====================================================================~~-----------] J~~r.:================== "Behold I come quickly, and my ~;eward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12. VOLUME 12. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, MAY 27, 1886. NUMBER 20. OCQe ~igns nf tQe [imes. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE International Tract and Missionary Society. (For terms, etc., see last page.) Entered at the Post-Office in. Oakland. PRAISE. " Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.'' REGIN, my soul, th' exalted lay; Let each enraptured thonght obey, And praise the Almighty's name; Let Heaven and earth, and seas and skies, In one melodious concert rise, To swell the inspiring theme. vVhate'er this living world contn,ins, That wings the a.ir or treads the plains, United praise bestow; Ye tenant of the ocean wi(le, Procln,im him through the mighty tide, And in the deeps below. Let man, by nobler passions swayed, The feeling heart, the judging head, In heavenly praise employ; Spread his tremendous name around, Till heaven's broad arch rings back the sound, The general burst of joy. -Bel. ~tntral ~rticltS5. Willing Obedience. BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. GoD requires prompt and unquestioning obe- dience to bi8 law. But men are asleep or para- lyzed by the deceptions of Satan, who auggests excuses and subterfuges, and conquerR their scruples, saying as be did to Eve in the garden, "Yo shall not surely die." Disobedience not only hardens the heart and conscience of tho guilty one, but it tends to corrupt Lhe faith of others. That which looked very wrong to them at. first, gradually loses this appearance by being constantly before them, till finally they question whether it is really sin, and un- consciously fall into the same error. We should not look in the face of dutv and delay meeting its demands. Such deln,y ~gives time for doubts, unbelief creeps in, the judgment is perverted, the understanding darkened. At len~t.h the reproofs of God's Spirit do not reach the heart of the delnded person who bn.s become so blinded as to think tbn,t-. they cannot .po~Kibly be intended for him or apply to his case. The procious time of probation is passing, and fe"v realize that it is give11 t.hem for the purpose of preparin~ for eternity. The golden hom·s are Rquandered in worldly pursuits, in pleasure, in absolute sin. God's law iR slighted and for- gotten, yet every statnte is none the leRS bind- ing. Every transgression wi II bring its punish- ment. Worldly love of gain desecrates the Sabbath, yet the claims of that holy day nre not abrogated or lessened. God's command is clear and unquestionnblo on thi8 point; be Las peremptorily forbidden us to labor on the sev- enth day. He bas set it apart as a day sancti- fied to bimflelf. Many are t.he hindrances that lie in the path of those who would follow in obedience to the commandments of God. 'l 1bere are strong and Those who reverence the commandmenh=~ of subtle influences that bind them to the wayR of Jehovah, after light bas been given them in the world; but the power of the l1ord can break reference to the fourth precept of the decalogne, these chains. He will remove every obstacle will obey it without questioning the feasibility from before the feet of his fnithful ones, or give or convenience of such obedience. God mnde them strength and courage to conquer every man in his own image, and then gave him a.n diffieul t_y, if they earnestly beseech his help. example of observing the seventh day, whieh he All hindrances will vanish bel'ore an earnest de-sanctified and made holy. He designed Lhat sire and persistent effort to do the will of God upon that day man should worship him, and at anycost to self, even iflife itselfissacrificed. engage in no secular pursuits. No one who Light from Heaven will illuminnte the darkness disregards the fourth commandment, after be- ofthose who, in trial and perplexity, go forward, coming enlightened concerning the claims of looking unto Jesus as the author and finisher of the Sabbath, can be held guiltless in the sight their faith. of God. r:J'he example of Adam and Eve in the In ancient times God spoke to men by the garden should suffieiently warn us against any mouths of prophets and apostles. In these disobedience of the divine law. days be speaks to them by the testimonies of The sin of our first parents, in listening to the his Spirit. There was never a time when God specious temptations of the enemy, brought more earnestly instructed his people concern-gnilt and sorrow upon the world, and led the ing his will, and the course that be would have Son of God to leave the royal courts of Heaven them pursue, than now. But will they profit by and take a bumble place on earth. He was his teachings, will they receive hiH reproofs and subjected to insult, rejection, and crucifixion by heed tbe warnings? God will aecept of no par-the very ones be came to bless. What infinite Lial obedience, nor sanction any compromise expense attended that disobedience in the gar- with self. den of Eden I The Majesty of Heaven was sac- Through Samuel, God commanded Saul to go rificed to save man from the penalty of hiH crime. and smite the Ama.lekites a11d utterly destroy God will not more lightly pass over any trans- all their possessions. But Saul only partially gression of his law now than in the day when obeyed Lhe command; he destroyed the inferior he pronounced judgment against Adam. The cattle, but reserved the best, a,nd spared tbe Saviour of the world raises his voice in proLc'Ht wicked king. The next day he met the prophet against those who regard the divin~ uommaud- Samuel, with flattering self-congratulations. ments with carelessness and indifference. Said Said be: "Blessed be thou of the Lord; I have be: "Whosoever therefore shaH break one of performed the commandment of the Lord." these least commandments, and shall teach men But the prophet immediately answered, "What so, be sba11 be called the least in the kingdom meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and tet1Ch ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear." them, the same shall be called great in the Saul was confused and sought to shirk re-kingdom of Heaven." sponsibility by answering, "rn~ey have brought At the very beginning of the fourth precept, them from the Amalekites; for the people s·pared God bas said, "Rp_member," knowing that man, the best of the sheep and of the oxell to sacri-in the multitude of his cares and perplexities, fice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we would be tempted to excuse himself from meet- have utterly destroyed." Samuel then re-ing the full requirements of the law; or, in the p1·oved the king, reminding him of the explicit press of worldly business, forget its sacred im- commands of God directing him to destroy all portance. "Six days shalt thou labor and do things belonging to Amalek. He pointed out all thy work,"-meaning the usual business of his tranRgression and declared that be had dis-life, for worldly profit or pleasure. Tbese obeyed the Lord. But Saul refused to acknowl-words are very explicit; there can be no mis- edge that he had done wrong; be again ex-take. How dare any one venture to transgress cused his sin by pleading that he had reserved a commandment so solemn and important? the best cattle to sacrifice unto the .Lord. Has the Lord made an exception, by which Samuel waR grieved to the heart by the per-some arc absolved from the law he has given to sistency with which the king refused to see his the world? Are their transgrcs~;ions omitted sin and confess it. He sorrowfully asked, "Hath from the book of record? Has he agreed to the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and excuRe their disobedience when the nations sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord'? shall come before him for judgment? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to Let none for a moment deceive themselves hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is with the thought that their sin will not bring as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as its merited punishment. Their transgressions iniquity nnd idolatry. Because thou hast re- will be visited with the rod, because they have jected the word of the Lord, he hath. also re-bad the light, yet have walked directly eon- jected thee ft·om being king." tr~ry to it. He that knoweth his Master's God bas given us his commandments, not only will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with to believe in, bnt to obey. The great Jehovah, many stripes. when he bad laid the foundations of the earth, God bas given man six days in which to do and dressed the whole world in the garb of his own work, and carry on the nsual business beauty, and filled it with things useful to man, of his life. But the Lord claims one which he when he had cre~tted nll the wonders of the land bas set apart and snnctified. He gives it to and sea, instituted the Sabbath day and made man as a day in which ho may rest from labor, it holy. God blessed and sanctified tho seventh and devote himself to worship and the improve- day because be rested upon it from all his won-ment of his spiritual condition. What a fla- drous work of creation. The Sabbath was grant outrage it is for man to steal the one made for man, and God would have him put by sanctified day of J ebovab, and appropriate it to his labor on that day, as he himself rested after his own He I fish purposes ! his six days' work of creation. 1t is the grossest presumption for mortal man 306 121 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 12, No. 20. to venture upon a compromise with the AI- m igh Ly, in order to secure his own petty, tem- poral interest:-::. It is as ruthless a violation of the law to occasioually use the Sabbath for sec- ular business as to entirely reject it; for it is making the Lord's commandrnents a matter of convenience. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God," is th:undered fi·om Sinai ! The .L1ord requires willing sacrifice. No partial obediouee, no divided interest, is accepted by him wlro deelares that. tpe iniqnities of tho fathers Rh:tll be visited npon the ehildrcn to the third aHd fourth generation of them thn.t Irate him, and that be will show mercy unto thou- sands that love him and keep his command- ments. The Two Resnrrec~ions. THE following is part of' an Baster sermon by Hev. l3J. S. Chapman, D. D., pastor of the first Presbyterian Chnrch, East Oaklnnd, Cal. We hope it will receive the carc['nl reading that it deserves:- " For aA in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." rrhis is Lbe divine promise; it will be accomplished by divine power, and aecordin~ to divine order. Out' waywardrress and sinfulness may pro- duce mncb of disorder and confusion in thi!:i earthly life, but divine sy::rd Jcsns Christ; who shall change onr vile bou.y, that it ·may be fashioned like unto thi8 glorious body, according to tho working whereby Ire is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Phil. 3: 20, 21. But thongh they are the first, the dead in Christ shall not be the only carlhly participants in the events of that groat rwd glorious dny. The ThesRalonians feared their departed friends ·would have no part at all in the promiNed blcRsing. But the apostle shows them that their awakening shall be the fir·st. human nn- swer to "the voic:e of the archangel aud the trump of God." "Then we which are alive and remain shall be ;'It may be at morn, when the day is awaking, 'Vhen sunlight through darkness and shadow is bre~~king, That Jesus will COlllC in the fullness of glory, To receive from the world 'his own.' "It may be at micl-day, it may be at twilight, It may be, perchance, that the blackness of midnight Will burst into light in the fullness of glory, \Vhen Jesus receives ' his own.' "Oh, joy! oh, delight! should vve go without dying, No sickness, no sa.dness, no dread and lJO crying, Caught up through the clouds with om Lord into glory, ·when Jesus receives ·his own."' \V c may live to see that day, and we may not. Many, den.r to our hearts, have alroady been c:allod away, and we too may lie down in the nanow bouse. But though our restirrg- placcs may be separated from eaeh other by c:ontincrtts and soa8, we shall together awake and arise in the p01:fection of resurrection, beanty, and glory. This was the bope with whic.:h Paul sought to eomfort the hearts of the Thessalonian bolieYcrs, and this is tbe hope with which I would inspire you to faithfulness ir1 tho Clrristinn life. But all this applies to none but those who are li\u00b7ing or sleeping in Christ. ln the text it is "they that are Clr rist's," wbo shall bo raised "at his coming." ln the epistle to the Tbos::un- day legislation,: "In France there is little rest .. The wheels of trade never cease. Sunday evenings the theaters are crowded. The result is there are few old men." To give Ion a life and health to the people, be tbi~dct; tho State must give us a "civil rest day." 0 how fallen is the"' Sunday! "Civil Test day /' 7 ' \Ve hen!· little now about the divinely appointed Sunday, the IJord's day. Men have become onlis. For this cause would we see him. We would see him because of -''the character he bears, And a,ll the forms of love he wears." Yet we would not now see him as he was. We would not now see !tis visage so marred more than any man, and his form more than tl1e sons of men. We would not now see him a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. We· would not now see him oppres~ed and afflicted. 'Ve would not now see him taken as a lamb to the slaughter. We would not now see him in his travail of soul. We would not now see him in his dreadful agony on the cruel tree. No; we would see him as he is. We would see him "that liveth," though once dend, yet now "alive for evermore, Amen;" and who has" the keys of hell and of death." 'Ve would see him as the disciples saw him -"his face did shine as the sun,"'' and his raiment became shinillg," "white as the light,"" exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller on earth can white them." We would see him as Stephen saw him-in glory, ''standing on the right hand of God." vVe would see him as Paul saw him--shining in light "above the brightness of the sun." We would se~ him as John saw him-" his head and his hairs white like wool; as white as snow; and his eyes as a flame of :fire; and his feet like unto fine brasH, as if they burned in a furuace; and his voice as the sound of m~ny waters;" "and his countenance as the sun shineth in his strength." We would see him as Isaiah saw him-" sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up," and the train of his glory fill- ing the heavenly temple; about him standing the bright seraphim shading their glorious faces from his ineffable glory, and crying one unto another, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory " (Isa. 6 : 1-4 with .John 12: 41). We would see him corning in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, and would hear his mighty voice saying to his angels, "Gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." And then and there, in the midst of the church, would we see him and hear his glorious voice singing that song of promised praise to the Father (He b. 2: 12). Oh, 'tis thus that " we would see Jesus." And we thank God, not only for the hope t-hat we shall see him as be is, but n lso that the sigus are abundant all about us that soon this "blessed hope" shall be fulfilled. And the blessed promise is that we shall not only "see him as he is," but "we shall be like him." "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." We would see Jesus. In this hope we live. For its fru- ition we wait. But while so living and waiting, we would never for a moment forgP-t that he "that hath this hope i11 him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." 1 John 3:2, 3. And, even so, we would indeed see Jesus. J. Angels Not Dead Men. A NEW Spiritualist paper published in Oregon quotes the Bible in support of that deception as fol- lows:- "After the clairvoyant and clairaudient John had heard and seen the matters recorded in his revela- tions, he fell down to worship his angel informant; but the latter quickly stopped this superstitious obsequiousness, by saying: 'See thou do it.not; . . for I am of thy brethren the prophets.' "Though this prophetic spirit did not give his name, these clear words would warrant me in claim- ing this as the fifth human being of Bible record who returned, after the death of the body; and iden- tified himself.'' There are many who do not call themseLves Spir- 312 181 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 12, No. 20. itualistR, who give Rev. 22: 9 the same application. But that application can be made only by garbling the text, as is done above. The text reads: "See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the propl1ets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book." Some people honestly sup- pose that the word "one" must be supplied, so as to make it read, "I am thy fellow-servant, and one of thy brethren the prophets." But the construc- tion of the text will not allow that. In this case, a literal translation, according to the Greek idiom, gives the exact meaning. Literally it reads thus: "I am the fellow-servant of thee, ·and of thy breth- ren the prophets, and of them which keep the say- ings of this book." Here we see that the word to be supplied is fellow-servant. The angel declared that he was not worthy of worship, because he was only a servant. This agrees with P:ml's statement that they are all "miniRtering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation." Angels do the commandments of God, "hearken- ing unto the voice of his word;" but they are not immortalized dead men. AngelR were created such. Their nature is different from that of men (See Heb. 2: 16), and men uever become angels. There is a promise that the just shall be made "equal unto the angels;" but that very promise shows that men uever become angels; for "equality" can exist only when there are two distinct classes. Some One-Thousand-Dollar Reasons for Keeping Sunday. OuR readers have seen Mr. Waffle's, and the American Sunday-school Union's, one-thousand- dollar reasons for disregarding and abandoning the plain precept to observe the seventh day, the Sab- bath of the Lord. There yet remains to be noticed the reason why the first day of the week is kept. Mr. Waffle tells us that the apostles "were led to observe the first day of the week as the Sabbath, and gradually to abandon the seventh by a varieLy of occurrences which seemed to them to warrant the change, and which, when carefully studied, leave no doubt in our minds that they acted in ac- cordance with the divine intention." But how Mr. Waffle knows that these things seemed to the apos- tles to warrant the change, he nowhere tells us. And, as the apostles themselves have nowhere said a word on the subject, we have no confidence in Mr. Waf- fle's imagination of motives which he attributes to them. Of these" occurrences" he says:- "The first of them was the resurrection of our Lord. Each of the evangelists mentions very par- ticularly the fact that this took place upon the first day of the week, showing that they felt it important to mark the day .... But they n1ignt not have given the day the prominence they did if Christ had not distinguished it, by choosing it for most of his appearances to them and other disciples. On the same day on which l1e arose, he appeared uo less than five times. . . . But the fact that CJu·ist rose on that day and manifested himself so often to Lhe disciples, would not necessa1·ily imply a pU1·- pose on his pm·t to hono1· it, had it not been for sub- sequent occU?-rences."-Pp. 192-194. · Here it is admitted that OUI' knowledge of the purpose of Christ to honor the first day of the week Jepends upon occurrences other than his resurrec- tion, and upon occurrenceH after those of that same day. Therefore, if these "subsequent occurrences'' should not be what Mr. Waffle claims, then the fact stands confessed that we have nothing that implies a purpose of Christ to put houor on the first day of the week. Now the first of these subsequent occur- rences he relates as follows:- "For six days he did not appear to them at all, so far as the record shows; but on the eighth day, or, as we should say, on the sevent!J day afterwards, he appeared to the eleyen as they were gathered in a closed room."