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"llehoM I come quicldy, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work f'' 
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VOLUME 12. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. 
NUMBER 34. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR THE 
has work enough to em ploy all his followers. 
All can show forth his glory if they will, bnt 
the majoi·i ty refuse to make the necessary 
sacrifice. 
'l'bey profess faith, but have not 
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works; and their faith is dead, being atone. 
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lSSIOnary OCle Y· They shun responsibilities and burdens, and 
(For terms, etc., see last page.) 
Entered. at the Post-Office in Oakland. 
BE THOU "WITH ME. 
. BE thou with me; the way is dark and drear, 
Vouchsafe, 0 God, to make the pathway clear. 
Doubtful and devious still my way must be 
If thou dost guide me not-be thou with me 1 
Life's bftter chalice to its dregs I sip, 
Its fair fruits turn to ashes on my lip; 
0 thou who wept in dark Gethsemaue, 
I too have suffered-oh, be thou with me I 
Lonely, adrift upon a troubled sea, 
The cold waves, pitiless, break over me; 
0 thou who stilled the waves at Galilee, 
. Still thou my troubled soul-be thou with me I 
0 Cross to which I cling, illume the night; 
0 Lamp unto my feet, shed forth the light; 
0 love divine that brightened Calvary, 
Descend upon my heart-be thou with me. 
-Advance. 
®tntral ~rtirlt». 
The Love of Gain. 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
will be rewarded as their works have been. 
The work of the Lord is a great work, and 
wise men are needed to engage in it. 
God 
calls for eamest, unselfish, disinterested labor-
ers, who will keep up the various branches of 
the work. Sacrifice, self-denial, toil, and disin-
terested benevolence characterized the life of 
Christ, who is our example in all things. He 
laid aside his glory, his high command, his 
honor, and his riches, and bumbled himself to 
out· necessities. The work and character of a 
true laborer will be in accordance with the life 
of Christ. 
We cannot equal the example, but 
we should· copy it. Love for souls for whom 
our lJord made this great sacrifice should stim-
ulate his people to self-denying efl'ort for their 
salvaLion. 
When this spirit actuates ministers 
and people, their labors will be fruitful; for the 
power of God will be seen upon them in the 
gracious influences of his Holy Spirit. 
God would have his pe0ple arouse, and sum-
mon strength and courage to surmount obsta-
cles. 
He would have them, if need be, labor, 
as did the apostle Paul, in weariness, in pain-
fulness, in watching, forgetting infirmities in 
the deep interest felt in souls for whom Christ 
died. 
Many could do a good work in his cause 
if they were consecrated, having no selfish in-
terests of tbeit· own to serve. 
All are required to have an unselfish interest 
PAUL writes to the PhilippianR: "Let this in the work of God, to labor for its advance-
mind be in yon which was also in Christ Jesus." ment, and to give of tbeirmen.ns for its support. 
"Look not every man on his own things, but Anciently the covetousness of some led them to 
E\Very man also on the things of others." He make stinted offerings, and to withhold that 
admonishes his Hebrew brethren: "Let your which the Lord required. This was recorded 
comrersation be without covetousness, and be a;-ainst them in Heaven, and they were cursed 
content with snch things as ye have; for He in their harvests and their flocks juc;t in pro-
hath said, I ''ill never leave thee nor forsake portion as they bad withheld from the cause of 
thee." 
To the Corinthians he writes: "Let no j God. 
Some were visited with a:ffiiction in their 
man seek his own, but every man another's, families. 
God would not accept a stin..ted offer-
wealth.'' These exhortations are needed; for ing nor one that was lame. It must be without 
naturally "all seek their own and not the blemish, the best of their flocks, and the best 
things which are Jesus Christ's" or their fruits of their fields. 
And it must be a free-will 
neighbors'. 
offering, if they would have the blessing of the 
ln the end it does not profit any one to be Lord rest upon their families and their posses-
selfish; for God marks all such acts, and he sions. 
will render to every man according to his 
Hearts will be tested and proved by the calls 
works. 
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that for means. 
This is a constant, living test, and 
shall he al~o reap." "He which soweth spar-one thai it will be hard for the naturally selfish 
ingly shall reap also sparingly." 
and covetous to bear. It is a test that enables 
Our mission in this world is to live for the each one to understand his own heart, to see 
good of others. And it is little things which whether the love of the truth or the love of the 
test the character. It is the unpretending acts world predominates. 
of daily self-deTJial, performed heartily and 
When the young man came to Jesus, and 
cheerfully, that God smiles upon. 
We should asked him vvhat he should do to gain eternal 
cherish love and forbeara11ce, and should be a life, Jesus told him to keep the commandments. 
blessing to others by our forgetfulness of self The young man declared that be had done this 
and our care for their welfare. 
from his youth, and Jesus said to him: "One 
Hospitality should be practiced. 
We should thing thou lackest. 
Go thy way, sell whatso-
entertain thos who need our care, and the ever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou 
benefit of our society and our homes, even sbal t have treasure in Heaven; and come, take 
though it be at some inconvenience. 
Some up the cross, and follow me." The result was, 
one must bear these neeessary burdens; but that the young man ·went away sorrowful; "for 
many close their eyes to tho good which they Le had great p9ssessions." 
There are many 
have opportunity to do for otberR, and by their like this young man. 
They desire eternal life; 
neglect they lose the blessing which they but the true spirit of sacrifice, which alone is 
might obtain, and those who have willing acceptable to God, they do not possess. 
'l'hey 
hearts, and who cheerfully make the cases of love the world better than they ·love 1 be truth. 
the needy their own, are burdened. The Lord I They are not being fitted up and maue ready 
for the kingdom of God;· and because of their 
covetousness, the prospering hand of Gou will 
not be with them to bless their undertakings. 
God is acquainted with every heart. Every 
selfish motive is known to him; and he suffers 
circumstances to arise to try the hearts of his 
professed people, to prove them, and develop 
character. The lives of the professed people of 
God should testifY that they are sincere. 
U n-
loss their faith is shown by their works, it is 
dead; and nothing but a living faith will save 
them in the great day of final accounts. 
It is time for those who have large posses-
sions to begin to work fast. 
They should not 
only lay by them in store as God is now pros-
pering them, but as be has prospered them. In 
tbe days of the apostles, arrangements were 
made that all should share equally in the bur-
dons of the church, accordi11g to their several 
abilities. 
'l'hey did not think it consistent that 
some should be eased and-others but·dened. 
'l'hose who, like Judas, have set their hearts 
on their earthly treasure, will complain as he 
did when calls are made for the cause of God. 
His heart coveted the costly ointment poured 
upon Jesus, and be sought to hide his selfish-
ness under the disguise of a pions, conscientious 
regard for the poor. "Why," he asked, "was 
not this ointment sold for three hundred pen co, 
and given to the poor?" He wished that he 
bad the ointment in his possession; it would 
not thus be lavished upon the Saviour. He 
would sell it for money, and apply it to his own 
use. 
As Judas brought up the poor as an excuse, 
so professed Chri8tians whose hearts are cove-
tous will seek to bide their selfishness under 
a pretended conscientiousness. 
They quote: 
"Let not thy left hand know what thy right 
band doeth." "'1.
1ake heed that ye do not your 
all)1s before men, to be seen of them." And 
they urge that these texts teach that they 
must be secret in their works of charity. They 
seem to have a conscientious desire to follow 
the Bible plan exactly, just as they understand 
it; but they entirely ignore the plain texts that 
enjoin liberal giving. The left hand does not 
know what the right hand does; for the right 
band does nothing worthy of the notice of the 
left hand. 
These persons do very little excusing them-
selves because they do not know how to give. 
But Jesus explained the matter so that there 
need be no misapprehension. 
"When tbou 
doest thine alms," he says, "do not sound a 
trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in 
the synagogues and in the streets, that they 
may have glory of men. 
Verily, I say unto 
yon, they have their reward." They gave to 
be regarded noble and generous by men. 
'l'bey 
received the praise they sought, and this was 
all the reward they would have. 
This lesson 
was designed to rebuke those who wished to 
receive glory of men. They gave large sums 
with this object in view, anf the means given 
was often obtained by oppressing the hireling 
in his wages~ and grinding the face of the poor. 
Scripture testimony will harmonize when it 
is rightly understood. And our Saviour says: 
"Let your light so shine before men that they 
may see your good works, and glori(y your 
FaLher which is in Heaven." "By their fruits 
ye shall know them." The good works of the 
children of God are the most effectual preach-
ing that the unbeliever has. He thinks that 
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THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 34. 
there must be a strong motive to actuate tbe 
Christian to deny self, and use his means to 
benefit:bis fellow1hen, and advance the cause of 
God. It is unlike the spirit of the woTld. 
Snch 
fruits testifY to the genuineness of Uhi·istianity. 
"There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; 
and there is that wit.hholdeth more than is 
meet, but it tendeth to pov'crly. 'rhe liberal 
soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth 
shall be watered also birnself." 
anarchy and confusion >vithout a unity of direc-
Now is the time for Christians to heed the 
tion somewhere'?" 
admonition of Jesus found in llfatt. 24: 4, 
Judge H. A. Maguire, in a lecture. delivered 24-27: "Take heed that no man deceive you.'' 
in Hat·mony Hall, Salem~ Ot·egon, is reported "For there sh:1ll 
arise 
false christs, and 
Lb us:-
false prophets, and shall show great sigr1s, and 
"I say, 'as one having authority,' Spiritual-
wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, 
ists, and all, may see a hope, tha,t shall be a they shall deceive the very elect. 
Behold, I 
i·ealizntion to this 'llery gene?'ctt~~on, of the higher I have told you before. 
Wherefore if they shall 
spiritual forces getting control over and govet'll-1 say unto yon, Behold, he is in the desert; go 
ing all the institutions of earth. 
Silently and not forth; behold, he is in the secret chambers; 
invisibly to the worldly-wise, these forces have b('lieve it not. 
For as the lightning cometh out 
been, and are Lein~r, under the direction of a of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so 
Tbe Comiu~· of Satan. 
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divine intell:igence, extended into every depart-sball also the coming of the Son of man be." 
THAT Satan lras power to transform hims~elf ment and station of human life, and the culmi-
And the ahgel in Rev. 18: 23, says: "For 
into "'an angel of light" is shown by Pa.nl in nation is near at hand~-the ushering in of a by theit· Rorce1·ies were all nations deceived." 
2 Cor. 11 : 14. 
Ancl the apostle a•I'So warns us new messiah and a new spiritual dispensation. 
Rev. 18 : 14 tells us plainly who these sorcerers 
t<a beware of any other gospel than th, word of 
"These mystical batteries of Spiritual power, are: " For they are the spirits of de\u00b7ils, work-
God. ·In Gal. 1: 8, he says: "·Hut though we, to which all material forces are subordinate, 
1 
ing m. iracles;" and they are to "go forth unto 
0il. ·a.n angel fi·om H-eaven) preach any other. have been planted in all the strongholds of the kings of the earth and of the whole world." 
gospel unto you than that which we 
h<~,ve injustice and ignorance on the face of the ea1·th, 1 And again, Rev. 13: 13, 14 says, that" be doeth 
pt'eachecl n'nto you, l·et him be accursed." 
and the lime cometh on apace when they will great won del's, so that he maketh fire come dowri 
·The :eaitor of this "a11ant-cou1·ier of the n-ew: pour· forth their regenerative energies like from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and 
spiritual dispensation," the World's Adv·ance-rivers of consuming fire. 
Then hypocrit:ly will decciveth them that d'vvell on the earth by 
Thought, April 5, 1886, comments editorially be unmasked in the temples of worship; injus-the means of those miracl-es which Ae had power 
upon the question of "A Coming Messia-h," as tice and corruption will be banished from the to do." 
follows·:-
councils of State; and the children of men will 
And Pan! says of it:-
" In a·recent Harmony Halll:ecturc on 'The' enjoy ·sud..1 meeds of peace and happiness as 
"J~v.en him, whose coming is after the work-
Messianic Idea,' th·e necessity for a new mes-they never knew before. 
This is the voice ojliv-ing of Satan with all power and signs and lying 
si::th, and the c.el'tainty of his eal'ly advent, were ing prophecy, as true as ever fellfrom lips ofproph-wonders, and with all deceivableness of unright-
philosoi)hically considered, as well as prophet-'ets in olden times. 
eousness in them that perish; because they re-
ically p'roclaimed. 
"In this enlightened age, when woman's in-ceived not the love .of the truth,. that 
~hey 
"The messianic idea is involved in the theory fluenee is felt co-equally with man's· in all the might be saved.. And for this cause God shall 
that all the phemomena of spiritual manifesta-relations of -life, ns ma11Y female spirits appear send them strong delusion, that they should be-
tions, however diverse and widely sepru·ated, 'as male ones. 
'l'he coming messi[lth willrepre-lievo a lie; that they all might be damned who 
may be rofened to a single mediumi.stic sottrue sent th'e libeml spirit of the age, and be a posi-
believed not the truth, but bad pleasure in un-
o'f distribution. 
The time h·as ah·eady tive n.ssurance of mo,re important advances in righteommess." 
B. R. NoRDYKE. 
come for logically arranging the authenticated the 
~uture. The centml jewel of his crown 
facts which shall dernonst1·ate it. 
royal shall be the star of progress. 
r_rhe True Freedom. 
"rrhe mere sugg.estion of ·the idea that 
"What do you think, here let me ask, of the 
tbr·cmgh one medium the spiritual lights and ancient oracle~", which were patronized. by the 
"IF ye abide in my word, then are ye truly 
forces may be transtl'nitted that control the des-'"·isest and gt·on.test ol' the olden times? 
'l'bat my disciples; and ye shall know the truth, 
tinies of a world, or wm·lds, aR a great city may tbeit· iHfluence was power!'ul over the destinieB and the t?"'-~,th shall malce you f1·ee." 
Then truth 
be illuminnted by lights transmitted from one of ind:viduals and nationA, and that it was mnin-
ha~ om:wcipating power. 
For born as we 
central point, will lead to new channels of tailll~d throngh ages of time, is a well-authenti-al'e into a fallen world, we are born to a herit-
thought on tho subjeet; and many, and espe-cated bistoric·al fact; and it comes clown to us age of rnisconcoplions and delusions. 
Surely 
cially a certain class of mediums, will scout ancl as a mystery, which, like the Bible mysteries, every m:tn walketh in a vain show, flitting 
ridicule it; but I will venture the opinion that can only be solved by .Modem Spiritualism. to and fro as in a realm of unreal shadowt:i. 
the contt·olling intelligences of the greatest of Mediums were the priests and priestes:ses who And a state of delusion is a state of slavery. 
tbe itiSpimtiona.l speakt?rs will, when questioned made temples sacred and famed as soul'ces of Falsehood is a fetter, chaining our best faculties. 
in T.egarcl to it, either indorse it ws ·ti'Ille, or ins·pirationnl knowledge in the past ages. That But let truth enter in, and how soon it diE\-
relegate it back to mortals for fu1·ther consider-almost evet-y word and action of the life of solves the chaiu. This emancipating power of 
ation on their part-which would 'be to say, in Socrates was advised by hi-s guardian spirit is truth holds in the intellectual world; observe 
effect., 'It is true, bnt we do not •deem it expe-so well established that to deny the fact is how the knowledge of the science's or trutb as 
client t·o unqualifiedly tell you so now.' 
equivalent to denying hiH very existenoe. A it is wr·itten in nature, frees nsfrom the th1·aldom 
''Apply the test, my friends. 
The unanimity reliable ancient historian records that Cresar's of ignoeance, and superstition, and fetichism. 
of th-e· immortals' answers may thrill the world ghost twice appeared to Brutus-fir·Rt at Sardis, But tho emancipating power of truth is espe-
with the p1·o·m1:se of a new messiah. 
and then on tho field of Philippi. 
Human his-
cially manifest in the moral world; observe bow 
"There are regul:Lr eyclos of spiritual prog-tory outside the Bible ctispensatiom; is filled the knowledge of God~ or truth as it is written 
ross, of truth unfoldments; and we are now with such examples. 
:Vlahomet ·wrote the in Scripture, frees us from the thl'alclom of false-
passi.ng from one into another. 
Another 'Sun Komn automatically, when he was in c·.onditions hood~ and prejudice, and misconception, and 
of Ri·ghteous11ess' is called for on earth, and the of trance, . and his mind was illuminated by evil habit. Truth it is, especially truth in J esu~:>, 
messenger cannot be far off whose life mission it spiritual influx." 
which uillocks the dungeon in whi.cb sin ha~:~ 
shall bo to practically illustrate the new truths 
The· editor of the Wo1'ld's Advance-Thought imprisoned our God ward fueulties, bidd-ing them 
that will be vouchsafed. 
He will not be•a mere seems to consider that his pn per is the special go forth in Lo God's own realm of moral liberLy, 
racial messiah, to which class belonged Buddha, "forerunner" of what we believe to be· his wherein the hitherto pent-up religious ca.pae-
Zot~oaster, P:ythagorat:l, and Mahomet~' nor a Satanic majesty, and that the P:wific Coast will ities shall have full scope for unfolding into all 
half-world messiah, as was the great· Na:zn.rene; be the first to reeeive a knowledge of .the so-varieties of strength and beauty an1 joy. 
The 
but steam locomotion and lightning communica-called "spiritual truth." 
He says:-
truth shall mnke you free. 
tion, and tho harmonizing influences of commer-
·. "Oregon is one of the few eountries of this 
But the Lord's declaration is too spiritual for 
cia.! intercourse, have made a who.le-world mes-earth that was acquired to civilization through theRe carnal Jews, nnd so they haughtily ex-
siah possible, and such the next one shall. be. peaceful diplomacy; a11d that. is one of the claim: "We be Abraham's seed, and have 
rbouo·b them!"olv.es ignorant of the fact, as a gt·eat reasons that the ma.gneLic condi tiOitl:l arc never yet been in bondage to any man; bo>vv 
body, 
0tho gre:lt. and· multiplying army of me-peculiarly favorable for tran::;mitting the light sayost thou, Ye shall be free?" 
As though tbeit· 
diums are his .cwant-cou'Fien. 
of the new spiritual clispt::n::;aLion from 01·egon." fathers bad never served in the rigorous bond-
"' Why have not our inspirational mediums 
"Intelligent design is impre~:>sed on all God's age of [1;.~ypt, or borne the ignominious j·oke 
told us this before?' you will ask. 
I answer, works. 
All the messiahs of the past that we of tho Philistine, or suffered the woes of ·the 
because vou would have received the. answer know of through hi8tory and its traditions, Babyloni1m captivity! As though these Jews 
from their lips, as you now do from .mi·rie, with ma.de their advent in locali tie::; near the center themselves were ,not at this very moment under 
jncredulity; and tben, in the general course of of the population of all th:tt was known of the the yoke of Home, the symbols of her pagan 
spiritual education it has not he?·etofore been nee-world by the people among wbom they ap-tyranny flaunting over Moriah's temple! 
Oh, 
essary to make the fact known. 
peared. 
The regio118 along the Mediterranean the blinding power of pride and guilt! 
"Do vou not understand that to fail to grasp have given birth to many messiahs, and for the 
Jesus answered them: " Verily, verily, I say 
the messianic idea is to be blind to the fact dis-reason that from localities thereabout the light unto yo·u, Eve1·y one that com.mitteth sin is the 
closed all along the line of moclet•n spi1·itual could be radiated into the three continents of bondservant of s~~n." For there is no bondage 
·manifestations, that a designing intelligence is Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Pacific Coast of I so bitter as the bondage of a sinful habit, no 
behi-nd all the external evidences of immortality 
:N_" ort~ Ameri~a is ~1ow_ the 1~1os~ .available re,~ thraldom so absolute as th_e ~hra~dom of a sin.ful 
that you have received-that. all would be gwn for the d1sl:iemwatwn of sp1ntual. truths. 
character. 
How true th1s 1s of the drunkard 
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the libertine, the spendthrift, the miser, the 
scoffer! "And the bondservan~ abide th not in. 
the house f9rever: the son abideth for-eve?·." 
