, we have been 
deeply impressed with the fact that four-fifths, 
if not nine-tenths, of the six thousand paupers 
and criminals tha,t fill our public institutions are 
in their present sad and deplorable condition 
through the influence of intoxicating liquors. 
If we look beyond these institutions to doter-
mine the cost of the liquor traffic in this city; 
if we estimate the increase of tbe police force 
necessary to meet its requirements, the degra-
dn.tion emanating from the infamous pest-houses 
which it sustains, the idleness which it fosters, 
the wealth whic:h it squanders and destroys, the 
poverty and dit~grace w!Jich it entails, the bur-
dens a,nd expenses which it Jays upon our courts 
of jusLice; and if we add to these the perpetual 
support of so large a nnmber of paupers a,nd 
criminals-the loss we suffer is incalculable.-
Grand Jury of Philadelphia. 
CANON FARRAR says that Cruikshank, the 
artist, offered one hundred pounds for proof of 
a violent crime committed by a total abstainer, 
and that the mouey remains unclaimed to this 
day. 
Quite as striking a proposition bas re-
cently been made by a temperance society in 
England, offering a large reward for proof of a 
single instance where property aecumulated by 
liquor selling bas descended to the third gener-
ation.-Watchman. 
WHEN the kin~ of New Zealand .Maoris was 
in .England, he promised to work for temper-
ance reform among his people. 
He seems to 
have kept his word, for it. is now announced 
that more than 11,000 of his subjects are toto-
talers. 
A sociETY has been formed in England hav-
ing for its object the establishing and furnishing 
of temperance coffee-houses. 
A great many of 
such .houses are being successfully carried on in 
all the larger cities in Great Britain.-S.et. 
286 [l4] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 18. 
(Continned from page 283.) 
"But tho Lord is in his holy temple; let all 
the earth keep silence before him." Hab. 2: 20. 
15. Between -what beings is his seat? 
"Give ear, 0 Rhepherd of Israel, thou that 
loadeRt Joseph like a flock; thou that d welleRt 
bet ren the cherubim, shine forth." 
P~. 80 : 1. 
"Tho Lord reigneth; let the people tremble; 
he RiUeth betv,reen the cherubim; let the earth 
be mo\-od." Ps. 99 : 1. 
16. In tho eart.h ly tabernacle, from between 
wbaL fignres did 1 he Lord Rpeak to the people? 
"And there I will meet with thee, and I will 
commune 1vith thee from above the mercy-Rent, 
from between the two cherubim whieh are upon 
the ark of the testimony, of all things which I 
will give thee in commandment unto the chil-
dren of I:-;racl." 
Ex. 25 : 22. 
17. Then of what was the ark in the earthly 
sanctunry a representation ?-Of the throne of 
God in the temple in Heaven. 
18. \Vhat waR wiLhin the ark, and under-
lle'l(h the cherubim? 
· 
· 
"And thon shalt put into the ark the testi-
mony which T Rhall give thee." 
"And there I 
will meet wit.h thee, and I will commune with 
thee from above the mercy-seat, from between 
the two cherubim which are upon the ark of 
the testimony, of all things which I will give 
thee in commandment unto the children of 
. Israel." 
Ex. 25: J 6, 22. 
"And the temple of God was opened in 
Heaven, fl.nd there wal:4 Rce11 in his temple the 
ark of his testament; and there were ligh.tnings, 
and voices, and thundcrings, and an cad hqnnke, 
and groat hail." 
Rev. 11 : 19. 
19. Then what relntion do the command-
mentA suRtain to the throne of God ?-They are 
underneath it, formi11g its foundation. 
20. Can yon quote any texts of Scripture 
that directly support this conclusion? 
"Jn~tice and judgment are the habitation of 
tl1y throne; mercy and truth shall go before 
thy face." 
Ps. 89 : 14. 
''Clouds and darkness are round about him; 
righteousness anrl .iudgment are the habitation 
of" his throne." Ps. 97 : 2. Compare Ps. 119: 172. 
21. How extensive is the authority of God's 
throne? 
"The T.Jord bath prepared his throne in the 
heavens; n11d his kingdom ruleth over all." 
PR. 103:19. 
22. Then how extensive must be the jurisdic-
tion of the ten commandments? 
23. Must they not, then, be the rule of con-
duct in H eavcn as well as on earth ? 