-P. 194. But there iR no such record as that he appeared to his disciples "on the eighth day." The reference here is, of course, to John 20:26, which reads: "And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them; then carne Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you." And when Inspiration has written "afte?' eight days," we should like to know by what right, or rule, it is that Mr. Waffie reads "on the eighth day," and then, not satisfied with that, gives it another turn and reads, "as we should Ray on the seventh day afterward." "On what meat doth this our Cresar feed that he is grown so great" that he can thus boldly manipulate the words of Inspi1·ation? And what can a cause be worth that can be sustained only by resort to such unworthy shifts~ It is true that Mr. Waffie quotes the clauRe from Canon Farrar, but we deny the right of Canon Farrar, or any other man, just as much as we deny the right of Mr. Waffie, to so manipulate the worn of God. And it is one of the strongest evidences or the utter weakness of the Sunday cause that, to sustain it, such a consummate scholar as Canon Farrar is obliged to change the plain word of God. But some one may ask: Will not the Greek bear the construction that is thus given to the text? We say, No, emphatically. The words exactly as John wrote them, using Englisl1 letters in place of Greek letters, are these, "Kai meth, hemm·as okto," and is, word for word, in En- glish, "And after days eight." These are the very words that were penned by the beloved disciple, ex- actly as he penned them, by the Spirit of God; and when any man, we care not who he may be, changes them so as to make them read "on the eighth day,'' or "on the seventh day afterward," he is guilty of d0liberately cllanging the word of God, as it was written by his own inspired apostle. And no cause can be the cause of God that is dependent for its support upon a change of the truth of God. The next occur1·ence is the claim that Pentecost was on the first day of the week. But even though it were admissible that·Pentecost was on Sunday, the word of God is still silent about the first day of the week being thereby set apart and made the Sabbath. And so long as we have only the opinions of men, and these opinions only the fruit of their own wishes, and these wishes supported only by their owri imaginations, that Sunday is the Sabbath, or the Lord's day, so long we have the right to deny the truth of it, and to stand upon the "plain pre- cept" of God, which, as Mr. Waffle says, "directs" that "the seventh day of the week" shall be kept holy. Again Mr. Wa:ffie says:- " The Christians, at a very early date, were accus- Lumed to hold their religious meetings on that day. The custom seems to have been begun a week from the day of Lhe resurrection (John 20: 26), though a single instance of the kind would not make this certain. But there can be no doubt concerning their habit at a later date. We read in Acts,' Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them.' The plain implication of these words is that it was the custom of Christians to meet on that day for the Lord's Supper."-Pp. 197, 198. Notice that he says of this "custom" that "a single instance of the kind would not make this certain." Now it is a fact as clear as the word of God can make it, that the instance in John 20:26 was not on the first day of the week. It is likewise a fact that, so far as the word of God tells, the meeting recorded in Acts 20:7 is the only religious meeting ever held on the first day of the week. This, then, being the one single instance of the kind, and as "a single instance of the kind" would not make it certain that it was the custom; therefore it is plainly proved that there is nothing that would make it certain that it was the cuslom for the apostles to hold meetings on the first day of the week. Well, then, it seems to us that service that has for its authority only a custom about which there is nothing certaiu, is most certainly an unsafe foundation upon which to rest the reason for disre- garding the plain precept of Jehovah. Rend<'r, we want something more substantial than that to stand upon when every work shall be brought into the Judgment. Next Mr. Waffle quotes 1 Cor. 16:2: "Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store," etc., and says:- " It is evident that Paul desires them to bring in their offerings week by week and leave them in the hands of the proper church officers." It is certainly evident that if that is what Paul desires he took the pooi'est kind of a way to tell it. Just think of it, Paul desires that Christians shall bring their offerings week by week and leave them in the hands of the proper church officers. And so, that his desires may be fulfilled, he tells them, "Upon the f-irst day of the week l'et every one of you lay by him in store." 'l'hat is, each one is to lay by him his offerings, by leaving them in the hands of somebody else! And such are these one- thousand-dollar reasons for keeping Sunday. There is one more; he says:- "Johu speaks of this as 'the Lord's day.' He says, 'I was in the Spirit on the Lorn's day.' If he had meant the Sabbath, he would have called it by that name. His expression is analogous to 'the Sabbath of the Lord,' which we find in the Old Testament; but it cannot mean the same day."- P.199. And why not, pray? "Analogous" means "cor- respondent; similar; like." Now if the expression "the Lord's day" is correspondent to; if it is simi- lar to; if it is like the expression "the Sabbath of the Lord," then why is it that it cannot mean the same day? Oh, we have Mr. A. E. Waffie's one- thousand-dollar fiat that it cannot. Christ :mid, "The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." The day of which Christ is Lord, and that .day alone, is the Lord's day. But the day of which he was speaking, when he said those words, is the seventh day. He had not the slightest reference to any other day. He was speaking of the day which the Pharisees regarded as the Sabbath, which everybody knows was the seventh day of the week. Therefore, when "he said unto them,'' "The Son of man is Lor~ even of the Sabbath day," it was with sole reference to the seventh day. God had said, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord," and now when, with sole reierence to the seventh day, Christ says, "The Son of man is Lord of the Sab- bath;" it shows that the seventh day, and that alone, is the Lord's day. Here.we shall present a series of syllogisms, and auy body in this wide world is at I ull liberty to find any flaw in them. FIRST SYLLOGISM. MAJOR PREMISE: "The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.'' Mark 2 :28. MINOR PREMISE: "The seventh day is the Sab- bath." Ex. 20 : 10. CoNCLUSION: Therefore, the Son of man is Lord of the seventh day. Just as surely as tlte Scripture is true so surely is this conclusion true. Then using this conclusion as a major, we form a SECOND SYI .. LOGISM. MAJOR PREMISE: The Son of man is Lord of the seventh day. MINOR PREMISE: The day of which he is Lord is the Lord's clay. CoNCLUSION: Therefore, the seventh day is the Lord's day. Now with this conclusion as a major, we form our THIRD SYLLOGISM. MAJOR PREMISE: The seventh day is the Lord's day. MINOR PREMISE: John says, ''I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." Rev.1 :10. CONCLUSION: John was in the Spirit on tlJ~,sev­ enth day. NlAY. 2 7' 1881). THJZ: SIGNS OF THE TI~((ES. [S J 313 There, if there is any flaw anywhere in that, we shall be glad to have some one point it out. We sbaJl not, howev<~r, offer a prize or· one thousand dollars to have it pointed out, bec:1nse we haven't a thousand dollars; but we wm, :!lid by these presents we now do, offer a one-thousand-dollar-prize--- essay, to the Committee of Publication, or to the Board of the Amcricnu SuJ1clay-school Union, or to Mr. A. E. Walfie, if they, or either of them, will point out a :flaw in the above series or syllogisms. We promise to give their manuscripts" a painstak- ing and protracted examination," and to send the grnnd prize---essay by return mnil. We can as- sure them that the essay which we offer is worth $1,000, especially to the Union, fur the Union paid $1,000 for it. J. Matthew 24. THRR.E hns been a long-continued controversy over L!Jis chapter, between tl1e Universalists and thos0 of "evangelical" faith. Universalists well understand the importance of the contest on this :field, for if it can be proved that this refers only to the destruction of Jerusalem, and not at all to the future advent of Christ in person, then the second and personal advent of the Saviour may be dis- carded altogether, and the doctrine of a future Judg- ment falls to the ground. Many rensons may be given for npplying this chapter to the second advent. A f<'·v we will no- tire:- 1. Before "the end" here referred to, nation should rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and famines, and pestil<"nces, and earth- quakes should be in divers places. No such state of things intervened between the time when our Sav~ iour uttered these words, and the revolt which re- sulted in the overthrow of Jerusalem. 2. There was to be the greatest tribulation (upon the elect, see verses 21, 22) which ever was or ever should be. If we say the Jews were the elect, then we :find tribulation equally great under the Bab- ylonians. See Lam. 2 and 4; especially chapter 4: 3-10; Dan. 9:11-13. But Christ said (John 8: 44) that the unbelieving Jews were of their father the devil; therefore they were not the elect. But 'the greatest tri bula tiou did not come upon the true people of God at the destruction of Jerusalerq. They wert' mercifully delivered at that time. 3. Those who" spiritualize" this chapter say that "the coming of the Son of man," means the coming judgments upon Jerusalem, Lhrough the Roman army. ~ut it cannot appear reasonable to make the Roman army the Son of man and the "abomi- nation of desolation" in the same scripture. 4. When they saw this abomination of desolation, then if any man should say, "Lo, here is Christ," they were not to believe it. Bt1t if the coming of Christ was only a :fig~re to represent the Roman army, then they were to believe and escape when they saw it. To apply this to the Roman army would be to cut off their warning and their escape. 5. The corning of the Son of"man shall be a the lightning, shining from the east to the west.