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"Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man accor~ing as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12. 
VOLUME 11. 
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FIFTH-DAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
NUMBER 42. 
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. FOR THE 
International Tract and Missionary Society. 
(For terms, etc., see last page.) 
Entered at the Post-Office in Oakland. 
THE CRY OF FAITH. 
BE near-be near, 0 God! 
Fierce beats the storm! The blinding darkness falling 
Shuts out sun, moon, and stars from mortal sight; 
Blast howls to blast; deep unto deep is calling; 
One changeless horror rules the dismal night. 
Be near, 0 Strong to Save! 
'Tis as beneath men's feet the earth were shaken, 
And life's best hopes do fall like withered leaves; 
The hearts that know not thee, as if forsaken, 
Sink, e'en as when relentless fate bereaves. 
Be near, 0 sovereign Lord! 
All nature owns thy sway, thy will obeying; 
Beneath the awful shadow of thy wings, 
No tempest's rage, no fiery bolt dismaying, 
Can harm while that sure covert safety brings. 
Be near, 0 Love divine! 
Thou in thick clouds and darkness hast thy dwelling, 
Yet hi'l-th the trembling soul a friend in thee; 
O'erwhelmed and helpless, 'mid huge billows swelling, 
Thy word, we know, can still the stormy sea. 
Be near, 0 blessed Christ! 
, 
Thou who on earth hast felt the pangs of sorrow, 
Who didst thyself borne down with anguish kneel; 
From thy sweet pity let us comfort borrow, 
And learn, heart-wounded, how thy love can heal. 
Be near, 0 Son of God ! 
All power in earth and Heaven forever wielding; 
If thou but speak, the elemental strife 
Dies in a moment, at thy mandate yielding; 
And tranquil sunshine once more fioodeth life! 
-Ray Palmer, D. D. 
®~n~rnl ~rticl~z. 
"The Fear of the Lord Tendeth to Life." 
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. 
"Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her 
paths are peace." 
THE opinion is widely held that religion is 
detrimental to health and happiness. 
While 
th:is conclusion is radically false, it is not with-
out apparent foundation; for many who profess 
to be Christians are ever walking under a cloud. 
They seem to think it a virtue to complain of 
depression of spirits, great trials, and severe 
conflicts. 
But these persons do not correctly 
represent the religion of the Bible. So far 
from being antagonistic to health and happi-
ness, the fear of the Lord lies at the foundatiqn 
of all real prosperity. "What man is he that 
desireth life, and loveth many du.ys, that he may 
see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy 
lips from speaking guile; depart from evil, and 
do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 
The eyes 
of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his 
ears are open unto their cry. The face of 
the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut 
off the remembrance of them from the &3arth. 
The righteous c:ry, and the Lord heareth, and 
delivereth them out of all their troubles." 
'rhe consciousness of right-doing is the best 
medicine for· diseased bodies and minds. He 
who is at peace with God has secured the most 
important requJ.site to health. 
The blessing of 
the Lord is life to the receiver. 
The assurance 
that the eye of the Lord is upon us and his ear 
open to our prayer, is a never-failing source of 
satisfaction. To know that we have an all-
wise Friend to whom we can confide all these-
crets of the soul, is a privilege which words 
can never express. 
The gloom and despondency supposed to be 
the result of obedience to God's moral law, is 
often attributable to disregard of physical laws. 
Those whose moral faculties are beclouded by 
disease are not the ones to rightly represent the 
Christian life, to show forth the joys of salva-
tion or the beauties of holiness. 
'fhey are too 
often in the fire of fanaticism, or the water of 
cold indifference or stolid gloom. 
The Saviour of mankind declared: "I am the 
light of the world. He that followeth me shall 
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light 
of life;" and he bade his disciples, "Let your 
light so shine before men, that they may see 
your good works, and glorify your Father 
which is in Heaven." It is the duty of every 
Christian to follow closely the example of 
Christ;. to cultivate peace and hope and joy, 
which will be manifested in unfeigned cheerful-
ness and habitual serenity. 
'l'b us may they 
sued light upon all arouud them, insc,ead of 
casting the dark shadow of discouragement 
and gloom. 
1any are constantly craving excitement and 
diversion. 
Thoy are restless and dissatisfied 
when not absorbed in mirth, frivolity, and pleas-
ure-seeking. 
These persons may make a pro-
fession of religion, but they are deceiving tllcir 
own souls. 
'l'hey do not possess the geu uiue 
article. 
Their life is not hid with Chri~t in God. 
They do not find in Jesus their joy and peace. 
The vain and tritling amusements of the world 
may divert for a time; but when the exc:ite-
ment is past, when the miud reflects, and con-
science arouses and makes her voice heard, then 
the pleasure-seeker feels bow powerles~ are his 
pursuits to give health to the body or peace to 
the soul. 
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Undue excitement is invariably followed by 
corresponding depression. Transgression yields 
only disappointment and remorse. 
Those who 
walk in the path of wisdom and holiness, will 
not be troubled with vain regrets for their mis-
spent hours; they will not need to plunge into 
the round of gayety or dissipation to banish 
gloomy or harassing thoughts.. Useful, active 
labor that quickens the circulation and gives 
strength to the muscles, will also give tone and 
vigor to the mind, and will prove a most effect-
ive agent in the restoration of health. 
The religion of Christ is first pure, then peace-
able, full of righteousness and good fruits. 
Such 
religion is needed in the world tq-day. +Many 
young persons who profess to be followers of 
Christ are indulging in romantic sentimental-
ism which is deteriorating in its influence and 
dangerous in its tendency. They indulge day-
dreaming and castle-building, and thus squander 
their precious hours and unfit themselves for 
usefulness. 
With great self-complacency, many flatter 
themselves that if circumstances were only fa-
vorable they would do some great and good 
work. 
They do not view things from a correct 
standpoint. 
They have lived in an imaginary 
world, and have been imaginary martyrs and 
) 
imaginary Christians. Their character is desti-
tute of sterling virtue and real stamina. 
Young ladies of ~his class sometimes imagine 
that they possess exquisite delicacy and refine-
ment of characte:r:, and a keenly sensitive nat-
ure, which must receive sympathy and encour-
agement from all around them. They put on 
an appearance of languor and indolent ease, 
and imagine that they arc not appreciated. 
These sickly fancies are an injury to themselves 
and to others. 
Despondent feelings are frequently the result 
of undue leisure. Idleness gives time to brood 
over imaginary sorrows. Many who have no 
real trials or hardships in the present, are sure 
to borrow them from the future. If these per-
sons would seek to lighten the burdens of oth-
ers, they would forget their own. Energetic 
labor that would call into action both the mental 
and physical powers, would prqve an inestima-
ble blessing to mind and body. 
Invalids should not allow themselves to sink 
down into a state of inaction. 
This is highly 
detrimental to health. The power of tho will 
must be asserted; aversion to active exercise, 
and the dread of all responsibility, must be con-
quered. 
They can never recover health unless 
they shake off this listless, dreamy condition of 
mind, and arouse themselves to action. 
'l'here is _much deception practiced under the 
cover of religion. 
Passion controls the minds 
of many who :flatter themselves that they have 
roached high spiritual attainments. Their ex-
perience consists in idle fancies and love-sick 
sentimentalism, rather than in purity and true 
goodness. 
The mind should oe trained to look away 
from t:wlf, to dwell upon themes which are ele-
vated and ennobling. Let not the precious 
hours· of life be wasted in dreaming of some 
great work to be performed in the future, w bile 
the little duties of the present are neglected. 
The heart must be in the work, or it will 
drag heavily, whatever it may be. 
The Lord 
te::;ts our ability by giving us small duties to 
perform. If we turn from these with contempt 
or dissatisfaction, no more will be intrusted to 
us. If we take bold of them with cheerfulness, 
and perform them well, greater reaponsibilities 
will be committed to our trust. 
Talents have been committed to us, not to be 
squandered, but to be put out to the exchangers, 
that at the Master's coming he may receive 
his own with usury. 
rrhese talents have not 
been unjustly distributed. 
God has dispensed 
his sacred trusts according to the known abil-
ity of his servants, and has given " to every 
man his work." 
As he bestows his gifts upon each, he expects 
from each a corresponding return. If we faith-
fully perform our duty, the amount intrusted to 
us will be increased, be it large or small. All 
who thus prove their fidelity, will be accounted 
as wise stewards, and will be intrusted with the 
true riches, even the gift of everlasting life. 
"No man liveth to himself." True happiness 
will not be found by those who live merely for 
self-gratification. He who would secure the 
highest and most satisfactory enjoyment of this 
life, as well as a right hold upon the future, 
immortal life, must make it his highest aim to 
glorify God and do good to his fellow-men. 
"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, 
and that thou bring the poor that are cast out 
to thy house? when thou seest the naked that 
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THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11, No. 42. 
thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself ever would really influence the king, must do !little in common with our~. I was once talking 
from thine own flesh? 
Then shall thy light it through them. 
Hence these persons have with a well-educated native of Constantinople 
break forth as the morning, and thine health always been the most important factors in all about a famous minister of justice, now dead. 
shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteous-Oriental governments. 
The gentleman told me that this minister proba-
ness shall go before thee; tlie glory of the 
"There is nothing in the book of .Kings more bly bad not his equal in the world, that his 
Lord shall be thy rearward." 
thoroughly characteristic of this form of govern-· justice was like the justice of God; for be often 
"Pure religion before God and the Father is ment than the story in the first chapter con-decided difficult cases without bea.ring a word 
this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their cerning Adonijah. Even the bold prophet N a-of evidence on either side, from simply looking 
affliction, and to keep himself unspotted fi·om than did not venture to go and advise David at the parties. 
This was m·y friend's ideal of 
the world." True religion ennobles the mind, himself. 
He worked through the harem: and a miniRter of justice. 
refines the taste, and sanetifies the judgment. persuaded Bath-sheba to go to the king in ad-
"I suppose that in ancient times the people 
It makes the soul a partaker of the purity of vance, and plead the case of Solomon against were as well satisfied with these Oriental gov-
Heaven, brings angels ncar, and separates more Adonijab, 'who doth reign, and David our lord ernments as we are with ours; and I am certain 
and more from the spirit and influence of the knoweth it not.' No one bad dared to tell him. that every modern notion which has been intra-
world. 
If it had been in Turkey, Sol~mon would have duced into the Turkish government bas been re-
It reveals to man an infinite and all-wise bribed Abishag to set him right with his father. garded by the 'rurkish peasants in Asia Minor 
Protector, a Redeemer from sin, a Comforter in 
"We of theW est cannot conceive how a nation as a new burden. 
The truth is that our West-
sorrow, a Light in darkness, a Guide in obscu-ean exist without fixed laws, without security ern ideas of government are the result of cent-
rity. It invites man to become a son of God, to life and property, without regard· to the in-uries of discipline, and an outgrowth of our very 
an heir of Heaven. It fills the 8oul with "joy terests of the people, with an administration complex civilization. No doubt they are higher 
uuspenlmble, and full of glory." 
based on corruption, and controlled by light-and better than those of the Old World in the 
1'his precious gift of Heaven is freely offered minded women, eunuchs, and slaves. But hu-East. 
I have nothing to say in favor of Oriental 
to all who will accept it. 
Our brightest hopes, man nature has a wonderful power of adapting governments. Those which still exi!'t are, no 
our loftiest aspirations, can ask nothing more itself to circumstances, however unfa-vorable, doubt, an obstacle in the way of a higher, better 
compiete, more noble, more exalted. The to-
and under such governments things are very Christian civilization; but we can never under-
kens of infinite love, the pleadings of divine often not as bad as we should expect. Natural stand history, or pass a fair judgment upon the 
mercy, are ever wooing us to turn to God. affections and sympathies, conscience, ideas of acts of Oriental sovereigns, until we have care-
�by" do ye spe11d money for that which is not right and wrong, rea.son,-all exist in some de-fully put aside all our modern ideas of govern-
bread ? and your labor for that which satisfieth gree wherever man exists, and they have their ment, of law, and of natural right, and put our-. 
not? 
Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye influence. 1f the king happens to be a great selves, as far as possible, in the place of those 
that which is good, rmd let your soul delight man, especially if be is also a good man, his acts who had no such ideas, who could not pos:-:;ibly 
itself iu fatness. 
Incline your ear, and come appeal to his people more strongly, and rouse have comprehended them, and who were quite 
unto me; hear, and your soul shall live." 
their enthusiasm and devotion more surely, satisfied with their own ideas. If we would take 
The Characteristics of Oriental 
Governments. 
IN the Sunday School Times, President Wash-
burn, of Robert College, Constantinople, gives, 
under the above beading, some very interesting 
poi11ts eoncerning Oriental Governments, which 
help to throw light on some parts of Bible his-
tory. 
From his long residence in Turkey, ML'. 
Washburn is peculiarly adapted to treat of this 
subject. 
The following is from the article in 
question:-
" It is impossible for an Occidental, brought up 
under the influence of Roman law and Chris· 
tian civilization, to comprehend and fully enter 
into the spirit of Oriental governments. At 
best, be can only criticise them from his own 
standpoint, and form imperfect notions of the 
mental development that bas made sueh gov-
ernments possible. 
"The fundamental idea in such a government 
is that the people exist for the benefit of the 
king, and not for him as a man, but as a kiug. 
It makes no difference to the people who he is 
or what his character may be. They do not see 
him or know him as a man. It may .be this 
man to-day or that man to-morrow. He has 
no personality.. He is the king,-the god of 
the people; and he holds his place by right of 
his power to win it. 
Tb8 people in their rela-
tion to him have no rights. 
He cannot wrong 
them; for his ·will is the only right. His minis-
ters and officials rule in the same spirit. 
Tbey 
represent this supreme and irresponsible king, 
and each petty officer looks upon those under 
him as created for his benefit. 
No official has 
any interest in the people, except to plunder 
them. 
His one thought is to secure the favor 
of the supreme ruler. 
:<It is not easy even for a minister to see the 
king. 
He can go only when he is sent for, and, 
when in the august preRence, be can do noth~og 
but answer que:-;tions, as he is prostrate or on 
his knees before the throne. The king is se-
cluded, and bas no personal knowledge of what 
goes on in his empire, so that be can be pleased 
only by what be bears, not by what be sees. 
If there are any p@rsons who see the king fre-
quently, and have his confidence, it is plain that 
tbey must be the most i!lfiuential persons in the 
kingdom. 
Now, it almost invariably happens 
that these persons are the women, the eunuchs, 
and the private servants of the palace. 
vVho-
than can the acts of any Western government. the pains to do this, we should find that most 
"It often happens that justice is administered of our difficulties with J ewisb history would dis-
more summarily and satisfactorily than it can appear at once. At best, we can do this but im-
be under our system, and it makes a fnr perfectly; but we should at least hesitate to con-
stronger impression upon the people. It is only demn what we cannot comprehend; and we 
irresponsible despotism which can administer should judge only so far as we can understand." 
what we call poetic justice. Even great ;wrongs 
are sometimes more quickly and easily righted 
under such a government, ·where everything 
"I Don't Do Dat Way." 
depends upon the will of one man, than under 
IT was a meeting for prayer and Christian 
our elaborate system of legislation. If they are conference. 
The. key-note of the services bad 
not, the people blame the ministers, and not the been struck by the first one who spoke. He 
king. 
dwelt upon the trials and difficulties of his lot, 
"When the king himself is seen by leading the temptations that beset him on every band, 
men to stand in the way of the interests of the the mountains over which he was toiling~ the 
country, be is easily removed. He is simply dar:K valleys into which be descended. Very 
killed, and another man put in his place. 1'he little, if anything, was s'aid about the consola-
people care nothing about it. It does not con-tions by the way, the gracious help given from 
cern them. 
When Abd-ul-Aziz was deposed above. 
and murdered, I do Hot suppose that a single 
The next one who spoke took up the same 
Turkish peasant gave a second thought to it. strain, and so the doleful song went on till any 
rrhere was still a sultan on the throne. It made person listening, unacquainted with religion, 
no difference to them who it was. 
would have concluded it was a very dreary af-
" The story of Nathan and David in 2 Sam. 12 fair, and wondered that people came together 
is an admirable illustration of another check to talk about a subject that gave them so little 
which is often seen in Oriental gover·nments joy and comfort. 
upon t'Qe acts of kings. 
One who is recognized 
At last it was poor, cild, black Liddy's turn to 
as a holy man may denounce the king to his speak. She rose and said, "Brudders and sis-
face with perfect impunity, and tell him truths tors, I could talk of trials and troubles too. 
which no minister, however powerful, 'vould But I don't do dat way. 
I take 'em.all to de 
dare to hint to him; and the probability is that Lord and lays 'em at his feet. If I begin to 
be will be listened to, and his warning regarded, dink of trials. and troubles, they rise like a great 
although, occ&sionally, a bold critic may be mountain over me. But I don't do dat way. 
made to disappear, never to be beard of again. I just take 'em to de Lord." 
''Another common characteristic of Oriental 
One who was present and related the circum-
governments is the recognized right of personal stance said, "It was the best reproof I ever 
appeal to the king himself. 
This form is still beard given. 1'hey had all been complaining 
maintained by the Otto!Ilan sultans, who never of their heavy loads, while she in her simple 
fail to show themselves to the people every Fri-faith had done as her Master commanded,-cast 
day, at which time any person, however bum-her burdens on the Lord, and he had rmstained 
ble, ·may make known to him, by petition, his her. 
wrongs or his wants. Justice or favor obtained 
"She cast her burdens at his feet, 
in this way makes a far deeper impression upon 
And bore a song away." 
the recipient than anything known under our. -Illustrated Christian Weekly. 
vVestern administration of justice, especially if 
there is anything of that rough, shrewd sense 
IT is a deed worth doing to flood the streets 
in it which we find in the famous judgment of at night with electric light; but it is a deed far 
Solomon (1 Kings 3). 
,better worth doing to let one's Christian light 
''When the king is too far away, his minis-so shine that evil men will fear to bring their 
tors or his governors may be approached in the evil deeds to the brightness of its shining; for 
same way, and their acts of summary justice the light of a little band of Christian men a1ad 
give supreme satisfaction to the people. I can women is worth more to keep a community 
recall many such in Turkey; but it must always pure than all the light of all the lamps ever in-
be remembered that· Eastern ideas ofjusti.ce have vented.-Sunday School Times. 
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NovEMBER 5, 1885. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
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Why Have the People No Sabbath? 
"He talked of judgment, fire, and pain, 
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And the sorrow of endless night; 
The Day of Trouble. 
THERE are those who are pleading for Sunday 
He warned of a place you would not have 
IT is sometimes easy to forget God. Every-
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ittg disregard for the day. 
What has tended No such preachers can be "att~active" to world-wake in the morning from refreshing sleep, and 
to brin~ about this state of things? 
Who is lings, and draw rich pew-rents, so as to "make all nature seems to give us gladsome greeting. 
responsible for the fact that no Sabbath is kept the thing pay." 
\r e feel within us the strong pulsations of fresh 
by the people? 
One reason is that the people 
You say he was "pleasing." 