That 
is to say: the slave bas no legal right to the 
patrimony; he may at any moment be sold to 
another; it is the son who is the heii'. It is as 
though the !Jord had said: "Because yo are 
Abraham's seed, ye imagine that ye are his 
spiritual heirs. It is not so: ye are sinfuL and 
therefore ye are not Abraham's spiritual sons; 
ye are r:daves of Rin, abiding as it were for a 
while in Abraham's bouse. 
But those who live 
a true life, accepting my testimony :1s God'R 
ambassador, are Abraham's tTue sons, and 
therefore his true heirs: tbe son abidoth in the 
house forever." Have ye never read whatSartth 
said to Abrnharn: ·'Cast out this bondwoman 
and hot· son, for the son of this bondwomnn shall 
not be heir with my son, even with l:-;aac." "If 
tl~e?·efore the Son slto1l rnalce you free. ye shall be 
free indeed." For J CRUS Christ, in virtue of his 
own two-fold sonship-Son of God, and so 
God's heir; Son of man, and RO man's next 
of kin-iR thiR world's true emancipator, strik-
ing off wiLh his own cross-stained h:~,nds the 
shackles of sin, mannmitt ing )nto the eter-
na:l freedom.-Oeo1·ge Dana Boanlman, D. D. 
The BH)le. 
WHo wrote this book? 
'.rhis is the moRt im-
portant matter for us to settle ere -vve stndy 
and teaeh the Sc.:riptqres. 
'rbe groat theolog-
ical qnestion of the day is cotiecrning the 
chru·acter of revelation, whether t.he Bible be 
wholly inspired, or partly inspired, OJ' not in-
spired at, all. 
gven among 
lheologi~ws t!Ict·e 
is a great difference of opinion; and aR theRe 
opinions are ventilated in the secul:tr a.nd re-
ligious preR~ it. is our duty t.o look into the 
matter deeply that we may not only be con-
v-inced ourselves, but be able to persuade others 
alRo. 
\Ve believe in the fnll verbal inspiration of 
Holy Writ, that the Scriptnrcs as they orig-
inallv came from the hands of the ''vritors 
were' in truth "God breatbed." 
As students 
and teachers of these oraeles we must know 
whether our faith rests. upon the \Tisdom of 
men or on the authority of God.· Paul writeR 
to the 'rhessalonians: "For this cause also 
thank we God without ceasing, because, when 
ye received the word of God whieb ye beard 
of us, ye received it not as the word of men, 
bnt, as it iR in truth, the word of God." 
Peter 
writes, "Holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by t l1e Holy GhoRt," and be also dt'CI:Lros, 
~'This scripture must needs have been f11ltllled, 
which tho Holy Ghost by the mouth of David 
spake bef'oro c~mccrning Judas." 
David him-
self said, "Tbe spirit of the I1ord Rpake by 
me, and his word was in my tongne." 
If this be true in rola.lion to the spoken 
word, it is eRpecirdly so in relation to the 
written w01·d. This is declared in 2 Tim. 3: 16, 
"All scripture (that is, 
every 
writi11g) is 
given by inspiration of God." If all the writ-
ings are not inspired, who is to decide what 
.portion is of God 
~tnd what of man? Each 
render may cut and cnrve, accept and reject, as 
be chooses; and in the end nothing but. threads 
and patches of the divine book will rem~lin. 
Bear in mind that it is the record that is in-
spired and not every nttel·ance. 
Satan was 
not inspired to say to Adam, "Thou shalt ·noL 
surely die," for it was a falsehood; but Moses 
was jnspired to write it. 
Ananias was not led 
by God "to lie to the Holy Ghost," but Lnke 
was inspired to give us the rec01·d. 
Peter was 
not inspired to deny the lJord, but ho was ·in-
spired to make a confession as to his divinity. 
The record of the tormer is as much inspired 
as the record of the hlltter. 
The Old Testament testimony is superab~n­
daut. 
Mark the utterances of tho prophets: 
"Hear the word of the Lord" which came u11to 
Isaiah, J eremiab and expressly unto Ezekiel, 
the priest. This phrase, "the word of the 
f.Jord," or its equivalent, is used 100 times 
in Jeremiah, 60 times in Ezekiel, 50 times in 
Amos, 24 times in Malachi. 
All the minor 
prophets sound the same note. It is like the 
roar of Heaven's artillery all along the line, 
"thus saith the }_;ord." In the New TeRlamenC 
the marvelous differences in the gospels and 
the wonderful peculiarities of every epistle are 
to be accounted for, by being attributed not to 
the weak and finite minds of the hunian pen-
man, but to the omniscient mind o'f an infinite 
God. 
Nor does this belief inteffere with the 
human element in inspi·ra't]on. 
These men 
were not li'ke brass ·uuMpets through whom 
God spo·ke, but they wrote in language which 
accorded with their education and tern perament, 
and yet they were so led by the 'Spirit that 
God alone is responsi'ble for what they have 
written. 
Students ·and teachers, hold faRt to this, that 
the Bible not only cont.nins the word of God 
but that it is the word of God. 
Canon Ry le 
forcibly says: "Give me the. plenat·y verbal 
theory with all its diffi<.;nlties rather than 
doubt. 
I accept the diffieulties and bumbly 
wait for their solution; buL while I wait, I am 
standing on a rock." 
' 
How. precious is the Book Divine 
By inspiration gi 'en. 
Brigl1t as a lamp its doctrine~ shine, 
To guide our way to Heaven. 
-Rev. William Walton Clark 
'.rhe Fourth Commandment of Universal 
Authority. 
THE first thing to observe is that the Sabbath 
did not originate with the Mosaic law. 
R e pen tan c e. 
WITHOUT repentance there is no remission of 
sins. 
He who wishes to be saved, must confess 
his sins and do the work of repe·nl ance. 
To 
confess sins is to know evils, to see them in him-
self, to ackno..,vledge them, to make himself 
guilty, and to condemn himself on account 
of th<'m. 
When this is done before God,· it 
COII8LiLnles the confeRsi.on of siT)s. 
To do the 
work of t·epon tanc;e is to desist from sins when 
h c has thus c:on fussed thum, and from a h,mn-
ble heart haB made supplication about re-
mission; and J'ttrLber, to lead a new life accord-
ing to the precepts of' faith. 
He who OJJly aekJiowledges universally that 
he is a sinner, :111d makes himself guilty of all 
evils, and does not explore himself, that is, see 
his sins, makes cunf'est>ion but not the confession 
of repentan<.;e; tot· he lives aftenvards as before. 
He who lives the lifo of f~tith, d0es daily the 
work of repentance; for be reflects upon tJbe 
evils appertaining to hi mF<el f', acknowledges 
I hom, ~buns thorn, and sn pplientes t.h€ TJord lot· 
aid. 
For rnan of hirnself is c.:Otltinually lapRitig., 
but is continually raised up by the JJoi"d. 
He 
lapses of himself when he wills. to thit1k evi·l, 
and is raised up by the Lord when he rosit)LS 
evil, and hence does it not. 
'l'be 1•vork of repent:lnce whieh is done in a 
free sLate, is of avail; bnt that w bieh is done 
in a state of compulsion, is of no avail. 
A 
state of compulsion is a state of sickness, a 
state of dejection of mind in c;cmsequence of 
mi:-;fortunes, a state of imminent death; in a 
vvonl, ·it is every staLe of fear whic'b takes away 
Lhe use of :-:;ound reason. 
He who is evil, and. 
in a state of compulsion promises repen Lance 
a11d also doe::; good, when be c:omeJ'J into a free 
state retnrns un.to bis former life of ovil. 
The 
case is otherwise wi Lh a good man, the above 
states being to him states of temptution in 
which be conqners.-Anana Ccelestia. 
As one of the ten commandments, it i:;; indeed 
a part of that law, but not only does tho deca-
logue have a peculiar place and prominence i11 
the law, but this commandment owes iLs plac;e 
in the decalogue to the fact that it is the Utii-
versallaw for mnn from the beginning of'bis ex-
'l'HE greater care we take to free the mind 
istence. 
'l'he command, "Remember the ~ab-
l'rom :'wlfi:-;h bias, perr.;ot1al prejudgment, hn.rd-
bath day to keep it holy," is no less God's law tieRs, want of spiritual sympathy, Lbe more 
for all men of everv nation than the command 
likely shall we be to see Lhe truth. "'l'·he 
" Thou shalt have ~no other gods before me:"' iutegriL_y of the upright shali guide Lhom." 
A 
Our Lord's treatment of tbe Sabbath and tho holy ptt qwse keeps an open road beL ween the 
whole experience of mankind i11 resi)ect to Sab-soul nnd God. 
. 
batic observanC'e confirm tbe opi11ion that tbe 
Add to these precautions and qn:tlifications 
fourth commandment. is a moral law of uni-strotiuous toil and daily communiou wit.h God, 
versa! authority. 'rhe relation in which it is and though we mn.y never wh?lly esc;npe mi_s-
put to creation shows the Rame. 
'rhe fourth take and error, yet we shall enJO.Y a growth m 
commandment therefore· could no more be ab-. capability to rertd the will of God, which will 
rogated by Ch1:ist than the sixt11. He certaitliy regi:-;.tor it~elf ~t once i~ th~ racliatiL bolitJess of 
issued no decree for its repeal. 
Rather be ob-?ur ltves,_ at:d m t?e sn,tts~png and streiJgthen-
served it himself, said the day was for man, 111g conv1CL1ons of our mtnds that. we at·~ pos-. 
and so interpreted it as to free it from the boud-sessed _o~ th~ though~s, and sure_o,f the voice of 
age of Judaism. 
tbe Spm t of God.-ltev. John Cbifonl, D. D. 
·what Paul says to the Galatians concerning 
the observance of days (Gal. 4: 10), and to tbe 
Colossiant> concerning "a Sabbath day" (Col. 
2: 16, ne'v version), certainly was not intended 
to condemn the practice and word of our Lord, 
or to tcacb that the Gentiles oed no allogianee 
to tho moral law. 
\Ve turn, therefore, 
to the deca]ogne tO learn \VhUt (;oJ's law COD-
(;Cl'ning the Sabbath day i8. 
What we find 
I here, with Christ's interpretation thereof, will 
gui 'e us into the truth for which we are, seeking. 
-Watchman. 
· 
IT were well if our houses of worship were 
closed to eve:i7thing that does not directly con-
tribute to strengthell and deepen the spirit of 
worship, so thl1t each visit p:1id should reE:ult 
in a blessed meeting 1vitb God. 
The spirit of 
irreverence e11dangers all depai'tments of l_ife, 
and cannot be supported ithout geeat los.s of 
spiritual power.-Rev. A. :zr. D'unn. 
THE Scriptures are wonderful with respect 
to the matter which they contain, the manner 
in· which they are written, a·nd the effer.t which 
they produce.-Bishop Hon~e. 
CoNSCIENCE expresses the instinctive sense of' 
obligation to moral law. 
Tbis ltlW was not en-
aete~d and is not reversible by the b uman will; 
it is imposed by an authority outside of onr-
s.elves. 
'l'be instinct of obligation is active 
when we are separated from all human govern-
ment and soc·iety; we cannot·imagitie ot1rsolves 
to obliterate this oblig[l,tion by the obliteration of 
all -finite beings; we know t'bat vve !hu:->t£answe'r 
to :1 Povver ouLside of ourselveR. 
In tbo natnre 
of thingr:5 thiR implies that the Power to which 
we are answerable knows whht we do and what 
we ought to do; approves the rigbt an.d disrt1~: 
proves Lbe wrong, and bastbe povverand purpose 
to reward ns ac;cot·ding to our character and c;on-
duct.-Joseph Cook. 
SoRROW is not an accident, occuLTing now 
and then. It is the woof wbich is woYen into 
the warp of life, and he who bas not diBcerned 
the divine sacredness of sonow, and the pro-
found moaning whieh is 
conce~tlod i 11 pain; 
bas yet to learn what· life is. 
'l'be eross) mani-
fested as the 
nece~sity of tbe bighe8t. life, 
alone iuLerprets it.-J?. W. Robe1·tson. 
532 [4) 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 34. 
The Ost1·ogoths Enter the Western 
Empire. 
Concluded. 
IN another place we shall have to give in full 
the history of Attila; here we can only give 
t.hat portion which is essential to the under-
standing of the establishment of the independ-
ence of the Ostrogotbs. 
Suffice it therefore, 
to say, in this place, that before the raid into 
Gaul, Attila had demanded the hand of the 
Princess H onoria-the dauQ'h ter of Placidia 
sister to Valentininn IlL-and his offer was 
rejected. The next year after the battle of 
Chalons he renewed his demand, and it being 
again rejected, be, A. D. 452, again took the 
tield; passed the Alps; invaded Italy, ravaging 
the country as he \Vent; took possest:~ion of tl1e 
royal palace of Milan; and ''declared his reso-
lution of carrying his victoriom; arms to the 
gates of Rome." 
Valentinian IlL had :fled to 
Rome, and it was there decided by him, the 
Senate, and the people, to send a "solemn and 
suppliant embassy," headed by Pope Leo the 
Great, to deprecate the wrath of Attib. "The 
barbarian monarch listened with favorable, and 
even respeutf'ul attention; and the deliverance 
of Italy was purchased by the immense 1·ansom, 
or dowry, of the P1·incess Honoria." 
"Before the king of the Huns evacuated 
Italy, he threatened to return more dreadful, 
and more implacable, if his bride, the Princess 
Honoria, were not delivered to his ambassadors 
within the term stipulated by the treaty. Yet, 
in the meanwhile, Attila relieved his tender 
anxiety, by adding a beautiful maid, whose 
name was lldico, to the list of his innumerable 
wives. 
Their marriage was celebrated witb 
barbaric pomp and festivity, at his wooden 
palace beyond the Dauube; and the monarch, 
oppressed with wine and sleep, retired at a 
late bour, from the banquet to the nuptial bed. 
His attendants continued to respect his pleas-
ures, or his repose, the greatest part of the 
ensuing day, till the unusual silence alarmed 
their fears and suspicions; and after attempting 
to awaken Attila by loud and repeated cries, 
tbey at length broke into the royal apartment. 
They found the trembling bride aitting by the 
bedside, hiding her face with bet· vail, and 
lamenting her own danger as well a:;; the death 
[A. D. 453] of the king, who bad expired during 
the night. An artery bad suddenly burst; and 
as Attila lay in a supine posture, be was suffo-
cated by a torrent of blood, which, instead of 
finding a passage through the nostrib, regui'-
gitated into the lungs and stomach." 
"The revolution which subverted the empire 
of the Huns, established the fame of Attila, 
whose genius alone had sustained the huge and 
disjointed fabric. 
After his death, the boldest 
chieftains aspired to the rank of kings; the 
most powerful kings refused to ackno'vvledge a 
superior; and the numerous sons, whom so 
many various .mothet·s bore to the deceased 
monarch, divided and disputed, like a private 
inheritance, the sovereign command of the 
nations of Germany and Scythia. The bold 
Ardaric felt and resented the disgrace of this 
servile partition; and his subjects, the warlike 
Gepidre, with the Ostrogoths, under the con-
duct of 'three valiant brothers, encouraged their 
allies to vindicate the rights of freedom and 
royalty. 
In a bloody and decisive conflict on 
the banks of the river N etad, in Pannonia, the 
lance of the Gepidre, the sword of the Goths, 
the arrows of the Huns, the Suevic infantry, 
t~e light arms of the Heruli, and the heavy 
weapons of the Alani, encountered or supported 
each other; and the victory of Ardaric was 
accompanied with the slaughter of thirty thou-
sand of hia enemies. 
" Ellac, the eldest son of Attila~ lost bis life 
and crown in the memorable battle of N etad; 
his early valor bad raised him to the throne of 
the Acatzires, a Scythian people, whom be 
subdued; and his father, who loved the supe-
rior merit, would have envied the death of! them that he had not degenerated from tho 
Ellac. 
His brother Dengisich, with an army valor of his ancostot·s. 
At the head of six thou-
of 1:-Itiiti'\, still formidable in their :flight and I sand voluutocrs, he secretly left tho camp in 
ruin, m:tiltL:tinod his ground above fil'teen years qnost of adveitLuros, descended the Danube as 
on tile banks of the Damtue. 
The palace ofi far as Singidunum, or Belgrade, and soon re-
Attila, with the old country of Dacia, from the 1 turned to his father with tho spoils of a Sai'nla-
CarpaLhian bills to the Euxinc, became the 1 tian king whom he had vanquished and slain. 
seat of a new pvwer, which was. ereuted by I Snch triumphB, however, were prodnctive only 
Ardaric, king of the Gepidre. 
J.'he Punnon1:an 
1 of fame, and the invincible Ostrogoths were re-
c~nqttests frOJn Vienna to Sinni·um, were .occ·a-·1 ?uced to extre~1~e distres~ by the want of eloth-
Jned by t!te Ost?·ogot!ts; and tho settlements of 1ng and food. 
I bey unanimonsly resolved to de-
the tribes, who had so bravely asserted tbeir sort their Pannonian encampments, and boldly 
native freedom, were il'l'egnl:trly diBtributed, to advance into the warm alld wealthy m:igbor-
according to the measure of theit· respective hood of the Byzantine court, which already 
strength."-ld. chap. 35, par. 15, 16. 
maintained in pride and luxury so many bands 
From tbeir Pannonian possessions the Ostro-of confederate Goths. 
After proving, by some 
goths first exert andenlitrge their power at tho acts of hostility that they could be dangerous, 
expense of .tho Eastern Empire; t~fLerwards, in 
1 
or at. least ~ronble_some ~~.1cmies, t?: <?strogoths 
A. D. 488, they turn from that entirely, and en-sold at a high prwe the1r rcconciitatiOn and fi-
large their dominions toward the \Vest. 
delity, aceepted a donative of lands and money, 
"When the Hunnish Empire broke in pieces and were intrusted with the defense of the 
on the death of Attlia [A. D. 45i~J, the East-Gotlts Lower Danube, under the command of Thea-
recovered their fall independence. 
They now doric, who succeeded after his father's death, 
entered into relation::; with the Empire, a.nd to the hereditary throne of the .A.mali."-De-
settled on lands in Pannonia. During the greater cline and Pcdt, chap. 39, par. 2. 
part of the latter half of the fifth century, the 
Although Gibbon says they "resolved to de-
East-Gotbs play in Southeastern Europe nearly sort their Pann011ian e~c::lmpmen t~," it must not 
the same part which the West-Goths played be understood that tlus IS spoken of the whole 
[there] in the century before. 
They wore seen nation, nor that these renounced either their 
going to and fro, in every conceivable relation claim or their possessions there; bccnnse the 
of friendl4hip and enmity .. with the Eastern Ro-
history that follows as "ve shall see later, clearly 
man power, till, just as the West-G olhs had done shows that the O:::;trogoths dwelt there and that 
before them, they pass from the East to the their superior power was exercised and grate-
West."-Encyclopedia B1·itannica, article Goths, fully acknowledged over all Pannonia, dnring 
pa1·. 11,. 
the whole fifLy-one-years' reign of Theodoric. 
It was under the reign of the great Theodoric But bofvre follovving the Ostrogotbs fnrLher, 
that the Ostrogothic power was extended into we must fi11d the remaining ones ef the ten 
the West; and of the course of events from tbe kingdoms. 
J. 
establishment of their independence, up to his 
accession to the Gothic throne, A. D. 475, we 
Jesuit Characteristics. 
read as follows:-
" Theodoric the Ostrogotb, the fourteenth in 
AT a largely attended meeting in London 
lineal descent of the royal line of tho A mali, last J LillO, Lord Hobert Mou tague, a rece11 t con-
was bom in the neighbol'hood of Vienna [A. D. 
v~rt from Hornunism, thus refen~d ~o the Jesuits: 
455] two years after the death of Attila. Are-
"~Ith whom he had been most Illtimately asso-
cen t victory had restored the independence of Cia ted. 
\Ve copy from the English Cktt?·chmarz 
the Ostrogoths; and the three brothers, vVala-of July 8:-
. 
. 
mir Thcodemir and Widimir who ruled that 
"H1s lordship said the Church of Rome, 
wa;likc nation ~ith united co~nsels, had sepa-
sine~ H>TO, _was, in /act, a mer~ ex~.ension of t~e 
rately pitched their habitations in the fertile Jes?It Societ~. 
