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"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. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 3, 1886. 
NUMBER 21. 
ocge ~igns nf fQe [imes. 
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the tables of the law,-tbe ark which was to Is-
take place even down to the close of time. 
rael the symbol of the divine presence, and tbe And as we see the events which they have fore-
pledge of victory in battle. Idols could no~ told transpiring just as they pTedicted, we are 
stand before the RaCl'ed ark of God,-and death brought into closer sympathy with those men 
International Tract and Missionary Society. was the penalty of a rash, irreverent touch or of Gou, who spake as they were moved by the 
the glance of curiosity. 
Holy Ghost. 
(For terms, etc., see last page.} 
Entered at the Post-Office in Oakland. 
"YE'l' AL"WAYS REJOICING." 
THERE comes the clear, commanding word 
Across the current of the years, 
"Behold the Bridegroom, Christ your Lord ! " 
Is this a time for tears ? 
The ringing word calls out response 
From myriads, in the time so brief; 
Thousands who slept arouse at once, 
Is this a cause for grief? 
And eager hearts take up anew 
The precious things which we have hall 
In Christ, above all failure true; 
Come, let us all be glad ! 
And truths return, long left unknowll, 
Vistas of glory opening, 
Andrich realities full-grown;-
Shall we not rather sing? 
The gospel of God's grace is still 
Proclaimed; and many gladly hear 
And live; for God his house will fill; 
Sure, this is cause for cheer ! 
Meanwhile, the clearer glows the way 
As sides are taken. 
Ah, no doubt, 
/ We're moving toward the perfect day ! 
Lift up the heart and shout! 
And soon, in answer to all this, 
The longed-for One himself shall come ! 
We cannot grieve before such bliss, 
Not weep in sight of home. 
-Malachi Taylor, in Christian at Wo1·k. 
O})£n£ral 
~rticl£z. 
The Pern1anence of 1.'ruth. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
All throngh the pages of sacred history, 
As time rolls on, and new truths are revealed, 
where the dealings of God with his chosen peo-light is thrown on that which bas boon known 
ple are recorded, there are burning traces of from the beginning; we see new beauty and 
the great I AM. Never has he given to the force in the inspired word, and we study its 
sons of men more open manifestations of his sacred pages with a deeper and more absorbing 
power and glory than when be alone was ac-interest. 
We see the significance of the Jewish 
knowledged as Israel's ruler, and gave the law economy, and the cbarauter and purposes of 
to his people. Here was a scepter swayed by God are made manifest in his dealings with his 
no human band; and the stately goings forth chosen people. How grand was the arrange-
of Israel's invisible King were unspeakably mont of God to preserve the knowledge of him-
grand and awful. 
self, and of his law, which is the foundation of 
r:L'ruly this was a wonderful dispensation, and his government in Heaven and upon earth. 
those who speak derisively of the old Jewish Although darkness covered the earth; and gross 
law and the Dark Ages, should remember that darkness the people, the Lord would not leave 
they are treading on holy ground. 
While we himself without a witness. 
rejoice to-day that our Saviour has appeared on 
In the solemn service of the temple, the 
earth, and that the offering for sin typified in grand truths were typified which were to bo 
the ceremonial law bas become a reality, we revealed through successive generations. 
Tho 
are not excusable in harboring foelingR of disre-cloud of iueonse bore upward the prayer of the 
spect for that period when Christ himself was contr~te heart. The bleeding v~ctim on the 
the leader of his people. 
Those who do this altar of sacrifice testified of a Redeemer to 
may not know w bat they are doing; but tbey eome, and from the holy of holies the visible to-
arc showing themselves ignorant both of the~ ken of the divine presence shone forth. 
Thus 
Scriptures and of the power of God. 
They through age after age of idolatry and apoRtaRy, 
show that they need divine enlightenment, a the star of bope was kept shining in the dark-
more intelligent knowledge of God and his ened moral heavens, until the time came for the 
word. 
advent of tho promised Messiah. Now, Christ, 
The Christ typified in the rites and ceremo-the. true sacrifice, has shed his blood for the 
11 ios of the J evvisb law is the very same Christ remission of sins, and is presenting it before the 
that is revealed in the gospel. 'rhe clouds that Father in our behalf. 
But the increased light 
enshrouded his divine form have rolled back; that shines upon our pathway should not tempt 
the mists and shades have disappeared; and us to despise the beginning. ·.Every additional 
Jesus, the world's Redeemer, stands revealed. ray of light that we receive gives us a clearer 
He came just as the prophecies foretold that he and more distinct understanding of the plan of 
would come. In his life and death, type met redemption, which is the working out of the 
a11t·itype, and the rites and ceremonies of the divine will in the salvation of man. 
Jewish cllurch found their fulfillment. 
Heap-
God made man in his own image. 
He laid 
peared among men, not as the Messiah that tbe tho foundations of the earth, and dressed it in 
Jews expuctod,-a king coming in power and the garb of beauty; he created all the wonders 
glory to COI1qucr their enemies and to exalt of tLe land and the sea. And he requil'es man 
their favored nation, but as a man of sorrows to reverence his commandments, which were 
and acquainted with grief. He, the Majesty of spoken amid such displays of divine power and 
DuRING all the wanderings of the children of Heaven, condescended to be our friend, our majesty, and to obey them without questioning 
Israel in the wilderness, Jesus, who was equal counselor, our guide, our perfect pattern, as the feasibility or convenience of such obedience. 
with the Father, was their leader and guide. well aR our redeemer. "He was wounded for The example of Adam and Eve should be a suffi-
Enshrouded in a pillar of cloud by day and a our transgressions; be was bruised for our in-cient warning to us against any disobedience of 
pillar of fire by night, his presence was ever iquities. 
The chastisement of our peace was the divine law. Their sin in listening to the 
with them. 
There were symbols and shadowy upon him; and with his stripes we arc healed." specious temptations of the enemy, brought 
types pointing to a Saviour to come; there was 
God's work is the same in all time, although guilt and sorrow upon the world, and, had it 
alRo a present Saviour, who gave commandR di-there are different degrees of development, and not been for the goodlless and mercy of God, 
rectly to Moses for the children of Israel, and different manifestations of his power to meet would have plunged the race into hopeless 
who was set forth before them as the only the wants of' man in the different ages. 
Com-despair. 
channel of blessings. 
The sacrificial system meqcing with the fall, down through the patri-
Let none for a moment deceive themselves 
was designed to typify the Saviour, who was to archal and Jewish ages, even to the present with the thought tuat their sin will not bring 
become the perfect offering for sinful man. 
time, there has been a gradual unfolding of the its merited punishment. 
Their transgressions 
In the J ewisb age, all the revenJings of God purposes of God in the plan of redemption. ·will be visited with the rod: because they have 
to his people, everything relating to his wor-Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses under-bad the light, but have walked directly con-
ship, was closely connected with the sanctuary, I stood the gospel through Christ; they looked trary to it. 
God will not more lightly pass 
-with the tabemacle in the wilderness, and for the salvation of the race through man's over any violation of his law now than in the 
afterward with the temple. 
Here God was substitute and surety. 
'J'hese holy men of old. day when be pronounced judgment against 
worshiped; here the sacrificial offerings were held communion with the Saviour who was to Adam. 
The Saviour of the world raises his 
presented before him. Here was the breast-come to our world in human flesh; and some of voice in protest against those who regard the 
plate of tho high priest, set with precious them lal ked with Christ and heavenly angels law of God with carelessness and indifference. 
stones, from which messages from J ebovah face to face, as a man talks with his friend. 
Said he: " Whosoever therefore shall break one 
were received. 
Here, in the holy of holies, 
Through the sacred record, we may bold of these least commandments, and shall teach 
overshadowed by the wings of cherubim, dwelt converse with the patriarchs, and listen to Mo-men so, he shall be called the least in the king-
the perpetual token of the presence of the Holy ses as he legislates for· IGrael. 
We bear to the dom of Heaven; but whosoever shall do and 
One, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. warnings of the prophets as they look down teach them, the same shall be called rrreat in 
Here was the ark of the covenant, containing through the ages, and reveal scenes thaL are to the kingdo~ of Heaven." 
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It is the grossest presumpt10n for mortal man even to the. reRting-p.lac~ ~f the dead, ~twill be I n~t be dra~n to the ~kios by tho mighty powet· 
to venture upon a compromise with tho AI-charged vntb no ltl·o-gtvmg power for those of tho Lords nppuanng. 
mie;hty, in order to secure his own temporal who sleep out of Christ. 
As all these pieces of brass lie unmoved whore 
interests. 
"I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous 
\Vben the redeemed of God shall feel the they wore when the iron was mingled with 
God," is ~hundered from Sinai; and we mn,y thrill of divine life and rise in the beauty of them, so the livinO' and the dead who are out 
not disregard that voice because the words immortal glory," the rest of the dead lived not of Cbrist will rem~in u111novod though the liv-
were spoken more than three thousand years again until the thousand years were finished." ing and t.he dead in Chrit~t have riRCil from their 
ago, and were addressed to the lineal doseend-The Lord's triumphant shout, the voice oft.be very presence and have asuended to the pres-
ants of Abraham. 
rrh_e l1ord requires willing arcbangol, and the trump of God, do not arouse 1 once of the Lord. 
sacrifice. 
No pnrtial obedience, no divided in-
thorn from their deep, awful sleep. Though the 
Ol1, my beloved. boaren;, which destiny shall 
terest, is accepted by Him who declareR that earth is enswathod with millennia! glory, and be yours'? Shall it be that of the iron caught 
the iniquities of the fathers bhall be vifiited upon resounds vvit.h the triumphant shouts and songs up by and clinging to tho ma.p:not, or that of 
the children to the third and fourth gencrntion 
o~ ten thoutmnd times ten thousand ransomed 
th~ brass, posser:;t~ing no affinity for it? 
of them that bate him, and th:.Lt ho will ~how ones; though the voices of many whom they 
Shall it be tbnt of tLm-w who have boon lifted 
mercy unto thousands of them that love him loved and cherished in life ,ioin in those shouts up in_Lo newllor:;s of life by the attractive power 
and keep his commandments. 
and song!')-" the rest of· the dead lived not of divino Jove, and who joyfully groet the 1·c-
Tbere is nothing in the word of God to be again." 
They refnl-'cd to be awakened in life turning J_;ord as he comes to cln,im his own? 01· 
thrown aside; there is nothing in the plan of by the ealls and offers of the gospel of Christ, shall it be that of those who reject the invita-
redemption that is unimpol'lant m· that may be and now they cannot be awakened thongb the tion of the go8pel, and so remain "dead ill 
lightly disregarded. 
'l'ho Bible gi\u00b7os_ u:-; an ae-I.1ord himRclf draws ncar, and though all earth trespasses and sin," dead to the attractive power 
count of the dealing~-' of God with man from tho and heaven arc vocal with his praise. 
Ob, that of divi11e love, and dead to tho attractive power 
creation to the coming of the Son of man in tho awful tiloop out of Christ! What language can of the Lord's coming and glory? 
Which, oh 
clouds of heaven; it carries us oven farther in portl'ay the loss of those who have no part in 
vvhi,~h of these destinies shall be yours? Now 
the future, and opens before us the glories of "the first rostll-reet.ion "? ·what folly and mad-is the time to decide tbis question. 
"There is 
the city of God, and tho beauty and pod'ection ness to delibum!oly a,nd persistently go do;vn no work, nor device, nor knovvlcdgo, nor wis-
ofthe earth ma,de new, tho saints' ROCLU'e abode. to tho gravo, witl1ont any preparation for" the dom,.in the grave, whither thou goost." EccL 
But although the long line of events extends resurrection of life." 
Some of you who hear 9: 10. "B-ehold, I have sot before thee an open 
through so many centuries, and new and impol'-me to-day, some ~f yon who join with us in door, and no man can shut it." Hev. 3: 8. 
tant trnths are from t.imo to Lime developed, that those joyf'ul EaHLer services, are even now pur-But "when once the maslor of the house is 
which was tmtb in the beginning is the truth suing thnt path of folly and madness. Soon risen up, and b:Lth shut to the door," it will be 
ill. 
The incroatlod light of the present ci:Ly tho gnwe will l'laim you, and there your asheR too late to heed t.ho callt~ of divine wisdom and 
does not contradict ot· make of none effect tho will remain through all the period of millenninl love. 
"Bel1old, now is tho :wvupted time; be-
dimmer light of the pnst.. 
glory. A11d then to what a resurrection will hold, now is the day <;>f snlvation.''-F1·om a ser-
All tbe truths of revelation arc of value to us:. you be awakened! "Some to everlasting life, mon by Rev. E. S. Chapmcm, D. D. (Presbyte1·icm). 
and in contemplating things of eternal in Lerose; and some to shnrne and everlasting contempt." 
we shall gain trne perceptions of tho chal·ncter Which will be your lot, my dying fellow-m:m? 
of God. 
'l'he enltiva.tion of reverence for him 
'' Marvol not at this," SfLys the blessed Snviour, 
will affect tho daily life. 
The entire uharactor "for tho hoUL' 
it~ (:C)Ining, in the which all that 
will be elevated and transformed. 'l'ho soul are in tho graves shall hoar hit~ voice, nnd sha,ll 
will be brought into harmoilJ .with Heavoll. c:ome forth; Lhoy that have done good, unto tho 
The believer will bocon1e Christ-like, and will retllllTect.ion of life; and they that have done 
finally obtnin an abundant entrance. into tho · uvil. U11to 
I he rel3un·oction · of damnation." 
city of G-od. 
J ob;l 5: 28, 29. Or that day of glory mrty 
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burst upon you while pnrF;ning the palh of sin, 
Tile Two Resurrections. 
and the living in Ch 1·ist may be caught up hom 
your side to meet the Lonl in the air. 
(Concluded.) 
• Side by side you ma1y mingle wi!.h thorn in 
BuT in all this there is no reference to those the activities of li:fc; side by :-:;ide you may sit 
who are living or sleeping out of Chri:-;t. 
Wh~Lt with them in the social or family circle, or in 
is the_ destiny of such? 1'hey surely have no the house of God, but they will be taken and 
part in tb,is 
~lorious l'eSUtTection_ 
They :ll'e you will be loft. 
Lot me make this so plain 
not once moutioned as being raised or changed, and imprek:-;ive th;tt ·all tboso little ones will 
as will be the case with those who m:·e in Christ. underst.a,lld and be influenced by it. 
See these 
They at·c sharers in the common lot of mortals. clipl)ings of metal which I htwe placed upon 
"Death passed upon all men, for that all have this cardboard. Some are brass and some arc 
sinned." rrhey are t>harers also in the resurrec-iron. 
Let tho it·vn reprm;ent those who are in 
tion wrought by Christ. "For as in Adam all Christ, and tht~ brass those who are not. 
See 
die, even so in Christ shall all he made alive." bow they 
are promiscuously intermingled 
"But every man in hiR own order." 
The as are the saved and the un·saved of tho 
divine system and order whieh is RO beautifully uhildron of men, boLh in the activities of life 
described in the first epistle to the Thessalo-and ill the t~lumber of the grave. And now as 
nians, is moi·e fully expla.ined in the twentieth I pass 
thit~ magnet over these intermingled 
chapter of Revelation. 
While Paul is silent clippiilgs of mut.al, see how these pieces of iron 
respecting thoRo who sleep out of Christ, the leap up and adhere to it, while not one clipping 
revelator is not. 
After speaking of the glory of brass is moved in the least by its attmctive 
and authority of resurrection life, be says: po,•vm·_ "Caught up" and clinging to this 
"But the rest of the dead lived not again nutil ntt nwtivo mr.gnet is every parti'cle of Iron, but 
the thousand years were finished. 
rfhis is the Unln<n·ed is every particle Of braSS. 
rl'be a,p-
first resurrection. Blessed and holv is be that proa.d1 of tLo magnet seems to awaken the 
hath nart in the first resurrection; On sueb the pieces Of iron into reSUl'l'Oetion life, :"l.lld they 
second death hn.th no power, but they shall be rise up from their resting-plnces and eling to 
priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign the magnet as witl1 the gmsp of joyful affud.iou. 
with him a thousand years." 
Is it possible for 
Tho same God by ·whose mysteriout~ law this 
language to speak with greater clearness? wonderful result is secured, solemnly assures us 
"The dead in Christ shall rise first,"" but the that when the Lord JeRlls shall descend from 
rest of the dead lived not again u11til the thou-
heaven, the scattered ashes of all who sleep in 
sand years were finished." 
Side b-.side they 
1 hilT). shall feel the impulse of his attractive power, 
were buried, and side by side their a:-:;l1es repot~o and be thrilled by the life of his own Spirit, 
in the city of the dead. Hnsb:tJldi') and wives, and rise to his presence in the strength and 
sons and daughters, friends a11d enemies. Here beauty and glory of his own divine nature and 
they have been gathered for their long repose. perfections. And all who arc alive, and "love 
A common dissolution claims them all, a com-his appearing," will" be changed, in a moment, 
mon sod covers their graves. 
rl'hey are all in the twinkling of an e.re" and "caught up 
alike undisturbed by the solemn tramp of the together with them in the clouds, to meet the 
multitude or the voice of mirth above them. Lord in the air." But as tho brass yields not 
Itching· Ears. 
rl'IIE following insta,nce rclntocJ by the lfe?'Ctld 
and p1·esbyte1· is n.n cxeollont. comment npon 2 
rl'im. 4:3, and shows that religiouH Leauhcrs 
are too often jnst wba,t the people require them 
to be. 
'1'11oy demand of their miniNtors that 
tLoy speak smooth thing~:\ n11d prophu::;y de-
cei tH, n.ml then they aceopt those utterances as 
tho word of God:-
"Some years ago a min_ister was invited to 
the pr~storate of a city church. 
He was tal-
ented. 
He began by preaching the old, old 
goNpol with all -tho eloquence tbat was in bim. 
But the crowds that be hoped to attract did 
not come. He fouud in the popular literature 
of the day new theories of escLato!ogy-sugges-
tiom; as to a possible probation after death. He 
thought: 'Well, now there may be something 
in those theories, and at any rate they will 
please not a few of the nicest people in my con-
gregation who think that hell is too harsh a word 
f\.1r ears po!ito.' 
"So he quit pro:whing about future punish-
ment, and throw bea.utifnl rainbows of spocnla-
tion over the dark cloudR that overshadow the 
grave. At once he became popular. 
'l'he daily 
papers sent reporters to take down his sermons. 
His church was crowded. 
His name was 
trumpeted all over the land. 
Tb us Rnddonly 
finding himself famous; be rejoiced, for now his 
sphere of usefulness was onlnrgccl, nnd he de-
t.~rmined to fill it with faithful work. 
But be 
soou found that popularity is a relentless tyrant. 
It demanded weekly new coucossions, and more 
Rtartli11g novelties. 
rl'o bold bis congregations 
he was compelled to keep on tickling their iteh-
illg ears, and the result is that he has madu 
shipwreck of the faith." 
GoD liveth ever! 
Wherefore, soul, despair thou never. 
Our God is good; in every place 
His love is known, his help is found; 
His mighty arm and tender grace 
Bring good from ills that hem us round. 
Easier than we think can he 
Turn to joy our agony. 
Soul, remember 'mid thy pains 
God o'er all forever reigns! 
-Zihn. 
:But oh, bow unlike arB thei1· destinies! When to tho attractive power of thiR magnet, so tho 
"I THE Lord speak righteousness, I declare 
tho glo.ry of the Lord.'::; comiug sh~ll penetrate u_nregenerate, whether sleeping or awake, will things tha.t are right." 
lsa. 45: 19. 
JUNE 3, 1886. 
·THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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Scriptures WlJich Forbid" Onr Thought.H 
IN reply to a question asked by a correspond-
ent some time since, the Sunday School Times 
said:--
"As we read in the 8criptures, we find in 
them no distinct declaration that the blessed 
dead are fully cognizant of the doings of tboir 
dear ones on earth, or that they have any part 
in a watchful ministry over those dear ones; 
neither do we find any declaration there which 
forbids our thought that such a state of things 
exists." 
With the first part of this statement I am in 
full accord; and not only so, but I can go f'urtbor 
and say that tbore is no text of scripture, which, 
fairly interpreted, even implies ·"that tbe 
blessed dead are fully" or at all "cognizant of 
the doings of tbeit· den.r ones on earth," or in-
deed tha-t they are "cognizant" of anything 
either in Heaven or on the earth.· But the 
words, "Neither do we find any declaration 
there wbi.eh 
fm,bidt~ our thought that such a 
state of things exist.~," causes me to wonder if 
the editor of the Ti,mes ever read the Bible. 
If so be muRt have quite forgotten such texts 
aR Job 14: 21, where, speaking of man in death, 
the patriarch says: "HiR sons come to honor,· 
and he knoweth it not; and they are brought 
low, but he perc·eivoth it not of them." 
Here is ce1·tainly one ;, declaration" "which 
forbids our thought" that the dead are "cog-
nizant" of things which are taking place upon 
the earth. And tbnt Job did not give utterance 
to this sentiment in the bitterness of unbelief is 
evident frorr1 versos 13-15, and also from chap-
ter 19: 23-27. 
These scriptures show plainly 
that he of whom the Lord said: "And that man 
wn,R perfeet and upright, and one that feared 
God, and eschewed evil," had no hope but in 
the resurection of the-dead, when his Redeemer 
"shall stand at the latter day upon the onrth." 
And, Rtrange as it may seem to many, the apos-
tle Panl, too, believed just as Job did; for he 
said that if the dead rise not "then they also 
.. which are faJlen asleep in Christ are perished." 1 
Cor. 15: 16-18. But this cannot be, if bv death 
they h:tvo simply been transfenod to auhigher 
and holier state of existence. The resutTOC-
tion can add nothing to a being who is already 
glol'ified-one who has already beeome "as the 
angelR which are in Heaven" (.M.:ark 12: 25); 
and this is one of the texts which the Sundav 
School 'i''imes quotes, coupling it with Hob. 1 : 
14, to prove that dead people minister in sacred 
things to their living friends! 
Wbnt, if any 
difference, is thoro between such views and the 
sonl-dcBLroying doctrines of SpiritualiBm? 
J3ut Job ttnd Paul were not tho only holy men 
of old whom God inspil'ed to speak concerning 
the condition of man in death; tho psalmist 
exclaims: "Put not your trnst in princes, nor in 
the son of mn.n, in whom there iR no help. 
Hi~ 
breath gooth fuetb, he returnotb to his earth; 
in thn.t ve1:y day his thoughts perish." 
1~. 146: 
3, 4. 
David evidently did not believe in the con-
scious Rtate of tho do:td; much lcRs did he think 
that they had any part in the affn,irs of the li\T-
ing; and it would seem that he so taught his 
children, for his son Solomon said:-
:' For to him that is joined to all the living 
there is hope; for a living dog is bettor than a 
den.d lion. Fot: the living know that they shall 
die; but the dead kno'lv not anything, neither 
have they any more :1 reward; for the memory 
of them is forgotten. Also their love, and t:hoir 
hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither 
have they any more a portion forever in any-
thing that is dono nnder the sun." Ecel. 9: 4-6. 
This is another" distinct declaration that the 
blessed dead" (for it includes nll the dead) are 
not "cognizant of the doings of their dear one::; 
on earth;" and it ought to be allowed to sot tho 
whole question at rest; eRpeci.ally with the Stm-
cln:IJ School Times, since, after offol'ing, proRtlm-
ably, the best a.rgumcnts which he could in sup-
port of his view, the editor candidly admits 
"that none of these things [the a1·guments 
which he bas urged] are conclusive on the one 
side; but," he adds, "it is equally true that 
they are by no means to be construed on the 
other side." That is indeed a novei idea: that 
because arguments offered to provo one thing 
do not prove the opposite, therefore they do 
p1·ove the proposition on whose behalf th.ey are 
urged! 
However," as we read the Scriptures, we find 
in them" other "distinct declarations that the 
blessed dead are" not" fully" nor at all "cogni-
zant of 1 be doings of their dear ones on earth;" 
bnt, in view of the confession justreferred to, it is 
scarcely necessary to pursue the subject further. 
Such confessedly weak argnments can weigh 
nothing against" the law and the testimony;" 
and when "they speak not according to this 
word, it is because there is no light in them:" 
C. P. BoLLMAN. 
Separation frmn Siun.ers. 
ONE of the conditions on which God bas prom-
ised to receive us and recognize us as his chil-
dl'on, is that we come out from the world and 
bo separa~e from sinners. 
'rhis is not an arbi-
trary requirement, but a condition founded in 
the nature of things. Persons in their social 
intercourse nn.turally influence each other; and 
the influence which they exert is similar to the 
character which they posseRs. A good man will 
naturally and necessarily influence those with 
whom he intimately associates, to be good, 
while a wicked man will necessarily influence 
others to be bad. David was deeply impressed 
with this truth, and declared," Depart from me, 
ye evil doers, for I will keep the commandments 
of my God." 
The implication here is very clear 
that in order to obey God we must break off 
our associations with evil doers-wicked, un, 
godly persons, who transgress the divine law. 
One of the most fruitful soui·ces ot' backsliding 
and spiritual 
declension, especially among 
young converts, is unnecessary association with 
the ungodly. If any man will keep the com-
mandments of God, and lead a lifo of rue obe-
dience and piety, be must come out from the 
ungodly, separate himself from sinners, and 
partake not of their evil deeds. 
A person who 
will not do this in the true sense in which the 
requirement is made, cannot reasonably hope 
lo le~Ld a Chl'istian life. 
But by this separation from the ungodly we 
the purpose of instructing, reforming, and sav-
ing them. 
This kind of association, instead of 
being prohibited, is enjoined as a duty. 
Christ 
bas enforced it by his own example. He min-
gled with publicans and sinners, both publicly 
and in social life, that be might instruct and 
save them. 
And Cnristians are justified in go-
ing anywhere, and mingling with any class of 
society, in his name, and in his Spirit, and in 
imitation of his example, to do good to the souls 
and bodies of men. In this way there 1s noth-
ing improper in our associating with evil doers, 
because we do not enter into sympathy with 
their sins, but faithfully e11deavor to save them 
from their evil courses. 
But we must not unnecessarily, and from 
choice, make evil doers, ungodiy, wicked per-
sons our companions, and seek pleasure from 
their society and partake of their Rpirit. It 
matters not how intelligent, refined, ftnd agree-
able in many 'respects they may be, there is an 
insidious, spir'tual poi<3otl in their influence, the 
natural tendency of which is to corrupt and 
destroy. "Evil communications "-evil associ-
ations-in their very nature tend to "corrupt 
good manners." 
'i'his is universally true. "He 
that walketb vvith wise men," we are told, be-
cause of their example, and the influence which 
they exorcise over him, "shall be \Vise;" but 
"a con1panion of fools," because of the influence 
they exert over him, shall become like them, 
and "sball be deRtroved." If a mn.n would 
obey God, lead a pious" life, and save biR soul, be 
mnst break away from lbo companionship of 
the ungodly, and abandon their evil ways. 
H~ 
must assoe;iate with those of similar spirit with 
himself, and become a companion of all them 
that fear God. 
Beware, then, of the society of the ungodly. 
If you are a young convert, we especially 
warn you against it. 'l,heir influence is cor-
rupting, and their example is caleulated to lead 
you astray. If you would obey God, and lead 
a consistent, upright, Christian life, you must 
not walk in tho counsel ofthenngodly, norst_and 
in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the 
scornful. 
Avoid, so far as possible, every evil 
influence which is cnluulated to abate your 
zeal ai1d turn your feet aside from the path of 
duty. 
Beware that you tread not on clangor-
ous ground, and in an unsuspecting moment be 
overcome.-Methodist Reco1·der. 
How It Is Doue. 
are not to understand the abandonment of all 
I REMEMBER a man who bad been a Christian 
a.ssociation with them in the transaction of the for two yenrs, but he was bemoaning his hard 
lavvfnl business of this life, or the necessary in-and sinful heart. 
I said to bim one day, "Did 
tcrcourse which tbe social relations ihn.tu vve you ever know a sinner who had not a han.l 
sustain to thorn properly involve. 
While vve heart?" 
are in the world, and connected with the 
"No;" he said, "but mine is gettin~g no bot-
businesR of the world, we must necessarily as-
ter." 
socia.te to some extent wit.h all clasRes of men, 
I arose and closed all the shutters, and made 
with whom we are brought in contact in the the room quite dark. 
transaction of our lawful business. To a.·void 
"vVhy do you do that?" ho asked .. 
this kind of association, as the r~postle says, we 
"1 want to teach you bow to drive away tho 
"must needs go out of the world." But even in darkness," I said; so I handed bim a long broom 
this respect, when there is a choice presented, and a d us tor. "Now, swoop OLlt the darkness." 
we should prefer assoc.;iation with the godly. 
"I can't," be said. 
Then, sometimes, intimate contact with the un-
"Can't yon if you try very bard'? 
Will no 
godly necessarily arises from the soc.;ialrelations amonnt of physical force do it?" 
which we suHtain to tbem,whic.;h cannot lawfully 
"Certainly not,'' he Shiel. 
be dissolved, and wbicb render Rue;h assoe;ia-
Then I opened the shutters, and tho room 
tion unavoidable. The believing wife must not vvas beautifully illuminated. "So you see that, 
forsake her ~mbolieving husband, nor the be-if yon want the darknC;SS and dl'eadings of 
lioving husband abnndon his uJJbolieving wife. your heart to be dispelled, it is not by any 
Believing p:trents must not cast off their unbe-amount of effort· of your own, but by lotting in 
lioving children, nor believing children forsake the light of the Sun of Righteousness.. But 
tbeir unbelieving parents. These are neces-now that we have such a beautiful light in the 
sary relations which •ve are not required to room, we may close the shutters again; we shall 
break off. 
God docs not intend in converting want no more, I suppose, for a month," I said. 
men to disrupt society and destroy relations 
"vVhat do you mean?" 
based upon his own ordinances. Such associa-
"I mean that we are not to expect to have a 
tion is lawful, and God's grace will be sufficient stock of grace laid up, on which we may draw; 
to preserve us while maintaining it. 
but that, if we would continue in the light, we 
.Nor arc we required to a.bandon. a~soci.ati?n J n~ust h:oep looki1.1g up to the Sun, and receiving 
w1th the ungodly, when such assomatwn IS for h1s blessed rays wt.o _our souls."-Sel. 
324 [4] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 21. 
The Franks. 
OF the nations that established themselves 
upon the ruins of the Western Empire: the next 
one in order is the kingdom of the FRANKs, 
whose course wo will now trace. 
"Af~ the posterity of the Franks compose one 
of tl1e greatest and most enlightened nations 
of Europe, the powers of learning and ingenu-
ity have been exhausted in the discovery of 
th'eir unlettered ancestors. 
To the tales of 
credulity have succeeded the systems of fancy. 
Bvery passage hns been sifted, every spot bas 
been surveyed, that might possibly reveal some 
fnint traces of th.eir origin. It has been sup-
posed that Pannonia, that Gaul, that the 
nm·them prtrts of Germany, gave birth to that 
celebrated colony of warriors. At length the 
most rational critics, rejecting the fictitious 
cmignttions of ideal conquerors, have acqui-
ef'eed in a sentiment whose simplicity persuades 
us of its truLh. 
They suppose that nbout the 
year [A. D.] 240, a new confederacy was formed 
under the name of Franks, by the old inhabit-
ants of the l;ower Rhine and the W eser. The 
present circle of Westphalia, the Landgraviate 
of Hesse, ai1d the duchies of Brunswick and 
lJUneburg, were the ancient seat of the Chauci, 
who, in their innccessible morasses, defied the 
Roman ru·mR; of the Oborusci, proud of the 
' fame of Arminius; of the Cntti, formidable by 
their firm and intrepid infm1try; and of several 
otbot· t1·ibes of inferior power and renown. 
,, rrhe love of liberty was the ruling passion 
of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their 
best treasure; the word that expressed that 
enjoyment, tho most pleasing to thei_r ear. 
'rhey deserved, they assumed, they maintained 
the honorable epithet of Franks, or :B.,reemen; 
w bich concenlcd, though it, did not extinguish, 
tho peculiar names of the several States of the 
confederacy. 
rrucit consent and mutual ad-
vantage dicta Led the first Ia ws of tbe union; 
it was gradually cemented by hnbit and experi-
ence. 'l'bo leagne of the Franks may admit of 
some comparison with the Helvotic [Swiss] 
body; in which every canton, retnining its in-
dependent sovereignty, consults with its breth-
ren in the common cause, without acknowledg-
ing the authority of any supreme bead, or 
representative nssembly. But the JH'inciple of 
the two con fodoracies w·as extremely different. 
A peace of two hundred years has rewarded 
the wise and honest policy of the f::;wiss. An 
inconstant spirit, the thirst of rapine, and a 
diRregarcl to the most solemn treaties, disgraced 
the character of the Franks." · 
''The Rhino, though dignified with the title 
of safeguard of the provinces, was an imperfect 
barrier agaiml.t the daring spirit of enterprise 
with which the Franks were actuated. Their 
rapid devastations stretched from the river to 
the foot of the Pyrenees; nor were they 
slopped by those mountains. Spain, which bad 
never dreaded, was unable to resist, the inroads 
of the Germans. During twelve years [A. D. 
256-268] the greatest part of the reign of 
GallionuR, that opulent country was the Lhoater 
of unequal and destructive hostilities. Tarra-
gona, the flourishing capital of a peaceful 
province, was sacked and almost destroyed; and 
so late as the clays of Orosi us, who wrote in the 
fifth century [cir·. A. D. 415], wretched cottages, 
scattered' amidst the ruins of magnificent cities, 
still rec.:ordecl the rage of the barbarians. 
When the exhausted country no longer sup-
plied a variety of plunder, the Franks seized 
on some vessels in the ports of Spain, and 
transported themselves into Mauritania. The 
distant province was astonished with the fury 
of these barbarians, who seemed to fall from a 
new world, as their name, manners, and com-
plexion, were equally unknown on the coast of 
Africa."-Dec. and ll'all, chap. 10, pctr. 22, 24. 
In July, A. D. 276: Probus became Emperor 
of Rome, and reigned to August, 282. He drove 
back and severely chastised the Franks, and 
other German tribes who had wandered into 
Gaul "in qnest of booty." 
"Tho most important service which Probus 
rendered to the republic, was [A. D. 277] the de-
liverance of Gaul, and the recovery of seventy 
flourishing cities oppressed by the barbarians 
of Germany: who, since the death of Aurelian 
[January, A. D. 275], bad ravaged that great 
province with impunity. 
Among the various 
multitude of those fierce invaders, we may 
distinguish, with some degree of clearness, 
three great arm ios, or rather nations, success-
ively vnnquisbed by the valor of Probus. He 
drove back the Franks into thmr morasses; a 
descriptive circumstance from whence we may 
infer that the confederacy known by the manly 
appellation of Free, already occupied the llat 
maritime country, interfl.ected and almost. over-
flown by the stagnating waters of the Rhine, 
and that several tribes of tbe l"i'risians and the 
Batavians had acceded to their alliance. 
"Among the useful conditions of peace im-
posed by Proj;)nf3 on the vanquished nations of 
Germariy, was the obligation of supplying the 
Roman army with sixteen thousand recruits, 
the bravest and most robust of their youth. 
'l'he emperor dispersed them through all the 
provinces, and distributed this dangerous re-
enforcement,· in small bands of fifty or sixty 
each, amo11g the national troops, judiciously 
observing that the aiel which the republic de-
rived from the barbal'ians should be felt but not 
seen. . . 'l'be wisdom of Probus embraced a 
great and beneficial plan of replenishing tbe 
exhausted frontiers, by new colonies of captive 
or fugitive barbarians, on whom he bestowed 
lauds, cattle, instruments of husbandry, and 
every encoUL·agement that might engage them · 
to educate a race of soldiers for the service of 
the republic. . . But the expectations of Pro-
bus were too often disappointed. The impatience 
and idleness of the barbarians could ill brook 
the slow labors of agriculture.· Their uncon-
querable love of freedom, rising against despot-
ism, provoked them into hasty rebellions, alike 
fata,l to themselves and to the provinces; nor 
conlcl these artificial supplies, however repeated 
by succeading emperors, restore the importamt 
limit of Gaul and Illyrioum to its ancioi;J.t and 
native vigor. 
''Of all the barbarians who abandoned their 
new settlements and disturbed the public tran-
quillity, a very small number returned to their 
own country. 
b.,or a short season they might 
wander in arms through the empire; but in the 
end they were surely destroyed by the power 
of a warlike emperor. The successful rashness 
of a party of Franks was attended, however, 
with such memorable consequences that it 
ought not to be passed nnnotired. 1'boy had 
been established, by Probus, on the sea-coast 
of Pontus, with a view of strengthening the 
frontier against the inroads of the Alani. A 
fleet stationed in one of the harbors oftbe Euxine 
[Black Sea] fell into the hands of the Franks; 
and they resolved, through unknown seas, to 
explore their way from the mouth of the Pbasis 
to that of the Rhine. They easily escaped 
through the Bospborus and the Hellespont, 
and cruising along the )1ecliterranean, indulged 
their appetite for revenge and plunder by fre-
quent descents on the unsuspecting shores of 
Asia, Greece, and Africa. 
The opulent city of 
Syracuse, i·n whose port the navies of Athens 
and Carthage had formerly been sunk, was 
sacked by a handful of barbarians, who massa-
cred the greatest part of the trembling in habit-
ants. 
From the Island of Sicily, the Franks 
proceeded to the columns of Hercules, trusted 
themselves to the ocean, coasted ronnel Spain 
and Gaul, and, steering their triumphant course 
through the B1·itisb Channel, at length finished 
their surprising voyage, by landing in safety 
on the Batavian or Frisian shores. The exam-
ple of their success, instructing their country-
men to conceive the advantages and to despise 
the dangers of the sea, pointed ou,t to their 
enterprising Rpirit a new road to wealth and 
glory."-Id., chap. 12, pa1·. 18, 21, 22. 
After this we find no important movement 
of the Franks, till the time of Constantins, the 
son of Constantine. At tho doaLh of Constan-
tine, March 22, A. D. 327, tbe empire fell to his 
throe sons-ConstanLino, Oonstans, and Oon-
stantius-ancl was partitioned n,ccordingly. But 
"three years had Rcarcely eln.pscd before the 
sons of Consta11tine seemed impatient to con-
vince mankind that they were incapable of 
contenting themselves with the dominions 
which they were unqualified to govern." 
Con-
stantine invaded the dominions of Uonstans, 
was clraYvn into an ambuscade, where, wiLb a 
few attendants, he was surprised, surrounded, 
and slain, Murch, A. D. 340. Oonstans survived 
him nearly ten years, when be was murdered, 
February, A. D. 350, by the command of Mag-
nentius, an ambitious soldier, who had usurped 
the purple. This left Magnentius and Constan-
tius to dispute the sole reign of the empire. The 
dispute was soon brought to a close, however, 
at the battle of Mnt·sa (.Essek) on the River 
Drave. .Magnentius was defeated, and'' throw-
ing away the imperial ornaments, escaped with 
~orne difficulty from the pursuit of the light-
horse, who incessantly followed his rapid flight 
from the banks of the Drave to the foot of the 
J uJian Alps. He, however, mar) aged to escape 
into Gaul, where he gathered together some 
forces, but was defeated the second time, and, 
to escape being given up to Constnntius be 
killed himself by falling on his sword, Aug. 10, 
A. D. 353, leaving ConsLan tius in nndiRpnted 
possession of the empire. See Gibbon, chap. 18. 