Was it to im-and healthful life. We address ourselves with 
are learning the fact that Sunday-keeping is penitent men or to God? Paul says, "If, I yet. eager appetite to the duties and enjoyments of 
not a divine institution, and consequently is not plea.sed men, I should not be the servant of the day, with every faculty in good condition 
bindin~ upon any man's conscience. J 'l'he apos-Cbrrst." A "charming" sermon never con-and every sensibility responsive to pleasurable 
tle says, "They be no gods, which are made verted a soul. Do you want your preacher tore-impressions. It is as if a placid stream were 
with hands." Such gods have no claim upon move the offense of the cross, and "study to bearing us on tbrouo-h scenery that charms the 
our reverence and adoration. In like manner, please," like a ylay-actor? 
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eye and suggests ~ly cheerful and welcome 
that is no Sabbath that is made with hands. 
You say be IS" th~ most popular.pr~~cber m thoughts. In suc.h ·circumstances one may nat-
Sunday-keeping is no more than a man-made N--, and that he IS on his vacatiOn. 
Well, urally yield himself to what seems to be the 
institution, and consequently has no claim upon ". pop.ularity" is a very qu~stionable commenda-spirit of the hour, and be only conscious that 
the conscience. 
Those that deplore the fact twn m a w?rld that d~sp1sed and ~ast,out o~r be is happy; may even, for the moment, forget 
that the people have no Sabbath, are them-M.aster. 
Did he pred~ct "popularity 
of his that earth is not a paradise and filled with inno-
selves rejecting the Sabbath of the Lord, and faithful followers? 
Read the tenth chapter cence and bliss. 
With nothing to disturb, there 
calling for civil legislation in support of the of Matthew. 
Worldly wisdom also would die-is no awakened sense of want, and nothing to 
human institution which bas usurped its place, ~a~e caution concer_ning men who are "sta.rr.ing lead one not already in sympathy with God to 
an institution of which Calvin said, "rrhe Fa-
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through . vac~twns. The art. of eccle8I~s-thoughts of God and duty. But the passing of 
thers put in the place of the Sabbath the day twal.co~uettmg .rs not unknown m the. pulpit, a day-ab, how often!-cbang~s everything. 
we now call Lord's day." It may be truly and m Its practiCe men appear at their best. Soine sudden aud unlocked-for trouble comes. 
said of them as Jesus said to the Jews: "Full Their museum of attra?tions n:igbt not supply Uourage stands erect to breast it. It will pass 
well ye reject the commandment of God, that t?e demand fo~·, enter~amment m you~· cht~rch a soon, hope whispers. No; to-morrow only ag-
ye may keep your own tradition." 
smgle year. 
I.here I~ abund~nt variety. m the gravates it, or very likely bas brought a new one. 
They talk very sanctimoniously about the Sab-gospel, bnt outside of It men m the pulpit soon So it bas passed into a proverb, that troubles 
bath, the law of God, and the fourth command-come to their ~its' end. 
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never come singly. 
There is hardly an individ-
ment, while they observe a day which has no 
You say he 1s "a whole-souled, witty gentle-ual, still less a family, that bas not bad the ex-
Scriptural title to the name of the I..Jord's Sab-man, and that be is popular and social ':ith perience of painful trials of some sort-losses, 
bath, having never had any place in the divine everybody, regardless of creed, sect, or behef." disappointments, sickness, sorrow, and even the 
law. 
Weekly they trample the Lord's Sabbath Then one curse of the Lord rests upon him. death of those most dear-following each other 
under foot, while they deplore the fact that the Luke 6: 26. 
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in very quick succession. 
Through such un-
people keep no Sabbath, and are anxious that 
You say that your church will give him a wonted strain the vital forces become depressed, 
the Government should give them one. If they eall and make no mistake, and that if be comes, and the health generally is impaired. 
The 
would keep and teach the Sabbath of the Lord the. people of N--
will lose a citizen not world appears to grow darl~ and cheerless; hope 
accordingtotbecommandment, theymigbtreach easily replaced. 
and resolution fail; and one is ready to yield 
the consciences of the people, and have no need 
Now, my brother, notice that you have not to despondency and gloom, and to sink under 
of State laws to enforce it~ 
Men would keep noted in this id~al and real. candidate, ~.single the feeling, aggravated .by. morbid sensibility, 
the Sabbath, because it is indeed the Lord's day, one of the essential or more tmportant gifts ami that in so sad a world hfe IS not really worth 
the day on which he rested, and which be p;races of an apostolic gospel minister,-piety, the living. The end, perhaps, is temptation to 
blessed, and, by an explicit command, set apart knowledge of the word, ability and fidelity in suicide, or the desperate act itself: if the soul 
for man's observance. It is the want of any ministering the word, the anointing of tl1e Holy be without any hold on God. 
The condition 
command of God for the observance of Sunday, Spirit, etc. Why is this? Are not these de-of such may well be likened to that of travelers 
the first day of the week, which creates the sired by your people, or are they presumed to whether on land or sea, who have been over~ 
necessity for human legislation. 
Hence the exist in all candidates? 
taken: in midnight darkness, by all the horrors 
urgent appeal to the Government to give the 
If these notes are true pointers to his moRt of the conflicting elements, with no relief at 
people a Sabbath. 
God has given us his Sab-,prominent characteristics, he is better adapted band. 
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bath as a memorial of himself and his creative to "a church of the world" than to a church of 
But, 0 thou that bast intrusted thyself and 
work; and all we ask of our hitherto free Gov-Jesus Christ. Ever yours for Christ.-Rev . .E. thy whole well-being to God, and believest that 
ernment is still to p1·otect us in the inalienable P. Marvin (Presbyterian.) 
hit'~ power and love are both infinite, why should 
right to worship God according to the dictates 
thy peace be seriously disturbed, as it too often 
of his word and our own conscience. 
The Need of the Day. 
is, by fear that troubles, perhaps even great 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
R. F. CoTTRELL. 
troubles, may be awaiting thee in the not dis-
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tantfuture'? Itsbouldnot. Norsbouldsttbou 
M. MeG. DANA, D. D., in an article in the 
A Model Pulpit Candidate. 
Congregationalist, says that the greatest need yield to agitation and alarm when they are seen 
of the church now i8 men,-men who are strong, to be approaching, or are beginning to be felt. 
DEAR BROTHER: Your report in the morn-
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Sl)eaking of the in-
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in!! paper, of the performance of yesterday's 
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mountains be carried into the midst of the sea." 
nate" in listening to him, but you do uot indicate crime an 
preserve order in a district than any p 
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number ofmaho·istrates and police officers." He 
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youe bill; for he was "rude in speech," and be Christians in property,· the povertv 0p the shall he hide me." Ps. 27 : 5. 
Plainly declared to the Corinthians that be 
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church is in men. 
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dom," and be "knew nothing among them but h 
wind ceased, and there was a great calm." 
Christ and him crucified," although be ad-
eroism and taet, fitted for the evang-elism Mark 4 : 39. 
dressed far more cultured and refined audiences of the hour in city and country, at ho~e and 
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abroad, lift their united, earn·est praver." 
ith these and many-very many-similar 
at Corinth than yours. 
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divine assurances on wl1ich to rest thy faith, 
Peter could not stand before you; for he was 
canst thou not dismiss thy fears, even when 
'neither" poetic,"'' musical," nor" eloquent," and 
THERE is blessed peace in looking for noth-troubles come thick and fast, and all the lights 
his sermons were not" entertainments." When ing but our daily task and our portion of Christ's of life seem going out amid tears and anguish? 
he preached, sinners were "pricked in their crosR between this day and the appointed time Remember that it is often while the storm is 
hearts and cried out" for mercy. 
when we shall fall asleep in him.-Bislwp Wil-passing away that the rainbow in its loveliness 
Christ himself, the Prince of preachers, by berforce. 
is seen spanning the just-novv angry cloud, the 
no means fills your ideal of a preacher for the 
emblem of hope and promiRe. 
I1isten to the 
times. He never dreamed of mhking the dis-
FAITH, though weak, is still faith, a glim-loving voice from Heaven that Raith: "Call upon 
pensation of gospel truth entertaining to .the mering taper if not a glowing torch; but the me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, 
world. 
He was very plain and blunt and offen-taper may give light as truly as the torch and thou shalt glorify me." Ps. 50: 15.-.Ray 
sive. 
Not unfrequently, 
though not so brightly.-R. Muller. 
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660 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11, No. 42. 
The Ron1an Empi~e. 
(Continued.) 
"THE only accession which the Roman Empire 
received during the first century of the Chris-
tian era, was the province of Britain. In this 
single instance the successors of Cresar and 
Augustus were persuaded to follow the exam-
ple of the former, rather than the precept of 
the latter. The proximity of its situation to 
the coast of Gaul seemed to invite their arms; 
the pleasing, though doubtful intelligence of a 
pearl fijjhery attracted their avarice; and as 
Britain was viewed in the light of a distinct 
and insulated world, the conquest scarcely formed 
any exception to the general system of conti-
nental measures. After a war of about forty 
years [A.D. 41-81], undertaken bythemoststupid 
[Claudius], maintained by the most dissolute 
[N ero],and terminated by the most timid [Domi-
tian] of all the emperors, the far greater part of 
the island submitted to the Roman voke. 
At the very time when Domitian, confined to 
his palace, felt the terrors which he inspired, 
his legions: under the command of the virtuous 
Agricola, defeated the colleeted force of the 
Caledonians at the foot of the Grampian hills; 
and his fleets, venturing to explore an unknown 
and dangerous navigation, displayed the Ro-
man arms round every part of the island. 
'1 But the superior merit of Agricola soon oc-
casioned his removal from the Government of 
Britain. 
. . . Before his departure, the pru-
dent general bad provided for security as well 
as for dominion. He had observed that the isl-
and is almost divided into two unequal parts 
by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, 
the Friths of Sc:otland. 
Am·oss the narrow in-
terval of about forty miles, he had drawn a 
line of military stations, which was afterwards 
fortified in the reign of Antoninus Pius, by a turf 
rampart erected on fonndations of stone. 
Tbi8 
wall of Antoni nus, at a small distance beyond the 
modern cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, was 
:fixed as the limit of the Roman provi11ce. 
The 
nat.ive Caledonians preserved in the northern 
extremity of the island their wild independence, 
for which they were not less indebted to their 
poverty ~pan to their ·valor. 
The mas-
ters of the f~irest and most weal thy climates 
of the glob_e, turned with ('Ontemptfrom gloomy 
hills assailed by the winter tern pest, from lakes 
concealed in a blue mist, and fi.·om cold and 
lonely heaths, over which the deer of the forest 
were chased by a troop of naked barbarians. 
"Such was the state of the Homan frontiers, 
and such the maxims of Imperial policy, f1·om 
the death of Augustus to the accession of Tra-
jan [A. D. 98]. 
That virtuous and active prince 
had received the education of a soldier, and 
possessed the talents of a general. The peace-
ful system of his predecessors was interrupted 
by sceneR of war and conquest; and the legions, 
after a long interval, beheld a military emperor 
at their bead. The first exploits of Trajan were 
against the Dacians, the most warlike of men, 
who dwelt beyond the Danube, and who, dur-
ing the reign of Domitian, had insulted with im-
punity the majesty of Rome. . 
"Decebalus, the Dac:ian king, approved him-
self a rival not unworthy of Trajan; nor did 
he despair of his own and the public fortune, 
till, by the confession of his enemies, he had 
exhausted every resource, both of valor and 
·policy. 
This memor!1ble war, with a very short 
suspension of hostiiities, lasted five years; and 
as the emperor could exert, without control, 
the whole force of the State, it was terminated 
by the absolute submission of the barbarians. 
The new province of Da-.·ia, which formed a 
second exception to the precept of Augustus, 
was about thirteen hundred miles in circumfer-
ence. Its natural boundaries were the Niester, 
the Teyss or Tibiscus [Ternes], the Lower· Dan-
ube, and the Euxine [Black] Sea. . 
"Trajan was ambitious of fame; and aA long 
as mankind shall continue to bestow more lib-
eral applause upon their destroyers than .on were crowned with success; and if we may ex-
their benefactors, the thirst for military glory cept a few slight hostilities that served to exer-
will ever be the vice of the most exalted char-cise' the legions of the frontier, the reigns of 
acters. The praises of Alexander, transmitted Hadrian and Antoninus Pius offered the fair 
by a succession of poets and historians, had prospect of universal peace. The Roman name 
kindled a dangerous emulation in the mind of was revered among the most remote nations of 
Trajan. Like him, the Roman emperor under-the earth. The :fiercest barbarians frequently 
took an expedition against the nations of the submitted their differences to the arbitration of 
East; but he lamented, with a sigh, that his ad-the emperor; and we are informed by a con-
vanced age scarcely left him any hopes of temporary historian that he had seen ambassa-
equaling the renown of the son of Philip. 
Yet dors who were refused the honor which they 
the success of Trajan, however transient, waR came to solicit, of being admitted into the rank 
rapid and specious. 
The degenerate Parthians, of subjects. 
broken by intestine discord, fled before his 
"The terror of the Roman arms added weight 
arms. . He descended the River Tigris in and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. 
triumph, from the mountains of Armenia to the They preserved peace by a constant prepara-
Persian Gulf. 
He enjoyed the honor of being tion for war; and while justice regulated their 
the first, as he was the last, of the Homan gen-conduct, they announced to the nations on their 
erals who ever navigated that remote sea. confines that they were as little disposed to en-
His fleets ravaged the coasts of Ara~ia; and dure as to offer an injury. 
The military 
Trajan vainly flattered himself that he was ap-strength which it had be.en suffieient for Hadrian 
preaching towards the confines of India. 
and the elder Antoninus to display, was exerted 
"Every day the astonished senate received against the Parthians and the Germans by the 
the inte1ligence of new names and new nations Emperor Marcus [Aurelius, A. D. 161-180]. The 
that acknowledged his sway. 'rhey were in-hostilities of the barbarians provoked the re-
formed that the kings of Bosphorus, Colchis, sentment of that philosophic monarch, and, in 
Iberia, Albania [countries above Armenia be-the prosecution of a just defense, Marcus and 
tween the Black and the Caspian Seas], Osrhoene his generals obtained many signal victones both 
[a province of Mesopotamia in the bend of the on the Euphrates and on the Danube."-Dec. 
Euphrates], and even the Parthian monarch and Fall, chap. 1, pa1·. 4-12. 
himself, had accepted their diadems from the 
After a sketch of the provinces, which we 
hands of the emperor; that the independent shall have occasion hereafter to notice, Gibbon 
tribes of the Median and Carduchian hills had gives tl:le area and population of the empire, as 
implored his protection, and that the rich coun-iollows:-
tries of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria, 
"This long enumeration. of provinces whose 
were reduced into the state of provinces. But broken fragments have formed so many power-
the death of Trajan soon clouded the splendid ful kingdoms, might almost induce us to iorgive 
prospec:t; and it was justly to be dreaded that the vanity or ignorance of the ancients. Daz-
so many distinct nations would throw oft' the zled with the extensive sway, the irresistible 
unaccustomed yoke when they were no longer strength, and the real or affected moderation of 
restrained by the powerful hand which had im-the emperors, they permitted themselves to de-
posed it." 
spise, and sometimes to forget, the outlying 
In A. D. 117, Trajan died, and was succeeded countries which had been left in the enjoyment 
by Hadrian, and-
of a barbarous independence; and they gradu-
" The resignation of all the Eastern conquests ally usurped the license of confounding the 
of Trajan was the first measure of his reign. Roman monarchy with the globe of the ea:r:th. 
He restored to the Parthians the election of an But the temper as well as the knowledge of a 
independent sovereign, withdrew the Roman modern historian, requires a more sober and 
garrisons from the provinces of Armenia, Mos-accurate language. He may impress a juster 
opotamia, and Assyria, and, in compliance wit.h image of the greatness of Rome, by observing 
the precept of Augustus, once more established 
th[~t the empire was above two thousand miles 
the Euphrates as the frontier of the empire." 
in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the 
"'Ihe martial and ambitions spirit of Trajan northern limits of Dacia to Mount Atlas and 
formed a very singular contrast with the mod-the tropic of Cancer; that it extended, in length, 
eration of his suc:cessor. The restless activity rnore than three thousand rniles, from the West-
of Hadrian was not less remarkable, when com-ern Ocean to the Euphrates; that it was situ-
pared with th~ gentle repose of Antoninus ated in the finest part of the teJTI.perate zone 
Pius. The life of tho former was almost a per--between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth 
petual journey; and as he possessed the various degrees of northern latitude; and that it was 
talents of the soldier, the statesman, and the supposed to contain above sixteen hundred 
scholar, he gratified his curiosity in the dis-thousand square miles, for the most part of fer-
charge of his duty. 
Careless of the difference tile and well-cultivated land."-Dec. and Fall, 
of the seasons and of climates, he marched, on chap. 1, last par. 
foot and bareheaded, over the snows of Oale-
"The number of subjects who acknowledged 
donia and the sultry plains of the Upper E~ypt; the laws of Rome,-of citizens, of provincials, 
nor was there a province of the empire, which, and of slaves,-cannot now be fixed with such a 
in the course pf his reign, was not honored with degree of accuracy as the importance of the 
the presence of the monarch. 
But the tran-object would deserve. 
We are informed that 
quil life of Ap.toninus Pius was spent in the when the Emperor Claudius exercised the office 
bosom of Italy; and during the twenty-three of censor, he took an account of six million 
years that be directed the public administration, nine hundred and forty-five thousand Roman 
the longest journeys of that amiable prince ex-citizens, who, with the proportion of women 
tended no farther than from his palace in Rome and children, must have amounted to about 
to the retirement of his Lanuvian Villa. 
twenty millions of souls. 
The multitude of 
"Notwithstanding this difference in their per-subjects of an inferior rank was uncertain and 
sonal conduct, the general system of Augustus fluctuating. But after weighing with attention 
was equally adopted, and uniformly pursued, every circumstance which could influence the 
by Hadrian and the two Antonines. They per-balance, it seems probable that there existed, 
sisted in the design of maintaining the dignity in the time of Claudius, about twice as many 
of the empire, without attempting to enlarge provincials as there were citizens, of either sex 
its limits. By every honorable expedient they and of every age; and that the slaves were at 
invited ;the friendship of the barbarians; and least equal in number to the free inhabitants of 
endeavored to convince mankind that the the Roman world. 
The total amount of this 
Homan power, raised above the temptation of imperfect calculation would rise to about one 
conquest, was actuated only by the love of or-hund'red and twenty millions of persons, a de-
der and justice. During a long period of forty-gree of population which possibly exceeds that 
three years [A. D. 117-161], their virtuous labors of modern Europe, and forms the most numer-
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NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
661 
Work While It Is Day. 
ous society that has ever been united under the 
same system of government."-Id., chap. 2, 
par. 17. 
Do I paralyze effort when I say, "Work 
It should be borne in mind that when Gibbon while it is day; for the night cometh, when no 
states that this degree of population "possibly man can work"? Nay, do I not thus stimulate 
exceeds that of modern Europe," it was the Eu-zeal, and toil, and prayer, and love to the utter-
rope of more than a hundred years ago. 