"BieRs the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in 
strength, that do his commandments, heark-
ening unto the voice of his word." Ps. 103: 
20. 
WHAT bnt the power of God can bring a sin-
ner-destitute of nll desire to please God-into 
that eolldition where it is his meat and his 
drink-his only grent desire-to do the will of 
God? Is not this what Christ means when be 
says: "No man can come unto me except the 
Father which sent me draw him?" Being 
"carnal" (natural), "at enmity against God, 
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed 
can be," what part of the work in his conver-
sion and salvation does the sinner perform? 
If be repents, by what means is it done? If 
he believes, whence·· the power to do so, seeing 
be, in his natural condition of mind, is at en-
mity against God? 
Saving repentance and 
faith spring not up spontaneously in the natural 
heart. 
They are sown there by the Holy 
Spirit, and by it brougb l forth as means in the 
salvation of the sinner. 
So it is emphatically 
true that '' by grace yo are saved "-" by grace 
I am what I am." 
Wonderful work of God! 
Wonderful salvation!-
World's C1·isis. 
ONLY what we have wrought into our charac-
ter during life can we take away with us.-Sel. 
~tttH5 nntl ~nte~. 
RELIGIOUS. 
-There are now thirty-one women in the Univer-
salist ministry. Six of these have ch u r-.:hes in 
Illinois. 
-The church at Bryan Station, Ky., has had but 
tw? pastors, a father and son, in the 100 years of its 
ex1stence. 
· 
-The latest Year-book of the National Church of 
Italy, the Waldensian, shows that the church num-
bers 15,000 communicants. 
-It is stated that forty students of Cambridge 
University, England, and a large number from Ox-
ford, are planning to go out as foreign missionaries. 
-Two thousand children, nearly all of Hindoo 
and· Mohammedan parentage, marched, not long 
since, in the annual Sunday-school procession at 
Lucknow, India. 
· 
-The very effort that is made to-day by the 
church for more civil recognition, is to us prima 
facie evidence that she needs herself to be reformed 
worse than the State.-Rev. Wm. Ballentine. 
-At the celebration of the thirt :v-eighth anniver-
sary of modern Spiritualism, in San Diego, Cal., 
nmong the floral decorations was the "Gates Ajar," 
made of smilax and marguerites, the gift of a 
"Methodist lady." 
-During the past year there have been nine new 
periodicals started in foreign countries, in the in-
terest of modern Spiritualism. The total number 
of Spiritualist journals now published in foreign 
lands is ninety-one. 
-Momdgnor Capel says that "the American peo-
ple do not know the meaning of the word reverence." 
"You revere nothing," he says; "you are inclined 
to turn to ridicule the most solf'mn traditions and 
most sacred observances." Altogether too true. 
The third commandment is thus almost universally 
violated. . 
-The General Baptist Association of California, 
at its annual session held last week in San Fran-
cisco, adopted the following by unanimous vote: 
"We commend to our churches a hearty sympathy 
and support of the Chinese missionary work; we 
deprecate the unchristian spirit toward our Chinese 
population m.nnifasted by so many of the people of 
this State; the existence of this spirit should all the 
more pi·ompt us to the exercise of the Spirit of Christ 
in seeking the salvation of the souls of the heathen 
among us." 
SECULAR. 
-Over 1,300 acres of watermelons have been 
planted near Lodi, San Joaquin County, Cal. 
-A fire at Fairvie, Erie County, Pa., May 3, 
destroyed property to the amount of $100,000. 
-It is stated that Mormons from the Territories 
are settling in the northern part of Chihuahua, 
Mexico. 
-An iron tower, 984 feet high, is to be erected on 
the grounds of the coming Paris International Ex-
hibition. 
-A New York banker and broker estimates that 
American citizens will this year spend $70,000,000 
in pleasuring in Europe. 
-May 1 a fend of long standing in the African 
M. E. Church of Columbia, S.C., resulted in blood-
shed. Several men were shot; one fatally. 
-May 6, a cyclone swept over a part of McHenry 
County, Ill. Three persons were killed, and several 
seriously injured. Much property was destroyed. 
-It is officially announced that the cholera has 
appeared in Venice and Vicenza, Italy. Several 
cases and some deaths are reported in these places 
daily. 