J. 
(Concluded next week.) 
"As He Walked." 
A CHRISTIAN is a follower of Christ, that is, 
one who lives according to the precept and ex-
ample of Christ. 
Says the apostle John: "He 
that saith be abicleth i11 him [Cbrist] ought him-
self also so to walk, even as he [Christ] walked." 
1 John 2 : 6. 
rrben how did Cbrist walk? 
He 
says: "I have kept my Father's commnllcl-
ments, and abide in his love." And of him the 
psalmist wrote: "Then said I [Christ], .fJo, I 
come: in the volunte of the book it is written 
of m~, I delight to do thy will, 0 my God; yea, 
thy law is within my heart." Ps. 40:7, 8; cf. 
Heb. 10: 7-10. 
Christ bad the law in his heart, and if we 
have a part in tho new covenrmt we shall bave 
the law wriLLen in our hearts. "Behold, the 
days come, saith Lbc Lord, that 1 wiil make a 
new covenant. 
Tbis shall be the cove-
nant that I wiil make: 
After those 
clays, saitb the Lord, I will pnt my law in their 
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and 
will be their God, and they shall be my people." 
Jer. 31: 33. And then when the work of writ-
ing the" law in our hearts is fully accomplished, 
we shall be like Cbrist. Says the apostle:-
" Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and 
it doth not yet at",pear what we shall be; Lut 
we know that, when be shall appear, we shall 
be like him; for we shall see him as be is. 
And 
every man tba t bath this hope in him purifi.eth 
himself, even as be is pure. 
Whosoever com-
mittetb sin transgressetb also the law; for sin 
is the transgression of the law .. And ye know 
that he was manifested to take away our sins; 
and in him is no sin." 
1 John 3: 2-5. 
Tr'uly we may say with Pan!: "Wherefore 
the law is holy, and the commandment holy, 
and just, and good." 
Rom. 7 : 12. 
To READ the inspiring and elevating thoughts 
of the great and good, and make them our own 
for tho moment, is well, but, if it so be that our 
virtue and common sense shall heartily indorse 
them, will it not pay to give them our careful 
consideration, until they shall become our doep 
and genuine feeling?~Sel. 
JUNE 3, 1886. 
TI~E SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[ 6] 3"),!"" 
......o 
The Seventh Day Well Iinown. 
THE following, 'vhich we copy from the Sab-
bath J.l!ernm·ial, was written by Edward Elwall, 
in 1738. It is an extract from "An Answer to 
the Dissertation of my beloved Brother, Thomas 
Chubb, concerning the Time for keeping a Sab-
bath." 
We preserve the qu~dnt style of the 
original, both as to· expression and capitaliza-
tion, but the reader will see that Sabbat:trians 
have not had to make any chango in their ar-
gument in the last one hundred and fifty years. 
Now nothing can be more vain and quibbling, 
than pretending to doubt, and query which is 
the seventh Day, on which God rested at tho 
Creation; and which he blessed, and sanctified, 
viz., set apart to be kept holy. 
Because thou 
must confess, that God certainly knew which 
was the seventh Day, from the Creation to that 
Time, when he gave the I..~aw. And thou must 
own that the people knew .. which vvas the sev-
enth Day: For, otherwise, God wonld have spoke 
nnintclligibly to 'em, which I am sure, a man 
of thy Sense, will not so much as think, he 
being infinitely wise, and just, and good; and 
would not command them to keep a Day whi0h 
they did not know. 
Sltall not the Judge of all 
the Ear·th do 1·ight? 
And now I have brought the certain knowl-
edge of it down to two thousand five hundred 
Years at least, after the Creation, let me from 
thence bring it down to the Time wherein we 
live. 
No one will pretend, or suppose, that the 
Isntelites could lose the Knowledge of tbe sev-
enth Day, whilst they lived in Ccmctan: If there 
was any possibility of it, it must be in the Cap-
tivity. And yet nothing of this happened, nor 
ever was so much as pretended. :For when 
.iYehernicdt returneJ from the Captivity, and saw 
some irreligious People leading Asses, with 
Sheaves, etc., on the Sabbath, he loudly exclaims 
at their pr-ophaning the Sctbbath-Day. 
And tells 
them, that these 'vere some of the Sins, which 
caused God to send their Fathers into Captivity, 
and exhorts 'em not to provoke the Lord, by 
those Sins of p1·ophaning the Sabbathj as the 
Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the. rest, bad 
warned them before. And lo11g after this, in 
the Time of the G1·ecian Empire, we find by all 
the History of .Maccabees, constant Testimonials 
of the Sabbath-Day, down to the Time' of tbe 
Roman Empire. 
_and then no .Man was at any 
.!JOSS to know which was the Sabbath-Day. 
The Prophet Jesus knew it as well, as the 
Prophet JYioses did before. And told us the Sab-
bath was rnade j01· jj:fan, not for Is1·ael only, but 
for Mankind, as the Word Jlfan there signifies. 
And all the Disciples, and Holy Women, that 
followed Christ through all his Preaching, and 
Suffering, and to his Death and Burial, they 
all knew which was the Day: And therefore on 
the sixth Day, they prepa1·ed Spices, and Oint-
ments, and r·ested the pabbath Doy, accoTding to 
the commandm,ent. 
And early on the first Day, 
they went about their \Vork, carrying their 
Spices, Ointments, etc. And so did the Apostles 
travel quite to Emma:us em the first Day, and 
back again to Je?"'ttsalem, fifteen Engl'ish Miles. 
But all of 'em knew the Sabbath, and preach'd 
every Sabbath Day, as one may see, by reading 
the 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, Chapters of Acts. 
Christ bad taught 'em the same; for as his Cus-
tom was, he went into the Synagogue on the Sab-
bath Day). so that he knew it well. 
'rhe Apos-
tle Pa~tl did the same long after; as his Man-
ner wa8 he went into the Syna.gog~te on the Sab-
bath Day. 
And from that Time, to this, all Nations that 
worship the true God, have known which is the 
seventh Day, yea, our own Pttrliament Rolls, 
even to this Day, call it D1:e Sabbati, the Sab-
bath Day. And the Jews, who are almost in 
every trading Nation under Heaven, do all 
know the seventh Day, and never were at any 
Loss to avow it, but continue to keep it in i"!R 
I 
• 
constant Rotation to them in everv different tion, that by faith and obedience and patient 
Longitude and Latitude whore they live upon endnrance we might havl3 ever]aRting life in a 
tho Face of the Earth. Neither is it possible world to come. "God so loved the world, that 
ever 'to be lost, because God hath said, while he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever 
the ·w oriel end nrcth, the Seed-time and H ar-believeth in him should not perish, but have 
vest, Summer and \Vinter: Heat and Cold, Day everlasting life." 
and Night, shall not cease. Therefore as Day 
'rhe provision is made, and all are invited 
and Night will never cease, so neither did, nor freely to come. We may become the childL·en 
ever will the seventh Day, cease to be known, of God by faith in Christ. We are saved by 
while the vVorld cndureth. For though the faith in Christ. We are saved by faith and 
Heathens, w bo bad forsaken the most High, hope: Death still is the Jot of the righteous, 
thought Scorn of his Law, and forsook his Way; as well as the wicked. It is at the resurrection 
notwithstanding the Law perisheth not, but of the just that the saints are actually redeemed 
abidetb in its Force. 
from death. "For the trumpet shall sound, 
And though they have called the seventh a11d the dead shall be raised incorrup6?le; . . 
Day, by their heathenish N amc, SatU?·day, be-then shall be brought to pass the saymg that 
cause they worshiped on that Day the Planet is written, Death· is swallowed up in victory." 
SatU?·n (as they call it), and have changed the 
It will be seen in the end that God bas dealt 
Names of the first Day, second Day, third Day, with our race in great mercy. He withheld 
fourth Day, fifth Day, sixth Day, which God not his Son, but gave him up for us all. 
We 
gave them; and the Generality of People still are hi~ children by cre~tion, bu~ hav~ become 
chuse to call 'em by their heathenish Names, the children of the devil by domg his works. 
rather than follow God, and call 'em by the Still we may become the ehilclren of God by 
Names that he gave them, and thereby seem to faith in Jesus Christ. "Behold, what manner 
desire to darken the Light of God's holy Sab-of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that 
bath, because their Popes, and Prelates, and we should be called the .sons of God." 
Priests, have l!id their Eyes from God's Sabbath, 
God has done, a11d w.dl do, the ver~ ?est for. 
and have set up a Day that they have devised us tha.t be can. He gtves u~ the pnvdege. ?f 
out of their own Hearts which neither God, becommg sons of God alld hmrs of eternal hfe. 
nor his Prophets, Chrif:	, ~or his Apostles, ever 
And, "like ~s. a father pitiet.h hi~ children, 
commanded; yet God hath jni ned the seventh so the I.1ord p1t10th them that fear h11n; for be 
Day, and the Sabbath, together; and, as Christ knoweth our f1:ame; be 1:emembereth that we 
said, in a like Case, What God hath joined to-are dust. 
As for man, hts days are as grass; 
gethe1·.let not .Man put asunder. 
as a flower of the field, so he flourishetb; for 
' 
the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and 
PRAYER FOR "WATCHFULNESS. 
the place tf?ereof shall know it no more. 
But 
OH, Thou, who in the garden's shade 
Didst wake thy weary ones again, 
Who slumbered at that fearful hour, 
Forgetful of thy pain, 
Bend o'er us now as over them, 
And set our sleep-bound spirits free; 
Nor leave us slumbering in the watch . 
Our souls should keep with thee. 
-Whittier. 
Why Do Men Die? 
MucH fault is laid upon the God of the Bible 
because he lets men snffer and die, and this, in 
many instances, by those who extol the god. of 
nature. 
To those who reject the God of reve-
lation, and deWy nature or any other fancied 
god, it is a sufficient answer to say that the god 
they admire is just as cruel-that he permitfl 
jnst as many to suffer and die-as the God of 
the Bible. 
As I was speaking once of the mercy 
and tender compassion of the Lord, that "like 
as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord 
pitieth them that fe::tr him," 1 was met with 
this objection: ThonRands upon thousands have 
been a_nd are suffering and dying of famine. 
Th.e almighty God of the Bible could, if he 
would, prevent all this by a single word of his 
power, and give them food; but he docs not; 
therefore-
Now the great aggregate of all this suffering 
is indeed terrible to contemplate; but, as indi-
viduals, each one only suffers all that his nature 
is able to .endure, and is relieved by death. 
And snch bas been the lot of all the countless 
millions that have lived from the beginning of 
the world to the present generation, with but 
two exceptions. 'l'be qucsLion, then, is resolved 
to this: Js it right for God to permit men to die? 
Our Bible informs us that God allowed our 
race to choose between obedience and life, and 
disobedience and death. 
Oiu first parents 
sinned, and death followed. "The wages of sin 
is death." At this point God might have given 
over the race to death and oblivion; but his 
tender mercy devised a way to redeem man 
the mercy of the l..Jord is from everlasting to 
everlasting upon them that fear him, and his 
righteousness unto children's children; t0 such 
as keep his covenant, and to those that remem-
ber his commandments to do thent.'' 
R. F. CoTTRELL. 
Religious Impressions. 
THE simplest lessons are often the most im-
pressive and abiding. Many years ago a child 
was leaving the junior department of a city 
school for a new home in the country. As he 
left, his old teacher put her band upon his bead, 
and in n single, simple sentence, commendeg 
him to G r,d and to good. 
Years passed, and 
the child grew up, and read books-English, 
French, German, Greek-on ethics, and listened 
to lectures on the same .subject, by famous pro-
fessors, in a venerable university. But no word 
which he read in the pages of anoient philoso-
phers, or listened to from the lips of loving 
teachers, ever proved to him a beacon-light 
like the simple words of his old school mistress. 
In tbe time of temptation, the learned discus-
sions ·of the philosophers were fo1·gotten, or 
were rem em berecl only to cause bewilderment 
as to the basis .of right and duty; but the les-
sons of childhood shone then most clearly in 
the secret chamber of the soul, and neither time 
nor doubt had power to dim its radiance. That, 
nothing could obsunre; that, nothing can ob-
scure. 
Here is the power which God bas given 
to those who train the little ones. 
Perhaps 
neither mother nor teacher can lead the child 
into the kno-vvledge of the world's deeper wis-
dom; but a few simple, earnest words for God 
and good, from either, may do far more-they 
may enter into the very being of the child, to 
be a strength )n weakness, a refuge in tempta-
tion, and a cherished memory in the long, hard 
conflict of earthly life. 
This is not the wisdom 
\Vhicb is taught by the speculative thinkers; 
but it is tho best and most enduring wisdom, 
nevertheless.-Sunday School Times. 
· 
from death, and the Father aecepted the volun-
RELIGION 
is a necessary, an indispensable 
tary offer of the Son to assume our nature and element, in any great human character., There 
die for us; so that, being redeemed by a resur-· is no living without it. It is the tie that con-
rection from the death into which we had fallen, neets man with bis Creator fund holds him to 
we might, as individuals, have anoLhcL' vroba-his throno.-Ch1·1:stian at Work. 
326 [6] 
']-,HE SIGNS OF TI-IE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 21. 
" Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
E. J. WAGGONER,} 
ALONZO T. JONES, 
CoRRESPONDING Em'.roRs. 
EDITORS. 
J. H. wAGGONER, 
s. N. HASKELL, 
URIAH SMI'l'H, 
GEo. I. BuTLER. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, JUNE 3, 1886. 
Under the Law. 
through whom alone forgiveness and power to keep And so those who have obtained this freedom may 
the law can come. They had virtually made a be fitly represented by Isaac, who was born contrary 
promise to make themselves righteous before God. to the order of nature, solely because of the promise 
But every one who attempts to do this must fail, of God. 
and therefore it is truly said that that covenant 
So likewise the old Jerusalem, which was rejected 
gendered to bondage. 
Let no one imagine that we of God because it had killed the prophets, and 
mean that that covenant made them under obliga-stoned them whi.ch were sent to it, and had rejected 
tion to keep the law. The obligation to keep the Christ, is very aptly termed the mother of those 
law existed before any covenant was made; but we who are in bondage because of sin. 
The New Jeru-
mean thnt that covenaut left them just where it salem, however, is called the Bride, the Lamb's 
found them,-in condemnation because of violated wife (See Rev. 21:2, 9, 10, and onward); and since 
law. 
Christ is the Everlasting Father (I sa. 9: 6), and it is 
Had there never been any other coveuant than he alone that gives freedom (Rom. 8: 1; John 8: 
this, the whole world must have been lost. 
(Rom. 33-36), the city is very properly called the mother 
(Concluded.) 
3: 19.) Some will ask if God did uot know thnt of all those who are saved from sin. 
WE have now learned the d~nger which threat-
they could not of themselves keep the law perfectly, 
"But as then he that was born nfter the flesh 
ened the Galatian brethren, a"nd ean rinderstand and ifit was not trifling with them to make such a persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even 
Paul's fear fur them, and his statement that they covenant with them. 
God did iudeed know thnt so it is now." 
Gal. 4:29. 
This is only another form 
desired to be "nnder the law,"-in bondage to the they had uo power to do as they agreed, but in mak-
of what we ftnd in Gal. 5:17: "For the flesh lusteth 
elements of the world. It will therefore be a short ing the covenant he was not trifling with them. against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; 
task to examine tlie remaining portion of this fourth The making of such an agreement ;vas the most and these arr~ co11 tr:uy the one to the other; so that 
chapter of Galatians, and note what bearing it has forcible wa:y that could be devised to bring home to ye cannot clothe things that ye would." 
on the law. The apostle continues:-
their minds a sense of their condition. In their 
"Neverthrlrs:,; what saith the Scripture? Cast 
"Tell me, yc that desire to be under the law, do vain endeavors to keep the whole law in their own out the bo11dwoman and her son; for the son of the 
ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abra-strength, they would 
l~arn their need, and that bondwoman 
~:>hall not be heir with the ~:>on of the 
ham had two sons, the one by a bond maid, the other by would turn their attention to that other covenant, free woman." Gal. 4 : 30. Exactly; the woacs of the 
a free vvoman. 
But he who wns of the bondwoman ealled the new covenant, but which in reality had flesh must be put away, for "they which do such 
was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman been in existence ever since the fall. Here it is:-
tl1ings shall not inherit the kingdom of God." 
was by promise. 
Which things are an nllegory; 
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with 
for these are the two covenants; the one from the will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, tl1e llffections and lusts." 
Gal. 5:24. 
Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondagr, whiqh is and with the ),ou~:>e of Judah; not according to the 
The apostle, having shown the bonflage in which 
Agar. 
For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and covenant that I made with their fathers, in the clay all sinners are held, and how Christ alone can set 
answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bond-
that I took them by the hnud to bring then1 out of men free, and enable them to do the requirements 
age ·with her cl,ildren. But Jerusalem which is the land of Egypt; which my covennnt they brake, of the law, snys: "So then, brethren, we nre not 
above is free, which is the mother of us all." 
Gal. although I was an husband unto them, saith the children of the bondwoman, but of the free." 
Gal. 
4:21-26. 
Lord. 
But this shall be the covenaut that I will 4:31. 
And following that, how appropriate is tbis 
It will be seen at once that in these verses three make with the ltouse of Israel: After those days, exhortation: "Stand fast therefore in the libet:ty 
things are placed in conLrnst with three other saith the Lord, I will put my Jaw in their inward wherewit.h Christ hath rna<1e us free, and be not en-
things: Hagar, ancient Jerusnlem, and the old parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their tangled again with the yulee of bondage." 
Gal. 5: 
covenant are plac~d in opposition to 'sarah, the new God, and they shall be my p_eople. 
And they shall 1. 
Compare this with Gal. 4:8, 9. 
Jerusalem, and the new covenant. Ishmael and teach no more every man his neighbor, and every 
Here we might leave this portion of Scripture, 
Isaac stand respectively ns repreRentatives of tho . .,;e man his brother, saying, Kllow the Lord; for they since we have fully explained verse 21, which is all 
under the old covenaut, and those under the new. 
~:>hall all know me, from the least of them·unto the that we set out.to do; but the one who has read 
It will also be noticed that those who are free are greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive thus far will ~;carcely fail to read the verses·imnlE'-
the children of the New Jerusalem, the new cove-
their iniquity, and •I will remember their sin llO diately fol.lowing the oue last quoted, and will 
nant, while those in bondage, "under the la\u00a5," more." 
.Jer. 31:31-34. 
doubtless be puzzled over one or two expressions 
are children of the old Jerusalem, the old covenant. 
In what respect does this co,Tenant differ from the which are there found. 
A few words will suffice to 
The explanation of this chapter, then, involves an other? Is it in regard to the keeping of the law? explain them. 
We quote:-
explanation of the two covenants. 
This we can do No; for that is required in both. But in this there 
"Behold, I Paul :;;ay unto you, that if ye be cir-
only in the brierest manner.· 
is forgiveness of sius, and the blotti11g out of trans-curnci!:lecl, Christ shall profit you nothing. 
For I 
'l'he first covenant was made with the children or gressions. More than this, the law is to be written testify ngain to every man that is circumcised, that 
Israel when they left Egypt. 
See Efeb. 8:8, 9. The in the hearts of the people, and that meanR that they he is a debtor to do the whole law. 
Christ is be-
terms of that covenant are found in Ex. 19 : 3-8; will be enabled to keep it perfectly. SeePs. 40:8. come of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are 
24:3-8. They were simply ns follows: God prom-
This work is done by Christ. 