~ This well represents the advent of the Saviour in the glory of the Father, with all the holy angels. See Mark 8: 38; Matt. 25: 31; 2 Thess. 1 : 7-9; 1 Thess. 4:16, 17. But it does not at all represent the com- ing of the Romans to Jerusalem. 6. At the coming of the Son of man the elect are to be O'athered unto him. Matt. 24 :29-31; 2 Thess. 2 : 1. ~::~But at the coming of the Roman army the servants of God left the city and fled away. 7. Paul said, before the Lord comes and the saints are gathered unto him, there should come a falling away and the man of sin would be revealed. ' What fulfilled that prophecy if Christ came when Jeru- salem was overthrown? 8: The signs of verse 29 are supposed to be :figura- tive, and the darkening of the sun is made to me:m the r<·moval of the civil powr'r of the Jews, as the moon is referred to the ecclesiastical. We will not say that they who argue thus are ignorant, but they must be very thoughtless to m:il.::e the Saviour proph- esy the loss of civil power to the Jews so many years after it wns totally lost! 'Ihelllselves con- fessed they had no king but Cresar. They were in complete subjection to the Romans when this proph- ecy was uttered. 9. It is argued that wonderful signs were shown before Jerusalem wns destroyed. Admitted, and what then? The text says that after the tribula- tion of tl:ose clays the signs were to appear. If the tribulation were the destruction of Jerusalem, and the signs occurred ajte1· t.hat, of what were they signs? There is no harmony in that view. But let the tribulation be upon the elect, the greatest tl1at ever was would include the terrible persecution under the papacy; immediately after that, 1780, the sun was darkened, and the moo11 did not give her light; the stars fell in 1833. Thus the signs were not signs of the tribulation, but they were after the tribulation, and are signs of the Saviour's coming. Here is Lhe harmony of truth. 10. The instruction of this chapter was not given to prove that Christ will come again (though it docs prove this), for this is abundantly proved by other scriptures, and on this point the questioners had no doubt. But it was given especially to teach the church whtm that event is "near, even at the doors.'' They did not ask him if he was coming again, but, what should be the si.-n of his coming and of the end of the world. He g·ave them the information they desired. 11. He informed them that when he comes he will fipd some faithful servants giving the household "meat in due season," while evil servants will be saying in their hearts, if not with their .tongues, "My Lord delayeth his coming." One class shall be made rulers in the kingdom of the Saviour, and the other shall be cut asunder and appointed their portion with the hypocrites. Matt. 24:45-51. 0 fearful doom of self-deceived. ones! Reader, on which side will you be in that day? Where do you sLii ncl now f J. H. w. Final Freedom for the Waldenses. WITH the restoration of 1814-1815, Victor Emanuel IV. came to the throne of Sardinia, and the Vaudois once more sunk to the condi- tion of a subjugated race, alien and oppressed. They were known to be advocates of freedom and advance; the Pope and the Jesuits again ruled at Turin; the Church and State again united to destroy the church of the mountains. From 1~14 to 1848 the Vaudois suffered indig- nities and deprivations scarcely surpassed in the earlier persecutions. All the ancient op- pressive laws were revived. They were for- bidden to hold any civil office, to pur~ue their labors on Catholic festivals, to bold land beyond a certain limit, to make proselytes, or build new churches except in the least favorable lo- cations, to marry into papist families, or to give, sell, or lend their Bibles to Catholics. Romisb missions were establikbed in their midst, and a convent and a church were built at La Tour to complete the conversion of the people. When Dqctor Gilly visited the va)leys in 1822 he was struck by the beauty of their landscape, the simplicity and purity of the people; he was touched and grieved to find that they still labored under a rule of persecution; and that liberty of conscience, for which they had ever Aighed, was still denied thein ·by unforgiving Rome. ' But the church of the Alp~ \Vas now to rise from its desolation, and to shine ont with now luster in the eyes of all Eumpc. The h·ee prin- ciples it bad always iuculc:ntod, the liberty of conscience it had ever defended, were become the ruling ideas of every cnltivated Italian. Turin and Sardinia had learned to look with wonder, admiratior1: and remorse upon the lovely valleys. they bnd so often desolated, and the innocciit people they had so ton~tantly tortured and oppressed. The Sardinian king, Charles A !bert, Rt ood at the bead of the Italian roformerR. llo vvas resolved to g:ive freedom to tbe Vaudois; to atone, if po~:-;ible, for the erimos of his ancc:-;tor~; to make :::;omo faint return to tho people of I he valleys for their long lo~Ron of patience, resig- nation, and truth. Amid::>t the acclamatiollR of his subjects, he prepared (1847) to extend free- dom of conRcionce to the churehes of tl1e Aips. A patriotic exeitoment aroke i11 their bvor. A petition waR drawn up at '.L'urin urging t.he king to enfntnchil-'o tho Vaudois and tho Jews. lts first signor was the poet, artiRI., and statesman, the Marquis D'Azeglio; a11d hiR name waR fol- lowed by a. long list of pr()fessors, iawyers, physicians, and even liber:ti ecclesiastics a11d priests. Cheers were given for the Vaudois at public dinners in Pignerol and 'rurin, and all Piedmrmt wept over their history and rejoiced in their approaching triumph. On the 17th of Pebruary, 1848, the royal decree was issued giving freedom to the valleys. It was received by the simple and generous Vaudois with a limitless gratitude. A thrill of joy ran over the beautiful vales, and Lucerna, San Martino, and Perouse resounded with hymns of thanksgiving upon the return of that stable freedom which bad been ravished from them eight centuries ago. In every villngc there were processions of the young, '".ritb lJan- ners and patriotic songs; the blue colork of renewed Italy shone on. every bre::ll~ and still asserts its right to govern the millds of men by brutal force. .En- throned by fot·ei&Ul bayonets over a murmuring people, the vindi·cti,·o Pope proclaims his un- dying hostility againBt the wise and the good of every land. But. should the Holy Father and the society of Loyola turn their eyes to the Vaudois Alps, they may read their doom graven on eauh heaven-piercing peak. There ma.y be seen a sper.tral company of the hallowed dead writing \Vith shadowy finger::~ a legend on the rocks; the tiny babe crushed beneath the sol- dim·'s heel; the fair mother hewed to pieces on the snow; the old man of ninety burned to ashes on the fatal pyre. r:t'hey write, "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which be- lieve in me, it were better for him that a mill stone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea I "-.Eu,- gene Law1·ence, in lfistorical Studies. mOUil ta.ineers; even liberal priests choel'ed them *[Since t·his was writteu (1869) the papal power has fallen. But as they went by; the women of Turiu smiled thePopeisstillthemostactiveanddaugerousofpoliticiansinevery 1 d h f. h ll y b civilized land.] upon t )0 aug ters o t eva eys. . et, as t e Vaudois moyed through the squares hallowed Sacramento, Pleasant Grove, and Dixon. by tbe torments of their early martyrs, beside the prisons where their ancestors bad died by AT O<.lr late meeting in Oakland, the question thousands, the palaces ,.vbere Jesuits a11d pri11Ces of the practicability of ostabli:-;hing a mission in hn.d often pla11ned their total extirpation, tbuy Sacramento was discussed, and in harmony were amazed at the startling contrast, and list- with that action it was thought advisable for ened with gratot'ul hearts to the glad congratu-me to make a visit to that place, to ascertain latirms of the people of Turin. They breathed the feasibiliLy of starting the work there. This out a. sileut thailk8giving, and prayed that the city has n population of25,000. Being the cap- blessing of Heaven might ever rest upon tbeil' ital of the Stale, it is visited by many transient pleasant native laud. people. rrhis would make it a desirable field Their modest prayers have been fulfilled. for our work. The festiYal of their liberation was followed by I visited all. the leading hotels and lodging- . a wave of revolution that swept over all l'l}u-houses, to ttscertain if it would be agreeable-to rope. The Jesuits and the propaganda were have our distributors placed in their reading- banished from rrurin; France became suddenly rooms, and it was eyident that the Lord had a republic; the Pope 'was exiled from Rome, to sent his angels before me to prepare the way be restored ouly by the French armies to his for them. All treated me .with courtesy and ancient tyranny; and Italy was for a moment \Vere more than willing to gnmt the favors fl'ce. If for a time the cloud of war rested asked. We alreacly have three distributors in over the valleys, yet the victories of Napoleon use doing a good Work. borne. There seems to be an ear to bear, in thi::; place. We were granted the usc of the Methodist house of worship, and at all our publiu services we bad a good hearing. Could I ba'e remained to follow up the increnRing interest, I have no doubt but that others migbt have bee.n n.dded to this little company. The friends at this place have shown their love and desire to see the work carried forward in Sacramento, by their offori ngs, amounting to $~~0. I left this company, feeling that my VISit had not been in va,in, and that we were more strongly U11ited in the bonds of Christian love. ~lay 18 and 19 I spent a fev.7 miles east of Dixon, with a lonely family who love the truth aud who are doing all in their power to extend the message by mailing the SIGNS, and giving of their means. One other Sabbath-keeper is living near them, and they, with others, came together and we Leld two meetings with them. Here! sol done set of" 'restimonios;" Look orders for ton copies of the SIGNS, and an offering of ·20 to assist in the work in Sacramento. This, with tho amount above reported, and $2f5 from another source, will make $185 give11 Ly libeml hearts towards the work there, and 1 lwpu that otl1 et·s will feel it a privilege to SOlid i 11 their pledges and donations to tho State , 'eel'elary, An11a L. Ingels, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. VVM. INGS. North Pacific T. and M. Society. REPORT FOR QuARTER ENDING MARCH 3J, 1886. No. of members................................ 