-Since his recent capture and e~cape, Geronimo 
and his band have killed nineteen persons and taken 
captive one young girl, whose fate is worse than 
death. 
-May 3 an explosion of nitro-glycerine, at Pinole, 
Cal., killed one white man and two Chinamen, be-
sides destroying about five thousand dollars' worth 
of property. 
-A fire in Honolulu, H. I., April 18, burned the 
entire Chinese quarter of the cit.y, destroying prop-
erLy to the amount of $1,500,000. The burned area 
is about sixty acres. 
-The oldest merchantman afl.oat is supposed to 
be the bark Tr·ue Love. This vessel was built in 
London, England, in 1764-122 years ago-and is 
still in active service. 
-Joseph D. Weeks, expert and special agent of 
the Census Bureau, estimates that the laborinO" peo-
ple of the United States lost $13,003,866 th~ough 
strikes and lockouts, during 1885. 
-It is stated that a band of Mexican soldiers 
crossed into Texas on the 1st inst., 200 miles below 
El Paso, and drove back into Mexico 275 head of 
cattle belonging to the ranch of J. C. McComb, of 
Presidio County, Texas. 
· -The strike on the Gould system has been de-
clared at an end, and all the men who could obtain 
employment have returned to work. The new men 
employed during the strike are not to be discharged 
to make room for the ex-strikers. 
· 
-At the last regular weekly meeting of the 
Methodist ministers of San Francisco, Dr. Buchanan 
said: "We Methodists are just closing our year of 
jubilee. We have rejoiced greatly in our millions 
-'-The official journal of the Greek ministry says: 
of members and our wealth. We have been greatly "As long as the pressure of the ultimatum of the 
elated with our selfish material gains. But are the Powers is allowed to remain, Greece wiJI not dis-
foundations so sure as we supposed r Is it so sure miss a single soldier from the army now mobilized." 
that the scarlet thread of pride and selfishness may France excepted, the Powers have withdrawn their 
not be weaving itself noiselessly into our very be-ministers from Athens, and have ordered a blockade 
ing? that an enemy may not be sowing tares in of aU Grecian ports. War seems probable. 
our church's life? Who knows?" 
-Dr. Casanova, a Corsican archreologist, has dis-
-Mr. Osborne, the Episcopal "missioner," speak-covered archives which show that Christopher 
ing in Trinity Church, New York, said that the Columbus was born in the town of Calvi, in Corsica, 
bottom of the present labor difficulties is selfishness. and emigrated to Genoa. 
President Grevy has 
Selfishness, he insisted, is to-day the canker of soci-examined the evidence and is satisfied of its author-
ety, and ofindividuallife in all its ramifications. It ity. May 23, commemorative inscriptions will be 
has, he said, Hs manifestations in cruel indifference placed on the house in which Columbus was born. 
to the well-being of one's fellows. This is in har-
-'fhe amount of coal in the Pittsburg region is 
mony with the words of the apostle Paul: "This estimated by Professor Lesley, of Pennsylvania Geo-
know also, that in the last days perilous times shall logical SUrvey, at 30,000,000,000 tons. About 11,-
come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves." 000,000 tons are now taken annually from this bed, 
The present labor troubles, serious as they are, are of which two-thirds are bituminous coal, and one-
but the prelude to greater troubles that are coming third anthracite. Professor Lesley believes that 
on the earth in consequence or" the selfishness of the oil and gas supply will practically cease ten or 
mankind. 
twenty years hence. 
-In a pamphlet published in 1874, in opposition 
-Parts of Kansas and Missouri were visited May 
to the assumptions of the so-called "NaLional Re-6 by a terrible rain-storm. Fifty-four panes of glass 
form" Party, Rev. Wm. Ballentine wrote the fol-were broken in the windows of an express train by 
lowing true words: "We take it as a fundamental hail near Florence, Kan. Some of the stones meas-
principle laid clown in the Scriptures, and corrobo-ured four inches in diameter. At Nevada, Mo., the 
rated by history in all ages, that the church of Jesus damage to streets, culverts, and buildings is esti-
Christ, in a state of reformation, receiving the mated at $10,000. Much damage was done at other 
smiles of his approbation, has never sought for civil points in both States. 
establishment. It is only ·when pride, ambition, 
-The rebellion in Burmah seems to be gathering 
and an inordinate love of popularity, have become strength. A recent dispatch states that the insur-
predominant in the hearts of her leaders; or when gents have got possession of Mandalay and de-
latitudinarianism and indifference to the truth of stroyed by fire no less than 4,000 houses. Lord 
God prevail, that the church, becoming as useless as. Dufferin has been asked for reinforcements, but 
the vine that has fallen from its trellis and become d:tre uot reduce the force at his disposal for fear of 
unfruitful, seeks to be sustained by the secular arm, an uprising in India. Preparations are being made 
and fondled on the knee of civil power." 
in England to dispatch large reinforcements to India. 