Through him pardon justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 
For 
ised to make of the Israelites a great nation, a king-is secured, and he enables us to be made the right-
we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteous-
dam of priests, if they, in tum, would obey his law. eousness of God. It will readily be seen that, ness by faitl1." 
Gal. 5:2-5. 
This they promised 'to do. 
Thus the covenant, or whereas the o.ther covenant found and left the peo-
Tile render will recall what has before been snid 
agreement, was made. The law of God was the p1e in bondage to sin, nnd under condemnation of concerning circumcision aud other ceremonies. It 
basis of the covenant, or that concemi ng which the death, this covenant enabled thAm to become free is evideu t that Paul did not mean that circumcisio1i 
covenant was made. 
See Ex. 24:8. 
from sin and condemnation. 
"There is therefore was in itself so terrible a thing that the receiving 
Now notice what this covenant required of the now no condemnation to them which are in Christ of iL would cause a person to fall from grace; for the 
people. 
The Lord had first promised to do certai11 Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the apostle himself circumcised Timothy as an act of 
things for them if they would obey his voice. Then Spirit." Rom. 8:1. 
expediency. See Acts 16: 1-3. It must be, then, 
they heard his voice speaking the law in thunder 
Now the application of Paul's words is easy. that he refers to circumcision as taught by the men 
tones from Sinai, and after that they renewed their Hagar was a bondwoman, and Ishmael, her son, was who. came down from Judea, and who were trying 
promise of obedience, saying, "All that the Lord begotten according to the flesh. Samh was a free-
to turn away PnHl's converts from the faith. 
They 
hath said will we do, and be obedient." 
Ex. 24:7. woman, and her son, Isaac, was n child of promise, urged it as the means of justification. 
They said: 
This was nothing less than an agreement to yield born not according to the flesh, but when, humanly "Except ye be circumcised, 
ye cannot be 
perfect obedience to the law. 
Those who "hear the speaking, such a thing as the birth of a child was saved." Acts 15: 1. But l:lince pardon and justifica-
law," know that it covers every act or thought of impossible. Since Ishmnel "was born after the tion can be secured through Christ alone, those who 
man's entire life., Therefore, if the Jews had ful-flesh," he is a fib type of those who are "iri the adopted circumcision for that purpose, necessarily 
filled their promise, they would have merited all the flesh;" and in this condition are all careless sinners, rejected Christ; and if they had previousfy accepted 
blessings which God promised them; but, unfortu-
as well as all who attempt to secure salvation by 
1 
Christianity, of course their rejection of Christ was 
· nately, they did uot, neither could they. 
They had their own unaided efforts. 
When men hnye once a fall from grace. Christ was of no effect to any 
already broken the law mally times, and were sin-sinned, it is contrary to anything in nature that they one who expected to be justified by his own works. 
ful by nature, so that it was utterly impossible for should ever be made to appear perfectly ri_ght-But we, on the contrary, says Paul, "wnit for the 
them, in their own strength, to yield perfect obedi-eous,-as though they had never sinned. 
But hope of righteousness by faith." This shows that 
ence to it. 
See Rom. 8:7, 8; Gal. 5:17. 
Now in· God, by a miracle of grace, which is mauifestecl the mode ofjustification from sin is the subjeet still 
this covenant there was no provision for the forgive-through Jesus Christ, causes this to be done, so that nuder discussion. 
ness of sins either past or future,-no hint of Christ, the sinner may stand before the· Jaw uncondemnecl. 
But how about the expression, "I testify to every 
JUNE 3, 1886. 
THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES .. 
L 71 327 
man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do 
the whole lftw"~ Does that mean that if a man is 
circumcised he must keep the law, but that if he is 
not circumcised he may disregard the lawr Not by 
any means. The law is of universal obligation; all 
men, whatever their condition, are in duty bound 
to keep it. It is because this duty rests upon every 
individual, that all the world are guilty. before God; 
for all have transgrel:lsed the law. Since all have 
transgressed the law, they are condemned. Now 
"the doers of the law shall be justified." None 
others can be. But "a doer oftlie law" is one who 
can present a record of obedience unbroken by a 
single sin. Thus it follows that, after all have 
sinned, by the deeds. of the law no· fl.~:;h can be 
justified. 
Now suppose a man starts out with the determina-
tion to secure righteou~ness without the aid of 
Cit rist. What must he do? Why he must do the 
whole law. Very well; suppose that it is possible 
for him to keep the law perfectly for the remainder 
of his life, will he be lacking in anything? Cer-
tairdy; for the law demands obedience for that part 
of his life which he spent in sin, before he attempted 
to do right. Perfect obedience is required of him 
who would stand as a doer of the law. So Paul virt-
ually says: If you set out to be justified by circum-
cision, or by any other work, it will be necessary 
for you to show a perfectly clean record; you must 
your own self take away those past sins, so that the 
law will witness to your perfect righteousness,-so 
that it may appear that you have never sinned. But 
this he cannot do, and therefore he is in the fullest 
seuse "a debtor,"-etern[tlly a debtor. He is in the 
condition of the man who owed his-lord ten thou-
sand talents, and had nothing with which to pay, 
and who was cast into prison till he should pay it 
all. For him there was no hope. Jo all eternity 
he must remain a debtor to his lord. 
So with the man who seeks to stand justified be-
fore God by any works of his own. There is a depth 
of meaning to the words, "he is a debt01· to do the 
whole law," which the casual reader does not catch. 
The hopelessness of the bondage into which the man 
is cast who goes about to establish his own right-
eou::;ness can scarcely be ·conceived. In this boud-
age we all are·, or have been. Let us ever rejoice 
that "with the Lord there is mercy, alld with him 
is plenteous redemption" (Ps. 130: 7); and that the 
blood of Christ cleanseLh us from all sin. 
w. 
A Little Confused. 
THE editor of the Tennessee Baptist, having re-
·ceived a copy of Professor _Pettengell's book, "The 
Unspeakable Gift," feels moved to do something to 
stay the tide of "heresy," and gives the following 
notice:-
" A RICH TREAT FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS.-\Ve have 
engaged our stated contributor, A. J. Frost, D. D., 
o.f Sacramento, Cal., to review thoroughly the pre-
vailing theory of Conditional Immortality, or An-
nihilationism. Tlds is a modern phase of old Uni-
versalism and Restorationism, which is extensively 
prevailing in many parts of the North, and West, 
and is destined, at an early day, to be the most pop-
ular deJusion of this age." 
If Mr. Frost knows no more about the doctrine of 
conditional immortality thar~ the editor of the 
'l.'ennessee Bapt·ist seems to, his review will indeed 
l;>e "a rich treat.". To ·say Lhat conditional immor-
talityisamodern phase of Universalism and Resto-
rationism is about as trtte as it wo~1ld be to say ·that 
Presbyt~rianis.m is a' modern form of C<~tholicism, 
or that Luther was a special emissary of Pope Leo 
X., or that Christianity is a modern form of pagan-
ism: 
Condition~] im~nortality is as much different 
from Universalism as d·aylight is from darkness. 
Indeed it is the only doctrine that can successft~lly 
combat Universalis~. 
Universalism teaches that 
all men will by some means be saved, whatever their 
belief and p·ractice; the doctrine of conditional im-
mortality teach,es just what the Bible teaches, that, 
"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; 
and .he that believeth not the Son shall not see life." 
The one robs Christ of all his glory, making his 
sacrifice a useless thing, while the other crowns 
him "Lord of all." No man can be a Uui versalist 
or a Spiritualist so lorrg as he holds to the doctrine 
of conditional immortality; but the one who be-
lieves in uatural immortality has r'l<..l safeguard 
against either delusion. 
w. 
Some One-Thousand-Dollar Reasons for 
Keepiug Sm"Hlay. 
WE verily believe that there never was an ex-
tended argument made in favor of the Sunday-
sabbath in which appeal for help was not made to 
the Fathers, and we never expect to see an argu-
ment on that subject that does not so do. 
This one-
thousand-dollar-prize at~gument is by no means an 
exception. \Ve wish that the American Sunday-
school Union, or the trustees of Dartmouth College, 
or whoever else may have the management of a 
prize fund, would offer a prize of five hundred, or 
one thousand dollars for an essay on the 'perpetual 
obligation of the Sunday-sabbath, which should 
make no mention of the Fathers, and no reference 
to any human auLhority, but should be confined 
strictly to the word of God. 
Such a production 
would be worth such a prize as a curiosity in Sun-
day-sabbath literature, if for nothing else. 
To what pnrpose is a reference to the Fathers 
anyhow? \Vhat is the good of it? Suppose all the 
Fathers with one voice should say that Sunday is 
the Lord's day, that the first day of the week is the 
Christian sabbath; still to the man who fears God 
and trembles at his word (and to such alone the 
Lord looks, Isa. 66 : 2) the question would be, "What 
sa·i th the Scripture r" To that question there is 
but one answer that ever comes to anybody on this 
subject. 'J.'hat answer is, ''The seventh day is the 
Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not 
do any work." The Scripture said to the Fathers, 
"The seventh day is the SabbaLh of the Lord thy 
God." If the Fathers disregarded it, they sinned, 
that is all. The Scripture says to the American 
Sunday-school Union, "The seventh day is the Sab-
bath of the Lord thy God." If the American Sun-
. day-school Union disregards it, the Union sins, that 
is all. The Scri-pture says to Mr. A. E. Waffle, "The 
seventh day is the "Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 
When Mr. Waffie disregards it, he sins, and when 
he or any other teaches others to disregard it, he 
teaches rebellion against the Lord, that is all. 
Suppose the Fathers and every body else from the 
apostles' day to our own should have disregarded 
the commandment of God, it would still be Just as 
much our duty to obey that commandment as it 
would if all had kept it strictly. It is not a ques-
tion of what the Fathers did, but wl~at they should 
have done. We are not to interpret the command-
ment of God by what men have done; but what 
men have done must be tested by the commandment. 
The law of God is the immutable standard, and 
men's actions must conform to that or they are 
wroug. Mr. ·waffie himself admits as much. Thus 
he says:-
" We are under no obligation to follow the ex-
ample of Christians who liyed in any age subsequent 
to that of the apostles. Perve1·sions of Christ·ian 
doctrine and C01"1'Upt p1·act'ices spraug up so early 
ancl p1·evailed so widely as to make such an imi t:t-
tion altogether unsafe."-P. 203. 
vVhy then does Mr. Waffle, as well as do Sunday 
advocates generally, go to an age of "perversions of 
Christian do.ctrine,''.an age of "corrupt practices" so 
widely prevalent as to make it" altogether unsafe"? 
This is why:-
" We study their history because it throws addi-
tional Ught upon the teaching and the example of 
the apostles."-Id. 
Go to an age of darkness to throw additional 
light upon the age. of light itself! Go to an age of 
"perversions of Christian doctrine" to gain" addi-
tional light" upon. the perfection of Christian doc-
trine! Go to an age of "corrupt practices" to gain 
"addit.ional light'' upon the only age of pure prac-
tices that the world has ever seen! Study the per-
versions of Chnstian doctrine, and the corrupt prac-
tices of men, because it throws ''additional light" 
upon the word of God! We use a tallow-dip or a 
rush-light because it throws "additional light" 
upon the sun!! To what depths of absurdity will 
men not run in their attempts to justify their disre-
gard of the comma"ndment of God? What will they 
not sanction in their endeavors to make void the 
commandment of God by the traditions of men? 
The teaching of tl1e apostles is the word of God, 
and the word of God is light. Apart from the ex-
ample of Christ there is no such thing as "the ex-
ample of the apostles;" and the example of Christ 
is but the shiuing of that Light which came into 
the world, to which men will not come bcca sethey 
love darkness rather than light. And these men, 
instead of coming to the 'true Light, run away off 
to an age of darkness, to an age of confessed "cor-
rupt practices" and "perversiQns of Christ.ian doc-
trine," and there, by rummaging around among the 
Fathers, they manage to find some obscure passages 
in corrupt texts, ai1d these are seized upon because 
they "throw additional light" upon the true Light. 
They run away into the darkness, where everything 
and everybody looks alike, and in groping around 
there they find some men to whom they say: You 
look like us; you talk as we do; you walk as we do; 
your views of morals are just like ours;-you m·e 
ow· Fathers, and behold what great light is thrown 
by your \Vays upon the. teaching and example of 
the apostles, that is, upon.what we m·e doing. True, 
the apostles said nothing at all about it, but we are 
doing it, and you did it before us, and that-is proof 
that the apostles intended to do it. 
We know that [JeLween the Fathers and these 
their sons there is a most striking ·family resem-
blance., They do look alike; they do talk alike; they 
walk alike, and their ideas of what constitutes ~be­
dience to the word of God, are just alike, and we 
would be fully ju'3tified in saying that they all be-
lo~lg to the same family, .even though the sons should 
not own it, but when they take every possible occa-
sion to advertise it and to parade the Fathers as 
indeed their .Fathers, they cannot blame us if we 
admit it, and do our bc'st to give them the benefit 
of the relationship. But ev~u though ·this family 
resemblance be so perfect that we can hardly tell 
the Fathers and their children apart, there is one 
fatal defect about it all, that is, none of them look 
like Christ. Not one of them walks as he walked. 
It matters not how much they may re8emble one 
another, the question with us is, Do they resemble 
Christ? It matters not how closely their words may 
agree; the question still is, Do their words agree 
with the word of God? 
We have not the disposition, even though we had 
the time, to go with Mr. Waffle and the American 
Sunday-school Union, in their one-thousaud-dollar 
excursion into that age' where "perv'er:;ions of Chris-
tian doctrine and corrupt practices sprang up so 
early and prevailed !;'O widely," becaqse Mr. Wa.ffie 
himself has told us that i~ is "altogether unsafe," 
and, besides that, we remember a sta~emeut in our 
Guide-Book, written about just such excursions as 
this, that says: "Be not deceived; evil communica-
tions corrupt good manners." 
Moreover, we have 
before us the statement of what lVIr. ·waffle learned 
by it, and that is enough for us. Here it is:-
" Ever~ stateme~t bearin~ _upon the subject, that 
can be dtscovered 111 the wnt1ngs of the Fathers, is 
to the effect that the Christians of the first two 
328 [S] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 21. 
centuries were accustomed to keE'p holv the first day the inspired apostles," when he admits that there 
of .the week, and that most of them re-garded them-is no command for it, he has nothing at all left but 
selves at liberty not to keep the seventh-day Sab-
bath."-P. 214. 
what he calls the example of the apostles, upon 
The commandment of God, written with his own which to base his conclusion. And upon this we 
finger on the tables of stone, says: "Remember the would remind him of his own words that "the 
Sabbath day, to keep it holy. . . . The seventh average mind is more readily moved by a direct 
day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." But command than by an inference drawn from the 
here we are i:qformed that "every stateme11t bE'ar-example of even inspired men." P. 242. He has 
· 
reached his conclusion, then,' b_v .an inference drawn 
Ing on the subject, that can be found in the writings 
of the Fathers; is to the effect that the most of from the example of the apostles. But how does he 
them lChristians] regarded themselves at liberty not know aud how can he show that his inference is 
to keep the seventh-day Sabbath." 
But this is just? Oh, by studying the history of an age of 
simply to say that they regarded themselves at lib-"corrupt practices and perversions of Christian doc-. 
erty not to keep the commandment of God. Well, trine," he learns "that the most of them regarded 
we know a great many people in our own day who themselves at liberty uot to keep the seventh-day 
regard .themselves at liberty to do the same thing; Sabbath," and that they" could hardly have made 
and like their Fathers, too, they will call themselves a mistake conccrni ng the import of their [the apos-
"Christians." Yea, even that that is the distin-
tles'J words and actions/' And so having landed 
guishing feature of a Christian. 
The Mormons himself and his whole Sunday-sabbath scheme 
regard "themselves at liberty not to keep the sev-squarely upon Catholic ground in the midst of an 
en th-day Sabbath," and also not to keep the com-age of "corrupt practices" and perversions of Chris-
maudment that forbids adultery, and they call them-tian doctrine, his great one-thousand-dollar task is 
selves "saints." Well, if disobedience to that one completed; his grand one-thousand-dollar prize is 
commandment is what makes a Christian, why won, and there we leave him to enjoy it. 
should not disobedience to two commandments make 
We have no examined the reasons for keeping 
a saint? Will Mr. Waff:l.e or the American Sunday-Sunday, which have been given in a five-hundred-
school Union tell us why? The commandment of dollar prize-essay, and in a one-thousand-dollar 
God directs the keeping of the seventlt-day Sabbath. prize-essay. We have be~n asked which is the bet-
The Fathers and Mr. Waffle and other Christians of ter one of the essays. We can only reply that there 
is no "better" about it-each is worse than the 
that kind regard tlwmselves "at liberty to not 
keep it." The word of God likewise dirE'cts the other. Yet we are not prepared to say that the 
keeping of the commandment which says, "Thou trustees of Dartmouth Co) lege, and the American 
shalt not commit adultery;" the Mormons regard Sunday-school Union have done a wholly bad work 
themselves at liberty uot to keep it. The word of in paying the prizes by which these essays were put 
God directs the keeping of the second command-before the wqrld. 
We are certainly justified in 
ment; the C:ttholics regard themselves at liberty supposing that these essays furnish the very best 
not to keep it. The word of God directs the keep-argument for Sunday-keeping that can be made in 
the United States; and we think it well that the 
ing of the third commandment; Colonel Ingersoll 
and his kind regard themselves at liberty not to 
keep it. Now upon what principle can these "Chris-
tians" convince those "saints," and Catholics, and 
atheists, of sin r We should like to see Mr. Waff:l.e 
fra.me an argument that would show that they are 
wrong, that would not equally condemn himself, 
nnd all those who, with him, "regard themselves at 
liberty not to ·keep the seventh-day Sabbath." 
Well, when Mr. Waff:l.e finds that the Fathers and 
otherl:l of their day, regarded themselves at liberty 
to not keep the commaudmenp of God, what does 
he do r Does he say that that is disobedience? 
Does he repudiate such an example and hold to the 
commandment of God instead? Not he. He just 
settles down upon the sinful example as though it 
were righteousness itself. It is the very thing which 
he has been all this time striving to reach-some-
thing to strengthen and confirm him, and others 
whom he can reach, in their disregard of the com-
mandment. For he says of these writings of the 
Fathers:-
" Thus they strengthen the conclusion we have 
ab·eady 1·eached from our examinatiop of the ex-
ample and teachings of the apo;:;tles, that the latter 
intended to transfer the Sabbath from the seventh 
to the first day." 
It never requires a great deal of evidence, nor a 
very strong kind, to strengthen a co:1clusion we have 
already reached, especially when we have reached 
the conclusion without evidence. And that such is 
the way Mr. Waffle has reached his conclusion is 
plain, by his own words. He had already written 
this:-
" So far as the record shows, they [the apostles] 
did not give any explicit command enjoiuing the 
abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath and its 
observance on the first day of the week." 
If, then, the apostles gave no command for it, the 
conclusion which he has reached is, so far as the 
teach-ing of the apostles goes, totally witho11..t evi-
dence. And as be has said that "the authority 
must be sought in the words or in the example of 
utter groundlessness of the Sunday institution 
either in Scripture or reason, should be made to 
appear, as it is in these essays, even though it be at 
an expense of $1,500. Yet, it does seem a pity to 
pay so much good money, for so many bad arguments 
in support of a worthless institution. 
The commandment of God reads the same to us 
that it does to these prize essayists and to every-
body else. It says to all: "Remember the Sabbath 
day, to keep it holy. . . . The seventh day is 
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God;" and for our 
part we hope we shall never reach the point where 
we shall regard ourselves at liberty not to keep the 
commandment of God, for to keep the seventh-day 
Sabbath is the com1nandment of God. He whore-
garcls himself at liberty not to keep it, regards him-
.:;eh at liberty to commit sin. 