'I~~ first pomt m the Jesuit 
though desolate province of Pannnnia. 
The Society was Its mli.Itant character .. lt \~as 
Huns still threatened their revolted subjects, founded to fig~t agamst t~e Reformation with 
but their hasty attack was repelled by the sin-nil the ruses of war; ~~d 1ts secret age11ts all 
gle forces of vValamir, and the news of his vic-
o~eyed th? ~rders of Its ~eneral. The _lear 
tory reached the distant camp of his brother in after the Svciety. was sanctwned. b~ the 1 ope, 
the same auspicious moment that the favorite he sent two J es~Its on a sem:et n:Is.sion to _ire-
concubine of ~rheodemir was delivered of a SOil land; and Ignatius Loyola, m his mstruct10ns, 
and heir. In the eighth year of his age, Theo-
~?ld them to imitate. ~he wiles of. the devil. 
doric was reluctantly yielded by his father to l ?eY. were a great mdttant o:der m~e.nded to 
the public interest, as the pledge of the alliance mix m tho.world; a~d shape 1ts dest1~1Ies; and 
which I1eo, emperor of the East, had consented me~bers ol the ~o~Iety we~·e placed m all tho 
to purchase by an annual subsidy of three bun-varwus courts of Europe, m order to gather 
dred pounds of gold .. The r~yal hostage was in~~lligence: and. infiu~n~e policy. 
. .· 
educated at Constantmople with care and ten-
Anothe1 cbaiactellstiC was dnphctty. They 
derness. 
His body was formed to all the exer-have. always advocated 
contr~nes o~ every 
cises of war, his mind was expanded by the 9-uest10n, and b~ve alw~ys .mixed Wit? and 
habits of liberal conversation; be frequented ~nfiuen?ed opposm~ J?al:ties I? every disp_ut~. 
the schools of the most skillful masters· but he The th1rd charactenstiC IS their want of pnnct-
disdained or neglected the arts of Gre~ce; and ple, ~ot only in mor:dity (which is well-known), 
so ignorant did he always remain of the first but m theology too. F?r :xample, a Jesmt. 
elemei1 ts of science, that a rude mark was con-wrote to prove that the VIrgm, Mary was God, 
trived to represent the signature of the illiterate and was ~n fa?t the same as God the ~ather. 
king of Italy.-The fou1• first ]etters of his name A qu~tation from the ':ork of a J esui~, an-
(fJ;g}.d) were inscribed on a gold plate, and nounc_Ing and :ndeavoru~g to prove this as-
when it was fixed on the paper, the king drew toundmg doctri~e .w:ls given. at lengt?. The 
his pen through tbe intervals.--{Note.J 
As four~h charactent:~tiC was thei~· _u:.ceasmg and 
soon as be had attained the age of eighteen, he c<_mtwued altempt to create dtvtsiOns and sow 
was restored to the wishes of the O::;trogoths, discords between Prote~tant churches, between 
wbom the emperor aspired to gain by liberality statesmen, between n~t10ns, and b~twe~n mom-
and confidence. 
bers of the same fnrndy. 
QuotatiOns from the 
"Walamir bad fallen in battle; the youngest works o~ J esu_its and otbei:s were given to show 
of the brothers, Widimir, had led away into that this poliCy was deli?era~~ly undertaken 
Italy and Gaul an army of barbarians, and tbe and adhered to by the SoCiety. 
whole nation acknowledged [A. D. 455-475] for 
their king the father of Theodoric. 
His fero-
'·'BE not a witness against thy nei_ghbor with-
cious subjeuts admired the strength and stature out c:tn::~e; and deceive not with thy lips." P1·ov. 
of their young prince; and be soon convinced 24: 28. 
SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[5] !)33 
Inherent Imntortality. 
evident, because he makes these results matters 
of choice, and dependent on moral colldnct, as 
SEVERAL times, recentlv, a cultured Christian appears still more plainly frum the fifleento 
woman, in conversation ~vitb the writer on the verse: "See, I have set before toee this day 
subject of man's immortality, has used tho fol-life and good, and death and evil.'·' 
Since 
lowing expressious at the close of our talk:-both the righteous and the wicked alike 
"No, I cannot, I do not. want to believe that live their mortal lives, and alike succumb to 
we do not live rigbt on nfter the death of the physical decay, tho latter can hardly be the 
body, nor thnt every human being will not live death that the Lord through .Moses presses 
forever. 
I believe there is a spark of Lhe divine them to shun; nor tho former the lif'e he urges 
life in every one of us, and that notbing ca1 
·hem to choose. lt must therefore be the life 
extinguish it." 
·forevermore. If men may then accept ot· re-
Ah, that is the trouble. 
:M:en do not want to ject it, as they please, it can scarcely be inbred 
believe the plain, often-repeated stfttements of ill them. How sore, consequently, in the fi1utl 
the word. of G-od on these points, but prefer to day will be the disappointment of toose -vvho, 
cling to an error whose fi11al outcome for tht; depending for future l·ife upon their inherent 
impenitent is eternal torment, inflicted by a immortality, fail to make this choice! 
holy Being whose very name and nat.nre are 
I know it may be said that in this noble 
love, who declares himself to be pitiful and charge to the Hebecw people, Moses Lad refer-
long-suffering! 
ence simply to their disruption as a 11ation 
Omitting many passages in the Scriptures and banishment from Palestine, or to their 
which prove conclusively that both the right-perpetuity therein as God's people. Tlwt these 
eons and the wicked sleep in their gt·ftves important results wore in his mind, there is no 
until theie respective resurrecLioJlS, mny it not doubt; but this docs not make void the ground 
help some to clearer views and wiser action in taken, that life nnd dcftth cternftl were to them 
the case, to let the Bible settle the question individually, and are to every son I of man now, 
whether eternal life is inherent in m:m '? 
m~ttters of choice. 
~rLis is a truth so well un-
In John 10: 10 Christ declared: "I am come derstood, and so generally accepted, albeit too 
that they might have life." 
r:L'bnt is very high oiten forgotten, tba.t furthel' effort to prove it 
authority. 
rl'his was the Redeemer of the need not be made. 
How amazing that man is 
world, the Son of G-od, telling living-men that unwilling to take life on God's terms! He so 
he Lad come that tbey might have life. 
·what much prefers to climb up some otbet· way. 
In-
a pnmdox! 
Did he mean physical life? They stead of possest>ing this boftstcd "spark of im-
possossed thnt already. The Saviour's life and mortality," his life is ''alienated from the life 
death upon the earth seems to have effected of God,'' a colldition in wltieh our first parents 
littlo chang-e for mankind in reference to their were not before the cornm:wdme11t was broken. 
mortal existence, except tl1at i be lofty princi-Eternftllif'e is now tho gif't of God. "This life 
pies be taught have lifted ma11Y to a higher is in his Son.'! ':He that bath not tho Son, 
pla11e of sympathy, sclf-dcJlial, and cffortfor the hath not life." 
MRs. E. H. ADAMS. 
race. 
Generally speaking, the period of human 
lii'e is not materially prolonged by his advent. 
He must therefore have Rpoken of some other 
life than that of the body, :t11d, moreover, of a 
lit'e which men did not have but which it was 
very important they sl1onld pof:lsess. 
"BuiLD a little fence of trust 
Around to-day; 
Fill the space with lovi.ng work, 
And tlterein stay. 
"Look not from out the sheltering bars 
Upon to-morrow; 
For God will help you bear what comes 
Of joy or sorrow." 
. Love as a Motive to Christian I..ife. 
sense. 
If this motive does not persuade men, 
no othee will. 
Herein is the power of the got~­
pel. 
G-od oeorlt his Son i11(o the world to de-
clare, and to be to the rftce a representative of, 
the Infinite l;ove. 
Nothillg clr:;e can make men 
the children or G-od in deed and in trut.h.-
Cit1·istian at W or-lc. 
"The Christian 'Valk." 
A TRUE Chrif;tian walk is a reproducing in our 
lives of the rightconslle:::;s which is already ours 
in Christ. 
Joined Lo tho Lord by faith, we be-
come "pnrtakers of his holiness." But not 
that thereby we may be ox em pted from the 
necessity of personal holiuess. 
It is rather 
that such persoual holiJ1ess may have a new and 
hi•dlel' ol>li<ratiou, since it bas become a new 
po:siiJilit.y. a 
·Tho double purpose of out· union to Christ 
mu~t nerer for a moment be Jorgotten, nor its 
hcftvcn ward and earth wru·d ftspects for an in-
stallt separated in ou1· apprehension. lt is in 
order Loat we may be ns he is in the reckoning 
of God, and equally that we may be as he is 
before tl1o eyt:s of men. "No condemnation to 
tbt·m that are in Christ Jesus'' is one pbase of 
this blessed truth. 
BuL, 0 believer, forget not the other, lest you 
bri11g npoll yourself toe c·m·se of a dry and bar-
ren Antinomianism: ·"Created in Christ Jesus 
unto good works, which God hath before 
ordained tbftt we should walk in them." The 
bmnches are the produut and the measure of 
the roots, the one spreading as widely as the 
other strikes deeply. 
And bow solemn the ob-
ligati~n restillg upon those who are as truly 
rooted in Christ, to refteh fortb their branches 
and cover that area of good works which they 
have underlaid, and so to speak, pre-empted by 
tbci I' fai Lb. 
Our privileges in Jesus arc glo1·ioul':l 
beyond comparison. But they are awful when 
we rem em bet· that they ftt'e the pledge and 
measure of oul' obiigations.-A. J. Go1·don . .D. D. 
Growth of Christian Character. 
A GREAT deal of the preftching of the pres-
ent day i::; an exhortation to self-developmeHt, 
with scarcely nny rcfere11Ce to divine assistance . 
W c bear men urged to perfect and beauti(y 
The Scriptures t>pcak of but two stages of 
life for men:-the present, a11d that to come, or 
life eternftl. 
We COJlc:lndc, tlleroforc, that 
Christ came that we might have the latter,-life 
after physical death. If that be so, eternal life 
cannot be inborn in us, indestructible, and of 
which "no power can deprive us;" else Christ 
died to no purpose, to secure us that which we 
already had. 
rl'bis is il'l'ational. 
The word of 
God abounds in passages wbich show that with-
Ol~t Corist, we were witbottt hope of a life after 
defttb, and were in a condition "most miser-
able." Hear some of the "words." 
"G-od so loved the world, that be gave his 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlasting 
life." 
Then but fol' tho sending of Christ, 
man's prospect for the future must have been 
to "perisb." 
\Vhen a thing is perished, it 
exists no longer, if words have any meaning. 
It is dead, "gone to destruction." 
Certainly, 
eternal life is not inherent in it. 
Has an v be-
ing in the universe :'lifo in himself"? ~Just 
two. "Toe Father hath life in himself," and 
"hath given to the Soil to have life in himself:" 
And now, to all those who" by patient continu-
ance in well-doing, seek for 
immor-
tality," God will "render" "eternal life." 
Then it is because we seek it, and continuo in 
well-'doing, that G-od restores to men what they 
have lost-eternal life-and not because they 
have it naturally. 
'l'I-IE one greftt and only efficient motive to a their eharucter, to build themselves up into a 
Christian life is not fear, but Love. 
Fear may bigber a11d nobler mallbood, and to reacb out 
have a place among the motives that lead men ftf'Ler tho true, the good, and the beautiful, as 
to a bolter life. It is the lowest motive. It though the moral and spiritual elevation of 
belongs to the lowest stage of moral develop-men was a matter of me1·e education, and that 
mont. "Rod and candy" are for child-minded they are cftpable, by theit· own efforts, of attain-
men_. 
In toe early barbarous ages this motive ing to the highest standard of moral excellence. 
was in large request. 
But it is qnitfl impossible There never was greatct· nonsense than this 
that mere di·eftd of hell shonld make men virtu-if v"e accept the teachings of the word of 
ous, loving, Christ-like. The man who would God. If there is one truth taught more clearly 
Rteal if' he was not n.f'raid of the penitentiary is in the Bible than anoLber, it is· that of our 
a thief. 
That he is kept back from the act~ by utter hel plessuess without spiritual and divine 
tho penalty docs not make him one whit more aid. 
We are represented in our natural con-
an honest man. 
So tbe man who practices the dition as without. strength, as in a state of spir-
outward forms of religion because he is afi·aid itnal death, ftS needing divine quickening, and, 
of hell, bas no religion worth speaking of. 
without Co rist, as incapable of doing anything 
"This is the promise that he hath promised 
us, even eternal life." 
Immo1·tality is ours, 
then, by promise, and not by natural birth. 
But this is not all. 
Tuming back to Dent. 
30 : 19, we read: "I call Heaven and earth to 
record this day against you: that I have set be-
fore you life and death, blessing and cursing; 
therefore choose life, that both thou ·and thy 
seed may live." That the great Lawgiver hero 
made no reference to physical life and death, is 
Duty is a higher motive, and may lead to a acceptable to G-od. 
life worthy of all respect. But it is not until the 
All true spiritual development and growth 
life is" touched with emotion," inspired by love springs from the inner principle of spiritual d-
to Christ, that souls enter into the liberty and tality implanted in the soul by our heavenly 
joy of a regenerated life. 
"AB many as are led .Fnthor in the renewal of our nature. 
This 
by the Spirit of God," says Paul, "tocy are the principle of divine life, under tbo continual in-
sons of G-od,"-not slaves, not cftptives trem-I fiuence of the divine Spirit, is cultivated by 
bling at the sentence of Divine judgment, but fhitb and obedience, resulting in the develop-
sons. "For ye have not received the spirit of ment and strengthening of all the gra.ces of 
bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit that adorn and beautify the Chris-
the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, tian character. Separated from this principle 
Father." To say father, is to have the feeling of spiritual life in the soul, there is no develop-
of sonship, whieh is love. 
How is this feeling ment of the true, the good, and the beautiful, in 
begotteu in us? John tolls us. 
"vVe have human life. 
In urging men to higher attain-
known and believed the love that G-od bath ments in Christian character, it must be in con-
to us. 
Herein is our love made per-nection witb the divine and spiritual agencies 
feet." 
which God has placed nt the foundnt.ion of 
It is the knowledge of G-od's goodness, brought all moml excellence. 
To do otherwise is to 
home with reality and power to the heart, that reject God's method of elevating our race and 
makes men religious in the true and Christian to mislead our fellow-men.-Jfetlwdist Recorde1-. 
534 [6) 
TI--:fE ·SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
·voL. 12, No. 34. 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
E. J. WAGGONER,} 
EDITORS. 
ALoNzo '1'. JoNES, 
CORRESPONDING EDITOR~. 
J. H. WAGGON"ER, 
s. N. HASKELL, 
URIAH SMITH, 
GEo. I. BuTLER. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, SEPTEl
BF.R 2, 1886. 
Comments on Galatians 3. No. 9. 
WE think the reader who has carefully followed 
us through the seventh of Romans and the third of 
Galatians, will have no difficulty in seeing-how 
thoroughly the majesty of the law is vindic:1ted 
throughout, and its perpetuity shown, and also how 
beautiful is the harmony between the Jaw and the 
gospel. Right here we wish to quote a pertinent 
passage from John Wesley:-
" Jt is the ordinary method of the Spirit of God, 
to convict sinners bv the law. It is this, which 
being set l1ome on the conscience, generally breaks 
"the rock in pieces. It is more especially this part 
of the word of God which is 'quick and powerful,' 
full of life and energy, and 'sharper tl1an any two-
edged sword.' This, in the hand of God and of 
those wl10m he hath sent, pierces througl1 all the 
folds of a cleeeitru1 heart, and 'divides asunder even 
the soul and spirit;' yea, as it were, the vrry 'joints 
:wd marrow.' 
B' this is the sinner discovered to 
himself. All his" fig leaves are torn away, and he 
see~ that he is 'wretched, and poor, and miserable, 
and blind, and naked.' The Jaw flashes conviction 
on evt>ry side. He feels himself a mere sinn~. 
He 
has noLhi ng to pay. His •·mou th is stopped,' and 
he stauds 'guilty before God.' 
"To slay the sinner is then the first use of the 
law; to destroy the life and strength wherein he 
trusts, and convince him that he is dead while he 
liveth; not only under the sentence of death, but 
actually dead unto God, void of full spiritual life, 
'dead in trespasses and sins.' The second use of it 
is to bring him unto life,-unto Christ that he may 
live. Jt is true, in perfo:·ming both these ofiices, it 
acts the part of n: seYere school master. It dri Vl'S us 
by force, rather than draws 11s by love. And yet 
love is the spring of nll. It is the spirit of love 
which, by this painful means, tears away our COIJfi-
dence in the flesh, wl1ich lenves us no broken reed 
wl1ereon to trust, and so constrains the si 11ner, 
stripped of all, to cry out in the biLt.er11ess of his 
soul, or groan in the depth of lds hen rt,-
' I give up every plea beside,-
Lord, I am damned, but thou hast died.' 
"The third use. of the law is to keep us alive. 
IL 
is the o-rand means whereby the Holy Spirit pre-
pares tl~e believer for larger commuuications of tl1e 
life of God. 
I am afraid this great }Jnd important 
truth is little understood, not ouly by the world, 
but even by many whom God hath taken out of the 
world, wlHil n re real t:hildren of God by faith. 
Many of these lay it down _as an unquesLione~ truth 
that when we come to Chnst we have done w1th the 
lc w, and that in this sense 'Christ is the end of the 
Jaw to every one that believeth.' 'The end of the 
law '-so he is 'for righteousness,' for justification, 
'to everv one that believeth.' Herein the law is at 
an end." It justifies none, but only briugs them to 
Christ, who is also, in anoLher respect, the end, or 
scope of the law,-the point at which it continually 
aims. But when it has brought us to l1im, it hns 
vet a farther o:ftice. nnrnely, to keep us with him. 
For it. is continually exciting all believers, the 
more they see of its height, and depth, and length, 
and bread Lh, to exhort one another so much the 
more:-
'Closer and closer let us cleave 
To his beloved embrace; 
Expect his fullness to Tecei ve, 
And grace to answer grace.''' 
"Therefore, I cannot spn re the Jaw one moment, 
no more than I can spare Christ, seeing I now wniJt 
it 1-1s much to keep me to Cln·ist as I ever_wanted it 
to brin1r me to him. Otherwise this 'evil heart of 
unbeli.ef"' would immecli;~tely 'depart from the Jiv-
ing God.' 
Indeed, ench is c~ntinunlly se~1ding me 
to the other,-the law to Ch nst, and Chnst to the 
law. On the one ha11d, the height and depth of thP 
law constrain me to fly to the love of God in Christ; 
on the other, the love of God in Christ endears the 
law to me' above gold or precious stones.' "-Serrnon 
34, "P1·operties of the Law." 
The above view of the law is a just one. But all 
have not so clear an uuderstanding of the law and 
the gospel as ·wesley had. Since some, following 
the lead of Dr. Clarke, have either confounded the 
moral law with the Levitical or ceremonial, or else 
have supposed that the third of Galatians refers 
principally to the ceremonial law, it may not be 
amiss to show bri<,fly why it is impossible that the 
ceremonial law should be the subject of discourse 
in that chapter. A few points will suffice. 
1. Paul says that "Christ hath redeemed us from 
sity for Christ, and then the rites of tbe _ceremonial 
law to i11dicate and keep alive the faith tl1at they 
alre:1dy bnd. 
See Leviticus 4, noting especially 
verses 2, 13, 22, and 27. 
Justification has reference 
only to the moral law. 
From the transgression of 
that, man needs justification; but the law cannot 
justify any sinner, it can only condemn. 
And so 
it drives him to Christ, that he may be justified by 
faith. 
"But after that faith is come, we are no longer 
under a school master.'' 
GaL 3:25. But it was 
only after faith came that peop~e had anything to 
do with the ceremonial law. 
Is there a man in this 
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." age who has more faith than Moses, ot: David. or 
Verse 13. 