This most? Do I lull men to sleep when I say, "The 
was written about A. D. 1773, and, according to coming of the Lord draweth nigh," and time is 
the printed estimates, at that date Europe con-ebbing fast? Do I tempt the sinner to postpone 
tained a population of about 107,000,000. Its his conversion, because I speak of the "\Vrath 
population, June, 1882, was 327,743,400. 
to come" as so very nigh'? Or do I with less 
In the reign of Mareus Aurelius we reach serious baste beseech men to be reconciled to 
the summit of the greatness of the .Roman Em-God,· because I add that the time of' reconcilia-
pire. In the reign of Commodus, his son and tion, the acceptable year of the Lord, is fast 
successor, A. D. 180, this mighty cc fabric of hu-running to a close? Do I cherish idleness in-
man greatness" began to decline and totter to-stead of diligence, softness of spirit instead of 
ward its fearful fall. 
At this point, therefore, hardness, heedlessness about redeeming time 
·we shall close our view of the greatness and instead of eagerness to gather up its fragments, 
power of Rome, only pausing to remark that, when I announce that "the day goeth away, 
in view of the indubitable evidences which we and the shadows of evening are stretched out"? 
have presented, we cannot see how any one can Do I tempt the minister or the missionary into in-
doubt that the prophet spoke directly of the dolent security, when I declare that" the Judge 
Roman Empire when he said:-
standeth before the door," and that erelong 
"The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; the time of working, and preaching, and invit-
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and sub-ing, will be over? Do I persuade the soldier of 
dueth all things; and as iron that breaketh all the risen Jesus to ungird his weapons because 
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise." 
I tell him that his feet are already on the bat-
A. T. J. 
tie-field, and bid him listen to the loud roar 
(To be continued.) 
afar, that forewarns of the deadly onset ·t 
· 
The Unreasonableness of Man. 
Do I preach Christ ·crucified the less, be-
cause I preach also Christ -coming to reign? 
or do I the less proclaim that "here we have no 
SuRELY man is the most unreasonable of God's continuing city," because I can point so clearly 
creatures. 
Feed the birds of the air or the to that which is to come, the "city which hath 
beasts of the field, and they will be satisfied; foundations, whose builder and maker is God"? 
but the more is given to man, the more he Or do I make saints feel the less that they are 
requires. 
strangers here, because I set forth to them the 
I .. ook at it a moment. If he have riches, he ''new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness"? 
will bug his bags of gold, and carry out his 
Do I undervalue the cross because I mag-
plans to increase them. If he have estates, he ni±y the throne? In holding up to view the 
will join house to house, field to field, vineyard crown of glory, do I depreciate the crown of 
to vineyard. Give him a county or a kingdom, thorns? Do I enfeeble my proclamation of im-
and he will crave for more. When he rises in mediate and free forgiveness to sinners through 
the morning, he expects to pass through the the Sin-bearer, because I enforce it with the an-
day prosperously. If he lies down to rest at nouncement, "The coming of the Lord draw-
night, he expects to enjoy refreshing sleep. If eth nigh"? Do I foster error, or heresy, or lax 
. he proposes a journey, he expects to perform it walking, or any departure from the faith, when 
unmolested and uninjured. If he passes through I warn men that the perilous times of the last 
one birthday, he expects to arrive at another days are setting in, when Satan will cast 
in good health; to eat and drink, to ride and to abroad the rage of his wrath, and the unclean 
walk, to wake and to sleep, in peace, without spirits will overflow the earth with their delu-
considering that these things cannot take place sions, to dee:eive, if it were possible, the very 
unless God, in his infinite mercy, keeps him elect, and to gather the nations to the battle of 
from a thou~and temptations, and delivers him the great day of God Almighty? 
from ten thousand dangers. 
I do no~ know how it may be with others, 
So continually are we partaking of God's but I feel that when I say, "The coming of the 
blessings that we look on them as a matter of Lord draweth nigh," I have a weapon in my 
course; the seed we sow must, in our appreben-hand of no common edge and temper. 
To be 
sion, spring up abundantly; our tables must be able to announce, The Lord will come, is much; 
provided for, and the mercies of yesterday must but to be able· to say without the intervention 
be supplied to-day, and those of this year con-of an interval, He is at hand, is greatly more. 
tinned to us through the next. 
How seldom I can go to the struggling saint against whom 
do we ·offer up the prayer, " Give us this day the battle seems to go hard, and say: Faint 
our daily bread," with a full consciousness of not, the Lord is at hand, and he will bruise 
our entire dependence on our heavenly Father Satan under your feet shortly. 
for our supplies! 
And how frequently do we 
To the saint wearied with a vexing world, 
feel more gratitude to our fellow-beings for a fretted with itR vanities, and troubled with the 
passing act of kindness than to the Lord of life thickening darkness of its midnight: I can say: 
and glory for his permanent and unmerited Be of .good ,cheer, the Lord is at band; but a 
mercies! 
'Ve bow to a fellow-sinner to obtain little w bile, and that shall cease to vex; sooner 
at ~is bands the empty nothingness of an hour, than you think, the morn will break-yea, be-
while the love of tho Redeemer of the world, fore it is broken we shall be caught up and meet 
the means of grace, and the hope of eternal morning ere it is "spread upon the mountains." 
glory, are sought fo.r with indifference. 
· 
':l_1o the suffering saint I can say: Weep not, 
Let us look more on our common mercies as the Lord is at band; the torn heart shall be 
gifts of God. Let our health and our strength, bound up, and the bitterness of bei·eavement 
our days and our nights, and our smallest com-forgotten, in the joy of union forever. 
To the 
forts, be regarded as being bestowed by a heav-flagging saint, heavy and slothful in his walk, I 
enly Benefactor; and let us bear in mind our can say: Up, for the .. Lord is at band; work 
own unworthiness, that we may be more1·eason-while it is day; look at a dying world, all un-
abe in our desires, and more grateful when they ready for its Judge; cast oft' your selfish ness 
are attained.-Sel. 
and love of ease. 
To the covetous sai"nt I can 
. 
say: The Lord is coming; it is no time for hoard-
IT IS not . the extel?t _of your, knowledge, ing now; heap not. up treasures for the last 
though that ts useful; 1t IS not the extent of days. 
yo_ur talent, though that is not to be despised; j 
Next to our own salvation must come the 
1t 1s your zeal that shall do exploits. 
duty of sending tl;le gospel to all. 
We begin in 
the inner circle, but woe to us if we stop there. 
Woe to us if we preach not the gospel to every 
creature. 
We feel a peculiar call to this, and a 
peculiar agency enforcing this call from our 
very system. For but a little time remaineth. 
The night is falling. 
The storm is beginning to 
burst. We cannot tarry; we must go forth. 
vVe cannot heap up treasures for the last days. 
We must give liberally as long as the time al-
lows 
Those who look for a calm, long day, 
may sit down listlessly, but we dare not. 
Those 
who look for a mere extension of the present 
state of religion as the millennium the world is 
to enjoy, may excuse themselves from giving, 
and may heap up treasures. But we dare not; 
we feel that there is not a moment to be lost; 
and that whether there arc few or many to be 
saved, it matters not to us. 
We must fulfill our 
ministry, not counting even our lives dear to us, 
that we do the will of Him who sends us, and 
testify the gospel of the grace of God.-Ho1·atius 
Bonar, D. D. 
Orphan Christians. 
THIS truth of a present God is the consum-
mate truth of divine revelation and of human 
exper1ence. 
All else in revelation leads up to 
this; all else in religious experience prepares for 
and grows out of this. Nature assures us that 
there is a God; the Christ of eighteen centu-. 
ries ago tells who he is, only that we may spir-
itually enter into fellowship and have acquaint-
ance with him. That he bas the power of 
directly and immediately communicating with 
man, that man has the power of directly and 
immediately entering into communication with 
him, these two correlative truths are the ulti-
mate disclosure of revelation and the ultimate 
fact of experience. 
I do not wonder at skepticism without the 
church in this fact of spiritual experience, since 
it is hardly believed within the church. "I 
will not leave you orphans," said Christ as he 
was abou.t to depart. 
The great majority of 
Christians seem to me to be orphans. 
'l'bey be-
lieve in a Father that once was; they believe in a 
Father that is yet to be; but they do not be-
lieve in a .Father that now is, in a living God, 
in a Perpetual Presence. Their religion is a 
memory or a hope, not a present life. 
They rel-
egate divine inspiration to past ages, and post-
pone divine fellowship to future ages. 
They 
are like men in a tunnel, who look back and 
see the light at the end they have entered, and 
look forward and see the light at the end from 
whioh they are to emerge, but are now in the 
darkness. 
To think that God did not guide Moses is in-
fidel; but it seems to them almost as infidel to 
believe that be did guide Abraham Lincoln. 
To doubt that be dwelt with his people in 
Palestine is unbelief; to think that he d'vells 
wilh his people in the United States is pre-
sumption. 
·what Peter means by the promise, 
"Y e shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for 
the promise is unto you, and to your children, and 
to all that are afar off;" what Paul means by the 
prayer:" Tbnt Cbrict may dwell in your hearts 
by faith," "that ye might be filled with all the full-
ness of God;" w bat John means by the declara-
tion, "Our fellowship is with the Father, and 
with his Son Jesus Christ," they do not know. 
He who attempts'to interpret these and kindl'ed 
utterances seems to them mystical, visionary, 
dangerous. 
'l~hey believe in a voice that once 
spoke, but not in a voice now speaking; they 
listen to the echo, and try to be content. Their 
God exists for them only in the pluperfec~ at1d 
the future-perfect tenses, not in the present 
tense. 
Thev believe in "I was that I was," 
and in "I shall be that I shall be," but not in 
"I am that I am."-Sel. 
GoD, who prepares his work through ages, ac-
complishes it by the eakest iustruments when 
his time is come.-D'Aubigne. 
I 
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662 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11, No. 42. 
(Qth.e ~abb·ath-~chnnl. · 
LESSON FOR THE PACIFIC COAST-NOV. 28. 
The Little Horn of Daniel 7. 
BEFORE making any comments on the "little 
horn" of Daniel 7, we wish to complete the 
notes on the ;c little horn" of Daniel 8, which 
was the subject of last week's lesson. 
By ref-
erence to the notes of lust week, it will be seen 
that we proved conclusively that the "little 
horn" of DanielS represents the Roman Empire. 
This proof cannot here be repeated, but one or 
two additional proofs will be given. It will be 
remembered that the third kiugdom-Grecia-
represented by the goat with the notable horn·, 
was divided into four parts after the death of 
Alexander, the four divisions being represented 
by the four horns which "came up'' after the 
great horn was broken. 
The prophet then in-
troduces the fourth kingdom-.Rome-as fol-
lows:-
"And out of one of them came forth a little 
horn, which waxed exceeding g'reat, toward the 
south, and toward the east, and toward the 
pleasant land." Dan. 8: 9. 'rhis seems to some 
to be an objection to calling this little horn 
Rome; for how, they ask, could Rome be said to 
come forth from one of the divisions or the 
Grecian Empire? ln point of fact, this is no ob-
jection at all; but on careful consideration it is 
just what we might expect; for if Grecia was a 
universal empire, which is affirmed by both sa-
cred and profane history, then any power which 
should rit:~e up against it, must naturally come 
forth from some part of it. 'rhat Alexander's 
dominion was universal, extending even to 
Rome, is attested· by the following statements: 
"'l'he Lucanians and Bruitians [inhabitants 
of Italy] are especially mentioned as having 
sent embassies to Alexander at Babylon." "'The 
Tyrrhenians also,' said Aristobulus and Ptole-
mams, 'sent an embassy to the king to congrat-
ulate him upon his conquestR.'" "':rhere is 
every reason to believe that among the Tyrr-
henian ambasE;adors mentioned by Alexander's 
historians, there were inchfded ambassadors 
from Rome. 
. . 
. History may allow us to 
think that Alexander and a Roman ambassa-
Antioch us to desist from his intended war upon I and it bad ten horns. 
I considered the horns, 
Egypt. These ambassadors metAntiocbus when and, behold, there came up among them another 
he was only four miles fi.·om Alexandria, on his little horn, ·before whom there were three of the 
way to besiege that city. The chief ambassador first horns plucked up by the roots; and, be-
was Popillins, wiih whom Antiochus had been hold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of 
intimate while he was in Rome as a hostage. man, and a mouth speaking great things." 
On seeing Popillius, Antiocbus reached forth his Dan. 7: 7, 8. 
hand to embrace him as an old friend. "But 
Popillius, refusing the compliment, told him 
WHEN Daniel was troubled over the explana-
tbat the public interest of his country must tion of this vision, an angel gave him the inter-
take the plaee of private friendship; that he pretation, and in beginning said: "These great 
must first know whether be were a fi'iend or an beasts, which are four, are four kings, which 
enemy to the Roman ~tate, before he could· own shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of 
him as a friend to himself; and then delivered the Most High shall take the kingdom, and pos-
into his hands the tables in which were written sess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever." 
the decree of the Senate, which they came to Dan. 7: 17, 18. 
So the beasts represented the 
communicate to him, and required him to read four universal kingdoms that cover the history 
it and forthwith give him his answer thereto .. of the world till the corning of the .Lord. 
Antiocbus, having read the decree, told Po-These four kingdoms have already been named, 
pillius he would consult with ·his friends and therefore we well know that the fourth 
about it, and speedily give him the answer they boast represents the Roman Empire. 
See the 
should advise; but Popillius, insisting on an im-further description in Dan. 7: 23. 
mediate answer, forthwith drew a circle round 
him [Antioch us] in the sand, with the staff 
which he bad in his hand, and required him to 
give his answer before he stirred out of that 
circle; at which strange and peremptory way 
of proceeding, Antiochus, being startled, after 
a little hesitation, yielded to it, and told the 
ambassador that be would obey the command 
of the Senate; whereupon Popillius, accepting 
his embraces, acted thenceforth according to his 
former friendship with him." 
· 
BuT the point of all this is found in the next 
two sentences. of Prideaux. Says he: "That 
which made him [i. e., Popillius] so bold as to 
act with him after this peremptory manner, and 
the other so tame as to )Tield thus ·patiently to 
it, was the news which they had a little before 
received of the great victory of the Romans, 
which they had gotten over Perseus, king of 
Macedonia. For Paulus .JEmilius, having now 
vanquished that king, and thereby added Mac-
edoni~ to tho Roman Empire, the name of the 
Romans after this carried that weight with it 
as carried a terror in all the neighboring nations; 
so that none of them after this cared to dispute 
their commands, but were glad on any terms to 
maintain peace, and cultivate_ a friendship with 
them." 
BuT Daniel was not completely satisfied with 
the first answer given by the angel. 
From his 
connection with N ebuchadnezzar's dream he 
must have known the main features of these 
four kingdoms; but there were some particulars 
upon which be desired more light. "Then I 
would know the truth of the fourth beast [an-
swered in verse 23], 
and of the ten 
horns that were in his head, and of the other 
which came up, and before whom three fell; 
even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth 
that spake very great things, whose look was 
more stout than his fellows." 
Dan. 7 : 19, 20. 
The answer to this request was given as fol-
lows:-
dor did meet at Babylon i that the greatest 
Now, SINCE it was the conquest of Macedon 
~~n of t~e ancient worl? saw ~nd spoke wi~h a that gave Rome its prestige among the nations, 
01t1zen ot th~t g:eat ?atwn ~hiCh wa~ destmed. and made it virtually ·a universal empire, hav-
to succee~ h1m m h:s app~mted ';01k, an?. t~ ing the power to dictate to other kingdoms, and 
found a ';1der .and still more endurmg empne. 
to stop their projects by a single word, it is evi-
-A1·nold s Htstory of Rorne, chap. 30, par. 1 dently very proper to speak of it as "coming 
and 2. 
out" of one of the horns of the goat, viz., the 
" Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the 
fourth kingdom upon earth, . 
. 
and the 
ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings 
that shall arise; and another shall rise .after 
them; and he shall be diverse from the first, 
and he shall subdue three kings." 
Dan. 7 : 23, 
24. 
The fourth beast was the fourth kingdom 
-Rome-and the ten horns, it is plainly stated, 
"are ten kings that shall arise," that is, ten 
parts into which the Roman .Empire should be 
divided. 
This division is mentioned in Dan. 
2 : 41. It was effected· by the incursions of the 
barbarous tribes which dismembered the Roman 
Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries, so 
graphically described by Gibbon. 
The division 
was complete, and the undivided empire of 
Western Rome had ceased to exist, before the 
close of the fifth century B. c. 
AFTER the division of Rome into ten parts, · 
another power was to arise, diverse from the 
others, and having the characteristics mentioned 
in Dan. 7 : 8, 20, 21, 25. 
These characteristics 
are met in the papacy, and in no other power. 
It uprooted three powers to make room for it-
self, and as if to identify the papacy as the 
power here referred to, the pope's tiara js a 
triple crown; such a crown is worn by no other 
ruler. 
Macedonian horn. 
The historian, in describing 
the rise of the Roman Empire, could not weil 
employ a more fitting expression than that 
used by the prophet, 370 years before the occur-
rence. 
The quotation given above shows the 
immense superiority of the Romans over An-
tiochus Epiphanes, and thus of itself effectually 
demolishes the theory held by some that that 
pusillanimous king was the "exceeding great1' 
power represented by the little horn. 
BuT there is still more direct evidence to show 
the propl'ieiy of speaking of Rome as coming 
out of one of the divisions of the Grecian Em-
pire. 
We quote and abridge from Prideaux, 
who relates tho history in a very entertaining 
manner. 
.First, however, we will state that the 
four divisions repr8sented by the four horns, 
were Macedon, Thrace, Syria, and Egypt. In 
the year 168 B. c., Antiochus Epiphanes, then 
king of the Syrian division, determined to make 
himself master of Egypt, which was then 
Now WE must turn our attention to the pres-
governed by his nephew and niece, who were ent lesson, "The Little Horn of Daniel 7." The 
very young, and incapable of successful resist-student must be careful not to confound this 
anco. 
Says Prideaux:-
little horn with that ot Daniel 8. 
The little 
"This he most certainlv would 'have accom-horn of Daniel 8 represents the Roman Empire 
plished, but that he met ;_ Roman embassy in as a whole; the little horn of Daniel 7 represents 
his way, which put a stop to his further prog-the Roman Empire only under one phase, the 
ress, and totally dashed all the designs which whole empire being represented by the fourth 
he bad been so long carrying on for the making beast, of which the little horn was only a part. 
of himself master of that country."-Gonnexion, We quote the description of the beast and the 
Vol. 2, Boolc 3, "An. 168, Ptol. Philornete1· 13." 
lityle horn, as given by the pr0phet. 
"AND he shall speak great words against the 
Most High, and shall wear out the Raints 01' the 
Most High, and think to change times and 
laws." 
Dan. 7 : 25. 
If we find that these 
three specifications apply to the papacy, then it 
will be useless to look further for an application 
for the little horn. 
We can give to eac:h speci-
fication only a very brief notice. 
1. "HE shall speak great words against the 
Most High." It is a notorious fact that the 
pope is styled the "Vicar of the Son of God,'' 
indicating that he fills the office of Christ. 
THE embassy was one.which the Roman Sen-
ate had sent in response to the urgent request 
of the young .Egyptian monarch for assistance 
against.Antiochns. 
The reader will not fail to 
note that only three ambassadors, and not an 
army, were sent by the Romans to command 
"AFTER this I saw in the night visions, and Paul, speaking of the papacy, which' be calls 
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and tenible, and the' "man of sin" (2 'rhess. 2 : 3, 4), says that 
strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; he "exalteth himself above aU that is called 
it devoured and brake in piece~, and stamped God, or that is worshiped." 