198 " reports retunwd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 98 members added. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 9 letters written. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 visits made. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 pp. of tracts and pamphlets distributed .. 26,385 " " givenaway ................. l5,G57 " " sold ........................ 7,315 periodicals distributed .................... 4,788 SIGNS taken in clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 new subscribers obtained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Recei,·ed on donation and membership .......... $ 31 26 " " sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 44 '' periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 93 " five thousand-dollar fund.......... 65 00 " educational fund ................. 17;) 00 " foreign missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 50 Total receipts .....•••...................... $818 13 MRS. C. L. BoYD, Sec'y. Pe1· W:r.r. PorrER. A Faith That Works. and the swift triumph of Garibaldi have given S;lcramento is a railroad center, and trains freedom to tho peninsula, and 8afety to the with their hundreds of passengers halt a suffi- Alpine church. rro-day Lucerna, Perouse, and cient time to place our publications in the hands San Martino shine forth in perpetual beauty. of such as desire to read on their long journey The torrents gleam through the sweet vales of East. Besides, there are hundreds of families Angrogna, and roar agninst the cliffs of Balsille. in the city that ought to be visited, some of In Pra del Tor, the citadel of the Vaudois has which have never board the warning note of become a cultured field, and the chestnut groves the Third Angel's Message. If two of our where Henry Arnaud and his. pions soldiers trained sisters could enter that promising field, celebrated their holy rites are still rich with good results would follow. And it doe8 Beem WHAT is demanded at the present time is a abundant fruit; the landscapes of Lucerna glow to me that the time has come for this to be f::1.ith that works. As a, people we are not do- with the soft products of the Italian clime; 'in done and the work followed up. The Lord has, ing wbat we ought to do. Our publications are the wilder valleys the avalanche leaps from the _by his providence, clearly opened the way. In the m-Jst efficient agents to spread the truth · snow-clad mountains, the chamois feeds on his order to accomplish this it will require an out-everywhere. Hence all may be eflhicnt. laboi·- icy pastures, the eagle screams around the lay of mcan8, and this will be another test to ers in the cause. All things bavo been made peaks of Gninevert. To-day the primitive prove us and see how much we love to see the ready, in the pr-ovidence of God, so that all Christians assom ble in peace in churches that truth advance. Sacrifices will have to be made may be laborers who will. All can do t>ome- were founded when Nero began his perseeu-cleat· through to the end. But our brethren thing in the work of spr·eading the truth atid tions, or when Constantine gave rest to the have learned how to give, and I am satisfied saving men. Do you realize it? Or do you tormented world. The Vaudois moderator that their noble hearts will be ready to give of think it is no use to try? Are you dis- gathers aroun_d him his humble p~tstors in their theil' means to extend this branch of the work couraged because your past efforts arc fruitless? d h ld f h M'ddl A · 1 · r~ 1 £' u bb h k Are .your friends and neighbors callous to all s::'tcred syno s, as t e e ers o t e 1 e . ges rn t 1at City. 1ere nre 10nr . .:Ja at - eepo~·s . . . " . ? assembled at Pra del 'ror. The sehools of the there who came together, wttb a few of then· yom. ende.av~Is to .do .th·e.m good • Ext?nd Vaudois, from which the Bible has never been ·friends, to Iiston to some of the evidences of your h 0~01.ts uO .~ '~Ide~ ~n cle. In due tnne excluded since the dawn of Ohl'istianity, flour-the ncar coming of our Saviour. I trust the you s a reap, 1 3 ou amt not. ish v,rith new vigor; their colleges no longer meotiug was profitable to all present. The ~IGN~ OF THE TIMES shou~d be. sent in hide in the caverns of Angrogna. Tho long May 14-16 I spent with the little company eYery dtroctwn. All can share m thts work. struggle of centuries bas ended, and the gentle of Sa.bb:tth-keepers in Pleasant Grove, Sutter Some can help p:.ty for them that cannot do people of the valleys have iound freedom to County, nnd found thorn rnaking advancement much .more. Others can. tal~e the labor of worship God. in di,·iuo life. 'l1hoy h:.tvo had no mi11i:-;terial scattering them and findmg mtorosted read- Thur-; tho moderator of the Alps has tri-help sinec I was with them OYOI' two years ago, ers, such as ma~r be benefited. And fl'eqL~ontly umpbod over the persecuting Pope of Rome, and Ll1cy \'ere glad to t·ecoiye help. 'l'here nre tho bow that IS ch:awn at a venture will hit and liberty of conscience reigns from tho val- tr.n mcmboi':3, and every one has faithfully paid tho mark,. though It may .not be tho made le}rR to the Sicilian Straits. Yet ouc dade scone ~he lJo1·tl's tenth, which accounts tor their spil'-that ~"~e aunocl at .. Well-dtrectod effort~ will of tyranny still remains-one blot on the fair iL11:tl prosperity. VVhile with them 1 held fh·e ~1ot f~J! .t0 nueomphsh good. Our labor Iti not renown of Italy. In the city of Rome tho meetings. Our meeting on SaLbrtt.h was of' m vam m tho Lord. J csuits and the Pope still rule.* Still they point nnn:-;u:d interest on acc·ount of the presence uf rrhon lot us press on and know no halting with menacing gest.ut·os lo tho po1ple of tho ath morn's service was over, And briskly I stepped down the stair; When close, in a half-illumed corner, Where the tall pulpit stairway came down, Asleep crouched a tender, wee maiden, With hair like a shadowy crown. Quite puzzled was I by the vision, But gently to wake her I spoke, When, at the first word, the small damsel With one little gasp straight a•voke. "What brought you here, fair little angel?" She answered with voice like a bell: "I tum, tos I've dot a sick mamma, And want 'oo to please prayer her well!" "Who told you!" began I; she stopped me: "Don't nobody told me at all; And papa can't see tos he's cryin', And, sides, sir, I isn~t so small; l's been here before with my mamma, We tummed when you ringed the big bell; And ev'ry time I's heard you prayin' For lots o' sick folks to dit well." Together we knelt on the stairway, As humbly I asked the Great Power To give back her health to the mother, And banish bereavement's dark hour. I finished the simple petition, And paused for a moment-and then, A sweet little voice at my elbow Lisped softly a gentle "Amen!" Hand in hand we turned our steps homeward, The little maid's tongue knew no rest; She prattled, and mimicked, and caroled- The shadow was gone from her breast; And lo !-when we reached the fair dwelling- The nest of my golden-haired waif- We found that the dearly loved mother Was past the dread crisis-and safe. They listened amazed at my story, And wept o'er their darling's strange quest, While the arms of the pale, loving mother Drew the brave little head to her breast; With eyes that were brimming and grateful They thanked me again and again- Yet I know in my heart that the blessing Was won by that gentle "Amen." -Gospel Exposito1·. Tom's Bible Verses. "I DON'T see the use of learning so many Bi- ble verses," said Tom. "Why," said his imaginative sister Amy, "suppose you were cast on a desert island with no Bible. Think how many verses and whole chapters you would have in your bead." "But I'm not going to be cast on a desert island," objected Tom. "I don't ever go sail- ing." "And suppose," continued Amy, "you were called to see some poor sick man, and be wanted you to say some versos to him ? " "I'm not ever called to see sick men," de- clared rrom. "I go to see sick boys sometimes, and they never fLsk for verses. They want to hear about base-bfLll, and w bat's going on at school." "Not if they were dying?" " If they were dying, I wouldn't be let in to see them anyhow," Raid rrom, triumphfLlltly. "What I want to know is what's the use of me, a boy, learning so many verses. I'm not going to be a minister.'' While Amy was trying to find another answer to Tom's question, Cousin Madge laid down her book and entered into the conversation. "I suppose you can say ever so many verses, Tom?" "Oh, heaps, whole chapters. The twelfth chapter of Romans and the fourteenth and fif- teenth of John, and the chapter on charity, lots ofcbap.ters in Proverbs, Pf'Hdms, heaps of 'em," said Tom, with a boastful air. "Do you see any use in it, Cousin Madge?" ' "I haven't seen the use of it yet," Madge. "But then 1 have been here said I should think you were a boy who bad never only beard of the twelfth chapter of Romans, which three days." Tom stared. "What difference does that make?" " Why I don't know you very well yet." "But what's that got do with my learning verses?" Cousin Madge smiled as she asked, "vVould you like me to tell you in a day or two'!" "I'd like you to tell me now," answered Tom, all athirst for knowledge. But his desires could not be satisfied just then, for Madge WfLS called away, and 'l'om was left to ponder the problem by himself. Cousin Madge was present the next morning before breakfast, when Tom rattled off his verses to grandma. After breakfast there arose a great disturbance in the yard vvuicb Consin Madge's window overlooked. Presently she Lapped on the window to Tom, who was in tho thick of the disturbance. Tom looked up at the window. "Tom, can you come up here a minute befol'e you go to school?" said Madge, pleasantly. It was full ten minntes before 'l'om found it con- venient to obey the summons, and then he clat- tered up-stairs more noisily than usual, which is saying much, and burst into his cousin's room and slammed the door after him with such force that two fans and a photograph were jarred off the mantelpiece. Tom's apology for his vi- olence was this:- you say you Lave learned." "So I have," affirmed 'Tom. "'Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one an- other,'" quoted Madge. "And there is a verse in the same chapter which says, 'Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath.' And yet l heard you say, 'I'll fix him, I k11ow a way to pay him up.' Barney, I suppose you meant." "Well," said Tom, dodging, as he thought, the main question, "that verse says, 'Dearly beloved,' and that don't mean me." "Doesn't it? Are you not one of Christ's dearly beloved?" "No, I'm not,': said Tom, hastily. "Do you mean that Christ does not love you?" · "I don't mean that," sfLid 'rom, slowly. "PerhfLps you mean that you do not love him." 