J. 
Walk in tbe Ligbt. 
".LIGHT is sown for the righteous." "If any man 
will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine." 
"'iValk while ye have the light, lest darkness come 
upon you; for he that walketh in darkness knoweth 
not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe 
in the light, that ye may be the children of 
light." "That was the true Light, which lighteth 
every man that cometh into the world." These 
texts teach us (1) that every man in the world has 
some light; there is no one who does not, to a cer-
tain extent., know the difference between right and 
wrong; (2) that if this light is heeded, more will be 
given; whoever has a de-termination to do the thing 
that he knows to be right, will have greater light 
given him; but (3) those who turn away from the 
light that they have, will not receive more, but will 
be left in darkness. If a man refuses to live out the 
one principle of right that he may know, it would 
be useless to make known to him other principles; 
and finally the little knowledge of truth that he 
has will pass from him, and he will be destroyed for 
lack of knowledge. The Lord said by Hosea, 4:6, 
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;" 
and then immediately adds the reason, "Because 
thou hast rejected knowledgr, I also will reject thee. 
. . Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy 
God, I will also forget thy children." That is just 
it. They rejected knowledge, and forgot the law of 
God, and therefore they were destroyed for lack of 
knowledg. But the whole responsibility lay with 
them: they 'might have had knowledge unto salva-
tion if they had wanted it, but they rejected it. It 
is so with all the world. The world is not wicked 
because it is in darkness; it is in darkness because 
of its wickedness. "The commandment is a lamp; 
and the law is light." Prov. 6:23. Let us "walk 
in the light," that our path may be "as the shining 
light, that -shh~eth more and more unto the perfect 
day." 
The Eastern Question. 
THE question of the action of the nations, and 
especially of Russia, in regard to Turkey, known as 
the Eastern Question, is exciting very general at-
tention. Statesmen ponder over it, the newspapers 
make frequent mention of it, and students of proph-
ecy look toward it with much interest. To all 
classes it is becoming a subject of great anxiety. 
Turkey is one of the weakest of the nations. For 
forty-five years her existence has been maintained 
by the united interference of the nations of Western 
Europe. These nations are pr'ofessedly Christian, 
w.hile Turkey persecutes Christians within her bor-
ders with unrelenting ferocity. There is not a feel-
ing in common between Turkey and the nations 
which uphold her. She is far behind-and deter-
minE>dly behind-the civilization of the nations by 
which she is surrounded, and on which she depends 
for her semblance of power. 
The only importance which Tnrkey possesses in 
the eyes of the nations is this: She occupies one of 
the strongholds of the world, if not the stronghold 
itself. Constantinople, in the possession of a nation 
which could make use of the advantages of her posi-
tion, would be invulnerable. It affords a complete 
protection to a fleet of any size in the Black Sea, 
which might be thrown out when the most favora-
ble opportunity offered. Napoleon I. called Con-
stantinoP-le "the key of the world." Even in his 
day H.ussia had her eye on this point, and made its 
possession the condition of a treaty of friendship 
with him. Had he agreed to this, it would be im-
possible to conjecture where would be the lines of 
the map of Europe now. 
Besides this, Turkey nominally holds a jewel 
which has long been coveted by the nations, namely, 
Jerusalem. This is only of a traditional or imagi-
nary value; like any other jewel, it is for ornament 
rather than use. 
The nations which uphold Turkey have no inter-
est in her welfare, or her existence, only as they are 
jealous of each other. They are anxious that she 
should retain her stronghold, each' fearing that if 
she should lose it, a stronger and a rival power 
might gain it. 
· 
At the close of the Crimean War, a treaty was 
entered into by Russia, England, and France, by 
which Russia agreed not to create a war fleet in the 
Black Sea. This assured Turkey in the quiet posses-
sion of Constantinople; for the length and narrow-
ness of the Straits and the swiftness of the currents, 
render it next to impossible to successfully attack it 
from below. A fleet for the conquest of Constanti-
nople outside of these Straits would be liable to 
attack at any time; but in the Black Sea it would 
be secure. 
Taking advantage of the war between France and 
Prussia, l1.ussia ·repudiated the treaty of 1855, and 
appealed to the judgment of the nations at large 
for the justness of her course. The powers at war 
could not resist her action, and England seemed 
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THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
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fearful even to protest against it without being 
backed by other powers. And thus peaceably the 
treaty became a dead Jetter. The wonder was that 
Russia ever entered into a treaty which cut her oif 
from her most available sea-coast, and she would 
not, only Lhat a heavy pressure was upon her. But 
thiR repudiation was really the death knell of Tur-
key, and "the sick man," as Turkey has long been 
calied, was virtually given up by his doctors. 
Since that time Russia has been constantly ex-
tending her lines in Asia, not only threatening 
Turkey, but affecting the security of the British 
possessions. But England purchased the Suez Canal, 
and thus secured control of an important passage to 
the far East. This was a matter of disappointment 
to all the world, for it was generally conceded that 
France had the first right to the Suez Canal. 
Thus now stands the Eastern Question. To the 
nations it is constantly becoming more complicated 
and perplexing. It is safe_ to say that much of the 
present effort of the great European powers to arm 
themselves beyond all precedent is in view of the 
possible developments of this question. 
We think we have stated the importance and 
bearing of the question in their strongest light; and 
while we would not underestimate its importance 
as a source of contention, or even as a cause for 
preparation of the nations for "the battle of the 
great day," we ~o not hesitate to say there is great 
danger of our viewing the matter in a w,rong light, 
and making it a detriment to us, as a people, as 
students of prophecy. 
We have several times been asked of late if we 
saw anything in the attitude of the nations to indi-
cate that the end is very near. Our answer was, 
and is, that ~e are not looking in that direction for 
our evidence. Not that there is nothing ominous in 
the attitude of t·he nations. There certainly is. 
But we feel assured that they who look in that di-
rection for their principal evidence of the neat: com-
ing of the -end, will become bewildered, and proba-
bly discouraged. 
Yve cannot wonder if they who reject the present 
truth of the Third Angel's Message take wrong 
views of our relation to the future action of the 
nations. But it need not be so with us. 
The light of present truth clearly outlines all 
these things, and it alone gives the relation of the 
several events which precede the battle of the great 
day of the Lord. Without regarding the order and 
relation of these events, we must become confused. 
Turning to Re_v. 16:12, we read:-
".And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon 
the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof 
was -dried up, that the way of the kings of the East 
might be prepared." 
Looking at the connection, we learn that this will 
take place just before the last battle; indeed, it is 
the first movement in that great conflict. It is gen-
erallv understood that "the great river Euphrates" 
repr;sents that power which flourh;hed in the coun-
try watered by that river, namely, the Mahometan 
power, of which the Sui tan of Turkey is the head. 
See "Thoughts on Revelation," chapters 9 and 16. 
Therefore H.ev. 16: 12, above quoted, describes the 
drying up of the power of Turkey. This is the issue 
of the Eastern Question. 
Now we are prepared to guard against erroneous 
views of this question. Many are looking to it as 
the deciding point of ou,r message. They seem to 
think they must watch the progress of the nations, 
and that, when this question comes to a crisis, it will 
be time for us to arouse, for the close of our work 
will be approaching. But not so. It is under the 
sixth plague that this matter comes to a crisis; that 
is, after the work of probation is finished, and after 
five of the plagues of the unmixed wrath of God are 
poured out upon the world. They who reject the 
warning of the Third Angel's Message cannot locate 
these plagues; they have never been able to explain 
their meaning or give their place. Hence they are 
liable to mistake the chronology of the culmination 
of the Eastern Question. Bnt not so with us. 
We 
know Lhat the wrath of God threatened in the 
Third Angel's Message is that contained in the seven 
last plagues; and we know that these plagues are 
poured out after probat.ion ends-after our High 
Priest has finished his work in the heavenly sanct-
uary, and the unjust must remain unjust still. 
Cf. 1 Kings 8:10, 11; Rev. 15:8, ·and 22:11, 12. 
Therefore, to watch the Eastern Question as giving 
evidence of the termination of our work, is to follow 
a false light, and, as a consequence, to be led into 
confusion and darkness. 
Brethren, keep your eyes on the Third Angel's 
Message. The Eastern Question is a question for 
the nations to work out when probation is ended 
and the restraining influence of the Spirit of God is 
withdravm from them. The Third. Angel's Message 
is our work-the work of God for this time-to pre-
pare us to stand in the battle of the day. of the 
Lord. 
The nations will soon fulfill their destined 
work when the servants of God are sealed fo?· 
translation. See Rev. 7. Let us see to it that we 
fulfill ours. This is the work in which Heaven is 
specially interested. On this work all other ques-
tions hinge. Do not lose sight of this for anything 
else. 
We cannot refrain from expressing our gratitude 
to God, who has given us a truth which so fully ex-
plains all these things. They who reject this light 
and watch the nations for the evidence of the com-
i n'g of the end, will not know when probati.on is 
closing, and that day will come upon them as a 
thief. "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that 
that day should overtake you as a thief." A light 
shines upon our path way, guiding us i.n regard to 
the perplexities of the future, and its impending 
perils. Truly the ord of prophecy is a light shin-
ing in a dark place. What so dark as the future, 
when we know not even what a day m~y bring forth r 
But the propheLi~ word, rightly read, lights up the 
future, an-d gi v_es assurance as we tread the danger-
ous way. Only let us heed the admonition:-
"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time 
your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and 
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that clay 
come upon you unawares." Luke 21:34. 
J.H. W. 
Watch and Pray. 
JESUS had told his disciples that the temple in 
Jerusalem should be thrown down, that not one 
stone sh~uld be left upon another. And when they 
asked him, "When shall these things be r" be gave 
them a sign which, when they should see, they were 
to know that the desolation was at hand. That 
sign was, "When ye shalJ see Jerusalem compassed 
with armies, then know that the desolation thereof 
is nigh." Luke 21 :20. For this sign they were to 
look. They knew not when it would be, but if they 
believed the word of the Lord, they believed it 
would be, and they were to look for it. And even 
when they should see it, it was only a sign that the 
desolation was nigh. When they should see the 
sign, they could not tell when the event would be, 
only that it was nigh. But the sign was what con-
cerned them most; they were not to wait for the 
event. For he said as soon as the armies were seen 
about Jerusalem, "Let them which be in Judea flee 
into the mo·tntains;" and their flight was to be so 
hasty that if they were in the field they were not 
even to go to the house to get any clothes; and even 
if one was on the top of the hons~, he could not go 
down into the house to take anything w~th him. 
It is evident, therefore, that the sign which Christ 
gave must have had an important place in the minds 
of all who really believed his words, for otherwise 
they would not be ready to leave on such short 
notice. Indeed, the Saviour made provision that 
this sign should have an important place with them. 
Because in view of it he said, "Pray ye that your 
flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath 
day." Thus the Lord, in making it a part of their 
prayers, fixed the sign and their .flight ever before 
them. 
In the same conversation the disciples asked the 
Lord concerning a much greater event than the 
destruction of the temple, even the coming of the 
Lord himself in glory, and the sign of it. Of this 
he told them, "There shall be signs in the sun, and 
in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth 
distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the 
waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, 
and for looking after those things which are coming 
on the earth." "And when these things begin to 
come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; 
for your redemption dTaweth nigh." And "when 
ye shall see all these things, know that it is 
near, even at the doors." 
Luke 21:25, 26; Matt. 
24:33. These things began to come to pass in May, 
1780, and any one who will look at all can see "all 
these things,·" and as the disciples when they saw 
Jerusalem compassed with armies were to know 
that the desolation of it was nigh, just so we know 
that the coming of the Lord Jesus, "wrapped in a 
blaze of boundless glory," is at the doors. And just 
as they were to watch for the event and pray that 
they might escape it, so Jesus has said to us: 
" Watch ye therefore, and p1·ay always, that ye 
may be accounted worthy to escape all these things 
that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son 
of man." Luke 21:36. He who believes the word 
of the Lord will watch for these things. He who 
watches for them will pray that he may f'scape 
them and stand blameless before the Son of man. 
And he• shaH be delivered as surely as were the 
disciples from the terrors that came upon devoted 
Judea. "And now, little children, abide in him; 
that, when he shall appear, we may have confi-
dence, and not be ashamed before him at his com-
ing." 1 John 2:28. 
J. 
Our School. 
IT was my privilege to spend tne winter 
months of the term at our college a.t Healds-
burg .. From my experience while there I am 
prepared to speak understandingly of its mer-
its. It -truly is a model school. 
Those having 
charge arc men of experience and know jusL 
bow to meet the wants of their pupils, physic-
ally, mentally, and spiritually. 
Should any 
attend there and not be benefited, the fault 
certainly must be with the student. The sur-
roundings both at the Home and college pre-
sent an ap}Jearance of neatness and taste. 
Our 
family was quite large, yet harmonious, every-
body felt at ho~e and acted as though it was 
thcii;s to enjoy. There is nothing extravagn.nt 
about the Home, but all is neat and comfort-
able, just as all homes should be. 
Order and 
neatness were visible in every departmeu t; and 
the spiritual condition was ::~uch that the goo~ 
angels could be attracted there, and their 
influence was fol t to that extent that hearts 
were made tender by the Spirit of God. 
Every 
pupil bn.d his duty to perform, which was dono 
with cheerfulness, thus learning habits of order 
and usefulness. 
Those having children to educate ought by 
all means to put them in this school. 
No fears 
should be entertained that their children would 
be neglected, for everything is dono for them, 
for their comfort, and spiritual and mental 
improvement. 
'l'he Students' Homo affords 
just the drill required for usefulness through 
life. Here they are taught practical duties in 
tho various avocations. Tho girls are taught tho 
different branebos of household duties, "fi.·om 
the cellar to the garret/' while tbo young 
men have a training in the various trades and 
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husbandry. 
rrbis, combined with the book 
knowledge they obtain, will fit them for differ-
ent spheres in life. 
When the prac:tical ~ork­
ing of our college is seen, it leads the mmd to 
wonder why the present system was not adopted 
before. 
Onr people cannot afford to deprive .th_eir 
children of these ·advantages. "r 
e are lnnng 
in a wicked and corrupt ago, and it is not safe 
to pla/ce the young in public schools where tho 
morals are almost sure to be corrupted. We 
want to save our children from the snares of 
the enemy, and what expense can be too great 
if wo can but see our children in the kingdom 
of God? But what benefit will be all our sav-
in&s if by our parsimony they be deprived of 
th~ 'influences that would establish them in 
principles of righteousness? . 
. . 
God in his providence has given us tb1s m-
stitution of learning that the youth may be 
shielded from the evil. 
Consequen~ly all should 
give this institution their patro~age. I ?an 
safely say that all who love and pr1ze morahty, 
industry, good health, order, and a thorough, 
practical, common-sense education, will be sat-
isfied when acquainted with the workings and 
saving influence of our college. 
An~ ?Y placi~g 
your children there, you are sustammg an m-
stitution that is approved of God. 
May the Lord bless and prosper tho Healds-
bnrg College, is the prayer of a grateful student. 
WM INGS. 
Rural Healtlt Retreat. 
THE annual meetincr of the Rural Health 
Retreat Association ~as held at the Retreat 
parlors May 30, 1886 .. A large majority of 
the subscribed capital stock \Vas represented. 
Many friends of the institution were pt~esent, 
among whom were Elder Geo. 1. Butler· and 
other of our ministering brethren. 
Close, prac-
tical, and timely instruction and counsel were 
given by these breth~·en in. the religious ~xer­
cises held in connectiOn With these meetmgs. 
We only regret that these services could not 
have been continued. 
The following officers were elected:-
Directors, J. N. Loughborougb, W. C. White, 
J.D. Ric6l, W. A. Pratt, A. B. Atwood;. Presi-
dent Elder J. N. Loughborough; Secretary, J. 
S. Gibbs, M.D.; Treasurer, vV. A. Pratt; Audi-
tor Mrs. A.M. l;Joughborougb; Superintendent, 
Elder J.D. Rice; Physicians, J. S. GibbR, M.D., 
and W. P. Burke, M. D.; Matron, Mrs~ Jennie 
L. Ings. · 
The rep.ort given below shows a ~arl~ed .im-
provement in the fiqances of the. mstttutwn, 
exceodi ng, by far, the most sangmne expecta-
tions of its best friends. 
We feel that the pros-
pering hand of God ha~ been over thi~ part of 
his work, because of whLCh we feel to mcrease 
our faithfulness and take eoui'age. 
The following shows the financial standing 
of the institution:-
Resolved, That we deem it expedient to continue 
its publication, and that we will do all we can to 
extend its influence and usefulness by giving it a 
wide circulation. 
WHEREAS, The accommodations of the Rural 
Health Retreat were inadequate for the proper care 
and treatment of patients making· application; 
therefore, 
· 
Resolved, That we approve the action of tho:;;e 
having charge, in providing adrlitional room and 
faci I i ties. 
WHEREAS, Our p"ast is an indication of future 
success; and, 
WHEREAS, vVe believe that our future prosperity 
depends largely upon our properly fitting up the 
grounds, perfecting our appliances, and having am-
ple accommodations; therefore, 
Resolved, That we recommend that improvC'ments 
to this end be made as fast as practicable. 
Resoh·ed, That the report of the working of the 
Rura-l Health Retreat for the year ending Aprill, 
1886, and the resolutions adopted at this meeting, be 
sent to the Re'view and HeT.ald and the SIGNS OF 
THE TIMES for publication. 
J. S. GIBBS, Secretary. 
Switzerland. 
I CLOSED up my present effort in Lausanne, 
Switzerland, .M.ay 3, having spoken nearly fifty 
times. The previous Sabbath and Sunday were 
precious days to us, Brother and Sister Whi.te 
being with us. 
Sabbath, at the close of a dis-
course by Sister E. G. White, translated simul-
taneously into German and French, by Elder 
Conradi and the writer, fifteen new converts 
took part in a social meeting. Up to that time 
twen t.y persons had decided to obey the truth. 
Yesterday Brother Conradi informed me that 
thirty persons are obeying. 
r:rhis has· been a 
most precious season to us. 
I am now searching public libraries for facts 
on baptism and on other -subjects, for future use. 
D. rr. BOURDEAU. 
Geneva, May 11, 1886. 
Not Good Enoug·h Just Now.· 
we are competent to do. 
J u3t at present, in 
scores of churches, it is tho bestirring ourselves 
to pray and labor for souls, in the belief that 
now is a. harvest time, and that prayer, instruc-
tion, and appeal, and every form of co-opera-
tion with fellow-Christians, and of effort for the 
consecration of the impenitent, may be ex-
pected to secure immediate and large resulLs.-
C ong'regationalis t. 
-
atninm~ntarJJ. 
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. 
Jesus tile Christ. 
(June 13.-John 7: 37-52.) 
THE feast of tabernacles was celebrated to 
commemorate the time when the Hebrews 
dwelt in tents during their sojourn in the wil-
. derness. While this groat festival lasted, the 
people wc:re required to leave their houses and 
live in booths made of green branches of pine, 
or myrtle. These leafy strncturos were some-
times erected on the tops of the houses, and in 
the streets, but oftener outside the walls of the 
city, in the ·valleys and along the bill-sides-. 
Scattered about in every direction, these green 
camps presented a very picturesque appearance. 
rrhe feast lasted one week, and during all 
that time the temple w·as a festal scene of 
great rejoicing. There was the pomp of the 
sac1'ificial ceremonies; and the sound of music, 
mingled with hosannas, made the place jubilant. 
At the first dawn of day, the priests sounded a 
long, shrill blast upon their silver trumpets; 
and the answering trumpets, and the glad 
shouts of the people from their booths, echoing 
over hill and valley, welcomed tho festal day. 