MAY 13, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[151 287 
-Mormon Cannon, who has fled from Salt Lake 
City to escape imprisonment for. bigamy, is said to 
be hiding in Arizona. 
-Herr Most says of New York Anarchists: ""\Ve 
are not behind our friends in Chicngo. We have 
our bombs and revolvers as well as they, and you 
will see them fly and go off in the streets of New 
York before long, perhaps; but anyhow at any time 
when the police give u::; provocation." 
-Telegrams from St. Petersburg and Odessa give 
startling accounts of the progress made by the 
Nihilists. Wholesale arrests have been made within 
a week at Alu,.;hta, Nopo-Tcherkask, and Odessa. 
So grave are police reports that the Czar has been 
advised not to delay his return to f:t. Petersburg. 
-Bradst?·eet's estimates that 325,000 men have 
tnken part in the short-hour movement. About 
175,000 have struck; 15,000 have receiverl conces-
sions without striki ~~~. nnd some 45,000 have gained 
their ends by strik-ing. 
The report adds: "The 
outlook· for an early or general clearing up of the 
idustrial disturbances is not bright." 
-Labor difficulties still continue throughout the 
Enst, and in all the large cities there is more or less 
agitation. Employes are generally demanding fewer 
hours and in many cases an increase in wages 
In 
some instances their demands have been complied 
with, and they have eontinued or resumed work; iu 
other cases new hands have been employed, and the 
strikers are now idle; such is the fact in the Brook-
lyn sugar refineries. In some few instances manu-
facturers have anticipated strikes by closing their 
works. 
This was done May 4 by all the furniture 
factories in Baltimore with but oue exception. 
On 
the 3d and 4th inst. the weavers and other employes 
in the silk industry at Jersey City and Hoboken 
struck for more pay and fewer hours; about four 
thousand persons are out of employment. Ten thou-
sand men are also out at Cincinnati, their demand 
being for only eight hours. 
-From May 3 to·5 Chicago and Milwaukee were 
the scenes of serious rioting. · On the 3d a party of 
Socialists attempted to take possession of the Mc-
Cormick Reaper Works, at Chicago, but the mob 
was repulsed by the police. One officer was shot in 
the J1and, and sP-veral of the rioters were injured in 
the conflict. On the 4th 200 officers attempted to 
put an end to a boisterous Socialist meeting, when 
they were fiercely attacked by the mob, and two 
dynamite bombs were thrown between the firBt two 
ranks of officers and immediately exploded, killing 
one and fatally wounding others. The officers at 
once drew their revolvers and fired severn] volleys 
• into the mob, which dispersed in every direetion. 
About twenty wounded Socialists were immediately 
arrested. Forty-four wounded officers are in the 
hospitals. On the 5th the mob raided a drug store 
and also a liquor store, drinking and carrying away 
the liquor. 
Milwaukee was also the scene of riot 
on the 5th, and several collisions between the rioters 
and the civil authorities supported by the State 
militia took place. In one or two instances the 
militia were compelled to fire upon the mob and 
seven persons were killed. Numerous arrests have 
been mape and quiet has been restored in both of 
these cities. 
Q9hituar~. 
FUGETT.-Mrs. Nancy Fugett, aged 80 years and 
6 months, died at Sacramento, Cal., April 11, 1886, 
of paralysis of the brain. She was an observer of 
the.Sabbath, and the SIGNS was one of her most 
welcome friends. 
JoHN F. CooPER. 
McCLELL.AN.-Died in San Francisco, April 30, 
Brother Samuel Elwood McClellan, aged 35 years, 
3 months. 