This is parallel to 
the residue with the feet of it; and it was di-Dan. 7: 25. It is fulfilled in the pope's claim to 
verse from all the beasts that were before it; 
1 have power to grant indulgences, a thing which 
NovEMBER 5, 1885. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
663 
God himself has never promised to do. 
Fur-
ther, it is fulfilled in the papal dogma of infalli-
bility. 
This dogma was ratified by the Council 
of 1870, and the following is a portion of the 
decree:-
''And since by the divine right of apostolic 
primacy the Roman pontiff is placed over the 
universal church, we further teach and declare 
that he if? the supreme judge of the faitliful, and 
that in all causes the decision of which belongs 
to the church, recourse may be had to his tri-
bunal, and that none may re-open the judg-
ment of the apostolic see, than whose authority 
there is no greater, nor can any lawfully review 
its judgment."-The Vatican Decrees, by 
D~·· 
Philip Schaff. 
Although this dogma was rati-
fied in 1870 it has been held for centuries, as is 
shown by the following monstrous assertion in 
one of the Roman decretals:-
" If the pope should become neglectful of his 
own salvation, and of that of other men, and so 
lost to all good that he draw down with himself 
inrJUmerable people by heaps into hell, and 
plunge them witb himself into eternal dHmna-
tion, yet no mortal man may presume to repre-
hend him, forasmuch as he is judge of all, and 
to be judged of no one."-Quoted by Wylie, His-
tory of Protes~antism, Book 4, chap. 10. 
2. " AND shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High." 
\Vhen we come to th1s particular, 
the evidence is overwhelming. Both time an_d 
language would fail to do justice to the matter. 
Prominent among papal atrocities is the ma.ssa-
cre of St. Bartholomew's Day. 
On the 24th of 
August, 1572, was begun in Paris one of the 
most horrible cold-blooded massacres that his-
tory records,-that of the .Huguenots. The 
king himself, Charles IX., took part in it, shoot-
ing down many of thoAe who were attempting 
to escape the fury of his soldiers. 
The number 
slain throughout _Fraoce on this occasion is 
placed by the best authorities at 70,000. 
To 
show Rome's connection with the ma::;sacre, we 
quote:-
broke out in these horrible abodes, and the mor-
tality was fearful. 
'When they entered these 
dungeons,' says Henri Arnaud, 'they counted 
14,000 healthy mountaineers, but when, at the 
intercession of the Swiss deputies, their prisons 
were opened, 3,000 skeletons only crawled out.'" 
-Hist. Protestantism, Book 16, chap. 13,pa'r. 18. 
IN the above instance, we see how an·entire 
nation was literally worn out, yet we have 
scarcely more than hinted at the atrocities vis-
ited upon the innocent Waldenses. In the fol-
lowing brief extract from the account of the 
mart;~rdom of Cranmer, we see a sample of bow 
Rome proceeded to "wear out" individuals:-
" The fire was lighted, and then withdrawn, 
and lighted again, so as to consume him piece-
mea,l. 
His scorched and half-burned body was 
raised on the pikes of tbe halberdiers, and 
tossed from one to the other to all the extent 
his chaiu would allow; the martyr, says the 
martyrologi8t, 'lifting ·up such hands as he had, 
and his finger ends flaming with fire, cried u~to 
the people in these words, "None but Christ, 
none but Christ," and so being let down again 
from their halberds, fell into the fire, and gave 
up his life."'-Wylie, Book 23, chap. 10. 
ness unto them whici,, ·are exercised the1·eby." 
Reb. 12: 11. Jonah's repentance was genuine. 
He was ready to obey God, and he said, :'I 
will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanks-
giving; I will pay that that I have vov;·ed. 
Salvation is of the Lord. And the Lord spake 
unto the fish, and it vomited out J onab upon 
the dry land." 
"AND the word of the Lord came unto Jonah 
the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nine-
veh, that great city, and preach unto it the 
preaching that I bid thee." 
"Preach the 
preaching that I bid thee/' i,s the Lord's com-
mand to every preacher. "Son of man, all my 
words that I shall speak unto thee receive in 
thy heart, and hear with thy ears." '·And 
tell them, Thus saith the Lord God; ·whether 
they will bear, or whether they will forbear." 
Eze. 3 : 10, 11. ''I charge thee therefore before 
God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge 
th'e 'quick and the dead at his appearing 
and his kingdom, Preach the woi~d." 2 'rim. 
4: 1, 2. 
That which the Lord says, is the only 
thing that is right. It may not always be the 
most pleasant thing to speak nor the most 
pleasant thing for men to hear, but it is the best 
thing to speak, and it is the best thing for men 
CERTAINLY more is not needed to identify pa-
to hear. 
pal Rome as the little horn that was to "wear out 
"Now NINEVEH was an exceeding great city 
the saints of the Most High." Rome has more of three days' journey." Nineveh was built by 
than met the demands of the prophecy. And Asshur, a grandson of N onh (Gen. 10 : 11 ), 
the one who reads the history from which these and at this time was the greatest city in the 
extracts are taken, must of necessity exclaim, world, conta.ining about 600,000 people. 
It 
Surely the Roman Catholic power is the woman was the capital of the Assvrian Emi)ire, which 
wbom the seer of Patmos saw" drunken with 
J 
the blood of the saints, and with the blood of Lad spread its rule from the 'Tjgris to the Med-
iterranean Sea, and from the Black t;ea to the 
the martyrs of Jesus." 
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such ass~;ance cannot be given; for says the thrown. s0 the people of Nineveh believed 
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time came that the saints possessed the king-
dom." 
Dan. 7 : 21, 22. 
E. J. w. 
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON. 
NovEMBER 15. 
JoNAH 3:1-10. 
Nineveh's Repentance. 
"At Rome, when the news arrived, the joy 
was boundless. 
The messenger ·who carried the 
dispatch was rewarded like one who brings 
tidings of some great victory, and the triumph 
that followed was such as old Pagan Rome 
might have been proud to celebrate. 
'l'hrough the streets of the Eternal City swept, 
in the full blaze of pontifical pomp, Gregory and 
his attendant train of cardinals, bishops, and 
LAsT week's lesson ended with Jonah in the 
monks, to the church of St. :Mark, there to offer fish's belly. 
Then he began to pray. In fact, 
up prayers and thanksgivings to the God of he began to pray as soon as he was cast into 
Heaven for this great blessing to the See of the sea; for he says: "For thou hadst cast me 
Rome and the Roman Catholic Church. 
into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the 
On the following day the pontiff went in pro-floods compassed me about; all thy billows and 
cession to the church of Minerva, where, after thv waves passed over me. 
Then I said, I am 
mass, a jubilee was published to all Cb risten-cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again 
dom, 'that they might thank God for the toward thy holy temple." "When my soul 
slaughter of the enemies of the church lately fainted within me I remembered the Lord; 
executed in France.' "-H'istory of .Protestant-and my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy 
ism, Book 17, chap. 16, par. 15. 
temple." 
Chap. 2 : 3, 4, 7. It often happens 
that some such upsetting as this is necessary 
to bring men to see themselves. 
Da,·id said, 
"Before I •vas a:ffiicted I went astray; but now 
have I kept thy word." Ps. 119 : 67. 
Then he 
says: c: It is good for me that I have been af-
flicted, that I might learn thy statutes." 
Verse 
71. 
The whole of psalm 107 is made up of in-
stances of men being brought by dangers, af-
flictions, etc., to acknowledge God, and of calls 
upon men to "praise the Lord for his go.odness, 
and for his wonderful works to the children of 
THE message reached the king, and he too 
joined the general fear. 
He not only joined in 
it, but issued a decree that the good work 
should go on. "For word came unto the king 
of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and 
he laid his robe fi·om him, and covered him with 
sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 
And he caused it 
to be proclaimed and published through Nine-
veh by the decree of the king and his nobles, 
saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor 
flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor 
drink water; but let man and beast be co'ered 
with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; 
yea, let them turn every one from his evll way, 
and from the violence that is in their hands." 
THIS was genuine repentance. The sa,Tiour 
declared it to be so, and that these men of .N in-
eveh shall rise in judgment and condemn 
the generation to whom he preached. "'The 
men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with 
this generation, and shall condemn it; because 
they repented at the preaching of Jollas; and, 
behold, a greater than Jon as is here." Matt. 
12:41. We have, therefore, the testimony of 
Jesus that the men of Nineveh repented. 
The 
word which J obn the Baptist, and Jesus, and 
Peter, and all the apostles preached, was," Re-
pent." And by the action of the .NineYites, it 
is shown that repentance is not only in word, 
not only in fasting and prayer, but this with 
t?tJrning every one from his evil way, and from 
the violence that is in his hands. ·"Put a way 
the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; 
cease to do evil; learn to do well." 
Isa. 1: 16. 
Anything short of turning fi·om evil and put-
ting it away, is not repentance; however much 
men may talk of sorrow for sin and of want-
ing to do better, it is of no avnil until they 
reallv do better. And all who do so God will 
rece{ve and forgive as really as he did the 
BuT the saints were to be wo'rn out. 
This 
implies more than outright slaughter. 
We 
quote one paragraph fi·om the account of the 
imprisonment of the Waldenses, when, at the 
command of Louis XIV., who was the obedient 
servant of the pope, they had been driven from 
their valleys:-
" We know not if ever before an entire nation 
were in prison at once. 
Yet now· it was so. 
All of the Waldensian race that remained from 
the sword of the executioners were immured 
in the dungeons of Piedmont. 
And 
how were they treated in prison? As the Af-
rican slave was treated on the' middle passage.' 
They had a sufficiency of neither food nor cloth-
ing. 
The bread dealt out to them was fetid. 
They had putrid water to drink. They were 
exposed to the sun by day, and to tbe cold at 
night. 
They were compelled to sleep on the 
bare pavement, or on straw, so full of vermin 
that the stone floor was preferable. Disease 
men." 
YET it is to be feared that, in most cases, 
after the Lord at such times bas heard their 
cries and delivered them, they remember him, 
at best, for only a little while, and turn again 
to folly. 
But Jonah well says: "They that ob-
serve lying vanities forsake their own mercy." 
"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to 
be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless after-
ward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteous-
(Continued on page 670.) 
664: 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11; No. 42. 
"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
J. H. WAGGONER, 
E. J. wAGGONER, 
ALONZO T. JONES, 
uRIAH SMITH, 
s. N. HASKELL, 
-
EDITOR. 
AssiSTANT EDITORS. 
} CORRESPONDING EDITORS. 
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
What Is the Use? 
THIS is called a practical age. Men always ask, 
before engaging in any business, Will it pay r And 
this is correct. It is useless to work to no profit, and 
we have Scripture warrant for counting the cost 
before beginning any enterprise. But men are not 
always wise in their estimatE-s. Sometimes, indeed 
in the majority of instances, the results will show 
that the en tire cost has not been counted. Some 
factor has been omitted, or else the individual has 
not looked far enough ahead. We might cite a few 
instances:--
It is generally considered a prudent thing for a 
man to amass wealth. "Men will praise thee, when 
thou doest well to thyself." Ps. 49 :18. Indeed, so 
fixed is thfl idea that to get rich is the one thing es-
sential, that few, before praising the prosperous man, 
stop to inquire by what means he obtained his 
wealth. But according to the Bible standard, the 
gathering of great wealth may be the most foolish 
thing a man can do. 
The wise man says: "He that by usury and unjust 
gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for 
him that will pity the poor." Prov. 28:8. If people 
knew that men who are toiling and planning night 
and day in order to accumulate property, were sim-
ply working for some one else, and that they them-
selves should enjoy none of their savings, they would 
say, "How foolish to work so hard for nothing!" 
Well, that is just what the Bible says. "He that 
getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in 
the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.'' 
J er. 17 : 11. How many foolish people there are, who 
by the world are accounted wise. 
And this exposes another shortsighted calculation 
that is very common, viz., that it is safe to do any-
thing which is done by the majority of people. 
Precedent is a thing that has great weight, both in 
courts and public opinion, oftentimes to the exclu-
sion of justice. But numbers can never make wrong 
right, nor will the Lord remit the puni~:;hmen't due 
for the commission of crime, because very many are 
engaged in it. "Though hand join in hand, the 
wicked shall not be unpu.nished." Prov.ll : 21. And 
the truth of this statement has often been demon-
strated. In the days of Noah, "the earth was filled 
with violence," because "every imagination of the 
thoughts" of man's heart "was only evil continu-
ally." Gen. 6:5, 11. Only Noah w~s found right-
eous. Yet the Lord preserved Noah, and destroyed 
all the wicked, "bringing in the flood upon the world 
of the ungodly." 2 Pet. 2:5. 
In the days of Lot, "the men of Sodom were 
wicked and sinn!:'rs before the Lord ex·ceedingly." 
Gen. 13: 13. In all that city, careful search was 
made (Gen. 18: 23-33; 19: 12-14), and, besides Lot, 
not a righteous man was found. But the Lord had 
no respect to ilUmbers, "and turning the cHies of 
Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them 
with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto 
those that ajte1· should live ungodly." 2 Pet. 2 : 6. 
There was also a time when a single man, Elijah, 
stood out against the whole kingdom of Israel. He 
was not content with simplj disagreeing with the 
majority, but he was eamest in reproving both mon-
arch and subject. Baal-worship was popular, and 
was, moreover, the State religion. How presumptu-
ous in that bne man to attempt to teach the priests the majority of people have·never been in the right, 
and rulers! How was it possible that he alone of ill; spite of all efforts to lead them iJ?. the right way, 
all the people should have the truth? And even al-and there is indeed no hope that they ever will be. 
lowing his claims, what headway could one man Let us cite two authorities. 
hope to make against a nation? What was the use 
Luther, as a reformer, was very much like Elijah. 
of his engaging in such an unprofitable task r In reality he was more alone than was the prophet. 
Thus, no doubt, many reasoned at that time. But One of the strongest arguments brought against his 
God vindicated the faithfulness of his servant. The work was that the pope, bishops, divines, councils, 
prophets of Baal were slain; the wicked king and and universities were against him, and that he 
queen had the death of a dog; the apostate riation eould not hope to convince them that they were in 
'\Vas carried into captivity; and Elijah, who was not error. The majority never were convinced. But 
afraid to engage in an unpopular and seemingly un-Luther replied as follows:-
profitable work, was taken to Heaven in a chariot of 
"Moses was alone when the Israelites were led 
'fire. 
Who will now say that his work was to no out of Egypt; Elijah was alone in the time of King 
profit? Not one. 
Ahab; Ezekiel was alone at Babylon. God has 
never chosen for his prophet either the high priest, 
But why is it that men can now approve EUjah's or any other person of exalted rank; he has generally 
course? Simply because the sins which he particu-chosen men of a mean and low condition,-in the 
larly denounced are not now popular. For proof of instance of Amos, even a simple sh!:'pherd. The 
this assertion, we quote from the F?'iend, a religious saints in every age have been called upon to rebuke 
the great of this world,-kings and princes, priests 
journal published at Honolulu, H. I. It says:-
and scholars,-and to fulfill the office at the peril of 
"We have for a year or more had a couple of good their lives. . . . I say not that I am a prophet; 
brethren among us, who have been devoting their but I say that they have the more reason to fear 
time and strength, and the means of the organiza-because I am alone, and. they are many. Of this I 
tion that sent them, to the task of dis~wminating am sure, that the word of God is with me, and that 
the idea that Saturday instead of Sunday should be it is not with them.'' 
observed as the day holy unto the Lord. We have 
"But it is further objected that men high in sta-
often wished that the two brethren might see their tion pursue me with their censures .. What then I 
way clear to engage in a worthier and more promis-Do not the Scriptures clearly show . . . that the 
ing enterprise. One of them, Brother Scott, we majority has always been on the side of falsehood, 
think has gone back to whence he came, and we and the minority only on the side of truth? It is 
wish him well. The other brother still tarries the fate of truth to occasion an outcry."-D'Au-
among us, and we would not have him depart; but bigne's Hist. Reformation, Pa1·t 1, Book 7, par. 
we hope in his behalf for more useful employment.'' 168, 173. 
And then it quotes as follows from an exchange, 
For the second authority, we have only to refer 
concerning those who are working in behalf of the to the overwhelming wickedness in the times of 
Lord's Sabbath:-
Noah and Lot, and then read these words of Christ, 
which bring the matter home to our own day:-
"We are sorry to see such a waste of time and 
pains. If the past shows anything, it shows that 
"And as it was in the days of Noe, so shaH it be 
the vast majority of Christeudom always has been, also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, 
and it i~ now, firmly persuaded that the first day of they drank, they married wives, they were given in 
the week is the day of rest by divine appointment. marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the 
Can this judgment be reversed r Is there the re-ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 
motest possibility that it ever will be? It seems to Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did 
us that there can be but one answer to these ques-eat, they drank, they oought, they sold, they planted, 
tions. If so, then all the good intentions and con-they builded; but the same day that Lot went out 
scientious convictions of our brethren do not hinder of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, 
their efforts from being thrown away. Besides, there and destroyed them all. Even thus !:~hall it be in 
is the injurious effect of turning men's thoughts· the day when the Son of man is revealed.'' Luke 
away from the due observance of the day to the very 17:26-30. 
subordinate question of its numerical designation." 
These illustrations are sufficient to show us that 
Not one hint of a question do we find in the above, instead of appealing to common custom for proof of 
as to whether those who advocate the observance of the correctness of any practice, that very fact ought 
the seventh day are really in the right, but only the to cause us to doubt. "The customs of the p.eople 
consideration of popularity. "The vast majority are vain.'' Jer. 10: 3. And it will not do to say 
of Christendom has been, and is now, firmly per-that, in the instances mentioned, those who were in 
suaded that the first day of the week is the day of the majority, and wrong, were heathen, while, in the 
rest." "And since there is DO probability that this matter of Sunday observance, the majority are 
verdict will ever be reversed, what is the use of Christians. In Elijah's time it was the house of 
trying to show its fallacy?" So the people might Israel--the church-that had taken Baal in prefer-
have talked in the days of Noah. "We are fully ence to Jehovah. Ezekiel was sent with hio warn-
persuaded that the course which to us seems good is ings to the church of God; and in order that he 
right, and you might as well quit your preaching. might perform his tha~kless task, it was necessary 
Better come and join us." 
that his face should be made "harder than flint." 
Likewise when Lot went out to warn the inhab-Moreover, he was plainly told that the house of Is-
itants of Sodom, "he seemed as one that mocked.'' rael would not listen to him. Eze. 3:4-9. Isaiah 
No doubt he was called an old fool for his pains. was commanded to show God's people their trans-
And in both of these cases it was found that there gression. John the Baptist lifted up his voice in 
was not any possibility of changing the universal. the wilderness against the sins of the very leaders 
ve~dict. \Vill the .Pr'iend· say that they ought to of the church. And it was solely on account of the 
have ceased preaching? \Vhat does the Lord say? corruption of the church that Luther began to 
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a preach the reformation. Since our reverence for 
trumpet, and show my people their transgression, God is measured only by our obedience, and not by 
and the house of Jacob their sins.'' Isa. 58:1. ''Son our profe$sion, all those who persist in violating 
of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a any of God's commandments are termed heathen. 
rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me; Throughout the Bible, the judgments of God are 
they and their fathers have transgressed against me pronounced only against the heathen; and many 
e\,.en unto this very day .... And thou shalt whosay, "Lord, Lord," willre.ceivethosejudgments. 
speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, So in this matter, if it can be shown that God has 
or whether they will forbear; for they are most re-commanded us to keep the seventh day of the week, 
bellious." Eze. 2: 3-7. 
those who work to that end are engaged in a profita-
The question to be asked, then, is not, "Is the ble business, even though the professed church will 
prevailing sentiment favorable to my message r" or, not hear. Those who do his commandments shall 
"Is there any hope of changing the general opin-have right to the tree of life. 
ion?" but, "What is truth?" As a matter of fact. 