Now (a) There was nothi1Jg in the orcli-Isaiah, or Jeremiah, or Daniel, who all prophesied of 
nances of the cerempnial law to condemn any one. Cllrist, and who looked Lo him for sal nttion? Tho:;e 
Condemnation could come only through violation of men "through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought 
the ten commandments. 'l'be ceremonial law was righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths 
the sum of the gospel ordinances in the Jewish age. of lions, quenched the violence of fire, e.,caped the 
And there was no curse in any way attached to it, edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, 
any more than there is to the gospel. It certainly waxed valiant in fight, tumed to flight the armieR 
did not curse those who carried it out with a sin-of the aliens.'' Heb. 11:33, 34. And yet all their 
cere heart; for such, like David, offered "sacrifices lives long they performed the rites of the ceremvnial 
of joy;" and those who neglected it and thus showed law. If Gal. 3:25 refers to the ceremonial law, 
their unbelief, were condemned by the moral law those faithful men ought never to have offered one 
alone, because of their sins; as Christ said, "he that of the sacrifices of that law. It was their faith, 
believeth not is condemned already." 
(b) Even however, that led them to offer the sacrifices of the 
admitting that the ceremonial law had a curse con-ceremonial Jaw, as Paul sayH, "By faith Abel offert>d 
nected with it, or was itRelf a curse, "we" never untoGodamoreexcellentsacrificethanCain. 
Heb. 
had any conqection with that law, and consequently l1: 4. 
could not be redeemed from it. 
(c) The Galatians, 
"The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to 
to whom this epistle was personally addressed, were Christ, that we might be j u::;tified by faith." G,tl. 
clliefly converts from among the heathen, and had 3:24. The past tense can be used here only by 
never bad any connection with the ceremonial law. those who have come to Christ and have been ju::sti-
Therefore, although Paul might propc·rly tell them fied by faith, as Paul show.'3 iu the next verse. 
Since 
to keep clear of it, he could not say that they had the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, 
been redeemed from it. (d) The result of Clnist's it must still be the schoolmaster (pedagogue) to 
being made a curse for us is "that the blessing of those who are not in Christ, and must retain that 
Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus office until every one who will aecept Christ is 
Christ; that we might receive the promise of the brought to him. Therefore the law will be a school-
Spirit through faith." And the blessing of Abraham master to bring men to Christ, as long as probation 
comes on the Gentiles only as they are redeemed lasts. But the Levitical law passed away hundreds 
from iniquity,-the transgression of the moral law. of years :1go; therefore it cannot be the law referred 
2. Therefore "the Scripture hath cont:l uded all to here. 
To put tl1e matter briefly, we may say that· 
under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ if the law is a schoolmaster to bri11g men to Christ, 
might be given to them that believe." 
Gal. 3 :22. to divest it of that office while there are men still 
011ly the moral law could couclude men "under out of Christ, yet willing to come to him, would be 
sin." There was notl1ing in the rites and ceremo-
to prematurely cut them off from llopP. of salvation. 
uies of the Levitical law that was of primary obli-
\Ve would by JJO means be understood as holding 
gntion,-nothing that could show men to be sinners. that the ceremonial law does not figure in the 
3. "But before faith cnme, we were kept under epistle to the Galatians. The controversy over the 
the law, shut up unto the faith which should after-ceremonial law drew out the epistle. But there 
wards be revealed." 
Gal. 3 :23. This is in no sense was in t!Jat controversy, which this epistle must 
true of the ceremo11ial law. It did not pr.ecede have effectually settled for all candid miuds, some-
faith, but followed it. 
No one ever heard of such a thing deeper than the mere question whether or not 
thing as the ceremonies of the Levitical law being men should be circumcised. Paul repeatedly asserts 
performed by one who knew nothing of Christ. But that it makes no difference whether or not a man is 
it is true of all men lhat, before they have faith in circumcised. "Circumcision is nothi ug, a11d uncir-
Christ,-they are "under the law," condemned, and cumcision is nothing." But when men submitted to 
"shut up" to the faith which may be revealed to it as a means of justification, that moment it became 
them, as the only me<ms of freedom from condemna-a serious matter, for such an act is a rejectiou of 
tion. 
Christ. 
4. "\Vherefore the law was our schoolmaster to 
Suppo~e a man has accepted Christ and in him 
bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by has been made "a new creature." 
Now suppose 
C.tith." Gal. 3:24. By no possibility can this refer that he is led to aecept circumcision, or any other 
to the ceremonial law. This text is sometimes read work, as a means of justification, thereby rejecting 
as tl1ough it said that the law was our schoolmaster Christ; what will be the immediate result? He 
to point us to Clnist, and then it is asked, "What will at once go into sin; for out of Christ no man 
is there in the moral law that points to Christ?" can by auy possibility refrain from sinning. No 
The answer is, of course, that there is nothing. matter to what heights of holiness a man may have 
But the text says the law b?'ings us to Christ. 
Vve aLtained, just as soon as he loses _sight of Christ as 
have shown how the moral law does this, by giving his" wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, 
the convicted sinnet no rest until he flees to Chri::ot. and redempUon," be becomes carnal• and cannot 
The ceremonial law, however, brought no one to please God. 
This was the case with the Galatian 
Christ. It was simply the means by whi~.:h those brethren. They had been called into the grace of 
who already helieved in Christ as the one who Christ; but some had troubled them with another 
should be offered for sin, might indit:ate their faith gospel-a gospel of works and not of faith~which 
in llim. 
The ceremonial law comprised the gospel was no go:;;pel at all, and by accepting it they had 
~rdinances of the Jewish age. The order was, first I' lost their faith iu Christ, and consequently had be-
the moral law to convict of sin and show the neces-come 1::>inners "under the law." And it is on this 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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account that the apostle exclaims, "0 foolish Gala-
tians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not 
obey the truth (Compare Ps. 119 : 142, 151), before 
whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set 
forth, crucified among you'?'' (Gal. 3: 1·) and again, 
"Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should 
not obey the truth?" Gal. 5 :7. 
But this is sufficient. We did not design to dis-
cus::; the whole book of Galatians, but simply to show 
that it gives no comfort to the enemies or· the law 
of God. We wish the reader to keep in ·view the 
main thought in our study,-that God desires that 
:all men should be saved. His love is as boundl(':;s 
:as the universe, and reaches to the least of his 
creat.ures. But he cannot save a wicked person. 
Sin is entirely out of harmony with his chara<:ter, 
:and he cannot endure. it in his presence. 
Neither 
could the sinner be happy in the presence of the 
pure and holy God. Nay, more, it would be im-
po~sible for the sinner even to look upon God. 
Everything that dwells with God must be in perfect 
:accorJ with him. But all men have violated his 
110IYlaw, and are by it condemned to death. God 
has a glorious inheritance promised to the righteous, 
but who can obtain it? No one can make himself 
righteous. The sinner studies the law, and learns 
what sort of a character he ought to have, but that 
only condemns him the more. It provides no way 
of escape, but drives him toward the door of mercy, 
which is ever open. Then, instead of profitless 
struggles, heing justified by faiLh he has peace with 
God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
'fhu;:; the law 
proves to be· the strongest ally of the promise by 
faith. And this tutorship it exercises until the Seed 
comes to whom and through whom the promise was 
made, and then God's people being all righteous, it 
ceases to drive them. 
They are "in Christ," and 
the law is in their hearts. In Christ they find every-
thing. No need have they now to teach one another 
the way of truth, because the truth is in their hearts. 
More than Lllis, they are all taugl! t of God, and 
their peace is like a river, constantly flowing. 
Fully 
reconeiled to God, they see his face, and in his pres-
ence find fullness of joy, and at his right hand enjoy 
pleasures forevermore. 
Reader, "now is the accepted time: now is the 
day of salvation." "To-clay, if ye will hear his 
voice, harden not your hearts." "The natural man 
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God;" but 
if with sincerity you pray with the psalmist," Create 
in me a clean heart, 0 God, and renew a right spirit 
within me," he will for Christ's sake pardon all your 
iniquity, and then, being a new creature in Christ, 
youcan say,"Obowlovel thylaw! itis my med-
itation all the day." Ps. 119: 97. 
w. 
The Ouly Sure. Guide. 
:SAYS the apostle Peter: "We have also a more 
·.sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that 
ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark 
place, un.til the day dawn, and the daystar arise in 
your hearls." 2 Pet. 1: 19. What does he mean by 
saying that we have a "more sure word of proph-
ecy"? Does he mean that we have one word of 
prophecy that is more sur~ t.han some other word of 
prop.hecy? By no means, "for the prophecy came 
not in old time by the will of man; but holy rrien of 
God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" 
(verse 21), and therefore it is all equally true. But 
the apostle has jw'!t before related the experience of 
the apostles with Christ in the mount of transfigu-
ration, when they saw Christ in the glory which he 
will have when he comes again to earth, and they 
heard the voice of God saying, "This is my beloved 
. Son." The apostles were treated to a. min iaturc rep-
·resentation of the coming of the Lord, and so Peter 
. assures the brethren that he had been an eye-wit-
ness of the things which he made known to them. 
~ B~t, neverthel.ess, says he, "We have a more sure 
word of prophecy." That is, the testimony of.proph-
ecy is more sure than the evidence of our senses. 
Therefore we must believe the prophecy, even though 
it is directly contrary to the evirlence of our senses. 
He who thus accepts the Bible can 11ever be deceived, 
while the one who trusts even his own senses in pref-
erence to the Bible will sooner or later surely be led 
into fatal error. 
Feediug upon Christ. 
A FRIEND asks what is meant by eating the flesh 
and drinking the blood of Christ (John 6: 53-57), 
and wishes to know if it has any connection with 
the bread and wine of the L0rd's Supper. In reply 
we would say that it evidently has the closest con-
nection. 
Christ said: "Except ye eat the flesh of 
the So11 of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life 
in you. 
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my 
blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at 
the last day. For my flesh is rveat indeed, and my 
blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and 
drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." 
John 6:53-56. Now it is evident that no man can 
literally eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ, 
and this caused the unbelieving Jews to stumble. 
But Christ meant that by faith we should appropri-
ate him to ourselves, and thus live godly lives 
through him, just as one lives physically by what he 
eats. Says Paul: "The life which I now live in 
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son or God, who 
loved me, and gave himself for me." Gal. 2:20. 
So Cln·ist continues: "As the living Father hath 
sc~nt me, and I live by the Father; ~o he that eateth 
me, even he shall live by me." John 6:57. It is 
by faith that we have that close communion with 
Christ which enables us to live as he himself would 
live; for "the just shall live by faith." 
Now the Lord's Supper is the visible manifesta-
tion of this faith whic'h thus appropriates Christ. 
'Vhen Cl1rist broke the bread, he said, "This is my 
body, which is broken for you." Then he took the 
cup and said, "This cup is the new testament in my 
blood; this do ye, as oft as yc drink it, in remem-
brance of me." 1 Cor. 11:24, 25. And Paul imme-
diately adds: "For as often ns ye e:1 t this bread, 
and drink this.cup, ye do show the Lo1·d's death till 
he come." Verse 26. It is in tl1e death of Christ, 
and our death and burial with him. that we are 
united to him. It is only of his broken body that 
we partake. And in partnki ng of the bread and the 
wine of the Lord's Supper, we are fulfilling John 6: 
53-57 as literally as it is possible for us to fulfill it. 
Of course this is true only so far as the Lord's Sup-
per is partaken of understandingly, and not as a 
mere form. 
He who partnkes of it as a mere matter 
of form, not discerning with the eye of faith, the 
Lord's body, eats and drinks damnation to himself. 
Such a person does not eat the flesh and drink the 
blood of Christ, but eats and drinks simply bread 
and wine, and of course does not comply with the 
divine command. 
Let no one, however, imngine that Christ's words 
in John 6:53-57 can be fulfilled only when the 
Lord's Supper is eaten. If the Christian is to live 
by Christ, and he can. live in no other way, he must 
continually feed on Christ. 
A man cannot live a 
year, a month, nor even a week without spiritual 
food any more than he can live and grow physically 
without daily partaking of literal food. 
The true 
Christian abides in Christ, and Christ abides in 
him; there is daily and l1ourly communion. He 
does not receive Christ on fixed or varying occa-
sions, but Christ dwells in him; and so when he 
pm-takes of the Lord's Supper, he indicates out-
wardly that union which always exists, and by that 
act his uuion by faith is strengthened. 
And thus 
living by Christ who lives by the Father, tl1e Chris-
tian becomes ''filled with all the fullnes;:; of God." 
w. 
T·he Third Ang-el's Messag·e. 
HAVING shown the manner of the. impending 
restoration of thE) Papacy, and t~e inevitable. result 
of it, namely, the renewal o( t~1·e war upon the sain~s, 
and so the enforced worship of the beast; having 
shown the progress, and the assured prospect of suc-
cess of the Religious Amendment movement to form 
a union of Church and State in the .Ui)ited States, 
and so to create an image to t!te'beast, and to enforce 
here the worship of t.he beast a~1d his image, even to 
the last extreme of civil pains; it now becomes 
necessary to inquire what is involved in this; and 
what it means to the people who are now living, 
and who will have an active part in the' work, either 
for or against it. 
This is clearly revealed; In.Rev.14: 9-12 are these 
words: "And the third angel followed them, saying 
with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and 
his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or 
in his hand, the same shall clrii1k of the wiJ?e of the 
wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture 
into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be 
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence 
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb; 
and the Rmoke of their torment ascendeth up for 
ever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night, 
who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever 
receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the 
patience of the saints; here are they that keep the 
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."'· 
This is the most dreadful warning that is found 
in the Bible. It is not alone that the worshipers of 
the beast and his image shall receive the pun ish men t 
which is the common lot of all the wicked of ~rll 
ages, but besides this they "shall drink of the wine 
of the wrath of God, which is poured out. without 
mixture into the cup of his indignation." That is, 
they shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God in 
this life, and then receh·e iu the lake of fi:re the 
punishment which befalls a1l the wicked of all 
times. This it is that is pronounced by the word of 
God upon whosoever shall "worship the beast and 
his image;" while on the other hand, the powers 
represented by the beast and his image prOIIOUnce 
that whoever will not worship the beast and his 
image "should be killed." The con test then will 
be no light one. It is either to yield to the power 
of man and suffer the wrath of God, or to brave the 
wrath of man even to Lhe utmost, and by the poweP" 
of God to obtain the victory over the beast and his 
image, and enjoy the everlasting salvation of God. 
All who do resist the ,\,rath of these powers of earth 
will obtam tl1e victory, and this salvation; for sai th 
the prophet: "I saw as it were a sea of gl:tss min-
gled with fire; and them that had gotten the victory 
over the be:·1st, and over his image, and over his 
mark, and over the number of his name, stand on 
the sea of glass, having the lrarps of God." Rev. 
15:2. 
But it may be asked, Can we be sure that this 
colltest is yet in the future? 
We are well assured 
that we can. 
We shall give some reasons. 
The warning says that "If any man shall wor-
ship the beast and his image, 
. the same 
shall drink of tl1e wine of the wrath of God." Rev. 
14:9. Now Rev. 15:1 says, "I saw . . . seven 
angels ltaving the seven last plagues; for in them is 
filled up the wrat.h of God." Notice the direct con-
nection: In the seven last plagues is filled up the 
wrath of God; alld Wlloever worships the benst aud 
his image, shall drink of the wrath of God. There-
fore, it is evident that they who worship the beast 
and his image are to suffer the seven last plagues. 
Note further, they are the seven last plague~. 
These 
plagues are the last that the world will ever see, at 
least in this life. This of itself shows that all this 
is yet future. 
But there is more. Under the sixth plague 
the world is to be gathered "to the battle of the 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 34. 
great day of God." Rev. 16: 12-14. And when wine of the wrath of God,' which is the seven last 
tl1e seventh is poured out, there comes "a great plagues. But the seven last plagues end, as we 
voice out of the temple of Heaven, hom the throne, have shown, with the end of the world. This then 
saying, It is done. 
And there was a great shows that the enforcement of the worship of the 
earthquake such as was not since men were upon beast and his image under the final penalty of 
the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great. 
. death, will be the last oppression of the people of 
· And the ci t.ies of the nations fell. 
• And God that shall ever be seen. 
And this corresponds 
every island fled away, and the mountains were exactly with what we showed ns the result of the 
not found." 
Rev. 16:17-20. No one can possibly 
res~oration of the Papacy: He "made war with the 
say but that these things are in the future. 
sain!s, and prevailed ag.tinst them, until the An-
But we have positive proof that they are yet fut-cient of Days came, and judgment was--gi\u2022en to the 
ure. This removing of the mountains and islands saints of the Most High; anJ the time came that 
is referred to in Rev. 6:14-17 in thPse words: "And the saints possr:sse.d the kingdom." 
tLe l1eaven departed as a scroll wll<'ll it is rolled to-
As this opprl'ssion, this war with the saints, con-
g<:>ther; and every mountain and islnnd were moved tinnes till the saints possess the ki11tr<loru, and as 
out of their places. And the kings of the earth, the saints posse;.;s the kinoclom only at the coming 
and the great men, arid the rich men, and the chief of tit A Lord, th :s view n;t only nnswers to thos~ 
captnins, and the mighty men, and every bond man, scriptures which show that the third :tngel's message 
and every free man, bid themselves in th0 dens and reaches to the end of the world, but it answers per-
in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the fectly to those scriptures wltich show tl~ end of the 
mountains and rocks, Fall 011 liS. nncl hide liS from beast and his image. Dan. 7:11 says: "I beheld 
the face or Him tlt:ttsitteth on t.l1e throne>, and from e\u00b7en till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, 
tile wrath of the Lamb; for tlte great clay of Ids and given to the burning flan-w." Paul says of the 
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" sante power, the "mystery of iniquity," "that 
With this 11grees the word of Isaiah: "They shall Wicked," "whom tlte Lord shall consume with the 
go iuto the holes of the rock,, anc! into the c.aves of spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the b1·ight· 
the earth, for fear of the Lord, :tlld for the glorv of nes~:~ of his com'ing." 2 Tbe;:;s. 2:8. And both Daniel 
his majesty, wl1en he ariseth to shake te1Tibly. the aud Panl are expla) ned by Rev. HI : 11-20: "And 
em·th." Isa 2:19-21. 
I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse; 
Most assuredly these things are yet future. But aml he that sat U.i.)Oil him was called Faitltf"ul and 
these things are only the terrors of the last of t]1e True, and in righleousness he cloth judge and make 
seven plagues; tlte seven last plngues are the wine war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his 
of the wrath of God; and whoever worships the head were many crowns; andlte had a name written, 
beast and his image, suffers tl1e seven Lu.;t plagues, Lhat no man knew, but ho himself. 
And he wns 
-the first one as well as tlte last one; for when the clothed with a vest .re dipped in blood; and his 
ji1·st angel of the seven poured out his vial, "there name is called the Word of God. Aud the armies 
fell a !loisorne and grif~VOtt:s sore upon the men which which were in Heaven followed It im upon white 
had the mark or the beast, and upot1 them which wor-
horses, clothed in fine I i nen, white and clea 11. 
And 
sltiped his image." 
Rev. 16:2. This then shows it out of his moutlt goeth a s.harp sword, that with it 
to be certain that the worship of the beast and he sitoulu smite the nations; and he shall rule them 
his image is yet future, and, cortsequently, that the with a rod of iron; nnd he treadeth the winepress 
contest over that ql!lestion is yet future. 
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. AnJ 
There is another line of argument that shows the he hath on his veslure and on IIi::; tltigh a name 
same thing. By reference to Rt:v. 14:6-12 it will written, King of kings, and Lord of lords. 
be seen that there are mentioned the messages of And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, 
three angels in succession. The first one of the and their armies, gathen·d together to make war 
three says amoug other things, to every nation, and against him that sat on the horse, and against his 
kindred, and tongue, and people, "Fear God, and army. And the beast was taken, and with him the 
give glory to him; for the hour of Ids judgment is false prophet [the image to tl1e beast, Rc·v. 13:12-
come; and worship him that made heaven, and 14] that wrought miracles before him, with wldch 
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." he dC'ceived them that had 1·ece-ived the mcl1'k of the 
Following tltis one, there was anot]1er angel sayinrr 
bcu~l, and them tlwt worshiped his image. Tl1ese 
"Babylon is fa1len, is fallen, that great city, becau;; bollt were cast alive into a lake of fire buming ·with 
she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath brimstone." 
of her fornication." Then "the third angel fol-
This shows that the beast and his image will be 
lowed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man the last powers that will be on this earth, and that 
worship the beast and his image," etc. And then they will be living powers when Christ and the end 
:allowing. this third angel's message, with only the of the world come. 