'rom did not want to say that, so he said nothing. Presently be spoke with more confidence. "What I mean is that all those verses are for Christians, and I am not a Christian." ''Would you not have felt better yesterday if Amy had deferred her anger and passed over your tram;gression ? " " Yes, and I should have felt more sorry, too. But she made me so mad scolding me that I didn't care i( the old mice were lost." " Well, I don't care. thing I ever beard of." It's)ust the meanest "Perhaps Barney felt that way," said Cousin Madge, softly. "So it seems that people who are not Christians could practice some of these verses with good effect. But I don't see why you should not be a Christian, Tom, a boy who bas to learn so many Bible verses and wants a good reason for doing it. Reciting anything isn,'t always learning it. What would be the use of learning all the rules in the arithmetic if you could not do the examples under the rules?" " What is the meanest thing?" inquired Madge, innocently. " Why, that old Barney, that comes here to do chores. He went to fooling with my rab- bits, and he's let the very prettiest one, the white one, get away, and she's got out of the yard, and I bet l'll never see her agnin." "Is that the very meanest thing that ever happened?" asked Madge. "Yes, it is, to me," declared Tom. "And the meanest thing that ever happened to Amy h,appened yesterday when you lost two of her white mice," pursued Cousin Madge, calmly. Tom looked slightly confused. " Yes, but that was an accident. I told her I didn't mean to, and she ought to believe me.'' "Then Barney meant to lose your rabbit'?" "He said be didn't; but I don't believe him. He'd no business to meddle with them." "Did be give any reason for doing so?" " Yes, be said one of the slat_s in the hutch was loose, and be was trying to fix it; but I don't believe a word of it." Cousin Madge looked steadily .into the flushed face and said gently, " Why should Amy be- lieve Tom if Tom doesn't believe Barney?" "Well "_:_stammered Tom, reduced to his last argument. "What were your verses this morning?" asked Cousin Madge. 'rom looked surprised at this sudden change of subject, but hurriedly repeated: "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that rulcth his own spirit than he that tak- eth a city." "The discretion 'of a mfLn defer·- retb hi8 anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression." " What was the use of your learning those verses? " asked Madge. "I don't see," replied Tom, stubbornly. ''And yet, if grandma had known you were to be subjected to a severe temptation this morning, she could not have selected better verses for you.'' ''Temptation ! " said 'l'om, puzzled. "Yes, the temptation not to defer your anger, and not to pass over a transgression." "Is that the good of learning verses?" asked Tom, going at once to the point. "'l'bat is what I think," said Madge. "nut sometimes when l see you and Amy together, "Well, that remind~ me," said Tom, after a short pfLuse, "I must burry, or I shall be late to school." He went out and closed the door very softly behind him. Cousin Madge bad put a new thought into T·om's mind, and as he is a boy that is wont to keep a new thought and turn it over and consider it well, it may be that somet.bing will come of it. Something generaJly does come of Tom's tbougbts.-Maud Lincoln, in Watchman. The First Bells. IT 1s not generally known that the first mee~­ ing-bouse bells made in this. conn try were cast in the town of Abington, of which Rockland was formerly the eastern part. About 1769 a deserter from the British Army, named Galli- more, refLched the town in the course of his wanderings. He was a bell founder by trade, and was employed by Col. Aaron Robart in this business. 'l'be air furnace in which the bells were cast was in what is now South Ab- ington. rrhe first bell made was used at the old Congregational Church, which was located where Hatberly Hall now stands. The bell weighed nearly one thousand pounds, and wben it was being uast Mr. Hobart tossed fifty silver dollars into the melting mass to give tone to tho bell. After years of service the old bell cracked and was recast. Mr. Hobart also began the manufacture of cannon and cannon balls about the commence- ment of tho Revolutionary vVar, and was the first person in the country who introduced and conducted the business. Owing to lack of ex- perience and the practice of moulding in sand instead of clay, be wfLs unsuccessful at first, and sustained considerable loss. In the course of time, however. the business was better under- stood, fLnd be then carried it on largely fLnd profitfLbly. The cannon were cast hollow, :-u1d fLfterward bored to make the inner surface true fLnd smooth. Tiley are now cast solid.-Sel. • MAY 27, 1886. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. (131 3l7 "Old Fashioned." IT was only a word dropped from tho lips of ~ealth attd a young girl, as she looked after the figure of ==================== an old lady trotting briskly down the street; only a vvord a11d a laugh to the merry compan- ion at her Ride, but I couldn't forget it. I wanted to talk to t!Jose young girls, and all other young girls, upon the subjuct of old ladies, and old-f::u'lhioned ones in particular, and I take thi·s opportunity to do it. Yes, she was old-fashioned in her dress. That was evident. She was old-f'tu·>uioned in her mn,nner, or she wouldn't have smiled a greeting as she passed you, because of the love oE her d~ar old he~rt for all young people. Now, I hke old ladws when they keep their heart of youth. It is something they have put on when they were young, and never taken off, and, like the garments they wear, is very old- fashioned indeed. llike to find them out" to smi.le back at them greetings that will light up theu eyes and warm their hearts with smiling !emembrances of their young days. 011ly try It, and see what you will get in return for it. What warm hand-clasps, and what kind invita- tions to their own old-fashioned houses, where certain surpl'ises await you, if you go. rrhere are old-fashioned chairs that woo you to their comfortable depths; there is old-fashioned com- fort written everywhere, and, above all, there is tho dear old-fashioned hospitality, the like of wuiub can only be found in such houses and a mo~g such people. It has a wonderful power to w1~1 e.ven young people, again and again, to ba:-;k m 1ts warmth. Old-fashioned old people are like old china, somewhat rare, but rarely beautiful, and much to be prized when we find them. Don't miss the finding! Give a little of your own sweet- ness to win theirs; and if you are !ond of the b~autiful tre~sm:es that belong to tLe past, you will bo repatd m your new-found ones even mot·e richly than jn your old affections. ' Give them your confidence and win theirs. Watch the old face.s brighten, and the old hearts grow young a.gam, as they tell of their long past y~utb. B:It you " ill forget to do this; you will b~ so_ mterested, you will forget yotll':::;elf; you w1ll ltve over again,.witb all the old pleas- ures, the old treasures of old hearts spread ont for yout· yonng hearts to feast upon, and when you come back to your to-day, as you must, :and leave tbeit· old yesterdays to them to hear the old voi~es say: "Come again, girls'; I have had such a good time," I can imagine your own hearty response. 01?; it' to grow old is to grow sweet and gr~cwus, to keel~ fires, love-lit long years ago, bngbt and glow1ng-Lhough rains have fallen and ~nows of wintry wind have laid bare hopes ehenshed and deat·-I pray that I may grow old, that I may keep the smiles of love for such as love the smiles of t!Je old, and if this heart of grace shall have stamped itself upon the o~ter man, and left _there such impress as may ww me the love of the young as well as the old, then although the fashion of it be an old one, I should like to be old-fashioned.-Inte1·ior. Peculiarities of a 'l'ornado. A RESIDENT of Minnesota, who has seen sev- ~ral torr.Jadoes, s~ys that their most peculiar feature 1s the smgular suckiug movement. Buildings are sucked up into the clouds entire and soon come down in fragments. After tb~ great Rochester tornado, a farmer twelve miles ~·rom ~be t.ow.n found an uninjured marble-top 'able m b1s field. Another found a very large :--beep that had come from no one knew where ; d ha.d been deposited in his yard unhurt~ L be Mmnesota man further said that he bad :-;(~en a board into which wheat straws bad been d l'iven until they stuck throuO'h on the other Hide. Also, be saw a plank d~iven throuo·h a big tree, an,d a piece of pine moulding dl~Yen thl'ough a small butternut tree.-Sel. Who Pays the Bills? WHo pays the bills? Who feeds the drunk- nrd's hungry children? W bo provides for the drunkard's broken-hearted wife? vVho sup- ports the begga:dy tramps who, barving wasted their money in drink, wander about the coun- try'? Who repairs tho losses caused by the failure of intemperate merchants and reckleBs and half-intoxicated business men? 