Next week we shall continue this subject, and 
NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
THE SIGNS OF TH.E TIMES. 
665 
show that the "numerical designation" of the day 
is not a "subordinate question," and that whatever 
"injurious effects" may follow the preaching of 
truth, no blame can be attached to the few who thus 
labor against the majority. 
E. J. w. 
The Best Argun1ent for Sunday. 
FROM the Review of October 27, we learn that 
Sabbath-keepers in Arkansas are being put to seri-
ous trouble on account of their faith. Formerly 
there was provision made in .the Sunday law of that 
State, so that those who conscientiously observed 
the seventh day of the week were not liable to ar-
rest for working o'n the first day of the week. Last 
spring, however, this provision was repealed, and 
now all who do any work on Sunday are liable to 
hea.vy fine and imprisonment. 
As a natural consequence of the law as it exists 
at present, quite a number of Sabbath-keepers have 
been arrested, and Elder Wood, who is laboring 
there and knows the state of feeling, thinks that 
there will be scores of arrests before the holidays. 
The brethren in Arkansas are poor, and can ill af-
ford the expe·nse and loss of time incident to court 
proceedings, even should they not be convicted; auy 
persons wishing to aid them in their time of need 
can forward money for that purpose to F. N. Elmo1:e, 
Springdale, Ark., and it will be thankfully received 
and properly applied. 
The leaders of the so-called National Reform 
party have been. constant in their assurances that 
no harm was intended by them to conscientious ob-
servers of the seventh day. They have often seemed 
to feel grieved and indignant because we have said 
that persecution would be the necessary result of 
their efforts to enforce Sunday observance .. But, in 
spite of their pacifi-c assurances, it has happened 
that, every time the law would allow it, Seventh-day 
Adventists have been promptly indicted for work-
ing on Sunday. If this is not a persecution be-
cause of religious convictions, then the popes of 
Rome ne-ver conducted such a persecution. 
None of our brethren need be surprised when 
such persecution comes. For years we have been 
expecting it, knowing that it would come, because 
the "sure word of prophecy" plainly said that it 
would. The fulfillment of this prophecy is only a 
warning that the end is near, and an admonition to 
us to redouble our diligence. Here in California we 
have had an opportunity to see how quickly the 
spirit of persecution becomes rampant as soon as 
there is the slightest prospect of enforcing a Sunday 
law, and we shall watch with prayerful interest the 
proceedings in Arkansas. Whatever the immediate 
result, we are certain that God will make the wrath 
of man to praise him. 
E. J. w. 
Where Shall the Line Be Drawn? 
THE Christian Weekly, after making the state-
ment that polygamy is not the only evil of Mor-
monism, says:-
" Its unrepublican hierarchy, that exalts the 
church above the Government, and demand:'! un-
conditional obedience to its requirements, whatPver 
may be the law of tl1e land, makrs it a .dangerous 
institution in a country where the ballot box should 
be free from ecclesiastical domination." 
With the truth contained in the above quotation, 
there is also a very popular error. It is a truth that 
cannot be too often r<'peated at the present day, that 
the ballot· box should be free from ecclesiastical 
domination. 
We say that this truth cannot be too 
often repented at the present day, because there is 
now an influential and rapidly increasing party 
(not Mormons) whose great aim is to have the State 
· legislate on matters pertaining to religion; or, in 
other words, to place the ballot box under the con-
trol of the church. 
When this state of things shall 
b.e bro-qiht about, the liberties of American people 
will be at an end. We protest, therefore, against I man experience. Let us cite a few instances of 
ecclesiastienl domination in political affairs, whether men's purposes that did not peri!::ih "in that very 
it be by Mormons or by Christians; with either day," in which their breath went forth and they re-
class the results would be the same, for no matter turned to earth. Nebuchadnezzar formed the pur-
how pure a church may be, if it has civil power it pose of confining the River Tigris within certain 
will persecute just as quickly as will the corrupt limits, and built an extensive embnnkment a~ a 
church. Sv Mormon domination of the ballot box place near where Bngclad now stauds; aud the 
is to be objected to, not simply because it is Mormon bricks with which lle faced and strengthened the 
domination, but because it is ecclesiastical domina-embankment, and which have upon them his own 
tion. 
name, lie to-day exactly ns he placed them. \Ve 
The error in the quotation is in supposing that it know, therefore, that that purpose of his did not per-
is wrong in principle to obey the requirements of ish in the very day in which his breath went forth, 
the church," whatever may be the law of the land." nor for ages afterward, if indeed it ha!i yet perished. 
vVe are no apologists for the Mormons, but we say 
Stephen Girard purpogeu that the poot· whit~ 
that this principle is not the one at issue. The orphans of the city of Philadelphia, Pa., should 
question for individuals to settle is, Are the teach-have 'the benefits of education, and should be sup-
ings of the church in strict harmony with the Bible, ported till they had acquired an education. That 
making unperverted Bible truth the Bole standard r purpose did not perish when his breath went forth, 
If fair and candid investigation ::~ho-..vs that those and he returned to the earth; nor has it yet perished, 
t-eachings are in perfect accord with the Bible, tbPn nor will it ever while the wodd lasts. 
he should obey. them, whatever may be the la~v of 
Peter Cooper purposed that mechanics and arti-
the land. "The powers that be are ordained of God." sans should have opportunity to acquire "the m0St 
Then certainly they have no right to cont-ravene the skillful practice of their several trades; to that they 
laws of God. 
could not only apply their labor to the best possible 
As a matter of fact, the Mormons are guilty of a advantages, but enjoy the happiness of acquiring 
sin, not against God alone, but against man as well. useful knowledge-the purest and most innocent of 
.Murder, adultery, and theft are sins which destroy all' sources of enjoyment." His purpose did not 
the well-being of society. If these things were al-perish when he diPd. 
lowed to be practiced with impunity, human gov-
James Lick purposed that the State of California 
ernments, which God has ordained, would be over-should have an observatory, and in it a telescope 
thrown. Therefore they must not be tolerated. On having a larger object-glass than any that had ever 
this ground, and this alone, the pet abomination of yet been made. He died. But so far from his pur-
the Mormons should be suppressed by the Govern-pose perishing the "very day" in which his breath 
ment. But a practice which is in strict accord with went forth, Europe and America have been engaged 
God's word, will not be detrimental to society; and ever since in fulfilling that purpose, now soon to be 
against such a practice the Government has no right. accomplished. 
to enact a law; if it should, the people would be in 
Multitudes of such instances might be given from 
duty bound to break that law. 
all ages of human history in illustration of the fact 
No one need be confused over this m{ttter. The that to read purposes for thoughts in psalm 146:4, 
Christian's duty is plain: •· We ought to obey God is to put darkness for light, and falsehood for truth. 
rather than men" (Acts 5: 29); and if people would The fact of t!Je matter is, men's purposes perish 
always remember this, and live accordingly, they while they live as well as when they die. It is not 
would never make laws to suit their own inclina-
necessary to wait till their "breath goeth forth," 
tions or propensities, and try to palm them off on and they return to earth, to realize that fact. 
To-: 
the people as the laws of God. 
E. J. w. 
day I may form a purpose concerning to-morrow, or 
Psalms 146:4. 
IN Psalms 146:3,4 we read: "Put not your trust 
in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is 
no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to hi~ 
earth; in that very day his thoughts per·ish." 
This 
is in harmony with the Scriptures throughout. 
As 
stated elsewhere, "the dead know not anything;" 
"their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now 
perished." 
Eccl. 9 : 5, 6. 
"The dead praise not the 
Lord, neither any that go down into silence." Ps. 
115:17. 
next week, or next month, or next year, and that 
purpose may, and indeed does as often as otherwise, 
perish. Yet I continue to live and to think. To-
day I may purpose a thing in regard to even the 
things of this very day, and that purpose is just as 
likely as not to perish; but that affects neither the 
fact of my living, nor of my thinking. Again we 
say, and the experience of every human being proves 
the truth, that men's purposes· perish in the days 
that they live, a~S well as in the day that they die. 
It is not so with men's thoughts. When a man 
dies, it is the truth that "in that very day his 
thoughts perish "-be ceases to think, the mind 
'l'o evade the force of the words of Psalms 146 :4,-
ceases to act. As long as there is con<~ciousness, there 
"In that very day his thougbts perish,"-it has been, is thought; but when. a man dies, all power of 
for a long while, a favorite scheme of those who hold thought is destroyed. That a man can think when 
to the immortality of the soul to clJauge the wonl!::i he is dead is certainly one of the most perverse ideas 
of the text by substituting the word "pw-poses" that ever en Lered mell's brn ins. 
A man may be 
for "thoughts," claiming that the man still thinks struck a s1igh t blow ou the hend, ar1tl he cca~t's to 
when be i!::i dead, but that the purposes which he h:H.l think; but let him be struck a crushing, killing 
blow·, anu lo! he t!Jinks more allll better than ever! 
formed while living have perished, that t.hey can-In other words: knot.:k him scnscll·ss and he cannot 
not be accomplished. And now comes the r<,eviseu think nt :1ll; kill him, nnd he cn11 tl1ink better than 
Version, and, with a marginal reading, bolsters up ever before!! 
\Vas tl1ere ever sueh nonsPnse '? 
this thf'ory. The te-:rt of P~alms 14G: 4 reads in the Docs any one suppose that Ad:tm, before he lived, 
had an,v powers of tlrought r 
As::~uredly not. Then 
H,evised Version just as it docs iu the Old Version, upon what principlP cau 1t be SliJ'po:wd that he bad 
but" purposes" is put into the margin as an alter-any such power~ after he di<'d-when he had re-
nate reading. 
Thu::~ this version is made to favor turned to the condition in which he was brfore he 
the idea that "thoughts" in the text is at least lived r Did he, by sinning, acquire the power t~ 
think after he was dead( Did he, by sinning. nc-
equivalent in meaning to "purposes;" and that quire the power to retain in death one of the very 
when a man dies, in that very day his purposes per-chiefest of the attributes of life-the power of 
ish, but his thoughts go on. 
thought? 
Such an interpretation of the text is, as we have 
It is the absolute truth t!J~_t . "the wages of sin is 
k 
tl 
· t 
t 
d' t •t lf 
B t death:" and when, bec:wse or stt~. death passed upon 
seen,. to rna ~e . 
1~ sen P ure cou r~ IC 
1 se · 
_u · a 11 mankind, it is equally the tru Lh that when •·J!iiJ 
that IS not all, It Is to make the scnpture contradict I bre~-tth goet.h forth," and "he returneth to hi8 earth, 
every principle of fact and evidence as seen in hu-1 ·in that 'Uer·y day his thoughts per· ish." 
.A.. T. J, 
666 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11, No. 42. 
European Council of Seventh-Day 
Adventist Missions. 
THE third session of this Council convened 
in the new meeting han at Basel, Tuesday, 
Sept. 15, at 11 A. 111., the cbairm.an, .Elder B. L. 
Wbit11ey,presiding. 'l1he followmgpersons were 
prer:~ent at the meeting: Elders J. G . .Matteson, 
A. B. Oyen, E. G. Olsen, and Knud B~·ors~n, 
and Sisters Oyen and Dohl, fi·om Scandmavta; 
Elders B. L. Whitney, D. T. Bourdeau, A. C. 
Bourdeau, J. Ertzenberger, and Brethren .Albert 
Vuilleumier, Ademar Vuilleumier, A. Keller, 
and A. Roth, from Switzerland and Cont:al 
Eur0pe; Brother Thos. G. Asian from R~u:nama; 
Brethren J. Geymet, A. Biglia, V. Guernu, J.D. 
Malan, and Sister Malan, from Italy; J. B. Conte, 
J. P. Badant, and A. Aramy, from France; 
Wm. Fleek, Cbas. Kuller, and Hugo Schneppe, 
from Germany; Elder R. F. Andrews from Ire-
land; EldersS. H. Lane,M.C. Wilcox, A. A.John, 
and Brother G. R. Drew, and Sisters S. H. Lane 
and Jennie Thayer, from England; and E: G. 
White, W. C. White, and H. vV. Kellogg, from 
America. Besides these; the meetings were at-
tended by the employes of the publisbin~ house, 
and quite a number of the brethren and s1sters of 
the Swiss Conference. 
The fo11owing committees were appointed:-
On Order of Meetings-\V. C. White, R. F. 
Andrews, S. H. Lane .. 
On N ominations-R. F. Andrews, A. C. Bour-
deau, E. G. Olsen. 
On Resolutions-J. G. Matteson, D. T. Bour-
deau, M. C. Wilcox. 
On Auditing-W. C. White, R. F. Andrews, 
S. H. Lane, A. C. Bourdeau. 
At the close of the meeting, the committees 
proceeded to their work, which occupied the re-
mainder of the day. 
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. 
The Committee on Order of Meetings pro-
posed that somet~ing in the. line .of a Biblical 
Institute be held 111 connection With the Coun-
cil, and in harmony with this suggestion, it 
was arranged that Elder Matteson should con-
duct a Bible-class at 9 A. M., and that Elder 
Lane, assisted by Elde_rs Ertzenberger a_nd Bour-
deau. should conduct a Bible-reading at 6:30 
P. M.': each day of the meeting, wbi?h, it was 
thought, should continue two weeks mstead of 
one, as appointed. 
These classes were very inter~sting and prof-
itable. 
So great was the desire of all to bear 
every lesson that the office work was suspended 
so that the workmen Gould attend; and sev-
eral of the German and French brethren who 
intended to return home after attending two or 
three meetings, remained tiil the close. 
In the 
Bible-class the subjects of the second coming 
of Christ, the millennia! reign of the saints 
with Christ and the return of the Jews, were 
considered.' These subjects were especial1y ap-
propriate because of the universal prevalence 
in Europe of the grossest errors on these. doc-
trines. Few of those present had ever enJoyed 
the privilege of attending such a class before. 
The brethren conducting the Bible-readings, 
translated into Germa-p. and French those read-
ings that the colporters would wish to use first, 
and they were given simultaneo~sly in :B'rench, 
German, and English, accompamed by remarks 
as to how Bible-readings should be conducted. 
These readino-s are being printed in leaflets, so 
that the colp~rters can 'Use them in conducting 
readings, and then distribute the leaflets among 
those who wish them. 
REPORTS FROM ScANDINAVIA. 
"Elder Matteson thinks that Sweden is, at 
present, the most promising field in Northern 
Europe. 
His meetings in Stockholm were 
largely attended, and fifty persons were con-
verted to the truth. 
The 8tockholm chureh 
numbers seventy-one members, and there are 
ten others keeping the Sabbath, who have not 
yet joined the church. 
At the Conference just held in Sweden, about 
fifty Sabbath-keepers were present, represent-
ing seven churches, with nearly tw_o hundred 
members. 
These, with scattered Sabbath-keep-
ers number two hundred and seventy-nine, a 
gai'n of ninety-four since last year.. 
T~e tw_o 
colporters and one minister labormg m th1s 
Conference the last year, have sold and distrib-
uted 426,400 pages of reading matter, ob-
tained 448 subscribers for our papers, and re-
ceived $585 from book sales and subscriptiond. 
Elder E. G. Olsen bas labored most of the 
time durin()' the year in Christiania and Dram-
men. At Dram men a church· of twenty-one 
members has been organized, and in Christiania 
twenty-eiO'ht have joined the churcb. 
The 
co1porters
0 and the missionary society in Nor-
way have sold and given away 600,000 pages 
of tracts and books, and obtained 500 subscrib-
ers for our papers. 
Elder Brorsen reports that there are in Den-
mark nine churches, with one hundred and 
sixty members, besides ninety-eight scattered 
Sabbath-keepers. 
Elder Matteson presented the following sum-
mary of the work in the three Scandinavian 
countries:-
Number of ministers, 7; licentiates, 7; colpor-
ters, 8; churches, 18; members, 514; whole num-
ber of Sabbath-keeperEl, 698; tithes and dona-
tions, $2,163.86; subscribersfor periodi?als.' 1,044; 
pages of reading matter, sold and d1st1:tb~ted, 
1,041,400; received on sales and subscr1ptwns, 
$1,033. 
REPORTS FROM ENGLAND. 
Thursday, Sept. 17, Elder Lane 'gave an in-
teresting account of his labors in connection with 
Elder Durland, at Risely. 
Finding that the 
renting of halls was very expensive, and ~uite 
unsatisfactory, they had purchased a lmen 
tent 27x50 feet in size, and with it had held 
meetings eight weeks. 
As a result, nine per-
sons· are keeping the Sabbath, and many 
otherR are convicted that it is their duty.. 
Fruit, 
vegetables, and groceries were freely donated t.o 
those conducting the meetings, and the contri-
butions were nearly sufficient to pay all the 
running expenses. 
Elder R. F. Andrews gave an account of 
labors in northern Ireland. 
Caste, prejudice, 
an unwillingness to attend open-air ~eetin~s, 
and meetings in halls, are some of the difficulties 
to be met with in Ireland. A large number are 
becoming interested in the truth. 
Elder A. A. John reported that he had moved 
to W al·es, with a view of getting the presen·t 
truth before that people. There are about 
1 200 000 people in Wales, of which number 
ahout 400,000 are Englishmen, 400,000 under-
stand both English and Welsh, and 400,000 
understand only the Welsh. 
While devoting a 
little time to the study of the W.elsh, be had 
labored for the English people at a large water-
ing-place. He bas foun~ open-air meeting;s a 
satisfactory way of gettmg the truth before 
the people of England. 
Brother Geo. R. Drew has visited 2,216 ships, 
selling 301,000 pages of books, for which he 
has received $750. 
Three colporters have been 
at work a part of the time. They have visited 
2,453 families, distributing tracts, and obtaining 
subscribers for the Present T1·uth. 
Elder Wilcox has spent most of his time at 
the office of the Present Truth. 
This paper 
has 514 regular subscribers in England and 300 
in America; 77,800 copies have been sent to 
persons whose names were found in directories. 
The mission bas received on the Present :Pruth 
$550; on book Bales, $400; tithes and donations, 
$360. 
REPORTS FROM CENTRAL EuROPE. 
Elder B. L. Whitney spoke of the work in. 
the Swiss Conference and in Basel. 
The Confer-
ence bas one ordained minister, 7 licentiates, 10 
churches and 224 members scattered through 
' 
. 
I" 
d 
Switzerland, Germany, Roumama, 
1 ranee, an 
Italy. There arc, beside8, 39 S~bbath-keepers 
in churches not yet connected w1th the Confer-
ence. 
The tithes paid in during ele:en ~ont_hs 
of the year amount to$1,314.87, besides $264.~5 
which has been raised in Germany. The mis-
sionary society has 113 members. They have 
distributed 137,039 pages of tracts, and mad.e 
9,066 visits. 