But the life of the image to the 
mterventwn of a verse pronouncing a blessing upon beast is given him that he "should boLh speak, and 
. the dead who die in the Lord from this time onward, cause that as many as would not worship the image 
we read: "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, of the beast should be killed." Rev. 13: 15. 
He 
and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of likewise "causeth the earth and them which dwell 
man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his therein to worship tlte first beast, whose deadly 
hand a sharp sickle. Aud another angel came out wound was healed." 
Verse 12. And the beast on 
of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that his own part is restored to power to make war on 
sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap; for the saints till they possess the kingdom. 
All tflese 
tl~e time has. co~ne for thee to reap; for the harvest facts fix tl1e matter to an absolute certaiuty tl1at 
ot the ~art!~ Is.npe. And he that sat on the cloud the worship of the beast and his image, aud the con-
thrust Ill lns sickle on the earth; and the earth was test over the worship is yet future; and that that 
reaped." 
· 
co11test when it begins will continue till the end or 
~ow this sa~e Jesus, who comes thus upon the the world, and will be decided only by the coming 
wl1Ite cloud with the sharp sickle in his hand to I of the Lord in his glory, when the beast aud his 
reap the harvest of the earth, he himself said, "The image will be given to the burning flame, and when 
harvest is the end of the world." 
Matt. 13: 39., those who shall have kept the commaudme11 ts of 
~'herefore it is plaii1 that this third angel's message· God and the faith of Jesus, will, by the power of 
Is the last work of God that precedes the coming of Christ, get the victory over the beast, and over his 
Christ on the cloud of his glory, aud the end of the image, and over his mark, and over the number 0: 
world. But this message warns agai 11st the worship his name allCl will stand on the sea of gla 
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ss, 1avutg 
of t 1e 
east and his ImHge, under penalty of the the harps of God. 
J. 
Eternity of rl'orment. 
EVERY considerate person must have been often 
pained at the flippant manner in which some 
preachers speak of the eternal torment of the lost, 
as though it were a matter not to be questioned, 
and even a subject for rejoicing. Why it should 
provoke them to anger to have it called in question, 
as is sometimes the case, is hard to explain. George 
Storrs once said that he was led to examine the 
evidences of the doctrine by hearing a professed 
Christian praising the Lord that the wicked would 
be tormented to all eternity. 
Such people do not know of what they are speak-
ing. We have no conception of eternity. 
Vve can 
conceive of very long periods, but eternity-a whole 
eternity-is still beyond them. 
An eternity of 
accumulating guilt and ever-increasing suffering, as 
some teach, is too horrible to be calmly contemplated. 
Add to this the tltought of the belief entertaiued 
by many (professedly), that thaL torment, to some 
of their own friends, h:ts already been goiug on for 
years. If they do indeed believe it, we c tnnot 
imagine what manner of spirit they are of tliHL they 
can eat and drink and sleep with the peace of mind 
they seem to enjoy. 
We should count that mother 
uu worthy of the name who could sleep in peace 
knowing that her child was in burning torture, for 
even one uig!Jt. But in tllis theology it is torture-
beyond conception at the beginning and ever in-
creasing--aud yet it makes no visible impression on 
their minds. 
Men of de('p thought and fine sensibilities are 
ei Lher overwhelmed by the terri ble11ess of Lids doc-
trine, or else they ltave discanled it. Dr. Bames 
confessed that it was unendurable to him. 
But 
very few view it as he did. 
Mo:;t theologians of the 
present clay have discarded it. 
w·e do not mean 
that they have actually renounced it, but they l1ave 
so moclitied it ns to make it so111ething besides what 
the words of their profL'ssion indieate. At a General 
Conf"erence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, some 
five years since, a uew:spaper reporter interviewed a 
large number of pr01uinent D. D.'s, and found that 
the orthodox Mttltodist faith of "hell tire" was dis-
carded by them. Even bishops repudiated the idea 
of ctcLual fire in the torment of the wicked. What 
their faith really is we ClliiJJOt imngiue. 
vVe cli11g 
to the old faith-that "fire aud brimstone" are not, 
mere figures in the Bil>le. 
A fire that can melt the 
elements must be very literal. And we believe it 
will have tl1e effect ou the wicked wltich firc-un-
<]Uenchable fire-has on chaff or stubble; it will 
burn them up, leaving tltem Iteither root nor branch. 
In that case the wicked will be destroyed, just as 
the Bible says, "puuished with everlastin<r destruc-
tiou." In a never-ending torment, a '' d:ath that 
never dies," we havE! no faith. 
In contrast with the positive style adopted by 
many when speaking of the eteruity of tormeut, we 
recommend the following thoughtful words of Dr. 
Watts on the "Duration of Punishment":-
"I grant that the eternity of God himself before 
this W?rld. b~gan! or after i Is consummati~n, 1tas 
some~l11ug 111 1t so 1mmense and so i neomprehensible, 
that HI my most mature thoughts I do not choose to 
enter into those infinite aby~:~ses; nor do I think we 
ought usually, when speaking of creatures, to affirm 
positively, that tl1e:r existence shall be equal to that 
o_f the bless.ed Go~, especially in regard to the dura-
tiOn of their pumshment; perhaps this sort of lan-
guage may ca~ry in it something beyond what we 
are called to discourse about, at least in this mortal 
state, and therefore such comparisous are more 
safely omitted.'' 
This language of Dr. Watts will certainly com-
mend itself to all who seriously contemplate this 
awful subject of eternity. 
We have heard speakers 
rl_eclare, in the most positive manner, that every 
:sinner "has a soul which must live and suffer ars long 
as God lives." But many a new-fledged preacher 
will boldly walk where Dr. Watts feared to tread , 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
[D) 537 
in hi;,; "most mature thoughts." We are aware 
that in the progress of critical Biblical knowledge 
a learner might know, of some things, more than 
even Dr. Watts could know in his day. But we 
cannot know more of eternity than he knew; and 
we cannot change the Bible truth that the wicked 
will come to an end, be blotted out, be destroyed 
forever, "utterly perish in their own corruption." 
If we go beyond this, we add to God's word, and all 
such as do this incur a terrible peualty. 
J.n.w. 
Vermont Camp-mee'ting. 
THE work of Seventh-day Adventists has been 
quite successful in Vermont the past year. 
Nearly 
one hundred persons have been converted, and have 
made a public profession of the faith. This, consid-
ering the few work ·s in the field, and the difficulty 
of moving people in the older aud more conservative 
States, is a good testimony to the power of truth, and 
the earnestness and devotion of those who have been· 
eugaged in the work. 
The annual camp-meeting was held this year in 
Vergennes, on a spot cleared in the corner of one of 
the many ple:tsant groves of Vermont. The Central 
Vermont Railway ran directly by the ground, which 
made it convenient of acces::;. 
The village of Ver-
gennes was about three-fourths of a mile dir:;tant, 
and quite a number of other· villages lay around in 
the immediate vicinity. These all contributed to 
the congregations from day to day, so that a most 
excellent hearing from those without was secured 
through the week nnd on Sunday. The n ud ietJCl'::i 
were of the most thoughtful, intelligent aud atten-
tive kind. 
There were about fifty tents upon the ground, 
and some two hundred and fifty brethren and sisters 
present. A rather novel featt1re was that so1ne not 
of our faith, encamped upon the grottlld, listened 
attentively through the meeting, and went away 
expref'sing themselves as thoroughly convinced of 
the correctness of our positions so far as they had 
heard them set forth. 
About fifty came forward for prayers on the Sab-
bath. Eight were baptized. The various interests 
of the Conference, Tract and Missionary work, 
Sabbath-school and Health and Temper:tnce organ-
izations, received due attention, a good degree of 
interest, and nnanirnity of feeling, being manifested 
:iin them all. No changes were made in the officers 
for the year to come. 
The brethren w.ere pleased to meet Eloer Haskell 
again and hear from his lips conceming the good 
work of the Lord in.·other and foreign fields. 
His 
words of courage and faith greatly cheered and 
strengthened those who were present. Elder E. W. 
Farnsworth was alao present fr~m Massachttsetts, 
and enjoyed much freedom in presenting the truth 
to the people. The social meetings were free and 
interesting. Many expressed themselves that they 
had received a special blessing at the meeting, and 
that it was the best m~eting they had ever attended. 
But what perhaps sbows as much as any other act 
the interest of the brethr~n in Vermont in the cause, 
was the willingness with which they took hold to aid 
the work financially. Though not strong in num-
bers or in wealth, they cheerfully pledged three thou-
sand dollars toward the one-hundred-t!Jousand-dollar 
fund, and raised nearly five hundred dollars to meet 
camp-meeting expenses and other outlaY.s in their 
own Conference the past season. Would brethren 
everywhere do as well in proportion to their ability, 
the needed amount would soon be raised. 
The early closing meeting, Tuesday morning, was 
the best of the feast. One hundred and twenty-
seven spoke in less than an hour, and Brother T. H. 
Purdon was ordained to the work of the gospel min-
istry. 
Thus closed in the old Green Mountain State, 
another meeting of believers, who are of good cou rnge 
to still press on in the work. 
u. s. 
Central Amel"ica. 
I LEFT San Francisco Dec. 10, 1885, on a 
visit to my native land and dear relatives in 
Central America. 
Having a strong conviution 
that the '.l'bird Angel's :J1.essn.ge i::; the truth for 
the present time, and that the professors of the 
same are in duty bound to do all they can to 
bring its truths before the people as they bn.ve 
opportunity, I took with me mn.ny copies of 
r_rHE SIGNS OF THE rriME~, also tracts and other 
publications. 
I very soon bad opportq11ity to 
use them n.nd some of my fellow passengers 
became deeply interested. 
To one gontlrman 
I gave a copy of "Grent Con trovorsy," VoL 4, 
atiU to some ladies seyeral coDies of the SIGNS 
and some tracts. 
~ 
A f"ter n, pleasant ride of five dn.ys I arrived 
in New OL"leans, and was kindly received n:nd 
hospitably treated by our brethren in the faith. 
Otte of the sisters took me to her O'v\u00b7n home, 
entertaining and carittg J<.n· me until the sten.m~r 
sailed for Balize. the capital of _Hr·itish ~-iondu­
ras, for which place I was bound. 
Although 
I hn.d supplied myself afreRh with books and 
papers, from the mission in New Orleans, I soon 
f"ound that I had not nearly eno~1gb. I spent 
two weeks very pleasn.n tly in Bal.ize, renewing 
numerous old n.cquaintances and making many 
new onoR; and with all I talked and reasoned 
from the Ser·iptures about these truths; and so 
eager nne! interested did many of them become 
about this" new religion," as they called it, that 
I h:1d to send toN ow Orleans for a ln.1·ge supply 
of reading m:tttor to K:ttis(y the demand. 
The next phce I visited was Corozal, a small 
town with a populaL!on of about five hundred, 
mm;tly 
Spatti~h, on tho borders of Mexico, 
eighty miles from J3:t!ize. 
The English pn.rt 
of tho population arc mostly Ml~thodists and 
Bpiscopalians. 
During the five weeks! stayeu 
amongst them I was n, ·welcome visitor in all 
their hornes. 
I hn,cl mn.ny Bible-readings and 
wlks with them. 
1 gave n.wn.y mn.ny SIGNS and 
tracts t!Jere, and when I bad to bid my friends 
n.dieu, one vvns keeping the Slbbath and many 
were so deeply in tet·osted that if they could 
only have some one to asFJist and encourage 
tliem, I am con vi need that they would take 
their stn.nd for the truth and become command-
ment keepers. 
.Ruatan wn.s mv next destinn.tion. It is the 
ln.rgest of the B~ty IRiands, one hundred and 
fif'ty mile'> from B:dize. 
It wn.s the evening I 
love mueh (tbe Sabb:-tth) when I arrived tbere, 
and 0 how delighted I 1vas to find my beloved 
mothet·, wi Lh my brothers and sisters, all keep-
ing the Sabbath! 
rl
1his was the result of read-
ing matter wbich I hn.d sent them. 
'rhe peo-
ple here were very anxions to know mo·re about 
this doctrine. 
:M:y mother's family bn.ving set· 
the ex:-tmple and being so favorably known all 
over the i~land, there was great curiosity to 
know whn.t it all meant. 
And then I began a 
most delightful w01·k. 
I had many Bible-read-
ings in different honRes. 
I was eagerly_ wel-
comed, n,nd when talking of these truths ·was 
listened to most attentively; and it was often 
sn.id to me, "0 how glad and thankful we are 
that you have come to tell liB these important 
truths." 
But I was especially interested and pleased 
with my old friend and pastor who invited me 
to his home, and while there our whole conver-
sation was upon the fulfillment of prophecy and 
plain reasons from the Bible why we should 
keep the seventh day. That evening at fam-
ily worship he prayed earnestly for me, and 
also that the Lord would enlighten him that he 
might know the truth. 
Another Baptist min-
ister, who had charged me with turning his 
cb tm:b npside down, and had prepareu a lecture 
to .~i,·e to his people charging them to bewn.re 
of the "new doctrine" and avoid me, became 
my warmest friend. 
I went and introduced 
myself to him, and in five minutes after we 
met be invited me to spend the evening at his 
house. 
1 went at seven in the evening and we 
spent several hours with the Bible before us, 
stndying the word. 
He was especially inter-
ested. in tho sigt1s which tLe Saviour himself 
gave, and in t.he fact that the time has now 
come when the Sabbath of the Lord, his own 
appointed seventh day, must be kept. At fam-
ily worsbip that night I was deeply touched 
and impre~sed, for he asked the Lord that 
strength mip;lt t be given me to do this work, 
and tbe light might be so show·n to him that 
be might do the will of his Father in Heaven. 
At the <.:onclnsion of our long discussion be re-
marked, ':I thought I knew the Bible from 
Genesis to Reveln.tion, but it seems to me I did 
not know anything at all about it." He is 
now cn.refully readjng many of our books. 
"Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation" he 
<.:OnHiders a most valuable work. I could have 
disposed of many eopies of that book if I had 
only hn.d them; I refused the copy that I let 
bim have to three different parties on purpose 
that he migb t have it. 
There are two local preachers in Ruatan 
deeply interested in the truth. 
:M:n.ny persons 
arc ready and anxious to be baptized. 
They 
were sorry that I could not stay longer amongst 
them, and urged that a minister be sent who 
would confirm the word, and strengthen and 
encout·age them in the ways of righteousness; 
promi~ing to receive him kiridly and convey him 
h·om one place to another as be should have 
need. 
I never before spent so happy a time. 
The Lord helped me wondel'fully. If I had a 
reference or verse to quote, it came so readily to 
me that often I have opened my Bible and the 
very first verse my eye rested upon was just 
what suited that pn.rticular point. 
Often have 
my heart-felt thanks· arisen to the Lord who 
left me not to myRelf, but revealed his truth so 
plainly to this dear people, who are indeed 
hungering and thirsting for the righteousness 
of God. 
Utila is a small island eighty miles from 
Ruatan. 
Two months before I went there n, 
Spiritualist bad been holding meetings and 
preacbing Spiritualistic doctrines. 
My friend 
who told me about it, was not only willing, but 
very anxious, for me to bn.ve Bible-readings on 
that subject, and the state of the dead. But it 
pleased the Lord that I should not do that 
work, in just that wn.y, for that very evening, 
when a house full of people were gathered to 
Lear me, I was taken down with a strong fever, 
which increased to such a degree that for fif-
teen days I was prostrated. 
While t:ltill con-
fined to my bed, I got all my books around me 
and marked different passages which I thought 
would suit the different families, and sent the 
books to them, in that way bringing the truth 
to their not.ice. 
They invariably bought the 
books and tllus the truth was spread, in spite 
of my sickne::;s. 
On the island of Bonacca there are four Sab-
bath-keepers, and one of them sent me a mes-
sage, just before I left my mother's home, ex-
pressing much regret that he could not come 
and speak with me, and thanking me yery 
gratefullY. for the knowledge of this truth, and 
hopittg we would have a joyful meeting at the 
resurrection. 
I should have sold many more books but for 
an uufortuttate mistake of the steamship com-
pany. The two large boxes sent me from New 
Orleans were not landed when they ought to 
have been, but were carried back to New Or-
leans t"wice, therefore I was almost ready to 
leave befot·e they came into my possession. 
However l got the greater part of them disposed 
of, and 'what were left my brother kindly under-
took to deliver for me, as I had already taken 
orders for them. 
In all there were $217 worth 
of books sold, besides which large quantities of 
tracts, SrGNs, and other ~eriodical:; were ~iven 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 34. 
away. Indeed every family within reach had I Bourdeau, preachers; J. D. Comte, colporter 
.some reading matter. 
evangeli~t; and J. P. Bodant, colporter from 
While I was there a very pleasing incident the ch-urch at Brouges. 
We are thatddul to 
occurred. My brother had a latge quantity of God that running a tent in old France is a 
fruit ready for the market. A vessel arrived, but !>rob! em which is being worked out triumph-
as it was Sabbath, and as the vessel would not antly, though not without difficulties, of which 
wait but the one day, he had either to cut his I may speak in my next communication. 
fruit on that day or· run the risk of losing the 
D. T. BouRDEAU. 
sale. 
Now what. was to be done? Work on the 
.A ngust 6, 1886. 
Lord's day? No! a Sabbath-keeper would not ===================================== 
he gives to his people the Holy Spirit as the\ 
earnest, the seCUI'ity of the inheritance. 
An~· 
other definition is, that "an earnest gives' 
as~urance that more is coming of the same) 
kin.d." By. receiving the Holy Spirit we be-· 
come partakers of the divine nature, and by 
this "earnest" God gives assurance that more1 
is comino-of the same kind, even so much more·r 
that, "v~hen be shall appear, we shall be Z.ike 
him, for we shall see him as he is. 
do that. He would let all biB fruit spoil rather 
<.rlr J 
fit 
f 
than break the commandment. 
So, much to 
w l t 
~ ll m lU t 1t a r Jl. 
4. As A guide. into the truth. 
"But the 
the astonishment of some of his neighbors, he 
Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the 
let· the· fruit bang on the trees, and the vessel 
Father will send in my name, be shall teach 
departed without it. 
To all appearances this 
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. 
you all things, and bring all things to your 
was just like throwing the fruit all away, be-
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto 
cause it was ripe, and would surely. spoil .before 
The Mission of the Spirit. 
you." John 14: 26. 
rrhe Holy Spirit then is 
any re~ular vessel would come again. Bnt this 
(September 12.-John 16 :5_20.) 
to teach us the things that Christ has said. 
made no difference. He declared it should 
And as the Spirit of Christ spoke the Old Testa-
spoil, before be would gather it on the Sabbath 
1 
• IN the promi~e of the Spi.rit, Jesus spoke of ment as well as the New (1 Pet. 1 : 10-12), this 
of the Lord. 
He would trust the Lord to pro-, hun as the Con~forter. "I wdl pray t.he Father, is to say that the Holy Spirit is to teach us the 
vide. 
Well, what 
h~tppened ·? A. stray vessel and he shall g1ve you another Comforter, that word of God. 
'l'bis is confirmed by John 16: 13: 
came in on the next Tnesday, bought a.ll the h:e may abid.e with yo~ fo~ever." Jobn 14: 1~; ''Howbeit when be: the Spirit of truth, is come, 
fi·uit that could be. had (and' my brother bad "rrhe Comforter, which 1s the Holy Ghost. 
be will gnide you into alt truth." 
And as Jesns 
about all that could be had), and at. a better 
1 
Ver~e 26. "If I go not away, the Comforter saidl "Thy word rs truth," it is plain that the 
price than the former one would have giveri. 
1 will no:t come unto lou; ~mt if l depart~ I ~i!l . Spirit is. to guide ns into the word of God. 