Then the priests dipped frpm the flowing waters 
of the Kecll·on a flagon of water, and, lifting it 
on high, while the trumpets were sounding, be 
ascended the broad steps of the temple, keeping 
"WELL, he is a good man," s"aid the pastor, a time with the music with slow and measured 
little sadly. "Yes," replied the deacon, "but tread, chanting meanwhile: "Our feet shall 
he is not good enough just now." 
They were stand within thy gates, 0 Jorusa1em! ~' 
talking confidentially of a fellow-member of 
He bore the flagon to the altar, which occu-
their own church, a man of high character, free pied a central position in the temple court. 
from noticeable evil habits, regular in religious Here were two silver basins, with a priest 
observances, and an intelligent and interesting standing at each one. 
Tho flagon of water was 
Sunday-school teacher. But there were signs poured into one basin, and a flagon of wino into 
of the Spirit's special presence in the congregn-the other; and-the contents of botb flowed into, 
tion. 
Here and there the voice of inquiry a pipe which communicated wilh the Kedron~ 
after the way of Galvation had been heard al-and was conducted to the Dead .Sea. 
rrhis dis-
ready. It was plain that, if the church would play of the consecrated water represented the 
rouse itself to realize and use its opportunity, fountain that flowed from the rock to refresh 
a genuine, and perhaps a eonsiderablc, revival the Hebrews in the wilderness. 
r~:rhen the jubi-
would follow. 
But be of whom his pastor and lant strains rang forth:-
the deacgn were speaking, seemed to be un-
"The Lord 'Jehovah is my strength and 
co.nscious of the .situation. 
rrhere was no fault song;" "therefore with joy shall we draw 
in particular to be found with ?is li.fe, but when water out of the 'veils of salvation!" 
All the 
it would have been natural for him to be all vast assembly joined in triumphant chorus with 
alert with eager ~ctivity~ especially in prayer musical instruments and deep-toned trumpets, 
Net value, May 5, 1885 ........... ·. · · · .$5,322.76 
for and labbr with his own Sabbath-school class, while competent choristers conducted the grand 
Net gain for eleven months · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 3,458.37 
he seemed amiably unconscious that any special harmonious concert of praise. 
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waving of palm branches, the glad hosannas, 
the above statement. 
The words contain a suggestion worth general the great concourse of people, over which the 
The following resolutions were adopted:-
heed. 
To be a live Christian is not merely to light streamed from the hanging lamps, the, 
WHEREAS, We have seen the hand of God during accept the crospel truth, and to conform the dazzling array of the priests, and tho majesty 
the past year il'l giving special favor and prosperity conduct tber~to as a habit. It is also the keep-of thG ceremonies, all combined to make a scene 
to the Rural Health Retreat; therefore, 
incr ourselves alive to the needs of the hour; that deeply impressed all beholders·. 
Resolved, That we feel under renewed obli~ation 
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The ·east was drawing to a close. 
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has attended this branch of his work,· and that in thin(J' crood for whatever Christ would have us morning of the last, crowning day found the 
return for these blessings we will not cease our en-be d~i~"'g for him. It is being loyal to him not people wearied from the long season of festivity. 
deavors to work in harmony with his will in build-merely ~in refusing ~o ally o~rsel~os "':itb hi:-;, Suddenly Jesus lifted up his voice in tones that 
ing up the institution. 
enemies nor even m engagmg m hiS work rang. through tho courts of the temple:-
WHEREAS, The H_er!lth '!oU?·nal an~ 1'empe?·-bearLily' enough to es~ape the c.hargo of i~differ-
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TI~E SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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people made this appeal very forcible. 
·They-~ whom tbGy were commanded to arrest as a see rendering of this text, also of 1 Cor. 13, in 
had b.eer~ ~ngage~ in a continued scene of po~p criminal. 
rrhe~ were unequal to the task set Revised Version. 
and festivity, theJL· eyes had been dazzled w1th them by the pnests and rulers; they could not 
7. And ·what is love? 
light and color, and their ears 1:egaled 'Nith the summon courage to lay bands upon this pure 
":For this is the love of God, that we keep his 
richest music; but there had been nothing to 13cing who stood, with the light of Heaven commandments; and his commandments are 
meet the wants of the spirit, nothing to sntisfy upon his countenance, preaching a free salva-not grievous." 1 John 5:3. "Love workoth 
the thirst of the soul for that which perishes tion. 
As they stand exeusing themselves for no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the ful-
not. 
Jesus invited them to come and drink of not obeying their orders; and 
t~ayi ng, "Never filling of the law." 
Rom. 13 : 10. 
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tho fountain of life, of that which should be in· man spake like this man," the Pharisees, en-
8. Then to what is Paul's statement in 1 r:rim. 
them a well of. water spi·inging up into. ever-raged that even these tools of the law should be 1:5 equivalent? Now the design of the com-
lasting life. 
influenced by this Galilean peasant, cry out mandment (or htw) is that it should be kept. 
The priest had that morning performed the angrily:-
9. If a man kept the law bow would be stand 
imposing ceremony which· represented the smit-
''Are ye also deceived? Have any of the before God? 
ing of the rock in the 'vvildcmoss and the issuing rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 
".For not the bearers of the law are just be-
therefi.·om of the water. 
That rock was a fig-
But this people, who knoweth not the law, are fore God, but the doers of the law shall be jus-
ure of Christ. 
His words were the water of <.;nrsed." 
They then proceed to lay plans to tified." 
Rom. 2: 13. 
life. As Jesus spoke thus to the people, their condemn and execute Jesus immediately, fear-
10. Then what may be said to be the end or 
beartR thrilled with a stra1rge awe, and many ful that if he is left free any longer he will gain deHign of the law? 
rl'o justify men before God. 
were ready to exclaim, with the. woman of all the people. 
They decide that their only 'l'his may truly be said to be its object, for it 
Samaria, "Give me of this water that I thirst hope is to speedily silence him. 
But Nicode-_will justi(y only the obedient, and it is the de-
not." 
mus, one of the Pharisees, and he who bad sign that thelaw should be obeyed. 
The words of the Divine Teacher presented come to Jesus in the night and had been taught 
11. What would be necessary in order that a 
his gospel in a most impressive figure. 
More of him concerning the new birth, speaks out man could be called a "doer of the law"? lt . 
than eighteen hundred years have passed since boldly:-
. 
would be necessary that he should have kept 
tho lips of Jesns pronounced those words in the 
"Doth our law judge any man before it hear the law in every particular during every roo-
hearing of thousands of thirsty souls; but they him, and know what be doetb?" For a mo-
ment of his life. 
are as comforting and cheering to our hearts to-ment silence falls on the assembiy. 
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12. Has anybody ever kept the law thus per-
day, and as full of hope, as to those who ac-
mus was a rich and influential man, learued in fectly? 
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cepted them in the Jewish temple. 
Jesus the law, and holding a high position among the 
'"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, 
knew the wants of the human soul. 
Hollow rulers. 
What be said w:1s true, and came home not one; there is none that understandeth, there 
pomp, riches and honor, cannot satisfy the to the Pharisees with startling emphasis; they is none that seeketh after God. 
They at·e all 
heart. "If any man thirst, let him come unto could not condemn a man unheard. 
But g.one out of the way, they are togeth.er become 
mo." 
The rich, the poor, the high, the low, are this was not the only reason that the haughty unprofit:1ble; there is none that doetb good, no, 
alike welc·)med. 
He promises to relieve the rulers remained confoun.ded, gazing at him who not one." 
.Rom. 3: 10-12. 
burdened mind, to comfort the sorrowing, an~ bad so boldly spoken in favor ofjustice. 
They 
13. 'l'hen must not the law fail of it.s object 
give hope to the despondent. 
Many of those were startled and uhagt·inecl that one of their in securing the justification of men? 
who heal'd Jesus wore mourners ovet· disap-own number bad been so impressed by tho 
"Therefore by the deeds of Lhe law Lhere 
pointed hopes, sorne were nourishing a secret power of Jesus as to openly defend him in the shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by the 
grief, some were seeking to satis(y the restless council. 
When they recovered from their as-law is the knowledge of sin." 
Rom. 3: 20. 
longing of the Roul with the things of this tonishment, they addressed him with cutting 
14. How, then, is it possible for a man to se-
world and tho praise of men; but when all this sarcasm:-
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cure justification? 
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was gained, tbey found that they had toiled to 
''Art thou also of Galilee? Search and look; 
".Being justified freely by his grace through 
reach only a broken cistern, from which they for ont or' Galilee ariseth no prophet." 
But the·redemption that is in Christ Jesus; 'vViJOm 
could not quench their fever thirst. 
Amid all they were nevertheless unable to carry their God bath set forth to be a propitiatiou through 
tho glitter of tho joyous scene they stood, dis-purpose, and condemn Jesus without a bearing. faith in bis blood, to declare his righteousness 
satiRfiod anJ sad. 
The sudden cry, "lf any rrhoy were defeated and crct:lt-fallen for the for the remission of sins that are past, through 
man thirst-" startles them from their sorrow-time, and "every man wont unto his own the forbearance of God." 
Rom. 3: 24, 25. 
ful meditation, and as they listen to tho words house."-Afrs. E. G. Wh,ite, in·" Gr·eat Oontr·o-
15. rrhen in what souse may Christ be called 
that follow, their minds kindle with a new versy." 
the end of the law? He secures the justification 
hope. 
They look upon the Lifogiver standing 
of men, a thing which the law can no longer do. 
in majesty before them, divinity flashing through 
THE LAW 0 F G 0 D. 
16. What have we lean1ed was a primary 
his humanity and revealing his heavenly power 
design of the law? See ail~•wer to question 8. 
in words that thrill their hearts. 
Christ the :Eucl of the Law. 
17. ls it possible for any man to meet this re-
The cry of Chris~ to the thirsty soul is still 
quir~ment? 
going forth. lt appeals tons with oven greater 
(Lesson 9.-Sabbath, June 19.) 
".For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and 
power than to those who heard it in the temple 
1. WHAT doos Paul say that Chrit~t is to every the Spirit again~t the flesh; and these are con-
on that last day of tho feast. 
The weary and one tbnt believeth? 
trary the one tb tbe other; RO that ye cannot 
exhausted ones are offered the refreshing 
''For Obrist is the end of the law for right-
do the things that ye would." 
G::Ll. 5: 17. 
draught of eternal lifo. Jesus invites them to eousness to every one that believeth." 
Rom. 
18. How is it possible for any one to do what 
rest in him. 
He will take their burdens. 
He 10:4. 
is required? 
will give them peace. Centuries before the 
2. Does Lhis mean that Christ came to abol-
"I am the vine, ye are the branche~3. 
He 
advent of Christ, Isaiah described him as a ish the law? 
that abideth in me, and I in him, the same 
"hiding-place from the wind," a "covert from 
"Think not that 1 am come to destroy the bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye 
the tempest," as "the shadow of a great rock law, or the prophets; 1 am not como to destroy, ·can do nothing." 
John 15: 5. 
in a weary land." 
All who como to Christ re-bnt to fulfill." 
Matt. 5: 17. 
''The Lord is well 
19. For what express purpose did Christ suf-
ceive his love in their hearts, which is the pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will mag-fer for man? 
water that springR ug unto evorlh.sting life. ni(y the law, a11d make it honorable." 
Isa. 
"For what the law could. not do, in that it 
Those who receive it impart it in turn to others, 42: 21. 
was weak through the flesh, God sending his 
in good works, in right examples, and in Chris-
3. In what_ sense besides "termination" is own So11 in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for 
tian counsel: 
the word" end" frequently nsod? 
Design, ob-sin, condemned sin in tho flesh; that the right-
The day was 0ver, and the Pharisees and ject, or purpose. See Webster's Unabridged eousnoss of the law might be fulfilled in us, who 
rulers waited impatiently for a report from Lho Dictionary, definition 4. 
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." 
-officers whom they bad set upon the track of 
4. Quote a text from the Bible where it evi-Rom. 8: 3, 4. 
Jesus, in order to arrettt him. 
But their emis-
dently has this meaning. 
20. 'l,hen how again is Christ the end of the 
saries return without him. 
They are angrily 
"Behold, we count them happy which endure. law? 
He enables those who are" .in, him" to 
·asked, ''Why have ye not brought him?" The Ye have beard of the patience of Job, and have keep the law, tb us fulfilling its design. 
officers, with solemn countenances, answer, seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very 
(To be continuecf,.) 
"N over man sp'ake like this man." 
Dealing pitiful, and of tender mercy." J amos 5: 11; or 
'with violence and crime had naturally bard-
any of the following: Rom. 14: 9; Jobu 18: 37; 
ened the hearts of these men; but they were Amos 5 : 18; Luke 18: 1; Heb. 13: 7; 1 Peter 
not so unfeeling as the priests and elders, who 1 : 9. 
had resolutely shut out the light and given 
5. What does Paul elsewhere say is the end 
themselves up to envy and malice. 
of the law? 
The officers had beard the words of Jesus in 
"Now the end of the commandment is char-
THE stimulating power and comfort of sym-
pathy-none can exp'ress save he who· has real-
ized it. lt bas a power like the magnet, 
unseen, but potent, which draws to itself the 
wandering, scattered particles that exist around 
it.-Sel. 
the temple, they had felt the wondrous infl nonce ity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, 
of his presence, and their hearts had been and of faith unfeigned." 
1 Tim. 1 : 5. 
THERE is one thing almost as strong as truth 
strangely softened and drawn toward him
1 
6. vVbatisthemeaningof"charity"? Love; itself, and that is persecuted error. 
332 [l2] 
'1-,HE SIGNS OF TI-IE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 21. 
<1{irclt. 
LIGHT AT NIGH'T'. 
THE day had been long and gloomy, 
Weary with mist and rain, 
A day for the heart to brood on 
Sorrow and loss and pain; 
But there came with the light of evening 
A wind that swept away 
All the ::;hadow of darkness 
Out of the winter day. 
Is thy life, 0 pilgrim, weary, 
Veiled from the cheering light? 
Perhaps for thee is the promise 
Of joy with the waning light. 
Fairer than noonday splendor, 
Hicher than beams of stars, 
The lustrous glory of sunset 
May burn through the golden bars. 
-Margaret Sangste1·. 
Sbaring. 
"WHAT time are we going away this sum-
mer John'?" asked Mrs. Brace of her husband. 
"~Vby, .T1am·~, I vnts wondering if ':e. c~ul.d 
not draw w a It ttle on onr flU mmcr d01 ngs LhlS 
season. Times are very h: ;J:d~ and-" 
"Do you mean to say that we are not to go 
to the sea-shore, or to the mountains?'' she 
asked in some surprise. 
"-\Vhy, I thought perhaps we would m~~age 
the matter more cheaply somehow. 
Bnt lf you 
really think it must be done. ofcourse it must." 
,, f don't know how it ·would do to keep the 
children in town." 
"If you think they need it, all right, my 
dear. 1 think yon need a change more than 
they do, to shake off your cares." 
, . 
He spoke affectionately, and she K1ssed him 
and considered it sealed, as he added:-
" I shall have to take you and the uhildren 
and leave you whero you deuide to go, ~tnd then 
go for you. 
I must stay by the busmess; so 
I'll sleep in the house while you are gouo~ and 
take my meals dovvn town." 
. 
Mrs. Brace bad been brought up wtth the 
idea that husbands were to be teased and 
coaxed a little on points of expenditur·e. 
To 
do her ju·stice, ~~e was quito willing t~ do her 
part in economtztng when she thought 1t .neces-
sary, but bad become so accustomed to the 1dea of 
business men earning in offiees and warehouses 
the money to be spent for home and its luxu-
ries that she lived along with little thought as 
to ~hether tho burden of life was oq nally 
divided between man and wife. 
John wished her good-by as he left for the 
day's businosf', and soo"n aftorw~rds the mo~n­
ing mail brought her a letter from a favor1te 
consi n which read thus:-
DEAl=t LAURA: We are going to the Thon-
s-and hies this year, and want you to join us 
there. 
W (ll want to make a good, long summer 
of it so couldn't you be ready by Juno 15. 
Wish' you would let me know, if possible, by 
1:etnrn mail, for Henry will wait until we bear 
from you when he will write and engage ac-
commodations for all of us. And say what 
amount of room you will need. 
Lovingly yours, 
KATE. 
The proposal was a :rory pleasant one. 
"I believe," she sa1d to herself, "as Kate 
is in a burry, I'll take a r:ttl down and talk 
to John about it, after I h:we finished my 
shopping this morning. It will make a longer 
absence this summer than we expected, but he 
will aoTee to it if 1 ask him, and then I can let 
Kate know by the afternoon mail." 
Two bours'later Mrs. Brace was maki;tg her 
wav further dovvn town than she had ever been 
ons, contriving after some inquiry to find that 
one of the dingy buildings was tho mill which 
ground out her share of the !!OOd things of lifo. 
Little of luxury found its h01'ne here. Sunshine 
could not make its way between tho high walls, 
and at Rome desks gat; was burning ncar noon 
of this bright day. And thore were unwhole-
some smells which Mrs. Brace did not like. 
It was a busy place, much loading and un-
loading, and running to and fro, and refe1~ring 
to managers and clerks. Mrs. Brace at length 
caught sight of her husband. 
So many seemed 
to be claiming his attention that sbo sat down 
on a box andaited. 
Glancing at his face she 
was struck with an expression unlike any she 
bad ever seen upon it at home. The look of 
keen, nervous attention to what was going on 
seemed to bring out a sharpness of feature 
which was new to her, altbongh it had occurred 
to her once or twice lately that John was look-
ing rather thinner than usual. 
Bnt it bad 
quickly passed from her mind and she now 
gazed uneasily as it became more and more 
impressed upon her that he really was changed. 
A slight lull in the demauds upon him 
brought upon his face in place of tho air of 
alertness, a languid, careworn look which smote 
her heart. He leaned his bead upon his band 
and tbon started as she gently laid her hand 
on his shoulder. 
"You hero, Laura? Is anything weong?" 
"No, I-1vns down town and took it into my 
head to make you a ·visit." 
He -vvns gratified at' seeing her, aod led her 
about tho warehouRo, explaining things pertain-
ing to the business. 
"Como with me, and spend the rest of tho 
day at home, John," sbe urged, when ·ialcillg 
leave of bim. 
"Coulclu't do it, dear. 
Business is prossing." 
In her tasteful home with its light cares, 
regarded so tenderly by John, she bad never 
taken a thought of what his burdens and his 
surroundings might bo. 
Now sbe had seen 
Lis busino::ls place and his business face. 
"I have been selfish and heartless," she said 
to herself. 
"How could I ever endure it to 
spend my days in such a place? And to think 
how quietly I agreed with poor John, that ho 
conld stay at work all summer, while the rest 
of us went away for our health-which simply 
moans for a good time. 
Not one of us needs to 
go half so much as he does." 
Arriving at home, she wrote to Cousin Kate 
her regrets that she could not join her· party. 
"I have been thinking, John," 
~::>be said to 
him the same evening, "that wherever we go 
this summer you must go too." 
"l can't get away, I1anra. It will require 
the mbst careful watching to pnll through these 
times." 
"Then we'll all stay. Look at us; we're all 
well. 
'l'he children are as plump and rosy as 
cherubs. 
We have more yard room than many 
others have, and we'll give them some cheap 
little nms into the country and days in the 
parkB, as the hot weather comes on." 
"You don't mean to stay at home all sum-
1ner, Laura?" 
"Well, when it gets late in the season we 
might spend a week or two up at Uncle John's 
farm, if you will go too. It would make t.he 
summer expenses very light. 
·will it be much 
of a help to you?" 
"Help? , Wlly, I1aura, it will be half the 
burden off." 
"0h, John," she s~id, with her arm about 
him, '-that's just the proportion of it that I 
want to bear."-Sidney Dayr·e, in Cong?·egation-
alist. 
before. 