The donations since the reorgam-
zation of the societv amount to $2,041. 
The 
Sabbath-school association has 11 schools, with 
251 members. 
During the past year the office has print.ed 
61,000 copies of the French paper, 53,~00 cop1es 
of the German paper, 8,000 of the I~ahan paper, 
and 9 000 of the Roumanian paper. rhe rece1pts 
on the French paper amount to $520, and on 
the German paper, $490. The French p~per 
bas 827 paying subscribers; the German, o68; 
the Roumanian, 172; the Italian, 130. The office 
publishes 31 different trac~s ~nd pam_Pb,Iets .in 
French besides a volume of S1ster Wh1te s wrlt-
ings ju~t issued. 
In. G-erm~n 14 different tracts 
are published, and m Itaha?, 7. 
The amount 
received bn sales of tracts 1s $91.67. 
Colpor-
ters have had some success in canvassing for 
the French and German papers. 
FRIDAY, SEPT. 18. 
Interesting reports were made by Brother 
Aslan of the work in Roumania; by Brother 
Bigli~, of the work iu southern It~iy; and by 
Brother Malan, of the Waldens1an Valleys. 
Brother Geymet said that be had sold 22,000 
pages of tracts, and given away 8,0.00 pages. 
He requests that there be more Hahan tracts 
printed, and an illustrated pamphlet on the 
prophecies. 
Elder Ertzen berger reported his labors in 
Germany. 
He says that religious meetings 
cannot be held there unless notice is given to 
the authorities beforehand, stating the place and 
time of the meeting, arid the subject to be 
spoken on. ,If this i~ not done, one is liable to 
be fined. 
Elder D. T. B'ourdeau reported his labors in 
Switzerland Italy, and France; as a result, 
there are fo'ur new churches, with about forty 
members. 
Elder A. C. Bourdeau reported his labors in 
Roumania, France, and Italy, in which he bad 
baptized fifty-seven persons. 
The meetino-s on tho Sabbath were of a very 
solemn cbaragter. The necessity of a living 
faith in God, and of an earnest love ior those 
for whom Christ died, were the themes dwelt 
upon. 
Tho business meetings of Sunday and Mon-
day were occupied with a discussion· of ~be 
various methods of labor, and the questwn 
whether tents can be used to advantage in the 
various countries of Europe. 
Many interesting 
facts were· presented, showing that there w~s 
ground to believe that tents could be used m 
Sweden, Germany, France; and Italy. 
In 
some of these countries where the laws were 
the most oppressive a few years ago, they are 
now the most lenient. At the close of the dis-
cussion it was voted to recor:nmend: (1) That 
a secon'd tent be purchased for use in England 
the coming season; (2) That a tent ~e obtained· 
in time for use the coming season m Sw~den; 
(3) 'rhat the Swiss Conference purchase two 
tents one for the German and one for the 
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French work; (4) That Wf:' request t e Gen. 
eral Conference to furnish a tent for use in 
Italy. 
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The circulation of our papers was then dis-
cussed, and it was recommended that appropri-
ate illustration~; be obtained, and used in each 
of them. 
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5, 1885. 
THE BIG NS OF THE "FIMES. 
667 
cused from the school on the Sabb~th. Several! talks,. and .a sketch of her visit to t~e missions, .be 
The Committee on Resolutions presented the of our Sabbath-keepers in Switzerland have published m a large-page pa~phlet 1~ the Engbsh 
following, which, after some discussion, were been fined, and som. e have been imprisoned, for llanguag~, that ou.r brethren 1!1 Amenca may share 
adopted:-
refusing to allow their children to attend school the blessmg of this good meetmg. 
on the Sabbath. It was thought that teachers 
It wa~s voted that we :ecommend that Broth~r 
Resolved, That this Couuei I advise Elder A. C. could be obtained for a private school, and that Thos. ?"· Asian l~bor ~IX months or a year m 
TUESDAY, SEPT. 22. 
Bourdeau to locate in the Wa.J.ensian Valleys, and 
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devote his principal efforts to the work in Italy and a room could be obtained, if it were decided 
a y, In ~onn.ec IOn WI 
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France. 
that a school should be organized. Elders B. L. der the d1rectwn of Brother A. C. Bourdeau. 
WHEREAS, The harvest is great and the laborers Whitney, J. Ertzenberger, Albert Vuilleumier, 
It was also voted that Brethren H: W. Ke~-
are few; therefore, 
W. C. White. and ,Ademar Vuilleumier were logg and C. M. Andrews represent this Council 
Resolved, That it is inconsistent for our laborers chosen as a school committee 
at the coming General Conference. 
Also, that 
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the next !lession of this Council be held in En-
to remain continuously in one place. 
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land. 
WHEREAS, It is contrary to the accepted and uni-
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Monday evening, after a abort discourse by 
orm plan of labor among our people that our labor-followmg resolutiOns and recommendatiOns:-_Elder Matteson, Brother Albert Vuilleumi'er 
ers confine their labors to one locality, and 
WHEREAS, There exists special and urgent de-
WHER;E.AS, The Danish-Norwegian and' Swedish was ordained to the work of the ministry. 
mands for labor in various localities in the Italian h~alth J~urnal~. Sundheds~elCfde.t og 
Helso~och-
From this meeting, the laborers go forth 
field; therefore, 
SJukvara, pubhshe~ at Chr~stiama, are not cucu-with new courage to their fields of labor. 
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Brother A. Biglia do not confine his labors to Na-
WHEREAS, Ou~ brethren there would receive great have been in the field before and we expect 
pies, but devote the greater portion of his time to benefit from r~adlllg t~es~ papers; the.refoi:e· . 
that our books and papers will have a much 
labor in new fields. 
Resolved, 1?at we 1~vite our ScandmaviHt; breth-wider circulation than ever before. 
ren generally lil Amenca to become subscnbers to 
Resolved, That we request the General Conference these journals, and to do what they can to circulate 
'\Y. C. WHITE. 
to send a German laborer to join Brother J. Ertzen-them among' their countrymen in that country. 
Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 5, 1885. 
berger in the vast German field. 
WHEREAS, The increase of .the publishing work 
Resolved, That we request the Executive Com-
in Europe demands skilled laborers, and persons of mittee of this Council to prepare petitions to the 
Swiss Government, that the children of Sabbath-
Southern California Camp-Meeting. 
experience in the various branches of the work; k 
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therefore, 
eepers e exempt from attending the public schools 
THIS meeting was held, according to appoint-
on the Sabbath, and that they prepare tracts and 
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Resolved, That this Council recommend that leaflets on the subject, to be distributed by those ment, 
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Brother Chas. M. Andrews spend one or two years who circulate the petitions. 
near the center of the beautiful village of Santa 
in our publishing house at Battle Creek, learning 
We recommend that the following named Ana, Los Angeles County. 
There were twenty-
thoroughly the binder's tra:de. 
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persons receive credentials: B. L. Whitney, five tents in the camp, and about one hundred 
Resolved, That in the future sessions of our Gen-D 
campers. 
There was a fair attendance from 
eral Council, we request the chairman of each of the A. I· ~o:rd~.uC AW ?· Bo~rteau, S. H. l;anBe, the country, and about thirty from San Diego 
several Mission Boards to present a written report of 
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'rbese latter came with their teams 
missionary labor. not to exceed thirty minutes in de-Oyen, E. G. Olsen, J. G. Matteson, J. H. Dur-
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livering, and request written reports from all our land, and that Geo. R. Drew receive colpor-
a ou eig ty ml es, or t e purpose 0 · atten ing 
laborers no~ to exceed fifteen minutes. 
ter's license. 
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the meeting. 
Resolved, That we express our gratitude to God 
On motion, the above were acted upon sepa-
There were sixty-two meetings held during 
for the labors and counsels of Sist.er E. G. White rately, and adopted. 
the ten days of the encampment, of which 
and her son, Elder W. 0. White, at these meetings; 
Sabbath forenoon, Elder Matteson, preached twenty-five were sermons. 
There were six ses-
that we invite them to visit Scandinavia, Great on the subject of the Third Angel's Message, sions of a Biblical Institute, and four meetings of 
Britain, and other fields, and to remain sufficiently 
our Sabbath-school ConveJ1tJ.Oil 
Besi'des these 
and in the afternoon Mrs. White spoke from 
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tion of the people of God with that of Joshua work and the keeping of church records, five 
The officer7~~~~:D~~u~~~T.a!~ the Mission before the angel, she wfts led to give most pre-
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cious encouragement to those who are to pass . 
Boards for the ensuing year were elected, ah! through the time of trouble. 
mgs, and seven meetings of the youth and cbil-
follows:-
dren. 
Of the sermons, Brother St. John gave 
Executive Committee: .B. L. Whitney, chair-
SuNDAY, SEPT. 27. 
seven, Brother Ings six, Brother R. S. Owen 
man, J. G. Matteson, S. H. Lane; Secretary, 
The Committee on Resolutions presented the five, and the writer seven. 
The first Sabbath-
A. B. Oyen; Treasurer, Addie S. Bowen. 
Uis-following, which were acted upon singly, and school was composed of seventy-four persons, ar-
sion Boards: Central European Mission, B. L, adopted:-
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ranged in fourteen classes, and on the second 
Whitney, A. C. Bourdeau, D. T. Bourdeau; 
Resolved, That we express our continued confi-Sabbath the school consisted of ninety-eight pu-
Briti~h Mission, S. H. Lane, M. C. Wilcox, R. F. dence in the gift of prophecy, which God has merci-pils, arran~ed in fifteen classes. 
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Andrews; Scandinavian Mission, J. G_ Matteson, fully placed among his remnant people, and that 
There was a spirit of harmony and solemnity 
A. B. Oyen, E. G. Olsen. 
~e will ebdeavor. tolfhow o~r true ~p~reciatio_n of pervading the entire camp-meeting. 'fbe out-
'rhe question was then raised, Is it right for 
e same Y practica Y carrymg out Its InstructiOns. side attendance increased from the opening of 
ns to bear arms or serve in the armv-and if so 
Resolved, T~at we re~ommend that The Present the meeting to the last and the mterest was 
is it lawful for us to serve on the' Sabbath? Truth be published semi-monthly. 
such that Brother St. J~hn decided to remain 
From the ensuino-discussion it ap1)eared that 
. Resolved, That we recommend that 3: Scandina-and follow up the work by meetings in a ball 
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military ser,vice IS compulsory m Switzerland,. oGeo. Drew in his work in LiverpooL 
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een secured fo~ th~t purpose. At 
Germany, ]ranee, and Italy. 
The length of 
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but the serviCe IS such that 1t IS very d1fficult to ing the people on the subject of present truth must homes greatly encouraged and strengthened. 
keep the Sabbath. In Switzerland, Sabbath-be done by means of publications; therefore, 
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In the business meeting all voted in favor of 
keepers have the choice of joining the sanitary 
Resol'ved, That it is the duty of our ministers to another camp-meeting in this southern field 
corps, in which a person is exempt from bearing encourage and educate young persons to become next year, to be held about the same time of 
arms, but the duties to be performed on the su.ccessful canvassers a?d colport~rs, by holding in-this one this year. 
They also readily re-
Sabbath are not such as are proper for God's st~tutes, and by connectm~ them w1th tent labor, al!-d sponded to the suggestion that these local camp-
holy day. It was voted that the Executiv-e with other Ia?or where It ma.Y be deemed advis-meetings meet their own expenses. 
Pledges of 
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Resolved_, That we recommend that an institute sdou b elrn cbamld)-dmdeetmgb 
unh. 
his sum will 
for the mstructwn of our rethren. 
of. three or four wee~s' duration be held the coming 
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to J. ot ers w. o were not 
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24. 
wmter at Great Gnm~by, England, for the purpose, at the meeti-?g. 
The. ca~~-meetmg has ex-
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erted a great m:fluence m givmg permanence to 
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our periodicals were considered, and the best 
It was voted that W. C. White, J. G. Matte-
e cause m 
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onterence. 
way to reach the traveling pub11c of England. son,. A. B. Oyen, M. 0. W:ilcox: and Sister E. H. 
J. N. LouGHBOROUGH. 
It was voted that we request the International Whi-tney ~e an InternatiOnal Lesson Commit-
'rract and Missionary Society to furnish dis-tee, t? advise as to the. Sabb.ath-school lesson15 
tributers, to be placed on the transatlantic used m our papers published m Europe. 
steamers leaving Liverpool. 
MoNDAY, SEPT. 28. 
Eld~r .Whitney in~roduced the .question of 
The Committee on Resolutions presented the 
es~abhsbm~ a scboolm Basel, especially for the following, which was adopted:-
cbddrel?' of Sabbath-keepers: 
Attendan~e at 
Resolved, That the report of this Council the 
school IS compulsory for children from SIX to financial and statistical report of the Euro' ean 
fourteen years of age, and they cannot be ex-
MiliUilions, with the report of Sister White's' molning 
THE private citizen has no right to ask for 
the pardon of a convict any more than has the ' 
governor to grant it, except on the single sup-
position that it can be granted· in consistency 
with the safety of society.-lndependent. 
WHEN worthy men quarrel, only one of them 
may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue 
long, commonly both become guilty.-1'. Jlulle-r 
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11, No. 42. 
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NO'I.'HIN""G TO SHO"W". 
"MY day has all gone"-'twas a woman who spoke, 
As she turned her face to the sunset glow-
" And I have been busy the whole day long; 
But for my work there is nothing to show." 
No painting nor sculpture her hand had wrought; 
No laurel of fame her labor had won. 
What was she doing in all the long day, 
With nothing to show at the set of the sun? 
What w.as she doing? Listen; I'll tell you 
What she was doing in all the long day: 
Beautiful deeds too many to number; 
Beautiful deeds in a beautiful way; 
Womanly deeds that a woman may do, 
Trifles that only a woman can see, 
Wielding a power unmeasured,' unknown, 
Wherever the light of her presence might be. 
She had rejoiced with those who rejoiced, 
Wept with the sad, and strengthened the weak; 
And a poor wanderer, straying in sin, 
~he in compassion had gone forth to seek. 
Unto the poor her aid had been given, 
Unto the weary the rest of her home; 
Freely her blessings to others were given, 
· Freely and kindly to all who had come. 
Humbly and quietly all the long day 
Had her sweet service for others been done; 
Yet for the labor of heart and of hand 
Wha.t could she show at set of the sun? 
Ah! she forgot that our Father in Heaven 
Ever is watching the work that we do, 
And records he keeps of all we forget, 
Then judges our work with judgment that's true. 
For an angel writes down in a volume of gold 
The beautiful deeds that all do below. 
Though nothing she had at set of the sun, 
The angel abon had something to show. 
-Mary H. Rowland. 
Dick Damon's Experiment. 
"JoE IvEs is the meanest boy in town! I 
don't ever want anything more to do with 
him as long as I live! So there!" 
"Say, Dick, what was that verse you repeated 
at prayers this morning? " asked Dick's older 
brother, Ralph, looking up from his book. ''It 
seems to me I'd try to think it up if I were 
you." 
· Dick flushed painfully as he recalled it:-
" Love your enemies, bless them that curse 
you, do good to them that hate you, and pray 
for them which despitefully use you, and perse-
cute you." 
"Nobody could love Joe I ves," cried Dick, 
hotly. "I tell you, Ralph, you don't know 
anything about it. Do you suppose you could 
love a fellow that run off with your new sled 
and wouldn't let you have it all recess? That 
is what Joe did, and when I asked him for it, 
he only laughed and told me to take it if I 
could get it. He is so much stouter tha.n I am, 
he knew I could not do a thing but stand there 
shivering and see him enjoy himself. It was 
tough, I tell you; but I'll get even with him in 
some way, see if I don't!" 
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"If you can't love him, suppose you try to 
do him good, or at least pray for him," said 
Ralph, qllietly. 
Poor Dick shook his head. 
"It can't be done," he said. "He doesn't de~ 
S(lrve to have any one do him any good; and 
as for praying for him, why, he needs that 
badly enough, but I'm not the one to do it." 
"No," said Ralph, "there is some one nearer 
home that needs it first." 
" It is easy enough for you to forgive folks 
that treat you mean, I suppose," said Dick; 
"but it isn't for me, and there's no use trying," 
and Dick caught up hi's cap and mitLens and 
ran out of the house. 
His sled waA on the 
piazza, but he never looked toward it, but 
hurried down the street as fast as he could. 
He was trying to run away fi·om an accusing 
conscience, but of course he could not do it. 
"Hold on, there! Where are you going to school hours. 
You can take them as well as not 
so fast?" called out Howard Graves, behind when I'm not using them." 
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him. 
" We boys are going skating out to Whit-
"I'd just like to know what you did it for," 
ney Lake. 
Get your skates and come on." 
asked Joe again. "I ha,ven't ever done any-
" All right! Wait for me," said Dick, turn-thing but treat you mean. 
I knew the fellows 
ing back. ''It won't take me but a minute to all hated me, and it made me ugly. 
Say, don't 
get them." 
you hate me, Dick Damon: don't you, true?" 
"There's Joe Ives, of course; Ijustwishhe'd 
"No, I don't, not now," said Dick, and he 
stay away," said Howard, when the two boys was glad he could say it truthfully. 
came in sight of the lake. "He is always on 
"You wouldn't want to be my friend, now, 
hand, without waiting for an invitation." 
would you?" and Joe looked anxiom;ly into 
":M:aybe he thinks he can get hold of some Dick's face. 
of the boys' skates as he did my sled," re-
"Of course I would, ·and so would Howard. 
marked Dick. 
He was saying to-day that you had good grit. 
"I'm, kind of sorry for him," said Howard, I never thought before how we boys have 
"if he is so hateful. They are awful poor, he treated you. 1 guess we've been more to blame 
and his mother. 
His father was killed last than you. But I'll stand by you after this, Joe. 
winter trying to save somebody's baby when We'll help each other." 
. 
an old tenement bouse was burned, and I 
'' Oh, my! " said Joe, "if you only will, 
shouldn't wonder if Joe had some of the same you'll never be ashamed of my actions after 
grit in him." 
this. 
You just see if I don't turn around, and 
"What makes you think so?" asked Dick, begin again. I didn't know before how nice it 
growing interested in spite of himself. 
felt to have somebody like you, but then you 
" Well, the other day I was going down ,see I hain't ever .had any friends." 
Water Street,· and some little rascals had got 
"Ralph was right, after all," said Dick to 
hold of a stray kitten; they had tied an old himself. "I've tried to do Joe good, poor 
teapot to its tail and were snow-balling it, and fellow, and now I can pray for bim."-Julia D. 
abu8ing it the best they know how. 
Of course Peck, in Christian at Work. 
it was frightened almost to death, when just 
then J_oe came along. 
You ought to have 
How a Poor Boy Succeeded. 
seen the way he went for those boys. They 
got out of sight in a jiffy, and Joe caught up 
BoYs sometimes think they cannot afford to 
the poor little kitten, warmed it under his be manly and faithful in the little things. The 
jacket; and carried it off with him as if it was Republic tells the story of a boy of the right 
precious as gold." 
stamp, and what came of his faithfulness:-
" I've heard he is very kind to his mother, 
"A few years ago a large drug firm in New 
and gives her all the money be earns," aclmowl-
York City advertised for a boy. Next day the 
edged Dick, "and maybe that is why he never store was thronged with applicants, among 
has things like other boys." 
them a queer-looking little fellow, accompanied 
"Hurry up and p.ut on your skates," said by a woman, who proved to be his aunt, in lieu 
Howard, who was all ready for a start. "Let's of faithless parents, by whom he had been 
have a race down to the big rock." 