T_his greatly s~rengthened his faith in God and I send bnn unto you. 
It IS _by t~e.llo·ly Sp1nt Again, "He Rhall take of mine, and shall show. 
b.1.s confidence m the truth. 
that the Lord comforts b1s disCiples. 
Says it unto yon." 
Verse 15. 
'rhe Holy Spirit, 
When I started for home there were tbir-Paql, "Blessed be God, even the Father.of our therefore, as teacher of 
tb~ word of God, as 
teen 'persons keeping the Sabbath, ten of whom . Lord· Jesus _Christ, the Father of mercies, a~d gnide into. the word of God, is to take these 
desire to be baptized, and are anxious for a the, God o~ all ~omfort; who eomforteth us m tbings of God and show them unto us, to f'bow 
minister to come and baptize them, and teach all ~ur tnbulat10n_, that w.e may be able to us their breadth of: moaning, th:tt we may 
them the way of God more fully. 
comfort them whJCl~ are m any trouble, by know how to apply the!)) to onr lives and con-
August 13, I reached my borne again, mur~h t.he COJilfort wherewith we ourse_lves are co~1-
form our ways to them. 
Compare Pt~. 119: 18;, 
weake.ned by my sickness; but inexpressibly for,ted o: God. 
For as tho s_uffenngs of Chnst. Eph. 1:17, 18, and Acts 26: 18. 
thankful for the tender C!U'e which .the Lard .abound m us, so our com;ola.twn also aboundeth 
bad for, me and mine dm·ing my absence; and 'by Ohri:;:t.'' 
2 Cor:. 1 : ?~5. 
~his co.nsolation 
for the privilege of having some parL in .. the abou~1ds ?Y_tlH~. Holy Sptrtt whwh Chnst sends, 
spread of the precious truth of God. In all for h1s miSSIOn JR....:.
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th~ places which I visited the people are anx-
ious that a minister should come and s·ho.w 
them the, truth clearly, and I am Rure tha.t·if a 
minister should go, a good work could be done 
in a sho1:t time. 
:M.y praye~· is that the Lord 
will send fo,rtb laborers into, his harvest·, and 
especially into this field which is so ripe akeady 
for the barv~st. 
M;R~. E .. GAUTER.A.U. 
Oalifornia T. and M •. Society. 
1. To WITNESS of Christ. 
"vVhon the Com-
forter i~ ~orne, whom I will send unto you from 
the Father, even the Spirit oftrnth, which pro-
ceedoth from the Father, be shall testi(y of me." 
Jobl) 15:26. TbisSpirit is given only to LhoRo 
who are ChrisL's. "H any man h:wo not, the 
.Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." 
Rom. 8: 9. 
"lfye love me, keep my commandments. 
And 
I will pray the Father, and be Rhn II give you 
1 another Comforter, 
even the Spirit 
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Nitnes, France. 
As ouR brethren will be naturally anxious to 
know how we are getting along after the diffi-
culti~s reported not long since, I would say:--
We have now held twenty-eight meetings; and 
are having as calm a time as we ever had in 
America. 
At 8 o'clock every morning, we hold 
2 .. A wi:rNESS of the forgiveness of sins, and 
that thus we are the children of God. "The 
Holy_ GLost .also is a witness to us; for after 
that, he. ha~ sajd . before, this is the covenant 
that l will mal~e with them after those dayR, 
sai~h
ltbe,lJor·d;. I '"ill put my laws into their 
hearts, and in their minds wi11 I write them;" 
theJ) be said, "And their sins and iniquities 
will I remember no mot·e." 
Heb. 10.15-17: 
"The. Spirit itself beareth witness with our 
sp.irit, that we a,re the children of God." 
Rom. 
8: 16. . 
" 
a practical Bible-reading at the tent, for the 
3. AN.earnest of our inheritance. "Ye were 
benefit of the workers. Sundays and Tues9ays, sealed with tl~at Holy Spirit of promise, which 
at 4 P. M., we bold Bible-readings at the tent 1s the earnest of our inbe1·itance until the re-
for all our bearers who are disposed to attend. demption of th~ purchased po:3session, unto the 
Fridays, at 3 P. M., some of us speak in a pri-praise of his glory:'' 
Eph. 1 : 13, 14. 
An ear-
vate bouse, where we have been accustomed to nest is "a part paid beforehand on a contract, 
hol9-meetings for months. Sabbaths we hoi~ a as. secu~·ity for. the whole." 
God enters into 
meeting at my bouse; and once or twice a week 
c()ven~nt w.itb men, and to those who will 
two of us bold a meeting at Vorgeze. 
Seven accept his. Son, be promises an inheritance. 
or eight persons at Nimes have decided .. to But the ti~e is not yet come when the inherit-
obey. 
Our corps of lab()rers consists of James 
~wee can be given; it is not yet redeemed. 
So 
Ertzenberger_, Albert V uillt)nmier and. D. T. until. ~qat. tim~ _does. come, until it is redeemed, 
JusT here is where those fail who cbim Rane-·-
tification. 
Hven granting. for the Rake ofthe· 
argument (and for that reason only), that they.· 
have received the Holy Spirit, instead of a-llow-
ing him to ftdfill his office of teacher of the 
word of God; instead of having him take the 
things of the word of God, and Rhow unto them; 
instead of allowing him to guide them into the . 
word of God; they seek to make him the guide 
independent of the word of God,· and not only 
that, but in many instances di1·ectly cont?'a?·y to 
the plainl:v written word which he himself hn:;; 
spoken. 
Such Rpirit is not the Spirit of God; 
such is not his office; he is not divided against 
himself. 
Again, this makes him the end in-
stead of the men:ns, which is to pervert the way 
of the I1ord. 
In no single instance, in tbis 
conneetion, is be made the end; but in every 
instnnce he is set f01·tb as the ·means by which 
we may reach the end which f:iod has in view 
for nR. 
And again, to make him the guide 
independent of the word, is to make him ~peak 
of (from) himself. 
But Christ plainly declares, 
''He shall not speak of [from J himself." 
John 
16: 13. 
5. To CONVINCE of sin. 
"And· when be jS; 
come, he will convince the \Vorld of sin."· 
Verse 8. 
"Sin is the transgreRBion oftbe law."' 
1 John 3:4. 
And the Hoiy Spirit can convict·. 
no man of sin before G·od, except by the law of· 
God, "for by the htw is the· knowledge of sin."· 
Rom. 3: 20. 
And without conviction there can• 
be no conver~ion. 
So the matter stands just. 
thus: rrbere can be no conversion without con-
viction; and there can be no conviction without·. 
the law; therefore~ where the law of God is: 
despised there can be no conversion; hence· 
neither sanctification nor salvation, call it what, 
they will.. 
6. To CONVINCE of righteommess. He shalf 
convince the world" of righteousness, because I 
go to my Father, nnd ye see me no moee." 
"All unrighteousness is sin." 
1 J obn 5: 17. 
" Sin is the transgression of the law." 
Right-
eousness is the opposite of unrighteousness. 
And as unrighteousness is transgression of the 
law, righteousness is obedience to the law, but 
this only through the faith and merit of Christ. 
Therefore, in convincing of righteousness, the 
SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
(ll] 5~9 
I 
Holy Spirit convince~-. of obedience to the law. of Spirit of God, we can see our duty in the truth ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece 
God, by faith in the Ijord J esug Christ. · 
of God, and then we can obey that truth through of a broiled tish, and of a honey-comb. And he 
the Spirit, and so we are sanctified through Look it, and did eat before them." Luke 24: 
7. To CONVINCE of judgment. 
He shall con-
the truth. 
J. 
38-43. 
vince the world "of judgment." "As many 
13. How was it that they bad food so bandy? 
as have sinned in the law shall be judged by 
THE 1 A W 0 F G 0 D. 
"Afterward be appeared uuto tho eleven as 
the law," "in the day '<vhen God shall judge 
·they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their 
the secrets of men by Jesus Cbrist according 
'I,he Fir·st Day of the Week. 
unbelief and hardness of heart, because they be-
to my gospel." 
:Rom. 2: 12, 16. 
"So speak 
(Lesson22.-sabbath, September lB.) 
lieved not them which had seen him after he 
ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by 
1. ON what day of the week did Christ rise was rise11." 
Mark 16: 14. 
the hLw of liberty." 
James 2: 12. 
As, there-from the tomb? 
14. What iB tbe only recorded instance of a 
fore, in the Judgment me1J's a<.:ts arc to be com-
"Now when Jesus was risen early the fh·st religious meeting on tho first day of the week? 
pared with the law of God, the office of tbe day of the week, he aplwared first to M:Hy 
:'And upon the fit·~t dlly of the week, when 
Holy Spirit in convincing of judgment is to Magdalene, out of whom be bad cast seven deY-the disciples came together to break bread, Paul 
enable us to see the law of God as it is, that ils." 
M-ark 16: 9. 
preached unto them, ready to depart on the 
we may have our transgressions washed a',cvay 
2. Did the disciples whom Mary Magdalene morrow; and oonti11ued his speech until mid-
by the l>loud of Christ, a11d that w,e may obey saw believe tbat .be was riF;en? 
lli!.!;ht." 
Acts 20:7. 
tho Jaw ns we ought; thns to COIIvince us of 
"And she went and told them that bad been 
'i5. On what part of the day was this meet-
jrtugment now while there is bopc, that when with him, as they mourned and wept. 
And ing held? 
we slwll stand before the Judo·ment seat of they, when they had beard that be wa,s alive, 
''A:1d_ upon the first day of tbe week, when 
CbrisL, our lives may be iouiid i~ perfect bar-·and bad been seen of her, believed not." Marie I the diSCiples came together t.o break bread, Paul 
mony with the holy Jaw of God, and that so we 16: 10 11. 
preached onto them, ready to depart on the 
may ~tand in the Judgment. 
3. vVhere did two of the disciples o-o that morrow; and con tinned his speech until mid-
same day? 
e> 
night. 
And there were many lights in the up-
8. To SHED abroad the Jove of God. 
"The 
love of G-od it:; shed abroad in our hcaL'ts by the 
Holy Ghost whieb is given unLo u~." Hum. 5: 
5. 
This agai11 points directly to the law of 
God, and to the keeping of that law: "F.or 
this is the love of God, that we keep his com-
ma.ndments; and his commandments are noL 
grievous." 
1 John 5 : 3. 
".And,, behold, two of them went that same per chamber, where th~y were gathered to-
day to a. village called EmrnauJ, which was getbet·." 
Acts 20: _7, 8. 
from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs." 
16. What.part of the day comes first? 
l,;nke 24: 13. 
"And God called. the light Day, ai~d the dark-
4. Who joined them on the way? 
nes.3 he called Night. 
And the evening and the 
"And it came'to pass, that, ,.yhile they com-morning were the first day." 
"And Go~ called 
rnuned together and, ren8oned, Jesus hirm;elf the firmu:nent Heaven. 
And the,eveniilg and 
drew near, and· went w•itJh them. 
Bnt their the mom~ng were tbe second day. 
"And the 
eves were holden that. they should not. know evening and the morning wei·e the third day." 
BY all these evidences we see tbat the office him." 
TJuke 24: 15, 16. 
Gen. 1 : ?' 8, 13, etc. 
. 
of the Holy Spit·it, in every instance in the life 
5. After Jesus bad made himself known to 
17. With what does the day begm? 
oi' the Christian, is to spread the law and word them, what did they do? 
"It shall _be unto you a ~.abbath ?f rest, and. 
of God before him, and to impress upon him 
"And they rose up the same hour, and re-ye shall affiiCt your _souls; 1r1 the nwth day of 
tbe duty and knowledge of obedience. 
Addi-turned to Jerm;alem. and found the eleven the month at even, from even unto even, shall 
tiona! evidence on this point is give11 by Peter: gathered tog-ether, a~d them that were with ye celeb1·ate :yo~r sab~atb."-Lev. 23: 32. 
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Chri~L, t0 Lhe 
. 
. them.'' "And they told what things were done 
18. When IS It evell!n~? 
elec:t accordii1g Lo tbe foreknowledge of God the in the way, and how. be was known of. them in 
"Bnt at the place whteb the Lord thy God 
Father, L.hrough sanctification of the Spirit, breaking of bread." Luke 24: 33, 35. 
shnll cho~se to pl:tce his name in, there tbou 
unt.o obedMnce." 
_1 Peter~ :_1,.2 .. This teaches 
6. Did the other disciples believe.what these ~halt sacrtfic.e the pa~sover at even, at the go-
plainly that the Holy Spmt 1s o·tven to us to• two told them? 
wg down of the Still, at the sea8on that thou 
teach ~~s to obey the wriLten word of God, and. 
"After that be bad appeare<!l in another form camest forth ~ut of E.~.)~p~." Deut. 16: 6. 
that. true sallctific~tioll of the Spi6t is unto· uuto two .of them, as they walked, and went 
. "And ~he kmg of A 1 tle banged on a tree un-
obed-&ence to that wntten word. 
into· the country. And they went and told it td eventide; and as soon U8 the sun was dow~, 
unto the residue; neither believed they them." Joshua commanded that they should take hts 
9. THIS also reveals to us another part of the Marl{ 16: 12, 13. 
· 
c:~reass down from the Lre.e, and cas~ it at the 
mission of the ~pirit. That is as the Sanctifier. 
7. "bat time of day was it when the disciples entering ofthe ~ate of Lhe City, an~ ra,Ise thet·eo.n 
A great deal IS made nowadays of a ·certain· were thus gathered together? 
a gi·eat heap of stones, that remaweth unto tb1s 
kind of sanctification. but any sanctification. 
"'rhen the same day at evenin()" bein(J' the day.'' Josh. 8:29. 
that is not "UllLO obedience" to the la·w of. first dn:r of the week, when the doc~·~ w.ereb shut 
"And at eve:l, when the sun d.id set, they 
God, is t:pnrious :::;anctification; it is a deception: where the disciples were assembled f(>r fea1• of brought unto him all that 'Yere dt~ea~od, and 
and a snare. 
the Jews. came Jesus and stood in the midst them that were posse8sed w1th dev1ls. 
Mark 
and saith.unto them, Peace be·UIJLO you." 
Job~ 1:32. 
CHRIST prayed, ':Sanctify them through the 20: 19·. 
19. 'rhen since this mceti11g was on the dark 
truth," and then immediately .added, '' rrby 
8i Wby.is· it impossible to suppose·that they part of the first day of tho week, when would 
word is tra Lb." 
Job n 17: 17. 
Tl1 i~ shows that were .celebrating the resurrection of ChriRt ?-we say it W<tG held ?-Oil what is commonly 
sanctification is through the word of God; but BecauRe they did not believe that be bad risen. known as Saturday night. 
it can only be through the word of God by 
9. How did it happen that they were all to-
20. How long did tbe meeting last? 
the aid of the Sp-i'rit. 
'rhe text quoted just getber at that time.?-They had. a common 
·'When be therefore was come up again, and 
above from Peter, tells of sanctification of the ael.ling_-place. 
Auts 1: 13. 
had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long 
Spirit "unto obedience." 
Here we have an-
10. Who appear.ed _to them on the first day while, even tiLL break of day, so he departed." 
other text from PeLer on the same subject: evening? 
· 
Acts 20 : 11. 
"Seeing ye have purified [sanctified] your , "Then the same. day at .evening, being the 
21. For what place did Paul start on the first 
souls in obeying the t·ruth through the ,Spirit." fiest day of tb.e week, when the door8 were shut day morning after the mooting closed? 
1 Pet. 1: 22. 
Men are elect throtwb sanct1fi-where· the disCiJJles were assembled for fear of. :'And we went before to ship, and sailed unto 
. 
f h s 
b 
eatJOn o t e 
pirit unto obedience, but they the Jews. c·ame Jesus and stood in the midst, Assos, there intending to take in Paul; for so 
are not sancLified until they have obeyed the anl.!i. saitb u1.1to them, Peace.be-nnto yon." John had he appointed, mindi11g himself to go afoot. 
truth, the word of God, through the Spi1:it. 20: 19. 
And when be met with us a.t Assos, we took him 
The truth of God cannot be obeyed except 
11. Were the diRciples expecting him? 
in, and came to Mitylene." 
Acts 20 : 13, 14. 
through the Holy Spirit. 1
1he law of God is 
'.'And a.R they thus spake, Je8us· bimselfstGorl 
22. While Paul was preaching what were his 
sp~r~tual (Hom. 7: 14), the word of Christ is in the miuS:t of them, and saith unto them, Peace companions doing? 
sp1nt (John 6: 36), but man is carnal. 
Tbere-
be unto you. But they were terrified and af-
':And we went before to ship, and sailed unto 
~ore. ".the carnal mind is enmity against G.od; ,frighted, and supposed that they had .seen a ARsos, there intending to take in Paul." Acts 
~or It IS not subject to the law of God, neither spirit." 
JJuke 24: 36, 37.. 
20: 13. 
wdoed can be. 
So then thev that are in the 
12. What did Jesus do to assure them that he 
23. What is the only command in the Bible 
flesh cann.ot pleas~. ~o~.. Butye are not in the was a real being.and not a phantom? 
concerning the first day of the week? 
flesh, but m. the Spll'lt, If s? .be that the Spirit. of 
"And· he said unto them, Why are ye troub-
'' U 1~on the first d~y ~f the week l~et every 
God d ~v.ell 1.n yo_u. 
Now 1f any man have not Jed? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? one of ,Yf)U .lay by Inm m store, as .God hath 
the Spint of Christ, he is none of his." 
Rom. 8: Behold my bands and my feet, that it is I my-prospe1·ed him, that there be no gathermgs when 
7-9. The Holy Spirit is given to take away the self-handle me and see· for a spirit bath not I come." 
1 Cor. 16:2. 
carnal mind, and m~ke us spiritn.ally minded, flesh and bones,' as ye see' me have. 
And when I 2.4. Can a pe:·son "lay_ by .him in store" that 
that so we may d1scern the thmgs of God be bad thus spoken, be showed them his bands whiCh he p~t.s m a contributwn box at church? 
(1 Cor. 2: 9-16), and thus he takes the things and his feet. 
And while they yet believed not 
25. How IS each one to know how much to 
of God and shows them unto us. 
Thus by the for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have 
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SLIPPING A "WAY. 
THEY are slipping away, these sweet, swift years, 
Like a leaf on the current cast; 
With never a break in their rapid flow, 
We watch them as one by one they go 
Into the beautiful past. 
As silent and swift as a weaver's thread, 
Or an arrow's flying gleam; 
As soft as the languorous breezes hid, 
That lift the ,,·illow's long golden lid, . 
And ripple the glassy stream. 
As light as the breath of the thistle-down, 
As fond as a lover's dream; 
As pure as the Hush iu the sea-shell's thro.at, 
A~ s1reet as the woocl-bird's wooing note, 
So teuder and sweet they seem. 
One after another we see them pass, 
Down the dim-lighted stair; 
vV e hear the sound of their stea.dy tread 
In the steps of the centuries loug since dead, 
As beautiful and as fair. 
There are only a few years left to love. 
Shall we waste them in idle strife? 
Shall we trample under our ruthless feet 
These beautiful blossoms, rare and sweet, 
By the dusty way of life? 
There are only a few swift years-ah, let 
No envious taunts be heard; 
Make life's fair pattern of r~re design, 
And fill up the measure with love's sweet wine, 
But never an angry word! 
About Eg·ypt. 
VERY pleasant was that ride to Cairo, the 
city calleJ by Orientals the precions Jiamond in 
tho haudle of tbe green fan of tho Delta. It 
was the retreat of tho Fatimate Caliphs, the 
beloved asylum of the poets, and is fameJ in 
flowery prose and voluptuous song. 
Onr swift t1·ain appetu·ed to glide tbrongb 
rather than break the stillness of tho dl'owsy 
country. 
The mellow sunshine was like out· 
Indian Summer, balmy and yellow, glorifying 
all it touched, anJ made less melancholy the 
squalid, filthy Arab villages, haunted by hags 
who are not witches, but wives and daughters 
of the fellahin. 
The mud houses are like an 
outgrowth of Nilotic slime and ooze: and beside 
them grow lovely acacias and mimosa or gum 
arabic trees, in which pigeonH flock and flutter. 