A street-ear caiTied her throngh un-
GoD never accepts a good inclination instead 
known distances of tall, solid, unattractive look-of a good action, where that action may be 
ing buildings, very different from those on the done. 
a~enues and tboroup;bfares which made up 
''the city" to her. 
She was set down in a be-
MEN show thoi e character in nothing more 
wildering confusion of drays and express wag-
clc~arly than by what they think is laughable. 
A Criss-Cross Day. 
"COME, Amy, it's seven o'clock; get up." 
It waR a winter morning, and Mrs. Strong 
was calling her little daughter. 
Amy awoke at the sound of her mother's 
voice, but she did not get up right away. 
She lay still, thinking bow nice and warm it 
was in bod and how cold it mnst bo ont-of-doors. 
She knew by tho grating of wheels over the 
frozen earth outside that it was a cold day, 
very cold. 
1
1hat reminded her of a poor woman whom 
she bad seen knocking at tho door of an oppo-
site bouse the night before; and then she be-
gan to think how grand it would be to bo 
grown up, and rich like their neio-bbor, Mrs. 
Jones, alld to have. poor people coming to her 
door all the while and asking fot· help, and 
never to send them away 
di~appointed, be-
cause f.? he would have enough money to give 
them all something. 
Then how grateful they 
would bo, and how much the.y would love 
her, and bow they would speak of her as the 
benevolent Ul's.--. She bad not quite de-
cided what her name should be, when her 
father came to the door. 
"Amy, are you ready for breakfast? Come 
down-stairs right away if you arc." 
There was a sudden end to the day-dream. 
Amy jumped up and dressed herself just as 
fast as sh o could. 
She was in snch haste that she did not get 
her hair very smooth, and, sad to relate, she 
knelt down to say her prayers w bile she was 
buttoning her dross. Of course she could not 
think of what she was saying, and so she re-
peated," Now I Jay me down to sleep," instead 
of, "Now I wake and see tho light." Then 
without any real thought of asking tho Lord 
Jesus to bo with her through tho da.r~ she hur-
ried to the breakfast table. The rest of the 
family wore through eating by that time, and 
Amy's food being cold did not seem to bo as 
good as usual. 
After her meal she bad to help her mother 
with the housework, but I am afi·aid her part 
of it was not very well dono, because she bad 
to hurry so much in order to get ready for 
school. 
· 
As she ful tin hor pockets for her mittens she 
fonnd two pennies there that somebody had 
given bot· the clay before. ·She glanced at the 
clock to see· whether she would have time to 
stop at the C'andy store, and made up her mimi 
to rnn the risk uf doing so. 
She wns leaving tho shop with two sticks of 
peppermint carefully rolled up in a piece of 
brown paper, when she met a school-mftte. 
'l,his little girl, whose na.me was Katy Brown, 
was the daughter of a very poor woman. 
She was shabbily dressed. Indeed, her cloth-
ing was not thick enough to koop her warm, 
and her face was so drawn and pinched that it 
looked as though it ought to belong to an old 
woman rather than to a little girL 
"Won't you give me some candy, Amy? I 
haven't had any in ever so long." 
... 
''Then ask your mother to give you money 
and let you bny some; I want mi1 e myself." 
Could that have boon .A_my Strong who an-
swered so unkindly and selfishly? 
vVas it the 
Amy Strong who had been thinking that morn-
ing bow nice it would be to help everybody? 
Wa.s it the Amy who had promised her mother 
at the beginning of the year that she would 
try to grow more like Jesus every day? 
When the two ehildren reached the school 
the teacher was calling the roll. Amy was 
just in time to sa.y "late," and to have a long 
black mark put opposite her name. 
That wol'ried her so that she could not think 
abont her geography lesson when she tried to 
study it; and then in the class, when she was 
asked, "vVhat is the capital of Maine?" she 
said, "Androscoggin." 
This was so funny that all the girls laughed 
JUNE 3, 1886. 
TI-IE SIGNS OF T£-IE TIMES. 
[lS] 333 
r -all but Amy herself, who was so angry that 
she almost. cried. 
It was just as bad all through the session. 
Amy made oue misLake after auother, and at 
last tho teacher told her that she must stav af-
ter school to study. 
" 
How long that hour was! the hour in which 
she was "kept in." It seemed as though it 
would never be over. But it was at last, and 
then Amy r1,18hed homo to Lor mother to be 
comforted. 
"0h, mnrnma, isn't it dreadful? Everything 
has gone criss-<;ross all day, and I didn't moan 
to be nangh ty at all!" 
The teat·s came then thick and fast. 
When 
the shower was over, Mrs. Strong coaxed Amy 
to tell her the whole story of the day's mis-
doings. 
"1 think," she said kindly, "that my little 
girl made two mistakes bofm·e breakfast. 
'.fhe 
first was in 110t minding her mamma at once, 
. and tho second was in not asking the }_;ord 
Jesus to be with her through the day. Let me 
teach you a verse that Christ tf\.ught his disci-
ples. It is this: 
'Wi~hout me ye can do noth-
ing.'" 
·without his blessing neither children nor 
grown people can hope to _have either pleasant 
or useful days.-Ch1·istictn Intell(gencer. 
How Cameos Are Cut. 
GREA'l' numbers of camooR are mrrclo in Italy, 
but the fino8t come from Paris. The quartz 
blocks from which the cn,moos are cut arc im-
ported into this country in shapes ready for 
cutting. 
The kinds of quartz most commonly 
used a.re onyx, sardonyx, chalcedony, jasper, 
turquois; certain species of shells are also used. 
They can be· cut on any stone or jewel except a 
diamond. 
A cameo difl'ers from an intaglio in 
that it is exeC'.uteu in relief, while the latter is 
a sunk engraving. 
Cameos are best cut in 
minerals which present various bands of two or 
more distinct colors. 
The raised engraving is 
generally of one color, while the background is 
of a strongly contrasted color. 
The former is 
generally white and the latter dark. 
rrhe 
cutter draws with a lead pencil on the white 
surfnce of the block the design which ho intends 
to produce in cameo. 
He then follows the 
outlines with n diamond nnd cuts away the 
white parts outsiJe. If the stone.is small, be 
cements it on the end of a stick; if large, be 
holds it in his hand, and proceeds to work upon 
it with fine drills. He sits at a table like a 
sowing machine table and by a treadle works a 
smnll lathe situated at his right. At his left is 
a frame filled with drills made of steel wire and 
of all varieties of shapes. The ends of the drills 
arc covered with diamond dust gronnd in olive 
oil. 
rrbe dust is obtained by crushing uncut 
diamo1tds by blows of a hammer in a small steel 
mortar. 
'.fhe cutter has placed before him a 
picture or a model of tho su bjoct to be ma.Je. 
Everything then depends upon the correctness 
of his eye and his artistic instincts. 'rbe work 
is inexpressibly slow, but when completed it is 
marvelously perfect.. 
Althongh very small, the 
figures delineated are as complete in every 
detail as though they were ten feet high. A 
skilled workm[m will often make an elegant 
cutting or even a portrait without any model 
whatever. This making of cameo portraits is 
011e of the most steady sources of revenue 
in the business. 
Thev are made of various 
sizes, and the likeness" is very striking. 
'1
1ho 
price varies from $50 to $300 each. 
The aver-
age time of cutting is about 120 hours.-New 
Yor·k Mail and Exp?"ess. 
"BE cheerful; do not brood over fond hopes 
um·enlized until a chain, link by link, is fastened 
on each thought and wound around the heart. 
N atnre intended you to be the fountain spring 
and cheerfulness of social life, and not the trav-
eling monument of despair and melancholy." 
~ealtlt 
(Qt£nt~£ranc£. 
"JAl
EB DuNTON arrested for drunkenness 
and disord(~rly cor:dnct. 
Fined five dollars. 
In default of payment, sent to jail for thirLy 
days." 
'rbis item in the morning paper met my eye, 
and I read it again, for the name seemed famil-
iar. 
Could it be possible that this was my old 
school-mate? And my mind turned back to tb<"l 
time when James stood among the brighteKt of 
his class. True, be was a little wild, and :-;oon 
after lea-ving school he commenced drinking, 
and vwuld occasionally bec.ome intoxicated. 
Then he joined a temperance organization, and 
seemed so deeply in earnest that I had really 
thought him safe fi'om all further temptation. 
Such was the condition of things when I 
moved to a distant city in the far West. I had 
been absent for ton years, and was now on a 
viAit to the old borne. I bad heard nothing of 
James Dun Lon during my absence, and supposed 
bim still working in the temperance ranks. 
Could it be possible that this was the same 
man? On inquiry, I found it to be true. James 
Dunton bad become a victim of intemperance, 
after abstaining for three years. He bad not 
simply gone back to his old ·way, but h::td f::tllen 
far lower, until the chances of his ever eeform-
ing seemed almost hopeless. I called on him, 
and learned the story of his fall:-
,,I had tasted no kind of liquor for more 
·than throe years, and bad conquered the old 
habit so f::tr that it had little or no temptation 
for me. 
One evening I attended a party cele-
brating the birthday of a lady friend. 
·wine 
and other liquors were used quite freely. 
I 
had twice refused to drink, when the hostess 
approached and offered me a glass of wine. 
I 
begged her to excuse me from accepting it, but 
she answered somewhat petulantly:-
"' I should think yon might drink once with 
me in honor of this occnsion.' 
"As I said something about the principle 
involved, and the possibility of a single glass 
leading to further indulgence, she retorted 
rathet· sneeriwdy:-
"' Oh! I bog 'your pardon. I had supposed 
that Mr. Dunton was man enough to drink a 
lJarmh\ss glass of wine without fear of becom-
ing a drunkard.' 
.,, This :-;Lab n,t my pride, in the pretwnce of 
others vvho had no scruples aLout taking an 
occasion~1l glass, bad its effect, and with .some 
light remark in reference to the excuse I had 
been making, l took the wine and quickly 
drank it. Tbis led to another, and then an-
other, for I witlhod to show the lady that I had 
sufficient manhood to drink several glasses of 
wine if I chose. The result was, I was carried 
home beastly drunk. 
After that night all the 
old cravings eame back tenfold. 
I tried to 
fight against it, but it seemed of no use. 
My 
courage a,ll forsook me, and I becmne reckless. 
In my false attempt to sustain my manhood I 
had lost all. 
I feel now that my fate is fixed 
and there is no help for it. 
The sooner the 
end comes the better for all concerned." 
· I tried to encourage him to hope for better 
things, but he would not listen. 
As I went away I thought of the wonderful 
influence of woman, and how sad that it should 
ever be put to sucb bad use-that it should be 
used to lead .men downward, when it might do 
so much toward lifting them up. 
The loss of 
manhood through life, and of soul through 
eternity, are too weighty matters to be trifled 
away.-0. L. Hilt. 
I Al
 within the truth when I state that in 
four cases out of five, when an offense has been 
C~g·arettes. 
CIGARETTES are largely used by boys; but cig-
arette smokers~ both young and old, usually re-
gard witb skepticism the statements made by 
physicians eonceming the evil consequences of 
the habit. 
The smokers say that their cigar-
et.Les are made of the "purest Virginia;" but if 
they want to know what this "purest Virginia" 
is, they should read what a large manufacturer 
of tobacco recently said to a New York re-
porter. 
"'l'ho quantity of drugs used in uigar-
ettes is appalling," he declared, "and the com-
monest of these is valerian and tincture of 
opium. 
An experienced tobncconist can de-
tect tho presence of valerian by the smell. 
The 
drug imparts a sweet, soothing effect, that in a 
little time obtains a fascinating control over 
the smoker. 
Tho more cigarettes he smokes, 
the more he desires to smoke, just as is the ease 
with one who uses opium. 
'rhe desire grows 
into a_passion. The smoker becomes a slave to 
the enervating habit.. 
"By the nso of drugs it is possible to make 
a very inferior quality of tobacco pleasant. 
CigaTettes are put on the market at such a price 
that the poorest can easily procure them, and 
boys go in swarms for them." 
"What is this Havana flavoring that is so 
much used?" 
"It is made from the tonca bean, which con-
tains a drug called mellolotis, a deadly poison, 
seven grains being sufficient to kill a dog. It 
bas become quite an article of commerce, and 
is extensively used in the manufacture of cigar-
ettes." 
"Does the paper wrapper of a cigarette add 
a great deal to· its injuriousness?" 
"Certainly. There are three sorts of paper. 
in common use, made respectively from cotton, 
from linen rags, aud from rice straw. 
Cotton 
paper is made chiefly in rl'rieste, Austria, 
and the linen and rice paper in Paris. 
"The first, manufautured fi·om the filthy 
scrapings of rag ·pickers, is bought in largo 
quantities by the manufacturers, who turn it 
into a pulp, and subject it to a bleaching proc-
ess to make it presentable. 
"The lime and other substances used in 
bleaching have a very harmful effect upon the 
membrane of the throat and nose. 
"Cotton paper is so cheap that a thousand 
cigarettes can be wrapped at a cost of only 
two con ts. Rice paper is rather expensive. 
Tobar;c<H1izod paper is also manufactured. 
''It is common paper saturated with to-
bacco in such a way as to imitate the veins 
of' the tobncco leaf very nearly. It is used in' 
making all tobacuo cigarettes. Arsenical prep-
arations arc also used in bleaching cigarette 
papers, and oil of creosote is produced natu-
rally as a cou::;eqnence of combustion. 
The 
ratter is very injurious to the throat and lungs, 
and is said to accelerate the development of 
consumption in any one predisposed to the 
disease."-Youth's Companion. 
Sonte of the Causes of Dandruff. 
PROMINENT among the "causes" are gross 
food, particularly the flesh of swine, with the 
lard, personal uncleanliness, more especially 
relating to tho care of tht head, sudeten 
changef:l in tho temperature, too much brain 
labor, greasing or oiling the hair, too muuh 
head clothing, keeping the head too warm, 
without sufficient ventilation, often attended by 
scalp diseases, irritation or inflammatory ten-
dencies. 
This dandruff is easily "removed"-
as it i::; albuminous, dissolved by alkalies-by 
washing the scalp in saleratus water, by which 
it is speedily dissolved. It is not necessary to 
have it very strong, a teaspoonful to a half-pint' 
of water.-D1·. Hanaford, in Western Plowman. 
committed, intoxicating drink has been one of 
AcTs are threads, but oft repeated they be-
the causes.-Late Inspector of English Prisons. come habits, which are ropes and chains. 
334 [l4] 
THE SIGNS OF TI--1E TIMES. 
-VoL. 12, No. 21. 
"Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?" 
PROPERLY understood, the fear of the Lord 
covers the whole sphere of human life, and takes 
in every relation that man can bold. 
But in 
every age error has been cherished on this 
point. 
Among all the ancient heathen, and 
even among some of the corrupt forms of Chris-
tianity, a divorce has been made between re-
ligion and morality as if they belonged to dif-
ferent spheres, and one could be cultivated 
without the other. 
As if, in foresight of this 
grievous misconception, and to guard against 
?-DY possible mistake, there is added to the firt~t 
statement another of. similar character and of 
equal comprehensiveness. 
"And to depart fr<;>m evil is understanding." 
Religion is not simply theoretic or emotional. 
It does not consist in lofty opinions and fine 
phrases, but is intensely practical. 
On its hu-
man side it moulds the whole man after the orig-
inal pattern, and thus includes ethics in the 
broadest sense of the term. 
The negative form 
of the statement is owing: doubtless, to the char-
acter of man as sinful and fallen. 
Prone as he is 
by nature and practice to follow that which is 
evil, natur~~lly the precept to him takes the pro-
hibitory form found in the decalogue. 
To de-
part feom evil, is to revolutionize a man's whole 
course and character. lt takes in thought, 
word, and deed. It comp1·ehends all relations 
-
domestic, social, civil, and ecclesiastical. It 
extends from the dawn of conscious moral 
agency to the last expiring breath. Nor is it 
possible to depart from evil without in the very 
act following that which is good, and so fulfill-
ing one's whole duty. 
Now this is what God says to man. It is not 
for us to comprehend him whose judgments 
are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out. 
There are many things in the divine adminis-
tration which completely baftle every attempt 
we make to explain them. 
Much that occurs 
seems to us quite at variance with the wisdom 
which we know to be infinite. 
Again and 
again we meet wit-h matters in regard to which 
we are unable to say why they are, or why 
God permits them, or how the fact of their ex-
istence is to be reconciled with his divine per-
fections. 
All we cn,n do is to join with Elihu 
in his uttcrhnce:-
'' Behold, God is great, and we know him-not." 
'l'he secret thn,t resolves all mysteries, and har-
monizes n,ll seeming conLt·a.dictions, is hidden in 
the infinite mind a.lone. 
God alone compre-
hends the ways of GocL 
But this fact, while it bumbles man's pride, 
by no mea.ns rednceR him to despair. 
Because, 
while it is the glory of God to conceal the order 
underlying the universe, be bas been pleased to 
rcvca.l in his condescending mercy all thn,t is 
needed for tho conduct of lifo. 
We do not, can-
not, know how ho governs tho world; our 
keenest inRight, our profoundest study fa.ils 
hero; Lut the great truths of religion and etLict:l 
we do know. They wore written on tho hen.rt 
of man when be was cren.tod (Rom. 2: 15), n,nd 
tl1ey have since been repeated in the volume of 
his word. 
Here is man\; wisdom; here is his 
understanding. 
Ingenious speculations n.bout 
tho mysteries of Providence or the methods of 
the divine Govei·nment are of no prn.ctical use. 
They only dn.rken counsel by words without 
knowledge. 
But the devout recognition of God 
and a studious conformity to his will, are sure 
gun.rantees of a happy and useful life. 
They 
enable a rna.n to discharge the end of his being, 
und to secure his own highest welf~tre.-Talbot 
W. Clwmbers, D. D., LL.D., in S. S. Times. 
A 
:M.AN cannot be a prosperous Christian 
without settled sessions of pra.yer. 
Opportuni-
ties to pray will be found when the heart is 
intent on the exerci.·e.-Ch1·istian at Work. 
"HE that rulcth his spirit is better than he 
that taketh a city." 
RELIGIOUS. 
-The Catholic Church, through the Baltimore 
Council, has forbidden its priests to attend horse-
races or theaters. 
-Two Americans in Japan are reported as hav-
ing been confirmed in the Buddhist faith. They 
are both graduates of Harvard College. 
-According to the Baptist Year Book there are 
1,500 students preparing for the ministry in the 
various schools of the denomination. 
.-We hasten to note the occurrence of one truth 
in the Baptist Flag. ·It is this: "Half of all the 
doctrines taught ill America to-day, even by Prot-
estants, are Roman Catholic doctrines." 
-The Turkish Government is closing many of 
the mission schools in Syria. The interest in edu-
cation has come to be so great, however, that the 
people are opening schools of their own. 
-The French Government took the pains to em-
ploy a corps of short-hand writers to make notes of 
Lent 8ermons in France.. The Ministry of Public 
Worship intends to know whether preachers take 
advantage of their pulpits to undermine the civil 
authority. 
-"Pope Leo is said to have an income of $1,500,-
000 annually, and it is stated on the authority of 
Monsignor Capel that the Pope's personal expenses 
are limited to $2.50 a day." If Monsignor Capel 
tells the truth, then the Pope is amassing a very 
pretty sum with which to further the arts of diplo-
macy for the church. 
-More is given to destroy than to save. During. 
the last thirty years war has caused Christian na-
tions the loss of 2,000,000 men and of $15,000,000,-
000; the yearly expenditure of these nations on 
standing armies is $2,500,000,000. 
And yet some 
think too much is gi veu to spread the principles of 
the gospel of peace throughout the world.-Chris-
tian at Wo1·k. 