'Who makes good the damages caused by the blun- ders of drunken worh:men, and the hindrances of busine:-;s ~aused by sprees of intemperate em- ployes? Who pays for the railroad wrecks caLlSed ?Y drunken conductors nnd engineers? vVbo bmlds the asylums where crazy drunkards are kept? Who supports the idiotic children of drunken men? Who pays the attorneys and jul'ies and judges who try drunken criminals? Who pays the expenses of trials and commit- ments and executions occasioned by the crimes of drunken men? Who pays for the property destroyed and burned by drunken men? Who builds and supports al~bouses, which but tor drink might remain unoccupied? Who endures the sutferin~s and losses and brutality, which are due to the recklessness and insanity of drunken husbands and fatberR? Who pays for the i~questR held on drunkards found dead by the ways1de? Who pays for a pauper's cofli.n and for digging a drunkard'::; grave in the pot- ter's field, when the last glass bad been drunk? Who pftys the bills? The drunkard cannot, fo1: he has wasted his substance in his cup. Will the rumseller pay them? The fact is, you and I, and the sober and industrious LoilinO' portion of the community, must meet all thes~ bills. r:rhe drunken rowdy, wounded in the street fight, is cared for in the city hospital at our expense; the drunken beggar is fed from out· table; his hungry children come to our doors for bread; and we cannot refuse assist- ance to his suffering wife; and when at last, b:wing" wasted his subKtance in riotous living," he comes to the almbouse, the asylum the hospital, or the prison, honest, sober, temp'erate men pay the bills for supporting him there. There is no escaping it. We may protest, we may grumble at taxes, and filld fault with beg- gars, but. ultimately and inevitfl,bly we must foot the bllls.-.1.'\Tew .England E'vcmgetist. Necessity of Food for Students. THE notion that those who work only with their brains need less food than those who labor with their hands has been the cause of untold mischief. Students and literary men have often been the victims of a slow starvation from this ignora.nce of the fact that mental labor causes a greater waste of tissue than muscular. Accord- ing to careful estimates, three hours of bard study wear out the body more than a whole day at the anvil, or on the farm. "Without phosphorus no th.ough t," is a German saying, and the consnmpt1on of that essential inO'redi- ent of the brain increa:-;os in proportion to the amount of labor which the organ is required to perform. The wenr and tear of the brain are ea.si.ly measured by careful examination of the salts in liquid Becretions. The importance of the brain as a working organ is shown by the a.moun t of blood it receives, which is propor- twnntely greater than that of nny part of the body. One-fifth of the blood goes to tho brain, though its average weight is only one-fortieth the average weight of the body. This fact alone would be sufli.cient to prove that brain workers need more food and better food than mecbnnics and farm laborers.-Joun~al of Chem- ist-ry. "BuY the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom. and instruction, and understanding."-Solomon: Strong-Driuk 1\Iakes 'Veal{. STRONG drink is, in a sense, the weakest of all drinks in its fruits, and the most prodigal altlo of that which is not only the strength but the glory of man. lt enfeebles his body and burls the mind from tue loftiest and most brilliant eminence, aud lays it prostrate in the dust of inert imbecility or driveling idiocy. It squanders t!Je money, and leaves families in squalor and discomtort who would otherwise be well clothed and bappy. The landlord's pleas- ant greeting is hollowness itself, rendered even more hollow still by the mercenary inspiration which prompts it. We do not light the fire for the herring's comfort, but to roast him. "But, doctor, 1 must have some kind of a stim- ulant," cried an invalid, earneRtly. ,; I am weak and it strengthens me. I am cold and it warms me." "Precisely," came the old doctor's truthful answet·. "See here; this stick is eold," taking up a stick of wood .ti.·om the box beside the hearth and tossing it into the fire-" now it is warm. But is tho stick benefited?" The sick man watched the wood first send out little puffs of smoke and then burst into flame, and replied:- " Of course not; it is burning itself." "And ~:->O aro you when you warm yourself with alcohol. Yon are liLerally buming up the delicate tissues of your stomach and brain. Ev- ery time you a.!·e taking it to give you strength, J:Oll are becommg weak. And the stronger the ltquor, the weaker it mt kes the drinker."-Sel. A Brisk Woman. I ONCE knew a brisk woman who used to loosen her ~arpets in the last of February, so that she mtght take advantage of the first warm day, and whisk them out before the gaze of att astonished world. There was a tradition in her family that all carpets should be up, and stoves down, by the middle of March, and unless positively frozen up and snowed under, she fought it out on that line. S~e and her family are long since dead, as mtgh t be expected, sacrifiued not by cleanli- ness, but by a silly pride and an insane desire to be more "forehanded" than her neighbors. I have noticed that these women wb~ are so forehanded with their house-cleaning are apt to be forehanded in their deaths. They seem to fancy there is some merit in thus forcing the season, and they plunge into tho good work with all the enthusiasm of the ancient martyrs laying up coughs, and colds, instead of treasure~ in H0aven. So many women clean bouse ac- cording to tradition, instead of common sense. They learned in their youth that spring begins in March, and in March they· will clean house if they kill themselves and their families in the attempt. They pay no attention to good ndvice, nor do they heed the roar of the awful avalanche of dust, and dirt, and carpets, and stoves, and soot that they bring down on their devoted beads; on they rush, and down from the cold damp shades of their fireless, sunlest:~ parlors: comes the last faint echo of their cries.-Et,iz- ctbeth Cole, in Good Housekeeping. Results of Drinking. THE places of judicature I have lonO' held in this kingdom, ~i.~ve given me an oppo1~;nnity to observe the ongmal cause of most of the enor- mities that have been committed tor the space of nearly twenty years; and by due observation I have found that ii' the murders and man- slnugbters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issue and product of excessive drinking-of tavern and ale-house drinking.-Sir Matthew Hale Lora Chief Justice, England, about 1670. ' 318 [l'l rrHE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. VoL. 12, No. 20. Hermit. ABOU'l' half a century ago a young planter RELIGIOUS. -May 16, an attempt was made to burn the East St.. Louis approach to the St. Louis Railroad bridge. -The Canadian Pacific Rail way is making active preparaLiuns l'ur opening the line for traffic to Brit- ish Columbia. ""l1o lived among the mountains of North Caro- lina grew impatient of the quiet and solitude of his life, removed his family to a large sea- board city, and plunged into politics. For many years he was successful; then overwhelm- ing defeat came. He could not bear it coolly as did others of his party; be grew cynica.l, bitter, angry agninst man and. God. -Over a million pounds is still spent yearly in -The Grand Jury at St. Louis has found indicL- pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina. ments for conspiracy against fifty-nine of the late He declared bimRelf weary of fashion, ambi- tion, and the struggle and crowd of civilized life. He pined for tho solitude and calm of the mountains," the world forgetting, by the world forgot." ·He would go ami dwell npart; give himself up to the study of nature and to high C011templation. -"Speak well of the dead and the absent." Yes; but why should the living and th-::>se who are pres- ent with us form an exception to the rule? Why not observe the injunction of the apostle, and "speak evil of no man" ?-llfethodist Recm·der. -The Gh1·istian Union says: "At a Presbyterian communion service in Dakota, the sermon was pre:~ched by a man who, about twenty years ago, danced the seal ping dance where the city of Minne- apolis now stands; one of the brethren was connected with the massacre of Stillwater, and a ruling elder was a son of the warrior Little Crow.'' Taking with him one negro· servant, be bid himself in the recesses of the Black Mountains -In 1795, the Catholic Church in Kentucky con- sisted of one priest and 1,500 people. In 1884, there in North Carolina, where be occupied a cabin were two bishops, 193 priests, 653 churches and st.a- just large enough to bold his books and himself. tions, a Catholic population of 300,000, or one-eighth The first year he was interested in his studies; of that of the whole State; 57 colleges and acade- his books were like old friends \u2022vbom be bad mies and 100 free schools, which instruct 16,344 pu- not met for a long time. pils, and nine asylums and four hospitals for the or- But they finally palled on him. What need phaned and infirm members. he care fol.· the history, the philosophy, the -The Tennessee Baptist says: "Statistics show laws, of men whom he never would see again? that there are 381 ordained preachers in Tennessee At first he keenly felt the magnificence of the who are without pastorates, and the reason is that scenery, the sunsets, the stormR; but after a they are disqualified by the lack of education to be ac- ceptable to the churches. They have not by appli- year he began to understand Lbat there was no cation·and hard study of God's word and religious one to whom he could say they were magnifi- books improved themselves, and they cannot teach cent, and that there never would be any one. the churches. The preacher, young or old, who will After the second year be seldom turned to not study will soon go ashore." nature or to books; his chief interest in life -Prof. Austin Phelps, D. D., in an article in the lay in the next meal; be made a companion of Congregationalist, says: ''There has sometimes his stupid servant; his only hope was to catch been more joy at the parsonage and the vestry over a glimpse once in months of a passing hunter. one rich man who repented than over the oppor- His pride would not allow him to return to the tuuity to save the ninety and nine who did not re- world. He sank at last into a staLe of melan-pent." And then follows this truth: ''State churches cboly mania, and died, after six years of soli-commonly die of this moral pyaemia. History has not yet proved that, without reformatory awaken- tude, a prematurely old, imbecile man. Not ings from outside, and disciplinary dislodgments having strength to live in a crowd, he bad no within, a church of Christ welded to the State can strength to live