About the straw heaps at the door chickens 
cackle, and dirty sheep hunt for food, and sore-
eyed children lie 
ba~king, resem-bling tol'pid 
reptiles. It was in November, wbieh was mild 
and delightCul as bridai June is vvith us. 
I 
The valley of the Nile produces three crops 
a year; and sowing, plowing, reaping g;o on at 
the same time. 
Women worked in the fields 
with the men, each wearing one loose garment. 
There was no machinery but the slwdoj, like 
our old-fashioned well-sweep, the most primi-
tive of pumps, and a rush basket. Swinging 
the water-tight basket, they moved with ma-
chine-like precision, these forever oppressed 
.Egyptians, without recollections of a great past 
or ambition pointing to a betlor future. 
Their 
very souls are enslaved by centuries of grind: 
ing tyranny, knovving no change but a change 
of taskmasters. 
The locomotive gives them no 
impulses, and they do not lift their heads as the 
herald of a new civilization, a chariot mightier 
than Pharaoh's, rolls past. 
Among the low 
bending figures we saw the tattooed faces and 
painted blue lips, forbidden by the Levitical 
law. 
In a slow, heart-broken way they moved 
steadily, swinging the rnsh basket, in the hard 
service of the field named in Deuteronomy, 
drawing up water from the river and emptying 
it on the fields in the higher levels. 
Sometimes 
the passer-by may hear a dull, droning sound 
from the unpaid toile1·s, a melancholy chorus 
chanted by gangs of boys and girls degraued 
unspeakably, who are set to work together 
along the Nile banks. The Arabic scholar tells 
us these are the words of the slow, sad song:-
GIRLS. 
They starve us, they starve us 1 
BOYS. 
They beat us, they beat us I 
CHORUS ALL TOGETHER. 
Bnt there's some one above, 
There's some one above, 
\Vho will punish them well, 
WiU·punish them well. 
Another burden in full chorus is:-
The chief of the village, 
The cltief of the vilLtge, 
M'1y the dogs tear him, tear him, tear him! 
In the oldest of the world's illustrated bisto-
ricR, on the walls of Thebes, are piel nres, per-
feet as though sculptured yesterday, for w!Jicl1 
these waiting human maehines might have 
served as moJels. 
There is little donbt that, 
in the changeless .East, this is the very same 
ct·y which went up to Heaven feom the enslaved 
Hebrews, groaning under their taskmasters. 
An 
exceedin~ biLLer cry \Vben swe·lled in a 
chorus of multitudDs doorned to pol'form impos-
sibilities, gazing in despair at their unconquer-
able work. 
There is a tomb pai11ting near 
Ghizeh supposed to represent the bard usage 
of lsraelites in Egypt, an accurate illustration 
of the bouse of bondage. 
The features of the 
Jews it is impos8ible to mistake. 
'l'hey arc 
making brick, their bodieR are splar.;;hed ':vith 
clay, and their service is plainly exacted" with 
rigoe." In the center of the picture sits an 
OYersoer or ta,skmastel', with baton in band, 
ready to 011forco obodienue,-nn actual portrait 
of some Egyptian face, with oblique eyes; nnd · 
nanow, receding f(H'ehead. 
As we jonmeyed, camels in twos and tbreol:l 
went by, theit· Arab d1·ivers seated on horrible 
high-posted saddles: taking tho motion of the 
bruLe in that tilting perch. 
Tho mangy, dt·eary 
cl·catul'es Jid not take fright at the steam-
v.,rhi::;tle; Lbcy were too far gone fm• that. 'fhey 
only tnrned, and chewing the cud of nothing 
particular, surged slowly along nnmi'ndful of our 
invasion o•t the sanctity of the past; and mus-
ing, it woulJ seem, on the hard lot of r.he beast 
of burdc11, the slave of slaves. 
I tlJOught they 
had no RpiriL left, but when a load too .. heayy to 
be endllred is being girded the kneeling boasts 
give a complaini11g groan most dismal to hear. 
Tho Scripture vvord ''girded" first has mean-
ing here. It was a now idea to see two heavy 
bales bain need, one on either side, and kept in 
place w·i th broad bands, wou.nd round and round 
the animal. 
A street-car line is projected for Cairo. 
Ven-
erable and historic monuments are lnid low to 
maJ.::o room for glaring hotels; and the dreadful 
costumo of the Christian is adopted, i nstcad of 
tbe flowing robes and soft, light fabri<~S suited 
to tropic heat. 
Comfortable loose slippers are 
abnn do ned for leather shoes, and women arc 
forsaking coot draperies for corsets and the 
many discomforts of Parisian toilet. lt is con-
soling to learn they must keep to the veils 
which law and religion bold sacred, and which 
no foreign influence can alter. 
. 
The b-ills of the Libyan Desert gird the hori-
zon and frame the matchless picture, and the 
mountain tombs of Gbizeh tower against the 
sky, blue as when Cleopatra lavished her bland-
ishments on Antony, as they did when the 
great Rameses breathed the burning incense 
offered to him as to a god. They look no older 
now than when the patriarchs saw them as 
they went down into Egypt to sojourn there, 
for the famine was grievous in their land. 
Formerly the soft sand of the streets of Cairo 
gave back no sound of chariot wheel, hoof, or 
footstep; now the paved roa<.:hr;ty of the Muski 
is a din worthy of Regent Street or Broadway. 
It bas lost in dignity and quiet, but much gain 
is made, in Rome respects, by the improvements 
of Ismail P:tsha. 
Instead of donkeying to the 
pyramids, or perching on a back-breaking camel, 
you ride in an open barouche to the very foot 
of the Great Pyramid. It is a delicious drive, 
eleven miles on a raised causeway, under the 
shady acacia trees, sacred in our eyes to poetry 
and song. 
The highway was built for the 
Prince of Wales, according to an immemorial 
compliment in the East, which orders a new 
road made for a guest the king delights to 
honor. 
Verily, Ismail Pasha builJed bettor 
than he knew, when he ordered this for tue 
Prince of 	V ales. His it is now. 
The Arab proverb runs: ''Time mocks all, 
but the PYramids mo'ck time." How the outer 
casing of v() b izeh has been c:nried off' to found 
now towns, and for the1 upuuilding of Cairo, is 
an old tale and often told. 
'l'be illiterate chil-
dren of the desert paid no heed to tablets of 
bewn stone which contained precious histories, 
and the conqueror Amrou fou11ded the city of 
Victory on tho field where the leathern tent of 
the commander-in-chief was pitched. When 
he was to return to Alexandria, and ordered 
his tent to be struck for the march, be was told 
that a pair of pig·eons had made tlteir nest on 
its roof. 
He exclaimed, "God forbid that a 
Mohammedan should deny his shelter to a liv-
ing being, a creature of Allah who bad C011fidod 
to the protection of his ho~pit:dity. .Leave the 
tent standing. It is an omen vf good." 
The pigeons remained unharmed in their 
nest, and ,,vhen Amrou returlted, flmdted wiLh 
trinmph, from Alexandria, he found it there 
standing, occupied it again, and made the spot 
n center for the new capital, Fostat, i.e., the 
tent. 
The reader will remember a similar story 
lold of the Emperor Charles of Spain in Flan-
deJ'", immorLalized in verse by Longfellow. 
·' Golondina is m,y guest," the emperor said, 
"let no hand molest nor hurt her." 
And when 
the army di:-;lJanded, tho canvas palace was 
left standing for the sake of the sw:1llow's nest. 
-M1·s. Susan E. Wallace, 1~n 1
1lw Ad-vane~. 
Recent Earthquake in New Zealitnd. 
FuRTHER details of the earthqnakes in New 
Zealand state that the most violent disturb-
ances were felt in the noighborhooJ of Rotona. 
The severity of the shoc;ks led many of the 
people to believe that the island would sink into 
the sea. 
The sensation experienced is said to 
have been fearful beyond dcsc:ri ption. 
Immediately after the first Hhoclc the inhabit-
ants rusbeJ frantically in nll directions. 
W ben 
the second shock came the entire conn try for 
miies around was lit up by the glare of the vol-
cano, which had suddenly burst into activity. 
The scene was as grand as it was awful. Huge 
volumes of smoke illllrninated with flame simul-
taneously burst forth from a range of mountains 
over sixty miles in length, and above the smoke 
could be seen huge mnsses of fire resembling 
meteors rushing through the s_ky: 
The natives 
who had esca.ped death gathered in groups, and, 
filled with abject terror, bold religious services, 
bull when another shock would canse tho earth 
to tremble, they would fall with their faces to 
the ground, quivering with fear. 
·As soon as the news of the fearful occurrence 
was received at Auckland, a Government agent 
made immediate prcpamtions to go to the relief 
of the sufferers. 
Wagons were chartered and 
filled with proviRions and clothes; Mr. John-
son, the Government agent, on his arrival r.t 
Rotona, sent back the following account: "The 
scene among the mountains as viewed from the 
Wairoa road is terribly grand. 
Flashes of light-
ning, peals of thunder, and shocks of earthquake 
a.re incessant, while dust is falling in heavy 
showers. 
In addition to these inconveniences, 
the roads throughout the entire country are 
covered with several feet of blne clay mud 
ejected from the volcanoes. 
All vegebtion is 
destroyed, and the aspect of tho conntry is en-
tirely changed. 
Blue Lake and Lake Rotako-
kabl have been transformed into mud baths. 
The outlet of the latter lake is blocked up and 
SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
(lS] 541 
the bridges which cross the lower end are cov-
ered with mud. 
"Nearly all tho buildings that I have 11oticed 
are crushed in with fallon mud. At this place 
Snow's Tempol'anee Hall and the two principal 
hotels, and neal'ly all tbe other buildings in the 
to'.vn, are completely wrecked. 
The house occu-
pied by Mrs. Hazard nnd her fa.mily was borne 
down by the weight of tbe debris. 
Mra. Haz-
ard was dug out alive, b1tt four of het· childt·en 
were found dead. 
Mr. Hazat·d is missing. 
De-
tailed reports of the foreig1t residents at other 
points who were killed lt:;tve not yet been re-
ceived." 
'rhe captain of the steamship Southen~ Cross, 
which arrived at Aucklnml on June 18, reports 
having felt at sea the effed of the distudntnces. 
On the morning of June 10, the day following 
the earthquakes, his vessel was in a shower of 
dust. 
From 5 to 10 A. 
.M. there was com-
plete darkness, and balls of fire were continually 
playing around tbe masthend:'l. 
A gale sud-
denly sprang up and catTied sJl bis canvas away. 
The men were unable to stand the blinding 
showers of dust, and the vessel was put about 
and stood away to the north, but it was not un-
til 11 o'clouk of the following day that the dust 
was left behind. 
The reports show that earth-
quakes genernlly prevailed at all points in New 
Zealand during the same period.-;%[. 
Washing-ton's Modesty. 
THERE is a story told of Washington's first 
appearance as a member of the House of Bur-
gesses. He wns something more than a new 
member; he was the late commander-in-chief 
of the Virginia army, the foremost man, in a 
military way, in the province; be Lad just re-
turned from the successful expedition against 
Fort Duquesne. 
So the House resolved towel-
come him in a manner becoming so gallant a 
Virginian, and it paP-sed a vote of thanks for 
the distinguished military services be bad ren-
dered the country. The Speaker, :M:r. Robinson, 
rose when Washington came in to take his seat, 
and made a little speech of praise and welcome, 
pt·esenting the thanks oftbe House. Every one 
applauded and waited for the tall colonel to 
respond. 
There he stood, blushing, stammer-
ing, confused. 
He could give his orders to his 
men easily enough, and be could ·even say what 
was necessary to Mrs. Martha Custis; but to ad-
dress the House of Burgesses in answer to a vote 
of thanks-that was another matter! Not a 
plain word could be get out. It was a capital 
answer, and the Speaker interpreted it to the 
Honse. 
''Sit down, Mr. Washington," said be, "your 
modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses 
the power of any language I possess."-St. 
Nicholas. 
The Origin of a Hymn. 
IN London Cowper asked a cabman to drive 
him to the Thames, intending to throw himself 
illto the water, but before reaching the river, 
the cab stopped, and when Cowper asked what 
was the matter, the driver said: "rrhe devil is 
either in the horse or cab; 1 cannot go on." 
This brought Cowper "to himself," and on 
reaching home he turned to the passage in 
Zechariah t;peaking of the fountain opened for 
sin and uncleanness, and wrote the well-known 
bymn:-
There is a fountain filled with blood, etc. 
The second verse was in the original:-
The dying thief rejoiced to see, 
'rhat fountain in his day, 
And there hl:we I, though vile as he, 
Washed all my sins away. 
-The Advance. 
WHEN we are most filled with heavenly love, 
and only then, are we best fitted to bear with 
human infirmity, to live above it and forget its 
burden.-.Maria Ha're. 
Nature of '£obacco. 
Q.-vVI-IAT are the chief ways of using to-
bacco? 
A.-Smoking, chewing, and snuffing. 
Q.-What is the natural effect of tobacco 
upon the system? 
A.-It if::l narcotic and emetic. 
Q.-What is an emetic? 
A.-Anything which causes a person to vomit 
after taking it. 
Q.--WlH~t is a narcotic? 
A.-Any drug which, taken in small doses, 
stupefies the nerves and can::;cs sleepincs::;, and 
in larger quantities produces convulsions, stu-
por, and death. 
Q.-What deadly poison does tobacco con-
tain? 
A.-'-Nicotine; a very small quautity will 
produce denth. 
-
Q.-vV hat proof ciln you give that tobacco is 
poisonous? 
A.-lf given to a dog be will die in spasms. 
Q.-Give another example of tobacco poison-
ing. 
A.-A single drop of liquid taken from a pipe 
stem and placed on the tongue of a cat will kill 
it almost instantly. 
Q.-How then can men form a habit of using 
tobacco if it be so deadly a poison ? 
A.-lf taken in small doses at the beginning) 
the system grows to tolerate many kinds of 
poison. 
Q.-What other noisons can be taken in 
large qunn ti ties if bognn by degrees? 
A.-Alcohol, arsenic, opium, and nearly all 
poi::;ons. 
Q.-
W by does not tobacco kill people when 
tl~cy first begin to use it? 
A.-Because it is an emetic, and the stomach 
will seldom retain enough to produce death at 
once. 
Q.-Does the use of tobacco ever cause death? 
A.--Yes, but usually it poisons the system 
slowly. 
Q.-Does the system attempt to work it off'? 
A.-The system tries to throw off every 
poison as soon as Rvvallowed, and is greatly 
weakened by tbe effort. 
Q.-Bnt docs a little do any harm? 
A.-Any poison must burt more or less in 
proportion to the quantity taken. 
Q.-How is the injury done? 
A.-It poisons the stomnch, affocli ng diges-
tion, often producing dyspep~ia, and rendering 
the whole system liable to disease. 
. 
Q.-ls there any evidence that tobacco goes 
all through the syRtem? 
A.-If a drop of perspiration from a habitual 
user of tobacco fnll on a hot stove, yon can 
smell the tobacco at once. 
Q.-I-Iow is it that there are some who are 
not made sick by the use of tobacco, at first? 
A.-Such people have, perhaps, inheriLed a 
taste for it, and are hardened to the poison to 
begin with. 
Q.-lf tobacco is RO injurious, why do people 
use it? 
A.-Because it is a narcotic poison, and seems 
to quiet, while it really injures them.-Silver 
Star Catechism. 
Bites and Sting-s. 
ALMOST all these are destructive from theit· 
acid-nature, consequently the cure is an alkr,.li. 
Spirits of hartshorn is one of the strongest, 
and is kept in almost eve-ry household, and you 
have only to pour some of it out in a tea-cup 
and dabble it on with a rag. Relief is imme-
diate. 
If you have oo hartshorn, then saleratus is a 
sui~able alkali. 
lVIoisten it with water, and use 
as m the case of hartshorn; or, pour a tea-cup 
of boiling water on as much wood ashes, stir it 
and in a few minutes you will have an alkali. 
The lye of ashes will answer a good purpose 
while the physician is coming. 
Remember the 
principle-bile is att acid, the cure is an alkali. 
-Halt's Jounwl of lfecdth. 
Hait· Doctoring. 
A FASHIONABLE mod isle gave a reporter some 
points on women doctoring tbeir hair to obtain 
cor Lain effects in co lot·. 
She said:-
"Women nre blessed with such luxuriant hir-
su Le adornments they rarely ever become bald. 
lf tit ey did not at. tempt to doc Lor their hair it 
would ncvet· fall out, unless some scalp disease 
uau::;ud it. ln nearly every hai-r store you visit 
will be found a hair lotion specially prepared 
to do somcLhing wonderful eithe-r in the way of 
proclucit1g oxLrnordinary growth, or changing 
the color from a sandy to a golden, or as de-
sired. 
Women have a fondness for experi-
menting with their hair, and cannot resist the 
tern ptation to try all the nostrums offered. 
1 have seen many a beautiful head of hair 
ruined by applications of lotions. 
I know a 
young married lady vvlw moves in the highest 
circles. 
Sh.,e bad long, wavy, blonde hair, the 
envy of nine-ten tbs of her friends. 
She con-
cluded that she wanted it a shade lighter-some 
one had told her tb~tt it would add to it:; ueauty. 
She began by using borax and a lot ot' pre-
pared stuff, guaran toed by each per::;o11 who 
sold it to do its work effectually and without 
barm. Her hair is now an ugly shade ol' ::;otTel 
ancl completely doad. lt is also much thi11ner, 
and will all come out, 1 think, in a fev\-· years. 
Her case is but one of ma11.Y. 
1f women would otdy take into cow"ideration 
the f~tct that beaiLh, as tL rule, gives vitality to 
the hair, they would not usu tSO lltHtly ineffectual 
remedie::::;. lt is enough to have a race of bald-
beaded men-may the females be St)ared.''-
N. Y. JJ;Iait and Expr-ess. 
Regularity in Eating. 
IF there is one table-law about which all per-
sotts are agreed, it is that our meals shouiJ be 
taken at stated and regular periods. 
.People 
ruay differ about vegetarianism, about sweets, 
about pies and cal{es, about tea and coffee; but 
I have never met a person wuo would· insist 
that 'regula?·ity was of no consequence-that it 
was just as well to take two meals to-day and 
five to-morrow; to take dinner at one o'clock to-
day and thl'ee to-morrow, and five the next 
day. 
Without understanding the physiological 
law, all are agreed that regularity is important. 
A long joumey by rail does not derange the 
stomach because of sitting in an unventilated 
car, for the traveler may occupy a still worse 
place in the pursuit of his business at home; 
neithe1· is it because of the character of the 
food furnished at the rail way lunch rooms, for 
the food at home is often worse; but the stom-
ach derangement which nearly always comes 
with the long rail way trip is, in great part, 
to be traced to irregularity in the times of eating. 
In a recent trip, we took breakfast the first 
morning at half-past nine o'clouk, the 11ext at 
seven, and so with the oLher meals; only one 
day we had no dinner at all. 
When we reached 
San Franciseo we were all sufferiqg from indi-
gestion; some were conscious of no discomfort 
in the stomach, but not one of us escaped the 
dullness and· depres.sion of spirits which corne 
of imperfect digestion. Among tb.e table-laws, 
this one of regularity is pre-eminently iJnpor-
tant.-Dio Lewis. 
CHICAGO bas 3,700 saloons, and each of its 
600,000 people pays an average of $30 to keep 
their proprietors from starvwg. 
'fhis same 
city squanders $30,000,000 a year to corrupt 
and debase and turn men into fiends, and 
scarcely $3,0001000 for regenerating them.-Sel. 
54:2 (14] 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 12, No. 34. 
(Concluded from page 539.) 
"lay by" ?-"As God hath prospered him," 
after t:xamining his accounts, he is to lay aside 
a .cer,tnin per (·cnt. of the profits. 
26. F1·om all these things, nmong what musL 
the first day of the week be clasf.led ?-Among 
"the six working days." 
Eze. 46 : 1. 
Notes. 