Brother McClellan was born in the 
State of Delaware, in 185l. With his parents here-
moved to California eleven years ago. He became 
interested in the truth during the tent-meetings 
held by Elder Healey in Sacramento, but did not 
fully embrace the doctrine until after the Sacra-
mento camp-meeting; he began to keep the Sabbath 
at that time. At the camp-meeting in Oakland in 
1884 he was baptized, and soon afterward joined the 
San Francisco church. Since that time he has led 
an exemplary Christian life. 
The testimony of his 
father's family is, that "the Bible was his constant 
companion, and the truth his theme of conversation." 
He died in full faith of a ulessed immortality at 
the coming of our Lord. Words of consolation were 
spoken from Rev. 14: 13 by the writer. 
N. C. McCLURE. 
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A FEW weeks ago, we noticed the new French 
paper entitled Missionary Educator and Sabbath-
School Journal. A German edition now makes its 
appearance. All that we said about the value of 
the French edition will of course apply to this. We 
hope that these journals may have a wide circula-
tion among the French and German residents of 
this country. 
IN connection with the death of John Humphrey 
Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, it is 
worthy of note, that, but a few years before he be-
gan to pose as a reformer, he was excommunicated 
for teaching, among other things; that the ten com-
mandments are abrogated. 
His subsequent career 
was but the legitimate result of such teaching. 
G. M.-There is no "recognized rule" among 
S.D. A. churches as to the reception of members by 
letter. Some churches act upon the name immedi-
ately on presentation of the letter, while oLhers lay 
the case over one week, as in applications for bap-
tism. There ought to be no objection to taking 
action at once; but ca~:;es have been known where 
churches have, through carelessness, granted letters 
to persons who were not in "good and regular· 
standing." 
IN the old catechisms we used to read that 
man is a dual being, composed of body and soul. 
This statement of the case is very common. Very 
well, we will accept the statement, and place this 
beside it: "And the Lord God formed man of the 
dust of the ground,' (Gen. 2: 7.); and also thi~: "If 
He set His heart upon man, if He gather unto 
Himself his spirit and his breath; all flesh shall 
perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust." 
Job 34:14, 15. 
Now it makes no difference of how 
many parts it is said man is composed, we know 
that the whole is composed of all its parts, and, 
therefore, since man himself is formed of dust and 
returns to dust, all the parts of which he is com-
posed rnust also be formed of dust and must return 
t9 dust, 
ON the 7th of April, the State of Rhode Island 
rolled up a large majority vote for Constitutional 
prohibition. Of course the liquor de:tlers will con-
test the vote; but the fact that a majority of the 
voters of Providence, which has 120,000 iuhabitants, 
were in favor of the amendment, is a good assurance 
that the result will not be overturned. It is worthy 
of note that in every State where prohibition pre-
vails, the result was brought about by Constitu-
tional amendment, and not by any party. vVe 
believe this to be the best and most direct method 
of securing prohibition. 
THE Christian at TV or k says:-
"A wealthy gentleman of West Virginia recently 
willed one-half his larrre estate to various church 
organizations; and thes~ bequests have all been set 
aside by the courts and pronounced null. The old 
lesson comes up here-give while you live. In fact, 
only the living give, anyway. The dead only relin-
q~Iish; and the giving by bequest is often a forced 
gift made at the expense of sorrowing relatives, and 
herein it lacks the chief essential of benevolence." 
The words "only the living give" are worthy of 
serious thought. We doubt if a man is entitled to 
any credit for bequeathing money for charitable 
purposes. The grace and glory of giving is in the 
self-denial which it necessitates; and there cer-
tainly cannot be much self-denial in giving away 
that for which one has no further use. 
THE Albany A1·gus says: "The theaters were 
shut on Good Friday night for the :first time in the 
history of New York. That shows how it has be-
come suddellly fashionable to be religious during 
Lent. Whether there is an increase of piety is 
another question." It may be set down as a fact 
that the amount of piety in "fashionable religion" 
is nothing. Another thing may be lloted, and that 
is, no part of "religion'' ever becomes fashionable, 
except that part which has no Scriptural founda-
tion. Whenever any religious ceremony becomes 
fashionable, you may know that the ceremony is 
one that originated this side of Bible times, or else 
in ancient heathendom. 