. 
abandoned. Looking at the little waif, the 
"Oh, you go on," said Dick, "it will take me manager said: "Can't take him; places all full, 
some time to put on my skates." 
besides, he is too small." 
Joe I ves stood a few yards away with his 
"I know be is small," said the woman, "but 
bands in his pockets, because he had no mittens, be is willing and faithful." 
watching the skaters as they darted past him. 
There was a twinklin2' in the boy's 'eyes that 
Dick couldn't help noticing how thin and old 
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the coat was, and how he sh. ivered in the c.hilly made the merchant think again. 
A partner in 
the firm volunteered to remark that be "did 
air. 
Somehow the feeling of pity for Joe kept 
growing stronger in his heart, and of course not see what they wanted with such a boy-he 
that crowded out the ugly thoughts he had wasn't bigger than a pint of cider." But after 
been cherishing. 
consultation, the boy was set to work. 
"I just wonder if 'twould make any differ-
A few days later a call w::ts made on the boys 
ence if we boys should treat him kind of de-in ·the store for some one to stay all night. 
The 
cent, and show him we didn't all hate him," prompt response of the little fellow contrasted 
said Dick to himself. "I declare I believe I'll well with the reluctance of others. In the 
try it. It can't do any harm, any way." 
middle of the ni~bt t.he merchant looked in to 
He turned about suddenly, and running up s~e that all w~s rtgh t m the store, and p~esen.tly 
to Joe said as he held out his skates_ 
dtscovered this youthful protege busy smssormg 
"P~t tbe'm on Joe and see if you' can't beat labels. 
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Howard in a race. 
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as I can, and I want to see you try it; nobody no~ teU you to w~rk mghts. 
else can keep up with him." 
· I know you d1d not tell me to, but I thought 
Joe gave him a look of blank astonishment. I might as well be doing something." In the 
"0 you're just a fooling," he said, incredu-mor,t1ing ~he cashie~ go~ o.rders to ".doubl~. that 
lously, "you wouldn't let me take 'em for sure." boys wages, for he 1s wtllmg and faithful.· 
"I shouldn't say so if I didn't mean it," said 
.Only a few weeks elapsed before a show of 
Dick. "I want to have you take them: I do wild beasts passed through the streets, and, 
truly." 
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very naturally, all hands in the store rushed to 
Joe looked at Dick curiously for a moment, witness the spectacle. 
A thief saw his oppor-
and then put on the skates without a word, and tunity, and entered at the rear door to seize 
was soon gliding over the smooth ice, the swift-something, but in a twinkling found himself 
est skater of them all. 
clutched by the diminutive clerk aforesaid, and 
Once or t';vice be skated around to where after a struggle, was captured. Not only was 
Dick stood whistling, and begged him to take robbery prevented, but valuable articles taken 
the skates, but Dick persistently refused. He from other stores were recovered. When asked 
was very sure he was enjoying himself as well by the merchant w by he stayed behind to watch, 
as any of the gay company. 
when all others quit their work, he replied,-
There was now a strange feeling in Joe's 
"You told me never to leave the store when 
heart whi<:b he could not understand, as he others were absent, and I thought I'd stay." 
took off the skates at last and returned them 
Orders were immediately given once more: 
to the owner. 
"Double that boy's wages; he is willing and 
"I say, Dick, what mnde you do it?" he faithful." 
asked in a tone very unlike his usnal one. 
To-day that boy is getting a salary of $2,500, 
"Oh,'', said Dick, carelesf:lly, "I can skate any and next month be will become a member of 
time. 
I don't have much else to do out of the fi.rm.-Sel. 
NovEMBER· 5, 1885. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
669 
Hard Times in London. 
IN sunRhine or shower, fog or fair weather, 
the approaches to the docks and wharves of the 
metropolis are every morning thronged by 
crowds of eager, anxious men, strugg-ling-nay, 
in many cases fighting like wild beasts-to ob-
tain work within the gates. As the hour draws 
near for the ringing of the great bell announc-
ing the commencement of work, a crowd of 
often a couple of thousands of men press around 
the principal entrance of the London docks; 
and as the big gates swing slowly open, the 
mighty mass of humanity rushes forward like 
an overwhelming flood to the chain-barrier, 
where the superintendent gives out the metal 
tokens entitling the holder to employment 
within. 
Of course he shows preference to those 
previously employed, but there is always the 
chance of obtaining a ticket, and the men strive 
to clutch one of the precious talismans with in-
tense and. passionate eagerness. They push 
and jostle and struggle, leaping on each other's 
shoulders, and fighting and wrestling in the 
mad rush like famishing animals rather than 
human beings. 
The most desperate demonstra-
tion is written on every face, and there is small 
thought in the mind of any man of that surging 
crowd for· any one but himself. For work 
means food-poor and scanty, no doubt, but 
still something. to keep tho terrible wolf from 
the door. 
Bailure means semi-starvation, or 
worse. 
But of the crowds who struggle and fight at 
the gates, frequently not more than one-third 
are selected, and the remainder, bearing their 
sad fate with as much philosophical fortitude as 
they can muster,-perhaps it is stony despair, 
ratber,-turn disconsolately away, some to seek 
work at other places which open later, and 
others to wait for "calls" which may occur at 
any tim_o during the day. Thus a visitor stroll-
ing through the fine docks, and admiring the 
shipping and immense quantities of merchan-
dise piled on every hand, is suddenly arrested 
by a strange sight of a sea ofwhite, anxious faees 
pressing wistfully against the bars of a side en-
trance. 
Yes, men are still waiting there for any 
call of laborers that may come during the day. 
And presently, as you wait, the superintendent 
appears, and cries,-
,, One man wanted I" 
Instantly all the watchers spring up like 
?aged·ani~als when food is broughtthem, yell-
mg, shoutmg, and ex.tending their hands. 
They 
leap on each other's backs, and clamber up to 
the topmost rails;· and all this feverish excite-
ment is to obtain one little metal ticket-per-
haps .for one hour's work, entitling the owner 
to fivepence or sixpence at most l 
One out of the large number receives the 
ticket, apparently by chance rather than by 
any other manner of selection, and then the 
noise subsides, and the men wait on, patient, 
dogged, hungry-eyed, as before. 
At another time a call will come for two men 
and the same scene will occur again, and so o~ 
throughout the day. But of the great numbers 
who crowd the gates in their desperate strug-
gle to obtain employment, only a very few com-
paratively can ever be engaged. 
One in every 
three or four appears to be the average num-
b0r who obtain work.-The Quiver. 
MUNICH has 244,000 inhabitants and only 11,-
000 citizens. 
To become a citizen it is neces-
sary to pay 100 to 150 marks ($25-$37), and 
this only a small portion of the inhabitants have 
done. 
'!'bose who are not citizens are obliged 
to pay the same taxes as others, although they 
are not entitled to a vote on commercial affairs. 
-Sel. 
IF money be not thy servant, it will be thy 
ma.ster. 
The covetous man cannot properly be 
said to possess wealth, as that may be said to 
possess him.-Bacon. 
The Hot Axle. 
THE express train was flying from Cork to 
Queenstown; it was going like sixty-that is, 
about sixty miles an hour,. 
No sight of Irish 
village tq arrest our speed, no sign of break-
down; and yet the train halted. 
We looked 
out of the window; saw the brakeman and a 
crowd of passengers gathering around the loco-
motive, and a dense smoke arising. 
What was 
the matter? 
.A hot axle I 
I thought then, as I think now, that is what 
is the matter with the people everywhere. In 
this swift "express," American life, we go too 
fast for our endurance. 
We think ourselves 
getting on splendidly, when, in the midst of our 
successes, we come to a dead halt. What is the 
matter? The nerves or muscles or brains give 
out; we have made too many revolutions in an 
hour. 
.A hot axle I 
Men make the mistake of working according 
to their opportunities, and not according to their 
capacity of endurance. "Can I run this· train 
from Springfield to Boston at the rate of fifty 
miles an hour?" says an engineer. 
"Yes." 
"Then I will run it reckless of consequences I" 
"Can I be a merchant, and a president of a bank, 
and a director in a life insurance company, and 
a school commissioner, and help edit a paper, 
and supervise the politics of our ward, and run 
for Congress?" "I can!" the man says to him-
self. 
The store drives him; the bank drives 
him; the school drives him; politics drive him. 
He takes all the scoldings and frets and exas-
perations of each position. 
Some day, at the 
height of the business season, he does not come 
to the store. 
From the most important meeting 
of the bank directors he is absent. In the ex-
citement of the most important political canvass 
he fails to be at the place appointed. 
What is 
the matter? His health has broken down; the 
train halts long before it gets to the station. 
A 
hot axle! 
Literary men have great opportuniti.es open-
ing in this day. If they take all that open, 
they are dead men, or worse-Z.iv,ing men who 
ought to be dead. 
The pen runs so easy when 
you have good ink and smooth paper, and an 
easy desk to write on, and the consciousness of 
an audience of one, two, or three hundred 
thousand readers. 
There are the religious 
newspapers through which you may preach, 
and the musical journals through which you 
may si'ng, and the agricultural · periodicals 
through which you can plow, and family 
newspapers in which you may romp with the 
whole household around the evening stand. 
There are critiques to be written, and reviews 
to be indulged in, and poems to be chimed. 
When out of a man's pen he can shake recrea-
tion and friendship and usefulness and bread, 
he is apt· to keep it shaking. So great are the 
invitations to literary work, that tho professional 
men of the day are overdone. They sit, faint 
and fagged out, on the verge of newspapers and 
books; each one does the work of three. 
And 
these men sit up lat~· nights, and choke down 
chunks of meat without mastication, and scold 
their wives tlirough irritability, and maul inno-
cent authors, and. run the physical machinery 
with a liver miserably given out. The driving-
shaft has gone fifty times a second. They stop 
at no station. 
The steam-chest is hot and 
swollen. 
The brain and the digestion begin to 
smoke. Stop, ye flying quills! "Down brake!" 
A hot axle! 
Some of our young people have read-till 
they are crazed-of learned blacksmiths, who, 
at the forge, conquered thirty languages; and 
of shoemakers, who, pounding sole-leather, got 
to be philosophers; and of milliners, who, while 
their customers were at the glass trying on 
spring hats, wrote a volume of first-rate poems. 
The f11ct is, no blacksmith ought to be troubled 
with more than five languages; and instead of 
shoemakers becoming philosophers, we would 
like to turn our surplus of philosophers into 
shoemakers; and the supply of poetry i~ ·so 
much greater than the demand that we wish 
milliners would stick to their business. 
Ex-
traordinary examples of endurance may do as 
much harm as good. 
Because Napoleon slept 
only four hours a night, hundreds of students 
have tried the experiment; but instead of Aus-
terlitz and Sarragossa, there came of it only a 
sick headache and a botch of a recitation.-Dr. 
Talmage, in Home Science. 
Criminal Negligence. 
NoTHING, to the minds of careful people, is so 
astonishing as the reckless way in which some 
people care for the necessary poisons which are 
kept in every house. 
Instead of these being in 
a separate closet, or even on a separate shelf, 
from the simple remedies in the family phar-
macy, they stand side by side, in bottles of sim-· 
ilar shape, with the most harmless drugs. '.rhe 
result of this met};lod is that at short intervals 
the daily papers record verdicts of "accidental 
poisoning." Not long since, a woman of intel-
ligence and position took, in mistake for a min-
eral water w hicb she was in the habit of taking 
each morning, a most deadly poison; and died in 
agony in a few hours. 
The poison had been 
put in a bottle which had formerly contained 
the mineral water. 
A nurse gave a three-
months-old baby corrosive sublimate for potash, 
and the baby died after hours of intense suffer-
ing. 
A mother gave a daughter carbolic acid 
for a medicine left by a physician, and only by 
almost superhuman efforts was her life saved. 
In all these cases the suffering and deaths were 
caused by the criminal carelessness of the 
mother in allowing poisons in places to which 
all of the family had access. 
l;ast week a woman took a paper of potash 
for sugar from a closet, and put it into the cups 
of coffee for her family. 
They all drank enough 
of the coffee to be made seriously ill. "Mis-
takes occur in the best regulated families;" but 
no excuse can be offered for the carelessness 
that allows poisons in places where they are of 
easy access. 
Give them a special place under 
lock and key .-Christian Union. 
The Ancient Feather-Bed. 
WILL the day ever come when the ancient 
feather-beds of our grandmothers will be ut-
terly banished from our homes; when it will be 
counted no prize for the little granddaughter 
to have handed down to her "grandma's best 
feather-bed," and all its belongings? I know a 
house that holds a baker's dozen of these valu-
able relics of the dark ages, and I am confident 
that some of tbe geese from whose breasts 
those feathers were plucked quacked at the 
close of the last century. It is a most remark-
able house for funerals. 
A thousand times healthier and sweeter is a 
good straw bed, which you can change often 
and wash clean every spring. 
A comfortable 
mattress over it is luxurious enough for a king. 
-Nebraska Farmer. 
THE consumption of liquor in this country is 
officially reported by the authorities at Wash-
ington as amounting to 69,157,903 
gall~ns of 
spirits, 19, 1~5,953 barrels of fermented hquor, 
and 20,508,345 gallons of wine. 
Estimating 
the population at a-bout 58,000,000, the average 
consumption appears to be about 1.2 gallons of 
whisky for each person yearly, over 10.25 gal-
lons of beer, and .35 of a gallon of wine. The 
quantity of beer consumed appears to be about 
595,000,000 gallons. 
In other words, the peo-
ple of this favored land drink about two gallons 
of liquor for every bushel of wheat that they 
consume-a striking text for our temperance 
friends.-N. Y. Trib'l/lne. 
670 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
VoL. 11, No. 42. 
(Continued front page 669.) 
men of Nineveh. "And God saw their works, 
that they turned from their evil way; and God 
repented of the evil, that he bad said that he 
would do unto them; and he did it not." 
"BuT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and 
he was very angry." 
Jonah thought all his 
·credit as a prophet, or even as a man, was for-
feited. 
He had told the people that the city 
should be de::;troyed, and now the Lord was 
not going to do it, and he was therefore "very 
angry." lt seems that he had told the Lord 
as much before he left his own country; for 
now he says: "0 Lord, was not this my saying, 
when 1 was yet in my country? Therefore 1 
fled before unto Tarshish." 
From this it appears 
that when the Lord first told Jonah to arise 
and go to N·ineveh and· ory against it, Jonah 
had said to bim, in substance, If 1 go up to 
Nineveh and tell them the oity shall b.e over-
thrown, they will stop sinning and turn to the 
Lord, and then thou wilt not overthrow it; and 
so if the city is not to be overthrown anyhow, 
I might as well stay in my own country, or 
anywhere else; therefore 1 will flee to Tarshish. 
He did not think that if' the city was to be de-
stroyed anyway it was indeed useless for him 
to go. 
Jonah apparently cared more for his 
reputation than be did for all the souls in Nine-
veh, and thought that the Lord should turn a 
deaf ear to all the cries of the people, so that 
J ouah's word might be performed in spite of 
all. 
· 
RELIGIOUS. 
-Joseph Cook has begun a series of Sunday-after-
noon temperance lectures in Music Hall, Boston. 
-A new steamer costing $3(),000 has just been 
constructed for the use of missions on the River 
Niger. 
-The sta~ of officers of St. George's Presbyterian 
Church, Ed1n burgh, Scotland, consists of forty-six 
elders and forty-two deacons. 
-The Brookly~ Board of Assessors has decided 
n_ot to tax the property of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association of that city. 
-A number of released slaves in Zanzibar have 
printed large portions of the Bible in their native 
lan.guage, so that it may be read throughout the in-
tenor. 
. 
· 
-Canon Far1 ar asserts that ritualism is more 
popular now in England than it ever was, and 'that 
1ts leanings toward the church of Rome are espe-
cially marked. 
-Over 64,000 Catholic pilgrims have visited the 
shrine of St. Ann of Beaupre, in Canada, since 
January 1. Many wonderful miracles are claimed 
to have been performed. 
-In Kamschatka there is a Lutheran church of 
one thousand members, scattered over an immense 
district. 'l'he members use six different languages: 
German, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Estish, and Let-
tish. 
-The seventy-fifth anniversary of the American 
:Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions was held 
m Boston, October 13-16. The total receipts of the 
Board for the year ending September 1, were $508,-
" So JONAH went out of the city, and sat on 491.61. 
the east side of the oity, and there made him a 
-It is said that at Vienna, last year, not less 
booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till be than 263 Jews became Christians, among whom 
might see what would become of the city.'' were thirteen barristers, nine physicians, four jour-
Then the Lord prepared a gourd "that it might nalists,. three judges, three protes~ors, and seventeen 
be a shadow over his head" from the heat; and merchants and manufacturers. 
the next day the gourd withered, and a vehement 
-The society started by the Countess of Dufferin 
east wind "and the sun beat upon the head of for s~pplying medical aid to the wo.men i~ India is 
Jonah that he fainted" and he wished that he ~akln~ go.od pr~gres~. S,everal nat1 ve cluefs have 
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hast not labored neither madest it grow· which 
-T~e leadmg Ltberal and Non.co~formist clergy-
. 
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men of Scotland have sent a memonal to Mr. Glad-
came up m a mght, and p~nsbed m a mght; stone, urging him to use his influence to aid in 
a!ld should. not I spare Nm~veh, that great securing the disestablishment of the Church of l::lcot-
mty, wherem are more than s1xscore thousand land, as a legislative step demanded by political 
persons that cannot discern bet,veen their right justice a.s well as by national religion in that part of 
hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" the empue. 
. 
-Judges Zane and Powers have recently in-
structed Utah grand juries that they can render 
separate indictments for every day in which Mor-
ml)n polygamists persist in violating the law. This 
ruling is striking terror to the hearts of the law-
breakers, as th·e penalLy for each indictment is six 
months' imprisonment and $300 fine. 
THERE the record closes. 
Jonah made no 
further answer. It is queer that be could not 
see and rejoice in the mercy of God, in the 
first place; that the wicked people would not 
turn without warning; that unless they did 
turn they must peril:!h; and that the warning 
alone could save them. But the Lord was 
patient and gentle with him, and kindly 
taught him the lesson which he was slow to 
discern. 
"Who is a God like unto thee, that 
pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the trans-
gression of the remnant of his heritage? here-
taineth not his anger forever, because he de-
lighteth in mercy." 
Micah 7 : 18. 
A. T. J. 
Not Understood. 
WHAT thoughtful man is there who is not 
often conscious of the fact that he is not under-
stood by others, and that his motives and the 
princi}Jles that govern his conduct are not prop-
erly appreciated? In consequence of this: he 
feels that their bearing towards him is different 
from what it should be. 
But how few persons 
permit themselves to think that the same is true 
of others, that they are not properly understood 
and appreciated, and, as a consequence, are not 
treated as they deserve ! 
What is true of us in 
this respect is equally true of others, and we 
should extend to them the treatment which we 
feel to be due to ourselves. 
Failing in this, we 
deprive ourselves and others of much happiness 
which otherwise might be enjoyed.-Methodist 
Rec{)rder. 