-The New York Obse1·ve1· says: "The avernge 
Anarchist is made up of about equal parts of athe-
ism and ignorance. He does not hate law and order 
so much as he hates religion, and hi.s skill in blas-
phemy is only equaled by his dexterity with a beer-
mug. He is down on churches, -schools, banks, and 
'bloated monopolies' iu general, down on the fam-
ily, society, and government, down ou everything 
except the saloon." He may be iound down in 
the saloon .. 
-At a meeting of Congregational Churches in 
Litchfield, Conn., about one hundred and fifty years 
ago, the following action was taken: "Voted tbat 
this consociation judge general neglect of family 
prayer to be of so scandalous a nature as may 
fully debar the heads of families fro1\l special church 
privileges, and if continued in, exposes them to the 
censure of the church where they 1i ve, or to which 
they belon·g." If such acLion were taken by many 
churches at the present time, the membership would 
be materially diminished. 
· -The Ch1·istian at Wo1·lc says: "The territory of 
-Rev. C. E. Robinson says in the Old Testament 
Student: "l fear that too many young ministers, 
at graduation, know Jess of the English Bible, and 
how to use it, than some men otherwise uneducated, 
who have made it the subject of speci:d, constant, 
and reverent study. There are seminary students 
who know all about the great heresies of church 
history, and the dogmatic and philosophical differ-
ences between the great schools of theology, adept 
in Greek, Hebrew, and patrhitic lore, who might 
stand abashed before some plain expounder of the 
\iVord, thoroughly familiar with its te'Xt and spirit." 
We are glad that some are waking up to the fact 
that no nmoun t of "culture" in a minister will 
make up for ignorance of the Bible. 
SECULAR. 
-A new Mahdi has appeared in the Soudan. 
-Small-pox has again made its appearance in 
Montreal. 
-Dio Lewis left instructions that his body should 
be cremated. 
-Forest fires are doing great damage in Clare. 
County, Michigan. 
-Boycotting has been declared a criminal act by 
the Connecticut courts. 
-A tornado visited Welsar, Prussia, May 25, 
doing considerable damage to property. 
-The admiss:on of Dakota at this session of 
Congress, ie now regarded as improbable. 
--The Greek and Turkish armies are both retiring 
from the scene of their recent engagements on the 
frontier. 
-May 24 a fire in San Francisco destroyed prop-
erty to the amount of $75,000. The fire robbed 
sixty families of shelter and clothing. 
-A large bakery at Vallejo, Cal., was destroyed 
by fire at 2 : 30 o'clock, .A.. l\L, May 27. 
Two oakers 
lost t.heh' lives in the building. The money lol->s is 
$30,000. 
-Herr Most and two of his associates have been 
found o·uilty of misdemeanor for inciting riot in 
New Y~rk. The maximum penalty is one year's 
imprisonment. 
-A diRpatch from Venice, dated May 29, says: 
''During the last twenty-f~ur hours there ha_ve been 
thirtv-three new cases ot cholera and thHty-one 
deatl-;s in this city." 
-Says a daily paper:-" The steam laundry at Red 
Bluff has suspcndeu operations owing to the lack of 
patronage." Chinamen, it f!!e~ms, l.1ave n_o_t y~t lost 
their grip on the laundry busmess 111 Cal1forma. 
-Professor Leopold Van Ranke, the noted GerJ 
man historian, died at Berlin, May 23. 
He cele-
brated hi8 ninety-first birthday some time ag@, but 
continued nctive literary labor until his death. 
-The women of the Salvation Army in Bristof, 
Conn., have armed Lhemselves with cayenne pepper, 
to throw in to the laces of the ru:fli.ans who are ac-
customed to annoy them in their street pru·ades. 
-The Ohica2:o Grand J nry has returned twenty-
two indictmen t.r:;, thirteen of which are known to be 
against Anarchists, seven of them charging murd~r. 
The indictments have not yet beeu made public. 
Russian Siberia, one and a half times as large as the 
-South Carolina has been visited recently by 
United States, has belonged to Russin for three cent-most disastrous freshets. Thousands of acres of the 
uries, yet of the four million inhnbitants nearly best lands planted in corn and cotton were flooded, 
one-half are still pagans. Paganism is fostered by and immense damage was done. The railroads also 
the home Government. The pagan priests are al-
suffered greatly. 
lowed to collect and burn the copies of the Bible 
with which the missionaries supply the converts, 
-May 29 a Spanish_ revenue ?utter ~red upon 
and 110 missionary may baptize without the author-and seized three trading boats lll English waters 
near Gibraltar. The cutter was in turn fired upon 
~~y do~ ~t~cfs~tg:~y~l1~~lga~tlld~:~~~es6J~~{~t~~~i~l~~vo~~ from the rock, and was finally c:~pLured by an En-
tile country." 
. glbh armed launch. 
-Dr. Austin Phelps says: "One thing we must 
confess with downcast eye. It is the tendency ot 
the great Christian sects to lean up0n worldly 
gre.:tt.ness for their prestige. 
In apostolic times 
Christian assemblies needed the admonition respect-
ing the man with 'a gold ring and in goodly apparel.' 
Their successors to-day have not outlived the need. 
They seek prestige inordinately from wealth and 
culture. . . . Witnesses have borne testimony 
before the English Parliament that they had 'never 
seen a poor man in soiled or tattered garments in a 
church of the Establishment.' State churches have 
taken the lead in this corruption, bnt others have 
not been ashamed to f()llow, at varyiug di:;tan.ces in 
the rear." 
-A dispatch from Catania., Ita1y, May 25, says: 
"The eruptions of Mount Etna have great_ly m:: 
creased and the destruction of the town of NIColos:i 
now se~ms inevitable. The entire district is en-
veloped in darkness, and showers of stones are con-
tinually falling." 
-Recent investigations in Chicago have revealed 
the fact that Anarchists and Socialists had formed 
a plot to fire the city in diff~rent places a~d then to 
blow up all the police statwns and pol~ce sq_ua,ds 
with dynamite bombs. The prompt actiOn ot tne 
police in the Haymarket riot disarrauged tl:e plans. 
A great many bombs charged with_ the most po\~'er­
ful explosives have been found lll<..ldeu under s.lde-
walks iu different parts of the city. 
JUNE 3, 
886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES .. · 
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New Premium Offers. 
-May 26 seventy-six lwiler-makers employed by 
:the Union Iron \Vorks, Sau Francisco, went out on 
:a strike because the company would not discharge 
:some non-union men employed in another depart-
ment of the works. It is said that the strikers will 
not be re-employed. 
WE will send the Pacific Health JoU1·nal one year 
to any adL1ress, and the " Practical Manual of Health and 
STATE TRACT SOUIETLB~S, AGFCNTS,. 
Temper ... nce," post-paid, for U )0. 
Or the JoU1·nal one 
-Two distinct shocks of an earthquake were felt 
in San Francisco May 25; and on the 26th there 
were three sl10cks. 
The greater part of the people, 
however, became aware of the fact only by read.11g 
the newspapers. 
Light shocks are also reported at 
some other points in the State. 
AND BOOK Dli:PO:::>ITORI.E;s. 
year and the two books, viz., "Temperance and Gospel 
----
Songs," and "Diphtheria: Its Causes, Prevention, and 
Australia-International Tract Society, Bible .Echo Office, Rae and · 
. 
, 
n 
. 
$ 
Scotchmer Sts., North Fitzroy, Victori:J., Austra!.a. 
Proper 'lreatment, post-pa1d, for 1.00. 
-The House Judiciary Committee will report the 
following proposed amendment to the Constitution 
ot the United States: "Article 16-The marriage 
relation, by contract or in fact, by one person of 
either sex with more than one pers011 of the other 
sex, shall be deemed polygamy. 
Neither_ pol:Ygamy 
nor any polyo-amous assodation or cohab1tat10n be-
tween the se~es shall exist or be lawful iu any place 
witliin the jurisdietion of the United States or auy 
of the States." 
--May 25 Toronto, Canada, was under mob rule 
for over three hours. The Knights of Labor had 
declared a boycott agaim;t a street-car Jiue and h~d 
put on a line of stages to accommodate all w~10 d1d 
uot wish to patrouize the cars. 
On the arnval of 
the omll ibuses a procession was formed in honor of 
the event but it soon became a howling mob which 
attacked 'and wrecked betweeu thirty and forty 
street-cars, and injured many of the drivers, con-
ductors, and passeuger:-;. 
-General Miles has recently inaugurated what 
proniises to be a surlicieutly vigo'rous Apache policy. 
He has enlisted a company of Mexic_ans and _also_ 
oue of white men, and started them m pursmt of 
the hostiles. 
A report from ·Wilcox, A: T., says: 
"In addition to their pay the General has o:ffer~d a 
reward of $50 for each Indian, or l1ead of au Indwn, 
brou<rh t i 11 here aud $2,000 for Geronimo or his 
head~ which has excited great enthusiasm among 
the volunteers. 
The hostiles l1ave ·never been so 
hard pressed before, not having had a moment's re~t 
for t!Je past ,}nee weeks, and are worn out, a~ 1s 
evident by their slow movements, and b~ the few 
murders and depre<..lations Lhey have conmutted dur-
ing their retreat fro_m Gayco._ The outlook f~r a 
speedy settlement of the war 1s most encouraging, 
and the people have never before felt so hope1ul.'' 
®hituarJJ. 
BATTERSON.-Died-of heart disease, arter an ill-
ness of about seven weeks, near Femdale, Humboldt 
County, C:1liforuia, May_ 21, 1886, Sister Lucy ~at­
terson, aged 44 years. 
St~ter Batterson was bnptizvct 
last August, and joined the Seventh-day Adventist 
Church aL Fernd:ile, since wllich time she h:IS ueen 
au earnest Christian. 
She leaves a husband and 
two children and a large circle of frieucls. 
The fu-
neral services were held iu the Seventh-day Advent-
ist Church at Ferndale. 
Remarks to a full house 
by the writer from Rev. 20:6. 
PHILIP KENT. 
OAKLAND.-House of worship, northeast corner of 
Cby and Thirteenth Streets. 
Sabbath-school every Sab-
lJath at 9 : 30 A. M. 
Preachillg at 11. 
Prayer and 
missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7 : 30. 
Seats free. 
British Guiana.-Joseph R. Brathwaite, 152 Church St., Georgetown, 
anu Thos.E-.Amsterdam, 10 Church St., New Amsterdam, B. a., S. A. 
California Tract i::lociety-1067 Castro St., Oaklaud, Cal. 
Canada Tract Society-South Stukely, P. Q. 
Colorado Tract Society-Cor. 31st and Champa Streets, Denver, Colo. 
Dakota Tract Society-Vilas, Miner Cn., Dak 
District of Columbia.-Int~rnational Tract Society, 1831 Verm011t 
Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
England-The Pr·esent 1'n~th, 72 I-Ieneage St., Grimsby, Eng. 
Florida Tract ·society-Miss Lysle Reynolds, ::iecretary, Box 232, 
Jackson ville, Fla. 
Hawaiian IslanJs-International Tract Society, Honolulu, H. 1. 
Idaho-Elder D. '1'. Fero, Boise City, Idaho. 
lllinois Tract Society-3652 Vincennes AvP., Chicago, III. 
lndiana Tract Society-No. il2 Cherry St, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Iowa Tract Suriety-1315 E. Sycamore St .. Des Moines, Iowa. 
Kansas Tract Society-Box 160, Ottawa, Frauklin Co., Kan. 
Kentucky Tract Society-West Clifty, Grayson Co., Ky. 
Louisana-International Tract Society, 732 Magazine Street, New 
Orleans, La. 
Maine Tract Society-113 Pearl St., Portland, Me. 
.Michigan Tract Society-Battle Creek, Mich. 
MinnesotaTraet Sodety-2820 Nicollet Ave .. Minneapoli~, Minn. 
Missouri Tract Society-321 Lamine Ave., Sedalia, Mo. 
.Montana-Walter Harper, Butte City, Mont. 
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New England-N. E. Tract Society, South Lancaster, Mass. 
New Mexico-John McMurchy, White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M. 
New York Tract Society-Box 113, Rome, N. Y. 
New Zealand-Edward Hare, Upper Queen Street (Turner Street). 
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Camp-Meeting-s for 1886. 
PENNSYLVANIA, Olean, N.Y .............. June 2-8 
COLORADO, Denver, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
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2-9 
IowA, Des Moines,...................... " 9-15 
NEw YoRK, Batavia, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
" 9-15 
W"ISCONSIN, Madison,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "16-22 
MINNESOTA, Minneapolis,................ "23-29 
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DAKOTA, .... , .................. JuneS-to July 6 
CANADA, P. Q ........... , .............. July 1-6 
TEXAS, Cedar Hill, ................... Aug. 10-17 
A CARD from Elder Healey, who is at Napa City, 
Cal., says: "Our meetiugs are getting along nicely, 
so far; the attendance is quite good, and the inter-
est is increasing." 
GENERAL WOODFORD said at a recent meeting of 
the Massachusetts Law and Order League: "I can 
truth fully say that, in seven years' experience as 
prosecuting officer in New York, I never have known 
a crime committed by force and violence that was 
not eiLher conceived or executed under the influence 
of liquor." This is not the statement of a temper-
ance fanatic, but of a man who declares that he is 
not a believer in total abstinence. In view of his 
statement, which is corroborated by the testimony 
of all jurists, who can deny that liquor selling ought 
to be treated as a crime? The man who incites 
others to deeds of violence is treated as a criminal, 
and the liquor seller's sole business is to supply peo-
ple with that which invariably leads to debauchery 
and crime. 
SAID a brother: ·~It doesn't seem possible that 
any one could ever be worthy of eternal life." 
Vvell, no one can be worthy. Even after the victory 
has been won, and the redeemed have been granted 
a seat on the throne of Christ, and they are all 
righteous, it will be true that they are complete 
only iu Christ. If we live a Christian life now, it is 
only because Christ dwells in us; if we gain eternal 
life, it will be only through Christ. Thus Christ is 
"made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and 
sanctification, and redemption; that, accordiug as it 
is written, He that glorieth, let him glory iu the 
Lord." 1 Cor. 1:30, 31. And so in that redeemed 
stat~. no worthiness will he ascribed to any one ex-
cevt Christ. From every tongue will come the song, 
"W01·thy is the Lamb that was slain." 
"J oyfnl Greeting·" 
Is TI-IE name of the newest Sabba.th-school song 
book that has come to our notice. It is published 
by J. E. White, who is quite well known as the pub-
lisher of the "Song Anchor," "·Temperance and 
Gospel Songs," and "Songs for Class and School," 
with which books the present one will compare 
favorably. The book is of the popular size for song 
books, but contains 216 pages, which is largely in 
excess of the number of pages that books of that 
class usually contain. Of course it is not to be ex-
pected that of 204 songs every one should please 
everybody, yet in the variety of pieces there is 
doubtless something to suit. every taste, and there 
are a goodly number in the book which, we venture 
to say, will suit everybody. Until the public taste 
is educated back more nearly to the standard of the 
old hymns, it will doubtless be necessary for pub-
lishers to make more or less concession to the present 
pop lar demand for a light class of music, and this 
has been done in the prese!l t instance, yet not more, 
perhaps, than will suit a large number of those for 
whom it is designed. We are sorq, however, to see 
a concession to popular and unscriptural theology, 
on page 166, where the verse writer con rounds the 
coming of Christ with the pagan notion of the waft-
ing of a soul over "death's dark river" by the 
mythical boatman. This was, no doubt, an over-
sight which will be made right in a future editiou. 
We have not space to call attention to all the 
good pieces in the book, but would mention those 
on pages, 7, 17, 24, 27, 46, 128, 130, 154, a11d 172 as 
being among those which we think will be liked by 
everybody. Notwithstanding its size, the book is 
sold at the popular price of 35 cents a copy, $3.60 
per dozen, and $30.00 per hundred. 
We have no 
doubt that the average Sabbath-school will find in 
this book a stock sufficiently large to supply all 
their wants in the way of song. See ad vertisemeu t 
in this paper. 
The Employed ancl the Unemployed. 
THE ''Anti-Coolie League," of Red Bluff, Cal., 
addressed a resolution to United States Senator 
Stanford, asking him to discharge the Chinese em-
ployed on his Vina ranch. The Senator replied, 
giving the league some very wholes<fme doctrine. 
One point made by Mr. Stanford deserves especial 
attention. It is this:-
" The unemployed in California are numerous, but 
I do not think they are unemployed because of the 
Chinese, or anythiug other than their own improvi-
dent nature. I hnve fed tramps at a direct expense 
of over $200 a mouth, during the past season, on 
one farm, although tltere was never a day during 
that time that we were not short-handed of good 
men and wanted them." 
In that, Seuator Stanford has laid bare the whole 
secn·t of the labor problem in California. The cry 
that "the Chinese tend to degrade white labor," is 
always loudest from these unemployed gentry whom 
Mr. Stanford bad to fe~d for nothing when he was in 
"SURELY in vain the net is spread in the sight of want of men who would work. And because the 
any bird." So said the wise man, and he spoke the Senator employs men who will work he is asked, by 
truth. This truth, however, simply shows that these" unemployed" boycotters, to discharge them. 
birds are wiser than human beings. The net is con-This is not the only instance. In Santa Barbara the 
tinually being spread in the sight of men, and they "unemployed" who tend to dignify labor, arose in 
walk into it with open eyes. Satan's snares are their might and drove out all the Chinese. Then a 
nowadays set so openly that none can fail to see genLleman built a steam laundry, and could not 
them; yet few shun them. Men visit the gin-mill fi11d enough men in the place to start it. And thus 
just as regularly as though they were not annually capital oppressed labor there. Also in Truckee, 
grinding into perdition the souls of a hundred thou-
where was made the strongest boycott on the coast, 
Rand people; and the voice of her wl1ose steps take all the Chinese were driven away, and a steam 
hold on hell finds a thousand ready listeners to one laundry was built, which is now for sale at half its 
who heeds the cry of wisdom, saying, "How long, cost. And so the Chinese degrade labor. 
ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity r and the 
California is six times as large as the Kingdom of 
scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate Bavaria, while Bavaria has more than four times as 
knowledge? Turn you at my reproof; behold, I 1 mauy people as has California. California is fifteen 
will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known I 
times as large as Belgium, while Belgium has more 
my words uu to you." 
than fi. ve times the population that California has. 
California is four times as large as Ohio, while Ohio 
.has more than three times as many people as are in 
California. California is three times the size of 
Illinois, whereas Illinois has more than three times 
the number of inhabitants that California has. 
California is twenty-two times the size of Massachu-
setts, ·while MassachusetLs has nearly, if not quite, 
twice as many inh:~.bi tau ts as has California. Frauce 
is but one-fifth larger than California, and has more 
than thirty-six times as many inhabitants. Ger-
many is only about one-firth larger than California, 
but it has more than forty-two times as many i u-
habitants. This simply emphasizes the truth of 
Senator Stanford's words, that the unemployed in 
C,tlifornia are not unemployed because of the Chi_ 
nese, or any other cause than their own improvideu t 
nature. 
])'linnesota Can1p-Meetiug-. 
THE annual meeting of the Seventh-day Advent-
ists of Minnesota will convene at Lake Harriet, 
Minneapolis, June 23, and continue until the morn-
ing of the 29th. The sessions of the Conferenc<', 
tract society, and Sabbath-school associations will 
be held in connection; and the camp-meeting will 
be preceded by a workers' meeting, continuing one 
week. 
The grounds selected are within the city limits, 
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to have them. Still, by the aid of the Motor Line, 
which grants us ~reat reduction and an efficient 
service, the citizens may easily reach the grounds. 
The location is beautiful and quiet. It is expected 
that this will be the most important meeLing we 
have ever .held in Minnesota. Though not pre-
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return for one-fifth fare. We shall have the benefits 
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