S.AYS a friend: "Christ lays great stress upon 
'spirit' in interpreting Pharisaic con~:;cience. And 
yet the latt.er was a strict law a bider." ·Our friend 
seems to imagine that we do not believe in spiritual 
observance of the law. The fact is we do not believe 
in anything else. We do indeed plead for the ob-
servance of the letter of the law, but not without 
the spirit. Spiritual observance of the law, how-
ever, presupposes literal observance. To yield spir-
itual obedience to the law is impossible to some who 
disregard the letter. So the Pharisee was not a law 
abider. And when it is said that Christ laid great 
stress on the spirit of the law, it is equivalent to 
saying that he laid stress on the whole Jaw, both 
letter and spirit. 
"FoR I say unto you, that except your righteous-
ness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes 
and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter• into the 
kingdom of Heaven.'' Matt. 5:20. The Pharisees 
were great sticklers for the law. The word "Phar-
isee" means "one separated." The idea was that 
those who formed that sect were separated from 
the rest of the \;orld, because of their superior 
piety in adhering so strictly to the law. But their 
piety was only outward. They kept the form, or 
letter, of the la.w, but not the :;pirit or real intent 
of it. Now the Saviour did not condemn them for 
keeping the letter of the law, but for not keeping 
the spirit also. 
He says that our righteousuess 
must exceed theirs. To exceed is to do the same 
amount and a great deal more. We could not ex-
ceed them in righteousness without keeping the 
letter of the law as strictly as they did. 
The~ if 
while strictly obeying the letter, we serve in spirit 
also, we have the promise of eternal life. 
Two BILLS have been introduced into the New 
York Legislature;declaring boycotting not to be a 
conspiracy or misdemeanor under the ln.w. 
All 
lovers of justice and good order will hope that these 
bills may never become laws. 
THE savage Indian goes about with the scalps of 
his victims hanging to his belt. The civilized white 
goes ab0ut with the scalps of he1· victims "adorn-
ing" her dress. The victims of the former are men, 
and tho~e of the latter are birds; but considering 
the difference in station and educational advan-
tages, can we say that the Indian is the more heart-
less of the two? Civilized barbarity is to our minds 
the worst form possible; and there is a good deal of 
the savage still remaining among civilized people. 
A COI.RESPONDENT says: "'Advent' ··col porters 
advocate free divorce in the South. 
Do those 
southern colporters voic.e the whole church organi-
zation?" We answer, No; nor any part of it. No 
Seventh-day Adventist in the world ever ·ad.Yocated 
any such thing. There is one proper ground for 
divorce, and only one. Christ said: "Whosoever 
shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of 
fornication, causeth her to commit adultery." Matt. 
5 : 32. 'V e dare not go beyond the word of the 
Lord, to do less or more than it enjoins; therefore 
that is the sum of the belief of Seventh-day Advent-
ists on the subject of divorce. 
'fHE second number of Vol. 2 of the Sabbath-
School Wo1·ker is on our table, and a perusal of its 
contents leads us to wish that its circulation might 
be increaSed tenfold. For variety of matter that 
is of practical value to Sabbath-school workers, we 
do not know where the Worker has its equal. 
While it is designed especially for our Sabbath-
schools, the instruction which it contains is just as 
well adapted for Sunday-schools of all denomina-
tions. We have thought that it ought to be required 
of every teacher, as an indispensable qualification 
for his duties, that he subscribe for the Worker. It 
is certain that those who read it carefully will be 
far better prepared for their duties than those who. 
do not. And the price, only 25 cents a year, places 
it within the reach of the poorest. Address Sab-
bath-School Worker, Battle Creek, Mich. 
Praying in Public. 
':VE shouldn't wonder if Sam Jones struck pretty 
nearly the truth of the matter when he made the 
following remarks:-
" That old brother out there says, 'I don't pray in 
public.' I ask him why. He says because he is. 
timid. It is because you are mean; that is the 
secret of the whole thing. A fellow doew't like to 
pray b~fore the public when he hasn't lived right 
before the public. I heard of a fellow once, and a 
preacher called on him to pray, and he prayed a 
little, and directly he said, '0 Lord, give us soul-
saving religion.' and one of bis creditors who was 
present hollered out, • and debt-paying religion,' and 
to that the fellow had to say, Amen, and quit .• He 
had him there. And a man thai don't live right 
before the public don't like to pray before the pub-
lic." 
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