TJHE student, after leam ing that the evening 
begins the day, may wonder bow the disciplef:; 
c.0.u)d be gathered togeL!Jer "at evening nen 1 
t~.e close of the day or the resurredion, a11d it 
§till be the first day of tLe week. 
J oh 11 20 : 19. 
'rbis is made clear when we remember that the 
J.e.ws r.eckoned two evenings to each dny. ·Dr. 
G~lar:ke, on Ex. 12: 6, says: "The Jews divided 
the day into morning and evening; till the sun 
p~ssed the meridian, all was morning or fore-
DO,<i>n,.:after that all was afternoon or evening. 
Th.e,i,r first evening began just after twelve 
o'clock, .and continued till sunset; their second 
evening be.gan at sunset, and eontinned till 
r~ig~t, i. e., cl.uring the whole time of twilight." 
See .also Scott, McClintouk and Strong's cyclope-
dia, .etc. 
Ex. 12: 6, rnargin, rends: "Heturn 
betn'een the two evenings." 1t will be seen that 
the clay began.and ended wit.h an evening. The 
evening at the close of the day was the first of 
"the two eveni11gs," and tb.e one at the begin-
ning of tho following clay, l·rom sunset o11ward, 
was the second eveni11g. 
\Vuen John speaks 
of the evening of the first dny of tbe week, 
referring to the clo~e ot' the day, he evidently 
m,eans the first evening. 
But vvben Luke 
(Acts 20 : 7) speaks of a~ meeti 11g on the fin;t 
day of the week, we }{now thuL he refers to 
the second eveni11g, tile one whieh began the 
day, because lights were then required. 
But 
when we say that" when John speaks of the 
evening of the first day of the week, referring 
to the clobe of the day, he evidently means the 
:first e ·ening," we do not mean that all the 
events of that evening took place before sun-
set, nor that it was before sunset w ben J esns 
met with the disciples in their room in J erusa-
lem. 
The language of John 20: 19 does not 
dem;an.d such a conclur-;ion. 
'l'he disciples as-
sembled in their room for their evening meal 
while the sun was yet above the horizon; their 
hour for e1d i 11g being doubtless about the same 
as that of the disciples who Jived in Emmaus. 
But as in that country darl<ness very quickly 
follows the setting of the su11, it must havG 
been som.e time after dark when the two dis-
ciples retu_rned from Bmmaus. 
Still it was tbe 
first day of the week when tho disciples assem-
bled. 
IN chapter .20 of Conybeare and Howson's 
"Life and EpisLies of the Apostle Paul," we 
find the following in regard to the meeting 
spoken of in Acts 20: 7: ''It was the eveniug 
which succeeded the J eish Sabbath. 
On the 
Sunday morning tho vessel was about to sail. 
The Christians of Troas wore gathered to-
gether at this solemn time to celebrate the 
feast of love which the bst command of Christ 
bas enJoined on all his followers." 
A f'ew par-
!1-graphs furlber on we find the following: 
"Str.ength and peace were surely sought and 
obtained by the apostle from tLe Hodeemer, as 
h~ pursued his lonely road that Sunday after-
noon, in spring, among the oak woods and the 
streams of lela." 
FROM. Teoas to Assos is at least nineteen miles, 
and therefore Paul must have been still on the 
way in the aft'ernoon of that Suuday, although 
be started at break of d:w. 
Acts 20: 11. 
On 
the supposition t.hat he !:~cognized Sunday as 
t'he Sabbath, is it not strange that be should 
'leave the church at 'l'roas on Sunday morning, 
and spend the entire day in traveling'? 
And 
this, we remember, is the o1dy time when the 
first day of the week is.nw111ioned in connec-
t1on with a religious meeting. 
anrl ~nte z. 
RELIGIOUS. 
-The late Simon Samson left $50,000 to· be 
devoted to the improvement of the condition of the 
Jews in the Holy Land. 
-The Lutherans are going to build a church in 
Jerusalem. 
More than $80,000 has already been 
collected for the purpose. 
-Chic;i.go University, with its valuable buildings 
~.nd gr.ou.nds, has.passed irrevoca'bly from the posses-
,..;Jon of the Baptists. A debt of $210,000 was what 
crushed it. 
-Pope Leo XIII . .is go~ng to e.rect a beautiful 
monument to Pope Innoce,nt III. Well, if there is 
any one man more than another to whom the 
Papacy owes a monument, Innocent III. is the one. 
-The society Qf Friei~ds, or Quakers, seems to be 
slowly dyi11g out. The whole number of members in 
Great Britain is only fiftePn thousand, which is .less 
than half the total recorded at the beginning of the 
present century. 
-Dr. Philip Schaff, the church historian, has been 
spending the summer in Berlin, attending }f>ctures 
at. the University there, an'd studying, in the Hoyal 
L1brary, the sources of what will be his hisLory of 
the Reformation period. 
-"The Pope has received a letter, couched in the 
most respectful form, from the Prince Re!!:ent of 
Bavaria, 
:~ssuring the Sovereign Pontiff that he 
would regard it as 1his chief duty to .protect t.lte 
Catholic Church." . This js another triumph of Lil11e 
cr:t fLy policy of Leo XIII. for the restoration of the 
P:tpacy. 
-'l'he Euangelical Messenger ~tates that in the 
United States "nine-te..nths of the contributions to 
foreign missions are given by one-ten tl1 of the 
church membership, wllile o1dy one-half of the 
membership gives anything. The average amount 
per member is fifty cents per annum-oue-seve11th 
part 'Of a cent per day for the couversion of a thou-
::;and millions of heathen !'" 
-August 2.7, another American fishing vessel was 
seized in Canadian waters for alleged violation of 
the custom regulation~. 
-The mob at Belfast, August 23, routed the police 
with stones and wrecked Lite barracks, which was 
defended by twenty pol icemen. 
-August 27, the Republican convention at Los 
Angeles, Cal., ·nominated John F. Swift, of San 
Francisco, .for Governor of the Stale. 
-The strike of the car drivers on the Broadway, 
New York, street car lines has been compron1ised, 
and the men have all resumed work. 
-August 27, another submarine torpedo-boat was 
exhibited at New York. It worked successfully, 
making one dive of nearly two miles. 
-The twenty-fi\u00b7e gypsies recently lauded at Cas-
tle Gardea, New York, were sent back to Europe ou 
the same steamer by which they came. 
-On the 23d inst. revolutionists sacked the town 
of Villaldamn, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 
Seven men 
are reported to have beeu killed and several wounded. 
-Nearly three-fourths of all the imitation butter 
maele in this country hails from Chicago, where last 
year about twenty-five million pounds were made. 
--.!The Bulgarian revolutionists have been over-
thPown by the friends of Alexn nder, and the Pri nee 
has been asked to return and 
re~ume his authority. 
-Now that Rhode Island has adopted prohibition. 
it is said that saloon men nre prrtting up bui1diugs, 
to be devoted to their traffic, close to the line, in all 
the large towns which border 01: that State. 
-A certain sort of tobacco blindness is on th'e 
iucrense. The Lowell (Mass.) Citizen says that the 
victim is so affected tl1at lte can't see that he is 
puffing smoke right into tl1e face of the person near-
est him. 
-August 24, Mayor Gardner of Cleveland, Ohio, 
refused to grant the Anarchists of that ci Ly the use 
of the public square for a meeting. He told the 
committee that he would prevent such a meeting 
if be could. 
-A ·man in Pittsburgh, Pa., recently committed 
suicide because of intense suffedng from ~t disease 
0f the stomach, which, it is said, was due to 1he use 
of an anti.:.fat compound, by which he reduced his 
-The Watchman very aptly says: ''Some minis-
weight twenty pounds in six weeks. 
L·ers in this time, as conc·erns their tl1eology, remind 
U!:! of the woman wllose dre><s was not quite clea·n 
-A n,ew oil field has been discovered in Pennsyl-
enough to wear, and not quite dirty enwugh to wash. vani.a only sixteen miles from Pittsburgh. 
Olle 
They do not believe the old theology firmly enough well commenced flowing at the rate of 350 barrels 
Lobe able to preach it with p::nver, and they do not per day and the flow rapidly increased until it 
believe the • new theology' enough to be able to reached over 2,500, or more than 100 barrels per 
s:ttisfy their COJisciences with it." 
hour. 
-In Wales, the farmers have refused to pay the 
-It is :;tated that the death sentence in Kansas 
tithe rent that is laid upon them by the Govem-does not by any means doom a murderer to deaLh. 
ment, in support of the clergy of the Established The warrant must be signed by the Governor, and 
Church. About nine-tenths ot the Welsl1 are Dis-
as yet no Kansas Governor has ever signed a death 
seuters from the Church of Engla;1d, and they haye warrant. 
As a consequence, there are now thirty 
at last grown t.ired of paying a te'llth of all tltat death-sentenced prisoners in tlte penitentiary. 
grows, for the support or men who preach for the 
-A few days since, as a couple were about to be 
aristocracy. There has been some rioting, and, married iu a Chicago church, the lady discovered 
serious trouble is feared_. 
It is as though all tlte that the man whom she was about to marry had 
farmers in this country were compelled by law to been drinking. Quietly le<tving his side she took 
pay a tithe of all for the support of the Episeopal the license from the minister, and tossing it in l1er 
Church, without any regard whatever to allyL!ung intended husband's face, walked from the room. 
they·might pay for the support of the church to 
which they might belong, or whether they lwlo11ged 
Lo any. Tbis same priut.:i ple it is tlw.t the N atior·1al 
Reform party wants to establi::~h iu this country. 
SECULAR. 
-Cholera is still causing a good many deaths in 
Italy, daily. 
-Editor Ct.!.tting has been released by the Mexi-
can Government. 
-It is said tltat muskrats damage the Erie Canal 
$50,000 worth every year. 
-A large number of seamen are now on a. strike 
in San Francisco and Oakland. 
-August 23, all the employes on the Broad way, 
New York, car lines struck a.gninst a cltauge in the 
Lime table. The change in<..:reased the number of 
Lrips per day from five to six, but made no iucrease 
ill t1H:: pay of the men. On the 24Lil 1,100 men were 
paid otf by order of the superiuLeitdent, who says 
that he will have nothiug more to do wiLh them. 
-Affairs in Ireland are in a very uns~tt1ed con-
dition. It seems that tl1e GovernrnenL is lHtp<lring 
for coercion on a large scall:'. This will of <..:uurse 
result in fresh agrarian outrages. Five hundred 
policemen and troops have lett Birr to nssist in 
evictions on the estates of the Marqui:3 of Glanrieard 
in Gal way. The Birr bra11clt of tl1e National Land 
League has given uoLice to tn1.desmen not to supply 
the eviction agents with provisions or means of con-
-A branch of the Salvation Army has been or-
d · Ch' 
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veyance. 
ganize 1n 
matown lll au ; ranc1sco. 
-Some cattle from England, in quarantine at 
-At Mandalay, Burmah, August 24, one of the 
Quebec, are aftlicted with pleuro-pneumonia. 
embankments of the river Irrawaddy burst and in a 
few moments a large district wa:--'iioocled to a depth 
-It is sta~ed. that forty-?-ine t~ns of snails are ot rrom t'our to ten 1eet. Quite a 11 umber or pen.;uns 
consu~ed daily In Pans dunng their season. 
were drowued, and many thousands were reuder~.:d 
-Bishop John Sharp lias \>eeu deposed as a Mor-homeless. The flooded district had within its terri-
mon Bishop .. He. renouuced polygamy before the 1 tory manY food-supplying stores and all of these 
courts !'orne time s1nce. 
I were swept away. The result will be an approach 
.~-Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, has been de-
to famine amoug the l10rneless people. T1H; ri v'=-!· 
posed, it is supposed tLrong!t Russian influence.! will uot fall st.Hficiently Lo penuit ally attempt"";-· 
'l'he country is almost iu a state ot civil war, nnd \ recollstrllction of the broken embaukmeut uutil 
all Europe is greatly agitated. 
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STUDY carefully and preserve the uirections on 
this page, about how to get to Camp-meeting. 
THE Review and He1·ald, just to hand, reports a 
rumor that Elder R. Conradi, who lately went to 
Russia, has been imprisoned, but nothing definite is 
yet known about it. 
WE have received from our Publishing House at 
Basle, Switzerland, a neat forty-page illustrated 
pamphlet, "The Sufferings of Christ for the .Re-
demption of the Human Race," printed in the 
French language. This is another good evidence of 
the progress of the truth in Central Europe. 
THE Congregationalist says that Professor Town-
send, of Boston University, addressed the Free 
Baptists at Old Orchard lately "on the final sepa-
ration of the righteous and the unrighteous from a 
scientific point of view." From a "scientific point 
of view" I Well, well! What subject can it be 
into which this modern "science, falsely so-called,'' 
will not obtrude its cloven foot? 
THE Christian at Work says that Japan has 
taught the Christian United States a lesson in the 
fact that that Government has interdicted the 
lecturing against Christianity. 
Well, when the 
"Christian United States" learns such a lesson as 
that, then farewell to her Christianity. Whenever 
a style of Christianity is profeMsed that cannot stand 
in the fair field of truth, then it is time t.o call it 
something else; for Christianity it is not. 
As IT is the eve of a Congressional election, the 
Mirror and the Chronicle, both Catholic papers, 
urge the Catholics of this country to ask the Presi-
dent and the Secretaries of War and Navy "to ap-
poil;lt more Catholic chaplains, and then back up 
their request with Congressional pressure." They 
say: "\Ve can easily secure the aid of aspiring M. 
C.'s to back up our resolutions on the subject." No 
doubt that they can. A good many aspiring M. C.'s 
are quite susceptible to "pressure" about election 
time. 
SEE the interesting report in the Missionary De-
partment, of the planting of the Third Angel's Mes-
sage in Central America. This sister embraced the 
truth two years ago when Elder Corliss conducted 
the tent-meeting in Oakland. She is a member of 
the San Francisco Church. In private conversation 
with her after her rrtum, we were so much in teres ted 
jn the account of her work that we asked her to 
write a report of it for the benefit of the readers of 
the SIGNS. 
We are sure that all who love the work 
of which this is a part, ;ill be much pleased with 
this· another token of the rapid spread of the mes-
sage. There is now only one link missing in the 
chain of the Third Angel's Message which i:;:; to 
encircle the earth and enlighten the world. Start-
ing from San Francisco around the world, missions 
for the work of this message are found in the Sand-
wich hlands, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Aus-
tralia, South Africa, Russia, Central Europe, North-
ern 
Europe, England, South 
America, Central 
America, Canada, and in our own country from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to Lhe 
Gu_lf. 
\Vith a mission in Calcutta, or some other 
prominent city in India, whic,l1 we nre certain will 
not be long delaye-d, the chnin will be complete; the 
loud cry wi I! sound forth; the earth will be lightened 
with the glory of tl1e glorious and fearful ~essnge; 
and God?s work will be cut short in righteousness. 
"Now, it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now 
is our sal vaLion nearer than when we believed." 
And we may add, it is nearc::r than many of us 
believe. "The nigh"t is fn r spent, the day is at hand; 
let us therefore cnst off the· works of darkness, and 
let us put on the armor of light." 
A Desperate Figbt. 
THE enemies of Prohibition are making a desper-
ate fight. They have tried to destroy with dyna-
mite the Baptist Church building at St. CL1 ir, Penn.; 
they have blown up with dynamite the house and 
store of D. \V. Lewis of the same place; they have 
sent threatening letters to Rev. J. T. McCreery ol 
Pittsburg; and they have assassinated Rev. E. C. 
Haddock of Sioux City, Iowa. Besides all this they 
have succeeded, in Iowa, in getting the question 
before the United Sta~es Court, upon the plea tl~:tt 
the enforcement of the Iowa Prohibition Act is in 
violation of that provision of the Constitution of the 
United Stntes which declares that" no person shall 
be deprived of property without due process of law.'' 
This of course will delay the settlement of the 
question until the Supreme Court of the United 
States has passed upon it. And then if the Supreme 
Court should pronounce against Prohibition r-Well 
that would only the sooner, and the more promi-
nently, make it a national issue, and insure a Prohi-
bition Amendment to the National Constitution. 
So whatever this deeision may be, it, with all these 
acts of destruction, intimidation, and assassination, 
will only forward the cause of Prohibition. The 
case of whisky is getting desperate and may it be 
annihilated forever. 
Reduction of Fare to the Woodland 
Ca1np-meeting. 
WE l}ave been enabled to· secure very favorable 
rates for all those who wish to attend the State camp-
meeting at Woodland, but it will be necessary to car-
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Those coming from any part of the State over the 
lines of the Central or Southern Pacific R. R. will 
call for a camp-meeting ticket, paying the regular 
fare to Woodland, and taking a receipt for the same. 
On your return these receipts must be presented to 
the ticket agent at vVoodland, when he will sell you 
a return ticket for one-third the regular fare. Be-
fore presenting these receipts they must be signed 
by the secretary of the Conference. This will be 
done on the camp-ground. 
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are sold leaves San Francisco every day at 4:00, and 
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train can buy a second-class ticket fron;' San Fran-
cisco or Oakland to Davisville for $1.50, and from 
Davi:sville to Woodland for 40 cts. 
The retu1·n 
ticket on this train would cost the same. This would 
be a little less than the two-thi1·ds reduction on the 
1'Pgulm· ticket. All must change cars at Davisville 
for ·woodland. 
Those co111i ng over the San F1·ancisco and North 
Pacific R. R. wil 1 cal I for camp-meeting ticke~R. 
a11d will receive 1·ound-trip tickets to San Franci~·.:0 
at the following rates:-
Cloverdale to San Francisco and return, 
$5.00 
Healdsburg " " 
" 
" 
" 
3.00 
Santa Rosa " " 
" 
" 
2. 7 5 
Petaluma 
" 
1.50 
These tickets will be good from Monday, Octol>er 
4, to Thursday, October 21. 
Each persou will be al-
lowed to take 100 pounds of baggage free. 
We would like to have friends in all parts of the 
State notify us at once if they expect to attend the 
meeting, so that we can inform the R. R. company 
where to send receipts, as of course it would not be 
necPssary for them to send receipts to every office in 
the State. 
Address, 
C. H. JONES, 
Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. 
New Eugland Camp-Meeting. 
JusT as we are closing up this paper we have re-
ceived the following and give it a place here:~ 
The Camp-meeting at New Bedford, Mass., com-
menced Friday: August 20. The first public service 
was held at 7:50P.M. About five hundred of the 
ciLizens were present. The attention paid to the 
subject presented was good. There are about fifty 
tenLs on the ground and one hundred and fifty camp-
ers. There are two large pavilions pitched side by 
side, so arranged Lhat one ::;peaker addresses the 
people in both. The largest tent, in which is the 
preachers' stand, has various appropriate mottoes 
displayed, such as," The Sabbath-school Is the Nurs-
ery of the Church,'' "Christ Died for All,"" Behold 
He Cometh with Clouds," etc. The grounds and 
pavilion . are lighted by electricity. The social 
meetings n.re spiritual. 
The prospects are that we 
shall have a profitable meeting. Elders U. Smith, 
Farnsworth, and Goodrich, are present from abroad. 
The meetings on Sabbath and first-day were good. 
Large numbers of the best citizens were out all day 
Sunday, and each evening the tent was full to over-
flowing. \Ve are looking for the special outpouring 
of God's Spirit before the meeting closes. 
B. N.H. 
As EVIDENCE of the favor with which the AMER-
ICAN SENTINEL is being received, we may mention 
Lhat from the beginni11g there have been printed 
ten thousand copies of each numb ·r, all of which 
have been taken, and to supply further demand we 
have been obliged to print one thousand copies 
extra of each of the back numbers. So send in the 
orders. 
Back numbers from Number One to the 
present can l>e furnished in any quantity desired. 
Nearly one hundr-ed thow1.and copies of the SENTI-
NEL used in nine months represents an influence, 
and an amount of work, that is truly gratifying to 
the friends of the cause in defense of which it was 
established. 
BROTHER F. J. OTis of Selma, Cal., wants to em-
ploy a goor.l ~even th-day Adventist, who can handle 
two or four horses, and do general farm work. 
Or a 
young man of sixteen or seventeen who wants to 
learn farm work. He wishes any such to correspond 
with l1im. 
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