-The wife of Dr. George lvlacDonald has dram-
atized "Pilgrim's Progress." It is said that "Miss 
MacDonald represents Christiana with great natu-
ralness," and that "all the accessories of the stao-e 
ar~ in faultl~ss taste." We can not imagine any-
thmg more directly calculated to detract from the 
sacrednes::; of religion, unless it should be a dram-
atization of the life of Christ. 
-The new building of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association of Brooklyn, N. Y., which has 
recently been formally d~dicated, is the finest build-
ing of its kind in the country. It cost $300,000, and 
has an endowment fund of $150,000. It is a four-
story brick and terra cotta structure, and contains 
a ball capable of seating 1,400 persons, a library 
with shelt~room for 30,000 vol~mes, a large gymna-
sium, spacious parlors, baths, and rooms for the of-
ficers. The building covens 19,000 square feet. 
-The Friends are disturbed. Some of their prom-
inent members-even some "holding the position 
of ministers of the gospel"~" have submitted them-
selves to the rite of water baptism, and have par-
taken of the bread and wine in the so-called 
communion of the .Lord's Supper"! One of the 
organs of the Friends, in proposing a re-opening of 
the subject, says: "If it be possible that Friends are 
wrong, and that our fathers have been in error 
these two hundred years, better that we find it out 
before we go further. We shall not get on well in 
holding unscriptural grounds, even though we are 
full of the evangelistic and missionar! s.pirit," 
SECULAR. 
-Small-pox is still raging in Montreal. 
-The Roumelian troubi.e is still unsettled. 
-It is estimated that the decrease in the public 
debt during October will amount to $12,000,000. 
-Ferdinand Ward received at New York; October 
31, a sentence of ten years' hard labor in Sing Sing. 
-A heavy r'ain during October 30, caused the 
greatest flood known in Virginia in the past five 
years. 
-The largest steamship in the world, the Great 
Eastern, was sold, October 28, at public auc-tion for 
£26,2ll0. 
-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coon bought 
a seat in the Stock Exchange, New York, October 
26, for $34,000. 
-
-Two-thirds of the Swiss nation have voted in 
favor of cantonal local option. Many citizens ab-
stai.ned from voting on the question. 
-Over seventy vessels were recently wrecked, and 
over 300 lives were lost, in the most fearful hurricane 
that ever visited the coast of Labrador.· 
-It is estimated that the strike of the Albany, 
N. Y., moulders, recently, has cost the workmen and 
manufacturers in the neighborhood of $200,000. 
-The Pacific Coast Holiness Association owns 
about eight acres of land in East Oakland, upon 
which they intend to build a Home of Refuge for 
Fallen Women. 
. 
, 
-President Cleveland has become tired of office-
seekers, and be has informed the public that he will 
consume no more time in receiving calls· from that 
class of pilgrims. 
-October 25, a water-spout burst in the vicinity 
of Carrara, Italy, and was followed by heavy floods. 
Roads and rail ways were torn up, and much prop-
erty was destroyed. 
-Geo. B. McClellan, ex-commander of the Union 
army, died October 29, at his home in New Jersey, 
from exhaustion produced by repeated attacks of 
neuralgia of the heart. 
-Jacob P. Leese, who .first came to this coast in 
1833, and who, in 1836, built the first house in Yerba 
Buena (now San Francisco), has recently returned 
to spend the rest of his days where he was the 
pioneer. 
-It is now thought that the rumor that the 
Apaches were doing damage in northern Mexico 
wa:o false; that in::;tead of Apaches it was a band of 
"rustlers," di~guised as Indians, whom Major Sum-
ner is now after. 
-General De Courcy, commander of the French 
forces in An am, recently met, and in a three days' 
fight defeated, a detachment of the Black Flags, 
which resulted in the capture of the strongly forti-
fied town of Thanmai. 
-The debris-restraining dam in Shady Creek, 
between Nevada City and North San Juan, Cal., 
has been destroyed by an incendiary fire. The 
mining company estimate tbitt it bas been damaged 
to the extent of between $100,000 and $200,000. 
• 
-\Vhile a large body of workmen were takingout 
stone from the Chancelade quarries, near Dordogue, 
France, "the quarries snddenly fell in, destroying a 
village situated on the ground above the stone pits, 
and killing a large number of persons" and bury-
ing many others in the ruins. 
-An arrangement has just been concluded by 
which the ports of Acapulco, Manzanillo, and Ma-
zatlan, Mexico, are to have direct steamship com-
munication with China. The steamers are to be 
built or bought in England, but are to sail under 
the Chinese flag and are to have a subsidy from both 
the Mexican and the Chinese Government. 
-Secretary Endicott, when asked to aid Engineer 
Melville in fitting out another Arctic exploring ex-
pedition, very sensibly replied: "So far as my ob-
se'l'vation extends, Arctic explorations principally 
result in breeding lectures on Arctic subjects, flood-
ing t.he country with Arctic literature, and furnish-
ing curiosities for dime museums. Holding these 
opinions, I cannot conscientiously aid Mr. Mel ville· 
in his desires." 
-The breaking out of a fire ori the tug McDon-
ald, East Saginaw, Mich., October 28, was the incen-
tive for a large number of people to congregate 
upon a bridge, a part of which gave way, pre-
cipitating sixty people into the river, where, on ac-
count of the depth of the water, the swiftness of 
the current, and the darkness of the night, anum-
ber are supposed to have perished; the greater 
number, however, were rescued. 
I 
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NOVEMBER 5, 1885. 
THE BIG NS OF THE TIMES. 
671 
Young· Men for Action. 
THE current belief that the world's greatest 
soldiers have won their most notable victories 
~p p nintm~ntSl. 
w ben comparatively young, will. be strength-
OAKLAND. -House of worship, northeast corner of 
b 
Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sab-
ened by the fact that when General Grant e-bath at 9:30 A. M. 
Preaching at 11 A. M. 
Prayer and 
gun his wonderful military career he was but missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. 
thirty-nine years of age, and was but forty· three Seats free. 
when he had fought one of the greatest wars 
SAN FRANCisco.-House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, 
in history through to its close and fully es-
between McAllister and Tyler. Sabbath-school every 
tablisbed his re.putation as the greatest military Sabbath at 9:45 A. M. 
Classes in the English, German, 
comm. a.nder of the aae. 
His two ablest and and Scandinavian languages. 
Prayer and missionary 
'-' 
meeting every Wednesday evening at 7: 45. 
Mission 
most distinguished lieutenants, Sherman and Reading-rooms at the church. 
Sheridan, were, on the breaking out of the War 
. 
of the Rebellion respeetively forty-one and 
EAST PoRTLAND (Or.)-House of worship on G Street 
• 
1 
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, 
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1 between Tenth and Eleventh. Sabbath-school every Sab-
thirty. 
'I he .worlds g~·eatest miht.ary heroes bath (Saturday), followed by services. Preaching or Bi-
bave won tbe1r fame wb1le comparatively young ble-reading Sunday evening. 
Prayer-meeting Wednesday 
men. 
Marlborough was fifty-three at the bat-even.ing. 
The public is cordial~~ in."iteJ. 
Free public 
tle of Blenheim, but be entered the army at readmg-room, corner of Land F1fth Streets. 
sixteen. 
On the other hand, Napoleon was 
but twenty-three at the siege of Toulon, and 
but twenty-seven when be began his wonder-
ful cam_l.laign in Italy. 
Clive was but thirty-
two at Plassey, and Wellington's reputation 
was made when only thirty, \Vhen he won 
Assaye, in India. Herr Frederick the Great, 
when be came to the throne of Prussia, and 
began the military operations which gave him 
his name, was only twenty-eight. 
Cromwell 
was but forty-three at the battle Marston Moor, 
and Charles XII. of Sweden, it will be remem-
bered, was killed at thirty-six, after having 
R.pent eighteen years in command of his army. 
G-u::~tavus Adolphus II. was but thirty-seven at 
the great triumph at Leipsic. 
Prince E\lgene 
was but twenty when be entered the service of 
the emperor of Austria, and he won his great 
victory over the Turk::; at Zenta when but thirty-
four. 
Charlemagne was forty-eight when he 
was crowned emperor of Germany, but this 
was preceded by more than twenty yea~·s of 
victorious warfare. 
William the Conqueror was 
thirty-nine at Hastings. 
Going back to classi-
cal times, the military heroes were, as they 
have been later, comparatively young men, 
Julius Cresar being, perhaps, the chief exception. 
He had had <:omparatively no military experi-
ence when: at the age of forty-three, he under-
took the subjugation of the Gauls, and he was 
fifty-two at the battle of Pharsalia, the crown-
ing event in his career. 
Hannibal was only 
thirty-one at the battle of Cannre, and but 
forty-five when finally defeated by a com-
mander· thirteen years younger than himself, at 
Zama. 
Alexander was twenty-three at ·the 
battle of Granicus, twenty-four at Issus, and 
only thirty-three at the time of his death.-
Boston T1·aveller. 
STRANGE 
attachment~ oft_en spring up be-
Southern California Meetings. 
MEETINGS will be held by Elders Loughhorough 
and Ings as follows:-
Lemoore, November 12-15; Burrough Valley, No-
vember 19-22; F.resno, November 26-29. 
Meetings in each place are to commence Thursday 
evening, and continue through the day and evening 
of the three following days. Let all come prepared 
to remain each day to two services in the day-time; 
and let all the brethren and sisters within reach of 
these meetings make it a point to attend all the 
meetings. Come, praying the Lord to meet with us. 
juhlizh~rz.' ~~pnrtm~nt. 
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STATE AGENTS' DIRECTORY. 
California.-Anna L. Ingels, Oakland, Cal. 
Canada--Mary L. Cushing, Soutll Stukely, P. Q. 
Colorado.-Effie M. Rankin, 831 California St., Den-
ver, Colo. 
Dakota-Alice H. Beaumont, Vilas, Miner Co., Dak. 
Florida-Eld. N. Orcutt, Moultrie, St. Johns Co., Fla. 
Idaho.-Carrie E. Mills, Walla Walla, W. T. 
Illinois-Lizzie S. Campbell, No. 95 Thirty-fifth Street, 
Chicago, Ill. 
Indiana-W. A. Young, Noblesville, Ind. 
Iowa-Mrs. Lizzie H. Farnsworth, State Center, Iowa.. 
Kansas-L. D. Chambers, Box 160, Ottawa, Kan. 
Kentucky-Bettie C. Saxby, Nolin, Hardin Co., Ky. 
Maine-RoseN. Redmond, 113 Pearl St., Portland, Me. 
Michigan-Miss Hattie House, Battle Creek, Mich. 
Minnesota-H. P. Holser, box 1076, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Missouri-Miss Clara E. Low, 321 Lamine Street, Se-
dalia, Mo. 
Nebraska-Miss S. E. Whiteis, Sec. Nebraska Tract 
Society, Fremont, Neb. 
New England-Mrs. Eliza T. Palmer, N .. E. Tract 
Depository, South Lancaster, Mass. 
New York-Miss M. May Taylor, Rome, N.Y. 
North Pacific-Mrs. C. L. Boyd, East Portland, Oregon. 
Ohio-Mrs. Ida S. Gates, rear of the Citizens' Savings 
Bank, second floor, Columbus, Ohio. 
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BICE.-Died, Oct. 14, 1885, of inflammation of the 
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covered. During the last two weeks she suffered 
severely. We met to pray over her, and seeing her, 
we could only plead, "0 Lord, thy will be done!" 
"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; 
blessPd be the name of the Lord." Job 1 : 21. We 
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~Qe ~igns nf. tQe ~imes. 
O.A.KL.A.ND, C.A.L., FIFTH-D.A.Y, NOVEMBER 5,1885. 
THE editor of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and 
Brother C. H. Jones, left for the East, October 27, 
to attend the General Conference and annual meet-
ing&. 
Ju~t before going. to press we received letters 
dated at Salt Lake City, stating that thus far they 
had had a prosperous journey. 
THE General Conference of Seventh-day Advent~ 
ists is appointed to convene at Battle Creek, Mich., 
November 18. The annual meetings of the Pub-
lishing Association, Educational Society, and Health 
Reform Institute, will be held in connection with 
the Conference. 
THE New York T1·ibune speaks of the offering of 
prayer for the dying Cardinal McCloskey, in the 
Baptist Association in New York, as" a noteworthy 
proceeding, indicating the progress of religious lib-
erty, and the growth of the spirit of toleration." 
The Sabbath Reco1·der thinks that "the offering of 
prayer in a Catholic convocation for some eminent 
Baptist, would be a better indication of such prog-
ress." But that is a thing that will never be seen or 
heard of. 
The progress is not. in that direction. 
THE Sabbath-school matter occupies more space 
this week than we usually intend to devote to one 
department, but under the circumstances it seemed 
unavoidtible. ,It is of no use to study prophecy ex-
cept with history; that i:;;, it will do us no good to 
know what the Bible says about the work of the little 
horn, unless we certainly know whatt!Iatlittlehorn 
represents, and how exactly the predictions concern-
ing it ha'e been fulfilled. The lesson for this week 
covers so much ground that we could not really 
do justice to it even with the space given to it. 
However, the matter in the Sabbath-school Depart-
ment is not local in its character, but is as well 
adapted to the general reader as to the Sabbath-
school scholar. 
THE Red Bluff (Cal.) Sentinel states that recently 
a small green apple of the Red Astrakhan variety 
was brought into that office, as a sample from a tree 
that is now full of apples, and which. has already 
borne one large crop of good apples this year. It 
states that all the apple and pear trees in two or-
chards in the western part of town are white with 
blossoms, looking just as they did last spring, and 
that in many orchards in other parts of the county 
the trees are blooming the second time. We would· 
remind our Eastern friends who may read this wll.ile 
snow is falling, that while California is a good State 
in which to live, there are a great many people here 
who have.no orchards at all, and have no prospect of 
getting even the land on which to plant one; and 
they have to pay for the fruit they eat just the same 
as though they lived in a country where fruit trees 
bloom only once a· year. 
, Unprofitable Labor. 
THE Interior very sensibly says that a minister 
who endeavors by his own personal explorations to 
cover the disputed territory of advanced scientific 
studies, is only wasting his time. Some ministers 
eagerly follow all the ramifications of so-called 
science, even -in its undermining of Bible truth, for 
fear tl;lat they will fall behind the times. Others 
think that they must follow all its deductions in or-
der that they may overthrow those that are false. 
Both classes are wasting time, and are in danger of 
letting their flocks starve for want of "the sincere 
milk of the word." Only be patient, and professed 
scientists themselves will furnish the evidence with 
which to overthrow their own false theories. Be-
sides, the Bible contains a good deal more than is 
commonly supposed. It is very common to speak of 
it as not being a book of science, and therefore many 
people are led to suppose that it is an 'unscientific 
book; but the truth iR, that wh€m men of the greatest 
intellio·ence have fathomed all the Rcience that sages 
have :ver hinted at, they are infinitely below the 
Bible; and when some real discovery in science is 
made, they will find from the Bible that it was 
known ages before they were born. 
Worth Reading-. 
HERE is a little thing that we have often seen, 
which we wish could be read at least once a week 
by every on~ who goes to church. lt is one of the 
"notices" posted in the porch of the chLLrch at 
Hawarden, England, where Mr. Gladstone worships, 
and of which his son is rector:-
" On your way to the Lord's house, be thoughtful, 
be silent, or say but little, and that little good. 
Speak not of other men's faults; think of your own, 
.or you are going to a:ok forgiveness. Never stay 
outside; go iu at once; time spent inside s~10uld b~:: 
precious." 
It strikes us, however, that it would be a good 
thing to have the notice posted in the house of each 
church member, and in the church somethii1g like 
this: "Go silently and reverently from the house ol 
the Lord. 
Do not speak of what you saw, but medi-
tate prayerfully on the word spoken. By so doing 
you. may take the Holy 8pirl t with you, ~llld the 
house of God will prove indeed the gate of Heaven.'' 
Uecalling the Past. 
OCTOBER 22 wns the two-hundredth anniversary 
of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This 
Edict, issued April 13, 1508, was very far from es-
tablishing religious lilJerty in France; but it diu 
,dford the Huguenots some protection. Its revoca-
tion was the signal for a rele11 tless and terri Lie 
persecution, which deprived Frauc'e of au important 
element in her national character; for the HugueuotH 
were valuable citizens. They were remarkaule 
for their intellectual activity, pure mornls, industry, 
and skill in various useful avocations,-qualities 
that give wealth and permanence to nittions. 
A 
rece!1t writer claims that their lieroism in the face 
of long-continued and bitter perseeution was largely 
due to the strength of their doctrines. He says: 
·• One needs strong doctrines to rest upon when he is 
in hourly peril of his life." 
Another Chapter of the "Teaclling." 
PERHAPS a few of the readers of the SIGNS have 
not forgotten that wonderful document, "The Teach-
ing of the Apostles," of which we heard so much 
last year, and ':"hich was to effect such a revolution 
in some of the old beliefs, especially baptism and 
the Sabbath. It may be remembered that by in-
geniously inserting a few words in the translation, 
and inferring a few things, the "Teaching" was 
made to do valiant service for tLe Sunday institution. 
The "Teaching" itself has already almost passed 
into oblivion, but Bishop Bryennios, the venerable 
discoverer of the precious relic, is still working for 
the same power that was responsible for the coun-
terfeit Sabbath in the first place, and for all the 
frauds, such as the "Teaching," the "Epistle of 
Barnabas," etc., by which it has sought to perpetu-
ate that counterfeit. 
Mr. Pierce, of Bardezag, 
writes as follows to the Missionary Herald:-
In. the village of Sardoan, the people are all 
Greeks. In their business relations with the city of 
Adabazar, some of them came to know, through con-
verts of the American Board, the doctrines of Prot-
estantism, and a l"ew became earnest Christians. 
They maintained, however, their relations with the 
Greek Church, from which they had no thought of 
separating. They would attend church Sunday 
morning, and meet together Sunday afternoon for 
prayer and praise and Bi~le reading. No mi~sion­
ary had ever visited the VIllage. Rec_ently, Blshop 
Bryennios visited Sardoan, and, calhng oil tho~e 
suspected of being Bible readers, he put such ques-
tions as these to them:-
"' What are you?' To th~ answer,' I a:r;n ~Chris­
tian,' he returned, 'What kmd of a Chnst1an are 
you? Are you orthodox?' ' Yes, I am orthodox.' 
'Are you like me'(' 'I don't kno": what Y?U are:' 
'Bring me one of those pictures; w1ll you kiss that 
picttu:e?' 'No; I can't do that.' 'Then get out of 
this. You are a Protestant;' etc." 
In his sermon in the church, he instructed the 
priests not to haptize the children, nor to bury the 
dead of any of the Protestants; to turn them out of 
the church, and to have nothing to do wi~h them., 
The people should not give them salutatiOns, nor 
accept theirs; they were bad men, etc. 
Bryennios is a bishop of the Greek Church, which 
occupies a closer relationship to the "mother of har-
lots" than does any other church. It might well be 
termed an own sister. 
""'\u00a5 e are not at all surprised 
at his latest exploit. It is perfectly in keeping with 
the power which by "pious frauds" has upheld 
Sunday as a sacred day. It will be remembered 
that, in the Bible, cbanging times and laws, and 
wearing out the saints, are companion pieces. 
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