alone. be saved from sinking into a Sybaritic civilization Hermits and anchorites were common in the in which the crumpled rose leaf takes all spirit out early days of civilization, when men believed of her for evangelistic enterprise." they could come closer to God and lend purer -The Golden Gate says: "While it is true that lives by separating themselves from the work Spiritualists, as a rule, place but little stress upon and relations of the world. Even at this dav the literal significance of religious holidays of any we are apt to think at times that if we could kind, save, perhaps, a general social interest in but live in solitude with nature, we could reach Christmas, there is nevertheless a significance at- h · h f h h d d · h · 1 taching to Easter Sunday that should commend it mg ts 0 t oug t an evotiOn to w lC 1 we to them as the day of days in all the year, not even cannot attain in the town. second to that set apart for commemoration as the But it is not the air which a man breathes advent of modern Spiritualism into the world." that makes him manly or devout or noble; it Straws show which way the wind blows. Such is the foundation on which be stands and bases statements as the above show that the greatest his thoughts and hopes and actions. deception of all time is fast increasing its power for If that ground beneath his feet be the truth deception by putting on the outward forms of relig- of G-od, he will dwell calm and apart as on a ion. And since the belief that there is no death is h h prevalent in most of the modern churches, and the mountain beig t, in t e very market-place; greater part of modern religion consists in the ob- but if the base of pis life be fashion or gluttony servance of forms, what difference will there be be- or the greed of money, to live among trees in- tween Spiritualism and profes:;ed Protestant denom- stead of houses, and sheep in place of men, inations, when the former shall have adopted the will not make him less harmful or less miser-forms of the latter? able.-Youth's Companion. -----...----- How TRUE it is that the love of money is a root of all evil! When it takes possession of the heart, there is scarcely any doubtful prac- tice to which it will not lead. The love of gain blinds men's minds so that they cannot see the tendency and inevitable result of their ques- tionable practices, until ruin suddenly over- takes them. But in cases in which men re- strain themAelves within the bounds of propri- ety, the love of money sometimes becomes a consuming passion, and their w bole souls arc absorbed in the pursuit of gain, to the neglect of the most important duties, and the enjoy- ment of the comforts of life. A heart fixed on earth will not aspire to Heaven. '' Ye cannot serve God and mammon."-Methodist Recorder. SECULAR. -Mount ~tna is in a state of eruption. -Doctor Dio Lewis died at his home in Yonkers, N.Y., May 21. -Fears are entertained of an uprising of Indians in Washington Territory. -May 21 a conflict occurred on the frontier be- tween Greek and Turkish troops. --May 17, the Royalists of Spain were made glad by the birth of an heir to the Spanish throne. -Sunday, May 15, five persons were arrested by the police in San Francisco for delivering socialistic harangues and for obstructing the streets. -The seizure of American fishing vessels by the Canadian authorities has stirred up considerable ill feeling in this country, especially in the New Eugland States. -An artesian well of six-inch bore, sunk 515 feet, Gon is merciful. He takes care of hiR own has a good flo.w of water secured on the barren mysteries. He gives to nothing more than it plaius south of Tucson, A. T. This is likely to work can bear, or more than shlltll be good.-Sel. a revolution in that locality. railroad strikers. -Jaehne, the ex-alderman recently convicted of bribery in connection with the Broad way Surface Railway, bas been sentenced to nine years and ten months in Sing Sing. -A bill has been reported by the House Commit- tee on Electoral Conn t, which provides for an amendment to the Constitution creating the office of second vice-president. -At Salt Lake City, May 15, Judge Zane denied two applications for naturalization papers because the :1pplicants declined to promise obedience to the laws against polygamy. -Seventy-five men employed on a canal at Mer- ced, Cal., struck, May 18, for higher wages. They were all paid off' and discharged, and the next day new men were employed. -Mrs. Pendleton, wife of Hon. George H. Pen.dle- ton, United States Minister to Germany. was thrown from her· carriage in Central Park, New York, May 20, and instantly killed. -A cyclone at Eagle Rock, Idaho, M-ay 19, demol- ished the Union Pacific round-house, and seriously injured several men employed in and around the building. A number of buildings were unroofed. -May 18, four children, the oldest twelve and the youngest four years of age, perished in a burning building near Akron, Ohio. l11 attempting to rescue them, their uncle received injuries which may prove fatal. -The chief of police of St. Louis has been in- structed to disperse all assemblages of Anarch- ists when resistance to the law is ad vocatecl, and arrest any and all violators of law who utter incen- diary speeches or incite to riot. -Two dynamite explosions occurred ~t Orange- ville, Ont., May 17. No lives were lost, but the office and residence of Police Magistrate Monroe were wrecked. The cause of the outrage was the strict enforcement of the temperance law. -May 17, another New England fishing schooner was seized by the Canadian authorities for alleged violation of the fishing laws. There is considerable excitement over the action of the Dominion Gov- ernment relative to vessels owned in this country. -Intense excitement still continues in England over the question of home rule for Ireland. It is thought that if Gladstone's measure is defeated he will dissolve Parliament and appeal to the people. The masses are thought to be favo ble to the measure. -May 17, a desperate fight took place in the streets of· Martinsville, Va., in which forty shots were fired. One man was killed, and at least three were fatally wounded. The parties engaged in the shooting were some of the leading business men of the town. -A little girl six years of age was killed and eaten by hogs near Thomasville, N.C., one day last week. The child was feeding the animals pieces of hrend when one of them bit her hand. The smell of blood infuriated the swine, and the little girl was at once attacked and devoured. -On the 15th inst., Captain Hatfield with a troop of cavalry surprised. a party of Apaches in southern Arizona, capturing all their stock and the camp outfit. The next day the Indians surprised Hat- field's command, killed two of his men, recaptured all their stock, and took all the Government horses. _,_May 20, the entire force of planing-mill bauds in St. Louis, Mo., went out on a strike, and twenty- two mills are idle. May 1, the men were gran ted. a reduction from ten to eight hours, but were refused a ten per cent. increase in wages, which they also demanded. The present strike is against a return to the ten-hour system. -In delivering his charge to the Grand Jury at Chicago, May 17, Judge Rogers said: "It is only your province to deal with crime which has been committed. The principles of law inculcate the doctrine that men who teach riot, who incite unlaw- ful gatherings to incendiary acts, are responsible for the effects of these .ran ti ngs. The red flag is a public menance. It is an emblem that no quarter will be given. The police have a right to suppress these people to prevent the commission of crime." lAY 27, 1886. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. [151 31.9 -A legislative committee is investigating alleged brutalities committed in Louisiana under the pres- ent convict rontract system. -Several Mormon mi"sionaries had a narrow es- cape from a mob of country people in Wnshington County, Penn., recently, who objected to their pros- elyting. -A dispatch hom Tombstone, A. T., under date of May 20, says: "The death roll of persons mur- dered by Apaehes within gunshot of Nogales, A. T., during the past four weeks has now reached forty- two. The boldness and size of the bands commit- ting the recent raid leave no doubt that they have been recruited from the discharged ::>Couts." -In Lyons, Fra11ce, May 9. a mob of glass-factory strikers sacked the house of an artisan who had resumed work, severelv beat the man and his wife, and threw their furniture into the Rhone. The mob then made an attack upon the factory, the owner of which kept up a continuous fire with shot-guns upon the rioters until they were forced to withdraw. Thirty were wounded. -April 12, the German gunboat Albatross ar- rived at Sydnry, Australia, and reported about a dozen engagements with natives of New Britain and New Ireland, in which at least forty-five na- tives were killed. Eight of the crew of the Alba- tross were wounded in the first engagement. The attack on the natives was made in punishment for the murder of w:1ite.traders. And thus the work of Christ.ianizing(r) the islands of the South Pacific goes bravely on. -At noon, May 17, the remaining property of the New Orleans Exposition was sold at sheriff sale. 'l'he property sold very lo'rv. The main building, which cost over $500,000, eon tai ns 10,000,000 feet of lumber, and hns :1cres of glass roofing, brought only $90,000. This is the largest building in the world, covering an area of 905xl,378 feet, or over 28 acres. The Government uuilclin~ brought $4,100, and sun- dries, $16,680. A junk dealer was the purchllser. The sale was on one year's credit at 5 per cent. in- terest. -William Weber, a Chicago Socialist, recently stated that on the evening of the bomb throwing in that city, there were twenty Socialists armed with bombs. The bomb throwers were selected by Jot. In speaking of it 'vVeher said: "I know that twenty men reeei vecl their uom bs. The meeting wns almost through Tuesday night when the police ordered the Anarchists to disperse, and it is presumed that the other nineteen men had started for home or were "njured by the discharge of the police revolvers, which immediately followed the throwing of the first bomb. The Anarchists are not subdued yet, and you need not be surprised if another outbreak comes."